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One ex-officer criticised its \"aggressive\" tactics.", "A soldier was arrested after Corporal John Fernandez, 32, died following a car crash on Saturday.", "Kenneth Wilkinson was one of the pilots dubbed \"the few\" by wartime leader Winston Churchill.", "The family is believed to have been on holiday in Devon from the Milton Keynes area.", "The man, who barely fitted into the dinghy, was rescued by lifeboat as he continued to drift.", "Security checks brought in after recent terror attacks \"have led to some people missing flights\".", "Joe Arpaio violated a judge's order that he cease detaining people whom he racially profiled.", "High-speed pendulum rides have been closed in England and Wales after the death of a US teenager.", "Britain's Best Cook will be presented by Claudia Winkleman and be broadcast on BBC One.", "David Hall made the discovery at the age of 14 and says it was his \"first proper find\".", "Russell Taylor says his homemade yellow lines stop selfish parking caused by rising gentrification.", "Fentanyl, the drug that killed pop star Prince, has been found in batches of heroin.", "The 66-year-old Fields twins have lived together all their lives - now they are even closer after sharing their skin.", "A report into HMP The Mount that highlighted violence as an issue had been released hours earlier.", "Wayne Brookes joined 45 other paedophiles online to watch the abuse being streamed live from the US.", "The apology came after a disabled boy's mother said the US president did not ignore her son.", "Hundreds of people are set to lose their jobs after Putin's crackdown.", "Prices are to increase by 12.5% from mid-September, affecting 3.1 million customers.", "Police say the missing airman's family had been updated on the development.", "Pub bosses apologise after asking priests to leave their Cardiff venue, mistaking them for a stag party.", "A cyber security adviser and Trump's ex-media chief are reportedly among those tricked.", "People wait two days to get from Zante to Gatwick because of a curfew to protect a turtle population.", "\"Business leaders and politicians asked how we would get round the result,\" says former foreign secretary.", "The sacking of Donald Trump's communications director is the lead story on several front pages.", "The motoring organisation fires its executive chairman, Bob Mackenzie, with immediate effect.", "Kevin Myers suggested Vanessa Feltz and Claudia Winkleman earned high salaries because they are Jewish.", "HBO confirms it experienced a \"cyber incident\" after hackers claimed to have breached the firm.", "The Metropolitan Police says clothing or equipment could link suspects to a crime scene.", "Four countries tell Newsbeat what the Women's Euros is doing for football where they are."], "section": ["US & Canada", "Beds, Herts & Bucks", "Birmingham & Black Country", "London", "Business", "Magazine", "Europe", "Entertainment & Arts", "North West Wales", "Northern Ireland", "Health", "Hampshire & Isle of Wight", "Australia", "Business", "Technology", "The Papers", "UK", "UK", "Birmingham & Black Country", "Devon", "Tees", "UK", "US & Canada", "UK", "Entertainment & Arts", "Edinburgh, Fife & East Scotland", "Asia", "England", "Health", "Beds, Herts & Bucks", "Somerset", "UK", "US & Canada", "Business", "Suffolk", "South East Wales", "US & Canada", "Sussex", "UK Politics", "The Papers", "Business", "Europe", "Technology", "UK", "Newsbeat"], "content": ["It was initially feared the black discharge was an oil leak\n\nMystery surrounding a foul-smelling black cloud that appeared in water at the base of the Niagara Falls on the US-Canadian border has been explained.\n\nExperts say the discharge - which at one point was feared to be an oil leak - was caused by residue from black carbon filters used to clean the water.\n\nThe leak happened during maintenance work on Saturday, US officials say.\n\nThe Niagara Falls Water Board (NFWB) has since apologised for causing alarm to residents and tourists.\n\nIn a statement the board said the \"inky water\" was the result of \"routine, necessary and short term change in the waste water treatment process\" at its plant near the city of Buffalo.\n\nThe black cloud remained in the water for much of Saturday\n\n\"The blackish water contained some accumulated solids and carbon residue within permitted limits and did not include any organic type oils or solvents,\" the statement said.\n\n\"The unfortunate odour was limited to the normal sewer water discharge smell,\" it added.\n\nOfficials say the plant had the correct paperwork to release the discharge - which came from one of its five sediment filtration basins and was being flushed out over the weekend in preparation for contractors to begin upgrade work.\n\nAmong the first to notice the problem was Pat Proctor, vice president of Rainbow Air Inc, which provides helicopter tours over the falls. He said the black residue remained in the water for several hours on Saturday before it dissipated.\n\n\"I was just praying it wasn't an oil leak,\" Mr Proctor told the BBC. \"It had spread across a half-mile area, looked very menacing and smelt terrible.\"\n\nUsually such basin discharges are not carried out at peak tourism times, like last weekend, he said.\n\nThe Niagara Falls straddle the US and Canada. They are made up of three separate waterfalls and have been a popular tourist attraction for more than 200 years, in addition to being a major source of hydroelectric power.", "Armed prisoners were understood to have taken over a wing of the category C men's prison\n\nRiot-trained staff have been sent to HMP The Mount in Hertfordshire for the second day running.\n\nBBC home affairs correspondent Danny Shaw said armed prisoners took over Nash Wing and smashed windows, according to well-placed sources.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice said order was restored shortly before 17:00 BST.\n\nAbout 30 inmates at Erlestoke prison in Wiltshire also became violent and four people were taken to hospital, the Prison Officers Association said.\n\nThe acting chairman of the association, Mark Fairhurst, told the BBC that more than 80 inmates were unlocked on a wing at the jail at the time - with \"a nucleus of about 30 prisoners being involved in the violence\".\n\nThe MoJ has confirmed that some prison officers were taken to hospital but would not confirm the number or the nature of their injuries.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFollowing the end of the problems at The Mount, a Prison Service spokesperson said: \"Specially trained prison staff have successfully resolved an incident at HMP The Mount on 1 August. There were no injuries to staff or prisoners.\n\n\"We do not tolerate violence in our prisons, and are clear that those responsible will be referred to the police and could spend longer behind bars.\"\n\nHMP The Mount was designed as a category C training prison built on the site of a former RAF station on the outskirts of Bovingdon village, Hertfordshire\n\nThe Mount Prison opened in 1987 as a young offenders institution.\n\nIt was designed as a category C training prison built on the site of a former RAF station on the outskirts of Bovingdon village, Hertfordshire.\n\nA report in 2016 by the Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) found \"all the ingredients were in place for The Mount to suffer disorder such as has been experienced in other prisons:\n\nThe prison now has a population of more than 1,000 prisoners.\n\nThe Nash wing is fairly new - it was completed in 2015 - with 94 double cells and 62 single cells.\n\nOn Monday at least 50 cells are thought to have been damaged when violence broke out in two wings at The Mount. No-one was injured on that occasion.\n\nA Hertfordshire Constabulary spokeswoman said: \"Following [Monday's] incident we are working with the Ministry of Justice and are currently reviewing what, if any offences, have occurred.\"\n\nThe Mount, near Hemel Hempstead, opened in 1987 and is classed as a category C male prison. Nash wing is believed to hold between 200 and 250 inmates serving short sentences or with only three months left to serve of their sentence.\n\nHMP Erlestoke is also a category C men's prison, which the Prison Reform Trust describes as one where \"prison staff think [inmates] will not escape\", while acknowledging they \"cannot be trusted in an open prison\".\n\nIncidents take place in prisons all the time; it's usually problems with one or two individuals, and most go unreported.\n\nWhen an incident like this take place - when tornado (specialist riot) teams are involved - it takes it up to a new level.\n\nWhen you have prisoners rioting or barricading themselves in, with staff having to withdraw, that is very serious.\n\nProblems at the Mount have been brewing for some time.\n\nThe independent inspectors that go into prisons were saying they were 25 staff short out of 136 - that is a significant shortfall.\n\nLast week the Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) published its annual report into Erlestoke, and said that the smuggling of tobacco, which has been banned by the prison, had contributed to bullying.\n\nBefore the violence broke out on Monday, the IMB also published its annual review into conditions at The Mount and said it had \"struggled\" with staff shortages.\n\nThere were 24 vacancies out of a total of 136 officers in February, it added.\n\nRiot officers with shields were called to attend HMP The Mount on Monday\n\nIt also claimed violence \"grew considerably\" throughout the year and that drugs were readily available, in particular the synthetic cannabis substitute spice.\n\nThe report said concerns raised last year had not been addressed by the MoJ.\n\nA 2017 IMB report on the prison found that lack of experienced officers was a concern.\n\nThe prison has 388 prisoners with 115 of them serving a life sentence.\n\nAbout 60% of inmates are aged between 21 and 39.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. X marks the spot for MP hit with brick\n\nAn MP was left with facial injuries when he was hit in the face with a brick thrown by a motorcyclist.\n\nLabour's Steve McCabe said two people were riding \"really recklessly\" in Birmingham and he shouted at them to stop or he would call the police.\n\nThe Birmingham Selly Oak MP, who said he had given a statement to police, stated he had a \"beautiful black eye\".\n\nOn Monday evening he tweeted pictures of two motorcyclists allegedly involved in the attack.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Steve McCabe This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr McCabe told BBC WM he was out with Labour volunteers in the Yardley Wood area when the attack happened.\n\n\"We were just assembling at Greenford Road... to go and do a spot of door knocking, when a couple of characters came down, riding really recklessly, dangerously, doing wheelies in the middle of the road,\" he said.\n\n\"I mean we've had umpteen complaints about this kind of dangerous behaviour and so I shouted at them to pack it in or I'd call the police.\n\n\"These are really quite nasty, violent thugs,\" the MP said of his attackers.\n\n\"It is a big issue in south Birmingham, they are terrorising neighbourhoods, but I don't think there is a direct connection in that they knew who I was.\n\n\"I think that's just the way they treat anybody who dares to challenge their behaviour.\"\n\nHe added he was sure somebody knew who they were but that people were \"terrified of these thugs\".\n\nMr McCabe tweeted: \"Sure somebody recognises these two. All I need are names & addresses. Send them to me anonymously & I'll do the rest with the police.\"\n\nHe said he was feeling \"a bit battered and bruised, but I think I'll live\".\n\nHe expects to have some X-rays later but said \"it could've been a lot worse. It could've been my eye\".\n\nMPs from his own and other parties sent messages of sympathy to Mr McCabe.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Angela Rayner MP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. 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We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA man has been left with facial injuries after two people on a moped threw an unknown liquid at him in London's Knightsbridge.\n\nThe Met Police said the 47-year-old man was attacked in Walton Place at about 20:30 BST by \"two males\" on a moped.\n\nThe force said the man had been taken to a central London hospital but has since been discharged.\n\nA spokesperson said it was not yet known if the liquid thrown was a corrosive substance.\n\nThey said no-one had yet been arrested but officers remained at the scene and inquiries were ongoing.\n\nThe incident follows a recent rise in the number of attacks involving corrosive substances.\n\nMore than 400 were carried out in the six months up to April 2017, according to figures from 39 forces in England and Wales.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police has said its response cars will now carry equipment that will help officers to better deal with calls to such attacks.\n• None The moped crime wave that has swept London\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Would you like to pay less tax? Make a sandwich: specifically, a \"double Irish, Dutch sandwich\".\n\nSuppose you're American. You set up a company in Bermuda and sell it your intellectual property. It then sets up a subsidiary in Ireland.\n\nNow, set up another company in Ireland: it bills your European operations for amounts resembling their profits. Now, start a company in the Netherlands.\n\nHave your second Irish company send money to your Dutch company, which immediately sends it back to your first Irish company. You know, the one headquartered in Bermuda.\n\nAre you bored and confused yet? If so, that's part of the point.\n\nTax havens depend on making it, at best, very difficult to get your head around financial flows, and, at worst, impossible to find out any facts.\n\nAccounting techniques that make your brain hurt enable multinationals such as Google, eBay and Ikea to minimise their tax bills - completely legally.\n\n50 Things That Made the Modern Economy highlights the inventions, ideas and innovations that have helped create the economic world.\n\nYou can see why people get upset. Taxes are a bit like membership fees for a club: it feels unfair to dodge the fees but still expect to benefit from the services provided to members - defence, police, roads, sewers, education, and so on.\n\nBut tax havens haven't always had such a bad image. Sometimes they've functioned like any other safe haven, allowing persecuted minorities to escape the oppressive rules of home.\n\nJews in Nazi Germany, for example, were able to ask secretive Swiss bankers to hide their money.\n\nUnfortunately, secretive Swiss bankers soon undid the good this did their reputation by proving to be just as happy to help the Nazis hide the gold they managed to steal, and reluctant to give it back to the people it was stolen from.\n\nNowadays, tax havens are controversial for two reasons: tax avoidance and tax evasion.\n\nTax avoidance is legal. It's the stuff of double Irish, Dutch sandwiches.\n\nLike other major technology companies, Google has come under pressure over its tax arrangements.\n\nThe laws apply to everyone: smaller businesses and even ordinary individuals could set up border-hopping legal structures too. They just don't earn enough to justify the accountants' fees.\n\nIf everyday folk want to reduce their tax bill, their options are limited to various forms of tax evasion, which is illegal: VAT fraud, undeclared cash-in-hand work, or taking too many cigarettes through the \"nothing to declare\" lane at customs.\n\nThe British tax authorities reckon that much evaded tax comes from countless such - often modest - infractions, rather than the wealthy entrusting their money to shadowy bankers.\n\nBut it's hard to be sure. If we could measure the problem exactly, it wouldn't exist in the first place.\n\nIn 1934, the Swiss made it a criminal offence for bankers to disclose financial information\n\nPerhaps it's no surprise that banking secrecy seems to have started in Switzerland: the first known regulations limiting bankers' ability to share information about their clients were passed in 1713 by the Great Council of Geneva.\n\nSecretive Swiss banking really took off in the 1920s, as many European nations hiked taxes to repay their debts from World War One - and many rich Europeans looked for ways to hide their money.\n\nRecognising that this was boosting their economy, in 1934 the Swiss made it a criminal offence for bankers to disclose financial information.\n\nThe euphemism for a tax haven these days, of course, is \"offshore\" - despite Switzerland's lack of coastline. Gradually, tax havens have emerged on islands such as Jersey or Malta, or, most famously, in the Caribbean.\n\nMany small islands have become tax havens as a pragmatic way to grow their economies\n\nThere's a logistical reason for this: a small island isn't much good for manufacturing or agriculture, so financial services are an obvious alternative.\n\nBut the real explanation is historical: the dismantling of European empires in the decades after World War Two.\n\nUnwilling to prop up Bermuda or the British Virgin Islands with explicit subsidies, the UK instead encouraged them to develop financial expertise, plugged into the City of London. The subsidy was implicit, instead - tax revenue steadily leaked away to these islands.\n\nThe economist Gabriel Zucman came up with an ingenious way to estimate the wealth hidden in the offshore banking system.\n\nIn theory, if you add up the assets and liabilities reported by every global financial centre, the books should balance - but they don't. Each individual centre tends to report more liabilities than assets.\n\nZucman crunched the numbers and found that, globally, total liabilities were 8% higher than total assets. That suggests at least 8% of the world's wealth is illegally unreported. Other methods have come up with even higher estimates.\n\nZucman identified a gap between the global economy's declared assets and liabilities\n\nThe problem is particularly acute in developing countries. For example, Zucman finds 30% of wealth in Africa is hidden offshore. He calculates an annual loss of $14bn (£11bn) in tax revenue. That would build plenty of schools and hospitals.