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In April 1978, Fisher appeared as the love interest in Ringo Starr's 1978 TV special Ringo Warren Beatty, Julie Christie and Goldie Hawn also star in the film

An exhibition featuring 'Slow time' photographs during the lockdowns of 2020 and 2021 has opened. Led by artist Janette Kerr, the six-month project featured 150 pinhole cameras scattered across Somerset. John Gammans, who worked on the project, said the cameras made out of recycled drink cans, gave a "very unique snapshot of what was going on in Somerset at that time". The exhibition will run until 21 May at East Quay in Watchet. The cameras featured light-sensitive material, eventually creating long-exposure photographs of the Somerset landscape. Each camera can captured light waves as they travelled through the air, passing through a pinhole and then onto black and white photographic paper. The photos were then processed months later by scanning the paper, uploading it onto a computer and then manipulating it using a photo editor. Dr Kerr said the idea first started after she made and gifted her friends and neighbours pinhole cameras for Christmas in 2020. "Everyone got excited about it and then I happened to mention it to Somerset Art Works and they asked me if I could extend it to the whole of Somerset," she said. Eventually over 100 participants took part, with each camera pointed at a different viewpoint, in places including Glastonbury, Minehead, Frome, Taunton and Stoke Sub Hamdon. "I think that because it was lockdown and because people weren't travelling so much, the emptiness of the landscape reflected that time because there was an absence of people," she added. While 170 images were captured and will be shown on screen during the exhibition, only 36 were selected to be printed, with Dr Kerr asking those that were chosen to write something to accompany their image - from what their experience of lockdown was to how the image made them feel. Mr Gammans, who works as an artist and helped coordinate the project said it was "lovely to see people's faces light up with curiosity on how it was all going to work". "The images themselves provide a really unique viewpoint - given the fact it was a very odd time where you could go out your front door and not hear cars, not see people, people were more aware of birdsong, you noticed how clear the sky was - it was a very very strange time and the little cameras encapsulated that perfectly," he said. Calling them "little time cameras", Mr Gammans said they managed to record their own perception of time. "We don't sort of notice the movement of the sun and we also take for granted everything moving around us," he said. "I do equate it to if a tree had any perception of what's going on around it." Follow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk

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An appeal has been launched for photographs depicting scenes capturing a city's unique history and culture. Historic England wants to add images of Norwich, Norfolk, to its growing permanent archive collection. Three winning photographs will join 65 others in a national touring public exhibition - Picturing High Streets. Tamsin Silvey, of Historic England, said: "The high street is an often overlooked part of our lives and it needs our support more than ever." Images of "favourite hang outs" and meeting places are also eligible for inclusion. The exhibition is part of a three-year project by Historic England and Photoworks, which the body said "tells the stories behind our shopfronts". It celebrates high street heroes, captures familiar scenes and invites audiences to consider the value and role of their local high street. The exhibition - which will take place by the Forum in Norwich from June - is part of Historic England's £95m government-funded Heritage Action Zones scheme. Historic England said it was "looking for people to photograph what makes Norwich special, from high street heroes to favourite hang outs and meeting places, and the historic features and buildings that give the city its unique character." England's high streets championed in photographs In other parts of England, budding photographers have been uploading pictures to Instagram since September 2022, creating an unofficial archive documenting a year in the life of the English high street. Isabel Johnson of the Norwich Business Improvement District (BID) said: "As the city of stories, Norwich has so many tales to tell. "This exhibition provides a vehicle for people who live and work in the city to tell those stories, for historical record. It has the potential to be both poignant and powerful." The Picturing High Streets exhibition can be seen in Norwich from 26 June to 5 July. Find BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk

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Join us as we take a few moments every day to relax and enjoy the beauty of England through the stunning images you send us. Upload your images or email us at england@bbc.co.uk Upload your images or email us at england@bbc.co.uk. For inspiration, view some top tips from three of England's Big Picture photographers. When emailing pictures, please make sure you include the following information: The full name of the person who took the pictures (as this person owns the copyright)Confirmation that the copyright holder gives permission for the BBC to use their pictures across all its outputsThe location, date and time the pictures were takenYour telephone number so we can get back to you if we have any further questionsAny other details about the pictures that may be useful for us to know Please note that while we welcome all your pictures, we are more likely to use those which have been taken in the past week. Email your photographs to our colleagues in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Pictures can be found on Instagram, on the hashtags #BBCEngland and #EnglandsBigPicture and on our England's Big Picture board on Pinterest. If you submit a picture, you do so in accordance with the BBC's Terms and Conditions and the BBC's privacy policy. In contributing to England's Big Picture you agree to grant us a royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to publish and otherwise use the material in any way that we want, and in any media worldwide. It's important to note, however, that you still own the copyright to everything you contribute to England's Big Picture, and that if your image is accepted, we will publish your name alongside. The BBC cannot guarantee that all pictures will be used and we reserve the right to edit your comments. At no time should you endanger yourself or others, take any unnecessary risks or infringe any laws while collecting any kind of media.

The Quran narrates that Noah received a revelation to build an Ark, after his people refused to believe in his message and hear the warning In 2018, Weaving starred as Thaddeus Valentine in Mortal Engines

We asked our readers to send in their best pictures on the theme of "three colours". Here is a selection of the photographs we received from around the world. The next theme is "springtime" and the deadline for entries is 16 May 2023. The pictures will be published later that week and you will be able to find them, along with other galleries, on the In Pictures section of the BBC News website. You can upload your entries on this page or email them to yourpics@bbc.co.uk. Terms and conditions apply. Further details and themes are at: We set the theme, you take the pictures. All photographs subject to copyright.

Primarily of Irish descent, he was a great-grandson of Methodist evangelical author Beverly Carradine and a grandnephew of artist Will Foster Thai authorities conducted the first autopsy on Carradine shortly after his death, and stated on June 8 that it would take a month to determine how he died, although a Thai police colonel told Reuters that the likely cause was asphyxiation

People across Scotland have been celebrating the Coronation of King Charles. From big screen events to smaller gatherings, thousands turned out to mark the first occasion of its kind since 1953. BBC Scotland takes a look at a selection of images from a historic day. All photos are subject to copyright.

=== Major star ===Curtis graduated to more prestigious projects when he was cast as a co-star of Burt Lancaster and Gina Lollobrigida in Hecht-Lancaster Productions' Trapeze (1956) === The Boston Strangler ===Because of the poor performance of a series of comedies, Curtis fired his agent and took a pay cut to $100,000 to play the title role in The Boston Strangler (1968), his first dramatic film in several years

A collection of photographs shows how a city celebrated the coronations of kings and queens going back more than 100 years. Early images from the Coventry Digital collection show crowds gathering in the city centre to celebrate the coronation of George V in 1911. Others capture people coming together for the 1937 Coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, as well as the ceremony to crown Queen Elizabeth II 16 years later. The online archive, run by Coventry University, celebrates the city's heritage and encourages people to upload their personal collections to its website. All photos, which are available to view on the Coventry Digital website, are subject to copyright. Follow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk

" Palermo concluded that Dahmer had a severe mixed personality disorder, with antisocial, obsessive-compulsive, sadistic, fetishistic, borderline and necrophilic features, but otherwise legally sane " After shooting Lohman twice more, both post-mortem, Feyen finally wrote Scarver a US$3,000 check (equivalent to $6,222 in 2021)

A selection of powerful news photographs taken around the world this week. All photos subject to copyright

== History of Afghanistan's tricolor flags ==The black color represents its troubled 19th century history as a protected state, the red color represents the blood of those who fought for independence (specifically, the Anglo-Afghan Treaty of 1919), and the green represents hope and prosperity for the future === Cuisine ===Afghan cuisine is largely based upon the nation's chief crops, such as wheat, maize, barley and rice

An autistic and deaf man has been recognised by the Royal Photographic Society for his talents with a camera. CJ Ware, 30, from Paignton took up photography 13 years ago and has now obtained a Licentiate qualification from the society. He had three heart attacks as a teenager and requires a wheelchair much of the time. Mr Ware said: "I feel I hide behind my camera - it's like a comfort blanket". "It's sort of my safety net. "If I am getting a bit uncomfortable somewhere I will get the camera out, take some photos, and it helps me feel a bit more relaxed and calm." To achieve a Licentiate, a photographer must submit 10 photos that reflect their ability, using a variety of techniques. About 13 years ago he teamed up with professional photographer Clive Figes, who mentored him and quickly noticed his talent. "I learned to treat CJ as a human being, a human being with gifts that I haven't got. "To treat him like a decent person, to show interest in him", Mr Figes said. Mr Ware explained his photographic style: "I like to do weird imagery. I spot things that people often overlook." Follow BBC News South West on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to spotlight@bbc.co.uk

However, the characters portrayed in comedies were not worse than average in every way, only insofar as they are Ridiculous, which is a species of the Ugly The humour derived gets its appeal from the ridiculousness and unlikeliness of the situation

A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 28 April and 5 May. Send your photos to scotlandpictures@bbc.co.uk. Please ensure you adhere to the BBC's rules regarding photographs that can be found here. Please also ensure you take your pictures safely and responsibly. Conditions of use: If you submit an image, you do so in accordance with the BBC's terms and conditions. Please ensure that the photograph you send is your own and if you are submitting photographs of children, we must have written permission from a parent or guardian of every child featured (a grandparent, auntie or friend will not suffice). In contributing to BBC News you agree to grant us a royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to publish and otherwise use the material in any way, including in any media worldwide. However, you will still own the copyright to everything you contribute to BBC News. At no time should you endanger yourself or others, take any unnecessary risks or infringe the law. You can find more information here. All photos are subject to copyright.

=== Season 2 ===In 1979, Lou Solverson is a state trooper with the Minnesota State Police and based out of Luverne, Minnesota Later, while driving his family into town, Lou stops by the crime scene where Betsy finds Rye's gun in some weeds

A BBC investigation has found evidence suggesting some results from Nigeria's presidential election may have been manipulated. The winner Bola Tinubu is due to be inaugurated on 29 May but the opposition is challenging this. The BBC has uncovered significant anomalies in Rivers state, a key battleground, although not sufficient to change the overall national outcome of the election, which took place in February. There are also questions over the identity of an election official who read out some of the unexplained results. On 25 February, Nigerians cast their votes at thousands of polling stations across the country. At each polling station, the votes for the party of each candidate were publicly announced and the results sheets taken for collation first at the ward level, then at local government (LGA) centres. An election official from each LGA then travelled to the state capital, where these results were officially declared. For the first time in a Nigerian election, photographs of the polling station results sheets were published online by the electoral commission. This made it possible to add up all the polling station sheets and to compare them with the results declared at the state level. We added up the voting tally sheets from over 6,000 polling stations in Rivers state, where many of the opposition complaints had been made. While the official result in this state gave a clear majority to Bola Tinubu of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), our tally suggested that Peter Obi of the Labour Party (LP) had actually received most votes in the state by a wide margin. We found an increase of just over 106,000 in Mr Tinubu's vote in the official declaration when compared with our polling station tally - almost doubling his total in the state. In contrast, Mr Obi's vote had fallen by over 50,000. It's important to make clear that although we searched through the election website for every single one of the 6,866 polling stations in Rivers state, we were not able to obtain results from all of them. Some were incorrectly uploaded, others were missing, even after a month from the date of polling. For about 5% of polling stations, the photos of tally sheets were too blurred for us to read. It's reasonable to assume that the official count would have included these as they would have had the original documents. In another 17%, there were no results at all. Many of these would have been places where no voting took place due to security issues or the non-arrival of voting materials. Others had technical problems preventing officials uploading the documents. So there clearly would have been more polling stations included in the final official results that weren't included in the BBC investigation. However, these additional tally sheets would have increased the totals for each party, not decreased them. And what we found was that the votes for Peter Obi's Labour Party had decreased sharply in Rivers state. So how can the sharp fall in votes for Peter Obi - in the official result - be explained? Two areas stood out. The first was the Oyigbo local government area, where we found: The vote for Bola Tinubu was six times larger in the officially announced results compared with the BBC's polling station count Peter Obi's votes had been cut in half The second local government area where we found major discrepancies was in nearby Obio/Akpor: The official result for Mr Tinubu was 80,239 votes, but we counted just 17,293 votes from polling station talliesThe count for Mr Obi was announced officially as just 3,829 votes, but the BBC counted 74,033 votes for him on the tally sheets As explained earlier, all the polling station sheets are collated at local government (LGA) headquarters. We found an official election document with these collated votes for the Oyigbo area, signed by an election official and some of the party agents. Several different photographs had been taken of it and uploaded on social media accounts. The numbers in this document closely matched our own tallies for the two leading candidates (Obi and Tinubu). This would have been one of the 23 collation sheets from LGAs in Rivers state taken to the state capital, Port Harcourt, for the official declaration. Broadcast live on television on 27 February, in front of a bank of microphones, Oyigbo election official, Dr Dickson Ariaga, announced his name and that he worked for the Federal College of Education in Omoku. On the recording, the word "Omoku" is indistinct, but there is only one Federal College of Education in Rivers state. Dr Ariaga then read out the results for each party in alphabetical order, including for all the smaller parties. They all matched those on the collation sheet the BBC had obtained. But when he reached Mr Tinubu's APC, instead of saying 2,731 as written on our photograph of the sheet, he read out "16,630". Then for Mr Obi's party (LP) the figure changed again - instead of the 22,289 seen on the sheet, he announced "10,784", more than halving his vote. We asked the electoral commission if we could speak to Dr Ariaga, but they would not give us his details or reach out to him for us. We spoke to the election official seated next to Dr Ariaga, but she told us she wasn't authorised to talk to the press. So we sent a reporter to the Federal College of Education in Omoku, about two hours drive north of Port Harcourt, where he'd said he worked when introducing himself. The Deputy Provost Moses Ekpa told the BBC: "From our records, both from our payroll and from our human resources, there is no such a name in our system and we don't know such a person." We tried tracking him down on social media and eventually came across another Facebook account for someone in Port Harcourt, whose profile details had the name Dickson Ariaga. When we compared an image from this account to the television pictures of Dr Ariaga using Amazon Rekognition software, we achieved a match of 97.2%, indicating a very high probability they're the same man. Dr Ariaga did not respond to messages sent by us to this account. By reaching out to his Facebook friends we did finally manage to speak to a man who said he was a relative, who was at first willing to help us but then didn't return our calls. We put these findings to Nigeria's Independent National Electoral Commission (Inec). Johnson Sinikiem, Inec's regional spokesman in Port Harcourt, told us that due to a "gross shortage of time and personnel" they had needed to take on some people without verifying their identity documents. Referring to Dr Ariaga, he said: "If he had presented himself as a lecturer from [the college in Omoku] and it's otherwise, then he is dishonest." We also approached Inec's headquarters in Abuja for a response to our findings of discrepancies in the results in Rivers state. We were told that they were unable to comment due to ongoing legal challenges. This is just one case in one state in southern Nigeria where the evidence points to the results having been manipulated. On their own, these altered results would not have decisively swayed the outcome of the presidential election. Bola Tinubu won the national presidential vote by 1.8m votes over his nearest rival, Atiku Abubakar of the PDP. We're still looking for Dr Ariaga to respond to the findings in this report. Additional reporting by Liana Bravo, Jemimah Herd, Jake Horton and Kumar Malhotra Edited by Dan Isaacs