\n\nZucman's solution is transparency: creating a global register of who owns what, to end banking secrecy and anonymity-preserving shell corporations and trusts.\n\nThat might well help with tax evasion. But tax avoidance is a subtler and more complex problem.\n\nTo see why, imagine I own a bakery in Belgium, a dairy in Denmark, and a sandwich shop in Slovenia.\n\nI sell a cheese sandwich, making 1 euro of profit. How much of that profit should be taxed in Slovenia, where I sold the sandwich, or Denmark, where I made the cheese, or Belgium, where I baked the bread? There's no obvious answer.\n\nAs rising taxes met increasing globalisation in the 1920s, the League of Nations devised protocols for handling such questions. They allow companies some leeway to choose where to book their profits.\n\nThere's a case for that, but it opened the door to some dubious accounting tricks.\n\nDid a company in Trinidad really sell pens to a sister company for $8,500 (£6,600) apiece?\n\nOne widely reported example may be apocryphal, but illustrates the logical extreme of these practices.\n\nA company in Trinidad apparently sold ballpoint pens to a sister company for $8,500 (£6,600) apiece, resulting in more profit booked in low-tax Trinidad and less in higher-tax regimes elsewhere.\n\nMost such tricks are less obvious, and consequently harder to quantify.\n\nStill, Zucman estimates that 55% of US-based companies' profits are routed through some unlikely looking jurisdiction such as Luxembourg or Bermuda, costing the US taxpayer $130bn (£100bn) a year. Another estimate puts the losses to developing country governments at many times the amount they get in foreign aid.\n\nSolutions are conceivable: profits could be taxed globally, with national governments devising ways to apportion which profit is deemed taxable where.\n\nA similar formula already exists to apportion national profits made by US companies to individual states.\n\nBut that would need political desire to tackle tax havens. And while recent years have seen some initiatives, notably by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), they've so far lacked teeth.\n\nPerhaps this shouldn't surprise us, given the incentives involved. Clever people can earn more from exploiting loopholes than trying to close them.\n\nIndividual governments face incentives to compete to lower taxes, because a small percentage of something is better than a large percentage of nothing.\n\nFor tiny, palm-fringed islands, it can even make sense to set taxes at 0%, as the local economy will be boosted by the resulting boom in law and accounting.\n\nPerhaps the biggest problem is that tax havens mostly benefit financial elites, including some politicians and many of their donors. Meanwhile, pressure from voters for action is limited by the boring and confusing nature of the problem.", "Fifty years ago, gay sex between men in private was decriminalised in England and Wales. Despite this, hate crimes against gay people have persisted, and the number of attacks recorded by police has been rising. There were 7,194 in England and Wales in the year to April 2016. Campaigners say this isn't the full picture, though, as many victims still don't report assaults. Six people affected by hate crimes share their stories.\n\nWarning: This story contains details of violence and images which some readers might find upsetting.\n\nJames and Dain were enjoying a night out together in Brighton in May 2016 when they were followed out of a nightclub and attacked on the seafront. The assault has left physical and emotional scars.\n\nJames: We were at the bar and we got this look from a couple of guys from across the dance floor. It takes a lot to make me feel uncomfortable but it was just such a weird look they gave us. Dain had his arm around me. I don't think they liked that. Then they started shouting at us. I told Dain we needed to get out of the club into a taxi the quickest way possible.\n\nDain: We left the bar. No-one was about. All of a sudden I heard running behind us. There was no way we were going to outrun them. They grabbed us from behind and chucked us to the floor. I was lying on the pavement and all I could see was James but the next thing I saw was a shoe coming towards my face. That knocked me completely unconscious.\n\nJames: One of the boys started kicking Dain's face really rapidly. There was a lot of aggression and shouting of \"gay boys\". Every time I tried to crawl closer to Dain, I was dragged along the pavement. At that point, a taxi drove past and called the police. I remember standing up for the first time and Dain looked at me and said, \"I can't see.\"\n\nDain: My eye socket was completely shattered. I had haemorrhages in both my eyes and fractures on my cheeks. My tooth was chipped and my nose was broken as well. I remember being in hospital and kept asking, \"Am I going to be able to see again?\" They said, \"We can't tell you because everything is so swollen.\" They couldn't even open my eyes.\n\nDain in hospital after the attack\n\nJames and I were very close anyway but spending that much time with each other really proved to me how strong our relationship is. I'm a very resilient person and I'm not going to live my life how someone else wants me to. I'm not going to let anyone change that. If anything, this has made me want to be who I am even more.\n\nJames: It's made him stronger and it's made him not care about what other people think and to go out there and be himself even more, whereas it's done the opposite to me. It's changed me. I've changed my thought process and mindset, how I think, how I look, how I speak, who I'm with, where we go and it's sad because I remember how we were before it happened and I look at us now and it's upsetting because it's them who made this happen. That's what's hard to accept.\n\nIt's a year since it happened and I thought things would probably get easier but they haven't. When we're out and about he wants us to look like we're together obviously but I'm scared of something similar happening again. It wasn't like that a year ago. We didn't go down the street holding hands but I wasn't fully aware of us making sure that we weren't seen as a couple.\n\nI couldn't ever forgive the people who attacked us or forget what happened. It will stay with me and I'm sure it will stay with them for the rest of their lives.\n\nBoth attackers, Gage Vye-Parminter and Matthew Howes, pleaded guilty to grievous bodily harm and assault and were sentenced to seven years in prison.\n\nBecky and Alex were attacked on a night out in Croydon in August 2016. One man was convicted but he left the country before he could be sentenced, leaving the couple feeling angry and frustrated.\n\nAlex: I'm angry about everything that's happened - the fact that I had a black eye to explain to a six-year-old, why Mummy was hurt, why Becky had bruises. It's not something I want to explain to my child, that there's hatred in this world. It's odd that it still happens just because of who we choose to love. For once we had a babysitter and got out of the house and that happened. We haven't been out since.\n\nBecky: The first thing he said was, \"I like lesbians\" and I thought \"Oh God, not one of these.\"\n\nAlex: He had a South African accent, all seemed quite pleasant and he seemed quite tipsy but I'm never really rude to anyone. He asked our friends to kiss, to which they said \"No\" and I said, \"It's not for your pleasure.\"\n\nBecky: He said something like \"dyke\" which offended one of my mates. You don't say that. We went to the kebab shop to get a bit of food. I didn't think it was going to get violent.\n\nAlex: Another guy that had begun joining in then started circling us as a group and focused his attention on me.\n\nBecky: That's when he started getting touchy-feely, groping Alex's breasts and really hanging on her arm. He called us \"fat dykes\" and she pushed him away. The other guy saw her do it. He swung for her.\n\nJames, Dain, Becky, Alex and Jenny tell their stories in the TV programme Is it safe to be gay in the UK? Viewers in the UK can watch it at 21:00 on Tuesday 1 August on BBC One or catch up later online.\n\nThe documentary is part of Gay Britannia - a season of programming across the BBC to mark the 50th anniversary of The Sexual Offences Act 1967, which partially decriminalised gay sex between men in England and Wales.\n\nAlex: I got groped, kicked and slammed into a street light. My wife got punched and our two friends got punched too. To hit a woman is wrong but do that just because we didn't want them is disgusting and vile. I am so angry I have been violated for loving my wife. The next day I had to wear glasses as I couldn't cover up the darkness around my eye.\n\nI feel guilty because I have chosen to love Becky which in turn has brought this crap into my son's life. Just me and him, we look completely normal. We wouldn't attract attention but being with Becky does because she is so obviously gay.\n\nI'm disappointed, upset and angry with my attacker, at the court, the justice system. I just hope and pray it doesn't happen to someone else.\n\nA South African man, Sazi Tutani, was found guilty of assault but he couldn't be sentenced because he had left the UK and returned home. There is a warrant out for his arrest. Another man was found not guilty of all charges.\n\nIan Baynham died after being punched and kicked on a September night in 2009 in Trafalgar Square, central London. His sister Jenny, who is also gay, talks about the loss of her \"inseparable link\".\n\nIan was the first born in the family and he was four years older than I was. He had this amazing smile, he just loved life really. When things were tough, he'd be there and he'd never judge you.\n\nAs we grew up, we went our separate ways. In our early 20s, I went to a gay party with a girl. It was packed. I looked across the room and I thought: \"That's Ian.\"\n\nHe spotted me. He came up to me, put his arm around me and he said, \"What are you doing here?\" and from that moment we realised we were both gay. That really forged this inseparable link.\n\nOn the night he was attacked, he was walking down the street with his friend, Philip. He'd just had his first week at work so he was going out to have a drink.\n\nSomeone shouted, \"Faggots.\" My brother turned round and said, \"I may be gay but…\"\n\nAnd then there was some kind of altercation. He was kicked in the groin and punched.\n\nThey were kicking him, stamping on him and shouting at him.\n\nIt's shocking, absolutely shocking. I couldn't believe it. There was a crowd of people around him, which you can see on the CCTV footage. How could you leave somebody in that state? Why didn't they go back to him and check he was OK? Those questions still nag at the back of my mind. To walk away, how could you do that?\n\nIan was in hospital for 18 days. When I got there he was unconscious with two big black eyes. His breathing was changing. My experience told me that this was the final breath. He struggled a bit and then he stopped breathing. And so he died. We were with him. It was very sad.\n\nThousands of people with lights attended an extraordinary coming together of gay and straight people in Trafalgar Square because of what had happened. It was magic really and such a fitting event for Ian. Just across the road was where he was last conscious. I went there a couple of times to look. It really is significant. That tree, I know it very well. He's part of Trafalgar Square now.\n\nWe always used to say, \"We can always live together when we get older and retire. We'll be like Darby and Joan and have a few tea parties.\" We'd laugh about it. I probably miss him more and more as I get older.\n\nYou can't have hate and I think hate is a very divisive thing to hold on to. I'm starting the restorative justice programme and hoping that will give me some sense of closure and also that it will help the offenders. I'd like to meet them all. They're still alive and they have a life. I do care what happens to people and I know some people don't have the same advantages as others. I actually think he would support me doing this and this really will be a bit like a springboard in helping me move on. I'm hopeful.\n\nRuby Thomas and Joel Alexander were found guilty of manslaughter. Thomas was sentenced to seven years in prison and Alexander was sentenced to six years.\n\nOver the past 12 years, Paul Harfleet has planted hundreds of pansies across the world at spots where gay people have been subjected to homophobic abuse - including locations in Austria, Sweden, Turkey and the US.\n\nIt started in Manchester in 2005 when I experienced three separate instances of homophobia in one day. People were really shocked that I had these experiences all the time and I thought, \"I have to do something about this.\"\n\nI began to plant pansies wherever I'd experienced abuse. I wanted to do something that changed the location. I never wanted there to be any signage, it had to be something that was subtle but noticeable, in the way that I am in the street. A pansy is a pansy, you kind of understand and read what it's about just by knowing it's there.\n\nQuite quickly, people started telling me where they had experienced abuse and I started planting for them too. If I plant a flower for someone who's been murdered I usually dedicate it to them. I take photographs and add them to my website.\n\nI often name the pansy after the abuse that has happened. The first one I planted was called: \"I think it's about time we went gay bashing again.\" Two builders sitting on a wall said that directly to my face and I was so shocked I really didn't know what to do.\n\nWhen you have that experience you're forced to think about what it is you can do. Do you react, do you close up?\n\nThe ritual of digging into the ground, kneeling on the ground, feels solemn and slightly healing. I'm subverting this terrible thing that's happened and turning it into something more positive. It also raises awareness.\n\nWhen someone's been violently attacked, the location is so loaded that they can't stop thinking about it when they go past. What I witness when I go back with them is their experience and healing of that location. They can then think: \"This isn't only the place where I was beaten up but also somewhere a pansy was planted.\" It's almost like sticking a plaster over the violence.\n\nI plant pansies wherever I am. Unfortunately everywhere I go there's usually a place where someone has experienced homophobia. If I mark a location for someone I don't know, I'll contact them using social media saying, \"I've done this for you.\" Every single pansy marks a story of someone who has experienced homophobia on the streets. I don't think it will end. I will always plant them.\n\nJoin the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter.", "The incident took place as the suspects were being escorted in the building\n\nThree defendants have been killed in a court in the Russian capital, Moscow, after they tried to take the arms from officers in an attempt to escape, officials say.\n\nFive suspected gang members attacked two agents who were escorting them in a lift, the Investigative Committee said.\n\nThe group was handcuffed and it was not immediately clear how they managed to free themselves to attack the guards.\n\nThe two other suspects and three security officers were wounded.\n\nThe suspects were accused of being part of a group known as GTA Gang, named after the violent game series Grand Theft Auto.\n\nThe group of Central Asian nationals was suspected of killing 17 motorists in the Moscow area between 2012 and 2014. Cars were forced to stop on a main road and their drivers were killed for reasons as yet unknown; none of their possessions were stolen.\n\nIn the court, one of the suspects attacked and tried to strangle an agent, as others attempted to seize the officers' weapons, Russia's Investigative Committee said in a statement.\n\nWhen the lift they were in opened on the third floor, Russian National Guard officers opened fire, killing three of the suspects as they tried to escape, the statement added.\n\nThe fact that the suspects were in any position to assault security agents inside the court and even attempt an armed escape is likely to raise questions, BBC Russian's Oleg Boldyrev in Moscow reports.\n\nSuspects are usually brought into courtrooms handcuffed, with their arms crossed behind their backs, so this turn of events will probably be seen as bizarre, our correspondent adds.\n\nThe building was evacuated following the shooting\n\nThe security officers injured include a National Guard member, who had a gunshot wound and was taken to hospital, and two police officers, who sustained various injuries, according to the Interior Ministry.\n\nA lawyer who was at the building when the incident happened said that at least 20 shots were heard.\n\nThe members of the gang are accused of murder, banditry and other crimes, the Investigative Committee said. One of them had fought for so-called Islamic State in Syria before returning to Russia, Russian television reported.", "Sam Shepard wrote more than 40 plays in his career\n\nUS actor and playwright Sam Shepard has died at the age of 73.\n\nShepard wrote more than 40 plays and won the Pulitzer Prize for drama for Buried Child in 1979.\n\nHe went on to be nominated for the best supporting actor Oscar for 1983's The Right Stuff and starred in films like Black Hawk Down as well as co-writing 1984's Paris, Texas.\n\nHe died at home in Kentucky on Thursday, his family have confirmed.\n\nShepard's death came after he experienced complications from motor neurone disease, also known as ALS.\n\nHis first major acting role was in Terrence Malik's Days of Heaven in 1978, in which he starred alongside Richard Gere.\n\nOther film credits include Steel Magnolias, The Pelican Brief and The Accidental Husband.\n\nShepard was surrounded by family when he died last week\n\nMore recently, he was seen as Robert Rayburn in two series of Netflix thriller Bloodline.\n\nShepard also appears in psychological thriller Never Here, which had its premiere last month.\n\nHe was nominated for two other Pulitzers, for Broadway plays Fool for Love and True West. He was also nominated for two Tony Awards.