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Health Minister Neil O'Brien spoke on 9 May about the state of the NHS on BBC Breakfast, which had earlier heard from a GP who said there was an urgent need for more doctors. Mr O'Brien said: "We've got 2,000 more doctors working in general practice than we did in 2019 before the pandemic." Is he right? Mr O'Brien was talking about the number of GPs in England. Health is a devolved issue, which means that the UK government is only responsible for England's NHS. The usual way to compare numbers of GPs is to look at the number of "full time equivalent" GPs, which is provided by NHS Digital. Full-time equivalent (FTE) means that instead of counting the number of GPs regardless of the number of hours they are employed for, you count the number of contracted GP hours. That means, for example, that if you had two GPs contracted to work half the week each that would count as one FTE GP. We asked the Department of Health and Social Care which figures the health minister was referring to. We were told he was comparing December 2022 with December 2019 figures, when there were 2,167 more doctors in general practice. In December 2019, there were 34,519 FTE GPs working in NHS England. In December 2022, that figure was 36,686 - which is indeed 2,167 higher. But the numbers of GPs has since fallen, and in March 2023 (the latest available data) that number was 36,428 - an increase of 1,909 on December 2019, which is just under 2,000. In December 2019 the government promised that it would increase the number of GPs in England by 6,000 by March 2025. There are other ways of counting the number of GPs. The figures above include GPs who are not fully qualified and are still in training. Having lots of trainee GPs is a good thing if you're trying to increase GP numbers in the longer term. But trainee GPs don't see as many patients as fully-qualified GPs. Some of their time is dedicated to education and some of the appointments they carry out are supervised by fully-qualified GPs, taking them away from seeing other patients. If you exclude trainee GPs, there are 823 fewer GPs now than there were in December 2019. Antibiotics prescribed at pharmacies to free up GP timeThe areas with the fewest GPs revealedAre GP numbers going up or down? What claims do you want BBC Reality Check to investigate? Get in touch Read more from Reality Check

The show also features judges who act as counselors, mediators and sometimes mentors to help contestants develop their skills further or perhaps decide their future position in the competition However, reality television as a whole remained durable in the U

At Prime Minister's Questions, Rishi Sunak described Labour as "a party that stands for higher council tax". Earlier in the day, Security Minister Tom Tugendhat told BBC News: "[Council] tax in Labour areas... is about £80 more than in Conservative areas". But Labour is running a tweet in which it claims: "Conservative councils already charge £345 more than Labour ones." They are talking about council tax rates in England, where many areas are holding elections in May 2023. There are also elections due in Northern Ireland, but they have a separate domestic rating system, not council tax. So which is correct? It is very difficult to say, as other organisations have concluded in the past. There are several questions to answer if you try to do this sort of calculation, which have considerable impact on the answer. Council tax: What is it and how much has it gone up by?Local elections 2023: When are they and who can vote?Have the Conservatives increased council tax by 15%? The first question is whether you are only including councils in which one party has an overall majority. Many councils do not, in which case sometimes one party will try to run it with a minority administration and sometimes there will be a coalition. We asked the Conservatives about their calculation and they told us they were only looking at councils with an overall majority that are up for election in May 2023. We asked Labour for their methodology and they did not get back to us. But they told the Telegraph that if the Conservatives had looked at all council areas then Labour would have turned out to be cheaper. In that article, the Conservatives also claimed that Tory-run councils charge £21 less than ones run by the Liberal Democrats. We asked the Liberal Democrats to comment and they told us: "Liberal Democrats have long called for more powers and funding for local authorities, yet year after year, out-of-touch Conservative ministers have slashed budgets and left people with no choice but to raise council tax." The Conservatives are comparing the bills paid by people living in a Band D property. In England, bands are based on the value of a property in April 1991 - the higher the value the higher the band and so the higher the council tax. The Band D comparison for a household with two adults is widely used as a way of comparing what people in similar circumstances across different areas are paying. But it is not a typical bill because that would be affected by the housing stock in an area, for example. To take that into account, some people instead compare the average bill per household. There are different types of councils: town or parish councils, district councils, county councils and unitary authorities. It is important to compare like with like. The Conservatives have averaged the taxes across these tiers. But there are considerable difficulties in this. Consider, for example, someone living in St Albans. For every £1 they pay in council tax: 77p goes to Hertfordshire County Council, which has a Conservative majority9p goes to St Albans City and District Council, which has a Liberal Democrat majority11p goes to the Hertfordshire Police and Crime Commissioner, who is a Conservative 3p goes to parish councils, which are not necessarily political. So, in this case, while the majority of the charges on the council tax bill will have been set by Conservatives on the county council, some will also have been set by Liberal Democrats on the district council. Some parts of a council tax bill may also go to fund adult social care or a mayor, for example, and crucially they may be set by members of a different party to the one that sets your main council tax. So how do you allocate these parts of the bill? The decisions you take about any of these questions can make a big difference to the answer, which means you cannot say definitively which party has the cheapest council tax. What claims do you want BBC Reality Check to investigate? Get in touch Read more from Reality Check

On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 69% based on 220 reviews, with an average rating of 6 McCready, Lessard, and Mark worked with musicians Matt Chamberlain, David Levita, Aaron Kaplan, Victor Indrizzo, Chris Chaney, Davey Chegwidden and DJ Cheapshot to develop the music

Hundreds of British nationals have been evacuated from the fighting in Sudan. But when she was asked whether the UK was going to "start looking at safe routes for refugees from Sudan [who are not British nationals]", Home Secretary Suella Braverman replied: "We have no plans to do that." The prime minister confirmed the government's current priority was getting British nationals out. Immigration Minister Robert Jenrick was later asked in Parliament what "safe and legal" routes to the UK would be available to a young person wanting to flee the conflict in Sudan. He said: "The United Nations is operating in most, if not all, of the countries surrounding Sudan," adding that "the best advice clearly would be for individuals to present to the UNHCR. We already operate safe and legal routes with them." The UNHCR is the UN's refugee agency. But the SNP's Alison Thewliss pointed out that the UNHCR had earlier issued a statement saying: "There is no mechanism through which refugees can approach UNHCR with the intention of seeking asylum in the UK." Mr Jenrick rejected her comments: "Whatever the honourable lady may be quoting from her iPhone, I would prefer to take at face value what I have heard in discussion with the assistant commissioner [of the UNHCR]." Mr Jenrick and Ms Thewliss were both referring to the UNHCR's resettlement scheme. Under this, the UNHCR identifies refugees who are considered to be "particularly at risk" in the countries to which they have initially fled. These are people who cannot integrate in the country where they have initially sought refuge but also cannot return home. These "refugees at heightened risk" are then resettled in partner countries such as the UK, but it is UNHCR officials who recommend where they should go. That route is only available to about 1% of refugees worldwide. "Although a critical and lifesaving mechanism, resettlement is not a solution for most refugees, and does not replace the right to seek asylum itself," the UNHCR said. Seeking asylum generally involves going to a country and claiming asylum once you are there. Resettlement involves moving people from the first country where they sought refuge to another country that is more suitable. Refugees generally have to be registered with the UNHCR to be considered for resettlement. But the UNHCR told the BBC that the UK is only currently accepting Afghan nationals for resettlement. This means that registering with the UNHCR would not provide a route for anyone else to come to the UK. So Mr Jenrick's suggestion that people in Sudan wanting to escape to the UK should "present to the UNHCR" was not correct. What are the legal routes to the UK?Migration bill passes as Tory rebellion defused We asked the Home Office about the UNHCR statement and the government's current position on safe and legal routes from Sudan. We were pointed towards the comment from Ms Braverman quoted above, and told there was no further comment at this point. According to UK statistics, last year 218 people from Sudan came to the UK under the UNHCR resettlement scheme, but almost all of those came from pre-pandemic applications. What claims do you want BBC Reality Check to investigate? Get in touch Read more from Reality Check

Audrey Hepburn, An Elegant Spirit In 1954, fashion photographer Cecil Beaton declared Hepburn the "public embodiment of our new feminine ideal" in Vogue, and wrote that "Nobody ever looked like her before World War II

The government has reached its target to recruit 20,000 more police officers in England and Wales. It has employed 20,951 more officers since 2019 so the total is now 149,572. This means the number of officers is about 3,500 higher than it was in 2010, when the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats began cutting police numbers. But there are concerns that the rise hasn't kept pace with the increase in population since 2010 and that many experienced officers have left. Many of the new officers are replacing the approximately 20,000 who left between 2010 and 2019. The new headcount of 149,572 officers in England and Wales (including part-time employees) is higher than the previous record of 146,030 in 2010. The recruitment target, pledged in the Conservatives' 2019 election manifesto, was set for March 2023. It has been reached after a big rise in the first three months of 2023 - 4,000 extra officers - by far the biggest quarterly jump since the government's police uplift programme started. Home Secretary Suella Braverman said: "We have delivered on the promise we made to the British people which means more police on the beat preventing violence, solving burglaries and cracking down on antisocial behaviour." Police taking over five hours to respond to priority calls in England'More than 50,000 new police officers needed'Met chief has concerns over rapid hiring of officers Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper tweeted: "the Tories are trying to take country for fools on policing... they CUT 20,000 police officers". That's a reference to the reduction in police numbers of about 20,000 between 2010 and 2019, after government funding was cut by 20%. Liberal Democrat Home Affairs Spokesperson Alistair Carmichael said: "Suella Braverman's boasts will ring hollow for communities that have seen community policing decimated under this government." While the number of police officers is a few thousand higher than 2010 levels, the population has grown - by about 7% - since then. If the number of officers in England and Wales had risen in line with the population since 2010, there would need to be thousands more officers. Ms Braverman told BBC News that in 2019 "we set that [20,000] target accounting for increases in population". We have asked the Home Office how they did this. In the year to March 2022, the number of full-time police officers leaving the force reached a 20-year high of 8,117. Half of those leaving retired - police officers can claim their pensions in their 50s. However, an increasing proportion resigned - about 40% in 2021-22, compared with a third the year before. About 9% of newly recruited officers leave during their two-year probation periods, a report by the Public Accounts Committee, which examines government projects, found last year. Chief Constable Ben-Julian Harrington, of Essex Police, said his force had received more than 900 new officers as part of the police uplift programme. However, he is concerned some will leave because of low salaries and the rising cost of living. "You can't arrest your gas bill," he said. To keep new officers, he said he would "speak up for them, and make sure they are trained and supported". There are now fewer senior full-time police officers than in 2010. The number of inspectors is down 14% to 6,245. The number of superintendents and sergeants has also fallen. Currently, a third of all police officers in England and Wales have fewer than five years' experience where the length of service is known. This is more than double the number six years ago. The Public Accounts Committee has linked falling levels of experience with the government's drive to recruit new officers. Dame Meg Hillier, who heads the committee, said: "The danger is if you go up and down with police numbers and then recruit very quickly, you end up with a larger number of more junior officers, without the experienced people above them." This could affect police force performance. In June 2022, Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary, the police watchdog, placed the Metropolitan Police in special measures. In a letter to the force, HM Inspector Matt Parr said systemic failures had been "amplified by the presence of a relatively young, inexperienced workforce - a consequence of the [Met's] increased recruitment enabled by the police uplift programme". The BBC has spoken to officers who joined a Met Police scheme to recruit graduates to be detectives without first serving in uniform. They describe being left to cope on their own with growing caseloads. One of them - who didn't want to be named - said he was given 12 cases on his first day in CID (Criminal Investigation Department). "From that point," he said, "I was swimming upstream." Another described his time as a detective as "the worst year of my life". He said his CID unit was staffed almost entirely by trainees and he was worried he might make a mistake that affected a case or a victim of crime. Both trainee detectives have now left the Met, and say about 10 of their 30 fellow recruits have done the same. The Met was the only police force that did not meet its recruitment target. It fell short of its 4,557 target by 1,089 officers. Additional reporting by Libby Rodgers

The Bruins placed second in the Adams Division, and lost to the Chicago Black Hawks in the first round of the 1975 playoffs, losing a best-of-three series, two games to one In the 2020–21 season, the Bruins made the 2021 playoffs, where they defeated the Washington Capitals in five games, but lost to the New York Islanders in six games