\n\nHis final play was A Particle of Dread, which was first performed in Derry/Londonderry in 2013 as part of its year as UK City of Culture.\n\nShepard with Brad Pitt (centre) and Casey Affleck (right), his co-stars in The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford\n\nAnd he wrote the screenplay for Robert Altman's big screen adaptation of his play Fool for Love. His novel, The One Inside, was published earlier this year.\n\nA spokesman said Shepard's family were with him when he died. He leaves children Jesse, Hannah and Walker Shepard and sisters Sandy and Roxanne Rogers.\n\nTributes have been paid from the worlds of film, theatre and TV.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Nikolaj CosterWaldau This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNikolaj Coster-Waldau, who starred in Black Hawk Down and also appears in Game of Thrones, wrote: \"A hero of theatre. A hero of writing. A hero of acting. A hero of mine.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Joe Manganiello This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nActor Rob Lowe described him as \"a true American icon of letters\", while True Blood star Joe Manganiello called him \"a true American legend\", adding: \"Your plays and roles will live on forever.\"\n\nBeau Willimon, creator of Netflix's House of Cards, described Shepard as \"one of the greats\", adding: \"These eyes saw so much, and he wrote of what he saw with fearless, timeless honesty.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n• None Something in Derry air for Shepard", "A man has died after falling more than 70m on Snowdon.\n\nHis body was recovered by Llanberis Mountain Rescue Team volunteers after the incident on the Pyg track at about 18:30 BST on Monday.\n\nHe was taken from the cliff on a stretcher to Llyn Glaslyn before being carried off the mountain.\n\nThe man is the second person in three days to have died on the Snowdonia mountain range after a man fell to his death on nearby Tryfan.\n• None A walk up the Pyg track - Snowdon-Yr... (C) John S Turner -- Geograph Britain and Ireland The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A photograph of Maxwell posing with cannabis, recovered from one of his memory cards\n\nThe jailing of Royal Marine Ciarán Maxwell for terror offences raises troubling questions for the military.\n\nHow was an Irish republican with links to violent dissidents able to infiltrate an elite Royal Navy unit and evade detection for so long?\n\nFor five years, Maxwell researched, acquired and stockpiled an arsenal of weapons, including material stolen from his base.\n\nA former Army officer has called for an overhaul of the vetting system.\n\nOn the face of it, when the man from Larne, a coastal town in County Antrim, began the gruelling 32-week training to become a Royal Marine in 2010 he could not have seemed prouder.\n\nA young Ciarán Maxwell was beaten by loyalists before he became a marine\n\nHe posted on his Facebook page: \"Pain is temporary, the Green Beret is forever.\"\n\nBut he had gone into the military nursing a grudge after being severely beaten by a loyalist mob oozing sectarian hatred and wielding golf clubs eight years earlier.\n\nThey left the teenage, Catholic boy with a fractured skull.\n\nHis case featured in the republican newspaper, An Phoblacht, and is said to have left Maxwell \"angry and traumatised\".\n\nSo even before he completed his Marines training, Maxwell was living a dangerous double life.\n\nHe had dedicated himself to creating an arms cache for use against the British state he was purportedly serving.\n\nIt is not clear whether Maxwell was asked about the incident in which he was beaten as part of his security vetting to become a Royal Marine.\n\nHe will have undertaken a long interview, which usually covers most areas of the applicant's life, including his family background.\n\nA balaclava recovered from a hide at Powderham New Plantation\n\nThe Royal Navy rejects the suggestion there was a failure of vetting in the Maxwell case, but would not talk about specifics.\n\n\"All security personnel are subject to security checking prior to employment and at regular intervals throughout their careers,\" said a spokesman.\n\nBut Doug Beattie, who served three tours of duty in Afghanistan as a captain in the Royal Irish Regiment and is now an Ulster Unionist politician, told the BBC: \"We could have been looking at loss of life perpetrated at the hands of a serving soldier of the British military.\n\n\"If we don't have a look at our security checks and how we vet people before they join the military, we're going to have problems in the future.\"\n\nThe rogue marine stole rounds of military ammunition and detonators from his unit, exploiting weaknesses in a system that is mainly based on trust.\n\nAt the end of training exercises, military personnel have to declare any ammunition they have not used and they may be searched but it is nearly impossible to account for every round.\n\nMaxwell was careful to smuggle out small amounts at a time and he carried them back to Northern Ireland on ferries where there are fewer security checks.\n\nBut he took enormous risks, including storing drugs such as LSD in his work locker.\n\nCommander Dean Haydon, the head of counter terrorism command at the Metropolitan Police, described the Maxwell case as \"very alarming\".\n\n\"The fact that ammunition was taken from a military base is clearly of concern and we are working with the military in that regard.\"\n\nThe security of weapons, ammunition and equipment is taken \"very seriously\", according to the Royal Navy.\n\n\"All personnel are instructed in appropriate procedures and any incidents are investigated and action taken where necessary,\" added a spokesman.\n\nDuring Maxwell's sentencing hearing, it emerged that he advised the military after his arrest on how it could tighten up the procedure for checking ammunition out of the stores.\n\nA greenhouse used by Maxwell at Powderham New Plantation in England\n\nEven more alarming than his theft of ammunition is that some of Maxwell's improvised pipe bombs are unaccounted for.\n\n\"We assess that it's a possibility that a small number - and I would stress that it's a small number - of devices that Maxwell would have made were not recovered and are in the hands of violent dissident republican groupings,\" said Assistant Chief Constable Stephen Martin of the Police Service of Northern Ireland.\n\n\"These groupings do carry out attacks in Northern Ireland - they do attempt to kill people and if they have devices they will use them.\n\n\"But I want to reassure people that we are doing everything that we can as a police service to try to constrain these groups.\"\n\nA handwritten note from Maxwell, recovered from hides at Powderham New Plantation\n\nThe group that Maxwell was supplying pipe bombs to calls itself the Continuity IRA (CIRA), which believes it is carrying on the original IRA mission to force the British out of Northern Ireland.\n\nMaxwell admitted he was working with CIRA member Niall Lehd, who went to the same school as him and who was convicted of possessing explosives with intent to endanger life in 2014.\n\nSoon after his release from a short prison term two years later and while still on licence, Lehd teamed up again with Maxwell.\n\nThe pair concealed explosives in various hides around Larne.\n\nIt is unclear why the diligent and highly-organised marine threw in his lot with a man described by his trial judge as \"more a risk to yourself than others\".\n\nAnd the police are reluctant to talk about the relationship between the men or say why Lehd was not charged as part of this investigation.\n\nThough his eventual arrest in August 2016 brought Maxwell's long years as an undercover terrorist to a dramatic end, this case is another reminder of the dark shadow that Northern Ireland's Troubles have cast over the region and beyond.\n• None The Marine who turned to terror", "From Tuesday 1 August, most new students of areas such as nursing, midwifery and physiotherapy will no longer be able to apply for grants, and will have access instead to the student loans system.\n\nUCAS announced earlier this year that there had been a notable decrease in students from England applying to do at least one nursing course, saying it had fallen 23% to 33,810 in 2017.\n\nChancellor Philip Hammond spoke last week about the \"very high numbers of foreign workers keeping our NHS going\".\n\nLooking at the figures from NHS Digital, overall, 82% of NHS staff are UK nationals, with 5% from the European Economic Area (EEA, that's the EU plus Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway) and 6% from the rest of the world. The remaining 7% are of unknown nationalities.\n\nThe unknowns are relatively high because they come from electronic staff records, not HR information, and it is not compulsory for staff to declare their nationalities for those records.\n\nFor doctors, it's 70% UK, 9% EEA, 16% from the rest of the world and 5% unknown.\n\nAnd for nurses and health visitors it is 78% UK, 7% EEA, 8% from the rest of the world and 6% unknown.\n\nTo put that into context, according to the latest labour market figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS), 7.3% of workers in the UK are EU nationals while 3.9% are from the rest of the world.\n\nClearly, the unknowns throw comparisons out a bit, but the proportion of NHS staff from the EEA appears to be a bit below the workforce as a whole while there are considerably more from the rest of the world than the workforce average.\n\nFor doctors, there are proportionally more foreign nationals than in the workforce as a whole, especially for those from the rest of the world.\n\nIf you look at the figures for where doctors earned their qualifications, the rest of the world comes even higher with 27%, compared with 64% from the UK and 9% from the EEA.\n\nNurses from the EEA work in the NHS in the same proportion as the rest of the workforce while nurses from the rest of the world are overrepresented.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Eight cannon were found during the dredging work\n\nMore than 20,000 items ranging from a human skull to shoes and sea mines have been discovered during dredging work in Portsmouth Harbour.\n\nThe work has been carried out to deepen and widen a four-mile (7km) channel to allow the the navy's new 65,000-tonne aircraft carriers to dock.\n\nIt also uncovered eight cannon, an aircraft engine and 36 anchors.\n\nA German sea mine and five bombs uncovered caused major disruption to the area while each was made safe.\n\nThe devices, found on the seabed, were towed out to sea and detonated by the Royal Navy's Explosive Ordnance Disposal team.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A total of 36 anchors were found during the work, along with a skull\n\nMore on this and other stories from across the South of England.\n\nA military aircraft engine was among the finds\n\nThe human skull, which is thought to date back to the Napoleonic Wars, has been passed to police in Portsmouth.\n\nCapt Iain Greenlees, who is in charge of the dredging project said: \"There was a burial ground on one of the islands in the harbour and it was almost certainly washed away from there.\"\n\nOther items included bottles, plates and ceramics - all of which have been passed to archaeologists at Wessex Archaeology for study.\n\nThe dredging, which started in September 2015, was carried out to allow HMS Queen Elizabeth - due to arrive later this year - and its sister ship, Prince of Wales, to be based at Portsmouth Naval Base.\n\nThe MoD said specialist dredging vessels have removed 3,200,000 cubic metres of sediment - the equivalent to 1,280 Olympic swimming pools.\n\nA number of WW2 fuse caps were also found\n\nClay pipe fragments have been passed to archaeologists to study\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police arrested the intruder, who had fallen asleep\n\nA man has been charged by Australian police after allegedly breaking into a home, drinking the owner's champagne then falling asleep in her bed.\n\nPolice said the 36-year-old man forced his way into the house in Esperance, Western Australia, around lunchtime on Friday.\n\nHe fell asleep after drinking the resident's \"quite expensive\" champagne, officers said.\n\nThe owner returned home and allegedly found the thief in her bed.\n\n\"She used her great initiative and crept outside the house to phone police who attended and arrested the offender,\" Senior Sgt Richard Moore, from Esperance Police, told the BBC.\n\n\"Police attended as soon as we got the call and located the person asleep.\"\n\nThe man was taken to hospital after being found \"very intoxicated\", Senior Sgt Moore said.\n\nHe has been charged with burglary offences.", "Some of the Bank's staff have started a three-day strike\n\nA three-day strike by some Bank of England support staff has begun, after talks at the conciliation service Acas ended without agreement.\n\nEmployees in the Unite trade union are disputing a below-inflation pay rise of 1%, which has been imposed.\n\nAbout 20 union members, including cleaners, security and maintenance staff, are picketing the Bank's headquarters in the City of London.\n\nSome are wearing facemasks of the Bank's governor, Mark Carney.\n\nThey have been joined by the shadow chancellor, John McDonnell.\n\nStaff in the Bank's \"parlours\", which are meeting rooms on the ground floor of the Bank's building in Threadneedle Street, have also walked out.\n\nIt is the first time for more than 50 years that workers at the central bank have been on strike.\n\n\"The union balloted approximately 2% of the workforce,\" the Bank said, as only 150 staff work in the three affected departments.\n\n\"The Bank has plans in place so that all essential business will continue to operate as normal during this period.\n\n\"The Bank has been in talks with Unite up to and including today and remains ready to continue those talks at any time,\" it added.\n\nThe last time Bank of England staff went on strike was in the late 60s and involved printers at the Bank's printing plant in Debden, who were employed by the Bank of England at that time.\n\nUnite said the dispute centred on the \"derisory\" pay settlement that the bank had imposed on staff without the union's agreement.\n\nIt was the second year running that staff had received a below inflation pay offer, it said.\n\nUnite's London and Eastern regional secretary, Peter Kavanagh, said its members had \"been left with no choice but to take industrial action\".\n\n\"Mark Carney should come to the picket lines outside this iconic British bank today and explain why hardworking men and women deserve to face years of pay cuts.\"\n\n\"They are struggling to pay their bills and feed their families because the bank has unjustly imposed a below inflation or zero pay rise,\" he added.\n\nInflation was 2.6% last month, according to official figures.\n• None Bank of England staff to go on strike", "TradeRoute has seen its illegal listings rise following the demise of AlphaBay\n\nTrade on several of the dark web's illegal markets has boomed since two major players were shut by the authorities last month, according to research carried out for the BBC.\n\nThe US and Dutch authorities forced AlphaBay and Hansa offline to prevent the sale of drugs, weapons and malware.\n\nBut over the last week of July, other sites saw their number of listings rise by as much as 28%, the study indicates.\n\nSales of some goods do, however, appear to have been reduced.\n\n\"There is growing evidence that when one illegal dark web marketplace is closed, the illicit business quickly starts to be redirected to other sites which are still active,\" commented Elad Ben-Meir, marketing chief at the Israeli cyber-security firm Cyberint, which carried out the research.\n\n\"However, there is also evidence that continuing crackdowns by international law enforcement operations, are having the effect of forcing illicit traders away from those sites selling firearms or child pornography.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Technology explained: What is the dark web?\n\nThe markets are given the \"dark web\" moniker because they cannot be accessed via a normal internet browser without using a workaround, and their listings are hidden from mainstream search engines.\n\nThe closure of AlphaBay and Hansa was revealed on 20 July.\n\nCyberint looked at what change in activity there had been on five other leading dark web markets between 24 July and 31 July.\n\nAccording to its numbers, Dream Market is now the biggest illegal store with a total of 98,844 listings at the end of the month.\n\nThe authorities revealed their closure of AlphaBay and Hansa last month\n\nThe site was launched in late 2013 and is now one of the oldest dark web markets in existence.\n\nIts number of listings rose by 3,818 over the course of the week.\n\nWhile that was the biggest increase of the surveyed sites in numerical terms, it represented a relatively modest increase of 3.9%.\n\n\"There is some interesting buzz around Dream Market potentially being compromised and/or under law enforcement control, which is feeding fear and uncertainty amongst vendors and buyers,\" said Mr Ben-Meir.\n\n\"That is probably why Dream Market has not grown substantially in the wake of the takedowns.\"\n\nEuropol and the FBI have promised \"hundreds\" of follow-up investigations off the back of their initial takedowns.\n\nDream Market vendors are aware that Hansa was seized and covertly monitored for about a month after AlphaBay was deactivated.\n\nThat has led to unverified speculation on several online forums that Dream Market's servers have also been hijacked.\n\nThe next biggest site is TradeRoute, which rose from 14,914 listings to 17,816 over the period - a 16.3% gain.\n\nIt includes forged documents and black market tobacco and alcohol among its wares.\n\n\"TradeRoute is actively touting for new business with threads welcoming vendors displaced from AlphaBay,\" said Cyberint's report.\n\nThe Tochka marketplace is believed to be of Russian origin\n\nIn percentage terms, Tochka can claim the biggest boost. Its listings rose by 28.1% to 2,390.\n\nThe site specialises in illegal and prescription drugs among other products.