Leaders and representatives from across the Commonwealth are expected to come to London for the Coronation of King Charles III on 6 May. Some of these countries were previously in the British Empire, some are still British dominions, while others had no colonial links to Britain but have chosen to join the global club. Here are seven things you may not know about the Commonwealth. About 2.5 billion people - out of a global population of eight billion - live in the 56 Commonwealth countries. More than 60 per cent of the Commonwealth's population is aged 29 or under. Globally, a third of all young people aged between 15 and 29 live in Commonwealth countries. The biggest country by population is India, which accounts for about half of the total. Pakistan, Nigeria and Bangladesh are the next biggest countries by population, with the UK fifth. King Charles is the head of state in 14 Commonwealth countries - or realms - in addition to the UK. Most countries in the club are republics - with Barbados the last to remove the UK monarch as its head of state in 2021. Five countries - Lesotho, Eswatini (previously known as Swaziland), Brunei Darussalam, Malaysia and Tonga - have their own monarch. King Charles remains head of state in Australia, New Zealand and Canada, although for many years there has been an active movement in Australia in favour of becoming a republic. The country's central bank has announced that Charles will not feature on Australia's new $5 note. What does the King do? Rwanda and Mozambique became members in 2009 and 1995 respectively, although neither were colonised by the British. Rwanda was previously under the rule of Germany and Belgium. Former French colonies Gabon and Togo are the most recent joiners, becoming members in June 2022. Why ex-French colonies are joining the Commonwealth The club has also lost members. South Africa withdrew in 1961 after it was criticised by Commonwealth members for its apartheid policies. It became a member again in 1994. Pakistan was thrown out after a military coup in 1999, but was readmitted in 2004. Membership was suspended again between 2007 and 2008. Former president of Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe took his country out in 2003 after its membership was suspended amid reports of election rigging. It applied for re-admission in 2018, but no decision has been reached. The last country to leave was the Maldives in 2016, but it re-joined in 2020. The Commonwealth makes up a quarter of the world's land mass. The giant of the group is Canada, the world's second largest country by area. India and Australia are huge too. But many of the member countries are small - such as the Pacific island nations of Nauru, Samoa, Tuvalu and Vanuatu, and Antigua and Barbuda, and Dominica in the Caribbean. Thirty-three of the world's 42 small states are part of the Commonwealth. Prince Philip: The Vanuatu tribes mourning the death of their 'god' The UK is no longer the biggest economy in the Commonwealth, according to the latest GDP numbers from the International Monetary Fund, with India overtaking it for the first time in 2022. The combined GDP of the 56 members is more than $13tn (£10.8tn). That's more than twice the size of Japan ($5tn, £3.75tn), but some way behind the US at $23tn (£17.2tn). Trade with the Commonwealth accounted for 9% of the UK's total trade in 2021 - around the same as the UK's total trade with Germany. The UK exported goods and services worth £62.6bn to the rest of the Commonwealth, while imports from member states totalled £58.2bn The modern Commonwealth was formed in 1949, after "British" was dropped from the name and allegiance to the Crown was removed. Only three people have been head of the organisation - King George VI, Queen Elizabeth II and King Charles III. It's not a hereditary role, although the Commonwealth accepted King Charles as its head in 2018, when he was Prince of Wales. The organisation is run from London by its secretary-general, currently Baroness Scotland. She was re-elected to a second term in June 2022, despite facing criticism from some member states over her performance. The other founding members were Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand, Pakistan, South Africa, and Sri Lanka. The Commonwealth Charter was adopted in 2012, and commits members to the values of democracy, gender equality, sustainable development and international peace and security. The Commonwealth has been criticised for being a post-colonial club and for having little influence in the modern world. Supporters argue the benefits which membership brings include developmental support and co-operation on international goals. Russia and a number of other former members of the Soviet Union set up the Commonwealth of Independent States in 1991. It aimed to coordinate economic, defence, immigration and foreign policy across the bloc, although this proved difficult in practice. Georgia withdrew in 2009 after Russia seized part of its South Ossetia territory. Ukraine withdrew its membership in 2018. There is another group called the International Organisation of La Francophonie - an alliance of French-speaking countries which aims to promote the French language and increase mutual co-operation.

Another example of cinematic language is having a shot that zooms in on the forehead of an actor with an expression of silent reflection that cuts to a shot of a younger actor who vaguely resembles the first actor, indicating that the first person is remembering a past self, an edit of compositions that causes a time transition He then further developed the device into the Théâtre Optique which could project longer sequences with separate backgrounds, patented in 1888

Russia's Wagner mercenary force is accused of having various commercial and military ties to Sudan, but the group denies any involvement in the current conflict in the country. Its founder, Yevgeny Prighozin - who has close links to President Vladimir Putin - has said that "not a single Wagner PMC [private military company] fighter has been present in Sudan" for over two years. We've found no evidence that Russian mercenaries are currently inside the country. But there is evidence of Wagner's previous activities in Sudan, and Mr Prighozin's operations in the country have been targeted by both US and EU sanctions. In 2017, Sudan's then President Omar al-Bashir signed a series of deals with the Russian government during a visit to Moscow. These included an agreement for Russia to set up a naval base at Port Sudan on the Red Sea, as well as "concession agreements on gold mining between Russian company M Invest and the Sudanese Ministry of Minerals". The US Treasury alleges that M Invest and a subsidiary group, Meroe Gold, are fronts for the activities of the Wagner Group in Sudan, Africa's third-biggest gold producer. "Yevgeniy Prigozhin and his network are exploiting Sudan's natural resources for personal gain and spreading malign influence around the globe," said then Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin in 2020. Both M Invest and Meroe have been specifically targeted by US sanctions. According to an investigation by CNN, gold has been transported overland to the Central African Republic (CAR), where Wagner is known to operate - exports not recorded in Sudanese official trade data. Significant amounts of gold have also been smuggled out via a network of military airports, according to a report last year in the Daily Telegraph. Since 2017, Russian and international sources have published images that appear to locate Russian mercenaries inside Sudan. These are said to show them acting in various roles, including training Sudanese soldiers or allegedly helping the security forces crack down on protests. The BBC has not independently verified these images. In 2021, a Wagner-linked Telegram channel published images featuring an unnamed top Wagner commander awarding Sudanese soldiers memorabilia at a ceremony held two years earlier. And in July 2022, this channel distributed a video allegedly showing Wagner mercenaries conducting parachute-landing exercises for Sudanese forces. The same source linked to the Instagram profile of an anonymous Russian mercenary, calling himself a "freelancer" and sharing stories of his exploits in Sudan in posts from August and October 2021. In a 2020 Wagner propaganda action film, Sudan was featured as one of the countries where the mercenaries operate. The US Treasury says the Wagner Group has conducted "paramilitary operations, support for preserving authoritarian regimes, and exploitation of natural resources". "Initially, in 2018, they had about 100 men actively training Sudanese military forces, and the relationship has grown from there," says Dr Joana de Deus Pereira of the UK-based Royal United Services Institute. Sudanese media reports says that figure grew to about 500, and they were mainly stationed in the south-west near Um Dafuq, close to Sudan's border with the Central African Republic (CAR). The Sudan Tribune reported that when President Bashir faced popular protests in 2019, "Russian fighters" were deployed to observe anti-government protests alongside Sudanese intelligence and security services, although this was denied by the Sudanese authorities. The Wagner Group devised its own media campaigns to help President Bashir stay in power, says Dr Samuel Ramani, author of a book about Russia's activities in Africa. "Prigozhin was calling for… the protestors to be accused of being pro-Israel and anti-Islamic," he says. This caused friction with the president's own security forces, and so Wagner switched its support to the man who ousted him - General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan. "While the Foreign Ministry in Moscow was against the coup, Prigozhin and the Wagner Group actually welcomed al-Burhan's takeover," says Dr Ramani. According to Dr Ramani, it was in 2021 and 2022 that the Wagner Group increased its connections with the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which is currently fighting Sudan's regular army, led by Gen Burhan. Mr Prigozhin was interested in sourcing more gold through mines recently acquired by the RSF's leader, Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, widely known as Hemedti. Last year, Hemedti visited Moscow, saying he hoped to bolster ties between Sudan and Russia. However, Kholood Khair of Confluence Advisory, a think-tank on Sudanese affairs, believes the Wagner Group is not choosing sides in the current conflict. "Wagner has had links to both General al-Burhan's enterprises and to Mr Hemedti's enterprises to different extents and in different ways," she says. Wagner fighters have widely reported to have been in the Central African Republic (CAR) for several years, guarding the country's diamond mines, as well as in Libya and Mali. A BBC investigation in 2021 found evidence of their involvement in Libya's civil war from a digital device left behind by a Wagner fighter and from speaking to Libyan soldiers and civilians. In Mali, the government has turned to Wagner to help battle Islamist militants, although it has never officially acknowledged the group's presence. Human Rights Watch (HRW) has accused Russian mercenaries of serious abuses, both in CAR and Mali, including torture and killings. Additional reporting by Beverly Ochieng, Thomas Spencer and Daniele Palumbo