\n\nWall Street Market, a relatively new platform with a more polished design than is the norm for such sites, experienced a similar lift.\n\nIts number of listings grew by 25.4% over the week to 2,216.\n\nOf the markets covered, only one experienced a drop-off in activity.\n\nRsClub Market is the only one of the five sites to sell guns - its only restriction on weapons listings is that they must not offer \"weapons of mass destruction\".\n\nThe site's listing count dropped by 638 to 1,689 over the week - a 37.8% fall-off.\n\nRsClub Market lists weapons as well as drugs and other illegal goods\n\nCyberint suggested that this might be linked to the fact the Rand Corporation think tank and the University of Manchester had jointly published a report into the size and scope of the dark web's illegal arms trade on 19 July. It said that 60% of the weapons put on sale had been sourced from the US, and that terrorists were among suspected buyers.\n\nCyberint believes those looking to buy and sell other illegal goods might now be steering clear of RsClub Market because it was likely to be a focus of follow-up investigations.\n\nOne adviser to Europol said the findings were of interest but only told half the story.\n\n\"The takedowns have certainly not discouraged the vendors but it's still not totally clear if it has put off the buyers,\" said Alan Woodward.\n\n\"The sellers believe they are relatively immune - they don't use their real details so are hard to track down even if a site is commandeered - but the users have to give delivery addresses and the like.\n\n\"That's why the emphasis is on taking the markets down and that's exactly what law enforcement wants to do.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Holidaymakers queuing in a Spanish airport for passport control make the front page of the Daily Mail.\n\nThe paper calls new, tougher checks imposed by Brussels a \"shambles\" and claims British families - coming from outside the Schengen free movement zone - are suffering the most, with waits of up to four hours.\n\nAirline executives - the Mail says - are blaming airports for not upgrading their computer systems or recruiting enough border officials.\n\nOther papers lead with the decision by British Gas to raise prices.\n\n\"Shameless\" is the headline for the Daily Mirror - which calls Centrica's chief executive \"greedy\" for announcing the increase, while admitting that wholesale prices are falling.\n\nThe Guardian warns the hike could prompt a fresh round of increases by the rest of the \"big six\" suppliers.\n\nA government source tells the paper that the regulator Ofgem must act quickly to protect poorer customers, adding that ministers were still prepared to use legislation.\n\nMary Berry will be judging bakes once again n a new cookery programme\n\nThe Sun says a new BBC cookery programme - with Mary Berry as a judge - has sparked accusations of plagiarism.\n\nA source at Channel 4 complains that similarities between Britain's Best Cook and the Great British Bake Off \"have not gone unnoticed\" and \"will not be overlooked\" once the programme goes to air.\n\nThe paper lists the similarities and differences. For example, Mary Berry will judge different dishes every week in a patriotic search for the country's best cook...but won't be with Paul Hollywood, in a tent.\n\nThe Guardian has seen list of more than a thousand vacant properties - and their owners - in the borough where the Grenfell Tower was destroyed by fire.\n\nThe proprietors include the former Mayor of New York Michael Bloomberg who owns a Grade II listed mansion, a Ukrainian oligarch and a luxury property developer.\n\nThe Times reports that efforts to conserve the population of hump-back whales in Australian waters may have had a savage, unintended consequence.\n\nFishermen and surfers have linked growing whale numbers to a recent spate in deadly great white shark attacks - and the government has ordered an inquiry into whether the two are related.\n\nThe president of a New South Wales surf group tells the paper he's in no doubt shark numbers are on the up - and that a cull should be a foregone conclusion.\n\nFinally, the Sun has spoken to the British man who sent hoax emails to high-profile figures in the White House - prompting several to respond, sometimes emphatically.\n\nPosing as Reince Preibus - the ousted Chief of Staff - the unnamed prankster provoked former communications director, Anthony Scaramucci, into referencing Shakespeare and making a veiled threat.\n\n\"It was easy\" he boasts. \"Imagine if I had had sinister intentions.\"", "Anthony Grainger, PC Ian Terry and Jordan Begley were all killed in separate incidents\n\nGreater Manchester Police is facing new investigations by the police watchdog over three separate fatal firearms incidents, the Victoria Derbyshire programme has learned.\n\nIt raises questions about the conduct of one of the UK's biggest firearms unit at a time when Manchester has recently been hit by a terror attack.\n\nA public inquiry into one of the deaths has heard about flawed intelligence, a senior officer destroying notes and employment of an officer disciplined for assault.\n\nIts former head of training, John Foxcroft, said he left the firearms unit due to its \"aggressive\" tactics.\n\nMany of the officers in the cases are still serving.\n\nGreater Manchester Police (GMP) said its firearms officers \"volunteer for the role and do a very difficult job, quite rightly under the highest levels of scrutiny\".\n\nHere is the story of the three fatal incidents, with new findings uncovered by the Victoria Derbyshire programme's investigation.\n\n\"He was a beautiful person inside and out,\" Anthony Grainger's partner Gail says.\n\nThe couple lived together with their two young children.\n\n\"I remember thinking, 'My life's perfect.' Then he nipped out - and he didn't come home.\"\n\nAnthony Grainger was unarmed in a car when he was shot by police in Cheshire, in March 2012.\n\nPolice intelligence had suggested he was going to carry out an armed robbery with two associates, also in the car.\n\nMr Grainger had previously been found guilty of handling stolen cars, but had no convictions for violence.\n\nThe two other men did have convictions for violence. Police saw one as very dangerous.\n\nMr Grainger was killed in a car park on a busy Saturday evening in the village of Culcheth.\n\nArmed officers said they saw him drop his hands in a move interpreted as him going to grab a gun - he was shot once, fatally.\n\nBut another man in the car, David Totton, told the inquiry no warning was given before the shot was fired.\n\nAll three men in the car were unarmed.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Gail Hadfield-Grainger explains how she first heard her partner had been shot\n\nOn the day of the operation, the firearms team had been on duty for 14 hours when it was told to move in.\n\nThere were 16 firearms officers. Several had failed training courses and it was argued during the public inquiry they should not have been on the operation, which Greater Manchester Police disputed.\n\nOne officer, known as X7 - who had directed the operation on the ground - had failed a firearms course with the Met Police, who removed him early as his performance was \"adversely affecting other students.\"\n\nAnother, known as Z15, had failed a safety course shortly before the operation after three extreme safety breaches in potentially life-threatening situations.\n\nA firearms expert told the inquiry these were so \"fundamental and inherently dangerous\" that it should have led to Z15's \"immediate suspension\".\n\nMartin Harding, a former superintendent and firearms officer with Greater Manchester Police, told the BBC: \"A force such as Manchester has got resilience, so there shouldn't be a reason why you would have someone on a job who wasn't trained to carry out their role.\"\n\nIt emerged during the public inquiry that the officer who fired the gun - referred to as Q9 - had seriously injured a suspect during a previous arrest.\n\nHe had also been disciplined for assaulting two people. He was cleared of 10 other separate assault allegations - and remained a firearms officer.\n\nThis was not the last serious case Q9 was involved in, we have discovered there was another incident where his conduct was called into question.\n\nAll the firearms officers in the Grainger case were granted anonymity so will not talk about this other incident in detail.\n\nQuestions over Mr Grainger's death go right to the top of Greater Manchester Police.\n\nDuring the public inquiry, an assistant chief constable apologised for changing his record of the operation leading up to Anthony Grainger's death, and it was discovered the head of the firearms unit had destroyed his notes when he retired - a year after the shooting.\n\nThe police watchdog has launched a new investigation into the case.\n\nIt is the second time the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) has looked into the case - which is extremely rare. It told us it is examining evidence given at the public inquiry.\n\nIn 2008, during a practice exercise at a disused factory, he volunteered to play the role of a criminal fleeing in a car.\n\nUnusually, the decision - made just that morning - had been taken to use live rounds to make the exercise more realistic.\n\nMr Terry was shot by an officer using a shotgun loaded with a so-called Rip round cartridge - deadly at close range. He died within minutes.\n\nThe father-of-two was not wearing body armour.\n\nHis father, Roy Terry, said the family were told \"he had been involved in an accident at work\".\n\n\"We were allowed to believe it was some horrendous accident initially, which in the end it transpired it wasn't really.\"\n\nRoy Terry said the exercise in which his son died had been made \"too dangerous\"\n\nThe IPCC was scathing, calling the case \"a shocking wake-up call for Greater Manchester Police firearms unit\".\n\nAn inquest jury in 2010 ruled Ian Terry had been unlawfully killed and that he \"would have been saved\" if the training had been properly prepared.\n\nHis father Roy Terry said the exercise had been made \"too dangerous\".\n\n\"We got the impression that the firearms officers were more or less allowed just to get on and do their own thing,\" he added.\n\nJohn Foxcroft, who ran the firearms training unit at Greater Manchester Police until 2006, before retiring in 2008, told the programme he left the position believing that the force was \"getting a little bit too much into the aggressive tactics\".\n\n\"The more aggressive you get, the more likely you are to have people shot.\"\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service said there was not enough evidence to bring criminal charges against any officers but Greater Manchester Police was fined for health and safety offences.\n\nJohn Foxcroft, ex-head of training at the firearms unit, claims tactics were becoming too \"aggressive\"\n\nIn 2014, one of the officers who organised the training was fired from the force.\n\nThe man who shot Ian Terry was disciplined but still works for the police.\n\nRoy Terry said this was \"not totally satisfactory, but all we were going to get\".\n\nThe BBC has now discovered there is a new investigation by the IPCC into the case, nine years after Ian Terry was killed.\n\nThe police watchdog said it has started an investigation looking at evidence given by a number of officers to the IPCC, to the inquest into PC Terry's death, and to a subsequent Health and Safety Executive (HSE) crown court trial.\n\nGMP's Det Ch Supt Paul Rumney said the force \"will consider any recommendations made\" by the the public inquiry.\n\nJordan Begley was 23. He worked in an ice-cream factory near his home in Gorton in Manchester.\n\nOn the night of his death, in July 2013, he had been involved in a drunken argument with his neighbours, and was threatening to attack them with a knife. His mother called the police.\n\n\"I need the police here. You need to get the police here. Jordan stay here, you're not going out,\" she can be heard saying in the recorded 999 call.\n\nA patrol officer calmed him down - then other officers arrived, 11 in total, including armed police.\n\nMr Begley was Tasered and restrained by armed officers. He was punched while he was on the ground and died from heart failure.\n\n\"It was a shock. They didn't need that many officers for one person. He was harmless,\" his cousin Conor Turner explained.\n\nAt a 2015 inquest the jury found police failings played a part in his death and said he had been unlawfully killed.\n\nIt said the force \"inappropriately and unreasonably\" used the Taser for longer than was necessary, once he was on the floor,+ the firearms officers did not try to establish whether he was conscious, and that during restraint Mr Begley \"offered minimal resistance\" with \"no need\" to punch him twice.\n\nThe police were initially cleared of any blame but after the inquest the police watchdog quashed its first report and started a new investigation - which had never been done before.\n\nWatch the Victoria Derbyshire programme on weekdays between 09:00 and 11:00 on BBC Two and the BBC News channel.", "Cpl John Fernandez was a \"true tiger\", his commanding officer said\n\nA British soldier has been arrested following a car crash that killed an infantryman on a UK base in Cyprus.\n\nThe Royal Military Police said it was investigating the death of Cpl John Fernandez, 32, of the 2nd Battalion the Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment, who died following an incident on Saturday.\n\nThe Ministry of Defence said he died in a road traffic incident while walking at a UK military base in Dhekelia.\n\n\"A thorough investigation is now under way,\" a MoD spokesman said.\n\n\"British Forces Cyprus can confirm that a member of the British military has been arrested in connection to the road traffic incident on 29 July which resulted in the death of Corporal John Fernandez.\n\n\"It would be inappropriate to comment any further at this time.\"\n\nLt Col James Skelton, commanding officer of the 2nd Battalion the Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment - also known as the Tigers - said Cpl Fernandez was \"the finest of men and a true Tiger\".\n\n\"He stood out from his peers as an exemplary infantry soldier, a leader and a servant to his soldiers.\n\n\"His example of fitness, courage and personal discipline stand as a marker as to what we, as infantrymen, can all aspire to be.\n\n\"More importantly he was a great friend to so many in the battalion who sought the friendship of a kind, funny and genuinely good man. His loss is keenly felt by each and every one of us.\n\n\"Along with his family and friends, the Tigers mourn his loss, but at the same time we must celebrate his memory and follow his example in life.\"\n\nCpl Fernandez had recently been nominated for a commendation for his actions during an explosive attack at the base's police station in Dhekelia last month.", "Kenneth Wilkinson met Prince William during an event to mark the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Britain\n\nA Battle of Britain pilot who once told off the Duke of Cambridge for \"flying choppers\" has died at the age of 99.\n\nThe Battle of Britain Memorial Trust said it was with great sadness that it announced the death of Flying Officer Kenneth Astill Wilkinson AE.\n\nMr Wilkinson, of Solihull, West Midlands, was \"a true gentleman\", the statement added.\n\nBattle of Britain pilots were dubbed \"the few\" by wartime leader Winston Churchill.\n\nMr Wilkinson once told off Prince William for \"flying choppers instead of proper aeroplanes\".\n\nThe light-hearted comments came during an event to mark the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Britain in 2015.\n\nThe Battle of Britain Memorial Trust said he had been an active member of the Battle of Britain Fighter Association (BBFA).\n\n\"We shall miss him dearly,\" it added.\n\nMr Wilkinson was one of the pilots dubbed \"the few\" by Winston Churchill\n\nRetired group captain Patrick Tootal said Mr Wilkinson was \"one of the first to join the BBFA in 1958\".\n\n\"It was for all the navigators and pilots. He was one of the most junior members having joined us later on in the war,\" he added.\n\n\"He always had a twinkle in his eye, and he liked a glass of red wine. We would always have a joke about it.\"\n\nHe said there were ten members left in the association, ranging from the age of 95 to 99.\n\nThe Battle of Britain has become known as a turning point for Britain during World War Two when, in 1940, Germany launched an attack on Britain's air defences. The RAF withstood the attack and Germany called off its invasion plans.\n• None BBC iWonder - What was the secret to winning the Battle of Britain-\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The carriageway was closed in both directions to allow the air ambulance to land\n\nA woman and her two young children have died in a crash witnessed by her husband.\n\nThe woman's car collided with an oncoming lorry on the A361 near Barnstaple in Devon at 08:25 BST.\n\nThe woman's husband was travelling in a separate vehicle and saw the crash unfolding behind him.\n\nThe family is believed to have been on holiday in Devon from the Milton Keynes area. The road has now reopened.\n\nInsp Richard McLellan said: \"It would seem that a car travelling towards Barnstaple, for unknown reasons at the moment, has crossed the centre white line and hit an oncoming truck.\n\n\"Unfortunately the family were travelling in two separate cars but travelling together along this road so dad was there at the scene as well.\"\n\nA woman and her two children died in the crash\n\nThree ambulances, five rapid response vehicles and the air ambulance attended the scene near Barnstaple.\n\nDevon and Cornwall Police said two children and a woman, believed to be their mother, had died as a result of the crash.\n\nThe children's stepfather was travelling in a vehicle in front and saw the crash happen.\n\nAn investigation is under way and police have asked for witnesses to come forward.\n\nA woman and two children are in hospital after a crash on the same stretch of the North Devon Link Road on Sunday.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Redcar rescue: Man found in dinghy mile out to sea\n\nA man who drifted a mile out to sea in a toy dinghy he barely fitted into has been rescued.