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Labour tweeted about increases in council tax over the weekend. "The Tories are raising council tax by up to 15%," it said. Some emphasis needs to be placed on the "up to" in that sentence. Only one council, Croydon, which has no party in overall control, has raised tax by 15%. The highest after that were two councils that raised it by 10%. These were Labour-controlled Slough and Conservative-controlled Thurrock. Croydon raised council tax by 15% after declaring bankruptcy because it realised it faced a £130m hole in its budget. Although the borough has an elected Conservative mayor, the Tories and Labour both have 34 councillors in total. The Green Party has two councillors and the Liberal Democrats one. The mayor has blamed "the toxic debt and financial failures of the previous administration" for the financial problems. These are partly due to the funding plans for the refurbishment of a concert hall. A report into the financial problems in Croydon found "organisational dysfunction at the most senior level in the council". The former leader of the council and its former cabinet member for finance, both of whom were Labour councillors, resigned from their roles as did its former chief executive. Labour councillors in Croydon have previously said that the government should be providing more funding instead of allowing the increase in council tax. They have also said the current administration inherited an underspend as well as a £27m reserve. How much is council tax going up?Croydon approves council tax rise of 15% The government increased the amount councils were allowed to raise taxes without a referendum to 5% - if they have social care responsibilities - in November's Autumn Statement. Croydon, Thurrock and Slough councils were given special permission by the government to raise their taxes by more without putting it to a vote. Thurrock, which is Conservative-controlled, is putting up council tax by 10% after declaring bankruptcy. Leader of bankrupt Thurrock Council admits 'systemic weaknesses'Cash-strapped Slough Borough Council set to sell off housing land Slough, which is Labour-run, is also putting council tax up 10% having declared bankruptcy in 2021 as a result of property and land investments. Labour also said in its campaign tweet that Conservative councils charge £345 more than Labour ones. We asked Labour how it reached the figure but have not heard back. What claims do you want BBC Reality Check to investigate? Get in touch Read more from Reality Check

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The suspected leaker of a large batch of US military documents, Jack Teixeira, has been charged in a Boston court and detained pending trial, but where did the classified files come from and how were they shared online? We've pieced together what we know about how they first appeared and where they spread online. The documents were initially posted on a small private chat group called "Bear vs Pig". This was itself a sub-group of another known as "Thug Shaker Central" on the Discord social media platform. Both were accessible by invitation-only and had around two dozen members. In court papers in support of Mr Teixeira's arrest, the FBI says he first posted classified information online as paragraphs of text "in or about December 2022". It says he then posted photographs of documents "in or around January 2023". In interviews with the Washington Post and New York Times, members of Thug Shaker Central say they had initially met in another Discord group dedicated to fans of a YouTuber who posts videos about guns and military gear. These members say that during the Covid lockdowns, they broke away to form their own private group and that Mr Teixiera was the driving force in this new close-knit community. Members of group say it not only contained US citizens but also others from Ukraine, Russia, South America and elsewhere. For a few months the classified documents remained private to this group. Attention has focused on an individual with the user name "Lucca" who, in early March, posted some of the documents on a public channel on Discord called "wow_mao". This same user was also a member of the Thug Shaker Central community, according to the New York Times. Shortly afterwards, in another public Discord channel, during a brief argument about the online game Minecraft and the war in Ukraine, a user says "here, have some leaked documents" and posts several screenshots. It was following this public sharing of the documents that Mr Teixeira quickly deleted Thug Shaker Central, including its sub-group, Bear vs Pig. On 5 April, screenshots of the documents appeared on the message board 4chan, one of the biggest and most controversial hubs of internet subculture. They were shared on one of 4chan's most notorious boards known as /pol/ - standing for politically incorrect - by anonymous users during an argument about the exact number of Ukrainian and Russian casualties there had been in the conflict. Just a few hours later, these documents began appearing on pro-Kremlin Telegram channels and were also picked up by prominent military bloggers. One image - widely circulated by Russian channels - was edited to reduce the number of Russian troops killed and inflate the Ukrainian losses. By 7 April, the documents were also circulating on some of the major social media platforms, such as Twitter and Reddit. Initially, pro-Kremlin Telegram channels who shared the screenshots did not dwell much on the authenticity of the documents, focusing largely on their content. But soon several prominent channels and media outlets started to lean towards portraying the documents as at least partly fake. An expert quoted by ultranationalist news website Regnum suggested the documents may be a deliberate leak aimed at providing a smokescreen for the coming Ukrainian counter-offensive. On state TV, Yuri Podolyaka, a prominent war commentator, said this was "planted information" intended to mislead Russia about the counter-offensive. Olga Skabeyeva, host of state Rossiya 1 TV's 60 Minutes talk show said the West had been doing "all it can to create the image of a weak Ukraine whose shells are running out and which has nothing left at all". Questions about the authenticity of the documents have been raised in Ukraine too, with some commentators accusing Russia of planting fake documents ahead of the Ukrainian counter-offensive. Multiple screenshots of the documents - often of poor quality - are still circulating on Twitter, Telegram and Reddit. But the originals are much harder to find. A lot of the original copies have now disappeared from the chats where they first emerged. Others who shared the screenshots on Discord, Telegram and Twitter have either wiped out their feeds or deleted their social media profiles altogether. And there's a great deal of paranoia too. One user who has previously shared screenshots of the documents on Discord told fellow users they'd been trying to get rid of all the copies they had on their phone. Another was quick to respond to a plea to share more documents on the forum with: "Nice try FBI". Additional reporting by Adam Robinson and Daniele Palumbo.

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has called on world leaders to respond after a video emerged apparently showing a Ukrainian soldier being beheaded by a Russian serviceman. "Everyone must react. Every leader. Do not wait for this to be forgotten," he said in a video address. Ukraine's SBU security service said it was investigating the "war crime". The Kremlin said the video was "awful" but its authenticity had to be checked as well as who was behind it. The grainy and extremely graphic video appears to have been filmed on a mobile phone, and possibly during the summer months. It shows a man in military uniform wearing a yellow armband - frequently worn as identifying symbols by Ukrainian soldiers. The perpetrator and other men visible in the clip have white bands on their legs, which Russian soldiers are known to wear as a means of identification. They can also be heard to speak Russian, although that is not conclusive as many Ukrainians speak Russian too. During the short video, the victim with the yellow armband is beheaded by a man with a large knife who is wearing a white band around his leg. At one point, one of the men holds up body armour with a trident mark - the state symbol of Ukraine. The colours and shape of the trident badge are similar to the insignia of the Ukrainian ground forces. The body armour also features what looks like the Punisher skull symbol (a comic-book character), which in the current conflict has been spotted being worn by fighters on both sides. A green passport-like booklet is also visible on the ground. It's upside down in the video (highlighted below) but its appearance matches that of the standard-issue Ukrainian military ID in its colour, the presence of a Ukrainian trident symbol and the layout of the writing. There has been speculation online that the video was filmed near the city of Kreminna in eastern Ukraine. The BBC has been unable to verify these claims as the video's surrounding features offer too few visual clues to identify its location, such as buildings or specific landscape points. It also remains unclear when the footage was filmed. It looks as if it's from the current conflict, where white and yellow armbands have been used by opposing sides as identification. The leaves in the video are bright green which suggests that it may have been from late spring or summer last year. Some social media users have suggested it may have been filmed in July but we cannot verify this. The footage began circulating on Telegram late on Tuesday, after a popular pro-Kremlin blogger shared it with his nearly 300,000 followers. He later claimed he was not the original source of the video and that the footage had been on Telegram before he posted it. We have been unable to find any earlier versions. The video has since spread to Twitter. Exiled Russian journalist Vladimir Osechkin says Andrey Medvedev, a former Wagner Group commander who sought asylum in Norway, told him after watching the video that he could recognise the perpetrators as Wagner fighters. "He says he can unambiguously identify his former Wagner colleagues by their characteristic call-signs, by how they talk," Mr Osechkin told the YouTube channel of exiled ex-oligarch and Kremlin critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that "in the world of fakes that we inhabit, we need to check the veracity of this footage". Another video purporting to show the bodies of two beheaded soldiers has also been circulating on social media in recent days. The video shows what appears to be a destroyed M113 armoured personnel carrier, mainly used by Ukrainian forces. A man filming the scene says in Russian that it had driven over a mine. At least two bodies without heads and hands can be seen lying on the ground nearby. A yellow armband is visible on the right arm of one of the bodies, suggesting the victims had been fighting on the Ukrainian side. At least three other soldiers can be seen standing over the two bodies. Social media comments have suggested the video was filmed near Bakhmut, where Russian forces - including the Wagner private military company - have been battling Ukrainian troops for control of the city. However, the BBC has been unable to verify the location of the video. Wagner founder Yevgeny Prigozhin has put out a statement saying that he has "not found" any evidence that the events in the video had happened near Bakhmut or involved Wagner fighters. Many gruesome videos have been posted online since the war began. Bucha satellite image contradicts Russian claimsDoes video show Russian prisoners being shot? Last month President Zelensky promised to find the Russian soldiers who apparently shot dead an unarmed Ukrainian prisoner of war named Oleksandr Matsiyevskiy. EU foreign affairs spokeswoman Nabila Massrali reminded Russia it had to abide by humanitarian law and added that the EU was committed to holding to account all perpetrators of war crimes committed during the war.

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The government has announced new funding to relocate more than 8,000 Afghans who are currently living in hotels in the UK. The government says this will help move refugees into permanent homes, but critics say it risks making some Afghans homeless. The government says that more than 24,000 people have arrived in the UK from Afghanistan as of December 2022, including British nationals. Of these, more than 21,000 have been resettled under Afghan refugee schemes. Most came as part of Operation Pitting, the British military operation starting in August 2021 to evacuate British nationals and Afghans from Kabul. About 2,000 came before Operation Pitting15,000 arrived during Operation Pitting 7,000 have arrived since In written evidence to the Foreign Affairs Committee, Raphael Marshall, who previously worked on the Foreign Office's Afghanistan crisis response, estimated that between 75,000 and 150,000 people had applied for evacuation in August 2021. He estimated that 5% of these received assistance. The Home Office said another 1,400 former staff and their families had already been relocated since 2013 under an earlier scheme. In April 2021 - before the Taliban took control of Afghanistan - the government launched the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy (ARAP) scheme. Under the scheme, Afghans who worked for the British military and UK government - for example, as interpreters - could apply to settle permanently in the UK, rather get five years' residency which was previously offered. The government also opened the Afghan Citizens' Resettlement Scheme (ACRS) in January 2022, which it says will allow up to 20,000 refugees to settle in the UK. This scheme focuses on women and children as well as religious and other minorities in danger from the Taliban. Immediate family members of those eligible under either the ACRS or ARAP schemes are also eligible for resettlement in the UK. In 2022, 4,629 Afghans were resettled under these schemes but most are people who worked for the UK before Kabul fell in August 2021. Only 22 were brought in because they were vulnerable or at risk refugees. As part of an initiative called "Operation Warm Welcome", local councils have been allocated funding packages of £20,520 per person over three years. The funding will help refugees to enrol in education, find work and integrate in their new communities. The government is providing an additional £10m in the first year for housing costs, then £5m and £2m in the two following years. The government has announced a new £35m fund to help local authorities move around 8,000 Afghans out of hotels and into permanent homes across the UK. It will also add a further £250m to the local authority housing fund. The refugees will be given three months to vacate their hotels for relocation. The Refugee Council has expressed concerned that some Afghans may be left homeless by the new measures. The Home Office says that more than 9,000 Afghan refugees are still living in hotels while another 9,000 have either been moved to a permanent home or are waiting to move in. In February 2022, the Home Office said that accommodating Afghan refugees in hotels cost £1.2m per day. Afghanistan evacuee 'feels stuck' in hotel room Afghan refugees in London hotel 'reject accommodation offers' They can come through the UK Resettlement Scheme which prioritises refugees from regions in conflict. In 2022, 36 Afghans came through this route. The other main way to settle is to seek asylum after arriving in the UK. However, proposed changes to the UK immigration system mean that people deemed to have arrived illegally could be sent to Rwanda for processing. The number of Afghans arriving in the UK on small boats having crossed the English Channel has increased sharply: In 2020, 494 crossed in small boats In 2021, 1,437 crossed in small boatsIn 2022, 8,633 crossed in small boats Home Office statistics also show that nearly 11,000 Afghans and their dependents applied for asylum in 2022. The US evacuated the largest number of people from Afghanistan after the Taliban seized power. From 14 August to 28 August 2021, it got 113,500 people out. Other countries evacuated much smaller numbers over that period, according to official statements and press releases: Germany - more than 5,300Italy - more than 5,000Canada - more than 3,700France - around 3,000 Since August 2021, some countries have continued to carry out occasional evacuations. On December 3 of that year, France announced that it had evacuated 258 people from Afghanistan. There was also an increase in the number of Afghans who applied for asylum in some EU countries such as Greece, France and Germany.