\n\nThe alarm was raised at 19:30 BST on Monday after he was spotted near a wind farm off the coast of Redcar.\n\nThe Redcar RNLI lifeboat was launched and found the man attempting to paddle against the wind and tide but drifting further off shore.\n\nDave Cocks, from Redcar RNLI, said the man was dressed only in a hoodie and shorts\n\n\"This is a good example of the types of incident we repeatedly warn people about,\" Mr Cocks said.\n\n\"If the alarm hadn't been raised there was every likelihood he'd have drifted out of sight of land and we could well have been bringing a dead body back.\"\n\nThe man was given sea safety advice after being taken back to dry land.\n\nThe man was given sea safety advice after being taken back to dry land\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Palma Airport in Majorca is among those where passengers have faced delays, Abta says\n\nNew checks at many EU airports have left holidaymakers facing long queues, an airline lobby group has warned.\n\nRule changes brought in after recent terror attacks mean people entering and leaving the Schengen area, which allows passport-free movement across much of the EU, face more security checks.\n\nAirlines For Europe (A4E) said people were having to wait for up to four hours and some had missed flights.\n\nThe European Commission said the delays were \"the price of security\".\n\nThe new measures introduced in response to attacks in Paris and Brussels mean the details of passengers from non-Schengen countries, such as the UK, are run through databases to alert authorities if they are known to pose a threat.\n\nPractically it means that border staff in the affected countries have to swipe each passport through a reader, rather than waving British holidaymakers though as before.\n\nThis has taken up to two minutes per passenger which has led to delays.\n\nA4E, which represents carriers including Easyjet, Ryanair and British Airways-owner IAG, said delays at some airports had increased by 300% compared with last year.\n\nManaging director Thomas Reynaert said: \"Travellers face long lines and can't get on their flights. Queuing for up to four hours has been the top record these days.\n\n\"Airports like Madrid, Palma de Mallorca, Lisbon, Lyon, Paris-Orly, Milan or Brussels are producing shameful pictures of devastated passengers in front of immigration booths, in lines stretching hundreds of metres.\"\n\nA4E added that the situation could worsen in the coming weeks as the new regulations have not yet been fully implemented.\n\nA spokeswoman for travel trade organisation Abta said: \"New, stricter passport checks are resulting in longer queues at some airports, including Palma, which is already busy due to a significant increase in passenger numbers.\n\n\"Tour operators will ensure that customers get to the airport in plenty of time so that they are not in danger of missing their flights.\"\n\nShe urged independent travellers to check for delays with their airlines and \"ensure they factor these longer queuing times into their travel plans when flying\".\n\nBorder check points should be kept \"sufficiently resourced\" to keep queuing times as short as possible, she added.\n\nThe European Commission has defended the changes, spokeswoman Mina Andreeva said: \"More checks can lead to more delays and that is the price of security.\n\n\"We understand that there are concerns about EU rules leading to longer waiting periods, but let us be very clear - this is about the security of our citizens.\n\n\"All EU member states wanted to have the current rules. We cannot have on the one hand, a joint request from member states to have more checks and controls, to increase security, and at the same time have complaints about longer waiting periods.\"\n\nShe said it was the responsibility of member states to provide enough resources to make the checks \"as smooth as possible\", adding it was \"very clear that member states had time to prepare\".\n\nThe BBC's Brussels reporter, Adam Fleming, said there were issues with smaller airports at the weekend.\n\nThere were big queues at Malaga and Palma, Majorca as they were not geared up for the delays. Orly airport in Paris was able to draft in extra staff when the management realised there was a problem.\n\nHe said the airlines were issuing this warning to let people know that any coming delays would not be their fault.\n\nThe BBC has contacted several airlines and airports. They have said there was no sign of huge delays on Tuesday or any change in advice for passengers with regards to checking in earlier.", "Arpaio was known for his anti-immigration stance, and tough enforcement tactics\n\nJoe Arpaio, the controversial former sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona, has been found guilty of criminal contempt - a federal offence.\n\nHe was found to have violated a judge's 2001 order that he cease detaining migrants who are not suspected of having committed a state crime.\n\nJudge Susan Bolton determined that by detaining those living in the US illegally, Mr Arpaio was acting as a de facto wing of the federal government.\n\nHe faces up to six months in prison.\n\nHowever, lawyers say it is unlikely that he will ever serve time behind bars.\n\nMr Arpaio, 85, had boasted of being \"America's toughest sheriff\" during his time as the elected lawman of Maricopa County, which includes the city of Phoenix.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Arpaio said in 2011 interview that he was protecting jobs\n\nHe rose to national prominence due to his tough stance against illegal immigration. However, a judge reminded him during his trial that only federal officers have jurisdiction over immigration.\n\nHe had claimed that the judge's injunction in 2011, which he was found to have violated, was vague and unclearly worded.\n\nBut a judge found on Monday that Mr Arpaio had understood the temporary injunction, which was later made permanent, and had deliberately violated it to score political points ahead of his re-election campaign in 2012.\n\nHe was known during his tenure as sheriff for sweeps of undocumented immigrants in Hispanic communities, and for detaining Spanish-speakers under suspicion of being undocumented migrants.\n\nHe also famously required his inmates to wear pink underpants and socks.\n\nMr Arpaio, in a statement, insisted that the judge who issued the ruling was biased, and said he would appeal to have a jury hear his case.\n\n\"Joe Arpaio is in this for the long haul, and he will continue his fight to vindicate himself, to prove his innocence, and to protect the public,\" a statement issued by him reads.\n• None UK blogger takes on 'toughest sheriff in US'", "Lightwater Valley theme park in North Yorkshire says it has decided to close its Eagle's Claw ride as a precaution\n\nSix high-speed theme park rides have been shut across the UK after a death on a similar attraction in the US.\n\nAn 18-year-old man died and three others were critically injured after being flung from the ride at the Ohio State Fair on Wednesday.\n\nThe ride, known as the KMG Afterburner, swings at high speed from side-to-side while also spinning passengers.\n\nThe Health and Safety Executive ordered the re-inspection and temporary closure of similar rides in the UK.\n\nThree of the rides closed are in theme parks, Pleasurewood Hills in Suffolk, Coney Beach in South Wales and Brean Theme Park in Somerset.\n\nThe other two rides are owned by Ryan Crow Amusements in the North East of England and by Joseph Manning in Hertfordshire.\n\nLightwater Valley in North Yorkshire has voluntarily closed its pendulum-style ride until the HSE has deemed the KMG Afterburner safe.\n\nFollowing the accident in Ohio, Thorpe Park in Surrey closed one of its pendulum rides, Vortex, as a precaution, but it has since reopened.\n\nA spokeswoman said: \"We reopened the ride on Saturday with the endorsement of both manufacturer and the HSE.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A witness said \"several people came flying out\" from the ride\n\nUnverified footage from Wednesday's accident in Columbus shows one passenger carriage breaking loose near the bottom of its pendulum swing, tossing passengers into the air as it rose again.\n\nAn HSE spokeswoman said all five rides in the UK had been \"thoroughly inspected within the last 12 months\", but there was no \"verified information\" on the cause of the fatal accident in the US.\n\nAs a result the body had served an enforcement notice on the machines, which takes them out of use.\n\n\"HSE will ensure operators are kept abreast of information as it arrives and will take such action as is necessary to ensure the rides are inspected and tested as necessary to ensure safety,\" the spokeswoman added.\n\nRipon-based theme park Lightwater Valley is telling customers that its ride, called the Eagle's Claw, is closed \"due to circumstances beyond our control\".\n\nA spokesman said: \"We were deeply saddened and shocked to hear of the tragic accident in the US and our thoughts go out to the families of those concerned.\"\n\nHe added that although there are \"fundamental and significant differences\" between the ride at Lightwater and the one in Ohio, the park \"entirely supported\" the HSE's decision to close similar rides.\n\nThe theme park would keep the ride closed as a \"precaution\" until HSE had completed its safety checks.", "Mary Berry said the series would \"encourage proper home cooking\"\n\nThe BBC has announced a new TV cookery competition - with Mary Berry as the lead judge.\n\nBritain's Best Cook will be broadcast on BBC One and presented by Claudia Winkleman.\n\nThe BBC said 10 contestants will compete across eight episodes, serving meals that reflect both the modern and classic dishes of British home cooking.\n\nBerry said: \"I am never more at home than when I have my judging hat on.\"\n\nShe continued: \"This series is going to encourage proper home cooking, which I have always championed and I cannot wait to start. Claudia, for me, is the icing on the cake.\"\n\nThe 82-year-old will be joined by a second judge - but their identity hasn't yet been revealed.\n\nWinkleman and Berry were pictured with Nigella Lawson at the BBC's factual launch in June\n\nWinkleman said: \"I am over the moon to be part of this show. Am slightly obsessed with Mary so will follow her around with my own moussaka for most of the filming. Apologies in advance.\"\n\nThe BBC announcement said contestants will have to prove they have the \"skills and repertoire, technical ability, resourcefulness and creativity\" to be crowned Britain's Best Cook.\n\nBerry left The Great British Bake Off last year, when it was announced that the programme would move from the BBC to Channel 4.\n\nPresenters Mel and Sue also exited the programme, but Paul Hollywood stayed with the show. He'll appear in the new series later this year alongside Sandi Toksvig, Noel Fielding and fellow judge Prue Leith.\n\nThis won't be Berry's first show for the BBC since leaving Bake Off.\n\nIt has been announced she will appear in Mary Berry's Secrets From Britain's Great Houses, and she has also fronted Mary Berry Everyday for BBC Two.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. David Hall was just 14 when he made the discovery\n\nA hoard of Roman silver discovered by a teenage metal detectorist in his \"first proper find\" is to go on display in Scotland.\n\nDavid Hall, from Livingston who is now 16, found the hacksilver in Fife when he was aged 14, in 2014.\n\nThe silver was believed to have been used by Roman soldiers to bribe Picts while passing through Scotland.\n\nDavid said he did not initially realise the importance of the find and is excited to see how it now looks.\n\nThe Dairsie hoard dates to the late 3rd century AD and is the earliest hacksilver from anywhere beyond the frontiers of the Roman Empire.\n\nThe find has been hailed as \"internationally significant\" and will go on show for the first time in a new exhibition at the National Museum of Scotland in October.\n\nDavid told BBC Scotland he first became interested in metal detecting after watching an American TV programme. He then saved up and bought a \"low-end\" detector.\n\nArchaeologists think the silver came to Fife as a gift or payment\n\nHe had only been using it for a few months when he came across the silver.\n\n\"It was quite a boring day,\" he said. \"I was at a rally with 103 metal detectorists and we were looking in three fields and nothing had come up.\n\n\"All of a sudden I found a few bits of silver and I showed it to a friend who said it was Roman and after that we found another 200 pieces on the first day.\"\n\nHacksilver consists of silver objects hacked into pieces to make raw bullion.\n\nArchaeologists think the silver came to Fife as a gift or payment from the Roman world.\n\nThe Romans could not just rely on the strength of their army - they also used diplomatic efforts to secure the empire's borders by buying off surrounding tribes.\n\nAs well as being hacked-up by the Romans, the hoard had been shattered by ploughing.\n\nCurators have been piecing the silver back together\n\nCurators have undertaken a daunting jigsaw puzzle, reconstructing four Roman vessels from more than 300 fragments, as well as examining how they had been cut into packages of bullion.\n\nDavid said: \"This was really my first proper find.\n\n\"I didn't realise how important it was at first, but it's been really exciting to be able to come and see what National Museums' curators and conservators have been able to do to clean it up and to examine it to work out what it is.\n\n\"It looks really different now. It's great to have unearthed a piece of history and I'm looking forward to seeing it on display at the museum.\"\n\nDavid Hall had only been using his metal detector for a few months when he came across the silver\n\nThe silver will go on display at the National Museum of Scotland in October\n\nDr Fraser Hunter, principal curator at National Museums Scotland said: \"New archaeological evidence is rewriting our understanding of Roman frontier politics, and silver was a key part of this.\n\n\"It's a fascinatingly complex picture that shows interaction and realpolitik, with the Romans changing their approach to deal with different emerging problems, and local tribes taking advantage of Roman 'gifts'. The Dairsie hoard is internationally significant.\n\n\"It's the earliest evidence for a new phase of Roman policy in dealing with troublesome tribes, using bribes of silver bullion in the form of hacked silver vessels.\n\n\"It's been great to show David Hall, the finder, the next steps in translating a find like this from the field, through the laboratories and on to public display.\"\n\nThe exhibition, Scotland's Early Silver, will show for the first time how silver, not gold, became the most important precious metal in Scotland over the course of the first millennium AD.\n\nNew research and recent archaeological discoveries will chart the first thousand years of silver in Scotland.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mr Taylor says that his unofficial yellow lines stop people from parking on blind corners\n\nA New Zealand activist who has unlawfully painted yellow line parking restrictions outside his house in Wellington for the last 20 years says he has done so to improve road safety and to protest against gentrification.\n\nRussell Taylor said it was necessary to stop cars from parking dangerously in an increasingly busy street.\n\n\"It's a major contribution to road safety,\" he told the BBC.\n\nThe city council says the lines are illegal and will be removed.\n\nMy Taylor says he has painted the lines intermittently over the last two decades when the parking problem in his street has become especially bad.\n\n\"It's a protest against the failure of our council to take action,\" he said.\n\nHis personal campaign has attracted thousands of online comments since it was highlighted by local media on Monday.\n\nMr Taylor said that life in Holloway Road has changed dramatically since he moved there in 1979.\n\nMr Taylor - who says he looks like British opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn - staunchly supports better road safety in his street\n\n\"Hardly anyone had cars then but now it has all changed as the area has become more middle class and gentrified.\n\n\"Cars park on blind corners, and on occasions fire lorries and rubbish collection vehicles have been unable to turn around because vehicles are parked on both sides of the road.\n\n\"More recently we have had the additional problem of drivers going far too fast down our narrow street.\"\n\nThe activist said the only way to combat the problem was by using a can of yellow paint stored in his garage.\n\nThe homemade yellow lines on Holloway Road in Wellington\n\nA city council spokesman, Richard MacLean, told Stuff New Zealand that it was aware there was a parking problem in Holloway Road, and it will shortly be discussed by residents and councillors.\n\nMr Maclean said that among the measures the council was considering was the implementation of \"no stopping\" restrictions later this year.\n\nHe said it was unlikely that Mr Taylor would be punished for his long-running, unofficial road-marking campaign.\n\n\"Given the glorious and healthy history of civic activism in Holloway Road, we would rather not pick an unnecessary fight with the locals,\" he said.", "Laboratory testing found traces of fentanyl and carfentanyl in batches of heroin\n\nAt least 60 people have died in the UK in the last eight months after taking the strong painkiller fentanyl.\n\nTests on heroin seized by police since November found traces of the synthetic drug, with more than 70 further deaths pending toxicology reports, the National Crime Agency (NCA) said.\n\nSome contained carfentanyl, which is 10,000 times stronger than morphine and often used to tranquillize elephants.\n\nHealth officials and police have warned heroin users to be \"extra careful\".\n\nMost of the deaths were in the police force areas of West Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, North Yorkshire, Humberside and Cleveland, the NCA said.\n\nThey were predominantly men and a range of ages, with none younger than 18.\n\nFentanyl, which hit the headlines after it was linked to the death of US singer Prince, is considered to be 50 times more potent than heroin according to America's Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA).\n\nWhile it can be legally prescribed, sometimes in the form of a patch or nasal spray, carfentanyl is only used as an anaesthetic for large animals, the NCA said.\n\nRecent NCA investigations found that fentanyl and its analogues are being both supplied in and exported from the UK.\n\nFentanyl is an extremely strong painkiller, prescribed for severe chronic pain, or breakthrough pain which does not respond to regular painkillers.\n\nIt is an opioid painkiller which means it works by mimicking the body's natural painkillers, called endorphins, which block pain messages to the brain.\n\nThe risk of harm is higher if the wrong dose or strength is used.\n\nTypical symptoms of a fentanyl overdose include slow and difficult breathing, nausea and vomiting, dizziness and increased blood pressure.\n\nOfficers have warned drug users that heroin and other class A drugs were being laced with synthetic opioids like fentanyl.\n\nDet Supt Pat Twiggs, of West Yorkshire Police, said: \"People are playing Russian roulette with their lives by taking this stuff, that's why we would strongly recommend to the drug-using community to stay away from it.\n\n\"The business is not done under lab conditions, it's not done by scientists, it's done in a very uncontrolled way by people seeking out profit - this is why we're concerned when you're dealing with such toxic chemicals.\"\n\nFentanyl is considered to be 50 times more potent than heroin\n\nA national alert was issued in April by Public Health England to warn medical and drugs services of the need to be vigilant.\n\nRichard Sykes, principal analyst at West Yorkshire Analytical Services, said: \"If you look at normal street heroin probably something like a quarter of a sugarcube would be a normal dose, but with carfentanyl a single grain of salt would probably be enough to kill a person, so it's extremely dangerous.\"\n\nOn Monday a 25-year-old man from Gwent was charged in connection with investigations into the supply of synthetic opioids.\n\nThree men arrested in April in Leeds have also been charged.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Marian received a large quantity of skin from her twin sister Mary Jane\n\nThe 66-year-old Fields twins, from Missouri, have lived together all their lives - now they are even closer after sharing their skin.\n\nMarian Fields had an aggressive and very rare form of skin cancer, which left her with large, open wounds around her backbone following multiple operations and radiation treatments.\n\nShe was beginning to lose all hope of recovery after plastic surgeons in the US refused to take on her case because of the size of the wound.\n\nBut her identical twin sister Mary Jane provided the solution.\n\n\"There was never a moment of hesitation when the option to donate skin and tissue was a possibility,\" Mary Jane said.\n\n\"I had what she needed. We are two bodies with one soul. She is my other self.\"\n\nSurgeons worked for 14 hours to remove Marian's skin cancer from her back\n\nDr Jesse Selber, a plastic surgeon from the MD Anderson Cancer Centre at the University of Texas, who had previously performed the first skull-scalp transplant, said the surgery was \"incredibly challenging and complex\".\n\nHis team of five plastic surgeons removed skin, tissue and blood vessels from Mary Jane's abdomen and transplanted it to Marian's back, connecting eight different arteries and veins under a microscope during surgery.\n\nThe hole in Marian's back was 21.5in by 8.5in (55cm x 22 cm), making it one of the largest tissue transplantations on record.\n\nBy donating skin to her sister, Mary Jane - in effect - got a giant tummy tuck.\n\nHaving an identical twin made the transplantation process more likely to succeed for Marian because no suppression of her immune system was required - but there were still huge risks.\n\nSurgeons said they were concerned about the donated skin being rejected and the possibility of the cancer recurring.\n\nAlthough the tumour in Marian's back was very aggressive, it was not a type that spreads to other parts of the body so receiving her sister's skin and tissue was a perfect fix.\n\nMary Jane and Marian attend an appointment with Dr Selber\n\nDr Selber said: \"Marian's wound was impossibly large - without her genetically identical sister, we would not have had enough tissue to reconstruct it.\"\n\nThe surgery took 14 hours and involved \"extensive resection through skin, muscle and bone\", followed by \"hours of meticulous microvascular work\".\n\nThe surgery was meticulously planned beforehand - and it paid off, according to Dr Selber.\n\n\"It went quite beautifully,\" he said.\n\nBefore the transplant surgery, Marian was in horrible pain. She couldn't lie on her back or sit up in a chair properly.\n\nOne month on from the surgery, the twins have been discharged, the stitches have been removed and they have returned home.\n\nMarian says: \"I'm looking forward to getting back to work, driving, running and sitting comfortably.\n\n\"I've never been sick before 2012 and am ready to get back to life.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Riot-trained staff were sent to Mount Prison in Hertfordshire\n\nRiot-trained prison staff were sent to a jail amid reports of violence on two wings.\n\nSources earlier told BBC home affairs correspondent Danny Shaw that one wing of HMP The Mount in Hertfordshire and half of another wing had been \"lost\".\n\nThe Ministry of Justice (MoJ) later said the incident was \"resolved\" and no staff or prisoners had been injured.\n\nA report into the jail published earlier highlighted staffing problems and said violence was an issue.\n\nThe Mount, in Bovingdon village near Hemel Hempstead, opened in 1987 and is classed as a category C male prison.\n\nA \"tornado team\" made up of riot-trained staff arrived at the jail at about 18:30, equipped with shields and batons while fire, police and ambulance crews were on standby outside.\n\nRiot officers with shields entered HMP The Mount at about 18:30 BST\n\nThe MoJ said officers had dealt with an \"incident involving a number of prisoners\".\n\nThe BBC understands the wings involved were H and L, which house 110 and 117 prisoners.\n\nAt about 23:45, a Prison Service spokesman said: \"Specialist prison staff resolved an incident involving a number of prisoners. There were no injuries to staff or prisoners.\n\n\"The offenders responsible will be referred to the police and could spend longer behind bars.\"\n\nEarlier on Monday, the Independent Monitoring Board published its annual review into conditions at Mount Prison and said it had \"struggled\" with staff shortages.\n\nThere were 24 vacancies out of a total of 136 officers in February, it added.\n\nIt also claimed violence \"grew considerably\" throughout the year and that drugs were readily available, in particular the synthetic cannabis substitute spice.\n\nThe report says concerns raised last year had not been addressed by the MoJ.\n\nThe Prison Reform Trust calls this type of institution one where \"prison staff think [inmates] will not escape\", while acknowledging they \"cannot be trusted in an open prison\".\n\nPrison affairs academic and blogger Alex Cavendish had tweeted on Saturday: \"Staff shortages at HMP The Mount (Herts) are so severe that this is the 3rd weekend of total lockdown. Meals given at cell door. Trouble brewing.\"\n\nHMP The Mount is for prisoners coming to the end of longer sentences\n\nMark Fairhurst, of the Prison Officers Association, said staff shortages in UK jails were \"an epidemic\" and partly due to \"poor salaries\".\n\n\"We need to increase the starting salary to incentivise people to join and then we need to give them regular increments to incentivise them to stay,\" he said.\n\nMr Fairhurst added it was difficult to retain staff because of \"adverse working conditions, the violence they face and poor salary\".\n\nHertfordshire Police, Hertfordshire Fire Brigade and East of England Ambulance crews stood by as riot officers entered the prison\n\nThe Mount is built on a former RAF station site and has more than 1,000 prisoners, according to the MoJ.\n\nIt is described as a \"hybrid training and resettlement prison\" for inmates in the final six months of their sentences.\n\nA 2015 inspection of the prison found The Mount was \"reasonably safe and felt calm and well ordered\", but chief inspector of prisons Nick Hardwick added that there was \"room for improvement\".\n\nIn March 2016 an inmate at The Mount stabbed a fellow prisoner with a shard of glass from a microwave.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Brookes viewed the abuse from an online chat room, Bristol Crown Court heard\n\nA primary school teacher who watched a live stream of a six-year-old boy being raped has been jailed.\n\nWayne Brookes joined 45 other paedophiles online to watch the abuse being streamed live from America.\n\nBristol Crown Court heard he also used the site to watch a recording of a six-month-old baby being abused.\n\nBrookes, 43, from Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, admitted four charges of making indecent images of children and was jailed for 20 months.\n\nThe court heard the former teacher accessed the online chat room after being given a 10-digit code by another paedophile.\n\nThe rapist who broadcast the attack was arrested in the US in February and jailed for up to 30 years.\n\nBrookes, who had worked as a teacher for 10 years, was identified by officers after using a profile named Bear to access the chat room.\n\nHe was found to have downloaded more than 200 indecent images of children, including dozens in the highest category.\n\nJudge Martin Picton said he had kept his interest in young children a secret from his partner, viewing the indecent material \"late at night\".\n\n\"One of the pieces of footage depicted the live streaming of a rape of a little boy,\" he added.\n\n\"I do give you the benefit of doubt with the issue of whether you understood that you were watching a live event.\"\n\nThe judge said although there was \"no suggestion\" that Brookes accessed indecent images at work or \"offended against any of the children\" in his care, his offences would have caused \"alarm and distress\" at the school where he worked.\n\nDefence barrister Virginia Cornwall said Brookes had \"demonstrated remorse and understanding for his criminality\" and was \"a broken man\".\n\nBrookes is the second of four men to be sentenced following an investigation into the chat room by the National Crime Agency.\n\nLast month, youth worker Darren Williams, 44, was jailed for 11 years for his part in the live stream of the rape.\n\nPhilip Crabtree, 35, of Newcastle-Under-Lyme, and Christian Johnson Lueking, 36, of Raynes Park, London, are currently awaiting sentencing.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Author JK Rowling has apologised for incorrectly accusing Donald Trump of ignoring a disabled boy.\n\nA video emerged that appeared to show the US president refusing to shake the boy's hand at the White House.\n\n\"How stunning, and how horrible, that Trump cannot bring himself to shake the hand of a small boy who only wanted to touch the president,\" the author said.\n\nBut Marjorie Kelly Weer, mother of Monty, said Rowling's interpretation of the clip was wrong.\n\nThe Harry Potter author tweeted: \"Re: my tweets about the small boy in a wheelchair whose proffered hand the president appeared to ignore in press footage.\n\n\"Multiple sources have informed me that that was not a full or accurate representation of their interaction.\n\n\"I very clearly projected my own sensitivities around the issue of disabled people being overlooked or ignored onto the images I saw and if that caused any distress to that boy or his family, I apologise unreservedly.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by J.K. Rowling This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by J.K. Rowling This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Trump is said to have shaken the boy's hand as the president entered the room.\n\nMs Weer wrote on Facebook: \"If someone can please get a message to JK Rowling: Trump didn't snub my son & Monty wasn't even trying to shake his hand.\"\n\nShe also said her son was not all that keen on shaking hands anyway.\n\nRowling has deleted her initial tweets on the subject.", "Hundreds of people work for the US in Moscow and other Russian cities. What are they all doing there?\n\nOver the weekend Russia President Vladimir Putin said that the US had to reduce its diplomatic staff in the country by more than 750 people.\n\nIt was a startling development in US-Russia relations, exposing tension between the two countries that arises from new sanctions imposed on Russia, and suspicions about meddling in the US election.\n\nFor many it also raised a question: why are so many people working at the US embassy in Moscow and in other places around Russia? By some estimates, there are 1,200 US state employees in the country.\n\nThe number seems high - at first glance. Yet it makes sense for those who are working at the White House and trying to manage a challenging, tumultuous relationship with Russia.\n\nAmericans and Russians have important areas of co-operation: they're working together to combat militant groups, assure the security of nuclear weapons in both countries, and reduce violence in Syria.\n\nBesides that, the US exports billions of dollars worth of products to Russia every year.\n\nBut they also fight about things: aside from the controversy over election meddling, they're trying to work out issues such Russia's territorial ambition and its expansion in the region.\n\nUS officials say that monitoring Russia's activities and keeping abreast with the different aspects of the relationship requires a lot of support in Moscow.\n\nTo that end, Americans in Russia are involved in a variety of undertakings - in different locations. Most work in Moscow, but some are employed in offices in Vladivostok, St Petersburg and Yekaterinburg.\n\nIn Moscow and the other cities, Americans process visa applications for Russians who want to travel to the US. In addition, they write cables to officials in Washington about human rights, labour and other matters.\n\nSome of them work on agricultural, scientific and public-health initiatives that, for example, help to protect rare wildlife and combat infectious diseases.\n\nSome work in Russia for other government agencies, as the CIA and US intelligence agencies are euphemistically known.\n\nThe number of people in Russia who are employed by the US intelligence agencies is substantial, although specifics are unavailable. Georgetown University's Angela Stent, who used to work as a national intelligence officer, laughed at the question.\n\n\"Nobody knows that,\" she said.\n\nStill most of the people who work at the embassy and in other US offices in Russia are not spies or spymasters; most, in fact, are not even US citizens. They're Russian.\n\nOf the 1,279 people who worked at the embassy in 2013, according to a 2013 inspector general report, 934 were locally hired.\n\nThe Russian staff help to organise events, process visas, fix computers and otherwise keep the place running. For them, Putin's announcement was troubling.\n\n\"These people will lose their jobs,\" said Yuval Weber, a fellow at the Wilson Center in Washington.\n\nIt also means that Russians will have a harder time getting visas for their trips to the US: at this point, he said, it takes two to five weeks for them to get a visa. With a reduced staff, it will take longer.", "British Gas will increase electricity prices by 12.5% from 15 September, its owner Centrica has said, in a move that will affect 3.1 million customers.\n\nGas prices are unchanged, but the average annual dual-fuel bill for a typical household on a standard tariff will rise by £76 to £1,120, up by 7.3%.\n\nCentrica said the rise was a result of transmission and distribution costs and the costs of government policy.\n\nBut the government said its policy costs \"could not explain\" the rises.\n\nCentrica said the price increase was its first since November 2013, adding that British Gas was one of the last suppliers to raise prices.\n\nThe company said it would protect its most \"vulnerable customers\" against the rise and that British Gas would credit more than 200,000 people on the government's Warm Home Discount with £76.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Centrica boss says the price rise is partly down to government policy\n\nCentrica chief executive Iain Conn told the BBC's Today programme that wholesale costs had gone down and were not the reason for the price rise.\n\n\"We have seen our wholesale costs fall by about £36 on the typical bill since the beginning of 2014 and that is not the driver. It is transmission and distribution of electricity to the home and government policy costs that are driving our price increase.\"\n\nHe added: \"We are selling electricity at a loss and that is not sustainable.\"\n\nBritish Gas had frozen its gas and electricity prices for six months in February, saying at the time it was able to do so by cutting costs to offset higher wholesale prices.\n\nA spokeswoman for the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy said: \"Energy firms should treat all their customers fairly and we're concerned this price rise will hit many people already on poor value tariffs.\n\n\"Government policy costs make up a relatively small proportion of household energy bills and cannot explain these price rises.\"\n\n\"In response to a letter from the Business and Energy Secretary asking what action the regulator intended to take to safeguard customers on the poorest value tariffs and the future of the standard variable tariff, Ofgem has committed to taking prompt action, in consultation with consumer experts, to develop proposals including a safeguard tariff.\n\n\"We want to see rapid progress on this commitment.\"\n\nAlex Neill of Which? magazine urged British Gas customers on the standard variable tariff deal to switch to another provider immediately.\n\n\"For the customers of British Gas, they won't really care about any of this squabbling about who's to blame for the costs or the price rises,\" she said.\n\n\"At the end of the day, these people are now paying another £76 on top of what is already more than £1,000 a year for a bill. And they're not really seeing the difference in value that they are getting from British Gas for that £76.\"\n\nCentrica tried to land the blame for higher bills partly on the government's doormat, but the government wasn't having it.\n\nRenewable targets, smart meter rollout, subsidies for insulation and other social and environmental policies were a big factor driving prices higher.\n\nThe government abandoned a manifesto promise to cap energy bills and instead threw this perennially hot potato to the regulator Ofgem, which is currently consulting on what action to take.\n\nUmpteen probes, competition reviews, promises or threats of caps or nationalisation - the problem of what to do about energy remains as thorny as ever.\n\nThe government has reiterated its position that it is not ruling anything out - either by regulation or legislation. That means that although it's on the back-burner for now, an energy price cap is still officially an option.\n\nShadow energy minister Alan Whitehead told the Today programme that he believed the government should have acted on its pre-election promise of imposing a price cap on energy costs.\n\n\"It is really important now that energy prices are stabilised and we need a cap to do that,\" he said.\n\n\"We also need action on the make-up of the customer base of energy companies. It clearly is not sustainable as far as customers are concerned being on mainly these standard variable tariffs, which land the greatest cost on the customers who can least bear it on a regular basis.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Shadow energy minister Alan Whitehead urges the government to keep its pre-election promise of an energy price cap\n\nFormer Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron said: \"This is a colossal increase that will really hurt customers already struggling with rising prices due to the deteriorating economic situation.\n\n\"As a former public utility, British Gas has a huge number of customers who don't switch and is clearly treating these people like cash cows.\n\n\"We need to open up the market to more competition to drive down prices and take action to help lower income families. As things stand, there will be a lot of people in fuel poverty this winter shivering in homes they cannot afford to heat or even light.\"\n\nCentrica Consumer chief executive Mark Hodges said: \"We held off increasing prices for many months longer than most suppliers in order to protect our customers from rising costs, so it is a difficult decision to have to announce an increase in electricity prices.\"\n\nThe company added that 5.3 million of its customers would be unaffected by the rise.\n\nThe news came as Centrica's half-year results revealed that it lost 377,000 customer accounts in the first half of 2017, with its consumer earnings dropping by more than a quarter as a result.\n\nUnderlying operating profits from its UK home energy supply arm fell 26% to £381m as the group said it was also hit by warmer than normal temperatures and the pre-payment tariff cap.\n\nCentrica's overall underlying operating profits were 4% lower at £816m for the six months to 30 June.\n\nAre you a British Gas electricity customer? Have you recently switched to a BG electricity account? Let us know about your experiences. Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk with your stories.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Material found at an incinerator plant needs \"further examination\" to establish whether it is linked to missing RAF airman Corrie Mckeague, police said.\n\nThe 23-year-old was last seen alive on a night out in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, on 24 September.\n\nPolice said they would search the facility at Great Blakenham, near Ipswich, after they ended their 20-week probe of a landfill site.\n\nThey said his family has been updated.\n\nA Suffolk Constabulary spokesman said: \"Police searching incinerated waste at the Great Blakenham energy-from-waste facility have recovered some material that requires further examination in order to establish whether it is in any way connected to the Corrie Mckeague missing person inquiry.\n\n\"At this stage it cannot be confirmed whether or not this material is in any way linked to Corrie and so it will be subject to specialist examination and forensic analysis in the coming weeks.\n\n\"Police expected that it would be necessary to take items recovered from the search away from the site in order to examine them more carefully.\"\n\nHe said the search of the incinerated waste was now complete.\n\nWaste from the Great Blakenham incinerator is being taken away to be examined\n\nMr Mckeague, from Fife, was last seen entering a bin loading bay in the Suffolk town.\n\nSuffolk Police said he was known to \"sleep in rubbish on a night out\".\n\nDet Supt Katie Elliott said the landfill search for Mr Mckeague had been \"systematic, comprehensive and thorough\".\n\nThe force said no more rubbish will be added to the search area at the landfill site at Milton, near Cambridge, until an independent review into the case has been carried out.\n\nIt has not yet been determined who will carry out the review.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The priests saw the funny side of the misunderstanding\n\nPub bosses have apologised after asking a group of trainee priests to leave their Cardiff venue, mistaking them for a stag party in fancy dress.\n\nThe seven Roman Catholic seminarians had gone to The City Arms to toast Father Peter McClaren's ordination when they were asked to move on.\n\nBut assistant manager Matt Morgan said they received a free round of drinks when the situation was explained.\n\n\"They were all dressed in their black and white clothes,\" he said.\n\n\"The staff thought they were a stag. We do have quite a few issues on the weekends with parties wearing fancy dress so it is our policy to turn them away.\"\n\nThe priests enjoyed a few pints in the pub in the end\n\nFather Michael Doyle, who knows the group, said the seven went to the pub in Quay Street to celebrate the ordination at Cardiff Metropolitan Cathedral of St David in nearby Charles Street.\n\nHe added the pub was a favourite of his colleagues including the Archbishop of Cardiff, George Stack.\n\n\"They arrived at The City Arms and they were dressed wearing the clerical collar,\" he said.\n\n\"The doorman basically said something along the lines of, 'sorry gents, we have a policy of no fancy dress and no stag dos'.\"\n\nThe students had started to leave when they were approached by the bar manager.\n\n\"He basically said, 'you're real, aren't you?',\" said Fr Doyle.\n\n\"He invited them back in and when they walked back in the entire pub burst into a round of applause, and they had a free round off The City Arms.\"\n\nSix of the priests who were turned away from the pub\n\nFr Doyle said the group stayed at the pub most of the afternoon chatting to customers.\n\nMr Morgan said the priests were \"all great sports and saw the funny side of the situation\".\n\nA spokesman for the Archdiocese of Cardiff added: \"We'd like to thank The City Arms for being good sports through all of this and their kind gesture to our seminarians.\"", "The hacker shared emails on Twitter that he sent while pretending to be Reince Priebus, the recently sacked White House chief of staff\n\nThe self-proclaimed \"email prankster\" convinced a senior cyber security adviser he was the president's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, CNN says.\n\nHe also goaded the then media chief, Anthony Scaramucci, in the guise of ex-chief of staff Reince Priebus.\n\nConcerns about cyber security are running high amid claims hackers interfered in the US election.\n\nThe White House told CNN it was investigating the latest incident and took the issue very seriously.\n\nThe prankster posted some of the email exchanges on Twitter, where he describes himself as a \"lazy anarchist\", and said he was doing it for fun. On Tuesday he promised not to target the White House again, but said \"you need to tighten up IT policy\".\n\nHere are three of the most memorable parts of the hoax:\n\nHomeland Security Adviser Tom Bossert was apparently tricked into believing Mr Kushner had invited him to a party and gave out his personal email address unsolicited.\n\n\"Tom, we are arranging a bit of a soirée towards the end of August,\" the fake Mr Kushner wrote in emails shared with CNN. \"It would be great if you could make it, I promise food of at least comparible [sic] quality to that which we ate in Iraq. Should be a great evening.\"\n\nMr Bossert replied: \"Thanks, Jared. With a promise like that, I can't refuse. Also, if you ever need it, my personal email is [redacted].\"\n\nThe prankster pretended to be Jared Kushner, a senior White House adviser and husband of Mr Trump's daughter Ivanka\n\nThe cyber security adviser has not commented publicly on the reports.\n\nA day after Mr Priebus was removed as White House chief of staff, the hacker emailed then-White House media chief Mr Scaramucci pretending to be his adversary.\n\nThe fake Mr Priebus accused Mr Scaramucci of being \"breathtakingly hypocritical\" and acting in a way not \"even remotely classy\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The feud between Priebus and Scaramucci decoded\n\nMr Scaramucci, appointed communications director a week earlier, had accused Mr Priebus - a Republican Party stalwart - of leaking to the press. He also phoned a reporter to unleash a profanity-filled rant against Mr Priebus, whom he called a \"paranoid schizophrenic\".\n\nTricked by the fake emails on Saturday, the real Mr Scaramucci said: \"You know what you did. We all do. Even today. But rest assured we were prepared. A Man would apologize.\"\n\nWhen the pretend Mr Priebus wrote back defending his work, Mr Scaramucci responded: \"Read Shakespeare. Particularly Othello.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by EMAIL PRANKSTER This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Scaramucci was sacked as President Trump's media chief on Monday.\n\nEric Trump, too, was briefly hoodwinked by the prankster emailing as his older brother, Donald Trump Jr, about a long-range hunting rifle.\n\nBut Donald Jr soon realised it was a scam and replied: \"I have sent this to law enforcement who will handle from here.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nExperts told CNN the incidents showed how even the most powerful people in America remained vulnerable to phishing attacks, where hackers send fake emails to induce individuals to reveal personal information.\n\nConcern about politicians being targeted is particularly high after the attack on the Democratic National Committee during the US presidential election.\n\nUS authorities attributed that incident to Russia and said that a significant component of the attack involved phishing.\n\nMore recently, the electoral campaign of President Emmanuel Macron in France was targeted by a similar campaign.\n\nAnalysis: 'All they do is spoof the email'\n\nIf you think your email address is proof of who you are, think again. It's long been a feature of the technology that someone can set up a mail server to send emails that look as though they have come from another person. Say \"reince.priebus@whitehouse.gov\".\n\nBut in such cases, any reply to that message will go to the real \"reince.priebus@whitehouse.gov\". The email prankster was able to receive the replies, of course, because he or she published them. How?\n\nWhile we don't know the details, it's possible that an email address was set up at a domain name that was very similar to \"whitehouse.gov\".\n\nIt's a well-known problem, says cyber security expert Prof Alan Woodward at the University of Surrey. He points out that scammers in the UK have been known to email house buyers with an apparent message from their solicitor. It asks them to transfer payment to the scammer's account.\n\n\"All they do is they spoof the email by changing one character,\" says Prof Woodward. The recipient's eye hastily skims over the altered or missing letter, and the message is simply taken as legitimate.", "Easyjet passengers were left stranded for two days on a Greek island after a relief flight was cancelled to protect a threatened turtle population.\n\nThe flight from Zante to London Gatwick was cancelled on Sunday over technical issues, which continued through Monday.\n\nThe airline apologised but blamed the relief plane not reaching the airport on the island's night flight curfew.\n\nNight flights are prohibited on Zante as planes pass over a beach where loggerhead turtles nest.\n\nThe curfew is in place on the island, which is also known as Zakynthos, because the lights and noise can disturb the animals.\n\nPassengers were left waiting for around 55 hours\n\nAbout a quarter of passengers made it home on alternative flights, and the remaining passengers took off on Tuesday.\n\nA spokeswoman for Easyjet said: \"Engineers were immediately dispatched to Zante and believed that the technical issue was rectified yesterday [Monday], however it then reoccurred before boarding which meant the flight could not operate.\n\n\"The safety of our passengers and crew is our highest priority and we will only operate if it is safe to do so.\n\n\"We do all possible to try and minimise delays and as such planned to send a replacement aircraft. Unfortunately, due to the night curfew rule at the airport, we were unable to get the replacement aircraft into the airport yesterday [Monday].\"\n\nHatchlings usually emerge at night and overhead flights can disorientate them\n\nOne passenger, Rebecca Clark, tweeted Easyjet on Monday asking: \"Can you let us know what's going on? Day two stuck at Zante airport. Now replacement flight isn't going. No staff coming to see us!\"\n\nOn Tuesday, Mark Longbottom tweeted: \"Day 3 - have given up on #easyjet and have been saved by Thompson's though and fly today.\"\n\nA spokeswoman for Easyjet added: \"Passengers have been provided with hotel accommodation and expenses in line with EU regulations and will also be entitled to compensation.\n\n\"We are very sorry for the delay and thank customers for their understanding.\"\n• None Turtles take 45 years to grow up\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Business leaders and politicians asked former Foreign Secretary William Hague how the UK would \"get round\" the EU referendum result, he has revealed.\n\nIn the Daily Telegraph, Lord Hague said he was asked the question \"for months... everywhere I went abroad\" if \"we would lose heart\" about leaving.\n\nHe said he explained to them that \"this really is a democracy\".\n\nLord Hague also backed a \"transitional\" withdrawal from the EU saying it had \"immense\" attractions.\n\nLord Hague - who campaigned to remain in the EU - stood down as foreign secretary in 2014, and left the House of Commons in 2015.\n\nHe wrote in Tuesday's Telegraph: \"The electorate voted to leave the EU, and therefore we leave.\n\n\"What is more, the number of people who voted to do so was higher than the number of votes cast for any government in our history.\n\n\"To me and many of my former colleagues in government who preferred to remain, the argument was over.\n\n\"In the recent general election, both main parties were clear that they were committed to the referendum outcome.\n\n\"Globally, the message has now got through.\"\n\nBut Lord Hague added that \"just as the message was accepted, the voters pulled off another surprise and refused to give a majority to the ministers negotiating the exit\" [in the general election].\n\nHe said there was the clear potential for Brexit to become the \"greatest economic, diplomatic and constitutional muddle in the modern history of the UK, with unknowable consequences for the country, the government and the Brexit project itself\".\n\nAnd he said the Chancellor Philip Hammond deserved \"great credit\" for putting forward a possible solution.\n\nLord Hague said: \"He has evidently been trying to persuade his cabinet colleagues that we should be seeking to stay in the EU single market and customs union during a transition and 'implementation' phase lasting to 2022, followed by a free trade deal with our former partners after that.\n\n\"This is seen by longstanding advocates of leaving as a 'soft' position or a climbdown.\n\n\"But in reality it is a plan to rescue Brexit from an approaching disaster.\"\n\nMr Hammond has said any transitional deal in the period after Brexit must end by June 2022, the time of the next general election.\n\nBut the chancellor said there must be \"business as usual, life as normal\" for Britons as the UK left the EU.", "The abrupt dismissal of Donald Trump's communications director, Anthony Scaramucci, makes many of the front pages.\n\n\"White House in turmoil\" is the headline in the Times, which says the new Chief of Staff, the battle-hardened General John Kelly, did not take long to end Mr Scaramucci's brief career as the West Wing's chief troublemaker.\n\nThe i newspaper says Mr Scaramucci's recent foul-mouthed tirade against senior colleagues was seen as evidence of a lack of discipline that left him devoid of any credibility.\n\nThe paper says he was apparently escorted from the White House by security guards.\n\nSeveral papers report on the intervention by Downing Street in the Brexit debate.\n\nThe Daily Telegraph says Number 10 moved to soothe cabinet nerves - and rein in Chancellor Philip Hammond - by appearing to contradict his suggestion that free movement of people would continue after the UK leaves the EU.\n\nThe Sun attacks Mr Hammond, saying he is starting to prove a liability, with every speech and interview an accident waiting to happen.\n\nThe paper urges the prime minister to tell him to belt up.\n\nBut the chancellor is defended by former Conservative leader William Hague, writing in the Telegraph.\n\nHe says Mr Hammond deserves great credit for suggesting a transition period after Brexit, during which several aspects of the UK's relationship with the EU would be broadly similar.\n\nLord Hague calls it a plan to rescue Brexit from approaching disaster.\n\nThe Guardian reports that the judge-led inquiry into the Grenfell Tower fire might have to suspend operations for a long period if prosecutors authorise corporate manslaughter charges.\n\nThe paper says the identification of Kensington and Chelsea Council as a possible defendant, along with the organisation that managed the tower block, has created the potential for conflict with the public inquiry.\n\nSurvivors and residents, it says, have expressed alarm at the prospect of the inquiry being delayed or diluted.\n\nThe Daily Mail's front page says pupils as young as 11 could have lessons in breastfeeding to make the practice more widespread.\n\nThe paper says only a tiny percentage of British mothers still breastfeed after one year.\n\nThe paper quotes the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health as saying that many women are still too embarrassed to breastfeed in cafes or public places.\n\nIt believes that educating girls - and boys - from an early age will help remove any potential stigma.\n\nThe Times reports that the Isle of Skye is debating the introduction of a tourist tax to help it cope with a massive influx of visitors.\n\nSome local groups are said to believe that a visitor levy would do more harm than good.\n\nBut a local businessman tells the paper that Skye's attractions and single-track roads can no longer cope with cavalcades of tour coaches and motor homes.\n\nHe believes even £1 from each tourist would make a difference.", "Mr Mackenzie had been the AA's executive chairman since June 2014\n\nThe AA has fired its executive chairman, Bob Mackenzie, for \"gross misconduct\", with immediate effect.\n\nIts statement gave no further details as to the reasons for his departure, but an AA spokeswoman said it was \"a personal conduct matter\".\n\nBut Mr Mackenzie's son said his father had \"tendered his resignation this morning... due to acute ill health\".\n\nPeter Mackenzie said: \"This is an extremely distressing mental health issue.\"\n\nHe said his father had been suffering symptoms of the ill health \"for some time\".\n\n\"A consultant clinical psychologist advised him last week that he needed to take at least six months leave. He is very unwell and has been admitted to hospital.\"\n\nShares in the AA closed 14% lower after the roadside recovery firm also said trading had been affected by \"erratic workload patterns\".\n\nMr Mackenzie had been the AA's executive chairman since June 2014.\n\nThe company said he would be replaced by non-executive chairman John Leach, while Simon Breakwell - who was a founder of Expedia - has been named as acting chief executive.\n\nMr Mackenzie had led the AA since overseeing a management buy-in of the company in June 2014, which led to its shares being listed on the stock market.\n\nBefore that, the company had been owned by private equity firms Permira, Charterhouse and CVC.\n\nThe AA's share price plummeted after the announcement was made:\n\nMr Mackenzie's departure had \"created some concern and a lot of uncertainty. Sellers/shorters are seeing this as a potential opportunity to put more pressure on the shares,\" said Berenberg analyst, Ned Hammond.\n\n\"Obviously the circumstance of his departure is particularly bizarre and unforeseeable,\" he said.\n\nShareholders and people who were thinking of buying AA shares didn't really know what to make of the development, he added.\n\nThe AA said it would release its half-year results at the end of September.\n\nIt said these would be hit by the \"erratic workload\" issue, particularly in June and July, when the company had not had enough patrol vehicles to meet demand and had had to buy in last-minute cover.\n\nThe company has also made changes to the way it accounts for certain products.\n\nOne example is that the commission paid on the sale of breakdown cover is paid upfront to third parties, whereas the benefit to the AA is booked later.\n\nThe company said its full-year performance would now be broadly in line with last year's. It added: \"We remain confident in the resilience and long-term prospects of the AA.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Vanessa Feltz and Claudia Winkleman are among the BBC's highest-paid female stars\n\nA Sunday Times columnist has apologised to Vanessa Feltz and Claudia Winkleman after suggesting they earned high salaries because they were Jewish.\n\nKevin Myers said he was \"very, very sorry\" for offending the broadcasters and said he was genuinely contrite.\n\nMr Myers, whom the paper has said it would not commission again, told Irish broadcaster RTÉ he had \"uttered those words out of respect for the religion\".\n\nHis article on BBC equal pay was in the paper's Irish edition and online.\n\nHe said it was \"over for him professionally\", adding that he was both the author of the article and his own misfortunes.\n\n\"I'm the master of my soul and I must answer for what I have done,\" he said in a radio interview with presenter Sean O'Rourke. \"I cannot blame anybody else.\"\n\nMr Myers insisted he was neither anti-Semitic nor a misogynist.\n\n\"I've got serious professional flaws. I'm not sure that anyone is going to see those professional flaws in future, because I'm not sure I have a career in which to show them,\" he said.\n\nOne of his flaws was to deal with major issues in throwaway lines, he added.\n\n\"The throwaway line is so often my pitfall,\" he said, blaming his own \"stupidity\".\n\nMr Myers said his career was over and he was not trying to rescue it by apologising\n\nAsked if the Sunday Times was right to fire him, he replied: \"Yeah. I think so,\" although he felt that the manner in which the matter was handled could have been better.\n\nMr Myers said he had made an error of judgement. Since it happened, he said, he had not slept, had lost his livelihood and was \"in a very bad way\".\n\n\"I'm not sure if there is any redemption for me now which will give a lot of people satisfaction,\" he added.\n\nFeltz described the article as \"so obviously racist it's surprisingly hurtful\".\n\nThe piece was taken down following anger on social media and a formal complaint from the Campaign Against Anti-Semitism to press regulator Ipso.\n\nMr Myers' column - entitled \"Sorry, ladies - equal pay has to be earned\" - was published last Sunday and centred on the BBC gender pay row.\n\nCommenting that two of the best-paid presenters, Winkleman and Feltz, were Jewish, Mr Myers wrote: \"Good for them.\n\n\"Jews are not generally noted for their insistence on selling their talent for the lowest possible price, which is the most useful measure there is of inveterate, lost-with-all-hands stupidity.\"\n\nThe article has been removed following outcry at its content\n\nIn the article, he also argued that male presenters might earn more because they \"work harder, get sick less frequently and seldom get pregnant\".\n\nSunday Times editor Martin Ivens said the piece should not have been published.\n\nFrank Fitzgibbon, editor of the Sunday Times Ireland, said he took \"full responsibility\", adding: \"This newspaper abhors anti-Semitism and did not intend to cause offence to Jewish people.\"\n\nHowever, an Irish Jewish leader has defended Mr Myers.\n\nMaurice Cohen, from the Jewish Representative Council of Ireland, said Mr Myers \"inadvertently stumbled into an anti-Semitic trope\".\n\n\"More than any other Irish journalist he has written columns about details of the Holocaust over the last three decades that would not otherwise have been known by a substantial Irish audience,\" he said.\n\n\"We, who have been reading Kevin's work over many years and those who know him personally, know that while this was a real error of judgement on his part, also know that he is not an anti-Semite.\"", "An upcoming Game of Thrones script was allegedly stolen\n\nA group of hackers claims to have stolen the script for a forthcoming Game of Thrones episode and other data in a breach at entertainment firm HBO.\n\nThe group says it has 1.5 terabytes of the company's data and has posted episodes of Ballers and Room 104 online.\n\nIt added that more material would be released \"soon\".\n\nHBO confirmed it had experienced a \"cyber-incident\" in a statement.\n\nIn an email published by Entertainment Weekly, the hackers appeared to offer more details in exchange for favourable coverage.\n\n\"Hi to all mankind,\" they wrote. \"The greatest leak of cyber-space era is happening.\"\n\nThey encouraged recipients to download the material and added: \"Whoever spreads well, we will have an interview with him.\"\n\nReports have said the allegedly stolen Game of Thrones script appears to be from the fourth episode of season seven, which is currently being broadcast.\n\nThe BBC has not been able to independently verify that the hackers possess the material they claim to have stolen.\n\nHBO confirmed that a \"cyber incident\" had resulted in the compromise of information.\n\n\"We immediately began investigating the incident and are working with law enforcement and outside cybersecurity firms,\" the firm added.\n\n\"Data protection is a top priority at HBO, and we take seriously our responsibility to protect the data we hold.\"\n\nThe intrusion was \"obviously disruptive, unsettling, and disturbing for all of us,\" said chairman and chief executive Richard Plepler in an email to HBO employees.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Teenagers appear to be posting pictures of stolen bikes and robberies on social media.\n\nA spray that links suspected moped criminals to a crime scene is being tested by the Metropolitan Police.\n\nThe liquid would tag clothing or equipment with a unique chemical footprint only visible under ultraviolet light.\n\nThe BBC has also learned that offenders are increasingly travelling into London from the Home Counties to commit thefts.\n\nThe force says the average age of those carrying out crimes in London is 15.\n\nThere has been a marked increase in the number of moped crime offences carried out in the capital in the last year.\n\nIn the 12 months to the end of June 2017, the Met logged 16,158 crimes involving powered-two-wheel vehicles compared with 5,145 the year before.\n\nPolice say phones, watches, bags and other mopeds and motorbikes are generally the target of thefts.\n\nThe BBC has also seen social media messages where offenders brag about selling stolen bikes.\n\nOne account called \"bristolbiketaker\" features photographs of motorbike riders with masked faces, ditched or hidden bikes and bolt-cutters.\n\nAvon and Somerset Police is investigating the account. It says posts often taunt the owners of stolen bikes.\n\nOther accounts feature video of police chases filmed by offenders themselves and appear to show them selling keys for unlocking stolen bikes.\n\nAvon and Somerset Police says it is aware of accounts bragging of moped crimes\n\nOfficers say they have developed new tactics - including the use of tyre-deflation devices - but now want to be able to track offenders.\n\nDet Supt Stuart Ryan, the force's lead on moped crime, said a tagging spray was being tested under Home Office guidelines.\n\n\"If delivered it will be a very exciting change because it does give us an opportunity to track them in a different way than we've been able to do before.\n\n\"We're trying to find a way we can deliver it safely both to the people on the bike and also the community and officers.\"\n\nDet Supt Ryan said offenders were often travelling into London to carry out thefts.\n\n\"Mostly we're seeing it from Kent and Essex but we have had incidents from Surrey, Buckinghamshire, all round London coming in.\n\n\"It's quite stark that the average for these offenders is 15.\"", "And just like that, 43 years of hurt are over for England.\n\nThe 1-0 win over France at Euro 2017 was their first victory against Les Bleus since 1974.\n\nJodie Taylor's goal not only rewrites recent history, but also puts her country into the semi-finals.\n\n\"I'm very, very proud,\" manager Mark Sampson told the BBC afterwards.\n\nThe Lionesses, who finished third at the World Cup two years ago, will now play the Netherlands on Thursday.\n\nAustria or Denmark will compete in the other semi-final.\n\nBut will England's run help to further the game back home? And is Euro 2017 having the impact on women's football in Europe that Uefa hopes?\n\nRuth and her dad Paul travelled out to see the Lionesses play in Deventer.\n\n\"I've played since I was five,\" explains 14-year-old Ruth.\n\n\"This England success really is making girls like me realise we can play this sport and it's grown dramatically these last few years.\n\n\"But this run needs to continue so we get better pitches and better coaches to make grassroots girls' teams better.\"\n\nRuth's dad Paul, who is a football coach, says he hopes England's success will spur more professional men's clubs into action.\n\n\"They have got to buy in to the women's game because I think it's just bits and pieces at the moment,\" he tells Newsbeat.\n\n\"The women's game is massive for our country.\n\n\"Hopefully England can go all the way and that will spark even more interest in the game for young girls, much like the Olympics did in 2012.\"\n\nIt was disappointment for the French players\n\nFrance has been one of the leaders in women's football across Europe.\n\nLyon and Paris Saint-Germain play in front of huge crowds each week - and use the regular homes of their men's counterparts - in contrast to the non-league men's grounds commonly used in England.\n\nClaire helped create a women's team back home in Paris for her old schoolmates.\n\n\"We are surprised because the attendances here [at Euro 2017] haven't been as good as we thought they would be,\" she says.\n\n\"But the game is growing back home and we are now getting a lot more men watching the women's game as well.\n\n\"This Euro cup is being shown on normal TV back home too so everyone can watch which is important.\"\n\nCrowds for the quarter-final match between Netherlands v Sweden\n\nWhile passion for the Netherlands Women's team has been high at Euro 2017, gates have been much lower at the matches not involving the Dutch.\n\nMany of the fans Newsbeat has spoken to during the tournament have said that has been frustrating.\n\nTim and his friend Sjors are helping out in the official fan zone in Deventer.\n\n\"This is one of the biggest events of the year,\" says Tim.\n\n\"We have seen a mix of attendances because some countries don't bring as many fans.\n\n\"But women's football is big here in the Netherlands and is the fastest growing sport here so the tournament will help that for sure.\"\n\nAnd Sjors says it is vitally important the Netherlands continue to do well to help that.\n\n\"We need to keep scoring lots of goals and keep people's interest,\" he explains.\n\n\"I'm certain a lot of young girls will be looking to go and play and watch football next season which is what this is all about.\"\n\nGerry brought his girls' team to cheer on Scotland\n\nHe brought his girls' team to the Netherlands to cheer on Scotland.\n\nEarlier in the tournament Gerry told Newsbeat \"we wanted to bring them out here to inspire the girls to play football and maybe emulate what this Scotland team has done\".\n\nDespite beating Spain 1-0, Scotland didn't qualify for the knockout stages of the competition.\n\nFind us on Instagram at BBCNewsbeat and follow us on snapchat, search for bbc_newsbeat"], "link": ["http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-40777634", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-40789332", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-40785740", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-40784105", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-40442595", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-40643461", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-40788237", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-40777076", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-north-west-wales-40796503", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-40742236", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-40753751", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-40787660", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-40785646", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-40778372", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-40788266", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-the-papers-40798085", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-40727842", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-40791038", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-40791988", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-40778903", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tees-40781810", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-40791058", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-40780659", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-40788040", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-40788338", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-40778533", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-40776651", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-40793887", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-40729082", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-40782009", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-40796362", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-40785321", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-40780841", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-40787555", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-40792024", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-40792962", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-40788080", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-40793119", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-40785322", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-the-papers-40785306", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-40789450", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-40790195", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-40776517", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-40788491", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/articles/40772847"]} |