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A couple who have spent two years fighting a no-fault eviction notice on their home of more than 20 years said they were "poised for panic" as they awaited bailiffs to finally move them out. Barbara Smathers and her partner Les were first issued the Section 21 eviction order in 2021, which means a landlord does not need to give a reason for ending the tenancy. Since then they have spent more than £1,000 in court fees defending their case, but in April were handed their final eviction notice. They are not alone. The number of Section 21 eviction notices handed to tenants in the Midlands is the highest it's been in the past five years, according to the latest government data. In 2022, more than 1,720 no-fault claims were issued by private landlords to tenants which saw a 172% increase on the previous year - up from 635. Barbara, 69, who lives in Audley, Staffordshire, spoke to BBC News after receiving their first eviction notice and said their lives had "overwhelmingly been consumed" by the fear of where they would live. She said: "You go to bed worrying about it. You go to sleep and wake up thinking about it: 'I've got to find somewhere else to go - what am I going to do?'" Barbara has 12 therapy horses which need to relocate with her, making the search for a home even harder. "I didn't know anything about this [Section 21 evictions] until a couple of years ago," she said. "It feels like people look at you and judge you. Anyone in private rental is at risk of this and there's nothing you can do." Rent prices: How much have they gone up in your area?'I couldn't sleep, eat or function after eviction stress'What are your rights when you're renting? The BBC has approached the landlord for comment. The sharp increase of Section 21 evictions and notices has been felt by thousands, following the eviction ban which was lifted in May 2021 after the outbreak of coronavirus and a subsequent backlog in the courts. Alex, 27, was living in central Birmingham with a friend when she was unexpectedly issued a Section 21 notice in February, weeks after complaining about mould throughout the house. As well as not needing to give a reason for eviction, the tenant can be forced out of their home in as little as two months' time. Fortunately, Alex was able to leave before going to court, however it's come at a cost - her new flat is "significantly more expensive, smaller and in a less convenient location". "But it was a matter of not being able to deal with the stress and uncertainty of an eviction process to play out," said Alex, who does not want to be identified because of the stigma attached to evictions. "Even though logically it isn't my fault, there is this sense that if you're evicted it's because you're bad and did something wrong. It made me feel insecure about the future." Susan has been served a Section 21 eviction notice at the house she has rented for more than 30 years in Stoke-on-Trent. Her landlord died and their family want to sell. "It's making me ill - physically sick," she said, as she faced up to the prospect of "starting all over again" at 58. Currently paying £400 in rent, she said she was unable to afford a similar sized property without paying £200 more a month. In Stoke-on-Trent, the Citizens Advice Bureau said it had seen a "a huge increase" in its workload, with 70% of the housing support team now helping tenants with Section 21 cases. "It is completely phenomenal. We've never known anything like that before," says Jude Hawes, head of the service specialist and equalities teams. The team are seeing a variety of reasons for the evictions, from private landlords selling up and leaving the market - to dramatically increasing rents. In the courts, judges may hear up to 20 cases a week. They include "heart-breaking" situations, said Jude, leaving many children "unsettled and distressed" as they are moved across the city and made to join new schools. "The worst case I've seen is when a lady who was terribly ill and didn't have long to live," said Mr Hawes. "She'd lived in the property for more than 20 years and there was nothing we could do. The woman was out of her home and in homeless accommodation and I suspect she will die in homeless accommodation." Ramona Hirschi is an estate agent in the city and also a landlady herself with five rental properties. "Most landlords don't wake up in the morning and think, 'hey, let me kick my tenant out and I'll have no rent and bills paid'," she said. It is a "last resort" for many reputable landlords and agents, said Ramona, who manages about 270 rental properties across Stoke-on-Trent. "When a house goes up for rent we have 30-40 enquiries, that is the level of under supply and over demand in Stoke and that's not going to improve if there is no support for landlords," said Ramona. The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities insisted it would bring forward a Renters Reform Bill by the end of this Parliament. However Romana said: "We need more enforcement - not regulation. "If you don't catch the bad guys [landlords] there is no point enforcing more and more, because the good guys [landlords] are already doing everything," she added. Mark Pickman is known as an "accidental landlord" after inheriting his late father's home and deciding to rent it out. Over the past 15 years, he's bought three more properties in the Cannock area to build up a pension pot, but the highs and lows of property management have made him think again. "From a personal perspective, I wouldn't do it again if I had the opportunity of an inherited property, knowing what I know now. I would sell it," said Mark. The number of landlords who are planning to cut the number of properties they own has almost doubled in a year in the West Midlands. Almost four in ten (38%) said they wanted to reduce the number they let, according to research carried out on 750 members of the National Residential Landlords Association. Mark is paying more than 6% interest rate on one mortgage and with rising maintenance costs in recent years, it's been "difficult" to pass on rent increases in line with inflation to tenants. "When you see someone on the news talking about 'bad landlords' - we all get lumped in, because we're private landlords tarnished with the same brush and it's simply not right." A spokeswoman for the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities said: "We remain absolutely committed to delivering a fairer deal for renters. "We will bring forward a Renters Reform Bill in this Parliament, abolishing 'no-fault evictions' so that all tenants have greater security in their homes and are empowered to challenge poor conditions and unreasonable rent rises." Stay in touch with your landlord or agentYou may be eligible for emergency housing or a discretionary housing paymentYou can only be evicted if your landlord has followed the proper stepsFind your local Citizens Advice Bureau which can give you tailored advice Follow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk