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an EU trade deal with Japan in time for a no-deal Brexit, Liam Fox has said.", "The National Lottery says someone called and gave the unique serial number on the winning ticket.", "Several big firms pull ads after they appear next to sexualised comments left on children's videos.", "The city has reached a settlement with the government to reimburse money from fraudulent claims.", "Justine Greening indicates she would leave the Conservative Party if the Government backed a no-deal Brexit.", "Sadio Mane's house is burgled while the forward playing in Liverpool's Champions League last-16 tie with Bayern Munich on Tuesday.", "Police officers gave first aid to the 23-year-old victim but he died at the scene.", "In a letter to the home secretary, they say that - as her family - they \"cannot simply abandon her\".", "The actress says she was not at fault over the accident and is seeking a symbolic $1 in damages.", "The volunteer group has saved more than 115,000 lives in Syria's war zones, the UK government says.", "A Manchester City fan is in a critical condition in hospital after he was assaulted following their Champions League win over Schalke in Germany.", "Estate agent slashes its sales forecast and announces the departure of two senior executives.", "A Welsh Conservative MP is charged in connection with allegations over making false expenses claims.", "Patients were asked not to visit the emergency department until power was restored at 23:00 GMT.", "Hoda Muthana, who was born in the US, regrets her actions and wants to return, her lawyer says.", "The 16-year-old murderer of Alesha MacPhail was arrested after his mother looked at her home security system.", "The \"luxury\" foldable-screened phone can run up to three apps at once when opened up into tablet mode.", "Some felt sad, others excited - former Tory and Labour MPs react very differently to joining their breakaway group.", "The assistant head at the centre of a row over lessons on LGBT rights is shortlisted for a global teaching prize.", "The indie band won two awards, while George Ezra and Jorja Smith were named best male and best female.", "The last day in the life of six-year-old Alesha MacPhail featured a birthday party, pizza and Peppa Pig.", "Figures show one in 10 people who challenged PIP decisions waited over 10 months for a successful appeal.", "Members of the new Independent Group are hopeful more MPs will join the breakaway from the main parties.", "Police have launched a murder probe after the boy was found with fatal injuries in a park in Birmingham.", "Councils are struggling with the rising costs of caring for young asylum seekers.", "A giant bee, thought lost to science decades ago, has been re-discovered on an Indonesian island.", "Some 200 people sign a letter defending the leader against claims the party is \"institutionally anti-Semitic\".", "The highlights from the 2019 Brit Awards.", "Two more women come forward with claims of misconduct by the R&B singer after a 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towards helping to prevent crime.", "About 100 people were waiting for a game of bingo when the entertainment hall ceiling collapsed.", "The fire spread quickly in the tightly-packed, centuries-old area of the Bangladeshi capital.", "In a BBC interview, Shamima Begum says the choice to go to Syria was her own and asks for forgiveness.", "Ofsted's chief inspector responds to protests against LGBT lessons at a school in Birmingham.", "Three-year-old Alfie Lamb collapsed and died after a car journey with his mum and her partner.", "Cardinal Oswald Gracias, the Archbishop of Mumbai, did not tell police of a child abuse allegation.", "Ex-Militant man was only readmitted to the party on Monday, more than 30 years after being expelled.", "France's president says that attacks seem to be at their worst level since World War Two.", "It comes as an Independent Group MP says they could support the PM if she gives them an EU referendum.", "The Labour leader describes the decision to strip Ms Begum 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He told the crowd: “I had to be here tonight, y’all.\"", "Analysis suggests workers in their 30s have been hardest hit by the effects of the 2008 financial crisis.", "Emily Fazah says she wants to \"get the world\" talking about premenstrual syndrome (PMS).", "Preparations for a privately-funded search for the missing plane carrying Cardiff City's Emiliano Sala get under way.", "Battersea Dogs Home blames \"irresponsible breeding\" for a surge in animals needing help to breathe.", "The husband of the late BBC broadcaster Dianne Oxberry says he is \"overwhelmed\" by the donations.", "The man in his 50s was pronounced dead at the scene after reports of a \"light aircraft in distress\".", "England collapse in dismal fashion yet again to lose the second Test by 10 wickets as West Indies seal the series with a match to spare.", "Intense rain in north-eastern Australia triggers severe flooding, turning streets into rivers.", "About 200 students have been helping police to look for Libby Squire, 21, who was last seen on Thursday.", "Worried by \"flaws\" in his appearance, Chris Evans began a dangerous and punishing exercise routine.", "One accident and numerous near misses on a road overlooked by a new wooden sculpture, say police.", "Officials in Townsville are flooding the area after record rainfall exceeded a dam's capacity.", "The device was found among a delivery of potatoes from France sent to a crisp factory in Hong Kong.", "Almost 6,000 police officers and staff have not undergone stricter background checks since 2006.", "Daniel Williams, 19, was last seen at a student union bar in the early hours of Thursday.", "The taxi driver convicted of drugging and raping women in London was a former stripper and porn actor who became a seemingly unassuming, unthreatening presence in the front of his cab.", "The UK's biggest carmaker is extending its annual shutdown in April over Brexit disruption fears.", "Travel and sport are disrupted as parts of England prepare for their coldest night of the winter.", "A search for the missing plane carrying Cardiff City's Emiliano Sala gets under way.", "Sunderland Central MP Julie Elliott says Nissan's decision to build the X-Trail in Japan is devastating news.", "Investors are calling on KFC, McDonald's and others to cut warming gases from their dairy and meat supply chains.", "Sergio Aguero scores a hat-trick as Manchester City cut Liverpool's lead at the top of the Premier League to two points with a vital win over Arsenal.", "The coordinator of the private search David Mearns explains the next steps.", "Nissan says it will build two new models at its Sunderland plant after government \"support and assurances\".", "England produce a superb performance to beat Grand Slam champions Ireland 32-20 in a brutal Six Nations encounter in Dublin.", "A good Brexit deal will be vital to the continuing health of the UK car industry say observers.", "More than 70 officers are searching for the 21-year-old who has not been seen since Thursday night.", "The EU's chief negotiator says the backstop will not be renegotiated, despite the UK's request.", "The car giants commit to their alliance as its architect Carlos Ghosn is replaced at the helm of Renault.", "Gale force winds of up to 60 mph hit Northern Ireland overnight on Saturday.", "His comments on the war in Yemen could overshadow the first papal visit to the Arabian peninsula.", "Cardiff City footballer Emiliano Sala and pilot David Ibbotson disappeared while flying from France.", "Major suppliers Apetito and Bidfood say they are holding stock in case of disruption from a no-deal Brexit.", "The metal detectorist says the potential value of his Iron Age discovery will be \"life-changing\".", "How two Estonian friends built popular money transfer business TransferWise.", "Sunderland has been hit by swings in the global economy before, which might explain why it ignored the boss of Nissan when he called for a Remain vote.", "John Worboys must stay in prison after the Parole Board concludes he is not suitable for release.", "New bid comes from the owner of Canada's Sunrise Records stores, media reports say.", "An MP says reports the X-Trail SUV will not be made at the Sunderland plant were \"deeply troubling\".", "The German-born presenter would go on to become editor of \"quintessentially British\" magazine Punch.", "A mother was told her child had autism and mental health issues when he was suffering from a treatable infection.", "The carmaker's Europe boss says the deal on the table is the best way to protect the UK car industry.", "A spokesman for the family says a \"substantial\" amount of wreckage has been found on the seabed.", "Researchers have genetically modified chickens to lay eggs which contain drugs that fight cancer.", "The carmaker will make its new X-Trail overseas despite first pledging to produce the model in Sunderland.", "Mary Page, 68, was found dead at her home in Bilston, Wolverhampton, on Friday.", "A collection of pictures of criminals jailed during the 1870s and 80s is to go on show in Aberdeen.", "A cougar perched on a branch near a California home is lowered to the ground by rescuers with a ladder.", "A service for the Cardiff City player, who died in January, takes place in Argentina.", "The German carmaker asks new UK customers to agree a possible 10% price rise for post-Brexit deliveries.", "Phil Foden scores twice as Manchester City avoid an FA Cup upset by beating a stubborn Newport County to reach the quarter-finals.", "They are related to snails, \"taste like nan's toenails\" and, in Wales, you cannot give them away.", "Sarah Church filmed the amazing sight near Leominster earlier this week.", "The shadow chancellor says there is no need for MPs to consider leaving the party, as split rumours persist.", "The aid is being stockpiled in Colombia at the request of self-declared interim leader Juan Guaidó.", "From cheeky monkeys and tiny triplets to daring deeds, here are a few stories you might have missed.", "Travellers tell the BBC they cannot get home after the UK regional airline went into administration.", "Cambridge academic Dr Frank King says getting young people to love sundials is \"an uphill struggle\".", "Nicole and Tali are Instagram besties. But the pressure to post is taking its toll.", "The carrier has gone into administration, blaming fuel price rises and uncertainty over Brexit.", "Hundreds of thousands of people have seen this student play after he learned the piano using online videos.", "The former US first lady's younger sister, who married a prince and became a fashion icon, dies at 85.", "Hayley Marie Ashley created her dream business by dressing up as princesses for children's parties.", "Glen Mills, who has multiple sclerosis, found a new lease of life through indoor skydiving.", "Crystal Palace's Jeffrey Schlupp says the Eagles are \"in a good position to get to Wembley\" after he helps them beat Doncaster in the FA Cup.", "Firefighters use \"specialist moorland equipment\" to put out the fire at the top of a hill near Stalybridge.", "The stunt has been called \"disrespectful\" and \"stupid\" in light of last year's Novichok poisoning.", "Passengers are left stranded as Flybmi, which operated the route, files for administration.", "The same prison suffered £1m damage in a 230-man riot in 2016.", "The Swiss was an accomplished actor whose portrayal of Hitler spawned thousands of parodies online.", "Haydock Park officials are investigating after a mass brawl involving about 50 people broke out among spectators at the racecourse.", "Scot Laura Muir smashes Kirsty Wade's 31-year-old British record to win the women's indoor mile in Birmingham.", "Brakes on the Vande Bharat Express jammed, a day after the train was inaugurated.", "Tudor Simionov was working at a private party in central London on New Year's Eve when he died.", "Footage of cockfighting and hare coursing in the UK was removed after a Countryfile investigation.", "Heather Nauert, President Trump's pick to be America's new UN ambassador, cites \"family interests\".", "The potential impact on workers with auto-enrolled pensions is \"quite substantial\", says an expert.", "A restaurant owner at London's Borough market describes how he uses culled grey squirrels to produce a sustainable white meat.", "On the day of footballer Emiliano Sala's funeral, a childhood friend and a former coach pay tribute.", "It is the second time in two weeks the philosopher's grave has been attacked in Highgate Cemetery.", "More than 205,000 people signed a petition calling for maternity leave to be extended.", "The photography competition celebrates the 70th anniversary of UK national parks.", "The CPS said no prosecution could be brought because the \"evidential test\" had not been met.", "A couple who both have Down's syndrome say their relationship has thrived thanks to family support.", "Theresa May writes to Tory MPs, as minister suggests their fears could be addressed without reopening deal.", "After Brexit, Derry City will be the only UK-based club competing in a league within the European Union.", "Four other people in the vehicle suffered minor injuries in the crash on the A308 in Surrey.", "Parents of sick babies need more paternity and maternity leave, a neonatal charity says.", "Six people are charged after police and emergency workers were attacked at a \"yellow vest\" march.", "The 22-year-old's twin and their older brother died fighting for Islamists in Syria in 2014.", "Schoolchildren took part in the Institution of Engineering and Technology event in Bristol.", "Brexit officially happened on 31 January but the UK is now in a transition period until the end of 2020.", "The flights have been given funding by the Treasury since May 2017.", "Police said the boy's life support system was switched off and he died with his family around him.", "Greater Manchester Police apologise after taking several days to respond to the hate crime.", "The approach to police funding is \"ineffective\", the UK's public spending watchdog says.", "Zofija Kaczan died of pneumonia after suffering a fractured neck when her handbag was snatched.", "Libby Squire is seen walking towards a nightclub in video taken shortly before she was last seen.", "There has been an 87% rise in firearms possession offences in five years but a fall in armed police.", "Dramatic footage filmed by protesters in Sudan shows masked security agents chasing down protesters, beating them, and dragging them away to secret detention centres.", "Robert Bragg, 26, tells Radio 1 Newsbeat he believes tougher sentences would prevent knife crime.", "A teenager is arrested on suspicion of attempted murder, the Met Police says.", "The US space agency's InSight mission positions the second of its surface instruments on Mars.", "Cartoon figures and young stars will be banned from many adverts in a bid to protect children.", "The Russian dancer will be leaving the BBC show after 8 years of performing.", "Police said the \"distinctively packaged\" bags of sweets were filled with an unknown drug.", "Around £43m came out of the public's pocket, Transport for London said.", "The signs are the PM will go to the wire on Brexit - piling pressure on former Remainers to make a move.", "Nearly 90% of officers feel there are not enough of them to do their job properly, a survey suggests.", "Most women have some form of the infection in their lifetime so shouldn't be embarrassed, experts say.", "What has happened to police numbers and counter-terrorism funding?", "Anthony Joshua will fight in the US for the first time when he defends his IBF, WBA and WBO world heavyweight titles against Jarrell Miller on 1 June.", "Organisers are worried boys' strength will give them an advantage against girls.", "The family of Moors Murders victim Keith Bennett hope the briefcases will reveal where he is buried.", "Ole Gunnar Solskjaer says \"mountains are there to be climbed\" after his Manchester United side suffer a 2-0 home loss to Paris St-Germain in the Champions League.", "The government must adequately fund the support needed, says the National Deaf Children's Society.", "Cardinal John Henry Newman is set to become the first English saint since the Reformation.", "The Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall visit Liverpool's Royal Albert Dock and other landmarks.", "Two men were found with facial injuries believed to have been caused by the substance after an altercation.", "The government is defeated in the Commons on a Brexit motion by a majority of 45 votes.", "The star calls off his UK tour after suffering three seizures just hours before the first show.", "The opposition leader calls on volunteers to help bring in aid blocked by President Nicolás Maduro.", "Young women travelling to Syria to join Islamic State often end up \"domestically isolated in severe conditions\", new research claims.", "With less than 50 days until Brexit, critical questions remain, says the British Chambers of Commerce.", "\"Centralised licensing\" is needed for zoos in Britain after the deaths of two tigers, an animal charity says.", "England captain Joe Root showed integrity & leadership in his response to a comment from West Indies' Shannon Gabriel, says former batter.", "Scientists release rare footage of the secretive giant pangolin to highlight the scaly mammal's plight.", "An app that can be used by men to stop women leaving the country will be investigated by Apple.", "Thirteen-year-old Amur tiger, Shouri, had lived at Longleat Safari and Adventure Park since 2006.", "Brendan McCarthy ran a body modification emporium in Wolverhampton before his arrest.", "The carmaker says it will do \"whatever is necessary\", following a report it could move production abroad.", "Metropolitan Police chief Cressida Dick believes being female and gay has encouraged new recruits.", "A man is arrested on suspicion of murder as police say they are linking the deaths in Exeter.", "A BBC investigation into dogfighting discovered an illegal trade stretching from Eastern Europe to Wales.", "The Mexican drug lord has been found guilty on all 10 counts at his drug trafficking trial in New York.", "The musician was arrested last week and held by US immigration officials over an expired visa.", "Andrew Hill speaks publicly for the first time as he gives evidence about the fatal air show crash.", "Gold-plated rifles and a fatal handshake snub - what we've been told about Joaquín Guzmán so far.", "The shadow chancellor was referring to the wartime PM's approach to striking miners in 1910.", "The militants' rapidly diminishing territory is about 50 sq km (20 sq miles) in size, the US says.", "An aviation expert tells the Old Bailey all the movements made by pilot Andrew Hill seemed deliberate.", "The suicide prevention minister is to meet senior Facebook staff to discuss how to protect vulnerable users.", "Andy Nisbet, a pioneer of Scottish winter climbing, and his partner Steve Perry died on Ben Hope.", "The bestselling writer of The Shell Seekers and many other novels died following a short illness.", "The government wants to improve early intervention as part of its legal aid review.", "The British rapper is being held by US immigration officials over an expired visa.", "Since taking over Radio 1's flagship show in August, he has pushed the audience back above 5 million.", "Fire crews also fear a \"toxic release\" from the huge blaze, leading to the evacuation of homes.", "The low-cost airline has urged shareholders to accept a £2.2m takeover offer from Connect Airways.", "Jackson and George Harrison met on BBC Radio 1 in 1979 - and a recording has now been found.", "Miss England Alisha Cowie says self harm was made to sound \"poetic\" online, but became a \"destructive habit\".", "John Michie tells jurors he and his wife waited more than an hour to learn his daughter had died.", "Mark Clements reached his mother's Exmouth home before paramedics arrived to treat her broken hip.", "Residents living nearby spoke of hearing the \"loudest bang\" from a flat in the West Yorkshire town.", "The wreckage of the plane carrying Cardiff City's Emiliano Sala and his pilot was found off Guernsey.", "The luxury fashion brand apologised and says it will use the incident as a 'powerful learning moment'.", "Payments are agreed after parents in Fife were told babies were too small for ashes to be recovered.", "There is little expectation of any real progress in talks, our Europe editor Katya Adler reports.", "Stephen Waterson said he would \"not be told what to do\" as he crushed Alfie Lamb, a jury hears.", "The film-maker takes legal action against the company for allegedly refusing to release his latest film.", "Pep Guardiola says Manchester City have learned \"to never give up\" after returning to the top of the table for the first time since 16 December with a win at Everton.", "The Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa 2 will attempt to collect a sample of soil and rock from an asteroid on 22 February, the country's space agency says.", "A charity says anti-Semitic incidents are at their highest level since it began collecting data in 1984.", "Andrew Hill could not have \"safely\" completed a loop which led to 11 people being killed, a court hears.", "But some pictures - such as scars - will be allowed to remain, the head of the platform says.", "An outbreak of equine flu has led to British horse racing meetings being cancelled and fears over the impact on next month's Cheltenham Festival.", "The prime minister's on her travels this week - but will it do more than just keep the show on the road?", "Hundreds of demonstrators marched at Warwick University over its handling of rape threats.", "As the UK government announces its plans, what are its options for regulating the firms?", "Police say body recovered from wreckage of crashed plane is that of Cardiff City player Emiliano Sala.", "The British Council publishes the author's essay on English food, saying it is now making amends.", "Pontypridd MP Owen Smith says he and a \"lot of people\" are considering leaving the party.", "Teacher trainers say they have faced government pressure not to reject as many candidates amid shortages.", "Emiliano Sala, known as the 'local Carlos Tevez', was a player who bloomed late, was teased by team-mates and loved detective novels.", "After Molly Russell took her own life, her family found distressing material through her Instagram account.", "The social network says it intends to appeal against the German watchdog's ruling.", "The European Council president completely condemns a chunk of the British cabinet with his speech in Brussels.", "Nantes demand payment from Cardiff City over the £15m transfer of Emiliano Sala, BBC Wales learns.", "A 24-year-old man has been arrested but the University of Hull student is yet to be found.", "Emiliano Sala was born in Santa Fe, Argentina - but it was in France that the 28-year old forged his reputation.", "A security flaw in gay dating app Jack'd left private intimate photos publicly exposed on the internet.", "The 3D-printed robot showed off its skating skills at the recent World Economic Forum in Davos.", "Dubbed \"the shipwreck hunter\", American-born David Mearns is no stranger to high-profile searches.", "The firm wrote down the value of its assets leading to a £3.4bn quarterly loss, its biggest to date.", "The Labour leader is to set out policies including a pledge to raise the National Living Wage.", "A council's proposed budget cuts puts Seaborne's planned Ramsgate to Ostend ferry service at risk.", "The European Council president sparks a backlash from Brexit-backing MPs after his comments.", "A spokesman for the family says a \"substantial\" amount of wreckage has been found on the seabed.", "Darren Pencille pleads not guilty to murdering Lee Pomeroy, who was stabbed on a train in Surrey.", "The convicted paedophile was seen at Oldfield Primary School near his home in Berkshire.", "Vanellope Hope Wilkins is fully discharged from hospital 14 months after she was born with no breastbone.", "The biggest increase in knife crime victims is among young men and boys, official figures show.", "The British Horseracing Authority announces that horse racing will not resume in Britain until Wednesday, 13 February after an outbreak of equine flu.", "Huawei unveils a foldable phone that has several advantages over Samsung's", "The Newcastle house's bath had been ripped out and a bunk bed put in to accommodate the residents.", "The editor who called for the Ku Klux Klan to lynch Democrats stepped down in favour of a black female.", "Chelsea manager Maurizio Sarri says he \"misunderstood' Kepa Arrizabalaga's situation following their cup final stand-off", "Prince Harry and Meghan learn how horses in Rabat are used to support children with disabilities", "'The Rock' tweeted to a young girl from Wiltshire, telling the \"lovely cookie\" to \"stay strong\".", "It is the third fatal stabbing of a teenager in Birmingham in almost two weeks.", "There are growing reasons why China may compromise in next week's trade discussions with the US.", "Three employees have been suspended after the incident at Sutton station in London.", "Labour's Tom Watson calls on his leader to \"make a personal intervention\" to rid the party of racism.", "A study confirms one of the last elephant sanctuaries in Africa has \"a significant poaching problem\".", "It was the first Academy Awards to go ahead without a host since 1989 - and it was an unqualified success.", "The US pop superstar will headline the LGBT+ event two years after the Manchester Arena bombing.", "Kepa Arrizabalaga is fined a week's wages and apologises for refusing to be substituted during Chelsea's Carabao Cup final loss to Manchester City.", "Some of the most-tweeted about moments from the biggest night in Hollywood.", "The agency's chief says there are \"opportunities\" too, but UK telecoms cyber-security must improve.", "EU leaders consider the question that Theresa May will do almost anything to avoid - what will she do if she can't get her deal through Parliament?", "The Duchess of Sussex's pregnancy was celebrated with a special ceremony at an educational charity.", "Floriane is able to walk using an exoskeleton that detects how she wants to move.", "The TV star says she drank three or four \"pornstar martinis\" before getting in her pink Range Rover.", "Spike Lee is not alone in questioning whether the race relations drama is a worthy best picture winner.", "Deputy leader Tom Watson says the move can hold the party together and prevent further resignations.", "Spectators were treated to a dog making an amazing 83-yard frisbee catch during half-time of the Orlando Apollos v Memphis Express game.", "The star of The Favourite becomes the first British woman to win best actress in 10 years.", "Long-deserved wins and heart-warming speeches made for an inspirational night at the Oscars.", "The ceremony saw Black Panther make history and a surprise win for Green Book.", "Tory backbenchers propose a two-month postponement, as Theresa May prepares to meet EU leaders.", "The move comes as Sir Philip faces allegations of sexual harassment and racial abuse, which he denies.", "The father of two teens who died says his concerns were dismissed when he warned police about a crush.", "Essex Police says because the row was in Spain the Crown has no authority to charge the passenger.", "The R&B star posts $100,000 bail after pleading not guilty to 10 charges of sex abuse in court.", "Melissa McCarthy wins a Golden Raspberry for worst actress - the day before she's up for the Oscars' best actress.", "Stars including Melissa McCarthy, Glenn Close and Spike Lee dazzled on the famous red carpet.", "The aerospace trade body joins other business groups in warning over continuing Brexit uncertainty.", "Victims lost an average of nearly £9,000 after falling for scams appearing on the image-sharing platform.", "The film's costume designer and production designer are the first black winners in their categories.", "The actor doesn't think he'll win a prize, but is loving the experience of being nominated.", "The 2018 Oscars directly addressed the #MeToo movement, so how are women faring in the industry this year?", "Supporting the Lebanese group will be a criminal offence, carrying a sentence of up to 10 years in jail.", "A man suspected of trying to take over a flight to Dubai is killed by special forces, local media report.", "Including the unusual place Olivia Colman plans to keep her Oscar.", "Mauritius says it was forced to give up the Indian Ocean islands in exchange for independence.", "A \"world-class\" treatment centre should be set up for veterans in need, a group of MPs say.", "A former governor of the Tavistock Centre calls for more \"external oversight\" of the clinic.", "All the winners and reaction from the ceremony and red carpet.", "About 2,627 homeless people died in England and Wales from 2013 to 2017.", "An Australian newspaper's image of Serena Williams having a tantrum drew global criticism last year.", "Howard X says officials have told him his visa is \"invalid\", but has received no other explanation.", "The R&B star was dressed in a jumpsuit in a Chicago court when his lawyer entered the plea.", "The two bombings left 21 people dead and families fought for years to reopen the inquests.", "Find out who's got their hands on the golden statuettes at this year's Academy Awards.", "They have been transferred to immigration officials for interview, the Home Office says.", "Chelsea goalkeeper Kepa Arrizabalaga and manager Maurizio Sarri have a bizarre falling-out during the finale of an extraordinary Carabao Cup final", "Police capture video of huge ice chunks flowing over a retaining wall along the Niagara River.", "Behind the talk of \"good progress\", weary diplomats are sticking to the same old script, writes Katya Adler.", "A mild winter creates problems for snow sports enthusiasts on Scotland's slopes.", "Japan's Yoshitaka Sakurada, who was late for a parliamentary meeting, makes his latest apology.", "The sister of Shamima Begum appeals to the home secretary over her British citizenship.", "Dairy Crest, whose brands also include Country Life, agrees to be taken over by Canadian firm Saputo.", "One man described taking the large dog to the vet in his car - before realising the mistake.", "It was watched by Tony Foulds, who credits the crew with saving his life on 22 February 1944.", "Another 28 people who ate at the RiFF restaurant in Valencia also fell ill.", "The UK won't be able to roll over an EU trade deal with Japan in time for a no-deal Brexit, Liam Fox has said.", "Downing Street says talks continue \"at pace\" to get the changes to Theresa May's Brexit deal demanded by MPs.", "Dolores Steele's 15-year-old son Philip was among Liverpool fans who died at the 1989 FA Cup semi-final.", "Police officers gave first aid to the 23-year-old victim but he died at the scene.", "In a letter to the home secretary, they say that - as her family - they \"cannot simply abandon her\".", "Chancellor Philip Hammond says he is \"determined to get a deal\" but the possibility of no deal remains.", "Greg Clark, Amber Rudd and David Gauke say extending Article 50 is better than \"crashing out\" of the EU.", "The Hayabusa-2 probe descended to the Ryugu asteroid to try to collect a sample from its surface.", "An officer woke a woman at night to talk about her previous bad parking.", "What will be the impact on communities and the economy if the ban on hunting elephants is lifted?", "Mark Acklom is accused of conning a divorcee out of her £850,000 life savings.", "President Omar al-Bashir dismisses the federal government and sacks all state governors.", "The 16-year-old murderer of Alesha MacPhail was arrested after his mother looked at her home security system.", "Amber Peat, 13, was found dead three days after she walked out of her home following an argument.", "President Maduro acts as opposition supporters defy attempts to stop them bringing in foreign aid.", "Chelsea have been banned from signings during the next two transfer windows for breaching rules in relation to youth players, Fifa announces.", "The Church of England votes to change a 400-year-old law which made Sunday services compulsory.", "Some felt sad, others excited - former Tory and Labour MPs react very differently to joining their breakaway group.", "A profile of the West Midlands MP who has become the latest to quit Labour over Jeremy Corbyn's leadership.", "Live updates as US Air Force and RAF planes hold special fly-past to mark the 75th anniversary of a fatal World War Two crash killing 10 airmen in Sheffield in 1944.", "The last day in the life of six-year-old Alesha MacPhail featured a birthday party, pizza and Peppa Pig.", "Researchers say, with many young people not receiving support, the study should be a \"wake-up call\".", "A giant bee, thought lost to science decades ago, has been re-discovered on an Indonesian island.", "The 25th official James Bond film - and Daniel Craig's last - is due to begin shooting in April.", "A judge has lifted a ban on naming 16-year-old Aaron Campbell.", "Some 200 people sign a letter defending the leader against claims the party is \"institutionally anti-Semitic\".", "Two more women come forward with claims of misconduct by the R&B singer after a concert in the 1990s.", "James Gargasoulas ploughed a car into pedestrians in Melbourne, killing six and injuring dozens.", "Can a Tory/Labour centrist group change the political landscape and how will their former parties react?", "A vegan cheesemonger in Brixton has been told to stop calling its produce “cheese”.", "Ian Austin, the ninth MP this week to leave, blames anti-Semitism but will not join new Independent Group.", "Peter Tork, a member of one of the first boy bands, The Monkees, dies at the age of 77.", "The Irish government hopes its legislation for managing a no-deal Brexit will \"sit on the shelf\".", "Money raised from the sale of Isaiah Hanson-Frost's footwear will go towards helping to prevent crime.", "A children's charity is seeking a judicial review of government guidance over vulnerable children.", "Three-year-old Alfie Lamb collapsed and died after a car journey with his mum and her partner.", "It comes as an Independent Group MP says they could support the PM if she gives them an EU referendum.", "A hike in the cost of second-class stamps puts the postal service in breach of Ofcom rules.", "The Labour leader describes the decision to strip Ms Begum of her UK citizenship as \"very extreme\".", "Zofija Kaczan died of pneumonia after suffering a fractured neck when her handbag was snatched.", "Brexit frustration is widespread in Brussels as other challenges loom, the BBC's Katya Adler writes.", "He is claimed to be a Russian intelligence officer who was in the UK at the time of the 2018 attack.", "The US president will declare a border emergency in order to get funds for his wall without Congress.", "The president is a few pounds heavier and taking a higher dose of cholesterol medicine, his doctor says.", "Greta Thunberg spoke to the BBC in September, but since then she's become a global phenomenon.", "Deputy leader Tom Watson \"hopes\" a breakaway over dissatisfaction with Jeremy Corbyn is not unstoppable.", "Colombian Juan Carlos Sánchez, who used the alias Big Bad Wolf, receives a 60-year sentence.", "The star has denied allegations, made by several women, of emotional abuse and sexual harassment.", "Theresa May has suffered a fresh defeat in a Commons vote on her Brexit strategy, losing by 303 to 258.", "Around £43m came out of the public's pocket, Transport for London said.", "The cake chain and sister brand Philpotts have been bought out of administration, saving 117 shops.", "As Call the Midwife tackles the issue, BBC Action Line users say there is no advice on abortion.", "Police failed to disclose \"significant information\" about a loyalist gun attack that killed five people.", "How MPs hoped to change the Brexit process when Theresa May brings the issue back to the Commons.", "\"Cowardly petty criminal\" Artur Waszkiewicz is jailed for 15 years for killing Zofija Kaczan.", "The vehicle smashed through the reception desk and windows of a new Travelodge hotel in Liverpool.", "Rail investigators issue safety advice after the death of a pedestrian who was struck by a tram in Edinburgh.", "Cardinal John Henry Newman is set to become the first English saint since the Reformation.", "Residents of Qezelabad in Afghanistan have lived for years in homes held up by unexploded weapons.", "The government is defeated in the Commons on a Brexit motion by a majority of 45 votes.", "The expected increases come as many local authorities plan to cut spending, research suggests.", "Many leading universities are failing to recruit enough white working class students, says study.", "Prosecuting the Duke of Edinburgh over January's crash is \"not in the public interest\", says the CPS.", "The defeat by 45 votes has no legal force but No 10 had warned it would make the PM's EU talks more difficult.", "West Indies bowler Shannon Gabriel claims he asked England's Joe Root if he \"liked boys\" during the third Test but has apologised for his words.", "No trace of the 21-year-old student has been found since her disappearance in Hull two weeks ago.", "An app that can be used by men to stop women leaving the country will be investigated by Apple.", "Check how your MP voted in the latest Brexit vote.", "A man is arrested on suspicion of murder as police say they are linking the deaths in Exeter.", "A BBC investigation into dogfighting discovered an illegal trade stretching from Eastern Europe to Wales.", "The internet giant hit local opposition over the roughly $3bn in subsidies it had been promised.", "He is accused of exploiting his position to pursue sex with women who sought help, Newsnight reveals.", "Eric Harrison, Manchester United's 'Class of '92' youth team coach who helped to develop players such as David Beckham and Ryan Giggs, dies aged 81.", "Commons Leader Andrea Leadsom marks Valentine's Day with a \"roses are red\" poem about leaving the EU.", "The shadow chancellor was referring to the wartime PM's approach to striking miners in 1910.", "Andrew Hill tells a jury he had spent the last three years \"trying to resolve what happened\".", "The PM's latest defeat shows she can't count on the support of Tory Brexiteers.", "The militants' rapidly diminishing territory is about 50 sq km (20 sq miles) in size, the US says.", "The duke has been seen driving at Sandringham, two days after a crash that injured two women.", "The man is due in court on unrelated charges of voyeurism, outraging public decency and burglary.", "Mr Trump's campaign team responds by calling her a fraud and saying her ideas are socialist.", "The retail tycoon made a £15m bid on Friday but administrators say the cafe chain is worth more.", "Jonny May scores a first-half hat-trick as England maintain their perfect start to the 2019 Six Nations with a bonus-point victory over France.", "Victims of these scams lost an average of £11,145 each last year, Action Fraud says.", "The Uppies and Doonies go head to head in the annual clash held on the streets of the Borders town.", "Young people explore London through photography.", "Two men are left needing hospital treatment following violence after Watford's match with Everton.", "Stars line up for the UK's biggest awards night in TV and film.", "Penguins Charlie and Pringle visited residents at a care home in Windsor.", "French star Kylian Mbappe donates to an appeal to fund a search for the body of pilot David Ibbotson.", "A rubber pellet grenade injures a protester's hand as thousands take to the streets again in France.", "But Labour is demanding a decisive vote on Theresa May's deal this month and accuses her of running down the clock.", "More than 10,000 people sign a petition calling for it to be moved from a site next to Parliament.", "The decision not to perform Darwin Rocks follows six \"expressions of concern\" from parents.", "The Pensions Regulators was alerted in 2010 and 2013 over the size of Carillion's pension deficit.", "Scientists hope to discover one of the most famous ships in Antarctic exploration history this week.", "The Favourite is the big winner at the Bafta film awards but Alfonso Cuaron's Roma picks up best film.", "A \"postcode lottery\" means parents of four-month-old Lola have to pay for sign language classes.", "Footage shows a chimp walking on a path, after using a branch as an improvised ladder to escape.", "It's not just a quick coat of red gloss when Kirsty Meakin does her nails.", "It is thought a pupil at the school submitted the name change to the search engine.", "The High Court blocked the extradition of Lauri Love, from Suffolk, to the United States last year.", "Southampton plan to ban two supporters who taunted Cardiff City fans about the death of striker Emiliano Sala.", "Plans to make financial choices clearer for pension savers are published by the regulator.", "It comes after two deaths on the roads on Friday, as Storm Erik brought widespread disruption.", "The parents of missing student Libby Squire attend a service in Hull to pray for their daughter.", "The victim was attacked in East Dulwich, south-east London, and was pronounced dead at the scene.", "Judge says Dominic Chappell gave \"entirely unbelievable\" evidence in the Crown Court hearing.", "Seven jihadists get life in prison but others are acquitted for assaults on a museum and beach resort.", "The party's deputy leader Tom Watson accuses a local party of trying to force MP Luciana Berger out.", "Thousands of people are evacuated as the blaze rages near Nelson in the country's South Island.", "Metropolitan Police chief Cressida Dick believes being female and gay has encouraged new recruits.", "\"We're coming for you,\" the pensions secretary warns company bosses who mismanage pension schemes.", "In a second everything will change. What is being done to prepare for leaving without a deal on 29 March?", "Minister vows to question Grindr and Tinder on safeguarding measures following \"shocking\" findings.", "A driver who passed the scene of the crash said many motorists stopped to help.", "Brexit could disrupt the \"unique balance that makes Irish rugby successful,\" says Ulster's Darren Cave.", "The Met was responding to a report of a woman being held by armed men in a pub, but never found her.", "Brazil's leader underwent surgery last week to reverse a colostomy performed after he was stabbed.", "The men had been told they could come back to campus after their 10-year-ban was reduced to one.", "The oceans will become more blue thanks to rising temperatures in coming decades, say scientists.", "Guidance is issued to importers to try to allay fears of congestion and delays at Channel ports.", "Emily Fazah says she wants to \"get the world\" talking about premenstrual syndrome (PMS).", "Battersea Dogs Home blames \"irresponsible breeding\" for a surge in animals needing help to breathe.", "The German museum which bought it says it wants to prevent the whole painting being destroyed.", "Amber Peat had to wear \"ridiculous\" baggy grey jogging bottoms to school, an inquest hears.", "Three reasons why the Japanese car firm is no longer planning to make its X-Trail model in Sunderland.", "The man in his 50s was pronounced dead at the scene after reports of a \"light aircraft in distress\".", "Workers can choose to be 'self-employed plus' under a deal between the delivery firm and the GMB.", "The actor admits he once set out to kill an innocent black man after someone close to him was raped.", "About 200 students have been helping police to look for Libby Squire, 21, who was last seen on Thursday.", "Worried by \"flaws\" in his appearance, Chris Evans began a dangerous and punishing exercise routine.", "Fighter Cedric Marks was found squatting in a backyard rubbish bin after a nine-hour manhunt in Texas.", "The cash depended on now-abandoned plans to make the X-Trail model in the UK.", "Boss Michael O'Leary will stay on for five more years, but the chairman leaves in a company revamp.", "Officials in Townsville are flooding the area after record rainfall exceeded a dam's capacity.", "Daniel Williams, 19, was last seen at a student union bar in the early hours of Thursday.", "The government says it could be forced to pay \"significant\" damages if the firm successfully sues.", "It comes after links between the suicide of teenager Molly Russell and distressing online content.", "A search for the missing plane carrying Cardiff City's Emiliano Sala gets under way.", "Sunderland Central MP Julie Elliott says Nissan's decision to build the X-Trail in Japan is devastating news.", "A weekend of avalanches leaves eight people dead, including British, French and Belgian citizens.", "The Swedish retailer is starting a trial to lease furniture, possibly including kitchens.", "The coordinator of the private search David Mearns explains the next steps.", "The women got a refund, but CCTV footage later showed they put their own hair in the food.", "Vertex, which makes Orkambi, has refused a £500m offer for the drug over five years", "Liberty says at least 14 forces have used or intend to use crime-prediction software.", "New England Patriots produce a defensive masterclass to beat the Los Angeles Rams 13-3 in Super Bowl 53 and equal Pittsburgh Steelers' record of six titles.", "Daniel Kawczynski's post has received more than 10,000 replies, most saying he was wrong.", "A BBC researcher was given a hidden earpiece through which they could receive the answers.", "Libby Squire's mother says it is \"breaking her heart\" not knowing where her daughter is.", "Locals in flood-hit Townsville are warned to beware of reptiles in the water as evacuations continue.", "His comments on the war in Yemen could overshadow the first papal visit to the Arabian peninsula.", "Cardiff City footballer Emiliano Sala and pilot David Ibbotson disappeared while flying from France.", "The retailer is considering a company voluntary arrangement which will accelerate closures.", "Investors are calling on KFC, McDonald's and others to cut warming gases from their dairy and meat supply chains.", "Rail staff are being issued with body worn cameras in a bid to cut abuse and assaults towards them.", "The international community is split over who it recognises as the country's current president.", "Conservative Nadine Dorries apologises after being accused of thinking all \"brown\" women look the same.", "UK police seize more than 60 computers and other gadgets suspected of being used to carry out web attacks.", "Financial technology company Revolut apologises over its Valentine's Day \"single takeaway\" ads.", "Dubbed \"the shipwreck hunter\", American-born David Mearns is no stranger to high-profile searches.", "A victim of Female Genital Mutilation speaks out about her experience after the UK’s first successful conviction.", "One expert says it is \"almost impossible\" for authorities to detect it when done at such a young age.", "The German-born presenter would go on to become editor of \"quintessentially British\" magazine Punch.", "It is \"imperative\" Sala's plane is now recovered to give his family answers, says man who found it.", "A spokesman for the family says a \"substantial\" amount of wreckage has been found on the seabed.", "Researchers have genetically modified chickens to lay eggs which contain drugs that fight cancer.", "The carmaker will make its new X-Trail overseas despite first pledging to produce the model in Sunderland.", "A councillor from another car-making town said workers who voted Leave should be first to lose jobs.", "The editor who called for the Ku Klux Klan to lynch Democrats stepped down in favour of a black female.", "Pope Francis says that \"no explanation suffices\" for cases of child sexual abuse within the Catholic Church.", "The former English Defence League leader is deemed to have broken rules around hate speech.", "'The Rock' tweeted to a young girl from Wiltshire, telling the \"lovely cookie\" to \"stay strong\".", "Brendan Rodgers is appointed Leicester City's new manager after leaving his job at Celtic.", "While arguments continue about fair access, the number of UK students at Oxbridge has been falling.", "The high drama of the first days of the case gave way to sighs that had to be contained in a secret trial.", "The Met Office records 21.2C in London's Kew Gardens, making the UK warmer than hot spots like Ibiza.", "Brendan Rodgers is expected to become Leicester City's manager after Celtic give him permission to speak to the Premier League club.", "Inquest jurors hear \"pen portrait\" tributes to victims of the 1974 Birmingham pub bombings.", "Kepa Arrizabalaga is fined a week's wages and apologises for refusing to be substituted during Chelsea's Carabao Cup final loss to Manchester City.", "How will the Pope confront the culture of abuse that has beset the Roman Catholic Church?", "If Theresa May can't get her deal through Parliament, MPs will vote on ruling out no-deal or delaying Brexit.", "The TV star says she drank three or four \"pornstar martinis\" before getting in her pink Range Rover.", "Pte Geoff Gray's mother was speaking before a new inquest into his death at Deepcut barracks 18 years ago.", "Amber Peat was found hanged three days after going missing from her home in Nottinghamshire.", "While this move counts politically, of course, the move does not mean that there will be another referendum.", "Spike Lee is not alone in questioning whether the race relations drama is a worthy best picture winner.", "\"She had a lot of winter flab,\" the animal rescuer explained after the rodent was set free.", "British teenager Shauna Davison died two weeks after an experimental transplant. Was she the victim of a rush to develop stem cell technology?", "A successful outcome would give Marks and Spencer the online delivery business it is lacking.", "Long-deserved wins and heart-warming speeches made for an inspirational night at the Oscars.", "The ceremony saw Black Panther make history and a surprise win for Green Book.", "More than 100 jobs are thought to be at risk with the changes to breakfast and drivetime programming.", "A profile of the most senior Roman Catholic to have been found guilty of child sex offences.", "George Pell is facing prison for child sexual abuse, and he falls from the church's upper echelons.", "The musician scored hits with It's My Life and Life's What You Make It before vanishing from view.", "The man leading a review of Britain's rail system says franchising no longer delivers \"clear benefits\".", "The R&B star posts $100,000 bail after pleading not guilty to 10 charges of sex abuse in court.", "Fiona Onasanya was handed a three-month jail term for perverting the course of justice.", "About 800 square metres of gorse was engulfed by flames on the famous Salisbury Crags in Edinburgh.", "The EU has accepted the UK's request for a Brexit delay for the third time - so how does the process work?", "The parents of Keira, and Max - the boy who received her heart - tell the story behind the organ donation legislation named after them.", "A US man whose murder conviction was the focus of the hit Netflix series wins a motion to appeal.", "Luke Symons, 26, has been imprisoned without charge in the war-torn Middle Eastern country for two years.", "The firm also names a new chief executive, following the pay row surrounding his predecessor.", "Mauritius says it was forced to give up the Indian Ocean islands in exchange for independence.", "Wales' first national out-of-hours helpline for young people facing homelessness has been launched.", "A group of MPs wants a \"revolution\" in early years support, including more health visitor contacts.", "Sterling hits a 21-month high against the euro as markets price in a possible Article 50 extension.", "The facility holds enough food to feed 3.7 million people for a month, but the grain was at risk of rotting.", "Some of the best images from a royal trip that was short on ceremony, but long on substance.", "It did not stop Natalie Pearson becoming what is thought to be the world's only teacher with her form of the condition.", "A chief constable told MPs police were now receiving calls directly from the boats as people sought help.", "Ticket-holders are demanding their money back ahead of his upcoming UK tour.", "The actress attributes her exit from an animated project to the hiring of the Pixar founder.", "They agreed to vote on an extension of Article 50 if May's deal fails to get the backing of the Commons", "Firefighters say the huge blaze was one of the biggest they have \"ever had to deal with\".", "It says there is \"little evidence\" that businesses are \"preparing in earnest for a no-deal scenario\".", "Police capture video of huge ice chunks flowing over a retaining wall along the Niagara River.", "Behind the talk of \"good progress\", weary diplomats are sticking to the same old script, writes Katya Adler.", "China's tech giant leads the market for telecoms infrastructure, and is second only to Samsung in smartphone sales.", "Why aren't more parents signing up for a scheme that provides extra money towards the cost of childcare?", "A cougar perched on a branch near a California home is lowered to the ground by rescuers with a ladder.", "MPs Chuka Umunna, Luciana Berger, Chris Leslie, Angela Smith, Mike Gapes, Gavin Shuker and Ann Coffey announce they've resigned from the Labour Party.", "LBC presenter Maajid Nawaz says he was racially abused and attacked outside a London theatre.", "The German carmaker asks new UK customers to agree a possible 10% price rise for post-Brexit deliveries.", "The shadow chancellor says there is no need for MPs to consider leaving the party, as split rumours persist.", "George Mendonsa was famously photographed during VJ Day celebrations in New York in 1945.", "As some compare Labour resignations to the formation of the 1980s party, we look at how the SDP emerged.", "A gun battle broke out on Monday as Indian troops searched for those behind a deadly suicide attack.", "The House of Commons publishes its report into fake news with some strong criticism of Facebook.", "David Gauke says prison is not working for many inmates in England and Wales and should be replaced by community orders.", "The shadow chancellor says the seven MPs resigning from Labour should go back to the electorate.", "Hundreds of thousands of people have seen this student play after he learned the piano using online videos.", "British heavyweight Tyson Fury signs a fight deal with a United States television network worth a reported £80m.", "Breck Bednar was murdered by a man he met online and now his family say the killer is taunting them.", "A select committee is unsparing in its criticisms of Facebook and the regulatory world it operates in.", "Crystal Palace's Jeffrey Schlupp says the Eagles are \"in a good position to get to Wembley\" after he helps them beat Doncaster in the FA Cup.", "Swede Elin Ersson caused disruption on a plane that stopped an Afghan migrant being sent home.", "Firefighters use \"specialist moorland equipment\" to put out the fire at the top of a hill near Stalybridge.", "Poland pulls out after Israeli remarks over the role of Poles in the Nazi mass murder of Jews.", "The Scottish Secretary says revealing he was gay was one of the most difficult but important things he has done.", "Tudor Simionov was working at a private party in central London on New Year's Eve when he died.", "A restaurant owner at London's Borough market describes how he uses culled grey squirrels to produce a sustainable white meat.", "The splintering of the Labour Party just might turn into a much bigger redrawing of the landscape.", "Men, women and children have been brought ashore and given blankets after an incident off Dover.", "A NatWest worker said he felt vegans were forcing their beliefs on him but the bank apologised for his outburst.", "The landmark review also recommended the BBC should do more to share its technical and digital expertise.", "Officers filmed their riot van being targeted by demonstrators in Lyon.", "Rail operators' proposals could see an end to the traditional peak and off-peak fares structure.", "The photography competition celebrates the 70th anniversary of UK national parks.", "Kyochi Watanabe plays music in the hope of saving the lives of those drawn to a forest of Japan", "A couple who both have Down's syndrome say their relationship has thrived thanks to family support.", "The airline's collapse follows a string of European failures as a perfect storm hits the industry.", "After Brexit, Derry City will be the only UK-based club competing in a league within the European Union.", "In a BBC interview, Shamima Begum says the choice to go to Syria was her own and asks for forgiveness.", "Jeanette Kempton's body was found dumped in a ditch 118 miles away from where she lived, 30 years ago.", "Four other people in the vehicle suffered minor injuries in the crash on the A308 in Surrey.", "A woman from Oxford has been treated with gene therapy in a world first, in a bid to stop sight loss.", "Chelsea manager Maurizio Sarri says his team played \"confused football\" as Manchester United win at Stamford Bridge to reach the FA Cup quarter-finals.", "The 22-year-old's twin and their older brother died fighting for Islamists in Syria in 2014.", "Small business leaders want big companies to prove they pay their suppliers on time before winning government deals.", "UK intelligence chiefs reportedly conclude the Chinese tech giant Huawei can bid for telecoms projects.", "Greater Manchester Police apologise after taking several days to respond to the hate crime.", "The Ineos contract Ford Bridgend hopes to win is seen by some as a \"vanity project\", says car expert.", "The Sports Direct owner confirms a bid for the cafe chain, which has about 121 outlets still open.", "Dr Victoria Bateman campaigns against Brexit by writing messages on her naked body.", "John McDonnell says only Labour's \"very British compromise\" can get MPs' backing and avoid no-deal Brexit.", "YouTube deletes singer Austin Jones's channel, after he exchanges sexual images with underage girls.", "Andy Nisbet, a pioneer of Scottish winter climbing, and his partner Steve Perry died on Ben Hope.", "Mashed Productions, which owns the satirical news website, is being bought by media firm Digitalbox.", "Michael Rice, who won the BBC's All Together Now, will fly the flag for the UK in Israel in May.", "Six months after 43 people were killed when part of the bridge collapsed, work to rebuild it has started.", "Five passengers and a bus driver escaped injury when the tree landed on the bus.", "Big six energy firm SSE says it has lost more customers and cuts its profit forecast for this year.", "A study finds the order in which you have alcoholic drinks makes no difference to your hangover.", "Old people are so cut off after local paper closures, an MP says, they call his office for news updates.", "John Michie tells jurors he and his wife waited more than an hour to learn his daughter had died.", "The low-cost airline has urged shareholders to accept a £2.2m takeover offer from Connect Airways.", "Her decision breaks with the tradition of the Thai royal family publicly staying out of politics.", "Mixing drinks may not actually make your hangover worse. So here are some tips to help you the morning after the night before.", "The film-maker takes legal action against the company for allegedly refusing to release his latest film.", "Adrian Hoare and Stephen Waterson both deny the manslaughter of three-year-old Alfie Lamb.", "The Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa 2 will attempt to collect a sample of soil and rock from an asteroid on 22 February, the country's space agency says.", "Digital banking service Revolut is referred to the City watchdog over its Valentine's Day \"single takeaway\" ad.", "A man and woman are arrested on suspicion of manslaughter after a fire that killed four children.", "Emiliano Sala's family say they hope search teams will find the body of pilot David Ibbotson.", "Terrence Filer died aged 85 with no known living relatives or friends.", "But some pictures - such as scars - will be allowed to remain, the head of the platform says.", "The family of convicted rapist Eric McKenna believe he was jailed for crimes his father committed.", "Police say body recovered from wreckage of crashed plane is that of Cardiff City player Emiliano Sala.", "A customer's ex-partner accessed her new address and bank details, before turning up at her home.", "Supporters of Luciana Berger attack the shadow chancellor after he defends the local party's motion.", "In 1975, Robinson became the first black manager of a Major League Baseball team.", "Residents say they are shocked by the blaze which claimed the lives of four children in Stafford.", "The children's two-year-old brother, their mother and her partner were hurt in the blaze in Stafford.", "The flaw let iPhone owners eavesdrop on people they called via the FaceTime video-chat system.", "Emiliano Sala, known as the 'local Carlos Tevez', was a player who bloomed late, was teased by team-mates and loved detective novels.", "Jackson and George Harrison met on BBC Radio 1 in 1979 - and a recording has now been found.", "A convicted killer is jailed for at least 28 years for murdering a woman and dismembering her body.", "The 21-year-old woman was found dead at the Royal Military Academy, the Ministry of Defence confirms.", "Liverpool announce a world record post-tax profit of £106m and a club record turnover of £455m in the 12 months to May 2018.", "Nantes demand payment from Cardiff City over the £15m transfer of Emiliano Sala, BBC Wales learns.", "The money saving expert says the throat ailment has made it hard for him to work, eat and sleep.", "Christopher Chope's intervention is described as \"appalling\" by fellow Conservative Zac Goldsmith.", "Inside the hospital where there's barely running water, let alone medicines.", "The Oscar-nominated star appeared in Tom Jones, Murder on the Orient Express and many other films.", "The move against Luciana Berger by her local Labour Party ignited a bitter row.", "The prime minister will meet her Irish counterpart for what Ireland calls discussions, not negotiations.", "The firm wrote down the value of its assets leading to a £3.4bn quarterly loss, its biggest to date.", "All the medals at the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo will be made from recycled electronic waste, say organisers.", "Research suggests half of all 23-year-olds now live with their parents. In 1998, it was just 37%.", "A community rallies in support following the deaths of four children aged between three and eight.", "Darren Pencille pleads not guilty to murdering Lee Pomeroy, who was stabbed on a train in Surrey.", "The suicide prevention minister is to meet senior Facebook staff to discuss how to protect vulnerable users.", "The rent-to-buy retailer is closing 10% of its stores ahead of new rules limiting charges.", "Brazil's leader underwent surgery last week to reverse a colostomy performed after he was stabbed.", "The men had been told they could come back to campus after their 10-year-ban was reduced to one.", "Photojournalist John Cantlie was captured by the extremist group in Syria more than six years ago.", "Jurors hear Ceon Broughton told Louella Fletcher-Michie's concerned family she was being a \"drama queen\".", "Drone flight captures spectacular views of countryside church wrapped in swirling fog.", "The actor admits he once set out to kill any black man who provoked him after someone close to him was raped.", "Former Drivetime presenter says Jo Whiley was brought in as co-host to boost Radio 2's gender balance.", "The German museum which bought it says it wants to prevent the whole painting being destroyed.", "The egg, Instagram's most-liked photo ever, has been used to promote a mental-health campaign", "Amber Peat had to wear \"ridiculous\" baggy grey jogging bottoms to school, an inquest hears.", "More than 600 people a day leave their jobs because of the demands of being a carer for a relative.", "Three reasons why the Japanese car firm is no longer planning to make its X-Trail model in Sunderland.", "The actor admits he once set out to kill an innocent black man after someone close to him was raped.", "Stephen Waterson, who is accused of killing Alfie Lamb, is the son of a former government minister, jurors hear.", "The cash depended on now-abandoned plans to make the X-Trail model in the UK.", "Fighter Cedric Marks was found squatting in a backyard rubbish bin after a nine-hour manhunt in Texas.", "A cocktail of deadly drugs was behind Vine and HQ Trivia co-founder Colin Kroll's death in December.", "The mother of murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence criticises new government plans to tackle offenders.", "The money from David Harding is the biggest single British donation to a UK university.", "The government says it could be forced to pay \"significant\" damages if the firm successfully sues.", "A 70-year-old living remotely in Scotland is rescued after his distress beacon signal is picked up in Texas.", "The holidaying fan is said to have been arrested after complaining about being attacked in Abu Dhabi.", "Wendy Pickering says she was in shock after learning the children had not escaped the blaze.", "Canada's Sunrise Records will buy 100 stores but 27 will close, including the Oxford Street shop.", "The women got a refund, but CCTV footage later showed they put their own hair in the food.", "Going for a supercharged swing could play havoc with your back, according to spine surgeons.", "Staffordshire Fire and Rescue Service said staff would remain in area to provide support and advice to the community.", "Residents say they are shocked by the blaze which claimed the lives of four children in Stafford.", "The children's two-year-old brother, their mother and her partner were hurt in the blaze in Stafford.", "A UN trade official has warned of 'massive' implications if the US raises tariffs on Chinese goods.", "The Enox watch does not encrypt data, potentially allowing attackers to contact and locate children.", "The online food retailer's pre-tax losses rose to £44.4m, compared with £9.8m in the previous year.", "The ex-Manchester United boss was given a one-year suspended prison term and a €2m fine.", "The fighter jets, used in the fight against the Islamic State group, return to RAF Marham in Norfolk.", "It affects how much England's councils will have to spend, amid complaints of a £3bn funding gap.", "Police searching for Daniel Williams, 19, find a body in a lake on a Reading university campus.", "Counterfeit Xanax bars with a street value of more than £1m have been seized at the UK border since 2016.", "Brussels hopes Theresa May will be forced to look across the UK political divide, Katya Adler writes.", "Willow Sims found herself in debt and facing eviction and deportation after losing her right to work.", "The street act in Malaysia saw a man swinging the baby by the feet and throwing it into the air.", "The latest news, sport, travel and weather across the West Midlands and south Cheshire.", "It is \"imperative\" Sala's plane is now recovered to give his family answers, says man who found it.", "The carmaker will make its new X-Trail overseas despite first pledging to produce the model in Sunderland.", "A councillor from another car-making town said workers who voted Leave should be first to lose jobs.", "The US president and North Korean leader shook hands at the start of their summit in Vietnam.", "US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un are in Hanoi for talks.", "Chris Williamson \"deeply regrets\" comments on extent of problem amid calls for him to be suspended.", "The US actress stepped out at an Oscars party with a cane, four months after her diagnosis.", "Corbyn ally Chris Williamson is criticised for saying the party \"has given too much ground\" on the issue.", "Donald Trump's ex-lawyer paints a bleak picture of the president as a \"racist\" and a \"conman\".", "Ajibola Shogbamimu is accused of killing Joy Morgan, 21, who was last seen alive in December.", "Brendan Rodgers is appointed Leicester City's new manager after leaving his job at Celtic.", "Donald Trump's former Mr Fix-it makes explosive claims in Congress - will they hurt the president?", "The blaze, near Marsden on the outskirts of Huddersfield, can be seen for miles around.", "Three teens were stabbed to death in Birmingham within 12 days in what police are calling a \"crisis\".", "The Met Office records 21.2C in London's Kew Gardens, making the UK warmer than hot spots like Ibiza.", "Inquest jurors hear \"pen portrait\" tributes to victims of the 1974 Birmingham pub bombings.", "Teachers say the perception of languages as difficult subjects is the main reason behind the drop.", "Divers searched 'every nook and cranny\" of the sunken wreckage for any sign of David Ibbotson.", "If Theresa May can't get her deal through Parliament, MPs will vote on ruling out no-deal or delaying Brexit.", "But the Labour leader says he will continue to push for other options, after Commons Brexit votes.", "In remarks before a Congressional committee, Mr Cohen branded Mr Trump a \"racist\" and a \"conman\".", "The Danish toymaker set out plans to open 80 stores in China as growth rebounded from last year.", "One in five women presenting to UK clinics with anorexia may also have autism, research suggests.", "British teenager Shauna Davison died two weeks after an experimental transplant. Was she the victim of a rush to develop stem cell technology?", "Ineos boss Jim Ratcliffe says the company will upgrade North Sea pipelines and build new plants in Grangemouth and Hull.", "Sadio Mane and Virgil van Dijk both score twice as Liverpool return to winning ways to stay top of the Premier League with a dominant performance against Watford.", "Watch live as Michael Cohen testifies about the US president.", "The couple ended their first day of their visit at a party to celebrate young people who have made a difference to NI.", "Tom Ballard was last heard from while trying to reach the summit of Nanga Parbat in Pakistan.", "Bradley Wallace, 24, assaulted Canon Thomas White outside his Glasgow church during an Orange walk.", "The downing of aircraft marks a significant escalation of the dispute between India and Pakistan.", "About 800 square metres of gorse was engulfed by flames on the famous Salisbury Crags in Edinburgh.", "The EU has accepted the UK's request for a Brexit delay for the third time - so how does the process work?", "Women march to Parliament to represent those forced to fly to England and Wales for treatment.", "A US man whose murder conviction was the focus of the hit Netflix series wins a motion to appeal.", "The critically endangered radiated tortoise can grow to half a metre in length and reach 100 years old.", "Doctors said the baby, born weighing just 268g, is the smallest newborn ever to have been successfully treated and sent home.", "Tensions soar between the nuclear-armed neighbours as Pakistan says it has shot down two Indian aircraft.", "More timetable changes are planned for May - a year after similar updates caused major disruption.", "Animal welfare activists say 'hats off to Selfridges' for removing the products from its shelves.", "Sterling hits a 21-month high against the euro as markets price in a possible Article 50 extension.", "Rescuers work to free the dozens of people still trapped after a landslide at an illegal gold mine.", "The men used drink, drugs and violence to groom and sexually exploit two vulnerable young girls.", "The family-friendly range in Wallasey provided images of Shamima Begum for target practice.", "The closure of Pakistan's airspace has prompted several airlines to reroute or suspend services.", "Thousands of customers seeking compensation from the collapsed lender are being cast aside, MPs say.", "Ticket-holders are demanding their money back ahead of his upcoming UK tour.", "Several hundred fighters from the Islamic State group are holed up in Baghuz.", "Air strikes across the border have escalated tensions but it's unclear how Pakistan will respond, writes Ajai Shukla.", "Decathlon changes its mind about selling a sportswear hijab in France after it sparks an outcry.", "Donald Trump's former lawyer is expected to accuse the president of possible tax fraud and racism.", "A council in west London says £120,000 has been stolen from its machines in the past 12 months.", "At least 20 people are killed after a train hits a platform at Ramses Station and explodes in flames.", "They agreed to vote on an extension of Article 50 if May's deal fails to get the backing of the Commons", "Firefighters say the huge blaze was one of the biggest they have \"ever had to deal with\".", "It says there is \"little evidence\" that businesses are \"preparing in earnest for a no-deal scenario\".", "The challenge now is to contain the escalation of hostilities before things get completely out of control.", "Lauri Love is using legislation from 1897 in a bid to get four computers and an SD card returned.", "Research suggests screening for 35 to 39-year-olds with a family history can reveal the disease early.", "The man is due in court on unrelated charges of voyeurism, outraging public decency and burglary.", "John Headington, 85, and his wife held a thief who had a butter knife as he tried to steal model trains.", "The work and pensions secretary said difficulty in accessing universal credit was \"one of the causes\".", "Redditors flooded the site with snarky posts after reports of funding from Chinese tech giant Tencent.", "Police brought Lee Johnson to a stop on the M4 near Reading by clipping his vehicle with a patrol car.", "The retail tycoon made a £15m bid on Friday but administrators say the cafe chain is worth more.", "GCSEs should be scrapped and more vocational options offered, says education committee chairman.", "The Uppies and Doonies go head to head in the annual clash held on the streets of the Borders town.", "Jonny May scores a first-half hat-trick as England maintain their perfect start to the 2019 Six Nations with a bonus-point victory over France.", "This is America becomes the first rap track to win the best song and record of the year awards.", "Four new positive tests for equine flu are returned in vaccinated thoroughbreds at the Newmarket yard of flat trainer Simon Crisford.", "Horse racing in Britain will resume on Wednesday after a six-day shutdown following an outbreak of equine flu.", "Stars line up for the UK's biggest awards night in TV and film.", "The defence secretary says the network enabled aircraft could be used to overwhelm the enemy.", "The teenager goes on trial accused of killing six-year-old Alesha MacPhail on the Isle of Bute last summer.", "Penguins Charlie and Pringle visited residents at a care home in Windsor.", "Bahraini Hakeem al-Araibi, who has been granted asylum in Australia, was detained in November.", "Amber Peat's mum and stepdad tell an inquest she lied about being given punishments and chores.", "French star Kylian Mbappe donates to an appeal to fund a search for the body of pilot David Ibbotson.", "The decision not to perform Darwin Rocks follows six \"expressions of concern\" from parents.", "Scientists hope to discover one of the most famous ships in Antarctic exploration history this week.", "The Favourite is the big winner at the Bafta film awards but Alfonso Cuaron's Roma picks up best film.", "A \"postcode lottery\" means parents of four-month-old Lola have to pay for sign language classes.", "The infant was pulled alive from the pipe after a three-hour operation in Durban, South Africa.", "People on such contracts get worse working hours and are paid less than other workers, the TUC says.", "The chancellor says the UK's economy has performed well given the weakening global economy and Brexit uncertainty.", "A boiler is also ruled out as the cause of the fire which killed four children in Stafford, police say.", "The rapper's mum urges fans not to keep \"pent up anger\" inside them at a tribute event for her son.", "Including how basketball helped Mahershala Ali become a better actor.", "A head teacher says it is time the school reflects diversity and gives pupils different role models.", "Pawel Relowicz, 24, faces charges unrelated to the disappearance of Hull student Libby Squire.", "Dua Lipa wins best new artist and country star Kacey Musgraves gets best album at a female-first Grammys.", "Russia may briefly disconnect from the internet as part of a test of its cyber-defences.", "Tens of thousands of people brave the snow in Tehran to mark the 1979 Islamic Revolution.", "The chancellor is facing tricky spending decisions, says the Institute for Fiscal Studies.", "Nearly £150,000 has been donated to an appeal to fund an underwater search for David Ibbotson.", "Thousands of litres of milk are spilled in Sardinia's streets as farmers protest against low prices.", "The landmark review also recommended the BBC should do more to share its technical and digital expertise.", "A rowing club has condemned the damage to the \"vital\" piece of equipment after five of its rowers were rescued.", "Business leaders threaten to stop co-operating with government policy consultations as no-deal Brexit looms.", "Key award moments, including a heartfelt speech, Rami Malek's British thank-you and Spike Lee in purple.", "The party's deputy leader Tom Watson accuses a local party of trying to force MP Luciana Berger out.", "The singer's family claim the Leaving Neverland documentary breaks programming guidelines.", "Houseflies and cockroaches will thrive as bees, butterflies and beetles decline, says a new analysis.", "Shares soar 40% as struggling stores chain continues talks with creditors over long term survival.", "Kenneth Umezie stabbed Incognito in self-defence after his watch was stolen.", "Some Lloyds customers had faced \"intermittent issues\" with online banking services.", "The party's general secretary reveals the statistics behind the complaints after pressure from MPs.", "Clothing discounts helped retail sales to rebound sharply last month, official figures show.", "The PM's latest defeat shows she can't count on the support of Tory Brexiteers.", "Tributes have been paid to the writer, whose novels focused on race and the Windrush generation.", "President Trump declares a national emergency, then acknowledges his order could face legal challenges.", "He is claimed to be a Russian intelligence officer who was in the UK at the time of the 2018 attack.", "The president is a few pounds heavier and taking a higher dose of cholesterol medicine, his doctor says.", "Top Democrats react after Senator Mitch McConnell says Mr Trump will declare an emergency on border.", "The disappearance of UK-born Cheryl Grimmer is one of Australia's longest-running mysteries.", "They were twice as likely to be identified as having social, emotional and mental health needs as white British pupils, a study suggests.", "Colin Kaepernick and former team-mate Eric Reid reach settlements with the NFL over 'collusion' cases against team owners.", "Students in cities around the UK walked out of school to call for action from the government.", "As Call the Midwife tackles the issue, BBC Action Line users say there is no advice on abortion.", "The UK's competition body lists the top, and bottom, rated banks for customer satisfaction.", "Researchers in Edinburgh develop gene-edited farm animals for poor farmers in Africa.", "The PM will return to Brussels “within days” as infighting continues in her party over the deal.", "BBC's late-night political programme will not return, as host Andrew Neil decides to step down.", "Police are quizzing a 12 and 13-year-old after a car hit a tree, injuring the six-year-old passenger.", "The novel found in HMP Nottingham tested positive for a psychoactive substance similar to Spice.", "Late risers have poorer attention, slower reactions and increased sleepiness, a study suggests.", "Chile will join Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay in making a joint bid to host the 2030 World Cup.", "A team of researchers are withholding a tool they fear could be used to mass-produce fake news.", "The US president takes questions from reporters after his announcement at the White House.", "The defeat by 45 votes has no legal force but No 10 had warned it would make the PM's EU talks more difficult.", "Sqn Ldr Dick Churchill was one of 76 airmen who escaped from prisoner of war camp Stalag Luft III.", "Judge Beverley Lunt asked Preston Crown Court: \"Is this the Ross from Friends case?\"", "Watford reach the FA Cup quarter-finals for the second time in four seasons after a hard-fought win against battling QPR at Loftus Road.", "Shamima Begum's family urge her return to the UK, as she tells of fears her baby will be taken away.", "John Stalker led a major inquiry into policing in Northern Ireland and investigated the Moors murders.", "Andrew Hill has defended his performance at three air shows in the year before the Shoreham crash.", "She is the first female artist to replace herself at number one in the UK chart. How did it happen?", "Check how your MP voted in the latest Brexit vote.", "Scientists have called for a ban on the development of weapons controlled by AI.", "The internet giant hit local opposition over the roughly $3bn in subsidies it had been promised.", "A man is being held on suspicion of murder over the deaths of three men in their 80s from Exeter.", "Alexander Lewis-Ranwell is charged with killing Anthony Payne and twins Richard and Roger Carter.", "He is accused of exploiting his position to pursue sex with women who sought help, Newsnight reveals.", "It undermines the powers of Congress and sets a dangerous precedent, says the BBC's Jon Sopel.", "The intelligence chief also expresses concern about people returning from Syria with \"dangerous\" skills.", "Commons Leader Andrea Leadsom marks Valentine's Day with a \"roses are red\" poem about leaving the EU.", "Floodwaters in northern Australia have spread to the World Heritage site, raising concerns for coral.", "The royal couple land in Casablanca for a three-day trip focused on gender equality.", "Speaking called for more transparency, saying victims' rights were \"effectively trampled underfoot\".", "The building will be replaced with a memorial to the victims of the drug lord's reign of terror.", "Scotland's 20-year wait for a win in Paris goes on as France show glimpses of their old flair to record a first victory of this Six Nations.", "Greg Clark, Amber Rudd and David Gauke say extending Article 50 is better than \"crashing out\" of the EU.", "Two tries from Gregory Alldritt help France to their first win of the Six Nations as they beat Scotland 27-10 in Paris.", "Her party would \"crush\" independent MPs if by-elections were held, the shadow foreign secretary says.", "The death toll in north-east India rises after 35 more tea plantation workers die overnight.", "The troops deserted to Colombia, according to the country's migration authorities.", "Wales produce an inspired second-half display to beat England and keep alive their Six Nations Grand Slam hopes.", "Wiltshire Police said it is \"keeping an open mind\" about its investigation.", "Chris Eubank Jr scores a huge points win over two-time world champion James DeGale at London's O2 Arena.", "The 2018 Oscars directly addressed the #MeToo movement, so how are women faring in the industry this year?", "Sri Lanka become the first team from Asia to win a Test series in South Africa as they chase down 197 to win the second Test in Port Elizabeth.", "Tax experts warn people could be hit by higher fines over the late warnings.", "Get our news coverage on your phone or tablet and discover a range of compelling features.", "The prime minister addresses party activists ahead of a week of crucial votes in Parliament.", "Chris Wood and Ashley Barnes strike second-half goals as Burnley beat Tottenham on Harry Kane's return from injury.", "The crisis around humanitarian aid has become a political issue, says the BBC's Katy Watson.", "The Department of Work and Pensions is ordered to apologise and pay £10,000 compensation.", "Stanley Donen directed classic Hollywood musicals including Funny Face and On the Town.", "Latest updates as Venezuelan authorities try to block opposition-led efforts to deliver humanitarian aid.", "Lionel Messi scores the 50th hat-trick of his career as Barcelona come from behind to beat Sevilla and go 10 points clear.", "Identifying credible journalism on the internet can be a confusing experience - this is why we are making greater efforts to explain what type of information you are reading or watching on our site.", "MPs say the department does not have a \"credible\" plan to fund equipment for the armed forces.", "What is it and why is it still being carried out on millions of women around the world?", "Firms prepared for Brexit by stockpiling raw materials at a record pace last month, a survey suggests.", "Police are \"increasingly concerned\" for the woman's welfare after the newborn was left in east London.", "Guidelines about what constitutes \"obscene\" pornography have been relaxed in England and Wales.", "Can news websites aimed at women readers survive and thrive in a competitive modern market?", "Police treated Brian McKandie's death as an accident until a post-mortem found he had suffered at least 15 blows to the head.", "The government confirms the new licence fee will cost £2.97 a week or £12.87 a month.", "One woman said her trauma was \"for nothing\" as the university defended allowing banned men to return.", "Cervical screening saw delays in sending out results, affecting half of women, a report says.", "Jack Dee, Rory Bremner and many others pay tribute to a \"kind and thoughtful friend\".", "Premier League January spending falls for the first time since 2012 with a quiet deadline day capping a relatively low-spending window.", "Live updates as weather warnings for snow and ice remain in place on Friday.", "The UK objects to language in legislation allowing visa-free travel for Britons after Brexit.", "Ministers are urged not to \"turn a blind eye\" to modern slavery and environmental damage at hand car washes.", "Roads have closed and trains have been disrupted as snow covers the south of England.", "Kasim Khuram is told by a judge that his crimes at a funeral home \"offend all human sensitivity\".", "Rebel MPs warned against accepting cash for constituencies from the government for Brexit deal support.", "He was a popular stand-up and a regular on shows like The News Quiz and I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue.", "Dr Stewart Adams, who got a clear head to deliver a speech after taking the drug he helped find, dies aged 95.", "Wales stage a dramatic second-half revival to beat France 24-19 in the opening match of the 2019 Six Nations.", "George Mason had sex with his ex-partner and an unknown third man on the Northern Line.", "The US president also says he has been told he is not a target in the Mueller investigation.", "The comedian told stories about everything from parenthood to politics, before his death at 57.", "As snow falls on large parts of the UK, we look at some of the most striking wintry images.", "Sir Graham Brady tells the BBC he would accept a short delay to Brexit day if a deal was in place.", "Police investigating the attack on Jussie Smollett want to speak to two \"people of interest\".", "Snow disruption meant she sought refuge in an Asda in Cornwall while she waited for an ambulance.", "The online giant's shares fall almost 5% in after-hours trading despite record Christmas sales.", "Track all the latest signings as they happen in England, Scotland and across the world.", "Some eight tonnes of anteater scales are discovered in a shipping container in Hong Kong.", "Kathleen Neal poured urine on to her neighbour's plants during a feud she kept up for more than a decade.", "The three-year-old boy's father is accused of plotting an attack amid a custody row with his mother.", "Information Commissioner reduces Leave.EU's fine after \"considering representations\" from pro-Brexit group.", "AP and Snopes say they will no longer work with Facebook to fight fake news.", "Bringing you the news, sport, travel and weather for Devon and Cornwall on Thursday 31 January 2019", "Thousands of lives could be saved each year if more took the cholesterol-lowering drugs, researchers say.", "A warning that the Daily Mail's website failed to maintain \"basic standards of accuracy\" is changed.", "The actor played Hyacinth Bucket's henpecked husband Richard in the popular BBC One 90s sitcom.", "The case, which involved the woman's daughter, is the first FGM conviction in the UK.", "Police are questioning both the seller and several bidders about the unlikely online offer.", "An Institute of Directors survey finds 29% of businesses are considering moving abroad after Brexit.", "The Northern Ireland Ambulance Service was called to the scene shortly after 20:00 GMT.", "Hundreds of jobs at risk as the retailer becomes the latest High Street name to hit financial trouble.", "The Empire star says he's ok after being attacked in Chicago.", "The duke has been seen driving at Sandringham, two days after a crash that injured two women.", "The Sports Direct owner confirms a bid for the cafe chain, which has about 121 outlets still open.", "Dozens of the endangered species enter human settlements in the remote territory of Novaya Zemlya.", "Mr Trump's campaign team responds by calling her a fraud and saying her ideas are socialist.", "Seaborne Freight was founded less than two years ago and has never run a ferry service before.", "Michael Rice, who won the BBC's All Together Now, will fly the flag for the UK in Israel in May.", "Wales equal their record run of 11 successive Test wins with an unconvincing 26-15 win over Italy in Rome.", "Nearly half of all bus routes are at risk as local councils say they cannot afford to subsidise them.", "Six months after 43 people were killed when part of the bridge collapsed, work to rebuild it has started.", "Young people explore London through photography.", "Two men are left needing hospital treatment following violence after Watford's match with Everton.", "The NHS also says there has been a 54% rise in the number of victims aged 10 to 19 over five years.", "A rubber pellet grenade injures a protester's hand as thousands take to the streets again in France.", "Adrian Hoare and Stephen Waterson both deny the manslaughter of three-year-old Alfie Lamb.", "Lindsey Buckingham is recovering after emergency open heart surgery but his vocal cords are damaged.", "A man and woman are arrested on suspicion of manslaughter after a fire that killed four children.", "Racing faces its biggest financial crisis in 18 years, being forced to close down due to equine flu.", "Terrence Filer died aged 85 with no known living relatives or friends.", "It's not just a quick coat of red gloss when Kirsty Meakin does her nails.", "Footage shows a chimp walking on a path, after using a branch as an improvised ladder to escape.", "Peter Biar Ajak is an outspoken critic of South Sudan and has been detained there since July.", "It is thought a pupil at the school submitted the name change to the search engine.", "A fundraising appeal starts to find the body of David Ibbotson who was flying Emiliano Sala's plane.", "It comes after two deaths on the roads on Friday, as Storm Erik brought widespread disruption.", "Southampton plan to ban two supporters who taunted Cardiff City fans about the death of striker Emiliano Sala.", "US senators had asked the White House for a report on who killed the Saudi journalist.", "Takeaway owner Sam is reunited with his rescuer 40 years after fleeing Vietnam in a boat", "Nicolas Maduro is trying to use the country's gold to raise cash and make friends.", "A psychologist has had a driving fine quashed after arguing it is impossible to absorb the signage.", "A man and woman arrested after the deaths of four children in a house fire are released on bail.", "Seven jihadists get life in prison but others are acquitted for assaults on a museum and beach resort.", "A man dies after getting into difficulty while kitesurfing off the coast of North Devon.", "Christopher Chope's intervention is described as \"appalling\" by fellow Conservative Zac Goldsmith.", "The Oscar-nominated star appeared in Tom Jones, Murder on the Orient Express and many other films.", "The move against Luciana Berger by her local Labour Party ignited a bitter row.", "A driver who passed the scene of the crash said many motorists stopped to help.", "The transport secretary expects no disruption at Dover under any circumstances. What if he is being over-optimistic?", "Brexit could disrupt the \"unique balance that makes Irish rugby successful,\" says Ulster's Darren Cave.", "The Met was responding to a report of a woman being held by armed men in a pub, but never found her.", "Keepers \"will learn\" from the death of a tiger in a fight with a potential mate, London Zoo says.", "More than 300 workers are walking out over claims some staff have been \"blacklisted\".", "The victim collapsed in the reception area of the London hotel but died shortly afterwards.", "The cash depended on now-abandoned plans to make the X-Trail model in the UK.", "The 77-year-old senator and self-declared socialist announces a second bid for the White House.", "Passengers were not able to collect pre-paid tickets from machines across the country.", "The fashion world pays tribute to the giant, who was working right up until his death.", "UK intelligence chiefs reportedly conclude the Chinese tech giant Huawei can bid for telecoms projects.", "One person has died of their injuries after a popular marked ski slope was hit by an avalanche.", "As some compare Labour resignations to the formation of the 1980s party, we look at how the SDP emerged.", "Profits at Europe's largest bank rise by less than forecast after a challenging end to 2018.", "Designer Karl Lagerfeld says his comments about Adele being \"too fat\" were taken out of context.", "Shamima Begum, who joined the Islamic State group in Syria in 2015, had said she wanted to return home.", "The firm says the move is due to global changes in the car industry and has nothing to do with Brexit.", "Wallace Broecker, the scientist who helped popularise the term \"global warming\", has died at the age 87.", "The UN says women and children are apparently being actively prevented from leaving Baghuz.", "The German-born designer's creative flair and business acumen made him a worldwide icon.", "The state department says US citizens are among a group held in a nation rocked by protests.", "Liverpool's Champions League last-16 tie against Bayern Munich remains finely poised after a goalless draw in the first leg at Anfield.", "The founder and boss of China's Huawei is confident the firm can withstand Western governments' scrutiny.", "Only 14% of Met Police officers are from ethnic backgrounds, whereas as 40% of Londoners identify as BAME.", "The former Black Sabbath star had already postponed his UK and European tour.", "China's tech giant leads the market for telecoms infrastructure, and is second only to Samsung in smartphone sales.", "A protester involved in an incident outside Parliament with Tory MP Anna Soubry is facing criminal charges.", "President Trump declares a national emergency, then acknowledges his order could face legal challenges.", "Sites in Shetland, Stirling and Fife were visited as part of an anti-competitive practices investigation.", "Researchers are developing a test they hope will one day help detect the condition in minutes.", "George Mendonsa was famously photographed during VJ Day celebrations in New York in 1945.", "Leadership urged to act on concerns as two Tory MPs consider joining group formed by Labour rebels.", "Joan Ryan says she cannot remain in a party which tolerates a \"culture of anti-Jewish racism\".", "Breck Bednar was murdered by a man he met online and now his family say the killer is taunting them.", "Thirteen-year-old Alysa Liu is the youngest ever US women's national figure skating champion.", "One factory worker says news the Swindon factory will close in 2021 is \"a sad day for the town\".", "When Ren Zhengfei started Huawei in 1987 little did he know it would become a global telecoms giant.", "Epic Games says it has filed a claim in London's High Court against Exciting Events.", "In a BBC interview, Shamima Begum says the choice to go to Syria was her own and asks for forgiveness.", "Chelsea manager Maurizio Sarri says his team played \"confused football\" as Manchester United win at Stamford Bridge to reach the FA Cup quarter-finals.", "It undermines the powers of Congress and sets a dangerous precedent, says the BBC's Jon Sopel.", "Many in Japan feel that the UK's failure to provide Brexit certainty counts as a broken promise.", "LBC presenter Maajid Nawaz says he was racially abused and attacked outside a London theatre.", "A record 32.6 million people were in work between October and December, official figures show.", "Graffiti covered in protective plastic sheeting as questions asked about who painted rodent.", "One of the fashion industry's most prolific figures, Lagerfeld was also known for his scathing wit.", "Airline and airport staff checked the passport at least four times during the journey.", "US firefighters bring down 16 people trapped on an airborne ride at the San Diego amusement park.", "Swede Elin Ersson caused disruption on a plane that stopped an Afghan migrant being sent home.", "The splintering of the Labour Party just might turn into a much bigger redrawing of the landscape.", "German fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld has died at the age of 85.", "Stolen credit cards and other illegal material are also on sale, a File on 4 investigation discovers.", "Kyochi Watanabe plays music in the hope of saving the lives of those drawn to a forest of Japan", "A woman from Oxford has been treated with gene therapy in a world first, in a bid to stop sight loss.", "The firm wrote down the value of its assets leading to a £3.4bn quarterly loss, its biggest to date.", "Items belonging to Hugo Palmer and Erwan Ferrieux were found on a popular beach, police say.", "The president's decision to pull out of Syria deepens doubts about US Middle East policy.", "Mark Clements reached his mother's Exmouth home before paramedics arrived to treat her broken hip.", "The European Council president says he has been \"wondering what a special place in hell looks like for those who proposed Brexit without a sketch of a plan\"", "The wreckage of the plane carrying Cardiff City's Emiliano Sala and his pilot was found off Guernsey.", "The political landscape in Washington has shifted since Mr Trump delivered his first State of the Union.", "The first chunk of the 210ft mass of congealed fat in Sidmouth is removed by clearance teams.", "Pep Guardiola says Manchester City have learned \"to never give up\" after returning to the top of the table for the first time since 16 December with a win at Everton.", "Meet the well-bred baby son that is causing a stir in horse racing.", "The holidaying fan is said to have been arrested after complaining about being attacked in Abu Dhabi.", "A man was slashed across the face during a mass brawl before Millwall and Everton's FA Cup match.", "Staffordshire Fire and Rescue Service said staff would remain in area to provide support and advice to the community.", "A 49-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of drugs.", "The fighter jets, used in the fight against the Islamic State group, return to RAF Marham in Norfolk.", "A list of 230 new emojis also includes a blood drop meant to represent menstruation.", "The US president is due to attend a Nato summit in December following 2018's controversial visit.", "The convicted paedophile was seen at Oldfield Primary School near his home in Berkshire.", "An aviation expert tells the Old Bailey all the movements made by pilot Andrew Hill seemed deliberate.", "The prime minister's on her travels this week - but will it do more than just keep the show on the road?", "Stephen Biegun says he wants to make progress on the commitments from the Kim-Trump summit last June.", "Martial arts and patriotism were on display in China's new year gala, the world's most-watched show.", "The children's two-year-old brother, their mother and her partner were hurt in the blaze in Stafford.", "Half of people on the new benefits system are struggling to pay rent or mortgages, Citizens Advice says.", "The Pelosi clap and a wonky tie were among things that got social media talking during the State of the Union address.", "Nantes demand payment from Cardiff City over the £15m transfer of Emiliano Sala, BBC Wales learns.", "With IS on its last legs in Syria, the BBC's Frank Gardner explores why violent jihad will endure.", "The 19-year-old victim died after being stabbed in Battersea, south London, on Tuesday.", "Hundreds of demonstrators marched at Warwick University in response to its handling of rape threats.", "Risk factors for dementia include heavy drinking, smoking, genetics and high blood pressure.", "Jurors hear Ceon Broughton told Louella Fletcher-Michie's concerned family she was being a \"drama queen\".", "Residents living nearby spoke of hearing the \"loudest bang\" from a flat in the West Yorkshire town.", "The RMT union said Northern rail had offered a guarantee of a conductor on all trains.", "The former Burberry chief is leaving after five years working to revitalise Apple stores.", "The activists got through a fence and chained themselves to a plane which was due to deport 60 people.", "The broadcaster, who has hosted the Radio 4 show since 1987, admits he \"should have gone years ago\".", "A cocktail of deadly drugs was behind Vine and HQ Trivia co-founder Colin Kroll's death in December.", "Hundreds of demonstrators marched at Warwick University over its handling of rape threats.", "Wendy Pickering says she was in shock after learning the children had not escaped the blaze.", "Industrial action in Birmingham could cost the city £28.2m by 2020, a council report warns.", "The US president earns a chant of 'USA, USA' from supporters but a disapproving stare from Nancy Pelosi.", "The European Council president completely condemns a chunk of the British cabinet with his speech in Brussels.", "The European Council president sparks a backlash from Brexit-backing MPs after his comments.", "Nominee David Malpass has called for changes at the international institution.", "Vanellope Hope Wilkins is fully discharged from hospital 14 months after she was born with no breastbone.", "The rent-to-buy retailer is closing 10% of its stores ahead of new rules limiting charges.", "Fire crews also fear a \"toxic release\" from the huge blaze, leading to the evacuation of homes.", "The bodies of the two men were found on Ben Hope in Sutherland after a search operation.", "Louella Fletcher-Michie said \"it was the best day of her life\" before she died at Bestival, a court hears.", "Residents say they are shocked by the blaze which claimed the lives of four children in Stafford.", "The online grocer has seen shares slump after a fire tore through its Hampshire warehouse.", "Dan Mallory, who wrote The Woman in the Window, admits he falsely told people he had brain cancer.", "Huawei unveils a foldable phone that has several advantages over Samsung's", "The duchess was given a traditional henna tattoo, which is intended to bring luck to her first child.", "The royal couple land in Casablanca for a three-day trip focused on gender equality.", "Speaking called for more transparency, saying victims' rights were \"effectively trampled underfoot\".", "A hairdresser says his five-year-old nephew, who has cerebral palsy, inspired his specialist salon.", "Supermarkets should be more transparent on food classification, say public health experts.", "Four fire engines were called to the outbreak at a house in Lerwick.", "Hugo Palmer's mother said she was feeling \"numb\" as she visits beach where his belongings were found.", "Greg Clark, Amber Rudd and David Gauke say extending Article 50 is better than \"crashing out\" of the EU.", "The Duchess of Sussex's pregnancy was celebrated with a special ceremony at an educational charity.", "Her party would \"crush\" independent MPs if by-elections were held, the shadow foreign secretary says.", "The death toll in north-east India rises after 35 more tea plantation workers die overnight.", "A Neolithic human skull has been discovered in the Thames by a mudlark. It is about 5,600 years old and is now on display in the Museum of London.", "People living in the Hartcliffe area of Bristol reported hearing a loud bang shortly before 20:00 GMT.", "Floriane is able to walk using an exoskeleton that detects how she wants to move.", "Adrian Cook says his daughter was let down by the authorities who \"didn't act when she spoke out\".", "Melissa McCarthy wins a Golden Raspberry for worst actress - the day before she's up for the Oscars' best actress.", "Sydney Langton wants to make it big in the animal art world.", "Wales produce an inspired second-half display to beat England and keep alive their Six Nations Grand Slam hopes.", "Cephas Williams created a campaign to try and change the negative stereotypes black men face.", "Amy-Claire Davies endures agonizing spasms several times a day and any one of them could kill her.", "Chris Eubank Jr scores a huge points win over two-time world champion James DeGale at London's O2 Arena.", "The suspect is being held as part of a pre-planned operation into suspected extreme right-wing activity.", "The actor doesn't think he'll win a prize, but is loving the experience of being nominated.", "The 2018 Oscars directly addressed the #MeToo movement, so how are women faring in the industry this year?", "Pupils in England will be taught about the physical and emotional harm caused by female genital mutilation.", "Chris O'Dowd very nearly played a role made famous by Richard E Grant.", "If Beale Street Could Talk was the big winner at the Independent Spirit Awards.", "A musical inspired by 9/11 has opened in London, but it's not the strangest subject to be given a musical makeover.", "The prime minister addresses party activists ahead of a week of crucial votes in Parliament.", "Labour's Tom Watson calls on his leader to \"make a personal intervention\" to rid the party of racism.", "They have been transferred to immigration officials for interview, the Home Office says.", "A man suspected of trying to take over a flight to Dubai is killed by special forces, local media report.", "Leo Varadkar says Ireland is \"standing by our position\" on Brexit as Theresa May gives a deadline for the final vote on her deal.", "Manchester City win the Carabao Cup on penalties after Chelsea goalkeeper Kepa Arrizabalaga defies Maurizio Sarri's attempt to substitute him.", "Ireland's defence of their Six Nations crown remains alive but only just after a laboured bonus-point 26-16 win over Italy.", "Andrew Laws has cancelled his deliveries after thieves show a lot of bottle.", "The corporation has confirmed an upcoming Panorama episode is investigating Mr Robinson.", "Princess Reema bint Bandar Al Saud will become the country's first woman to lead a diplomatic mission.", "Leicester City begin the search for a fourth permanent manager in 23 months after the departure of Claude Puel", "Chelsea goalkeeper Kepa Arrizabalaga and manager Maurizio Sarri have a bizarre falling-out during the finale of an extraordinary Carabao Cup final", "The Department of Work and Pensions is ordered to apologise and pay £10,000 compensation.", "Stanley Donen directed classic Hollywood musicals including Funny Face and On the Town.", "The actress says attempted changes to the ceremony this year were just \"a couple of missteps\".", "All the winners and reaction from the ceremony and red carpet.", "John Headington, 85, and his wife held a thief who had a butter knife as he tried to steal model trains.", "The work and pensions secretary said difficulty in accessing universal credit was \"one of the causes\".", "A teenager is arrested on suspicion of attempted murder, the Met Police says.", "Many of the 30 programmes in the poll selected by a panel industry experts are no longer broadcast.", "The Bank of England governor urges MPs to solve the Brexit impasse amid warnings of slowing global growth.", "The world’s most powerful drug kingpin was enamoured by his own legend and it cost him his freedom.", "Bethan Simpson's daughter Elouise had a \"foetal repair\" carried out at 24 weeks after a spina bifida diagnosis.", "Closing the legal loophole recognises the financial losses some firms can face after a terror attack.", "Horse racing in Britain will resume on Wednesday after a six-day shutdown following an outbreak of equine flu.", "This week's Brexit votes may not come to much - the PM is essentially asking for more time.", "The severe blaze at the George Bryan Centre forces patients and staff to be moved to other facilities.", "Former England goalkeeper Gordon Banks, who won the World Cup in 1966, has died aged 81.", "World Cup winner Gordon Banks, who has died aged 81, will always be remembered for a wonder save against Brazil in the 1970 World Cup.", "Amber Peat's mum and stepdad tell an inquest she lied about being given punishments and chores.", "Mr Trump saw the attack and confirmed the cameraman was well with a thumbs up after it happened.", "The infant was pulled alive from the pipe after a three-hour operation in Durban, South Africa.", "Bahraini Hakeem al-Araibi has returned to Australia after two months in a Bangkok prison.", "After a wave of violence rocks the country, we profile the most notorious organised crime groups.", "A boiler is also ruled out as the cause of the fire which killed four children in Stafford, police say.", "Two men were found with facial injuries believed to have been caused by the substance after an altercation.", "The Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall visit Liverpool's Royal Albert Dock and other landmarks.", "The star calls off his UK tour after suffering three seizures just hours before the first show.", "Patrick McDonagh, 19, and his 18-year-old pregnant wife, Shauna, have been named in hundreds of tributes.", "Venezuela's embattled president tells the BBC the offer of aid is an intervention plan by the US.", "Russia may briefly disconnect from the internet as part of a test of its cyber-defences.", "With less than 50 days until Brexit, critical questions remain, says the British Chambers of Commerce.", "England captain Joe Root showed integrity & leadership in his response to a comment from West Indies' Shannon Gabriel, says former batter.", "The landmark review also recommended the BBC should do more to share its technical and digital expertise.", "Brendan McCarthy ran a body modification emporium in Wolverhampton before his arrest.", "Thirteen-year-old Amur tiger, Shouri, had lived at Longleat Safari and Adventure Park since 2006.", "The PSNI received 39 reports of dating scams in NI last year in which more than £218,000 was lost.", "Business leaders threaten to stop co-operating with government policy consultations as no-deal Brexit looms.", "The Mexican drug lord has been found guilty on all 10 counts at his drug trafficking trial in New York.", "Married couples and their adult children are identified as leading crime groups involved in pension fraud.", "The musician was arrested last week and held by US immigration officials over an expired visa.", "Gold-plated rifles and a fatal handshake snub - what we've been told about Joaquín Guzmán so far.", "Shares soar 40% as struggling stores chain continues talks with creditors over long term survival.", "The trains will run on time - at least temporarily - while the UK and EU renegotiate terms.", "Japanese bonsai expert Fuyumi Iimura has begged the thieves to water her tree \"children\".", "Media execs at several major outlets used anonymous accounts to harass women writers and activists.", "On average, 4,500 complaints were made to local authorities in the UK every day last year.", "The party's general secretary reveals the statistics behind the complaints after pressure from MPs.", "A collection of pictures of criminals jailed during the 1870s and 80s is to go on show in Aberdeen.", "A service for the Cardiff City player, who died in January, takes place in Argentina.", "President Trump declares a national emergency, then acknowledges his order could face legal challenges.", "Phil Foden scores twice as Manchester City avoid an FA Cup upset by beating a stubborn Newport County to reach the quarter-finals.", "They are related to snails, \"taste like nan's toenails\" and, in Wales, you cannot give them away.", "The aid is being stockpiled in Colombia at the request of self-declared interim leader Juan Guaidó.", "Electronic GPS tags which track offenders' every movement will be rolled out across England and Wales.", "Alexander Lewis-Ranwell is accused of three murders and will appear in Exeter Crown Court on Monday.", "From cheeky monkeys and tiny triplets to daring deeds, here are a few stories you might have missed.", "The defence secretary says the network enabled aircraft could be used to overwhelm the enemy.", "Colin Kaepernick and former team-mate Eric Reid reach settlements with the NFL over 'collusion' cases against team owners.", "The carrier has gone into administration, blaming fuel price rises and uncertainty over Brexit.", "Universities struggling financially would not be allowed to fail under a Labour government, the party says.", "Hayley Marie Ashley created her dream business by dressing up as princesses for children's parties.", "What is the scale of the problem and what may be done to discourage thieves?", "Glen Mills, who has multiple sclerosis, found a new lease of life through indoor skydiving.", "US President Donald Trump had said on Friday the defeat of IS would come \"over the next 24 hours\".", "Police say body recovered from wreckage of crashed plane is that of Cardiff City player Emiliano Sala.", "An unexploded World War Two bomb in Paris is causing major disruption to Eurostar services.", "London's trade guilds date back a thousand years and have billions of pounds in assets. But have they forgotten their original purpose?", "Brakes on the Vande Bharat Express jammed, a day after the train was inaugurated.", "Passengers are left stranded as Flybmi, which operated the route, files for administration.", "The Swiss was an accomplished actor whose portrayal of Hitler spawned thousands of parodies online.", "Haydock Park officials are investigating after a mass brawl involving about 50 people broke out among spectators at the racecourse.", "He died in an exchange of fire with police after opening fire at workers in a manufacturing warehouse.", "Sqn Ldr Dick Churchill was one of 76 airmen who escaped from prisoner of war camp Stalag Luft III.", "Baroness Falkender, dubbed the Duchess of Downing Street, was thought to wield more influence than ministers.", "It is the second time in two weeks the philosopher's grave has been attacked in Highgate Cemetery.", "Neil Warnock and chief executive Ken Choo will fly to Argentina for this weekend's service.", "Shamima Begum's family urge her return to the UK, as she tells of fears her baby will be taken away.", "John Stalker led a major inquiry into policing in Northern Ireland and investigated the Moors murders.", "She is the first female artist to replace herself at number one in the UK chart. How did it happen?", "The CPS said no prosecution could be brought because the \"evidential test\" had not been met.", "Watford reach the FA Cup quarter-finals for the second time in four seasons after a hard-fought win against battling QPR at Loftus Road.", "Scientists have called for a ban on the development of weapons controlled by AI.", "Diane Arbus's portrayal of the outsiders in American society draws you in, so \"the more you look the more you see\".", "Alexander Lewis-Ranwell is charged with killing Anthony Payne and twins Richard and Roger Carter.", "It undermines the powers of Congress and sets a dangerous precedent, says the BBC's Jon Sopel.", "The flights have been given funding by the Treasury since May 2017.", "Police said the boy's life support system was switched off and he died with his family around him.", "The illegal car seats have appeared for sale online, although sites say listings have been deleted.", "The biggest and brightest supermoon of 2019 was observed around the world.", "Bangladesh says there is \"no question\" of Shamima Begum being allowed into the country.", "Google apologises for not disclosing its home alarm system contained a microphone.", "The UK lags behind other wealthy nations across a number of health indicators, a report finds.", "The National Lottery says someone called and gave the unique serial number on the winning ticket.", "It comes after the BBC found Just Eat was featuring restaurants plagued with cockroaches and mice.", "Sites in Shetland, Stirling and Fife were visited as part of an anti-competitive practices investigation.", "A Liverpool fan tells a court he pulled people from a \"human cascade\" in \"ram-packed\" central pens.", "Graffiti covered in protective plastic sheeting as questions asked about who painted rodent.", "Universities, politics and technology are at particular risk, a security think tank says.", "Airline and airport staff checked the passport at least four times during the journey.", "Anna Soubry, Sarah Wollaston and Heidi Allen write to the prime minister to resign from the Conservative Party.", "Patients were asked not to visit the emergency department until power was restored at 23:00 GMT.", "An LGBT sports group severs links with the tennis legend over remarks about male-to-female athletes.", "The \"luxury\" foldable-screened phone can run up to three apps at once when opened up into tablet mode.", "Shares in Sainsbury’s dive 15% after the competition watchdog casts doubt on its plan to buy Asda.", "Joan Ryan says she cannot remain in a party which tolerates a \"culture of anti-Jewish racism\".", "The 77-year-old senator and self-declared socialist announces a second bid for the White House.", "The House of Commons holds a debate on modern anti-Semitism.", "Shamima Begum, who joined the Islamic State group in Syria in 2015, had said she wanted to return home.", "The potential of The Independent Group is easy to dismiss, but unwise for established parties to ignore.", "The firm says the move is due to global changes in the car industry and has nothing to do with Brexit.", "Items belonging to Hugo Palmer and Erwan Ferrieux were found on a beach near Sydney, Australia.", "The indie band won two awards, while George Ezra and Jorja Smith were named best male and best female.", "The fashion world pays tribute to the giant, who was working right up until his death.", "Raheem Sterling scores a last-minute winner as 10-man Manchester City come from behind to beat Schalke in the Champions League.", "The UN says women and children are apparently being actively prevented from leaving Baghuz.", "Can a Tory/Labour centrist group change the political landscape and how will their former parties react?", "The fashion brand apologises for a hoodie with a noose around the neck shown at London Fashion Week.", "Six people are taken to hospital after ducting collapses in the roof of a bar, the fire service says.", "One of the Tory defectors tells Newsnight Theresa May \"has a thing\" against free movement of people.", "Ten-year-old David Yamba's new home was vandalised with the words \"No Blacks\" painted on the front door.", "Sales growth eased at the UK's third largest supermarket chain as Brexit uncertainty affected shoppers.", "If your personalised number plate simply isn't enough - why not just add an emoji to the mix?", "In a BBC interview, Shamima Begum says the choice to go to Syria was her own and asks for forgiveness.", "It will be illegal to fly a drone within three miles of an airport, following drone disruption at Gatwick.", "Liverpool's Champions League last-16 tie against Bayern Munich remains finely poised after a goalless draw in the first leg at Anfield.", "Ex-Militant man was only readmitted to the party on Monday, more than 30 years after being expelled.", "Theresa May will meet Jean-Claude Juncker for further talks over her Brexit deal.", "Dr Malcolm Anderson killed himself after complaining about mounting pressure at work.", "Police, volunteers and search and rescue teams are trying to find 19-year-old Daniel Williams.", "Freezing temperatures are continuing to disrupt travel and sports events, amid warnings of icy roads.", "What is it and why is it still being carried out on millions of women around the world?", "Meghan has a fruitful idea while being shown around a charity that helps street sex workers in Bristol.", "The US believes a new Russian missile may be breaching a Cold War arms control treaty.", "Preparations for a privately-funded search for the missing plane carrying Cardiff City's Emiliano Sala get under way.", "French rugby is currently under a shadow cast by the deaths of four players in the past eight months", "Can news websites aimed at women readers survive and thrive in a competitive modern market?", "The PSNI said criminal groups were trying to control communities through fear and violence.", "England collapse in dismal fashion yet again to lose the second Test by 10 wickets as West Indies seal the series with a match to spare.", "Intense rain in north-eastern Australia triggers severe flooding, turning streets into rivers.", "One woman said her trauma was \"for nothing\" as the university defended allowing banned men to return.", "Travel and sport are disrupted as parts of England prepare for their coldest night of the winter.", "Blair Kinghorn scores a stunning hat-trick as a Scotland beat Italy to record a seventh consecutive home Six Nations victory.", "Sir David Adjaye believes such an initiative would help empower generations of people in Britain.", "The north of the state experiences severe flooding as drought continues in other parts of Australia.", "Roads have closed and trains have been disrupted as snow covers the south of England.", "Kasim Khuram is told by a judge that his crimes at a funeral home \"offend all human sensitivity\".", "Nissan says it will build two new models at its Sunderland plant after government \"support and assurances\".", 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"Foyle & West", "South Scotland", "Newsbeat"], "content": ["Shamima Begum was 15 and living in Bethnal Green, London, when she left the UK in 2015\n\nShamima Begum's sister Renu has written a letter to Home Secretary Sajid Javid, which has been seen by the BBC. Here is the letter in full.\n\nI write to you on behalf of both myself and the rest of Shamima Begum's family.\n\nWe are, as has previously been expressed through our solicitor, disappointed with your decision to begin the process of stripping Shamima of her British citizenship.\n\nFirstly, we wish to make clear, that along with the rest of the country, we are shocked and appalled at the vile comments she has made to the media in recent days.\n\nThese are not representative of British values, and my family entirely reject the comments she has made.\n\nMy family went to every fathomable effort in February 2015 to attempt to block Shamima from getting into ISIS territory.\n\nWe contacted and cooperated with all the relevant government agencies in both the UK and Turkey to try and stop her progress.\n\nUnfortunately, our efforts were in vain.\n\nThat year we lost Shamima to a murderous and misogynistic cult.\n\nMy sister has been in their thrall now for four years, and it is clear to me that her exploitation at their hands has fundamentally damaged her.\n\nI have watched Shamima on our televisions open her mouth and set fire to our nations emotions.\n\nAs we have already expressed, we are sickened by the comments she has made, but, as a family man yourself, we hope you will understand that we, as her family cannot simply abandon her.\n\nWe have a duty to her, and a duty to hope that as she was groomed into what she has become, she can equally be helped back into the sister I knew, and daughter my parents bore.\n\nWe hope you understand our position in this respect and why we must, therefore, assist Shamima in challenging your decision to take away the one thing that is her only hope at rehabilitation, her British citizenship.\n\nShamima's status will now be a matter for our British courts to decide in due course.\n\nWe seek solace in the fact that the institution of our courts as independent arbitrators of this nation's laws have served as a bastion of good practice to the world.\n\nMy family trusts that this institution will properly perform its functions and entrusts Shamima's future to its decision-making process.\n\nNeither myself or any of my family have had any contact with Shamima.\n\nWe have discovered from media reports, along with the rest of the country, that she gave birth to a baby boy.\n\nWe were pleased to learn from your comments in the Commons that you recognise my nephew, Shamima's son, as a British citizen.\n\nAs a family, we ask now how we can assist you in bringing my nephew home to us.\n\nIn all of this debacle, he is the one true innocent and should not lose the privilege of being raised in the safety of this country.\n\nWe request that your office contacts our solicitor, Mr Akunjee, to discuss the practical mechanics of how to help my nephew find his way home.", "Ana Brnabic has been criticised by LGBT activists for not doing enough to defend gay rights in the country.\n\nSerbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabic's gay partner has given birth in what the PM's office said was a first for a world leader.\n\nA statement said the birth mother, Milica Djurdjic, and baby, reportedly a boy named Igor, were \"doing fine\".\n\nMs Brnabic, 43, became both Serbia's first female and first gay prime minister in June 2017.\n\nHer appointment was seen as a surprise move for the Balkan nation where same-sex marriage is not recognised.\n\n\"Ana Brnabic is one of the first prime ministers whose partner has given birth while in office... and the first in the world in a same-sex couple,\" the AFP agency quoted her office as saying.\n\nMs Djurdjic, who works as a doctor, became pregnant though artificial insemination. She and Ms Brnabic met at a gay bar in the capital, Belgrade.\n\nSerbia is socially conservative and homophobia is common.\n\nThe country's constitution explicitly defines marriage as being between a man and a woman, and gay civil partnerships are not officially recognised.\n\nSame-sex couples are also barred from adopting children, though single people can adopt regardless of their sexual orientation.\n\nSerbia has several laws in place to tackle discrimination, inequality and hate speech, but activists argue that not enough is being done to expand these rights or enforce them.\n\nCritics have spoken out against Ms Brnabic, arguing that she has not done enough to bolster LGBT rights.\n\nAt a Gay Pride parade in Belgrade in 2017, she refused to say if she would like to see same-sex marriage legalised in Serbia.", "Breakdancing has been proposed for inclusion in the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, organisers have announced.\n\nIt is among four sports that organisers will propose to the International Olympic Committee (IOC), as well as surfing, climbing and skateboarding, which will all debut at Tokyo 2020.\n\nSquash campaigned unsuccessfully for inclusion in the Paris Games, as did billiard sports and chess.\n\nBreakdancing was included in the Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires in 2018.\n\nThe IOC will consider the proposal and must reach a decision by December 2020.\n\nTony Estanguet, a three-time canoeing Olympic champion and head of the Paris 2024 organising committee, said the inclusion of the new sports would make the Olympics \"more urban\" and \"more artistic\".\n\nRussia's Sergei Chernyshev, competing under the nickname Bumblebee, won the first breakdancing - known as 'breaking' - gold medal for boys at last year's Youth Olympics, while Japan's Ramu Kawai won the girls' title.\n\nThe Youth Olympics saw competitors involved in head-to-head \"battles\" and it is reported that this format would be used in Paris.\n\nTeam GB had no breaking competitors in Buenos Aires.\n\nA Team GB spokesperson said: \"We look forward to welcoming all new sports into the Olympic Games and will work with the relevant bodies to develop our relationships at the appropriate time.\n\n\"Although we did not compete in what was an invitational event at the recent Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires, we did witness the popularity of breakdancing among fans there.\"\n\nAs well as the proposed sports, Paris organisers also announced that the 2024 Games would allow the public to immerse themselves in the Olympic experience, through virtual and connected sports.\n\nIn addition, members of the public will be able to run the marathon course on the same day as the event - straight after the Olympic race - under the same conditions as those faced by the athletes.\n\n\"With Paris 2024, the spectators of the Games finally become actors of the Games,\" said Estanguet.\n\nSquash's failure to make the list of proposed sports was met with \"great disappointment\" by the sport's governing bodies.\n\nIn a joint statement, the World Squash Federation (WSF) and the Professional Squash Association (PSA) said: \"We truly believe squash could seamlessly integrate into the Olympic programme with minimal costs and an optimised pool of participants.\n\n\"Our unique interactive glass court would allow squash to bring a lot of additional excitement and spectacular action to any iconic monument of the host city or shed a new light on less known urban areas, while also helping to engage young people in the sport from day one of the preparations and well beyond the Olympic Games.\"\n\nKarate will make its Olympic debut at the 2020 Games but has not been included on the shortlist of proposed sports for the Paris Games four years later, with the World Karate Federation (WKF) saying it was \"deeply saddened\".\n\n\"Our sport has grown exponentially over the last years, and we still haven't had the chance to prove our value as an Olympic sport since we will be making our debut as an Olympic discipline in Tokyo 2020,\" said WKF president Antonio Espinos.\n\n\"Over the last months, we have worked relentlessly, together with the French Federation, to achieve our goal of being included in Paris 2024.\n\n\"We believed that we had met all the requirements and that we had the perfect conditions to be added to the sports programme; however, we have learned today that our dream will not be coming true.\"\n\nAlthough there will be considerable 'sniggers' amongst Olympic purists - and further dismay in the world of squash - the Olympic Games are changing.\n\nI admit, I was someone sceptical about several sports with little history or experience bidding to be part of the Olympic movement being thrown into last year's Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires by the IOC.\n\nHowever - 'breaking' was one of the major success stories of the Games and it plays perfectly into the IOC's drive to boost the 'youth' appeal of the senior Olympics.\n\nI spent several days at their 'urban park' in Argentina, which was the venue for a host of 'new' sports such as breaking, sport climbing, freestyle BMX and 3v3 basketball - and every day was a sellout.\n\nPeople voted in their thousands there and given what I witnessed I've no doubts that 'breaking' will be a huge success in Paris.\n\nToday's news does raise questions about the future of karate which will debut in Tokyo - after heavy pressure from the Japanese organisers who dominate the sport - but could well disappear from the Games line-up after just one outing.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Shamima Begum: \"I got tricked and I was hoping someone would have sympathy with me\"\n\nShamima Begum is not a Bangladeshi citizen and there is \"no question\" of her being allowed into the country, Bangladesh's ministry of foreign affairs has said.\n\nThe UK has stripped the 19-year-old - who fled London to join the Islamic State group - of British citizenship.\n\nSuch a move is only possible if an individual is eligible for citizenship elsewhere.\n\nIt was thought Ms Begum had Bangladeshi citizenship through her mother.\n\nBut the ministry of foreign affairs said the government was \"deeply concerned\" she had been \"erroneously identified\" as a Bangladeshi national.\n\nIn a statement, it said Ms Begum had never applied for dual nationality with Bangladesh and had never visited the country.\n\nIt added that the country had a \"zero tolerance\" approach to terrorism and violent extremism.\n\nMs Begum was a schoolgirl when she left Bethnal Green in 2015, and was found in a Syrian refugee camp last week after reportedly leaving Baghuz - IS's last stronghold.\n\nShe gave birth to a son at the weekend and now wants to return home.\n\nMs Begum's mother is believed to be a Bangladeshi national, and lawyers have told the BBC that under Bangladesh law this means Ms Begum is automatically a citizen of the country as well.\n\nBut Ms Begum told the BBC's Middle East correspondent Quentin Sommerville that she only had \"one citizenship\" and it was wrong for the UK to revoke it without speaking to her first.\n\n\"I wasn't born in Bangladesh, I've never seen Bangladesh and I don't even speak Bengali properly, so how can they claim I have Bangladeshi citizenship,\" she said.\n\nWhile he said he would not comment on individual cases, Home Secretary Sajid Javid has suggested Ms Begum's baby could still be British.\n\nHe told the Commons: \"Children should not suffer. So, if a parent does lose their British citizenship, it does not affect the rights of their child.\"\n\nMr Javid said the power to deprive a person of citizenship was only used \"in extreme circumstances\", for example, \"when someone turns their back on the fundamental values and supports terror\".\n\nAsked about the situation on ITV's Peston, the home secretary said he would not leave an individual \"stateless\".\n\nHe said: \"I'm not going to talk about an individual, but I can be clear on the point that I would not take a decision - and I believe none of my predecessors ever have taken a decision - that at the point the decision is taken would leave that individual stateless.\"\n\nBut shadow home secretary Diane Abbott accused him of breaching the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which states that \"no-one shall be arbitrarily deprived of their nationality\".\n\nShamima Begum left the UK with two school friends, Kadiza Sultana (l) and Amira Abase\n\nMs Begum told the BBC: \"I was hoping Britain would understand I made a mistake, a very big mistake, because I was young and naive.\"\n\nShe said she changed her mind about IS after they imprisoned and tortured her Dutch husband - an armed jihadi.\n\nEscape was impossible, she claimed: \"They'd kill you if you tried.\"\n\nThe lawyer for Ms Begum's family, Tasnime Akunjee, said they were considering \"all legal avenues\" to contest the Home Office decision and that she had effectively been made stateless.\n\nEarlier, Ms Begum told ITV News that she found the Home Office's decision \"heartbreaking\", but she may try for Dutch citizenship via her husband.\n\nHe is a Dutch convert to Islam and is thought to have surrendered to a group of Syrian fighters about two weeks ago.\n\nIslamic State has lost most of the territory it once controlled, but an estimated 300 militants are believed to be left in a tiny pocket of land near Syria's border with Iraq.\n\nUnder the 1981 British Nationality Act, a person can be deprived of their citizenship if the home secretary is satisfied it would be \"conducive to the public good\" and they would not become stateless as a result.\n\nMs Begum has the right to challenge the Home Office's decision either by tribunal or judicial review, said former independent reviewer of terrorism legislation Lord Carlile, but would have to prove the home secretary had acted disproportionately.\n\nHe said it was a \"complex issue\" which \"could run for a very long time through the courts\", and Ms Begum could stay where she is \"for maybe two years at least\".\n\nLord Carlile said her baby may be entitled to British, Dutch and Bangladeshi nationality.\n\nLawyers have told the BBC that under Bangladesh law, a UK national born to a Bangladeshi parent is automatically a Bangladeshi citizen - a dual national - but the Bangladeshi authorities assert that's not the case for Ms Begum.\n\nUnder this \"blood line\" law, Bangladeshi nationality and citizenship lapse when a person reaches the age of 21, unless they make active efforts to retain it.\n\nSo, it is Ms Begum's age, 19, that is likely - in part - to have given Home Office lawyers and the home secretary reassurance there was a legal basis for stripping her of her UK citizenship.\n\nIn 2017, the government lost an appeal case brought by two British citizens of Bangladeshi origin who were stripped of their citizenship when they were abroad.\n\nThe Special Immigration Appeals Commission ruled that E3 and N3 had not tried to retain their citizenship before they reached the age of 21, and so it had automatically lapsed.\n\nThat meant that the decision to strip them of their UK citizenship had rendered them stateless.\n\nMs Begum's case is different. Her Bangladeshi citizenship, if established, would remain intact until she reaches 21, even if she has never visited the country or made active efforts to retain her citizenship.", "The woman ate at RiFF restaurant in Valencia with her husband and son\n\nUpdate 24 January 2020: In December 2019, a judge at the Superior Court of Justice of the Valencian Community (TSJCV) ruled that the death of the female diner was due to natural causes and the investigation into RiFF restaurant was closed.\n\nA woman has died and 28 more diners fell ill after eating at a Michelin-starred restaurant in Spain.\n\nThe diner went to RiFF in Valencia with her husband and son, 12, both of whom also had diarrhoea and vomiting.\n\nThe restaurant is now closed while public health officials investigate the exact cause of the outbreak.\n\nRiFF, which has one Michelin star and is described by the guide as serving \"innovative cuisine\", has issued an apology to its customers.\n\nOfficials tracked down 75 people who ate at the restaurant between 13 and 16 February, and learned that a total of 29 had suffered food poisoning, including three families.\n\nThis included a 46-year-old woman who ate out with her family on Saturday night and died at home in the early hours of Sunday morning.\n\nA spokesperson from Valencia's regional ministry of health told BBC News that food safety officers inspected RiFF on Monday but were unable to find an obvious cause.\n\nSamples of some of the dishes that were served as part of a tasting menu have now been sent to the National Toxicology Institute for analysis, they added.\n\nSome reports have suggested that morel mushrooms may have been to blame, but officials told local media they were waiting for the test results to come back before singling out any particular ingredient.\n\nRiFF's owner and head chef Bernd Knöller said in a statement that he was working with health officials to establish the facts.\n\n\"Regardless of the reason that may have caused this situation, I want to convey my deep regret for what happened, hoping that soon all these facts can be clarified,\" he added.\n\n\"I have made the decision that the restaurant remains closed until the causes of what happened are established.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe UK won't be able to roll over an EU trade deal with Japan in time for a no-deal Brexit, Trade Secretary Liam Fox has said.\n\nIt was one of the most important EU trade deals the UK hoped to replicate ahead of the 29 March withdrawal date.\n\nThe trade department also said it would not be able to roll over the EU's customs union deal with Turkey on time.\n\nIn 2017, Mr Fox said the UK would be able to replicate 40 EU free trade deals by Brexit day.\n\nBut so far the department has only been able to finalise \"continuity agreements\" with seven of the 69 countries and regions with which the EU has trade deals.\n\nThese include Switzerland, Chile, the Faroe Islands, Eastern and Southern Africa, Israel and the Palestinian Authority.\n\nThe UK also has mutual recognition agreements signed with the US, Australia and New Zealand.\n\nMr Fox, who was a prominent Leave campaigner, told the BBC: \"Of course, we will get access to all the EU's free trade agreements if we leave the EU with a deal, which is the government's policy, and for all those who don't want any disruption, there's one easy way to avoid that, which is to vote for the deal which the Prime Minister has.\"\n\nIndustry group the CBI said deals with Japan and Turkey not being concluded on time would be \"an unwelcome surprise\" for business.\n\nEU trade deals offer UK companies benefits like reduced tariffs on goods, enhanced access to markets for services and common standards on intellectual property.\n\nBritish exports to Japan are worth £9.9bn per year.\n\n\"Many companies are unaware it is not just their relationships with EU customers at risk from a no-deal Brexit, but those across the globe,\" said CBI director of international trade Ben Digby.\n\n\"Individual businesses trading with markets outside the EU would face tariffs worth millions of pounds being slapped on them instantaneously.\n\n\"It is vital no-deal is taken off the table to unlock transition, allowing the UK to remain part of these deals and provide space to agree new arrangements.\"\n\nPeople's Vote supporter and Labour MP Stephen Doughty said: \"Brexiters promised that voting Leave would mean a bonanza of new international trade deals that would make up for lost trade with the EU.\n\n\"Instead, Brexit is costing us the global trade deals we already have as EU members.\n\n\"Liam Fox is now finally admitting that his promise to roll over all existing EU trade deals in time for Brexit is going to be broken.\"", "Staff at Reilly's Daybreak in Naul, where the winning ticket was sold, celebrated the family's big win\n\nA family syndicate from Dublin has come forward to claim Tuesday's EuroMillions jackpot, worth more than 175m euros (£152m).\n\nIt is the biggest jackpot claimed by an Irish ticket holder in its history.\n\nThe syndicate is from Naul in north County Dublin, close to the border with County Meath.\n\nA spokesperson for the winners, who is married to one of the syndicate members, said the family is \"very close\".\n\n\"This is unbelievable - it will take us some time to get our heads around this win and to organise ourselves,\" he said.\n\n\"This is a dream come true.\n\n\"We don't want this to change our lives.\n\n\"What is so exciting is that we will be able to share this money with children, grandchildren and extended family members.\"\n\nOne of the syndicate members realised their good fortune when she checked the winning ticket after Tuesday night's draw.\n\nShe said: \"I heard on the RTÉ news that there was a win in Ireland and I caught the last three numbers.\n\n\"I checked the rest of the numbers online.\n\n\"I was numb! It took a bit of convincing everybody that we had won.\"\n\nThe family member put the winning ticket in an Argos catalogue and put it under her mattress for safe keeping.\n\nOn Wednesday, the family deposited the winning ticket for safe keeping with the National Lottery and arrangements are now being made for the prize claim to be paid out in the next few weeks.\n\nThe ticket was bought at Reilly's Daybreak in Naul.\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 Sinéad Hussey 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\nLes Reilly, the owner of the shop, said he dropped the phone after finding out he had sold the winning ticket.\n\n\"I actually got a sick stomach and my legs started to shake.\n\n\"I don't know how the people felt who won it but I was in total shock, just total shock,\" he told BBC News NI.\n\nMr Reilly said the win had whipped up excitement in Naul.\n\n\"I've never seen a buzz or anything like this.\n\n\"The whole village - a small village in a rural county - it's just buzzing, it's just amazing,\" he said.\n\nNational Lottery spokeswoman Miriam Donohoe told the BBC the win \"will be a huge shock to the ticket holder\".\n\nShe said it was the 14th EuroMillions win in Ireland.\n\nThe previous biggest Irish winner was Dolores McNamara from Limerick, who won €115m (£100m) in 2005.\n\nDermot Griffin, the CEO of the National Lottery, said that it has been \"an incredibly lucky period for players on the island of Ireland\".\n\nFrances and Patrick Connolly, who live in Moira, County Down, matched the winning numbers in the New Year's Day draw.\n\nIt was the fourth biggest UK EuroMillions win and the biggest in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe jackpot has been rolling over since the start of January this year, and will see the winner pick up a cheque for €175,475,380.", "Kit-Kat maker Nestle is one of several firms that have \"paused\" YouTube adverts\n\nThe food giant Nestle and several other big companies have pulled their adverts from YouTube following claims they appeared next to offensive content.\n\nIt comes after a vlogger accused YouTube of failing to stop a \"soft-core paedophilia ring\" on its platform.\n\nThe vlogger said the firm made it easy to find videos of young girls, even though comments clearly showed that viewers were sexualising the videos.\n\nYouTube said it took \"immediate action\" to delete the offending accounts.\n\nThe firm, which shares a parent company with Google, has been criticised for not removing offensive content fast enough in the past.\n\nVlogger Matt Watson made the allegations in a video posted on YouTube that has been watched nearly two million times.\n\nHe explained the videos themselves were not sexual, but that commentators had flagged moments when girls appeared in compromising positions - such as performing gymnastics or posing in front of a mirror.\n\nOne watch spurred YouTube's algorithm to recommend similar videos, some of which ran next to ads from firms such as Disney and Nestle.\n\nA Nestle spokeswoman said the food maker had decided to \"pause\" YouTube advertising globally while the issue was investigated.\n\n\"We will revise our decision upon completion of current measures being taken ... to ensure Nestlé advertising standards are met,\" she said.\n\nEpic Games, the maker of the Fortnite video game, also said it had halted ads on the platform.\n\nIt said: \"Through our advertising agency, we have reached out to Google/YouTube to determine actions they'll take to eliminate this type of content from their service.\"\n\nDisney and German food company Dr August Oetker also took action, according to Bloomberg, which first reported the story.\n\nIn its statement YouTube said: \"Any content - including comments - that endangers minors is abhorrent and we have clear policies prohibiting this on YouTube,\" the company said.\n\n\"There's more to be done, and we continue to work to improve and catch abuse more quickly.\"\n\nIt is not the first time YouTube has run into this kind of problem.\n\nPart of its system for reporting sexualised comments left on children's videos was not functioning correctly for more than a year, moderators said back in 2017.\n\nIn 2017, the company apologised after adverts from government agencies and companies such as Marks & Spencer and Audi appeared next to videos from supporters of extremist groups on YouTube's platform.\n\nAt the time, those companies also pulled ads amid the controversy.\n\nDespite growing pressure on Google and YouTube to crack down on offensive content, the firms' advertising revenues continue to thrive.\n\nTheir parent company, Alphabet, earned almost $137bn (£105bn) in revenue in 2018, up 23% from the prior year.", "Engineers from New York's Department of Environmental Protection assess the damage\n\nNew York City will return $5.3m (£4m) to the US government after admitting in a settlement to fraudulently billing damage charges after Hurricane Sandy.\n\nWednesday's settlement states that the city falsely claimed a number of Department of Transportation vehicles were damaged by the 2012 storm.\n\nMany of the vehicles had in fact been out of commission long before Sandy.\n\nCity officials acknowledged they signed off on the claims without actually inspecting the vehicles.\n\nUS Attorney Geoffrey Berman emphasised the government would always \"take decisive enforcement action\" to protect the Federal Emergency Management Agency's (Fema) money from \"fraud, waste and abuse\".\n\n\"When people lie to Fema about the cause of property damage in order to reap a windfall, it compromises Fema's ability to provide financial assistance to legitimate disaster victims in desperate need.\"\n\nThe New York City Department of Transportation (NYCDOT) had obtained the millions of dollars in Fema funds after claiming 132 vehicles were seriously damaged by the 29 October, 2012 storm.\n\nOver a dozen US states were affected by Hurricane Sandy. The total damage costs were $71bn, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), making Sandy the fourth costliest hurricane on record.\n\nIn 2012, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo estimated the state's damage amounted to over $32bn.\n\nBut according to federal prosecutors, NYCDOT officials \"made no effort to inspect the vehicles or otherwise determine whether any reported damage was attributable to Sandy\".\n\nThe claims list included seven paving vehicles that the city had already classified as non-operational - some as early as 2009 - as well as trash equipment taken out of service in 2010.\n\nAn NYCDOT employee notified the commissioner that some of the vehicles were not actually eligible for Fema funding in June 2014, but the city did not notify the federal agency until the official investigation.\n\n\"As a result of these false certifications, Fema paid the City millions of dollars to which it was not entitled,\" the complaint stated.\n\nThe NYCDOT Deputy Commissioner who signed off on these fake claims \"lacked personal knowledge about the vehicles sufficient to make a certification about how and when they were damaged\", the government found.\n\nThe commissioner also \"did not personally undertake or direct others to undertake any investigation of the vehicles prior to signing the certification\", and the city government failed to review any of the vehicle claims before submitting them to Fema.\n\nThe city also failed to provide any training to employees responsible for submitting these claims on how the Fema programme worked.\n\nNew York City will now return the funds it has used via a cash payment of $4.1m, and will not be awarded an additional $1.7m that had been previously approved by Fema.\n\nA judge must still approve the settlement.\n\nThe US Attorney's statement also notes that the city withdrew some $3.1m in other requests during the course of the investigation, acknowledging \"the costs were ineligible for reimbursement\".\n\nOver 100 residents in the New York and New Jersey region have been charged with similar instances of disaster-relief fraud in the years following Hurricane Sandy.", "Justine Greening has indicated she would leave the Conservative Party if the Government backed a no-deal Brexit.\n\n\"I don't think I would be able to stay part of a party that was simply a Brexit party that had crashed us out of the European Union,\" the former education secretary said.", "Liverpool forward Sadio Mane's house was burgled while he was playing in the Champions League last-16 tie against Bayern Munich on Tuesday.\n\nThe incident happened at Mane's house in Allerton, south Liverpool between 18:00 and 23:45 GMT - while the 26-year-old was at Anfield. No-one was in the property at the time.\n\nForensic examinations are under way and a police investigation is ongoing.\n\nDetective Inspector Phil Mahon, of Merseyside Police, said: \"We are appealing for anyone with information in relation to this burglary to please come forward and assist our inquiries.\n\n\"While the occupants were not present at the time of the incident this will no doubt be a distressing experience for them and I would ask the offenders to do the right thing and return the stolen items to the owner in any way possible.\n\n\"We know the watches in particular are of significant monetary value and I would also like to appeal to anyone who might have been offered the items for sale since the burglary to contact police.\"\n\nSenegal international Mane was burgled in November 2017 while he was at Anfield for a Champions League game against Maribor.\n\nA gang was thought to have broken into his home first before smashing a patio door at the nearby address of team-mate Dejan Lovren before they fled when a woman shouted she was calling the police.", "Police found the man in Minet Road at 18:45 GMT\n\nA 23-year-old man has died after being stabbed in a south London youth club.\n\nPolice were called to Minet Road, Brixton, at about 18:45 GMT on Thursday where the victim was given first aid by officers at the scene.\n\nHe was pronounced dead at 19:27. His next of kin have been informed and no arrests have been made, police said.\n\nDet Ch Insp Mick Norman said: \"This was an appalling attack on a young man in a youth centre - a place where he was entitled to feel safe.\"\n\n\"All the early indications are that this attack was premeditated and targeted\", he added.\n\nSandra Smith, whose son was friends with the victim, said her \"heart bleeds\".\n\n\"He is a good boy, he is not the sort of boy who goes out and gives trouble,\" she said.\n\nPolice believe the attack was \"premeditated and targeted\"\n\nMaxine Dawson, 46, said she had been outside and seen children as young as seven leaving the centre after the attack.\n\n\"I can only imagine the way they were traumatised,\" she added.\n\nPastor and community campaigner Lorraine Jones, whose 20-year-old son Dwayne Simpson was stabbed to death in Brixton in 2014, said the youth club was one of only two in the area serving about 8,000 children.\n\n\"The club has been going for many, many years. They have done a huge amount of work, hundreds of thousands if not millions of hours with young people and they need help.\"\n\nChildren as young as seven are believed to have witnessed the attack\n\nPolice want to hear from those who were at the youth centre either before, during or after the attack.\n\n\"The youth centre was open at the time and sadly many young people present would have witnessed what unfolded,\" Det Ch Insp Norman said.\n\nThe killing brings this year's homicide rate up to 14, nine of which were fatal stabbings.\n\nBetween October 2017 and September 2018 the number of knife crimes in London hit an eight year high, according to figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS).\n\nAcross England and Wales there were 285 killings by a knife or sharp instrument in the year ending March 2018, the highest since records began in 1946.\n\nIn 2019 there have been nine fatal stabbings in London so far.\n\nHome Office figures show out of 43 forces, the Met Police saw the highest knife crime offences per head of population between April 2017 and March 2018.\n• None 14,847individual crimes recorded by the City of London and Metropolitan police between 2017-18\n• None 8% more crimes than in 2016-17\n• None 169offences per 100,000 people in the city\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. Shamima Begum: \"I got tricked and I was hoping someone would have sympathy with me\"\n\nThe family of Shamima Begum - who left the UK to join the Islamic State group in Syria - have told the home secretary they are going to challenge his decision to revoke her UK citizenship.\n\nIn the letter to Sajid Javid, seen by the BBC, they say they \"cannot simply abandon her\".\n\nThey also asked for assistance in bringing her newborn baby to the UK.\n\nMr Javid said he has not read the letter yet but will be \"looking closely at it\".\n\nHe added: \"Sadly, foreign fighters that have left our country to go and join a terrorist organisation, many of them will have taken children or had children there.\n\n\"Obviously all these children are perfectly innocent.\"\n\nMs Begum, who left Bethnal Green, east London in 2015, is living in a refugee camp in northern Syria and gave birth to a son last weekend.\n\nIn an interview with the BBC on Monday, she said she did not regret travelling to Syria, though she added that she did not agree with everything the IS group had done.\n\nShe told the BBC she was \"shocked\" by the 2017 Manchester Arena attack - which killed 22 people and was claimed by IS - but she also compared it to military assaults on IS strongholds by coalition forces, saying it was \"retaliation\".\n\nThe letter, written by her sister Renu Begum on behalf of the family, says: \"We wish to make clear, that along with the rest of the country, we are shocked and appalled at the vile comments she has made to the media in recent days.\n\n\"These are not representative of British values, and my family entirely reject the comments she has made.\"\n\nRenu Begum says the family made \"every fathomable effort\" to stop Shamima Begum from getting into Islamic State territory in 2015.\n\n\"That year we lost Shamima to a murderous and misogynistic cult.\n\n\"My sister has been in their thrall now for four years, and it is clear to me that her exploitation at their hands has fundamentally damaged her.\"\n\nShamima Begum was 15 and living in Bethnal Green, London, when she left the UK in 2015\n\nThe letter from Renu Begum shows that Shamima Begum's family - who have stayed out of the spotlight for most of the week - are now prepared to take on the home secretary in the courts, and in the media.\n\nShe is careful to stress how shocked they were by Shamima Begum's comments.\n\nBut she is also equally vehement about how they cannot abandon her sister and how they \"must\" - to use their words - challenge his decision.\n\nThe appeal for help in bringing Shamima Begum's baby son back to the UK will be one of the hardest parts of the letter politically for the Home Secretary Sajid Javid.\n\nHe said in the House of Commons that the children of IS members would not lose their British citizenship.\n\nRenu Begum points out that Jarrar - who is not yet a week old - is the \"one true innocent\" in what they call the \"debacle\".\n\nIn the letter, Renu Begum says none of the family has had any contact with Shamima, but they have watched her on television \"set fire to our nation's emotions\".\n\nShe says they were \"sickened\" by Shamima's comments but hope Mr Javid understands that her family \"cannot simply abandon her\".\n\nThe letter says: \"We have a duty to her, and a duty to hope that as she was groomed into what she has become, she can equally be helped back into the sister I knew, and daughter my parents bore.\n\n\"We hope you understand our position in this respect and why we must, therefore, assist Shamima in challenging your decision to take away the one thing that is her only hope at rehabilitation, her British citizenship.\"\n\nThe Home Office has said it is possible to strip the teenager of British nationality on the grounds that she is eligible for citizenship of another country - Bangladesh, through her mother, who is a Bangladeshi citizen.\n\nHowever, Bangladesh's ministry of foreign affairs has said Ms Begum is not a Bangladeshi citizen and there was \"no question\" of her being allowed into the country.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Geoffrey Robertson QC, one of the UK's most senior international lawyers says Shamima Begum should be put on trial in Britain\n\nThe home secretary said he would not leave an individual stateless, which is illegal under international law.\n\nMr Javid also suggested Ms Begum's child could still be British, despite the removal of Ms Begum's citizenship.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn said Mr Javid's decision was \"extreme\" and she had \"a right to return to Britain\".\n\nGeoffrey Robertson QC, a former United Nations judge, said it should be up to the UK courts to determine what punishment she should receive for joining a terrorist organisation.\n\nHe told the BBC: \"It's surely for a judge to decide whether she deserves mercy or sympathy, not for a politician.\"", "Gwyneth Paltrow has counter-sued a retired optometrist who has taken legal action against her over a 2016 skiing accident.\n\nHe said the actress knocked him down on a ski slope in Utah, leaving him with a brain injury and broken ribs.\n\nPaltrow's case says that he was at fault and his lawsuit is an \"attempt to exploit her celebrity and wealth\".\n\nShe is seeking a symbolic $1 in damages.\n\nMr Sanderson's lawsuit said the Oscar-winning-actress was skiing \"out of control\" when she hit him from behind on a beginner's slope on 26 February 2016.\n\nHe said he was pushed into the snow and knocked unconscious, leaving him with a brain injury, short term memory loss and four broken ribs.\n\nHe said he also experienced a personality change.\n\nPaltrow's 18-page case states that it was Sanderson who struck her from behind, delivering a \"body blow\", he then apologised to her and assured her that he was not hurt.\n\nIt states \"she was enjoying skiing with her family on vacation in Utah\" when he \"ploughed into her back\".\n\n\"She was shaken and upset, and quit skiing for the day even though it was still morning,\" it says.\n\n\"He was not knocked out. Immediately after the collision, he stood up and addressed Ms Paltrow. Ms Paltrow expressed her anger that he ran into her, and he apologised.\"\n\nThe case says because her injuries \"were relatively minor, she seeks only symbolic damages in the amount of $1, plus her costs and attorneys' fees to defend this meritless claim\".\n\nIt states that resolution of this counterclaim will demonstrate Sanderson ran into Ms Paltrow and \"nonetheless blamed her for it in an attempt to exploit her celebrity and wealth.\"\n\nBob Sykes, attorney for Mr Sanderson, responded to her lawsuit in a written statement to Reuters.\n\n\"The statement made by Ms Paltrow that Dr Sanderson hit her from behind is false,\" the statement said.\n\n\"Paltrow clearly hit Dr Sanderson from behind. Dr Sanderson was the downhill skier and had the right-of-way. It is unfortunate that Ms. Paltrow would fail to tell the truth about what happened.\"\n\nThe BBC put this statement to Paltrow's representative who said \"the counterclaim states her position\".\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 Gwyneth Paltrow on Goop- We disagree with pseudoscience ... - BBChttps---www.bbc.co.uk-news-...-gwyneth-paltrow-on-goop-we-disagree-with-pseudosci..-", "Some 100 volunteers and family members from the Syria White Helmets civil defence group have been resettled in the UK, the Home Office has confirmed.\n\nThe White Helmets group has saved more than 115,000 lives in Syria's war zones, according to the UK government.\n\nThe volunteers were evacuated with the help of the UK last year, when their lives were in danger.\n\nOne former member told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme his life \"had changed completely\".\n\nKhalil, 30, whose real name we are not using, said he now wanted \"to return the favour to the United Kingdom and its people who supported us while I was still in Syria\".\n\nCaroline Nokes says the children of those resettled will be ensured school places and access to healthcare\n\nImmigration minister Caroline Nokes told the Victoria Derbyshire programme the UK had \"a really proud history of being a safe haven for refugees\".\n\nShe said the Home Office had asked local councils to volunteer to take in White Helmet members and their families, saying many were prepared to help \"across the length and breadth of the United Kingdom\".\n\nMs Nokes added that, along with providing funding for English teaching to help those resettled find work in the UK, their children would also be ensured school places and access to healthcare.\n\nWatch Catrin Nye's full film for the Victoria Derbyshire programme here.\n\nKhalil, who has brought his wife and young children with him, described being in the White Helmets as his \"whole life\" in Syria.\n\n\"Often when we were transporting an injured woman, man or child, they would start praying, kissing us and thanking us,\" he explained.\n\n\"It was such a beautiful feeling. For the people who are trapped in this conflict, the White Helmets was their safety net.\"\n\nThe group operates in rebel areas, and is often targeted by the Syrian regime.\n\nKhalil now lives in the UK with his wife and children\n\nKhalil was one of 422 volunteers and family members who had to be rescued by the Israel Defense Forces following a request from the US, UK and other European nations, after they became trapped following a military offensive in July 2018.\n\nHe and his family were brought, via Jordan, to live in the UK - having been vetted and given refugee status before arrival as part of the Vulnerable Persons Resettlement Scheme.\n\nHe said it came as a shock that \"after being threatened by death or arrest, I was now in a safe country\".\n\n\"Here there is freedom, democracy, peace and a multitude of different religions side-by-side,\" he added, saying he remained worried about the safety of the White Helmets still within Syria.\n\nMs Nokes said the UK government continued to have \"enormous concern\" for those still suffering because of the war.\n\n\"I have no doubt that the UK going forward will continue to play its part in global resettlement, that we will provide aid,\" she said.\n\nFollow the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme on Facebook and Twitter - and see more of our stories here.", "Last updated on .From the section Man City\n\nA Manchester City fan is in a critical condition in hospital after he was assaulted following their Champions League win over Schalke in Germany.\n\nGerman police said the 32-year-old man suffered a serious head injury in a violent confrontation with two Schalke supporters inside the Veltins Arena.\n\n\"In the skirmish, he received a blow from a fist which knocked him to the floor,\" police said.\n\n\"In falling, he suffered a massive trauma to his skull and brain.\"\n\nThe police statement said the man was treated at the stadium before being taken to a local hospital.\n\nIt added: \"He remains in acute danger of his life at the present time.\"\n\nThe man's family are being supported by Greater Manchester Police (GMP), and members of City staff who have stayed in Germany.\n\nGMP said: \"We are aware of an assault that occurred following the Schalke v MCFC fixture.\n\n\"We are working alongside the football clubs and German authorities to support their investigation and the man's family.\n\n\"We would urge anyone with information to contact us on 101 or via live chat so we can share intelligence with our colleagues in Germany.\"\n\nCity won the first leg of the last-16 tie 3-2.\n\nThe Premier League champions took the lead through Sergio Aguero before Schalke went 2-1 up through two Nabil Bentaleb penalties.\n\nNicolas Otamendi was sent off for the visitors but goals from Leroy Sane and Raheem Sterling secured victory.", "Shares in estate agents Purplebricks plunged after it slashed its sales forecast and announced the departure of two senior executives.\n\nThe company expects sales for the current financial year of between £130m and £140m. Its previous forecast was between £165m and £175m.\n\nPurplebricks blamed a \"challenging\" UK housing market and \"headwinds\" for its Australian business.\n\nThe chief executives of the UK and US business will both be leaving.\n\nUK boss Lee Wainwright is leaving for \"personal reasons\". No reason was given for the departure of Eric Eckardt, the chief executive of the US business.\n\nShares in Purplebricks dropped sharply on the news, falling as much as 40%, before recovering to close 24% lower on the day..\n\nPurplebricks was launched by founder and chief executive Michael Bruce in April 2014. The idea was to create a lower cost, more flexible estate agent.\n\nIt charges a fixed fee of £1,399 in London and surrounding areas to market a property. Elsewhere in the country it charges £899.\n\nIts agents, which Purplebricks calls local property experts, receive £200 when given a property to sell and £50 when the sale is completed.\n\nThey also receive viewing fees of £399 in London and £300 outside.\n\nAgents can also win commissions for referring buyers to conveyancers and mortgage firms.\n\nThe company has been expanding rapidly, but has seen losses grow as well.\n\nIn the financial year which ended in April of last year it reported a loss of £26m, up from £6m in the previous year.\n\nIn today's statement Mr Bruce said the company was in a good position to take advantage of growth potential in the UK, US and Australia, but added \"albeit not entirely as we would have wanted before our year end\".\n\nThe problems at Purplebricks are a \"classic case of trying to do too much, too fast\", according to Russ Mould, investment director at AJ Bell.\n\n\"Success in the UK gave management confidence they could take over the world. Alas, that has proved nothing more than a pipe dream.\n\n\"Efforts to crack the US and Australia haven't resulted in the expected revenues and so the company has been forced to issue a profit warning.\n\n\"The overseas setbacks will be a huge embarrassment for the company, which has tried to be a pioneering force in the real estate sector.\"\n\nMost experts expect the UK housing market to be sluggish this year.\n\nUncertainty around Brexit is making buyers and sellers cautious, and there is also a shortage of new, affordable homes.\n\nIn its most recent figures the Nationwide Building Society said house price growth had almost ground to a halt.\n\nIn January, house prices were just 0.1% higher than the same period last year, Nationwide said.\n\nIt said uncertainty over the economic outlook was affecting the confidence of buyers.", "A Welsh Conservative MP has been charged in connection with allegations over false expenses claims.\n\nChris Davies, MP for Brecon and Radnorshire, is accused of two offences of forgery and one of providing false or misleading information for allowance claims.\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said he was due to appear before Westminster magistrates in March.\n\nIt said the charges followed a review of evidence submitted by police.\n\nMr Davies was elected in 2015, winning the seat from the Liberal Democrats, and successfully defended it at the 2017 election.\n\nA CPS spokesperson said: \"In November 2018, the Crown Prosecution Service received a file of evidence from the Metropolitan Police relating to an allegation that Christopher Davies, MP for Brecon and Radnorshire, falsified two invoices in support of Parliamentary expenses claims.\n\n\"Following a review of the evidence, the CPS has today charged Mr Davies with two offences of making a false instrument and one offence of providing false or misleading information for allowance claims.\n\n\"He will appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on 22 March.\"\n\nMr Davies said: \"I am very disappointed at today's announcement by the CPS.\n\n\"I have explained previously the circumstances that led to the investigation, relating to events dating back to when I was a newly-elected MP over three years ago.\n\n\"I will now speak to my lawyers and my colleagues in Parliament. I have nothing further to say about the matter at this time.\"", "Power was lost at about 19:30 GMT\n\nA hospital asked people not to visit its emergency department while it was struck by a power cut for several hours.\n\nThe Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother Hospital, in Margate, Kent, lost power at about 19:30 GMT.\n\nIt said patients were moved to other departments and fire crews assisted with emergency lighting before power was restored shortly before 23:00.\n\nAmbulances were also diverted to the William Harvey Hospital in Ashford.\n\nIn a statement, East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust said the hospital was \"now operating as normal\".\n\nEarlier, the hospital asked people not to attended its emergency department, which was in the area affected by the power cut.\n\nA spokesperson had said \"contingency plans\" were in place \"to keep patients safe until power is restored\".\n\nKent Fire and Rescue Service said it sent four fire engines to \"assist with emergency lighting\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "US President Donald Trump says a woman who left the US to become a propagandist for the Islamic State (IS) group will not be allowed to return.\n\nOn Twitter, he said he had instructed Secretary of State Mike Pompeo \"not to allow Hoda Muthana back into the country\".\n\nMr Pompeo had earlier stated that the 24-year-old was not a US citizen and would not be admitted.\n\nHowever, her family and her lawyer maintain that she has US citizenship.\n\nMs Muthana, who grew up in Alabama, travelled to Syria to join IS when she was 20. She had told her family she was going to a university event in Turkey.\n\nThe case has similarities to that of UK-born teenager Shamima Begum who has been stripped of her British citizenship.\n\nMs Begum fled London to join IS in 2015 but has now said she wants to return to the UK.\n\nPresident Trump recently told the UK and other European countries to take back and put on trial Islamic State (IS) fighters captured in the final battle against the group.\n\nHe warned that the alternative was that US-led Kurdish forces would have to release them.\n\nMs Muthana's family lawyer, Hassan Shibly, said it was \"preposterous\" that Mr Trump would call for European states to take back their citizens and \"now is trying to play games when it comes to American citizens\".\n\n\"The Trump administration continues its attempts to wrongfully strip citizens of their citizenship,\" he told ABC News.\n\n\"Hoda Muthana had a valid US passport and is a citizen. She was born in Hackensack, NJ in October 1994, months after her father stopped being [a] diplomat.\"\n\nLawyer Hassan Shibly insists Hoda Muthana has a right to return to the US\n\nIn later comments to AFP news agency he said his client wanted due process and was willing to go to prison if convicted.\n\n\"We cannot get to a point where we simply strip citizenship from those who break the law. That's not what America is about,\" he said.\n\nHowever, Mr Pompeo said Ms Muthana \"does not have any legal basis, no valid US passport, no right to a passport, nor any visa to travel to the United States\".\n\n\"Hoda Muthana is not a US citizen and will not be admitted into the United States,\" his statement added.\n\nMs Muthana has said she applied for and received a US passport before leaving for Turkey, the New York Times reported. After arriving in Syria she posted a picture on Twitter of herself and three other women burning Western passports, including a US one.\n\nIn later social media posts she urged militants to kill Americans.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Shamima Begum: \"I got tricked and I was hoping someone would have sympathy with me\"\n\nAnalysts say the US government's argument appears to hinge on the fact that her father was a Yemeni diplomat. Children born in the US to foreign diplomats are not automatically considered US citizens because they are not under US jurisdiction.\n\nHowever, her lawyer argues her father was no longer a diplomat by the time she was born.\n\nMs Muthana, who has an 18-month-old son, has said she deeply regrets joining IS and has apologised for social media posts in which she promoted the group and its aims.\n\nIn an interview with ABC News she said: \"I wish I could take it completely off the net, completely out of people's memory... I regret it... I hope America doesn't think I'm a threat to them and I hope they can accept me and I'm just a normal human being who's been manipulated once and hopefully never again.\"\n\nShe reportedly surrendered to Kurdish forces and is in a Kurdish-run refugee camp in northern Syria.\n• None Is this the end for Islamic State?", "Jorge Williams' voice trembled as he broke the devastating news to a 999 call handler.\n\nLess than half an hour had passed since he had answered a Facebook appeal to trace a missing six-year-old.\n\nIt was one of the warmest summers on record and dozens of residents on the tranquil Isle of Bute took to the shoreline and streets.\n\nBut the search ended abruptly at 08:54 when Mr Williams discovered Alesha's naked body in a wooded area near his home in Ardbeg.\n\nDetectives would later establish the child was abducted from her bed and carried to the lonely spot, less than a mile from her grandparents' flat in Rothesay.\n\nThere, just days into her summer holiday, she was raped and murdered.\n\nA 16-year-old boy, who cannot be named because he is under 18, was found guilty of the crime.\n\nHis conviction following a High Court trial in Glasgow would be the culmination of a police investigation which was helped in part by his own mother.\n\nSix-year-old Alesha MacPhail was only days into a summer break when she was murdered\n\nIt was just after 6am on 2 July and Calum MacPhail was getting ready for work.\n\nHe noticed the door to his granddaughter's room was open then discovered she had vanished.\n\nGiving evidence during the nine-day trial, Mr MacPhail told the jury: \"We searched under beds, in wardrobes, but there was no sign of her anywhere.\"\n\nAlesha had never been missing before and her scooter and bike were still in the garden.\n\nThe family alerted staff at the ferry port and locals, including the volunteer Bute Resilience Team, joined the search.\n\nIn an industrial estate near Glasgow Airport Police Scotland's Major Investigation Team was briefed on the case.\n\nBack on Bute Mr MacPhail became alarmed when he saw an ambulance speeding past with its blue light on.\n\nIt came to a halt near the site of the old Kyles Hydropathic Hotel, which had been cordoned off.\n\nMs King, 47, recalled a conversation with her partner in which he broke off to scream at officers: \"If that's my granddaughter up there then I want to know.\"\n\nThe family were advised to go to Rothesay Police Station for an update, and once inside they were told: \"We've found her, but she has passed.\"\n\nAlesha was lying on her side when she was discovered by Mr Williams and the killer had made no attempt to conceal her body.\n\nIt was later calculated that the walking distance from the flat to the spot could be covered in between 15 to 17 minutes.\n\nPathologist Dr John Williams established the cause of death was significant pressure being applied to the face and neck.\n\nThe expert also told the court Alesha had 117 injuries, some of which he described as \"catastrophic\".\n\nCrucially, the soles of Alesha's feet were clean, which indicated she had been carried to her death.\n\nDetectives made a breakthrough just after midnight on 3 July from an unlikely source.\n\nThe killer's mother had reviewed CCTV at the family home and spotted her son coming and going in the middle of the night.\n\nShe believed he may have seen something and contacted the police.\n\nThe mother quizzed her son and told the jury: \"He was adamant he had nothing to do with it.\n\n\"There was no way they would find his DNA because he had been nowhere near this little girl.\"\n\nIn the course of the investigation the killer's phone was forensically examined and experts established he had carried out a Google search for \"How do police find DNA?\"\n\nThe six-year-old was staying at her grandparents' house before she disappeared\n\nHours before Alesha was killed the boy had hosted a party for his friends which broke up at 00:30.\n\nAt that point the accused was drunk and in a distressed state.\n\nTo calm himself down he tried to buy cannabis but Alesha's father, whom he had obtained the drug from in the past, did not respond to his messages.\n\nAt 01:54 the accused was spotted on CCTV leaving his family home.\n\nHe went to the MacPhail's flat on Ardbeg Road and found that the key had been left in the lock.\n\nThe killer entered the property and took Alesha out of bed without waking her or the four adults sleeping in rooms along the hall.\n\nThe next footage of significance to the inquiry came from two houses on Marine Place.\n\nBetween 02:25 and 02:26 they captured a figure walking along the shoreline carrying something.\n\nThe CCTV trail then went cold until 03:35 when the accused was filmed arriving home.\n\nTen minutes later he left wearing a pair of shorts, no top and no shoes.\n\nHe returned at 03:52 and then departed again six minutes later wearing a grey T-shirt, dark shorts, dark footwear and carrying a torch.\n\nThe accused arrived home for the final time at 04:07.\n\nLocals on Bute staged a candlelit vigil in memory of the schoolgirl\n\nThe teenager's friends told the court he had a \"dark sense of humour\".\n\nThe jury also heard evidence about a private conversation he had had with a female friend in which he said he might kill one day for the \"lifetime experience\".\n\nA 16-year-old girl said he made the comment in a Facebook Messenger chat in 2017 after she started discussing a crime documentary.\n\nThe same friend also said he contacted her just three hours after Alesha was found dead.\n\nShe said: \"During the conversation he started to get anxious and he said the police were going to blame it on him.\"\n\nIn the hours after the body was found there was speculation about the crime on a Snapchat group the teenager was part of.\n\nDuring this time he produced a video in which he walked into his bathroom and then revealed his reflection in the mirror.\n\nIt was accompanied by the caption: \"Found the guy who done it.\"\n\nThe court also heard the accused lifted weights and could bench press 50kg - more than double the 22kg Alesha weighed.\n\nAlesha MacPhail's uncle Calum described the child as the \"brightest thing\"\n\nIn his defence, the 16-year-old claimed his DNA was planted at the crime scene, but the sheer volume of samples recovered left his astonishing alibi in tatters.\n\nForensic scientist Stuart Bailey found the accused's profile on intimate swabs taken from Alesha and on the front of her neck\n\nThe odds of it being from anyone else were more than one in a billion.\n\nAdditional samples were recovered on the child's body and clothing.\n\nMr Bailey said it was \"highly unlikely\" they had got there through anything other than direct contact.\n\nThe accused was arrested at 5pm on 4 July and driven to Helen Street police station in Glasgow where he was formally charged with Alesha's murder.\n\nDespite what prosecutor Iain McSporran QC described as a \"mountain of evidence\" he compounded the family's agony by forcing them to endure a trial and blamed Alesha's father's girlfiend, Toni McLachlan, for the crime.\n\nIn a further twist, he agreed to testify and dismissed suggestions he was a \"confident liar\".\n\nThe accused repeatedly denied he was responsible and told the court: \"I have never met Alesha MacPhail.\"\n\nThe most memorable exchange came after Mr McSporran suggested it would have been \"extraordinarily wicked\" for Ms McLachlan to have murdered her boyfriend's daughter.\n\nThe accused, who appeared completely unfazed by the enormity of the charge facing him, said: \"I agree.\"\n\nThe QC then put it to the 16-year-old that the same description would apply to someone who alleged an innocent person was responsible for such a crime.\n\nThe teenager locked eyes with the prosecutor across the courtroom and replied: \"It would be evil.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: First look at the Galaxy Fold and S10 models\n\nSamsung has unveiled a foldable smartphone - the Galaxy Fold - alongside a 5G Galaxy S10 handset and three other Galaxy S10 mobiles.\n\nThe Fold will go on sale in just over two months time, earlier than many expected.\n\nThe Galaxy S10 5G features the firm's biggest-ever non-folding phone display and promises faster data speeds when networks become available.\n\nThe S10 line-up also includes the introduction of a lower-cost model.\n\nSamsung had previously acknowledged that the cost of its S9 range had contributed to \"lower-than-expected sales\".\n\nSamsung said the Galaxy Fold would open up to create a 7.3in (18.5cm) tablet-like display and would be able to run up to three apps at once.\n\nA demo showed off \"app continuity\" features by which the device transferred from one mode to another much more smoothly than had been the case with an earlier foldable phone - Royole's FlexPai.\n\nOne example involved a Google Maps screen appearing on the Fold's smaller front display and then expanding to a larger view when the handset was opened following a one-second pause.\n\nSamsung added that Whatsapp, Facebook, YouTube and Microsoft Office would also be optimised to suit the new form-factor.\n\nIt said that it had designed a new type of hidden hinge system that would withstand hundreds of thousands of folds and unfolds, and contained a battery on each side to extend its runtime.\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 Bryan Ma This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn addition, the South Korean firm said the phone contained six cameras - three on the back, two on the inside and one on the front - to ensure it could take photos however it is held.\n\nA 4G version of the Galaxy Fold is set to go on sale on April 26 and will start at $1,980 (£1,515). A more expensive 5G edition was also promised.\n\nSamsung described it as being a \"luxury\" item.\n\n\"Fold is an experience that gives people who want a phone but also a larger screen with no compromise on the phone experience,\" commented Carolina Milanesi from the consultancy Creative Strategies.\n\n\"There's a lot of tech packed in there. And it makes sense to have kept it under $2,000 even if only for the psychological effect that has.\"\n\nThe phone comes in four colours\n\nBut another market watcher still had doubts.\n\n\"In theory, foldables are hugely attractive: they pack a giant screen into a small design,\" commented Neil Mawston from the research firm Strategy Analytics.\n\n\"But in reality, consumers don't know exactly how they will work, and the applications for them are still fairly immature.\n\n\"You can look back at history at the dual-screen folder phones that ZTE and NEC and others release. They haven't sold particularly well mostly due to price and lack of distribution.\n\n\"So, there's good potential, but still a lot of uncertainty.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Samsung shows off how its foldable phone works\n\nIn the short demonstration we saw today, Samsung's use case of watching entertainment, playing games and app multi-tasking will make a lot of sense for a lot of people. This is a tremendously creative feat of engineering. Folding screens seem like a good idea.\n\nWhat won't work, however, is the price. I've been at many launch events like this, and normally the worst case scenario for the firms putting on the show is a lack of applause when the price is announced. Today we saw something worse - loud grumbles, even some laughter. $1,980? Simply too much.\n\nAlso, I wonder about some other aspects of this phone we can't judge yet as we haven't had a chance to hold it. When Samsung's head of mobile placed it into his suit pocket on stage, it landed with all the grace of a cartoon anvil.\n\nSo: possibly heavy, with two likely-hot batteries, and a huge price tag.\n\nCreative, sure? Practical? For me, Samsung has fallen short - but the effort should excite gadget fans who have been longing for something different for so long. I suspect this device will have people flocking to stores to see it up close, if not to actually purchase it.\n\nThe S10 series is likely to remain Samsung's focus when it comes to sales for the foreseeable future.\n\nThe S10 and S10+ will cost more than the phones they supersede - beginning at £799 and £899 respectively when they go on sale on 8 March.\n\nBut the S10e means the Galaxy S range now starts at a lower price-point - £669 - albeit with lower specifications to match.\n\nThe S10 5G is yet to be priced and only has a vague \"summer\" release planned.\n\nThe S10 family comes in four different sizes, each with a choice of different storage\n\n\"Having a 5G variant is strategically important for Samsung as it gives them the jump on Apple and helps maintain the firm's brand strength and perceived technology leadership,\" commented Ben Wood, from the CCS Insight consultancy.\n\n\"It also gives the operators a tier-one brand for their 5G launches.\n\n\"But as far as consumers are concerned, unless you have a very good reason to buy a 5G phone this summer, one of the other three S10 handsets is probably a better investment, and will be viable for use for many years.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe launch comes days before Mobile World Congress in Barcelona - a trade event where Samsung's rivals will unveil new handsets of their own.\n\nThe overall smartphone market shrank in 2018, but Samsung's sales saw a particularly pronounced drop-off as Huawei and other Chinese manufacturers wooed away customers.\n\nAll four versions of the S10 are distinguished from last year's models by embedding the front cameras within their displays.\n\nThe phone's selfie camera is surrounded by its screen\n\nSamsung refers to this as being the Infinity O design, but it is more commonly referred to as the \"hole punch\".\n\nThe move allows the phones to feature a thinner top bezel without having the kind of \"notch\" found on many rivals.\n\nIt has, however, caused the firm to ditch the eye iris-scanner introduced in the S8.\n\nSamsung says a new ultrasonic fingerprint sensor placed under the screens of the three higher-end phones offers close to the same level of security, and is more convenient to use than a scanner formerly placed on phone backs.\n\nA graphic symbol tells users where they need to press to provide a fingerprint\n\nIt is based on a technology unveiled by Qualcomm in 2015.\n\nAll versions of the handset feature wireless charging and introduce the ability to wirelessly charge other compatible devices in turn.\n\nThis mirrors a feature first offered by Huawei's Mate 20.\n\nSamsung demoed the facility at a dual London and San Francisco launch as a way to recharge a new pair of Bluetooth headphones without having to use a separate cable or power mat.\n\nThe phone can be used to send power to the Galaxy Buds' charging case\n\nAll four devices now feature a 10 megapixel selfie camera and introduce a 16MP \"ultra-wide\" rear version, which offers a slightly larger field-of-view than our eyes.\n\nThe S10+ also has a second selfie camera to help it take depth readings.\n\nIn addition, the S10+ and S10 5G now offer up to one terabyte of internal storage, which the firm says could appeal to those shooting lots of 4K video or storing many game files.\n\nThe S10 phones can tell when they are taking photos of a shoe and will adjust the image to suit\n\n\"What's positive is that Samsung has moved away from software that nobody wants - like AR emojis and Samsung Cloud - and has gone back to its roots to deliver market-leading hardware,\" commented Ben Stanton, from market analysis firm Canalys.\n\n\"So for the premium part of the market, these are good phones.\n\n\"But my concern is that [they are still] not innovative enough to stop people from looking down to lower-price bands and being drawn into mid-range products from Chinese companies that are super-competitive.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by George Jijiashvili This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe introduction of a lower price tier may help address this.\n\nBut trade-offs for picking the S10e include:\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 4 by Stuart Miles 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\nBy contrast, the S10 5G benefits from several exclusive features:\n\nThe S10 5G features three photo cameras and a 3D depth sensor on its rear\n\n\"The phone had to be larger to feature a bigger battery because 5G [data transfers] will drain it much faster,\" commented Mr Stanton.\n\n\"But it was also smart to offer a large screen.\n\n\"The use cases for 5G aren't yet defined, but one potential is to stream 4K video rather than HD. And having a bigger screen makes that more compelling.\"\n\nThe original S-series handset was released days ahead of Apple's iPhone 4, and had a bigger 4in screen and microSD card slot in its favour.\n\nAt that point, its main Android rival was the HTC Desire, and although Samsung's device was lighter, thinner, and had a more powerful graphics processor, some reviewers said it felt less \"premium\" in the hand than its competitor.\n\nThe second-generation device saw its display grow to 4.3in, its rear camera increase in resolution to 8MP, and its processor move over to a dual-core design.\n\nIt was praised for allowing owners to unlock it by pressing the home key, rather than having to press a button on top as before. And although some griped that it still felt plasticky, it sold in its millions - helping Samsung overtake Nokia as the world's bestselling mobile phone-maker.\n\nThe third-generation model established a trend of including a bigger display but compensating for the growth by shrinking the size of the bezels.\n\nIts innovations included the ability to detect when the screen was being looked at, so as to avoid dimming the image. And it introduced S Voice, allowing users to command music to play and photos to be taken by speaking to it.\n\nSamsung added further touchless controls to the S4, letting owners scroll through text by making eye movements, and accept calls with a hand wave.\n\nA dual-camera feature also created photos that blended together the views from the front and rear lenses.\n\nSome critics found this all to be a bit gimmicky, and although the handset was a hit, there were reports that its sales fell short of Samsung's expectations.\n\nThe S5 added a fingerprint scanner, which could be used to authenticate purchases via PayPal.\n\nIt also introduced a black-and-white mode to help save battery life. But predictions that the firm would ditch Android for its in-house operating system Tizen proved to be inaccurate.\n\nThe S-series split in two in 2015 with a premium-priced Edge version offering a screen that curved round one of its sides.\n\nA metal frame and glass back gave the handsets a more luxury feel, but they ditched water resistance and a microSD slot to make this possible.\n\nThe seventh-generation phones looked pretty similar to their predecessors, but restored the ability to dunk them in water and slot in extra storage.\n\nOther improvements centred on the camera with better low-light and autofocus capabilities.\n\nThe S8 and larger S8+ ditched the home button, took Samsung's logo off the front and added the virtual assistant Bixby.\n\nThey also gained an iris scanner, which was billed as \"one of the safest ways\" to keep data private.\n\nAfter scandals involving exploding Note 7s and the arrest of the firm's vice-chairman, the launch helped return the firm to surer footing.\n\nThe S9 and S9+ gained new camera features including a super-slow-motion video mode and a variable aperture - allowing owners to control how much light reached the sensor.\n\nAR emojis also allowed users to create animated cartoon characters that looked like them.\n\nBut sales were lacklustre, and several months after it was unveiled Samsung acknowledged there had been \"resistance\" to its price.\n\nCameras that poke out of the screen and four distinct models mark out the latest generation.\n\nBut there are signs Samsung's smartphone dominance is slipping...", "What will the MPs who have quit their parties to form a new centrist group in Parliament be feeling right now? Scared? Relieved? Excited? Or filled with sadness and even a touch of regret?\n\nIt was easy to see all of those emotions on display at the press conferences - two days apart - in which seven Labour MPs and then three Conservatives announced that they were quitting (the 11th member of the group, Joan Ryan, did not hold a press conference of her own).\n\nBut the tone of the two events was different.\n\nThe Labour defectors all spoke about what the Labour Party meant to them, how they had joined it as young people, filled with idealism and a desire to improve the lives of working people.\n\nBut, they said, the party had changed beyond all recognition under Jeremy Corbyn and they could no longer be part of it.\n\nIn other words: \"It's not me, it's you.\"\n\nMike Gapes - Labour MP for Ilford South since 1992 and a party member since 1968 - was, perhaps understandably, the most visibly moved by the occasion.\n\n\"I have always considered myself Labour to my core. I grew up in a working-class family, in a council house in Chigwell, in Essex,\" he told the audience.\n\nHe spoke about his father, \"a postman and trade union branch secretary\", and how he had served the party \"at every level\" in his long career.\n\nAngela Smith spoke at length about her working-class parents and how as a young girl she had cheered for then Labour leader Harold Wilson in 1966, when the rest of the country had been cheering England on in the World Cup.\n\nOthers were less sentimental about Labour. Chuka Umunna said he was fed up with the \"old tribal politics\", adding: \"You don't join a political party to spend years and years fighting the people in it.\"\n\nThere were mixed emotions at the Conservative event too, with Anna Soubry clearly finding it difficult at times, but there was a lot of laughter too, and less talk about family and background.\n\nHeidi Allen, who opened the event, was upbeat and business-like, as if she was leaving a job rather than breaking up a family.\n\n\"I feel excited, so excited. In a way that I haven't felt since I was first elected - and a sense of liberation,\" said the former Tory MP, who described the breakaway group as the \"three Amigos\".\n\nMs Allen does not have deep roots in the Conservative Party - she joined it in 2011 - after a successful career in business.\n\nThe Conservative Party - rather than a creed or a way of life - had been a career choice for her, she said. And she had been inspired to \"serve my country\" by the 2011 London riots, having previously had no interest in politics.\n\nLike fellow defector, Sarah Wollaston Ms Allen was a product of David Cameron's efforts to open up the Conservative Party to a more diverse and interesting range of MPs, with real-life experience.\n\nDr Wollaston, a GP, was the first Conservative MP to be selected in a US-style open primary, a postal ballot of everyone in her Totnes constituency, in 2009.\n\nMs Allen also took part in an open primary, in South East Cambridgeshire, which she narrowly lost, before being selected to replace the retiring Andrew Lansley in South Cambridgeshire.\n\nBoth have proved to be far too independent-minded for the Conservative Party whips, perhaps feeling they owe their first loyalty to their constituents rather than the party.\n\nAnd Dr Wollaston said she would not put herself forward as a Tory candidate now - because the party had changed so much.\n\nThe open primary system, meanwhile, appears to have been dropped.\n\nAnd it was clear from Anna Soubry's speech that all three believe Mr Cameron's attempt to modernise the Conservative Party is equally dead in the water.\n\nMr Cameron - in a rare public comment - said he had backed open primaries and he respected the decision of Dr Wollaston and Ms Allen to quit the party but he disagreed with them.\n\n\"We need strong voices at every level of the party calling for the modern, compassionate Conservatism that saw the Conservative Party return to office,\" said the former Tory leader.\n\nAnna Soubry told the Times Red Box podcast Mr Cameron made a last-ditch bid to try to stop the three from quitting, sending them a text saying: \"Is it too late to persuade you to stay?\"\n\nMs Soubry - who first joined the Conservatives as a student in the 1970s - was more sentimental about the party, in her speech.\n\n\"You don't leave a political party you have called home, without a great deal of thought and a considerable amount of heartache,\" she said.\n\nBut, she added, she had always been a member of the pro-EU \"one-nation\" Tory faction and now the party was entirely run by the \"awkward squad\" of hard Brexiteers in the European Research Group.\n\nWhat does Theresa May make of it all?\n\nThe ERG, which is headed by Jacob Rees-Mogg, is arguably far more in tune with the Conservative Party membership - who, polls suggest, are a Eurosceptic bunch (although the defectors say this is because local branches are being \"infiltrated\" by former UKIP members).\n\nWhat Theresa May makes of all this is anybody's guess.\n\nAs Tom McTague pointed out in a piece for Politico, even her closest associates have trouble working out what she thinks.\n\nBut she is someone who puts a high value on party loyalty.\n\nTo a far greater extent, perhaps, than the MPs who have now walked out of it, the Conservative Party has been her life.\n\nShe met her husband, Philip, at a Tory party dance, at Oxford University, and she is thought to do most of her socialising with fellow party members.\n\nLeaving a political party because you profoundly disagree with the direction it is taking might seem an obvious thing to do for those of us who have never been a member of one, let alone an MP.\n\nBut it is not as straightforward as that for some. And factors such as family tradition, loyalty to friends, and the sheer amount of time and work devoted to the cause - even if you no longer believe in it - will be playing on the minds of MPs thinking of joining the breakaway group in the coming days.", "Andrew Moffat, facing opposition from some parents, has been nominated for an international teaching prize\n\nA Birmingham assistant head at the centre of a row over lessons on LGBT rights and homophobia has been named in the top 10 shortlist for a global teaching prize.\n\nParkfield Community School assistant head teacher Andrew Moffat is in the running for the $1m (£770,000) prize.\n\nHe has faced protests from some Muslim parents at the primary school.\n\nThe shortlist was announced by X-Men actor Hugh Jackman, who said teachers were the \"real superheroes\".\n\nMr Moffat has run a \"No outsiders\" project promoting equality and diversity in the school, including lessons about sexual identity and LGBT rights.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThis angered some parents, who earlier this term held protests outside the school, with some signing a petition against the project.\n\nProtesters said primary school children were too young for such lessons.\n\nBut a statement from the school said it had a duty to protect pupils from harm, including homophobic or transgender bullying.\n\nMr Moffat, who was awarded an MBE in 2017 for his services to equality and diversity in education, has been named in the latest shortlist for the annual Global Teacher Prize, run by the Varkey Foundation education charity.\n\nHe was previously named in a top 50, which has now been narrowed to a top 10, with the winner to be announced next month.\n\nMr Moffat was commended for his work in improving opportunities for pupils in a deprived part of Birmingham, in a school where most are from Muslim families and many speak another language at home.\n\nHugh Jackman said teachers helped young people through \"insecurity and doubt\"\n\nHis runs projects for pupils to \"meet others of different races, religions and cultures\".\n\nThe Education Secretary, Damian Hinds, said the top 10 placing of Mr Moffat was \"another appropriate moment to thank all our teachers for their dedication and exceptional work, day after day, for our children and our society, in their unique role\".\n\nAnnouncing the finalists in a video message, Jackman said: \"I can tell you right now, from where I stand, with all my experience, the real superheroes are teachers - they're the ones that change the world.\n\n\"My favourite uncle was a teacher. My sister is a teacher. My brother is a teacher. And I have always felt the most important job in the world is teachers.\n\n\"All of us go through insecurity and doubt, trepidation along this journey of life. And those teachers that see the best in us and are patient enough to allow us to grow into that, they are like gold.\"\n\nThe other finalists are from Georgia, Brazil, the Netherlands, India, the United States, Argentina, Australia, Japan and Kenya.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe 1975 were the big winners at the Brits, taking home the awards for best British group and album of the year.\n\nThe band said they were \"humbled\" to beat Anne-Marie, Arctic Monkeys and George Ezra to win the top prize.\n\nSinger Matty Healy also used the best group acceptance speech to address misogyny in the music industry.\n\nHowever, some viewers found out about the band's big night in advance, after a rogue TV advert announced their win ahead of the ceremony.\n\nIt is unclear whether the band knew they had won in advance, and they did not acknowledge the mix-up during the awards show.\n\nOther winners on the night included George Ezra and Jorja Smith, who won best male and female respectively.\n\nEzra, who performed his number one single Shotgun at the event, said \"There's a not a day goes by where I don't count myself very lucky and this is the icing on the cake.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nCalvin Harris bagged his first two Brit awards - from a total of 16 career nominations - for music producer of the year and best single, for One Kiss with Dua Lipa.\n\nHe said on stage at London's O2: \"I've been coming here for a few years and never had the opportunity to say anything.\n\n\"I want to thank anyone that's bought a tune, streamed a tune, come to a show, listened to the song by accident on the radio and gone 'what's this?'.\n\nDua Lipa and Calvin Harris took home the award for best single for One Kiss\n\nOne Kiss, his collaboration with Dua Lipa, spent eight weeks at number one and was the best-selling single of 2018, with more than 1.5million combined sales, streams and downloads.\n\nThe pair now have five Brit awards between them - Lipa won best female and British breakthrough act at last year's show.\n\nPop star Anne-Marie was this year's Craig David: Leaving empty-handed after going into the ceremony with four nominations.\n\nThe show was packed with performances from some of the biggest British artists, including The 1975, Jess Glynne and Jorja Smith.\n\nHugh Jackman opened the show with the theme song to the hit film The Greatest Showman, with his performance featuring hundreds of dancers, acrobats and fire-breathing extras.\n\nHugh Jackman performed a song from The Greatest Showman to open the awards\n\nThe movie soundtrack, which was not nominated for any awards, was the UK's best-selling album of 2018.\n\nLittle Mix won best video for Woman Like Me, which they performed on the night, and admitted they had \"absolutely no shame in asking fans to vote for it every day\".\n\nThis year's international winners were noticeably absent, with best male and female winners Drake and Ariana Grande sending in pre-recorded acceptance speeches.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Carters - aka Beyonce and Jay Z - won international group, and restaged the famous video for Ape****, which was shot in the Louvre, in their acceptance video.\n\nHowever, instead of posing in front of the Mona Lisa, the couple stood next to a portrait of the Duchess of Sussex.\n\nPink took home the outstanding contribution to music award, before taking to the stage to perform a 10-minute medley of her greatest hits.\n\nAfter performing her new single, Walk Me Home, backstage, the star appeared in the roof of the O2 Arena, descending to the ground in a ring of fire, before playing Try in the middle of a screen of cascading water.\n\nShe said in her acceptance speech: \"To be considered in the same category as David Bowie and The Beatles and Sir Elton and Sir Paul and Fleetwood Mac is beyond anything I can comprehend.\n\n\"It's been an awesome journey from busking... to playing Wembley Stadium this summer. It's really exciting!\n\n\"Thank you for having me here. it's been an awesome 20 years. Here's to 20 more.\"\n\nThe 1975 emerged as the night's big winners, thanks to their their outrageous, ambitious and confessional third album A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships.\n\nSinger Matty Healy, who last year caused controversy by claiming misogyny \"no longer existed in rock and roll\", used the acceptance speech for best group to modify his comments.\n\n\"Male misogynist acts are examined for nuance and defended as traits of 'difficult' artists, [while] women and those who call them out are treated as hysterics who don't understand art,\" he said, quoting a 2015 article by The Guardian's Laura Snapes, which gained renewed attention after allegations about US star Ryan Adams emerged last week.\n\nLet's be honest, most of us have wondered whether award show winners get tipped off before the ceremony.\n\nSometimes it seems painfully obvious: If you watched last week's Grammy Awards, you'll have seen Drake's name read out in the best rap song category - at which point a camera was conveniently positioned backstage to film the star, who had arrived, unannounced, to collect his award. Either the director was a clairvoyant, or someone had steamed open the envelope before the show.\n\nTonight, digital channel UKTV Play confirmed what we've always suspected, by playing out a pre-taped advert for \"double Brit award winners\" The 1975, before the ceremony had even started.\n\nIt's not clear whether the band had been made aware of what their marketing department knew - but it shone an awkward spotlight on every tearful \"this is so unexpected\" speech we've seen this awards season.\n\nThat embarrassing mix-up aside, this was one of the slickest, most engaging Brit Awards in recent memory. All the performances hit home, from George Ezra's warm-hearted rendition of Shotgun to Pink's death-defying greatest hits medley (notable as much for the songs it left out as the ones it included).\n\nThe only real let-down was the lack of major global talent. Pink aside, all the international winners - Ariana Grande, Drake and The Carters - were absent; their trophies handed out in a desultory video montage.\n\nLuckily for the Brits, this was more a case of bad luck than bad karma. Drake, who used his Grammy appearance to criticise the show's very existence, sent out positive vibes in his Brits' video message, wryly noting that, \"I very much look forward to attempting to win [best international male] many more times.\"\n\nMaybe expanding the categories would help rectify the problem. The fact that there's still no award for best international album seems increasingly odd in a globalised streaming market.\n\nChange could easily be afoot. The Brits get a new chairman in 2020 and, with the Grammys still subject to an unofficial boycott by the likes of Kanye West and Childish Gambino, their first priority should be to lure that US talent to the UK.\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.", "Tributes to Alesha were left on the Isle of Bute alongside a school photograph of her\n\nA 16-year-old boy has been found guilty of the rape and murder of six-year-old Alesha MacPhail. Here we look at what happened in the hours before the brutal killing.\n\nWhen Alesha MacPhail went to bed for the last time she fell asleep watching Peppa Pig.\n\nThe first day of July had been full of fun for the six-year-old, who was at the start of a three-week summer break on the Isle of Bute.\n\nShe had travelled by ferry and car to a party on the mainland.\n\nAnd on returning at teatime she was taken to the park to play before watching YouTube videos on her grandmother's old phone until the battery ran out.\n\nLike most children her age Alesha was mischievous.\n\nDuring the 50-mile drive back from her home town of Airdrie to the ferry terminal in Wemyss Bay she annoyed her grandfather - Calum MacPhail - by repeatedly hitting a balloon onto the back of his head.\n\nBut that night Alesha burst into his room, jumped on his bed and gave him a cuddle.\n\nThe final words she said to him were: \"Goodnight, Grandpa.\"\n\nThe six-year-old was staying at her grandparents' house when she was abducted\n\nAlesha loved school and had just finished primary two.\n\nWendy Davie, headteacher of Chapelside Primary in Airdrie, said the youngster enjoyed reading and was a perfectionist when it came to her writing.\n\nMs Davie added: \"Alesha was a very considerate child who loved being part of a group and she was popular with all the other children and was a smiley and happy young girl.\"\n\nHer teacher, Emma Gibson, said she had an infectious personality.\n\nMs Gibson recalled: \"Alesha was a bright and bubbly little girl, she always came into class with that big beautiful smile of hers.\"\n\nShe was due to spend the first half of her summer holidays with her grandparents, her father Robert MacPhail, 26, and his 18-year-old girlfriend, Toni McLachlan.\n\nThey all lived in a three-bedroom flat on Ardbeg Road in Rothesay, the main town on the island on Scotland's west coast.\n\nAlesha had her own room in the flat and a trampoline in the garden.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The family of Alesha Macphail say their daughter dreamed of being a YouTube star.\n\nRobert and Alesha's mother, Georgina Lochrane, split up when she was three months old but the child travelled from Airdire to the island every second weekend.\n\nThere was plenty to keep her occupied and the schoolgirl loved to go to the local swimming pool and for walks in the country.\n\nHer father told the jury: \"We were never in. We were always doing something.\"\n\nAlesha dreamed of becoming a YouTube star and her mother later shared a video of the child vlogging about her love of pasta.\n\nThe youngster was a gentle soul and left a lasting impression on those who met her.\n\nHer uncle, Calum MacPhail, said Alesha had a \"great amount of love for absolutely everyone\" and was \"the brightest thing\".\n\nAlesha MacPhail was remembered by her headteacher as a \"bright and bubbly\" girl\n\nWhen she arrived on Bute on Thursday 28 June Alesha wanted to go Highland dancing.\n\nBut by the time they reached the 292 Club the class had finished.\n\nInstead, Alesha's grandparents, Calum MacPhail and Angela King, took her to the idyllic beach on Ettrick Bay.\n\nDuring the trial Calum recalled: \"She was in the water and having a great time.\"\n\nThe first major highlight of the holiday was Gala Day on 30 June.\n\nCalum said Alesha went on the children's train but especially enjoyed the donkey rides.\n\nThe following day, 1 July, she and her grandfather headed from the island to a birthday party in Airdrie.\n\nBut they arrived at the venue 24 hours late.\n\nAlesha's grandparents, Calum MacPhail and Angela King, gave evidence during the trial\n\nFortunately, Alesha met a school friend and secured an invite to another celebration at the same place.\n\nCalum, 49, said: \"She was over the moon again.\n\n\"I don't think she knew the person at all but somebody she knew was attending the party.\"\n\nThey arrived back in Rothesay at about 5.30pm.\n\nThe balloon she had used to hit her grandfather was let go and she chased it along the beach until it burst.\n\nDuring evidence at the murder trial, Angela, 47, recounted that special moment, telling the jury her granddaughter was a \"beautiful, beautiful, happy girl.\"\n\nAt about 6.40pm Alesha was dropped in town to meet her father and his girlfriend who took her to a park.\n\nAngela picked them up two hours later and they drove home via a local supermarket.\n\nBack in the flat Alesha took a slice of the pizza her father was having for dinner.\n\nDuring the trial Angela was asked where Alesha was that night.\n\nRobert MacPhail and his girlfriend Toni McLachlan with Alesha, aged six\n\nJust after 10pm Alesha's father Robert came out of his room and told his daughter to put away the phone she had been playing with.\n\nHe said: \"Time for bed. You will never sleep.\"\n\nBut Alesha managed to keep the device for a few more minutes until the battery ran out.\n\nCalum was watching TV when he heard his granddaughter banging on the wall.\n\nSeconds later the child's father went into her room and put on a Peppa Pig DVD.\n\nBefore he went to sleep Alesha's grandfather reminded Angela that a cartridge for the bubble machine they had bought Alesha as a surprise was due to be delivered the following day.\n\nSome time after 11pm Toni McLachlan went into the child's room to turn off her TV.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAsked about their relationship, Toni, whom Alesha affectionately called Toto, told the jury: \"I loved her to pieces.\"\n\nThe teenager broke down as she recalled switching the TV off as the Peppa Pig theme tune played on the menu screen.\n\nToni said: \"She was sleeping and her face was facing the wall and her hair was behind her on the pillow.\"\n\nShe closed the door and went to bed.\n\nThe next person to open it, just a few hours later, was Alesha's 16-year-old killer.", "Denise Edwards said she was forced to sell her jewellery to make up the £480 per month she lost when she was refused PIP\n\nA visually impaired woman said she had to sell her belongings to get by as she waited 17 months to appeal a decision to refuse her disability benefits.\n\nHelpline support worker Denise Edwards, 53, was left £480 a month out of pocket after she was refused the higher rate of Personal Independence Payment (PIP).\n\nFigures show one in 10 disabled people who challenged a PIP decision had to wait more than 10 months for money.\n\nThe UK government said it was \"continuously improving the process\".\n\nThe average delay to successfully appeal a PIP decision has more than doubled since 2014-15, a Freedom of Information request by BBC Wales has found.\n\nCampaigners claim the assessments process is flawed, with about 72% of all PIP refusals overturned on appeal.\n\nPIP has been gradually replacing Disability Living Allowance (DLA) as the main benefit for disabled or ill people since the rollout started in 2013. It is worth up to £145.35 a week.\n\nIt is designed to help towards the additional costs of a disability or long-term illness, such as help getting dressed, cooking meals or getting around.\n\nPIP claimants often have to face controversial assessments, conducted by private companies on behalf of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).\n\nThe average wait for a successful appeal was 83 days in 2014-15, compared with 190 days in the first quarter of 2018-19. The DWP has so far only released first quarter figures for the current financial year.\n\nAverage delays were shorter in Wales but one in 10 people waited more than a year to win back money they were initially denied, according to the figures obtained under the Freedom of Information Act.\n\nIn Northern Ireland the Public Services Ombudsman is looking into \"a significant number of complaints\", pointing out that a \"high number\" of decisions on PIP applications have overturned.\n\nGovernment research suggests that 37% of people do not appeal the DWP's decision because \"the process would be too stressful\" while 20% said they were \"too unwell' to challenge it\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sue Kemlo's daughter died before she was finally awarded PIP\n\nMs Edwards, from Wrexham, is visually impaired and used a guide dog until recently.\n\nShe said she lost about £480 per month after a decision to refuse her PIP in February 2017. Ms Edwards struggled for 17 months before her appeal was heard and she won.\n\n\"It was actually stated I had corrected vision in both eyes, when in fact I've only got one eye and very limited vision in the other eye,\" she said.\n\n\"I had to sell stuff to try to live, like jewellery and stuff... luckily I had stuff to sell.\"\n\nMs Edwards claimed she had proven \"categorically\" that she had a disability which was not getting any better. She said she felt she was being persecuted by the DWP.\n\n\"I'm extremely angry, because people with disabilities find life difficult enough as as it is,\" she said.\n\n\"People on PIP don't want to be on it - they want to be like everybody else.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"I've been treated like a liar and a fake\"\n\nMeanwhile, Cardiff woman Holly Greader, 21, suffers with chronic pain, chronic fatigue syndrome and hypermobility, which causes her joints to dislocate and leads to severe pain.\n\nMs Greader said she had been made to feel like a liar and \"a fake\", adding that it brought back memories of being bullied at school.\n\n\"It can stop the months and months of pain, fatigue, anger and anxieties if they just got it right to start with,\" she said.\n\n\"This process was changed to make it better, but it's just gotten worse.\"\n\nMiranda Evans, of the Disability Wales charity, hit out at the UK government for the \"appalling\" but \"unsurprising\" delays.\n\n\"It's unacceptable that people are having to wait more than 12 months to successfully appeal against their decision for PIP,\" she said.\n\n\"Surely that has to happen sooner rather than put people through a traumatic period of time where they don't have access to that support to lead an independent life.\"\n\nThe DWP said 40% of claimants were getting more under PIP than they were under DLA\n\nBut the DWP said it was \"committed\" to ensuring disabled people get the support they need.\n\n\"Assessments work well for the majority of people, but one person's poor experience is one too many, and we're committed to continuously improving the process for people so that they get the support they need,\" a spokesperson said.\n\n\"Under PIP in Wales, 40% of people are getting a higher rate of support than they were previously getting under DLA. 3.7m PIP decisions have been made, and of these 10% have been appealed and 5% have been overturned.\n\n\"Decisions are overturned because people have submitted more oral or written evidence.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Heidi Allen (centre) is hopeful more MPs will join the breakaway\n\nLabour and the Conservatives could face more resignations, with members of the new Independent Group saying they expect more MPs to join them.\n\nEx-Tory MP Heidi Allen told ITV's Peston programme \"a third\" of Tory MPs were fed up with the party's direction.\n\nTory MP Justine Greening said she would quit in the event of a no-deal Brexit, saying she couldn't stay in a party that became \"simply a Brexit party\".\n\nMPs from the new group say they stand for \"the centre ground of politics\".\n\nThe group was set up by eight defecting Labour MPs unhappy about their party's handling of Brexit and anti-Semitism.\n\nThey were later joined by three pro-Remain Tories - Anna Soubry, Heidi Allen and Sarah Wollaston - who accuse the Conservative leadership of allowing right-wing hardliners to shape the party's approach to Brexit and other matters.\n\nChancellor Philip Hammond told BBC Radio 4's Today programme he was \"saddened\" by his former colleagues' comments, but hoped \"over time they will feel able to rejoin the party\".\n\nHe denied their claims that the pro-Brexit European Research Group, headed by Jacob Rees-Mogg, was now running the party, dismissing them as a \"relatively small hardcore\", and insisting the Conservative Party was still a \"broad church\".\n\nConservative MP and vice chairman of the European Research Group Mark Francois denied his group was a \"party within a party\" that had taken control, saying they were \"a group of Conservative MPs who are passionately committed to honouring the democratic decision of the British people that we should leave the EU\".\n\nHe added: \"Conversely, Anna, Heidi and Sarah are now a party without a party, who are committed to precisely the opposite. As a result, we shall see how they get on.\"\n\nIndependent Group MP Sarah Wollaston has claimed a third of the cabinet would quit if there was a no-deal Brexit.\n\nMr Hammond refused to rule out his own departure - but he said the threat of a no-deal Brexit had \"focused minds\" and was encouraging compromise.\n\nJustine Greening - a former education secretary - told the Today programme she tempted to break away from the party.\n\n\"It is something that I have considered, but I have reached a different conclusion for the moment,\" Ms Greening told Today.\n\n\"I don't think I would be able to stay part of a party that was simply a Brexit party that had crashed us out of the European Union.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"I don't think I would be able to stay part of a party that was simply a Brexit party that had crashed us out of the EU\"\n\nFormer Attorney General Dominic Grieve told BBC's Newsnight said he admired the courage of the breakaway group - and he would not be able to stay in the Conservative Party if it \"went completely off the rails\" and backed leaving the EU without a negotiated agreement.\n\nLabour's Ian Austin also expressed sympathy with the Independent Group's aims, saying he would think \"long and hard\" about his future in the Labour party.\n\nShadow home Secretary Diane Abbott told BBC Radio 4's The World at One: \"I am very sad that the Labour members of this new independent organisation have gone.\n\n\"Up until the last minute, people were talking to them, trying to persuade them not to take the step they have taken.\"\n\nShe said she hoped they would continue to work with Labour on issues like homelessness, the benefit system, the NHS and \"most of all fighting this Tory Brexit\".\n\nSenior Conservatives have suggested the door is open for the three Tories who quit to return one day.\n\nBut Ms Soubry insisted there was no \"going back\" because the soul of the party had been overwhelmed by a rightwing \"purple Momentum\" a reference to former UKIP members they claim are joining local Tory parties to de-select Remain-supporting MPs.\n\nShe also revealed that former PM David Cameron had made a last-ditch attempt to stop the trio from quitting.\n\nSpeaking to The Times Red Box podcast, she said Mr Cameron had sent them a text saying: \"Is it too late to persuade you to stay?\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What the three ex-Conservatives said about their departures\n\nMs Allen also said she could not imagine returning \"because if we do our jobs right there won't be a Tory party to go back to\".\n\nShe said she was \"hopeful\" that what she described as \"good, sensible centre ground colleagues\" would join the new group.\n\nMeanwhile, in a video released on Twitter on Wednesday night, Labour leader Mr Corbyn said defecting Labour MPs should resign and put themselves up for election.\n\nHe said this would be the \"democratic thing to do\" because they wanted to \"abandon the policies on which they were elected\".\n\nMomentum, the Labour movement backing Mr Corbyn, is to hold \"mass canvassing events\" in several constituencies with Independent Group MPs to build support in the event of any by-elections.", "Forensic officers are at the scene of the murder in Small Heath\n\nA 16-year-old boy has been stabbed to death in a park in Birmingham.\n\nHe was found in Sara Park, Small Heath, at about 20:00 GMT on Wednesday and died at the scene.\n\nAnother boy, aged 15, suffered minor injuries in an attack at the park, in Herbert Road, West Midlands Police said.\n\nA murder investigation is under way but no arrests have been made. The boy is the second teenager to be stabbed to death in the city in a week.\n\nThe latest fatal attack came seven days after Mohammed Sidali, 16, was stabbed outside Joseph Chamberlain College in Highgate.\n\nBirmingham Yardley MP Jess Phillips said she wanted an emergency meeting with Home Secretary Sajid Javid to discuss the spate of knife crime.\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 Jess Phillips This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe park was cordoned off and forensic officers were at the scene.\n\nCouncillor Zaheer Khan, whose Small Heath ward borders the area, said the boy's \"tragic\" death represented \"another victim of knife crime\".\n\nHe added: \"I feel that lack of police resources means people believe they can do whatever they want.\"\n\nPolice blocked off roads near the park\n\nMark Crooke, the chairman of Pritchett Tower residents' association, said: \"Today is a sad day because of the young man losing his life. People are feeling very vulnerable and scared.\n\n\"People that live in this area are becoming very scared and a lot of people want to leave.\"\n\nTwo streets away from the park, in Coventry Road, a 22-year-old man was stabbed in his back on Monday. The stabbings are not thought to be linked.\n\nPolice said the man's condition was not life-threatening and an 18-year-old arrested on suspicion of wounding had been released pending further inquiries.\n\nWest Midlands Police saw a 72% rise in knife crime between April 2013 and the year ending March 2018, Office for National Statistics (ONS) analysis shows.\n\nAcross England and Wales there were 285 killings by a knife or sharp instrument in the 12 months ending March 2018, the highest since records began in 1946.\n\nOut of 43 forces, West Midlands Police saw the third highest knife crime offences per head of population between April 2017 to March 2018, according to the Home Office.\n\nYasmin Akhtar, a 44-year-old support worker who lives locally and has a 10-year-old son, said she feared for his safety.\n\nShe said: \"I have a son and I really fear what is going to happen to him.\n\n\"Last week, we had that young lad who died at Joseph Chamberlain, and another stabbing up the road. It's a joke.\n\n\"Is it safe where we're living? It's such a shame.\"\n\nA 60-year-old female resident added: \"There is stuff happening around here all the time. There is no police presence here.\"\n\nDet Ch Insp Edward Foster, from the homicide team, said: \"A teenager has sadly lost his life and another was assaulted.\n\n\"We are working hard to establish the circumstances around what happened.\"\n\nBirmingham City Council said its officers visited residents in Small Heath on Thursday, listening to concerns and offering reassurance, alongside partners including West Midlands Police.\n\nCabinet member for social inclusion, community safety and equalities John Cotton said: \"Birmingham Youth Service runs programmes around youth violence - including schemes in Sparkbrook, South Yardley and Small Heath which seek to challenge and prevent knife crime.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Councils say they are struggling to cope with the cost of young migrants who reach the UK\n\nThe cost to councils in England of looking after rising numbers of child asylum seekers has almost doubled in four years, the Local Government Association (LGA) says.\n\nIt says the annual cost of providing accommodation and care for these young asylum seekers has now risen to £152m.\n\nAnd councils, already under financial pressure, need more support from central government, the LGA says.\n\nThe Home Office says funding arrangements are \"under review\".\n\nLocal authorities are legally required to care for child asylum seekers without relatives.\n\nBut, the LGA says, they will already face a £3.1bn funding gap for children's services by 2025 and cannot be expected to absorb the extra costs of accommodation and support for young asylum seekers.\n\nIn 2014-15, they were spending about £78m on caring for about 2,800 young asylum seekers.\n\nBut in 2017-18, they were looking after almost 4,500 young asylum seekers, with costs increasing by 95%, to £152m.\n\nLocal authorities are obliged to look after young asylum seekers coming to the UK\n\nLocal authorities receive some support from central government but they say it is not enough to cover the full costs.\n\nAs well as accommodation, councils say they have expenses such as social workers and mental health services.\n\n\"Councils have a strong track record supporting those resettling in the UK and are committed to providing the best support possible,\" said David Simmonds, who chairs the LGA's asylum, migration and refugee task group.\n\nBut, he said, given the \"significant financial pressures\" facing councils, it was becoming \"more and more challenging\" to provide the services they were legally obliged to.\n\nMr Simmonds called on the government to announce the findings of a review into funding support for unaccompanied children.\n\nHe said it was vital that there was a \"joint commitment\" between national and local government about adequate levels of funding.\n\nA Home Office spokesman said the government recognised the efforts of councils in providing \"care for a significant number of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children\".\n\n\"We are currently reviewing the funding arrangements and over 50 local authorities have taken part,\" he said.\n\n\"We hope to reach a conclusion soon but it is right that we take time to thoroughly assess the evidence.\"", "The world's biggest bee has been re-discovered, after decades thought lost to science.\n\nThe giant bee - which is as long as an adult's thumb - was found on a little-explored Indonesian island.\n\nAfter days of searching, wildlife experts found a single live female, which they photographed and filmed.\n\nKnown as Wallace's giant bee, the insect is named after the British naturalist and explorer Alfred Russel Wallace, who described it in 1858.\n\nScientists found several specimens in 1981 on three Indonesia islands. It has not been seen alive since, although there was a report last year of two bee specimens being offered for sale online.\n\nIn January, a team followed in Wallace's footsteps on a journey through Indonesia in an attempt to find and photograph the bee.\n\nEli Wyman with one of the few known Wallace's giant bee samples\n\n\"It was absolutely breathtaking to see this 'flying bulldog' of an insect that we weren't sure existed anymore, to have real proof right there in front of us in the wild,\" said natural history photographer, Clay Bolt, who took the first photos and video of the species alive.\n\n\"To actually see how beautiful and big the species is in life, to hear the sound of its giant wings thrumming as it flew past my head, was just incredible. \"\n\nThe discovery, in the Indonesian islands known as the North Moluccas, raises hopes that the region's forests still harbour one of the rarest and most sought after insects in the world.\n\nThere are currently no legal protections around its trade.\n\nTrip member and bee expert Eli Wyman, an entomologist at Princeton University, said he hoped the rediscovery would spark research towards a deeper understanding of the life history of the bee and inform any future efforts to protect it from extinction.\n\nWallace's giant bee is currently listed as vulnerable to extinction, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature.\n\nHowever, the international trade of this species is currently not restricted by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species.\n\nEnvironmental group, Global Wildlife Conservation (GWC), which has launched a worldwide hunt for \"lost species\", supported the trip to find the bee.\n\n\"By making the bee a world-famous flagship for conservation, we are confident that the species has a brighter future than if we just let it quietly be collected into oblivion,\" said Robin Moore.\n\nIn January, the group announced they had found more rare Bolivian frogs belonging to a species thought to be down to one male.", "A network of Jewish Labour members has backed Jeremy Corbyn over claims the party has become \"institutionally anti-Semitic\" under his leadership.\n\nSome 200 Labour supporters signed a Jewish Voice for Labour letter calling Mr Corbyn's party a \"crucial ally in the fight against bigotry\".\n\nAnti-Semitism on the left is \"abhorrent but relatively rare\", it argues.\n\nThe Board of Deputies of British Jews said the view ran \"counter to the experiences of Jewish Labour members\".\n\nOn Wednesday, Labour front-bench MP Barry Gardiner made an emotional apology to Jewish people \"let down\" by the party.\n\n\"We will not stop working until we have once again become a safe and welcoming political home for people from the Jewish community as from every other,\" Labour's international trade spokesman told the Commons.\n\nLiverpool Wavertree MP Luciana Berger quit the party for the new Independent Group on Monday, saying she had been subjected to \"thousands of messages of anti-Semitic abuse and hate\".\n\nTelling MPs she had been met with \"obfuscation, smears, inaction and denial\" after raising the problem, Ms Berger said she arrived at the \"sickening conclusion\" that the Labour Party was \"institutionally anti-Semitic\".\n\nBut the letter drafted by Jewish Voice for Labour, which describes itself as offering \"a space to explore and debate the many questions that are important to us as progressive Labour Jews\", rejects the suggestion.\n\n\"The Labour Party under the progressive leadership of Jeremy Corbyn is a crucial ally in the fight against bigotry and reaction,\" says the letter, published in the Guardian.\n\n\"His lifetime record of campaigning for equality and human rights, including consistent support for initiatives against anti-Semitism, is formidable. His involvement strengthens this struggle.\"\n\nThe group says the letter was signed by filmmaker Mike Leigh, writer Michael Rosen and author Gillian Slovo, as well as several academics and Walter Wolfgang, 93, who fled Nazi Germany as a child.\n\nIt backs the Labour Party's endorsement of freedom of expression on Israel and on the rights of Palestinians.\n\nHowever, Board of Deputies President Marie van der Zyl said: \"The usual bunch of anti-Semitism deniers have written to the Guardian to declare that anti-Jewish hate in the Labour Party is rare.\"\n\nShe said the letter was \"particularly disrespectful\" to Ms Berger who had suffered \"years of anti-Semitic abuse, much of it from fellow party members\".\n\n\"This crisis will only be ended once the denial stops and Labour takes this problem seriously. Our community cannot have any confidence in Labour until the leadership commits to action.\"\n\nJewish Voice for Labour was formed in 2017 and has consistently backed Mr Corbyn's leadership.\n\nIt is separate to the Jewish Labour Movement, formed in 1903, which has called extraordinary general meetings for 6 March, reportedly to discuss ending its 99-year affiliation with the Labour Party.", "From a show-stopping performance from Pink to a portrait of Meghan Markle at the back of Beyonce and Jay Z’s acceptance speech… here’s what people were talking about at this year’s Brit Awards.", "Rochelle Washington (l), and Latresa Scaff (r) are being represented by lawyer Gloria Allred\n\nTwo more women have come forward with allegations of sexual misconduct against the R&B singer R Kelly.\n\nRochelle Washington and Latresa Scaff told a news conference they were given drink and drugs at an after-concert party in Baltimore in the 1990s.\n\nThey said the singer then cornered them in a hotel room and demanded sex.\n\nKelly, 52, has been accused of decades of sexual abuse against women. He has never been convicted and denies all the allegations.\n\nAddressing journalists in New York, the two women said they were teenagers when Kelly's security staff picked them out of a concert audience. They were unable to give the exact year but said it was either 1995 or 1996.\n\nMs Scaff, 40, said that at the party they were given cocaine, marijuana and alcohol and invited to wait for the singer in his hotel room.\n\nOnce there, they were told that he was about to arrive and that they should pull up their dresses, she said.\n\nThe singer arrived with his penis exposed, Ms Scaff said, and invited the girls to a threesome.\n\nR Kelly has strongly denied all the allegations against him\n\nMs Washington, now 39, refused and went to the bathroom while Ms Scaff stayed and had sex with him \"even though I did not have the capacity to consent\" because of the drink and drugs, she added.\n\nMs Scaff said she had decided to come forward \"because of all of the other victims\".\n\nThe two women are represented by high-profile lawyer Gloria Allred who said they would be speaking to the US Attorney for the Eastern District of New York on Thursday.\n\nMs Allred also represents several other women who have made allegations against Kelly.\n\nReferring to the star she said: \"You have nowhere to run and nowhere to hide. You have been able to get away with your predatory misconduct for far too long.\"\n\nR Kelly, whose full name is Robert Sylvester Kelly, has faced claims of sexual abuse for more than 20 years.\n\nA recent documentary, Surviving R Kelly, shown on the US channel Lifetime, contained detailed accounts of his alleged physical and emotional abuse of women.\n\nIt claimed the singer ran an \"abusive cult\" in which he allegedly kept women captive.\n\nKelly's lawyers dismissed the documentary as \"another round of stories\" being used to \"fill reality TV time\".", "City centres are in danger of becoming ghost towns as shopping habits change, a committee of MPs has warned.\n\nTo combat this, the government should \"level the playing field\" for High Street retailers by raising taxes on online giants such as Amazon, it said.\n\nThe MPs also called for lower business rates and more regeneration in town centres.\n\nThe government said it was investing to ensure High Streets \"adapt and thrive for generations\".\n\nA fifth of UK retail sales now occur online with that proportion likely to grow, the Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee said.\n\nBut it said the impact on high streets had been \"stark\", resulting in \"store closures, persistently empty shops and declining footfall\".\n\n\"Some formerly thriving shopping areas are likely to become ghost towns and effectively close down altogether unless the government, councils, retailers, landlords and the local community act together,\" it said.\n\nOne problem, the committee said, was that High Street retailers paid much higher business rates than online retailers because of their greater reliance on physical premises.\n\nAmazon UK's rates, for example, are about 0.7% of its UK turnover, while most High Street retailers pay between 1.5% and 6.5%.\n\nTo counter this, the MPs said the government should look again at bringing in an online sales tax - an idea the Treasury previously ruled out over concerns it would penalise consumers.\n\nThe committee urged it to consider \"green taxes\" on online deliveries and packaging, as well as higher VAT and a general sales tax.\n\nThe revenue raised would be put towards a reduction in business rates for High Street retailers and more funding for regeneration, it said.\n\nThe committee also called for planning reforms to create more \"green spaces\" in city centres, as well as more leisure, culture and social care services.\n\nAnd it said High Street retailers themselves needed to focus on \"experience\" and \"convenience\" to lure shoppers back - for example by extending their opening hours.\n\nAmazon, which has massive sales in the UK, yet pays little tax, declined to comment on the MPs' proposals.\n\nBut it stressed it paid all of the taxes required of it in the UK and \"every country where we operate\".\n\nHelen Dickinson, head of the British Retail Consortium, welcomed calls for lower business rates, saying the current system was \"a major factor in store closures\".\n\nHigh Streets Minister Jake Berry said the government had unveiled a £675m plan to support English High Streets at the last Budget.\n\n\"We know High Streets are the backbone of our economy and a crucial part of our local communities, and we want to see them thrive - both now and in the future.\n\n\"We're supporting small retailers too, slashing business rates by a third - building on more than £13bn of rates relief since 2016.\"", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nManchester City are \"still not ready to fight for the latter stages\" of the Champions League, said manager Pep Guardiola after his side staged a brilliant late comeback to beat Schalke in the first leg of their last-16 tie.\n\nEngland forward Raheem Sterling scored the decisive goal in the last minute of normal time - latching on to goalkeeper Ederson's long kick and coolly slotting home.\n\nThe Premier League champions had come into the match as strong favourites and went in front on 18 minutes through Sergio Aguero.\n\nBut the game swung in Schalke's favour before half-time after a contentious VAR decision and two Nabil Bentaleb penalties.\n\nThe first of Schalke's spot-kicks came after the intervention of the VAR, who penalised City defender Nicolas Otamendi for handball when the ball struck his arm as he moved it behind his back.\n\nThe second was given for a foul by Fernandinho on Salif Sane - the referee sticking with his decision after briefly consulting the VAR.\n\nAfter being booked for the handball, Otamendi was shown a second yellow card for a foul on Guido Burgstaller in the second half - meaning he will sit out the second leg, as will Fernandinho.\n\nWith City heading for a surprise defeat, manager Pep Guardiola sent on former Schalke player Leroy Sane - and the Germany international curled home a free-kick from 30 yards out to level, before Sterling struck.\n\n\"It was a great result,\" said Guardiola. \"We gave them two penalties, we gave them a red card, and in this competition that is not too good.\n\n\"We are still not ready to fight for the latter stages, that is reality, but the result is good.\n\n\"We played with incredible personality. We gave two goals when they did absolutely nothing. It is not over, this competition is completely different.\"\n\nThe second leg takes place in Manchester on Tuesday, 12 March.\n• None Guardiola and pundits have their say on VAR calls\n\nQuestions were asked about City when they lost 2-1 at Newcastle in late January, but five successive victories later and talk has turned to whether they can win an unprecedented quadruple of trophies this season.\n\nWhile Phil Foden believes they can \"definitely\" win all four, fellow midfielder Kevin de Bruyne has suggested it would be \"nearly impossible\" and Guardiola said it was \"silly\" to be asked the question in February.\n\nCity top the Premier League on goal difference - albeit having played a game more than Liverpool - and will face Swansea in the FA Cup quarter-finals.\n\nTheir first chance of silverware comes in the Carabao Cup final against Chelsea on Sunday, but four days before that their Champions League campaign looked to be stalling.\n\nCity dominated the opening half an hour - with 70% possession - and Aguero's goal came via a gift from goalkeeper Ralf Fahrmann, whose pass sold defender Sane short as David Silva nipped in and laid the ball off for his team-mate to finish.\n\nGuardiola's side showed their resolve, though, by scoring twice late on and will now be heavy favourites to progress to the last eight.\n\nSane said: \"I was a little bit sad for Schalke, because the atmosphere was amazing like it always is. Schalke did really well, the way they defended made it difficult.\n\n\"At the end we did it, we scored three goals away - that was the most important thing. You can see the will is a lot. We never give up, we always want to keep fighting.\"\n\n'I don't know what is handball and what isn't'\n\nThe hosts trailed 1-0 when wing-back Daniel Caligiuri cut in from the right and struck a shot goalwards, which hit Otamendi on the arm.\n\nIt seemed as though the Argentine was trying to tuck his arm behind his back, and Spanish referee Carlos del Cerro Grande initially awarded a corner. But after consultation with VAR Alejandro Hernandez - a discussion which took nearly three minutes - he pointed to the penalty spot, and former Tottenham midfielder Bentaleb converted.\n\nIt later emerged the pitchside monitor used to review decisions was broken, so the referee could not watch a replay of the incident.\n\nFormer City defender Danny Mills said on BBC Radio 5 live: \"I don't know what is handball and what isn't any more. Otamendi is trying to get his arm out of the way, it's in a natural position, but it stops the ball hitting the target.\"\n\nEx-City midfielder Michael Brown added: \"It was probably the longest VAR in history deciding the right decision. I don't think they knew and then finally they gave the penalty.\"\n\nThe second penalty decision was more straightforward for the referee as he penalised Fernandinho for holding - and Bentaleb scored once more.\n\nSchalke head coach Domenico Tedesco said: \"We are obviously very disappointed by the result. We deserved more.\n\n\"For one of the few times this season we had a bit of luck on our side. We knew we would be pushed deep, but we were sloppy too often on the counter and conceding the goals we did late on was heartbreaking.\"\n• None Sterling's goal was City's first 90th-minute winner in the Champions League since Kevin de Bruyne's against Sevilla in October 2015.\n• None City are unbeaten in their past eight Champions League games against German opponents (W7 D1), since a 1-0 defeat by Bayern Munich in September 2014.\n• None Defeat ended Schalke's nine-game unbeaten home run in Europe (W6 D3), with their previous defeat in February 2016 against Shakhtar Donetsk.\n• None Aguero has scored 10 goals in his past seven appearances, and is the top goalscorer in the top five European leagues in 2019 (11).\n• None Since the start of last season, only Cristiano Ronaldo (8) has scored more away goals in the Champions League than Aguero (7).\n• None Sane has been directly involved in eight goals in his past seven appearances for City (three goals, five assists).\n• None Bentaleb has converted each of his 14 penalties for Schalke.\n• None Otamendi was shown his first red card for City in his 161st appearance for the club.\n• None Attempt missed. Steven Skrzybski (FC Schalke 04) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Salif Sané with a headed pass.\n• None Goal! FC Schalke 04 2, Manchester City 3. Raheem Sterling (Manchester City) right footed shot from the right side of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Ederson.\n• None Goal! FC Schalke 04 2, Manchester City 2. Leroy Sané (Manchester City) from a free kick with a left footed shot to the top right corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Steven Skrzybski (FC Schalke 04) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Mark Uth. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Some 20,000 people who have fled Baghuz in recent weeks have been taken to a camp\n\nThe UN has expressed concern about the fate of some 200 families reportedly trapped in the last tiny area of Syria still held by the Islamic State group.\n\nHuman rights chief Michelle Bachelet said they were apparently being prevented from leaving by IS militants.\n\nThey were also being subjected to intense bombardment by US-led coalition and allied Syrian forces, she added.\n\nOn Tuesday evening, dozens of lorries reportedly arrived on the outskirts of the IS enclave to evacuate civilians.\n\nThe Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based monitoring group, cited its sources as saying wives and children of militants would be taken to an undisclosed location as part of a deal with the coalition.\n\nEarlier, it reported that a request by militants to be given safe passage to the opposition-held Syrian province of Idlib or neighbouring Iraq had been rejected by the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) alliance.\n\nIS militants are reportedly confined to tents pitched on top of a network of tunnels and caves\n\nSDF spokesman Mustafa Bali appeared to dismiss such an idea on Tuesday morning, insisting the militants had \"only two options - either they surrender or they will be killed in battle\".\n\n\"We are working on secluding and evacuating civilians and then we will attack. This could happen soon,\" Mr Bali was quoted as saying by AFP news agency.\n\nFive years ago, IS controlled 88,000 sq km (34,000 sq miles) of territory stretching from western Syria to eastern Iraq. It proclaimed the creation of a \"caliphate\", imposing its brutal rule on almost eight million people and generating billions of dollars from oil, extortion, robbery and kidnapping.\n\nNow, an estimated 300 militants and hundreds of civilians are surrounded inside about 0.5 sq km (0.2 square miles) of land in the Baghuz area, which is in the Middle Euphrates River Valley, near the border with Iraq.\n\n\"Civilians continue to be used as pawns by the various parties,\" Ms Bachelet said.\n\n\"I call on them to provide safe passage to those who wish to flee, while those wish to remain must also be protected as much as possible.\n\n\"They should not be sacrificed to ideology on the one hand, or military expediency on the other. If protecting civilian lives means taking a few more days to capture the last fraction of land controlled by [IS], then so be it.\"\n\nUS-backed SDF fighters launched an assault on Baghuz this month\n\nAlthough no-one has reportedly made it out of Baghuz in the past three days, some 20,000 civilians have been taken by the SDF to a makeshift camp for displaced people at al-Hol, in Hassakeh province, in recent weeks.\n\nAmong them are the wives and children of IS militants and many foreign nationals, including the British teenager Shamima Begum, who was 15 when she ran away from her home to join IS four years ago.\n\nThe International Rescue Committee (IRC) said on Monday that at least 62 people had died on their way to al-Hol, two thirds of them children under the age of one. Exhaustion and malnutrition were the principal causes of the deaths.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. On Monday Shamima Begum told the BBC she never sought to be an IS \"poster girl\"\n\nMs Bachelet also said she was alarmed by an upsurge in attacks and civilian casualties in Idlib province, where a takeover by a jihadist group linked to al-Qaeda, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, has jeopardised a truce brokered by Turkey and Russia in September.\n\nThe Syrian government's bombardment of a demilitarised buffer zone, which runs along the frontline in Idlib and areas of northern Hama and western Aleppo provinces, started to escalate in December and has further intensified in recent days, according to the UN.\n\nAt the same time, there has been an increase in fighting among rebel and jihadist factions, and also in the use of improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in areas they control.\n\nOn Monday, at least 16 civilians, including women and children, were reportedly killed by two bomb explosions in the Qusour district of Idlib city. The second blast appeared to have been designed to kill those, including medical workers, coming to the aid of victims of the first.\n\nAnother nine civilians, including four women and two boys, were meanwhile reportedly killed by government strikes on Khan Sheikhoun on Friday and Saturday.\n\nPlease upgrade your browser to view this content. How the jihadist group rose and fell Was this timeline useful? Thank you for your feedback.", "A vegan cheesemonger in Brixton has been told to stop calling its produce “cheese”.\n\nDairy UK says that using the word \"cheese\" for anything other than real dairy products is misleading.\n\nIt says plant-based alternatives do not have the same nutritional contents. The shop owners say they are clearly labelling their food.", "Former Swiss soldier Johan Cosar, photographed in Syria in 2015\n\nA Swiss military court has sentenced a former soldier for fighting against the Islamic State group in Syria.\n\nJohan Cosar used his military training to recruit hundreds of men to defend Christian groups from IS.\n\nHe was found guilty of undermining Switzerland's neutrality and security by joining a foreign army - and given a three-month suspended sentence and fined 500 francs (£383; $500).\n\nCosar made no attempt to hide his actions, and remains proud of them.\n\nHe says he plans to appeal the sentence - which is relatively lenient when compared to the maximum of three years in prison.\n\nHe was born in Switzerland, and is a Swiss citizen. But his grandparents have Syrian roots, and the Cosar family are members of the Syriac Christian community.\n\nAfter returning from Syria, he was arrested and charged under Switzerland's military penal code, which forbids Swiss citizens from serving in foreign armies.\n\nThe verdict reflects similar sentences handed down to other Swiss men over the last 10 years, most of whom joined the French Foreign Legion.\n\nAt the outset of the trial, an army spokeswoman said: \"The law forbids fighting for a foreign force. Who that force actually is, is irrelevant.\"\n\nNow 37, Cosar says he originally travelled to Syria to work as a freelance journalist, but when he saw that Islamist groups were advancing on Christian communities he felt he had no choice but to defend them.\n\nHe helped to found the Syriac Military Council, recruited for it, and readily shared the military skills he had learned in the Swiss army, among them weapons training and setting up checkpoints. At the height of the fighting, he was in charge of more than 500 men.\n\nBut joining a foreign army without the explicit permission of the government is forbidden under Switzerland's military penal code.\n\nThere are good historic reasons for this law: for centuries young Swiss men left their then-poor country to fight abroad. Swiss mercenaries were recruited by Napoleon, by Spain, the Netherlands, and even the British.\n\nBut once Switzerland established itself as a neutral country, its government decided it could be awkward to have Swiss men fighting on multiple sides of Europe's wars, and forbade the practice.\n\nToday just one vestige of the Swiss mercenary tradition remains: the Swiss Papal Guard in Rome.\n\nCosar - in his civilian clothes - arrives in court in Switzerland\n\nThe opening of Cosar's trial was greeted by a small demonstration of his friends and family, carrying banners proclaiming \"fighting Islamic State is not a crime.\"\n\nCosar himself has suggested he deserves a medal, not a trial, because he was \"fighting terrorism\" and protecting Christian minorities in Syria from, he believes, certain death.\n\nThe atmosphere inside the courtroom was described as relaxed.\n\nSwitzerland's government, however, does not want to send a signal that fighting in foreign wars will be tolerated in any circumstances at all, however \"honourable\".\n\nDozens of Swiss citizens have travelled to Syria to fight for IS, or to marry the Islamist group's soldiers. A few are already back and in prison.\n\nOthers are still in northern Syria, together with thousands of other foreign fighters, detained in camps run by Syrian opposition groups. Like countries across Europe, Switzerland is agonising over what to do about them.\n\nFighting for a banned group like IS carries a much stiffer prison sentence of up to 20 years. Switzerland's justice minister said this week she would like Swiss foreign fighters to be tried \"on the spot\" in Syria rather than back in Switzerland.\n\nNo-one, however, seems quite sure how that would work. The Swiss government is due to announce its policy on foreign fighters next week.", "The graffiti was painted on three doors at the block of flats\n\nA man has admitted daubing racist graffiti on doors at a block of flats.\n\nVaughan Dowd left David Yamba, 10, \"terrified\" by writing \"No Blacks\" on the door of his family home in Salford, five days after they had moved in.\n\nThe 54-year-old has been kept in custody \"for his own protection\" until he is sentenced at Manchester Crown Court on 21 March.\n\nThe court heard trainee solicitor Jackson Yamba, 38, and his son saw the graffiti written in white paint on his front door and two further doors on the morning of 8 February.\n\nAnn Deakin, prosecuting, said the boy told his father: \"Daddy, something is written on the door.\"\n\nCCTV footage showed Dowd covering his face to carry out the attack before returning to the flats with his face uncovered.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn a victim impact statement, the householder said: \"The idea someone has the audacity to attack my front door of my home address and target me in this way has affected me in a lasting way.\n\n\"I'm now constantly on edge and worried about every little noise outside and it has affected my ability to sleep.\"\n\nJackson Yamba and his son found the graffiti five days after moving into the flat in Salford\n\nLorna Wincote, defending, said: \"The facts are fully accepted. There's no issues with regard to any drugs or alcohol, there's some suggestion of some underlying mental health issue, because there is no other underlying explanation.\"\n\nThe case came to light after Mr Yamba, who came to the UK from the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2006, tweeted a photo of his front door and complained that no police officers had been to see him a week after he reported the attack.\n\nGMP's chief constable apologised on Twitter for the delay in sending officers to investigate.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Tork was diagnosed with a rare form of tongue cancer in 2009\n\nPeter Tork, a member of the made-for-TV pop group The Monkees, has died at the age of 77.\n\n\"There are no words right now... heartbroken over the loss of my Monkee brother Peter Tork,\" bandmate Micky Dolenz tweeted.\n\nTork, who played keyboard and bass for the group, was diagnosed with a rare form of tongue cancer in 2009.\n\nThe Monkees were huge in the 1960s, with hits like I'm A Believer and Daydream Believer.\n\nA post on Tork's official Facebook page said \"the devastating news\" was being shared \"with beyond-heavy and broken hearts\".\n\nIt said: \"Our friend, mentor, teacher, and amazing soul, Peter Tork, has passed from this world.\"\n\nA message posted on the band's official Twitter page said that Tork had \"passed peacefully\" and invited fans to share their favourite memories by adding their comments.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by The Monkees\n\nThe family later released a statement in which they said they were \"saddened\" by Tork's death, but \"grateful\" for the \"attentive energy and dedication of Peter's fans worldwide\".\n\n\"Peter's energy, intelligence, silliness and curiosity were traits that for decades brought laughter and enjoyment to millions, including those of us closest to him.\n\n\"We ask that our family have time and space to grieve in privacy,\" it added.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Brian Wilson 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. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Monkees - Davy Jones, Micky Dolenz, Michael Nesmith and Peter Tork - were brought together for an American TV series in 1966.\n\nThey were famous for their clean-cut image and were marketed as the American answer to The Beatles, notching up nine Top 40 hits.\n\nAs well as playing instruments for the band, Tork also sang on many of the tracks.\n\nAmong those to pay tribute on Thursday were Canadian singer-songwriter Ron Sexsmith and Blur guitarist and solo artist Graham Coxon, who simply tweeted: \"RIP Peter Tork - my favourite Monkee.\"\n\nAward-winning songwriter Diane Warren, who contributed to the 80s hit Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now by Starship, tweeted \"Oh no\" and thanked Tork for \"giving me your love beads... when I was a little girl\".\n\nThe post on Tork's Facebook told fans: \"We want to thank each and every one of you for your love, dedication and support of our 'boss.'\n\n\"Having you in our world has meant so very much to all of us. Please know that Peter was extremely appreciative of you, his Torkees, and one of his deepest joys was to be out in front of you, playing his music, and seeing you enjoy what he had to share.\n\n\"We send blessings and thoughts of comfort to you all, with much gratitude, the PTFB team.\"\n\nTork was born in Washington in 1942. He learned to play multiple instruments, including the piano and the French horn.\n\nAs recently as October last year, he addressed \"some concerns\" about his health on Facebook.\n\n\"While it is true that my health has required a little more attention these days, I'm feeling pretty good,\" he wrote.\n\nThe Monkees ran for just two television series, but that was enough to win an Emmy Award for outstanding comedy.\n\nDiscussing the show in an interview with Guitar World in 2013, Tork said: \"I refute any claims that any four guys could've done what we did.\"\n\nHe added: \"There was a magic to that collection... they got the right guys.\"\n\nIn 2012, following the death of Jones from a heart attack in February at the age of 66, Tork reunited with Nesmith and Dolenz for a US tour in what was the musicians' first live shows together in 15 years.\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.", "Britain's public finances have received a big boost ahead of the chancellor's Spring Statement next month.\n\nIncome from taxes beat public spending by £14.9bn in January, the largest monthly surplus since records began in 1993, official figures showed.\n\nThe bumper surplus beat economists' forecasts of £10bn, and was £5.6bn greater than January 2018.\n\nJanuary is a key revenue-raising month as it is when taxpayers submit their self-assessment returns.\n\nAnalysts said the reduction in borrowing should give Chancellor Philip Hammond extra money for his next economic update in the spring, amid acute Brexit concerns.\n\nHoward Archer, chief economic adviser to the EY Item Club, said: \"A record high surplus on the January public finances provides a much-needed welcome boost for Chancellor Philip Hammond as he faces a worrying backdrop to his Spring Statement on 13 March.\n\n\"With the economy clearly struggling early on in 2019 after a sharp slowdown in the fourth quarter of 2018 and the Brexit situation highly uncertain, the chancellor will have a lot on his mind when he presents the Spring Statement.\n\n\"It looks highly likely that he will have to announce downgraded growth forecasts from the OBR [Office for Budget Responsibility] at least for the near term, with possible negative ramifications for expected budget deficits.\"\n\nOffice for National Statistics (ONS) data also showed that borrowing in the current financial year to January was £21.2bn, £18.5bn less than the same period last year and the lowest year-to-date figure for 17 years.\n\nThe ONS added that public sector net debt increased by £40.5bn to £1.8tn in January, equivalent to 82.6% of gross domestic product (GDP).", "Ducting collapsed in the roof of a bar, the fire service said\n\nEighteen people have been treated, including six who were taken to hospital, after part of a ceiling fell down at a holiday camp in Somerset.\n\nThe collapse happened at Pontins Brean Sands, near Weston-super-Mare, at about 18:20 GMT, the fire service said.\n\nIt said structural ducting and ceiling sections collapsed in a bar area \"exposing live damaged electrics\".\n\nA \"number of people\" suffered minor injuries but no-one was seriously hurt, Avon and Somerset Police said.\n\nSouth Western Ambulance Service said 18 people had been treated.\n\nPolice said that a search of the scene had been carried out and confirmed that no-one was trapped under the debris.\n\nThe Health and Safety Executive has been informed of the incident.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLaura Robinson, whose family of five children are at the site, said about 100 people were inside the building at the time of the collapse.\n\nShe said: \"We were in the family clubhouse, suddenly part of the roof [came] down halfway across the room, all across tables and people.\n\n\"It has come straight down over the tables in a long line.\n\n\"I heard this cracking noise and looked up and part of it's coming down and then the whole way along it went.\"\n\nOne woman told the BBC: \"If I wouldn't have moved a big slab of concrete would have landed on my head and split my head open.\n\n\"It landed right by my feet.\"\n\nSouth Western Ambulance Service said 18 people had been treated\n\nFormer New Zealand cricketer Iain O'Brien said on Twitter: \"Arrived back to Pontins Brean Sands this afternoon, after a day out, to a major site panic.\n\n\"Word is, and hopefully it's accurate, no-one seriously hurt.\n\n\"Serious amount of emergency services here. Staff very shaken and look like they could do with a hug or two.\n\nAnother man told the BBC: \"My wife just ran out of the way of it.\n\n\"The seat where it went down on was the seat I was going to be because my coat was on the chair, so I had to pull my coat out.\"\n\nThe scene was made safe by fire crews\n\nDevon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service said in a statement: \"The incident involved the collapse of approximately 40m of structural ducting and ceiling sections, exposing live damaged electrics and making the scene unstable.\n\n\"Fire crews used eight high-pressure airbags and small tools to establish that no persons were trapped beneath the collapse.\"\n\nThe scene was made safe and fire crews had left the scene, they added.", "Four pairs of Christian Louboutin trainers each went for more than £250\n\nDozens of pairs of designer trainers that were seized after a gangster was arrested have sold for nearly £5,000 at auction.\n\nIsaiah Hanson-Frost is serving a six-year jail sentence for shooting a gun at a car containing rival gang members.\n\nThe 55 pairs of trainers, were valued at about £18,500 and included brands such as Christian Louboutin, Louis Vuitton, Jimmy Choo and Gucci.\n\nThe money raised will go towards helping to prevent crime.\n\nLee Baldwin of AMS Auctions said the response was \"exceptional\", and the sale attracted bids from as fair afield as Australia, USA, Trinidad and Romania.\n\nHe added: \"Based on our initial valuation of the shoes AMS are delighted with the sale result which has ensured a healthy return to the Gloucestershire constabulary in a transparent and justified manner.\"\n\nThese trainers are by the Italian designer Giacomo Morelli\n\nDuring a hearing last November, Hanson-Frost denied possession of criminal property but agreed to hand over his collection of trainers.\n\nUnder the Police Property Act, the Gloucestershire force was able to auction off the trainers, which fetched £4,738.\n\nHanson-Frost was jailed in April after admitting violent disorder and possessing a firearm with intent to cause fear of violence in relation to the shooting, which happened on the Chase Lane Industrial Estate in Gloucester.\n\nThe 22-year-old, who was cleared of possession of criminal property when the prosecution chose not to proceed with the case, was allowed to keep any Nike trainers valued at less than £100.", "About 100 people were in the entertainment hall about to play bingo when the roof collapsed\n\nPeople at a holiday camp where a ceiling collapsed have said it was like \"a bomb going off\".\n\nAbout 100 people were in the entertainment hall waiting to play bingo when sections of concrete fell down on Wednesday evening.\n\nEighteen people needed treatment at the scene, including six who were taken to hospital following the collapse at Pontins Brean Sands, Weston-super-Mare.\n\nA spokesperson for Pontins said they would not be commenting at the moment.\n\nAn investigation is being led by Sedgemoor District Council.\n\nOne of the injured people, Wendy Jones, from Hereford, was trapped under the debris in her motor scooter.\n\nThe 67-year-old's daughter Hayley Kendle described the incident as \"horrific\".\n\nShe said: \"I heard a crash, and next thing the ceiling was falling in on the building. She was under the rubble and they had to drag her out. People were screaming and shouting and yelling for us to get out of the building.\"\n\nMrs Jones suffered a broken hip and a suspected broken collarbone, and earlier underwent surgery at Weston General Hospital.\n\nHolidaymaker Jennifer McGary said: \"Our first reaction was that it was a terrorist attack.\n\n\"I know it sounds ridiculous but you just heard this loud noise that I can only describe as [like] a bomb going off.\n\n\"Suddenly it looked like the entire roof was collapsing - I just ran to grab my 11-year-old off the dance floor and my 15-year-old then tried to get out of there as quickly as I could.\n\n\"There were screaming children everywhere, people crying everywhere, there was a boy in a wheelchair outside who was calling for his mum.\"\n\nMs McGary added she felt the place \"should be shut down\".\n\nEyewitnesses spoke of tables holding the collapsed ceiling up\n\nGeorge Clark was injured by a falling piece of concrete that hit his shoulder.\n\n\"I had to throw myself to the ground, and crawl out under the tables - the tables were holding up the weight of the ceiling,\" he said.\n\n\"Everyone just panicked, there were screams, kids crying and shouting, it was just bedlam in there.\"\n\nSarah Prosser and her husband were also in the room when the ceiling fell.\n\n\"It was like a volcano - all of sudden it erupted, all smoke was there and if I hadn't have moved a concrete slab would have landed on my head and split my head open.\"\n\n\"I wasn't worried about myself, I was worried about the kids - there were small babies in there, there were toddlers in there on the stage.\n\n\"There was dust everywhere,\" she added.\n\nThose at the scene said the area was filled with dust \"like a volcano\"\n\nA Sedgemoor council spokesman said the building was not owned by the authority.\n\nHe added: \"We have environmental health officers at the site at present and will issue a further statement, based on their initial findings, but the investigation is likely to be complex and run for several months.\"\n\nOfficers from Somerset Building Control Partnership are also on site.\n\nA spokesman for the Health and Safety Executive said: \"HSE has informed the police that this is a local authority enforced premises and therefore for the police and local authority to determine who will ultimately investigate.\"\n\nAbout 18 people were hurt but no-one was seriously injured, emergency services said\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 fast-moving fire swept through a historic district of Bangladesh's capital, Dhaka, killing at least 78 people, officials say.\n\nThe blaze broke out at night in a residential building that had flammable material stored on the ground floor.\n\nMembers of a bridal party are thought to be among the victims. It is not yet clear what started the fire.\n\nThe centuries-old Chawkbazar district has narrow streets and buildings very close to each other.\n\nLarge building fires are relatively common in densely populated Bangladesh, owing to lax safety regulations and poor conditions. Hundreds of people have been killed in recent years.\n\nOn Sunday, a fire in a slum in the coastal city of Chittagong killed at least nine people.\n\nThe fire broke out in a mixed-use building at 23:40 local time (17:40 GMT) on Wednesday, when many residents were sleeping.\n\nIt started at a chemical warehouse on the ground floor and then raced through three other buildings, officials say. Many people were trapped, unable to escape the flames.\n\nWitnesses and police said gas explosions helped fuel the blaze.\n\nMohammad Firoz, who sells cosmetics in Chawkbazar, said 25 of his friends and relatives were missing and that he feared his brother was dead.\n\nHe said he had seen an electricity transformer explode, causing a minibus parked below to catch fire. Its gas cylinder then exploded, causing a blaze in a nearby chemical shop.\n\n\"The flames spread so quickly,\" he told the BBC's Bengali service. He said his brother, Hira, who worked in a nearby pharmacy, closed the shutters of the shop after one of the explosions, fearing there had been a bombing. \"I fear he died inside the shop, I am still searching for his dead body.\"\n\nHaji Abdul Kader, whose shop was destroyed, said he had \"heard a big bang\". He told AFP news agency: \"I turned back and saw the whole street in flames. Flames were everywhere.\"\n\nThe death toll stood at 78, Dr Sohail Mahmoud, head of the department of forensic medicine at Dhaka Medical College, told reporters.\n\n\"Up to now, we have 67 bodies in our mortuary and the hospital morgue has 11 dead bodies,\" he said.\n\nVictims included people outside the buildings, some guests at a restaurant and members of a bridal party, AFP reports. Most of the bodies were charred beyond recognition.\n\nSome of the injured were in critical condition. The number of victims is expected to rise as the search continues through the damaged buildings.\n\nDistraught relatives have been gathering at Dhaka Medical College hospital\n\nFirefighters fought for more than five hours to put out the blaze, hindered by narrow streets and a lack of water sources.\n\nPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina expressed her shock over the tragedy and conveyed condolences to those affected, the Dhaka Tribune reports.\n\nChawkbazar is one of the most important areas in Old Dhaka, a historic district established about 400 years ago during the Mughal dynasty.\n\nIt is a hub of chemical businesses and local perfume factories, though authorities banned the storage of chemical goods after a deadly fire in 2010.\n\nThe streets are packed with rickshaws, small cars and people walking around during the day. The lanes are so narrow that passenger buses cannot get through.\n\nElectrical, telephone and internet cables hanging above the narrow lanes pose a real danger. But the most serious threat comes from the fact that residential buildings are used for commercial purposes, with ground floors serving as chemical and gas cylinder warehouses.\n\nIn June 2010, a blaze in the Nimtali district killed 124 people, a fire that was also made worse by the presence of an illegal chemicals warehouse.\n\nAfter that incident, a committee suggested the removal of all chemicals warehouses from residential areas, but critics say no significant steps have been taken in the years since.\n\nJust one week ago, authorities announced a campaign to identify illegal chemical business in old Dhaka. Similar campaigns have been conducted in the past but none of them were particularly successful.\n\nThe scene of the fire in the crowded old quarter of Dhaka\n\nThe lack of safety regulations was highlighted in 2013 when more than 1,100 people died and thousands more were injured when a building housing garment factories in Dhaka collapsed.\n\nDhaka has a population of more than 18m people with some 3.5m living in slums, according to the World Bank. It is one of the world's most densely populated cities.\n\nAre you in the area? Did you witness the incident? Tell us about your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. On Monday Shamima Begum told the BBC she never sought to be an IS \"poster girl\"\n\nShamima Begum - the schoolgirl who fled London to join the Islamic State group in Syria - has said she never wanted to be an IS \"poster girl\".\n\nMs Begum, who has just given birth, said she now wants the UK's forgiveness and supports \"some British values\".\n\nShe told the BBC while it was \"wrong\" innocent people died in the 2017 Manchester attack, it was \"kind of retaliation\" for attacks on IS.\n\nThe 19-year-old left Bethnal Green four years ago with two school friends.\n\nThere has been debate about Ms Begum's plight since she was found in a Syrian refugee camp by the Times newspaper last week after reportedly leaving Baghuz, IS's last stronghold in the country.\n\nShe gave birth to a baby boy last weekend, having previously lost two children, and named him after her first son.\n\nWhile she told the BBC she would have let her late son become an IS fighter, she wants her new baby \"to be British\" and for her to return to the UK with him.\n\nIn an interview with the BBC's Middle East correspondent Quentin Sommerville on Monday, Ms Begum said: \"I don't actually agree with everything they've done.\n\n\"I actually do support some British values and I am willing to go back to the UK and settle back again and rehabilitate and that stuff.\"\n\nHome Secretary Sajid Javid told MPs on Monday that he would not \"hesitate to prevent\" the return of Britons who travelled to Syria to join IS. While the UK cannot leave people stateless, under international law, he said any such Britons would be \"questioned, investigated and potentially prosecuted\".\n\nNo British troops would be used to help or rescue them, he said. He told MPs that more than 100 dual nationals have already lost their UK citizenship after travelling in support of terrorist groups.\n\n\"If you back terror, there must be consequences,\" he said. More than 900 people have left the UK to join the conflict in Syria, said Mr Javid, adding that those who join IS have \"shown they hate our country and the values that we stand for\".\n\nMs Begum was 15 and living in Bethnal Green, London, when she left the UK in 2015\n\nAsked about the Manchester Arena attack in 2017 in which 22 people - some of them children - were killed in a bombing claimed by IS, she said: \"I was shocked. I didn't know about the kids, actually. I do feel that is wrong. Innocent people did get killed.\"\n\nShe compared the attack to military assaults on Syria, saying: \"It's one thing to kill a soldier, it's fine, it's self-defence. But to kill people like women and children just like the women and children in Baghuz who are being killed right now unjustly by the bombings - it's a two-way thing really because women and children are being killed back in the Islamic State right now.\n\n\"It's kind of retaliation. Their justification was that it was retaliation so I thought, okay, that is a fair justification.\"\n\nMs Begum said she was sorry for all the families who had lost people because of the attacks in the UK and other countries.\n\n\"That wasn't fair on them,\" she said. \"They weren't fighting anyone. They weren't causing any harm. But neither was I and neither were other women who are being killed right now back in Baghuz.\"\n\nWhen it was suggested that her going to Syria might have been a \"propaganda victory\" for IS, Ms Begum said: \"I did hear a lot of people were encouraged to come after, but I wasn't the one who put myself on the news.\"\n\nShe added: \"The poster girl thing was not my choice.\"\n\nMs Begum said she made the choice to go to Syria and could make her own decisions, despite being only 15 at the time. She said she was partly inspired by videos of fighters beheading hostages and also by videos showing \"the good life\" under IS.\n\nShe watched videos of the murders of British hostages, she told the BBC, but said she did not know the names of any of the victims.\n\nOur correspondent said that \"throughout the interview, Shamima Begum continued to espouse Islamic State philosophy.\" He added: \"When I asked her about the enslavement, murder and rape of Yazidi women by IS, she said 'Shia do the same in Iraq'.\"\n\nBut she said: \"I just want forgiveness really, from the UK. Everything I've been through, I didn't expect I would go through that.\n\n\"Losing my children the way I lost them, I don't want to lose this baby as well and this is really not a place to raise children, this camp.\"\n\nTwelve more British women have arrived at the camp in Syria in the last week and more are expected, our correspondent added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tasnime Akunjee, the lawyer for the family of Shamima Begum, expects her to be \"damaged\" by her ordeal\n\nEarlier, the lawyer representing Ms Begum's family said she is \"damaged\" and will need mental health support. Tasnime Akunjee also said her family are prepared to raise her newborn baby away from \"IS thinking\".\n\nHe said Ms Begum - who is legally British - had still not been in contact with her family and the family are trying to get the government to provide travel documents for Ms Begum and her newborn son, who he said has a right to citizenship.\n\nMs Begum left the UK in February 2015 with two other schoolgirls, Kadiza Sultana and Amira Abase. Kadiza is thought to have died when a house was blown up, and the fate of Amira is unknown.\n\nMr Akunjee also called for an \"urgent inquiry\" into how Ms Begum and the other schoolgirls were able to travel to Syria.\n\nKadiza Sultana, Amira Abase and Shamima Begum (l-r) in photos issued by police\n\nPreviously, Ms Begum said she escaped from Baghuz, Islamic State's last stronghold in eastern Syria, two weeks ago.\n\nHer husband, a Dutch convert to Islam, is thought to have surrendered to a group of Syrian fighters.\n\nUnder international law, the UK is obliged to let a Briton without the claim to another nationality return home.\n\nBut the government does not have consular staff in Syria, and says it will not risk any lives to help Britons who have joined a banned terrorist group.\n\nIf Ms Begum is able to reach a British consulate in a recognised country, it is thought security chiefs could \"manage\" her return.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAll children must learn about same sex couples regardless of their religious background, the head of Ofsted says.\n\nHundreds of parents protested outside a Birmingham school against it teaching pupils about same sex couples and gender identity.\n\nOfsted chief inspector Amanda Spielman told the BBC it was crucial children were exposed to differences in society.\n\nShe said it was important children knew \"there are families that have two mummies or two daddies\".\n\nParents of Muslim and Christian faith have held demonstrations outside Parkfield Community School in the Alum Rock area of the city, where children are taught about same sex couples through story books.\n\nParkfield Community School said it has no plans to change its teaching, despite protests\n\nProtesters have claimed the lessons, part of the \"No Outsiders\" programme, contradict their faith.\n\nThey argued assistant head Andrew Moffat, who started the lessons and is gay, has been \"promoting personal beliefs and convictions about universal acceptability of homosexuality as being normal and morally correct\".\n\nBut Mrs Spielman said the lessons were \"about making sure they [children] know just enough to know that some people prefer not to get married to somebody of the opposite sex and that sometimes there are families that have two mummies or two daddies\".\n\n\"It's about making sure that children who do happen to realise that they themselves may not fit a conventional pattern know that they're not bad or ill.\"\n\nIn light of the protests, Mrs Spielman said there needed to be a \"careful exploration of the middle ground\" but lessons covering LGBT topics were important.\n\nParents tied signs to railings outside the Birmingham primary school to protest LGBT lessons\n\nOne mother, who wished to remain anonymous, accused the school of \"planting ideas\" in children's heads.\n\nHer daughter attends Parkfield School and she said she was too young to be taught \"what goes on in someone's bedroom\".\n\n\"It's something that we would like to teach our children ourselves,\" she said. \"It kind of feels like they're forcing it upon us.\"\n\nShe denied being homophobic but said \"it's just not what we're about and we don't agree with it\".\n\nMr Moffat told the BBC he had been receiving threats and \"nasty emails\" from parents who disagreed with the programme.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMrs Spielman argued the lessons were less about \"endless sex education\" and more about understanding differences in society.\n\n\"The essence of democracy is that we don't all get our way,\" she said.\n\n\"We accept majority decision which means there will always be things that some of us don't like, but that is the very essence of it - accepting that we can't have 100% of what we want.\"\n\nSolutions, she said, would be found in \"sane, rational discussion, not protest\".\n\nHowever, the BBC understands more protests were being planned and some parents have said they would write to the government demanding a change in equality legislation.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe change, they hoped, would enable schools not to teach subjects that were not in line with religious beliefs.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Alfie Lamb was described in court as \"the loveliest boy you could ever meet\"\n\nThe mother of a three-year-old boy allegedly crushed by a car seat has been found guilty of child cruelty.\n\nAdrian Hoare, 23, failed to prevent her boyfriend Stephen Waterson, 25, from allegedly squashing Alfie Lamb in the footwell of his Audi convertible with his seat in February last year.\n\nHoare was cleared of manslaughter while a jury failed to reach a verdict on the same charge for Mr Waterson.\n\nThe pair previously admitted perverting the course of justice.\n\nHoare and Mr Waterson had been travelling with Emilie Williams and Marcus Lamb, who was driving, and were returning to Croydon from a shopping trip in Sutton, south London on 1 February last year.\n\nAdrian Hoare failed to prevent her boyfriend Stephen Waterson from allegedly squashing Alfie\n\nIn a police interview played to the court, 19-year-old Ms Williams said Mr Waterson's seat \"was right back... because he said he had to stretch his legs right out\".\n\n\"Alfie was kicking the chair, asking him to move it forward\" but apart from shifting it \"for a few seconds\", Mr Waterson refused, the jury heard.\n\nIt was alleged Mr Waterson became annoyed at Alfie's crying and twice moved his front passenger seat into him as he sat at his mother's feet.\n\nDespite Alfie's distress, Hoare said the boy was \"getting himself worked up\" and she told him to \"shut up\", Ms Williams said.\n\nStephen Waterson, Adrian Hoare and Alfie Lamb had been on a shopping trip in Sutton, south London\n\nShe told police Hoare believed Alfie had gone to sleep when he went quiet, then \"thought he was just mucking around\" as she tried to wake him.\n\nMs Williams added that when the boy was lifted from the car by Mr Waterson, he looked \"pale\" and was not moving.\n\nBy the time they arrived at Mr Waterson's home in Croydon, the boy had collapsed and stopped breathing. Medics tried to revive him but Alfie died from crush asphyxia three days later.\n\nAfterwards the defendants lied to police about what happened.\n\nAlfie and another child were both in the rear footwell of the car during the journey to Croydon\n\nThe Old Bailey also heard Ms Williams had been threatened by Mr Waterson, who tried to persuade her to lie about what happened.\n\n\"He was telling me a lot of things. He said he would put me in the boot of the car and get rid of me. He said he would kill me,\" she said.\n\nHoare was also \"going along with it and helping\".\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) is deciding whether to push for a retrial on Mr Waterson.\n\nHoare will be sentenced at the Old Bailey on 4 March.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Cardinal Oswald Gracias told the BBC it pained him to hear accusations that he had neglected victims of alleged abuse\n\nOne of the Catholic Church's most senior cardinals has admitted that he could have better handled sexual abuse allegations that were brought to him.\n\nOswald Gracias, the Archbishop of Mumbai is one of four men organising a major Vatican conference on child abuse this week.\n\nWe found two separate cases where the cardinal, who is tipped by some to possibly become the next Pope, is claimed to have failed to respond quickly or offer support to the victims.\n\nVictims and those who supported them allege that Cardinal Gracias did not take allegations of abuse seriously when they were reported to him.\n\nIndia's Catholics say there is a culture of fear and silence in the Catholic Church about sexual abuse by priests. Those who have dared to speak out say it has been an ordeal.\n\nThe first case dates back to 2015 in Mumbai.\n\nA woman's life changed when her son returned from Mass at the church and told her that the parish priest had raped him.\n\n\"I could not understand what should I do?\" she said. She did not know this yet, but this event would put her on a collision course with the Catholic Church in India.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why is India's Catholic church silent about sexual abuse?\n\nThe man she reached out to for help was and remains one of the most senior representatives of the Church.\n\nIt was nearly 72 hours after the alleged rape that the family briefly met Cardinal Gracias, then president of the Catholic Bishop's Conference of India and Federation of Asian Bishops' Conferences.\n\nThe issue of sexual abuse within the Church is being called the Vatican's biggest crisis in modern times, and the integrity of the Catholic Church is said to ride on the outcome of this conference.\n\nOver the past year, the Catholic Church has been reeling under multiple allegations of sexual abuse around the world.\n\nBut while abuse claims have made headlines in North and South America, Europe and Australia, very little is known about the problems in Asian countries. In countries such as India there is a social stigma about reporting abuse.\n\nAmong Christians, who are a minority of nearly 28 million people, a culture of fear and silence makes it impossible to gauge the true scale of the problem.\n\nCardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago - a colleague of Cardinal Gracias on the four-member organising committee - has promised that decisive action in Rome and in dioceses worldwide will follow after the meeting so as to safeguard children and bring justice to the victims.\n\nCardinal Gracias will open the second day of the summit with a conversation about accountability in the Church.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Brigitte, a survivor of child sex abuse by a chaplain, explains why she is ready to speak now (From 2019)\n\nThis vital role given to him during this crucial conference has made some in India unhappy.\n\nThey say his track record in protecting children and women from abusers is questionable. Those we have spoken to who have taken cases to him say they received little support from him.\n\nThe mother of the abused boy said: \"I told the cardinal about what the priest had done to my child, that my child was in a lot of pain. So he prayed for us and told us he had to go to Rome…my heart was hurt in that moment.\n\n\"As a mother, I had gone to him with great expectations that he would think about my son, give me justice, but he said he had no time, he only cared about going to Rome.\"\n\nThe family say they requested medical help but were offered none.\n\nThe cardinal told us it pained him to hear this, and that he was not aware that the boy needed medical help - and if he had been asked, he would have immediately offered it.\n\nThe cardinal admits he left for Rome that night without alerting the authorities.\n\nBy failing to call the police, Cardinal Gracias may have violated India's Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 (POCSO).\n\nThe provisions of this law state that if the head of any company or institution fails to report the commission of an offence in respect of a subordinate under his control, they shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to one year, and with a fine.\n\nThe cardinal told us he had telephoned his bishop the next day, who told him the family had subsequently informed the police themselves.\n\nAsked if he regretted not calling the police personally at the time, he said: \"You know I'm being honest, I'm not 100% sure… but I must reflect on that. I admit whether immediately, the police should have got involved, sure.\"\n\nHe says he was under a duty to evaluate the credibility of accusations by speaking to the accused man.\n\nEmerging from that meeting, the family decided to go to a doctor.\n\n\"He took one look at my boy and said that something has happened to him. This is a police case. Either you report it or I will… so we went to the police that night,\" the mother said.\n\nA police medical examination found that the child had been sexually assaulted.\n\nIndia is home to about 19 million Catholics\n\nA current priest who spoke to us on the condition of anonymity said this was not the first time allegations about this priest had been brought to the cardinal's attention.\n\n\"I met him some years before this [alleged] incident,\" the priest told us.\n\n\"There were strong rumours about [the accused priest] in the diocese, and like these are about abuse that is taking place. And yet he seems to be moving from one place to another, one parish to another. The cardinal told me directly that he is not aware directly of all these things.\"\n\nThe cardinal says he cannot recall the conversation. He says he did not recollect any \"cloud of suspicion\" over the man.\n\nAs part of our investigation, we wanted to see if there were other allegations of the cardinal being slow to act.\n\nWe found an instance dating back almost a decade, brought to his attention just a couple of years after becoming archbishop of Mumbai.\n\nCatholic activist Virginia Saldanha says three legal notices were sent to the cardinal, threatening court action unless took action about the claims of abuse\n\nIn March 2009, a woman approached him with accusations of sexual abuse by another priest who conducted retreats.\n\nShe says that he took no action against the priest so she reached out to a group of female Catholic activists, who say they forced the cardinal to act.\n\nUnder pressure, he finally set up an enquiry committee in December 2011. Six months after the enquiry, there was still no action and the accused priest continued working in his parish.\n\n\"We had to send the cardinal three legal notices to act, threaten to take the matter to the courts if he did not act,\" said Virginia Saldanha, a devout Catholic who has worked on the women's desk of multiple Church-affiliated positions for over two decades.\n\nWhen the cardinal replied, he said: \"The priest is not listening to me.\"\n\nThe family says they have been ostracised from the church and isolated within their communities since reporting the sexual assault\n\nDuring the time, Saldanha said she had to leave the church because \"I could not bear to see that man giving Mass in the church. I did not feel like going there.\"\n\nThe priest was eventually removed from his parish, but the reasons for his departure were never made public.\n\nThe punishment, decided by the cardinal personally in October 2011, was a \"guided retreat and therapeutic counselling\".\n\nWhen we pressed him about the speed of process and punishment, the cardinal said it was a \"complicated case\".\n\nAfter a stay in the seminary, the accused priest was briefly given a parish again and still conducts retreats.\n\nMeanwhile, the family of the allegedly raped minor feel abandoned by the institution that they had built their lives around.\n\n\"It has been a lonely battle,\" the mother concedes. They say they have been ostracised from the church and isolated within their communities.\n\n\"After complaining to the police, when we would go into church, people would refuse to talk to us, to sit next to us during Mass. If I went to sit next to someone… they would get up and leave,\" she said.\n\nThe hostility she encountered eventually \"made us leave the church. But it got so difficult for us that we eventually had to change our home as well. We left it all behind\".\n\nChurch members say that it is this hostility that makes it harder for victims and their families to speak up.\n\nCaught between an apparently unsupportive clergy and hostile social network, many find their voices faltering.", "Derek Hatton has been suspended by the Labour Party less than 48 hours after he was admitted back into the party.\n\nThe ex-deputy leader of Liverpool council's membership was provisionally approved on Monday, more than 30 years after he was expelled from the party.\n\nBut senior Labour figures have since complained about the move and comments the ex-Militant man made about Israel.\n\nIn a tweet in 2012, he urged \"Jewish people with any sense of humanity\" to condemn Israel's \"ruthless murdering\".\n\nA Labour party source said the party was \"not aware of this material\" when it had provisionally approved Mr Hatton's application to rejoin the party.\n\nAnd \"once this was brought to our attention\", Mr Hatton's membership application had been suspended pending a final decision by the party's ruling body, the National Executive Committee.\n\nMr Hatton was a key figure in Militant, a Trotskyite far-left group that ran Liverpool council in the early 1980s.\n\nHe was expelled in 1985 after a high-profile battle with Labour's then leader, Neil Kinnock, who accused him and others of seeking to infiltrate and subvert the party.\n\nIt emerged on Monday that his application to rejoin the Liverpool Wavertree branch of the Labour Party had been provisionally approved by a special panel of the party.\n\nBut this drew fierce criticism from many leading figures in the party, coming on the same day as seven MPs quit the party in protest at what they said was a culture of anti-Semitism in the party.\n\nEarlier on Wednesday, shadow cabinet member Barry Gardiner told MPs he had lodged a formal complaint about the 2012 tweet and believed action was being taken.\n\n\"It was a travesty for the news of his readmission to come to public attention on the day when some members of our party were forced out was appalling,\" he added.\n\nThe party's deputy leader Tom Watson has also written to Labour's general secretary, Jennie Formby, questioning the decision to provisionally readmit Mr Hatton.\n\nMr Hatton posted the 2012 message during \"Operation Pillar of Defence\" a week-long offensive by the Israel Defence Forces in Gaza.\n\nAccording to a UNHCR report, 174 Palestinians were killed during the operation, and hundreds were injured.\n\nAt the time, NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said \"of course Israel has the right to self-defence and attacks against Israel must end, but the international community would also expect Israel to show restraint\".", "President Macron was addressing the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions of France (CRIF) in Paris\n\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron has announced new measures to tackle anti-Semitism, following a spate of attacks.\n\nHe told Jewish leaders that France would recognise anti-Zionism - the denial of Israel's right to exist - as a form of anti-Semitism.\n\nHe also said parliament would vote on a new law to tackle hatred on the internet.\n\nOn Tuesday Mr Macron visited a Jewish cemetery near Strasbourg where graves were desecrated with Nazi symbols.\n\nOn the same day, thousands of people joined rallies across France in support of the Jewish community.\n\nAddressing an annual meeting of Jewish organisations on Wednesday, Mr Macron said anti-Semitism in France and other Western countries had reached its worst levels since World War Two.\n\nAmong a series of new measures, he said the government would act to dissolve three extreme-right groups - Bastion Social, Blood and Honour Hexagone and Combat 18 - which he said fuelled hatred and promoted discrimination.\n\nMr Macron added: \"Anti-Zionism is one of the modern forms of anti-Semitism. This is why I'm confirming that France will put forward the definition of anti-Semitism as drawn by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance.\"\n\nIn recent months, France has witnessed a series of high-profile anti-Semitic attacks.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn the past week vandals defaced portraits of the late Holocaust survivor and French minister Simone Veil, scrawled the German word for \"Jews\" on a Parisian bakery and cut down a tree planted in memory of a Jewish youth tortured to death by an anti-Semitic gang.\n\nA prominent French philosopher, Alain Finkielkraut, was also verbally attacked for being Jewish as he walked past a recent \"gilets jaunes\" (yellow-vest) protest in Paris.\n\nDuring his visit to the Jewish cemetery in eastern France where nearly 100 graves were desecrated, President Macron said: \"Whoever did this is not worthy of the French republic and will be punished.\"\n\nThe number of anti-Semitic crimes reported in France, which is home to the largest Jewish population in Europe, increased by more than 70% - from 311 in 2017 to 541 last year.\n\nThe tally is not the worst France has seen in the past two decades, and follows a two-year dip in attacks, BBC Paris correspondent Lucy Williamson reports.\n\nHowever, anti-Semitic violence is believed to be spreading from the old prejudices of the far-right, to radical Islamists and far-left groups, our correspondent adds.", "Theresa May has held meetings with leading Tory Remainers, amid speculation about further defections.\n\nJustine Greening and Phillip Lee say Mrs May has ignored requests from pro-EU Tory MPs in favour of Brexiteers.\n\nThe pair had separate meetings with the PM in Downing Street.\n\nMeanwhile, one ex-Labour member of the new Independent Group of MPs has said it could help keep Mrs May in power on condition that she agreed to another EU referendum with Remain as an option.\n\nHowever, the PM was focused on her own party on Thursday, as she met cabinet ministers David Gauke and Greg Clark.\n\nThe pair have warned of the dangers to business of leaving the EU without a formal deal, an option which Brexiteers in the European Research Group of Conservative MPs insist must be preserved as negotiating leverage in Brussels.\n\nThe government said on Thursday that talks would continue \"urgently\" at a technical level, following \"productive\" meetings involving Brexit Secretary Stephen Barclay, Attorney General Geoffrey Cox and the EU's chief negotiator Michel Barnier.\n\nIn the UK, ex-Labour MP Gavin Shuker told The Huffington Post members of the new Independent Group had first made the offer of a potential confidence and supply agreement - like the one the DUP has with the government - last month in a meeting with the PM's second-in-command David Lidington.\n\nThen-Labour MPs Chris Leslie, Luciana Berger and Chuka Umunna, along with then-Tory Anna Soubry, who have all joined the group this week, were also at the meeting.\n\nMr Shuker said he had told Mr Lidington he would support any type of deal provided there was a \"confirmatory referendum\" to get public backing but that the offer was rejected.\n\nPhillip Lee met Theresa May for talks in Downing Street\n\nThe leaders of both main parties are battling to prevent more defections after eight Labour MPs and three Tories broke away to form a new \"centrist\" group in Parliament.\n\nTheresa May has written to the three Tory defectors - Anna Soubry, Heidi Allen and Sarah Wollaston - to reject what she describes as the \"picture they paint of the party\", saying its record on the NHS, employment and diversity proved it was \"moderate\" and \"open-hearted\".\n\nThe prime minister offered to \"continue to work together on issues\" where they agree - but told the three she rejected \"the parallel you draw with the way Jeremy Corbyn and the hard left have warped a once-proud Labour Party\".\n\nIn response to their claim that local Tory associations are being taken over by former UKIP members, Mrs May said: \"An open, broad party should always welcome new members and supporters with a range of views, including those who have previously supported other parties.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBut she said local party branches had been warned to ensure new members support the party's \"values and objectives\".\n\nEx-Tory MP Heidi Allen, one of the three defectors from the party, told ITV's Peston programme \"a third\" of Conservative MPs were fed up with the party's direction.\n\nMs Greening and Mr Lee, who quit as a justice minister over Brexit, have been named by Ms Allen as potential future defectors to the Independent Group.\n\nThe Right to Vote group, which is chaired by Mr Lee, said he had discussed the campaign's calls for a pause in the Brexit process and a possible second referendum with Mrs May.\n\n\"Talks were open and we are encouraged she listened to our case,\" the group said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"I don't think I would be able to stay part of a party that was simply a Brexit party that had crashed us out of the EU\"\n\nMr Lee has said one of the reasons the Tory MPs decided to quit the party was the access the Brexiteer European Research Group got to the prime minister, who he said had refused to meet his wing of the party.\n\nJustine Greening - a former education secretary - told the Today programme she had been tempted to break away from the Conservative Party and join the Independent Group.\n\n\"It is something that I have considered, but I have reached a different conclusion for the moment,\" Ms Greening told Today.\n\n\"I don't think I would be able to stay part of a party that was simply a Brexit party that had crashed us out of the European Union.\"\n\nThe Independent Group was set up by eight defecting Labour MPs unhappy with their party's handling of Brexit and anti-Semitism.\n\nThey were later joined by three pro-Remain Tories - who accuse the Conservative leadership of allowing right-wing hardliners to shape the party's approach to Brexit and other matters.\n\nLabour's Ian Austin also expressed sympathy with the Independent Group's aims, saying he would think \"long and hard\" about his future in the Labour Party.\n\nShadow home Secretary Diane Abbott told BBC Radio 4's The World at One: \"I am very sad that the Labour members of this new independent organisation have gone.\n\n\"Up until the last minute, people were talking to them, trying to persuade them not to take the step they have taken.\"\n\nShe said she hoped they would continue to work with Labour on issues like homelessness, the benefit system, the NHS and \"most of all fighting this Tory Brexit\".\n\nMeanwhile, Labour have contacted the Information Commissioner over alleged attempts to access personal data held by the party.\n\nIt is understood there are concerns an MP accessed party systems to contact members after reports of their resignation on Tuesday night.\n\nEnfield North MP Joan Ryan, who announced she was quitting Labour in an interview with the Times published on Tuesday evening, said: \"Neither I nor my office have accessed or used any Labour Party data since I resigned the Labour Whip and my membership of the Labour Party.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Corbyn: Begum has 'right to return' to UK\n\nShamima Begum, who left the UK to join the Islamic State group in Syria aged 15, has a \"right to return to Britain\", Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has said.\n\nMs Begum has had her UK citizenship revoked by Home Secretary Sajid Javid - a move Mr Corbyn said was \"extreme\".\n\nThe leader of the opposition told ITV News the 19-year-old should return to the UK to face questioning.\n\nMs Begum told Sky News on Thursday she was \"willing to change\" and called for \"mercy\" from British politicians.\n\nUK nationals can only have their citizenship revoked if they are eligible for citizenship elsewhere.\n\nIt is thought Ms Begum could be a Bangladeshi citizen because her mother is believed to be one.\n\nHowever, Bangladesh's ministry of foreign affairs has said Ms Begum is not a Bangladeshi citizen and there was \"no question\" of her being allowed into the country.\n\nMr Corbyn, who is currently in Brussels to discuss his Brexit proposals, said: \"She obviously has, in my view, a right to return to Britain.\n\n\"On that return she must obviously face a lot of questions about everything she has done and at that point any action may or may not be taken.\n\n\"But I think the idea of stripping somebody of their citizenship when they were born in Britain is a very extreme manoeuvre indeed.\n\n\"Indeed, I questioned the right of the home secretary to have these powers when the original law was brought in by Theresa May when she was home secretary.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Shamima Begum: \"I got tricked and I was hoping someone would have sympathy with me\"\n\nMr Javid has defended the move, which followed a debate over whether the teenager should be able to return to the UK after she was found in a Syrian refugee camp.\n\nMs Begum, who left east London in 2015, said she never sought to be an IS \"poster girl\" and now simply wished to raise her child quietly in the UK.\n\nThe home secretary said he would not leave an individual stateless, which is illegal under international law.\n\nBut the Begum family's lawyer Tasnime Akunjee, who is preparing an appeal, has said he is considering whether she has been left stateless.\n\nMs Begum gave birth to a boy in a Syrian refugee camp at the weekend, who the home secretary has suggested could still be British, despite the removal of Ms Begum's citizenship.\n\n\"Children should not suffer. So, if a parent does lose their British citizenship, it does not affect the rights of their child,\" he told the Commons.\n\nMs Begum was 15 and living in Bethnal Green, London, when she left the UK in 2015\n\nMr Akunjee told the Guardian he planned to travel to the Syrian refugee camp \"as soon as possible\" to ask for Ms Begum's consent to bring her newborn son back to Britain, while her legal case is resolved.\n\n\"We can't do anything against her will, so I would hope that I would be able to outline the options for her, explain things to her,\" he said.\n\nBut Ms Begum told Sky News her son was unwell and she would not allow him to travel to the UK without her.\n\nMs Begum has previously said she had two children who both died.", "Lucy Evans from Aberystwyth had encephalitis, a serious condition that caused her brain to become swollen and led her to experience frightening delusions.\n\nSome types can kill in a matter of days, but a new report has highlighted how many patients are misdiagnosed.\n\nWatch the Victoria Derbyshire programme on BBC Two and BBC News Channel, 10:00 to 11:00 GMT - and see more of our stories here.", "Empire actor Jussie Smollett's performed for the first time since his attack telling fans he'll always stand for love.\n\nOn stage, before singing, he fought back tears as he told fans: \"I had to be here tonight, y'all. I can't let [them] win.\"\n\nPolice are searching for two men who punched him, poured a \"chemical substance\" over him and put a rope around his neck in a suspected racist and homophobic attack.\n\n\"I have so many words on my heart,\" the 36-year-old said after hugging his family.\n\n\"The most important thing I have to say is thank you so much and that I'm okay. I'm not fully healed yet, but I'm going to.\"\n\nThe concert had been planned for a long time before the incident. His family and others had urged him to cancel the show while he recovers and police investigate.\n\nBut Jussie said he couldn't do that.\n\n\"I'm gonna stand strong with y'all. l will always stand for love. I will never stand for anything other than that,\" said the openly gay actor.\n\n\"Regardless of what anyone else says, I will only stand for love. And I hope that you all will stand with me. So now, let's do it.\"\n\nPolice are investigating whether he was the victim of a hate crime.\n\nJussie told police the two men - who attacked him in Chicago earlier this week - made reference to \"MAGA\" (Make America Great Again).\n\nThe slogan was used by Donald Trump during the 2016 US presidential campaign.\n\nChicago police have released this image of two \"people of interest\" in the case\n\nWhile Jussie's had a huge amount of support, others have questioned his version of what happened.\n\nHe told the crowd he wanted to clarify a few things.\n\n\"Just because there has been a lot of stuff said about me that's absolutely not true,\" he said.\n\nHe glanced at the balcony: \"I'm sure my lawyer's sitting up there like. 'No, Jussie, no.'\"\n\n\"I was bruised but my ribs were not cracked; they were not broken,\" he said referring to some notes he'd brought on stage.\n\n\"I went to the doctor immediately. I was not hospitalised.\n\n\"Both my doctors in LA and Chicago cleared me to perform, but said to take care, obviously.\n\n\"And above all, I fought them back,\" he said to cheers.\n\nThen he paused and said: \"I'm the gay Tupac.\"\n\nNo arrests have been made, and police have not found surveillance video of the attack, though they found footage of Jussie walking home with the rope around his neck.\n\nBefore leaving the stage the artist said: \"We are proud. We are gay.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 every weekday on BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra - if you miss us you can listen back here.", "Pay for workers in their 30s is still 7% below the level at which it peaked before the 2008 banking crisis, research has suggested.\n\nThe Resolution Foundation think tank said people who were in their 20s at the height of the recession a decade ago were worst hit by the pay squeeze.\n\nIt suggested the crisis had a lasting \"scarring\" effect on their earnings.\n\nThe foundation said people in their 30s who wanted to earn more should move to a different employer.\n\nThe research found those who stayed in the same job in 2018 had real wage growth of 0.5%, whereas those who found a different employer saw an average increase of 4.5%.\n\nEconomic analyst Nye Cominetti said the UK was \"finally starting to deliver a pay recovery\", but added: \"Whether this recovery continues to build momentum in 2019 will depend in large part on what happens with Brexit.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'I earned more as a student than I have since'\n\nMs Cominetti said the pay squeeze was especially trying for people \"unlucky enough to enter the labour market during the financial crisis\".\n\nResolution Foundation policy analyst Dan Tomlinson said: \"It's important that we see pay growth returning, productivity growth driving higher pay and helping these people [to] be able to afford to do things like settle down, have a family, and move into their own home.\"\n\nIn 2018, analysis carried out for the BBC by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) showed that people in their 30s were earning £2,100 a year less than people in the same age group in 2008.\n\nPaul Johnson, director of the IFS, said: \"The average earnings of those in their 20s and 30s fell especially sharply in the immediate aftermath of the recession, perhaps as employers were able to cut starting wages more than wages of those already in work.\"\n\nWhile this age group has seen earnings grow in recent years, it has not been enough to make up for initial losses, he said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Emily Fazah says premenstrual syndrome (PMS) \"shouldn't be shrugged off\"\n\n\"I'm out for a week sometimes because I feel so low\".\n\nEmily Fazah has suffered from intense symptoms ever since she started her periods - from anxiety and fatigue, to mood swings and cramps.\n\nThe 29-year-old says she \"suffered in silence\" for years, but is determined to no longer be embarrassed.\n\nShe has set up an online community called Moody Girl, inspired by her childhood nickname, to \"get the world\" talking about premenstrual syndrome (PMS).\n\n\"Women have been feeling isolated for so long,\" says Miss Fazah, who lives in Ipswich, Suffolk.\n\n\"It shouldn't be embarrassing talking in front of men about suffering. It shouldn't be shrugged off.\"\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by moodygirlofficial This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"From a young age, I learned to suppress it, not talk about it and suffer in silence,\" she says.\n\nAlthough she could turn to her mum, no-one at her school had the same problems.\n\nIt was not until she began working full-time in London that she reached \"breaking point\".\n\n\"I was trying to keep down my emotions and the way it was making me feel,\" she says.\n\nIt made going to client meetings difficult, and with a male boss, she felt she \"couldn't really open up about it\".\n\nMoody Girl provides an online platform for women to share their experiences\n\nThat's when the seed for Moody Girl was sown.\n\nMiss Fazah thought to herself: \"What if there are other women out there that maybe I haven't met yet who have been going through the same thing as me? How do I connect with them?\"\n\nShe made the decision to move back to Suffolk to set up the website, which shares her own story as well as experiences from other women, and a playlist which reflects her current mood.\n\n\"I wanted to open up that dialogue which was so desperately needed.\"\n\nShe says her aim is \"getting the word out, making a community of other women who are suffering, raising money and raising awareness, and not being embarrassed\".\n\nThe Facebook page has more than 1,100 followers, some from as far afield as the USA, and a further 600 people follow the Instagram site.\n\nIzzy Finbow, 29, from London, says she has found the Moody Girl community \"enlightening\" and \"inspiring\".\n\nThe digital content editor says her PMS was \"ridiculous\", leaving her feeling bleakly depressed and \"irrational to new levels\".\n\nBeing a part of the online social sites and seeing Miss Fazah's Instagram photos has helped her realise she is not alone, and given her tips such as using an app to track her periods.\n\nEileen Murphy, 37, from Cambridge, says through the forum she has found \"solidarity\" with other women, while her partner now has a greater understanding of her symptoms and mood.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post 2 by moodygirlofficial This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMeanwhile, after seeing five different doctors before going to the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital PMS Service Clinic, Miss Fazah has been prescribed hormone replacement therapy (HRT) for her severe PMS.\n\nShe says it \"took years\" to get to that point, but it \"changed my life drastically\".\n\nMiss Fazah, a teacher, wants to give educational talks at universities and schools, and raise money for different charities which support women with severe PMS and premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD).\n\nShe says she wants Moody Girl to be for everyone - from those with mild or severe PMS, to those with premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD), and also \"if it's depression and it's not linked to your period then that's fine too\".\n\n\"If I can just help guide other women in the right direction to get to that place quicker than I did, then that would make the whole thing worthwhile.\"", "Emiliano Sala (left) was on board a plane being flown by pilot David Ibbotson\n\nA seabed search for the missing plane carrying footballer Emiliano Sala and his pilot will start on Sunday.\n\nCardiff City's new signing disappeared with pilot David Ibbotson over the English Channel on 21 January.\n\nTwo vessels will conduct sonar surveys off Guernsey, said David Mearns who is coordinating part of the search.\n\nThere were emotional tributes to the footballer as Cardiff played their first home game since the disappearance earlier on Saturday.\n\nArgentine Sala, 28, and Mr Ibbotson, 59, from Crowle, North Lincolnshire, were travelling from Nantes, where Sala previously played, when the flight was lost.\n\nCushions believed to be from the plane were found on a beach near Surtainville, on France's Cotentin Peninsula, on Monday.\n\nThe Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) said Geo Ocean III departed at 09:00 GMT on Saturday with investigators on board, and is expected to arrive at the search area at 09:00 on Sunday to start the underwater search, which will last three days.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. David Mearns explains the next steps in the search expected to begin on Sunday\n\nCardiff City played their first match at home since Sala, the club's record £15m signing, went missing.\n\nA minute's silence was held before the game with Bournemouth at 17:30 GMT.\n\nCardiff's match shirts were embroidered with daffodils and players warmed up in t-shirts paying tribute to Sala.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Fans pay tribute to missing footballer Sala at the first home Cardiff City match since he disappeared\n\nSpeaking from Guernsey harbour, Mr Mearns said his team would work jointly with a second vessel commissioned by the AAIB.\n\nThey plan to search an area covering two square miles about 24 nautical miles north of Guernsey.\n\nIt has been based on the flight path before it lost radar contact, said Mr Mearns, a shipwreck hunter.\n\n\"The family are devastated and struggling with what has happened,\" he said.\n\n\"What we are doing is trying to provide some answers for them.\"\n\nAn official search following the plane's disappearance was called off after three days with Guernsey officials saying there was little chance those on board survived.\n\nIt prompted a privately-funded search to be set up after £324,000 was raised in an online appeal.\n\nSala's family arrived on Guernsey following his disappearance and were taken to see the area that was searched, circling the island of Alderney.\n\nMr Mearns said both vessels would divide the search area in half, looking for \"wreckage\" and a \"debris field\" in a depth of 60-120m (196-390ft).\n\n\"We will continue to work until the plane is located,\" he said.", "Operations can help open up a dog's airway\n\nBattersea Dogs and Cats Home carried out more operations to help flat-faced dogs breathe in 2018 than at any other time in its history, it has revealed.\n\nThe south-west London shelter performed 62 lifesaving operations on breeds such as bulldogs and pugs last year, compared to seven in 2015.\n\nBrachycephalic dog breeds are increasingly popular but suffer from having short, obstructed airways.\n\nBattersea called the breeds an \"example of irresponsible, selective breeding\".\n\nThe Kennel Club found French bulldogs to be the UK's most popular dog breed in 2018\n\nBrachycephalic dog breeds tend to have big eyes, snub noses, and are compact in size.\n\nThe British Veterinary Association has warned people against buying flat-faced breeds but Battersea has nonetheless taken in increasing numbers in recent years.\n\nThe shelter took in 40 French bulldogs and 47 pugs in 2018, compared to eight and 36 respectively in 2014.\n\nAccording to Battersea vets, the way many are bred means they often have airways so narrow that it is \"the equivalent of us breathing through a drinking straw\".\n\n\"Over the years, breeders have chosen the flattest-faced dogs in the litter to breed, and this has created traits that are dangerous and damaging to the dog's health,\" head vet Shaun Opperman said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Today programme explains why pugs' tongues shouldn't actually stick out\n\nOther dogs that can suffer from the problem, which makes it difficult for them to run or play, include English bulldogs, Boston terriers, shih tzus and boxers.\n\n\"The rising number of brachycephalic dogs is one of the biggest welfare issues that Battersea is facing right now,\" Mr Opperman said.\n\nBattersea Dogs and Cats Home performed 62 operations on brachycephalic breeds last year", "Dianne Oxberry's husband Ian Hindle set up a fundraising site in her memory\n\nThe husband of the late BBC broadcaster Dianne Oxberry has said he is \"overwhelmed\" after more than £30,000 was raised in her memory within a week.\n\nThe former Radio 1 and North West Tonight presenter died aged 51 from ovarian cancer at Manchester's Christie Hospital on 10 January.\n\nOn Monday, her husband Ian Hindle launched a fund with a £1,000 target to help those affected by the illness.\n\n\"I never expected to raise this much in such a short space of time,\" he said.\n\nDianne Oxberry, seen with Steve Wright (left) and Paul McCartney, worked on BBC Radio\n\nOxberry rose to fame when she presented the weather and travel on Radio 1 in the early 1990s, working with broadcasters Simon Mayo and Steve Wright.\n\nShe met her husband, who works as a camera operator, while co-hosting Saturday morning children's show The 8.15 from Manchester.\n\nShe then presented the weather for BBC North West Tonight from 1995 until December.\n\nHer death led to several tributes being sent to the programme and left on the fundraising site.\n\nOne viewer wrote: \"Dianne was such a lovely sunny personality - I really felt I knew her and still feel upset that she is no longer here.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe funds raised will be used to set up a charity in her memory.\n\nMr Hindle said: \"The aim is also to raise awareness about ovarian cancer and its after-effects, particularly where families have suffered sudden loss, which can often be the case with this appalling disease.\"\n\nSpeaking about the donations, he added: \"Frankly, it's overwhelming and I'm totally humbled by all the contributions. Thank you to all who've donated. I think together we can make a big difference.\n\n\"While I hoped to raise a good amount of money to start on the road to creating a charity in Dianne's name, I never expected to raise this much in such a short space of time.\"\n\nComedian Peter Kay told Dianne Oxberry she \"made the sun shine for everybody\"\n\nThere are about 7,400 new ovarian cancer cases in the UK every year, according to Cancer Research UK, with almost 60% diagnosed at a late stage.\n\nIt is one of the most common types of cancers among women.", "Police said the victim's next-of-kin had been informed\n\nA pilot died when his light aircraft crashed in Essex.\n\nThe man, in his 50s, was the only person on board and was pronounced dead at the scene in Belchamp Walter, police said.\n\nEssex Police said they were called to reports of a \"light aircraft in distress\" at 11:50 GMT.\n\nEight fire crews from Essex and Suffolk were also sent to the scene in Bells Road. Police said that the victim's next-of-kin had been informed.\n\nEssex Fire Service said its firefighters reported that the aircraft - which had landed in an arable field - was alight when they arrived. The fire was extinguished by 12:49.\n\nThe crash site is about five miles from Ridgewell Airfield, the home of Essex Gliding Club, but it is not yet known where the flight originated from, or its intended destination.\n\nThe Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) said it was \"aware of the incident and had deployed a team to investigate\".\n\nBelchamp Walter is close to the county border between Essex and Suffolk\n\nJane Walker, from Belchamp Walter Parish Council, saw an air ambulance land at the site.\n\nShe said: \"It is really out of the usual and I think it took a lot of people out of the blue.\n\n\"Our feelings go out to the poor man who has died and his family. Our condolences are with them.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "England collapsed in dismal fashion yet again to lose the second Test by 10 wickets as West Indies sealed the series with a match to spare.\n\nAfter West Indies were bowled out for 306 - a lead of 119 - the tourists slipped from 35-0 to 132 all out, with Kemar Roach and Jason Holder taking four wickets each in Antigua.\n\nWith West Indies chasing only 14, John Campbell wrapped up victory with a six.\n\nA three-day victory gave them a 2-0 lead in the three-match series.\n\nIt is West Indies' first Test series win over England since 2009 and their first against a side other than Bangladesh and Zimbabwe since 2012.\n\nHolder's impressive team have a chance to secure a whitewash when the third Test in St Lucia begins on 9 February.\n\nThis England side are not blessed with prodigious Test-match batsmen - only captain Joe Root and Ben Foakes average more than 40 and the latter has played just five matches.\n\nBut neither are West Indies, yet the hosts were able to adapt their game to eke out a vital lead on a challenging pitch, epitomised by Darren Bravo's defiant 50 off 216 balls.\n\nBravo batted for 342 minutes - the third slowest fifty in Test history by time. England's second innings lasted 211 minutes, the tourists having failed to learn from both their previous collapses in this series and the approach of their determined hosts.\n\nRory Burns cut a ball that was too close to him straight to third slip to depart for 16 and fellow opener Joe Denly - who was dropped on nought - was bowled for 17, leaving a delivery from Alzarri Joseph to end a nervy innings full of ill-advised shots.\n\nJonny Bairstow made 14 before he was bowled through the gate trying to drive Holder down the ground. He has been bowled in nine of his past 18 innings and 29 times this decade - the most of any batsmen in Tests.\n\nIn total, four England batsmen were bowled, Ben Stokes dragging on when playing too far away from his body and Moeen Ali missing an attempted drive down the ground off a very full delivery, both off Roach.\n\nOf the recognised batsmen, only Root, Foakes and perhaps Jos Buttler were undone by fine deliveries. The rest were down to poor decision-making.\n\nEngland had the better of the morning session, bowling well to take the last four West Indies wickets for 34 runs before Burns and Denly battled through to lunch.\n\nWith opening bowlers Shannon Gabriel and Roach dropping too short, Holder brought himself into the attack and struck with his first ball to remove Burns before dismissing Bairstow shortly after.\n\nJoseph bowled beautifully in tandem with Holder, claiming 2-12 in a splendid seven-over spell, made all the more powerful given the 22-year-old was playing after his mother Sharon died in the early hours of Saturday.\n\nTouching 90mph and finding sharp bounce, he knocked over Denly and had Root caught behind after Holder's shrewd decision to call for a review, despite Joseph thinking it had only hit Root's hip and not the glove as well.\n\nHolder proved adept at using the decision review system again to help a revitalised Roach dismiss Foakes lbw for 13 - a ball that ducked in appearing to be sliding down in real time but shown on ball-tracking to be hitting leg stump.\n\nRoach then trapped Stuart Broad in front and Holder had James Anderson caught by a diving Joseph at mid-on before raising his arms and yelling in celebration.\n\nHolder dedicated the victory to Joseph and his family, a unified, spirited West Indies hoping this stunning series win is the start of a welcome resurgence.\n\n'Our shot selection was well below par' - reaction\n\nEngland captain Joe Root: \"We've been outperformed once again and that's quite hard to take. Scoring under 200 isn't going to win you many games of cricket.\n\n\"West Indies know these conditions well and they've exploited them to their advantage. They've played some really good stuff at times and made it very difficult. They're fully deserving of winning the series.\"\n\nEngland coach Trevor Bayliss on Sky Sports: \"Our batting has been poor. Some of our shot selection was well below par. The first two dismissals today were very loose shots. That doesn't set a great example for guys coming in.\n\n\"We've got to be harder to get out. It's a case of applying ourselves a little better. Our concentration and will to bat for a long period of time is the way forward.\"\n\nWest Indies captain Jason Holder: \"It's difficult to describe my emotions.\n\n\"We wanted to do it for Alzarri's mother. For him to come out, play and bowl the way he bowled, was a credit to him. This win is for him and his family.\"\n\nMan of the match Kemar Roach, who took 4-30 and 4-52: \"It's a special award. A series win at home against England, the third best team in the world, is fantastic. I'm proud of the guys.\"\n\nBBC cricket correspondent Jonathan Agnew on the BBC's The Cricket Social: \"This West Indies team is full of character - their resistance, the bravery, the stubbornness, the discipline to play for 131 overs compared to the way England went about their business. You couldn't blame the pitch for many of England's dismissals.\"", "Intense rain in north-eastern Australia has triggered severe flooding, turning streets into rivers, sweeping away cars and forcing families to evacuate.\n\nThe city of Townsville in Queensland has been worst hit, with dozens of homes inundated with water.\n\nThe army is helping with the emergency effort.\n\nRead more: Monsoon rains cause floods in Queensland", "Libby Squire was last seen getting into a taxi on Thursday night\n\nThe mother of missing Libby Squire has thanked people helping to search for the Hull University student as the police hunt enters its third day.\n\nPolice said there were a number of leads they were pursuing over the 21-year-old's disappearance on Thursday.\n\nShe was last seen getting into a taxi near the Welly Club music venue in Beverley Road at about 23:00 GMT.\n\nPosting on Facebook, her mum Lisa Squire said her daughter was \"obviously loved by so many people\".\n\nShe said: \"A massive thank you to all the fantastic students who turned out to search for Libby Squire.\"\n\nHer mum said it had given them \"great comfort\" to know how much her daughter was thought of.\n\nSearch teams are scouring the area where the 21-year-old was last seen\n\nPolice have been carrying out house-to-house inquiries in Hull\n\nThe family said Miss Squire's disappearance was \"very out of character\" and they were \"broken without her\".\n\nMore than 70 police officers have been out making inquiries, including knocking door-to-door around the area where the student vanished.\n\nAbout 200 students have also been involved in the search of the university premises, organised by student Ryan Tweddell.\n\nSpeaking earlier, Det Supt Simon Gawthorpe said: \"There are a number of leads we are following up and I want to offer my thanks to everyone who has come forward with information, your help has been invaluable.\"\n\nMiss Squire was reported missing after getting into a taxi outside the Welly Club at about 23:00 on Thursday, and is believed to have got out of the vehicle a short while later near where she lived in Wellesley Avenue.\n\nHumberside Police said she was then helped by a motorist who pulled over after spotting her sat on a bench in the street, with the force adding the man in question had since contacted them and \"really helped out\" with the search.\n\nThe student was last spotted on CCTV in Beverley Road\n\nMiss Squire was last spotted on CCTV in Beverley Road, near to the junction with Haworth Street, at about 23:45 on Thursday.\n\nThe officer appealed for anyone who was on Haworth Street between 23:30 and 00:30 GMT on the night she disappeared to get in touch.\n\nHe said house to house inquiries were continuing in the area she was last seen and specialist teams and the coastguard were searching around the River Hull.\n\nMr Tweddell said: \"It was great to see so many students turn out to support the search for Libby.\n\n\"We can't believe the community came out in the numbers they did, it just shows how much people care.\n\n\"Libby is a loving, down-to-earth, typical, normal student. She is hardworking, helps everyone who needs it and is a lovely, brilliant girl.\"\n\nPolice have asked people to check their sheds and gardens\n\nIn a statement, the University of Hull said it was \"deeply concerned\" about the missing student.\n\nA spokesman said: \"We are working closely with Humberside Police to support their search for Libby and offering support to Libby's family at this distressing time.\"\n\nFire crews have been searching a frozen pond near where she was last seen\n\nLibby Squire got in a taxi outside The Welly club\n\nPolice urged people living in the area to check their gardens and outbuildings in case Miss Squire had taken shelter.\n\nAnyone who was driving around the area at the time and has dashcam footage has also been asked to come forward.\n\nMiss Squire, who is 5ft 7in tall and has long dark brown hair, had been wearing a black leather jacket, black long-sleeved top and a black denim skirt with lace.\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. Worried by \"flaws\" in his appearance, Chris Evans MP began a dangerous exercise routine\n\nAfter being hit by a car and going through his parents' divorce, Chris Evans' physical and mental pain had been pushed to the max.\n\nAs weight sky-rocketed and his self-esteem hit rock bottom, he started working out.\n\nBut what started out as a keep-fit regime, turned into a mental health condition - body dysmorphia.\n\nThe Islwyn MP is encouraging anyone experiencing something similar to talk to someone.\n\n\"You feel you have a control over something, especially when you feel there are parts of your life that are out of control,\" he said.\n\nBody dysmorphic disorder is a psychological condition which sees sufferers develop obsessive worries about their perceived flaws - and go to extreme lengths to try and deal with them.\n\nMr Evans' condition was triggered by months of recovery after being hit by a car when he was 13 and needing a plaster cast on his leg to aid his recovery.\n\n\"Naturally I was inactive and I put a lot of weight on,\" he told BBC Wales' Sunday Politics Wales.\n\n\"And that, when you're 13 and 14, makes you very self-conscious about yourself... And then suddenly, when the cast came off, I was looking around and I just didn't feel good enough.\"\n\nIt was already a difficult time in his life, with his parents divorcing and stress building up over his upcoming exams.\n\nTaking cues from his film star idols Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone, who had \"had everything worked out\", his intense daily exercise regime involved waking up at 05:00 to take his dog for a run up the mountain for an hour and a half.\n\nThis was followed by another hour-long work out and further long walks and training.\n\nLabour politician Mr Evans said he sought inspiration from Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone as a teenager\n\n\"Then I'd check myself out in the mirror - if I wasn't happy with what I was doing, I would constantly just pick one exercise, for example bicep curls, and constantly do them until I was fatigued,\" he said.\n\nMr Evans's routine became so extreme that he ended up ripping his bicep muscles. He said he had to stop, and it came as a relief.\n\n\"You can sleep again, and suddenly it's not that important,\" he said.\n\nHe thinks society in general should talk about such matters more.\n\n\"Everybody's got challenges, everybody's got different problems they've got to face,\" he said.\n\n\"But I think if you're honest and you're open, and you talk to someone you trust, people always try to help you.\"", "The wooden dragon looks out over the A5, near Tregarth, Gwynedd\n\nA giant wooden dragon has prompted a police warning to drivers not to slow down to look at it after an accident and numerous near-misses.\n\nThe seven-metre (25ft) carving, called Y Ddraig Derw - the oak dragon - looks down on the A5, near Tregarth, Gwynedd.\n\nSculptor Simon O'Rourke, who made the dragon, also urged motorists to pay attention to the road.\n\nNorth Wales Police said that while they \"love the oak dragon\" they were \"concerned\" about road safety issues.\n\n\"There has already been one accident and numerous near-misses on this section of road which really does require a driver's full concentration,\" said the force in a post on its Bangor and Bethesda Facebook page.\n\n\"Please concentrate on the road ahead at all times, if you want to view it, then please find somewhere safe to park.\"\n\nSimon O'Rourke spent nearly a week last month wielding a chainsaw to carve the dragon\n\nMr O'Rourke had also warned motorists it was a \"fast and dangerous road\" on his Facebook page while the carving was being created.\n\nHe spent nearly a week last month wielding a chainsaw to carve the dragon from a fallen oak branch at the request of the property owners.\n\nMr O'Rourke, 40, from Wrexham, said: \"You drive through somewhere like Birmingham and you've got huge screens and billboards that are actually trying to distract you and catch your attention.\n\n\"A wooden dragon is less intrusive than those screens but I think it's just the case that it doesn't matter what happens, when you're in control of the car you should be paying attention to the road.\"\n\nSimon O'Rourke was contacted by the owners of the fallen tree to carve the dragon\n\nThe dragon was carved out of a fallen oak\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. Meteorologists have warned of a \"risk to life and property\"\n\nOfficials in the Australian city of Townsville are deliberately flooding several neighbourhoods after record rainfall that has swollen a dam beyond capacity.\n\nResidents in and around the north-eastern city have been warned of \"risk to life\" and \"unprecedented flooding\" that could inundate up to 20,000 homes.\n\nPeople have been told to seek shelter on higher ground.\n\nTownsville has received more than a metre (3.3ft) of rain in just a week.\n\nThat is more than 20 times the average for the time of year - beating the previous record set in 1998, in what became known as the Night of Noah.\n\nGates at the Ross River dam were fully opened on Sunday evening because water levels were too high and the monsoon rains were continuing.\n\nTownsville has received more than a metre of rain in just a week\n\nThe Townsville Bulletin newspaper said low-lying properties were being flooded, and troops on boats were searching for residents in need of help.\n\nBetween 15cm and 25cm of rain had fallen on the city since Sunday morning, the newspaper said.\n\nCars and livestock have already been swept away around the coastal city in the state of Queensland.\n\n\"Conditions will change rapidly and continuously. Stay informed, look for updates and follow advice of emergency services,\" the Australian Bureau of Meteorology said.\n\nIt added that the dam would release up to 1,900 cubic metres of water a second, a \"dangerously high\" amount.\n\nThousands of residents in the area have already been affected, some left without power and others cut off by flooded roads.\n\nImages and footage shared on social media show people wading through waist-high water in the streets.\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 Josh Bavas This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe army has been helping to protect homes with sandbags, while rescue teams have been evacuating people using rafts.\n\nNorthern Queensland has a tropical climate and experiences monsoon rain from December to April. But the current conditions in the Townsville area are rare.\n\nMeanwhile, parts of southern Australia are in the grip of a severe drought.\n\nJanuary was the hottest month on record for Australia as a whole, with the southern city of Adelaide reaching a record 47.7C.\n\nThe heat has caused bushfires and a rise in hospital admissions.\n\nSeveral wildlife species have also suffered, with reports of mass deaths of wild horses, native bats and fish in drought-affected areas.", "The grenade is believed to have been dug up accidentally in France\n\nA World War One-era German hand grenade has been found among a delivery of potatoes shipped from France to a crisp factory in Hong Kong, police say.\n\nThe muddy device, which was 3in (8cm) wide, was \"in an unstable condition\" because it had been discharged but had failed to detonate, officials said.\n\nIt was discovered at the Calbee crisp-making factory in the eastern Sai Kung district on Saturday morning.\n\nThe bombe de terre was safely detonated on site by bomb disposal officers.\n\n\"All the information to date suggests that the grenade was imported from France together with the other potatoes,\" Superintendant Wong Ho-hon told reporters.\n\nHe added that the device was defused using a \"high-pressure water firing technique\".\n\nIt is believed to have been dug up accidentally with potatoes planted in a field in France before being exported.\n\n\"The grenade was likely to have been left behind, dropped by soldiers there during the war, or left there after it was thrown,\" Dave Macri, a military historian, told the South China Morning Post.\n\nLast year, thousands of people were forced to evacuate a busy commercial area of Hong Kong while police defused a \"severely damaged\" World War Two bomb found on a construction site.\n\nIt was the second to be found in Hong Kong within the same week.", "Thousands of police officers and civilian staff have never undergone stricter criminal record and background checks, despite the fact that they were introduced in 2006, the BBC has found.\n\nData from 16 forces in England and Wales showed 5,966 officers and staff had not had the retrospective checks, which include credit and DNA records.\n\nThe police watchdog said the level of vetting was \"concerning\".\n\nThe National Police Chiefs' Council said it will work \"hard\" to cut levels.\n\nUnder the new guidelines, all new police officers and staff undergo rigorous vetting checks, while serving members should also be retrospectively checked every 10 years.\n\nChecks include credit, DNA and fingerprint analysis using the police database, as well as investigations into an applicant's partner, family and friends.\n\nPreviously, Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services (HMICFRS) said it was seeing too many cases of corruption and of officers abusing their positions of authority - sometimes for sexual gain.\n\nHowever, BBC 5 Live Investigates found that there were thousands of officers and staff who had not undergone the stricter checks.\n\nFreedom of Information replies from 36 of 43 police forces in England and Wales revealed that 16 of them had not performed retrospective background checks on those people.\n\nWest Midlands Police had the largest number of officers and staff who had not been checked or vetted within the last 10 years, with 3,283.\n\nHertfordshire Constabulary had 831 and Cambridgeshire Constabulary had 637.\n\nWest Midlands Police said it had \"backlogs in our routine reviews of vetting\" but it was confident only \"a minority\" were not covered by other government or security checks.\n\nConcerns about police vetting procedures were raised recently after the conviction of Cheshire Police Officer Ian Naude in December for the rape of a 13-year-old girl.\n\nIan Naude, a \"committed paedophile\", was jailed for 25 years for raping a teenage girl\n\nBBC 5 Live Investigates spoke to Yvonne, not her real name, who was a long-term victim of domestic violence.\n\nAfter her husband attacked both her and her daughter during an incident in 2013, she called 999. When Dorset Police came to her home, one of the attending officers began to groom Yvonne.\n\n\"He said a beautiful woman like you shouldn't be treated like this. He started texting me, complimenting me, he was very persuasive,\" she told the BBC\n\nYvonne and the Dorset PC had a sexual relationship over the next six months, but she says she felt taken advantage of and used.\n\nShe ended the affair, but says the officer would continue to come to her home unannounced, wearing his police uniform.\n\n\"I felt threatened. He said if anyone found out, the court case (for her husband's domestic violence) would have to start all over again.\"\n\nAfter an investigation, the officer - who has not been named to protect the victim - admitted gross misconduct at a disciplinary hearing.\n\nSupt Pete Windle, of Dorset Police's Professional Standards Department, said: \"Over the past five years, eight officers and staff have either been dismissed or resigned while under investigation for such allegations.\n\n\"Every member of Dorset Police has been vetted to the relevant national standards. We currently have a small number of officers and staff who are due for their 10-year vetting renewal and the force is in the process of ensuring these are completed.\"\n\nData from a Freedom of Information request to the Independent Office of Police Conduct (IOPC), also showed that the number of police officers reported for abusing their power \"for sexual gain\" has more than doubled over a four-year period - from 84 in 2014-15 to 170 in 2017-18.\n\nThe National Police Chiefs' Council said more cases like this were being reported because of the work they had done in highlighting the issue.\n\nIn a statement, it said: \"There is a gap and we will work really hard to sort that out.\n\n\"We are confident the number of officers and staff who have not been retrospectively vetted before 2006 will fall in the coming months.\"\n\nHMICFRS said the low levels of vetting uncovered by the BBC could affect public confidence in the police.\n\n\"We're currently inspecting forces to check that they've cleared their vetting backlogs,\" it said.\n\nYou can hear more on 5 Live Investigates at 11:00 GMT on Sunday 3 February on BBC Radio 5 Live and afterwards on BBC Sounds.", "Daniel Williams, 19, was last seen in a student union bar at the University of Reading's Whiteknights campus\n\nA university student's disappearance is \"completely out of character\" and officers are \"extremely concerned for his welfare\", police have said.\n\nAn air and land search for 19-year-old Daniel Williams is continuing after he went missing from the University of Reading in the early hours of Thursday.\n\nMr Williams, from Sutton in London, was last seen leaving a student union bar.\n\nPolice said they were \"continuing to maximise all available resources\" in the search for Mr Williams.\n\nSearch and rescue teams have been looking for Daniel Williams in woodland near Reading University\n\nThe force confirmed the National Police Air Service as well as Berkshire Lowland Search and Rescue were involved.\n\nSupt Jim Weems said leaflet drops had been arranged by Mr Williams' family, and added: \"His disappearance is completely out of character, and we are extremely concerned for his welfare.\"\n\nAppealing directly to Mr Williams, Supt Weems said: \"You are not in any trouble, but we want to ensure you are safe and well.\"\n\nHe said Mr Williams' family had \"no concern at all\" prior to his disappearance and had described him as \"a happy, normal 19-year-old enjoying university life\".\n\nSupt Jim Weems said police were \"extremely concerned\" for Mr Williams' wellbeing\n\nSpeaking at a press conference at the university, Supt Weems said it was believed Mr Williams left the student union bar at Whiteknights campus at 01:00 GMT on Thursday before disappearing.\n\n\"This is very unusual activity for Daniel and we are very concerned about his wellbeing and whereabouts,\" he said.\n\n\"Reading University campus is a large area - 30 officers a day have been searching this area to try and find Daniel.\n\n\"Naturally as we go through the inquiry we are working further afield to where Daniel lived as well, and the surrounding area.\"\n\nPolice said anyone who knew of Mr Williams' whereabouts should \"urgently\" contact the force\n\nMr Williams is described as 6ft tall, slim, with short light brown hair and blue eyes.\n\nHe was wearing jeans, black shoes and a black hooded top over a black T-shirt when he was last seen.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "John Worboys carried out more than 100 rapes and sexual assaults on women in London between 2002 and 2008\n\nTaxi driver John Worboys, who is believed to have carried out more than 100 rapes and sexual assaults on women in London between 2002 and 2008, is to be freed from jail.\n\nHe was an unassuming presence in the front seat, seemingly no different from the thousands of other black cab drivers who ferry workers, tourists and revellers across London.\n\nJohn Worboys claimed to be something of a white knight, rescuing vulnerable women from illegal taxi touts - even if they could not afford the fare.\n\nBut behind his friendly exterior lay a sinister motive - between October 2006 and February 2008, Worboys sedated 12 women, raping one of them, carrying out other sexual assaults on five more and an attempted sexual assault on another.\n\nHe was convicted of 19 offences in 2009 at Croydon Crown Court and ordered to serve at least eight years in jail.\n\nThe following year police said a number of women had come forward and that his alleged victims now numbered more than 100.\n\nWorboys, now 60, has spent 10 years in custody including a period on remand.\n\nWhen one woman went to police in July 2007, the cabbie was arrested but police decided they lacked evidence to press charges so they let him go. Between then and February 2008, 29 women were attacked by Worboys.\n\nHe also drove his black cab in Dorset - where he had a studio which produced adult films - and there have been reports of incidents at the time Worboys was there.\n\nThe victims - all travelling alone at night - were aged 18 to 33.\n\nOne 26-year-old, from west London, recalled waking in the cab, dazed from the effects of the drugs.\n\n\"The next thing I remember is him being in the back trying to put his hand up my skirt,\" she said.\n\n\"I screamed at him to get off me.\"\n\nWorboys, a former stripper and porn actor, craved the attention of women to the extent he would concoct stories to impress them.\n\nBoasting of £50,000 casino wins and flaunting a carrier bag of cash, he would win passengers' trust before uncorking miniature bottles of champagne.\n\nLittle did they know the cheap Tesco bubbly was laced with date-rape drug Temazepam, or over-the-counter sleeping medication, from the \"tool-kit\" he kept in the passenger footwell.\n\nAlongside the drugs, he stashed Jack Daniels, gin, vodka or whisky, prescription drugs, plastic gloves, condoms and a vibrator.\n\nWorboys would win passengers' trust before uncorking miniature bottles of champagne\n\nAs prosecutors put it, there was \"everything he would need to stupefy and sexually assault a passenger in his cab\".\n\nA fully-licensed driver, Worboys had undergone criminal records checks. As one victim said: \"Your guard drops when you are in a black cab, you learn to trust the drivers.\"\n\nSome remembered nothing after the few sips of laced drink, waking the next morning with the feeling something was seriously amiss.\n\n\"I felt just awful, so horrible. Something had been violated,\" one said.\n\nOthers were wary when Worboys offered them a drink but thought it rude to refuse. They poured away the drink or stalled events by phoning friends, only for Worboys' façade to slip as he became frustrated and menacing.\n\nOnce, when he failed to get his way, he forced a pill down a victim's throat. Another time he complained: \"You've really wasted my time.\"\n\nWorboys targeted women who had been drinking. Afterwards, many doubted themselves, felt embarrassed or feared wasting police time.\n\nHe was eventually caught when a woman went for police examination, having ended up slumped by the toilet after accepting a drink from him.\n\nThe cheap Tesco bubbly was laced with date-rape drug Temazepam, or over-the-counter sleeping medication\n\nA media appeal brought forward a flood of earlier victims. Police said that if it was not for these women's courage, Worboys might still have been at large.\n\nHis DNA was recovered from a semen stain in one woman's underwear. A wristband belonging to another was found in his house, and a third victim's address was found in Worboys' notebook. Forensic evidence linked a vibrator found in his car to another victim.\n\nIn court, Worboys played the victim. Clutching the side of the witness box, as if for support, he sounded almost timid as he blamed his thirst for attention on missing out on cuddles after his mum died of cancer, when he was 13.\n\nHe had worked as a milkman, junior dairy manager and security guard, before his craving for attention led him to become a stripper. For 13 years, until he was 42, Worboys revelled in performing as \"Terry the Minder\" for hen parties.\n\nPublicity photographs from the 1980s and 1990s show him sporting a blond tinted \"mullet\" haircut, posing in American-style police uniforms, satin underwear or rubber-look outfits.\n\nDespite the type of films produced by Worboys in his Dorset studio he claimed he \"never really had casual sex\", although he revealed \"the only time I feel comfortable sleeping... is if I've got someone I'm sleeping with\".\n\nThese sleeping problems had given him access to prescription Temazepam.\n\nWorboys married once - in 1991, to mother-of-three Jean Clayton - but they were unable to have children together and divorced in 1999.\n\nHunched on the stand, with furrowed brow and sunken eyes, he wept as he explained it had been 13 years since he had passed \"the Knowledge\" to become a cabbie.\n\nDuring that time, he claimed, he carried drinks and cigarettes in his cab to hand to \"down-and-outs\".\n\nHe said he impressed passengers with his \"banter\", allowing them to smoke inside provided they sit on the floor away from view, or let them believe he was doling out ecstasy tablets when in fact they were vitamin pills - his \"vitamin Es\".\n\nTo officers who investigated his case, this image was as false as the tales of university days he would tell to impress young students.\n\nDet Insp Dave Reid said: \"John Worboys took advantage of his position of trust as a black cab driver in London.\n\n\"He enticed women into his cab where he took the opportunity to carry out his frightening, humiliating and degrading attacks.\"\n\nThis is an update on an article written in 2009.\n• None 'Black-cab rapist' to be freed from jail", "Jaguar Land Rover is to extend its annual April shutdown in car production because of uncertainties around Brexit.\n\nThe UK's biggest carmaker will be idle for an extra week because of fears of disruption at its car and engine plants at Liverpool, Birmingham and Wolverhampton.\n\nThe shutdown during 8 to 12 April will be in addition to a scheduled closure the following week.\n\nBritain is due to leave the European Union on 29 March.\n\n\"There will be an additional week of production stand-down... due to potential Brexit disruption,\" JLR said in a statement.\n\nThe company, which is cutting jobs because of a steep fall in sales, has previously warned about the impact of Brexit on its ability to source just-in-time components from mainland Europe.\n\nBMW is already planning to close its plant near Oxford for a month after Brexit, while Honda is planning a six-day closure.\n\nAfter Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit plan was defeated in Parliament last week, fears have grown among some businesses of a no-deal exit.\n\nAlso on Thursday, Airbus, which makes aircraft wings in the UK, warned it could shift manufacturing from the UK in the event of no deal.\n\nJLR said its move had been under consideration for some time, but it was waiting for clarity over the terms of Britain's EU withdrawal. The company said it needed to inform its workers ahead of any holiday and annual leave plans.\n\nJLR has been saying for more than a year that Brexit uncertainty would eventually take its toll on the perception of the UK as a stable and competitive base for global manufacturing.\n\nLast July, the company said it needed more certainty around Brexit, and warned that a \"no-deal\" Brexit would cost the company more than £1.2bn in profit each year.\n\nChief executive Ralf Speth said last year: \"We have spent around £50bn in the UK in the past five years - with plans for a further £80bn more in the next five. This would be in jeopardy should we be faced with the wrong outcome.\"\n\nJLR employs just under 39,000 workers at sites including Castle Bromwich, Solihull and Wolverhampton in the West Midlands, and Halewood on Merseyside.\n\nThursday's news follows an announcement earlier this month that JLR is to cut 4,500 jobs under plans to make £2.5bn of cost savings.", "A man clears snow in a street in Westbury, Wiltshire, on Saturday morning\n\nWeather warnings for ice have been issued for Saturday afternoon and evening in parts of England as wintry conditions continue to affect the UK.\n\nThe Met Office is advising care as snow is expected to melt during the day and freeze as temperatures drop.\n\nEastern and southern England are braced for their coldest night of the winter, with -12C (10F) forecast, while parts of Scotland could see similar lows.\n\nThe freezing weather has disrupted travel and sports events.\n\nA number of football matches, in League One and League Two and the Scottish League One and Two, have been postponed, and some roads remain closed.\n\nThames Valley Police say they rescued an eight-week-old baby from a vehicle which came off a road in icy conditions in Bracknell, Berkshire, on Friday night, and ended up in a ditch.\n\nOfficers rescued a baby from this vehicle in Bracknell after it came off an icy stretch of road\n\nMeanwhile, a woman who went to the aid of a dog after it fell into a frozen river in Haddington, East Lothian, has been rescued by emergency services. She was helped off the ice on the River Tyne but the dog could not be saved.\n\nKent County Council said they had 18 tree surgeons working to clear the A2045 in Walderslade, where a number of trees were brought down by the weight of the snow and drivers were left trapped in their cars overnight. The road is not expected to reopen until Sunday afternoon.\n\nThe Met Office has issued a yellow weather warning for ice across southern and eastern parts of the UK from 16:00 GMT on Saturday to 11:00 on Sunday morning.\n\nIt said that while most areas would be dry, temperatures are expected to fall rapidly after dark with wet surfaces refreezing, meaning an increased likelihood of accidents due to icy surfaces.\n\nThe cold weather is forecast to continue in parts of central and southern Scotland where a yellow warning has been issued for between midnight and 14:00 GMT on Monday, with the snow and ice expected to hit the morning commute.\n\nParts of southern England saw 19cm (7.5in) of snow on Friday, with motorists stuck in vehicles overnight and falling trees blocking train lines.\n\nHighways England said police had worked until 02:00 GMT on Saturday to free vehicles from the M3 near Basingstoke.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUp to 1,500 people were without left power in the Basingstoke area of Hampshire - but power was restored around lunchtime.\n\nScottish and Southern Electricity Networks said its engineers had struggled to reach \"fault locations... with snowdrifts of up to 5ft in places\".\n\nBristol Airport - which closed its runway on Friday - saw some delays on Saturday morning because of the de-icing of runways but a full flight schedule was in operation.\n\nThe A96 was open on Saturday morning but police said conditions were treacherous\n\nThe village of Rowde and surrounding fields in Wiltshire remains covered in a blanket of snow\n\nCars were left abandoned at the side of roads near Maidstone in Kent\n\nThe A96 in the north east of Scotland was blocked overnight after a lorry jackknifed just south of Keith in Moray on Friday afternoon.\n\nPolice said three other lorries got into difficulties further south on the same road on Saturday.\n\nSix English Football League matches have been postponed because of snow and freezing conditions, including one League One match, Accrington v Blackpool, and five League Two games.\n\nFive Scottish League One and Two matches have also been called off.\n\nGround staff make sure Scotland's Six Nations clash with Italy can go ahead - but a host of sporting fixtures have been cancelled\n\nMeanwhile, skiers and snowboarders have been warned against taking to the streets in urban areas.\n\nDaniel Loots, from the Ski Club of Great Britain, said he advised against skiing or snowboarding on the street or pavement as \"although it looks fun it's pretty dangerous\".\n\nHis advice was to stick to the countryside and parks.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This is the weather forecast for the British Isles.\n\nBBC weather presenter Mel Coles said there was lying snow in many parts of the UK, and the ice risk remained high through Saturday night and into Sunday morning.\n\nSnow showers would ease in the later part of the day, but the weather is expected to turn very cold overnight, with experts predicting \"the coldest night of the winter so far\" in England, where temperatures in areas where snow has fallen could dip to -12C.\n\nTemperatures even in cities such as London and Birmingham could fall to a \"very unusual\" -4 or -5, with -12 also expected over the snowfields in Scotland, such as Aboyne and Braemar.\n\nHowever, Sunday will mark \"a day of change\" with milder air pushing in bringing heavy rain and some windy conditions in the coming week.\n\nTemperatures fell to their lowest level this winter in the early hours of Friday, with Braemar, Aberdeenshire, dropping to -15.4C (6F).\n\nThis is the lowest in the UK since 2012 - when temperatures fell to -15.6C in Holbeach, Lincolnshire.\n\nYou must enable JavaScript to view this content. Compare the temperature where you are with more than 50 cities around the world, including some of the hottest and coldest inhabited places. Enter your location or postcode in the search box to see your result.\n\nThis temperature comparison tool uses three hourly forecast figures. For more detailed hourly UK forecasts go to BBC Weather.\n\nIf you can't see the calculator, tap here.", "Emiliano Sala (left) was on board a plane being flown by pilot David Ibbotson\n\nAn underwater search for the missing plane carrying footballer Emiliano Sala and his pilot is under way.\n\nCardiff City's new signing disappeared with pilot David Ibbotson over the English Channel on 21 January.\n\nThe Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) said its Geo Ocean III vessel arrived on Sunday morning to the search area.\n\nTogether with a privately-funded vessel, it is conducting sonar surveys off Guernsey.\n\nThe AAIB said its search was expected to last three days, while the private search will continue \"until the plane is located\".\n\nCushions believed to be from the plane were found on a beach near Surtainville, on France's Cotentin Peninsula, on Monday.\n\nArgentine Sala, 28, and Mr Ibbotson, 59, from Crowle, North Lincolnshire, were travelling from Nantes, where Sala previously played, when the flight was lost.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The vessels are using sonar to search the seabed\n\nSpeaking from Guernsey harbour, David Mearns said his team on board the FPV Morven would work jointly with the AAIB's vessel.\n\nThey plan to search an area covering four square miles about 24 nautical miles north of Guernsey.\n\nThe location has been based on the flight path before it lost radar contact, said Mr Mearns, a shipwreck hunter.\n\nAn official search following the plane's disappearance was called off after three days with Guernsey officials saying there was little chance those on board survived.\n\nGeo Ocean III will search the water for the next three days\n\nIt prompted a privately-funded search to be set-up, with £324,000 was raised in an online appeal.\n\nSala's family arrived on Guernsey following his disappearance and were taken to see the area, circling the island of Alderney.\n\nMr Mearns said both vessels would divide their search area in half, looking for \"wreckage\" and a \"debris field\" in a depth of 60-120m (196-390ft).\n\n\"We will continue to work until the plane is located,\" he said.", "The MP for Sunderland Central, Julie Elliott, says Nissan's decision not to build the X-Trail in the city is devastating news. She said it appeared that Brexit had played a role in their decision-making and that businesses could not sustain the kind of uncertainty involved.", "A coalition of investors is calling on McDonald's, KFC, and other fast food suppliers to take swift action on climate change.\n\nThe group, with around $6.5 trillion under management, want the chains to cut carbon and water risks in their dairy and meat suppliers.\n\nAnimal agriculture, they argue, is one of the highest emitting sectors without a low CO2 plan.\n\nMcDonald's says it has put in place strong climate targets for suppliers.\n\nThe investors group have targeted some of the largest companies in the global fast food sector that's said to be worth $570bn.\n\nAs well as McDonald's, these include Domino's Pizza, Burger King, Chipotle Mexican Grill, Wendy's, Pizza Hut and KFC.\n\nMore than 80 investors have signed a letter to the fast food giants asking them to \"enact meaningful policies and targets\" to reduce the carbon footprint of their meat and dairy supply chains.\n\nThey are concerned by an analysis of the meat and dairy producers that supply the fast food giants.\n\nAgricultural emissions including those from meat and dairy are on track to contribute around 70% of the total allowable greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 that would the keep rise in the world's temperature under 2C this century.\n\nThe livestock sector is also estimated to use approximately 10% of annual global water flows.\n\nIn their letter, they are calling on the chains to put in place clear requirements for suppliers of animal proteins to report and reduce their greenhouse gases and their freshwater impacts.\n\nThey want the companies to publish quantitative, time bound targets for reductions and commit to publicly disclose the progress on these targets.\n\nThe investors say they are calling for these steps to help these fast food companies minimise their future risks.\n\n\"When it comes to evaluating market risk, rising global temperatures and intensifying competition for water access are increasingly material factors for investors,\" said Eugenie Mathieu, from Aviva Investors, one of the signatories.\n\n\"This is especially the case in the meat and dairy sector. From field to fork, investors want to understand which food companies are monitoring and minimising the long-term environmental risks in their supply chain. This engagement sends a clear message to the fast food sector that investors expect them to deliver sustainable supply chains.\"\n\nHowever a spokesperson for McDonald's poured scorn on the idea that they are not doing enough to ensure their supply chains are combating climate change.\n\nThey say that in 2018, McDonald's became the first restaurant company in the world to address global climate change by setting a target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, which has been approved by the Science Based Targets initiative.\n\n\"This includes reducing emissions intensity in our supply chain through engagement and collaboration with suppliers and farmers - which we expect will prevent 150 million metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions from being released into the atmosphere by 2030,\" the spokesperson said.\n\n\"This is the equivalent of taking 32 million passenger cars off the road for an entire year or planting 3.8 billion trees and growing them for 10 years. The target will enable McDonald's to grow as a business without growing its emissions.\"\n\nConsumption of meat and dairy produce has been under renewed focus in recent weeks, after the EAT-Lancet commission report.\n\nTheir experts suggested that a sustainable, \"planetary health diet\" to feed an expected population of ten billion people by mid century would imply a 90% reduction in red meat and milk consumption.\n\nIf these recommendations are to have any real impact, the fast food sector will have to take stronger measures.\n\n\"Investors are eager to see more leadership from these companies to reduce the mounting climate and water risks linked to their meat and dairy suppliers,\" said Mindy Lubber, from Ceres, the nonprofit organisation working with investors on climate, water scarcity and pollution.\n\n\"From eliminating deforestation to reducing water waste, cleaning up their supply chains will have enormous impacts on the animal agriculture sector as a whole, and dramatically increase our ability to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement to limit global warming.\"\n\nThe companies behind the letter are calling for meaningful action by March.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nSergio Aguero's 14th hat-trick for Manchester City closed the gap on Premier League leaders Liverpool to only two points after victory over Arsenal at Etihad Stadium.\n\nAguero - as he did in Tuesday's shock defeat at Newcastle United - put the reigning champions ahead inside the first minute, but Arsenal swiftly restored equality as Laurent Koscielny escaped poor marking to head home from a corner.\n\nCity's nerves were eased by a magnificent second from Aguero just before the break, rounding off a perfectly constructed move between Ilkay Gundogan and Raheem Sterling with a simple finish at the far post.\n\nAguero secured City's win when he bundled in Sterling's cross after 61 minutes as attention now switches to Liverpool's visit to West Ham United on Monday night (20:00 GMT).\n\nAguero may be 30 but he shows no signs of losing any of the natural marksmanship that marks him down as world-class and one of the greatest strikers of the Premier League era.\n\nThe Argentine has now scored 157 goals in 227 appearances and he was the man Pep Guardiola was able to count on once more as Manchester City maintained the pressure on Liverpool in the title race.\n\nAguero's goals were all close range finishes but City could have no-one better at the sharp end of all their brilliant passing and movement and he could easily have had more.\n\nWhat is often overlooked is Aguero's tireless work ethic, constantly defending from the front - one burst of energy to close down Arsenal keeper Bernd Leno and the Gunners' defence drawing warm applause from both his manager and the City supporters.\n\nCity needed to get the show back on the road after that slip on Tyneside and it was Aguero who gave them the perfect start then lifted them again after Arsenal worked their way back into the game.\n\nThe standing ovation Aguero received when he was replaced by Gabriel Jesus with 10 minutes left was richly deserved.\n\nThe further Unai Emery goes into his first season at Arsenal after succeeding Arsene Wenger, the clearer it becomes that this is a major work in progress and patience will be required.\n\nArsenal have sparkled at times this season, especially in home wins against Spurs and Chelsea, but it is clear they still remain way behind the big hitters at the top of the Premier League and have dropped down to sixth in the table after rejuvenated Manchester United's latest win at Leicester City.\n\nEmery now faces a real battle to get into the top four but he still has the Europa League to aim for - a competition that was his speciality at Sevilla - as he tries to get Arsenal into the Champions League.\n\nMatteo Guendouzi again showed his promise, especially in the first half and Lucas Torreira is a quality addition, while in attack Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Alexandre Lacazette are a serious threat.\n\nEmery has also seen his defensive resources hit by long-term injuries to the likes of Rob Holding and Hector Bellerin but there is no question serious work needs to be done to strengthen Arsenal's squad.\n\nArsenal showed occasional flashes in the first half, but looked lightweight and impotent set against City and this was a day when the scale of Emery's task, and the time he will need to try and accomplish it, was exposed.\n\n'Good start to a tough week' - what the managers said\n\nManchester City boss Pep Guardiola: \"I understand pressure, pressure to win the games. After the game in Newcastle, Liverpool were seven points ahead and now they are two.\n\n\"Of course they have to play, they have quality, but West Ham [who Liverpool face on Monday] are a good side.\n\n\"Now we have tomorrow to start again and think about Everton and after Chelsea. It is a tough week for us and we go game by game.\"\n\nArsenal boss Unai Emery: \"We are going to go game by game and thinking 'win the next match' and maybe if we win we can take the opportunity in the near future to be near the other teams and play with this motivation.\n\n\"The difference between City and us is like this result. We need to do our work. Not a big frustration at moment, the result is the difference.\n\n\"They showed their superiority in 90 minutes. They held their level in 90 minutes and our level in the second half was worse than the first.\"\n\nCan we play you every week? - the stats\n• None Manchester City have won four consecutive top-flight games against Arsenal for the first time since April 1937.\n• None Since the start of 2018, only two teams have lost more away games than Arsenal (12) in the Premier League - Brighton (14) and Huddersfield (13).\n• None City have won eight of their nine games in all competitions in 2019, scoring 34 goals and conceding four.\n• None Sergio Aguero has been directly involved in 27 goals in his past 15 home starts in the Premier League - 22 goals, 5 assists.\n• None Aguero has scored both of the two quickest goals in the Premier League this season - 24 seconds v Newcastle and 46 seconds v Arsenal.\n• None City's opening goal after 46 seconds was the quickest that Arsenal have conceded in a Premier League game since December 2014.\n\nManchester City could be top of the Premier League table by the end of Wednesday. If Liverpool don't beat West Ham on Monday and City win at Everton two days later (19:45 GMT), there will be a new leader. Arsenal will attempt to win away from home in the top-flight for the first time since 25 November when they visit Huddersfield on Saturday (15:00).\n• None Attempt missed. Riyad Mahrez (Manchester City) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by David Silva.\n• None Substitution, Manchester City. Riyad Mahrez replaces Kevin De Bruyne because of an injury.\n• None Attempt blocked. Raheem Sterling (Manchester City) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Bernardo Silva.\n• None Attempt saved. Gabriel Jesus (Manchester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Raheem Sterling.\n• None Attempt saved. David Silva (Manchester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Bernardo Silva.\n• None Substitution, Arsenal. Konstantinos Mavropanos replaces Shkodran Mustafi because of an injury.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match Shkodran Mustafi (Arsenal) because of an injury.\n• None Attempt saved. Sergio Agüero (Manchester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "The man coordinating a privately-funded search for the plane carrying Emiliano Sala and his pilot David Ibbotson says \"confidence is high\" something will be found.\n\nDavid Mearns explained the next steps in the seabed search expected to begin on Sunday.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nissan worker: \"If Nissan went down, the north-east would be gone\"\n\nNissan has confirmed it will build both the new Qashqai and the X-Trail SUV at its Sunderland plant following government \"support and assurances\".\n\nThe Japanese company's commitment to Britain's biggest car plant had been in doubt following the EU referendum.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn said the government must make public any deals struck with the firm.\n\nHowever, Business Secretary Greg Clark said there was \"no question of financial compensation\" for Nissan.\n\nThe company's decision comes as economic growth in the three months after the Brexit vote confounded expectations, increasing by 0.5% - slower than the 0.7% in the previous quarter but higher than analysts' estimates of about 0.3%.\n\nNissan's decision is the first major development for the car industry since the Brexit vote and secures 7,000 jobs.\n\n\"The support and assurances of the UK government enabled us to decide that the next-generation Qashqai and X-Trail will be produced at Sunderland,\" said Carlos Ghosn, Nissan's chief executive, adding that he welcomed Prime Minister Theresa May's \"commitment to the automotive industry in Britain\".\n\nLast month, he warned that Nissan might not invest in the Sunderland plant unless the government guaranteed compensation for costs related to any new trade tariffs resulting from Brexit.\n\nMrs May described the announcement as \"fantastic news\", adding: \"This vote of confidence shows Britain is open for business.\"\n\nMr Clark said: \"The fact Nissan have not only made a long-term commitment to build the next generation Qashqai and X-Trail at Sunderland, but decided to upgrade their factory to a super-plant, manufacturing over 600,000 cars a year, is proof of the strength of the sector.\"\n\nA Nissan spokesman said making the X-Trail at Sunderland could lead to hundreds of new jobs being created in the coming years. It will be the first time the model has been made outside Japan.\n\nThe production line was stopped at 11am on Thursday so workers could be told about the decision.\n\nA senior Nissan Europe executive, Colin Lawther, said the company had received \"no special deal\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nissan boss Colin Lawther tells The World At One there has been no special deal\n\n\"It's just a commitment from the government to work with the whole of the automotive industry to make sure the whole automotive industry in the UK remains competitive,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"We would expect nothing for us that the rest of the industry wouldn't be able to have access to. We see this as a whole industry thing, not a Nissan thing.\"\n\nWe don't know the details of the \"support and assurance\" that Nissan extracted from the UK government. But it was clearly enough to secure a commitment from Nissan to build not one, but two new cars at the Sunderland plant.\n\nThe promise to shield Nissan from the impact of Brexit will not be lost on rival manufacturers, both those already in the UK as well as those that might be tempted to come.\n\nWill other carmakers with big investment decisions to make now favour Britain? It's possible - but now only after securing a few government guarantees.\n\nThe UK car industry has been vocal in warning about the impact of an exit from the single market.\n\nAlthough the cheaper pound makes their exports more attractive, a hard Brexit and the prospect of trade tariffs will add to their costs.\n\nIt seems likely that the government has now promised some sort of financial support to cushion Nissan against such an impact. That will be controversial, of course. But once outside the EU, it won't necessarily be illegal.\n\nBuilding the X-Trail SUV is an unexpected addition to the model line-up at Sunderland, which makes almost one in three cars built in Britain and produced 475,000 vehicles last year - 80% of which were exported.\n\nThe Sunderland plant opened in 1986 and has produced almost nine million cars over the past three decades.\n\nProduction of the next Qashqai model is expected to begin in 2018 or 2019.\n\nMike Hawes, chief executive of industry body the SMMT, said Nissan's announcement was good news for the UK's automotive sector.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nissan has confirmed it will build two new cars at its Sunderland plant.\n\nBut he added: \"We need government to provide public assurance to investors that our advantages will be maintained - namely, a competitive business environment, the ability to recruit talent from abroad and the continuation of all the benefits of the single market as we leave the EU.\"\n\nFigures released by the SMMT on Thursday showed the UK's car industry is performing strongly, with almost 1.3 million vehicles produced in the nine months to September - a 10.5% increase on the same period last year.\n\nJust over one million vehicles were produced for export markets.\n• None UK cars 'must be in EU single market'", "England pulled off arguably the most impressive victory of the Eddie Jones era as they ran in four tries to inflict Ireland's first Six Nations defeat in Dublin in six years.\n\nEngland had led 17-10 at half-time with tries from Jonny May and the impressive Elliot Daly separated by Cian Healy's burrowing score from close in, and could have been further ahead.\n\nAnd with their defence outstanding, their tactical kicking precise and the back three rock-solid under the high ball, they added two more opportunistic tries in the second period through the livewire Henry Slade.\n\nIreland had seen off world champions New Zealand in an unbeaten autumn but their dream of consecutive Grand Slams came crashing down under a thunderous English assault.\n\nJohnny Sexton was subdued as an attacking force, his pass being picked off for Slade's second score, England a side transformed with the return of the bullocking Vunipola brothers and Manu Tuilagi.\n\nJohn Cooney's late try for Joe Schmidt's men did little to dampen the pain of a defeat that will jolt Irish confidence as the World Cup in Japan looms into view.\n\nFor Jones it kick-starts beautifully the biggest year of his long career, this only England's second Six Nations win in Dublin since 2003, the sort of scalp that will bring belief back to those who had wondered if his team had flatlined.\n• None England 'nowhere near our best' - Jones\n\nIt had been eight years since England's last Six Nations try in Dublin but they had to wait just 95 seconds more as Farrell struck first in his battle with opposite number Sexton.\n\nAfter muscular carries into the Irish 22 from Tuilagi and Billy Vunipola England went left, and it was Farrell's fast, flat cut-out pass that put Daly in space to draw the last man and send May over in the corner.\n\nFarrell landed the conversion from the touchline before Sexton's penalty brought a frantic contest back to 7-3, and on a freezing Dublin afternoon the men in green then turned up the heat.\n\nEngland survived the sin-binning of 20-year-old flanker Tom Curry after his late hit on Keith Earls but could not hold out when Sexton kicked a penalty to the corner and Healy hammered over from a yard out.\n\nBut they struck back again when Daly's grubber kick through was juggled and spilt by Jacob Stockdale under pressure from Jack Nowell, Daly diving on the loose ball for the score and Farrell stroking over the conversion.\n\nEngland's fly-half then struck a perfect penalty from out wide again after Mako Vunipola had been correctly denied a try for a double movement for a seven-point lead at the interval.\n\nIreland had not conceded as many first-half points in a Six Nations match in Dublin for 13 years, and had lost the last 20 games in which they were more than a point behind at half-time.\n\nBut after England failed to work a drop-goal after a long spell deep in Irish territory, Ulster's Stockdale hacked long, Kyle Sinckler was penalised for a late tackle on Garry Ringrose and Sexton reduced the margin to just four points.\n\nWith England lock Maro Itoje off injured the belief started to swell among the home support, the roars growing louder as Farrell missed a penalty - conceded by Sexton for hands in the ruck - that by his standards was straightforward.\n\nBoth sides freshened up their packs as the minutes ticked away and the tension grew.\n\nAnd it was England who struck the pivotal blow with a fine move at pace from a scrum inside their own half.\n\nBen Youngs ran left, Slade threw a miss-pass out to May on the touchline and ran on to gather the winger's clever kick ahead to dive on the ball for England's third try.\n\nFarrell again tugged the conversion wide but banged over a penalty moments later after replacement Courtney Lawes's big hit in midfield, and with the scoreboard showing 25-13 with less than 10 minutes left the choruses of England fans' anthem Swing Low began to sound.\n\nSlade spotted Sexton's desperate pass in his own 22 and gathered brilliantly to slide over for his second try, and English celebrations could begin.\n\nWith only one more away match to come in this championship, a humdinger in Cardiff at the end of the month in round three, England at last have the momentum that had slipped away during a testing, turbulent 2018.\n\nThe beating heart of England's relentless defence, an all-encompassing performance from a prop whose absence through injury England had keenly felt.\n\nWhat they said\n\nFormer England scrum-half Matt Dawson on BBC Radio 5 live: \"If there was one team who was going to bloom in the last 20 minutes, you'd have thought it would be Ireland.\n\n\"But Ireland couldn't get out of their 22 and England capitalised. When you win in Dublin against the second-best team in the world, you are going to be flying for the rest of the tournament.\"\n\nFormer Ireland winger Denis Hickie: \"I don't think Ireland have been overconfident. They will be very hard on themselves after that game.\n\n\"Ireland were favourites last year and won the Grand Slam then took that form into November. They just haven't played well enough today.\"\n\nReplacements: Larmour for Earls (41), Carbery for Ringrose (73), Cooney for Murray (77), Kilcoyne for Healy (62), Cronin for Best (67), Porter for Furlong (62), Roux for Toner (57), O'Brien for Stander (65).\n\nReplacements: Ashton for Nowell (74), Ford for Tuilagi (77), Genge for M. Vunipola (77), Cowan-Dickie for George (77), Williams for Sinckler (65), Hughes for Itoje (54), Lawes for Kruis (53).\n• None How to follow the Six Nations live on the BBC", "Bristol is one of the major UK ports for import and export for the automotive trade\n\nA storm is brewing as clouds gather over Bristol Port, with the rain set to fall on tens of thousands of vehicles parked in the port's car compounds, ready for export by ship, or destined for UK dealerships.\n\nIt is an apt backdrop for the UK automotive sector's current predicament.\n\n\"Brexit has derailed the industry,\" says Sarwant Singh, senior partner and global head of automotive and transportation at consultants Frost & Sullivan.\n\n\"The uncertainty causes people not to buy cars.\"\n\nThe number of cars sold in the UK dropped 5.7% in 2017, according to industry body the Society of Motor Manufacturers & Traders, and ratings agency Moody's predicts a further 5.5% fall this year.\n\nThere has been little respite from foreign markets, with exports slipping 1% last year.\n\nEach year, about 80% of the vehicles built in the UK are exported, so smooth international trade relations are vital for the automotive sector's continued prosperity.\n\nBut these days, the relations are as choppy as the sea in the Bristol Channel.\n\nVauxhall, owned by France's PSA Group, makes the Astra at Ellesmere Port\n\nIndustry executives' main fear is that Brexit will result in heightened barriers to trade, not only with the European Union, but with the rest of the world too, once the transition period ends on 31 December 2020.\n\nThe prospect of an escalating trade dispute between the US and its main trading partners, the EU and China, also looms large, after US President Donald Trump's recent threat to tax cars imported into the world's largest market.\n\n\"All of Europe is exposed,\" says Justin Cox, director of global production at consultants LMC Automotive, \"but some plants are more exposed than others, and it so happens that several of those are in the UK.\"\n\nThen there's China, the world's second-largest car market. Trading relations with China are already complicated, and may well be subject to even greater complexity in future.\n\n\"A UK-China free trade agreement will be neither easy nor clearly advantageous for the UK,\" says Bruegel, a European think tank that specialises in economics.\n\nPart of the issue, it says, is that the UK would like to land better trade deals with China when it leaves the bloc than the ones the EU already has in place. But being smaller, the UK will be in a weaker position during trade talks, so there are no guarantees China will be prepared to offer better terms.\n\nOn top of this, UK automotive trade with China - and other fast-growing markets such as India, Brazil and Russia - could suffer, depending on the terms of a post-Brexit trade deal with the EU, Mr Singh says.\n\nThat's because the UK might not be able to piggyback on the EU's existing bilateral trade agreements with third countries, including those entered into since the Brexit vote with Canada and Japan. Instead, it would face years of protracted trade talks with dozens of countries.\n\nDespite uncertainty about Brexit, BMW has said it will assemble its new Mini in the UK\n\nGetting a good Brexit deal is also important because of the interdependence of European automotive companies.\n\n\"The motor industry has taken advantage of the EU's single market as much as, perhaps more than, any other industry,\" says Mike Hawes, chief executive of SMMT.\n\nAs a result, EU customers buy about €15bn ($18.5bn; £13bn) worth of British-made cars per year, accounting for some 53% of the UK's vehicle exports, according to the European Automobile Manufacturers Association (ACEA).\n\nConversely, EU manufacturers deliver 81% of the cars imported by the UK, to the tune of about €45bn, a trade imbalance that Brexit supporters hope will give the UK leverage during trade talks.\n\nAt the same time, about 80% of the parts and components used to build cars in the UK are also imported from the EU, while 70% of the parts and components made in the UK are exported to EU countries.\n\n\"Any changes to the deep economic and regulatory integration between the EU and the UK will have an adverse impact on automobile manufacturers with operations in the EU and/or the UK, as well as on the European economy in general,\" the ACEA says.\n\nEU manufacturers deliver 81% of the cars imported by the UK\n\nHence, both the UK and the European car industries are keen to see a final UK-EU deal that retains frictionless trade in the long-term.\n\n\"Anything short of single market membership could be a problem for the UK,\" says Simon Dorris, managing partner at Lansdowne Consulting.\n\nFree trade is indeed key to future prosperity, not just within Europe but beyond, according to Prof Patrick Minford of Cardiff University, who chairs Economists for Free Trade, a group of pro-Brexit economists.\n\nIts much debated paper, From Project Fear to Project Prosperity, suggests fears of rising trade barriers for carmakers after Brexit are misplaced.\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May has said that Brexit presents an \"opportunity to strike free trade deals around the world\".\n\nDespite the uncertainty about a future trade deal, a number of big carmakers have committed to building more cars in the UK since the Brexit vote, including Nissan, BMW, Toyota, and last week Vauxhall, which is owned by French group PSA.\n\nBut Parliament's cross-party Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee is pessimistic, recently warning that \"there are no advantages to be gained from Brexit for the automotive industry for the foreseeable future\".\n\nThe UK's best-selling car is the compact Ford Fiesta\n\nThe UK prime minister's desire for free trade is shared by the global motor industry more generally.\n\nExecutives are nevertheless pragmatic, and accept that although international trade is governed by rules policed by the World Trade Organization, free trade is rarely a reality.\n\nTrade-distorting subsidies and a variety of measures, such as regulatory barriers, internal tax measures, and intellectual property rights, still impede the free flow of goods, even when trade agreements are in place, according to the European Commission.\n\nThe EU, for instance, will not import cars unless they meet EU safety and emissions requirements.\n\nMoreover, trade agreements are generally conditional. For instance, cars exported from the EU must be predominantly made within the EU to be allowed free entry into other markets.\n\nSuch \"Rules of Origin\" could complicate exports for UK carmakers after Brexit, as an estimated 55%-75% of the parts and components that make up a car built in Britain are imported, according to Mr Hawes of SMMT.\n\nMore from the BBC's series taking an international perspective on trade:\n\nWhatever level of access UK-made cars get to markets around the world after Brexit, the manufacturers ultimately have to try ensure that their vehicles will be popular with overseas buyers.\n\nMr Hawes says that this is not always easy, citing the fact that the UK's best-selling car is the compact Ford Fiesta, whereas the most popular vehicle in the US is the large Ford F150 pick-up truck.\n\nConsequently, there are reasons to question whether the US market is the most natural one to focus on for UK manufacturers, which tend to produce cars that suit British and European consumers, he observes.\n\n\"So it's also about producing the right car for the market,\" he says, pointing to how Honda is producing the Civic in Swindon for global markets. \"They have shown it can be done\".", "More than 70 officers have been searching through the night\n\nPolice searching for a 21-year-old student who went missing after leaving a club have said they have \"significant concerns\" about her safety.\n\nLibby Squire was last seen by her friends getting into a taxi outside The Welly on Beverley Road, Hull, at about 23:00 GMT on Thursday.\n\nShe got out of a taxi near her home on Wellesley Avenue and was last seen on CCTV about 23:45 on Beverley Road.\n\nDet Supt Simon Gawthorpe said her disappearance was out of character.\n\nSpeaking at a press conference, he said: \"Her family have described Libby as a very thoughtful young woman who always put other people before herself.\n\n\"They have said this is very out of character for Libby, and clearly that raises our concerns about her significantly.\"\n\nA police dog unit is being used in the search\n\nFire crews have been searching a frozen pond near where she was last seen\n\nDet Supt Gawthorpe said Ms Squire was spotted on the CCTV on Beverley Road, close to its junction with Haworth Street.\n\nThe officer said from there, she may have walked in either direction down Beverley Road or Haworth Street.\n\nPolice had made an earlier appeal to trace a driver who had stopped to help Ms Squire on Beverley Road, but they said he had now been located.\n\nLibby Squire got a taxi outside The Welly club\n\nMore than 70 officers are involved in the search, and fire crews have been searching a frozen pond at Oak Road playing fields.\n\nThey have spoken to friends, and visited pubs and clubs in the area, as well as speaking to residents.\n\nDet Supt Gawthorpe appealed for drivers with dashcam footage who were in the Beverley Road area between 23:00 and 03:00 to get in touch.\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 Amelia This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPolice have also asked residents to check their gardens, sheds and outbuildings to see if she may have taken shelter there.\n\nFriends of the student have also organised their own search party through social media.\n\nSeveral have taken to Twitter, pleading for help to find her.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMs Squire, who is 5ft 7ins tall and has long dark brown hair, was wearing a black leather jacket, black long sleeved top and a black denim skirt with lace.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Michel Barnier speaks in the European Parliament, as MEP Nigel Farage takes notes\n\nThe EU's chief negotiator Michel Barnier says the Irish backstop is \"part and parcel\" of the UK's Brexit deal and will not be renegotiated.\n\nSpeaking at the European Parliament, Mr Barnier said it was a \"realistic solution\" to preventing a hard border.\n\nBritish MPs voted earlier this month against the deal agreed by the UK and EU during 18 months of negotiations.\n\nInstead, on Tuesday, they voted for PM Theresa May to seek \"alternative arrangements\" to the backstop.\n\nThe UK is due to leave the European Union at 23:00 GMT on 29 March. The backstop is an \"insurance\" policy to stop the return of checks on goods and people along the Northern Ireland border.\n\nAs it stands, the backstop would effectively keep the UK inside the EU's customs union, but with Northern Ireland also conforming to some rules of the single market.\n\nIt was one of the main reasons Mrs May's Brexit deal was voted down in Parliament by an historic margin earlier in January as critics say a different status for Northern Ireland could threaten the existence of the UK and fear that the backstop could become permanent.\n\nMrs May has said there are several possible alternatives to the backstop that she wanted to discuss with EU leaders.\n\nThese include a \"trusted trader\" scheme to avoid physical checks on goods flowing through the border, \"mutual recognition\" of rules with the EU and \"technological\" solutions.\n\nHowever, Business Secretary Greg Clark told ITV's Peston programme that he did not think \"those technical possibilities are there yet\".\n\nMrs May also wants to discuss a time limit on the backstop and a \"unilateral exit\" mechanism - both options ruled out by the EU in the past.\n\nThe message from the EU though was the backstop remained an integral part of the withdrawal agreement - the so-called \"divorce deal\" agreeing the terms of the UK's exit from the EU.\n\nMr Barnier said: \"Calmly and clearly, I will say right here and now - with this withdrawal agreement proposed for ratification - we need this backstop as it is.\n\n\"Rejecting the backstop as it stands today boils down to rejecting the solution which has been found with the British, but the problem remains.\"\n\nMrs May had a 45-minute phone call with the President of the European Council, Donald Tusk, on Wednesday evening, described as \"open and frank\" by one source.\n\nThey told BBC Brussels correspondent Adam Fleming that the PM had explained the result of the votes, but Mr Tusk reiterated the withdrawal agreement was not up for renegotiation.\n\nThe source also said Mrs May was told the EU could not keep guessing what might work, so it was up to the UK to provide solutions that could get a majority in the Commons.\n\nThe Irish Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar, also spoke to Mrs May and said the latest developments had \"reinforced the need for a backstop which is legally robust and workable in practice\".\n\nEarlier, his deputy, Simon Coveney, gave a warning over Mrs May's future plans for the backstop, saying that anyone who allowed the \"borders and divisions of the past\" to return would be \"judged harshly in history\".\n\nHe added: \"There are some things that are more important than economic relationships and this is one of them.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPresident of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker said he believed Mrs May's \"personal commitment\" to avoid \"slipping back to darker times past\", but he said the \"safety net\" of the backstop was necessary to prevent it.\n\nHe added: \"We have no desire to use this safety net, [but] no safety net can be truly safe if it can just be removed at any time.\"\n\nBut UK MEP Nigel Farage attacked the EU, claiming it had pushed Mrs May into the backstop in the first place.\n\nThe former UKIP leader told the European Parliament: \"I accept [Mrs May] made a dreadful mistake by signing up to the backstop, [but] you summoned her at 04:15 in the morning, she left Downing Street, she went to meet the ultimatum you set her.\n\n\"She signed up to something that has proved to be a disaster. She signed up to something that no country, unless it had been defeated in war, would have signed up to.\n\n\"We now realise that mistake and the House of Commons, the country is overall looking for a deal.\"\n\nAnd Conservative MEP Ashley Fox said the backstop would create a hard border, rather than prevent one, unless it was amended.\n\nAt the same time as the European Parliament was discussing Brexit, Mrs May and Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn were holding their long-awaited meeting on the issue, following an earlier clash at Prime Minister's Questions.\n\nIn the Commons Mr Corbyn repeatedly urged Mrs May to rule out a no-deal Brexit after a majority of MPs voted against the prospect in another vote on Tuesday.\n\nBut Mrs May said: \"You cannot just vote to reject no deal, you have to support a deal.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Corbyn and Theresa May clash over Brexit policies\n\nTheir later meeting, away from the cameras, was \"very cordial\", according to a Labour spokesperson.\n\n\"There was a useful exchange of views. We made the case for our plan. There was a detailed exchange of views on a customs union and single market relationship.\"\n\nThe pair agreed to meet again soon, the spokesperson added.\n\nThe European Parliament's Brexit coordinator, Guy Verhofstadt, echoed his colleagues by criticising the UK for not being clear about what they wanted from the deal.\n\nHe said the two years had been \"exhausting\" on both sides of the Channel, and called for Mrs May and Mr Corbyn to work together - \"not only eating biscuits and drinking tea\" - to come to a cross-party solution and to stop \"using and abusing Brexit to get rid of each other\".\n\nMr Juncker said the votes in the Commons on Tuesday increased the risk of a \"disorderly\" Brexit, but he still believed there could be a deal done between the EU and UK, adding: \"We will work day and night to make it happen, and to ensure we are ready in case it does not.\"", "Renault and Nissan have pledged to continue their alliance as its architect, Carlos Ghosn, resigned from the French carmaker.\n\nMr Ghosn's resignation came as he remained incarcerated in Japan where he is accused of financial misconduct at Nissan.\n\nRenault said Michelin's Jean-Dominique Senard had been appointed chairman, and Thierry Bolloré chief executive.\n\nMr Ghosn was sacked by Nissan shortly after his arrest on 19 November.\n\n\"In the big picture, this is a big milestone that we are reaching. We are starting a new chapter. So I welcome this new leadership of Renault,\" Mr Saikawa said.\n\nThe architect of the Renault-Nissan alliance, Mr Ghosn had not been sacked by Renault. Instead, the French car giant had handed day-to-day operations to Mr Bolloré, who now takes the role permanently.\n\nMr Ghosn faces three charges in Japan of financial misconduct, including understating his income and aggravated breach of trust. He denies any wrongdoing and could remain in custody for months after his application for bail earlier this week was denied.\n\nQuestions had been asked about future of the alliance - which Mitsubishi joined three years ago - which Mr Ghosn oversaw.\n\nIt sold 10.6 million vehicles in 2017 and together employs 470,000 around the globe.\n\nOn Thursday, as Renault announced its boardroom change it did not use Mr Ghosn's name but said: \"The board praised the alliance's track record, which has enabled it to become the world's leading automobile manufacturer\".\n\nUntil his arrest, Mr Ghosn had achieved star status in Japan. Born in Porto Velho, Brazil, to Lebanese parents, according to one poll he was the man most Japanese women wanted to marry and in another he came seventh in a poll of who should run the country.\n\nHe oversaw Nissan's recovery after Renault took a stake in the then-troubled car maker in 1999, the start of the alliance.\n\nRenault's new chairman, Mr Senard, will be responsible for managing Renault's alliance with Japanese carmaker Nissan, while Mr Bolloré will co-ordinate the carmaker's activities.\n\nMr Senard also backed the alliance. \"It's important that this alliance remain extremely strong,\" Mr Senard said. \"It is our compulsory duty to go forward together.\"\n\nThe French union CGT has estimated that Mr Ghosn could be in line for a severance deal of up to €28m (£24.5m) in addition to an annual pension of €800,000.\n\nFrench Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire told AFP the government, which owns a 15% stake in Renault, would be \"extremely vigilant as key shareholders on the exit conditions that will be set by the (Renault) board of directors\".\n\nHe said Mr Senard's main responsibility \"will be to ensure the future of the alliance between Renault and Nissan and to strengthen it\".\n\nCarlos Ghosn faces three charges of financial misconduct in Japan for understating his income and aggravated breach of trust\n\nProf David Bailey at Aston Business School said the alliance would no longer be able to rely on Mr Ghosn to hold it together, but it was important that the alliance remained, because of the cost pressures facing the industry.\n\n\"They are going to have to come up with new ways to glue it together,\" Prof Bailey said.\n\nRenault has said previously that it has not found any evidence of wrongdoing yet, and an investigation into executive pay has shown no signs of fraud so far.\n\nMr Saikawa said \"communication between the boards of the two companies has been a bit difficult\" since Mr Ghosn's arrest, and that he was looking forward to \"better communication\".\n\nNissan said it had now begun preparations to hold an extraordinary general meeting in April to discuss new board members.\n\nThe agenda will be to cover the departure of Carlos Ghosn and Greg Kelly, an aide to Mr Ghosn who was arrested in November and bailed on Christmas Day. The shareholder meeting will also cover the appointment of a new director to be nominated by Renault.", "The Dark Hedges are estimated to date back to about 1775\n\nA tree made famous by the TV fantasy drama Game of Thrones has fallen in strong winds.\n\nGale force winds of up to 60 mph hit Northern Ireland overnight on Saturday.\n\nThe Dark Hedges are a tunnel of beech trees on the Bregagh Road near Armoy that have become an an international tourist attraction since featuring in the hit series.\n\nThe intertwined beech branches and gnarled trunks make the Dark Hedges an iconic sight\n\nThe trees were originally planted by the Stuart family along the entrance to their Gracehill House mansion.\n\nOver the decades, the branches grew over the road and became entangled and intertwined, creating a covered passageway with something of an ethereal feel.\n\nOriginally, there were about 150 trees, but time has taken its toll and now only about 90 remain.\n\nPaddy Cregg, from the Woodland Trust, told BBC News NI that the trees date back to 1775 and by beech tree standards, they were \"old aged pensioners\".\n\nHe added: \"They are coming to the end of their life, normally beech trees survive around 250 years, they are probably now 240 years old.\n\n\"It's sad to see that one by one they are actually falling\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Pope was met with flowers and drums\n\nPope Francis has arrived in the United Arab Emirates for the first ever visit by a pontiff to the Arabian peninsula.\n\nHe landed in Abu Dhabi where he was greeted by Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan.\n\nThe Pope will take part in an interfaith conference on Monday and on Tuesday hold Mass in which 120,000 people are expected to attend.\n\nBefore leaving he expressed concern about the war in Yemen, in which the UAE is engaged.\n\n\"The population [in Yemen] is exhausted by the lengthy conflict and a great many children are suffering from hunger, but cannot access food depots,\" the Pope said.\n\n\"The cry of these children and their parents rises up to God,\" he said.\n\nIt is not clear whether the Pope plans to raise the issue in public or in private while visiting the UAE. The UAE is involved in Yemen as part of a Saudi-led coalition.\n\nThe Pope was welcomed by Abu Dhabi's Crown Prince\n\nThe UAE is home to nearly a million Roman Catholics, most of them from the Philippines or India.\n\nSome have been queuing for passes for Tuesday's Mass. One told AFP news agency the Pope's visit \"opens doors for conversations about tolerance that the whole world needs to hear\".\n\nIn a video message on Thursday, the Pope said: \"Faith in God unites and does not divide, it draws us closer despite differences, it distances us from hostilities and aversion.\"\n\nHe paid tribute to the UAE as \"a land that is trying to be a model of coexistence, of human brotherhood, and a meeting place among diverse civilisations and cultures\".\n\nWhile in Abu Dhabi, the Pope will also hold a meeting with Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb, the grand imam of Cairo's al-Azhar mosque, which is the highest seat of learning for Sunni Muslims.\n\nBBC Arabic's Murad Batal Shishani, who is in Abu Dhabi, says the Vatican hopes that the Pope's visit might loosen restrictions on the building of churches in the region, particularly in neighbouring Saudi Arabia where non-Muslim places of worship are forbidden.\n\nVatican officials say they need a stronger Church presence in the UAE to minister to the Catholic community there.\n\n\"We are really stretched. We need more churches. We need more priests,\" one official was quoted by Reuters as saying.", "Emiliano Sala (left) was on board a plane being flown by pilot David Ibbotson (right)\n\nAn underwater search for footballer Emiliano Sala's plane will take place after cushions were found on a beach.\n\nThey were discovered near Surtainville on France's Cotentin Peninsula, on Monday, by French authorities.\n\nFollowing this, the Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) has identified an area of four square nautical miles for a search.\n\nThe plane disappeared with Sala, 28, and pilot David Ibbotson, from Crowle, North Lincolnshire, on board last week.\n\nDue to weather and sea conditions, an underwater search is not expected to start until the end of the week and will take up to three days, an AAIB spokesman said.\n\nUnverified photographs of cushions, taken on Wednesday, were captured by a woman taking a walk on the beach near Surtainville.\n\nInvestigators believe the two seat cushions pictured came from the aircraft.\n\nJosette Bernard shows a photograph she took of debris she found on the beach at Surtainville\n\nThis unverified image shows a cushion which was found on the beach, believed to be from the plane Emiliano Sala and David Ibbotson were flying on\n\nThe AAIB will now use sonar equipment to locate any wreckage on the sea bed.\n\nA spokesman said French safety authorities found the two seat cushions, which preliminary examinations suggested were likely from the missing aircraft.\n\nFollowing this, detailed assessments of the flight path and last known radar position were carried out, which identified the search area.\n\nThe PA-46-310P Malibu aircraft Sala and Mr Ibbotson were on board\n\nThrough the Ministry of Defence's salvage and marine operations team, a special survey vessel has now been commissioned to look for wreckage.\n\nIf it is found, a remotely operated vehicle will be sent down to examine it.\n\nArgentine Sala signed for Cardiff City and was travelling from Nantes, where he previously played, when the flight was lost over the English channel.\n\nAn official search for it was called off with Guernsey officials saying there was little chance those on board survived, however, more than £290,000 was raised for a private search to continue.\n\nThe cushions were found on a stretch of the Normandy coast near Surtainville\n\n\"We are aware that a privately operated search is also being conducted in the area,\" an AAIB statement said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by David Mearns This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"And we are liaising closely with those involved to maximise the chance of locating any wreckage and ensure a safe search operation.\"\n\nMarine scientist David Mearns, who is spearheading the private search and is a Sala family spokesman, tweeted that both vessels will work together as \"safely, completely and efficiently as possible\".\n\nOn Wednesday evening, Nantes players wore shirts bearing Sala's name during their first match since their former striker went missing.\n\nSala's family arrived at Guernsey Airport on Sunday as a private search took place", "Major suppliers to care homes and hospitals are stockpiling food to offset the potential disruption of a no-deal Brexit.\n\nApetito and Bidfood, who between them supply thousands of care providers, said they were holding extra inventory in case of supply chain problems.\n\nBoth said they were prepared but Apetito said it feared others were not.\n\n\"We are in a strong position,\" said Apetito UK boss Paul Freeston.\n\n\"But some firms would not be able to build up big stocks,\" like his firm, he said. \"Or if they are doing fresh produce they would have to stop. A Hard Brexit could cause them significant economic difficulties.\"\n\nApetito provides pre-made meals to more than 400 hospitals and 450 care homes, as well as 100,000 vulnerable people in their homes.\n\nMr Freeston said it was spending £5m in building its inventory ahead of Brexit - doubling the raw materials it holds from four to eight weeks' of stock and pre-made meals from five to six weeks'.\n\nBut if the disruption lasted much longer than 12 to 16 weeks, the firm would have \"very real difficulties\", because it supplies specialist food for elderly people and those with critical conditions.\n\nBut if there are backlogs at UK ports in the event of a no-deal, \"the quality of food could suffer and our product range would really narrow\", Mr Freeston said.\n\nThe other worry is that if the UK suddenly started trading on World Trade Organisation terms with the EU, the cost of raw materials could jump - and Britain imports about a third of its food from the bloc.\n\nThe concerns are shared by Bidfood, which supplies the kitchens of 4,000 care homes and 950 hospitals across the UK, as well as schools and prisons.\n\nJim Gouldie, its supply chain and technical services director, said the firm had \"looked carefully\" at products needed by sectors with a \"duty of care\" and invested in additional warehousing.\n\nMeanwhile Anglia Crown, which manufactures meals for 100 hospital sites, told the BBC it was worried about prices rising after Brexit. A spokeswoman said the company was agreeing prices for \"as many commodities as possible, especially any bought in from Europe\".\n\nDespite the warnings, the National Care Association said most of the care homes it represents are prepared for any no-deal disruption and have enough food stocks in place - even if that means relying on dried or canned food to carry them through.\n\nBut boss Nadra Ahmed is worried that any price shocks to suppliers could end up being passed on to providers.\n\n\"Care providers are struggling with funding and recruitment issues already so any increases will increase the challenges they face.\"\n\nThe Hospital Caterers Association (HCA), which represents hospital catering companies, says most of his members have been preparing for Brexit for some time. And while he is not overly worried about a no deal, he does expect some short term volatility after Brexit.\n\n\"A number are making arrangements to increase their stock holding - either on site or by securing commitments from their long-established suppliers,\" he says.\n\n\"But this clearly is not possible for perishable goods. It is imperative that we ensure continuity of supply to minimise any potential disruption to patients' menus.\"\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"Our priority is to make sure that patients continue to receive the same high standard of care.\n\n\"We are working closely with the NHS, Defra and healthcare providers to ensure the uninterrupted supply of food and specialised nutritional products to patients, as part of our preparations for a no-deal EU Exit.\"", "This terret ring would have guided the chariot reins\n\nParts of an Iron Age chariot found by a metal detectorist have been declared treasure by the Pembrokeshire coroner.\n\nMike Smith made the discovery in February 2018 on farmland in the south of the county.\n\nThe court at Milford Haven heard on Thursday the finds were part of the ritual burial of an entire chariot and that the site is now legally protected.\n\nMr Smith says the 2,000-year-old finds could be worth a \"life-changing\" six to seven figure sum.\n\nThe nine artefacts are now Crown property and a independent valuation committee will decide on the payment to Mr Smith.\n\nThat will be shared fifty-fifty between Mr Smith and the landowner.\n\nMike Smith expects to receive a 'life-changing' payment for his finds\n\n\"It's guess work,\" said Mr Smith after the inquest. \"But you're definitely talking six or seven figures.\n\n\"It's the biggest ever metal detecting find, as in there's never been a chariot ever discovered by a metal detectorist. There've been hoards found, but never anything like this.\"\n\nHe now hopes he can afford to buy a bungalow for himself and his wife who has difficulty climbing stairs.\n\n\"I still can't believe it. Obviously I've read other people's finds. I've watched them on telly, and I've always thought, I wouldn't mind finding that, it's still surreal, and life-changing,\" said Mr Smith who has been metal detecting since 1977.\n\nNational Museum Wales said it will try to acquire the treasure \"for the national collection and on behalf of the people of Wales\".\n\nMike Smith first thought this bridle decoration was a medieval brooch\n\nIt was a chance find after the weather forced Mr Smith's to switch to another field.\n\nWhen an expert told him it was a Celtic harness decoration and not a medieval brooch, he realised there might be more.\n\nMr Smith, from Milford Haven said: \"It's very difficult to describe, you know it when you see it, and you know it's special.\"\n\nHe thought immediately that the artefacts pointed to the site of a traditional burial, usually reserved for high-ranking tribe members who would be interred complete with their chariot, horses, tack and weapons.\n\n\"The chariot's definitely there… and the body's in it… It's the first one found outside of Yorkshire,\" he said.\n\nLast summer he helped archaeologists carry out an initial dig which revealed more parts.\n\nThe undisclosed site was then covered up again and scheduled as an ancient monument.\n\nThe tops of a pair of wheels revealed by the trial excavation\n\nThe finds were identified and dated to probably AD 25-75 by curators and museum archaeologists at National Museum Wales by comparing them with others already known across Britain.\n\nRed glass was made and allowed to cool into shaped recesses in the bronze surfaces, creating distinctive and vibrant flowing designs.\n\nGwilym Hughes, head of Cadw said: \"The objects demonstrate imaginative and clever craftsmanship, reflecting an inner world of colour and beauty.\"\n\nThe Celtic designs known as late La Tène art are the first to be discovered in Pembrokeshire\n\nThe museum's principal curator of prehistoric archaeology, Adam Gwilt, said: \"These chariot pieces may have been witness to some of the historical events of the time, as Iron Age peoples defended their ways of life and identities, in the face of an expanding Roman empire.\"\n\nThe museum now hopes it has the funding for a full excavation in the Spring.\n\n\"Something like this takes a lot of organisation and funding as well so we've been working with a number of partners to put together what's needed to do a continuing investigation,\" he said.\n\nIt is expected that more treasure inquests will be needed when the new dig gets underway and Mr Smith would still have a claim to future finds.", "Kristo Kaarmann initially wondered whether anyone would trust a website \"set up by two Estonian dudes\"\n\nThe BBC's weekly The Boss series profiles a different business leader from around the world. This week we speak to Kristo Kaarmann, co-founder and chief executive of money transfer business TransferWise.\n\nWhen Kristo Kaarmann was kicking himself for being \"incredibly stupid\", little did he know that it would spark an idea for a business that is now estimated to be worth more than £1.2bn.\n\nBack in 2008, the then 28-year-old Estonian was working in London as a management consultant when he got a very chunky Christmas bonus of £10,000.\n\nAs interest rates were higher back in Estonia, he decided that he'd transfer the money from his UK current account to his Estonian savings account, so as to earn more from the cash.\n\nThe company has its second largest office in Tallinn, the Estonian capital\n\n\"So I paid my UK bank a £15 fee, and transferred the £10,000, and then a week later I saw that £500 less than I had expected had arrived in the Estonian account,\" says Kristo, now 38.\n\n\"I started digging to find out what had happened, and I realised that I had been incredibly stupid.\n\n\"I had foolishly expected that my UK bank would have given me the exchange rate I saw when I looked on [news wires] Reuters and Bloomberg.\n\n\"Instead the bank had used an exchange rate 5% less favourable, which is how it and all the other banks get their cut. It was my mistake.\"\n\nAnnoyed with himself, Kristo vowed to come up with a way of transferring money overseas that removed banks from the process.\n\nInitially this involved just him and his Estonian friend Taavet Hinrikus, who was then director at telecommunications firm Skype, informally transferring money between themselves.\n\nKristo says that he and Taavet share the leadership work\n\nIt worked because Kristo often wanted to swap pounds sterling for kroons, the Estonian currency at the time, and vice versa for Taavet. They simply picked whatever was the mid-market exchange rate - the average exchange rate on any given day.\n\nSoon they had built up a network of Estonian friends - both expats and those back in Estonia - who were all doing the same thing, and Kristo and Taavet realised they could make a business out of it.\n\nSo in 2011 they launched London-based TransferWise, a financial technology or \"fintech\" website that allows users to transfer money overseas to a different currency at the mid-market rate for a set fee of 0.5%.\n\nToday, TransferWise is a global business, and investors include Virgin boss Sir Richard Branson and PayPal co-founder Max Levchin.\n\nFor the first year, Kristo and Taavet grew the business organically, relying on their savings.\n\nCustomers first arrived in a trickle thanks to word-of-mouth, but then rose sharply after a positive review on a technology website.\n\nKristo motorcyles in Africa every year over Christmas and New Year\n\nTo avoid any legal problems, Kristo and Taavet had secured clearance and licences from the UK's then regulatory body, the Financial Services Authority, before they launched.\n\n\"It was the first time they had ever seen anything like us,\" says Kristo. \"But they saw enough that they weren't worried that we would be doing anything shady.\"\n\nIn early 2012 Kristo and Taavet started to look for their first investors, but initially struggled to secure any.\n\n\"We talked to maybe 15 investors in total, but they all turned us down,\" says Kristo. \"No-one in Europe would touch us - European investors back then were far more risk averse than American ones.\n\n\"So we took our first funding from a small fund in New York called IA Ventures.\"\n\nAs TransferWise then steadily grew, other investors followed. It has now raised £305m in total.\n\nMeanwhile, its website and app have been used by more than four million people, and are available in 50 countries and 49 currencies. The company says that £3bn is now transferred via its service every month.\n\nWith a second big office in the Estonian capital, Tallinn, and eight others in locations such as Tampa Bay, Budapest and Tokyo, TransferWise saw its revenues rise 75% to £117m in the year to the end of March 2018.\n\nIts annual profit remained flat at £6.2m. Prior to March 2017, the company had always reported a loss, as funds were put into its expansion. It now has 1,400 employees.\n\nFintech author and commentator Chris Skinner says that TransferWise grew so quickly because it was cheap for people to use, and there were no hidden fees.\n\nThe company has 10 offices around the world\n\n\"Add to this some major heavyweights investing in and backing the business, and you have a potential success on your hands,\" he says.\n\n\"I say potential though, as even with a good idea, good marketing, good investors and good backing, nothing is guaranteed in this world.\n\n\"However, along with Monzo, Starling, Revolut and a number of other UK fintech start-ups, TransferWise is a standout from the crowd and is transforming financial services by targeting great customer experience at the lowest cost through technology.\"\n\nWhile Kristo has the chief executive title, he says that he and co-founder Taavet, 37, have \"from the beginning both been involved in everything. We are very overlapping in what we do.\"\n\nWhen not working, Kristo likes to relax by kite surfing, and every Christmas and New Year he goes long-distance motorcycling in Africa with his brother.\n\n\"There were lots of unknowns when we started,\" he says. \"Would anyone trust this website set up by two Estonian dudes? Would anyone else have this problem that we wanted to solve?\n\n\"And all these people around the world did have the same problem, and they did trust us.\"\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. Nissan boss: 10% tariffs would be 'handicap' for Sunderland plant\n\nWhen Carlos Ghosn made his not-very-veiled threat about the future of the giant Nissan plant in Sunderland last week, he might have thought locals would have quailed and rallied to his cause.\n\nPeople in Sunderland don't always do as they are told; before the vote on Britain's membership of the European Union, the Nissan chief executive urged people to vote to remain, stressing the advantages to Nissan, the region's biggest employer, of staying in the single market.\n\nThey ignored him, with just under two-thirds of the Sunderland electorate voting to leave.\n\nPaul Watson, Labour and Co-operative leader of the city council since 2008, says people value Nissan's contribution to the local economy - it is the region's largest employer, providing work for 7,000 people - but that Sunderland is used to the vagaries of the world economy having big effects at home.\n\nThe coal industry here powered the empire, employing hundreds of thousands to work the Durham field in scores of pits.\n\nSunderland Bridge and Lambton coal drops on the River Wear, circa 1880.\n\nThe industry still shapes the local culture; Washington, the new town beside the Nissan plant, remains in reality an amalgamation of about a dozen pit villages, where people still identify with their immediate area rather than the wider north east.\n\nWhen the pits closed in the 1980s - a victim of high costs relative to imported coal and a protracted battle for supremacy between mining unions and the Thatcher government - people learned the hard way that the tide of global commerce can go out quickly.\n\nIn Washington, they do not bemoan the loss of the pits themselves, as they brought their own horrible legacy of occupational diseases, but they rue the lack of something to replace them.\n\nShipbuilding was Sunderland's other great loss. At one stage the River Wear, which divides the city, could boast that it accounted for one-quarter of the world's new ships. Only 50 years ago it was still an international force, but now there are few signs the industry ever existed.\n\nMr Watson says the real dark days for Sunderland - the 1980s, when the town reeled under the combined closures of pits and shipyards - are now behind it. The economy has been reinvented, with call centres, Nissan and now a burgeoning tech scene picking up the slack.\n\n\"The big monolithic industries have gone,\" said Mr Watson, who once worked in a shipyard, \"but other things have come in. It is about having a strategy, and our strategy is simply to make Sunderland prosperous.\"\n\nAt Sunderland Software City, a tech hub that would not be out of place in London's Silicon Roundabout, part of that vision is coming true. There are special effects firms, web designers and games makers.\n\nDavid Van der Velde, managing director of Consult and Design, a digital agency based in the centre, says people in the North East have a natural inventiveness that lends itself to technology companies.\n\n\"Sunderland has always been a place where people make things, people are inventive. We've moved from making things out of steel to making things out of software, but we're still making things\"", "John Worboys was jailed in 2009 for a string of sex attacks on women in his taxi\n\nThe \"black cab rapist\" John Worboys must stay in prison, the Parole Board has ruled.\n\nWorboys who is now known as John Radford, was jailed in 2009 for assaults on 12 women in London.\n\nAmong reasons given for refusing the 61-year-old parole were his \"sense of sexual entitlement\" and a need to control women.\n\nIn January the Parole Board said he would be freed after serving 10 years, but victims challenged the decision.\n\nThe High Court overturned the board's original ruling and sided with the legal challenge.\n\nThe BBC has seen a summary of the reasons why the Parole Board has now refused to release Worboys, which include \"risk factors\" such as Worboys' \"sexual preoccupation, a sense of sexual entitlement and a belief that rape is acceptable\".\n\nThe black cab used by Worboys in his attacks\n\nAt his trial at Croydon Crown Court in 2009, jurors were told Worboys picked up his victims in London's West End.\n\nThe court heard Worboys claimed he had won the lottery or had won money at casinos and offered his victims a glass of celebratory champagne laced with sedatives.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Victim: 'The police assumed I was some drunk'\n\nWorboys was convicted of 19 offences including one count of rape, five sexual assaults, one attempted assault and 12 drugging charges.\n\nAs well as being ordered to serve at least eight years, Worboys was given an indeterminate sentence, meaning he could be kept in prison as for as long as he was deemed to remain a danger to the public.\n\nPolice believe Worboys may have carried out more than 100 rapes and sexual assaults on women in London between 2002 and 2008.\n\nPolice found a \"rape kit\" with contraceptives and drugs in Worboys' cab\n\nAmong the documents considered by the panel were a 1,255 page dossier on Worboys and personal statements from seven victims.\n\nIt concluded: \"After considering the circumstances of offending, the progress made while in custody, and the evidence presented within the dossier, the panel was not satisfied that Mr Worboys was suitable for release or progression to the open estate.\"\n\nThe Parole Board said under current legislation Worboys will be eligible for a further review \"within two years\", but this would be at a date set by the Ministry of Justice.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The race to buy collapsed music chain HMV has a new front-runner after a surprise intervention from a Canadian entrepreneur, media reports say.\n\nThe latest rescue bid is said to come from businessman Doug Putman, owner of Canada's Sunrise Records stores.\n\nThe move pits him against Sports Direct founder Mike Ashley, who has also placed a bid.\n\nHMV collapsed in December, its second administration in six years, risking 2,200 jobs at 125 stores.\n\nThose stores are continuing to trade while negotiations are held with major suppliers and bids are considered.\n\nThe reports of Mr Putman's interest first surfaced in trade paper Music Week on Saturday. Administrators KPMG declined to comment.\n\nHMV's Croydon branch closed down last month because of redevelopment\n\nMr Putman previously bought HMV's Canadian business in 2017, expanding his small chain into a national operation with 80 outlets.\n\nHis bid would secure the future of up to 90 of HMV's 130 UK stores, reports said.\n\nHowever, Music Week suggested that the HMV brand could disappear and be replaced by Sunrise's if Mr Putman's bid was successful.\n\nThe paper said that although HMV Retail was in administration, HMV Brands, which controls the rights to the name, was not.\n\nKPMG confirmed that HMV Brands was not in administration, but declined to comment further.\n\nUntil now, Mr Ashley had been the likely favourite to take over the music retailer.\n\nAs the owner of more than 60% of Sports Direct, he has bought retailers including the House of Fraser department store chain and Evans Cycles.\n\nHis company also owns stakes in French Connection and Debenhams.\n\nHMV owner Hilco, which took the company out of its first administration in 2013, has blamed a \"tsunami\" of retail challenges for the latest collapse.\n\nThese include business rate levels and the increasing use of streaming services to deliver music and movies.\n\nHMV sold 31% of all physical music in the UK in 2018 and 23% of all DVDs, with its market share growing month by month throughout the year.\n\nHowever, the music industry expects physical entertainment sales to shrink by another 17% this year.", "Nissan is expected to announce that it is cancelling a planned investment at its plant in Sunderland.\n\nIn 2016 the car maker said it would build the new model of its X-Trail SUV in the UK after receiving \"assurances\" from the government over Brexit.\n\nThe Japanese company is expected to say investment will be now be pulled, rather than existing work being halted.\n\nLabour MP for Houghton and Sunderland South, Bridget Phillipson, spoke of her concern at the prospect.\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 Bridget Phillipson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"If confirmed, this would represent deeply troubling news for the north east economy,\" she tweeted.\n\n\"So many jobs and livelihoods depend on Nissan's success.\"\n\nLabour Sunderland Central MP Julie Elliott suggested there was an \"inevitable role that Brexit plays here.... None of it is conducive to encouraging business investment in this country\".\n\n\"I will be doing everything I can to protect the jobs at the Sunderland plant. I will be asking for the government to intervene, and will stay in close contact with the company itself,\" she said in a Twitter post.\n\nNissan has produced cars at Sunderland since 1986 and employs almost 7,000 people.\n\nNissan announced in October 2016 it would build the next-generation X-Trail and Qashqai at Sunderland.\n\nProduction of the Qashqai - the best-selling crossover vehicle in Europe - makes up the majority of the current work at Sunderland and is not expected to be affected by the announcement on the X-Trail.\n\nBBC business reporter Rob Young said: \"The reasons for the investment cancellation are not known, but the industry as a whole has been warning Brexit uncertainty might hit investment.\"\n\nOur correspondent said as the announcement was expected to be about planned future investment, the impact on Nissan's current workforce may be very minimal.\n\nNissan refused to shed light on the situation. A spokesman said it \"does not comment on rumour or speculation\".\n\nThere had been concerns that Nissan - part-owned by France's Renault - could move production to France in future to avoid any post-Brexit EU tariffs.\n\nBut when the X-Trail investment was initially announced, Nissan said hundreds of jobs would be created at the Sunderland plant.\n\nIt sparked questions over whether a deal between the car-maker and the government had been struck although ministers insisted that no \"financial compensation\" had been offered.\n\nPeter Campbell, the motor industry correspondent at the Financial Times, said the fall in demand for diesels would appear to be one of the main factors in the announcement as Nissan was planning to make mainly diesel versions of the X-Trail in Sunderland.\n\nHe told the BBC: \"If Nissan decided to make those cars in petrol it would have to ship engines over from Japan and the cost of doing that work against the decision to build it in the UK.\"\n\nHe added: \"There are obviously other factors - car sales are down in the UK, they have fallen across Europe... and there is obviously the overhang of Brexit and the worries of the impact that might have on a plant that exports about 80% of its vehicles.\"\n\nLast April, Nissan said it was to cut hundreds of jobs at Sunderland, amid a decline in diesel sales.", "William Davis helped launch The Money Programme, one of BBC Two's best known programmes\n\nFormer BBC broadcaster and journalist William Davis has died, after heart failure, aged 85.\n\nFollowing a successful career in Fleet Street, he joined the BBC and became a presenter on The World At One and also edited satirical magazine Punch.\n\nBorn in Germany, he moved at the age of 16 to the UK where he changed his name and became a British citizen.\n\nHis daughter, Jacki, described him as a \"self-made man\" who had a passion to have champagne with everything.\n\nDuring an appearance on the BBC's Desert Island Discs, he described his childhood growing up in Germany during World War Two as \"very grim\".\n\nHe said the \"horrifying experience\" of being bombed made him \"grateful for the good things that have happened to me\".\n\nDavis said that when he first arrived in the UK, it was difficult, with a \"great deal of hostility towards anything German\" so he pretended to be Austrian.\n\nHe worked at various national newspaper titles including the Financial Times, the London Evening Standard as City editor, and at the Guardian as financial editor.\n\nBefore becoming one of The World At One's first presenters alongside William Hardcastle, he had helped develop, launch and present BBC Two's The Money Programme.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. One of the first presenters recalls his time on The World At One\n\nSpeaking in 2016, Davis said the current affairs show sometimes \"made the news, not just reported it.\"\n\n\"We knew we had it made when (former prime minister) Harold Wilson phoned up, personally, to complain about something Bill or I had said on the programme,\" he said.\n\n\"That week we all said 'that's it - we've arrived'.\"\n\nIn 1968, the Hanover-born journalist became editor of one of the nation's best-known satirical magazines.\n\n\"He was very proud of editing Punch because he thought it was very funny that a little German boy had become the editor of the most quintessentially British institution you could think of,\" Jacki said.\n\nShe added: \"Of his generation of journalists, he was genuinely pioneering and innovative, he was never content to do it the way it had always been done.\"\n\nShe said her father had been a \"great admirer\" of Baroness Thatcher and gave the former Conservative prime minister advice from \"time to time\".\n\n\"He would go and see her in Number 10 and give her advice, talking really about how you frame the message, it was really communications advice\".\n\nDuring a lengthy career, Davis also launched in-flight British Airways magazine High Life and became chairman of the British Tourist Authority and English Tourist Board.\n\nDavis died at his home in Cannes, southern France, on Saturday.\n\nDavis, whose son Simon died at a young age, is survived by his wife Sylvette, daughters Sue and Jacki, and his two grandchildren Lucinda and William.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Overnight, something went very wrong'\n\nA mother is calling for greater awareness of a little-known condition she believes changed her easy-going son overnight.\n\nAlison Maclaine fears some children are being misdiagnosed with autism and mental health issues when they are really suffering an infection which can be treated simply with antibiotics.\n\nHer eight-year-old son Jack suffered distressing personality changes and \"lost a year of his life\".\n\nAnd she said she was left \"in despair\" that she and her family had \"no quality of life\".\n\nNow Alison believes he was suffering from Paediatric Acute-onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome (PANDAS), triggered by a streptococcal infection - a condition that can be treated with simple antibiotics and anti-inflammatories.\n\nJack went to bed one Friday in January last year, looking forward to a football tournament he was playing in the next day.\n\nBut on arrival at the venue on Saturday morning he became overwhelmed with anxiety. After several attempts, he was unable to enter the building.\n\nAt home in Dumfries, Alison realised something was very wrong.\n\nShe told the BBC: \"He started to repeatedly apologise. He said he didn't deserve to have fun, didn't deserve to have friends, didn't deserve to have nice things, didn't deserve to play football.\n\nAlison Maclaine knew her son's diagnosis was not right and did her own research into his symptoms\n\n\"That eventually led to 'I don't deserve to live, when I get home I am just going to sit outside until I freeze to death'.\"\n\nWhen it came to bedtime, Jack refused to have covers and pillows and started to repeat that he needed to die, until he fell asleep.\n\nThe following day saw his behaviour sink further.\n\nAlison said: \"One of the worst things in the world must be listening to your child telling you he wanted to die and asking you to help him.\"\n\nAccording to the charity PANS PANDAS UK, PANS (Paediatric Acute-onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome) is a neuropsychiatric condition which is triggered by a misdirected immune response which results in an inflammation of a child's brain.\n\nPANDAS is a subset of PANS, triggered by a misdirected immune response to a streptococcal infection which results in an inflammation of a child's brain.\n\nHappening very quickly, this can cause a child to exhibit symptoms including anxiety, aggressive behaviour, depression, clumsiness, insomnia and the onset of obsessive-compulsive disorder.\n\nIt was first recognised in the United States in 1998 where PANS PANDAS charities estimate as many as one in 200 children could be affected.\n\nIn 2018, the World Health Organisation recognised the condition, but in the UK it is not widely known.\n\nThere is no clear test for the condition so doctors often have to rule out psychiatric conditions. The immediate response to antibiotic or anti-inflammatory treatment is often what confirms the condition.\n\nThe charity PANS PANDAS UK said a failure to understand the condition in the UK means that children are regularly wrongly referred to Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS).\n\nJack then became aggressive and withdrew from his beloved younger sister Cara. He would become irritable and angry and started to regress, playing with baby toys.\n\nOver the next several months he was repeatedly diagnosed as having autism and severe anxiety.\n\nShe said: \"It got to the point where I really felt absolute despair.\n\n\"I felt that he had no quality of life, we had no quality of life. There were times when I contemplated things.\"\n\nHis family feels that Jack is \"back\"\n\nThat despair led to Alison doing her own research and the discovery of PANS and PANDAS.\n\nAlison said reading the symptoms was like reading a description of her son and his behavioural changes.\n\nJack was finally diagnosed privately by a consultant paediatrician in England and treated with simple antibiotics.\n\nThey worked overnight and Alison had her son back.\n\nShe said: \"Jack responded dramatically to the treatment. He hadn't left the street in five months except for school. After two days on antibiotics he wanted to come to Morrisons with me and Cara. It felt like Jack was back.\"\n\nAlison is frustrated now, believing if Jack had been given got antibiotics when he first presented to the GP in January, the outcome would have been different.\n\nShe said: \"It is so frustrating knowing the treatment was so simple. Now I hate to think there are other children in the situation that they have this disorder that has not been picked up on and have been sent down a mental health/psychological route which can't fix the problem.\"\n\nDr Tim Ubhi, who diagnosed Jack's condition, said: \"The problem here is if we do not recognise this condition and we ignore it, potentially there are children out there who are suffering who could actually get treated and actually improve their symptoms.\n\n\"So we have a responsibility as physicians to think about this as a condition and do the work to actually create an awareness of what the condition is doing in the UK.\"\n\nA Scottish government spokeswoman said: \"We appreciate that watching any loved one suffer is heartbreaking, even more so when it is a child.\n\n\"We are working together with partners to improve the outcomes and support for adults and children with rare conditions, and ensure that everyone receives the appropriate treatment.\n\n\"Ministers are unable to make or influence clinical decisions or definitions, and it would not be appropriate for them to do so.\"\n\nIf you, or someone you know, have been affected by mental health issues, these organisations may be able to help.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Dr Johan van Zyl says the deal will protect the car industry's competitiveness\n\nToyota's Europe boss has reiterated his support for the Prime Minister's Brexit deal ahead of Tuesday's key Commons vote.\n\nDr Johan van Zyl said the deal was vital to protecting the UK car industry and would stop a damaging no deal exit.\n\nHis intervention comes days after Jaguar Land Rover and Ford announced thousands of UK job cuts, blaming a slowdown in the global car market.\n\nThe Japanese firm has said it could cut jobs in the event of a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThe carmaker, which is investing £250m in producing the new Corolla at Burnaston, is concerned about the potential disruption to its just-in-time supply chain.\n\nIt is also worried about new tariffs, as a large proportion of the cars it makes in Britain are exported to the EU.\n\nThe firm, which also has a plant at Deeside, employs 3,000 people in the UK.\n\nSpeaking at a launch event for the new Corolla on Monday, Dr van Zyl told the BBC: \"We've said since the start of the Brexit discussions that we would like to see trade without any duties or tariffs, and of course we would like to see a regime where the regulatory framework is the same between the EU and the UK.\n\n\"That for us is what is really required to make sure that our operations can continue as they are at the moment.\"\n\nHe added: \"The big thing about [the Brexit] deal that is on the table is that it really allows us to keep our competitiveness. But if we put any friction or tariffs into the system, that will impact our costs and that will affect our competitiveness.\"\n\nTheresa May has urged MPs to back her Brexit deal \"for the country's sake\" as Tuesday's Commons vote looms closer.\n\nBut despite EU assurances on the \"backstop\" - the fallback plan to avoid any return to physical Northern Ireland border checks - it seems unlikely she will triumph, political observers say.\n\nBusiness minister Greg Clark, who attended the Toyota event on Monday, said that not backing the deal could damage British business.\n\nHe told the BBC: \"What we need to do to continue a success like [Burnaston] is we need to be able to continue to be able to sell into Europe, protect the just-in-time production that has been the foundation of its success, and we're absolutely determined to ensure that should continue.\n\n\"I think it is really important that Parliament listens to people who are creating jobs in this region and across the country and act on it.\"", "Emiliano Sala (left) was on board a plane being flown by pilot David Ibbotson\n\nWreckage from a plane carrying Cardiff City footballer Emiliano Sala has been discovered in the English Channel.\n\nThe Piper Malibu N264DB was lost on 21 January on its way from Nantes, France, to Cardiff, with the Argentine striker and pilot David Ibbotson on board.\n\nDavid Mearns, who led a privately-funded search for the aircraft, said it was located off Guernsey on Sunday.\n\nHe said: \"All I will say is that there is a substantial amount of wreckage on the seabed.\"\n\nDavid Mearns offered to help look for the plane after a fundraising effort by Mr Sala's family\n\nSpeaking on Radio 4's Today programme on Monday, Mr Mearns said: \"We located the wreckage of the plane on the seabed at a depth of about 63m within the first couple of hours [of searching].\"\n\nHe said the plane was identified by sonar, before a submersible with cameras was sent underwater and was able to confirm it was the plane.\n\n\"They saw the registration number and the biggest surprise is that most of the plane is there,\" he added.\n\nMr Mearns's private search has now been stood down and the Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) is at the site working to recover the plane.\n\nHe said further investigations by the AAIB would be conducted over the next two days in order to determine how it will attempt a recovery operation.\n\nIn a series of tweets on Sunday, marine scientist Mr Mearns said: \"The families of Emiliano Sala and David Ibbotson have been notified by police.\"\n\nHe added: \"Our sole thoughts are with the families and friends of Emiliano and David.\"\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 David Mearns This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSpeaking to Argentinian broadcaster Cronica TV, Sala's father Horacio said: \"I cannot believe it. This is a dream. A bad dream. I am desperate.\"\n\nMr Mearns said he was in contact with the Sala family after the wreckage was located and said they \"desperately want that plane to be recovered. They feel that is the pathway for them to get the answers that they need to have\".\n\nHe added he was compelled to help to search for the plane after seeing an emotional plea by Sala's sister Romina.\n\n\"I just felt that girl needed help and that's why I offered my assistance,\" he said.\n\n\"I am a football fan. Cardiff is not my city, but I follow football. I felt very badly for her, I wanted to help. I just happen to be a person with this experience and skill and I could do that.\n\n\"To add to it this was a man in the prime of his life. It is just so tremendously sad.\"\n\nCardiff had signed Sala for a club record of £15m and he was due to start training last month.\n\nThe 28-year-old striker and Mr Ibbotson, 59, from Crowle, North Lincolnshire, were travelling from Nantes, where he had previously played, when the flight lost contact with air traffic controllers.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Fans pay tribute to missing footballer Sala at the first home Cardiff City match since he disappeared\n\nAn official search operation was called off on 24 January after Guernsey's harbour master said the chances of survival were \"extremely remote\".\n\nCushions believed to be from the plane were found on a beach near Surtainville, on France's Cotentin Peninsula, last week.\n\nThere were emotional tributes to the footballer as Cardiff played their first home game since the disappearance on Saturday.\n\nThe club's manager, Neil Warnock, said he felt Sala was \"with\" his team as they beat Bournemouth 2-0 in the Premier League.\n\nAn online appeal had raised £324,000 (371,000 euros) for the private search, which began on Sunday.\n\nWorking jointly with the AAIB, Mr Mearns's ship and another search vessel, the Geo Ocean III, began combing a four square mile area of the channel, 24 nautical miles north of Guernsey.\n\nGeo Ocean III remains at the wreckage location off Guernsey\n\nThe AAIB ship has remained at the site where the missing Piper plane was located, to deploy an underwater search vehicle to make a visual confirmation.\n\nFormer air crash investigator Tony Cable told BBC Breakfast on Monday that any examination of the wreckage after it is recovered would take \"considerable time\".\n\n\"Certainly the damage can tell you the sort of altitude and vertical speed, horizontal speed that it hit the water.\"\n\nHe added that there may also be signs of anything that was not working properly.\n\n\"The difficulty is if you don't have signs of problems before the crash, you're left looking at possible reasons then which are not a failure of the aircraft. The absence of any problem leaves you somewhat in the realm of speculation.\"\n\nOfficials at the AAIB said they expected to give an update on the operation on Monday morning.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "These chickens have a human gene that enables them to lay eggs containing useful drugs\n\nResearchers have genetically modified chickens that can lay eggs that contain drugs for arthritis and some cancers.\n\nThe drugs are 100 times cheaper to produce when laid than when manufactured in factories.\n\nThe researchers believe that in time production can be scaled up to produce medicines in commercial quantities.\n\nThe chickens do not suffer and are \"pampered\" compared to farm animals, according to Dr Lissa Herron, of Roslin Technologies in Edinburgh.\n\n\"They live in very large pens. They are fed and watered and looked after on a daily basis by highly trained technicians, and live quite a comfortable life.\n\n\"As far as the chicken knows, it's just laying a normal egg. It doesn't affect its health in any way, it's just chugging away, laying eggs as normal.\"\n\nScientists have previously shown that genetically modified goats, rabbits and chickens can be used to produce protein therapies in their milk or eggs. The researchers say their new approach is more efficient, produces better yields and is more cost-effective than these previous attempts.\n\n\"Production from chickens can cost anywhere from 10 to 100 times less than the factories. So hopefully we'll be looking at at least 10 times lower overall manufacturing cost\" said Dr Herron.\n\nBattery \"pharming\": these eggs contain drugs produced at a tenth of the cost of normal production in laboratories\n\nThe biggest saving comes from the fact that chicken sheds are far cheaper to build and run than highly sterile clean rooms for factory production.\n\nMany diseases are caused because the body does not naturally produce enough of a certain chemical or protein. Such diseases can be controlled with drugs that contain the deficient protein. These drugs are synthetically produced by pharmaceutical companies and can be very expensive to manufacture.\n\nDr Herron and her colleagues managed to reduce the costs by inserting a human gene - which normally produces the protein in humans - into the part of the chickens' DNA involved with producing the white in the chickens' eggs.\n\nAfter cracking the eggs and separating the white from the yolk, Dr Herron discovered that the chicken had relatively large quantities of the protein.\n\nThe team has focused on two proteins that are essential to the immune system: one is IFNalpha2a, which has powerful antiviral and anti-cancer effects, and the other is macrophage-CSF, which is being developed as a therapy that stimulates damaged tissues to repair themselves.\n\nThree eggs are enough to produce a dose of the drug, and chickens can lay up to 300 eggs per year. With enough chickens, the researchers believe they can produce drugs in commercial quantities.\n\nThe development of drugs for human health, and the regulatory hoops required, will take between 10 and 20 years. The researchers are hopeful of using chickens to develop drugs for animal health.\n\nThese include drugs which boost the immune systems of farm animals as an alternative to antibiotics, which would reduce the risk of the development of new strains of antibiotic-resistant superbugs. And there is the potential to use the healing properties of macrophage-CSF to treat pets, according to Dr Herron.\n\n\"For example, we could use it in regenerating the liver or the kidneys of a pet that has suffered damage to these organs. The drugs currently available are a bit too pricey so we hope that we might be able to get into that a little more,\" she explained.\n\nProfessor Helen Sang, of the University of Edinburgh's Roslin Institute, said: \"We are not yet producing medicines for people, but this study shows that chickens are commercially viable for producing proteins suitable for drug discovery studies and other applications in biotechnology.\"\n\nThe eggs are produced for research purposes and not on sale in supermarkets.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Nissan has confirmed that the new X-Trail originally planned for its Sunderland plant will instead be made in Japan.\n\nIn a letter to workers, it said continued Brexit uncertainty is not helping firms to \"plan for the future\".\n\nIn 2016, the carmaker said it would build the new model in the UK after \"assurances\" from the government.\n\nUnions described the news as \"disappointing\" and said they were \"seriously concerned\".\n\nThe government said Nissan's decision was \"a blow to the sector\" but that no jobs would go as a result.\n\nNissan has made cars at Sunderland since 1986 and employs almost 7,000 people.\n\nCommenting on its decision, Nissan also said that since 2016 \"the environment for the car industry in Europe has changed dramatically\", including \"changing emissions regulations\".\n\nIn the UK, diesel cars that fail to meet the latest emissions standards now face a levy and a number of European countries, including the UK, have announced bans on both new diesel and petrol vehicles in the future.\n\nAs a result, sales of new diesel cars in the UK tumbled by 30% in 2018, according to the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders.\n\nNissan was always going to produce the X-Trail model at its Kyushu production hub but decided two years ago, \"there was a good business case for bringing production to Europe as well,\" according to the firm's Europe chairman, Gianluca de Ficchy.\n\nHe said the company is now planning \"to optimise our investments and concentrate production in Kyushu, instead of adding another production site\".\n\nMr de Ficchy, said: \"Nissan is investing heavily in new technologies and powertrains for the next generation of vehicles in our Sunderland plant.\n\n\"To support this, we are taking advantage of our global assets, and with X-Trail already manufactured in Japan, we can reduce our upfront investment costs.\"\n\nMr de Ficchy said the news would be \"disappointing\" to its UK team and partners, but that the workforce in Sunderland had the company's \"full confidence\".\n\n\"While we have taken this decision for business reasons, the continued uncertainty around the UK's future relationship with the EU is not helping companies like ours to plan for the future,\" he added.\n\nA number of carmakers, including Jaguar Land Rover, Toyota and Vauxhall have expressed fears of disruption to their supply chains in the event of a no-deal Brexit.\n\nBusiness Secretary Greg Clark said: \"Nissan's announcement is a blow to the sector and the region, as this was to be a further significant expansion of the site and the workforce.\n\n\"The company has confirmed that no jobs will be lost. They have reiterated today their commitment to the UK by continuing to manufacture in Sunderland the current Qashqai, Leaf and Juke models and the new Qashqai model from 2020.\"\n\nUnite's acting national officer for the car sector, Steve Bush, said: \"This is very disappointing news for Sunderland and the North East and reflects the serious challenges facing the entire UK auto sector.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHe added that the union remained \"seriously concerned\" that \"the apprenticeships and additional jobs that come with future investment and which this community so desperately needs will be lost\".\n\nSunderland Central MP Julie Elliott said the move was \"devastating news for our city and the region\".\n\nShe added: \"The uncertainty around Brexit is always a factor now in any decisions made in manufacturing.\"\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn said: \"The Conservatives' botched negotiations and threat of a no-deal Brexit is causing uncertainty and damaging Britain's economy.\"\n\nThere's been a run of bad news from the car industry in recent months.\n\nJob losses have been announced at Jaguar Land Rover and Ford and the cancellation of Nissan's X-Trail investment at its Sunderland plant is just the latest disappointment from a sector that was booming a few years ago.\n\nThere are many who want to say this is all down to Brexit. But it's not.\n\nDeclining car sales in China, the world's biggest car market, have unnerved the industry worldwide. As have falling car sales and an economic rough patch in Europe.\n\nThere are questions over whether diesel technology has a future after governments, who pushed it hard until a few years ago, and drivers, who previously liked its fuel efficiency, have become less keen on it.\n\nIn the UK, this is all set against the backdrop of Brexit uncertainty.\n\nThe car industry has long been worried about potential changes to trading rules after the UK leaves the EU. It's nervous about border taxes and customs delays disrupting its just-in-time model of manufacturing.\n\nNissan has been clear the decision to cancel its Sunderland X-Trail investment is a commercial decision. But it chose to say \"continued uncertainty\" around the UK's future relationship with the EU \"is not helping\" it plan for the future.\n\nBig businesses tend to stay out of politics.\n\nSo Nissan's decision to highlight Brexit means it is clearly a concern in the minds of company executives.\n\nConservative Brexiteer Jacob Rees-Mogg said Nissan had \"all sorts of problems that are nothing to do with Brexit\", including \"very considerable corporate governance problems\" arising from ex-chairman Carlos Ghosn's arrest.\n\nProduction of the Qashqai - the best-selling crossover vehicle in Europe - makes up the majority of the current work at Sunderland.\n\nThere had been concerns that Nissan - part-owned by France's Renault - could move production to France in future to avoid any post-Brexit EU tariffs.\n\nBut when the X-Trail investment was initially announced, Nissan said hundreds of jobs would be created at the Sunderland plant.\n\nIt sparked questions over whether a deal between the carmaker and the government had been struck, although ministers insisted that no \"financial compensation\" had been offered.", "Mary Page was found dead at her home and had suffered a head injury\n\nA 40-year-old man has been charged with murdering his mother at the home they shared in Wolverhampton.\n\nMary Page, 68, was found dead at her house in James Street, Bilston, at about 18:00 GMT on Friday.\n\nThe cause of her death is not known after post-mortem tests were inconclusive but police said she had suffered a head injury.\n\nMatthew Page was arrested on Friday and is due before magistrates in Wolverhampton on Monday.\n\nMatthew Page lived with his mother in the house on James Street where she died\n\nMrs Page's family described her as \"a kind animal lover and mother whose life was tragically cut short\".\n\n\"She will be greatly missed by her family and friends,\" their statement said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Alexander Thomson from Glasgow was jailed for nine months in 1880 for stealing a library book\n\nA collection of mugshots of criminals jailed during the 1870s and 80s is to go on show in Aberdeen.\n\nThe rogues gallery includes a thief who was jailed for nine months for stealing a library book, as well as fraudsters and petty crooks.\n\nThe pictures of the men and women, taken inside HM General Prison in Perth before their release, will be on display as part of the Criminal Portraits exhibition at Aberdeen Central Library and the Lemon Tree later this month.\n\nAnn McGovern from Glasgow was jailed for theft in the early 1880s\n\nPrison records show that Matilda Brown was convicted of robbing an Italian seaman in Leith in 1881. She was sentenced to 12 months in jail for the theft of a sovereign, two shillings and a matchbox.\n\nJames Fleming, who was a director of the City of Glasgow Bank, was a serial fraudster. He was jailed for nine months in 1878 for crimes which affected up to 100 families. Margaret Robertson was aged 35 when she was sentenced to nine months for stealing 18 bottles of porter in Strathbungo.\n\nThe images, including mystery prisoner 4/675, will be on display from 22-24 February", "The cougar was resting on a branch about 50ft (15m) above the ground\n\nA very large cat has been rescued from a tree near a property in California after the homeowner saw it while working in the garden, officials say.\n\nUS firefighters arrived at the property in San Bernardino after the mountain lion - or cougar - was spotted perched on a branch about 50ft (15m) high.\n\nThe area was then secured and the animal was tranquilised and lowered to the ground using a harness.\n\nIt was released back into the wild following an assessment by biologists.\n\n\"It is common for young mountain lions to wander outside what some would consider normal habitat in an attempt to establish their territory,\" said Kevin Brennan, a biologist with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife.\n\nFirefighters arrived within minutes to extract the animal\n\nThe department's warden, Rick Fischer, said that extracting the animal would have been difficult had the firefighters not turned up within several minutes on Saturday afternoon with a ladder.\n\n\"Leaving the lion in the tree would not have been safe for the community,\" Mr Fischer added in a statement posted on the San Bernardino County Fire Facebook account.\n\nThe mountain lion was released back into the wild after it regained consciousness\n\nCougars, also known as mountain lions, panthers or pumas, are members of the wild cat family. They live across the Americas, from British Columbia to Argentina.\n\nMountain lion attacks on humans are extremely rare. In North America, for example, fewer than a dozen fatalities have been recorded in more than 100 years, according to figures provided by Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW).\n\nEarlier this month, a man running on a popular park trail in the mountains of northern Colorado killed a mountain lion after it pounced on him from behind.\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 CPW NE Region 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. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sala's father Horacio was seen crying at the vigil for his son\n\nMourners have been paying their final respects to Cardiff City striker Emiliano Sala in his native Argentina.\n\nThe 28-year-old died when the plane he was in with pilot David Ibbotson crashed in the English Channel en route from Nantes to Cardiff on 21 January.\n\nA wake was held at the club Sala played for as a youth in his hometown of Progreso before the funeral started later on Saturday.\n\nAmong those who attended was Cardiff City manager Neil Warnock.\n\n\"I would like to find a responsible person...someone who says to me: 'this happened'; but, well, it seems this was just an accident,\" said Sala's aunt Mirta Taffarel.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSala was killed when a single-engine light aircraft, flown by pilot Mr Ibbotson, crashed near Alderney just two days after he became Cardiff City's record transfer.\n\nHis body, which was recovered from the wreckage following a privately-funded search last week, was repatriated to Argentina on Friday.\n\nIt was then driven from Buenos Aires to the Santa Fe province, where Sala grew up.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mourners applauded in tribute as the footballer's coffin was carried in his hometown of Progreso\n\nOutside the wake, fans draped a banner reading 'Emi, nunca caminaras solo' or 'Emi, You'll Never Walk Alone'.\n\n\"It's as if he was a member of my family,\" said a sobbing Lucia Torres, who lives nearby.\n\n\"It's something I can't understand nor accept because it hurts so much. The town has been in darkness since 21 January.\"\n\nEmiliano Sala is known affectionately as Emi in his hometown\n\nSala's aunt Mirta Taffarel as she left the wake on Saturday morning\n\n\"He represented a lot for us,\" said Daniel Ribero, president of Sala's boyhood club San Martin de Progreso.\n\n\"We're a small village and Emi was a celebrity, the only player to turn professional.\"\n\nAhead of the service, the club posted a message on social media saying: \"We are waiting for you ... like the first day you left but this time to stay with us forever. Eternally in our hearts.\"\n\nDaniel Ribero, president of Sala's boyhood club San Martin de Progreso, said the footballer was a \"celebrity\" in the town\n\nThe wake got under way at the sports hall in San Martin de Progreso at 07:00 local time (10:00 GMT), and the funeral started at 14:00 (17:00 GMT).\n\nAs well as Cardiff's delegation of Warnock and chief executive Ken Choo, Sala's former club FC Nantes has been represented by defender Nicolas Pallois and its general secretary.\n\nWarnock said: \"He's my player. He signed for me I think he was going to be very instrumental in what we were looking to do and I feel it's the only good thing you can do.\n\n\"Family puts it in perspective. Family is so important, everything here today has shown how important it is...it seems like the whole village has got together.\"\n\nMr Choo added: \"We feel very sad and the whole club feels very sad.\"\n\n\"Today I think it's good for the family to have some closure.\"\n\nSala's mother Mercedes and sister Romina, who travelled to Europe after his disappearance, have returned to Progreso.\n\nCardiff City manager Neil Warnock travelled to Argentina for the funeral\n\nCardiff City manager Neil Warnock is due to attend the funeral on Saturday\n\nHis father Horacio also attended the funeral.\n\nMeanwhile, a campaign to raise funds to find the body of Mr Ibbotson has reached £240,000.\n\nThe family of the 59-year-old, who is feared dead, are hoping to raise £300,000.", "Porsche is warning UK customers they might have to pay 10% extra for cars delivered after Britain leaves the EU.\n\nThe German firm wants buyers to sign a clause agreeing to a potential tariff, a move Porsche said is \"precautionary\".\n\nPorsche's owner Volkswagen declined to discuss if some of its other brands, including Audi, Lamborghini, Skoda, Bugatti, Seat, and Ducati might follow.\n\nA 10% surcharge would see the cost of an entry-level Porsche 911 rising from £93,110 to £102,421.\n\nThe company's Macan sports utility and Boxster models start at about £46,000.\n\nStuttgart-based Porsche said in an emailed statement to the BBC: \"As one potential outcome of the Brexit negotiations, there is a possibility that a duty of up to 10% may be applied to cars imported into the UK by us after March 29.\n\n\"In light of this, we have chosen to inform customers whose cars are likely to arrive after Brexit occurs to warn them that they may be affected by this tariff - allowing them to be fully informed at the point of sale and, if they wish, to adjust their order accordingly.\n\n\"This is a precautionary step in the interests of allowing our customers to plan ahead.\"\n\nBloomberg quoted Porsche as saying that it needed \"comprehensive clarity\" on future UK relations with \"the EU very quickly\".\n\nCustomers who have placed deposits on or before 17 January will not be affected by the change, Porsche said. The company has no UK manufacturing, so all its cars are imported.\n\nRebecca Chaplin, editor of Car Dealer magazine, which first reported Porsche's move said it was bad news for industry because it would make buyers want to delay purchases until the picture was clearer after Brexit.\n\n''Car dealers and manufacturers need to be able to communicate the prices of cars clearly to customers - it's a fundamental of this business and the government isn't helping them,\" she said.\n\nAA president Edmund King said: \"Import tariffs alone could push up the list price of cars imported to the UK from the continent by an average of £1,500 if brands and their retail networks were unable to absorb these additional costs.\"\n\nExecutives at several carmakers have expressed fears about the risk of tariffs, which they say could disrupt production and exports when the UK leaves the EU next month.\n\nLast week, Ford warned that a no-deal Brexit would be \"catastrophic\".\n\nOn Sunday, a spokesman for Volkswagen declined to discuss a possible surcharge on its other car brands.\n\nBut he told the BBC: \"We are keeping a very close eye on developments and reviewing the entire spectrum of possible effects.\n\n\"We are noting with regret that there is currently a stand-still regarding the decision on the negotiated deal. For us, this means a further period of insecurity and planning uncertainty. We continue to prepare for all eventualities.\n\n\"Irrespective of this, the United Kingdom will remain an important market for the Volkswagen Group, the second largest in Europe.\"\n\nHowever, Leave supporters have dismissed fears over tariffs on imported cars, arguing that German manufacturers would oppose such an obstacle to one of their biggest markets.\n\nThe UK is one of Porsche's biggest markets. The company sold 256,000 cars worldwide last year, with more than 12,500 in Britain.", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nManchester City reached the FA Cup quarter-finals as they broke Newport County's resistance to end the League Two side's memorable run in this season's competition.\n\nNewport, fresh from beating Leicester City and Middlesbrough, produced another strong display in the competition to hold Pep Guardiola's men at the interval.\n\nBut two Phil Foden goals and strikes from Leroy Sane and Riyad Mahrez ended Newport's hopes and denied them the chance to become the first side from the fourth tier to reach the last eight since 1990.\n\nThe Welsh side even missed the best chance of the first half, when Ederson produced a diving save to deny Tyreeq Bakinson's close-range header.\n\nThe second half belonged to the visitors as Sane broke the deadlock from close range six minutes after half time.\n\nFoden doubled the advantage with an excellent dribble and finish, before Padraig Amond scored a late goal that gave the hosts brief hope of a fightback - and maintained his record of scoring in every round of the competition.\n\nHowever, Foden ensured there was no grandstand finish with his second goal moments later and Mahrez scored a fourth in injury time.\n\nNewport County's fans gave their side a standing ovation at full time as their weary players did a lap of honour.\n\nThere was no overstating the gulf between these two clubs - Newport, with a squad value totalling £70,000, against Manchester City, the world's most richly-assembled squad at around £450m.\n\nWhen Sergio Aguero was scoring the most famous goal in the history of the Premier League to fire Manchester City to their first Premier League title in 2012, Newport were still floundering in non-league.\n\nThe Exiles, so named because of a nomadic existence that saw them playing in Gloucestershire post-1989 when the original club went bust, have fought and scraped simply to return to the Football League's lower reaches, where they are 15th in League Two.\n\nThey have been the story of this season's competition, having stunned Premier League Leicester City and Championship Middlesbrough in rounds three and four.\n\nAnd, against all the odds, there seemed a chance that run might continue when Mickey Demetriou's long throw was flicked on in the 15th minute, only for Ederson to superbly claw away Bakinson's point-blank header from six yards.\n\nCounty were a menace from long throws and Joss Labadie fired wide from another of them, but the second period became a prolonged exercise in defending for the League Two side.\n\nThey did, however, give their fans a moment to savour when a long ball in the 88th minute caught City cold and allowed Amond to clip home and raise the roof in Newport.\n\nCity's consistency this term means they are still fighting for trophies on four fronts, with the Carabao Cup final against Chelsea to come next week for the Premier League leaders, who are still in the Champions League and who have been in fine form throughout 2019.\n\nAfter 25 minutes of their last Premier League game against Chelsea, Guardiola's men were 4-0 ahead, but Newport provided far stiffer resistance against their irresistible attacking talents.\n\nThe visitors were largely restricted to long-range efforts in the first half, with Mahrez forcing Day to smother and Fernandinho and Danilo shooting wide of the target.\n\nNot until the 35th minute when Sane hit the bar from a smart one-two did City look like breaking the deadlock, and Newport held firm until the interval despite Mark O'Brien appearing to block a Sane shot with his arm.\n\nSane was increasingly the most likely player to create a chance and on 51 minutes his fierce drive deflected in off Day's face as Newport's resistance was broken.\n\nDanilo struck a post as City pushed for a second to make the game safe, before Foden capped an impressive display by firing past Day at his near post with the ball going through the Newport goalkeeper's hands.\n\nCity might have wobbled after Amond's goal but Foden swept home less than a minute later, with Mahrez adding a late fourth that flattered the visitors.\n\nManchester City manager Pep Guardiola, speaking to BBC Match of the Day: \"We were calm in the second half and we made an incredible performance considering the conditions.\n\n\"David Silva is incredible, 33 years old and he fights and plays with this kind of level. David is a fantastic player, what can I add more about his qualities?\n\n\"What we have done so far is try to go game by game and try to win so the way you have to play against Chelsea at home is completely different to the game here.\n\n\"We will see in May and June how we do but it is important to be there in all competitions in February. The result will be shown at the end and now we have to recover and prepare for our trip to Germany [to face Schalke in the Champions League].\"\n\nNewport manager Michael Flynn speaking to BBC Match of the Day: \"I'm very proud of the team they were outstanding. I am disappointed with the two goals conceded in injury time, because at 2-1 you have a grandstand finish, for something to fall your way and you are coming back from 2-0 against one of the best teams in Europe. There is no disgrace in losing they have beat bigger clubs by more.\n\n\"I have got a very good group of players and I can't speak highly enough of them. We need to move on now - we have a tough game on Tuesday in the league. I'll give a tap on the back for them and then we go back to work.\"\n• None Man City have reached the FA Cup quarter-final for the 25th occasion and for the first time since 2016-17.\n• None Newport have lost just two of their last 12 FA Cup matches (W7 D3), with each defeat coming against one of the Premier League's 'big six' sides (also Spurs in 17-18).\n• None Newport County have lost both of their FA Cup fifth-round ties, also falling to defeat against Portsmouth in 1949.\n• None Man City's Leroy Sane has had a hand in 25 goals in 32 appearances in all competitions this season (12 goals, 13 assists), including registering nine goal involvements in his last eight.\n• None Man City's Gabriel Jesus has been directly involved in 21 goals in 34 games this season (16 goals, 5 assists), one more than he managed in 42 games last season (17 goals, 3 assists).\n• None All five of Phil Foden's Man City goals have come in domestic cup competitions (3 FA Cup, 2 League Cup).\n• None Newport's Padraig Amond has scored five goals in this season's FA Cup, more than any other player. The striker scored in each of the first five rounds of the competition this term.\n• None Newport's Joe Day has made more saves than any other goalkeeper in the FA Cup this season (24).\n• None Goal! Newport County 1, Manchester City 4. Riyad Mahrez (Manchester City) left footed shot from the left side of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by John Stones.\n• None Attempt blocked. Leroy Sané (Manchester City) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Goal! Newport County 1, Manchester City 3. Phil Foden (Manchester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the top left corner. Assisted by Leroy Sané.\n• None Goal! Newport County 1, Manchester City 2. Padraig Amond (Newport County) right footed shot from outside the box to the bottom left corner.\n• None Offside, Manchester City. Riyad Mahrez tries a through ball, but Gabriel Jesus is caught offside.\n• None Attempt saved. Gabriel Jesus (Manchester City) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Ilkay Gündogan.\n• None Attempt saved. Leroy Sané (Manchester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Leroy Sané (Manchester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Phil Foden.\n• None Goal! Newport County 0, Manchester City 2. Phil Foden (Manchester City) left footed shot from the right side of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Gabriel Jesus.\n• None Attempt saved. Mark O'Brien (Newport County) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Mickey Demetriou with a headed pass. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "There is an \"abundant stock\" of whelks in the Bristol Channel, Gavin Davies says\n\nThey are closely related to snails, taste like \"nan's toenails\" and, in Wales, you cannot give them away.\n\nBut those fishing for whelks off the coast of Wales claim they are popular in Japan and South Korea.\n\nEach year 10,000 tonnes of them are caught in the Bristol Channel but virtually all end up in Asia.\n\nGavin Davies has spent the last 20 years catching sea snails, but in that time he has not developed a love for the acquired taste of whelks.\n\n\"Goodness knows why they like them - they taste like nan's toenails - but it's given me a living for the last two decades,\" he said.\n\n\"I'm not even sure how they developed a taste for whelks, as they're only native to waters around Britain and the Atlantic.\"\n\nEach night Mr Davies sets off from Saundersfoot and harvests one tonne of whelks from 1,000 pots suspended from 50 buoys in the bay around Carmarthenshire.\n\nFeeling peckish? Whelks are all the rage in Seoul, but not in Saundersfoot\n\nThey are driven to Milford Haven, where they are loaded on to a factory ship which cooks and freezes them en-route to Asia.\n\nBut Mr Davies said he was lucky if he could give away a couple of carriers to Welsh customers.\n\nHywel Griffith - the Michelin-starred head chef of The Beach House on Swansea's Oxwich Bay - believes whelks are misunderstood.\n\n\"There's two issues, really,\" he said.\n\n\"One is the traditional image of whelks being cheap food, served out of a barrow on East End back streets, and the other is the idea that they are chewy and rubbery, but it's all about how you cook them.\n\nThe whelks are loaded on to a factory ship which cooks and freezes them - then, next stop... South Korea\n\n\"The same people who turn their noses up at whelks will flock for scallops.\n\n\"In Asia they're usually served with chilli and soy sauce, but I think I'd give them a more European twist, maybe some deep-fried and others simmered in white wine, cream and garlic.\"\n\nMr Davies said not only are they low in fat and high in vitamins, they are also good for the environment.\n\n\"You can't get more sustainable than whelks. There's an abundant stock of them in the Bristol Channel and the pots cause virtually no harm to the seabed.\n\n\"And when we're all wondering how we're going to trade after Brexit, well here's this amazing resource which we won't eat, but they can't get enough of on the other side of the world.\"\n\nGavin Davies and his crew feature in Nightshifters on BBC One Wales on Friday at 19:30 GMT and on BBC iPlayer.", "Sarah Church captured this extraordinary video of a murmuration of starlings behind her house.\n\nShe said it was \"an amazing natural event to behold\".\n\nPopular theories for murmurations suggest they are a way to confuse and avoid predators; a way to keep warm; or just a massive signpost in the sky for a safe place to roost.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Labour split 'would be like 1980s' - John McDonnell\n\nShadow chancellor John McDonnell has said the Labour Party is \"dealing with\" any issues that might cause a split.\n\nRumours continue to circulate that some MPs are close to resigning the whip.\n\nBut Mr McDonnell insisted the party was \"holding together on Brexit\" and would be \"ruthless\" on claims of anti-Semitism that have dogged Labour.\n\nOn Sunday, a former Labour vice-chairman said he intended to leave the party over what he saw as a repeated failure to tackle hostility to Jews.\n\nFormer Barnsley East MP Michael Dugher, who stood down at the last election, told the Sun: \"I can no longer justify paying subs to a party which I now regard as institutionally anti-Semitic.\"\n\nLast week, some MPs criticised the party leadership's Brexit stance.\n\nTreasury spokesman Clive Lewis warned of \"severe\" ramifications if the party was seen to facilitate a \"Tory Brexit\", while ex-shadow chancellor Chris Leslie said it was \"heartbreaking\" Labour was not united in arguing against leaving the EU.\n\nOn Sunday, Labour members on social media began circulating a graphic reading: \"I pledge to work for the achievement of a Labour-led government, under whatever leadership members elect.\n\n\"And I accept a Labour-led government is infinitely better than any other outcome.\"\n\nMr McDonnell told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show he had signed the pledge, arguing it reflected what he had said throughout his membership - even when he had his \"strongest disagreements\" with Tony Blair.\n\nWhen put to him that the timing was \"just a little bit provocative\", he replied: \"No, not at all.\n\n\"People wanted reassurance from all of us that we're Labour through and through, and - even some of those names that have been mentioned about thinking about leaving the party - I think they're Labour through and through as well.\"\n\nHowever, Edinburgh South MP Ian Murray said he would not sign the \"unnecessary\" pledge, adding that his loyalty to the party \"should never be in question\".\n\n\"These kind of pledge things are a little bit ridiculous,\" he told the BBC.\n\nOn Friday, Mr Murray said MPs were \"being pushed to the brink\" with both the party's Brexit stance and its handling of anti-Semitism claims.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ian Murray: \"A lot of us that are pretty fed up at the moment in terms of the Labour Party's Brexit position\"\n\nHowever, Mr McDonnell, in answering suggestions that you could \"hear the creaking of a coming split\" in the party, said: \"I really don't see why there's a need to.\n\n\"Those saying we'll split if we don't get a 'People's Vote' [another referendum on the final Brexit deal] - well, we've still kept that option on the table and it might come about.\"\n\nMr McDonnell said the effect would be similar to the SDP breakaway in 1981 which split Labour's vote, cost it seats and \"installed Mrs Thatcher in power for a decade\".\n\n\"I don't think any of the people who've even been mentioned about this split would want that,\" he said.\n\nMr McDonnell accepted Labour had not acted \"fast enough\" on claims of anti-Semitism but said it had doubled the staff dealing with the issue and brought in a senior lawyer.\n\n\"Where it's intolerable, where it's repeated... not only should we kick them out of the party, there should be life bans as well,\" he said.\n\n\"We've got to be ruthless about this.\"", "The first of several US military transport planes carrying humanitarian aid arrived in Cucuta on the Colombian border with Venezuela\n\nUS military planes have been delivering humanitarian aid for Venezuela in the Colombian border town of Cucuta.\n\nThe aid is being stockpiled at the request of the Venezuelan opposition leader, Juan Guaidó, who declared himself interim president last month.\n\nPresident Nicolás Maduro has alleged that the aid is part of a US plot to disguise an invasion into Venezuela.\n\nMr Guaidó said some 600,000 Venezuelan volunteers would carry the aid across the border on 23 February.\n\n\"We will mobilise within and outside our borders,\" he said in a tweet on Saturday, adding: \"Our struggle continues to yield results!\"\n\nIt remains unclear if the aid will be allowed to enter Venezuela.\n\nOne road bridge between Venezuela and Colombia remains blocked on the Venezuelan side by shipping containers.\n\nSpeaking at a news conference in Cucuta, USAID administrator Mark Green said the aid had been requested by Mr Guaidó because Venezuela was in the grip of a growing humanitarian crisis.\n\n\"Children are going hungry, and nearly every hospital in Venezuela is experiencing serious medicine shortages.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHe said the crisis had reached regional proportions, with three million Venezuelans migrating to neighbouring countries in search of food and medicine.\n\n\"Today we are standing on the frontlines of one of the largest displacements of people in the history of Latin America.\"\n\nInspectors from the Organisation of American States examined the aid on its arrival in Cucuta\n\nA representative for Mr Guaidó said more collection points for aid were being opened up in Brazil and the Caribbean.\n\nHe said meetings would take place with the Brazilian government this week to organise details of storage facilities in the Brazilian state of Roraima on the border with Venezuela.\n\nHe added that aid was being stockpiled in Miami to be flown to the Dutch territory of Curaçao early next week.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Venezuela's President Maduro to BBC: US aid trucks are a charade\n\nPresident Maduro has called the operation a US-orchestrated show and denies there is any crisis.\n\nOn Friday he ordered the military to remain on high alert against what he described as US \"war plans\".\n\nPlease upgrade your browser to view this content. Was this timeline useful? Thank you for your feedback.\n\nMr Guaidó, who has been recognised by the US and most Western governments as interim president of Venezuela, said hundreds of thousands of volunteers had signed up to create brigades to help get the aid into the country.\n\nHe repeated his call to the Venezuelan military to allow the aid to go through, but it is unclear if they will do so.\n\n\"The message we have to get through to the armed forces is that they have one week to do the right thing.\"\n\nHe has set 23 February as the date for the humanitarian aid to get moving.\n\nA second transport plane carrying aid arrived shortly after the first, with officials saying more would be landing in the coming days\n\nOfficials in Cucuta said additional aid flights would be arriving in Colombia over the coming hours and days.\n\nA statement said medical supplies and pharmaceuticals meant for use in hospitals will arrive early next week.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why Venezuela matters to the US... and vice versa", "From cheeky monkeys and tiny triplets to daring deeds, here's our weekly round-up of some of the stories you might have missed.", "Passengers stranded across Europe have told of their frustration after the UK regional airline Flybmi collapsed, cancelling all its flights.\n\nThe airline, which flew to 25 cities, said Brexit uncertainty and rises in fuel and carbon costs led to it filing for administration on Saturday.\n\nOne Briton stuck in Belgium said the airline would not refund her fare and she could not afford an alternative.\n\nFlybmi's move puts 376 jobs at risk and comes as other airlines face problems.\n\nOn Sunday, Loganair stepped in to take over three Flybmi routes from Aberdeen to Bristol, Oslo and Esbjerg. However, these will not start until 4 March.\n\nThe two carriers are owned by the same holding company, Airline Investments.\n\nFlybmi has told affected travellers to contact their insurance and credit card companies. Flybmi, based near East Midlands Airport, operated 17 aircraft.\n\nDurham University student Mary Ward says she discovered her flight could be affected when her she received a BBC News alert.\n\nShe then received a text from the airline that said: \"URGENT: Important message for Flybmi customers. All flights are cancelled. Please go to www.flybmi.com for further details. Thank you.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mary Ward told us she doesn't know how she's going to get home\n\nMs Ward had been set to fly from Brussels to Newcastle but is unsure how she will return to the UK.\n\n\"I paid £130 for my flight which it doesn't seem I'm going to get back - I don't know how I am going to get back to Durham,\" she said.\n\n\"I can't afford any of the flights or the Eurostar.\"\n\nRichard Edwards, from West Sussex, said he and his family experienced problems with a scheduled flight to Munich when travelling to Austria for a skiing holiday.\n\n\"We had gone through security at Bristol Airport when there was an announcement saying our flight had been cancelled,\" he said.\n\n\"They laid on taxis to Heathrow and booked us on a Lufthansa flight to Munich.\n\n\"I don't know how we will get back yet. I'm not confident Flybmi will be able to sort it.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Richard Edwards 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\nRory Boland, travel editor for consumer body Which?, said some customers had claimed tickets were being sold in the hours before the airline filed for administration, \"knowing full well those tickets would never be honoured\".\n\n\"Passengers will rightly be outraged if this is proved to be the case,\" he added.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFlybmi issued the following advice to those with flights booked:\n\nThe Civil Aviation Authority also published advice for travellers.\n\nA Flybmi spokesman said: \"It is with a heavy heart that we have made this unavoidable announcement.\n\n\"The airline has faced several difficulties, including recent spikes in fuel and carbon costs, the latter arising from the EU's recent decision to exclude UK airlines from full participation in the Emissions Trading Scheme.\n\n\"Current trading and future prospects have also been seriously affected by the uncertainty created by the Brexit process, which has led to our inability to secure valuable flying contracts in Europe.\"\n\nOne of Flybmi's routes, which connected Stansted and City of Derry airports, was subsidised by the government to boost trade and travel between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK.\n\nSeveral people use the flights for work and Derry Strabane Council said it was in emergency talks with the Department of Transport to seek a replacement airline for the route.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Derry Strabane Cncl 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\nSeveral airlines have folded or reported financial trouble during the past two years, with analysts blaming fierce competition, rising costs and falling passenger numbers.\n\nBritain's Monarch collapsed in October 2017, while Germany's Germania filed for insolvency earlier this month. Air Berlin and Alitalia, and a string of smaller operators hit trouble.\n\nRyanair boss Michael O'Leary warned this month that the airline industry would see more bankruptcies.\n\nFlybe, another UK airline, has said that if a rescue takeover by Virgin Atlantic is not approved by shareholders, the airline's holding company will close.\n\nFlybe has been forced to reassure customers on social media that it is \"not associated with Flybmi\" after concerns were raised by some passengers.\n\nThe managing director of Loganair, Jonathan Hinkles, who on Sunday said the airline will take over three former Flybmi routes from Aberdeen next month, said that \"there is no doubt that trading in tough\" for many airlines.\n\n\"It's always really sad to see an airline go out of business, and our thoughts are with all those affected - particularly staff members,\" he said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by Flybe ✈ 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\nAnalyst Peter Morris, of the aviation consultancy Ascend, said the start of the year is always the worst time for airlines as they struggle to get through the winter and wait for a summer pick-up in bookings.\n\nBut he was in no doubt that Brexit uncertainty and questions around freedom of movement beyond 29 March would have hurt Flybmi. There are issues around the regulatory status of UK airlines after Britain leaves the EU.\n\nOther smaller airlines are \"definitely vulnerable\", he told the BBC. \"But even the big boys might have some problem with the aviation environment.\"\n\nTravel expert Simon Calder told BBC News: \"Small airlines which do not have the weight of their bigger rivals are particularly vulnerable,\" he said. \"There are simply too many seats and not enough people.\"\n\nFlybmi's operations were formerly run as BMI Regional, a division of the airline BMI. The company was formed in 2012 when British Airways owner IAG took over BMI and sold the subsidiary.\n\nA spokesman for the Department for Transport described the situation as \"very disappointing\" and said the government was focused on supporting affected passengers.\n\nAre you a Flybmi customer that has been affected? Or are you a Flybmi employee? Get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Dr King has designed dozens of sundials around the world\n\nA self-confessed \"time enthusiast\" says getting young people to love sundials is an \"uphill struggle\".\n\nDr Frank King, a Cambridge academic, is the mathematical brain behind some of the country's most striking timepieces.\n\nThe 76-year-old, who is also chair of the British Sundial Society, calculates precise measurements which are then constructed in a workshop.\n\nHe says the number of people who \"really understand\" the science behind them \"are few and far between\".\n\nThe Selwyn College 'nobus' shadow falls between four and five hours (marked in gold) after sunrise - so it's almost midday\n\nA Fellow in Computer Science at Churchill College, Dr King has taught the likes of £100m donor David Harding and Raspberry Pi founder Eben Upton, but also admits to having an \"obsession with time\".\n\n\"Anything from atomic clocks to the most ancient of sundials I can tell you about,\" he says.\n\nAs Keeper of the Clock, he is responsible for Cambridge University's official timepiece on Great St Mary's Church.\n\nCambridge University's official clock is above the west door of Great St Mary's Church\n\nDr King is responsible for the upkeep of the clock mechanism as Keeper of the Clock\n\nBut it is the future of his passion that concerns him.\n\n\"Sundials are old hat,\" he says. \"Those few people who are making innovative sundials are making extensive use of computerised tools to design them - that's a good thing.\n\n\"To get young people interested in sundials is extraordinarily challenging.\"\n\nA sundial uses a shadow cast by a thin rod called a gnomon on to a flat surface etched with different times.\n\nThe latitude and gradient are taken into account to decide the precise location, ideally on a south-facing wall.\n\nIts accuracy varies according to the time of year, and the amount of sunlight in a day.\n\nDr King's sundial on the Bath Stone wall of Pembroke College, Cambridge, gives a time of nearly 12:30\n\nLida Kindersley has created more than 20 of his designs in her Cambridge workshop.\n\n\"His work is alchemy,\" she said. \"I am totally in awe of him.\n\n\"Sundials position us in the universe, in the vast unknown.\n\n\"I know when we make a sundial it's going to be right.\"\n\nLida Kindersley working on the production of the Selwyn College sundial at her Cambridge workshop\n\nDr King strongly believes the sundial - \"the perfect collaboration of science and art\" - has a place in the digital age.\n\nBut he is concerned that the skills needed to create them may dwindle, and believes education could play a greater role.\n\n\"There seems to be no teaching of spherical triangles, and very little teaching of solid geometry.\n\n\"How many school leavers have heard of Euclid?\"\n\nThe Noon Mark on the London Stock Exchange recognises 29 February in leap years", "Nicole and Tali are Instagram besties. But the pressure to get more likes and followers is taking its toll.\n\nBoth friends are thinking of quitting the Insta-game but is leaving it the quick fix everyone says it is?\n\nUK users can watch more films from the BBC Like Minds series on iPlayer .", "British regional airline Flybmi has cancelled all its flights and filed for administration, the airline has announced.\n\nThe company said it had been badly affected by rises in fuel and carbon costs and uncertainty over Brexit.\n\nThe East Midlands-based airline, which has 376 staff, operates 17 planes flying to 25 European cities.\n\nAffected passengers have been told to contact their travel agents or insurance and credit card companies.\n\nA Flybmi spokesman said: \"It is with a heavy heart that we have made this unavoidable announcement.\n\n\"The airline has faced several difficulties, including recent spikes in fuel and carbon costs, the latter arising from the EU's recent decision to exclude UK airlines from full participation in the Emissions Trading Scheme.\n\n\"Current trading and future prospects have also been seriously affected by the uncertainty created by the Brexit process, which has led to our inability to secure valuable flying contracts in Europe.\"\n\nThe airline issued the following advice to those due to fly:\n\nThe Civil Aviation Authority also published advice for travellers.\n\nRory Boland, travel editor for consumer body Which?, said: \"Some customers have claimed that tickets were being sold in the hours before the airline went bust, knowing full well those tickets would never be honoured, and passengers will rightly be outraged if this is proved to be the case.\"\n\nOne of Flybmi's domestic routes, linking Derry and Stansted, was subsidised by the government to boost trade and travel between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK.\n\nSeveral people use the flights for work and Derry Strabane Council said it was in emergency talks with the Department of Transport to seek a replacement airline on that route.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nRichard Edwards, from West Sussex, on a skiing holiday in Austria with his wife and three children, told how they had experienced problems with their scheduled flight out to Munich.\n\nHe said: \"We had gone through security at Bristol Airport when there was an announcement saying our flight had been cancelled.\n\n\"They laid on taxis to Heathrow and booked us on a Lufthansa flight to Munich.\n\n\"I don't know how we will get back yet. I'm not confident Flybmi will be able to sort it.\"\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 Richard Edwards 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\nDurham University student Mary Ward found out her flight could be affected when her mother showed her a news alert.\n\nShortly afterwards Mary received a text from the airline: \"URGENT: Important message for Flybmi customers. All flights are cancelled. Please go to www.flybmi.com for further details. Thank you.\"\n\nShe had been due to fly from Belgium to Newcastle but is not sure what she will do now.\n\n\"I paid £130 for my flight which it doesn't seem I'm going to get back - I don't know how I am going to get back to Durham,\" she said.\n\n\"I can't afford any of the flights or the Eurostar.\"\n\nThe UK regional airline Flybe tweeted to reassure some passengers who had confused the airline with the similar-sounding Flybmi.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Flybe ✈ 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\nBritish Airline Pilots' Association general secretary Brian Strutton said: \"The collapse of Flybmi is devastating news for all employees.\n\n\"Regrettably Balpa had no warning or any information from the company at all.\"\n\n\"Our immediate steps will be to support Flybmi pilots and explore with the directors and administrators whether their jobs can be saved.\"\n\nFlying from Aberdeen, Derry, Bristol, the East Midlands, Stansted and Newcastle in the UK, its planes travelled to destinations in the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Norway, Poland and Sweden.\n\nTravel expert Simon Calder told BBC News it had been an \"extremely difficult winter\" for many airlines.\n\n\"Small airlines which do not have the weight of their bigger rivals are particularly vulnerable,\" he said. \"There are simply too many seats and not enough people.\"\n\nA spokesman for the Department for Transport described the situation as \"very disappointing\" and said the government was focused on supporting affected passengers.", "Hundreds of thousands of people have seen student Nuradean Arreythe's piano skills after he learned how to play using online videos.\n\nHe practised on an old keyboard until it broke – but even that hasn't stopped him from playing where he can.\n\nProduced and edited by Rozina Sini and Kash Jones.", "Radziwill, seen here in 2004, was a friend to artistic celebrities and fashion moguls\n\nLee Radziwill, the socialite and younger sister of former US first lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, has died at the age of 85, US media report.\n\nRadziwill, who became a fashion icon and counted Andy Warhol and Truman Capote among her friends, died at her home in New York on Friday.\n\nShe had careers in acting, writing, and interior design, and was married three times - including to a Polish prince.\n\nHer daughter told the New York Times she had died of natural causes.\n\nBorn Caroline Lee Bouvier in 1933, Radziwill later became a friend to numerous artistic celebrities and fashion moguls and was frequently included on international best-dressed lists.\n\nRadziwill, who worked for a period as an interior designer, seen here in her dining room in 1976\n\nRadziwill's first husband was Michael Canfield, son of the president of the Harper & Brothers publishing house.\n\nShe later took the last name of her second husband, Polish Prince Stanislas Radziwill. The couple had two children.\n\nHer third marriage was to Herbert Ross, director of the iconic films Footloose and Steel Magnolias.\n\nRadziwill was said to be close to her sister Jacqueline, who died in 1994, although there were also US media reports of sibling rivalry.\n\nIn an interview with the New York Times in 2013, Radziwill said she felt \"lucky that there was so much more interest in my sister\", but that \"at times it was annoying, at times funny\".\n\n\"Perhaps the most depressing part was that whatever I did, or tried to do, got disproportionate coverage purely because of Jackie being my sister\".\n\nIn 2016, she told Vanity Fair that the years in which she had a US president as a brother-in-law were restrictive.\n\n\"There were so many things I couldn't do,\" she said, adding that the tragic death of President John F Kennedy made her feel \"free\".\n\nFollowing the news of Radziwill's death on Friday, Mathilde Favier, who works at fashion designer Christian Dior, described her in a tribute posted on Instagram as \"the most elegant and tasteful lady on Earth\".\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by mathildefavier This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnother fashion designer, Michael Kors, tweeted a photograph from the company's official Twitter account showing himself and Radziwill at his label's 30th anniversary in Paris in 2011.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Hayley Marie Ashley quite literally lives the life of a princess.\n\nThe mum-of-two surprises children at birthday parties when she appears dressed as fairytale characters.\n\nThe 29-year-old, from Stoke-on-Trent, set up her business, Wish Upon A Princess, three years ago while she was on maternity leave.\n\nShe wanted a job with flexible hours and a short commute so she could arrange her work around time with her young family.\n\nMs Ashley launched her business on social media and says she's living her dream.", "Indoor skydiving has given 85-year-old Glen Mills a new lease of life.\n\nMs Mills, from Glossop, Derbyshire was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis 50 years ago and uses a wheelchair to get around.\n\nBut the self-confessed adrenaline junkie said the weightless sport not only gives her the adrenaline rush of flying, it also offers her pain relief.\n\nAfter inspiring others with disabilities to give indoor skydiving a go, she has been made an ambassador for the centre where she does it in Manchester.", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nCrystal Palace midfielder Jeffrey Schlupp says the Eagles are \"in a good position to get to Wembley\" after his goal helped his team overcome League One side Doncaster Rovers to reach the FA Cup quarter-finals.\n\nSchlupp scored in the eighth minute and Max Meyer headed in a second just before half-time as Palace won 2-0 at Keepmoat Stadium.\n\nThe last eight will feature only two of the top six teams in the Premier League - Manchester City and either Chelsea or Manchester United, who play each other in the last fifth-round tie on Monday.\n\nAlong with Palace, the other Premier League sides left in the competition are Wolves, Watford and Brighton, with Swansea and Millwall - both in the bottom half of the Championship - also still in the cup.\n\n\"It's a great tournament but if we get a lesser team, so to speak, we have a great chance,\" Schlupp told the BBC.\n\n\"It was tough, we'd seen their form and we knew it was going to be tough. But we are pleased to have won, and we scored two good goals.\n\n\"We knew if we got past this we'd be in a good position to get to Wembley.\"\n\nThere are 36 league places between Palace and Doncaster and the Eagles took an early lead when Schlupp shot low into the net after a fine individual run.\n\nMeyer then nodded in from Andros Townsend's headed cross to double the visitors' lead in first-half injury time.\n\nDoncaster, who were aiming to reach the quarter-finals for the first time in their history, had a better second half but Ben Whiteman's shot was saved by Wayne Hennessey, Alfie May headed over from close range and James Coppinger's effort was deflected wide.\n• None Relive Crystal Palace's win over Doncaster as it happened\n• None Don't miss your last chance to play in 2019 FA People's Cup\n\nDoncaster's run comes to an end\n\nThe Eagles have never won the FA Cup, losing twice in finals to Manchester United in 1990 and 2016, but this was also only the second time in 23 years they had reached the last eight.\n\nThe quarter-final draw will be made after the Chelsea v Manchester United match and the last-eight ties will be played from 15-18 March, with winning clubs receiving £720,000 in prize money.\n\nRoy Hodgson named a strong Palace side at Keepmoat Stadium and handed a first start to Michy Batshuayi since his loan move from Chelsea at the end of the January transfer window.\n\nTheir first goal came after Luka Milivojevic won possession and released Schlupp, who was able to sprint into the box and shoot past Marko Marosi.\n\nMilivojevic was also involved in the build-up to the second as his intelligent ball over the top of the Doncaster defence released Townsend, whose header found Meyer with the German scoring only his second goal for the club.\n\nDoncaster, sixth in League One, had beaten Chorley, Charlton, Preston and Oldham to reach this stage but, despite a bright spell at the start of the second half, could not do enough to progress any further.\n• None Crystal Palace have won away at Doncaster for the first time since August 1960, ending a six-game winless run in all competitions (drawn two, lost four).\n• None The Eagles have reached the quarter-final stage of the FA Cup for the second time in the last four seasons - as many as in their previous 33 campaigns.\n• None Doncaster have not beaten top-flight opposition in the FA Cup since January 1985 (1-0 vs QPR), drawing two and losing six since.\n• None Palace have scored in their last nine games in all competitions, their longest run since netting in 10 successive games in March 2016.\n• None No Crystal Palace player has provided more goals (seven) or assists (four) than Andros Townsend in all competitions this season.\n• None Jeffrey Schlupp has scored five goals in all competitions for Crystal Palace this season, his most in a single campaign since 2011-12 (six for Leicester).\n\n'We saw the difference' - what they said\n\nDoncaster manager Grant McCann said: \"We played the game really well, it was a good game but we saw the difference with a Premier League team. I thought between the boxes we were good, but in the final third we didn't get enough shots away.\n\n\"We matched them for large periods, but if you give players of that standard those chances it will be hard. The goal before the break took the wind out of our sails a bit.\n\n\"We like to get about teams, that's how we approach it, but we were not going to leave anything in the changing room and we gave it a go today.\"\n\nCrystal Palace manager Roy Hodgson said: \"It's good that we are there [in the quarter-finals], I'm very proud of that.\n\n\"Today we owe an amazing debt to our fans, I don't quite know how they got there with the problems with the trains, and I thought we were playing at home for large periods of the game.\n\n\"It's not easy to quieten a crowd like Doncaster's in a game like this. We owe them a great debt of gratitude and we hope we can reward them by winning our quarter-final and hopefully getting a home tie.\"\n• None Attempt saved. Kieran Sadlier (Doncaster Rovers) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.\n• None Offside, Crystal Palace. Max Meyer tries a through ball, but Jeffrey Schlupp is caught offside.\n• None Benjamin Whiteman (Doncaster Rovers) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt saved. John Marquis (Doncaster Rovers) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Benjamin Whiteman.\n• None Herbie Kane (Doncaster Rovers) wins a free kick on the right wing. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Flames could be seen on the moors on Sunday night\n\nFirefighters have tackled a large blaze which broke out on moorland in Greater Manchester.\n\nAn area at the top of a hill near Stalybridge was reported to be on fire at about 21:05 GMT.\n\nGreater Manchester Fire Service said its crews used \"specialist moorland firefighting equipment\" to bring it under control.\n\nAt 23:10, a spokesman said the fire was out and crews would be \"scaling down our involvement at the scene\".\n\nThey added: \"Our firefighters, from Ashton, Stalybridge, Oldham, Hyde and Bolton North, used specialist moorland firefighting equipment to bring the blaze, which measured 100m squared, under control and extinguish it.\"\n\nThe fire could be seen from nearby Stalybridge\n\nIn June and July last year, firefighters from 20 different brigades were drafted in to help tackle the two huge moorland fires which burnt for several weeks.\n\nFirefighters spent more than a month battling a huge fire covering 18km sq (6.9 sq miles) at Winter Hill, near Bolton.\n\nThe Army was drafted in to help Greater Manchester crews deal with a blaze at Saddleworth Moor in Tameside, 30 miles away from Winter Hill.\n\nSouth Yorkshire crews fought 1,227 wild and grass fires during an exceptionally dry and hot May to July period, about triple the usual number.\n\nThe Lancashire brigade dealt with 535 blazes in the same period, up from 175 last year.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The flag was fastened to scaffolding on the side of Salisbury Cathedral\n\nA Russian flag has appeared briefly on scaffolding outside Salisbury Cathedral.\n\nIt was spotted by workers early on Sunday but has since been removed.\n\nJohn Glen, the city's MP, called it a \"stupid stunt\" in light of last year's Novichok attack.\n\nThe poisoning targets were former Russian double-agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia who collapsed in the city. A woman in nearby Amesbury who was also exposed to it later died.\n\nLee Martin said he noticed the flag, measuring \"about 10m long and 7m deep\" early on Sunday while he was working in the area.\n\n\"It's disrespectful and it's antagonising the community after the Novichok attack last year, and with the anniversary that's coming up on 4th March,\" he continued.\n\nCalling it \"pathetic\", he added: \"It's not right that somebody should come and do that.\"\n\nIn a tweet MP John Glen said he was \"thankful\" the flag had been taken down swiftly.\n\n\"What a stupid stunt - mocking the serious events sadly experienced in Salisbury last year,\" he said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by John Glen MP This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWiltshire Police said in relation to the flag it was too early to say whether an offence had been committed but officers were examining CCTV footage from the area.\n\nThe Dean of Salisbury, the Very Reverend Nicholas Papadopulos, said: \"This was a remarkably stupid thing to do and makes light of the huge personal tragedies involved, and the damage done to the city by the unprecedented nerve agent attacks on Salisbury last year.\"\n\nIn June 2018, Dawn Sturgess and Charlie Rowley fell ill when they were exposed to the nerve agent by handling a contaminated container in the city's gardens.\n\nIn an interview with the Guardian newspaper on Saturday her parents said that Ms Sturgess was the only real victim of the poisonings.\n\nThe UK government said two officers working for Russia's military intelligence service - identified as Anatoliy Chepiga and Alexander Mishkin - carried out the attack against Mr Skripal and his daughter.\n\nA third man, Sergey Fedotov, may also have been involved in the poisonings, it is claimed.\n\nMoscow has consistently denied any involvement in the Salisbury attacks, which Prime Minister Theresa May said were \"almost certainly\" sanctioned by Russia.", "City of Derry Airport is owned by Derry City and Strabane Council\n\nCity of Derry Airport is urgently seeking a replacement airline for its London route after Flybmi filed for administration.\n\nEmergency talks are under way between the airport, Derry City and Strabane District Council and the Department for Transport.\n\nThe airport said it was \"reviewing options\" for resuming its Stansted service, which has been cancelled.\n\nCustomers booked on Flybmi services have been advised not to travel to City of Derry Airport.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by City of Derry Airport\n\nOn Thursday, the UK government announced it would continue to provide funding for the flight between City of Derry Airport and London.\n\nThe public service obligation (PSO) air route, the first of its kind in Northern Ireland, had been in place since 2017.\n\nIt had been due to expire in May, but Transport Secretary Chris Grayling said the government would continue to subsidise the route until 2021.\n\nIt was the only route Flybmi operated from City of Derry Airport.\n\nThe airline operated two return flights each day, except Saturdays when there was one flight each way.\n\nRyanair formerly operated a route between the airport and Stansted but axed the flights in March 2017.\n\nDanny McLaughlin, a civil engineer from County Donegal, had 14 flights booked over the next seven weeks between City of Derry Airport and London Stansted.\n\n\"I'm a bit stunned to be honest with you,\" he said.\n\n\"I feel sorry for the staff. I probably will get a bit annoyed as the weekend goes on and on Monday morning when I can't get to work.\"\n\nFlybmi said uncertainty over Brexit and rises in fuel and carbon costs led it to go into administration.\n\n\"I'm three miles from the border. For me, personally, it's the first thing really that's affected me. And then, in 41 days' time we just don't know what's going to happen three miles up the road.\"\n\nPresident of the Londonderry Chamber of Commerce, Brian McGrath, issued a statement saying the news was \"terribly disappointing\".\n\n\"The Derry to Stansted link is an incredibly important one for connecting those who live here in the north west to London,\" said Mr McGrath.\n\n\"The loss of this will also be very damaging to businesses in the region who rely on this flight.\"\n\nFinancial journalist Paul Gosling told BBC News NI's The Sunday News that there had been a degree of \"reputational damage\" to the airport.\n\n\"It will make many passengers wary about whether this is the right airport for them,\" he said.\n\nHe added that it was likely a new airline would be found \"in the near future\".\n\nHowever he said there were still worries about the airport's future: \"As soon as there is a good road connection between Derry and Belfast International Airport, there will be questions about its viability and sustainability,\" he said.\n\nStanding in the City of Derry Airport main terminal entrance, the footfall is still fairly busy.\n\nEmergency talks are still under way between the airport, the local council and the UK Department for Transport.\n\nIt's a unique route in many ways because it's subsided by the government.\n\nWith regards to reviewing options for resuming that Stansted service, the general consensus is that a replacement airline must be found as soon as possible.\n\nThat will allow those very important economic links between the north west and London to be preserved.\n\nOn Saturday evening, the airport tweeted: \"BMI with immediate effect no longer operate the London Stansted service.\n\n\"If you have seats booked on this service, please contact your credit card company to receive your refund.\n\n\"We are reviewing options for resuming the service with another airline as soon as possible.\"\n\nDUP MP for East Londonderry Gregory Campbell said he spoke to Mr Grayling about the future of the route \"shortly after the news broke\" on Saturday evening.\n\n\"Obviously there is concern given that this is the single, direct air connection between Londonderry and London,\" he said.\n\n\"The transport secretary indicated that he is hopeful that a new operator will agree to take on the route.\n\n\"There needs to be as seamless a transition as possible from Flybmi to the new operator in order that the travelling public suffer as little as possible.\"\n\nSinn Féin councillor Sandra Duffy said the news was a \"huge concern\" for the economy in the north west.\n\nIn July 2018 a leaked report said City of Derry Airport could close within a year because of a multi-million pound shortfall in funding.\n\nAt that time, there was uncertainty over whether or not the subsidy for the PSO route to London would be extended beyond May 2019.\n\nThe report said that if the subsidy was not extended the London route would cease and \"the airport will no longer be sustainable\".\n\nThe airport is owned by Derry and Strabane District Council.\n\nFlybmi is an East Midlands-based airline, which has 376 staff, operates 17 planes and flies to 25 European cities.\n\nAffected passengers have been told to contact their travel agents or insurance and credit card companies.", "Police cars were seen lining up outside HMP Bedford on Saturday night\n\nA specialist riot unit was sent to a six-hour disturbance in a prison which regulators had compared to \"a dungeon\".\n\nThe Tornado team was deployed at HMP Bedford after the incident was reported at 14:35 GMT on Saturday, said the Prison Service.\n\nIt was contained to one wing and resulted in no injuries to staff or prisoners, it added.\n\nHMP Bedford was put into special measures in May after concerns over living conditions and violence levels.\n\nA riot at the same prison in 2016 involving 230 prisoners caused £1m of damage to two wings.\n\nPolice cars were seen outside the prison on Saturday, although their attendance was precautionary and officers did not go in.\n\nThe incident was resolved by 21:00 GMT, the Prison Service said.\n\nA Prison Service spokesman said: \"We do not tolerate violence in our prisons and, where incidents like this occur, will always push for the strongest possible punishment for those involved.\"\n\nA report from the prison's independent monitoring board in October said prisoners had effectively taken control at the 487-capacity men-only jail.\n\nIt found that prisoners regularly ignored rules; the smell of drugs was \"pervading\" some wings; and the segregation unit had a \"consistent infestation of cockroaches and a plague of rats\".\n\n\"The unit is simply appalling. It is a dungeon. These are not appropriate conditions in which to detain prisoners in the 21st Century,\" the report said.\n\nThe disturbance was contained to one wing, said the Prison Service\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ganz was well-known in German-language cinema and theatre\n\nBruno Ganz, who played Hitler in the 2004 film Downfall, has died aged 77.\n\nThe Swiss actor died at home in Zurich on Friday night, his management said.\n\nGanz was well-known in German-language cinema and theatre and also had roles in English-language films including The Reader and The Manchurian Candidate.\n\nHis most famous role, however, was as Adolf Hitler in Downfall. One particular scene depicting Hitler in apoplectic fury became a meme and spawned thousands of parodies online.\n\nThe film, called Der Untergang in German, told the story of Hitler's final days in his Berlin bunker. It grossed $92m (£71.3m) at box offices around the world when it was released.\n\nIt was named winner of the BBC Four World Cinema award and was nominated for an Academy award for best foreign language film, but since then it has become almost as famous for a wave of internet parodies of its final scene, poking fun at numerous news events.\n\nTributes were paid to Ganz at the end of the Berlin film festival on Saturday, hosted by actress Anke Engelke\n\nIn 2005 Ganz told The Guardian newspaper that he spent four months preparing for the role, studying historical records including a secretly-recorded tape of Hitler and observing people with Parkinson's disease, which he came to believe the dictator had.\n\nBut he said: \"I cannot claim to understand Hitler. Even the witnesses who had been in the bunker with him were not really able to describe the essence of the man.\n\n\"He had no pity, no compassion, no understanding of what the victims of war suffered.\"\n\nGanz, probably the most famous Swiss actor, had a rich and varied career. He appeared in Werner Herzog's Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979) and played an angel in Wim Wenders' Wings of Desire (1987) and its sequel Faraway, So Close! (1993).\n\nHe also starred in noir film The American Friend (1977) and science fiction movie The Boys from Brazil (1978), which starred Sir Laurence Olivier.\n\nIn 2008 he had a role in The Baader Meinhof Complex and his last role was in Lars von Trier's 2018 film The House that Jack Built.\n\nAt the time of his death, Ganz was the holder of the Iffland-Ring, an accolade to the German-speaking actor judged \"most significant and worthy\".\n\nThe ring is passed from person to person, and it is not yet clear who Ganz had intended to transfer it to after his death.\n\nIt was reported that Ganz had been diagnosed with colon cancer.\n• None Is this 1921 cartoon the first ever meme?", "Last updated on .From the section Horse Racing\n\nHaydock Park officials are investigating after a mass brawl broke out among spectators at the racecourse.\n\nAbout 50 people were involved in the fight before and during the eighth and final race of the day. A woman and toddler were caught up in the disturbance.\n\nA spokesman said Haydock took a \"zero tolerance position\" on fighting and that those involved were \"ejected\".\n\nOne man was arrested over a public order offence.\n\nRacing has been on high alert over on-track fighting after incidents at Goodwood, Ascot and Hexham in 2018.\n\nThe spokesman said Haydock was \"continuing to work with the police on this matter\".\n\nMerseyside Police said: \"A 26-year old male was arrested on suspicion of affray and possession of a controlled drug.\n\n\"No complaints were made and there have been no reports of any injuries at this time.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nScot Laura Muir smashed Kirsty Wade's 31-year-old British record to win the women's indoor mile in Birmingham.\n\nThe 25-year-old finished in four minutes 18.75 seconds, breaking Wade's mark of 4:23.86.\n\nMuir told BBC Sport: \"I knew I was in great shape. It was about winning the race, but also about running fast.\n\n\"I'm so chuffed to get the record on home soil. I knew the split halfway and knew I was there and thereabouts. The crowd were fantastic.\"\n\nHer time was the third fastest indoors in history, behind Ethiopian great Genzebe Dibaba (4:13.31) and Romanian Doina Melinte (4:17.14).\n\nShe ran the first 1500m in 4.01.83, which is faster than her own British indoor record of 4:02.39.\n\nMuir will be hoping to defend her 1500m and 3,000m European indoor titles in Glasgow from 1-3 March.\n\n'She gave everything to get that time'\n\n\"Laura gave all she had and came so close to Melinte's European record. She did it all on her own. The real hard work was done on the last few laps.\n\n\"She dug deep and maintained her form and focus up to the end. You could see how much she gave after she crossed the line because she stumbled and barely kept her legs underneath her. That was a sign of an athlete who's given absolutely everything to get that time.\"\n\nPreston-born Holly Bradshaw also shone in the women's pole vault.\n\nThe Blackburn Harrier came into this competition in good form having won the British title in Birmingham with 4.80m. Back in the same arena she raised the roof once again with another exceptional display.\n\nAfter sneaking over 4.71m on her third attempt she set the standard by clearing a season's best of 4.81m with her first effort. American Katie Nageotte and Greek Nikoleta Kyriakopoulou also cleared the same height, but trailed Bradshaw on countback.\n\nThe trio attempted 4.88m, which had Bradshaw cleared would have been a new British record, but they failed.\n\n\"To win with a season's best, I'm as shocked as everyone else,\" Bradshaw, the 2013 European indoor champion, told BBC Sport.\n\n\"I'm finally 18 months of injury-free preparations. I can go to Glasgow now with the thought of a medal.\"\n\nScot Lynsey Sharp was fifth in the women's 800m and will have to wait to see if she will be selected to compete in Glasgow.\n\nThe 2012 outdoor European champion, 28, finished ahead of fellow Briton Mari Smith. However, Smith was runner-up at the British Championships and that, coupled with dipping under the qualifying mark on Saturday, means she takes her place in the squad.\n\nLondon athlete Shelayna Oskan-Clarke followed up her win at the British trials with another victory, in two minutes 01.16 seconds.\n\nManx athlete Joe Reid won the British men's 800m title last week, but failed to record a time under the qualifying mark of 1:48.00. However, he rectified that on his second visit to Birmingham with one minute 47.83 seconds to finish third in a thrilling race won by Australian Joseph Deng (1:47.27).\n\nFellow Briton Jamie Webb was first at the British Championships, but was subsequently disqualified. However, he took second spot on Saturday (1.47.51) to earn his place in the team.\n\nAnother Scot, Eilidh Doyle, is also waiting to see if the selectors will pick her to compete in the individual 400m.\n\nThe world and European indoor medallist clocked a season's best 52.43 seconds to come second behind Jamaica's Stephanie Ann McPherson (52.24).\n\nShe told BBC Sport: \"I'd be grateful to go and compete there. Indoors is funny - it's about getting the race right. Hopefully there's a 51-second in there.\"\n\nFormer Olympic heptathlon champion Denise Lewis said: \"Eilidh is aggressive - we have seen it time and time again in whichever event she's competed in. Her experience is that instant recall of how to execute.\"\n\nCompatriot Eilish McColgan, a European indoor bronze medallist in 2017, will also have to rely on the selectors' nod after finishing seventh in the 3,000m in a season's best 8:57.19.\n\nReigning European indoor men's 60m champion Richard Kilty is also unsure of his berth after finishing fifth on Saturday in 6.64 seconds - outside the European qualifying standard of 6.60.\n\n\"It's up to the selectors,\" said the 29-year-old, nicknamed the \"Teesside Tornado\".\n\n\"I've had a rough comeback from Achilles surgery. It'll be nice if I could be selected. The main thing is I'm happy to be back.\"\n\nChina's Bingtian Su won the 60m in 6.47, with Briton Reece Prescod, who has chosen not to run in Glasgow, second in 6.53. CJ Ujah is the only other Briton to have run under the qualifying standard.\n\nBritain's reigning European indoor champion Asha Philip finished second in the women's 60m in 7.14 seconds behind double Olympic champion Elaine Thompson (7.13).", "PM Narendra Modi flagged off the Vande Bharat Express on Friday\n\nIndia's fastest train has broken down on its first trip, a day after it was inaugurated by Prime Minister Modi.\n\nThe Indian-built semi high-speed Vande Bharat Express was returning to the capital Delhi from the city of Varanasi after its first outing when brakes in a carriage reportedly jammed.\n\nIndian media quoted a railways spokesperson as saying the train may have struck cattle on the line.\n\nThe train reached a speed of 180km/hr (110mph) during trials.\n\nSoon after the brakes failed, the drivers noticed smoke in the last four coaches and power was lost in all compartments.\n\nThose on board, mostly railway officials and journalists, had to take another train to get back to Delhi.\n\nDespite the railway ministry's suggestion that the train may have hit a cow, NDTV reported that there were no signs of damage on the front of the train after the incident.\n\nThe new train service is expected to start its commercial run from Sunday. It is expected to reduce the travel time between Delhi and Varanasi by six hours.", "Tudor Simionov was photographed working as a security guard hours before he was attacked\n\nA fourth man has been charged with murdering a doorman who was guarding a party on New Year's Day.\n\nSecurity guard Tudor Simionov, 33, was attacked outside Fountain House at about 05:30 GMT on 1 January.\n\nNor Aden Hamada, 23, of no fixed address, was arrested on Sunday at Gatwick Airport as he returned to the UK, the Metropolitan Police said.\n\nHe has been charged with murder and will appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Monday.\n\nMr Hamada has also been charged with violent disorder and four counts of grievous bodily harm.\n\nThree men - Haroon Akram, 25, Adham Khalil, 20, and 23-year-old Adham Elshalakany - have previously appeared in court charged with Mr Simionov's murder.\n\nDetectives are still appealing for information to help find Ossama Hamed, 25, in connection with the investigation.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "YouTube said it had removed content that broke its policy guidelines but the BBC found some footage remains on the site\n\nFacebook and YouTube have taken down content promoting illegal animal bloodsports following an investigation by the BBC's Countryfile programme.\n\nBut both websites still host users who feature graphic videos and photos showing banned cockfighting and hare coursing taking place in the UK.\n\nFacebook did remove one user and said content \"must respect local laws\".\n\nYouTube said it had removed all material highlighted by the BBC that broke its policy guidelines.\n\nBut much of the material found on both sites, in both private and public user groups, remains online.\n\nHare coursing, which sees hares hunted by dogs in competition against each other, was banned by the Hunting Act 2004 while cockfighting was made illegal in the 19th Century.\n\nGeoff Edmond, the RSPCA's national wildlife co-ordinator, who viewed the online material uncovered by Countryfile, said: \"We would ask for responsibility. It should be taken down - it's illegal activity.\n\n\"It's down to these social media companies to take on that responsibility. At the moment, we are still talking to them to be responsible in the hope that that will happen.\n\n\"But I would always urge the public to call it in to ourselves or the police because what matters to me is stopping it.\"\n\nThe programme's investigations team monitored a number of YouTube and Facebook users and accounts over several months, including two private groups that together had more than 31,000 members.\n\nIllegal bloodsports are a \"lucrative business\", says Sgt Kevin Kelly, of North Yorkshire Police's Rural Taskforce\n\nImages and footage were posted showing hares being caught and mauled by dogs, trained cockerels fighting to the death and users mocking the ban on hare coursing.\n\nYoung children are featured in some of the footage and photographs.\n\nPolice forces across the UK told the programme the organisers of illegal bloodsports are also using social media apps to share and livestream material - to enable wider gambling.\n\nSgt Kevin Kelly, of North Yorkshire Police's rural taskforce, said mobile phones seized in a raid on a cockfight last year showed that fights were taking place every two weeks - and footage was being share much more widely.\n\n\"You can stream things that are encrypted, you can have private groups, you can have chats, you can share your videos and you can organise events. It's a lucrative business,\" he said.\n\nSgt Tom Carter, of Sussex Police's rural crime unit, said the crackdown on hare coursing in the UK meant some hare coursers were going abroad, holding events and streaming footage back to the UK.\n\nHe said: \"We've got hare coursers that are making six-figures annually purely from hare coursing. They can livestream that to their friends in the pub or other people that are betting on it.\n\n\"It can go international. It can go to other countries where people are betting on the dogs. You can use money transfer or even cyber currency to put the bets on.\"\n\nCountryfile provided both Facebook and YouTube with links to the evidence of illegal bloodsports and hunting its researchers had found online.\n\nFacebook removed one profile while YouTube said it had removed any material that broke its policy guidelines.\n\nA spokesperson for Facebook said: \"Content on Facebook must respect local laws and adhere to our community standards.\n\n\"When governments believe that something on Facebook violates their laws, they are able to report this to us so we can take suitable action. This applies to things like bloodsports, where we rely on reports by the appropriate authorities.\"\n\nIn a statement, YouTube said: \"YouTube has clear policies that ban graphic content and animal abuse and we remove videos violating these policies when flagged by our users.\"\n\nThe full story features on Countryfile on BBC1 at 19:00 GMT on 17 February and afterwards on the iPlayer.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUS President Donald Trump's pick to be America's new UN ambassador, Heather Nauert, has withdrawn her nomination for the post.\n\nMs Nauert, a former Fox News presenter, said in a statement on Saturday that the decision was made \"in the best interest of my family\".\n\n\"The past two months have been gruelling,\" the statement, issued by the state department, said.\n\nMr Trump had announced Ms Nauert as his choice for the UN role last December.\n\n\"She's very talented, very smart, very quick, and I think she's going to be respected by all,\" the president said at the time.\n\nMs Nauert, who is currently serving as state department spokeswoman, would have replaced Nikki Haley, who announced in October that she would leave the post of UN ambassador by the end of the year.\n\nSome had questioned whether Ms Nauert, who has been in government for less than two years and has never specialised in international relations, had sufficient experience to deal with the type of complex foreign policy issues tackled by UN ambassadors.\n\nThe role has often gone to skilled negotiators and leading names in US foreign policy - past ambassadors have been scholars, diplomats or prominent politicians.\n\nMeanwhile, unnamed sources told US media that Ms Nauert took the decision to withdraw after the White House was made aware of an issue following a background check.\n\nBloomberg reported that she and her husband had employed an immigrant nanny who was in the US legally but did not have the correct work visa.\n\nUS Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Ms Nauert had \"performed her duties as a senior member of my team with unequalled excellence\" and that she will \"continue to be a great representative of this nation\".\n\nIn addition to her state department role, the 49-year-old was also appointed acting undersecretary for public diplomacy and public affairs in March last year.\n\nShe worked for Fox News from 1998 to 2005 and, after two years away during which she worked for ABC, she returned to Fox in 2007, later becoming a presenter for Fox & Friends.\n\nFox News has been a consistent supporter of the president and he often cites its programmes.\n\nMs Nauert made headlines in June when, speaking in her state department role, she cited the World War Two Normandy landings in relation to America's \"strong history\" with Germany.", "Workers with auto-enrolment pensions will contribute 5% of their salary from April\n\nMillions of workers could see their take-home pay fall in six weeks' time when the amount they have to pay into their pension pot increases.\n\nAnalysis for the BBC has examined how pay will be hit when higher contribution rates for those with auto-enrolment pensions kick in.\n\nSince 2012, 10 million eligible workers have been automatically signed up to workplace pensions.\n\nFrom April, their contribution will rise from 3% of their salary to 5%.\n\nTom McPhail, head of policy at the investment company Hargreaves Lansdown, said: \"This is quite a significant increase relative to what they've been paying to date.\n\n\"This is going to affect up to 10 million people who've been auto-enrolled in the past few years, so the potential impact of this change is quite substantial.\"\n\nThe analysis carried out for the BBC by Hargreaves Lansdown suggests the annual take-home pay of someone earning £15,000 will typically be £49 lower, if they pay contributions on their entire salary.\n\nSomeone on £30,000 will take home £253 less, according to the calculations.\n\nThe hit to net pay could have been bigger, but a tax cut for most earners will soften the blow of higher auto-enrolment contributions.\n\nThe personal allowance is due to increase to £12,500 from April.\n\nSome in the industry worry lower take-home pay could lead people to opt out of saving for a pension.\n\nThe change coincides with uncertainty in the economy, leading some to dub the move \"auto-enrolmageddon\", although the industry is not expecting a big jump in opt-outs.\n\nThe government says it will closely monitor what happens.\n\nThe rate of people stopping saving into a workplace pension was just 0.7% in the three months following the first increase in contribution rates in April 2018, compared with 0.6% for the previous four years.\n\nSpeaking on a recent visit to an electronics factory, Work and Pensions Secretary Amber Rudd told the BBC: \"I'm hopeful it won't have an impact because we need to encourage people to save more.\"\n\nAddressing last year's contribution increase, she said: \"Some people were nervous we would see saving drop off. It hardly happened at all.\"\n\nAmber Rudd took over at the Department for Work and Pensions in November 2018\n\nThe government and the pensions industry regard auto-enrolment as a huge success.\n\n\"Anyone that can afford to stay in a pension absolutely should do so, as that money will come in useful for them later on,\" said Mr McPhail.\n\nThere is a widespread view in the pensions industry that workers' contributions may have to rise even further if they want a decent retirement income.\n\nThe work and pensions secretary said persuading people to save for their own pensions was \"a really important change in the culture that we're seeing in the UK\".\n\nThe law requires that, as a minimum, contributions are based on earnings between £6,032 and £46,350.\n\nThe government wants the first £1 of earnings to count towards a pension, and plans to introduce this change in the mid-2020s.\n\nEmployers' minimum contributions are also due to increase in April from 2% to 3% of a workers' salary.", "A London chef is serving up lasagne made out of grey squirrel meat.\n\nIvan Tisdall-Downes, who runs central restaurant Native, said he was not actively hunting squirrels to put on his customers' plates.\n\nMr Tisdall-Downes said squirrels were essentially a waste product due to gamekeepers culling the animal and so he was just putting the meat to use.\n\nSupermarkets have also began selling squirrel, but some ethical groups are asking if it's right to eat the animals.", "A former football coach and childhood friend have paid tribute to Cardiff City striker Emiliano Sala, whose funeral was held on Saturday.\n\nThe 28-year-old died when the plane he was travelling in crashed on 21 January. The pilot of the aircraft, David Ibbotson, is still missing.\n\nMourners gathered in Sala's hometown of Progreso in Argentina, as a wake was held at his childhood football club, San Martin de Progreso.", "Karl Marx's memorial in Highgate Cemetery has been vandalised for the second time in two weeks\n\nKarl Marx's memorial in north London has been vandalised for the second time in two weeks.\n\nThe words \"Doctrine of Hate\" and \"Architect of Genocide\" are scrawled in red on the Grade I-listed grave in Highgate Cemetery.\n\nThis latest incident follows a \"deliberate and sustained\" hammer attack on 4 February that left the memorial badly damaged.\n\nThere have been no arrests in connection with either attack.\n\nFriends of Highgate Cemetery Trust said the German philosopher's memorial would \"never be the same again\" following the previous attack.\n\nThe words \"Doctrine of Hate\", \"Architect of Genocide\" and \"Memorial to Bolshevik holocaust\" were painted in red on the memorial\n\nMaxwell Blowfield, from the British Museum, said he was \"quite shocked\" to see the most recent act of vandalism when he visited the cemetery earlier with his mother.\n\nThe 31-year-old said it was particularly sad because tourists regularly visited the site.\n\n\"It's a highlight of the cemetery\".\n\n\"It's a shame. The red paint will disappear, I assume, but to see that kind of level of damage and to see it happen twice, it's not good,\" he continued.\n\n\"I am just surprised that somebody in 2019 feels they need to [go] and do something like that.\"\n\nThe marble plaque on the memorial was attacked with a hammer on 4 February\n\nIn 1970 a pipe bomb blew up part of the plaque's marble face, that was first used for Marx's wife Jenny von Westphalen in 1881.\n\nThe plaque was subsequently moved when both Marx and his wife were exhumed and moved to a more prominent location within the cemetery in 1954.\n\nIt has also been covered in Swastikas and emulsion paint has been thrown at it, in the past.", "Catriona Ogilvy spent the first months of her maternity leave at a neonatal ward hospital after her son, Samuel, was born 10 weeks early\n\nA music giant is to give extra leave to employees who have babies which are born premature, following a campaign by a mum from Croydon.\n\nSony Music staff will now be entitled to full pay during the period in which a baby is born before full term.\n\nCurrent law states maternity and paternity leave begins the day after birth - even if the baby is born premature.\n\nThe decision has been backed by singer Paloma Faith.\n\nCatriona Ogilvy, founder of premature baby charity The Smallest Things, said she was liaising with other companies in a bid to get more signed up to her charter.\n\nA petition set up by Mrs Ogilvy - who spent time in a neonatal ward after her son, Samuel, was born ten weeks early - has now gathered more than 205,000 signatures.\n\nHer campaign led to Waltham Forest Council adopting a similar policy earlier this year.\n\nMrs Ogilvy said when this was featured on the Women's Hour programme it caught the attention of someone at Sony Music, who then approached then approached the company's HR department.\n\nShe said: \"It is great to have such a huge company signed up, and it spurs me on to help more families, because that is who will benefit most.\n\n\"While we want more companies to sign up, the overarching aim is to change the law so all parents can access extra leave for premature babies.\"\n\nSony Music CEO Jason Iley said: \"We appreciate that it can be an extremely difficult and worrying time for those who experience premature labour and family is of the upmost importance.\"\n\nAdvice for employers on how to support staff members with premature babies was drawn up in 2017 at the government's request.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Kieran Metcalfe won the competition with his photograph of Chrome Hill, in Derbyshire, taken in November 2018 on a windy morning\n\nA stunning shot of the Peak District has been announced as the winner of a photography competition celebrating the 70th anniversary of UK National Parks.\n\nGraphic designer Kieran Metcalfe, who lives in Cheshire, was crowned the winner among almost 1,500 entries with his photograph of Chrome Hill, in Derbyshire, looking towards Parkhouse Hill.\n\nHe said: \"I was thrilled to hear the image had been shortlisted, but I'm completely bowled over at it being selected by the judges as the overall winner.\"\n\nHere are a selection of other picturesque places that made the shortlist.\n\nGareth Mon was runner-up with his photograph of Snowdonia National Park, which he took after four failed attempts of lugging 35kg of equipment up Snowdon\n\nHelen Storer made the competition's shortlist with this photograph of Broads National Park taken one cold misty morning\n\nChloe Swift took this photograph of her sons, aged seven and four, at Leather Tor in Dartmoor National Park\n\nSteve Burnett took this shot on Skomer Island in Pembrokeshire Coast National Park\n\nShaun Davey captured the countryside near Holt in Exmoor National Park\n\nGillian Thomas said she took this image during the autumn of last year in Rhinefield at New Forest National Park\n\nThomas Bown snapped this shot of St Brides Bay, with Skomer Island offshore, in Pembrokeshire Coast National Park\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Paula Sherriff says she faces far-right abuse on a regular basis\n\nA decision by the Crown Prosecution Service not to bring a prosecution after swastikas were left outside Paula Sherriff's office has been branded \"disgraceful\" by the Labour MP.\n\nThe Dewsbury MP said foil swastikas were left at her constituency office on three occasions last summer.\n\nThe CPS said the suspect would not be prosecuted because the test for a criminal offence had not been met.\n\n\"There has been a huge increase in far-right abuse since the death of Jo [Cox, in 2016],\" 43-year-old Ms Sherriff said.\n\nShe said three swastikas were left at her office in July and August, and she has had many death threats and other forms of abuse, and fears for her life.\n\nMs Sherriff, whose constituency neighbours Batley and Spen, where Ms Cox was killed, said the CPS ruled out a prosecution because the suspect \"did not fit any charges\", which she found \"absolutely disgraceful\".\n\nIn September, local newspaper editor Danny Lockwood was \"outraged\" when armed police arrested him in connection with suspected hate crimes against Ms Sherriff. He has been ruled out of the investigation.\n\nMs Sherriff said she has been targeted for far-right abuse daily, sometimes suffering hundreds of such incidents in a week.\n\nJo Cox was murdered in a neighbouring constituency in the run-up to the EU referendum\n\nHer staff have had to put safety procedures in place around her Wellington Road office, such as going to lunch in pairs.\n\nShe also said West Yorkshire Police had not taken her complaints of abuse and threats seriously.\n\nThe MP said she had \"no faith\" in the force, despite her father being in the police.\n\n\"My trust in the police has been really eroded,\" she said.\n\nGerry Wareham, chief crown prosecutor for Yorkshire and Humberside, said: \"We considered this case carefully but the evidential test was not met to prove a criminal offence so we could not prosecute. The suspect was issued with a harassment warning.\n\n\"We understand Ms Sheriff's concerns and take any potential threat of this nature very seriously. We have offered to meet with her to explain our decision in full.\"\n\nWest Yorkshire Police said: \"We can confirm a complaint has been received in relation to the police handling of an investigation into incidents in July and August 2018, when offensive material was left outside the constituency office of a local MP.\n\n\"This matter has been referred to the Independent Office for Police Conduct who are conducting an independent inquiry.\"\n\nThe force said the \"tragic murder of Jo Cox in 2016 further emphasised the risks our MPs can face and West Yorkshire Police regularly reviews security arrangements, in accordance with national protocols\".\n\n\"West Yorkshire Police has local processes to ensure there is an effective response to any threats made towards or concerns raised by local MPs.\"\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. Alison and Michael go on dates that their mothers help organise\n\nA couple who both have Down's syndrome have spoken about how their relationship has thrived thanks to the support of their families.\n\nAlison Williams, 35, and Michael Gallagher, 31, from Anglesey, have been together for 12 years after meeting at a sports club.\n\nSupport group Mencap Cymru said people with learning disabilities have the right to meaningful relationships.\n\nIt urged carers to help them and not to be \"frightened\".\n\nFor Alison and Michael, being in a relationship has led to years of happiness.\n\nMichael added: \"I think we'll be together forever.\"\n\nAlison Williams and Michael Gallagher's friendship started when they met at a sports club\n\nThe couple live with their families, but regularly stay at each other's homes and they enjoy holidays and hotel breaks together with the support of their mothers, who help to arrange their dates and stay nearby.\n\nMichael's mother, Dot, said being in a relationship had been \"the making\" of her son.\n\nAlison's mum, Ann, said she remembered the moment the couple's friendship became something deeper.\n\n\"They were going to a disco, Alison was dressed as Sandy from Grease and Michael was Danny,\" she recalled.\n\nI've got chills... the couple dressed as Sandy and Danny from the musical Grease\n\n\"We were behind them and they just held hands and walked away.\"\n\nThe couple and their families have talked about the serious relationship and their plans for the future.\n\nThey say people sometimes ask intrusive questions about the nature of the couple's relationship but that it was \"none of their business\".\n\nWhile public attitudes to people with learning disabilities have changed in the past 30 years, Mencap Cymru said it wanted to change the way society thinks about their rights to friendships and relationships.\n\nIt is using Valentine's Day to start a \"national conversation\" with people with learning disabilities, parents and support services about improving opportunities for people with a learning disability, starting with a launch at the Welsh Assembly.\n\nDirector Wayne Crocker said: \"People who are supporting people with a learning disability might be frightened of the risks of an individual being involved in an intimate relationship.\n\n\"But where that individual has capacity, whether you're a parent or a support agency, your role should be to develop and help that individual have the relationship they want, that's right for them.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Theresa May has written to all 317 Tory MPs, urging them to unite behind a Brexit deal while warning them \"history will judge us all\" over the process.\n\nEfforts will resume on Monday to persuade the EU to agree changes to the \"backstop\" plan to prevent the return of customs checks on the Irish border.\n\nAnd Culture Secretary Jeremy Wright has hinted MPs' concerns about it could be addressed without reopening the deal.\n\nLabour says the Tories cannot be united and has called for cross-party talks.\n\nThe UK remains on course to leave the EU on 29 March. But Mrs May has been unable to convince a majority of MPs to back the withdrawal terms she struck with the EU last year.\n\nThe prime minister told MPs in the letter she will return to Brussels to meet European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker this week, and speak to the leaders of every EU member state over the coming days.\n\nHer main goal is to win concessions over the backstop, which is widely disliked by members of her party.\n\nMany fear it will mean the UK staying closely aligned to EU rules for the long term, without Britain being able to end the agreement unilaterally.\n\nBut EU leaders have repeatedly said the withdrawal agreement is not open for renegotiation.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. PM 'needs space' to get backstop assurances - culture secretary\n\nThe Sunday Times reported comments it said were leaked from a WhatsApp group suggesting ex-Brexit minister Steve Baker told fellow Brexiteers that Mrs May's talks with Brussels were a \"complete waste of time\".\n\nHowever, Culture Secretary Mr Wright has hinted that there might be \"a number of different ways\" around the problem.\n\n\"I don't think it's the mechanism that matters, it's the objective,\" he told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show, when asked whether a codicil - a supplementary document explaining or modifying a legal agreement - might work.\n\n\"Parliament needs to give the prime minister space to have that conversation with Brussels,\" he added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAttorney General Geoffrey Cox, who has warned the backstop indefinitely commits the UK to EU customs rules if Brexit trade talks break down, will set out what changes would be needed to address concerns in a speech on Tuesday.\n\nBrexit Secretary Stephen Barclay is also due to meet the EU's chief negotiator Michel Barnier to discuss the controversial policy on Monday.\n\nIf MPs do not approve a formal deal, many fear chaos at ports and for business.\n\nAnd Tobias Ellwood has become the first minister to publicly declare a willingness to rebel against the government if the PM failed to rule out a no-deal scenario.\n\n\"There are many ministers, me being one of them, that need to see 'no deal' removed from the table,\" the defence minister told BBC Radio 5 Live's Pienaar's Politics.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. PM 'must talk to Labour' over Brexit - McDonnell\n\nLabour's shadow chancellor John McDonnell told Andrew Marr that \"serious discussion\" around building cross-party consensus must happen by the end of the month.\n\n\"We have put our proposals on the table; we're willing to negotiate around those,\" he said. \"They're the basis of what we think could secure parliamentary approval, but she has to start negotiating as well.\"\n\nThe PM's negotiating stance has never been \"based upon mutual interest or mutual respect\" but was \"about banging the table and walking away\", he added.\n\nAsked about the prospect of a further referendum, Mr McDonnell said the party's priority remained a Brexit deal that protected jobs and the economy.\n\nBut he added: \"We really are at the end of the line now... If [a deal] doesn't fly within Parliament, yes the option of going back to the people has got to be there.\"\n\nCampaigners for another referendum on Brexit have said there will be a major protest the weekend before Britain's scheduled departure date on 29 March.\n\nIn her letter, Mrs May described the latest Commons defeat over her Brexit strategy, in which dozens of Conservatives abstained on Thursday, as \"disappointing\".\n\n\"I do not underestimate how deeply or how sincerely colleagues hold the views which they do on this important issue - or that we are all motivated by a common desire to do what is best for our country, even if we disagree on the means of doing so,\" she writes.\n\n\"But I believe that a failure to make the compromises necessary to reach and take through Parliament a withdrawal agreement which delivers on the result of the referendum will let down the people who sent us to represent them and risk the bright future that they all deserve.\"\n\nSince Thursday and the 10th defeat in the House of Commons for Theresa May over Brexit, the tensions in the Conservative Party have threatened to boil over.\n\nThe war of words has reached ministerial level, with business minister Richard Harrington suggesting some of his pro-Brexit colleagues should join former UKIP leader Nigel Farage's new party.\n\nTherefore while there's nothing new in terms of the substance of this letter, it represents a clear attempt by the prime minister to calm things down.\n\nTheresa May is also making it clear she won't change tactics.\n\nThe PM believes the only way to get a deal through the Commons and keep her party together is by securing changes to the backstop, even if the EU shows no sign of budging.\n\nEnter the word or phrase you are looking for", "Derry's UEFA Cup run in 2006 saw them take on French giants PSG - after Brexit they will travel to Europe for every away\n\nIn the world of sport, Brexit, backstops and borders may not be foremost in the thoughts of fans.\n\nThat sport and politics should not mix is, after all, an oft repeated phrase.\n\nBut for Derry City Football Club, this year celebrating 90 years since its first competitive match, Brexit puts the club in a unique position.\n\nWhen Brexit happens, the Candystripes become the only UK-based club competing in a domestic league within the European Union.\n\nDerry City's home ground lies four miles from the Irish border\n\nThe city of Derry has a hinterland that straddles the Irish border.\n\nAfter Brexit, it will straddle the EU-UK frontier.\n\nThe football club's Brandywell home ground lies less than four miles from County Donegal in the Republic of Ireland.\n\nAnd for more than 30 years they have played in the Republic of Ireland's league.\n\nHow Brexit plays out may add to their cross-border dynamic.\n\nDerry has, over the past 30 years, gained a wealth of cross-border experience.\n\nAnd it has a history shaped previously by events off the pitch.\n\nDerry City returned from 13 years of footballing exile in 1985 and have played in the League of Ireland ever since\n\nIn 1972 - a year regarded as one of the worst of the Troubles in Northern Ireland - a supporters' bus from visiting Ballymena United was burned on a visit to the Brandywell.\n\nThe club was expelled from the Irish League in Northern Ireland and forced into the footballing wilderness.\n\nIts exile ended with acceptance into the Republic's League of Ireland in 1985.\n\nDerry City has declined to comment on how Brexit might impinge on the club.\n\nThe Irish government, though, is planning for how cross-border sports could be affected by the UK's EU withdrawal.\n\nThe Irish Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport has said it acknowledges that the \"uncertainty of Brexit may pose challenges\" to sporting bodies and it is making itself \"available to assist such organisations should this be required\".\n\nAfter Brexit, the Derry-Donegal border will be part of the UK-EU land divide\n\nThe government may be planning for all possibilities but fans are thinking only about football.\n\nMickey Kerrigan, the chairman of the Pride of Northside supporters' club, has been travelling home and away to matches since 1985.\n\nBrexit is not a factor for fans eagerly anticipating a new season, he said.\n\nPolitics, he added, \"should never interfere with football\".\n\n\"People can make all the predictions they want about Brexit but the truth is that no-one knows what will happen,\" he said.\n\nFans are not factoring Brexit into their new season planning, says a supporters' club chairman\n\n\"Derry City fans have already been through the years of a hard border - we've had traffic tailbacks, delays and checks on the border and we shrugged our shoulders and got on with it.\n\n\"I can't see what change there will be for supporters - maybe some traffic issues if anything - but we have a new manager, new signings and are ready to get on the road for the new season.\n\nDerry City begin the 2019 League of Ireland campaign at home to UCD on 15 February.\n\nOn 29 March - the date on which the UK is due to leave the EU - the Candystripes host Sligo Rovers at the Brandywell.", "The man who died was trapped in the car but four other occupants managed to escape\n\nA man has died after a tree fell on a car in Surrey.\n\nPolice said the Lexus was driving along the A308 in Egham when it was involved in a crash.\n\nFirefighters said that a man was cut free from the car but was declared dead. Four other people inside the car - three females and a male - were taken to hospital with minor injuries.\n\nNo other vehicle is thought to have been involved.\n\nAnyone who witnessed the crash, at around 16:05 GMT, has been urged to contact Surrey Police.\n\nThe road was expected to remain closed until Monday morning.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "After Gabriel was born 15 weeks premature, his mum had to leave her job\n\nTwo thirds of fathers of premature and sick babies are being forced to return to work while their child is in intensive care, a charity has said.\n\nOf 737 parents surveyed by the neonatal charity Bliss and BBC Radio 5 Live Investigates, 77% said they were not given enough time off.\n\nOne in 10 parents had to leave their job as a result of their baby's stay in hospital, the results suggest.\n\nThe government is reviewing rules for parents of premature and sick babies.\n\nGemma Reid, from Surrey, gave up her job as a special educational needs teacher when her son, Gabriel, was born 15 weeks early.\n\nWhen Gabriel was born, Gemma, 34, and husband Andy, 37, decided to take three months' shared parental leave so Andy could look after Gabriel's four-year-old sister Betsy, and see his son in hospital.\n\nBut this meant Gemma was left with just six months paid leave, which came to an end two weeks after Gabriel was taken home.\n\n\"The thought of us having extra time would have made a big difference for bonding,\" Gemma said.\n\n\"Financially it would have had an impact, and for my career choices. We would have really welcomed more time.\n\n\"We were at hospital every day. That doesn't really feel like maternity or paternity leave at all.\"\n\nGabriel has made a good recovery, but the couple have had to cope with a big change to their plans as a family.\n\n\"I'm very grateful he's here and I wouldn't swap that,\" she said. \"I have given up a job I love and I will hopefully one day return to that.\n\n\"But in the meantime we are staying in our little one-bedroom flat.\"\n\nGemma's maternity pay stopped just two weeks after son Gabriel came home\n\nAccording to Bliss, around 100,000 babies born every year need intensive care in their first weeks of life.\n\nBut Gemma and Andy's situation is not unusual. One in 10 of all parents surveyed by Bliss said they left their job completely, because of their baby's extended time in hospital.\n\nParents said that while some employers were sympathetic, others refused to grant more time, and 66% of dads said they returned to work while their baby was still receiving neonatal care.\n\nBliss and other organisations like The Smallest Things have been campaigning for the government to extend parental leave, and to pay for parents of premature or sick babies to reflect the length of time babies have spent in hospital.\n\nCaroline Lee-Davey, chief executive of Bliss, said: \"Statutory paternity leave runs out long before many babies born premature or sick come home from hospital. This forces many dads and partners to be signed off sick or go back to work while their baby fights for their life.\n\n\"This is not good for babies or their parents - but it also is not good for employers when valued employees are either struggling to do their jobs while under immense stress worrying about their sick baby, or having to sign off sick or leave work altogether rather than take a planned leave of absence with their employer's full support.\"\n\nCurrently, statutory maternity leave starts as soon as the baby is born, and statutory paternity leave of up to two weeks starts at a date agreed with the employer.\n\nCampaigners are asking the government to change the law to guarantee that parents' paid leave will be extended by the period of time their baby is in hospital.\n\nDavid Linden, the SNP MP for Glasgow East, has two children who were born prematurely, and chairs the All Party Parliamentary Group on Premature and Sick Babies.\n\nHe said: \"These powerful survey responses back up the very same experiences I had when my own two children were born prematurely.\n\n\"So I firmly believe that the time has now come to act and extend the statutory element of parental leave to take into account the unique and challenging circumstances faced by the families of premature babies.\"\n\nThe Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy has announced it is carrying out a \"short, focused internal review\" of the rules for parents of premature and sick babies and those who experience multiple births, to better understand the barriers they face in the labour market.\n\n5 live Investigates is on BBC Radio 5 Live, February 17 at 11:00 GMT - catch up on BBC Sounds", "Six people have been charged after clashes broke out at a pro-Brexit \"yellow vest\" protest march in central London\n\nSix people have been charged after a number of police officers and emergency workers were attacked at a pro-Brexit yellow vest protest march in London.\n\nFootage posted on social media appears to show some activists clashing with officers at the march through Whitehall and Piccadilly on Saturday.\n\nFive protesters were charged with assault on an emergency worker, and one was charged with obstructing police.\n\nThey are all due to appear before Westminster magistrates on 19 March.\n\nThe protesters were demanding a no-deal Brexit, an end to immigration, and an end to what they see as mainstream fake news and justice for three teenage boys killed by a drink-driver in London in 2018.\n\nProtesters were demanding a no-deal Brexit and an end to immigration", "Abdul Deghayes was found with stab wounds in a car in Brighton\n\nA man found stabbed to death in a car was the brother of two young men who died fighting in Syria, police said.\n\nAbdul Deghayes, 22, was a passenger in a silver VW Polo that collided with other cars in Brighton on Saturday. He died as a result of his stab wounds.\n\nSussex Police said a man, 26, had been arrested on suspicion of murder but officers were still seeking to trace others who may have been present.\n\nMr Deghayes was the twin of Abdullah, 18, and brother of Jaffar, 17.\n\nThe pair, from Brighton, were said to have become radicalised and died fighting with Islamists in Syria in 2014.\n\nMr Deghayes, who was jailed in 2017 for drug dealing, died at the Royal Sussex County Hospital following the crash at 21:30 GMT on Saturday near St Joseph's church, Elm Grove.\n\nHis father, Abubaker, said his son had been stabbed in the back and thigh.\n\nHe said: \"He died this morning. He was found in a car bleeding heavily. Emergency services revived him and took him to hospital, but he couldn't pull through and died at 6.30am.\"\n\n(Left to right): Abdullah Deghayes and Jaffar Deghayes, who died in Syria, with Amer Deghayes who remains in Syria\n\nHe said the family were \"in mourning\" and added: \"It is a great shock.\"\n\n\"Adul was very popular with his friends. He loved Brighton a lot. He was a cheerful guy,\" he said.\n\n\"I don't know who did it but the police are investigating. I am just shocked to be honest. You think you've seen everything but no - things keep happening.\"\n\nSussex Police has appealed for witnesses to the stabbing and said it had \"active lines of inquiry\" to find the driver of the silver Polo, who fled on foot after it crashed.\n\nCh Insp Andy Bennett said there had been a disturbance in Wellington Road, Brighton, where it is believed Mr Deghayes was stabbed.\n\nMr Deghayes then got into the car, which was driven a short distance to Elm Grove before it collided with other cars.\n\nCh Insp Bennett added: \"At this stage of the investigation there is nothing to suggest that this is a hate crime but we are keeping an open mind on the motive at this time.\"\n\nThe scene is close to the junction with Lewes Road, near to The Level park, and at that time of the evening would have been very busy.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Abdullah Deghayes was fighting for the Nusra Front, which has links to al Qaeda\n\nAn area of Elm Grove remained cordoned off on Sunday morning, but police were expecting the road to reopen fully later.\n\nMr Deghayes' twin and his younger brother fought for an Al-Qaeda-affiliated jihadist group in Syria, following in the footsteps of their older brother, Amer.\n\nIt is believed Amer is still alive in Syria, having left Sussex in 2013.\n\nWhen Abdullah Deghayes was killed, his father publicly called him a martyr who had died fighting the \"dictator\", Bashar al-Assad.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Teams of young engineers have competed in the national finals of a Lego robot-building competition.\n\nOver 70 teams of schoolchildren from the UK and Ireland took part in the Institution of Engineering and Technology event in Bristol.\n\nGroups of nine to 16- year-olds tested their robotics, computer programming, problem solving and communication skills.\n\nThe top teams now have a chance to represent their country at the international finals later in the year.", "The UK left the EU on 31 January 2020 and is now in an 11-month transition period.\n\nDuring this period the UK effectively remains in the EU's customs union and single market and continues to obey EU rules.\n\nHowever, it is no longer part of the political institutions. So, for example, there are no longer any British MEPs in the European Parliament.\n\nNegotiations on a trade deal with the EU have been proceeding for several months. The UK wants as much access as possible for its goods and services to the EU.\n\nBut the government has made clear that the UK must leave the customs union and single market and end the overall jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice.\n\nBoth sides say there a still significant areas of disagreement - for example, on EU proposals for a so-called \"level playing field\", which would see the UK and EU maintain similar minimum standards on things like workers' rights and environmental protection.\n\nThe deadline for the two sides to agree an extension to the transition period has now passed.\n\nIf no trade deal has been agreed and ratified by the end of the year, then the UK faces the prospect of tariffs on exports to the EU.\n\nThe prime minister has argued that as the UK is completely aligned to EU rules, the negotiation should be straightforward. But critics have pointed out that the UK wishes to have the freedom to diverge from EU rules so it can do deals with other countries - and that makes negotiations more difficult.\n\nIt's not just a trade deal that needs to be sorted out. The UK must agree how it is going to co-operate with the EU on security and law enforcement. The UK is set to leave the European Arrest Warrant scheme and will have to agree a replacement. It must also agree deals in a number of other areas where co-operation is needed.\n\nIt's also important to recognise that major changes will take effect on 1 January 2021 whether or not a trade deal is agreed. Free movement of people will end and businesses trading with the EU will have to follow new rules.\n\nUse the list below or select a button", "The City of Derry to Stansted flight is the first public service obligation (PSO) air route in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe UK government will continue to provide funding for a flight between City of Derry Airport and London.\n\nThe public service obligation (PSO) air route, the first of its kind in Northern Ireland, has been in place since 2017.\n\nIt had been due to expire in May.\n\nTransport Secretary Chris Grayling has now confirmed the government will continue to subsidise the route until 2021.\n\n\"The government is committed to this route because it strengthens the union, protects choice and boosts trade and travel opportunities,\" he told the House of Commons.\n\nThe Department for Transport provides funding for PSO routes if the service is \"vital for the economic and social development of the region\".\n\nNorthern Ireland Secretary Karen Bradley said the announcement was hugely welcome.\n\nShe said the service was vital for Northern Ireland's economic growth.\n\n\"Connectivity to Derry-Londonderry helps boost the huge potential on offer, including tourism and global business opportunities,\" she said.\n\nFlybmi - formerly known as bmi regional - operates two return flights each day, except Saturday, when there is one each way flight.\n\nThe funding announcement has also been welcomed in Northern Ireland's north west.\n\nThere had been fears for the future of the airport in Londonderry.\n\nMayor of Derry and Strabane John Boyle said the airport was \"an important regional gateway that is an essential part of the future development of the north west city region.\"\n\n\"We are delighted to retain this important air link with London and continue a route that offers timings that are conveniently scheduled for a full working day at either destination, and offers connectivity with adequate capacity and competitive fares,\" he said.", "A 16-year-old boy has died, two days after he was stabbed in the chest near the college where he was a student.\n\nHe was injured on Belgrave Road, outside Joseph Chamberlain Sixth Form College in Highgate, Birmingham, at about 16:00 GMT on Wednesday.\n\nWest Midlands Police said the boy's life support system was switched off on Friday evening and he died in hospital with his family around him.\n\nA boy, 16, was charged with attempted murder before the student died.\n\nHe is due at Birmingham Crown Court on Monday.\n\nThe victim had been in a coma since the stabbing. Police said a post-mortem examination would take place in due course.\n\nCh Supt Kenny Bell said: \"This is a tragic outcome and a dreadful loss of another young life to knife crime.\n\n\"My sympathies are with this young man's family in their time of grief.\n\n\"This serves as another stark reminder that knives have no place on our streets and we must all play a part in deterring our young people from carrying them.\"\n\nChief Constable Dave Thompson described the incident on Twitter as \"horrific and senseless\".\n\nA statement on the college's website said: \"We are devastated and shocked.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with the student's family, his friends and with our whole college community.\"\n\nThe charged boy is also accused of two counts of wounding and one charge of possessing an offensive weapon in relation to what happened outside the college.\n\nPolice said he had also been charged with causing grievous bodily harm and possession of an offensive weapon after a man was stabbed in the wrist in December.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "David Yamba saw the graffiti on his way to school\n\nA 10-year-old boy says he is \"too scared\" to walk to school after racist graffiti was daubed outside his home.\n\nDavid Yamba found \"No Blacks\" painted on three doors in his block of flats in Salford on 8 February, five days after his family had moved in.\n\nHis father Jackson reported it to Greater Manchester Police on the same day but said on Saturday they \"still haven't been here to investigate\".\n\nThe force has since apologised and said it would review its approach.\n\nThe graffiti was painted on three doors at the block of flats\n\nRecalling when he found the graffiti before going to school, David said: \"I started crying because I thought that something was going to happen to me or they may have been waiting there.\n\n\"I got frightened and I was holding my dad's shirt because… I didn't want to get hurt.\"\n\n\"I kept asking my daddy was the police going to arrive yet.\"\n\nHis father Jackson, who is training to become a lawyer, said the police worker who took his call was \"quite nice [...] she told me that they would be sending someone over\".\n\nBut he said there was then \"no phone call, no visit, nothing at all\" until he tweeted about it on Saturday night.\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 Jackson Yamba 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\nResponding to Mr Yamba's posts, GMP chief constable Ian Hopkins apologised on Twitter, saying: \"That is frankly just not good enough. There may have been other issues at the time, but we should have followed up quickly. It's an appalling crime you and your family have suffered.\"\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 Chief Constable Ian Hopkins 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\nAdding there had been \"104 open incidents in Salford that morning\", he wrote: \"It was dealt with on the telephone initially in agreement with the victim. It is after that we have failed to follow up quickly enough.\"\n\nJackson Yamba said GMP did not initially follow up his report\n\nCh Insp David Gilbride, who visited Mr Yamba at his flat on Sunday, said: \"This is an abhorrent crime and there is no room for hatred and prejudice in our society.\n\n\"We always strive to provide the best possible service to the public that we can, and provide an appropriate and expedient response.\n\n\"Where we fall short of this, we will review our approach and look to learn from it.\"\n\nCh Insp Gilbride appealed for information, saying he would ensure this incident was \"fully investigated as a hate crime\".\n\nAndy Burnham, mayor of Greater Manchester, tweeted: \"This has no place whatsoever in Greater Manchester. Glad GMP investigating but Chief Constable right to inquire why this wasn't done sooner.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ministers do not know the impact that funding cuts have had on police forces, the UK's public spending watchdog says.\n\nAccording to the National Audit Office, the Home Office does not know whether the police system in England and Wales is \"financially sustainable\".\n\nIt calls the approach to police funding \"ineffective\" and \"detached\" from the changing demands faced by officers.\n\nA Home Office spokesman said the department had conducted a substantial review of police pressures last year.\n\nHowever, the Home Office had not even forecast the effect of losing 44,000 police officers and staff since 2010, the NAO said.\n\nSince September 2009 - the last set of Home Office figures before the Conservatives came into government - there has been a cut of 22,424 police officers.\n\nThere were 126,252 police officers in England and Wales in September 2017, according to the latest figures.\n\nHistorically there have been fewer officers - with 123,474 in 2001; 125,453 in 1991; and 116,544 in 1981, for example.\n\nOfficer numbers grew during the Labour government from 2002 onwards, peaking in 2009.\n\nMet Police commissioner Cressida Dick told the annual conference of the Police Superintendents' Association that the force had faced \"unprecedented challenges\", noting that some officers are working \"longer and harder\".\n\n\"This is not a service that needs reform, this is a service that needs support and needs resources... the NAO report shows this,\" she said.\n\nDurham's chief constable Mike Barton said the decisions of Home Office ministers in regards to police funding were \"sometimes in the hands of the Treasury\".\n\n\"I actually think the cuts in 2010 were the wake up call that policing needed to say: 'Come on spend your money wisely',\" Mr Barton told BBC Breakfast.\n\nBut he said there had been a \"constant strain\" since then with \"austerity dragging out\".\n\nMark Burns-Williamson, police and crime commissioner for West Yorkshire, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the report highlighted what other PCCs had been saying \"for some time\".\n\nFirstly, that the overall amount of funding for policing \"isn't enough\" - and secondly that the funding formula was \"not really fit for purpose\", leading to \"unfairness and differences\" between different areas.\n\nHome Affairs Select Committee chair Yvette Cooper said MPs had repeatedly heard about police forces being overstretched, calling the report \"very accurate\" and \"damning\".\n\nThe Labour MP told the BBC it showed an \"irresponsible approach from the Home Office\" in making \"substantial cuts\" in the police budget \"without appearing to have any clear idea about what the impact of those cuts are\".\n\nThe NAO report comes as Home Secretary Sajid Javid prepares for a speech to police superintendents in which he will say the police must be equipped for a changing landscape.\n\nOn Monday, the leader of the superintendents' association warned the service was on the verge of a crisis.\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 policesupers This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPolice forces in England and Wales are funded through a £12.3bn combination of a central grant to each police and crime commissioner, as well as additional cash raised locally through the council tax and one-off grants for special projects.\n\nThe NAO says the amount coming from the government is down 30% in real terms since 2010-11.\n\nYou need a modern browser to view the interactive content in this page. Please enter your postcode or police force name\n\nThe NAO's Tom McDonald said the Home Office \"does not really understand the nature of the demand\" facing police forces.\n\nHe said the funding formula used to allocate money was \"out of date\", three years after the Home Office told Parliament that the formula was ineffective.\n\n\"It's unlikely that the money is going to the right places,\" he said. \"We have real concerns about it.\"\n\nThis report from the national spending watchdog paints a picture of a service on the front line of public protection under severe pressure - but nobody in government being entirely sure how much pressure it is really under. The assessors said that while no force was about to financially fail, the stress was apparent.\n\nSince two years ago, officers are taking four days longer to charge suspects - an indication of workload rather than rising crime - and there is less \"proactive work\", such as motorway stops of dangerous drivers, breathalyser tests and convictions for drug possession.\n\nThe rolling national crime survey has charted rising dissatisfaction with the police - and many communities have campaigned against losing local cuts. Two cities - St Albans and Bath - no longer have a dedicated police station with a front desk.\n\nA Home Office plan to revise the police funding formula, to more fairly distribute funds, was mothballed following the June 2017 general election.\n\nThe NAO said individual forces had been developing their own ways of predicting demand for their services but the Home Office itself had \"no overarching strategy for policing\".\n\nBut a Home Office spokesman disputed some of the NAO's findings - saying it had \"a strategic direction\" and last year conducted a substantial review of police pressures.\n\n\"Our decision to empower locally accountable police and crime commissioners to make decisions using their local expertise does not mean that we do not understand the demands on police forces,\" said the spokesman.\n\n\"The report does not recognise the strengths of PCCs and chief constables leading on day-to-day policing matters, including on financial sustainability.\n\n\"We remain committed to working closely with police and delivered a £460m increase in overall police funding in 2018/19, including increased funding for local policing through council tax,\" the spokesman said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA mugger has been found guilty of killing a 100-year-old woman whose neck was broken in a handbag robbery.\n\nZofija Kaczan died of pneumonia on 6 June in Normanton, Derby, days after the attack.\n\nMrs Kaczan was robbed near her home in Empress Road, Normanton, on 28 May as she made her way to church.\n\nArtur Waszkiewicz, 40, of Wolfa Street, Derby, had denied manslaughter and robbery but was convicted at Derby Crown Court.\n\nPolice said Artur Waszkiewicz \"showed absolutely no concern for Mrs Kaczan\"\n\nHeroin addict Waszkiewicz knocked his victim to the floor, took her handbag and left her to bleed in the middle of the road.\n\nPolish-born Mrs Kaczan, who survived a Nazi camp during the Second World War, suffered multiple injuries, including a fractured neck and cheekbone.\n\nShe later died of pneumonia brought on by the injuries.\n\nDet Ch Insp Darren De'ath from Derbyshire Police said: \"This was a horrendous crime that shocked me, my colleagues, the community in which it happened and indeed the whole country.\n\n\"Mrs Kaczan survived the Nazi occupation of Poland before coming to Derby in 1948 to start her life afresh.\"\n\nHe added the victim was in \"remarkable health\" and was seen \"regularly walking to the church close to her home\".\n\nMrs Kaczan, described as a grandmother with a heart of gold, suffered multiple injuries in the attack\n\nSt Maksymilian Kolbe, the church Mrs Kaczan attended, said she was an active member of their community who enjoyed shopping, having her hair done and attending lunches at the Polish Centre followed by bingo.\n\nA spokeswoman said she had a \"very difficult early life\" but had found \"stability and tranquillity\" in Derby.\n\n\"That tranquillity was shattered by the brutal events of 28 May 2018,\" the spokeswoman added.\n\n\"Despite the pain and suffering that she was in for the last week of her life, she had the capacity to pray for her attacker before she died.\"\n\nZofija Kaczan prayed for her attacker before she died\n\nThe jury deliberated for just over two hours before unanimously convicting Waszkiewicz.\n\nThe defendant, wearing a black velvet jacket and velvet slipper shoes, looked straight ahead and showed no emotion as the verdicts were delivered.\n\nHe was caught on CCTV driving a Seat Leon before robbing Mrs Kaczan - slowing down as soon as he saw a \"small, vulnerable\" woman on her own.\n\nHe needed an \"easy target\" to steal from so he could meet a drug dealer a short time later to buy heroin.\n\nA receipt with Artur Waszkiewicz's fingerprint on it was found in the stolen bag, the jury heard\n\nAfter the bag-snatch, Waszkiewicz fled to London and hid under a bed at his mother's house to try to avoid arrest.\n\nHe had also cut his long hair and changed the insurance details on his car.\n\nHe was arrested after his fingerprint was recovered from a receipt in the handbag.\n\nWaszkiewicz, who was also born in Poland, was so desperate for cash to feed his addiction he had tried to sell his dog and asked a neighbour for money in the past.\n\nHe had previous convictions for shoplifting, creating false identification documents and battery.\n\nHe is due to be sentenced on Thursday.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on Twitter, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Libby Squire can be seen on CCTV walking towards the queue for the Welly Club music venue\n\nNew footage has emerged of missing student Libby Squire on the night of her disappearance.\n\nThe CCTV images show a woman, confirmed by police as the 21-year-old student, near the Welly Club music venue in Hull at about 23:20 GMT on 31 January.\n\nPolice are continuing to search an area near the last known sighting of Libby, from High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire.\n\nHer parents are due to attend a special service at their local church on Wednesday.\n\nThey also released a new statement saying their daughter has a \"big heart\" and is \"always happy and having fun\".\n\nLibby Squire's family released a new photo of her in Paris in May 2017 during a gap year and one of her at home on Christmas Day 2018\n\nSt Paul's in West Wycombe will open for two hours from 18:00 for the service, which will see candles lit and prayers said for her safe return.\n\nMs Squire's family said: \"Libby is a much-loved big sister to her three younger siblings. They all really look up to her and she always expects them to behave.\n\n\"Libby has a big heart. She is always happy and having fun. She laughs a lot. She is a real family person, and loves spending time at home with them.\"\n\nPolice are continuing to search an area close to Oak Road playing fields in Hull\n\nThe newly-released CCTV , filmed by a camera on a lettings agency next door to the club, shows Libby in a black jacket and a black skirt.\n\nThe University of Hull student is believed to have taken a taxi from the nightclub after she was refused entry.\n\nPolice said she was dropped off near her home at about 23:30 and was then seen near a bench on Beverley Road about 10 minutes later.\n\nOne area of interest in the police search has been the Oak Road playing fields in the city, with officers returning on Tuesday and using power tools to cut back undergrowth.\n\nOn Wednesday, divers carried out further searches in a pond at the location.\n\nPolice divers returned to Oak Road pond in Hull on Wednesday for further searches\n\nHumberside Police said hundreds of uniformed officers and around 50 detectives have been searching \"around the clock\" for Libby, with specialist search advisors, underwater officers, the fire service, police dogs, local businesses and the public also involved.\n\nThe force said: \"Our priority remains to find Libby and support her family at this incredibly distressing time.\"\n\nOfficers have posted letters to people living near to Raglan Street asking if anyone heard \"anything unusual\" on the night of her disappearance.\n\nThe force said it had \"received hundreds of calls\" and was pursuing a number of lines of inquiry.\n\nOn the night of her disappearance, detectives think Ms Squire arrived at her student house at about 23:30, where her mobile phone was found.\n\nThey do not believe she entered the house and said her phone \"has not provided any further insight as to her movements that night\".\n\nShe was spotted on CCTV 10 minutes later near a bench on Beverley Road, where it is thought a motorist stopped to offer her help.\n\nShe is believed to have been in the area for about 30 minutes.\n\nA 24-year-old man arrested on suspicion of abduction remains a person of interest, police said.\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. More armed officers are needed on the frontline, a police chief says\n\nSenior police leaders have said a rise in gun crime and a looming recruitment shortfall are leaving some specialist armed officers \"stretched\".\n\nFigures have shown crimes of possessing firearms rose by 87% in England and Wales over the past five years.\n\nIn 2015, the government set aside funds for 1,500 new armed officers by 2020 - but only 812 have so far been added.\n\nA police staff association leader said he had \"great concern\" that the risk to the public could be increased.\n\nSteve Hartshorn, the firearms lead for the Police Federation of England and Wales, said: \"With... fewer armed police officers to deal with armed criminality, it gives me great concern that at some point the public will be at increased risk because of lack of funding and a lack of police officers to protect them.\"\n\nHome Office figures show the number of recorded possession of firearms offences in England and Wales jumped from 4,300 in 2012-13 to 8,039 in 2017-18, a rise of 87%.\n\nOnly two police forces out of 44 - Avon and Somerset and South Wales - saw a fall in offences over the period, with Greater Manchester seeing the biggest rise in the actual number of offences - from 315 to 1,092, a rise of 247%.\n\nThe latest figures available for firearm-related crimes, such as armed robberies, saw a rise of 24% from 5,158 in 2012-13 to about 6,300 in 2016-17.\n\nHowever, levels of gun crime were much higher before 2012, peaking at just over 11,000 recorded offences in March 2006.\n\nThere was a long downward trend until 2014, when the number of offences started increasing again.\n\nIn West Yorkshire, crimes involving a firearm rose from 253 to 439, up 74%, between 2012 and 2017.\n\nWest Yorkshire Police Assistant Chief Constable Tim Kingsman said there were times when resources were stretched and he had no option but to make demands of the same people.\n\nHe added: \"We're asking them at times to do 12-hour shifts, day after day after day, and that will stretch [them] physically, emotionally.\n\n\"In West Yorkshire we've seen a rise in the availability of firearms for use by criminals.\n\n\"Last year we did 896 firearms operations as West Yorkshire Police, which is quite a number. That's two or three a day.\"\n\nDeputy Chief Constable Simon Chesterman said the pressure on armed officers was \"relentless\"\n\nIn 2012 there were 6,756 armed officers across England and Wales. That fell to 5,639 in 2016 before increasing to 6,459 in 2018.\n\nDeputy Chief Constable Simon Chesterman, the National Police Chiefs Council spokesman for armed policing, said cuts to police numbers had a \"big impact\" on forces' capabilities.\n\n\"The demand is increasing without a doubt. It's relentless, dealing with gun crime, with knife crime, with terrorism, with serious organised crime,\" he said.\n\n\"They are responding to a range of threats on a daily basis. They're working overtime to keep up with demand.\n\n\"I'm concerned we haven't recruited as many as we wanted within the time that we wanted to but the one thing I would say, just to reassure you, is that we are delivering the effects.\"\n\nHome Office security minister Ben Wallace said: \"The government has given £144m uplift for armed policing.\n\n\"The police are in charge of the recruiting, training and deployment of armed officers.\n\n\"It is disappointing that challenges facing the police have meant the targets agreed with the Home Office have not yet been delivered.\"\n• None Reality Check: What has happened to police numbers?", "Dramatic footage filmed by protesters in Sudan shows masked security agents chasing down protesters, beating them and dragging them away to secret detention centres.\n\nWho are these hit squads? Where are these detention centres? And what happens inside their walls?\n\nBBC Africa Eye has analysed dozens of dramatic videos filmed during the recent uprising, and spoken with witnesses who have survived torture. Some of these protesters tell us about a secret and widely feared holding facility – The Fridge – where the cold is used as an instrument of torture.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Robert Bragg thinks tougher sentences would have stopped him\n\n\"I started carrying a knife when I was 12 because everyone was doing it at the time.\n\n\"To fit in more you had to do certain things so I started to stab people. I didn't do it because I wanted to be bad.\"\n\nRobert Bragg was once heavily involved in the world of knife crime.\n\nThe 26-year-old served six years in prison for a range of gang-related crime and tells Radio 1 Newsbeat he believes tougher sentences would have encouraged him to change his ways a lot earlier.\n\nHe's now part of a programme to encourage school children not to get involved with knife crime.\n\n\"I did it because I wanted the older lot to like me and because I thought it was the right thing to do at the time.\n\n\"To be honest with you, I've stabbed quite a lot of people.\n\n\"If I was to sit here and count I wouldn't be able to. People remind me, to this day, about people I've stabbed that I don't remember.\n\n\"We wanted to be bad - look bad, become the gang that everyone feared. We had to carry out a lot of violent crimes to become that gang.\n\n\"Giving tougher sentences will prevent people from carrying knives because nobody wants to go to jail for 10 or 15 years just for carrying a knife.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A sculpture made from knives seized by police recently went on display in Hull\n\nThe number of fatal stabbings in England and Wales last year was the highest since records began in 1946, official figures show.\n\nHome Secretary Sajid Javid has been speaking to Radio 1 Newsbeat about new laws he says are needed to stop social media being used to fuel knife crime.\n\n\"In London it's normal,\" says Robert, who now works for a charity that works in schools to highlight the dangers of being in a gang.\n\n\"It's just one of them things: you wake up, you have your breakfast, you stab someone.\n\n\"It's mad because we're not actually thinking about damaging a life.\n\n\"We don't think we're going to kill you.\n\n\"Knives have been pulled on me plenty of times.\n\n\"I'm very paranoid and I'm not in gang life no more.\n\n\"Because I'm not the same person I used to be I don't carry a knife.\n\n\"I wanted to kill myself because I realised the gang life and gang culture was a lie.\n\n\"I realised it was just a deception and your boys aren't really there for you.\n\n\"I didn't want to be part of that life no more.\n\n\" I said to myself before I kill myself I'm going to try God and see if God has a plan for my life.\n\n\"I went to church one day and I lifted my hands and said: 'God if you're real, help me'.\n\n\"I was desperate enough to cry for help.\n\n\"Being a man, when I was growing up, I was told not to cry.\n\n\"For me that was a big thing because I was crying and I felt free.\"\n\nThere were 285 killings by a knife or sharp instrument in the 12 months ending March 2018\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 every weekday on BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra - if you miss us you can listen back here.", "Ambulance staff dealt with the casualty at the scene\n\nA six-year-old boy was thrown five floors from the 10th floor of the Tate Modern art gallery in central London, police said.\n\nHe landed on a fifth floor roof and was taken to hospital by air ambulance after he fell at about 14:45 BST on Sunday.\n\nThe boy's condition is described as critical.\n\nA 17-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder, the Met Police said.\n\nThey said the six-year-old was thrown from a viewing platform.\n\nThe emergency services arrived in force at Tate Modern after the boy's fall\n\n\"We treated a person at the scene and took them to hospital as a priority,\" a London Ambulance Service (LAS) spokesman said.\n\nThe London Air Ambulance was called to the scene and later flew the boy to hospital\n\nA police spokesman said there was \"nothing to suggest [the suspect] is known to the victim\".\n\nThe teenager had remained on the platform after the boy fell, police said.\n\nVisitors were initially locked inside the gallery at Bankside on the South Bank.\n\nAdmin worker Nancy Barnfield, 47, of Rochdale, was at the 10th floor viewing gallery with a friend and their children when her friend heard a \"loud bang\".\n\nMs Barnfield said she turned around and saw a woman screaming: \"Where's my son, where's my son?\"\n\nMembers of the public quickly gathered around a man who was nearby, she said.\n\nMs Barnfield said: \"We did not notice the mum before, we noticed her after because she was hysterical by then.\"\n\nShe said the person who was restrained by members of the public before the police arrived \"just stood there and was quite calm\".\n\nEyewitness Stuart Haggas said he saw emergency crews moving along the roof between the gallery's Turbine Hall and its recent extension.\n\n\"They were carrying a stretcher with someone on it,\" he said, \"plus a second stretcher was waiting by the door.\"\n\nBBC correspondent Jonny Dymond, who was also there, said visitors were \"funnelled towards the main Turbine Hall and the exits were all closed\".\n\n\"There were quite a lot of families with children, and security guards told us we couldn't leave,\" he said.\n\n\"There were at least two fire engines, 10 police cars and an incident control unit. Parts of the exterior of the building were taped off.\"\n\nThe Tate Modern opened in the disused power station on the River Thames in 2000.\n\nIt was the UK's most popular tourist attraction in 2018 with 5.9m visitors, according to the Association of Leading Visitor Attractions.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "On the surface: HP3 is on the left; the domed SEIS is on the right\n\nThe US space agency's (Nasa) InSight mission has positioned the second of its surface instruments on Mars.\n\nKnown as HP3, the heat-flow probe was picked up off the deck of the lander with a robot arm and placed next to the SEIS seismometer package, which was deployed in December.\n\nTogether with an onboard radio experiment, these sensor systems will be used to investigate the interior of the planet, to understand its present-day activity and how the sub-surface rocks are layered.\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 NASA InSight This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Heat Flow and Physical Properties Package (HP3) is a German-led instrument.\n\nIt incorporates a \"mole\" to drill down up to 5m below the surface.\n\nThe French-led SEIS system will be listening for \"Marsquakes\" and meteorite impacts. This is information that can be used to build a picture of the planet's overall structure - from its core to its crust.\n\nBut SEIS will also be monitoring HP3 when its burrowing activity gets going, because the local vibrations will say something as well about the underground materials in the immediate area.\n\nThe Nasa mission landed on Mars on 26 November.\n\nTouchdown occurred on flat terrain close to the equator in a region referred to as Elysium Planitia.\n\nThe mission's experiments will run initially for one Martian year (roughly two Earth years).\n\nOn schedule: SEIS and HP3 were due to be positioned within weeks of landing\n\nSeismometer deployment began at the end of December\n\nJonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos", "Ads like this should be more heavily restricted in future, say watchdogs\n\nRules around gambling ads, which include a ban on the use of young celebrities and sports stars, will become stricter, especially online.\n\nFrom 1 April, gambling operators will also have to ensure that the majority of the audience of any social media influencers they work with are over 18.\n\nThe Committees of Advertising Practice (CAP) said it was designed to protect children from irresponsible ads.\n\nThe new standards also ban the use of animated and licensed characters from film and television, as well as celebrities who \"appear to be\" under the age of 25.\n\nCAP says care must be taken that gambling ads do not appear in the children's section of websites - such as the young supporters' pages of a football club.\n\nThe Advertising Standards Authority will enforce the rules, although it does not have the power to issue fines.\n\nThe new standards follow a review conducted by CAP of the evidence of the impact of advertising on children, which was last carried out five years ago.\n\nThe review included the results of previous complaints to the ASA on adverts deemed to be appealing to children. This included:\n\nIn all cases, the ASA ruled that the ads should not appear again as they were.\n\nCoral's \"lucky wizard\" had previously been ruled against by the Advertising Standards Authority.\n\nDr Mark Griffiths, professor of behavioural addiction at Nottingham Trent University, said that overall the gambling industry is not keen to court young customers.\n\n\"The younger people start [gambling], the more likely they are to develop a problem - you want to be in a position where they are starting in their adult lives,\" he said.\n\n\"For most of the industry now, no one would say they want custom from people below the age of 18.\"\n\nAndy Taylor, regulatory policy executive at CAP, told the BBC there were not a huge number of young stars featuring in gambling ads.\n\n\"The industry is well used to the fact that there is a cut-off point, they shouldn't be using individuals who maybe have that youth appeal, the professional footballer who's just burst onto the scene,\" he said.\n\n\"I think we don't see a massive amount of it, however where we do, we take action.\"\n\nMr Taylor added that the standards were specifically intended to enforce rules in the online space.\n\n\"What we want to see is the rules which have applied for a considerable period of time in traditional media, being applied in the online space effectively,\" he said.\n\n\"That means not targeting advertising at children and young people... and ensuring that the contents of those ads doesn't feature material that appeals particularly to them.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How Pasha became a fan favourite - watch his Strictly highlights\n\nPasha Kovalev has announced he is leaving Strictly Come Dancing after \"eight fantastic years\".\n\nThe Russian dancer announced the news on his Twitter account, saying it's time for him \"to find a new challenge\".\n\n\"Thanks to the incredible partners, professionals and myriad of behind the scenes teams who all work to make Strictly the amazing production it is,\" he wrote.\n\nHe also thanked the public for supporting him over the years.\n\nPasha competed with Pussycat Doll Ashley Roberts in the most recent series\n\nStrictly Come Dancing also shared a statement on their Twitter account, thanking Kovalev for his \"amazing choreography and routines\".\n\n\"Pasha is an incredibly talented and dedicated dancer who is much loved by his Strictly family and viewers and will be hugely missed\" they said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BBC Strictly ✨ This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe 39-year-old joined the show for its ninth series in 2011, where he finished as runner-up with celebrity partner Chelsee Healey.\n\nTwo years later, he was paired up with Countdown's Rachel Riley. The pair began a relationship and have been together since.\n\nHe also made it as a runner-up in the tenth series alongside Girls Aloud's Kimberley Walsh and finally got to lift the glitter ball trophy with presenter Caroline Flack, when they won series 12.\n\nFlack paid tribute to her former dancing partner on Instagram and posted pictures of their time at the show.\n\n\"You gave me some of the proudest moments of my life...\" she wrote.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by carolineflack This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLast year, Kovalev and his celebrity partner, Ashley Roberts, faced some backlash due to Roberts's past dance experience as a member of The Pussycat Dolls.\n\nBut that didn't stop the couple from making it all the way to the final. The pair have also just completed the Strictly live tour.\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.", "Kent Police said the \"distinctively packaged\" sweets were laced with an unknown drug\n\nBags laced with drugs found in a vehicle were \"clearly aimed\" at being sold to children, police have said.\n\nA suspicious vehicle was stopped and searched in Victoria Road in Gravesend at about 20:30 GMT on Tuesday.\n\nA Kent Police spokesman said the \"distinctively packaged\" sweets had been laced with an unknown drug.\n\nA man in his 20s was arrested on suspicion of possession with intent to supply a class A drug.\n\nHe was also detained on suspicion of drug-driving and released under investigation.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A review of the project said £43m of taxpayers' money had been spent\n\nA failed plan to build a bridge covered with trees and flowers over the River Thames in central London cost a total of £53m, it has been revealed.\n\nA Transport for London (TfL) inquiry showed the Garden Bridge Trust spent £161,000 on a website and £417,000 on a gala for the abandoned project.\n\nThe design of the bridge cost more than £9m and the charity paid its executives £1.7m.\n\nAround £43m came from the public's pocket, TfL added.\n\nDoubts began to surround the project, overseen by Boris Johnson, after it lost the support of London Mayor Sadiq Khan in April 2017.\n\nIt was officially abandoned in August of that year after a review recommended it be scrapped.\n\nSome of the main expenditure on the failed project\n\nIn July 2015, up to £60m of public funding was made available to the trust - £30m each from Transport for London (TfL) and the Department for Transport (DfT).\n\nTfL will now pay a final £5.5m of public money to the trust as part of the scheme's cancellation agreement, which the transport body said was 40% lower than what it could have been.\n\nThe payout will help refund donors including £3,200 to the winner of a Garden Bridge auction prize who did not receive their promised game of \"table tennis with Boris Johnson\".\n\nLabour London Assembly member, Tom Copley AM, said: \"It's galling to see the costs of Boris' botched Bridge continuing to escalate for London's taxpayers.\n\n\"David Cameron needs to answer why, in his eagerness to see Boris Johnson's scheme go through, he intervened to overrule the advice of senior civil servants in order to extend the underwriting for the Bridge.\"\n\nThis was the tiara on the Thames that lost its shine and then died.\n\nThe project promised a lot but delivered nothing, swallowing £43m of public money in the process.\n\nThe biggest expenditure was the £21m contract to build the bridge - with campaigners still wanting to know why that was allowed when land had not even been secured.\n\nThere is an incredible amount of detail in the recent Transport for London report: it cost £161k for a website and £417k for a gala fundraiser.\n\nCritics say the spending was gratuitous. And while many wanted the bridge, others did not. The questions won't stop here.\n\nCaroline Pidgeon, chair of the London Assembly's transport committee, said: \"The details of wasted money spent on the Garden Bridge project is the final confirmation of the utter folly of the project.\n\n\"The Garden Bridge Trust have squandered public money in a way no responsible charity should have behaved.\n\n\"No charity needs to spend £160,000 on a website or over £400,000 on a gala dinner.\"\n\nDirector of City Planning at TfL, Alex Williams, said: \"We worked to ensure that the cost to the public sector has been kept to a minimum.\n\n\"We have now confirmed the final payment legally required under the terms of the underwriting agreement made by the Government. This formally ends our involvement with the project.\"\n\nPlans proposed more than 270 trees and 2,000 shrubs would be planted on the bridge\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "As we talked about late on Monday, there has been a sense building in Westminster that the prime minister is, maybe by accident, maybe increasingly by design, looking to almost the last possible minute for the definitive Brexit vote.\n\nWhile ministers speak publicly of \"talks\" that must be given time to be completed with the EU, and officials continue to chew over the possibility of the \"Malthouse compromise\" (remember that? It already seems like months ago that it emerged, blinking, into the Brexit saga) more and more MPs believe it is displacement activity - ministers keeping outwardly busy while they run down the clock.\n\nEarly on Tuesday morning, Commons leader Andrea Leadsom did not exactly quash that notion in an interview with the Today programme.\n\nShe appeared to open up the possibility that MPs might in the end be asked to vote at a moment of peak jeopardy, and that ministers might be willing to let the matter run that long.\n\nThen, on Tuesday afternoon, the prime minister herself hinted that the government was prepared to do that.\n\nShe was answering a technical question about the CRAG (the constitutional reform and governance bill before you ask, Brexit is nothing if not replete with acronyms).\n\nFor ages, the existence of that bill has built a theoretical pause between a vote on the deal, and our actual departure from the EU.\n\nBut today the prime minister said that process could be put on fast forward.\n\nSo, in practice, if she wants to push this vote later, and later, then only to the very last minute (and remember the EU doesn't want to budge until then), that bit of legislation might not be a block, because if MPs approve it, she can get round it.\n\nThat's always a big if, of course, but it certainly suggests that the government can at least foresee a situation where they have to take dramatic last-minute action, whatever the existing law says.\n\nWhat's also emerging though is how former Remainers want to stop that happening.\n\nThey won't be using up their energy this week on votes that might not get anywhere.\n\nBut their concerns have pushed the PM now to promise a vote will take place on 27 February.\n\nAnd there will be another go from the prominent Labour frontbencher Yvette Cooper, working with backing from Tories like Sir Oliver Letwin and Nick Boles.\n\nThey will again try to force through legislation that would delay Brexit if the government can't get a deal done in time, removing the possibility of that last-minute kamikaze choice.\n\nBut that will only work if enough Tory Remainers are ready to vote with them.\n\nAnd the way the numbers stack up, that probably has to mean ministers being ready to quit.\n\nOne member of the government told me on Tuesday: \"They have to realise that is it - and if no senior member of the cabinet is willing to do it, then we're heading for that terrible choice.\"\n\nAnother minister, one of those who is thinking about departure, said: \"I have to look the PM in the eye and ask what she is really willing to do. But for a number of us it's party versus country, and the Tories don't do well if we put ourselves before the public.\"\n\nSome of those organising the push to take the March \"deal or no deal\" choice off the table believe there are at least 10 government ministers who would be ready to quit.\n\nOn past evidence, ministers who see themselves as moderate and pragmatic hang back in the end.\n\nBut the end of February really does seem to be the last moment where they could do more to stop no deal than just pass a resolution the government could then ignore.\n\nIf they are not willing to give up their ministerial red boxes on 27 February, their chance really will have gone.", "PC Mick Johnson: \"It's incredibly frustrating not being able to do the job that I still love.\"\n\nStabbed in the arm in the 2017 incident in Hartlepool, it left him suffering post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).\n\nHe says staff shortages caused by cutbacks left him no choice but to operate alone that day.\n\nA Police Federation of England and Wales (PFEW) survey found nearly 90% of officers say they are under-staffed. The Home Office says it wants to ensure forces have the necessary resources.\n\nThe PFEW survey is the only national policing study of its kind, and 18,000 officers of all ranks took part. The first one was conducted in 2016.\n\nPC Johnson's confrontation with that knifeman two years ago utterly changed him as a person.\n\n\"I was off [work] for only three weeks, but later suffered from mood swings, short temper and lack of sleep,\" he said.\n\n\"I eventually sought help and was diagnosed with PTSD. I have received counselling for this and although the memory is still with me, I try not to let it affect me.\"\n\nRecalling what happened, PC Johnson said he was sent to investigate reports of a man acting strangely in a shop.\n\n\"There was no-one else available, so I attended.\"\n\nHe was attacked by the knifeman while trying to rescue a shopkeeper.\n\n\"I tried to keep him calm, but after a few minutes he produced a large kitchen knife from his pocket and moved towards me with it.\"\n\nThe 49-year-old works as a response officer and said: \"I have been on this unit since 2009, and it has shrunk from 18 to 20 officers down to about 10.\n\n\"It's incredibly frustrating not being able to do the job that I still love. I joined to help people and catch criminals and prevent crime, but I spend most of my time dealing with concerns for safety.\"\n\nA detective constable in the north of England, he said the stress of his job nearly ended his marriage.\n\n\"I had a breakdown at work in 2018 and was diagnosed with stress-related secondary trauma, solely down to working numerous 18-hour days to manage my workload,\" he said.\n\n\"My wife told me after I had been signed off sick that she was one more big job away from divorcing me.\"\n\nHe added that he is counting down the days to his imminent retirement and had 10 other colleagues who are looking to leave.\n\n\"We are all devastated, as we joined to protect our communities and to serve the public, we didn't expect to have to sacrifice our families and our physical and mental health.\"\n\nA policeman's lot is not a happy one.\n\nThat line, penned 140 years ago by Gilbert and Sullivan for their opera Pirates of Penzance, has never been truer than it is today.\n\nThe Police Federation survey paints a picture of an over-burdened and stressed-out workforce that doesn't much enjoy life: the average rating for \"life satisfaction\" was 5.6, lower than the armed forces and the general population.\n\nThose who are more content at work are probably less likely to respond to a study of this kind, so that needs to be taken into account when assessing the conclusions.\n\nPolice work is also, by its very nature, a demanding job and always will be.\n\nNevertheless, the findings indicate that the sharp reduction in police officer numbers is biting very hard.\n\nPFEW's national vice-chairman Che Donald said that the survey's results \"should be a huge red flag to the government, chief constables and the public\".\n\nHe added: \"The police service's most valuable resource is its people.\n\n\"Officers are stressed, exhausted and consistently exposed to things people should never have to see - and these results show just how much it is taking its toll.\"\n\nPolicing minister Nick Hurd said: \"We take the wellbeing of police officers and staff very seriously, which is why we launched the Front Line Review to listen to their concerns and have invested £7.5m in a new national police wellbeing service.\n\n\"I am delighted that Parliament has approved our funding package for next year.\n\n\"This funding settlement recognises the demands on police forces, and police and crime commissioners are already setting out plans to recruit more officers as a result.\n\nSince 2010, central government funding to police forces has been cut by almost a third, in real terms, leading the number of officers to fall by 21,000.\n\nIn December, the government announced an extra £300m to help pay for pension expenses and other costs for police forces in England and Wales.\n\nChief Constable Andy Rhodes, from the National Police Chiefs' Council, said: \"Police chiefs will look carefully at the findings of this survey, which provides valuable feedback and reiterates the extremely challenging situations and environments our officers face every day.\n\n\"It is vitally important that they receive support and care because, as a society, we have an obligation to look after the men and women whose job it is to keep us safe.\"", "Claire wants to raise awareness about HPV and cervical cancer\n\nHaving human papilloma virus (HPV) is not rude or shameful and is extremely common, experts say.\n\nIt comes as a survey of 2,000 women shows there are still stigmas around the infection, which can be passed on during sex and is linked to cancer.\n\nCharities are concerned this could put women off getting smear tests.\n\nDespite four out of every five getting HPV in their lifetime, many would worry about what their partner might think of them if they were diagnosed with it.\n\nIn the survey by Jo's Cervical Cancer Trust, nearly half said they would be worried about telling their partners.\n\nHalf would wonder who had given it to them and a similar number would worry it meant that their partner had been unfaithful.\n\nAmanda Blood, 28, was diagnosed with cervical cancer after putting off having a smear test. Her doctors told her she also had HPV.\n\n\"At first I was really angry at my ex. I'd only ever slept with two people,\" she said.\n\n\"But when I read more about HPV, I understood that it is actually really common and you shouldn't hold anyone responsible for it.\"\n\nThere are more than 100 different types of HPV - the name given to a very common group of viruses.\n\nSome 'high-risk' types of HPV can cause changes to the cells in the cervix, which can lead to cervical cancer if not treated. These abnormal cells are what smear tests pick up.\n\nGenital HPV can be caught from skin-on-skin contact, meaning you don't have to have full sex to be at risk.\n\nOral sex and intimate touching can also pass on the infection, which lives on the skin.\n\nClaire Bolton was 38 when she was diagnosed with cervical cancer. At the time, she had never heard of HPV.\n\n\"I wasn't given any information about it,\" she said.\n\n\"Everything I found out was from what I read for myself on websites and forums and it was quite shocking to read about.\n\n\"It's such a common infection yet there's still a stigma attached to it and you do start questioning things.\n\n\"I was in a long-term relationship with a person that I didn't really trust at that time.\n\n\"But you can have HPV for years and not know it.\n\n\"It is a really easy thing to get, so you shouldn't be embarrassed.\"\n\nMost of the time, people will not realise that they have HPV because they will not have any symptoms or complications.\n\nYour immune system usually gets rid of HPV without treatment.\n\nBut some strains or types of HPV (there are lots of different ones) can cause genital warts. Others are linked to cancer.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Chloe Delevingne had a smear test live on the Victoria Derbyshire programme\n\nIn the survey, a third of women were unaware of the link to cervical cancer and most did not know that it could cause throat and mouth cancer.\n\nGirls are already offered a free vaccine to help protect against HPV.\n\nAnd the NHS is adding HPV testing to cervical cancer screening, meaning women will be checked for it when they have a smear.\n\nIf they have it, they can have other tests and treatment if they need it to hopefully avoid a cancer from growing.\n\nCervical cancer is the most common cancer in women aged 35 and under, with some having no symptoms.\n\nRobert Music, chief executive of Jo's Cervical Cancer Trust, who will be talking about the survey findings at Cancer Research UK's Early Diagnosis conference, said: \"We must address the level of misunderstanding that exists around HPV.\n\n\"Most people will get the virus in their lifetime, so it is worrying to see such high levels of fear or shame associated with it.\"\n\nSara Hiom, from Cancer Research UK, said: \"Busting the myths and removing the stigmas surrounding HPV is vital to ensure people feel more confident to book and turn up for their cervical screening appointment.\"\n\nHPV doesn't just affect women. It can also cause a number of different types of cancer in men, such as cancer of the penis, anal cancer and some types of head and neck cancer.\n\nTony believes he contracted the virus while living \"a wild lifestyle\" as a teenager\n\nTony Kimberley was diagnosed with penile cancer in March 2013.\n\nHe says he knew nothing about the virus when it was first mentioned to him and spoke to his wife and daughter to find out more.\n\n\"Men need to be more aware about what's going on with their bodies and the effects of HPV,\" said Tony.\n\n\"There are serious consequences to leaving HPV untreated and many people will not know they have it.\"\n\nThe government has agreed that boys aged 12-13 should be offered an HPV vaccine to protect them against cancer.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The claim: There are 21,000 fewer police officers.\n\nReality Check verdict: That's about right - under the Conservative and coalition governments, the number of police officers has fallen by somewhere between 19,000 and 22,000.\n\nWhat's happening to policing and crime is a regular topic at Prime Minister's Questions, when Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn goes head-to-head with Theresa May.\n\nMr Corbyn asked: \"With crime rising, does the prime minister regret cutting 21,000 police officers?\"\n\nWhether crime is rising or not is harder than you might imagine to determine. There's good evidence that certain types of violent crimes are rising but the overall amount of crime people report experiencing is falling.\n\nAs of September 2017, there were 121,929 police officers in England and Wales, the lowest number in at least 20 years - policing in Scotland and Northern Ireland is a devolved issue.\n\nThe latest figures show that between September 2010 and September 2017, the number of police officers in English and Welsh forces fell by 19,921 or 14%, according to the Home Office.\n\nSince September 2009 - the last set of figures before the Conservatives came into government in coalition with the Liberal Democrats - there's been a cut of 22,424 police officers.\n\nNumbers of police community support officers (PCSOs), who patrol the streets, have fallen by almost 40% during this period.\n\nAs of March 2017, there were 6,278 authorised firearms officers in England and Wales, down from 6,976 in March 2010.\n\nThe National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) says plans are in place to bring the number of armed police back up to about 7,000 this year. This is only partly funded by government - forces must find some of the cash themselves.\n\nElsewhere in the UK, police numbers in Scotland have risen more or less continuously for the past 30 years while in Northern Ireland there has been a smaller decrease since 2010 than in England and Wales.\n\nOverall police budgets, excluding counter-terrorism grants, fell by 20% between 2010 and 2015. Since 2015, the overall policing budget has been protected in real terms, but not every force will benefit.\n\nOver the same period, the ring-fenced counter-terrorism grant has been rising in line with inflation.\n\nThe NPCC does not disclose counter-terrorism police officer numbers but there has been a large increase in counter-terrorism spending since a specific grant was introduced in 2001-02.\n\nHow this grant is shared out across police forces has not been made public in recent years for security reasons but the Metropolitan Police force is the national lead on counter-terrorism and is likely to receive a significant share.\n\nIn autumn 2015, the then Chancellor George Osborne promised to spend £3.4bn extra on counter-terrorism - an increase of 30% - over the following five years. This was to be allocated to several different agencies working on counter-terrorism, not just police forces.\n\nCounter-terrorism policing operates as a network with bases across the UK and resources, including officers and other staff, can be allocated where the need is greatest.", "Last updated on .From the section Boxing\n\nAnthony Joshua will fight in the US for the first time when he defends his IBF, WBA and WBO world heavyweight titles against Jarrell Miller on 1 June.\n\nJoshua, 29, will take on Miller at Madison Square Garden in the undefeated American's home city of New York.\n\nMiller, with 23 wins and a draw, has never fought for a world title.\n\nThe 30-year-old will almost certainly be the heaviest opponent Joshua has faced as a professional having weighed 22st 7lbs in his last contest.\n\nThat is almost five stone heavier than what Joshua weighed in at ahead of his victory over Alexander Povetkin in September.\n\nMiller - nicknamed 'Big Baby' - won 20 of his fights by knockout but Joshua represents a huge step-up in class.\n\nJoshua said: \"I am heading to the Big Apple and I plan to embrace the culture and leave with an appetite for more.\n\n\"It has been an honour and a blessing to fight at some of the best venues in the world and at home in the UK, not least Wembley Stadium, but the time has come to head across the Atlantic and defend my heavyweight titles in the USA.\n\n\"I am looking forward to taking on another challenge with a good boxer and a brilliant talker. It will be an exciting fight. I will leave nothing to chance and plan on dismantling Miller in style to make my mark.\"\n\nMiller added: \"AJ is making a huge mistake coming over here to fight me in my own backyard - he'll be leaving New York empty-handed.\n\n\"This is the fight that I've been chasing all my life and on 1 June I'm going to achieve the thing I was born to do.\"\n\nThe best of decreasing options\n\nMiller made his debut in a bout at a restaurant 10 years ago and, while he has wins over the likes of compatriot Gerald Washington and Poland's Mariusz Wach to his name, most UK sports fans will probably know little of his career.\n\nJoshua has been left with few options given fellow Briton Tyson Fury and WBC champion Deontay Wilder are set for a rematch, while Dillian Whyte has openly criticised the financial offer Joshua's team presented him with for a 13 April bout.\n\nJoshua had Wembley Stadium booked for the date where he had hoped to face Wilder, but has scrapped the booking in favour of a US debut.\n\n\"Things happen, boxing politics,\" he said. \"We had to branch out and look for other options.\"\n\nA contest in the US has been seen by Joshua's advisers as a chance to enhance his global appeal.\n\nBritain's Lennox Lewis boxed at Madison Square Garden three times, while greats such as Muhammad Ali, Evander Holyfield and Sugar Ray Robinson have also competed there.\n\nThere will undoubtedly be criticism of the move, given the public clamour for him to face Fury or Wilder in a bout that would unify all four belts.\n\nNegotiations have repeatedly failed with Wilder, while the offers sent to both Fury and Whyte were deemed insufficient.\n\nWilder and Fury are now set for a rematch following their 1 December draw, while Whyte will fight in the UK in April or May.\n\nMiller was not even listed by Joshua when he asked fans to vote on his next move in September, when 53% of respondents wanted a Wilder fixture and 42% called for Fury.\n\nBut the American - who has clashed with Joshua at a news conference before - can at least be expected to provide memorable sound bites when promoting the fight and give Joshua chance to increase his profile in the lucrative US pay-per-view market.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Should boys be allowed to play netball?\n\nBoys have been banned from a national netball competition, meaning many who have trained all year will miss out.\n\nThe Urdd National Sports Festival takes place in Aberystwyth in May and primary schools were told two weeks ago.\n\nOrganisers said it was aimed at encouraging more girls to take part while boys' physical strength sometimes put them at an advantage.\n\nBut girls will be able to play in the football competition with boys at the same tournament.\n\nUrdd Gobaith Cymru was set up in 1922 to provide opportunities for children through the medium of Welsh.\n\nThe sports festival is one of many annual events it puts on.\n\nYsgol San Sior, in Llandudno, Conwy, won the county tournament last year and competed in the national competition.\n\nPupils at the school have criticised the move.\n\n\"Netball isn't just for girls, it's for boys and girls,\" said Mason, 10.\n\n\"If they're taking away netball from the boys, why don't they take a sport away from the girls?\"\n\nRyley, also 10, said the move deprived boys of a new sport, adding: \"I'm normally a football person, but I wanted to try something different.\"\n\n\"If girls are allowed to play football, why can't boys play netball?\" said Florence, 10.\n\nTeacher Lisa Jones said the school still planned to enter a team but it would now include girls from younger years.\n\nShe described the ban as \"a bit of a shock\", adding: \"As far back as I can remember, we've been allowed to take boys to the tournament.\"\n\nPupils wrote to organisers, saying how disappointed they were.\n\nA statement from the Urdd said: \"There is a significant gender gap in sports participation between boys and girls.\n\n\"Through offering an all-girls tournament with a clear pathway for continued participation we are actively taking steps to close the gender gap in sports participation.\"\n\nOrganisers said they will review the move before the tournament in 2020\n\nIt added there had been complaints boys had been placed in \"key areas\" of the court where their \"physical and athletic presence is an advantage\".\n\nWith the competition open to years five and six, the age gap could be from nine to 11-year-olds.\n\nOrganisers said they will review how the competition goes before making a decision about 2020.\n\nWelsh Netball's chief executive Sarah Jones said the rules of netball state it can be played by same gender or mixed gender teams.\n\nBut she added: \"Netball is one of the few team sports to attract girls and women to participate in particularly large numbers, which contributes to address the global disparity in sports participation.\"\n\nMs Jones said there had never been a demand for boy to play before, calling this \"a whole new territory\".\n\n\"I think it's an exciting time for the sport, that it is now starting to attract the attention of boys,\" she said.", "The brother of Ian Brady's fourth victim has issued a plea for the contents of two briefcases left behind after the Moors Murderer's death to be revealed.\n\nAlan Bennett, whose brother Keith was never found, said Brady's solicitor has the combination-locked cases containing personal papers.\n\nMr Bennett alleges Robin Makin has refused his \"personal plea\" and police requests to reveal the documents.\n\nKeith Bennett was 12 when he was abducted on his way to his grandmother's house in Manchester on 16 June 1964.\n\nHis brother believes the cases may reveal clues about where Brady and lover Myra Hindley buried Keith on Saddleworth Moor.\n\nMr Bennett said he \"needed to know one way or the other\" if there was anything that could help the family's search for answers.\n\nBrady never revealed where Keith Bennett's remains were buried\n\nHe said Mr Makin, the executor of Brady's will, had \"met with members of the Greater Manchester Police cold case team\" but did not let them access the cases.\n\nMr Bennett alleged the lawyer then \"ignored pleas from the solicitor acting on my behalf and, lately, a personal plea from myself\".\n\nKeith Bennett's mother Winnie Johnson died in 2012 aged 78, after a long campaign to find her son and give him a Christian burial.\n\nAfter Brady's death in 2017, Greater Manchester Police applied for a court order to examine the contents, which was denied on the grounds that there was no longer any prospect of an investigation leading to a prosecution.\n\nMr Bennett's solicitor John Ainley said he had since written to Mr Makin twice to request access to the cases, but had received no reply.\n\nA Greater Manchester Police spokeswoman said: \"We do not confirm whether specific pieces of evidence or potential evidence forms part of active lines of enquiry.\"\n\nMartin Bottomley, head of GMP's cold case unit, said officers would continue to \"pursue all investigative lines of enquiry\" to find Keith's body.\n\nBrady, who murdered five children between 1963 and 1965 with Hindley, died in May 2017 at the secure psychiatric unit at Ashworth Hospital in Merseyside.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Man Utd\n\nOle Gunnar Solskjaer called Manchester United's 2-0 home loss to Paris St-Germain in the last 16 of the Champions League a \"reality check\" but insisted \"mountains are there to be climbed\".\n\nFormer United winger Angel di Maria provided the assists for goals scored by Presnel Kimpembe and Kylian Mbappe.\n\nInterim boss Solskjaer told BT Sport: \"You can't lay down and say it's over.\"\n\nUnited midfielder Paul Pogba was sent off in the last minute of normal time for a second bookable offence.\n\nYou can see that we've not played games at this level for a while\n• None Mbappe calls for end to 'scare stories' about PSG injuries\n\nThis was Solskjaer's first defeat as interim boss after winning 10 of his first 11 games since taking over from Jose Mourinho in December.\n\n\"Today was a kind of a reality check on the level of the top teams,\" he added.\n\n\"That is the level we want to get to. Top four is one thing. United should be at the top. They are a top team. [Our players] know we need to step up our level. We are disappointed.\"\n\nNeither side impressed in the first half, which ended on a negative note for Solskjaer when attacking duo Jesse Lingard and Anthony Martial came off injured.\n\n\"We had quality players come on, but they gave us something and let's hope they are not too serious,\" he said about the pair. \"They are muscle injuries; we have to wait a couple of days.\"\n• None Relive the action from Old Trafford\n• None How did you rate the players?\n\nEight minutes after the restart defender Kimpembe volleyed in from close range before France World Cup winner Mbappe added to the misery with a close-range shot in the 60th minute. Solskjaer later said that Kimpembe should have been sent off for a challenge on Marcus Rashford.\n\nAnd in the final moments of the match, Pogba, who has scored 13 goals and provided nine assists this season, was sent off when a crude challenge on Dani Alves earned him a second booking. He will miss the match in Paris.\n\n\"There is a determination in the dressing room to put this right,\" Solskjaer said, looking ahead to the away leg on 6 March.\n\n\"We will give it a go. If we get to half-time with a one-goal lead, that is what we have to aim for.\"", "Daniel's mum, Ann, says extra support is key to academic success for deaf pupils\n\nDeaf children in England are falling behind their classmates from primary school through to GCSE, analysis by the National Deaf Children's Society shows.\n\nOnly 30.6% achieve a GCSE strong pass - Grade 5 or above - in both English and maths, compared with 48.3% of children with no special educational needs.\n\nAnd 57% fail to reach expected levels in reading, writing and maths in Sats tests at the end of primary, compared with 26% of children with no SEN.\n\nIts analysis of government data suggests the average Attainment 8 score (how well pupils do across eight core subjects) for deaf children was 39.2 - but for those with no SEN, the average was 49.8.\n\nAnn Jillings, from Lowestoft, in Suffolk, says the only reason her 12-year-old deaf son, Daniel, is not falling behind at school is because the family has fought hard for additional support.\n\n\"Sometimes I've been quite dogged in making sure that Daniel's [education, health and care] plan reflected what he needed - it takes a certain amount of stubbornness and perseverance to navigate the system,\" she says.\n\n\"I can see my child is very able - he wants to go to university - and I've vowed there's no way I'm going to let him be let down by the system.\n\n\"But I do fear for about what happens to the children whose parents aren't as well informed or who don't have the ability to fight so hard for their children.\"\n\nAnn says making sure Daniel doesn't slip behind his classmates at his mainstream school is a constant worry.\n\n\"We can never take our eye off the ball,\" she says.\n\n\"Even though something's in the education plan, we always have to make sure it's being delivered.\n\n\"Why should there be a ceiling on their potential just because they're deaf?\n\n\"Deaf children have the same potential as their peers and it's a crying shame if they don't achieve that - it's their long-term employment, it's not just now, it's their whole lifetime.\"\n\nChief executive of the NDCS, Susan Daniels, said: \"These figures show the true depth of the crisis engulfing deaf education in this country.\n\n\"Meanwhile, the government is starving local councils of funding, meaning their support is cut back and their specialist teachers are being laid off.\n\n\"The government needs to address the gap in results urgently and begin to adequately fund the support deaf children need.\n\n\"It promised every child in this country a world class education, but until deaf and hearing children progress and achieve at the same level, it is failing to deliver and that is utterly unacceptable.\"\n\nA spokeswoman for the Department for Education said: \"Our ambition for children with special educational needs and disabilities, including those who are deaf, is exactly the same for every other child - to achieve well in education, and go on to live happy and fulfilled lives.\n\n\"We recognise that local authorities are facing cost pressures on high needs and that there is more to do which is why in December 2018 we announced an additional £250m in funding for high needs over this and next year.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "John Henry Newman, who was born in 1801, was ordained as a priest in 1847 after converting to Catholicism\n\nCardinal John Henry Newman is closer to being canonised after a second miracle in his name was confirmed by the Pope.\n\nTwo authenticated miracles are required before sainthood and Newman, who was already credited with curing a man's spinal disease, is now said to have healed a woman's unstoppable bleeding.\n\nNewman, born in 1801, will be the first English saint since the Forty Martyrs, executed under Reformation laws.\n\nThe first miracle the Catholic convert from Birmingham is said by the Vatican to have performed was curing a deacon from Boston, Massachusetts, of a crippling spinal disease.\n\nPope Francis has since decreed a second miracle, with Newman said to have healed a pregnant woman \"suffering from unstoppable internal bleeding\".\n\nNewman was beatified in 2010 by Pope Benedict before tens of thousands of people in his home city of Birmingham after the first miracle was recognised.\n\nNewman founded the Birmingham Oratory in Edgbaston which is still in use today\n\nDuring his life, Newman was a respected religious scholar, who spent much of his time helping the poor and sick.\n\nThe last English canonisations were in 1970 of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales, a group of Catholics who were executed between 1535 and 1679 under laws enacted during the English Reformation.\n\nThe process cannot begin until at least five years after the candidate's death and involves scrutinising evidence of his or her holiness and work.\n\nArchbishop of Westminster Cardinal Vincent Nichols, who is head of the Catholic Church in England, said Newman was \"deeply admired\", particularly by the people of Birmingham who \"lined the streets\" when he died.\n\nThe former Archbishop of Birmingham added that the announcement of Newman's pending canonisation was \"wonderful news\".\n\nBirmingham Oratory, the community founded by Newman in 1849, said the confirmation of his \"heroic sanctity will be welcomed by Catholics and Anglicans alike\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Prince of Wales met the daughter of former South African president Nelson Mandela while on a visit to Liverpool.\n\nDr Makaziwe Mandela showed the prince a selection of her father's drawings, which she has donated for a permanent display in St George's Hall.\n\nThe Duchess of Cornwall also posed in front of Paul Curtis' famous mural, For All Liverpool's Liver Birds.\n\nThe royal couple met Ireland's President Michael D Higgins and his wife Sabina during the visit.\n\nThe Duchess of Cornwall stands between the wings of For All Liverpool's Liver Birds in Jamaica Street\n\nThe Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall arrive in Liverpool\n\nMs Mandela is also on a short trip to the UK and began her visit on Monday, the 29th anniversary of her father being released from prison after 27 years.\n\nDozens of students waited for a glimpse of the royal couple as they began their day celebrating Liverpool University's Institute of Irish Studies.\n\nDozens of students waited for a glimpse of the royal couple\n\nCharles and Camilla met Ireland's President Michael D Higgins and his wife Sabina\n\nSabina Coyne and the Duchess of Cornwall as they receive flowers at a reception at Victoria Gallery and Museum, University of Liverpool\n\nVice Chancellor, Professor Dame Janet Beer, said the visit was \"a wonderful occasion\".\n\n\"We are very fortunate indeed to have as joint patrons of the Institute of Irish Studies, the Prince of Wales and the President of Ireland and the fact that they were both able to come together has been a special day in the life of the University of Liverpool.\"\n\nThe prince and duchess's visit comes a month after the Duke and Duchess of Sussex visited Birkenhead in their first joint royal engagement of the year.\n\nPrince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall also visited the Royal Albert Dock", "Police were called at 13:33 GMT to an altercation between two groups of men on Argyle Square, near King's Cross train station.\n\nTwo men have been taken to hospital with facial injuries after a \"corrosive substance\" was thrown at them near Kings Cross station.\n\nPolice were called at 13:33 GMT to an altercation between two groups of men on Argyle Square, Bloomsbury.\n\nThe groups had left the location before officers and 10 firefighters arrived at the scene, police said.\n\nTwo men were later found nearby with facial injuries. No arrests have been made.\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 Macca 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\nIt comes after a 19-year-old man was hurt when a \"noxious substance\" was thrown at his face near Romford station on Monday.\n\nPeople have taken to Twitter to warn others about the attack.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Theresa May has suffered a fresh defeat in a vote in the Commons on her approach to Brexit strategy by 303 to 258.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn called on the prime minister after the debate ended to \"admit her Brexit strategy has failed\".\n\nTory Brexiteer rebels abstained, saying the government's motion implied a no-deal Brexit would be ruled out when it came to negotiations with the EU.\n\nMinisters said that was not the case but defeat would make life more difficult for the PM as she discussed the future of her deal with the EU.\n• Brexit: All you need to know about the UK leaving the EU\n• A simple guide to the UK leaving the EU", "The British rapper Professor Green has fractured vertebrae in his neck, forcing him to cancel his latest tour.\n\nThe 35-year-old artist, whose real name is Stephen Manderson, was due to start a UK tour in Cardiff.\n\nThe star told fans on social media he had had three seizures, resulting in a fall which caused the fractures.\n\nGreen shared a picture of himself strapped onto a stretcher with his head supported and a neck brace, with a tube in his nose.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by professorgreen This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe musician, who's known for songs like Read All About It and I Need You Tonight, said the fall happened as he was packing for his tour.\n\nIn further posts, Green said was \"extremely lucky\" and thanked \"our NHS, heroes amongst men (and women)\".\n\nHe promised fans he would be back in the winter with another tour.\n\nA spokesman for the London-born rapper said refunds for all tour dates will be made available at the point of purchase.\n\nProfessor Green was also due to play Birmingham, Glasgow, Newcastle upon Tyne, Manchester, Leeds, Sheffield and Brighton.", "Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó has vowed at a rally in the capital Caracas to ensure humanitarian aid blocked by President Nicolás Maduro is brought in to the country.\n\nMr Guaidó said new collection points and routes into the country would allow volunteers to bring the aid in.\n\nMr Maduro told the BBC he would not allow aid in, claiming it was a means for the US to intervene in Venezuela.\n\n\"We have almost 300,000 Venezuelans who will die if the aid doesn't enter. There are almost two million at health risk,\" said Mr Guaidó at the rally on Tuesday.\n\nMr Guaidó, who has been recognised by the US and most Western governments as interim president of Venezuela, told his supporters in the capital that humanitarian aid would be brought into Venezuela on 23 February.\n\nEnvoys for Mr Guaidó met with Brazilian officials this week and announced plans to create a second aid storage hub in the state of Roraima, on Venezuela's southeastern border.\n\nMr Guaidó appeared to be relying on volunteers - he called on 250,000 people who signed up online to organise themselves over the weekend, \"because we're going to have to go in caravans\".\n\nUS humanitarian aid trucks arrived last week at the Colombian border city of Cúcuta but were stopped at the Tienditas bridge, which has been blocked by Venezuelan troops.\n\nVenezuela's military blocked the Tienditas Bridge to prevent US aid entering the country\n\nMr Maduro still enjoys widespread support among the Venezuelan population and the loyalty of the military, and his leftist government is backed by Russia and China.\n\nBut he is under growing national and international pressure to call early presidential elections, amid accusations of widespread corruption and human rights violations under his leadership.\n\nPlease upgrade your browser to view this content. Was this timeline useful? Thank you for your feedback.\n\nMr Guaidó last week offered an amnesty to military personnel who break with Mr Maduro, telling them that refusing to allow in aid is a \"crime against humanity\".\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Orla Guerin, Mr Maduro called US President Donald Trump's government a \"gang of extremists\" and blamed America for his country's crisis.\n\nMr Maduro said he did not see the need for early presidential elections, and reiterated that he would not allow US humanitarian aid into the country. \"They are warmongering in order to take over Venezuela,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Maduro: US 'warmongering' in order to take over Venezuela\n\nRelations between the US and Venezuela were already fraught before President Donald Trump's administration became one of the first to back Mr Guaidó as interim leader.\n\nVenezuela broke off diplomatic relations in response, while Mr Trump said the use of military force remained \"an option\".\n\nThe US, which has accused Mr Maduro's government of human rights violations and corruption, has led international pressure on the Venezuelan president to step down.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why Venezuela matters to the US... and vice-versa\n\nThe Trump administration has imposed a raft of economic measures on the country, including sanctions against the state-owned oil company PDVSA - Venezuela's main source of revenue.\n\nIn recent years, the US has frozen Mr Maduro's US assets, restricted Venezuela's access to US markets and blocked dealings with those involved in the country's gold trade.\n\nFor years Venezuelans have faced severe shortages of basic items such as medicine and food. Last year, the inflation rate saw prices double every 19 days on average.\n\nThree million people, or 10% of the population, have left the country since the economy started to worsen in 2014, according to UN figures.\n\nMr Maduro, who has been in power since 2013, was re-elected to a second term last year. But the elections were controversial, with many opposition candidates barred from running or jailed and claims of vote-rigging.\n\nThe head of the opposition-controlled National Assembly, Mr Guaidó declared himself president on 23 January. He said the constitution allowed him to assume power temporarily when the president was deemed illegitimate.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Desperate Venezuelan women are selling their hair at the border", "Young women travelling to Syria to join Islamic State often end up \"domestically isolated in severe conditions\", new research claims.\n\nUK-led research suggests that the women do not join with the intention of becoming \"jihadi brides\", but often end up facing \"harsh realities\".\n\nThe report also says the recruits are increasingly younger and come from comfortable and educated backgrounds.\n\nAn estimated 4,000 Westerners have joined IS, including some 550 women.\n\nThe joint report by the Institute for Strategic Dialogue and the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation at King's College London says women are far from passive agents, with some involved in aspects of IS life including propaganda and recruitment.\n\nBut it suggests that, whatever women's reasons for joining IS, also known as Isis, their \"first and foremost\" responsibility will actually be \"to be a good wife to the jihadist husband to who they are betrothed and to become a mother to the next generation of jihadism\".\n\nResearchers have monitored more than 100 of the women through social media platforms and analysed interviews with those who have been arrested by security forces.\n\nKadiza Sultana, Shamima Begum and Amira Abase are three of the teenage girls believed to have joined Islamic State\n\nThe researchers say that although many young women join up with pre-conceived and often naive ideas, many are living with no electricity and little comfort and those who do marry jihadi men often face widowhood.\n\nThe report says that though many women post photographs of themselves carrying guns, they are not allowed to fight and are confined to their homes with few managing to escape.\n\nCo-author Melanie Smith said: \"It gives a unique lens into the daily lives of foreign women living in the so-called Islamic State.\n\n\"Often through social media, we are able to read and hear about the complaints of daily life for females, often domestically isolated in severe conditions, and the realities of living within a war zone in a terrorist-held territory.\"\n\nThe report also says programmes aimed at preventing girls from joining IS are \"too few, ill-informed and under-resourced\".\n\nIt concludes that the role of female mentors in prevention and de-radicalisation programmes is vital, but that more such mentors are needed.\n\nShiraz Maher, senior research fellow at King's College London, said: \"Female recruits now make up a substantial part of those who have emigrated to join the Isis cause, but little has been done to properly investigate the reasons why they are joining and how to prevent them.\n\n\"This important piece of research will go some way to helping stem that tide.\"", "UK firms have accused the government of leaving them \"hung out to dry\" in the event of a no-deal Brexit.\n\nWith less than 50 days until 29 March when the UK is due to leave the EU, the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) says 20 key questions remain unresolved.\n\nHow to move skilled staff between the UK and EU, which rules to follow, and what trade deals will be in place are all still unknown, the BCC says.\n\nThe government said it was focused on getting approval for its Brexit deal.\n\n\"I absolutely recognise that for many businesses it is a period of uncertainty and concern,\" Brexit Secretary Stephen Barclay told BBC Radio 4's Today Programme. \"That's why we are so committed to securing a deal.\"\n\nHe said he had already met BCC representatives to discuss the list of key questions.\n\nOn the matter of trade tariffs in the event of a no-deal Brexit, he said he expected to be able to give more information \"in the coming days\".\n\nTheresa May is currently seeking changes to her Brexit deal with the EU after it was emphatically rejected last month, in the largest defeat ever for a sitting government.\n\nThe prime minister needs to get a deal approved by Parliament by 29 March to avoid a no-deal Brexit. In that case, in the countries where the UK had no formal trade agreement, both would have to trade under the rules overseen by the World Trade Organization (WTO).\n\nUnder this system, every WTO member is free to negotiate its own tariffs - or taxes - on different goods. But under the rules, members have to offer the same tariff to every other WTO country.\n\nThe UK has signed \"continuity agreements\", which mean there will be no disruption to trade, with Switzerland, Chile, The Faroe Islands and Eastern and Southern Africa. As a result free trade agreements currently in place between the EU and those countries will apply to the UK after Brexit.\n\nMutual recognition agreements - where a product lawfully sold in one country can be sold in another - have also been signed with Australia and New Zealand.\n\nLabour has accused Mrs May of \"cynically\" running down the clock. It claims the prime minister is planning to delay the final, binding vote on the withdrawal deal she has agreed with the EU until the last possible moment, so that MPs will be faced with a stark choice between her deal and no deal.\n\nShadow Brexit Secretary Sir Keir Starmer said there was \"a growing frustration\" around Mrs May's handling of the Brexit process.\n\n\"She's coming to Parliament every other week, pretending there's progress, and trying to buy another two weeks,\" he told BBC Radio Four. \"Parliament needs to say 'that's not on'\".\n\nThe BCC - which represents thousands of firms - says its members are \"hugely concerned\" that the UK is not prepared for all eventualities.\n\nEnter the word or phrase you are looking for\n\nThe business lobby group also warned that the lack of clarity over what will happen had already \"stifled investment and growth\".\n\n\"There is a very real risk that a lack of clear, actionable information from government will leave firms, their people and their communities hung out to dry,\" said BCC director general Adam Marshall.\n\nMr Marshall said firms remained \"in the dark\" over crucial issues including contracts and customs tariffs.\n\n\"Businesses need answers they can base decisions on, no matter the outcome,\" he added.\n\nThe Bank of England governor has urged MPs to solve the current Brexit impasse\n\nThe BCC has published the list of 20 questions firms want answered. They include whether firms will be able to fly people and goods between the UK and EU after the end of March and whether there will be any import tariffs.\n\nThe business group's warning comes after Bank of England governor Mark Carney earlier urged MPs to solve the current Brexit impasse.\n\nMr Carney warned a no-deal Brexit would create an \"economic shock\" at a time when China's economy is slowing and trade tensions are rising.\n\n\"It is in the interests of everyone, arguably everywhere\" that a Brexit solution is found, he said.\n\nEarlier this week, official figures showed that the UK economy had expanded at its lowest annual rate in six years last year, with many economists blaming Brexit for the slowdown.", "Female tiger Melati was killed last week by potential mate, Asim, during their first introduction\n\nZoos in Britain should be brought under a \"centralised licensing\" system, an animal charity has said following the deaths of two tigers in the last week.\n\nA female tiger at London Zoo was killed by a potential mate and another died after tigers fought at a safari park.\n\nThe Born Free Foundation says the zoo licensing rules currently overseen by local authorities have \"differences in understanding and application\".\n\nThe zoo trade body says the tiger deaths were unrelated to licensing.\n\nThe Born Free Foundation, which campaigns to keep wildlife in the wild, says that \"significant incidents occur with disturbing frequency\" at zoos.\n\nIt says it has logged 33 incidents since 2016, including the death of eight Humboldt penguins following a \"urban fox\" attack and an escaped snow leopard which was shot after a zookeeper left an enclosure door open.\n\nThe charity's head of animal welfare and captivity, Chris Draper, says \"licensing and inspection of zoos in Britain is currently the responsibility of the large number of local authorities\".\n\nThis leaves the law \"open to interpretation\", he said.\n\nThe professional body which represents more than 100 zoos and aquariums says it was \"saddened to hear of the deaths of two female tigers at two of its member collections in recent days\".\n\nBut the British and Irish Association of Zoos and Aquariums (BIAZA) rejects Born Free's call for changes to licensing, saying the events must not overshadow the important conservation work undertaken by its members.\n\n\"BIAZA welcomes robust zoo licensing and endorses recent steps taken by Defra [Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs] to strengthen the zoo licensing process in the UK,\" a spokeswoman added.\n\nAn endangered female Sumatran tiger was killed by a potential mate during their first introduction at London Zoo on 8 February.\n\nThe zoo said staff used air horns and fire extinguishers to stop the male tiger, Asim, from killing Melati.\n\nHowever, despite the best efforts of the vets, 10-year-old Melati died.\n\nThirteen-year-old female tiger Shouri had lived at the park since 2006\n\nOn Monday, a rare Amur tiger died in a fight with two other tigers at Longleat Safari and Adventure Park in Wiltshire.\n\nThe park said 13-year-old female Shouri was killed after gaining access to a paddock where two other tigers, Red and Yana, were being held. A fight took place between the three animals.\n\nThe park said a full investigation was ongoing to determine the exact circumstances surrounding the \"terribly sad event\".\n\nThere are thought to be only 300 Sumatran tigers and 540 Amur tigers left in the wild.\n\nA spokesperson for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, said: \"The UK has some of the highest animal welfare standards in the world.\n\n\"The current licensing regime for zoos is enforced by local authorities, but they are regularly inspected by trained professionals against our high standards.\n\n\"These standards are developed together with leading animal welfare experts on our Zoos Expert Committee.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nEngland captain Joe Root showed integrity and leadership in his response to a comment from West Indies fast bowler Shannon Gabriel, says former batter Ebony Rainford-Brent.\n\nSky Sports published a clip of Root, 28, telling Gabriel: \"Don't use it as an insult. There's nothing wrong with being gay.\"\n\nGabriel, 30, was warned by the umpire for the language he used, though his original comment was not picked up.\n\n\"Well done Root,\" said Rainford-Brent.\n\n\"We don't know exactly what was said but what we can take from it is that whatever Joe thought he heard, his response was one of a leader.\n\n\"It's one thing being an England captain, but having that awareness and presence in that moment to be prepared to stand up for something, that's what's interesting.\"\n\nGabriel was subsequently charged by the International Cricket Council with breaching its code of conduct.\n\nRoot refused to explain exactly what was said after play on day three of the final Test in St Lucia, during which the England captain hit a fine century to put his side in a commanding position.\n• None Follow day four of the third Test & listen to The Cricket Social\n• None 'Bigger impact than hitting a six' - how social media reacted to Root stance\n\n\"Players in that scenario could respond in a lot of ways and not say much,\" Rainford-Brent told The Cricket Social.\n\n\"In this age of diversity and people being free to be themselves, when you have an England captain who stands up for something in the moment - and he didn't have to respond - it was a point that he wanted to make and it was really powerful.\n\n\"He showed his integrity and belief - it was really impressive from Root.\"\n\nSomerset wicketkeeper Steve Davies, who came out publicly as gay in 2011, praised Root's response.\n\n\"There is no room in the game for any form of discrimination,\" he said. \"Well done Joe Root and England. Respect.\"\n\nFormer Surrey player Rainford-Brent, 35, said it showed \"the sort of person\" Root is and the \"character he has deep down\".\n\n\"Banter and aggression can be fine but you can't cross a boundary - stuff that is disrespectful, like homophobia - and things like that need to be taken up,\" she added.\n\n\"If it is a homophobic comment, it needs to be investigated and taken further.\"\n\nFormer England captain Alastair Cook said that comments about race and sexuality are \"no-go areas\".\n\n\"If it is a homophobic comment, Gabriel has crossed the line,\" he said.\n\n\"You know the responsibility when you represent your country but we are all humans. He's said something which - we think - is totally unacceptable and unfortunately he must be punished for it.\"\n\nKirsty Clarke, director of sport at LGBT charity Stonewall, said: \"Language is really influential and it's great if Joe Root was willing to challenge potentially abusive comments.\n\n\"The more players, fans, clubs and organisations that stand up for equality in sport, the sooner we kick discrimination out and make sport everyone's game.\"\n\n'A very different attitude in the Caribbean'\n\nCricket commentator Fazeer Mohammed, who like Gabriel is from the island of Trinidad, believes there will be some in the Caribbean who \"might be wondering what the fuss is all about\".\n\nSpeaking to the Test Match Special podcast, Mohammed said: \"In the Caribbean, there tends to be a different attitude towards what I will describe as homophobic remarks.\n\n\"Of course in England and many other parts of the world there's a very different attitude: there's a zero level of tolerance to this sort of situation, if it is that he said something that could be defined as homophobic.\n\n\"It's all part of the learning process. If you're playing international sport, with all these microphones, all these cameras around, you're going to get caught sooner or later.\n\n\"At the end of the day, whether it's Shannon Gabriel or somebody else, they will have to recognise that the comments that they would make with their friends, their mates, in nightclubs, or in any other environment, which might be considered acceptable in that situation, is certainly not acceptable in the international field of play.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A study is being conducted by conservationists from Chester Zoo\n\nThe secret life of the world's most trafficked mammal, the pangolin, has been caught on camera in Africa.\n\nFootage gives a rare insight into the behaviour of the giant pangolin, the largest of all the scaly animals.\n\nObserved by remote-operated cameras, a baby takes a ride on its mother's back, while an adult climbs a tree.\n\nScientists are releasing the footage to highlight the plight of the animals, which are being pushed to extinction by illegal hunting for scales and meat.\n\nLarge numbers of their scales have been seized this month alone, including Malaysia's biggest-ever interception of smuggled pangolin products.\n\nThe images and video clips of giant pangolins, one of four species in Africa, were taken at Uganda's Ziwa sanctuary, where the animals live alongside protected rhinos and are safe from poaching.\n\nStuart Nixon of Chester Zoo's Africa Field Programme said much of their behaviour has never been recorded before.\n\n\"We know so little about this species, almost everything we're picking up on camera traps this year as a behaviour is a new thing,\" he told BBC News.\n\nThe giant pangolin: The largest of the eight species\n\nThe pangolin is said to be the most widely trafficked mammal in the world.\n\nIts scales are in high demand in Asia for use in traditional Chinese medicine, despite there being no medical benefit for their use, while its meat is considered a delicacy in some countries.\n\nThis week, authorities in Malaysia seized more than 27 tonnes of pangolins and their scales - believed to be worth at least £1.6m - on Borneo, in the biggest such haul in the country.\n\nThey are regarded as a delicacy in some countries\n\nThe wildlife monitoring group Traffic said police had discovered two big pangolin-processing facilities stocked with thousands of boxes of meat in the eastern state of Sabah.\n\n\"It is hoped that comprehensive investigations can lead to unmasking the syndicate and networks operating from the state and beyond,\" said Kanitha Krishnasamy, Traffic's director in Southeast Asia.\n\nThe discovery comes just days after 10 tonnes of scales were intercepted in Vietnam, Hong Kong and Uganda.\n\nScientists say the plight of the animals looks bleak, and they have no idea how many are left in the wild.\n\nStuart Nixon, who is working in collaboration with the Uganda Wildlife Authority and the Rhino Fund Uganda on the project, said they are encountered so rarely in the wild that there is not enough data to allow a decent estimate.\n\nA study is under way to survey and monitor giant pangolins at the site as the first step towards identifying their strongholds.\n\n\"This species is literally being wiped out, it's being obliterated across central Africa, there's no doubt about that,\" he added. \"Trying to get people engaged and to care about pangolins is really the key step.\"\n\nSam Mwandha of the Uganda Wildlife Authority added: \"These rare glimpses into the lives of giant pangolins are very exciting for those of us dedicated to protecting Uganda's rich wildlife and challenges us to ensure that we protect and conserve this highly threatened species for future generations.\"", "The app makes it easier for men to prevent women from travelling, human rights group claim\n\nA Saudi Arabian app that can be used to track women and prevent them from travelling will be investigated by Apple, its chief executive has said.\n\nIn an interview with NPR, Tim Cook said he wasn't aware of the Absher app but would look into it.\n\nThe app, which offers access to government services, has been criticised by human rights groups.\n\nDemocratic senator Ron Wyden has called for Apple and Google to remove it from their stores.\n\nWomen in Saudi Arabia need to get permission to leave the country from a male guardian, usually a father or husband.\n\nThe Absher app, which is designed for a range of government services, such as renewing driving licences, makes the process of allowing or prohibiting travel a lot easier, and it can be done via a smartphone.\n\nOriginally designed for the Ministry of Interior, the app has been in use for several years and downloaded more than a million times.\n\nAn investigation from website Insider exposed how it was being used by male guardians to register wives, sisters and daughters to either restrict or permit international travel.\n\nThe man receives a notification if a dependent woman attempts to leave the country.\n\nHuman Rights Watch told the publication: \"Apps like this one can facilitate human rights abuses, including discrimination against women.\"\n\nIn an open letter to both companies, in response to the report, Mr Wyden wrote: \"It is hardly news that the Saudi monarchy seeks to restrict and repress Saudi women but American companies should not enable or facilitate the Saudi government's patriarchy.\"\n\nThe app has also been used by some women to secretly change the settings on their male guardian's phone so that it allows them to travel, the Insider reports.\n\nGoogle has not responded to requests from the BBC for comment.", "The keepers of thirteen-year-old female tiger Shouri were said to be \"extremely distraught\"\n\nA rare Amur tiger has died in a fight with two other tigers at Longleat Safari and Adventure Park.\n\nThirteen-year-old female Shouri, who died on Monday, had lived at the park since 2006.\n\nLongleat said she gained access to a paddock where two other tigers, Red and Yana, were being held and a fight ensued between the three animals.\n\nThe Warminster site was not open to the public at the time and both Red and Yana were uninjured.\n\nThe park said a full investigation was ongoing to determine the exact circumstances surrounding the \"terribly sad event\".\n\nLast week, an endangered Sumatran tiger was killed by another tiger at London Zoo.\n\nLongleat said: \"During the process of moving the tigers between the various outdoor paddocks, a door connecting two areas was opened which meant Shouri was able to gain access to the same outdoor area as Red and Yana.\n\n\"The dedicated team of keepers who care for our big cats are, understandably, extremely distraught by the events and we are doing everything we can to help and support them.\"\n\nRed and Yana arrived at Longleat last year as a breeding pair.\n\nAccording to WWF, Amur tigers, also known as the Siberian tiger, were once found throughout the Russian Far East, northern China, and the Korean peninsula.\n\nBy the 1940s, hunting had driven them to the brink of extinction.\n\nThe population is now endangered, with around 540 believed to be remaining.\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 body modification artist has admitted three counts of grievous bodily harm, by carrying out tongue splitting and ear and nipple removal procedures.\n\nBrendan McCarthy, also known as Dr Evil, carried out consensual procedures without using anaesthetic.\n\nIn his defence, the 50-year-old argued that consent was given but the judge ruled the procedures could not be compared to tattoos and piercings.\n\nHe will be sentenced on 21 March at Wolverhampton Crown Court.\n\nMcCarthy, of Bushbury, Wolverhampton, ran a modification emporium in Princess Alley before he was charged with six counts of wounding in 2017.\n\nHe was arrested in December 2015 following a complaint to City of Wolverhampton Council's environmental health team.\n\nA petition in support of McCarthy amassed more than 13,400 signatures and his lawyer challenged the charges on the basis that his customers consented.\n\nHis supporters argued \"for the right to express ourselves in whatever modified manner we wish in a safe environment\".\n\nThe council said its issue was with McCarthy's lack of licence to carry out the modification procedures and the need for more regulation in the industry which delivers results \"akin to cosmetic surgery\".\n\nDr Samantha Pegg, a law lecturer at Nottingham Trent University and expert on the legality of body modification procedures, said: \"Practitioners have assumed that extreme body modifications, as forms of body adornment, were lawful when consent was given.\n\n\"Although the law has long accepted that tattooing and piercing are lawful activities there has not - until this case - been any consideration of other forms of body modification such as tongue splitting.\"\n\nPassing verdict, Judge Amjad Nawaz ruled that written consent from his customers was not sufficient defence.\n\nThe tattooist has spent two years arguing his case, contending at the Court of Appeal that the procedures should be regarded as lawful to protect the \"personal autonomy\" of his customers.\n\nJudge Nawaz drew the distinction between body modification and tattoos and piercings, saying there is \"no proper analogy\".\n\n\"What the defendant undertook for reward in this case was a series of medical procedures for no medical reason,\" he said.\n\nMcCarthy removed a client's ear in 2015 at his studio in Wolverhampton\n\nDr Pegg said the case has \"partially clarified what was previously a grey area of the law\".\n\nAlthough consensual, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said these were \"significant surgical procedures\" but McCarthy has no medical qualifications, nor is he registered with the General Medical Council (GMC).\n\n\"Surgical procedures must be carried out by properly trained, qualified and regulated surgeons or healthcare professionals,\" senior prosecutor Rhiannon Jones said.\n\nGMC guidance says doctors must be appropriately trained and experienced before practising cosmetic procedures.\n\nIt adds doctors must consider their patients' psychological needs and follow protocols for safe interventions.\n\nSpeaking before Tuesday's hearing, McCarthy told the BBC the situation was \"crushing\".\n\n\"It's crushed me completely, I'm a shadow of my former self,\" he said. \"I don't feel I've done anything wrong.\"\n\nNick Pinch went to McCarthy to have his nipple removed after previous piercings caused a build-up of scar tissue.\n\nNick Pinch went to McCarthy to have his nipple removed\n\nThe procedures carried out on Mr Pinch formed part of the prosecution's case.\n\nMr Pinch said: \"[McCarthy] wanted to know why I wanted this procedure, he wanted to make sure I knew what I was doing, he took complete duty of care. I'm really happy with what I've had done.\"\n\nWest Midlands Police said McCarthy conducted the procedures without knowing his clients' medical histories or psychiatric backgrounds. He also did not have any life-saving equipment if the surgeries went wrong.\n\nYou may also be interested in:\n\nBody Art, whose full name is King of Ink Land King Body Art The Extreme Ink-Ite but who was born Matthew Whelan, has devoted his life to body modification.\n\nHe said: \"Under current laws, we are classed as effectively consenting abuse victims.\n\nBody Art said the industry needs to be regulated\n\n\"These are private procedures and agreements between me as the client and the business person.\n\n\"But I do think there needs to be regulation. There are people in the industry that aren't protected.\"\n\nMcCarthy was refused permission to appeal to the Supreme Court and has been bailed ahead of sentencing.", "Unions says Ford aims to cut 1,000 jobs at Bridgend by 2021\n\nFord has said a no-deal Brexit would be catastrophic for the firm's manufacturing operations in the UK and that it would do \"whatever is necessary\" to protect its business.\n\nThe comments come after a report the carmaker was stepping up preparations to move production out of the UK.\n\nFord declined to comment directly on The Times' report, but said it had long warned against a \"hard Brexit\".\n\nThe company is the latest carmaker to warn on the risks of a no-deal Brexit.\n\n\"Such a situation would be catastrophic for the UK auto industry and Ford's manufacturing operations in the country,\" the company said in a statement.\n\n\"We will take whatever action is necessary to preserve the competitiveness of our European business.\"\n\nFord employs 13,000 people in the UK at sites in Bridgend, Dagenham, Halewood and Dunton.\n\nAccording to The Times' report, the firm told Prime Minister Theresa May on a telephone call with business leaders that it was preparing alternative sites abroad.\n\nDuring the call Mrs May confirmed reports that the government was preparing a package of financial support for businesses affected by a no-deal Brexit but declined to elaborate, The Times said.\n\nOther companies on the call delivered the same warning as Ford, the report said.\n\nFord is the latest carmaker to sound the alarm on Brexit after Nissan said last week it would no longer build its X-Trail car in Sunderland, in part because of Brexit uncertainty.\n\nIn January, Jaguar Land Rover, the UK's biggest carmaker, said it would cut 4,500 jobs in the UK, citing geopolitical issues, regulatory disruptions, and Brexit uncertainty. Toyota has also urged the government to avoid a no-deal scenario.\n\nIn addition to Brexit worries, the car industry faces a slump in sales of diesel cars and a slowdown in China.\n\nLast month, the Unite union said Ford aimed to cut almost 1,000 jobs at its Bridgend plant by 2021 because of challenging market conditions. The carmaker declined to confirm the figures but said it was consulting with unions.\n\nThe government has said the best way to provide certainty to industry is for MPs to back the prime minister's Brexit deal.", "Metropolitan Police commissioner Cressida Dick believes being \"a bit different\" has encouraged others who \"feel different\" to join the force.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs, Ms Dick, Britain's most senior police officer, said being female and openly gay made unlikely recruits think they too could \"have a go\" at policing.\n\nBut she said her sexuality was \"one of the least interesting things about me\".\n\nShe also said female police officers should make up half the force.\n\nShe said: \"The fact that I am seen as a bit different in some respects, I realise, on some occasions, makes young people think 'I could have a go' or 'I might try; I feel different but I might try'.\"\n\nShe said she hoped the that a lot of women are among the new recruits, to ensure a more balanced male/female divide.\n\n\"In the long term, in order for us to have the best of the best, I would like it to be 50/50,\" she told Lauren Laverne, who hosts the show.\n\nBut she added that she did not think it would be achieved during her tenure.\n\nMs Dick recalled how she became a police officer at the age of 23, after a spell working in a fish and chip shop with a man who kept a baseball bat behind the counter.\n\nIn the early days, she patrolled London's West End, including the Soho area - traditional home of London's sex trade.\n\n\"I loved the idea that at three or four in the morning it was just me there.\n\n\"That is the great thing about policing, you do have a lot of responsibility very early and you have got to make decisions - sometimes life-and-death decisions - very quickly.\n\n\"There is something about putting a uniform on and thinking 'people are looking to me to make decisions and to look after them' that makes you feel capable.\"\n\nShe described the mistaken killing of Brazilian electrician Jean Charles de Menezes - which happened during a counter-terrorism operation that she commanded - as \"an awful time\".\n\nMr de Menezes, 27, was shot in the head at London's Stockwell Tube in 2005 by police who mistook him for a terror suspect.\n\n\"I think about it quite often,\" said Ms Dick, who was ultimately absolved of any blame.\n\n\"I wish, wish, wish it hadn't happened, of course, but if anything it has made me a better leader, a better police officer and it has made me more resilient.\"\n\nMs Dick picked tracks including In Private by Dusty Springfield and the hymn Lord Of All Hopefulness among the tunes to take to the desert island with her, and her book choice was the complete works of Thomas Hardy.\n\nHer choice of luxury item was soap.\n\n\"Scent is very important to me, but it is the case that my colleagues think it is hilarious that I simply cannot smell, ever, the smell of cannabis,\" she joked.\n\nDesert Island Discs airs at 11:15 GMT on BBC Radio 4 and on the BBC Sounds app.", "The body of an 80-year-old man was found in a house in Bonhay Road\n\nA man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after three men in their 80s - two of whom were believed to have been twins - were found dead.\n\nThe bodies of two 84-year-olds, named locally as Dick and Roger Carter, were found in Exeter on Tuesday, a day after the body of an 80-year-old man was discovered.\n\nPolice said the level of violence used against all three had led them to link the deaths.\n\nOfficers were first called to Bonhay Road at 15:00 GMT on Monday, where they found the body of the 80-year-old.\n\nAt 13:00 on Tuesday, police attended a property in Cowick Lane, about 1.5 miles (2.4km) away, and discovered the bodies of the two other men.\n\nDet Chief Insp Roy Linden, from the major crime investigation team, said: \"At this time there are several and significant common factors between the two addresses.\n\n\"In terms of the level of violence used we decided last night to link the investigations - originally they were treated as two separate murder investigations.\"\n\nHowever, Supt Matt Lawler said officers were yet to establish a \"clear connection between the parties involved\".\n\nFlowers were left for the twins Dick and Roger Carter outside the property in Cowick Lane\n\nDick and Roger Carter were born in September 1934, and were both directors of an agricultural company called Traycrop from the early 1990s until it was dissolved in 2004.\n\n\"You had a job to tell them apart they looked so similar, even at their age,\" said one neighbour who did not want to be named.\n\nLocal shopkeeper Jim Wright, of Broadway Stores, said they were \"eccentric\" and \"reclusive\".\n\n\"Richard would come into the shop - I don't know the other one, he never came in.\"\n\nMr Wright's wife Kerry said: \"It's horrible to think something like that could happen outside your front door - your house is meant to be your safe place.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Three people who live close to the twin men in their 80s who were found dead give their reaction\n\nA police cordon was set up at the house, and a small collection of floral tributes could be seen outside.\n\nWindows of the large house were covered in what appeared to be whitewash and strips of tape.\n\nSupt Lawler said the force's local neighbourhood team would be visiting nearby residents over the next few days to provide \"advice, support, and to answer questions\".\n\nHe also urged people to check on their elderly neighbours, adding it was an opportunity for the community to \"come together\".\n\nPolice said both roads would be cordoned off for the rest of the day\n\nForensic work is still being carried out at both properties\n\nPolice have so far been unable to trace the family of the 80-year-old man.\n\nA neighbour said he was a \"very quiet man who kept himself to himself\".\n\nShirley Sharpe said she did not know him personally, but he had lived in the house for \"a good few years\".\n\nThe triple murder probe is being led by Devon and Cornwall Police's major crime investigation team\n\nSupt Lawler said he understood news of the deaths would \"cause significant and understandable concern and is an unprecedented event in our city which has shocked us all\".\n\nHe added: \"I know that everyone's immediate thoughts will be with the family and friends of these gentlemen, and as you would expect, we are providing as much support as we can to them.\"\n\nBoth roads would remain cordoned off for the rest of the day, Devon and Cornwall Police said.\n\nThe force has appealed for any potential witnesses from either area between 08:00 on Sunday and 13:00 on Tuesday to contact them.\n\nPolice added it was \"important to avoid speculation\" during the \"complex case\".\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. A BBC undercover investigation revealed an international dogfighting network. Warning: Contains distressing scenes of animal cruelty\n\nA BBC investigation into the dark world of organised dogfighting discovered an illegal trade of fighting dogs stretching from Eastern Europe to Wales.\n\nThe fighters face each other, ready. One rushes forward into a clash of jaws. The ground is already flecked with blood.\n\nThe lighter one is winning, locked onto its opponent. The black one has lost the ability to fight back. Now, it simply fights for survival.\n\nEventually it attempts to walk, but collapses, legs giving way, head hitting the ground.\n\nThe fight is over. It dies the next day.\n\nDogs don't do this naturally, experts say.\n\nThey are trained, by men who smile, encourage and place bets, as their animals tear themselves apart.\n\nThis is the disturbing world of organised dogfighting.\n\nIn 2016 the BBC was briefed exclusively on dogfighting by the British charity, the League Against Cruel Sports (LACS.)\n\nFormer police officers had identified key players in an international scene.\n\n\"There is still a significant amount going on,\" says the League's head of investigations Martin Simms. In the last year the organisation has received nearly 100 calls about dogfighting to a confidential hotline it runs.\n\nThe charity had evidence that men were breeding, training, buying, selling and betting on fighting dogs - or as they are known in the business, \"game dogs\".\n\nThe LACS investigation, codenamed Operation Bloodline, was aided by the internet.\n\nAnimal fighting is an ancient pastime, which, like most subcultures, has now found its place online.\n\nFor \"dog men\" - and it is almost always men - reputation is the currency that matters.\n\nSo the merits of particular dogs and breeders are now discussed on Facebook, on specialist closed forums, and - between those involved - on messaging apps.\n\nSometimes they operate in plain sight, using terminology the average reader might not understand. A dog could be described as a Grand Champion (Gr Ch), a five-times winner or a champion (Ch) with three wins.\n\nThey are not talking about Crufts.\n\nFormer police detective, Mark Randell, runs Hidden-In-Sight, a private investigations agency specialising in wildlife crime. He led the LACS investigation until 2017.\n\n\"'Ch' is used in kennel club circles but in a different context,\" he said. \"'Ch' next to a large muscled dog with a chain and facial injuries will always be dogfighting.\"\n\nRandell has identified around 70 British people linked with dogfighting.\n\nBut the LACS investigators had worked covertly to gather the evidence.\n\nPublishing it would blow their covers. So in 2017 we began our own investigation into the international dogfighting scene, and we picked a promising target.\n\nInvestigators say there is \"still a significant amount\" of dogfighting going on\n\nIvaylo Nikolov is 37, an intelligent, friendly, English-speaking Bulgarian from the Danube city of Ruse in the north of the country.\n\nIvo, as we came to know him, is associated with a company that buys, sells and transports dogs around the world.\n\nThe Balkans has become the centre of Europe's dogfighting business.\n\nIvo liked to document his work on Facebook. The League Against Cruel Sports gathered posts suggesting he has travelled to around 29 countries, including the UK, with his dogs.\n\nBut among the messages, status posts and check-ins were interesting clues.\n\nOne picture suggested the animals he transports are not just family pets\n\nA dog had ripped apart the bars of its travel cage, causing bloody damage in the process.\n\nIn other places he occasionally slipped up and used dogfighting terminology.\n\nIt was time to find out more about him.\n\nOne photograph appeared to show a dog had ripped apart the bars of its travel cage\n\nWe asked an Italian animal welfare investigator Sylvia (not her real name) to start sending Ivo WhatsApp messages.\n\nShe told him she had relatives in a hunting lodge interested in buying a certain type of dog.\n\nOne of them was Nik. Older, with an impressive beard, he looked the part.\n\nNik was from the countryside of Northern Italy, and spoke no English. Sylvia would translate for him in English.\n\nNeither Sylvia nor Nik were experts in match dogs, but behind the scenes a former police officer with decades of experience investigating dogfighting, was also working for the BBC, advising them about the right language to use.\n\nSylvia sent Ivo a picture of a fake handwritten note from the hunters, a shopping list of dogs they were interested in (with an actual shopping list for food added at the bottom as if she had been short of paper.)\n\nThe dogs specified included some for hunting, but also pitbulls, the breed of choice for dog fighting.\n\nThe American Pitbull Terrier is almost the only type prepared to fight for long periods. It is banned under Britain's controversial Dangerous Dogs Act.\n\nSilvia sent Ivo a list of the dogs she wanted\n\nIvo took the bait. The deal started to develop. The hunting dogs were forgotten as the weeks went on.\n\n\"Reliable and ready for match,\" he wrote in one message. Nik, he said, could \"bet good money on him\".\n\nThe price would be 3,000 euros (approximately £2,698) plus costs. The dog would be supplied by Ivo's contact, a kennel in Moldova, a day's drive from Bulgaria.\n\nBy this point we'd learnt a lot about Ivo and his dogs. The international salesman had been keen to demonstrate his credentials.\n\nHis WhatsApp messages kept Sylvia and Nik up-to-date on the dogfighting scene.\n\nHe sent a video of a match - apparently showing the dogs mentioned in his messages fighting in an undisclosed Eastern European location.\n\nSylvia received a match report. \"One win, in one hour and 17 minutes\", read a message. Fights sometimes stretch to two hours.\n\n\"Please keep the video very private,\" he added.\n\nTwo weeks later he was planning a trip to the Caribbean where he was expecting to see seven dogfights.\n\nBut eventually he sent a fight video including a dog he was offering for sale.\n\nThe video is difficult to watch.\n\nBy the end the dogs are covered with blood. The watching men hold \"break sticks\"- used to pull apart the animals - in hands which are also red with blood.\n\nThe confrontation is what is known as a \"roll\" - an informal match sometimes used to prove a dog's willingness to fight.\n\nIvo offered to take our undercover investigators to rolls.\n\n\"We will have fun in our field,\" he said.\n\nHe appeared to have a genuine love for dogs but also for dogfighting. By now, he believed our investigators shared his feelings.\n\nHe said: \"It's always very great joy for me when I meet people with such a great desire, and I'm not talking about sales, money or anything else. I'm only talking about the true pure love for the game.\"\n\nYet it was partly about money. Ivo was so impressed with the dog he was selling, he wanted to bet on it \"when he's ready to match\".\n\nWhat we didn't have was his home address or that of the kennels to which he was connected.\n\nHe had been careful not to give away this vital information.\n\nSo we began planning to lure him to a meeting. Everything he had suggested was illegal in Bulgaria.\n\nMeanwhile, information from the League Against Cruel Sports led us to valuable sources of intelligence about dogfighting online.\n\nThey included specialist websites where owners record the pedigrees of their dogs and sometimes the results of their matches.\n\nThey do not use their real identities, instead hiding behind nicknames or the names of their kennels.\n\nIn 2014 someone using the name The Gameyard posted a picture of a pitbull named Iceboy.\n\nSo who was Iceboy, and most importantly, who was The Gameyard?\n\nThe clue was in the background of the picture, which we identified from the shapes of distant hills and nearby buildings, as Merthyr Tydfil in South Wales, near the Brecon Beacons.\n\nIn fact it was possible to pinpoint the exact location at which the picture was taken - a patch of grass within walking distance of the home of dogfighter Kerry Evans.\n\nHe was convicted in 2014 of keeping or training Pit Bull Terriers but not, at that point, sent to prison.\n\nDogfighting in the UK is a crime which attracts maximum sentences of just six months, handed down by a magistrate rather than being heard in a crown court.\n\nCampaigners say that must change.\n\nWe decided to take a closer look at Evans - or rather his dogs - so we started to examine the animal's \"bloodline\".\n\nThe bloodline is a crucial concept in dogfighting. Dogs which perform well in fights are highly valued. Those with tenacity are described as displaying \"gameness\".\n\nThose who shy away are dismissed as \"curs\".\n\nKerry Evans was found guilty of keeping or training Pit Bull Terriers\n\nA game dog will pass its abilities to its offspring through breeding. And the bloodlines of top dogs are highly valued.\n\nOne, called Chinaman, was notorious for continuing a fight despite critical injuries. Its bloodline and its name have been passed to countless animals around the world.\n\nOn the pedigree websites Iceboy's father, or sire, was listed as \"Aspen\", a dog bred by \"Tomy Kennels\".\n\nBack to our Bulgarian dealer, Ivaylo Nikolov, or as his Facebook profile describes him, Ivaylo Tomy Flyman Nikolov.\n\nWe have evidence that he provided dogs to Kerry Evans in the UK, possibly to breed from.\n\nA Facebook post showed one of his dogs, named Aspen and listed as a champion, was brought to the UK in 2016. It may have been used to breed a number of British fighting dogs.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBy now, our undercover investigators, Sylvia and Nik, were making good progress.\n\nThey had arranged to meet Ivo in Bucharest, en route from his home across the Danube in Bulgaria to the kennels in Moldova where the fighting dog we had ordered would be picked up.\n\nThe BBC was not about to put 3,000 euros into the pocket of a dogfighter, so the meeting, in a burger restaurant, had to be handled carefully.\n\nCaptured by our hidden cameras, Ivo arrived, having battled through rush-hour traffic. The final details of the deal, thrashed out on WhatsApp, were agreed face-to-face.\n\nIvo's Moldovan dog breeder contact was giving them the pick of the litter, he said.\n\n\"He gets the best ones and he either goes to match or he calls me and he says 'these are the two or three ones which are the best ones. If you have a good client I may sell, nothing else.'\"\n\nSylvia asked how we would get the dog through customs checks. Transporting a dog for use in fighting is illegal.\n\nIvo said his contact in Moldova \"is actually a state vet in his region\" and can issue \"any document we want\".\n\nBut he said, \"when you travel with Moldovan papers you have too much checks so I have made Bulgarian documents, also blood tests and export certificates.\"\n\nOften the exact breed of the dogs are 'fudged' to make it harder for customs officials to detect whether they fall foul of laws such as Britain's Dangerous Dogs Act.\n\nDog microchips can also be inserted by anyone with the right device.\n\nIt was time to confront Ivaylo Nikolov as he left the restaurant.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nApparently stunned at being exposed, he refused to make any comment.\n\n\"I don't know you, I don't want to talk to you,\" he said.\n\nPursued by a BBC camera crew he attempted to get away. He walked straight past his car parked nearby, perhaps concerned its licence plate might be captured on camera.\n\nIn fact we had already identified the plate, which briefly appeared in a video he had previously sent to our undercover investigators.\n\nNikolov refused to answer any of our questions. But a couple of days later, the Facebook account which he had told our investigators was crucial to what he did, was taken down. YouTube links he had sent, also disappeared.\n\nHe hasn't responded to our further attempts to contact him.\n\nDogfighting is illegal in most of the world's developed countries.\n\nUK law bans not only fighting, but also owning fighting dogs, training them to fight, trading animals and even filming fights without good reason.\n\nThe RSPCA's head of investigations, Mike Butcher, is the country's only expert witness in dogfighting able to give evidence in court.\n\nHe is fascinated by the dogfighting criminals he has encountered on raids with the police.\n\nThey have \"an obsessive love\" for dogs, he says.\n\n\"We've been to houses before where we've said we're taking your money, your drugs, your gun. They say 'yeah right but you're not having my dog though'. I've seen them attack four or five coppers, or burst into tears.\"\n\nYet organised dogfights inevitably result in animal deaths and serious injuries.\n\nThe referee usually has no power to stop the fight. Only a fatality or an owner withdrawing their dog brings the cruelty to an end.\n\nThe League Against Cruel Sports believes dogfighting is not being properly tackled.\n\nIt wants a national register of owners who are banned from owning dogs, a review of the Dangerous Dogs Act and tougher sentences.\n\nIts research raises concerns not just about high-level organised fights, but also the use of dogs by street gangs, either to settle scores through ad-hoc matches or for protection.\n\nLast month three dogs were seized at a property in Dumfries\n\nDogfighters are also more likely to be involved in other types of serious crime.\n\nAnd there is evidence of a low-level group of \"wannabe\" dogfighters obsessed with the culture of \"strong\" dogs.\n\nThese are dogs who may not take part in matches, but are trained to be aggressive, risking injury to other animals and people.\n\nDuring our investigation we obtained footage of dogs being kicked or lifted into the air by their jaws, to improve the strength of their bite.\n\nOne chilling video from a Northern Ireland dogfighting case showed men shaking a cat out of a tree, so that it could be ripped apart by a dog on the ground.\n\nThe charity's further investigations have produced a wider list of possible suspects.\n\nAs a result, recently the Scottish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals raided a house in Dumfries, seizing three dogs.\n\nAn animal cruelty investigation has been launched.\n\nAs for Ivo, after we confronted him, his social media profiles were taken offline and, sadly, the dog he offered us remains in the world of dogfighting.", "From incredible escapes to bribe allegations, smuggling drugs in plastic bananas to spying on his wife and mistresses, here are five astonishing things about El Chapo.\n\nThe Mexican drug kingpin has been found guilty on all 10 counts at his drug trafficking trial at a federal court in New York.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC Radio 1's Nesta McGregor on what we don't know about 21 Savage\n\nRapper 21 Savage has been granted release from US custody on bond and will be freed on Wednesday in the lead-up to his deportation hearing, his lawyers say.\n\nThe 26-year-old, real name Shayaa Bin Abraham-Joseph, was arrested last week by US immigration agents.\n\nThey say he is British and in the US illegally.\n\nHe moved to the US in July 2005 aged 12 and failed to leave when his visa expired a year later, US officials say.\n\nImmigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) say the musician is a convicted felon.\n\nHis lawyers have accused the US of trying to \"intimidate\" the rapper into leaving the country.\n\nThey say he arrived in the US from the UK in 1999, aged seven.\n\nOn Tuesday, attorneys Charles Kuck, Dina LaPolt and Alex Spiro said in a statement that they had been in talks with immigration officials to \"clarify\" the rapper's legal standing and his eligibility for bond.\n\nThere are a number of different types of bond in the US, including cash and property, and it is not clear what has been agreed in this case.\n\n\"In the last 24 hours, in the wake of the Grammy Awards at which he was scheduled to attend and perform, we received notice that [Shayaa] was granted an expedited hearing,\" the lawyers' statement reads.\n\n\"21 Savage asked us to send a special message to his fans and supporters... [he] is grateful for the support from around the world and is more than ever ready to be with his loved ones and continue making music.\"\n\nLast week, US rapper Jay-Z said 21 Savage's arrest was \"an absolute travesty\" and hired Mr Spiro to help with his fight against deportation.\n\nThis Facebook post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Facebook The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts. Skip facebook post by JAY-Z This article contains content provided by Facebook. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Facebook 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. Facebook content may contain adverts.\n\nFor many, the rapper's arrest came out of the blue and has raised more questions than answers.\n\nMr Kuck said the move was \"based upon incorrect information about prior criminal charges\" and that his client had never tried to conceal his immigration status from authorities.\n\nIn 2017, he applied for a US \"U Visa\" on the basis that he had been the \"victim of crime\", he added.\n\nU Visas are given to non-citizen victims of crime who intend to co-operate with US authorities.\n\nIn 2013, the rapper was shot six times on his 21st birthday in an attack that took the life of his best friend.\n\nMr Kuck said earlier that 21 Savage was \"not a flight risk\" and was a \"prominent member of the music industry\" who would be recognised if he tried to flee.\n\nHe said the rapper also had US-born children, which should prevent his client's deportation.", "Andrew Hill has started to give evidence at the Old Bailey\n\nA pilot accused of killing 11 men when his Hawker Hunter jet crashed at the Shoreham Airshow has denied claims he was cavalier or thrill-seeking.\n\nGiving evidence at the Old Bailey, Andrew Hill said \"it was the primary aim of the display to avoid risk\".\n\nIt is the first time the ex-military pilot has spoken in public since he was pulled from the wreckage of his plane.\n\nMr Hill, 54, from Sandon in Hertfordshire, denies 11 counts of manslaughter by gross negligence.\n\nHis vintage jet crashed on to the A27 on 22 August 2015 after failing to complete an aerobatic manoeuvre.\n\nAsked by his defence barrister Karim Khalil if he had ever \"any mind to cause risk to anybody\" at an air show, Mr Hill said: \"Absolutely not. It was the primary aim of the display to avoid risk.\"\n\nQuestioned about what he got out of displays, he said it was \"probably the highest level of discipline in what you could do with flying an aircraft, particularly in this environment now I'm in the civilian world\".\n\nMr Hill went on to reject the prosecution's description of him as a \"cavalier pilot\", saying he \"took a structured, disciplined approach\" to flying.\n\n\"I held back from areas I was uncomfortable doing... we have our strengths and weaknesses and experience,\" he told the court.\n\nAndrew Hill's Hawker Hunter jet was too low when he performed a loop, the court was told\n\nTaking the court through his thoughts and processes when preparing for display flights, Mr Hill said he was known for his \"detail and preparation and planning\".\n\nBefore he took off at North Weald airfield on the day of the crash, he was seen walking around in his flying suit.\n\nHe told the court he had been carrying out a practice by walking through the display, which is something he does with all his displays, after making diagrams of his routines on paper.\n\nJurors were shown more footage of Mr Hill flying at different air shows, including him carrying out the same \"bent loop\" stunt in the same aircraft at an air show at Shannon Airport just over a month before the crash.\n\nThe court heard about a flight at Duxford where Mr Hill received a \"display line\" call, alerting him to the possibility he might breach the \"display line\".\n\nMr Hill said: \"I disregarded it because I was concentrating on flying.\"\n\nHe said later the flight information controller apologised to him for making the call and told him he had not realised what he was doing.\n\nAsked if he had any concerns on whether he could control the manoeuvres he had in mind, Mr Hill replied: \"No.\"\n\nAndrew Hill was thrown from the cockpit of the Hawker Hunter after it crashed\n\nJurors earlier heard Mr Hill was educated in Kent, and was recruited into the RAF as a frontline pilot straight from university.\n\nDuring his career, he was on active service for a month in northern Iraq, and also received an award for writing a computer programme that contributed to aircraft safety.\n\nMr Hill left the RAF in 1995 and went into civil aviation, becoming a commercial pilot starting with Virgin Atlantic before moving to British Airways and progressing \"relatively quickly\" to the most senior position of captain.\n\nHe suffered burns, fractures and a collapsed lung after the vintage jet he was flying crashed.\n\nMr Hill had passed medical checks before the crash, while tests and scans carried out afterwards did not show any sign of a medical condition - including cognitive impairment - which may have affected his health leading up to the crash, the court heard.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The trial of accused druglord Joaquin \"El Chapo\" Guzman is nearing its end after eight weeks of evidence from the prosecution\n\nThe trial of Joaquín \"El Chapo\" Guzmán has provided shocking revelations about the Mexican drug lord's life.\n\nBelow are some of the most disturbing testimonies by witnesses in the high-profile trial in New York as well as some allegations which are plain bizarre.\n\nA trusted hitman for El Chapo kept a \"murder room\" in his mansion on the US border, which featured a drain on the floor to more easily clean up after slayings.\n\nEdgar Galvan testified in January that Antonio \"Jaguar\" Marrufo had a room with white tiles that was sound-proofed \"so no noise comes out\".\n\n\"In that house, no-one comes out,\" Galvan told jurors.\n\nGalvan said his role in the organisation was to smuggle weapons into the US, so that Marrufo could use them to \"clear\" the region of rivals.\n\nAt the time, he was living in El Paso, Texas, while Marrufo was living in Ciudad Juarez, just across the US-Mexico border.\n\nBut both men are now in jail on firearms and gun charges.\n\nDocuments unsealed just two days before jury deliberations offered disturbing new accusations against El Chapo from Alex Cifuentes, a Colombian drug lord who has described himself as El Chapo's \"right-hand man\".\n\nCifuentes, who prosecutors say spent two years hiding from authorities with El Chapo in the Mexican mountains, claims that El Chapo would drug and rape girls as young as 13 years old, according to the New York Times.\n\nA woman named Comadre Maria would routinely send El Chapo photographs of young girls that he and his associates could pick from.\n\nThis same woman was involved as an intermediary for El Chapo's dealings with Mexico's president, Cifuentes alleged during the trial.\n\nFor $5,000 (£3,800), Cifuentes claims Comadre Maria would send the selected girls up to Mr Guzman's mountain camps, where they would be drugged with \"a powdery substance\" and raped.\n\nThe documents allege that El Chapo called the youngest girls \"his vitamins\" and said raping them gave him \"life\".\n\nMr Guzman's lawyer said his client denies these allegations and added that the claims had been \"too prejudicial and unreliable to be admitted at trial\".\n\nEl Chapo's wife, Emma Coronel, sat quietly through a session where the FBI shared her husband's texts to his lovers\n\nCifuentes claims former Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, who served from 2012-18, accepted a $100m (£77m) bribe from El Chapo.\n\nHe alleges Mr Pena Nieto contacted El Chapo after taking office in 2012, asking for $250m in return for ending a manhunt for the drug cartel kingpin. El Chapo instead offered him $100m, which the new president allegedly accepted.\n\nMr Pena Nieto has not publicly commented on the allegations.\n\n\"El Chapo\" used his slew of mistresses to help further his narcotics operation - and his text history proves it, the FBI alleges.\n\nThanks to the Flexi-spy software Guzmán used to spy on his wife, Emma Coronel, and the women with whom he had affairs, the FBI was able to present his texts in court.\n\nGuzmán and Ms Coronel fawned over their daughters in many texts, as parents do, but some had a distinctly \"El Chapo\" sensibility.\n\nIn one sent on the twins' six-month birthday, the New York Daily News reported, he said: \"Our [daughter] is fearless, I'm going to give her an AK-47 so she can hang with me.\"\n\nAnother damaging series of texts relayed how El Chapo fled a villa during a raid by US and Mexican officials.\n\n\"I had to run out at three in the afternoon,\" Guzmán told his wife. \"I saw them pounding on the door next door, but I was able to jump out.\"\n\nHe then reportedly asked her to bring him new clothes, shoes and black moustache dye.\n\nGuzmán tracked around 50 people through phones and computers, according to the drug lord's ex-techie, Cristian Rodriguez.\n\nMr Rodriguez told the court \"El Chapo\" frequently turned on his lovers' microphones after ending calls with them \"to see what they would say about him\", the Daily News reported.\n\nOne of those lovers was Agustina Cabanillas Acosta, who allegedly helped \"El Chapo\" make deals across the region.\n\nIn between sweet nothings, they discussed drug shipments and \"non-stop\" sales.\n\nThe alleged kingpin also reportedly paid for Ms Acosta's liposuction.\n\nMs Acosta, meanwhile, was well aware of her lover's snooping - \"I'm way smarter than him,\" she reportedly texted her friends.\n\nLucero Guadalupe Sanchez Lopez, girlfriend (2nd left) of accused Mexican drug lord Joaquin \"El Chapo\" Guzman (2nd right), testifies as his wife Emma Coronel (right) looks on\n\nIn the most gruesome testimony to date, witness Isaias Valdez Rios described seeing \"El Chapo\" brutally beat at least three men before shooting them.\n\nIn one incident, Mr Valdez Rios said two people originally from Sinaloa who had joined the rival Los Zetas cartel were deemed traitors and rounded up by Guzmán's hitmen.\n\nFor more than three hours the drug lord brutally beat them, Guzmán's former bodyguard said.\n\n\"They were completely like rag dolls - their bones were totally broken. They could not move. And Joaquin was still hitting them with the branch and his weapon too,\" Mr Valdez Rios said.\n\nThe two men were later driven to an area where they could see a large bonfire.\n\nThere, the jury was told, \"El Chapo\" cursed each one before shooting them in the head with his rifle.\n\nThe leader of the Sinaloa cartel ordered that they be thrown in the bonfire, telling his men that he did not want any bones to remain, Mr Valdez Rios said.\n\nHe said the third man murdered by \"El Chapo\" was a member of the rival Arellano Felix cartel.\n\n\"He had burns made with an iron on his back, his shirt was stuck to his skin. He had burns made with a car lighter all over his body. His feet were burned,\" Mr Valdez Rios told the court.\n\nThe man was then locked in a wooden structure for days. Then he was brought blindfolded to a graveyard, his hands and legs bound.\n\n\"El Chapo\" started to interrogate him, and while he was responding, shot him with his handgun.\n\nThe man was still gasping for air - but he was dumped in a hole and buried alive, Mr Valdez Rios said.\n\nThe secrets of the drug lord's daring escape from a Mexican maximum security prison in 2015 were revealed by a former cartel associate.\n\nTestifying in court, Damaso Lopez said his boss' wife and sons had been involved from the start to get El Chapo out of Altiplano prison.\n\nHe mentioned secret meetings in 2014, where Emma Coronel delivered detailed instructions from her husband to the plotters.\n\n\"A tunnel had to be built and they [plotters] should start to work,\" Ms Coronel said.\n\n\"El Chapo\" used a specially adapted motorcycle to ride through the tunnel\n\nThe kingpin's sons later bought a property near the prison, and the digging started.\n\nA GPS watch was smuggled into the prison, giving the plotters exact co-ordinates where the drug lord's prison cell was.\n\nThe one-mile (1.6km) tunnel took months to complete, and \"El Chapo\" had complained that digging was too loud and he could hear the \"noise\" from his cell, Mr Lopez said.\n\nHe added that the concrete below his boss' cell \"had been very difficult to break through\".\n\nDespite all the problems, \"El Chapo\" escaped in July 2015, riding on a specially adapted small motorcycle through the tunnel.\n\nYet another mistress, Lucero Guadalupe Sanchez Lopez, revealed to the court details of the drug lord's 2014 escape from Mexican marines.\n\nWhen the marines burst into his safehouse, Ms Lopez said the alleged drug lord took off running - stark naked.\n\nThey used an escape tunnel under a bathtub to flee, trudging through mud for an hour before surfacing, according to the New York Post.\n\nAs the mistress began to cry while testifying, the drug lord's wife, Ms Coronel, reportedly cackled in the gallery.\n\nJust days after his affair with Ms Lopez, \"El Chapo\" would be captured by authorities - once again naked - in bed with Ms Coronel.\n\nShe and her husband were both in matching burgundy-coloured jackets during Ms Lopez's testimony, in an attempt to show their solidarity, reports the BBC's Tara McKelvey from court.\n\nThe drug lord's reputed extravagance extended even to his extensive collection of weaponry, the trial has heard.\n\nAmong his prized possessions were a diamond-encrusted, monogrammed pistol and a gold-plated AK-47.\n\nMuch of the evidence against the suspected narco chief has come from the prosecution's star witness, Jesús Zambada.\n\nMr Zambada testified that the alleged drug kingpin had the brother of another cartel leader killed because he did not shake Guzmán's hand.\n\nRodolfo Fuentes had met Guzmán to make peace in a cartel and gang war, the court heard.\n\n\"When [Rodolfo] left, Chapo gave him his hand and said, 'See you later, friend,' and Rodolfo just left him standing there with his hand extended,\" Mr Zambada said.\n\nMr Fuentes and his wife were shot and killed outside a cinema soon afterwards.\n\nFormer Sinaloa lieutenant Miguel Angel Martinez also testified for the government, telling the jury he once asked \"El Chapo\" why he killed people.\n\n\"And he answered me: 'Either your mom's going to cry or their mom's going to cry.'\"\n\nA former cartel leader told the court how \"El Chapo\" once had his own cousin killed after the man lied about being out of town.\n\nJuan Guzman had told the drug boss he would be travelling, only to be spotted at a park in the city.\n\n\"My compadre became angry, because he had lied to him,\" ex-cartel capo Damaso Lopez Nunez said.\n\nTo make an example out of Juan, \"El Chapo\" allegedly ordered him to be interrogated and assassinated. Juan's secretary, who was with him at the time, was also killed.\n\nThe drug boss' mistress Ms Lopez later told the court she remembered being with him when the news of Juan's death arrived.\n\n\"He said from that point on, whoever betrayed him, they would die,\" Ms Lopez said. \"Whether they were family or women, they were going to die.\"\n\nAssistant US Attorney Adam Fels said in his opening argument that \"El Chapo\" had sent \"more than a line of cocaine for every single person in the United States\" - in just four of his shipments.\n\nThat amounts to over 328 million lines of cocaine, said the prosecutor.\n\nMr Zambada said that once, in 1994, Guzmán gave the order to sink a boat carrying 20 tonnes of cocaine to evade authorities.\n\nDrug kingpin Joaquin \"El Chapo\" Guzmán is escorted into a helicopter at Mexico City\"s airport following his recapture during an intense military operation in Los Mochis, in Sinaloa State\n\nThe court also heard that Guzmán once used a bazooka for target practice - to relax on a family holiday.\n\nMr Zambada said \"El Chapo\" took the anti-tank rocket launcher with him on a trip with relatives in 2005.\n\nHe decided to \"test out\" the weapon after the group had finished target practice with assault rifles, according to the witness.\n\nSome of the biggest news from testimony was how the Sinaloa cartel allegedly paid off a host of top Mexican officials to ensure their drug business ran smoothly.\n\nMr Zambada said the traffickers had $50m (£39m) in protection money for former Mexican Secretary of Public Security García Luna, so that corrupt officers would be appointed to head police operations.\n\nMr Zambada said he gave the money to Mr Luna in briefcases full of cash. Mr Luna has denied the allegations.\n\nWhen former Mexico City Mayor Gabriel Regino was in line to become the next secretary of security, Mr Zambada says the cartel bribed him, too.\n\nMr Regino, who is now a professor, has also denied the claims.\n\n\"El Chapo\" (right) is the highest-ranking alleged drug lord to face trial in the US so far\n\nA 6in (15cm) figurine of a folk hero dubbed the narco-saint has been spotted on a shelf in a conference room used by the defendant's lawyers at the court, the New York Post reported.\n\nThe statue of Jesús Malverde, which has him seated on a purple throne with bags of cash, appeared on Wednesday, one of Guzmán's lawyers told the newspaper.\n\nJesús Malverde has been celebrated as a Robin Hood-type hero who, legend says, stole from the rich and gave to the poor in the early 1900s.\n\nMr Martinez told the court Guzmán was so wealthy, he had a private zoo on top of his numerous properties - including a $10m (£8) beach house as well as a yacht he named after himself (\"Chapito\").\n\nBuilt in the early '90s, El Chapo's zoo reportedly had lions, tigers, and crocodiles, as well as a little train to ferry guests through it.\n\nThe property also had a house, pool and tennis courts nearby, Mr Martinez said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nShadow Chancellor John McDonnell has called Sir Winston Churchill a \"villain\" over his role in dealing with striking miners in 1910.\n\nAsked at a Politico website event, for a one-word answer on whether Churchill was a hero or villain, he paused and replied: \"Tonypandy - villain\".\n\nThe Tonypandy riots saw troops sent to control striking miners who wrecked shops and mine owners' property.\n\nThe wartime PM was voted the greatest Briton in a BBC poll in 2002.\n\nHis grandson Sir Nicholas Soames described Mr McDonnell's remark as \"a very foolish and stupid thing to say\".\n\nThe Conservative MP told The Telegraph: \"I think my grandfather's reputation can withstand a publicity-seeking assault from a third-rate, Poundland Lenin. I don't think it will shake the world.\"\n\nAnd the prime minister's official spokesman said: \"The British public will reach its own judgement on this characterisation of Sir Winston Churchill.\"\n\nThe spokesman added that Theresa May had a portrait of Churchill hanging on the wall of her study in Number 10 and paid tribute to his \"strong leadership, determination and unwavering personality\" which \"inspired our country through our darkest hour\".\n\nAsked about his comments later, Mr McDonnell told ITV News the Churchill \"was obviously a hero during the Second World War but there was another side to Churchill\".\n\nHe said many working class people had been angry about his actions as home secretary during the Tonypandy riots.\n\nHe added: \"If it's prompted a more rounded debate about Churchill's role, well I welcome it.\"\n\nLabour MP Ian Austin posted a picture of the wartime leader on social media, calling him \"a real British hero\".\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 Ian Austin This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnd former foreign secretary Boris Johnson tweeted that the UK's debt to Churchill was \"incalculable\":\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 Boris Johnson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBut Mr McDonnell had some support from Labour's MP for the Rhondda, Chris Bryant, who said Churchill was \"never welcome\" in his constituency:\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Chris Bryant This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnd former Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood agreed with the shadow chancellor:\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 4 by LeanneWood 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Tonypandy riots took place on the evenings of 7 and 8 November 1910 and involved violent clashes between striking miners and the police, with soldiers arriving on the second day.\n\nThe incident haunted Churchill for the rest of his career and many of his critics saw it as an anti-trade union stance.\n\nChurchill was voted the greatest Briton in a BBC poll in 2002", "Islamic State group (IS) members and their families have been fleeing the group's last sliver of territory in eastern Syria, as US-backed militia advance towards them.\n\nMen, women and children, some with serious injuries, others describing running out of food, have been leaving the group's rapidly shrinking enclave, which the US military on Tuesday said amounted to about 50 sq km (20 sq miles).\n\nThey have been arriving at the village of Baghuz to surrender to the US-backed Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).\n\nOn Wednesday US President Donald Trump said said territory held by the Islamic State group in Syria and Iraq could be \"100%\" liberated as early as next week.\n\nMany of those arriving in Baghuz have injuries, including those sustained from incoming strikes by the array of forces battling IS.\n\nSDF commanders were negotiating with IS over a possible deal to free several SDF members held captive by IS and possibly give the militants safe passage to the province of Idlib in north-western Syria, which is not under Syrian government control, the New York Times reported.\n\nMost of those emerging from the desert over the past two weeks have been IS militants' wives and children, reports say. Once they have arrived they wait to be screened by the SDF before being told they will be taken to detention camps in northern Syria.\n\nHowever, fighters themselves have also been fleeing. Germans Sabina (L) aged 34 and Leonora (R), 19 are two of the three wives of German jihadist Martin Lemke, who also fled and was detained by the SDF, his wives said. They arrived in Baghuz at the end of last month.\n\nThe fighters include Syrians, Iraqis who had earlier moved to IS strongholds in Syria as the US-backed Iraqi army retook IS-held territory in Iraq, and foreign fighters from European countries and elsewhere who travelled to the region to join the group.\n\nSome are taken to detention camps, others to prison, the New York Times reported.\n\nIn the nearby town of Hajin, SDF fighters have found evidence of how IS administered it. Here they are seen examining an IS prison.\n\nThe town's mayor Ali Jaber has found documents including this one urging residents to review their accounts with the local alms tax centre.\n\nSome displaced Syrians have already begun returning to their homes in Hajin after it was retaken by the SDF last month, but much of the town was destroyed in the fighting.", "Cockpit footage from the jet involved in the Shoreham air crash showed there was \"no sign\" the pilot may have blacked out, a court has heard.\n\nAviation expert and prosecution witness Jonathan Whaley told the Old Bailey it appeared all the movements made by pilot Andrew Hill were deliberate.\n\n\"His movements seem to be positive and for reasons, whatever those reasons are,\" he said.\n\nEleven men were killed when the Hawker Hunter he was flying crashed on to the A27 outside the Shoreham Airshow, in West Sussex, on 22 August 2015 following a loop manoeuvre.\n\nMr Whaley, a display pilot who has flown hundreds of flights in a Hawker Hunter, told the jury the turn performed by Mr Hill as he entered into his final \"bent loop\" was \"relatively smooth, not suddenly yanking G\".\n\nCommenting on the entire cockpit footage of the final flight shown to jurors, he said the view from the jet upside down before the final dive would have made him feel \"deeply uncomfortable\".\n\nThe Hawker Hunter jet prior to plummeting on to the A27 on 22 August 2015\n\nThe prosecution argue Mr Hill should have known he did not have the height to dive down safely and should have carried out an escape manoeuvre instead.\n\nAs the plane descends before the crash, Mr Whaley described it as being in \"deep stall\" with the wings rocking \"when one wing stalls more than the other\".\n\nHe said due to the massive drag produced by the plane in deep stall no amount of power - even full power - would make any difference.\n\n\"You're going down, that's what's going to happen,\" he told the court.\n\nMr Whaley was later asked what the pilot should do if he realised he did not have the required height.\n\n\"Stop putting the nose down. Don't commit to the loop,\" he said.\n\n\"How deeply ingrained is this?\" he was asked.\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. Molly Russell's father told the BBC he believed Instagram had 'helped kill my daughter'\n\nHarmful suicide and self-harm content online \"has the effect of grooming people to take their own lives\", the suicide prevention minister has said.\n\nJackie Doyle-Price has told the BBC that social media companies must \"step up\" to protect vulnerable users.\n\nIt comes after links were made between the suicide of teenager Molly Russell and her exposure to harmful content.\n\nThe government is to roll out new laws to remove illegal content and protect vulnerable people later this year.\n\nDigital Minister Margot James promised to crack down on many of the social media platforms that have \"fallen short\" in their response to online bullying, abuse and misinformation.\n\nIn a speech at a conference for Safer Internet Day, Ms James said: \"We will soon be publishing an Online Harms White Paper which will set out clear expectations for companies to help keep their users, particularly children, safe online.\n\n\"We will introduce laws that force social media platforms to remove illegal content, and to prioritise the protection of users beyond their commercial interests.\"\n\nMeanwhile Ms Doyle-Price was due to meet Facebook on Tuesday to discuss what action it is taking.\n\nShe told BBC Breakfast: \"We want social media not really to be doing this through the stick of the law, we want them to do it to look after their users.\"\n\nShe said she hoped senior staff at Facebook, which also owns Instagram, would act - ideally using algorithms to protect people rather than \"bombard\" them with advertising.\n\nMs Doyle-Price said: \"Sometimes they do [act], but more often they don't\".\n\nAddressing the National Suicide Prevention Alliance Conference on Tuesday, she said: \"If companies cannot behave responsibly and protect their users, we will legislate.\n\n\"They shouldn't wait for government to tell them what to do. It says a lot about the values of companies if they do not take action voluntarily.\"\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, she said: \"We could use fines, we could make social media companies much more responsible and apply the full force of the law to them if we feel they are being negligent in their duty of care to their users.\"\n\nThe Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) and the Home Office are due to publish a white paper on the government's approach to online safety later this year.\n\nA family photo of Molly, taken in 2009\n\nMs Doyle-Price said the father of Molly Russell, who took her own life in 2017 aged 14, had done much to highlight the issue.\n\n\"I am full of admiration for Molly's father for being so brave and frank,\" she said.\n\nMolly's father, Ian Russell, told the BBC he believed Instagram had \"helped kill my daughter\".\n\nWhen her family looked at her Instagram account after her death, they found distressing material about depression and suicide.\n\nMs Doyle-Price said that after Mr Russell spoke out, \"so many other parents have spoken out...it has really focused people's minds\".\n\nShe added: \"The really shocking thing is that he had absolutely no idea that his daughter was looking at these things online.\"\n\nThe boss of Instagram, Adam Mosseri, is due to meet the health secretary this week over the platform's handling of content promoting self-harm and suicide.\n\nWriting in the Daily Telegraph, he said Molly's case had left him \"deeply moved\" and he accepted the site had work to do.\n\nHe wrote: \"We rely heavily on our community to report this content, and remove it as soon as it's found.\n\n\"The bottom line is we do not yet find enough of these images before they're seen by other people.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Libby used to post images of her self-harm injuries on Instagram\n\nIn a separate case, Libby, 16, and her father Ian have shared their story after hearing of Molly's death.\n\nAt the age of 12, Libby, became \"hooked\" on posting and viewing self-harm images on Instagram - including pictures of cutting, burning and overdosing.\n\nHer father said his family reported such images to Instagram, but the social media company did nothing.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, Libby described how she was drawn in to an online community and recalled sharing pictures of her fresh cuts with 8,000 followers.\n\nRead more of her story here.\n\nIf you've been affected by self-harm, eating disorders or emotional distress, help and support is available via the BBC Action Line.", "Two men who lost their lives in a Scottish Highlands mountaineering trip have been described as giants of the climbing world.\n\nAberdeen-born Andy Nisbet and Inverness-based Steve Perry got into difficulty on Ben Hope on Tuesday.\n\nTheir bodies were recovered from the mountain in Sutherland on Wednesday.\n\nFellow climbers paid tribute to the pair, who were highly experienced and regarded, with one saying they were \"gargantuan characters\".\n\nMr Nisbet, who helped establish 1,000 winter climbing routes, was lauded for his \"boundless enthusiasm\" and \"pioneering attitude\".\n\nMr Perry, an accomplished hillwalker, mountain biker and climber, was originally from Lancaster and grew up in Todmorden in Yorkshire.\n\nIt is believed that the men, who were regular climbing partners, had finished their ascent and fell while on the upper slopes of the 927m (3,041ft) Munro classed mountain.\n\nBoth were highly experienced and Mr Nisbet's appearance and climbing style earned him the nicknames \"Honey Monster\" and \"The Droid\".\n\nAt the 2014 Fort William Mountain Festival he received the Scottish Award for Excellence in Mountain Culture.\n\nInformation gathered on climbs by the 65-year-old former Scottish Mountaineering Club president appeared in Scottish Mountaineering Club guidebooks.\n\nThe bodies of the men were found by a Coastguard helicopter crew on the north-west side of the mountain\n\nMountaineer and broadcaster Cameron McNeish said he was \"utterly devastated\" at the news of the men's deaths.\n\nHe told BBC Radio Scotland: \"They were both gargantuan characters.\"\n\nMr McNeish said climbers knew there would be risks tackling Scotland's mountains in winter and the pair would have \"managed the risks as well as they could\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Climbing ‘pioneer’ Andy Nisbet, one of two men who died on Ben Hope, spoke about his love for mountaineering in a 2014 interview.\n\nHe added that \"sometimes accidents happen\".\n\nGiving his tribute, David Whalley, a former RAF mountain rescue team leader, said: \"I knew Andy very well. He was roughly the same age as me, but what an incredible mountaineer in every aspect.\n\n\"He was the most active prolific mountaineer that Scotland has ever produced.\n\n\"He has climbed over 1,000-plus new winter routes all over Scotland - his enthusiasm was dynamic.\n\n\"Never in the history of Scottish mountaineering has anyone been so prolific or enthusiastic and introduced so many to the mountains especially in winter.\"\n\nMountain rescue teams, the Coastguard and police were involved in an initial search for the men and the later recovery of their bodies\n\nA number of mountain rescue teams were involved in the Ben Hope operation\n\nWriting in a UK Climbing blog, climber Natalie Berry, who was winner of 2016's Scottish Youth Ambassador for Mountain Culture award, said the men had a \"strong\" climbing partnership.\n\nMountaineering Scotland, an organisation representing outdoor pursuits enthusiasts, said it was \"shocked and saddened\" to learn of the climbers' deaths.\n\nA spokesman said: \"Andy was popular and well respected in the Scottish climbing scene with a vast knowledge and experience of Scotland's mountains.\n\n\"He was a prolific climber of new routes and his successful partnership with Steve had resulted in a number of first ascents on Ben Hope in recent years.\n\nAndy Nisbet in an image released at the time he won Scottish Award for Excellence in Mountain Culture\n\n\"Steve Perry was also a well-known mountaineer, who had completed an on-foot round of the Munros in the winter of 2005-06 and was a keen climber in both summer and winter, who listed new routing in winter Scotland as one of his favourite climbing experiences.\n\n\"Their deaths are a huge loss to the mountaineering community in Scotland and, in particular, we send our condolences to family and friends of both Andy and Steve.\"\n\nMountaineering Scotland also paid tribute to mountain rescue teams and the Coastguard who were involved in responding to the accident.\n\nAssynt Mountain Rescue Team was supported by Stornoway and Inverness Coastguard helicopter crews, police and also Dundonnell and Lossiemouth mountain rescue teams in recovering the climbers' bodies.\n\nRescue teams and the Coastguard had earlier been involved in a search for the two men.\n\nThe Assynt team said: \"Our sincere condolences and thoughts go out to all the family and friends, many of whom are involved in mountain rescue.\"\n• None Two walkers die in fall on Ben Hope\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Pilcher published her first novel under her own name in 1955\n\nRosamunde Pilcher, author of The Shell Seekers, has died at the age of 94 following a short illness, her agent has confirmed.\n\nThe novelist penned nearly 30 romance and women's fiction books between 1949 and 2000 when she retired from writing.\n\nBorn on the north coast of Cornwall, Pilcher began writing at the age of seven and published her first short story at 18.\n\nShe once described her books as \"frightfully wet little novels\".\n\nWhen she began writing for Mills & Boon in the late 1940s, her stories were published under the pseudonym Jane Fraser.\n\nHer first novel as Rosamunde Pilcher, A Secret to Tell, was published in 1955.\n\nThe Shell Seekers, considered one of her most famous works, was published in 1988.\n\nIt centres on Penelope Keeling, an elderly British woman who reflects on her life and her relationships with her adult children.\n\nThe book won her international recognition, becoming one of her biggest successes and selling more than five million copies worldwide.\n\nHer books inspired the Four Seasons miniseries in 2008\n\nIn 1989 it became the best-selling book in America, the same year Angela Lansbury starred in a TV adaptation.\n\nBy the mid 1990s, it was reported that Pilcher was one of the highest-earning women in Britain.\n\nIn 2003 The Shell Seekers was nominated by the British public as one of the top 100 novels in the BBC's Big Read.\n\nIt was also adapted into a stage play in 2005 and a mini-series starring Vanessa Redgrave in 2006.\n\nPilcher's novels and short stories are especially popular in Germany, where the national TV station ZDF has adapted her works into more than 100 films.\n\nThe author's romanticised outlook on Cornwall became a fixture in German pop culture and led to many German tourists visiting the British coast to experience the quaint and quintessentially British world Pilcher had created.\n\nThis led her to winning a British Tourism Award in 2002.\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.", "Legal professionals have warned cuts \"threaten the quality of justice\"\n\nLegal advice could be given in GP surgeries to address issues which could exacerbate mental health problems, the Ministry of Justice has said.\n\nThe move was announced as part of the government review of legal aid reforms - introduced in England and Wales in 2013 to cut the £2bn budget by £350m.\n\nThe MoJ said legal aid would receive up to £8m extra to support its services.\n\nThe Bar Council, which represents barristers in England and Wales, said reforms offered \"little of substance\".\n\nThe review follows the significant changes made to civil legal aid in 2013, which meant some types of case were no longer eligible for public funds - including family, welfare, housing and debt.\n\nThe MoJ said more face-to-face advice would be provided for social welfare claimants.\n\nLegal aid could also be provided in GP surgeries as part of an \"early intervention\" pilot scheme.\n\nJustice minister Lucy Frazer said having legal advisers in GP surgeries would mean they could \"nip the problem in the bud\" by helping with housing and benefits problems that may be \"exacerbating\" mental health issues.\n\nAfter looking into the impact of the reforms, the MoJ said up to £5m would be spent in \"developing innovative technologies\" to help people access legal support.\n\nIt also pledged a further £3m to be invested over two years to help those representing themselves in the court system.\n\nMs Frazer said: \"We are emphasising the need for new technologies and new ideas to catch people early, before their problems escalate to the courtroom.\"\n\nThe effects of the 2013 cuts were stark - including a steep rise in people having to conduct their own cases and clogging up the courts.\n\nOne judge told me of a case involving two litigants in person, neither of whom had English as a first language, who both turned up to court with carrier bags full of documents.\n\nA case which should have taken two days with lawyers, took two weeks.\n\nThe long-awaited review and action plan have been given a cautious welcome by some lawyers groups, but others see it as a sticking plaster on a gaping wound.\n\nBut the critical factor in fixing the current system lies in the overall funding that the Ministry of Justice is able to secure from the Treasury.\n\nIt needs to be sufficient to ensure that those who need and deserve legal aid to protect and defend their rights, get it.\n\nRichard Atkins QC, chair of the Bar Council, said the council was \"disappointed\" by the report, which offered \"little of substance\" to ease the impact of the reforms \"on vulnerable individuals seeking justice\".\n\nHowever, Law Society president Christina Blacklaws said the review was a move in the right direction.\n\nShe said: \"We hope these changes will make it easier for ordinary people to qualify for legal aid and access essential help and support.\"\n\nDavid Isaac, chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, also welcomed the steps taken by the MoJ.\n\nHe said: \"Bringing back face-to-face advice will significantly help those who have faced discrimination seek justice and will be particularly beneficial for many disabled people and those with limited English language skills.\n\nThe Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (LASPO) withdrew aid from many areas of law and led to widespread criticism.\n\nIt also lowered the means test and scrapped automatic eligibility for those in receipt of means-tested benefits.\n\nA BBC investigation in December found that cuts to legal aid had created \"deserts\" of provision across England and Wales.\n\nSolicitors working on legal aid contracts said they had to turn people away \"every single day\", but there was no longer anywhere to send them.\n• None What impact have legal aid cuts had?", "Jay-Z says the arrest of rapper 21 Savage is \"an absolute travesty\" and has hired a lawyer to help his fight against deportation.\n\nAtlanta-based rapper 21 Savage, a British citizen, is being held by US officials due to an expired visa.\n\nHis real name is Shayaa Bin Abraham-Joseph and he moved to America as a child.\n\nA statement on Jay-Z's Facebook page says Savage \"deserves to be reunited with his family immediately\".\n\nThis Facebook post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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Facebook content may contain adverts.\n\nHe has three children who are US citizens.\n\n\"His U visa petition has been pending for four years,\" Jay-Z's statement continued.\n\nThe U visa he has applied for is for victims of crime, after his lawyers said he survived a shooting in 2013.\n\n21 Savage was arrested by immigration officials on Sunday\n\n21 Savage's legal team say that he arrived in the US from the UK in 1999, aged seven.\n\nBut the USA's Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) service says the musician arrived in 2005 aged 12 and went on to overstay his visa.\n\n21 Savage's lawyers concede that the 26-year-old doesn't have the correct documents, but say they expired when he was a child, \"through no fault of his own\".\n\nJay-Z's company Roc Nation says a person charged with \"visa overstay\" should be allowed to be free while they fight their case.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nJay-Z is the latest star to publicly voice his support for 21 Savage.\n\nArtists including Cardi B, Meek Mill and Offset have also called for his release.\n\nAs well as lending his vocal support to 21 Savage, Jay-Z has also hired a New York-based immigration lawyer, Alex Spiro, to assist with the case.\n\n21 Savage's mum shared this post with the caption \"The right to choose a better life!\"\n\nMr Spiro told US showbiz website TMZ the legal team will \"not stop\" until 21 Savage is released.\n\nHe also denied claims from ICE that the rapper has a criminal record.\n\nImmigration authorities said on Sunday he was charged with drug offences in 2014, but his legal team say they were subsequently removed from his record.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC Radio 1's Nesta McGregor on what we don't know about 21 Savage\n\nMr Spiro added: \"What we have here is someone who overstayed their visa with an application pending for four years - not a convicted criminal that needs to be detained and removed but, by all accounts a wonderful person, father, and entertainer who has a marijuana offence which was vacated and sealed.\"\n\n21 Savage is nominated for two Grammy Awards at this weekend's ceremony, including record of the year for the chart-topping track Rockstar with fellow rapper Post Malone.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 every weekday on BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra - if you miss us you can listen back here.", "Greg James made his breakfast show debut in August last year\n\nMore than 230,000 extra listeners have been tuning in to the Radio 1 breakfast show since Greg James took over from Nick Grimshaw in August.\n\nAccording to industry body Rajar, his reach in the last three months of 2018 was 5.1 million - up on the 4.8 million recorded between July and September.\n\n\"It's brilliant that our new and fresh Radio 1 breakfast show is doing so well,\" Bob Shennan, director of BBC Radio and Music, said.\n\nHowever, Radio 1 as a whole went down.\n\nThe station dropped from 9.6 million in the third quarter of 2018 to 9.37 million in the fourth.\n\nLatest figures also show Chris Evans grew his breakfast audience at Radio 2 by 241,000 listeners before leaving in December.\n\nYet his overall audience was still down on the equivalent period in 2017.\n\nRajar puts his audience between October and December 2018 as 9.06 million - an increase on the 8.8 million between July and September.\n\nZoe Ball took over the Radio 2 breakfast show following Evans's departure\n\nBut he had been up as high as 9.43 million at the end of of 2017.\n\nRajar's figures do not show how the Radio 1 breakfast show fares between Friday and Sunday, when Matt Edmondson and Mollie King take over the booth. The station split its breakfast shows into Monday-Thursday and Friday-Sunday last year.\n\nBBC breakfast news programmes had a mixed quarter - the Today programme was marginally up, but 5 Live breakfast dropped from 2.1 million to 1.9 million.\n\nCommercial news station LBC had a record quarter. The station, which recently added Eddie Mair to its line-up, increased its reach to 2.2 million - its highest ever.\n\nOver at Magic, Ronan Keating and Harriet Scott are celebrating the biggest audience the station's breakfast show has ever attracted - 1.53 million.\n\nThere will also be jubilation at the British-only radio station Union Jack, whose exclusively domestic content has recorded the fastest-growing audience in the UK.\n\nThe digital station, established in 2016 in the wake of the Brexit referendum, increased its reach by 73% year-on-year to 153,000 weekly listeners.\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\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\nHomes have been evacuated because of the risk of a toxic cloud or large cylinder explosion at a large fire sweeping through an Ocado warehouse.\n\nA 500m exclusion zone has been set up as firefighters continue to tackle the blaze, which broke out on Tuesday morning.\n\nDeputy chief fire officer Andy Bowers said the evacuation of Walworth Industrial Estate in Hampshire was a precaution to keep the public safe.\n\nMr Bowers said: \"We have a risk of a toxic release or a large cylinder explosion.\n\n\"We are working extremely closely with all of our partners to keep the public safe.\"\n\nThe fire service said parts of the building are likely to collapse\n\nSome homes 1.6km away from the site were due to be evacuated depending to the wind direction, Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service said.\n\nResidents outside the exclusion zone have been told to \"stay put and close doors and windows\".\n\nTest Valley Borough Council said residents who needed to be evacuated would \"be informed by emergency services visiting your property\".\n\nBut the local authority advised people who were able leave their properties without assistance to do so.\n\nA fire service spokeswoman said about 20 families were at a rest centre set up in Harrow Way Community School, Andover, after being evacuated from their homes.\n\nShe added it was a \"strong possibility\" that people who work within the exclusion zone would not have access on Thursday morning.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Residents evacuated from homes say \"it's been a nightmare\"\n\nChief fire officer Neil Odin said the initial small fire had taken a \"dramatic turn\" early on Wednesday morning and firefighters had to be withdrawn.\n\n\"This building is not meant for humans to be interacting with the racking and the storage - it has robots moving racking on to loading bays, so for firefighters trying to get in that high and to make an effective fire-fighting strategy, it has been very difficult,\" he said.\n\nMr Odin added the \"extensive\" fire had led to a \"large cylinder with refrigerant gas in it\" being affected.\n\nFirefighters have been tackling the blaze on the Andover site for more than 40 hours, after crews were called to the scene at 02:44 GMT on Tuesday.\n\nFour firefighters have been treated for minor smoke inhalation, but no Ocado staff were injured in the blaze.\n\nThe fire was declared a major incident by Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service\n\nResidents were urged to keep their windows and doors shut due to the smoke from the fire\n\nMore than 300 firefighters were tackling the blaze on Wednesday afternoon, after it was declared a major incident.\n\nThe fire service said the blaze involved automated packaging machinery.\n\nOcado said the fire, which started in a corner of the ambient grid, has caused substantial damage to the majority of the building and its contents. Part of the roof has also collapsed.\n\nOcado shares have dropped 6% and the retailer has warned of a hit to sales.\n\nThe online grocer said it expected a fall in sales until it could shift operations to other warehouses.\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 Ocado 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\nMore than 30,000 orders are processed by robots at the Andover warehouse each week, but Ocado has not given any detail about what the impact will be to customers.\n\nThe grocer has other warehouses, including in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, which have been unaffected. The Andover site accounts for 10% of Ocado's capacity.", "Flybe has warned shareholders it will wind up the company if they do not back a sale to a consortium led by Virgin Atlantic and Stobart Air.\n\nThe airline said failure to approve a sale would mean investors were unlikely to get anything for their shares.\n\nThe airline's board agreed the £2.2m sale to Connect Airways group last month, but the deal needs investor approval at a meeting on 4 March.\n\nFlybe acknowledged the offer of 1 penny per share was \"disappointingly low\".\n\nHowever, it said it was the only rescue plan on the table.\n\nIn a statement on Thursday, Flybe said: \"If the [sale] scheme is not approved, the Flybe directors intend to take steps to wind-up the company and shareholders are likely to receive no value for their shares in Flybe.\"\n\nBased in Exeter, Flybe carries about eight million passengers a year from airports such as Southampton, Cardiff and Aberdeen, to the UK and Europe.\n\nIt put itself up for sale last November, following a profits warning the previous month.\n\nFlybe said it had been \"hampered by the challenging market environment\".\n\n\"Ongoing fuel and currency impacts presented particularly significant headwinds for Flybe as did the rapid and significant tightening on Flybe's liquidity from the card acquirer market.\"\n\nIn addition, it said, the \"general economic outlook and conditions had impacted the business leading to a further weakening in consumer demand, affecting cash, revenues and profit adversely\".\n\nIt agreed to sell the parent company to Connect on 11 January.\n\nHowever, on 15 January, to avoid the airline going into administration the Flybe board entered into a separate agreement to sell the operating subsidiaries - the airline and the website - to Connect Airways for £2.8m.\n\nThat sale is expected to be competed by 22 February, and does not require shareholder approval.\n\nOnce it is complete, however, the parent company will not have any subsidiaries or assets other than cash from the sale of the operating assets. The directors said it was not anticipated that after meeting costs there will be \"any remaining funds available for distribution to Flybe shareholders\".\n\nThe directors said as a result if the shareholders did not approve the initial sale of the parent company, they would wind up the business.\n\nTherefore, the directors said they \"strongly\" advised Flybe shareholders to vote in favour of the sale of the parent company in order to receive any money at all.", "The two stars discussed songwriting and comedy during the show\n\nForty years ago, two of music's biggest stars walked into BBC Radio 1 and sat down to review the week's new releases.\n\nMichael Jackson and George Harrison spent the next 90 minutes discussing singles by Foreigner, Nicolette Larson and The Blues Brothers, as well as the stories behind their own songs.\n\nThe BBC discarded the show, keeping only a short clip. But now a rare recording has been found and restored.\n\nExcerpts will be broadcast in a special documentary this weekend.\n\nListeners will hear Jackson, just months before releasing Off The Wall, discuss how Motown refused to let him write his own music; while Harrison explains what it was like to work in the songwriting shadow of Lennon and McCartney.\n\nAt one point, Jackson turns to the former Beatle and says: \"Let me ask you a question, did you guys always write your own stuff from the beginning?\"\n\nThe guitarist replies: \"Well, John and Paul wrote right from before we ever made a record.\"\n\nJackson seems taken aback, asking: \"How did you manage that?\"\n\n\"I don't know,\" drawls Harrison. \"They were clever little fellows.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Michael Jackson and George Harrison were interviewed by David \"Kid\" Jensen\n\nThe atmosphere sounds relaxed and good-humoured throughout, and the two musicians take the task of reviewing the songs seriously, although at one point Harrison confesses: \"To tell you the truth, I've no idea what is a hit and what isn't a hit these days.\"\n\nThe programme was part of a long-running Radio 1 series called Roundtable, which was presented in 1979 by David \"Kid\" Jensen.\n\n\"They were both lovely guys to talk to,\" he recalls of Jackson and Harrison.\n\n\"We knew we had a good show on our hands, just by the general vibe in the studio before the mics went live.\n\n\"It was like Juke Box Jury - people judging their peers. In the case of the Beatles and Michael Jackson, of course, it's not quite their peers but certainly [people] in the same line of business.\"\n\nAlthough the broadcaster ranked the encounter as one of his favourite ever interviews, the BBC erased the programme and, for years, only low-quality bootleg recordings were available.\n\nThat was until Richard Latto, a producer at BBC Radio Solent, set about trying to find a complete copy.\n\n\"I put the word out on the collectors' circuit and a chap called Richard White came forward with a cassette recording of the entire broadcast,\" he says.\n\n\"This was fantastic news because the BBC only held a short, four-minute extract from the show, which is tiny when compared to the [full] programme, which contains some very special moments that were thought to be lost forever.\"\n\nThere was a relaxed atmosphere in the studio, despite hundreds of fans queuing outside\n\nHowever, restoring the audio to a listenable standard was \"a tremendous challenge\", he explains.\n\n\"There's a clip on the internet which is barely audible and gives you an idea of the challenge we faced. We spent hours sharpening and polishing the raw sound, which was recorded in 1979 off an AM radio during the hours of darkness, so plagued by lots of hiss and distortion.\n\n\"After extensive work, we were able to get the voices of the legendary stars and Kid to cut through with fantastic clarity.\"\n\nThe results will be broadcast on BBC Radio Solent on Saturday, 9 February, the 40th anniversary of the original broadcast.\n\nIt will reveal why Jackson wore a pith helmet throughout the recording and how Harrison took a year off music to \"go to the races\".\n\nOn the tape, they review Foreigner's Blue Morning Blue Day (\"It gets your attention\" - Jackson) and Lenny White's cover of Lady Madonna (\"I prefer the Fab Four's version\" - Harrison).\n\nThe former Beatle discusses the merits of cover versions and discloses how he'd written the Beatles' classic Something with Ray Charles in mind.\n\n\"As it happened, the song ended up with over 150 cover versions,\" he says. \"But when Ray Charles did it, I was really disappointed. It was a bit corny, the way he did it.\"\n\n\"You wrote Something?\" exclaims Jackson. \"Ohhhh, I didn't know that. I thought Lennon and McCartney did that.\"\n\nWhen George Met Michael will be broadcast on BBC Radio Solent at 11:00 GMT on Saturday, 9 February; after which it will be available for 30 days on BBC Sounds.\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\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Health Secretary Matt Hancock is to meet the head of Instagram on Thursday to talk about what social media companies should be doing to stop young people viewing images of suicide and self harm.\n\nViktoria and current Miss England, Alisha Cowie, say they were encouraged to self harm by images they viewed online.\n\nWatch the Victoria Derbyshire programme on BBC Two and BBC News Channel, 10:00 to 11:00 GMT - and see more of our stories here.", "Louella Fletcher-Michie was found dead in a wooded area on the edge of the Bestival site\n\nActor John Michie has told a jury he begged security staff at a music festival to let him through the gates as his daughter lay dying inside.\n\nHe and his wife rushed to the Bestival site after hearing Louella Fletcher-Michie, 24, screeching \"like a wild animal\" on the phone, a court heard.\n\nWinchester Crown Court has heard she was found dead after taking 2CP.\n\nThe court heard Mr Michie and his wife Carol drove 130 miles (209km) from London to the festival, held at Lulworth Castle, Dorset to get to their daughter.\n\nGiving evidence, the Holby City star wept as he described his efforts to persuade a member of security staff to let him in.\n\nHe said he eventually convinced one attendant to take his phone, which had a location pin-drop sent to them by Mr Broughton, while they waited at the entrance.\n\nThe couple waited up to 90 minutes before they heard their daughter's body had been found, he said.\n\nThe jury has heard Mr Broughton has admitted supplying 2-CP to Ms Fletcher-Michie and her friend at Glastonbury in 2017\n\nCarol Fletcher-Michie, told the court she heard her daughter repeating phrases in a \"horrible voice\" as she spoke to Mr Broughton on the phone on 10 September 2017.\n\n\"She was like a wild animal in the background. That was the last time I heard her voice. She was screeching,\" she told the jury.\n\nThe trial previously heard Ms Fletcher-Michie had urged her boyfriend to film her after she had taken the Class A drug.\n\nShe was found dead by security guards at 01:15 on what would have been her 25th birthday.\n\nJohn Michie and wife Carol Fletcher-Michie, seen here leaving court, drove to the Bestival site to try and help their daughter\n\nProsecutors have alleged Mr Broughton failed to seek help because he feared breaching a suspended jail sentence.\n\nIn the witness box, Mr Michie described how he had later released a statement defending Mr Broughton, after newspapers reported that a murder investigation was under way.\n\n\"I believed him to be a good person at the time. Clearly, I made a mistake.\n\n\"I didn't realise how in the six hours he was with her, he had not taken her to get help, how he had seen her very, very distressed state.\n\n\"I believe he even filmed her after she was dead.\n\n\"I think Louella loved Ceon. I'm not sure that he loved her.\n\n\"I don't know how you could say you love someone if you left them to die in front of you.\n\n\"If I was in Ceon's situation, I would have taken another human being, let alone my girlfriend who I was supposed to love, to a medical tent to save her life.\"\n\nMr Michie said Mr Broughton dismissed his daughter for overreacting, adding: \"I've since learnt he described her as a drama queen, which is hurtful.\"\n\nCeon Broughton could be seen laughing and smiling during the 50-minute video previously shown to the jury\n\nDescribing the phone call from Mr Broughton, Mr Michie said: \"The thing that I most remember was that Louella seemed very distressed.\n\n\"I could hear her in the background shouting things like 'I hate you, I don't trust you', obviously referring to Ceon.\n\n\"I've never heard her speak in that way. It almost didn't sound like her.\"\n\nMr Michie said Mr Broughton's voice, on loudspeaker, sounded \"watery\", \"without energy in it\" and he didn't seem \"compos mentis\".\n\n\"He didn't seem to be concerned, I thought. Obviously any normal person would be concerned,\" he added.\n\nStephen Kamlish QC, defending Mr Broughton, said a lot of what Mr Michie had told the jury was wrong.\n\n\"You don't know for example how many times he told people where he was,\" he said.\n\nMs Fletcher-Michie's sister, Daisy, told the court how she pleaded with Mr Broughton on the phone to take Louella to a medical tent.\n\n\"I couldn't get any sense of urgency... He didn't say much at all, just like a really slow, 'yeah, yeah, ok,\" she said.\n\n\"There's no way I can believe in six hours someone [wouldn't make] their best efforts to get 400m to a medical tent.\"\n\nMr Kamlish suggested the terrain was difficult and Ms Fletcher-Michie was angry at her boyfriend.\n\n\"I'm pretty sure a 28-year-old man could overpower her in a desperate situation like that and carry her,\" Daisy Fletcher-Michie replied.\n\nBestival is held in the grounds of Lulworth Castle\n\nHer brother, Sam, recalled how he asked Mr Broughton what drug his sister had taken.\n\n\"It was 2CB and he said, 'but I bumped it up a bit,'\" Mr Fletcher-Michie told the court.\n\nHe said he did not not understand whether that meant a bigger dose or an additional drug, and he thought 2CB and 2CP were the same thing.\n\nMr Kamlish said: \"You may have thought you heard 'bumped it up', but you heard 'bumped it',\" which the barrister said was a phrase meaning 'took drugs'.\n\nEarlier, the jury in the case was reduced to 11 after the judge discharged a woman \"for personal reasons\".\n\nThe trial has previously heard Mr Broughton has pleaded guilty to supplying 2CP to Ms Fletcher-Michie and her friend at Glastonbury Festival in 2017.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mark Clements travelled from London to Exmouth before paramedics reached his mother\n\nA man who travelled nearly 200 miles to reach his injured mother arrived before an ambulance reached her.\n\nMark Clements caught a bus, tube and two trains from London to Exmouth, Devon on Saturday after his 77-year-old mother fell and broke her hip.\n\nThe initial 999 call was made at 09:00 GMT but paramedics did not arrive until seven hours later.\n\nSouth Western Ambulance Service apologised and said it was experiencing \"an unprecedented rise in demand\".\n\nMr Clements said he and his family - some of whom were waiting with his mother - were \"appalled\" by what happened.\n\n\"My mother was lying in an awkward position on a cold conservatory floor and was unable to move,\" he said.\n\nMr Clements took three hours and 40 minutes to travel from London to Exmouth, arriving at his mother's home at 15:10, about 50 minutes before the ambulance crew.\n\nHe said relatives called 999 on six different occasions but it was seven hours before an ambulance arrived.\n\n\"An ambulance station is less than 10 minutes from my mother's home,\" he added.\n\nWhen paramedics eventually arrived, Mr Clements said they were \"equally appalled and astonished\" at the delay.\n\n\"My mother is a very strong woman and it was heartbreaking to see her go through this experience,\" he added.\n\nSouth Western Ambulance Service (SWASFT) said it had to prioritise more \"serious incidents\".\n\nIt said it was sorry it was \"not able reach this patient sooner\" but an assessment was carried out and there was considered to be \"no immediate threat to life\".\n\nMark Clements' mother was left on a \"cold conservatory floor\" after breaking her hip\n\nMr Clements' mother was initially classed as a category four case, which is considered \"less urgent\" and only requiring transport to a hospital.\n\nAmbulance services in England took an average of one hour and 24 minutes to respond to such calls between April and December 2018, according to official figures.\n\nSWASFT's average was two hours and 21 minutes, the longest in the country.\n\nHowever its average response time for category one calls - for life threatening conditions - was seven minutes and 26 seconds, just one second behind the national average.\n\nMr Clements' mother had a hip operation on Sunday and is recovering in hospital.\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. Several people suffered burn injuries in the blast\n\nAt least five people have been hurt in a suspected gas explosion at a flat.\n\nA number of people suffered burn injuries in the blast on Hick Lane, Batley, West Yorkshire Police said.\n\nThe bomb squad was called in after one witness reported hearing a massive bang and said he saw people covered in blood fleeing from the building.\n\nThe force said said no-one appeared to have suffered life-threatening injuries. Some local residents were evacuated from their homes.\n\nWest Yorkshire Fire Service said five people were hurt in the explosion in a two-storey building, which is a block of converted flats.\n\nA Royal Logistic Corps bomb disposal van remained at the scene on Thursday morning along with police and fire service vehicles.\n\nThe bomb disposal team was still at the blast site on Hick Lane after being called out on Wednesday night\n\nOn Wednesday night, a spokesperson said: \"Firefighters are likely to be on the scene overnight and there are some concerns over the structural stability of the building.\"\n\n\"Investigations are continuing into the cause of the explosion.\"\n\nWest Yorkshire Police said the bomb squad was called in as a \"precautionary measure\"\n\nOne witness in a nearby building, who did not want to be named, told the BBC he heard \"a massive bang\".\n\n\"I've never heard anything like it,\" he said.\n\n\"I came rushing out to find glass everywhere, some even blew 300 yards.\n\n\"Then I saw two men exit the building covered in blood, smoking, obviously very shook up. It was like a war scene.\"\n\nResident, Mark Umpleby, who tweeted a picture from the scene, said \"hoping and praying everyone's OK\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Mark Umpleby📎 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOther users of social media, including Charlotte spoke of hearing the loudest bang.\n\nCh Insp Wayne Horner said: \"I understand that this will have caused concern amongst the community; residents can be reassured that police along with our partners from the other emergency services are on scene dealing with the incident.\"\n\nThe force said the bomb squad had been called in as a precautionary measure.\n\nYorkshire Ambulance Service confirmed the injured had been taken to Pinderfields Hospital in Wakefield.\n\nSpecialist staff from the service's Hazardous Area Response Team are also on site.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. It is not yet known whose body was recovered from the plane wreckage\n\nA body has been recovered from the wreckage of the plane which crashed with Cardiff City footballer Emiliano Sala and pilot David Ibbotson on board.\n\nThe Air Accidents Investigation Branch said specialist contractors joined the operation in \"challenging conditions\".\n\nIt was carried out in \"as dignified a way as possible\" and the men's families were kept updated throughout, it said.\n\nThe wreckage of the plane, which vanished two weeks ago over the English Channel, was found off Guernsey.\n\nThe Geo Ocean III, the boat carrying the body, arrived at Portland Port in Dorset on Thursday morning as it is the nearest part of the British mainland to where the plane was located.\n\nDorset Police said: \"The arrival of the body into Dorset has been reported to the coroner for Dorset.\n\n\"The coroner will investigate the circumstances of this death supported by Dorset Police. A post-mortem examination will be held in due course.\"\n\nNo formal identification has taken place, but the force said both families had been updated.\n\nEmiliano Sala (left) was on board a plane being flown by pilot David Ibbotson\n\nThe Piper Malibu N264DB was en route from France to Cardiff, after the 28-year-old Argentine striker made a quick trip back to his former club Nantes two days after his £15m transfer to Cardiff was announced.\n\nMr Ibbotson, 59, from Crowle, North Lincolnshire, was at the controls when the flight lost contact with air traffic controllers on 21 January.\n\nAn official search was called off on 24 January after Guernsey's harbour master said the chances of survival were \"extremely remote\".\n\nBut an online appeal started by Sala's agent raised £324,000 (371,000 euros) for a private search led by marine scientist and oceanographer David Mearns.\n\nWorking jointly with the AAIB, his ship and the Geo Ocean III, began combing a four square mile area of the English Channel, 24 nautical miles north of Guernsey, to make best use of the available sensors.\n\nMr Mearns said the plane was identified by sonar, before a submersible with cameras was sent underwater to confirm this.\n\nA minute's silence was held for Sala and Mr Ibbotson ahead of Cardiff's home game against Bournemouth\n\nCardiff fans left a sea of flowers outside the Cardiff City Stadium in tribute to Emiliano Sala\n\nThe AAIB used a remotely operated underwater vehicle (ROV) to aid the search, with no divers involved.\n\nThe body was moved first, and separately from the wreckage, to maximise the chances of it being successfully brought to the surface.\n\nIt said efforts to recover the crashed plane as a whole proved unsuccessful, before being abandoned due to poor weather.\n\n\"The weather forecast is poor for the foreseeable future and so the difficult decision was taken to bring the overall operation to a close,\" the AAIB said in a statement.\n\nHowever, the AAIB said video footage captured by the ROV would provide \"valuable evidence\" for its safety investigation.\n\nMeanwhile, it has emerged that Sala's former club, French Ligue 1 side Nantes, has demanded Cardiff City pay his £15m transfer fee.\n\nSala, 28, was Cardiff's record signing but never played for the club.\n\nThe fee was due to be paid over three years but Cardiff have withheld the first scheduled payment until they are satisfied with the documentation.\n\nSupporters in Nantes have also been paying tribute to Sala", "Luxury fashion brand Gucci has withdrawn a woollen jumper from sale after the item was criticised for \"resembling blackface.\"\n\nThe black \"balaclava jumper\" covered the lower half of the face and featured a red cut-out around the mouth.\n\nThe item prompted a backlash on social media by users who claimed the design was offensive.\n\nIn a statement, Gucci apologised for any offence caused and said it would be removed from sale.\n\nThe brand said it would turn the incident \"into a powerful learning moment for the Gucci team\" and was committed to increasing diversity.\n\nBlackface has a history of perpetuating offensive and racist stereotypes of African Americans dating back more than 200 years in the United States.\n\nOn social media, many criticised the design for invoking such stereotypes.\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 K A L I 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\nGucci's troubles mark the latest in a string of missteps by luxury fashion brands.\n\nLast month, Prada withdrew items over concerns it had depicted blackface imagery. The label pulled products from a line of goods called Pradamalia which appeared to resemble black monkeys with large red lips.\n\nThe brand posted videos of a Chinese model eating Italian foods like pizza and pasta with chopsticks.\n\nWidely seen as offensive, the campaign led to a severe backlash in China with several retailers pulling the brand's products.\n\nD&G also caused controversy in 2016 when it called an item of footwear in its spring/summer collection a \"slave sandal\".\n• None Behind the legacy of America's blackface", "Dunfermline Crematorium and Kirkcaldy Crematorium are operated by Fife Council\n\nFamilies affected by the baby ashes scandal at council-run crematoria in Fife are to receive compensation payments of up to £4,000.\n\nThe payments will be made after parents were wrongly told their babies were too small for their ashes to be recovered.\n\nIn fact, staff at crematoria in Dunfermline and Kirkcaldy disposed of the children's ashes anonymously, sometimes in the waste.\n\nFife Council said it apologised unreservedly to the families.\n\nCampaigners estimate that more than 450 families across Scotland were affected by the baby ashes scandal.\n\nInquiries into the scandal led to apologies and changes in the law.\n\nCouncils including Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Glasgow have already agreed compensation, now Fife council has followed suit with a similar scheme.\n\nThompsons Solicitors, who represent eight of the families involved, said the agreement was \"of huge significance to the parents affected\".\n\nSolicitor Catherine McGarrell added: \"It has been a long, emotional journey for the parents but this does provide some small comfort.\"\n\nShe also welcomed moves by the council to engage with families over a permanent memorial to the children.\n\nMs McGarrell added: \"The agreement of Fife Council to this compensation scheme is of huge significance to the parents affected.\n\n\"The amounts of money involved are of a far lesser importance than the sign of good faith shown by the local authority.\n\n\"The council have backed up their public apology with real action which is welcomed by my clients. \"\n\nA memorial to the families affected by the Mortonhall baby ashes scandal was unveiled on Saturday in Edinburgh.\n\nAlan Paul, a senior manager with Fife Council, said: \"We have apologised unreservedly to families who were affected by our past practices and recognise the harm and distress that it caused.\"\n\n\"As documented, some infants' ashes were unrecovered from the chamber and we have changed our practices to avoid this happening again.\n\n\"We previously invited families to discuss a specific memorial to their infants and have just this week received some ideas from their representatives, which we will be discussing in due course.\"\n\nFamilies affected can come forward for compensation until the scheme closes on 1 March.\n\nBaby ashes were buried in secret at Mortonhall for more than 40 years", "There's pretty much zero expectation that any real progress will be made on Thursday when Theresa May comes back to Brussels looking for changes to the backstop - that fall-back guarantee written into the Brexit deal to keep the Irish border open.\n\nNonetheless, we'll inevitably be poring over every word, every tone, every hint of body language on display after the prime minister's meetings with European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and the President of the European Council Donald Tusk.\n\nEspecially Donald Tusk - after his inflammatory remarks on the eve of Theresa May's visit, musing about which part of hell the architects of Brexit might be consigned to.\n\nWhat comments might he have up his sleeve for the prime minister?\n\nI suspect - despite his reputation in Brussels as quite an emotional politician, keen on the limelight, colourful with words - that some of his European peers may have had a word in his ear that now is really, really not the right time.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Donald Tusk: \"Special place in hell\" for those without Brexit plan\n\nDon't get me wrong, Mr Tusk is not alone in Europe in his frustration at leading Brexiteers' unrealistic promises (that the trade deal with the EU would be the easiest and quickest in history, that it would be concluded before the end of the UK's exit negotiations, that the UK could leave the customs union and single market and still enjoy frictionless trade with the EU and more...).\n\nEU leaders are irritated too that - as they see it - the UK voted for Brexit but keeps looking to Brussels to come up with ways to make its exit workable and painless.\n\nBut most senior European politicians are keeping those thoughts quiet - in public.\n\nConsidering the tortuous political dance Theresa May is trying to pull off in Westminster, they realise outspokenly critical EU opinions may not be helpful if, in the end, they want to get this Brexit deal done with the UK.\n\nAnd they do. The alternative - a no-deal Brexit - would be costly for them economically and politically.\n\nSo - Mr Tusk's inflammatory comments aside - the intended EU message to Theresa May is: our door remains open. We are in listening mode but there is already a negotiated Brexit deal on the table. If you now want to make changes then it's up to you to ensure they are palatable both to the EU and to a comfortable majority of your MPs.\n\nAnd therein lies the prime minister's devilish dilemma.", "A man said he would \"not be told what to do by a three-year-old\" as he crushed his girlfriend's son with a car seat, a court has heard.\n\nStephen Waterson, 25, is accused of twice pushing the front passenger seat of his Audi convertible into Alfie Lamb, who was in the footwell behind.\n\nThe boy's mother, Adrian Hoare, 23, told the Old Bailey Mr Waterson got \"annoyed\" after saying he did not have enough space for his legs.\n\nThe pair and Alfie were in the car with two other adults and another child during the journey from Sutton to Croydon on 1 February last year.\n\nAlfie Lamb had been in the rear footwell of the Audi with another child\n\nGiving evidence, Ms Hoare said Alfie was \"irritable and tired\" after the shopping trip and made it known he was uncomfortable in the rear footwell of the Audi.\n\nShe told the jury he called out \"mummy\" when Mr Waterson first moved his chair back, and Ms Hoare asked her partner to shift forwards again.\n\nThe hairdresser said he got annoyed, shouted at the boy and \"told him to shut up\" which \"scared\" her son.\n\n\"After he said that he did not have room for his legs, he made another comment along the lines he was not being told what to do by a three-year-old because we asked for the chair to be moved, and he moved his chair back again,\" she said.\n\nMr Waterson has told the court he only moved his seat back an inch, before moving forwards again\n\nMs Hoare, who is accused of not doing anything to help her son, told the court she never thought Alfie was in danger and thought he had gone to sleep when he went quiet.\n\nWhen they arrived at Mr Waterson's flat in Croydon, they found the three-year-old had gone floppy but \"everybody thought he was playing to start with\".\n\nMs Hoare denies manslaughter, child cruelty and common assault on Emilie Williams, who was also in the car.\n\nMr Waterson denies manslaughter and the intimidation of the car's driver Marcus Lamb.\n\nThe couple and 19-year-old Ms Williams have pleaded guilty to conspiring to pervert the course of justice by making false statements to police.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "2017's Wonder Wheel was one of two Allen films released by Amazon Studios\n\nWoody Allen has launched legal action against Amazon Studios, accusing it of breaching their contract by refusing to distribute his latest film.\n\nThe 83-year-old is seeking more than $68m (£52m) in damages, alleging the company backed out of a multi-picture deal without cause.\n\nAmazon released two of Allen's films and also distributed his TV series, Crisis in Six Scenes.\n\nBut it dropped his most recent movie, A Rainy Day in New York.\n\nThe BBC contacted Amazon Studios for comment, but did not receive an immediate reply.\n\nAccording to a lawsuit filed on Thursday in New York, Allen claims Amazon backed out of the deal in June 2018 because of an old accusation that the director had molested his adopted daughter Dylan Farrow in 1992.\n\nThe legal action said Amazon knew about \"a 25-year old, baseless\" allegation when it entered into deals with the director and that it \"does not provide a basis for Amazon to terminate the contract\".\n\nA Rainy Day in New York was shot in 2017 with a cast including Jude Law, Rebecca Hall, Selena Gomez and Timothée Chalamet.\n\nA number of its cast members have since distanced themselves from the project, with Chalamet announcing in 2018 he would give his salary to charity.\n\nLast year Law told Vanity Fair it was \"a terrible shame\" the film had been shelved and that he would \"have to consider carefully\" before ever working with Allen again.\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.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nPep Guardiola says Manchester City have learned \"to never give up\" after returning to the top of the table for the first time since 15 December with a win at Everton.\n\nA week ago City were five points adrift of Liverpool but took full advantage after Jurgen Klopp's side could only manage back-to-back draws, moving ahead of the Reds on goal difference albeit having played one game more.\n\n\"A few days ago we could have been seven points behind. Now we are top of the league. That is the best advice, the lesson is never give up,\" said Guardiola.\n\n\"That is a lesson for all athletes. Try to win the games, because life can change immediately.\"\n\nDefender Aymeric Laporte met David Silva's free-kick to head home his fourth goal of the season, putting City in front just before half-time.\n\nSergio Aguero and Raheem Sterling both spurned decent opportunities to extend City's lead after the break before Gabriel Jesus sealed victory in stoppage time.\n\nIt was far from a vintage display by City, who instead had to show their battling qualities to secure the points and regain the initiative in the title race.\n\nAttention will now switch back to Liverpool, who can return to the summit with victory against Bournemouth on Saturday, 24 hours before City host Chelsea at Etihad Stadium.\n\nEverton stay ninth after suffering a fourth defeat in five Premier League games at Goodison Park, though they should take some encouragement from a resilient display that was a notable improvement on their performances in recent weeks.\n• None We'll give fans what they deserve - Everton boss Silva\n\nJust seven days ago, Manchester City faced the prospect of falling seven points behind leaders Liverpool after slipping to a fourth Premier League defeat of the season against Newcastle the previous evening.\n\nKlopp's side missed that opportunity after drawing with Leicester, and a further draw at West Ham on Monday opened the door for City to return to the top for the first time in almost seven weeks.\n\nGuardiola's side appeared determined to make an impression at Goodison Park, creating three good chances in the opening 20 minutes, with Leroy Sane and Laporte going close before Ilkay Gundogan hit the bar.\n\nCity faded after that bright opening but made the breakthrough as half-time approached. David Silva's free-kick from the left-hand side of the penalty area was headed in by the unmarked Laporte for his first Premier League goal since August.\n\nAguero and Sterling missed further chances after the break to ensure a nervy finish, though Everton, despite all their effort, failed to truly test Ederson in the Manchester City goal.\n\nVictory was sealed seconds from full-time - Jesus heading home at the second attempt after Jordan Pickford had done well to block his initial shot.\n\nThe result puts further pressure on Liverpool who, after a near-flawless campaign so far, have started to show signs of fallibility in recent weeks as they chase a first league title for 29 years.\n\nThree successive league victories have also pushed Tottenham back in contention. Mauricio Pochettino's side are just five points behind the top two and still have to visit Anfield and Etihad Stadium before the end of the season.\n\nTonight's win means City have the initiative, but the dramatic change in fortunes over the past week suggests this is just the latest twist in an increasingly unpredictable title race.\n\nEverton restore pride - but familiar failings let them down\n\nEverton fans will have been aware that a win at Goodison Park would have been a huge favour to neighbours Liverpool.\n\nBut there were no signs of divided loyalties at kick-off with the home crowd fully behind their side, and they are likely to be encouraged by a hard-working performance, even if it ultimately resulted in another defeat.\n\nManager Marco Silva sprang a surprise by making five changes to his team as he looked for a response to Saturday's defeat by Wolves.\n\nThese included dropping top scorers Richarlison and Gylfi Sigurdsson to the bench and switching to a 4-3-3 formation.\n\nHe was rewarded with a more spirited display, with the returning Idrissa Gueye bringing some much needed energy back into the Everton midfield.\n\nHowever, familiar failings cost the Toffees before the break.\n\nEverton had conceded 18 goals from set-pieces in all competitions this season, more than any other Premier League side. And that soon became 19 when Laporte was left completely unmarked to meet David Silva's free-kick and nod the champions in front on the stroke of half-time.\n\nSilva brought on Richarlison, Sigurdsson and Cenk Tosun in an attempt to get back into the game, but their only shot on target was a long-range effort from Gueye that was comfortably held by Ederson.\n\nThe result means a tally of nine defeats in 15 games in all competitions for Silva's side - an alarming slump in form after starting December in the top six.\n\nSince their defeat at Liverpool on 2 December, the Toffees have collected just 11 points - only the Premier League's bottom two, Huddersfield Town and Fulham, have earned fewer.\n\nThere were signs of improvement against the champions, but Silva knows he needs to turn performances into points quickly if Everton's season is not to peter out completely before the clocks go forward.\n\n'The players have shown incredible desire' - what the managers said\n\nManchester City manager Pep Guardiola: \"We come from champions and we are in a situation where we could have given up but it didn't happen.\n\n\"We gave an incredible game against Liverpool. These players have shown incredible desire and performances for the last two years. How could I question them?\n\n\"We have played one more game. but it's the best we can do. The reality is one month ago we could have been 10 points behind when we played Liverpool.\"\n\nEverton manager Marco Silva: \"There are positives but again we didn't take the points we want and we are working to achieve. At the moment bad things come too easy, we concede after 47 and 97 minutes. Just working like we did tonight, things will change for us, I am really positive. The team showed what we must do.\n\n\"The fans are so good, at the end of the match what they did for our players, I don't have doubts. We are all together and we will give them what they want and what they deserve.\n\n\"Everything was different compared to Wolves, I have to be honest. This has to be our image as a team. We must be consistent, it is an obligation for us. A desire to win, an aggression - it is what we have to do every time against every team.\n\n\"You have to respect every team. Be aggressive at set-pieces. We were in the zone we must be in, we moved a little bit, it was a good delivery and header but we have to challenge. I have to speak with my players about this, it is not normal.\n\n\"I cannot understand why we must play tonight, it is very tough for us.\"\n\nCity go top again - the stats\n• None Manchester City will end the day top of the Premier League for the first time since 15 December 2018, when they were top after a win over Everton.\n• None Everton have conceded more goals from set pieces than any other Premier League team in all competitions this season (19).\n• None Manchester City have scored with their first shot on target in 15 Premier League games this season - six more than any other team.\n• None All four of Aymeric Laporte's goals in all competitions for Manchester City this season have been headers from set pieces in away matches.\n• None Everton are yet to win a Premier League match when conceding first this season (P12 W0 D2 L10).\n• None Marco Silva has now lost five Premier League games against Manchester City - two more than he has against any other opponent.\n• None Everton made five line-up changes for this match - their most between Premier League matches under manager Marco Silva.\n• None Manchester City have won 10 of their last 11 matches in all competitions (L1), scoring 39 goals and conceding just five.\n\nEverton face a trip to Marco Silva's former side Watford on Saturday (15:00 GMT). Manchester City host Chelsea the following day (16:00 GMT).\n• None Goal! Everton 0, Manchester City 2. Gabriel Jesus (Manchester City) header from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner.\n• None Attempt saved. Gabriel Jesus (Manchester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Kevin De Bruyne with a through ball.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match Nicolás Otamendi (Manchester City) because of an injury.\n• None Delay in match Cenk Tosun (Everton) because of an injury. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Artwork: Hayabusa2 arrived at the asteroid Ryugu in June last year\n\nThe Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa 2 will attempt to collect a sample of rock from an asteroid on 22 February, the country's space agency (Jaxa) says.\n\nHayabusa 2 reached asteroid Ryugu in June 2018 after a three-and-a-half-year journey from Earth.\n\nIt will descend to the surface and attempt to grab the sample from a pre-chosen site.\n\nThe spacecraft will return to Earth with the samples in 2020 after its exploration of Ryugu is complete.\n\nJaxa officials had to delay the touchdown last October, after they found the asteroid's surface was more rugged than expected.\n\nDuring sample collection, the spacecraft will approach the 1km-wide asteroid with an instrument called the sampler horn. On touchdown, a 5g projectile made of the metal tantalum is fired into the rocky surface at 300m/s.\n\nThe particles kicked up by the impact will be caught by a specially-designed section of the sampler horn.\n\nHayabusa 2 will begin descending to the surface on 21 February (local time) and should touch down around 08:00 on the 22nd.\n\nThe asteroid 162173 Ryugu is thought to be of a particularly primitive type\n\nIn September, Hayabusa 2 deployed two robotic \"hoppers\" that propelled themselves across the surface of Ryugu, sending back images and other data.\n\nThen, in October, the \"mothership\" despatched a French-German instrument package called Mascot to the surface.\n\nLater this year, perhaps in March or April, Jaxa plans to detonate an explosive charge that will punch a crater into the surface of Ryugu.\n\nHayabusa-2 would then descend into the crater to collect fresh samples of material that have not been altered by aeons of exposure to the environment of space.\n\nRyugu belongs to a particularly primitive type of asteroid, and is therefore a relic left over from the early days of our Solar System.\n\nThe sample collection operations should allow scientists in labs on Earth to study the material, shedding light on the origin and evolution of our own planet.\n\nThe 30 billion-yen mission is the successor to another Jaxa asteroid explorer, Hayabusa, which means \"peregrine falcon\" in Japanese.\n\nThis earlier mission was launched in 2003 and reached the asteroid Itokawa in 2005.", "The number of anti-Semitic hate incidents in the UK rose by 16% in 2018, according to figures from Jewish charity the Community Security Trust.\n\nCST said it recorded 1,652 anti-Semitic incidents last year, the highest total since it began collecting data in 1984.\n\nThe charity added the figures reflected \"deepening divides in our country and our politics\".\n\nHome Secretary Sajid Javid said the government was doing all it could to \"rid society of these poisonous views\".\n\nHe added anti-Semitism was \"utterly despicable\" and had \"no place in society\".\n\nThese new figures are broadly in line with a Home Office report from October, which showed all forms of hate crime in England and Wales rose by 17% in 2017/18.\n\nOf the 1,652 incidents recorded by the CST in 2018, 123 involved \"potential grievous bodily harm or a threat to life\", a 17% decrease from 2017.\n\nThe most common single type of incident involved verbal abuse randomly directed at Jewish people in public.\n\nThe report cited a number of cases across different categories, including a man who was walking to a synagogue when food was thrown at him from a car, a woman who was spat at in the face on a bus, a Jewish bakery that was vandalised with anti-Semitic graffiti, and a brick that was thrown at a synagogue's glass front door.\n\nThe CST report also said:\n\nResponding to the report, the chairman of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Anti-Semitism, Labour MP John Mann, said: \"Sadly, these figures are not surprising, indeed they are predictable.\n\n\"If you consider the whole anti-Semitic onslaught on social media as just one incident then, in fact, the problem is bigger than the incident figures suggest.\"\n\nMarie van der Zyl, president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, said the CST figures were \"very worrying for Jews living in the UK\".\n\n\"Overall, the UK remains a happy place for its Jewish community, but this reports shows that there is no room for complacency.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Game of Thrones actress Laura Pradelska talks about the online abuse she has received\n\nActress Laura Pradelska, who plays Quaithe in Game of Thrones last week told BBC 5 Live she had disabled the comments on her Instagram account after receiving anti-Semitic abuse.\n\n\"You would be amazed at some of the comments I get,\" she said.\n\n\"It's mostly to do with Israel and it is completely uncalled for because I tend to post pretty pictures of rehearsal or work that I do.\"\n\nAnd Countdown co-presenter Rachel Riley told The Times last month the Channel 4 game show had to increase security after she was targeted for criticising anti-Semitism in the Labour Party.\n\nRiley, who is Jewish, said she had been abused on Twitter.", "The Hawker Hunter jet plane pictured prior to plummeting on to the A27\n\nThe standard of flying by the pilot of a jet which crashed during the Shoreham Airshow was \"about as negligent as you can get\", a court has heard.\n\nAndrew Hill, 54, faces 11 counts of manslaughter after failing to pull out of a loop manoeuvre in August 2015.\n\nJurors previously heard the move was executed at too low an altitude.\n\nJonathon Whaley, an experienced air display pilot and evaluator, told the Old Bailey that was a \"fundamental thing\" and you \"do not do it\".\n\nProsecutor Tom Kark QC asked how far Mr Hill's flying fell below acceptable standards, assuming he was not suffering a physical impairment.\n\nMr Whaley replied: \"He had all the training, all the knowledge to know that he hadn't achieved his gate height, and none of the parameters were correct to complete safely this manoeuvre.\n\n\"To me that is about as negligent as you can get in terms of flying.\"\n\nAndrew Hill survived the crash but his barrister says his client does not remember what happened\n\nGiving evidence, Mr Whaley said he did not permit looping manoeuvres in the Hawker Hunter he flies.\n\nDefending Mr Hill, Karim Khalil QC asked: \"It can be thought of as inherently dangerous?\"\n\nMr Whaley agreed it could, but acknowledged the manoeuvre was authorised to be carried out in displays.\n\n\"The profession of aerobatic display does carry inherent dangers?\" Mr Khalil asked.\n\n\"It does carry inherent dangers which is why the pilot has to be aware of them,\" Mr Whaley replied.\n\nMr Whaley was asked why he and other experts had said Mr Hill's display at the 2015 Shoreham Airshow contained \"no difficult manoeuvres\".\n\nHe answered: \"I said it needed arguably more concentration, but I accept that if it's well flown then it's not a problem.\"\n\nMr Khalil asked him if Mr Hill may have become \"fixated\" on the road mid-stunt when he realised \"things were not looking good\".\n\n\"If you've got something like that in front of you I could imagine that becomes a focus of your concentration, not looking left or right,\" Mr Whaley replied.\n\n\"This is when it's becoming apparent that things aren't going well.\"\n\nEmergency services on the A27 in the aftermath of the crash\n\nAfter turning upside down, the Cold War-era jet fighter descended vertically towards the ground, the court heard.\n\nMr Hill tried to keep the plane in the air, but it came down on top of the busy A27 near Shoreham Airport.\n\nEarlier the judge reminded the jury Mr Whaley was simply giving an opinion on the matter.\n\nMr Justice Edis said: \"It will be up to you to decide to accept what the expert said, whether you prefer another expert, or you don't accept any of them.\n\n\"It's only an answer, not the answer.\"\n\nMr Hill, of Sandon in Hertfordshire, denies all charges.\n\nMr Khalil previously told the court that due to injuries sustained in the crash, Mr Hill cannot remember what happened.\n\nHe claims Mr Hill was affected by something like G-force, which reduces blood supply to the brain.\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. Instagram boss Adam Mosseri says he hopes new technology will help to flag images\n\nAll graphic images of self-harm will be removed from Instagram, the head of the social media platform has told the BBC.\n\nThe move comes after the father of 14-year-old Molly Russell, who took her own life in 2017, said Instagram had \"helped kill\" his daughter.\n\nMolly's family found she had been viewing graphic images of self-harm on the site prior to her death.\n\nAdam Mosseri said Instagram was trying to balance \"the need to act now and the need to act responsibly\".\n\nHe added the site was \"not where we need to be on the issues of self-harm and suicide\".\n\nWhen asked by the BBC's Angus Crawford when the images would be removed, Mr Mosseri replied: \"As quickly as we can, responsibly.\"\n\nMolly's father Ian Russell welcomed Instagram's commitment and said he hoped they would act swiftly to implement their plans.\n\n\"It is now time for other social media platforms to take action to recognise the responsibility they too have to their users if the internet is to become a safe place for young and vulnerable people,\" he added.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock described the death of Molly Russell as \"every parents' modern nightmare\".\n\nHe said it was right for Instagram to take down \"the most graphic material\" but added that \"we need to be led by what the clinicians and experts say need to be taken down\".\n\nSpeaking after a meeting with social media companies as well as the Samaritans, Mr Hancock said he wanted to see a duty of care for all users of social media and that he was \"perfectly prepared to legislate if necessary\".\n\nDigital minister Margot James told BBC Radio 4's PM programme the government would \"have to keep the situation very closely under review to make sure that these commitments are made real - and as swiftly as possible\".\n\nInstagram currently relies on users to report graphic images of self-harm, but Mr Mosseri said the company was looking at ways that technology could help solve the problem in the future.\n\nHe added: \"Historically, we have allowed content related to self-harm that's 'admission' because people sometimes need to tell their story - but we haven't allowed anything that promoted self-harm.\n\n\"But, moving forward, we're going to change our policy to not allow any graphic images of self-harm.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. After Molly Russell died, her family discovered distressing material about suicide on her Instagram account\n\nHowever, some self-harm images will be allowed to remain on the Facebook-owned site.\n\n\"I might have an image of a scar or say, 'I'm 30 days clean,' and that's an important way to tell my story,\" Mr Mosseri said.\n\n\"That kind of content can still live on the site but the next change is that it won't show up in any recommendation services so it will be harder to find.\n\n\"It won't be in search, it won't be in hashtags, it won't be in recommendations.\"\n\nWhen asked if he would resign if graphic self-harm content was still on the platform in six months, Mr Mosseri, 36, said: \"I will certainly have a long thought about how well I am doing in the role that I'm in.\"\n\nIf you've been affected by self-harm, eating disorders or emotional distress, help and support is available via the BBC Action Line.", "An outbreak of equine flu has led to British horse racing meetings being cancelled and fears over the impact on next month's Cheltenham Festival.\n\nAll four fixtures on Thursday were called off by the British Horseracing Authority (BHA) after three vaccinated horses tested positive for the disease.\n\nTrainer Donald McCain has confirmed the horses came from his Cheshire stables.\n\nHorses from the infected yard raced on Wednesday, potentially exposing a significant number of horses.\n\nBritish-trained runners have been barred from running in Ireland.\n\nJump racing's showpiece four-day Cheltenham Festival is due to start in 33 days, on 12 March.\n\nAnd while it is not known what the precise impact might be, the situation has echoes of the foot-and-mouth crisis 18 years ago, which began at a similar time of year and eventually led to the meeting being called off.\n• None Announced late on Wednesday that Thursday's racing at Huntingdon, in Cambridgeshire; Doncaster (South Yorkshire), Chelmsford (Essex) and Welsh track Ffos Las was cancelled.\n• None A decision on whether Friday and Saturday's fixtures - at Newcastle and Southwell - can go ahead is not expected until Thursday evening.\n• None Wolverhampton Racecourse has said its meeting on Saturday will not take place as a horse from the infected yard ran there this week and a deep clean has been ordered. Racing is not permitted for four days afterwards.\n• None Three horses vaccinated against the virus tested positive on Wednesday night at the Cheshire stables of Donald McCain, the son of the late Ginger McCain - who trained the legendary Red Rum to win the Grand National a record three times in the 1970s.\n• None The alarm was raised as horses from his yard had raced on Wednesday at Ayr, Ludlow and Wolverhampton.\n• None Brant Dunshea, chief regulatory officer at the BHA, said there \"is a potential risk\" that racing could be suspended for days or even weeks but added that a decision would not be made without \"thinking through all the consequences\".\n• None Leading Irish trainer Gordon Elliott, who had five runners at Ayr has isolated his horses in a facility 15 miles from his main operation.\n\nIn a statement issued through the National Trainers Federation, McCain said: \"I have been aware of the recent news about equine influenza outbreaks in France and Ireland, and over the last couple of days, I have been concerned about the health status of a small number of horses in the yard.\n\n\"Their welfare is at the front of our minds, so at my request, our veterinary surgeon has examined them regularly and we have followed his advice on testing and treatment.\n\n\"It was by following this protocol that the positive results for equine flu came to light yesterday evening.\n\n\"The BHA were contacted immediately and we are liaising closely with them about bio-security and management of all the horses at Bankhouse. Bankhouse follows all the available advice on disease control and all our horses are fully inoculated.\"\n\nHe added: \"We are scrupulous about observing the health status of horses in our care and taking the necessary steps to treat any condition that may affect them. It follows we would never race any horses that we could have known were infected.\n\n\"Over the last two months, all potential runners have been scoped and their blood checked within 36 hours of their races to ensure that only healthy horses compete for the yard.\n\n\"When new horses arrive at our yard we, as much as possible, try to keep them separate but at this stage cannot know if the infection came from recent arrivals or from horses returning from racing.\n\n\"We have three confirmed cases and this morning have taken blood and swabs from all the others for testing.\"\n\nDavid Sykes, director of equine health and welfare at the BHA, added: \"We would like to thank Donald McCain for his co-operation in this matter, and for the responsible manner in which he has dealt with this issue, under the guidance of his veterinary surgeon.\n\n\"He has acted professionally with the interests of the racing industry and the health of his horses as his priority.\"\n\nHorses that have contracted equine flu can develop a high fever, coughing, nasal discharge and sometimes swelling of the lymph nodes. The incubation period is usually days but recovery can take weeks, or even months.\n\nThere are no known consequences for humans exposed to the disease.\n\nThe BHA said there was \"significant concern over welfare and the potential spread of the disease\" and it was attempting to prevent further cases. It said \"quarantine and biosecurity measures\" are being put in place and horse movements restricted.\n\n\"The full extent of potential exposure is unknown and we are working quickly to understand as much as we can to assist our decision making,\" it added.\n\nSince the start of 2019, there have been seven outbreaks of equine flu - in Essex, Cheshire, Derbyshire, Lincolnshire, Yorkshire and Suffolk.\n\nThe two cases in Suffolk involved thoroughbreds - one centred on eight vaccinated two-year-old horses and the other was six unvaccinated animals.\n\nThis news has rocked horse racing at a time when anticipation is building before the Cheltenham Festival, and the bloodstock industry prepares for the start of the breeding season.\n\n\"As you can imagine, a normal race meeting will have circa 70-100 racehorses stabled in a close proximity from all parts of the country, all housed together for a day and then they all go back home to their own yard, so it could be catastrophic,\" trainer Seamus Mullins told BBC Radio 5 live.\n\nIt is unclear at this stage the potential effect on future fixtures with the 'Super Saturday' meeting at Newbury in Berkshire on 9 February - where last year's Gold Cup winner Native River is due to run - the next high-profile fixture.\n\nWith just over four weeks left to the Festival, the countdown is on for jockeys, trainers, owners and punters, with many leading contenders earmarked for prep races over the next 10 days.\n\n\"If it was a long-term stoppage it would hit racing very, very hard both with the day-to-day training of the horses, but more importantly it would financially hit the industry very, very hard,\" said Mullins.\n\n\"Every day without racing is a loss on income for everybody, from the stable lads in the yard, to the jockeys, trainers, owners, bookmakers, racecourses, it would be very, very serious.\"\n\nEquine influenza is a highly infectious disease that affects horses, mules and donkeys, occurring globally caused by strains of the Influenza A virus.\n\nIt is the most potentially damaging of the respiratory viruses that occur in UK horses and disease symptoms in non-immune animals include high fever, coughing and nasal discharge.\n\nThe outbreak at the infected yard follows the identification of a number of equine influenza cases across Europe and the UK, including several in vaccinated horses.\n\nFollowing the recent outbreaks, guidance was sent to racehorse trainers to inform them that all horses that have not had a vaccination against equine flu within the last six months should receive a booster vaccination, and that trainers should be extra-vigilant.\n\nHowever, equine influenza can be highly contagious and - unlike other infectious diseases - can be airborne over reasonable distances as well as be transmitted indirectly, including via people.\n\n\"It's very similar to human flu; the symptoms are the same and the horses feel the same,\" said Mullins.\n\n\"You get a high temperature, a nasal discharge and eventually you get coughing and the horses feel rough. It's similar to humans - but they get over it.\"\n\nThere is such a feeling of deja vu here, 18 years almost to the day since I recall being at Wincanton races when news first emerged of the outbreak of foot and mouth disease in the UK in 2001.\n\nRacing was stopped for a while, and eventually the Cheltenham Festival was called off altogether.\n\nThere's no suggestion that this incident will cause the same kind of disruption, but that said there's big element of uncertainty about what happens next, and any further shut-down - Cheltenham is again looming - would clearly have a considerable effect on the sport but on all the ancillary industries that go with it.\n• None Archive: When foot-and-mouth disease stopped the UK in its tracks", "Theresa May at a community centre in Belfast on Tuesday evening\n\n\"It's not good enough to come back next week and say that the negotiations are ongoing,\" a senior Cabinet minister warned. But will the prime minister's travels this week do more than just keep the show on the road?\n\nToday she's in Northern Ireland meeting the different political parties, including the DUP - whose votes she needs in Parliament - who are totally opposed to the current version of the controversial backstop, as well as Sinn Fein, who are just as adamant that it must remain.\n\nThen on Thursday, Theresa May will be in Brussels, asking - again - for the EU to amend the policy, seeking either a time limit or a legal upgrade to the promise that both sides will only use it if they really, really, really have to, and they don't expect it to last forever.\n\nIn short, today's a chance for the PM to test out what she'll ask for, tomorrow, an opportunity to sell it as hard as she can in Brussels.\n\nRemember, she has asked for these changes before and been turned down.\n\nAnd she's heard before from both sides in Northern Ireland how dug in their positions are.\n\nSo can she do anything other than take one more turn around the same carousel while the clock ticks down?\n\nThe difference on her travels this time is that it's not just the prime minister pleading with the EU to budge, warning that this deal hypothetically might not wash.\n\nIt's the first time she'll meet the EU top brass since the plan that she agreed with them was thumpingly rejected by Parliament. And the first time too she has some evidence to show that the deal could, in theory, pass through the Commons if the backstop was eventually changed.\n\nThat's what last week's drama was all about - the so-called Brady amendment (which already feels a lifetime ago) passing Parliament paved the way for the prime minister to have another go at getting changes because it allows her to say to the EU, \"look, all those grumpy MPs could come on board, if only you are willing to give me this one thing - I know that you have said no in multiple languages, but it is the only way this is going to work\".\n\nThat's why today will also be important for the Irish leader, who has his own talks in Brussels.\n\nUntil now, Leo Varadkar has staked his political reputation on sticking to the backstop. Don't hold your breath for any signs of concessions from him later.\n\nOne source said they wouldn't be likely to move until the \"92nd minute\". But with the risk of no-deal looming larger, by simple virtue of time marching on, perhaps behind closed doors the EU's dealmakers are looking for ways out.\n\nThat's why this week, for example, Martin Selymayr did discuss with MPs whether they could accept a souped-up legal version of promises that have already been made.\n\nThat's not the same as putting it on the table as an official proposal of course. But the fact that such a conversation has taken place matters.\n\nIt seems rather optimistic though that, by the end of tomorrow, the prime minister will have conclusive proof that those kinds of noises-off make a concrete deal, or that the legal fixes being proposed by the Attorney General at home have been convincingly signed off by the EU.\n\nAnd all the while a group of Remainers and Brexiteers are working with government officials on their hoped-for alternative, the so-called Malthouse Compromise.\n\nWhile a tweaked deal with the EU could get some reluctant Brexiteers on board, some are hardening around the idea that it has to be this plan now, or there won't be a plan they can back at all.\n\nOne key member of the powerful ERG group of Tory Brexiteer MPs told me this is \"the only show in town\", claiming that if No 10 doesn't ultimately buy their plan - which you can read about here - then the government could fall.\n\nThat's quite a threat to wave around.\n\nNo 10 is trying to maintain the idea that this could be the route they follow. The simple truth is they need the votes of those MPs who back it.\n\nBut it's clear in the first instance that No 10 is trying to change the backstop in the deal they have sweated over for two years, rather than make a more significant shift.\n\nWhat Theresa May might need from the next 48 hours though is proof that the EU could move in her direction.\n\nEvidence to present back to Parliament next week that, while there might not be a deal fresh with wet ink, there is at least a proposal that's being taken seriously, that paves the way for another vote on a government-friendly amendment that can be used to signify numbers moving in her direction.\n\nIf she comes back with nothing at all to show, nor any encouragement for those strongly pushing for change, then in her colleague's words, it might \"not be good enough\" at all.", "Hundreds of students have protested at the University of Warwick over the way it dealt with men involved in an online group chat threatening rape.\n\nProtestors are angry that the university lifted a 10-year ban for two men on appeal, reducing it to a year.\n\nThe university has been accused of \"condoning\" rape culture and called for an inquiry into the investigation.\n\nThe University of Warwick said it has launched an independent review of its disciplinary procedure.", "The government is to outline new powers for the media regulator Ofcom to police social media.\n\nIt is supposed to make the companies protect users from content involving things like violence, terrorism, cyber-bullying and child abuse.\n\nCompanies will have to ensure that harmful content is removed quickly and take steps to prevent it appearing in the first place.\n\nThey had previously relied largely on self-governance. Sites such as YouTube and Facebook have their own rules about what is unacceptable and the way that users are expected to behave towards one another.\n\nYouTube releases a transparency report, which gives data on its removals of inappropriate content.\n\nThe video-sharing site owned by Google said that 8.8m videos were taken down between July and September 2019, with 93% of them automatically removed by machines, and two thirds of those clips not receiving a single view.\n\nIt also removed 3.3 million channels and 517 million comments.\n\nGlobally, YouTube employs 10,000 people in monitoring and removing content, as well as policy development.\n\nFacebook, which owns Instagram, told Reality Check it has more than 35,000 people around the world working on safety and security, and it also releases statistics on its content removals.\n\nBetween July and September 2019 it took action on 30.3 million pieces of content of which it found 98.4% before any users flagged it.\n\nIf illegal content, such as \"revenge pornography\" or extremist material, is posted on a social media site, it has previously been the person who posted it, rather than the social media companies, who was most at risk of prosecution. But that may now change.\n\nSo if the UK has previously mainly relied on social media platforms governing themselves, what do other countries do?\n\nGermany's NetzDG law came into effect at the beginning of 2018, applying to companies with more than two million registered users in the country.\n\nThey were forced to set up procedures to review complaints about content they were hosting, remove anything that was clearly illegal within 24 hours and publish updates every six months about how they were doing.\n\nIndividuals may be fined up to €5m ($5.6m; £4.4m) and companies up to €50m for failing to comply with these requirements.\n\nThe government issued its first fine under the new law to Facebook in July 2019. The company had to pay €2m (£1.7m) for under-reporting illegal activity on its platforms in Germany, although the company complained that the new law had lacked clarity.\n\nThe EU is considering a clampdown, specifically on terror videos.\n\nSocial media platforms face fines if they do not delete extremist content within an hour.\n\nThe EU also introduced the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) which set rules on how companies, including social media platforms, store and use people's data.\n\nIt has also taken action on copyright. Its copyright directive puts the responsibility on platforms to make sure that copyright infringing content is not hosted on their sites.\n\nPrevious legislation only required the platforms to take down such content if it was pointed out to them.\n\nMember states have until 2021 to implement the directive into their domestic law.\n\nAustralia passed the Sharing of Abhorrent Violent Material Act in 2019, introducing criminal penalties for social media companies, possible jail sentences for tech executives for up to three years and financial penalties worth up to 10% of a company's global turnover.\n\nIt followed the live-streaming of the New Zealand shootings on Facebook.\n\nIn 2015, the Enhancing Online Safety Act created an eSafety Commissioner with the power to demand that social media companies take down harassing or abusive posts. In 2018, the powers were expanded to include revenge porn.\n\nThe eSafety Commissioner's office can issue companies with 48-hour \"takedown notices\", and fines of up to 525,000 Australian dollars (£285,000). But it can also fine individuals up to A$105,000 for posting the content.\n\nThe legislation was introduced after the death of Charlotte Dawson, a TV presenter and a judge on Australia's Next Top Model, who killed herself in 2014 following a campaign of cyber-bullying against her on Twitter. She had a long history of depression.\n\nCardboard cut-outs were used at demonstrations over Facebook in Washington and Brussels last year\n\nA law came into force in Russia in November giving regulators the power to switch off connections to the worldwide web \"in an emergency\" although it is not yet clear how effectively they would be able to do this.\n\nRussia's data laws from 2015 required social media companies to store any data about Russians on servers within the country.\n\nIts communications watchdog blocked LinkedIn and fined Facebook and Twitter for not being clear about how they planned to comply with this.\n\nSites such as Twitter, Google and WhatsApp are blocked in China. Their services are provided instead by Chinese providers such as Weibo, Baidu and WeChat.\n\nChinese authorities have also had some success in restricting access to the virtual private networks that some users have employed to bypass the blocks on sites.\n\nThe Cyberspace Administration of China announced at the end of January 2019 that in the previous six months it had closed 733 websites and \"cleaned up\" 9,382 mobile apps, although those are more likely to be illegal gambling apps or copies of existing apps being used for illegal purposes than social media.\n\nChina has hundreds of thousands of cyber-police, who monitor social media platforms and screen messages that are deemed to be politically sensitive.\n\nSome keywords are automatically censored outright, such as references to the 1989 Tiananmen Square incident.\n\nNew words that are seen as being sensitive are added to a long list of censored words and are either temporarily banned, or are filtered out from social platforms.\n\nThis piece was originally published in April 2018 and has been updated to reflect the Ofcom proposals and more recent statistics.", "The body recovered from the wreckage of a crashed plane is that of Cardiff City player Emiliano Sala, Dorset Police have said.\n\nSala, 28, was travelling to Cardiff in a plane piloted by David Ibbotson, which went missing over the English Channel on 21 January.\n\nThe Argentine's body was recovered late on Wednesday after the wreckage was found on Sunday morning.\n\nIn a statement, the force said: \"The body brought to Portland Port today, Thursday 7 February 2019, has been formally identified by HM Coroner for Dorset as that of professional footballer Emiliano Sala.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"The families of Mr Sala and the pilot David Ibbotson have been updated with this news and will continue to be supported by specially-trained family liaison officers.\"\n\nThe body was spotted in the wreckage of the plane on Monday and the authorities were able to recover it two days later, despite \"challenging conditions\".\n\nThe Air Accidents Investigations Branch (AAIB) said the operation had been carried out in \"as dignified a way as possible\" and the men's families were kept updated throughout.\n\nEmiliano Sala (left) was on board a plane being flown by pilot David Ibbotson\n\nThe Geo Ocean III, which was involved in finding the wreckage, took the body back to the nearest port of Portland in Dorset, where the body was formally identified.\n\nThe Piper Malibu N264DB was en route from France to Cardiff, after the Argentine striker made a quick trip back to his former club Nantes two days after his £15m transfer to Cardiff was announced.\n\nIn a post on Instagram, Sala's sister Romina paid tribute, saying: \"Your soul in my soul, it will shine forever thus illuminating the time of my existence. I love you, tito.\"\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 Sol Bamba 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\nCardiff City issued a statement shortly after identification was confirmed saying: \"We offer our most heartfelt sympathies and condolences to the family of Emiliano. He and David will forever remain in our thoughts.\"\n\nSome of the club's players reacted via Twitter. Full back Joe Bennett wrote \"RIP Emiliano\", while centre-half Sol Bamba posted a black-and-white image of the team-mate he never got to play alongside.\n\nStars from the wider footballing world also paid tribute.\n\nChelsea defender Antonio Rudiger wrote: \"Heartbreaking to hear the news about Emiliano Sala. Rest in peace! Thoughts go out to the family and friends of Emiliano and the pilot.\"\n\nAnd Arsenal's Mesut Ozil tweeted: \"No words to describe how sad this is. Thoughts and prayers go out to his family and also to the family of the pilot.\"\n\nMr Ibbotson, 59, from Crowle, North Lincolnshire, was at the controls when the flight lost contact with air traffic controllers on 21 January.\n\nAn official search was called off on 24 January after Guernsey's harbour master said the chances of survival were \"extremely remote\".\n\nBut an online appeal started by Sala's agent raised £324,000 (371,000 euros) for a private search led by marine scientist and oceanographer David Mearns.\n\nWorking jointly with the AAIB, his ship and the Geo Ocean III, began combing a four square mile area of the English Channel, 24 nautical miles north of Guernsey, to make best use of the available sensors.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Mearns said the plane was identified by sonar, 67m (220ft) below the surface, before a submersible with cameras was sent underwater to confirm this.\n\nFollowing the confirmation, he also tweeted his tribute.\n\n\"I was glad to provide some small comfort to Romina, Mercedes and the whole Sala family during the past two weeks but my heart goes out to the family and friends of David Ibbotson whose loss is the same,\" Mr Mearns said.\n\nCardiff fans left a sea of flowers outside the Cardiff City Stadium in tribute to Emiliano Sala\n\nDuring the recovery operation, the AAIB used a remotely operated underwater vehicle (ROV) to aid the search, with no divers involved.\n\nThe body was moved first, and separately from the wreckage, to maximise the chances of it being successfully brought to the surface.\n\nIt said efforts to recover the crashed plane as a whole proved unsuccessful, before being abandoned due to poor weather.\n\n\"The weather forecast is poor for the foreseeable future and so the difficult decision was taken to bring the overall operation to a close,\" the AAIB said in a statement.\n\nThe AAIB released this photograph of the wreckage of the Piper Malibu\n\nHowever, the AAIB said video footage captured by the ROV would provide \"valuable evidence\" for its safety investigation.\n\nMr Mearns told BBC Radio Wales the AAIB could not have continued searching in the current conditions and admitted finding Mr Ibbotson's would be difficult.\n\nHe added: \"I've been involved in operations when people were lost and the bodies were found days and weeks after, not far from where they were lost.\n\n\"But this is a pretty dynamic place. It's got fairly strong currents, it's not that deep water, you've got a lot of fishing activity, a lot of scallop dredgers moving in and out of the location.\n\n\"You cannot expect that the body is going to be in that location for an extended period of time.\"\n\nMeanwhile, it has emerged that Sala's former club, French Ligue 1 side Nantes, has demanded Cardiff City pay his £15m transfer fee.\n\nSala was Cardiff's record signing but never played for the club.\n\nThe fee was due to be paid over three years but Cardiff have withheld the first scheduled payment until they are satisfied with the documentation.", "It seems even the best of writers get rejected - but not all of them can expect an apology 70 years later.\n\nThe British Council has apologised to George Orwell after rejecting an essay of his seven decades ago.\n\nThe author of 1984 and Animal Farm wrote the piece, entitled British Cookery, in 1946.\n\nBut the council, which promotes British relations with other countries, told Orwell it would be \"unwise to publish it for the continental reader\".\n\nThe editor acknowledges it is an \"excellent\" essay, but \"with one or two minor criticisms\" - including that Orwell's recipe for orange marmalade contained \"too much sugar and water\".\n\nIn the essay, Orwell describes the British diet as \"a simple, rather heavy, perhaps slightly barbarous diet\" and where \"hot drinks are acceptable at most hours of the day\".\n\nAlasdair Donaldson, British Council senior policy analyst, said: \"It seems that the organisation in those days was somewhat po-faced and risk-averse, and was anxious to avoid producing an essay about food (even one which mentions the disastrous effects of wartime rationing) in the aftermath of the hungry winter of 1945.\"\n\nHe added: \"Over 70 years later, the British Council is delighted to make amends for its slight on perhaps the UK's greatest political writer of the 20th Century, by re-producing the original essay in full - along with the unfortunate rejection letter.\"\n\nThis time of year is perfect for making marmalade. For just a short few weeks, Seville oranges are in season.\n\nThe strong bitter fruits are a far cry from the sweet oranges we're used to, and are the secret behind marmalade's distinctive tang.\n\nHere is Orwell's take on a classic - but beware, according to his editor's tastes, it's a \"bad recipe!\".\n\nMethod. Wash and dry the fruit. Halve them and squeeze out the juice. Remove some of the pith, then shred the fruit finely. Tie the pips in a muslin bag.\n\nPut the strained juice, rind and pips into the water and soak for 48 hours. Place in a large pan and simmer for an hour and a half until the rind is tender. Leave to stand overnight, then add the sugar and let it dissolve before bringing to the boil.\n\nBoil rapidly until a little of the mixture will set into a jelly when placed on a cold plate. Pour into jars which have been heated beforehand and cover with paper covers.\n\nAccording to Orwell's essay, breakfast for most people in Britain is \"not a snack but a serious meal\" that consists of three courses.\n\nAt the end of the meal comes bread, or toast, with orange marmalade. \"Other kinds of jam are seldom eaten at breakfast, and marmalade does not often appear at other times of the day,\" he writes.\n\nTea is the preferred drink with which to wash breakfast down, since \"coffee in Britain is almost always nasty\".\n\nOf tea, British people \"are extremely critical, and everyone has his favourite brand and his pet theory as to how it should be made\".\n\n\"The British are great eaters of pickles,\" but \"as for vegetables, it must be admitted they seldom get the treatment they deserve\", he writes.\n\n\"Cabbage is simply boiled - a method which renders it almost uneatable - while cauliflowers, leeks and marrows are usually smothered in a tasteless white sauce.\"\n\nThe writer says high tea in 1940s Britain consisted of a variety of savoury and sweet dishes, but \"no tea would be considered a good one if it did not include at least one kind of cake\".\n\n\"A particularly delicious kind of tea cake, made to be toasted and buttered, is the crumpet, which is unsweetened and is eaten with salt,\" he continues.\n\n\"Crumpets, which are of very strange appearance - they are white, and full of holes like a Gruyere cheese - are made by a process that is known to very few people.\"", "Owen Smith and Jeremy Corbyn went head to head in the 2016 Labour leadership contest\n\nA leading anti-Brexit Labour MP has said he and a \"lot of people\" are considering leaving the party.\n\nAsked if he intended to quit, Pontypridd MP Owen Smith told the BBC: \"I think that's a very good question, and I think it's something that I and a lot of other people are considering\".\n\nHe and other Labour politicians have criticised Jeremy Corbyn for setting out terms for supporting a Brexit deal.\n\nMr Smith made a failed bid to topple Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader in 2016.\n\nMr Corbyn made him shadow Northern Ireland secretary but sacked him from that role in March last year after Mr Smith called for Labour to back another EU referendum.\n\nAsked by BBC Wales on Thursday if he would consider quitting the Labour party, Mr Smith said it was a question \"I and people who hold my views will have to consider\".\n\n\"The truth is that Brexit is not compatible with my values. It is a right-wing ideological project, it is a nativist project, it is fuelled by lies and it was delivered deceitfully in 2016.\n\n\"I got elected on a set of values which I think Brexit is incompatible with and I got elected to look after the people I grew up with and represent very proudly in Pontypridd.\n\n\"I don't think Brexit is reconcilable with those values and my desire to look after people in Ponty.\"\n\nMr Smith's comments came after Mr Corbyn wrote to the prime minister with five demands, including joining a customs union, that would need to be met for Labour to back the UK government on Brexit.\n\nIn the letter, Mr Corbyn offers talks to secure \"a sensible agreement that can win the support of Parliament and bring the country together\".\n\nThe terms include a \"permanent and comprehensive UK-wide customs union\" aligned with the EU's customs rules but with an agreement \"that includes a UK say on future EU trade deals\".\n\nCommenting initially on Twitter, Mr Smith said Brexit, even on Mr Corbyn's terms, \"would still shrink our economy, cost jobs and lost investment, indulge nativist nostalgia and isolationism... and pave the way for another austerity Tory government\".\n\nJeremy Corbyn had what he called a \"serious\" meeting with Theresa May on Brexit last week\n\nThere was also criticism from other Welsh Labour politicians.\n\nGower MP Tonia Antoniazzi said: \"Nice to be briefed about this @UKLabour @WelshLabour - if at ANY point you would like to consult MPs and also take the Labour Party conference motion into consideration... Just let me know... Cheers...\"\n\nBlaenau Gwent assembly member and former Welsh Government minister Alun Davies said Mr Corbyn \"appears to be walking blindly towards a Tory Brexit and political oblivion. Whatever happened to our members determining policy and priorities?!\"\n\nBut Aberavon MP Stephen Kinnock, who has been promoting what is known as the \"Norway Plus\" model of a close economic partnership with the EU, welcomed Mr Corbyn's letter, tweeting \"This can break the deadlock.\"\n\n\"It also throws down the gauntlet to May because it has a seriously good chance of commanding a cross-party majority,\" he said.\n\nWrexham MP Ian Lucas called on fellow Labour MPs to back Mr Corbyn because \"the government and parliament is paralysed because we haven't been able to reach a resolution\".\n\n\"There is a consensus for a deal something like Jeremy Corbyn has set out in his letter,\" he said.\n\n\"I was elected on a manifesto commitment that we were going to be leaving the European Union.\n\n\"Those who supported Remain like me had to accept the referendum result in 2016.\"\n\nThere was also support for Mr Corbyn from the Welsh Government 's Brexit Minister Jeremy Miles, following a meeting of UK and devolved ministers at Westminster to discuss EU matters.\n\n\"This morning's letter from the leader of the opposition demonstrates that there is a deal that can gain wider support if the UK government will move on their red line positions,\" he said in statement.", "Teacher training providers have accused the government of \"lowering the bar\" on teacher recruitment to beat England's shortage in the classroom.\n\nTeacher trainers have come under pressure from officials to \"justify\" decisions to reject candidates.\n\nEmma Hollis, head of the National Association of School-Based Teacher Trainers, said making it easier to get into teaching was not the answer.\n\nThe government said that recruitment requirements had not changed.\n\nIt stressed that all those who go on to get qualified teacher status must be judged by the provider to have met all the relevant standards by the end of their course.\n\nHowever, recruitment targets have been missed for six years in a row and hundreds of head teachers say how tough it is to recruit teachers, particularly those in specialist subjects.\n\nMinisters have recently made attempts to get more people into teaching, drawing up a new strategy to help with recruitment and retention.\n\nThey have also increased the number of chances recruits have to pass skills tests, and issued unlimited initial teacher training places in shortage subjects.\n\nBut providers say they have come under repeated pressure to take the kinds of candidates that they had been rejecting.\n\nThey have been summoned to a string of meetings by Schools Minister Nick Gibb and his Department for Education (DfE) officials, over the past six months, where they were quizzed over which candidates were rejected and why.\n\nMs Hollis said: \"We are asked to justify why we are rejecting people. What reasons can you give for rejecting those applicants?\"\n\nShe added: \"There's a pressure on providers to deal with the problem that we are faced with, by accepting a higher proportion of those we interview, even when experience is absolutely telling us that they might not be right.\n\n\"Whilst initial teacher training (ITT) providers are acutely aware of the recruitment pressures facing schools, it is right and proper that they must act as gatekeepers to the profession.\n\n\"Providers have always looked for potential in applicants to teacher training and have never expected 'oven ready' candidates.\n\n\"However, a lowering of the bar is not the solution to the recruitment crisis and our members maintain a sharp focus on quality when selecting candidates,\" she said.\n\nShe added: \"I actually think a rejection rate is a positive thing and I don't think there would be any employer who would disagree.\n\n\"Our bar is high and it should be high for teaching. It needs to be high to ensure the quality of the workforce.\"\n\nThe message was that as long as candidates met the entry requirements - to have GCSE passes in English and maths, and a degree - they should be accepted on to teacher training courses, she said.\n\nBut there were other skills, she said, such as the ability to make relationships with young people and whether they actually like children, that are just as important.\n\nEarly last year, Schools Minister Nick Gibb wrote to teacher trainers saying: 'It is right to reject candidates who are not suitable.\n\n\"However, it is also crucial to support and develop those who have the desire and talent to teach.\n\n\"The emphasis must be on assessing applicants based on their suitability to train to teach, rather than whether they are ready to teach at the point of entry.\"\n\nTrainers were also concerned about the removal of the trainers' discretion to require trainees to spend some time in school before joining an ITT.\n\nThis, Ms Hollis said, had led to higher than usual dropout rates.\n\nA DfE spokesman said: \"We want more teachers in our schools, which is why last week we published the first-ever recruitment and retention strategy to make sure that teaching is an attractive profession, so we can train and retain the next generation of inspirational teachers.\n\n\"Prior school experience has never been a formal requirement for candidates of initial teacher training.\n\n\"ITT providers have discretion over who they recruit, provided the decision is based on readiness to train to teach and their potential to meet the standards by the end of the programme.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Just three days after he signed for Premier League club Cardiff City, Emiliano Sala was on a light aircraft that went missing over the English Channel on 21 January. Dorset Police on Thursday night confirmed the 28-year-old's body had been recovered from the wreckage, which was found on Sunday morning.\n\nThis is an updated version of a story first published on 22 January.\n\nAt 28, Emiliano Sala, whose death in a light aircraft crash has been announced, had just reached football maturity, and his move to Cardiff was shaping up to be a thrilling adventure.\n\nThe transfer marked belated recognition for a player who might have been imperfect technically but who was physical, courageous - and endearing.\n\nOn the pitch, he was confrontational; off it, he led a quiet life.\n\nHe loved detective novels and would never go to an away game without taking a book. He played guitar too but took that up quite late, and usually preferred to leave it at home.\n\nA common morning sight in Nantes was Sala, seated at a table outside a cafe with his labrador Naja curled up at his feet.\n\nFans of Nantes football club spent the whole of January hoping - rumour had it that Sala didn't really want to leave for Cardiff. His coach, Vahid Halilhodzic, had rekindled his career last October following a long period of struggle under former manager Miguel Cardoso and refused to discuss the possibility of his striker leaving.\n\nHalilhodzic - himself a former centre-forward at Nantes - had decided his mission was to relaunch the Argentine player, whose role model since childhood had been the legendary striker Gabriel Batistuta.\n\n\"He's a sensitive young man; he needs to feel confident, so the priority was to help him believe in himself. Only after that could we talk, striker-to-striker,\" said Halilhodzic.\n\nSala confirmed: \"The club was ready to sell me to Galatasaray, but I held on tight. I have no regrets, because Vahid and I talk a lot, and I'm steadily improving.\"\n\nBetween July and September, during the Cardoso era at Nantes, Sala scored four times; between October and December, he scored eight times.\n\n'If he were an English player, he would be Jamie Vardy'\n\nSala was first and foremost an instinctive striker.\n\nIf he were an English player, he would have been Jamie Vardy: a player who liked wide spaces and being part of a team with a strong counter-attacking style; a lively, light player but one who was also resilient and reliable - a real South American warrior.\n\nDuring his time with French club Niort he was often referred to as \"the local Carlos Tevez\".\n\nSala was also a skilled 'fox in the box', thanks particularly to his exceptional finishing ability with his head. He had perfect timing, and he was clinical on set-pieces with his great headers. There was no doubt his technique still lacked something, but the Premier League looked like his turf to conquer.\n\nHe was initially unsure about joining a club struggling in their own league, but Kita, the president of Nantes, didn't want to miss out on the 17m euros transfer fee.\n\nThe player Cardiff wanted was the Sala that Halilhodzic had so successfully polished and relaunched.\n\nIn Argentina, Sala trained in San Francisco, Cordoba, at an academy allied to Bordeaux, moving to France to join Bordeaux when he was 20.\n\nEveryone who knew him there agrees - Emiliano was a good guy and a good team-mate.\n\nFelipe Saad, who played with Sala at Caen, told L'Equipe: \"He was a lovable, generous fellow. He always believed that football was a team sport. I am so shaken.\n\n\"His move to Cardiff was going to bring him the recognition he deserved, albeit belatedly. He so deserved his talent to be recognised.\"\n\nIt is true that Sala's progress was rather slow: people still referred to him as a \"promising talent\" when he was 23 and at Bordeaux.\n\nHis team-mates even poked fun at him for his unpolished style on the field - so much so that, after a season spent in the Bordeaux reserves in 2011-12, Sala was loaned to Orleans, then a Niveau 3 team. He went on to score 19 goals in 37 matches.\n\nNext came another loan, this time to Niort, in D2. Initially, Sala's then-coach Pascal Gastieu had no real interest in him.\n\n\"I considered his technique to only be adequate, though everything else was there,\" said Gastieu. \"He was a generous guy and when he was on the field he never gave up.\n\n\"He knew he had room for improvement, especially on a technical level. He'll reach full maturity later than the average player, you'll see.\"\n\nAt the time, Sala agreed: \"My headers aren't good enough, even though I'm tall. It's something I'll have to work on.\"\n\nSala's next loan move took him to Caen. It wasn't always easy for him, a joint Italian-Argentine national, to be constantly on the move. But he eventually found his feet at Nantes, where he won an initial five-year contract.\n\nIt didn't take Sala long to establish himself and soon Wolves, then in the Championship, got in touch with Nantes about him. President Kita, who had signed Sala a year earlier for 1m euros, rejected the 4m euros offer.\n\nSala had been tempted - \"this might be the second division, but that's the English league\" - but he knew that, even at 26, he wasn't yet mature enough to go up against the solid defence of English teams.\n\n\"I haven't left my mark on Nantes yet. If I was to leave, I would want it to be after I've made it, and I'd want to leave a good memory of me.\"\n\nSala could be spotted outside a cafe in Nantes, having breakfast with Naja, as recently as a few weeks ago.\n\nAfterwards, he went to say goodbye to his Nantes team-mates. Then he boarded a plane to Cardiff.", "Molly Russell, 14, took her own life in 2017. When her family looked into her Instagram account they found distressing material about depression and suicide.\n\nMolly's father Ian says he believes Instagram is partly responsible for his daughter's death.\n\nIn a statement, Instagram said it \"does not allow content that promotes or glorifies self-harm or suicide and will remove content of this kind.\"\n\nThe UK government is urging social media companies to take more responsibility for harmful online content which illustrates and promotes methods of suicide and self-harm.\n\nIf you’ve been affected by self-harm, eating disorders or emotional distress, help and support is available via the BBC Action Line.", "Germany's competition regulator has told Facebook to substantially restrict how it collects and combines data about its users unless they give it explicit consent.\n\nThe watchdog has carried out a probe into the social network following concerns that members were unaware of the extent of the firm's activities.\n\nIt covered data gathered from third-party sources as well as via Facebook's other apps, including Instagram.\n\nThe US firm has said it will appeal.\n\nSpecifically, the FCO has ruled that:\n\nThe watchdog added that an \"obligatory tick on the box\" to agree to all the company's terms was not a sufficient basis for \"such intensive data processing\".\n\nThe ruling only applies to the firm's activities in Germany, but is likely to influence other regulators.\n\nFacebook claims the Federal Cartel Office has overstepped the mark by pursuing a data privacy matter that Facebook says falls under the remit of another regulator.\n\nIt has one month to challenge the ruling before it becomes legally effective.\n\nIf the order is upheld, the company must develop technical solutions to ensure it complies within four months. If it refused to do so, it could in theory be fined up to 10% of its annual revenues.\n\nThe FCO's justification for the case is that it believes Facebook abused its market dominance to gather the data.\n\n\"In future, Facebook will no longer be allowed to force its users to agree to the practically unrestricted collection and assigning of non-Facebook data to their Facebook user accounts,\" explained Andreas Mundt, the FCO's president.\n\n\"The combination of data sources substantially contributed to the fact that Facebook was able to build a unique database for each individual user and thus to gain market power.\"\n\nThe ruling could affect the firm's use of the Like and Share buttons on external sites, which lets Facebook track each visitor's internet protocol (IP) address, web browser name and version, and other details that can be used to identify them. This is true, even if users never click on the buttons.\n\nLikewise, the Facebook Login, which lets users avoid having to type in a unique username and password for each service, shares similar device-identifying information.\n\nIn addition, the company runs a scheme called the Facebook Pixel, which adds code to a third-party site to let its owners track whether ads run on Facebook converted the people who saw them into buyers.\n\nThe FCO was also concerned by the fact that Facebook shares some of the data gathered by Instagram, WhatsApp and its other services with its namesake platform.\n\nThe firm recently announced plans to go further and integrate the technology behind the chat services of Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger.\n\nFacebook defends such practices on the grounds that:\n\nIn a blog, it added that the FCO had overlooked steps it had already taken to be compliant with the EU's General Data Protection Regulation, which came into force last year.\n\n\"The GDPR specifically empowers data protection regulators - not competition authorities - to determine whether companies have lived up to their responsibilities,\" it said.\n\n\"And data protection regulators certainly have the expertise to make those conclusions.\"\n\n\"The [FCO] order threatens to undermine this, providing different rights to people based on the size of the companies they do business with.\"\n\nBut the UK-based campaign group Privacy International has said that if the German ruling holds, Facebook should extend the same rights to its other users.\n\n\"Privacy harms are directly caused by the business models of companies in dominant positions, which can impose excessive collection of data on people who have become 'captive users',\" said the group's head of advocacy and policy Tomaso Falchetta.\n\n\"Facebook should unify its privacy protections for its operations globally.\"\n\nThe FCO is also pursuing a separate probe into Amazon. It is exploring whether the retail giant has acted illegally in its relations with the third-party sellers who use its platform.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Donald Tusk: \"Special place in hell\" for those without Brexit plan\n\nThe softly-spoken politician who holds the authority of all EU countries has just completely condemned a chunk of the British cabinet, wondering aloud: \"What that special place in hell looks like for those who promoted Brexit, without even a sketch of a plan how to carry it out safely\".\n\nSure, for a long time the EU has been frustrated with how the UK has approached all of this.\n\nAnd sure, plenty of voters in the UK are annoyed too at how politicians have been handling these negotiations.\n\nBut it is quite something for Donald Tusk to have gone in like this, studs up, even though he sometimes reminisces about his time as a football hooligan in his youth.\n\nBe clear, he was not intending to talk about voters who wanted to Leave, but politicians who were involved in the campaign.\n\nHe also had pretty stern remarks for those who'd been on the other side of the argument, accusing those who still want the UK to stay in the EU of having \"no political force, and no effective leadership\".\n\nMr Tusk will be all too aware that he will provoke tempers at home, even laughing about it as he left the stage with the Taoiseach, the Irish leader, Leo Varadkar.\n\nBut if you strip away the planned flash of temper, also in his remarks was an invitation to the prime minister to come forward with a different version of the backstop - a \"believable guarantee\", a promise that a \"common solution is possible\".\n\nThat is, on the face of it, in tone at least, more of an opening to the UK to put something new on the table than we have seen from the EU side.\n\nCertainly, Theresa May's most pressing job is to put something that could work on the table in Belfast, and in Brussels, and to do it fast.\n\nBut don't forget, also at her back, she has Brexiteers whom she needs to manage, whose expectations she needs to contain, whose votes she desperately needs.\n\nAnd at a time when cool tempers and compromise are absolutely needed, Mr Tusk's remarks are likely to whip up the mood instead.", "Last updated on .From the section Cardiff\n\nFrench club Nantes have demanded payment from Cardiff City over the £15m transfer of Emiliano Sala, BBC Wales has learned.\n\nArgentine striker Sala, along with pilot David Ibbotson, was on board the Piper Malibu N264DB which lost radar contact near Guernsey on 21 January.\n\nSala, 28, was Cardiff's record signing but never played for the club.\n\nCardiff have withheld the first scheduled payment until they are satisfied with the documentation.\n\nThe transfer fee is due to be paid in instalments over three years.\n\nIn a later interview with French newspaper L'Equipe , Cardiff chairman Mehmet Dalman indicated that Nantes had sent an invoice for the first instalment, worth 6m euros (£5.27m).\n\nIn the same interview Dalman added: \"We must show respect to the family. There is the process of recovering the plane.\"\n\nOn Thursday night the Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) said a body had been recovered from the wreckage.\n\nCardiff had earlier expressed \"surprise\" that Nantes made the demand while the recovery attempts were under way.\n\nIt is understood Nantes are threatening legal action if they do not receive a payment within 10 days. The BBC has attempted to speak to Nantes for comment.\n\nA source at Cardiff says they will honour the contract but not until they have clarified \"all the facts\".\n\nIt is unclear whether or not the club have insurance covering the cost of the transfer.\n\nFrench club Bordeaux are also entitled to a cut of the fee, thought to be 50% - Sala was on their books from 2012 to 2015 before joining Nantes.\n\nThe plane carrying Sala and Ibbotson, from Crowle, Lincolnshire, disappeared en route to Cardiff after the footballer returned to Nantes to say goodbye to his former team-mates.", "Libby Squire - whose full name is Liberty Anna - is a student at the University of Hull\n\nA man has been arrested on suspicion of abducting student Libby Squire, who went missing a week ago.\n\nUniversity of Hull student Ms Squire, 21, was last seen in the Beverley Road area of the city after a night out.\n\nHumberside Police said a 24-year-old man was arrested at an address in Raglan Street in Hull on Wednesday night.\n\n\"We have not yet found Libby and doing so remains our top priority,\" the force added.\n\nThe man is in custody and assisting police with their inquiries.\n\nMs Squire's parents have been informed of the arrest and are being supported by officers \"at this difficult time\", police said.\n\nA man was arrested in Raglan Street, Hull, which is less than a mile from Libby Squire's student house\n\nDetectives believe Ms Squire - whose full name is Liberty Anna - got a taxi at The Welly nightclub last Thursday before arriving at her student house at about 23:30 GMT, where her mobile phone was found.\n\nBut the philosophy student did not enter the house and her phone \"has not provided any further insight as to where she may be or her movements that night\", the force said.\n\nMs Squire, from High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire, was spotted on CCTV 10 minutes later near a bench on Beverley Road, by the junction with Haworth Street, where it is believed a motorist stopped to offer her help.\n\nShe is thought to have been in the area for about 30 minutes.\n\nPolice said both the taxi driver and motorist were \"not suspects\".\n\nA neighbour said they saw a silver car, pictured here, being towed away by officers\n\nDet Supt Matt Hutchinson said a car on Raglan Street had been recovered by officers and it \"is currently forming just one part of our investigation\".\n\nHe said they were \"still treating Libby's disappearance as a missing person's inquiry\" and were keeping an open mind while they worked \"around the clock\".\n\nJohn Garrity, a neighbour, said he received a knock on the door by police officers who were \"seeking access to the back of the garden\" of the house where the man was arrested.\n\n\"They wanted to block off any escape route,\" he said. \"About 22:00 they removed his Astra.\"\n\nOfficers are searching a park close to where Libby Squire was last seen\n\nPolice are currently searching a wooded area near a pond in Oak Road Playing Fields, close to where Ms Squire was last seen. A police helicopter has been seen hovering above the park.\n\nOfficers plan to drive an 11 sq m mobile billboard around the area and leaflets will be handed out later in a bid to \"gather more information\".\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 Humberside Police This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMs Squire's mother Lisa has thanked everyone who helped in the search, saying the family had been \"overwhelmed with people's kindness and support\".\n\nHer parents met and spoke with Ms Squire's friends, other students, lecturers and staff at an event at the university on Tuesday night, \"which saw hundreds of people turn out to show their support\", police said.\n\nOfficers have waded through waist-deep pond water in the hunt for Ms Squire\n\nHer family previously said Ms Squire's disappearance was \"very out of character\" and they were \"broken without her\".\n\nMs Squire, who is 5ft 7in tall and has long dark brown hair, was wearing a black leather jacket, black long-sleeved top and a black denim skirt with lace when she was last seen.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Cardiff\n\nJust three days after he signed for Premier League club Cardiff City, Emiliano Sala was on a light aircraft that went missing over the English Channel on 21 January. Dorset Police on Thursday night confirmed the 28-year-old's body had been recovered from the wreckage, which was found on Sunday morning.\n\nThis is an updated version of a story first published on 22 January.\n\nEmiliano Sala, whose death in a light aircraft crash at the age of 28 has been announced, was born in Santa Fe, Argentina - but it was in France that he forged his reputation.\n\nAmong the top five goalscorers in Ligue 1 this season, Sala netted 12 times at better than a goal every two games.\n\nThat prompted Cardiff to pay Nantes a club record £15m for a man who spent his entire professional career in the French leagues.\n\nSala was born on 31 October 1990 in the small rural community of Cululu in the Santa Fe province, about 340 miles north west of Buenos Aires.\n\nAfter progressing through the youth set-up at Argentine side Club Proyecto Crecer, he moved to France to sign for Bordeaux.\n\nBut, after making his debut as a 21-year-old, he struggled for game time and a series of loan moves followed.\n\nHe spent the 2012-13 and 2013-14 seasons at US Orleans and Niort respectively, scoring 37 goals in 74 matches.\n\nWhen he took that goalscoring form into a loan spell with Caen in 2015, Nantes had seen enough - and bought the 6ft 3in striker for a reported one million euros.\n\nThree and a half years - and 42 goals later - came Premier League interest.\n\nWest Ham, Everton, Leicester, Crystal Palace, Fulham and Southampton were all linked with Sala, but it was Cardiff who got their man - eclipsing the £11m they paid for Gary Medel to sign him.\n\nWhen his signing was announced, Sala said: \"It gives me great pleasure and I can't wait to start training, meet my new team-mates and get down to work.\"\n\nIn a later tweet, he wrote: \"I know the challenge is big, but together we will make it.\"\n\nTwo days later he posted a picture of him and his former Nantes team-mates. It was captioned \"ciao\".", "A security flaw in gay dating app Jack'd left private intimate photos publicly exposed on the internet.\n\nAnyone with a web browser who knew where to look could access millions of private photos, even if they did not have a Jack'd account.\n\nResearcher Oliver Hough told BBC News he had reported the flaw to Jack'd a year ago.\n\nThe company has not responded to a request for comment, but it appeared to implement a fix on Thursday.\n\nNews site The Register first reported the flaw on 5 February, even though it had not been fixed at the time, in order to warn the app's users.\n\nJack'd has been downloaded more than five million times on the Google Play app store.\n\nIt lets members add \"private\" photos to their profile, which should be visible to only specific people they have chosen to share them with.\n\nHowever, Mr Hough found that all the photos shared in the app were uploaded to the same open web server, leaving them exposed.\n\nBBC News saw evidence that private photos were still publicly available on the web server as of Thursday morning.\n\nAccording to news website Ars Technica, the app had also leaked \"location data and other metadata about users\".\n\nEarlier this week, the company's chief executive, Mark Girolamo, told Ars Technica a fix would be deployed on Thursday\n\nHowever, Jack'd has not yet issued a statement addressing the flaw.\n\n\"They acknowledged my report but then just went silent and did nothing,\" Mr Hough told BBC News.\n\n\"A journalist contacted them in November and they did the same.\"", "A robot made from 3D-printed modular parts has taught itself how to ice-skate.\n\n\"The only thing we tell it is how one ice skate behaves on ice,\" says Prof Stelian Coros of the Computational Robotics Lab, ETH Zurich, explaining that after this stage the robot figures out how to move across the ice by itself.\n\nMore at BBC.com/Click and @BBCClick.", "David Mearns has become the face of the private search for the plane which was carrying Argentine footballer Emiliano Sala and pilot David Ibbotson.\n\nThe Piper Malibu N264DB, which went missing on 21 January on its way from Nantes, France, to Cardiff, was found in the English Channel on Sunday.\n\nMr Mearns stepped in to lead a privately-funded search, and located the wreckage within a couple of hours.\n\nBut who is the man nicknamed the \"shipwreck hunter\"?\n\nThe UK-based marine scientist and oceanographer led the successful hunt for HMS Hood and claims to have spearheaded a further 20 historic discoveries.\n\nUsing sonar technology and remote-controlled submersibles, the expeditions have also set records by finding wrecks at extreme depths.\n\nHMS Hood during a dockyard refit at Portsmouth in 1930\n\nThe Bismarck sent up a wall of \"plunging fire\" which penetrated the weak deck armour of HMS Hood when it was sunk in the Denmark Strait\n\nOne of Britain's greatest battleships, Hood was sunk by the German navy's Bismarck in May 1941, killing 1,415 men.\n\nHMS Hood's remains were found at a depth of 3,000m in the Denmark Strait, between Greenland and Iceland, in 2001.\n\nHe has continued to make significant discoveries around the world with his company, Blue Water Recoveries.\n\nIn 2008, Mr Mearns led a successful search for the HMAS Sydney, pictured here before it was sunk in November 1941\n\nIn 2008 Mr Mearns led the successful search for HMAS Sydney, an Australian navy battlecruiser sunk by the Germans off the continent's west coast in November 1941, killing more than 700.\n\nAnd in 2015 his company announced they had found a wreck believed to be the Esmerelda, a ship from Vasco Da Gama's fleet thought to have sunk off the coast of Oman in May 1503.\n\nMr Mearns has also co-ordinated searches for some more modern nautical enigmas.\n\nIn the early 1990s, he assisted a criminal probe into the foundering of the Lucona, a cargo ship blown up in the Indian Ocean in 1997, killing six men, as part of an insurance scam.\n\nHe has also been instrumental in searches that have defied the odds.\n\nThey include locating the SS Rio Grande, the deepest shipwreck ever found.\n\nThe World War Two German supply ship, sunk by the Americans in 1944, was discovered around three and a half miles below the waves of the south Atlantic Ocean in 1996.", "Jaguar Land Rover booked a loss for the last three months of 2018 as sales collapsed in China.\n\nThe company booked a £3.1bn reduction in the value of its plants and other investments leading to a £3.4bn quarterly loss, its biggest to date.\n\nCarmakers are being hit by stronger regulations and demand for cleaner models.\n\nSales for the quarter were £6.2bn, down from £6.3bn a year earlier. It sold 144,602 vehicles, down from 154,447.\n\nJaguar chief executive Ralf Speth said: \"Jaguar Land Rover reported strong third-quarter sales in the UK and North America, but our overall performance continued to be impacted by challenging market conditions in China.\"\n\nExcluding the write-down, which affects its balance sheet but has no effect on cash, the company posted a loss of £273m.\n\nMuch of the firm's model range is currently diesel-powered, while diesel sales in Europe have been falling.\n\nJaguar Land Rover, which is owned by India's Tata Motors, has embarked on a major restructuring programme to prepare for the future and boost profitability.\n\nIt has already announced plans to cut thousands of jobs.\n\nIt has now accepted that the value of its existing investments - such as factories, equipment and model designs - is substantially lower than previously thought, said BBC business correspondent Theo Leggett.", "The UK's lowest-paid workers will get a pay rise of more than £2,600 per year under a Labour government, Jeremy Corbyn will say.\n\nDuring a visit to Worcester, the Labour leader will set out policies including a pledge to raise the National Living Wage to £10 an hour in 2020.\n\nHe will also accuse the government of creating a \"perfect storm of low pay, insecurity and working poverty\".\n\nThe Conservatives said there had been a £2,750 wage rise under its government.\n\nThe National Living Wage is the legally binding hourly rate for workers aged 25 and over.\n\nIt was set at £7.83 an hour in April 2018 and is reviewed every year, like the National Minimum Wage (for under 25s). It will rise to £8.21 from April.\n\nMr Corbyn will also say his party wants to stop the roll out of Universal Credit and ban zero-hours contacts.\n\nLabour says Commons analysis shows its pay pledge would give a rise of £2,640.\n\nDuring his visit to Worcester Housing and Benefit Advice Centre later, Mr Corbyn will say: \"With real wages lower than they were 10 years ago, deep cuts to social security, rising borrowing just to make ends meet and the growth of insecure work, the Conservatives have created a perfect storm of low pay, insecurity and working poverty.\n\n\"This rising insecurity, with so many without savings to fall back on, is causing terrible stress for millions of families across the country.\n\n\"These scandalous levels of in-work poverty are unacceptable and must be brought to an end.\n\n\"Every job should provide dignity and security.\"\n\nResearch by Labour shows the number of adults living in families where one or more person is working, and who do not have any savings, has risen to 12.8m.\n\nThe party says this was an increase of 2.5 million since 2010.\n\nLabour's 2017 manifesto promised to raise the minimum wage to £10 an hour by 2020.\n\nBut a Conservative spokesman said Mr Corbyn's numbers \"don't add up\".\n\n\"It's because of our National Living Wage that millions of hard working British people have seen a pay rise increasing their wage by £2,750, with the lowest paid seeing the biggest pay rise whilst over three million people have been helped into work,\" he said.\n\n\"At the same time we've cut taxes for 32 million people, taking the lowest paid out of paying income tax altogether, and taken action to reduce the cost of living.\"", "A decision is due on budget cuts that could prevent Ramsgate reopening as a ferry port to ease pressure on other routes in the case of a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThe government handed Seaborne Freight a £13.8m contract to run a service to Ostend, in Belgium, under contingency plans to alleviate any delays at Dover.\n\nBut the local council is considering cuts to port spending that would make roll-on, roll-off services impossible.\n\nThanet councillors in Kent will vote on the proposed £630,000 cuts later.\n\nThe council has been pumping money into the port to keep it in a state of readiness for ferry operations.\n\nBBC business correspondent Jonty Bloom said Thanet Council appeared to be \"caught in a bind\".\n\n\"It can't afford to spend this money on the port's facilities if no ferries use them, but the ferries will only run if there is a hard Brexit, something the government is committed to avoiding,\" he said.\n\nThe Department for Transport (DfT) said it was continuing to talk to the council about plans to re-establish ferry services.\n\nOfficials believe extra ferries from Ramsgate would relieve pressure on the Port of Dover in the event a no-deal Brexit leads to an increase in border checks on goods and passengers.\n\nThey also hope the service would divert traffic away from the M20, which may have to be used as an emergency lorry park if backlogs develop at the border.\n\nBut the contract with Seaborne to run the service is controversial because it has no ships and has never run a ferry service before.\n\nAnd last month it was discovered that the terms and conditions on its website seemed to have been copied from a takeaway restaurant.\n\nThe mayor of Ostend has also said it would be impossible to have a new service up and running by the end of March, although it is believed Seaborne has paid to have Ramsgate harbour dredged so that it can take larger ships.\n\nThanet Council said it had to find large savings to meet its medium-term financial strategy and balance its budget.\n\nIt added that if a new deal to provide a Ramsgate to Ostend service was not signed, the proposed cuts would be voted on later.\n\nConsidering the criticism of the deal with Seaborne Freight already, cuts by the council which make it impossible to run the service at all are likely to be very embarrassing for the government.\n\nThe DfT said it was a recommendation that had been put forward for a decision by councillors as elected members. It added that it continued to have conversations with a number of stakeholders including Thanet Council over any plans to re-establish ferry services at the Port of Ramsgate.\n\nRamsgate last ran a regular ferry service to and from the Continent in 2013. Its harbour can take three roll-on roll-off ferries at a time and it has been keen to restart operations.\n\nAt the moment the port is mainly being used to support off-shore wind turbines and import cars, but reopening Ramsgate as a major ferry port has been controversial with many residents saying they are concerned about the increase in traffic that it would involve.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Donald Tusk: \"Special place in hell\" for those without Brexit plan\n\nEuropean Council President Donald Tusk has spoken of a \"special place in hell\" for \"those who promoted Brexit without even a sketch of a plan of how to carry it out safely\".\n\nHe was speaking after talks with Irish leader Leo Varadkar in Brussels.\n\nBrexit-backing MPs reacted with anger to the comments, accusing Mr Tusk of \"arrogance\".\n\nDowning Street said it was a question for Mr Tusk \"whether he considers the use of that kind of language helpful\".\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesman said: \"We had a robust and lively referendum campaign in this country. In what was the largest democratic exercise in our history, people voted to leave the EU.\"\n\nHe added that everyone should now focus on delivering that.\n\nMr Tusk's Twitter account tweeted his comments immediately after he made them in a news conference.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnd at the end of their news conference, Mr Varadkar was picked up by the microphones telling Mr Tusk: \"They'll give you terrible trouble in the British press for that.\"\n\nMr Tusk nodded at the comment and both laughed.\n\nBrussels officials were quick to clarify Mr Tusk's remarks, stressing to BBC correspondent Adam Fleming that the Brexiteers' special place in hell would be for when they are dead and \"not right now\".\n\nJean-Claude Juncker tried to laugh off the comments at a later press conference with Mr Varadkar, saying the only hell he knew was doing his job as the president of the European Commission.\n\nAnd Guy Verhofstadt, the European Parliament's chief Brexit negotiator, referencing Mr Tusk's comments, later tweeted: \"Well, I doubt Lucifer would welcome them, as after what they did to Britain, they would even manage to divide hell.\"\n\nBut leading Brexiteers in the UK took to social media to express their anger at Mr Tusk's remarks.\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 Jacob Rees-Mogg 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\nFormer UKIP leader Nigel Farage, who is now an independent MEP, tweeted: \"After Brexit we will be free of unelected, arrogant bullies like you and run our own country. Sounds more like heaven to me.\"\n\nCommons leader Andrea Leadsom, who also campaigned for Britain's exit from the EU, said Mr Tusk should apologise for his \"disgraceful\" and \"spiteful\" comments.\n\n\"I'm sure that when he reflects on it he may well wish he hadn't done it,\" she told BBC Radio 4's World at One.\n\nFormer Brexit Secretary David Davis, when asked on ITV Peston's programme how he felt \"when President Tusk practically reserved your place in hell?\", said: \"Perhaps he'll join us there.\n\n\"When people throw insults around it says more about them than the people they're insulting.\"\n\nThe Democratic Unionist Party's Brexit spokesman Sammy Wilson said: \"This devilish Euro maniac is doing his best to keep the United Kingdom bound by the chains of EU bureaucracy and control.\n\n\"It is Tusk and his arrogant EU negotiators who have fanned the flames of fear in an attempt to try and overturn the result of the referendum.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Leadsom on Tusk: \"The man has no manners\"\n\nBut Sinn Fein President Mary Lou McDonald backed Mr Tusk, arguing that it was the position of \"hardline\" Brexit-supporting MPs like Boris Johnson and Jacob Rees-Mogg that was \"intemperate\" and \"untenable\".\n\nAnd Labour MP Ben Bradshaw, who supports having another EU referendum, said Mr Tusk was \"absolutely right\" and it was \"painful\" for leading figures in the Leave campaign, such as Boris Johnson and David Davis, \"to have the truth pointed out to them\".\n\nTheresa May - who supported the UK staying in the EU during the 2016 EU referendum but has always insisted that Brexit must be delivered because that was what people voted for - is due to arrive in Brussels on Thursday to seek legal changes to the withdrawal deal she signed with the EU. She hopes these changes will help her get it through the UK Parliament.\n\nBBC political correspondent Iain Watson said the government was likely to publish a new employment bill before the next vote on Mrs May's deal, with the aim to maximise support for it from Labour MPs.\n\nMeanwhile, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has set out five demands for his party to support a Brexit deal - calling for them to be enshrined as objectives in domestic law.\n\nIn a letter to the prime minister, he said Labour wanted a UK-wide customs union, close alignment with the single market, \"dynamic alignment\" on rights and protections, \"clear commitments\" on participation in EU agencies and funding programmes and \"unambiguous agreements\" on the detail of future security arrangements.\n\nHe said Labour did not believe that \"simply seeking modifications\" to the backstop was a sufficient response.\n\nMr Corbyn added that EU leaders had been clear that changes to the political declaration were possible if a request was made by the UK government \"and if the current red lines change\".\n\nThe EU has been absolutely scathing about some of the British political class today.\n\nThe dam broke on Donald Tusk's pent-up feelings about the leaders of the Leave campaign.\n\nThe Irish prime minister suggested that MPs either didn't know what they were doing or were misled when they voted to look for alternatives to the Irish backstop.\n\nBut - and it's a big but - they have all been open to the prime minister coming to Brussels with a solution to break the deadlock.\n\nAnd while Jean-Claude Juncker ruled out the idea of the UK having the right to pull out of the backstop if it were ever needed, he didn't say anything about the other idea doing the rounds - a time limit.\n\nDonald Tusk said that the other 27 EU members had decided in December that the withdrawal agreement was \"not open for renegotiation\" - a message echoed by Mr Juncker.\n\nMr Tusk also had a message for Remain supporters in the UK, with 50 days to go until Brexit happens, with a deal or without one, saying: \"I have always been with you, with all my heart\".\n\nBut he added: \"The facts are unmistakable. At the moment, the pro-Brexit stance of the UK prime minister, and the Leader of the Opposition, rules out this question.\n\n\"Today, there is no political force and no effective leadership for Remain. I say this without satisfaction, but you can't argue with the facts.\"\n\nEnter the word or phrase you are looking for\n\nMr Tusk said the Irish border issue and the need to preserve the peace process remained the EU's \"top priority\".\n\nHe hoped Mrs May would \"give us a deliverable guarantee for peace in Northern Ireland and the UK will leave the EU as a trusted friend\" that can command a Commons majority.\n\nMr Varadkar said that while he was \"open to further discussions\" with the UK government about post-Brexit relations, the legally-binding withdrawal agreement remained \"the best deal possible\".\n\nAnd the backstop was needed \"as a legal guarantee to ensure that there is no return to a hard border on the island of Ireland\".\n\nHe later said he will meet Theresa May for talks in Dublin on Friday.\n\nJean-Claude Juncker said alternative arrangements - the form of words backed by MPs in a vote last week - \"can never replace the backstop\".\n\nClarification 27 February 2019: While the summary of this story and opening paragraph made clear that Mr Tusk was referring to a specific group of people - those who promoted Brexit without a plan - the original headlines were misleading and so were amended shortly after publication on 6 February.", "Emiliano Sala (left) was on board a plane being flown by pilot David Ibbotson\n\nWreckage from a plane carrying Cardiff City footballer Emiliano Sala has been discovered in the English Channel.\n\nThe Piper Malibu N264DB was lost on 21 January on its way from Nantes, France, to Cardiff, with the Argentine striker and pilot David Ibbotson on board.\n\nDavid Mearns, who led a privately-funded search for the aircraft, said it was located off Guernsey on Sunday.\n\nHe said: \"All I will say is that there is a substantial amount of wreckage on the seabed.\"\n\nDavid Mearns offered to help look for the plane after a fundraising effort by Mr Sala's family\n\nSpeaking on Radio 4's Today programme on Monday, Mr Mearns said: \"We located the wreckage of the plane on the seabed at a depth of about 63m within the first couple of hours [of searching].\"\n\nHe said the plane was identified by sonar, before a submersible with cameras was sent underwater and was able to confirm it was the plane.\n\n\"They saw the registration number and the biggest surprise is that most of the plane is there,\" he added.\n\nMr Mearns's private search has now been stood down and the Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) is at the site working to recover the plane.\n\nHe said further investigations by the AAIB would be conducted over the next two days in order to determine how it will attempt a recovery operation.\n\nIn a series of tweets on Sunday, marine scientist Mr Mearns said: \"The families of Emiliano Sala and David Ibbotson have been notified by police.\"\n\nHe added: \"Our sole thoughts are with the families and friends of Emiliano and David.\"\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 David Mearns This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSpeaking to Argentinian broadcaster Cronica TV, Sala's father Horacio said: \"I cannot believe it. This is a dream. A bad dream. I am desperate.\"\n\nMr Mearns said he was in contact with the Sala family after the wreckage was located and said they \"desperately want that plane to be recovered. They feel that is the pathway for them to get the answers that they need to have\".\n\nHe added he was compelled to help to search for the plane after seeing an emotional plea by Sala's sister Romina.\n\n\"I just felt that girl needed help and that's why I offered my assistance,\" he said.\n\n\"I am a football fan. Cardiff is not my city, but I follow football. I felt very badly for her, I wanted to help. I just happen to be a person with this experience and skill and I could do that.\n\n\"To add to it this was a man in the prime of his life. It is just so tremendously sad.\"\n\nCardiff had signed Sala for a club record of £15m and he was due to start training last month.\n\nThe 28-year-old striker and Mr Ibbotson, 59, from Crowle, North Lincolnshire, were travelling from Nantes, where he had previously played, when the flight lost contact with air traffic controllers.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Fans pay tribute to missing footballer Sala at the first home Cardiff City match since he disappeared\n\nAn official search operation was called off on 24 January after Guernsey's harbour master said the chances of survival were \"extremely remote\".\n\nCushions believed to be from the plane were found on a beach near Surtainville, on France's Cotentin Peninsula, last week.\n\nThere were emotional tributes to the footballer as Cardiff played their first home game since the disappearance on Saturday.\n\nThe club's manager, Neil Warnock, said he felt Sala was \"with\" his team as they beat Bournemouth 2-0 in the Premier League.\n\nAn online appeal had raised £324,000 (371,000 euros) for the private search, which began on Sunday.\n\nWorking jointly with the AAIB, Mr Mearns's ship and another search vessel, the Geo Ocean III, began combing a four square mile area of the channel, 24 nautical miles north of Guernsey.\n\nGeo Ocean III remains at the wreckage location off Guernsey\n\nThe AAIB ship has remained at the site where the missing Piper plane was located, to deploy an underwater search vehicle to make a visual confirmation.\n\nFormer air crash investigator Tony Cable told BBC Breakfast on Monday that any examination of the wreckage after it is recovered would take \"considerable time\".\n\n\"Certainly the damage can tell you the sort of altitude and vertical speed, horizontal speed that it hit the water.\"\n\nHe added that there may also be signs of anything that was not working properly.\n\n\"The difficulty is if you don't have signs of problems before the crash, you're left looking at possible reasons then which are not a failure of the aircraft. The absence of any problem leaves you somewhat in the realm of speculation.\"\n\nOfficials at the AAIB said they expected to give an update on the operation on Monday morning.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Darren Pencille denies murder and possession of an offensive weapon\n\nA man has denied murdering a passenger who was repeatedly stabbed on a train.\n\nDarren Pencille, 36, of no fixed abode, appeared at the Old Bailey over the death of Lee Pomeroy, on a Guildford to London service.\n\nMr Pomeroy suffered nine stab wounds when he was attacked on 4 January, the day before his 52nd birthday, near Horsley in Surrey.\n\nSurrey Police have said post-mortem tests found he died from multiple stab wounds including an injury to his neck.\n\nMr Pencille also denied a charge of possession of an offensive weapon.\n\nChelsea Mitchell, 27, of Willbury Road, Farnham, has denied assisting an offender by helping Mr Pencille to leave the scene and change his appearance.\n\nA trial date for Mr Pencille has been set for 24 June.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Harris was seen waving to children as they were waiting in the school hall for their lunch\n\nThe Ministry of Justice has launched an investigation after convicted paedophile Rolf Harris entered the grounds of a Berkshire primary school.\n\nThe school's head teacher confronted the former TV star, who was in conversation with a local sculptor, and asked him to leave the site.\n\nThe MoJ said it was \"looking into these reports and will take appropriate action\".\n\nHarris was jailed for five years in 2014 but released on licence in 2017.\n\nA spokeswoman for the MoJ added: \"When sex offenders are released they are subject to strict licence conditions and are liable to be returned to custody for breaching them.\"\n\nHead teacher Richard Jarrett said: \"In line with our standard procedures, an uninvited individual was asked to leave the outer perimeter of the school site yesterday, which he did without delay.\n\n\"At no time did any of our pupils come into contact with the individual nor was the individual invited by us onto the school grounds.\"\n\nHarris was seen waving to children as they were waiting in the school hall for their lunch on Tuesday.\n\nHe was talking to sculptor Nick Garnett, who was working in the school's \"Kiss and Drop\" area.\n\nHarris was seen waving to children as they were waiting for their lunch\n\nMr Garnett told the BBC: \"I turned round and there was Rolf Harris, which was a strange moment.\n\n\"He asked for a piece of timber. Apparently he's interested in making some carvings, so I gave him a couple of pieces.\"\n\nHe said: \"At no point was he near any children. The headmaster dealt with it incredibly calmly.\"\n\nSpeaking to the Press Association, the parent of a pupil at the school said: \"What was he doing there?\n\n\"I feel like it was a really bad judgement call and I don't think his excuse is effective enough.\"\n\nThames Valley Police said: \"A report was made that a man was on the site of the school.\n\n\"An officer attended the scene but no offence was committed. No arrests were made and advice has been given to the man involved.\"\n\nAustralian-born TV presenter Harris was jailed in 2014 for 12 indecent assaults, relating to four girls between 1968 and 1986.\n\nIn May 2017 he was cleared of four unconnected historical sex offences, which he had denied.\n\nIn November 2017 one of the 12 indecent assault convictions was overturned by the Court of Appeal.\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. Vanellope Hope Wilkins was born with no breastbone in November 2017\n\nA baby who was born with her heart outside her body has been fully discharged from hospital 14 months after she was born.\n\nVanellope Hope Wilkins, who was born with no breastbone, was delivered at Glenfield Hospital in Leicester on 22 November 2017 by Caesarean section.\n\nShe had three operations to place her heart back in her chest.\n\nVanellope has now left Nottingham's Queen's Medical Centre, which she was moved to in May to be nearer home.\n\nShe has had a few trips home overnight but now will now be there permanently.\n\nVanellope Hope Wilkins is now home with her parents and three brothers\n\nHer mother Naomi Findlay, from Bulwell, Nottingham, said it was \"absolutely amazing\" and \"a massive relief\" to have Vanellope home.\n\n\"It's exciting but it's daunting at the same time,\" she added.\n\n\"It has been an incredibly long, emotional journey.\"\n\nVanellope requires 24-hour care and is reliant on a ventilator.\n\nVanellope's heart is now covered with her own skin after three operations\n\nHer parents - who said they will get married next year - are taking over much of her care, although they will have help overnight.\n\nMs Findlay said it was \"not quite over yet\" but it was a chance for them to be a normal family.\n\nVanellope's father Dean Wilkins said: \"There is still a lot she has to undergo yet but she is home and that's the first step.\"\n\nFrances Bu'Lock, part of the team caring for Vanellope, said the baby would \"need something in the longer term\" to give structure to her chest and make her condition more stable.\n\n\"Like with all of her care we don't exactly know what's going to happen, because nobody's ever done it before, so we're going to have to keep an eye on things,\" she added.\n\nStaff at Nottingham's Queen's Medical Centre have been caring for Vanellope since May\n\nThe condition, ectopia cordis, is extremely rare with only a few cases per million births, of which most are stillborn.\n\nWhen Vanellope's rare condition was first diagnosed in pregnancy her parents were told she had less than a one in 10 chance of surviving.\n\nHowever, the experts at the children's heart surgery unit at Glenfield Hospital defeated those odds.\n\nGlenfield Hospital said it knew of no other case in the UK where the baby had survived.\n\nMinutes after her birth, Vanellope's chest was covered with a sterile bag to keep her heart moist and reduce the risk of infection\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on Twitter, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The number of fatal stabbings in England and Wales last year was the highest since records began in 1946, official figures show.\n\nThere were 285 killings by a knife or sharp instrument in the 12 months ending March 2018, Office for National Statistics analysis shows.\n\nThe ONS says one in four (71) of all victims (285) were men aged 18-24.\n\nThe figures also show 25% of victims were black - the highest proportion since data was first collected in 1997.\n\nThe figures show a 45% increase in the number of victims aged 16-24 and a 23% increase in those aged 25-34.\n\nWhile gun crime was lower than 10 years ago, it was at its highest for a decade in four English counties - West Yorkshire, Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Cheshire.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe figures on homicide do not generally vary hugely from year-to-year, which is why the steep increase in fatal stabbings to an all-time high is particularly striking.\n\nIt provides further evidence that knife crime is arguably the greatest law enforcement challenge facing the Home Office, police and communities across England and Wales.\n\nMinisters have blamed much of the rise in serious violence on disputes between drug gangs. The figures provide some support for this with a slight increase in drug-related killings: 44% now compared with 40% in 2008.\n\nIn the past two years, 58% of suspects and 35% of victims were dealers or users.\n\nHowever, drugs are unlikely to account for the entire rise in cases of murder and manslaughter which, as a proportion of population, is back to levels it was a decade ago but not as high as in the early 2000s.\n\nSorry, your browser cannot display this map", "Horse racing will not resume in Britain until Wednesday, 13 February at the earliest after an outbreak of equine flu, the British Horseracing Authority has announced.\n\nAll fixtures on Thursday were called off by the BHA after three vaccinated horses tested positive for the disease.\n\nTrainer Donald McCain has confirmed the horses came from his Cheshire stables.\n\nHorses from the infected yard raced on Wednesday, potentially exposing a significant number of horses.\n\n\"This precautionary approach is intended to ensure we put the health of the horse population and control of the virus first, and avoid any unnecessary risk that might come from returning to racing too quickly,\" said a BHA statement.\n\n\"We appreciate the impact that this may have on the sport commercially, but disease control in order to mitigate the risk of further disruption to the sport - and safeguard the health and welfare of our horses - must be a priority.\"\n\nThe meetings at Chelmsford, Doncaster, Ffos Las and Huntingdon on Thursday were cancelled. Racing had been due to take place at Bangor, Kempton Park, Newcastle and Southwell on Friday.\n\nOn Saturday, Lingfield, Newbury, Uttoxeter, Warwick and Wolverhampton were on the schedule, with Exeter, Musselburgh and Southwell hosting events on Sunday.\n\nThis announcement also means the Monday races at Catterick, Hereford and Wolverhampton will not go ahead, nor will the fixtures on Tuesday at Ayr, Lingfield and Newcastle.\n\nThe statement added: \"The BHA's veterinary team has today been in contact with more than 50 trainers and veterinarians to allow it to make an informed assessment of the risk of equine influenza spreading.\n\n\"While no further positive tests have been received, at least three more days are required before it will be possible to make a decision about whether it is safe to resume racing.\n\n\"The disease can take up to three days before symptoms are visible, meaning it will take until Sunday at the earliest before the BHA can gather all the information required.\n\n\"This approach will allow samples to be collected and assessed by the Animal Health Trust in order that a fully informed decision can be made on Monday. This may then allow declarations to take place on Tuesday in time for racing on Wednesday.\"\n\n'All our horses are fully inoculated' - what McCain has said\n\nIn a statement issued through the National Trainers Federation, McCain said: \"I have been aware of the recent news about equine influenza outbreaks in France and Ireland, and over the last couple of days, I have been concerned about the health status of a small number of horses in the yard.\n\n\"Their welfare is at the front of our minds, so at my request our veterinary surgeon has examined them regularly and we have followed his advice on testing and treatment.\n\n\"It was by following this protocol that the positive results for equine flu came to light yesterday evening.\n\n\"The BHA were contacted immediately and we are liaising closely with them about bio-security and management of all the horses at Bankhouse. Bankhouse follows all the available advice on disease control and all our horses are fully inoculated.\"\n\nHe added: \"We are scrupulous about observing the health status of horses in our care and taking the necessary steps to treat any condition that may affect them. It follows we would never race any horses that we could have known were infected.\n\n\"Over the last two months, all potential runners have been scoped and their blood checked within 36 hours of their races to ensure that only healthy horses compete for the yard.\n\n\"When new horses arrive at our yard we, as much as possible, try to keep them separate but at this stage cannot know if the infection came from recent arrivals or from horses returning from racing.\n\n\"We have three confirmed cases and this morning have taken blood and swabs from all the others for testing.\"\n\nDavid Sykes, director of equine health and welfare at the BHA, added: \"We would like to thank Donald McCain for his co-operation in this matter, and for the responsible manner in which he has dealt with this issue, under the guidance of his veterinary surgeon.\n\n\"He has acted professionally with the interests of the racing industry and the health of his horses as his priority.\"\n\n'It couldn't have happened at a worse time - analysis\n\nThis is a dramatic turn of events. The sport had been hoping that tests carried out would be sufficiently reassuring for racing to resume quickly. The good news is that no new cases have been discovered, but the science says the virus can take up to three days to be identified so that takes us to Sunday.\n\nIf an all-clear is then given, it will then take a couple of days of admin to get things back together. Health and welfare is paramount, of course, but so near to the Cheltenham Festival, this couldn't have happened at a worse time and it will be hoped that Saturday at Newbury can be re-arranged.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: First look at Huawei's folding phone\n\nHuawei has revealed its first smartphone to feature a foldable screen, less than a week after its rival Samsung did the same.\n\nHuawei's Mate X places its fold-out screen on the outside of the device, so that it covers the front and rear of the phone when closed.\n\nIn both modes, the display is larger than Samsung's. Huawei's device is also flatter and thinner when shut.\n\nSamsung's Fold does not appear to fold flat when closed\n\nHowever, unlike Samsung's Galaxy Fold it does not have a second display on its reverse side.\n\nOne analyst attending the launch event in Barcelona also remarked that a crease in the screen appeared to be visible.\n\nThe Chinese company allowed attendees at the event to get a close look at the handset following its unveiling. Its South Korean competitor has yet to let outsiders to do so with the Galaxy Fold.\n\n\"Security concerns about Huawei's 5G kit are a shadow hanging over the whole of this year's Mobile World Congress,\" commented the BBC's technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones.\n\n\"But the firm was determined in a confident, even arrogant press conference to convey that it's now the leading innovator in smartphones.\"\n\nThe Mate X went on display to the media after being unveiled in Barcelona\n\nUnlike the Fold, the Mate X does not place any of its cameras on the same side as its screen when unfolded.\n\nThe Huawei Mate X's screen goes \"edge-to-edge\" across the device when open\n\nInstead they are placed on the flipside of the device on a strip that also features a fingerprint sensor. This runs down the side of the smaller of the two folded displays when closed and doubles up as a side-grip when open.\n\nThis potentially places the Mate X at a disadvantage to the Fold, since it becomes impossible to use its unfolded screen to take selfies. However, it is not yet clear whether this will be a serious consideration in practice.\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 Ben Wood 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\nHowever, the Mate X's advantage is that it does not have a \"notch\" cut into its screen as a consequence.\n\nHuawei said the Mate X would come with one of its existing 5G modems and could download a one gigabyte movie in as little as three seconds if a fast enough connection was available.\n\nLike Samsung's device, it also features a battery on each of its two sides, but claims to be able to recharge more quickly.\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 Patrick Moorhead This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"Both foldable phones are 5G-capable and are instantly distinctive from the smartphone designs of the last 10 years,\" commented Ian Fogg, an analyst at the mobile analytics company Opensignal.\n\n\"But 5G is arriving on regular designed smartphones too, at lower prices, and more quickly.\n\n\"Because of that, more people will experience the benefits of 5G this year than the novelty of an expanding smartphone display.\"\n\nThe Mate X has been priced to start at 2,299 euros ($2,600; £1996) and is due to go on sale from the middle of this year.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Carolina Milanesi This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThat compares to the $1,980 figure quoted by Samsung, although once taxes are taken into account the gap should be smaller.\n\nHuawei's consumer devices chief Richard Yu acknowledged that the price was \"very expensive\" but said he hoped it would be reduced over time.\n\nThere were claps and cheers as Richard Yu finally unveiled Huawei's latest masterpiece after three years in development - the folding phone.\n\nAnd the hits just kept on coming: its split-screen function, its dimensions - gleefully compared to those of the iPhone and Galaxy Fold - even a protective case got its own round of applause.\n\nHowever, the biggest gasps came right at the end - when he announced the price tag. At 2,299 euros, even the hardcore enthusiasts appeared to wince.\n\nEverybody who charged to the demonstration area afterwards was disappointed as the handsets remained frustratingly behind Perspex.\n\nStill, the Mate X has still done enough to secure its \"wow factor\" at MWC.\n\nBut that price and Huawei's wider controversies threaten to act as a deterrent to even deep-pocketed early adopters.\n\nTwo other Chinese companies have also unveiled new handsets ahead of Monday's start of the Mobile World Congress trade show.\n\nOppo has showed off a handset with a 10x optical zoom.\n\nOppo has yet to name its 10x zoom camera phone\n\nUnlike digital zooms, there is no loss of quality as the shot tightens in.\n\nThe three cameras involved do not need to extend from the phone to achieve this. Instead, the device features a periscope-like system inside its chassis.\n\nThis lets it range between focal lengths of 16mm and 160mm.\n\nThe innovation builds on an earlier prototype, which was never put into production, that offered a 5x zoom.\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 4 by Party on Garth! This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post 4 by Party on Garth!\n\nHowever, the design means the handset is by necessity thicker than most rivals.\n\nIn addition, the company announced it would soon launch 5G handsets in Australia, Singapore, Switzerland and China.\n\nXiaomi also held a press conference where it revealed its forthcoming flagship Mi 9 handset will cost 449 euros when it launches in Europe.\n\nXiaomi expanded to the UK last year\n\nIt features three rear cameras, one of which offers 48 megapixel resolution.\n\nIn addition, the firm said it intended to launch a 5G handset - the Mi Mix 3 5G - costing 599 euros, which is likely to be one of the lowest-cost models to be compatible with next-generation networks.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHowever, a demo of the firm's smart home technology fell flat after a series of attempts to show off voice-controlled commands failed.", "There were four people in one room, two in the bathroom and one in a room the size of a cupboard\n\nThirteen people were found \"absolutely packed\" into a three-bedroom house in Newcastle, the BBC has found.\n\nThe bath had been ripped out and a bunk bed put in its place, officials found when they visited the property in Ponteland Road, Blakelaw, in January.\n\nNone of the people, who were restaurant workers, knew each other, Paula Davis from Newcastle City Council said.\n\nThe council is now pursuing the private landlord for operating a house in multiple occupation without a licence.\n\nPaula Davis said the people were \"packed in\" the house\n\nThe Home Office said of the 13, three women and seven men aged between 20 and 51 were arrested for either overstaying their visas or on suspicion of obtaining leave to enter the UK by deception.\n\nFour have subsequently been removed from the UK and one remains detained pending their removal from the UK.\n\nThree have made further immigration applications and must report regularly to the Home Office while their cases are dealt with. Two faced no further action.\n\nMore than one in 10 privately-rented homes across the North East are unfit to live in, according to the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government. Newcastle Council said it dealt with some 1,200 complaints each year.\n\nThe BBC's Inside Out went out with the council's environmental health officers and saw properties with no heating, hot water or smoke alarms.\n\nOther houses visited had mould growing on the walls\n\nOthers had broken sockets which carried a risk of electrocution, windows and doors that did not open and mould on the walls.\n\nMs Davis, the council's public protection and neighbourhoods team manager, told Inside Out: \"There are an awful lot of vulnerable tenants, old people, young people, people who have migrated to the city and maybe don't speak English as a first language.\n\n\"They wouldn't know who to complain to. That's the group of people we are most concerned about and we most want to help.\"\n\nLandlords who ignore their responsibilities could face a fine from the council of up to £30,000 per offence.\n\nNewcastle council only took on these powers recently and it is yet to use them.\n\nSome properties are left in disrepair for the new tenants\n\nBut plans are under way to extend its licensing programme to cover more than 18,000 properties.\n\nLandlords would need pay up to £750 a home for a permit guaranteeing it was up to scratch.\n\nNewcastle City Council deputy leader Joyce McCarty said: \"The money we get can't be used for anything other than the scheme.\n\n\"That income will provide us with a team of officers who can support landlords and make sure the tenants are living in decent homes.\"\n\nBut she admitted the scheme would \"probably\" push rents up for tenants.\n\nThe National Landlords Association said: \"We do not support the scheme as Newcastle council lacked the evidence to support its introduction... they would be better off taking a more targeted approach.\"\n\nYou can see more on this story on Inside Out in the North East and Cumbria on Monday 25 February at 19:30 on BBC One or afterwards on the iPlayer.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Elecia Dexter will take over the roles of editor and publisher of the Democrat-Reporter\n\nAn African-American woman will replace the editor of an Alabama newspaper who came under fire last week after calling for mass lynchings of Democrats.\n\nElecia Dexter, 46, will take over as the Democrat-Reporter's editor and publisher, \"moving the paper into a new direction\", the paper said on Thursday.\n\nLongtime editor Goodloe Sutton, who made the comments about raiding Washington DC, still owns the paper.\n\n\"The Democrat-Reporter has provided the community of West Alabama with quality news for over 140 years and you may have full confidence that Ms Dexter will continue in this tradition as well as moving the paper into a new direction,\" the newspaper said in a statement to US media.\n\nThe announcement noted Dexter was entering her role \"at a pivotal\" and \"challenging\" time.\n\nIt added that the newspaper had always been devoted to \"integrity and excellence in journalism\" under the leadership of Sutton and his wife, Jean.\n\nHowever, there was no apology from Sutton for his 14 February \"Klan needs to ride again\" article.\n\nGoodloe Sutton had received nationwide praise for his journalism in the 1990s\n\nThe Ku Klux Klan (KKK) is one of the oldest white supremacy groups in the US, formed just after the Civil War.\n\nThe group was behind many of the lynchings, rapes and violent attacks on African Americans in the 1900s, and there are still some 5,000 to 8,000 members across the country, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.\n\nSutton had called for the KKK to raid gated communities in Washington DC in retaliation for Democrats proposing higher taxes, and later insisted he only wanted to hang \"socialist-communists\".\n\nThe op-ed went viral last week, receiving nationwide condemnation, but it was not the first time Sutton published racist opinion pieces in his paper.\n\nIn 2017, an anonymous editorial discussing the topic of NFL players kneeling in protest of racism said: \"That's what black folks were taught to do two hundreds years ago, kneel before a white man...Let them kneel!\"\n\nAlabama lawmakers who had called for Sutton to step down were pleased at Dexter's appointment to the position.\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 Doug Jones This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBut Representative Terri Sewell also called on Sutton to clearly apologise for the article.\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 Rep. Terri A. Sewell 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\nDexter, who holds degrees in speech communication, counselling and human services, told the Washington Post she has only been working at the paper for six weeks.\n\nShe was also the one fielding many of the angry responses to Sutton's article, and had considered quitting.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Aleem Maqbool explores ideas for solving racism in the US\n\nThe new editor said she had an \"open and honest\" discussion with Sutton about his editorial before taking on the role.\n\nAs editor and publisher, she told the Post she wants her community to \"feel like it's their paper, which it is\".\n\n\"One thing that sticks out to me as we move forward is making sure the people of this community feel this paper represents them and their views.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Chelsea\n\nChelsea manager Maurizio Sarri says the incident involving goalkeeper Kepa Arrizabalaga in the Carabao Cup final was a \"misunderstanding\".\n\nThe club record £71m signing appeared to defy the Italian's attempt to substitute him in extra time before Manchester City won on penalties.\n\nSarri appeared furious and walked down the tunnel before quickly returning.\n\n\"I misunderstood the problem and only realised the situation when the doctor arrived at the bench,\" he said.\n\n\"He understood I asked for a change for his physical problem. He said: 'I haven't a physical problem.' And he was right.\"\n\nKepa later echoed his manager's words and insisted the incident was caused by \"confusion\".\n\n\"It was misunderstood. In no moment was it my intention to disobey or anything like that with the boss,\" said the 24-year-old Spaniard.\n\n\"It was two or three minutes of confusion until the medics got to the bench and they explained everything well.\n\n\"He thought I couldn't continue, and - fundamentally - I was trying to say that physically I was fine.\"\n• None 'This was a painful, public indignity' - has Sarri been fatally undermined?\n\nKepa initially went down with cramp - prompting the Chelsea bench to ready reserve goalkeeper Willy Caballero.\n\nSarri was visibly angry as his goalkeeper refused to follow orders from the touchline but eventually conceded following a conversation with referee Jonathan Moss.\n\n\"I realised after, when the doctor arrived. I have talked to him [Moss] but only to clarify because now I have understood the situation,\" added the Italian manager.\n\n\"It was a big misunderstanding because I understood the keeper had cramp and was unable to go to penalties. But it was not cramp and he could go to the penalties.\n\n\"I needed to return [down the tunnel] to be quiet.\"\n\nSpeaking to Sky Sports, former Chelsea captain John Terry said he believed Sarri's \"misunderstanding\" explanation was a decision taken to protect his goalkeeper.\n\n\"Whether that has been dealt with inside the dressing room, I don't know,\" said Terry.\n\n\"Publicly, that's his approach. He's protecting his player.\"\n\nEx-Napoli manager Sarri has come under increasing pressure in recent weeks, following a 6-0 defeat to Manchester City in the Premier League and an FA Cup exit at the hands of Manchester United.\n\nYet despite doubts over his future, the Blues produced a resolute performance in Sunday's final as the 60-year-old demonstrated a back-up plan to his 'Sarri-ball' philosophy.\n\n\"I am very happy and in the last three matches we are improving and have improved a lot,\" said Sarri.\n\n\"Today showed everyone we could be a very solid team because we conceded nothing to the opponents, and to Manchester City that is not easy.\n\n\"I am proud of the players. I think the club would be proud of that performance too, because the performance was very good against, in my opinion, the best club in Europe.\"", "The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have visited one of Morocco's most prestigious equestrian clubs on the final day of their tour of the country.\n\nThe couple visited the Royal Moroccan Equestrian Club Dar Essalam in Rabat to see how horses and ponies were used to support children with special needs.\n\nThe royals also visited a market and ate traditional food made by underprivileged children.\n\nThe three-day trip is aimed at strengthening UK links to the country.\n\nDuring the visit to the club, the couple spoke to youngsters who had been helped by equine-assisted therapy.\n\nThe therapy involves people interacting with horses by, for example, grooming and feeding them.\n\nResearch has suggested this can improve people's self-confidence and independence and help with mental health issues.\n\nIn Britain, the therapy has been used to help returning soldiers, domestic abuse victims and people facing mental health and social problems.\n\nEkram, 20, who has Down's Syndrome and began riding at the club a month ago, told the couple: \"I love the connection with the horses, it already makes me feel relaxed and more confident. And I like being outside, with nature.\"\n\nMeghan replied: \"Wow, you're very impressive. What an accomplished lady. I imagine it's so therapeutic as well as meditative.\"\n\nThe couple were pictured as they stopped to stroke horses at the club stables.\n\nPrince Harry and Meghan, who is pregnant, later joined a pony-grooming session.\n\nSpotting one pony shaking, Prince Harry joked: \"Has anyone got any carrots? She's a bit nervous, this one.\"\n\nMeghan, who made her name as an actress, said: \"Well, we all get a little camera shy, I understand.\"\n\nThe programme is funded by Morocco's King Mohammed VI, who Harry and Meghan are staying with at his royal residence.\n\nDuring their visit, the couple also ate food prepared by children from disadvantaged backgrounds with help from one of Morocco's foremost chefs, Moha Fedal.\n\nAmong the food they made were Moroccan pancakes which feature in a cookbook that Meghan was influential in getting published.\n\nThe book, called Together: Our Community Cookbook, was published after the duchess suggested the idea to a group of women who got together to cook food for those affected by the Grenfell Tower fire tragedy, which killed 72 people in west London June 2017.\n\nIt became a bestseller and is helping to fund the women's Hubb Community Kitchen - named after the Arabic word for love.\n\nThe couple arrived in Morocco on Saturday evening after a two-hour delay to their flight into Casablanca.\n\nOn Sunday, they met young women in Morocco to show support for girls' education.\n\nThey couple were welcomed to a boarding house in the village of Asni by the girls, who waved flags and sang songs.\n\nDuring the visit, the duchess was given a traditional Moroccan henna tattoo, which is intended to bring luck to her first child.\n\nThe north Africa visit is the royal couple's second official tour as a married couple following a 16-day royal trip around Australia, Tonga, Fiji and New Zealand last year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex visit a girls education charity in Morocco", "Dwayne Johnson sent a message to Rosie telling her to \"stay strong\"\n\nThe father of a girl with Down's syndrome said it was \"really cool\" for actor Dwayne \"The Rock\" Johnson to send her a message on Twitter.\n\nThe Hollywood star, who voiced Maui in the film Moana, told Rosie to \"stay strong\" after her father wrote that the film was one of her favourites.\n\nJason Kneen, from near Ludgershall, in Wiltshire, originally posted a photograph of his daughter smiling.\n\nHe said it was \"insane\" that the tweets had gone viral.\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 Jason Kneen This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAfter posting the \"really lovely\" picture of his daughter smiling, Mr Kneen then wrote more about his daughter, including the fact that she was obsessed with the film Moana.\n\nDwayne Johnson spotted the messages and tweeted \"Look at this lovely cookie. Stay strong Rosie! Uncle Maui loves ya. What can I saaaaayy except you're welcome.\"\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 Dwayne Johnson 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 Kneen said it was \"crazy\" and \"really cool\" that the messages had since been retweeted more than 8,000 times and had been \"liked\" 87,000 times.\n\nHe said he had received \"nice messages\" from people thanking him for sharing it, and it had provided comfort for people who had recently found out they were expecting a baby with Down's syndrome.\n\n\"We were told by doctors and nurses on the day of her birth... how her life would go,\" he said.\n\n\"It was like her whole life had been mapped out in front of you. It was distressing, shocking and upsetting.\n\n\"[But] you can't predict how your child's life is going to be. You can't tell anyone what's going to happen.\n\n\"We just got on with it. She's amazing.\n\n\"We've been through some difficulties like anybody, but she makes up for it every day when she smiles at you like that and wants to watch Moana all the time.\"", "Police were called to a fatal stabbing in Norwood Road on Monday afternoon\n\nA 17-year-old boy has been stabbed to death in Birmingham.\n\nPolice were called to Norwood Road in Bordesley Green at about 14:00 GMT and found the boy with serious injures. He died at the scene.\n\nA murder investigation has begun. Officers will also use stop and search powers where they believe there is a risk of violence, West Midlands Police said.\n\nIt is the third fatal stabbing of a teen in the city in almost two weeks.\n\nThe force said its investigation was at an early stage and no arrests had been made.\n\nNazir Afzal, the former chief prosecutor in Greater Manchester who oversaw the Rochdale child sex abuse case, said the victim was one of his relatives.\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 nazir afzal 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\nIt comes five days after 16-year-old Abdullah Muhammad was discovered fatally wounded near a park in Small Heath.\n\nAnother teenager, Mohammed Sidali, also 16, died in hospital on 15 February after being attacked outside a college in Highgate.\n\nIn a tweet, Shabana Mahmood, MP for Birmingham Ladywood, said she was \"saddened\" to hear about the death and was in contact with West Midlands Police.\n\n\"My thoughts and deepest sympathies are with the young victim's family at this terrible time,\" she said.\n\nWest Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner, David Jamieson, described the death as \"another tragic loss of young life on our streets\".\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 WestMidsPCC 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\nWhile Dudley North MP Ian Austin also called for an urgent meeting with Home Secretary Sajid Javid over concerns about \"violent crime\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Ian Austin This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "In Washington this week, the US and China are due to hold their highest level talks since the two sides struck a temporary truce to their trade war.\n\nThey have until 1 March to come up with some sort of compromise or tariffs will be hiked again, and we march back into a trade fight that affects us all.\n\nChina watchers tell me Beijing is under increasing pressure to make a deal.\n\nThe trade war may not have caused China's slowdown, but it is definitely making things worse.\n\nGrowth data released last week showed China posted the slowest growth rate since 1990 but that in itself is not as worrying as other data points, including that consumer sentiment and retail sales are flatlining or weakening fast.\n\nSmall and medium-sized companies in China are feeling the chill with lower orders and inventories.\n\nJust how much pressure the Communist Party is facing because of a weakening economy was reflected in a rare acknowledgement by President Xi Jinping, whose legitimacy is based in part in keeping China strong.\n\nThere is also evidence to show that foreign firms are diversifying their sourcing, production and supply chains away from China, if not pulling out altogether.\n\nThis recent survey conducted by QIMA, a leading Asian supply chain auditor, shows that 30% of more than 100 global businesses are diverting their sourcing from China to other countries.\n\nAs many as three-quarters of these companies have started sourcing suppliers in new countries.\n\nIf this trend continues then jobs in Chinese factories are at risk - a recent report looking at China's economy by JP Morgan points to rising unemployment as a major near-term risks.\n\nSocial stability is predicated on China's economic stability, and the Communist Party is well aware that its credibility lies in delivering the Chinese dream to its people.\n\nThe fate of Huawei also hangs in the balance, both from a business and diplomatic standpoint.\n\nChina is big on symbolism and \"doesn't believe in coincidences\" Einar Tangen, an advisor on economic affairs for the Chinese government, told me on the line from Beijing.\n\nMr Tangen pointed to the arrest of Meng Wanzhou, the daughter of Huawei founder, which took place on the day President Xi and US President Donald Trump met at the G20 summit and declared the temporary truce between the two sides, setting the 90 day deadline for talks.\n\nAnother date looms next week, with the latest round of talks taking place on the day the US has to file the extradition treaty for Ms Meng.\n\n\"Both of these dates are seen as attempts by the US to use Huawei as leverage in the trade talks,\" says Mr Tangen.\n\nThe US is also reportedly preparing an investigation into Huawei which could see it banned from buying American chips, a move that crippled China's ZTE last year.\n\n\"The Chinese see this as the US trying to push China down,\" he says.\n\n\"This is not about right or wrong. They view this in context of the 100 years of humiliation they suffered at the hands of the West and they don't want that repeated.\"\n\nBut the US is also under pressure to make a deal.\n\nAmerican firms in China have complained about the impact of Trump's tariffs on their business but want the US to make a good deal.\n\n\"This administration has been willing to risk the health of the US economy with tariffs,\" says Stephen Kho, international trade partner at law firm Akin Gump in Washington DC.\n\n\"So now that we've come this far, businesses want to take advantage of this moment and walk away from these talks with something significant. They will want to see China's offer to buy more American goods along with promises of systemic changes.\"\n\nA solution to the US-China trade war is good for us all.\n\nThe longer these two superpowers slap tariffs on each other's goods, the more expensive products will be for us, companies will report lower profits, and global growth will slow.\n\nBoth sides are under pressure to make a deal. But this is ultimately, as Mr Kho also points out, \"a game of chicken.\" Whoever blinks first could also be the biggest loser.", "Three station staff members are being investigated after they were caught on camera soaking a homeless man with dirty water.\n\nThe footage, which was taken outside Sutton station on Sunday, shows a member of staff pouring a bucket of water onto the man as he lay on the ground.\n\nThe staff can be heard telling him to \"get up and go\".\n\nSouthern Railway said the two members of staff in the video, and a third colleague identified on CCTV, have since been suspended. British Transport Police said they are investigating the incident as common assault.\n\nAngie Doll, passenger services director for the rail company, said Southern Railway \"would like to apologise\" to the man and hopes to get in contact with him \"to offer help and support\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tom Watson: \"I know that he (Jeremy Corbyn) will... share my horror\"\n\nJeremy Corbyn must take a \"personal lead\" over claims of anti-Semitism in the Labour Party, his deputy has said.\n\nTom Watson told the BBC's Andrew Marr that there was a \"crisis for the soul\" of the party, fearing more MPs might follow the nine who resigned this week.\n\nBut he said with the situation being so \"grave\", Mr Corbyn understood he needed to make a \"personal intervention\".\n\nA Labour spokesman said the party takes all complaints about anti-Semitism \"extremely seriously\".\n\nMr Watson said he had sent 50 such complaints to his leader this week.\n\nThe deputy leader's comments follow the resignations of nine Labour MPs - eight of which have joined The Independent Group.\n\nOne its members, the former Labour MP Luciana Berger, was subjected to anti-Semitic abuse while a member of the party,\n\nAppearing on the Andrew Marr Show before Mr Watson, Ms Berger criticised the party's culture, saying: \"My values haven't changed. I am the same person. It is my party that has changed.\"\n\nLuciana Berger quit the Labour Party on Monday over its handling of anti-Semitism\n\nMr Watson said Ms Berger had been \"bullied out of the party by a small number of racist thugs\", and attempts to stamp out anti-Semitism so far had \"not been adequate\" and \"have not succeeded\".\n\nHe said Mr Corbyn needed to \"rebuild that trust\" with the Jewish community across the country and it will be his \"test as leader\" to eradicate anti-Semitism from the party.\n\n\"Of course Jeremy [Corbyn] needs to understand that if we're going to be in No 10, he needs to change the Labour Party and there are things we need to do,\" he said.\n\n\"We've got to eradicate anti-Semitism, anti-Jewish racism in all its forms [and] for us to address that now, I think he needs to take a personal lead on examining those cases and if necessary, recommend it to our NEC (National Executive Committee) what needs to be done.\"\n\nMr Watson also criticised the language of shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry, who said those who resigned from her party had \"betrayed\" their seats and would be \"crushed\" if by-elections were held.\n\nShe told a Labour rally in Broxtowe, Nottinghamshire, that she would rather die than join a new party.\n\nMr Watson said he thought \"dying is a virtue that is over-rated\" and said it was \"incumbent on all of us to dial down the rhetoric\".\n\nAfter his appearance, a Labour Party spokesman said: \"The Labour Party takes all complaints of anti-Semitism extremely seriously and we are committed to challenging and campaigning against it in all its forms.\n\n\"All complaints about anti-Semitism are investigated in line with our rules and procedures and any appropriate disciplinary action is taken.\"", "One of the last elephant sanctuaries in Africa has \"a significant elephant-poaching problem\", according to the final results of an aerial wildlife survey in Botswana seen by the BBC.\n\nElephants Without Borders, which conducted the four-yearly survey with the government, said there was a six-fold increase in the number of \"fresh\" or \"recent\" elephant carcasses in northern Botswana amid \"obvious signs\" of poaching.\n\nMike Chase, the scientist who carried out the survey, sparked a fierce debate in the country when he went public half-way through his study in August last year with accusations there was a poaching problem and alleging the authorities were ignoring him.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dozens of dead elephants have been discovered in poaching hot spots in Botswana, Africa\n\nHe told the BBC at the time that while flying over northern Botswana, he had discovered 87 recently killed elephants in one \"hotspot\" area - a number now revised to 88 - and 128 overall.\n\nThe government called his figures \"false and misleading\" and criticised \"unsubstantiated and sensational media reports\".\n\nHe received death threats and has since had one of his two research licences suspended by the government.\n\nPresident Mokgweetsi Masisi at the time described the allegations as the \"biggest hoax of the 21st Century\" and denied there had been a spike in poaching in the country.\n\nBut the final report identifies four poaching hotspots, provides photographic evidence from ground surveys and has been peer-reviewed by nine international elephant experts.\n\n\"The response from… various people was to try and deny or whitewash - label me a traitor and a liar - without having actually verified the evidence we bore witness to,\" said Mr Chase.\n\nMike Chase said he found a six-fold increase in the number of \"fresh\" carcasses in northern Botswana\n\nThe government didn't respond to the BBC's request for an interview about the final report, but issued a statement criticising the methods used in carrying out the survey.\n\nThe statement from Thato Raphaka, permanent secretary of the Ministry of Environment, Natural Resources Conservation and Tourism, said it was \"regrettable\" the report showed an \"astonishing number of pictures of dead elephants\".\n\nIt was critical of some of the scientific details in the report and requested the raw data to be submitted to the elephant specialist group at the International Union for Conservation of Nature for further independent review.\n\nOtisitwe Tiroyamodimo, the director of the Department of Wildlife and National Parks, said the government acknowledged there was a poaching problem.\n\n\"Nobody can deny that elephants are being killed in Botswana,\" but those reported by Mr Chase had mainly died \"from natural causes and retaliatory killings.\"\n\n\"We went there and we couldn't find the 87 carcasses,\" said Mr Tiroyamodimo.\n\nThe authorities flew with Mr Chase but admit they spent only two days trying to verify carcasses seen over two months.\n\nThe BBC was given permission by the government to have access to the coordinates of one of the four areas identified as a \"poaching hotspot\" by the research team, and we visited the sites of 67 elephant carcasses.\n\nA few had apparently died of natural causes, but most had the characteristics associated with being poached: tusks were missing and branches had been used to cover the bodies to prevent them being found.\n\nBut Botswana is home to 130,000 elephants - a third of the total number in Africa - and it is an obvious target for poachers.\n\nEven when extrapolating poaching figures from the sample found in the survey, the numbers killed will not have a major impact on such a large population.\n\n\"If we are talking about a number of carcasses that have accumulated over a period of two years, given the population of elephants in Botswana it doesn't really raise eyebrows,\" said national parks director Mr Tiroyamodimo.\n\nThis was not satisfactory for Mr Chase.\n\n\"At what point do we say we have a problem?\" he asked.\n\n\"Is it at 10? 50? 100? 150? 1,000? Lessons have taught us - when we look at Tanzania that lost 60% of its elephant population in five years - that's how quickly poaching can settle into a population.\n\n\"We saw with our own eyes 157 confirmed poached elephants. We estimate that the total poached in the last year is at least 385 and probably far more because that is based on what we actually saw and have not had time or finances to visit all carcasses on the ground.\"\n\nBut the storm over the reported spike in poaching appears to have more to do with Botswana's bitter and complicated new politics than its wildlife.\n\nPresident Masisi was vice-president until April 2018, when then-President Ian Khama handed power over to his deputy.\n\nSince then the two men have fallen out.\n\nThe new president has his own vision on a number of issues, among them conservation, and has reversed some of the previous policies.\n\nHunting was banned under President Khama and Botswana was known for a zero-tolerance approach to poachers.\n\nIt was reported that in 2015 alone 30 Namibians, 22 Zimbabweans and an unknown number of Zambians were shot on suspicion of poaching.\n\nElephants can be very destructive when they encroach on to farmland and move though villages - destroying crops and sometimes killing people. Many rural communities believe the number of elephants is increasing, even though there is no evidence of this from scientific surveys.\n\nBut their \"range\" - how far the elephants travel - is expanding for a number of different reasons and that is increasing conflict between wildlife and humans. Many people believe this worsened after hunting was banned in 2013, and want it to be re-introduced.\n\nThe government has to balance lifting the hunting ban to win votes against the impact it may have on Botswana's international reputation as a luxury safari destination.\n\nPresident Masisi removed \"weapons of war\" from the national parks' small anti-poaching unit, saying they were illegal for non-military officers.\n\nA consultation he initiated has just recommended that the hunting ban be lifted and that elephants be culled and their meat canned for pet food.\n\nThirteen rhinos have also been killed by poachers in the last year\n\nBotswana is also now backing regional efforts to lift a ban on the ivory trade.\n\nThe two men are locked in a political feud ahead of a party congress which will choose a new leader, with national elections due later in the year.\n\nMr Chase has a close relationship with the former president, so the timing of his allegations has been seen by some as a political attack on the new president - even if the final report provides evidence that poaching was going on before Mr Masisi took office.\n\nBotswana attracts high-end tourists from across the world because of its international reputation for successful conservation.\n\nBut with the continuing political storm - and a dependency on government permits to run high-end safaris - few of the big safari operators would comment on how big a problem poaching has become.\n\nThirteen rhinos have been killed by poachers in the last 12 months - an unprecedented number.\n\nDavid Kays, who owns Ngamiland Adventure Safaris in the Okavango Delta, said it was time to admit there was a poaching problem and work together to deal with it.\n\n\"I think the government has been hiding it for a while, and now that it's been brought out into the open, we're now realising how serious the problem is, and these big poachers have actually infiltrated further than we expected them to be.\"\n\nKim Nixon from Wilderness Safaris says all cases of poaching are reported\n\nWilderness Safaris operates luxury lodges in one of the concessions where some of the 88 carcasses were found.\n\nIts chief executive Kim Nixon rejected any suggestion there was a denial of the problem.\n\n\"Whenever poaching has occurred in any of our concession areas, each and every incident has been reported as a criminal case,\" he said.\n\n\"We're not in any way mandated or allowed to do any anti-poaching - our role at best is monitoring.\"\n\nMr Chase says \"don't shoot the messenger\" adding: \"I think it requires all stakeholders working together - government, private, public sectors, the NGOs.\"\n\nBotswana is still the safest place in the world to be a rhino or an elephant, but with a continuing demand for ivory in Asia, it is now firmly in the poachers' sights.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Rami Malek, Olivia Colman, Regina King and Mahershala Ali pose with their Oscars\n\nThe first Oscars to go ahead without a host since 1989 was an unqualified success - the best ceremony in years, packed with memorable moments and for (nearly) all the right reasons.\n\nWithout the need to fit in all the monologues, skits and handovers that are the mainstay of a host's work, time was available for far better speeches and emotional punches; the announcing of a winner given a precious few extra seconds for its meaning to really take root.\n\nKevin Hart's decision to take himself out of the hosting duties following the resurfacing of homophobic tweets had initially presented the Academy with a huge problem.\n\nWho was a big enough name who had so little troublesome material in their back catalogue that they, too, wouldn't feel a Twitter backlash the moment they were announced?\n\nSo the Oscars went hostless for the first time since the disastrous 1989 show, regarded as the worst in history - though this actually was nothing to do with not having a host; the awfulness was down to some badly misguided song-and-dance routines.\n\nAnd it went so well, it would almost be a surprise if they bother with a host again.\n\nFaced with only a few weeks to pull a whole new show together, the producers had two brilliant ideas.\n\nMaya Rudolph, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler gave the closest the awards got to an opening monologue\n\nThe first was to get Tiny Fey, Amy Poehler and Maya Rudolph to effectively do the traditional opening monologue (after an opening performance from Queen, which got most people mildly waving an arm around, in a we've-not-really-had-enough-to-drink-yet-but-OK kind of way).\n\nFey and Poehler had hosted the Golden Globes before and had been tipped as potential Oscars hosts; this was near-as-dammit them doing it, except they (with Rudolph) did a show's worth of material in two minutes.\n\n\"We're not hosting, but if we were, these are the jokes we would make\" was their take. It was very post-modern but it really worked.\n\nThey raced through so many references - to Netflix; to Fyre Festival; to Donald Trump's wall; to the show's chaotic recent months and the wrangling over taking out awards - it was hard to keep up.\n\n\"We won't be doing awards during the commercials, but we will be presenting commercials during the awards,\" said Poehler.\n\n\"So if all the winners could all say Hellman's Mayonnaise: We're on the side of food instead of their speeches, that would be great.\"\n\nAnd then they left. All killer lines. No padding, no filler, no flannel. Brilliant.\n\nThe other great idea was to expand the range of people announcing the nominees for best picture.\n\nNow that eight films are in contention, each gets a little spot where a celebrity introduces them.\n\nIt's usually actors who do this, of course - but this time around, Serena Williams, Trevor Noah and Tom Morello from Rage Against The Machine all got a go.\n\nIt even meant that Mike Myers and Dana Carvey could reprise their roles as Wayne and Garth from Wayne's World.\n\nIt was fun, it expanded the diversity of presenters, and it worked.\n\nAnd it was the first Oscars where there was no groaner, no badly-received dig or in-joke that was just too in.\n\nAwkward moments - such as the make-up crew from Vice struggling desperately to read their speech - came solely from the award winners.\n\nBut the good moments - of which there were many - were allowed to breathe and stand out so much because they weren't rushed in order to fit the meaningless skits that exist just to give the host something to do, like when Jimmy Kimmel brought in a busload of tourists to confusedly mill around the Dolby Theatre.\n\nSo when Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper sang Shallow together, the camera could linger on them as the song finished rather than rushing off - thus providing an iconic Oscar image for years to come.\n\nAnd when Olivia Colman won best actress, she got some proper time to say what she wanted as the tears rolled down her face.\n\nShe talked about her children and she talked about young girls watching and practising their own acceptance speeches.\n\nIt was touching and wonderful.\n\nOlivia Colman is the first British best female winner in 10 years\n\nAnd there was also the sheer joy when - a minute after having to hold his nose with the Green Book award, Samuel L Jackson got to give best adapted screenplay to BlacKkKlansman's writer \"Spike LEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!\"\n\nSpike Lee won his first Oscar at the ceremony\n\nIt was Lee's first win at the fifth time of being nominated. He made the most overtly political speech of the night: \"The 2020 presidential election is around the corner.\n\n\"Let's all mobilise. Let's all be be on the right side of history. Make the moral choice between love versus hate. Let's do the right thing.\"\n\nBut there were several heartfelt references from the wide variety of winners from different backgrounds to political issues.\n\nJavier Bardem spoke - in Spanish, with subtitles, a first - of how \"there are no borders or walls that can restrain ingenuity or talent\".\n\nChef Jose Andres spoke of \"immigrants and women, who move humanity forward\".\n\nMelissa Berton and Rayka Zehtabchi's speech was emotionally charged as they collected the documentary award for Period\n\nThe winners of best short documentary for Period. End Of Sentence talked of the enormous issues that still exist around access to sanitary products.\n\nMeanwhile, the one thing that went unmentioned was the name of Bohemian Rhapsody's director, Bryan Singer - currently the subject of claims that he has sexually abused boys and men; claims he has denied.\n\nEvery time Bohemian Rhapsody won, it was the members of Queen who were thanked instead.\n\nThen Green Book won best film, and the whole mood dropped a notch. For doing that, the Academy itself deserves a collective Naked Gun Oscars-audience-slap-themselves-on-the-head gif. Never mind.\n\nThey need never bother with a host again.\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.", "The star has told fans to only bring clear bags to her gigs for security reasons\n\nAriana Grande is to play in Manchester for the first time since 2017 when she headlines Manchester Pride in August.\n\nTwenty-two people died in a suicide attack outside her show at Manchester Arena in May 2017.\n\nThe US pop star will return to the city to headline the LGBT+ event at a new 9,000-capacity outdoor venue at an old railway depot on Sunday 25 August.\n\nThe singer is currently at both number one and two in the UK singles chart and also has the number one album.\n\nShe had previously said she would play a \"a special show\" in Manchester as part of her forthcoming world tour, but hadn't confirmed details.\n\n\"We are of course coming and we love you,\" she told fans in Manchester in December when the other tour dates were announced.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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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 Pride gig at Mayfield Depot is likely to be an emotional return to the city, two years after the Manchester Arena attack.\n\nLess than two weeks after the bombing, she staged the star-studded One Love benefit concert at Old Trafford cricket stadium.\n\nSpeaking last May, she said: \"There are so many people who have suffered such loss and pain. The processing part is going to take forever.\"\n\nShe also said she had experienced symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) following the attack.\n\nThe month after the bombing, she was offered honorary citizenship of Manchester by the city council.\n\n\"At Manchester Pride Live we're truly honoured to be welcoming Ariana back to the city to help us celebrate LGBT+ life,\" organiser Mark Fletcher said.\n\nThe star will begin her Sweetener/Thank U Next world tour in the US next month, and on Sunday told fans they will only be able to bring clear bags to the shows for security reasons.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Ariana Grande This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe tour will reach the UK in August with three shows in at the O2 Arena in London before the date in Manchester, followed by arena shows in Birmingham, Glasgow and Sheffield in September.\n\nThe first night of Manchester Pride on Saturday 24 August will be headlined by Years & Years, while 1980s pop group Bananarama will support Ariana on the Sunday.\n\nIt marks an expansion for Manchester Pride, which has previously been centred in the city's gay village.\n\nThere were complaints among some fans when ticket prices were raised to £71 for a weekend pass - up from £30 last year.\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.", "Last updated on .From the section Chelsea\n\nChelsea goalkeeper Kepa Arrizabalaga has been fined a week's wages and apologised for refusing to be substituted during Sunday's Carabao Cup final defeat by Manchester City.\n\nThe Spaniard refused to be replaced by Willy Caballero at Wembley.\n\n\"Although there was a misunderstanding, on reflection, I made a big mistake with how I handled the situation,\" Kepa said in a Chelsea statement.\n\nManager Maurizio Sarri said he and Kepa had since had \"a good conversation\".\n\nSarri, who reacted angrily when Kepa refused to leave the field towards the end of extra time, also said the incident had been \"a misunderstanding\".\n\nBut he added: \"Kepa realises he made a big mistake in the way he reacted.\n\n\"He has apologised to me, his team-mates and the club. It is up to the club if they want to discipline him according to the club rules, but for me this matter is now closed.\n\n\"The team performance as a whole was extremely positive and it is a shame to see how this incident has overshadowed our efforts in what was a very competitive cup final.\"\n\nKepa, the club's record £71m signing, defied Sarri's attempt to substitute him for Caballero before Manchester City won on penalties. The Italian appeared furious and walked down the tunnel before quickly returning.\n\nThe 24-year-old former Athletic Bilbao player said: \"I wanted to take the time today to apologise fully and in person to the coach, to Willy, my team-mates and to the club.\n\n\"I have done this and now I want to offer the same apology to the fans. I will learn from this episode and will accept any punishment or discipline the club decides is appropriate.\"\n\nThe club will donate Kepa's fine to the Chelsea Foundation.", "The Academy Awards going hostless for the first time since 1989 may have been a controversial move, but it seemed no-one really minded.\n\nThat's probably because everyone was far too busy tweeting about Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper's sizzling chemistry or laughing about Trevor Noah trolling the audience.\n\nHere are some of the Oscar moments that ruled social media.\n\nWhile introducing best picture nominee Black Panther, South African comedian Trevor Noah poked fun at people who think Wakanda, the fictional African nation in which it's set, is a real place.\n\n\"Growing up as a young boy in Wakanda, I would see T'Challa flying over our village, and he would remind me of a great Xhosa phrase,\" he said.\n\n\"'Abelungu abazi ubu ndiyaxoka', which means: 'In times like these, we are stronger when we fight together than when we try to fight apart.\"\n\nAnd while it sounded beautiful and uplifting, that's not quite what the phrase actually means.\n\nThe BBC's Pumza Fihlani said the actual translation into English is: \"White people don't know that I'm lying.\"\n\nWhile most of the audience in Hollywood was none the wiser, Xhosa speakers on social media relished in the cheeky moment.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLady Gaga and Bradley Cooper performed perhaps their steamiest rendition yet of Shallow, from their film A Star is Born.\n\nThe pair gazed adoringly at each other as they sang the song, with Gaga standing opposite Cooper before taking her place behind the grand piano.\n\nAs the song came to an end, Cooper sat beside Gaga and laid his head on hers as they belted out the final lyrics - which was probably around the same time Twitter imploded.\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 Jezza M 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\nAs Olivia Colman accepted her award for best actress, her speech was filled with many emotional and charming moments that made the world love her even more.\n\nBut the most-talked about moment was probably when she thanked and marvelled at Lady Gaga, while blowing her a kiss - because what else would you do when standing in front of greatness?\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 4 by Elizabeth - Uncustomary Housewife Blog 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\nJames McAvoy was serving last day of school vibes as he asked his fellow celebrities to sign his shirt after finding a pen on the floor, as you do.\n\nStars such as Brie Larson, Samuel L Jackson and Michael B Jordan were among those who obliged.\n\nThe Split actor hopes to auction the shirt to raise money for one of the charities he supports.\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 8 by Ravi Cattry This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The UK's cyber-security agency has warned that Britain must understand the potential \"opportunities and threats\" of using Chinese technology.\n\nIn a rare speech, GCHQ director Jeremy Fleming emphasised the need for better cyber-security practices in the telecoms industry.\n\n\"It's a hugely complex strategic challenge,\" he said.\n\nThe US is pressuring its allies to not use Chinese firm Huawei's technology to build new 5G networks.\n\nIts officials are concerned that China could be using Huawei products to spy on other countries.\n\nMost of the UK's mobile companies - Vodafone, EE and Three - have been working with Huawei on 5G, but they are awaiting the results of a government review, due in March or April, that will decide whether or not they'll be allowed to go ahead.\n\nIn December, MI6 chief Alex Younger raised questions over China's role in the UK tech sector, while a recent report from the Royal United Services Institute said it would be \"naive\" and \"irresponsible\" to allow Huawei access.\n\nHowever, the National Cyber Security Centre - part of GCHQ - said last week said any risk posed by the company could be managed.\n\nIn his speech at an event in Singapore, Mr Fleming emphasised that the government was concerned about balancing the supply chain and ensuring that there was diversity in the telecommunications equipment supplier market.\n\n\"We have to understand the opportunities and threats from China's technological offer - understand the global nature of supply chains and service provision, irrespective of the flag of the supplier,\" he said.\n\n\"Take a clear view on the implications of China's technological acquisition strategy in the West, and help our governments decide which parts of this expansion can be embraced, which need risk management, and which will always need a sovereign, or allied, solution.\"\n\nHe added: \"How we deal with it will be crucial for prosperity and security way beyond 5G contracts.\"\n\nStressing the need for stronger cyber-security across the telecoms sector, Mr Fleming said: \"Vulnerabilities can and will be exploited. But networks should be designed in a way that cauterises the damage.\"\n\nGCHQ director Jeremy Fleming said that the UK had not yet made a decision on 5G\n\nAccording to Gartner senior research director Sylvain Fabre, 5G is important to the UK government in order to ensure that Britain remains competitive as a country.\n\n\"They are reviewing the situation, in a way that hasn't been done in the past, but it sounds like all options are still on the table,\" he told the BBC.\n\nLooking historically at the way that mobile operators tender contracts for new network infrastructure, Mr Fabre said that typically telcos selected at least three large vendors, as well as a few smaller suppliers, rather than just one vendor.\n\nThis strategy ensures that the mobile operator is able to get a range of innovative technologies at competitive prices, which is also good for the market.\n\nThe US is pursuing criminal charges against Huawei and its chief financial officer, Meng Wanzhou.\n\nThe company's founder, Ren Zhengfei, told the BBC in an exclusive interview last week that the US made up only a fraction of its overall business and could not \"crush\" it.\n\nHe said Huawei would \"continue to invest in the UK\", adding: \"We still trust in the UK, and we hope that the UK will trust us even more.\"\n\nSpeaking at a round table at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on Sunday, Huawei's rotating chairman, Guo Ping, once again strongly denied allegations that the company's equipment was being used for spying.\n\n\"Huawei needs to abide by Chinese laws and also by the laws outside China if we operate in those countries. Huawei will never, and dare not, and cannot violate any rules and regulations in the countries where we operate,\" Mr Guo said, according to AFP.\n\nHe said he hoped countries would make 5G decisions based on national interests, and not just listen to \"someone else's order\".\n• None Could Huawei threaten the Five Eyes?", "What is Theresa May really willing to do if her deal falls in Parliament?\n\nIncreasing numbers of EU leaders and her own government ministers believe that she should acknowledge that she might have to delay the UK's departure from the EU if her agreement is rejected by MPs again next month.\n\nThe president of the EU Council, Donald Tusk, says it's \"rational\" to consider.\n\nExtending the process was discussed by Theresa May and Angela Merkel over breakfast this morning - but not with any conclusion.\n\nBut the prime minister, herself, will do almost anything to avoid answering the question.\n\nShe told me: \"I am clear what I am working for is to ensure that we get a deal negotiated with the European Union that addresses the concerns of Parliament, such that Parliament votes for that deal and we are able to leave with a deal.\"\n\nBefore too long, though, Parliament may make her respond.\n\nEven if Theresa May offers worried former Remainers a concession this week, risking the wrath of Brexiteers, a delay would not necessarily be easily accepted by the European Union.\n\nMark Rutte, the Dutch prime minister, told me the UK would have to ask for an extension and explain what it's for - the EU could not, he warned, just spend another couple of months going round in circles.\n\nDowning Street privately believes they are making genuine progress towards an extra assurance on the controversial Irish backstop, that would make the deal more palatable to Tory backbenchers - hoping that could mean they never have to make the choice of delay, or no deal.\n\nBut with time so short now - even if the deal is approved by MPs next month - another few weeks may still be needed to pass all the new laws that are required.", "The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are on a three-day visit to Morocco aiming to support girls' education and strengthening links with the UK.\n\nKensington Palace said the charity Education for All \"has given girls from the poorest villages and most remote areas of Morocco the chance to reach their potential and contribute to Morocco's continued development\".\n\nDuring the visit, the pregnant duchess was given a traditional Moroccan henna tattoo, which is intended to bring luck to her first child.", "Floriane Vintras has had partial paralysis since she was young and has been using a wheelchair for the last two years.\n\nShe is now using an exoskeleton developed by the Paris-based start-up Wandercraft to help with her rehabilitation.\n\nAlgorithms and sensors read a person's movement in the suit, meaning that once they lean in a direction, the suit will move.\n\nAs a result, it is hands-free and does not require any upper body support.\n\nMs Vintras started working for Wandercraft after trying out their device.\n\nShe tells BBC Click's LJ Rich how this exoskeleton can be useful.\n\nSee more at Click's website and @BBCClick.", "Katie Price was found guilty of being in charge of a vehicle while over the limit\n\nTV star Katie Price has been convicted of being nearly twice the legal limit while in charge of her pink Range Rover.\n\nThe 40-year-old argued she was not in control of the 4X4 when she was arrested in a drunken state in the back seat in Greenwich in the early hours of 10 October.\n\nShe said that a mystery man had driven but Judge Nigel Dean found she was not a \"credible\" witness.\n\nShe was banned for three months.\n\nA charge of drink-driving was dropped due to insufficient evidence.\n\nThe three-month driving ban adds to another from earlier this year for driving while disqualified, Bexley Magistrates' Court heard.\n\nAlong with a £1,500 fine, Price was also ordered to pay costs and a victim surcharge to bring her total bill to £2,425.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The ups and downs of Katie Price's life\n\nThe court heard PCs Benjamin Jones and Balvinder Mann first saw the Range Rover veer off the road and hit a grass verge at 00:40 BST, before seeing it stationary about 15 minutes later.\n\nPC Jones told magistrates Price, of Horsham, West Sussex, was in a \"very\" drunken state in the back while her friend Kris Boyson was in the passenger seat.\n\n\"Her eyes were blurred and her speech was a bit slurred,\" he said.\n\nThe officer said the bumper was hanging off, pieces of shrubbery were attached to the vehicle and there also \"appeared to be sick on the outside\".\n\nPrice told the court she had drunk between three and four \"pornstar martini\" cocktails at Mr Boyson's 30th birthday party in a restaurant.\n\nShe said she allowed one of his friends to drive the car back towards Mr Boyson's house near Bluewater - and did not remember any crash.\n\n\"I was really drunk. I'm such a lightweight,\" she said.\n\nBoth Price and Mr Boyson claimed the unnamed driver had fled following an argument, the court heard.\n\nPC Jones said the pair claimed the driver had the key but the car's engine later turned on.\n\nBoth officers were unable to ascertain who had been driving at the time.\n\nProsecutor Sonya Saul told the court Price was taken for a breathalyser test at a police station.\n\nShe had 69 microgrammes of alcohol per 100 millilitres of breath. The legal limit is 35 microgrammes.\n\nSpeaking outside court after the sentencing, Price told reporters: \"It got proven today there was no evidence at all of me drink-driving so I rest my case on that.\"\n\n\"I get my driving licence back on 24 May which means I can go car shopping - let's ban the pink car.\"\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. Spike Lee on why Green Book, which stars Mahershala Ali, was \"not my cup of tea\"\n\nSpike Lee did not do much to hide his displeasure when Green Book beat his film and six others to this year's best picture Oscar.\n\nAccording to one report, the BlacKkKlansman director tried to storm out of the Dolby Theatre when the winner was read out by Julia Roberts.\n\n\"I thought I was courtside at the [Madison Square] Garden and the ref made a bad call,\" Lee later told reporters, saying the film was \"not his cup of tea\".\n\n\"I'm snake-bit,\" he joked, using a euphemism for experiencing failure or bad luck. \"Every time somebody's driving somebody, I lose.\"\n\nHis comment was a reference to Driving Miss Daisy, winner of the best picture Oscar in 1990 and a film to which Green Book has been compared. Lee's film Do the Right Thing was nominated for two Oscars in 1990 - best original screenplay and best supporting actor - but missed out on both.\n\nIn Green Book, an African-American classical pianist is driven around the American south of the 1960s by an Italian-American chauffeur. In Driving Miss Daisy, an elderly Southern matron grudgingly agrees to be chauffeured by an African-American driver.\n\n\"They changed the seating arrangement!\" said Lee of Green Book, which also won Oscars for its screenplay and for supporting actor Mahershala Ali.\n\nBlack Panther star Chadwick Boseman also expressed disappointment as Green Book director Peter Farrelly and his predominantly white production team took to the stage.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nJustin Chang from the Los Angeles Times was particularly scathing of Green Book's triumph, calling it \"the worst best picture Oscar winner since Crash.\" Crash, a multi-stranded drama about race relations in contemporary Los Angeles, was the widely reviled winner of the best picture award in 2006.\n\n\"Green Book is about as traditional a choice as you can get,\" wrote The Independent's Clarisse Loughrey, describing its win as \"a case of the same old, same old\".\n\nThe film, which was released in the UK earlier this month, takes its title from a guidebook African-American travellers once used to negotiate the United States.\n\nViggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali as Tony Vallelonga and Don Shirley\n\nSo what is it about Farrelly's film that has rubbed so many the wrong way? For many, it's the idea that the film perpetuates the \"white saviour\" trope that can be found in so many Hollywood films about bigotry and intolerance.\n\nAli's character, real-life musician Don Shirley, is pivotal to the story. Yet its real protagonist is Viggo Mortensen's Tony \"The Lip\" Vallelonga, a bouncer-cum-bodyguard whose friendship with Shirley makes him wise up to his own racial prejudices.\n\nAccording to Vox's critic Todd VanDerWerff, the film \"lets white folks off the hook for whatever responsibility we bear for the crushing weight of systemic racism\". The film has also been criticised for its use of a so-called \"magical negro\" figure whose sole function is to facilitate positive change in a white character.\n\nGreen Book won the People's Choice award at last year's Toronto Film Festival - an award seen by many as a reliable indicator of Oscar glory. Yet the film would soon run into a number of public relations potholes that made last night's win seem like a remote possibility.\n\nFirst came Mortensen's use of 'the N-word' in a post-screening Q&A session, an incident for which he issued a fulsome apology. Then came criticism from members of Shirley's family, who dismissed the film as \"a symphony of lies\" that exaggerated Vallelonga's relationship with his employer.\n\nNick Vallelonga with two of Green Book's Oscars\n\nIn January, Farrelly issued his own apology for exposing his penis to colleagues in the late 1990s, saying he had been \"an idiot\" and that he was now \"deeply sorry\".\n\nMore contrition followed from Vallelonga's son Nick, one of Green Book's writers, over a 2015 tweet in which he claimed he had seen Muslims in New Jersey celebrating the 9/11 attacks.\n\nControversy dogged Green Book all the way to the Oscar ceremony itself, with some questioning whether it was right to have veteran congressman John Lewis present its best picture citation. The US author and journalist Raquel Cepeda wrote that President Donald Trump \"would have been a better peddler of Green Book's saccharine propaganda\".\n\nYet it would be wrong to say the film is entirely without friends. \"I don't care about what they say, Green Book is a such a fantastic movie and deserved that freaking Oscar!\" tweeted one defiant fan on Monday.\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\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Tom Watson and Jeremy Corbyn in the Commons\n\nDisaffected Labour MPs are to be asked to join a new group within the party in a bid to avoid further resignations.\n\nThe move, led by deputy leader Tom Watson, is intended to give more of a voice to MPs from Labour's social democratic tradition.\n\nNine MPs from that wing of the party left Labour last week, criticising the party's leadership and direction.\n\nMr Watson claimed on Sunday that the new internal grouping was the only way to hold the party together.\n\nHe said it would give a platform to MPs whose views were not currently represented in Jeremy Corbyn's shadow cabinet and a chance for them to discuss and shape policy.\n\nA source close to Mr Corbyn said more discussion about policy was a good thing and had been a hallmark of his leadership, but signalled there would be no major shift away from current policies which were popular with voters.\n\nNine Labour MPs quit the party last week, accusing Mr Corbyn of a \"lurch to the left\" and tolerating a culture of bullying and anti-Semitism in the party.\n\nMr Watson, whose close friend Ian Austin is among those who have left, warned there was a \"crisis for the soul\" of the party and urgent action was needed.\n\nIn creating the new grouping, Mr Watson insisted he was not stoking a rebellion against Mr Corbyn but standing up for pluralism within the party.\n\nIt's likely there will be a meeting of the new group in the next 48 hours - because allies of Labour's deputy leader say this is \"urgent\" if further defections are to be staved off.\n\nAnd I'm told the group could attract a substantial number of MPs, including former ministers.\n\nIt won't just be a kind of support group for those who feel disillusioned, and thinking of defecting. The intention is to give these MPs more influence, and they will undertake proper policy work.\n\nBut there could be an iron fist in this velvet glove.\n\nAt the moment we are seeing a steady trickle of Labour MPs leaving. If, however, a much larger group feel subsequently that their ideas are being ignored, then - as one source put it - there is \"strength in numbers\".\n\nSo Jeremy Corbyn could be told - change position or face not a splinter, but a proper split.\n\nThe Labour leader, himself, will be addressing his MPs behind closed doors in Parliament tonight. And how he handles the defections, the new grouping - and much else besides - could determine if anyone else walks out of the party soon.\n\nWith the Independent Group of MPs convening their inaugural \"business meeting\" later today, then the disillusioned know they have the option of travelling to a different political destination.\n\nShadow health secretary Jon Ashworth said he regarded himself as a social democrat in the mould of Tony Crosland, the former Labour cabinet minister, and he felt able to speak out during shadow cabinet.\n\nBut he told the BBC's Politics Live that he recognised some Labour MPs felt they needed a \"greater platform\".\n\n\"I would say to all colleagues, you have a contribution to make,\" he said. \"There is room for different voices.\"\n\nThe move was also applauded by Jon Lansman, the chair of pro-Corbyn campaign group Momentum. \"We are a pluralist party ... I welcome that.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jon Ashworth: \"We need to be throwing these people out of Labour.\"\n\nWhile the intention is to unify, the BBC's political correspondent Alex Forsyth said one MP warned if there was a hostile response from the party leadership, it could lead to further splits.\n\nMr Corbyn has called on the nine who quit Labour to stand down and seek re-election as independent MPs.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tom Watson: \"I know that he (Jeremy Corbyn) will... share my horror\"\n\nShadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry has said those who resigned from her party had \"betrayed\" their seats and would be \"crushed\" if by-elections were held.\n\nSpeaking on Saturday at a Labour rally in Nottinghamshire, she said she would rather die than join a new party.\n\nIn response, Mr Watson told the BBC's Andrew Marr show that he thought \"dying is a virtue that is over-rated\" and said it was \"incumbent on all of us to dial down the rhetoric\".", "Spectators were treated to a dog making an amazing 83-yard frisbee catch during half-time of the Orlando Apollos v Memphis Express game.", "Olivia Colman accepted her award for best actress at the Oscars in style, calling the win \"hilarious\".\n\nShe played Queen Anne in The Favourite, winning the only award for the film at the 91st Academy Awards.\n\n\"I have to thank lots of people and if I forget anybody I'll find you later and give you a massive snog,\" she added during an emotional speech.\n\nColman became the 11th British actress to take home the prize.\n\nThe last time a Brit won the accolade was in 2009, when Kate Winslet won for her portrayal of Hanna Schmitz in The Reader.\n\nHer co-stars, Rachel Weisz and Emma Stone, were both nominated for best supporting actress but lost out to Regina King.\n\nColman's win, which took her and the whole of social media by surprise, sparked much reaction online, including a congratulatory tweet from Prime Minister Theresa May:\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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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\nCBS news anchor Anthony Mason tweeted: that he wanted Colman to give every Oscar acceptance speech from now on, adding: \"One of my all time favourites: sweet, sincere, gracious, excruciatingly funny.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 6 by mirela 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\n\"It's genuinely quite stressful. This is hilarious, I've got an Oscar.\n\n\"I have to thank lots of people and if I forget anybody I'll find you later and give you a massive snog [this is a kiss, for our overseas readers].\n\n\"Yorgos, my best director and my best film, and Emily and Rachel the two best women in the world to fall in love with - you can imagine it wasn't a hardship.\n\n\"To be in this category, with these extraordinary women and Glenn Close - you are my idol and this is not how I wanted it to be. I love you all.\n\n\"Lindy King my agent who took me on 20 years ago - thank you so much.\n\n\"My mum and my dad and my kids who are at home watching, well if you're not then well done, but I sort of hope you are. This is not going to happen again.\n\n\"Any little girl who's practising their speech on the telly - you never know! I used to work as a cleaner, I used to love that job.\n\n\"Oh - 'please wrap up' - [she is being told to end her speech, so she then blows a raspberry].\n\n\"Ed [her husband] you're my best friend and best supporter and he's going to cry. I'm not. Thank you so much.\n\n\"To Fox, everybody the cast the crew. Thank you, argh thank you so much. Lady Gaga I love you!\"\n\nDid you work with Olivia Colman when she was a cleaner? Did she clean for you? Get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. 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If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Other than crazy red carpet moments and glamorous gowns, the Oscars is often a chance for actors to inspire fans with their speeches.\n\nSome call for social and political change, like Spike Lee who exhorted the audience to \"mobilise\" ahead of the 2020 US presidential elections.\n\nOthers, like Olivia Colman, take the time to thank their nearest and dearest.\n\nHere are some of the most inspiring moments of the night.\n\n1. \"I did my best, and my best is good enough\" - Hannah Beachler\n\nJay Hart and Hannah Beachler, winners of best production design for Black Panther\n\nHannah Beachler made history as she became the first black person to win the Oscar for production design, for her work on Black Panther with Jay Hart.\n\nShe thanked director Ryan Coogler for giving her \"a safe space\" and \"brotherhood\", and she had a message for the next generation.\n\n\"I give this strength to all of those who come next, to keep going, to never give up,\" she said.\n\n\"And when you think it's impossible, just remember to say this piece of advice I got from a very wise woman: I did my best, and my best is good enough.\"\n\nFellow Black Panther crew member Ruth E Carter also made history for being the first black person to win an Oscar for best costume.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n2. \"Be heroes of your own stories\" - Constance Wu\n\nWu presented the award for best original song alongside Black Panther's Chadwick Boseman\n\nWhen chatting to Ryan Seacrest on the red carpet, Wu described Crazy Rich Asians as a \"historic\" moment, as it saw a major studio telling a story centred on her experience as an Asian-American.\n\n\"To be something like that for young women today,\" she said, \"to let them know they can be heroes of their own stories and their stories are worthy and interesting and people want to know them… that has been so meaningful to me.\"\n\n3. \"We're longing for stories like this\" - Rami Malek\n\nRami is the champion, my friends\n\nAs Rami Malek accepted his award for best actor for his performance in Bohemian Rhapsody, he said the film might offer hope to those struggling with their identity.\n\n\"We made a film about a gay man, an immigrant, who lived his life unapologetically himself,\" he said. \"And the fact that I'm celebrating him and this story with you is proof that we're longing for stories like this.\"\n\nHe also embraced being \"the son of immigrants from Egypt\" and a \"first-generation American\".\n\n4. \"To all the nerdy girls out there that hide behind their sketch books, don't be afraid\" - Domee Shi\n\nWinners Becky Neiman-Cobb (L) and Domee Shi at the Vanity Fair Oscars party\n\nChinese-Canadian animator Domee Shi collected an Academy Award for best animated short for her directorial debut, Bao. The Disney-Pixar film resonated with many Asian communities around the world for representing their culture and heritage.\n\nIn her acceptance speech, Shi gave a shout out to all the \"nerdy girls\" in the world. \"To all the nerdy girls out there that hide behind their sketch books, don't be afraid to tell your stories to the world!\" she said.\n\n\"You're gonna creep them out but you're probably gonna connect with them too and that's an amazing feeling to have.\"\n\n5. \"Having the dream is easy, making it come true is hard\" - Serena Williams\n\nWhile Serena Williams may not be an actress or singer, she knows a thing or two about what it's like to become a star.\n\n\"When we're young, we all have dreams of what we can accomplish in life,\" the tennis icon said as she introduced best picture nominee A Star Is Born. \"Having the dream is easy, making it come true is hard.\"\n\nAs her speech drew to a close, she said: \"There's the rush of fame, the pressure of success, and the heartache that comes with sacrificing love for career... or career for love.\"\n\nSome viewers thought the final part of her speech referred to her friend the Duchess of Sussex, who stood down from her role in legal drama Suits when she got engaged to Prince Harry.\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.", "Hannah Beachler won an Oscar for best production design for Black Panther, saying: \"I stand here stronger than I was yesterday.\" Like Carter, Beachler was the first black winner in her category", "Theresa May is meeting with EU leaders, including Germany's Angela Merkel, in Sharm-el-Sheikh\n\nTheresa May is facing growing calls to say she would delay Brexit rather than leave the EU if no deal is in place by the end of March.\n\nA new plan from some Tory MPs suggests ministers postpone Brexit until 23 May \"to conclude negotiations\".\n\nIt is being suggested as an alternative to cross-party proposals which would see MPs take control of the process.\n\nDutch PM Mark Rutte warned Mrs May the UK was \"sleepwalking into a no-deal scenario\" and needed to \"wake up\".\n\nThe pair met at a summit in Egypt, as she presses EU leaders for more concessions to her deal.\n\nIrish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar described a no-deal Brexit as a \"lose-lose-lose scenario for everyone\", but he told reporters ahead of a meeting with Mrs May that he thought the outcome was unlikely.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rutte: 'Wake up and close the Brexit deal'\n\nMrs May announced on Sunday that MPs will get a fresh vote on her deal by 12 March, vowing that leaving as planned 17 days later was \"within our grasp\".\n\nBut many MPs had wanted another so-called \"meaningful vote\" sooner than that, and Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn suggested Mrs May was \"running down the clock\" until a time when MPs were forced \"to choose between her bad deal and a disastrous no deal\".\n\nMrs May's announcement also provoked disappointment among business leaders, who are clamouring for certainty about what is to come.\n\nThe prime minister had a \"good, friendly\" 45-minute meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel on the sidelines of the EU-League of Arab States summit in Sharm-el-Sheikh.\n\nA government official said they discussed Brexit, among other things, and the issue of extending Article 50 came up \"fleetingly\". But they said Mrs May reiterated that the UK wanted to leave the EU with a deal on the scheduled date of 29 March.\n\nEuropean Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker also met the PM and said they had a \"good, constructive\" meeting.\n\nPresident of the European Council, Donald Tusk, said he had also discussed a \"potential extension\" to Article 50 when he met the PM on Monday, but he said it was \"absolutely clear\" to him that there was no majority in the House of Commons to approve any deal.\n\n\"We will face an alternative, chaotic Brexit or an extension,\" he said.\n\n\"The less time there is until 29 March, the greater the likelihood of an extension, and this is an objective fact - not our intention, not our plan, but an objective fact.\"\n\nHe said an extension would be a \"rational solution\" but that Mrs May told him \"she still believes she is able to avoid this scenario.\"\n\nThere will be further talks in Brussels on Tuesday on the Northern Ireland backstop - the number one sticking point for many when it comes to the Brexit deal.\n\nTheresa May also met Jean-Claude Juncker at the summit\n\nThe prime minister has long resisted any suggestion that the UK's departure could be postponed beyond 29 March.\n\nBut political editor Laura Kuenssberg says two cabinet ministers have told the BBC they believe she will this week grant some kind of concession to allow for a possible delay.\n\nSuch a move, though, would inevitably anger Brexiteers who want the UK to leave as planned, whatever the cost.\n\nEnter the word or phrase you are looking for\n\nOn Wednesday, MPs will get another chance to put forward a range of amendments in the Commons to show what direction they want Brexit to take.\n\nOne - drawn up by Labour's Yvette Cooper and Conservative Oliver Letwin - would, if passed, give MPs the power to demand a delay to Brexit if a deal cannot be agreed by 13 March.\n\nThree cabinet ministers, Greg Clark, Amber Rudd and David Gauke, signalled they could be prepared to vote for it if there is no breakthrough in the next few days.\n\nMs Cooper told the BBC that the move was not intended to stop Brexit as it would be up to the government, not Parliament, to determine the length of any delay.\n\nMs Rudd told reporters on Monday morning that she was \"completely committed\" to making sure the UK leaves the EU and she supported the prime minister.\n\nBut, she added: \"What I don't think is acceptable is plans to move ever closer to no deal.\"\n\nMonday: The PM meets with EU leaders, including Angela Merkel and Jean-Claude Junker, on the fringes of the EU-League of Arab States summit.\n\nTuesday: Mrs May gives a statement to the House of Commons updating them on her progress on Brexit. Brexit Secretary Stephen Barclay and Attorney General Geoffrey Cox return to Brussels to continue talks with the EU.\n\nWednesday: MPs debate an amendable motion tabled by the government. Speaker John Bercow chooses which amendments to put forward, and MPs vote on the next step proposals.\n\nThere's also the proposal of a new amendment from a group of Conservative backbenchers, led by Andrew Percy and Simon Hart, which calls for a \"strictly time limited\" delay to Brexit if there is no formal deal by 13 March.\n\nIt would avoid handing control of Brexit to Parliament, and its proposers hope it will attract support from MPs who have indicated they might support the Cooper-Letwin amendment a \"last resort\" to avoid no-deal, as well as colleagues who are relaxed about no-deal, on the basis that it will provide more time for planning.\n\nDefence Minister Tobias Ellwood told BBC Radio 4's Today programme he was \"encouraging\" the prime minister to announce a delay to prevent a no-deal Brexit.\n\nBut Education Secretary Damian Hinds said a delay would \"just prolong these issues\".\n\nIt's absolutely plain that Theresa May doesn't want to delay Brexit in any way. An extension, in her view, doesn't solve any of the dilemmas.\n\nBut she has also never actually 100% said that she would never, ever, ever end up doing that. Simply, she can't, because Parliament might take the decision out of her hands, or the prospect of a defeat might force her to move.\n\nIndeed, a senior figure in government is convinced that Number 10 will find a way, if the votes are stacking up, of taking leaving without a deal off the table by implication, next week.\n\nLabour is also likely to table an amendment on Wednesday, putting its own Brexit plan - one which backs a permanent customs union with the EU and a close relationship with its single market - to MPs.\n\nThat move could take the party a step closer to supporting another EU referendum.\n\nTheresa May is continuing to push Brussels for extra legal promises that the backstop - the controversial policy that aims to prevent a hard border returning to the island of Ireland - would, if ever implemented, be temporary.\n\nUK proposals include \"alternative arrangements\", seeking a time limit to the backstop or agreeing a way the UK can choose to leave it at any time.\n\nHowever, Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney warned on Sunday that the EU would not re-open the withdrawal agreement, adding his government could not be asked to \"compromise on something as fundamental as the peace process\", on which the border played a key part.", "Baroness Karren Brady has resigned from Sir Philip Green's retail empire, just weeks after vowing to stay in her post despite a harassment scandal.\n\nTaveta, the holding company for Sir Philip's Arcadia group, said she had stepped down as its non-executive chairman, but gave no reason.\n\nShe had been chairman since July 2017.\n\nIt comes after allegations of sexual harassment and racial abuse of staff by Sir Philip were reported earlier this month, accusations he strongly denies.\n\nLady Brady had said she felt \"a real sense of duty\" to staff at the retail empire, including her own daughter, Sophia Peschisolido, who has been a social media content assistant at Topshop since 2016.\n\nShe was made a life peer in 2014 and sits on the Conservative benches in the House of Lords.\n\nLady Brady also runs a business leadership firm through the website strongfemaleleadership.com.\n\nThe firm said Sharon Brown had also resigned as non-executive director of Taveta.\n\n\"Taveta thanks them for their contribution and wishes them well for the future,\" the company said.\n\nBaroness Brady's seat at the head of the Taveta board has been an uncomfortable one ever since she became chair in 2017.\n\nPutting one of Britain's most high-profile businesswomen at the head of a board on which she had served since 2010 was seen a shrewd appointment in the wake of the collapse of BHS.\n\nShe has described herself as being \"tough\" and has regularly spoken out against men who abuse their power within organisations, subjecting women to inappropriate behaviour.\n\nThe recent revelations of substantial payments of hush money to keep allegations against Sir Philip of sexual and racial harassment quiet therefore made her position very awkward indeed.\n\nHaving weathered the media storm around Sir Philip Green's conduct and the use of non-disclosure agreements for several months, questions will naturally arise as to why they are both stepping down now.\n\nSir Philip Green has always insisted that there was nothing in his conduct that was unlawful.\n\nWith both business associates and board members jumping ship, it seems that while not unlawful, it has made him deeply unpopular.\n\nEarlier this month, Sir Philip dropped legal action against the Daily Telegraph newspaper, which had been prevented from publishing accounts of his alleged misconduct towards five employees.\n\nThe paper subsequently reported that he paid a female employee more than £1m to keep quiet after she accused him of kissing and groping her.\n\nAfter the allegations became public, Lady Brady came under pressure to step down from her post at Taveta.\n\nBut she responded by saying that she would stay in her post because she felt \"a real sense of duty\" to the people working at Taveta.\n\nShe said at the time in a statement issued through her public relations team: \"I want to be 100% clear - I have always been an outspoken defender of women's rights in the workplace and always will be.\n\n\"As chairman of Taveta, I am extremely proud of our people, our customers and our brands. My primary concern are the 20,000 people who work there, of which over 85% are women.\"", "Sarah and Victoria Hicks were at the game with their parents\n\nThe father of two teenagers who died at Hillsborough has told a court of the \"worst moment\" of his life as he travelled to hospital with one girl while her sister was on the pitch.\n\nTrevor Hicks went to the April 1989 match with Sarah, 19, and Victoria, 15.\n\nHe told Preston Crown Court he warned police something was \"badly wrong\" as the crush developed.\n\nMr Hicks said the two girls had been in the central pens of the Leppings Lane terrace while he had been in a pen to the side and his wife Jenni was in the North Stand for the FA Cup semi-final.\n\nHe said as kick-off approached the pens seemed \"very full\" and it was clear there were problems.\n\nMr Hicks said he and another man, whose son was in one of the pens, shouted up to a police officer on the gantry next to the police control box.\n\nHe said: \"We were basically shouting 'look, can't you see things are going badly wrong'.\"\n\nAsked how the police officer responded, he said he was sworn at and told to \"shut my... prattle'.\"\n\nThe jury was shown a picture of Trevor Hicks' position beneath the Hillsborough police control box\n\nMr Hicks said he went on to the pitch where he found the girls lying \"almost side by side\".\n\nHe then went in an ambulance to hospital with Victoria while Sarah was still being treated on the pitch.\n\n\"I had two daughters, only one with me,\" he said. \"Obviously they both needed attention, we thought they were both alive.\n\n\"The best thing to do was go with Victoria expecting that the other ambulance would follow and Sarah would be along very quickly.\"\n\nMr and Mrs Hicks later identified their daughters at the stadium's gymnasium.\n\nThe court earlier heard from Barry Devonside whose son Christopher, 18, died at Hillsborough.\n\nHe said he \"froze in fear\" as he saw a crush develop in pens where his son was standing.\n\nMr Devonside was in the stadium's North Stand, separate from his son, who had been allocated a ticket on the Leppings Lane terraces alongside friends.\n\nChristopher Devonside was standing on the Leppings Lane terraces with schoolfriends\n\nHe said he did not see the start of the game because he was concerned at the scenes in the pens after being involved in a crush at the same fixture at Hillsborough a year earlier.\n\nAfter seeing two fans being resuscitated, he turned to a man with a transistor radio to ask what was happening and was told \"there's two dead\", the court heard.\n\nHe said police lined up across the centre of the pitch but \"did nothing to help the injured or dying or the removal of those who were killed\".\n\nMr Devonside told the jury: \"I also saw police officers pushing back into pen three those who were fighting for their life to get out of that pen.\"\n\nHe added he was \"treated like dirt\" and sent away by a policeman at the ground's gymnasium when he went to look for his son.\n\nBarry Devonside said some police officers \"did absolutely nothing\" to help the injured or dying\n\nHe spent five hours visiting hospitals and mortuaries before going back to the gym, where his son's body was being stored, the court heard.\n\nEarlier the court heard from off-duty Metropolitan Police officer Steven Allen who was in pen three.\n\nHe said it \"was becoming obvious that there was something wrong\" and waved his warrant card at South Yorkshire Police officers to get their attention and warn them.\n\n\"People were shouting in agony,\" he said.\n\n\"People were screaming. People were in pain. People were asking to be let out.\"\n\nThe people who lost their lives in the Hillsborough disaster\n\nMr Duckenfield, of Ferndown, Dorset, is on trial alongside Sheffield Wednesday's ex-club secretary Graham Mackrell, 69, who denies a charge related to the stadium safety certificate and a health and safety charge.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The row was captured by passenger David Lawrence, who spoke to BBC Radio 5 live about what happened\n\nA Ryanair passenger who was filmed launching a tirade at an elderly woman on a flight has not had any charges filed against him.\n\nDavid Mesher was on a flight from Barcelona to Stansted on 19 October when he began insulting Delsie Gayle.\n\nEssex Police said it had sought advice and presented what evidence it could to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS).\n\nBut, as the exchange took place in Spain, it said the CPS advised it had no jurisdiction to charge Mr Mesher.\n\nEssex Police said it was in touch with Spanish legal authorities about how to proceed.\n\nThe Spanish authorities have been approached to comment.\n\nThe tirade took place while the plane was on the tarmac at Barcelona Airport before the plane departed for Stansted. It was filmed by a fellow passenger and posted on social media where it racked up millions of views.\n\nIn the footage, Mr Mesher can be heard using racial slurs to Delsie Gayle and threatening to \"push\" her to another seat.\n\nHe shouts at her: \"Don't talk to me in a foreign language, you stupid ugly cow.\"\n\nPreviously, Mr Mesher, from Birmingham, told ITV's Good Morning Britain he was \"not a racist person by any means\" and it was \"just a fit of temper at the time\".\n\nA spokeswoman for the CPS said the police had not officially submitted a file to the service in order for it to consider a charging decision.\n\n\"We cannot charge unless a file is submitted by the police\", she added.\n\n\"We conducted a thorough investigation and sought advice from the Crown Prosecution Service\", a spokesman for Essex Police said.\n\n\"They [the CPS] did not have the jurisdiction to advise on any charging decision.\n\n\"We have completed our enquiries as far as we are legally able to, given that the incident did not happen within our jurisdiction, and are now in contact with the Spanish legal authorities so that they can determine how they wish to proceed.\"\n\nPreviously, Robin Kiely from Ryanair apologised for the \"regrettable, and unacceptable remarks\" made to Mrs Gayle.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Kelly has faced, and denied, accusations about abuse for decade\n\nR&B star R. Kelly has been released from a Chicago jail after posting his $100,000 (£76,000) bail, a Cook County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman said.\n\nEarlier on Monday he pleaded not guilty to 10 charges of aggravated criminal sexual abuse against four women, three of whom were minors at the time.\n\nThe 52-year-old, dressed in a blue coat, did not speak to media as he was escorted from jail by his lawyer.\n\nHe had turned himself in to police on Friday and spent the weekend in jail.\n\nThe singer has faced decades of sexual abuse claims without being convicted, and has denied all previous allegations.\n\nCook County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Sophia Ansari confirmed on Monday night R. Kelly had raised the $100,000 bail, which was 10% of the $1m bond set by a judge over the weekend.\n\nHis court appearance and plea came weeks after the documentary series Surviving R Kelly aired. It contained allegations of abuse from many women including the star's former wife.\n\nHe is being tried for sexual assaults alleged to have happened since 1998. He met one of the four women at a restaurant on her 16th birthday, and another - who was also 16 - when she asked for his autograph.\n\nR. Kelly was seen leaving jail after posting bail on Monday night\n\nThe court ordered the singer, whose real name is Robert Sylvester Kelly, to surrender his passport and to have no contact with anyone under the age of 18.\n\nHe had reportedly struggled to pay the $100,000 bail payment required to leave Cook County Jail.\n\nLater on Monday, high-profile attorney Gloria Allred said in a news conference that she was now representing more than six women who allege the singer abused them.\n\nR. Kelly is next scheduled to appear in court on 22 March.", "Melissa McCarthy has an outside chance of adding an Oscar to her Razzie\n\nWith this year's Oscars being handed out on Sunday, Hollywood is in the grip of awards fever. But there are some awards no movie stars want.\n\nThe winners of the Golden Raspberries, for the worst films and performances of the year, have been announced.\n\nSherlock Holmes rehash Holmes & Watson won four including worst film and worst supporting actor for John C Reilly.\n\nMelissa McCarthy won worst actress - despite the fact she is also up for the best actress gong at the actual Oscars.\n\nShe received her Razzie for her roles in both The Happytime Murders and Life of the Party.\n\nHowever, she did receive a consolation in the form of a \"Razzie redeemer award\" for Can You Ever Forgive Me? - the film for which she is nominated for best actress at the real Academy Awards.\n\nShe plays author-turned-conwoman Lee Israel, but she's an outsider for the Oscar - she'll have to beat Glenn Close and Olivia Colman, among others, to win.\n\nEven if she does, she won't be the first person to win an Oscar and a Razzie in the same year.\n\nHolmes and Watson, which starred John C Reilly (left) and Will Ferrell, was panned by critics\n\nSandra Bullock managed that in 2010, when she won the Academy Award for The Blind Side a day after she picked up the raspberry-shaped statuette for All About Steve.\n\nShe even turned up to the Razzies ceremony with a trailer full of DVDs of the offending film.\n\nUnfortunately, McCarthy didn't have the chance to receive her raspberry in person because the Razzies no longer hold a physical award ceremony.\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.", "Lady Gaga blew a kiss to photographers in a pose reminiscent of Marilyn Monroe, but her jewellery harked back to another screen legend of yore, Audrey Hepburn, who was the last person to wear that diamond necklace", "The risk of a no-deal Brexit is turning into a \"full-blown economic crisis\", the aerospace trade body has warned.\n\nADS Group said it was now able to track \"the very real economic damage being caused\" by the continuing uncertainty over the UK's exit from the EU.\n\nIts warning comes as insurance trade body, the ABI, said a no-deal Brexit \"would be a be an unforgivable act of economic and social self-harm\".\n\nThe UK is due to leave the EU on 29 March, but no deal is yet in place.\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May is facing growing pressure to delay Brexit if no deal is agreed by then.\n\nADS, the aerospace and defence trade group, represents some of the largest companies operating in the UK, including Airbus, Boeing and BAE Systems.\n\nChief executive Paul Everitt said its members needed a \"firm transition period and negotiations on the UK's future relationship with the European Union commenced at the earliest opportunity\".\n\nHis comments come amid growing anger among many business groups over the continuing uncertainty.\n\nHuw Evans, director general of the Association of British Insurers, is expected to suggest at a dinner on Monday evening that \"as a last resort\" Brexit should be subject to a short delay if no deal is the only alternative.\n\nMr Evans will say that any future arrangement with the EU that required the UK to comply with rules over which it had no say could be \"weaponised by those in the EU that want to… damage the UK\".\n\nOn Sunday, Mrs May announced that MPs will be able to have a fresh vote on the Brexit deal by 12 March, prompting expressions of dismay by several business groups.\n\nCBI deputy director general Josh Hardie described it as \"the latest signal to businesses that no-deal is hurtling closer\".\n\n\"It must be averted. Every day without a deal means less investment and fewer jobs created,\" he said.\n\nBritish Chambers of Commerce director general Dr Adam Marshall said: \"Delaying the vote until just two weeks before the UK's planned departure from the EU raises serious concerns about the timeline of the parliamentary process, and whether there is sufficient window to reach an agreement and pass the necessary legislation to avoid a no-deal exit.\"\n\nAnd the Institute of Directors' interim director general, Edwin Morgan, said: \"There is too much at stake to run down the clock and risk an accidental no-deal. We sincerely hope this is the last and final date change.\"\n\nHe added: \"Businesses have lost all faith in the political process and as those first in the firing line of no-deal, they deserve to know more.\"\n\nEnter the word or phrase you are looking for", "Victims aged in their 20s have each lost an average of £8,900 after falling for investment scams that appear on image-sharing platform Instagram.\n\nAction Fraud, a UK police-led awareness centre, said there had been a surge in activity in recent months by fraudsters posting about get-rich-quick schemes.\n\nVictims are promised high returns within 24 hours, but the fraudsters demand fees and then disappear.\n\nSome 356 reports of losses have been made in the past five months.\n\nThose tricked lost a collective total of more than £3m, but more is expected to have been stolen as some victims may not have reported their losses.\n\nThe scam sees schemes advertised via the Instagram app. Those targeted are encouraged to transfer £600 and are promised almost instantaneous profits. Once the money is paid, they are sent images supposedly of profits building up in their accounts.\n\nThe fraudsters tell their victims to \"invest\" more, and that the money can be released for a fee, which is why losses can build to thousands of pounds.\n\nHowever, they then they close the Instagram account, stop all contact, and disappear with the money.\n\nInvestment fraudsters often use professional-looking images and may promise free research reports, special discounts and \"secret\" stock tips.\n\nZeroFox, a security company specialising in social media, previously told the BBC that it found more than two million public Instagram posts that push these types of scam, known as money-flipping.\n\nInspector Paul Carroll, of Action Fraud, said: \"Opportunistic fraudsters are taking advantage of unsuspecting victims who are going about their day-to-day lives on social media.\"\n\nHe urged social media users never to send money to strangers only encountered online, to check financial matters with family members, to only deal with financial firms authorised by the regulator - the Financial Conduct Authority - and to report any cases of fraud.", "Ruth Carter was responsible for creating the outfits in Black Panther\n\nTwo Black Panther crew members made Oscar history by becoming the first black winners in their categories.\n\nRuth Carter scooped the costume design trophy, and Hannah Beachler shared the production design prize with Jay Hart.\n\n\"This has been a long time coming,\" Carter said in her speech. \"Marvel may have created the first black superhero but through costume design we turned him into an African king.\"\n\nFellow Oscar winner Halle Berry was one of the first to congratulate her.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nJay Hart was responsible for set decoration and Hannah Beachler did production design\n\nMeanwhile, Beachler - who has previously worked on Moonlight, Creed and Beyonce's Lemonade - paid tribute to Black Panther director Ryan Coogler.\n\n\"I stand here stronger than I was yesterday,\" she told the ceremony.\n\n\"I stand here with agency and self-worth because of Ryan Coogler, who not only made me a better designer, a better storyteller, a better person.\n\n\"I stand here because of this man who gave me a different perspective of life, who offered me a safe space, who's patient and gave me air, humanity and brotherhood.\n\n\"Thank you Ryan I love you.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The 61-year-old actor has been nominated for his role in Will You Ever Forgive Me, but believes Green Book star and Bafta winner Mahershala Ali will beat him to the award.\n\nGrant, who will be seen later this year in the new Star Wars movie, says he has been \"really enjoying the ride\" of the Oscar race.", "The 2018 Oscars directly addressed the #MeToo movement against sexual assault, misconduct and inequality in Hollywood and beyond.\n\nMany believed the culture had shifted dramatically and that a record number of female filmmakers would emerge from the movement.", "The UK Parliament is set to pass new rules classifying Hezbollah as a terrorist group.\n\nParts of the Lebanese organisation have been proscribed since 2001, with its military wing banned since 2008.\n\nUK authorities say they are no longer able to distinguish between the group's military and political wings.\n\nThe changes are expected to take force from Friday, after which supporting Hezbollah will be an offence carrying a sentence of up to 10 years in prison.\n\nHezbollah - translated as the Party of God - is a Shia Islamist political, military and social organisation that wields considerable power in Lebanon.\n\nHome Secretary Sajid Javid said he had decided to proscribe the group in its entirety because Hezbollah was \"continuing in its attempts to destabilise the fragile situation in the Middle East\".\n\nThe group, which is backed by Iran, has sent thousands of its fighters to Syria to support forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad in battles against predominantly Sunni Muslim rebel forces and the jihadist Islamic State group.\n\nLast month, Hezbollah was awarded three cabinet posts in the newly-formed Lebanese cabinet after it made gains, alongside its allies, in the 2018 parliamentary elections.\n\nForeign Secretary Jeremy Hunt echoed Mr Javid's comments, adding that the government could not be complacent about terrorism.\n\n\"It is clear the distinction between Hezbollah's military and political wings does not exist, and by proscribing Hezbollah in all its forms, the government is sending a clear signal that its destabilising activities in the region are totally unacceptable and detrimental to the UK's national security,\" he said.\n\nMr Javid's Israeli counterpart Gilad Erdan welcomed the decision on Twitter and called on the EU to follow suit.\n\nHezbollah was formed as a resistance movement during the Israeli occupation of southern Lebanon in the early 1980s.\n\nThe militant group's capture of two Israeli soldiers in a cross-border attack led to a month-long war with Israel in 2006.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn addition to Hezbollah, the draft order also proscribes Ansaroul Islam and Jamaat Nusrat al-Islam Wal-Muslimin (JNIM) as terrorist organisations.\n\nAnsaroul Islam and JNIM are militant Islamist groups active in West Africa - both have claimed responsibility for attacks in the region.\n\nThe order - which is expected to be approved by Parliament - will become active from Friday and will put Britain in line with other countries including the US.", "Security forces cordoned off the plane when it landed in Chittagong\n\nA passenger suspected of attempting to hijack a flight from Bangladesh to Dubai has been shot dead by Bangladeshi special forces, local media report.\n\nThe suspect, who reportedly warned he had a pistol, was killed when security forces stormed the plane after it made an emergency landing in Chittagong.\n\nAll 148 passengers and crew on board the Biman Bangladesh Airlines Flight BG147 disembarked safely.\n\nIt is not yet clear why the suspect may have attempted to hijack the plane.\n\nArmy officials said the man, believed to be aged 25, was initially wounded when shots were fired on Sunday but died shortly afterwards, AFP news agency reports.\n\n\"We tried to arrest him or get him to surrender but he refused and then we shot him,\" Maj Gen Motiur Rahman told reporters.\n\n\"He is a Bangladeshi. We found a pistol from him and nothing else,\" he added.\n\nEarlier reports suggested that the suspect may have been mentally ill and had demanded to speak with Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who was visiting the coastal city of Chittagong.\n\nStaff on board the flight raised concerns after the man was said to have been acting suspiciously and indicating intent to hijack the plane, Reuters news agency reports, quoting airline officials.\n\nThe aircraft was immediately cordoned off when it landed at the Shah Amanat International airport in Chittagong as officers attempted to talk to the suspect.\n\nImages posted on social media showed crowds of people on the tarmac at the airport with the Boeing 737-800 aircraft visible in the background.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe flight was originally scheduled to arrive in Dubai on Sunday evening after departing from Dhaka.", "Until the last couple of categories, everything was ticking along as expected at this year's Oscars.\n\nBut the gasp of surprise at Olivia Colman beating Glenn Close to best actress was eclipsed only by an even bigger gasp of surprise a few minutes later, when Green Book beat Roma to best picture.\n\nAlfonso Cuaron's subtitled, two-and-a-half-hour long black and white film was largely expected to go home with the night's top award.\n\nIt's possible it lost out because it was a Netflix movie - the Academy may have been reluctant to set the precedent of a streaming service winning the top prize in film.\n\nSnubs and surprises aside, here are a few things we learned from this year's Oscars.\n\n1. We Will, We Will, Open The Show Since You Guys Don't Have A Host\n\nThe ceremony got off to a strong start as singer Adam Lambert took to the stage with Brian May and Roger Taylor.\n\nThey performed Queen's We Will Rock You and We Are The Champions as Emma Stone, Lady Gaga, Sam Rockwell and many more were seen rocking out in the audience.\n\n\"Welcome to the Oscars!\" shouted Lambert from the stage, a greeting normally reserved for the host. In the absence of one, it was the perfect way to win over the audience both at home and in the Dolby Theatre.\n\nIt turned out to be especially fitting as Bohemian Rhapsody, the biopic of the band, ended up going home with four trophies - the most of any film on the night.\n\nTina Fey and Amy Poehler were widely praised during their three years fronting the Golden Globes for adding some much needed sarcasm and cynicism to awards season, which can often feel pretentious and self-important.\n\nWhen Kevin Hart dropped out of hosting the Oscars in December, many suggested the pair would be a good choice to present instead.\n\nClearly, the Academy was listening.\n\nAlong with their Saturday Night Live co-star Maya Rudolph, Fey and Poehler were enlisted to present the first category of the night, effectively giving them the role of performing traditional opening monologue. Their jokes included:\n\nAll eyes were on Lady Gaga as she took to the stage halfway through the ceremony, kindly bringing her co-star Bradley Cooper with her for a live performance of Shallow, their duet from A Star Is Born.\n\nWith Cooper snubbed in the best director category and an outsider for best actor, this was a rare opportunity in the night for him to stretch his legs.\n\nGaga was back on stage later in the evening to accept the Oscar for best song, alongside Mark Ronson, Anthony Rossomando and Andrew Wyatt.\n\nSpeaking backstage, Gaga said: \"For this film, there were many songs written, but there was one song that was written with true, true friends of mine, who know everything about me, the ups and the downs.\"\n\nAsked to expand on the struggles she's had to overcome on her journey to Oscar glory, Gaga replied: \"I was so determined to live my dreams, and yet there was so much in the way.\n\n\"There were so many things I did not anticipate, that broke me, that tortured me, that traumatised me. And I think sometimes that people think that it comes easy to us, that we show up, and we have our suits on, and it's all okay.\n\n\"But the truth is this is very, very hard work.\"\n\nBest actress nominee Melissa McCarthy and Atlanta actor Brian Tyree Hill took their hosting duties very seriously indeed.\n\nThe pair delivered a hilariously dry performance while dressed in extremely flamboyant costumes - McCarthy's being a nod to The Favourite - to reflect the award they were about to give out for best costume design.\n\nThey were almost as popular as the winner, Ruth E Carter, who became the first black woman to win the prize in Academy history, for Black Panther.\n\n\"[This win] means we've opened up the door,\" Carter said backstage.\n\n\"I've been struggling, digging deep, mentoring and doing whatever I could to raise others up, and I hope through my example this means there is hope and means other people can come on in and win an Oscar just like I did.\"\n\nBackstage in the press room, best actor winner Rami Malek was quick to acknowledge the bad reviews Bohemian Rhapsody received.\n\nBefore anyone had even asked a question, he said to journalists: \"I don't think, critically, the decision on this film was unanimous, but I do appreciate everything you guys had to write. As a kid, I read criticism of film and I learned a lot from it, so thank you.\"\n\nIf there was ever a way to immediately endear yourself to the press, this was it.\n\n6. Organisers were strict about curbing the speeches\n\nAt the Oscar nominees' luncheon last month, it was announced that speeches would be limited to 90 seconds, to stop the famously over-long ceremony getting even longer.\n\nThe winners of make-up and hairstyling were an early casualty of this rule, which acted as a warning shot to other winners for the rest of the night.\n\nWhen the winning team behind Vice didn't leave the stage as the music started playing, the mics and spotlights were turned off - a not particularly subtle way to get them to stop talking.\n\nClearly worried he might be curbed in the same way, BlackKklansman director Spike Lee opened his acceptance speech for best adapted screenplay by saying: \"Do not turn that clock on!\"\n\nThe Academy was probably feeling more agreeable to his request, with Lee having just provided one of the night's viral moments, as he leapt into Samuel L Jackson's arms upon winning the prize.\n\n7. Olivia Colman will be sleeping with her Oscar\n\nOlivia Colman was the unexpected winner of best actress, an award which had been widely expected to go to Glenn Close.\n\n\"This is hilarious, I've got an Oscar,\" Colman said through tears and genuine surprise, reflecting the reaction of the audience.\n\n\"I could not tell you what I'm feeling. I don't know what to do with myself at the moment,\" Colman added backstage.\n\nHow much of her acceptance speech was prepared?\n\n\"None of it,\" replied Colman - an entirely believable answer, especially as it turned out she forgot to mention two of her fellow nominees.\n\n\"I've just been told I completely forgot Melissa [McCarthy] and Yalitza [Aparicio], but it's not an everyday occurrence, so I don't know how anyone is composed and remembers everything.\"\n\nAsked where she will keep her Oscar, Colman replied: \"In bed with me. Between me and my husband. He doesn't know yet. He won't mind.\"\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.", "One of the Chagos Islands - Diego Garcia - is home to a US military base\n\nThe UK should end its control of the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean \"as rapidly as possible\", the UN's highest court has said.\n\nMauritius claims it was forced to give up the islands - now a British overseas territory - in 1965 in exchange for independence, which it gained in 1968.\n\nThe International Court of Justice said the islands were not lawfully separated from the former colony of Mauritius.\n\nThe UK Foreign Office said: \"This is an advisory opinion, not a judgment.\"\n\nIt added it would look \"carefully\" at the detail of the opinion, which is not legally binding.\n\nThe UK has previously said it will hand the islands back to Mauritius when they are no longer required for defence purposes.\n\nReferencing that, the Foreign Office said: \"The defence facilities on the British Indian Ocean Territory help to protect people here in Britain and around the world from terrorist threats, organised crime and piracy.\"\n\nJudge Abdulqawi Ahmed Yusuf described the UK's administration of the Chagos Islands - located more than 2,000 miles off the east coast of Africa - as \"an unlawful act of continuing character\".\n\nHe added the UK was \"under an obligation to bring an end to its administration of the Chagos Archipelago as rapidly as possible\".\n\nThe UN General Assembly asked the court in February 2017 to offer its opinion in on whether the process had been concluded lawfully.\n\nIt is half a century since the UK took control of the Chagos Islands from its then colony, Mauritius.\n\nThe British government evicted the entire population, before inviting the US to build a military base on Diego Garcia, one of the larger atolls.\n\nMauritius was in the middle of negotiating its independence from the UK at the time and has repeatedly condemned the deal.\n\nA \"blockbuster\" of an opinion from the UN's highest court.\n\nThe judges' assessment was damning. At the heart of it, the right of all people to self-determination as a basic human right, which the UK violated when dismembering its former colony.\n\nThe detachment of the strategically valuable archipelago cannot have been said to be based on free and genuine expression of the will of the people concerned, when one side is under the authority of the other.\n\nAs the ruling power, the responsibility lay with the UK to respect national unity and territory integrity of Mauritius as required under international law.\n\nInstead, it divided the territory - effectively using the process of decolonisation to create a new colony.\n\nAs part of the advisory opinion the judges poignantly pointed out that all UN member states were under obligation to cooperate to complete the decolonisation of Mauritius. This includes, of course, the US, which operates a military base on the largest atoll of Diego Garcia.\n\nSome of those who were forced to leave their homes on the Chagos Islands in the late 1960s hoped they would be allowed to return - and not just on one of the rare visits authorised by the UK.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC last year, Samynaden Rosemond, who left when he was 36, said: \"Back home was paradise.\"\n\nHe and his wife, Daryela, moved to the outskirts of the capital of Mauritius, Port Louis.\n\nChagossians often complain that they are treated as second-class citizens in Mauritius, and they often gather to cook coconut and fish curry and to sing songs about the life they left behind.\n\nMr Rosemond added: \"The British didn't give us a chance. They just said: 'Oh, this is not yours anymore.'\n\n\"If I die here my spirit will be everywhere - it wouldn't be happy. But if I die there I will be in peace.\"\n\nSeveral Chagossians gathered at the Chagos Refugee Group's centre to follow live the session of the International Court of Justice in The Hague.\n\nIt was in an explosion of joy that the news was celebrated by both them and their descendants in Pointe aux Sables - a suburb of the Mauritian capital, Port Louis.\n\nThe leader of the Chagos Refugees Group, Olivier Bancoult, said it was a historic day.\n\n\"I dedicate this victory to the entire Chagossian community that is scattered in several countries around the world,\" he said.\n\n\"It is a great victory as all the time we wanted to go gather on the graves of our families that we lost there [on the Chagos Archipelago]\".\n\nMauritian Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth said the UK had always emphasised respect for international laws and, as such, expected the country, with which Mauritius has excellent relations, to respect the judges' opinion.", "Soldiers - including those who see active combat - often report symptoms of mental illness including PTSD\n\nUK military personnel, veterans and their families are being \"completely failed\" when they need mental health care, a committee of MPs has said.\n\nIn a report, they said it was a \"scandal\" that a \"shamefully small\" part of the UK's health budget was spent on support for veterans.\n\nThe NHS and Ministry of Defence should create a specialist mental health centre those in need, the report said.\n\nThe government said it spends millions on armed forces' mental health care.\n\nThe recommendations come from the House of Commons Defence Committee - a group of MPs who have been carrying out an inquiry into the issue.\n\nTheir report, part two of the inquiry, says that despite improvements, \"there is no doubt that some serving personnel, veterans and their families who need mental health care are still being completely failed by the system.\"\n\n\"With specific mental health care provision for armed forces families also non-existent, it is no surprise that many veterans and their families believe that they have been abandoned,\" the committee added.\n\nIt found many servicemen and women often do not seek help because of the stigma around mental health problems and the fear of damaging their career.\n\nAnd the quality of care given to servicemen and women is a postcode lottery - with \"unacceptable variation\" across the UK.\n\nOut of an NHS budget of more than £150bn, less than £10m a year (0.007%) was spent on mental health services specifically for veterans, the committee found.\n\nIt said demand was \"swamping\" the capacity with some individuals being forced to wait up to a year for treatment.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Former soldier Johnny talks about his PTSD\n\nThe MPs recommended that a \"world-class centre for the treatment of mental injuries\" should be set up within the next 12 to 18 months, where veterans can go as soon as they are diagnosed.\n\nThey suggest it could be located at the Defence and National Rehabilitation Centre at Stanford Hall in Leicestershire. The NHS in England should consult with the MoD to set it up, the MPs said.\n\nAnd the MoD must also review the help which is available for the families of armed forces personnel and veterans, the report added, as they can also be affected by military life.\n\nRuth Smeeth MP, who chairs the defence committee, said the MPs acknowledged the work being done by the MoD and UK health departments, \"but it is simply nowhere near enough\".\n\nShe said: \"Fundamental issues still clearly exist, with scandalously little funding allocated to veteran-specific services, and it is unacceptable that veterans and their families should feel abandoned by the state as a result.\n\n\"It is vital that veterans get the quality of care they need when they need it, no matter where they live, supported by a world-class national centre.\"\n\nThe chair of the British Medical Association council, Dr Chaand Nagpaul, said the situation as it stands was \"completely untenable\", and welcomed the creation of a specialist mental health facility.\n\nA spokeswoman for the government said NHS England was committed to providing mental health care around the country so anyone can access help as close to home as possible.\n\n\"This includes bespoke services for veterans, which have been supported by an extra £10m as part of the NHS long term plan,\" she said.\n\n\"At the same time, the MoD has increased spending on mental health support for those serving in the armed forces to £22m a year, and is working to tackle the stigma around asking for help throughout the military community.\"", "Referrals to the Tavistock Centre have risen by 400% in five years\n\nEngland's only NHS youth gender clinic is too quick to give children and young people gender reassignment treatment, a former governor has said.\n\nPsychoanalyst Dr Marcus Evans, who resigned last week, told the BBC's Today programme he had been concerned about clinicians searching for \"quick solutions\".\n\n\"This is the opposite of what needs to be done,\" he said.\n\nA director of the Tavistock Centre rejected his claims.\n\nDr Evans resigned from his post as one of the governors of the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust last week following an internal report that branded the Tavistock Centre \"not fit for purpose\".\n\nOn Monday, he told Today: \"Adolescence and childhood is a time when people are developing socially and biologically - a time when young people are identifying with different groups, and with male and female aspects of themselves.\n\n\"There is pressure from the child who is in a distressed state, there is pressure from the family and the peer group and from the pro-trans lobbies - and all of this puts pressure on the clinician who may want to help the individual to resolve their distressed state by going along with a quick solution.\n\n\"There is a lot at stake here as these decisions have far reaching consequences.\"\n\nDr Evans called for more external oversight of the Tavistock Clinic.\n\nOver the past five years, the number of children referred to the Tavistock Centre has risen from 468 to 2,519 a year, a rise of more than 400%.\n\nAnd Dr Polly Carmichael, director of the Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) at the Tavistock, accepted the centre was under pressure.\n\nBut she said: \"The service has really long assessments over periods of time, with the specific aim of allowing young people to think about what is right for them.\n\n\"We've been under pressure for years from people that think we should go faster and now a more critical voice has emerged.\"\n\nThe centre now plans to use a recent research grant to study outcomes for all patients, whether they are prescribed medication or not.\n\nThe Department of Health says it has no plans to introduce an independent regulator.", "Lady Gaga has been an absolute gift this awards season, brightening up the race as only she can.\n\nAll eyes were on her as she took to the stage halfway through the ceremony, kindly bringing her co-star Bradley Cooper with her for a live performance of Shallow, their duet from A Star Is Born.\n\nWith Cooper snubbed in the best director category and an outsider in the best actor category, this was a rare opportunity in the night for him to stretch his legs.\n\nGaga was back on stage later in the evening to accept the Oscar for best song.\n\n\"Thank you to every single person in this room. Bradley, there is not a single person on the planet who could've sung this song with me but you, thank you for believing in us.\"\n\nShe added: \"I've worked hard for a long time, It's not about winning, what it's about is not giving up, if you have a dream, fight for it.\"\n\nSpeaking backstage, Gaga said: \"For this film, there were many songs written, but there was one song that was written with true, true friends of mine, who know everything about me, the ups and the downs.\"\n\nShe accepted the prize alongside her three co-writers, Andrew Wyatt, Anthony Rossomando, and Mark Ronson. Cooper did not technically win this prize either as he isn't credited as a writer on the song.\n\nAsked to expand on the struggles she's had to overcome on her journey to Oscar glory, Gaga replies: \"I was so determined to live my dreams, and yet there was so much in the way.\n\n\"There were so many things I did not anticipate, that broke me, that tortured me, that traumatised me. And I think sometimes that people think that it comes easy to us, that we show up, and we have our suits on, and it's all okay.\n\n\"But the truth is this is very, very hard work.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why is it difficult to know exactly how many people sleep rough?\n\nDeaths of homeless people were nine times higher in deprived areas of England than in the least disadvantaged areas, analysis of data has shown.\n\nThere were an estimated 21 deaths in Manchester, 18 in Birmingham, 17 each in Bristol, Lambeth and Liverpool and 15 in Camden in 2017.\n\nAbout 2,627 homeless people died in England and Wales from 2013 to 2017.\n\nDeaths were recorded in 156 local authority areas in 2017, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said.\n\nWhen weighted by population, the 11 deaths estimated in Blackburn with Darwen gave the area the highest rate.\n\nHousing charity Shelter said the figures were a \"wake-up call\".\n\nChief executive Polly Neate said: \"There is nothing inevitable about people dying homeless, it is a direct consequence of a broken housing system.\"\n\nJon Sparkes, chief executive of Crisis, said councils needed \"appropriate funding to conduct reviews into the death of every person who has died while homeless, to prevent more people from dying needlessly\".\n\nThe breakdown followed the release of figures for England and Wales in December, with an estimate of 574 homeless deaths in urban areas in 2017, compared with 26 in rural areas.\n\nAnalysis of confirmed deaths in England over five years showed almost a quarter were in the 10% of areas officially ranked as the most deprived.\n\nThe ONS said: \"The rate of deaths per 100,000 population in the most deprived tenth of local areas in England was 9.2 times that of the least deprived tenth.\n\n\"For Wales, the rate of deaths per 100,000 population in the most deprived tenth of local areas was 3.4 times that of the least deprived tenth.\"\n\nThe ONS included people sleeping rough or using emergency accommodation, such as homeless shelters and hostels, at or around the time of death.\n\nBen Humberstone, head of health analysis for the ONS, said: \"The figures show that the deprivation level of an area has a real impact. Many more people die homeless in the most deprived areas of England and Wales and 95% of the deaths are in urban areas rather than rural areas.\"\n\nSayyed Osman, Blackburn with Darwen Council's director of adults and prevention, said: \"The issues here are complex and made worse by the fact we have a disproportionate amount of hostels which people from out of our borough are coming to use which in turn puts further pressure on limited resource and services.\n\n\"These are major issues affecting towns and cities across the country and there are no quick or easy solutions and this is certainly not something that the council can deal with in isolation.\"\n\nThe number of people counted or estimated to be sleeping rough in England fell slightly in 2018 for the first time in eight years.\n\nThe government said it was investing £1.2bn to tackle homelessness.\n\nCommunities secretary James Brokenshire said: \"Councils have used this funding to create an additional 1,750 beds and 500 rough sleeping support staff - and figures published last month show this investment is already starting to have an effect.\n\n\"I am also committed to ensuring independent reviews into the deaths of rough sleepers are conducted, where appropriate, so that important lessons are learned - and I will be holding local authorities to account in doing just that.\"\n• None More than 4,600 sleeping on streets\n• None Homeless deaths 'up 24%' over five years\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA controversial cartoon of Serena Williams published in an Australian newspaper last year did not breach media standards, a press watchdog says.\n\nThe cartoon depicted Williams jumping above a broken racquet next to a baby's dummy in the US Open final.\n\nCritics complained that the caricature used racist and sexist stereotypes of African-American people.\n\nThe Australian Press Council noted that some had found the image \"offensive\", but accepted the publisher's defence.\n\nWilliams sparked controversy during her loss to Naomi Osaka in September for her on-court behaviour where she accused the umpire of sexism and being a \"thief\".\n\nThe Herald Sun newspaper and cartoonist Mark Knight have consistently called their depiction a comment on Williams's behaviour, denying it was racist or sexist.\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 damon johnston This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe press watchdog said the newspaper had \"sufficient public interest in commenting on behaviour and sportsmanship\".\n\nThe cartoon went viral in September, drawing criticism globally. The National Association of Black Journalists in the US denounced it as \"repugnant on many levels\".\n\nPublic complaints centred around the portrayal of Williams with \"large lips, a broad flat nose... and [being] positioned in an ape-like pose\", said the watchdog.\n\nThis contrasted with the depiction of Osaka, whose father is Haitian and mother Japanese, \"as white with blonde hair\".\n\nHowever, the watchdog ruled that the cartoon did \"not depict Ms Williams as an ape, rather showing her as 'spitting the dummy', a non-racist caricature familiar to most Australian readers\".\n\nSpitting the dummy is an Australian colloquialism for someone who reacts to a situation in a bad-tempered or petulant manner.\n\nKnight told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation he was \"very happy\" about the watchdog's ruling.\n\nThe Australian Press Council is the chief watchdog for complaints about Australian media, but does not have the power to issue or enforce penalties.", "Howard X says officials have told him that his visa is \"invalid\", but has received no explanation as to why\n\nA Kim Jong-un impersonator has been deported from Vietnam ahead of the real North Korean leader's meeting with US President Trump in Hanoi this week.\n\nThe two were later held for questioning by Vietnamese police and told to cease all their political jesting.\n\nHoward X says officials have since told him his visa is \"invalid\", but says he has received no further explanation.\n\n\"Satire is a powerful weapon against any dictatorship. They are scared of a couple of guys that look like the real thing,\" Howard X, who was wearing a black suit and thick black glasses in the style of Kim Jong-un, told reporters.\n\nHe and Mr White took part in a faux summit in Vietnam's capital, Hanoi, telling reporters they intended to scale down North Korea's nuclear ambitions.\n\nThis Facebook post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Facebook The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts. Skip facebook post by Kim Jong \"UM\" \"Howard\" Kim Jong Un 김정은 Lookalike/Impersonator A貨金正恩 冒牌金正恩 This article contains content provided by Facebook. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Facebook 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. Facebook content may contain adverts.\n\n\"We're working toward peace. Through negotiations, with dialogue, we want to help North Korea of course,\" Canada-born Mr White told reporters at the time, dressed as Donald Trump.\n\n\"Hopefully he can overlook all my nuclear missiles and lift the sanctions,\" answered Howard X, a full-time impressionist who visited Singapore ahead of the first US-North Korea summit last year.\n\nThe men were later detained by police whilst giving an interview to a local TV station.\n\nVietnamese police told the pair to stop their impersonations and said they could only travel around the city with an approved itinerary and escort, AFP news agency reports.\n\n\"The real reason is I was born with a face looking like Kim Jong-un, that's the real crime,\" said Howard X.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Howard and a Donald Trump impersonator go hand in hand in Singapore\n\nHe added he believed he was being deported because the North Korean leader had \"no sense of humour\".\n\nThe Kim lookalike took part in similar satirical stunts during the first US-North Korea summit in Singapore last year.\n\nHe was also escorted away by security at the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea after dancing in front of North Korea's cheerleading squad.\n\nPresident Trump and Kim Jong-un are due to meet in Hanoi on 27-28 February for talks expected to focus on persuading North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons programme.\n\nTheir first summit in Singapore last June generated significant coverage and optimism, but delivered very few concrete developments.\n\nBoth sides said they were committed to denuclearisation, but gave no details of how this would be carried out or verified.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Kelly has faced, and denied, accusations about abuse for decade\n\nR. Kelly has pleaded not guilty to 10 charges of aggravated criminal sexual abuse against four women, three of whom were minors at the time.\n\nHis lawyer entered the plea for the R&B star, who appeared in the Chicago court dressed in an orange jumpsuit.\n\nThe 52-year-old turned himself in to authorities on Friday after an arrest warrant was issued.\n\nHe has faced decades of sexual abuse claims without being convicted, and has denied all previous allegations.\n\nHis court appearance and plea comes weeks after the documentary series Surviving R. Kelly aired. It contained allegations of abuse from many women including the star's former wife.\n\nHe is being tried for sexual assaults alleged to have happened since 1998. He met one of the four women at a restaurant on her 16th birthday, and another - who was also 16 - when she asked for his autograph.\n\nThe court ordered the singer, whose real name is Robert Sylvester Kelly, to surrender his passport and to have no contact with anyone under the age of 18.\n\nHe has reportedly struggled to pay the $100,000 bail payment required to leave Cook County Jail.\n\nLater on Monday, high-profile attorney Gloria Allred said in a news conference that she is now representing more than six women who allege the singer abused them.\n\nR. Kelly is next scheduled to appear in court on 22 March.", "Siblings Michelle Sealey and Paul Anthony Bridgewater say they have become \"like a family\" with others who lost loved ones in the bombings\n\nA brother and sister whose father was among the victims of the Birmingham pub bombings say they are hoping for \"the truth\" from the resumed inquests.\n\nTwo bombs ripped through the Mulberry Bush and Tavern in the Town pubs on 21 November 1974, killing 21 and injuring 220.\n\nA jury was sworn in earlier as the inquests reopened after a long fight by families.\n\nPaul Anthony Bridgewater and Michelle Sealey are among relatives attending.\n\nMr Bridgewater, whose father Paul Anthony Davies died in the bombings, said: \"The coroner has ruled out a lot of things but we want the truth really.\n\n\"We want the truth and we want to know what happened back then. It's been too long and there's that many theories out there and unanswered questions as well.\"\n\nMichelle Sealey, whose father Paul was killed, and Julie Hambleton, whose sister Maxine died, are among family members at the hearings\n\nCoroner Sir Peter Thornton said the jury of six women and five men had an \"important civic duty\" as he adjourned the inquests until Tuesday.\n\nThe individual inquests could last up to six weeks, the coroner said. The jury will return verdicts on how all victims died.\n\nSir Peter said the inquests would not deal with the issue of who planted the bombs, adding that was a \"task of police, prosecutors and the criminal courts\".\n\nHe said although a single hearing, lasting up to six weeks, the inquests would deal with \"21 separate people, 21 separate lives lost from two terrible events\".\n\nTwenty-one people died when two bombs were detonated in Birmingham in 1974\n\nJurors, sitting at Birmingham Civil Justice Centre, were told they would hear evidence from only a few eyewitnesses because some were \"no longer alive\".\n\nSir Peter added: \"They will be doing their best to recollect events accurately, but we all know memory will sometimes have gaps.\"\n\nHe said there would be details of the so-called \"forewarning issue\", and evidence the British authorities may have received information signalling the attacks, including an alleged tip-off concerning a \"possible conversation in a local prison nearly two weeks before\".\n\nJurors would also hear an account of \"evidence of a students' visit to a police station the evening of the bombings, which was cancelled\", Sir Peter said.\n\nCoroner Sir Peter Thornton QC arrives for the start of hearings at Birmingham Civil and Family Justice Centre\n\nThe families of the victims have fought for years to have inquests reopened\n\nMr Bridgewater said the loved ones of victims had formed close bonds.\n\nHe said: \"We are a like a close-knit family and that's what bonds us and keeps us strong.\"\n\nHis sister Ms Sealey added: \"It's the knockbacks that make you want to push forward even more because there is something there that we need to find out.\"\n\nInquests were opened days after the bombings but adjourned because the case was subject to a criminal investigation.\n\nThe Birmingham Six were jailed for the murders and served 17 years behind bars before their convictions were quashed.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sheila's son Stephen Whalley died in the bombing - she wants to know who was responsible\n\nDespite the subsequent overturning of the verdicts, the inquests were never reopened.\n\nFresh inquests were ordered in 2016 but delayed because victims' families disagreed with the coroner, who ruled out naming those suspected of carrying out the bombings.\n\nBut the Court of Appeal in September upheld the coroner's decision.\n\nGeorge Jones (left) and Paul Bodman, who both lost their fathers, said the scope of the inquests was too narrow\n\nGeorge Jones, who lost his father John Clifford Jones, told the BBC he hoped the remit of the inquests would have been broader.\n\n\"It's an opportunity to answer a lot of questions but my own feelings and those of most of us is those avenues have been cut off by the coroner's decision of narrowing the scope,\" he said.\n\nPaul Bodman, whose father Stanley died, described the hearings as \"a tick-box exercise\".\n\n\"It's a stepping stone to see what we can get from this inquest and perhaps we can take it further,\" he said.\n\nHearings will continue on Tuesday and Wednesday with pen portraits of each of the victims, while on Thursday, the jurors will be taken to the former sites of the pubs.\n\nSir Peter is due to give his closing address on 28 March before the jury's deliberations start the next day.\n\nThese attacks on Birmingham happened more than four decades ago - and still the families of those killed have many unanswered questions.\n\nSome of them have fought with every ounce of their energy to have the inquests into the bombings reopened to try and establish some of the detail that has been missing.\n\nToday, the coroner will begin that process of attempting to fill some of the gaps - but will it be enough?\n\nAlready the scope of the inquests has been narrowed - and the crucial perpetrator issue will not be addressed so the families will not discover who was behind the killings.\n\nSo what will they learn over these weeks - and will it add anything new to what they already know, even though it may not be in the public domain?\n\nThe answer to the latter will assess the effectiveness of the process in their eyes.\n\nHowever, for the coroner and the courts, much sought after inquests taking place in the first place is likely to be viewed as a triumph.\n\nTen people died in the first blast at the Mulberry Bush, below the Rotunda building\n\nAmendment 14 March 2019: This story has been updated to reflect the most recent information that 220 people were injured in the blasts.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Regina King's best supporting actress award was her first Oscar win\n\nThis year's Academy Awards have been handed out in Los Angeles - here's a complete list of all the winning and nominated stars and films.\n\nSpike Lee won an Oscar for best adapted screenplay for BlacKkKlansman while Mahershala Ali celebrated his second win for best supporting actor in Green Book\n\nRuth E Carter, winner of best costume design for Black Panther, holding her new favourite accessory\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\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Border Force operation could be seen from St Margaret's Bay\n\nA family of seven were found by police after an empty dinghy was spotted drifting off the coast of Kent, the Home Office has said.\n\nThe group - a mother, father and five children - have been transferred to immigration officials for interview.\n\nThe Home Office said the boat, seen off the coast at Kingsdown at about 04:20 GMT, was recovered a mile offshore.\n\nFour lifeboats were launched and the Coastguard helicopter was scrambled in an effort to locate it.\n\nThe Border Force was \"confident\" the vessel had been used for a migrant crossing, the Home Office said.\n\n\"Today Border Force responded to an incident in Kingsdown, Kent, following reports of a boat in the Channel.\n\n\"Since the home secretary declared a major incident in December we have tripled the number of cutters operating in the Channel, agreed a joint action plan with France and increased activity out of the Joint Co-ordination and Information Centre in Calais.\"\n\nThe Home Office said the number of people trying to cross the Channel fell from about 250 in December to about 90 last month, adding that roughly half of the January attempts were intercepted in France before they could make it to British waters.\n\nHM Coastguard said earlier that it helped Border Force officials in the search.\n\nThe RNLI said an earlier report that a migrant had walked into Walmer lifeboat station was mistaken.\n\nA Border Force vessel was seen returning to Folkestone\n\nOn 18 February, 34 people - including men, women and children - were brought to shore at Dover from a small boat discovered in the Channel.\n\nAt least 91 people have made the 21-mile journey between France and England in small boats this year.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nHave you ever seen anything like it?\n\nA player refusing to go off - and his manager losing the plot.\n\nChelsea goalkeeper Kepa Arrizabalaga resisted Maurizio Sarri's attempt to substitute him late in extra time of the Carabao Cup final, which left his manager seething on the touchline.\n\nKepa had just been treated for cramp and, with the game at 0-0, Sarri was preparing to bring on reserve keeper Willy Caballero in his place before a penalty shootout.\n\nBut after some furious finger-wagging and screams of \"NO!\", Sarri was forced to give in.\n\nReferee Jonathan Moss ran over to confirm whether Kepa was going off or not and Sarri, begrudgingly, backed down and then stormed off down the tunnel before quickly returning, leaving Caballero a bemused spectator.\n• None 'This was a painful, public indignity' - has Sarri been fatally undermined?\n\nKepa went on to save Leroy Sane's spot-kick - prompting a fist pump from Sarri - but Raheem Sterling netted the winning penalty as Manchester City won the shootout 4-3 to lift the Carabao Cup for a second year in a row.\n\nSarri didn't react at full-time and went straight off the pitch, while his players looked dejected in defeat.\n\nFormer Blues striker Chris Sutton described the scenes as \"mutiny at Chelsea\" and said Kepa \"should never play for the club again\".\n\nThe incident comes after weeks of speculation surrounding Sarri's position as manager and concerns over his style of play, the so-called \"Sarri-ball\".\n\n\"That should be his last performance in a Chelsea shirt,\" Sutton told BBC Radio 5 live. \"He's a disgrace. I've never seen anything like it.\n\n\"If I was Sarri I would walk. You cannot be undermined. Why weren't the players dragging Kepa off anyway?\n\n\"Kepa should be sacked, not Sarri. He's been undermined - it's the worst thing that can happen to a manager.\"\n\nFormer England and Tottenham midfielder Jermaine Jenas said it is clear \"there's a lack of respect\" for the manager, but said Sarri showed \"a lack of class\" by storming off the pitch following defeat.\n\n\"His players have done him proud today,\" Jenas told BBC Radio 5 live. \"They are an inferior team to Manchester City now and they took them all the way. For him not to be congratulating the opposition or consoling his players shows a lack of class for me.\n\n\"The fact he went inside and was not out there with his players is one thing, but it has to be infuriating for one of your players to categorically tell you to 'do one' and say I'm staying on this pitch.\n\n\"This is a huge blemish. It all boils down to what is going on between Sarri and his players. That does not happen - there's a lack of respect somewhere along the line.\"\n\nHow you reacted on social media\n\nTony: What? Kepa on the transfer market tomorrow I think.\n\nCraig: Chelsea keeper has zero respect for the manager! Don't care who you are, if he wants you off he wants you off.\n\nJonathan: Sounds like Sarri has lost the dressing room, the bench and his mind.\n\nRobert: Disgusting! Kepa has just publicly embarrassed Sarri in front of everyone. Total disgrace.\n\nCallum: I'm with Kepa there I don't think he should come off, he's played the full game so confidence is high, I don't agree with goalkeepers being subbed for penalty shootouts no matter how good they have been.\n\nWill: It doesn't matter whether Kepa could continue or not, the manager made a decision to take him off and that should be the end of that. You can't refuse to work for your boss in any other line of work, why should football be any different?\n\nRob: Chelsea is broken from top to bottom. Player power has dominated that club for years. If Sarri leaves I would respect him so much.\n\nJames: Player power over everyone else at a club has been building slowly for the past few years. This is a pivotal moment for the way football clubs are run.", "This video can not be played\n\nTo play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "All smiles? As the clock ran down, speculation was rife about a Brexit delay\n\nDetermined to appear positive, Jean-Claude Juncker's spokeswoman described the European Commission President's latest meeting with Theresa May as \"constructive\". He said \"good progress\" was made.\n\nThat's the same Jean-Claude Juncker who just a few days ago complained of Brexit fatigue, and said no agreement on a revised Brexit deal was on the horizon. So what changed?\n\nIn short, nothing. Not on the EU side, anyway. But as we know, the EU wants to avoid a no-deal Brexit. It wants a deal by 29 March so that it can move on with other EU business and towards new talks with the UK on a post Brexit trade deal.\n\nHence the bouncier, sunnier words from the Juncker camp. Remember that, despite rising mistrust and frustration, EU leaders are on the same side as Theresa May in wanting to get the Withdrawal Agreement passed through parliament.\n\nBut the chasm between Downing Street and Brussels remains deep when it comes to the backstop – the workaround to avoid a hard border on the island of Ireland after Brexit.\n\nOn the sidelines of the EU-League of Arab States summit this weekend, Mrs May has been busy reminding Europe's leaders that she needs a fixed end date to the backstop or a unilateral get-out mechanism for the UK, in order to persuade sceptical MPs that the UK won't get stuck indefinitely in a customs arrangement with the EU.\n\nShe also wants the EU to commit to finding – or accepting – alternatives to the backstop, such as sophisticated border technology.\n\nCue weary, grumpy EU leaders sighing behind their hands. They know the drill. They know the prime minister's script. They are not budging from theirs.\n\nEU leaders say they won't change the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement – which contains the backstop text, and which Theresa May and her cabinet signed off on in November. A fixed end date or unilateral get-out mechanism would definitely mean changes.\n\nWhat the EU is open to \"24/7\", as I'm constantly told, is agreeing a legally binding text of assurances about the backstop - as long as said text involves assurances only, no changes.\n\nBrussels is waiting to hear from the UK Attorney General, Geoffrey Cox, who is working on a document. But now that Theresa May has delayed a meaningful vote on the Brexit deal until anytime up until 12 March, EU leaders wonder when Mr Cox's text might actually materialise.\n\nDowning Street fears that as soon as pen has hit paper and exchanged hands, the document could be leaked and potentially savaged in the UK media before there's even a chance for EU leaders to approve or discuss it.\n\nFor example, if the attorney general were to come up with an end date to the backstop that in reality wasn't one, say, a maximum five-year backstop after which time there would be an investigation and a process – then, in the words of one of my diplomatic contacts:\n\n\"The European Research Group and arch-Brexiteers aren't fools. They'll see the legal veil of words for what it is.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rutte: 'Wake up and close the Brexit deal'\n\nEU leaders are acutely aware that the criteria they will find acceptable in the legally binding document may make it unacceptable to the Brexiteers - because it would not go \"far enough\" on the backstop.\n\nAnd Brussels has told Mrs May that the EU will not move on the Brexit deal until she can persuade them that she will have a solid majority of MPs behind her. European Council President Donald Tusk said on Monday it was \"absolutely clear\" that Mrs May did not have the parliamentary majority required to give that guarantee.\n\nWhich takes us back to the possibility of the Brexit process going right down to the wire.\n\nEU diplomats and politicians have repeatedly described to me what they view as the prime minister's three-way blackmail gamble - where Labour and the EU are faced with a no-deal Brexit and Brexiteers with the possibility of no Brexit at all.\n\n\"All she needs is for one of us to blink,\" said one European politician, \"and then she has her deal. Probably.\"\n\n\"But it's a high-risk strategy,\" he added, \"as businesses and civilians are beginning to very much sense.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What happens in the event of no deal?\n\nAnd would the EU blink, in the end, if 29 March were nigh with no deal in sight? Would leaders budge more than they've so far indicated? As I've written before, the answer is: no-one knows.\n\nOnly the EU leaders in the room at their summit on 21 March can decide. Maybe they'll hold an emergency Brexit summit even later in March. Nothing at the moment is clear.\n\n\"If we're really at that stage by then, with no confirmed extension of this process in sight, then a fixed end date of 2025 might be possible,\" said a well-placed European source. \"After all, if we don't manage to get a trade deal sorted with the UK in all the years in between, then the backstop will hardly be our only concern.\"", "The \"beast from the east\" blanketed the country in 2018.\n\nOne year later, those same ski resorts have been left without any snow.", "Mr Sakurada, who was appointed to his post last year, has had to repeatedly apologise over a series of gaffes\n\nJapan's Olympics Minister, Yoshitaka Sakurada, has publicly apologised after arriving three minutes late to a parliamentary meeting on Thursday.\n\nOpposition MPs said his tardiness showed disrespect for his office and boycotted a meeting of the budget committee for five hours in protest.\n\nThey have been highly critical of Mr Sakurada after a series of gaffes.\n\nLast week, he said he felt let down after Olympic swimming hopeful Rikako Ikee was diagnosed with leukaemia.\n\n\"She is a potential gold medallist [at the Tokyo 2020 Games], an athlete in whom we have great expectations. I'm really disappointed,\" he was quoted as saying. He was then forced to apologise after being criticised.\n\nIn 2016, he also came under fire for describing so-called comfort women forced to provide sexual services to Japanese war-time troops as \"professional prostitutes\".\n\nAnd last year, Mr Sakurada, who is also the cyber-security minister, said he had never used a computer, adding he had always delegated the work to his subordinates.\n\nThe opposition has repeatedly called for his resignation.\n\nWhile it is not considered an egregious cultural faux pas to arrive late at meetings in Japan, this latest incident has been picked up by members of the opposition eager to highlight what they see as Mr Sakurada's failings.\n\nIn a poll asking whether Mr Sakurada was suitable for the job, 65% of respondents said he was not, while 13% said he was, according to figures released by the Asahi Shimbun newspaper earlier this week.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How late is too late? We asked BBC staff from around the world about time-keeping in their home countries\n\nMr Sakurada was appointed to his post in October last year.\n\nHis duties include overseeing cyber-defence preparations for the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo.", "Shamima Begum was 15 and living in Bethnal Green, London, when she left the UK in 2015\n\nShamima Begum's sister Renu has written a letter to Home Secretary Sajid Javid, which has been seen by the BBC. Here is the letter in full.\n\nI write to you on behalf of both myself and the rest of Shamima Begum's family.\n\nWe are, as has previously been expressed through our solicitor, disappointed with your decision to begin the process of stripping Shamima of her British citizenship.\n\nFirstly, we wish to make clear, that along with the rest of the country, we are shocked and appalled at the vile comments she has made to the media in recent days.\n\nThese are not representative of British values, and my family entirely reject the comments she has made.\n\nMy family went to every fathomable effort in February 2015 to attempt to block Shamima from getting into ISIS territory.\n\nWe contacted and cooperated with all the relevant government agencies in both the UK and Turkey to try and stop her progress.\n\nUnfortunately, our efforts were in vain.\n\nThat year we lost Shamima to a murderous and misogynistic cult.\n\nMy sister has been in their thrall now for four years, and it is clear to me that her exploitation at their hands has fundamentally damaged her.\n\nI have watched Shamima on our televisions open her mouth and set fire to our nations emotions.\n\nAs we have already expressed, we are sickened by the comments she has made, but, as a family man yourself, we hope you will understand that we, as her family cannot simply abandon her.\n\nWe have a duty to her, and a duty to hope that as she was groomed into what she has become, she can equally be helped back into the sister I knew, and daughter my parents bore.\n\nWe hope you understand our position in this respect and why we must, therefore, assist Shamima in challenging your decision to take away the one thing that is her only hope at rehabilitation, her British citizenship.\n\nShamima's status will now be a matter for our British courts to decide in due course.\n\nWe seek solace in the fact that the institution of our courts as independent arbitrators of this nation's laws have served as a bastion of good practice to the world.\n\nMy family trusts that this institution will properly perform its functions and entrusts Shamima's future to its decision-making process.\n\nNeither myself or any of my family have had any contact with Shamima.\n\nWe have discovered from media reports, along with the rest of the country, that she gave birth to a baby boy.\n\nWe were pleased to learn from your comments in the Commons that you recognise my nephew, Shamima's son, as a British citizen.\n\nAs a family, we ask now how we can assist you in bringing my nephew home to us.\n\nIn all of this debacle, he is the one true innocent and should not lose the privilege of being raised in the safety of this country.\n\nWe request that your office contacts our solicitor, Mr Akunjee, to discuss the practical mechanics of how to help my nephew find his way home.", "Dairy Crest, whose brands include Cathedral City cheddar and Country Life butter, has agreed to be bought by a Canadian company in a near-£1bn deal.\n\nSaputo, one of the biggest dairy processors in the world, will pay 620p a share, valuing Dairy Crest at £975m.\n\nThe deal is Saputo's first in Europe and it said Dairy Crest was an \"attractive platform\" for UK growth.\n\nDairy Crest said \"virtually\" all its 1,100 UK jobs are safe, including 150 at its head office in Surrey.\n\nHowever, the Unite union said it would be \"seeking an urgent meeting\" with Saputo about assurances over job security.\n\nDairy Crest's share price, which has risen steadily this week, had jumped almost 12% in late morning trading on Friday.\n\nSaputo has expanded rapidly in recent years through acquisitions. In 2017, the company bought Australia's Murray Goulburn Co-operative for $490m (£380m), becoming the country biggest milk producer. Saputo has also expanded into China.\n\nIt said its interest in Dairy Crest had been motivated by a desire to increase its international presence and \"enter the UK market by acquiring and investing in a well-established and successful industry player\".\n\nThe Canadian company said that, under its ownership, Dairy Crest would continue to manufacture its products from its existing UK facilities, and that it also intended the management of its UK operations to remain in Surrey.\n\nSaputo chairman and chief executive Lino Saputo Jr said: \"We believe that under Saputo ownership, Dairy Crest will be able to accelerate its long-term growth and business development potential and provide benefits to Dairy Crest's employees and stakeholders.\"\n\nThe chairman of Dairy Crest, Stephen Alexander, said: \"The acquisition should enable Dairy Crest to benefit from Saputo's global expertise and strong financial position to fulfil and accelerate its growth ambitions.\n\n\"The businesses have strong shared values and the board is confident that Saputo's plans to invest in and grow the Dairy Crest business mean the proposed transaction is positive for all its stakeholders.\"", "The \"dog\" was treated by vets at an animal clinic\n\nKind-hearted Estonian workers rushed to rescue a dog in distress from a freezing river on Wednesday - unaware of the fact they were actually about to bundle a wild wolf into their car.\n\nThe men were working on the Sindi dam on the Parnu river when they spotted the animal trapped in the icy water.\n\nAfter clearing a path through the ice, they took the frozen canine to a clinic for medical care.\n\nOnly then was it revealed they had been carrying a wolf.\n\nThe wolf was covered in ice when pulled from the near-frozen water\n\nThe Estonian Union for the Protection of Animals (EUPA) said the wolf had low blood pressure when it arrived at the veterinarian's office, which may have explained its docile nature after the men carried it to their car to warm it up.\n\nSpeaking to the Estonian newspaper Postimees, one of the men, Rando Kartsepp, said: \"We had to carry him over the slope. He weighed a fair bit.\"\n\n\"He was calm, slept on my legs. When I wanted to stretch them, he raised his head for a moment,\" he added.\n\nVeterinarians had some suspicions over the large dog's true nature, but it was a local hunter, familiar with the region's wolves, who finally confirmed it for what it was: a young male wolf, about a year old.\n\n\"He was calm, slept on my legs,\" Mr Kartsepp said of the journey to the vet's office\n\nArmed with this new information, clinic staff decided to put the wolf in a cage after treatment - in case it became less docile once it recovered.\n\nThe EUPA said it paid for the animal's treatment, and that \"luckily, everything turned out well\".\n\nThe wolf recovered from its brush with death within the day and, after being fitted with a GPS collar by researchers from the national environmental agency, was released back into the wild.\n\n\"We are so happy for the outcome of the story, and wish to thank all the participants – especially these men who rescued the wolf and the doctors of the clinic who were not afraid to treat and nurture the wild animal,\" EUPA said.\n\nEstonia is home to hundreds of wolves, only a handful of which have been collared in recent years. As a species, they usually avoid humans.\n\nIt was picked as Estonia's national animal last year by a group of nature organisations.", "A flypast honouring 10 American airmen who died when their plane crashed in a park 75 years ago has taken place in Sheffield.\n\nThe US bomber came down in Endcliffe Park, Sheffield on 22 February 1944, killing everyone on board.\n\nA campaign for a flypast started after a chance meeting between BBC Breakfast presenter Dan Walker and Tony Foulds, who tends a park memorial.", "The woman ate at RiFF restaurant in Valencia with her husband and son\n\nUpdate 24 January 2020: In December 2019, a judge at the Superior Court of Justice of the Valencian Community (TSJCV) ruled that the death of the female diner was due to natural causes and the investigation into RiFF restaurant was closed.\n\nA woman has died and 28 more diners fell ill after eating at a Michelin-starred restaurant in Spain.\n\nThe diner went to RiFF in Valencia with her husband and son, 12, both of whom also had diarrhoea and vomiting.\n\nThe restaurant is now closed while public health officials investigate the exact cause of the outbreak.\n\nRiFF, which has one Michelin star and is described by the guide as serving \"innovative cuisine\", has issued an apology to its customers.\n\nOfficials tracked down 75 people who ate at the restaurant between 13 and 16 February, and learned that a total of 29 had suffered food poisoning, including three families.\n\nThis included a 46-year-old woman who ate out with her family on Saturday night and died at home in the early hours of Sunday morning.\n\nA spokesperson from Valencia's regional ministry of health told BBC News that food safety officers inspected RiFF on Monday but were unable to find an obvious cause.\n\nSamples of some of the dishes that were served as part of a tasting menu have now been sent to the National Toxicology Institute for analysis, they added.\n\nSome reports have suggested that morel mushrooms may have been to blame, but officials told local media they were waiting for the test results to come back before singling out any particular ingredient.\n\nRiFF's owner and head chef Bernd Knöller said in a statement that he was working with health officials to establish the facts.\n\n\"Regardless of the reason that may have caused this situation, I want to convey my deep regret for what happened, hoping that soon all these facts can be clarified,\" he added.\n\n\"I have made the decision that the restaurant remains closed until the causes of what happened are established.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe UK won't be able to roll over an EU trade deal with Japan in time for a no-deal Brexit, Trade Secretary Liam Fox has said.\n\nIt was one of the most important EU trade deals the UK hoped to replicate ahead of the 29 March withdrawal date.\n\nThe trade department also said it would not be able to roll over the EU's customs union deal with Turkey on time.\n\nIn 2017, Mr Fox said the UK would be able to replicate 40 EU free trade deals by Brexit day.\n\nBut so far the department has only been able to finalise \"continuity agreements\" with seven of the 69 countries and regions with which the EU has trade deals.\n\nThese include Switzerland, Chile, the Faroe Islands, Eastern and Southern Africa, Israel and the Palestinian Authority.\n\nThe UK also has mutual recognition agreements signed with the US, Australia and New Zealand.\n\nMr Fox, who was a prominent Leave campaigner, told the BBC: \"Of course, we will get access to all the EU's free trade agreements if we leave the EU with a deal, which is the government's policy, and for all those who don't want any disruption, there's one easy way to avoid that, which is to vote for the deal which the Prime Minister has.\"\n\nIndustry group the CBI said deals with Japan and Turkey not being concluded on time would be \"an unwelcome surprise\" for business.\n\nEU trade deals offer UK companies benefits like reduced tariffs on goods, enhanced access to markets for services and common standards on intellectual property.\n\nBritish exports to Japan are worth £9.9bn per year.\n\n\"Many companies are unaware it is not just their relationships with EU customers at risk from a no-deal Brexit, but those across the globe,\" said CBI director of international trade Ben Digby.\n\n\"Individual businesses trading with markets outside the EU would face tariffs worth millions of pounds being slapped on them instantaneously.\n\n\"It is vital no-deal is taken off the table to unlock transition, allowing the UK to remain part of these deals and provide space to agree new arrangements.\"\n\nPeople's Vote supporter and Labour MP Stephen Doughty said: \"Brexiters promised that voting Leave would mean a bonanza of new international trade deals that would make up for lost trade with the EU.\n\n\"Instead, Brexit is costing us the global trade deals we already have as EU members.\n\n\"Liam Fox is now finally admitting that his promise to roll over all existing EU trade deals in time for Brexit is going to be broken.\"", "Dozens of normally loyal Conservative MPs could rebel against the government in a bid to prevent a no-deal Brexit, Downing Street has been warned.\n\nLeaders of the Brexit Delivery group of MPs, comprising Leavers and Remainers, say up to 30 may back alternatives if the PM's reworked deal isn't voted on.\n\nNo 10 says talks aimed at getting the changes MPs demand continue \"at pace\".\n\nMeanwhile, John McDonnell has suggested Labour is \"moving towards\" backing another Brexit referendum.\n\nThe shadow chancellor told the Evening Standard he was warming to the idea of MPs backing a Commons amendment which would approve the Brexit deal but only if it was put to the public in another vote.\n\nTheresa May's efforts to win round European leaders will continue at a summit in Egypt over the weekend.\n\nHer spokeswoman said the PM would have another \"period of engagement\" on Brexit at an EU-League of Arab States summit in Sharm el-Sheikh - including a meeting with European Council president Donald Tusk.\n\nBut a senior EU official said there would be \"no deal in the desert\", since not all the 27 other EU leaders would be present and the issue required proper preparation.\n\nThe UK remains on course to leave the European Union on 29 March.\n\nBut the government has repeatedly refused to rule out the possibility of the UK leaving without a formal deal, in the event that Mrs May cannot get MPs to approve the deal she negotiated with Brussels in time.\n\nOn Friday, the Irish government published a wide range of emergency measures to support businesses, protect jobs and essential services that will be enacted if the UK leaves the EU without a deal.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nadine Dorries says ERG members are \"absolutely desperate for a deal, but we’re desperate for the right deal\".\n\nMany MPs fear that scenario would be damaging to business and cause chaos at ports.\n\nGrowing concerns over the prospect of a no-deal exit are set to come to a head next Wednesday when MPs debate Brexit again and, if the UK and EU haven't agreed a deal by then, will vote on future options.\n\nThe Brexit Delivery Group (BDG) says \"numerous\" Tory MPs are prepared to back an amendment tabled by former minister Sir Oliver Letwin and Labour's Yvette Cooper to give Parliament the opportunity to delay Brexit and prevent a no-deal situation if there is no agreement with the EU by the middle of March.\n\nIt has been reported that a handful of ministers, including potentially some in the cabinet, could also back the amendment, in what would be a direct challenge to the prime minister's authority.\n\nThe BBC's Newsnight's political editor Nicholas Watt said a number \"were saying in private they would be prepared to lose their jobs\" to be able to support the amendment.\n\nBDG co-chairman Andrew Percy told the BBC that members of his group were becoming \"tired\" of the rival European Research Group faction's refusal to back the prime minister.\n\nThe ERG of Brexiteers, led by Jacob Rees-Mogg and Steve Baker, insist the \"no-deal\" option must be preserved as negotiating leverage in Brussels and declined to back the PM in a non-binding vote on the issue recently.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn a letter to government whips, Mr Percy and his co-chairman Simon Hart write: \"Not only does this risk damaging the national interest, but also... we are putting in jeopardy the very thing many colleagues have spent decades campaigning for; our exit from the European Union.\"\n\nThey believe the main sticking point - MPs' demands for changes to the backstop, the \"insurance policy\" to prevent the return of customs checks on the Irish border - will be secured.\n\nHowever, they fear it might not be enough to win over some Brexiteers.\n\nOne ERG member, Nadine Dorries, insisted the group was not \"holding the government to ransom\", telling the BBC's Politics Live that all but one member was \"desperate for a deal\".\n\nOn Thursday, Mrs May held meetings with senior ministers who have expressed concerns about the impact of a no-deal scenario on business and also leading Remainers in her party, such as Justine Greening and Phillip Lee.\n\nThe duo have been touted as potential defectors to the newly formed Independent Group of ex-Tory and Labour MPs, which is calling for another EU referendum in return for supporting the PM.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Brexit: Can Remainers and Leavers come together?\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC Political Correspondent Alex Forsyth explains what we know so far about The Independent Group\n\nMr Lee told the BBC that although he was staying in his party, there were \"worrying\" signs of a \"populist\" shift in direction and it was time for Mrs May to \"face down\" the ERG.\n\n\"There are elements of that group that do not reflect the Conservatism that I joined in 1992 and it's about time that we dealt with it,\" he told Radio 4's Today.\n\nThe government has described the latest talks in Brussels involving Brexit Secretary Stephen Barclay, Attorney General Geoffrey Cox and EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier as \"productive\".\n\nIt says they will move to a \"technical level\", with Mr Barclay and Mr Cox meeting Mr Barnier again early next week.", "The mother of a schoolboy who died at Hillsborough has told a court the pitch \"looked like a battleground\".\n\nDolores Steele's son Philip was among the Liverpool fans who died during a crush at the 1989 FA Cup semi-final.\n\nShe told Preston Crown Court she heard fans shouting at police to open gates in the terrace fence but \"nothing seemed to be getting done about it\".\n\nMrs Steele told the court she had travelled to the game with her husband Les, 15-year-old Philip and his brother Brian, 13.\n\nThe boys had tickets for the Leppings Lane terrace, beneath the West Stand where Mr and Mrs Steele were sitting.\n\nShe said shortly after the game began the pens \"suddenly looked very crowded\" and a fan was carried on to the pitch before a jacket was placed over their face.\n\nSupporters pleaded for the gates to be opened and told officers people were dying, she told the court.\n\n\"I seem to remember about four police officers standing looking in towards the pens but nothing seemed to be getting done about it,\" Mrs Steele said.\n\nPhilip Steele had travelled to the game with his parents and brother\n\nA gate to the pen was opened and people were carried out on to the playing surface, she said.\n\n\"Suddenly the football pitch looked like a battleground - there were so many people out there lying around,\" she said.\n\nShe walked down from the stand with her husband and saw Brian standing on a wall on the concourse looking for his brother, the court heard.\n\nDolores Steele said \"nothing seemed to be getting done about\" overcrowding in the Leppings Lane pens\n\nThey called an emergency number given to them by a police officer and were driven to Northern General Hospital by the son of a \"very kind lady\" who allowed the couple to use her phone.\n\nThe jury heard a doctor came in and \"explained that there would be bad or sad news for 11 families\".\n\nMr and Mrs Steele recognised a description of Philip which was read out, before identifying items including a signet ring and watch which belonged to him.\n\nDolores Steele told the court her husband, Les, identified their son's body in a gymnasium at Hillsborough on the day of the disaster\n\nThey were joined by Brian and taken to a boys' club, where families had gathered, and then back to the gymnasium at Hillsborough stadium where Mr Steele identified Philip's body.\n\nThe court also heard statements describing the crush.\n\nThey included one from Liverpool supporter Deborah Routledge who said she was crushed against the fence and was only able to take \"short gasping breaths\".\n\nThe people who lost their lives in the Hillsborough disaster\n\nShe said: \"I recall someone holding on to one of my ankles. I felt a loose grip for about two minutes and then the hand let go.\"\n\nMr Duckenfield, of Ferndown, Dorset, is on trial alongside Sheffield Wednesday's ex-club secretary Graham Mackrell, 69, who denies a charge related to the stadium safety certificate and a health and safety charge.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police found the man in Minet Road at 18:45 GMT\n\nA 23-year-old man has died after being stabbed in a south London youth club.\n\nPolice were called to Minet Road, Brixton, at about 18:45 GMT on Thursday where the victim was given first aid by officers at the scene.\n\nHe was pronounced dead at 19:27. His next of kin have been informed and no arrests have been made, police said.\n\nDet Ch Insp Mick Norman said: \"This was an appalling attack on a young man in a youth centre - a place where he was entitled to feel safe.\"\n\n\"All the early indications are that this attack was premeditated and targeted\", he added.\n\nSandra Smith, whose son was friends with the victim, said her \"heart bleeds\".\n\n\"He is a good boy, he is not the sort of boy who goes out and gives trouble,\" she said.\n\nPolice believe the attack was \"premeditated and targeted\"\n\nMaxine Dawson, 46, said she had been outside and seen children as young as seven leaving the centre after the attack.\n\n\"I can only imagine the way they were traumatised,\" she added.\n\nPastor and community campaigner Lorraine Jones, whose 20-year-old son Dwayne Simpson was stabbed to death in Brixton in 2014, said the youth club was one of only two in the area serving about 8,000 children.\n\n\"The club has been going for many, many years. They have done a huge amount of work, hundreds of thousands if not millions of hours with young people and they need help.\"\n\nChildren as young as seven are believed to have witnessed the attack\n\nPolice want to hear from those who were at the youth centre either before, during or after the attack.\n\n\"The youth centre was open at the time and sadly many young people present would have witnessed what unfolded,\" Det Ch Insp Norman said.\n\nThe killing brings this year's homicide rate up to 14, nine of which were fatal stabbings.\n\nBetween October 2017 and September 2018 the number of knife crimes in London hit an eight year high, according to figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS).\n\nAcross England and Wales there were 285 killings by a knife or sharp instrument in the year ending March 2018, the highest since records began in 1946.\n\nIn 2019 there have been nine fatal stabbings in London so far.\n\nHome Office figures show out of 43 forces, the Met Police saw the highest knife crime offences per head of population between April 2017 and March 2018.\n• None 14,847individual crimes recorded by the City of London and Metropolitan police between 2017-18\n• None 8% more crimes than in 2016-17\n• None 169offences per 100,000 people in the city\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. Shamima Begum: \"I got tricked and I was hoping someone would have sympathy with me\"\n\nThe family of Shamima Begum - who left the UK to join the Islamic State group in Syria - have told the home secretary they are going to challenge his decision to revoke her UK citizenship.\n\nIn the letter to Sajid Javid, seen by the BBC, they say they \"cannot simply abandon her\".\n\nThey also asked for assistance in bringing her newborn baby to the UK.\n\nMr Javid said he has not read the letter yet but will be \"looking closely at it\".\n\nHe added: \"Sadly, foreign fighters that have left our country to go and join a terrorist organisation, many of them will have taken children or had children there.\n\n\"Obviously all these children are perfectly innocent.\"\n\nMs Begum, who left Bethnal Green, east London in 2015, is living in a refugee camp in northern Syria and gave birth to a son last weekend.\n\nIn an interview with the BBC on Monday, she said she did not regret travelling to Syria, though she added that she did not agree with everything the IS group had done.\n\nShe told the BBC she was \"shocked\" by the 2017 Manchester Arena attack - which killed 22 people and was claimed by IS - but she also compared it to military assaults on IS strongholds by coalition forces, saying it was \"retaliation\".\n\nThe letter, written by her sister Renu Begum on behalf of the family, says: \"We wish to make clear, that along with the rest of the country, we are shocked and appalled at the vile comments she has made to the media in recent days.\n\n\"These are not representative of British values, and my family entirely reject the comments she has made.\"\n\nRenu Begum says the family made \"every fathomable effort\" to stop Shamima Begum from getting into Islamic State territory in 2015.\n\n\"That year we lost Shamima to a murderous and misogynistic cult.\n\n\"My sister has been in their thrall now for four years, and it is clear to me that her exploitation at their hands has fundamentally damaged her.\"\n\nShamima Begum was 15 and living in Bethnal Green, London, when she left the UK in 2015\n\nThe letter from Renu Begum shows that Shamima Begum's family - who have stayed out of the spotlight for most of the week - are now prepared to take on the home secretary in the courts, and in the media.\n\nShe is careful to stress how shocked they were by Shamima Begum's comments.\n\nBut she is also equally vehement about how they cannot abandon her sister and how they \"must\" - to use their words - challenge his decision.\n\nThe appeal for help in bringing Shamima Begum's baby son back to the UK will be one of the hardest parts of the letter politically for the Home Secretary Sajid Javid.\n\nHe said in the House of Commons that the children of IS members would not lose their British citizenship.\n\nRenu Begum points out that Jarrar - who is not yet a week old - is the \"one true innocent\" in what they call the \"debacle\".\n\nIn the letter, Renu Begum says none of the family has had any contact with Shamima, but they have watched her on television \"set fire to our nation's emotions\".\n\nShe says they were \"sickened\" by Shamima's comments but hope Mr Javid understands that her family \"cannot simply abandon her\".\n\nThe letter says: \"We have a duty to her, and a duty to hope that as she was groomed into what she has become, she can equally be helped back into the sister I knew, and daughter my parents bore.\n\n\"We hope you understand our position in this respect and why we must, therefore, assist Shamima in challenging your decision to take away the one thing that is her only hope at rehabilitation, her British citizenship.\"\n\nThe Home Office has said it is possible to strip the teenager of British nationality on the grounds that she is eligible for citizenship of another country - Bangladesh, through her mother, who is a Bangladeshi citizen.\n\nHowever, Bangladesh's ministry of foreign affairs has said Ms Begum is not a Bangladeshi citizen and there was \"no question\" of her being allowed into the country.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Geoffrey Robertson QC, one of the UK's most senior international lawyers says Shamima Begum should be put on trial in Britain\n\nThe home secretary said he would not leave an individual stateless, which is illegal under international law.\n\nMr Javid also suggested Ms Begum's child could still be British, despite the removal of Ms Begum's citizenship.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn said Mr Javid's decision was \"extreme\" and she had \"a right to return to Britain\".\n\nGeoffrey Robertson QC, a former United Nations judge, said it should be up to the UK courts to determine what punishment she should receive for joining a terrorist organisation.\n\nHe told the BBC: \"It's surely for a judge to decide whether she deserves mercy or sympathy, not for a politician.\"", "The threat of a no-deal Brexit is \"focusing minds\" and encouraging compromise, the chancellor has said.\n\nPhilip Hammond said the government was \"determined to get a deal\" before leaving the EU on 29 March but a \"very bad\" no deal outcome remained possible.\n\nThe government said talks on Thursday were \"productive\" and would \"continue urgently at a technical level\".\n\nJeremy Corbyn, who met EU negotiator Michel Barnier earlier, again accused the PM of \"running down the clock\".\n\nTheresa May met the EU's Jean-Claude Juncker to discuss changes to the existing deal to win MPs' support on Wednesday.\n\nThe prime minister said progress had been made on Wednesday over legally binding guarantees about the Irish backstop - the insurance policy to stop a hard border returning to the island of Ireland - but \"time is of the essence\".\n\nHowever, Mr Juncker said he was \"not very optimistic\" about securing a deal.\n\nBrexit Secretary Stephen Barclay and Attorney General Geoffrey Cox were in Brussels on Thursday for talks with Mr Barnier.\n\nThey focused on \"guarantees relating to the backstop that underline once again its temporary nature and give appropriate legal assurance to both sides, as well as alternative arrangements and the political declaration (the document setting out future UK-EU relations)\", a government statement said.\n\nMr Barclay and Mr Cox will meet Mr Barnier again early next week, it added.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn, his Brexit spokesman Sir Keir Starmer and shadow attorney general Baroness Chakrabarti were also in Brussels to discuss their proposals, which include a permanent customs union and a close relationship with the single market.\n\nSpeaking after a meeting with Mr Barnier, Mr Corbyn urged Theresa May to \"take the threat of no deal off the table\", adding that the EU was \"very worried about the consequences of it\".\n\nHe did not rule out further meetings with Theresa May to discuss Labour's Brexit plans, which he says could get the backing of the House of Commons, but he added: \"It is very clear that this prime minister, by refusing to change her red lines, is simply running down the clock\".\n\nThe backstop has become the main sticking point of the prime minister's proposals - with critics fearing the policy would leave the UK tied to a customs union indefinitely - and it played a large part in her plan being voted down by a historic margin in January.\n\nEarlier this month, Parliament voted for Mrs May to seek \"alternative arrangements\" to replace the backstop but the EU has consistently said it will not re-open the withdrawal agreement - the \"divorce\" deal where it features.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Mr Hammond said government policy on Brexit was \"very clear\".\n\n\"We are determined to get a deal. We recognise that a no-deal Brexit would be a very bad outcome for the UK and we are doing everything we can to avoid that,\" he said.\n\n\"There is always a possibility of no deal as an outcome and that is why the government is carrying out appropriate contingency planning.\"\n\nHowever, the chancellor said that the risk was helping push some people towards agreeing with the government's plan.\n\n\"I fully recognise that it is very uncomfortable that we are as close to the wire as we are but I am afraid that is just a feature of this kind of negotiation. We are making progress,\" he added.\n\nFormer Tory MP and new member of The Independent Group, Sarah Wollaston, predicted a third of the cabinet would resign if there was a no-deal Brexit.\n\nMr Hammond would not reveal if he was among that number but said: \"My job is to avoid [a no-deal Brexit] and to make sure the government is focused entirely on avoiding that outcome.\"\n\nSpeaking from the European Commission on Thursday, Mr Juncker said he could not rule out a no-deal Brexit, which would have \"terrible economic and social consequences both in Britain and the EU\".\n\nHe added: \"The worst can be avoided but I'm not very optimistic when it comes to this issue.\"\n\nTheresa May and Jean-Claude Juncker met in Brussels on Wednesday\n\nOn Sunday, Mrs May will be attending a two-day EU-League of Arab States summit in the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh with about 20 EU leaders, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar.\n\nShe is expected to hold a series of one-to-one meetings as she continues to push for her deal.", "Brexit should be delayed if Parliament does not approve a deal in the coming days, three cabinet ministers have warned publicly for the first time.\n\nAhead of crucial votes in the Commons, Greg Clark, Amber Rudd and David Gauke told the Daily Mail they would be prepared to defy Theresa May and vote for a delay.\n\nDowning Street said the trio's views on no deal were \"scarcely a secret\".\n\nConservative Brexiteer Andrew Bridgen called on them to resign.\n\n\"They are rejecting government policy and they are threatening to vote against government policy next week,\" the MP told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\n\"In that case, they should do the honourable thing and resign from the government immediately.\"\n\nNumber 10 said in a statement: \"The PM is working hard to ensure we get a deal with the EU that allows us to deliver on the result of the referendum.\n\n\"That is where the cabinet's energy should be focused.\"\n\nEarlier, Mrs May's spokeswoman said the PM would have another \"period of engagement\" on Brexit at an EU-League of Arab States summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt - including a meeting with European Council president Donald Tusk.\n\nThe UK remains on course to leave the European Union on 29 March.\n\nBut the government has repeatedly refused to rule out the possibility of the UK leaving without a formal deal, in the event that Mrs May cannot get MPs to approve the deal she negotiated with Brussels in time.\n\nMPs are due to debate Brexit again next Wednesday and are expected to consider an amendment tabled by former Tory minister Sir Oliver Letwin and Labour's Yvette Cooper.\n\nThat would give Parliament the opportunity to delay Brexit and prevent a no-deal situation if there is no agreement with the EU by the middle of March.\n\nMr Clark, Ms Rudd and Mr Gauke argue if a deal is not endorsed by MPs imminently \"it would be better to seek to extend Article 50 and delay our date of departure rather than crash out of the European Union on March 29\".\n\nMr Clark, the business secretary, along with Ms Rudd, the work and pensions secretary, and the justice secretary, Mr Gauke, said there had been \"months of uncertainty\".\n\nThey wrote: \"It is time MPs recognised the need to get a deal, accepted that this is the only deal on offer, and supported it.\"\n\nBut they also warned Brexiteers in the European Research Group (ERG) that Parliament will block the UK leaving without a deal, stating that if there is a delay \"they will have no-one to blame but themselves\".\n\nThey said: \"Beyond the next few days, there simply will not be time to agree a deal and complete all the necessary legislation before March 29.\"\n\nTheir article comes after the BBC was told dozens of normally loyal Conservatives could back plans to stop the UK leaving the EU without a deal if a reworked version of Mrs May's plan does not pass.\n\nMark Francois, Tory MP and vice-chairman of the ERG, told the BBC that \"the prime minister will want to know why three members of her cabinet have decided to publicly decry government policy\" and added that he thought it was \"interesting that the chancellor has not signed the letter\".\n\nHowever Tory MP Nick Boles, who voted Remain but supports Mrs May's deal, said they were \"courageous and principled\" for speaking out to try to avoid a no-deal Brexit.\n\nAnna Soubry, who quit the Conservatives this week over Brexit to join the Independent Group, said the move was a sign of the \"complete chaos that's now existing at the top of government\".\n\nThe MP, who supports another EU referendum, said the trio had to go to the press because \"they can't win the argument in a deeply divided cabinet\".\n\nMeanwhile, Labour MPs Phil Wilson and Peter Kyle are planning to put forward an amendment that would allow Mrs May's deal to pass in the Commons, as long as it is then put to the public in another vote.\n\nMr Wilson told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that his amendment had the support of shadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer and shadow chancellor John McDonnell, and he hoped to secure the backing of the rest of the Labour front bench.\n\nIt is a pretty incredible intervention by these three cabinet ministers.\n\nTime and time again Theresa May has said the UK is leaving the EU on 29 March, in just five weeks' time.\n\nIt's a very different message from these three. They've all made it very clear they wouldn't accept a no deal scenario.\n\nNow publicly, for the first time, they've said Brexit would have to be delayed if Parliament doesn't back a deal next week.\n\nIn their article in the Daily Mail they've got a pretty stark warning to their colleagues.\n\nThis is happening because, on Wednesday, there will be an attempt by MPs to seize control of that Brexit process.\n\nThese three are suggesting that they will be prepared to resign in order to back that move.\n\nThis is piling the pressure on Mrs May to get the changes to the deal, to bring it back early next week, but it's also piling the pressure on their colleagues to get behind the deal.\n\nDon't be in any doubt, what they are saying is not government policy.", "A Japanese spacecraft has touched down on an asteroid in an attempt to collect a sample of rock from the surface.\n\nThe Hayabusa-2 probe was trying to grab the sample from a pre-chosen site on the asteroid Ryugu just before 23:00 GMT on 21 February.\n\nThe spacecraft reached asteroid Ryugu in June 2018 after a three-and-a-half-year journey from Earth.\n\nHayabusa-2 is expected to return to Earth in 2020 along with its rocky hoard.\n\nDuring sample collection, the spacecraft approached the 1km-wide asteroid with an instrument called the sampler horn. On touchdown, a 5g \"bullet\" made of the metal tantalum was fired into the rocky surface at 300m/s.\n\nThe particles kicked up by the impact should have been be caught by the sampler horn.\n\n\"We made the ideal touchdown in the best conditions,\" he said.\n\nThere were celebrations in the control room in Sagamihara, Japan\n\nThe spacecraft began descending from its \"home position\" of 20km above the asteroid's surface in the early hours of 21 February (GMT) - several hours later than planned.\n\nRyugu belongs to a particularly primitive type of space rock known as a C-type. The near-Earth asteroid (NEA) is a relic left over from the early days of our Solar System.\n\nThe red arrow shows the location of the target marker on the surface\n\nProf Alan Fitzsimmons, from Queen's University Belfast, told BBC News: \"We think we understand how carbon-rich asteroids migrate from the asteroid belt to become near-Earth asteroids, but the samples from Ryugu will allow its history to be explored.\n\n\"After the Rosetta mission, it's now clear that most of Earth's water did not come from comets in the early days of the Solar System. We believe carbon-rich (C-type) asteroids may have significant amounts of water locked up in their rocks. It's possible such asteroids may have brought to Earth both the water and the organic material necessary for life to start.\n\n\"These samples will be crucial in investigating this possibility.\"\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 HAYABUSA2@JAXA 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\nHayabusa-2 had earlier dropped a small, reflective, beanbag-like \"target marker\" on to Ryugu. This was used as a guide as the spacecraft descended to the rough surface of the asteroid.\n\nControllers were aiming for the centre of a circle, some 6m in diameter, located about 4-5m away from the target marker.\n\nThe Japanese space agency (Jaxa) had originally planned to carry out the touchdown operation in October last year. But the asteroid's surface was found to be much more rugged than expected, with numerous, hefty boulders making it hard to find a location that was large and flat enough to sample.\n\nControllers had hoped they would have an area of about 100m in diameter to target. But because of the surface properties, this had to be reduced to a 6m circle for what team members are calling a \"pinpoint touchdown\".\n\nThe sampler horn that extends out from the bottom of the spacecraft has a length of 1m. It's therefore vital that there are no boulders more than 50cm in height at the landing site, to reduce the chances that the body of the spacecraft could hit a rock.\n\nThe sampler horn will be used to collect material for delivery to Earth in 2020\n\nUnexpected surface properties also have the potential to affect the amount of material collected. Before arriving at Ryugu, researchers had expected the surface to be covered in a powdery layer of fine-grained material - the regolith.\n\nIn fact, the upper layer turned out to be akin to gravel, consisting of rocky chunks that are centimetre-sized or larger.\n\nProf Fitzsimmons told BBC News: \"This was a surprise, as other near-Earth asteroids we have visited previously have shown areas dominated by small particles.\n\n\"It might be due to the carbon-rich composition, as the previous NEAs are composed of silicate rock, which are more Earth-like. But the shape of Ryugu also implies it was spinning much faster in the past, so it's possible this could have affected the particles' sizes in some fashion.\"\n\nScientists carried out additional tests in Japan to determine whether the sample material could still be gathered by the spacecraft.\n\nThey used a container of artificial gravel with a similar size distribution to that on Ryugu. In a vacuum chamber, they fired a tantalum bullet identical to that used by Hayabusa-2 into the gravel.\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 HAYABUSA2@JAXA 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\nAccording to Jaxa, the results of the test exceeded expectations, with the tantalum projectile yielding fragments of rock in size ranges that should easily pass through the sampler horn.\n\nThis suggests that Hayabusa-2 should have been able to collect a sample.\n\nIn September, Hayabusa-2 deployed two robotic \"hoppers\" that propelled themselves across the surface of Ryugu, sending back images and other data.\n\nThen, in October, the \"mothership\" despatched a French-German instrument package called Mascot to the surface.\n\nLater this year, perhaps in March or April, Jaxa plans to detonate an explosive charge that will punch a crater into the surface of Ryugu.\n\nHayabusa-2 would then descend into the crater to collect fresh samples of material that have not been altered by aeons of exposure to space.\n\n\"We know that the surfaces of asteroids are changed over time by bombardment with energetic particles from the Sun and interstellar space,\" said Alan Fitzsimmons.\n\n\"Yet studies with telescopes show that this 'space weathering' affects the surfaces of carbon-rich asteroids differently to those mostly made from more rock-like silicate minerals. We don't know why this is, and the fresh sub-surface samples from Ruygu will play a very important role in understanding how this happens.\"", "Sarah Lester, pictured with daughter Claire Mason, was worried something had happened to one of her two grown-up children\n\nA woman said she was given \"the fright of my life\" when a \"vindictive\" police officer knocked on her door at night over her bad parking the previous day.\n\nSarah Lester, who lives alone, feared the worst for her family when police turned up at her house in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, at 01:30 GMT.\n\nShe agreed she had parked badly earlier but was yet to receive a justification for the officer's early-hours visit.\n\nHertfordshire Police said Ms Lester's complaint was being investigated.\n\n\"I live alone and I didn't want to open the door,\" said Ms Lester, who was woken by the doorbell and her dog barking.\n\n\"I called 999 and they said 'it's a police car outside and you need to open the door'.\n\n\"I almost passed out, I thought something terrible had happened to one of my children; it was horrendous, I just froze.\"\n\nThe officer explained he wanted to talk about how she had parked her car in Bushey on 8 February, the previous evening.\n\nShe admitted her car had been parked partly on a pavement for just under two hours but it had been in her driveway since 22:30 GMT.\n\n\"I said, 'I've nearly had a heart attack, why didn't you put a ticket on the car or something in the post?', and he said, 'I've chosen to deal with it in this way'.\"\n\nSarah Lester's car (not pictured) had been parked in School Lane, Bushey, the previous evening\n\nMs Lester complained to police when the officer left but said she was yet to receive an apology or explanation.\n\n\"I feel it was vindictive - surely they can't do this,\" she added\n\n\"I haven't had a ticket, just this trauma from them.\"\n\nA police spokesman said the Professional Standards Department was dealing with the complaint, the officer would be spoken to and Ms Lester would be updated \"in due course\".\n\n\"Due to the pending investigation it would be inappropriate for us to comment any further at this stage,\" he added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A report by cabinet ministers in Botswana has recommended lifting a four-year hunting ban and the introduction of elephant culling.\n\nThe number of elephants in Botswana is estimated to be about 130,000, which some argue is too many for the ecosystem - there is increasing conflict between wildlife and people.\n\nBut others say the country's tourism has grown dramatically since the ban came into place and that lifting it would affect the country's international reputation for conservation.", "Mark Acklom was placed on a plane in Geneva and was escorted through Bristol Airport\n\nOne of Britain's most wanted fugitives has been extradited to the UK from Switzerland after being on the run in Europe for years.\n\nMark Acklom, who disappeared in 2012, allegedly posed as an MI6 agent to con a Gloucestershire woman out of her £850,000 life savings.\n\nThe 45-year-old was arrested at a luxury apartment in Zurich last summer.\n\nHe will appear at Bristol Magistrates' Court on Saturday charged with 20 fraud offences.\n\nThey include 12 charges of converting or removing criminal property and eight charges of fraud by false representation.\n\nMr Acklom allegedly posed as an MI6 agent and Swiss banker and conned divorcee Carolyn Woods into loaning him the money during a year-long relationship in Bath in 2012.\n\nThree years ago a European Arrest Warrant was issued for Mr Acklom who was believed to be in Spain having been released from a Spanish prison over a £200,000 property fraud.\n\nCarolyn Woods had a year-long relationship with Mark Acklom during which time she said she loaned him thousands of pounds\n\nIn October 2016 he was among 10 British fugitives named by the National Crime Agency (NCA) as the most wanted in Spain.\n\nChief Insp Gary Haskins, from Avon and Somerset Police, said: \"No matter where suspected criminals are in the world we will always do everything we can to track them down and bring them back to the UK to face justice.\n\n\"This extradition would not have been possible without the support of all our law enforcement partners and I'm extremely grateful for their assistance in helping us bring Acklom home to answer some very serious charges.\"\n\nMr Acklom was escorted back to Bristol Airport from Geneva earlier and is currently in police custody.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mr Bashir made the announcement at the presidential palace in the capital, Khartoum\n\nSudan's President Omar al-Bashir has declared a national state of emergency, dismissed the federal government and sacked all state governors.\n\nMr Bashir made the announcement in a TV address to the nation, but later appointed members of the security forces as replacement governors.\n\nEarlier, Sudan's National Security and Intelligence Services (NISS) said that Mr Bashir would be stepping down.\n\nMr Bashir has been the focus of anti-government protests in recent weeks.\n\nProtesters took to the streets after the announcement in the city of Omdurman, witnesses said, but were met with tear gas by police.\n\nIn the address, Mr Bashir asked parliament to postpone constitutional amendments that would allow him to run for another term.\n\nMr Bashir also said the demonstrations were an attempt to destabilise the country.\n\n\"I announce imposing a state of emergency across the country for one year,\" he said.\n\n\"I announce dissolving the government at the federal level and at the provincial levels.\"\n\nHours after the announcement, Mr Bashir issued two presidential decrees appointing army and security officers to govern the country's 18 provinces.\n\nHe also announced that five members of the outgoing cabinet, including the foreign, defence and justice ministers, would keep their jobs.\n\nThe demonstrations started over cuts to bread and fuel subsidies in December but later morphed into anger at Mr Bashir's 30-year rule.\n\nNationwide rallies have been calling for President Bashir to step down\n\nMore than 1,000 people are reported to have been detained since the protests began. Rights groups say more than 40 people have been killed in clashes with security forces.\n\nProtest organisers have vowed to continue demonstrating until Mr Bashir leaves his post, AFP news agency reported.\n\nMr Bashir, 75, had initially struck a defiant tone after winning elections several times since coming to power in a coup in 1989.", "Jorge Williams' voice trembled as he broke the devastating news to a 999 call handler.\n\nLess than half an hour had passed since he had answered a Facebook appeal to trace a missing six-year-old.\n\nIt was one of the warmest summers on record and dozens of residents on the tranquil Isle of Bute took to the shoreline and streets.\n\nBut the search ended abruptly at 08:54 when Mr Williams discovered Alesha's naked body in a wooded area near his home in Ardbeg.\n\nDetectives would later establish the child was abducted from her bed and carried to the lonely spot, less than a mile from her grandparents' flat in Rothesay.\n\nThere, just days into her summer holiday, she was raped and murdered.\n\nA 16-year-old boy, who cannot be named because he is under 18, was found guilty of the crime.\n\nHis conviction following a High Court trial in Glasgow would be the culmination of a police investigation which was helped in part by his own mother.\n\nSix-year-old Alesha MacPhail was only days into a summer break when she was murdered\n\nIt was just after 6am on 2 July and Calum MacPhail was getting ready for work.\n\nHe noticed the door to his granddaughter's room was open then discovered she had vanished.\n\nGiving evidence during the nine-day trial, Mr MacPhail told the jury: \"We searched under beds, in wardrobes, but there was no sign of her anywhere.\"\n\nAlesha had never been missing before and her scooter and bike were still in the garden.\n\nThe family alerted staff at the ferry port and locals, including the volunteer Bute Resilience Team, joined the search.\n\nIn an industrial estate near Glasgow Airport Police Scotland's Major Investigation Team was briefed on the case.\n\nBack on Bute Mr MacPhail became alarmed when he saw an ambulance speeding past with its blue light on.\n\nIt came to a halt near the site of the old Kyles Hydropathic Hotel, which had been cordoned off.\n\nMs King, 47, recalled a conversation with her partner in which he broke off to scream at officers: \"If that's my granddaughter up there then I want to know.\"\n\nThe family were advised to go to Rothesay Police Station for an update, and once inside they were told: \"We've found her, but she has passed.\"\n\nAlesha was lying on her side when she was discovered by Mr Williams and the killer had made no attempt to conceal her body.\n\nIt was later calculated that the walking distance from the flat to the spot could be covered in between 15 to 17 minutes.\n\nPathologist Dr John Williams established the cause of death was significant pressure being applied to the face and neck.\n\nThe expert also told the court Alesha had 117 injuries, some of which he described as \"catastrophic\".\n\nCrucially, the soles of Alesha's feet were clean, which indicated she had been carried to her death.\n\nDetectives made a breakthrough just after midnight on 3 July from an unlikely source.\n\nThe killer's mother had reviewed CCTV at the family home and spotted her son coming and going in the middle of the night.\n\nShe believed he may have seen something and contacted the police.\n\nThe mother quizzed her son and told the jury: \"He was adamant he had nothing to do with it.\n\n\"There was no way they would find his DNA because he had been nowhere near this little girl.\"\n\nIn the course of the investigation the killer's phone was forensically examined and experts established he had carried out a Google search for \"How do police find DNA?\"\n\nThe six-year-old was staying at her grandparents' house before she disappeared\n\nHours before Alesha was killed the boy had hosted a party for his friends which broke up at 00:30.\n\nAt that point the accused was drunk and in a distressed state.\n\nTo calm himself down he tried to buy cannabis but Alesha's father, whom he had obtained the drug from in the past, did not respond to his messages.\n\nAt 01:54 the accused was spotted on CCTV leaving his family home.\n\nHe went to the MacPhail's flat on Ardbeg Road and found that the key had been left in the lock.\n\nThe killer entered the property and took Alesha out of bed without waking her or the four adults sleeping in rooms along the hall.\n\nThe next footage of significance to the inquiry came from two houses on Marine Place.\n\nBetween 02:25 and 02:26 they captured a figure walking along the shoreline carrying something.\n\nThe CCTV trail then went cold until 03:35 when the accused was filmed arriving home.\n\nTen minutes later he left wearing a pair of shorts, no top and no shoes.\n\nHe returned at 03:52 and then departed again six minutes later wearing a grey T-shirt, dark shorts, dark footwear and carrying a torch.\n\nThe accused arrived home for the final time at 04:07.\n\nLocals on Bute staged a candlelit vigil in memory of the schoolgirl\n\nThe teenager's friends told the court he had a \"dark sense of humour\".\n\nThe jury also heard evidence about a private conversation he had had with a female friend in which he said he might kill one day for the \"lifetime experience\".\n\nA 16-year-old girl said he made the comment in a Facebook Messenger chat in 2017 after she started discussing a crime documentary.\n\nThe same friend also said he contacted her just three hours after Alesha was found dead.\n\nShe said: \"During the conversation he started to get anxious and he said the police were going to blame it on him.\"\n\nIn the hours after the body was found there was speculation about the crime on a Snapchat group the teenager was part of.\n\nDuring this time he produced a video in which he walked into his bathroom and then revealed his reflection in the mirror.\n\nIt was accompanied by the caption: \"Found the guy who done it.\"\n\nThe court also heard the accused lifted weights and could bench press 50kg - more than double the 22kg Alesha weighed.\n\nAlesha MacPhail's uncle Calum described the child as the \"brightest thing\"\n\nIn his defence, the 16-year-old claimed his DNA was planted at the crime scene, but the sheer volume of samples recovered left his astonishing alibi in tatters.\n\nForensic scientist Stuart Bailey found the accused's profile on intimate swabs taken from Alesha and on the front of her neck\n\nThe odds of it being from anyone else were more than one in a billion.\n\nAdditional samples were recovered on the child's body and clothing.\n\nMr Bailey said it was \"highly unlikely\" they had got there through anything other than direct contact.\n\nThe accused was arrested at 5pm on 4 July and driven to Helen Street police station in Glasgow where he was formally charged with Alesha's murder.\n\nDespite what prosecutor Iain McSporran QC described as a \"mountain of evidence\" he compounded the family's agony by forcing them to endure a trial and blamed Alesha's father's girlfiend, Toni McLachlan, for the crime.\n\nIn a further twist, he agreed to testify and dismissed suggestions he was a \"confident liar\".\n\nThe accused repeatedly denied he was responsible and told the court: \"I have never met Alesha MacPhail.\"\n\nThe most memorable exchange came after Mr McSporran suggested it would have been \"extraordinarily wicked\" for Ms McLachlan to have murdered her boyfriend's daughter.\n\nThe accused, who appeared completely unfazed by the enormity of the charge facing him, said: \"I agree.\"\n\nThe QC then put it to the 16-year-old that the same description would apply to someone who alleged an innocent person was responsible for such a crime.\n\nThe teenager locked eyes with the prosecutor across the courtroom and replied: \"It would be evil.\"", "Amber Peat was found hanged after going missing from her home in Mansfield\n\nThe mother and stepfather of a 13-year-old girl who hanged herself gave \"very little, if any, consideration\" to her welfare, a coroner has said.\n\nAmber Peat's mum and stepdad also demonstrated little \"emotional warmth\" towards her, Coroner Laurinda Bower added.\n\nReturning a narrative conclusion, she said agencies missed 11 opportunities which may have prevented Amber's death.\n\nAmber's mother, Kelly Peat, said she had been \"the best parent\" she could.\n\nMs Bower considered whether to return a conclusion of suicide but she could not be sure Amber intended to die.\n\n\"Considering Amber's age, her emotional immaturity and her undoubted vulnerability, and the absence of any professional ever having properly assessed Amber's risk of self-harm or suicide, I am not able to determine, on the balance of probabilities, Amber's intention at the time of her death,\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The couple appeared at a press conference in the days following Amber's disappearance\n\nAmber Peat was found hanged in a hedgerow in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, on 2 June 2015.\n\nThree days earlier, on 30 May, she had walked out of her home following an argument with her family about chores.\n\nShe had previously run away from home and also expressed a wish to die.\n\nAmber Peat \"always had a sad face\", according to a former class teacher\n\nThe inquest heard how Mrs Peat became engaged to Amber's stepfather, Daniel Peat, just 12 weeks after splitting up with Amber's biological father.\n\nAmber also had to move house and schools during this time, which was \"further complicated\" by the fact Amber was due to take her SAT examinations.\n\n\"There appears to have been very little, if any, consideration of the welfare of Amber and this is a theme to which I shall return,\" the coroner said.\n\nIn her narrative conclusion, the coroner said education, health and social care agencies all missed opportunities to assess Amber and her family.\n\n\"Had those agencies responded to safeguarding concerns in an appropriate manner it is possible Amber would not have died when she did,\" the coroner said.\n\nAmber's mother Kelly Peat was at the inquest to hear the verdict\n\nThe inquest heard evidence from several of Amber's teachers who had concerns about her life at home.\n\nAmber told one teacher how her stepfather had punished her by making her wear baggy grey jogging bottoms to school and carry her belongings in a plastic bag.\n\nMr and Mrs Peat accepted Amber had gone to school wearing the jogging bottoms and carrying a plastic bag, but said she must have lied when she blamed her stepfather for it.\n\nHowever, the coroner found that Amber had been telling the truth.\n\n\"I find as a fact that Amber was made to wear the jogging bottoms to school and to use a carrier bag as punishment by Mr Peat in the full knowledge that she would be humiliated,\" the coroner said.\n\n\"This was perhaps borne out of the frustration that he was feeling towards Amber rejecting his attempts to discipline her.\"\n\nAmber's body was found in Westfield Lane, about a mile from her home in Bosworth Street\n\nThe inquest heard evidence from a police officer who said Mrs Peat was \"not particularly emotional, as in upset\", when her daughter went missing.\n\nThe coroner also noted a lack of emotion from Mr and Mrs Peat when they gave evidence at the inquest.\n\n\"On more than one occasion, professionals told me how they had witnessed Mr and Mrs Peat demonstrate a lack of emotional warmth towards Amber at times when one would expect emotion to be present, such as Amber returning home after being missing,\" the coroner said.\n\n\"Indeed, when they gave evidence to this inquest there was a distinct lack of emotional warmth towards Amber, more so from Mr Peat than Mrs Peat.\"\n\nParalegal Amy Robinson read a statement out on behalf of Amber's mother\n\nA statement on behalf of Mrs Peat was read out by a lawyer following the inquest.\n\n\"Like all parents, Kelly knows she is not perfect but she has been, and continues to be, the best parent she can for her children,\" the statement said.\n\n\"Kelly wonders whether things could have been different had Amber and her family received more support and advice for Amber's behaviour.\n\n\"She proactively sought help on numerous occasions with Amber, and tried to work with the agencies as much as possible.\"\n\nThe statement said Mrs Peat had been \"subjected to intense media and public scrutiny\" since Amber's death.\n\n\"Some of the things that have been said have been very hurtful, not only to Kelly but her family too and they have had a huge impact on their well-being,\" the statement said.\n\nAmber's mother \"feels strongly that Amber would not have meant to deliberately harm herself\"\n\nThe statement said Mrs Peat \"will always wonder\" why Amber did what she did.\n\n\"She and her family find it impossible to believe that Amber purposely set out to take her own life,\" the statement said.\n\n\"Kelly feels strongly that Amber would not have meant to deliberately harm herself or mean for this to happen.\"\n\nA serious case review was launched following Amber's death and is still to be published.\n\nChris Few, chairman of Nottinghamshire Safeguarding Children Board, said they \"owe it to Amber to learn from what happened\".\n\n\"Before we publish the serious case review, it is important for all those involved to take some time to reflect on and consider the coroner's findings and to identify whether there is any further action needed,\" he said.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on Twitter, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Venezuelan soldiers send people back as they try to cross the border from Brazil\n\nVenezuela's President Nicolás Maduro has closed the border with Brazil amid a row over humanitarian aid.\n\nThe embattled leader said he could also shut the key border with Colombia to stop the opposition bringing in relief.\n\nVenezuela's inflation rate has seen prices soar, leaving many Venezuelans struggling to afford basic items such as food, toiletries and medicine.\n\nPresident Maduro denies any crisis and calls the aid delivery plans a US-orchestrated show.\n\nHis ally Russia has accused the US of trying to arm Venezuela's opposition.\n\nRival concerts will be held on both sides of a bridge linking Venezuela and Colombia later on Friday.\n\nOn the Colombian side, an event will be held to raise money for Venezuela. At the same time, Mr Maduro's government will hold its own concert, just 300m (980ft) away.\n\nOpposition leader Juan Guaidó and his allies hope to collect food and medicine being gathered in neighbouring Brazil and Colombia on Saturday, in defiance of President Maduro.\n\nHead of the National Assembly, Mr Guaidó declared himself interim leader during anti-government protests last month and is recognised by dozens of countries, including the US and most Latin American nations.\n\nThe border crossing with Brazil remained closed on Friday morning but local G1 website reported that a group of Venezuelans managed to cross from the Brazilian city of Pacaraima on foot using an unofficial route.\n\nMr Maduro announced on Thursday that the border would be closed \"completely and absolutely\" until further notice and said he had been considering a \"total closure\" of the border with Colombia.\n\nBrazil had earlier said that, in co-ordination with the US, food and medicine would be available to be collected by \"the government of acting President Juan Guaidó in Venezuelan trucks driven by Venezuelans\".\n\nPlease upgrade your browser to view this content. Was this timeline useful? Thank you for your feedback.\n\nBritish entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson has organised a concert near the Tienditas Bridge crossing at Cúcuta hoping to raise about $100m (£77m) to buy food and medicine for Venezuelans.\n\nVenezuela Aid Live, he said, has been organised at the request of Mr Guaidó and another opposition leader, Leopoldo López, who is under house arrest. About 250,000 people are expected to attend.\n\nThe Venezuelan government has erected a stage on its side of the crossing for its Hands Off Venezuela event.\n\nThe Branson concert is on the Colombian side of Tienditas Bridge...\n\n... and a Venezuelan government stage has gone up not far away\n\nMore than three million Venezuelans have fled in recent years as the country grapples with hyperinflation and shortages of essential goods, the UN says.\n\nDespite denying there is any humanitarian crisis, Mr Maduro announced this week that 300 tonnes of aid would be shipped from its ally Russia.\n\nMeanwhile, Russia's foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said the attempt to deliver aid could spark violence and be used as a pretext by the US to remove Mr Maduro.\n\nCiting unspecified information, she also accused the US and its Nato allies of discussing how to arm the Venezuelan opposition and claimed US special forces and equipment were being deployed near the country.\n\nThere is no doubt this has become a political issue. Juan Guaidó and his supporters want to spread the word about how important the foreign humanitarian aid is. President Maduro accuses it of being a Trojan horse.\n\nThere is a feeling of optimism among many Venezuelans at the moment - an energy that has not existed in the country for a long time. And the hope that Saturday may be the start of a new path.\n\nBut if the stand-off drags on, the fear is that this positive energy that has revived Mr Maduro's critics will wane, as will the interest of the international community, and that's what Mr Guaidó needs to achieve regime change.\n\nPeople want to know about a plan B - if indeed Mr Guaidó has thought of one. Otherwise, the hope here will soon turn to despair.\n\nMr Guaidó is leading a convoy that left the capital, Caracas, on Thursday, to Cúcuta, some 800km (500 miles) away.\n\nHe has said 600,000 volunteers have already signed up to help carry aid into Venezuela while the Venezuelan government said it would deliver 20,600 of its own food boxes to the Colombian border area.\n\nVenezuela's military has so far resisted calls to abandon Mr Maduro, in power since 2013.\n\nHowever, former military intelligence chief Hugo Carvajal called on the military to break with the president and to allow aid in. In a video posted online, the congressman recognised Mr Guaidó as \"president in charge\" and issued a stinging rebuke to Mr Maduro.\n\n\"You've killed hundreds of young people in the streets for trying to claim the rights you stole - this without even counting the dead for lack of medicines and security.\"\n\nMr Guaidó's aides in Washington said 11 Venezuelan diplomats based in the US had defected and declared their support for him.", "Last updated on .From the section Chelsea\n\nBertrand Traore scored four goals in 16 first-team appearances for Chelsea in all competitions Chelsea have been banned from signing players in the next two transfer windows for breaching rules in relation to youth players, Fifa has announced. The ban, until the end of January 2020, does not prevent the release of players and will not apply to their women's and futsal teams. The Premier League club have said they will appeal against the decision. Chelsea have also been fined £460,000, while the Football Association (FA) has been fined £390,000. It comes following a Fifa investigation into Chelsea's signing of foreign under-18 players, including former striker Bertrand Traore. The world governing body says it found breaches in 29 cases out of 92 investigated. \"We welcome the fact Fifa has accepted that there was no breach in relation to 63 of these players, but the club is extremely disappointed that Fifa has not accepted the club's submissions in relation to the remaining 29 players,\" said a statement from the Stamford Bridge club. \"Chelsea acted in accordance with the relevant regulations and will shortly be submitting its appeal to Fifa.\" The FA has been told by Fifa that it must \"address the situation\" regarding the international transfer and registration of minors. A spokesperson for English football's governing body said it had \"co-operated fully\" with the investigations and had \"raised some concerns\" regarding Fifa's disciplinary processes. A statement said: \"The FA intends to appeal against the decision. We will, however, continue to work with Fifa and Chelsea in a constructive manner to address the issues which are raised by this case.\" How did this come about? Based on documents from Football Leaks, French website Mediapart claimed in November that 19 Chelsea signings had been looked at during a three-year investigation. Mediapart alleged that 14 of those signings were under the age of 18. It was first reported in September 2017 that Chelsea were being investigated. Burkina Faso international Bertrand Traore - who now plays for Ligue 1 club Lyon - signed his first professional contract at Chelsea in 2013 at the age of 18 but was not registered until January 2014. Mediapart claimed Fifa found evidence that Chelsea had misled them over the dates, while Traore was found to have made 25 appearances for the Blues (under-16, under-18 and first team) despite not being registered by the FA. Chelsea admitted they paid his mother £155,000, as well as a further £13,000 to the club she chaired - AJE Bobo-Dioulasso - in April 2011 to allow them first refusal over his signature. That deal, it is alleged, was for four and a half years, despite the limit for under-18s being three years. In addition, it is also claimed Chelsea paid for Traore to attend the £20,000-a-year Whitgift School in Surrey. Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid both received bans for breaching rules over the signing of minors in early 2016, while fellow Spanish club Barcelona were given a 14-month ban after breaking rules for signing international under-18s in 2014. However, a Barcelona appeal saw their punishment pushed back a year, allowing the club to sign Luis Suarez, Ivan Rakitic, Jeremy Mathieu, Claudio Bravo and Marc-Andre ter Stegen. Fifa bans the transfer of under-18s to different countries unless they meet strict criteria. It brought in the rules to help protect children from exploitation and trafficking. Under-18s can only be transferred abroad if:\n• None The player's parents move to the country in which the new club is located for non-footballing reasons.\n• None Both clubs are in the European Union or European Economic Area and the player is aged between 16 and 18. Even then, the buying club must meet more criteria relating to education, training, living conditions and support.\n• None They live within 100km of the club.", "Churches such as St Mark's in Englefield, Berkshire, will no longer have to stage a Sunday service\n\nA weekly Sunday service will no longer be compulsory for churches after a vote to change a 400-year-old law was passed by the Church of England's ruling body.\n\nThe General Synod voted to end the law - dating back to 1603 - which required priests to hold a Sunday service in every church they looked after.\n\nThe Bishop of Willesden, who proposed the change, called it \"out of date\".\n\nMeanwhile, the General Synod has introduced six \"pastoral principles\" to improve the treatment of LGBT people.\n\nDecades of falling church attendances have left some priests looking after up to 20 rural churches.\n\nPreviously, a rural priest would need to apply for permission from a bishop to not hold a Sunday service in each church.\n\nThe Bishop of Willesden - the Right Reverend Pete Broadbent - chairs the Simplification Task Force formed in 2014 to improve the process of the Church of England.\n\nHe said changing the law reflected the current practice of priests who look after multiple churches.\n\nFollowing the vote, he said: \"You're meant to get a dispensation from the bishop - this just changes the rules to make it easier for people to do what they're already doing. It stops the bureaucracy.\n\n\"This was just one (amendment) where we said, 'Out of date, doesn't work, we're operating differently in the countryside now, therefore let's find a way of making it work.'\"\n\nWhen asked if the decision would affect elderly churchgoers in rural locations, who might have to travel further to attend a service, Rev Broadbent said: \"No, because at the moment this is already regularised and it's already happening.\"\n\nRev Hudson-Wilkin: \"Thursday is the new Sunday\"\n\nThe Reverend Rose Hudson-Wilkin, a chaplain to the Speaker of the House of Commons, said although it was \"wonderful\" to have \"that one day where everyone can concentrate\", the Church had to be realistic about people's day to day lives.\n\n\"Times are changing - it is not just about a shortage of clergy but also the fact that people work on a Sunday,\" she said.\n\n\"There is no use in crying over spilt milk. We need to find creative ways to worship.\"\n\nShe added that at her churches \"Thursday is the new Sunday\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAt the meeting of the General Synod on Thursday, a document outlining six principles to help improve the treatment of LGBT people was released.\n\nIt said the Church had been \"found wanting in its welcome and treatment of LGBTI+ people\".\n\nThe \"pastoral principles\" aim to encourage churches to see \"difference as a gift rather than a problem\", and build \"trust\" and \"generosity\".\n\nThe principles encourage people to acknowledge their prejudice, make churches places of welcome, conduct theological discussions with respect, \"cast out\" fear, extend courtesy and kindness to all and refuse to exploit power over others.\n\nThe document added that adopting the six principles \"could be transformative for the Church\" but would \"require a change of culture in terms of the quality of our relationships\".", "What will the MPs who have quit their parties to form a new centrist group in Parliament be feeling right now? Scared? Relieved? Excited? Or filled with sadness and even a touch of regret?\n\nIt was easy to see all of those emotions on display at the press conferences - two days apart - in which seven Labour MPs and then three Conservatives announced that they were quitting (the 11th member of the group, Joan Ryan, did not hold a press conference of her own).\n\nBut the tone of the two events was different.\n\nThe Labour defectors all spoke about what the Labour Party meant to them, how they had joined it as young people, filled with idealism and a desire to improve the lives of working people.\n\nBut, they said, the party had changed beyond all recognition under Jeremy Corbyn and they could no longer be part of it.\n\nIn other words: \"It's not me, it's you.\"\n\nMike Gapes - Labour MP for Ilford South since 1992 and a party member since 1968 - was, perhaps understandably, the most visibly moved by the occasion.\n\n\"I have always considered myself Labour to my core. I grew up in a working-class family, in a council house in Chigwell, in Essex,\" he told the audience.\n\nHe spoke about his father, \"a postman and trade union branch secretary\", and how he had served the party \"at every level\" in his long career.\n\nAngela Smith spoke at length about her working-class parents and how as a young girl she had cheered for then Labour leader Harold Wilson in 1966, when the rest of the country had been cheering England on in the World Cup.\n\nOthers were less sentimental about Labour. Chuka Umunna said he was fed up with the \"old tribal politics\", adding: \"You don't join a political party to spend years and years fighting the people in it.\"\n\nThere were mixed emotions at the Conservative event too, with Anna Soubry clearly finding it difficult at times, but there was a lot of laughter too, and less talk about family and background.\n\nHeidi Allen, who opened the event, was upbeat and business-like, as if she was leaving a job rather than breaking up a family.\n\n\"I feel excited, so excited. In a way that I haven't felt since I was first elected - and a sense of liberation,\" said the former Tory MP, who described the breakaway group as the \"three Amigos\".\n\nMs Allen does not have deep roots in the Conservative Party - she joined it in 2011 - after a successful career in business.\n\nThe Conservative Party - rather than a creed or a way of life - had been a career choice for her, she said. And she had been inspired to \"serve my country\" by the 2011 London riots, having previously had no interest in politics.\n\nLike fellow defector, Sarah Wollaston Ms Allen was a product of David Cameron's efforts to open up the Conservative Party to a more diverse and interesting range of MPs, with real-life experience.\n\nDr Wollaston, a GP, was the first Conservative MP to be selected in a US-style open primary, a postal ballot of everyone in her Totnes constituency, in 2009.\n\nMs Allen also took part in an open primary, in South East Cambridgeshire, which she narrowly lost, before being selected to replace the retiring Andrew Lansley in South Cambridgeshire.\n\nBoth have proved to be far too independent-minded for the Conservative Party whips, perhaps feeling they owe their first loyalty to their constituents rather than the party.\n\nAnd Dr Wollaston said she would not put herself forward as a Tory candidate now - because the party had changed so much.\n\nThe open primary system, meanwhile, appears to have been dropped.\n\nAnd it was clear from Anna Soubry's speech that all three believe Mr Cameron's attempt to modernise the Conservative Party is equally dead in the water.\n\nMr Cameron - in a rare public comment - said he had backed open primaries and he respected the decision of Dr Wollaston and Ms Allen to quit the party but he disagreed with them.\n\n\"We need strong voices at every level of the party calling for the modern, compassionate Conservatism that saw the Conservative Party return to office,\" said the former Tory leader.\n\nAnna Soubry told the Times Red Box podcast Mr Cameron made a last-ditch bid to try to stop the three from quitting, sending them a text saying: \"Is it too late to persuade you to stay?\"\n\nMs Soubry - who first joined the Conservatives as a student in the 1970s - was more sentimental about the party, in her speech.\n\n\"You don't leave a political party you have called home, without a great deal of thought and a considerable amount of heartache,\" she said.\n\nBut, she added, she had always been a member of the pro-EU \"one-nation\" Tory faction and now the party was entirely run by the \"awkward squad\" of hard Brexiteers in the European Research Group.\n\nWhat does Theresa May make of it all?\n\nThe ERG, which is headed by Jacob Rees-Mogg, is arguably far more in tune with the Conservative Party membership - who, polls suggest, are a Eurosceptic bunch (although the defectors say this is because local branches are being \"infiltrated\" by former UKIP members).\n\nWhat Theresa May makes of all this is anybody's guess.\n\nAs Tom McTague pointed out in a piece for Politico, even her closest associates have trouble working out what she thinks.\n\nBut she is someone who puts a high value on party loyalty.\n\nTo a far greater extent, perhaps, than the MPs who have now walked out of it, the Conservative Party has been her life.\n\nShe met her husband, Philip, at a Tory party dance, at Oxford University, and she is thought to do most of her socialising with fellow party members.\n\nLeaving a political party because you profoundly disagree with the direction it is taking might seem an obvious thing to do for those of us who have never been a member of one, let alone an MP.\n\nBut it is not as straightforward as that for some. And factors such as family tradition, loyalty to friends, and the sheer amount of time and work devoted to the cause - even if you no longer believe in it - will be playing on the minds of MPs thinking of joining the breakaway group in the coming days.", "Ian Austin has been the Labour MP for Dudley North since 2005, having previously been a councillor in the town.\n\nThe adoptive son of Czech Jewish refugees, he has been critical of attempts to tackle anti-Semitism within the party.\n\nHe was a minister for regional affairs under Gordon Brown.\n\nThe role came after a stint serving the former PM as a parliamentary aide.\n\nHe has also held several roles as a shadow minister, most recently for work and pensions in 2013.\n\nHe has described the decision to leave the party as the \"hardest decision I have ever had to take\".\n\nA vocal critic of Jeremy Corbyn, he has said that with a \"decent leader\" Labour could be twenty points ahead in the opinion polls.\n\n\"I certainly don't believe he's fit to be prime minister\", he told BBC WM shortly after quitting.\n\nHe retained his seat in the 2017 general election by the narrow margin of just 22 votes.\n\n\"This is one of the seats that Theresa May called the election to win\", he said after his triumph.\n\nHe was investigated by Labour after a confrontation with party chairman Ian Lavery in the House of Commons in July 2018, which he called the party's code of conduct on anti-Semitism a \"disgrace\".\n\nHe had criticised the party's decision at the time not to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance's \"working definition\" of anti-Semitism and all its examples - a move that was subsequently reversed.\n\nThe investigation was later dropped, with Mr Austin complaining that the party's handling of the case had been \"appalling\".\n\nAlthough he backed Remain in 2016, he is opposed to the idea of holding another EU referendum.\n\nThis sets him apart from the eight Labour MPs who quit earlier this week to join the new breakaway Independent Group.\n\nMr Austin says he will not be joining the new group, although he has previously expressed sympathy with their aims.", "Crowds come from far and wide\n\nIt seems plenty of people have wanted to watch the special fly-past and pay their own tribute to the men who died in the crash here all those years ago. Julia Johnson, pictured below, said she had come specially from London for the event. She said: \"I saw the article on the BBC website about Tony and the hard work and felt I really wanted to be here on the day, regardless of fly-past.\" Julia said she cried when she heard the story. The florist said she'd also offered to make a wreath for the servicemen who died in the crash. \"It’s fantastic and I’m very excited. Got the buzz walking here from the hotel. \"Lots staying at the hotel round the corner for this morning.\"", "Tributes to Alesha were left on the Isle of Bute alongside a school photograph of her\n\nA 16-year-old boy has been found guilty of the rape and murder of six-year-old Alesha MacPhail. Here we look at what happened in the hours before the brutal killing.\n\nWhen Alesha MacPhail went to bed for the last time she fell asleep watching Peppa Pig.\n\nThe first day of July had been full of fun for the six-year-old, who was at the start of a three-week summer break on the Isle of Bute.\n\nShe had travelled by ferry and car to a party on the mainland.\n\nAnd on returning at teatime she was taken to the park to play before watching YouTube videos on her grandmother's old phone until the battery ran out.\n\nLike most children her age Alesha was mischievous.\n\nDuring the 50-mile drive back from her home town of Airdrie to the ferry terminal in Wemyss Bay she annoyed her grandfather - Calum MacPhail - by repeatedly hitting a balloon onto the back of his head.\n\nBut that night Alesha burst into his room, jumped on his bed and gave him a cuddle.\n\nThe final words she said to him were: \"Goodnight, Grandpa.\"\n\nThe six-year-old was staying at her grandparents' house when she was abducted\n\nAlesha loved school and had just finished primary two.\n\nWendy Davie, headteacher of Chapelside Primary in Airdrie, said the youngster enjoyed reading and was a perfectionist when it came to her writing.\n\nMs Davie added: \"Alesha was a very considerate child who loved being part of a group and she was popular with all the other children and was a smiley and happy young girl.\"\n\nHer teacher, Emma Gibson, said she had an infectious personality.\n\nMs Gibson recalled: \"Alesha was a bright and bubbly little girl, she always came into class with that big beautiful smile of hers.\"\n\nShe was due to spend the first half of her summer holidays with her grandparents, her father Robert MacPhail, 26, and his 18-year-old girlfriend, Toni McLachlan.\n\nThey all lived in a three-bedroom flat on Ardbeg Road in Rothesay, the main town on the island on Scotland's west coast.\n\nAlesha had her own room in the flat and a trampoline in the garden.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The family of Alesha Macphail say their daughter dreamed of being a YouTube star.\n\nRobert and Alesha's mother, Georgina Lochrane, split up when she was three months old but the child travelled from Airdire to the island every second weekend.\n\nThere was plenty to keep her occupied and the schoolgirl loved to go to the local swimming pool and for walks in the country.\n\nHer father told the jury: \"We were never in. We were always doing something.\"\n\nAlesha dreamed of becoming a YouTube star and her mother later shared a video of the child vlogging about her love of pasta.\n\nThe youngster was a gentle soul and left a lasting impression on those who met her.\n\nHer uncle, Calum MacPhail, said Alesha had a \"great amount of love for absolutely everyone\" and was \"the brightest thing\".\n\nAlesha MacPhail was remembered by her headteacher as a \"bright and bubbly\" girl\n\nWhen she arrived on Bute on Thursday 28 June Alesha wanted to go Highland dancing.\n\nBut by the time they reached the 292 Club the class had finished.\n\nInstead, Alesha's grandparents, Calum MacPhail and Angela King, took her to the idyllic beach on Ettrick Bay.\n\nDuring the trial Calum recalled: \"She was in the water and having a great time.\"\n\nThe first major highlight of the holiday was Gala Day on 30 June.\n\nCalum said Alesha went on the children's train but especially enjoyed the donkey rides.\n\nThe following day, 1 July, she and her grandfather headed from the island to a birthday party in Airdrie.\n\nBut they arrived at the venue 24 hours late.\n\nAlesha's grandparents, Calum MacPhail and Angela King, gave evidence during the trial\n\nFortunately, Alesha met a school friend and secured an invite to another celebration at the same place.\n\nCalum, 49, said: \"She was over the moon again.\n\n\"I don't think she knew the person at all but somebody she knew was attending the party.\"\n\nThey arrived back in Rothesay at about 5.30pm.\n\nThe balloon she had used to hit her grandfather was let go and she chased it along the beach until it burst.\n\nDuring evidence at the murder trial, Angela, 47, recounted that special moment, telling the jury her granddaughter was a \"beautiful, beautiful, happy girl.\"\n\nAt about 6.40pm Alesha was dropped in town to meet her father and his girlfriend who took her to a park.\n\nAngela picked them up two hours later and they drove home via a local supermarket.\n\nBack in the flat Alesha took a slice of the pizza her father was having for dinner.\n\nDuring the trial Angela was asked where Alesha was that night.\n\nRobert MacPhail and his girlfriend Toni McLachlan with Alesha, aged six\n\nJust after 10pm Alesha's father Robert came out of his room and told his daughter to put away the phone she had been playing with.\n\nHe said: \"Time for bed. You will never sleep.\"\n\nBut Alesha managed to keep the device for a few more minutes until the battery ran out.\n\nCalum was watching TV when he heard his granddaughter banging on the wall.\n\nSeconds later the child's father went into her room and put on a Peppa Pig DVD.\n\nBefore he went to sleep Alesha's grandfather reminded Angela that a cartridge for the bubble machine they had bought Alesha as a surprise was due to be delivered the following day.\n\nSome time after 11pm Toni McLachlan went into the child's room to turn off her TV.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAsked about their relationship, Toni, whom Alesha affectionately called Toto, told the jury: \"I loved her to pieces.\"\n\nThe teenager broke down as she recalled switching the TV off as the Peppa Pig theme tune played on the menu screen.\n\nToni said: \"She was sleeping and her face was facing the wall and her hair was behind her on the pillow.\"\n\nShe closed the door and went to bed.\n\nThe next person to open it, just a few hours later, was Alesha's 16-year-old killer.", "One in 13 young people in England and Wales experiences post-traumatic stress disorder by the age of 18, the first research of its kind suggests.\n\nA study of more than 2,000 18-year-olds found nearly a third had experienced trauma in childhood.\n\nAnd a quarter of these then developed PTSD, which can cause insomnia, flashbacks and feelings of isolation.\n\nResearchers say, with many young people not receiving the support they need, the study should be a \"wake-up call\".\n\nThe study, published in The Lancet Psychiatry, found slightly more than half of those who had had PTSD - an anxiety disorder caused by very stressful, frightening or distressing events - had also experienced a major depressive episode and one in five had attempted suicide.\n\nBut only the same proportion - one in five - had been seen by a mental health professional in the past year.\n\nLead researcher Dr Stephanie Lewis, a Medical Research Council-funded researcher at the King's College London Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, said: \"Providing effective treatments early on could prevent mental health problems continuing into adulthood.\"\n\nFlo Sharman had life-saving surgery as a baby, which doctors now believe led to her PTSD\n\nFlo Sharman, 20, had a breakdown at the age of eight that left her housebound.\n\nBut it was only when she was 16 that neurologists concluded that breakdown was linked to something that had happened to her as a baby.\n\nAt four months old, Flo had a life-saving operation to remove parts of her stomach - to treat her serious acid reflux, which affected her ability to breathe.\n\nThe condition had led to her needing to be resuscitated on many occasions, Flo said.\n\nDoctors now believe her breakdown was caused by PTSD, a delayed reaction to the trauma she experienced as a baby, even though she has no conscious memory of what happened.\n\nShe says: \"When I had that life-saving surgery and the traumatic experiences in hospital, my parents weren't told you could have post-traumatic stress disorder because of the surgery and the time in hospital.\n\n\"They had no idea that this mental breakdown would happen. It was a real shock.\"\n\nFlo still has PTSD, which she says many people wrongly think affects only those in the armed forces.\n\n\"People don't really associate PTSD with a young child - and that has to change,\" she adds.\n\nParticipants in the study were judged to have had PTSD only if they had had all of the following symptoms for at least a month:\n\nExperiences of childhood trauma included assault, sexual assault, injury or an event that had affected someone they knew but they had not directly witnessed.\n\nSenior researcher Prof Andrea Danese, from the King's College London Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, said: \"Our findings should serve as a wake-up call.\n\n\"Childhood trauma is a public-health concern - yet trauma-related disorders often go unnoticed.\n\n\"Young people with PTSD are falling through the gaps in care and there is a pressing need for better access to mental health services.\"\n\nProf Danese said people should not be \"alarmed\" by the study's findings and it was normal to have some psychological symptoms after trauma.\n\nIn the \"vast majority\" of cases, these symptoms would recede in a matter of days or weeks, he said.\n\nBut if children and young people had them for over a month, parents should seek help from their GP.\n\nPTSD can be successfully treated - even when it develops many years after a traumatic event - with treatments including talking therapies and antidepressants.\n\nDr Tim Dalgleish, from the University of Cambridge, who was not involved in the research, said the results of the \"landmark study\" were \"sobering\".\n\n\"Of particular concern is the relatively small proportion of affected youth who go on to access formal support or mental health services and the findings are a further wake-up call that service provision in the UK for children and adolescents dealing with the aftermath of trauma is woefully inadequate,\" he said.\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokeswoman said: \"The NHS Long Term Plan has committed to prioritising increasing the funding for children and young people's mental health services faster than all other funding.\n\n\"As a result, 345,000 more children and young people have access to mental health services and support in schools and colleges, young adults will receive better support until the age of 25 and crisis care will be provided through NHS 111, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.\"", "The world's biggest bee has been re-discovered, after decades thought lost to science.\n\nThe giant bee - which is as long as an adult's thumb - was found on a little-explored Indonesian island.\n\nAfter days of searching, wildlife experts found a single live female, which they photographed and filmed.\n\nKnown as Wallace's giant bee, the insect is named after the British naturalist and explorer Alfred Russel Wallace, who described it in 1858.\n\nScientists found several specimens in 1981 on three Indonesia islands. It has not been seen alive since, although there was a report last year of two bee specimens being offered for sale online.\n\nIn January, a team followed in Wallace's footsteps on a journey through Indonesia in an attempt to find and photograph the bee.\n\nEli Wyman with one of the few known Wallace's giant bee samples\n\n\"It was absolutely breathtaking to see this 'flying bulldog' of an insect that we weren't sure existed anymore, to have real proof right there in front of us in the wild,\" said natural history photographer, Clay Bolt, who took the first photos and video of the species alive.\n\n\"To actually see how beautiful and big the species is in life, to hear the sound of its giant wings thrumming as it flew past my head, was just incredible. \"\n\nThe discovery, in the Indonesian islands known as the North Moluccas, raises hopes that the region's forests still harbour one of the rarest and most sought after insects in the world.\n\nThere are currently no legal protections around its trade.\n\nTrip member and bee expert Eli Wyman, an entomologist at Princeton University, said he hoped the rediscovery would spark research towards a deeper understanding of the life history of the bee and inform any future efforts to protect it from extinction.\n\nWallace's giant bee is currently listed as vulnerable to extinction, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature.\n\nHowever, the international trade of this species is currently not restricted by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species.\n\nEnvironmental group, Global Wildlife Conservation (GWC), which has launched a worldwide hunt for \"lost species\", supported the trip to find the bee.\n\n\"By making the bee a world-famous flagship for conservation, we are confident that the species has a brighter future than if we just let it quietly be collected into oblivion,\" said Robin Moore.\n\nIn January, the group announced they had found more rare Bolivian frogs belonging to a species thought to be down to one male.", "Daniel Craig and actress Lea Seydoux, who played Madeleine Swann in Spectre\n\nThe next James Bond movie is to be filmed under the working title Shatterhand, according to a listing in industry magazine Production Weekly.\n\nThe publication, which lists current and forthcoming film shoots, has an entry in its latest newsletter for \"Bond 25 w/t Shatterhand\".\n\nIt says shooting on the latest instalment of the spy saga will start at Pinewood Studios on 6 April.\n\nIt is expected to be Daniel Craig's final outing as 007.\n\nCary Fukunaga is directing, after Danny Boyle dropped out\n\nLast year, the release date of the new film was put back following Oscar-winning director Danny Boyle's abrupt decision to exit the project.\n\nIt was initially scheduled to arrive in UK cinemas on 25 October 2019 but is now due to be released on 8 April 2020, after reported rewrites of the script.\n\nTrue Detective director Cary Fukunaga has taken over directing duties.\n\nThere had been long-standing rumours that the new film may be called Shatterhand.\n\nThe name is an alias used by supervillain Ernst Blofeld in Ian Fleming's 1964 novel You Only Live Twice.\n\nCould the working title signal a return for Christoph Waltz's villain Blofeld?\n\nChristoph Waltz played Blofeld in the most recent Bond film Spectre, and Fukunaga has indicated he could return for the latest movie.\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.", "A judge has lifted a ban on naming 16-year-old Aaron Campbell as the killer of Alesha MacPhail.\n\nThe teenager has been found guilty of raping and murdering six-year-old Alesha on the Isle of Bute.\n\nMedia outlets, including the BBC, made a case for reversing the court order which had protected his identity because he was under the age of 18.", "A network of Jewish Labour members has backed Jeremy Corbyn over claims the party has become \"institutionally anti-Semitic\" under his leadership.\n\nSome 200 Labour supporters signed a Jewish Voice for Labour letter calling Mr Corbyn's party a \"crucial ally in the fight against bigotry\".\n\nAnti-Semitism on the left is \"abhorrent but relatively rare\", it argues.\n\nThe Board of Deputies of British Jews said the view ran \"counter to the experiences of Jewish Labour members\".\n\nOn Wednesday, Labour front-bench MP Barry Gardiner made an emotional apology to Jewish people \"let down\" by the party.\n\n\"We will not stop working until we have once again become a safe and welcoming political home for people from the Jewish community as from every other,\" Labour's international trade spokesman told the Commons.\n\nLiverpool Wavertree MP Luciana Berger quit the party for the new Independent Group on Monday, saying she had been subjected to \"thousands of messages of anti-Semitic abuse and hate\".\n\nTelling MPs she had been met with \"obfuscation, smears, inaction and denial\" after raising the problem, Ms Berger said she arrived at the \"sickening conclusion\" that the Labour Party was \"institutionally anti-Semitic\".\n\nBut the letter drafted by Jewish Voice for Labour, which describes itself as offering \"a space to explore and debate the many questions that are important to us as progressive Labour Jews\", rejects the suggestion.\n\n\"The Labour Party under the progressive leadership of Jeremy Corbyn is a crucial ally in the fight against bigotry and reaction,\" says the letter, published in the Guardian.\n\n\"His lifetime record of campaigning for equality and human rights, including consistent support for initiatives against anti-Semitism, is formidable. His involvement strengthens this struggle.\"\n\nThe group says the letter was signed by filmmaker Mike Leigh, writer Michael Rosen and author Gillian Slovo, as well as several academics and Walter Wolfgang, 93, who fled Nazi Germany as a child.\n\nIt backs the Labour Party's endorsement of freedom of expression on Israel and on the rights of Palestinians.\n\nHowever, Board of Deputies President Marie van der Zyl said: \"The usual bunch of anti-Semitism deniers have written to the Guardian to declare that anti-Jewish hate in the Labour Party is rare.\"\n\nShe said the letter was \"particularly disrespectful\" to Ms Berger who had suffered \"years of anti-Semitic abuse, much of it from fellow party members\".\n\n\"This crisis will only be ended once the denial stops and Labour takes this problem seriously. Our community cannot have any confidence in Labour until the leadership commits to action.\"\n\nJewish Voice for Labour was formed in 2017 and has consistently backed Mr Corbyn's leadership.\n\nIt is separate to the Jewish Labour Movement, formed in 1903, which has called extraordinary general meetings for 6 March, reportedly to discuss ending its 99-year affiliation with the Labour Party.", "Rochelle Washington (l), and Latresa Scaff (r) are being represented by lawyer Gloria Allred\n\nTwo more women have come forward with allegations of sexual misconduct against the R&B singer R Kelly.\n\nRochelle Washington and Latresa Scaff told a news conference they were given drink and drugs at an after-concert party in Baltimore in the 1990s.\n\nThey said the singer then cornered them in a hotel room and demanded sex.\n\nKelly, 52, has been accused of decades of sexual abuse against women. He has never been convicted and denies all the allegations.\n\nAddressing journalists in New York, the two women said they were teenagers when Kelly's security staff picked them out of a concert audience. They were unable to give the exact year but said it was either 1995 or 1996.\n\nMs Scaff, 40, said that at the party they were given cocaine, marijuana and alcohol and invited to wait for the singer in his hotel room.\n\nOnce there, they were told that he was about to arrive and that they should pull up their dresses, she said.\n\nThe singer arrived with his penis exposed, Ms Scaff said, and invited the girls to a threesome.\n\nR Kelly has strongly denied all the allegations against him\n\nMs Washington, now 39, refused and went to the bathroom while Ms Scaff stayed and had sex with him \"even though I did not have the capacity to consent\" because of the drink and drugs, she added.\n\nMs Scaff said she had decided to come forward \"because of all of the other victims\".\n\nThe two women are represented by high-profile lawyer Gloria Allred who said they would be speaking to the US Attorney for the Eastern District of New York on Thursday.\n\nMs Allred also represents several other women who have made allegations against Kelly.\n\nReferring to the star she said: \"You have nowhere to run and nowhere to hide. You have been able to get away with your predatory misconduct for far too long.\"\n\nR Kelly, whose full name is Robert Sylvester Kelly, has faced claims of sexual abuse for more than 20 years.\n\nA recent documentary, Surviving R Kelly, shown on the US channel Lifetime, contained detailed accounts of his alleged physical and emotional abuse of women.\n\nIt claimed the singer ran an \"abusive cult\" in which he allegedly kept women captive.\n\nKelly's lawyers dismissed the documentary as \"another round of stories\" being used to \"fill reality TV time\".", "James Gargasoulas drove his car into pedestrians in Melbourne in 2017\n\nAn Australian man has been sentenced to life in jail for murdering six people and injuring 27 more in a vehicle attack in Melbourne.\n\nJames Gargasoulas, 29, deliberately ploughed a stolen car into pedestrians in the city centre in January 2017.\n\nHe later told a court in a confusing speech that he had carried out the attack after receiving a premonition.\n\nOn Friday, a judge described it as one of the worst mass murders in Australian history.\n\n\"You made no attempt to avoid people or to slow down. You simply ploughed through them, quite deliberately,\" Justice Mark Weinberg said, according to a report by Seven News.\n\nGargasoulas will be eligible for parole after 46 years.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHe had pleaded not guilty to the attack on busy Bourke St, but later admitted to carrying it out.\n\nDuring his trial last year, a jury was shown graphic footage of Gargasoulas, also known by the name Dimitrious, targeting pedestrians at speeds of more than 60km/h (37mph).\n\nHis youngest victim, Zachary Bryant, was struck alongside his sister in a double pram. Miraculously, two-year-old Zara somehow survived being thrown 150m (500ft) through the air.\n\nOther footage showed Gargasoulas driving erratically beforehand, as dozens of bystanders watched on.\n\nGargasoulas testified that he had received a premonition from God directing him to drive into pedestrians. When asked whether he knew he would kill people, he said: \"In a sense, yes.\"\n\nHe also read a two-page statement - cut down from 25 pages - in which he apologised for his actions, but also rambled about subjects such as the \"Illuminati\" and government \"oppression\".\n\nA jury took less than an hour to convict him last year, after what prosecutors called \"the clearest case of criminal liability that you will ever come across\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn his sentencing remarks, Justice Weinberg said Gargasoulas's actions were not caused by mental illness, noting the killer had been in a drug-induced psychosis at the time.\n\n\"You knew full well what you were doing,\" Justice Weinberg said.\n\nSeveral relatives of the victims had spoken of their devastation in court.\n\nZachary's father, Matthew Bryant, said: \"I listened to his heartbeat and held him for the last time trying desperately to hold onto the moment. He had a lifetime of firsts taken from him and all the joys that come with it.\"\n\nMasayuki and Minako Kanno said they were living in \"deep pain and sorrow\" after the death of their son, Yosuke, a Japanese student who had been studying in Melbourne.\n\nA makeshift memorial in 2017 featuring photos of victims Matthew Si and Jess Mudie\n\nThree months ago, Bourke St was the scene of an unrelated terror incident that left one victim dead and two others injured.", "Are the tectonic plates of British politics moving with the formation of a new \"centrist\" group in Parliament - or are we experiencing a minor tremor?\n\nIt's too soon to say - but that won't stop some MPs and commentators declaiming as though they were expert political seismologists.\n\nSo let's stand back and examine the landscape.\n\nA split is quite an easy thing to understand.\n\nBut currently there are fissures that run all the way through British politics and which makes the future look far from stable.\n\nThe addition of three Conservative MPs to the ranks of eight Labour defectors could, on the surface, look like the breaking of the British political mould.\n\nBut let's examine the multiple fissures more closely.\n\nMomentum - the influential group of Labour left wingers - has denounced the nascent political grouping as neo-liberal Blairites and Tories.\n\nYet not many \"Blairites\" or centrists have, as yet, signed up to this project.\n\nOne reason is Brexit - the primary reason for the breakaway, according to defecting former Labour MP Chris Leslie.\n\nSenior members of the People's Vote campaign for another EU referendum - who most people would regard as ardent supporters of the last Labour government - pleaded for months with Chuka Umunna not to set up a breakaway group before Brexit had been settled one way or another.\n\nThey did not want People's Vote to be seen as a de facto new party because they felt this might breed suspicion among left-wing Labour Party members who are far more pro-EU than their party leader.\n\nLeading lights in the People's Vote campaign wanted to detach these Labour members from Mr Corbyn, so that they could back a new referendum without feeling disloyal.\n\nBut the defectors have gone over the top now - they have formed what looks like the beginning of a new party.\n\nThey might have been able to take more \"centrists\" with them had they waited.\n\nBut timing and tactics aren't the only divisions amongst the so-called \"centrists\" in Parliament.\n\nThis is an over simplification but essentially the centrists split in to two groups.\n\nFirst, the defectors, along with those who are all but ready to defect or for whom it wouldn't take much to push over the brink that they have precariously occupied.\n\nAnd secondly, those who will \"stay and fight\".\n\nThe success of the breakaway will - in part - depend on how many will move from group two to group one.\n\nEssentially, the current fissure is based on those for whom \"stop Corbyn\" is their overriding objective - and those whose fundamental deep seated raison d'etre is to Stop the Tories.\n\nAnd the sight today of former Labour MP Ann Coffey chatting away, in apparently chummy terms, to former Conservative Sarah Wollaston on the same Parliamentary bench will make it more difficult, not less, for the Independents to attract further Labour support.\n\nHaving said that, I still expect to see a few more defectors - the Labour leadership expect a dozen in total to go.\n\nIncidentally, it may also limit the appeal to those Labour voters long uncomfortable with Mr Corbyn but who have felt they had nowhere else to go.\n\nFormer Scottish Labour leader Jim Murphy told me the story of when he canvassed a voter very disillusioned with his party on a number of issues including immigration.\n\n\"I was thinking of backing the BNP then I thought 'naw, that would just let the Tories in'\", said the voter.\n\nIn some parts of the country a group which takes in former Labour and Conservative MPs could be seen as refreshing - but in others it will be toxic.\n\nThe Conservative defections have also allowed abrasive left wingers to say they were right all along to paint Chuka Umunna and chums as \"red Tories\".\n\nThere is a debate in Labour leadership circles about whether to call another confidence vote in the government, in the hope that the new group will vote with Theresa May and be depicted not so much as red Tories but actual Tories.\n\nOne prominent \"centrist\" Labour MP told me privately he was pleased some of his colleagues had gone as he would no longer himself be \"tarred\" with the accusation that he would leave - or that his loyalty wasn't first and foremost to the party.\n\nBut there are also divisions within the Left on how to handle this.\n\nIs it better to be conciliatory and try to address not just the defections but the causes of them?\n\nThis is the approach favoured not only by Dave Prentis - the general secretary of Britain's largest union Unison - but privately by some much closer to Mr Corbyn.\n\nBut others want to \"clean out the stables\" and step up the de-selection of the Corbyn critics who remain in the party.\n\nSome close to the leadership do not want this to happen - but admit that controlling some of the activists who have joined the party in recent times isn't an easy task.\n\nOne left-wing insider told me that they had been genuinely shocked at some of the examples of anti-Semitism in the party but trying to convince some rank and file members that the allegations and investigations were not part of an anti-Corbyn plot was a forlorn task.\n\nSo the number of future defectors may depend on how disciplined and measured the reaction is from the Labour leadership's supporters in local parties. Some MPs could yet feel \"forced out\".\n\nWhere the Left is united is in calling for the defectors to stand down as MPs and fight by-elections.\n\nMany of those MPs have large majorities and, don't forget, many of them would - as we revealed at the last election - have barely mentioned the Labour leader in their 2017 campaign literature and instead punted the message that Theresa May needed reining in.\n\nAnd both Shirley Williams and Roy Jenkins scored spectacular (but short lived) by-election victories in the early days of the Social Democratic Party, which broke away from Labour in the early 1980s.\n\nSo the Left may have to be careful what they wish for.\n\nA couple of members of the new Independent Group are said to be considering putting themselves in front of the electorate.\n\nSo far, we know more about what this new group is against than for.\n\nAnd possibly for former Labour MPs the biggest risk in a by-election would not be defeat by their old party but so dividing the centre-left vote that a Conservative wins.\n\nThat might do more to herd some potential defectors back in to their Labour fold.\n\nAny anti-Brexit former Tories would face a brutal campaign which would seek to rally pro-Brexit voters by portraying the defectors as part of a political establishment which would betray the verdict of the people.\n\nBut perhaps the way the new Independent Group might change the political dynamic is this - their mere existence tells the leadership of the traditional parties that if they don't listen to the concerns of their parliamentarians they - and some their voters - really do have somewhere else to go.\n\nSo they present a challenge to those at the top of the existing parties.\n\nHow - and if - the leaderships of these parties change could determine whether the defections eventually register on the political Richter scale.", "A vegan cheesemonger in Brixton has been told to stop calling its produce “cheese”.\n\nDairy UK says that using the word \"cheese\" for anything other than real dairy products is misleading.\n\nIt says plant-based alternatives do not have the same nutritional contents. The shop owners say they are clearly labelling their food.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIan Austin has become the ninth MP to quit Labour this week, blaming leader Jeremy Corbyn for \"creating a culture of extremism and intolerance\".\n\nHe told the BBC the leadership had failed to tackle anti-Semitism and had turned the party into a \"narrow sect\".\n\nBut the MP for Dudley North said he had no plans to join the new Independent Group of former Labour and Tory MPs.\n\nMr Corbyn denied claims bullying was rife in Labour, telling Sky News any \"bad behaviour\" had been dealt with.\n\nMeanwhile, his deputy Tom Watson said Mr Austin's departure was a \"serious blow\" to Labour.\n\nA Labour spokesman suggested Mr Austin should stand down and call a by-election in his West Midlands seat, which he won by only 22 votes in 2017.\n\nMr Austin told the Express & Star newspaper, which first broke news of his resignation, that it was the \"most difficult decision\" he had ever had to take.\n\nThe MP, who has represented the West Midlands constituency since 2005, later told BBC West Midlands that he was \"ashamed\" of the party.\n\n\"I grew up listening to my dad, who was a refugee from the Holocaust, teaching me about the evils of hatred and prejudice,\" he said.\n\n\"One of the main reasons I joined the Labour Party as a teenager here in Dudley more than 35 years ago was to fight racism and I could never have believed I would be leaving the Labour party because of racism too.\"\n\nIan Austin (right), campaigning with Harriet Harman and John Prescott in 2010\n\nAnother MP resigns, pouring scathing criticism on their leader at the end of a watershed week at Westminster.\n\nIan Austin's decision not to join his former colleagues in the new Independent Group is telling.\n\nIt shows that he felt strongly enough about the problem of anti-Semitism within Labour to quit the party he has been a member of for 45 years on that basis alone.\n\nBut it also suggests that Parliament's newest group may be seen above all for what, in the absence of any policies, unites them.\n\nThat is support for a further referendum on leaving the EU, something Ian Austin would not sign up to.\n\nFor him the push from a party in which he no longer felt at home was more powerful that the pull of life in a new party on the outside.\n\nOther Labour and Conservative MPs who are considering their future will also need to decide whether they're better off out than in, and whether the Independent Group is the place for them.\n\nExplaining his decision not to call a by-election, Mr Austin said he had been openly critical of Mr Corbyn during the 2017 election campaign.\n\nHe said his \"work for the people in this community is going to carry on as it always has\".\n\nTom Watson, Labour's deputy leader, said he was \"deeply saddened\" by his close friend's decision to leave.\n\n\"I didn't want him to go, not just because he is a friend but because Labour needs people of his experience, calibre and passion if we are to win,\" he added.\n\nMr Watson recently said Labour had been slow to deal with the anti-Semitism row and he \"no longer recognises\" the party .\n\nBut Mr Corbyn, who has been in Madrid for a meeting of European socialists, took issue with Mr Watson's comments and said he would talk to him about them in the \"near future\".\n\nThe Labour leader told Sky News: \"There is no place for harshness, bullying or anything else in the party. I don't believe that it exists on a wide scale.\n\n\"Where there is bad behaviour we deal with it. Where there is a problem we deal with it.\"\n\nDerby North MP Chris Williamson, a close ally of Mr Corbyn, said his departure was \"no loss\".\n\nDescribing Mr Austin as \"stuck in the 1990s... a New Labour relic\", he told the BBC: \"I for many years wasn't particularly a fan of Tony Blair, but I didn't throw my toys out of the pram.\"\n\nMr Austin \"fought the last election under false pretences\", using Labour's brand to get elected, Mr Williamson added.\n\nIn an interview with London's Evening Standard, conducted before Mr Austin's resignation, shadow chancellor John McDonnell warned people behaving in a way \"construed as anti-Semitic\" that: \"They will be dealt with. Full stop. They are not welcome.\"\n\nHe admitted the leadership let down Jewish MP Luciana Berger, who described the party as \"institutionally anti-Semitic\" when leaving to join the Independent Group.\n\nThere was not enough support for Ms Berger, \"not enough action\", Mr McDonnell said, before pledging to \"sort it\".\n\nMr Austin was a minister for regional affairs under Gordon Brown and part of Ed Miliband's front-bench team in opposition.\n\nHe said he \"agreed\" with the eight MPs who left Labour to form the Independent Group earlier this week that things \"have got to change\".\n\nHowever, he wants a Brexit deal concluded, rather than a further referendum on EU membership.\n\nWhile Mr Austin did not rule out joining the group, he told BBC Radio 5 Live he was \"not anticipating doing that any time soon\".\n\nMs Berger tweeted that she fully understood why he had come to \"this difficult and painful decision\" of leaving Labour.\n\nAnother of the defectors, Chuka Umunna, tweeted his \"massive respect\" to Mr Austin, adding: \"It's painful and hard but he has stayed true to his values and what he believes to be the national interest.\"", "Tork was diagnosed with a rare form of tongue cancer in 2009\n\nPeter Tork, a member of the made-for-TV pop group The Monkees, has died at the age of 77.\n\n\"There are no words right now... heartbroken over the loss of my Monkee brother Peter Tork,\" bandmate Micky Dolenz tweeted.\n\nTork, who played keyboard and bass for the group, was diagnosed with a rare form of tongue cancer in 2009.\n\nThe Monkees were huge in the 1960s, with hits like I'm A Believer and Daydream Believer.\n\nA post on Tork's official Facebook page said \"the devastating news\" was being shared \"with beyond-heavy and broken hearts\".\n\nIt said: \"Our friend, mentor, teacher, and amazing soul, Peter Tork, has passed from this world.\"\n\nA message posted on the band's official Twitter page said that Tork had \"passed peacefully\" and invited fans to share their favourite memories by adding their comments.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by The Monkees\n\nThe family later released a statement in which they said they were \"saddened\" by Tork's death, but \"grateful\" for the \"attentive energy and dedication of Peter's fans worldwide\".\n\n\"Peter's energy, intelligence, silliness and curiosity were traits that for decades brought laughter and enjoyment to millions, including those of us closest to him.\n\n\"We ask that our family have time and space to grieve in privacy,\" it added.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Brian Wilson 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. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Monkees - Davy Jones, Micky Dolenz, Michael Nesmith and Peter Tork - were brought together for an American TV series in 1966.\n\nThey were famous for their clean-cut image and were marketed as the American answer to The Beatles, notching up nine Top 40 hits.\n\nAs well as playing instruments for the band, Tork also sang on many of the tracks.\n\nAmong those to pay tribute on Thursday were Canadian singer-songwriter Ron Sexsmith and Blur guitarist and solo artist Graham Coxon, who simply tweeted: \"RIP Peter Tork - my favourite Monkee.\"\n\nAward-winning songwriter Diane Warren, who contributed to the 80s hit Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now by Starship, tweeted \"Oh no\" and thanked Tork for \"giving me your love beads... when I was a little girl\".\n\nThe post on Tork's Facebook told fans: \"We want to thank each and every one of you for your love, dedication and support of our 'boss.'\n\n\"Having you in our world has meant so very much to all of us. Please know that Peter was extremely appreciative of you, his Torkees, and one of his deepest joys was to be out in front of you, playing his music, and seeing you enjoy what he had to share.\n\n\"We send blessings and thoughts of comfort to you all, with much gratitude, the PTFB team.\"\n\nTork was born in Washington in 1942. He learned to play multiple instruments, including the piano and the French horn.\n\nAs recently as October last year, he addressed \"some concerns\" about his health on Facebook.\n\n\"While it is true that my health has required a little more attention these days, I'm feeling pretty good,\" he wrote.\n\nThe Monkees ran for just two television series, but that was enough to win an Emmy Award for outstanding comedy.\n\nDiscussing the show in an interview with Guitar World in 2013, Tork said: \"I refute any claims that any four guys could've done what we did.\"\n\nHe added: \"There was a magic to that collection... they got the right guys.\"\n\nIn 2012, following the death of Jones from a heart attack in February at the age of 66, Tork reunited with Nesmith and Dolenz for a US tour in what was the musicians' first live shows together in 15 years.\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. Simon Coveney said he hoped the legislation \"proves redundant\"\n\nThe Irish deputy prime minister has said he hopes that major legislation his government has prepared to manage a no-deal Brexit will never be used.\n\nSimon Coveney unveiled the wide-ranging bill on Friday, bringing together work by nine government departments.\n\nHe said a \"disorderly\" Brexit would be a \"lose, lose, lose\" for the UK, the EU and the Republic of Ireland.\n\nHis aim for the emergency proposals is to ensure a smooth transition should the UK leave the EU without a deal.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe legislation is designed to support businesses and to protect jobs, essential services and citizens' rights.\n\nIt is envisaged that it will be fast-tracked through the Irish parliament and be signed into law before 29 March, when the UK is due to leave the EU.\n\nMr Coveney said he hoped it \"proves redundant\" and his \"only desire\" was to see it sit \"on the shelf\".\n\n\"A no-deal Brexit will be a major shock for the Irish economy,\" he added.\n\nDublin Port has been preparing for a no-deal Brexit scenario\n\n\"We cannot offset all the damage it will do, but we are doing everything we can.\n\n\"This legislation is the product of a root-and-branch trawl of our laws to determine what changes will be needed if the UK becomes a third country overnight.\"\n\nThe 70-page bill is one of the most elaborate pieces of legislation ever brought forward by an Irish government.\n\nBut the complexities of Brexit mean that Dublin hopes the hard work will go to waste.\n\nSimon Coveney says he still believes there will be a deal between the UK and the EU, but Ireland must be as prepared as possible for the other scenario.\n\nThe legislation covers matters under the remit of nine ministers - a big range of topics, from energy to extraditions.\n\nHowever, the most tricky issue of all - the future of the land border with Northern Ireland - doesn't feature.\n\nTaoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Leo Varadkar said his government was doing \"all we can to avoid a no deal scenario but we need to be ready in case it does happen\".\n\n\"This special law enables us to mitigate against some of the worst effects of no deal by protecting citizens' rights, security and facilitating extra supports for vulnerable businesses and employers,\" he added.\n\nSome of the main provisions of the legislation are:\n\nThe opposition parties in the Republic of Ireland are to be briefed on the measures, as their support may be necessary to get the bill passed.\n\nThe Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) MP Sammy Wilson said that the absence of a plan for customs checkpoints at the Irish border - \"the sort of border infrastructure that some in Dublin and Brussels have been having nightmares about\" - was proof that there was \"no need for the type of borders we knew\" during the Northern Ireland Troubles.\n\n\"No-one is building a so-called hard border or going back to checkpoints with soldiers,\" added the East Antrim politician.\n\n\"Such talk was rhetoric designed to ferment fear in genuine communities along both sides of the border.\"", "Four pairs of Christian Louboutin trainers each went for more than £250\n\nDozens of pairs of designer trainers that were seized after a gangster was arrested have sold for nearly £5,000 at auction.\n\nIsaiah Hanson-Frost is serving a six-year jail sentence for shooting a gun at a car containing rival gang members.\n\nThe 55 pairs of trainers, were valued at about £18,500 and included brands such as Christian Louboutin, Louis Vuitton, Jimmy Choo and Gucci.\n\nThe money raised will go towards helping to prevent crime.\n\nLee Baldwin of AMS Auctions said the response was \"exceptional\", and the sale attracted bids from as fair afield as Australia, USA, Trinidad and Romania.\n\nHe added: \"Based on our initial valuation of the shoes AMS are delighted with the sale result which has ensured a healthy return to the Gloucestershire constabulary in a transparent and justified manner.\"\n\nThese trainers are by the Italian designer Giacomo Morelli\n\nDuring a hearing last November, Hanson-Frost denied possession of criminal property but agreed to hand over his collection of trainers.\n\nUnder the Police Property Act, the Gloucestershire force was able to auction off the trainers, which fetched £4,738.\n\nHanson-Frost was jailed in April after admitting violent disorder and possessing a firearm with intent to cause fear of violence in relation to the shooting, which happened on the Chase Lane Industrial Estate in Gloucester.\n\nThe 22-year-old, who was cleared of possession of criminal property when the prosecution chose not to proceed with the case, was allowed to keep any Nike trainers valued at less than £100.", "The guidance also covers support for runaways\n\nA children's charity is taking High Court action against the government over its claims that some protections of children in care are \"myths\".\n\nThe Article 39 charity is seeking a judicial review of Department for Education guidance to English councils responsible for vulnerable children.\n\nThe \"myth-busting guide\" suggests some duties around social worker visits, protections for missing children and care leavers' support can be cut back.\n\nThe guide, which was published last summer, came from the DfE's innovation unit, which encourages new ways of working in children's social care.\n\nIt covers the interpretation of legal protections for children in care, care leavers, children who are in custody on remand, and children who go missing or run away.\n\nIt comes at a time when local authorities are struggling to pay for support for children in need of protection, with a predicted £2bn shortfall in children's services budgets by 2020.\n\nRelease from some of these duties may save them money in the short term, but campaigners say they are important statutory protections which cover some of the most vulnerable children in society.\n\nLast year, 50 organisations and social work experts wrote to children's minister Nadhim Zahawi with a detailed analysis of discrepancies between the guide and the statutory position.\n\nThey asked him to withdraw the guide, but he refused - saying neither the legislation nor the statutory guidance had changed.\n\nDirector of Article 39, Carolyne Willow, said: \"This document overwrites key obligations within our children's social care system, which were crafted over many years and subject to detailed public consultations.\n\n\"The protections the guide presents as mythical exist in our legislation and statutory guidance because of the real needs of children and young people.\"\n\nShe added that nothing in the guidance was about giving children more support.\n\nLegal experts at Simpson Millar, acting on behalf of the charity, lodged the High Court action this week.\n\nIt seeks to have the guidance quashed and removed from circulation.\n\nSolicitor Oliver Studdert said: \"In following this guide, local authorities will be denying fundamental support and protection, set out in law, to large numbers of children and young people.\"\n\nHe said it could lead to local authorities acting unlawfully and weaken the protections given to vulnerable children and young people.\n\nThe parts of the guidance being challenged include:\n\nEnver Solomon, chief executive of the Just for Kids Law charity, said: \"We know from our casework that local authorities all too often fail to meet their legal obligations to children and young people, and it should be the government's first priority to ensure that they do, rather than publishing misleading information that could result in even more unlawful behaviour on the part of statutory services.\"\n\nThe Department for Education would not comment directly on the case, but said it had received the application.\n\nA spokesman for the Local Government Association said it supported giving experienced professionals the flexibility to try new approaches, as long is it is scrutinised and regulated.\n\nHe said the guidance had provided helpful advice on where councils could able to do things differently if they felt this was in the best interests of children.\n\nAnd he added: \"But it is important that any questions around the accuracy of elements of this advice are clarified as soon as possible, so that councils and their residents can be confident that any action taken is fully in line with current legislation and guidance.\"", "Alfie Lamb was described in court as \"the loveliest boy you could ever meet\"\n\nThe mother of a three-year-old boy allegedly crushed by a car seat has been found guilty of child cruelty.\n\nAdrian Hoare, 23, failed to prevent her boyfriend Stephen Waterson, 25, from allegedly squashing Alfie Lamb in the footwell of his Audi convertible with his seat in February last year.\n\nHoare was cleared of manslaughter while a jury failed to reach a verdict on the same charge for Mr Waterson.\n\nThe pair previously admitted perverting the course of justice.\n\nHoare and Mr Waterson had been travelling with Emilie Williams and Marcus Lamb, who was driving, and were returning to Croydon from a shopping trip in Sutton, south London on 1 February last year.\n\nAdrian Hoare failed to prevent her boyfriend Stephen Waterson from allegedly squashing Alfie\n\nIn a police interview played to the court, 19-year-old Ms Williams said Mr Waterson's seat \"was right back... because he said he had to stretch his legs right out\".\n\n\"Alfie was kicking the chair, asking him to move it forward\" but apart from shifting it \"for a few seconds\", Mr Waterson refused, the jury heard.\n\nIt was alleged Mr Waterson became annoyed at Alfie's crying and twice moved his front passenger seat into him as he sat at his mother's feet.\n\nDespite Alfie's distress, Hoare said the boy was \"getting himself worked up\" and she told him to \"shut up\", Ms Williams said.\n\nStephen Waterson, Adrian Hoare and Alfie Lamb had been on a shopping trip in Sutton, south London\n\nShe told police Hoare believed Alfie had gone to sleep when he went quiet, then \"thought he was just mucking around\" as she tried to wake him.\n\nMs Williams added that when the boy was lifted from the car by Mr Waterson, he looked \"pale\" and was not moving.\n\nBy the time they arrived at Mr Waterson's home in Croydon, the boy had collapsed and stopped breathing. Medics tried to revive him but Alfie died from crush asphyxia three days later.\n\nAfterwards the defendants lied to police about what happened.\n\nAlfie and another child were both in the rear footwell of the car during the journey to Croydon\n\nThe Old Bailey also heard Ms Williams had been threatened by Mr Waterson, who tried to persuade her to lie about what happened.\n\n\"He was telling me a lot of things. He said he would put me in the boot of the car and get rid of me. He said he would kill me,\" she said.\n\nHoare was also \"going along with it and helping\".\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) is deciding whether to push for a retrial on Mr Waterson.\n\nHoare will be sentenced at the Old Bailey on 4 March.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Theresa May has held meetings with leading Tory Remainers, amid speculation about further defections.\n\nJustine Greening and Phillip Lee say Mrs May has ignored requests from pro-EU Tory MPs in favour of Brexiteers.\n\nThe pair had separate meetings with the PM in Downing Street.\n\nMeanwhile, one ex-Labour member of the new Independent Group of MPs has said it could help keep Mrs May in power on condition that she agreed to another EU referendum with Remain as an option.\n\nHowever, the PM was focused on her own party on Thursday, as she met cabinet ministers David Gauke and Greg Clark.\n\nThe pair have warned of the dangers to business of leaving the EU without a formal deal, an option which Brexiteers in the European Research Group of Conservative MPs insist must be preserved as negotiating leverage in Brussels.\n\nThe government said on Thursday that talks would continue \"urgently\" at a technical level, following \"productive\" meetings involving Brexit Secretary Stephen Barclay, Attorney General Geoffrey Cox and the EU's chief negotiator Michel Barnier.\n\nIn the UK, ex-Labour MP Gavin Shuker told The Huffington Post members of the new Independent Group had first made the offer of a potential confidence and supply agreement - like the one the DUP has with the government - last month in a meeting with the PM's second-in-command David Lidington.\n\nThen-Labour MPs Chris Leslie, Luciana Berger and Chuka Umunna, along with then-Tory Anna Soubry, who have all joined the group this week, were also at the meeting.\n\nMr Shuker said he had told Mr Lidington he would support any type of deal provided there was a \"confirmatory referendum\" to get public backing but that the offer was rejected.\n\nPhillip Lee met Theresa May for talks in Downing Street\n\nThe leaders of both main parties are battling to prevent more defections after eight Labour MPs and three Tories broke away to form a new \"centrist\" group in Parliament.\n\nTheresa May has written to the three Tory defectors - Anna Soubry, Heidi Allen and Sarah Wollaston - to reject what she describes as the \"picture they paint of the party\", saying its record on the NHS, employment and diversity proved it was \"moderate\" and \"open-hearted\".\n\nThe prime minister offered to \"continue to work together on issues\" where they agree - but told the three she rejected \"the parallel you draw with the way Jeremy Corbyn and the hard left have warped a once-proud Labour Party\".\n\nIn response to their claim that local Tory associations are being taken over by former UKIP members, Mrs May said: \"An open, broad party should always welcome new members and supporters with a range of views, including those who have previously supported other parties.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBut she said local party branches had been warned to ensure new members support the party's \"values and objectives\".\n\nEx-Tory MP Heidi Allen, one of the three defectors from the party, told ITV's Peston programme \"a third\" of Conservative MPs were fed up with the party's direction.\n\nMs Greening and Mr Lee, who quit as a justice minister over Brexit, have been named by Ms Allen as potential future defectors to the Independent Group.\n\nThe Right to Vote group, which is chaired by Mr Lee, said he had discussed the campaign's calls for a pause in the Brexit process and a possible second referendum with Mrs May.\n\n\"Talks were open and we are encouraged she listened to our case,\" the group said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"I don't think I would be able to stay part of a party that was simply a Brexit party that had crashed us out of the EU\"\n\nMr Lee has said one of the reasons the Tory MPs decided to quit the party was the access the Brexiteer European Research Group got to the prime minister, who he said had refused to meet his wing of the party.\n\nJustine Greening - a former education secretary - told the Today programme she had been tempted to break away from the Conservative Party and join the Independent Group.\n\n\"It is something that I have considered, but I have reached a different conclusion for the moment,\" Ms Greening told Today.\n\n\"I don't think I would be able to stay part of a party that was simply a Brexit party that had crashed us out of the European Union.\"\n\nThe Independent Group was set up by eight defecting Labour MPs unhappy with their party's handling of Brexit and anti-Semitism.\n\nThey were later joined by three pro-Remain Tories - who accuse the Conservative leadership of allowing right-wing hardliners to shape the party's approach to Brexit and other matters.\n\nLabour's Ian Austin also expressed sympathy with the Independent Group's aims, saying he would think \"long and hard\" about his future in the Labour Party.\n\nShadow home Secretary Diane Abbott told BBC Radio 4's The World at One: \"I am very sad that the Labour members of this new independent organisation have gone.\n\n\"Up until the last minute, people were talking to them, trying to persuade them not to take the step they have taken.\"\n\nShe said she hoped they would continue to work with Labour on issues like homelessness, the benefit system, the NHS and \"most of all fighting this Tory Brexit\".\n\nMeanwhile, Labour have contacted the Information Commissioner over alleged attempts to access personal data held by the party.\n\nIt is understood there are concerns an MP accessed party systems to contact members after reports of their resignation on Tuesday night.\n\nEnfield North MP Joan Ryan, who announced she was quitting Labour in an interview with the Times published on Tuesday evening, said: \"Neither I nor my office have accessed or used any Labour Party data since I resigned the Labour Whip and my membership of the Labour Party.\"", "Royal Mail has apologised after announcing a price rise which breaches a cap designed to make the postal service \"affordable\" for all consumers.\n\nFrom 25 March, the price of a second-class stamp will rise by 3p to 61p - breaching Ofcom's current price cap of 60p which is in place until 1 April.\n\nThe price of a first-class stamp will also increase by 3p to 70p.\n\nRoyal Mail says it will donate the extra revenue, expected to be £60,000, to charity Action for Children.\n\nOfcom set the current price cap in 2012, when it allowed Royal Mail to increase the price of first and second-class stamps by 14p, following concerns the universal service was at \"severe risk\".\n\nThe cap was set at 55p and would increase in line with the Consumer Prices Index (CPI) measure of inflation, making the official cap 60.65p today.\n\nOfcom had announced the cap will increase to 65p from 1 April, and then will rise in line with the annual CPI rate of inflation until April 2024.\n\nRoyal Mail says it informed Ofcom of its \"error\" before announcing the new 61p price on Friday.\n\n\"We apologise for this mistake,\" a spokesman for the company said.\n\n\"We are putting this right by donating the revenue that we expect to collect from the error - around £60,000 - to our chosen charity Action for Children, which helps disadvantaged children across the UK.\"\n\nOfcom says Royal Mail did inform them of the price rise but had not explained how it happened.\n\nIt added that it is \"urgently seeking clarification from the company\".\n\nThe newly-announced price increases are the highest for the two stamps together since 2012.\n\nRoyal Mail says its prices remain good value when compared with other postal operators around Europe.\n\nIt says on average, the equivalent cost of first-class post in Europe is 99p, while second class costs 77p.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Corbyn: Begum has 'right to return' to UK\n\nShamima Begum, who left the UK to join the Islamic State group in Syria aged 15, has a \"right to return to Britain\", Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has said.\n\nMs Begum has had her UK citizenship revoked by Home Secretary Sajid Javid - a move Mr Corbyn said was \"extreme\".\n\nThe leader of the opposition told ITV News the 19-year-old should return to the UK to face questioning.\n\nMs Begum told Sky News on Thursday she was \"willing to change\" and called for \"mercy\" from British politicians.\n\nUK nationals can only have their citizenship revoked if they are eligible for citizenship elsewhere.\n\nIt is thought Ms Begum could be a Bangladeshi citizen because her mother is believed to be one.\n\nHowever, Bangladesh's ministry of foreign affairs has said Ms Begum is not a Bangladeshi citizen and there was \"no question\" of her being allowed into the country.\n\nMr Corbyn, who is currently in Brussels to discuss his Brexit proposals, said: \"She obviously has, in my view, a right to return to Britain.\n\n\"On that return she must obviously face a lot of questions about everything she has done and at that point any action may or may not be taken.\n\n\"But I think the idea of stripping somebody of their citizenship when they were born in Britain is a very extreme manoeuvre indeed.\n\n\"Indeed, I questioned the right of the home secretary to have these powers when the original law was brought in by Theresa May when she was home secretary.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Shamima Begum: \"I got tricked and I was hoping someone would have sympathy with me\"\n\nMr Javid has defended the move, which followed a debate over whether the teenager should be able to return to the UK after she was found in a Syrian refugee camp.\n\nMs Begum, who left east London in 2015, said she never sought to be an IS \"poster girl\" and now simply wished to raise her child quietly in the UK.\n\nThe home secretary said he would not leave an individual stateless, which is illegal under international law.\n\nBut the Begum family's lawyer Tasnime Akunjee, who is preparing an appeal, has said he is considering whether she has been left stateless.\n\nMs Begum gave birth to a boy in a Syrian refugee camp at the weekend, who the home secretary has suggested could still be British, despite the removal of Ms Begum's citizenship.\n\n\"Children should not suffer. So, if a parent does lose their British citizenship, it does not affect the rights of their child,\" he told the Commons.\n\nMs Begum was 15 and living in Bethnal Green, London, when she left the UK in 2015\n\nMr Akunjee told the Guardian he planned to travel to the Syrian refugee camp \"as soon as possible\" to ask for Ms Begum's consent to bring her newborn son back to Britain, while her legal case is resolved.\n\n\"We can't do anything against her will, so I would hope that I would be able to outline the options for her, explain things to her,\" he said.\n\nBut Ms Begum told Sky News her son was unwell and she would not allow him to travel to the UK without her.\n\nMs Begum has previously said she had two children who both died.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA mugger has been found guilty of killing a 100-year-old woman whose neck was broken in a handbag robbery.\n\nZofija Kaczan died of pneumonia on 6 June in Normanton, Derby, days after the attack.\n\nMrs Kaczan was robbed near her home in Empress Road, Normanton, on 28 May as she made her way to church.\n\nArtur Waszkiewicz, 40, of Wolfa Street, Derby, had denied manslaughter and robbery but was convicted at Derby Crown Court.\n\nPolice said Artur Waszkiewicz \"showed absolutely no concern for Mrs Kaczan\"\n\nHeroin addict Waszkiewicz knocked his victim to the floor, took her handbag and left her to bleed in the middle of the road.\n\nPolish-born Mrs Kaczan, who survived a Nazi camp during the Second World War, suffered multiple injuries, including a fractured neck and cheekbone.\n\nShe later died of pneumonia brought on by the injuries.\n\nDet Ch Insp Darren De'ath from Derbyshire Police said: \"This was a horrendous crime that shocked me, my colleagues, the community in which it happened and indeed the whole country.\n\n\"Mrs Kaczan survived the Nazi occupation of Poland before coming to Derby in 1948 to start her life afresh.\"\n\nHe added the victim was in \"remarkable health\" and was seen \"regularly walking to the church close to her home\".\n\nMrs Kaczan, described as a grandmother with a heart of gold, suffered multiple injuries in the attack\n\nSt Maksymilian Kolbe, the church Mrs Kaczan attended, said she was an active member of their community who enjoyed shopping, having her hair done and attending lunches at the Polish Centre followed by bingo.\n\nA spokeswoman said she had a \"very difficult early life\" but had found \"stability and tranquillity\" in Derby.\n\n\"That tranquillity was shattered by the brutal events of 28 May 2018,\" the spokeswoman added.\n\n\"Despite the pain and suffering that she was in for the last week of her life, she had the capacity to pray for her attacker before she died.\"\n\nZofija Kaczan prayed for her attacker before she died\n\nThe jury deliberated for just over two hours before unanimously convicting Waszkiewicz.\n\nThe defendant, wearing a black velvet jacket and velvet slipper shoes, looked straight ahead and showed no emotion as the verdicts were delivered.\n\nHe was caught on CCTV driving a Seat Leon before robbing Mrs Kaczan - slowing down as soon as he saw a \"small, vulnerable\" woman on her own.\n\nHe needed an \"easy target\" to steal from so he could meet a drug dealer a short time later to buy heroin.\n\nA receipt with Artur Waszkiewicz's fingerprint on it was found in the stolen bag, the jury heard\n\nAfter the bag-snatch, Waszkiewicz fled to London and hid under a bed at his mother's house to try to avoid arrest.\n\nHe had also cut his long hair and changed the insurance details on his car.\n\nHe was arrested after his fingerprint was recovered from a receipt in the handbag.\n\nWaszkiewicz, who was also born in Poland, was so desperate for cash to feed his addiction he had tried to sell his dog and asked a neighbour for money in the past.\n\nHe had previous convictions for shoplifting, creating false identification documents and battery.\n\nHe is due to be sentenced on Thursday.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on Twitter, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why did May lose another Brexit vote?\n\n\"Has the prime minister's new defeat in parliament made the EU more likely to compromise?\"\n\nI've been asked over and again on BBC programmes following Thursday's vote on Theresa May's Brexit strategy.\n\nI understand the logic of the question: Brussels can clearly see the prime minister struggling at home.\n\nUltimately the EU wants a deal, so wouldn't it make sense to give her a helping hand now?\n\nOne Brussels official told me Thursday's vote convinced the EU more than ever that before they contemplated changes to the Brexit deal, they would need to see evidence of a comfortable majority of MPs solidly behind Theresa May.\n\nOtherwise, the fear is that the EU would give ground for nothing.\n\nIf Brexit and party divisions run so deep amongst MPs, so the theory here goes, there would be a risk of Theresa May turning to Brussels every week or so, asking for \"a bit more\" and then another bit more - in order to keep restless MPs onside until 29 March.\n\nWill Theresa May be able to offer the EU a solution \"that will fly\"?\n\nAfter all, in these politically dramatic times in the UK - a lot can change in very few weeks.\n\nEU diplomats tell me they hear the hype: the political claims and counter-claims amongst political factions in the UK; they see letters exchanged between Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn, threats of mass resignations and dreams of cross-party compromise but no evidence, EU contacts say, of a solution \"that will fly\".\n\nSo for now, EU leaders still believe this is not the time to budge.\n\nThey see the UK arguing, debating and negotiating with itself again - as it has done so often during the Brexit process - rather than engaging with Brussels.\n\nAs a result of all this, the new round of EU-UK negotiations are going nowhere fast.\n\n\"Window-dressing\" is how one senior EU figure described the talks to me - with each side simply repeating their red lines to the other.\n\nSo, the current favourite prediction in Brussels is that things will only be resolved in March.\n\nProbably with backs against the wall at the summit of EU leaders in Brussels on 21 March - eight days away from B-day.\n\nBecause interestingly for those who believe the EU hands too much power to Brussels bureaucrats, the only ones who can change the content of the Brexit deal - signed off by the 27 EU leaders plus Theresa May back in November - are those 27 EU leaders plus Theresa May - not Jean Claude Juncker, Donald Tusk or any other \"Brussels bureaucrat\".\n\nEven well-seasoned EU officials don't want to predict with any certainty what may happen if 21 March turns into a showdown Brexit summit.\n\nBeing within touching distance of a no-deal Brexit which the EU is convinced would be nightmarish, would certainly focus minds, as well as possibly kick-start the famous EU ten-to-midnight, deal-making tendency.\n\n\"Who knows what decisions EU leaders might take if faced with an imminent no-deal?\" one senior source told me.\n\n\"But it's worth saying that up until now in the Brexit process, it's been the EU leaders taking the hard line in negotiations, not Brussels officials.\"\n\nPreferable for the EU would be Theresa May agreeing last minute to a permanent customs union, allowing the EU to dramatically change conditions around the backstop.\n\nDeal done. Brexit over. Allowing both sides to start talks on what really matters to them: the post-Brexit EU-UK trade deal.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBut there's a big risk. That at such a last-minute summit, either Theresa May or EU leaders would not blink enough to get the deal over the line.\n\nOne EU official insisted the bloc wasn't being \"macho\" about not \"giving in\" to the UK - but rather they needed to see a sustainable solution for everyone involved.\n\nTranslation: don't expect the EU to act against its own interest.\n\n\"We see Theresa May trying to blackmail three groups to get this deal passed,\" he told me \"The EU and particularly Ireland, Labour Party MPs and Brexiteers.\"\n\n\"The chance of this ending badly - with no deal at all - is uncomfortably high.\"\n\nWhich is why most people you speak to in Brussels think an extension to Article 50 - this Brexit negotiation process - is almost inevitable. Though there's little EU enthusiasm for it.\n\nFrustration and despondency with the Brexit process is widespread, and EU leaders (think Spain with the Catalan issue and wobbly minority government, France with the \"yellow vest\" protest movement; Italy in recession again and with its infighting coalition government) face other dilemmas screaming for their attention.", "Sergei Skripal, 67, and his daughter Yulia survived the attack\n\nA third man has been named as a suspect in the poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal in Salisbury last year.\n\nInvestigative website Bellingcat claims that he is Denis Vyacheslavovich Sergeev, a Russian military intelligence officer.\n\nIt says he came to the UK at the same time as two suspects alleged to have carried out the March 2018 attack.\n\nThe website claims the officer travelled internationally under the pseudonym Sergey Fedotov.\n\nMI6 double agent Sergei Skripal, 67, and his daughter Yulia, then 33, were poisoned with a nerve agent known as novichok in Salisbury. Both of them survived.\n\nPrior to the latest claim, two Russian nationals were named as suspects.\n\nAnatoliy Vladimirovich Chepiga and Alexander Mishkin have been linked to the Russian military intelligence agency GRU.\n\nThe Kremlin has not commented on the latest report but it has previously expressed doubts over Bellingcat's reports about Mr Chepiga and Mr Mishkin.\n\nBellingcat claims that this photograph is of the third suspect, Denis Vyacheslavovich Sergeev\n\nThe website says that Mr Fedotov was booked onto a flight which left the UK last March but that he missed it.\n\nIt says he travelled instead to Rome, from where he went to Moscow.\n\nIt previously reported that he used a similar travel pattern in 2015 in Bulgaria - missing a booked flight and returning to Moscow from Istanbul.\n\nDuring that trip, Bellingcat says a Bulgarian arms trader, Emilian Gebrav, and his son needed hospital treatment after contact with an unidentified poison. Mr Gebrav survived.\n\nThe website says that Mr Sergeev travelled with one of the other two suspects on at least one occasion, and made multiple trips to the UK.\n\nBritish officials are understood to be investigating the Bulgarian reports.\n\nA Kremlin spokesman previously said Russia did not know \"whether this is true at all\".\n\nResponding to the website's initial investigation, a Kremlin spokesman told the BBC: \"We don't know how far this corresponds with reality, whether it's real at all.\n\n\"We don't know what the report's authors based their work on - how competent they are - who they are - and whether this is true at all.\"\n\nThe British government blamed the Salisbury attack on the GRU.\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May said the attack on Mr Skripal had \"almost certainly\" been approved by the Russian state.\n\nMoscow has consistently denied any involvement in the Salisbury poisonings.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police say they are continuing to pursue a number of lines of enquiry including identifying any other suspects who may have been involved in carrying out or planning the attack.", "If you want to know the perceived value of compromise in the current US political climate, just look at the list of former, current and future presidential hopefuls who voted against the budget compromise legislation in the US Senate.\n\nCory Booker, Kirsten Gillibrand, Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren – all announced Democratic candidates for the 2020 Democratic nomination – were among those rejecting the bill. Of the 2016 Republican entrants, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio and Rand Paul were also \"no\".\n\nMeanwhile, in the House of Representatives, a cadre of outspoken young progressives led by New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have already stated their opposition in advance of a scheduled Thursday night vote because they don’t like the increased funding for immigration enforcement.\n\nThe two parties are being pulled in opposite directions – and away from common ground. And those most in tune to the sentiments of the political base, those with higher political ambitions, are among those leading the charge.\n\nFor the moment these \"no\" votes are symbolic, since the bill is expected to pass anyway. There will come a time, however, when the margins are much narrower – and the balance between principle and pragmatism will be truly tested.\n\nFor the moment, the scale seems tilted to the former.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The president has installed a $50,000 golf simulator in the White House\n\nUS President Donald Trump has put on weight since his last medical check-up, but remains in \"very good health\", his official doctor Sean Conley says.\n\nMr Trump was receiving a higher dose of medicine to lower his cholesterol levels, his memo said.\n\nMr Trump weighed 243lb (110kg) in last week's examination, which is up from 239lb in early 2018.\n\nOther doctors noted that his Body Mass Index (BMI) now fell in excess of 30, which is considered clinically obese.\n\n\"It is my determination that the president remains in very good health,\" Dr Conley said in a brief statement issued by the White House after examining the 72-year-old.\n\nThe news of his report was released minutes after officials announced Mr Trump would declare a \"national emergency\" at the US-Mexico border in a bid to secure funding for a border wall.\n\nPresident Trump, who has a common form of heart disease, had previously been asked to lose at least 10lb.\n\nThe 6ft 3in (1.9m) US president reportedly favours a diet of fast food and diet sodas, and has long faced questions over his health.\n\nHe famously does not drink alcohol, and says he has never done so. He is also a non-smoker.\n\nDuring his campaign, he produced a letter that said he would be the \"healthiest individual ever elected\", but the doctor named as the author later said Mr Trump had written the letter himself.\n\nLast year, Dr Ronny Jackson said the president had \"incredible genes\" and it was not a matter of concern that he only slept for four or five hours a night because this was \"just his nature\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dr Ronny Jackson said in 2018: \"He has incredible genes\"\n\nIn the latest release, Dr Conley said he had found no significant health problems during the annual check-up.\n\n\"There were no findings of significance or changes to report on his physical exam, including the eyes, ears, nose, mouth, teeth/gums, heart, lungs, skin, gastrointestinal, and neurologic systems,\" the medical summary said.\n\nThe report detailed that the dosage of his anti-cholesterol medicine, Rosuvastatin, had been increased from 10mg to 40mg.", "Swedish teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg spoke to the BBC in September about her climate strike outside the Swedish parliament.\n\nSince then, she's become a global phenomenon, speaking at the UN and Davos.\n\nHer climate strike has inspired thousands of other young people across the world to carry out similar protests.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Chris Leslie: \"I certainly feel like we are being played like fools by the leadership of the Labour party.\"\n\nLabour's deputy leader Tom Watson has urged his party's MPs to stay united amid speculation some might leave over dissatisfaction with Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nAsked if a breakaway was \"unstoppable\", Mr Watson said: \"I hope it isn't.\"\n\nSome MPs are frustrated at Mr Corbyn's refusal to back a further Brexit referendum, despite a vote at the party conference to keep the option open.\n\nFormer shadow chancellor Chris Leslie told MPs backbenchers were \"being played for fools\" by the leadership.\n\n\"The idea that the Labour party is not together and arguing against this disaster is, for me, entirely heartbreaking,\" he said, during the latest Brexit debate in the Commons.\n\nHe pointed out an amendment tabled by Mr Corbyn, which attempts to ensure MPs are given a vote on Theresa May's deal by 27 February, makes no specific mention of a further referendum with the option of remaining in the EU.\n\n\"Why are we regressing on our policy passed at the September conference?,\" he asked.\n\nEarlier, Treasury spokesman Clive Lewis had told pro-EU activists the ramifications \"will be severe\" if Labour is seen to facilitate a \"Tory Brexit\".\n\n\"We are now sending some mixed messages out there and that is dangerous,\" he said.\n\nAnd backbencher Angela Smith told BBC Look North backbench MPs were uncomfortable with the leader's stances on a number of issues.\n\n\"We are being pushed to the edge on Brexit, on Venezuela, on anti-Semitism, and it's for Jeremy Corbyn... to show the Labour party is a broad church,\" she said.\n\nTom Watson and Jeremy Corbyn in the Commons\n\nBut Mr Watson told BBC Radio 4's World At One: \"I want this party to stay together. People should stay and fight their corner. We need an electorally viable Labour Party.\"\n\nHe said people should \"do everything they can\" to stop a breakaway.\n\n\"For the last two years, I've been trying to hold everyone together. I think we need all voices round the top table of the Labour Party. We need all factions represented. People expect the Labour Party to be united.\"\n\nAnother who attended the Another Europe is Possible event, Rachael Maskell, played down the threat of a breakaway.\n\nShe said Labour MPs had a responsibility to focus on getting into government.\n\n\"Noises off do not help our party to achieve that,\" she added.\n\nSome people close to the Labour leadership believe a breakaway is all but inevitable - but that it will be small.\n\nThis is partly because the anti-Corbyn forces aren't entirely united.\n\nNone of the people at the pro-referendum event addressed by Clive Lewis will break away even though some are very unhappy with the party's Brexit stance.\n\nAnd other pro-Europeans from the Blair/Brown era who are minded to go aren't united on timing.\n\nFor them, there has to be a series of triggers first:\n\nIf not all the triggers are pulled, some MPs in this group will stay put.\n\nThen we have a cluster of politicians who really really dislike Jeremy Corbyn - and quite a few are potentially facing de-selection by their local parties.\n\nBut some are Eurosceptic and would have difficulty joining a pro-EU breakaway.\n\nSo it may be more likely that people initially resign the whip rather than conjure up a whole new party.", "A Colombian man who admitted sexually abusing nearly 300 children has been sentenced to 60 years in prison.\n\nJuan Carlos Sánchez Latorre committed the crimes in 2007-08, a court in the city of Barranquilla ruled.\n\nSánchez Latorre, in his late 30s, used the alias Big Bad Wolf to share images and videos of the abuse online.\n\nHe was arrested in Venezuela a year ago with a fake identity card after five years on the run.\n\nDuring the trial, Sánchez Latorre pleaded guilty to sexually abusing 276 boys and girls.\n\nProsecutors said he had approached his victims online and then met them at shopping centres, offering them money in exchange for sexual contact.\n\nIf they refused, they were often attacked, the prosecutors said.\n\nThe authorities believe Sánchez Latorre committed other crimes in Venezuela before being finally arrested in the city of Maracaibo and extradited to Colombia in September 2018.\n\nHis neighbours said they had never suspected that he could be a dangerous paedophile.", "Ryan Adams found fame with albums like Gold and songs such as New York, New York in the early 2000s\n\nSeveral women have accused alternative rock star Ryan Adams of emotional and verbal abuse and offering career opportunities as a pretext for sex.\n\nA report in the New York Times outlines a pattern of manipulative behaviour, including accusations of psychological abuse from his ex-wife, Mandy Moore.\n\nAnother woman said Adams sent explicit texts and exposed himself during a Skype call when she was a teenager.\n\nThe star, who rose to fame in the early 2000s, has denied the allegations.\n\n\"I am not a perfect man and I have made many mistakes,\" he said in a statement posted on social media.\n\n\"To anyone I have ever hurt, however unintentionally, I apologise deeply and unreservedly.\n\n\"But the picture that this article paints is upsettingly inaccurate. Some of its details are misrepresented; some are exaggerated; some are outright false. I would never have inappropriate interactions with someone I thought was underage. Period.\"\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 Ryan Adams 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\nAcclaimed indie artist Phoebe Bridgers was among the seven women and dozens of associates who were interviewed for the New York Times article.\n\nShe said that Adams reached out to her when she was 20, offering to release her songs on his record label. Their relationship turned romantic, but Adams became obsessive and manipulative, she claimed, demanding to know her whereabouts and threatening suicide if she did not reply to his texts immediately.\n\nWhen she broke off their relationship, Adams \"became evasive about releasing the music they had recorded together and rescinded the offer to open his upcoming concerts,\" the New York Times reported.\n\nThrough his lawyer, Adams rejected Bridgers' account, describing their relationship as \"a brief, consensual fling,\" and denying he had threatened to withhold her songs.\n\nThis Is Us actress Mandy Moore also described a pattern of abuse, describing instances of \"destructive, manic sort of back and forth behaviour\" during their six-year marriage.\n\n\"Music was a point of control for him,\" she added, saying the star had belittled her own musical career.\n\n\"He would always tell me, 'You're not a real musician, because you don't play an instrument.'\"\n\nMoore, who is now a successful actress, says her musical career stalled because of Adams' behaviour\n\nAnother woman, identified only by her middle name, Ava, told the paper her relationship with Adams started in 2013, when she was a teenage bass player.\n\nAlthough they never met, she shared 3,217 text messages she had exchanged with Adams over a nine-month period when she was 15 and 16, describing how their correspondence became sexually explicit.\n\nIn one text he wrote to her: \"I would get in trouble if someone knew we talked like this\".\n\nThe newspaper reported that Adams, then 40, \"fretted about Ava's age\" and repeatedly asked for reassurances that she was over 18.\n\n\"If people knew they would say I was like R Kelley lol,\" he wrote in one message, referring to the R&B singer, who has faced allegations of inappropriate relationships with teenagers, which he denies.\n\nAdams' lawyer said the star \"did not recall having online communications with anyone related to anything outside of music,\" adding that \"if, in fact, this woman was underage, Mr Adams was unaware\".\n\nAfter the report was published on Wednesday, dozens of female artists came forward to say they had been through similar experiences in the music industry.\n\n\"None of this is surprising to female artists,\" wrote country musician Caroline Rose on Twitter.\n\n\"This is an important article,\" added singer-songwriter Vanessa Carlton. \"This also cracks the door on more like him in our industry. There are more. We're all fed up.\"\n\n\"Literally find me a woman in the music industry who hasn't had a some dude pull that Ryan Adams 'I wanna help you' with strings attached [expletive]?\" wrote music journalist Jessica Hopper.\n\n\"And like in this story, these are some of the reasons women abandon careers, keep their dreams private, record in their bedrooms alone.\"\n\n\"Having to perpetually question if a potential collaborator is interested in you musically or personally is an enormous and unspoken barrier for women in music,\" said Tamara Lindeman, of Canadian folk band The Weather Station.\n\n\"Every gatekeeper is a man. And so you have to ask yourself.\"\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 New York Times: Ryan Adams Dangled Success. Women Say They Paid a Price. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Prime Minister Theresa May has suffered a fresh defeat in a Commons vote on her Brexit strategy by 303 to 258.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn has called on the prime minister – who did not take part in the debate – to \"admit her Brexit strategy has failed\".\n\nTory Brexiteer rebels abstained, saying the government's motion implied a no-deal Brexit would be ruled out.", "A review of the project said £43m of taxpayers' money had been spent\n\nA failed plan to build a bridge covered with trees and flowers over the River Thames in central London cost a total of £53m, it has been revealed.\n\nA Transport for London (TfL) inquiry showed the Garden Bridge Trust spent £161,000 on a website and £417,000 on a gala for the abandoned project.\n\nThe design of the bridge cost more than £9m and the charity paid its executives £1.7m.\n\nAround £43m came from the public's pocket, TfL added.\n\nDoubts began to surround the project, overseen by Boris Johnson, after it lost the support of London Mayor Sadiq Khan in April 2017.\n\nIt was officially abandoned in August of that year after a review recommended it be scrapped.\n\nSome of the main expenditure on the failed project\n\nIn July 2015, up to £60m of public funding was made available to the trust - £30m each from Transport for London (TfL) and the Department for Transport (DfT).\n\nTfL will now pay a final £5.5m of public money to the trust as part of the scheme's cancellation agreement, which the transport body said was 40% lower than what it could have been.\n\nThe payout will help refund donors including £3,200 to the winner of a Garden Bridge auction prize who did not receive their promised game of \"table tennis with Boris Johnson\".\n\nLabour London Assembly member, Tom Copley AM, said: \"It's galling to see the costs of Boris' botched Bridge continuing to escalate for London's taxpayers.\n\n\"David Cameron needs to answer why, in his eagerness to see Boris Johnson's scheme go through, he intervened to overrule the advice of senior civil servants in order to extend the underwriting for the Bridge.\"\n\nThis was the tiara on the Thames that lost its shine and then died.\n\nThe project promised a lot but delivered nothing, swallowing £43m of public money in the process.\n\nThe biggest expenditure was the £21m contract to build the bridge - with campaigners still wanting to know why that was allowed when land had not even been secured.\n\nThere is an incredible amount of detail in the recent Transport for London report: it cost £161k for a website and £417k for a gala fundraiser.\n\nCritics say the spending was gratuitous. And while many wanted the bridge, others did not. The questions won't stop here.\n\nCaroline Pidgeon, chair of the London Assembly's transport committee, said: \"The details of wasted money spent on the Garden Bridge project is the final confirmation of the utter folly of the project.\n\n\"The Garden Bridge Trust have squandered public money in a way no responsible charity should have behaved.\n\n\"No charity needs to spend £160,000 on a website or over £400,000 on a gala dinner.\"\n\nDirector of City Planning at TfL, Alex Williams, said: \"We worked to ensure that the cost to the public sector has been kept to a minimum.\n\n\"We have now confirmed the final payment legally required under the terms of the underwriting agreement made by the Government. This formally ends our involvement with the project.\"\n\nPlans proposed more than 270 trees and 2,000 shrubs would be planted on the bridge\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Patisserie Valerie is being bought out of administration in a deal that will save nearly 2,000 jobs.\n\nThe management team at the coffee and cake chain has secured backing from investment firm Causeway Capital to take over 96 shops.\n\nSister brand Philpotts has also been sold in a separate deal, saving a further 21 stores.\n\nCollectively the chains fetched £13m - a fraction of what the group was once worth.\n\nPatisserie Valerie's parent company, Patisserie Holdings, collapsed in January following an accounting scandal.\n\nPatisserie Valerie's chief executive, Steve Francis, who is leading the management team buy-out, said the move would end \"a disruptive period of uncertainty for the business\" and provide the foundation for \"an exciting future\".\n\nMatt Scaife, a partner at Dublin-based Causeway Capital, said Patisserie Valerie was a \"much loved\" heritage brand that his firm looked forward to helping return to growth.\n\nLuke Johnson, until recently the firm's chairman and biggest shareholder, said: \"While I'm naturally deeply disappointed at the events that led us to this point, I wish the company well.\"\n\nThe entrepreneur, whose stake in the group was worth £165m back in October, will no longer be involved in the business.\n\nMr Francis told the Financial Times that he and other managers would own \"more than the usual 10% [of Patisserie Valerie], but nowhere near control\".\n\nAnother subsidiary, Baker & Spice, is still seeking a buyer but Patisserie Holdings said there had been \"strong interest\".\n\nPatisserie Valerie was plunged into crisis in October when accounting irregularities were uncovered. It hired KPMG to try to salvage the brand which dates back nearly 100 years.\n\nKPMG closed 70 outlets, with the loss of 920 jobs. Restructuring talks broke down in January, leaving no option but administration.\n\nThe Serious Fraud Office is carrying out a criminal investigation into Patisserie Valerie and finance director Chris Marsh was arrested and released on bail after having been suspended by the company.\n\nAlso under investigation, by the Financial Reporting Council, are former Patisserie Valerie auditors Grant Thornton.\n\nThe first Patisserie Valerie opened in Soho in 1926, established by Belgian husband and wife team Theo and Esther Vermeirsch. Esther, born Esther van Gyseghem, became known as Madame Valerie. The chain expanded rapidly across the UK after entrepreneur Luke Johnson invested in the brand in 2006.", "Call the Midwife has won praise for tackling sensitive issues\n\nThe BBC has been criticised for not linking directly to information on abortion after the issue was dealt with in an episode of Call the Midwife.\n\nDoctors, midwives and pro-choice charities highlighted the issue after the BBC's Action Line website was advertised after the programme aired.\n\nExcluding abortion was \"stigmatising\", they said.\n\nThe BBC said while it does not link to campaign groups there was no reason not to link to abortion advice.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"Abortion is a controversial subject across the UK, but there's no reason why the BBC cannot link to advice sites which provide information on it.\"\n\nIt said some groups may not be selected for Action Line links because they are \"campaigning organisations\".\n\nThe episode of Call the Midwife, broadcast on 3 February, featured Jeannie, who found herself unexpectedly pregnant with her third child.\n\nRefused a legal termination, she paid an illegal provider and died from an infection.\n\nAfter the episode, viewers were directed to the BBC's Action Line if they had been affected by the issues raised.\n\nIn the episode, Jeannie Tennant did not want a third child\n\nA joint letter from the Royal College of Midwives, the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, Marie Stopes UK, the sexual health advice service Brook and the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) praised the programme for having \"repeatedly handled this issue sensitively and courageously\".\n\nBut they said that people visiting the Action Line website found that abortion was not explicitly mentioned.\n\nInstead, there was a link to information about pregnancy on the NHS website - which features abortion information elsewhere.\n\nThe healthcare organisations called on the BBC to include links to evidence-based information about terminations.\n\nKatherine O'Brien, head of policy and research at BPAS, said it was \"highly stigmatising to the women we care for and to the doctors and midwives who provide them with care\" to treat abortion differently from other medical procedures.\"\n\nShe said it was \"inadequate\" to expect women to search the NHS website after being directed to Action Line at the end of the programme.\n\nThe 1967 Abortion Act established legal abortion in most of the UK, but in Northern Ireland terminations are only permitted when a woman's life is at risk or if there is a risk of permanent and serious damage to her mental or physical health.\n\nJohn Deighan, deputy CEO of the Society for the Protection of the Unborn Child, an anti-abortion group, said the Action Line site was right not to include links on abortion.\n\nHe said: \"The issues raised in the 'Call the Midwife' programme are controversial. I can understand reservations over which helpline numbers would have been appropriate to provide.\"\n\nCall the Midwife has previously won plaudits for tackling issues such as female genital mutilation, cleft lips and palates, and sickle cell disease.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) has been accused of a \"cover-up\" after it failed to reveal \"significant information\" about a loyalist gun attack that left five people dead.\n\nThe attack at Sean Graham's bookies in south Belfast in 1992 was carried out by the Ulster Freedom Fighters (UFF).\n\nThe PSNI has apologised and said it never sought to deliberately withhold the information.\n\nHowever, Chief Constable George Hamilton is facing a call to resign.\n\nBilly McManus, whose father was one of the victims of the attack, said: \"They're saying he's retiring and he wants to retire - he should resign.\n\n\"He's led us up a garden path. He knew, the PSNI knew these files were here, they just hid them, from the Police Ombudsman.\"\n\nThe Police Ombudsman has opened new inquiry lines after finding out about more material linked to the attack.\n\nIt said that the problem had arisen due to issues including human error, \"the sheer volume of the material involved and the limitations of the archaic IT systems\".\n\nThe families of the victims have previously said they believe there was collusion between the killers and security forces in the betting shop shootings.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTommy Duffin, whose father, Jack, was shot dead in the attack, said the PSNI's initial failure to disclose all of the information was unacceptable.\n\n\"It's just been cover-up after cover-up after cover-up of RUC-Special Branch collusion in my opinion - plain and utter collusion,\" he told BBC News NI.\n\n\"We know it went on and we know it went on through the Troubles and they're experts at it.\n\n\"They're still getting away with it to this day.\"\n\nNo-one has been convicted over the killings.\n\nThe Police Ombudsman, Dr Michael Maguire, said his staff became aware that police were preparing to disclose material as part of impending civil proceedings.\n\nHis office then asked for that material and it helped his staff to \"identify significant evidence relevant to a number of our investigations\", he added.\n\nFive men were killed in the betting shop attack in south Belfast\n\n\"Police have now also identified a computer system, which they say had not been properly searched when responding to previous requests for information,\" said Dr Maguire.\n\n\"It would seem information which police told us did not exist has now been found.\"\n\nThe material has led the Police Ombudsman to examine new lines of inquiry into the Ormeau shootings, events connected to loyalist paramilitaries in the north west of Northern Ireland between 1988 and 1994 and the murder of teenager Damien Walsh at a coal depot in west Belfast in 1993.\n\nPolice Ombudsman reports into those investigations will now be delayed.\n\nDr Maguire said that \"in the interests of public confidence in policing\" he has asked Stormont's Department of Justice to commission an independent review into the methods police use to disclose information.\n\nThe Committee on the Administration of Justice (CAJ) said the development showed that \"the practice (of withholding information and delaying disclosure) is still continuing\".\n\n\"[It] is deeply shocking and the claim that it is due to human error simply insults our intelligence,\" it added.\n\n\"The Police Ombudsman's office relies on the PSNI acting in good faith to assist it in its investigations as RUC archive material remains within its control.\n\n\"These developments clearly expose the lack of willingness or capacity of the PSNI to provide full disclosure to the Police Ombudsman to allow him to carry out independent and effective investigations.\"\n\nMark Sykes, who was injured in the shooting, said he felt \"sick, angry and lied to\".\n\n\"We had been told time and time again when we met Mr Maguire that he had all the information that he needed to do this report,\" he added.\n\n\"To be told yesterday that there were documents withheld from him was sickening.\"\n\nThe PSNI's Deputy Chief Constable, Stephen Martin, apologised to the families of the attack victims.\n\n\"We deeply regret that the researchers responding to the Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland's (PONI) request were unable to find and disclose it,\" he said.\n\nThe attack in February 1992 was carried out by the Ulster Freedom Fighters\n\nThe \"error became apparent\", he said, when a researcher working elsewhere in the PSNI \"found the material while preparing for disclosure in response to civil litigation\".\n\nHe said that there was a number of reasons why one researcher found the material while others did not, including \"differing levels of experience and knowledge of our researchers\".\n\nMr Martin said that the PSNI's chief constable has concluded that the best interim solution for public confidence in policing would be to give \"appropriately vetted\" Police Ombudsman staff \"full and unfettered access\" to its legacy systems.\n\nHe also said the PSNI hoped to make substantial changes to its procedures for disclosing information in the coming months and it welcomed any independent review of its system.\n\nA spokesperson for Relatives for Justice claimed there was a \"systemic problem in terms of disclosure concerning state killings and in particular killings where collusion is a feature\".\n\nPolicing Board chair Anne Connolly said it was \"essential\" that there was \"full disclosure of material to allow the Police Ombudsman's Office to do its job\".\n\nShe added that the PSNI's search systems and checking processed were \"not meeting legislative duties around disclosure and therefore require review\".\n\nIn 2015, the PSNI's chief constable apologised after it was discovered that the weapon used in the Ormeau Road killings was on display in the Imperial War Museum in London.", "MPs are trying to influence the Brexit process in a number of ways, as Theresa May continues her bid to get the EU to change the deal.\n\nThe prime minister has asked MPs to approve a motion on Thursday simply acknowledging that process is ongoing and restating their support for the approach.\n\nSeveral MPs tabled amendments setting out alternative plans and Commons Speaker John Bercow has selected three to be put to a Commons vote.\n\nEven if they won the backing of a majority of MPs, the proposals would not be binding on the government. However, they could put pressure on Mrs May to change course.\n\nShe has adopted proposals from two successful backbench amendments tabled in January.\n\nOne asked her to seek alternatives to the \"backstop\", which aims to prevent the return of customs checkpoints on the Irish border in the event that no trade deal has come into force. The other rejected leaving the EU without a formal exit deal.\n\nThe selected proposals are below. Use our guide to Brexit jargon or follow the links for further explanation.\n\nEnter the word or phrase you are looking for\n\nRequired the government to either give MPs a vote on the withdrawal agreement and political declaration on future UK-EU relations by 27 February, or make a statement saying there is no longer an agreement in principle with Brussels and so allow MPs to vote on - and amend - its planned next steps.\n\nLabour Leader Jeremy Corbyn's amendment was defeated by 322 votes to 306, giving the government a majority of 16.\n\nThe SNP's Westminster leader Ian Blackford, centre, tabled the amendment on behalf of his party\n\nSought to postpone the Brexit date by at least three months.\n\nThis had the backing of Liberal Democrats, as well as the SNP contingent.\n\nHowever, most Labour MPs abstained and so the amendment was defeated by 93 votes to 315.\n\nAnna Soubry's amendment had the backing of Labour MPs including Chris Leslie, left, and Chuka Umunna, right\n\nInstructed the government to publish within seven days \"the most recent official briefing document relating to business and trade on the implications of a no-deal Brexit presented to cabinet\".\n\nThis had the backing of some mostly Remain-supporting Labour and Conservative backbenchers.\n\nBut Ms Soubry withdrew the amendment after Brexit Minister Chris Heaton-Harris indicated that Cabinet Office Minister David Lidington would meet her and would be publishing the relevant information.\n\nMs Soubry welcomed the move but said she reserved the right to lay the amendment again at end of February if the government did not publish the documents.", "Artur Waszkiewicz had denied manslaughter and robbery but was found guilty on Wednesday\n\nA mugger who killed a 100-year-old widow in a handbag robbery has been jailed for 15 years.\n\nZofija Kaczan suffered a broken neck in the attack and died of pneumonia brought on by her injuries on 6 June.\n\nArtur Waszkiewicz, 40, preyed on her as she walked to church near her home in Normanton, Derby.\n\nJudge Nicholas Dean QC said Waszkiewicz was a \"cowardly petty criminal\" whose dangerous attack had led to \"awful consequences\".\n\nNazi prison camp survivor Mrs Kaczan was robbed near her home in Empress Road on 28 May 2018.\n\nDuring the sentencing hearing, Derby Crown Court heard Zofija Kaczan had been \"robbed of her life\"\n\nHeroin addict Waszkiewicz had denied manslaughter and robbery but was found guilty on Wednesday at Derby Crown Court.\n\nJudge Dean handed him 15 years for manslaughter and seven for robbery to run concurrently.\n\nWaszkiewicz has 24 previous convictions for 51 offences, including battery in 2014.\n\nDefence QC David Nathan said he was \"not a monster\".\n\nBut Judge Dean replied: \"What he is, is a cowardly petty criminal.\n\n\"What he did was dangerous. What he did led to awful, awful consequences.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAddressing Waszkiewicz, Judge Dean said he had \"demonstrated arrogance\" during the trial.\n\n\"True to your nature as a petty criminal and heroin addict, this was opportunist crime of the meanest, most despicable type,\" he said.\n\n\"All this for modest gain and for you to satisfy your craving for heroin.\"\n\nOn the day of the bag-snatch, Waszkiewicz needed an \"easy target\" to steal from so he could meet a drug dealer and buy heroin.\n\nAfter spotting Polish-born Mrs Kaczan, he knocked her to the floor, took her handbag and left her to bleed in the middle of the road.\n\nJudge Dean added: \"There is tragic irony in the fact that Mrs Kaczan had survived the unimaginable horror of a Nazi concentration camp and slave labour, as well as imminent execution, only to meet her end because of the cowardly and sordid actions of a petty criminal and drug addict on the streets of Derby.\n\n\"Mrs Kaczan would not have wanted her life to be defined by the circumstances of her death.\n\n\"She had prayed for and forgiven her attacker which is testament to the good person she was.\"\n\nMrs Kaczan, described as a grandmother with a heart of gold, suffered multiple injuries in the attack\n\nMrs Kaczan had been separated from her family during the war but had managed to \"find peace\" with her husband when she moved to Derby in 1948.\n\nFriend Anna Zimand told the BBC: \"You feel justice has been done and yet there is a degree of sadness.\"\n\nMrs Kaczan's carer Angelika Cybulska said she had planned to go on one final holiday with the 100-year-old.\n\nIn a statement read by prosecutor Kate Brunner QC, Ms Cybulska said: \"Now she has gone it has taken a massive part of my heart away and I miss her daily.\n\n\"I am so distraught she had to die in this way.\"\n\nA receipt with Artur Waszkiewicz's fingerprint on it was found in the stolen bag\n\nPolice arrested Waszkiewicz, of Wolfa Street, Derby, after finding his fingerprint on a receipt in the handbag and spotting his Seat Leon car on CCTV at the crime scene.\n\nHe attempted to cover his tracks in the days following the robbery - cleaning his car, drastically altering his appearance by cutting his hair and changing the insurance details on the car.\n\nDespite his efforts, the killer was arrested and was found hiding under a bed at his mother's home in London.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on Twitter, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA man has been arrested after a digger ploughed through the doors of a new hotel and smashed into the building.\n\nThe destruction happened at the Travelodge in Liverpool's Innovation Park in January amid a pay dispute.\n\nA 35-year-old from Netherton has been arrested on suspicion of causing criminal damage with intent to endanger life, Merseyside Police said.\n\nHe has also been arrested on suspicion of assault in relation to a separate incident in Broadgreen.\n\nThe digger crashed through the reception desk and windows at the hotel, causing extensive damage on 21 January.\n\nCeiling fixer Samuel White, 24, witnessed it and said the driver had claimed to be owed about £600.\n\nHe said the destruction went on for \"a good 20 or 30 minutes\" and had left workers \"gobsmacked\".\n\nThe scene of destruction that was left inside the Travelodge after a digger was driven into the lobby\n\nBuilding firm Triton Construction said there had been no structural damage to the hotel.\n\nA firm spokesman said the driver had been employed by a sub-contractor and had become \"increasingly frustrated\" when he couldn't find the owner \"[so] took it upon himself to drive a small mini excavator through the front entrance screen of the hotel\".\n\nParamedics treated a man for eye irritation caused by exposure to diesel, police said at the time.", "A man died at Saughton tram stop in Edinburgh last year\n\nRail investigators have called for louder warning horns to be fitted to Edinburgh trams following the death of a pedestrian.\n\nCarlos Correa Palacio, 53, died in September after being hit at the Saughton tram stop in Broomhouse Drive.\n\nThe Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) has advised Edinburgh Trams Limited to increase the sound pressure levels of the horns.\n\nThe company said it was modifying the horns and testing was under way.\n\nMr Palacio suffered serious injuries and was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident on 11 September - the first fatality directly involving a Scottish tram since 1959.\n\nCarlos Correa Palacio died after being hit by a tram in Edinburgh\n\nPrevious recent accidents have been linked to the tram tracks rather than trams themselves.\n\nThe RAIB published safety advice in an interim report on Thursday having investigated the accident.\n\nThe agency found that the warning horn was up to eight decibels short of the levels specified by guidance - meaning it was not suitably noticeable above background noise.\n\nInvestigators said the tram driver saw Mr Palacio approaching the crossing and applied the service brake to reduce the tram's speed, as well as sounding repeated warnings using the tram's bell.\n\nThey said Mr Palacio did not respond to the audible warnings and continued onto the crossing.\n\nIt is reported the driver then operated the emergency brake - which automatically activated the warning horn - before arriving at the crossing.\n\nIt was concluded the tram was too close to be able to stop before reaching it.\n\nThe tram's speed at the time of the collision was approximately 31mph (50kmph). The maximum line speed at this Saughton stop section is about 43mph (70kmph).\n\nThe RAIB safety advice reads: \"Edinburgh Trams Limited is advised to increase the sound pressure level of the warning horn fitted to its trams.\n\n\"In the meantime, it should consider measures to mitigate risks at locations where audible warnings may be required.\n\n\"In particular, consideration should be given to the appropriateness of the current warning horn or bell as a method of warning to pedestrians using footpath crossings over off-street track sections with high line speeds.\"\n\nEdinburgh Trams Limited said modifications to warning horns are being implemented across their fleet.\n\nA spokeswoman for Edinburgh Trams said: \"When Edinburgh Trams commenced passenger service in May 2014 we were satisfied that suitable and sufficient testing of the audible warning horn had been undertaken.\n\n\"We want to provide a safe tramway for our customers and take cognisance of the notice issued today by the RAIB.\n\n\"We continue to work with the RAIB and do not wish to predetermine the outcomes of their final report which is expected in the spring.\"\n• None Man dies after being hit by Edinburgh tram", "John Henry Newman, who was born in 1801, was ordained as a priest in 1847 after converting to Catholicism\n\nCardinal John Henry Newman is closer to being canonised after a second miracle in his name was confirmed by the Pope.\n\nTwo authenticated miracles are required before sainthood and Newman, who was already credited with curing a man's spinal disease, is now said to have healed a woman's unstoppable bleeding.\n\nNewman, born in 1801, will be the first English saint since the Forty Martyrs, executed under Reformation laws.\n\nThe first miracle the Catholic convert from Birmingham is said by the Vatican to have performed was curing a deacon from Boston, Massachusetts, of a crippling spinal disease.\n\nPope Francis has since decreed a second miracle, with Newman said to have healed a pregnant woman \"suffering from unstoppable internal bleeding\".\n\nNewman was beatified in 2010 by Pope Benedict before tens of thousands of people in his home city of Birmingham after the first miracle was recognised.\n\nNewman founded the Birmingham Oratory in Edgbaston which is still in use today\n\nDuring his life, Newman was a respected religious scholar, who spent much of his time helping the poor and sick.\n\nThe last English canonisations were in 1970 of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales, a group of Catholics who were executed between 1535 and 1679 under laws enacted during the English Reformation.\n\nThe process cannot begin until at least five years after the candidate's death and involves scrutinising evidence of his or her holiness and work.\n\nArchbishop of Westminster Cardinal Vincent Nichols, who is head of the Catholic Church in England, said Newman was \"deeply admired\", particularly by the people of Birmingham who \"lined the streets\" when he died.\n\nThe former Archbishop of Birmingham added that the announcement of Newman's pending canonisation was \"wonderful news\".\n\nBirmingham Oratory, the community founded by Newman in 1849, said the confirmation of his \"heroic sanctity will be welcomed by Catholics and Anglicans alike\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Residents of Qezelabad in Afghanistan have lived for years with unexploded weapons built into their walls and holding up their ceilings.\n\nAfter Soviet troops withdrew from Afghanistan 30 years ago, following a decade-long war, the villagers could not afford building materials. They used what they could find, including missiles left behind by the Soviet army.\n\nA de-mining team is working to remove the weapons, and the BBC's Aulyia Atrafi went to see them at work.", "Theresa May has suffered a fresh defeat in a vote in the Commons on her approach to Brexit strategy by 303 to 258.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn called on the prime minister after the debate ended to \"admit her Brexit strategy has failed\".\n\nTory Brexiteer rebels abstained, saying the government's motion implied a no-deal Brexit would be ruled out when it came to negotiations with the EU.\n\nMinisters said that was not the case but defeat would make life more difficult for the PM as she discussed the future of her deal with the EU.\n• Brexit: All you need to know about the UK leaving the EU\n• A simple guide to the UK leaving the EU", "Refuse collecting and other council services are among those under pressure\n\nAlmost all councils in England plan to increase council tax and many will be cutting services, research suggests.\n\nThree-quarters of local authorities are set to increase tax by more than 2.5% from April, the Local Government Information Unit (LGiU) said.\n\nIt comes as almost a third of councils surveyed said they were planning to cut spending on adult social care, and a quarter may reduce children's care.\n\nThe Local Government Association (LGA) said councils had \"little choice\".\n\nThe survey, by the LGiU think tank and the Municipal Journal, found eight in 10 councils believe the current funding system is \"unsustainable\".\n\nThe figures are based on the responses from 158 senior council figures, including leaders, chief executives and finance directors, representing 123 of the 353 English local authorities.\n\nSome 97% of local authorities surveyed were planning to raise council tax in 2019-20, but more than half (53%) still expect to have to dip into their reserves to cover costs.\n\nThe average council tax for a Band D home in England was £1,671 in 2018-19.\n\nA local referendum is needed to increase council tax by 3% or more in most areas.\n\nAuthorities responsible for social care are allowed to increase council tax by a further 2%.\n\nDespite this, 29% of those who answered the survey said intended to \"reduce activity\" in adult social care in 2019-20.\n\nLocal authorities have a legal obligation to set a balanced budget, where they do not plan to spend more than they have coming in, for the forthcoming year, beginning 1 April.\n\nThe LGIU and Municipal Journal do not name the councils that are planning to raise taxes, however some councils have already held votes or confirmed their intentions publicly.\n\nSome councils are also looking to increase the amount of council tax they can raise by charging more for empty homes.\n\nOwners of long-term empty homes in Manchester will be charged a higher premium on their council tax under a series of measures that could raise £1m.\n\nLong-term empty homeowners already pay an extra 50% on their council tax but under proposals approved by the city council's executive, any homes empty for two years or more will be charged double council tax from April.\n\nStockport Council has also proposed scrapping discounts on empty homes and properties under renovation.\n\nLGiU chief executive Jonathan Carr-West said councils had no option but to adopt \"drastic measures\" if they were to make ends meet.\n\n\"We know that council funding is broken. Councils are making do by increasing council tax as much as they can, increasing charging and dipping in to their reserves,\" he said.\n\nRichard Watts, the chairman of the LGA's resources board, said: \"Many councils feel they have little choice but to ask residents to pay more council tax again this year to help them try and protect their local services.\"\n\nThe local referendum rule only applies in England. The National Assembly for Wales and the Scottish Parliament have the power to cap local authorities' council tax rises.\n\nNorthern Ireland has a rates system instead of council tax.\n\nIn Conwy in Wales, council leaders have set an increase of 9.6%, while taxpayers in Scotland, will see bills rise up to 4.79%.", "More than half of England's universities have fewer than 5% poor white students in their intakes, says an analysis of admissions figures.\n\nThe report, from the National Education Opportunities Network (Neon), shows low numbers of white students from deprived areas in many top universities.\n\nThere are 3% at the University of Oxford, compared with 28% at Teesside.\n\nThe study says too few universities have clear targets to recruit white working-class students.\n\nEducation Secretary Damian Hinds has warned of communities feeling \"left behind\".\n\nLabour says tackling the recruitment problem revealed by this report must be a \"priority\".\n\nJustine Greening, the first Conservative education secretary to have gone to a comprehensive school, says the figures should be a \"wake-up call\".\n\n\"We need new ideas, including on student finance, to make sure more white working class students have a fair chance to get into university,\" she says.\n\nThe study, from an organisation promoting wider access into higher education, calls for a \"national initiative\" to tackle the educational underachievement of disadvantaged white youngsters across schools, colleges and universities.\n\nThe admissions figures show the problem in recruiting white students from poorer backgrounds, particularly to some prestigious universities.\n\nResearchers warn that fewer than a fifth of universities have targets for poor white students - and that there are only \"variable\" efforts to improve participation.\n\nEven if a target of 5% of poor white students were to be set across universities, it would mean another 10,000 students going to university, says the research.\n\nThe study looks at white students from so-called \"low-participation neighbourhoods\" - areas where few people usually go to university.\n\nIn total numbers, white students, of all social backgrounds, are the biggest group going to university, show figures from the Ucas admissions service.\n\nBut in terms of a proportion of the population, white youngsters are less likely to go to university than Asian or black teenagers.\n\nThe report calls for a much wider definition of what it means to improve access to university\n\nThe latest application figures, for courses in the autumn, show that applications from white students are declining, while they are increasing for Asian and black youngsters.\n\nCutting across this is a widening gender divide - with women much more likely than men to apply to university.\n\nWhen these factors combine, it means that white, working-class men become among the most under-represented groups in university.\n\nThe study says projects to widen entry into university might need to be \"redefined\".\n\nThe report shows a starkly divided picture in where poor white students are likely to attend.\n\nThey are particularly likely to take higher education courses in local further education colleges.\n\nAmong those going to university, 70% go to new universities, with low numbers going to some high-ranking institutions.\n\nAt University of Sunderland, 27% are white students from deprived areas and 22% in Staffordshire University.\n\nThe numbers are particularly low in London universities - many of them 1% or 2%.\n\nBut these figures might be affected by the high overall levels of young people in London going to university - much higher than elsewhere in England.\n\nBecause of such high entry rates, even from deprived youngsters, there are relatively few \"low-participation neighbourhoods\" in London, or young people who would fall into this category.\n\nThe high cost of living in London could also deter some poorer students from elsewhere from coming to study in the capital.\n\nGraeme Atherton, report co-author and director of Neon, warned of \"big variability\" in the chances of different groups to get to university.\n\n\"We need to know more about why this variability exists and do more to eliminate it,\" he says.\n\nThe director for fair access at the Office for Students, Chris Millward, said the study reveals \"the scale of work to be done\".\n\nHe said universities will have to \"set out the work they will do to reduce the gaps in higher education participation and attainment between the most and least advantaged\".\n\nA spokeswoman for Universities UK said \"18-year-olds from the most disadvantaged areas in England are more likely to go to university than ever before\" - and this would be further helped if the government restored \"maintenance grants for those most in need\".\n\nLabour's shadow universities minister, Gordon Marsden, said the \"government and the Office for Students must work with universities on this as a priority\".\n\n\"This important study shows we must improve poor access to universities for disadvantaged young white children and especially boys,\" said Mr Marsden.\n\nJustine Greening, the former education secretary who has launched a social mobility project, said \"Britain can't afford talent going to waste\" and calls for \"ambitious and bold\" moves to widen access to university.\n\nEducation Secretary Damian Hinds said: \"White British disadvantaged boys are the least likely of any large ethnic group to go to university.\n\n\"We need to ask ourselves why that is and challenge government, universities and the wider system to change that.\n\n\"It's vital that we do this to make sure that no part of our country feels as though it has been left behind.\"", "The Duke of Edinburgh will not face prosecution over his road crash near the Sandringham estate, the Crown Prosecution Service has said.\n\nThe 97-year-old voluntarily gave up his driving licence on Saturday after his Land Rover Freelander collided with another vehicle in Norfolk last month.\n\nHe later apologised to the occupants of the other car - two women and a baby.\n\nThe CPS says it decided that it would not be in the public interest to prosecute the duke.\n\nChris Long, Chief Crown Prosecutor from CPS East of England, said: \"We took into account all of the circumstances in this case, including the level of culpability, the age of the driver and the surrender of the driving licence.\"\n\nThe duke escaped injury after his vehicle landed on its side following the collision with a Kia on 17 January on the A149 near the Queen's country estate.\n\nTwo days later Norfolk Police gave him \"suitable words of advice\" after he was pictured driving without a seat belt.\n\nHe wrote to one of the passengers in the Kia - Emma Fairweather, who broke her wrist in the accident.\n\nIn the letter, dated 21 January and reproduced by the Sunday Mirror, the duke acknowledged the \"very distressing experience\".\n\n\"I would like you to know how very sorry I am for my part in the accident,\" he wrote, on Sandringham House headed paper.\n\n\"The sun was shining low over the main road. In normal conditions I would have no difficulty in seeing traffic coming... but I can only imagine that I failed to see the car coming, and I am very contrite about the consequences.\"\n\nMs Fairweather had previously criticised the duke for a lack of communication following the crash.\n\nWitnesses described how they saw the Land Rover roll and end up on the other side of the road. One man, who helped free the duke from his car, said he saw the vehicle \"careering\" across the road.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince Philip was 94 when he drove the Obamas and his wife, the Queen\n\nThe duke, who is four months short of his 98th birthday, famously drove the Obamas when the then-US president and First Lady visited Windsor in 2016.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why did May lose another Brexit vote?\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May has suffered another Commons defeat after MPs voted down her approach to Brexit talks.\n\nMPs voted by 303 to 258 - a majority of 45 - against a motion endorsing the government's negotiating strategy.\n\nThe defeat has no legal force and Downing Street said it would not change the PM's approach to talks with the EU.\n\nBut Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn urged Mrs May to \"admit her Brexit strategy has failed\" and to come forward with a plan Parliament would support.\n\nThe defeat came after the pro-Brexit European Research Group (ERG) of Conservative MPs announced it had taken a \"collective decision\" to abstain, because backing the motion would have amounted to an endorsement of efforts to rule out a no-deal Brexit.\n\nMrs May has consistently rejected calls to rule out a no-deal Brexit, but Tory Brexiteer rebels believed the wording of what was meant to be a neutral government motion opened the door to that.\n\nThe motion reiterated support for the approach to Brexit backed by MPs in votes last month, one of which ruled out a no-deal Brexit.\n\nPlease upgrade your browser to view this interactive How did my MP vote on 14 February? Enter a postcode, or the name or constituency of your MP\n\nThe voting figures showed it was not just hardline Brexiteers that failed to support the government - a number of Tory Remainers also declined to vote, as more than a fifth of the party in the Commons failed to back the government.\n\nFive Conservative MPs - Brexiteers Peter Bone, Sir Christopher Chope, Philip Hollobone, and Anne Marie Morris, and the pro-Remain Sarah Wollaston - even voted with Labour against the motion.\n\nDowning Street blamed Mr Corbyn for the defeat, saying he had \"yet again put partisan considerations ahead of the national interest\" by voting against the government's motion.\n\nA No 10 spokesman said the PM would continue to seek legally-binding changes to the controversial Irish backstop, as MPs had instructed her to do in a Commons vote on 29 January.\n\n\"While we didn't secure the support of the Commons this evening, the prime minister continues to believe, and the debate itself indicated, that far from objecting to securing changes to the backstop that will allow us to leave with a deal, there was a concern from some Conservative colleagues about taking no deal off the table at this stage,\" he added.\n\nPlasters lose their stick, revealing the hurt underneath. And the fragile patch that was covering the Tory truce has been well and truly torn.\n\nJust when Theresa May wanted to show the European Union that she could hold her party together to win, she lost.\n\nAnd at home the prime minister has been shown in no uncertain terms that she simply can't count on the factions in her party to come through for her.\n\nDowning Street had earlier warned that defeat could damage the prime minister's negotiating position, as she seeks to make changes to the controversial backstop \"insurance policy\" in her deal to avoid customs checks between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.\n\nERG deputy chairman Steve Baker told BBC News the group still supported efforts to get \"alternative arrangements\" to replace the controversial Irish backstop plan, describing Mrs May's defeat as a \"storm in a teacup\".\n\nJeremy Corbyn: 'This can't go on'\n\nBut business minister Richard Harrington said ERG members should join former UKIP leader Nigel Farage's new Brexit party, telling them: \"In my view you're not Conservatives.\"\n\nIn an interview with The House magazine, he urged ministers opposed to a hard Brexit not to \"give in\" to the ERG by resigning.\n\nHe also said he was \"disappointed\" that Mrs May had not made a statement to the Commons today, and given MPs an outline of a revised deal to vote on.\n\n\"We're now told it will be in another two weeks' time so, being very conscious of the damage that not ruling out a hard Brexit is having on business and industry, I'm concerned that it's going to drag on.\n\n\"What concerns me most is there is now talk that there won't be a final decision until the next EU Council on 21 March which, as far as business is concerned, is completely unacceptable.\"\n\nEU leaders still believe this is not the time to budge.\n\nThey see the UK arguing, debating and negotiating with itself again - as it has done so often during the Brexit process - rather than engaging with Brussels.\n\nAs a result of all this, the new round of EU-UK negotiations are going nowhere fast.\n\n\"Window-dressing\" is how one senior EU figure described the talks to me - with each side simply repeating their red lines to the other.\n\nSo, the current favourite prediction in Brussels is that things will only be resolved in March.\n\nCommenting on Mrs May's latest defeat, Jeremy Corbyn said: \"Two weeks ago, the prime minister told Parliament that her new approach could 'secure a substantial and sustainable majority' in Parliament.\n\n\"However, tonight's vote has proved that there is no majority for the prime minister's course of action.\n\n\"This can't go on. The government can't keep ignoring Parliament or ploughing on towards 29 March without a coherent plan.\"\n\nHe added that the PM needed to admit her strategy had failed \"and come back with a proposal that can truly command majority support in Parliament\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BBC Politics 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\nPro-EU Conservative MP Anna Soubry said: \"The prime minister has been dealt yet another body blow. This is really serious stuff.\n\n\"What is happening is a profound lack of leadership from the very top of government.\"\n\nShe said it was \"chilling\" that ministers were still keeping no-deal on the table when they had seen economic analysis showing that it would be \"absolutely disastrous\" for the country.\n\n\"What an absolute fiasco this is,\" she added, blaming a \"lack of leadership in both of our broken parties\".\n\nMrs May has promised MPs a final, decisive vote on her Brexit deal with the EU when she has secured the changes to it that she believes MPs want to see.\n\nShe believes she can secure a Commons majority for the deal if she can get legally binding changes to the backstop clause - something the EU has consistently ruled out.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA Labour amendment calling for the final, meaningful vote to be held before 27 February was earlier defeated by 16 votes.\n\nAn SNP amendment, backed by the Liberal Democrats and calling for Britain's departure from the EU on 29 March to be delayed by three months, was defeated by 93 votes to 315 after most Labour MPs abstained.\n\nAnna Soubry withdrew an amendment calling on the government to publish the latest cabinet briefing on the economic impact of a no-deal Brexit after ministers agreed to meet her and publish relevant documents. Ms Soubry said she would table it again on 27 February if ministers did not keep to their promise.\n\nBrexit Secretary Steve Barclay had pledged to call the EU's chief negotiator Michel Barnier after the vote to discuss the result. The two men are set to resume talks in Brussels early next week.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nWest Indies bowler Shannon Gabriel claims he asked England's Joe Root if he \"liked boys\" during the third Test but has apologised for his words.\n\nThe 30-year-old was charged for the comments he made to skipper Root, who replied: \"Don't use it as an insult. There's nothing wrong with being gay.\"\n\nThe incident in St Lucia resulted in a four-match ODI ban for Gabriel, 30.\n\n\"I know now that it was offensive and for that I am deeply sorry,\" Gabriel said in a statement.\n\n\"To my team-mates and members of the England team, especially their captain Joe Root, I extend an unreserved apology for a comment which in the context of on-the-field rivalry, I assumed was inoffensive sporting banter.\"\n• None 'A bigger impact than hitting a six' - how people reacted to Root's reaction'\n• None Why England's tour may have provided Ashes light bulb moment - Agnew\n\nGabriel said of an exchange that occurred on the third day of the Test that it had come \"during a tense moment on the field\".\n\n\"The pressure was on and England's captain Joe Root was looking at me intensely as I prepared to bowl, which may have been the usual psychological strategy with which all Test cricketers are familiar,\" he said.\n\n\"I recognise now that I was attempting to break through my own tension when I said to Joe Root: 'Why are you smiling? Do you like boys?'\n\n\"His response, which was picked up by the microphone was: 'Don't use it as an insult. There's nothing wrong with being gay'.\n\n\"I then responded: 'I have no issues with that, but you should stop smiling at me'.\"\n\nGabriel was charged under article 2.13, which relates to the personal abuse of a player, player support personnel, umpire or match referee during an international match.\n\nBy accepting the charge, Gabriel was fined 75% of his match fee and picked up three demerit points, taking his overall total to eight in a two-year period, which triggered the ban.\n\nEngland won the Test by 232 runs, although they had already lost the series having been beaten in the first two Tests. A five-match ODI series between the sides starts on 20 February in Barbados.", "Hull student Libby Squire has been missing for two weeks\n\nMissing student Libby Squire \"may have come to some harm\" since she disappeared two weeks ago, police have said.\n\nNo trace of the 21-year-old has been found since she went missing in Hull, despite extensive searches.\n\nHumberside Police said they remained hopeful of finding Ms Squire but were keeping \"an open mind\".\n\nThe force also released pictures of clothes similar to those she was wearing when she disappeared.\n\nDet Supt Martin Smalley said: \"Libby has been missing for 14 days now and we sadly have to consider she may have come to some harm.\"\n\nPolice said they had used a black leather jacket, denim skirt and Vans \"Old Skool\" trainers - seen in new images released by the force - to help officers track Ms Squire's movements.\n\nA CCTV recording of her wearing a similar outfit was shared on Wednesday.\n\nLibby was last seen wearing an outfit similar to the one pictured - A black leather jacket, denim skirt and Vans \"Old Skool\" trainers\n\nPolice said the last sighting of the University of Hull student was on Beverley Road, close to where she lived, at around 00.05 GMT on 1 February.\n\nDozens of police officers have been searching undergrowth and waterways in Oak Road playing fields, a few streets away from her home on Wellesley Avenue.\n\nDet Supt Martin Smalley said that detectives \"were working night and day to find her and to understand what happened that night\".\n\n\"More work is now taking place behind the scenes rather than in public view,\" he said.\n\n\"However this does not mean the investigation is slowing or coming to an end, it is exactly the opposite and is very much active and ongoing.\"\n\nPolice divers have been searching water in a park near Ms Squire's home\n\nOn Wednesday, family and friends attended a prayer vigil at a church in her hometown.\n\nAbout 300 people, including her parents, attended a two-hour service in West Wycombe, Buckinghamshire.\n\nPawel Relowicz, 24, who was arrested on suspicion of abduction remains a person of interest, police have said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The app makes it easier for men to prevent women from travelling, human rights group claim\n\nA Saudi Arabian app that can be used to track women and prevent them from travelling will be investigated by Apple, its chief executive has said.\n\nIn an interview with NPR, Tim Cook said he wasn't aware of the Absher app but would look into it.\n\nThe app, which offers access to government services, has been criticised by human rights groups.\n\nDemocratic senator Ron Wyden has called for Apple and Google to remove it from their stores.\n\nWomen in Saudi Arabia need to get permission to leave the country from a male guardian, usually a father or husband.\n\nThe Absher app, which is designed for a range of government services, such as renewing driving licences, makes the process of allowing or prohibiting travel a lot easier, and it can be done via a smartphone.\n\nOriginally designed for the Ministry of Interior, the app has been in use for several years and downloaded more than a million times.\n\nAn investigation from website Insider exposed how it was being used by male guardians to register wives, sisters and daughters to either restrict or permit international travel.\n\nThe man receives a notification if a dependent woman attempts to leave the country.\n\nHuman Rights Watch told the publication: \"Apps like this one can facilitate human rights abuses, including discrimination against women.\"\n\nIn an open letter to both companies, in response to the report, Mr Wyden wrote: \"It is hardly news that the Saudi monarchy seeks to restrict and repress Saudi women but American companies should not enable or facilitate the Saudi government's patriarchy.\"\n\nThe app has also been used by some women to secretly change the settings on their male guardian's phone so that it allows them to travel, the Insider reports.\n\nGoogle has not responded to requests from the BBC for comment.", "Theresa May has been defeated again in a Commons vote on Brexit as MPs voted by 303 to 258 against a motion supporting the government's approach to negotiations with the EU.\n\nTo find out how your MP voted use the look-up below.\n\nPlease upgrade your browser to view this interactive How did my MP vote on 14 February? Enter a postcode, or the name or constituency of your MP\n\nClick here if you cannot see the look-up. Data from Commons Votes Services.\n\nMPs were asked to endorse the government's approach but instead rejected it by a majority of 45.\n\nTwo other questions were voted on:\n\nA Labour amendment to give MPs a vote on the withdrawal agreement by 27 February, or, require the government to allow MPs to vote on - and amend - its planned next steps. This was defeated by 16 votes.\n\nAnd the Scottish National Party amendment that the government request a postponement of the Brexit date by at least three months. This was also defeated.\n\nConservative MP Anna Soubry withdrew her amendment to ask the government to publish the most recent official briefings on the implications for business of a no-deal Brexit. This came after Brexit Minister Chris Heaton-Harris promised to meet with Ms Soubry and said the government would publish some of the information.\n\nEnter the word or phrase you are looking for\n\nHow did your MP vote on previous Brexit debates?", "The body of an 80-year-old man was found in a house in Bonhay Road\n\nA man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after three men in their 80s - two of whom were believed to have been twins - were found dead.\n\nThe bodies of two 84-year-olds, named locally as Dick and Roger Carter, were found in Exeter on Tuesday, a day after the body of an 80-year-old man was discovered.\n\nPolice said the level of violence used against all three had led them to link the deaths.\n\nOfficers were first called to Bonhay Road at 15:00 GMT on Monday, where they found the body of the 80-year-old.\n\nAt 13:00 on Tuesday, police attended a property in Cowick Lane, about 1.5 miles (2.4km) away, and discovered the bodies of the two other men.\n\nDet Chief Insp Roy Linden, from the major crime investigation team, said: \"At this time there are several and significant common factors between the two addresses.\n\n\"In terms of the level of violence used we decided last night to link the investigations - originally they were treated as two separate murder investigations.\"\n\nHowever, Supt Matt Lawler said officers were yet to establish a \"clear connection between the parties involved\".\n\nFlowers were left for the twins Dick and Roger Carter outside the property in Cowick Lane\n\nDick and Roger Carter were born in September 1934, and were both directors of an agricultural company called Traycrop from the early 1990s until it was dissolved in 2004.\n\n\"You had a job to tell them apart they looked so similar, even at their age,\" said one neighbour who did not want to be named.\n\nLocal shopkeeper Jim Wright, of Broadway Stores, said they were \"eccentric\" and \"reclusive\".\n\n\"Richard would come into the shop - I don't know the other one, he never came in.\"\n\nMr Wright's wife Kerry said: \"It's horrible to think something like that could happen outside your front door - your house is meant to be your safe place.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Three people who live close to the twin men in their 80s who were found dead give their reaction\n\nA police cordon was set up at the house, and a small collection of floral tributes could be seen outside.\n\nWindows of the large house were covered in what appeared to be whitewash and strips of tape.\n\nSupt Lawler said the force's local neighbourhood team would be visiting nearby residents over the next few days to provide \"advice, support, and to answer questions\".\n\nHe also urged people to check on their elderly neighbours, adding it was an opportunity for the community to \"come together\".\n\nPolice said both roads would be cordoned off for the rest of the day\n\nForensic work is still being carried out at both properties\n\nPolice have so far been unable to trace the family of the 80-year-old man.\n\nA neighbour said he was a \"very quiet man who kept himself to himself\".\n\nShirley Sharpe said she did not know him personally, but he had lived in the house for \"a good few years\".\n\nThe triple murder probe is being led by Devon and Cornwall Police's major crime investigation team\n\nSupt Lawler said he understood news of the deaths would \"cause significant and understandable concern and is an unprecedented event in our city which has shocked us all\".\n\nHe added: \"I know that everyone's immediate thoughts will be with the family and friends of these gentlemen, and as you would expect, we are providing as much support as we can to them.\"\n\nBoth roads would remain cordoned off for the rest of the day, Devon and Cornwall Police said.\n\nThe force has appealed for any potential witnesses from either area between 08:00 on Sunday and 13:00 on Tuesday to contact them.\n\nPolice added it was \"important to avoid speculation\" during the \"complex case\".\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. A BBC undercover investigation revealed an international dogfighting network. Warning: Contains distressing scenes of animal cruelty\n\nA BBC investigation into the dark world of organised dogfighting discovered an illegal trade of fighting dogs stretching from Eastern Europe to Wales.\n\nThe fighters face each other, ready. One rushes forward into a clash of jaws. The ground is already flecked with blood.\n\nThe lighter one is winning, locked onto its opponent. The black one has lost the ability to fight back. Now, it simply fights for survival.\n\nEventually it attempts to walk, but collapses, legs giving way, head hitting the ground.\n\nThe fight is over. It dies the next day.\n\nDogs don't do this naturally, experts say.\n\nThey are trained, by men who smile, encourage and place bets, as their animals tear themselves apart.\n\nThis is the disturbing world of organised dogfighting.\n\nIn 2016 the BBC was briefed exclusively on dogfighting by the British charity, the League Against Cruel Sports (LACS.)\n\nFormer police officers had identified key players in an international scene.\n\n\"There is still a significant amount going on,\" says the League's head of investigations Martin Simms. In the last year the organisation has received nearly 100 calls about dogfighting to a confidential hotline it runs.\n\nThe charity had evidence that men were breeding, training, buying, selling and betting on fighting dogs - or as they are known in the business, \"game dogs\".\n\nThe LACS investigation, codenamed Operation Bloodline, was aided by the internet.\n\nAnimal fighting is an ancient pastime, which, like most subcultures, has now found its place online.\n\nFor \"dog men\" - and it is almost always men - reputation is the currency that matters.\n\nSo the merits of particular dogs and breeders are now discussed on Facebook, on specialist closed forums, and - between those involved - on messaging apps.\n\nSometimes they operate in plain sight, using terminology the average reader might not understand. A dog could be described as a Grand Champion (Gr Ch), a five-times winner or a champion (Ch) with three wins.\n\nThey are not talking about Crufts.\n\nFormer police detective, Mark Randell, runs Hidden-In-Sight, a private investigations agency specialising in wildlife crime. He led the LACS investigation until 2017.\n\n\"'Ch' is used in kennel club circles but in a different context,\" he said. \"'Ch' next to a large muscled dog with a chain and facial injuries will always be dogfighting.\"\n\nRandell has identified around 70 British people linked with dogfighting.\n\nBut the LACS investigators had worked covertly to gather the evidence.\n\nPublishing it would blow their covers. So in 2017 we began our own investigation into the international dogfighting scene, and we picked a promising target.\n\nInvestigators say there is \"still a significant amount\" of dogfighting going on\n\nIvaylo Nikolov is 37, an intelligent, friendly, English-speaking Bulgarian from the Danube city of Ruse in the north of the country.\n\nIvo, as we came to know him, is associated with a company that buys, sells and transports dogs around the world.\n\nThe Balkans has become the centre of Europe's dogfighting business.\n\nIvo liked to document his work on Facebook. The League Against Cruel Sports gathered posts suggesting he has travelled to around 29 countries, including the UK, with his dogs.\n\nBut among the messages, status posts and check-ins were interesting clues.\n\nOne picture suggested the animals he transports are not just family pets\n\nA dog had ripped apart the bars of its travel cage, causing bloody damage in the process.\n\nIn other places he occasionally slipped up and used dogfighting terminology.\n\nIt was time to find out more about him.\n\nOne photograph appeared to show a dog had ripped apart the bars of its travel cage\n\nWe asked an Italian animal welfare investigator Sylvia (not her real name) to start sending Ivo WhatsApp messages.\n\nShe told him she had relatives in a hunting lodge interested in buying a certain type of dog.\n\nOne of them was Nik. Older, with an impressive beard, he looked the part.\n\nNik was from the countryside of Northern Italy, and spoke no English. Sylvia would translate for him in English.\n\nNeither Sylvia nor Nik were experts in match dogs, but behind the scenes a former police officer with decades of experience investigating dogfighting, was also working for the BBC, advising them about the right language to use.\n\nSylvia sent Ivo a picture of a fake handwritten note from the hunters, a shopping list of dogs they were interested in (with an actual shopping list for food added at the bottom as if she had been short of paper.)\n\nThe dogs specified included some for hunting, but also pitbulls, the breed of choice for dog fighting.\n\nThe American Pitbull Terrier is almost the only type prepared to fight for long periods. It is banned under Britain's controversial Dangerous Dogs Act.\n\nSilvia sent Ivo a list of the dogs she wanted\n\nIvo took the bait. The deal started to develop. The hunting dogs were forgotten as the weeks went on.\n\n\"Reliable and ready for match,\" he wrote in one message. Nik, he said, could \"bet good money on him\".\n\nThe price would be 3,000 euros (approximately £2,698) plus costs. The dog would be supplied by Ivo's contact, a kennel in Moldova, a day's drive from Bulgaria.\n\nBy this point we'd learnt a lot about Ivo and his dogs. The international salesman had been keen to demonstrate his credentials.\n\nHis WhatsApp messages kept Sylvia and Nik up-to-date on the dogfighting scene.\n\nHe sent a video of a match - apparently showing the dogs mentioned in his messages fighting in an undisclosed Eastern European location.\n\nSylvia received a match report. \"One win, in one hour and 17 minutes\", read a message. Fights sometimes stretch to two hours.\n\n\"Please keep the video very private,\" he added.\n\nTwo weeks later he was planning a trip to the Caribbean where he was expecting to see seven dogfights.\n\nBut eventually he sent a fight video including a dog he was offering for sale.\n\nThe video is difficult to watch.\n\nBy the end the dogs are covered with blood. The watching men hold \"break sticks\"- used to pull apart the animals - in hands which are also red with blood.\n\nThe confrontation is what is known as a \"roll\" - an informal match sometimes used to prove a dog's willingness to fight.\n\nIvo offered to take our undercover investigators to rolls.\n\n\"We will have fun in our field,\" he said.\n\nHe appeared to have a genuine love for dogs but also for dogfighting. By now, he believed our investigators shared his feelings.\n\nHe said: \"It's always very great joy for me when I meet people with such a great desire, and I'm not talking about sales, money or anything else. I'm only talking about the true pure love for the game.\"\n\nYet it was partly about money. Ivo was so impressed with the dog he was selling, he wanted to bet on it \"when he's ready to match\".\n\nWhat we didn't have was his home address or that of the kennels to which he was connected.\n\nHe had been careful not to give away this vital information.\n\nSo we began planning to lure him to a meeting. Everything he had suggested was illegal in Bulgaria.\n\nMeanwhile, information from the League Against Cruel Sports led us to valuable sources of intelligence about dogfighting online.\n\nThey included specialist websites where owners record the pedigrees of their dogs and sometimes the results of their matches.\n\nThey do not use their real identities, instead hiding behind nicknames or the names of their kennels.\n\nIn 2014 someone using the name The Gameyard posted a picture of a pitbull named Iceboy.\n\nSo who was Iceboy, and most importantly, who was The Gameyard?\n\nThe clue was in the background of the picture, which we identified from the shapes of distant hills and nearby buildings, as Merthyr Tydfil in South Wales, near the Brecon Beacons.\n\nIn fact it was possible to pinpoint the exact location at which the picture was taken - a patch of grass within walking distance of the home of dogfighter Kerry Evans.\n\nHe was convicted in 2014 of keeping or training Pit Bull Terriers but not, at that point, sent to prison.\n\nDogfighting in the UK is a crime which attracts maximum sentences of just six months, handed down by a magistrate rather than being heard in a crown court.\n\nCampaigners say that must change.\n\nWe decided to take a closer look at Evans - or rather his dogs - so we started to examine the animal's \"bloodline\".\n\nThe bloodline is a crucial concept in dogfighting. Dogs which perform well in fights are highly valued. Those with tenacity are described as displaying \"gameness\".\n\nThose who shy away are dismissed as \"curs\".\n\nKerry Evans was found guilty of keeping or training Pit Bull Terriers\n\nA game dog will pass its abilities to its offspring through breeding. And the bloodlines of top dogs are highly valued.\n\nOne, called Chinaman, was notorious for continuing a fight despite critical injuries. Its bloodline and its name have been passed to countless animals around the world.\n\nOn the pedigree websites Iceboy's father, or sire, was listed as \"Aspen\", a dog bred by \"Tomy Kennels\".\n\nBack to our Bulgarian dealer, Ivaylo Nikolov, or as his Facebook profile describes him, Ivaylo Tomy Flyman Nikolov.\n\nWe have evidence that he provided dogs to Kerry Evans in the UK, possibly to breed from.\n\nA Facebook post showed one of his dogs, named Aspen and listed as a champion, was brought to the UK in 2016. It may have been used to breed a number of British fighting dogs.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBy now, our undercover investigators, Sylvia and Nik, were making good progress.\n\nThey had arranged to meet Ivo in Bucharest, en route from his home across the Danube in Bulgaria to the kennels in Moldova where the fighting dog we had ordered would be picked up.\n\nThe BBC was not about to put 3,000 euros into the pocket of a dogfighter, so the meeting, in a burger restaurant, had to be handled carefully.\n\nCaptured by our hidden cameras, Ivo arrived, having battled through rush-hour traffic. The final details of the deal, thrashed out on WhatsApp, were agreed face-to-face.\n\nIvo's Moldovan dog breeder contact was giving them the pick of the litter, he said.\n\n\"He gets the best ones and he either goes to match or he calls me and he says 'these are the two or three ones which are the best ones. If you have a good client I may sell, nothing else.'\"\n\nSylvia asked how we would get the dog through customs checks. Transporting a dog for use in fighting is illegal.\n\nIvo said his contact in Moldova \"is actually a state vet in his region\" and can issue \"any document we want\".\n\nBut he said, \"when you travel with Moldovan papers you have too much checks so I have made Bulgarian documents, also blood tests and export certificates.\"\n\nOften the exact breed of the dogs are 'fudged' to make it harder for customs officials to detect whether they fall foul of laws such as Britain's Dangerous Dogs Act.\n\nDog microchips can also be inserted by anyone with the right device.\n\nIt was time to confront Ivaylo Nikolov as he left the restaurant.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nApparently stunned at being exposed, he refused to make any comment.\n\n\"I don't know you, I don't want to talk to you,\" he said.\n\nPursued by a BBC camera crew he attempted to get away. He walked straight past his car parked nearby, perhaps concerned its licence plate might be captured on camera.\n\nIn fact we had already identified the plate, which briefly appeared in a video he had previously sent to our undercover investigators.\n\nNikolov refused to answer any of our questions. But a couple of days later, the Facebook account which he had told our investigators was crucial to what he did, was taken down. YouTube links he had sent, also disappeared.\n\nHe hasn't responded to our further attempts to contact him.\n\nDogfighting is illegal in most of the world's developed countries.\n\nUK law bans not only fighting, but also owning fighting dogs, training them to fight, trading animals and even filming fights without good reason.\n\nThe RSPCA's head of investigations, Mike Butcher, is the country's only expert witness in dogfighting able to give evidence in court.\n\nHe is fascinated by the dogfighting criminals he has encountered on raids with the police.\n\nThey have \"an obsessive love\" for dogs, he says.\n\n\"We've been to houses before where we've said we're taking your money, your drugs, your gun. They say 'yeah right but you're not having my dog though'. I've seen them attack four or five coppers, or burst into tears.\"\n\nYet organised dogfights inevitably result in animal deaths and serious injuries.\n\nThe referee usually has no power to stop the fight. Only a fatality or an owner withdrawing their dog brings the cruelty to an end.\n\nThe League Against Cruel Sports believes dogfighting is not being properly tackled.\n\nIt wants a national register of owners who are banned from owning dogs, a review of the Dangerous Dogs Act and tougher sentences.\n\nIts research raises concerns not just about high-level organised fights, but also the use of dogs by street gangs, either to settle scores through ad-hoc matches or for protection.\n\nLast month three dogs were seized at a property in Dumfries\n\nDogfighters are also more likely to be involved in other types of serious crime.\n\nAnd there is evidence of a low-level group of \"wannabe\" dogfighters obsessed with the culture of \"strong\" dogs.\n\nThese are dogs who may not take part in matches, but are trained to be aggressive, risking injury to other animals and people.\n\nDuring our investigation we obtained footage of dogs being kicked or lifted into the air by their jaws, to improve the strength of their bite.\n\nOne chilling video from a Northern Ireland dogfighting case showed men shaking a cat out of a tree, so that it could be ripped apart by a dog on the ground.\n\nThe charity's further investigations have produced a wider list of possible suspects.\n\nAs a result, recently the Scottish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals raided a house in Dumfries, seizing three dogs.\n\nAn animal cruelty investigation has been launched.\n\nAs for Ivo, after we confronted him, his social media profiles were taken offline and, sadly, the dog he offered us remains in the world of dogfighting.", "Amazon has said it will not build a new headquarters in New York, citing fierce opposition from state and local politicians.\n\nThe dramatic turnabout comes just months after the firm named New York City one of two sites selected for major expansion over the next decades.\n\nCity and state leaders had agreed to provide about $3bn (£2.3bn) in incentives to secure that investment.\n\nThose subsidies had prompted fierce backlash in some quarters.\n\nAmazon said its plans to build a new headquarters required \"positive, collaborative relationships with state and local elected officials who will be supportive over the long term\".\n\nIt said: \"A number of state and local politicians have made it clear that they oppose our presence and will not work with us to build the type of relationships that are required to go forward with the project we and many others envisioned.\n\n\"We are disappointed to have reached this conclusion.\"\n\nIn November, Amazon announced plans to invest about $2.5bn and add more than 25,000 \"high-paying\" jobs at campuses in New York and near Washington DC over the next two decades.\n\nThe news capped a 14-month search for a new site that saw cities and towns across North America competing to woo the e-commerce giant.\n\nLong Island City, where Amazon was planning expansion, is one of the fastest growing areas in New York\n\nIn New York, Governor Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill DeBlasio championed the project, which Amazon said would generate more than $10bn in new tax revenue in New York.\n\nPolls had found that a majority of New Yorkers also supported Amazon's plan.\n\nHowever, it drew opposition from unions, members of the City Council and others, including newly elected Rep Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, angry over the billions in incentives promised to one of the world's most valuable companies.\n\nThe risk of rising rents, which have spurred tensions in Amazon's hometown of Seattle, were also a concern.\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 Jimmy Van Bramer This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"When our community fights together, anything is possible, even when we're up against the biggest corporation in the world,\" Council Member Jimmy Van Bramer said.\n\n\"Defeating an unprecedented act of corporate welfare is a triumph that should change the way we do economic development deals in our city and state forever.\"\n\nAmazon supporters said the critics were short-sighted. They said they were worried about the long-term economic consequences as populist messages appear to gain traction.\n\n\"The New York Senate has done tremendous damage,\" Gov Cuomo said. \"They should be held accountable for this lost economic opportunity.\"\n\nAmazon currently employs more than 5,000 people across New York City. It said it expected its staff numbers in the region to continue to grow.\n\nThe firm said it would not look for an alternative headquarters site, but would move forward as planned at the site near the Pentagon in Northern Virginia.\n\nIt will also distribute its growth across its offices in the US and Canada.\n\nAmazon is also due to receive incentives for the new campus in Virginia, but that package, which is less generous than the one promised in New York, has been less controversial.\n\nFrank Raffaele owns Coffeed, a small chain of coffee shops that started in Long Island City, the neighbourhood where Amazon was expected to expand.\n\nHe said he was disappointed the project had been dropped over \"political posturing\".\n\n\"This was transformative for New York and the fact that it's not going to happen anymore is extremely sad,\" he said. \"This was our chance to shine.\"\n\nAmazon may have expected its search for \"HQ2\" to go smoothly.\n\nAfter all, the firm has won billions in incentives from cities and states, and plenty of good PR, over the last decades by promising jobs at its warehouses. Now it was offering a headquarters.\n\nBut the subsidies that local officials have lavished on corporations like Amazon in recent years have tested the public's patience.\n\nAnd opponents especially questioned the need to use such incentives to spur expansion in Long Island City - one of the fastest-growing areas of one of the country's most successful cities.\n\nPolls showed support among the public, but Amazon, which prides itself on being a nimble business despite its size, didn't become a giant by embracing battles with the potential to tarnish its consumer-focused brand.\n\nAll the more reason to back away.", "Lord Nazir Ahmed denies all the allegations against him\n\nA member of the House of Lords has been accused of exploiting his position to pursue sex with vulnerable women who asked him for help, Newsnight reveals.\n\nOne woman said Lord Nazir Ahmed of Rotherham \"took advantage\" and began a sexual relationship with her after she approached him for assistance.\n\nHer case has raised questions about the adequacy of the House of Lords Code of Conduct.\n\nTahira Zaman, 43, approached Lord Ahmed in February 2017 through a mutual friend, hoping he would help get the police to investigate a Muslim faith healer who she felt was a danger to women.\n\nMs Zaman told BBC Newsnight that Lord Ahmed said he wrote a letter to the Metropolitan Police Commander Cressida Dick about her concerns. She then alleges that he repeatedly asked her for dinner.\n\nShe says she finally agreed and weeks after the dinner, she contacted him about her case and he invited her to his east London home.\n\n\"He was saying I'm beautiful,\" she told Newsnight.\n\nThe pair went on to have sex on numerous occasions.\n\nTahira Zaman complained about Lord Ahmed's behaviour to the Lords' Commissioner for Standards\n\nShe accepts the relationship was consensual but said: \"I was looking for help and he took advantage of me. He abused his power.\"\n\nThe relationship ended after two months when Lord Ahmed told her he would not leave his wife, she said.\n\n\"I genuinely did believe that he had feelings for me, I'm just so stupid… and I believed that he was going to help me,\" she said.\n\nIn her interview with Newsnight, Ms Zaman said she feels exploited by Lord Ahmed because she was suffering from anxiety and depression.\n\nIn a second case, a woman who wishes to remain anonymous told Newsnight she had also asked Lord Ahmed for help and claims he suggested she should spend the night at his London home. She interpreted this as a proposition for sex, which she refused.\n\nIn January of last year, Ms Zaman complained about Lord Ahmed's behaviour to the Lords' Commissioner for Standards, Lucy Scott-Moncrieff.\n\n\"Lord Ahmed used my trust to repeatedly have intercourse with me,\" she told the commissioner. \"I feel I have been preyed upon due to my vulnerability and used by Lord Ahmed.\"\n\nBut after reviewing her complaint twice, the commissioner said she was unable to investigate.\n\nMs Scott-Moncrieff concluded the code could not have been broken because when Lord Ahmed offered to help her and write to the police, it was not part of his parliamentary work.\n\nShe wrote to Ms Zaman: \"The behaviour you describe in your email could amount to a breach of personal honour. However, the code only applies in relation to a peer's parliamentary work, and, from your email, it looks as if your initial contact with him was not to do with his parliamentary work.\"\n\nNewsnight showed the full correspondence between Ms Zaman and the Lords' Commissioner for Standards to Lord Carlile - a barrister and former deputy high court judge. He said the rules should be clarified.\n\n\"If someone comes to you for help, particularly if they're vulnerable…and you form a sexual relationship, actually that's disgraceful,\" he said.\n\nHe added: \"If it is not clear to the commissioner, who is a very experienced lawyer, then I think the rules need to be clarified and in particular the guide to the code of conduct needs to be clarified.\"\n\n\"She went to Lord Ahmed because she believed he was in a position to do something influential for her\", he added. \"So it's absolutely clear to me that what he was doing was in his role as a member of the House of Lords.\"\n\nLord Carlile said a sexual relationship between Lord Ahmed and Ms Zaman could breach two clauses in the code of conduct: one covering conflicts of interest and another which stipulates that Lords must behave on \"their personal honour\".\n\nBut in a statement to Newsnight, Ms Scott-Moncrieff, said: \"Though credible and substantial, the complaint provided insufficient evidence that contact with the member was in relation to his parliamentary duties... To conclude otherwise, as Lord Carlile has done, is to misunderstand the code.\"\n\nIn a statement, Lord Ahmed told Newsnight: \"I completely deny the allegation that I have exploited my position to pursue an inappropriate relationship with any member of the public (vulnerable or otherwise) or that I have acted inappropriately in the presence of women either in my personal or professional capacity.\n\n\"The House of Lords' Commissioner for Standards, Ms Lucy Scott-Moncrieff CBE, assessed the complaint and decided that it did not engage parliamentary inappropriate behaviour about me. She decided to take no further action.\"\n\nHe added: \"I take my duties as a Parliamentarian extremely seriously and would not act so as to undermine my personal or professional reputation.\"\n\nYou can watch Newsnight on BBC 2 weekdays 22:30 or on iPlayer. Subscribe to the programme on YouTube or follow them on Twitter.", "Last updated on .From the section Man Utd\n\nSir Alex Ferguson says Eric Harrison was \"one of the greatest coaches of our time\" following the death of the former Manchester United youth coach, credited with developing their 'Class of '92'.\n\nHarrison, 81, who was diagnosed with dementia four years ago, passed away peacefully with his family by his side.\n\nAfter playing at Halifax, Hartlepool, Barrow and Southport, Harrison became youth team manager in 1981.\n\nHe led United to FA Youth Cup victories in 1992 and 1995.\n\nHarrison was awarded an MBE for services to football in 2017 and Ferguson praised his ability to \"make good human beings\" out of young players.\n\nFerguson, who revamped United's scouting network following his appointment as manager in 1986, added: \"On a personal level Eric had a wicked dry sense of humour and was straight talking and I admired that in him.\n\n\"When I came as manager I was lucky enough to have Eric on the staff as head of youth development, so I got to see the work he did and not just with the Class of 92 but with all the young players.\n\n\"He built character and determination in those young players and prepared them for the future. He was a teacher, he gave these players a path, a choice and he only did that through his own hard work and sacrifice.\n\n\"He was able to impart that education to the young which made him one of the greatest coaches of our time.\"\n\nManchester United said it was \"deeply saddened\" by Harrison's passing.\n\n\"Our thoughts and prayers go out to Eric's family and friends at this sad and difficult time,\" it added.\n\nThe Professional Footballers' Association said Harrison was \"one of the game's great teachers\".\n\nIn 1992, his United side won the FA Youth Cup with what is regarded as one of the best crop of young players in the English game.\n\nGary Neville, David Beckham and Nicky Butt all went on to have long careers with Manchester United and England. Ryan Giggs and Robbie Savage went on to play for Wales, although Savage did not play a professional game for the Red Devils and moved to Crewe in 1994.\n\n\"I can still hear him telling me 'no more Hollywood passes',\" said Beckham.\n\n\"I can still see him as we played on The Cliff training ground looking down on us either with a proud smile or a loud bang of his fist on the window knowing any minute he would be on his way down to probably advise me in the most polite way to stop playing those passes.\n\n\"More importantly he made us understand how to work hard and respect each other and not just on the pitch. We won't forget the life lessons he gave us. Eric we love you and owe you everything.\"\n\n\"We've lost our mentor, our coach and the man who made us\"\n\nA year after the Youth Cup success, Neville, Beckham and Savage were joined by Paul Scholes, Phil Neville and Keith Gillespie in the team that lost in the final against Leeds.\n\nIn 1995, a United team captained by Phil Neville and coached by Harrison won the Youth Cup again.\n\n\"He was like a second father,\" Phil Neville told BBC Radio 5 live.\n\n\"On and off the pitch, the way you spoke to the canteen ladies, the kit man, the way you dressed, your time-keeping - they were values that stood us in good stead for the rest of our lives.\n\n\"I'm a manager now and the standards that I try and give my players are the standards he taught me and I'll be forever indebted to him.\n\n\"He was a truly remarkable man and I personally owe him everything.\"\n\nGary Neville said: \"We've lost our mentor, our coach and the man who made us.\"\n\n\"He taught us how to play, how to never give up, how important it was to win your individual battles and what we needed to do to play for Manchester United Football Club. Eric we owe you everything.\"\n\nEx-Manchester United, Leicester, Blackburn and Wales midfielder Savage revealed he still has a letter Harrison sent him which encouraged him not to give up when he was released by Manchester United.\n\n\"Eric, along with my family, was the reason I didn't and to this day I will always be so thankful to Eric,\" said Savage.\n\nMark Hughes, Norman Whiteside, Clayton Blackmore and Graeme Hogg also became internationals after playing in a United FA Youth Cup final side managed by Harrison.\n\nIn total Harrison spent 27 years at Old Trafford and also spent four years as Wales assistant manager under Hughes.\n\nWales' current manager Giggs said: \"I've known Eric since I was 13 and he was a big part of my career early on. A great man and a tough coach, he instilled in us the principles of the game that we've carried for life.\n\n\"He loved going away with Wales under Mark Hughes' tenure and without a doubt is one of the biggest influences on my career.\"\n\nFormer Wales striker John Hartson also worked with Harrison and in a tweet, described him as \"a lovely man\".", "Commons Leader Andrea Leadsom has marked Valentine's Day with a \"roses are red\" poem about leaving the EU.\n\nHer effort - suggesting \"our future is bright, with a good deal in sight\" - was met with groans from the opposition benches.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nShadow Chancellor John McDonnell has called Sir Winston Churchill a \"villain\" over his role in dealing with striking miners in 1910.\n\nAsked at a Politico website event, for a one-word answer on whether Churchill was a hero or villain, he paused and replied: \"Tonypandy - villain\".\n\nThe Tonypandy riots saw troops sent to control striking miners who wrecked shops and mine owners' property.\n\nThe wartime PM was voted the greatest Briton in a BBC poll in 2002.\n\nHis grandson Sir Nicholas Soames described Mr McDonnell's remark as \"a very foolish and stupid thing to say\".\n\nThe Conservative MP told The Telegraph: \"I think my grandfather's reputation can withstand a publicity-seeking assault from a third-rate, Poundland Lenin. I don't think it will shake the world.\"\n\nAnd the prime minister's official spokesman said: \"The British public will reach its own judgement on this characterisation of Sir Winston Churchill.\"\n\nThe spokesman added that Theresa May had a portrait of Churchill hanging on the wall of her study in Number 10 and paid tribute to his \"strong leadership, determination and unwavering personality\" which \"inspired our country through our darkest hour\".\n\nAsked about his comments later, Mr McDonnell told ITV News the Churchill \"was obviously a hero during the Second World War but there was another side to Churchill\".\n\nHe said many working class people had been angry about his actions as home secretary during the Tonypandy riots.\n\nHe added: \"If it's prompted a more rounded debate about Churchill's role, well I welcome it.\"\n\nLabour MP Ian Austin posted a picture of the wartime leader on social media, calling him \"a real British hero\".\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 Ian Austin This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnd former foreign secretary Boris Johnson tweeted that the UK's debt to Churchill was \"incalculable\":\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 Boris Johnson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBut Mr McDonnell had some support from Labour's MP for the Rhondda, Chris Bryant, who said Churchill was \"never welcome\" in his constituency:\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Chris Bryant This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnd former Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood agreed with the shadow chancellor:\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 4 by LeanneWood 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Tonypandy riots took place on the evenings of 7 and 8 November 1910 and involved violent clashes between striking miners and the police, with soldiers arriving on the second day.\n\nThe incident haunted Churchill for the rest of his career and many of his critics saw it as an anti-trade union stance.\n\nChurchill was voted the greatest Briton in a BBC poll in 2002", "The pilot of a vintage fighter jet has told a court he has no memory of his plane crashing at the Shoreham Airshow or of the days leading up to it.\n\nAndrew Hill said he had no memory from three days before the crash to when he woke from a coma the following month.\n\nThe 54-year-old told the Old Bailey he had spent the last three years \"trying to resolve what happened\".\n\nHe denies 11 counts of manslaughter by gross negligence when his Hawker Hunter jet crashed on 22 August 2015.\n\nThe court has heard 11 men were killed in the crash on the A27 after Mr Hill failed to complete an aerobatic manoeuvre.\n\nAs he gave evidence for the second day, Mr Hill, from Sandon in Hertfordshire, said he had no memory of taking off on the day of the crash, or any part of the display.\n\n\"Probably most of the last three years have been spent trying on earth to resolve what happened,\" he told jurors.\n\nAsked by Karim Khalil QC, defending, if this had been easy, he replied: \"No, because it caused a dreadful tragedy to a lot of people.\n\n\"I was the pilot, I was in charge of the aircraft.\"\n\nThe court has heard Mr Hill was performing a \"bent loop\" manoeuvre when the jet crashed\n\nMr Hill later told the court: \"I don't know what I did. I know what the aircraft did.\"\n\nFootage of the flight from inside the jet shown to the jury showed the aircraft lining up with the road.\n\nAsked if that made any sense, Mr Hill said: \"No.\"\n\nMr Hill also said: \"I don't accept I was doing a loop.\"\n\nAnd questioned if he knew what he was doing, Mr Hill said: \"It doesn't fit into a classic manoeuvre.\"\n\nHe also noted that the plane was not being \"particularly well flown\" and was \"not being controlled properly\".\n\nWatching the moment when the aircraft reduced power, Mr Hill said: \"It's the last thing you would want to do.\"\n\nAsked if he had any explanation, Mr Hill said: \"None at all.\"\n\nJurors were told that upon impact with the ground, the pilot's seat ejected, and Mr Hill from it, in what is called \"seat separation\".\n\nThe court was told that immediately after the crash Mr Hill was asked what happened and he said he did not know.\n\nMr Hill was thrown from the cockpit of the Hawker Hunter after it crashed\n\nAsked if he had felt unwell beforehand, Mr Hill said \"yes\", jurors heard.\n\nMr Hill told the court that if he had felt unwell before the flight he would not have flown.\n\nJurors also heard a paramedic said the pilot had told him he had some pain in his chest and also told him \"at some point he blacked out\".\n\nReading a statement by Mr Hill in 2017, his defence counsel quoted him as saying \"people lost their lives as a direct result of an accident I was involved in\".\n\nAsked if he had continued to think like this, Mr Hill told the court: \"Yes, it's the dominant thought of my life.\"\n\nEarlier, the court heard how Mr Hill had \"embarrassed\" himself by flying too close to the crowd at the Southport air show in 2014.\n\nHe recalled having a \"nasty dawning moment\", but managed to turn his plane around, ending the display shortly before being ordered to by controllers on the ground.\n\nThe prosecution has also accused him of another breach in procedure at Shoreham Airshow in 2014.\n\nThe court was told he flew over Lancing College, near the airport, despite it being prohibited, but Mr Hill denied this had happened.\n\nHowever, jurors heard him agree that a video from a camera fitted in his cockpit made it look like he had.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Plasters lose their stick, revealing the hurt underneath. And the fragile patch that was covering the Tory truce has been well and truly torn.\n\nJust when Theresa May wanted to show the European Union that she could hold her party together to win, she lost.\n\nAnd at home the prime minister has been shown in no uncertain terms that she simply can't count on the factions in her party to come through for her.\n\nThere were, and still are, suspicions among Eurosceptics that the prime minister doesn't really mean it when she says we'll leave at the end of March, whatever happens.\n\nIt's no secret that a significant number of government ministers would push as firmly as they could to stop that happening.\n\nAnd on show in Parliament, an increasing determination to make that impossible.\n\nThat explains the demand from Brexiteers for reassurance that Mrs May is still willing to follow the existing law and leave, whatever happens.\n\nBut this is more than just a Brexiteer strop over no deal.\n\nBrexiteers who have been involved in talks with the government about the so-called Malthouse compromise, a different EU deal proposed by MPs, are frustrated that No 10 has not been more full-throated in support for that proposal.\n\nThat concern was, it's claimed, part of the reason for abstaining in protest, which resulted in this latest defeat.\n\nGovernment sources suggest Eurosceptics' grievances were rather hungrier than that.\n\nWhatever the whole truth, it is plain that Mrs May's challenge is not just to persuade a reluctant EU that she can carry Parliament but to bring a party together that has precious little appetite to do so.\n\nThis is though, far from the end of this troubled journey. In less than a fortnight, MPs will vote again.", "Islamic State group (IS) members and their families have been fleeing the group's last sliver of territory in eastern Syria, as US-backed militia advance towards them.\n\nMen, women and children, some with serious injuries, others describing running out of food, have been leaving the group's rapidly shrinking enclave, which the US military on Tuesday said amounted to about 50 sq km (20 sq miles).\n\nThey have been arriving at the village of Baghuz to surrender to the US-backed Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).\n\nOn Wednesday US President Donald Trump said said territory held by the Islamic State group in Syria and Iraq could be \"100%\" liberated as early as next week.\n\nMany of those arriving in Baghuz have injuries, including those sustained from incoming strikes by the array of forces battling IS.\n\nSDF commanders were negotiating with IS over a possible deal to free several SDF members held captive by IS and possibly give the militants safe passage to the province of Idlib in north-western Syria, which is not under Syrian government control, the New York Times reported.\n\nMost of those emerging from the desert over the past two weeks have been IS militants' wives and children, reports say. Once they have arrived they wait to be screened by the SDF before being told they will be taken to detention camps in northern Syria.\n\nHowever, fighters themselves have also been fleeing. Germans Sabina (L) aged 34 and Leonora (R), 19 are two of the three wives of German jihadist Martin Lemke, who also fled and was detained by the SDF, his wives said. They arrived in Baghuz at the end of last month.\n\nThe fighters include Syrians, Iraqis who had earlier moved to IS strongholds in Syria as the US-backed Iraqi army retook IS-held territory in Iraq, and foreign fighters from European countries and elsewhere who travelled to the region to join the group.\n\nSome are taken to detention camps, others to prison, the New York Times reported.\n\nIn the nearby town of Hajin, SDF fighters have found evidence of how IS administered it. Here they are seen examining an IS prison.\n\nThe town's mayor Ali Jaber has found documents including this one urging residents to review their accounts with the local alms tax centre.\n\nSome displaced Syrians have already begun returning to their homes in Hajin after it was retaken by the SDF last month, but much of the town was destroyed in the fighting.", "The new Land Rover Freelander being driven on Saturday\n\nThe Duke of Edinburgh has been seen driving a new Land Rover two days after being involved in a crash on a road near Sandringham, Norfolk.\n\nPictures in the Daily Mail and The Sun are said to show Prince Philip, 97, driving alone on the Sandringham estate.\n\nA replacement Freelander, the model the prince was seen driving, was delivered to Sandringham on Friday.\n\nPrince Philip was unhurt in Thursday's crash but two women were injured.\n\nThe duke was in collision with a Kia. The driver, a 28-year-old woman, suffered cuts, while a 45-year-old woman passenger broke her wrist.\n\nA nine-month-old boy in the Kia was uninjured.\n\nDamage to the Land Rover's left side could be seen after Thursday's crash\n\nA palace spokesman confirmed that the duke had \"no injuries of concern\" following a visit to the hospital for a check-up.\n\nHe also said contact had been made with the occupants of the Kia to exchange \"well-wishes\".\n\nThe duke was travelling alone in his car when the crash happened on the A149.\n\nRoy Warne, who witnessed it, described the duke's vehicle \"careering, tumbling across the road and ending up on the other side.\"\n\nHe said the duke had been \"obviously shaken\" but had been able to stand and ask if the others involved in the incident were alright.\n\nMr Warne said he overheard the duke telling police he had been \"dazzled by the sun\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nNorfolk police have said Thursday's incident will be investigated \"and any appropriate action will be taken\".\n\nChris Spinks, who led Norfolk's roads policing team for five years, said the royal would not be shown any \"favouritism\" in the investigation.", "Libby Squire has not been seen since she went for a night out in Hull on 31 January\n\nA man held over the disappearance of Libby Squire remains of interest to the inquiry, police have said, as unrelated charges against him were announced.\n\nThe University of Hull student, 21, has been missing for 10 days and was last seen after a night out.\n\nHumberside Police have been questioning a 24-year-old man they arrested in Hull on Wednesday.\n\nThe force said the man had been charged with voyeurism, outraging public decency and three counts of burglary.\n\nDet Supt Matt Hutchinson said the charges relate to reported offences between December 2017 and January of this year - and said that all the charges were unrelated to Libby's disappearance.\n\nThe suspect remains in police custody and is due to appear at Hull Magistrates' Court on Monday.\n\n\"Our priority remains to find Libby and support her family at this incredibly distressing time,\" Det Supt Hutchinson added.\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. Elizabeth Warren: 'This is the fight of our lives... to build an America that works for everyone'\n\nUS Senator Elizabeth Warren has formally launched her bid to stand for the White House in 2020 with a speech in which she promised to tackle economic inequality.\n\nShe is the latest Democrat to launch a campaign to become the party's presidential candidate.\n\nEven before she had taken to the stage, President Donald Trump's 2020 campaign team had responded calling her a fraud.\n\nIt is the first such intervention to target a possible Trump contender.\n\n\"The American people will reject her dishonest campaign and socialist ideas like the Green New Deal, that will raise taxes, kill jobs and crush America's middle-class,\" Mr Trump's campaign manager Brad Pascale wrote.\n\nHe also accused her of \"impersonating and disrespecting\" Native Americans \"to advance her professional career,\" referring to a DNA test she took to prove her Cherokee ancestry. Mr Trump had long been calling her \"fake Pocahontas\".\n\nMs Warren has apologised for taking the test.\n\nIn her speech on Saturday in Lawrence, in her home state of Massachusetts, Ms Warren called Mr Trump \"the latest and most extreme symptom of what's gone wrong in America, a product of a rigged system that props up the rich and powerful and kicks dirt on everyone else\".\n\nShe added: \"This is the fight of our lives, the fight to build an America where dreams are possible, an America that works for everyone.\"\n\nIn the shadow of long-unused smoke stacks, at the site of a famous factory strike more than a century ago, Elizabeth Warren formally launched her presidential bid.\n\nShe used the backdrop to highlight what she sees as the plight of an American working class that has been left behind by rapacious big business and indifferent government.\n\nDespite sub-zero temperatures and a blustery wind, an estimated crowd of several thousand turned out to hear the Massachusetts senator pledge to fight corruption in Washington, level the economic playing field and reform the US democratic process.\n\nWarren enters a crowded presidential field, as Democrats tell pollsters they want to find the candidate most able to beat Donald Trump.\n\nThere were some in Ms Warren's campaign kick-off crowd who expressed concern that her struggles to explain her past claims of Native American heritage could make her vulnerable to attack.\n\nMs Warren has long been a star in the progressive left, however, and she has already built a formidable nationwide campaign. She has just under a year to make her case, before voters start rendering their judgement.", "Mike Ashley's Sports Direct has cancelled a bid for collapsed cafe chain Patisserie Valerie, just two days after making an offer.\n\nThe retail billionaire announced his bid for the chain on Friday evening.\n\nSports Direct offered £15m, but was told by administrator KPMG it would need to offer up to £2m more than this, according to the Financial Times.\n\nPatisserie Valerie collapsed last month. KPMG closed 70 outlets, but kept 121 open in the hope of selling them.\n\nMr Ashley is thought to be facing several competing bids for Patisserie Valerie, including, according to reports, from Costa, the coffee chain bought by Coca-Cola last year.\n\nThe retail tycoon, who also owns English Premier League football club Newcastle United, made his name building budget chain Sports Direct into Britain's biggest sporting goods retailer.\n\nHe has since become known for buying up struggling retail chains and bought both department store chain House of Fraser and cycle shop Evans out of administration last year.\n\nSports Direct's sprawling High Street empire also includes lingerie chain Agent Provocateur as well as shareholdings in Debenhams, French Connection and Game Digital. Last week, it emerged as front runner to buy Sofa.com.\n\nPatisserie Valerie collapsed after an accounting scandal which left the firm without enough money to pay its debts.\n\nRescue talks with banks HSBC and Barclays to restructure the business broke down, leaving no option but administration.\n\nThe cafe chain employed about 3,000 staff, but some 900 jobs were lost in the initial wave of closures after KPMG was appointed to run the business on 22 January.\n\nIn addition to Patisserie Valerie, the company's other brands include Druckers Vienna Patisserie, Philpotts, Baker & Spice and Flour Power City.\n\nThe Serious Fraud Office is carrying out a criminal investigation into Patisserie Valerie and finance director Chris Marsh was arrested and released on bail after having been suspended by the company.\n\nAlso under investigation, by the Financial Reporting Council, are former Patisserie Valerie auditors Grant Thornton.", "England blew France away with a first-half hat-trick of tries from Jonny May to continue their fabulous start to the Six Nations.\n\nMay went over three times in the left-hand corner in the first 30 minutes as England's forwards steamrollered France and their backs' kicking game cut them apart.\n\nEddie Jones' men added two more in the second half, one through the relentless Owen Farrell and the other a penalty try after Chris Ashton had been brought down without the ball.\n\nFrance had no answer to England's physicality, their back three turned inside out by the constant kicks rained in behind them, and their appalling run at Twickenham goes on.\n\nEngland have now won 10 of their last 13 Six Nations matches against France, Les Bleus on a horrible run of eight defeats in their last nine with the two sides due to meet at the group stages of this autumn's World Cup.\n\nWith Italy and Scotland to come at home next month - one who have never won at this stadium, the other not in 36 years - the clash against Wales in Cardiff in a fortnight's time is shaping up to be the decisive match in this year's championship.\n• None England women score seven tries against France\n\nEngland had scored early tries in each of their past five matches and they accelerated out of the blocks once again.\n\nThe men in white counter-attacked after a French knock-on, Daly cut a swathe through the scattered French rearguard and kicked ahead into acres of space for May to race clear and touch the loose ball down.\n\nFarrell slid the conversion wide but banged over a penalty either side of a straightforward one for Morgan Parra for 11-3, and as a rain squall blew in on the cold wind, both sides looked to kick into space in their opponent's back field.\n\nAnd it was May who struck again. Farrell's long miss-pass after a series of heavyweight drives at the French line left the winger one on one with Damian Penaud but standing still, yet he stepped his opposite number with insouciance to dance into the corner.\n\nWith less than half an hour gone he had his hat-trick as England's thundering forwards left the French defensive line reeling before Ashton dabbed the ball into the empty spaces behind for May to sprint through and slide across the try-line.\n\nYoann Huget worked an opening down the England right for Penaud to dive into the corner, but it was the briefest of interruptions as yet another kick through put Ashton in the clear.\n\nThe 31-year-old was hauled down a metre from the line but prop Kyle Sinckler spun a scrum-half's pass out left for Henry Slade to step inside Guilhem Guirado.\n\nEngland had their fourth try and a bonus-point before the half-time whistle had been blown, Farrell sliding over his conversion for 30-8 and the cavorting home crowd giving their side a standing ovation as they jogged for the dressing room.\n\nIt was to get worse for France. Slade picked off a loose pass on a rare French foray into England's 22, and when he kicked ahead for the galloping Ashton, Gael Fickou's desperate chase ended with him hauling down his opposite number without the ball.\n\nReferee Nigel Owens ran to the posts to signal a penalty try and then sent Fickou to the sin-bin to compound the visitors' woes.\n\nFrance were on the ropes and it was Farrell to land the next blow, following up his own kick after Ben Youngs took a quick penalty and May could not quite gather for yet another try.\n\nThere was a question of whether May had hooked an arm around Antoine Dupont as they fought for the loose ball, just as there had been about how likely Ashton would have been to score without Fickou's illegal intervention, but with a 34-point lead and more than a quarter of the contest still to come, England did not care.\n\nCourtney Lawes brought another roar as he sent the giant Mathieu Bastareaud backwards in the tackle before the intensity dipped as Jones threw on his replacements.\n\nFour years ago England stuck 55 points on France and yet later that year crashed out of the World Cup at the group stages.\n\nBut after backing up last week's impressive win over Ireland in Dublin with this performance, their supporters will be believing that this time around might be different.\n\nMan of the Match - Jonny May\n\n\"Scoring tries is enjoyable and it's special at Twickenham to score for your country,\" May told Radio 5 live. \"I really am just getting on the back of excellent work from everybody else, and what I'm doing is just as important as what everyone else is doing and it's just a cog in the wheel.\"\n\n\"It was ominous for France even after a minute. England are better drilled than last year, I think they are doing things earlier in fewer phases and in better positions.\n\n\"England were brilliant but France kept going, they didn't throw the towel in. It was complete control from England for most of the 80 minutes though.\n\n\"The game in Cardiff has enormous consequences. Don't underestimate Wales, they don't need motivating. They will be fully pumped.\"\n\nReplacements: Moon for M Vunipola (44), Launchbury for Kruis (47), Hughes for Curry (47), Nowell for Ashton (52), Cole for Sinckler (57), Cowan-Dickie for George (62), Ford for Tuilagi (62)\n\nReplacements: Ramos for Huget (41), Ntamack for Penaud (47), Dupont for Parra (47), Aldegheri for Bamba (57), Willemse for Vahaamhina, Alldritt for Lambey (70)", "Victims of romance scams - the majority of whom are women - lost an average of £11,145 each last year, according to new figures.\n\nThe data, from police reporting centre Action Fraud, showed that £50m was lost in these scams in 2018 when fraudsters pretend to be romantically attached.\n\nFraudsters trick victims into sending money or gather enough personal information to steal their identities.\n\nThese scams of the heart are being highlighted ahead of Valentine's Day.\n\nPolice say that victims are targeted via online dating websites, apps, or through social media. Fraudsters use fake profiles to form a relationship with them.\n\nIn 2018, 4,555 reports of romance fraud were made to Action Fraud. Total losses were up by 27% compared with the previous year. The total is likely to be higher as many victims are thought to have suffered in secret.\n\nThe average age of a romance fraud victim is 50 and 63% of victims are women. They lose twice as much on average as males, Action Fraud said.\n\nCommander Karen Baxter, head of the City of London Police's economic crime department, said: \"As cases of romance fraud increase each year, so too does the cost to victims, both emotionally and financially.\n\n\"The emotional damage of falling victim to romance fraud can often be far more difficult to come to terms with.\"\n\nDating site users are being urged not to take everything at face value.\n\nMany people who have been caught out have judged those they met online based on their social media profile, their job, or simply trusting them too soon.", "Teams battle over a small leather ball in the heart of the Borders town\n\nThe Uppies and the Doonies went head to head in Jedburgh on Thursday in their traditional annual ba' game.\n\nIt is one of a number of towns to stage such events.\n\nBoth boys' and men's games take place throughout the day\n\nThe Uppies try to take a small leather ball towards the town's castle and the Doonies try to carry it towards the Jedwater.\n\nGames often run on until late in the day as the action takes place up and down through the town centre.\n\nThe action is rarely anything less than fast and furious\n\nJedburgh is one of a number of towns that still play the traditional ba' games\n\nThe aim of the game is to carry a leather ball to a \"goal\" at either end of the town\n\nThe action draws large crowds and competitors of all ages\n\nIt is not always easy to tell who is on top during the game\n\nThe teams taking part represent those living to the north and south of the town's Mercat Cross\n\nShops in the town take protective steps during the ba' game\n\nThe town is proud of its tradition which dates back centuries", "A group of young people were asked \"What is your London?\" The aim was to capture their London, to offer an alternative view of the capital to that seen on picture postcards. This is a selection of photographs from the five-week intensive course mentored by photographer Lua Ribeira.\"\n\n\"London has increasingly become more and more crowded over time,\" says Codner.\n\n\"It can be quite challenging for those who have anxiety, daily to live in such an environment.\n\n\"My pictures, called Red Butterflies, express and illustrate the feelings that anxiety can cause, in a poetic way.\"\n\nBarberini has spent the past year moving between Cardiff and London while caring for his granddad and pursuing a career in photography.\n\nHe says this has only been made possible by the family and friends who opened up their homes to him.\n\nThese are those moments and memories that made up his London.\n\n\"London is one of the most diverse cities in the world, our diversity is one of our greatest strengths,\" says Ansong.\n\n\"Being African-British, born and bred in London, I wanted to create a series that celebrates the ethnographic that represents our cities.\n\n\"For my project, Deep-rooted, I asked people to pose for me using African prints as a poetic means to explore our roots, through the use of colours, patterns and textures.\n\n\"Everyone has a story to tell, whether it's culturally or not. London makes everyone different - and that's a good thing.\"\n\n\"Traditional Foods explores my East Asian and British culture, through food and kitchen tools, producing colourful displays of food combinations that aren't quite what they seem,\" says Chan.\n\n\"Perched over a half-eaten sandwich, I watched them all swarm by as they got what they could from the city,\" Quigley writes. \"The grey-suited striding resting pecking racing chattering opportunists.\"\n\n\"As a Punjabi Muslim woman in the West, I am constantly negotiating contrasting cultural subjectivities,\" says Tasnim.\n\n\"My work attempts to capture the disorientation, displacement and elation experienced by those who exist at the intersection of these spheres.\n\n\"London is a place where I can freely explore all aspects of my identity and, through the use of colour and fabric, I envision the harmony and disjointedness that arises when conflicting ideologies converge.\"\n\nSee Me Not is Akindele-Ajani's exploration of how humans interact in the city and how people behave towards those who work within the service industry.\n\n\"They refuse to treat them as individuals, instead they interact with them much like they would with a machine\", he says.\n\n\"At present, we are the most globalised we have ever been in the history of humanity, yet so disconnected,\" Adesanya says.\n\n\"I found this paradox to be a pressing discussion in London and wondered... What if a consistent conversation could emerge? Not from the politicians, not from the mayors or county leaders, but from the people on the ground now? What then?\n\n\"With a camera, globe and those intentions in mind, I took to the streets to discover what grounded the people of London when the struggles and pressures of life unsettled their foundation.\"\n\nBargains celebrates style and explores the materialism in young working-class London.\n\nThe programme, organised by Create Jobs and Magnum Photos, and supported by The Mayor's Fund for London and The HudsonBec Group, aims to give young creative talent in London the connections, skills, knowledge and inspiration to tell stories that are important to them and to bring about social change. The brief, \"What is your London?\" was set by It's Nice That, Anyways and Lecture in Progress who worked with Lua Ribeira.", "The trouble occurred near to Watford's Vicarage Road ground\n\nFour people have been arrested after two men were left needing hospital treatment following a fight near Watford Football Club's stadium.\n\nThe men sustained facial cuts and bruises, according to police.\n\nOfficers were called to Vicarage Road at about 17:10 GMT following the conclusion of Watford's Premier League match against Everton.\n\nHertfordshire Constabulary said the injured men had been taken to hospital \"for further assessment\".\n\nWatford supporter Lewis, 31, who did not want to give his full name, told the Press Association he \"heard a lot of shouting\" as he left the football ground and \"went to take a look\".\n\nHe said he saw \"a Watford fan lying on the floor, apparently unconscious, with blood on his face\" and \"three Everton fans running from the scene towards the town centre\".\n\nHe added that people gathered around the injured man \"were crying and shouting for people to help and call an ambulance\".\n\nA video posted on Twitter shows people gathered around someone lying on the floor while an onlooker calls out \"coward\".\n\nBBC reporter Rick Kelsey said he saw two Watford fans on the ground, covered in blood.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn January, Everton supporters were involved in a brawl before and after an FA Cup game against Millwall in London ,which the Met Police described as \"some of the most shocking football violence seen for some time\".\n\nOne man was left with a \"life-changing\" scar when he was slashed across the face.\n\nOn Tuesday, a 27-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of wounding with intent, attempted grievous bodily harm, and violent disorder.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Olivia Colman, Richard E Grant and Melissa McCarthy were among the stars on the red carpet ahead of the awards ceremony.", "Penguins have been used as a form of therapy in care homes.\n\nThe residents of Mountbatten Grange care home, in Windsor, Berkshire, were surprised by Charlie and Pringle, the Humboldt penguins.\n\nTheir visit was for a 92-year-old animal lover, Annie Thelwell.", "Emiliano Sala (left) was on board a plane being flown by pilot David Ibbotson\n\nFrench football star Kylian Mbappe has donated £27,000 to a fundraising appeal set up by the family of missing pilot David Ibbotson.\n\nMr Ibbotson, from Crowle, Lincolnshire, was flying Cardiff City's Emiliano Sala from Nantes to the UK when their plane crashed near Guernsey on 21 January.\n\nThe footballer's body was recovered from the wreck on the seabed, but Mr Ibbotson's body has not been found.\n\nFormer England captain Gary Lineker has also donated £1,000.\n\nBy Sunday evening more than 7,000 donations had been received, pushing the total raised to more than £130,000 of the page's £300,000 target.\n\nWorld Cup winner and Paris St-Germain forward Mbappe, whose full name is Kylian Mbappe Lottin, donated under the name Elie Lottin.\n\nLineker linked to the page from his Twitter feed, saying: \"Here's the Go Fund Me page should you wish to help this poor family\".\n\nKylian Mbappe has given £27,000 to the search page for missing pilot David Ibbotson\n\nThe light aircraft was en route from France to Cardiff when it crashed two days after the Argentine striker's £15m transfer to the Bluebirds was announced.\n\nAn official search was called off on 24 January, but Sala's body was found after an appeal launched by his agent raised £324,000 (371,000 euros) for a private search.\n\nLaunching their own appeal, Mr Ibbotson's family wrote: \"We are trying to come to terms with the tragedy and the loss of two incredible men.\n\n\"To be told the search has now been called off for the foreseeable future has only made this tragic time more difficult.\n\n\"We can not bear the thought of him being alone, we need him home so that we are able to lay him to rest.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police officers throw tear gas grenades in Paris during the 13th consecutive demonstration by the \"yellow vests\"\n\nA \"yellow vest\" protester in France had his fingers ripped off during clashes at the parliament building in Paris, as the protests went into their 13th week.\n\nThe protester attempted to pick up a rubber pellet grenade and it exploded in his hand, French media reported.\n\nThere was also an arson attack on the home of the head of France's National Assembly, though it was not clear if the attack was linked to the protests.\n\nThe \"yellow vest\" protests began in mid-November over fuel taxes.\n\nThey have since broadened into a revolt against the President, Emmanuel Macron, and a political class seen as out of touch with common people.\n\nAccording to French government figures, 51,400 people joined the protests on Saturday, 4,000 of them in Paris. That was down from the previous week, when official figures put the number at 58,600, 10,500 in Paris.\n\nRepresentatives for the yellow vests disputed the previous week's numbers, claiming the turnout was higher.\n\nIn Paris on Saturday, the protesters marched from the Champs-Elysees to the city's parliament buildings, where a violent contingent broke down barriers and threw projectiles at police. Police responded with tear gas and anti-riot munitions.\n\nCars have been set on fire close to the yellow vests' protest in Bordeaux\n\nAccording to an eyewitness, the person who lost their hand was a photographer attempting to take pictures of people breaking down barriers around the National Assembly building.\n\n\"When the cops went to disperse people, he got hit by a sting-ball grenade in the calf,\" 21-year-old Cyprien Royer told AFP news agency. \"He wanted to bat it away so it didn't explode by his leg and it went off when he touched it.\n\n\"We put him to one side and called the street medics. It wasn't pretty: he was screaming with pain, he had no fingers - he didn't have much above the wrist.\"\n\nParis police confirmed that a demonstrator was injured in the hand and been treated by paramedics, but did not identify the victim.\n\nTens of thousands of protesters turned out in other parts of France, including the port cities of Marseille and Montpellier and also in Bordeaux and Toulouse in the southwest.\n\nEight police officers were lightly injured during clashes with protesters in Bordeaux, local police said.\n\nPoliticians came together to condemn the arson attack on the home of Richard Ferrand, a close ally of Mr Macron, in Motreff, Brittany.\n\nMr Ferrand published pictures on Twitter of his scorched living room, writing: \"Nothing justifies intimidations and violence towards an elected official of the Republic.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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Housing and Communities Secretary James Brokenshire on securing \"seamless border\" in Ireland\n\nMPs will get another chance to vote on Brexit this month - even if Theresa May has not been able to negotiate a deal by then.\n\nHousing Secretary James Brokenshire admitted it might not be the final, decisive vote on the PM's deal that Labour and some Tories are demanding.\n\nThe prime minister needs to get a deal approved by Parliament by 29 March to avoid a no-deal Brexit.\n\nLabour has accused her of \"cynically\" running down the clock.\n\nInstead of a \"meaningful\" vote on the prime minister's deal with the EU, MPs could be given another series of non-binding votes on possible Brexit alternatives by 27 February, with the final vote on whether to approve or reject the deal delayed until the following month.\n\nOn Wednesday, Mrs May will ask MPs for more time to get legally-binding changes to the controversial Northern Irish backstop, which she believes will be enough to secure a majority in Parliament for her deal.\n\nBut the following day, Labour will attempt to force the government to hold the final, \"meaningful vote\" on Mrs May's Brexit deal by 26 February.\n\nMr Brokenshire refused to commit to this date in an interview with the BBC's Andrew Marr Show, saying there could be more votes on amendments to the proposed deal instead.\n\n\"If the meaningful vote has not happened, so in other words things have not concluded, then Parliament would have that further opportunity by no later than 27 February,\" said Mr Brokenshire.\n\n\"I think that gives that sense of timetable, clarity and purpose on what we are doing with the EU - taking that work forward and our determination to get a deal - but equally knowing that role that Parliament very firmly has.\"\n\nHe also ruled out removing the Irish backstop from the government's deal with the EU, as some Conservative MPs are demanding.\n\nHe said ministers were exploring a possible time-limit to the backstop, or a legal mechanism allowing the UK to exit the backstop without the agreement of the EU, but he insisted some kind of \"insurance policy\" was needed to keep the Irish border free-flowing.\n\nEnter the word or phrase you are looking for\n\nBut Labour's shadow Brexit secretary, Sir Keir Starmer, says he believes the prime minister is \"pretending to make progress\" on the Irish backstop issue.\n\nHe says what she actually intends to do is return to Parliament after the 21/22 March European Council summit the week before Brexit and offer MPs a \"binary choice\" - her deal or no deal.\n\n\"We can't allow that to happen,\" Sir Keir told The Sunday Times.\n\n\"There needs to be a day when Parliament says that's it, enough is enough.\"\n\nLib Dem leader Sir Vince Cable said delaying the final vote on the Brexit deal was \"worse than irresponsible\" and he \"would not be surprised if [Theresa May] faces a massive rebellion by Conservative MPs\".\n\nConservative MP Sarah Wollaston, who like Sir Vince has campaigned for another EU referendum, called for ministers who were \"serious\" about preventing a no-deal Brexit to resign and vote against the government.\n\nFellow Conservative MP Heidi Allen also called for ministerial resignations, saying it was \"completely irresponsible\" for the government to keep delaying the final Brexit vote.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLabour is proposing its own Brexit plan, which would involve the UK staying in a customs union with the EU, which they say could get the backing of a majority of MPs.\n\nThe government has not ruled out supporting this - and has promised a formal response to it and further talks with Labour - but they say it would prevent the UK from making its own trade deals after Brexit.\n\nTheresa May and her husband Philip arriving at a church service on Sunday\n\nThere are fewer than 50 days until Brexit. The law is already in place which means the UK will leave the EU on 29 March 2019.\n\nMrs May's Brexit deal - which she spent months negotiating and had agreed with the EU - covers the terms of the UK's divorce and the framework of future relations.\n\nBut it was rejected by the UK Parliament and if it is not approved by Brexit day, the default position would be a no-deal Brexit.\n\nLast month, Parliament voted in favour of an amendment that supported most of the PM's deal but called for backstop - which is a last-resort option to prevent a hard border in Ireland - to be replaced with \"alternative arrangements\". The prime minister is now in talks with Brussels to seek these changes to the backstop.\n\nA number of government ministers will also be meeting their counterparts across the continent this week, in order to underline Mrs May's determination to achieve a deal.\n\nCritics of the backstop in Mrs May's current deal say they could tie the UK to EU rules indefinitely or mean Northern Ireland ends up under a different system to the rest of the UK.\n\nBut the Irish government and the EU have repeatedly rejected calls for changes.\n\nOther options likely to be debated by MPs on Thursday include extending Article 50, the legal mechanism taking the UK out of the EU on 29 March, to allow more time to reach an agreement with Brussels.", "An artist's impression shows how the memorial might look in its proposed location in Victoria Tower Gardens beside the Houses of Parliament\n\nA Holocaust memorial proposed for outside Parliament would have a \"significant harmful impact\" on the area, the Royal Parks have said.\n\nThe landmark is planned to be built at Victoria Tower Gardens on Millbank, alongside the River Thames.\n\nRoyal Parks, which looks after the space, said it could not support the plans as the Grade II listed park was a \"highly sensitive location\".\n\nThe application is currently being considered by Westminster City Council.\n\nThe proposed memorial features 23 large bronze fin structures and an underground learning centre.\n\nIt will be dedicated to the six million Jewish men, women and children and other victims murdered by the Nazis.\n\nThe proposed plans feature 23 large bronze fin structures and an underground learning centre\n\nIn a letter to the council, Royal Parks said while it \"strongly supports\" the principle of the project, it thought the current design would have \"significant harmful impacts\" on the \"character and function\" of the park.\n\n\"The structure will dominate the park and eclipse the existing listed memorials which are nationally important in their own right,\" the charity said.\n\nRoyal Parks added the number of visitors expected would create \"queues and congestion\" and \"change the nature of what is currently a relaxed park\".\n\nIt has been predicted that one million people would visit the memorial in its first year.\n\nArchitect Sir David Adjaye, who has led the design team, previously said \"disrupting the pleasure of being in a park is key to the thinking\" of the memorial.\n\nHowever, he later added that architects were working to ensure that 90% of the original park was retained.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Schoolchildren say a Holocaust memorial at Westminster could help MPs think about their decisions\n\nMore than 10,000 people have signed an online petition calling on the government to reconsider the location.\n\nA spokeswoman for the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government said \"no location in Britain is more suitable for the area for the memorial\".\n\n\"The proposals have been developed with great sensitivity to the existing context and character of the gardens,\" she said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Charles Darwin is the founder of modern evolutionary studies\n\nA school has axed a musical on evolution over its suggestive lyrics and portrayal of Christian views.\n\nDarwin Rocks, about the scientist Charles Darwin, was due to be performed by about 90 pupils at Hartford Manor Primary School, Cheshire, next month.\n\nThe move follows six \"expressions of concern\" from parents, the school said.\n\nThe musical's publishers Musicline said it was written by a Christian, adding \"we can't ever recall having courted controversy before\".\n\nThe musical includes scenes from across Darwin's life, including his journey on HMS Beagle\n\nAccording to its website, the production is a \"light-hearted look\" at the work of Darwin, whose theory of evolution, published in 1859, shocked Victorian society by suggesting animals and humans shared a common ancestry.\n\nHead teacher Simon Kidwell told the BBC that the school, in Hartford near Northwich, received six \"expressions of concern\" over lyrics that refer to \"bump and grind\" - a sexually suggestive dance move.\n\nHe said three of those parents also believed a bishop was \"mocked\" in a separate scene.\n\n\"There were concerns about caricature,\" he said, adding the complainants, who include a science teacher from another school, felt its representation of Christian views on science \"wasn't accurate\".\n\nOne parent said they did not want their daughter to think her ambition to be an engineer contradicted Christian beliefs, Mr Kidwell said.\n\nHe added the school board was not involved in the decision to drop the production and denied newspaper suggestions a local vicar who is on the board had influenced the move.\n\nDarwin stopped going to church in his 40s and described himself in later life as an agnostic\n\nThe school teaches evolution as part of the syllabus and no parents have withdrawn their children from those lessons, Mr Kidwell said.\n\nMike Smith, managing director at Musicline, said the firm \"asked Steve Titford - a practising Christian - and the writer of Shakespeare Rocks to write a factual musical about Charles Darwin's life and beliefs\".\n\nHe said it had been \"received with enthusiasm\" and been performed in schools around the world since 2017.\n\n\"You can't please all the people all the time, but having been in the school musical business for over 25 years, we can't ever recall having courted controversy before,\" Mr Smith added.\n\nThe traditional (and often lazy) depiction of faith v science is old hat.\n\nIn Britain and the US, there are multiple experts who see no conflict with holding religious beliefs alongside their strong grasp of science.\n\nTheistic evolutionists include Francis Collins - the geneticist who led the Human Genome Project and the current director of the National Institutes of Health in the US.\n\nDavid Wilkinson, the astrophysicist and principal of St John's College, Durham, is also a Methodist lay minister - and often contributes to Thought for the Day.\n\nIt's not a surprise there has been some objection to the \"mockery\" of Christians, who are often depicted as anti-intellectual and anti-science.", "The Pensions Regulator was twice asked for help in getting Carillion to pay more into its pension schemes in the years running up to its collapse.\n\nLetters published by Parliamentary committees show the construction firm's pension trustees wrote to the regulator in 2010 and 2013 to flag up problems.\n\nThe regulator has been criticised for failing to take early action to protect pensioners.\n\nHowever, it said it did get Carillion to raise its pension payments in 2013.\n\nCarillion went into liquidation last month. The construction giant - which also provided services for schools, hospitals and prisons - had only £29m of cash left, but a pensions deficit of hundreds of millions of pounds.\n\nIn 2010, trustees had written to the Pensions Regulator saying that while they had advised Carillion that it needed to pay a minimum of £35m a year to help clear the pensions deficit, the maximum offered by the firm was £25m. The trustees deemed this \"not acceptable\".\n\nThe 2013 letter said trustees wanted contributions of £65m a year over 14 years, but the company had offered £33.4m over 15 years. The trustees said they had reached an \"impasse\" with the firm and wanted \"intervention\" from the regulator.\n\nThe chair of the Work and Pensions Committee, Frank Field MP, said: \"These letters suggest the Carillion directors were contemptuous of their pensions obligations.\n\n\"Their private pleading that the company could not afford more was in stark contrast to the rosy picture - and bumper dividends - being presented to the outside world.\n\nHe added: \"With characteristic alacrity, the Pensions Regulator started its arduous process of chasing money down from Carillion a few days after it was formally announced there was no money left. I can only assume - and hope - they are going after some of those very generous bonuses.\"\n\nIn response, the Pensions Regulator said: \"When the trustees wrote to us in 2013 to say they could not agree funding plans with the company, we did intervene by threatening to use our powers unless a funding plan was agreed.\n\n\"Our intervention resulted in a significant increase in the amount of money the company was prepared to pay into the scheme. We believed this was reasonable, based upon our understanding of the company's trading strength as set out in its audited accounts.\n\n\"The investigation we have now launched is looking at whether there are grounds to use our anti-avoidance powers.\"\n\nOn Monday, the Official Receiver - the body in charge of liquidating Carillion - said a further 152 workers would be made redundant this week, taking the total number of jobs lost to 1,141.\n\nThe failure has also led to job cuts and widespread disruption among sub-contractors.", "Endurance just before it sank: Crushed at the stern, it went down bow first\n\nAntarctic scientists seeking to locate the wreck of Sir Ernest Shackleton's lost ship, the Endurance, have arrived at the search site.\n\nThe team broke through thick pack-ice on Sunday to reach the vessel's last known position in the Weddell Sea.\n\nRobotic submersibles will now spend the next few days scouring the ocean floor for the maritime icon.\n\nShackleton and his crew had to abandon Endurance in 1915 when it was crushed by sea-ice and sank in 3,000m of water.\n\nTheir escape across the frozen floes on foot and in lifeboats is an extraordinary story that has resonated down the years - and makes the wooden polar yacht perhaps the most sought-after of all undiscovered wrecks.\n\nThe British-led Weddell Sea Expedition has given itself five days to find the sunken remains.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prof Julian Dowdeswell: \"The autonomous vehicle has a number of different sensors\"\n\nOperating from the South African ice-breaker, the SA Agulhas II, the team's plan is to put down an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) to map the seafloor for anomalies.\n\nA wide box has been designated, and the robot, equipped with side-scan sonar and other technologies, will run back and forth across this search zone like a lawnmower. The first dive, initiated on Sunday, will last roughly 45 hours.\n\nThe SA Agulhas II will have to keep holes in the sea-ice open to operate the subs\n\nThere will be no attempt to retrieve artefacts should the Endurance be found. The intention only is to make a 3D model of the wreck site and take photos.\n\n\"The autonomous vehicle has a number of different sensors, ranging in resolution from about 10m down to about half a metre. And it also has cameras. It's not going to be as crisp as the image you or I might take - but almost as good as that,\" expedition chief scientist Prof Julian Dowdeswell told BBC News.\n\nThe search will be challenging because of the sea-ice at the surface. The Agulhas will have to periodically shift its hull to maintain open holes in the floes, through which to launch and recover AUVs.\n\nProf Dowdeswell emphasised: \"The robot has to be recovered by the parent vessel [before the data can be] interrogated. And the difficulty with this is that in severe sea-ice conditions - it's not that easy to recover the autonomous underwater vehicle. That is an act of seamanship in itself - before the data can be looked at.\"\n\nFrank Worsley used his sextant to record the position of the sinking\n\nScientists are extremely confident they are in the right place to find Endurance.\n\nShackleton's skipper, Frank Worsely, was a very skilled navigator and used a sextant and chronometer to calculate the precise co-ordinates of the Endurance sinking - 68°39'30.0\" South and 52°26'30.0\" West.\n\nThe ship is almost certainly within a few nautical miles of this point - and there is every chance it is in reasonable condition.\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 Frazer Christie This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe organisms that normally consume sunken wooden vessels do not thrive in the cold waters of the Antarctic, so even though the Endurance was broken when it went down, its timbers are most probably well preserved on the ocean floor.\n\n\"The ship is always referred to as having been crushed by the ice; in fact, the timbers were breached by the ice. But there is no reason to assume the hull won't be for the most part integral, even though there should be a splay of debris, including masts and spars, around the vessel on the seafloor,\" Prof Dowdeswell, director of the Scott Polar Research Institute, added.\n\nThe Agulhas made good progress to the search site last week after picking up supplies\n\nJust getting to the search site is a remarkable effort. The Agulhas has had to fight its way through ice that has thickened over several years.\n\nUnlike Shackleton, however, the Weddell Sea Expedition team has been assisted by satellite ice charts, which make picking a way through the floes a lot easier.\n\nThe significance of the moment was not lost on the expedition's marine archaeologist, Mensun Bound: \"We are the first people here since Shackleton and his men!\" he was quoted as saying.\n\nIf it's found, no attempt will be made to raise artefacts\n\nJonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos", "Olivia Colman was named best actress - can she repeat it at the Oscars?\n\nThe Favourite dominated the Bafta film awards on Sunday night, picking up seven awards out of 12 nominations.\n\nAmong its haul were best actress for Olivia Colman and best supporting actress for Rachel Weisz.\n\nMexican film Roma won best film, while Rami Malek won best actor for playing Freddie Mercury in Bohemian Rhapsody.\n\nColman, who starred as Queen Anne in The Favourite, said the team were having \"an amazing night\" and would be enjoying several drinks later.\n\nSpeaking about her co-stars Rachel Weisz and Emma Stone, Colman said: \"As far as I'm concerned, all three of us are the same and should be the leads, and it's weird we can't do that.\n\n\"This is for all three of us. It's got my name on it but we can scratch on some other ones.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The highlights from this year’s British Academy film awards\n\nThe period drama's other awards were best production design, best costume design, best hair and make-up and best original screenplay.\n\nYorgos Lanthimos, the film's director, said of the outstanding British film award: \"It's a great honour... this film took 20 years to make - I contributed to the last 10.\"\n\nHe also thanked actresses Colman, Stone and Weisz, saying: \"Of course the three leading ladies that I couldn't be more proud of.\"\n\nCollecting the prize for original screenplay, The Favourite's Deborah Davis said: \"Thank you for celebrating our female-dominated movie about women in power.\"\n\nYalitza Aparicio is the star of Roma, which won four awards\n\nAlfonso Cuaron's Roma also had a successful night picking up four prizes - best film, best director, best cinematography and best film not in the English language.\n\nAfter winning best cinematography, Curaon said: \"Foreign is just a different colour, and colour complements each other, I'm very happy Bafta is honouring a story about a domestic worker of indigenous background.\n\n\"The specific colour of this film is Mexico, so I want to thank also Mexico.\"\n\nSpike Lee won his first ever Bafta for BlackKklansman\n\nRami Malek won the best actor prize for his portrayal of Freddie Mercury in Bohemian Rhapsody. The film also won best sound.\n\nMalek said as he collected his Bafta: \"You Brits do music well, it's not lost on me how sacred your musical heritage is. Thank you to the greatest outsider of them all, Freddie Mercury.\"\n\nOne person who wasn't recognised among the winners was the film's director Bryan Singer.\n\nHis name was removed from the film's Bafta nomination due to allegations he sexually abused under-age boys.\n\nSinger denies the allegations, which he calls a \"homophobic smear\".\n\nQueen star Brian May said: \"The only reason he's on the movie is his guild forced Fox to do this... technically, really, he's not the director of the movie.\n\n\"Everybody who had something to do with the movie should be very proud.\"\n\nAside from the success of The Favourite and Roma, many of the night's prizes were split amongst several films.\n\nMahershala Ali won best supporting actor for Green Book and was visibly moved as he collected his award. He praised his fellow nominees for \"their work\".\n\nMahershala Ali gave an emotional speech after his win\n\nSpeaking backstage, Ali said he was touched by the impact Green Book has had in the UK.\n\nHe said he found the Bafta statuette to be \"a beautiful trophy\", and it would sit alongside his Oscar (for Moonlight) at home.\n\n\"Brooklyn's in the house!\" he yelled triumphantly as he collected his prize.\n\nLetitia Wright gave an emotional speech as she picked up the Bafta rising star award.\n\n\"A few years ago I saw myself in a deep state of depression and I wanted to quit acting.\n\n\"The only thing that pretty much pulled me out of that was God, my belief, my faith and my family and an email from Bafta saying they wanted me to be a part of the Bafta Breakthrough Brits, and I was like 'let me try again'.\n\nOther winners included Spider-Man: Into The Spider-verse, which won best animated film..\n\nA Star is Born won for best original music.\n\nLady Gaga, who appears opposite Cooper in A Star Is Born, did not attend as the ceremony clashes with the Grammys in the US.\n\nBut she posted on Twitter:\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFilm editor Thelma Schoonmaker, a frequent collaborator with Martin Scorsese, was given the Bafta Fellowship.\n\nThe Baftas are often a good indicator of who will go on to awards glory at the Oscars - which are being held this year on Sunday 24 February.\n\nThe Oscars have decided to not have a host this year after Kevin Hart stepped down following a controversy over homophobic tweets.\n\nJoanna Lumley, hosting the Baftas for the second year running, joked: \"Thank goodness Bafta has a host. But that's probably just down to the fact I'm not on Twitter.\"\n\nLast year, the winners of the acting categories - Frances McDormand, Gary Oldman, Allison Janney and Sam Rockwell - were exactly the same at the Baftas and the Oscars.\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.", "Ros and Josh Hannam have had to fundraise to pay for sign language classes\n\nParents of a deaf four-month-old have to pay £6,000 for sign language classes if they want to communicate with her.\n\nRos and Josh Hannam's daughter Lola was diagnosed shortly after she was born.\n\nAlthough they had some support from Monmouthshire council, the couple from Caldicot will have to pay for British Sign Language (BSL) classes themselves.\n\nMrs Hannam said people found it \"ridiculous\" when she told them they had to pay. The Welsh Government said it would review BSL funding.\n\n\"I think the first thing we felt [after Lola was diagnosed] was probably devastation,\" Mrs Hannam said.\n\n\"She was going to have extra requirements and extra needs that we weren't anticipating.\n\n\"I think once we got over the initial devastation, it was about what can we do to make this good?\"\n\nThe couple got some basic language support through the council's Sensory Communication Service, but how much parents have to pay towards BSL classes depends on where they live.\n\nSome get it for free, but others have to foot the full cost themselves.\n\nApproximately 90% of children with hearing loss are born to families with no experience or knowledge of deafness\n\nMrs Hannam said: \"I was pretty taken aback. If we say to someone we have to fund it ourselves, the general reaction is 'What? That's ridiculous'.\n\n\"Nobody can afford that kind of money and I think that's how we felt as well.\n\n\"I'm spending most of my time trying to organise, trying to raise funds, organise raffle prizes just to be able to communicate with my daughter.\"\n\nJade Kilduff, who is campaigning for basic sign language to be compulsory in schools, said she supports Mr and Mrs Hannam's campaign.\n\nThe 17-year-old has begun teaching her three-year-old brother Christian, who has cerebral palsy and a brain injury, how to communicate using Makaton, which is based on BSL.\n\nJade teaches Christian a sign a day, and posts videos on social media via her page Sign along with us.\n\nThis Facebook post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Facebook The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts. 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End of facebook video by Sign along with us\n\nJade said: \"My wish is that one day everyone knows just the basic signs at least.\n\n\"I'd hate a world for him [Christian] where only a select few people knew enough signs to be able to understand him, that must be so isolating.\n\n\"I am determined to make a change and to make the world a better place for my brother and other children and adults with communication difficulties.\n\n\"I only started Sign along with us a month ago and the positive response has been overwhelming, lots of people are copying the signs and schools showing them in assemblies.\"\n\nDebbie Thomas from the National Deaf Children's Society said parents faced a \"postcode lottery\".\n\nShe added: \"We feel that the Welsh Government has a responsibility to make it very clear to local authorities that this is exactly the type of support they should be providing to families of young deaf children, because it's crucial from helping their social development, to helping their educational development.\"\n\nA spokesman said the Welsh Government would be \"reviewing the provision of BSL for adults in Wales in the coming months. This work will determine the costs and demand for delivering BSL and will help develop a fairer and more equitable system\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFamilies have described their shock at coming across a chimpanzee outside its enclosure at Belfast Zoo.\n\nChantal Baxter said \"one of the big chimpanzees just appeared from behind a bush\" on Saturday afternoon.\n\nDanielle Monaghan said she was \"petrified\" the chimp might \"attack or take the kids\".\n\nBut the mother of two said the animal was \"not aggressive\" and \"just watched\" and therefore the experience had been \"amazing\".\n\nFootage posted on social media shows a chimpanzee on a path with members of the public, while several other chimpanzees remained on the enclosure wall.\n\nBelfast Zoo said the chimpanzees made an improvised ladder from a large tree branch propped up against a wall.\n\nThis is the second escape attempt by animals at the zoo in as many months.\n\nIn January, a red panda called Amber went missing from the zoo overnight before being discovered in a nearby garden.\n\nMs Monaghan, from Holywood, was at the zoo with her two children Grace, eight, Leo, six, her partner Dean McFaul and his four-year-old nieces Summer and Willow.\n\nThey filmed the entire escape from start to finish, and Ms Monaghan said it was a day she would \"never forget\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. One of the chimps ventured a bit further than the others\n\nShe said they \"could not believe it\" when the \"smart\" chimpanzees started to climb out of the enclosure, and when they went to take a closer look, they ended up \"a foot\" away from one of them.\n\n\"I was petrified, obviously, having the kids and I tried not to show fear but inside I was a bit like what happens if it attacks us or tries to take the kids or runs over,\" she told BBC News NI.\n\n\"But we just had to stay calm.\n\n\"It may have been a different story if it had been aggressive but it absolutely wasn't. It made us feel at ease. We just walked past it and it was absolutely grand.\"\n\nMs Baxter, from Larne, said when the chimpanzee appeared before them, her youngest child shouted at it.\n\n\"I think she scared it and it did sort of make its way back up the hill,\" she said.\n\nOne chimpanzee went for a bit of a wander...\n\n\"But there were four of them that we could see were out. There was one on the path and there were three of them sitting on the wall.\n\n\"We were a bit shocked, obviously, being approached by this big chimpanzee. The kids were shocked.\n\n\"I suppose now it's easy to think it was funny, but it was quite dangerous.\"\n\nBelfast City Council, which runs the zoo, said one chimpanzee \"briefly\" left its enclosure.\n\n\"Zookeepers were present as the chimpanzee quickly returned from an adjacent wall to the rest of the group inside the enclosure,\" a spokeswoman said.\n\n... while the others remained on the wall\n\nThe zoo's Alyn Cairns said: \"We think what has happened is that the trees in their enclosure have been weakened by the storms and so they've been able to break them and use them as a ladder to get out.\n\nHe said the zoo's chimps were \"quite cowardly\" so went back into their enclosure themselves during the incident.\n\nThe zoo's Alan Cairns said the \"intelligent\" primates \"got back in themselves\"\n\n\"They're intelligent primates and know they're not supposed to be out of their enclosure, so got back in themselves,\" he said.\n\n\"We like things to be natural in their enclosure, to have trees in it, but we will review it.\n\n\"We may have to remove the trees or make them a smaller level, although we don't want to do that.\"\n\nThe chimpanzees were locked into their inner enclosure after the great escape.", "When Kirsty Meakin says she's doing her nails, it's not just a quick coat of red gloss.\n\nThe 40-year-old from Stoke-on-Trent creates masterpieces on fingernails - or as she calls them \"her canvas\".\n\nShe started out on a Youth Training Scheme when she was 17 and has spent more than 20 years building her career by entering and winning international nail art competitions.\n\nNow she travels the world teaching her craft and judging competitions she used to enter. In addition she is a YouTuber with more than one million subscribers.\n\nBut the most important thing for her is that she has not had to move away from her home town of Stoke.", "The name on Google Maps has since been changed\n\nA school was labelled on Google Maps as \"Hell on Earth\" in what is thought to have been a joke by one of its pupils.\n\nHornsea School and Language College in East Yorkshire appeared on the website labelled as \"Hornsea Prison & Hell on Earth\".\n\nIt is believed a pupil submitted the name change to the search engine and it was accepted.\n\nThe school issued a statement saying the unauthorised listing had since been removed.\n\nPlace names can be suggested to Google by anyone but must be verified by the business owner, to ensure they are the only ones who can edit them.\n\nThe entry has since been changed and the school said the identity of the person responsible for the prank was known.\n\nHead teacher Steve Ostler said: \"We recommend that all schools take ownership of their Google map icon to prevent any copy-cat behaviours.\"\n\nHornsea School and Language College is a secondary comprehensive founded in 1958 and takes pupils from Hornsea and the surrounding area.\n\nA Google spokesperson said: \"Allowing users to suggest information provides comprehensive and up-to-date info, but we recognise there may be occasional inaccuracies suggested by users.\n\n\"When this happens, we do our best to address the issue as quickly as possible.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Lauri Love was first arrested in October 2013\n\nAn alleged hacker whose computers were seized by police more than five years ago is using legislation from 1897 to seek their return.\n\nThe High Court blocked the extradition of Lauri Love, from Suffolk, to the United States last year.\n\nMr Love, 34, is alleged to have stolen data from US agencies.\n\nHe was arrested and items were seized by British police. Although he was charged in the US, he faces no charges in the UK.\n\nOn Monday, Mr Love, who has British-Finnish nationality, is taking the National Crime Agency (NCA) to court.\n\nHe is using the Police (Property) Act of 1897 to seek the return of computer equipment that was seized by police in 2013.\n\nLauri Love attended the appeal hearing with his girlfriend, Sylvia Mann\n\nThe case is being heard at Hendon Magistrates' Court in London.\n\nIn 2015, the NCA said it was refusing to hand back Mr Love's computers until he helped them decrypt some of the files.\n\nMr Love, of Stradishall, said that, as the \"NCA has not elected to pursue charges and has seemingly not put any efforts into this end\", it is time they returned the property to him.\n\nHe said he was concerned at the \"absurdly protracted\" length of time that he has had to wait for a resolution of the case.\n\nMr Love, who was arrested in 2013 on suspicion of Computer Misuse Act offences, said it was important to \"resist\" moves that lead to the \"arbitrary deprivation of property and data\".\n\nSupporters of Lauri Love had gathered outside court while his hearing took place\n\nThe NCA said the investigation continued and a spokeswoman added: \"A number of devices were seized by the NCA at the time, and these devices remain in the hands of the NCA.\"\n\nMr Love allegedly stole data from US agencies, including the Federal Reserve, the US Army, the defense department, Nasa and the FBI, in a spate of online attacks in 2012 and 2013.", "Last updated on .From the section Southampton\n\nSouthampton plan to ban two supporters who taunted Cardiff City fans about the death of striker Emiliano Sala.\n\nThe 28-year-old Argentine died in a plane crash almost three weeks ago, with his body found on Thursday.\n\nTwo Saints fans were pictured making aeroplane gestures during their side's 2-1 home defeat by the Bluebirds and were spoken to by Hampshire Police.\n\n\"Such behaviour has no place in our game and will not be tolerated at St Mary's,\" a club statement read.\n\n\"Southampton Football Club can confirm that two fans were detained and had their details taken by police during our match against Cardiff City on Saturday.\n\n\"The club will continue to work with Hampshire Police to identify any individuals deemed to have made indecent gestures towards Cardiff supporters.\n\n\"The club will be taking an extremely firm stance against anyone involved and intends to ban those supporters identified.\"\n\nAfter Cardiff's injury-time win, Bluebirds manager Neil Warnock said: \"We wanted to do it for Emiliano and I'm really proud the lads have done him justice.\"\n\nThere were tributes and a minute's silence before the game started.", "Savers focused on cashing-in some of their pension pot are \"sleepwalking\" into poor financial decisions, experts have warned.\n\nThe City regulator, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), has confirmed plans to make choices clearer to those approaching retirement.\n\nSavers can cash in their pension from the age of 55.\n\nThe FCA wants savers to be sent \"wake up\" information packs from 50 and to be given clearer details on investing.\n\nSome people are concentrating on taking some of their pension in cash and then leaving the rest of their money in inappropriate, low-return investments.\n\nGenerally, saving in cash is less lucrative in the long-term than some other forms of investment.\n\nFormer pensions minister Steve Webb said that these people were losing out owing to \"reckless caution\".\n\nThe FCA said its proposals could benefit people by up to £25m a year.\n\nChanges to the rules governing pension access were introduced in April 2015 by the chancellor at the time, George Osborne.\n\nPreviously, people would have bought an annuity - a financial product that provides a guaranteed retirement income - with their pension pot, although this is an option that remains open to them.\n\nNow, savers can choose from a range of options, including taking the whole amount out as a lump sum, paying no tax on the first 25%. Recent figures from HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) revealed that £23 billion-worth of savings have been accessed so far.\n\nSome choose a so-called drawdown pension, which allows them to withdraw as much money as they like at any one time while the rest remains invested in a pension.\n\nThe FCA said an estimated 100,000 customers entered drawdown without taking any kind of financial advice each year.\n\nIt is now proposing that firms offer customers who do not take financial advice a range of off-the-shelf products that broadly meet their aims, called \"investment pathways\".\n\nSteve Webb, the pensions minister at the time of the reform, who now works for pensions and investments firm Royal London, said: \"These FCA rules are a sensible response to the risk of savers sleepwalking into seeing their hard-earned savings eroded by sitting in low-return cash investments.\n\n\"There is still a problem where people cash out the whole pot and transfer it into a cash ISA or current account.\"\n\nRob Yuille, head of retirement policy at the Association of British Insurers (ABI), which represents many pension providers, said: \"Increasing information about fees and charges is something the industry has been working on for some time and we support the FCA's proposals.\"", "A kitesurfer has died after getting into difficulty in high winds on a beach in north Devon as Storm Erik battered the UK for a second day.\n\nIt came after two men died in separate incidents on the roads in Devon and in Wales on Friday, the latter due to a falling tree.\n\nThe weather has caused widespread delays and disruption to transport.\n\nGusts of up to 75mph were recorded in western parts of the UK and motorists advised to take care.\n\nA 50-year-old man died on the A384 in Buckfastleigh, Devon and a van driver was killed after colliding with a fallen tree on the B4306 between Pontyberem and Llannon in west Wales.\n\nHigh winds of 40 and 50mph were typical across the country.\n\nThe highest winds were recorded in Powys at 75mph, while winds in Dumfries and Galloway reached 74mph.\n\nThe storm was dubbed Storm Erik by the Irish weather service Met Éireann where it caused winds of approaching 100mph.\n\nA Met Office yellow weather warning for high winds has now been lifted.\n\nWinds are expected to die down late on Saturday, with the weather turning wet.\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 Met Office 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\nA fallen tree caused the A548 to close in both directions around Mostyn, north Wales, and there were lane and speed restrictions on road bridges such as the Dartford Crossing and the Severn Bridge.\n\nThe A20 near Dover was closed while a CCTV mast that was seen swaying in the wind above the road was repaired.\n\nOn the trains, speed restrictions of 80mph were imposed on the London North Eastern Railway between Leeds and York and on trains on the Tyne Valley line between Newcastle and Carlisle, according to rail operator Northern.", "Lisa Squire, the mother of missing student Libby Squire, at the Hull church service\n\nThe parents of missing university student Libby Squire attended a prayer vigil as the search for their daughter entered its tenth day.\n\nThe University of Hull student, 21, disappeared on 31 January after a night out in the city.\n\nA 24-year-old man arrested on suspicion of abduction on Wednesday at a house in Hull, near to where Ms Squire was last seen, remains in police custody.\n\nLibby's mum Lisa Squire was seen hugging a police officer as she left the Hull Community Church following the vigil on Sunday morning.\n\nMrs Squire and her husband, Russ, had previously made emotional pleas for information about their daughter's disappearance.\n\nHumberside Police can detain the arrested man until 21:00 GMT after being granted an extra 24 hours to question him on Saturday night.\n\nAppeals to find Libby, from High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, have been displayed on digital screens in Hull city centre over the weekend.\n\nPolice said the appeal for information was being broadcast on 20 screens in the main shopping areas.\n\nThousands of flyers printed in English, Arabic, Russian, Lithuanian and Polish have also been handed out asking for information.\n\nHumberside Police officers removed evidence from a house in Hull where a man was arrested on Wednesday\n\nIt is understood that police are examining CCTV footage, obtained by ITV News, which appears to show a man getting in and out of a car minutes after the last sighting of the missing philosophy student.\n\nDet Supt Mathew Hutchinson said on Saturday: \"We are still treating Libby's disappearance as a missing persons inquiry.\n\n\"I have said previously that we are keeping an open mind as to her whereabouts and that is still very much the case.\"\n\nDetectives believe Ms Squire went home in a taxi at about 23:30 on 31 January but did not enter her house.\n\nMs Squire, who is 5ft 7in tall and has long dark brown hair, was wearing a black leather jacket, black long-sleeved top and a black denim skirt with lace when she went missing.\n\nLibby Squire has not been seen for more than a week\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The victim was attacked in Lordship Lane, East Dulwich\n\nA man has been stabbed to death in a south-east London street.\n\nThe victim, in his 30s, was attacked in Lordship Lane, East Dulwich, near the junction with East Dulwich Grove, at about 02:30 GMT.\n\nHe was treated by paramedics but was pronounced dead at the scene shortly after 03:00.\n\nThe Met Police said no arrests have been made and inquiries were ongoing. Local roads which were closed have now reopened.\n\nLocal MP Helen Hayes said she was \"appalled to learn of the fatal stabbing\" which had left another family \"devastated.\"\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 Helen Hayes This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn a separate attack, a 23-year-old man was critically injured in a stabbing in Neasden, north-west London.\n\nEmergency services were called to Cairnfield Avenue at about 22:45, and took the victim to hospital where he remains in a critical condition.\n\nA 29-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder, while a 24-year-old woman was held on suspicion of assisting an offender.\n\nA 23-year-old man is in a critical condition in hospital after being attacked in Cairnfield Avenue\n\nIn west London, a 16-year-old boy was stabbed during a fight in Central Avenue, Hayes, on Saturday afternoon.\n\nFour males - two aged 18, one aged 15 and another aged 16 - were arrested on suspicion of attempted murder and remain in custody.\n\nThe boy is being treated in hospital. His condition is not life-threatening, Scotland Yard said.\n\nMeanwhile, also in west London, a man was found with gunshot wounds in London Road, Isleworth, at about 19:15.\n\nHe was taken to hospital. The Met have not given an update about his condition.\n\nNo arrests have been made and the force said they were keeping \"an open mind concerning motive.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Dominic Chappell, the former owner of BHS, has had his appeal dismissed by a judge who said he gave \"entirely unbelievable\" evidence.\n\nMr Chappell was convicted for failing to provide information to the Pensions Regulator (TPR) and ordered to pay £87,000 in January.\n\nDepartment store BHS collapsed with the loss of 11,000 jobs and a pension deficit of £571m.\n\nMr Chappell bought BHS for just £1 from billionaire Sir Philip Green in 2015.\n\nThe businessman, who gave his address as Clenston Manor, near Blandford, Dorset, was issued with two notices under the Pensions Act 2004, in March and April 2016, before being handed a warning notice in November that year.\n\nAlex Stein, prosecuting, told the appeal hearing at Hove Crown Court that the crux of the case was that Chappell \"failed to respond\" to the three statutory notices.\n\nJudge Christine Henson QC said the majority of his answers during the hearing were \"not credible\".\n\n\"We are sure Mr Chappell had access to information which would allow him to answer the majority of information required,\" she said.\n\nMr Chappell claimed he had been locked out of the department store's offices, and that all his documentation regarding BHS had been on a single memory stick which had been seized by HM Revenue and Customs.\n\nHe also said that he had delegated the TPR information requests to his solicitor.\n\nBHS went into administration in April 2016, just 13 months after it was bought by Mr Chappell from Sir Philip.\n\nTPR opened an investigation into the sale over concerns about two of the company's pension schemes representing 19,000 members of staff.\n\nThe regulator accused Sir Philip of making the sale to dodge responsibility for the pension schemes in the event the firm should go bust.\n\nSir Philip later agreed a £363m cash settlement to partly cover the pension costs.", "Seven jihadists have been sentenced to life in prison in Tunisia over attacks at a museum and a beach resort in 2015.\n\nSixty people, mostly tourists, died in the two attacks and many were wounded.\n\nSome of the many defendants received lesser sentences and 27 were acquitted. Prosecutors plan to appeal.\n\nThe first attack, at the Bardo Museum in Tunis in March 2015 killed 22. Three months later, 38 tourists, most of them British, were shot dead at Port El Kantaoui, near Sousse.\n\nThe so-called Islamic State group said it had carried out the attacks.\n\nThe man believed to have planned both, Chamseddine al-Sandi, remains at large. Unconfirmed reports suggested he may have died in a US air strike in February 2016 in Libya.\n\nThere were two separate trials. In the Sousse trial, four militants were given life sentences, while five others were sentenced to between six months and 16 years. In the Bardo trial, three defendants received life terms and a number of others were jailed for shorter periods. Ten were acquitted.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The sounds of gunfire triggered panic and confusion in the museum\n\nOn 18 March, two gunmen in military uniforms stormed the National Bardo Museum, near the city's parliament buildings, where anti-terrorism legislation was under discussion.\n\nTwenty-two people, including 17 foreign tourists, were killed - 21 at the scene and one more 10 days later. Among the dead were citizens from Japan, Italy, Colombia, Australia, France, Poland and Spain.\n\nTwo Tunisians, one a police officer, were also killed. More than 40 people were injured. The attackers, Tunisian citizens Yassine Labidi and Saber Khachnaoui, were killed by police.\n\nThree months later, on 26 June, a Tunisian electronics student, Seifeddine Rezgui, opened fire on tourists staying in the popular resort of Port El Kantaoui, just north of Sousse.\n\nThis image of the Seifeddine Rezgui was distributed by IS-linked social media accounts\n\nRezgui was dropped off down a side road, a short distance from the beach, and walked the rest of the way with a Kalashnikov rifle hidden in a parasol. When he arrived at the five-star Hotel Rui Imperial Marhaba, he opened fire indiscriminately at tourists on sun loungers on the beach.\n\nAs holidaymakers fled for their lives, the gunman continued his attack, entering the hotel complex via the pool area. He killed 38 people before fleeing into the streets, where he was shot by police.\n\nA state of emergency has been in place in Tunisia since the attacks.\n\nThe nation's already faltering tourism industry was badly hit, but it has shown signs of recovery in the past year with travel bans lifted by several countries, including the UK.\n\nThere has been considerable progress in combating jihadists in Tunisia thanks to concerted international help, according to the BBC's Middle East analyst, Sebastian Usher, but the militants still pose a potent threat while the endemic problems of chronic unemployment and lack of economic opportunity persist.\n\nThirty of the 38 who lost their lives in the beach attack were British.\n\nAmong the dead were a 24-year-old beauty blogger; a 49-year-old man, his father and his nephew; and several couples on holiday together.\n\nBeauty blogger Carly Lovett had recently got engaged to Liam, her childhood sweetheart of 10 years.\n\nAdrian Evans, 49, from Tipton in the West Midlands, died along with his father, 78-year-old Charles (known as Patrick) Evans, and nephew Joel Richards, 19, from Wednesbury.\n\nA number of married couples lost their lives. William Graham, 51, and Lisa Graham, 50, were in Tunisia to celebrate Mrs Graham's 50th birthday.\n\nThe victims of the Bardo museum attack came from around the world.\n\nThree Japanese tourists died, alongside four Italians, three French, two Colombians, two Spaniards, and one national each from Russia and Britain. Two Tunisian citizens, including one police officer, died.\n\nMore than 50 people were wounded.\n\nMost of those who died in the Tunisian beach attack were British", "Labour's deputy leader Tom Watson has said a local party branch is being investigated over its alleged treatment of MP Luciana Berger.\n\nMr Watson accused Liverpool Wavertree branch members of \"bullying\" the MP and trying to drive her out.\n\nThe branch scrapped a meeting to discuss a no-confidence motion in Ms Berger after an angry backlash.\n\nIt said it had \"no control\" over motions tabled by members and rejected claims of bullying and anti-Semitism.\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show, Mr Watson said: \"That motion should never have been moved in her local party, the meeting to hear it should never have been scheduled.\"\n\nHe said Mr Corbyn had \"made it clear these things are not done in his name\", and they \"are not helping him, they are harming the reputation of the Labour Party\".\n\nMr Watson added: \"I don't want any MP or any member of the Labour Party to feel they're being bullied and driven out, and what's happening to her is completely unacceptable, which is why I called for the local party to be suspended.\"\n\nLabour's general secretary Jennie Formby said there was \"no constitutional basis\" on which to suspend the local party, but Mr Watson confirmed that Ms Formby was \"investigating members in that constituency\".\n\nBut in a letter to the branch, Ms Formby said she was had seen no evidence of behaviour that would constitute anti-Semitism or bullying in the case of Wavertree, but one individual was being investigated.\n\nIn a statement, the leaders of Wavertree Labour Party said: \"We as an executive have always and continue now to express total solidarity with Luciana as a victim of misogyny and of anti-Semitism - coming mostly from the far right.\n\n\"Our chair is himself Jewish and the suggestion that the CLP (Constituency Labour Party) Executive is in any way a party to bullying and anti-Semitism is a false and slanderous accusation.\"\n\nThey defended scheduling a meeting to discuss the no-confidence motions, saying it was \"to give our MP the maximum opportunity to take part when the motions were debated\".\n\nThe executive added that they \"strongly reject the media inaccuracies and the accusations of political bullying, for simply adhering to party rules and doing our jobs\".\n\nMs Berger, who is Jewish, has been an outspoken critic of the party's handling of anti-Semitism allegations and its stance on Brexit.\n\nThe motion that was pulled criticised her for \"continually using the media to criticise\" Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nShadow chancellor John McDonnell sparked a backlash from some Labour MPs after he suggested on Friday that the move against Ms Berger was more to do with her disloyalty to the leadership than anti-Semitism.\n\nHe urged Ms Berger to publicly reject claims she supported a Labour \"breakaway\", amid media speculation MPs disenchanted with Mr Corbyn's leadership were planning to form a new party.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tom Watson: \"I know one MP who changed their vote because they were frightened\"\n\nOn speculation about Labour MPs forming a new party, Mr Watson said \"we are all worried about a breakaway because we need unity in order to win the next general election\".\n\nSpeaking more broadly about the abuse MPs have had to put up with amid the \"hate-fuelled debate around Brexit\", Mr Watson told Andrew Marr he knew of \"an MP who had changed their vote because they were frightened\".\n\nUpdate 12 February 2019: This article has been updated to explain that Jennie Formby sent a letter to Liverpool Wavertree branch later that day in which she said she had seen no evidence of any behaviours constituting potential bullying or anti-Semitism, other than complaints about one individual which were being investigated.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThousands of people have been evacuated from a New Zealand town as firefighters battle a wildfire stoked by winds in the country's South Island.\n\nThe blaze, which began six days ago near the city of Nelson, is now threatening the town of Wakefield.\n\nA state of emergency has been declared and about 3,000 people have fled their homes in the district of Tasman.\n\nStrong winds were expected, and officials warned that Sunday could be a \"critical danger point\" for the fire.\n\nPrime Minister Jacinda Ardern said she hoped \"the weather plays ball\".\n\nThe blaze is thought to be the worst forest fire in New Zealand since 1955.\n\nNelson MP Nick Smith said the entire region was a \"tinderbox\" and its 70,000 residents were \"on edge.\"\n\nTwenty-three helicopters and two planes have been deployed to tackle the blaze. Rain forecast for the area on Tuesday is expected to miss the fire zone.\n\nFires of this size are unusual for New Zealand, with local media calling it the worst bushfire in 50 years.", "Metropolitan Police commissioner Cressida Dick believes being \"a bit different\" has encouraged others who \"feel different\" to join the force.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs, Ms Dick, Britain's most senior police officer, said being female and openly gay made unlikely recruits think they too could \"have a go\" at policing.\n\nBut she said her sexuality was \"one of the least interesting things about me\".\n\nShe also said female police officers should make up half the force.\n\nShe said: \"The fact that I am seen as a bit different in some respects, I realise, on some occasions, makes young people think 'I could have a go' or 'I might try; I feel different but I might try'.\"\n\nShe said she hoped the that a lot of women are among the new recruits, to ensure a more balanced male/female divide.\n\n\"In the long term, in order for us to have the best of the best, I would like it to be 50/50,\" she told Lauren Laverne, who hosts the show.\n\nBut she added that she did not think it would be achieved during her tenure.\n\nMs Dick recalled how she became a police officer at the age of 23, after a spell working in a fish and chip shop with a man who kept a baseball bat behind the counter.\n\nIn the early days, she patrolled London's West End, including the Soho area - traditional home of London's sex trade.\n\n\"I loved the idea that at three or four in the morning it was just me there.\n\n\"That is the great thing about policing, you do have a lot of responsibility very early and you have got to make decisions - sometimes life-and-death decisions - very quickly.\n\n\"There is something about putting a uniform on and thinking 'people are looking to me to make decisions and to look after them' that makes you feel capable.\"\n\nShe described the mistaken killing of Brazilian electrician Jean Charles de Menezes - which happened during a counter-terrorism operation that she commanded - as \"an awful time\".\n\nMr de Menezes, 27, was shot in the head at London's Stockwell Tube in 2005 by police who mistook him for a terror suspect.\n\n\"I think about it quite often,\" said Ms Dick, who was ultimately absolved of any blame.\n\n\"I wish, wish, wish it hadn't happened, of course, but if anything it has made me a better leader, a better police officer and it has made me more resilient.\"\n\nMs Dick picked tracks including In Private by Dusty Springfield and the hymn Lord Of All Hopefulness among the tunes to take to the desert island with her, and her book choice was the complete works of Thomas Hardy.\n\nHer choice of luxury item was soap.\n\n\"Scent is very important to me, but it is the case that my colleagues think it is hilarious that I simply cannot smell, ever, the smell of cannabis,\" she joked.\n\nDesert Island Discs airs at 11:15 GMT on BBC Radio 4 and on the BBC Sounds app.", "Company bosses could face up to seven years in prison if they mismanage employee pension schemes, says Work and Pensions Secretary Amber Rudd.\n\nShe wants a new offence of \"wilfully or recklessly\" mismanaging funds.\n\nPlans outlined last year for a maximum sentence of two years in prison were toughened up after public consultation.\n\nMs Rudd told the Sunday Telegraph the law will target \"the reckless few\". But one ex-pensions minister says civil, not criminal, action may be better.\n\nSir Steve Webb said it could be difficult and time consuming to reach the higher burden of proof needed in criminal cases.\n\n\"If you run your company pension into the ground, saddling it with massive, unsustainable debts, we're coming for you,\" Ms Rudd said.\n\nMs Rudd said current rules mean that \"acts of astonishing arrogance\" by a few company directors are punished with fines \"that barely dent bosses' bank balances\".\n\nUnder the proposed new law, which still requires Parliamentary approval, courts would also be given the power to levy unlimited fines for mismanagement of pensions.\n\nNicola Parish, from The Pensions Regulator, said: \"We welcome the proposed new powers which, as a package, would allow us to identify potential problems earlier and take more effective action.\"\n\nAnd Frank Field, chair of the Work and Pensions Committee, said: \"The Secretary of State deserves huge credit for stepping in to sort this so early in her tenure, where others have so long failed to act... most people would be aghast to hear that this law doesn't already exist.\"\n\nBut ex-pension minister Sir Steve Webb said civil action could be more effective.\n\nSir Steve, the former Liberal Democrat pensions minister in the coalition government, said that the criminal offence was \"a good headline that risks achieving nothing or worse than nothing\".\n\nHe said it was difficult and potentially time wasting trying to show, under criminal law with its higher burden of proof, that bosses deliberately underfunded a pension scheme.\n\nSir Steve, now director of policy at Royal London insurance firm, added: \"This initiative was first floated before the last general election in 2017.\n\n\"Two years on, we have not even had the primary legislation. We are years away from seeing this in force.\"\n\nThe failures of BHS, with a £500m deficit in its pension scheme, and the outsourcing group, Carillion, with an even bigger shortfall, prompted the government to conduct a review of pension law.\n\nA year after it was sold by Sir Philip Green for £1 in 2015, the retailer fell into administration, leaving a £571m pension deficit.\n\nSir Philip agreed later to pay £363m towards it to end action against him by the Pensions Regulator.", "Police, the government, the Border Force and ferry companies are among those preparing for a no-deal Brexit\n\nIt could become the UK's biggest peacetime emergency in almost a century.\n\nUnless a withdrawal agreement is approved (or Article 50 is delayed), at 23:00 GMT on 29 March the UK will leave the European Union with no negotiated exit - and in a second everything will change.\n\nSuddenly, British goods going to the EU will be subject to duty (a payment, for example on imports and exports), and will need to be checked for compliance with things like sanitary regulations.\n\nGoods arriving in the UK from the EU could face checks too, though the government has said it will not do that straight away, partly because it doesn't have the infrastructure.\n\nThe rules around things like fishing rights, air traffic and nuclear regulation will all change in the blink of an eye too.\n\nThe effect is likely to be a severe slowdown on the critical Dover-Calais ferry and Channel Tunnel routes, as well as unpredictable delays at airports.\n\nAn army of civil servants has been working on the problem since the EU referendum.\n\nAt the time of writing, about 4,000 have been moved into positions where they are preparing for the no deal scenario. As we get closer, another 5,000 will be transferred across to help.\n\nOn the night of Brexit, the government is expected to declare a \"critical incident\" and to start operating 24 hours a day, seven days a week in a \"command and control\" mode.\n\nThe Cobra emergency committee will meet at the Cabinet Office as ministers sit down to tackle the unpredictable effects of leaving the EU without a deal.\n\nThe Ministry of Defence has promised to make 3,500 service personnel available to help. About 10% of these will be reservists. An order laid before Parliament under the Reserve Forces Act says they can be called upon from 10 February.\n\nThere are 14 military planners already working in other Whitehall departments.\n\nBut despite all that, the chief executive of the civil service, John Manzoni, still concedes that a no-deal Brexit could be a \"bit bumpy\".\n\nThe biggest concern is that lorry traffic across the English Channel through Dover and the Channel Tunnel terminal near Folkestone will grind to a standstill.\n\nTo manage that, Highways England, Kent County Council and Kent Police have come up with Operation Brock - a plan for parking up to 13,000 trucks who could be left waiting to get through.\n\nThe first 2,000 will park on the southbound carriageway of the M20 between junctions eight and nine, 6,000 more will be moved to Manston Airport, and if that's not enough then the M26 will be used to hold another 5,000.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Up to 90 lorries assembled at Manston airfield as part of a no-deal Brexit exercise\n\nThe government has given Kent County Council £28.8m to improve Manston, to strengthen the roads around it (such as the A249, A256 and the A299), and for new signs and traffic signals,\n\nThis way it is hoped that the county of Kent will not itself stop functioning, as happened during a strike at Calais in 2015.\n\nThe government expects there will be \"significantly reduced access across the short straits\" for up to six months.\n\nThe government has also announced temporary measures allowing lorries arriving in the UK to drive straight off ferries and Channel Tunnel trains without making customs declarations in the event of no-deal.\n\nThe guidance for importers and hauliers says companies would be able to file a simplified form online in advance and pay duty later.\n\nIf Dover and Folkestone suddenly become slow and unpredictable ways of getting goods - some of them critical, like medical supplies - in and out, the government is hoping other routes will take more of the traffic.\n\nSaying \"a situation of extreme urgency exists\", the Department for Transport is paying a total of £107.7m to three ferry companies to run extra ships.\n\nRamsgate harbour needs to be dredged to clear access for larger ships\n\nBrittany Ferries will increase sailings for six weeks on the Portsmouth-Le Havre, Poole-Cherbourg and Plymouth-Roscoff routes.\n\nDFDS will increase the number of crossings on some of its routes.\n\nA new company - Seaborne Freight - had been asked by the government to run ships between Ramsgate and Ostend, but the contract was later scrapped. The government said it had become clear that Seaborne was not going to be able to fulfil its side of the contract, and it is looking for another company to run additional freight ferries.\n\nPort companies such as Associated British Ports (ABP) have been improving the infrastructure at ports away from Dover in anticipation of increased traffic.\n\nThe Department of Health (DoH) has developed extensive contingency plans, and has started to stockpile six weeks' worth of prescription-only and pharmacy medicines.\n\nIt has signed £1m of contracts for refrigerated storage for approximately 5,000 pallets of medicine and another £9m for what is called \"ambient storage\", that is storage at room temperature.\n\nIt has also been agreed in Whitehall that medicines and medical products would be given priority on freight routes, though it's not clear how that would work.\n\nThe DoH has also made plans to air freight items like medical radioactive isotopes (used in radiotherapy and diagnostic tests) that have a very short shelf-life.\n\nAnd it has recognised that some devices with short lead times - like stents and implants that come in many different shapes and sizes - cannot be easily stockpiled.\n\nSo, the department is setting up a logistics hub in Belgium to help out companies who may face disruption.\n\nSuppliers are being asked to try to make their own arrangements - and to buy tickets for the extra ferry capacity that the government has secured. But if these efforts fail, they will be able to use what is being called the \"Dedicated Shipping Channel,\" which would aim to get the devices from the hub into the UK within three days.\n\nThe same problem arises when it comes to food.\n\nFood manufacturers have been stockpiling ingredients, but there is starting to be a shortage of warehouse space - both ambient and chilled.\n\nNot many people predict a severe food crisis (the UK is about 60% self-sufficient on food), but it is likely that some fresh foods that come in on short timetables from the European Union will become scarcer.\n\nOnce again, the effects are likely to be unpredictable.\n\nThe Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs is recruiting for an EU Exit Emergencies Centre (EUXE) which will run 24 hours a day, seven days a week, to manage \"any situations that arise if the UK leaves the European Union without a deal\".\n\nThere are concerns too about what to do with excess fresh food and live animals produced in the UK if it cannot be exported in time.\n\nThere have been concerns that some people - angry at a no-deal exit from the EU, or at the effects of that - will protest.\n\nIn a briefing to staff, the National Crime Agency wrote: \"A no-deal exit is likely to result in significant short-term disruption across the country, which may manifest simultaneously across multiple areas and geographic locations.\"\n\nProtesters outside Parliament in January when MPs voted on the government's Brexit deal\n\nThe NCA said \"wider potential impacts such as transport blockages, fuel and food shortages and protests/public disorder, could impact on officers both personally and professionally\".\n\nSome police forces have stopped officers taking leave for the first weeks after Brexit, though senior officers think the risk of disorder is low.\n\nOne of the effects of leaving the EU without a deal will be that British police officers will lose access to EU criminal justice tools such as the European Arrest Warrant (EAW), the European Criminal Records Information System (ECRIS), the Second Generation Schengen Information System (SIS II) and the European Investigation Order (EIO).\n\nTo handle the loss of these modern tools, the NCA - which communicates with overseas forces and Europol - has recruited 87 officers to use the much less effective Interpol system and to use other arrangements that are less automated and more labour-intensive.\n\nAn International Crime Co-ordination Centre is being set up by the National Police Chiefs Council as part of what is being called Operation Safety Net to help forces with things like international manhunts and missing people inquiries.\n\nTo prepare for changes in immigration and customs at all points of entry into the UK, a Border Delivery Group has been established, chaired by Karen Wheeler, a senior official at HMRC.\n\nThe government has admitted that the UK's borders are likely to operate in a \"sub-optimal\" way if there is a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThe Border Force has recruited about 300 officers to make up a \"Readiness Task Force\" to provide \"operational resilience\" and allow other staff to do EU-related training.\n\nIt is also recruiting a further 600 officers to make sure there are enough staff at the borders.\n\nIn the event of no-deal, the UK will need to patrol its fishing waters much more extensively than it has for many years.\n\nThe Royal Navy has already reprieved three Fishery Protection Patrol ships that were due to be taken out of service.\n\nIt is preparing to provide 600 days a year of fishery protection, three times what it currently provides.\n\nThe Marine Management Organisation (MMO), which regulates the seas around Britain, is also to pay up to £40m to charter civilian ships to help them patrol fisheries over the next four years\n\nThe proposed contract - for up to four years - is due to start on 1 April.\n\nIt is to provide ships to help the MMO's Marine Enforcement Officers with a means of getting around the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) in the seas around the UK. The contract says the ships must have a way of boarding other vessels.", "Dating apps Grindr and Tinder are to be asked to explain to the government how they protect children, after an investigation claimed minors are put at risk of sexual exploitation.\n\nMore than 30 cases of child rape have been investigated by police since 2015 after victims evaded age checks on such apps, the Sunday Times found.\n\nCulture Secretary Jeremy Wright described it as \"truly shocking\".\n\nGrindr and Tinder both said they have measures to prevent minors using them.\n\nA Freedom of Information request by the Sunday Times also showed 60 further instances of child sex offences - including grooming, kidnapping and violent assault - through online dating services.\n\nThe youngest victim was eight years old, the paper said.\n\nMr Wright said the investigation produced \"yet more evidence that online tech firms must do more to protect children\".\n\nHe said he plans to write to Tinder and Grindr to ask \"what measures they have in place to keep children safe from harm, including verifying their age.\"\n\n\"If I'm not satisfied with their response, I reserve the right to take further action,\" he said.\n\nLegislation coming into effect from April, which requires porn sites to use age verification technology, may now be extended to dating apps, he said.\n\nLast week Instagram vowed to remove all self-harm images from the social media platform.\n\nThe move comes after the father of 14-year-old Molly Russell, who took her own life in 2017, said Instagram had \"helped kill\" his daughter.\n\nMolly's family found she had been viewing graphic images of self-harm on the site prior to her death.\n\nA spokeswoman for Tinder said the platform used automated and manual tools and \"spend millions of dollars annually\" to prevent and remove underage users and other inappropriate behaviour and they \"don't want minors on Tinder\".\n\nIn a statement to the Sunday Times, Grindr said: \"Any account of sexual abuse or other illegal behaviour is troubling to us as well as a clear violation of our terms of service.\n\n\"Our team is constantly working to improve our digital and human screening tools to prevent and remove improper underage use of our app.\"\n\nEarlier this week, a man was jailed for two-and-a-half years for sexual activity with a 12-year-old girl who he said he thought was 19.\n\nCarl Hodgson, 28, invited the child, who he made contact with on a dating app, to his flat and sent images of her in a body stocking to a friend via WhatsApp.\n\nManchester Crown Court was told Hodgson filmed the girl on his phone and also carried out a sex act while she looked on.", "A driver who witnessed the aftermath of a crash involving the Duke of Edinburgh has told how many motorists stopped to help at the scene.\n\nNick Cobb said up to eight cars pulled up on the A149, near the Queen's Sandringham Estate in Norfolk, after the crash at about 15:00 GMT.\n\nHe said a \"lot of people\" were \"milling round and helping.\"\n\nPrince Philip, 97, was not injured in the accident.\n\nThe other car involved was a Kia. Two women in it needed hospital treatment - they have since been discharged.", "Ulster rugby player Darren Cave gave his political views in a candid column for a sport website\n\nEx-international Darren Cave has said his generation \"couldn't stomach\" it if Brexit disrupted the \"unique balance that makes Irish rugby so successful\".\n\nIn a candid column for the Sports Chronicle, the Ulster centre said the Brexit deadlock was a \"threat\" to the Good Friday peace deal.\n\n\"Being a proud Ulsterman and playing for Ireland should not be complicated in the 21st Century,\" he added.\n\nCave also expressed dismay at the \"very sad state of affairs\" at Stormont.\n\nCave, from Holywood in County Down, has been capped 11 times by Ireland, making his last international appearance in 2015.\n\n\"After everything we've been through in Northern Ireland, can you imagine the most successful Ireland captain ever - Rory Best - having to drive through a hard border to play at the Aviva Stadium?\" the 31 year old said.\n\n\"How is this good for my generation?\"\n\nCave questioned whether Rory Best would have to \"drive through a hard border\" to captain Ireland in Dublin\n\nCave said he could not remember the Troubles but he viewed the Brexit deadlock as a \"threat\" to the Good Friday Agreement, which led to peace in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe UK's withdrawal from the EU had \"consumed my thoughts of late\", he said, and it \"deeply concerns my generation as peace is all we have ever known\".\n\nCave also commented on the impasse at Stormont, saying Northern Ireland's politics was \"still in a dreadful place\".\n\n\"The political landscape... is a very sad state of affairs,\" he added.\n\n\"I don't know how it is going to change as the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) versus Sinn Féin saga rumbles ever on with the two communities entrenched on either side.\"\n\nCave said the global perception of the Republic of Ireland had \"radically altered\"\n\nHe said problems with issues such as healthcare and homelessness had been \"ignored\" since the collapse of the Northern Ireland Assembly in January 2017.\n\n\"For over two years our elected officials have steadfastly refused to govern,\" said Cave.\n\nThat meant that societal issues such as same-sex marriage and abortion had not been addressed in Northern Ireland, he added.\n\nRecent constitutional referendums in the Republic of Ireland have scrapped the country's ban on abortion and legalised same-sex marriage.\n\n\"What is so depressing is that during this very same period of time the global perception of Ireland, has been radically altered following the [same-sex marriage and abortion] referendums,\" said Cave.\n\n\"Gone are so many old perceptions and in their stead appears Dublin, this modern, multi-cultural society.\"", "Police received a report of a woman being held by armed men in the Anchor pub but could not find her when they got there\n\nA man was accidentally shot by police as they investigated reports of a woman being held by armed men in a south-east London pub.\n\nThe Met responded to a call shortly before 04:00 GMT which reported a woman was being held against her will at the Anchor Pub in Lewisham.\n\nOfficers stopped a car near the pub and a gun was \"unintentionally discharged\" injuring a man, police said.\n\nHe and another man in the car, along with five others, have been arrested.\n\nThe five men were all arrested at the pub where a search was carried out, although police could not find a woman.\n\nPolice have not confirmed what the men have been arrested on suspicion of.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BBC London Travel This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe car had been stopped near to the junction with Blackheath Hill.\n\nThe injured man, aged in his 20s, remains in hospital. His injuries are not life-threatening or life-changing, the Met said.\n\nDet Ch Insp James Stanyer said officers \"are working hard to fully understand this incident\" and appealed for the woman who originally called 999 to contact them.\n\nLewisham Way has been closed for most of the day while officers carried out their investigation.\n\nThe police watchdog, the Independent Office for Police Conduct, has launched an independent investigation into the shooting by armed police.\n\nThe Met's own Directorate of Professional Standards has also been informed.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Brazilian leader posted a video of himself in hospital before his operation last week\n\nBrazil's President Jair Bolsonaro is in semi-intensive care following surgery last week to reverse a colostomy performed after he was stabbed on the campaign trail last year.\n\nDoctors had drained an accumulation of liquid in the area where the colostomy bag was removed, his spokesman said.\n\nMr Bolsonaro has no fever or pain but will now not leave hospital before Monday of next week, he added.\n\nMr Bolsonaro took office as the country's new president on 1 January.\n\nHe has been given antibiotics, and he is continuing to perform breathing and muscle-strengthening exercises in his bedroom, his doctors said in a medical report posted online.\n\nThe 63-year-old president checked into São Paulo's Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein on 27 January in preparation for surgery.\n\nHe had been expected to make a full recovery, and to leave hospital after 10 days.\n\nEarlier on Monday, Mr Bolsonaro posted a video of himself doing physiotherapy exercises in bed.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA colostomy bag is a small pouch used to collect waste from the body when the digestive system is no longer functioning a result of an illness, injury or other problem.", "Two University of Warwick students, who were involved in an online group chat that threatened rape, will not be returning, despite a ban on their attendance being lifted.\n\nThe pair were barred from the campus for 10 years, but this was reduced to 12 months after they appealed.\n\nOne of the women targeted had said she felt \"terrified at the prospect of having these boys in my seminars\".\n\nWarwick now says the men have confirmed they will not return in September.\n\nLast week, students reacted angrily to the news that their bans had been cut, using the hashtag #ShameOnYouWarwick on Twitter.\n\nIn an update published on the university's website on Monday afternoon, Vice Chancellor Stuart Croft said: \"We are committed to ensuring the safety of our community.\n\n\"I have today spoken to the two young men concerned and confirm that neither of them will be returning to the university.\n\n\"I am continuing to listen to the views of students, staff and all members of our community here at Warwick and support them so that we can learn from this experience.\"\n\nThe update came as one Warwick professor told student newspaper The Boar it would be \"completely untenable\" for them to resume their studies.\n\nResponding to the news of the men not returning, one of the women targeted in the Facebook group chat said: \"We still do not know how the men's leaving came about.\n\n\"It could simply be that they have decided not to come back amidst public outcry.\"\n\nTheir decision to stay away is \"not a victory for the university,\" she continued, adding: \"A victory will be a complete re-examination of the disciplinary processes which allowed this failure to happen.\"\n\nThe chat was first reported last summer by The Boar.\n\nSeveral of those involved encouraged others to rape specific students, while one of the messages said: \"Sometimes it's fun to just go wild and rape 100 girls.\"\n\nAnother said: \"Rape the whole flat to teach them all [a] lesson.\"\n\nAt one point, a user wrote: \"Rape her in the street while everybody watches,\" with another responding it \"wouldn't even be unfair\".\n\nStudent newspapers obtained the screenshots after complaints were made to the university\n\nAfter a disciplinary investigation by the university, five students were suspended.\n\nTwo were banned for 10 years, two were excluded for one year, and one was given a lifetime campus ban.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A woman discussed in a group chat by Warwick university students says she's terrified two of them will be back\n\nIn an earlier statement, Prof Christine Ennew, a member of the executive team at Warwick, said the university was clear the behaviour was \"abhorrent and unacceptable\" and it was sorry the decision to reduce the length of the ban had \"upset so many members of our own community and beyond\".\n\nShe said privacy issues meant they were unable to comment on specific details.", "The blue ocean is likely to get more blue say scientists\n\nRising temperatures will change the colour of the world's oceans, making them more blue in the coming decades say scientists.\n\nThey found that increased heat will change the mixture of phytoplankton or tiny marine organisms in the seas, which absorb and reflect light.\n\nScientists say there will be less of them in the waters in the decades to come.\n\nThis will drive a colour change in more than 50% of the world's seas by 2100.\n\nAs well as turning sunlight into chemical energy, and consuming carbon dioxide, they are the bottom rung on the marine food chain.\n\nThey also play an important role in how we see the oceans with our eyes.\n\nThe more phytoplankton in the water, the less blue the seas will appear, and the more likely they will be to have a greenish colour.\n\nPrevious research has shown that with warming, the oceans will see a reduction in phytoplankton in many places.\n\nThis new study models the likely impact these changes will have on the colour of the ocean and the planet as the world warms up.\n\n\"What we find is that the colour will change, probably not so much that you will see by eye, but certainly sensors will be able to pick up that there's a change,\" lead author Dr Stephanie Dutkiewicz from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, US, told BBC News.\n\n\"And it will likely be one of the earliest warning signals that we have changed the ecology of the ocean.\"\n\nAs well as changes in the blue of the oceans, we are also likely to see changes in the green\n\nThe researchers point out that the changes are an indirect impact of climate change, as warming is affecting the circulation of the seas, this is changing the amount of food available for phytoplankton.\n\nAnother difference from previous studies is that this time, the researchers are looking solely at satellite measurements of reflected light from the phytoplankton.\n\nIn the past, scientists have used satellite measurements of chlorophyll, a light harvesting pigment found in phytoplankton, to try and understand the impact of climate change.\n\nHowever they've had problems working out the difference between natural variability and human induced warming on this green pigment. They believe it will be 30-40 years before they can say for definite that climate change is having an impact on chlorophyll.\n\n\"What we've shown is that the colour in the blue green range is going to show that signal of change sooner, in some places in maybe the next decade,\" said Dr Dutkiewicz.\n\n\"More of the ocean is going to show a change in colour over the next few decades than we would see in chlorophyll, the changing colour is going to be more of a warning signal.\"\n\nThe researchers believe that the North Atlantic will be one of the first places to reflect the change - followed by locations in the Southern Ocean.\n\nNatural patterns seen on the Ukrainian river Dnepr covered by cyanobacterias as a result of phytoplankton evolution in hot seasons\n\nThe team modelled what would happen to the oceans by the end of this century if the world warmed by 3C, which is close to where temperatures are likely to be, if every country sticks to the promises they have made in the Paris climate agreement.\n\n\"There will be a noticeable difference in the colour of 50% of the ocean by the end of the 21st century,\" Dr Dutkiewicz said.\n\n\"It could be potentially quite serious. Different types of phytoplankton absorb light differently, and if climate change shifts one community of phytoplankton to another, that will also change the types of food webs they can support. \"\n\nThe team also believe that the world will see changes in some of the green shades seen in the oceans as well.\n\nThis will happen because some species of phytoplankton will respond well to a warmer environment and will create larger blooms of more diverse marine organisms. This is likely to show up with more green regions near the equator and the poles, the researchers say.\n\nThe study has been published in the journal Nature Communications.", "Lorries will be able to drive straight off ferries and Channel Tunnel trains without making customs declarations in the event of a no-deal Brexit, the government has announced.\n\nNew guidance for importers and hauliers says firms would file a simplified form online in advance and pay duty later.\n\nHauliers have warned that no-deal could result in long queues at Channel ports.\n\nThe industry said firms would still not be ready for a \"chaotic\" EU exit - even with these simplified procedures.\n\nThe UK is due to leave the EU at 23:00 GMT on Friday 29 March - with or without a deal.\n\nTheresa May has said she is \"determined\" to deliver Brexit on time, but a number of cabinet ministers have indicated they would be willing to agree to a short extension to finalise legislation.\n\nUnder the HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) plans, what are being called \"transitional simplified procedures\" would be introduced for ferry routes from Europe, and for the Channel Tunnel, for at least a year if the UK leaves without a deal.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Up to 90 lorries assembled at Manston airfield as part of a no-deal Brexit exercise\n\nThese would allow an importer to file a very short customs form - a \"simplified frontier declaration\" - only two hours before a lorry is due to cross the Channel by ferry, or one hour via the Channel Tunnel.\n\nThe truck would then be able to drive straight into the UK without any further paperwork being done at the border.\n\nThe importer would have to update the computer entry within 24 hours to tell HMRC the goods had arrived, and the duty would be payable as much as a month after the shipment had entered the UK.\n\nThe temporary system would be reviewed after three months, but is expected to last more than a year.\n\nThe latest guidance applies only to vehicles entering the UK, but additional customs checks may also be introduced for EU-bound lorries arriving at Calais, Coquelles and Dunkirk in the event of no-deal.\n\nCharlie Elphicke, the Conservative MP for Dover - home to the UK's busiest Channel port - described the plans as a \"common sense move\".\n\nHe said he had long argued that \"checks can be done away from the border - so traffic can keep flowing smoothly\".\n\nEnter the word or phrase you are looking for\n\nHowever, Rod McKenzie, from the Road Haulage Association, said the guidance would not help trucking firms.\n\n\"Business is simply not ready for a chaotic no-deal Brexit,\" he said.\n\n\"The systems aren't in place, the staff are not trained, there isn't the time in the day for hauliers and businesses to do all the paperwork,\" he told the BBC.\n\nLast month, a convoy of 89 lorries took part in two runs from the disused Manston Airport, near Ramsgate in Kent, on a 20-mile route to the Port of Dover as part of an exercise to test plans for border disruption in the event of a no-deal Brexit.\n\nIt has emerged that the government plans to pay a law firm £800,000 for advice in case Eurotunnel decides to sue over the effects of Brexit on its business.", "Emily Fazah says premenstrual syndrome (PMS) \"shouldn't be shrugged off\"\n\n\"I'm out for a week sometimes because I feel so low\".\n\nEmily Fazah has suffered from intense symptoms ever since she started her periods - from anxiety and fatigue, to mood swings and cramps.\n\nThe 29-year-old says she \"suffered in silence\" for years, but is determined to no longer be embarrassed.\n\nShe has set up an online community called Moody Girl, inspired by her childhood nickname, to \"get the world\" talking about premenstrual syndrome (PMS).\n\n\"Women have been feeling isolated for so long,\" says Miss Fazah, who lives in Ipswich, Suffolk.\n\n\"It shouldn't be embarrassing talking in front of men about suffering. It shouldn't be shrugged off.\"\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by moodygirlofficial This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"From a young age, I learned to suppress it, not talk about it and suffer in silence,\" she says.\n\nAlthough she could turn to her mum, no-one at her school had the same problems.\n\nIt was not until she began working full-time in London that she reached \"breaking point\".\n\n\"I was trying to keep down my emotions and the way it was making me feel,\" she says.\n\nIt made going to client meetings difficult, and with a male boss, she felt she \"couldn't really open up about it\".\n\nMoody Girl provides an online platform for women to share their experiences\n\nThat's when the seed for Moody Girl was sown.\n\nMiss Fazah thought to herself: \"What if there are other women out there that maybe I haven't met yet who have been going through the same thing as me? How do I connect with them?\"\n\nShe made the decision to move back to Suffolk to set up the website, which shares her own story as well as experiences from other women, and a playlist which reflects her current mood.\n\n\"I wanted to open up that dialogue which was so desperately needed.\"\n\nShe says her aim is \"getting the word out, making a community of other women who are suffering, raising money and raising awareness, and not being embarrassed\".\n\nThe Facebook page has more than 1,100 followers, some from as far afield as the USA, and a further 600 people follow the Instagram site.\n\nIzzy Finbow, 29, from London, says she has found the Moody Girl community \"enlightening\" and \"inspiring\".\n\nThe digital content editor says her PMS was \"ridiculous\", leaving her feeling bleakly depressed and \"irrational to new levels\".\n\nBeing a part of the online social sites and seeing Miss Fazah's Instagram photos has helped her realise she is not alone, and given her tips such as using an app to track her periods.\n\nEileen Murphy, 37, from Cambridge, says through the forum she has found \"solidarity\" with other women, while her partner now has a greater understanding of her symptoms and mood.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMeanwhile, after seeing five different doctors before going to the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital PMS Service Clinic, Miss Fazah has been prescribed hormone replacement therapy (HRT) for her severe PMS.\n\nShe says it \"took years\" to get to that point, but it \"changed my life drastically\".\n\nMiss Fazah, a teacher, wants to give educational talks at universities and schools, and raise money for different charities which support women with severe PMS and premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD).\n\nShe says she wants Moody Girl to be for everyone - from those with mild or severe PMS, to those with premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD), and also \"if it's depression and it's not linked to your period then that's fine too\".\n\n\"If I can just help guide other women in the right direction to get to that place quicker than I did, then that would make the whole thing worthwhile.\"", "Operations can help open up a dog's airway\n\nBattersea Dogs and Cats Home carried out more operations to help flat-faced dogs breathe in 2018 than at any other time in its history, it has revealed.\n\nThe south-west London shelter performed 62 lifesaving operations on breeds such as bulldogs and pugs last year, compared to seven in 2015.\n\nBrachycephalic dog breeds are increasingly popular but suffer from having short, obstructed airways.\n\nBattersea called the breeds an \"example of irresponsible, selective breeding\".\n\nThe Kennel Club found French bulldogs to be the UK's most popular dog breed in 2018\n\nBrachycephalic dog breeds tend to have big eyes, snub noses, and are compact in size.\n\nThe British Veterinary Association has warned people against buying flat-faced breeds but Battersea has nonetheless taken in increasing numbers in recent years.\n\nThe shelter took in 40 French bulldogs and 47 pugs in 2018, compared to eight and 36 respectively in 2014.\n\nAccording to Battersea vets, the way many are bred means they often have airways so narrow that it is \"the equivalent of us breathing through a drinking straw\".\n\n\"Over the years, breeders have chosen the flattest-faced dogs in the litter to breed, and this has created traits that are dangerous and damaging to the dog's health,\" head vet Shaun Opperman said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Today programme explains why pugs' tongues shouldn't actually stick out\n\nOther dogs that can suffer from the problem, which makes it difficult for them to run or play, include English bulldogs, Boston terriers, shih tzus and boxers.\n\n\"The rising number of brachycephalic dogs is one of the biggest welfare issues that Battersea is facing right now,\" Mr Opperman said.\n\nBattersea Dogs and Cats Home performed 62 operations on brachycephalic breeds last year", "The German museum displaying Banksy's painting that partly self-destructed at auction has \"deactivated\" the artwork's shredding device.\n\nLove is in the Bin self-shredded in its frame immediately after selling for £860,000 ($1.12m) at Sotheby's auction house in London in October.\n\nBanksy then uploaded a video suggesting the entire canvas was supposed to shred- not just two thirds of it.\n\nThe museum wanted to prevent the rest of the artwork being destroyed.\n\nHenning Schaper, the director of Frieder Burda de Baden-Baden Museum in South West Germany, said they wanted to avoid a visitor setting off the shredder.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Shed the Love' reveals Banksy stunt did not go to plan\n\n\"We have opened the frame, we have all looked and we have seen that the mechanism has been deactivated,\" he said.\n\nIn front of press and photographers, white-gloved museum workers \"slowly and cautiously\" took apart the canvas on Monday afternoon to deactivate the device, before replacing the painting on the wall.\n\nThe woman who bought the painting decided to keep it, despite it being partially destroyed.\n\nIt is now on long-term loan to the Stuttgart museum and currently on display at Frueder Burda de Baden Baden for four weeks.\n\nBanksy's video, posted a few weeks after the auction in October, shows the frame, complete with its shredder, being assembled in Banksy's studio.\n\nIt also shows footage from inside the auction room - including a clip of the button which triggered the shredding being pressed.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nAlex Branczik, Sotheby's head of contemporary art in Europe, said that the auction house was not in on the stunt.\n\nHe said the reason the shredder wasn't detected by Sotheby's staff was that they had been instructed the frame was a key part of the work.\n\nSpeaking to The Art Newspaper, Branczik explained: \"Pest Control [Banksy's authentication board] said very clearly: the frame is integral to the art work.\n\n\"Which it was, just not in the sort of way that we thought.\n\n\"We also had a third-party conservator look at the work.\"\n\nAsked how the conservator did not spot the frame's double thickness and apparent weight from the attached shredder, he replied: \"You address what you see, it was more like a sculpture. If it says the frame is integral, you don't rip it apart.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Teachers said they were concerned Amber's behaviour could deteriorate if she had to move schools again\n\nA girl told her teacher her stepfather forced her to wear \"ridiculous\" trousers to school to humiliate her months before she was found dead, an inquest heard.\n\nAmber Peat's body was found in bushes after she went missing in May 2015.\n\nHer form tutor Rebecca Beard told the hearing Amber said she had to carry her belongings in a carrier bag as a punishment for bad behaviour.\n\nShe emailed her concerns to staff at Queen Elizabeth's School.\n\nNottingham Coroner's Court heard Amber had moved to the school in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, in July 2014.\n\nMs Beard said she became concerned for Amber's welfare after she came in \"devastated\" while wearing baggy grey jogging bottoms instead of normal school trousers one day in March 2015.\n\n\"The other children in the classroom thought that she had actually wet herself, because it was so unusual that someone would be wearing something like that,\" she said.\n\nFloral tributes and messages to Amber Peat were left near where her body was found\n\nThe inquest heard Amber told her teacher she was forced to wear them by her stepfather Daniel Peat, and that she had been punished for bad behaviour over the weekend.\n\nMs Beard said Amber told her she was woken up in the night to finish chores she was told she had not completed, and was not allowed to go to bed until 01:30 after being made to clean the floor for an hour.\n\nShe said this was \"obviously of concern\", and when Amber later came in with a plastic bag carrying belongings instead of her normal schoolbag, she was told it was another punishment.\n\nMs Beard sent an email on 16 March 2015 to the school's safeguarding staff saying she was concerned Amber was \"being emotionally abused\" at home.\n\nThe email also highlighted other worries, such as Amber being \"always hungry\", losing weight and wearing school trousers she had outgrown.\n\nAmber's body was found in Westfield Lane, about a mile from her home in Bosworth Street\n\nFollowing the email Karen Green, vice principal at Queen Elizabeth's at the time, said she asked Amber's key worker Sharon Clay to contact the Nottinghamshire multi-agency safeguarding hub (MASH).\n\nA transcript of the call read in court recorded Ms Clay being advised to contact Amber's mother Kelly about her daughter's account, and if there were any concerns to get back in touch regarding a potential referral.\n\nMs Clay - who told the court she had a good working relationship with both Amber and her family - said she was \"quite uncomfortable\" with contacting Kelly over her daughter's disclosure, and though the mother's account differed from Amber's, she did not get back in touch with MASH.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on Twitter, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.", "Nissan's change of heart over making the X-Trail in Sunderland set Brexit alarm bells ringing over the weekend.\n\nIt was further evidence, to some, that car investment in the UK is drying up as we head towards the EU exit - ripping up promises made by Margaret Thatcher to Japanese manufacturers that they should consider the UK as their natural manufacturing outpost within the EU.\n\nWhile it is wrong to think that Brexit was the main reason Nissan pulled the X-Trail from Sunderland, it is still right to think that Brexit is proving a powerful deterrent for investment in the UK car industry.\n\nSome of the technical issues it throws up could start affecting UK car exports as soon as next week.\n\nBut there are three other important factors affecting the UK car industry.\n\nNissan is not the only company to have been caught off guard by the sudden and rapid slump in diesel sales across Europe.\n\nThe VW emissions scandal and the subsequent confusion about diesel among regulators and consumers, have dealt a heavy blow to sales and production with JLR being the most conspicuous casualty.\n\nUnder current market conditions it simply made no sense for Nissan to invest in a new diesel manufacturing facility in northern Europe.\n\nThe fact that the UK is about to leave the world's biggest trading bloc creating border uncertainty is an aggravating factor for sure but not Nissan's primary reason.\n\nThere are other powerful forces at work.\n\nAs of last week, the free trade agreement between the EU and Japan came into force.\n\nUnder that deal, tariffs on Japanese car exports to the EU begin to taper towards zero over the next ten years.\n\nThat means there is a dwindling rationale for Japan to manufacture cars for European customers in the EU.\n\nIn fact, post Brexit, cars from Japan entering the EU could attract lower tariffs than cars made in the UK.\n\nThere is another Brexit problem.\n\nOne of the highest growth areas for UK exports has been South Korea after trade has been stimulated by a trade agreement with the EU.\n\nCurrently the UK enjoys the preferential terms thanks to its membership of the EU. After March 29th it won't.\n\nGiven it takes six weeks to transport cars to South East Asia, from mid-February (end of next week) manufacturers face the prospect of loading ships with exports to markets without knowing what tariffs will apply to those products when they come off at the other end.\n\nInternational Trade secretary Dr Liam Fox has been confident that we can replicate this and simply tippex out \"EU\" on the front page of nearly 40 free trade agreements and replace it with \"UK\".\n\nFor products to enjoy preferential terms under a trade deal, there is a requirement for them to be predominantly made of components from that country.\n\nIn the trade deal the EU has with South Korea, 55% of the car components must be from the EU.\n\nIf the same test was applied to the UK as a stand-alone country, none of the cars manufactured here would pass a test requiring 55% of components to come from the UK.\n\nIt is possible that the terms of a future UK-EU trade deal would include asking South Korea, Morocco, Mexico and others if they would allow UK and EU parts to be added together to pass the test but it's far from clear they would agree.\n\nSo far Liam Fox has only managed to ensure a trade continuity deal with Chile.\n\nIn an uncertain world, we can say one thing with certainty. Investment in the UK car industry has collapsed.\n\nIn 2015, companies invested £2.5bn, last year it was less than £600m - a fall of nearly 80% in just three years.\n\nBrexit may not have done for the X-Trail, but it is having a corrosive effect on the wider car industry.", "Police said the victim's next-of-kin had been informed\n\nA pilot died when his light aircraft crashed in Essex.\n\nThe man, in his 50s, was the only person on board and was pronounced dead at the scene in Belchamp Walter, police said.\n\nEssex Police said they were called to reports of a \"light aircraft in distress\" at 11:50 GMT.\n\nEight fire crews from Essex and Suffolk were also sent to the scene in Bells Road. Police said that the victim's next-of-kin had been informed.\n\nEssex Fire Service said its firefighters reported that the aircraft - which had landed in an arable field - was alight when they arrived. The fire was extinguished by 12:49.\n\nThe crash site is about five miles from Ridgewell Airfield, the home of Essex Gliding Club, but it is not yet known where the flight originated from, or its intended destination.\n\nThe Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) said it was \"aware of the incident and had deployed a team to investigate\".\n\nBelchamp Walter is close to the county border between Essex and Suffolk\n\nJane Walker, from Belchamp Walter Parish Council, saw an air ambulance land at the site.\n\nShe said: \"It is really out of the usual and I think it took a lot of people out of the blue.\n\n\"Our feelings go out to the poor man who has died and his family. Our condolences are with them.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Hermes, the delivery firm, has struck a deal with the GMB union to offer couriers paid holiday and guaranteed wage rates.\n\nUnder its new \"self-employed plus\" status, Hermes workers can opt to receive up to 28 days of paid leave.\n\nThey can also choose pay rates of at least £8.50 an hour over the year - more than the minimum wage of £7.83 an hour, which rises to £8.21 in April.\n\nHowever an employment expert raised questions about the tax implications.\n\nHermes's 15,000 couriers can deliver parcels in whichever order they want and will be able to continue to do so if they take up the new arrangement.\n\nNew couriers wishing to take up the pay holiday terms will have to follow routes specified by Hermes.\n\nThe company said that if it is guaranteeing hourly rates of pay, it needs to ensure that couriers are taking the most efficient route.\n\nThe GMB said that the collective bargaining agreement is on an opt-in basis and \"will not affect those couriers who wish to retain their current form of self-employed status and earn premium rates\".\n\nMartijn de Lange, chief executive of Hermes UK, said: \"We have listened to our couriers and are wholeheartedly committed to offering innovative ways of working to meet peoples' differing needs.\"\n\nThe so-called gig economy means that people are paid for the \"gigs\" they do such as delivering a parcel or a car journey, rather than their time.\n\nSome workers are pushing companies to offer better conditions such as paid leave and the minimum wage.\n\nBut Matthew Taylor, author of an independent review in 2017 into working practices, told BBC Radio 4's Today Programme that Hermes' new arrangement could raise questions about whether it was \"sustainable\" as it may be of interest to HM Revenue & Customs.\n\n\"I'm afraid.. I think the HMRC...will be looking at this very closely because if somebody has most of the benefits of being an employee and if the employer has most of the benefits of employing somebody, then the tax authorities will want the employee to be paying national insurance as an employee and they'll want the company in particular to be paying national insurance on those people,\" he said.\n\nHermes said it was \"totally surprised\" by Mr Taylor's comments and \"100% disagreed\" with them. It said Hermes had received legal advice that under its new offer its couriers would remain self-employed.\n\nMark Rix, GMB's national officer told the BBC that there were tax implications only for those receiving a \"full suite\" of benefits.\n\nEd Cross has been a Hermes courier for ten years and his route is in North Yorkshire.\n\nHe says he hasn't had a holiday for ten years, partly because he will no longer have to find someone to cover his route when he is away.\n\n\"It's a huge deal because we've been self employed, basically on our own, we've nobody to turn to, if Hermes say 'no' or they treat us wrongly, we have nowhere to go, nothing, up until now.\"\n\nIn December, Uber, the ride-sharing service, lost an appeal against a ruling in 2016 which said drivers James Farrar and Yaseen Aslam were entitled to benefits.\n\nUber said it would appeal to the Supreme Court.\n\nTim Roache, general secretary of the GMB, said: \"Full credit to Hermes. They're showing that the gig economy doesn't have to be an exploitative economy and we look forward to working with them through this ground-breaking agreement.\n\n\"Other employers should take notice, this is how it's done.\"", "Actor Liam Neeson is facing a major racism storm after admitting he once set out to kill an innocent black man.\n\nHe said he walked the streets with a weapon for a week years ago, hoping to take out his anger after someone close to him was raped by a black man.\n\nThe Hollywood star said he was ashamed of his actions, but his remarks have sparked widespread outrage.\n\nNeeson hasn't commented further since the interview was published by The Independent on Monday.\n\nHe was speaking to promote his new film Cold Pursuit, a thriller about a man who seeks retribution after his son is murdered.\n\nAsked how his character turns to anger, the actor replied that \"something primal\" kicks in when a someone close to you is the victim of violence.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Listen to Liam Neeson's comments that sparked the outrage\n\nHe said: \"God forbid you've ever had a member of your family hurt under criminal conditions. I'll tell you a story. This is true.\"\n\nNeeson said the alleged rape took place a long time ago and he found out about it when he came back from a trip abroad. The actor went on to use racially offensive language about the attacker.\n\nHe said: \"She handled the situation of the rape in the most extraordinary way.\n\n\"But my immediate reaction was... I asked, did she know who it was? No. What colour were they? She said it was a black person.\n\n\"I went up and down areas with a cosh, hoping I'd be approached by somebody - I'm ashamed to say that - and I did it for maybe a week, hoping some [uses air quotes with fingers] 'black bastard' would come out of a pub and have a go at me about something, you know? So that I could kill him.\"\n\nNeeson has been subject to huge criticism for the comments.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Clemence Michallon, who interviewed Liam Neeson, says she was struck by the \"gravity\" of his thoughts\n\nThe journalist who did the interview, Clémence Michallon, told BBC News: \"Anyone hearing the thoughts that he's reporting here would be shocked and appalled in many ways, and he himself says he is ashamed to think of the way he used to think and says it's awful, so of course that shock set in really quickly.\"\n\nIn an accompanying article in The Independent, columnist Kuba Shand-Baptiste wrote: \"What immediately struck me when reading about his revelation was how deeply the white supremacist trope of the 'black brute' versus the 'helpless woman' appears to have permeated society.\"\n\nLos Angeles Times columnist Carla Hall wrote that his conduct was \"despicable\", adding that she now wants him to talk about whether he has dealt with \"whatever racism he still harbours\".\n\nShe wrote: \"Was he a racist or just a tightly wound man capable of vindictive violence? Or was he both? Of course, he was a racist. He was roaming the streets trying to find a random black man to kill.\n\n\"And he gave every indication of being capable of violence. That's a pretty explosive combination. And his revelation about himself is deeply disturbing. The question is, how much has he changed since then?\"\n\nOn Twitter, Frederick Joseph, who works for better representation in the media, wrote that Neeson's story \"just shows how meaningless and inconsequential black lives are to some\".\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 Frederick Joseph 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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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\nNeeson referred back to his comments later in the interview, adding: \"It was horrible, horrible, when I think back, that I did that. And I've never admitted that, and I'm saying it to a journalist. God forbid.\n\n\"It's awful. But I did learn a lesson from it.\"\n\nSome said Neeson should not be castigated for admitting such thoughts but realising they were wrong and saying he had learned from them.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 5 by Eric D. Snider 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\nHowever, others pointed out that he didn't specifically acknowledge any underlying racial motivations.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 6 by Beast beneath the moonlight This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post 6 by Beast beneath the moonlight\n\nThe 66-year-old, who is best known for Schindler's List and the thriller series Taken, also described growing up around violence in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, during the Troubles.\n\n\"I knew a couple of guys that died on hunger strike, and I had acquaintances who were very caught up in the Troubles, and I understand that need for revenge, but it just leads to more revenge, to more killing and more killing, and Northern Ireland's proof of that.\n\n\"All this stuff that's happening in the world, the violence, is proof of that, you know. But that primal need, I understand.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\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.", "Libby Squire was last seen getting into a taxi on Thursday night\n\nThe mother of missing Libby Squire has thanked people helping to search for the Hull University student as the police hunt enters its third day.\n\nPolice said there were a number of leads they were pursuing over the 21-year-old's disappearance on Thursday.\n\nShe was last seen getting into a taxi near the Welly Club music venue in Beverley Road at about 23:00 GMT.\n\nPosting on Facebook, her mum Lisa Squire said her daughter was \"obviously loved by so many people\".\n\nShe said: \"A massive thank you to all the fantastic students who turned out to search for Libby Squire.\"\n\nHer mum said it had given them \"great comfort\" to know how much her daughter was thought of.\n\nSearch teams are scouring the area where the 21-year-old was last seen\n\nPolice have been carrying out house-to-house inquiries in Hull\n\nThe family said Miss Squire's disappearance was \"very out of character\" and they were \"broken without her\".\n\nMore than 70 police officers have been out making inquiries, including knocking door-to-door around the area where the student vanished.\n\nAbout 200 students have also been involved in the search of the university premises, organised by student Ryan Tweddell.\n\nSpeaking earlier, Det Supt Simon Gawthorpe said: \"There are a number of leads we are following up and I want to offer my thanks to everyone who has come forward with information, your help has been invaluable.\"\n\nMiss Squire was reported missing after getting into a taxi outside the Welly Club at about 23:00 on Thursday, and is believed to have got out of the vehicle a short while later near where she lived in Wellesley Avenue.\n\nHumberside Police said she was then helped by a motorist who pulled over after spotting her sat on a bench in the street, with the force adding the man in question had since contacted them and \"really helped out\" with the search.\n\nThe student was last spotted on CCTV in Beverley Road\n\nMiss Squire was last spotted on CCTV in Beverley Road, near to the junction with Haworth Street, at about 23:45 on Thursday.\n\nThe officer appealed for anyone who was on Haworth Street between 23:30 and 00:30 GMT on the night she disappeared to get in touch.\n\nHe said house to house inquiries were continuing in the area she was last seen and specialist teams and the coastguard were searching around the River Hull.\n\nMr Tweddell said: \"It was great to see so many students turn out to support the search for Libby.\n\n\"We can't believe the community came out in the numbers they did, it just shows how much people care.\n\n\"Libby is a loving, down-to-earth, typical, normal student. She is hardworking, helps everyone who needs it and is a lovely, brilliant girl.\"\n\nPolice have asked people to check their sheds and gardens\n\nIn a statement, the University of Hull said it was \"deeply concerned\" about the missing student.\n\nA spokesman said: \"We are working closely with Humberside Police to support their search for Libby and offering support to Libby's family at this distressing time.\"\n\nFire crews have been searching a frozen pond near where she was last seen\n\nLibby Squire got in a taxi outside The Welly club\n\nPolice urged people living in the area to check their gardens and outbuildings in case Miss Squire had taken shelter.\n\nAnyone who was driving around the area at the time and has dashcam footage has also been asked to come forward.\n\nMiss Squire, who is 5ft 7in tall and has long dark brown hair, had been wearing a black leather jacket, black long-sleeved top and a black denim skirt with lace.\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. Worried by \"flaws\" in his appearance, Chris Evans MP began a dangerous exercise routine\n\nAfter being hit by a car and going through his parents' divorce, Chris Evans' physical and mental pain had been pushed to the max.\n\nAs weight sky-rocketed and his self-esteem hit rock bottom, he started working out.\n\nBut what started out as a keep-fit regime, turned into a mental health condition - body dysmorphia.\n\nThe Islwyn MP is encouraging anyone experiencing something similar to talk to someone.\n\n\"You feel you have a control over something, especially when you feel there are parts of your life that are out of control,\" he said.\n\nBody dysmorphic disorder is a psychological condition which sees sufferers develop obsessive worries about their perceived flaws - and go to extreme lengths to try and deal with them.\n\nMr Evans' condition was triggered by months of recovery after being hit by a car when he was 13 and needing a plaster cast on his leg to aid his recovery.\n\n\"Naturally I was inactive and I put a lot of weight on,\" he told BBC Wales' Sunday Politics Wales.\n\n\"And that, when you're 13 and 14, makes you very self-conscious about yourself... And then suddenly, when the cast came off, I was looking around and I just didn't feel good enough.\"\n\nIt was already a difficult time in his life, with his parents divorcing and stress building up over his upcoming exams.\n\nTaking cues from his film star idols Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone, who had \"had everything worked out\", his intense daily exercise regime involved waking up at 05:00 to take his dog for a run up the mountain for an hour and a half.\n\nThis was followed by another hour-long work out and further long walks and training.\n\nLabour politician Mr Evans said he sought inspiration from Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone as a teenager\n\n\"Then I'd check myself out in the mirror - if I wasn't happy with what I was doing, I would constantly just pick one exercise, for example bicep curls, and constantly do them until I was fatigued,\" he said.\n\nMr Evans's routine became so extreme that he ended up ripping his bicep muscles. He said he had to stop, and it came as a relief.\n\n\"You can sleep again, and suddenly it's not that important,\" he said.\n\nHe thinks society in general should talk about such matters more.\n\n\"Everybody's got challenges, everybody's got different problems they've got to face,\" he said.\n\n\"But I think if you're honest and you're open, and you talk to someone you trust, people always try to help you.\"", "A mixed martial arts fighter suspected of two murders had escaped from Texas police, only to be discovered hours later, squatting inside a rubbish bin.\n\nCedric Marks, 44, is accused of killing his ex-girlfriend Jenna Scott and her friend, Michael Swearingin. They were found in a shallow grave last month.\n\nMr Marks escaped from a prison transport vehicle after it stopped at a McDonald's in Conroe, near Houston.\n\nHe is back in police custody and will face charges in Temple, Texas.\n\nMr Marks was arrested by US Marshals in Michigan last month on suspicion of breaking into Ms Scott's home in Temple, on 21 August, 2018.\n\nMurder warrants were also issued for the fighter on Sunday after Ms Scott and Mr Swearingin's bodies were discovered on 15 January, the Associated Press reported.\n\nHe was being transferred to Temple to face these charges on Sunday when he fled.\n\nWhen the prison van, which was transporting two guards and 10 prisoners, stopped at a McDonald's for food, Mr Marks managed to escape on foot, police chief Jeff Christy said.\n\nAccording to KPRC-TV, he had been shackled in the van, and police do not yet know how he was able to remove the restraints.\n\nAfter his escape, police warned residents Mr Marks should be \"considered extremely dangerous\" as both a murder suspect and experienced fighter.\n\nFollowing a nine-hour manhunt involving several agencies and canine units, authorities found him hiding in a rubbish bin in the backyard of a nearby home.\n\nMr Marks surrendered without incident, police said, and is back in custody.\n\n\"He threw his hands up as far as he could and surrendered. He was worn out,\" Mr Christy said, according to KPRC.\n\n\"He was squatting in a 55-gallon (208L) trash can all day, he was pretty tired.\"\n\nAn investigation is under way regarding the incident and will be presented to the Montgomery County District Attorney's Office, Mr Christy said.\n\nMr Marks, who fights under the name Spider-Man, has been involved with MMA for nearly two decades, according to a fighter database.\n\nHe had also worked as a women's self-defence instructor at a boxing club in Killeen, Texas.\n\nMs Scott and Mr Swearingin's friends shared photos on social media in a campaign to locate them\n\nJust before her disappearance, Mr Marks' former girlfriend Ms Scott had filed for a restraining order against him, alleging he had choked her to the point of unconsciousness twice, but it was denied, KCEN-TV reported.\n\nMs Scott had described her ex-boyfriend as a \"pathological liar\" and \"a psychopath\", according to KCEN.\n\nThe local outlet reported Marks has an extensive criminal history, dating back to his teenage years.\n\nMr Marks is also a person of interest in the missing persons case of April Pease, the mother of one of his children, who vanished in 2009 amid a custody dispute with Mr Marks.", "Nissan will be forced to reapply for nearly £60m of taxpayer support after backtracking on a promise to build its X-Trail SUV in Sunderland.\n\nA letter from the government to Nissan, written in 2016, revealed that the Japanese carmaker would only get the money if it made the car in the UK.\n\nThe government clarified that Nissan had received just £2.6m of the funds, but would have to reapply for the rest.\n\nBusiness Secretary Greg Clark said the X-Trail would have created 741 UK jobs.\n\nBut he told the House of Commons that Nissan had committed to building its Qashqai, Juke and Leaf models in Sunderland, where it employs 7,000 workers.\n\nMr Clark also said: \"While the decision was made on broader business grounds, Nissan commented on the need for us to come together and resolve the question of our future trading relationship with the EU. I believe their advice should be listened to and acted upon.\"\n\nIn the 2016 letter from Mr Clark to Nissan's then boss, Carlos Ghosn, he said the funding was contingent \"on a positive decision by the Nissan board to allocate production of the Qashqai and X-Trail models to the Sunderland plant\".\n\nMr Ghosn has since been sacked as Nissan's chairman and is in detention in Japan following claims of financial misconduct.\n\nNissan had originally asked for £80m in state support, but following a review by an independent advisory committee, that figure was reduced to £61m.\n\nA spokesman for the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy said Nissan has been given £2.6m and would have to reapply for the remaining £58.4m.\n\nOn Sunday, when Nissan announced its decision not to build the X-Trail SUV in Sunderland, the firm's Europe chairman, Gianluca de Ficchy, said that \"the continued uncertainty around the UK's future relationship with the EU is not helping companies like ours to plan for the future\".\n\nThe government had to clarify its position after Business Minister Richard Harrington told the BBC that Nissan would get the £61m support payment.\n\nMr Harrington told BBC Newcastle: \"The £60m still stands. It's to do with research and development and developing alternative technologies and making sure Nissan is at the forefront of that.\n\n\"This was nothing to do with the X-Trail.\"\n\nFollowing the UK's vote to leave the European Union in June 2016, Mr Ghosn had hinted that he would seek compensation if car exports to Europe were subject to tariffs.\n\nMr Ghosn met Prime Minister Theresa May to discuss the future of Nissan's plant in Sunderland, after which he said he was \"confident\" that the government would keep the UK a competitive place to do business after it leaves the EU.\n\nIn the letter to Mr Ghosn, Mr Clark said: \"It will be a critical priority of our negotiation to support UK car manufacturers and ensure that their ability to export to and from the EU is not adversely affected by the UK's future relationship with the EU.\"\n\nRachel Reeves MP, chair of the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy committee said Nissan's decision not to built the X-Trail in the UK \"is a blow to production at Sunderland\".\n\nShe added: \"The government's mishandling of Brexit, the reluctance to rule out 'no deal' and the lack of certainty around our future trading relationship with our biggest and nearest trading partner has made this decision sadly predictable, no matter what assurances may have been provided in the past.\"", "Ryanair posted a net loss of €19.6m (£17.2m) for the last three months of the year, its first quarterly loss since March 2014.\n\nThe airline carried 32.7 million passengers compared with 30.4 million for the same period a year earlier as revenue rose 9% to €1.53bn.\n\nBut the airline said \"excess winter capacity in Europe\" cut its profit.\n\nRyanair said chairman David Bonderman will leave in the summer of 2020.\n\nWhile the company blamed too many airlines chasing too few passengers, costs may be the real problem, industry experts said.\n\nThe company's fuel bill leapt 32% and its staff costs rose 31%. In total, Ryanair's operating costs rose 20% to €1.54bn.\n\n\"The heart of the big drop in their profitability is that their fuel costs are very high this year,\" HSBC transport analyst Andrew Lobbenberg told the Today programme.\n\nChief Executive Michael O'Leary - who suggested last year that he could step down in the next five years - has agreed a new five-year contract, the firm said.\n\nBut his role will change slightly, in that Mr O'Leary will become group CEO and will manage chief executives for each airline brand: Ryanair, Laudamotion, Ryanair Sun and Ryanair UK.\n\nIn September, at the firm's annual meeting, almost 30% of shareholders voted against the re-election of Mr Bonderman as chairman after a summer of flight cancellations. He has spent 23 years in the job.\n\nMichael O'Leary, the outspoken boss of low-cost airline Ryanair, has been no stranger to controversy.\n\nMr O'Leary, who has agreed to stay on for another five years, is well-known for not being shy about expressing his views, famously excoriating his staff, his customers, competitors, regulators, governments, and groups such as environmentalists and scientists.\n\nHe once said of passengers looking for a refund: \"We don't want to hear your sob stories. What part of 'no refund' don't you understand?\" and has said he doesn't believe in man-made climate change.\n\nThe new company structure is similar to that of IAG, the company that owns British Airways.\n\nMr O'Leary will oversee costs, aircraft purchases and buying rival airlines. It could be good for industrial relations after a series of strikes over the summer, said transport analyst Mr Lobbenberg.\n\n\"It puts more distance between him and the unions,\" he said.\n\nMr O'Leary, who has been chief executive for 24 years, told September's annual meeting he had concerns about committing to a new five-year contract telling shareholders: \"I'm not sure Mrs O'Leary would be happy.\"\n\nHe said the airline's loss was \"disappointing\", but \"we take comfort that this was entirely due to weaker than expected air fares\".\n\nWhile higher oil prices and lower fares reduced the firm's profitability, they were creating even bigger problems for rivals, Ryanair pointed out.\n\nFirms like Wow, Flybe and Germania are seeking buyers.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Meteorologists have warned of a \"risk to life and property\"\n\nOfficials in the Australian city of Townsville are deliberately flooding several neighbourhoods after record rainfall that has swollen a dam beyond capacity.\n\nResidents in and around the north-eastern city have been warned of \"risk to life\" and \"unprecedented flooding\" that could inundate up to 20,000 homes.\n\nPeople have been told to seek shelter on higher ground.\n\nTownsville has received more than a metre (3.3ft) of rain in just a week.\n\nThat is more than 20 times the average for the time of year - beating the previous record set in 1998, in what became known as the Night of Noah.\n\nGates at the Ross River dam were fully opened on Sunday evening because water levels were too high and the monsoon rains were continuing.\n\nTownsville has received more than a metre of rain in just a week\n\nThe Townsville Bulletin newspaper said low-lying properties were being flooded, and troops on boats were searching for residents in need of help.\n\nBetween 15cm and 25cm of rain had fallen on the city since Sunday morning, the newspaper said.\n\nCars and livestock have already been swept away around the coastal city in the state of Queensland.\n\n\"Conditions will change rapidly and continuously. Stay informed, look for updates and follow advice of emergency services,\" the Australian Bureau of Meteorology said.\n\nIt added that the dam would release up to 1,900 cubic metres of water a second, a \"dangerously high\" amount.\n\nThousands of residents in the area have already been affected, some left without power and others cut off by flooded roads.\n\nImages and footage shared on social media show people wading through waist-high water in the streets.\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 Josh Bavas This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe army has been helping to protect homes with sandbags, while rescue teams have been evacuating people using rafts.\n\nNorthern Queensland has a tropical climate and experiences monsoon rain from December to April. But the current conditions in the Townsville area are rare.\n\nMeanwhile, parts of southern Australia are in the grip of a severe drought.\n\nJanuary was the hottest month on record for Australia as a whole, with the southern city of Adelaide reaching a record 47.7C.\n\nThe heat has caused bushfires and a rise in hospital admissions.\n\nSeveral wildlife species have also suffered, with reports of mass deaths of wild horses, native bats and fish in drought-affected areas.", "Daniel Williams, 19, was last seen in a student union bar at the University of Reading's Whiteknights campus\n\nA university student's disappearance is \"completely out of character\" and officers are \"extremely concerned for his welfare\", police have said.\n\nAn air and land search for 19-year-old Daniel Williams is continuing after he went missing from the University of Reading in the early hours of Thursday.\n\nMr Williams, from Sutton in London, was last seen leaving a student union bar.\n\nPolice said they were \"continuing to maximise all available resources\" in the search for Mr Williams.\n\nSearch and rescue teams have been looking for Daniel Williams in woodland near Reading University\n\nThe force confirmed the National Police Air Service as well as Berkshire Lowland Search and Rescue were involved.\n\nSupt Jim Weems said leaflet drops had been arranged by Mr Williams' family, and added: \"His disappearance is completely out of character, and we are extremely concerned for his welfare.\"\n\nAppealing directly to Mr Williams, Supt Weems said: \"You are not in any trouble, but we want to ensure you are safe and well.\"\n\nHe said Mr Williams' family had \"no concern at all\" prior to his disappearance and had described him as \"a happy, normal 19-year-old enjoying university life\".\n\nSupt Jim Weems said police were \"extremely concerned\" for Mr Williams' wellbeing\n\nSpeaking at a press conference at the university, Supt Weems said it was believed Mr Williams left the student union bar at Whiteknights campus at 01:00 GMT on Thursday before disappearing.\n\n\"This is very unusual activity for Daniel and we are very concerned about his wellbeing and whereabouts,\" he said.\n\n\"Reading University campus is a large area - 30 officers a day have been searching this area to try and find Daniel.\n\n\"Naturally as we go through the inquiry we are working further afield to where Daniel lived as well, and the surrounding area.\"\n\nPolice said anyone who knew of Mr Williams' whereabouts should \"urgently\" contact the force\n\nMr Williams is described as 6ft tall, slim, with short light brown hair and blue eyes.\n\nHe was wearing jeans, black shoes and a black hooded top over a black T-shirt when he was last seen.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Seaborne Freight has been given a £13.8m contract to run a freight service between Ramsgate and Ostend in the event of a no-deal Brexit\n\nThe government plans to pay a law firm £800,000 for advice in case Eurotunnel decides to sue over the effects of Brexit on its business.\n\nThe contract description originally said Getlink, previously called Eurotunnel, was \"highly likely\" to go through litigation.\n\nIt said the government could be forced to pay \"significant damages\" if the firm was successful.\n\nThe Department for Transport says it routinely seeks legal advice.\n\nA DfT spokeswoman said. \"This multiannual contract is to provide advice on a wide range of areas relating to the Channel Tunnel and EU exit.\"\n\nElsewhere on Monday, the government announced that lorries will be able to drive straight off ferries and Channel Tunnel trains without making customs declarations in the event of a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThe government website detailing the contract with law firm Slaughter and May originally stated that Getlink had \"expressed concern that their business may be disturbed or interfered with... and that this will in turn hit their profits\".\n\nIt continued: \"It is highly likely that they would seek to protect their business and profits through litigation against the department.\"\n\nThe contract description was subsequently changed to say simply that it is to provide \"advice and assistance to DfT on the Cross Channel Rail Services\".\n\nLast December, it emerged that the government had awarded contracts worth £107m to three companies to provide extra ferry services in the event of a no-deal Brexit.\n\nA BBC investigation found that Seaborne Freight, which won a contract for £13.8m to run ferries from Ramsgate to Ostend, had no ships.\n\nIn January, Eurotunnel wrote to Transport Secretary Chris Grayling to complain that they had not been considered when the contracts were awarded.\n\nThe company also warned that their award of these contracts could be illegal.\n\nEurotunnel has previously voiced concerns more broadly about the potential impact of a no-deal Brexit on their business.\n\nSlaughter and May declined to comment.\n\nSeaborne Freight said its services were due to commence in March and they expect to be ready \"very close to schedule\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. After Molly Russell took her own life, her family discovered distressing material about suicide on her Instagram account\n\nThe boss of Instagram will meet the health secretary this week over the platform's handling of content promoting self-harm and suicide.\n\nIt comes after links were made between the suicide of teenager Molly Russell and her exposure to harmful material.\n\nInstagram's boss, Adam Mosseri, said it would begin adding \"sensitivity screens\" which hide images until users actively choose to look at them.\n\nBut he admitted the platform was \"not yet where we need to be\" on the issue.\n\nThe sensitivity screens will mean certain images, for example of cutting, will appear blurred and carry a warning to users that clicking on them will open up sensitive content which could be offensive or disturbing.\n\nMolly, 14, took her own life in 2017. When her family looked into her Instagram account they found distressing material about depression and suicide.\n\nHer father told the BBC he believed the Facebook-owned platform had \"helped kill my daughter\".\n\nMr Mosseri will meet Matt Hancock on Thursday. The health secretary said recently that social media firms could be banned if they failed to remove harmful content.\n\nWriting in the Daily Telegraph, Mr Mosseri said Molly's case had left him \"deeply moved\" and he accepted Instagram had work to do.\n\n\"We rely heavily on our community to report this content, and remove it as soon as it's found,\" he wrote.\n\n\"The bottom line is we do not yet find enough of these images before they're seen by other people.\"\n\nInstagram boss Adam Mosseri will answer questions over the company's practices\n\nHe said the company began a comprehensive review last week and was investing in technology \"to better identify sensitive images\" as part of wider plans to make posts on the subject harder to find.\n\n\"Starting this week we will be applying sensitivity screens to all content we review that contains cutting, as we still allow people to share that they are struggling even if that content no longer shows up in search, hashtags or account recommendations.\"\n\nInstagram has previously said it doesn't automatically remove distressing content because it had been advised by experts that allowing users to share stories and connect with others could be helpful for their recovery.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Libby used to post images of her self-harm injuries on Instagram\n\nMr Hancock's meeting will take place on the same day that chief medical officer, Dame Sally Davies, will release a report looking into the links between mental health issues and social media.\n\nMeanwhile, a government white paper, expected this winter, will set out social media companies responsibilities to its users.\n\nA statement from the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport said: \"We have heard calls for an internet regulator and to place a statutory 'duty of care' on platforms, and are seriously considering all options.\"\n\nSeparate reports by the Children's Commissioner for England and House of Commons Science and Technology Committee have called on social media firms to take more responsibility for the content on their platforms.\n\nIf you’ve been affected by self-harm, or emotional distress, help and support is available via the BBC Action Line.", "Emiliano Sala (left) was on board a plane being flown by pilot David Ibbotson\n\nAn underwater search for the missing plane carrying footballer Emiliano Sala and his pilot is under way.\n\nCardiff City's new signing disappeared with pilot David Ibbotson over the English Channel on 21 January.\n\nThe Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) said its Geo Ocean III vessel arrived on Sunday morning to the search area.\n\nTogether with a privately-funded vessel, it is conducting sonar surveys off Guernsey.\n\nThe AAIB said its search was expected to last three days, while the private search will continue \"until the plane is located\".\n\nCushions believed to be from the plane were found on a beach near Surtainville, on France's Cotentin Peninsula, on Monday.\n\nArgentine Sala, 28, and Mr Ibbotson, 59, from Crowle, North Lincolnshire, were travelling from Nantes, where Sala previously played, when the flight was lost.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The vessels are using sonar to search the seabed\n\nSpeaking from Guernsey harbour, David Mearns said his team on board the FPV Morven would work jointly with the AAIB's vessel.\n\nThey plan to search an area covering four square miles about 24 nautical miles north of Guernsey.\n\nThe location has been based on the flight path before it lost radar contact, said Mr Mearns, a shipwreck hunter.\n\nAn official search following the plane's disappearance was called off after three days with Guernsey officials saying there was little chance those on board survived.\n\nGeo Ocean III will search the water for the next three days\n\nIt prompted a privately-funded search to be set-up, with £324,000 was raised in an online appeal.\n\nSala's family arrived on Guernsey following his disappearance and were taken to see the area, circling the island of Alderney.\n\nMr Mearns said both vessels would divide their search area in half, looking for \"wreckage\" and a \"debris field\" in a depth of 60-120m (196-390ft).\n\n\"We will continue to work until the plane is located,\" he said.", "The MP for Sunderland Central, Julie Elliott, says Nissan's decision not to build the X-Trail in the city is devastating news. She said it appeared that Brexit had played a role in their decision-making and that businesses could not sustain the kind of uncertainty involved.", "Alpine rescue teams on foot work through the deep snow near Courmayeur\n\nBritish and French skiers are among four people found dead after an avalanche near the Italian resort of Courmayeur on Monday.\n\nTwo people from the UK and two from France were reported missing on Sunday afternoon, when the risk of avalanches in the area was high.\n\nSearchers found all four bodies on Monday after a lengthy search.\n\nIn all, eight people, including a Belgian snowboarder, died in Italy as a result of weekend avalanches.\n\nItaly's Ansa news agency said the four dead discovered on Monday were a 39-year-old originally from New Zealand and a 43-year-old originally from Switzerland, who both lived in London; and a 36-year-old Frenchman and a 38-year old Polish man who both lived in France.\n\nAt least one was a British national.\n\nThe UK's Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) earlier said it was \"supporting the family of a British man who has been reported missing, and are in contact with the Italian search and rescue team.\"\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 Corpo Nazionale Soccorso Alpino e Speleologico 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\nItalian newspaper La Repubblica said the alarm had been raised by friends of the two skiers from Britain at around noon on Sunday, when the pair failed to arrive at a meeting point. They were on the last day of their holiday, the newspaper said.\n\nItalian media also reported that the skiers had gone off-piste in Vel Veny - meaning they were not skiing on the slopes carefully managed by the nearby resort.\n\nSearch operations were hampered by the continuing risk of avalanches, preventing search teams from going on foot, and search efforts had to temporarily suspended on Sunday.\n\nThe fourth victim was found on Monday afternoon, hours after the earlier discovery of three bodies, some distance away.\n\nTwo other avalanche victims had been found dead earlier on Sunday in the same region - the Aosta Valley.\n\nSeveral Italian residents were among the eight killed at the weekend, local media report.\n\nThe national alpine rescue group has encouraged snowsport enthusiasts to check what level of avalanche warning is in effect every day, and to \"carry out all activities with the greatest caution\".", "Ikea is to start allowing customers to lease rather than buy furniture.\n\nA pilot project in Switzerland is looking at hiring out furniture as part of an environmentally-friendly policy by the Swedish flat-pack company.\n\nIt said it was looking at ways for customers to \"buy, care for and pass on products\".\n\nIt has already introduced programmes designed to reduce waste, such as services to take back old beds or sofas which it then donates to charity.\n\nKate Hardcastle, retail analyst at Insight With Passion, told the BBC it marked a \"pendulum shift\" for a company which focused on cheap and cheerful furniture but was now trying to take a more sustainable approach to business.\n\nKitchens and office chairs are among the items that could be offered for hire, according to the Financial Times.\n\nTorbjorn Loof, chief executive of Inter Ikea, told the FT: \"We will work together with partners so you can actually lease your furniture. When that leasing period is over, you hand it back and might lease something else.\n\n\"And instead of throwing those away, we refurbish them a little and we could sell them, prolonging the lifecycle of the product\".\n\nInter Ikea controls the brand rights of the company, which was created in 1943 and is named after its late founder Ingvar Kamprad (IK) as well as the farm he grew up on - Elmtaryd (E) - and the nearby village Agunnaryd (A).\n\nThe leasing plan is the first in a series of ideas which could lead to customers subscribing for services with a view to items being refurbished rather than thrown out.\n\nWhile office furniture such as desks and chairs are expected to be the first items to be included in the trials, and targeted at businesses, leases on kitchens are also a possibility.\n\n\"It's interesting if you as a customer say 'I can change and adapt and modernise my kitchen if that's a subscription model,\" Mr Loof told the FT.\n\nAn Ikea spokesperson said the business was aiming to encourage \"people to play an active role in making the circular economy a reality, which we can support by developing new ways for people to buy, care for and pass on products.\".\n\n\"In certain markets, such as Switzerland, we're exploring and testing potential solutions and have a pilot project to look into the leasing of furniture, but it's still too early to confirm exactly what this will look like,\" the spokesperson said.\n\nAs well as a service to return old furniture, in the UK it offers a service to take back unwanted textiles and, at its new store in London opening on Thursday, it will have its first Learning Lab to examine ways to extend the lifecycle of products.\n\nThe chain has started to make other adaptations to its model - which was traditionally focused on out-of-town stores by trying new formats. It opened a small format \"planning Studio\" on London's Tottenham Court Road last year and has said the format could be rolled out more widely.", "The man coordinating a privately-funded search for the plane carrying Emiliano Sala and his pilot David Ibbotson says \"confidence is high\" something will be found.\n\nDavid Mearns explained the next steps in the seabed search expected to begin on Sunday.", "Two women were caught putting their own hair in a pizza to get a refund.\n\nAfter complaining at The Peacock in Sunderland, staff apologised and the women were given a £7 refund and free drinks.\n\nBut staff later realised the hair did not match any of the people working there.\n\nCCTV footage showed the women pulling out their hair and adding it to the food.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Luis tells the Victoria Derbyshire programme: “I wish I could just have a normal life\"\n\nThe government must use its powers to break a deadlock in making a life-extending drug available to people with cystic fibrosis, campaigners say.\n\nVertex, which makes Orkambi, has refused a £500m offer for the drug over five years - the \"largest commitment\" the NHS has ever made.\n\nThose affected want other drug firms to be asked to make a cheaper version.\n\nThe Department of Health said its approach \"remains urging Vertex to accept NHS England's generous offer\".\n\nVertex said it was \"determined to find a solution that allows the NHS to provide patient access to our precision medicines across the UK with budget certainty, and also allows Vertex to continue its research and focus on a cure for CF [cystic fibrosis] and other serious diseases\".\n\nIt currently charges £100,000 for a year's treatment with Orkambi.\n\nLuis has previously written to the drug company and Prime Minister Theresa May\n\nCystic fibrosis is a life-shortening genetic condition that causes fatal lung damage and affects around 10,400 people in the UK.\n\nOnly around half of those with the condition live to celebrate their 40th birthday.\n\nChristina Walker's son Luis, eight, was born with it.\n\nShe told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme his medical regime takes up to four hours a day.\n\n\"Every day he takes 22 tablets, three nebulisers, two inhalers, nasal sprays and lots of supplements,\" she said. \"Those are the good days.\n\n\"A bad day will see Luis in hospital. A cough or cold will have turned serious, his lung function will plummet, he'll be off school for weeks, missing not just classes, but birthdays and time spent with friends - the little things that make being eight years old so much fun.\n\n\"Or it might be like last week when he had a stomach bug and was reduced to skin and bones as his weak body sheds the tiny amount of weight he'd been able to put on previously.\"\n\nThe drug Orkambi is licensed to treat cystic fibrosis in patients from two-year-olds to adults, who have a specific genetic mutation known as F508del.\n\nThis causes the production of an abnormal protein that disrupts how water and chloride are transported in the body.\n\nThe drug has been shown in clinical trials to improve lung function and respiratory symptoms in people with cystic fibrosis.\n\nIt is the first of a string of drugs that have been developed, with newer ones expected to be even more effective.\n\nMs Walker said for Luis it would be \"life-changing\".\n\nThe manufacturers Vertex Pharmaceuticals want the NHS to pay £105,000 per patient per year, and have rejected the NHS's offer of £500m over five years.\n\nCampaigners want the government to set aside Vertex's patent to allow cheaper versions of Orkambi to be made.\n\nThis is backed by Conservative MP Bill Wiggin, who will ask the government to invoke Crown Use in an adjournment debate in the House of Commons on Monday - which would allow this to happen.\n\nVertex said in a statement: \"To invoke Crown Use and provide third parties access to Vertex's intellectual property would seriously undermine our ability to achieve these goals and would significantly weaken incentives for future innovation.\"\n\nEight-year-old Luis has been given a life expectancy of 38\n\nMs Walker - who campaigns on the issue - told Victoria Derbyshire: \"[Other] suppliers are making the drug already for £5,000.\"\n\nShe added: \"We have a chance for [Luis's] future to be different.\"\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care said in a statement that \"it is absolutely right that patients should have access to cost-effective, innovative medicines on the NHS at a price we can afford.\n\n\"Despite being offered in the region of £500m over five years - the largest ever commitment of its kind in the 70-year history of the NHS - Vertex has refused to accept, putting Orkambi out of reach of patients.\n\n\"We're aware there may be other avenues open to resolve this issue, but our approach remains urging Vertex to accept NHS England's generous offer.\"\n\nA spokesperson for NHS England said: \"We understand how difficult it must be for families affected by cystic fibrosis.\n\n\"This is why it is so important that as with all companies seeking NHS approval for treatments of this kind, Vertex must fully engage with the NICE [The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence] process.\"\n\nFollow the Victoria Derbyshire programme on Facebook and Twitter - and see more of our stories here.", "Liberty is concerned the software's predictions are based on biased data\n\nAt least 14 UK police forces have made use of crime-prediction software or plan to do so, according to Liberty.\n\nThe human rights group said it had sent a total of 90 Freedom of Information requests out last year to discover which forces used the technology.\n\nIt believes the programs involved can lead to biased policing strategies that unfairly focus on ethnic minorities and lower-income communities.\n\nAnd it said there had been a \"severe lack of transparency\" about the matter.\n\nDefenders of the technology say it can provide new insights into gun and knife crime, sex trafficking and other potentially life-threatening offences at a time when police budgets are under pressure.\n\nOne of the named forces - Avon and Somerset Police - said it had invited members of the press in to see the Qlik system it used in action, to raise public awareness.\n\n\"We make every effort to prevent bias in data models,\" said a spokeswoman.\n\n\"For this reason the data... does not include ethnicity, gender, address location or demographics.\"\n\nBut Liberty said the technologies lacked proper oversight, and moreover there was no clear evidence that they had led to safer communities.\n\n\"These opaque computer programs use algorithms to analyse hordes of biased police data, identifying patterns and embedding an approach to policing which relies on discriminatory profiling,\" its report said.\n\n\"[They] entrench pre-existing inequalities while being disguised as cost-effective innovations.\"\n\nLiberty's report focuses on two types of software, which are sometimes used side-by-side.\n\nThe first is \"predictive mapping\", in which crime \"hotspots\" are mapped out, leading to more patrols in the area.\n\nThe second is called \"individual risk assessment\", which attempts to predict how likely an individual is to commit an offence or be a victim of a crime.\n\nManchester's police force was identified as one of those to be using historical data to predict where future crimes might take place\n\nThe report says the following forces had already used one or both types or were planning to do so:\n\nCompanies that develop such applications include IBM, Microsoft, Predpol and Palantir and there are efforts to create bespoke solutions.\n\nThe BBC contacted each of the named forces and two responded that they had already stopped using the technology.\n\nCheshire Police said it had trialled a mapping program between January and November 2015 but had since stopped using the system.\n\nAnd Kent Police confirmed it had introduced a predictive policing mapping tool in 2013 but had subsequently decided not to renew its contract, as reported last year.\n\n\"The launch of a new policing model that places victims and witnesses at its centre has led Kent Police to evaluate alternative options which will support a focus on both traditional and emerging crime types,\" a spokeswoman said.\n\nSeveral forces, however, are involved in a £4.5m \"proof-of-concept project\", called the National Data Analytics Solution (NDAS), which is funded by the Home Office.\n\nIt draws on information already held by the police about roughly five million people, including incident logs, custody records and conviction histories.\n\nUsing machine-learning techniques, the aim is to calculate a risk score for individuals as to their likelihood of committing crimes in the future.\n\nIn addition, the police hope to use the system to identify which members of their own workforce need support to help reduce illness.\n\nWest Midlands Police leads the effort. The others involved include Metropolitan Police, Greater Manchester Police, Merseyside Police, West Yorkshire Police, Warwickshire and West Mercia Police.\n\n\"We want to see analytics being used to justify investment in social mobility in this time of harmful austerity, addressing deep-rooted inequalities and helping to prevent crime,\" said Tom McNeil, strategic adviser to the effort.\n\n\"To support this we have appointed a diverse ethics panel placing human rights at the centre.\"\n\nHowever, a report by the Alan Turing Institute - which was commissioned by the police - raised concerns that those involved had been too vague about how they planned to address the risks involved.", "Last updated on .From the section American Football\n\nThe New England Patriots produced a defensive masterclass to beat the Los Angeles Rams 13-3 and equal Pittsburgh Steelers' record of six Super Bowl titles.\n\nThe victory also gave Patriots quarterback Tom Brady a sixth Super Bowl ring - an outright record for an individual player, eclipsing the mark he shared with Charles Haley.\n\nBill Belichick - the most successful coach in Super Bowl history and now, at 66, the oldest man to win it - again came up with the perfect gameplan in Atlanta as the Patriots stifled a Rams offence that averaged 32.9 points per game in the regular season.\n\nThe defensive strength of both sides resulted in the lowest-scoring Super Bowl of all time, with the 16 total points scored comfortably below the previous record of 21, set as Miami defeated Washington 14-7 in 1973.\n\nThe score was just 3-0 until late in the third quarter through Stephen Gostkowski's 42-yard field goal.\n\nThe Patriots' defence piled the pressure on 24-year-old quarterback Jared Goff and the Rams had to punt from their first eight possessions. Sean McVay's side finally got their offence moving in the third and drew level through a 53-yard field goal by Greg Zuerlein.\n\nBut Brady lofted a perfect 34-yard pass to Rob Gronkowski to set up Sony Michel to burrow over the line for the game's only touchdown with seven minutes left. Gostkowski added gloss with a late field goal as the Patriots ground out a hard-fought win.\n\n\"It was an unbelievable year, we fought through it more than anything,\" said 41-year-old Brady. \"They [the Rams] played so well, their defence was great, they made it tough on every play.\"\n\nBefore the game the American National Anthem was performed by legendary soul singer Gladys Knight, while the traditional half-time show duties fell to Maroon 5, whose set alongside Travis Scott and Big Boi met with only a lukewarm reception.\n• None Male cheerleaders feature at Super Bowl for first time\n\nBrady was struggling as much as Goff in the early stages as the Rams produced a series of defensive plays that clearly fazed the veteran.\n\nFor the first time all season, Brady threw an interception on the Patriots' opening drive and he was forced to call two timeouts to help him adjust to the Rams' gameplan.\n\nBrady has made a habit of recovering from a slow starts in Super Bowls - in the nine he and Belichick have reached together, the Pats have scored just three first-quarter points - and once he made the required adjustments, the improvements came.\n\nAfter Brady picked out a 25-yard pass to Julian Edelman, later named the game's most valuable player, Gostkowski's field goal from 42 yards opened the scoring.\n\nIndeed, if it was not for the safe hands of Edelman there would barely have been any offence to speak of in the first half, with Brady repeatedly hitting his go-to guy as the wide receiver moved into second place on the all-time list of post-season NFL receiving yards.\n\nAnd although the Rams finally got a foothold in the game thanks to Zuerlein's field goal, Brady took control when it mattered most, orchestrating the game-winning drive midway through the final quarter.\n\nHe found Edelman once and Gronkowski twice - the reliable pair en route to combining for 228 of New England's 262 receiving yards - before rookie running back Michel punched in his sixth touchdown of the post-season.\n\nAlthough the Rams' defence posed Brady some early problems, the Patriots had also managed to shut down the Rams' running game, putting the impetus on Goff, 24, to find a solution through the air.\n\nBut the first half finished with the Rams having claimed only two first downs and 57 yards of offence, having been in possession almost half as long as the Pats - just over 10 minutes compared to the Pats' 19 minutes and 52 seconds.\n\nIt could have been even worse. Dont'a Hightower should have claimed an interception from the very first play of the second half, before a couple of runs from Todd Gurley - so impressive in the regular season but anonymous in the play-offs - finally gave the Rams some respite.\n\nBut from their next possession Goff was forced to throw out of bounds from his own end zone and it was not until there was less than five minutes remaining in the third quarter that the Rams managed to convert on third down for the first time.\n\nGoff spotted Brandin Cooks open during that drive, only for Jason McCourty to make a crucial tackle as Cooks attempted to make the catch deep in the end zone, although the Rams gained some reward with Zuerlein's field goal.\n\nAnd even after Michel put the Pats back in front, the Rams could have hit straight back with a touchdown had Cooks hung on to a 24-yard pass into the corner, but Goff tried a similar pass with the next play and Stephon Gilmore intercepted to deal a fatal, decisive blow.\n\n'It kills. It hurts' - what they said\n\nPatriots head coach Bill Belichick: \"It's sweet. Everybody counted us out, from the beginning of the season to midseason, but we're still here.\"\n\nRams head coach Sean McVay: \"I'm pretty numb right now. Definitely I got out-coached, and I didn't do nearly enough for our football team.\"\n\nPatriots wide receiver and MVP Julian Edelman: \"It wasn't pretty, but I'll take that ugly win over a pretty loss any day.\"\n\nPatriots quarterback Tom Brady: \"I'm so happy for my team-mates. This is a dream come true for all of us.\"\n\nRams quarterback Jared Goff: \"It kills. It hurts... It hurts me knowing how well our defence played, against that team, against Tom, and us not holding up our end of the bargain. It's our job to score points and we didn't do that tonight.\"\n• None 6 - Super Bowls won by Patriots quarterback Tom Brady and coach Bill Belichick. Both are records\n• None 32.9 - average points scored by the Rams in the regular season\n• None 41 - Brady is the oldest player to start, and to win, a Super Bowl\n• None 66 - Belichick is the oldest coach to win a Super Bowl\n• None 199 - Pick of the 2000 draft used to sign Brady to the Patriots\n• None 237 - career NFL wins for Brady, the most ever, overtaking former Patriots kicker Adam Vinatieri\n\nWhat of the Super Bowl half-time show?\n\nComets, drones, marching bands and Spongebob Squarepants: Maroon 5's Super Bowl half-time show had everything... except an emotional connection, writes BBC Music reporter Mark Savage.\n\nThe LA band delivered an enthusiastic, breathless history of their biggest hits - from This Love to Girls Like You - but unlike the copious pyrotechnics, their set failed to catch fire.\n\nSinger Adam Levine threw himself into the show, dropping to his knees, bashing out guitar solos and running up and down the M-shaped stage - but the band tried to cram in too much material (nine songs in 13 minutes) to create a coherent, enjoyable show.\n\nIt didn't help that they had to make room for rapper Travis Scott, who arrived on stage by \"crash-landing\" in a comet, and local star Big Boi, formerly of Outkast, who drove onto the field to perform Kryptonite and I Like The Way You Move.", "Shrewsbury and Atcham MP Daniel Kawczynski has defended the tweet\n\nAn MP has come under fire for a statement on Twitter about Europe and Britain after the Second World War.\n\nDaniel Kawczynski, the Conservative representative for Shrewsbury, claimed Britain received no money from the Marshall Plan, American payments of more than $12bn agreed in 1948 to help rebuild Europe.\n\nBut Britain received about 20% of the money, more than any other country.\n\nMr Kawczynski said the money was not \"aid\" but a \"commercial loan\".\n\nHis tweet from Saturday has received more than 10,000 replies, most saying he was wrong.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"Dan is categorically wrong about the Marshall Plan,\" said Dr Warren Dockter, lecturer in international politics at Aberystwyth University.\n\nBritain received the largest share, while France received 18% and West Germany received 11%, he said.\n\n\"In addition to Marshall Plan money, the UK received favourable loans and grants on top of the Marshall Plan aid,\" he said.\n\nBritain made its last repayment on the Marshall Plan loans in 2006.\n\nDr Charlotte Riley, an expert in modern British history, said Britain waived its rights to collect World War Two reparations from Germany in 1990, in an agreement when the country was reunified.\n\nConservative MP Daniel Kawczynski tweeted: \"Britain helped to liberate half of Europe. She mortgaged herself up to eye balls in process. No Marshall Plan for us only for Germany.\"\n\nThe Marshall Plan (officially named the European Recovery Programme) was a post-World War Two package of foreign aid from the US to 16 European countries, to help them rebuild their economies after the war.\n\nIn fact, Britain was the single largest recipient of the funds. Out of a total of almost $13bn, Britain was given $2.7bn - a third more than West Germany which received $1.7bn.\n\nSome of this money was used to give a boost to local industries - for example, car manufacturers Ford Motors in Britain were given money to replace the machines needed to make vehicles for export.\n\nA Scottish alcohol production plant was given money to reduce the need to import materials. The raw alcohol was used to make plastic, rayon and pharmaceuticals.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC on Monday, Mr Kawczynski defended the post, saying: \"The tweet was actually talking about all the things that Britain has done for Europe. Let's not forget we liberated part of Europe in the Second World War.\n\n\"Unfortunately, many European countries are not treating us as fairly as Britain has treated Europe over centuries.\n\n\"I was trying to get across that Britain has been very fair and very generous.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The test is required as part of the process to secure UK citizenship\n\nGangs are helping foreign nationals cheat their UK citizenship application test with the use of earpieces, a BBC investigation has revealed.\n\nFor a fee of up to £2,000, criminals secretly listen in and, via a hidden earpiece, give the answers to those taking the Life in the UK test.\n\nSuch an operation was secretly filmed by a BBC journalist, who was given help to pass.\n\nThe test is failed by about one in five would-be British citizens.\n\nThe Home Office said it took any cheating \"extremely seriously\".\n\nA pass in the test, which assesses candidates' knowledge of UK laws, history and society, is usually required as part of the process to secure UK citizenship or indefinite leave to remain.\n\nThe number of applications for citizenship made by EU nationals rose by 32% last year and the BBC heard some were paying criminals to cheat the Life in the UK test, as anxiety grows over citizenship rights post-Brexit.\n\nOne woman, an EU national, told the BBC she decided to cheat after failing first time around, saying she \"felt so much panic\" about her situation.\n\nThe gang provided an undercover researcher with a hidden two-way earpiece, linked wirelessly through a Bluetooth connection to a concealed mobile phone with an open line\n\nOver the past year, nearly 150,000 people have sat the test, which consists of 24 multiple-choice questions.\n\nThe test, which is taken on a computer and has a pass mark of at least 18 correct answers, is supposed to be held under strict exam conditions.\n\nAdministration of the tests is outsourced by the government. There are 36 testing centres in the UK.\n\nBBC researchers were able to access organised cheating when they went undercover at training academies in and around London, where candidates take classes to prepare for the test.\n\nMasoud Abul Raza has denied cheating, despite being caught on camera\n\nHe was filmed telling an undercover researcher that he could guarantee a pass.\n\n\"You have to spend nearly £2,000. This is the business, it's completely hidden. But you are getting a result,\" he said.\n\nMr Abul Raza and his gang later provided the undercover researcher with a hidden two-way earpiece, linked wirelessly through a Bluetooth connection to a concealed mobile phone with an open line. This meant the gang outside could hear the audio feed of the test questions and provide the answers.\n\n\"Everything will be arranged. He will give you the answer,\" Mr Abul Raza told the undercover journalist.\n\nTony Smith, the former director general of the UK Border Force, was shown the secretly recorded footage and described it as \"clear and blatant cheating by an organised crime gang\".\n\n\"One would hope that the standards will change significantly so that the public can be assured that people going through this process are genuinely entitled to stay in this country,\" he said.\n\nThe BBC researcher received a pass certificate after being given the correct answers\n\nThe Home Office said test centres were required to put in place stringent measures to prevent cheating, including searches of candidates to ensure no electronic devices enter the test room.\n\n\"Unannounced visits\" are also carried out to audit these processes.\n\nBut the BBC's undercover researcher was not searched or told to hand over all electronic devices.\n\nHe sat the test, giving the answers provided to him, and within minutes of it ending he had received the pass certificate required to apply for citizenship and a UK passport.\n\nDespite being caught on camera, Mr Abul Raza denied cheating, maintaining he only organises legitimate training.\n\nWhen confronted, Mr Abul Raza told the BBC he only organised legitimate training\n\nHowever, he is not the only one profiting from cheating the system.\n\nThe BBC heard reports of other training academies doing the same thing, with the same method of cheating having been used at testing centres around the UK.\n\nAt the English Language Training Academy (ELTA) in east London, Ashraf Rahman told the BBC's undercover researcher that he had arranged cheating in Birmingham and Manchester, as well as London.\n\n\"I've been here for five years and no-one gets caught,\" he said.\n\nMr Rahman later denied he arranged cheating, claiming he was just discussing what others did.\n\nELTA denied cheating took place on its premises and said Mr Rahman was not an employee.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Libby Squire, from High Wycombe, was last spotted on CCTV near her student house in Hull\n\nThe parents of missing Libby Squire have urged their daughter to \"get in touch\" in an emotional appeal to her.\n\nHundreds of people have been involved in searches to find the 21-year-old, who was last seen in Hull on Thursday.\n\nPolice believe she got a taxi at the Welly Club music venue before arriving at her student house at about 23:30 GMT, where her mobile phone was found.\n\nHer mother Lisa Squire said: \"Libby, my darling pie, we just want to know that you are safe.\"\n\nHumberside Police said it did not believe Miss Squire entered the student house, and she was seen on CCTV on Beverley Road at 23:40.\n\nIt is thought Miss Squire, from High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire, was near a bench by the junction with Haworth Street for about 30 minutes, with a motorist stopping to offer her help at one point.\n\nOfficers said her mobile phone \"has not provided any further insight as to where she may be or her movements that night\".\n\nLisa and Russell Squire launched a video appeal for anyone with information to come forward\n\nIn a video appeal tweeted by Humberside Police, Mrs Squire urged her daughter to \"get in touch with us any way you can\".\n\n\"The whole family is missing you, especially me and your dad, your sisters and brother,\" she said.\n\n\"I miss you so much, it is breaking my heart not knowing where you are. I love you more.\"\n\nThe motorist who pulled over near the bench has subsequently made contact with police and had \"really helped out\" with the search, officers said.\n\nA screwdriver, hammer and lip gloss were retrieved by forensic officers close to the spot where she was last seen.\n\nBut Humberside Police said they were not \"connected with the inquiry into her disappearance\" and the items were \"part of another investigation\".\n\nAppealing to the public earlier, her father Russell Squire said \"we just want Libby home\".\n\nHe added: \"Libby is our kind, thoughtful, beautiful girl who is loved by so many people.\n\n\"As you can appreciate this is a very difficult time for us both.\"\n\nMr Squire thanked \"everyone for their help and support\" before asking anyone with information to contact the force.\n\nA search has been carried out nearby in the Beverley and Barmston Drain\n\nOfficers have been searching in drains and wheelie bins along the street, while detectives conducted door-to-door inquiries.\n\nNearby, officers from the police marine unit travelled along a length of the frozen Beverley and Barmston Drain in inflatable rafts, breaking the ice and searching the water.\n\nAbout 200 students were also involved in a search of the university premises.\n\nThe family previously said Miss Squire's disappearance was \"very out of character\" and they were \"broken without her\".\n\nLibby Squire was last seen on Thursday night\n\nPolice are keen to speak to anyone who was on Haworth Street between 23:30 and 00:30 on the night she disappeared.\n\nCh Supt Phil Ward, of Humberside Police, said: \"While her location is not yet known, this does not mean she has come to harm, but we must carry out a thorough investigation and explore all possibilities.\n\n\"I would continue to ask people to please come forward with any information they have, no matter how insignificant or small they feel it may be. It could prove to be vital to the investigation and in finding Libby.\"\n\nOfficers were seen searching bins and drains in the area\n\nMiss Squire, who is 5ft 7in tall and has long dark brown hair, had been wearing a black leather jacket, black long-sleeved top and a black denim skirt with lace.\n\nThe University of Hull has said it was \"deeply concerned\" about the missing student and was working closely with police.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "One crocodile was spotted lurking on a suburban driveway in Townsville\n\nAuthorities in Townsville, Australia have warned residents to beware of crocodiles and snakes spotted in floodwaters in residential areas.\n\nMore than 1,100 people have been evacuated from the town amid a \"once in a century\" flood.\n\nOn Sunday, the city authorities released a dam which had swollen to double its capacity following a week of record rainfall.\n\nAuthorities have said more heavy rain is expected in coming days.\n\nUp to 20,000 homes are at risk of being inundated.\n\nA man wades through flood water up to his thighs in Townsville\n\nEmergency workers and the army said they had received more than 1,000 calls for help. They've been using boats and helicopters to move people to higher ground.\n\n\"Crocodiles may be seen crossing roads, and when flooding recedes, crocodiles can turn up in unusual places such as farm dams or waterholes,\" said Queensland's Environment Minister Leeanne Enoch.\n\n\"Similarly, snakes are very good swimmers and they too may turn up unexpectedly.\"\n\nOne local resident, Erin Hahn, shared pictures of a crocodile sitting in shallow water at the end of her father's drive. Another was photographed climbing a tree in the floodwater.\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 Phil Staley 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\nLocal police also warned people of other dangers in the floodwater, including leaking sewage.\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 Queensland Police This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTownsville has received more than a metre (3.3ft) of rain in the past week - more than 20 times the average for the time of year.\n\n\"This is unprecedented, we've never seen anything like this before,\" said Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk.\n\n\"It's basically not just a one-in-20-year event, it's a one-in-100-year event,\" she said.\n\nAuthorities were forced to open the gates at the Ross River dam on Sunday evening to lower water levels - releasing up to 1,900 cubic metres of water a second.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Meteorologists have warned of a \"risk to life and property\"\n\nNorthern Queensland has a tropical climate and experiences monsoon rain from December to April. But the current conditions in the Townsville area are rare.\n\nAustralia's Bureau of Meteorology said the monsoon rainfall had missed other parts of the state which are in the grip of an intense drought.\n\nJanuary was the hottest month on record for Australia as a whole, with the southern city of Adelaide reaching a record 47.7C.\n\nThe heat has sparked bushfires, including more than 40 blazes on the island state of Tasmania which have been burning for over two weeks.\n\nExtreme temperatures have also caused a rise in hospital admissions, widespread power outages, and reports of mass wildlife deaths.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Pope was met with flowers and drums\n\nPope Francis has arrived in the United Arab Emirates for the first ever visit by a pontiff to the Arabian peninsula.\n\nHe landed in Abu Dhabi where he was greeted by Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan.\n\nThe Pope will take part in an interfaith conference on Monday and on Tuesday hold Mass in which 120,000 people are expected to attend.\n\nBefore leaving he expressed concern about the war in Yemen, in which the UAE is engaged.\n\n\"The population [in Yemen] is exhausted by the lengthy conflict and a great many children are suffering from hunger, but cannot access food depots,\" the Pope said.\n\n\"The cry of these children and their parents rises up to God,\" he said.\n\nIt is not clear whether the Pope plans to raise the issue in public or in private while visiting the UAE. The UAE is involved in Yemen as part of a Saudi-led coalition.\n\nThe Pope was welcomed by Abu Dhabi's Crown Prince\n\nThe UAE is home to nearly a million Roman Catholics, most of them from the Philippines or India.\n\nSome have been queuing for passes for Tuesday's Mass. One told AFP news agency the Pope's visit \"opens doors for conversations about tolerance that the whole world needs to hear\".\n\nIn a video message on Thursday, the Pope said: \"Faith in God unites and does not divide, it draws us closer despite differences, it distances us from hostilities and aversion.\"\n\nHe paid tribute to the UAE as \"a land that is trying to be a model of coexistence, of human brotherhood, and a meeting place among diverse civilisations and cultures\".\n\nWhile in Abu Dhabi, the Pope will also hold a meeting with Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb, the grand imam of Cairo's al-Azhar mosque, which is the highest seat of learning for Sunni Muslims.\n\nBBC Arabic's Murad Batal Shishani, who is in Abu Dhabi, says the Vatican hopes that the Pope's visit might loosen restrictions on the building of churches in the region, particularly in neighbouring Saudi Arabia where non-Muslim places of worship are forbidden.\n\nVatican officials say they need a stronger Church presence in the UAE to minister to the Catholic community there.\n\n\"We are really stretched. We need more churches. We need more priests,\" one official was quoted by Reuters as saying.", "Emiliano Sala (left) was on board a plane being flown by pilot David Ibbotson (right)\n\nAn underwater search for footballer Emiliano Sala's plane will take place after cushions were found on a beach.\n\nThey were discovered near Surtainville on France's Cotentin Peninsula, on Monday, by French authorities.\n\nFollowing this, the Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) has identified an area of four square nautical miles for a search.\n\nThe plane disappeared with Sala, 28, and pilot David Ibbotson, from Crowle, North Lincolnshire, on board last week.\n\nDue to weather and sea conditions, an underwater search is not expected to start until the end of the week and will take up to three days, an AAIB spokesman said.\n\nUnverified photographs of cushions, taken on Wednesday, were captured by a woman taking a walk on the beach near Surtainville.\n\nInvestigators believe the two seat cushions pictured came from the aircraft.\n\nJosette Bernard shows a photograph she took of debris she found on the beach at Surtainville\n\nThis unverified image shows a cushion which was found on the beach, believed to be from the plane Emiliano Sala and David Ibbotson were flying on\n\nThe AAIB will now use sonar equipment to locate any wreckage on the sea bed.\n\nA spokesman said French safety authorities found the two seat cushions, which preliminary examinations suggested were likely from the missing aircraft.\n\nFollowing this, detailed assessments of the flight path and last known radar position were carried out, which identified the search area.\n\nThe PA-46-310P Malibu aircraft Sala and Mr Ibbotson were on board\n\nThrough the Ministry of Defence's salvage and marine operations team, a special survey vessel has now been commissioned to look for wreckage.\n\nIf it is found, a remotely operated vehicle will be sent down to examine it.\n\nArgentine Sala signed for Cardiff City and was travelling from Nantes, where he previously played, when the flight was lost over the English channel.\n\nAn official search for it was called off with Guernsey officials saying there was little chance those on board survived, however, more than £290,000 was raised for a private search to continue.\n\nThe cushions were found on a stretch of the Normandy coast near Surtainville\n\n\"We are aware that a privately operated search is also being conducted in the area,\" an AAIB statement said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"And we are liaising closely with those involved to maximise the chance of locating any wreckage and ensure a safe search operation.\"\n\nMarine scientist David Mearns, who is spearheading the private search and is a Sala family spokesman, tweeted that both vessels will work together as \"safely, completely and efficiently as possible\".\n\nOn Wednesday evening, Nantes players wore shirts bearing Sala's name during their first match since their former striker went missing.\n\nSala's family arrived at Guernsey Airport on Sunday as a private search took place", "Debenhams is exploring a company voluntary arrangement (CVA) which could bring forward the closure of around 20 of its department stores this year.\n\nThe company is in talks with its banks to increase its borrowings ahead of a quarterly rent payment due on 25 March.\n\nA CVA would allow Debenhams to renegotiate its rent with landlords and speed up shop closure plans.\n\nIt is understood that the company is running out of headroom on its £520m borrowing facilities with its banks.\n\nThe department store chain announced in October that it was increasing its store closure plans from 10 to 50 shops - putting 4,000 jobs at risk - which would take place between three and five years.\n\nAt the time Debenhams said it was not ready to release a list of those stores it was looking to shut.\n\nHowever, under a CVA, that closure programme would be accelerated and 20 shops could be shut in 2019.\n\nIt is expected to update shareholders on its progress within the next few weeks.\n\nDebenhams has 165 stores and employs around 25,000 people.\n\nSergio Bucher was recently voted off Debenhams' board but continues as chief executive\n\nHigh Street retailers have been under increasing pressure as more people choose to shop online and visit stores less.\n\nDebenhams reported a record pre-tax loss of £491.5m last year and more recently said sales had fallen sharply over Christmas.\n\nLast year, House of Fraser fell into administration before Mike Ashley, the billionaire Sports Direct founder, bought the department store's assets for £90m.\n\nMr Ashley is also a major shareholder in Debenhams, with a 29% stake, and he recently joined together with investor Landmark Group to vote the retailer's chairman and chief executive off the board.\n\nSergio Bucher is continuing as chief executive of Debenhams but will no longer sit on the board while Sir Ian Cheshire stepped down immediately as chairman.", "A coalition of investors is calling on McDonald's, KFC, and other fast food suppliers to take swift action on climate change.\n\nThe group, with around $6.5 trillion under management, want the chains to cut carbon and water risks in their dairy and meat suppliers.\n\nAnimal agriculture, they argue, is one of the highest emitting sectors without a low CO2 plan.\n\nMcDonald's says it has put in place strong climate targets for suppliers.\n\nThe investors group have targeted some of the largest companies in the global fast food sector that's said to be worth $570bn.\n\nAs well as McDonald's, these include Domino's Pizza, Burger King, Chipotle Mexican Grill, Wendy's, Pizza Hut and KFC.\n\nMore than 80 investors have signed a letter to the fast food giants asking them to \"enact meaningful policies and targets\" to reduce the carbon footprint of their meat and dairy supply chains.\n\nThey are concerned by an analysis of the meat and dairy producers that supply the fast food giants.\n\nAgricultural emissions including those from meat and dairy are on track to contribute around 70% of the total allowable greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 that would the keep rise in the world's temperature under 2C this century.\n\nThe livestock sector is also estimated to use approximately 10% of annual global water flows.\n\nIn their letter, they are calling on the chains to put in place clear requirements for suppliers of animal proteins to report and reduce their greenhouse gases and their freshwater impacts.\n\nThey want the companies to publish quantitative, time bound targets for reductions and commit to publicly disclose the progress on these targets.\n\nThe investors say they are calling for these steps to help these fast food companies minimise their future risks.\n\n\"When it comes to evaluating market risk, rising global temperatures and intensifying competition for water access are increasingly material factors for investors,\" said Eugenie Mathieu, from Aviva Investors, one of the signatories.\n\n\"This is especially the case in the meat and dairy sector. From field to fork, investors want to understand which food companies are monitoring and minimising the long-term environmental risks in their supply chain. This engagement sends a clear message to the fast food sector that investors expect them to deliver sustainable supply chains.\"\n\nHowever a spokesperson for McDonald's poured scorn on the idea that they are not doing enough to ensure their supply chains are combating climate change.\n\nThey say that in 2018, McDonald's became the first restaurant company in the world to address global climate change by setting a target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, which has been approved by the Science Based Targets initiative.\n\n\"This includes reducing emissions intensity in our supply chain through engagement and collaboration with suppliers and farmers - which we expect will prevent 150 million metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions from being released into the atmosphere by 2030,\" the spokesperson said.\n\n\"This is the equivalent of taking 32 million passenger cars off the road for an entire year or planting 3.8 billion trees and growing them for 10 years. The target will enable McDonald's to grow as a business without growing its emissions.\"\n\nConsumption of meat and dairy produce has been under renewed focus in recent weeks, after the EAT-Lancet commission report.\n\nTheir experts suggested that a sustainable, \"planetary health diet\" to feed an expected population of ten billion people by mid century would imply a 90% reduction in red meat and milk consumption.\n\nIf these recommendations are to have any real impact, the fast food sector will have to take stronger measures.\n\n\"Investors are eager to see more leadership from these companies to reduce the mounting climate and water risks linked to their meat and dairy suppliers,\" said Mindy Lubber, from Ceres, the nonprofit organisation working with investors on climate, water scarcity and pollution.\n\n\"From eliminating deforestation to reducing water waste, cleaning up their supply chains will have enormous impacts on the animal agriculture sector as a whole, and dramatically increase our ability to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement to limit global warming.\"\n\nThe companies behind the letter are calling for meaningful action by March.", "Rail staff are being issued with body-worn cameras in a bid to cut the amount of abuse they're having to face.\n\nThe cameras can record an incident and be used as evidence against the attacker.\n\nSome staff say they've switched jobs after being attacked, which they describe as \"part of daily life\".\n\nSee more on this story on Inside Out South East on Monday 4 February at 19:30.", "The ongoing political crisis in Venezuela has divided the international community - some back President Nicolás Maduro and others support the man challenging him.\n\nJuan Guaidó, who is head of the National Assembly, declared himself interim president on 23 January and vowed to oversee fresh elections.\n\nHere is a guide to which countries are backing each of them and a look at the possible reasons why.\n\nRelations between the US and Venezuela were already fraught before President Trump backed Mr Guaidó as leader.\n\nTensions began to grow in 1998 when socialist leader Hugo Chávez was elected. Chávez overhauled the country's economic system and was increasingly opposed to US foreign policy.\n\nRelations have continued to worsen under Mr Maduro who came to power in 2013 after Chávez died.\n\nThe US has criticised Mr Maduro's increased use of the country's courts and security forces to suppress political opposition.\n\nThey declared his re-election last year as \"illegitimate\" and imposed a raft of economic measures against Venezuela.\n\nThe US houses about 100,000 Venezuelans - many who oppose Mr Maduro\n\nIn turn, US sanctions have been used as a scapegoat by Mr Maduro to shift blame for the country's economic woes.\n\nAmid a deepening economic crisis, Venezuela has struggled to utilise its supply of the world's largest proven oil reserves.\n\nUS purchases of that oil have declined sharply - but companies still import about 500,000 barrels from the country daily.\n\nThis amounts to about 41% of Venezuela's total oil exports, the Associated Press reports.\n\nCrucially, unlike other countries that Venezuela is indebted to, American firms pay for that oil in cash.\n\nFresh Trump administration sanctions aim to frustrate that source of income by targeting PDVSA, the Venezuelan state oil company. Some refineries have already said they will source oil elsewhere.\n\nOne US company, Citgo, is a subsidiary of PDSVA. Under new sanctions it is only allowed to operate if its earnings are deposited into an account blocked from President Maduro.\n\nPresident Trump has refused to take any option off the table in response to the country's crisis, and his administration had pledged to try and divert oil earnings to Mr Guaidó instead.\n\nAustria, Britain, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, Poland, Spain and Sweden all say they recognise Mr Guaidó as interim president.\n\nIt comes after Mr Maduro ignored an EU ultimatum calling for free, transparent and credible presidential elections.\n\nMost have come out in support of opposition leader Mr Guaidó.\n\nUnsurprisingly, this includes a number of more right-leaning Latin American nations who would be keen, strategically, to reduce the left's influence in Venezuela.\n\nAll of the Lima Group, with the exception of Mexico, have voiced their support for the opposition leader.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSome of those countries have felt the direct impact of Venezuela's crisis.\n\nAmid financial turmoil, hyperinflation and shortages of food - three million Venezuelans have fled across its borders as refugees.\n\nAustralia, Canada and Israel, have also backed Mr Guaidó's claim.\n\nIt has warned the US against military action, and has accused the country of \"crudely violating norms\" in international law to pursue a course toward \"illegal regime change\" in Venezuela.\n\nPresident Vladimir Putin met with Mr Maduro only last month\n\nFor an increasingly isolated Mr Maduro - Russia has provided a source of military and economic support.\n\nLast month it flew two nuclear-capable bombers to the region in a show of support for him.\n\nThere was even some suggestion in recent days, from the Reuters news agency, that private Russian contractors had been flown in to protect Mr Maduro - though a Kremlin spokesman has denied the report.\n\n\"Putin is giving us support on all levels and we have received it with much pleasure and gratitude,\" Mr Maduro told Russian media recently.\n\nEconomically, Russia has become a crucial lender to Venezuela's stricken economy.\n\nThe government, along with state owned oil company Rosneft, has handed billions of dollars in loans to Mr Maduro's government. Reuters has estimated at least £17bn of these have been credited since 2006.\n\nIn recent days, Russian officials have made clear they expect Venezuela to continue its repayments, despite the deepening crisis.\n\nPart of the collateral Rosneft has over its loans to PDVSA comes in the form of a 49.9% stake in US oil firm Citgo - a potential source of further tension between the US and Russia if it moves to seize those assets.\n\nThough Russia has invested heavily in the country, China is by far Venezuela's largest foreign creditor.\n\nChinese companies have invested billions in projects in the Latin American nation, including in oil ventures.\n\nThe country is estimated to have supplied more than $62bn in loans since 2007 - a third of which is reportedly outstanding.\n\nIn September last year, President Xi Jinping promised to \"provide whatever help it can offer\" to the struggling nation - and extended another $5bn credit line.\n\nResponding to escalating tensions, Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying called on \"all parties to remain rational and keep calm\" to reach a peaceful political settlement.\n\n\"China opposes foreign forces from interfering into Venezuela affairs,\" she said, clarifying their support of Mr Maduro.\n\nBoth China and Russia serve as permanent members, with veto powers, at the UN Security Council.\n\nAfter the crisis was brought up at the UN by the US, both countries' ambassadors criticised international interference in Venezuela's internal affairs.\n\nCuba is also a strong supporter of Mr Maduro's position as president.\n\nWith similar ideologies, the two countries are allies whose governments have become increasingly interdependent across the last two decades.\n\nA billboard in Havana shows the close friendship between Castro and Chavez\n\nVenezuela has reportedly subsidised oil exports to Cuba in exchange for support in areas like medicine and military advisors.\n\nLuis Almagro, the Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), likened the depth of Cuba's military support to Venezuela as an \"occupation army\" - estimating the number is as high as 15,000.\n\nAt the Security Council, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo accused Cuba of having \"directly made things worse\" in Venezuela.\n\nThe country's foreign minister reacted furiously, accusing Washington of designing, financing and arranging the \"alleged usurpation\" of the Venezuelan presidency through Mr Guaidó.\n\nLongstanding socialist allies Nicaragua and Bolivia have voiced direct support for President Maduro.\n\nMexico has said it will maintain a position of \"neutrality\" but said \"there is no change in its diplomatic relations\" with the government.\n\nIt and Uruguay have issued a joint statement asking all sides to defuse tensions and find a peaceful solution to the crisis\n\nMr Maduro also has a backer in Turkey.\n\nThe two countries' leaders have embarked on a flurry of recent visits and trade agreements with each other.\n\nPresident Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who survived an attempt to thwart his own power in 2016, has told Mr Maduro to \"stand tall\".\n\n\"You will respect the results of elections. Trump's remarks shocked me, as someone who believes in democracy,\" he told a press conference on Thursday.\n\nIran has also denounced Mr Guaidó's actions and backed Mr Maduro.\n\n\"Islamic Republic of Iran supports the government and people of Venezuela against any sort of foreign intervention and any illegitimate and illegal action such as attempt to make a coup d'état,\" foreign ministry spokesman Bahram Ghasemi has said.", "A Conservative politician, Nadine Dorries, has apologised for mixing up two British Asian women who both work in politics.\n\nThe MP for Mid Bedfordshire tweeted a video with Ash Sarkar in it - she's a political journalist at Novara Media.\n\nThe tweet said Ms Sarkar \"may be\" the prospective candidate for Chingford and Woodford Green, but it was actually Faiza Shaheen.\n\nMs Dorries told Radio 1 Newsbeat it was due to the pair's accents.\n\nBoth women responded to the initial mistake on Twitter. Ms Shaheen accused Ms Dorries of thinking all \"brown women\" look the same.\n\nThe Tory MP shared and commented on a tweet of a video about the people who support Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nIn the video there is a clip of Ms Sarkar but she referred to her as Faiza Shaheen.\n\nThe tweet has now been deleted from Nadine Dorries' account, but she had shared a video from another account.\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 Ben This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMs Shaheen pointed out the mistake, with a tweet saying: \"When Tories think all brown women look the same.\"\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 Faiza Shaheen This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMs Sarkar also tweeted to say that they are two different women.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Ash Sarkar This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe journalist asked for an apology, saying the MP could \"just say sorry\" for the tweet.\n\nShe hasn't responded to that request on Twitter but has emailed Newsbeat apologising: \"I wasn't sure. It was a tiny video on my small phone screen when I wrote it.\n\n\"I'm obviously really sorry if it caused any offence. I was just guessing really, hence my careful wording of the tweet as in 'may be'.\n\n\"It was the accent I was basing the identification on via my phone as I thought I recognised the voice and it sounded like Faiza.\"\n\nOther Asian politicians took to Twitter to share their experiences.\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 4 by Sayeeda Warsi 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 5 by Rupa Huq 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’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt's not the first time the MP for Mid Bedfordshire has been criticised for getting people confused based on their race.\n\nIn 2013, she compared the then shadow business secretary Labour MP Chuka Umunna and former boxing champion Chris Eubank.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 6 by Nadine Dorries 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\nNadine Dorries also told Newsbeat that she has had a lot of abuse on Twitter herself.\n\n\"I think I honestly have a right to be more offended at some of the appalling tweets posted my way.\n\n\"Sad that so many people are quick to scream the word 'racist' when institutional racism in the form of anti-semitism is so rife in the Labour Party and real harmful abuse is being ignored.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 every weekday on BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra - if you miss us you can listen back here.", "International action has targeted lots of sites suspected of making it cheap and easy to launch web attacks\n\nUK police have seized more than 60 computers and other gadgets suspected of being used to carry out web attacks.\n\nThe raids were part of an international operation targeting customers of Webstresser, which Europol calls the \"world's biggest marketplace\" for distributed denial of service attacks.\n\nThe site was shut down and its suspected operators arrested in April.\n\nThe National Crime Agency (NCA) said it planned further action against another 400 suspected UK Webstresser customers.\n\nEuropol said Webstresser had helped to launch more than four million DDoS attacks, which funnel huge amounts of data at a target to knock it offline, and had more than 151,000 registered customers.\n\nPrices to bombard websites started as low as €15 (£13) a month, it added.\n\nThe NCA said it had issued \"cease and desist\" notices to many of the people from whom it had seized gadgets.\n\nThese warn of future legal action, if the recipient continued to carry out web attacks.\n\n\"The action taken shows that although users think that they can hide behind usernames and crypto-currency, these do not provide anonymity,\" said Jim Stokley, deputy director of the NCA's national cyber-crime unit,\n\n\"We have already identified further suspects linked to the site, and we will continue to take action,\" he added.\n\nThe action against Webstresser customers is part of a broader international push against suspected DDoS-for-hire sites and their users.\n\nIn December, US police forces charged three men accused of running DDoS services.\n\nIt also shut down 15 sites suspected of offering similar services.\n\nRomanian police had also shut down two other suspected DDoS sites and planned to share information seized during raids about their customers, said Europol.\n\nIndependent security expert Brian Krebs said professional cyber-security organisations had criticised the co-ordinated action against those running DDoS or \"booter\" services and their customers.\n\n\"The vast majority of both groups are young men under the age of 21 and are using booter services to settle petty disputes over online games,\" he wrote.\n\nInstead, he said, some had called on police to tackle \"more serious cyber-criminals\".", "Financial technology company Revolut has been accused of \"single-shaming\" after its current promotional campaign sparked a backlash on Twitter.\n\nThe company, which launched in 2015, bills itself as an alternative to banks and offers app-based current accounts.\n\nOne ad highlighted the number of people who ordered a takeaway meal for one on Valentine's Day last year.\n\nAfter it was criticised as \"intrusive\" and \"tone-deaf\", Revolut has apologised and said it did not mean to poke fun.\n\nFinancial commentator Iona Bain, who was among the first people to draw attention to the ads, said it was patronising and unworthy of a firm trying to attract young, tech-savvy customers.\n\n\"It doesn't tell you anything about the service,\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"It just says they will spy on your spending, so people can laugh at your poor unfortunate single status later on.\"\n\nIona Bain is founder of the Young Money Blog\n\nMs Bain, founder of the Young Money Blog, tweeted that the ad's language was \"more redolent of early 2000s Bridget Jones\" than \"a modern and empowered fintech brand\".\n\n\"I knew a lot of people would agree with me, but I have been surprised by the amount of responses,\" she said.\n\nShe said that those supporting her comments included widows who found such ads unhelpful at this time of year.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"A meal for one, that's a perfectly valid life choice,\" she added. \"It's not their business to be shaming anyone for making that choice.\"\n\nMore importantly, she said, it also played on people's concerns about improper use of their data and whether their financial activity was private.\n\n\"It's not just something that triggers a few snowflakes on the London Underground,\" she added.\n\nRevolut founder Nikolay Storonsky says his organisation is adding up to 8,000 customers a day\n\nRevolut offers a current account service which allows people to make and receive payments, withdraw money from cash machines and transfer money abroad.\n\nIt was not a bank when it started, but it announced in December that it had been granted an EU banking licence by the European Central Bank. It still aims to acquire a full UK banking licence.\n\nIt has already attained the status of a tech \"unicorn\" - a term used to describe private start-ups valued at more than $1bn (£740m).\n\nRevolut's head of global marketing and communications, Chad West, said the offending ad was one of four that had been running and was due to come down anyway.\n\nHe said that while the other three had been well liked on social media, the fourth one had unfortunately given the impression that the company was \"taking the mickey out of people\".\n\n\"We did not pay enough attention to the copy and the tone,\" he said. \"Some people will call that out and we get that.\"\n\nHe said the company promised to learn from the experience and be \"more careful\" in future.", "David Mearns has become the face of the private search for the plane which was carrying Argentine footballer Emiliano Sala and pilot David Ibbotson.\n\nThe Piper Malibu N264DB, which went missing on 21 January on its way from Nantes, France, to Cardiff, was found in the English Channel on Sunday.\n\nMr Mearns stepped in to lead a privately-funded search, and located the wreckage within a couple of hours.\n\nBut who is the man nicknamed the \"shipwreck hunter\"?\n\nThe UK-based marine scientist and oceanographer led the successful hunt for HMS Hood and claims to have spearheaded a further 20 historic discoveries.\n\nUsing sonar technology and remote-controlled submersibles, the expeditions have also set records by finding wrecks at extreme depths.\n\nHMS Hood during a dockyard refit at Portsmouth in 1930\n\nThe Bismarck sent up a wall of \"plunging fire\" which penetrated the weak deck armour of HMS Hood when it was sunk in the Denmark Strait\n\nOne of Britain's greatest battleships, Hood was sunk by the German navy's Bismarck in May 1941, killing 1,415 men.\n\nHMS Hood's remains were found at a depth of 3,000m in the Denmark Strait, between Greenland and Iceland, in 2001.\n\nHe has continued to make significant discoveries around the world with his company, Blue Water Recoveries.\n\nIn 2008, Mr Mearns led a successful search for the HMAS Sydney, pictured here before it was sunk in November 1941\n\nIn 2008 Mr Mearns led the successful search for HMAS Sydney, an Australian navy battlecruiser sunk by the Germans off the continent's west coast in November 1941, killing more than 700.\n\nAnd in 2015 his company announced they had found a wreck believed to be the Esmerelda, a ship from Vasco Da Gama's fleet thought to have sunk off the coast of Oman in May 1503.\n\nMr Mearns has also co-ordinated searches for some more modern nautical enigmas.\n\nIn the early 1990s, he assisted a criminal probe into the foundering of the Lucona, a cargo ship blown up in the Indian Ocean in 1997, killing six men, as part of an insurance scam.\n\nHe has also been instrumental in searches that have defied the odds.\n\nThey include locating the SS Rio Grande, the deepest shipwreck ever found.\n\nThe World War Two German supply ship, sunk by the Americans in 1944, was discovered around three and a half miles below the waves of the south Atlantic Ocean in 1996.", "A victim of Female Genital Mutilation speaks out about her experience, which comes after the first UK conviction for FGM.\n\nAn investigation by Victoria Derbyshire has also found that victims of FGM are getting younger - we’ve been told one reported victim was just one month old.\n\nWatch the Victoria Derbyshire programme on BBC Two and BBC News Channel, 10:00 to 11:00 GMT - and see more of our stories here.", "Dr Charlotte Proudman says FGM performed on babies is \"almost impossible\" for the authorities to detect\n\nFemale genital mutilation (FGM) is increasingly being performed on babies and infants in the UK, the Victoria Derbyshire programme has been told.\n\nFGM expert and barrister Dr Charlotte Proudman said it was \"almost impossible to detect\" as the girls were not in school or old enough to report it.\n\nIn one report, in Yorkshire, a victim was just one month old.\n\nThe National FGM Centre said it was \"not surprised\" that victims may be younger now.\n\nCharity Barnardo's and the Local Government Association - which together run the centre - said its community engagement was \"key to protecting girls\".\n\nTheir comments follow the first UK conviction for FGM.\n\nThe mother of a three-year-old girl was found guilty at the Old Bailey on Friday of mutilating her daughter. Her partner was acquitted.\n\nFGM includes the partial or total removal of the female external genitalia or other injury to the female genital organs for non-medical reasons.\n\nDr Proudman said there was \"a lot of anecdotal data which shows FGM is now being performed on babies.\n\n\"These girls are not at school, they are not at nursery, and so it's very difficult for any public authority to become aware,\" she added.\n\n\"By performing it at such a young age, they're evading the law.\"\n\nIn response to a Freedom of Information request, West Yorkshire Police said a quarter of its FGM reports (17) between 2015 and 2017 involved victims aged three or under.\n\nThe National FGM Centre said there was \"anecdotal evidence from some communities that FGM laws can be circumnavigated by performing the procedure on girls at a much younger age\".\n\n\"The girls are unable to report, the cut heals quicker and prosecution is much harder once evidence comes to light and the girl is older.\n\n\"There needs to be much greater recognition of this issue across different areas of the UK.\"\n\nExperts say authorities need a more joined-up approach when dealing with FGM.\n\nIt is claimed children's services can be unsure when to intervene. Doctors are not always reporting it to the police - and even if they do, officers do not always know what to do.\n\n\"People are concerned about cultural sensitivities, worried about being branded racist, and it's being performed on a very private area,\" Dr Proudman said, explaining why it has taken many years for the first UK conviction to arrive.\n\nFigures seen by the Victoria Derbyshire programme show that 939 calls were made to emergency services to report FGM between 2014 and 2018.\n\nBut the Crown Prosecution Service has only received 36 referrals for FGM from the police since 2010.\n\nOne 2015 report by City, University of London estimated 137,000 women and girls in England have been victims of FGM.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHibo Wadere was six when she was forced to undergo FGM.\n\nSome may find her words distressing.\n\nMs Wadere said she was told a special party was being thrown for her.\n\nShe described how that morning she was \"held down, your legs yanked apart and your genitals being ripped apart.\n\n\"You saw the blood, you saw the cutter with blood on her hands,\" she added.\n\n\"She just kept on cutting as if it was normal for her to hear the screams.\n\n\"It was the cruellest thing for a child to experience.\n\n\"It stays with you for life. It's a life sentence.\"\n\nLawyer Linda Weil-Curiel, whose work has led to more than 100 FGM convictions in France, told the Victoria Derbyshire programme the UK should follow the country's tougher stance.\n\nIn France, all children undergo regular genital checks until the age of six and doctors are expected to report any cases of physical abuse.\n\n\"In [the UK] system you need the victim to come and complain, but how can you expect a child to complain against her parents?,\" she asked.\n\n\"It's for society to protect children, to take the initiative as soon as mutilation is documented - and the only way that happens is to have a medical examination.\n\nLinda Weil-Curiel's work has led to more than 100 FGM convictions in France\n\n\"There might be people horrified at the thought of their child undergoing a check. I don't understand that - we are talking about the health of children and babies,\" she added.\n\nBut the National FGM Centre said the key way to prevent instances of the abuse was to change \"the views of affected communities\" and to form \"a huge cultural shift in groups where FGM is commonly practised\".\n\nIt said it was helping to train professionals to be \"aware of how to broach the topic, spot the signs and respond appropriately when there is a concern\".\n\nHome Secretary Sajid Javid said: \"We will not tolerate FGM and not rest until perpetrators of this horrific crime are brought to justice.\n\nHe said the UK's first conviction for FGM came after \"the government introduced tougher rules to criminalise this medieval practice.\"\n\nFollow the Victoria Derbyshire programme on Facebook and Twitter - and see more of our stories here.", "William Davis helped launch The Money Programme, one of BBC Two's best known programmes\n\nFormer BBC broadcaster and journalist William Davis has died, after heart failure, aged 85.\n\nFollowing a successful career in Fleet Street, he joined the BBC and became a presenter on The World At One and also edited satirical magazine Punch.\n\nBorn in Germany, he moved at the age of 16 to the UK where he changed his name and became a British citizen.\n\nHis daughter, Jacki, described him as a \"self-made man\" who had a passion to have champagne with everything.\n\nDuring an appearance on the BBC's Desert Island Discs, he described his childhood growing up in Germany during World War Two as \"very grim\".\n\nHe said the \"horrifying experience\" of being bombed made him \"grateful for the good things that have happened to me\".\n\nDavis said that when he first arrived in the UK, it was difficult, with a \"great deal of hostility towards anything German\" so he pretended to be Austrian.\n\nHe worked at various national newspaper titles including the Financial Times, the London Evening Standard as City editor, and at the Guardian as financial editor.\n\nBefore becoming one of The World At One's first presenters alongside William Hardcastle, he had helped develop, launch and present BBC Two's The Money Programme.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. One of the first presenters recalls his time on The World At One\n\nSpeaking in 2016, Davis said the current affairs show sometimes \"made the news, not just reported it.\"\n\n\"We knew we had it made when (former prime minister) Harold Wilson phoned up, personally, to complain about something Bill or I had said on the programme,\" he said.\n\n\"That week we all said 'that's it - we've arrived'.\"\n\nIn 1968, the Hanover-born journalist became editor of one of the nation's best-known satirical magazines.\n\n\"He was very proud of editing Punch because he thought it was very funny that a little German boy had become the editor of the most quintessentially British institution you could think of,\" Jacki said.\n\nShe added: \"Of his generation of journalists, he was genuinely pioneering and innovative, he was never content to do it the way it had always been done.\"\n\nShe said her father had been a \"great admirer\" of Baroness Thatcher and gave the former Conservative prime minister advice from \"time to time\".\n\n\"He would go and see her in Number 10 and give her advice, talking really about how you frame the message, it was really communications advice\".\n\nDuring a lengthy career, Davis also launched in-flight British Airways magazine High Life and became chairman of the British Tourist Authority and English Tourist Board.\n\nDavis died at his home in Cannes, southern France, on Saturday.\n\nDavis, whose son Simon died at a young age, is survived by his wife Sylvette, daughters Sue and Jacki, and his two grandchildren Lucinda and William.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA body has been seen in the underwater wreckage of the plane that was carrying footballer Emiliano Sala and pilot David Ibbotson.\n\nA search on Sunday found the Piper Malibu plane on the seabed off Guernsey, almost two weeks after it went missing.\n\nThe Air Accident Investigation Branch confirmed the sighting on Monday.\n\nRescue teams are now developing a recovery plan for the plane, which is 67m (220ft) below water.\n\nThe man who found it said it was \"imperative\" it was raised from the seabed soon.\n\n\"There's a much greater chance they (the Sala family) will get answers if (the plane is) recovered,\" said shipwreck hunter David Mearns.\n\nHe added their \"worst fears are confirmed\", saying: \"It's going to take a long time for them to come to terms with the loss.\"\n\nEmiliano Sala (left) was on board a plane being flown by pilot David Ibbotson\n\nThe flight had been carrying Argentine striker Sala, 28, and Mr Ibbotson, 59, from Nantes, north west France, to Cardiff after Sala completed his £15m move to Cardiff City.\n\nThe \"substantial amount of wreckage\" of the plane, was found on Sunday morning after Mr Mearns' privately-funded search began.\n\nHe said lifting the plane was now the most important task.\n\nMr Mearns added: \"(The AAIB) will be able to rule things out or rule things in, that's the normal investigative process for any crash, so I think it's imperative that the plane is recovered, and now even more so now we know someone is down there.\"\n\nThe recovery operation would need to take place in \"slack water\" - the point at which the tide is turning, he added.\n\nIt would be conducted by a Ministry of Defence salvage marine operations vessel and Mr Mearns said one equipped for working in the North Sea with a dive support vessel would be able to lift the plane \"within a matter of days\".\n\nVideo footage recorded using a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) showed one person in the wreckage.\n\nThe AAIB said it was consulting with the missing men's families and police about the next step and intends to publish an interim report in the coming weeks.\n\nAn online appeal started by Sala's agent had raised £324,000 (371,000 euros) for the private search, which Mr Mearns offered to help with.\n\nWorking jointly with the AAIB, his ship and another search vessel, the Geo Ocean III, began combing a four square mile area of the English Channel, 24 nautical miles north of Guernsey.\n\nSpeaking on Radio 4's Today programme on Monday, Mr Mearns said the plane was identified by sonar, before a submersible with cameras was sent underwater to confirm this.\n\n\"They saw the registration number and the biggest surprise is that most of the plane is there - we were expecting to find a debris field,\" he added.\n\nThe Geo Ocean III (circled) is at the scene of the wreckage while it is decided what actions will be taken\n\nGeo Ocean III sent down a submersible to investigate the wreckage\n\nTributes have been left outside the Cardiff City Stadium\n\nMeanwhile, Cardiff City football club said it was \"actively considering\" what to do with the tributes to Sala and Mr Ibbotson, from Crowle, Lincolnshire, which have been left outside the stadium.\n\nA growing number of items, such as scarves, flowers and football shirts, have been laid around the statue of the club's FA Cup-winning captain Fred Keenor over the past two weeks.\n\nA spokesman said it will make a decision soon.\n\nThe AAIB released this map of the search area Mr Mearns's boat and the AAIB covered\n\nAn official search operation was called off on 24 January after Guernsey's harbour master said the chances of survival were \"extremely remote\".\n\nCushions believed to be from the plane were found on a beach near Surtainville, on France's Cotentin Peninsula, last week.\n\nThere were emotional tributes to the footballer as Cardiff played their first home game since the disappearance on Saturday.\n\nThe club's manager, Neil Warnock, said he felt Sala was \"with\" his team as they beat Bournemouth 2-0 in the Premier League.", "Emiliano Sala (left) was on board a plane being flown by pilot David Ibbotson\n\nWreckage from a plane carrying Cardiff City footballer Emiliano Sala has been discovered in the English Channel.\n\nThe Piper Malibu N264DB was lost on 21 January on its way from Nantes, France, to Cardiff, with the Argentine striker and pilot David Ibbotson on board.\n\nDavid Mearns, who led a privately-funded search for the aircraft, said it was located off Guernsey on Sunday.\n\nHe said: \"All I will say is that there is a substantial amount of wreckage on the seabed.\"\n\nDavid Mearns offered to help look for the plane after a fundraising effort by Mr Sala's family\n\nSpeaking on Radio 4's Today programme on Monday, Mr Mearns said: \"We located the wreckage of the plane on the seabed at a depth of about 63m within the first couple of hours [of searching].\"\n\nHe said the plane was identified by sonar, before a submersible with cameras was sent underwater and was able to confirm it was the plane.\n\n\"They saw the registration number and the biggest surprise is that most of the plane is there,\" he added.\n\nMr Mearns's private search has now been stood down and the Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) is at the site working to recover the plane.\n\nHe said further investigations by the AAIB would be conducted over the next two days in order to determine how it will attempt a recovery operation.\n\nIn a series of tweets on Sunday, marine scientist Mr Mearns said: \"The families of Emiliano Sala and David Ibbotson have been notified by police.\"\n\nHe added: \"Our sole thoughts are with the families and friends of Emiliano and David.\"\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 David Mearns This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSpeaking to Argentinian broadcaster Cronica TV, Sala's father Horacio said: \"I cannot believe it. This is a dream. A bad dream. I am desperate.\"\n\nMr Mearns said he was in contact with the Sala family after the wreckage was located and said they \"desperately want that plane to be recovered. They feel that is the pathway for them to get the answers that they need to have\".\n\nHe added he was compelled to help to search for the plane after seeing an emotional plea by Sala's sister Romina.\n\n\"I just felt that girl needed help and that's why I offered my assistance,\" he said.\n\n\"I am a football fan. Cardiff is not my city, but I follow football. I felt very badly for her, I wanted to help. I just happen to be a person with this experience and skill and I could do that.\n\n\"To add to it this was a man in the prime of his life. It is just so tremendously sad.\"\n\nCardiff had signed Sala for a club record of £15m and he was due to start training last month.\n\nThe 28-year-old striker and Mr Ibbotson, 59, from Crowle, North Lincolnshire, were travelling from Nantes, where he had previously played, when the flight lost contact with air traffic controllers.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Fans pay tribute to missing footballer Sala at the first home Cardiff City match since he disappeared\n\nAn official search operation was called off on 24 January after Guernsey's harbour master said the chances of survival were \"extremely remote\".\n\nCushions believed to be from the plane were found on a beach near Surtainville, on France's Cotentin Peninsula, last week.\n\nThere were emotional tributes to the footballer as Cardiff played their first home game since the disappearance on Saturday.\n\nThe club's manager, Neil Warnock, said he felt Sala was \"with\" his team as they beat Bournemouth 2-0 in the Premier League.\n\nAn online appeal had raised £324,000 (371,000 euros) for the private search, which began on Sunday.\n\nWorking jointly with the AAIB, Mr Mearns's ship and another search vessel, the Geo Ocean III, began combing a four square mile area of the channel, 24 nautical miles north of Guernsey.\n\nGeo Ocean III remains at the wreckage location off Guernsey\n\nThe AAIB ship has remained at the site where the missing Piper plane was located, to deploy an underwater search vehicle to make a visual confirmation.\n\nFormer air crash investigator Tony Cable told BBC Breakfast on Monday that any examination of the wreckage after it is recovered would take \"considerable time\".\n\n\"Certainly the damage can tell you the sort of altitude and vertical speed, horizontal speed that it hit the water.\"\n\nHe added that there may also be signs of anything that was not working properly.\n\n\"The difficulty is if you don't have signs of problems before the crash, you're left looking at possible reasons then which are not a failure of the aircraft. The absence of any problem leaves you somewhat in the realm of speculation.\"\n\nOfficials at the AAIB said they expected to give an update on the operation on Monday morning.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "These chickens have a human gene that enables them to lay eggs containing useful drugs\n\nResearchers have genetically modified chickens that can lay eggs that contain drugs for arthritis and some cancers.\n\nThe drugs are 100 times cheaper to produce when laid than when manufactured in factories.\n\nThe researchers believe that in time production can be scaled up to produce medicines in commercial quantities.\n\nThe chickens do not suffer and are \"pampered\" compared to farm animals, according to Dr Lissa Herron, of Roslin Technologies in Edinburgh.\n\n\"They live in very large pens. They are fed and watered and looked after on a daily basis by highly trained technicians, and live quite a comfortable life.\n\n\"As far as the chicken knows, it's just laying a normal egg. It doesn't affect its health in any way, it's just chugging away, laying eggs as normal.\"\n\nScientists have previously shown that genetically modified goats, rabbits and chickens can be used to produce protein therapies in their milk or eggs. The researchers say their new approach is more efficient, produces better yields and is more cost-effective than these previous attempts.\n\n\"Production from chickens can cost anywhere from 10 to 100 times less than the factories. So hopefully we'll be looking at at least 10 times lower overall manufacturing cost\" said Dr Herron.\n\nBattery \"pharming\": these eggs contain drugs produced at a tenth of the cost of normal production in laboratories\n\nThe biggest saving comes from the fact that chicken sheds are far cheaper to build and run than highly sterile clean rooms for factory production.\n\nMany diseases are caused because the body does not naturally produce enough of a certain chemical or protein. Such diseases can be controlled with drugs that contain the deficient protein. These drugs are synthetically produced by pharmaceutical companies and can be very expensive to manufacture.\n\nDr Herron and her colleagues managed to reduce the costs by inserting a human gene - which normally produces the protein in humans - into the part of the chickens' DNA involved with producing the white in the chickens' eggs.\n\nAfter cracking the eggs and separating the white from the yolk, Dr Herron discovered that the chicken had relatively large quantities of the protein.\n\nThe team has focused on two proteins that are essential to the immune system: one is IFNalpha2a, which has powerful antiviral and anti-cancer effects, and the other is macrophage-CSF, which is being developed as a therapy that stimulates damaged tissues to repair themselves.\n\nThree eggs are enough to produce a dose of the drug, and chickens can lay up to 300 eggs per year. With enough chickens, the researchers believe they can produce drugs in commercial quantities.\n\nThe development of drugs for human health, and the regulatory hoops required, will take between 10 and 20 years. The researchers are hopeful of using chickens to develop drugs for animal health.\n\nThese include drugs which boost the immune systems of farm animals as an alternative to antibiotics, which would reduce the risk of the development of new strains of antibiotic-resistant superbugs. And there is the potential to use the healing properties of macrophage-CSF to treat pets, according to Dr Herron.\n\n\"For example, we could use it in regenerating the liver or the kidneys of a pet that has suffered damage to these organs. The drugs currently available are a bit too pricey so we hope that we might be able to get into that a little more,\" she explained.\n\nProfessor Helen Sang, of the University of Edinburgh's Roslin Institute, said: \"We are not yet producing medicines for people, but this study shows that chickens are commercially viable for producing proteins suitable for drug discovery studies and other applications in biotechnology.\"\n\nThe eggs are produced for research purposes and not on sale in supermarkets.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Nissan has confirmed that the new X-Trail originally planned for its Sunderland plant will instead be made in Japan.\n\nIn a letter to workers, it said continued Brexit uncertainty is not helping firms to \"plan for the future\".\n\nIn 2016, the carmaker said it would build the new model in the UK after \"assurances\" from the government.\n\nUnions described the news as \"disappointing\" and said they were \"seriously concerned\".\n\nThe government said Nissan's decision was \"a blow to the sector\" but that no jobs would go as a result.\n\nNissan has made cars at Sunderland since 1986 and employs almost 7,000 people.\n\nCommenting on its decision, Nissan also said that since 2016 \"the environment for the car industry in Europe has changed dramatically\", including \"changing emissions regulations\".\n\nIn the UK, diesel cars that fail to meet the latest emissions standards now face a levy and a number of European countries, including the UK, have announced bans on both new diesel and petrol vehicles in the future.\n\nAs a result, sales of new diesel cars in the UK tumbled by 30% in 2018, according to the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders.\n\nNissan was always going to produce the X-Trail model at its Kyushu production hub but decided two years ago, \"there was a good business case for bringing production to Europe as well,\" according to the firm's Europe chairman, Gianluca de Ficchy.\n\nHe said the company is now planning \"to optimise our investments and concentrate production in Kyushu, instead of adding another production site\".\n\nMr de Ficchy, said: \"Nissan is investing heavily in new technologies and powertrains for the next generation of vehicles in our Sunderland plant.\n\n\"To support this, we are taking advantage of our global assets, and with X-Trail already manufactured in Japan, we can reduce our upfront investment costs.\"\n\nMr de Ficchy said the news would be \"disappointing\" to its UK team and partners, but that the workforce in Sunderland had the company's \"full confidence\".\n\n\"While we have taken this decision for business reasons, the continued uncertainty around the UK's future relationship with the EU is not helping companies like ours to plan for the future,\" he added.\n\nA number of carmakers, including Jaguar Land Rover, Toyota and Vauxhall have expressed fears of disruption to their supply chains in the event of a no-deal Brexit.\n\nBusiness Secretary Greg Clark said: \"Nissan's announcement is a blow to the sector and the region, as this was to be a further significant expansion of the site and the workforce.\n\n\"The company has confirmed that no jobs will be lost. They have reiterated today their commitment to the UK by continuing to manufacture in Sunderland the current Qashqai, Leaf and Juke models and the new Qashqai model from 2020.\"\n\nUnite's acting national officer for the car sector, Steve Bush, said: \"This is very disappointing news for Sunderland and the North East and reflects the serious challenges facing the entire UK auto sector.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHe added that the union remained \"seriously concerned\" that \"the apprenticeships and additional jobs that come with future investment and which this community so desperately needs will be lost\".\n\nSunderland Central MP Julie Elliott said the move was \"devastating news for our city and the region\".\n\nShe added: \"The uncertainty around Brexit is always a factor now in any decisions made in manufacturing.\"\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn said: \"The Conservatives' botched negotiations and threat of a no-deal Brexit is causing uncertainty and damaging Britain's economy.\"\n\nThere's been a run of bad news from the car industry in recent months.\n\nJob losses have been announced at Jaguar Land Rover and Ford and the cancellation of Nissan's X-Trail investment at its Sunderland plant is just the latest disappointment from a sector that was booming a few years ago.\n\nThere are many who want to say this is all down to Brexit. But it's not.\n\nDeclining car sales in China, the world's biggest car market, have unnerved the industry worldwide. As have falling car sales and an economic rough patch in Europe.\n\nThere are questions over whether diesel technology has a future after governments, who pushed it hard until a few years ago, and drivers, who previously liked its fuel efficiency, have become less keen on it.\n\nIn the UK, this is all set against the backdrop of Brexit uncertainty.\n\nThe car industry has long been worried about potential changes to trading rules after the UK leaves the EU. It's nervous about border taxes and customs delays disrupting its just-in-time model of manufacturing.\n\nNissan has been clear the decision to cancel its Sunderland X-Trail investment is a commercial decision. But it chose to say \"continued uncertainty\" around the UK's future relationship with the EU \"is not helping\" it plan for the future.\n\nBig businesses tend to stay out of politics.\n\nSo Nissan's decision to highlight Brexit means it is clearly a concern in the minds of company executives.\n\nConservative Brexiteer Jacob Rees-Mogg said Nissan had \"all sorts of problems that are nothing to do with Brexit\", including \"very considerable corporate governance problems\" arising from ex-chairman Carlos Ghosn's arrest.\n\nProduction of the Qashqai - the best-selling crossover vehicle in Europe - makes up the majority of the current work at Sunderland.\n\nThere had been concerns that Nissan - part-owned by France's Renault - could move production to France in future to avoid any post-Brexit EU tariffs.\n\nBut when the X-Trail investment was initially announced, Nissan said hundreds of jobs would be created at the Sunderland plant.\n\nIt sparked questions over whether a deal between the carmaker and the government had been struck, although ministers insisted that no \"financial compensation\" had been offered.", "Car workers such as those in Sunderland (above) and Bridgend face uncertainty over Brexit\n\nA councillor from a Welsh car-making town has apologised for saying Nissan workers in Sunderland who voted for Brexit should lose their jobs.\n\nDavid White posted his view on social media after the Japanese firm cancelled plans to make a new model in the UK.\n\nLinking to a BBC news story about the decision, he said: \"All those who voted to leave - should be laid off first.\"\n\nThe Bridgend councillor said he posted in \"sheer frustration\" at how Brexit uncertainty was affecting investment.\n\nHighlighting the Facebook message in a tweet, tagging it to Jeremy Corbyn and the UK Labour Party, the independent group on Bridgend County Borough Council tweeted: \"Excuse us, is this acceptable from one of your Labour councillors in South Wales?\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nApologising for his comments, Councillor White said: \"I wouldn't wish losing a job on anyone in real life, and I shouldn't have done it online.\n\n\"Misplacing the blame doesn't help to bring us all together, and I will certainly be considering the effect of what I post in future,\" he told the Local Democracy Reporting Service.\n\nBridgend council's Labour leader Huw David said: \"I have been crystal clear with him that it was unacceptable and he has apologised unreservedly.\n\n\"It goes without saying that his comments do not reflect the view of the council.\n\n\"We are working hard to mitigate against the UK government's shambolic handling of Brexit, and that anyone's job could be at risk because of two years of complete uncertainty about our future is a damning indictment of this chaotic government.\"\n\nBrexit uncertainty has prompted fears for the future of Ford's engine plant in Bridgend, where the company confirmed in January it was looking to cut 370 of its 1,700 jobs.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Elecia Dexter will take over the roles of editor and publisher of the Democrat-Reporter\n\nAn African-American woman will replace the editor of an Alabama newspaper who came under fire last week after calling for mass lynchings of Democrats.\n\nElecia Dexter, 46, will take over as the Democrat-Reporter's editor and publisher, \"moving the paper into a new direction\", the paper said on Thursday.\n\nLongtime editor Goodloe Sutton, who made the comments about raiding Washington DC, still owns the paper.\n\n\"The Democrat-Reporter has provided the community of West Alabama with quality news for over 140 years and you may have full confidence that Ms Dexter will continue in this tradition as well as moving the paper into a new direction,\" the newspaper said in a statement to US media.\n\nThe announcement noted Dexter was entering her role \"at a pivotal\" and \"challenging\" time.\n\nIt added that the newspaper had always been devoted to \"integrity and excellence in journalism\" under the leadership of Sutton and his wife, Jean.\n\nHowever, there was no apology from Sutton for his 14 February \"Klan needs to ride again\" article.\n\nGoodloe Sutton had received nationwide praise for his journalism in the 1990s\n\nThe Ku Klux Klan (KKK) is one of the oldest white supremacy groups in the US, formed just after the Civil War.\n\nThe group was behind many of the lynchings, rapes and violent attacks on African Americans in the 1900s, and there are still some 5,000 to 8,000 members across the country, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.\n\nSutton had called for the KKK to raid gated communities in Washington DC in retaliation for Democrats proposing higher taxes, and later insisted he only wanted to hang \"socialist-communists\".\n\nThe op-ed went viral last week, receiving nationwide condemnation, but it was not the first time Sutton published racist opinion pieces in his paper.\n\nIn 2017, an anonymous editorial discussing the topic of NFL players kneeling in protest of racism said: \"That's what black folks were taught to do two hundreds years ago, kneel before a white man...Let them kneel!\"\n\nAlabama lawmakers who had called for Sutton to step down were pleased at Dexter's appointment to the position.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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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\nDexter, who holds degrees in speech communication, counselling and human services, told the Washington Post she has only been working at the paper for six weeks.\n\nShe was also the one fielding many of the angry responses to Sutton's article, and had considered quitting.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Aleem Maqbool explores ideas for solving racism in the US\n\nThe new editor said she had an \"open and honest\" discussion with Sutton about his editorial before taking on the role.\n\nAs editor and publisher, she told the Post she wants her community to \"feel like it's their paper, which it is\".\n\n\"One thing that sticks out to me as we move forward is making sure the people of this community feel this paper represents them and their views.\"", "Pope Francis has closed a summit on paedophilia by saying that \"no explanation suffices\" for cases of child sexual abuse within the Catholic Church.\n\nHe said that the Church should be protecting children from \"ravenous wolves\" and would be \"decisively confronting\" abuse.", "Facebook has taken down anti-Islamic activist Tommy Robinson's official page and Instagram profile for violating its policies on hate speech.\n\nThe former English Defence League leader was deemed to have been engaged in \"organised hate\".\n\nA number of posts on his page had violated the social network's community standards, Facebook said in a blogpost.\n\nIt said that it had not taken the decision to remove his page lightly but added he would not be allowed back.\n\n\"When ideas and opinions cross the line and amount to hate speech that may create an environment of intimidation and exclusion for certain groups in society - in some cases with potentially dangerous offline implications - we take action,\" Facebook said in a post.\n\n\"Tommy Robinson's Facebook page has repeatedly broken these standards, posting material that uses dehumanising language and calls for violence targeted at Muslims.\n\n\"He has also behaved in ways that violate our policies around organised hate.\"\n\nThe ban means that Tommy Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, will not be allowed to set up an official Facebook page or Instagram profile in future.\n\nAccording to Facebook, a written warning had been sent to Mr Robinson last month about a number of posts on his page that had violated its community standards, including:\n\nIn January, YouTube suspended adverts on Mr Robinson's account, saying he had broken the site's advertising rules.\n\nAt the time, Mr Robinson denied they contained any \"hateful\" content and said he was the victim of censorship.\n\nIn November, PayPal said it would no longer process payments for Mr Robinson.\n\nIn May, Mr Robinson, 35, was jailed for contempt of court. The 13-month sentence sparked a series of #freetommy protests. The conviction was later quashed after procedural concerns.\n\nThe case has now been referred to the attorney general.\n\nIn March 2018, Mr Robinson was banned from Twitter. It is understood that his account was suspended for breaking its \"hateful conduct policy\".", "Dwayne Johnson sent a message to Rosie telling her to \"stay strong\"\n\nThe father of a girl with Down's syndrome said it was \"really cool\" for actor Dwayne \"The Rock\" Johnson to send her a message on Twitter.\n\nThe Hollywood star, who voiced Maui in the film Moana, told Rosie to \"stay strong\" after her father wrote that the film was one of her favourites.\n\nJason Kneen, from near Ludgershall, in Wiltshire, originally posted a photograph of his daughter smiling.\n\nHe said it was \"insane\" that the tweets had gone viral.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Kneen said it was \"crazy\" and \"really cool\" that the messages had since been retweeted more than 8,000 times and had been \"liked\" 87,000 times.\n\nHe said he had received \"nice messages\" from people thanking him for sharing it, and it had provided comfort for people who had recently found out they were expecting a baby with Down's syndrome.\n\n\"We were told by doctors and nurses on the day of her birth... how her life would go,\" he said.\n\n\"It was like her whole life had been mapped out in front of you. It was distressing, shocking and upsetting.\n\n\"[But] you can't predict how your child's life is going to be. You can't tell anyone what's going to happen.\n\n\"We just got on with it. She's amazing.\n\n\"We've been through some difficulties like anybody, but she makes up for it every day when she smiles at you like that and wants to watch Moana all the time.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Leicester\n\nBrendan Rodgers has been appointed Leicester City's new manager after leaving his job at Celtic.\n\nThe Northern Irishman has signed a contract until June 2022 and succeeds Claude Puel, who was sacked on Sunday after 16 months in charge.\n\nIt marks a Premier League return for Rodgers, who previously managed Liverpool and Swansea City.\n\n\"I'll give my life to make the supporters proud of their club,\" Rodgers said.\n\nHe watched from the stands as the Foxes beat Brighton 2-1 on Tuesday and spoke to the players in the changing room after the game.\n\nAdding that he was \"privileged and honoured\" to take on the role, Rodgers said: \"Together, we'll be stronger and I'm looking forward to working with the players, staff and supporters to make the right steps forward.\"\n\nNeil Lennon replaces Rodgers at Celtic as interim manager until the end of the season.\n• None 'Sentiment trumped by ambition' - why Rodgers' Celtic exit is no surprise\n\nFormer Arsenal, Liverpool, Manchester City and Celtic defender Kolo Toure also joins Leicester as a first-team coach, having worked as a member of Rodgers' backroom staff at Celtic.\n\nWhile at Liverpool, Rodgers almost won the Premier League title in 2013-14 before he was sacked in October 2015.\n\nHe then took over at Celtic in May 2016 and won all seven domestic trophies available, most recently leading them to the Scottish League Cup in December.\n\nDuring his two and a half years in Scotland, he also qualified twice for the Champions League group stage and broke the 100-year-old British unbeaten domestic record with a 69-game unbeaten run.\n\nRodgers has also managed Watford and Reading and was named the LMA Manager of the Year in 2014.\n\n\"I'm absolutely delighted to bring a manager of Brendan's calibre to Leicester City,\" said club vice-chairman Aiyawatt Srivaddhanaprabha.\n\n\"I look forward to seeing what he, our talented, young squad and our dedicated, skilled team of staff can achieve together.\"\n\nRodgers will be Leicester's fourth permanent manager in 23 months after Puel, Craig Shakespeare and 2015-16 Premier League-winning manager Claudio Ranieri were all sacked.\n\nSaturday's 4-1 defeat by Crystal Palace meant Leicester had lost four consecutive home Premier League games for the first time since January 2000.\n\nThey have conceded the first goal in 19 Premier League matches this season - more than any other side.", "Oxford versus Cambridge: The competition for places for UK students has become even tougher\n\nThere are more than a thousand fewer UK undergraduate students at Oxford and Cambridge universities than a decade ago, official figures show.\n\nStudent figures from the Higher Education Statistics Agency and from the universities show 7% fewer UK undergraduates at Oxford and 5% fewer at Cambridge, compared with 2007-08.\n\nOverseas undergraduate students rose by 51% at Oxford and 65% at Cambridge.\n\nOxford says it recruits the \"best talent from around the world\".\n\nStudents from outside the EU pay higher fees and the more prestigious a university and course the greater the cost will likely be - more than £30,000 a year in some cases.\n\nBut a spokeswoman for Oxford said its overseas student intake had not been influenced by \"the fees they may bring with them\".\n\nThere is intense competition for Oxford and Cambridge places and there has been much controversy about fair access and social mobility.\n\nWhile such arguments have continued about widening opportunities, the total number of UK students being awarded places at Oxbridge has been reducing.\n\nThere were about 1,200 fewer UK undergraduates in 2017-18 compared with a decade before - with about 11,300 in Oxford and 12,150 in Cambridge taking undergraduate degree courses, even though more have applied for places.\n\nThe figures show there were about 720 fewer UK undergraduate students at Oxford University in 2017-18 compared with 2007-08.\n\nAt Cambridge, the numbers have fallen by about 480 students across the decade.\n\nBut the numbers of overseas students, both EU and non-EU, have climbed sharply, according to the data from Hesa, the official statistics body for higher education.\n\nIn postgraduate courses at Cambridge, there are now more overseas students than UK.\n\nSir Peter Lampl, chairman of the Sutton Trust social mobility charity, said the figures showed the need for the universities to put \"widening access at the heart of their admissions policies\".\n\n\"Oxford and Cambridge attract many international students, but they must ensure that their student body is balanced.\n\n\"This means letting in UK and international students based on ability and not on ability to pay,\" said Sir Peter.\n\nA University of Oxford spokeswoman said the same entry standards applied to all students, UK or overseas, based on \"academic talent and ability alone\" - and UK applicants had a higher rate of success than those from overseas.\n\nShe said: \"Places to study are won by demonstrating academic potential through open competition, following the same rigorous application and admission process.\"\n\nA spokesman for the University of Cambridge said: \"Applications from international students for undergraduate courses have increased by 56% over the period, which means UK students find themselves in a competitive field.\"\n\nNick Hillman, director of the Higher Education Policy Institute, said the reduction in UK student numbers at Oxford and Cambridge was the \"sad but inevitable consequence\" of the universities becoming more international but not adding places.\n\n\"In those circumstances, something has to give and it seems to be places for home students,\" he says.\n\nMr Hillman says if the universities do not want to \"squeeze out\" UK students they need to \"bite the bullet and accept more expansion\".\n\nThe Hesa figures also show how other leading universities have been expanding their undergraduate intake much more than Oxford and Cambridge.\n\nUniversity College London has expanded by 65%, Bristol by 41% and Exeter by 74%.\n\nThe Office for Students (OFS), the regulator for higher education, wants more young people from disadvantaged backgrounds to go to university.\n\nBut the watchdog says this could require a significant increase in places.\n\nIf all young people went to university at the rate of the richest 20%, says the OFS, it would mean having to double the number of places in Russell Group universities.\n\nThe Hesa figures also show an even more dramatic drop in adult and continuing education.\n\nIn Cambridge, if people taking certificate and diploma courses were included alongside those on undergraduate degree courses, the overall fall in UK students would be about 29% over the decade.\n\nBoth Oxford and Cambridge have run extensive outreach projects to attract a wider range of students.\n\nAn Oxford spokeswoman said the university was committed to becoming \"more open and diverse\", with more ethnic minority and students from deprived areas.\n\n\"Sustaining excellence requires diversity, and our commitment to achieving this balance, and making Oxford more reflective of modern society, includes reaching out to and selecting, the best talent from all over the world,\" she said.\n\nA University of Cambridge spokesman said that despite the pressure on places, including from overseas, the university has widened access, including accepting rising numbers of state school pupils.\n\n\"The university has made significant progress in all its widening participation measures over the same period. The university accepts students on merit, regardless of their background,\" he said.", "George Pell is the most senior Catholic cleric to be convicted of such crimes\n\nReporting on a secret trial can be confronting and confusing.\n\nFor several months, journalists like me have been going back and forth to Melbourne's County Court, unable to broadcast what we'd learnt about George Pell's crimes.\n\nNow the suppression order on the case has been lifted, those details can finally be made public.\n\nOutside court, there was at times high drama - all the sound and fury of cameramen jostling and campaigners brandishing placards at the cardinal as he arrived.\n\nBut after the initial hearings, the crowds and the cameras petered out, and the cardinal no longer needed a police escort to sweep him into the building.\n\nGeorge Pell would sit in the dock with his notebook, listening, writing, but never really betraying any emotion.\n\nHe was excused from standing due to a knee injury, and often sat with his legs stretched out.\n\nHe wasn't called to give evidence, and so we didn't hear a word from him for the majority of the trial.\n\nAs the court heard vivid descriptions of how in 1996 he had forced himself upon two victims, pushing his archbishop's robes to one side in order to expose himself, he didn't flinch\n\nPell's case has drawn huge attention around the world\n\nThe jury was told how one young boy had pleaded for Pell to let him go - only to be shocked into a silence that would last for decades.\n\nPell's defence barrister is one of Australia's most experienced and expensive lawyers - his speeches focused on areas of doubt.\n\nRobert Richter QC repeated over and over how highly improbable - if not impossible - it would have been for any of the abuse to have occurred.\n\nInstead, he insisted that his client had become a scapegoat for the crimes of other Catholic clerics.\n\nAt one stage, Mr Richter even referred to Pell as \"the Darth Vader of the Catholic Church\", painting him as a bold leader vilified by the media.\n\nPell certainly has his critics - some came to the court to watch and see him in the dock.\n\nAlthough the proceedings couldn't be reported, there was nothing to stop members of the public coming in to listen.\n\nCampaigners and abuse survivors sat mixed in with the media, some sighing as they heard accounts of the abuse.\n\nSome of Pell's supporters attended too, sending sympathetic smiles in his direction, and exchanging small talk as he went in and out of the court.\n\nAfter two trials, one hung jury and many months of waiting - the results of this long process are now public.\n\nThe pace of justice has felt slow at times, but it has resulted in one of the Catholic Church's most prominent and powerful figures being held to account.", "Dorset in February: A surfer gets ready to catch some morning waves at Boscombe beach\n\nThe UK has broken the record for its warmest winter day for the second consecutive day, with a temperature of 21.2°C in Kew Gardens, London.\n\nMonday was the first time temperatures of over 20C had been reported in winter, breaking a record that had stood since 1998.\n\nIt means parts of Britain have been hotter than destinations such as Ibiza.\n\nLast February, temperatures in the UK plunged as low as -11.7C at South Farnborough, Hampshire.\n\nTemperatures broke the previous day's record of 20.6C in two other places, the Met Office said.\n\nPorthmadog in north-west Wales hit 20.8C while temperatures of 20.7C were reported in Teddington, south-west London.\n\nIn Scotland, the temperature reached 18.3C on 21 February in Aboyne, Aberdeenshire, breaking a record of 17.9C which had stood for more than 120 years.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, temperatures reached 15.6C in Castlederg, County Tyrone. The February record of 17.8C was recorded in 1998.\n\nMeanwhile, firefighters have warned the warm weather could lead to a greater risk of outdoor fires.\n\nThe warning, from East Sussex Fire Service, came after two large fires broke out in Ashdown Forest - the East Sussex forest made famous by AA Milne's Winnie the Pooh novels.\n\nThe BBC Weather Centre said it was likely to be one of the warmest Februaries since records began in 1878.\n\nSunny, warm conditions are expected to last into Wednesday, when maximum temperatures at Kew Gardens and Porthmadog are forecast to be slightly cooler at 19C and 17C respectively.\n\nOn Thursday, a high pressure system is expected to break down as wetter, windier weather moves in across Wales and into England.\n\nDr Friedericke Otto, acting director of the Environmental Change Institute at Oxford University, said people were right to ask themselves whether the record temperatures were being driven by climate change.\n\n\"I am very confident to say that there's an element of climate change in these warm temperatures,\" she said.\n\n\"But climate change alone is not causing it. You have to have the right weather systems too.\"\n\nBBC science editor David Shukman said scientists such as those at the Met Office were usually reluctant to link individual heatwaves, storms or floods directly to climate change without a specific study to prove it.\n\nBut he said research had shown that events like last summer's heatwave were made more likely by the rising levels of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.\n\nWhat February looks like in Devon: Soaking up the rays near Woolacombe\n\nMany Londoners headed to parks, like here among the daffodils in St. James's\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by paulgerrardactor This article contains content provided by Instagram. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe unusually high temperatures have prompted hedgehogs to come out of hibernation, butterflies to emerge and migrating birds such as swallows and house martins to arrive more than a month early.\n\nThe RSPB said birds, insects and other wildlife could face \"a real crisis\" if the weather turns colder, as forecasts predict.\n\nTrees such as field maples and European larches have also been budding early, according to the Woodland Trust.\n\nThe sea near Dungeness, Kent, sparkled in the sunshine as a sailing boat went by\n\nThe scene at Brighton beach on Monday afternoon\n\nInverleith Park in Edinburgh was bathed in light in the early morning\n\nThe warm weather is in stark contrast to February 2018, when the so-called \"Beast from the East\" brought freezing temperatures and heavy snow, with 21cm recorded at Copley, Durham, on the last day of the month.\n\nThen, high pressure moving north into Scandinavia drew cold air towards the UK from Siberia.\n\nThis week's conditions come instead from the tropical Atlantic and parts of north Africa.", "Celtic boss Brendan Rodgers is expected to be confirmed as Leicester City's new manager after holding talks with the Premier League club.\n\nFormer Liverpool boss Rodgers is in the Midlands after discussions on Monday night and a deal to replace the sacked Claude Puel is believed to be close.\n\nFormer boss Neil Lennon has agreed to take over at Celtic until the end of the season, and could be in charge for Wednesday's Scottish Premiership trip to Hearts. He will be assisted by current first-team coach John Kennedy.\n\n\"We're still waiting on hearing back from Leicester,\" Celtic chief executive Peter Lawwell told reporters.\n\n\"Brendan is down there at the moment and I think they have a few things to sort out.\"\n\nEx-Liverpool manager Rodgers cut short a BBC Scotland interview after the champions' win over Motherwell on Sunday when asked about the Leicester vacancy.\n\nCeltic are eight points clear of nearest rivals Rangers in the league as they chase an eighth successive title.\n\nRodgers has won every domestic trophy he has contested - two Scottish Premierships, three Scottish League Cups and two Scottish Cups - since arriving at Parkhead in the summer of 2016.\n\nThey reached the group stages of the Champions League in his first two seasons, but were knocked out in the third qualifying round by AEK Athens this term amid unrest between Rodgers and the Celtic board over a failure to strengthen the squad last summer.\n\nLast week, they bowed out of the Europa League at the last-32 stage for the second successive season, losing to Valencia.\n\n'It is no surprise other clubs want him' - Gerrard\n\nRangers boss Steven Gerrard played under Rodgers at Liverpool, where he narrowly failed to guide them to the Premier League title in 2014 before his departure in October 2015.\n\nGerrard, speaking on Tuesday, said: \"Brendan has done ever so well at Celtic over the last few years. It is no surprise other clubs watch him and want to acquire his services.\n\n\"I have worked with Brendan, he is a very good coach. I am not surprised at the timing. From our point of view, we will keep an eye on it and see how it pans out. My focus is on Rangers.\"\n\nPuel was dismissed after 16 months in charge following Saturday's 4-1 defeat by Crystal Palace.\n\nThe 57-year-old Frenchman left the club 12th in the Premier League having lost five of their past six league games.\n\nFirst-team coaches Mike Stowell and Adam Sadler were put in temporary charge. Leicester play Brighton at home in the Premier League on Tuesday (19:45 GMT).\n\nOops you can't see this activity! To enjoy Newsround at its best you will need to have JavaScript turned on.\n\n'The news Celtic have been dreading' - analysis\n\nIt's the news the Celtic fans had been dreading. Since taking over in 2016 he has delivered everything domestically - the double treble was secured at the end of last season and the club were on the way to making it three in a row.\n\nBut there was always a feeling the former Liverpool boss wanted to try his luck once again in English football's top flight. Suggestions he wasn't getting the boardroom backing he was looking for may also have hastened his exit - but it leaves Celtic looking to replace one of their most successful managers.\n\nRodgers has rebuilt his reputation in Scotland after his ultimate failings at Liverpool and is certainly not short of personality or charisma.\n\nThe 46-year-old also plays attractive, attacking football and shares in Puel's penchant for promoting young talent. And after three years and seven trophies - to date - maybe Rodgers will feel that the time is right to leave.", "Maxine Hambleton, 18, was killed while handing out party invitations in one of the pubs\n\nThe brother of a Birmingham pub bombings victim felt he had \"driven my sister to her death\" by giving her a lift to the city on the night she died.\n\nBrian Hambleton, whose sister Maxine was among 21 killed in the 1974 blasts, recalled his final memory of her as inquests into the atrocity resumed.\n\nHis was one of a number of emotional \"pen portrait\" tributes read at the outset of the new hearings.\n\nFamily members said the dead were \"cruelly robbed\" of their lives.\n\nTwo bombs ripped through the Mulberry Bush and Tavern in the Town pubs on 21 November, killing 21 and injuring 220.\n\nTwenty-one people died when two bombs were detonated in Birmingham in 1974\n\nMr Hambleton told the hearing at Birmingham Civil Justice Centre he had driven 18-year-old Maxine into the city in return for her ironing his shirt.\n\nHe said: \"I will always remember her closing the car door and walking away from me, waving at me. My joyful, carefree, upbeat, talented sister I would never see again.\"\n\n\"I had literally driven my sister to her death,\" he said.\n\nJurors also heard one of the victims, Michael Beasley, gave away a \"lucky charm\" to the wife of the Mulberry Bush's landlord that night.\n\nTen people died in the first blast at the Mulberry Bush, below the Rotunda building\n\n\"He told her he'd found a lucky Cornish pixie charm on the bus on the way to town that night and gave the charm to her,\" said Peter Skelton QC, for the coroner.\n\n\"Mary kept the charm and always carried it with her.\"\n\nThe inquest heard statements about 16 victims on Tuesday, including:\n\nThe remaining statements are due to be heard on Wednesday.\n\nAmendment 14 March 2019: This story has been updated to reflect the most recent information that 220 people were injured in the blasts.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Chelsea\n\nChelsea goalkeeper Kepa Arrizabalaga has been fined a week's wages and apologised for refusing to be substituted during Sunday's Carabao Cup final defeat by Manchester City.\n\nThe Spaniard refused to be replaced by Willy Caballero at Wembley.\n\n\"Although there was a misunderstanding, on reflection, I made a big mistake with how I handled the situation,\" Kepa said in a Chelsea statement.\n\nManager Maurizio Sarri said he and Kepa had since had \"a good conversation\".\n\nSarri, who reacted angrily when Kepa refused to leave the field towards the end of extra time, also said the incident had been \"a misunderstanding\".\n\nBut he added: \"Kepa realises he made a big mistake in the way he reacted.\n\n\"He has apologised to me, his team-mates and the club. It is up to the club if they want to discipline him according to the club rules, but for me this matter is now closed.\n\n\"The team performance as a whole was extremely positive and it is a shame to see how this incident has overshadowed our efforts in what was a very competitive cup final.\"\n\nKepa, the club's record £71m signing, defied Sarri's attempt to substitute him for Caballero before Manchester City won on penalties. The Italian appeared furious and walked down the tunnel before quickly returning.\n\nThe 24-year-old former Athletic Bilbao player said: \"I wanted to take the time today to apologise fully and in person to the coach, to Willy, my team-mates and to the club.\n\n\"I have done this and now I want to offer the same apology to the fans. I will learn from this episode and will accept any punishment or discipline the club decides is appropriate.\"\n\nThe club will donate Kepa's fine to the Chelsea Foundation.", "In an effort to deal with the sex scandals rocking the Roman Catholic Church, the Pope has convened an extraordinary summit of bishops in Rome.\n\nThis follows his recent, unprompted, admission that priests had exploited nuns as \"sex slaves\" at a convent in France.\n\nPope Francis decided to call this global conference after discussions with the so-called C9. This is the group of nine cardinal advisers who were appointed soon after Francis was elected.\n\nThe Pope is under serious pressure to provide leadership and generate workable solutions to what is the most pressing crisis facing the modern Church.\n\nStories of abuse have emerged in every corner of the world. And the Church has been accused of covering up crimes committed by priests, leaving its moral authority in tatters.\n\nPope Francis must also confront the assumptions, attitudes and practices that have allowed a culture of abuse to flourish. The extent of this challenge may prove overwhelming.\n\nJournalist Jason Berry was one of the first people to expose the extent of abuse in the Church\n\nThe summit, to be attended by the heads of all national bishops' conferences from more than 130 countries, is only the beginning of an attempt to address a sickness that has been poisoning the Church since at least the 1980s.\n\nWhen Jason Berry, a local newspaper reporter in the US state of Louisiana, began following the story of an abusive priest called Father Gilbert Gauthe, he did not expect his work to ignite an international scandal that is still ablaze more than 30 years later.\n\nMr Berry's work led to the 1992 book Lead Us Not Into Temptation, based on civil legal actions that the Church settled with multiple accusers towards the end of the 1980s.\n\nIn 2002, Mr Berry's work was followed by an investigation at the Boston Globe newspaper that provided an even more extensive narrative of clergy abuse and cover-up. The journalists won a prestigious Pulitzer Prize and their work was dramatised in the film Spotlight.\n\nThe work of the Boston Globe's Michael Rezendes, (left), Walter V Robinson, and Sacha Pfeiffer (right) led to the Academy Award-winning film Spotlight\n\nConsider six of the eight Roman Catholic dioceses in the state of Pennsylvania, which were the subject of scrutiny last year.\n\nThe State Attorney, Josh Shapiro, subpoenaed and reviewed half a million internal diocesan documents. Dozens of witnesses gave evidence, some clergy admitted to their offences. Mr Shapiro's report, published in December, was devastating.\n\n\"Over 1,000 child victims were identifiable from the Church's own records,\" he wrote, with \"credible allegations against over 300 predator priests\".\n\nThe report, which is more than 1,000 pages long, covers the past 70 years - and the examples are horrific.\n\nIn the diocese of Scranton, a priest raped a girl and when she became pregnant arranged for an abortion. The priest's line manager, his area bishop, wrote a letter.\n\n\"This is a very difficult time in your life and I realise how upset you are,\" he wrote. \"I too share your grief.\"\n\nThe letter was not addressed to the girl, but the priest.\n\nIn another diocese, a priest visited a seven-year-old girl in hospital after she had undergone a tonsillectomy - and raped her.\n\nIn another, a priest abused a nine-year-old and then rinsed out the boy's mouth with holy water \"to purify him\".\n\nThe report concluded that predatory paedophiles had been able to abuse children because the Church hid their activities by moving accused clerics on to other parishes and not reporting their offences to the police.\n\nThe Rt Rev Franco Mulakkal had risen from small-town Kerala, on India's south-west coast, to become a bishop in the north of the country.\n\nHe was arrested in September 2018, following allegations from a nun that he regularly visited her convent in order to rape her. The bishop, who has temporarily stood down from ministry, has denied all the charges, telling reporters the accusations are \"baseless and concocted\".\n\nCatholic nuns in Kerala, India, are calling for the arrest of the Rt Rev Franco Mulakkal, of Jalandhar, for alleged rape\n\nIn a letter, written by the nun to her superiors, she claimed the first rape had happened in May 2014 and the last in September 2016.\n\nIn January, the nuns appealed to the chief minister of Kerala to intervene on their behalf, after Church officials allegedly ordered them to leave the state, in an effort to clean up the mess.\n\nNuns have complained that they are exploited because they are often reliant upon priests and bishops for their accommodation and fear abandonment if they fight back against abusive clergy.\n\nIn Malawi, where HIV prevalence among adults up to the age of 64 is more than 10%, nuns are also alleged to have been targeted because they are regarded as \"pure\" and much less likely to be carrying the virus.\n\nIn 2012, the Australian government announced a Royal Commission, which was charged with investigating institutional responses to child abuse. The organisations involved included residential care centres for young people, schools, sports, arts and other community groups, and the Church.\n\nThe commission concluded that 7% of Australia's Roman Catholic priests had allegedly abused children between 1950 and 2010.\n\nIn one religious order, the St John of God Brothers, 40% of its leaders were accused of abusing children.\n\nChrissie Foster, the mother of two children who were abused by priests in Melbourne, complained to the authorities. She told BBC News that instead of addressing her concerns, the family became the subject of a whispering campaign.\n\n\"They said that we were liars, that we were after money,\" she said.\n\n\"That's what they would say to parishioners. And parishioners would believe [it] because who would believe that a priest would rape a child? It was much easier to believe that lie than the truth that priests were sexually abusing children.\"\n\nIn August 2018, the Roman Catholic Church in Australia published its formal response to the Royal Commission.\n\nChrissie Foster is the mother of two children who were abused by priests in Melbourne, Australia\n\nArchbishop the Most Reverend Mark Coleridge, president of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference, said that \"far too many\" clergy, religious and lay people within the Church in Australia had \"failed in their duty to protect and honour the dignity of all including and especially the most vulnerable, our children and our young people\".\n\n\"With one voice, the bishops and the leaders of religious orders here this morning make the pledge, 'Never again,'\" he said.\n\nLast summer, Britain's Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse published a report on two of the most prestigious Roman Catholic schools in the UK: Ampleforth College, in North Yorkshire, and Downside School, in Somerset.\n\nAccording to the report, the schools \"prioritised the monks and their own reputations over the protection of children\" and \"appalling abuse was inflicted over decades on children as young as seven at Ampleforth and 11 at Downside\".\n\nThe inquiry heard witness testimony from those who were forced into sexual acts, sometimes in the presence of fellow pupils.\n\nIn conclusion, the report found that \"many perpetrators did not hide their sexual interests from the children\".\n\n\"The blatant openness of these activities demonstrates there was a culture of acceptance of abusive behaviour,\" it said.\n\nFollowing publication, Ampleforth said the \"abbey and college wishes to repeat their heartfelt apology to all victims and survivors of abuse\".\n\nDownside expressed similar regret, saying: \"The abbey and school fully acknowledges the serious failings and mistakes made in both protecting those within our care and responding to safeguarding concerns.\"\n\nDownside Abbey and school apologised for failing its pupils\n\nFor an organisation that numbers more than 1.2 billion adherents and is present in virtually every country on Earth, the focus is now firmly fixed on Pope Francis.\n\nWhen he was elected, in March 2013, the Pope was fully aware of the impact of clerical abuse scandals on the Church.\n\nWithin a year, in July 2014, he met six victims from three countries - two people each from Ireland, Britain and Germany. At a private Mass, with the six victims among the congregation, he offered an explicit apology.\n\n\"Before God and his people, I express my sorrow for the sins and grave crimes of clerical sexual abuse committed against you,\" Pope Francis said during his homily, published later by the Vatican.\n\nA demonstration near the Vatican in support of the victims of paedophile priests\n\n\"And I humbly ask forgiveness. I beg your forgiveness, too, for the sins of omission on the part of Church leaders who did not respond adequately to reports of abuse made by family members, as well as by abuse victims themselves.\"\n\nSoon after, Pope Francis added eight new members to the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors, from Africa, Oceania, Asia, and South America. But this body was soon hit by defections. The only two individuals on the commission who'd been victims of abuse, Marie Collins and Peter Saunders, resigned.\n\nMarie Collins, who was molested by a priest when she was 13, wrote a letter saying that while the Pope may have wanted to address clerical abuse, the Vatican's bureaucracy kept obstructing proposals for change.\n\nAfter the commission made a recommendation that all correspondence from victims and survivors should receive a response, she discovered that none had received replies.\n\n\"I find it impossible to listen to public statements about the deep concern in the Church for the care of those whose lives have been blighted by abuse,\" she wrote, \"yet to watch privately as a congregation in the Vatican refuses to even acknowledge their letters.\"\n\nShe concluded with these words: \"It is a reflection of how this whole abuse crisis in the Church has been handled: with fine words in public and contrary actions behind closed doors.\"\n\nClerical abuse survivor Marie Collins resigned from the Church's commission for the protection of minors\n\nPope Francis has decided to open the doors, convening an unprecedented summit to address the issue. But he's already tried to reduce expectations by warning the media, during the flight back to Rome from the United Arab Emirates, that a three-day conference represents only the beginning of a conversation.\n\nOthers have argued that he should simply issue an edict for the Church to follow. But implementing universal protocols is challenging because the Church exists in a range of cultures and judicial systems.\n\nIt's hard to imagine a more pressing challenge for the 82-year-old pontiff. His pontificate began with widespread enthusiasm for a man who chose pastoral appeal over pomp and ceremony, humility and compassion over the trappings of status.\n\nBut how it ends is likely to depend on the action he takes, and the protocols he implements, to deal with the scourge of abuse.\n\nIf you have been affected by any of the issues regarding sexual abuse raised in this article, help and support are available. Find out more at BBC Action Line.\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. Theresa May: \"An extension cannot take no deal off the table.\"\n\nTheresa May has promised MPs a vote on delaying the UK's departure from the EU or ruling out a no-deal Brexit, if they reject her deal next month.\n\nMrs May made a statement to MPs about Brexit on Tuesday, amid the threat of a revolt by Remain-supporting ministers.\n\nThe PM has promised MPs a meaningful vote on her Brexit deal by 12 March.\n\nBut Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn accused the prime minister of another \"grotesquely reckless\" Brexit delay.\n\nThe prime minister said she will put her withdrawal agreement - including any changes she has agreed with the EU - to a meaningful vote by 12 March.\n\nIf that fails, MPs will be offered two separate votes:\n\n\"Let me be clear, I do not want to see Article 50 extended,\" she told MPs.\n\n\"Our absolute focus should be on working to get a deal and leaving on 29 March.\"\n\nAny extension should not go beyond the end of June and \"would almost certainly have to be a one-off\", she added.\n\nMrs May said an extension \"cannot take no deal off the table\", adding: \"The only way to do that is to revoke Article 50, which I shall not do, or agree a deal.\"\n\nExtending Article 50 would require the unanimous backing of the other 27 EU member states and, she said, she had not had conversations about it with them.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMrs May repeatedly declined to say whether she would vote against a no-deal Brexit, and whether Tory MPs would be whipped to vote for or against it.\n\nTheresa May's big concession - and it was a significant tactical retreat - was about buying herself more time.\n\nSo now, under the threat of maybe 15 to 20 ministers rebelling, the prime minister's promised MPs an opportunity next month to rule out a no-deal Brexit, and force a \"limited\" delay in leaving the EU.\n\nWithout that promise, there's every chance those unhappy ministers would have joined other MPs in voting to rule out no-deal and delay Brexit anyway.\n\nShe did not offer ministers freedom to vote as they choose. So now the (potential) rebels must decide whether to hold fire for a fortnight, while she tries to get terms in Brussels she can sell to the Commons - hoping Brexiteers ultimately back her deal as the best Brexit available.\n\nCall it \"running down the clock\", or \"kicking the can down the road\", if you like.\n\nBut kicking and running has been Mrs May's best hope for months.\n\nSeveral Remain-backing ministers were threatening to resign, so that they could vote for a cross-party amendment aimed at ruling out a no-deal Brexit, when MPs vote on a government motion on Wednesday.\n\nConservative Caroline Spelman and Labour's Jack Dromey said they \"welcomed\" the PM's statement but they would still table amendments paving the way for a bill to extend Article 50.\n\nThey will then \"seek assurances from ministers during [the] debate to secure confirmation of the prime minister's commitments, which we hope will mean we will not push our amendments to a vote\", the pair said in a joint statement.\n\nAnother of the MPs behind the amendment, Conservative Sir Oliver Letwin, had earlier said there was no need for it now, because the prime minister's statement \"does what is needed to prevent a no-deal exit on 29 March\".\n\nBut opponents of Mrs May who support another EU referendum said she had still not ruled out a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThe Independent Group's Anna Soubry, who quit the Conservatives in protest at their Brexit policy, said it was a \"shameful moment\" and \"nothing has changed\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Anna Soubry asks Theresa May if \"nothing has changed, and no deal remains firmly on the table.\"\n\nJacob Rees-Mogg, the chairman of the European Research Group of Leave-backing Conservative MPs, said: \"My suspicion is that any delay to Brexit is a plot to stop Brexit.\n\n\"This would be the most grievous error that politicians could commit.\"\n\nSpeaking after a meeting with Theresa May, DUP Leader Arlene Foster said the PM had to deliver on her commitment to get legally-binding changes to her EU withdrawal agreement.\n\n\"Experience in Northern Ireland has shown that extending deadlines does nothing to encourage a deal,\" she said.\n\nThe EU had it \"in their hands\" to avoid a no-deal Brexit, she added, and come up with a deal which MPs can support.\n\n\"It's time for Dublin and Brussels to be in a deal-making mode,\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nJeremy Corbyn said he had \"lost count\" of the prime minister's explanations for her \"grotesquely reckless\" Brexit delays.\n\n\"The prime minister continues to say it is her deal or no deal, but this House has decisively rejected her deal and has clearly rejected no deal,\" he told MPs.\n\n\"It is the prime minister's obstinacy that is blocking a resolution.\"\n\nMr Corbyn says Labour will get behind another EU referendum if the party can't get its own Brexit proposals through Parliament on Wednesday.\n\nIf Mrs May's Brexit deal gets through Parliament next month, Labour wants it to be put to a public vote - with remaining in the EU as the other option.\n\nThe SNP's Westminster leader Ian Blackford said Mrs May \"could not be trusted\" not to \"dodge\" another meaningful vote.\n\nHe said: \"It's the height of irresponsibility for any government to threaten its citizens with these consequences.\n\n\"Rule out no deal, extend Article 50, but do it today - this should not be left until the middle of March.\"\n\nBut Mrs May surprised the House by quoting a TV advert in her response: \"If he wants to end the uncertainty and deal with the issues he raised...then he should vote for a deal. Simples.\"", "Katie Price was found guilty of being in charge of a vehicle while over the limit\n\nTV star Katie Price has been convicted of being nearly twice the legal limit while in charge of her pink Range Rover.\n\nThe 40-year-old argued she was not in control of the 4X4 when she was arrested in a drunken state in the back seat in Greenwich in the early hours of 10 October.\n\nShe said that a mystery man had driven but Judge Nigel Dean found she was not a \"credible\" witness.\n\nShe was banned for three months.\n\nA charge of drink-driving was dropped due to insufficient evidence.\n\nThe three-month driving ban adds to another from earlier this year for driving while disqualified, Bexley Magistrates' Court heard.\n\nAlong with a £1,500 fine, Price was also ordered to pay costs and a victim surcharge to bring her total bill to £2,425.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The ups and downs of Katie Price's life\n\nThe court heard PCs Benjamin Jones and Balvinder Mann first saw the Range Rover veer off the road and hit a grass verge at 00:40 BST, before seeing it stationary about 15 minutes later.\n\nPC Jones told magistrates Price, of Horsham, West Sussex, was in a \"very\" drunken state in the back while her friend Kris Boyson was in the passenger seat.\n\n\"Her eyes were blurred and her speech was a bit slurred,\" he said.\n\nThe officer said the bumper was hanging off, pieces of shrubbery were attached to the vehicle and there also \"appeared to be sick on the outside\".\n\nPrice told the court she had drunk between three and four \"pornstar martini\" cocktails at Mr Boyson's 30th birthday party in a restaurant.\n\nShe said she allowed one of his friends to drive the car back towards Mr Boyson's house near Bluewater - and did not remember any crash.\n\n\"I was really drunk. I'm such a lightweight,\" she said.\n\nBoth Price and Mr Boyson claimed the unnamed driver had fled following an argument, the court heard.\n\nPC Jones said the pair claimed the driver had the key but the car's engine later turned on.\n\nBoth officers were unable to ascertain who had been driving at the time.\n\nProsecutor Sonya Saul told the court Price was taken for a breathalyser test at a police station.\n\nShe had 69 microgrammes of alcohol per 100 millilitres of breath. The legal limit is 35 microgrammes.\n\nSpeaking outside court after the sentencing, Price told reporters: \"It got proven today there was no evidence at all of me drink-driving so I rest my case on that.\"\n\n\"I get my driving licence back on 24 May which means I can go car shopping - let's ban the pink car.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Pte Geoff Gray was found with two gunshot wounds to his head\n\nThe family of a 17-year-old soldier found shot dead at Deepcut barracks have made fresh claims they believe he was murdered.\n\nPte Geoff Gray's mother also voiced doubts a second inquest due to begin in Surrey would bring any answers.\n\nDiane Gray said witnesses asked for by the family would not appear.\n\nFour young soldiers died at Deepcut between 1995 and 2002. Pte Gray was found with two gunshot wounds to his head in 2001.\n\nA first inquest in 2002 into the death of the soldier from Seaham, County Durham, who lived in Hackney, London, from the age of five, ended with an open verdict.\n\nA new hearing is taking place at Woking Coroner's Court after the family won the right to apply for a new hearing, arguing fresh evidence had come to light.\n\nSecond inquests held into the deaths of Pte Cheryl James and Pte Sean Benton concluded they had killed themselves, after hearing evidence of bullying and a lack of care at the barracks.\n\nMrs Gray, who has viewed material from Surrey Police disclosed to the family, said she had been left shocked by what she had been shown, but was unable to talk about it under a legal order.\n\nAt a pre-inquest review last year, Judge Coroner Peter Rook QC heard the issue facing the second inquest was \"simply who pulled the trigger\".\n\nFour young soldiers died at Deepcut barracks between 1995 and 2002\n\nMrs Gray said the family had wanted former senior Surrey Police detective Colin Sutton to give evidence after he told ITV he \"felt pressured to conclude the soldier deaths were suicides\".\n\nBut she said: \"The coroner doesn't deem it necessary.\"\n\nMrs Gray added: \"There is no evidence at all of Geoff being bullied.\n\n\"We believe he was murdered, that somebody else killed him.\"\n\nMrs Gray added that she was not looking forward to the inquest, but said: \"We have no choice. We have had no choice from the very beginning.\n\n\"It's something we have to do. We owe it to our son to find out how he died.\"\n\nThe inquest, which is being held without a jury, is due to hear from 60 witnesses before final submissions are made in May.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The father of a 13-year-old girl who was found hanged after going missing for three days has spoken of his grief and anger.\n\nAmber Peat was found dead on 2 June 2015, after she had left her home in the aftermath a row with her mother and stepfather.\n\nHer biological father Adrian Cook says agencies in Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire \"let her down\" and he will keep fighting for her.\n\nAt the inquest into her death at Nottingham Coroner's Court, coroner Laurinda Bower heard there had been 11 opportunities to prevent Amber's death.\n\nFollowing three weeks of hearings, Ms Bower recorded a narrative conclusion on Friday after telling the court she considered returning a conclusion of suicide but was unable to be sure whether Amber intended to die.", "Campaigners and MPs who have been pushing hard for another go at the EU referendum might be popping corks tonight, you may think.\n\nIt's certainly significant in Labour circles, and satisfying to those who have been cajoling, urging, demanding that the leadership pay more attention to the many members of the party who want another referendum and make a concrete promise.\n\nIf you are one of those people who'd love a chance to stop Brexit via another referendum, beware. Your celebratory drink tonight might go flat rather fast.\n\nBecause, while this move counts politically, of course, the move does not mean that there will be another referendum.\n\nLabour, since its conference, has had the option on the table to push for another vote if other things don't happen.\n\nTheir position was to campaign for a referendum if they couldn't force a general election - that didn't happen.\n\nTheir position now is that if they can't get Labour's version of Brexit through the Commons next week, they'll move to a promise of another say for all of us at a future date.\n\nThat will ease the irritation of many Labour MPs who have for a long time, hoped that Jeremy Corbyn would be a bit more enthusiastic about having another go.\n\nFor those like Keir Starmer who have tried to push him in that direction, this is in a way a victory.\n\nBut hold on, it really doesn't mean it's about to happen.\n\nThe Labour leadership has moved to this position believing that, as things stand, a plan to hold another referendum would not get the votes it needs in Parliament.\n\nRight now, they reckon it's a promise they can make, but will probably never have to keep.\n\nBut if, as this political moment implies, there is a total meltdown, the prime minister's deal falls and chaos beckons, the move tonight keeps Labour's options firmly open, and has a better shout at keeping anxious Labour Europhiles happy.\n\nIn such volatile times it is, of course, not impossible that a majority for another vote could emerge.\n\nBut there is already some angst over the move.\n\nIt is not entirely clear what this theoretical referendum would decide.\n\nExpect therefore lots of tricky questions, over the question itself.\n\nAnd it's awkward for the many Labour MPs, including some in the shadow cabinet, who believe that holding another vote would be a mistake.\n\nNothing for any of our political parties is easy when it comes to Brexit.\n\nThe opposition, just like the government, is trying to keep a lot of different balls in the air.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Spike Lee on why Green Book, which stars Mahershala Ali, was \"not my cup of tea\"\n\nSpike Lee did not do much to hide his displeasure when Green Book beat his film and six others to this year's best picture Oscar.\n\nAccording to one report, the BlacKkKlansman director tried to storm out of the Dolby Theatre when the winner was read out by Julia Roberts.\n\n\"I thought I was courtside at the [Madison Square] Garden and the ref made a bad call,\" Lee later told reporters, saying the film was \"not his cup of tea\".\n\n\"I'm snake-bit,\" he joked, using a euphemism for experiencing failure or bad luck. \"Every time somebody's driving somebody, I lose.\"\n\nHis comment was a reference to Driving Miss Daisy, winner of the best picture Oscar in 1990 and a film to which Green Book has been compared. Lee's film Do the Right Thing was nominated for two Oscars in 1990 - best original screenplay and best supporting actor - but missed out on both.\n\nIn Green Book, an African-American classical pianist is driven around the American south of the 1960s by an Italian-American chauffeur. In Driving Miss Daisy, an elderly Southern matron grudgingly agrees to be chauffeured by an African-American driver.\n\n\"They changed the seating arrangement!\" said Lee of Green Book, which also won Oscars for its screenplay and for supporting actor Mahershala Ali.\n\nBlack Panther star Chadwick Boseman also expressed disappointment as Green Book director Peter Farrelly and his predominantly white production team took to the stage.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nJustin Chang from the Los Angeles Times was particularly scathing of Green Book's triumph, calling it \"the worst best picture Oscar winner since Crash.\" Crash, a multi-stranded drama about race relations in contemporary Los Angeles, was the widely reviled winner of the best picture award in 2006.\n\n\"Green Book is about as traditional a choice as you can get,\" wrote The Independent's Clarisse Loughrey, describing its win as \"a case of the same old, same old\".\n\nThe film, which was released in the UK earlier this month, takes its title from a guidebook African-American travellers once used to negotiate the United States.\n\nViggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali as Tony Vallelonga and Don Shirley\n\nSo what is it about Farrelly's film that has rubbed so many the wrong way? For many, it's the idea that the film perpetuates the \"white saviour\" trope that can be found in so many Hollywood films about bigotry and intolerance.\n\nAli's character, real-life musician Don Shirley, is pivotal to the story. Yet its real protagonist is Viggo Mortensen's Tony \"The Lip\" Vallelonga, a bouncer-cum-bodyguard whose friendship with Shirley makes him wise up to his own racial prejudices.\n\nAccording to Vox's critic Todd VanDerWerff, the film \"lets white folks off the hook for whatever responsibility we bear for the crushing weight of systemic racism\". The film has also been criticised for its use of a so-called \"magical negro\" figure whose sole function is to facilitate positive change in a white character.\n\nGreen Book won the People's Choice award at last year's Toronto Film Festival - an award seen by many as a reliable indicator of Oscar glory. Yet the film would soon run into a number of public relations potholes that made last night's win seem like a remote possibility.\n\nFirst came Mortensen's use of 'the N-word' in a post-screening Q&A session, an incident for which he issued a fulsome apology. Then came criticism from members of Shirley's family, who dismissed the film as \"a symphony of lies\" that exaggerated Vallelonga's relationship with his employer.\n\nNick Vallelonga with two of Green Book's Oscars\n\nIn January, Farrelly issued his own apology for exposing his penis to colleagues in the late 1990s, saying he had been \"an idiot\" and that he was now \"deeply sorry\".\n\nMore contrition followed from Vallelonga's son Nick, one of Green Book's writers, over a 2015 tweet in which he claimed he had seen Muslims in New Jersey celebrating the 9/11 attacks.\n\nControversy dogged Green Book all the way to the Oscar ceremony itself, with some questioning whether it was right to have veteran congressman John Lewis present its best picture citation. The US author and journalist Raquel Cepeda wrote that President Donald Trump \"would have been a better peddler of Green Book's saccharine propaganda\".\n\nYet it would be wrong to say the film is entirely without friends. \"I don't care about what they say, Green Book is a such a fantastic movie and deserved that freaking Oscar!\" tweeted one defiant fan on Monday.\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\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The unfortunate rat was almost - but not quite - small enough for its bolthole\n\nIn the German town of Bensheim, rescue workers got an unusual call - a chubby rat needed help after getting stuck halfway out of a sewer manhole.\n\n\"She had a lot of winter flab and was stuck fast at her hip - there was no going forward or back,\" animal rescuer Michael Sehr told local media.\n\nA fairly large rescue operation ensued - leading some to question why all the effort was spent on saving a sewer rat.\n\n\"Even animals that are hated by many deserve respect,\" Mr Sehr responded.\n\nVolunteer firefighters reacted to a call on Sunday afternoon, the local fire department said, and noted the \"animal rescue, small animal\" code.\n\nMr Sehr, from the local professional animal rescue in Rhein Neckar, was already there - but could not free the chunky rodent from the top of the manhole cover.\n\nIt took about eight firefighters and an animal expert to put the sewer rat back where it belongs\n\nWith the help of a full team of firefighters, the manhole cover was lifted and propped on wedges while Mr Sehr managed to pop the rotund rat free.\n\nShe was released straight back into the sewer - but not before some close-up photographs were snapped.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nOnce uploaded to the animal rescue team's Facebook page, they attracted hundreds of comments applauding the care given to an animal that is more often targeted for extermination.\n\nFor Mr Sehr, however, there was no charge for the finder of this animal in distress - but he did receive a hand-drawn picture of the rat, surrounded by hearts, from the little girl who first found the distressed and squeaking creature.", "British teenager Shauna Davison was given an experimental transplant in 2012, in the hope of prolonging her life. Her mother says she was told in advance about two patients who had survived a similar operation - but not about others who had died. The BBC's Deborah Cohen asks whether Shauna, who died after two weeks, was a casualty of the rush to develop stem cell technology?\n\nShauna Davison was born with one lung, a cleft palate and a major heart defect. But despite spending her life in and out of hospital she remained a happy child.\n\n\"Her illness never got her down and she always had a smile on her face,\" says Shauna's mother, Karen Davison. \"Everyone was so nice to her. They looked beyond her problems.\"\n\nWhen she was 12 weeks old, doctors found problems with her trachea - or windpipe. It was very narrow and when it became obstructed, she couldn't breathe. She was given 48 hours to live.\n\nKaren Davison: \"She was a cheeky child but loved by everybody\"\n\nA surgeon in Leeds came to the rescue. David Crabbe warned that it might not work, but he managed to rebuild Shauna's windpipe out of her ribs.\n\nShauna had to stay in hospital for six months and had ring-shaped stents put in her windpipe to keep it open.\n\nMr Crabbe was really caring, Karen Davison says. \"The hospital was outstanding.\"\n\nOver the years, Shauna's stents needed dilating as she grew bigger. She had a tracheostomy - an opening in the front of her neck - to help her breathe.\n\n\"There were times we didn't think she'd make it because she kept collapsing,\" Karen Davison says.\n\nAt home in Middlesbrough, she learned how to change Shauna's tracheostomy tube, use a ventilator, do physiotherapy to help her clear her airway, suction her airway, do CPR, and give her intravenous antibiotics.\n\n\"I did everything for her,\" she says. \"Shauna coped marvellously. But she didn't know any different.\"\n\nAn avid Middlesbrough Football Club fan, Shauna loved wearing a football kit. She went to a mainstream school, with the support of a carer, where she could mix with other children.\n\n\"She was a cheeky child, but loved by everybody,\" her mother says. \"She brightened everyone's day.\"\n\nShauna had many operations but she'd always come through. At times, she didn't go near a hospital for ages, Karen says.\n\nA time came, however, when David Crabbe told her that his technique for treating Shauna was no longer going to be sufficient. Her airway was too small and they would have to look for other options.\n\n\"Mr Crabbe showed me pictures of a normal airway and her airway. It was tiny,\" Karen Davison says.\n\nShauna started to go to Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) in London for tests and to have her stent changed. In 2011, doctors there told her the airway wouldn't last much longer.\n\nAt 15, Shauna suffered a respiratory arrest - a serious incident in which she became unable to breathe - and the family was told about pioneering surgery by Prof Martin Elliott, a cardiothoracic surgeon and former medical director of Great Ormond Street Hospital.\n\n\"They said there'd been some research into tracheal transplants and there'd been two other cases where it'd been done, but they couldn't discuss them with me because of patient confidentiality,\" Karen Davison says. One of them was a 10-year-old boy, she adds.\n\n\"It would be the only chance she'd have.\"\n\nShe would receive a donor windpipe, but it would be laced with her own stem cells, making it almost like her own. She wouldn't need drugs to stop her body rejecting it. It was at the forefront of the new stem cell technology - and still very experimental.\n\nDoctors can use experimental treatments if someone is terminally ill and there is no alternative treatment. It's called \"compassionate use\".\n\nKaren says she was told Shauna wouldn't need a tracheostomy or a ventilator and she'd lead a normal life. But she was told about risks too, she adds - Shauna might still reject the transplant, and having a general anaesthetic is never risk-free.\n\nMartin Elliott had previously worked closely with the internationally renowned Martin Birchall, professor of ENT at University College London (UCL), on implanting a stem-cell-laced donor trachea in another child. They would work together again in Shauna's case.\n\nShauna was being treated at Great Ormond Street at the time of a BBC documentary about the hospital in 2012. She was assessed by different specialists and asked what her hopes for the future were. Shauna told respiratory consultant Dr Martin Wallis she wanted to be able to go swimming.\n\nIt was not an easy decision to have the operation. In Martin Wallis's words, it was not a situation where there was nothing to lose.\n\n\"They've got quite a bit to lose. And this is going to make for a difficult decision,\" he said. \"She's got a reasonable quality of life, she's got her good friend, she clearly has a sense of humour and is enjoying herself - it makes it harder.\"\n\n\"I wanted her to have it done while she was well rather than wait until she was unwell and it might not happen,\" Karen Davison says.\n\nBut because it was such an experimental procedure, her medical team discussed it with the Great Ormond Street Hospital ethics committee.\n\n\"I don't think she will die if we do the procedure. We're trying to do the procedure so that she doesn't. Or at least we prolong her life and her quality of life for as long as possible,\" the surgeon, Martin Elliott, tells the committee on camera.\n\n\"They couldn't give me a time when she'd die but they said she will die eventually. Because her airway would just give up. So there was this procedure they said they were willing to do,\" Karen Davison says. \"Like any other parent, if you thought this was going to help your child live, I agreed to it.\"\n\nSo in February 2012, Shauna was given a transplant of a donor trachea newly populated with her own stem cells.\n\nShauna's transplant operation was filmed by the BBC\n\nInitially, everything seemed to go well. \"For the first couple of days she was marvellous,\" her mother recalls. \"I couldn't believe how well she recovered after it.\"\n\nTwo weeks after her operation Shauna was moved from Great Ormond Street by ambulance to a hospital in Leeds. But during the transfer Shauna started to cough a lot and was in need of suction to clear her throat.\n\n\"We thought that was strange, but thought it might have been due to the journey,\" Karen Davison says. \"I just thought, 'Another couple of weeks and we'll be home.'\"\n\nBut the next morning, Shauna took a turn for the worse.\n\n\"Her chest was pulling in,\" Karen says. She remembers Shauna saying, \"Help me, help me.\"\n\n\"It was the worst day of my life because I couldn't help her.\"\n\n\"They said she'd struggled that much to breathe, her heart had given up,\" Karen Davison says.\n\n\"She was a wonderful child. I miss her so much.\"\n\nWhen the first transplant using a donated windpipe coated with the patient's own stem cells was carried out in 2008 it made global headlines.\n\nIt was thought that stripping the donor's cells from the surface of the trachea and seeding it with the patient's own stem cells created a new organ that would be like the patient's own tissue. No anti-rejection drugs would be needed for the \"tissue-engineered\" trachea.\n\nThe operation was carried out by Italian surgeon Paolo Macchiarini with the help of Martin Birchall, then a surgeon at Bristol University. The recipient was 30-year-old Claudia Castillo, who had tuberculosis in part of her windpipe that leads to the lungs - the bronchus.\n\nHer case was written up in The Lancet. Five months after she'd had her operation, she was reported to be in perfect health.\n\nMartin Birchall, who had helped to prepare the donor trachea, said at the time that it would \"represent a huge step change in surgery. Surgeons can now start to see and understand the potential for adult stem cells and tissue engineering to radically improve their ability to treat patients with serious diseases.\"\n\nMany around the world agreed. It was a \"milestone in medicine\", \"unadulterated good news\" and \"a textbook example of international collaboration\".\n\n\"It was seen as revolutionary, as highly innovative… opening the door for new and exciting tech using a marriage between stem cells and artificial scaffolds that could bring forth this entirely new field of regenerative medicine,\" recalls Prof John Rasko, of the University of Sydney Faculty of Health Sciences.\n\nIt had \"the whiff of a Nobel Prize about it,\" he says.\n\nIndeed, soon the university that hands out the Nobel Prize for medicine, Stockholm's prestigious Karolinska Institute, offered Macchiarini a post. Birchall, for his part, moved to University College London (UCL), where Macchiarini was also made an honorary professor.\n\nClaudia Castillo's operation served as a template and soon others had similar procedures. In 2010, Professor Birchall told a conference \"we have done a further five adults\".\n\nApart from Shauna, UK patients given a tissue-engineered trachea include 19-year-old Keziah Shorten and 10-year-old Ciaran Finn-Lynch. Shauna's surgeon, Martin Elliott, led the transplant team that performed Ciaran's operation, with the help of Macchiarini and Birchall.\n\nLike Claudia Castillo, his procedure was published in a medical journal and it garnered global headlines. Martin Birchall told journalists: \"He is left with a healthy organ there, made from his own stem cells, and that in a way is a kind of miracle.\"\n\nBut soon questions started to be asked about the stem-cell-laced tracheas.\n\nFor Macchiarini, this meant his meteoric rise was mirrored by a rapid fall from grace. He had switched from using donated tracheas to plastic ones, also laced with stem cells. The results were disastrous - his patients died.\n\nMacchiarini was investigated several times by Karolinska before he was fired. Allegations made against him were initially dismissed but the institute has since found him guilty of scientific misconduct and many of his scientific papers have been retracted. Swedish prosecutors reopened a criminal negligence investigation against him in December last year. He has previously denied any negligence.\n\nThe director of the Swedish Public Prosecution, Mikael Bjork, announces the reopening of a criminal negligence investigation into Paolo Macchiarini in December 2018\n\nBo Risberg, professor emeritus of surgery at the University of Gothenberg and a former chairman of the Swedish Ethics Council has said the events amount to the biggest research scandal Sweden has experienced in modern times.\n\n\"Everything was swept under the carpet,\" he said. Macchiarini's failure to do pre-clinical tests on animals using the plastic tracheas was \"the worst crime you can commit\", he added.\n\nOne of Macchiarini's early critics was Pierre Delaere, professor of ENT at University Hospital Leuven in Belgium, who has argued that it is \"impossible from a theoretical point of view\" to establish a new blood supply to a tissue-engineered trachea, whether plastic or donated.\n\nIn 2015, he wrote to UCL casting doubt on the idea of \"tracheal regeneration\", calling it \"the biggest lie in medical history\". By this time Macchiarini had left UCL.\n\nIn its subsequent unpublished report into Delaere's claims, seen by the BBC, UCL cast doubt on the suggestion that stem cells \"played any therapeutic role\" in Ciaran's operation.\n\nBut, it said, there was no \"deliberate fraud\" or \"intent to mislead\" on Martin Birchall's part. Because of the \"lack of intent to deceive\" the university recommended education and training rather than other formal procedures.\n\nMeanwhile, the university was gearing up to conduct clinical trials into stem-cell-regenerated tracheas and larynxes - called Inspire and RegenVox respectively. Martin Birchall was principal investigator with responsibility for leading the trials. He and his team would bring in millions of pounds of research funding to the university.\n\nIt wasn't the only time UCL produced a report into regenerative medicine at the university. In 2017, it published the findings of a special inquiry, set up after the Macchiarini revelations. This found no fault with Martin Birchall and cleared the way for future clinical trials to proceed.\n\nIt said that, when asked, Shauna's family \"were grateful for the opportunity that her daughter received and held no rancour with the tracheal team at GOSH\".\n\nUCL told the BBC this was \"reported to the inquiry by the clinicians involved in the care of Shauna Davison\".\n\nBut Shauna's mother, Karen Davison, says no-one connected to the inquiry had ever asked for her views.\n\nThe more I have looked into Shauna Davison's story the more I have discovered that Karen Davison did not know.\n\nThe two patients Karen and Shauna heard about were the 10-year-old boy, Ciaran Finn-Lynch, and Claudia Castillo, both of whom are still alive.\n\nBut they weren't told that Claudia Castillo's windpipe transplant collapsed just over three weeks after she'd had it and she needed stents to keep it open. (She's since had to have a lung removed.)\n\nNor did Karen and Shauna hear about most of the other cases Martin Birchall talked about in 2010.\n\nOne of these operations was on Kent teenager Keziah Shorten, who about two years previously had been given a tissue-engineered donor trachea by Macchiarini in Florence, after she had been diagnosed with a rare form of cancer.\n\nBut around a year after the operation, her transplant failed. Martin Birchall told a Swedish documentary in 2016 that her tissue-engineered windpipe had broken down. When she was subsequently operated on at University College London Hospital they replaced it with a plastic one. She died a month before Shauna's operation.\n\nAccording to John Rasko there is a \"strong obligation to give a full and frank account of all the information that's available. Exceptionalism and excluding bad cases is really something that is not acceptable.\"\n\nA spokesperson for GOSH said: \"As a patient, Keziah's condition and her graft were very different to Shauna, so it was not clinically relevant to discuss her case.\"\n\nThe hospital added that the other patients were not discussed \"because the team did not know of other relevant cases from overseas at this time\".\n\nThere was more that Karen and Shauna did not know. They did hear about Ciaran Finn-Lynch. But there were key differences between Shauna's operation and his.\n\nCiaran had received a stent - but Shauna didn't. According to the 2017 UCL inquiry report, Martin Elliott said that he had wanted to use a stent but was advised not to.\n\nCiaran had also received a fresh donor trachea. Shauna's wasn't fresh. It had been frozen and then thawed.\n\nIt was a treatment that hadn't been used before - after the trachea had been thawed, the donor's cells had been removed using a special vacuum technique exclusive to members of Shauna's medical team.\n\nMartin Birchall is cited as saying that Shauna's initial surgery was successful, in a letter to the European Medicines Agency\n\nTrish Murray, professor of stem cell biology and regenerative medicine at Liverpool University, has a number of criticisms.\n\n\"The reality is that if you don't have a stent, the trachea will collapse, that's been the unanimous experience of all patients who've experienced trachea transplantation,\" she says.\n\n\"So although it's well-known that stents cause problems, if you don't have a stent, then the trachea will collapse and the patient will suffocate.\"\n\nAnother issue was the frozen trachea.\n\nFor the team it made perfect sense to freeze a trachea, as the trachea could be stored up in advance and thawed when needed. But Trish Murray is critical of this decision too.\n\n\"Ciaran's trachea was not frozen beforehand whereas Shauna's was freeze-thawed and we know from papers that the group themselves have published that that would weaken the trachea... and that would make it more likely to collapse after it had been implanted,\" she says.\n\nHowever, UCL questions the relevance of these studies. It has told the BBC that they do not refer to the technique used on Shauna.\n\nTrish Murray says other worrying studies should have rung alarm bells. She points to an unpublished study looking at the vacuum technique, which shows that one pig that received a transplant died spontaneously and another developed \"respiratory compromise\" and had to be put down. The study was stopped on humane grounds.\n\n\"We know from information that's been obtained from FOI requests that the team in UCL have tried the technique on two pigs and both pigs died quite quickly. We also know that they've tried it on rabbits and there was 100% mortality in the rabbits as well,\" she says.\n\nThe BBC asked UCL and Great Ormond Street whether the animal studies were done before or after Shauna's operation, but received no reply to this question.\n\nAnd like Belgian ENT professor Pierre Delaere, Trish Murray questions the role the stem cells played.\n\n\"There's actually no evidence that any of those cells survive, in fact quite a lot of evidence that they don't survive,\" she says.\n\nBut how were doctors and scientists involved in the care of seriously ill patients able to use these tracheas when there was little evidence that they worked?\n\nUsually, researchers have to test their innovation in the lab and then on animals in preclinical research. Only then - with formal approval from a research ethics committee and the regulators - does it move into humans.\n\nMartin Birchall, however, wrote in the Lancet that \"compassionate studies\", the procedure for using new treatments on very ill patients, were \"powerful ways to inform robustly designed formal trials\" and would \"expedite the testing of novel therapies\".\n\n\"The surgeons involved have used this apparent loophole of compassionate use to actually experiment on patients and then they've used the data that they've obtained to go to the regulatory authorities to get permission for the trials,\" Trish Murray says.\n\nJohn Rasko agrees with Trish Murray that this is not how the system should work.\n\n\"Exercising the option of compassionate use brings with it great responsibility. It shouldn't be used as a way that doctors can fly under the radar of properly undertaken regulated medical practice,\" he says.\n\nAnd Great Ormond Street agrees too. \"We do not see compassionate use as a way of testing novel treatments,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nBut Shauna's transplant, and those of other patients, were used to obtain funding and approval for clinical trials, as well as being written about in medical journals and an application to the European Medicines Agency.\n\nThe BBC has found that at least seven of these documents and publications misrepresent Shauna's treatment or death in some way.\n\nFor example, in one 2016 application to the European Medicines Agency, Martin Birchall is cited as saying Shauna's initial surgery was successful but she suffered a \"fatal cardiovascular event six weeks following surgery\" - whereas in fact she died after two weeks, because her trachea had collapsed.\n\nBy the time the clinical trial to test the tissue-engineered trachea transplants was approved and funded by public bodies, a change had been made to the procedure. Having learned from what happened to Shauna, the team would make sure patients in the trial had a stent.\n\nAnd even then, the approved patient information sheets accompanying one of the trials contained erroneous information about Shauna and indeed about Claudia Castillo. Only they and Ciaran Finn-Lynch were included in the information sheet - despite the team knowing about at least 10 cases worldwide.\n\nAs early as 2014, Martin Elliott had told a conference 10 patients had received a tissue-engineered trachea, all of whom had died apart from Claudia and Ciaran.\n\nLast year, the clinical trials were suspended. UCL says no-one had been recruited to participate.\n\nMuch of what the BBC has uncovered about what happened to Shauna does not appear in UCL's special inquiry report.\n\nLeonid Schneider is a molecular-cell-biologist-turned-journalist who has been covering regenerative medicine since 2016. He was called to give evidence at UCL's inquiry and is damning in his appraisal of their report.\n\n\"Why didn't Shauna's mother have the full information? And whose idea it was not to give her a stent?\" he asks.\n\n\"Finally, how could UCL investigators recommend the donor trachea clinical trials to resume, after Prof Delaere and myself told them how many people have died of it?\" he adds.\n\nUCL says that clinical care was \"beyond the scope of the inquiry\".\n\nIt adds: \"Any research undertaken at UCL is required to conform to the highest legal, ethical and regulatory standards, and we will not hesitate to take the necessary action, if and when this falls short.\"\n\nAfter receiving ethical advice, I told Karen what the BBC had found out about tissue-engineered transplants.\n\nShe was upset. She said this might have changed her decision about allowing Shauna's operation to go ahead.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'I hope nobody else has to go through what I’ve gone through'\n\n\"I hope that nobody else has to go through what I've gone through, I really do. They should be stopped. That is such a shock. People ask me, 'How did Shauna die?' And I always say, heart attack. I've never once blamed those surgeons for her death. They have a lot to account for.\"\n\nGOSH said: \"Before Shauna's operation was carried out a comprehensive review was conducted of all the relevant published scientific and medical evidence.\"\n\nThey also said: \"We are sorry the treatment did not work for Shauna and the family feel they did not receive all relevant information. We are contacting Shauna's family to offer to meet them to talk through any concerns.\"\n\n\"It's taken them all this time, but you'd think they would have phoned me and said something to me,\" says Karen Davison. \"I know I wouldn't have had her forever, but at least I might have had her for a bit longer.\"\n\nJoin the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and Twitter.", "Marks & Spencer (M&S) and Ocado have confirmed they are in discussions about a £1.8bn joint venture.\n\nIf the two companies reach agreement, it would give M&S a food delivery service for the first time.\n\nOcado is best known for delivering Waitrose goods, with whom it pioneered online grocery deliveries 20 years ago.\n\nHowever, their latest arrangement, which prevents Ocado delivering any other retailer's own branded goods, is due to come to end next year.\n\nM&S has the most limited range of groceries of any of the leading food retailers and has held well back from the move to online delivery.\n\nRetail analyst Natalie Berg from NBK Retail said such a new deal would mean the end of the current one.\n\n\"It's safe to assume that any deal with M&S will require Ocado to dissolve its long-standing relationship with Waitrose.\"\n\nOnline behemoth Amazon is making inroads into the UK grocery market and Ms Berg said this had sparked a defensive scramble among retailers.\n\n\"The prospect of Amazon shaking up the grocery sector and transforming the way we shop is creating some strange bedfellows.\n\n\"But this move is a win-win for both parties. I think most would welcome M&S and its expertise in high-quality, prepared foods. This will be important for Ocado as they look to cater to the 'for tonight' shopping mission, having just announced plans for one-hour delivery.\"\n\nM&S has a far more limited range of groceries than its main rivals, something that would make online shopping with them exclusively, even if available, less attractive.\n\nBut Ms Berg said a tie-up would bolt Ocado's wider range on to M&S's: \"M&S would never be able to do online grocery on its own because the average transaction size is too small. Most customers don't do a full, weekly shop at M&S, the economics just don't stack up. Teaming up with Ocado would allow M&S to fill gaps in their food range and finally offer home delivery to customers.\"\n\nVincent Lee, retail analyst at Bernstein Reserch, said Marks and Spencer would effectively be \"buying Ocado's customers\" and the company's food delivery technology - allowing them to increase their market share.\n\nHe added that the M&S food business had been struggling, so it was clear that they needed a delivery business.\n\nM&S said there was no certainty the discussions would lead to a tie-up.\n\nCurrently Ocado has a deal to deliver Waitrose-branded goods and also delivers its own Ocado-branded products.\n\nIn addition, it has a delivery deal with Morrisons, although this is done under the Yorkshire-based supermarket's own brand.\n\nThe food retailing landscape is a complex one. Morrisons also sells its products through Amazon, and after pioneering online delivery with Ocado, Waitrose also delivers its own products under its own-branded vans.\n\nOcado, founded by three Goldman Sachs bankers, has recently undertaken a number of new international deals, striking licensing deals with retailers in Sweden, the US and Canada.\n\nShares in M&S were up 3% on the news while Ocado was up 10%.", "Other than crazy red carpet moments and glamorous gowns, the Oscars is often a chance for actors to inspire fans with their speeches.\n\nSome call for social and political change, like Spike Lee who exhorted the audience to \"mobilise\" ahead of the 2020 US presidential elections.\n\nOthers, like Olivia Colman, take the time to thank their nearest and dearest.\n\nHere are some of the most inspiring moments of the night.\n\n1. \"I did my best, and my best is good enough\" - Hannah Beachler\n\nJay Hart and Hannah Beachler, winners of best production design for Black Panther\n\nHannah Beachler made history as she became the first black person to win the Oscar for production design, for her work on Black Panther with Jay Hart.\n\nShe thanked director Ryan Coogler for giving her \"a safe space\" and \"brotherhood\", and she had a message for the next generation.\n\n\"I give this strength to all of those who come next, to keep going, to never give up,\" she said.\n\n\"And when you think it's impossible, just remember to say this piece of advice I got from a very wise woman: I did my best, and my best is good enough.\"\n\nFellow Black Panther crew member Ruth E Carter also made history for being the first black person to win an Oscar for best costume.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n2. \"Be heroes of your own stories\" - Constance Wu\n\nWu presented the award for best original song alongside Black Panther's Chadwick Boseman\n\nWhen chatting to Ryan Seacrest on the red carpet, Wu described Crazy Rich Asians as a \"historic\" moment, as it saw a major studio telling a story centred on her experience as an Asian-American.\n\n\"To be something like that for young women today,\" she said, \"to let them know they can be heroes of their own stories and their stories are worthy and interesting and people want to know them… that has been so meaningful to me.\"\n\n3. \"We're longing for stories like this\" - Rami Malek\n\nRami is the champion, my friends\n\nAs Rami Malek accepted his award for best actor for his performance in Bohemian Rhapsody, he said the film might offer hope to those struggling with their identity.\n\n\"We made a film about a gay man, an immigrant, who lived his life unapologetically himself,\" he said. \"And the fact that I'm celebrating him and this story with you is proof that we're longing for stories like this.\"\n\nHe also embraced being \"the son of immigrants from Egypt\" and a \"first-generation American\".\n\n4. \"To all the nerdy girls out there that hide behind their sketch books, don't be afraid\" - Domee Shi\n\nWinners Becky Neiman-Cobb (L) and Domee Shi at the Vanity Fair Oscars party\n\nChinese-Canadian animator Domee Shi collected an Academy Award for best animated short for her directorial debut, Bao. The Disney-Pixar film resonated with many Asian communities around the world for representing their culture and heritage.\n\nIn her acceptance speech, Shi gave a shout out to all the \"nerdy girls\" in the world. \"To all the nerdy girls out there that hide behind their sketch books, don't be afraid to tell your stories to the world!\" she said.\n\n\"You're gonna creep them out but you're probably gonna connect with them too and that's an amazing feeling to have.\"\n\n5. \"Having the dream is easy, making it come true is hard\" - Serena Williams\n\nWhile Serena Williams may not be an actress or singer, she knows a thing or two about what it's like to become a star.\n\n\"When we're young, we all have dreams of what we can accomplish in life,\" the tennis icon said as she introduced best picture nominee A Star Is Born. \"Having the dream is easy, making it come true is hard.\"\n\nAs her speech drew to a close, she said: \"There's the rush of fame, the pressure of success, and the heartache that comes with sacrificing love for career... or career for love.\"\n\nSome viewers thought the final part of her speech referred to her friend the Duchess of Sussex, who stood down from her role in legal drama Suits when she got engaged to Prince Harry.\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.", "Hannah Beachler won an Oscar for best production design for Black Panther, saying: \"I stand here stronger than I was yesterday.\" Like Carter, Beachler was the first black winner in her category", "Vick Hope and Roman Kemp present Capital breakfast in London, while until recently Jamie Theakston co-hosted Heart breakfast with Emma Bunton\n\nGlobal media has announced it will launch UK-wide national breakfast shows on Capital, Heart and Smooth radio.\n\nGlobal say they will be creating the three largest commercial radio breakfast shows in the UK, with 4.8m, 3.7m and 2.7m listeners respectively each week.\n\nBut it means a reduction in locally produced programmes, with more than 100 jobs at risk due to the changes.\n\nOfcom has approved the move following a change in guidelines for local radio.\n\nCapital will launch their network breakfast show first in April, with Heart and Smooth following later in the year.\n\nGlobal says local news and travel information \"will continue to air on a local licence level as per legislation requirements\".\n\nBut it said its news teams would see \"refreshed structures\" along with engineering and marketing.\n\nAnalysis by Radio Today said that 95 local radio presenters could lose their jobs as a result of the changes.\n\nThe changes will also mean the closure of broadcast facilities. The sites earmarked for closure are Brighton, Cambridge, Chelmsford, Exeter, Gloucester, Kendal, Kent, Lancaster, Norwich and Swindon.\n\nGlobal's revamp is likely to be replicated at its biggest commercial rival, Bauer, which owns stations like Kiss, Absolute and Magic.\n\nThe companies have been given the go-ahead by broadcasting regulator Ofcom, which relaxed its rules on how and where stations make their programmes last October.\n\nStations still need to apply to change their formats, and Ofcom has published a number of approved format changes for Global Radio stations across the UK.\n\nAshley Tabor, Global's founder, told staff the news at a meeting on Tuesday and said it \"would mean change\".\n\nYet he also said \"the ability to lead the commercial radio sector's next huge step, and to properly compete with BBC Radio 1 and 2 at breakfast time\" was \"a huge opportunity\".\n\nMeanwhile, Labour's deputy leader Tom Watson - who is also the shadow culture secretary - said the announcement was a \"terrible blow\".\n\nHe added: \"The loss of more than 100 local radio jobs across the country is a travesty and particularly damaging at a time when local news is already under extreme pressure.\n\n\"Replacing local voices with London-based presenters will be a terrible loss to communities across the country.\"\n\nMany big-name stars have yet to comment on the news, but some station staff have given their reaction.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Pell has previously given evidence to inquiries into abuse by priests in Australia\n\nCardinal George Pell's child sexual abuse conviction has rocked the Catholic Church, where for years he has been one of its highest-ranked officials.\n\nIt has had the same effect in Australia, Pell's home nation, where his career began decades ago.\n\nThe cleric made his name as a determined figure who championed traditional Catholic values and conservative views against same-sex marriage, abortion and contraception.\n\nBut his career has been dogged first by claims that he covered up child sexual abuse by priests, and then later that he himself was an abuser. He has always denied any wrongdoing, but has been jailed for six year years after being found guilty of abusing two boys in 1996.\n\nPell was born in the city of Ballarat, near Melbourne, Victoria, in 1941, the son of an Anglican father and an Irish Roman Catholic mother.\n\nHis early education was at Loreto Convent and later at St Patrick's College where he excelled in sports, particularly Australian Rules football.\n\nSuch was his prowess on the football field that towards the end of his studies he signed a contract with Richmond Football Club, but then switched his attention to the priesthood.\n\nHe later said he had tried to fight his calling for a long time.\n\nPell began his training for the priesthood in 1960 at Corpus Christi College, the regional seminary for Victoria and Tasmania, and in 1963 went to Rome to continue his studies.\n\nHe was ordained at St Peter's Basilica in Rome in 1966 and went on to take a doctorate in Church history in Oxford.\n\nHe returned to Australia in 1971, taking a post as an assistant priest in Swan Hill, Victoria, and then at parishes in and around Ballarat.\n\nBy 1996, he had risen to be archbishop of Melbourne, where he was responsible for initiating one of the Church's first programmes directly responding to claims of child sexual abuse.\n\nThe plan, called the Melbourne Response, offered modest pay-outs to victims, and was criticised by some who said it was designed to discourage cases in the courts. But supporters called it a pro-active measure to tackle abuse.\n\nHe was later appointed archbishop of Sydney, before Pope John Paul II nominated him to the Vatican's College of Cardinals in 2003, a position that allowed him to vote in papal elections.\n\nPell and then Australian PM Kevin Rudd welcomed Pope Benedict to Australia in 2008\n\nIn 2014, Cardinal Pell was summoned to Rome to become chief of the Vatican's finances, a new position created by Pope Francis in the wake of scandals at the Vatican Bank.\n\nBut he left behind growing anger over revelations of child sex abuse by members of the Catholic clergy in Australia.\n\nCardinal Pell repeatedly faced allegations from abuse victims of a cover-up and his critics accused him of appearing aloof and arrogant.\n\nHe was accused of moving one notorious paedophile priest - Gerald Ridsdale - around parishes rather than reporting him, and of attempting to bribe one of the victims to keep quiet.\n\nVictims of abuse by priests in Australia have been highly critical of Pell\n\nHe strongly denied any wrongdoing but said he could have done more to investigate claims of abuse.\n\nPell has also denied subsequent allegations that he himself committed abuse in Ballarat in the 1970s. Prosecutors have withdrawn charges charges against him relating to that era.\n\nBut he was convicted for abusing two choir boys in a Melbourne cathedral in 1996, during his time as the archbishop of the city.\n\nIn a video of Pell's first police interview in relation to the 1996 allegations, which was recorded in 2016 but released this year, Pell describes the accusations at the time as \"a load of absolute disgraceful rubbish... madness\".\n\nHe was placed on a leave of absence from the Vatican in June 2017.\n\nPell was demoted from Pope Francis' inner circle in December.\n\nHe was sentenced to six years in prison by a Victorian court in March, but immediately lodged an appeal.", "Cardinal Pell photographed with Pope Francis in 2015 - he was a close aide to the pontiff\n\nLast weekend's unprecedented Vatican summit on child sexual abuse was closed with a Sunday homily by Australian Mark Coleridge, the Archbishop of Brisbane.\n\n\"In sexual abuse,\" Archbishop Coleridge said, \"the powerful lay hands on the Lord's… weakest and most vulnerable.\"\n\nHe could have been describing his fellow countryman, Cardinal George Pell, for there are few as powerful to have fallen from grace within the Roman Catholic Church.\n\nPell is certainly the most senior churchman to have been convicted of offences against children.\n\nPell was appointed by the Pope as Prefect of the Secretariat of the Economy, which effectively runs the Vatican's voluminous finances.\n\nFollowing his appointment, he relocated to Rome from Australia, where he had been the Archbishop of Sydney since 2001.\n\nPell, who began a five-year term in 2014 with offices on the first floor of the Apostolic Palace, quickly set about introducing new accounting standards, established the Holy See's financial watchdog to deal with suspicious transactions, and ensured that the Vatican Bank's accounts were independently audited.\n\nA bullish figure who faced plenty of obstruction, he was known among some officials as \"Cardinal Rambo\". But that was more a term of endearment – because Pell was having a positive impact on the church's finances.\n\nNews of his conviction for child sexual abuse is a grave blow not just to the church, but also to Pope Francis personally.\n\nHe was one of the Pope's closest aides.\n\nPell was appointed to oversee the Vatican's finances in 2014\n\nHe was not only leading the crucial reform of the church's sprawling finances, but was also appointed by Francis to his nine-member Council of Cardinal Advisors, known as the C9. It was the C9 that encouraged Pope Francis to host this first-ever summit on child sexual abuse.\n\nBut that was just one of many Vatican departments in which Pell played a significant role.\n\nCardinal Pell was a member of the Congregation of Bishops, the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, the Congregation for the Institutes of the Consecrated Life and the Societies of Apostolic Life, and the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of the New Evangelisation.\n\nHis conviction confirms that the poison of sexual abuse has infected every level of the Roman Catholic Church.\n\nBack in 2012, then Prime Minister Julia Gillard established a Royal Commission to inquire into institutional responses to child abuse in Australia.\n\nThe charges against Pell emerged from Australia's rigorous inquiry into every institution that had access to children.\n\nThe state began a process that the church itself seemed incapable of managing – and now this 77-year-old ambitious Cardinal will swap the Apostolic Palace for a jail cell.\n\nAnd in a final turn of providence, or coincidence, it won't even be necessary for Pope Francis to fire Cardinal Pell from office.\n\nHis five-year term as Prefect of the Secretariat of the Economy expired on 24 February.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Talk Talk perform It's My Life in Rotterdam in 1984\n\nMark Hollis, lead singer of 1980s band Talk Talk, has died at the age of 64, his former manager has confirmed.\n\n\"Sadly it's true,\" Keith Aspden said. \"Mark has died after a short illness from which he never recovered.\"\n\nTalk Talk achieved mainstream success with such hits as It's My Life and Such a Shame, but became increasingly insular and experimental over time.\n\nAfter releasing a solo album in 1998, Hollis left music behind and removed himself from public view.\n\nWhen asked about the decision, he said: \"I choose for my family. Maybe others are capable of doing it, but I can't go on tour and be a good dad at the same time.\"\n\nHis final release was a solo album, also called Mark Hollis, in 1998.\n\nKeith Aspden told the BBC he was \"still trying to accept\" that his former colleague had died.\n\n\"I can't tell you how much Mark influenced and changed my perceptions on art and music.\" he said.\n\n\"I'm grateful for the time I spent with him and for the gentle beauty he shared with us.\"\n\nTalk Talk's bassist Paul Webb, aka Rustin Man, said he was \"shocked and saddened\" at the news.\n\n\"Musically he was a genius and it was a honour and a privilege to have been in a band with him,\" he wrote.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by rustinmanofficial This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSimon Le Bon from Duran Duran called Hollis \"one of music's great innovators\".\n\n\"Talk Talk, which he co-founded and fronted, were on tour with us in 1982,\" he wrote on Twitter. \"It made for a tremendous and very entertaining bill.\n\n\"Mark was the main songwriter of some truly great songs, including It's My Life and Such a Shame.\"\n\nSpandau Ballet's Gary Kemp said: \"His influence upon music was immense and far reaching. A great presence in the modern era who took his bow far too early but has left us so much still to be moved by.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The rail timetable overhaul was billed as the biggest in the UK\n\nBritain's rail franchise system no longer delivers clear benefits and cannot continue as it is, says the man leading a review of the network.\n\nKeith Williams said in a speech to industry leaders that firms are not adapting to changing consumer demands.\n\nRail franchising - contracting out passenger services - has drawn heavy criticism, with some contracts failing and customer complaints rising.\n\nThe rail industry said it accepts that the status quo cannot continue.\n\nMr Williams was appointed by the government last year to lead a \"root-and-branch\" review of the rail network.\n\nSpeaking in London, he said: \"I have heard a great deal about the franchising model… driving growth in passengers and benefits to services. But with this growth, the needs of passengers have changed, whilst many of the basic elements of our rail system have not kept pace.\n\n\"Put bluntly, franchising cannot continue the way it is today. It is no longer delivering clear benefits for either taxpayers or farepayers.\"\n\nThe current \"one-size-fits-all\" approach to franchising does not work for every part of the country and every passenger, he said in the annual Bradshaw Address, named in honour of George Bradshaw, who developed the Bradshaw's Guide to the railways.\n\nHowever, the former British Airways chief executive, who is now deputy chairman of John Lewis, acknowledged that \"there's real hunger for change within the industry as well as outside\".\n\nThe Rail Review was set up to recommend the most appropriate organisational and commercial framework for the network.\n\nThe government will publish a White Paper in the autumn based on the review's recommendations, with the implementation of reforms planned to start from 2020.\n\nLast year's timetable fiasco, failed franchises and delays caused by strikes have put the spotlight firmly on the UK's ailing rail network. Punctuality across Britain sank to a 13-year low in 2018, with one in seven trains delayed by at least five minutes as a series of major issues plagued the railway.\n\nMr Williams said: \"I see our role not just to tackle those recent problems that passengers have experienced, but also to tackle the more fundamental underlying causes of those problems.\"\n\nPassenger groups welcomed Mr Williams' comments. Independent watchdog Transport Focus said: \"At the halfway point of his root-and-branch review, Keith Williams is right to acknowledge that the rail industry has lost sight of its passengers and must put their needs and experience at the heart of what it delivers.\n\n\"Having consulted Transport Focus promptly, he also knows that our research shows that passengers want to know someone is in overall charge of the railway and answers for the quality of services.\n\nOvercrowding is now a daily experience for millions of travellers\n\n\"Passengers will judge the success of the Rail Review on how far it meets their priorities for improvement: more punctual and reliable services, more chance of getting a seat or standing in comfort and better value for money.\"\n\nThe Rail Delivery Group (RDG), which represents train operators and Network Rail, accepted that there was a need \"for big and lasting change\".\n\nRDG chief executive Paul Plummer said: \"As we've long argued, maintaining the status quo on the railway is not an option.\"\n\nLast week, the RDG published proposals to change the fares and ticketing system, suggestions that it has fed into the Williams Review.\n\nThe majority of rail services in Britain are operated by fixed-term franchises, which involve the Department for Transport (DfT) setting out a specification covering areas such as service levels, upgrades and performance.\n\nTrain companies then submit bids to run the franchise and the DfT selects one of the applicants.\n\nA report by the Commons Public Accounts Committee (PAC) in April last year claimed the DfT's management of the Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) and Virgin Trains East Coast franchises was \"completely inadequate\".\n\nThe GTR network was marred by an \"appalling level of delays and cancellations\" while the department \"failed to learn the lessons from previous failings\" on the East Coast route, according to the committee.\n\nPAC chairwoman Meg Hillier said at the time that passengers are paying the price for the \"broken model\" of rail franchising.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Kelly has faced, and denied, accusations about abuse for decade\n\nR&B star R. Kelly has been released from a Chicago jail after posting his $100,000 (£76,000) bail, a Cook County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman said.\n\nEarlier on Monday he pleaded not guilty to 10 charges of aggravated criminal sexual abuse against four women, three of whom were minors at the time.\n\nThe 52-year-old, dressed in a blue coat, did not speak to media as he was escorted from jail by his lawyer.\n\nHe had turned himself in to police on Friday and spent the weekend in jail.\n\nThe singer has faced decades of sexual abuse claims without being convicted, and has denied all previous allegations.\n\nCook County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Sophia Ansari confirmed on Monday night R. Kelly had raised the $100,000 bail, which was 10% of the $1m bond set by a judge over the weekend.\n\nHis court appearance and plea came weeks after the documentary series Surviving R Kelly aired. It contained allegations of abuse from many women including the star's former wife.\n\nHe is being tried for sexual assaults alleged to have happened since 1998. He met one of the four women at a restaurant on her 16th birthday, and another - who was also 16 - when she asked for his autograph.\n\nR. Kelly was seen leaving jail after posting bail on Monday night\n\nThe court ordered the singer, whose real name is Robert Sylvester Kelly, to surrender his passport and to have no contact with anyone under the age of 18.\n\nHe had reportedly struggled to pay the $100,000 bail payment required to leave Cook County Jail.\n\nLater on Monday, high-profile attorney Gloria Allred said in a news conference that she was now representing more than six women who allege the singer abused them.\n\nR. Kelly is next scheduled to appear in court on 22 March.", "Fiona Onasanya left prison by car with the closest window to her covered by a hi-vis jacket\n\nDisgraced MP Fiona Onasanya has been released from prison less than four weeks after she was convicted of lying to police over a speeding ticket.\n\nOnasanya denied being behind the wheel when her car was spotted being driven at 41mph in a 30mph zone in July.\n\nShe was found guilty of perverting the course of justice and served her sentence at Bronzefield Prison, Surrey.\n\nThe 35-year-old solicitor was expelled by the Labour Party but remains MP for Peterborough.\n\nOnasanya was convicted at the Old Bailey\n\nThe MP's Nissan Micra was caught by a speed camera in Thorney\n\nOnasanya's Nissan Micra was caught by a speed camera in Thorney, Cambridgeshire.\n\nShe was jailed for three months on 29 January having been convicted at the Old Bailey.\n\nHer release comes a day after the attorney general's office rejected a complaint which said the sentence given to her was unduly lenient.\n\nOnasanya - who has said she intends to appeal against her conviction - is the first sitting MP to be jailed since Terry Fields was sentenced to 60 days for failing to pay his £373 poll tax bill in 1991.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Dozens of firefighters have battled through the night to extinguish a large gorse fire on Arthur's Seat in Edinburgh.\n\nThe fire engulfed about 800 square metres of gorse on the Salisbury Crags.\n\nThe Scottish Fire and Rescue Service said they had received 197 calls between 18:30 and 20:30 on Tuesday about the blaze.\n\nTeams were stood down at about 02:45 on Wednesday. There were no reports of any injuries.\n\nThe fire resulted in Queen's Drive being closed between Dynamic Earth and the Commonwealth Pool while emergency services dealt with the incident.\n\nThe effects of the fire were clearly visible on Arthur's Seat on Wednesday\n\nThe fire engulfed about 800 square metres of gorse\n\nTwo fire engines from Edinburgh went to the scene along with an all-terrain vehicle from Dunblane.\n\nMeanwhile, fire crews have been tackling a huge blaze on moorland in West Yorkshire.\n\nThe fire, described by one witness as \"apocalyptic\", covers about 1.5 sq km of land near Marsden.", "The European Union (EU) has accepted the UK's request for a Brexit delay until 31 January 2020, with an option to leave sooner if a deal is approved by Parliament.\n\nDelaying the UK's exit date requires an extension to Article 50, the part of the Lisbon Treaty that sets out what happens when a country decides it wants to leave the EU.\n\nArticle 50 allows an initial two-year period for negotiations on the terms of exiting.\n\nIt was triggered by then Prime Minister Theresa May on 29 March 2017, giving an exit date of 29 March 2019. But this date was extended twice, first to 12 April and then until 31 October, after Mrs May's deal was rejected in successive votes in the House of Commons.\n\nNow it is being extended for a third time - so how does this process work?\n\nThe UK cannot make a decision about extending Article 50 on its own - it has to send a request to the 27 other EU countries.\n\nAll 27 have to agree in order to secure an extension.\n\nOn Saturday 19 October, Mr Johnson sent a letter, as he was compelled to by a law known as the Benn Act. The law stated he must send an extension request should he fail to get a Brexit deal through the House of Commons by the end of 19 October.\n\nMr Johnson also sent a second letter saying he believed that a \"further extension would damage the interests of the UK and our EU partners\".\n\nNevertheless, on 28 October the EU agreed to the extension proposed in his first letter.\n\nThe EU was not obliged to say yes.\n\nOnce it received the UK's delay request, in the form of a letter, the 27 leaders consulted with each other on their decision. It was then made following a meeting of EU ambassadors in Brussels.\n\nIf EU leaders had decided to offer a longer extension they would have been likely to have met in person to set conditions of the extension.\n\nIt's worth pointing out that Article 50 can also be revoked - effectively cancelling Brexit.\n\nThe UK can in theory do that without consulting anyone else. That would mean that Brexit would not happen and the UK would remain in the EU on the same terms it has now.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats are the only party to say that would they would revoke Article 50 without a referendum if they won a majority in a general election.\n\nThe European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled that a revocation should be \"unequivocal and unconditional\", suggesting that the ECJ would take a dim view of any attempt to withdraw an Article 50 notification and then resubmit it again a short time later.", "Keira Ball was nine years old when she died in a car accident. But her donated organs saved the lives of four people, including Max Johnson, who received her heart.\n\nHe told the BBC he was \"ready to die\" and thought he'd had his last hug with parents, before news came of the donated organ.\n\nNew legislation named Max and Keira's Law is set set to clear its final hurdle in Parliament.\n\nIn England, under the new system, which comes into effect next year, consent will be presumed unless people have opted out.\n\nMax, together with his and Keira's parents, told the BBC their story.", "A US man whose murder conviction was the focus of the popular Netflix series Making a Murderer will have his case re-examined by a court in Wisconsin.\n\nSteven Avery is serving a life sentence for the murder of young freelance photographer Teresa Halbach in 2005.\n\nHe says he is innocent. Avery has won a motion to appeal based on possible human bones found in a gravel pit.\n\nHis lawyer says they were not tested for DNA and were given to the Halbach family, a violation of state law.\n\nKathleen Zellner, who filed the motion, said the return of the bones meant that potentially crucial evidence in the case had been kept from further testing.\n\nAvery and his nephew Brendan Dassey were both sentenced to life in jail - in separate trials - for killing Ms Halbach, whose charred remains were found at Avery's car salvage yard a week after she went there to photograph a minivan for sale.\n\nIf the bones - found near the Avery property - are found to belong to Ms Halbach, Ms Zellner says it undermines the prosecution's theory that she was killed on the Avery property.\n\n\"This evidence has the potential to undo the whole case, so it is a big win,\" she told Newsweek magazine.\n\n\"The case is being remanded back to the circuit court to conduct proceedings, which can include a hearing. The circuit court can grant a new trial, or if not, back to appellate court who can reverse the conviction and/or grant a new trial.\"\n\nEvidence related to the bones can now be submitted.\n\nOn Twitter, Ms Zellner said: \"We are going to have an extraordinary number of constitutional violations when we are done. The [court of appeals] is letting us create an avalanche of evidence in this record. Higher courts rule.\"\n\nMaking a Murderer cast doubt on the legal process used in the investigation and subsequent court cases.\n\nAvery previously served 18 years for another crime he did not commit.", "Luke Symons - now known as Jamal - on his wedding day in Yemen\n\nA grandfather has spoken of his anger and anguish over the plight of his grandson - imprisoned without charge in war-torn Yemen for nearly two years.\n\nRobert Cummings said his family feel let down by the UK government over its failure to secure the release of Luke Symons.\n\nThe 26-year-old from Cardiff was seized as a suspected spy in 2017.\n\nForeign Minister Jeremy Hunt said it was a \"very distressing case\" after his local MP brought his plight to light.\n\nBorn and bred in south Wales, Luke converted to Islam in his late teens - taking the name Jamal.\n\nAged 20, he made a pilgrimage to Mecca before travelling to Egypt and then Yemen, where he taught English and married.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Luke tells family in Cardiff he is refusing to eat until he is released\n\nWhen conflict broke out in 2015, the couple left the country but could not return to the UK because Luke's wife, Tagreed, had lost her passport amid the chaos.\n\nThey returned to Yemen and had a baby though continued to explore ways of escaping the bloody civil war that has claimed thousands of lives.\n\nHowever two years ago, as he presented his British passport to withdraw money to fund his family's passage out of Yemen, Luke was arrested as a suspected spy.\n\nHis family in Cardiff were told by Luke's friend he had been taken to a political prison and has been badly beaten.\n\n\"He said Luke will come under a death sentence if they find him guilty of spying, which we thought ridiculous at that time,\" re-called Robert, 69.\n\n\"Luke wasn't a spy, he couldn't even spy in Cardiff - never mind anywhere else - but that's what they were going to charge him with.\"\n\nHis mother, Jane Lawrence, has felt powerless. She said: \"As a mum you want to get on that plane and do something - but you can't.\n\n\"You're in limbo. You don't sleep at night. Every time you close your eyes you see them doing bad things to him. It's terrible.\"\n\nAt least 6,800 civilians have been killed and 10,700 injured in the civil war in Yemen, according to the UN\n\nThe family told the Foreign Office and South Wales Police about Luke's plight but said the only information they have has come from the local Yemeni community in Cardiff.\n\n\"They [officials] would come here to have meetings with us and we've gone to London - what for?\" said Jane.\n\n\"Luke is still in the same predicament he was when all this started.\"\n\nThe Foreign and Commonwealth Office would only confirm it has provided advice to the UK-based family of a British national detained in Yemen since 2017 and continue to do so.\n\nMr Brennan brought the case to light in the Commons on Tuesday\n\nThe family's case has been taken up by local MP, Kevin Brennan, who raised Luke's plight on the floor of the House of Commons on Tuesday.\n\nSpeaking ahead of that intervention, Mr Brennan said: \"We don't know, for sure, the Foreign Office's workings are around this. I understand that, they are in a war zone.\n\n\"But it is frustrating that Mr Cummings feels he's had more assistance from the local Yemeni community in Cardiff than from the Government itself.\"\n\nForeign Minister Jeremy Hunt responded in the Commons: \"We continue to have contact with Luke's family. We aren't able to offer consular assistance in Yemen. We appreciate that he was in Yemen before the conflict broke and we'll continue to exert every effort we can to try and find a way to get him home.\"\n\nLuke's mother Jane said the uncertainty of his whereabouts is \"breaking\" the family\n\nLuke's family understands an investigation in Yemen has now cleared Luke of spying and before Christmas their hopes were raised further when release papers were signed.\n\nLast month Robert and Luke were even able to talk by phone, the first time anyone had spoken to Luke for two years. However he remains behind bars.\n\n\"We want him home. Whether we can do it, or the Yemeni community or the British Government - they've got to take action now.\n\n\"There's no reason for him to be in that prison.\"\n\nTo hear the full story, listen to the latest episode of Eye On Wales on BBC Sounds", "Profits have topped £1bn for the first time at housebuilder Persimmon, which was caught in a pay row last year and is under scrutiny over its continued involvement in the Help to Buy scheme.\n\nAnnual profits jumped 13% to £1.091bn, up from £966m in 2017.\n\nThe firm also said its interim chief executive, Dave Jenkinson, would now take on the role permanently.\n\nMr Jenkinson's predecessor, Jeff Fairburn, left last year following controversy over his £75m pay package.\n\n\"We are the first company to make over £1bn profit in this sector,\" Mr Jenkinson said. \"The whole team are very proud.\"\n\nThe results come a day after shares in Persimmon fell 5% because of questions over its continued involvement in the Help to Buy scheme.\n\nThe firm sold 7,970 homes under the scheme in 2018, up from 7,682 in 2017.\n\nAt the weekend, a source close to Housing Minister James Brokenshire said the minister was \"increasingly concerned\" by Persimmon's practices, including its use of leasehold contracts, the quality of its buildings and its leadership.\n\nHe said this meant its inclusion in the Help to Buy scheme was under review.\n\nMike Amey, managing director of global investment management firm Pimco, told the BBC that profit per house at Persimmon had trebled since Help To Buy was introduced.\n\nAnd housing expert Henry Pryor told the BBC: \"There is no doubt that Help to Buy has been the crack cocaine of the housing industry. We've all got addicted to it and when we are weaned off it, it is going to be painful.\"\n\nThe Persimmon money machine rolls on, profits past the £1bn mark and £2.2bn returned to shareholders in the past seven years, with the promise of more - much more - to come.\n\nPersimmon has been an astonishing success for its investors, and of course its executives, who are benefiting from a giant pay scheme agreed in 2012.\n\nSometimes, though, you can have too much success, particularly when you are a big beneficiary of a taxpayer-funded housing scheme, in this case Help to Buy.\n\nJeff Fairburn, the former chief executive, had to fall on his sword after public and investor opinion swung sharply against the size of his remuneration - £75m, although he gave some to charity.\n\nThe danger now is that a similar shift in sentiment undermines the company as a whole.\n\nPoliticians might decide that £1bn a year in profits, a 30% operating margin and giant dividends to shareholders are evidence the new-build housing market is no longer sufficiently competitive, and has instead turned into an oligopoly, a market carved up between a few big players.\n\nThere was a hint of that in weekend reports that Persimmon's participation in Help to Buy was under government scrutiny - a hint strong enough to send the shares down nearly 5%.\n\nIf the hint were to turn into reality, the Persimmon money machine would judder to a halt.\n\nMr Jenkinson has been with the firm for 22 years and had been interim chief executive since November, following Mr Fairburn's departure.\n\nHe said: \"2018 has been a year of disciplined high quality growth again for Persimmon Homes.\n\n\"We have a lower average selling price than our competitors, but that is a function of our desire to hit all parts of the market.\"\n\nHe added: \"It is important for me as the new CEO to acknowledge that we still have work to do in customer care.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Last year, Persimmon's previous chief, Jeff Fairburn, refused to answer questions about his pay\n\nChairman Roger Devlin said: \"Persimmon is changing. In his short time as interim CEO, Dave Jenkinson has introduced new approaches to customer satisfaction and colleague engagement, whilst also ensuring that the group delivered another year of growth.\"\n\nThe company's total group revenue for the year increased by 4% to £3.74bn, up from £3.60bn in 2017.\n\nSophie Lund-Yates, equity analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown, said: \"Conditions are about as good as they can be, with low interest rates, record low unemployment and helpful government schemes like Help to Buy all helping people get on the property ladder.\n\n\"With Persimmon's participation in the Help to Buy programme under heavy scrutiny, following its former use of controversial leasing fees, and poor quality builds, these conditions have to end at some point.\"\n\nLooking ahead, the company said in its results statement: \"Whilst sales expectations remain subject to a degree of uncertainty at the start of any financial year, the lack of clarity with respect to the UK's exit from the EU is currently creating additional unpredictability.\"\n\nIt added: \"We have worked with our suppliers to identify any material supplies which may be exposed to some disruption to availability as a result of Brexit and we are working with them to adopt appropriate mitigating measures.\"\n• None Housebuilder hit by Help to Buy fears", "One of the Chagos Islands - Diego Garcia - is home to a US military base\n\nThe UK should end its control of the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean \"as rapidly as possible\", the UN's highest court has said.\n\nMauritius claims it was forced to give up the islands - now a British overseas territory - in 1965 in exchange for independence, which it gained in 1968.\n\nThe International Court of Justice said the islands were not lawfully separated from the former colony of Mauritius.\n\nThe UK Foreign Office said: \"This is an advisory opinion, not a judgment.\"\n\nIt added it would look \"carefully\" at the detail of the opinion, which is not legally binding.\n\nThe UK has previously said it will hand the islands back to Mauritius when they are no longer required for defence purposes.\n\nReferencing that, the Foreign Office said: \"The defence facilities on the British Indian Ocean Territory help to protect people here in Britain and around the world from terrorist threats, organised crime and piracy.\"\n\nJudge Abdulqawi Ahmed Yusuf described the UK's administration of the Chagos Islands - located more than 2,000 miles off the east coast of Africa - as \"an unlawful act of continuing character\".\n\nHe added the UK was \"under an obligation to bring an end to its administration of the Chagos Archipelago as rapidly as possible\".\n\nThe UN General Assembly asked the court in February 2017 to offer its opinion in on whether the process had been concluded lawfully.\n\nIt is half a century since the UK took control of the Chagos Islands from its then colony, Mauritius.\n\nThe British government evicted the entire population, before inviting the US to build a military base on Diego Garcia, one of the larger atolls.\n\nMauritius was in the middle of negotiating its independence from the UK at the time and has repeatedly condemned the deal.\n\nA \"blockbuster\" of an opinion from the UN's highest court.\n\nThe judges' assessment was damning. At the heart of it, the right of all people to self-determination as a basic human right, which the UK violated when dismembering its former colony.\n\nThe detachment of the strategically valuable archipelago cannot have been said to be based on free and genuine expression of the will of the people concerned, when one side is under the authority of the other.\n\nAs the ruling power, the responsibility lay with the UK to respect national unity and territory integrity of Mauritius as required under international law.\n\nInstead, it divided the territory - effectively using the process of decolonisation to create a new colony.\n\nAs part of the advisory opinion the judges poignantly pointed out that all UN member states were under obligation to cooperate to complete the decolonisation of Mauritius. This includes, of course, the US, which operates a military base on the largest atoll of Diego Garcia.\n\nSome of those who were forced to leave their homes on the Chagos Islands in the late 1960s hoped they would be allowed to return - and not just on one of the rare visits authorised by the UK.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC last year, Samynaden Rosemond, who left when he was 36, said: \"Back home was paradise.\"\n\nHe and his wife, Daryela, moved to the outskirts of the capital of Mauritius, Port Louis.\n\nChagossians often complain that they are treated as second-class citizens in Mauritius, and they often gather to cook coconut and fish curry and to sing songs about the life they left behind.\n\nMr Rosemond added: \"The British didn't give us a chance. They just said: 'Oh, this is not yours anymore.'\n\n\"If I die here my spirit will be everywhere - it wouldn't be happy. But if I die there I will be in peace.\"\n\nSeveral Chagossians gathered at the Chagos Refugee Group's centre to follow live the session of the International Court of Justice in The Hague.\n\nIt was in an explosion of joy that the news was celebrated by both them and their descendants in Pointe aux Sables - a suburb of the Mauritian capital, Port Louis.\n\nThe leader of the Chagos Refugees Group, Olivier Bancoult, said it was a historic day.\n\n\"I dedicate this victory to the entire Chagossian community that is scattered in several countries around the world,\" he said.\n\n\"It is a great victory as all the time we wanted to go gather on the graves of our families that we lost there [on the Chagos Archipelago]\".\n\nMauritian Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth said the UK had always emphasised respect for international laws and, as such, expected the country, with which Mauritius has excellent relations, to respect the judges' opinion.", "Rough sleepers are seen on the street but charities say the real homeless number could be much higher\n\nCameron is 18, about to move into a new flat and studying computer science at college with plans to go to university.\n\nHe sounds like any other teenager but with one important difference - Cameron is rebuilding his life after becoming homeless at just 14.\n\nHe is part of what one of Wales' biggest charities called a \"hidden epidemic\" of youth homelessness.\n\nStories like his inspired actor Michael Sheen to help set up Wales' first national out-of-hours helpline.\n\nCameron, not his real name, said his relationship with his family broke down so badly he had to leave. He slept on friends' sofas and spent a night on the streets.\n\n\"It was quite sudden, it was a lot of stress... I panicked, I didn't know where to go or what to do. It was overwhelming,\" he said.\n\n\"When I left I had a spare set of clothes and that was it. I didn't have much money or anything, it was difficult.\"\n\nHe soon felt a burden to his friends and their families and the uncertainty of what was going to happen had a devastating impact on his education.\n\n\"When things started to kick off at home, my grades were dropping and my behaviour was getting out of control,\" he said.\n\n\"In the end, the school asked me to leave, which didn't help my situation, because the problems I was having at home were a lot harder.\n\n\"I wasn't happy, I was fighting back against everyone and everything. I lost a few friends and opportunities.\"\n\nCameron did not know where to find help or who to talk to - something other young people told Hollywood star Michael Sheen when he spoke with them about youth homelessness.\n\nThat conversation led to the creation of the first national out of hours free helpline for young people at risk of homelessness.\n\nThe Youth Homeless Helpline is now open through the night and on weekends and trained volunteers will provide information on where young people can access safe temporary accommodation and offer advice and support.\n\nWelsh Government statistics show 7,584 young people, aged between 16 and 24, approached their local authority for help with homelessness in 2017-18 - an increase of 23% from 2015.\n\nThe number of young people asking for help with homelessness is increasing\n\nThe charity Llamau has joined forces with other homeless charities under End Youth Homelessness Cymru.\n\nFrances Beecher, from Llamau, said: \"Homelessness is a hidden epidemic and what is so scary is that 76% of homeless young people have no idea where to turn.\n\n\"This helpline is trying to respond to what young people are asking for - a helpline in Wales and to raise understanding of problems young people are facing today.\"\n\nPublic donations and Nationwide Building Society have raised more than £90,000, securing the helpline for a year.\n\nLlamau stepped in to help Cameron and he has been living in supported accommodation and has returned to education.\n\nHe is determined that his past will not shape his future.\n\nThe End Youth Homelessness Cymru helpline number is 0800 328 0292. You can also get help and information from Llamau online.\n\nFrances Beecher said the helpline was \"trying to respond to what young people are asking for\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Families in England need more support in the early years to give children the best start in life, MPs say.\n\nThe Health and Social Care Committee said the first 1,000 days were critical, but not enough was done.\n\nIt warned cuts to children's centres, health visiting and services to support parents had left families vulnerable.\n\nNearly a third of children are not \"school ready\" by the time they reach five, because they have not developed the necessary skills and behaviours.\n\nThe cross-party group wants the government to pay for extra contact with health visitors beyond the age of two-and-a-half.\n\nThe MPs pointed to the approach taken elsewhere in the UK - Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland all fund more than the minimum of five visits provided in England.\n\nWales, in particular, was praised for its Flying Start programme which provides intensive support for the most disadvantaged families.\n\nBut the MPs also said there needed to be better support to tackle problems such as substance misuse, mental health problems and domestic abuse among parents.\n\nAdverse experiences in childhood have been shown to increase the chances of poor health and development in later life.\n\nThe report wants a cross-government strategy to be developed to herald an early years \"revolution\", including more support for families pre-birth.\n\nCouncils, working with NHS and voluntary sector, could then be put in charge of implementing this strategy.\n\nBut it also acknowledged \"massive investment\" was needed to boost services.\n\nDr Paul Williams, who led the inquiry for the committee, said: \"Quite simply I want this country to be the most supportive and caring place in the world that a child could be born into.\"\n\nCouncillor Ian Hudspeth, of the Local Government Association, said councils have been undermined by cuts to their budgets.\n\n\"Councils have pulled out all the stops to try to prioritise early years and intervention services, but can only do so much.\"\n\nA spokeswoman for the Department of Health and Social Care said children's health was a \"key priority\", pointing out investment in mental health services for new mothers was already increasing.\n\nShe said more plans for the early years would be set out soon in the government's forthcoming green paper on prevention.", "The pound has hit a 21-month high against the euro, following increased speculation about a delay to Brexit.\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May said in the Commons that if no deal was agreed and if a no-deal exit was rejected, then there could be a short extension to the date for Britain to leave the EU.\n\nAt one point, sterling hit €1.1643, its highest level since May 2017.\n\nHowever, Mrs May's concession was not as wide-ranging as investors had hoped, causing sterling to dip again.\n\nAgainst the US dollar, it reached $1.3239 at one point, its highest level since the end of January, before starting to lose ground.\n\nAnalyst Jane Foley at Rabobank said Mrs May's remarks in the Commons had been \"discouraging for investors\", giving the impression that even if Brexit were delayed, \"the cliff-edge could be even sharper in three months' time\".\n\n\"The markets have not particularly liked what they've heard,\" she said.\n\nHowever, she added that there was still a consensus among investors that a no-deal Brexit would be avoided, because \"neither Parliament, the electorate or Europe want it\".\n\nThe value of the pound fell sharply in the aftermath of the Brexit referendum result in 2016.\n\nOn Tuesday, Bank of England governor Mark Carney told MPs on the Treasury Committee that the Bank would provide more support for the economy in the event of a no-deal Brexit.\n\nHe said the Bank's Monetary Policy Committee had emphasised that its response to the shock of a no-deal Brexit would depend on the economic situation.\n\n\"Given the exceptional circumstance associated with Brexit, I would expect the committee to provide whatever monetary support it can consistent with the price stability remit given to the committee by Parliament. But there are clearly limits to its ability to do so,\" he said.\n\nHe also warned that interest rates might have limited scope to support any damage to activity or jobs in event of a no-deal scenario, as they may have to rise instead to curb inflationary pressures.\n\nHe added that if Britain left the EU with no deal, \"I guarantee you the path of GDP in our forecast will be materially lower than it is in our February forecast, which assumes that there is a deal and there is a smooth transition\".", "An evaluation mission from the World Food Programme reached the Red Sea Mills\n\nUN aid officials have for the first time in six months reached a vast store of desperately-needed food on the frontline in Yemen's Hudaydah port.\n\nThe Red Sea Mills facility holds enough grain to feed 3.7 million people for a month, but the UN had warned the grain was at risk of rotting.\n\nThe Yemeni government and the rebel Houthi movement agreed a ceasefire around Hudaydah in December.\n\nBut they have yet to implement a UN-brokered plan to pull out of the port.\n\nUN Secretary General António Guterres announced that a World Food Programme evaluation mission had been able to reach the Red Sea Mills at the start of an aid pledging conference in Geneva on Tuesday.\n\nMember states have so far promised $2.6bn (£2bn) - a 30% increase on the amount pledged at a similar conference last year, but $1.6bn short of the total the UN hopes to raise.\n\nSaudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are the biggest potential donors this year, having pledged $500m each.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The hidden victims of the Yemen war\n\nThe two countries are leading a coalition of mostly Sunni Arab states that intervened in the conflict in Yemen in March 2015 and imposed a partial blockade after President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi was forced to flee abroad by the Houthis - a group they consider to be a proxy of regional Shia power Iran.\n\nTens of thousands of people have been killed or injured since then, many of them civilians. Many more have died from preventable diseases, exacerbated by malnutrition.\n\nThe UN estimates that 24 million people - 80% of Yemen's population - are in need of assistance. Up to 10 million of them are believed to be on the verge of famine.\n\nFinally getting access to the Red Sea Mills is a breakthrough. When we visited this vital granary in January we saw how Yemen's desperately needed grain was at risk of rotting.\n\nBut the UN needs sustained access. That requires progress on promises made in December's Stockholm Agreement. Sources say they are now more hopeful the Houthis' long-delayed pull out from the main port of Hudaydah and two smaller ports will soon commence.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Where the fighting in Yemen has stopped... but not the suffering\n\nThat should lead to the phased redeployment of Yemeni government forces backed by the Saudi-led coalition. Both sides have been dragging their feet, raising fears this rare deal will collapse.\n\nThere is no trust, and much tension. And, away from this strategic corner of Yemen, fighting intensifies in some areas, and the risk of famine still looms.\n\nThere seems to be - at last - a greater recognition on all sides that there is no military solution to this conflict. But moving toward peace is still fraught with risk.\n\nThe charity Médecins Sans Frontières said it was ironic that many of the governments announcing donations at the Geneva conference were involved in the war in Yemen\n\n\"Donor governments pledging funds must work to resolve the obstacles that are preventing aid from reaching the people who need it, and to ensure that the aid delivered responds to their actual needs,\" it said in a statement.\n\n\"Ultimately, Yemen's humanitarian crisis can only be resolved when donor governments end their involvement in the war and hold the warring parties accountable for their atrocious conduct endangering the lives of millions.\"\n\nThe Norwegian Refugee Council meanwhile said the pledges of donations fell short of what was required to help all those in need.\n\n\"While billions are spent on bombs and weapons bringing death and destruction, much less is made available to save lives of Yemeni civilians,\" said Mohamed Abdi, its Yemen country director.", "Short on ceremony, long on substance. That's the verdict of BBC royal correspondent Jonny Dymond on the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's official visit to Morocco. Every event, he says, was designed to fit with their passions and promote their causes. Here are some of the best pictures of them during the three-day trip.\n\nThe visit is the couple's last before their baby is due to arrive in April or May and the duchess was inundated with good wishes at every turn. She was given a traditional henna tattoo - designed to bring her unborn child good luck - by a student at the Education For All centre in the Atlas mountains. The centre provides classes for girls from rural areas whose families cannot afford their education.\n\nThe duke and duchess also watched mixed-sex teams at the education centre play five-a-side football - and Meghan chatted, in French, to one of the goalkeepers. She later told the students: \"We are very proud of all of you. You are such good role models.\"\n\nThe duchess received a traditional rosewater greeting at a reception at the British ambassador's residence. She used her speech at the event to spread a message of female empowerment, telling the audience: \"Women have to challenge everywhere in the world.\"\n\nThere were lighter moments on the trip too. The couple sampled some Moroccan cuisine, cooked by Moha Fedal, who hosts the North African nation's version of MasterChef. He told them: \"Come with your baby and I will cook for all three.\" At the same event, children made Moroccan pancakes using a recipe from a cookbook launched by Meghan to support families affected by the Grenfell Tower fire.\n\nOn their final day, the royal pair visited an equestrian centre to learn more about the country's efforts to use horses in therapy for children with special needs. There they met Ekram, aged 20, who has Down's Syndrome. She told them: \"I love the connection with the horses, it already makes me feel relaxed and more confident.\" Meghan replied: \"Wow, you're very impressive. What an accomplished lady.\"\n\nThe visit ended with a tea ceremony hosted by King Mohammed VI at a royal palace in Sale, near Rabat. Prince Harry presented the Moroccan monarch with a letter from the Queen.", "A teacher who was raped believes the trauma of the attack triggered her Tourette's syndrome.\n\nNatalie Pearson, then aged 20, said she kept making \"hiccup noises\" during an interview with police after the attack, which took place while she was at university.\n\nMs Pearson, from Birmingham, is understood to be the only teacher in the world with the form of the condition which causes involuntary swearing, known as coprolalia.\n\nShe has been trying out a pioneering wearable brain scanner, developed by the University of Nottingham, to help scientists understand Tourette's better.\n\n\"I never know what I'm going to shout. That's a bit scary,\" she added.\n\nYou can see this story in full on BBC Inside Out East Midlands via BBC iPlayer.", "Border Force vessels were involved in the operations to bring migrants ashore over the last three days\n\nA boat carrying 13 migrants including a baby has been found in the English Channel off the Kent coast.\n\nThe 10 adults and three children were given medical checks and transferred to immigration officials for interview, the Home Office said.\n\nNews of their arrival in Dover was revealed by Kent's chief constable during a select-committee appearance.\n\nHe said some migrants were now calling police from their boats, confident they would be allowed to stay in the UK.\n\n\"They want to be found and helped,\" chief constable Alan Pughsley told MPs.\n\nThe latest group of migrants, who according to the Home Office said they were from Iraq and Iran, were intercepted on their small boat by Border Force after staff were alerted by French officials at about 03:00 GMT.\n\nTwo more boats containing migrants were brought into Dover harbour on Monday\n\nMore than 30 people, mainly from Iraq, have arrived on the Kent coast since Saturday, taking the overall total since 3 November to more than 350.\n\nAt the Home Affairs Select Committee, Steve Rodhouse, director-general of operations at the National Crime Agency, told MPs there had been a \"significant\" change in approach from migrants looking to get into the UK.\n\nHe said: \"Typically, in the past, if people had been using what we call general maritime, they would be doing so in a clandestine fashion.\n\n\"What we see... today is markedly different because the business model is essentially for the migrants to reach the point where they can engage with UK authorities, whether that be on land or at sea, and claim asylum at that point.\"\n\nMr Rodhouse said on average they were paying £5,000 to \"facilitators\", adding: \"People are actively seeking being caught or engaging with UK authorities because rightly or wrongly, they don't fear being returned.\n\n\"That, I think, is something that is a significant player in the issue here. I know that Home Office colleagues... will say there have been a number of returns.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Fans of singer-songwriter Ryan Adams are demanding their money back ahead of his upcoming UK tour.\n\nFollowing accusations of sexual misconduct, some fans say they don't want to go to his concerts until the allegations are proven or discounted.\n\nIn a recent report, several women also accused him of psychological abuse.\n\nThe FBI is looking at whether he sent explicit text messages to an underage teenager, something Adams has said he \"unequivocally\" denies.\n\nAdams' forthcoming album has been put on hold but tickets for his UK dates are still on sale.\n\nThis has left some fans taking to social media to demand a refund from music venues and ticket companies.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEmma Buff from Peterborough spent just under £50 on tickets to see Adams perform in April and feels \"quite shocked\" by the allegations made against him.\n\n\"Reading the allegations upset me quite a lot and I decided I didn't want any of my money to go to Ryan Adams in the future,\" she said.\n\n\"I've tried to get a refund on the ticket [and] I've yet to hear anything back\" she added.\n\nEmma says she has been a fan of the musician for a long time. Due to the recent claims, though, she is now more wary of whom she chooses to support.\n\n\"In the current climate we live in now, I definitely think about who I want my hard-earned money to go to... and I do think the whole [music] industry needs to look at itself.\"\n\nRyan Adams tickets continue to be available on ticketing websites\n\nThe BBC has approached three of the biggest ticketing websites in the UK to respond to whether or not fans will be given a refund. At the time of writing, none of them have replied.\n\nIn an interview with Radio 4's You & Yours programme, New York Times European culture journalist Alex Marshall said there needed to be clarity on the issue from the music industry.\n\nMarshall said it was \"surprising\" that the companies involved in the tour have been silent since the allegations were published.\n\n\"I've tried to speak to the ticketing companies,\" he said. \"I've tried to speak to the venues and the promoter and I've had very little response back.\n\n\"That's leaving people in the dark about what's going on.\"\n\nIn cases where allegations have been made against an artist, consumers are not legally entitled to their money back. Ticket holders would only be entitled to a refund if the organiser cancels, moves or reschedules the event.\n\nKate Hobson, Consumer Expert at Citizens Advice, said: \"Ticket holders who change their mind for whatever reason about going to see a concert have no legal right to a refund.\n\n\"They could try reselling their ticket, but they should first check the advice on reselling on the Citizens Advice website.\"\n\nFor the most part, artists and bands that have faced similar accusations have withdrawn plans to tour.\n\nIn the case of Ryan Adams, Alex Marshall believes a delay in response as to whether the tour will go ahead as scheduled is down to many of the ticketing companies, venues and promoters who stand to lose money if the performances are cancelled.\n\n\"There seem to be some artists that believe they can keep going, no matter what's been said about them.\n\n\"But what you're hoping to see with the #MeToo movement is that people are raising these accusations, which will lead to a change in culture to make people aware of what's gone on in the past and what is deemed unacceptable.\"\n\nThree music companies have already severed ties with the indie rock star.\n\nIn a statement on social media, Adams said he was \"not a perfect man\" and had \"made many mistakes.\"\n\nYet he said the New York Times' article, which first raised the allegations, had painted an \"upsettingly inaccurate\" picture and that he \"would never have inappropriate interactions with someone I thought was underage.\"\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.", "Thompson suggested any change Lasseter displayed would be \"an act\"\n\nEmma Thompson has revealed she quit an animated project because the company making it had hired John Lasseter.\n\nLasseter was recruited to head Skydance Animation following his departure from Pixar in the wake of claims he sexually harassed female colleagues.\n\nIn a letter, Thompson questioned the studio \"hiring someone with Mr Lasseter's pattern of misconduct\".\n\nThe actress had been due to voice a character in Luck, a comedy about how luck affects our daily lives.\n\n\"If a man has been touching women inappropriately for decades, why would a woman want to work for him if the only reason he's not touching them inappropriately now is that it says in his contract that he must behave 'professionally'?\" Thompson wrote in a letter published by the Los Angeles Times.\n\nThompson then referenced past allegations made against Lasseter and questioned whether the respect he shows to his new female colleagues would be \"anything other than an act he's required to perform\".\n\n\"The message seems to be, 'I'm learning to feel respect for women so please be patient while I work on it, It's not easy',\" she added.\n\nMelissa Silverstein, founder of Women and Hollywood which campaigns for gender equality and inclusion, said Thompson's decision to leave Luck was \"one of the most significant moments in the [#MeToo] movement.\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 Melissa Silverstein This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nShe said her action was a \"rallying cry\" to others.\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 Melissa Silverstein This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe organisers of the Time's Up movement have also saluted her stance.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by TIME'S UP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post 3 by TIME'S UP\n\nWhen Lasseter's hiring was first announced in early January, Skydance's CEO David Ellison sent an internal memo to staff.\n\nIt said he had conducted an independent investigation into the accusations and was \"confident\" that his mistakes had been recognised.\n\nThompson officially withdrew from Luck a few weeks later.\n\nTowards the end of her letter, the British actress said she regretted exiting the project because the film's director, Alessandro Carloni, was \"incredibly creative\".\n\n\"But I can only do what feels right during these difficult times of transition and collective consciousness raising,\" she continued.\n\nThompson concluded that if people like herself did not \"take this sort of stand, things are very unlikely to change.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Emma Thompson: \"This man is at the top of a very particular iceberg\"\n\nIn the wake of the #MeToo movement, the actress has been vocal about the harassment she has faced in the industry.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Newsnight in 2017, she called disgraced mogul Harvey Weinstein a \"predator\" and said allegations made against him were \"the tip of the iceberg\".\n\nWeinstein is currently facing criminal charges on five counts of sexual abuse, charges he denies.\n\nThe producer has denied any allegations of non-consensual sex.\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.", "Firstly Conservative Caroline Spelman and Labour's Jack Dromey proposed an amendment which would have ensured the prime minister's commitment to give MPs a vote on delaying Brexit is legally binding.\n\nHowever, after receiving assurances from the government they withdrew their amendment.\n\nThe government accepted Conservative Alberto Costa's amendment which sought to protect the rights of UK citizens living in the the EU and vice versa - regardless of an EU withdrawal deal being agreed.\n\nThe government also accepted an amendment from Labour MP Yvette Cooper committing the UK to extending Article 50 if MPs votes to delay Brexit.\n\nDespite government approval, Ms Cooper's amendment was still pushed to a vote where it was passed 502 votes to 20.\n\nTwo other amendments were also put to a vote - Labour's amendment putting forward their plan's for Brexit and the SNP's amendment seeking to rule out a no-deal Brexit.\n\nBoth were rejected 323 votes to 240; and 324 votes to 288 respectively.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The fire could be seen for miles around\n\nFire crews have extinguished a huge blaze on moorland in West Yorkshire.\n\nThe fire, described by one witness as \"apocalyptic\", started at about 19:30 GMT on Tuesday and covered about 1.5 sq km of land near Marsden.\n\nWest Yorkshire Fire and Rescue said it was \"one of the biggest moorland fires we've ever had to deal with\".\n\nIt came as the UK broke the record for the warmest winter day for a second time and on the same day as a gorse fire on Arthur's Seat in Edinburgh.\n\nFollowing a night spent tackling the blaze, near Saddleworth Moor between Huddersfield and Manchester, a fire service spokesperson said: \"The fire now looks to be out.\"\n\nHowever, they said crews and specialist moorland firefighting units \"will remain at the scene for much of the day to tackle any further hot spots\".\n\nAt its height, more than 35 firefighters were in attendance at the National Trust property and the A62 between Colne Valley and Diggle was closed as a precaution.\n\nStation manager Adam Greenwood said when crews arrived about 4 sq km of moorland was ablaze.\n\n\"It was one of the highest flame fronts we have seen, with flames of up to two metres high, and it was moving fast across the moorland,\" he said.\n\n\"The fire looks to be out however moorland fires can easily reignite so it's important that we monitor it closely.\n\n\"We expect to be at the moors for much of the day.\"\n\nThere have been no reports of any injuries.\n\nPeople living near to the scene have been advised to stay indoors and keep their doors and windows closed.\n\nBut the fire service said \"risks to health are low\".\n\nBBC Yorkshire climate correspondent Paul Hudson said that, like much of the UK, the region had faced unseasonal winter temperatures.\n\nHe said: \"These kind of temperatures, 18C or 19C, are what you would normally see in early June.\n\n\"There's been a prolonged abnormally warm spell and we've also had an exceptionally dry start to 2019.\n\n\"The temperature on Wednesday is also set to be pretty similar.\"\n\nStation commander Tony Pearson said moor fires in February were \"very unusual but not unheard of\".\n\nHe said: \"We've had a few dry days and it's dried the land out a little bit.\"\n\nHe described the location as \"horrendous\" as it took firefighters an hour to get there due to the terrain.\n\nMr Pearson said: \"It was really uneven ground, really difficult working conditions on there.\n\nMike Elliot, from the National Trust, said the heather on the moorland had only just re-established itself after a blaze about three years ago.\n\nHe said: \"It's gradually got back to its normal self, but unfortunately it's going to have to start again.\n\n\"What we're doing here is trying to stabilise the moorland with all the heather as that keeps all the peat out of the watercourse.\"\n\nThe Edinburgh gorse fire broke out at a similar time on Tuesday, and two large fires started within an hour of each other in the Ashdown Forest in East Sussex earlier.\n\nIn June and July last year, firefighters from 20 different brigades were drafted in to help tackle two huge moorland fires which burnt for several weeks.\n\nFirefighters spent more than a month battling a huge fire covering 18 sq km (6.9 sq miles) at Winter Hill, near Bolton.\n\nThe Army was drafted in to help Greater Manchester crews deal with a blaze on Saddleworth Moor in Tameside.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The government has published its assessment of the impact of a no-deal Brexit on business and trade.\n\nThe report said \"some food prices are likely to increase\" and customs checks could cost business £13bn a year in a no-deal scenario.\n\nIt also said there was \"little evidence that businesses are preparing in earnest\".\n\nBut the government said it had undertaken \"significant action\" to prepare for no deal on 29 March.\n\nIt comes as the PM has promised MPs votes on delaying Brexit or ruling out no deal, if her deal is rejected again.\n\nTheresa May's Brexit deal was comprehensively rejected by MPs on 15 January and she has said they will get a second chance to vote on it - possibly with some changes - by 12 March.\n\nThe UK is currently due to leave the EU on 29 March - with or without a deal.\n\nThe government's report, which was drawn up for the cabinet, said: \"One of the most visible ways in which the UK would be affected by delays in goods crossing the Channel is our food supply, 30% of which comes from the EU.\"\n\nPossible disruption to cross-Channel trade \"would lead to reduced availability and choice of products\", the document said.\n\n\"This would not lead to an overall shortage of food in the UK, and less than one in 10 food items would be directly affected by any delays across the short Channel crossings.\n\n\"However, at the time of year we will be leaving the EU, the UK is particularly reliant on the short Channel crossings for fresh fruit and vegetables.\n\n\"In the absence of other action from government, some food prices are likely to increase, and there is a risk that consumer behaviour could exacerbate, or create, shortages in this scenario.\n\n\"As of February 2019, many businesses in the food supply industry are unprepared for a no-deal scenario.\"\n\nIt repeated analysis suggesting a no-deal scenario could leave the UK economy 6.3% to 9% smaller after 15 years, compared to what it would have been.\n\nIt said the worst-hit areas economically in a no-deal scenario would be Wales (-8.1%), Scotland (-8.0%), Northern Ireland (-9.1%) and the north east (-10.5%).\n\nThe document said slightly more than two-thirds of the government's most critical preparation projects - and fewer than 85% overall - were \"on track\" for completion in time for 29 March.\n\nIt also warned that a no-deal Brexit would \"affect the viability of many businesses across Northern Ireland\", and said some businesses could relocate to the Republic of Ireland.\n\nThe publication of the document follows a proposed amendment last month from former Conservative MP Anna Soubry and backed by ex-Labour MP Chuka Umunna - who are both now members of the newly-formed Independent Group.\n\nIn the Commons, Ms Soubry told MPs that the document was only a summary and she asked for access to the papers \"which actually go into the detail\", which she was shown in privy council terms (confidential terms).\n\n\"It's the detail that actually fully explains the impact of a no-deal Brexit, leaving the Brexit Secretary to comment that it would be 'ruinous' for this country,\" she said.\n\nDeputy speaker Lindsay Hoyle said he was \"sorry\" that Ms Soubry felt she had been \"slightly short-changed on what would be available\".\n\n\"I would expect ministers to take on board your request and hopefully... you will pursue it other than on this point of order,\" he said.\n\nAnd Mr Umunna said the report painted \"a disastrous picture of the catastrophe which would befall our country if there is a no-deal Brexit\".\n\n\"In light of what she knows, it is utterly irresponsible for the Prime Minister to keep a no-deal Brexit on the table given the extreme damage it will do,\" he said.\n\n\"These papers set out how food prices will rise, we may see panic buying, there will be severe disruption at the border, and jobs and livelihoods would immediately be put at risk.\n\n\"Today she told the House of Commons she is listening, but MPs have passed a motion rejecting a no-deal Brexit and yet she refuses to request an extension of the Article 50 process in order to stop no-deal happening.\"\n\nEnter the word or phrase you are looking for\n\nMs Soubry's amendment instructed the government to publish within seven days \"the most recent official briefing document relating to business and trade on the implications of a no-deal Brexit presented to cabinet\".\n\nIt drew the backing of some mostly Remain-supporting Labour and Conservative backbenchers.\n\nBut Ms Soubry withdrew the amendment after Brexit Minister Chris Heaton-Harris indicated that Cabinet Office Minister David Lidington would meet her and would be publishing the relevant information.", "This video can not be played\n\nTo play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "All smiles? As the clock ran down, speculation was rife about a Brexit delay\n\nDetermined to appear positive, Jean-Claude Juncker's spokeswoman described the European Commission President's latest meeting with Theresa May as \"constructive\". He said \"good progress\" was made.\n\nThat's the same Jean-Claude Juncker who just a few days ago complained of Brexit fatigue, and said no agreement on a revised Brexit deal was on the horizon. So what changed?\n\nIn short, nothing. Not on the EU side, anyway. But as we know, the EU wants to avoid a no-deal Brexit. It wants a deal by 29 March so that it can move on with other EU business and towards new talks with the UK on a post Brexit trade deal.\n\nHence the bouncier, sunnier words from the Juncker camp. Remember that, despite rising mistrust and frustration, EU leaders are on the same side as Theresa May in wanting to get the Withdrawal Agreement passed through parliament.\n\nBut the chasm between Downing Street and Brussels remains deep when it comes to the backstop – the workaround to avoid a hard border on the island of Ireland after Brexit.\n\nOn the sidelines of the EU-League of Arab States summit this weekend, Mrs May has been busy reminding Europe's leaders that she needs a fixed end date to the backstop or a unilateral get-out mechanism for the UK, in order to persuade sceptical MPs that the UK won't get stuck indefinitely in a customs arrangement with the EU.\n\nShe also wants the EU to commit to finding – or accepting – alternatives to the backstop, such as sophisticated border technology.\n\nCue weary, grumpy EU leaders sighing behind their hands. They know the drill. They know the prime minister's script. They are not budging from theirs.\n\nEU leaders say they won't change the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement – which contains the backstop text, and which Theresa May and her cabinet signed off on in November. A fixed end date or unilateral get-out mechanism would definitely mean changes.\n\nWhat the EU is open to \"24/7\", as I'm constantly told, is agreeing a legally binding text of assurances about the backstop - as long as said text involves assurances only, no changes.\n\nBrussels is waiting to hear from the UK Attorney General, Geoffrey Cox, who is working on a document. But now that Theresa May has delayed a meaningful vote on the Brexit deal until anytime up until 12 March, EU leaders wonder when Mr Cox's text might actually materialise.\n\nDowning Street fears that as soon as pen has hit paper and exchanged hands, the document could be leaked and potentially savaged in the UK media before there's even a chance for EU leaders to approve or discuss it.\n\nFor example, if the attorney general were to come up with an end date to the backstop that in reality wasn't one, say, a maximum five-year backstop after which time there would be an investigation and a process – then, in the words of one of my diplomatic contacts:\n\n\"The European Research Group and arch-Brexiteers aren't fools. They'll see the legal veil of words for what it is.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rutte: 'Wake up and close the Brexit deal'\n\nEU leaders are acutely aware that the criteria they will find acceptable in the legally binding document may make it unacceptable to the Brexiteers - because it would not go \"far enough\" on the backstop.\n\nAnd Brussels has told Mrs May that the EU will not move on the Brexit deal until she can persuade them that she will have a solid majority of MPs behind her. European Council President Donald Tusk said on Monday it was \"absolutely clear\" that Mrs May did not have the parliamentary majority required to give that guarantee.\n\nWhich takes us back to the possibility of the Brexit process going right down to the wire.\n\nEU diplomats and politicians have repeatedly described to me what they view as the prime minister's three-way blackmail gamble - where Labour and the EU are faced with a no-deal Brexit and Brexiteers with the possibility of no Brexit at all.\n\n\"All she needs is for one of us to blink,\" said one European politician, \"and then she has her deal. Probably.\"\n\n\"But it's a high-risk strategy,\" he added, \"as businesses and civilians are beginning to very much sense.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What happens in the event of no deal?\n\nAnd would the EU blink, in the end, if 29 March were nigh with no deal in sight? Would leaders budge more than they've so far indicated? As I've written before, the answer is: no-one knows.\n\nOnly the EU leaders in the room at their summit on 21 March can decide. Maybe they'll hold an emergency Brexit summit even later in March. Nothing at the moment is clear.\n\n\"If we're really at that stage by then, with no confirmed extension of this process in sight, then a fixed end date of 2025 might be possible,\" said a well-placed European source. \"After all, if we don't manage to get a trade deal sorted with the UK in all the years in between, then the backstop will hardly be our only concern.\"", "Huawei is the poster child for China's dynamic tech sector. It has grown phenomenally in recent years, from a small manufacturer of telephone exchange switches, to become a global leader in the tech industry.\n\nWhile the brand is familiar to many from its mobile phone handsets, Huawei has its finger in many other pies - from cloud services to artificial intelligence.\n\nAnd despite increasing controversy around whether using Huawei telecoms equipment poses a security risk, the block on its business deals in some countries, and the arrest in Canada of one of its executives, the company itself has continued on its steady path of global growth.\n\nThat growth has come against the backdrop of China's continued rise, on its way to becoming the world's second largest economy, providing the firm with a huge base upon which to build its initial market as a springboard to international expansion.\n\nMost noticeably for consumers, Huawei has swept into the market for consumer electronics, in particular with smartphones.\n\nEarlier this year it overtook Apple in the number of handsets it was shipping worldwide.\n\nShipments don't always translate into phones reaching consumers, but the uptick in production and distribution still reflects a rise in Huawei's popularity, including for both premium models and its lower-priced Honor brand.\n\nExpanding sales of smartphones comes despite political hostility towards the brand in some parts of the world, especially the US. There, no carriers support Huawei, so while consumers can buy a Huawei phone, they aren't widely marketed.\n\nBut it's in telecoms network equipment, which forms the largest part of Huawei's business, that is having its greatest impact on the company.\n\nThe US has banned the use of Huawei equipment in communications networks, warning of security risks and has called for other governments to follow suit. Nevertheless, in all parts of the world, even in the Americas, the market for Huawei products has grown over the past three years.\n\nWashington's decision to block the use of Huawei equipment in telecommunications infrastructure on security grounds has been emulated in New Zealand, Australia and Japan.\n\nWith the US pressing for other governments to follow suit, that raises questions over whether the firm's global expansion is set to be curtailed in some regions in the near future.\n\nCurrently though, Huawei is holding its own in one of the largest parts of its business, the sale of mobile telecommunications infrastructure equipment, such as that needed to support the roll-out of faster 5G networks.\n\nBut how much Huawei continues to grow, won't depend only on political attitudes in Western capitals.\n\nIt will depend on how well the Chinese tech giant's products compare with its competitors. In the past, the firm has been accused - like many Chinese companies - of copying technology developed in the West and then undercutting rivals on prices.\n\nBut Huawei is currently outspending many other global players in research and development in a bid to gain a future edge.\n\nProspects may not be as bright for Huawei now as they used to be, given the political squeeze from the West.\n\nBut, the firm went through the financial crisis largely unaffected thanks to a powerful domestic market in China, IHS Markit industry analyst Stephane Teral points out.\n\nThe same could happen again if it loses more contracts in the West.\n\n\"Huawei went through this unfazed with no problems, because they were able to diversify at a time when China was just taking off, including telecoms restructuring, that really helped Huawei,\" he said.", "Just 91,000 families made use of the new Tax-Free Childcare system in December, according to new government data,\n\nThat is far below the expected number. Official figures, analysed by the BBC, show the government had planned and budgeted for 415,000 families to be using the system by October 2017.\n\nBy December 2018, just 22% of that number had signed up.\n\nThe government urged families to see if they qualified.\n\nThe shortfall is partly because the full rollout was pushed back following technical glitches with its website, but almost a year after the full rollout, take-up is still far lower than anticipated.\n\nAnd while the government had initially expected 324,000 more families to sign up, far more are potentially missing out. In total, an estimated 1.3 million could qualify for the help, meaning only about one in 14 eligible families has done so.\n\nThat's costing people money - the Office for Budget Responsibility had forecast spending £800m on Tax-Free Childcare in 2017-18, but that was revised down to £37m specifically because of low take-up.\n\nIn 2018, the Family and Childcare Trust's annual survey showed that the cost of a part-time nursery place for a child under two was £122 per week, a rise of 7% in a year.\n\nFamilies who use Tax-Free Childcare receive £2 from the state for every £8 they pay in, up to a value of £2,000 per child per year.\n\nThe new scheme replaces Childcare Vouchers, which is now closed to new applicants. The government says Tax-Free Childcare is better than the old system as it is open to both employed and self-employed people, meaning about a million more families qualify for help.\n\nIt is also paid per child rather than per parent, allowing lone-parent households to get the same amount of support.\n\nHowever, the scheme has suffered from technical glitches - including last year when 22,000 payments were not passed onto childcare providers - and the help available has been criticised for adding to parent confusion.\n\nJulia Waltham, head of policy at the campaign organisation Working Families, says more should be done to help parents identify the best way to get help with their childcare costs.\n\n\"The reason for the low take-up of Tax-Free Childcare could be because parents have chosen to stick with employer-supported childcare vouchers; and we know from our own research that working parents are increasingly reliant on informal childcare support from family, often grandparents,\" she said.\n\n\"But the fact remains that there are seven types of childcare support - each with different eligibility criteria and different ways of interacting with each other - available to parents and carers.\n\n\"This tangled web of support can be complicated, and difficult for parents and carers to navigate.\n\nSarah Coles, personal finance analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown, says not enough is being done to inform parents of their options: \"When the market is getting behind something, they put money into communications and things happen.\n\n\"Tax-Free Childcare, however, is in the hands of the government, and so far there's every sign they're not throwing themselves behind efforts to let parents know about the free money on offer.\"\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"Tax-Free Childcare is a great offer for working parents and more and more families are benefitting from it. We're urging all parents to check the Childcare Choices website to see how much they could save, and to apply.\"\n\nThey added that the number of parents benefitting from Tax-Free Childcare had almost doubled since March last year and they were running a national campaign to raise awareness.", "The cougar was resting on a branch about 50ft (15m) above the ground\n\nA very large cat has been rescued from a tree near a property in California after the homeowner saw it while working in the garden, officials say.\n\nUS firefighters arrived at the property in San Bernardino after the mountain lion - or cougar - was spotted perched on a branch about 50ft (15m) high.\n\nThe area was then secured and the animal was tranquilised and lowered to the ground using a harness.\n\nIt was released back into the wild following an assessment by biologists.\n\n\"It is common for young mountain lions to wander outside what some would consider normal habitat in an attempt to establish their territory,\" said Kevin Brennan, a biologist with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife.\n\nFirefighters arrived within minutes to extract the animal\n\nThe department's warden, Rick Fischer, said that extracting the animal would have been difficult had the firefighters not turned up within several minutes on Saturday afternoon with a ladder.\n\n\"Leaving the lion in the tree would not have been safe for the community,\" Mr Fischer added in a statement posted on the San Bernardino County Fire Facebook account.\n\nThe mountain lion was released back into the wild after it regained consciousness\n\nCougars, also known as mountain lions, panthers or pumas, are members of the wild cat family. They live across the Americas, from British Columbia to Argentina.\n\nMountain lion attacks on humans are extremely rare. In North America, for example, fewer than a dozen fatalities have been recorded in more than 100 years, according to figures provided by Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW).\n\nEarlier this month, a man running on a popular park trail in the mountains of northern Colorado killed a mountain lion after it pounced on him from behind.\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 CPW NE Region This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The seven MPs said they will sit in parliament as a 'new independent group of MPs'.\n\nLuciana Berger, MP for Liverpool Wavertree, made the announcement on Monday morning. She said Labour had become institutionally anti-Semitic and she was \"embarrassed and ashamed\" to stay in the party.", "Maajid Nawaz is a presenter for LBC and an anti-extremism activist\n\nAn anti-extremism campaigner said he was racially attacked and hit in the face outside a theatre.\n\nMaajid Nawaz said a white man attacked him while he was standing alone outside the Soho Theatre in central London.\n\nThe LBC radio presenter tweeted a photo of a cut to his forehead and said he was racially abused and then hit in the face with \"maybe a signet ring\".\n\nThe Met Police said it was called to a report of a racially aggravated assault at 19:10 GMT.\n\nA spokesman said the suspect had fled the scene in Dean Street before officers arrived.\n\nNo arrests have been made and an investigation has been launched, the force added.\n\nMr Nawaz, who presents a show on LBC radio on Saturday and Sunday lunchtimes, said his attacker took nothing and \"ran away like a coward\".\n\n\"My forehead will probably be scarred for life. But we will find you, you racist coward, and you will face British justice,\" he added.\n\nHe said there were witnesses \"who heard the racial abuse and have given statements\" and added police had his attacker's \"face on CCTV\".\n\nIn a later statement, Mr Nawaz thanked people who helped him saying their \"kindness kept me sane\".\n\n\"People from all ethnicities and all faiths and none helped me yesterday. It's in that spirit that I wish to carry on my work,\" he wrote.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Maajid - (Mājid) [maːʤɪd] ماجد 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. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Nawaz is the founder of the Quilliam Foundation, a counter-extremism organisation.\n\nIn September, he said he had tracked down an anonymous \"hero\" who was stabbed and beaten for defending him from a racist mob in Southend 25 years ago.\n\nMr Nawaz said he was 15 when he was confronted by a group of skinheads armed with hammers and knives, who then attacked a passer-by who intervened.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Porsche is warning UK customers they might have to pay 10% extra for cars delivered after Britain leaves the EU.\n\nThe German firm wants buyers to sign a clause agreeing to a potential tariff, a move Porsche said is \"precautionary\".\n\nPorsche's owner Volkswagen declined to discuss if some of its other brands, including Audi, Lamborghini, Skoda, Bugatti, Seat, and Ducati might follow.\n\nA 10% surcharge would see the cost of an entry-level Porsche 911 rising from £93,110 to £102,421.\n\nThe company's Macan sports utility and Boxster models start at about £46,000.\n\nStuttgart-based Porsche said in an emailed statement to the BBC: \"As one potential outcome of the Brexit negotiations, there is a possibility that a duty of up to 10% may be applied to cars imported into the UK by us after March 29.\n\n\"In light of this, we have chosen to inform customers whose cars are likely to arrive after Brexit occurs to warn them that they may be affected by this tariff - allowing them to be fully informed at the point of sale and, if they wish, to adjust their order accordingly.\n\n\"This is a precautionary step in the interests of allowing our customers to plan ahead.\"\n\nBloomberg quoted Porsche as saying that it needed \"comprehensive clarity\" on future UK relations with \"the EU very quickly\".\n\nCustomers who have placed deposits on or before 17 January will not be affected by the change, Porsche said. The company has no UK manufacturing, so all its cars are imported.\n\nRebecca Chaplin, editor of Car Dealer magazine, which first reported Porsche's move said it was bad news for industry because it would make buyers want to delay purchases until the picture was clearer after Brexit.\n\n''Car dealers and manufacturers need to be able to communicate the prices of cars clearly to customers - it's a fundamental of this business and the government isn't helping them,\" she said.\n\nAA president Edmund King said: \"Import tariffs alone could push up the list price of cars imported to the UK from the continent by an average of £1,500 if brands and their retail networks were unable to absorb these additional costs.\"\n\nExecutives at several carmakers have expressed fears about the risk of tariffs, which they say could disrupt production and exports when the UK leaves the EU next month.\n\nLast week, Ford warned that a no-deal Brexit would be \"catastrophic\".\n\nOn Sunday, a spokesman for Volkswagen declined to discuss a possible surcharge on its other car brands.\n\nBut he told the BBC: \"We are keeping a very close eye on developments and reviewing the entire spectrum of possible effects.\n\n\"We are noting with regret that there is currently a stand-still regarding the decision on the negotiated deal. For us, this means a further period of insecurity and planning uncertainty. We continue to prepare for all eventualities.\n\n\"Irrespective of this, the United Kingdom will remain an important market for the Volkswagen Group, the second largest in Europe.\"\n\nHowever, Leave supporters have dismissed fears over tariffs on imported cars, arguing that German manufacturers would oppose such an obstacle to one of their biggest markets.\n\nThe UK is one of Porsche's biggest markets. The company sold 256,000 cars worldwide last year, with more than 12,500 in Britain.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Labour split 'would be like 1980s' - John McDonnell\n\nShadow chancellor John McDonnell has said the Labour Party is \"dealing with\" any issues that might cause a split.\n\nRumours continue to circulate that some MPs are close to resigning the whip.\n\nBut Mr McDonnell insisted the party was \"holding together on Brexit\" and would be \"ruthless\" on claims of anti-Semitism that have dogged Labour.\n\nOn Sunday, a former Labour vice-chairman said he intended to leave the party over what he saw as a repeated failure to tackle hostility to Jews.\n\nFormer Barnsley East MP Michael Dugher, who stood down at the last election, told the Sun: \"I can no longer justify paying subs to a party which I now regard as institutionally anti-Semitic.\"\n\nLast week, some MPs criticised the party leadership's Brexit stance.\n\nTreasury spokesman Clive Lewis warned of \"severe\" ramifications if the party was seen to facilitate a \"Tory Brexit\", while ex-shadow chancellor Chris Leslie said it was \"heartbreaking\" Labour was not united in arguing against leaving the EU.\n\nOn Sunday, Labour members on social media began circulating a graphic reading: \"I pledge to work for the achievement of a Labour-led government, under whatever leadership members elect.\n\n\"And I accept a Labour-led government is infinitely better than any other outcome.\"\n\nMr McDonnell told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show he had signed the pledge, arguing it reflected what he had said throughout his membership - even when he had his \"strongest disagreements\" with Tony Blair.\n\nWhen put to him that the timing was \"just a little bit provocative\", he replied: \"No, not at all.\n\n\"People wanted reassurance from all of us that we're Labour through and through, and - even some of those names that have been mentioned about thinking about leaving the party - I think they're Labour through and through as well.\"\n\nHowever, Edinburgh South MP Ian Murray said he would not sign the \"unnecessary\" pledge, adding that his loyalty to the party \"should never be in question\".\n\n\"These kind of pledge things are a little bit ridiculous,\" he told the BBC.\n\nOn Friday, Mr Murray said MPs were \"being pushed to the brink\" with both the party's Brexit stance and its handling of anti-Semitism claims.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ian Murray: \"A lot of us that are pretty fed up at the moment in terms of the Labour Party's Brexit position\"\n\nHowever, Mr McDonnell, in answering suggestions that you could \"hear the creaking of a coming split\" in the party, said: \"I really don't see why there's a need to.\n\n\"Those saying we'll split if we don't get a 'People's Vote' [another referendum on the final Brexit deal] - well, we've still kept that option on the table and it might come about.\"\n\nMr McDonnell said the effect would be similar to the SDP breakaway in 1981 which split Labour's vote, cost it seats and \"installed Mrs Thatcher in power for a decade\".\n\n\"I don't think any of the people who've even been mentioned about this split would want that,\" he said.\n\nMr McDonnell accepted Labour had not acted \"fast enough\" on claims of anti-Semitism but said it had doubled the staff dealing with the issue and brought in a senior lawyer.\n\n\"Where it's intolerable, where it's repeated... not only should we kick them out of the party, there should be life bans as well,\" he said.\n\n\"We've got to be ruthless about this.\"", "The photograph has appeared in exhibitions around the world\n\nThe US sailor famously photographed kissing a stranger in New York's Times Square to celebrate the end of World War Two has died aged 95.\n\nThe picture of George Mendonsa bending over and kissing 21-year-old Greta Zimmer Friedman on VJ Day (Victory over Japan) became one of the most enduring images of the period.\n\nIt was one of four photographs taken by Alfred Eisenstadt as a round-up of celebration pictures for Life magazine.\n\nMr Mendonsa's daughter, Sharon Molleur, said her father suffered a seizure and died on Sunday after a fall at a care home in Middletown, Rhode Island.\n\nGeorge Mendonsa holds the iconic photo by Alfred Eisenstadt in 2012 in his home in Rhode Island\n\nAlfred Eisenstadt did not give the names of the kissing strangers and it was years before Mr Mendonsa and Ms Friedman were confirmed as the featured couple.\n\nThe photographer described how he watched the sailor running along the street on 14 August 1945, grabbing any girl in sight.\n\n\"I was running ahead of him with my Leica looking back over my shoulder but none of the pictures that were possible pleased me,\" he wrote in the book Eisenstadt on Eisenstadt.\n\n\"Then suddenly, in a flash, I saw something white being grabbed. I turned around and clicked the moment the sailor kissed the nurse. If she had been dressed in a dark dress I would never have taken the picture.\"\n\nMs Friedman, who had been working as a dental assistant, said she had not been aware of the photo until the 1960s.\n\n\"It wasn't much of a kiss,\" she later recalled. \"It was just somebody celebrating. It wasn't a romantic event.\"\n\nMr Mendonsa had served in the Pacific and was on home leave when the picture was taken.\n\nHowever, not everyone sees the photograph as something to celebrate. Although it was widely lauded as an expression of the joy felt across the US on the day Japan surrendered, in more recent times some have considered it, as Time Magazine wrote, \"as little more than the documentation of a very public sexual assault\".\n• None New York 'puckers up for peace'", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nCommentators have been comparing the resignations of seven MPs from the Labour Party on Monday to the formation of the Social Democratic Party (SDP).\n\nBut why has the latest change in Westminster's political layout reminded some of events dating back almost 40 years?\n\nIn January 1981, four former cabinet ministers, Bill Rodgers, Shirley Williams, Roy Jenkins and David Owen, announced their intention, following the party's Wembley conference earlier that month, to move away from Labour.\n\nThe \"gang of four\", as they were nicknamed, issued what became known as the Limehouse Declaration from Mr Owen's house in east London.\n\nUnhappy with the direction Labour was moving in - namely, to the left - they claimed \"a handful of trade union leaders [could] now dictate the choice of a future prime minister\".\n\n\"The gang of four\" - Bill Rodgers, Shirley Williams, Roy Jenkins, David Owen\n\nThe founders wanted \"a new start in British politics\" and proposed a Council for Social Democracy to \"rally all those who are committed to the values, principles and policies of social democracy\".\n\nThe leader of Labour at the time - Michael Foot - said he wanted them to stay and help to shape the party.\n\nBut two months later, that council became the Social Democratic Party and eventually 28 Labour MPs would join the ranks, as well as one Conservative.\n\nIn June of the same year, the SDP joined in an electoral alliance with the Liberal Party to take its \"new politics\" to the polls.\n\nMrs Williams was the first member to stand as an SDP candidate and win, taking the seat of Crosby in November 1981.\n\nAnd come the election in 1983, the alliance was shown to have growing support - securing 25% of the vote.\n\nBut thanks to the \"first past the post\" voting system in British elections, this amounted to only 23 MPs.\n\nAfter the election, however, Mr Foot, resigning as leader, blamed the alliance for siphoning off Labour votes and giving Margaret Thatcher and the Tories another term in government.\n\nThe alliance went on to fight another election, in 1987, but again failed to make much of an impact on the numbers in the Commons - with almost 23% of the vote amounting to just 22 MPs.\n\nIt was decided in 1988 that the SDP and the Liberal Party should merge - and the Liberal Democrats were born in October 1989.\n\nMr Owen was unhappy with the decision and led a much smaller version of the SDP until 1990. Subsequent incarnations have not managed to make an impact on Westminster elections.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Indian troops patrol the area where the attack took place\n\nNine people, including four Indian soldiers and a policeman, have been killed in Indian-administered Kashmir during a gun battle, police say.\n\nThe clash occurred in Pulwama, where more than 40 Indian paramilitary police were killed in a bombing last week.\n\nThat attack, the worst in decades, has fuelled tensions between nuclear-armed India and Pakistan.\n\nA civilian and three alleged militants were also among those killed in Monday's confrontation.\n\nPolice say the three suspected militants who were killed are members of Pakistan-based group Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM), which said it was responsible for Thursday's suicide bombing.\n\nPakistan denies any role in the bombing, but India has accused the state of being complicit.\n\nIndia recalled its top diplomat to the country in the wake of the attack and Pakistan has now also recalled its ambassador from Delhi for consultations.\n\nThe operation lasted 16 hours on Monday, with heavy gunfire reported as Indian security personnel appealed to villagers to stay indoors.\n\nAmong the Indian soldiers killed was an army major, police and military officials said. They said another six members of the Indian military were also injured in the battle.\n\nThe operation targeted a residential area said to be a hideout for suspected militants.\n\nIndian security forces have been hunting for those with suspected links to JeM following Thursday's bombing, which saw a vehicle packed with explosives ram a convoy of 78 buses carrying Indian security forces.\n\nThe suicide bomber was identified as a local Kashmiri aged between 19 and 21.\n\nMore than 20 people were detained on Sunday, according to police.\n\nKashmir has been a flashpoint between India and Pakistan since independence.\n\nBoth countries claim all of Muslim-majority Kashmir but control only parts of it. They have fought two wars and a limited conflict in the region.\n\nThursday's attack was the deadliest attack against Indian forces since an Islamist-led insurgency began in 1989. It sparked anti-Pakistan protests in some Indian cities and angry mobs targeted Kashmiri students and businessmen.\n\nMobile internet services in Indian-administered Kashmir were cut over the weekend and the Indian government has pulled security normally provided to at least five Kashmiri separatist leaders.\n\nIsolated incidents of students from Kashmir being beaten up or evicted from their accommodation in northern Indian states have also been reported.\n\nIndia's Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) offered help to students in need, but also warned of false reports.\n\nSome on Indian social media have been offering their homes to those being targeted in response, using hashtags like #SafeHaven.\n\nIn broader terms, there has been a spike in violence in Indian-administered Kashmir since Indian forces killed a popular militant in 2016. Significant numbers of young men have joined the insurgency in recent years and the funerals of well-known militants draw huge crowds who want to pay respects to \"martyrs\".\n\nIndia has been accused of using excessive force to control protests with thousands of people suffering eye injuries or being blinded by pellet guns.\n\nIndian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is facing an election later this year, has vowed a strong response and says he will give the military free rein.\n\nThe last time an attack on Indian forces close to this magnitude occurred in Kashmir was in 2016, when 19 soldiers were killed at a base. In response to that, India carried out \"surgical strikes\" which involved Indian soldiers crossing the de facto border to hit Pakistani posts.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In December Yogita Limaye examined why there had been a rise in violence in Kashmir\n\nThis time analysts say heavy snow in the region could make that kind of limited ground response impossible. But there are fears that going further, for example with air strikes, could lead to Pakistani retaliation and a significant escalation.\n\nSo far India has focused on retaliation by economic and diplomatic means. It has revoked Pakistan's Most Favoured Nation trading status, raised customs duties to 200% and vowed to isolate it in the international community.\n\nThe threat of Indian military action has not provoked widespread concern amongst the general public in Pakistan. Previous attacks by militants like JeM, believed to have close links to the intelligence services, have been seen as attempts by the Pakistani military to prevent the civilian government developing too friendly a relationship with India.\n\nHowever, since Imran Khan was elected as prime minister here, many have begun to believe both the army and his administration were united in wanting to improve cross border ties.\n\nWhether Pakistan was involved in the attack or not, it seems unlikely concerted action will now be taken against JeM. Its leader has been in \"protective custody\" since another attack in 2016, but still regularly releases audio messages to followers.\n\nThe group has in the past been a useful tool for Pakistan's intelligence services wanting to foment unrest across the border, and authorities may now be reluctant to confront them, in case they turn against the Pakistani state as some of their members have done in the past.", "Facebook needs far stricter regulation, with tough and urgent action necessary to end the spread of disinformation on its platform, MPs have said.\n\nA Commons committee has concluded that the firm's founder Mark Zuckerberg failed to show \"leadership or personal responsibility\" over fake news.\n\nUntrue stories from foreign powers were risking the UK's democracy, they said.\n\nFacebook welcomed the digital select committee's report and said it would be open to \"meaningful regulation\".\n\nMPs said that what was needed to deal with the proliferation of disinformation online and the misuse of personal data was a \"radical shift in the balance of power between social media platforms and the people\".\n\nThe inquiry into fake news, which lasted more than a year, was conducted by the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee, with much of the evidence focusing on the business practices of Facebook before and after the Cambridge Analytica scandal.\n\nCambridge Analytica was a political advertising firm that had access to the data of millions of users, some of which was allegedly used to psychologically profile US voters. The data was acquired via a personality quiz.\n\nHow such data, particularly in terms of political campaigning, was shared by Facebook was at the heart of the inquiry, alongside the effects of fake news.\n\n\"Democracy is at risk from the malicious and relentless targeting of citizens with disinformation and personalised 'dark adverts' from unidentifiable sources, delivered through the major social media platforms we use every day,\" concluded the report.\n\n\"The big tech companies are failing in the duty of care they owe to their users to act against harmful content, and to respect their data privacy rights.\"\n\nIn response, Facebook said: \"We share the committee's concerns about false news and election integrity and are pleased to have made a significant contribution to their investigation over the past 18 months, answering more than 700 questions and with four of our most senior executives giving evidence.\n\n\"We are open to meaningful regulation and support the committee's recommendation for electoral law reform. But we're not waiting. We have already made substantial changes so that every political ad on Facebook has to be authorised, state who is paying for it and then is stored in a searchable archive for seven years. No other channel for political advertising is as transparent and offers the tools that we do.\"\n\nMPs made no secret of the fact that they found it difficult dealing with Facebook during the inquiry and chair Damian Collins had strong words for the firm and its leader, Mr Zuckerberg.\n\n\"We believe that in its evidence to the committee, Facebook has often deliberately sought to frustrate our work, by giving incomplete, disingenuous and at time misleading answers to our questions,\" he said.\n\n\"These are issues that the major tech companies are well aware of, yet continually fail to address. The guiding principle of the 'move fast and break things' culture seems to be that it is better to apologise than ask permission.\"\n\nMark Zuckerberg addressed the US Congress but refused to travel to the UK to speak to MPs\n\nMPs were particularly angry that Mr Zuckerberg did not come to the UK to answer questions in person.\n\n\"Even if Mark Zuckerberg doesn't believe he is accountable to the UK Parliament, he is to billions of Facebook users across the world,\" said Mr Collins.\n\n\"Evidence uncovered by my committee shows he still has questions to answer yet he's continued to duck them, refusing to respond to our invitations directly or sending representatives who don't have the right information.\"\n\nHe also accused Facebook of \"bullying\" smaller tech firms and developers who rely on their platform to reach users.\n\nThe committee did not list specific examples of fake news. But it pointed to the government response to its interim report, which found at least 38 false narratives online after the nerve agent attack in Salisbury in March 2018.\n\nThe report also noted that disinformation was not just spread on Facebook but also on platforms such as Twitter.\n\nAnd it found that, in the month following the publication of its interim report, 63% of the views to the online government response were from foreign internet protocol (IP) addresses, more than half of which were from Russia, highly unusual for a UK-based political inquiry.\n\nThe wide-ranging inquiry did not just look at fake news. It also examined how tech firms use data and data-targeting especially in political contexts, the use of political campaigning online and relationship between a complex network of firms including Canadian AIQ, Cambridge Analytica parent firm SCL and IT firm Six-Four-Three.\n\nMPs said current electoral regulations were \"hopelessly out of date for the internet age\" and needed urgent reform, so that the same principles of transparency of political communications that operate in the real world were applied online too.\n\nThe committee called on the government to reveal how many investigations were currently being carried out into Russian interference in UK politics, particularly the EU referendum in 2016. They asked the government to launch an independent investigation into that.\n\nIn order to better regulate social media firms, the MPs suggested creating a new category of tech firm - one that was neither a platform nor a publisher but something in-between, which would tighten the legal liability for content identified as harmful.\n\nPressure is mounting on the tech giants to get to grips with the issue of fake news, and will add to calls from other ministers for regulation on the issue of harmful content, following the death of teenager Molly Russell.\n\nHer father accused Facebook-owned Instagram of facilitating her death, by failing to remove images of self-harm.\n\nAnd the Cairncross Review into the future of UK news recently recommended a regulator should oversee Google and Facebook to ensure their news content is trustworthy.\n\nIn her report, Dame Frances Cairncross said such sites should help users identify fake news and \"nudge people towards news of high quality\".\n\nFacebook has repeatedly said it is committed to fighting fake news and works with more than 30 fact-checking organisation around the world.\n\nTwo of those agencies - Associated Press and Snopes - recently quit working with the social network.\n\nThe ease with which fake news can be created was illustrated recently by a team of researchers at OpenAi which showed a machine learning system produce coherent, but untrue articles, just by trawling through news site Reddit.", "There is a \"very strong case\" for abolishing jail terms of less than six months in England and Wales, Justice Secretary David Gauke has said.\n\nHe said shorter terms were not working for many inmates and courts should focus more on community rehabilitation.\n\nHe acknowledged there were \"closely defined exceptions\" such as people convicted of violent or sexual crimes.\n\nPenal reform campaigners welcomed Mr Gauke's comments but fellow Tory MP Philip Davies said they were \"idiotic\".\n\nIn a speech in central London, the justice secretary called for a more \"imaginative\" approach to sentencing.\n\n\"We should be extremely cautious about continuing to increase sentences as a routine response to concerns over crime,\" he said.\n\nThere should be a \"national debate about what justice, including punishment, should look like for our modern times\", he added.\n\nAccording to Mr Gauke, more than 250,000 custodial sentences of six months or less and more than 300,000 for 12 months or less were handed out in the past five years.\n\nHe added nearly two thirds of those offenders go on to commit a further crime within a year of being released.\n\nUnder the proposals, which could require legislation, short prison sentences would be replaced by \"robust\" community orders.\n\nThe announcement on Saturday that GPS tagging technology would be rolled out nationwide to monitor offenders forms part of the plans.\n\nMr Gauke challenged the view that there is only a choice between \"soft\" and \"hard\" justice.\n\n\"In my view, we should be talking about smart justice,\" he said.\n\nIn Scotland, a presumption against prison sentences of less than three months is already in place and is due to be extended to 12 months.\n\nOfficial figures from 2018 show those sentenced to short jail terms in Scotland were reconvicted almost twice as often in 12 months than those given community payback orders, which in most cases include unpaid work in the community.\n\nPenal reform has been on the government's agenda for the past three years - but what David Gauke is proposing goes much further.\n\nIn February 2016, then Prime Minister David Cameron said the system was \"stuck in the dark ages\" but his most far-reaching proposals were for weekend imprisonment and greater governor autonomy.\n\nTwo of Mr Gauke's predecessors, said they wanted to see fewer people locked up but neither suggested making changes to sentencing.\n\nThe current justice secretary, however, said legislation to restrict the use of short sentences should be \"explored\" claiming there would be cross-party backing.\n\nIt is a bold step for a Conservative minister to propose a measure knowing some in his party will criticise him for being \"soft\" on criminals.\n\nBut after 13 months in the post Mr Gauke clearly feels he has the evidence to back up his case and the authority to carry it through.\n\nThe chief executive of Revolving Doors Agency, which campaigns for shorter prison sentences, said terms of less than six months were \"ineffective and disruptive\".\n\nChristina Marriott said short sentences \"contribute to prison churn and chaos, making it harder to rehabilitate the people who do need to be there\".\n\nThe Prison Reform Trust said Mr Gauke was \"establishing a reputation as a thoughtful, balanced policy thinker, driven by evidence not preconception\".\n\nThe cabinet minister is not the only voice in the government to advocate reform. In January, prisons minister Rory Stewart told the Daily Telegraph short sentences were \"long enough to damage you and not long enough to heal you\".\n\nHowever, Conservative MP Philip Davies said Mr Gauke's proposals to abolish short terms were \"bonkers\".\n\n\"In virtually every case the offender has been given community sentence after community sentence and they are only sent to prison because they have failed to stop their offending,\" he said.", "John McDonnell has called for the seven MPs who resigned from Labour on Monday to face by-elections.\n\nThe shadow chancellor said the MPs had stood on a Labour platform in the last general election, and if they now represented something else, they \"have a responsibility to go back to the electorate\".", "Hundreds of thousands of people have seen student Nuradean Arreythe's piano skills after he learned how to play using online videos.\n\nHe practised on an old keyboard until it broke – but even that hasn't stopped him from playing where he can.\n\nProduced and edited by Rozina Sini and Kash Jones.", "Last updated on .From the section Boxing\n\nThe deal, which is understood to cover Fury's next five fights, will see him broadcast on ESPN in the US while remaining on BT Sport in the UK.\n\nFury believes the deal makes a rematch with Deontay Wilder \"more makeable\".\n\nBut Fury, Wilder and IBF, WBA and WBO champion Anthony Joshua now work with rival US broadcasters, making future negotiations arguably more difficult.\n• None Costello & Bunce podcast: Does Fury deal make Wilder rematch more or less likely?\n\nFury's December draw with WBC world heavyweight champion Wilder aired on BT Sport in the UK as well as Showtime - who broadcast the American's fights - in the US.\n\nNow Fury has his own US broadcaster, agreements will have to be reached between ESPN and Showtime over the airing of a rematch in America.\n\nJoshua meanwhile is signed to the DAZN streaming service in the US.\n\nFury's promoter Frank Warren pointed to the size of ESPN's subscription base when he said his fighter was now on \"a bigger platform\".\n\nAsked about negotiations for bouts with the division's biggest names, Warren said: \"They will now have to come to us.\n\n\"This ESPN situation for him is probably one of the biggest things to happen to a British sportsman. It's something special.\"\n\nAs part of his new deal, Fury will be promoted by both Warren and Top Rank CEO Bob Arum in the US.\n\nArum, 87, has promoted the likes of Muhammad Ali and Floyd Mayweather and said Fury was \"a generational heavyweight talent at the peak of his powers\".\n\nThe deal is an indication of how Tyson Fury's stock has risen in the United States after his performance against Deontay Wilder last December, in particular his dramatic last-round recovery.\n\nBut the announcement spreads confusion across the heavyweight division when negotiations were underway for the rematch against Wilder.\n\nFury, Wilder and Anthony Joshua are aligned with different TV and streaming partners and doubts have been raised about the chances of big fights being made.\n\nLonger term, there could be implications for the golden heavyweight era that many of us were predicting.\n\nSo what next for Fury?\n\nFury was expected to sign a deal to face Wilder again, with a date of 18 May mooted and Las Vegas the likely venue.\n\nWarren said they still \"wanted\" the contest but quickly added Showtime was no longer \"the only game in town\".\n\n\"It's up to us to sit down and get it over the line,\" Warren added.\n\nFury still wants to fight before the end of May and Warren stressed the former WBA, WBO and IBF world heavyweight champion would not \"sit around waiting\".\n\nFury added: \"If I didn't want to fight Wilder then I wouldn't have taken it the first time. The fight is more makeable now because of this deal.\n\n\"If you're watching Deontay I'm coming for you baby and this time you won't rip me off.\n\n\"If the rematch happens it happens, if it doesn't it doesn't. It isn't the end of the world. I want it to happen so let's make it happen.\"\n\nThis fresh dynamic in negotiations between Fury, Wilder and their broadcasters means talks will have to quickly reach a successful conclusion if a bout in May is to be possible.\n\nJoshua will make his own US debut on 1 June in New York when he defends his titles against Jarrell Miller.", "Breck Bednar met his killer online before travelling to to meet him\n\nThe family of a teenage boy who was murdered in 2014 by a man he met through a gaming website have said his killer is taunting them from prison.\n\nLewis Daynes lured Breck Bednar, 14, from Caterham, Surrey, to his flat in Grays, Essex, and stabbed him to death.\n\nDaynes is serving a life sentence, but Breck's sister Chloe, from Kent, said the killer had sent her disturbing messages on Snapchat.\n\nKent Police said officers had received a report of malicious communications.\n\nMs Bednar said the messages left her in shock, adding: \"I received things like 'I know where your brother is buried', 'I'm going to smash his tombstone'.\"\n\nThe family believe there is nothing police can do because the messages were posted with a US company.\n\nBut Breck's mother Lorin LaFave said: \"If the police need to have information about an account that's harmful... the police deserve that right to get information.\"\n\nAfter Breck's murder, his family - who now live in Kent - formed The Breck Foundation, which warns youngsters of online dangers.\n\nMartha Kirby, from the NSPCC, said: \"We see it every day, children contacting Childline telling us about the abuse they're experiencing, so we know that there is much more than social media companies can do.\"\n\nSnapchat said it did not comment on individual cases. Kent Police said its investigation was continuing.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "In scope, ambition, likely impact and news value - that is, what it has brought to light - the DCMS Select Committee report on fake news and disinformation is a significant moment.\n\nIndeed, when the history of regulation of the technology sector in Britain is written some day, its unlikely path to the top of the best-seller list will owe a substantial debt to the work of this cross-party group of MPs.\n\nPerhaps the strongest line to emerge is the claim that Facebook \"intentionally and knowingly violated both data privacy and anti-competition laws\".\n\nThis is a striking thing to allege, and creates the potential for strong legal sanction. Of course, Facebook will resist such allegations with customary vigour.\n\nIn this blog, I will analyse some of the key areas on which the select committee has reported.\n\nSelect committee sessions used to be more genteel affairs, with civility and good manners to the fore. The incursion of television cameras, and the collapse of many other traditional forms of democratic scrutiny (including the refusal of many politicians to do sit-down interviews on TV) have changed all that, giving them spice and influence they previously lacked.\n\nThis inquiry got testy at times - particularly because of the unconventionally brazen approach of Brexit donor Arron Banks and his associate Andy Wigmore (more of which below).\n\nThere was also heat because of Mark Zuckerberg's refusal to show up, despite repeated invitations, which angered the committee.\n\nTheir assessment of Facebook's failings is unsparing and brutal. They say the company was willing to \"override its users' privacy settings in order to transfer data to some app developers\". This is eerily redolent of the central charge in the Cambridge Analytica scandal, where the data of tens of millions of users ended up with an academic who wasn't supposed to have such access.\n\nIf it is true that Facebook registered the privacy settings of some users but was willing to \"override\" them, that would be a grave matter, and indicate a fundamental breach of trust.\n\nFacebook will therefore want to prove the allegation is false swiftly.\n\nFacebook's head of UK public policy said: \"We share the committee's concerns about false news and election integrity and are pleased to have made a significant contribution to their investigation over the past 18 months, answering more than 700 questions and with four of our most senior executives giving evidence.\"\n\nThe committee also says that in charging \"high prices in advertising to some developers, for the exchange of data, and starv[ing] other developers... contributing to them losing their business\", Facebook was acting in an anti-competitive way.\n\nThis goes to the heart of Facebook's business model - and extraordinary economic power. Facebook always insists it doesn't sell user data. But the astonishing technology Mark Zuckerberg pioneered paints a digital target on users by analysing their behaviour, predicting future behaviour and sharing aspects of this analysis with advertisers who want to target particular groups.\n\nThe scandals of recent years have made the public much more aware of how this is happening. This report will fortify public awareness of the core transaction between Facebook and its users - one the company has been more open about in recent times, by the way, while also becoming much more transparent in sharing information with users.\n\nIt was a senior civil servant at the Home Office who used the phrase \"not fit for purpose\" about that department, but when Labour's John Reid deployed it, it became common parlance. The select committee deploys this phrase in reference to electoral law and political advertising.\n\nClear micro-targeting of voters, of the kind deployed in US presidential elections from 2008 until now, and also in the Brexit referendum, brings with it the profound danger that people outside a polity can interfere in an election. The extent of Russian interference in the election of Trump is currently being investigated. This committee wants an independent investigation into similar influence here. And it makes plain the fact that current electoral law is too weak at dealing with this new threat.\n\nThe recommendation for a new legal definition of digital campaigning and online political advertising is an attempt to wrench laws pertaining to electoral advertising from the era of leaflets and billboards to that of Facebook and Twitter. It is obvious such a wrench is necessary. It is not obvious what that new legal definition will be, because advertising and messaging come in an almost infinite number of forms.\n\nWith exquisite timing, Brittany Kaiser, a former employee of the British data firm that collapsed last year, has been subpoenaed by the Mueller Inquiry. Kaiser appeared alongside Arron Banks at the launch of Leave.EU, the alternative Brexit campaign set up by the UKIP donor.\n\nThe relationship between Banks and the committee has turned nasty. Banks is openly attacking the chairman, Damian Collins MP, in his constituency, and released a sarcastic response to the report yesterday.\n\nThere are inquiries already under way, by the Electoral Commission and National Crime Agency, into Banks's finances and the origin of his donation. Banks denies all wrongdoing. This final report doesn't go much further than it did at the interim stage in criticising Banks, but it does repeat calls for further investigation (by the National Crime Agency) of SCL Elections, a company to which Cambridge Analytica was associated.\n\nMost significantly, the report notes that many of the individuals and practices found in SCL Elections and its associates have reformed under new corporate structures, including Emerdata Ltd.\n\nWill a few companies based mostly around San Francisco obey, and take seriously, a code of ethics set up by Britain?\n\nThis recommendation in the report, which is close to that made by Dame Frances Cairncross in her recent review of the future of high-quality news, derives force from the suggestion that any such code should be overseen by an independent regulator.\n\nIf regulation of the internet were easy, it would have happened a while ago. Regulation is slow and consensual; it is the very nature of technological innovation that it is fast and unpredictable.\n\nIs this a new regulator - Ofnet? Or is it part of an old one - Ofcom? I don't think Ofcom are too keen.\n\nWhat will it regulate? Social media? OK - is Snapchat social media? They say they're a camera and communication company. What about a platform for OAPs in the Swindon area set up by a local computer whizz? Will that be subject to the same rules as Facebook?\n\nAnd how do you keep up with the volume of content generated by two billion users?\n\nNone of which is in any way to argue against regulation, of course.\n\nI have read the relevant section of the report twice. On page 14, under points 31 and 32, there is reference to the views of Sharon White, CEO of Ofcom, about what could be learned from broadcasting regulation. Under point 34, on page 15, there is also the suggestion of Guy Parker, CEO of the Advertising Standards Authority, that the government could decide online harms should be added to the purview of his organisation.\n\nThe report then alights on the notion that a body called the UK Council for Internet Safety - of which Facebook is a member - could, perhaps, expand its remit to consider the \"risk to democracy\".\n\nOf all the sections of the report, this seems to me to be the area that is still not fully developed. There is extensive detail on what a new code of ethics would look like, but the granular particulars of what counts as a \"tech company\", and what the definition of \"harm\" is, remain unclear. Again, that is not to argue against regulation, merely to point out the great difficulties.\n\nPut together with the recommendations of the Cairncross Review and a recent speech by Labour's Tom Watson, this report shows that we are entering a new era in the relationship between technology and the law - but we don't know what it looks like yet.\n\nThe committee has done some significant intellectual heavy lifting, and applied scrutiny to companies and individuals who often evade it.\n\nBut such is the nature of digital technology that really this marks neither the beginning nor the end, but rather the end of the beginning, of a conversation between legislators, technologists and the public about how to put the astonishing power of these innovations to better use.\n\nIn other words, how to shift power from Big Tech back to citizens. Which, after all, is what Big Tech always claimed to be about.", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nCrystal Palace midfielder Jeffrey Schlupp says the Eagles are \"in a good position to get to Wembley\" after his goal helped his team overcome League One side Doncaster Rovers to reach the FA Cup quarter-finals.\n\nSchlupp scored in the eighth minute and Max Meyer headed in a second just before half-time as Palace won 2-0 at Keepmoat Stadium.\n\nThe last eight will feature only two of the top six teams in the Premier League - Manchester City and either Chelsea or Manchester United, who play each other in the last fifth-round tie on Monday.\n\nAlong with Palace, the other Premier League sides left in the competition are Wolves, Watford and Brighton, with Swansea and Millwall - both in the bottom half of the Championship - also still in the cup.\n\n\"It's a great tournament but if we get a lesser team, so to speak, we have a great chance,\" Schlupp told the BBC.\n\n\"It was tough, we'd seen their form and we knew it was going to be tough. But we are pleased to have won, and we scored two good goals.\n\n\"We knew if we got past this we'd be in a good position to get to Wembley.\"\n\nThere are 36 league places between Palace and Doncaster and the Eagles took an early lead when Schlupp shot low into the net after a fine individual run.\n\nMeyer then nodded in from Andros Townsend's headed cross to double the visitors' lead in first-half injury time.\n\nDoncaster, who were aiming to reach the quarter-finals for the first time in their history, had a better second half but Ben Whiteman's shot was saved by Wayne Hennessey, Alfie May headed over from close range and James Coppinger's effort was deflected wide.\n• None Relive Crystal Palace's win over Doncaster as it happened\n• None Don't miss your last chance to play in 2019 FA People's Cup\n\nDoncaster's run comes to an end\n\nThe Eagles have never won the FA Cup, losing twice in finals to Manchester United in 1990 and 2016, but this was also only the second time in 23 years they had reached the last eight.\n\nThe quarter-final draw will be made after the Chelsea v Manchester United match and the last-eight ties will be played from 15-18 March, with winning clubs receiving £720,000 in prize money.\n\nRoy Hodgson named a strong Palace side at Keepmoat Stadium and handed a first start to Michy Batshuayi since his loan move from Chelsea at the end of the January transfer window.\n\nTheir first goal came after Luka Milivojevic won possession and released Schlupp, who was able to sprint into the box and shoot past Marko Marosi.\n\nMilivojevic was also involved in the build-up to the second as his intelligent ball over the top of the Doncaster defence released Townsend, whose header found Meyer with the German scoring only his second goal for the club.\n\nDoncaster, sixth in League One, had beaten Chorley, Charlton, Preston and Oldham to reach this stage but, despite a bright spell at the start of the second half, could not do enough to progress any further.\n• None Crystal Palace have won away at Doncaster for the first time since August 1960, ending a six-game winless run in all competitions (drawn two, lost four).\n• None The Eagles have reached the quarter-final stage of the FA Cup for the second time in the last four seasons - as many as in their previous 33 campaigns.\n• None Doncaster have not beaten top-flight opposition in the FA Cup since January 1985 (1-0 vs QPR), drawing two and losing six since.\n• None Palace have scored in their last nine games in all competitions, their longest run since netting in 10 successive games in March 2016.\n• None No Crystal Palace player has provided more goals (seven) or assists (four) than Andros Townsend in all competitions this season.\n• None Jeffrey Schlupp has scored five goals in all competitions for Crystal Palace this season, his most in a single campaign since 2011-12 (six for Leicester).\n\n'We saw the difference' - what they said\n\nDoncaster manager Grant McCann said: \"We played the game really well, it was a good game but we saw the difference with a Premier League team. I thought between the boxes we were good, but in the final third we didn't get enough shots away.\n\n\"We matched them for large periods, but if you give players of that standard those chances it will be hard. The goal before the break took the wind out of our sails a bit.\n\n\"We like to get about teams, that's how we approach it, but we were not going to leave anything in the changing room and we gave it a go today.\"\n\nCrystal Palace manager Roy Hodgson said: \"It's good that we are there [in the quarter-finals], I'm very proud of that.\n\n\"Today we owe an amazing debt to our fans, I don't quite know how they got there with the problems with the trains, and I thought we were playing at home for large periods of the game.\n\n\"It's not easy to quieten a crowd like Doncaster's in a game like this. We owe them a great debt of gratitude and we hope we can reward them by winning our quarter-final and hopefully getting a home tie.\"\n• None Attempt saved. Kieran Sadlier (Doncaster Rovers) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.\n• None Offside, Crystal Palace. Max Meyer tries a through ball, but Jeffrey Schlupp is caught offside.\n• None Benjamin Whiteman (Doncaster Rovers) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt saved. John Marquis (Doncaster Rovers) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Benjamin Whiteman.\n• None Herbie Kane (Doncaster Rovers) wins a free kick on the right wing. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Swedish activist Elin Ersson caused disruption on a plane that stopped the migrant being sent home.\n\nA Swedish activist has been fined 3,000 krona ($324; £251) for trying to stop the deportation of an Afghan migrant.\n\nUniversity student Elin Ersson booked what she thought was the same flight as the Afghan, refusing to sit down unless he was taken off the plane.\n\nThe migrant in question was not on the flight after all, but another Afghan was onboard for deportation after serving a prison sentence.\n\nSince the protest in July 2018, both Afghans have been expelled from Sweden.\n\nErsson, 21, broadcasted her protest on Facebook from the Turkish Airlines plane, which was bound for Istanbul, Turkey, from Gothenburg, Sweden.\n\nIn the video, Ersson said she did not agree with Sweden's policy of sending back rejected asylum seekers.\n\nElin Ersson refused to sit until the Afghan was taken off the flight\n\n\"I'm not going to sit down until this person is off the plane, because he will most likely get killed,\" she said.\n\nThe video shows how airline crew and other passengers urge her to sit down and to stop filming.\n\nErsson was eventually removed from the plane, along with a 52-year-old Afghan and his escort from the Swedish Prison and Probation Service.\n\nSocial media reactions were largely supportive of her action, although some people are accusing her of grandstanding.", "Flames could be seen on the moors on Sunday night\n\nFirefighters have tackled a large blaze which broke out on moorland in Greater Manchester.\n\nAn area at the top of a hill near Stalybridge was reported to be on fire at about 21:05 GMT.\n\nGreater Manchester Fire Service said its crews used \"specialist moorland firefighting equipment\" to bring it under control.\n\nAt 23:10, a spokesman said the fire was out and crews would be \"scaling down our involvement at the scene\".\n\nThey added: \"Our firefighters, from Ashton, Stalybridge, Oldham, Hyde and Bolton North, used specialist moorland firefighting equipment to bring the blaze, which measured 100m squared, under control and extinguish it.\"\n\nThe fire could be seen from nearby Stalybridge\n\nIn June and July last year, firefighters from 20 different brigades were drafted in to help tackle the two huge moorland fires which burnt for several weeks.\n\nFirefighters spent more than a month battling a huge fire covering 18km sq (6.9 sq miles) at Winter Hill, near Bolton.\n\nThe Army was drafted in to help Greater Manchester crews deal with a blaze at Saddleworth Moor in Tameside, 30 miles away from Winter Hill.\n\nSouth Yorkshire crews fought 1,227 wild and grass fires during an exceptionally dry and hot May to July period, about triple the usual number.\n\nThe Lancashire brigade dealt with 535 blazes in the same period, up from 175 last year.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A summit of central European leaders in Israel has been cancelled because of an Israel-Poland row over the Holocaust.\n\nPoland withdrew after being angered by comments from Israeli leaders about Polish complicity in the Holocaust.\n\nIn particular, Israel's acting Foreign Minister Yisrael Katz used the phrase, \"Poles imbibe anti-Semitism with their mother's milk\".\n\nNazi Germany murdered six million Jews, mostly in Poland. Some Poles did collaborate with the Nazis.\n\nMr Katz's remarks were \"racist and unacceptable\", Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said.\n\nThere was also Polish fury at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for saying \"Poles co-operated with the Germans\" during the Holocaust.\n\nAbout six million Polish citizens died in World War Two, of whom about three million were Jews.\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 Marek Magierowski This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe meeting hosted by Israel was meant to bring together the four-nation Visegrad Group: Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia.\n\nBut on Monday Israel said the three prime ministers attending - without Poland - would have bilateral meetings with Mr Netanyahu.\n\n\"It will not be called Visegrad, because this entails the presence of all four,\" an Israeli spokesperson said. \"It's going to be a summit with Visegrad members.\"\n\nThe Polish government says its withdrawal is \"an unequivocal signal to other governments and international opinion that historical truth is fundamental\".\n\nMr Netanyahu has spent the last decade in office watching a wave of populist leaders come to prominence around the world.\n\nHe has often embraced the rise of politicians who - mirroring his own impact on Israeli politics - combined muscular self-interest in foreign policy with attacks on established \"elites\" or the media at home.\n\nIn the Visegrad Four leaders he saw a potent counterweight within the EU to what he believes is the bloc's anti-Israel stance.\n\nBut for many critics in Israel this approach was always bound to backfire.\n\nThey saw him as cosying up to a nationalist government in Poland they believed had tried to diminish the widespread cases of Polish collaboration with the Nazis during the Holocaust. And in the case of Viktor Orban in Hungary - to a leader accused by Jews in his own country of anti-Semitism.\n\nThere is long-running tension between Poland's conservative government and Israel over the Holocaust.\n\nLast year a Polish law made it an offence to allege that the Polish nation was complicit in Nazi crimes.\n\nPrime Minister Morawiecki then suggested that some Jews were willing collaborators in the Holocaust, provoking a furious response in Israel.\n\nHe told a journalist at the Munich Security Conference in February 2018: \"Of course it's not going to be punishable, [it's] not going to be seen as criminal to say that there were Polish perpetrators, as there were Jewish perpetrators, as there were Russian perpetrators, as there were Ukrainian; not only German perpetrators,\" he said.\n\nPoles protested outside the Israeli embassy on 15 February\n\nOn Sunday, Israel's acting Foreign Minister Yisrael Katz said \"Poles imbibe anti-Semitism with their mother's milk\", quoting the late Israeli Prime Minister, Yitzhak Shamir.\n\nThat in turn enraged Poland, which summoned Israeli ambassador Anne Azari to be warned that Poland could boycott the Visegrad summit.\n\nMr Morawiecki then pulled out, saying of Mr Katz's remarks: \"These words are unacceptable both in diplomatic and public terms. Poles suffered [from Nazi Germany] the most, along with Jews and Roma [Gypsies].\" On Monday Poland withdrew from the summit completely.\n\nResearch shows that thousands of Poles collaborated with the Nazis; but many other Poles risked their lives to help Jews - a fact recognised by Israel's Yad Vashem remembrance centre.\n\nThe Nazis built many of their most notorious death camps in Poland after occupying the country at the beginning of the war in 1939.\n\nThe Polish government argues that for too long Poles have been wrongly linked to crimes committed by Nazi Germany on Polish territory.", "Father-of-three Mr Mundell revealed in 2016 that he was gay\n\nScottish Secretary David Mundell has said coming out as gay was \"one of the most difficult things I've done\".\n\nMr Mundell revealed in January 2016 that it was time to \"acknowledge in public as well as in private, who I am\".\n\nAt the time, the father-of-three was believed to be the first openly-gay Conservative cabinet minister.\n\nMr Mundell, 56, will host a reception in Edinburgh on Thursday to mark LGBT History Month.\n\nThe MP for Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale said: \"Coming out was one of the most difficult things I have done, but also one of the most important.\n\n\"I was overwhelmed by the support I received from friends, family and colleagues.\"\n\nHe added: \"Everyone should feel able to live their lives as they wish, in safety and confidence, without fear of judgment or discrimination.\n\n\"We have come a huge way in better rights for our LGBT communities, and LGBT History Month is a valuable reminder of those hard-won achievements.\n\n\"But we still have more to do to build a wholly inclusive and accepting society. This month I hope that, by reflecting on our collective history, we continue to pave the way for a fairer future.\"\n\nMr Mundell's 2016 announcement took the number of openly-gay MPs in the House of Commons to 33 - one of the highest proportions of any parliament in the world, according to a study by US academics.", "Tudor Simionov was photographed working as a security guard hours before he was attacked\n\nA fourth man has been charged with murdering a doorman who was guarding a party on New Year's Day.\n\nSecurity guard Tudor Simionov, 33, was attacked outside Fountain House at about 05:30 GMT on 1 January.\n\nNor Aden Hamada, 23, of no fixed address, was arrested on Sunday at Gatwick Airport as he returned to the UK, the Metropolitan Police said.\n\nHe has been charged with murder and will appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Monday.\n\nMr Hamada has also been charged with violent disorder and four counts of grievous bodily harm.\n\nThree men - Haroon Akram, 25, Adham Khalil, 20, and 23-year-old Adham Elshalakany - have previously appeared in court charged with Mr Simionov's murder.\n\nDetectives are still appealing for information to help find Ossama Hamed, 25, in connection with the investigation.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A London chef is serving up lasagne made out of grey squirrel meat.\n\nIvan Tisdall-Downes, who runs central restaurant Native, said he was not actively hunting squirrels to put on his customers' plates.\n\nMr Tisdall-Downes said squirrels were essentially a waste product due to gamekeepers culling the animal and so he was just putting the meat to use.\n\nSupermarkets have also began selling squirrel, but some ethical groups are asking if it's right to eat the animals.", "Who are the 'South Bank seven'? And what might they do next?\n\nIn a boiling hot, cramped room in a swish venue on the south bank of the Thames this morning, a small group of MPs made a big statement.\n\nLuciana Berger, Chris Leslie, Chuka Umunna, Mike Gapes, Anne Coffey, Angela Smith and Gavin Shuker all know they face an extremely bumpy future. But they hope together they'll start as a few, and end up being a group for the many.\n\nTheir reasons for quitting are both historic and immediate.\n\nThe splinter has been a long time coming because for a couple of years these MPs have been part of the large chunk of the Labour parliamentary party which had grave concerns about Jeremy Corbyn's leadership.\n\nAngela Smith, for example, now admits that during the 2017 election she was telling voters in her constituency that her leader could not, and would not be prime minister, despite campaigning for the party he was at the top of.\n\nThe seven who have decided to quit are not the only MPs I know of who did that.\n\nThere have been fears, many publicly articulated but expressed with more fury in private, about the leadership's attitude to security policy, to Nato, as well as Jeremy Corbyn's response to the Skripal attack and his attitude to the Trident nuclear deterrent.\n\nOne of those who has left described it today as \"Marxism in disguise\", illustrating the deep-seated, long-held and profound differences of world view.\n\nAdd to that the hurt and concern inside the party over anti-Semitism that has built up over the last year, what the departing group have described as institutional racism towards Jewish people.\n\nWhatever else, let that sink in for a moment. That in 2019, a group of MPs believe that our main opposition party is institutionally biased against a minority group.\n\nBut consider too the Labour leadership's hesitancy in campaigning full throttle for another referendum on staying in the EU, and the group, all of whom believe there should be another referendum, felt they had no choice but to quit.\n\nTo do so goes against the grain of our tribal politics. Some of their colleagues are openly furious, accusing them of being \"cowards\". Others are responding more in sorrow than in anger.\n\nThis is not an easy moment for anyone in the Labour party, and you could not have sat in that stuffy room this morning and felt it was an easy moment for any of those leaving either.\n\nMany other Labour MPs and members will see this as nothing less than a betrayal. And in our first-past-the-post system it is very hard to see in the short term, what kind of impact this group will have.\n\nSo far they are not a political party, although they say they may evolve into one. So far they have no leader, and no policy programme as such. They are clearly open to welcoming disgruntled members of the Conservative party too.\n\nTheir view is that our whole political system is broken and neither the Tories nor Labour are fit for purpose. And it is possible within days that they might be joined by a sprinkling of Tory MPs.\n\nThis splintering might, just might - in time - turn into a much bigger redrawing of the landscape.\n\nFor now though that is way off. And this is first and foremost about the Labour Party - the seeds of the splinter sown more than three years ago, bearing bitter fruit just when Parliament's biggest decisions over Brexit are about to be made.\n\nMPs still in the party will have a variety of reactions, from fury to sadness.\n\nBut few of them now could pretend there isn't a problem, even prompting an astonishing admission from the party's deputy leader, Tom Watson, who - remember - is also elected by the members who so overwhelmingly supported Jeremy Corbyn.\n\n\"I love this party. But sometimes I no longer recognise it,\" he said.\n\nA warning that despite the government's many and multiple problems, it is Labour that's losing members and losing MPs.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Migrants intercepted trying to cross the English Channel\n\nA group of 34 migrants have been brought ashore after the Border Force intercepted a boat in the Channel.\n\nThe group of people, whose nationalities are not yet known, were brought to shore at Dover by a coastal patrol vessel and given blankets.\n\nThree men have been arrested on suspicion of immigration offences, a Home Office spokesman said.\n\nThe group, including men, women and children, have been medically assessed and are believed to be well.\n\nAll have been transferred to immigration officials for interview, the Home Office said.\n\nThe small boat the migrants had been found in was brought to Dover\n\nThe government has confirmed one of the two Border Force boats redeployed from overseas to patrol the Channel in response to recent migrant crossings is already in operation, while the second boat is still en route,\n\nThe spokesman said: \"Since the Home Secretary declared a major incident in December we have tripled the number of cutters operating in the Channel, agreed a joint action plan with France and increased activity out of the Joint Coordination and Information Centre in Calais.\n\n\"The number of individuals attempting to cross the Channel decreased from around 250 in December to around 90 in January, with roughly half of the January attempts being intercepted by partners in France before they could make it to British waters.\"\n\nOne of two Border Force cutters redeployed to the Channel is now in use, the government said\n\nThe Border Force was alerted to the boat heading to the UK coast at about 06:30 GMT.\n\nIt was intercepted by two Border Force cutters and a coastal patrol vessel. Those on board were brought to shore in two groups.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "NatWest apologised and said it had started disciplinary proceedings against the employee\n\nA customer who called a bank to apply for a loan was told \"all vegans should be punched in the face\".\n\nThe Bristol woman, who did not want to be named, went to NatWest for a loan to pay for a £400 nutrition diploma.\n\nThe application was rejected but after listening to a recording of the call, NatWest offered to pay for the course.\n\nThe bank said the outburst - which came after the woman told the bank worker she was a vegan - was \"wholly inappropriate\".\n\nNatWest also offered the woman compensation of just under £200.\n\nThe woman said after the man told her \"all vegans should be punched in the face\" he explained it was because vegan activists had drawn pictures of animals and written messages such as \"friends not food\" in chalk on pavements near where he lived.\n\nThe bank worker said he was upset by vegan messages written in chalk on pavements, similar to this one\n\nHe felt \"vegans were forcing their beliefs on to him\", she added.\n\n\"He wasn't happy to be speaking to me at all, his tone was really unpleasant. Being vegan is a lifestyle choice, I shouldn't be penalised for it, especially by a big organisation. It's extremely unfair.\"\n\nShe told BBC Radio Bristol the exchange, on 23 January, made her feel \"really uncomfortable\".\n\nThe woman said being vegan was a \"lifestyle choice\" and she should not be \"penalised\" for it\n\nNatWest said: \"We are extremely sorry for the way our customer was treated by a member of our staff and apologise for any distress and upset that this behaviour caused.\n\n\"These comments were wholly inappropriate and we have commenced disciplinary proceedings.\n\n\"We have also provided feedback to the relevant sections of the bank to ensure that lessons are learnt so that a situation like this never happens again.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dame Frances Cairncross explains the findings of her review into the future of the UK news industry\n\nA regulator should oversee tech giants like Google and Facebook to ensure their news content is trustworthy, a government-backed report has suggested.\n\nThe Cairncross Review into the future of UK news said such sites should help users identify fake news and \"nudge people towards news of high quality\".\n\nThe review also said Ofcom should assess the BBC's impact on online news on other providers.\n\nIn addition, the report called for a new Institute for Public Interest News.\n\nSuch a body, it said, could work in a similar way to the Arts Council, channelling public and private funding to \"those parts of the industry it deemed most worthy of support\".\n\nThe report said Facebook and Google need to give more prominence to public interest news\n\nThe independent review, undertaken by former journalist Dame Frances Cairncross, was tasked with investigating the sustainability of high-quality journalism.\n\nIts recommendations include measures to tackle \"the uneven balance of power\" between news publishers and online platforms that distribute their content.\n\nServices such as Facebook, Google and Apple should continue their attempts to help readers understand how reliable a story is, and the process that decides which stories are shown should be more transparent, it says.\n\n\"Their efforts should be placed under regulatory scrutiny - this task is too important to leave entirely to the judgment of commercial entities,\" according to the report.\n\nCould a digital regulator stop the spread of so-called 'fake news'?\n\nA regulator would initially only assess how well these sites are performing - but if this doesn't work, the report warns \"it may be necessary to impose stricter provisions\".\n\nYet the report falls short of requiring Facebook, Google and other tech giants to pay for the news they distribute via their platforms.\n\nDame Frances told the BBC's media editor Amol Rajan that \"draconian and risky\" measures could result in firms such as Google withdrawing their news services altogether.\n\n\"There are a number of ways we have suggested technology companies could behave differently and could be made to behave differently,\" she said.\n\n\"But they are mostly ways that don't immediately involve legislation.\"\n\nThe review was not asked to comment specifically on the BBC but concluded that curtailing the corporation's news offering would be counter-productive after hearing arguments from other publishers that the BBC reporting on so-called \"soft content\" online was crowding out other news providers.\n\nThe review noted that the BBC Charter states the corporation should endeavour to reach all demographics, and that stories of this type are essential to appeal to an increasingly elusive younger audience.\n\nThe BBC also argues that \"soft content\" stories may attract users who might then click onwards to a public-interest news story.\n\nThe review said the BBC was delivering high quality journalism but suggested it \"could do more and think more carefully about how its news provision can act as a complement, rather than a substitute, for private news provision\".\n\nDame Frances also recommended an exploration of the market impact of BBC News, conducted by broadcasting regulator Ofcom, to find whether it is 'striking the right balance' and driving traffic to other, commercial providers.\n\nThe BBC should do more to share its technical and digital expertise for the benefit of local publishers, the report concluded.\n\nThe review suggests it would 'make little sense to curtail the BBC'\n\nShadow Culture Secretary Tom Watson urged the government to tackle Google and Facebook's \"duopoly\" in the digital advertising market, and said Dame Frances was \"barking up the wrong tree\" in recommending an inquiry into the BBC's online news output.\n\nMeanwhile, former director general of the BBC Greg Dyke defended the role of the corporation.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"It seems to me that at a time when large American media companies - the likes of Netflix and the rest of it - are going to come to dominate in the world, for the BBC to be cutting back on anything will be a mistake.\n\n\"The importance of the BBC is going to grow in the next 10 years, not decline.\"\n\nFrances Cairncross earned widespread respect as a journalist for her hard-headed and pragmatic approach to economics.\n\nThat pragmatism is the very reason the government commissioned her to look at the future of high-quality news - and also the reason many in local and regional media will be disappointed by her recommendations.\n\nWhat is most notable about her review is what it doesn't do.\n\nThis is because the practicalities of doing these things are difficult, and experience shows that the likes of Google will simply pull out of markets that don't suit them.\n\nThere are concrete measures that could boost local news, from tax relief to an extension of the Local Democracy Reporting Service.\n\nAnd Dame Frances certainly seemed cognisant of the argument that BBC News has over-reached, to the extent that it is harming the commercial sector. But this is a matter for Ofcom.\n\nUltimately, as this report acknowledges, when it comes to news, convenience is king. The speed, versatility and zero cost of so much news now means that, even if it is of poor quality, a generation of consumers has fallen out of the habit of paying for news.\n\nBut quality costs. If quality news has a future, consumers will have to pay. That's the main lesson of this report.\n\nThe report recommends \"new codes of conduct\" whose implementation would be supervised by a regulator \"with powers to insist on compliance\".\n\nThe Barnsley Chronicle goes to press in September 2017\n\nOne local newspaper editor welcomed the report's recommendations but said it \"comes too late for so many once proud and important community newspapers\".\n\nThe Yorkshire Post's James Mitchinson said: \"The various fiscal reviews and recommendations... must come quickly... if we are to turn the Cairncross Review into something which we look back upon as being instrumental in preserving what we do for generations to come.\"\n\nCulture Secretary Jeremy Wright said some of its suggestions could be acted upon \"immediately\", while others would need \"further careful consideration\".\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.", "Anti-government 'yellow-vest' protesters threw stones at a police van in Lyon, France, footage filmed by a riot officer shows.\n\nThe French Interior Ministry says the violence was \"one-sided\".\n\nThe country's 'yellow-vest' protests began in mid-November over fuel taxes.\n\nBut they have since broadened into a revolt against President Macron, and a political class seen as out of touch with common people.", "Traditional peak and off-peak rail fares face the axe under sweeping changes being proposed for the UK's train ticketing system.\n\nThe Rail Delivery Group (RDG), which represents train operators, wants to eliminate the \"cliff edge\" between peak and off-peak prices.\n\nIt argues that this would reduce overcrowding.\n\nAlso, tap-in, tap-out rail fares could be expanded beyond London under the proposals published on Monday.\n\nThe RDG's wish list of reforms is based on some 20,000 submissions on how the UK railways could be improved.\n\nTransport Focus, the independent passenger watchdog which also worked on the consultation, said UK train operators currently offered an \"outdated and outmoded fares and ticketing system\".\n\nFeedback from commuters found eight out of 10 want the fares system overhauled and nine out of 10 want smart or electronic tickets, with the potential for price capping.\n\nPay-as-you-go fares and daily capping are already used for London commutes\n\nThe Rail Delivery Group said reforms would support tap-in, tap-out fares - a pay-as-you-go method used in London - and more integration with other modes of transport.\n\nIn London, tube and rail commuters can use contactless bank cards to automatically pay fares which are calculated based on where a passenger enters and exits the network.\n\nReform would mean updating regulations around peak and off-peak travel, the RDG said, and ticket prices could be set more flexibly. This would reduce overcrowding, it said.\n\nPaul Plummer, RDG chief executive, said customers had different needs and wanted changes that offered value and better reflected changing work habits.\n\n\"Rail companies are already working together on plans for real world trials so people can see what our proposals could mean for them,\" he said.\n\nRail companies needed the government to change rules on how train fares were charged, he added.\n\n\"Current regulation needs to be updated and we want to work with government, which is key to making improvements a reality, to deliver the better fares system the public wants to see.\"\n\nThe vast majority of rail users surveyed wanted changes to train fares\n\nThe government is currently undertaking the Rail Review which is covering everything from commercial contracts to rail fare structures. Its consultation closes at the end of May.\n\nThe RDG said its ideas could be rolled out, train operator by train operator, in as little as three years.\n\nDarren Shirley, chief executive of the Campaign for Better Transport, said the existing system was \"broken and desperately needs fixing\".\n\n\"We're particularly pleased to see proposals for more flexible commuter tickets to reflect modern work patterns, something we've long called for, and for nationwide smart ticketing.\n\n\"What's not clear however, is if these proposals will also lead to an end to the annual fares rise, which fails to reflect the level of service passengers receive the previous year.\n\n\"It is now up to the government to take forward these proposals to ensure we have a fares system that is fairer and easier to use.\"\n\nAnother proposal is to stop passengers having to buy split tickets to get the cheapest fares for some journeys.\n\nHow to reform the railways is a contentious, some might say politically toxic subject right now. A broad government-commissioned review into almost every aspect of the system is ongoing.\n\nOur out-dated and mind-bogglingly complicated ticketing system is a prime candidate for change. The system is, in the eyes of many, inherently flawed.\n\nHow can an off-peak single sometimes cost a fraction less than a return? And how can it be that you get different prices for exactly the same journey?\n\nTechnology is clearly a big part of the solution. But a tap-in, tap-out system which automatically ensures you the best fare for your journey is also partly about restoring trust. The t-word has become a precious commodity on the tracks of late, after a whole host of problems.\n\nThe underlying message from train companies today is that they are on the side of passengers. They want to shunt the government towards positive change.\n\nMore types of flexible fares is one thing, but cost and who pays will, as always, be almost every passenger's central concern.\n\nTo make the proposals 'revenue neutral', as the operators plan, cheaper fares would have to be offset by more expensive ones. That is, unless the changes drive more people to travel by train, especially on more empty off-peak services.\n\nThe initial mood music from those representing passengers is broadly positive. But some fear there could be winners and losers.\n\nEven with the support of government, one industry source said real change might not arrive for another three to five years.", "Kieran Metcalfe won the competition with his photograph of Chrome Hill, in Derbyshire, taken in November 2018 on a windy morning\n\nA stunning shot of the Peak District has been announced as the winner of a photography competition celebrating the 70th anniversary of UK National Parks.\n\nGraphic designer Kieran Metcalfe, who lives in Cheshire, was crowned the winner among almost 1,500 entries with his photograph of Chrome Hill, in Derbyshire, looking towards Parkhouse Hill.\n\nHe said: \"I was thrilled to hear the image had been shortlisted, but I'm completely bowled over at it being selected by the judges as the overall winner.\"\n\nHere are a selection of other picturesque places that made the shortlist.\n\nGareth Mon was runner-up with his photograph of Snowdonia National Park, which he took after four failed attempts of lugging 35kg of equipment up Snowdon\n\nHelen Storer made the competition's shortlist with this photograph of Broads National Park taken one cold misty morning\n\nChloe Swift took this photograph of her sons, aged seven and four, at Leather Tor in Dartmoor National Park\n\nSteve Burnett took this shot on Skomer Island in Pembrokeshire Coast National Park\n\nShaun Davey captured the countryside near Holt in Exmoor National Park\n\nGillian Thomas said she took this image during the autumn of last year in Rhinefield at New Forest National Park\n\nThomas Bown snapped this shot of St Brides Bay, with Skomer Island offshore, in Pembrokeshire Coast National Park\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "One of Japan's most beautiful forests also has a sad association with suicide. But Kyochi Watanabe wants to change that.\n\nThe vlogger Logan Paul brought the forest into the global public eye when he visited the forest and posted a video showing the body of an apparent suicide victim, forcing YouTube to cut business ties with him.\n\nPlaying music loudly at the edge of the forest, Watanabe is a musician who reminds those he meets that it is a shrine to an ancient Japanese water god, and not somewhere to take one's own life.\n\nHe hopes his singing and guitar-playing reminds people that they aren't alone, and that they have a friend waiting for them if they follow the music.\n\nSupport is available if you have been affected by anything you have heard in this video. Talking to other people can be very helpful - whether this is with a family member, friends, a doctor or an organisation like Befrienders Worldwide where you can find links to help and support organisations around the world which may be near to you.\n\nFor viewers in the United Kingdom, this link gives details about organisations which offer advice and support in the UK.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Alison and Michael go on dates that their mothers help organise\n\nA couple who both have Down's syndrome have spoken about how their relationship has thrived thanks to the support of their families.\n\nAlison Williams, 35, and Michael Gallagher, 31, from Anglesey, have been together for 12 years after meeting at a sports club.\n\nSupport group Mencap Cymru said people with learning disabilities have the right to meaningful relationships.\n\nIt urged carers to help them and not to be \"frightened\".\n\nFor Alison and Michael, being in a relationship has led to years of happiness.\n\nMichael added: \"I think we'll be together forever.\"\n\nAlison Williams and Michael Gallagher's friendship started when they met at a sports club\n\nThe couple live with their families, but regularly stay at each other's homes and they enjoy holidays and hotel breaks together with the support of their mothers, who help to arrange their dates and stay nearby.\n\nMichael's mother, Dot, said being in a relationship had been \"the making\" of her son.\n\nAlison's mum, Ann, said she remembered the moment the couple's friendship became something deeper.\n\n\"They were going to a disco, Alison was dressed as Sandy from Grease and Michael was Danny,\" she recalled.\n\nI've got chills... the couple dressed as Sandy and Danny from the musical Grease\n\n\"We were behind them and they just held hands and walked away.\"\n\nThe couple and their families have talked about the serious relationship and their plans for the future.\n\nThey say people sometimes ask intrusive questions about the nature of the couple's relationship but that it was \"none of their business\".\n\nWhile public attitudes to people with learning disabilities have changed in the past 30 years, Mencap Cymru said it wanted to change the way society thinks about their rights to friendships and relationships.\n\nIt is using Valentine's Day to start a \"national conversation\" with people with learning disabilities, parents and support services about improving opportunities for people with a learning disability, starting with a launch at the Welsh Assembly.\n\nDirector Wayne Crocker said: \"People who are supporting people with a learning disability might be frightened of the risks of an individual being involved in an intimate relationship.\n\n\"But where that individual has capacity, whether you're a parent or a support agency, your role should be to develop and help that individual have the relationship they want, that's right for them.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Flybmi won't be the last airline to collapse, analysts say\n\nIn two short sentences, Flybmi's announcement that it had collapsed summed up the airline industry's woes: fuel costs, green taxes, Brexit uncertainty, falling passenger numbers. It might have added fierce competition, but that is probably a statement of the obvious.\n\nSeveral European airlines have folded or hit financial trouble during the past two years. Britain's Monarch collapsed in October 2017, while Germany's Germania filed for insolvency earlier this month.\n\nAir Berlin and Alitalia went bust, although the latter was propped up by the Italian government.\n\nPrimera, Cobalt, Azurair Germany, Small Planet Airlines and SkyWork may not be household names, but all succumbed to the market turbulence sweeping across the sector.\n\nUK regional airline Flybe came close to folding and put itself up for sale. And last month Norwegian Air Shuttle was forced to seek an emergency cash injection, putting a question mark over its promise to revolutionise budget long-haul travel.\n\nRyanair boss Michael O'Leary may be prone to a bit of hyperbole, but when he warned this month that the industry would see more bankruptcies no one doubted him.\n\n\"Winter is the worst time of year for airlines,\" says Ascend Consultancy analyst Peter Morris. \"If you can get through the winter there's a chance of getting summer bookings.\"\n\nSo why are so many airlines failing?\n\nTravel expert Simon Calder went to the heart of the problem when he told the BBC that the airline industry's problem is: \"There are simply too many seats and not enough people.\"\n\nBut the reasons for this are many and complex.\n\nThe growth of airlines in Europe, mainly budget carriers, came on the back of deregulation and an explosion of route networks.\n\nUsing new and cost-efficient aircraft operators started new services. If one route failed, they tried another. Flexibility was key.\n\nAccording to the International Air Transport Association, the number of flights in Europe has risen more than 40% compared with a decade ago. At the same time, though, fares have fallen, squeezing margins and reducing financial room for manoeuvre.\n\nThis expansion has not insulated the industry from wider shocks, such as economic slowdown, rising oil prices, and unfavourable exchange rates - the depreciation of sterling has made it more expensive for Britons to go abroad.\n\nAnd there are unexpected extra costs - from traffic control strikes, maintenance bills, bad weather (remember the Beast from the East) and passenger compensation.\n\nNew EU passenger compensation rules were, said Wizz Air boss József Váradi, becoming a real burden on airlines. He cited this, along with fuel costs, as the two biggest squeezes on airline profitability.\n\nOil prices rose and slumped in 2018, and since the start of the year have been on their way back up. Fuel costs have been cited as a factor in almost all the problems reported by airlines in the last couple of years.\n\nCash-strapped Flybe put itself up for sale\n\nFlybmi also highlighted another extra cost that did damage - emissions taxes. Tim Jeans, a former managing director of Monarch and chairman of Newquay Cornwall Airport, agrees that it is becoming a serious issue for the whole industry.\n\n\"Carbon costs are a creeping cost for all airlines,\" he told the BBC. \"The fees you need to pay to carry out your flying are going up all the time, and they are now quite a material cost.\"\n\nHe thinks many airlines have not fully budgeted for this rise. \"It certainly looks like that is the case with Flybmi,\" he said.\n\nThere's also the issue of Brexit. Critics say it has become convenient for UK companies to blame uncertainty around Britain leaving the EU for their problems.\n\nBut for any UK airline - from Flybmi to British Airways - the potential unravelling of Europe's open skies agreement that has existed for decades is a real worry, Mr Jeans says.\n\nIt will certainly hinder the ability of some airlines to do deals and offer services if there is uncertainty about their freedom to fly across Europe, he said.\n\nRyanair's Michael O'Leary warned of more casualties in the airline industry\n\nMr Morris says problems at International Consolidated Airlines (IAG) underline how Brexit is worrying the major carriers.\n\nTo retain its operating licence in Europe, IAG, which owns British Airways and Iberia, must show it is more than 50%-owned and controlled by EU investors. So, IAG is capping non-EU investment - except for UK shareholders, who will be counted as part of the EU even after Brexit.\n\nIt's an example, says Mr Morris, of \"how even the big boys might have some problems with the aviation environment\".\n\nWill there be more airline failures? \"Yes, I think definitely,\" says Mr Morris.\n\nAirlines that are particularly vulnerable are the smaller carriers squeezed between the major players like BA and Lufthansa, and the big low-cost carriers like Ryanair and Easyjet, Mr Morris says.\n\nThe former have economies of scale and a presence at major hub airports like Heathrow. The latter operate larger, more efficient aircraft and more regular services, so have lower per-seat costs. It means both sectors can better withstand shocks.\n\nMr Jeans agree. \"Flybmi's demise is a perfect example of just how difficult it is to make money in that middle ground,\" he says.", "Derry's UEFA Cup run in 2006 saw them take on French giants PSG - after Brexit they will travel to Europe for every away\n\nIn the world of sport, Brexit, backstops and borders may not be foremost in the thoughts of fans.\n\nThat sport and politics should not mix is, after all, an oft repeated phrase.\n\nBut for Derry City Football Club, this year celebrating 90 years since its first competitive match, Brexit puts the club in a unique position.\n\nWhen Brexit happens, the Candystripes become the only UK-based club competing in a domestic league within the European Union.\n\nDerry City's home ground lies four miles from the Irish border\n\nThe city of Derry has a hinterland that straddles the Irish border.\n\nAfter Brexit, it will straddle the EU-UK frontier.\n\nThe football club's Brandywell home ground lies less than four miles from County Donegal in the Republic of Ireland.\n\nAnd for more than 30 years they have played in the Republic of Ireland's league.\n\nHow Brexit plays out may add to their cross-border dynamic.\n\nDerry has, over the past 30 years, gained a wealth of cross-border experience.\n\nAnd it has a history shaped previously by events off the pitch.\n\nDerry City returned from 13 years of footballing exile in 1985 and have played in the League of Ireland ever since\n\nIn 1972 - a year regarded as one of the worst of the Troubles in Northern Ireland - a supporters' bus from visiting Ballymena United was burned on a visit to the Brandywell.\n\nThe club was expelled from the Irish League in Northern Ireland and forced into the footballing wilderness.\n\nIts exile ended with acceptance into the Republic's League of Ireland in 1985.\n\nDerry City has declined to comment on how Brexit might impinge on the club.\n\nThe Irish government, though, is planning for how cross-border sports could be affected by the UK's EU withdrawal.\n\nThe Irish Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport has said it acknowledges that the \"uncertainty of Brexit may pose challenges\" to sporting bodies and it is making itself \"available to assist such organisations should this be required\".\n\nAfter Brexit, the Derry-Donegal border will be part of the UK-EU land divide\n\nThe government may be planning for all possibilities but fans are thinking only about football.\n\nMickey Kerrigan, the chairman of the Pride of Northside supporters' club, has been travelling home and away to matches since 1985.\n\nBrexit is not a factor for fans eagerly anticipating a new season, he said.\n\nPolitics, he added, \"should never interfere with football\".\n\n\"People can make all the predictions they want about Brexit but the truth is that no-one knows what will happen,\" he said.\n\nFans are not factoring Brexit into their new season planning, says a supporters' club chairman\n\n\"Derry City fans have already been through the years of a hard border - we've had traffic tailbacks, delays and checks on the border and we shrugged our shoulders and got on with it.\n\n\"I can't see what change there will be for supporters - maybe some traffic issues if anything - but we have a new manager, new signings and are ready to get on the road for the new season.\n\nDerry City begin the 2019 League of Ireland campaign at home to UCD on 15 February.\n\nOn 29 March - the date on which the UK is due to leave the EU - the Candystripes host Sligo Rovers at the Brandywell.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. On Monday Shamima Begum told the BBC she never sought to be an IS \"poster girl\"\n\nShamima Begum - the schoolgirl who fled London to join the Islamic State group in Syria - has said she never wanted to be an IS \"poster girl\".\n\nMs Begum, who has just given birth, said she now wants the UK's forgiveness and supports \"some British values\".\n\nShe told the BBC while it was \"wrong\" innocent people died in the 2017 Manchester attack, it was \"kind of retaliation\" for attacks on IS.\n\nThe 19-year-old left Bethnal Green four years ago with two school friends.\n\nThere has been debate about Ms Begum's plight since she was found in a Syrian refugee camp by the Times newspaper last week after reportedly leaving Baghuz, IS's last stronghold in the country.\n\nShe gave birth to a baby boy last weekend, having previously lost two children, and named him after her first son.\n\nWhile she told the BBC she would have let her late son become an IS fighter, she wants her new baby \"to be British\" and for her to return to the UK with him.\n\nIn an interview with the BBC's Middle East correspondent Quentin Sommerville on Monday, Ms Begum said: \"I don't actually agree with everything they've done.\n\n\"I actually do support some British values and I am willing to go back to the UK and settle back again and rehabilitate and that stuff.\"\n\nHome Secretary Sajid Javid told MPs on Monday that he would not \"hesitate to prevent\" the return of Britons who travelled to Syria to join IS. While the UK cannot leave people stateless, under international law, he said any such Britons would be \"questioned, investigated and potentially prosecuted\".\n\nNo British troops would be used to help or rescue them, he said. He told MPs that more than 100 dual nationals have already lost their UK citizenship after travelling in support of terrorist groups.\n\n\"If you back terror, there must be consequences,\" he said. More than 900 people have left the UK to join the conflict in Syria, said Mr Javid, adding that those who join IS have \"shown they hate our country and the values that we stand for\".\n\nMs Begum was 15 and living in Bethnal Green, London, when she left the UK in 2015\n\nAsked about the Manchester Arena attack in 2017 in which 22 people - some of them children - were killed in a bombing claimed by IS, she said: \"I was shocked. I didn't know about the kids, actually. I do feel that is wrong. Innocent people did get killed.\"\n\nShe compared the attack to military assaults on Syria, saying: \"It's one thing to kill a soldier, it's fine, it's self-defence. But to kill people like women and children just like the women and children in Baghuz who are being killed right now unjustly by the bombings - it's a two-way thing really because women and children are being killed back in the Islamic State right now.\n\n\"It's kind of retaliation. Their justification was that it was retaliation so I thought, okay, that is a fair justification.\"\n\nMs Begum said she was sorry for all the families who had lost people because of the attacks in the UK and other countries.\n\n\"That wasn't fair on them,\" she said. \"They weren't fighting anyone. They weren't causing any harm. But neither was I and neither were other women who are being killed right now back in Baghuz.\"\n\nWhen it was suggested that her going to Syria might have been a \"propaganda victory\" for IS, Ms Begum said: \"I did hear a lot of people were encouraged to come after, but I wasn't the one who put myself on the news.\"\n\nShe added: \"The poster girl thing was not my choice.\"\n\nMs Begum said she made the choice to go to Syria and could make her own decisions, despite being only 15 at the time. She said she was partly inspired by videos of fighters beheading hostages and also by videos showing \"the good life\" under IS.\n\nShe watched videos of the murders of British hostages, she told the BBC, but said she did not know the names of any of the victims.\n\nOur correspondent said that \"throughout the interview, Shamima Begum continued to espouse Islamic State philosophy.\" He added: \"When I asked her about the enslavement, murder and rape of Yazidi women by IS, she said 'Shia do the same in Iraq'.\"\n\nBut she said: \"I just want forgiveness really, from the UK. Everything I've been through, I didn't expect I would go through that.\n\n\"Losing my children the way I lost them, I don't want to lose this baby as well and this is really not a place to raise children, this camp.\"\n\nTwelve more British women have arrived at the camp in Syria in the last week and more are expected, our correspondent added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tasnime Akunjee, the lawyer for the family of Shamima Begum, expects her to be \"damaged\" by her ordeal\n\nEarlier, the lawyer representing Ms Begum's family said she is \"damaged\" and will need mental health support. Tasnime Akunjee also said her family are prepared to raise her newborn baby away from \"IS thinking\".\n\nHe said Ms Begum - who is legally British - had still not been in contact with her family and the family are trying to get the government to provide travel documents for Ms Begum and her newborn son, who he said has a right to citizenship.\n\nMs Begum left the UK in February 2015 with two other schoolgirls, Kadiza Sultana and Amira Abase. Kadiza is thought to have died when a house was blown up, and the fate of Amira is unknown.\n\nMr Akunjee also called for an \"urgent inquiry\" into how Ms Begum and the other schoolgirls were able to travel to Syria.\n\nKadiza Sultana, Amira Abase and Shamima Begum (l-r) in photos issued by police\n\nPreviously, Ms Begum said she escaped from Baghuz, Islamic State's last stronghold in eastern Syria, two weeks ago.\n\nHer husband, a Dutch convert to Islam, is thought to have surrendered to a group of Syrian fighters.\n\nUnder international law, the UK is obliged to let a Briton without the claim to another nationality return home.\n\nBut the government does not have consular staff in Syria, and says it will not risk any lives to help Britons who have joined a banned terrorist group.\n\nIf Ms Begum is able to reach a British consulate in a recognised country, it is thought security chiefs could \"manage\" her return.", "Jeanette Kempton's body was found in rural Suffolk on 18 February 1989\n\nCold case detectives hope a review of an unsolved 1989 murder could help explain why a woman was killed and then dumped 118 miles (190km) from her home.\n\nJeanette Kempton, 32, went missing from Brixton in south London, where she lived with her ex-husband and their two teenage sons, on 2 February 1989.\n\nHer partially decomposed body was found in a ditch at Wangford, near Southwold in Suffolk, just over two weeks later.\n\nShe had no known links to Suffolk but police said her killer may have had.\n\nAndy Guy, Suffolk Police's major crime review and unsolved case manager, said the case was reviewed in 2009 and 2016 and \"could do with another full forensic review\".\n\n\"DNA technology has moved on and there are questions I've not got the answers to,\" he said.\n\nTwo rabbit hunters found Ms Kempton's body on the Earl of Stradbroke's estate\n\nPolice said Ms Kempton, known as Jean to her friends, was last seen alive leaving The Loughborough Hotel at about 19:15 on 2 February 1989.\n\nHer body was found by two rabbit hunters on the Earl of Stradbroke's estate off the A12 on 18 February.\n\nShe was missing her coat, a shoe, her purse, a wreath for a funeral she had picked up and jewellery.\n\nThe cause of death was strangulation.\n\nPolice said there were five suspects at one point, including her ex-husband, but no-one was convicted.\n\nThere was a Crimewatch appeal in a bid to get more information\n\nMr Guy said: \"She had no connections to Norfolk and Suffolk and was deposited in a ditch totally out of context.\n\n\"There were no witnesses and no forensic clues to take you anywhere.\n\n\"But there could be someone out there who knows something and that could turn things around very quickly.\"\n\nHe said the person who dumped her body most likely had connections with the north-east Suffolk area.\n\nThe case featured on BBC One's Crimewatch in May 1989 in an attempt to get more information, but police appeals led to nothing.\n\nMs Kempton's body was dumped 118 miles (190km) from where she lived\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The man who died was trapped in the car but four other occupants managed to escape\n\nA man has died after a tree fell on a car in Surrey.\n\nPolice said the Lexus was driving along the A308 in Egham when it was involved in a crash.\n\nFirefighters said that a man was cut free from the car but was declared dead. Four other people inside the car - three females and a male - were taken to hospital with minor injuries.\n\nNo other vehicle is thought to have been involved.\n\nAnyone who witnessed the crash, at around 16:05 GMT, has been urged to contact Surrey Police.\n\nThe road was expected to remain closed until Monday morning.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Janet Osborne hopes to continue gardening if her sight loss is halted\n\nA woman from Oxford has become the first person in the world to have gene therapy to try to halt the most common form of blindness in the Western world.\n\nSurgeons injected a synthetic gene into the back of Janet Osborne's eye in a bid to prevent more cells from dying.\n\nIt is the first treatment to target the underlying genetic cause of age-related macular degeneration (AMD).\n\nAbout 600,000 people in the UK are affected by AMD, of whom 350,000 are severely sight impaired.\n\nJanet Osborne told BBC News: \"I find it difficult to recognise faces with my left eye because my central vision is blurred - and if this treatment could stop that getting worse, it would be amazing.\"\n\nThe treatment was carried out under local anaesthetic last month at Oxford Eye Hospital by Robert MacLaren, professor of ophthalmology at the University of Oxford.\n\nHe told BBC News: \"A genetic treatment administered early on to preserve vision in patients who would otherwise lose their sight would be a tremendous breakthrough in ophthalmology and certainly something I hope to see in the near future.\"\n\nMrs Osborne, 80, is the first of 10 patients with AMD taking part in a trial of the gene therapy treatment, manufactured by Gyroscope Therapeutics, funded by Syncona, the Wellcome Trust founded investment firm.\n\nThe macula is part of the retina and responsible for central vision and fine detail.\n\nIn age-related macular degeneration, the retinal cells die and are not renewed.\n\nThe risk of getting AMD increases with age.\n\nMost of those affected, including all those on this trial, have what is known as dry AMD, where the decline in sight is gradual and can take many years.\n\nWet AMD can develop suddenly and lead to rapid vision loss but can be treated if caught quickly.\n\nAs some people age, genes responsible for the eye's natural defences start to malfunction and begin destroying cells in the macula, leading to vision loss.\n\nAn injection is made at the back of the eye, which delivers a harmless virus containing a synthetic gene.\n\nThe virus infects the retinal cells and releases the gene.\n\nThis enables the eye to make a protein designed to stop cells from dying and so keep the macula healthy.\n\nThe early stage trial, at Oxford Eye Hospital, is primarily designed to check the safety of the procedure and is being carried out in patients who have already lost some vision.\n\nIf successful, the aim would be to treat patients before they have lost any sight, in a bid to halt AMD in its tracks.\n\nThat would have major implications for patients' quality of life.\n\nIt is too early to know if Mrs Osborne's sight loss in her left eye has been halted but all those on the trial will have their vision monitored.\n\nSpeaking at home, she told BBC News: \"I still enjoy gardening with my husband, Nick, who grows a lot of vegetables.\n\n\"If I can keep peeling and cutting the veg, and retain my current level of independence, it would be absolutely wonderful.\"\n\nThere is already a successful gene therapy treatment for another rare eye disorder.\n\nIn 2016, the same team in Oxford showed that a single injection could improve the vision of patients with choroideremia, who would otherwise have gone blind.\n\nAnd, last year, doctors at Moorfields Eye Hospital, in London, restored the sight of two patients with AMD by implanting a patch of stem cells over the damaged area at the back of the eye.\n\nIt is hoped that stem cell therapy could help many people who have already lost their sight.\n\nBut the Oxford trial is different because it aims to tackle the underlying genetic cause of AMD and might be effective in stopping the disease before people go blind.\n• None 'I've been given my sight back'\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nChelsea manager Maurizio Sarri said his team played \"confused football\" as Manchester United won at Stamford Bridge to reach the FA Cup quarter-finals.\n\nThe result throws Sarri's reign deeper into crisis, while United delivered the perfect response to their first defeat under Ole Gunnar Solskjaer to set up a last-eight tie against Wolves.\n\nAnder Herrera converted Paul Pogba's perfect cross to give United a 31st-minute lead, and Pogba doubled the advantage right on half-time when he dived to head Marcus Rashford's delivery past Kepa Arrizabalaga, who should have done better.\n\nAs Chelsea slumped tamely to another damaging defeat, their fans turned on Sarri. They jeered his substitutions, mocked his 'Sarri-ball' philosophy, demanded the return of Frank Lampard as manager, and joined United's fans in chants of \"you're getting sacked in the morning\".\n\n\"We played confused football in the second half but in the first half we played well,\" said Sarri.\n\n\"I'm worried about the result but not about the fans' reaction because I understand the situation. I can understand our fans because the result wasn't really good and we are out of the FA Cup.\n\n\"I was really worried when I was in League Two in Italy, not now.\"\n\nSolskjaer had no such problems as he took the loud acclaim of United's supporters after adding another impressive victory to his collection, despite the absence of the injured Jesse Lingard and Anthony Martial.\n\n\"The performance was fantastic, our tactics worked,\" said United's interim manager. \"It's a massive result.\"\n\nThe club's fans, who loudly sang the Norwegian's name, may not have the casting vote when the decision on the next manager is made, but they made their feelings about Solskjaer clear on another important night for the man who hopes to succeed Jose Mourinho on a permanent basis.\n• None Analysis: Why end is near for Sarri at Chelsea\n• None Sarri is 'done' at Chelsea - pundits react\n\nSolskjaer has been presented with a series of key examinations since returning to Old Trafford after the sacking of Mourinho in mid-December.\n\nOne of his most crucial was how he would respond to his first serious setback - and how he would get his players to respond.\n\nThat setback duly arrived when United were well beaten by Paris St-Germain in the first leg of the Champions League last-16 tie at Old Trafford, a 2-0 scoreline flattering a team who had given Solskjaer 10 wins and a draw from his previous 11 games.\n\nThe response, here at Stamford Bridge, was top class and represented another plus point for the Norwegian as he tries to build a body of evidence that will persuade executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward and United's hierarchy to give him the job full-time.\n\nSolskjaer was stripped of Lingard and Martial but still produced a positive gameplan based around aggression, the drive of Pogba and the pace of Rashford.\n\nIt enabled United to overcome their second tough test in the capital after winning at Arsenal in the fourth round, and kept Solskjaer right in the hunt for silverware.\n• None Chelsea v Man Utd: How you rated the players\n\nSarri's stock was high in the early weeks of the season as Chelsea kept pace with Manchester City and Liverpool, and optimism was in the air as the Italian made a good first impression in English football.\n\nBut as time ticked away here, Sarri felt the full force of Stamford Bridge's anger and disdain, frustration growing at the continuing decline in Chelsea's performances.\n\nThere was awkwardness in the air as his by now customary substitution of Mateo Kovacic with Ross Barkley was met with sarcastic applause before a four-letter verdict was delivered on the much-vaunted 'Sarri-ball' that was meant to bring entertainment and results to Chelsea.\n\nThere were even calls for the return of Lampard, taking his first steps in management at Derby County, as Sarri cut a solitary figure.\n\nIt was a night when patience snapped, the tide of opinion turned, and Sarri was given noisy confirmation he is losing the battle for hearts and minds at Stamford Bridge.\n\nChelsea were limp and uninspired, and Sarri - who arrived with a stellar reputation after his work with Napoli - looked at a loss as to what to do.\n\nThe Blues face Manchester City in the Carabao Cup final on Sunday, and while it would be a bold decision for the club to sack him just days before that, it is hard to see Sarri surviving much longer as this was another grim 90 minutes.\n• None Chelsea have lost exactly half of their past 10 games in all competitions (W5 L5), as many defeats as they suffered in their previous 41 (W28 D8).\n• None United are the first team to eliminate both Arsenal and Chelsea in the same FA Cup campaign since the Red Devils themselves in 1998-99.\n• None Chelsea failed to score for only the second time in their past 51 home games in cup competitions, also drawing a blank against Arsenal in the League Cup semi-final in January 2018 (0-0).\n• None Chelsea only attempted two shots on target, with both coming in the 11th minute.\n• None United had just 33.1% of the ball during the game, their lowest figure in a fixture any competition since March 2018 against Liverpool - a game they also won (32.1%).\n• None Solskjaer has won 11 of his 13 games in charge of United, one more than Mourinho won in 2018-19 (10/24).\n• None Since Solskjaer took charge of United on 19 December 2018, the only Premier League player to have had a hand in more goals for his club than Pogba (15) is Son Heung-Min (16).\n• None Pogba has been directly involved in 15 goals in 12 games in all competitions under Solskjaer (9 goals, 6 assists), six more than he managed in 20 games under Mourinho this season (5 goals, 4 assists).\n• None Since his debut in February 2016, Rashford has been directly involved in 63 goals in all competition for United (42 goals, 21 assists), more than any other player in that time.\n• None Herrera netted his 20th goal for United in all competitions, but only his second header (also scoring with his head v Everton in the league in October 2015).\n• None Attempt missed. Eden Hazard (Chelsea) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Davide Zappacosta.\n• None Attempt blocked. Ross Barkley (Chelsea) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Jorginho. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Abdul Deghayes was found with stab wounds in a car in Brighton\n\nA man found stabbed to death in a car was the brother of two young men who died fighting in Syria, police said.\n\nAbdul Deghayes, 22, was a passenger in a silver VW Polo that collided with other cars in Brighton on Saturday. He died as a result of his stab wounds.\n\nSussex Police said a man, 26, had been arrested on suspicion of murder but officers were still seeking to trace others who may have been present.\n\nMr Deghayes was the twin of Abdullah, 18, and brother of Jaffar, 17.\n\nThe pair, from Brighton, were said to have become radicalised and died fighting with Islamists in Syria in 2014.\n\nMr Deghayes, who was jailed in 2017 for drug dealing, died at the Royal Sussex County Hospital following the crash at 21:30 GMT on Saturday near St Joseph's church, Elm Grove.\n\nHis father, Abubaker, said his son had been stabbed in the back and thigh.\n\nHe said: \"He died this morning. He was found in a car bleeding heavily. Emergency services revived him and took him to hospital, but he couldn't pull through and died at 6.30am.\"\n\n(Left to right): Abdullah Deghayes and Jaffar Deghayes, who died in Syria, with Amer Deghayes who remains in Syria\n\nHe said the family were \"in mourning\" and added: \"It is a great shock.\"\n\n\"Adul was very popular with his friends. He loved Brighton a lot. He was a cheerful guy,\" he said.\n\n\"I don't know who did it but the police are investigating. I am just shocked to be honest. You think you've seen everything but no - things keep happening.\"\n\nSussex Police has appealed for witnesses to the stabbing and said it had \"active lines of inquiry\" to find the driver of the silver Polo, who fled on foot after it crashed.\n\nCh Insp Andy Bennett said there had been a disturbance in Wellington Road, Brighton, where it is believed Mr Deghayes was stabbed.\n\nMr Deghayes then got into the car, which was driven a short distance to Elm Grove before it collided with other cars.\n\nCh Insp Bennett added: \"At this stage of the investigation there is nothing to suggest that this is a hate crime but we are keeping an open mind on the motive at this time.\"\n\nThe scene is close to the junction with Lewes Road, near to The Level park, and at that time of the evening would have been very busy.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Abdullah Deghayes was fighting for the Nusra Front, which has links to al Qaeda\n\nAn area of Elm Grove remained cordoned off on Sunday morning, but police were expecting the road to reopen fully later.\n\nMr Deghayes' twin and his younger brother fought for an Al-Qaeda-affiliated jihadist group in Syria, following in the footsteps of their older brother, Amer.\n\nIt is believed Amer is still alive in Syria, having left Sussex in 2013.\n\nWhen Abdullah Deghayes was killed, his father publicly called him a martyr who had died fighting the \"dictator\", Bashar al-Assad.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The FSB says 36% of small businesses in Scotland have suffered cashflow issues because of late payments\n\nBig companies who pay their suppliers \"unacceptably late\" should be banned from getting public contracts, small business leaders have claimed.\n\nThe Federation of Small Businesses wants firms to prove in advance that they are \"responsible\" payers.\n\nIt has called on the Scottish government to withhold devolved contracts in a bid to tackle the country's \"lamentable payment culture\".\n\nThe Scottish government has said it \"strongly\" encourages prompt payment.\n\nThe FSB claims late payments have led to cashflow issues at 36% of its firms.\n\nAndrew McRae, FSB's Scotland policy chairman, said: \"Our lamentable payment culture isn't a new phenomenon, but that doesn't make it any more acceptable.\n\n\"As we face the possibility of a sustained period of economic turbulence, we can't see bigger businesses use their smaller customers as a free source of credit.\"\n\nHe added: \"For far too long, government has tolerated big businesses treating their smaller suppliers with disrespect.\n\n\"At the FSB, our patience has grown thin and we want to see decision-makers pull every lever available to eradicate this corrosive practice.\"\n\nThe FSB says a survey which it carried out suggests that 36% of small businesses in Scotland have had financial difficulties as a result of late payments.\n\nThe average value of each late payment owed to a Scottish firm is, according to the business organisation, £5,718.\n\nMr McRae said: \"It is clear that late payment makes it more difficult to run a business in Scotland.\n\n\"In addition to seeing action from government, we need to see leaders of big businesses in Scotland take responsibility for how their companies treat their supply chains.\"\n\nA Scottish government spokesperson said: \"We strongly encourage all businesses and organisations to ensure the prompt payment of suppliers, and expect those who deliver public contracts to adopt the highest standard of ethical business practices.\n\n\"Our work to foster and support fair business practices, such as prompt payment, includes the promotion of the Scottish Business Pledge.\n\n\"Over 590 businesses have already committed to the Pledge, and Ministers have written to all Scottish Government suppliers encouraging those who haven't already to sign up.\"", "Huawei has said it is independent and gives nothing to Beijing, aside from taxes\n\nAny risk posed by involving the Chinese technology giant Huawei in UK telecoms projects can be managed, cyber-security chiefs have determined.\n\nThe UK's National Cyber Security Centre's decision undermines US efforts to persuade its allies to ban the firm from 5G communications networks.\n\nThe Chinese government is accused of using Huawei as a proxy so it can spy on rival nations.\n\nBut Huawei has said it gives nothing to Beijing, aside from taxes.\n\nAustralia, New Zealand, and the US have already banned Huawei from supplying equipment for their future fifth generation mobile broadband networks, while Canada is reviewing whether the company's products present a serious security threat.\n\nMost of the UK's mobile companies - Vodafone, EE and Three - have been working with Huawei on developing their 5G networks.\n\nThey are awaiting on a government review, due in March or April, that will decide whether they can use Huawei technology.\n\nAs first reported by the Financial Times, the conclusion by the National Cyber Security Centre - part of the intelligence agency GCHQ - will feed into the review.\n\nThe decision has not yet been made public, but the security agency said in a statement it had \"a unique oversight and understanding of Huawei engineering and cyber security\".\n\nHuawei has denied that it poses any risk to the UK or any other country\n\nBBC business correspondent Rob Young said the National Cyber Security Centre's conclusion \"will carry weight\", but said the review could still rule against Huawei.\n\nIn an interview, Huawei's cyber security chief John Suffolk told the BBC: \"We are probably the most open and transparent organisation in the world. We are probably the most poked and prodded organisation too.\"\n\nThe former UK chief information officer added: \"We don't say 'believe us' we say 'come and check for yourself', come and do your own testing and come and do your own verification.\n\n\"The more people looking, the more people touching, they can provide their own assurance without listening to what Huawei has to say.\"\n\nIf anybody knows just how Huawei works and the threat it might pose to the UK's security, it is the National Cyber Security Centre.\n\nThis arm of GCHQ has been in charge of an annual examination of the Chinese telecoms giant's equipment, and expressed concerns in its most recent report - not about secret backdoors, but sloppy cyber-security practices.\n\nThe NCSC has also been giving advice to UK mobile operators as they order the equipment for the rollout of their 5G networks later this year.\n\nThey feel they have been given the same cautious nod the agency appears to have given the government's Supply Chain Review: keep Huawei out of the core of your 5G networks, but you are OK to use its equipment at phone masts as part of the mix of suppliers.\n\nAustralia and New Zealand have taken a very different view by taking a far harder line against Huawei.\n\nThat isn't because they know something about the Chinese firm which the NCSC has missed.\n\nTheir decisions were probably based on an assessment of the political as well as security risk of ignoring the urging from the US to shut Huawei out.\n\nAnd whatever the NCSC's advice, similar factors will determine the UK government's final decision.\n\nA spokesperson for the Department of Culture, Media and Sport, which is leading the review into the future of the telecoms industry, said its analysis was \"ongoing\".\n\n\"No decisions have been taken and any suggestion to the contrary is inaccurate,\" they said in a statement.\n\nAsked whether the findings changed her country's stance towards Huawei, the prime minister of New Zealand - which is a member of the Five Eyes intelligence sharing network that includes the UK - said her government would conduct its own assessment.\n\nJacinda Ardern told reporters: \"It is fair to say Five Eyes, of course, share information, but we make our own independent decisions.\"\n\nLast year, BT confirmed that it was removing Huawei's equipment from the EE core network that it owns.\n\nThe network provides a communication system being developed for the UK's emergency services.\n\nFifth-generation mobile broadband is coming to the UK over the next year or so, promising download and browsing speeds 10 to 20 times faster than those 4G networks can offer.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Will superfast 5G mobile be worth the money?\n\nThe US argues Huawei could use malign software updates to spy on those using 5G.\n\nIt points to China's National Intelligence Law passed in 2017 that says organisations must \"support, co-operate with and collaborate in national intelligence work\".\n\nCritics of Huawei also highlight that its founder Ren Zhengfei was a former engineer in the country's army and joined the Communist Party in 1978.\n\nHuawei recently attracted attention when its chief financial officer, Meng Wanzhou, was arrested and accused of breaking American sanctions on Iran.", "David Yamba saw the graffiti on his way to school\n\nA 10-year-old boy says he is \"too scared\" to walk to school after racist graffiti was daubed outside his home.\n\nDavid Yamba found \"No Blacks\" painted on three doors in his block of flats in Salford on 8 February, five days after his family had moved in.\n\nHis father Jackson reported it to Greater Manchester Police on the same day but said on Saturday they \"still haven't been here to investigate\".\n\nThe force has since apologised and said it would review its approach.\n\nThe graffiti was painted on three doors at the block of flats\n\nRecalling when he found the graffiti before going to school, David said: \"I started crying because I thought that something was going to happen to me or they may have been waiting there.\n\n\"I got frightened and I was holding my dad's shirt because… I didn't want to get hurt.\"\n\n\"I kept asking my daddy was the police going to arrive yet.\"\n\nHis father Jackson, who is training to become a lawyer, said the police worker who took his call was \"quite nice [...] she told me that they would be sending someone over\".\n\nBut he said there was then \"no phone call, no visit, nothing at all\" until he tweeted about it on Saturday night.\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 Jackson Yamba 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\nResponding to Mr Yamba's posts, GMP chief constable Ian Hopkins apologised on Twitter, saying: \"That is frankly just not good enough. There may have been other issues at the time, but we should have followed up quickly. It's an appalling crime you and your family have suffered.\"\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 Chief Constable Ian Hopkins 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\nAdding there had been \"104 open incidents in Salford that morning\", he wrote: \"It was dealt with on the telephone initially in agreement with the victim. It is after that we have failed to follow up quickly enough.\"\n\nJackson Yamba said GMP did not initially follow up his report\n\nCh Insp David Gilbride, who visited Mr Yamba at his flat on Sunday, said: \"This is an abhorrent crime and there is no room for hatred and prejudice in our society.\n\n\"We always strive to provide the best possible service to the public that we can, and provide an appropriate and expedient response.\n\n\"Where we fall short of this, we will review our approach and look to learn from it.\"\n\nCh Insp Gilbride appealed for information, saying he would ensure this incident was \"fully investigated as a hate crime\".\n\nAndy Burnham, mayor of Greater Manchester, tweeted: \"This has no place whatsoever in Greater Manchester. Glad GMP investigating but Chief Constable right to inquire why this wasn't done sooner.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Prof David Bailey thinks Ford in Bridgend is one of the UK car plants most vulnerable to a no-deal Brexit\n\nWinning a contract to build a new 4x4 would not secure all the jobs at risk at Ford Bridgend, according to one of the UK's leading car industry experts.\n\nA decision is imminent on whether Ineos Automotive will build its new off-road vehicle in Portugal or Bridgend - where 1,000 jobs are under threat.\n\nBut Aston University's Prof David Bailey said the contract would create no more than a few hundred jobs.\n\nFord said \"the auto industry is undergoing rapid change\".\n\nProf Bailey, who has written extensively on car industry policy and strategy and has acted as a special advisor to a cross-party group of MPs, said Ineos's plan was seen by some as a \"vanity project\".\n\nHe said it was unclear how many cars would be produced under the potential deal or how profitable the model would be.\n\nJaguar Land Rover, which previously manufactured the Defender model Ineos Automotive hopes to replace, never made much money from it.\n\nProf Bailey said the production of electric motors was much more important to securing Ford Bridgend's future.\n\nIn his view this would require the UK remaining in a customs union with the EU, and agreeing a trading relationship that is as close as possible to the single market.\n\nIt would also require much more government support for the adoption of electric cars, he said, adding the current situation looked \"very worrying\" for the engine plant in Bridgend.\n\nProf Bailey has acted as a special advisor to a cross-party group of MPs\n\nProf Bailey described a no-deal Brexit as a \"catastrophe\" for the car industry, which he predicted would mean plant closures.\n\nHe believes Ford in Bridgend, Vauxhall in Ellesmere Port - where many Welsh workers are employed - and Jaguar Land Rover in Castle Bromwich in the Midlands are the three sites which are most vulnerable in the event of no-deal.\n\nBridgend MP Madeleine Moon agreed that a \"hard Brexit or any Brexit that does not keep the UK in the customs union will be devastating for the automotive industry, which is based on just on time processes\".\n\nShe also called for the UK to remain \"ideally in the single market to maximise any future sales and development\".\n\nUnite Wales said it had consistently argued against a no-deal Brexit and it was currently working with Ford and the Welsh Government to try and find alternative investment for Bridgend and maximise employment at the plant.\n\nA UK government spokeswoman said it continued to engage with Ford on their European-wide restructuring plans and was working with industry to put the UK \"at the forefront of the next generation of new automotive vehicles and technologies\".\n\nShe added that the best way to avoid a no-deal scenario was for Parliament to agree a deal and \"that is what we're focused on\".\n\nA spokesperson for Ford said the Bridgend engine plant \"has a long-established and successful record in the delivery of world-class engines.\n\n.They added: \"Together with our union partners, we continue to look at other high-technology opportunities for the future.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government economy secretary Ken Skates said: \"Whilst there are no immediate implications for the Bridgend Engine Plant, the Welsh Government will continue to work closely with Ford to protect the hundreds of highly skilled jobs at Bridgend and in its supply chain, as well as look for other high-technology opportunities for the site.\"", "Mike Ashley's Sports Direct has made a bid for cafe chain Patisserie Valerie, which collapsed into administration last month.\n\nA Sports Direct statement late on Friday confirmed an offer had been made, but gave no further details.\n\nAdministrator KPMG closed 70 Patisserie Valerie outlets, but kept 121 open in the hope of finding a buyer.\n\nMr Ashley, who owns House of Fraser and has a big stake in Debenhams, missed out this week on a bid for HMV.\n\nThe cafe chain employed about 3,000 staff, but some 900 jobs were lost in the initial wave of closures after KPMG was appointed to run the business on 22 January.\n\nLast October, Patisserie Valerie, where entrepreneur Luke Johnson is the biggest shareholder, uncovered \"significant, and potentially fraudulent, accounting irregularities\".\n\nThe company said in a statement last month that it did not have enough money to meet its debts. Rescue talks with banks HSBC and Barclays to restructure the business broke down, leaving no option but administration.\n\nIn addition to Patisserie Valerie, the company's other brands include Druckers Vienna Patisserie, Philpotts, Baker & Spice and Flour Power City.\n\nFinance director Chris Marsh was arrested after having been suspended by the company when the financial irregularities were uncovered.\n\nAlso under investigation, by the Financial Reporting Council, are former Patisserie Valerie auditors Grant Thornton.\n\nMr Ashley, who also owns English Premier League football club Newcastle United, made his name building budget chain Sports Direct into Britain's biggest sporting goods retailer.\n\nAt a time when retailers are struggling, he is frequently linked as a potential buyer of any that get into financial trouble.\n\nHe bought House of Fraser last year, and also acquired Evans Cycles and Agent Provocateur. Sports Direct has shareholdings in French Connection and Game Digital, and last week emerged as front runner to buy Sofa.com.\n\nEarlier this week, Canada's Sunrise Records beat Mr Ashley in a battle to by the music retailer HMV.\n\nMr Ashley is thought to be facing several competing bids for Patisserie Valerie, including, according to reports, from Costa, the coffee chain bought by Coca-Cola last year.\n\nBillionaire Mr Ashley has shown faith in the High Street at a time when many bricks-and-mortar stores are struggling due to a combination of rising rents and increasing online competition.\n\nHe says that to support the High Street, there should be a tax on firms which generate 20% of revenues from the internet.\n\nDespite acquiring several struggling retailers, analysts say that Mr Ashley is more of a opportunist than a strategist.\n\nRichard Hyman, a adviser to a number of retailers, recently told the BBC: \"Is [Mr Ashley] following a strategic plan? I don't think he is. Is he positively opportunistic? Yes. Has got the resources to take advantage of opportunities that come his way? Yes.\"\n\nAnd, Mr Hyman adds: \"Has he got courage? Yes\".", "Dr Victoria Bateman campaigns against Brexit naked, saying it will leave the UK economy \"exposed\".\n\nShe spoke to the Today programme's John Humphrys.", "Labour's plan for a permanent customs union with the EU after Brexit can secure a Commons majority, the shadow chancellor has told the BBC.\n\nJohn McDonnell said it was a \"very traditional British compromise\" to avoid a \"catastrophic\" no-deal Brexit.\n\n\"We believe that this is a deal that could fly within Parliament,\" he said.\n\nJeremy Corbyn's letter setting out Labour's demands for supporting a Brexit deal was welcomed by some EU figures and Tory MPs.\n\nDowning Street is expected to reply to Mr Corbyn's letter later on Friday.\n\nHome Secretary Sajid Javid told BBC Wiltshire it was \"good that Jeremy Corbyn has finally started talking\".\n\nBut, he added: \"In this letter he's put five demands and I think any person reading that letter would know it's far more about politics than it is about actually trying to work with the prime minister in the national interest\".\n\nAnd Nigel Dodds, deputy leader of the Democratic Unionist Party - who Theresa May relies upon for votes in Parliament - said Mr Corbyn's plan did not have the support of the Labour Party.\n\nHe added: \"The way to a majority for a deal in the United Kingdom is with the Conservative Party and the DUP.\n\n\"I don't believe Theresa May is going to split her party in order to reach out to Jeremy Corbyn, who is going to find it very difficult to bring his own party along, and he cant be relied upon to deliver the Brexit that the prime minister believes people voted for in the referendum.\"\n\nIn contrast to Mrs May's deal, Labour wants the UK to be a member of a customs union with the EU, with an agreement \"that includes a UK say on future EU trade deals\" and close ties to the single market.\n\nUnder Mrs May's plan, the UK would leave the customs union, which she says would allow it to strike trade deals around the world.\n\nEnter the word or phrase you are looking for\n\nA senior No 10 source said the government was looking at Labour's proposals \"with interest\" but added: \"There are obviously very considerable points of difference that exist between us.\n\n\"The PM continues to believe an independent trade policy is one of the key advantages of Brexit.\"\n\nThe UK is due to leave the EU on 29 March when the two-year limit on withdrawal negotiations under the Article 50 process expires.\n\nBut Mrs May has been unable to get the withdrawal deal she has negotiated with the EU through Parliament - it was overwhelmingly rejected by MPs last month.\n\nIn Brussels on Thursday, she told EU leaders that she could get a \"stable majority in Parliament\" for the deal if they agreed to legally-binding changes to the Irish backstop clause - something they have always ruled out.\n\nTalks are continuing with EU officials - but senior figures in Brussels gave a warm reception to Mr Corbyn's alternative proposals.\n\nThe European Parliament's chief Brexit negotiator Guy Verhofstadt said: \"It's important now that this leads to a position in the UK that has the broadest possible majority, so that we can conclude these negotiations.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Newsnight: Dutch MEP Sophie in ‘t Veld says renegotiating Brexit deal is 'dead end'\n\nEuropean Council President Donald Tusk also described Mr Corbyn's letter as a \"promising way\" out of the impasse, according to an EU source.\n\nCabinet Office Minister David Lidington has said he is willing to discuss the proposals with Labour's shadow Brexit Secretary Sir Keir Starmer.\n\nMr McDonnell told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"The prime minister has to accept that the only way she will get something through Parliament is a compromise like this.\n\n\"I think if Theresa May said 'I will sign up to Labour's deal' and we went to Parliament, I think we would have a secure Parliamentary majority.\"\n\nConservative MP Sir Oliver Letwin was among those suggesting Mr Corbyn's move could open the way to a cross-party consensus, if Mrs May could not get her deal through:\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Oliver Letwin This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBut Labour's position has upset some of the party's own backbenchers who see it as facilitating a \"Tory Brexit\" that they say will harm their constituents.\n\nSome Labour members of the People's Vote campaign for another EU referendum have accused Mr Corbyn of abandoning his commitment at Labour's conference to get behind a public vote if he can't force a general election.\n\nOwen Smith, who failed in his bid to topple Mr Corbyn in a 2016 leadership vote, has said he and \"lots of other people\" were considering their future in the party as a result.\n\nOwen Smith unsuccessfully challenged Mr Corbyn for the leadership in 2016\n\nAsked about Labour opposition to Mr Corbyn's offer, Mr McDonnell said \"not everyone's going to get everything they want\" and MPs would have to compromise in the long-term interests of the country - but denied it had effectively killed off the prospect of Labour backing another referendum.\n\nHe said people had \"looked over the edge of a no-deal Brexit\" and economic growth was already stalling: \"Therefore now in the national interest we have got to come together and secure a compromise. If we can't do that, well yes, we have to go back to the people.\"\n\nOther Labour backbenchers have welcomed Mr Corbyn's move. Labour's Stephen Kinnock, who backs the \"Norway Plus\" model of a close economic partnership with the EU, tweeted: \"This can break the deadlock.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "YouTube has decided to delete singer Austin Jones's channel, after he admitted exchanging sexually explicit images and videos with underage girls.\n\nThe video-sharing site was criticised after it left the singer's videos online, despite him pleading guilty to charges in court.\n\nOther social networks were quick to remove his content but YouTube had decided not to act.\n\nIt has now deleted the 26-year-old musician's channel.\n\nJones was arrested in 2017 and charged with possession of indecent images of children.\n\nHe had gained more than half a million subscribers on YouTube uploading cover versions of hit songs.\n\nBut he was accused of exchanging sexually explicit images and videos with underage girls between 2010 and 2017. Court documents said he had conversations with six different 14 and 15-year-old girls.\n\nIn one conversation, he is said to have told one of the teenagers that she needed to prove that she was \"his biggest fan\" by sending him videos of herself.\n\nHe also asked young fans to record videos of themselves dancing sexually. Videos of Jones demonstrating how to \"twerk\" were exposed online.\n\nHe pleaded guilty to the charges on 1 February and will be sentenced in May.\n\nProsecutors asked for him to be taken immediately into custody, but the judge allowed him to remain free on bail so he can go for psychiatric counselling.\n\nYouTube said it took claims of sexual misconduct seriously. It also said it did remove content when a person was convicted of a crime \"in some cases\", particularly if the videos were related to the crime committed.\n\nThe video-sharing site stopped Jones earning advertising revenue from his videos in 2017, when he was arrested.", "Two men who lost their lives in a Scottish Highlands mountaineering trip have been described as giants of the climbing world.\n\nAberdeen-born Andy Nisbet and Inverness-based Steve Perry got into difficulty on Ben Hope on Tuesday.\n\nTheir bodies were recovered from the mountain in Sutherland on Wednesday.\n\nFellow climbers paid tribute to the pair, who were highly experienced and regarded, with one saying they were \"gargantuan characters\".\n\nMr Nisbet, who helped establish 1,000 winter climbing routes, was lauded for his \"boundless enthusiasm\" and \"pioneering attitude\".\n\nMr Perry, an accomplished hillwalker, mountain biker and climber, was originally from Lancaster and grew up in Todmorden in Yorkshire.\n\nIt is believed that the men, who were regular climbing partners, had finished their ascent and fell while on the upper slopes of the 927m (3,041ft) Munro classed mountain.\n\nBoth were highly experienced and Mr Nisbet's appearance and climbing style earned him the nicknames \"Honey Monster\" and \"The Droid\".\n\nAt the 2014 Fort William Mountain Festival he received the Scottish Award for Excellence in Mountain Culture.\n\nInformation gathered on climbs by the 65-year-old former Scottish Mountaineering Club president appeared in Scottish Mountaineering Club guidebooks.\n\nThe bodies of the men were found by a Coastguard helicopter crew on the north-west side of the mountain\n\nMountaineer and broadcaster Cameron McNeish said he was \"utterly devastated\" at the news of the men's deaths.\n\nHe told BBC Radio Scotland: \"They were both gargantuan characters.\"\n\nMr McNeish said climbers knew there would be risks tackling Scotland's mountains in winter and the pair would have \"managed the risks as well as they could\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Climbing ‘pioneer’ Andy Nisbet, one of two men who died on Ben Hope, spoke about his love for mountaineering in a 2014 interview.\n\nHe added that \"sometimes accidents happen\".\n\nGiving his tribute, David Whalley, a former RAF mountain rescue team leader, said: \"I knew Andy very well. He was roughly the same age as me, but what an incredible mountaineer in every aspect.\n\n\"He was the most active prolific mountaineer that Scotland has ever produced.\n\n\"He has climbed over 1,000-plus new winter routes all over Scotland - his enthusiasm was dynamic.\n\n\"Never in the history of Scottish mountaineering has anyone been so prolific or enthusiastic and introduced so many to the mountains especially in winter.\"\n\nMountain rescue teams, the Coastguard and police were involved in an initial search for the men and the later recovery of their bodies\n\nA number of mountain rescue teams were involved in the Ben Hope operation\n\nWriting in a UK Climbing blog, climber Natalie Berry, who was winner of 2016's Scottish Youth Ambassador for Mountain Culture award, said the men had a \"strong\" climbing partnership.\n\nMountaineering Scotland, an organisation representing outdoor pursuits enthusiasts, said it was \"shocked and saddened\" to learn of the climbers' deaths.\n\nA spokesman said: \"Andy was popular and well respected in the Scottish climbing scene with a vast knowledge and experience of Scotland's mountains.\n\n\"He was a prolific climber of new routes and his successful partnership with Steve had resulted in a number of first ascents on Ben Hope in recent years.\n\nAndy Nisbet in an image released at the time he won Scottish Award for Excellence in Mountain Culture\n\n\"Steve Perry was also a well-known mountaineer, who had completed an on-foot round of the Munros in the winter of 2005-06 and was a keen climber in both summer and winter, who listed new routing in winter Scotland as one of his favourite climbing experiences.\n\n\"Their deaths are a huge loss to the mountaineering community in Scotland and, in particular, we send our condolences to family and friends of both Andy and Steve.\"\n\nMountaineering Scotland also paid tribute to mountain rescue teams and the Coastguard who were involved in responding to the accident.\n\nAssynt Mountain Rescue Team was supported by Stornoway and Inverness Coastguard helicopter crews, police and also Dundonnell and Lossiemouth mountain rescue teams in recovering the climbers' bodies.\n\nRescue teams and the Coastguard had earlier been involved in a search for the two men.\n\nThe Assynt team said: \"Our sincere condolences and thoughts go out to all the family and friends, many of whom are involved in mountain rescue.\"\n• None Two walkers die in fall on Ben Hope\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The firm that owns satirical news website the Daily Mash is changing hands for £1.2m.\n\nMashed Productions, which also produces a TV spin-off on BBC Two called the Mash Report, has been bought by media firm Digitalbox.\n\nThe new owner describes itself as a company with a pedigree in emerging publishing technologies.\n\nDaily Mash co-founder and editor-in-chief Neil Rafferty said the deal would give it access to greater expertise.\n\nThe purchase is expected to complete on 5 March, subject to approval by shareholders.\n\nDigitalbox already owns the Entertainment Daily website, which offers celebrity news and show business gossip.\n\nDigitalbox chief executive James Carter said the acquisition of the Daily Mash, which was founded in 2007, was likely to be followed by other asset purchases as the firm pursued a \"buy-and-build\" strategy.\n\nHe said: \"With 10 years of consistent audience growth under its belt and the Mash Report successfully airing on BBC Two, it is a brand with huge potential.\n\n\"We are very much looking forward to working with the team to help them grow.\"\n\nMr Carter told the BBC: \"The Daily Mash is a very powerful brand and very well loved by people throughout the UK, but we think we can add some value to it.\"\n\nThe Daily Mash's Mr Rafferty said: \"This is a great opportunity for the Mash to build on what we have created so far. My co-founder, Paul Stokes, did an incredible job building a profitable business from the ground up.\n\n\"Being part of Digitalbox and accessing their commercial and technical expertise means we can keep building, while our fantastic team of writers continue to produce great content every day.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Michael Rice's version of Bigger Than Us\n\nMichael Rice, who won BBC talent show All Together Now last year, has been chosen to fly the flag for the UK at this year's Eurovision Song Contest.\n\nThe 21-year-old from Hartlepool, who was also on The X Factor in 2014, was picked in a TV viewers' vote on Friday.\n\nHe will now travel to Israel in May in the hope of impressing Eurovision fans with his rousing anthem Bigger Than Us.\n\nThe UK has struggled in recent years - it has not won for 22 years and has not finished in the top 10 for a decade.\n\nRice won the £50,000 prize on All Together Now in March 2018, and used the money to take his family to Disneyland and to set up a shop selling ice cream and waffles.\n\nBelow, he reveals that he went to Europe for the first time two weeks ago (and broke his toe while away), says his Eurovision song is dedicated to his late father - and insists he has a chance of winning.\n\nYeah, definitely. I believe in this song 100%. It might just be a ballad but that song's got a big message and I can't wait to perform it and show the rest of the world what this song's all about.\n\nYou weren't born the last time the UK won Eurovision, so all you've ever known is British failure. How do you get such positivity?\n\nI think you have to be positive when it comes to stuff like this. Some people do take the mickey out of it and these other countries really do take it seriously.\n\nWe might have lost loads of times, but I think, why couldn't it change? Why can't we make this different? We've got the best music industry - Adele, Sam Smith, The Beatles - why can't we send someone and hope for the best?\n\nWhat do the song's lyrics mean to you?\n\nI grew up with my mam, and my dad had drug problems and stuff like that, and later on I got to know him. He used to know I was singing and he was dead proud of me. When I'm singing them words at the beginning - \"Hear these words that I sing to you\" - it just reminds me of him.\n\nHe's passed away, and winning All Together Now, and if he could see this today, it would make his world.\n\nHave you been to Europe much?\n\nNot really - two weeks ago was my first holiday with my friends and we went to Tenerife. It was the best time. I broke my toe as well. I fell in the pool. You couldn't write my life.\n\nDid you do karaoke in Tenerife?\n\nYes I did, in the resort. I love Tina Turner, a bit of Whitney, just fling it at me and I'll give it a crack.\n\nYou used to be a busker. Do you still busk?\n\nYeah, on a weekend sometimes I'll just pop down to York or to Newcastle and go busking. Sometimes it's really nice because people recognise you and say, \"I remember you from that show\" or, \"Do you want to play at my wedding?\" I really love it.\n\nYeah, sometimes you can make £250, maybe £300 for half a day or a day. At York Races, when they do the big races and everyone's dressed up and drunk, they just fling tenners in.\n\nWhat are your ambitions for your longer-term career?\n\nI finished my EP just before Christmas so hopefully now I'm doing Eurovision I can experience all this and then hopefully release an album and stuff like that, and see where it takes me because I'm still only young.\n\nThere might be an odd atmosphere this year because of Brexit - do you think that will play a part?\n\nI'm not really into politics and stuff because I just don't have a clue about it. It's a singing competition and I'm just thinking, work hard and get the best result and hopefully turn a few heads and see if we can get a better score.\n\nThere have been protests about the fact Eurovision's being held in Israel, with some saying it should be moved because of the treatment of the Palestinians - what's your response to that?\n\nI've seen a lot of things on social media, but it's not really my place to say. I don't know a lot about what's going on over there, and music unites everyone so hopefully we can do something positive.\n\nYou also fronted an anti-bullying campaign - tell us about that.\n\nWhen I was growing up at secondary school I used to get bullied a lot - in Year 7 and Year 8. When I left school, I did The X Factor and I got loads of hate from that, and it really sparked me on to go to schools and tell people my story and inspire them.\n\nRice will be hoping to improve on last year's UK performance, when singer SuRie finished 24th out of 26.\n\nHer performance was interrupted by a stage invader, who grabbed her microphone and shouted slogans about the media.\n\nThe contest was eventually won by Israeli singer Netta with her quirky song Toy, which encouraged people to celebrate their differences.\n\nThe winning country hosts the following year's competition, and the 2019 event will take place in Tel Aviv on 18 May.\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\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Work to demolish Genoa's Morandi bridge, which partially collapsed last August killing 43 people, has begun ahead of its reconstruction.\n\nThe new bridge is expected to be Europe's most expensive.", "The tree came down in strong winds on Ringwood Road in Poole\n\nPassengers and a bus driver had a lucky escape when a tree fell on to a double-decker bus in strong winds in Poole.\n\nDorset Police said the tree crashed through the front of the upper deck of the vehicle while it travelled along Ringwood Road shortly before 12:00 GMT.\n\nMorebus said five passengers and the driver were on board at the time but no-one was injured.\n\nRingwood Road was closed to traffic while the bus was recovered and the tree removed.\n\nThe road was closed while engineers dealt with the bus\n\nA hairdresser working at a nearby salon said she heard a \"massive bang\".\n\n\"We looked outside and it looked like the tree just collapsed on to the bus so I just called 999,\" Katie Seal said.\n\n\"It's a busy road so there was lots of people about.\"\n\nDorset & Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service said two crews attended but were not required as no-one was trapped.\n\nStorm Erik brought strong winds to parts of the country on Friday and more rain and unsettled weather is expected through the weekend.\n\nMore strong winds are expected over the weekend\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "\"Big six\" energy giant SSE has seen a sharp drop in customer numbers and has cut its full-year earnings forecast.\n\nIt said it had lost 160,000 customers in the final three months of last year, leaving it with 5.88 million accounts.\n\nSSE also cut its profit forecast for this year after a European court ruled out a UK industry-wide subsidy which had supported emergency fuel supplies.\n\nLast November, SSE suffered a blow when it called off its plan to merge its household supply arm with Npower's.\n\nThe firm blamed \"challenging market conditions\" and the price cap on bills.\n\nThat deal would have created the UK's second-biggest energy supplier, shrinking the \"big six\" to the \"big five\".\n\nSSE said it was assessing options for its domestic supply business.\n\nSSE said that the European court judgement would cut income by about £60m this year.\n\nThe company said it expects this to be \"a matter of timing only\" as the government is expected to make the payments in the future.\n\nBut while it waited for that, the company said that earnings per share - the amount of profit divided by the number of shares in issue - would be 6p lower than previously expected, and in a range of 64-69p, compared with its November forecast of 70-75p.\n\nSSE chief executive Alistair Phillips-Davies said the company was making \"good progress\" on deciding what to do with its retail business, SSE Energy Services.\n\nThe options it has identified so far include: simply splitting it off and listing it on the stock market; a sale; or an alternative transaction.\n\nThe shares were down slightly on the news.\n\nDonald Brown, from stockbrokers Brewin Dolphin, said the future of SSE Energy Services \"remains unclear\".\n\n\"However, it's difficult to see who might be interested in buying the business, which has been in decline for some time,\" he added.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"Beer before wine and you'll feel fine, wine before beer and you'll feel queer\" - many of us may swear by this time-honoured tip when \"mixing\" our drinks.\n\nBut a new study has refuted the idea that the order we have alcoholic drinks in affects the severity of a hangover.\n\nTo test the theory, they gave 90 students drinks in varying orders, switching the order a week later.\n\nThe study found that how drunk people felt and whether they vomited provided the best indicators for the next day.\n\nPeople should pay attention to these \"red flags\" to lessen the chances of a bad hangover, scientists say.\n\nMany of us will have our own ideas about what prevents a hangover or makes it more bearable when it has started.\n\nBut surprisingly little is understood about what exactly causes a hangover, and science has found no truly effective remedy.\n\nSo to test the wisdom that the order in which we have alcoholic drinks affects how we feel the following day, scientists took 90 students aged between 19 and 40 from Witten/Herdecke University in Germany and split them into three groups:\n\nA week later, participants in the first two groups switched around, while those in the control group changed to the other alcoholic drink.\n\nParticipants were asked to judge how drunk they were at the end of each study day and were kept under medical supervision overnight.\n\nChanging the order of drinks made no significant difference to hangover scores, which were measured using a questionnaire, the study found.\n\nScience has found no truly effective remedy for a hangover\n\nIt was also not possible to predict hangover intensity based on factors such as age, body weight, drinking habits and how often people usually got hangovers.\n\nHowever, there was a difference between the sexes, with women tending to have slightly worse hangovers than men.\n\nJöran Köchling, from Witten/Herdecke University in Germany, who was the first author of the paper, said: \"The only reliable way of predicting how miserable you'll feel the next day is by how drunk you feel and whether you are sick. We should all pay attention to these red flags when drinking.\"\n\nThough hangovers are not well understood by science, it is thought that causes include dehydration, our immune systems, and disturbances of our metabolism and hormones.\n\nColourings and flavourings may also make hangovers worse, which might explain why drinks of the same concentration can cause a more severe hangover.\n\nOne of the study's findings was that those who vomited were more likely to have a bad hangover.\n\nSo does that mean that the so-called \"tactical chunder\" - where people deliberately purge themselves of alcohol to lessen a hangover or make themselves less drunk - is also a myth?\n\nDr Kai Hensel, senior author of the study from the University of Cambridge, said ridding yourself of alcohol meant less of it would be absorbed into the body, which might make you feel better the next day.\n\nBut Dr Hensel said he would still not recommend it.\n\n\"If you arrive at a point where you need to be sick you've probably passed the point of no return,\" he added.\n\nHowever, as unpleasant as they are, hangovers do serve a purpose - experts say they are nature's warning system to encourage us to drink less.\n\nThe study is published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.\n\nOnce you have a hangover, there is no magic cure, although rehydrating, painkillers such as paracetamol and ibuprofen, and sugary foods are some of the things that may ease your discomfort.\n\nBut there are steps you can take to reduce the chance of getting one in the first place, beyond the obvious - drinking less.", "Elderly people are so starved of information after their last local paper closed, an MP has said, they are calling his office for news updates.\n\nRobert Halfon, MP for Harlow in Essex, said many older people did not have access to online news and were left \"isolated\" when papers close down.\n\n\"I was amazed to have elderly residents ringing my office to say would I keep them informed of the news,\" he said.\n\nThe loss of newspapers was a \"tragedy\" for local communities, he said.\n\nThe absence of printed local newspapers had left many older people \"disenfranchised\" and cut off from finding out what was going on around them, said Mr Halfon.\n\nThe Harlow Star, the last of three local papers in his constituency, had recently stopped printing, the former minister said, cutting an important thread holding the local community together.\n\nMP Robert Halfon says it is wrong to assume that everyone has easy access to online news\n\n\"I described it as a tragedy - and people accused me of hyperbole but I stand by my words,\" said the Conservative MP, who chairs the Education Select Committee.\n\n\"Especially if they're elderly, they've no idea what's going on, what's happening to the hospital, what the council are deciding, what the schools are doing, what their grandchildren are doing.\"\n\nThere was a good local news website, Mr Halfon said, but \"you have to be online to look at it\".\n\nHe warned against an assumption that everyone had the internet and online news at their fingertips.\n\n\"So many people do not have this,\" he said\n\n\"It's not just older people, because there are a lot of people who don't have access to a computer or the internet.\n\n\"They may have a phone but they can't afford the data package or they might only look at it now and then.\"\n\nA quarter of local and regional papers have closed in the past decade\n\nCharities for the elderly have warned that older people can be particularly affected by the loss of local services, such as High Street shops, post offices, libraries and pubs.\n\nNyree Ambarchian, who volunteers with the Contact the Elderly charity, said: \"I see first-hand that these issues are contributing to feelings of isolation.\n\n\"Slowly but surely, the local fabric of our communities is being eroded by things like the decline of local newspapers, which older people rely heavily on as a source of information and communication.\"\n\nThe charity's chief executive, Meryl Davies, said: \"We always imagine that the internet is everywhere but half of the older people in the UK have never been online.\"\n\nA quarter of all regional and local newspapers have closed in the past decade, according to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport.\n\nIn response, the government has commissioned an independent review into finding a sustainable future for journalism, chaired by Dame Frances Cairncross, which is soon expected to report back.\n\nInformation gathered for the review showed that income from advertising and circulation for newspapers had fallen sharply and that about 320 local papers had stopped publishing between 2007 and 2017.\n\nThis reflected changes in technology and \"consumer behaviour\", says evidence for the review, with readers and advertising moving online and away from the printed press.", "Louella Fletcher-Michie was found dead in a wooded area on the edge of the Bestival site\n\nActor John Michie has told a jury he begged security staff at a music festival to let him through the gates as his daughter lay dying inside.\n\nHe and his wife rushed to the Bestival site after hearing Louella Fletcher-Michie, 24, screeching \"like a wild animal\" on the phone, a court heard.\n\nWinchester Crown Court has heard she was found dead after taking 2CP.\n\nThe court heard Mr Michie and his wife Carol drove 130 miles (209km) from London to the festival, held at Lulworth Castle, Dorset to get to their daughter.\n\nGiving evidence, the Holby City star wept as he described his efforts to persuade a member of security staff to let him in.\n\nHe said he eventually convinced one attendant to take his phone, which had a location pin-drop sent to them by Mr Broughton, while they waited at the entrance.\n\nThe couple waited up to 90 minutes before they heard their daughter's body had been found, he said.\n\nThe jury has heard Mr Broughton has admitted supplying 2-CP to Ms Fletcher-Michie and her friend at Glastonbury in 2017\n\nCarol Fletcher-Michie, told the court she heard her daughter repeating phrases in a \"horrible voice\" as she spoke to Mr Broughton on the phone on 10 September 2017.\n\n\"She was like a wild animal in the background. That was the last time I heard her voice. She was screeching,\" she told the jury.\n\nThe trial previously heard Ms Fletcher-Michie had urged her boyfriend to film her after she had taken the Class A drug.\n\nShe was found dead by security guards at 01:15 on what would have been her 25th birthday.\n\nJohn Michie and wife Carol Fletcher-Michie, seen here leaving court, drove to the Bestival site to try and help their daughter\n\nProsecutors have alleged Mr Broughton failed to seek help because he feared breaching a suspended jail sentence.\n\nIn the witness box, Mr Michie described how he had later released a statement defending Mr Broughton, after newspapers reported that a murder investigation was under way.\n\n\"I believed him to be a good person at the time. Clearly, I made a mistake.\n\n\"I didn't realise how in the six hours he was with her, he had not taken her to get help, how he had seen her very, very distressed state.\n\n\"I believe he even filmed her after she was dead.\n\n\"I think Louella loved Ceon. I'm not sure that he loved her.\n\n\"I don't know how you could say you love someone if you left them to die in front of you.\n\n\"If I was in Ceon's situation, I would have taken another human being, let alone my girlfriend who I was supposed to love, to a medical tent to save her life.\"\n\nMr Michie said Mr Broughton dismissed his daughter for overreacting, adding: \"I've since learnt he described her as a drama queen, which is hurtful.\"\n\nCeon Broughton could be seen laughing and smiling during the 50-minute video previously shown to the jury\n\nDescribing the phone call from Mr Broughton, Mr Michie said: \"The thing that I most remember was that Louella seemed very distressed.\n\n\"I could hear her in the background shouting things like 'I hate you, I don't trust you', obviously referring to Ceon.\n\n\"I've never heard her speak in that way. It almost didn't sound like her.\"\n\nMr Michie said Mr Broughton's voice, on loudspeaker, sounded \"watery\", \"without energy in it\" and he didn't seem \"compos mentis\".\n\n\"He didn't seem to be concerned, I thought. Obviously any normal person would be concerned,\" he added.\n\nStephen Kamlish QC, defending Mr Broughton, said a lot of what Mr Michie had told the jury was wrong.\n\n\"You don't know for example how many times he told people where he was,\" he said.\n\nMs Fletcher-Michie's sister, Daisy, told the court how she pleaded with Mr Broughton on the phone to take Louella to a medical tent.\n\n\"I couldn't get any sense of urgency... He didn't say much at all, just like a really slow, 'yeah, yeah, ok,\" she said.\n\n\"There's no way I can believe in six hours someone [wouldn't make] their best efforts to get 400m to a medical tent.\"\n\nMr Kamlish suggested the terrain was difficult and Ms Fletcher-Michie was angry at her boyfriend.\n\n\"I'm pretty sure a 28-year-old man could overpower her in a desperate situation like that and carry her,\" Daisy Fletcher-Michie replied.\n\nBestival is held in the grounds of Lulworth Castle\n\nHer brother, Sam, recalled how he asked Mr Broughton what drug his sister had taken.\n\n\"It was 2CB and he said, 'but I bumped it up a bit,'\" Mr Fletcher-Michie told the court.\n\nHe said he did not not understand whether that meant a bigger dose or an additional drug, and he thought 2CB and 2CP were the same thing.\n\nMr Kamlish said: \"You may have thought you heard 'bumped it up', but you heard 'bumped it',\" which the barrister said was a phrase meaning 'took drugs'.\n\nEarlier, the jury in the case was reduced to 11 after the judge discharged a woman \"for personal reasons\".\n\nThe trial has previously heard Mr Broughton has pleaded guilty to supplying 2CP to Ms Fletcher-Michie and her friend at Glastonbury Festival in 2017.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Flybe has warned shareholders it will wind up the company if they do not back a sale to a consortium led by Virgin Atlantic and Stobart Air.\n\nThe airline said failure to approve a sale would mean investors were unlikely to get anything for their shares.\n\nThe airline's board agreed the £2.2m sale to Connect Airways group last month, but the deal needs investor approval at a meeting on 4 March.\n\nFlybe acknowledged the offer of 1 penny per share was \"disappointingly low\".\n\nHowever, it said it was the only rescue plan on the table.\n\nIn a statement on Thursday, Flybe said: \"If the [sale] scheme is not approved, the Flybe directors intend to take steps to wind-up the company and shareholders are likely to receive no value for their shares in Flybe.\"\n\nBased in Exeter, Flybe carries about eight million passengers a year from airports such as Southampton, Cardiff and Aberdeen, to the UK and Europe.\n\nIt put itself up for sale last November, following a profits warning the previous month.\n\nFlybe said it had been \"hampered by the challenging market environment\".\n\n\"Ongoing fuel and currency impacts presented particularly significant headwinds for Flybe as did the rapid and significant tightening on Flybe's liquidity from the card acquirer market.\"\n\nIn addition, it said, the \"general economic outlook and conditions had impacted the business leading to a further weakening in consumer demand, affecting cash, revenues and profit adversely\".\n\nIt agreed to sell the parent company to Connect on 11 January.\n\nHowever, on 15 January, to avoid the airline going into administration the Flybe board entered into a separate agreement to sell the operating subsidiaries - the airline and the website - to Connect Airways for £2.8m.\n\nThat sale is expected to be competed by 22 February, and does not require shareholder approval.\n\nOnce it is complete, however, the parent company will not have any subsidiaries or assets other than cash from the sale of the operating assets. The directors said it was not anticipated that after meeting costs there will be \"any remaining funds available for distribution to Flybe shareholders\".\n\nThe directors said as a result if the shareholders did not approve the initial sale of the parent company, they would wind up the business.\n\nTherefore, the directors said they \"strongly\" advised Flybe shareholders to vote in favour of the sale of the parent company in order to receive any money at all.", "In an unprecedented move, the sister of Thailand's king has joined the race to be the country's next prime minister.\n\nPrincess Ubolratana Mahidol, 67, will stand for a party allied to divisive ex-prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, according to registration papers.\n\nHer decision breaks with the tradition of the Thai royal family publicly staying out of politics.\n\nThailand's election is scheduled to take place on 24 March.\n\nThe election is being closely watched as the first chance for Thailand to return to democracy after five years under military rule.\n\nBorn in 1951, Princess Ubolratana Rajakanya Sirivadhana Barnavadi is the oldest child of Thailand's beloved late King Bhumibol Adulyadej. He died in 2016.\n\nShe attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and after marrying an American in 1972, she gave up her royal title. After her divorce she returned to Thailand in 2001 and once again started participating in royal life.\n\nThe princess engages actively in social media and has also starred in several Thai movies.\n\nShe has three children, one of whom died in the 2004 tsunami. The other two now also live in Thailand.\n\nThe princess has registered for the Thai Raksa Chart party, which is loyal to the controversial Shinawatra family that has dominated Thai politics for years.\n\nIn an Instagram post on Friday, Princess Ubolratana reiterated that she had relinquished all her royal titles and that she now lives as a commoner.\n\nShe said she wanted to exercise her rights as an ordinary citizen by offering her candidacy for prime minister. She said she would work with all sincerity and determination for the prosperity of all Thais.\n\nKing Vajiralongkorn has not made any public comments about his sister's entry into politics.\n\nby the BBC's Jonathan Head in Bangkok\n\nThai politics has taken many bizarre turns in recent years. The submission of King Vajiralongkorn's elder sister as a prime ministerial candidate is one of the strangest, and turns politics on its head.\n\nIf she is confirmed, it is clear that the strategy of the military faction which led the 2014 coup, in the name both of defending the monarchy and keeping pro-Thaksin forces out of government, is in pieces.\n\nThe constitution it drafted still gives it lasting influence over future governments. But a royal prime minister could help end the protracted political conflict which has troubled Thailand for the past thirteen years, forcing a reconciliation between the competing factions that the military government failed to bring about.\n\nBut it would also bring the royal family into the heart of government, undermining the official position that the monarchy stays above politics.\n\nSupporters of the princess are flooding Thai social media with the hashtag #LongLiveSlender.\n\nAccording to local media outlet Khaosod, the hashtag is a reference to a television show the princess appeared in, in which she jokingly said would rather hear the phrase \"Long Live Slender\" - a reference to her appearance - rather than \"Long Live your Highness\".\n\nOthers compared her to other powerful historical and fictional female leaders.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe March vote will be the first since current Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha took power in 2014, overthrowing the democratic government and ousting ex-Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, the younger sister of Thaksin Shinawatra.\n\nBoth Mr Shinawatra and his sister currently live in self-imposed exile but still remain a powerful force in Thai politics, with many in the country remaining loyal to them\n\nIn 2016, Thais voted to approve a new constitution created by the country's military leaders, which was designed to perpetuate military influence and block Mr Thaksin's allies from winning another election.\n\nBut now that the princess has aligned herself with a party allied with Mr Thaksin, all bets are off the table, our correspondent says.\n\nPrayuth, a former general who seized power in a military coup, also announced on Friday that he would be running for prime minister in the current election.\n\nHe will be running as a candidate for the pro-military Palang Pracharat party.\n\nThailand has some of the world's toughest royal defamation laws but technically the princess is not covered by them.\n\nHowever, the royal family is revered in Thailand and rarely criticised, so there are questions around whether any other candidate would want to challenge a member of the royal family.\n\nAnalysts also say the lese majeste laws have been interpreted broadly, meaning media outlets may be careful in their coverage.\n\nThailand's military has a history of intervening in politics and has seized power 12 times since the end of the absolute monarchy - and the introduction of the first constitution - in 1932.", "Mixing drinks may not actually make your hangover worse.\n\nScientists have done a study which refutes the idea that the order we have alcoholic drinks in affects the severity of a hangover. Read more here.\n\nSo here are some other tips to help you the morning after the night before.", "2017's Wonder Wheel was one of two Allen films released by Amazon Studios\n\nWoody Allen has launched legal action against Amazon Studios, accusing it of breaching their contract by refusing to distribute his latest film.\n\nThe 83-year-old is seeking more than $68m (£52m) in damages, alleging the company backed out of a multi-picture deal without cause.\n\nAmazon released two of Allen's films and also distributed his TV series, Crisis in Six Scenes.\n\nBut it dropped his most recent movie, A Rainy Day in New York.\n\nThe BBC contacted Amazon Studios for comment, but did not receive an immediate reply.\n\nAccording to a lawsuit filed on Thursday in New York, Allen claims Amazon backed out of the deal in June 2018 because of an old accusation that the director had molested his adopted daughter Dylan Farrow in 1992.\n\nThe legal action said Amazon knew about \"a 25-year old, baseless\" allegation when it entered into deals with the director and that it \"does not provide a basis for Amazon to terminate the contract\".\n\nA Rainy Day in New York was shot in 2017 with a cast including Jude Law, Rebecca Hall, Selena Gomez and Timothée Chalamet.\n\nA number of its cast members have since distanced themselves from the project, with Chalamet announcing in 2018 he would give his salary to charity.\n\nLast year Law told Vanity Fair it was \"a terrible shame\" the film had been shelved and that he would \"have to consider carefully\" before ever working with Allen again.\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. CCTV of the group during the shopping trip in Sutton was shown in court\n\nA mother accused of not helping her three-year-old son as he was crushed by her boyfriend's car seat has told a court she had let down her son.\n\nAlfie Lamb was found unresponsive and later died following a car journey in south London on 1 February last year.\n\nThe boy's mother Adrian Hoare, 23, told the Old Bailey she would have moved Alfie \"if I thought there was a serious problem\".\n\nShe and her partner Stephen Waterson, 25, both deny manslaughter.\n\nMr Waterson is accused of pushing the front passenger seat of his Audi into Alfie twice during the journey from Sutton to Croydon.\n\nIn court, prosecutors accused Ms Hoare of putting her boyfriend first before her son as their relationship was \"too important\".\n\nJurors were shown CCTV of the three-year-old apparently having to run to keep up with her and Mr Waterson as they walked along an alleyway and into Asda.\n\nReferring to the footage, Duncan Atkinson QC asked Ms Hoare why her son was having to run and \"what allowances were you making for Alfie's little legs?\".\n\nThe defendant denied she put what her partner wanted first, saying that it was \"just the way I walk\" and \"Alfie always runs.\"\n\nAlfie Lamb had been in the rear footwell of the Audi with another child during the trip\n\nWhen asked why she had not taken her son out of the footwell and comforted him when he was \"crying\", \"screaming\", and \"coughing\", Ms Hoare said she could have \"but Stephen said we was all going together.\"\n\nMr Atkinson later asked whether \"looking back on it now, do you feel you let Alfie down?\", to which Ms Hoare replied: \"Yes.\"\n\nEarlier, Mr Waterson's lawyer suggested the car seat had nothing to do with the toddler's injuries and Miss Hoare must have \"done something\".\n\nThis was denied by the 23-year-old.\n\nMr Waterson has told the court he only moved his seat back an inch, before moving forwards again\n\nMs Hoare denies manslaughter, child cruelty and common assault on Emilie Williams, who was also in the car.\n\nMr Waterson denies manslaughter and the intimidation of the car's driver Marcus Lamb.\n\nThe couple and 19-year-old Ms Williams have pleaded guilty to conspiring to pervert the course of justice by making false statements to police.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Artwork: Hayabusa2 arrived at the asteroid Ryugu in June last year\n\nThe Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa 2 will attempt to collect a sample of rock from an asteroid on 22 February, the country's space agency (Jaxa) says.\n\nHayabusa 2 reached asteroid Ryugu in June 2018 after a three-and-a-half-year journey from Earth.\n\nIt will descend to the surface and attempt to grab the sample from a pre-chosen site.\n\nThe spacecraft will return to Earth with the samples in 2020 after its exploration of Ryugu is complete.\n\nJaxa officials had to delay the touchdown last October, after they found the asteroid's surface was more rugged than expected.\n\nDuring sample collection, the spacecraft will approach the 1km-wide asteroid with an instrument called the sampler horn. On touchdown, a 5g projectile made of the metal tantalum is fired into the rocky surface at 300m/s.\n\nThe particles kicked up by the impact will be caught by a specially-designed section of the sampler horn.\n\nHayabusa 2 will begin descending to the surface on 21 February (local time) and should touch down around 08:00 on the 22nd.\n\nThe asteroid 162173 Ryugu is thought to be of a particularly primitive type\n\nIn September, Hayabusa 2 deployed two robotic \"hoppers\" that propelled themselves across the surface of Ryugu, sending back images and other data.\n\nThen, in October, the \"mothership\" despatched a French-German instrument package called Mascot to the surface.\n\nLater this year, perhaps in March or April, Jaxa plans to detonate an explosive charge that will punch a crater into the surface of Ryugu.\n\nHayabusa-2 would then descend into the crater to collect fresh samples of material that have not been altered by aeons of exposure to the environment of space.\n\nRyugu belongs to a particularly primitive type of asteroid, and is therefore a relic left over from the early days of our Solar System.\n\nThe sample collection operations should allow scientists in labs on Earth to study the material, shedding light on the origin and evolution of our own planet.\n\nThe 30 billion-yen mission is the successor to another Jaxa asteroid explorer, Hayabusa, which means \"peregrine falcon\" in Japanese.\n\nThis earlier mission was launched in 2003 and reached the asteroid Itokawa in 2005.", "A financial technology company whose \"single-shaming\" advertising campaign drew protests is facing scrutiny from the City watchdog over the issue.\n\nRevolut, which offers app-based current accounts, sparked complaints with a \"spoof\" ad addressed to people who ordered a takeaway meal for one on Valentine's Day last year.\n\nIt admits that the figures in the ad should have been labelled fictitious.\n\nThe complaints have now been forwarded to the Financial Conduct Authority.\n\nRevolut launched in 2015 and bills itself as an alternative to banks.\n\nIt has apologised for the advert, described by critics as \"intrusive\" and \"tone-deaf\", and said it did not mean to poke fun.\n\nAfter the issue was highlighted on Twitter, several people complained to the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) about the advert.\n\nBut the ASA decided that the issue was outside its scope, since it found the advert did not breach its codes.\n\nHowever, it added: \"As the complaint touches on the potential misleading financial services provided by the advertiser, we will be referring the matter to the Financial Conduct Authority, whose remit this would fall under.\"\n\nThe ASA said complainants could rest assured that the FCA would \"take any necessary action\".\n\nFinancial commentator Iona Bain, who was among the first people to draw attention to the advert and who was among the complainants to the ASA, said she was glad that the matter was being taken seriously.\n\nIona Bain is founder of the Young Money Blog\n\nMs Bain, founder of the Young Money Blog, told the BBC that there was a recognition that the advert was possibly misleading about the financial services that Revolut provided.\n\nShe objected to the advert for a number of reasons, including the way that it played on people's concerns about improper use of their data and whether their financial activity was private.\n\nShe added: \"It's not just the crass and tacky tone of the ad, but also the confusion about what banks do with your data.\"\n\nRevolut offers a current account service which allows people to make and receive payments, withdraw money from cash machines and transfer money abroad.\n\nIt was not a bank when it started, but it announced in December that it had been granted an EU banking licence by the European Central Bank. It still aims to acquire a full UK banking licence.\n\nIt has already attained the status of a tech \"unicorn\" - a term used to describe private start-ups valued at more than $1bn (£740m).\n\nThe BBC has approached Revolut for a comment on the latest developments, but no-one was available to respond.", "(L-R) Keegan, Tilly Rose, Olly and Riley died in the blaze in the early hours of Tuesday\n\nA man and a woman have been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter by gross negligence after four children died in a house fire.\n\nA 24-year-old woman and a 28-year-old man are in custody, Staffordshire Police said.\n\nRiley Holt, eight, Keegan Unitt, six, Tilly Rose Unitt, four, and Olly Unitt, three, died in the blaze in Highfields, Stafford, on Tuesday.\n\nThe force urged people not to speculate on what may have happened.\n\nThe children's 24-year-old mother, Natalie Unitt, and her 28-year-old partner, Chris Moulton, leapt from a first-floor window with the siblings' two-year-old brother, Jack.\n\nThey did not sustain life-threatening injuries.\n\nNeighbours and friends have been leaving tributes near the scene\n\nStaffordshire Police said: \"This incident has had a huge impact on the community and we understand there will be confusion and a demand for information.\"\n\nThe cause of the fire is unknown and investigations are continuing.\n\nStaffordshire Fire and Rescue Service's deputy chief fire officer Rob Barber said: \"Our work investigating the cause of the fire continues and we will make that public as soon as we are able.\"\n\nA JustGiving page for the family has raised £29,000 and community centres say they have been \"inundated\" with donations.\n\nEmotional tributes have been paid to the youngsters, with teachers describing them as \"bright, happy, loving and lively\".\n\nAbout 300 people attended a candlelit vigil on Thursday where neighbours and friends walked with teddy bears and balloons to the scene.\n\nA spokeswoman for South Staffordshire Coroner's Court said the post-mortem examinations of the four children have not yet been completed but their file had been passed to the coroner.\n\nThe fire ripped through the house destroying parts of the roof", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Emiliano Sala's sister said \"I love you, tito\" in a post on Instagram\n\nThe family of Cardiff City footballer Emiliano Sala has paid tribute to him after police confirmed it was his body which was removed from a crashed plane.\n\nArgentine-born Sala, 28, was travelling to Cardiff in a light aircraft piloted by David Ibbotson, which went missing over the English Channel on 21 January.\n\nThe club has offered to pay for Sala's body to be repatriated to Argentina.\n\nMr Ibbotson's body has not been found and Sala's family hopes authorities \"will do their best\" to find him.\n\nIn a statement, they said: \"We would like to thank you for all your signs of affection and support in what is the most painful time of our lives.\n\n\"Seeing the whole world mobilised to support us in our research has been an infinitely precious help. Thanks to you, we are now able to mourn our son, our brother.\n\n\"On this Friday morning, our thoughts go to David Ibbotson and his family, hoping that the authorities will do their best to find him.\"\n\nIn a post on Instagram, Sala's sister Romina said: \"Your soul in my soul, it will shine forever thus illuminating the time of my existence. I love you, tito.\"\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by salaromina This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSala completed his transfer to Premier League side Cardiff from French club Nantes - for a club record of £15m - just two days before the 21 January crash.\n\nHe was returning to the Welsh capital after flying back to France to say goodbye to his former teammates.\n\nMr Ibbotson, 59, from Crowle, North Lincolnshire, was at the controls of the Piper Malibu N264DB when the flight lost contact with air traffic controllers near Guernsey.\n\nAn online fundraiser has also been set up to find Mr Ibbotson's body, saying his family \"cannot bare the thought of him being alone\".\n\nTan Sri Vincent Tan, owner of Cardiff City, said \"I wish to express my deepest heartfelt condolences to the family of Emiliano Sala for their loss.\n\n\"I am personally very sad over this incident. This fine young man would have been very happy and successful at Cardiff City where he would have made a new home and many friends.\"\n\nCardiff fans left a sea of flowers outside the Cardiff City Stadium in tribute to Emiliano Sala\n\nHe added: \"Cardiff City will continue to work with the AAIB and investigators to find out how the crash happened and to assist Emiliano's family.\n\n\"We have offered to them to arrange to take Emiliano back to rest with his family in Argentina. Even though he will be there his soul will always be in our hearts. We feel a tremendous loss but the biggest loss is borne by Sala's family. \"\n\nSome of the club's players also reacted on Twitter.\n\nFull back Joe Bennett wrote \"RIP Emiliano\", while centre-half Sol Bamba posted a black-and-white image of the teammate he never got to play alongside.\n\nEmiliano Sala had been a record signing for Cardiff City\n\nManager Neil Warnock said in his pre-match news conference on Friday he hopes Sala's family find \"peace and comfort\".\n\nHe also expects Southampton and Cardiff players to wear black armbands in their Premier League match at St Mary's on Saturday and a minute's silence to be observed.\n\nCardiff have also asked the Premier League if the team can once again wear shirts in respect of Sala and Mr Ibbotson with a yellow daffodil on them, as they did in last weekend's 2-0 win over Bournemouth.\n\nClubs in the EFL will also wear black armbands at matches over the weekend.\n\nSala's former club, Nantes said in a statement: \"This news puts an end to an endless and unsustainable wait. Emiliano will forever be part of the legends that have written the great story of FC Nantes.\"\n\nIt will also retire the number nine shirt - which he wore - in his memory.\n\nThe French football league announced that a minute's applause will be held at all Ligue 1 and Ligue 2 games this weekend in memory of Sala.\n\nTributes have been laid on the ground outside Cardiff City Stadium\n\nGirondins de Bordeaux, who Sala played for from 2010-15 before joining Nantes, also released a tribute to its former player.\n\nIt said: \"Emi, we lack the words. We still remember your teenage face landing from Argentina, always smiling but already showing the determination that was your strength.\n\n\"Behind the footballer was hiding a beautiful person, a golden guy.\n\n\"Wherever you are today, we hope that there is a ball and a field waiting for you, so that you can score and be happy for eternity.\"\n\nStars from the wider footballing world also paid tribute including Wales star Gareth Bale and France striker Kylian Mbappe.\n\nChelsea defender Antonio Rudiger wrote: \"Heartbreaking to hear the news about Emiliano Sala. Rest in peace! Thoughts go out to the family and friends of Emiliano and the pilot.\"\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 Sergio Kun Aguero This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnd Arsenal's Mesut Ozil tweeted: \"No words to describe how sad this is. Thoughts and prayers go out to his family and also to the family of the pilot.\"\n\nFootball governing bodies Fifa, Uefa and the Football Association of Wales, along with Argentina's president Mauricio Macri all paid tribute to Sala.\n\nAn official search was called off on 24 January after Guernsey's harbour master said the chances of survival were \"extremely remote\".\n\nBut an online appeal started by Sala's agent raised £324,000 (371,000 euros) for a private search led by marine scientist and oceanographer David Mearns.\n\nWorking jointly with the Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB), his ship and the Geo Ocean III, began combing a four square mile area of the English Channel, 24 nautical miles north of Guernsey, to make best use of the available sensors.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Mearns said the plane was identified by sonar, 67m (220ft) below the surface on Sunday, before a submersible with cameras was sent underwater to confirm this.\n\nDuring the recovery operation, the AAIB used a remotely operated underwater vehicle (ROV) to aid the search, with no divers involved.\n\nThe body was moved first on Wednesday, and separately from the wreckage, to maximise the chances of it being successfully brought to the surface.\n\nIt said efforts to recover the crashed plane as a whole proved unsuccessful, before being abandoned due to poor weather.\n\nOne of the many tributes left outside Cardiff City Stadium\n\n\"I've been involved in operations when people were lost and the bodies were found days and weeks after, not far from where they were lost,\" he said.\n\n\"But this is a pretty dynamic place. It's got fairly strong currents, it's not that deep water, you've got a lot of fishing activity, a lot of scallop dredgers moving in and out of the location.\n\n\"You cannot expect that the body is going to be in that location for an extended period of time.\"\n\nThe AAIB said efforts to recover the crashed plane as a whole proved unsuccessful, before being abandoned due to poor weather.\n\n\"The weather forecast is poor for the foreseeable future and so the difficult decision was taken to bring the overall operation to a close,\" the AAIB said in a statement.\n\nHowever, the AAIB said video footage captured by the ROV would provide \"valuable evidence\" for its safety investigation.\n\nThe AAIB released this photograph of the wreckage of the Piper Malibu", "Terence Filer's funeral was well attended despite him having no living friends or relatives\n\nAbout 60 strangers turned up to the funeral of a man they had never met after an appeal from the vicar.\n\nTerence Filer, 85, died at St Martin's House Care Home in Camborne, Cornwall on 2 January.\n\nThe funeral directors and Cornwall Council attempted to find people who knew him but with no success.\n\nThis prompted the vicar to appeal for people to attend his funeral in Redruth.\n\nRev Caspar Bush said it was unusual.\n\n\"On the form from the funeral directors it said 'this man had no friends or relatives, and nothing is known of his life',\" he said.\n\n\"It just struck me as incredibly sad so thought we ought to try and do something to try and give him a good send off.\"\n\nAfter some investigation, it was discovered Mr Filer lived in Newquay for a time and had learning difficulties.\n\nIt is also thought he hailed from Bristol but had no known next of kin or close friends to mourn his death.\n\nThe only possessions passed to the funeral director was an ice-cream tub full of more than 50 American style belt buckles.\n\nFor this reason Rev Bush chose the John Denver's song 'Take Me Home Country Roads' to be part of the service.\n\nGuests attended the funeral from across Cornwall\n\nLittle was known of Terence Filer who left a collection of American-style belt buckles\n\nOne of the guests who attended, called Ann, said: \"Even if he never married or had children he was still somebody's son, somebody's grandson.\n\n\"What if they were looking down thinking nobody even saw his passing.\"\n\nAs well as 60 guests from across Cornwall, a local business also donated 75 pasties so a wake could be held in the church afterwards.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Instagram boss Adam Mosseri says he hopes new technology will help to flag images\n\nAll graphic images of self-harm will be removed from Instagram, the head of the social media platform has told the BBC.\n\nThe move comes after the father of 14-year-old Molly Russell, who took her own life in 2017, said Instagram had \"helped kill\" his daughter.\n\nMolly's family found she had been viewing graphic images of self-harm on the site prior to her death.\n\nAdam Mosseri said Instagram was trying to balance \"the need to act now and the need to act responsibly\".\n\nHe added the site was \"not where we need to be on the issues of self-harm and suicide\".\n\nWhen asked by the BBC's Angus Crawford when the images would be removed, Mr Mosseri replied: \"As quickly as we can, responsibly.\"\n\nMolly's father Ian Russell welcomed Instagram's commitment and said he hoped they would act swiftly to implement their plans.\n\n\"It is now time for other social media platforms to take action to recognise the responsibility they too have to their users if the internet is to become a safe place for young and vulnerable people,\" he added.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock described the death of Molly Russell as \"every parents' modern nightmare\".\n\nHe said it was right for Instagram to take down \"the most graphic material\" but added that \"we need to be led by what the clinicians and experts say need to be taken down\".\n\nSpeaking after a meeting with social media companies as well as the Samaritans, Mr Hancock said he wanted to see a duty of care for all users of social media and that he was \"perfectly prepared to legislate if necessary\".\n\nDigital minister Margot James told BBC Radio 4's PM programme the government would \"have to keep the situation very closely under review to make sure that these commitments are made real - and as swiftly as possible\".\n\nInstagram currently relies on users to report graphic images of self-harm, but Mr Mosseri said the company was looking at ways that technology could help solve the problem in the future.\n\nHe added: \"Historically, we have allowed content related to self-harm that's 'admission' because people sometimes need to tell their story - but we haven't allowed anything that promoted self-harm.\n\n\"But, moving forward, we're going to change our policy to not allow any graphic images of self-harm.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. After Molly Russell died, her family discovered distressing material about suicide on her Instagram account\n\nHowever, some self-harm images will be allowed to remain on the Facebook-owned site.\n\n\"I might have an image of a scar or say, 'I'm 30 days clean,' and that's an important way to tell my story,\" Mr Mosseri said.\n\n\"That kind of content can still live on the site but the next change is that it won't show up in any recommendation services so it will be harder to find.\n\n\"It won't be in search, it won't be in hashtags, it won't be in recommendations.\"\n\nWhen asked if he would resign if graphic self-harm content was still on the platform in six months, Mr Mosseri, 36, said: \"I will certainly have a long thought about how well I am doing in the role that I'm in.\"\n\nIf you've been affected by self-harm, eating disorders or emotional distress, help and support is available via the BBC Action Line.", "Eric McKenna was linked to the crimes after he was arrested following a dispute with his neighbour\n\nThe body of the father of a man who is serving a 23-year sentence for two rapes is to be exhumed in a bid to prove the son's innocence.\n\nEric McKenna was jailed last March for raping two women in Newcastle and Gateshead in the 1980s.\n\nThe 60-year-old's DNA was linked to the crimes after he was cautioned for urinating on a neighbour's plant pot.\n\nHis family says Thomas McKenna was the rapist and has won permission for the exhumation from the Church of England.\n\nEric McKenna's wife Moira petitioned the CofE to allow the exhumation to take place. Her husband has always denied he carried out the street attacks.\n\nHis father Thomas McKenna, who died in 1993, is buried in St John's cemetery in the Elswick area of Newcastle.\n\nThe CofE accepts that digging up the body could \"help settle this matter once and for all\"\n\nA spokesman for the Diocese of Newcastle said: \"The Church of England will only grant permission to exhume a person's remains from consecrated ground in exceptional circumstances.\n\n\"Recent cases considered by the Consistory Court have laid out principles that each chancellor should follow when considering an application for exhumation.\n\n\"Our chancellor Euan Duff has followed these principles when considering this case, although he has been very clear that granting permission in no way supports the accusation being made against the deceased.\n\n\"It is recognition that the DNA analysis may help settle this matter once and for all.\"\n\nFollowing the conviction last year, Det Con Mick Wilson of Northumbria Police said: \"McKenna thought he had got away with his crimes, but a neighbourly dispute and a moment of stupidity has landed him in prison for 23 years.\"\n\nAfter the case, the Crown Prosecution Service said the chance of Eric McKenna not being the source of DNA samples recovered at the two rape scenes was one in one billion.\n\nDr Eva Fernandez-Dominguez, associate professor in ancient DNA at Durham University and former lecturer in forensic anthropology at Liverpool John Moores University, said DNA sampling techniques had changed significantly since the 1980s.\n\n\"It is technically possible to extract DNA from bones,\" she said.\n\n\"In this particular case, the information of the father may or may not be crucial depending on the type of DNA analysis performed over the sample collected at the crime scene.\n\n\"If only Y chromosome information was recovered, then potentially both father or son could have been the perpetrators, as Y chromosome is identical among male relatives of the same family.\n\n\"If other chromosomal information was recovered and a positive complete match between the son and the DNA from the crime scene was found, then it would be highly unlikely that the father could have been the perpetrator, as fathers and sons only share 50% of this type of DNA, the other half coming from the mother.\n\n\"It is a case of what type of genetic information was used.\"\n\nAny removal of DNA from exhumed remains must be done so under rules laid down by the Human Tissue Authority.\n\nA spokesman said: \"DNA is not considered 'relevant material' under the Human Tissue Act, although the material from which it originates is considered so.\n\n\"So any removal of tissue from the deceased needs to take place on licensed premises such as a mortuary.\n\n\"In the case of a deceased person, anyone in a qualifying relationship to the deceased can give consent for DNA testing.\"\n\nOnce any DNA is recovered from the remains, police could then investigate if any new evidence emerges.", "The body recovered from the wreckage of a crashed plane is that of Cardiff City player Emiliano Sala, Dorset Police have said.\n\nSala, 28, was travelling to Cardiff in a plane piloted by David Ibbotson, which went missing over the English Channel on 21 January.\n\nThe Argentine's body was recovered late on Wednesday after the wreckage was found on Sunday morning.\n\nIn a statement, the force said: \"The body brought to Portland Port today, Thursday 7 February 2019, has been formally identified by HM Coroner for Dorset as that of professional footballer Emiliano Sala.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"The families of Mr Sala and the pilot David Ibbotson have been updated with this news and will continue to be supported by specially-trained family liaison officers.\"\n\nThe body was spotted in the wreckage of the plane on Monday and the authorities were able to recover it two days later, despite \"challenging conditions\".\n\nThe Air Accidents Investigations Branch (AAIB) said the operation had been carried out in \"as dignified a way as possible\" and the men's families were kept updated throughout.\n\nEmiliano Sala (left) was on board a plane being flown by pilot David Ibbotson\n\nThe Geo Ocean III, which was involved in finding the wreckage, took the body back to the nearest port of Portland in Dorset, where the body was formally identified.\n\nThe Piper Malibu N264DB was en route from France to Cardiff, after the Argentine striker made a quick trip back to his former club Nantes two days after his £15m transfer to Cardiff was announced.\n\nIn a post on Instagram, Sala's sister Romina paid tribute, saying: \"Your soul in my soul, it will shine forever thus illuminating the time of my existence. I love you, tito.\"\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 Sol Bamba 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\nCardiff City issued a statement shortly after identification was confirmed saying: \"We offer our most heartfelt sympathies and condolences to the family of Emiliano. He and David will forever remain in our thoughts.\"\n\nSome of the club's players reacted via Twitter. Full back Joe Bennett wrote \"RIP Emiliano\", while centre-half Sol Bamba posted a black-and-white image of the team-mate he never got to play alongside.\n\nStars from the wider footballing world also paid tribute.\n\nChelsea defender Antonio Rudiger wrote: \"Heartbreaking to hear the news about Emiliano Sala. Rest in peace! Thoughts go out to the family and friends of Emiliano and the pilot.\"\n\nAnd Arsenal's Mesut Ozil tweeted: \"No words to describe how sad this is. Thoughts and prayers go out to his family and also to the family of the pilot.\"\n\nMr Ibbotson, 59, from Crowle, North Lincolnshire, was at the controls when the flight lost contact with air traffic controllers on 21 January.\n\nAn official search was called off on 24 January after Guernsey's harbour master said the chances of survival were \"extremely remote\".\n\nBut an online appeal started by Sala's agent raised £324,000 (371,000 euros) for a private search led by marine scientist and oceanographer David Mearns.\n\nWorking jointly with the AAIB, his ship and the Geo Ocean III, began combing a four square mile area of the English Channel, 24 nautical miles north of Guernsey, to make best use of the available sensors.\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 Sergio Kun Aguero 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 Mearns said the plane was identified by sonar, 67m (220ft) below the surface, before a submersible with cameras was sent underwater to confirm this.\n\nFollowing the confirmation, he also tweeted his tribute.\n\n\"I was glad to provide some small comfort to Romina, Mercedes and the whole Sala family during the past two weeks but my heart goes out to the family and friends of David Ibbotson whose loss is the same,\" Mr Mearns said.\n\nCardiff fans left a sea of flowers outside the Cardiff City Stadium in tribute to Emiliano Sala\n\nDuring the recovery operation, the AAIB used a remotely operated underwater vehicle (ROV) to aid the search, with no divers involved.\n\nThe body was moved first, and separately from the wreckage, to maximise the chances of it being successfully brought to the surface.\n\nIt said efforts to recover the crashed plane as a whole proved unsuccessful, before being abandoned due to poor weather.\n\n\"The weather forecast is poor for the foreseeable future and so the difficult decision was taken to bring the overall operation to a close,\" the AAIB said in a statement.\n\nThe AAIB released this photograph of the wreckage of the Piper Malibu\n\nHowever, the AAIB said video footage captured by the ROV would provide \"valuable evidence\" for its safety investigation.\n\nMr Mearns told BBC Radio Wales the AAIB could not have continued searching in the current conditions and admitted finding Mr Ibbotson's would be difficult.\n\nHe added: \"I've been involved in operations when people were lost and the bodies were found days and weeks after, not far from where they were lost.\n\n\"But this is a pretty dynamic place. It's got fairly strong currents, it's not that deep water, you've got a lot of fishing activity, a lot of scallop dredgers moving in and out of the location.\n\n\"You cannot expect that the body is going to be in that location for an extended period of time.\"\n\nMeanwhile, it has emerged that Sala's former club, French Ligue 1 side Nantes, has demanded Cardiff City pay his £15m transfer fee.\n\nSala was Cardiff's record signing but never played for the club.\n\nThe fee was due to be paid over three years but Cardiff have withheld the first scheduled payment until they are satisfied with the documentation.", "Ms Bonafede says the experience was \"distressing\"\n\nAn EE customer has said she was stalked by an ex-partner who worked at the firm, after he accessed her personal data without permission.\n\nFrancesca Bonafede's number was switched to a new handset and her address and bank details were accessed.\n\nShe said the company failed to take the data breach seriously and she had to involve police.\n\nEE \"sincerely apologised\" to Ms Bonafede, and said the employee no longer worked for the company.\n\nMs Bonafede, from London, told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme she first contacted EE in February 2018 after her phone suddenly stopped working.\n\nAfter five days with no signal, she was told someone had visited an EE shop, requested a new Sim card and switched the account to a new handset.\n\nWhen the call centre handler read out the new address registered on the system, she recognised it as that of her ex-partner - who worked at one of the firm's High Street stores.\n\nIt could have meant all texts and calls made to her during that period would have gone to him.\n\n\"The agent just didn't seem concerned at all,\" she said.\n\n\"I kept asking to speak to a manager who could give me more concrete information, and I was always told no-one was available.\"\n\nMs Bonafede does not know for sure why her ex-partner wanted to access her account data, but thinks it may have been related to official documents for which he was applying.\n\nShe said the man called and texted her \"endless times\" in an attempt to persuade her to withdraw the complaint, and turned up unannounced with his friends on multiple occasions at her new address.\n\n\"It was really distressing and I had to go to the police and tell them what was happening,\" she said.\n\n\"They asked me repeatedly what EE was doing about all this and I just had to say, 'actually, I don't have a clue because they don't keep me updated'.\n\n\"The only way he could have known about my new address was through the data breach, because we broke up quite a long time before that.\"\n\nMs Bonafede's ex-partner was eventually arrested and given a harassment warning by police before the contact stopped.\n\nDespite being given assurances that EE would investigate, she said it was not until she started publically tweeting about the problem that the company started taking it seriously.\n\n\"I spent countless hours at the police station and missed days at work,\" she said. \"He had access to everything: my sort code, my account number, a photocopy of my driver's licence.\n\n\"It did put me at risk and I feel all customers should know how poorly something like this will be handled if there is a data breach on their account.\n\n\"It was a complete breach of trust. I don't trust the way they handled my data at all.\"\n\nAn EE spokesman said its own internal policies were not followed in this case.\n\n\"This matter has been dealt with internally and the employee involved no longer works for us,\" he said.\n\n\"While we worked quickly to protect Francesca, we apologise for not keeping her informed of the actions that we took during this time.\"\n\nThe Information Commissioner's Office said that under the Data Protection Act and GDPR it was \"illegal for individuals to access personal data without authorisation\".\n\nIt said there was also an obligation for companies to ensure data was managed securely, and protect \"against unauthorised or unlawful processing and against accidental loss, destruction or damage\".\n\nFollow the Victoria Derbyshire programme on Facebook and Twitter - and see more of our stories here.", "A Labour MP has accused John McDonnell of \"letting his allies go after\" Luciana Berger after a row erupted over her future in the party.\n\nMs Berger is facing a vote of no confidence from local members for criticising Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nShadow chancellor Mr McDonnell said she should reject claims she supported a \"breakaway party\" to show members she was \"sticking with Labour\".\n\nBut Nottingham East MP Chris Leslie said his response was \"ridiculous\".\n\nLabour's deputy leader Tom Watson also backed Ms Berger, telling the Commons she had \"our solidarity and... our support as she battles the bullying hatred from members of her own local party\".\n\nAnd Labour MP Ian Austin - who faced suspension after a row over the party's anti-Semitism code - told PoliticsHome: \"It's like something out of the Soviet Union's show trials where people were let off if they confessed their disloyalty and shouted 'Long Live Stalin'.\"\n\nMs Berger - an outspoken critic of the party's handling of anti-Semitism allegations and its stance on Brexit - said she would be not be \"distracted from fighting for the interests of my constituents\".\n\nAn extraordinary meeting has been called in the Liverpool Wavertree constituency next week to discuss two no confidence motions.\n\nThe motions accuse Ms Berger of being against Mr Corbyn, saying: \"Instead of fighting for a Labour government, our MP is continually using the media to criticise the man we all want to be prime minister.\"\n\nVotes of no confidence carry no official force within the Labour Party, but local activists could hold a \"trigger ballot\", where sitting Labour MPs can be forced to compete for selection as a candidate against all-comers, ahead of the next general election.\n\nMs Berger has been the target of online abuse and had a police escort at last year's Labour Party conference following death threats.\n\nEarlier this week, she joined other MPs at a meeting of the Parliamentary Labour Party calling for details on the party's efforts to tackle anti-Semitism to be released.\n\nIn a statement, Ms Berger said she believed her constituents would judge her on her record and skills in representing them in Parliament.\n\nShe reiterated her \"long-held view that Brexit will be a disaster for the people of Liverpool Wavertree and the wider country\", saying she would \"not shy away from standing up\" for her Remain-voting constituency.\n\nAnd she said she had made \"no secret that, as a Jewish woman representing a city with a Jewish community, I have been deeply disturbed by the lack of response from Jeremy Corbyn as party leader and many in the wider leadership of the party to the anti-Semitism that stains our party\".\n\nMs Berger added: \"Nothing will deter me from exposing anti-Semitism wherever it festers, including in the Labour Party where it is being wilfully ignored.\"\n\nMr Leslie - a former shadow chancellor himself - told BBC Radio 4's World at One that Mr McDonnell had \"demanded an oath of loyalty from her to those who are attacking her\", adding: \"I have never heard of such of a ridiculous situation.\n\n\"He should never have allowed his allies to have gone after Luciana like that in the first place. I have a feeling they will realise this is a terrible, terrible judgement.\"\n\nAsked if he was considering whether to resign from the party, the MP did not rule it out, and said his \"patience is wearing pretty thin\" - namely around Labour's Brexit policy, as he supports a further referendum on whether to leave or remain in the EU.\n\nHe said had \"serious worries\" about the direction of the leadership of the party, adding: \"Of course I have my issues with Jeremy Corbyn and the leadership, but the bigger point is there is a country and our constituents to put first here.\n\n\"If we keep getting told 'oh well get in line behind your party, shut up don't say anything, in fact, we're going to push you gradually out of the party for various reasons', don't expect us to just go quietly and say nothing. This is a serious moment.\"\n\nLuciana Berger and Chris Leslie have campaigned together for a \"People's Vote\" on Brexit\n\nA number of Labour MPs tweeted their support for Ms Berger after the news of the no confidence motions broke on Thursday night, including former leader Ed Miliband and prominent backbencher Yvette Cooper.\n\nHowever, speaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Mr McDonnell said the motion came about because Ms Berger is \"associated\" with rumours of a new centrist party being formed.\n\n\"[The motion] is an expression of views,\" he said.\n\n\"If people are doing that because Luciana has stood up against [anti-Semitism] that is completely wrong.\n\n\"But from what I have seen on social media, it looks as though what has happened is Luciana has been in the media associated with a breakaway party and hasn't been clear that she rejects that.\"\n\nHe condemned a Facebook post from one of the local Labour members calling Ms Berger a \"disruptive Zionist\", saying it was \"completely wrong\".\n\nBut the shadow chancellor said: \"My advice to Luciana is just tell people you are not supporting a breakaway party, you are sticking with the Labour Party, you are not jumping ship.\n\n\"And my advice to the Labour Party members there is if there are differences of opinion there, get together, talk about it and see how you can support the campaign alongside your local MP.\"\n\nOther Labour MPs criticised Mr McDonnell's response, with Chuka Umunna tweeting to shadow cabinet members: \"Are we going to act? Defend a colleague in the face of this outrage?\"\n\nMs Berger is not the first Labour MP to have faced a no confidence vote from their local parties over their views on Brexit. Others include Frank Field - who now represents Birkenhead as an independent MP - and Kate Hoey.\n\nConservative Nick Boles also believes his constituency party in Grantham and Stamford is looking to oust him as a candidate at the next election.\n\nMeanwhile, Labour activists from the \"Another Europe is Possible\" group are targeting the constituencies of MPs who broke the whip and voted with the government over Theresa May's Brexit deal, calling it a \"moment of reckoning\".\n\nSeven Labour MPs backed an amendment supported by the government calling for \"alternative arrangements\" to the backstop element of Mrs May's plan - which aims to avoid a hard border returning between Northern Ireland and Ireland.\n\nAnd a total of 26 MPs either abstained or voted against an amendment by Yvette Cooper, which was backed by the Labour leadership, which would have allowed for an extension of Article 50 - the mechanism seeing the UK leave the EU on 29 March - by up to nine months, with the aim of avoiding a no-deal.\n\nThe left-wing group, founded last summer, will campaign in around 30 constituencies to \"apply pressure\" to the MPs to vote against Mrs May's deal.\n\nGordon Watson, the Labour deputy leader of Rotherham Council, warned that the rebels could end up facing de-selection if they don't vote the deal down, adding: \"Failing to vote against the Tory deal is essentially propping up a government that is wrecking our communities. People are running out of patience.\"", "Robinson stands beside a statue of himself\n\nLegendary baseball Hall of Famer Frank Robinson - the first African-American to manage a Major League Baseball team - has died aged 83, officials say.\n\nAfter winning Most Valuable Player awards in both US leagues - the only player in history to do so - he went on to manage Cleveland in 1975.\n\nWith a total of 586, he is 10th on the list of the most home runs hit in a major league career.\n\nRobinson, who holds countless other records, died at home in California.\n\nSince his debut, more than half of all teams have had a black manager.\n\nBorn in Beaumont, Texas, in 1935, Robinson got his start in Major League Baseball in 1956 - just nine years after Jackie Robinson broke the colour barrier by joining a professional team.\n\nIn his first at-bat for Cleveland he hit a home run.\n\nOver his career, he coached the Baltimore Orioles, the San Francisco Giants and Montreal.\n\nRobinson became the first manager of the Washington Nationals after the team relocated from Montreal for the 2005 season.\n\nThe Orioles and fellow legend Hank Aaron were among the many teams and players expressing their sadness on social media:\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 Baltimore Orioles 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 Hank Aaron 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\nRobinson was known to crowd the plate before the pitch, and famously was hit by the ball 198 times.\n\n\"Pitchers did me a favour when they knocked me down,\" Robinson said. \"It made me more determined. I wouldn't let that pitcher get me out.\"\n\nRobinson went on be presented with the Presidential Medal of Freedom by US President George W Bush in 2005 for his work in and out of baseball.", "Tributes have been left to the children close to the police cordon\n\nSycamore Lane is a quiet cul-de-sac nestled on the outskirts of Stafford.\n\nBut today it is filled with fire engines, police cars and emergency service personnel dealing with the wreckage of a burnt-out house. Hours earlier it was ravaged by a fire which claimed the lives of four children.\n\nA cordon, where journalists have gathered, blocks entry to the road. The mood is sombre as people try to go about their daily business.\n\nResidents from neighbouring streets stop and ask police officers what has happened. Visibly shocked and upset, many become tearful as the full horror of the events became clear.\n\nEmergency services workers remained at the scene of the fire today\n\nSome spoke of hearing screams while one witness described seeing a \"wall of flames\" out of the bedroom window.\n\n\"We just stood there with our hands over our mouths,\" another said.\n\nThe remnants of the property are partly covered in blue tarpaulin. The roof has collapsed, the windows shattered and the rooms left blackened.\n\nWendy Pickering and her husband Bryan said they often saw the family take the children to school\n\nWendy Pickering and her husband Bryan said they often saw the family take the children to school.\n\n\"It is a real shock,\" she said. \"We heard screaming... it is just so sad.\"\n\nPeople have started to lay flowers and teddy bears in tribute to the four children - named locally as Riley, Keegan, Tilly and Olly, and aged between three and eight - at the edge of the cordon.\n\nFirefighters helped place some of the memorials near the scene\n\nFriends and relatives visited the scene and shared tearful embraces.\n\nOne note read: \"Will be dearly missed, love Uncle Dave and Auntie Lou Lou\". Another said: \"To my lovely grandkids I will always miss you. Love you always xxx\".\n\nNeighbour Karl Griffiths was among those who left a stuffed toy\n\nNeighbour Karl Griffiths was among those who left a stuffed toy.\n\n\"I knew the family quite well. I feel distraught,\" he said. \"Stuff like this doesn't happen around here, we all looked out for each other.\n\n\"If I had known what was happening I would have come to help. I would.\n\n\"I just wanted to pay my condolences, it is the least I could do.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Keegan, Tilly Rose, Olly and Riley, seen here in a photo taken from social media, died in the blaze in the early hours of Tuesday\n\nFour children have died in a house fire which also left a toddler and two adults - who leapt to safety from a first-floor window - injured\n\nNeighbours reported hearing screams as the blaze, in the Highfields area of Stafford, took hold overnight.\n\nThe children killed in the fire were aged between three and eight, Staffordshire Police said.\n\nBoth adults, along with the toddler, are in hospital, but their injuries are not life-threatening.\n\nThe force named the four children, who have not been formally identified, as Riley Holt, eight, Keegan Unitt, six, Tilly Rose Unitt, four, and Olly Unitt, three.\n\nTheir two-year-old brother Jack survived, along with mother Natalie Unitt, 24 and her partner Chris Moulton, 28.\n\nPart of the roof collapsed, windows were shattered and rooms left blackened by the blaze after the fire broke out on Sycamore Lane at about 02:40 GMT.\n\nNeighbour Wendy Pickering said she heard \"screaming\" in the middle of the night, while her husband Bryan said he was alerted to the fire by his dog barking during the night.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFirefighters confirmed that a man, woman and young child had escaped from a first-floor window before emergency services arrives.\n\nThe cause of the blaze is not yet known.\n\nFlowers and soft toys have been left at the scene, while tributes have been paid to the four children who died by those who knew them\n\nNicola Glover, head teacher of Castlechurch Primary School, which Riley, Tilly and Olly attended, said the school was \"absolutely devastated\".\n\nShe described Riley as a \"confident, excitable\" and articulate boy \"who was always keen to ask lots of questions.\n\nA handwritten note attached to flowers was left at the scene from the children's grandparents\n\nTilly, meanwhile \"was a happy little girl who loved coming to nursery\" and was \"a friendly and caring child who loved to read stories, dress up and paint\", Ms Glover said.\n\nShe said Olly was \"a happy, loving boy who loved cuddles. He was always happy to come to nursery and loved to be in the role play area with the dolls\".\n\nKim Ellis, head teacher at Marshlands School, where Keegan was a pupil, said he was \"full of fun and mischief\".\n\n\"He loved school and everyone who worked with him loved him. It is very hard to accept what has happened.\"\n\nThe fire ripped through the house destroying parts of the roof\n\nCh Insp John Owen, of Staffordshire Police, described the blaze as \"absolutely heartbreaking\".\n\n\"Our firefighters were faced with very difficult conditions inside the property due to the severity of the fire,\" he said.\n\nNathan Hudson, assistant chief officer of West Midlands Ambulance, added: \"This was an immensely difficult incident for all three (emergency) services to respond to.\n\n\"Our thoughts remain with the family and friends and four children at this time.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMatthew Ellis, Staffordshire Commissioner for Police Fire and Crime, paid tribute to emergency services for working in \"tragic and difficult circumstances in the middle of the night\".\n\n\"For something like this to happen it's just heartbreaking,\" he said.\n\n\"It's very difficult to imagine just how professional and how dedicated these people are, but they are all human beings.\"\n\nCounty councillor for Stafford West, Carolyn Trowbridge, said local people had already begun to collect items and money to help the family.\n\nSpeaking near the scene, she said: \"This is a great community. We will all pull together and we will try to help this family as much as we possibly can.\"\n\nShe said the emergency services had \"worked tirelessly\", adding: \"It must have been horrendous for them.\"\n\nThere was a special service at Castle Church in Stafford at 19:00 GMT.\n\nThe Rev Philip Sowerbutts said: \"It will take this community a long time to get over such devastation.\n\n\"We as a church family along with all the other agencies have got to be here and stand together.\"\n\nThe nearby Signpost Centre on Auden Way has become one of many collection points for people looking to make donations to the family.\n\nKen Down, who runs the centre, said: \"Lots of people who knew the family were in the cafe this morning talking about it. There is lots of sadness.\n\n\"We are open five days a week for anyone who is having any issues. If they are feeling really upset about it they can come here and talk to us.\"\n\nA donation page set up to help the family \"rebuild their lives\" has amassed more than £12,000 since it was launched.\n\nIts founder, Stephen Glover, whose daughter attended the same school as Riley Holt, said he was \"delighted\" at the generosity of people not only from Stafford but all over the country.\n\nHousing association Stafford and Rural Homes, which owns the property, said it was assisting the police and fire service with investigations.", "The FaceTime problem emerged when teenagers were planning Fortnite strategies\n\nA US teenager who discovered a security flaw in Apple's FaceTime video-calling system has been given a bug bounty.\n\nApple has not revealed the exact amount it is giving 14-year-old Grant Thompson but it is believed to include money to help pay for his education.\n\nThe teenager found a bug that meant he could briefly eavesdrop on recipients to a group FaceTime call.\n\nThe reward comes as one security researcher refused to tell Apple about a bug because no bounty was on offer.\n\nInformation about the bug first emerged in late January and revealed that some Apple users could secretly listen to people they called via FaceTime even if the recipient did not accept the call.\n\nApple deemed it so serious that it disabled the group FaceTime feature while it investigated and produced a fix.\n\nNews reports about the problem initially said it was just being discussed on social media and did not credit any individual with its discovery.\n\nLater, it emerged that Apple had been warned about it earlier in January by Grant and his mother. The teenager uncovered the problem when using FaceTime to talk about strategies for the Fortnite game with friends.\n\nMrs Thompson sent several emails and other messages to Apple warning about the vulnerability but initially got no response.\n\nNow, Apple has credited Grant, who's from Catalina, in Arizona, with finding the flaw. News about his reward came on the day that Apple issued a software update that fixed the bug.\n\nApple's bug bounty policy has led one security researcher to withhold details on a password-stealing vulnerability in the MacOS operating system.\n\nGerman bug hunter Linus Henze said he would not release details of the problem to Apple until it included MacOS in its bounty programme. Currently Apple only pays for bugs found in the iOS operating system for phones. In addition, security experts have to be invited to take part in the programme that pays up to $200,000 (£154,300) for the most serious bugs.\n\n\"My motivation is to get Apple to create a bug bounty program. I think that this is the best for both Apple and researchers,\" he told tech news site the Register.", "Just three days after he signed for Premier League club Cardiff City, Emiliano Sala was on a light aircraft that went missing over the English Channel on 21 January. Dorset Police on Thursday night confirmed the 28-year-old's body had been recovered from the wreckage, which was found on Sunday morning.\n\nThis is an updated version of a story first published on 22 January.\n\nAt 28, Emiliano Sala, whose death in a light aircraft crash has been announced, had just reached football maturity, and his move to Cardiff was shaping up to be a thrilling adventure.\n\nThe transfer marked belated recognition for a player who might have been imperfect technically but who was physical, courageous - and endearing.\n\nOn the pitch, he was confrontational; off it, he led a quiet life.\n\nHe loved detective novels and would never go to an away game without taking a book. He played guitar too but took that up quite late, and usually preferred to leave it at home.\n\nA common morning sight in Nantes was Sala, seated at a table outside a cafe with his labrador Naja curled up at his feet.\n\nFans of Nantes football club spent the whole of January hoping - rumour had it that Sala didn't really want to leave for Cardiff. His coach, Vahid Halilhodzic, had rekindled his career last October following a long period of struggle under former manager Miguel Cardoso and refused to discuss the possibility of his striker leaving.\n\nHalilhodzic - himself a former centre-forward at Nantes - had decided his mission was to relaunch the Argentine player, whose role model since childhood had been the legendary striker Gabriel Batistuta.\n\n\"He's a sensitive young man; he needs to feel confident, so the priority was to help him believe in himself. Only after that could we talk, striker-to-striker,\" said Halilhodzic.\n\nSala confirmed: \"The club was ready to sell me to Galatasaray, but I held on tight. I have no regrets, because Vahid and I talk a lot, and I'm steadily improving.\"\n\nBetween July and September, during the Cardoso era at Nantes, Sala scored four times; between October and December, he scored eight times.\n\n'If he were an English player, he would be Jamie Vardy'\n\nSala was first and foremost an instinctive striker.\n\nIf he were an English player, he would have been Jamie Vardy: a player who liked wide spaces and being part of a team with a strong counter-attacking style; a lively, light player but one who was also resilient and reliable - a real South American warrior.\n\nDuring his time with French club Niort he was often referred to as \"the local Carlos Tevez\".\n\nSala was also a skilled 'fox in the box', thanks particularly to his exceptional finishing ability with his head. He had perfect timing, and he was clinical on set-pieces with his great headers. There was no doubt his technique still lacked something, but the Premier League looked like his turf to conquer.\n\nHe was initially unsure about joining a club struggling in their own league, but Kita, the president of Nantes, didn't want to miss out on the 17m euros transfer fee.\n\nThe player Cardiff wanted was the Sala that Halilhodzic had so successfully polished and relaunched.\n\nIn Argentina, Sala trained in San Francisco, Cordoba, at an academy allied to Bordeaux, moving to France to join Bordeaux when he was 20.\n\nEveryone who knew him there agrees - Emiliano was a good guy and a good team-mate.\n\nFelipe Saad, who played with Sala at Caen, told L'Equipe: \"He was a lovable, generous fellow. He always believed that football was a team sport. I am so shaken.\n\n\"His move to Cardiff was going to bring him the recognition he deserved, albeit belatedly. He so deserved his talent to be recognised.\"\n\nIt is true that Sala's progress was rather slow: people still referred to him as a \"promising talent\" when he was 23 and at Bordeaux.\n\nHis team-mates even poked fun at him for his unpolished style on the field - so much so that, after a season spent in the Bordeaux reserves in 2011-12, Sala was loaned to Orleans, then a Niveau 3 team. He went on to score 19 goals in 37 matches.\n\nNext came another loan, this time to Niort, in D2. Initially, Sala's then-coach Pascal Gastieu had no real interest in him.\n\n\"I considered his technique to only be adequate, though everything else was there,\" said Gastieu. \"He was a generous guy and when he was on the field he never gave up.\n\n\"He knew he had room for improvement, especially on a technical level. He'll reach full maturity later than the average player, you'll see.\"\n\nAt the time, Sala agreed: \"My headers aren't good enough, even though I'm tall. It's something I'll have to work on.\"\n\nSala's next loan move took him to Caen. It wasn't always easy for him, a joint Italian-Argentine national, to be constantly on the move. But he eventually found his feet at Nantes, where he won an initial five-year contract.\n\nIt didn't take Sala long to establish himself and soon Wolves, then in the Championship, got in touch with Nantes about him. President Kita, who had signed Sala a year earlier for 1m euros, rejected the 4m euros offer.\n\nSala had been tempted - \"this might be the second division, but that's the English league\" - but he knew that, even at 26, he wasn't yet mature enough to go up against the solid defence of English teams.\n\n\"I haven't left my mark on Nantes yet. If I was to leave, I would want it to be after I've made it, and I'd want to leave a good memory of me.\"\n\nSala could be spotted outside a cafe in Nantes, having breakfast with Naja, as recently as a few weeks ago.\n\nAfterwards, he went to say goodbye to his Nantes team-mates. Then he boarded a plane to Cardiff.", "The two stars discussed songwriting and comedy during the show\n\nForty years ago, two of music's biggest stars walked into BBC Radio 1 and sat down to review the week's new releases.\n\nMichael Jackson and George Harrison spent the next 90 minutes discussing singles by Foreigner, Nicolette Larson and The Blues Brothers, as well as the stories behind their own songs.\n\nThe BBC discarded the show, keeping only a short clip. But now a rare recording has been found and restored.\n\nExcerpts will be broadcast in a special documentary this weekend.\n\nListeners will hear Jackson, just months before releasing Off The Wall, discuss how Motown refused to let him write his own music; while Harrison explains what it was like to work in the songwriting shadow of Lennon and McCartney.\n\nAt one point, Jackson turns to the former Beatle and says: \"Let me ask you a question, did you guys always write your own stuff from the beginning?\"\n\nThe guitarist replies: \"Well, John and Paul wrote right from before we ever made a record.\"\n\nJackson seems taken aback, asking: \"How did you manage that?\"\n\n\"I don't know,\" drawls Harrison. \"They were clever little fellows.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Michael Jackson and George Harrison were interviewed by David \"Kid\" Jensen\n\nThe atmosphere sounds relaxed and good-humoured throughout, and the two musicians take the task of reviewing the songs seriously, although at one point Harrison confesses: \"To tell you the truth, I've no idea what is a hit and what isn't a hit these days.\"\n\nThe programme was part of a long-running Radio 1 series called Roundtable, which was presented in 1979 by David \"Kid\" Jensen.\n\n\"They were both lovely guys to talk to,\" he recalls of Jackson and Harrison.\n\n\"We knew we had a good show on our hands, just by the general vibe in the studio before the mics went live.\n\n\"It was like Juke Box Jury - people judging their peers. In the case of the Beatles and Michael Jackson, of course, it's not quite their peers but certainly [people] in the same line of business.\"\n\nAlthough the broadcaster ranked the encounter as one of his favourite ever interviews, the BBC erased the programme and, for years, only low-quality bootleg recordings were available.\n\nThat was until Richard Latto, a producer at BBC Radio Solent, set about trying to find a complete copy.\n\n\"I put the word out on the collectors' circuit and a chap called Richard White came forward with a cassette recording of the entire broadcast,\" he says.\n\n\"This was fantastic news because the BBC only held a short, four-minute extract from the show, which is tiny when compared to the [full] programme, which contains some very special moments that were thought to be lost forever.\"\n\nThere was a relaxed atmosphere in the studio, despite hundreds of fans queuing outside\n\nHowever, restoring the audio to a listenable standard was \"a tremendous challenge\", he explains.\n\n\"There's a clip on the internet which is barely audible and gives you an idea of the challenge we faced. We spent hours sharpening and polishing the raw sound, which was recorded in 1979 off an AM radio during the hours of darkness, so plagued by lots of hiss and distortion.\n\n\"After extensive work, we were able to get the voices of the legendary stars and Kid to cut through with fantastic clarity.\"\n\nThe results will be broadcast on BBC Radio Solent on Saturday, 9 February, the 40th anniversary of the original broadcast.\n\nIt will reveal why Jackson wore a pith helmet throughout the recording and how Harrison took a year off music to \"go to the races\".\n\nOn the tape, they review Foreigner's Blue Morning Blue Day (\"It gets your attention\" - Jackson) and Lenny White's cover of Lady Madonna (\"I prefer the Fab Four's version\" - Harrison).\n\nThe former Beatle discusses the merits of cover versions and discloses how he'd written the Beatles' classic Something with Ray Charles in mind.\n\n\"As it happened, the song ended up with over 150 cover versions,\" he says. \"But when Ray Charles did it, I was really disappointed. It was a bit corny, the way he did it.\"\n\n\"You wrote Something?\" exclaims Jackson. \"Ohhhh, I didn't know that. I thought Lennon and McCartney did that.\"\n\nWhen George Met Michael will be broadcast on BBC Radio Solent at 11:00 GMT on Saturday, 9 February; after which it will be available for 30 days on BBC Sounds.\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\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Andrew Wallace was previously convicted of killing a woman when he was 15\n\nA convicted killer has been jailed for at least 28 years for murdering a woman in Glasgow and dismembering her body.\n\nAndrew Wallace was given a mandatory life sentence for killing Julie Reilly, 47, in her Govan flat in February last year.\n\nWallace, 42, cut off her legs with a knife and put the remains in plastic bags and suitcases, before burying them near Ms Reilly's home.\n\nJudge Lady Rae told him he was guilty of an \"evil and despicable act\".\n\nThe judge told Wallace: \"You are a dangerous man who has a considerable propensity for violence.\"\n\nShe passed a life sentence with a minimum of 28 years before he can apply for parole.\n\nThe judge said she would have set the minimum term at 30 years if it had not been for his guilty plea.\n\nIt is the second time Wallace has killed a woman.\n\nHe was just 15 when he was found guilty of culpable homicide in 1992.\n\nPart of Ms Reilly's body was found in a garden in Ardshiel Road\n\nWallace was arrested for Ms Reilly's murder after the discovery of two leg bones close to her home.\n\nNo other body parts have been found and her sister, Lynne Bryce, has appealed to Wallace to reveal the location of her remains.\n\n\"I hope that if he has a heart he could now please tell us where he has put my sister and let her come home to be put to rest properly, with the dignity she deserves,\" Ms Bryce said.\n\nMs Reilly's sister and other members of her family were in court to hear the details of the murder as Wallace was sentenced.\n\nParts of Julie's body were found buried in a nearby garden\n\nThe High Court in Glasgow was told that Ms Reilly had a brain injury which caused problems with her memory, slowed her reactions and affected her speech.\n\nShe was befriended by Wallace, and had allowed him to stay with her at her home in Shieldhall Road after he had split up with his girlfriend in December 2017.\n\nShe thought he would help to care for her, but the court heard that he saw her as being \"easy to manipulate and rip off\".\n\nAfter she went missing, a forensic team examined a piece of land close to where Ms Reilly lived\n\nThe last recorded sighting of Ms Reilly was on 6 February last year.\n\nThe following day Wallace told a friend he needed \"to get rid of a body\".\n\nHe also sent texts claiming that Ms Reilly had moved to the Penilee area of Glasgow.\n\nIn the following days he was seen at the homes of two friends with heavy suitcases.\n\nHe told one friend he had hit a deer while out driving and wanted to sell the meat.\n\nHe told another friend he had been thrown out by Ms Reilly and the suitcase contained his dirty washing.\n\nProsecutor Richard Goddard told the court that the cases actually contained human remains.\n\nMs Reilly was reported missing by worried relatives on 15 February last year after failing to turn up to several appointments.\n\nShe also missed her grandson's first birthday.\n\nHer mother Margaret Hanlon and sister Ms Bryce made an emotional appeal for her return.\n\nWhen police examined Mr Reilly's flat as part of the missing person's investigation, they found traces of blood in the hall, kitchen, bedrooms and living room.\n\nOn 19 April a member of the public found a bone with flesh attached in his front garden in Ardshiel Road.\n\nDays later another person contacted the police about an apparent burial site at Drumoyne Drive.\n\nMr Goddard added: \"The precise circumstances of the murder are not known. To-date neither the suitcases seen in possession of the accused, nor the rest of the body of Julie Reilly, has been recovered.\"\n\nWallace's defence lawyer Ian Duguid told the court the killing had come after an argument.\n\n\"Julie Reilly had taken a knife and presented it at him,\" he said.\n\n\"He took that from her and stabbed her in the chest. This is his explanation as to how she met her death.\n\n\"A shocking crime exacerbated by what followed it. Going to such lengths was either desperation or a reflection on his thought process.\"", "It is believed the woman was found dead in her room at the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst\n\nA 21-year-old officer cadet has been found dead in an apparent suicide at the Army's officer training college.\n\nThe woman's body was believed to have been found in her room at the Sandhurst base, in Berkshire, on Wednesday.\n\nA Ministry of Defence spokesman confirmed an \"incident\" occurred which resulted in the \"death of an officer cadet\" at the Royal Military Academy.\n\nThames Valley Police said it was treating the death as unexplained but non-suspicious.\n\nA spokesman for the force added officers were called at 15:00 GMT on Wednesday and the woman's family had been informed.\n\nHe added a file on the death was being prepared for a coroner.\n\nIt is believed the woman had been involved in a minor disciplinary incident, which was being investigated.\n\nThe Army had also provided her with mental health support following an event earlier in her training.\n\nThe cadet was in her last term at the base after joining in May.\n\nThe Royal Military Academy has trained the leaders of the Army - and other countries' armies - since 1812.\n\nBoth the Duke of Cambridge and Duke of Sussex graduated at Sandhurst, where all Army officers are trained.\n\nTraining lasts for 44 weeks and the first five weeks are renowned for being one of the toughest experiences most people will ever go through.\n\nThe Army website describes the college as \"one of the world's toughest and most revered military training academies\" and its motto is \"Serve to Lead\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Liverpool\n\nIn their yearly financial results, the Reds made an annual pre-tax profit of £125m - up from £40m - as turnover increased in the 12 months to May 2018 by £90m to £455m, also a record.\n\nLiverpool were boosted financially by a run to the Champions League final last season, which earned an estimated £72m.\n\nThey were also helped by midfielder Philippe Coutinho's £142m transfer to Barcelona in January 2018.\n\nLeicester City had held the record for net (post-tax) profit of £80m in 2016-17 (£92m pre-tax) after reaching the quarter-finals of the Champions League in 2017.\n\nHaving topped the Premier League table for much of the season, Liverpool are vying with defending champions Manchester City for a first English top-flight title for 29 years, and that success has been mirrored off the pitch too.\n\nMedia revenue has increased by £66m to £220m, commercial revenue by £17m to £154m and match revenue by £7m to £81m.\n\nIn revenue terms, Liverpool will leapfrog Arsenal into third place in the Premier League, behind Manchester United and Manchester City.\n\nIn total, £137m came into the club from player transfers. Liverpool say all of that has been reinvested back into the squad, taking outgoings on new players to more than £190m.\n\nAndy Hughes, the club's chief operating officer, said: \"What we have seen is a stable and sustained improvement in the club's financial position over recent years.\n\n\"This growth and increase in revenue has enabled us to significantly reinvest both in the playing squad and the football operational infrastructure.\n\n\"Financial results do fluctuate depending on player trading costs and timing of payments, but what's clear in these latest results is the further strengthening of our underlying financial footing and profits being reinvested in the squad and infrastructure.\"\n\nThe club also say their social media platforms had a 14% growth rate, taking the total to over 60 million followers across digital channels, and that in May 2018 they had the highest viewing figures ever for a Premier League club, and third of any sports club globally.\n\nIn January, Liverpool climbed two places to seventh in the latest edition of the Deloitte Football Money League.", "Last updated on .From the section Cardiff\n\nFrench club Nantes have demanded payment from Cardiff City over the £15m transfer of Emiliano Sala, BBC Wales has learned.\n\nArgentine striker Sala, along with pilot David Ibbotson, was on board the Piper Malibu N264DB which lost radar contact near Guernsey on 21 January.\n\nSala, 28, was Cardiff's record signing but never played for the club.\n\nCardiff have withheld the first scheduled payment until they are satisfied with the documentation.\n\nThe transfer fee is due to be paid in instalments over three years.\n\nIn a later interview with French newspaper L'Equipe , Cardiff chairman Mehmet Dalman indicated that Nantes had sent an invoice for the first instalment, worth 6m euros (£5.27m).\n\nIn the same interview Dalman added: \"We must show respect to the family. There is the process of recovering the plane.\"\n\nOn Thursday night the Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) said a body had been recovered from the wreckage.\n\nCardiff had earlier expressed \"surprise\" that Nantes made the demand while the recovery attempts were under way.\n\nIt is understood Nantes are threatening legal action if they do not receive a payment within 10 days. The BBC has attempted to speak to Nantes for comment.\n\nA source at Cardiff says they will honour the contract but not until they have clarified \"all the facts\".\n\nIt is unclear whether or not the club have insurance covering the cost of the transfer.\n\nFrench club Bordeaux are also entitled to a cut of the fee, thought to be 50% - Sala was on their books from 2012 to 2015 before joining Nantes.\n\nThe plane carrying Sala and Ibbotson, from Crowle, Lincolnshire, disappeared en route to Cardiff after the footballer returned to Nantes to say goodbye to his former team-mates.", "Lewis said the ulcer had made eating, speaking and sleeping difficult\n\nMoney saving expert Martin Lewis had said he has had to pull out of his TV appearances because of a throat ulcer.\n\nWriting on Facebook on Thursday, he said \"eating and speaking\" had become \"truly agonising\".\n\nLewis was meant to appear on ITV's Good Morning Britain but said the thought of leaving the house had left him \"literally shaking with nerves\".\n\nIn a later update, the 46-year-old said he had managed some filming with the help of an anaesthetic spray.\n\nThis Facebook post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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Facebook content may contain adverts.\n\nThe presenter usually has segments on Good Morning Britain, This Morning and his own ITV and BBC Radio 5 Live consumer shows.\n\nHe has been posting about his ill health since Monday, saying it was the \"first time in years\" he had had to call in sick.\n\nLewis said there was no cure for the ulcer and that he would have to wait it out until he started to feel better.\n\nIt has been a stressful few weeks for the consumer finance journalist, who revealed in late January he was dropping a legal action against Facebook.\n\nHe originally sued the social media network over ads running on its platform that falsely claimed he had put his name to a number of investment schemes.\n\nLewis dropped the case after Facebook agreed to introduce a scam ads reporting button and promise to give £3m to Citizens Advice.\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.", "The MP who infuriated campaigners by objecting to a ban on upskirting has been heavily criticised after blocking another private members' bill.\n\nSir Christopher Chope shouted \"object\" in a debate on laws protecting children from female genital mutilation.\n\nHis Conservative colleague, Zac Goldsmith, said his actions were \"appalling\" - Lib Dem Tom Brake said the MP had \"reached a new low\".\n\nSir Christopher has argued his aim is to stop badly thought-out legislation.\n\nHe said he had not been objecting to the substance of the issue, but wanted to see all legislation properly debated.\n\nFriday's Commons debate, brought by crossbench peer Lord Berkley of Knighton, would have allowed the courts to make interim care orders under the Children Act, in cases where children are believed to be at risk of FGM. The bill had already cleared the House of Lords.\n\nBut Parliamentary rules mean it only requires one MP to shout \"object\" to a private member's bill which is listed for a second reading but not debated to block its progress.\n\nMr Chope has a track record of objecting to them, arguing that he does it on a point of principle, because he does not agree with legislation being brought before Parliament on a Friday without enough time for a full debate.\n\nLast year he sparked fury when he objected to another bill to make \"upskirting\" a criminal offence in England and Wales - that became law last month, after the bill got government backing.\n\nBut his fellow Conservative Mr Goldsmith, who co-sponsored the bill, tweeted \"please note that once again he did not object to those put forward by his friends\".\n\nAmong others criticising his actions on Twitter, were the Labour MP David Lammy, who suggested Mr Chope \"embodies a brand of thoughtless, regressive conservatism which can ruin lives\" while anti-FGM campaigner Nimco Ali said she had \"nothing but disgust\" for Mr Chope.\n\nHome Secretary Sajid Javid said on Twitter he was \"very disappointed\" that the bill had been blocked adding: \"FGM is child abuse. I am determined to stamp out this despicable and medieval practice. We will do all we can to protect girls at risk.\"\n\nThe BBC's Parliamentary correspondent Mark D'Arcy said, with a lot of private members' bills in the queue for consideration in Parliament, this one was unlikely to become law unless the government got behind it or decided to attach it to another piece of legislation.", "President Nicolas Maduro promised Venezuelans free medical treatment for all - but hospitals are now only able to offer a bed and little else.\n\nHospital staff and families of patients say the health service has crumbled, neglected by the government over the last five years.\n\nNow there is barely running water, let alone enough medicines, as the BBC's Orla Guerin reports.", "Finney was a well-respected staple of both stage and screen\n\nHe was a five-time Oscar nominee who began his career at the Royal Shakespeare Company before making his mark in film.\n\nHis big film break came as \"angry young man\" Arthur Seaton in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning.\n\nHe went on to star in Tom Jones, as Hercule Poirot in Murder on the Orient Express, Erin Brockovich and Skyfall.\n\nA statement from a family spokesman said: \"Albert Finney, aged 82, passed away peacefully after a short illness with those closest to him by his side.\n\n\"The family request privacy at this sad time.\"\n\nFinney's other memorable roles include Winston Churchill in The Gathering Storm, for which he won a Golden Globe and a Bafta.\n\nHe also played the title role in Scrooge, billionaire Daddy Warbucks in Annie, Ed Bloom Senior in Tim Burton's Big Fish and the mobster Leo O'Bannon in Miller's Crossing.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFinney was nominated four times for a best actor Oscar and once in the best supporting actor category.\n\nHe got back-to-back nominations in 1984 and 1985 for The Dresser and Under the Volcano but never attended the ceremony itself, calling it \"a waste of time\".\n\nHe was the recipient of two Bafta Awards from 13 nominations and received a British Academy Fellowship in 2001.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (Rada) graduate continued working on the stage despite his film success, earning Tony nominations on Broadway for Luther and A Day in the Death of Joe Egg.\n\nHe won an Olivier Award for Orphans and was part of the original three-man cast of Art.\n\nHis last film role came in 2012 James Bond film Skyfall, in which he played the irascible gamekeeper Kincaid.\n\nA life-long fan of Manchester United, he declined a CBE in 1980 and a knighthood in 2000.\n\n\"I think the Sir thing slightly perpetuates one of our diseases in England, which is snobbery,\" he said at the time.\n\nHe was also reluctant to discuss his craft. \"My job is acting, and that is why I hate interviews or lectures, explaining myself to an audience,\" he once said.\n\nFinney's achievements at the Old Vic theatre were recognised last year on a special commemorative stamp.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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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\nFinney was married three times and had one child with his first wife, the actress Jane Wenham.\n\nHe was diagnosed with kidney cancer in 2007, after which he largely disappeared from public view.\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.", "Motions of no confidence in Labour MP Luciana Berger have been withdrawn by her local party after a bitter row.\n\nThe Liverpool Wavertree MP has been a critic of leader Jeremy Corbyn's stances on anti-Semitism and Brexit.\n\nActivists had accused the Jewish MP of \"undermining\" Mr Corbyn but several Labour MPs supported her, calling it a \"disgraceful episode\" and \"bullying\".\n\nA source close to the Labour leadership said pulling the confidence vote was the right decision.\n\nBut Labour MP for Liverpool Riverside Louise Ellman, who is also Jewish, called it \"an absolutely disgraceful episode\" and said it was \"very clear the attacks\" on Ms Berger had been down to anti-Semitism.\n\nShadow chancellor John McDonnell had earlier sparked a backlash from supporters of the MP by suggesting she should have pledged loyalty to Labour and saying she had been linked to an alleged Labour \"breakaway\" party.\n\nIn a statement after the motions were first put forward, Ms Berger said she would fight anti-Semitism wherever she found it, including in Labour, where it was being \"ignored\".\n\nLabour's deputy leader Tom Watson wrote to the party's general secretary Jennie Formby, calling for the Liverpool Wavertree Constituency Labour Party (CLP) to be suspended.\n\nHe wrote: \"It is clear to me that Luciana Berger is being bullied. This behaviour by her local party is intolerable.\"\n\nAn email has now been sent to Liverpool Wavertree Constituency Labour Party members, telling them that the meeting planned for next Sunday has been cancelled.\n\n\"This is because the two motions to be discussed have both been withdrawn by the members who proposed them,\" it said.\n\nVotes of no confidence carry no official force within the Labour Party, but local activists could hold a \"trigger ballot\", where sitting Labour MPs can be forced to compete for selection as a candidate against all-comers, ahead of the next general election.\n\nJohn McDonnell suggested Ms Berger should pledge her loyalty to the Labour Party\n\nMs Berger has been the target of online abuse and had a police escort at last year's Labour Party conference following death threats.\n\nEarlier this week, she joined other MPs at a meeting of the Parliamentary Labour Party calling for details on the party's efforts to tackle anti-Semitism to be released.\n\nMs Berger reiterated her \"long-held view that Brexit will be a disaster for the people of Liverpool Wavertree and the wider country\", and said that, as a Jewish woman representing a city with a Jewish community, she was \"deeply disturbed by the lack of response from Jeremy Corbyn... to the anti-Semitism that stains our party\", claiming it was being \"wilfully ignored.\"\n\nFormer Labour leader Ed Miliband and prominent backbencher Yvette Cooper were among a number of her colleagues to express their support for Ms Berger after the news of a no-confidence vote broke on Tuesday night.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMs Ellman, accused Mr McDonnell of thinking he and the party \"would get away with this\", and said Labour had been \"shamed\" into reversing the motions.\n\nShe told Radio 4's PM programme that it was \"too easy [for Labour] to turn a blind eye\" to anti-Semitism and said dropping the motions was \"not the end of the matter\".\n\n\"Anti-Semitism is alive in the party [and] insufficient steps had been taken to [tackle it],\" she added.\n\nFormer shadow chancellor Chris Leslie said Mr McDonnell \"should never have allowed his allies to have gone after Luciana like that in the first place\".\n\nLiverpool Mayor Labour's Joe Anderton also welcomed the decision to pull the votes.\n\nHe told Radio 4's PM programme that there should be \"robust debate and discussion\" at local Labour Party meetings instead of motions of no confidence, and that he was \"really frustrated and angry\" at how the members had acted.", "Theresa May will travel to Dublin later to discuss the Brexit negotiations' main sticking point with her Irish counterpart Leo Varadkar.\n\nThe PM is seeking legally binding changes to the backstop - the plan to avoid the return of Irish border checks should no UK-EU trade deal be in place.\n\nBoth Mr Varadkar and the EU have repeatedly rejected calls for changes.\n\nShadow Chancellor John McDonnell told the BBC he believed there was now a Commons majority for Labour's plan.\n\nThe party is seeking a permanent UK-wide customs union with the European Union after Brexit, which would allow the UK \"a say\" in future trade deals.\n\n\"The prime minister has to accept that the only way she will get something through Parliament is a compromise like this,\" he said.\n\n\"We believe that this is a deal that could fly within Parliament.\"\n\nMeanwhile, a former civil service chief has called for delays to the withdrawal process to avoid a \"blindfold Brexit\".\n\nIn a report published by the People's Vote campaign for a further EU referendum, Lord Kerslake said the UK was not ready to leave.\n\n\"Britain is divided, directionless and hurtling towards a legal deadline, with no idea where we will end up after we cross it,\" said the peer, who is now a Labour adviser.\n\nThe UK is due to leave the EU on 29 March.\n\nHowever, Mrs May is still attempting to negotiate changes to the withdrawal agreement she struck with the EU last year but which has since been rejected by MPs.\n\nAfter meeting EU leaders in Brussels on Thursday, she said she had \"set out very clearly the position from Parliament that we must have legally binding changes to the withdrawal agreement\" to deal with MPs' concerns about the backstop.\n\nThe backstop is an \"insurance policy\" designed to avoid the return of customs checkpoints at the Irish border after Brexit, which many fear could threaten the peace process.\n\nBut many MPs object to the arrangement, which they say could leave the UK \"trapped\" under EU rules indefinitely.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Theresa May: \"I am clear that I am going to deliver Brexit, deliver it on time.\"\n\nMr Varadkar will travel to Belfast for talks with Northern Ireland's five main political parties before returning to Dublin to meet Mrs May over dinner.\n\nBBC Ireland correspondent Chris Page said: \"Ireland has consistently said it won't negotiate directly with Britain because this can be done only by the EU, so it's describing the meeting today as discussions, not negotiations.\"\n\nAhead of the meeting, Attorney General Geoffrey Cox will hold talks in the Irish capital with his Irish counterpart, Seamus Woulfe.\n\nMr Cox has been leading work within Whitehall on providing either a time limit on the backstop or giving the UK an exit mechanism from it.\n\nDublin has insisted the backstop cannot be time-limited if it is to prove effective.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMeanwhile, Downing Street has said ministers are looking \"with interest\" at a letter from Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn setting out the terms on which he would offer his party's backing for Mrs May's deal.\n\nA senior No 10 source said the government was \"looking at those proposals but there are obviously very considerable points of difference that exist between us.\n\n\"The PM continues to believe an independent trade policy is one of the key advantages of Brexit.\"\n\nThe Labour leader's five demands include a \"permanent and comprehensive UK-wide customs union\" aligned with the EU's customs rules but with an agreement \"that includes a UK say on future EU trade deals\".\n\nCabinet Office Minister David Lidington has described the latter point as \"wishful thinking\" but said he would meet Labour's Brexit spokesman Sir Keir Starmer.\n\nAnd while Mr Corbyn's Brexit stance has angered Labour members of the People's Vote campaign, other backbenchers said it opened the possibility of a closer relationship with the EU than Mrs May was currently proposing.\n\nWrexham MP Ian Lucas told BBC Newsnight this would be favoured by British manufacturers.\n\n\"There's a natural majority in the House of Commons for a 'soft' Brexit but the prime minister to date has refused to put that natural majority together. What Jeremy has done today is write a letter which could make that happen,\" he said.\n• None Kuenssberg: 'More talks' but no big change\n• None New ideas for the 'backstop'", "Jaguar Land Rover booked a loss for the last three months of 2018 as sales collapsed in China.\n\nThe company booked a £3.1bn reduction in the value of its plants and other investments leading to a £3.4bn quarterly loss, its biggest to date.\n\nCarmakers are being hit by stronger regulations and demand for cleaner models.\n\nSales for the quarter were £6.2bn, down from £6.3bn a year earlier. It sold 144,602 vehicles, down from 154,447.\n\nJaguar chief executive Ralf Speth said: \"Jaguar Land Rover reported strong third-quarter sales in the UK and North America, but our overall performance continued to be impacted by challenging market conditions in China.\"\n\nExcluding the write-down, which affects its balance sheet but has no effect on cash, the company posted a loss of £273m.\n\nMuch of the firm's model range is currently diesel-powered, while diesel sales in Europe have been falling.\n\nJaguar Land Rover, which is owned by India's Tata Motors, has embarked on a major restructuring programme to prepare for the future and boost profitability.\n\nIt has already announced plans to cut thousands of jobs.\n\nIt has now accepted that the value of its existing investments - such as factories, equipment and model designs - is substantially lower than previously thought, said BBC business correspondent Theo Leggett.", "Last updated on .From the section Olympics\n\nAll the medals at the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo will be made from recycled electronic waste, say organisers.\n\nA project was started in 2017 to collect enough electronic waste, including old smartphones and laptops, to implement the scheme.\n\nThe aim was to collect 30.3kg of gold, 4,100kg of silver and 2,700kg of bronze.\n\nOrganisers say they are on course to reach those targets in March.\n• None How much gold can we get from mobile phones?\n\nThe target for bronze was met last June, while the organisers had more than 90% of the gold and 85% of the silver by October.\n\nTokyo 2020 will release the designs of its medals later this year.\n\nThe recycled metal has been collected from the Japanese public as well as businesses and industry.\n\nBy November 2018, 47,488 tonnes of discarded devices had been collected, with the public handing in another five million used phones to a local network provider.\n\n\"It is estimated that the remaining amounts of metal required to manufacture all Olympic and Paralympic medals can be extracted from the devices already donated,\" Tokyo 2020 organisers said in a statement.\n\nAt the 2016 Olympics in Rio, about 30% of the silver and bronze in medals came from recycled materials.", "A million more young adults in the UK are living with their parents than were two decades ago, research suggests.\n\nA quarter of 20 to 34-year-olds do so, the study, by think tank Civitas, says.\n\nSince 1998, this has risen by 41% in London, where housing is most expensive, but by much less in cheaper areas like north-east England (14%) and Yorkshire and the Humber (17%).\n\nAnd for 23-year-olds across the UK, the proportion living with parents has risen from 37% in 1998 to 49% in 2017.\n\nCivitas editorial director Daniel Bentley said: \"As owner-occupation and social housing have each become more difficult to enter, hundreds of thousands of young adults have taken one look at the high rents in the private rented sector and decided to stay with their parents a bit longer instead.\"\n\nHe added that it was essential the government took this into account when forecasting future housing need.\n\nShe and her partner have been trying to save up to buy a house but she told BBC 5Live: \"It just seems to be impossible\".\n\n\"We're hopefully looking [to buy] around this time next year… it just seems to be getting put back and put back.\n\n\"It is frustrating because we don't want to be at home well into our thirties because it's not fair on our parents, and equally we want to start our lives together.\"\n\nShe says her mum and dad have never asked for any board, but that she gives \"something every month anyway\" as she feels it is the right thing to do.\n\n\"They're very good, they never hint at 'when you are you going to move out?\"', she says.\n\nAidan, 23, from Durham, is another primary school teacher who moved back home after university.\n\nHe says: \"I could afford to live in my own house but I love it.\n\n\"It means I can save over half my wage for a house deposit and I get to spend time with my family after my mum died whilst I was at university.\"\n\nThe study also suggests youngsters who do move out are much less likely to live on their own than they were in the late 1990s.\n\nSingle-person households have dropped to 30% in recent years, it says.\n\nThis is in stark contrast to most of northern and western Europe, the report says, where single living has been increasing rapidly.\n\nIn France and the Netherlands, 35% of households are single-person. And this rises to more than 40% in Germany and Denmark.\n\nA spokesman for the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government said: \"For the last 30 years, governments of all stripes and types have failed to build enough homes, but we're turning that ship around.\n\n\"We still need to deliver more, better, faster, but more than 222,000 homes were delivered in 2017-18, the highest level in all but one of the last 31 years.\n\n\"We've also set out an ambitious package of measures to help build 300,000 properties a year by the mid-2020s.\n\n\"This includes over £44bn investment, rewriting the planning rules and giving local authorities the power to build a new generation of council houses.\n\n\"We are also supporting investment in build-to-rent homes to improve supply and affordability in the private rented sector.\"\n• None Living with mum and dad at 30", "(L-R) Keegan, Tilly Rose, Olly and Riley, seen here in a photo taken from social media, died in the blaze in the early hours of Tuesday\n\nHundreds of people have taken part in a candlelit vigil following the deaths of four children in a house fire.\n\nRiley Holt, eight, Keegan Unitt, six, Tilly Rose Unitt, four, and Olly Unitt, three, died in the blaze in Highfields, Stafford, on Tuesday.\n\nMore than £28,000 has been raised on a JustGiving page for the family and community centres say they have been \"inundated\" with donations.\n\nThe cause of the fire is unknown and investigations are continuing.\n\nThe children's mother and her partner leapt from a first-floor window with the siblings' two-year-old brother.\n\nNatalie Unitt, 24, Chris Moulton, 28, and two-year-old Jack did not sustain life-threatening injuries.\n\nPeople laid flowers and teddies near the scene of the blaze\n\nPeople met at the Oxleathers pub for the vigil and left at 20:30 GMT on Thursday to walk near to the house with balloons and teddy bears.\n\nPastor Chrissie Remsberg told the BBC: \"In the midst of what is really, really dark, there aren't words to offer, but I think people and the community came out because they love and they care about the family.\n\nLandlady Debbie Howe said she hoped the vigil would \"bring people together\"\n\nOrganiser of the vigil and landlady Debbie Howe said: \"I'm hoping it brings people together, hopefully people can reach out to each other tonight, people can hopefully have a chat, I think that's what they need.\"\n\nStephen Glover, who launched the online appeal, said it had been a \"fantastic community response\".\n\n\"Everybody in the whole district has rallied together,\" he said.\n\n\"All the schools on Friday are doing a non-uniform day where they're raising money for the family.\n\n\"We've been inundated with furniture and clothes.\"\n\nMr Glover added he \"can't comprehend the pain and suffering\" the family was going through.\n\nHundreds of people attended the vigil on Thursday\n\nStaffordshire Fire and Rescue Service's deputy chief fire officer Rob Barber said his team had found the fire and its aftermath \"challenging\".\n\n\"Our work investigating the cause of the fire continues and we will make that public as soon as we are able,\" he said.", "Darren Pencille denies murder and possession of an offensive weapon\n\nA man has denied murdering a passenger who was repeatedly stabbed on a train.\n\nDarren Pencille, 36, of no fixed abode, appeared at the Old Bailey over the death of Lee Pomeroy, on a Guildford to London service.\n\nMr Pomeroy suffered nine stab wounds when he was attacked on 4 January, the day before his 52nd birthday, near Horsley in Surrey.\n\nSurrey Police have said post-mortem tests found he died from multiple stab wounds including an injury to his neck.\n\nMr Pencille also denied a charge of possession of an offensive weapon.\n\nChelsea Mitchell, 27, of Willbury Road, Farnham, has denied assisting an offender by helping Mr Pencille to leave the scene and change his appearance.\n\nA trial date for Mr Pencille has been set for 24 June.\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. Molly Russell's father told the BBC he believed Instagram had 'helped kill my daughter'\n\nHarmful suicide and self-harm content online \"has the effect of grooming people to take their own lives\", the suicide prevention minister has said.\n\nJackie Doyle-Price has told the BBC that social media companies must \"step up\" to protect vulnerable users.\n\nIt comes after links were made between the suicide of teenager Molly Russell and her exposure to harmful content.\n\nThe government is to roll out new laws to remove illegal content and protect vulnerable people later this year.\n\nDigital Minister Margot James promised to crack down on many of the social media platforms that have \"fallen short\" in their response to online bullying, abuse and misinformation.\n\nIn a speech at a conference for Safer Internet Day, Ms James said: \"We will soon be publishing an Online Harms White Paper which will set out clear expectations for companies to help keep their users, particularly children, safe online.\n\n\"We will introduce laws that force social media platforms to remove illegal content, and to prioritise the protection of users beyond their commercial interests.\"\n\nMeanwhile Ms Doyle-Price was due to meet Facebook on Tuesday to discuss what action it is taking.\n\nShe told BBC Breakfast: \"We want social media not really to be doing this through the stick of the law, we want them to do it to look after their users.\"\n\nShe said she hoped senior staff at Facebook, which also owns Instagram, would act - ideally using algorithms to protect people rather than \"bombard\" them with advertising.\n\nMs Doyle-Price said: \"Sometimes they do [act], but more often they don't\".\n\nAddressing the National Suicide Prevention Alliance Conference on Tuesday, she said: \"If companies cannot behave responsibly and protect their users, we will legislate.\n\n\"They shouldn't wait for government to tell them what to do. It says a lot about the values of companies if they do not take action voluntarily.\"\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, she said: \"We could use fines, we could make social media companies much more responsible and apply the full force of the law to them if we feel they are being negligent in their duty of care to their users.\"\n\nThe Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) and the Home Office are due to publish a white paper on the government's approach to online safety later this year.\n\nA family photo of Molly, taken in 2009\n\nMs Doyle-Price said the father of Molly Russell, who took her own life in 2017 aged 14, had done much to highlight the issue.\n\n\"I am full of admiration for Molly's father for being so brave and frank,\" she said.\n\nMolly's father, Ian Russell, told the BBC he believed Instagram had \"helped kill my daughter\".\n\nWhen her family looked at her Instagram account after her death, they found distressing material about depression and suicide.\n\nMs Doyle-Price said that after Mr Russell spoke out, \"so many other parents have spoken out...it has really focused people's minds\".\n\nShe added: \"The really shocking thing is that he had absolutely no idea that his daughter was looking at these things online.\"\n\nThe boss of Instagram, Adam Mosseri, is due to meet the health secretary this week over the platform's handling of content promoting self-harm and suicide.\n\nWriting in the Daily Telegraph, he said Molly's case had left him \"deeply moved\" and he accepted the site had work to do.\n\nHe wrote: \"We rely heavily on our community to report this content, and remove it as soon as it's found.\n\n\"The bottom line is we do not yet find enough of these images before they're seen by other people.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Libby used to post images of her self-harm injuries on Instagram\n\nIn a separate case, Libby, 16, and her father Ian have shared their story after hearing of Molly's death.\n\nAt the age of 12, Libby, became \"hooked\" on posting and viewing self-harm images on Instagram - including pictures of cutting, burning and overdosing.\n\nHer father said his family reported such images to Instagram, but the social media company did nothing.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, Libby described how she was drawn in to an online community and recalled sharing pictures of her fresh cuts with 8,000 followers.\n\nRead more of her story here.\n\nIf you've been affected by self-harm, eating disorders or emotional distress, help and support is available via the BBC Action Line.", "Brighthouse is shutting 30 of its shops at a cost of 350 jobs amid tough conditions on the High Street and a clampdown on rent-to-own retailers.\n\nThe company is closing about 10% of its estate which will take place over the next two months.\n\nBrighthouse, which employs about 3,000 people, said it had informed staff.\n\nA spokesman said: \"We are working to redeploy as many people as possible into alternative roles but redundancies will be inevitable.\"\n\nIn its most recent results for the six months to 29 September, Brighthouse reported a rise in pre-tax losses to £22.1m from £19.9m in the comparable period.\n\nMeanwhile, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) last year announced plans to cap the amount of interest that rent-to-own retailers charge customers.\n\nRent-to-own customers make monthly payments on a product such as a cooker or a television until they have paid in full.\n\nHowever, the price of the household appliance can soon mount up because of interest rates that can reach 99% a year.\n\nThe FCA has ruled that from April, the maximum interest paid will be no more than the cost of the product itself. So, if a fridge costs £200, customers will pay no more than £400.\n\nThe price of the goods themselves will also be cut to no more than the median - the middle price - of three mainstream retailers.\n\nCommenting on the closures, a spokesman for Brighthouse said: \"We will be speaking to all customers affected by the store closures and either transferring them to another local store or serving them online.\n\n\"We're also introducing PayPoint, allowing customers to pay BrightHouse in cash at 28,000 locations across the UK.\"", "The Brazilian leader posted a video of himself in hospital before his operation last week\n\nBrazil's President Jair Bolsonaro is in semi-intensive care following surgery last week to reverse a colostomy performed after he was stabbed on the campaign trail last year.\n\nDoctors had drained an accumulation of liquid in the area where the colostomy bag was removed, his spokesman said.\n\nMr Bolsonaro has no fever or pain but will now not leave hospital before Monday of next week, he added.\n\nMr Bolsonaro took office as the country's new president on 1 January.\n\nHe has been given antibiotics, and he is continuing to perform breathing and muscle-strengthening exercises in his bedroom, his doctors said in a medical report posted online.\n\nThe 63-year-old president checked into São Paulo's Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein on 27 January in preparation for surgery.\n\nHe had been expected to make a full recovery, and to leave hospital after 10 days.\n\nEarlier on Monday, Mr Bolsonaro posted a video of himself doing physiotherapy exercises in bed.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA colostomy bag is a small pouch used to collect waste from the body when the digestive system is no longer functioning a result of an illness, injury or other problem.", "Two University of Warwick students, who were involved in an online group chat that threatened rape, will not be returning, despite a ban on their attendance being lifted.\n\nThe pair were barred from the campus for 10 years, but this was reduced to 12 months after they appealed.\n\nOne of the women targeted had said she felt \"terrified at the prospect of having these boys in my seminars\".\n\nWarwick now says the men have confirmed they will not return in September.\n\nLast week, students reacted angrily to the news that their bans had been cut, using the hashtag #ShameOnYouWarwick on Twitter.\n\nIn an update published on the university's website on Monday afternoon, Vice Chancellor Stuart Croft said: \"We are committed to ensuring the safety of our community.\n\n\"I have today spoken to the two young men concerned and confirm that neither of them will be returning to the university.\n\n\"I am continuing to listen to the views of students, staff and all members of our community here at Warwick and support them so that we can learn from this experience.\"\n\nThe update came as one Warwick professor told student newspaper The Boar it would be \"completely untenable\" for them to resume their studies.\n\nResponding to the news of the men not returning, one of the women targeted in the Facebook group chat said: \"We still do not know how the men's leaving came about.\n\n\"It could simply be that they have decided not to come back amidst public outcry.\"\n\nTheir decision to stay away is \"not a victory for the university,\" she continued, adding: \"A victory will be a complete re-examination of the disciplinary processes which allowed this failure to happen.\"\n\nThe chat was first reported last summer by The Boar.\n\nSeveral of those involved encouraged others to rape specific students, while one of the messages said: \"Sometimes it's fun to just go wild and rape 100 girls.\"\n\nAnother said: \"Rape the whole flat to teach them all [a] lesson.\"\n\nAt one point, a user wrote: \"Rape her in the street while everybody watches,\" with another responding it \"wouldn't even be unfair\".\n\nStudent newspapers obtained the screenshots after complaints were made to the university\n\nAfter a disciplinary investigation by the university, five students were suspended.\n\nTwo were banned for 10 years, two were excluded for one year, and one was given a lifetime campus ban.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A woman discussed in a group chat by Warwick university students says she's terrified two of them will be back\n\nIn an earlier statement, Prof Christine Ennew, a member of the executive team at Warwick, said the university was clear the behaviour was \"abhorrent and unacceptable\" and it was sorry the decision to reduce the length of the ban had \"upset so many members of our own community and beyond\".\n\nShe said privacy issues meant they were unable to comment on specific details.", "The Free John Cantlie campaign said they hoped and prayed the reports of him being alive were true\n\nA British hostage who was captured by the Islamic State group more than six years ago is thought to still be alive, the UK's security minister has said.\n\nJohn Cantlie, a photojournalist from Hampshire, was kidnapped in Syria in 2012. He escaped, but was recaptured again several months later.\n\nHe was seen in an IS video published in March 2016.\n\nBBC security correspondent Frank Gardner said the news was a surprise to Mr Cantlie's next of kin.\n\nPrevious statements by UK officials had hinted that the Briton was probably dead, and Security Minister Ben Wallace has not explained why he believes Mr Cantlie is still a captive.\n\nThere is no new evidence or intelligence to suggest he is alive, our correspondent said.\n\nIn a statement, a Home Office spokesperson said: \"We do not discuss individual kidnap cases and speculation is unhelpful.\"\n\nThe Free John Cantlie campaign said they hoped and prayed the latest reports were true.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Free John Cantlie💚 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 Cantlie is the last remaining UK hostage held by IS.\n\nHis work has appeared in newspapers including the Sunday Times, the Sun and Sunday Telegraph.\n\nHe was captured first in July 2012 but escaped with help from the Free Syrian Army.\n\nHe was then kidnapped for a second time when he returned to the country towards the end of 2012. It is believed he was with US journalist James Foley, who was later killed.\n\nIn March 2016, a video appeared online apparently showing Mr Cantlie. In the clip, said to be filmed in Mosul in northern Iraq, Mr Cantlie ridicules US attempts to destroy IS.\n\nNews reports in July 2017, published shortly after Mosul had been retaken by Iraqi forces, suggested Mr Cantlie had been killed.\n\nLater that year, in October, French magazine Paris Match quoted an IS fighter who said he had seen Mr Cantlie alive and working for IS seven or eight months ago.\n\nReports in January this year quoted a Syrian Democratic Forces official as saying Mr Cantlie may still be alive and in Hajin, in the east of the country, where the last pocket of IS forces was being contained.", "Louella Fletcher-Michie was found dead in a wooded area on the edge of the Bestival festival site\n\nA man who gave his girlfriend drugs at a music festival filmed her and branded her a \"drama queen\" as she lay dying, a court has heard.\n\nLouella Fletcher-Michie, 24, the daughter of Holby City actor John Michie, was found dead in woods on the Bestival site in Dorset in 2017.\n\nBoyfriend Ceon Broughton, 29, failed to seek help because he feared breaching a suspended jail sentence, jurors heard.\n\nWilliam Mousley QC, prosecuting at Winchester Crown Court, said the defendant had given his girlfriend the Class A drug 2CP while they attended the event in the grounds of Lulworth Castle in September 2017.\n\n\"He did not intend to cause her harm and Louella willingly took that which she was given, but it had a terrible effect,\" he said.\n\nMs Fletcher-Michie died after a \"significant period of suffering\", he said, and Mr Broughton had continued filming \"when she was disturbed, agitated, and then seriously ill\" over several hours.\n\n\"He even did so, the prosecution suggest, after she was apparently dead,\" Mr Mousley said.\n\nIn video clips shown to the court, Ms Fletcher-Michie repeatedly shouts at Mr Broughton to telephone her mother but he tells her to \"put your phone away\".\n\nCarol Fletcher-Michie eventually spoke to her daughter at 18:48 BST, growing concerned when she \"could hear her screeching\".\n\nHer parents were so worried they set off for the festival, repeatedly messaging and calling Mr Broughton, the prosecutor told the jury.\n\nSam, her brother, also contacted Mr Broughton and urged him to seek medical help.\n\nHowever, Mr Broughton replied, saying \"call back in an hour\" and referred to Louella as a \"drama queen\", jurors heard.\n\nThe court was told Mr Broughton was handed a 24-week prison sentence, suspended for one year, a month before Ms Fletcher-Michie's death.\n\n\"His failure to get her treatment which may well have saved her life was borne of selfishness and in self-preservation,\" Mr Mousley said.\n\n\"Because to have done otherwise, to have acted positively, he knew would have exposed him to the possibility of arrest and prosecution for a criminal offence punishable with imprisonment.\"\n\n\"Failure to act was a substantial cause of her death,\" he added.\n\nStephen Kamlish QC, defending, denied claims Mr Broughton acted out of selfishness, saying he tried to carry his \"loving girlfriend\" out of the woods but failed because the terrain was hilly and full of thorns and nettles.\n\nHe told jurors Ms Fletcher-Mitchie bought the drugs before Mr Broughton arrived at the festival and they could only find him guilty of gross negligence manslaughter if he had given her the drugs and she had been at an \"obvious risk of dying\".\n\nMr Kamlish said no-one had ever been known to have died from taking 2CP.\n\nHe added: \"Ceon and Louella were in love with each other and willingly chose to take drugs together. Mistakes, even serious mistakes... are nowhere near enough for a crime such as this to be guilty.\"\n\nJurors have been asked if they watch Holby City, which stars Ms Fletcher-Michie's father John Michie\n\nMr Kamlish said Mr Broughton had tried to get people to his girlfriend at an earlier stage and had tried to restrain her when she was \"thrashing about, injuring herself\".\n\nHe said: \"He couldn't actually have done any more than he did... in this difficult and frightening situation.\"\n\nHe told the court the couple liked to film each other when they were taking drugs.\n\nMr Broughton, 29, of Island Centre Way, Enfield, London, denies manslaughter and supplying Class A drugs.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Swirling mist known as \"radiation fog\" provided the perfect conditions for a haunting cinematic landscape for experienced aerial videographer James Horne.\n\nThese striking images were captured earlier this month by Mr Horne, a qualified drone pilot, at Southrepps in north Norfolk.\n\n\"The phenomenon has nothing to do with nuclear radiation, but refers to the way heat radiates from the ground during long, clear and calm winter nights, which cools the air above the ground,\" WeatherQuest forecaster Dan Holley said.\n\n\"If the cooling is sufficient, the air reaches saturation and fog begins to form.\"", "Liam Neeson has denied he is racist, after admitting he once set out to kill any black man who provoked him.\n\nThe actor has been facing a major racism storm since he made the comments in an interview, published by The Independent on Monday.\n\nHe had said he walked the streets with a weapon around 40 years ago, hoping to take out his anger after someone close to him was raped by a black man.\n\nBut speaking on ABC's Good Morning America, Neeson said: \"I'm not racist.\"\n\nNeeson added that he wanted his original comments to start a wider conversation about racism.\n\nAsked what he wanted people to learn from his experience, he told the host: \"To talk. To open up.\n\n\"We all pretend we're all politically correct in this country... in mine, too. You sometimes just scratch the surface and you discover this racism and bigotry and it's there.\"\n\nThe Hollywood star told ABC's Robin Roberts on Tuesday that around 40 years ago, one of his close female friends - who had since died - told him she had been raped.\n\nThe Love Actually actor has starred in several revenge-themed films in recent years\n\nNeeson said it made him want to take violent action.\n\nHe said: \"I had never felt this feeling before which was a primal urge to lash out, and I asked her, 'Did you know the person, was it a man?' No. 'Race?' She said it was a black man.\"\n\nThe actor said he \"went out deliberately into black areas in the city looking to be set upon so that I could unleash physical violence\".\n\nHe added: \"I did it maybe four or five times.\"\n\nThe Taken star claimed he would have acted in the same way if his friend's assailant had been white.\n\nHe told ABC: \"If she had said an Irish or a Scot or a Brit or a Lithuanian it would - I know it would - have had the same effect.\n\n\"I was trying to show honour, to stand up for my dear friend in this terribly medieval fashion.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nNeeson said of his actions: \"It shocked me and it hurt me. I did seek help.\"\n\nThe actor said he went to confession and went power walking for two hours every day, to try to work through his anger.\n\nNeeson has been subject to huge criticism since his original interview was published on Monday.\n\nIn that, he was speaking to promote his new film Cold Pursuit, a thriller about a man who seeks retribution after his son is murdered.\n\nAsked how his character turns to anger, he replied that \"something primal\" kicks in when someone close to you is a victim of violence.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Listen to Liam Neeson's comments that sparked the outrage\n\nThe Guardian's Gary Younge wrote: \"The next time someone asks me why I have a chip on my shoulder, I need no longer brush the question away with disdain.\n\n\"I can say, with all sincerity: 'Because there may well be an Oscar-nominated actor out there who wants to kill me, so I have to be alert at all times...'\n\n\"Neeson is angry and upset and decides to invest his rage in the collective punishment of a group of people based on the colour of their skin.\"\n\nBut former England footballer and anti-racism campaigner, John Barnes, defended Neeson during an interview on BBC Radio 5 Live.\n\n\"He was ashamed a week into it. He understood that he was wrong for thinking what he did.\n\n\"And we have to have this conversation.\n\n\"Because there's so many people who have this perception, a wrong perception, of black people, Chinese people, based on what they have been wrongly told about them.\n\n\"It's understandable why he thought the way he did, because it's what the world has wrongly shown him.\"\n\nHe added that Neeson \"deserved a medal\" for admitting he was wrong so soon after the event.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Playwright and author Bonnie Greer says Neeson’s race comments were a “silly, stupid thing to do”\n\nKehinde Andrews, a professor of black studies at Birmingham City University, said Neeson's comments were \"completely inappropriate and offensive\" and to make them as he promoted a film was \"distasteful\".\n\nHe told the BBC News Channel he was worried some of the reaction to the remarks \"seem to be absolving\" the actor and it \"should be about how deeply-seated these ideas still are\".\n\nPlaywright and author Bonnie Greer said Neeson had \"probably put paid to his career\".\n\nShe said: \"We are in an age where people are very sensitive and the fact that he doesn't understand what he's doing or what he's done is actually almost scarier than what he said.\"\n\nMany on social media have also had their say since the story first broke on Monday.\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 TheSafePlace 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\nFrederick Joseph, who works for better representation in the media, wrote that Neeson's story \"just shows how meaningless and inconsequential black lives are to some\".\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 Frederick Joseph This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBut some agreed with Barnes that Neeson should not be castigated for admitting such thoughts but realising they were wrong and saying he had learned from them.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Eric D. Snider 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\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Simon Mayo and Jo Whiley in a publicity shot for their short-lived show\n\nBroadcaster Simon Mayo has spoken out about his decision to leave BBC Radio 2, saying it followed \"an awkward, stressful few months\".\n\nMayo hosted the Drivetime slot on the station for eight years, before his departure last October.\n\nSpeaking to the Radio Times, Mayo claimed BBC bosses didn't consider the impact of introducing Jo Whiley as co-host.\n\nRadio 2 said they would not be commenting on Mayo's latest statements.\n\nMayo will lead the line-up on a new classical music station\n\nWhiley's addition to Drivetime came after Radio 2 was criticised for its lack of female presenters.\n\nMayo said: \"There was genuine pressure from the top about improving the number of women in daytime\".\n\nThe presenter added he was not told about the change in a face-to-face meeting with managers.\n\nInstead, he found out about the decision to introduce a female co-presenter in a phone call with his agent.\n\nMayo then insisted his co-host should be Whiley, as the pair had been friends for years and had even gone on a family holiday together.\n\nHe claimed managers never gave him a sense that the decision would be reversed if it didn't work, adding: \"They'd invested too much political capital in the change.\"\n\nThe resulting show met with a huge backlash from listeners and ended after just a few months on air, when Mayo announced his departure from Radio 2.\n\nMayo said he didn't see himself, or Whiley, as a victim, saying: \"I think victim's the wrong word. Jo and I worked very hard to make that show as good as it could be.\"\n\nHis exit came a few weeks after Chris Evans announced he was quitting the station's breakfast show.\n\nChris Evans returned to the Virgin Radio breakfast show in January\n\nMayo revealed Evans offered him a job at Virgin Radio at the time, saying: \"He rang me and said, 'Do you want to work here?' I said, 'I'm already spoken for.\"\n\nMayo will soon be heard in a new show on digital classical music station Scala, which begins on 4 March.\n\nHe continues to present a film review show with Mark Kermode on BBC Radio 5 Live.\n\nSara Cox is the new host of Drivetime on Radio 2\n\nSara Cox now presents BBC Radio 2's Drivetime show and Zoe Ball has become the station's first female Breakfast show host.\n\nThe changes at Radio 2 have created a more gender balanced presenting line-up. Of the new schedule, Mayo said: \"It's not the way I'd have designed it.\"\n\nBut he added: \"The overwhelming gratitude I have after 36 years eclipses the difficulties of the last months.\"\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.", "The German museum displaying Banksy's painting that partly self-destructed at auction has \"deactivated\" the artwork's shredding device.\n\nLove is in the Bin self-shredded in its frame immediately after selling for £860,000 ($1.12m) at Sotheby's auction house in London in October.\n\nBanksy then uploaded a video suggesting the entire canvas was supposed to shred- not just two thirds of it.\n\nThe museum wanted to prevent the rest of the artwork being destroyed.\n\nHenning Schaper, the director of Frieder Burda de Baden-Baden Museum in South West Germany, said they wanted to avoid a visitor setting off the shredder.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Shed the Love' reveals Banksy stunt did not go to plan\n\n\"We have opened the frame, we have all looked and we have seen that the mechanism has been deactivated,\" he said.\n\nIn front of press and photographers, white-gloved museum workers \"slowly and cautiously\" took apart the canvas on Monday afternoon to deactivate the device, before replacing the painting on the wall.\n\nThe woman who bought the painting decided to keep it, despite it being partially destroyed.\n\nIt is now on long-term loan to the Stuttgart museum and currently on display at Frueder Burda de Baden Baden for four weeks.\n\nBanksy's video, posted a few weeks after the auction in October, shows the frame, complete with its shredder, being assembled in Banksy's studio.\n\nIt also shows footage from inside the auction room - including a clip of the button which triggered the shredding being pressed.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nAlex Branczik, Sotheby's head of contemporary art in Europe, said that the auction house was not in on the stunt.\n\nHe said the reason the shredder wasn't detected by Sotheby's staff was that they had been instructed the frame was a key part of the work.\n\nSpeaking to The Art Newspaper, Branczik explained: \"Pest Control [Banksy's authentication board] said very clearly: the frame is integral to the art work.\n\n\"Which it was, just not in the sort of way that we thought.\n\n\"We also had a third-party conservator look at the work.\"\n\nAsked how the conservator did not spot the frame's double thickness and apparent weight from the attached shredder, he replied: \"You address what you see, it was more like a sculpture. If it says the frame is integral, you don't rip it apart.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A picture of an egg - which is Instagram's most liked photo ever - has been used to promote a mental-health campaign.\n\nThe egg, known as Eugene, has now cracked after \"feeling the pressure\" of all the attention it's received.\n\nA message posted alongside the broken egg advises people to seek help if they feel the same way.\n\nMore than 52 million people have now liked the original picture, which was posted in January.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by world_record_egg This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWhen the first image of the egg appeared online, it looked like it only had one aim - to stop Kylie Jenner being the \"Queen of Instagram\".\n\nThe accompanying message said: \"Let's set a world record together and get the most-liked post on Instagram. Beating the current world record held by Kylie Jenner (18 million)! We got this.\"\n\nIt took just nine days for Eugene to beat the reality TV star's picture of her holding hands with her newborn daughter, Stormi.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post 2 by kyliejenner This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA total of six images of the egg - with varying levels of damage - have been posted from the account @world_record_egg since 4 January.\n\nThis latest post is a video showing the egg cracking alongside a caption that reads: \"Phew! I feel so much better now. If you're feeling the pressure, visit talkingegg.info to find out more. Let's build this list together.\"\n\nIt was actually broadcast first on streaming site Hulu as part of their Super Bowl coverage but now sits on the egg's Instagram page.\n\nA link then leads followers on to a website featuring a list of countries and the different mental health services available in those locations.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post 3 by world_record_egg This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThere had been a lot of speculation about who was behind @world_record_egg and how it managed to get so many likes so quickly.\n\nMany believed it was a marketing ploy from a large company that had bought followers but British advertising executive Chris Godfrey has since claimed he created it, along with two others, and that their sole purpose was not to promote or advertise anything, just to get as many likes as possible.\n\nNow that the egg has more than 10 million followers, it's a very effective platform for reaching a lot of people.\n\nThe team behind it has not said if it was paid by Hulu for the campaign or whether the egg will promote anything further on Instagram.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 every weekday on BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra - if you miss us you can listen back here.", "Teachers said they were concerned Amber's behaviour could deteriorate if she had to move schools again\n\nA girl told her teacher her stepfather forced her to wear \"ridiculous\" trousers to school to humiliate her months before she was found dead, an inquest heard.\n\nAmber Peat's body was found in bushes after she went missing in May 2015.\n\nHer form tutor Rebecca Beard told the hearing Amber said she had to carry her belongings in a carrier bag as a punishment for bad behaviour.\n\nShe emailed her concerns to staff at Queen Elizabeth's School.\n\nNottingham Coroner's Court heard Amber had moved to the school in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, in July 2014.\n\nMs Beard said she became concerned for Amber's welfare after she came in \"devastated\" while wearing baggy grey jogging bottoms instead of normal school trousers one day in March 2015.\n\n\"The other children in the classroom thought that she had actually wet herself, because it was so unusual that someone would be wearing something like that,\" she said.\n\nFloral tributes and messages to Amber Peat were left near where her body was found\n\nThe inquest heard Amber told her teacher she was forced to wear them by her stepfather Daniel Peat, and that she had been punished for bad behaviour over the weekend.\n\nMs Beard said Amber told her she was woken up in the night to finish chores she was told she had not completed, and was not allowed to go to bed until 01:30 after being made to clean the floor for an hour.\n\nShe said this was \"obviously of concern\", and when Amber later came in with a plastic bag carrying belongings instead of her normal schoolbag, she was told it was another punishment.\n\nMs Beard sent an email on 16 March 2015 to the school's safeguarding staff saying she was concerned Amber was \"being emotionally abused\" at home.\n\nThe email also highlighted other worries, such as Amber being \"always hungry\", losing weight and wearing school trousers she had outgrown.\n\nAmber's body was found in Westfield Lane, about a mile from her home in Bosworth Street\n\nFollowing the email Karen Green, vice principal at Queen Elizabeth's at the time, said she asked Amber's key worker Sharon Clay to contact the Nottinghamshire multi-agency safeguarding hub (MASH).\n\nA transcript of the call read in court recorded Ms Clay being advised to contact Amber's mother Kelly about her daughter's account, and if there were any concerns to get back in touch regarding a potential referral.\n\nMs Clay - who told the court she had a good working relationship with both Amber and her family - said she was \"quite uncomfortable\" with contacting Kelly over her daughter's disclosure, and though the mother's account differed from Amber's, she did not get back in touch with MASH.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on Twitter, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.", "Terry has given up his job in London and moved to Monmouth to look after his 92-year-old father\n\nMore than 600 people a day leave their jobs because of the demands of being a carer, says research from a charity.\n\nThe pressures of looking after an elderly, ill or disabled relative have made almost half a million people quit their jobs in the UK in the past two years, says Carers UK.\n\nThe report calls for more flexibility in the workplace for carers.\n\nThe charity's head, Helen Walker, says that 15% of the working population is \"now working and caring\".\n\nThe report estimates that almost five million people are trying to balance looking after relatives with working - up from about three million in 2011.\n\nAn ageing population has pushed this increase - but the report says not enough employers are offering flexibility over working hours or taking leave.\n\nCarers UK is calling for employment rights to formally recognise the needs of carers, such as providing five to 10 days per year of paid leave.\n\nSuch carers in work are typically aged over 45 and the report says that their caring responsibilities \"often go unnoticed\".\n\nAmong those giving up their job is Terry, who has left his role as a duty hospital manager in London to move to Monmouth to look after his father.\n\nThe 92-year-old was living alone after Terry's mother died and he had begun to \"struggle with everyday tasks\".\n\nFor Terry, it has meant going from a well paid job to relying on a carer's allowance and accepting that he now \"doesn't have a penny spare\".\n\nThe report follows a warning from the Office for National Statistics of growing numbers of people who not only have to look after an elderly relative but are also caring for their children.\n\nThere are 1.3 million of these mid-life \"sandwich carers\", says the ONS, with many feeling ignored and undervalued.\n\nMore than a quarter of such carers are suffering from depression or stress, says the ONS.\n\nCarers UK says there is a \"real social and economic imperative\" for workplaces to be made \"carer friendly\".\n\n\"Better workplace support for people juggling paid work with caring for a loved one is becoming an increasingly important issue,\" said Ms Walker.", "Nissan's change of heart over making the X-Trail in Sunderland set Brexit alarm bells ringing over the weekend.\n\nIt was further evidence, to some, that car investment in the UK is drying up as we head towards the EU exit - ripping up promises made by Margaret Thatcher to Japanese manufacturers that they should consider the UK as their natural manufacturing outpost within the EU.\n\nWhile it is wrong to think that Brexit was the main reason Nissan pulled the X-Trail from Sunderland, it is still right to think that Brexit is proving a powerful deterrent for investment in the UK car industry.\n\nSome of the technical issues it throws up could start affecting UK car exports as soon as next week.\n\nBut there are three other important factors affecting the UK car industry.\n\nNissan is not the only company to have been caught off guard by the sudden and rapid slump in diesel sales across Europe.\n\nThe VW emissions scandal and the subsequent confusion about diesel among regulators and consumers, have dealt a heavy blow to sales and production with JLR being the most conspicuous casualty.\n\nUnder current market conditions it simply made no sense for Nissan to invest in a new diesel manufacturing facility in northern Europe.\n\nThe fact that the UK is about to leave the world's biggest trading bloc creating border uncertainty is an aggravating factor for sure but not Nissan's primary reason.\n\nThere are other powerful forces at work.\n\nAs of last week, the free trade agreement between the EU and Japan came into force.\n\nUnder that deal, tariffs on Japanese car exports to the EU begin to taper towards zero over the next ten years.\n\nThat means there is a dwindling rationale for Japan to manufacture cars for European customers in the EU.\n\nIn fact, post Brexit, cars from Japan entering the EU could attract lower tariffs than cars made in the UK.\n\nThere is another Brexit problem.\n\nOne of the highest growth areas for UK exports has been South Korea after trade has been stimulated by a trade agreement with the EU.\n\nCurrently the UK enjoys the preferential terms thanks to its membership of the EU. After March 29th it won't.\n\nGiven it takes six weeks to transport cars to South East Asia, from mid-February (end of next week) manufacturers face the prospect of loading ships with exports to markets without knowing what tariffs will apply to those products when they come off at the other end.\n\nInternational Trade secretary Dr Liam Fox has been confident that we can replicate this and simply tippex out \"EU\" on the front page of nearly 40 free trade agreements and replace it with \"UK\".\n\nFor products to enjoy preferential terms under a trade deal, there is a requirement for them to be predominantly made of components from that country.\n\nIn the trade deal the EU has with South Korea, 55% of the car components must be from the EU.\n\nIf the same test was applied to the UK as a stand-alone country, none of the cars manufactured here would pass a test requiring 55% of components to come from the UK.\n\nIt is possible that the terms of a future UK-EU trade deal would include asking South Korea, Morocco, Mexico and others if they would allow UK and EU parts to be added together to pass the test but it's far from clear they would agree.\n\nSo far Liam Fox has only managed to ensure a trade continuity deal with Chile.\n\nIn an uncertain world, we can say one thing with certainty. Investment in the UK car industry has collapsed.\n\nIn 2015, companies invested £2.5bn, last year it was less than £600m - a fall of nearly 80% in just three years.\n\nBrexit may not have done for the X-Trail, but it is having a corrosive effect on the wider car industry.", "Actor Liam Neeson is facing a major racism storm after admitting he once set out to kill an innocent black man.\n\nHe said he walked the streets with a weapon for a week years ago, hoping to take out his anger after someone close to him was raped by a black man.\n\nThe Hollywood star said he was ashamed of his actions, but his remarks have sparked widespread outrage.\n\nNeeson hasn't commented further since the interview was published by The Independent on Monday.\n\nHe was speaking to promote his new film Cold Pursuit, a thriller about a man who seeks retribution after his son is murdered.\n\nAsked how his character turns to anger, the actor replied that \"something primal\" kicks in when a someone close to you is the victim of violence.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Listen to Liam Neeson's comments that sparked the outrage\n\nHe said: \"God forbid you've ever had a member of your family hurt under criminal conditions. I'll tell you a story. This is true.\"\n\nNeeson said the alleged rape took place a long time ago and he found out about it when he came back from a trip abroad. The actor went on to use racially offensive language about the attacker.\n\nHe said: \"She handled the situation of the rape in the most extraordinary way.\n\n\"But my immediate reaction was... I asked, did she know who it was? No. What colour were they? She said it was a black person.\n\n\"I went up and down areas with a cosh, hoping I'd be approached by somebody - I'm ashamed to say that - and I did it for maybe a week, hoping some [uses air quotes with fingers] 'black bastard' would come out of a pub and have a go at me about something, you know? So that I could kill him.\"\n\nNeeson has been subject to huge criticism for the comments.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Clemence Michallon, who interviewed Liam Neeson, says she was struck by the \"gravity\" of his thoughts\n\nThe journalist who did the interview, Clémence Michallon, told BBC News: \"Anyone hearing the thoughts that he's reporting here would be shocked and appalled in many ways, and he himself says he is ashamed to think of the way he used to think and says it's awful, so of course that shock set in really quickly.\"\n\nIn an accompanying article in The Independent, columnist Kuba Shand-Baptiste wrote: \"What immediately struck me when reading about his revelation was how deeply the white supremacist trope of the 'black brute' versus the 'helpless woman' appears to have permeated society.\"\n\nLos Angeles Times columnist Carla Hall wrote that his conduct was \"despicable\", adding that she now wants him to talk about whether he has dealt with \"whatever racism he still harbours\".\n\nShe wrote: \"Was he a racist or just a tightly wound man capable of vindictive violence? Or was he both? Of course, he was a racist. He was roaming the streets trying to find a random black man to kill.\n\n\"And he gave every indication of being capable of violence. That's a pretty explosive combination. And his revelation about himself is deeply disturbing. The question is, how much has he changed since then?\"\n\nOn Twitter, Frederick Joseph, who works for better representation in the media, wrote that Neeson's story \"just shows how meaningless and inconsequential black lives are to some\".\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 Frederick Joseph 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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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\nNeeson referred back to his comments later in the interview, adding: \"It was horrible, horrible, when I think back, that I did that. And I've never admitted that, and I'm saying it to a journalist. God forbid.\n\n\"It's awful. But I did learn a lesson from it.\"\n\nSome said Neeson should not be castigated for admitting such thoughts but realising they were wrong and saying he had learned from them.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 5 by Eric D. Snider 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\nHowever, others pointed out that he didn't specifically acknowledge any underlying racial motivations.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 6 by Beast beneath the moonlight This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post 6 by Beast beneath the moonlight\n\nThe 66-year-old, who is best known for Schindler's List and the thriller series Taken, also described growing up around violence in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, during the Troubles.\n\n\"I knew a couple of guys that died on hunger strike, and I had acquaintances who were very caught up in the Troubles, and I understand that need for revenge, but it just leads to more revenge, to more killing and more killing, and Northern Ireland's proof of that.\n\n\"All this stuff that's happening in the world, the violence, is proof of that, you know. But that primal need, I understand.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\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.", "Stephen Waterson said Alfie Lamb's mother had told him she \"blamed herself\" for her son's death\n\nA man accused of crushing his girlfriend's son with his car seat used the fact his father is a former government minister to make himself \"untouchable\", a court has heard.\n\nStephen Waterson, 25, is accused of twice pushing the front passenger seat of his Audi convertible into Alfie Lamb, who was in the footwell behind.\n\nThe Old Bailey heard he told police he had \"powerful parents\".\n\nThe pair were in the car with two other adults, while Alfie and another child sat in the rear footwell during the journey from Sutton to Croydon in south London on 1 February last year.\n\nJurors heard that in an interview with police, Mr Waterson name-dropped his adoptive father Nigel Waterson, a former MP and lawyer.\n\nCross-examining Mr Waterson, Ms Hoare's lawyer Katy Thorne QC said: \"In that interview you used the fact you have got powerful parents, it seems to you, because you like to drop it into conversation all the time.\"\n\nShe accused Mr Waterson of using \"the fact that your parents are powerful people to make you untouchable\".\n\nMr Waterson told the court he only moved his seat back an inch, before moving forwards again\n\nMr Waterson told the jury he had not deliberately pushed the seat into Alfie after losing his temper but had moved it back no more than an inch, before moving forwards again.\n\nDuring cross-examining, Ms Thorne said to him: \"On your account Mr Waterson, it could not have been the seat that caused his death and you have been framed horribly for Alfie's death.\"\n\nMr Waterson replied that it was \"correct\".\n\nWhen asked by Ms Thorne how Alfie did die, Mr Waterson told the court: \"That's what I want to find out as well.\"\n\nMr Waterson said the only thing that happened in the car to Alfie was that he was \"being shouted at by Adrian\", while Ms Hoare had told him she \"blamed herself\" for the toddler's death as they later lay in bed together.\n\nWhen he was asked if he bore any responsibility over the boy's death, he replied that he \"should have said something and not put the children in the car in the footwell\".\n\nMr Waterson denies manslaughter and the intimidation of the car's driver Marcus Lamb.\n\nMs Hoare denies manslaughter, child cruelty and common assault on Emilie Williams, who was also in the car.\n\nThe couple and 19-year-old Ms Williams have pleaded guilty to conspiring to pervert the course of justice by making false statements to police.\n\nThe court heard Alfie Lamb was in the footwell behind Stephen Waterson\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Nissan will be forced to reapply for nearly £60m of taxpayer support after backtracking on a promise to build its X-Trail SUV in Sunderland.\n\nA letter from the government to Nissan, written in 2016, revealed that the Japanese carmaker would only get the money if it made the car in the UK.\n\nThe government clarified that Nissan had received just £2.6m of the funds, but would have to reapply for the rest.\n\nBusiness Secretary Greg Clark said the X-Trail would have created 741 UK jobs.\n\nBut he told the House of Commons that Nissan had committed to building its Qashqai, Juke and Leaf models in Sunderland, where it employs 7,000 workers.\n\nMr Clark also said: \"While the decision was made on broader business grounds, Nissan commented on the need for us to come together and resolve the question of our future trading relationship with the EU. I believe their advice should be listened to and acted upon.\"\n\nIn the 2016 letter from Mr Clark to Nissan's then boss, Carlos Ghosn, he said the funding was contingent \"on a positive decision by the Nissan board to allocate production of the Qashqai and X-Trail models to the Sunderland plant\".\n\nMr Ghosn has since been sacked as Nissan's chairman and is in detention in Japan following claims of financial misconduct.\n\nNissan had originally asked for £80m in state support, but following a review by an independent advisory committee, that figure was reduced to £61m.\n\nA spokesman for the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy said Nissan has been given £2.6m and would have to reapply for the remaining £58.4m.\n\nOn Sunday, when Nissan announced its decision not to build the X-Trail SUV in Sunderland, the firm's Europe chairman, Gianluca de Ficchy, said that \"the continued uncertainty around the UK's future relationship with the EU is not helping companies like ours to plan for the future\".\n\nThe government had to clarify its position after Business Minister Richard Harrington told the BBC that Nissan would get the £61m support payment.\n\nMr Harrington told BBC Newcastle: \"The £60m still stands. It's to do with research and development and developing alternative technologies and making sure Nissan is at the forefront of that.\n\n\"This was nothing to do with the X-Trail.\"\n\nFollowing the UK's vote to leave the European Union in June 2016, Mr Ghosn had hinted that he would seek compensation if car exports to Europe were subject to tariffs.\n\nMr Ghosn met Prime Minister Theresa May to discuss the future of Nissan's plant in Sunderland, after which he said he was \"confident\" that the government would keep the UK a competitive place to do business after it leaves the EU.\n\nIn the letter to Mr Ghosn, Mr Clark said: \"It will be a critical priority of our negotiation to support UK car manufacturers and ensure that their ability to export to and from the EU is not adversely affected by the UK's future relationship with the EU.\"\n\nRachel Reeves MP, chair of the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy committee said Nissan's decision not to built the X-Trail in the UK \"is a blow to production at Sunderland\".\n\nShe added: \"The government's mishandling of Brexit, the reluctance to rule out 'no deal' and the lack of certainty around our future trading relationship with our biggest and nearest trading partner has made this decision sadly predictable, no matter what assurances may have been provided in the past.\"", "A mixed martial arts fighter suspected of two murders had escaped from Texas police, only to be discovered hours later, squatting inside a rubbish bin.\n\nCedric Marks, 44, is accused of killing his ex-girlfriend Jenna Scott and her friend, Michael Swearingin. They were found in a shallow grave last month.\n\nMr Marks escaped from a prison transport vehicle after it stopped at a McDonald's in Conroe, near Houston.\n\nHe is back in police custody and will face charges in Temple, Texas.\n\nMr Marks was arrested by US Marshals in Michigan last month on suspicion of breaking into Ms Scott's home in Temple, on 21 August, 2018.\n\nMurder warrants were also issued for the fighter on Sunday after Ms Scott and Mr Swearingin's bodies were discovered on 15 January, the Associated Press reported.\n\nHe was being transferred to Temple to face these charges on Sunday when he fled.\n\nWhen the prison van, which was transporting two guards and 10 prisoners, stopped at a McDonald's for food, Mr Marks managed to escape on foot, police chief Jeff Christy said.\n\nAccording to KPRC-TV, he had been shackled in the van, and police do not yet know how he was able to remove the restraints.\n\nAfter his escape, police warned residents Mr Marks should be \"considered extremely dangerous\" as both a murder suspect and experienced fighter.\n\nFollowing a nine-hour manhunt involving several agencies and canine units, authorities found him hiding in a rubbish bin in the backyard of a nearby home.\n\nMr Marks surrendered without incident, police said, and is back in custody.\n\n\"He threw his hands up as far as he could and surrendered. He was worn out,\" Mr Christy said, according to KPRC.\n\n\"He was squatting in a 55-gallon (208L) trash can all day, he was pretty tired.\"\n\nAn investigation is under way regarding the incident and will be presented to the Montgomery County District Attorney's Office, Mr Christy said.\n\nMr Marks, who fights under the name Spider-Man, has been involved with MMA for nearly two decades, according to a fighter database.\n\nHe had also worked as a women's self-defence instructor at a boxing club in Killeen, Texas.\n\nMs Scott and Mr Swearingin's friends shared photos on social media in a campaign to locate them\n\nJust before her disappearance, Mr Marks' former girlfriend Ms Scott had filed for a restraining order against him, alleging he had choked her to the point of unconsciousness twice, but it was denied, KCEN-TV reported.\n\nMs Scott had described her ex-boyfriend as a \"pathological liar\" and \"a psychopath\", according to KCEN.\n\nThe local outlet reported Marks has an extensive criminal history, dating back to his teenage years.\n\nMr Marks is also a person of interest in the missing persons case of April Pease, the mother of one of his children, who vanished in 2009 amid a custody dispute with Mr Marks.", "Colin Kroll was co-founder of both HQ Trivia and Vine\n\nThe co-founder of the popular app HQ Trivia, Colin Kroll, died of an accidental drug overdose, according to the New York City medical examiner.\n\nA post-mortem examination revealed two kinds of fentanyl, heroin and cocaine in his system.\n\nPolice found Mr Kroll dead in his Manhattan flat in December after being asked to check in on him by a woman reported to be his girlfriend.\n\nThe 34-year-old was also the co-founder of the video platform Vine.\n\nThe medical examiner's office ruled Mr Kroll's 16 December death an accident, due to \"acute intoxication\" from the combined effects of the drugs.\n\nFentanyl - a synthetic opioid 80 to 100 times stronger than morphine - and a variant, fluoroisobutyryl fentanyl, were both found in Mr Kroll's system.\n\nMr Kroll's death was suspected to be due to an overdose after police found his body without signs of trauma and with drug paraphernalia nearby.\n\nHe was reportedly found face down on his bed, and police noted signs of what appeared to be cocaine and heroin in the flat.\n\nMr Kroll's friends and family remembered him as a kind, talented young man.\n\nHis former fiancé Maggie Neuwald told the New York Post after his death that he had struggled with the pace of the tech industry.\n\n\"It's not like anyone hands you … a manual of how to deal with [success],\" she said. \"That probably, unfortunately, got the best of him, although I had hoped he'd be able to fight those demons.\"\n\nLast year, the Centers for Disease Control found synthetic opioid-related overdose death rates had risen by 45% on average across the country in one year.\n\nColin Kroll had won a Breakthrough Award for Emerging Technology in 2014\n\nMr Kroll had been named CEO of the HQ Trivia mobile app in September. He founded the game with Rus Yusupov.\n\nThe live trivia game became hugely popular, although its appeal waned last year. The free app was guest-hosted by some famous faces, including Jimmy Kimmel and Bert from Sesame Street.\n\nVine was a popular a six-second video streaming service that Twitter purchased in 2012 for $30m (£24m) and eventually discontinued in 2016.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe mother of murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence has criticised a new scheme by the government to tackle knife crime.\n\nThe Home Secretary announced plans for Knife Crime Prevention Orders last week, targeting suspects aged 12 and over - even if they don't have a blade.\n\nBut Baroness Lawrence said there were better ways to deal with knife crime than \"criminalising\" children.\n\nThe Home Office said the scheme would prevent young people from routinely carrying a knife.\n\nStephen Lawrence was stabbed to death in an unprovoked attack in south-east London in 1993, aged 18.\n\nLabour peer Baroness Lawrence was speaking to the Home Affairs Select Committee ahead of the 20th anniversary of the Macpherson report, which looked into how the case was handled by the police.\n\nIt concluded that there had been \"institutional racism\" in the force and made 72 recommendations for the police to follow.\n\nBaroness Lawrence, who has campaigned for police reforms since the murder of her son, told the committee: \"What is really worrying now is [what] the home secretary has announced about 12-year-olds carrying knives, so these kids are going to have a criminal record from the age of 12 and are going to be locked up.\n\n\"You are going to start criminalising [them] at the age of 12.\n\n\"Now I am sure there are other ways of dealing with that.\"\n\nShe called on the government to start going into schools to educate all children on what could happen if they carry knives.\n\n\"Kids who have been to prison or youth offenders... come out with a completely different way of dealing. Get those kids in to talk to them,\" said Baroness Lawrence.\n\n\"The older generation doesn't actually reach them, so you need the peer to go in and speak to those kids and let them know what the reality is.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sajid Javid says the Asbo-style orders would give police more powers to prevent knife crime\n\nBaroness Lawrence said young black people also needed to be shown role models, rather than just negative ways in which their lives could turn out.\n\n\"Society has put a label on them that they are always up to no good, that they don't achieve anything, but that is not the case,\" she said.\n\n\"[They don't] see how many young people have gone off to university. It is always negative. They believe, 'I can't do any better'.\n\n\"They never see the positive side, we need to be able to do that more.\"\n\nStephen Lawrence was stabbed to death as he waited at a bus stop\n\nSpeaking later to the committee, the chairwoman of the Metropolitan Black Police Association highlighted that those role models may not be there in the police force, claiming diversity had \"gone backwards\".\n\nDet Sgt Janet Hills said there had been great strides in recruiting women into the police - with forces reaching a \"tipping point for cultural change\" - but that a \"gap has developed\" with a lack of policewomen from African, Asian or Caribbean backgrounds.\n\n\"When you look at the success of African, Caribbean and Asian heritage women within [recruitment], we are nowhere to be seen,\" she said. \"We have become invisible to the organisation, so you can have police organisations up and down the country that do not have any black females in them.\n\n\"If you turned that on its head and said we have constabularies without any women in them there would be a public outcry.\n\n\"But because we have become invisible to the organisation, that is how we are being missed. We are not being progressed and we are not being targeted around representing our communities within the police services.\"\n\nBaroness Lawrence said it was key for the force, and other institutions, to represent the public they serve.\n\n\"I was trying to find out about progression of officers... and when you look at the top table, how many people of colour do you see there? Not many.\"\n\nShe added: \"You need good leadership and… you don't have leadership that represents community.\"\n\nA Home Office spokesperson said the prevention orders would stop vulnerable young people from routinely carrying a knife and becoming involved in knife crime. The aim is preventative, and would not result in a criminal record.\n\nThey said it was a core part of the Serious Violence Strategy - to address the root causes of violence by working with a range of agencies to focus on early intervention alongside strong law enforcement.\n\nNearly £18m would be provided over the next two years through the Early Intervention Youth Fund to help Police and Crime Commissioners and Community Safety Partnerships, they said.", "Former student David Harding's gift to Cambridge is the biggest single British donation to a UK university\n\nThe donation from David Harding, via his foundation, is the biggest single gift made to a university in the UK by a British philanthropist.\n\nThe money will fund postgraduate scholarships for more than 100 PhD students and be invested in attracting students from \"under-represented groups\".\n\nVice-chancellor Prof Stephen J Toope said it was \"extraordinarily generous\".\n\nThe David and Claudia Harding Foundation funds scientific research and education\n\nA university spokesman said the David and Claudia Harding Foundation donation would help propel the £500m fundraising drive launched last autumn to attract and support postgraduate and undergraduate students from the UK and around the world.\n\nMr Harding founded the global investment management firm, Winton. His wife, Claudia is a trustee of the Science Museum Foundation.\n\nA £79m slice of the funding will go towards scholarships for more than 100 PhD students in residence, starting in October, around £25m of which will go to St Catharine's College, where Mr Harding studied natural sciences.\n\nProf Sir Mark Welland, Master of St Catharine's College, said the investment would \"have a tremendous and permanent impact\" on the university as a whole.\n\nThe remaining £21m will go towards undergraduate support and encourage further alumni philanthropy - £1m of which will also be invested in attracting students from \"under-represented groups\".\n\nProf Toope said the gift would \"transform the lives of students\".\n\n\"This extraordinarily generous gift will be invaluable in sustaining Cambridge's place among the world's leading universities and will help to transform our offer to students,\" he said.\n\n\"We are determined that Cambridge should nurture the finest academic talent, whatever the background or means of our students.\"\n\nCambridge University has already set a target to increase the number of postgraduates in residence by 13 per cent from 6,500 in 2016-17 to about 7,400 by the end of 2021.\n\nThe largest single donation to a British university prior to Mr Harding's was in 2000, when the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation donated $210m (£161m) to Cambridge University.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Seaborne Freight has been given a £13.8m contract to run a freight service between Ramsgate and Ostend in the event of a no-deal Brexit\n\nThe government plans to pay a law firm £800,000 for advice in case Eurotunnel decides to sue over the effects of Brexit on its business.\n\nThe contract description originally said Getlink, previously called Eurotunnel, was \"highly likely\" to go through litigation.\n\nIt said the government could be forced to pay \"significant damages\" if the firm was successful.\n\nThe Department for Transport says it routinely seeks legal advice.\n\nA DfT spokeswoman said. \"This multiannual contract is to provide advice on a wide range of areas relating to the Channel Tunnel and EU exit.\"\n\nElsewhere on Monday, the government announced that lorries will be able to drive straight off ferries and Channel Tunnel trains without making customs declarations in the event of a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThe government website detailing the contract with law firm Slaughter and May originally stated that Getlink had \"expressed concern that their business may be disturbed or interfered with... and that this will in turn hit their profits\".\n\nIt continued: \"It is highly likely that they would seek to protect their business and profits through litigation against the department.\"\n\nThe contract description was subsequently changed to say simply that it is to provide \"advice and assistance to DfT on the Cross Channel Rail Services\".\n\nLast December, it emerged that the government had awarded contracts worth £107m to three companies to provide extra ferry services in the event of a no-deal Brexit.\n\nA BBC investigation found that Seaborne Freight, which won a contract for £13.8m to run ferries from Ramsgate to Ostend, had no ships.\n\nIn January, Eurotunnel wrote to Transport Secretary Chris Grayling to complain that they had not been considered when the contracts were awarded.\n\nThe company also warned that their award of these contracts could be illegal.\n\nEurotunnel has previously voiced concerns more broadly about the potential impact of a no-deal Brexit on their business.\n\nSlaughter and May declined to comment.\n\nSeaborne Freight said its services were due to commence in March and they expect to be ready \"very close to schedule\".", "A coastguard helicopter was involved in the rescue operation\n\nA man who fell ill at his remote Highlands cabin was rescued after the signal from his distress beacon was picked up in the US.\n\nThe man, who is in his 70s and lives \"off-grid\", uses the device in its \"check-in\" mode every week to let his family and friends know he is well.\n\nOn Sunday he triggered an SOS, which was automatically sent to a response centre in Houston, Texas.\n\nA coastguard helicopter and Lochaber Mountain Rescue Team went to his aid.\n\nThe Maritime and Coastguard Agency said the man, who has no other means of communication other than his personal locator beacon, was found to be \"very ill\" from a potentially life-threatening head injury.\n\nPrestwick Coastguard helicopter crew was unable to winch the man directly from outside his loch-side cabin because of surrounding trees.\n\nMembers of Lochaber MRT moved the man to a clearing where he could be winched to the helicopter.\n\nLochaber MRT described him as one of their \"off-gridders\", a term used to describe someone with their own power and water supplies and usually grows their own food.\n\nThe SOS signal was picked up by the International Emergency Response Coordination Centre in Houston, which in turn notified HM Coastguard mission control centre (MCC) in Fareham.\n\nThe coastguard team assessed the signal to be an emergency rather than the man's usual Sunday \"check-in\" with family and friends.\n\nAfter being winched to the helicopter, he was flown to a landing site at Torlundy, near Fort William, and then taken by ambulance to Fort William's Belford Hospital.\n\nNeil Blewett, UK aeronautical operations centre controller for HM Coastguard, said the man's rescue was an \"excellent result\".\n\nHe said: \"When the man activated his beacon that signal went via satellite to Houston, which then gets sent to our MCC for attention.\n\n\"What must seem a very long way round for an alert to reach us is actually very quick thanks to the satellite technology that we use.\n\n'In this case, the man's activation of his beacon, the satellites and the beacon itself saved his life because without any of those we would not have known he needed urgent help.\n\n\"We have since heard that the man is doing well and we wish him a speedy recovery so that he can return home as soon as possible.\"", "Mr Ahmad is said to have been arrested after watching Qatar play Iraq\n\nA Briton has been arrested and detained in the United Arab Emirates after reportedly being assaulted when he wore a Qatar football team shirt to a match.\n\nAli Issa Ahmad, 26, from Wolverhampton, is said to have been unaware of a law against \"showing sympathy\" for Qatar - brought in amid a diplomatic dispute.\n\nHis friend says he was held after telling police he had been attacked.\n\nThe UAE embassy in London said Mr Ahmad has been charged with wasting police time and making false statements.\n\nResponding to earlier media reports, a UAE official said he was \"categorically not arrested for wearing a Qatar football shirt\".\n\nThe Foreign Office said it is providing assistance to a British man and is in touch with the UAE authorities.\n\nThe UAE and four other countries in the region are currently engaged in a political and diplomatic stand-off with Qatar after they accused the state of supporting radical and Islamist groups.\n\nOn its website, the Foreign Office warns travellers to the UAE of a June 2017 announcement \"that showing sympathy for Qatar on social media or by any other means of communication is an offence.\n\n\"Offenders could be imprisoned and subject to a substantial fine\".\n\nMr Ahmad is said to have travelled to the UAE for a holiday. He was arrested after watching Qatar play Iraq in an Asian Cup match in Abu Dhabi on 22 January.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC World Service programme Newshour, his friend Amer Lokie said Mr Ahmad had called him from a police station on 30 January to tell him about the arrest.\n\nMr Lokie said: \"After he left the stadium he was followed by a couple of people and they assaulted him.\"\n\nMr Ahmad had been wearing a Qatar football shirt and was holding another one in his hands, he said.\n\n\"They took away his T-shirt and he went home. Afterwards he went back to police station to report the assault and they held him,\" Mr Lokie said.\n\nAsked whether Mr Ahmad had indicated whether the people who attacked him were members of the public, police or security officials, Mr Lokie said: \"I was trying to ask him to clarify but he could not clarify because his time was limited.\"\n\n\"He was just a person who loved sport so much,\" Mr Lokie added. \" I don't think he knew he could get into problems for wearing a T-shirt or supporting a particular team.\"\n\nThe UAE embassy in London initially said it was unable to comment specifically on the case, adding \"allegations of human rights violations are taken extremely seriously and will be thoroughly investigated\".\n\nIn a later statement issued through the embassy, a UAE official said Mr Ahmad was a dual Sudanese-British citizen.\n\nThe official said Mr Ahmad had gone to a police station to say he had been harassed and beaten up by local football fans for cheering the Qatar team.\n\n\"Police took him to hospital where a doctor who examined him, concluded that his injuries were inconsistent with his account of events and appeared to be self-inflicted,\" the official said.\n\nThey said Mr Ahmad was charged on 24 January, adding: \"We are advised that he has since admitted those offences [wasting police time and making false statements] and will now be processed through the UAE courts.\"\n\nThe tiny oil- and gas-rich Qatar has been cut off by some of its powerful Arab neighbours - including the UAE - over its alleged support for terrorism.\n\nThe continuing rift meant there were very few Qatar fans in attendance during its Asian Cup matches.\n\nWhen Qatar knocked the UAE out in the semi-final, objects and shoes were thrown at their players.\n\nQatar went on to win the tournament, defeating Japan 3-1 in the final on 1 February.", "Four children have died in a house fire in Stafford which resulted in part of the roof collapsing.\n\nThe blaze in the Highfields area of the town in the early hours also left another child and two adults injured.\n\nNeighbour Wendy Pickering was in tears as she remembered the children, who she often saw while taking her granddaughter to school.\n\nHer husband Bryan said he was alerted to the fire by his dog barking during the night.\n\nRead more: Four children die in house fire", "HMV's flagship - and original - Oxford Street store in central London has closed\n\nCanadian firm Sunrise Records has emerged as the buyer of collapsed music chain HMV, beating competition including Sports Direct owner Mike Ashley.\n\nThe firm will buy 100 stores out of administration, securing 1,487 jobs.\n\nBut 27 stores will close, resulting in 455 redundancies.\n\nSunrise Records chief executive Doug Putman said he was \"delighted to acquire the most iconic music and entertainment business in the UK.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC Rewind looks back on the changing fortunes of the high street music retailer\n\nThe administrators KPMG announced that the company's flagship Oxford Street store in London, its first shop when it opened in 1921, is among the 27 outlets set to close.\n\nHe previously bought HMV's Canadian business in 2017, expanding his small chain into a national operation with 80 outlets.\n\nNot all of the HMV stores will reopen\n\nMr Putman is also President of Everest Toys, the largest toys and games distribution company in North America.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that HMV was a \"fantastic, heritage brand\".\n\nHe also said the chain would be looking to stock more vinyl records, in response to customer demand.\n\nBought Canada's Sunrise Records in 2014 - and expanded it.\n\nTook over HMV's Canadian locations after it went into administration.\n\nMr Putman also owns a restaurant called The Granite in Bancroft, Ontario, and Makin Waves Marine, a boat dealer.\n\nHis family also run Everest Toys, one of the largest toy wholesalers in North America.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. His deal will ultimately save 1,600 jobs, he tells the Today programme\n\n\"I feel really lucky to be able to say we [will] continue to call it HMV,\" he told the programme. There had been speculation that the shops might be rebranded as Sunrise Records stores after Mr Putman's rebranding of HMV's Canadian business.\n\n\"It is very clear that the customer wants more selection on vinyl, more depth of catalogue,\" he said.\n\n\"There's no doubt that online is a big part of overall retail sales. But people like to come into a store, have an experience, talk with someone who understands music, loves music, loves video and entertainment. If you think online is the only future I don't think that is the case.\"\n\nHe added: \"There is so much you get from coming into a store that you can't get online.\"\n\nNews of a successful rescue bid for troubled HMV couldn't come soon enough for staff and customers alike, although some outlets will unfortunately be closing. After the store chain suffered its second collapse in December, it has faced weeks of uncertainty, with no new supplies reaching its branches.\n\nThat didn't matter so much in January, traditionally a lean time for music releases. But now February has begun, bands are putting out new albums again and their absence from HMV's shelves was starting to look embarrassing.\n\nOn Monday, HMV's flagship Oxford Street store was unable to provide copies of the latest CDs by the Specials, Busted and Ian Brown, which had been issued at the end of last week.\n\nThat means those albums are hard to find on the High Street right now, since HMV sells nearly a third of the UK's physical music product.\n\nImpulse buyers unable to walk out with those releases may well represent sales that are lost to the music industry forever - providing evidence of why record companies need HMV to survive.\n\nAccording to Canadian broadcaster CBC last year, his aim is also to tap into local tastes in music and store autonomy is important, he said.\n\n\"I think you lose something when everything's exactly the same,\" Mr Putman told CBC. \"Essentially every store has a different assortment. If metal is really big in that area, they can stock more of that.\"\n\nHMV collapsed in December, its second administration in six years.\n\nUntil now, Mr Ashley had been the likely favourite to take over the music retailer.\n\nAs the owner of more than 60% of Sports Direct, he has bought retailers including the House of Fraser department store chain and Evans Cycles.\n\nHis company also owns stakes in French Connection and Debenhams.\n\nA woman at the first listening booths in HMV in the 1930s\n\nHMV owner Hilco, which took the company out of its first administration in 2013, has blamed a \"tsunami\" of retail challenges for the latest collapse.\n\nThese include business rate levels and the increasing use of streaming services to deliver music and movies.\n\nHMV sold 31% of all physical music in the UK in 2018 and 23% of all DVDs, with its market share growing month by month throughout the year.\n\nHowever, the music industry expects physical entertainment sales to shrink by another 17% this year.\n\nWill Wright, partner at KPMG and joint administrator said: \"We are pleased to confirm this sale which, after a complex process, secures the continued trading of the majority of the business.\n\n\"Our immediate concern is now to support those employees that have unfortunately been made redundant.\"\n\nOne significant issue for physical retailers is rising rental and business rates costs, particularly at high-profile sites such as London's Oxford Street.\n\nAccording to real estate adviser, Altus Group, HMV saw its business rates bill for its flagship store on Oxford Street rise to £1,308,150 this financial year, almost double the amount it was paying before the controversial revaluation came into effect in April 2017.\n\nThe store's rateable value is its estimated annual rent paid on 1st April 2015, and rose by £1.04 million to £2.55 million under the 2017 revaluation.", "Two women were caught putting their own hair in a pizza to get a refund.\n\nAfter complaining at The Peacock in Sunderland, staff apologised and the women were given a £7 refund and free drinks.\n\nBut staff later realised the hair did not match any of the people working there.\n\nCCTV footage showed the women pulling out their hair and adding it to the food.", "Striving for a supercharged golf swing could play havoc with your back, according to US doctors.\n\nThe modern \"X-factor\" swing favoured by many professionals may hit balls harder and further but it can also put extra strain on the spine, the Barrow Neurological Institute experts say.\n\nThey look at the example of Tiger Woods in their research, which is published in the Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine.\n\nThe 43-year-old player recently made a comeback after serious back issues.\n\nSwinging the golf club at measured speeds of 129mph at the April 2018 Master's Tournament, Tiger Woods appears to be back to physical fitness.\n\nAnd he has said that he now has a greater understanding of what he \"can and can't do\" this season.\n\n\"A lot of it has been training, trying to get stronger,\" he said.\n\nAn X-factor golf swing tries to get maximum rotation of the player's shoulders relative to their hips at the top of the backswing.\n\nThis big rotation creates wound-up potential energy - the X-factor - but Dr Corey Walker, Dr Juan Uribe and Dr Randall Porter, from Barrow, say it may come at a cost, twisting the lumbar spine.\n\nThe spinal surgeons have been studying how the golf swing of present-day professionals, including Tiger Woods, differs from those of golf veterans, such as Jack Nicklaus and Ben Hogan.\n\nThey say players' physiques and techniques have changed significantly over recent decades.\n\nModern players are more muscular and have more powerful downswings and this can put increased force on the spinal disc and facet joints, they believe.\n\nAnd over time, it can result in a damaging process that the authors call \"repetitive traumatic discopathy\" (RTD).\n\nBut it's not just the backswing that might injure the lower spine.\n\nDuring an explosive downswing, lateral flexion can result in a 'crunch\" of the side of the spine, putting strain on the disc and facet joints on one side of the spine, they say.\n\nDr Walker said: \"We believe Tiger Woods's experience with spinal disease highlights a real and under-recognised issue amongst modern era golfers.\n\n\"Tiger was using the mechanics of the modern day swing and that places a tremendous amount of strain on the back.\n\n\"It's still a theory but we are starting to see the late stages of this in some of our patients.\n\n\"We are seeing younger and younger elite level golfers with degeneration in their lower back.\"\n\nHe said any golfer, elite or not, who experienced pain should seek expert help.\n\nWoods had fusion surgery on his lower spine to get back to fitness. He also did a lot of physiotherapy and strengthening exercises in the gym.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tiger Woods explains why he is a \"walking miracle\"\n\nConsultant physiotherapist Nigel Tilley, who has worked on the PGA European Tour, the Ryder Cup and with Team GB, said the research should be treated with some caution.\n\n\"If you scanned a lot of people in their 40s, you would see some disc degeneration,\" he said. \"That doesn't mean the necessarily have a back problem with it though.\n\n\"And Tiger has had a very long golfing career doing repetitive movements, so it's perhaps not that surprising that he has had back problems.\n\n\"But there's certainly been a change in swing style among players in the last 20 years.\n\n\"It's become much more powerful and it can put more force on the spine. \"\n\nHe said it was important for golfers to control that speed to avoid injury.\n\n\"Strengthening and conditioning exercises in the gym can help reduce injuries,\" he said.\n\n\"If you are training properly, there's no reason why you can't resist these forces and have no problems or injuries.\n\n\"And golf is a great sport. I wouldn't want anyone to be put off doing it. You can play it at a very high level for a very long time.\"\n\nDr Andrea Fradkin, associate professor in exercise science at Bloomsburg University said \"Many injuries can be avoided by a good warm up.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Four children have died in a house fire which saw to adults jump from a first floor window with a toddler.\n\nThe blaze in the Highfields area of Stafford in the early hours also left the children's younger brother, their mother and her partner injured.\n\nRob Barber, deputy chief fire officer for Staffordshire Fire and Rescue Service, said the house was being examined but he could not comment on a possible cause.\n\nHe added, staff will remain in the area to \"provide support and advice following the heartbreaking and tragic incident\".\n\nRead more: Four children die in house fire", "Tributes have been left to the children close to the police cordon\n\nSycamore Lane is a quiet cul-de-sac nestled on the outskirts of Stafford.\n\nBut today it is filled with fire engines, police cars and emergency service personnel dealing with the wreckage of a burnt-out house. Hours earlier it was ravaged by a fire which claimed the lives of four children.\n\nA cordon, where journalists have gathered, blocks entry to the road. The mood is sombre as people try to go about their daily business.\n\nResidents from neighbouring streets stop and ask police officers what has happened. Visibly shocked and upset, many become tearful as the full horror of the events became clear.\n\nEmergency services workers remained at the scene of the fire today\n\nSome spoke of hearing screams while one witness described seeing a \"wall of flames\" out of the bedroom window.\n\n\"We just stood there with our hands over our mouths,\" another said.\n\nThe remnants of the property are partly covered in blue tarpaulin. The roof has collapsed, the windows shattered and the rooms left blackened.\n\nWendy Pickering and her husband Bryan said they often saw the family take the children to school\n\nWendy Pickering and her husband Bryan said they often saw the family take the children to school.\n\n\"It is a real shock,\" she said. \"We heard screaming... it is just so sad.\"\n\nPeople have started to lay flowers and teddy bears in tribute to the four children - named locally as Riley, Keegan, Tilly and Olly, and aged between three and eight - at the edge of the cordon.\n\nFirefighters helped place some of the memorials near the scene\n\nFriends and relatives visited the scene and shared tearful embraces.\n\nOne note read: \"Will be dearly missed, love Uncle Dave and Auntie Lou Lou\". Another said: \"To my lovely grandkids I will always miss you. Love you always xxx\".\n\nNeighbour Karl Griffiths was among those who left a stuffed toy\n\nNeighbour Karl Griffiths was among those who left a stuffed toy.\n\n\"I knew the family quite well. I feel distraught,\" he said. \"Stuff like this doesn't happen around here, we all looked out for each other.\n\n\"If I had known what was happening I would have come to help. I would.\n\n\"I just wanted to pay my condolences, it is the least I could do.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Keegan, Tilly Rose, Olly and Riley, seen here in a photo taken from social media, died in the blaze in the early hours of Tuesday\n\nFour children have died in a house fire which also left a toddler and two adults - who leapt to safety from a first-floor window - injured\n\nNeighbours reported hearing screams as the blaze, in the Highfields area of Stafford, took hold overnight.\n\nThe children killed in the fire were aged between three and eight, Staffordshire Police said.\n\nBoth adults, along with the toddler, are in hospital, but their injuries are not life-threatening.\n\nThe force named the four children, who have not been formally identified, as Riley Holt, eight, Keegan Unitt, six, Tilly Rose Unitt, four, and Olly Unitt, three.\n\nTheir two-year-old brother Jack survived, along with mother Natalie Unitt, 24 and her partner Chris Moulton, 28.\n\nPart of the roof collapsed, windows were shattered and rooms left blackened by the blaze after the fire broke out on Sycamore Lane at about 02:40 GMT.\n\nNeighbour Wendy Pickering said she heard \"screaming\" in the middle of the night, while her husband Bryan said he was alerted to the fire by his dog barking during the night.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFirefighters confirmed that a man, woman and young child had escaped from a first-floor window before emergency services arrives.\n\nThe cause of the blaze is not yet known.\n\nFlowers and soft toys have been left at the scene, while tributes have been paid to the four children who died by those who knew them\n\nNicola Glover, head teacher of Castlechurch Primary School, which Riley, Tilly and Olly attended, said the school was \"absolutely devastated\".\n\nShe described Riley as a \"confident, excitable\" and articulate boy \"who was always keen to ask lots of questions.\n\nA handwritten note attached to flowers was left at the scene from the children's grandparents\n\nTilly, meanwhile \"was a happy little girl who loved coming to nursery\" and was \"a friendly and caring child who loved to read stories, dress up and paint\", Ms Glover said.\n\nShe said Olly was \"a happy, loving boy who loved cuddles. He was always happy to come to nursery and loved to be in the role play area with the dolls\".\n\nKim Ellis, head teacher at Marshlands School, where Keegan was a pupil, said he was \"full of fun and mischief\".\n\n\"He loved school and everyone who worked with him loved him. It is very hard to accept what has happened.\"\n\nThe fire ripped through the house destroying parts of the roof\n\nCh Insp John Owen, of Staffordshire Police, described the blaze as \"absolutely heartbreaking\".\n\n\"Our firefighters were faced with very difficult conditions inside the property due to the severity of the fire,\" he said.\n\nNathan Hudson, assistant chief officer of West Midlands Ambulance, added: \"This was an immensely difficult incident for all three (emergency) services to respond to.\n\n\"Our thoughts remain with the family and friends and four children at this time.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMatthew Ellis, Staffordshire Commissioner for Police Fire and Crime, paid tribute to emergency services for working in \"tragic and difficult circumstances in the middle of the night\".\n\n\"For something like this to happen it's just heartbreaking,\" he said.\n\n\"It's very difficult to imagine just how professional and how dedicated these people are, but they are all human beings.\"\n\nCounty councillor for Stafford West, Carolyn Trowbridge, said local people had already begun to collect items and money to help the family.\n\nSpeaking near the scene, she said: \"This is a great community. We will all pull together and we will try to help this family as much as we possibly can.\"\n\nShe said the emergency services had \"worked tirelessly\", adding: \"It must have been horrendous for them.\"\n\nThere was a special service at Castle Church in Stafford at 19:00 GMT.\n\nThe Rev Philip Sowerbutts said: \"It will take this community a long time to get over such devastation.\n\n\"We as a church family along with all the other agencies have got to be here and stand together.\"\n\nThe nearby Signpost Centre on Auden Way has become one of many collection points for people looking to make donations to the family.\n\nKen Down, who runs the centre, said: \"Lots of people who knew the family were in the cafe this morning talking about it. There is lots of sadness.\n\n\"We are open five days a week for anyone who is having any issues. If they are feeling really upset about it they can come here and talk to us.\"\n\nA donation page set up to help the family \"rebuild their lives\" has amassed more than £12,000 since it was launched.\n\nIts founder, Stephen Glover, whose daughter attended the same school as Riley Holt, said he was \"delighted\" at the generosity of people not only from Stafford but all over the country.\n\nHousing association Stafford and Rural Homes, which owns the property, said it was assisting the police and fire service with investigations.", "A UN trade official has warned a US plan to raise tariffs on Chinese goods next month would have \"massive\" implications for the global economy.\n\nThe US plans to increase tariffs on Chinese goods if the two sides fail to make progress on a trade deal by 1 March.\n\nThe comments followed a report by a UN trade agency on the impact of the US-China trade war.\n\nIt said Asian countries are likely to suffer most from protectionism.\n\nThe US and China are locked in a damaging trade dispute that has seen both sides levy tariffs on billions of dollars worth of one another's goods.\n\nIn December, both countries agreed to hold off on new tariffs for 90 days to allow for talks.\n\nThe US and China have a deadline of 1 March to strike a deal, or the US has said it will increase tariff rates on $200bn (£152bn) worth of Chinese goods from 10% to 25%.\n\nThe UN Conference on Trade and Development (Unctad) has warned that there will be huge costs if the trade war escalates.\n\n\"The implications are going to be massive,\" Pamela Coke-Hamilton, Unctad's head of international trade, said at a news conference.\n\n\"The implications for the entire international trading system will be significantly negative.\"\n\nSmaller and poorer countries would struggle to cope with the external shocks, she said.\n\nThe higher cost of US-China trade would prompt companies to shift away from current east Asian supply chains.\n\nUnctad's report estimates that east Asian producers will be hit the hardest, with a projected $160bn contraction in the region's exports.\n\nBut it warns the effects could be felt everywhere.\n\n\"There'll be currency wars and devaluation, stagflation leading to job losses and higher unemployment and more importantly, the possibility of a contagion effect, or what we call a reactionary effect, leading to a cascade of other trade distortionary measures,\" Ms Coke-Hamilton said.\n\nThe higher cost of US-China trade would prompt companies to shift away from current east Asian supply chains, but report suggests it's unlikely that US firms would pick up that business.\n\nThe study found that US firms will only pick up 6% of the $250bn in Chinese exports that are subject to US tariffs.\n\nOf the approximately $85bn in US exports that are subject to China's tariffs, only about 5% will be taken up by Chinese firms, the UN research shows.\n\nThe study found that European exports will grow by $70bn, while Japan, Canada and Mexico will see exports increase by more than $20bn each.\n\nOther countries that could benefit include Australia, Brazil, India, the Philippines and Vietnam, the report said.", "The Commission wants watches retrieved from owners\n\nThe European Commission has ordered the recall of a children's smartwatch because it leaves them open to being contacted and located by attackers.\n\nIn its recall alert, the Commission said the Enox Safe-Kid-One device posed a \"serious\" risk.\n\nData sent to and from the watch was unencrypted allowing data to be easily taken and changed, it said.\n\nEnox said the decision was \"excessive\" and added that it had appealed against the ruling.\n\nThe recall is believed to be the first issued because a product does not protect user data.\n\n\"A malicious user can send commands to any watch making it call another number of his choosing, can communicate with the child wearing the device or locate the child through GPS,\" wrote the Commission in its alert notice.\n\nIt has directed public authorities across Europe to recall the product from end users.\n\nEnox founder Ole Anton Bieltvedt told the BBC that the watch had passed tests carried out by German regulators last year allowing it to be sold.\n\nThe version the Commission tested was no longer on sale, he added.\n\nEnox planned to lodge an appeal with Iceland's consumer protection regulator which had complained about the watch to the Commission.\n\nMr Bieltvedt said Enox's distributor in Iceland had made a \"strong protest\" and \"they have appealed to the authorities in charge with the demand that this test conclusion would be reversed\".\n\nThe Enox device comes fitted with GPS, a microphone and speaker and has a companion app that lets parents oversee the location of the wearer and contact them.\n\nTests by security researchers on popular smartwatches aimed at children last year revealed some of their shortcomings.\n\nThe security experts found it was easy to track children as the watches did a poor job of encrypting data or checking who was logging information.\n\nIn November 2017, Germany banned smartwatches for children saying they were \"spying devices\".", "Ocado has reported widening losses in the year ending 2 December 2018.\n\nThe online food retailer recorded a pre-tax loss of £44.4m, compared with £9.8m in the previous 12 months.\n\nHowever, its sales rose by 12.3% to £1.59bn and chief executive Tim Steiner said: \"We now have in place a platform for significant and sustainable long-term value creation.\"\n\nLast week, Ocado's shares rose by as much as 6.7% after a suggestion it may do a deal with Marks and Spencer.\n\nMr Steiner refused to confirm or deny the story, saying the company never commented on speculation linking it with rumoured deals.\n\nHowever, he did say: \"We are constantly talking to different retailers around the world.\"\n\nOcado currently has a deal with southern England-focused Waitrose, which is due to come to an end in September 2020.\n\nAnd Mr Steiner added: \"Under the current arrangement we have with Waitrose, we wouldn't be able to add the own labels of another substantial UK grocery retailer into the current Ocado offering.\"\n\nThe company's losses grew as a result of investment costs, including development of its new warehouses and IT systems, and an accounting charge, while its earnings fell by 20.7% to £59.5m.\n\nIt attracted 11.8% more active customers, taking its total to 721,000, with total order volumes increasing by 12.1% to an average of 296,000 per week.\n\nThe value of each basket shrunk slightly, however, to £106.85 from £107.28.\n\nMr Steiner said that Ocado was \"the leading pure-play digital grocer in the UK, a world-leading provider of end-to-end e-commerce grocery solutions\" and added, \"our transformation journey is well under way\".\n\nHe added: \"Creating future value now will involve us continuing to scale the business, enhancing our platform, enabling our UK retail business to take advantage of all its opportunities for growth and innovating for the future.\"\n\nIn a statement, the company said it was confident of achieving retail revenue growth of between 10% and 15% this year, despite another expected drop in earnings.\n\nMr Steiner said that Ocado was as prepared as it could be for the impact of Brexit.\n\nHe explained that none of the food retailers could stockpile food because of lack of space and the fact that fresh stock would not last long.\n\nBut he said they had started to get in extra supplies of \"mechanical spare parts that we need to keep our facilities running. We don't want to be in a situation where we can buy the food, but can't buy a component\".\n\nHe added: \"This is an example of one of the mitigating things that we have done.\"\n\nAnalyst Neil Wilson, of markets.com, said the firm's share price could come under pressure, adding \"having firmed up since December the stock could be ripe for some profit taking again\".", "Mourinho left his job as Manchester United manager in December\n\nEx-Manchester United boss José Mourinho has agreed a prison term in Spain for tax fraud but will not go to jail.\n\nA one-year prison sentence will instead be exchanged for a fine of €182,500 (£160,160). That will be added to a separate fine of €2m.\n\nSpain rarely enforces sentences of less than two years for non-violent or first-time offenders.\n\nHe was accused of owing €3.3m to Spanish tax authorities from his time managing Real Madrid in 2011-2012.\n\nProsecutors said he had created offshore companies to manage his image rights and hide the earnings from tax officials.\n\nImage rights cover the use of a person's likeness, voice, signature and mannerisms - and can be very lucrative for footballers and managers.\n\nMr Mourinho's move to Manchester United in 2016 was even delayed after it emerged his previous team Chelsea owned the trademark to his name.\n\nSpanish prosecutors said that Mr Mourinho, a Portuguese national, had set up multiple business entities in the British Virgin Islands and elsewhere to manage his image rights.\n\nThey argued that was designed to obscure his financial gain from such deals - and he left it undeclared in his tax statements after he moved to Spain.\n\nHe is the latest high-profile football personality to strike a deal with Spanish authorities, which are pursuing a crackdown on tax evasion or fraud by the country's many resident star players.\n\nMourinho reacts during the Manchester-Fulham match in December, weeks before leaving the manager's job\n\nIn January, Cristiano Ronaldo accepted a fine of €18.8m and a suspended 23-month jail sentence, in a case which was also centred around tax owed on image rights.\n\nHe was playing for Real Madrid at the time of the offence between 2010 and 2014 - the same team Mr Mourinho was managing at the time of his own tax violation.\n\nUnlike the Ronaldo case, Spanish media were not told about Tuesday's hearing, so there was no crowd to meet the former Manchester United manager, who lost his job in December.\n\nAnother former Real Madrid star, Xabi Alonso, is also facing charges over alleged tax fraud amounting to about €2m, though he denies any wrongdoing.\n\nMarcelo Vieira, who still plays for the club, accepted a four-month suspended jail sentence last September over his use of foreign firms to handle almost half a million euros in earnings.\n\nBarcelona's Lionel Messi and Neymar have also found themselves embroiled in legal battles with the Spanish tax authorities.\n\nAs in many of the cases, Mr Mourinho's deal which spared him from prison had been agreed in advance with tax officials.", "The RAF's Tornado jets have returned to the UK for the last time in preparation for retirement after nearly 40 years in service.\n\nEight Tornados, which were based in Cyprus and used in the fight against the Islamic State group, have now landed at RAF Marham in Norfolk.\n\nThe first five jets made the five-hour flight on Monday, with the last three arriving on Tuesday.\n\nThe Tornado, in service since 1979 and first used in combat during the first Gulf War, will leave service before the end of March.", "Councils say a more sustainable funding model is needed to ensure services continue\n\nThe latest financial pot for councils in England will \"pave the way for a more confident, self-sufficient and reinvigorated local government,\" the communities secretary has said.\n\nJames Brokenshire claimed local authorities would have an extra £1.3bn in the next financial year.\n\nBut this is their estimated \"spending power\", not the guaranteed government grant, which will fall by around £1bn.\n\nThe Local Government Association (LGA) has complained of a £3bn funding gap.\n\nIt said \"huge uncertainty\" remained over the provision of services.\n\nMPs voted on Tuesday evening to adopt the plans.\n\nThe \"core spending power\" of councils will rise by £1.3bn or 2.8% to £46.4bn - which includes money raised if councils increase their tax by the maximum 3% allowed and collect strong amounts from rents and business rates.\n\nHowever, the central grant they get from government will drop by around £1bn on the current financial year.\n\nBBC social affairs correspondent Michael Buchanan said council budgets would shrink by almost 6%, meaning more services would have to be cut.\n\nOpening the debate, Mr Brokenshire said he had listened to councils who wanted more control of the money they raised, and had plans to allow more authorities to keep the business rates they collected.\n\nHe also promised a review of the formula used to work out how money is split between areas, saying the current one was \"far too complicated and frankly out of date\".\n\nHe said the moves would \"reboot our system\" of local government.\n\n\"Strong, vibrant resilient communities are more than ever key to unlocking a brighter future for our country,\" said the minister.\n\n\"I hold these dedicated public servants in the highest regard and have faith in them to rise to the challenges that lie ahead to see their people and places flourish with no-one left behind.\"\n\nLabour's communities spokesman Andrew Gwynne said all councils had been \"hung out to dry\" by the government over the last nine years and the figure for core spending power was \"smoke and mirrors\".\n\nHe added: \"There is no new new money, no new ideas, no recognition of the dire situation facing councils.\"\n\nThe independent Institute for Fiscal Studies calculates that poorer council areas will lose more money that richer authorities.\n\nLGA chairman Lord Porter said: \"The money councils have to provide local services is running out fast and there is huge uncertainty about how they will pay for them into the next decade and beyond.\"", "Daniel Williams was last seen leaving a bar at about 01:00 GMT on Thursday\n\nA body has been found in a lake in the search for a missing 19-year-old student, police said.\n\nDaniel Williams, from Sutton in London, has been missing since Thursday after failing to return home after a night out at the University of Reading.\n\nPolice searching for him discovered the body in Whiteknights Lake near the university's campus.\n\nThames Valley Police said the death was being treated as unexplained and was not believed to be suspicious.\n\nNo formal identification has taken place, the force said, but Mr Williams' family has been informed.\n\nIn response to the \"very sad\" news, the university said activities on campus would continue as normal and support would be available to students and staff.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by Uni of Reading\n\nA major search, aided by search and rescue volunteers and the National Police Air Service, was launched over the weekend for second-year computer science student Mr Williams.\n\nPolice said they had checked a lake and surrounding countryside on Monday.\n\nSearch crews were seen searching Whiteknights Lake in a small boat until about 13:00 GMT on Monday.\n\nLead investigator, Supt Jim Weems, said recent snow had \"not hampered\" the search, but the night Mr Williams disappeared was \"one of the coldest\" of the year.\n\nA vigil was hosted on Monday in the Whiteknights campus bar, 3sixty, where Mr Williams was last seen.\n\nPolice water search teams have spent two days in the lake\n\nThe forensic team arrived just before 11:00 GMT and there were lots of police on the scene.\n\nA small group - including plain clothes officers and forensic specialists - gathered on the bank of the lake and were deep in conversation.\n\nThe water search team has packed their equipment away, their job is done.\n\nPolice have closed the nearby footpath, but the university campus remains open.\n\nSpeaking before the body was found, the university's Anglican Chaplain Mark Laynesmith told the BBC students were in \"shock\".\n\nActing vice-chancellor Prof Robert Van de Noort said support was being offered to Mr Williams' housemates and friends.\n\nMr Williams' family described him as \"a happy, normal 19-year-old enjoying university life\" and said they had \"no concern at all\" about him before he went missing.\n\nSupt Weems said the disappearance was \"completely out of character\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Kyle Remzi, a computer science student at Essex University, died aged 20 after an overdose in 2017\n\nAt least 204 deaths have been linked to the misuse of anxiety drug Xanax in the UK since 2015, figures seen by the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme reveal.\n\nOf these, there were 126 fatalities in Scotland between 2015 and 2017.\n\nCounterfeit Xanax bars with a street value of more than £1m have been seized at UK ports and airports since 2016.\n\nBorder Force said its officers were \"at the forefront of the fight to keep illegal drugs out of the country\".\n\n\"We are taking a smarter approach to restricting the supply of drugs and are adapting our approach to reflect changes in criminal activity,\" it added.\n\nPfizer, the company that developed Xanax as a prescription drug, said it was \"alarmed by the rise\" of counterfeit versions and that it \"continued to work side-by-side with all law enforcement\".\n\nIt added that Xanax was \"subject to strict regulations\" and \"should only be used as prescribed by and under the supervision of a qualified healthcare practitioner\".\n\nXanax, also known by the name alprazolam, is widely prescribed in the US to treat anxiety and panic attacks, and can be obtained on private prescription in the UK - though not through the NHS.\n\nCounterfeit versions of the class C drug are often bought via the dark web, and mixed with other substances, which makes it extra dangerous.\n\nThere were 30 deaths reported in England and Wales between 2015 and 2017, figures provided by the Office for National Statistics show.\n\nThe Victoria Derbyshire programme has found evidence of at least five further deaths from the misuse of Xanax in 2018.\n\nBetween 2015 and 2017 - 43 people have died in Northern Ireland having misused Xanax with other drugs.\n\nSarah Stewart says her son's death has left the family \"in pieces\"\n\nSarah Stewart's son Kyle Remzi, a computer science student at Essex University, died aged 20 after an overdose in 2017.\n\nA post-mortem examination found illegally-obtained, counterfeit Xanax to be the cause of his death. There were also traces of MDMA and alcohol in his blood.\n\n\"I kept begging him to listen. Xanax was the problem with him,\" she said, breaking into tears. \"He was addicted and I tried so hard.\n\n\"When he died, so did the family. We're all in pieces.\n\n\"He just thought it was a party thing. He was educated, loved by everyone - all the love in the world didn't save him.\"\n\nIn 2018, some 340,000 counterfeit Xanax bars were seized at UK ports and airports, figures from Border Force figures and the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) show.\n\nThe MHRA's head of enforcement, Alastair Jeffrey, said the key was raising awareness among the public and giving people \"the knowledge that buying medicines outside the regulated supply chain is a really dangerous thing to do\".\n\nIn Belfast, rough sleeper Andy, 22 - whose surname we are not using - said he was dependent on the drug and took up to 20 illegally-obtained pills a day.\n\nWhen the Victoria Derbyshire programme met him, he said he had been on a life-support machine two days earlier, because of the effects of Xanax.\n\n\"My heart stopped. They cut my clothes off. They had to put tubes down me and I was on a life-support machine,\" he said.\n\nAndy fears he may not see the age of 25\n\nHe added that he was already back taking Xanax.\n\nAsked why, he answered: \"I don't know any better.\n\n\"I probably won't see 25 if I don't stop. I'll be lucky if I see 23.\"\n\nNorthern Ireland's police service (PSNI) said counterfeit Xanax was the third most-seized drug there, accounting for 25% of the 113 deaths involving drugs recorded in 2018.\n\nThe PSNI's DCI David Henderson said it had \"more seizure incidents of [psychoactive drugs] benzo, which includes Xanax, than we do of heroin or ecstasy.\"\n\nSome hospitals have been struggling to cope with overdoses involving the misuse of Xanax.\n\nNHS Grampian in Aberdeen issued a warning of the dangers in 2018, having recorded 29 deaths involving the drug the year before.\n\nThe Scottish government said it was \"increasing awareness of the health-related dangers of misusing prescription drugs… and addressing the underlying factors\".\n\nFollow the Victoria Derbyshire programme on Facebook and Twitter - and see more of our stories here.", "Not an inch? Top EU officials Jean-Claude Juncker (L) and Michel Barnier in Brussels\n\nSo. How open does the EU seem almost a week on from parliament narrowly voting in favour of an amendment to find alternatives to the backstop guarantee to keep the Irish border open after Brexit?\n\nAfter all, with every passing day as we've heard , again and again and again, the clock is ticking us all towards an increased chance of a no-deal Brexit with all the costs and chaos that could involve.\n\nWell, if I were to speak in weather forecast terms, I might describe current EU attitudes as frosty with a chance of ice.\n\nIf Theresa May comes to Brussels later this week, she will be received politely and listened to attentively.\n\nBut if her EU ask remains centred around getting a time limit to, or allowing the UK a unilateral get-out mechanism from, the Irish border backstop or if she pushes again for pure technology as a means of avoiding a hard border on the island of Ireland, then the likelihood of her being sent home empty-handed - or as good as - is very high indeed.\n\nThis is not because the EU has suddenly become cavalier about the prospect of a no-deal Brexit - far from it. The club may be over the moon about just sealing the world's largest ever bilateral deal with Japan but that's no replacement for trade and cooperation with neighbouring UK.\n\nIt's just that the EU sees so many reasons not to budge over the backstop: solidarity with EU club member Ireland over \"caving in\" to departing member UK; defending the Good Friday Agreement and the Northern Ireland peace process; and above all (in the eyes, hearts and pockets of many EU politicians and businesses) defending the integrity of the EU's single market.\n\nSo when Sajid Javid, the UK's home secretary, announced at the weekend that sorting out the backstop would just involve \"a bit of good will\" on behalf of the EU, I could almost hear the groans of European exasperation from my Brussels living room.\n\nThis is something that those in the UK who knowingly repeat that \"the EU will give in, in the end\" perhaps don't fully appreciate.\n\nThe EU certainly does budge at times, even when it has repeatedly ruled out such a move but it performs U-turns out of self-interest, to safeguard the bloc in some way.\n\nTake the oft-cited Greek debt crisis - the EU acted in the interest of the eurozone currency. That is ultimately why it changed its line on member country Greece.\n\nThe Brussels calculation is that a no-deal Brexit would be damaging for the EU but exposing the entire EU single market to clear vulnerabilities would be the worst of two evils.\n\nThe backstop guarantee for the Irish border ensures a means of sealing the long, meandering, porous border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland in a way that technology alone (as many Brexiteers are suggesting) cannot.\n\nThe EU worries about tariff-dodging and about non-EU standard products being smuggled into the EU's single market \"through the back door\" - via Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK.\n\nIf technology alone could seal a border in terms of customs and regulatory checks then you would no longer see the existing infrastructure in place between close allies and neighbours non-EU Norway and EU member Sweden or between Switzerland, which has very tight relations with the European Union, and its EU neighbours.\n\nSo, instead of dramatically changing or weakening the backstop, the EU is more than happy - as officials indicated today to visiting members of the UK's parliamentary Brexit Select Committee - to repeat or re-package its previous reassurances about the backstop.\n\nAn important aside on the transition period: there's a new proposal the EU understands is now being championed by Downing Street - The Malthouse Compromise. Brussels would likely reject this, not only because it seeks to rewrite the backstop but because it suggests paying the EU to extend the transition period even in the case of a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThe EU argues (and this is included in the text of the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement) that if the Brexit deal is not passed by the House of Commons, there will be no transition period. Full stop.\n\nNow, the EU is not at all convinced that re-hashing assurances about the backstop will be enough to satisfy MPs who voted to change it. They believe the bar set by the DUP and hard-line Brexiteers is too high for any tweaks the EU might be willing to make. Which leaves EU leaders sceptical that Theresa May actually has the majority of MPs behind her.\n\nJust this weekend for example, the EU's deputy chief Brexit negotiator, Sabine Weyand, retweeted a UK commentator pointing out signs of splintering in the brief truce inside the Conservative Party.\n\nWhich is why the EU will continue to show ice-cold resolve - at least for now. Hoping, by not giving an inch over the backstop, that the Prime Minister will be forced to look across the political divide, to the Labour Party, for another means to find parliamentary support for the Brexit Deal - such as opting for a permanent customs union with the EU.\n\nThis is the EU's hope. But European diplomats see in Theresa May a politician who likes sticking to her Plan A's.\n\nIs the UK Prime Minister simply playing for time?\n\nFrom the beginning we've discussed the big possibility that with such a divided country, parliament, party and cabinet, the prime minister will simply keep playing for time, inching forward small step by small step until so close to the cliff-edge of having no Brexit deal at all that most MPs will end up backing her and her deal at the very last moment.\n\nDublin is deeply concerned about the consequences of a no deal Brexit - for peace above all but also about the impact on the Irish economy. Taoiseach Leo Varadkar heads to Brussels this Wednesday for high-level meetings. That same day his deputy flies to Washington to lobby for US support to safeguard the Good Friday Agreement and to ensure the Irish border stays open.\n\nCould US disapproval over UK pressure on the backstop makes things more complicated for a future UK-US trade deal?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Willow Sims says her mental health - and family - are suffering as she tries to resolve the issue\n\nThe home secretary has apologised to a 41-year-old woman who faced deportation and eviction after being wrongly refused help by the Windrush scheme.\n\nWillow Sims, who moved to the UK from the US aged four, lost proof of her indefinite leave to remain when she was taken into foster care.\n\nSajid Javid said he was \"concerned\" by the mother-of-two's story.\n\nMs Sims said she hoped the Home Office would find a solution \"so that nobody has to not exist ever again\".\n\nShe worked as a teaching assistant until last year, when she was subjected to a routine DBS (Disclosure and Barring Service) check by her employers.\n\nWithout the necessary documents, she was unable to prove her immigration status, and subsequently lost her right to work, and her access to healthcare and benefits.\n\nShe is now thousands of pounds in debt and reliant on food banks.\n\nThe Windrush taskforce was set up last April to help thousands of people who were wrongly targeted by the Home Office's \"hostile environment\" strategy for illegal immigration.\n\nPeople of any nationality who settled in the UK before 31 December 1988 can apply to the taskforce for help securing proof of their status.\n\nBut when Ms Sims rang the helpline she was told she did not qualify for assistance because she was not from a Commonwealth country.\n\nLater, after the BBC approached the Home Office, it confirmed she was, in fact, eligible after all.\n\nMr Javid told MPs in the House of Commons on Tuesday: \"I am absolutely happy to apologise to her for the mistakes of the Home Office in not recognising the importance of her case right from the first moment she contacted the Home Office.\"\n\nHe has committed officials in his department to further training to prevent similar errors happening again.\n\nWillow Sims (left) lost her right to work in the UK, despite having lived in the country since she was four\n\nResponding to Mr Javid's statements, Ms Sims said: \"I'm just so happy that I have a name again and that I'm a person again.\n\n\"I just hope a solution can be found so that nobody has to not exist ever again.\"\n\nEllie Reeves, Ms Sims' local MP, said her constituent was \"failed by mistakes at every level of government\" and called for the \"chaos\" to be \"urgently rectified\".", "Police are questioning the couple over alleged abuse\n\nTwo Russians have been detained in Malaysia over a street act which involved swinging their baby by the legs and throwing it up into the air.\n\nThe pair are being questioned over alleged abuse of the infant, police told news agency AFP.\n\nA video of one of their performances has gone viral over the past days, prompting the police to act.\n\nThe parents, in their late 20s, are travelling across South East Asia as buskers.\n\nThe couple, who are in Malaysia on a month-long tourist visa, have defended the act. They told the Free Malaysia Today (FMT) news website that their child \"loves this exercise\".\n\nThe 90-second video was uploaded on Facebook by a user who described it as an \"irresponsible act that can literally cause injury\", urging police to arrest those involved.\n\nThe clip shows a man holding a baby by the feet, swinging it between his legs and raising it above his head.\n\nHe also throws the baby into the air several times, briefly letting go.\n\nNext to him are a group of other Europeans playing instruments and chanting. The Facebook post has been viewed more than 28,000 times.\n\nFacebook said it had not taken it down because \"it may help with rescuing the child in question\".\n\nThe video can still be viewed online but with a warning that it \"may show violence against a child or teenager\".\n\nPolice detained the couple during another performance on a street in Kuala Lumpur.\n\n\"We detained them on Monday for questioning over the alleged abuse,\" Kuala Lumpur police chief Mazlan Lazim told AFP.\n\nHe told local reporters the baby was unharmed, with no sign of injuries.\n\nMost comments on the Facebook post express shock at the treatment of the baby and that the parents use their child to make money.\n\nOne comment says similar baby gymnastics are legal in Russia.\n\nWhile controversial also in Russia, some believe the exercise helps babies develop more quickly.\n\nThe Russian embassy in Kuala Lumpur told FMT they would contact the family.\n\n\"We feel it is not right to draw attention or behave in this manner, to swing the baby,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nOther social media users also express their anger that the couple appears to be travelling around South East Asia begging for money.\n\nThere's been a growing trend of Westerners travelling in poorer Asian countries begging for money and other support to sustain their trip.\n\nOften referred to as \"begpackers\", they're increasingly a source of confusion or anger for local populations.", "The brother of a paratrooper who was killed in Afghanistan more than 10 years ago wants to join the armed forces in his memory.\n\nFin Doherty was six when his brother was killed but is now training to join the Army.\n\nPte Jeff \"JJ\" Doherty, from Southam, Warwickshire, was killed in an ambush in Helmand province, Afghanistan.\n\nFin said he had been helped to deal with his grief by Cheltenham-based charity Winston's Wish.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA body has been seen in the underwater wreckage of the plane that was carrying footballer Emiliano Sala and pilot David Ibbotson.\n\nA search on Sunday found the Piper Malibu plane on the seabed off Guernsey, almost two weeks after it went missing.\n\nThe Air Accident Investigation Branch confirmed the sighting on Monday.\n\nRescue teams are now developing a recovery plan for the plane, which is 67m (220ft) below water.\n\nThe man who found it said it was \"imperative\" it was raised from the seabed soon.\n\n\"There's a much greater chance they (the Sala family) will get answers if (the plane is) recovered,\" said shipwreck hunter David Mearns.\n\nHe added their \"worst fears are confirmed\", saying: \"It's going to take a long time for them to come to terms with the loss.\"\n\nEmiliano Sala (left) was on board a plane being flown by pilot David Ibbotson\n\nThe flight had been carrying Argentine striker Sala, 28, and Mr Ibbotson, 59, from Nantes, north west France, to Cardiff after Sala completed his £15m move to Cardiff City.\n\nThe \"substantial amount of wreckage\" of the plane, was found on Sunday morning after Mr Mearns' privately-funded search began.\n\nHe said lifting the plane was now the most important task.\n\nMr Mearns added: \"(The AAIB) will be able to rule things out or rule things in, that's the normal investigative process for any crash, so I think it's imperative that the plane is recovered, and now even more so now we know someone is down there.\"\n\nThe recovery operation would need to take place in \"slack water\" - the point at which the tide is turning, he added.\n\nIt would be conducted by a Ministry of Defence salvage marine operations vessel and Mr Mearns said one equipped for working in the North Sea with a dive support vessel would be able to lift the plane \"within a matter of days\".\n\nVideo footage recorded using a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) showed one person in the wreckage.\n\nThe AAIB said it was consulting with the missing men's families and police about the next step and intends to publish an interim report in the coming weeks.\n\nAn online appeal started by Sala's agent had raised £324,000 (371,000 euros) for the private search, which Mr Mearns offered to help with.\n\nWorking jointly with the AAIB, his ship and another search vessel, the Geo Ocean III, began combing a four square mile area of the English Channel, 24 nautical miles north of Guernsey.\n\nSpeaking on Radio 4's Today programme on Monday, Mr Mearns said the plane was identified by sonar, before a submersible with cameras was sent underwater to confirm this.\n\n\"They saw the registration number and the biggest surprise is that most of the plane is there - we were expecting to find a debris field,\" he added.\n\nThe Geo Ocean III (circled) is at the scene of the wreckage while it is decided what actions will be taken\n\nGeo Ocean III sent down a submersible to investigate the wreckage\n\nTributes have been left outside the Cardiff City Stadium\n\nMeanwhile, Cardiff City football club said it was \"actively considering\" what to do with the tributes to Sala and Mr Ibbotson, from Crowle, Lincolnshire, which have been left outside the stadium.\n\nA growing number of items, such as scarves, flowers and football shirts, have been laid around the statue of the club's FA Cup-winning captain Fred Keenor over the past two weeks.\n\nA spokesman said it will make a decision soon.\n\nThe AAIB released this map of the search area Mr Mearns's boat and the AAIB covered\n\nAn official search operation was called off on 24 January after Guernsey's harbour master said the chances of survival were \"extremely remote\".\n\nCushions believed to be from the plane were found on a beach near Surtainville, on France's Cotentin Peninsula, last week.\n\nThere were emotional tributes to the footballer as Cardiff played their first home game since the disappearance on Saturday.\n\nThe club's manager, Neil Warnock, said he felt Sala was \"with\" his team as they beat Bournemouth 2-0 in the Premier League.", "Nissan has confirmed that the new X-Trail originally planned for its Sunderland plant will instead be made in Japan.\n\nIn a letter to workers, it said continued Brexit uncertainty is not helping firms to \"plan for the future\".\n\nIn 2016, the carmaker said it would build the new model in the UK after \"assurances\" from the government.\n\nUnions described the news as \"disappointing\" and said they were \"seriously concerned\".\n\nThe government said Nissan's decision was \"a blow to the sector\" but that no jobs would go as a result.\n\nNissan has made cars at Sunderland since 1986 and employs almost 7,000 people.\n\nCommenting on its decision, Nissan also said that since 2016 \"the environment for the car industry in Europe has changed dramatically\", including \"changing emissions regulations\".\n\nIn the UK, diesel cars that fail to meet the latest emissions standards now face a levy and a number of European countries, including the UK, have announced bans on both new diesel and petrol vehicles in the future.\n\nAs a result, sales of new diesel cars in the UK tumbled by 30% in 2018, according to the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders.\n\nNissan was always going to produce the X-Trail model at its Kyushu production hub but decided two years ago, \"there was a good business case for bringing production to Europe as well,\" according to the firm's Europe chairman, Gianluca de Ficchy.\n\nHe said the company is now planning \"to optimise our investments and concentrate production in Kyushu, instead of adding another production site\".\n\nMr de Ficchy, said: \"Nissan is investing heavily in new technologies and powertrains for the next generation of vehicles in our Sunderland plant.\n\n\"To support this, we are taking advantage of our global assets, and with X-Trail already manufactured in Japan, we can reduce our upfront investment costs.\"\n\nMr de Ficchy said the news would be \"disappointing\" to its UK team and partners, but that the workforce in Sunderland had the company's \"full confidence\".\n\n\"While we have taken this decision for business reasons, the continued uncertainty around the UK's future relationship with the EU is not helping companies like ours to plan for the future,\" he added.\n\nA number of carmakers, including Jaguar Land Rover, Toyota and Vauxhall have expressed fears of disruption to their supply chains in the event of a no-deal Brexit.\n\nBusiness Secretary Greg Clark said: \"Nissan's announcement is a blow to the sector and the region, as this was to be a further significant expansion of the site and the workforce.\n\n\"The company has confirmed that no jobs will be lost. They have reiterated today their commitment to the UK by continuing to manufacture in Sunderland the current Qashqai, Leaf and Juke models and the new Qashqai model from 2020.\"\n\nUnite's acting national officer for the car sector, Steve Bush, said: \"This is very disappointing news for Sunderland and the North East and reflects the serious challenges facing the entire UK auto sector.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHe added that the union remained \"seriously concerned\" that \"the apprenticeships and additional jobs that come with future investment and which this community so desperately needs will be lost\".\n\nSunderland Central MP Julie Elliott said the move was \"devastating news for our city and the region\".\n\nShe added: \"The uncertainty around Brexit is always a factor now in any decisions made in manufacturing.\"\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn said: \"The Conservatives' botched negotiations and threat of a no-deal Brexit is causing uncertainty and damaging Britain's economy.\"\n\nThere's been a run of bad news from the car industry in recent months.\n\nJob losses have been announced at Jaguar Land Rover and Ford and the cancellation of Nissan's X-Trail investment at its Sunderland plant is just the latest disappointment from a sector that was booming a few years ago.\n\nThere are many who want to say this is all down to Brexit. But it's not.\n\nDeclining car sales in China, the world's biggest car market, have unnerved the industry worldwide. As have falling car sales and an economic rough patch in Europe.\n\nThere are questions over whether diesel technology has a future after governments, who pushed it hard until a few years ago, and drivers, who previously liked its fuel efficiency, have become less keen on it.\n\nIn the UK, this is all set against the backdrop of Brexit uncertainty.\n\nThe car industry has long been worried about potential changes to trading rules after the UK leaves the EU. It's nervous about border taxes and customs delays disrupting its just-in-time model of manufacturing.\n\nNissan has been clear the decision to cancel its Sunderland X-Trail investment is a commercial decision. But it chose to say \"continued uncertainty\" around the UK's future relationship with the EU \"is not helping\" it plan for the future.\n\nBig businesses tend to stay out of politics.\n\nSo Nissan's decision to highlight Brexit means it is clearly a concern in the minds of company executives.\n\nConservative Brexiteer Jacob Rees-Mogg said Nissan had \"all sorts of problems that are nothing to do with Brexit\", including \"very considerable corporate governance problems\" arising from ex-chairman Carlos Ghosn's arrest.\n\nProduction of the Qashqai - the best-selling crossover vehicle in Europe - makes up the majority of the current work at Sunderland.\n\nThere had been concerns that Nissan - part-owned by France's Renault - could move production to France in future to avoid any post-Brexit EU tariffs.\n\nBut when the X-Trail investment was initially announced, Nissan said hundreds of jobs would be created at the Sunderland plant.\n\nIt sparked questions over whether a deal between the carmaker and the government had been struck, although ministers insisted that no \"financial compensation\" had been offered.", "Car workers such as those in Sunderland (above) and Bridgend face uncertainty over Brexit\n\nA councillor from a Welsh car-making town has apologised for saying Nissan workers in Sunderland who voted for Brexit should lose their jobs.\n\nDavid White posted his view on social media after the Japanese firm cancelled plans to make a new model in the UK.\n\nLinking to a BBC news story about the decision, he said: \"All those who voted to leave - should be laid off first.\"\n\nThe Bridgend councillor said he posted in \"sheer frustration\" at how Brexit uncertainty was affecting investment.\n\nHighlighting the Facebook message in a tweet, tagging it to Jeremy Corbyn and the UK Labour Party, the independent group on Bridgend County Borough Council tweeted: \"Excuse us, is this acceptable from one of your Labour councillors in South Wales?\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nApologising for his comments, Councillor White said: \"I wouldn't wish losing a job on anyone in real life, and I shouldn't have done it online.\n\n\"Misplacing the blame doesn't help to bring us all together, and I will certainly be considering the effect of what I post in future,\" he told the Local Democracy Reporting Service.\n\nBridgend council's Labour leader Huw David said: \"I have been crystal clear with him that it was unacceptable and he has apologised unreservedly.\n\n\"It goes without saying that his comments do not reflect the view of the council.\n\n\"We are working hard to mitigate against the UK government's shambolic handling of Brexit, and that anyone's job could be at risk because of two years of complete uncertainty about our future is a damning indictment of this chaotic government.\"\n\nBrexit uncertainty has prompted fears for the future of Ford's engine plant in Bridgend, where the company confirmed in January it was looking to cut 370 of its 1,700 jobs.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "US President Donald Trump and North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un have met at the start of their high-profile summit in Vietnam's capital, Hanoi.", "US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un are in Vietnam for a second summit, following a historic first round of talks in Singapore last year.\n\nThe two leaders are expected to discuss progress towards ridding the Korean peninsula of nuclear weapons.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Theresa May said Jeremy Corbyn should suspend Chris Williamson\n\nA Labour MP is to be investigated for remarks about the party's handling of anti-Semitism but will not be suspended amid a deepening row within the party.\n\nChris Williamson claimed Labour had \"given too much ground\" in the face of criticism over the issue, remarks which he now says he \"deeply regrets\".\n\nDeputy leader Tom Watson criticised the \"heavily caveated\" apology and said stronger action was required.\n\nThe MP remains a member of the party in Parliament during the investigation.\n\nLabour has put the MP under \"formal notice of investigation\" over a \"pattern of behaviour\" relating to the long-running row over anti-Semitism.\n\nThe BBC's Vicki Young said the MP faced possible expulsion as the ultimate sanction but would remain a member of Labour's parliamentary party while the probe took place - a decision likely to anger many within the party.\n\nIn footage published by the Yorkshire Post, Mr Williamson, who is a close ally of Jeremy Corbyn, told activists Labour had been \"too apologetic\" over anti-Semitism and was being \"demonised as a racist, bigoted party\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Williamson is reported to have held a meeting with aides of Jeremy Corbyn's shortly before Prime Minister's Questions began at midday.\n\nMinutes later, he issued a statement on Twitter apologising, saying he never meant to downplay the \"pernicious and cancerous\" nature of anti-Semitism.\n\n\"I deeply regret and apologise for my recent choice of words,\" he wrote. \"I was trying to suggest how much the party has done to tackle anti-Semitism.\n\n\"Our movement can never be too apologetic about racism in our ranks. While it is true there have been very few cases of anti-Semitism in Labour, something I believe is often forgotten when discussing this issue, it is also true that those few are too many.\"\n\nMr Williamson said he would be more \"considered\" in his language in future and said he wanted to be \"an ally\" in the fight against anti-Semitism.\n\nLabour had urged the MP to say sorry for the \"deeply offensive and inappropriate\" remarks made clear that \"downplaying the problem of anti-Semitism makes it harder for us to tackle it\".\n\nBut senior figures say Labour must go further and take disciplinary action, ex-leader Ed Miliband describing the row as \"a test\" for the party.\n\nMr Watson said the MP's statement was \"not good enough and if it was in my gift I would have removed the whip from him already\".\n\nUrging Labour to suspend the MP, Theresa May said the fact Jewish MPs like Luciana Berger felt they had no choice but to quit Labour while Mr Williamson stayed put \"summed up\" the state of the opposition.\n\n\"It tells you all you need to know about the Labour leadership,\" she said at Prime Minister's Questions. \"Present but not involved.\"\n\nLondon Mayor Sadiq Khan told the Emma Barnett show on BBC Radio 5 Live that Labour needed to get its house in order through \"swift, robust action\" against offenders.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBoard of Deputies of British Jews president Marie van der Zyl has also called for the removal of the whip from Mr Williamson.\n\nShe said the board rejected his \"half-hearted apology\" and had submitted a formal complaint to the Labour Party.\n\n\"Jeremy Corbyn must remove the whip at once if he wants to retain the faintest image of himself as an anti-racist,\" she said.\n\nLabour has struggled to contain a long-running row over claims of anti-Semitism - hostility or prejudice directed against Jewish people - within its ranks. Nine MPs quit the party last week, criticising the leadership's handling of the issue.\n\nBut at a recent Momentum meeting in Sheffield, Mr Williamson said \"I have got to say I think our party's response has been partly responsible for that because in my opinion… we have backed off far too much, we have given too much ground, we have been too apologetic.\"\n\nAmid applause from the audience, he went on to say: \"We've done more to address the scourge of anti-Semitism than any political party.\"\n\nChris Williamson said Labour had done more to address anti-Semitism than any other party\n\nOn Tuesday, Labour officials criticised Mr Williamson for booking a room in Parliament for a screening of a film about anti-Semitism and the activist Jackie Walker.\n\nMs Walker was suspended by Labour over allegedly anti-Semitic comments in 2016, and the documentary, Witch Hunt, looks at those and other allegations within the party.\n\nEarlier this month, the Labour Party's general secretary, Jennie Formby, said the party had received 673 complaints in 10 months alleging acts of anti-Semitism by its members.", "US actress Selma Blair has spoken about her life with multiple sclerosis, four months after she was diagnosed.\n\n\"I really feel like people with disabilities are invisible to a lot of people,\" she told Vanity Fair magazine.\n\nBut the star, who appeared with a cane at an Oscars party on Sunday, added: \"There's no tragedy for me. I'm happy.\n\n\"I don't know if I believed in myself or had the ambition before my diagnosis. And oddly now I do, and I don't know if it's too late.\"\n\nMS is an incurable condition affecting the brain or spinal cord, causing vision, balance and muscle problems.\n\nThe actress is known for films including Cruel Intentions and Legally Blonde, and will star in Netflix's forthcoming sci-fi drama Another Life.\n\nShe said: \"If I can help anyone be more comfortable in their skin, it's more than I've ever done before.\"\n\nBlair is known for her stylish dress sense\n\nBlair revealed she had MS on Instagram last October. \"It wasn't about announcing a dramatic diagnosis,\" she told Vanity Fair.\n\n\"I had no idea, for some reason, that news outlets would pick it up or anything. When they did, I was kind of uncomfortable.\n\n\"Then I was worried, thinking, 'Will anyone hire me?' I reconnected with so many people who thought I might drop dead soon!\"\n\nThose who got in touch included Amy Schumer, whose father has MS.\n\nBlair's health has continued to deteriorate. \"I also never thought I'd get this bad, to tell you the truth,\" she said.\n\nShe struggles with movement, memory, dressing and is struggling with her vision after a bad reaction to a high-dose glucocorticoid treatment.\n\nShe says she now looks and sounds so different that it has changed her relationship with her seven-year-old son Arthur.\n\n\"He wants to be closer to my body more, and I can tell he wants to make sure I'm still here inside. I used to be so athletic with him. Now I fall in front of him.\n\n\"There's a humility and a joy I have now, albeit a fatigued joy.\"\n\nShe added: \"I'm pretty much a nobody in Hollywood.\n\n\"But when I read comments on Instagram from people who were suffering, whether it was from MS, or anything, I thought, there's a need for honesty about being disabled from someone recognisable.\"\n\nBlair wants more fashionable clothes for disabled people\n\nShe is also keen to team up with a fashion designer because she says there's a lack of stylish clothing for disabled people.\n\n\"I would like to partner with someone like Christian Siriano on a line for everyone - not just people who necessarily need adaptive clothing, but for those who want comfort, too.\n\n\"It can still be chic. You shouldn't have to sacrifice style. Like, let's get elastic waistbands to look a little bit better.\"\n\nBlair appeared on the red carpet for the Vanity Fair Oscars party on Sunday, using a black cane for support.\n\n\"A cane, I think, can be a great fashion accessory,\" she said.\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.", "Chris Williamson said Labour had done more to address anti-Semitism than any other party\n\nLabour MPs have criticised their colleague Chris Williamson for saying the party has been \"too apologetic\" over anti-Semitism.\n\nIn footage published by the Yorkshire Post, Mr Williamson, who is a close ally of Jeremy Corbyn, told activists Labour was being \"demonised as a racist, bigoted party\".\n\nDeputy leader Tom Watson said he had been \"deliberately inflammatory\".\n\nThe BBC has approached Mr Williamson and the Labour Party for comment.\n\nLabour has struggled to contain a long-running row over claims of anti-Semitism - hostility or prejudice directed against Jewish people - within its ranks.\n\nNine MPs quit the party last week, criticising the leadership's handling of the issue.\n\nOne of them, Luciana Berger tweeted in response to the Williamson video, saying: \"This is what I have left behind. It's toxic. Our country deserves so much better.\"\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 Liz Bates This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAt an event in Sheffield last week - organised by grassroots Corbyn-supporting campaign group Momentum - MP for Derby North Mr Williamson said: \"The party that has done more to stand up to racism is now being demonised as a racist, bigoted party.\n\n\"I have got to say I think our party's response has been partly responsible for that because in my opinion… we have backed off far too much, we have given too much ground, we have been too apologetic.\"\n\nAmid applause from the audience, he went on to say: \"We've done more to address the scourge of anti-Semitism than any political party.\"\n\nMomentum has not responded to the BBC's request for comment.\n\nOn Tuesday, Labour officials criticised Mr Williamson for booking a room in Parliament for a screening of a film about anti-Semitism and the activist Jackie Walker.\n\nMs Walker was suspended by Labour over allegedly anti-Semitic comments in 2016, and the documentary, Witch Hunt, looks at those and other allegations within the party.\n\nA Labour spokesman said: \"It's completely inappropriate to book a room for an event about an individual who is suspended from the party and subject to ongoing disciplinary procedures.\n\n\"This falls below the standards we expect of MPs.\"\n\nStephen Doughty, Labour MP for Cardiff South and Penarth, said Mr Williamson's comments in the video were \"unacceptable\" and had \"no place in our party\".\n\nMr Doughty added: \"I have made clear to both the Leader's office and our whips that I expect urgent action to be taken.\"\n\nWes Streeting, Ilford North MP, commented on the Yorkshire Post's video too, saying: \"Stomach-turning. No action will be taken.\"\n\nAnd his colleague Stella Creasy, MP for Walthamstow, also expressed her unhappiness.\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 stellacreasy 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\nAnother, Neil Coyle, called on Momentum and the Labour Party to do something, saying \"Actions speak louder than words.\"\n\nEarlier this month, the Labour Party's general secretary, Jennie Formby, said the party had received 673 complaints in 10 months alleging acts of anti-Semitism by its members.", "Not words one might have expected to hear from Stormy Daniels as recently as last year.\n\nHer statement: \"Michael, I'm proud of you for finally beginning to tell the truth about what you did, and trying to repair some of the harm you have caused. I can hear the pain and regret you feel for betraying your family and your country. My heart goes out to you and your family.\"\n\nShe also says: \"You spoke about how the president and his attorney put you and your family in danger by calling you a liar and a rat and disparaging you in public.\n\n\"I understand your fear, Michael. I have a family too. Do you believe now that when you and the president called me a liar, when you were his attorney and you insulted me, threatened to bankrupt me and worse, that you put me and my family in danger? I remember the fear you feel. I still feel it. Thank you for having the courage, at long last, to begin to tell the truth. I hope that someday soon your family and mine can both leave this nightmare behind.\"", "Joy Morgan was last seen alive at a church celebration in Ilford, London\n\nA man has been charged with the murder of a missing student.\n\nJoy Morgan, 21, who was studying midwifery at the University of Hertfordshire, was last seen at a church celebration in Ilford, London, on 26 December.\n\nShe was reported missing in February after failing to return to her studies.\n\nAjibola Shogbamimu, 40, of Fordwych Road, London, has been charged with Ms Morgan's murder and is due to appear at Hatfield Remand Court on Thursday.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Leicester\n\nBrendan Rodgers has been appointed Leicester City's new manager after leaving his job at Celtic.\n\nThe Northern Irishman has signed a contract until June 2022 and succeeds Claude Puel, who was sacked on Sunday after 16 months in charge.\n\nIt marks a Premier League return for Rodgers, who previously managed Liverpool and Swansea City.\n\n\"I'll give my life to make the supporters proud of their club,\" Rodgers said.\n\nHe watched from the stands as the Foxes beat Brighton 2-1 on Tuesday and spoke to the players in the changing room after the game.\n\nAdding that he was \"privileged and honoured\" to take on the role, Rodgers said: \"Together, we'll be stronger and I'm looking forward to working with the players, staff and supporters to make the right steps forward.\"\n\nNeil Lennon replaces Rodgers at Celtic as interim manager until the end of the season.\n• None 'Sentiment trumped by ambition' - why Rodgers' Celtic exit is no surprise\n\nFormer Arsenal, Liverpool, Manchester City and Celtic defender Kolo Toure also joins Leicester as a first-team coach, having worked as a member of Rodgers' backroom staff at Celtic.\n\nWhile at Liverpool, Rodgers almost won the Premier League title in 2013-14 before he was sacked in October 2015.\n\nHe then took over at Celtic in May 2016 and won all seven domestic trophies available, most recently leading them to the Scottish League Cup in December.\n\nDuring his two and a half years in Scotland, he also qualified twice for the Champions League group stage and broke the 100-year-old British unbeaten domestic record with a 69-game unbeaten run.\n\nRodgers has also managed Watford and Reading and was named the LMA Manager of the Year in 2014.\n\n\"I'm absolutely delighted to bring a manager of Brendan's calibre to Leicester City,\" said club vice-chairman Aiyawatt Srivaddhanaprabha.\n\n\"I look forward to seeing what he, our talented, young squad and our dedicated, skilled team of staff can achieve together.\"\n\nRodgers will be Leicester's fourth permanent manager in 23 months after Puel, Craig Shakespeare and 2015-16 Premier League-winning manager Claudio Ranieri were all sacked.\n\nSaturday's 4-1 defeat by Crystal Palace meant Leicester had lost four consecutive home Premier League games for the first time since January 2000.\n\nThey have conceded the first goal in 19 Premier League matches this season - more than any other side.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Five things Cohen said about Trump\n\nMichael Cohen is unleashing a series of explosive accusations directed towards Donald Trump touching on multiple controversies that have bedevilled the president during his time in office. Here are five takeaways from his dramatic testimony to Congress.\n\nMr Cohen suggests the president had advance knowledge of his son's June 2016 Trump Tower meeting with Russians and that WikiLeaks was poised to release damaging information about Democrats.\n\nHe says the president personally signed cheques reimbursing him for a hush money payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels. He alleges that the president was fully aware of ongoing negotiations for a Trump Tower in Moscow well into the 2016 presidential campaign.\n\nMany of these assertions rely almost exclusively on Cohen's word - the word of a man who has already admitted to lying to Congress and to the federal government on his taxes. What's more, while his allegations are certainly politically damaging, they aren't incontrovertible evidence of legal misconduct by the president.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Michael Cohen: Trump told me 'Don Jr had worst judgement in world'\n\nIf there is a case to be made against Mr Trump, it will have to rely on more than the word of his former lawyer and fixer.\n\nThat's not to undersell the blockbuster nature of the day's proceedings, however. The public now has a chance to determine, under the glare of the spotlight, whether Cohen lied in the past to protect the president or is lying now to protect himself.\n\nOr, perhaps, a bit of both.\n\nMost of the early attention paid to Michael Cohen's testimony involved his connections to the assortment of controversies that have swirled around Mr Trump since he became president.\n\nIt's one thing to read the advance text of a committee statement, however, and it's another to see it in the flesh. If there were any doubts about how effective Cohen would be as a witness, he quickly put them to rest.\n\nCohen - in a dark suit, with his voice occasionally wavering - testified about what it was like to work with Mr Trump for more than a decade. What he learned, he said, made him ashamed.\n\nHe called his former boss a racist, a cheat and a conman. He says he had both good and bad attributes, but that bad outweighed the good.\n\n\"Since taking office,\" Cohen said, \"he has become the worst version of himself.\"\n\nRepublicans were quick to pounce. Mark Meadows asked why, if Cohen was so ashamed, he stuck with Mr Trump for 10 full years. Wasn't it a possibility, he suggested, that Cohen was bitter that he didn't get a White House job and was taking it out on his former boss?\n\n\"I got exactly what I wanted,\" Cohen replied, noting that he preferred to spend his time in New York, with his teenage children.\n\nThat may have been the case two years ago, but there's little chance Cohen wanted - or imagined - the situation he finds himself in now.\n\nDemocrats on the House Oversight and Reform Committee have repeatedly hit on what could be the most legally damaging part of Cohen's testimony on Wednesday.\n\nMr Trump's former lawyer has presented new, documentary evidence of payments made to him by Mr Trump - including a cheque with the president's signature. He says this money was a reimbursement for his 2016 election eve hush-money payment to Stormy Daniels. The adult film star was poised to claim that she and Mr Trump had sexual relations in the 2006.\n\nUS government prosecutors in New York have said that Mr Cohen's payment to Daniels constituted an undisclosed campaign contribution in violation of federal election law - a charge to which Cohen has pleaded guilty.\n\nIf Cohen can help draw a connection between the Daniels payment and the president himself, it could implicate Mr Trump in a crime.\n\nThe president's legal team has responded to similar allegations in the past by arguing that the payments to Cohen were part of a retainer fee and that Mr Trump had no knowledge of Cohen's illegal activities and was relying on his lawyer to know and abide by campaign finance law.\n\nThe more evidence Cohen presents to back up his claim that Mr Trump was fully aware of the hush-money payments, the more difficult it becomes for him to maintain this position.\n\nThe Republican strategy for responding to Cohen's testimony has been clear from the beginning. They want to paint the former lawyer as a convicted liar who can't be trusted on any count.\n\nThey're less concerned about rebutting the individual allegations - about Trump Tower, Russia business dealings, hush-money payments or WikiLeaks revelations - than they are in dismissing Cohen's testimony as the work of an untruthful man being put forward by enemies of the president for political purposes.\n\nCongressman Paul Gosar went so far as to hold up a large sign with \"Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire!!\" emblazoned over a picture of the witness.\n\nCohen has tried to parry these charges multiple ways. One is to claim that he has come to the realisation, after Mr Trump's performance as president, of how damaging his support of his former boss has been.\n\nHe cited the Charlottesville violence, the Helsinki summit with Vladimir Putin and the president's coarseness on Twitter as prime examples. That could be a tough sell, however, given the litany of allegations Cohen has levelled against Mr Trump that predate his time as president.\n\nA more effective counter has been when Cohen has tried to hold himself up as a cautionary tale - that he is making amends because his life has come crashing down and not the other way around.\n\n\"I protected Trump for 10 years,\" he told the committee. \"The more people that follow Mr Trump as I did blindly are going to suffer the same consequences that I'm suffering.\"\n\nHe called himself the \"picture perfect example of what not to do\".\n\nCohen isn't going to convince many that he's a saint or a sympathetic figure. When he's been his most effective on Wednesday is when he hasn't tried to.\n\nDonald Trump wrapped up his day in Vietnam around the time Cohen began his congressional committee testimony. After a lavish dinner of chilled shrimp, grilled steaks and \"chocolate lava cake\" with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, he returned to his hotel room, where if past history is any guide, he probably reviewed the day's news coverage.\n\nWhat he saw couldn't have made him happy. US media - including his favourite, Fox News - are giving the Cohen hearings wall-to-wall coverage. The president's second summit with Mr Kim, being billed as \"historic\" by the White House, has been relegated to a secondary story.\n\nThat might change on Thursday, when the two leaders hold a joint press event where they could announce the results of their negotiations. But for one day at least his former lawyer - who he once said was a \"fine man with a wonderful family\" and later called a \"rat\" - held the national stage.\n\nCohen has given Democrats on the Oversight and Reform Committee a number of threads to pursue in further hearings and investigations. It isn't a stretch to imagine that portions of his testimony could someday be cited by Democrats as evidence for impeachment hearings.\n\nIn addition Cohen hinted at other potential presidential wrongdoing and illegalities - including a conversation with the president in June 2018 - that he couldn't discuss because they are currently being investigated by US attorneys in New York.\n\nThe president is half a world away, but the fallout from Cohen's day on Capitol Hill - a day when Cohen called the president a racist, a conman and a cheat, and Republicans called Cohen a liar - will be waiting for him when he gets home.", "Emergency crews are dealing with a moorland fire in West Yorkshire.\n\nThe blaze is near Marsden, started at about 19:30 GMT on Tuesday.\n\nFive fire engines from West Yorkshire and two from Greater Manchester have been sent to the scene.", "Three teens stabbed to death in Birmingham in 12 days. (l-r) Hazrat Umar, 18, Abdullah Muhammad and Sidali Mohamed, both 16\n\nA West Midlands Police boss has declared knife crime \"an emergency\" after three teens were stabbed to death within 12 days in Birmingham.\n\nChief Constable Dave Thompson said stop and searches would be stepped up and more officers would patrol the streets amid the \"crisis\".\n\nThere have been 269 knife crimes recorded in the city so far this year.\n\nPolice also urged more help from parents and teachers to tackle the violence among youngsters.\n\nThe spate of killings in Birmingham follows knife crime attacks in London, where there have been 12 fatal stabbings in 2019.\n\nMr Thompson, who was with Police and Crime Commissioner David Jamieson outside the scene of a teen stabbing at a charity shop in Birmingham, pledged extra patrols with additional officers in certain areas.\n\nHe said: \"Immediate and intensive action is needed to prevent this current crisis from continuing. My officers have been given extensive powers to search people without the need to suspect they are carrying weapons.\n\n\"I recognise this will upset some innocent young people, but I fear the carriage of weapons in the current environment is growing, often through fear, and we can take no chances.\n\n\"For our young people, their families and communities we need to stop this emergency quickly. Without specific areas or people to target that means blunt action to prevent violence.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Birmingham stabbings: Stop and search to be stepped up\n\nHazrat Umar, 18, was stabbed to death in the Bordesley Green area of Birmingham on Monday.\n\nMr Umar was a relative of the former chief prosecutor for North West England Nazir Afzal. Mr Afzal said: \"I don't want any other family having to experience what our family has.\"\n\nOn Tuesday, police were also called after a 16-year-old boy was stabbed in the leg near a British Heart Foundation shop in Bull Street, Birmingham, at 17.30 GMT.\n\nOfficers vowed to leave \"no stone unturned\" after the teenager was taken to hospital and is in a \"stable condition\". No arrests have been made.\n\nA man, 29, suffered serious stab injuries to his arm, near to Aston Street, Birmingham, just after 14.30 GMT and was taken to hospital on Wednesday.\n\nAnd on Saturday, Gary Cunningham, 29, was found with fatal stab injuries at a flat in Harborne.\n\nMr Jamieson added: \"We need the support of local communities to stop this violence. It is not a job the police can do alone and they can't simply arrest their way out of this problem.\"\n\nDet Chf Superintendent Mark Payne, from the West Midlands Police homicide team, said that while investigators are doing all they can to find the killers, they need help from parents and teachers to turn the tide against knife crime.\n\n\"Knife crime and violence is not an issue we can tackle on our own. We need help from partners, parents, schools and the wider community to tackle this growing issue,\" he said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by West Midlands Police This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nGlendon Spence, 23, was stabbed inside a Brixton youth club in London and died an hour later on 21 February\n\nIn 2018 there were 19 stabbing fatalities - all under the age of 25 - in the West Midlands.\n\nThere have been 17 homicides in London so far this year, six of which happened in nine days.\n\nOn Tuesday alone five people were stabbed - four of whom were attacked in less than eight hours and one who died.\n\nIn the 12 months leading up to March 2018, a quarter of all knife crime victims were men aged 18-24.\n\nPatrick Green, from the Ben Kinsella Trust - a charity which campaigns against knife crime - said \"nobody is doing enough\" to stop it.\n\n\"If lessons are to be learned we really to get behind not just the enforcement element but also to make sure that the next group of young people don't carry the same attitude that a knife will protect them,\" he said.\n\nWest Midlands Police saw a 72% rise in knife crime between April 2013 and the year ending March 2018, Office for National Statistics (ONS) analysis shows.\n\nAcross England and Wales there were 285 killings by a knife or sharp instrument in the 12 months ending March 2018, the highest since records began in 1946.\n\nOut of 43 forces, West Midlands Police saw the third highest knife crime offences per head of population between April 2017 to March 2018, according to the Home Office.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Dorset in February: A surfer gets ready to catch some morning waves at Boscombe beach\n\nThe UK has broken the record for its warmest winter day for the second consecutive day, with a temperature of 21.2°C in Kew Gardens, London.\n\nMonday was the first time temperatures of over 20C had been reported in winter, breaking a record that had stood since 1998.\n\nIt means parts of Britain have been hotter than destinations such as Ibiza.\n\nLast February, temperatures in the UK plunged as low as -11.7C at South Farnborough, Hampshire.\n\nTemperatures broke the previous day's record of 20.6C in two other places, the Met Office said.\n\nPorthmadog in north-west Wales hit 20.8C while temperatures of 20.7C were reported in Teddington, south-west London.\n\nIn Scotland, the temperature reached 18.3C on 21 February in Aboyne, Aberdeenshire, breaking a record of 17.9C which had stood for more than 120 years.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, temperatures reached 15.6C in Castlederg, County Tyrone. The February record of 17.8C was recorded in 1998.\n\nMeanwhile, firefighters have warned the warm weather could lead to a greater risk of outdoor fires.\n\nThe warning, from East Sussex Fire Service, came after two large fires broke out in Ashdown Forest - the East Sussex forest made famous by AA Milne's Winnie the Pooh novels.\n\nThe BBC Weather Centre said it was likely to be one of the warmest Februaries since records began in 1878.\n\nSunny, warm conditions are expected to last into Wednesday, when maximum temperatures at Kew Gardens and Porthmadog are forecast to be slightly cooler at 19C and 17C respectively.\n\nOn Thursday, a high pressure system is expected to break down as wetter, windier weather moves in across Wales and into England.\n\nDr Friedericke Otto, acting director of the Environmental Change Institute at Oxford University, said people were right to ask themselves whether the record temperatures were being driven by climate change.\n\n\"I am very confident to say that there's an element of climate change in these warm temperatures,\" she said.\n\n\"But climate change alone is not causing it. You have to have the right weather systems too.\"\n\nBBC science editor David Shukman said scientists such as those at the Met Office were usually reluctant to link individual heatwaves, storms or floods directly to climate change without a specific study to prove it.\n\nBut he said research had shown that events like last summer's heatwave were made more likely by the rising levels of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.\n\nWhat February looks like in Devon: Soaking up the rays near Woolacombe\n\nMany Londoners headed to parks, like here among the daffodils in St. James's\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by paulgerrardactor This article contains content provided by Instagram. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe unusually high temperatures have prompted hedgehogs to come out of hibernation, butterflies to emerge and migrating birds such as swallows and house martins to arrive more than a month early.\n\nThe RSPB said birds, insects and other wildlife could face \"a real crisis\" if the weather turns colder, as forecasts predict.\n\nTrees such as field maples and European larches have also been budding early, according to the Woodland Trust.\n\nThe sea near Dungeness, Kent, sparkled in the sunshine as a sailing boat went by\n\nThe scene at Brighton beach on Monday afternoon\n\nInverleith Park in Edinburgh was bathed in light in the early morning\n\nThe warm weather is in stark contrast to February 2018, when the so-called \"Beast from the East\" brought freezing temperatures and heavy snow, with 21cm recorded at Copley, Durham, on the last day of the month.\n\nThen, high pressure moving north into Scandinavia drew cold air towards the UK from Siberia.\n\nThis week's conditions come instead from the tropical Atlantic and parts of north Africa.", "Maxine Hambleton, 18, was killed while handing out party invitations in one of the pubs\n\nThe brother of a Birmingham pub bombings victim felt he had \"driven my sister to her death\" by giving her a lift to the city on the night she died.\n\nBrian Hambleton, whose sister Maxine was among 21 killed in the 1974 blasts, recalled his final memory of her as inquests into the atrocity resumed.\n\nHis was one of a number of emotional \"pen portrait\" tributes read at the outset of the new hearings.\n\nFamily members said the dead were \"cruelly robbed\" of their lives.\n\nTwo bombs ripped through the Mulberry Bush and Tavern in the Town pubs on 21 November, killing 21 and injuring 220.\n\nTwenty-one people died when two bombs were detonated in Birmingham in 1974\n\nMr Hambleton told the hearing at Birmingham Civil Justice Centre he had driven 18-year-old Maxine into the city in return for her ironing his shirt.\n\nHe said: \"I will always remember her closing the car door and walking away from me, waving at me. My joyful, carefree, upbeat, talented sister I would never see again.\"\n\n\"I had literally driven my sister to her death,\" he said.\n\nJurors also heard one of the victims, Michael Beasley, gave away a \"lucky charm\" to the wife of the Mulberry Bush's landlord that night.\n\nTen people died in the first blast at the Mulberry Bush, below the Rotunda building\n\n\"He told her he'd found a lucky Cornish pixie charm on the bus on the way to town that night and gave the charm to her,\" said Peter Skelton QC, for the coroner.\n\n\"Mary kept the charm and always carried it with her.\"\n\nThe inquest heard statements about 16 victims on Tuesday, including:\n\nThe remaining statements are due to be heard on Wednesday.\n\nAmendment 14 March 2019: This story has been updated to reflect the most recent information that 220 people were injured in the blasts.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Foreign language learning is at its lowest level in UK secondary schools since the turn of the millennium, with German and French falling the most.\n\nBBC analysis shows drops of between 30% and 50% since 2013 in the numbers taking GCSE language courses in the worst affected areas in England.\n\nA separate survey of secondaries suggests a third have dropped at least one language from their GCSE options.\n\nIn England, ministers say they are taking steps to reverse the decline.\n\nThe BBC attempted to contact every one of the almost 4,000 mainstream secondary schools in the UK, and more than half - 2,048 - responded.\n\nOf the schools which replied, most said the perception of languages as a difficult subject was the main reason behind a drop in the number of pupils studying for exams.\n\nFigures for Wales showed that GCSE language entries fell by 29% over five years, and 35% of schools have dropped at least one language from their options at GCSE.\n\nIn Wales, it is compulsory for pupils to study Welsh until the age of 16 either as a first (for those already fluent) or second language.\n\nAnd under the new curriculum, Welsh, English and international languages will be brought together in one area of learning.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, the numbers taking modern languages at GCSE have fallen by 40% since 2003, with 45% of schools saying they have cut the numbers of specialist language teachers in the past five years.\n\nPupils in Scotland do not sit GCSEs or A-levels, but entries for the comparable exams - National 4 and 5 and Highers - are included in the analysis.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThese show that there has been a 19% decline in language entries there at National 4 and 5 level since 2014.\n\nIn the BBC Survey, 41% of schools in Scotland who responded said they had stopped offering at least one foreign language course to 16-year-olds.\n\nThere were also five council education departments in Scotland where no National 4 or 5 exams in German were recorded in 2017/18.\n\nAt Carmel College in St Helens, Merseyside, sixth formers can still study A-level French, but German is no longer on offer.\n\nStudents come to the college from 120 secondary schools and only a handful of those still offer German at GCSE, so there were not enough students to make an A-level course viable.\n\nThe principal, Mike Hill, says the college has seen the numbers of students wanting to study modern foreign languages decline sharply in recent years.\n\n\"If we have classes of 25 in other subjects, it's really hard to justify small classes in other subjects, even though we are a big college.\"\n\nThis also means cultural links are being lost, as they have had to drop a long-standing student exchange with the German city of Stuttgart.\n\nMr Hill believes that languages are now seen as a high-risk choice by schools and pupils, as many believe it is harder to get a high grade in exams.\n\nWhile German and French - the languages of two of the UK's closest trading partners - have really dropped away at GCSE level, there has been a noticeable surge in some others, such as Spanish and Mandarin.\n\nIn 2001, only 2,500 students were taking a language other than French, German, Spanish or Welsh.\n\nBy 2017, that had reached 9,400.\n\nBusiness organisations have expressed concern at the lack of language skills in the UK.\n\nMatthew Fell, chief UK policy director for business group the CBI, said: \"Employer demand for French, German and Spanish skills have significantly increased over the last few years.\n\n\"The decline in language learning in schools must be reversed, or else the UK will be less competitive globally and young people less prepared for the modern world.\n\n\"As well as speaking a foreign language, increasing young people's cultural awareness and their ability to work with people from around the world is just as important.\"\n\nThe national figures for language exam entries fail to show the full, complex picture.\n\nIt is only by analysing the data at local authority level that it becomes clear just how quickly some languages have been abandoned at GCSE.\n\nThis is a decline that the introduction in England of the English Baccalaureate - a group of core academic subjects at GCSE including a language - was meant to prevent.\n\nIn 2017, there were 37 local authorities in England where the total number of GCSE or equivalent exam entries was less than the number at one public school - Eton.\n\nIn three local authorities in England in the same year, there were no GCSE German entries from state schools at all.\n\nGrammar schools accounted for 8% of state school GCSE entries in 2017, despite there only being 163 grammars in England.\n\nEducation is devolved to the Northern Irish and Welsh assemblies, and the Scottish Parliament.\n\nNick Gibb, the minister with responsibility for school standards at Westminster, says the overall picture in England is improving.\n\n\"Since 2010, the proportion of children taking a language at GCSE has risen from 40% to 46% in 2018 - and we are determined to see this rise further.\n\n\"We are taking a range of measures to do this, such as creating a new network of schools that excel in the teaching of languages to share their expertise and best practice with others and setting up a new mentoring project to encourage pupils' interest in languages.\"\n\nThe government in England is also investing in supporting Mandarin teaching, with a target of 5,000 pupils being \"on track to fluency\" by 2020.\n\nThe Welsh government accepted that there are some very real challenges to tackle, adding that all pupils will start experiencing international languages from a much earlier age.\n\nA spokesman said it had a £2.5m plan which aims to increase the take-up of modern foreign languages at GCSE and, in turn A-level, through new centres of excellence.\n\nThe Department of Education in Northern Ireland said it funded a range of programmes to enhance and support language learning in schools.\n\nIt is currently engaging with officials and academics from across the UK to ensure that the benefits of language learning and the value of languages for a wide range of careers are promoted to young people.\n\nThe Scottish Government said: \"We are investing in modern language learning to equip young people with skills for an increasingly complex and globalised world. We have made an additional £27.2 million available to assist local authorities with implementation of the 1+2 language policy since 2013.\"\n\nSome words can't be easily translated into English. How many of these untranslatable words do you know? In Danish if someone describes something as hygge, they mean it feels...? In German, someone with backpfeifengesicht is annoying because they have...? If someone from Portugal talks about saudade, what emotion are they describing? In Italian you might describe yourself as abbiocco after a meal, meaning you are...? The Arabic expression \"Ya'aburnee\" has a more positive meaning than it seems. Can you pick the correct translation and guess the meaning behind it? This Spanish word describes something good tipping into something bad. But does it mean...? Which of these feelings of dislocation is described by the French word dépaysé? Which is the best description of the Mandarin phrase Rè Nao? Maybe you've picked up a couple of words that you could drop into conversation? Impressive. Either you speak several languages, you collect unusual words or you're just plain lucky.\n\nIf you can't see the quiz above tap this link", "Emiliano Sala (left) was on board a plane being flown by pilot David Ibbotson\n\nA crowd funded search has found \"no trace\" of the pilot of the plane which crashed with Cardiff City striker Emiliano Sala on board.\n\nDavid Ibbotson was flying the footballer to the UK when their Piper Malibu aircraft crashed near Guernsey on 21 January.\n\nA helicopter was used to search remote coastal areas and two divers went down to the aircraft wreckage.\n\nOrganiser David Mearns said that the \"active search\" had ended.\n\nThe shipwreck hunter, who led the successful search for Sala's body, said the divers had searched \"every nook and cranny\" of the plane\n\n\"Sadly there was absolutely no trace of David, no trace of any clothing, no trace of any of his personal items,\" said Mr Mearns.\n\nHe added: \"In terms of the active search, it ended today. But that doesn't mean there isn't a chance that that David's body will still wash ashore.\"\n\nThe hunt for Mr Ibbotson, of Crowle, North Lincolnshire, is being funded via an online campaign launched by his family.\n\nThe wreckage of the Piper Malibu found in 63m (205ft) of water north-west of Guernsey\n\nThe appeal launched by Mr Ibbotson's family has raised nearly £250,000.\n\nIt was boosted with contributions from French footballer Kylian Mbappe, who donated £27,000, and former England captain Gary Lineker who gave £1,000.\n\nOn the page, his sister Danielle Ibbotson wrote: \"We can not bear the thought of him being alone, we need him home so that we are able to lay him to rest to be able to say goodbye.\"\n\nA preliminary report into the crash by the Air Accident Investigation Branch confirmed the pilot held a private licence but not one for commercial flights.\n\nThe Piper Malibu N264DB was en route from Nantes in France to Cardiff, two days after the Argentine striker's £15m transfer was announced.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Theresa May: \"An extension cannot take no deal off the table.\"\n\nTheresa May has promised MPs a vote on delaying the UK's departure from the EU or ruling out a no-deal Brexit, if they reject her deal next month.\n\nMrs May made a statement to MPs about Brexit on Tuesday, amid the threat of a revolt by Remain-supporting ministers.\n\nThe PM has promised MPs a meaningful vote on her Brexit deal by 12 March.\n\nBut Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn accused the prime minister of another \"grotesquely reckless\" Brexit delay.\n\nThe prime minister said she will put her withdrawal agreement - including any changes she has agreed with the EU - to a meaningful vote by 12 March.\n\nIf that fails, MPs will be offered two separate votes:\n\n\"Let me be clear, I do not want to see Article 50 extended,\" she told MPs.\n\n\"Our absolute focus should be on working to get a deal and leaving on 29 March.\"\n\nAny extension should not go beyond the end of June and \"would almost certainly have to be a one-off\", she added.\n\nMrs May said an extension \"cannot take no deal off the table\", adding: \"The only way to do that is to revoke Article 50, which I shall not do, or agree a deal.\"\n\nExtending Article 50 would require the unanimous backing of the other 27 EU member states and, she said, she had not had conversations about it with them.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMrs May repeatedly declined to say whether she would vote against a no-deal Brexit, and whether Tory MPs would be whipped to vote for or against it.\n\nTheresa May's big concession - and it was a significant tactical retreat - was about buying herself more time.\n\nSo now, under the threat of maybe 15 to 20 ministers rebelling, the prime minister's promised MPs an opportunity next month to rule out a no-deal Brexit, and force a \"limited\" delay in leaving the EU.\n\nWithout that promise, there's every chance those unhappy ministers would have joined other MPs in voting to rule out no-deal and delay Brexit anyway.\n\nShe did not offer ministers freedom to vote as they choose. So now the (potential) rebels must decide whether to hold fire for a fortnight, while she tries to get terms in Brussels she can sell to the Commons - hoping Brexiteers ultimately back her deal as the best Brexit available.\n\nCall it \"running down the clock\", or \"kicking the can down the road\", if you like.\n\nBut kicking and running has been Mrs May's best hope for months.\n\nSeveral Remain-backing ministers were threatening to resign, so that they could vote for a cross-party amendment aimed at ruling out a no-deal Brexit, when MPs vote on a government motion on Wednesday.\n\nConservative Caroline Spelman and Labour's Jack Dromey said they \"welcomed\" the PM's statement but they would still table amendments paving the way for a bill to extend Article 50.\n\nThey will then \"seek assurances from ministers during [the] debate to secure confirmation of the prime minister's commitments, which we hope will mean we will not push our amendments to a vote\", the pair said in a joint statement.\n\nAnother of the MPs behind the amendment, Conservative Sir Oliver Letwin, had earlier said there was no need for it now, because the prime minister's statement \"does what is needed to prevent a no-deal exit on 29 March\".\n\nBut opponents of Mrs May who support another EU referendum said she had still not ruled out a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThe Independent Group's Anna Soubry, who quit the Conservatives in protest at their Brexit policy, said it was a \"shameful moment\" and \"nothing has changed\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Anna Soubry asks Theresa May if \"nothing has changed, and no deal remains firmly on the table.\"\n\nJacob Rees-Mogg, the chairman of the European Research Group of Leave-backing Conservative MPs, said: \"My suspicion is that any delay to Brexit is a plot to stop Brexit.\n\n\"This would be the most grievous error that politicians could commit.\"\n\nSpeaking after a meeting with Theresa May, DUP Leader Arlene Foster said the PM had to deliver on her commitment to get legally-binding changes to her EU withdrawal agreement.\n\n\"Experience in Northern Ireland has shown that extending deadlines does nothing to encourage a deal,\" she said.\n\nThe EU had it \"in their hands\" to avoid a no-deal Brexit, she added, and come up with a deal which MPs can support.\n\n\"It's time for Dublin and Brussels to be in a deal-making mode,\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nJeremy Corbyn said he had \"lost count\" of the prime minister's explanations for her \"grotesquely reckless\" Brexit delays.\n\n\"The prime minister continues to say it is her deal or no deal, but this House has decisively rejected her deal and has clearly rejected no deal,\" he told MPs.\n\n\"It is the prime minister's obstinacy that is blocking a resolution.\"\n\nMr Corbyn says Labour will get behind another EU referendum if the party can't get its own Brexit proposals through Parliament on Wednesday.\n\nIf Mrs May's Brexit deal gets through Parliament next month, Labour wants it to be put to a public vote - with remaining in the EU as the other option.\n\nThe SNP's Westminster leader Ian Blackford said Mrs May \"could not be trusted\" not to \"dodge\" another meaningful vote.\n\nHe said: \"It's the height of irresponsibility for any government to threaten its citizens with these consequences.\n\n\"Rule out no deal, extend Article 50, but do it today - this should not be left until the middle of March.\"\n\nBut Mrs May surprised the House by quoting a TV advert in her response: \"If he wants to end the uncertainty and deal with the issues he raised...then he should vote for a deal. Simples.\"", "Jeremy Corbyn says Labour will back another EU referendum after his alternative Brexit plan was again defeated in the Commons.\n\nBut the Labour leader said he will also continue to push for \"other available options\" including a general election.\n\nJohn McDonnell said the party would table an amendment for a referendum when the \"meaningful vote\" on Theresa May's deal returns to Parliament.\n\nThe shadow chancellor also told ITV's Peston show he would vote for remain.\n\nIt came as MPs voted to endorse Theresa May's Brexit strategy - but only after she made a series of concessions.\n\nThe PM also faced a Brexiteer rebellion, after 20 Tory MPs voted against proposals, backed by the government, to delay the UK's 29 March departure date if there is a no-deal scenario.\n\nBut Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg, who was not among the 20 Tory rebels, although he did abstain in the vote, offered an olive branch to Mrs May, as she continues to seek concessions from the EU on the controversial Irish backstop clause.\n\nPlease upgrade your browser to view this interactive How did my MP vote on 27 February? Enter a postcode, or the name or constituency of your MP\n\nThe chairman of the European Research Group of Brexiteer Tories said he disagreed with those who were demanding changes to the legal text of the withdrawal agreement and would accept an appendix to it.\n\nWriting in The Daily Mail, he said: \"I really do not mind what form of words the Attorney General and the EU agree on regarding the backstop - as long as it expires before the next election and has the same legal status as the deal.\"\n\nOther leading figures in the ERG, including deputy chairman Steve Baker, have previously dismissed the legal annex to Mrs May's agreement being negotiated by Attorney General Geoffrey Cox.\n\nLabour's Brexit proposals - which would see the UK join an EU customs union - were defeated by 323 votes to 240, a bigger margin than the last time MPs voted on them.\n\nMr Corbyn confirmed to MPs on Monday he would back another public vote if such a defeat took place - after resisting calls to do so from pro-EU Labour MPs.\n\nAfter Wednesday's vote, Mr Corbyn said: \"We will back a public vote in order to prevent a damaging Tory Brexit or a disastrous no deal outcome.\n\n\"We will also continue to push for the other available options to prevent those outcomes, including a close economic relationship based on our credible alternative plan or a general election.\"\n\nLabour MPs Peter Kyle and Phil Wilson have put forward a compromise plan to back Mrs May's deal with the condition that it is then put to a confirmatory public vote.\n\nFormer shadow cabinet minister Owen Smith, a longstanding critic of Mr Corbyn, said: \"Now that Labour's version of Brexit has been rejected by Parliament, I expect Jeremy Corbyn to throw his full weight behind campaigning for a public vote.\"\n\nLabour MP David Lammy, a supporter of the Best for Britain campaign for another referendum, said: \"It's become clear today that there is no majority in the House for May's deal, but also that Labour's alternative plan cannot command a majority either.\n\n\"In the key votes ahead of us we must extend Article 50 to take a catastrophic no-deal off the table and use that time to put this decision back to the people to decide if they back the government's botched Brexit deal or staying in our current EU deal.\"\n\nBut Labour former minister Caroline Flint said the party should not back a further referendum despite the defeat of Mr Corbyn's plan.\n\nShe said: \"I think the British public want us to get on with this and sort out a deal that works.\"\n\nShe said Labour's leadership should \"engage in negotiation, to use the leverage you have got, to get a better deal\".\n\nMPs also rejected an SNP motion saying the UK should not leave the EU without a deal \"under any circumstances\" - by 324 votes to 288.\n\nLabour MP Yvette Cooper's amendment, which the government supported, was backed by 502 votes to 20, with a small group of Tory Brexiteers voting against it.\n\nThe amendment contained Mrs May's commitment on giving MPs a vote on delaying Brexit if both her deal and no-deal are rejected by MPs.\n\nMrs May announced this policy as she promised MPs a meaningful vote on her deal by 12 March - just 17 days before the UK is set to leave the EU.\n\nThe move was designed to head off a possible defeat when MPs voted on Ms Cooper's amendment.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Did Theresa May's latest statement rule out a no-deal Brexit, and what might happen next?\n\nMs Cooper did not drop her amendment, because she wanted to hold the prime minister to her word - although the government has said it accepted the proposal.\n\nConservative MP Alberto Costa's amendment, which seeks to protect the rights of UK citizens in the EU and vice versa, even if there is a no-deal Brexit, was nodded through by MPs, after the government said they supported it.\n\nMr Costa said he was still forced to resign as an aide to Scottish Secretary David Mundell because of a convention that members of the government cannot table amendments to government motions.\n\nConservative MP Caroline Spelman opted not to put her amendment - calling for the PM's promise to give MPs a vote on delaying Brexit to be made legally binding - to the vote, after reassurances by the government.\n\nConservative Party chairman Brandon Lewis accused Jeremy Corbyn of being \"happy to ignore the biggest democratic vote in our nation's history\" by saying he would back another referendum.", "Michael Cohen, the former attorney for President Donald Trump arrives to testify before the House Oversight Committee\n\nMichael Cohen, President Donald Trump's former lawyer, appeared on Wednesday before the House of Representatives Oversight Committee in Washington, DC.\n\nIn his prepared remarks, he let loose with explosive accusations directed toward Mr Trump that touched on a number of controversies related to his presidency.\n\nHere is Mr Cohen's opening statement in full.\n\nChairman Cummings, Ranking Member Jordan, and Members of the Committee, thank you for inviting me here today.\n\nI have asked this Committee to ensure that my family be protected from Presidential threats, and that the Committee be sensitive to the questions pertaining to ongoing investigations. Thank you for your help and for your understanding.\n\nI am here under oath to correct the record, to answer the Committee's questions truthfully, and to offer the American people what I know about President Trump.\n\nI recognize that some of you may doubt and attack me on my credibility. It is for this reason that I have incorporated into this opening statement documents that are irrefutable, and demonstrate that the information you will hear is accurate and truthful.\n\nNever in a million years did I imagine, when I accepted a job in 2007 to work for Donald Trump, that he would one day run for President, launch a campaign on a platform of hate and intolerance, and actually win. I regret the day I said \"yes\" to Mr Trump. I regret all the help and support I gave him along the way.\n\nI am ashamed of my own failings, and I publicly accepted responsibility for them by pleading guilty in the Southern District of New York.\n\nI am ashamed of my weakness and misplaced loyalty - of the things I did for Mr Trump in an effort to protect and promote him.\n\nI am ashamed that I chose to take part in concealing Mr Trump's illicit acts rather than listening to my own conscience.\n\nI am ashamed because I know what Mr Trump is.\n\nHe was a presidential candidate who knew that Roger Stone was talking with Julian Assange about a WikiLeaks drop of Democratic National Committee emails.\n\nI will explain each in a few moments.\n\nI am providing the Committee today with several documents. These include:\n\nI hope my appearance here today, my guilty plea, and my work with law enforcement agencies are steps along a path of redemption that will restore faith in me and help this country understand our president better.\n\nBefore going further, I want to apologize to each of you and to Congress as a whole.\n\nThe last time I appeared before Congress, I came to protect Mr Trump.\n\nToday, I'm here to tell the truth about Mr Trump.\n\nI lied to Congress about when Mr Trump stopped negotiating the Moscow Tower project in Russia. I stated that we stopped negotiating in January 2016. That was false - our negotiations continued for months later during the campaign.\n\nMr Trump did not directly tell me to lie to Congress. That's not how he operates.\n\nIn conversations we had during the campaign, at the same time I was actively negotiating in Russia for him, he would look me in the eye and tell me there's no business in Russia and then go out and lie to the American people by saying the same thing. In his way, he was telling me to lie.\n\nThere were at least a half-dozen times between the Iowa Caucus in January 2016 and the end of June when he would ask me \"How's it going in Russia?\" - referring to the Moscow Tower project.\n\nYou need to know that Mr Trump's personal lawyers reviewed and edited my statement to Congress about the timing of the Moscow Tower negotiations before I gave it.\n\nTo be clear: Mr Trump knew of and directed the Trump Moscow negotiations throughout the campaign and lied about it. He lied about it because he never expected to win the election. He also lied about it because he stood to make hundreds of millions of dollars on the Moscow real estate project.\n\nAnd so I lied about it, too - because Mr Trump had made clear to me, through his personal statements to me that we both knew were false and through his lies to the country, that he wanted me to lie. And he made it clear to me because his personal attorneys reviewed my statement before I gave it to Congress.\n\nOver the past two years, I have been smeared as \"a rat\" by the President of the United States. The truth is much different, and let me take a brief moment to introduce myself.\n\nMy name is Michael Dean Cohen.\n\nI am a blessed husband of 24 years and a father to an incredible daughter and son. When I married my wife, I promised her that I would love her, cherish her, and protect her. As my father said countless times throughout my childhood, \"you my wife, and you my children, are the air that I breathe.\"\n\nTo my Laura, my Sami, and my Jake, there is nothing I wouldn't do to protect you.\n\nI have always tried to live a life of loyalty, friendship, generosity, and compassion - qualities my parents ingrained in my siblings and me since childhood. My father survived the Holocaust thanks to the compassion and selfless acts of others. He was helped by many who put themselves in harm's way to do what they knew was right.\n\nThat is why my first instinct has always been to help those in need. Mom and Dad…I am sorry that I let you down.\n\nAs many people that know me best would say, I am the person they would call at 3:00 am if they needed help. I proudly remember being the emergency contact for many of my children's friends when they were growing up because their parents knew that I would drop everything and care for them as if they were my own.\n\nYet, last fall I pled guilty in federal court to felonies for the benefit of, at the direction of, and in coordination with Individual #1.\n\nFor the record: Individual #1 is President Donald J Trump.\n\nIt is painful to admit that I was motivated by ambition at times. It is even more painful to admit that many times I ignored my conscience and acted loyal to a man when I should not have. Sitting here today, it seems unbelievable that I was so mesmerized by Donald Trump that I was willing to do things for him that I knew were absolutely wrong.\n\nFor that reason, I have come here to apologize to my family, to the government, and to the American people.\n\nAccordingly, let me now tell you about Mr Trump.\n\nI got to know him very well, working very closely with him for more than 10 years, as his Executive Vice President and Special Counsel and then personal attorney when he became President. When I first met Mr Trump, he was a successful entrepreneur, a real estate giant, and an icon. Being around Mr Trump was intoxicating. When you were in his presence, you felt like you were involved in something greater than yourself -- that you were somehow changing the world.\n\nI wound up touting the Trump narrative for over a decade. That was my job.\n\nAlways stay on message. Always defend. It monopolized my life. At first, I worked mostly on real estate developments and other business transactions. Shortly thereafter, Mr Trump brought me into his personal life and private dealings. Over time, I saw his true character revealed.\n\nMr Trump is an enigma. He is complicated, as am I. He has both good and bad, as do we all. But the bad far outweighs the good, and since taking office, he has become the worst version of himself. He is capable of behaving kindly, but he is not kind. He is capable of committing acts of generosity, but he is not generous. He is capable of being loyal, but he is fundamentally disloyal.\n\nDonald Trump is a man who ran for office to make his brand great, not to make our country great. He had no desire or intention to lead this nation - only to market himself and to build his wealth and power. Mr Trump would often say, this campaign was going to be the \"greatest infomercial in political history.\"\n\nHe never expected to win the primary. He never expected to win the general election. The campaign - for him - was always a marketing opportunity.\n\nI knew early on in my work for Mr Trump that he would direct me to lie to further his business interests. I am ashamed to say, that when it was for a real estate mogul in the private sector, I considered it trivial. As the President, I consider it significant and dangerous.\n\nBut in the mix, lying for Mr Trump was normalized, and no one around him questioned it. In fairness, no one around him today questions it, either.\n\nA lot of people have asked me about whether Mr Trump knew about the release of the hacked Democratic National Committee emails ahead of time. The answer is yes.\n\nAs I earlier stated, Mr Trump knew from Roger Stone in advance about the WikiLeaks drop of emails.\n\nIn July 2016, days before the Democratic convention, I was in Mr. Trump's office when his secretary announced that Roger Stone was on the phone.\n\nMr Trump put Mr Stone on the speakerphone. Mr Stone told Mr Trump that he had just gotten off the phone with Julian Assange and that Mr Assange told Mr Stone that, within a couple of days, there would be a massive dump of emails that would damage Hillary Clinton's campaign.\n\nMr Trump responded by stating to the effect of \"wouldn't that be great.\"\n\nMr Trump is a racist. The country has seen Mr Trump court white supremacists and bigots. You have heard him call poorer countries \"shitholes.\"\n\nIn private, he is even worse.\n\nHe once asked me if I could name a country run by a black person that wasn't a \"shithole.\" This was when Barack Obama was President of the United States.\n\nWhile we were once driving through a struggling neighborhood in Chicago, he commented that only black people could live that way.\n\nAnd, he told me that black people would never vote for him because they were too stupid.\n\nAnd yet I continued to work for him. Mr Trump is a cheat.\n\nAs previously stated, I'm giving the Committee today three years of President Trump's financial statements, from 2011-2013, which he gave to Deutsche Bank to inquire about a loan to buy the Buffalo Bills and to Forbes. These are Exhibits 1a, 1b, and 1c to my testimony.\n\nIt was my experience that Mr Trump inflated his total assets when it served his purposes, such as trying to be listed among the wealthiest people in Forbes, and deflated his assets to reduce his real estate taxes.\n\nI am sharing with you two newspaper articles, side by side, that are examples of Mr Trump inflating and deflating his assets, as I said, to suit his financial interests. These are Exhibit 2 to my testimony.\n\nAs I noted, I'm giving the Committee today an article he wrote on, and sent me, that reported on an auction of a portrait of Mr Trump. This is Exhibit 3A to my testimony.\n\nMr Trump directed me to find a straw bidder to purchase a portrait of him that was being auctioned at an Art Hamptons Event. The objective was to ensure that his portrait, which was going to be auctioned last, would go for the highest price of any portrait that afternoon. The portrait was purchased by the fake bidder for $60,000. Mr Trump directed the Trump Foundation, which is supposed to be a charitable organization, to repay the fake bidder, despite keeping the art for himself. Please see Exhibit 3B to my testimony.\n\nAnd it should come as no surprise that one of my more common responsibilities was that Mr Trump directed me to call business owners, many of whom were small businesses, that were owed money for their services and told them no payment or a reduced payment would be coming. When I advised Mr Trump of my success, he actually reveled in it.\n\nAnd yet, I continued to work for him.\n\nHe asked me to pay off an adult film star with whom he had an affair, and to lie to his wife about it, which I did. Lying to the First Lady is one of my biggest regrets. She is a kind, good person. I respect her greatly - and she did not deserve that.\n\nI am giving the Committee today a copy of the $130,000 wire transfer from me to Ms Clifford's attorney during the closing days of the presidential campaign that was demanded by Ms Clifford to maintain her silence about her affair with Mr Trump. This is Exhibit 4 to my testimony.\n\nMr Trump directed me to use my own personal funds from a Home Equity Line of Credit to avoid any money being traced back to him that could negatively impact his campaign. I did that, too - without bothering to consider whether that was improper, much less whether it was the right thing to do or how it would impact me, my family, or the public.\n\nI am going to jail in part because of my decision to help Mr Trump hide that payment from the American people before they voted a few days later.\n\nAs Exhibit 5 to my testimony shows, I am providing a copy of a $35,000 check that President Trump personally signed from his personal bank account on August 1, 2017 - when he was President of the United States - pursuant to the cover-up, which was the basis of my guilty plea, to reimburse me - the word used by Mr Trump's TV lawyer -- for the illegal hush money I paid on his behalf. This $35,000 check was one of 11 check installments that was paid throughout the year - while he was President.\n\nThe President of the United States thus wrote a personal check for the payment of hush money as part of a criminal scheme to violate campaign finance laws. You can find the details of that scheme, directed by Mr Trump, in the pleadings in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.\n\nSo picture this scene - in February 2017, one month into his presidency,\n\nI'm visiting President Trump in the Oval Office for the first time. It's truly awe-inspiring, he's showing me around and pointing to different paintings, and he says to me something to the effect of…Don't worry, Michael, your January and February reimbursement checks are coming. They were Fed-Exed from New York and it takes a while for that to get through the White House system. As he promised, I received the first check for the reimbursement of $70,000 not long thereafter.\n\nWhen I say conman, I'm talking about a man who declares himself brilliant but directed me to threaten his high school, his colleges, and the College Board to never release his grades or SAT scores.\n\nAs I mentioned, I'm giving the Committee today copies of a letter I sent at Mr Trump's direction threatening these schools with civil and criminal actions if Mr Trump's grades or SAT scores were ever disclosed without his permission. These are Exhibit 6.\n\nThe irony wasn't lost on me at the time that Mr Trump in 2011 had strongly criticized President Obama for not releasing his grades. As you can see inExhibit 7, Mr Trump declared \"Let him show his records\" after calling President Obama \"a terrible student.\"\n\nThe sad fact is that I never heard Mr Trump say anything in private that led me to believe he loved our nation or wanted to make it better. In fact, he did the opposite.\n\nWhen telling me in 2008 that he was cutting employees' salaries in half - including mine - he showed me what he claimed was a $10 million IRS tax refund, and he said that he could not believe how stupid the government was for giving \"someone like him\" that much money back.\n\nDuring the campaign, Mr Trump said he did not consider Vietnam Veteran, and Prisoner of War, Senator John McCain to be \"a hero\" because he likes people who weren't captured. At the same time, Mr Trump tasked me to handle the negative press surrounding his medical deferment from the Vietnam draft.\n\nMr Trump claimed it was because of a bone spur, but when I asked for medical records, he gave me none and said there was no surgery. He told me not to answer the specific questions by reporters but rather offer simply the fact that he received a medical deferment.\n\nHe finished the conversation with the following comment. \"You think I'm stupid, I wasn't going to Vietnam.\"\n\nI find it ironic, President Trump, that you are in Vietnam right now.\n\nAnd yet, I continued to work for him.\n\nQuestions have been raised about whether I know of direct evidence that Mr Trump or his campaign colluded with Russia. I do not. I want to be clear. But, I have my suspicions.\n\nSometime in the summer of 2017, I read all over the media that there had been a meeting in Trump Tower in June 2016 involving Don Jr and others from the campaign with Russians, including a representative of the Russian government, and an email setting up the meeting with the subject line, \"Dirt on Hillary Clinton.\" Something clicked in my mind. I remember being in the room with Mr Trump, probably in early June 2016, when something peculiar happened. Don Jr came into the room and walked behind his father's desk - which in itself was unusual. People didn't just walk behind Mr Trump's desk to talk to him. I recalled Don Jr leaning over to his father and speaking in a low voice, which I could clearly hear, and saying: \"The meeting is all set.\" I remember Mr. Trump saying, \"Ok good…let me know.\"\n\nWhat struck me as I looked back and thought about that exchange between Don Jr and his father was, first, that Mr Trump had frequently told me and others that his son Don Jr had the worst judgment of anyone in the world. And also, that Don Jr would never set up any meeting of any significance alone - and certainly not without checking with his father.\n\nI also knew that nothing went on in Trump world, especially the campaign, without Mr Trump's knowledge and approval. So, I concluded that Don Jr was referring to that June 2016 Trump Tower meeting about dirt on Hillary with the Russian representative when he walked behind his dad's desk that day -- and that Mr Trump knew that was the meeting Don Jr was talking about when he said, \"That's good…let me know.\"\n\nOver the past year or so, I have done some real soul searching. I see now that my ambition and the intoxication of Trump power had much to do with the bad decisions I made.\n\nTo you, Chairman Cummings, Ranking Member Jordan, the other members of this Committee, and the other members of the House and Senate, I am sorry for my lies and for lying to Congress.\n\nTo our nation, I am sorry for actively working to hide from you the truth about Mr Trump when you needed it most.\n\nFor those who question my motives for being here today, I understand. I have lied, but I am not a liar. I have done bad things, but I am not a bad man. I have fixed things, but I am no longer your \"fixer,\" Mr Trump.\n\nI am going to prison and have shattered the safety and security that I tried so hard to provide for my family. My testimony certainly does not diminish the pain I caused my family and friends - nothing can do that. And I have never asked for, nor would I accept, a pardon from President Trump.\n\nAnd, by coming today, I have caused my family to be the target of personal, scurrilous attacks by the President and his lawyer - trying to intimidate me from appearing before this panel. Mr Trump called me a \"rat\" for choosing to tell the truth - much like a mobster would do when one of his men decides to cooperate with the government.\n\nAs Exhibit 8 shows, I have provided the Committee with copies of Tweets that Mr Trump posted, attacking me and my family - only someone burying his head in the sand would not recognize them for what they are: encouragement to someone to do harm to me and my family.\n\nI never imagined that he would engage in vicious, false attacks on my family - and unleash his TV-lawyer to do the same. I hope this committee and all members of Congress on both sides of the aisle will make it clear:\n\nAs a nation, we should not tolerate attempts to intimidate witnesses before congress and attacks on family are out of bounds and not acceptable.\n\nI wish to especially thank Speaker Pelosi for her statements in Exhibit 9 to protect this institution and me, and the Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Adam Schiff and Chairman Cummings for likewise defending this institution and my family against the attacks by Mr Trump, and also the many Republicans who have admonished the President as well.\n\nI am not a perfect man. I have done things I am not proud of, and I will live with the consequences of my actions for the rest of my life.\n\nBut today, I get to decide the example I set for my children and how I attempt to change how history will remember me. I may not be able to change the past, but I can do right by the American people here today.\n\nThank you for your attention. I am happy to answer the Committee's questions.", "Harry Potter was among Lego's best sellers in 2018\n\nJust like the Lego film, everything appears to be \"awesome\" at the plastic brick maker as it returned to growth again last year.\n\nProfits increased by 4% to 10.8bn Danish kroner (£1.2bn) and sales were up 4% to 36.4bn Danish kroner.\n\nThat was a rebound from 2017, when Lego reported its first fall in sales and profits for 13 years. It blamed too much stock in stores and warehouses.\n\nStar Wars, Harry Potter, Ninjago and Jurassic World were its best sellers.\n\n\"We set out with one aim in 2018, to stabilise the business,\" said chief executive Niels Christiansen.\n\n\"Our underlying mission - what the family [which owns the business] wants - is to get Lego out to as many kids as possible,\" he said.\n\nIts growth in market share in all major markets comes at time when toy retailers have been struggling, illustrated by the collapse of Toys R US. This reduces outlets for sales of Lego, which is the world's biggest toymaker when measured by sales.\n\nMr Christiansen, chief executive of the Danish brick-maker for 18 months, said he would not be seeking \"supra-natural\" growth rates of the past.\n\nLego intends to open 80 new stores in China this year, where a flagship store opened in Beijing earlier this month\n\nThe company is still owned by the family of Kirk Kristiansen, who founded Lego in 1932. It takes its name from an abbreviation of the two Danish words \"leg godt\", meaning \"play well\".\n\nIt had achieved double-digit growth for five years until 2017, when the company said it needed a \"reset\" and cut 1,400 jobs worldwide.\n\nSales in 2017 had been hit because it had \"too much\" stock in warehouses and shops.\n\nMr Christiansen said Lego was combining physical and digital play. \"Kids can jump between playing physically and digitally,\" he told the BBC.\n\nThe company is expanding in China, adding 80 stores this year to the existing 60.\n\nA new flagship store was opened in Beijing earlier this month and China, with 270 million children, was an ideal place to expand, he said.\n\n\"A lot of the focus in China is education,\" Mr Christiansen said, and families willing to spend on toys like Lego which \"build skills like collaboration\".\n\nIn 2018, sales in the US and Western Europe grew in low-single digits, while in China they showed double-digit growth.\n\nMr Christiansen said there was still scope for growth in developed markets, as there were \"lots of kids who haven't played with Lego\".\n\nThe company has pledged to use sustainable materials in its products and packaging by 2030 and Mr Christiansen said the company's issue was not about plastic disposal.\n\n\"No one throws their bricks in the ocean,\" he said.\n\nThe bricks - it sells 75 billion annually in over 140 countries - and kits are manufactured in five countries - Mexico, China, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Denmark.\n\nMr Christiansen said the company was \"taking some precautions\" against the impact on its UK business from Brexit, but declined to elaborate.", "Sophie, who has autism, became \"obsessed\" with counting calories\n\nThe NHS must change the way it assesses eating disorders to take account of a link with autism, a research charity has said.\n\nAutistica said findings suggested one in five women presenting to UK clinics with anorexia may also have autism and tailored therapy was vital.\n\nOne woman said her autism had made her \"obsessed\" with counting calories, even though she did not want to lose weight.\n\nHealth watchdog NICE said more research was required.\n\nSophie McInnes, 24, told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme her anorexia had developed not from issues surrounding body image or weight but because she had developed a set of rules for herself about how many calories she could eat.\n\nShe said she had wanted to put on weight but her autism - at that stage undiagnosed - had meant she would not let herself.\n\n\"It was all about the calories, all about the numbers,\" she said, having begun to write down what she was eating aged 19.\n\n\"I actually admitted myself into the eating disorder unit because I had started exercising a lot and I wasn't eating anything.\n\n\"They put me in a wheelchair and said my weight was so low that if I didn't eat, I would need to be sectioned.\"\n\nEventually, Sophie left the unit but she continued to struggle to gain weight.\n\nIt was only several years later, in 2018, that she was diagnosed with autism.\n\nHad the link been spotted sooner, she said, it would have helped her recovery.\n\n\"It's just taken away a big chunk of my life so far, and I want to move on,\" she said.\n\nAutistica's director of science, Dr James Cusack, is calling for new guidelines from the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) to reflect this.\n\nHe pointed to three separate studies carried out in 2015 and 2017 that suggested 15% of women with anorexia also have autism.\n\nThe South London and Maudsley NHS Trust's Eating Disorder Service, a leading UK clinic, said almost 35% of its patients have autism.\n\nCurrently, the NICE guidelines on eating disorders do not contain any mention of the condition.\n\n\"We also need more NHS services involved in research,\" Dr Cusack said, \"both informing studies and carrying out trials in eating-disorder care settings.\"\n\nHis proposal has the backing of former Health Minister Norman Lamb.\n\nThe Lib Dem MP told the Victoria Derbyshire programme it was \"vital\" that practice caught up with research.\n\n\"We may well be applying inappropriate care to women with both conditions,\" he added.\n\nNICE said in a statement that it recognised factors such as autism needed to be taken into account with regards to eating disorders, but there was currently \"very little\" evidence on whether the intervention of health professionals needed to be modified in such cases.\n\nNHS England has been approached for comment.\n\nWill Mandy says it is key for healthcare professionals to understand the autism-anxiety link\n\nWill Mandy, a leading autism researcher, from University College London, said part of the issue was that women and girls were much less likely than men to be recognised as having autism in the first place.\n\nAnd he believes that the \"high levels of stress and anxiety\" caused by the condition going undiagnosed in childhood and adolescence can contribute to people experiencing severe mental health conditions, such as eating disorders.\n\nRecognition among health professionals of the autism-anxiety link was key, he said.\n\n\"If you don't know somebody is autistic, it becomes quite hard to help them and to adapt treatment to being autistic,\" Mr Mandy said.\n\nA tailored approach can include simple changes, such as making communication easier and the environment friendlier.\n\nCaroline Norton says she and colleagues tailor their approach to patients\n\nCaroline Norton, from South London and Maudsley NHS Trust's Eating Disorder Service, said its autistic patients might have one-to-one sessions - to remove the noise of others in the same space - where they learned to make food with a dietician.\n\nHealthcare professionals can also try to make patients more comfortable.\n\nOne of the service's former patients, Ms Norton said, would hardly communicate with the therapist face-to-face but would instead send a long response via email shortly after the session - so they learned from this.\n\n\"It's about meeting the individual at the level that they need,\" she added.\n\nFollow the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme on Facebook and Twitter - and see more of our stories here.", "British teenager Shauna Davison was given an experimental transplant in 2012, in the hope of prolonging her life. Her mother says she was told in advance about two patients who had survived a similar operation - but not about others who had died. The BBC's Deborah Cohen asks whether Shauna, who died after two weeks, was a casualty of the rush to develop stem cell technology?\n\nShauna Davison was born with one lung, a cleft palate and a major heart defect. But despite spending her life in and out of hospital she remained a happy child.\n\n\"Her illness never got her down and she always had a smile on her face,\" says Shauna's mother, Karen Davison. \"Everyone was so nice to her. They looked beyond her problems.\"\n\nWhen she was 12 weeks old, doctors found problems with her trachea - or windpipe. It was very narrow and when it became obstructed, she couldn't breathe. She was given 48 hours to live.\n\nKaren Davison: \"She was a cheeky child but loved by everybody\"\n\nA surgeon in Leeds came to the rescue. David Crabbe warned that it might not work, but he managed to rebuild Shauna's windpipe out of her ribs.\n\nShauna had to stay in hospital for six months and had ring-shaped stents put in her windpipe to keep it open.\n\nMr Crabbe was really caring, Karen Davison says. \"The hospital was outstanding.\"\n\nOver the years, Shauna's stents needed dilating as she grew bigger. She had a tracheostomy - an opening in the front of her neck - to help her breathe.\n\n\"There were times we didn't think she'd make it because she kept collapsing,\" Karen Davison says.\n\nAt home in Middlesbrough, she learned how to change Shauna's tracheostomy tube, use a ventilator, do physiotherapy to help her clear her airway, suction her airway, do CPR, and give her intravenous antibiotics.\n\n\"I did everything for her,\" she says. \"Shauna coped marvellously. But she didn't know any different.\"\n\nAn avid Middlesbrough Football Club fan, Shauna loved wearing a football kit. She went to a mainstream school, with the support of a carer, where she could mix with other children.\n\n\"She was a cheeky child, but loved by everybody,\" her mother says. \"She brightened everyone's day.\"\n\nShauna had many operations but she'd always come through. At times, she didn't go near a hospital for ages, Karen says.\n\nA time came, however, when David Crabbe told her that his technique for treating Shauna was no longer going to be sufficient. Her airway was too small and they would have to look for other options.\n\n\"Mr Crabbe showed me pictures of a normal airway and her airway. It was tiny,\" Karen Davison says.\n\nShauna started to go to Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) in London for tests and to have her stent changed. In 2011, doctors there told her the airway wouldn't last much longer.\n\nAt 15, Shauna suffered a respiratory arrest - a serious incident in which she became unable to breathe - and the family was told about pioneering surgery by Prof Martin Elliott, a cardiothoracic surgeon and former medical director of Great Ormond Street Hospital.\n\n\"They said there'd been some research into tracheal transplants and there'd been two other cases where it'd been done, but they couldn't discuss them with me because of patient confidentiality,\" Karen Davison says. One of them was a 10-year-old boy, she adds.\n\n\"It would be the only chance she'd have.\"\n\nShe would receive a donor windpipe, but it would be laced with her own stem cells, making it almost like her own. She wouldn't need drugs to stop her body rejecting it. It was at the forefront of the new stem cell technology - and still very experimental.\n\nDoctors can use experimental treatments if someone is terminally ill and there is no alternative treatment. It's called \"compassionate use\".\n\nKaren says she was told Shauna wouldn't need a tracheostomy or a ventilator and she'd lead a normal life. But she was told about risks too, she adds - Shauna might still reject the transplant, and having a general anaesthetic is never risk-free.\n\nMartin Elliott had previously worked closely with the internationally renowned Martin Birchall, professor of ENT at University College London (UCL), on implanting a stem-cell-laced donor trachea in another child. They would work together again in Shauna's case.\n\nShauna was being treated at Great Ormond Street at the time of a BBC documentary about the hospital in 2012. She was assessed by different specialists and asked what her hopes for the future were. Shauna told respiratory consultant Dr Martin Wallis she wanted to be able to go swimming.\n\nIt was not an easy decision to have the operation. In Martin Wallis's words, it was not a situation where there was nothing to lose.\n\n\"They've got quite a bit to lose. And this is going to make for a difficult decision,\" he said. \"She's got a reasonable quality of life, she's got her good friend, she clearly has a sense of humour and is enjoying herself - it makes it harder.\"\n\n\"I wanted her to have it done while she was well rather than wait until she was unwell and it might not happen,\" Karen Davison says.\n\nBut because it was such an experimental procedure, her medical team discussed it with the Great Ormond Street Hospital ethics committee.\n\n\"I don't think she will die if we do the procedure. We're trying to do the procedure so that she doesn't. Or at least we prolong her life and her quality of life for as long as possible,\" the surgeon, Martin Elliott, tells the committee on camera.\n\n\"They couldn't give me a time when she'd die but they said she will die eventually. Because her airway would just give up. So there was this procedure they said they were willing to do,\" Karen Davison says. \"Like any other parent, if you thought this was going to help your child live, I agreed to it.\"\n\nSo in February 2012, Shauna was given a transplant of a donor trachea newly populated with her own stem cells.\n\nShauna's transplant operation was filmed by the BBC\n\nInitially, everything seemed to go well. \"For the first couple of days she was marvellous,\" her mother recalls. \"I couldn't believe how well she recovered after it.\"\n\nTwo weeks after her operation Shauna was moved from Great Ormond Street by ambulance to a hospital in Leeds. But during the transfer Shauna started to cough a lot and was in need of suction to clear her throat.\n\n\"We thought that was strange, but thought it might have been due to the journey,\" Karen Davison says. \"I just thought, 'Another couple of weeks and we'll be home.'\"\n\nBut the next morning, Shauna took a turn for the worse.\n\n\"Her chest was pulling in,\" Karen says. She remembers Shauna saying, \"Help me, help me.\"\n\n\"It was the worst day of my life because I couldn't help her.\"\n\n\"They said she'd struggled that much to breathe, her heart had given up,\" Karen Davison says.\n\n\"She was a wonderful child. I miss her so much.\"\n\nWhen the first transplant using a donated windpipe coated with the patient's own stem cells was carried out in 2008 it made global headlines.\n\nIt was thought that stripping the donor's cells from the surface of the trachea and seeding it with the patient's own stem cells created a new organ that would be like the patient's own tissue. No anti-rejection drugs would be needed for the \"tissue-engineered\" trachea.\n\nThe operation was carried out by Italian surgeon Paolo Macchiarini with the help of Martin Birchall, then a surgeon at Bristol University. The recipient was 30-year-old Claudia Castillo, who had tuberculosis in part of her windpipe that leads to the lungs - the bronchus.\n\nHer case was written up in The Lancet. Five months after she'd had her operation, she was reported to be in perfect health.\n\nMartin Birchall, who had helped to prepare the donor trachea, said at the time that it would \"represent a huge step change in surgery. Surgeons can now start to see and understand the potential for adult stem cells and tissue engineering to radically improve their ability to treat patients with serious diseases.\"\n\nMany around the world agreed. It was a \"milestone in medicine\", \"unadulterated good news\" and \"a textbook example of international collaboration\".\n\n\"It was seen as revolutionary, as highly innovative… opening the door for new and exciting tech using a marriage between stem cells and artificial scaffolds that could bring forth this entirely new field of regenerative medicine,\" recalls Prof John Rasko, of the University of Sydney Faculty of Health Sciences.\n\nIt had \"the whiff of a Nobel Prize about it,\" he says.\n\nIndeed, soon the university that hands out the Nobel Prize for medicine, Stockholm's prestigious Karolinska Institute, offered Macchiarini a post. Birchall, for his part, moved to University College London (UCL), where Macchiarini was also made an honorary professor.\n\nClaudia Castillo's operation served as a template and soon others had similar procedures. In 2010, Professor Birchall told a conference \"we have done a further five adults\".\n\nApart from Shauna, UK patients given a tissue-engineered trachea include 19-year-old Keziah Shorten and 10-year-old Ciaran Finn-Lynch. Shauna's surgeon, Martin Elliott, led the transplant team that performed Ciaran's operation, with the help of Macchiarini and Birchall.\n\nLike Claudia Castillo, his procedure was published in a medical journal and it garnered global headlines. Martin Birchall told journalists: \"He is left with a healthy organ there, made from his own stem cells, and that in a way is a kind of miracle.\"\n\nBut soon questions started to be asked about the stem-cell-laced tracheas.\n\nFor Macchiarini, this meant his meteoric rise was mirrored by a rapid fall from grace. He had switched from using donated tracheas to plastic ones, also laced with stem cells. The results were disastrous - his patients died.\n\nMacchiarini was investigated several times by Karolinska before he was fired. Allegations made against him were initially dismissed but the institute has since found him guilty of scientific misconduct and many of his scientific papers have been retracted. Swedish prosecutors reopened a criminal negligence investigation against him in December last year. He has previously denied any negligence.\n\nThe director of the Swedish Public Prosecution, Mikael Bjork, announces the reopening of a criminal negligence investigation into Paolo Macchiarini in December 2018\n\nBo Risberg, professor emeritus of surgery at the University of Gothenberg and a former chairman of the Swedish Ethics Council has said the events amount to the biggest research scandal Sweden has experienced in modern times.\n\n\"Everything was swept under the carpet,\" he said. Macchiarini's failure to do pre-clinical tests on animals using the plastic tracheas was \"the worst crime you can commit\", he added.\n\nOne of Macchiarini's early critics was Pierre Delaere, professor of ENT at University Hospital Leuven in Belgium, who has argued that it is \"impossible from a theoretical point of view\" to establish a new blood supply to a tissue-engineered trachea, whether plastic or donated.\n\nIn 2015, he wrote to UCL casting doubt on the idea of \"tracheal regeneration\", calling it \"the biggest lie in medical history\". By this time Macchiarini had left UCL.\n\nIn its subsequent unpublished report into Delaere's claims, seen by the BBC, UCL cast doubt on the suggestion that stem cells \"played any therapeutic role\" in Ciaran's operation.\n\nBut, it said, there was no \"deliberate fraud\" or \"intent to mislead\" on Martin Birchall's part. Because of the \"lack of intent to deceive\" the university recommended education and training rather than other formal procedures.\n\nMeanwhile, the university was gearing up to conduct clinical trials into stem-cell-regenerated tracheas and larynxes - called Inspire and RegenVox respectively. Martin Birchall was principal investigator with responsibility for leading the trials. He and his team would bring in millions of pounds of research funding to the university.\n\nIt wasn't the only time UCL produced a report into regenerative medicine at the university. In 2017, it published the findings of a special inquiry, set up after the Macchiarini revelations. This found no fault with Martin Birchall and cleared the way for future clinical trials to proceed.\n\nIt said that, when asked, Shauna's family \"were grateful for the opportunity that her daughter received and held no rancour with the tracheal team at GOSH\".\n\nUCL told the BBC this was \"reported to the inquiry by the clinicians involved in the care of Shauna Davison\".\n\nBut Shauna's mother, Karen Davison, says no-one connected to the inquiry had ever asked for her views.\n\nThe more I have looked into Shauna Davison's story the more I have discovered that Karen Davison did not know.\n\nThe two patients Karen and Shauna heard about were the 10-year-old boy, Ciaran Finn-Lynch, and Claudia Castillo, both of whom are still alive.\n\nBut they weren't told that Claudia Castillo's windpipe transplant collapsed just over three weeks after she'd had it and she needed stents to keep it open. (She's since had to have a lung removed.)\n\nNor did Karen and Shauna hear about most of the other cases Martin Birchall talked about in 2010.\n\nOne of these operations was on Kent teenager Keziah Shorten, who about two years previously had been given a tissue-engineered donor trachea by Macchiarini in Florence, after she had been diagnosed with a rare form of cancer.\n\nBut around a year after the operation, her transplant failed. Martin Birchall told a Swedish documentary in 2016 that her tissue-engineered windpipe had broken down. When she was subsequently operated on at University College London Hospital they replaced it with a plastic one. She died a month before Shauna's operation.\n\nAccording to John Rasko there is a \"strong obligation to give a full and frank account of all the information that's available. Exceptionalism and excluding bad cases is really something that is not acceptable.\"\n\nA spokesperson for GOSH said: \"As a patient, Keziah's condition and her graft were very different to Shauna, so it was not clinically relevant to discuss her case.\"\n\nThe hospital added that the other patients were not discussed \"because the team did not know of other relevant cases from overseas at this time\".\n\nThere was more that Karen and Shauna did not know. They did hear about Ciaran Finn-Lynch. But there were key differences between Shauna's operation and his.\n\nCiaran had received a stent - but Shauna didn't. According to the 2017 UCL inquiry report, Martin Elliott said that he had wanted to use a stent but was advised not to.\n\nCiaran had also received a fresh donor trachea. Shauna's wasn't fresh. It had been frozen and then thawed.\n\nIt was a treatment that hadn't been used before - after the trachea had been thawed, the donor's cells had been removed using a special vacuum technique exclusive to members of Shauna's medical team.\n\nMartin Birchall is cited as saying that Shauna's initial surgery was successful, in a letter to the European Medicines Agency\n\nTrish Murray, professor of stem cell biology and regenerative medicine at Liverpool University, has a number of criticisms.\n\n\"The reality is that if you don't have a stent, the trachea will collapse, that's been the unanimous experience of all patients who've experienced trachea transplantation,\" she says.\n\n\"So although it's well-known that stents cause problems, if you don't have a stent, then the trachea will collapse and the patient will suffocate.\"\n\nAnother issue was the frozen trachea.\n\nFor the team it made perfect sense to freeze a trachea, as the trachea could be stored up in advance and thawed when needed. But Trish Murray is critical of this decision too.\n\n\"Ciaran's trachea was not frozen beforehand whereas Shauna's was freeze-thawed and we know from papers that the group themselves have published that that would weaken the trachea... and that would make it more likely to collapse after it had been implanted,\" she says.\n\nHowever, UCL questions the relevance of these studies. It has told the BBC that they do not refer to the technique used on Shauna.\n\nTrish Murray says other worrying studies should have rung alarm bells. She points to an unpublished study looking at the vacuum technique, which shows that one pig that received a transplant died spontaneously and another developed \"respiratory compromise\" and had to be put down. The study was stopped on humane grounds.\n\n\"We know from information that's been obtained from FOI requests that the team in UCL have tried the technique on two pigs and both pigs died quite quickly. We also know that they've tried it on rabbits and there was 100% mortality in the rabbits as well,\" she says.\n\nThe BBC asked UCL and Great Ormond Street whether the animal studies were done before or after Shauna's operation, but received no reply to this question.\n\nAnd like Belgian ENT professor Pierre Delaere, Trish Murray questions the role the stem cells played.\n\n\"There's actually no evidence that any of those cells survive, in fact quite a lot of evidence that they don't survive,\" she says.\n\nBut how were doctors and scientists involved in the care of seriously ill patients able to use these tracheas when there was little evidence that they worked?\n\nUsually, researchers have to test their innovation in the lab and then on animals in preclinical research. Only then - with formal approval from a research ethics committee and the regulators - does it move into humans.\n\nMartin Birchall, however, wrote in the Lancet that \"compassionate studies\", the procedure for using new treatments on very ill patients, were \"powerful ways to inform robustly designed formal trials\" and would \"expedite the testing of novel therapies\".\n\n\"The surgeons involved have used this apparent loophole of compassionate use to actually experiment on patients and then they've used the data that they've obtained to go to the regulatory authorities to get permission for the trials,\" Trish Murray says.\n\nJohn Rasko agrees with Trish Murray that this is not how the system should work.\n\n\"Exercising the option of compassionate use brings with it great responsibility. It shouldn't be used as a way that doctors can fly under the radar of properly undertaken regulated medical practice,\" he says.\n\nAnd Great Ormond Street agrees too. \"We do not see compassionate use as a way of testing novel treatments,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nBut Shauna's transplant, and those of other patients, were used to obtain funding and approval for clinical trials, as well as being written about in medical journals and an application to the European Medicines Agency.\n\nThe BBC has found that at least seven of these documents and publications misrepresent Shauna's treatment or death in some way.\n\nFor example, in one 2016 application to the European Medicines Agency, Martin Birchall is cited as saying Shauna's initial surgery was successful but she suffered a \"fatal cardiovascular event six weeks following surgery\" - whereas in fact she died after two weeks, because her trachea had collapsed.\n\nBy the time the clinical trial to test the tissue-engineered trachea transplants was approved and funded by public bodies, a change had been made to the procedure. Having learned from what happened to Shauna, the team would make sure patients in the trial had a stent.\n\nAnd even then, the approved patient information sheets accompanying one of the trials contained erroneous information about Shauna and indeed about Claudia Castillo. Only they and Ciaran Finn-Lynch were included in the information sheet - despite the team knowing about at least 10 cases worldwide.\n\nAs early as 2014, Martin Elliott had told a conference 10 patients had received a tissue-engineered trachea, all of whom had died apart from Claudia and Ciaran.\n\nLast year, the clinical trials were suspended. UCL says no-one had been recruited to participate.\n\nMuch of what the BBC has uncovered about what happened to Shauna does not appear in UCL's special inquiry report.\n\nLeonid Schneider is a molecular-cell-biologist-turned-journalist who has been covering regenerative medicine since 2016. He was called to give evidence at UCL's inquiry and is damning in his appraisal of their report.\n\n\"Why didn't Shauna's mother have the full information? And whose idea it was not to give her a stent?\" he asks.\n\n\"Finally, how could UCL investigators recommend the donor trachea clinical trials to resume, after Prof Delaere and myself told them how many people have died of it?\" he adds.\n\nUCL says that clinical care was \"beyond the scope of the inquiry\".\n\nIt adds: \"Any research undertaken at UCL is required to conform to the highest legal, ethical and regulatory standards, and we will not hesitate to take the necessary action, if and when this falls short.\"\n\nAfter receiving ethical advice, I told Karen what the BBC had found out about tissue-engineered transplants.\n\nShe was upset. She said this might have changed her decision about allowing Shauna's operation to go ahead.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'I hope nobody else has to go through what I’ve gone through'\n\n\"I hope that nobody else has to go through what I've gone through, I really do. They should be stopped. That is such a shock. People ask me, 'How did Shauna die?' And I always say, heart attack. I've never once blamed those surgeons for her death. They have a lot to account for.\"\n\nGOSH said: \"Before Shauna's operation was carried out a comprehensive review was conducted of all the relevant published scientific and medical evidence.\"\n\nThey also said: \"We are sorry the treatment did not work for Shauna and the family feel they did not receive all relevant information. We are contacting Shauna's family to offer to meet them to talk through any concerns.\"\n\n\"It's taken them all this time, but you'd think they would have phoned me and said something to me,\" says Karen Davison. \"I know I wouldn't have had her forever, but at least I might have had her for a bit longer.\"\n\nJoin the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and Twitter.", "Jim Ratcliffe is the founder and chairman of Ineos\n\nBritain's richest man, Jim Ratcliffe, has announced £1bn worth of investments in the UK oil and chemical industries.\n\nMr Ratcliffe's company, Ineos, will spend £500m on overhauling the Forties pipeline system, which transports 40% of the UK's North Sea oil and gas.\n\nIt will also build a £350m energy plant at Scotland's Grangemouth oil refinery site, which it already owns, as well as a £150m chemicals plant in Hull.\n\nMedia reports have said Mr Ratcliffe plans to become a tax exile in Monaco.\n\nEarlier this month, the Sunday Times claimed Mr Ratcliffe, an outspoken supporter of Brexit, and two of his key executives could save up to £4bn in tax by leaving the UK.\n\nIneos moved its headquarters to the Swiss city of Lausanne in 2010 to cut its corporation tax bill, but returned to the UK in 2016.\n\nMr Ratcliffe said the investment programme would \"ensure that our UK assets continue to be world-class for many years to come\".\n\nHe added: \"At an uncertain moment for the country, Ineos has confidence in its businesses and is committed to continue investing in manufacturing and high-skilled jobs in the UK.\"\n\nThe Forties pipeline project would \"extend the life of the pipeline by at least 20 years, into the 2040s\", the firm said.\n\nIneos said it would overhaul the reliability of the pipelines, including modernising the environmental systems.\n\nAt Grangemouth, it will develop a new steam and power plant, improving energy efficiency and long-term reliability, it said.\n\nThe Hull plant will manufacture vinyl acetate monomer, a chemical compound used in making various industrial and consumer products including safety glass and laminated windscreens.\n\nMr Ratcliffe, whose £21bn fortune makes him the UK's richest man according to the Sunday Times rich list, has traditionally invested in speciality chemicals businesses, but began acquiring North Sea assets in 2015.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nJurgen Klopp feels Liverpool proved some doubters wrong after they turned on the style to crush Watford at Anfield and stay top of the Premier League.\n\nThe Reds had dropped six points in their previous four top-flight games but two goals each by Sadio Mane and Virgil van Dijk, as well as another from Divock Origi, helped them to their biggest win of the season.\n\n\"You know what was written and said about us. It is of course not right,\" Klopp told BBC Sport afterwards.\n\n\"These boys are outstanding and today they showed so much passion.\"\n\nWith 10 games of the league season left, Liverpool stay one point clear of nearest rivals Manchester City, who beat West Ham 1-0 on Wednesday.\n\nKlopp's side were 2-0 ahead in 20 minutes as Senegal forward Mane headed the first before doubling the lead with an outrageous backheel, Trent Alexander-Arnold providing both assists.\n\nMohamed Salah hit the post before Divock Origi beat Ben Foster at his near post to make it 3-0.\n\nVan Dijk scored two late headers, including one from another Alexander-Arnold assist.\n• None Reaction from Anfield and the rest of Wednesday's Premier League games\n\nKlopp went on the pitch at the full-time whistle to applaud Liverpool's fans and headed back to the dressing room with a huge smile and his arm draped around Alexander-Arnold's shoulder.\n\nThe 20-year-old England defender marked his return to the side, after being left out of Sunday's draw at Manchester United, with an outstanding performance as poor Watford were put to the sword.\n\nAlexander-Arnold's pace caused the Hornets' defence all sorts of problems while Adam Masina had a torrid time at the hands of Salah.\n\nThis was a timely return to winning ways for Liverpool after one win in their previous five league and cup games.\n\nMane's header set them on their way but it was his second which showed Liverpool had their swagger back - a spectacular backheel past Foster.\n\nOrigi has been a spectator for most of the season, but with Roberto Firmino missing because of an ankle injury, the Belgium forward marked his rare appearance with a right-foot finish in front of the Kop.\n\nBefore this game, Van Dijk had scored one goal for his club this season but found the net twice in the space of three minutes as Watford caved in.\n\nLiverpool will face tougher opponents during the run-in, while they will be replaced at the top of the table on Saturday if City avoid defeat at Bournemouth as Klopp's side are not in action until Sunday at Everton.\n\nHowever, there is fresh optimism at Anfield after a resounding win.\n\n\"We could have had 75 but we are having a really good season. Let's enjoy the ride and see where it takes us.\"\n\nWatford have had a terrific season under Javi Gracia, the Spaniard guiding the Hornets to a 'best of the rest' seventh spot in the table and a place in the FA Cup quarter-finals.\n\nYet they were blown away by Liverpool in such a manner that Wolves, who were not playing, moved ahead of them because of a superior goal difference.\n\nWatford's last three visits to Anfield have resulted in 5-0, 5-0 and 6-1 defeats.\n\nThis was their seventh loss in eight top-flight games against the 'big six' this season - and they rarely looked like getting back into the match once Mane headed Liverpool in front inside 10 minutes.\n\nTroy Deeney spent most the night helping out in defence as Watford were overwhelmed by the home team.\n\n\"Our target was to win but when you find an opponent like Liverpool then it's very hard to get the points,\" said Gracia.\n\n\"It's important to be calm and keep confidence in ourselves now because our levels have been good.\"\n\nTheir next away game is at Manchester City on 9 March. Liverpool will hope Gracia's side can give a better account of themselves at Etihad Stadium than they did at Anfield.\n\nWhy Anfield is a fortress - the stats\n• None Liverpool are now unbeaten at Anfield in the Premier League in their past 35 matches, the first side in the competition to reach this number of matches without defeat since Manchester City in December 2012 (37 games).\n• None Watford have become the first side in Premier League history to concede at least five goals in three successive away matches against a single opponent in the competition.\n• None Sadio Mane's double for Liverpool were his 13th and 14th Premier League goals of the season.\n• None Divock Origi has had a hand in 11 goals in his past 18 Premier League starts for Liverpool (seven goals, four assists).\n\nLiverpool now turn their attention to neighbours Everton and Sunday's Merseyside derby at Goodison Park (16:15 GMT). On the same day Watford host Leicester City in Brendan Rodgers' first match in charge of the Foxes (12:00 GMT).\n• None Goal! Liverpool 5, Watford 0. Virgil van Dijk (Liverpool) header from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Andrew Robertson with a cross following a set piece situation.\n• None Adam Masina (Watford) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Goal! Liverpool 4, Watford 0. Virgil van Dijk (Liverpool) header from very close range to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Trent Alexander-Arnold with a cross following a set piece situation.\n• None Craig Cathcart (Watford) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Adam Lallana (Liverpool) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Offside, Watford. Abdoulaye Doucouré tries a through ball, but Adam Masina is caught offside. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "US President Donald Trump's ex-lawyer Michael Cohen is testifying before Congress.\n\nHe has claimed Mr Trump knew beforehand about a leak of hacked Democratic emails.\n\nIn his testimony to the House of Representatives Oversight Committee, Cohen also branded Mr Trump a \"racist\", a \"conman\" and a \"cheat\".\n\nFor more on this story:", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince William and Catherine are on a visit to Northern Ireland\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have closed the first day of their visit to Northern Ireland at a party in a Belfast bar.\n\nThe couple mingled with young people who are making a difference in Northern Ireland at the Empire Music Hall.\n\nThe focus of this Royal visit is very much on children and young people.\n\nEarlier, Prince William and Catherine visited Windsor Park stadium where they showcased their football skills.\n\nThey also met Northern Ireland football manager Michael O'Neill and former Northern Ireland, Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur goalkeeper Pat Jennings.\n\nThe duke and duchess last visited Northern Ireland in 2016.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Cambridge pull a pint as they visit the Belfast Empire Hall in Belfast\n\nOn Wednesday evening, hundreds of people lined the streets to greet the couple and cheered when they waved back at them.\n\nMeanwhile inside the music hall, numerous members of the arts, business and sporting community eagerly waited to meet the Royals.\n\nDuring the informal party, Prince William made a speech about the \"many inspirational young leaders\" he and Catherine had met on their visit.\n\n\"From using sport to encourage people to talk openly about mental health, to delivering services to children and young people who are at risk of entering care,\" he said.\n\n\"The work you do transcends community and is helping deliver a brighter future for everyone in Northern Ireland.\"\n\nThe couple waved at crowds before entering the music hall\n\nPrince William also paid tribute to Dame Mary Peters, who he called \"one of the United Kingdom's sporting legends\".\n\n\"Mary has also inspired generation after generation to come together in times of trouble and work for the common good - a lesson I hope many of us can learn from,\" he added.\n\nHis comments came as Dame Mary was appointed Lady Companion of the Most Noble of the Garter by The Queen.\n\nPrior to the event, the pair joined in a kickabout with young children at the home of Northern Ireland and Linfield.\n\nWindsor stadium is also home to the Irish Football Association, which runs programmes to encourage young girls to play the sport and to support clubs dealing with mental health issues.\n\nThe Duchess played football with children at Windsor Park\n\nThe Duke and Duchess met former goalkeeper Pat Jennings\n\nOn the Windsor Park turf, the duke and duchess both had a go at dribbling drills, to the delight of the young footballers.\n\nCatherine ran around a marked-out square, keeping the ball under control, and also jogged up and down on the spot.\n\nBoth Duke and Duchess ran about with their young teammates\n\nAt one point, the duchess hugged and comforted nine-year-old Jasmine Andrews after she became emotional about the occasion.\n\nJasmine, a pupil at Fane Street primary school, later revealed how Catherine had made her smile through the tears.\n\nShe said: \"I got a little bit nervous and started to cry and she asked me was I a little bit shy, and I said 'I am', and she said that she used to be shy when she was little too.\"\n\nThey then travelled on to County Fermanagh to see the Roscor Youth Village, a residential centre for children referred by social workers.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDuchess of Cambridge at the Roscor Youth Village\n\nIt is the couple's third visit to Northern Ireland, as well as their visit in 2016 they also came in March 2011, in the run-up to their wedding.", "Tom Ballard is an experienced climber who has set records for his mountaineering feats\n\nA British climber whose mother died on K2 has been reported missing on a peak in Pakistan.\n\nTom Ballard and Italian climber Daniele Nardi are trying to reach the summit of Nanga Parbat - nicknamed \"Killer Mountain\".\n\nThe last contact from the pair was on Sunday, from an altitude of about 6,300m (20,669 ft).\n\nA search operation has been delayed amid tensions between Pakistan and India.\n\nMr Ballard, from Derbyshire, is an experienced climber and the first person to solo climb all six major north faces of the Alps in one winter.\n\nHe is the son of Alison Hargreaves, who was the first woman to conquer Everest unaided in 1995.\n\nShe died the same year while descending from the summit of K2, the world's second highest mountain.\n\nAlison Hargreaves died while descending from the summit of K2, in 1995\n\nNanga Parbat is the world's ninth highest mountain and notoriously difficult to climb.\n\nA number of deaths have earned it the \"Killer Mountain\" label.\n\nIt has been reported that weather was poor in the area at the time.\n\nPakistani authorities hope to launch a helicopter search operation, but said it has been slowed by tensions with India.\n\nA search operation for Mr Ballard and Italian climber Daniele Nardi has been delayed amid tensions between Pakistan and India\n\nMr Ballard, 30 has been living in Italy's Dolomites mountain range with his father for the last few years.\n\nNicholas Hobley, from online magazine Planet Mountain, said Mr Ballard was \"regarded extremely highly in the climbing world\".\n\n\"He's an absolutely fantastic climber and someone you would want to have with you on an expedition.\"\n\nNanga Parbat has only been climbed in winter once before as it is \"extremely dangerous\", he said.\n\nHe said Mr Nardi had been attempting to climb the mountain in winter every year since 2012 and knows the area well.\n\nA statement from Mr Nardi's team said the \"situation was worrying\" because bad weather is forecast for the next few days.\n\nThey said they were \"waiting for news from base camp\" and experienced Pakistani mountaineer Ali Sadpara was on standby to fly to Nanga Parbat to scour the mountain when the airspace reopens.\n\nA Foreign Office spokesman said they were in contact with Pakistani authorities regarding Mr Ballard's disappearance.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.", "Bradley Wallace, 24, from Uddingston, assaulted Canon Thomas White in Glasgow last July.\n\nA man who spat on a priest as an Orange walk marched past a Glasgow church has been jailed for 10 months.\n\nBradley Wallace, 24, assaulted Canon Thomas White when he was unable to get back inside St Alphonsus Church on London Road.\n\nHis DNA was later found to match saliva on the back of the vestment worn by Canon White on 7 July last year.\n\nWallace, from Uddingston, South Lanarkshire, admitted the assault last month.\n\nThe court was told Wallace had accepted his crime was motivated by anti-Catholicism.\n\nCanon Thomas White was spat on and abused as as he spoke to parishioners following mass\n\nSheriff Andrew Cubie said: \"This is about the courts reflecting disapproval of the depressingly still deep seated and widespread social issue of sectarianism, which generates at the very least tension and at worst both hatred and conflict and which disfigures civilised society.\n\n\"The courts in Scotland still deal all too frequently with cases of sectarian abuse which serve to harden and perpetuate divisions in society.\"\n\nThe sheriff said Wallace was old enough to be aware of increasing efforts to tackle the problem.\n\nHe said: \"How could any 24-year-old from Scotland not know that it is wrong to peddle sectarianism?\n\n\"It is no doubt partly because of the 'echo chamber' effect of much social media, where your loyalties are displayed and perhaps your motivation identified.\"\n\nThe sheriff told Wallace he had taken part a \"grotesque spectacle\" which forced the priest to seek sanctuary in his church after mass to avoid a hostile crowd.\n\nHe added: \"You could have acted with restraint but rather, no doubt emboldened by, and thinking that you were under the cover of this aggressive and threatening crowd, you took the decision to spit on the priest, an act which is disgusting, cowardly and provocative, which demonstrates contempt and hostility and is designed to humiliate and demean.\n\n\"The whole situation must have been, as you recognise, very frightening for the complainer and those around him.\"\n\nSheriff Cubie said the sentence should serve as a warning to others.\n\nHe told the court: \"Those tempted to act in a sectarian way must understand society's repugnance of and weariness of that kind of behaviour and must expect to be dealt with accordingly.\"\n\nProcurator fiscal depute Chris Farrell said the annual Boyne Parade in Glasgow had attracted 4,000 participants and an equal number of spectators.\n\nSt Alphonsus Church is close to the Barras market in the east end\n\nAt about 17:00 the parade was on its return route having \"splintered off into different factions\" which took different routes through the city.\n\nMr Farrell said: \"At this time one of the factions was walking along London Road towards its junction with Kent Street.\n\n\"They were flanked by a number of police officers who took position outside of St Alphonsus Chrch, due to it being a Catholic congregation.\"\n\nThe court was told Canon White had finished his Sunday mass and was at the front entrance to say goodbye to his parishioners.\n\nWhen he saw the parade coming towards the church he tried to get back inside but was unable to due to a bottleneck created by the worshippers.\n\nA large scale disturbance then broke out at the junction between the two streets, which took police away from the church.\n\nAs a result members of the public who had been associating themselves with the parade became more volatile towards the congregation.\n\nIt was heard that \"a number of this group began to spit towards them\" and Wallace, who was amongst the group, spat on Canon White's back.\n\nDefence lawyer John Coogan told the court that Wallace had asked for a meeting to apologise to Canon White, but had been prevented from doing so by his bail conditions.\n• None Man who spat on priest caught by his DNA", "Pakistan's air force says it has shot down two of India's fighter planes, and captured a pilot, in an escalation of the long-standing tensions between the two nuclear-armed nations over Kashmir.\n\nIndia says it has lost one MiG-21 fighter jet and demanded the safe return of the aircraft's pilot.\n\nIt also says the Indian Air Force shot down a Pakistani fighter – a claim that Pakistan denies.", "Dozens of firefighters have battled through the night to extinguish a large gorse fire on Arthur's Seat in Edinburgh.\n\nThe fire engulfed about 800 square metres of gorse on the Salisbury Crags.\n\nThe Scottish Fire and Rescue Service said they had received 197 calls between 18:30 and 20:30 on Tuesday about the blaze.\n\nTeams were stood down at about 02:45 on Wednesday. There were no reports of any injuries.\n\nThe fire resulted in Queen's Drive being closed between Dynamic Earth and the Commonwealth Pool while emergency services dealt with the incident.\n\nThe effects of the fire were clearly visible on Arthur's Seat on Wednesday\n\nThe fire engulfed about 800 square metres of gorse\n\nTwo fire engines from Edinburgh went to the scene along with an all-terrain vehicle from Dunblane.\n\nMeanwhile, fire crews have been tackling a huge blaze on moorland in West Yorkshire.\n\nThe fire, described by one witness as \"apocalyptic\", covers about 1.5 sq km of land near Marsden.", "The European Union (EU) has accepted the UK's request for a Brexit delay until 31 January 2020, with an option to leave sooner if a deal is approved by Parliament.\n\nDelaying the UK's exit date requires an extension to Article 50, the part of the Lisbon Treaty that sets out what happens when a country decides it wants to leave the EU.\n\nArticle 50 allows an initial two-year period for negotiations on the terms of exiting.\n\nIt was triggered by then Prime Minister Theresa May on 29 March 2017, giving an exit date of 29 March 2019. But this date was extended twice, first to 12 April and then until 31 October, after Mrs May's deal was rejected in successive votes in the House of Commons.\n\nNow it is being extended for a third time - so how does this process work?\n\nThe UK cannot make a decision about extending Article 50 on its own - it has to send a request to the 27 other EU countries.\n\nAll 27 have to agree in order to secure an extension.\n\nOn Saturday 19 October, Mr Johnson sent a letter, as he was compelled to by a law known as the Benn Act. The law stated he must send an extension request should he fail to get a Brexit deal through the House of Commons by the end of 19 October.\n\nMr Johnson also sent a second letter saying he believed that a \"further extension would damage the interests of the UK and our EU partners\".\n\nNevertheless, on 28 October the EU agreed to the extension proposed in his first letter.\n\nThe EU was not obliged to say yes.\n\nOnce it received the UK's delay request, in the form of a letter, the 27 leaders consulted with each other on their decision. It was then made following a meeting of EU ambassadors in Brussels.\n\nIf EU leaders had decided to offer a longer extension they would have been likely to have met in person to set conditions of the extension.\n\nIt's worth pointing out that Article 50 can also be revoked - effectively cancelling Brexit.\n\nThe UK can in theory do that without consulting anyone else. That would mean that Brexit would not happen and the UK would remain in the EU on the same terms it has now.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats are the only party to say that would they would revoke Article 50 without a referendum if they won a majority in a general election.\n\nThe European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled that a revocation should be \"unequivocal and unconditional\", suggesting that the ECJ would take a dim view of any attempt to withdraw an Article 50 notification and then resubmit it again a short time later.", "Twenty-eight women, representing the number of women who fly from Northern Ireland for an abortion every week, marched with suitcases to parliament.\n\nThey included MPs and actors from the TV comedy Derry Girls.", "A US man whose murder conviction was the focus of the popular Netflix series Making a Murderer will have his case re-examined by a court in Wisconsin.\n\nSteven Avery is serving a life sentence for the murder of young freelance photographer Teresa Halbach in 2005.\n\nHe says he is innocent. Avery has won a motion to appeal based on possible human bones found in a gravel pit.\n\nHis lawyer says they were not tested for DNA and were given to the Halbach family, a violation of state law.\n\nKathleen Zellner, who filed the motion, said the return of the bones meant that potentially crucial evidence in the case had been kept from further testing.\n\nAvery and his nephew Brendan Dassey were both sentenced to life in jail - in separate trials - for killing Ms Halbach, whose charred remains were found at Avery's car salvage yard a week after she went there to photograph a minivan for sale.\n\nIf the bones - found near the Avery property - are found to belong to Ms Halbach, Ms Zellner says it undermines the prosecution's theory that she was killed on the Avery property.\n\n\"This evidence has the potential to undo the whole case, so it is a big win,\" she told Newsweek magazine.\n\n\"The case is being remanded back to the circuit court to conduct proceedings, which can include a hearing. The circuit court can grant a new trial, or if not, back to appellate court who can reverse the conviction and/or grant a new trial.\"\n\nEvidence related to the bones can now be submitted.\n\nOn Twitter, Ms Zellner said: \"We are going to have an extraordinary number of constitutional violations when we are done. The [court of appeals] is letting us create an avalanche of evidence in this record. Higher courts rule.\"\n\nMaking a Murderer cast doubt on the legal process used in the investigation and subsequent court cases.\n\nAvery previously served 18 years for another crime he did not commit.", "Two rare Madagascan tortoises have hatched at Chester Zoo.\n\nThe radiated tortoise is a critically endangered species that can grow to half a metre in length and reach 100 years old.\n\nBut these newborns are only the size of a golf ball.", "The baby at the age of five days...\n\nA baby boy who weighed just 268g (9.45oz) at birth has been released from hospital in Japan, and is believed to be the smallest boy in the world to have been successfully treated.\n\nThe baby was born by emergency C-section in August, and was so small he could fit into a pair of cupped hands.\n\nThe infant was nurtured in intensive care until he was released last week, two months after his due date.\n\nHe had grown to a weight of 3.2kg, and is now feeding normally.\n\nBorn at 24 weeks, the tiny boy spent five months in hospital.\n\n\"I can only say I'm happy that he has grown this big because honestly, I wasn't sure he could survive,\" the boy's mother said, according to Tokyo's Keio University Hospital.\n\nDoctor Takeshi Arimitsu, who treated the extraordinary baby, told the BBC he was the smallest infant born (on record) to be discharged from a hospital, according to a database of the world's littlest babies held by the University of Iowa.\n\nHe said he wanted to show that \"there is a possibility that babies will be able to leave the hospital in good health, even though they are born small\".\n\n... and weighing a healthy 3.2kg - twelve times his birth weight - just before he left hospital\n\nThe previous record-holder was a boy born in Germany, weighing 274g. The smallest surviving baby girl in that same database was also born in Germany, in 2015, and reportedly weighed 252g.\n\nKeio University Hospital said the survival rate of babies born weighing less than a kilogram is about 90% in Japan. But for those born under 300g, that falls to around 50%.\n\nAmong the very smallest babies, the survival rate is much lower for boys than girls. Medical experts are unsure why, though some believe it could be linked to the slower development of male babies' lungs.\n• None 'I didn't think she would see Christmas'", "It's been very difficult today for everyone, journalists included, to separate fact from fiction.\n\nThis hasn't been helped by a whirlpool of misinformation on social media.\n\nPakistan's government earlier released footage of the captured Indian fighter pilot on Twitter, with the video being shared far and wide.\n\nBut several accounts claimed there was also video of a second Indian pilot being captured. A Facebook page circulated this supposed video and it has been shared more than 29,000 times. It has also been retweeted hundreds of times on Twitter.\n\nThe footage is fake.The original footage of an injured airman was filmed last week when two Indian Air Force (IAF) planes collided in mid-air during a rehearsal for an air show in Bangalore.\n\nThe footage of an injured Indian airman is actually from last week Image caption: The footage of an injured Indian airman is actually from last week\n\nVarious Twitter accounts and some Pakistani news sites have also used an image of a crashed IAF jet for their coverage, suggesting the picture was taken on Wednesday in Pakistan-administered Kashmir.\n\nBut the original picture was actually taken in 2016 when a fighter plane crashed into a building in the Indian city of Jodhpur.\n\nIn the hours immediately after news of the air clashes broke, other media outlets published old images from a plane crash in India's Orissa state in 2015.\n\nThey claimed the pictures showed an Indian fighter jet shot down by Pakistani forces.", "Rail passengers face \"another difficult year\" with more major timetable changes and engineering works, MPs warn.\n\nGovernment management must improve \"considerably\" ahead of the changes, a Public Accounts Committee report found.\n\nIt said passengers suffered \"significant financial and emotional costs\" during problems last year and they risk \"continuing to pay the price\" for strategic failures.\n\nThe government said a \"root-and-branch\" review of the railways was under way.\n\nBut the PAC said the Department for Transport still had \"a way to go\" before Network Rail - which manages tracks and other infrastructure - and train operators work together in a way that minimises disruption during infrastructure projects.\n\nLast May, Network Rail attempted to roll out timetable changes which affected 46% of all services.\n\nThe report found it caused \"unprecedented disruption\" for weeks across the south-east and north of England.\n\nGovia Thameslink Railway and Northern failed to run 780 scheduled services on average each day, the equivalent of one in 10 trains.\n\nOther services were \"significantly delayed and overcrowded\".\n\nAt the time, passengers told the BBC how the problems affected them.\n\nOne, Rebecca Pipe, from Rochdale, said her health was suffering, because travelling home from Manchester Victoria after treatment for breast cancer was \"horrible and incredibly stressful\".\n\nAnother passenger, Karen Bregan, who suffers from back problems, said having to stand on trains every day into Manchester left her \"really stressed and uncomfortable\".\n\nThe PAC report warns that even more timetable changes than last May are expected 12 months on, with \"significant changes\" also due in December.\n\nA report published by the regulator Office of Rail and Road (ORR) in September said \"no-one took charge\" during the timetable last year's travel chaos.\n\nIt said track manager Network Rail, two train operators and the DfT \"had all made mistakes\".\n\nBut ORR chair Prof Stephen Glaister told the BBC \"it was unclear\" who should have the responsibility for tackling the problems.\n\nDfT said last summer's disruption was \"unacceptable\" and the Glaister Report's initial findings had helped deliver timetable changes more successfully in December.\n\n\"The independently-chaired root-and-branch review of our railway is considering all parts of the rail industry to ensure the focus is on putting passengers first.\n\n\"The government and rail industry are committed to working together to ensure improvements are made.\"\n• None Trains chaos: What's really going on?", "Selfridges has said it will ban the sale of exotic animal skins such as alligator, crocodile and python.\n\nFrom February 2020, the luxury London department store will only sell leather from agricultural livestock.\n\nThe Humane Society International said the move was the \"natural next step for a responsible retailer\" and would save \"countless\" crocodiles and snakes.\n\nPeople for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (Peta) has urged rival stores, such as Harvey Nichols, to follow suit.\n\nYvonne Taylor, director of corporate projects at Peta, told BBC News: \"Hats off to Selfridges - which had already banned fur, angora, and foie gras after persuasive talks with Peta - for now ending the sale of wild animals' 'exotic' skins.\"\n\nThe industry is not only \"heartless\", but \"extremely wasteful\", Peta claims, saying it can take the skins of four crocodiles to make a single bag.\n\nThe BBC understands that the ban will mainly affect sales of very high end, expensive accessories, particularly shoes and handbags.\n\nVictoria Beckham ditched the use of exotic skins earlier this month at London Fashion Week\n\nThe move follows an announcement from designer Victoria Beckham that she would stop using exotic skins in her designs from her autumn/winter 2019 collection onwards.\n\nBeckham joins Vivienne Westwood, Diane von Furstenberg and Chanel in the ban - alongside high street brands such as Topshop, H&M and Adidas.\n\nIn December, Chanel became the first luxury fashion house in the world to stop using exotic animal skins.\n\nThe company's head of fashion, Bruno Pavlovksy, said it had become harder to source such skins ethically.\n\nMeanwhile, British designer Stella McCartney's \"vegetarian brand\" has never used leather, skin, fur or feathers.\n\nThe brand uses leather alternatives such as recycled polyester instead of Brazilian calf leather - which it claims has a high environmental impact.\n\nSelfridges, which banned the sale of fur in 2005, said banning exotic skins was part of a \"long-standing commitment to place ethics and sustainability at the heart of commercial decisions\".\n\nSelfridges' buying director Sebastian Manes said the brand was fixed on being at \"the very forefront of future thinking retail\".\n\nHe added: \"For us, that's a future where luxury is defined by craftsmanship and material innovation.\"\n\nIn 2015, the store removed single-use plastic water bottles from sale and made its signature yellow paper bags from recycled coffee cups.\n\nSince the beginning of this year, all clothes bags have been made with used plastic bottles.\n\nThe British Heart Foundation will not accept donations of fur or ivory items\n\nIn the charity sector, the British Heart Foundation will not accept real fur or fur-trimmed items, or anything made from ivory.\n\nOxfam told the BBC it does not sell products made from crocodile or alligator skin, angora wool or fur.\n\nIt also checks legal regulations for items made of snakeskin, tortoiseshell and coral, and will only sell ivory if it can be proven that the product was made before 1947.\n\nPeta's Ms Tayor said conscientious and informed consumers \"absolutely reject the exotic skins trade, which invariably torments and kills crocodiles, snakes, lizards, and other sentient, beautiful animals in appalling ways for fashion\".\n\nShe added: \"Peta urges other department stores, like Harvey Nichols, and brands such as Louis Vuitton to follow Selfridges' business-savvy example.\"\n\nA spokesperson for Harvey Nichols told the BBC: \"Harvey Nichols requires any brand that uses fur or exotic skins to adhere to the Animal Sourcing Principles as set out by the Responsible Luxury Initiative (ReLi)\".\n\nThe ReLi claims to have set \"high level principles\" for the sourcing of leather, fur and exotic skins, but Peta maintains that there are \"few laws\" to protect reptiles from abuse.\n\nAccording to Peta the illegal trade in exotic skins is \"rampant\" - with an estimated US $1bn worth of python skins imported into Europe illegally each year.\n\nThe group also claims that many of the millions of reptiles whose skins are exported from Southeast Asia each year belong to endangered species, whose numbers in the wild are \"drastically dwindling\".\n\nDepartment store John Lewis told the BBC that it does not sell any products with exotic animal skins.", "The pound has hit a 21-month high against the euro, following increased speculation about a delay to Brexit.\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May said in the Commons that if no deal was agreed and if a no-deal exit was rejected, then there could be a short extension to the date for Britain to leave the EU.\n\nAt one point, sterling hit €1.1643, its highest level since May 2017.\n\nHowever, Mrs May's concession was not as wide-ranging as investors had hoped, causing sterling to dip again.\n\nAgainst the US dollar, it reached $1.3239 at one point, its highest level since the end of January, before starting to lose ground.\n\nAnalyst Jane Foley at Rabobank said Mrs May's remarks in the Commons had been \"discouraging for investors\", giving the impression that even if Brexit were delayed, \"the cliff-edge could be even sharper in three months' time\".\n\n\"The markets have not particularly liked what they've heard,\" she said.\n\nHowever, she added that there was still a consensus among investors that a no-deal Brexit would be avoided, because \"neither Parliament, the electorate or Europe want it\".\n\nThe value of the pound fell sharply in the aftermath of the Brexit referendum result in 2016.\n\nOn Tuesday, Bank of England governor Mark Carney told MPs on the Treasury Committee that the Bank would provide more support for the economy in the event of a no-deal Brexit.\n\nHe said the Bank's Monetary Policy Committee had emphasised that its response to the shock of a no-deal Brexit would depend on the economic situation.\n\n\"Given the exceptional circumstance associated with Brexit, I would expect the committee to provide whatever monetary support it can consistent with the price stability remit given to the committee by Parliament. But there are clearly limits to its ability to do so,\" he said.\n\nHe also warned that interest rates might have limited scope to support any damage to activity or jobs in event of a no-deal scenario, as they may have to rise instead to curb inflationary pressures.\n\nHe added that if Britain left the EU with no deal, \"I guarantee you the path of GDP in our forecast will be materially lower than it is in our February forecast, which assumes that there is a deal and there is a smooth transition\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rescuers are hampered by the steep terrain and muddy, unstable ground\n\nRescuers are working frantically to find dozens of people thought to be buried at an illegal Indonesian gold mine after a landslide on Tuesday.\n\nThey are searching for survivors at the site, in the Bolaang Mongondow area, on the island of Sulawesi.\n\nSeven people have died and at least 19 have been rescued, officials say.\n\nRescuers are hampered by the steep terrain and muddy, unstable ground, which means heavy lifting machinery cannot be used.\n\nThey are having to use their bare hands, as well as spades and ropes, to get people out. The survivors are being carried away in makeshift stretchers.\n\nOne local official said cracks had appeared at the mine, which collapsed on Tuesday and triggered a landslide, raising fears of a further collapse.\n\nRescue teams from Indonesia's disaster agency, the BNPB, worked through the night to carry survivors off a mud-covered hillside\n\nDozens of people were mining for gold when support beams gave way at the mine due to shifting soil land and numerous mining shafts, officials said. The collapse then triggered a landslide.\n\nA local official said it was difficult to say exactly how many were trapped underground:\n\n\"We think there are still many people inside the mine, because it is an illegal mine, so we cannot predict,\" said Yasti Soepredjo, head of the Bolaang Mongondow region.\n\n\"Based on statements from people who survived, the numbers are inconsistent. Some say there were more than 100 in the mine, some said about 80. We are still in the dark when it comes to the actual number.\"\n\nSmall-scale gold mining is banned in Indonesia but remains widespread in rural areas. Lack of regulation and the poor construction of makeshift mines means accidents are relatively frequent.\n\nCampaigners have long argued that a lack of local employment opportunities mean people feel forced to rely on illegal mining.", "(From top left, clockwise) Basharat Khaliq, Saeed Akhtar, Naveed Akhtar, Parvaze Ahmed, Zeeshan Ali, Fahim Iqbal, Izar Hussain, Mohammed Usman and Kieran Harris were all jailed at Bradford Crown Court\n\nNine men who raped and abused two teenage girls who were living in a children's home have been jailed.\n\nThe girls were aged 14 when the men first began to use drink, drugs and violence to groom and sexually exploit them.\n\nBradford Crown Court heard the abuse started after the girls moved into the home in 2008.\n\nThe nine were convicted of 22 offences including rape and inciting child prostitution.\n\nOne of the women, Fiona Goddard, decided to waive her legal right to life-long anonymity to show other victims of abuse \"there is nothing to be ashamed of\".\n\nFiona Goddard, 25, waived her legal right to life-long anonymity to discuss her experiences\n\nSentencing the men to jail terms ranging from 20 years to 18 months, Judge Jonathan Durham Hall QC said: \"You appear not to have shown any respect for the minimum standards of decent behaviour.\"\n\nDuring the trial, which lasted more than six weeks, prosecutor Karma Melly QC said the gang had taken advantage of the girls' age and situation.\n\nShe said: \"Some of the defendants were actually forceful, threatening and violent, others used alcohol and drugs, others created a manipulated relationship in order to facilitate their sexual exploitation.\"\n\nReading from an impact statement, Ms Goddard, 25, told the court: \"I can't change what's happened, but I can rebuild my life.\"\n\nThe jury heard it was Basharat Khaliq who first met the girls in 2008, when he was 27 and they were both 14, before taking them to a petrol station and buying them a bottle of vodka.\n\nOver the following years he groomed and repeatedly raped one of the girls and on one occasion abused Ms Goddard.\n\nThe abuse began while the two victims were living in a children's home in Bradford\n\nAt about the same time the girls also separately met brothers Saeed and Naveed Akthar, with much of the abuse taking place at Saeed's former address on Saffron Drive.\n\nMs Melly said: \"Fiona was used for sex by the men that came to the property.\n\n\"She was used by Saeed to get drugs and bring them back, she was told to go and meet dealers and to ensure she came back with drugs though she was given no money for them.\n\n\"She was in effect used as a prostitute on his instruction.\"\n\nThe allegations came to light in 2014 when Ms Goddard saw a report on the grooming and sexual abuse of hundreds of young girls in Rotherham on BBC Look North.\n\nShe asked her then partner to contact the BBC to say that similar abuse was happening elsewhere and the BBC \"quite properly\" notified police.\n\nI would like to take this opportunity to explain why I decided to waive my anonymity.\n\nIt's because I wanted to show anyone who has gone through, or is going through, anything similar that there is nothing to be ashamed of.\n\nCrimes like these haven't always been dealt with appropriately in the past, but I am proud to say that the police and other services are working really hard to change this and the stigma surrounding it.\n\nI would like to assure people that if they did come forward, they would be believed and supported.\n\nSpeaking outside court, Fiona Goddard told the BBC: \"These men have influenced every aspect of my life, for as long as I can remember.\n\n\"Today, I got to stand in front of them and take that control back and know that they are never going to impact my life again.\"\n\nJudge Hall told the courtroom: \"Your primary victim sits in court and that lady has shown the utmost courage.\n\n\"No doubt for years she felt she had no voice and that she was powerless - well she's got a voice now.\"\n\nHe added: \"No major city in England and Wales seems to have been spared this problem of grooming by older men acting together or alone.\"\n\nNazir Afzal, former Chief Crown Prosecutor in north-west England, said: \"Everybody responsible for the safeguarding of these young girls and every other victim has failed them.\n\n\"The police don't have the resources, the prosecutors don't have the resources and most importantly the community groups don't have the resources and I think we will be in this position and I will be having this conversation for years to come.\"\n\nA statement from Bradford Council said: \"The Safeguarding Board will look closely at this case to see if there are any lessons we can learn that could help us keep young people safer.\"\n• None Nine men guilty of abusing two girls\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Shamima Begum left the UK to join the Islamic State group aged 15\n\nA shooting range in Merseyside has been criticised for using images of IS bride Shamima Begum as a target.\n\nLabour MP Angela Eagle said she was \"disapproving\" of the use of living people's faces by Ultimate Airsoft Range in Wallasey.\n\nMs Begum left the UK at 15 to join the Islamic State group in 2015, and has since had her UK citizenship revoked.\n\nThe range said it had responded to requests from customers, with \"record numbers\" wanting Ms Begum as a target.\n\nWallasey's Ultimate Airsoft Range told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme that the range was intended \"for people to learn the importance and safety of handling weapons, while having fun\".\n\n\"Our targets provide some fantastic reactions and conversations... bringing out the inner child in all,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nImages provided to the BBC show one target of Ms Begum with tens of holes from where shots had been fired into it.\n\nGuns and helmets used at Ultimate Airsoft Range\n\nThe company, which says it provides \"family fun\" for adults and children aged six and over, announced the new targets containing Ms Begum's face in a tweet.\n\nThe tweet read \"hot off the press\" and showed an image of Ms Begum overlaid with a target. It contained hashtags such as \"made your choice\" and \"no remorse\".\n\nThe post has since been deleted.\n\nAngela Eagle, MP for Wallasey, said she was not in favour of having real people's faces on targets \"because it could be misinterpreted\".\n\n\"They shouldn't be using living people as targets - especially as six-year-olds might be playing,\" she added.\n\nUltimate Airsoft Range said it provided targets of other public figures, citing Donald Trump, Adolf Hitler and Justin Bieber as examples.\n\n\"The targets we provide do not necessarily always reflect our personal opinions,\" a spokesperson said, adding that Ultimate Airsoft Range LTD does not condone terrorism or anyone involved in it.\n\n\"After watching footage of Shamima Begum being interviewed and the lack of remorse and empathy she shows, we chose to go ahead and run the targets.\"\n\nMs Begum was a 15-year-old schoolgirl when she left her home in east London in 2015 to join the Islamic State group.\n\nEarlier this month she was discovered living in a refugee camp in northern Syria where she recently gave birth to a baby son.\n\nIn an interview with the BBC, she said she did not regret travelling to Syria, though she added that she did not agree with everything the IS group had done.\n\nShe said while it was \"wrong\" innocent adults and children died in the 2017 Manchester Arena attack, it was \"kind of retaliation\" for attacks on IS.\n\nHer family have told Home Secretary Sajid Javid they intend to challenge his decision to revoke her UK citizenship.\n\nFollow the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme on Facebook and Twitter - and see more of our stories here.", "Airlines operating flights from East Asia to destinations in Europe are having to reroute their planes away from Pakistan and northern India.\n\nThe airspace is closed because of escalating tension between the two countries, following the shooting down of two Indian military jets.\n\nFlights via Pakistan have been cancelled and other flights rerouted.\n\nThai Airways has taken the more drastic step of suspending all its flights destined for Europe.\n\nWith flight space south of Pakistan becoming crowded, the Bangkok-based airline has not been able to establish alternative routes for its flights.\n\n\"By closing the airspace, every flight from Thailand to Europe has been affected. For flights that are going to depart this evening, we will call an urgent meeting to consider the impact of such events,\" said Thai Airways president Sumeth Damrongchaitham.\n\nSingapore Airlines and British Airways are among the operators which have had to reroute flights. Singapore Airlines said longer flight routes would make refuelling necessary.\n\nAlex Seftel and travelling companion Hannah Kingsley are waiting for a new flight out of Bangkok\n\nAlex Seftel, who works as a journalist, was en route from Bangkok to London on Wednesday on a flight with Taiwanese operator Eva Air. The flight was turned back over Calcutta in northern India.\n\n\"We were on the flight, a couple of hours in, and I noticed on the flight route map that it was going in the opposite direction,\" he said.\n\n\"There was a lot of circling around and we had very little information until we got into the airport.\"\n\nBack in Bangkok, passengers waited several hours for an explanation before being transferred to a hotel for the night, with a new flight provisionally scheduled for early Thursday.\n\nSome international flights have been rerouted through Mumbai on India's western coast.\n\nMark Martin, founder and chief executive at Martin Consulting India, said about 800 flights a day used the India-Pakistan air corridor, making it \"very critical\".\n\n\"You can't overfly China, so you have to overfly Pakistan and India and go to South East Asia and Australia. Most of the traffic destined for Bangkok and Singapore will have to fly over Iran and then possibly take a detour,\" he said.\n\nThe recent flare-up between Indian and Pakistan over the disputed region of Kashmir began when a suicide car bomb killed 40 Indian paramilitary police on 14 February. India retaliated with an airstrike on what it said was a militant training base on Tuesday.\n\nIndian domestic airlines, including IndiGo, Go Air, Jet Airways and Vistara, cancelled services in northern India because of airport closures, although Indian airports later resumed operations.\n\nHave you been affected by these flight cancellations? Get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Wonga sponsored Newcastle United during more successful times for the lender\n\nThe finances of 10,500 borrowers are being \"damaged from beyond the grave\" by collapsed payday lender Wonga, according to a committee of MPs.\n\nWonga fell into administration in August last year, with these customers awaiting ombudsman rulings on whether they were mis-sold loans.\n\nMany have given up hope of redress, and the Treasury Committee said their cases had been \"cast aside\".\n\nWonga blamed a surge in compensation claims, in part, for its collapse.\n\nThese 10,500 Wonga borrowers had lodged complaints about previous payday loans being mis-sold due, in many cases, to their vulnerability and inability to repay.\n\nThey included Ashley, from Bristol, who used Wonga and other payday lenders to fund a gambling addiction - and to pay bills after his income had been frittered away - when he was younger.\n\nAshley, who is now debt-free, started borrowing about £100 a month, before the debt grew to £400 to £800 each month\n\nThe Financial Ombudsman upheld his complaint and deemed more than 40 of the loans to be irresponsible, but the ruling came at the time of Wonga's collapse.\n\n\"I received a standard email from the administrators, saying the likelihood would be not receiving the full amount [of compensation]. I've actually given up on it,\" he said.\n\n\"It is a moral thing that they should pay.\"\n\nCompensation for mis-sold loans should cover refunds, including interest and charges. However, when Wonga collapsed, the Financial Ombudsman stopped investigating these cases, owing to the distant prospect of recovering any compensation.\n\nUnlike savings, which are covered by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) when a provider goes bust, there is no such safety net if short-term credit firms fail while owing money such as compensation.\n\nThose with genuine claims, such as Ashley, join the queue of creditors who may receive a fraction of the value of any company assets that can be sold by the administrators.\n\nNicky Morgan, who chairs the Treasury Committee, said: \"It cannot be right that over 10,000 people who may have been mis-sold loans are just cast aside, especially as many will be vulnerable consumers.\n\n\"These people have been left to fend for themselves by Wonga, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the Financial Ombudsman Service. They have been allowed to fall through the cracks with nobody taking responsibility for their mistreatment.\n\n\"If Wonga continues to damage people's finances from beyond the grave, it may be time for the government to intervene.\"\n\nAndrew Bailey, head of the regulator - the FCA - said in a letter to Ms Morgan that, unlike savings providers, these short-term lenders did not hold clients' money or assets so it would not be \"proportionate\" or affordable for the FSCS safety net to cover the collapse of such lenders as well.\n\nFormer borrower Ashley disagrees, arguing that there should be some kind of stronger back-up in place.\n\nWonga's demise in the UK followed a surge in compensation claims from claims management companies acting on behalf of people who felt they should never have been given these loans.\n\nThe Treasury Committee is now asking Wonga's administrators for more detail on how outstanding complaints against the payday lender could be progressed. An answer has been requested by early March.", "Fans of singer-songwriter Ryan Adams are demanding their money back ahead of his upcoming UK tour.\n\nFollowing accusations of sexual misconduct, some fans say they don't want to go to his concerts until the allegations are proven or discounted.\n\nIn a recent report, several women also accused him of psychological abuse.\n\nThe FBI is looking at whether he sent explicit text messages to an underage teenager, something Adams has said he \"unequivocally\" denies.\n\nAdams' forthcoming album has been put on hold but tickets for his UK dates are still on sale.\n\nThis has left some fans taking to social media to demand a refund from music venues and ticket companies.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEmma Buff from Peterborough spent just under £50 on tickets to see Adams perform in April and feels \"quite shocked\" by the allegations made against him.\n\n\"Reading the allegations upset me quite a lot and I decided I didn't want any of my money to go to Ryan Adams in the future,\" she said.\n\n\"I've tried to get a refund on the ticket [and] I've yet to hear anything back\" she added.\n\nEmma says she has been a fan of the musician for a long time. Due to the recent claims, though, she is now more wary of whom she chooses to support.\n\n\"In the current climate we live in now, I definitely think about who I want my hard-earned money to go to... and I do think the whole [music] industry needs to look at itself.\"\n\nRyan Adams tickets continue to be available on ticketing websites\n\nThe BBC has approached three of the biggest ticketing websites in the UK to respond to whether or not fans will be given a refund. At the time of writing, none of them have replied.\n\nIn an interview with Radio 4's You & Yours programme, New York Times European culture journalist Alex Marshall said there needed to be clarity on the issue from the music industry.\n\nMarshall said it was \"surprising\" that the companies involved in the tour have been silent since the allegations were published.\n\n\"I've tried to speak to the ticketing companies,\" he said. \"I've tried to speak to the venues and the promoter and I've had very little response back.\n\n\"That's leaving people in the dark about what's going on.\"\n\nIn cases where allegations have been made against an artist, consumers are not legally entitled to their money back. Ticket holders would only be entitled to a refund if the organiser cancels, moves or reschedules the event.\n\nKate Hobson, Consumer Expert at Citizens Advice, said: \"Ticket holders who change their mind for whatever reason about going to see a concert have no legal right to a refund.\n\n\"They could try reselling their ticket, but they should first check the advice on reselling on the Citizens Advice website.\"\n\nFor the most part, artists and bands that have faced similar accusations have withdrawn plans to tour.\n\nIn the case of Ryan Adams, Alex Marshall believes a delay in response as to whether the tour will go ahead as scheduled is down to many of the ticketing companies, venues and promoters who stand to lose money if the performances are cancelled.\n\n\"There seem to be some artists that believe they can keep going, no matter what's been said about them.\n\n\"But what you're hoping to see with the #MeToo movement is that people are raising these accusations, which will lead to a change in culture to make people aware of what's gone on in the past and what is deemed unacceptable.\"\n\nThree music companies have already severed ties with the indie rock star.\n\nIn a statement on social media, Adams said he was \"not a perfect man\" and had \"made many mistakes.\"\n\nYet he said the New York Times' article, which first raised the allegations, had painted an \"upsettingly inaccurate\" picture and that he \"would never have inappropriate interactions with someone I thought was underage.\"\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.", "Coalition forces are preparing a final assault on the Islamic State group's final bastion of Baghuz.\n\nBBC Arabic's Feras Kilani joined Iraqi paramilitary fighters as they monitor the remaining few hundred fighters and their families.", "The February 14 Pulwama attack was the deadliest targeting Indian forces in Kashmir for decades\n\nAfter India launched air strikes in Pakistani territory, tensions have escalated between the neighbours. Indian defence analyst Ajai Shukla explains the significance of the attack and what could happen next.\n\nThe ball is in Pakistan's court after Indian Air Force (IAF) Mirage 2000 fighter aircraft crossed deep into Pakistan on Tuesday morning. India says that the air strikes targeted a militant camp near Balakot in the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. However, Pakistan has disputed this claim, saying the strikes hit an empty area.\n\nThe air strikes were provoked by the killing of at least 40 paramilitaries in Indian-administered Kashmir on 14 February, in a suicide attack which has been claimed by Pakistan-based terrorist group Jaish-e-Mohammad. Indian leaders, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, had vowed revenge.\n\nTuesday's air strikes are the first launched across the LoC (line of control) - the de facto border that divides Kashmir - since a war between the two countries in 1971.\n\nNot even during the 1999 Kargil war did Indian aircraft cross the LoC.\n\nBoth militaries have scrupulously observed a confidence-building measure that prohibits fixed-wing aircraft from flying within 10km (6.21 miles) of the LoC and helicopters from coming closer than 5km without informing the other side beforehand. For the first time, India has deliberately breached this contract.\n\nIndians celebrated on hearing news of the strikes\n\nIn the unwritten set of rules that govern action and reaction between the two militaries on the LoC, air strikes constitute a major escalation, which is significantly higher than punishing Pakistani posts by cross-border firing, or even sending ground troops across.\n\nThese air strikes have gone several steps ahead of the \"surgical strikes\" of 2016, when India attacked militant camps across the LoC after Indian soldiers were killed in an attack by Pakistan-backed militants.\n\nThe apparent ease with which Indian air force fighters flew 80km into Pakistan-administered territory, undetected by a military that should have been on high alert after open Indian threats of attack, again exposes the rudimentary capability of Pakistani air defences. This should reinforce the concern that arose in 2011, when American helicopters flew undetected into Pakistan, carrying naval commandos who killed Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad and flew out with his body.\n\nAfter India's air strikes, escalation is possible - but not certain. Pakistan has warned of retaliation and threatened to take the issue to the United Nations.\n\nBut like after the \"surgical strikes\", Pakistan has again downplayed the attack. It first stated that this was a limited incursion by a few Indian air force fighters, which fled when the Pakistani air force scrambled its jets. The Pakistani army's public relations chief then switched tack and claimed that the bombs did no damage before adding that the place that was struck, Balakot, was just 5-6km across the LoC.\n\nThis obfuscation is made possible by the fact that there are two towns by the name of Balakot - one just across the LoC from the Indian town of Poonch, and the other deep inside Pakistan in its Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The BBC reports that the strikes were in the latter, where local villagers say they heard explosions.\n\nHaving denied a deep incursion by the Indian air force, Pakistan has reduced its burden of retaliation.\n\nIt remains to be seen whether more compelling evidence eventually embarrasses Pakistan's military into having to respond. For now, India has indicated that it has achieved its aims. Pakistan is unlikely to raise the ante beyond a point, given that escalating tension is a game with uncertain outcomes.\n\nMeanwhile, the Indian military has been placed on alert, with leave of personnel restricted. The air force is patrolling airspace, while the Indian Navy, which had been involved in a major exercise, has shifted to combat mode.\n\nAdditionally, security forces in Kashmir have been boosted significantly, with the Indian government readying for the possibility of increased militant activity backed by Pakistan.", "The French-owned firm claims to be the world's largest sporting goods retailer\n\nFrench sportswear retailer Decathlon has scrapped plans to sell a hijab for women runners in France following a public outcry.\n\nThe firm said it had decided to suspend the product following \"a wave of insults\" and \"unprecedented threats\".\n\nFrench politicians said the \"running hijab\" contradicted the country's secular values, and some lawmakers suggested a boycott of the brand.\n\nDecathlon initially stood by the hijab, which is already for sale in Morocco.\n\nThe issues of how Muslim women dress in public has often stoked controversy in France.\n\n\"We are making the decision... to not market this product in France at this time,\" Decathlon spokesman Xavier Rivoire told RTL radio on Tuesday.\n\nHe had earlier told AFP news agency that the initial decision was to \"make sport accessible for all women in the world\".\n\nDemand for the product began in Morocco, where it is well received\n\nThe plain, lightweight headscarf, which covers the hair and not the face, was to go on sale in 49 countries from March.\n\nSports equipment manufacturer Nike has marketed a sports hijab in France since 2017.\n\nThe French-owned company said it had received 500 calls and emails to complain about its \"running hijab\", with some of its staff in stores being insulted, and even physically threatened.\n\nHealth Minister Agnès Buzyn told RTL that although such a product is not prohibited in France, \"it's a vision of women that I don't share. I would prefer if a French brand did not promote the headscarf\".\n\nThe spokeswoman for President Emmanuel Macron's La République en Marche party Aurore Bergé also weighed in on the issue on Twitter, suggesting a boycott.\n\n\"My choice as a woman and citizen will be to no longer put my trust in a brand that breaks away from our values,\" she said.\n\nReplying to Ms Bergé on Twitter, Decathlon said: \"Our goal is simple: to offer [women who run with an often unsuitable hijab] an adapted sport product, without judgement.\"\n\nLater, the sporting goods giant said it wanted to restore peace after the \"violent\" reaction \"went beyond our desire to meet the needs of our customers\".\n\nFrance argues any outward religious symbol, such as the veil, does not maintain the appearance of neutrality required of students and public sector workers under the country's strict laws for secularism.\n\nThe Muslim headscarf is allowed in public spaces in France, but has been banned in state schools and some public buildings since 2004.\n\nIn 2016, multiple French regions banned the burkini - a full-body swimsuit - from its beaches. The bans were later ruled illegal by France's highest court.\n\nThese bans led rights groups of accusing France of Islamophobia and stigmatising Muslim women, after already banning full-face coverings in 2010.", "Cohen has been testifying before the Senate on Tuesday\n\nPresident Donald Trump's convicted former lawyer Michael Cohen is expected to accuse him of criminal conduct during a hearing on Capitol Hill.\n\nSpeaking on Wednesday to a House of Representatives panel, Cohen will allege possible tax fraud and racist language by Mr Trump, say US media.\n\nThe White House has questioned why lawmakers invited someone who has pleaded guilty to lying to Congress.\n\nCohen was sentenced to three years and will begin his custodial term in May.\n\nOn Tuesday, he was officially disbarred from practising law by the New York State Supreme Court, New York media reported.\n\nThe penalty came as he began three consecutive days of testimony in a closed-doors hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee. His Wednesday testimony to the House Oversight Committee will be public.\n\nUS media have published a copy of his opening statement online.\n\nThe 52-year-old was convicted last year by New York federal prosecutors of campaign finance violations and tax evasion and by special counsel Robert Mueller of lying to Congress about Trump Organization plans in Moscow.\n\nMr Mueller is nearing the end of a 21-month justice department investigation into alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 elections, which both Mr Trump and Russia have denied.\n\nAt his December sentencing Cohen, a former Trump loyalist, blamed his misdeeds on \"a blind loyalty\" to Mr Trump.\n\nAhead of the hearings, the president tweeted an attack on his former lawyer, accusing him of \"lying in order to reduce his prison time\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Wall Street Journal reported a person familiar with the matter as saying Cohen would provide \"evidence of criminal conduct since Mr Trump became president\" that involved a hush money payment to conceal an alleged affair with adult film star Stormy Daniels.\n\nThe lawyer will accuse Mr Trump of being directly involved in efforts to conceal the alleged affair weeks before the 2016 election, according to US media.\n\nThe president has denied having the affair, or that he told Cohen to pay off Ms Daniels.\n\nAccording to the Journal, Cohen will detail Mr Trump's \"lies, racism and cheating\" over a decade of working for him.\n\nHe is expected to offer financial documents showing possible tax fraud by Mr Trump, which may spur lawmakers to renew demands for the president's tax returns.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How the jailing of Cohen affects Trump\n\nThe president's former right hand man will also describe racist remarks from Mr Trump during their private conversations.\n\nThe Journal reports Cohen will accuse the president of questioning the intelligence of African Americans.\n\nCBS News reported a source as saying the racist language allegedly used by the president is \"chilling\".\n\nCohen is also expected to offer explanations to lawmakers about why he lied to them about the Trump Organization's plans to build a tower in Moscow.\n\nDemocrat Elijah Cummings, chair of the Oversight Committee, said last week lawmakers would question Cohen about Mr Trump's possible conflicts of interest and finances.\n\nIn an op-ed in USA Today on Tuesday, Republican Representatives Jim Jordan of Ohio and Mark Meadows of North Carolina called the hearing \"a partisan circus meant to destroy Trump\".\n\nMeanwhile, Florida Republican Congressman Matt Gaetz is denying that a tweet directed at Cohen was a threat.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn a text message exchange with a reporter for Vox, Mr Gaetz denied the tweet was considered witness-tampering, contending it was \"witness-testing\".\n\nIt comes after Cohen's originally scheduled testimony was postponed, after he cited \"threats against his family\" brought by Mr Trump and his lawyer Rudy Giuliani.", "Gangs are drilling holes into parking meters in order to use vacuum cleaners to suck cash out\n\nMotorists have been urged not to use cash to pay for parking - because gangs are using vacuum cleaners to suck coins out of meters.\n\nCriminals have been targeting machines in affluent Kensington and Chelsea, bagging tens of thousands of pounds in loose change.\n\nCouncillors in the west London borough said £120,000 has been stolen in the past year.\n\nThey urged drivers to pay via app or by phone.\n\nWill Pascall, of Kensington and Chelsea Council said: \"We have gangs stalking the streets and smashing their way into machines to suck the cash out.\n\n\"We also now know from local police that this is funding further criminality in London, from drugs and trafficking to possibly violent crime.\n\n\"It is a trend we need to stop and motorists going cashless is one way we can help tackle this.\"\n\nCriminals are also driving into the meters or using sledgehammers to smash them open, the council said.\n\nCriminals are also driving into the meters to break them open\n\nMore than 70 parking machines are currently in use across the borough.\n\nAn AA poll of 17,000 drivers indicated that 70% are less likely to use a car park where only phone payments are accepted.\n\nIts president, Edmund King, said: \"Whilst there is merit in cashless systems and they are becoming more commonplace, we do still find that some older drivers prefer to pay in cash or with contactless cards.\"\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. A train collided with a buffer stop and burst into flames next to a busy platform\n\nAt least 20 people have been killed and 40 injured after a train crash sparked a large fire at Cairo's main railway station, Egyptian officials say.\n\nThe train hit a buffer stop near the end of a busy platform at Ramses Station, which is in the city centre.\n\nThe collision caused the train's fuel tank to explode, setting the platform and nearby buildings alight.\n\nThe cause of the crash is not yet clear, but only hours later Transport Minister Hisham Arafat resigned.\n\nWitnesses described seeing several severely burned bodies in the latest disaster to hit Egypt's rundown railways.\n\nState-run media earlier reported a higher death toll of at least 25 and as many as 50 injured.\n\nPresident Abdul Fattah al-Sisi extended his condolences to the families of the victims\n\nDuring a visit to the scene, Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouli vowed to severely punish anyone who was found to have been negligent.\n\n\"We will identify who is responsible for the accident and they will be held accountable,\" he said.\n\nPresident Abdul Fattah al-Sisi extended his condolences to the families of those who died and pledged to ensure that the injured received the support they needed.\n\nLocal media published what they said was CCTV footage showing people on the busy platform as the train hits the buffer at high speed and explodes.\n\nAnother video, taken from a CCTV camera above a nearby subway staircase, appears to show people fleeing as a fireball engulfs the platform.\n\n\"I saw a man pointing from the locomotive as it entered the platform, and screaming 'There are no brakes! There are no brakes!', before he jumped out of the locomotive,\" witness Ibrahim Hussein told Reuters news agency.\n\n\"I don't know what happened to him.\"\n\nThe train's fuel tank exploded after the crash\n\n\"I removed nearly 20 bodies, and carried them to the ambulance, all of them completely burned,\" Ahmed Mahmoud told news agency AFP.\n\n\"[The train] should have slowed down as it was about to enter the station, but it came in too fast.\"\n\nThe privately owned news website al-Shorouk cited a source as saying the train had been undergoing maintenance when it started moving at speed towards the station's main building without a conductor.\n\nThe source added that this was not the first incident of its kind, explaining that there had been two other cases of a train moving without a conductor that had not resulted in any deaths or injuries.\n\nPeople gathered outside Ramses Station after the crash\n\nEgypt's railway system has a poor safety record, which many observers blame on a lack of investment by successive governments and poor management.\n\nIn August 2017, 43 people were killed and more than 100 injured when two passenger trains collided outside the Mediterranean port city of Alexandria.\n\nThe country's deadliest rail accident occurred south of Cairo in 2002, when a fire ripped through an overcrowded passenger train, killing more than 370 people.", "Firstly Conservative Caroline Spelman and Labour's Jack Dromey proposed an amendment which would have ensured the prime minister's commitment to give MPs a vote on delaying Brexit is legally binding.\n\nHowever, after receiving assurances from the government they withdrew their amendment.\n\nThe government accepted Conservative Alberto Costa's amendment which sought to protect the rights of UK citizens living in the the EU and vice versa - regardless of an EU withdrawal deal being agreed.\n\nThe government also accepted an amendment from Labour MP Yvette Cooper committing the UK to extending Article 50 if MPs votes to delay Brexit.\n\nDespite government approval, Ms Cooper's amendment was still pushed to a vote where it was passed 502 votes to 20.\n\nTwo other amendments were also put to a vote - Labour's amendment putting forward their plan's for Brexit and the SNP's amendment seeking to rule out a no-deal Brexit.\n\nBoth were rejected 323 votes to 240; and 324 votes to 288 respectively.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The fire could be seen for miles around\n\nFire crews have extinguished a huge blaze on moorland in West Yorkshire.\n\nThe fire, described by one witness as \"apocalyptic\", started at about 19:30 GMT on Tuesday and covered about 1.5 sq km of land near Marsden.\n\nWest Yorkshire Fire and Rescue said it was \"one of the biggest moorland fires we've ever had to deal with\".\n\nIt came as the UK broke the record for the warmest winter day for a second time and on the same day as a gorse fire on Arthur's Seat in Edinburgh.\n\nFollowing a night spent tackling the blaze, near Saddleworth Moor between Huddersfield and Manchester, a fire service spokesperson said: \"The fire now looks to be out.\"\n\nHowever, they said crews and specialist moorland firefighting units \"will remain at the scene for much of the day to tackle any further hot spots\".\n\nAt its height, more than 35 firefighters were in attendance at the National Trust property and the A62 between Colne Valley and Diggle was closed as a precaution.\n\nStation manager Adam Greenwood said when crews arrived about 4 sq km of moorland was ablaze.\n\n\"It was one of the highest flame fronts we have seen, with flames of up to two metres high, and it was moving fast across the moorland,\" he said.\n\n\"The fire looks to be out however moorland fires can easily reignite so it's important that we monitor it closely.\n\n\"We expect to be at the moors for much of the day.\"\n\nThere have been no reports of any injuries.\n\nPeople living near to the scene have been advised to stay indoors and keep their doors and windows closed.\n\nBut the fire service said \"risks to health are low\".\n\nBBC Yorkshire climate correspondent Paul Hudson said that, like much of the UK, the region had faced unseasonal winter temperatures.\n\nHe said: \"These kind of temperatures, 18C or 19C, are what you would normally see in early June.\n\n\"There's been a prolonged abnormally warm spell and we've also had an exceptionally dry start to 2019.\n\n\"The temperature on Wednesday is also set to be pretty similar.\"\n\nStation commander Tony Pearson said moor fires in February were \"very unusual but not unheard of\".\n\nHe said: \"We've had a few dry days and it's dried the land out a little bit.\"\n\nHe described the location as \"horrendous\" as it took firefighters an hour to get there due to the terrain.\n\nMr Pearson said: \"It was really uneven ground, really difficult working conditions on there.\n\nMike Elliot, from the National Trust, said the heather on the moorland had only just re-established itself after a blaze about three years ago.\n\nHe said: \"It's gradually got back to its normal self, but unfortunately it's going to have to start again.\n\n\"What we're doing here is trying to stabilise the moorland with all the heather as that keeps all the peat out of the watercourse.\"\n\nThe Edinburgh gorse fire broke out at a similar time on Tuesday, and two large fires started within an hour of each other in the Ashdown Forest in East Sussex earlier.\n\nIn June and July last year, firefighters from 20 different brigades were drafted in to help tackle two huge moorland fires which burnt for several weeks.\n\nFirefighters spent more than a month battling a huge fire covering 18 sq km (6.9 sq miles) at Winter Hill, near Bolton.\n\nThe Army was drafted in to help Greater Manchester crews deal with a blaze on Saddleworth Moor in Tameside.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The government has published its assessment of the impact of a no-deal Brexit on business and trade.\n\nThe report said \"some food prices are likely to increase\" and customs checks could cost business £13bn a year in a no-deal scenario.\n\nIt also said there was \"little evidence that businesses are preparing in earnest\".\n\nBut the government said it had undertaken \"significant action\" to prepare for no deal on 29 March.\n\nIt comes as the PM has promised MPs votes on delaying Brexit or ruling out no deal, if her deal is rejected again.\n\nTheresa May's Brexit deal was comprehensively rejected by MPs on 15 January and she has said they will get a second chance to vote on it - possibly with some changes - by 12 March.\n\nThe UK is currently due to leave the EU on 29 March - with or without a deal.\n\nThe government's report, which was drawn up for the cabinet, said: \"One of the most visible ways in which the UK would be affected by delays in goods crossing the Channel is our food supply, 30% of which comes from the EU.\"\n\nPossible disruption to cross-Channel trade \"would lead to reduced availability and choice of products\", the document said.\n\n\"This would not lead to an overall shortage of food in the UK, and less than one in 10 food items would be directly affected by any delays across the short Channel crossings.\n\n\"However, at the time of year we will be leaving the EU, the UK is particularly reliant on the short Channel crossings for fresh fruit and vegetables.\n\n\"In the absence of other action from government, some food prices are likely to increase, and there is a risk that consumer behaviour could exacerbate, or create, shortages in this scenario.\n\n\"As of February 2019, many businesses in the food supply industry are unprepared for a no-deal scenario.\"\n\nIt repeated analysis suggesting a no-deal scenario could leave the UK economy 6.3% to 9% smaller after 15 years, compared to what it would have been.\n\nIt said the worst-hit areas economically in a no-deal scenario would be Wales (-8.1%), Scotland (-8.0%), Northern Ireland (-9.1%) and the north east (-10.5%).\n\nThe document said slightly more than two-thirds of the government's most critical preparation projects - and fewer than 85% overall - were \"on track\" for completion in time for 29 March.\n\nIt also warned that a no-deal Brexit would \"affect the viability of many businesses across Northern Ireland\", and said some businesses could relocate to the Republic of Ireland.\n\nThe publication of the document follows a proposed amendment last month from former Conservative MP Anna Soubry and backed by ex-Labour MP Chuka Umunna - who are both now members of the newly-formed Independent Group.\n\nIn the Commons, Ms Soubry told MPs that the document was only a summary and she asked for access to the papers \"which actually go into the detail\", which she was shown in privy council terms (confidential terms).\n\n\"It's the detail that actually fully explains the impact of a no-deal Brexit, leaving the Brexit Secretary to comment that it would be 'ruinous' for this country,\" she said.\n\nDeputy speaker Lindsay Hoyle said he was \"sorry\" that Ms Soubry felt she had been \"slightly short-changed on what would be available\".\n\n\"I would expect ministers to take on board your request and hopefully... you will pursue it other than on this point of order,\" he said.\n\nAnd Mr Umunna said the report painted \"a disastrous picture of the catastrophe which would befall our country if there is a no-deal Brexit\".\n\n\"In light of what she knows, it is utterly irresponsible for the Prime Minister to keep a no-deal Brexit on the table given the extreme damage it will do,\" he said.\n\n\"These papers set out how food prices will rise, we may see panic buying, there will be severe disruption at the border, and jobs and livelihoods would immediately be put at risk.\n\n\"Today she told the House of Commons she is listening, but MPs have passed a motion rejecting a no-deal Brexit and yet she refuses to request an extension of the Article 50 process in order to stop no-deal happening.\"\n\nEnter the word or phrase you are looking for\n\nMs Soubry's amendment instructed the government to publish within seven days \"the most recent official briefing document relating to business and trade on the implications of a no-deal Brexit presented to cabinet\".\n\nIt drew the backing of some mostly Remain-supporting Labour and Conservative backbenchers.\n\nBut Ms Soubry withdrew the amendment after Brexit Minister Chris Heaton-Harris indicated that Cabinet Office Minister David Lidington would meet her and would be publishing the relevant information.", "Indians celebrated on hearing news of the strikes\n\n\"We are in uncharted waters,\" says Husain Haqqani, alluding to the latest round of heightened hostilities between India and Pakistan.\n\nThe former Pakistani ambassador to the US served as an adviser to three Pakistani prime ministers. He is the author, most recently, of Reimagining Pakistan: Transforming a Dysfunctional Nuclear State.\n\nAfter Tuesday's air strikes by India targeting militants in Pakistani territory, Pakistan promised to respond \"at the time and place of its choosing\".\n\nLess than 24 hours later, Pakistan said it had launched air strikes across the Line of Control (LoC) dividing Pakistan and Indian-controlled Kashmir. It also claimed to have shot down two Indian Air Force jets in its airspace in Kashmir and arrested two pilots on the ground. India has shut down parts of its airspace in the north of the country.\n\nMany believe that the Pakistani strike could be seen as a tit-for-tat - it, like India, feels the need to placate its domestic constituency. But the challenge now is to contain the escalation of hostilities before things get completely out of control.\n\nFor one, Tuesday's air strikes by India were completely unexpected. They are the first launched across the LoC - the de facto border that divides Kashmir - since a war between the two countries in 1971.\n\n\"Pakistani military establishment had banked on India's reluctance to escalate in using asymmetrical warfare (terrorism) under the nuclear umbrella,\" Professor Haqqani told me.\n\nIndian warplanes crossed the Line of Control and struck targets in Pakistan on Tuesday\n\n\"India feels it has found a soft spot where it can strike - whether on ground using special forces as in 2016 or using air strikes as they have done now - without crossing that threshold.\"\n\nProfessor Haqqani says Pakistan \"does not want war with India but its military faces a credibility challenge\".\n\n\"It does not want to shut all jihadi groups. But the jihadis' presence is a constant source of problems. In 2011 the Americans entered Pakistani air space to get Osama Bin Laden. Now the Indians entered Pakistani air space, dropped bombs and returned home without resistance.\n\n\"How will the Pakistani military explain itself to a public that accepts a huge military budget on the grounds of its military's ability to defend Pakistani sovereignty?\"\n\nDaniel Markey, a senior professor at Johns Hopkins University in the US, says the problem is that \"most military solutions to the Pakistan problem at India's disposal are far, far more costly to India than they are likely to bring about the desired end state\".\n\n\"Everyone in Delhi knows this. The goal now is to introduce a higher level of punishment for each instance of Pakistani aggression. It's not a bad strategy, as long as each move is calculated carefully and there aren't too many mistakes.\n\n\"For instance, in this episode, some reports suggest that Indian aircraft had intended to fire from the Indian side of the LoC, but wind forced them into Pakistani territory. If true, that's the sort of unintended element of escalation that introduces new risk at each step.\"\n\nDaniel Markey believes the escalation is more serious than one anticipated - \"moving the conflict into Pakistan 'proper' was intended to be a muscular and different move, one that most recent Indian prime ministers would have been reluctant to take\".\n\nSo is there a real threat of a nuclear conflict?\n\n\"Sadly, there is always a real threat of nuclear escalation between India and Pakistan, but we are several steps from that at this moment. Aside from accidental or unauthorised use (both unlikely), we would need to see a significant conventional escalation in this conflict before nuclear use looks likely,\" says Dr Markey.\n\n\"But these escalations are possible, especially if Pakistan's next step were to raise the stakes by hitting Indian civilian targets.\"\n\nThat is highly unlikely - but the question for the countries now is can they find a way of stepping back from their most dangerous flashpoint in decades?", "Lauri Love outside Hendon Magistrates' Court ahead of the hearing\n\nAn alleged hacker whose computers were seized more than five years ago has begun a legal bid to get them back.\n\nLauri Love, 34, is using the Police (Property) Act of 1897 to seek their return, a year after top judges blocked his extradition to the United States.\n\nThe National Crime Agency (NCA) said a UK investigation into Mr Love, from Suffolk, was ongoing.\n\nAt Hendon Magistrates' Court, district judge Margot Coleman ruled that limited details of the case could be published.\n\nMr Love, who has Asperger's syndrome, is alleged to have stolen data from American agencies including Nasa and the FBI in a spate of online attacks in 2012 and 2013.\n\nThe court heard he wanted the NCA to return four computers and an SD card that were seized in 2013.\n\nMr Love was first arrested in October 2013\n\nIn a skeleton argument presented to the court, Mr Love said the Police and Criminal Evidence Act highlights \"the right to privacy and respect for private property\".\n\nHe also claimed the NCA had \"failed to respect\" his rights by seizing his equipment.\n\nAuthorities in the US want Mr Love, who currently lives with his parents near Newmarket, to face cyber-hacking charges.\n\nBut in February 2018, Lord Chief Justice Lord Burnett and Mr Justice Ouseley blocked his extradition, claiming it would be \"oppressive by reason of his physical and mental condition\".\n\nThe district judge said she would deliver her ruling at Westminster Magistrates' Court on 19 February.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Younger women with a family history of breast cancer should receive annual screenings to pick up the disease earlier, a charity says.\n\nBreast Cancer Now funded a study which found cancers were detected sooner when 35 to 39-year-olds at risk had annual mammograms.\n\nNHS screening often starts at the age of 40 for women with a family history.\n\nExperts need to balance the benefits of doing more checks against causing any undue worry or over-treatment.\n\nThe study's authors said that more analysis was needed on the risks, costs and benefits of extending the screening programme.\n\nBut Baroness Delyth Morgan, the charity's chief executive, called for the government's forthcoming review of NHS screening programmes in England to consider the introduction of scans for women aged 35 to 39 with a family history of breast cancer.\n\nThe study, carried out by researchers at the University of Manchester, offered scans to 2,899 women in this age group who were deemed to have a moderate or high risk of the disease after being referred by a GP to a family history clinic.\n\nThe screening detected 35 invasive breast cancer tumours, most of which were small and identified before they had reached the lymph nodes - a sign that they had not spread around the body.\n\nIn a control group, which did not have the screening, far fewer of the cancers were discovered when they were still small and more had spread to the lymphatic system.\n\nProf Gareth Evans, the lead author of the study, said the trial demonstrates that annual scans are effective in detecting tumours earlier for this younger age group.\n\nHe said overdiagnosis - where people are treated for cancers that are unlikely to prove harmful - was \"far less likely\" to be an issue with this younger age group.\n\n\"For women with a family history, removing a non-invasive tumour so early in their lives is likely to be a cancer preventive,\" Professor Evans said.\n\nThe study did not include women who had specific gene mutations which can increase the risk of the disease.\n\nThe charity says regular MRI scans - as is currently recommended - remains the best option for those with faulty BRCA or TP53 genes.\n\nIf annual mammograms for at risk younger women were made widely available across all four of the UK's NHS services, it could affect up to 86,000 women, the researchers said.\n\nBreast cancer is the most common cancer in the UK, with about 55,000 women being diagnosed each year and 11,500 dying from the disease.\n\nBetween 5% and 15% of breast cancers are linked to a family history of the illness.\n\n\"We've long known that a family history can define a woman's risk, and that breast cancer can be more aggressive in younger women,\" said Baroness Morgan.\n\n\"So if we can intervene earlier for those at higher risk through annual screening, we believe we may be able to stop the disease cutting so many women's lives so heartbreakingly short.\"\n\nAn NHS England spokeswoman said possible changes to the screening programme will be considered in the review.\n\nShe said: \"Breast cancer survival is at its highest ever and with improved screening a key focus of the NHS long-term plan, even more cancers will be diagnosed earlier.\"\n\nThe Scottish Government said it continues to monitor and consider all available evidence and recommendations.", "Libby Squire has not been seen since she went for a night out in Hull on 31 January\n\nA man held over the disappearance of Libby Squire remains of interest to the inquiry, police have said, as unrelated charges against him were announced.\n\nThe University of Hull student, 21, has been missing for 10 days and was last seen after a night out.\n\nHumberside Police have been questioning a 24-year-old man they arrested in Hull on Wednesday.\n\nThe force said the man had been charged with voyeurism, outraging public decency and three counts of burglary.\n\nDet Supt Matt Hutchinson said the charges relate to reported offences between December 2017 and January of this year - and said that all the charges were unrelated to Libby's disappearance.\n\nThe suspect remains in police custody and is due to appear at Hull Magistrates' Court on Monday.\n\n\"Our priority remains to find Libby and support her family at this incredibly distressing time,\" Det Supt Hutchinson added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Robert Barnes was jailed for two years and four months\n\nA rail enthusiast and his wife tackled a butter knife-wielding burglar who tried to steal a prized collection of model trains, a court heard.\n\nJohn Headington, 85, and his 57-year-old wife Susan sat on Robert Barnes to restrain him after the break-in.\n\nLincoln Crown Court heard Barnes used a brick to smash his way into the house while the couple slept on 20 November.\n\nBarnes, 28, admitted burglary and possession of a bladed article and was jailed for two years and four months.\n\nThe court heard Mrs Headington was woken by the sound of Barnes, of no fixed address, breaking in through the kitchen door of the Lincolnshire home.\n\nAndrew Scott, prosecuting, said she saw a light on in an upstairs room where her husband kept his model railway collection and decided to ring the police.\n\nFormer railway worker Mr Headington, who has had two hip replacements, managed to get Barnes in a bear hug as he emerged from the room carrying some of his most valuable model trains.\n\nMr Scott said: \"Barnes barged past Mr Headington who fell backwards against the landing wall.\n\n\"As Barnes continued down the stairs he ripped the phone from Mrs Headington but then fell down and rolled on to the floor.\n\n\"Mrs Headington sat on Barnes and was joined by her husband.\"\n\nJudge Simon Hirst described the couple's bravery as \"remarkable\", while the court heard Barnes had no memory of events after drinking heavily.\n\nThe judge said Barnes \"took highly sentimental items and damaged them beyond repair\", and condemned him for \"barging past an 85-year-old man\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Amber Rudd took over the Department for Work and Pensions in November 2018\n\nAmber Rudd says the increased use of food banks is partly down to problems in rolling out universal credit.\n\nThe work and pensions secretary said she was \"absolutely clear there were challenges with the initial roll-out\" of the benefit and that the difficulty in accessing money was \"one of the causes\" of the rise.\n\nBut she said the government had made changes to help tackle food insecurity.\n\nFood bank operator Trussell Trust said it was a \"promising\" acknowledgement.\n\nUniversal credit has been plagued with problems since its inception in 2010.\n\nThe monthly payment merges six different benefits for working age people into one and has been subject to a gradual roll-out across the UK.\n\nThe system was supposed to be up and running by April 2017, but it has faced numerous delays and is now not expected to be fully operational until December 2023.\n\nResearch released by the Trussell Trust charity this month showed the use of food banks had increased by 52% in areas where universal credit had been in place for a year or more - compared with 13% in areas where it had not been.\n\nSpeaking in the Commons, Ms Rudd said the government was \"committed to a strong safety net where people need it\".\n\n\"It is absolutely clear that there were challenges with the initial roll-out of universal credit,\" she added.\n\n\"The main issue which led to an increase in food bank use could have been the fact that people had difficulty accessing their money early enough.\n\n\"We have made changes to accessing universal credit so that people can have advances, so that there is a legacy run-on after two weeks of housing benefit, and we believe that will help with food and security.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPushed again on the cause of the issue by Labour's Stephen Timms, Ms Rudd added: \"I have acknowledged that people having difficulty accessing the money on time as one of the causes of the growth in food banks, but we have tried to address that.\"\n\nThe Department for Work and Pensions has said that, under universal credit, people are moving into work faster and staying in work longer.\n\nAccording to the Resolution Foundation think tank, 2.2 million families are expected to gain under the system, with an average increase in income of £41 a week.\n\nHowever, 3.2 million families are also expected to be worse off, with an average loss of £48 a week.\n\nLabour has called for ministers to halt the roll-out \"as a matter of urgency\".\n\nNatalie Williams, from King's Church food bank in Hastings, East Sussex, which is in Ms Rudd's constituency, told BBC Radio 5 Live she was \"really pleased\" to hear the secretary of state's comments, but it was \"long overdue\".\n\nShe said her food bank had seen a 106% increase in referrals in the last two years.\n\n\"People are struggling with the wait from when they claim to when they get money,\" she said.\n\n\"People don't want to take the advance because they don't want to get into debt.\n\n\"There is a lot that needs to be fixed about Universal Credit.\"\n\nTrussell Trust chief executive Emma Revie said: \"It's promising to see the secretary of state is listening to the evidence of food banks across the UK.\n\n\"We're a country that prides itself on making sure proper support is in place for each other when help is most needed - our benefits system was created to do exactly this. But Universal Credit isn't the poverty-fighting reform that was promised.\"\n\nMs Revie called for action to address why the new welfare system has forced some people to food banks.", "A reported investment by Chinese tech giant Tencent in Reddit has sparked a backlash on the popular community news site over censorship fears.\n\nLast week reports said that Tencent would be investing $150m (£115m) into the platform.\n\nChina has a strict internet censorship regime known as the Great Firewall and Reddit is among the sites it blocks.\n\nThe proposed funding prompted a wave of criticism on Reddit, which many of its users see as a bastion of free speech.\n\nMost analysts agree that it is unlikely Tencent or any other such investor would be able to control what content is posted on the site but that hasn't stopped a stream of memes and protest messages appearing in the past few days.\n\nThe Reddit platform allows users to share links on any conceivable subject, which are then up-or down-voted, meaning the most popular content surfaces to the top and is more prominent.\n\nThe platform has 330 million active users and describes itself as the \"Front Page of the Internet\".\n\nAlong with sites like Facebook and Twitter, Reddit is inaccessible in China as part of the country's Great Firewall.\n\nThe government's internet censorship regime uses a series of technical measures to block foreign platforms and controversial content.\n\nChina-based messaging services -including Tencent-owned WeChat - and social media are restricted, with key words and expressions blocked if they express dissent or ridicule senior political leaders.\n\nSo the report prompted some concerns among the Reddit community that the site may even face content restrictions outside China in the future.\n\nIn recent days Reddit users shared images of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protest and Winnie the Pooh in reference to concerns a tie-up with the Chinese firm would lead to stricter content controls.\n\nIn the past, Chinese authorities have blocked information related to the crackdown against protesters in Beijing's Tiananmen Square on the anniversary of the event. Search terms such as \"six four\" - a reference to the date of the event 4 June and \"never forget\" when typed into Chinese search engines have not returned any results.\n\nWinnie the Pooh has also been blocked at times on Chinese social media sites as bloggers compare the cartoon character to the country's President Xi Jinping.\n\nOne popular post by FreeSpeechWarrior featuring an image of a man stopping tanks in Tiananmen Square was up-voted on the site more than 200,000 times.\n\nA separate post from user BonZZil17 said: \"Thanks for the money Tencent, now here's Tank man from the Tiananmen Square Massacre of 1989.\"\n\nAnother, posted by ChristopherVDV, shared an image of Winnie the Pooh citing Tencent's investment had been up-voted more than 37,000 times.\n\n\"Given that Reddit just took a $150 million investment from a Chinese censorship powerhouse, I thought it would be nice to post this picture of Winnie-The-Pooh before our new glorious overlords decide we cannot post it anymore,\" the post read.\n\nStill, the level of Tencent's proposed funding falls far short of full control. A $150m investment represents a fraction of the site's value, which is thought to be worth as much as $2.7bn.\n\nTaipei-based independent tech analyst Sam Reynolds said while some scepticism of Chinese technology firms was \"warranted,\" Tencent did not pose any risk to Reddit.\n\n\"Tencent has invested in hundreds of companies and there's been little involvement or interest from China's state apparatus.\"\n\nMr Reynolds added that Reddit \"simply isn't on the radar of censors\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA man who drove the wrong way down a motorway while more than three times the drink-drive limit has been jailed.\n\nLee Johnson, 44, steered his red Citroen van against the run of traffic on the M4 near Reading.\n\nPolice brought him to a stop by clipping his vehicle with a patrol car on 15 December.\n\nJohnson, of Colman Road in London, pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing and was sentenced at Reading Crown Court on Friday to 18 months in prison.\n\nHe admitted dangerous driving, driving whilst over the prescribed alcohol limit and driving without insurance.\n\nLee Johnson was more than three times the drink-drive limit when he steered his van the wrong way down the M4\n\nThames Valley Police said Johnson had 120 micrograms of alcohol per 100ml of breath when he was breathalysed at the scene. The legal limit is 35 micrograms.\n\nSgt Gaz Doughty said: \"It is extremely lucky on this occasion that no-one was seriously hurt or killed.\"\n\nHe said the officers who stopped Johnson had demonstrated \"quick thinking and courageous actions\" to prevent \"a devastating collision with other motorists\".\n\n\"Despite the obvious risks to themselves and potential for sustaining injuries, the officers made a quick decision to make deliberate contact with Johnson's van to bring it to a halt,\" he added.\n• None Drink-driver went wrong way on motorway. Video, 00:01:21Drink-driver went wrong way on motorway\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mike Ashley's Sports Direct has cancelled a bid for collapsed cafe chain Patisserie Valerie, just two days after making an offer.\n\nThe retail billionaire announced his bid for the chain on Friday evening.\n\nSports Direct offered £15m, but was told by administrator KPMG it would need to offer up to £2m more than this, according to the Financial Times.\n\nPatisserie Valerie collapsed last month. KPMG closed 70 outlets, but kept 121 open in the hope of selling them.\n\nMr Ashley is thought to be facing several competing bids for Patisserie Valerie, including, according to reports, from Costa, the coffee chain bought by Coca-Cola last year.\n\nThe retail tycoon, who also owns English Premier League football club Newcastle United, made his name building budget chain Sports Direct into Britain's biggest sporting goods retailer.\n\nHe has since become known for buying up struggling retail chains and bought both department store chain House of Fraser and cycle shop Evans out of administration last year.\n\nSports Direct's sprawling High Street empire also includes lingerie chain Agent Provocateur as well as shareholdings in Debenhams, French Connection and Game Digital. Last week, it emerged as front runner to buy Sofa.com.\n\nPatisserie Valerie collapsed after an accounting scandal which left the firm without enough money to pay its debts.\n\nRescue talks with banks HSBC and Barclays to restructure the business broke down, leaving no option but administration.\n\nThe cafe chain employed about 3,000 staff, but some 900 jobs were lost in the initial wave of closures after KPMG was appointed to run the business on 22 January.\n\nIn addition to Patisserie Valerie, the company's other brands include Druckers Vienna Patisserie, Philpotts, Baker & Spice and Flour Power City.\n\nThe Serious Fraud Office is carrying out a criminal investigation into Patisserie Valerie and finance director Chris Marsh was arrested and released on bail after having been suspended by the company.\n\nAlso under investigation, by the Financial Reporting Council, are former Patisserie Valerie auditors Grant Thornton.", "GCSEs should be scrapped and A-levels should be replaced by a mix of academic and vocational subjects, says Robert Halfon, chairman of the Education Select Committee.\n\nHis radical rewriting of England's exam system is designed to give young people a much broader range of skills for their working lives.\n\nThe former Tory minister says GCSEs for 16-year-olds have become \"pointless\".\n\nThe Department for Education defended GCSEs as \"gold standard\" exams.\n\nThe exams taken by 16-year-olds have recently been reformed in England, with a new numerical grading system from 9 to 1.\n\nThe DFE, which shows no sign of supporting calls to scrap GCSEs, says that the most recent figures show that about 47% of young people who take GCSEs stay on to study A-levels.\n\nBut head teachers' leader Geoff Barton said the idea of ditching GCSEs had a \"lot of merit\", as they belonged to an era when young people left education at 16.\n\nLord Baker, who introduced the exams as education secretary in the 1980s, said \"the days of GCSEs are numbered\".\n\nRobert Halfon says there is a false division between academic and technical education\n\nMr Halfon, who presented his blueprint at an event in London run by the Edge vocational education charity, wants to end what he sees as an excessively narrow academic pathway in secondary schools.\n\nInstead of taking academic subjects at GCSE and A-level, he wants young people to have a broader curriculum, with vocational training alongside traditional subjects.\n\nThe MP is proposing a baccalaureate system to replace A-levels, with a mix of arts, sciences and vocational subjects and exams at the age of 18.\n\n\"Get rid of GCSEs, which seem to me pointless. Instead there should be some kind of assessment to show how far you're progressing,\" he says.\n\n\"I would rather that all the concentration should be on the final exam before you leave.\"\n\nThis is an outstanding idea. I have been a secondary teacher for 10 years, and the relentless chase for GCSE grades has ruined our profession. I see colleagues suffering more and more burn out over an archaic system that serves no purpose in the modern era. Johnny, Hastings.\n\nRobert Halfon's education makeover ideas are fantastic. I diligently pursued an academic career costing my parents, the country and myself tens of thousands only to eventually discover my passion lay in the technical and bespoke social work of hairdressing! I wish I had more choices available. Scrap the ivory tower and make it real for our children! Claire\n\nThe problem is school is still very Victorian, someone stands at the front of the class and you have to sit and listen. There is no opportunity to explore how people learn or attempt made to pique someone's interest. I think the system is broken and there is far too much pressure on children nowadays to achieve academically when not everyone is that way. It's like the old adage a fish will think it's stupid if you ask it to climb a tree. Duncan.\n\nWe moved to France in order for them to have a better quality of life and that has happened. However, a by product has been the excellent education they have received. The Baccalaureate system is, in my opinion, far superior to the system in the UK. I am speaking as an ex-grammar school pupil. Paul, France\n\nMr Halfon says England has been trapped in a false division between academic and vocational study - and this is failing to prepare young people for technological changes in the workplace.\n\n\"The march of the robots\" and the acceleration of artificial intelligence could remove a quarter of jobs, he says.\n\nHe says there should be a royal commission on how to prepare for the impact of artificial intelligence and robotics.\n\n\"I think it's going to be dramatic. It will change the way we teach, change the way we learn and have a massive impact on jobs and skills.\"\n\nThe former education minister says young people are leaving school without the skills needed for work, at the same time as industry is complaining of skills shortages.\n\nBut scrapping GCSEs could raise questions for secondary schools without sixth forms - which under the proposed changes would no longer have the focus of any public exams.\n\nIt would also mean, since the removal of AS-levels, young people would apply to university without having the results of any public exams.\n\nIt would also raise questions about what would happen to young people who currently take GCSEs but do not stay to take exams at the age of 18.\n\nBut Geoff Barton, leader of the ASCL head teachers' union, backed the underlying principle.\n\n\"GCSEs are a product of a different era when many young people left education at the age of 16, but this is no longer the case, and young people are now expected to remain in full-time education or training until the age of 18,\" he said.\n\n\"It would therefore make a great deal of sense to replace GCSEs with some sort of light-touch assessment which would help determine post-16 routes rather than persisting with high-stakes GCSEs.\"\n\nBut Andrew Halls, head teacher of King's College School, an independent school in south-west London, said it was \"absolutely the wrong idea\".\n\n\"This country's record in vocational training is terrible, to muddle that up with an academic qualification is a complete disaster.\"\n\n\"A lot of money and thought needs to be put into vocational training,\" said the head teacher.\n\n\"They really need to stop fiddling and changing - and make things work,\" said Mr Halls.\n\nAlice Barnard, chief executive of the Edge Foundation, said the plans reflected the \"concerns not only of parents, teachers and pupils themselves, but employers and business leaders\".\n\n\"Technology is moving at such a rapid pace and change happening so quickly, we are failing young people if we do not enable them to develop the adaptability and the critical skills they need,\" she said.\n\nLord Baker, who brought in GCSEs, said the exams were now \"redundant\".\n\nBut he said \"they won't go quietly\" and warned that the government would be opposed to such radical change.\n\nThere have been previous attempts to combine vocational and academic pathways - such as Sir Mike Tomlinson's review of exams and the diplomas introduced under the last Labour government.\n\nMr Halfon says he would expect a \"massive backlash\" against such a change to GCSEs and A-levels.\n\nA spokesman for the Department for Education said vocational options had been improved, with apprenticeships and the new T-level technical qualifications.\n\nThe government spokesman defended the value of GCSEs as \"the gold standard qualification at age 16 and a passport to further study and employability\".\n\n\"They were recently reformed so that their demand matches that in other high performing countries and better prepare students for work and further study.\"", "Teams battle over a small leather ball in the heart of the Borders town\n\nThe Uppies and the Doonies went head to head in Jedburgh on Thursday in their traditional annual ba' game.\n\nIt is one of a number of towns to stage such events.\n\nBoth boys' and men's games take place throughout the day\n\nThe Uppies try to take a small leather ball towards the town's castle and the Doonies try to carry it towards the Jedwater.\n\nGames often run on until late in the day as the action takes place up and down through the town centre.\n\nThe action is rarely anything less than fast and furious\n\nJedburgh is one of a number of towns that still play the traditional ba' games\n\nThe aim of the game is to carry a leather ball to a \"goal\" at either end of the town\n\nThe action draws large crowds and competitors of all ages\n\nIt is not always easy to tell who is on top during the game\n\nThe teams taking part represent those living to the north and south of the town's Mercat Cross\n\nShops in the town take protective steps during the ba' game\n\nThe town is proud of its tradition which dates back centuries", "England blew France away with a first-half hat-trick of tries from Jonny May to continue their fabulous start to the Six Nations.\n\nMay went over three times in the left-hand corner in the first 30 minutes as England's forwards steamrollered France and their backs' kicking game cut them apart.\n\nEddie Jones' men added two more in the second half, one through the relentless Owen Farrell and the other a penalty try after Chris Ashton had been brought down without the ball.\n\nFrance had no answer to England's physicality, their back three turned inside out by the constant kicks rained in behind them, and their appalling run at Twickenham goes on.\n\nEngland have now won 10 of their last 13 Six Nations matches against France, Les Bleus on a horrible run of eight defeats in their last nine with the two sides due to meet at the group stages of this autumn's World Cup.\n\nWith Italy and Scotland to come at home next month - one who have never won at this stadium, the other not in 36 years - the clash against Wales in Cardiff in a fortnight's time is shaping up to be the decisive match in this year's championship.\n• None England women score seven tries against France\n\nEngland had scored early tries in each of their past five matches and they accelerated out of the blocks once again.\n\nThe men in white counter-attacked after a French knock-on, Daly cut a swathe through the scattered French rearguard and kicked ahead into acres of space for May to race clear and touch the loose ball down.\n\nFarrell slid the conversion wide but banged over a penalty either side of a straightforward one for Morgan Parra for 11-3, and as a rain squall blew in on the cold wind, both sides looked to kick into space in their opponent's back field.\n\nAnd it was May who struck again. Farrell's long miss-pass after a series of heavyweight drives at the French line left the winger one on one with Damian Penaud but standing still, yet he stepped his opposite number with insouciance to dance into the corner.\n\nWith less than half an hour gone he had his hat-trick as England's thundering forwards left the French defensive line reeling before Ashton dabbed the ball into the empty spaces behind for May to sprint through and slide across the try-line.\n\nYoann Huget worked an opening down the England right for Penaud to dive into the corner, but it was the briefest of interruptions as yet another kick through put Ashton in the clear.\n\nThe 31-year-old was hauled down a metre from the line but prop Kyle Sinckler spun a scrum-half's pass out left for Henry Slade to step inside Guilhem Guirado.\n\nEngland had their fourth try and a bonus-point before the half-time whistle had been blown, Farrell sliding over his conversion for 30-8 and the cavorting home crowd giving their side a standing ovation as they jogged for the dressing room.\n\nIt was to get worse for France. Slade picked off a loose pass on a rare French foray into England's 22, and when he kicked ahead for the galloping Ashton, Gael Fickou's desperate chase ended with him hauling down his opposite number without the ball.\n\nReferee Nigel Owens ran to the posts to signal a penalty try and then sent Fickou to the sin-bin to compound the visitors' woes.\n\nFrance were on the ropes and it was Farrell to land the next blow, following up his own kick after Ben Youngs took a quick penalty and May could not quite gather for yet another try.\n\nThere was a question of whether May had hooked an arm around Antoine Dupont as they fought for the loose ball, just as there had been about how likely Ashton would have been to score without Fickou's illegal intervention, but with a 34-point lead and more than a quarter of the contest still to come, England did not care.\n\nCourtney Lawes brought another roar as he sent the giant Mathieu Bastareaud backwards in the tackle before the intensity dipped as Jones threw on his replacements.\n\nFour years ago England stuck 55 points on France and yet later that year crashed out of the World Cup at the group stages.\n\nBut after backing up last week's impressive win over Ireland in Dublin with this performance, their supporters will be believing that this time around might be different.\n\nMan of the Match - Jonny May\n\n\"Scoring tries is enjoyable and it's special at Twickenham to score for your country,\" May told Radio 5 live. \"I really am just getting on the back of excellent work from everybody else, and what I'm doing is just as important as what everyone else is doing and it's just a cog in the wheel.\"\n\n\"It was ominous for France even after a minute. England are better drilled than last year, I think they are doing things earlier in fewer phases and in better positions.\n\n\"England were brilliant but France kept going, they didn't throw the towel in. It was complete control from England for most of the 80 minutes though.\n\n\"The game in Cardiff has enormous consequences. Don't underestimate Wales, they don't need motivating. They will be fully pumped.\"\n\nReplacements: Moon for M Vunipola (44), Launchbury for Kruis (47), Hughes for Curry (47), Nowell for Ashton (52), Cole for Sinckler (57), Cowan-Dickie for George (62), Ford for Tuilagi (62)\n\nReplacements: Ramos for Huget (41), Ntamack for Penaud (47), Dupont for Parra (47), Aldegheri for Bamba (57), Willemse for Vahaamhina, Alldritt for Lambey (70)", "Childish Gambino has made Grammy Awards history by winning both song and record of the year for This Is America.\n\nIt's the first time a rap song has won both categories - although Gambino did not attend or perform at the event.\n\nHe was the first artist to be absent from collecting one of the \"big four\" Grammys since Amy Winehouse in 2008.\n\nGambino - aka actor Donald Glover - beat competition from Drake, Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper in both categories.\n\nKendrick Lamar and SZA's All The Stars, Brandi Carlile's The Joke and The Middle by Zedd, Maren Morris and Grey were also up for both awards.\n\nThis Is America, which was accompanied by a symbolic music video, sparked debate when it was released in May.\n\nIt looked at the representation of black people in America and the prejudices they faced.\n\nWhile record of the year recognises everyone involved in a song, including the artist, producers and engineers, song of the year is awarded to the writer.\n\nThis Is America co-writer Ludwig Goransson collected the awards on Gambino's behalf.\n\nHe said he did not know why Gambino had declined to attend but explained how important recognising rap and hip-hop artists at the Grammys was.\n\nGambino, aka Donald Glover, in a scene from the This Is America video\n\n\"I think if you listen to the radio or if you just watch our culture, if you look at the most downloaded, streamed artists... you see what people are getting inspired by,\" said Goransson backstage.\n\n\"It's about time that something like this happened with the Grammys. They're getting the same kind of senses as the people.\"\n\nIn addition to song of the year and record of the year, This Is America won awards for best music video and best rap/sung collaboration.\n\nRapper 21 Savage, one of the collaborators on the track, was unable to attend the ceremony because he is being detained by US officials over an expired visa.\n\nThe British-born, Atlanta-based performer was also nominated for two awards in his own right.\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\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Horse Racing\n\nFour new positive tests for equine flu have been returned in vaccinated thoroughbreds at the Newmarket yard of flat trainer Simon Crisford.\n\nRacing is on hold until at least Wednesday while the British Horseracing Authority tests horses nationwide.\n\nThe suspension came after the discovery on Thursday of six cases of equine flu at Donald McCain's Cheshire stable.\n\nCrisford's yard was named so \"the Newmarket community is aware\" where the infection has been found, the BHA said.\n\nBut Crisford says there is \"no obvious connection\" between the horses that have tested positive for equine flu at his yard and their stablemate who ran at a potential risk fixture last week.\n\nCrisford confirmed Sajanjl, who ran at Newcastle last week, has tested negative.\n• None What now for horse racing, Cheltenham and jockeys?\n\nIn a statement, he said none of the four horses who tested positive displayed any clinical signs of respiratory illness prior to the mandatory swabbing undertaken last Friday.\n\n\"All horses at Kremlin House Stables, totalling 92 boxes, undergo a strict vaccination check and programme on their arrival,\" the statement added.\n\n\"All four identified horses have been vaccinated within the last six months along with the rest of the yard and in line with vaccination protocol.\"\n\nThe yard is one of the 174 to be tested because runners from the stable competed at the fixture at Newcastle on 5 February, which had been identified as a potential risk fixture.\n\nAll the affected horses are contained within Crisford's yard, the BHA said.\n\nThe BHA is set to announce when racing can begin again on Monday evening.\n\nThe Animal Health Trust (AHT), which is carrying out testing on behalf of the BHA, is working through \"several thousands of samples\" received from yards across Britain.\n\nEarlier on Sunday, the BHA reported that around 1,500 samples had been analysed without a positive test.\n\nThe authority also confirmed that testing had been carried out on the remaining 27 horses from the yard of Rebecca Menzies - where testing of three suspected cases came back negative on Saturday.\n\nAll horses in the yard have tested negative, but it will \"remain under close surveillance and further testing will be carried out\", the authority said.\n\nEquine flu - not unlike human flu - is endemic in Britain, where racehorses are vaccinated against it. The virus is generally not thought to be life-threatening, but limits the competitive capability of horses.\n\nAn unvaccinated non-thoroughbred horse was put down in Suffolk after developing complications following an outbreak of equine influenza.\n\nIn a separate case, 10 unraced two-year-old thoroughbreds in the same county were found to have contracted the highly contagious virus.\n\nThere have been outbreaks of equine influenza in nine English counties since the start of 2019.\n\nOne case involves a vaccinated non-thoroughbred horse in stables at a fee-paying school in the south west of England.\n\nJust when people were thinking that the light at the end of the tunnel was getting brighter…\n\nAfter two days of no positive test among hundreds of swabs studied by scientists, the feeling was that the resumption of racing this week, maybe on Wednesday, was very much on the cards.\n\nBut this would appear to jeopardise that hope, for flat racing on the all-weather tracks anyway.\n\nThe Crisford operation at Newmarket is flat racing only, and there's no obvious connection with the McCain string - certainly the two stables have had no runners at the same venues of late.", "Last updated on .From the section Horse Racing\n\nHorse racing in Britain will resume on Wednesday after a six-day shutdown following an outbreak of equine flu.\n\nTwo scheduled jump racing fixtures will go ahead at Musselburgh and Plumpton, alongside the all-weather fixtures at Southwell and Kempton.\n\nRacing was suspended after three cases of equine flu at Donald McCain's Cheshire stables. Three further cases were later reported at his yard.\n\nA total of 174 racing stables had been placed in lockdown.\n\nTrainers will be assessed before they are given the all-clear to have runners, while five races called off during the shutdown have been rescheduled and Ascot will stage a bumper nine-race card on Saturday.\n\nThe Denman Chase, which had been due to feature last year's Cheltenham Gold Cup winner Native River, and the Betfair Hurdle will be staged at Ascot after Newbury's meeting on 9 February was cancelled.\n\nA decision to resume racing in a \"controlled, risk-managed manner\" was unanimously supported by an industry veterinary committee, said the British Horseracing Authority (BHA).\n\nThe committee felt there had been \"an unprecedented amount\" of the highly contagious virus in Europe, and it was essential precautions were taken to protect horses.\n\n\"Clearly there is some risk associated with returning to racing,\" said the BHA's chief regulatory officer Brant Dunshea.\n\n\"This risk has been assessed and, based on the evidence - and ensuring biosecurity measures are in place - the level of risk is viewed as acceptable.\"\n\nFears there would be an extended suspension of racing, and a potential impact on next month's Cheltenham Festival, were raised when a second outbreak, involving four vaccinated horses, was confirmed late on Sunday at trainer Simon Crisford's Newmarket yard.\n\nBut no further positive results were found after thousands of samples were analysed.\n\nWhile equine influenza is not unlike human flu - with typical symptoms including a cough and high temperature - it limits the competitive capability of racehorses.\n\nAll racing in Britain has been suspended since 7 February, with 23 meetings lost during the shutdown.\n\nJump racing's showpiece Cheltenham Festival is scheduled to take place from 12 to 15 March.\n\n\"Our approach since hearing about the first positive results last Wednesday has been based on accumulating as much information as we could as quickly as possible so we could properly understand the risks of this virulent strain of flu spreading to more horses,\" said Dunshea.\n\n\"That would be harmful to them and damaging to any trainers' yards that became infected.\n\n\"It has also been our intention to ensure that we avoid an issue that could result in a long-term disruption to racing with the risk of many of our major events being unduly impacted.\"\n\nThe top line of this story, that racing's unscheduled hibernation is over, is clearly a good one for the sport. However, it's not all sweetness and light.\n\nI'm hearing from stables around the country that the six-month vaccination requirement - down from a year - will hold things up as trainers give their horses a day or two off after the jab.\n\nWe await detail of what restrictions are to be placed on stables that are considered to have been more at risk to exposure to the virus than others, and just what the criteria are.\n\nSo racing will be back on Wednesday but maybe with a few holes in the programme.", "Olivia Colman, Richard E Grant and Melissa McCarthy were among the stars on the red carpet ahead of the awards ceremony.", "The squadron of drones would have an expected cost of £7m\n\n\"Swarm squadrons\" of drones are to be deployed by British armed forces to overwhelm enemy air defences, the defence secretary has said.\n\nGavin Williamson said the specially-adapted drones could be in operation by the end of 2019.\n\nHe also warned in a speech that the UK needs a bolder and stronger armed forces prepared to use \"hard power\".\n\nLabour has said the military's role on the international stage had been \"completely undermined\" by Tory cuts.\n\nSpeaking at the Royal United Services Institute, Mr Williamson said Britain must stand up to those who \"flout international law\".\n\nThere was an extra £1.8bn for defence in the last budget and Mr Williamson said Brexit had brought the UK its \"greatest opportunity\" to strengthen its global presence.\n\nHe said the military's cyber capabilities will be reinforced to defend and launch attacks.\n\nThe squadrons of \"network enabled\" drones would cost around £7m, he added.\n\nMr Williamson says the UK needs a bigger and bolder armed forces\n\nGavin Williamson will struggle to match his global ambitions with the realities of an already overstretched defence budget and a smaller British armed forces.\n\nMPs say there is already a growing black hole in the MoD's £180bn equipment plan.\n\nBut instead of making cuts, Mr Williamson is adding more to his shopping list.\n\nHe wants two new \"multi-role vessels\" to support Royal Marines in a range of operations from humanitarian support to war-fighting.\n\nThis he believes could be done cheaply by converting civilian cargo ships but there is still no costs or mention of who will crew them - the Royal Navy certainly does not have the manpower.\n\nMr Williamson talks of introducing swarm squadrons of drones to overcome an enemy's air defences.\n\nThe MoD believes the technology could be bought \"off the shelf\" but, in truth, the concept is still untried and untested.\n\nThe MoD still insists these plans have all been costed but its past financial record will give many a reason to doubt.\n\nDetailing plans to modernise the armed forces, he said it must increase its \"mass and lethality\" - revealing plans for two ships that could be deployed for crisis support as well as military operations.\n\nHe said they would be able to respond \"at a moment's notice\" to support the Royal Marines.\n\nAccording to the MoD, the UK could purchase and adapt cargo ships or ferries with existing hulls to create the new vessels.\n\nThe defence secretary also confirmed the Royal Navy's new aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth is being deployed to the Pacific region, where China has been involved in a dispute over territorial claims in the South China Sea.\n\nThe carrier will take part in the mission along with F-35 jets from the UK and US.\n\nThe Royal Navy's HMS Queen Elizabeth is being deployed to the Pacific region\n\nMr Williamson said Britain and its allies had to be ready \"to use hard power to support our interests\".\n\nHe told those gathered for his speech that \"state-on-state competition was reviving\".\n\nThe defence secretary said Russia is \"resurgent\" and rebuilding its military arsenal, adding that China is also developing its modern capability and commercial power.\n\nHe said: \"We have to be ready to show the high price of aggressive behaviour. Ready to strengthen our resilience.\"\n\nDefending interventionist policy, he said the cost of failing to act in global crises had often been \"unacceptably high\", and that Western powers cannot \"walk on by when others are in need\".\n\n\"To talk but fail to act risks our nation being seen as little more than a paper tiger,\" he added.\n\nMr Williamson said Brexit brought an \"unparalleled opportunity\" to consider how the UK could maximise its influence around the world.\n\nHe said the UK would build new alliances and rekindle old ones, and shared his belief that Britain \"should be the nation that people turn to when the world needs leadership\".\n\nBut shadow defence secretary Nia Griffith said the UK's ability to play such a role had been \"completely undermined by eight years of Tory defence cuts\".\n\n\"The Conservatives have slashed the defence budget by over £9bn in real terms since 2010 and they are cutting armed forces numbers year after year.\n\n\"Instead of simply engaging in yet more sabre-rattling, Gavin Williamson should get to grips with the crisis in defence funding that is happening on his watch,\" she said.", "The body of Alesha MacPhail was discovered in the grounds of a former hotel on 2 July last year\n\nA boy accused of abducting, raping and murdering a six year-old girl is blaming someone else for the crime.\n\nThe 16-year-old went on trial charged with killing Alesha MacPhail on the Isle of Bute in July last year.\n\nThe teenager - who cannot be named because of his age - pleaded not guilty when he appeared in court.\n\nBrian McConnachie QC lodged a special defence on behalf of his client claiming the crime was committed by a woman called Toni Louise McLachlan.\n\nAt a hearing at the High Court in Glasgow, prosecutors allege the boy accused was armed with a knife when he took Alesha from her bed at a house in Ardbeg Road in Rothesay, Bute.\n\nIt is claimed he then carried the schoolgirl to the site of the former Kyles Hydropathic Hotel on the island.\n\nThe indictment states he took off Alesha's clothes, shook her violently before placing his hands over her nose, mouth and around her neck.\n\nThe boy is said to have \"applied pressure\" to her face, inflicted injuries by \"means unknown\" with prosecutors alleging he went on to rape and murder Alesha.\n\nThe teenager faces a separate charge of attempting to defeat the ends of justice.\n\nIt is alleged he went to another house in Ardbeg Road before disposing of the clothes he had worn and then taking a shower to remove blood from his body.\n\nThis is said to have been done in a bid to \"destroy or conceal evidence\".\n\nNo evidence was heard on Monday.\n\nProsecutor Iain McSporran QC instead read out two joint minutes of evidence agreed between the Crown and the boy's lawyers.\n\nJurors were told Alesha's naked body was found by a man at 08:54 on 2 July in the grounds of the former Kyles Hydropathic Hotel.\n\nThe child was pronounced dead around 30 minutes later at 09:23.\n\nMr McSporran said: \"She had been murdered. Following a post mortem examination of her remains, the cause of death was established as 'pressure to neck and face'.\"\n\nThe court also heard it was Alesha's gran Angela King who had reported the girl missing at 06:23 on 2 July.\n\nLord Matthews told jurors the case was likely to \"arouse strong emotion\" but that they were to adopt a \"professional detachment\" to the evidence.", "Penguins have been used as a form of therapy in care homes.\n\nThe residents of Mountbatten Grange care home, in Windsor, Berkshire, were surprised by Charlie and Pringle, the Humboldt penguins.\n\nTheir visit was for a 92-year-old animal lover, Annie Thelwell.", "A football player and refugee whose detention in Thailand sparked an outcry has been freed from jail after Bahrain withdrew its extradition request.\n\nHakeem al-Araibi, who is a Bahraini citizen, fled to Australia in 2014 and was granted political asylum.\n\nHe was detained in Bangkok in November on an Interpol notice requested by Bahrain. He had travelled to the Thai capital on honeymoon.\n\nHe was sentenced in absentia to 10 years for vandalising a police station.\n\nAl-Araibi, 25, denies the charges. Human rights activists say he could face torture if sent back to Bahrain, where he was a vocal critic of the authorities.\n\nHis case has been taken up by high-profile footballers, with stars including Didier Drogba and Jamie Vardy calling for his release. The Australian government, football's international governing body Fifa and the International Olympic Committee all lobbied Thailand.\n\nThailand's Office of the Attorney General (OAG) asked the court to end proceedings against al-Araibi because Bahrain had said it no longer wanted him, officials told BBC Thai on Monday.\n\n\"This morning the Ministry of Foreign Affairs informed us that Bahrain was no longer interested in this request,\" OAG foreign office chief Chatchom Akapin said.\n\nAl-Araibi is expected to leave Thailand on Monday evening for Australia.\n\nBahrain's foreign ministry said that despite the end of the extradition proceedings, the footballer's conviction still stood. \"The Kingdom of Bahrain reaffirms its right to pursue all necessary legal actions against Mr al-Araibi,\" it added.\n\nThe Thai foreign minister was in Bahrain over the weekend for an official visit and met senior leaders.\n\nBahrain's foreign ministry on Monday said that despite the end of the extradition proceedings, the footballer's conviction still stood. \"The Kingdom of Bahrain reaffirms its right to pursue all necessary legal actions against Mr al-Araibi,\" it added.\n\nCraig Foster, a former Australian national football captain and TV host who spearheaded the campaign to free al-Araibi, said there were \"tears\" in his household \"right now\".\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 Craig Foster This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHe told the BBC that it was \"an extraordinary day\". \"Sanity has prevailed, international law has been upheld,\" he said, adding he was glad that football had \"stepped forward\".\n\nThere had been criticism that football bodies, including Fifa, had not initially lobbied strongly enough on behalf of al-Araibi. Mr Foster and world players' union FIFPro had urged Fifa to threaten sporting sanctions against Bahrain and Thailand.\n\nAustralian Prime Minister Scott Morrison told reporters in Canberra that he thanked Bangkok for \"listening to the issues\" Australia had raised.\n\n\"Now the next step is for him to return home. But as it always is in these cases, people aren't home until they're home,\" he said.\n\nLast month, his wife told the BBC that extradition would put him in danger.\n\n\"I'm calling on every country to help Hakeem because I know if he gets taken back, he will be tortured, and he will be killed,\" she said.\n\nBut Bahrain said al-Araibi had been sentenced by an independent judiciary \"on charges involving serious violence and criminality, unrelated to any possible freedom of opinion/expression issues\".\n\nIt said his safety would be \"guaranteed\" if he returned to Bahrain to appeal against the sentence.\n\n\"This is a huge victory for the human rights movement in Bahrain, Thailand and Australia, and even the whole world,\" said Sayed Ahmed Alwadaei of the Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy, London-based campaign group.\n\n\"Hakeem's ordeal ended after 70 days when there was a clear public stance and solidarity movement. The football community, the human rights movement and all of those who dedicated their time and efforts to end this injustice were rewarded.\"", "Amber went missing from her home in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, on 30 May 2015 and was found hanged in bushes three days later\n\nThe mother and stepfather of a girl found hanged in bushes have told an inquest she lied about being given punishments and chores to do at home.\n\nAmber Peat, 13, told a teacher her stepfather woke her up in the night to finish chores and forced her to wear baggy grey jogging bottoms to school.\n\nHowever, Kelly and Daniel Peat both said these allegations were untrue.\n\nIn fact, Mrs Peat said her daughter had chosen to wear the grey jogging bottoms to school herself.\n\nMr Peat said he was not even there when his stepdaughter left for school wearing the jogging bottoms.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The couple appeared at a press conference in the days following Amber's disappearance\n\n\"Nobody made her wear them,\" Mr Peat said.\n\n\"I had nothing to do with it.\"\n\nMrs Peat said Amber had been \"adamant she wanted to wear them\", but the coroner Laurinda Bower pointed out Amber had arrived at school \"sobbing\".\n\nShe asked Mrs Peat: \"Do you have any idea why Amber, having chosen to wear this outfit, a short time later attended her form and told her form tutor she had been made to wear this ridiculous outfit by her stepfather as punishment?\"\n\nMrs Peat replied: \"I don't know why she would have said that.\"\n\nAmber went missing from her home in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, on 30 May 2015 and was found hanged in bushes three days later.\n\nAmber had a door \"shut in her face\" before going to hang herself\n\nAmber told the same form tutor that Mr Peat forced her to carry her belongings to school in a plastic bag as punishment, but Mr and Mrs Peat said this was a lie too.\n\n\"We bought her a school bag that came back broken,\" said Mrs Peat.\n\n\"I told her to grab anything, she needed something.\"\n\nAmber's stepfather said: \"There were several occasions Amber came home without her school bag. I wasn't aware of somebody saying 'you must take the carrier bag'.\"\n\nWhen asked about Amber apparently being woken up at night to finish chores, Mr and Mrs Peat both said this was not true either.\n\nMr Peat said Amber was made to do chores as punishment, but it was usually just \"to wash the pots\".\n\nThe inquest previously heard that Amber complained to her teacher about being punished and made to do chores\n\nMr and Mrs Peat told the inquest about the last moments they saw Amber alive, in which she had a door \"shut in her face\" as the coroner described it.\n\nThe inquest previously heard Amber was upset after being asked to clean a cool box.\n\nMr and Mrs Peat both said they were sitting in the living room while Amber was in the hallway. Their accounts of what happened next differed after this point.\n\nAmber's mother told the inquest: \"She was stood in the hallway with the cool box in her hand and she was just staring at me. I asked her what was going on but she was just staring at me.\n\n\"I kept asking her 'What's wrong? What's going on?'\n\n\"She stood there and she was just staring so I shut the door to.\"\n\nAmber's body was found in Westfield Lane, about a mile from her home in Bosworth Street\n\nThe coroner pointed out this account differed from her police statement, in which she said Amber had repeated \"Mum, Mum, Mum\", before her mother apparently said she did not want to talk to her.\n\n\"Was Amber saying 'Mum, Mum, Mum?\" asked the coroner.\n\nRecalling the same incident, Mr Peat said Amber was saying: \"You are my mum and I want to talk to you. Mum, Mum, Mum.\"\n\nMr and Mrs Peat agreed Amber had been left alone in the hallway after Mrs Peat shut the door. They then remained sitting in the living room, they said, and heard the door slam as Amber left the house.\n\nThis was at about 17:15 or 17:30 BST. Amber was reported missing almost eight hours later, by which time she had died.\n\nMr and Mrs Peat both told the inquest they went looking for Amber, but said they also did some shopping at Tesco, got the car washed and had a meal before calling police.\n\nThey said this was because Amber had gone missing before but usually returned home.\n\nAmber's biological father Adrian Cook asked Mr Peat if he considered going to Tesco and having the car washed when his stepdaughter was missing as \"neglecting her well-being\", to which he replied \"no\".\n\nEarlier, Mrs Peat told the inquest Amber and Mr Peat would sometimes \"butt heads\" over chores.\n\nShe said: \"He would say, 'do this' and she would say no - and Danny got to the point where he wasn't getting anywhere and he would say, 'you talk to her'.\"\n\nMrs Peat also said Amber had not run away while Mr Peat had been serving time in prison for tax fraud.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on Twitter, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.", "Emiliano Sala (left) was on board a plane being flown by pilot David Ibbotson\n\nFrench football star Kylian Mbappe has donated £27,000 to a fundraising appeal set up by the family of missing pilot David Ibbotson.\n\nMr Ibbotson, from Crowle, Lincolnshire, was flying Cardiff City's Emiliano Sala from Nantes to the UK when their plane crashed near Guernsey on 21 January.\n\nThe footballer's body was recovered from the wreck on the seabed, but Mr Ibbotson's body has not been found.\n\nFormer England captain Gary Lineker has also donated £1,000.\n\nBy Sunday evening more than 7,000 donations had been received, pushing the total raised to more than £130,000 of the page's £300,000 target.\n\nWorld Cup winner and Paris St-Germain forward Mbappe, whose full name is Kylian Mbappe Lottin, donated under the name Elie Lottin.\n\nLineker linked to the page from his Twitter feed, saying: \"Here's the Go Fund Me page should you wish to help this poor family\".\n\nKylian Mbappe has given £27,000 to the search page for missing pilot David Ibbotson\n\nThe light aircraft was en route from France to Cardiff when it crashed two days after the Argentine striker's £15m transfer to the Bluebirds was announced.\n\nAn official search was called off on 24 January, but Sala's body was found after an appeal launched by his agent raised £324,000 (371,000 euros) for a private search.\n\nLaunching their own appeal, Mr Ibbotson's family wrote: \"We are trying to come to terms with the tragedy and the loss of two incredible men.\n\n\"To be told the search has now been called off for the foreseeable future has only made this tragic time more difficult.\n\n\"We can not bear the thought of him being alone, we need him home so that we are able to lay him to rest.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Charles Darwin is the founder of modern evolutionary studies\n\nA school has axed a musical on evolution over its suggestive lyrics and portrayal of Christian views.\n\nDarwin Rocks, about the scientist Charles Darwin, was due to be performed by about 90 pupils at Hartford Manor Primary School, Cheshire, next month.\n\nThe move follows six \"expressions of concern\" from parents, the school said.\n\nThe musical's publishers Musicline said it was written by a Christian, adding \"we can't ever recall having courted controversy before\".\n\nThe musical includes scenes from across Darwin's life, including his journey on HMS Beagle\n\nAccording to its website, the production is a \"light-hearted look\" at the work of Darwin, whose theory of evolution, published in 1859, shocked Victorian society by suggesting animals and humans shared a common ancestry.\n\nHead teacher Simon Kidwell told the BBC that the school, in Hartford near Northwich, received six \"expressions of concern\" over lyrics that refer to \"bump and grind\" - a sexually suggestive dance move.\n\nHe said three of those parents also believed a bishop was \"mocked\" in a separate scene.\n\n\"There were concerns about caricature,\" he said, adding the complainants, who include a science teacher from another school, felt its representation of Christian views on science \"wasn't accurate\".\n\nOne parent said they did not want their daughter to think her ambition to be an engineer contradicted Christian beliefs, Mr Kidwell said.\n\nHe added the school board was not involved in the decision to drop the production and denied newspaper suggestions a local vicar who is on the board had influenced the move.\n\nDarwin stopped going to church in his 40s and described himself in later life as an agnostic\n\nThe school teaches evolution as part of the syllabus and no parents have withdrawn their children from those lessons, Mr Kidwell said.\n\nMike Smith, managing director at Musicline, said the firm \"asked Steve Titford - a practising Christian - and the writer of Shakespeare Rocks to write a factual musical about Charles Darwin's life and beliefs\".\n\nHe said it had been \"received with enthusiasm\" and been performed in schools around the world since 2017.\n\n\"You can't please all the people all the time, but having been in the school musical business for over 25 years, we can't ever recall having courted controversy before,\" Mr Smith added.\n\nThe traditional (and often lazy) depiction of faith v science is old hat.\n\nIn Britain and the US, there are multiple experts who see no conflict with holding religious beliefs alongside their strong grasp of science.\n\nTheistic evolutionists include Francis Collins - the geneticist who led the Human Genome Project and the current director of the National Institutes of Health in the US.\n\nDavid Wilkinson, the astrophysicist and principal of St John's College, Durham, is also a Methodist lay minister - and often contributes to Thought for the Day.\n\nIt's not a surprise there has been some objection to the \"mockery\" of Christians, who are often depicted as anti-intellectual and anti-science.", "Endurance just before it sank: Crushed at the stern, it went down bow first\n\nAntarctic scientists seeking to locate the wreck of Sir Ernest Shackleton's lost ship, the Endurance, have arrived at the search site.\n\nThe team broke through thick pack-ice on Sunday to reach the vessel's last known position in the Weddell Sea.\n\nRobotic submersibles will now spend the next few days scouring the ocean floor for the maritime icon.\n\nShackleton and his crew had to abandon Endurance in 1915 when it was crushed by sea-ice and sank in 3,000m of water.\n\nTheir escape across the frozen floes on foot and in lifeboats is an extraordinary story that has resonated down the years - and makes the wooden polar yacht perhaps the most sought-after of all undiscovered wrecks.\n\nThe British-led Weddell Sea Expedition has given itself five days to find the sunken remains.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prof Julian Dowdeswell: \"The autonomous vehicle has a number of different sensors\"\n\nOperating from the South African ice-breaker, the SA Agulhas II, the team's plan is to put down an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) to map the seafloor for anomalies.\n\nA wide box has been designated, and the robot, equipped with side-scan sonar and other technologies, will run back and forth across this search zone like a lawnmower. The first dive, initiated on Sunday, will last roughly 45 hours.\n\nThe SA Agulhas II will have to keep holes in the sea-ice open to operate the subs\n\nThere will be no attempt to retrieve artefacts should the Endurance be found. The intention only is to make a 3D model of the wreck site and take photos.\n\n\"The autonomous vehicle has a number of different sensors, ranging in resolution from about 10m down to about half a metre. And it also has cameras. It's not going to be as crisp as the image you or I might take - but almost as good as that,\" expedition chief scientist Prof Julian Dowdeswell told BBC News.\n\nThe search will be challenging because of the sea-ice at the surface. The Agulhas will have to periodically shift its hull to maintain open holes in the floes, through which to launch and recover AUVs.\n\nProf Dowdeswell emphasised: \"The robot has to be recovered by the parent vessel [before the data can be] interrogated. And the difficulty with this is that in severe sea-ice conditions - it's not that easy to recover the autonomous underwater vehicle. That is an act of seamanship in itself - before the data can be looked at.\"\n\nFrank Worsley used his sextant to record the position of the sinking\n\nScientists are extremely confident they are in the right place to find Endurance.\n\nShackleton's skipper, Frank Worsely, was a very skilled navigator and used a sextant and chronometer to calculate the precise co-ordinates of the Endurance sinking - 68°39'30.0\" South and 52°26'30.0\" West.\n\nThe ship is almost certainly within a few nautical miles of this point - and there is every chance it is in reasonable condition.\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 Frazer Christie This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe organisms that normally consume sunken wooden vessels do not thrive in the cold waters of the Antarctic, so even though the Endurance was broken when it went down, its timbers are most probably well preserved on the ocean floor.\n\n\"The ship is always referred to as having been crushed by the ice; in fact, the timbers were breached by the ice. But there is no reason to assume the hull won't be for the most part integral, even though there should be a splay of debris, including masts and spars, around the vessel on the seafloor,\" Prof Dowdeswell, director of the Scott Polar Research Institute, added.\n\nThe Agulhas made good progress to the search site last week after picking up supplies\n\nJust getting to the search site is a remarkable effort. The Agulhas has had to fight its way through ice that has thickened over several years.\n\nUnlike Shackleton, however, the Weddell Sea Expedition team has been assisted by satellite ice charts, which make picking a way through the floes a lot easier.\n\nThe significance of the moment was not lost on the expedition's marine archaeologist, Mensun Bound: \"We are the first people here since Shackleton and his men!\" he was quoted as saying.\n\nIf it's found, no attempt will be made to raise artefacts\n\nJonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos", "Olivia Colman was named best actress - can she repeat it at the Oscars?\n\nThe Favourite dominated the Bafta film awards on Sunday night, picking up seven awards out of 12 nominations.\n\nAmong its haul were best actress for Olivia Colman and best supporting actress for Rachel Weisz.\n\nMexican film Roma won best film, while Rami Malek won best actor for playing Freddie Mercury in Bohemian Rhapsody.\n\nColman, who starred as Queen Anne in The Favourite, said the team were having \"an amazing night\" and would be enjoying several drinks later.\n\nSpeaking about her co-stars Rachel Weisz and Emma Stone, Colman said: \"As far as I'm concerned, all three of us are the same and should be the leads, and it's weird we can't do that.\n\n\"This is for all three of us. It's got my name on it but we can scratch on some other ones.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The highlights from this year’s British Academy film awards\n\nThe period drama's other awards were best production design, best costume design, best hair and make-up and best original screenplay.\n\nYorgos Lanthimos, the film's director, said of the outstanding British film award: \"It's a great honour... this film took 20 years to make - I contributed to the last 10.\"\n\nHe also thanked actresses Colman, Stone and Weisz, saying: \"Of course the three leading ladies that I couldn't be more proud of.\"\n\nCollecting the prize for original screenplay, The Favourite's Deborah Davis said: \"Thank you for celebrating our female-dominated movie about women in power.\"\n\nYalitza Aparicio is the star of Roma, which won four awards\n\nAlfonso Cuaron's Roma also had a successful night picking up four prizes - best film, best director, best cinematography and best film not in the English language.\n\nAfter winning best cinematography, Curaon said: \"Foreign is just a different colour, and colour complements each other, I'm very happy Bafta is honouring a story about a domestic worker of indigenous background.\n\n\"The specific colour of this film is Mexico, so I want to thank also Mexico.\"\n\nSpike Lee won his first ever Bafta for BlackKklansman\n\nRami Malek won the best actor prize for his portrayal of Freddie Mercury in Bohemian Rhapsody. The film also won best sound.\n\nMalek said as he collected his Bafta: \"You Brits do music well, it's not lost on me how sacred your musical heritage is. Thank you to the greatest outsider of them all, Freddie Mercury.\"\n\nOne person who wasn't recognised among the winners was the film's director Bryan Singer.\n\nHis name was removed from the film's Bafta nomination due to allegations he sexually abused under-age boys.\n\nSinger denies the allegations, which he calls a \"homophobic smear\".\n\nQueen star Brian May said: \"The only reason he's on the movie is his guild forced Fox to do this... technically, really, he's not the director of the movie.\n\n\"Everybody who had something to do with the movie should be very proud.\"\n\nAside from the success of The Favourite and Roma, many of the night's prizes were split amongst several films.\n\nMahershala Ali won best supporting actor for Green Book and was visibly moved as he collected his award. He praised his fellow nominees for \"their work\".\n\nMahershala Ali gave an emotional speech after his win\n\nSpeaking backstage, Ali said he was touched by the impact Green Book has had in the UK.\n\nHe said he found the Bafta statuette to be \"a beautiful trophy\", and it would sit alongside his Oscar (for Moonlight) at home.\n\n\"Brooklyn's in the house!\" he yelled triumphantly as he collected his prize.\n\nLetitia Wright gave an emotional speech as she picked up the Bafta rising star award.\n\n\"A few years ago I saw myself in a deep state of depression and I wanted to quit acting.\n\n\"The only thing that pretty much pulled me out of that was God, my belief, my faith and my family and an email from Bafta saying they wanted me to be a part of the Bafta Breakthrough Brits, and I was like 'let me try again'.\n\nOther winners included Spider-Man: Into The Spider-verse, which won best animated film..\n\nA Star is Born won for best original music.\n\nLady Gaga, who appears opposite Cooper in A Star Is Born, did not attend as the ceremony clashes with the Grammys in the US.\n\nBut she posted on Twitter:\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Lady Gaga 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\nFilm editor Thelma Schoonmaker, a frequent collaborator with Martin Scorsese, was given the Bafta Fellowship.\n\nThe Baftas are often a good indicator of who will go on to awards glory at the Oscars - which are being held this year on Sunday 24 February.\n\nThe Oscars have decided to not have a host this year after Kevin Hart stepped down following a controversy over homophobic tweets.\n\nJoanna Lumley, hosting the Baftas for the second year running, joked: \"Thank goodness Bafta has a host. But that's probably just down to the fact I'm not on Twitter.\"\n\nLast year, the winners of the acting categories - Frances McDormand, Gary Oldman, Allison Janney and Sam Rockwell - were exactly the same at the Baftas and the Oscars.\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.", "Ros and Josh Hannam have had to fundraise to pay for sign language classes\n\nParents of a deaf four-month-old have to pay £6,000 for sign language classes if they want to communicate with her.\n\nRos and Josh Hannam's daughter Lola was diagnosed shortly after she was born.\n\nAlthough they had some support from Monmouthshire council, the couple from Caldicot will have to pay for British Sign Language (BSL) classes themselves.\n\nMrs Hannam said people found it \"ridiculous\" when she told them they had to pay. The Welsh Government said it would review BSL funding.\n\n\"I think the first thing we felt [after Lola was diagnosed] was probably devastation,\" Mrs Hannam said.\n\n\"She was going to have extra requirements and extra needs that we weren't anticipating.\n\n\"I think once we got over the initial devastation, it was about what can we do to make this good?\"\n\nThe couple got some basic language support through the council's Sensory Communication Service, but how much parents have to pay towards BSL classes depends on where they live.\n\nSome get it for free, but others have to foot the full cost themselves.\n\nApproximately 90% of children with hearing loss are born to families with no experience or knowledge of deafness\n\nMrs Hannam said: \"I was pretty taken aback. If we say to someone we have to fund it ourselves, the general reaction is 'What? That's ridiculous'.\n\n\"Nobody can afford that kind of money and I think that's how we felt as well.\n\n\"I'm spending most of my time trying to organise, trying to raise funds, organise raffle prizes just to be able to communicate with my daughter.\"\n\nJade Kilduff, who is campaigning for basic sign language to be compulsory in schools, said she supports Mr and Mrs Hannam's campaign.\n\nThe 17-year-old has begun teaching her three-year-old brother Christian, who has cerebral palsy and a brain injury, how to communicate using Makaton, which is based on BSL.\n\nJade teaches Christian a sign a day, and posts videos on social media via her page Sign along with us.\n\nThis Facebook post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Facebook The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts. 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End of facebook video by Sign along with us\n\nJade said: \"My wish is that one day everyone knows just the basic signs at least.\n\n\"I'd hate a world for him [Christian] where only a select few people knew enough signs to be able to understand him, that must be so isolating.\n\n\"I am determined to make a change and to make the world a better place for my brother and other children and adults with communication difficulties.\n\n\"I only started Sign along with us a month ago and the positive response has been overwhelming, lots of people are copying the signs and schools showing them in assemblies.\"\n\nDebbie Thomas from the National Deaf Children's Society said parents faced a \"postcode lottery\".\n\nShe added: \"We feel that the Welsh Government has a responsibility to make it very clear to local authorities that this is exactly the type of support they should be providing to families of young deaf children, because it's crucial from helping their social development, to helping their educational development.\"\n\nA spokesman said the Welsh Government would be \"reviewing the provision of BSL for adults in Wales in the coming months. This work will determine the costs and demand for delivering BSL and will help develop a fairer and more equitable system\".", "A newborn baby was rescued from a storm drain in the South African city of Durban after a three-hour operation.\n\nThe baby's crying was heard by a passer-by who alerted the emergency services.\n\nPolice are investigating how the infant girl came to be in the drain.", "People on zero-hour contracts are more than twice as likely to work night shifts, and are paid a third less an hour than other workers, the TUC says.\n\nAfter polling 3,287 workers - 300 of them zero-hour staff - it concluded the \"exploitative\" system should be banned.\n\nIt says the flexibility such contracts offer are only \"good for employers\".\n\nBut the government said a ban would \"impact more people than it would help\", arguing zero-hours worked well for students, carers and retirees.\n\n\"They provide flexibility for both employers and individuals, such as carers, students, or retirees,\" a business department spokesman added.\n\nTUC general secretary Frances O'Grady said \"the vast majority\" of people on zero-hours contracts \"want out\".\n\n\"Zero-hours workers regularly work through the night for low pay, putting their health at risk. And many face the constant uncertainty of not knowing when their next shift will come,\" she added.\n\nThe TUC's research is likely to reignite the debate over zero-hour contracts.\n\nWhile the casual employment contracts don't oblige employers to provide a minimum number of working hours, they don't oblige employees to accept any of the hours offered by their employer either.\n\nWorkers on zero-hours contracts are still entitled to statutory annual leave and the national minimum wage.\n\nAlthough such contracts have been controversial, many say they provide flexibility to people such as students, parents and those with other caring responsibilities.\n\nBut critics say that zero-hours contracts create insecurity for workers and are used by employers to undercut wages and avoid holiday pay and pension contributions.\n\nThe TUC says its research suggests two-thirds of zero-hours workers would prefer jobs with guaranteed hours.\n\nThe union's research was based on analysing the latest official data on zero-hours contracts.\n\nThe data shows there are around 780,000 on such contracts, equivalent to 2.4% of the working population.\n\nPeople on such contracts are more likely to fall into one or more of four categories - young, part-time, women or in full-time education.", "The chancellor, Philip Hammond, says the UK's economy has performed well given the weakening global economy and Brexit uncertainty.\n\nHis comments follow the release of data showing the UK economy grew at the slowest pace since 2012 last year.", "(L-R) Keegan, Tilly Rose, Olly and Riley died in the blaze in the early hours of 5 February\n\nA house fire which killed four children was not caused by cannabis growth or a boiler exploding, police have said.\n\nRiley Holt, eight, Keegan Unitt, six, Tilly Rose Unitt, four, and Olly Unitt, three, died in the blaze in Highfields in Stafford last Tuesday.\n\nStaffordshire Police said they had ruled out both as possible causes of the fire amid speculation online.\n\nA woman, 24, and a man, 28, arrested on suspicion of manslaughter by gross negligence, have been bailed.\n\nA spokesman for the force told the BBC they could \"rule out cannabis growth [sic] and also do not believe the boiler is involved\" after social media speculation mounted over the cause of the fire.\n\nThey said investigative work was ongoing.\n\nThe woman and man are currently living at an address out of the area. They were detained by officers at about 13:30 GMT on Friday and have been bailed until March.\n\nThe family are being supported by specialist police officers\n\nThe children's 24-year-old mother, Natalie Unitt, and her 28-year-old partner, Chris Moulton, leapt from a first-floor window with the siblings' two-year-old brother, Jack, during the fire.\n\nThey did not sustain life-threatening injuries.\n\nA fundraising page for the family has since raised over £30,000 - with more than 1,900 people donating.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Cadet's mum has urged his fans not to keep \"pent up anger\" inside them at a tribute event to his life.\n\nFans gathered in Hyde Park in central London to release balloons to celebrate the 28-year-old on Sunday.\n\nThe rapper was the passenger in a taxi when he died in a car crash on Saturday morning.\n\nHis mum said her son's life was \"not in vain\" and she was proud that he'd been able to influence so many people to achieve their goals.\n\nSpeaking to the crowd, she said: \"I'm so proud that his music has touched you in whatever way, enough for you to come out.\n\n\"It gives me so much pleasure.\"\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by moboawards This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe rapper from south London, whose real name was Blaine Cameron Johnson, was on the way to a gig at Keele University in Staffordshire when he died.\n\nHis mum said her son had been able to touch people's lives and \"influence you to do and achieve whatever you want to\".\n\nShe added: \"I need you men to express yourselves, express your feelings. If it's not to your mothers, to somebody.\n\n\"Don't keep pent up anger inside you. It's not good. You become anger and anger portrays others things. Release it, even if it's in tears or whatever.\n\nCadet's cousin Krept - of rap duo Krept and Konan - also spoke at the memorial and urged fans to resolve any issues they have with loved ones.\n\nHe and Cadet had fallen out when they were younger but had made up and had recently worked together.\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 G❣️ This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"I am so glad that me and him were able to resolve our situation before this happened,\" he said.\n\n\"If I didn't it would've eaten me up for the rest of my life.\"\n\nCadet's kindness has been brought up my many of his friends.\n\nIn a tribute on Instagram, Stormzy wrote: \"This man exudes love. I can't even explain how clean-hearted you are, look what you mean to everyone.\n\n\"No-one will ever forget you big bro, words can't do anything justice right now.\"\n\nCadet's most recent single Advice, with Deno Driz, was released in October and peaked at number 27 in the UK chart.\n\nHe was due to perform at Wireless Festival in the summer and organisers say his slot will now include a tribute to his life.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 every weekday on BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra - if you miss us you can listen back here.", "Alfonso Cuaron wrote and directed Roma, which won best film\n\nThe Favourite may have been the favourite, but it was Roma that took the night's big prize at the Bafta film awards.\n\nThe black and white, two-and-a-half-hour long subtitled film might not have \"box office smash\" written all over it - but then again, it wasn't aiming for the box office.\n\nDespite having a limited theatrical release, most will have seen Alfonso Cuaron's film on Netflix - and its success on Sunday night marks the first ever best film Bafta for the streaming service.\n\nBut there were plenty of other awards for The Favourite, which took home seven prizes including original screenplay, outstanding British film, and acting awards for Olivia Colman and Rachel Weisz.\n\nHere are some of the things we learned at the ceremony:\n\nHosting the Baftas is a tall order. You have to be likeable, entertaining and funny, under the gaze of the brightest stars in Hollywood.\n\nReturning to hosting duties for a second year, Joanna Lumley gave it her best shot, but not everyone was impressed.\n\n\"I adore Joanna Lumley but who on earth is responsible for her dire script?\" asked Denise Welch, while Piers Morgan described her performance as \"a train wreck\".\n\nA little harsh, perhaps, but some of her lines did fall a little flat. Here are some of the jokes we most enjoyed:\n\n2. The Black Panther cast have varied attitudes to texting\n\nThis was the second year in a row a cast member from Black Panther won the award for rising star.\n\nDaniel Kaluuya was crowned the winner last year, just as he was riding the crest of the Get Out wave.\n\nThis year, it was Letitia Wright's turn to take home the trophy - which differs from the others in that it's bright blue instead of gold.\n\n\"I love my little blue man,\" Letitia said backstage, after delivering an emotional acceptance speech at the ceremony.\n\n\"I'm enjoying the fact it's very unique, very special, and the fact that Bafta has this category means a lot.\"\n\nWho might be the first Black Panther cast member to text her to say congratulations?\n\n\"Luptia [N'yongo],\" replied Letitia immediately, championing her co-star's talent with technology. \"She's a bit quicker than Chadwick [Boseman].\"\n\n\"Michael B Jordan because he's so busy and he's making a thousand films!\"\n\n3. Bohemian Rhapsody's director was conspicuous by his absence\n\nOne person who wasn't there to represent Bohemian Rhapsody was its director Bryan Singer.\n\nBafta removed his name from the the film's nominations due to allegations he sexually abused underage boys, which he denies.\n\nSinger directed most of the film but exited the project before the film was completed.\n\nHowever, despite the controversy, the movie took home best sound and best actor for Rami Malek.\n\n\"We did have a change of director halfway through filming,\" acknowledged supervising sound editor John Warhurst backstage.\n\n\"But with everything the cast and crew was doing from one week to the next, there wasn't a lot that changed really.\n\n\"Rami and everyone else came back to work the next day [after Singer left] and it just carried on without there being much of a change, and that's when you realise how many people are involved in making a film like this.\"\n\nSpeaking on the red carpet, Brian May added: \"He was sacked for very good reason, not by us, but by Fox, so it's a very arm's-length kind of thing for us.\"\n\n4. Mahershala Ali's success is down to basketball. Kind of\n\nThere's a surprising link between best supporting actor winner Mahershala Ali and The Favourite director Yorgos Lanthimos - both played basketball prior to launching their film careers.\n\nSpeaking after his win, Mahershala said the team-building nature of the sport is, in fact, the perfect training for working on a major film.\n\n\"In basketball, there's a sense of everyone touching the ball, everyone contributing, there's only five people on the team, so you can see what everyone else is doing,\" he explained.\n\n\"I think there's this sense of real collaboration in sports. Michael Jordan knows he wouldn't have won the championship without Bill Cartwright. It prepares you for being able to work with other people.\"\n\nMelissa McCarthy and Richard E Grant made a wonderful double act in Can You Ever Forgive Me.\n\nBut, joked Melissa McCarthy, it was a different story off camera.\n\n\"We don't care for each other,\" she told BBC News. \"Not one bit. We don't speak. He won't let me look at him.\"\n\nFortunately, the actress was just kidding. Not only did she say they \"hit it off bizarrely well\", but McCarthy has taken to wearing Grant's fragrance to remind her of him.\n\nGrant released his own range of perfumes several years ago - one of which McCarthy was wearing to the Baftas.\n\n\"I always wear it, so even when I don't get to have him with me, I weirdly go 'good morning Richard!' and put a little on.\"\n\nLeading actress nominee Lady Gaga wasn't at the Baftas ceremony - but to be fair she had a good excuse.\n\nShe was performing at the Grammys in the US, which were taking place on the same evening.\n\nHer co-star in A Star Is Born, Bradley Cooper, turned up instead to collect the prize for best original music.\n\nBut Gaga quickly got word of the win and tweeted her thanks to the British Academy.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Lady Gaga 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\nWith the Baftas over for another year, all eyes will now be on the Oscars on 24 February to see whether tonight's big winners can repeat their success.\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.", "Between 1672 and 1689, Edward Colston's ships are believed to have transported about 80,000 men, women and children from Africa to the Americas\n\nThe head teacher of a secondary school says it will remove Colston as a house name for the next school year.\n\nThe names of the five houses at St Mary Redcliffe and Temple School in Bristol are all linked to white males, but will now be changed to \"reflect diversity\".\n\nEdward Colston made his fortune through slave trading, as well as bequeathing thousands to charitable causes.\n\nHead teacher Elisabeth Gilpin said: \"We cannot change the past, but we can change the future.\"\n\nIn a newsletter to parents and pupils, she wrote: \"Role models matter to people when they are growing up.\n\n\"We want every young person, whatever their gender, ethnic background and family income, to know that they can aspire to any number of careers and roles in society.\"\n\nThe changes mean that Colston House becomes Johnson House after Katherine Johnson, who worked for NASA as a mathematician.\n\nThe other houses will be named after George Müller, who was famous for setting up orphanages in Bristol; Eric Liddell, the Scottish 400m Olympic champion featured in Chariots of Fire; Olaudah Equiano, who played a major role in the anti-slavery movement; and Rosalind Franklin who took the key X-ray crystallography photo that established the structure of DNA.\n\nMrs Gilpin added: \"This has not come from a position of 'political correctness gone mad', but from a genuine desire to have role models with interesting stories which demonstrate our values.\"\n\nBetween 1672 and 1689, Colston's ships are believed to have transported about 80,000 men, women and children from Africa to the Americas.\n\nHis memory has been honoured in Bristol for centuries.\n\nBut in recent years campaigners have called for the role he played in the slave trade to be acknowledged.\n\nThe school's decision comes as demolition begins on a concert venue bearing Colston's name.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Pawel Relowicz is accused of voyeurism, outraging public decency and burglary\n\nA man arrested in connection with the disappearance of student Libby Squire has appeared in court charged with unrelated offences.\n\nPawel Relowicz, 24, of Raglan Street, Hull, appeared at Hull Magistrates' Court accused of voyeurism, outraging public decency and burglary.\n\nHe pleaded not guilty to all charges and was remanded in custody.\n\nMr Relowicz, who spoke through a Polish interpreter, is due to appear at Hull Crown Court on 11 March.\n\nBill Waddington, representing Mr Relowicz, said he would not make a bail application.\n\nMr Relowicz is charged with stealing items including sex toys, underwear, photographs and computer equipment.\n\nDistrict Judge Fred Rutherford said: \"You have entered your not guilty pleas before this court.\n\n\"The matters are too serious for this court and will be sent to crown court.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Lady Gaga, Dua Lipa and Kacey Musgraves won some of the night's biggest prizes\n\nKacey Musgraves, Dua Lipa, Cardi B and Lady Gaga were among the big winners at the Grammy Awards, making it a good night for female stars.\n\nCountry star Musgraves picked up four awards, including album of the year, while Childish Gambino also won four.\n\nCardi B made history as the first solo female to win best rap album.\n\nBritish pop star Dua Lipa was named best new artist and paid tribute to the \"incredible\" line-up of \"so many female artists\" in the category.\n\n\"I guess this year we've really stepped up,\" she said - a dig at Grammys president Neil Portnow, who last year tried to deflect criticism of the lack of female winners by saying women needed to \"step up\" in order to be considered.\n\nHe appeared on stage at this year's ceremony to apologise, saying: \"This past year I've been reminded that if coming face to a face with an issue opens your eyes wide enough it makes you more committed to bring change.\"\n\nSpeaking backstage, Dua said: \"Being in the new artist category and having so many female artists nominated is a big change and it's a change we want to see for many years to come.\n\n\"It's a big difference from previous years, it only felt right because there were so many artists on there that I love and admire.\"\n\nThis year's ceremony certainly appeared to be at pains to make amends, with lifetime achievement prizes for Dolly Parton and Diana Ross, and scores of female performers throughout the night.\n\nIt was the first year in Grammys history that women had won five of the top album awards - album of the year, best pop album (Ariana Grande), best country album (Musgraves), best R&B album (H.E.R.) and best rap album (Cardi B).\n\nGrande won her first ever Grammy Award for Sweetener, but wasn't there to collect it after a dispute with organisers.\n\n\"This is wild and beautiful,\" she tweeted. \"Thank you so much.\"\n\nAccording to Variety, the Thank U, Next singer also expressed her disdain in a series of since-deleted tweets at the fact Mac Miller, who was nominated posthumously for best rap album, lost out to Cardi B.\n\n\"Trash\" Grande reportedly wrote when the Brooklyn rapper was announced as the winner. But she later congratulated her, writing: \"Good for her. I promise. I'm sorry.\"\n\nAccompanied on stage by her husband Offset, Cardi thanked her daughter Kulture Kiari for giving her the impetus to finish the record on time.\n\n\"When I found out I was pregnant, my album was not complete,\" she said. \"So I was like, 'I have to get this album done so we can shoot these videos while I was not showing.'\"\n\nSpeaking backstage, Cardi said she shared her award with late rapper Mac Miller, whose family were at the awards.\n\nThe star also won best pop vocal for Joanne\n\nLady Gaga won three prizes, including best pop performance for Joanne and best pop duet for Shallow, from the Oscar-nominated film A Star Is Born.\n\nHolding back tears, the star thanked Bradley Cooper, her co-star and director, who missed the Grammys to attend The Baftas in London.\n\nShe also used her speech to highlight the film's mental health message, telling the audience: \"If you see someone that's hurting, don't look away.\"\n\nAnd Emily Lazar, who worked on Beck's Colors album, became the first woman in Grammys history to win best engineered album.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBut while the Grammys has made strides with female artists, it still needs to repair its image in the hip-hop community.\n\nThis year, major stars including Chance The Rapper, Kendrick Lamar and Childish Gambino declined invitations to perform, amid concerns their music is being relegated to the rap categories (no hip-hop record has won album of the year since Outkast's Speakerboxxx/The Love Below in 2004).\n\nThe absence of Childish Gambino - aka actor Donald Glover - was particularly notable on Sunday, after he won four prizes for This Is America, his scathing critique of US socio-politics.\n\nAt one point, host Alicia Keys awkwardly had to fill time when no-one came forward to accept the song of the year award on his behalf.\n\nPop star Camila Cabello opened the ceremony with a colourful - and expensive - staging of her smash hit Havana, set in a replica of her grandmother's childhood home in Cuba.\n\nHowever, some of the most powerful performances were the most simple - including Miley Cyrus and Shawn Mendes' powerhouse performance of In My Blood, album of the year nominee Brandi Carlile and a rousing tribute to Aretha Franklin by Audra Day, Fantasia and Yolanda Adams.\n\nFormer first lady Michelle Obama was drowned out by applause at the Staples Center in LA\n\nFormer first lady Michelle Obama also made a surprise appearance, giving a speech about the unifying power of music alongside Lady Gaga, Jada Pinkett-Smith, Jennifer Lopez and Alicia Keys.\n\n\"Whether we like country or rap or rock, music helps us share ourselves, our dignity and sorrows, our hopes and joys,\" she said. \"It allows us to hear one another, to invite each other in.\"\n\nDiana Ross also spoke of the power of music as she performed her own tribute (possibly the most perfect diva moment in a career full of them), just weeks before turning 75.\n\n\"When I was a little girl, I thought the joy of singing made me happy, it made my parents happy and it led to this day and it brings me joy,\" Ross said.\n\nParton's tribute was more inclusive, with fans and friends Katy Perry, Kacey Musgraves, Little Big Town, Miley Cyrus and Maren Morris joining the star on stage for a joyful medley of her biggest hits.\n\n\"I'm just internally freaking out,\" said Morris before the show. \"I met her and I was just trying not to quote Steel Magnolias at her.\"\n\nDozens of awards were handed out before the televised ceremony kicked off, with The Greatest Showman winning best soundtrack; and British singer Ella Mai scooping best R&B song for the slinky summer hit Boo'd Up.\n\n\"I'm legit trying to take it all in,\" said the singer, who was nominated for song of the year. \"I've dreamt of this moment ever since I was a little girl.\"\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\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The net independence plan is seen as a way for Russia's government to get more control over online life\n\nRussia is considering whether to disconnect from the global internet briefly, as part of a test of its cyber-defences.\n\nThe test will mean data passing between Russian citizens and organisations stays inside the nation rather than being routed internationally.\n\nA draft law mandating technical changes needed to operate independently was introduced to its parliament last year.\n\nThe test is expected to happen before 1 April but no exact date has been set.\n\nThe draft law, called the Digital Economy National Program, requires Russia's ISPs to ensure that it can operate in the event of foreign powers acting to isolate the country online.\n\nNato and its allies have threatened to sanction Russia over the cyber-attacks and other online interference which it is regularly accused of instigating.\n\nThe measures outlined in the law include Russia building its own version of the net's address system, known as DNS, so it can operate if links to these internationally-located servers are cut.\n\nCurrently, 12 organisations oversee the root servers for DNS and none of them are in Russia. However many copies of the net's core address book do already exist inside Russia suggesting its net systems could keep working even if punitive action was taken to cut it off.\n\nThe test is also expected to involve ISPs demonstrating that they can direct data to government-controlled routing points. These will filter traffic so that data sent between Russians reaches its destination, but any destined for foreign computers is discarded.\n\nEventually the Russian government wants all domestic traffic to pass through these routing points. This is believed to be part of an effort to set up a mass censorship system akin to that seen in China, which tries to scrub out prohibited traffic.\n\nRussian news organisations reported that the nation's ISPs are broadly backing the aims of the draft law but are divided on how to do it. They believe the test will cause \"major disruption\" to Russian internet traffic, reports tech news website ZDNet.\n\nThe Russian government is providing cash for ISPs to modify their infrastructure so the redirection effort can be properly tested.\n\nHow does an entire country \"unplug\" itself from the internet?\n\nIt's important to understand a little about how the internet works. It is essentially a series of thousands of digital networks along which information travels. These networks are connected by router points - and they are notoriously the weakest link in the chain.\n\nWhat Russia wants to do is to bring those router points that handle data entering or exiting the country within its borders and under its control- so that it can then pull up the drawbridge, as it were, to external traffic if it's under threat - or if it decides to censor what outside information people can access.\n\nChina's firewall is probably the world's best known censorship tool and it has become a sophisticated operation. It also polices its router points, using filters and blocks on keywords and certain websites and redirecting web traffic so that computers cannot connect to sites the state does not wish Chinese citizens to see.\n\nIt is possible to get around some firewalls using virtual private networks (VPNs) - which disguise the location of a computer so the filters do not kick in - but some regimes are more tolerant of them than others. China cracks down on them from time to time and the punishment for providing or using illegal VPNs can be a prison sentence.\n\nOccasionally countries disconnect themselves by accident - Mauritania was left offline for two days in 2018 after the undersea fibre cable that supplied its internet was cut, possibly by a trawler.", "Tens of thousands of Iranian braved the snow in Tehran to mark their country's 1979 Islamic Revolution.\n\nHe insisted Iran's military might and missile programme would continue to expand despite Western objections.", "Chancellor Philip Hammond is due to unveil his Spring Statement next month\n\nPhilip Hammond must spend billions extra to end austerity, says think tank the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS).\n\nTo maintain per capita spending across government departments that do not have ring-fenced budgets, he must find an extra £5bn a year by 2023, it adds.\n\nAnd maintaining spending on unprotected services as a share of national income would require £11bn on top of spending plans set out in the 2018 Budget.\n\nThe Treasury says long-term funding decisions will be made later this year.\n\nIn its analysis, the IFS said spending increases already promised by the chancellor would be swallowed up by commitments to fund the NHS, defence and international aid.\n\nThat could mean cuts in other areas, IFS director Paul Johnson told the BBC's Today programme.\n\n\"[Unless he finds the money] we will continue to see cuts in some departments at least as a fraction of national income, and don't forget the scale of the cuts up to now really has been extraordinary historically.\n\n\"We've had £40bn of cuts to department spending and cuts of 30% and 40% to some budget items. So even if he even if he stops cutting, it's still not going to feel great in a lot of areas.\"\n\nThe Treasury says health is the \"number one spending priority\"\n\nBut a Treasury spokesman said public investment would hit peaks not seen since 1979.\n\n\"The chancellor has said that the Spending Review will take place in 2019, and that is the right moment for government to make long term funding decisions,\" he said.\n\n\"We have made clear that health is our number one spending priority by announcing a five-year settlement which will provide an extra £34bn a year for the NHS by 2023-24.\n\n\"Outside the NHS, total day-to-day departmental spending is now set to grow in line with inflation, and public investment will reach levels not sustained in 40 years in this parliament. \"\n\nMeanwhile, the IFS said a no-deal Brexit would mean lower growth, requiring either spending cuts or higher taxes.\n\nAnd it said in the short term the government might need to borrow more to fund a stimulus package to mitigate the impacts for the hardest-hit areas of the economy.\n\nBut Mr Johnson said any spending boost to spending would be temporary.\n\n\"Obviously if there is some kind of no-deal Brexit that is going to be bad for the economy both in the short run and in the long run, there will be less money around.\n\n\"[The chancellor] can probably put a bit more money in [in the short run], but in the long run that is going to mean several more years of austerity to row back from that initial expansion.\"\n\nShadow chancellor John McDonnell said: \"The evidence is mounting that despite Theresa May's rhetoric, austerity is not over.\n\n\"Unless Philip Hammond, at the very least, finds another £5bn at the Spring Statement, departments will be planning for yet more cuts next year.\n\n\"Nine years of brutal Tory austerity have wounded our public services and the whole country which relies on them.\"", "Emiliano Sala (left) was on board a plane being flown by pilot David Ibbotson\n\nThe family of missing pilot David Ibbotson have said they don't want him left \"out there on his own\".\n\nMr Ibbotson, from Crowle, Lincolnshire, was flying Cardiff City's Emiliano Sala from Nantes to the UK when their plane crashed near Guernsey on 21 January.\n\nThe footballer's body was recovered from the wreck on the seabed, but Mr Ibbotson's body has not been found.\n\nAn inquest into the death of Sala was opened and adjourned at Bournemouth Coroner's Court.\n\nThe court heard that he died of injuries to his \"head and trunk\" and was identified by his fingerprints.\n\nInvestigations launched by the police, the Air Accidents Investigation Branch and the Civil Aviation Authority are estimated to take between six to 12 months to complete, the court was told.\n\nA fundraising appeal to fund an underwater search for the pilot has seen about £150,000 donated.\n\nMr Ibbotson's daughter Danielle told ITV's Good Morning Britain she repeatedly rang his mobile phone when told by police the aircraft was missing.\n\n\"He was amazing, I was so lucky to have him as a dad. I know it might take a long time but I don't want this to just be it,\" she said.\n\nMs Ibbotson said she wanted a search team to \"just to go down and have a last look, a proper look\".\n\nThe pilot's wife Nora added: \"We're still holding on a little bit. Obviously we do know he's gone but we want him back.\n\n\"We can't leave him out there on his own.\"\n\nFrance and Paris St-Germain striker Kylian Mbappe has donated £27,000 to the appeal to find Mr Ibbotson's body.\n\nThe light aircraft was en route to Cardiff when it crashed two days after Argentine striker Sala's £15m transfer was announced.\n\nAn initial search for the missing footballer and Mr Ibbotson was called off on 24 January.\n\nHowever, following calls for it to continue from stars including Lionel Messi and Diego Maradona, a private search funded by online donations was launched.\n\nIt led to the discovery of the Piper PA-46 Malibu aircraft and a body, formally identified as Sala.\n\nThe aircraft remains 220ft (67m) under water, 21 miles (34km) off Guernsey in the English Channel.", "Farmers in Sardinia are pouring thousands of litres of sheep milk into the streets, rather than sell it for prices they consider too low to live off.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dame Frances Cairncross explains the findings of her review into the future of the UK news industry\n\nA regulator should oversee tech giants like Google and Facebook to ensure their news content is trustworthy, a government-backed report has suggested.\n\nThe Cairncross Review into the future of UK news said such sites should help users identify fake news and \"nudge people towards news of high quality\".\n\nThe review also said Ofcom should assess the BBC's impact on online news on other providers.\n\nIn addition, the report called for a new Institute for Public Interest News.\n\nSuch a body, it said, could work in a similar way to the Arts Council, channelling public and private funding to \"those parts of the industry it deemed most worthy of support\".\n\nThe report said Facebook and Google need to give more prominence to public interest news\n\nThe independent review, undertaken by former journalist Dame Frances Cairncross, was tasked with investigating the sustainability of high-quality journalism.\n\nIts recommendations include measures to tackle \"the uneven balance of power\" between news publishers and online platforms that distribute their content.\n\nServices such as Facebook, Google and Apple should continue their attempts to help readers understand how reliable a story is, and the process that decides which stories are shown should be more transparent, it says.\n\n\"Their efforts should be placed under regulatory scrutiny - this task is too important to leave entirely to the judgment of commercial entities,\" according to the report.\n\nCould a digital regulator stop the spread of so-called 'fake news'?\n\nA regulator would initially only assess how well these sites are performing - but if this doesn't work, the report warns \"it may be necessary to impose stricter provisions\".\n\nYet the report falls short of requiring Facebook, Google and other tech giants to pay for the news they distribute via their platforms.\n\nDame Frances told the BBC's media editor Amol Rajan that \"draconian and risky\" measures could result in firms such as Google withdrawing their news services altogether.\n\n\"There are a number of ways we have suggested technology companies could behave differently and could be made to behave differently,\" she said.\n\n\"But they are mostly ways that don't immediately involve legislation.\"\n\nThe review was not asked to comment specifically on the BBC but concluded that curtailing the corporation's news offering would be counter-productive after hearing arguments from other publishers that the BBC reporting on so-called \"soft content\" online was crowding out other news providers.\n\nThe review noted that the BBC Charter states the corporation should endeavour to reach all demographics, and that stories of this type are essential to appeal to an increasingly elusive younger audience.\n\nThe BBC also argues that \"soft content\" stories may attract users who might then click onwards to a public-interest news story.\n\nThe review said the BBC was delivering high quality journalism but suggested it \"could do more and think more carefully about how its news provision can act as a complement, rather than a substitute, for private news provision\".\n\nDame Frances also recommended an exploration of the market impact of BBC News, conducted by broadcasting regulator Ofcom, to find whether it is 'striking the right balance' and driving traffic to other, commercial providers.\n\nThe BBC should do more to share its technical and digital expertise for the benefit of local publishers, the report concluded.\n\nThe review suggests it would 'make little sense to curtail the BBC'\n\nShadow Culture Secretary Tom Watson urged the government to tackle Google and Facebook's \"duopoly\" in the digital advertising market, and said Dame Frances was \"barking up the wrong tree\" in recommending an inquiry into the BBC's online news output.\n\nMeanwhile, former director general of the BBC Greg Dyke defended the role of the corporation.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"It seems to me that at a time when large American media companies - the likes of Netflix and the rest of it - are going to come to dominate in the world, for the BBC to be cutting back on anything will be a mistake.\n\n\"The importance of the BBC is going to grow in the next 10 years, not decline.\"\n\nFrances Cairncross earned widespread respect as a journalist for her hard-headed and pragmatic approach to economics.\n\nThat pragmatism is the very reason the government commissioned her to look at the future of high-quality news - and also the reason many in local and regional media will be disappointed by her recommendations.\n\nWhat is most notable about her review is what it doesn't do.\n\nThis is because the practicalities of doing these things are difficult, and experience shows that the likes of Google will simply pull out of markets that don't suit them.\n\nThere are concrete measures that could boost local news, from tax relief to an extension of the Local Democracy Reporting Service.\n\nAnd Dame Frances certainly seemed cognisant of the argument that BBC News has over-reached, to the extent that it is harming the commercial sector. But this is a matter for Ofcom.\n\nUltimately, as this report acknowledges, when it comes to news, convenience is king. The speed, versatility and zero cost of so much news now means that, even if it is of poor quality, a generation of consumers has fallen out of the habit of paying for news.\n\nBut quality costs. If quality news has a future, consumers will have to pay. That's the main lesson of this report.\n\nThe report recommends \"new codes of conduct\" whose implementation would be supervised by a regulator \"with powers to insist on compliance\".\n\nThe Barnsley Chronicle goes to press in September 2017\n\nOne local newspaper editor welcomed the report's recommendations but said it \"comes too late for so many once proud and important community newspapers\".\n\nThe Yorkshire Post's James Mitchinson said: \"The various fiscal reviews and recommendations... must come quickly... if we are to turn the Cairncross Review into something which we look back upon as being instrumental in preserving what we do for generations to come.\"\n\nCulture Secretary Jeremy Wright said some of its suggestions could be acted upon \"immediately\", while others would need \"further careful consideration\".\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.", "Five people were pulled from the harbour after their boat capsized on Saturday\n\nEfforts to rescue five young rowers whose boat capsized at Aberdeen Harbour were hampered by a vandalised life ring, according to their coach.\n\nThe girls - members of the Aberdeen Schools Rowing Association - got into difficulty on the River Dee shortly before 15:00 on Saturday.\n\nChief coach Ian Duncan said the life ring's line had been cut.\n\nDespite that, the girls managed to climb on top of their overturned boat before being rescued.\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 𝙅𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙣 𝙈𝙪𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙧𝙙 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\nThey were picked up by the pilot boat from Aberdeen Harbour within 10 minutes of going into the water, close to Victoria Bridge.\n\nMr Duncan condemned the actions of those responsible.\n\nHe said: \"I would like for them to think very hard that they may need that for themselves, or a friend, or a family member. before they cut that line.\n\n\"It's an emergency piece of equipment. I can't think what kind of mindset someone has to go and cut an emergency piece of equipment that's vital and could save a life.\"\n\nMedical checks were carried out on the five people at the harbour\n\nAberdeen RNLI lifeboat and a coastguard rescue team aided in the rescue, along with an offshore industry rescue helicopter.\n\nIt is understood that a doctor who was travelling in the helicopter was lowered to the harbour to assist with medical checks on the girls.\n\nSenior Coastguard Officer Jonathan Mustard later tweeted a video of the rescue and said: \"Very proud of my Coastguard colleagues!\"\n\nAberdeen City Council said all the lifeboats in the area were inspected last week.\n\nA spokeswoman added: \"They are being checked again this morning and we will undertake any repairs or replacements required.\n\n\"We would strongly ask people not to vandalise or move life belts as they can literally be a life-saver.\"\n\nThe boat reportedly capsized near to Victoria Bridge in the harbour\n• None Five rescued after boat capsizes in harbour", "The UK food industry has threatened to stop co-operating with government policy consultations, saying it is busy trying to stave off the \"catastrophic impact\" of a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThe warning came in a letter to Environment Secretary Michael Gove from more than 30 business leaders.\n\nThey said it looked \"ever more the likeliest outcome\" that the UK would leave the EU without an agreement.\n\nThe government said leaving the EU with a deal remained its \"top priority\".\n\n\"We are meeting weekly with representatives from our food and drink industry to help prepare for all scenarios,\" said a spokesperson for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.\n\nBut the food industry said the current situation was a \"moment of potential crisis\" for their industry.\n\nThose signing the letter included the heads of the Food and Drink Federation, the National Farmers' Union and UK Hospitality.\n\nMembers of the various trade bodies include Mondelez subsidiary Cadbury; KP Snacks, which makes Hula Hoops; and Butterkist popcorn, as well as consumer goods giant Nestle.\n\n\"Neither we nor our members have the physical resources nor organisational bandwidth to engage with and properly respond to non-Brexit related policy consultations or initiatives at this time,\" they wrote.\n\n\"Government has recruited many extra staff; we cannot.\"\n\nThe firms urge the government to place a range of current and planned industry consultations on \"pause\" until the Brexit uncertainty is over.\n\nThe consultations the firms cite include one relating to further curbs on the advertising of sugary foods, a national recycling collection strategy and proposals for a tax on plastic items with less than 30% recycled content.\n\nThe letter, first reported by Sky, is further evidence of the industry's frustration at the continuing lack of certainty over the Brexit process.\n\n\"Businesses throughout the UK food chain - and their trade associations - are now totally focused on working to mitigate the catastrophic impact of a no-deal Brexit,\" says the letter, which was sent last Friday.\n\n\"Large amounts of time, money, people and effort are being diverted to that end.\"\n\nThe letter comes just two weeks after major retailers warned MPs that a no-deal Brexit would cause huge disruption to the industry, leading to higher prices and empty shelves in the short-term.\n\nSainsbury's, Asda and McDonald's were among those who warned stockpiling fresh food was impossible, and that the UK was very reliant on the EU for produce.", "The Favourite dominated the Bafta film awards, picking up seven awards.\n\nAmong its haul were best actress for Olivia Colman and best supporting actress for Rachel Weisz.\n\nMexican film Roma won best film, while Rami Malek won best actor for playing Freddie Mercury in Bohemian Rhapsody.\n\nThis video has been removed for rights reasons", "Labour's deputy leader Tom Watson has said a local party branch is being investigated over its alleged treatment of MP Luciana Berger.\n\nMr Watson accused Liverpool Wavertree branch members of \"bullying\" the MP and trying to drive her out.\n\nThe branch scrapped a meeting to discuss a no-confidence motion in Ms Berger after an angry backlash.\n\nIt said it had \"no control\" over motions tabled by members and rejected claims of bullying and anti-Semitism.\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show, Mr Watson said: \"That motion should never have been moved in her local party, the meeting to hear it should never have been scheduled.\"\n\nHe said Mr Corbyn had \"made it clear these things are not done in his name\", and they \"are not helping him, they are harming the reputation of the Labour Party\".\n\nMr Watson added: \"I don't want any MP or any member of the Labour Party to feel they're being bullied and driven out, and what's happening to her is completely unacceptable, which is why I called for the local party to be suspended.\"\n\nLabour's general secretary Jennie Formby said there was \"no constitutional basis\" on which to suspend the local party, but Mr Watson confirmed that Ms Formby was \"investigating members in that constituency\".\n\nBut in a letter to the branch, Ms Formby said she was had seen no evidence of behaviour that would constitute anti-Semitism or bullying in the case of Wavertree, but one individual was being investigated.\n\nIn a statement, the leaders of Wavertree Labour Party said: \"We as an executive have always and continue now to express total solidarity with Luciana as a victim of misogyny and of anti-Semitism - coming mostly from the far right.\n\n\"Our chair is himself Jewish and the suggestion that the CLP (Constituency Labour Party) Executive is in any way a party to bullying and anti-Semitism is a false and slanderous accusation.\"\n\nThey defended scheduling a meeting to discuss the no-confidence motions, saying it was \"to give our MP the maximum opportunity to take part when the motions were debated\".\n\nThe executive added that they \"strongly reject the media inaccuracies and the accusations of political bullying, for simply adhering to party rules and doing our jobs\".\n\nMs Berger, who is Jewish, has been an outspoken critic of the party's handling of anti-Semitism allegations and its stance on Brexit.\n\nThe motion that was pulled criticised her for \"continually using the media to criticise\" Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nShadow chancellor John McDonnell sparked a backlash from some Labour MPs after he suggested on Friday that the move against Ms Berger was more to do with her disloyalty to the leadership than anti-Semitism.\n\nHe urged Ms Berger to publicly reject claims she supported a Labour \"breakaway\", amid media speculation MPs disenchanted with Mr Corbyn's leadership were planning to form a new party.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tom Watson: \"I know one MP who changed their vote because they were frightened\"\n\nOn speculation about Labour MPs forming a new party, Mr Watson said \"we are all worried about a breakaway because we need unity in order to win the next general election\".\n\nSpeaking more broadly about the abuse MPs have had to put up with amid the \"hate-fuelled debate around Brexit\", Mr Watson told Andrew Marr he knew of \"an MP who had changed their vote because they were frightened\".\n\nUpdate 12 February 2019: This article has been updated to explain that Jennie Formby sent a letter to Liverpool Wavertree branch later that day in which she said she had seen no evidence of any behaviours constituting potential bullying or anti-Semitism, other than complaints about one individual which were being investigated.", "Michael Jackson, pictured in 1999, died in 2009 at the age of 50\n\nChannel 4 is to air a controversial documentary about Michael Jackson, despite receiving a letter of complaint from the late singer's estate.\n\nLeaving Neverland focuses on two men who claim the pop superstar abused them when they were children.\n\nThe family of the late singer have asked the broadcaster not to show it, saying the film-makers did not ask them for a response to the allegations.\n\nIn a statement, Channel 4 said it had followed the right response procedure.\n\n\"Channel 4 viewers will make their own judgement about the testimony of the two victims interviewed in the film,\" it said.\n\nIn the letter, which was released to the Associated Press, the Jackson estate claimed the documentary's makers broke programming guidelines by failing to get a response from the singer's family and friends.\n\n\"I think we can all agree that the false allegations being made in your 'documentary' are 'significant allegations',\" the letter said.\n\n\"It is hard to imagine more significant accusations that can possibly be made against anyone.\"\n\nA similar letter was also sent to US broadcaster HBO, which co-produced the documentary.\n\nLeaving Neverland will be broadcast on Channel 4 on 6 and 7 March.\n\nIt includes interviews with Wade Robson and James Safechuck, who were aged seven and 10 when the singer befriended them and their families.\n\nMr Robson acted as a main witness for Michael Jackson at his 2005 trial, but has now changed his story.\n\nChannel 4 said the film does include a response to the allegations in the form of footage of Jackson's own denials.\n\n\"The documentary deals with the criminal trials and civil court cases and any involvement our principal interviewees had in those,\" the broadcaster's statement said.\n\n\"It is not unusual for victims of child sex abuse to only feel able to disclose what happened to them in later life.\"\n\nThe documentary, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival last month, has also been defended by its director, Dan Reed.\n\n\"Anyone who sees the film will know it is solely about hearing the stories of two specific individuals and their families in their own words, and that is a focus we are very proud of,\" he said.\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.", "Many species of butterfly are in retreat according to the review\n\nA scientific review of insect numbers suggests that 40% of species are undergoing \"dramatic rates of decline\" around the world.\n\nThe study says that bees, ants and beetles are disappearing eight times faster than mammals, birds or reptiles.\n\nBut researchers say that some species, such as houseflies and cockroaches, are likely to boom.\n\nThe general insect decline is being caused by intensive agriculture, pesticides and climate change.\n\nInsects make up the majority of creatures that live on land, and provide key benefits to many other species, including humans.\n\nThey provide food for birds, bats and small mammals; they pollinate around 75% of the crops in the world; they replenish soils and keep pest numbers in check.\n\nMany other studies in recent years have shown that individual species of insects, such as bees, have suffered huge declines, particularly in developed economies.\n\nBut this new paper takes a broader look.\n\nPublished in the journal Biological Conservation, it reviews 73 existing studies from around the world published over the past13 years.\n\nThe researchers found that declines in almost all regions may lead to the extinction of 40% of insects over the next few decades. One-third of insect species are classed as Endangered.\n\n\"The main factor is the loss of habitat, due to agricultural practices, urbanisation and deforestation,\" lead author Dr Francisco Sánchez-Bayo, from the University of Sydney, told BBC News.\n\n\"Second is the increasing use of fertilisers and pesticides in agriculture worldwide and contamination with chemical pollutants of all kinds. Thirdly, we have biological factors, such as invasive species and pathogens; and fourthly, we have climate change, particularly in tropical areas where it is known to have a big impact.\"\n\nDung beetles are on the retreat according to the new review\n\nSome of the highlights of study include the recent, rapid decline of flying insects in Germany, and the massive drop in numbers in tropical forests in Puerto Rico, linked to rising global temperatures.\n\nOther experts say the findings are \"gravely sobering\".\n\n\"It's not just about bees, or even about pollination and feeding ourselves - the declines also include dung beetles that recycle waste and insects like dragonflies that start life in rivers and ponds,\" said Matt Shardlow from UK campaigners Buglife.\n\n\"It is becoming increasingly obvious our planet's ecology is breaking and there is a need for an intense and global effort to halt and reverse these dreadful trends. Allowing the slow eradication of insect life to continue is not a rational option.\"\n\nThe authors are concerned about the impact of insect decline up along the food chain. With many species of birds, reptiles and fish depending on insects as their main food source, it's likely that these species may also be wiped out as a result.\n\nCockroaches and houseflies may thrive while others decline, say experts\n\nWhile some of our most important insect species are in retreat, the review also finds that a small number of species are likely to be able to adapt to changing conditions and do well.\n\n\"Fast-breeding pest insects will probably thrive because of the warmer conditions, because many of their natural enemies, which breed more slowly, will disappear, \" said Prof Dave Goulson from the University of Sussex who was not involved in the review.\n\n\"It's quite plausible that we might end up with plagues of small numbers of pest insects, but we will lose all the wonderful ones that we want, like bees and hoverflies and butterflies and dung beetles that do a great job of disposing of animal waste.\"\n\nProf Goulson said that some tough, adaptable, generalist species - like houseflies and cockroaches - seem to be able to live comfortably in a human-made environment and have evolved resistance to pesticides.\n\nHe added that while the overall message was alarming, there were things that people could do, such as making their gardens more insect friendly, not using pesticides and buying organic food.\n\nMore research is also badly needed as 99% of the evidence for insect decline comes from Europe and North America with almost nothing from Africa or South America.\n\nUltimately, if huge numbers of insects disappear, they will be replaced but it will take a long, long time.\n\n\"If you look at what happened in the major extinctions of the past, they spawned massive adaptive radiations where the few species that made it through adapted and occupied all the available niches and evolved into new species,\" Prof Goulson told BBC News.\n\n\"So give it a million years and I've no doubt there will be a whole diversity of new creatures that will have popped up to replace the ones wiped out in the 20th and 21st centuries.\n\n\"Not much consolation for our children, I'm afraid.\"", "Debenhams has secured a cash injection of £40m to buy it extra time as it battles to secure a longer-term deal with lenders.\n\nThe struggling department store chain called it a \"first step\" towards a sustainable future.\n\nThe firm - which issued three profit warnings last year - is in talks with lenders over renegotiating its debts.\n\nIt is also trying to accelerate plans to close stores and is expected to close around 20 outlets this year.\n\nThe extra money will extend the retailer's current £520m borrowing facilities with banks for 12 months and enable it to continue talks over a longer-term refinancing.\n\nNews of the funding sent the retailer's shares surging almost 40% in early trade.\n\nDebenhams chief executive Sergio Bucher said: \"Today's announcement represents the first step in our refinancing process.\n\n\"The support of our lenders for our turnaround plan is important to underpin a comprehensive solution that will take account of the interests of all stakeholders and deliver a sustainable and profitable future.\"\n\nLaith Khalaf, senior analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown, said: \"This debt agreement is a lifeline for Debenhams, but isn't going to solve its fundamental problems.\n\n\"Trading conditions remain extremely challenging and the business has a tightrope to walk between cutting costs and investing in improvements.\"\n\nHigh Street retailers have been under increasing pressure as more people choose to shop online and visit stores less.\n\nDebenhams - which has 165 stores and employs about 25,000 people - reported a record pre-tax loss of £491.5m last year and said more recently that sales had fallen sharply over Christmas.\n\nIt also announced last year that it would close up to 50 stores within three to five years, putting 4,000 jobs at risk. The chain has not yet named which stores it plans to close.\n\nHowever, it is now trying to secure an insolvency deal that would enable it to bring forward the closure of around 20 department store chains to this year.\n\nThe deal - known as a company voluntary arrangement - would also allow the chain to renegotiate its rents with landlords.\n\nThe chain has not yet named which stores it plans to close. Debenhams has 165 stores and employs about 25,000 people.\n\nMr Khalaf said: \"Debenhams' longer term prospects are still in the balance, and recent data showing a deterioration in the UK economy isn't exactly going to help matters.\n\n\"For now, Debenhams has kicked the can down the road, but will have to come back for some tough negotiations with quite a lot of internal dissent amongst its stakeholders.\"\n\nLast year, rival department store chain House of Fraser fell into administration before Mike Ashley, the billionaire Sports Direct founder, bought the department store's assets for £90m.\n\nMr Ashley is also a major shareholder in Debenhams, with a 29% stake, and he recently joined together with investor Landmark Group to vote the retailer's chairman and chief executive off the board.\n\nMr Bucher is continuing as chief executive of Debenhams but no longer sits on the board, while Sir Ian Cheshire stepped down immediately as chairman.", "Siddique Kamara was known by his rap name Incognito\n\nA man who stabbed a young drill rapper in self-defence after his fake Cartier watch was stolen has been cleared of murder.\n\nSidique Kamara, 23, known as Incognito and SK, was stabbed to death in Camberwell on 1 August.\n\nKenneth Umezie, 25, pulled out a lock knife after his watch was taken.\n\nHe was acquitted of murder and an alternative charge of manslaughter following a two-week trial at the Old Bailey.\n\nMr Kamara, who was high up in south London's Moscow 17 gang, suffered two stab wounds and died on Warham Street.\n\nThe drill rapper was one of 78 people stabbed to death in London last year.\n\nMr Umezie told jurors Mr Kamara was fatally knifed in the course of a struggle after he gave chase in a bid to retrieve his watch.\n\nHe insisted that Mr Kamara was stabbed accidentally as he acted in self-defence.\n\nTwo other people were injured in the stabbing in Southwark, south London\n\nMr Umezie, of Don Phelan Close, Southwark was discharged from custody after he was cleared.\n\nDrill music has been linked with escalating gang violence in the capital.\n\nMoscow 17's drill videos have been viewed hundreds of thousands of times on YouTube and include lyrics hostile to long-running gang rivals Zone 2.\n\nIn January 2018, Mr Kamara was cleared of murdering 17-year-old Abdirahman Mohamed.\n\nMr Mohamed was the brother of a member of Zone 2 from Peckham and was stabbed to death on 2 June, 2017.\n\nMr Kamara and another member of Moscow17, Kevin Aka-Kadjo, were both acquitted of murder.", "The UK's largest current account provider, Lloyds Banking Group, has said problems with its online banking service have now been resolved.\n\nSome Lloyds customers had faced \"intermittent issues\" on Monday when trying to log on to the online system.\n\nBut Lloyds says the issues have now been remedied. \"We apologise for the disruption some customers experienced today,\" the bank said in a statement.\n\nIt has 10 million account holders, 60% of whom use digital services.\n\nThe problems did not affect app services, which were working normally.\n\nServices from Halifax and Bank of Scotland, which are also part of Lloyds Banking Group, were also unaffected.\n\nA number of customers of Lloyds took to social media to question what was happening.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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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\nLast month, hundreds of thousands of Lloyds, Halifax and Bank of Scotland customers were unable to make payments from their online accounts.\n\nSome could not pay and transfer money online, while others were not able to confirm whether funds were arriving in their account.", "Labour members have been protesting against anti-Semitism in the party\n\nThe Labour Party has received 673 complaints in 10 months alleging acts of anti-Semitism by its members.\n\nA letter from the party's general secretary, Jennie Formby, revealed the figures after she was pushed by MPs for specific details.\n\nShe said 96 members were immediately suspended from the party for their conduct between April 2018 and January 2019, and 12 were expelled.\n\nBut in a letter, a group of MPs said there was still a lack of information.\n\nLabour has struggled to contain a long-running row over anti-Semitism.\n\nAt a meeting of the Parliamentary Labour Party (PLP) last week, MPs unanimously passed a motion urging the leadership to do more to tackle it.\n\nThey also called for specific details about how many people were being investigated, how many letters had been written to those accused telling to them to desist and what punishments had been given.\n\nMs Formby said: \"I totally reject the suggestion that the existence of anti-Semitism in our party is a smear. I have seen hard evidence of it and that is why I have been so determined to do whatever is possible to eliminate it from the party.\"\n\nBut Labour MP Dame Margaret Hodge tweeted a warning not to trust the figures and said she was not convinced the party's leadership were \"serious on rooting out anti-Semitism\".\n\nAhead of Monday's PLP meeting, Ms Formby, who did not attend, wrote to MPs to provide more detail.\n\nShe said the party's National Executive Committee (NEC) previously believed that statistics on disciplinary matters should remain confidential and not be published.\n\nBut after MPs rejected her proposal of having three elected members monitoring the figures regularly, she said she \"pushed hard\" to get the NEC to agree to publish them.\n\nIf the Labour leadership believed that producing statistics on anti-Semitism cases would quell internal criticism, then they called it wrong.\n\nLabour MPs who had pushed for the figures to be made public, then questioned their veracity.\n\nAnd some criticised the party hierarchy for expelling so few members - 12 - who had breached the rules.\n\nThe Labour leader was also criticised for not being present at tonight's parliamentary party meeting to discuss the issue.\n\nSo flames of discontent have been fanned not extinguished.\n\nParty spokespeople point out only 0.1% of a mass membership have been accused of anti-Semitism.\n\nBut one veteran MP, who has spent many years on the front bench, thinks all this won't end well. He told me: \"The whiff of a breakaway is in the air\".\n\nDame Margaret, who has been outspoken on the party's handling of the issue, raised concerns on Twitter about the figures.\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 Margaret Hodge 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\nFollowing Monday's meeting of the PLP, a letter addressed to Jeremy Corbyn and signed by seven Labour MPs, including Dame Margaret, Luciana Berger and John Mann, accused the leadership of not respecting the PLP motion for more information on anti-Semitism cases.\n\nThe letter called for a vote on it at Tuesday's shadow cabinet meeting, as \"no-one from the leadership presented the information requested\", saying: \"The party should respect the mandate of the PLP's resolution\".\n\nIt lists eight points where the MPs believe there to be a lack of information, including the amount spent on legal counsel and the fact that only nine months' worth of data was released.\n\nQuestioning the figures provided, Dame Margaret told the BBC if she had submitted 200 complaints alone, the official figure of 673 complaints against party members suffered from \"a total lack of credibility\".\n\nShe said she was \"depressed\" and \"genuinely upset\".\n\nLabour MP Catherine McKinnell said there was a question mark over the \"inability to produce data that predates 2018\".\n\n\"The data we have does reveal the use of 'reminders of conduct' as a way of resolving a complaint without an investigation - it's not clear what criteria is being used,\" she said.\n\n\"Somebody from the leadership needs to come so we can ask the questions and get some answers. We have ongoing concerns.\"\n\nLabour MP Ruth Smeeth - who has suffered anti-Semitic abuse - added: \"This is not over.\"\n\nBBC political correspondent Iain Watson said that during the private PLP meeting, Louise Ellman - president of the Jewish Labour Movement - raised the details of a specific case where she believed insufficient action had been taken.\n\nThe former party general secretary Iain McNicol defended his record in tackling anti-Semitism before Ms Formby took over, our correspondent added.\n\nA party spokeswoman said that Ms Formby would attend a future meeting when available.", "Retail sales bounced back sharply in January, rising by 1% on the previous month, official figures showed.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics (ONS) said the amount of goods sold rose by 1%, after falling by 0.7% in December, with discounts in clothing helping to boost sales.\n\nCompared with a year ago, retail sales were 4.2% higher in January.\n\nThat was the biggest annual rise since December 2016. The figures beat most economists' expectations.\n\n\"Clothing stores saw strong sales, luring consumers with price reductions, with food sales also growing after a slight dip after Christmas,\" said ONS statistician Rhian Murphy.\n\nThe ONS said clothing prices fell by the most since August 2016.\n\nThe figures suggest that consumer spending may have picked up again after a lull following the summer's World Cup.\n\nThe findings also echo those from the British Retail Consortium, which indicated that shops saw their fastest sales growth for seven months in January.\n\nOther recent data has shown wages picking up after years of stagnation and rising faster than inflation.\n\nSamuel Tombs, chief UK economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics, said: \"January's jump in retail sales shows that most households have maintained a happy-go-lucky mentality, despite the fraught political situation. While consumers' confidence is down, this reflects rather fuzzy expectations that Brexit might be costly eventually.\"\n\nBut he added that although low confidence would prompt consumers to hold back from buying cars, booking holidays and moving home, he thought the High Street would be protected.", "Plasters lose their stick, revealing the hurt underneath. And the fragile patch that was covering the Tory truce has been well and truly torn.\n\nJust when Theresa May wanted to show the European Union that she could hold her party together to win, she lost.\n\nAnd at home the prime minister has been shown in no uncertain terms that she simply can't count on the factions in her party to come through for her.\n\nThere were, and still are, suspicions among Eurosceptics that the prime minister doesn't really mean it when she says we'll leave at the end of March, whatever happens.\n\nIt's no secret that a significant number of government ministers would push as firmly as they could to stop that happening.\n\nAnd on show in Parliament, an increasing determination to make that impossible.\n\nThat explains the demand from Brexiteers for reassurance that Mrs May is still willing to follow the existing law and leave, whatever happens.\n\nBut this is more than just a Brexiteer strop over no deal.\n\nBrexiteers who have been involved in talks with the government about the so-called Malthouse compromise, a different EU deal proposed by MPs, are frustrated that No 10 has not been more full-throated in support for that proposal.\n\nThat concern was, it's claimed, part of the reason for abstaining in protest, which resulted in this latest defeat.\n\nGovernment sources suggest Eurosceptics' grievances were rather hungrier than that.\n\nWhatever the whole truth, it is plain that Mrs May's challenge is not just to persuade a reluctant EU that she can carry Parliament but to bring a party together that has precious little appetite to do so.\n\nThis is though, far from the end of this troubled journey. In less than a fortnight, MPs will vote again.", "Andrea Levy's The Long Song featured Sir Lenny Henry in the BBC One adaptation\n\nBritish author Andrea Levy, whose award-winning novels captured the black British experience in the years after Windrush, has died at the age of 62.\n\nA statement released on behalf of her family said she died of cancer.\n\nLevy was born in 1956 to Jamaican parents who had travelled to England on the Empire Windrush in 1948.\n\nSir Lenny Henry, who played a slave in the BBC adaptation of her novel The Long Song, said he had \"loved hanging out with this pugnacious woman\".\n\nLevy was best known for Small Island, about two Jamaicans who came to England after World War Two, and The Long Song, her last novel.\n\nThe 2010 novel was nominated for the Booker Prize and was adapted by BBC One last year.\n\nUnlike her other four novels, The Long Song was not set in post-war Britain but reached back to early 19th Century Jamaica during the last years of slavery.\n\nSir Lenny wrote in a tribute: \"She was funny, had attitude and was immensely smart.\"\n\nHer publisher Headline said it was \"hugely saddened\" by her death on 14 February, adding that she \"had been ill for some time\".\n\nThe poet Benjamin Zephaniah said of Levy: \"In the future if anybody wants to have a look at how the Windrush generation arrived here and how we the sons and daughters of the Windrush generation survived and are surviving, they have to refer to Andrea's work .\"\n\nActress and director Kathy Burke said Levy was \"such a great writer\" and that The Long Song had been \"the best thing on telly last Christmas\".\n\nThe Long Song examined the years before and after the end of slavery\n\nLevy did not start writing until she was in her mid-30s, after enrolling in a creative writing class at an adult education college in London.\n\nIn 1994 she published her first novel, Every Light in the House Burnin′, a semi-autobiographical look at a young woman growing up in north London in the 1960s.\n\nBefore that, little had been written about the lives of Jamaican immigrants and their families.\n\nIt was not until the release of Small Island in 2004 that her writing really took off, with her fourth novel earning her the Whitbread Book of the Year, the Orange Prize and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize.\n\nThe novel was praised for its compelling, intertwined tales of Jamaicans who moved from their own small island to Britain, and the Britons in whose home they lodged.\n\nWriting on Twitter, playwright and commentator Bonnie Greer recalled being sent a copy of Small Island to review and recognising it as \"a masterpiece\".\n\nSmall Island was adapted for a 2009 BBC TV series starring Naomie Harris and Ruth Wilson. A stage version opens at the National Theatre in April.\n\nRufus Norris, the theatre's director, said \"her humour, craft, rigour, openness and clarity of thought\" had been \"a pleasure and a privilege to witness.\"\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 National Theatre 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\nLevy's final work was Six Stories and an Essay, a collection of short stories she had written during her career and an essay about her Caribbean heritage. It was published in 2014.\n\nShe was also the subject of an episode of Alan Yentob's series Imagine in December, which profiled her career and her contribution to literature in Britain.\n\nJane Morpeth, Levy's editor at Headline, said she was \"incredibly honoured to be Andrea's publisher and to call her my friend\".\n\n\"Her legacy is unique, and her voice will be heard for generations to come,\" she continued.\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.", "President Donald Trump declares a national emergency over the border wall, then acknowledges his order could face legal challenges.", "Sergei Skripal, 67, and his daughter Yulia survived the attack\n\nA third man has been named as a suspect in the poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal in Salisbury last year.\n\nInvestigative website Bellingcat claims that he is Denis Vyacheslavovich Sergeev, a Russian military intelligence officer.\n\nIt says he came to the UK at the same time as two suspects alleged to have carried out the March 2018 attack.\n\nThe website claims the officer travelled internationally under the pseudonym Sergey Fedotov.\n\nMI6 double agent Sergei Skripal, 67, and his daughter Yulia, then 33, were poisoned with a nerve agent known as novichok in Salisbury. Both of them survived.\n\nPrior to the latest claim, two Russian nationals were named as suspects.\n\nAnatoliy Vladimirovich Chepiga and Alexander Mishkin have been linked to the Russian military intelligence agency GRU.\n\nThe Kremlin has not commented on the latest report but it has previously expressed doubts over Bellingcat's reports about Mr Chepiga and Mr Mishkin.\n\nBellingcat claims that this photograph is of the third suspect, Denis Vyacheslavovich Sergeev\n\nThe website says that Mr Fedotov was booked onto a flight which left the UK last March but that he missed it.\n\nIt says he travelled instead to Rome, from where he went to Moscow.\n\nIt previously reported that he used a similar travel pattern in 2015 in Bulgaria - missing a booked flight and returning to Moscow from Istanbul.\n\nDuring that trip, Bellingcat says a Bulgarian arms trader, Emilian Gebrav, and his son needed hospital treatment after contact with an unidentified poison. Mr Gebrav survived.\n\nThe website says that Mr Sergeev travelled with one of the other two suspects on at least one occasion, and made multiple trips to the UK.\n\nBritish officials are understood to be investigating the Bulgarian reports.\n\nA Kremlin spokesman previously said Russia did not know \"whether this is true at all\".\n\nResponding to the website's initial investigation, a Kremlin spokesman told the BBC: \"We don't know how far this corresponds with reality, whether it's real at all.\n\n\"We don't know what the report's authors based their work on - how competent they are - who they are - and whether this is true at all.\"\n\nThe British government blamed the Salisbury attack on the GRU.\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May said the attack on Mr Skripal had \"almost certainly\" been approved by the Russian state.\n\nMoscow has consistently denied any involvement in the Salisbury poisonings.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police say they are continuing to pursue a number of lines of enquiry including identifying any other suspects who may have been involved in carrying out or planning the attack.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The president has installed a $50,000 golf simulator in the White House\n\nUS President Donald Trump has put on weight since his last medical check-up, but remains in \"very good health\", his official doctor Sean Conley says.\n\nMr Trump was receiving a higher dose of medicine to lower his cholesterol levels, his memo said.\n\nMr Trump weighed 243lb (110kg) in last week's examination, which is up from 239lb in early 2018.\n\nOther doctors noted that his Body Mass Index (BMI) now fell in excess of 30, which is considered clinically obese.\n\n\"It is my determination that the president remains in very good health,\" Dr Conley said in a brief statement issued by the White House after examining the 72-year-old.\n\nThe news of his report was released minutes after officials announced Mr Trump would declare a \"national emergency\" at the US-Mexico border in a bid to secure funding for a border wall.\n\nPresident Trump, who has a common form of heart disease, had previously been asked to lose at least 10lb.\n\nThe 6ft 3in (1.9m) US president reportedly favours a diet of fast food and diet sodas, and has long faced questions over his health.\n\nHe famously does not drink alcohol, and says he has never done so. He is also a non-smoker.\n\nDuring his campaign, he produced a letter that said he would be the \"healthiest individual ever elected\", but the doctor named as the author later said Mr Trump had written the letter himself.\n\nLast year, Dr Ronny Jackson said the president had \"incredible genes\" and it was not a matter of concern that he only slept for four or five hours a night because this was \"just his nature\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dr Ronny Jackson said in 2018: \"He has incredible genes\"\n\nIn the latest release, Dr Conley said he had found no significant health problems during the annual check-up.\n\n\"There were no findings of significance or changes to report on his physical exam, including the eyes, ears, nose, mouth, teeth/gums, heart, lungs, skin, gastrointestinal, and neurologic systems,\" the medical summary said.\n\nThe report detailed that the dosage of his anti-cholesterol medicine, Rosuvastatin, had been increased from 10mg to 40mg.", "Top Democrats react after Republican Senator Mitch McConnell says President Trump will declare an emergency on the border.", "Cheryl disappeared shortly after her family migrated to Australia\n\nAustralian prosecutors have dropped their case against a man who had been accused of murdering a UK-born toddler almost 50 years ago.\n\nThe disappearance of three-year-old Cheryl Grimmer from a New South Wales beach in 1970 is one of Australia's longest-running mysteries.\n\nA man was arrested in 2017, and he later pleaded not guilty to murder.\n\nOn Friday, a judge ruled that a key part of the prosecution case could not be used as evidence in a trial.\n\nIt concerned statements made by the man during a police interview in 1971, when he was aged 17.\n\nThe Supreme Court of New South Wales found that the evidence could not be heard because the teenager had not had an adult representative present during the interview.\n\nJustice Robert Allan Hulme said: \"The Crown accepts that its case cannot succeed without it.\"\n\nCheryl went missing from a shower block on 12 January, 1970, in Wollongong, a city 70km (44 miles) south of Sydney, shortly after her family moved to Australia from Bristol.\n\nIt sparked a massive search at the time, but no trace of the girl was ever found.\n\nOn Friday Cheryl's brother, Ricki Nash, said the family was devastated by the latest development and felt let down by police.\n\n\"We're just a bit numb, a bit shocked… no words can describe how I feel at the moment,\" he said outside the court.\n\nOver the years, the family had expressed frustration at the lack of progress in the case.\n\nAnother of her brothers, Stephen Grimmer, said in 2016: \"My mum and dad have passed on now not knowing, and we want to know too before we pass on.\"\n\nIn explaining his decision, Justice Hulme acknowledged that the man had made a written statement and engaged in a \"walk-through style interview\" with police in 1971.\n\nUnlike now, minors were not legally required to be accompanied by an adult when giving such statements.\n\nHowever, Justice Hulme ruled that the man's police interview \"should be excluded on the basis of unfairness\".\n\nHe also noted testimony from psychologists who had reviewed the case for the trial.\n\nThey found that the man had \"low intellect\" and would have been \"more vulnerable to influence\" at the time, the judge said.\n\nThe man's trial had been due to begin in May.", "Why are black pupils disproportionately identified as having a particular range special needs?\n\nMany black pupils in England are having their education dumbed down after being wrongly identified as having one of a range special needs, a study says.\n\nThe study found black Caribbean pupils were twice as likely to be identified as having social, emotional and mental health needs as white British pupils.\n\nThe Oxford University team could not explain the \"substantial over-representation\" of this group.\n\nIt urged schools to check if discipline policies caused a systematic bias.\n\nPrevious research has looked towards cultural differences, teacher racism and ineffective classroom management as part of the answer.\n\nProf Steve Strand analysed data on six million children in England's schools between 2005 and 2016.\n\nSocial, emotional and mental health needs (SEMH) are a type of special educational needs that covers support with mental health problems and challenging behaviour.\n\nChallenging behaviour is a big factor in pupil exclusions and shifts to alternative provision.\n\nProf Strand said: \"Black Caribbean children may be suffering an inappropriate and narrowed curriculum, from unwarranted over-identification, particularly [in] secondary schools.\n\n\"This might mean they get less academically challenging, more vocationally orientated work perhaps,\" he said, \"like being shifted from maths to motor maintenance, or experience a lowered expectation of what they can do.\n\n\"From the factors that we have measured - socio-economic background, poverty and neighbourhood deprivation, and children's development on entry to school - we can't explain why, in particular, black Caribbean children and mixed-black-Caribbean-and-white children are more likely to be diagnosed with SEMH.\"\n\nThere was a strong correlation between SEMH and social-economic background, Prof Strand said, but this could explain only half of the increased likelihood of a black Caribbean child being identified as having SEMH.\n\nSome schools banned African-Caribbean hair styles such as cornrows\n\nHe said it was clear some children had been \"misidentified\" by schools, although it was difficult to know how many.\n\nThe study did find higher SEMH rates among black Caribbean pupils and mixed-white-and-black-Caribbean pupils in secondary schools serving high deprivation communities, where there were large proportions of them.\n\nBut what caused this association was unknown, the study said.\n\nHowever, Prof Strand suggested factors such as high levels of crime, violence and gang culture and the negative impact of other disaffected pupils may have an influence.\n\nBut he also suggested disciplinary policies could be having an unintentional impact on some children.\n\nHe asked: \"Is it that these young people from this ethnic groups are more confrontational with their teachers because of gang culture or is it a perception of their behaviour?\n\n\"It's important for schools to look at their policies and see that there isn't anything that would cause a systematic bias in the way special needs and SEMH is identified.\"", "Last updated on .From the section American football\n\nColin Kaepernick has reached a settlement with the NFL over his 'collusion' case against team owners.\n\nThe former San Francisco 49ers quarterback believed owners were conspiring not to hire him because of his protests against racial injustice in the USA.\n\nKaepernick started protests by kneeling during the US national anthem.\n\nThe 30-year-old has been without a team since opting out of his 49ers contract in March 2017.\n• None Kaepernick: From one man kneeling to a movement dividing a country\n\nCarolina Panthers safety Eric Reid, who was the first player to join then 49ers team-mate Kaepernick in kneeling, has also settled his own collusion case.\n\nOn Friday, their lawyers and the league released a joint statement, saying the pair had been \"engaged in an ongoing dialogue with representatives of the NFL\" over recent months.\n\n\"As a result of those discussions, the parties have decided to resolve the pending grievances,\" the statement read.\n\n\"The resolution of this matter is subject to a confidentiality agreement so there will be no further comment by any party.\"\n\nA statement from the NFL Players Association said: \"We are not privy to the details of the settlement, but support the decision by the players and their counsel.\n\n\"We continuously supported Colin and Eric from the start of their protests, participated with their lawyers throughout their legal proceedings and were prepared to participate in the upcoming trial in pursuit of both truth and justice for what we believe the NFL and its clubs did to them.\n\n\"We are glad that Eric has earned a job and a new contract, and we continue to hope that Colin gets his opportunity as well.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Climate march schoolchildren: 'We need change and we need it now'\n\nPupils from around the UK went \"on strike\" on Friday as part of a global campaign for action on climate change.\n\nStudents around the country walked out of schools to call on the government to declare a climate emergency and take active steps to tackle the problem.\n\nOrganisers Youth Strike 4 Climate said protests took place in more than 60 towns and cities, with an estimated 15,000 taking part.\n\nThey carried placards, some reading: \"There is no planet B.\"\n\nThe action was part of a much wider global movement, known as Schools 4 Climate Action.\n\nIt began with 15-year-old Swede Greta Thunberg skipping class to sit outside government buildings in September, accusing her country of not following the Paris Climate Agreement.\n\nPupils across the UK took the day off school\n\nSince then, tens of thousands of children across Belgium, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland and Australia have been inspired to hold their own demonstrations.\n\nThe biggest protests were held in London, Brighton, Oxford and Exeter, the UK Student Climate Network said.\n\nThe group, which helped coordinate the protests, has four key demands:\n\nGreta tweeted about the UK protests, writing: \"British PM says that the children on school strike are 'wasting lesson time'. That may well be the case.\n\n\"But then again, political leaders have wasted 30 yrs of inaction. And that is slightly worse.\"\n\nThey used home-made placards to get their message across\n\nA Downing Street spokeswoman said that, while it was important for young people to engage with issues like climate change, the disruption to planned lesson time was damaging for pupils.\n\nThe National Association of Head Teachers said it did not condone children missing school to take part in the action and that \"nothing is more important than a child's education\".\n\nIt said \"individual school leaders can decide how best to respond\" to any protests involving its students.\n\nHowever, energy minister Claire Perry said she was \"incredibly proud\" of young people's passion and concern.\n\nShe told the BBC: \"I suspect if this was happening 40 years ago, I would be out there too.\"\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn said schoolchildren were \"right to feel let down by the generation before them\", while Green Party MP Caroline Lucas said it was the \"most hopeful thing that's happened in years\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nShe addressed campaigners in Brighton, saying they should be allowed to miss school because of \"exceptional circumstances\".\n\nShe said: \"The time for talking is over, and time for action is now.\"\n\nChristina (right) - whose surname the BBC has chosen not to use, in common with the other young protesters - says she's worried for her future\n\nIn London, 15-year-old Christina said the issue was too big to ignore.\n\n\"A lot of us are very good, obedient students but when it comes to climate change, it's really important,\" she said.\n\n\"The youth of our time tend to get pushed to one side. We often stay quiet but when it comes to climate change we are going to have to pay for the older generation's mistakes.\"\n\nScarlet, one of the organisers, says they will keep making noise until they are heard\n\nScarlet, 15, from Suffolk, is part of the UK Student Climate Network. She said: \"We want the UK government to declare a climate emergency and make moves to achieve climate justice, prioritising this above all else.\n\n\"We're demanding the government listen to us and we will continue to make a noise until they do so.\n\n\"It can't be about behaviour change any more; it has to be about system change.\"\n\nEleven-year-old Hannah Jane's mum wrote a letter to the head teacher asking for her permission to give her daughter the day off\n\nSome of those involved staged a sit-down protest\n\nMany were keen to point out it is their generation who will be left to pick up the pieces of our civilisation's waste and pollution.\n\nThey don't feel the government is listening to scientists' warnings on climate change. Without a vote, protests like this one are their only option, they say.\n\nSome climbed onto statues but were quickly ordered down by police.\n\nThe organisers had planned a revision session to show the protestors take their education seriously but instead, shortly after noon, some of the teenagers, sat down on a crossing, blocking traffic.\n\nAgain they moved on quickly, but took an unplanned walk up Whitehall. Most of the protesters left the square and marched to Downing Street.\n\nThe protest is good-humoured, but the organisers' plans have been abandoned.\n\nBy about 13:30 only a noisy hardcore of a few hundred demonstrators remained, determined to cause maximum disruption to traffic outside the Palace of Westminster.\n\nSmall groups staged sit-down protests across junctions, surrounding buses, shouting \"engines off\" at drivers and climbing traffic lights. As police dispersed one group another would form. I saw one young man arrested for obstruction - but he said he was not a school student.\n\nHundreds of young protesters chanted for climate justice in Cambridge. One of them was 10-year-old Zachary, who attended with his mother.\n\nHe said: \"People just have to change their ways as we don't want the world as it is right now.\n\n\"We just want to make people aware of it. We were talking about it in our class, so we just came along.\"\n\nStudents in Cambridge gathered outside the Cambridgeshire County Council's offices\n\nStudents marched down the streets of Brighton\n\nIvy, 9, is home-schooled; she received permission from her mother to join the protest in Sheffield\n\nA protest was held in Belfast, where students walked out of schools to attend a demonstration at the City Hall.\n\nIn Wales, hundreds of primary and secondary school pupils descended on the Welsh Assembly in Cardiff Bay.\n\nMeanwhile in the Scottish Highlands, pupils staged hour-long walkouts outside their school gates.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon backed youngsters taking part, saying it was a \"cause for optimism in an often dark world\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Nicola Sturgeon 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\nScotland Yard said two arrests were made in London. A 19-year-old man was arrested for obstructing a highway while a 17-year-old was arrested for a public order offence.\n\nAnother nationwide protest has been planned for 15 March.", "Call the Midwife has won praise for tackling sensitive issues\n\nThe BBC has been criticised for not linking directly to information on abortion after the issue was dealt with in an episode of Call the Midwife.\n\nDoctors, midwives and pro-choice charities highlighted the issue after the BBC's Action Line website was advertised after the programme aired.\n\nExcluding abortion was \"stigmatising\", they said.\n\nThe BBC said while it does not link to campaign groups there was no reason not to link to abortion advice.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"Abortion is a controversial subject across the UK, but there's no reason why the BBC cannot link to advice sites which provide information on it.\"\n\nIt said some groups may not be selected for Action Line links because they are \"campaigning organisations\".\n\nThe episode of Call the Midwife, broadcast on 3 February, featured Jeannie, who found herself unexpectedly pregnant with her third child.\n\nRefused a legal termination, she paid an illegal provider and died from an infection.\n\nAfter the episode, viewers were directed to the BBC's Action Line if they had been affected by the issues raised.\n\nIn the episode, Jeannie Tennant did not want a third child\n\nA joint letter from the Royal College of Midwives, the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, Marie Stopes UK, the sexual health advice service Brook and the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) praised the programme for having \"repeatedly handled this issue sensitively and courageously\".\n\nBut they said that people visiting the Action Line website found that abortion was not explicitly mentioned.\n\nInstead, there was a link to information about pregnancy on the NHS website - which features abortion information elsewhere.\n\nThe healthcare organisations called on the BBC to include links to evidence-based information about terminations.\n\nKatherine O'Brien, head of policy and research at BPAS, said it was \"highly stigmatising to the women we care for and to the doctors and midwives who provide them with care\" to treat abortion differently from other medical procedures.\"\n\nShe said it was \"inadequate\" to expect women to search the NHS website after being directed to Action Line at the end of the programme.\n\nThe 1967 Abortion Act established legal abortion in most of the UK, but in Northern Ireland terminations are only permitted when a woman's life is at risk or if there is a risk of permanent and serious damage to her mental or physical health.\n\nJohn Deighan, deputy CEO of the Society for the Protection of the Unborn Child, an anti-abortion group, said the Action Line site was right not to include links on abortion.\n\nHe said: \"The issues raised in the 'Call the Midwife' programme are controversial. I can understand reservations over which helpline numbers would have been appropriate to provide.\"\n\nCall the Midwife has previously won plaudits for tackling issues such as female genital mutilation, cleft lips and palates, and sickle cell disease.", "Metro Bank has taken top spot in an official survey of customers' satisfaction with their banks, with the Royal Bank of Scotland ranked bottom.\n\nDespite Metro's share price having been hit, in part, by errors in the way it accounted for some of its lending, the bank overtook First Direct to go top.\n\nSome 83% of its personal customers said they would recommend the bank to their family and friends.\n\nThe rankings are published every six months by the UK's competition body.\n\nBanks must prominently display the results in branches, on websites and apps, with the aim to encourage competition on customer service.\n\nThe rankings are drawn from the views of 16,000 people (1,000 from each bank), who were asked how likely they would be to recommend their account provider to friends and family.\n\nFor personal banking, Metro Bank - which started operating in the UK in 2010 - was the most popular.\n\nIt has had a relatively tough few months in terms of its share price, but was second in the customer satisfaction ratings six months ago and has now taken top spot.\n\nA Metro Bank spokesman said: \"Our offering is simple. We believe in providing the very best in service and convenience for both consumers and businesses, and this latest set of results speaks for itself.\"\n\nIt has switched positions from six months ago with First Direct, with the Nationwide Building Society maintaining its position in third.\n\nThe Royal Bank of Scotland was bottom of the 16 banks on the list. It scored poorly on services in branches.\n\nOn the day that its parent company RBS announced a doubling in annual profits, the survey revealed that fewer than half (47%) of Royal Bank of Scotland personal current account customers said they would recommend the bank.\n\nAmong the various categories, TSB - which suffered a major IT failure that led to the departure of its chief executive last year - finished bottom of online and mobile banking services. Clydesdale Bank was bottom on the ranking of overdraft services. HSBC-owned First Direct, which has no branches, was top of both these categories.\n\nNearly 20,000 small businesses were also asked about customer service at banks, resulting in a ranking of 14 banks.\n\nSwedish import Handelsbanken was ranked top with an 85% satisfaction rating, with a particularly strong showing in the relationship and account management category (91%).\n\nMetro Bank was second and Santander third. TSB was bottom of the 14.\n\nAndrea Coscelli, chief executive of the Competition and Markets Authority, which published the results, said: \"We introduced this survey last August so that people can see exactly how well banks are treating their customers.\n\n\"If people are unhappy with the customer service they are currently getting, I would encourage them to look at the results and think about switching to a better performing bank.\"", "Prof Djikeng's thinking was moulded by his childhood experiences\n\nA researcher in Edinburgh is leading efforts to develop gene-edited farm animals for poor farmers in Africa.\n\nProf Appolinaire Djikeng is developing cows, pigs and chickens that are resistant to diseases and more productive.\n\nAmong them are cattle that have been gene edited to be heat-resistant.\n\nDetails of the project were given at the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Washington DC.\n\nProf Djikeng is the director of the Centre for Tropical Livestock Genetics and Health.\n\nHe believes that gene editing along with more targeted traditional cross-breeding will lead to healthy, productive livestock that will transform the lives of some of the very poorest people in the world.\n\n\"We can drive out poverty in some of the most vulnerable communities,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"We are talking about smallholders with just one, two or three animals.\n\n\"If the animals die or are not producing to their potential, it means no income for the smallholder's family and the risk of falling into absolute poverty.\"\n\nAfrican cattle are less productive than western breeds\n\nHis father was just such a subsistence farmer who reared pigs on a small farm in western Cameroon.\n\nHe told me how each August his father would have a pig ready to sell to pay the year's school fees so he could go to class in September.\n\nBut one year in the mid-80s, there was an epidemic of African swine fever and Prof Djikeng's father had no pigs to sell.\n\nLuckily, his mother kept chickens for just such an emergency, and Prof Djikeng was able to continue his education and become an eminent scientist.\n\nBut, he told me, the incident had taught him how children's prospects are based on livestock in Africa and how easily they can be robbed of their futures when disease strikes.\n\n\"Growing up, I understood that if you are farming and you are that vulnerable, there has to be something there to help, perhaps resilient animals, disease-resistant animals, and developing the best practices.\n\n\"At the time, the science was not good enough to make a difference. And it was my commitment to change that. It was a personal mission.\"\n\nThese gene-edited piglets are resistant to a lethal lung disease\n\nProf Djikeng's centre was funded by the Gates Foundation.\n\nBill Gates visited some of the world-leading livestock research institutes around Edinburgh in 2014.\n\nHe saw that the key to giving farmers like Prof Djiken's father more security was to harness research to create more resilient livestock.\n\nProf Djikeng and his team are working closely with African research institutes to identify local problems and to help them find solutions.\n\nHe is aware more than most that a colonialist, top-down approach would not work.\n\nHis team is currently focussing on developing chickens that are resistant to Newcastle disease and dairy cattle resistant to East Coast fever.\n\nOne approach is to make cows whose coats repel the ticks that spread the disease.\n\nThere is also a collaboration with a US firm, Acceligen, to produce cattle that are able to cope better with heat.\n\nThe company has identified a gene that makes a breed found in the US Virgin Islands, called Senapol, naturally heat-resistant.\n\nThe gene gives the animals a sparse amount of hair and they sweat more.\n\nThis gives them a slick coat and so reduces their body temperature by at least 0.5C compared with a cow without the gene.\n\nThe firm has spliced in what it calls the \"slick gene\" into an embryo of a Red Angus, a US dairy breed.\n\nA calf called Genselle was born in Minnesota and transferred to a ranch in Brazil, where temperatures can reach 45C.\n\nThe firm will begin thorough scientific trials with Genselle and two non-gene-edited Red Angus calves to see what impact, if any, the change has made.\n\nBut the company's chief scientific officer, Dr Tad Sonstegard, told BBC News that the initial signs were that Genselle was settling in well with her new surroundings.\n\n\"She acts like a normal animal with no signs of heat stress in what is now the middle of summer in Brazil. And that is very unusual,\" he said.\n\nThe company has used gene editing instead of traditional cross-breeding because Senapols are relatively poor milk producers. And so it would probably take decades of cross-breeding to develop a high-milk-producing cow that was heat-resistant.\n\nThe campaign group Compassion in World Farming, has submitted evidence to a review of the technology by the Nuffield Council for Bioethics.\n\nIt opposes the use of the technology to simply boost industrial livestock production in advanced economies, because the process requires modified embryos to be surgically implanted into a surrogate animal to create a new variety of gene-edited animal.\n\nCIWF argues that efforts to create disease-resistance could be better addressed by keeping farm animals in better conditions. And it says that using gene-edited animals to boost food production is also misconceived because, it argues, feeding cereals to animals is wasteful and intensive livestock production increased CO2 emissions.\n\nThe organisation's research manager, Phil Brooke, told BBC News that it was vital to support smallholder farmers in Africa, who are struggling to maintain an income from their animals. \"However, we see gene editing as an invasive technology to be avoided wherever possible in favour of traditional breeding,\" he said.\n\n\"Whatever technology is used, it should be applied in ways that are not detrimental to the animals. \"It is good to breed animals that are adapted to their environment but, for example, heat-tolerance should not be used to keep too many chickens in a shed.\n\n\"Likewise, disease-resistance shouldn't be used to keep animals in overcrowded conditions in which disease would otherwise be likely to spread.\"\n\nProf Bruce Whitelaw, of the Roslin Institute near Edinburgh, who works closely with Prof Djikeng, says that they are both sympathetic to such concerns.\n\n\"In Africa, the scrutiny by the farmer on their animals is much higher than in the western world. If you have five animals, they are really important to you an if three of them die, that is catastrophic.\n\n\"The project is to improve the genetics of animals through traditional breeding if possible and if we can't we will use gene editing. That has to be good for the animal; in turn that has to be good for the farmer.\"\n• None Gene-edited farm animals are on their way", "Theresa May is sticking to her Brexit strategy, despite her party rowing in the wake of her latest Commons defeat.\n\nMPs rejected a motion endorsing her approach by 303 to 258, with 66 Tory MPs abstaining, leading one minister to accuse Brexiteer rebels of \"treachery\".\n\nSteve Baker, of the backbench European Research Group which led the rebellion, called it a \"storm in a teacup\".\n\nThe PM will return to Brussels \"within days\", after her Brexit secretary met EU ambassadors in London on Friday.\n\nSteve Barclay will also travel for further talks with the EU's chief negotiator Michel Barnier on Monday, with Parliament yet to back a deal ahead of the UK's withdrawal from the bloc on 29 March.\n\nMrs May is trying to renegotiate the Irish \"backstop\" after MPs voted to replace it with \"alternative arrangements\" earlier this month.\n\nSome MPs fear the backstop - the insurance policy to prevent the return of customs checks on the Irish border - will see the UK tied to EU customs rules in the long-term.\n\nThursday's government motion called for MPs to back its renegotiating strategy, but ERG members believed it also meant endorsing calls to rule out a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThey say the option of leaving the EU without a formal deal offers essential \"negotiating leverage\" in Brussels. But a majority of MPs believe it would cause chaos at ports and massive disruption to business.\n\nThe EU has consistently ruled out changes to the backstop.\n\nThe latest government defeat has no legal force and Commons Leader Andrea Leadsom told BBC political correspondent Iain Watson the PM would return to Brussels for talks in the coming days.\n\nMs Leadsom also told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the loss represented \"more of a hiccup than the disaster that is being reported\".\n\n\"[Mrs May] will continue to seek those legally binding changes to the backstop that will enable Parliament to support our deal,\" she added.\n\nAbandoned by the ERG, she could have tried to build cross-party consensus by pivoting towards a customs union.\n\nThis option is favoured by Labour's frontbench and quite a few Conservatives, and Brussels feels it has potential to deliver a stable parliamentary majority.\n\nBut many in her grassroots would have pointed out a broken manifesto promise, and even re-badging it as a \"common customs territory\" might have caused a split.\n\nSo, the PM returns to Brussels to eke out changes to the backstop, and hopes to detach enough Labour MPs to help get a deal over the line by promising new employment laws.\n\nIf there is no revised deal before March, however, some ministers might abandon ship and urge her to delay Brexit.\n\nBut doing just that might convince some in the ERG to return to the fold, persuaded to back what they see as a bad deal over a delayed, maybe even endangered, Brexit.\n\nMrs Leadsom blamed Labour for \"playing politics\" to defeat the government.\n\nBut the chair of the Exiting the EU committee, Labour's Hilary Benn, said Mrs May had rejected party leader Jeremy Corbyn's proposed alternatives and instead sought approval from Tory Brexiteers.\n\n\"As long as the prime minister continues to try and keep the ERG on-side... we are not going to make any progress,\" he told Today. \"We have to compromise.\"\n\nDefence Minister Tobias Ellwood told BBC Newsnight the ERG was a \"party within a party... flexing its muscle\" to take advantage of Mrs May's lack of a Commons majority.\n\nHe called the group's actions \"irritating, provocative and... unnecessary\".\n\nBusiness Minister Richard Harrington told The House magazine ERG members should defect to Nigel Farage's new Brexit Party - a move the former UKIP leader called \"a jolly good idea\".\n\nBut Transport Secretary Chris Grayling told the BBC: \"That's not a sensible approach. The Conservative Party is a team - there's far more that unites us than divides us.\"\n\nFormer Education Secretary Nicky Morgan called for the Conservatives to take a \"collective deep breath\" and resolve matters to avoid a no-deal scenario.\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 Nicky Morgan 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’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Baker, the ERG's deputy chairman, told Today he was \"standing up for what the majority of the people voted for\", while still \"making enormous compromises\".\n\nBut he added: \"[The EU] should also understand that there are those of us unwilling to vote to take a no-deal off the table.\"\n\nFormer Attorney General Dominic Grieve accused the Conservative Eurosceptics of being \"completely cavalier about the risks\" of leaving the EU without a formal withdrawal agreement.\n\nAnd he suggested a dozen or more ministers - including six in the cabinet - might resign if Mrs May refused to extend Brexit talks beyond 29 March.\n\nAsked whether she would resign if there was not a deal before the end of the month, Work and Pensions Secretary Amber Rudd said she planned to work with all colleagues to help the PM get her withdrawal agreement through Parliament.\n\nAs to whether the ERG were \"traitors\", she responded: \"No, certainly not.\"\n\nPlease upgrade your browser to view this interactive How did my MP vote on 14 February? Enter a postcode, or the name or constituency of your MP\n\nMeanwhile, Irish foreign minister Simon Coveney suggested the UK could expect a \"generous response\" to any request to extend the withdrawal process beyond 29 March.\n\nSpeaking at a Brexit event in Dublin, he said: \"With the practicalities around European elections, the establishment of a new European Commission... there is a natural extension date until the end of June perhaps.\"\n\nHowever, Irish PM Leo Varadkar said anyone expecting the EU's solidarity over the Irish border issue to crumble at the final hour was in for a \"nasty surprise\".\n\nEU leaders still believe this is not the time to budge.\n\nThey see the UK arguing, debating and negotiating with itself again - as it has done so often during the Brexit process - rather than engaging with Brussels.\n\nAs a result of all this, the new round of EU-UK negotiations are going nowhere fast.\n\n\"Window-dressing\" is how one senior EU figure described the talks to me, with each side simply repeating their red lines to the other.\n\nSo, the current favourite prediction in Brussels is that things will only be resolved in March.", "This Week - hosted by former Sunday Times editor and broadcaster Andrew Neil - began in 2003\n\nThe BBC's late-night political show This Week is to end, after presenter Andrew Neil decided to step down.\n\nThis Week - which airs on BBC One on Thursdays - will not be recommissioned after its current run finishes in July.\n\nThe programme began in 2003 and has been mostly hosted by Mr Neil. Regular panellists have included Labour's Diane Abbott and Michael Portillo.\n\n\"We couldn't imagine This Week without the inimitable Andrew Neil,\" said the BBC's Director of News Fran Unsworth.\n\nShe called Mr Neil \"one of Britain's best political interviewers\" and said he was \"bowing out of late-night presenting on the show, at the top of his game\".\n\nMs Unsworth added: \"We want to keep Andrew at the heart of the BBC's political coverage.\n\n\"He continues to present Politics Live on Thursdays and we look forward to developing future projects with him.\"\n\nThe programme's format sees the panel welcome political and celebrity guests to discuss the biggest news stories of the week.\n\nFormer Conservative MP and defence secretary Mr Portillo is a regular panellist on the show and appeared alongside Labour's shadow home secretary, Ms Abbott, until 2010. The pair were known for getting on well on-screen and were described as a \"perfect combination\" by Mr Neil.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mr and Mrs quiz with Diane Abbott and Michael Portillo\n\nThe light-hearted show also welcomes guests from outside the Westminster bubble - with past guests including the Cheeky Girls and Nile Rodgers - as well as occasional appearances from Mr Neil's dog, Molly.\n\nAfter it was announced that This Week would be ending, fans of the programme criticised the decision. Journalist and columnist for the Telegraph, Liam Halligan, called it a \"blindingly obvious mistake\", while Sky's political correspondent Kate McCann said it was a \"real shame\".\n\n\"BBC This Week is a brilliant show and somehow manages to get people with opposing views to talk normally to each other and tease issues out,\" she tweeted. \"Plus it was such good fun to be on as a guest and has one of the loveliest teams behind the scenes!\"\n\nThe BBC has not yet announced what will fill the late-night slot, but said it will be announced in due course.\n\nIt comes after the BBC also announced it would be shortening the News at Ten, finishing the national and regional bulletin 10 minutes earlier at 22:35, from 4 March.", "Two boys, aged 12 and 13, have been arrested after a six-year-old girl was hurt in a car crash.\n\nThe girl was a passenger in the car which hit a tree in Croftmeadow Court, Northampton, at 16:40 GMT on Thursday.\n\nThe boys were arrested on suspicion of theft of a motor vehicle, causing serious injury by dangerous driving and and failing to stop.\n\nNorthamptonshire Police said the girl was taken to Northampton General Hospital with minor injuries.\n\nA spokeswoman for East Midlands Ambulance Service said crews were called to reports of a \"road traffic collision\".\n\n\"We sent a medical first responder, a paramedic in an ambulance car, a crewed ambulance and the air ambulance. We transported one patient to Northampton General Hospital,\" she said.\n\nTyre tracks can be seen next to the tree where the crash is believed to have happened\n\nTyre tracks and the aftermath of a small fire can be seen next to a tree on the street where the crash is believed to have happened.\n\nA woman, who lives in the area, said: \"It's scary to think of two lads that young in a car doing something like that round here.\"\n\nAnother resident described it as a \"fairly quiet\" area.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The \"Spice-like substance\" was found on samples from the book\n\nA Harry Potter book sprayed with drugs was smuggled into one of the UK's most \"challenging\" prisons, where inmates are suspected to have smoked the pages.\n\nA copy of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire found in an HMP Nottingham cell tested positive for a psychoactive substance similar to Spice.\n\nThe jail is one of 10 on which the Prisons Minister has staked his career.\n\nRory Stewart vowed to resign if improvements failed, but he admitted Nottingham was \"causing concern\".\n\nHe pledged in August to step down if the number of assaults at the 10 prisons did not come down by this summer.\n\nMr Stewart said \"early indications\" from talking to staff were that violence was coming down with \"real progress\" in six or seven jails and he was now \"pretty confident\" he would keep his job.\n\nHowever, the minister admitted \"two or three\" of the 10 jails were proving difficult, with Nottingham and Wormwood Scrubs in west London the ones he was \"most worried about\".\n\nNottingham's governor said conditions were improving but the jail remained \"fundamentally unsafe\", the term used in last year's inspection report.\n\nNottingham Prison is just north of the city centre and holds about 1,060 inmates\n\nThe \"Spice-like substance\" found on samples from the book was detected by a new drug-testing machine, installed as part of a £1.4m investment to refurbish HMP Nottingham and bolster security.\n\nIt is thought the drugs had been sprayed on to the paper before it entered the prison.\n\nFour hundred pages were missing, which staff suspected had been torn into strips and smoked.\n\nPrison officer Adam Donegani said each strip was worth about £50.\n\n\"The prices are inflated within the prison service (compared with) street value, so that can be whatever they want to charge for it,\" he said.\n\nRory Stewart said he would quit as prisons minister if assaults at problem jails did not decrease\n\nIn January 2018, Peter Clarke, the chief inspector of prisons, triggered the \"urgent notification\" procedure at Nottingham after concluding it was \"dangerous, disrespectful and drug-ridden\".\n\n\"This prison will not become fit for purpose until it is made safe,\" he wrote.\n\nThe procedure compelled the Justice Secretary to draw up an action plan to bring about improvements, including reducing the population by 200 to 780.\n\nIn last year's inspection report, Mr Clarke said HMP Nottingham needed to do \"much more\" to tackle the problem of drugs which was \"inextricably linked to violence\".\n\nPhil Novis, who took over as governor in July, acknowledged it was taking longer than he would have liked.\n\nIn his first week a prisoner died, allegedly murdered by another inmate, and since then there have been three self-inflicted deaths.\n\n\"The prison is fundamentally still unsafe and that remains a challenge for us,\" Mr Novis said.\n\n\"Every day there's an assault on my colleagues and on other prisoners, that's regretful.\"\n\nHe added: \"It is getting safer, but it's coming from such a low threshold that it's going to take time to get to a place where I and everybody can feel safe wherever we go.\"\n\nA group of experienced prison staff have been brought in to coach and advise officers at Nottingham, where 59% of the workforce have less than two years' service.\n\nPrison officer Grace Hanselman, who used to work in a call centre, said the mentoring scheme had given her more confidence to deal with prisoners harming themselves.\n\n\"When you come into contact with somebody that is threatening to take their own life or attempting to take their own life that's probably the scariest, most daunting situation I've found myself in,\" she said.\n\n\"To have that experience there, to reassure me and the prisoner that we can help... was really beneficial.\"\n\nThe £10m scheme announced by Mr Stewart last year to improve security and conditions in jails is likely to be extended to other failing prisons, he has announced.\n\nMr Stewart said: \"There is still much to do, and I do not underestimate the scale of the challenge, but the first six months have given us a solid platform from which we can set a more positive direction for all our prisons.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on Twitter, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The brain function of very late risers and \"morning larks\" during the hours of the working day is different, according to a study.\n\nResearchers scanned the brains of night owls with a bedtime of 02:30 and a wake time of 10:15, along with early risers.\n\nThe tests - performed between 08:00 and 20:00 - found night owls had less connectivity in brain regions linked to maintaining consciousness.\n\nThey also had poorer attention, slower reactions and increased sleepiness.\n\nResearchers said it suggested that night owls were disadvantaged by the \"constraints\" of the typical working day.\n\nThey called for more research to understand the health implications of night owls performing on a work or school schedule to which they are not naturally suited.\n\nScientists took 38 people who were either night owls or morning larks (people who went to bed just before 23:00 and woke at 06:30) and investigated their brain function at rest using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans.\n\nThe volunteers then carried out a series of tasks at various times, from 08:00 to 20:00, and were asked to report on their levels of sleepiness.\n\nMorning larks were least sleepy and had their fastest reaction time in the early morning tests. They were also found to perform significantly better at this time than night owls.\n\nIn contrast, night owls were least sleepy and had their fastest reaction time at 20:00, although they did not do significantly better than the larks at this time.\n\nThe brain connectivity in the regions that predicted better performance and lower sleepiness was significantly higher in larks at all time points, suggesting connectivity in late risers is impaired throughout the whole working day, researchers said.\n\nThe lead researcher, Dr Elise Facer-Childs, of the University of Birmingham's Centre for Human Brain Health, said the findings \"could be partly driven by the fact that night owls tend to be compromised throughout their lives\".\n\nDr Facer-Childs said: \"Night owls during school have to get up earlier, then they go into work and they have to get up earlier, so they're constantly having to fight against their preferences and their innate rhythms.\"\n\nFor a night owl the typical 9-5 day might diminish productivity, researchers say\n\nShe said there was a \"critical need\" to better understand how adapting to school and work times to which people are not suited, may be affecting health and productivity.\n\nAbout 40-50% of the population identify as having a preference for later bedtimes and for getting up after 08:20, researchers said.\n\nDr Facer-Childs added: \"A typical day might last from 09:00 to 17:00, but for a night owl this could result in diminished performance during the morning, lower brain connectivity in regions linked to consciousness, and increased daytime sleepiness.\n\n\"If, as a society, we could be more flexible about how we manage time, we could go a long way towards maximising productivity and minimising health risks.\"\n\nDr Facer-Childs stressed that the differences in brain connectivity are not a type of damage and are probably reversible.\n\nThere are also some limitations to the study.\n\nThe tests did not look at brain function later in the day, and it is possible that other factors not picked up on in the study, like lifestyle choices, may have affected the results.\n\nDr Alex Nesbitt, consultant neurologist at King's College London, who was not involved in the research, said the study added to evidence that a person's brain performance is influenced not only by the time of the day but also their body clock.\n\n\"It is becoming increasingly clear that these factors are important when 9-to-5 routines are widely imposed on people,\" he added.\n\nThe authors of the study called for more research to look at whether other brain regions might be affected by being a night owl or morning lark.\n\nThe research, which also involved the University of Surrey, is published in the journal Sleep.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nChile will join Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay in making a joint bid to host the 2030 World Cup.\n\nThe tournament will mark 100 years since Uruguay hosted the inaugural World Cup in 1930, which they won for the first of their two titles.\n\nIt comes just days after a meeting in which a potential British and Irish bid for staging the tournament was discussed.\n\nWorld Cups from 2026 onwards will be contested by 48 teams.\n\nArgentina, Uruguay and Paraguay initially announced their plan for a joint bid in 2017, but Chile's president announced on Thursday his country would join it.\n\nThe Football Association said in August it was for England to host the 2030 tournament, and Spain, Morocco and Portugal could also make a joint bid.\n\n\"A few months ago I proposed to the presidents of Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay to incorporate Chile, and jointly, to apply for 2030,\" Sebastian Pinera said on Twitter .\n\n\"This proposal was accepted by the three countries.\"\n\nChile last hosted the World Cup in 1962 and Argentina won the trophy on home soil in 1978.\n\nThe tournament's most recent visit to South America came in 2014 in Brazil.\n\nSpain and Portugal are considering a joint intercontinental bid with Morocco to host the 2030 World Cup, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Monday.", "A team of researchers who have built an artificially-intelligent writer say they are withholding the technology as it might be used for \"malicious\" purposes.\n\nOpenAI, based in San Francisco, is a research institute backed by Silicon Valley luminaries including Elon Musk and Peter Thiel.\n\nIt shared some new research on using machine learning to create a system capable of producing natural language, but in doing so the team expressed concern the tool could be used to mass-produce convincing fake news.\n\nWhich, to put it another way, is of course also an admission that what its system puts out there is unreliable, made-up rubbish. Still, when it works well, the results are impressively realistic in tone - which is why I've shared a sample of it below.\n\nOpenAI said its system was able to produce coherent articles, on any subject, requiring only a brief prompt. The AI is \"unsupervised\", meaning it does not have to be retrained to talk about a different topic.\n\nIt generates text using data scraped from approximately 8m webpages. To \"feed\" the system, the team created a new, automated method of finding \"quality\" content on the internet.\n\nRather than scrape data from the web indiscriminately, which would have provided a lot of messy information, the system only looked at pages posted to link-sharing site Reddit. Their data only included links that had attracted a \"karma\" score of 3 or above, meaning at least three humans had deemed the content valuable, for whatever reason.\n\n\"This can be thought of as a heuristic indicator for whether other users found the link interesting, educational or just funny,\" the research paper said.\n\nThe AI generates the story word-by-word. The resulting text is often coherent, but rarely truthful - all quotes and attributions are fabricated. The sentences are based on information already published online, but the composition of that information is intended to be unique.\n\nSometimes the system spits out passages of text that do not make a lot of sense structurally, or contain laughable inaccuracies.\n\nIn one demo given to the BBC, the AI wrote that a protest march was organised by a man named \"Paddy Power\" - recognisable to many in the UK as being a chain of betting shops.\n\n\"We have observed various failure modes,\" the team observed. \"Such as repetitive text, world modelling failures (eg the model sometimes writes about fires happening under water), and unnatural topic switching.\"\n\nIn calling around for an independent view on OpenAI's work, it became clear that the institute is not altogether popular among many in this field. \"Hyperbolic,\" was how one independent expert described the announcement (and much of the work OpenAI does).\n\n\"They have a lot of money, and they produce a lot of parlour tricks,\" said Benjamin Recht, associate professor of computer science at UC Berkeley.\n\nAnother told me she felt OpenAI's publicity efforts had \"negative implications for academics\", and pointed out that the research paper published alongside OpenAI's announcement had not been peer-reviewed.\n\nBut Prof Recht did add: \"The idea that AI researchers should think about the consequences of what they are producing is incredibly important.\"\n\nOpenAI said it wanted its technology to prompt a debate about how such AI should be used and controlled.\n\n\"[We] think governments should consider expanding or commencing initiatives to more systematically monitor the societal impact and diffusion of AI technologies, and to measure the progression in the capabilities of such systems.\"\n\nBrandie Nonnecke, director of Berkeley's CITRIS Policy Lab, an institution that studies societal impacts of technology, said such misinformation was inevitable. She felt debate should focus more keenly on the platforms - such as Facebook - upon which it might be disseminated.\n\n\"It's not a matter of whether nefarious actors will utilise AI to create convincing fake news articles and deepfakes, they will,\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"Platforms must recognise their role in mitigating its reach and impact. The era of platforms claiming immunity from liability over the distribution of content is over. Platforms must engage in evaluations of how their systems will be manipulated and build in transparent and accountable mechanisms for identifying and mitigating the spread of maliciously fake content.\"\n\nEarlier this week, US President Donald Trump directed his federal agencies to develop a strategy to advance artificial intelligence. He is set to sign an executive order to launch the initiative on Monday.\n\nThe move came amid fears in the US that it is being outpaced by China and other countries when it comes to the technology.\n\nSo, how good is it? Here's a sample, provided by OpenAI, based on a prompt written by the BBC.\n\nThe first paragraph, in bold, is the text written by a human. The rest was generated by OpenAI's technology. The system works word-by-word, and each new addition is generated based on everything that came before it.\n\nWe have chosen to show this text as an image in order to prevent search engines from indexing the words and displaying it, out of context, as legitimate BBC News reporting.\n\nDo you have more information about this or any other technology story? You can reach Dave directly and securely through encrypted messaging app Signal on: +1 (628) 400-7370", "The US president has announced he will use emergency powers to pay for a border wall with Mexico.\n\nThe rarely-used move would enable Mr Trump to bypass Congress, which has refused to approve the money needed.\n\nSenior Democrats accused the president of a \"gross abuse of power\" and a \"lawless act\".\n\nSeveral Republicans also voiced concern at the plan.\n\nThis live stream has now ended.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why did May lose another Brexit vote?\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May has suffered another Commons defeat after MPs voted down her approach to Brexit talks.\n\nMPs voted by 303 to 258 - a majority of 45 - against a motion endorsing the government's negotiating strategy.\n\nThe defeat has no legal force and Downing Street said it would not change the PM's approach to talks with the EU.\n\nBut Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn urged Mrs May to \"admit her Brexit strategy has failed\" and to come forward with a plan Parliament would support.\n\nThe defeat came after the pro-Brexit European Research Group (ERG) of Conservative MPs announced it had taken a \"collective decision\" to abstain, because backing the motion would have amounted to an endorsement of efforts to rule out a no-deal Brexit.\n\nMrs May has consistently rejected calls to rule out a no-deal Brexit, but Tory Brexiteer rebels believed the wording of what was meant to be a neutral government motion opened the door to that.\n\nThe motion reiterated support for the approach to Brexit backed by MPs in votes last month, one of which ruled out a no-deal Brexit.\n\nPlease upgrade your browser to view this interactive How did my MP vote on 14 February? Enter a postcode, or the name or constituency of your MP\n\nThe voting figures showed it was not just hardline Brexiteers that failed to support the government - a number of Tory Remainers also declined to vote, as more than a fifth of the party in the Commons failed to back the government.\n\nFive Conservative MPs - Brexiteers Peter Bone, Sir Christopher Chope, Philip Hollobone, and Anne Marie Morris, and the pro-Remain Sarah Wollaston - even voted with Labour against the motion.\n\nDowning Street blamed Mr Corbyn for the defeat, saying he had \"yet again put partisan considerations ahead of the national interest\" by voting against the government's motion.\n\nA No 10 spokesman said the PM would continue to seek legally-binding changes to the controversial Irish backstop, as MPs had instructed her to do in a Commons vote on 29 January.\n\n\"While we didn't secure the support of the Commons this evening, the prime minister continues to believe, and the debate itself indicated, that far from objecting to securing changes to the backstop that will allow us to leave with a deal, there was a concern from some Conservative colleagues about taking no deal off the table at this stage,\" he added.\n\nPlasters lose their stick, revealing the hurt underneath. And the fragile patch that was covering the Tory truce has been well and truly torn.\n\nJust when Theresa May wanted to show the European Union that she could hold her party together to win, she lost.\n\nAnd at home the prime minister has been shown in no uncertain terms that she simply can't count on the factions in her party to come through for her.\n\nDowning Street had earlier warned that defeat could damage the prime minister's negotiating position, as she seeks to make changes to the controversial backstop \"insurance policy\" in her deal to avoid customs checks between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.\n\nERG deputy chairman Steve Baker told BBC News the group still supported efforts to get \"alternative arrangements\" to replace the controversial Irish backstop plan, describing Mrs May's defeat as a \"storm in a teacup\".\n\nJeremy Corbyn: 'This can't go on'\n\nBut business minister Richard Harrington said ERG members should join former UKIP leader Nigel Farage's new Brexit party, telling them: \"In my view you're not Conservatives.\"\n\nIn an interview with The House magazine, he urged ministers opposed to a hard Brexit not to \"give in\" to the ERG by resigning.\n\nHe also said he was \"disappointed\" that Mrs May had not made a statement to the Commons today, and given MPs an outline of a revised deal to vote on.\n\n\"We're now told it will be in another two weeks' time so, being very conscious of the damage that not ruling out a hard Brexit is having on business and industry, I'm concerned that it's going to drag on.\n\n\"What concerns me most is there is now talk that there won't be a final decision until the next EU Council on 21 March which, as far as business is concerned, is completely unacceptable.\"\n\nEU leaders still believe this is not the time to budge.\n\nThey see the UK arguing, debating and negotiating with itself again - as it has done so often during the Brexit process - rather than engaging with Brussels.\n\nAs a result of all this, the new round of EU-UK negotiations are going nowhere fast.\n\n\"Window-dressing\" is how one senior EU figure described the talks to me - with each side simply repeating their red lines to the other.\n\nSo, the current favourite prediction in Brussels is that things will only be resolved in March.\n\nCommenting on Mrs May's latest defeat, Jeremy Corbyn said: \"Two weeks ago, the prime minister told Parliament that her new approach could 'secure a substantial and sustainable majority' in Parliament.\n\n\"However, tonight's vote has proved that there is no majority for the prime minister's course of action.\n\n\"This can't go on. The government can't keep ignoring Parliament or ploughing on towards 29 March without a coherent plan.\"\n\nHe added that the PM needed to admit her strategy had failed \"and come back with a proposal that can truly command majority support in Parliament\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BBC Politics 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\nPro-EU Conservative MP Anna Soubry said: \"The prime minister has been dealt yet another body blow. This is really serious stuff.\n\n\"What is happening is a profound lack of leadership from the very top of government.\"\n\nShe said it was \"chilling\" that ministers were still keeping no-deal on the table when they had seen economic analysis showing that it would be \"absolutely disastrous\" for the country.\n\n\"What an absolute fiasco this is,\" she added, blaming a \"lack of leadership in both of our broken parties\".\n\nMrs May has promised MPs a final, decisive vote on her Brexit deal with the EU when she has secured the changes to it that she believes MPs want to see.\n\nShe believes she can secure a Commons majority for the deal if she can get legally binding changes to the backstop clause - something the EU has consistently ruled out.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA Labour amendment calling for the final, meaningful vote to be held before 27 February was earlier defeated by 16 votes.\n\nAn SNP amendment, backed by the Liberal Democrats and calling for Britain's departure from the EU on 29 March to be delayed by three months, was defeated by 93 votes to 315 after most Labour MPs abstained.\n\nAnna Soubry withdrew an amendment calling on the government to publish the latest cabinet briefing on the economic impact of a no-deal Brexit after ministers agreed to meet her and publish relevant documents. Ms Soubry said she would table it again on 27 February if ministers did not keep to their promise.\n\nBrexit Secretary Steve Barclay had pledged to call the EU's chief negotiator Michel Barnier after the vote to discuss the result. The two men are set to resume talks in Brussels early next week.", "Dick Churchill was described as \"tenacious, resilient and incredibly brave\"\n\nThe last surviving member of the real-life Great Escape team has died.\n\nFormer squadron leader Dick Churchill was one of 76 airmen whose escape from the Stalag Luft III camp in Nazi Germany in 1944 was immortalised in the Hollywood film starring Steve McQueen.\n\nMr Churchill, who lived in Crediton, Devon, died on Wednesday, aged 99.\n\nChief of the Air Staff Sir Stephen Hillier said: \"He was from a selfless generation who offered bravery and sacrifice to secure our freedom.\"\n\n\"On behalf of the RAF as a whole I would like to offer my condolences to the friends and family of Flt Lt Richard 'Dick' Churchill, one of the RAF personnel involved in the Great Escape.\n\n\"He will be sorely missed. Per Ardua [the RAF motto].\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The last survivor of 'The Great Escape' camp tells his story\n\nAir Vice-Marshal David Murray, of the RAF Benevolent Fund, said Mr Churchill \"embodied the spirit of the RAF - tenacious, resilient and incredibly brave in the face of adversity.\"\n\nMr Churchill's death followed that of Australian pilot Paul Royle, who died in Perth, aged 101 in 2015.\n\nThe survivors formed a sort of club and kept in contact through the Sagan Select Subway Society newsletter, of which Mr Royle and Mr Churchill were the last two recipients.\n\nMr Churchill was among 76 airmen who escaped through a 102m-long tunnel\n\nA spokesperson for the RAF Benevolent Fund said it is believed there are at least two remaining RAF veterans who were held at Stalag Luft III, which now stands in Poland.\n\nThey are named as Charles Clarke, who was not involved in the escape, and Jack Lyon, who was in the tunnel when the plot was uncovered.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A \"doppelganger\" of Friends actor David Schwimmer has denied a string of fraud and theft offences.\n\nAbdulah Husseini, 36, of Spencer Road, Slough, west London, appeared at Preston Crown Court via video link on Friday.\n\nHe giggled and put his hand over his mouth when Judge Beverley Lunt asked: \"Is this the Ross from Friends case?\"\n\nJoe Allman, prosecuting, replied: \"It is the one with the doppelganger, your honour.\"\n\nMr Husseini, from Tehran, pleaded not guilty to the theft of a wallet in Blackpool on 20 September last year.\n\nHe also denied five fraud offences by allegedly using or attempting to use a stolen Halifax bank card on 17 occasions in shops between 20 September and 5 November last year.\n\nAn appeal by Lancashire Police went viral, fuelled by David Schwimmer's own take (shown on the left)\n\nSocial media users first pointed out the likeness of the defendant to Schwimmer's character Ross Geller in the popular US sitcom when police in Blackpool posted an image of a man leaving a restaurant and carrying what appeared to be a carton of beer cans.\n\nSchwimmer later responded and posted a video on his Twitter account that showed him scurrying through a convenience store carrying a carton of beer before looking up furtively at a CCTV camera.\n\nA trial date for the Blackpool theft and fraud offences was set for 4 July.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nWatford reached the FA Cup quarter-finals for the second time in four seasons after a hard-fought win against battling Queens Park Rangers.\n\nEtienne Capoue's finish on the stroke of half-time, after Tom Cleverley's mis-hit, proved the difference.\n\nChampionship QPR went close through Massimo Luongo, while Watford keeper Heurelho Gomes marked his 38th birthday with a fine save to deny Nahki Wells.\n\nBut Watford progressed after scoring from their only shot on target.\n\nWith no replays in this season's fifth-round ties, QPR captain Toni Leistner spurned a great chance to force extra-time at Loftus Road when he missed from point-blank range after Darnell Furlong's cross in the closing stages.\n\nWatford go from strength to strength under Gracia\n\nThis was another determined performance from Javi Gracia's Watford, who had to dig deep on their way to another clean sheet.\n\nThe Premier League club have not conceded a goal in three games in this season's competition but they lived dangerously, particularly in the first half, when QPR carved out several good chances.\n\nAt the other end of the pitch, chances were few and far between.\n\nDaryl Janmaat prodded a first-time attempt over the bar and it looked like Watford would go in at the interval without managing a shot on target when Capoue struck.\n\nIt came after Cleverley mis-hit a cross, following a short corner, into the path of the French midfielder, who produced a calm first-time finish for his third goal of the campaign.\n\nWith no Video Assistant Referee system in operation, Andre Gray wrongly had a goal ruled out for offside before Leistner's incredible 87th-minute miss.\n\nEighth in the Premier League table, they now have six clean sheets in the last eight league and cup games - and have Wembley in their sights in the FA Cup.\n\nGerman defender Leistner will have nightmares about his late miss.\n\nSliding in at the back post, he somehow fired wide when it looked easier to score after Furlong fizzed the ball across the six-yard area.\n\nSteve McClaren's side are left to focus on the league, where they have dropped from eighth in the table to 18th since the start of 2019 after five successive second-tier defeats.\n\nAt least there were some positives for the former England manager from his side's latest setback.\n\nThey impressed in spells against top-flight opposition.\n\nLuongo thought he had scored after letting fly from 20 yards following Gomes' clearance from a corner before Watford's Brazilian goalkeeper somehow kept out Wells, on loan from Burnley, after Luke Freeman's ball over the top of the visitors' defence.\n\nWells wasted another chance after the interval which had McClaren waving his arms in the air in frustration.\n\nIt was nothing compared to the QPR manager's reaction when Leistner fired wide in front of an open goal near the end.\n\n'Our fans are enjoying this season' - what they said\n\nQueens Park Rangers manager Steve McClaren: \"We're not far way. We just need the rub of the green.\n\n\"We have to keep working hard and eventually our luck will turn.\n\n\"Five games ago we were talking about the play-offs. We need to get players back from injury and finish the season strong.\"\n\nWatford boss Javi Gracia: \"We knew Premier League teams have been knocked out against teams from other leagues so we knew this would be a demanding game.\n\n\"Our fans are enjoying the season not only with the FA Cup but with the league as well.\n\n\"They can see the team is giving everything and the results are coming.\"\n• None QPR have lost six of their last eight games in all competitions after a run of six games unbeaten directly before that.\n• None Watford have kept five clean sheets in their last six games in all competitions, as many shut-outs as they managed in their previous 24.\n• None The Hornets have won eight of their last nine FA Cup ties against sides from a lower division, losing only against Millwall in the fourth round in 2016-17.\n• None Four of Etienne Capoue's last five goals for Watford have come in cup competitions (2 FA Cup, 2 League Cup, 1 Premier League).\n\nQPR are back in action on Tuesday when they host West Brom in the Championship (19:45 GMT), while Watford travel to Cardiff City in the Premier League next Friday (19:45).\n• None Troy Deeney (Watford) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Offside, Watford. Daryl Janmaat tries a through ball, but Will Hughes is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Toni Leistner (Queens Park Rangers) right footed shot from the left side of the six yard box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Darnell Furlong following a set piece situation.\n• None Attempt missed. Darnell Furlong (Queens Park Rangers) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right misses to the left following a set piece situation.\n• None Abdoulaye Doucouré (Watford) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt blocked. Troy Deeney (Watford) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Daryl Janmaat.\n• None Attempt missed. Christian Kabasele (Watford) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by José Holebas with a cross following a set piece situation.\n• None Offside, Queens Park Rangers. Jordan Cousins tries a through ball, but Eberechi Eze is caught offside. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Ms Begum was 15 and living in Bethnal Green, London, when she left the UK in 2015\n\nThe family of Shamima Begum - the teenager who went to Syria to join the Islamic State group - has called on the UK to bring her back \"urgently\".\n\nThey said the 19-year-old's unborn baby is \"a total innocent\" and had the right to grow up in the \"peace and security\" of the UK.\n\nMs Begum, from east London, told the Times she feared her child would be taken from her if she returned.\n\nThe justice secretary said the UK would evaluate each case individually.\n\nMs Begum was one of three schoolgirls from Bethnal Green, east London, who left the UK for Syria in 2015.\n\nThe teenager was found last week in a Syrian refugee camp by a reporter from the Times and on Wednesday told how she had escaped from Baghuz - IS's last stronghold in eastern Syria.\n\nIn the second instalment of her interview with the Times on Saturday, Ms Begum asked: \"What do you think will happen to my child?\n\n\"Because I don't want it to be taken away from me, or at least if it is, to be given to my family.\"\n\nShe added she had been taken to hospital because of contractions after arriving at the camp, which meant she could give birth \"any day\".\n\nMs Begum told the newspaper she knew returning to the UK \"wouldn't be a quiet thing\" and she understood she faced possible terrorism charges.\n\nHowever, in an apparent reference to the time members of her family appeared before MPs on the Home Affairs Select Committee in March 2015, she said they were told: \"I won't be charged with terrorism or anything\".\n\nMs Begum had previously told the paper she had lost two children in Syria.\n\nHer daughter died at the age of one year and nine months and was buried in Baghuz a month ago. Her second child died three months ago at eight months old of an illness compounded by malnutrition, she said.\n\nShe said she took him to a hospital but there were no drugs and not enough staff.\n\nIn a statement issued on Friday, her family said they had previously \"lost all hope\" of seeing Ms Begum again, saying she had risked \"imprisonment and death\" in escaping from IS territory.\n\nThey said they were \"utterly shocked\" by her lack of regret about joining IS, but that they were the \"words of a girl who was groomed at the age of 15\" and is surrounded by IS sympathisers.\n\nThe family said they were concerned that Ms Begum's mental health had been affected by her four years in Syria, during which she married an IS fighter and had two children who died.\n\n\"Now we are faced with the situation of knowing that Shamima's young children have died - children we will never come to know as a family. This is the hardest of news to bear,\" the family said.\n\n\"The welfare of Shamima's unborn child is of paramount concern to our family, and we will do everything within our power to protect that baby who is entirely blameless in these events.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. We asked people in Bethnal Green, where Shamima Begum previously went to school, whether the teenager should be allowed back to the UK\n\nThey said they would welcome an investigation into her actions in Syria \"under the principles of British justice\".\n\nJustice Secretary David Gauke said there were national security risks to allowing people such as Ms Begum to return to Britain but did not rule it out.\n\nHe told the BBC the UK needed to evaluate each case on \"a case by case basis\".\n\nHome Secretary Sajid Javid has said she could face charges if she returns.\n\nHe told the Times this week there were a range of measures to stop IS supporters who posed a serious threat from returning to the UK, such as depriving them of British citizenship or excluding them from the country.\n\nTasnime Akunjee, a lawyer for Ms Begum's family, said he did not believe Mr Javid had \"the legal grounds or tools to stop her coming back\".\n\nChief of the intelligence service MI6, Alex Younger, told the Munich Security Conference on Friday that British citizens \"have a right to come to the UK\".\n\nMs Begum, along with Kadiza Sultana, 16, and Amira Abase, 15, from Bethnal Green Academy in east London, entered Syria via Turkey in February 2015.\n\nShe said Kadiza Sultana had died after a house was bombed, but the fate of her other friend is still unknown.\n\nMs Begum escaped from Baghuz two weeks ago, but her husband - a Dutch convert to Islam - surrendered to a group of Syrian fighters as they left.\n\nShe told the Times that she feared she may never see or be allowed to live with her husband again, adding she loved 26-year-old Yago Riedijk \"very much\".\n\nKadiza Sultana, Amira Abase and Shamima Begum (l-r) in photos issued by police\n\nFighting against IS forces has been continuing in north-eastern Syria, where the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) say they have captured dozens of foreign fighters in recent weeks.\n\nIS has lost control of most of the territory it held in Syria and Iraq and US president Donald Trump said on Friday he expected to announced its defeat this weekend.", "John Stalker was the former deputy-chief constable of Greater Manchester Police\n\nA senior British police officer who led a controversial investigation into an alleged shoot-to-kill policy by the Royal Ulster Constabulary has died.\n\nJohn Stalker, the former deputy chief constable of Greater Manchester Police, died aged 79, a family statement said.\n\nHe was replaced as officer in charge of the RUC investigation after allegations he was associating with criminals in Manchester in 1986.\n\nHe was later exonerated and became a journalist in his retirement.\n\nMr Stalker joined Manchester City Police in 1956 and first made his mark as a young detective during the investigation into the Moors murders in the 1960s. He developed the photographs and listened to the tapes made by Ian Brady and Myra Hindley as 10-year-old Lesley Ann Downey was sexually tortured and murdered.\n\nIn 1978 his appointment aged 38 as detective chief superintendent with Warwickshire Police made him the youngest to hold that rank in the country.\n\nPaying tribute, his eldest daughter Colette Cartwright said: \"He is fondly remembered by many as going above and beyond the call of duty and was committed to making a difference for those most in need.\"\n\nMr Stalker rose to national prominence when he was taken off the investigation into alleged extra-judicial killings of suspected paramilitaries that had taken place in north Armagh in Northern Ireland in 1982, after a critical interim report into the circumstances surrounding the shootings.\n\nAmong the complaints were claims he attended social events attended by members of the so-called \"Quality Street gang\" - a group of Manchester's leading villains.\n\nThere were also behind-the-scenes fears that a Masonic plot within the police against Mr Stalker could be revealed during one of the most controversial episodes of the Troubles, according to newly declassified files that were released in 2016.\n\nHe was taken off the case at the moment he believed he was about to obtain an MI5 tape of one of the shootings.\n\nFormer Manchester Central MP Tony Lloyd, who raised Mr Stalker's case in Parliament in the 1980s, said he was \"a man of great integrity who was treated unjustly\".\n\nMr Lloyd, who now represents Rochdale, added: \"He was an excellent police officer.\"\n\nMr Stalker is survived by his two daughters, six grandchildren and two great-grandchildren", "A pilot accused of killing 11 men in the Shoreham air crash has rejected claims he flew too close to buildings at previous displays.\n\nDuring cross examination at the Old Bailey, Andrew Hill, 54, defended his performances at three air shows.\n\nHe is accused of \"serious negligence\" when flying the Hawker Hunter jet which crashed on 22 August 2015.\n\nThe court has heard he has no memory of the crash, and denies 11 counts of manslaughter by gross negligence.\n\nMr Hill, from Sandon in Hertfordshire, denied claims he had flown too close to buildings in a display at Duxford and the 2014 Shoreham Airshow.\n\nProsecutor Tom Kark QC claimed he flew over the Imperial War Museum at Duxford and then in 2014 too close to Lancing College at Shoreham.\n\nAfter showing footage of the 2014 flight, he said: \"You were about to fly over Lancing College.\"\n\nMr Hill said he did not agree.\n\nThe court heard in an earlier statement that Mr Hill had said: \"I'm surprised by how far away from Lancing College I was.\"\n\nMr Hill also denied carrying out \"a dangerous manoeuvre\" at Southport in 2014.\n\nMr Kark said: \"This is 23 September 2014, three weeks after the Duxford practice, two and a half weeks after Shoreham, seven days after the Duxford show.\n\n\"We have looked at the various criticisms. I think it's fair to say you don't accept any of them - overflying the Imperial War Museum, overflying Lancing College.\"\n\nReferring to the museum claim, Mr Hill said: \"I can't confirm or deny it from the evidence I have seen.\"\n\nAndrew Hill's Hawker Hunter jet was too low when he performed a loop, the court has been told\n\nMr Kark reminded jurors the court had previously heard from test pilot Dave Southwood, a prosecution expert witness, that the Hawker Hunter should have a minimum \"jet pipe temperature\" - the temperature in the exhaust pipe - of at least 580C before take off, and checking it was required as part of the permit to fly.\n\nHe said Mr Hill had taken off for the Duxford and Shoreham flights for 2014 at around 550C.\n\nMr Kark told the court Mr Southwood had said if the temperature did not reach the minimum on take off it \"can indicate a problem, that the engine is not getting full power... that means you can run out of runway and crash\".\n\nMr Hill said he had not been taught that element of aircraft maintenance and the requirement was not in his edition of the pilot's notes, so he did not check the minimum temperature on take off, only the maximum.\n\nMr Kark told the court the requirement was also printed on flight reference cards Mr Hill carried in his pocket during the Shoreham air show in 2015.\n\nMr Hill insisted he had never seen this rule and said: \"I for whatever reason had not picked this up.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ariana Grande's latest album Thank U, Next has broken a UK chart record after debuting at number one.\n\nIt had the most streams of an album by a female artist in a week - breaking a record she set herself with 2018's Sweetener.\n\nAriana is also occupying both the top and second spots on the official singles chart.\n\nShe's the first female artist in UK singles chart history to replace herself at number one.\n\nBreak Up With Your Girlfriend, I'm Bored is the new number one, with 7 Rings dropping to two after holding the top spot for the last three weeks.\n\nAriana also becomes only the second female artist to fill the top two spots at the same time.\n\nThe last was Madonna, who was at number one and two simultaneously in August 1985 with Into The Groove and Holiday.\n\nThank U, Next's pole position is no surprise. According to the Official Charts Company, it had been outselling the rest of the top five albums combined.\n\nYet the success of Ariana's latest is particularly remarkable given how short the gap has been between her previous album and this one.\n\nHer last record, Sweetener, was released just six months ago, in August 2018.\n\nThe intervening months have been turbulent for the 25-year-old.\n\nHer ex-boyfriend Mac Miller died after an accidental overdose. Shortly after, she and her former fiance Pete Davidson broke off their engagement.\n\nAriana took some time out, stopped doing promo for the album and asked her team for a break.\n\n\"I said, 'I'm not going anywhere, I'm not doing anything. Please give me some time,\" she recalled last week in an interview with Zach Sang, \"and they were so respectful of that and wonderfully supportive\".\n\nBut she was back in the studio soon enough, and in November released the hugely popular Thank U, Next - a song which referenced not just her split from Davidson, but several of her exes, who she sang she was \"so thankful\" for.\n\nHowever, considering she was only three months into the Sweetener album campaign with several songs already on the radio, throwing a brand new one into the mix was highly unusual.\n\nAnother new song, Imagine, followed a month later, before the monster hit that was 7 Rings was unleashed in January.\n\nThese weren't necessarily intended to form a whole new record, but, Ariana explained: \"I was just like, wow, I love all of these so much, this is like an album.\"\n\nThe creative team who had worked on Sweetener were accordingly called back to work on the new project.\n\n\"I called the same people back, a month-and-a-half later [after completing Sweetener], and they were like, 'why are we here?',\" Ariana explained to Sang.\n\n\"And I was like, 'I wanna play you an album'.\"\n\nThe rest of Thank U, Next was recorded in just two weeks.\n\n\"The first week we already had nine songs or so,\" songwriter Victoria Monét told Rolling Stone.\n\nMac Miller and Pete Davidson are both referenced in the lyrics of Thank U, Next\n\n\"Then we spent the next week cleaning them up, adding more things, doing production, cutting a few more songs.\"\n\nThe album was released last Friday, not long after it was completed, and went straight to the top of the download and streaming charts around the world.\n\nAll the conventional rules were being broken - her team were nonchalant about crowding the market with two album releases in quick succession, and Ariana didn't do a single press or broadcast interview to promote the new record aside from her YouTube chat with Sang.\n\nAnd yet, by the end of its first sales week, Billboard reported Thank U, Next was projected to sell 330,000 in the US, having been revised up from its original estimates.\n\nThis is a full 100,000 more than Sweetener managed in its first week.\n\nRather than becoming a victim of audience fatigue or radio burnout, something which often plagues over-exposed pop stars, Ariana seemed to have actively become more popular in the short time that passed between albums.\n\nThe last singer of equivalent profile to churn out albums at this rate was Rihanna.\n\nShe released one album a year for four years while she was enjoying her most popular era between 2009 and 2012.\n\nAriana recorded a BBC One special with Davina McCall last year in one of her few UK interviews\n\nSome have argued the increased success of Thank U, Next in comparison with Sweetener is down to a subtle change in direction from Ariana, who has a songwriting credit on every song on the new album.\n\nWhile there's no drastic adjustment to the music itself, as the catchy R&B-tinged pop hooks have broadly remained the same, there appears to be a difference in the lyrics.\n\nMany have noticed that the lyrics are far more specific and personal to Ariana than any she has previously performed.\n\n\"It's the most Taylor Swift album she's ever released,\" suggested Perez Hilton.\n\nHe continued: \"She has done for the first time what Taylor Swift has always done, which is turn her life into really personal songs which chronicle certain periods of their lives.\"\n\nRather than the slightly more vague or generic lyrics of her previous hits (no shade), these were lines nobody else could sing.\n\n\"The singles leading up to her new album aggressively fed the gossip machine,\" wrote Jon Caramanica in The New York Times.\n\n\"[They] ensured that just as Ariana's music was reaching its peak popularity, she was also the subject of continuous meta-musical conversation.\"\n\nSome have likened Ariana's more personal recent lyrics to those of Taylor Swift\n\nSome of her fans are so keen on the newly-released songs, they've started a campaign to boycott 7 Rings - which Ariana herself has acknowledged.\n\nBut it's not because they don't like the song or have turned against her - but because fans are mobilising behind Break Up With Your Girlfriend, I'm Bored, hoping its chart success could match its huge popularity on YouTube.\n\nBreak Up With Your Girlfriend is the only one of the new songs that came with its own music video, effectively making it the follow-up single to 7 Rings - not that declaring something an official single matters much any more in the age of streaming.\n\nEven a public spat with the Grammy Awards on the weekend of the album's release hasn't dented her popularity.\n\nAriana had been due to perform at the biggest night in the music calendar last Sunday, but she and organisers reportedly fell out over which songs she would sing.\n\nThen, once an agreement had almost been reached, executive producer Ken Ehrlich claimed she had struggled to get a performance together in time for the ceremony.\n\nAriana refuted that, writing on Twitter: \"I can pull together a performance overnight and you know that, Ken. It was when my creativity and self expression was stifled by you, that I decided not to attend.\"\n\nMany felt it was the ceremony's loss.\n\n\"The Grammys need Ariana Grande more than she needs them,\" pointed out Courtney E Smith in Refinery 29.\n\nAnd it didn't stop Ariana from taking home (or rather, getting delivered) her first ever Grammy - best pop vocal album for Sweetener.\n\nIt was a nice, er, sweetener, for the album to receive before the singer embarks on a world tour in support of it later this year.\n\nConsidering she now has two albums' worth of new material, she's probably struggling with the set list.\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.", "Theresa May has been defeated again in a Commons vote on Brexit as MPs voted by 303 to 258 against a motion supporting the government's approach to negotiations with the EU.\n\nTo find out how your MP voted use the look-up below.\n\nPlease upgrade your browser to view this interactive How did my MP vote on 14 February? Enter a postcode, or the name or constituency of your MP\n\nClick here if you cannot see the look-up. Data from Commons Votes Services.\n\nMPs were asked to endorse the government's approach but instead rejected it by a majority of 45.\n\nTwo other questions were voted on:\n\nA Labour amendment to give MPs a vote on the withdrawal agreement by 27 February, or, require the government to allow MPs to vote on - and amend - its planned next steps. This was defeated by 16 votes.\n\nAnd the Scottish National Party amendment that the government request a postponement of the Brexit date by at least three months. This was also defeated.\n\nConservative MP Anna Soubry withdrew her amendment to ask the government to publish the most recent official briefings on the implications for business of a no-deal Brexit. This came after Brexit Minister Chris Heaton-Harris promised to meet with Ms Soubry and said the government would publish some of the information.\n\nEnter the word or phrase you are looking for\n\nHow did your MP vote on previous Brexit debates?", "This is not about terminator robots but \"conventional weapons systems with autonomy\"\n\nA group of scientists has called for a ban on the development of weapons controlled by artificial intelligence (AI).\n\nIt says that autonomous weapons may malfunction in unpredictable ways and kill innocent people.\n\nEthics experts also argue that it is a moral step too far for AI systems to kill without any human intervention.\n\nThe comments were made at the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Washington DC.\n\nHuman Rights Watch (HRW) is one of the 89 non-governmental organisations from 50 countries that have formed the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots, to press for an international treaty.\n\nAmong those leading efforts for the worldwide ban is HRW's Mary Wareham.\n\n\"We are not talking about walking, talking terminator robots that are about to take over the world; what we are concerned about is much more imminent: conventional weapons systems with autonomy,\" she told BBC News.\n\n\"They are beginning to creep in. Drones are the obvious example, but there are also military aircraft that take off, fly and land on their own; robotic sentries that can identify movement. These are precursors to autonomous weapons.\"\n\nHis company takes military contracts, but it has denounced AI systems for warfare and stated that it would not develop them.\n\n\"When they fail, they fail in unpredictable ways,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"As advanced as we are, the state of AI is really limited by image recognition. It is good but does not have the detail or context to be judge, jury and executioner on a battlefield.\n\n\"An autonomous system cannot make a decision to kill or not to kill in a vacuum. The de-facto decision has been made thousands of miles away by developers, programmers and scientists who have no conception of the situation the weapon is deployed in.\"\n\nAccording to Peter Asaro, of the New School in New York, such a scenario raises issues of legal liability if the system makes an unlawful killing.\n\n\"The delegation of authority to kill to a machine is not justified and a violation of human rights because machines are not moral agents and so cannot be responsible for making decisions of life and death.\n\n\"So it may well be that the people who made the autonomous weapon are responsible.\"", "Amazon has said it will not build a new headquarters in New York, citing fierce opposition from state and local politicians.\n\nThe dramatic turnabout comes just months after the firm named New York City one of two sites selected for major expansion over the next decades.\n\nCity and state leaders had agreed to provide about $3bn (£2.3bn) in incentives to secure that investment.\n\nThose subsidies had prompted fierce backlash in some quarters.\n\nAmazon said its plans to build a new headquarters required \"positive, collaborative relationships with state and local elected officials who will be supportive over the long term\".\n\nIt said: \"A number of state and local politicians have made it clear that they oppose our presence and will not work with us to build the type of relationships that are required to go forward with the project we and many others envisioned.\n\n\"We are disappointed to have reached this conclusion.\"\n\nIn November, Amazon announced plans to invest about $2.5bn and add more than 25,000 \"high-paying\" jobs at campuses in New York and near Washington DC over the next two decades.\n\nThe news capped a 14-month search for a new site that saw cities and towns across North America competing to woo the e-commerce giant.\n\nLong Island City, where Amazon was planning expansion, is one of the fastest growing areas in New York\n\nIn New York, Governor Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill DeBlasio championed the project, which Amazon said would generate more than $10bn in new tax revenue in New York.\n\nPolls had found that a majority of New Yorkers also supported Amazon's plan.\n\nHowever, it drew opposition from unions, members of the City Council and others, including newly elected Rep Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, angry over the billions in incentives promised to one of the world's most valuable companies.\n\nThe risk of rising rents, which have spurred tensions in Amazon's hometown of Seattle, were also a concern.\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 Jimmy Van Bramer This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"When our community fights together, anything is possible, even when we're up against the biggest corporation in the world,\" Council Member Jimmy Van Bramer said.\n\n\"Defeating an unprecedented act of corporate welfare is a triumph that should change the way we do economic development deals in our city and state forever.\"\n\nAmazon supporters said the critics were short-sighted. They said they were worried about the long-term economic consequences as populist messages appear to gain traction.\n\n\"The New York Senate has done tremendous damage,\" Gov Cuomo said. \"They should be held accountable for this lost economic opportunity.\"\n\nAmazon currently employs more than 5,000 people across New York City. It said it expected its staff numbers in the region to continue to grow.\n\nThe firm said it would not look for an alternative headquarters site, but would move forward as planned at the site near the Pentagon in Northern Virginia.\n\nIt will also distribute its growth across its offices in the US and Canada.\n\nAmazon is also due to receive incentives for the new campus in Virginia, but that package, which is less generous than the one promised in New York, has been less controversial.\n\nFrank Raffaele owns Coffeed, a small chain of coffee shops that started in Long Island City, the neighbourhood where Amazon was expected to expand.\n\nHe said he was disappointed the project had been dropped over \"political posturing\".\n\n\"This was transformative for New York and the fact that it's not going to happen anymore is extremely sad,\" he said. \"This was our chance to shine.\"\n\nAmazon may have expected its search for \"HQ2\" to go smoothly.\n\nAfter all, the firm has won billions in incentives from cities and states, and plenty of good PR, over the last decades by promising jobs at its warehouses. Now it was offering a headquarters.\n\nBut the subsidies that local officials have lavished on corporations like Amazon in recent years have tested the public's patience.\n\nAnd opponents especially questioned the need to use such incentives to spur expansion in Long Island City - one of the fastest-growing areas of one of the country's most successful cities.\n\nPolls showed support among the public, but Amazon, which prides itself on being a nimble business despite its size, didn't become a giant by embracing battles with the potential to tarnish its consumer-focused brand.\n\nAll the more reason to back away.", "Anthony Payne, 80, was described as a \"decent, ordinary bloke\" by his friend\n\nA friend of one of three men in their 80s found dead in Exeter has described how he found his body - and an antique pistol next to him.\n\nKeith Baker, 68, who found Anthony Payne dead at the 80-year-old's Bonhay Road home on Monday, said he found the gun on the bed nearby.\n\nTwins Dick and Roger Carter, 84, were found dead in Cowick Lane the next day.\n\nPolice previously said a gun was not used. A 27-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion on murder.\n\nDetectives have until 22:00 GMT to question him.\n\nA forensic tent remains outside the property where Anthony Payne was found dead on Monday\n\nMr Baker said Anthony Payne, known as Tony, had been living with him since September and they had known each other for years.\n\nHe said he had not seen his friend since Saturday, and went to the house in Bonhay Road, where Mr Payne had lived previously, to see if he was there feeding his cats.\n\nMr Baker told the BBC he found Mr Payne on his bedroom floor between his bed and the wall.\n\n\"I tried to feel a pulse but I couldn't get anywhere near his neck, that's how bad he was jammed in there,\" he said.\n\nMr Baker said there was an antique pistol on the bed but he thought it was too old to have been fired.\n\n\"I could see there was something seriously wrong so I called an ambulance,\" he added.\n\nMr Payne had worked on a farm after leaving school, before doing National Service in the Army, and later did building work, according to Mr Baker.\n\nOutside of work Mr Payne was a big Exeter City fan who enjoyed maintaining his allotment and looking after his cats, particularly one called Boxer, who was the \"apple of his eye\", Mr Baker said.\n\nHe added: \"He was a decent, ordinary 80-year-old bloke and I say it with affection but he was a bit of a curmudgeon.\"\n\nKeith Baker said he had known Anthony Payne for years\n\nA friend of one of the twin brothers who were murdered said he \"wouldn't have done anything to harm anybody\".\n\nMartyn Liddon, who runs Exeter-based charity Men in Sheds, said he became friends with Dick Carter when talking to him on the bus.\n\nHe said the brothers were both recluses and he could not understand what had happened.\n\n\"When I heard about it I had tears in my eyes,\" he added.\n\n\"I was totally gutted because they wouldn't have done anything to harm anybody.\"\n\nThe crime scenes are being guarded by police as tributes are left outside\n\nPolice were first called to Bonhay Road at 15:00 on Monday where Mr Payne's body was found.\n\nOfficers then found the Carter brothers dead about 1.5 miles (2.4km) away at 13:00 on Tuesday.\n\nThe levels of violence involved in the deaths led detectives to link the deaths.\n\nOn Wednesday, Det Ch Insp Roy Linden said \"significant police resources\" had been committed to the investigation and officers were managing more than 155 \"priority lines of inquiry\" and had seized nearly 300 exhibits.\n\nHe said there was \"no clear motive\" and \"no clear relationship\" between the parties involved.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A forensic tent remains outside the property where Anthony Payne was found dead on Monday\n\nA man has been charged with the murders of three elderly men found dead in Exeter.\n\nAlexander Lewis-Ranwell, 27, from Croyde, Braunton, is charged with the murders of Anthony Payne, 80, and 84-year-old twin brothers, Richard and Roger Carter.\n\nHe has also been charged with two offences of causing grievous bodily harm with intent.\n\nMr Lewis-Ranwell will appear at Exeter Magistrates' Court on Saturday.\n\nThe body of Anthony Payne - known as Tony - was found at his house in Bonhay Road on Monday\n\nMr Payne was found dead at his Bonhay Road house on Monday.\n\nThe Carter brothers were found dead in Cowick Lane about 1.5 miles (2.4km) away the following day.\n\nMr Lewis-Ranwell was first arrested that evening. He remains in custody.\n\nA friend of Mr Payne - who was known as Tony - earlier described him as a \"decent, ordinary 80-year-old bloke\".\n\nKeith Baker, 68, said Mr Payne had worked on a farm after leaving school, before doing National Service in the Army, and later building work.\n\nHe said his friend was an Exeter City fan who enjoyed maintaining his allotment and looking after his pet cats.\n\nThe crime scenes are being guarded by police as tributes are left outside\n\nA friend of one of the twin brothers who were murdered said he \"wouldn't have done anything to harm anybody\".\n\nMartyn Liddon, who runs Exeter-based charity Men in Sheds, said he became friends with Dick Carter when talking to him on the bus.\n\nSupt Matt Lawler, of Devon and Cornwall Police, thanked local communities for their messages of support, adding: \"All of our thoughts remain with the family and friends of the victims.\"\n\nHe said officers from the force would be speaking to residents and conducting investigative work at the two addresses in the city over the coming days.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Lord Nazir Ahmed denies all the allegations against him\n\nA member of the House of Lords has been accused of exploiting his position to pursue sex with vulnerable women who asked him for help, Newsnight reveals.\n\nOne woman said Lord Nazir Ahmed of Rotherham \"took advantage\" and began a sexual relationship with her after she approached him for assistance.\n\nHer case has raised questions about the adequacy of the House of Lords Code of Conduct.\n\nTahira Zaman, 43, approached Lord Ahmed in February 2017 through a mutual friend, hoping he would help get the police to investigate a Muslim faith healer who she felt was a danger to women.\n\nMs Zaman told BBC Newsnight that Lord Ahmed said he wrote a letter to the Metropolitan Police Commander Cressida Dick about her concerns. She then alleges that he repeatedly asked her for dinner.\n\nShe says she finally agreed and weeks after the dinner, she contacted him about her case and he invited her to his east London home.\n\n\"He was saying I'm beautiful,\" she told Newsnight.\n\nThe pair went on to have sex on numerous occasions.\n\nTahira Zaman complained about Lord Ahmed's behaviour to the Lords' Commissioner for Standards\n\nShe accepts the relationship was consensual but said: \"I was looking for help and he took advantage of me. He abused his power.\"\n\nThe relationship ended after two months when Lord Ahmed told her he would not leave his wife, she said.\n\n\"I genuinely did believe that he had feelings for me, I'm just so stupid… and I believed that he was going to help me,\" she said.\n\nIn her interview with Newsnight, Ms Zaman said she feels exploited by Lord Ahmed because she was suffering from anxiety and depression.\n\nIn a second case, a woman who wishes to remain anonymous told Newsnight she had also asked Lord Ahmed for help and claims he suggested she should spend the night at his London home. She interpreted this as a proposition for sex, which she refused.\n\nIn January of last year, Ms Zaman complained about Lord Ahmed's behaviour to the Lords' Commissioner for Standards, Lucy Scott-Moncrieff.\n\n\"Lord Ahmed used my trust to repeatedly have intercourse with me,\" she told the commissioner. \"I feel I have been preyed upon due to my vulnerability and used by Lord Ahmed.\"\n\nBut after reviewing her complaint twice, the commissioner said she was unable to investigate.\n\nMs Scott-Moncrieff concluded the code could not have been broken because when Lord Ahmed offered to help her and write to the police, it was not part of his parliamentary work.\n\nShe wrote to Ms Zaman: \"The behaviour you describe in your email could amount to a breach of personal honour. However, the code only applies in relation to a peer's parliamentary work, and, from your email, it looks as if your initial contact with him was not to do with his parliamentary work.\"\n\nNewsnight showed the full correspondence between Ms Zaman and the Lords' Commissioner for Standards to Lord Carlile - a barrister and former deputy high court judge. He said the rules should be clarified.\n\n\"If someone comes to you for help, particularly if they're vulnerable…and you form a sexual relationship, actually that's disgraceful,\" he said.\n\nHe added: \"If it is not clear to the commissioner, who is a very experienced lawyer, then I think the rules need to be clarified and in particular the guide to the code of conduct needs to be clarified.\"\n\n\"She went to Lord Ahmed because she believed he was in a position to do something influential for her\", he added. \"So it's absolutely clear to me that what he was doing was in his role as a member of the House of Lords.\"\n\nLord Carlile said a sexual relationship between Lord Ahmed and Ms Zaman could breach two clauses in the code of conduct: one covering conflicts of interest and another which stipulates that Lords must behave on \"their personal honour\".\n\nBut in a statement to Newsnight, Ms Scott-Moncrieff, said: \"Though credible and substantial, the complaint provided insufficient evidence that contact with the member was in relation to his parliamentary duties... To conclude otherwise, as Lord Carlile has done, is to misunderstand the code.\"\n\nIn a statement, Lord Ahmed told Newsnight: \"I completely deny the allegation that I have exploited my position to pursue an inappropriate relationship with any member of the public (vulnerable or otherwise) or that I have acted inappropriately in the presence of women either in my personal or professional capacity.\n\n\"The House of Lords' Commissioner for Standards, Ms Lucy Scott-Moncrieff CBE, assessed the complaint and decided that it did not engage parliamentary inappropriate behaviour about me. She decided to take no further action.\"\n\nHe added: \"I take my duties as a Parliamentarian extremely seriously and would not act so as to undermine my personal or professional reputation.\"\n\nYou can watch Newsnight on BBC 2 weekdays 22:30 or on iPlayer. Subscribe to the programme on YouTube or follow them on Twitter.", "After his failure to win support from Congress for his demand to fund the building of his border wall, Donald Trump was left with a series of unpalatable choices.\n\nAdmit total failure on your key campaign pledge. Or go nuclear.\n\nBy declaring a state of emergency he will be able to raid other departmental budgets to cobble together $8bn for construction on the southern border.\n\nHe will show his base that he is true to his word.\n\nHe will argue he is fighting their fight, to staunch the flow of illegal immigrants and dangerous drugs into the country.\n\nAnd it is undoubtedly true that a lot of people from Central America are trying to enter the US illegally - even though less than in previous years.\n\nAnd a lot of drugs, too, are flooding into the US, courtesy of the Mexican drug lords.\n\nThere is a separate debate about how effective the blunt instrument of a wall would be.\n\nSome argue that more effective would be the use of technology and reinforcing the numbers of border patrol officers.\n\nBut as I say, let's leave that to one side. The trouble with going nuclear, is there is fall-out.\n\nThis has been presented as a predictably partisan issue.\n\nOn one side of the wall, Republicans; on the other side, Democrats.\n\nBut by going nuclear the president has made it more complicated than that. There are a lot of Republicans - in the Senate and in the House - deeply uneasy about what Mr Trump is doing.\n\nWhy? Because the constitutional arrangement of the US is that Congress controls the purse strings and allocates funds. Not the president.\n\nThis is a major land grab by the president.\n\nIt undermines the powers of Congress and sets a very dangerous precedent.\n\nLet's spin forward a few years, and it is a Democrat who is in the White House.\n\nThere is a mass shooting somewhere. The president can't force through much tighter gun control measures through Congress, but will now have the Trump card to play.\n\nI see your objections, and raise you a national emergency.\n\nOn healthcare, ditto. And what about climate control? Yep that too. Lawmakers could be totally by-passed.\n\nThe emergency powers were designed for a genuine national emergency.\n\nIf the situation on the border is a genuine national emergency, why has it taken the president over two years to make this move?\n\nYou can be sure that the Democrats will be considering a legal challenge that will wind its way up to the Supreme Court. And that will delay any building work.\n\nIt is likely that over the coming months, the lawyers in Washington will be far busier than the bricklayers in Arizona and Texas and California.\n\nAnd the legal challenge will contain one central question - is this a national emergency, or a political emergency?", "Alex Younger, head of MI6, said people returning from Syria warzones should be investigated\n\nThe head of MI6 has warned that the Islamic State group is reorganising for more attacks despite its military defeat in Syria.\n\nAlex Younger, the UK's intelligence chief, also told of his concern about jihadists returning to Europe with \"dangerous\" skills and connections.\n\nThey should expect to be investigated and possibly prosecuted, he said.\n\nHis comments come after Shamima Begum, a teenager who ran away to join IS, said she wants to return to the UK.\n\nMs Begum, now aged 19 and pregnant with her third child, said she had no regrets about travelling to Syria in 2015 but wanted to have her baby in Britain.\n\nMr Younger told the Munich Security Conference that so far the return of IS militants had proved a \"completely manageable problem\", but he warned that it was complex and unpredictable.\n\n\"We are very concerned about this because all experience tells us that once someone has put themselves in that sort of position they are likely to have acquired the skills and connections that make them potentially very dangerous,\" he said.\n\nAs IS faces the loss of its last strongholds in Syria, Mr Younger said it was likely to return to \"asymmetric\" terrorist attacks, rather than conventional warfare, and it would be harder for spies to penetrate the group now.\n\nThe organisation has proved itself \"adept at inspiring attacks rather than directing them\", he said.\n\nMs Begum was 15 and living in Bethnal Green, London, when she left the UK in 2015\n\nHe also warned of a \"resurgence\" of Al-Qaeda, the terror network responsible for the 9/11 attacks on the US which had been eclipsed by IS in recent years.\n\n\"It is definitely not down and out,\" said Mr Younger.\n\nIn wide-ranging comments, he also said:\n\nSecurity chiefs could use a temporary exclusion order to block jihadists returning from Syria, such as Ms Begum, from entering the UK.\n\nThe controversial legal tool bars a British citizen from returning home until they have agreed to investigation, monitoring and, if required, deradicalisation.\n\nBritain's MI6 spy chief Alex Younger has chosen a rare appearance at this year's Munich Security Conference to deliver two messages.\n\nThese are that intelligence co-operation with key partners France and Germany does not end with Brexit, and secondly that the threat from the Islamic State group while diminished, has not disappeared with its caliphate.\n\nHis French and German counterparts shared a podium with him today but, being rather more media-shy, they declined to speak on the record.\n\nThe overall impression, though, was of Europe's three premier spy chiefs determined to present a united face against terrorism, Russian intervention, cyber attacks and any suspect technology from China.\n\nYet the shadow of Brexit still loomed over this gathering. Intelligence officials admit that without a formal agreement in place there is a risk that legal protocols may soon prevent the sharing of vital data, making counter-terrorism and the protection of populations that much harder.\n\nHome Secretary Sajid Javid said he \"would not hesitate\" to prevent the return of IS supporters.\n\nBut Lord Carlile, a former independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, said Ms Begum would have to be accepted back into the UK if she had not become a national of any other country.\n\nUnder international law, it is not possible to render a person stateless.\n\nMs Begum told the Times that she had lost two children to illness and was scared of losing her unborn baby in the refugee camp where she was living - and has offered to \"do anything required\" to return home.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. We asked people in Bethnal Green, where Shamima Begum previously went to school, whether the teenager should be allowed back to the UK\n\nShe was one of three schoolgirls, along with Kadiza Sultana, 16, and Amira Abase, 15, from Bethnal Green Academy in east London, who left the UK for Syria in February 2015.\n\nMs Begum escaped from Baghuz - IS's last territory in eastern Syria - two weeks ago.\n\nHer husband surrendered to a group of Syrian fighters as they left, and she is now one of 39,000 people in a camp in northern Syria.\n\nIS has lost control of most of the territory it overran, including its strongholds of Mosul in Iraq and Raqqa in Syria.\n\nHowever, fighting continues in north-eastern Syria, where the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) say they captured dozens of foreign fighters in recent weeks.", "Commons Leader Andrea Leadsom has marked Valentine's Day with a \"roses are red\" poem about leaving the EU.\n\nHer effort - suggesting \"our future is bright, with a good deal in sight\" - was met with groans from the opposition benches.", "The floodwaters have spread more than 60km (37 miles) offshore\n\nDirty water from a flood crisis in northern Australia has spread to parts of the Great Barrier Reef, placing it under stress, scientists say.\n\nThe floods are the result of weeks of devastating rain in Queensland.\n\nAerial pictures show that run-off from one river has blanketed some reef areas more than 60km (37 miles) from shore.\n\nScientists fear the sediment-laden waters may be blocking out light and effectively \"smothering\" coral. Tests are yet to be undertaken.\n\nThe Great Barrier Reef, located in the Coral Sea off the coast of Queensland, is a diverse World Heritage site that spans an area of 344,400 sq km (133,000 sq mi).\n\nIn recent weeks, run-off from several rivers has coalesced to affect an approximately 600km stretch of the reef's outer edges, scientists say.\n\nThe water has not dispersed due to its size and a recent lack of wind.\n\nThe run-off can contain pesticides which disrupt the balance of the coral reef ecosystem\n\n\"Generally a bit of wind and wave action can break the plumes up quite quickly, but we have literally had no wind so they're just sitting there hanging,\" said Dr Frederieke Kroon from the Australian Institute of Marine Science.\n\nShe told the BBC that the nutrient-rich water had also sparked algae growth in some areas, turning waters \"a thick blanket of green\".\n\n\"The biggest concern at the moment is this reduced light - if it persists for much longer, in some cases we can actually see a smothering of the system,\" said Jane Waterhouse, a scientist from James Cook University's TropWATER research unit.\n\nHowever, she said strong winds - if they come - could mitigate the impact.\n\nThe reef is already facing threats to its survival such as coral bleaching caused by warmer sea temperatures. Mass bleaching events occurred in 2016 and 2017.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Warmer water has led to mass coral bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef\n\nIt has also been damaged by cyclones and crown-of thorns starfish.\n\nLarge parts of Queensland have been gripped by floods in recent weeks, after some regions experienced the equivalent of a year's rainfall in 10 days.\n\nLast week, two people were found dead in floodwaters that inundated low-lying areas in the city of Townsville.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe UN calls the Great Barrier Reef the \"most biodiverse\" of all the World Heritage sites, and of \"enormous scientific and intrinsic importance\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The couple were offered the traditional welcome of milk and dates\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex have arrived in Morocco for their first official visit to north Africa.\n\nThe royal couple's three-day trip is aimed at strengthening the UK's links with Morocco - which is one of the few stable countries in the region.\n\nTheir visit will also focus on gender equality, with the pair discussing Morocco's attitudes towards women with British ambassador Thomas Reilly.\n\nMr Reilly said the issue is \"close to their royal highnesses' hearts\".\n\nPrince Harry, 34, and Meghan, 37, touched down in Casablanca airport on Saturday evening, although flight delays meant they were two hours late for their welcoming ceremony.\n\nThey entered the airport's royal suite where they were offered the traditional welcome of milk and dates.\n\nThe couple were met with a red carpet at Casablanca airport\n\nThey were greeted by officials before Prince Harry inspected a guard of honour from the Auxiliary Forces\n\nBlack limousines then took the duke and duchess - plus their entourage of nine, including a hairdresser - to meet Morocco's Crown Prince Moulay Hassan.\n\nThe couple are staying with Morocco's King Mohammed VI at a royal residence.\n\nThey met Crown Prince Moulay Hassan, who is the heir to Morocco's throne\n\nThe duchess is pregnant, with the baby due around the end of April or early May\n\nDuring their visit to Morocco - which will be an important market for the UK after Brexit - the pair will visit the famous Atlas Mountains and the country's capital, Rabat.\n\nThey will see a girls' education project, meet young social entrepreneurs and visit programmes working with children with disabilities and those with mental health problems.\n\nBritain's ambassador to Morocco, Mr Reilly, said: \"I'm really excited to showcase the vital roles that girls' education and youth employment are playing in shaping modern Morocco.\n\n\"When we began planning for this visit, I had a very clear view in my mind of the story we wanted this visit to tell. It's the same story we've been telling consistently at this embassy for the last 20 months since my arrival here.\n\n\"This official visit by the Duke and Duchess of Sussex will highlight Morocco's focus on women's empowerment, girls' education, inclusivity and the encouragement of social entrepreneurship.\"\n\nA Kensington Palace spokeswoman said the duke and duchess were \"very much looking forward to the visit\" and were \"particularly pleased\" they will be able to meet so many young Moroccans.\n\nLast year, the royal couple took their first official tour as a married couple with a 16-day royal trip around Australia, New Zealand, Fiji and Tonga.\n\nMeghan is heavily pregnant with the couple's first child.\n\nThey announced the pregnancy in October last year. Meeting crowds in Merseyside in January, the duchess revealed that she does not know the sex of the baby and it is due at the end of April or start of May.\n\nShe travelled to New York earlier this month for her luxury baby shower with her friends, including some celebrities.", "Cardinal Marx called for greater transparency within the Church\n\nA senior Roman Catholic Cardinal has said that files documenting child sexual abuse were destroyed, allowing offences to continue.\n\nGerman Cardinal Reinhard Marx told a conference on paedophilia in the Church that procedures to prosecute offenders \"were deliberately not complied with\".\n\n\"The rights of victims were effectively trampled underfoot,\" he said.\n\nThe unprecedented four-day summit has brought together 190 bishops from across the world.\n\nThe Catholic Church has faced growing pressure amid long-running cases of sexual abuse of children and young men, with victims accusing it of failing to tackle the issue.\n\n\"Files that could have documented the terrible deeds and named those responsible were destroyed, or not even created,\" Cardinal Marx told the third day of the conference in the Vatican. \"Instead of the perpetrators, the victims were regulated and silence imposed on them.\"\n\nHe urged greater transparency in the Catholic Church's response to the issue, adding: \"It is not transparency which damages the church but rather the acts of abuse committed, the lack of transparency or the ensuing cover up.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Brigitte, a survivor of child sex abuse by a chaplain, explains why she is ready to speak now (From 2019)\n\nOn Friday, Cardinal Marx - who is one of nine advisers to the pope, known as the C9 - met survivors of abuse and members of the global organisation Ending Clergy Abuse.\n\nHundreds of victims have protested outside the Vatican, calling for justice and zero tolerance over the issue.\n\nThe conference was called for by Pope Francis, who earlier this month admitted that abuse of nuns by members of the clergy had included sexual slavery.\n\nA Vatican spokesman later clarified his comments, advising that in using the words \"sexual slavery\" the Pope was referring to \"sexual manipulation\" as a form of sexual abuse.\n\nLast week, a former Catholic cardinal was defrocked over historical sexual abuse allegations.\n\nUpdate 6 March 2019: This article has been updated to make clear that the Vatican later clarified that the Pope had not meant to use the words \"sexual slavery\".", "A crowd of 1,600 people including the families of some of Pablo Escobar's victims, watched as his former home in Medellin, Colombia, crumbled to the ground.\n\nIt is to be replaced by a memorial to the victims of the notorious drug lord's reign of terror.", "Scotland's 20-year wait for a victory in Paris goes on after France showed glimpses of their old flair to record a first win of this year's Six Nations.\n\nDamian Penaud and Gael Fickou had first-half tries ruled out but Romain Ntamack finished a stunning counter-attack to put the hosts ahead.\n\nGreig Laidlaw's penalty was the Scots' only response and Yoann Huget crossed barely a minute into the second half.\n\nGregory Alldritt plunged over twice late on either side of Ali Price's try.\n\nBut the replacement scrum-half's score was the smallest of consolations for Gregor Townsend's team, who were overpowered at times and hampered by poor decision-making at critical moments.\n\nNow out of title contention, the Scots will lick their wounds before hosting Wales at Murrayfield in a fortnight, while France head to Dublin to face Ireland on 10 March.\n• None Re-live the Paris match as it unfolded\n\nError-strewn Scots fortunate to stay in it\n\nThis was a meeting of the haunted French, a team with a miserable three wins from their last 19 Tests coming into this, and a depleted Scotland, shorn of so many game-breakers and without a win in Paris in 20 years.\n\nThat run stretches on - and it was pretty obvious from the early minutes that there was going to be no rare away win here for the Scots and no further misery for Jacques Brunel's team.\n\nFrance had Scotland under the cosh from the opening minutes. It took them a while to put them away, but put them away they did. France are alive again, just.\n\nFor Scotland there was a repeat of the error-strewn second half against Ireland; the botched line-outs, the spillages, the chances passed up. They were fortunate to stay in it for as long as they did.\n\nFrance had two tries ruled out in the opening half, the first after Thomas Ramos exploded out of defence and Huget's chip ahead was coughed up by Blair Kinghorn. Penaud went over but it was called back for a knock-on.\n\nA breakthrough came France's way soon after. Pete Horne banged a kick downfield but the chasing Scottish army never got out of the blocks. Ramos, at times an exhilarating presence at 15, ran it back, stepped and then linked with Penaud who found Antoine Dupont.\n\nDupont was hauled down in the Scotland 22 by Nick Grigg, but the respite was brief. A quick recycle and Ntamack was over. Ramos converted and the Stade had the nerve-settling start they were dreaming about.\n\nScotland were pinned back constantly and fell 10-0 behind when Ramos rifled over a penalty that was the product of more harassment of the Scots. When they eventually lifted the siege, Laidlaw missed a sitter of a kick, then made amends to take it to 10-3.\n\nThe scoreboard was a nonsense. It bore no resemblance to the balance of play, but it offered Scotland encouragement. And there was more of it when Huget was sin-binned midway through the half. One penalty too many for the French - but it was a window of opportunity the visitors couldn't break through. They smashed away at the French line for an age but it was all too slow and all too ponderous and the moment passed.\n\nThey had to survive another disallowed try - Ntamack chipping sumptuously for Fickou only for an earlier knock-on to rule it out - but came again while Huget was still in the bin. They had a line-out in the French 22, a glorious platform, but had it stolen. Huget trotted back on, his 10 minutes costing his team precisely zero points.\n\nThrilling French turn it on again\n\nFor all that they were outplayed, and all their errors, a seven-point deficit at the break would have cheered Scotland. France have been desperately poor in the second half of Test matches, so hope remained. Scotland needed a blistering start to the new half, but instead it was the French who turned it on again.\n\nBarely a minute in and the home side made it 15-3 with a gorgeous score that was by turns thrilling from a French perspective and nightmarish for Scotland. Penaud went roaring up the right and when it came back inside the mighty Mathieu Bastareaud chipped over the top and then ran on to gather.\n\nScotland were spread-eagled. Louis Picamoles carried France ever further and Fickou put Huget over in the corner for France's second try. Ramos missed his conversion.\n\nThe visitors had ball after that. Plenty of it. They had possession and territory. What they didn't have was composure or accuracy to take advantage of their line breaks and their overlaps. It was maddening - and familiar.\n\nA third score arrived from France when their forward pack muscled Scotland over the line from a scrum. Replacement Alldritt was on the end of it. Another kick was missed - just as well France were not relying on the boot - but Scotland finally found their range when Price darted over for a try that was converted by Adam Hastings.\n\nThe target now for Scotland, with the clock in the red, was a losing bonus point. That was beyond them, too - undone by their own mistakes again. France drove on for a four-try bonus point. In the eighth minute of added time they had a five-metre scrum and Alldritt barged his way over again.\n\nFor France, this was a sign of pride and a competitive pulse at last. For Scotland, another loss on the road for a team sadly missing a battalion of men who might have made a difference.\n\nReplacements: 16-Chat (for Guirado, 70), 17-Falgoux (for Poirot, 70), 18-Aldegheri (for Bamba, 69), 19-Willemse (for Lambey, 65), 20-Alldritt (for Picamoles, 69), 21-Serin (for Dupont, 69), 22-Belleau (for Ntamack, 76), 23-Medard (for Ramos, 69)\n\nReplacements: 16-Brown (for McInally, 64), 17-Allan (for Dell, 64), 18-Fagerson (for Berghan, 64, 19-Toolis (for Gray, 55), 20-Graham (for Strauss, 64), 21-Price (for Laidlaw, 64), 22-Hastings (for Horne, 44, for Johnson 53), 23-Graham (for Maitland, 64).", "Brexit should be delayed if Parliament does not approve a deal in the coming days, three cabinet ministers have warned publicly for the first time.\n\nAhead of crucial votes in the Commons, Greg Clark, Amber Rudd and David Gauke told the Daily Mail they would be prepared to defy Theresa May and vote for a delay.\n\nDowning Street said the trio's views on no deal were \"scarcely a secret\".\n\nConservative Brexiteer Andrew Bridgen called on them to resign.\n\n\"They are rejecting government policy and they are threatening to vote against government policy next week,\" the MP told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\n\"In that case, they should do the honourable thing and resign from the government immediately.\"\n\nNumber 10 said in a statement: \"The PM is working hard to ensure we get a deal with the EU that allows us to deliver on the result of the referendum.\n\n\"That is where the cabinet's energy should be focused.\"\n\nEarlier, Mrs May's spokeswoman said the PM would have another \"period of engagement\" on Brexit at an EU-League of Arab States summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt - including a meeting with European Council president Donald Tusk.\n\nThe UK remains on course to leave the European Union on 29 March.\n\nBut the government has repeatedly refused to rule out the possibility of the UK leaving without a formal deal, in the event that Mrs May cannot get MPs to approve the deal she negotiated with Brussels in time.\n\nMPs are due to debate Brexit again next Wednesday and are expected to consider an amendment tabled by former Tory minister Sir Oliver Letwin and Labour's Yvette Cooper.\n\nThat would give Parliament the opportunity to delay Brexit and prevent a no-deal situation if there is no agreement with the EU by the middle of March.\n\nMr Clark, Ms Rudd and Mr Gauke argue if a deal is not endorsed by MPs imminently \"it would be better to seek to extend Article 50 and delay our date of departure rather than crash out of the European Union on March 29\".\n\nMr Clark, the business secretary, along with Ms Rudd, the work and pensions secretary, and the justice secretary, Mr Gauke, said there had been \"months of uncertainty\".\n\nThey wrote: \"It is time MPs recognised the need to get a deal, accepted that this is the only deal on offer, and supported it.\"\n\nBut they also warned Brexiteers in the European Research Group (ERG) that Parliament will block the UK leaving without a deal, stating that if there is a delay \"they will have no-one to blame but themselves\".\n\nThey said: \"Beyond the next few days, there simply will not be time to agree a deal and complete all the necessary legislation before March 29.\"\n\nTheir article comes after the BBC was told dozens of normally loyal Conservatives could back plans to stop the UK leaving the EU without a deal if a reworked version of Mrs May's plan does not pass.\n\nMark Francois, Tory MP and vice-chairman of the ERG, told the BBC that \"the prime minister will want to know why three members of her cabinet have decided to publicly decry government policy\" and added that he thought it was \"interesting that the chancellor has not signed the letter\".\n\nHowever Tory MP Nick Boles, who voted Remain but supports Mrs May's deal, said they were \"courageous and principled\" for speaking out to try to avoid a no-deal Brexit.\n\nAnna Soubry, who quit the Conservatives this week over Brexit to join the Independent Group, said the move was a sign of the \"complete chaos that's now existing at the top of government\".\n\nThe MP, who supports another EU referendum, said the trio had to go to the press because \"they can't win the argument in a deeply divided cabinet\".\n\nMeanwhile, Labour MPs Phil Wilson and Peter Kyle are planning to put forward an amendment that would allow Mrs May's deal to pass in the Commons, as long as it is then put to the public in another vote.\n\nMr Wilson told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that his amendment had the support of shadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer and shadow chancellor John McDonnell, and he hoped to secure the backing of the rest of the Labour front bench.\n\nIt is a pretty incredible intervention by these three cabinet ministers.\n\nTime and time again Theresa May has said the UK is leaving the EU on 29 March, in just five weeks' time.\n\nIt's a very different message from these three. They've all made it very clear they wouldn't accept a no deal scenario.\n\nNow publicly, for the first time, they've said Brexit would have to be delayed if Parliament doesn't back a deal next week.\n\nIn their article in the Daily Mail they've got a pretty stark warning to their colleagues.\n\nThis is happening because, on Wednesday, there will be an attempt by MPs to seize control of that Brexit process.\n\nThese three are suggesting that they will be prepared to resign in order to back that move.\n\nThis is piling the pressure on Mrs May to get the changes to the deal, to bring it back early next week, but it's also piling the pressure on their colleagues to get behind the deal.\n\nDon't be in any doubt, what they are saying is not government policy.", "Two tries from Gregory Alldritt help France to their first win of the Six Nations as they beat Scotland 27-10 in Paris.\n\nAvailable to UK users only.", "Emily Thornberry said she would rather die than join another party\n\nA group of MPs who left Labour have \"betrayed\" their seats and would be \"crushed\" if by-elections were held, the shadow foreign secretary has said.\n\nEmily Thornberry accused eight MPs who quit the party to form The Independent Group in the Commons of going to \"cuddle up to Tories on the benches\".\n\nShe told a Labour rally in Broxtowe she would rather die than join a new party.\n\nLabour's deputy leader Tom Watson has said the defections are a cause for regret and reflection, not anger.\n\nThe departing Labour MPs said earlier this week they were leaving the party over its stance on Brexit and the leadership's handling of anti-Semitism.\n\nThey were followed by three Tory MPs who cited \"a shift to the right\" in their party and the government's \"disastrous handling of Brexit\" as reasons for their departure.\n\nThe newly-formed \"The Independent Group\" - which at the moment remains a grouping in Parliament not an official political party - says it represents \"the centre ground of British politics\".\n\nThey have urged like-minded MPs from other parties to join them.\n\nBut Ms Thornberry accused the Labour MPs of having had \"the cheek to reject our new manifesto and our new leader\".\n\nShe said: \"It was our manifesto and our leader that gave them the huge majorities that they now have in their seats - those seats they have betrayed by their actions.\"\n\n\"If our new independent splitters have got the guts to have by-elections, we will crush them.\"\n\nIf an MP changes or leaves the party they were elected under, it does not automatically trigger a by-election. This is because at the ballot box voters choose the individual they want as their MP, not the party they wanted running the country.\n\nA by-election can happen if the defectors resign as MPs or if voters in their constituencies call for a petition to recall their MP.\n\nHowever, voters can only call for a petition under specific circumstances, such as an MP being convicted of an offence and receiving a custodial sentence. None of these conditions applies to the members of the Independent Group.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn also joined Emily Thornberry at the rally\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn also addressed the crowd in Broxtowe, Nottinghamshire - the constituency of the former Conservative MP Anna Soubry, who has also joined the new grouping.\n\n\"I'm very sad at some of the things that have happened and very sad at some of the things that have been said.\n\n\"Walking away from our movement achieves nothing\", he said.\n\nOn Friday, Ian Austin become the ninth MP to quit Labour this week, blaming Mr Corbyn for \"creating a culture of extremism and intolerance\".\n\nBut the MP for Dudley North said he had no plans to join The Independent Group.\n\nMeanwhile, Theresa May's government's working majority was reduced after three MPs resigned earlier this week - Ms Soubry, Heidi Allen and Sarah Wollaston.\n\nThe trio - who all support the People's Vote campaign for another EU referendum - held a press conference and criticised the government for letting the \"hard-line anti-EU awkward squad\" take over the party.\n\nThey joined The Independent Group, with Ms Allen saying she was \"excited\" about the future and wants to be \"a part of something better, a party that people vote for because they want to, not because they feel they have to.\"\n\nThe Independent Group is not a registered political party and has not published a manifesto - although it does have a list of values on its website.\n\nNow with 11 members, the new group has the same number of MPs as the Lib Dems and is the joint fourth largest.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The victims are tea plantation workers from the north-eastern state of Assam\n\nAt least 130 people have died and more than 200 are being treated in hospital after drinking toxic bootleg alcohol in north-eastern India, officials said.\n\nSome 35 people were reported dead in the state of Assam on Sunday, days after about 100 people died in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand.\n\nTen people have been arrested over the bootleg drink, a police official said.\n\nThere were many women among the victims, who all worked on tea plantations.\n\nAn inquiry has been ordered into the tragedy. The death toll is believed to be the highest since a 2011 case in West Bengal, where more than 170 people died after ingesting bootleg alcohol.\n\nThe first victims died on Thursday, according to the administrator of the Golaghat district in Assam, Dhiren Hazarika.\n\nGolaghat district Superintendent of Police Pushkar Singh told the BBC Hindi service that police had found the home where the toxic liquor was made and had recovered one and a half litres (2.5pts) of it.\n\nDoctors at the hospitals where the victims were being treated were baffled by the ingredients used in the illegal alcohol, which has caused organ failure. An expert team from the city of Guwahati is being brought in analyse the contents of the drink\n\nA tea plantation worker who consumed the bootleg alcohol lies on a drip\n\n\"The people came to the hospital with severe vomiting, extreme chest pain and breathlessness,\" Dr Ratul Bordoloi, joint director of Golaghat's health department, told the AFP news agency.\n\nOne worker who was undergoing treatment at Golaghat Hospital told the BBC that he had been at a tea plantation on Thursday when the purchase the alcohol.\n\n\"I had bought half a litre of wine and drank it before eating,\" he said. \"Initially, everything was normal, but after some time my head started hurting. The headache grew so much that I could not eat or sleep.\"\n\nThe man felt restless until the morning, when he started getting chest pain. His wife took him to the tea plantation hospital and he was referred to the district hospital.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nearly half of the alcohol market is made up of so-called 'country-made' liquor\n\nDeaths from illegally produced alcohol, which is much cheaper than branded spirits, are common in parts of rural India. Bootleggers often add methanol - a highly toxic form of alcohol sometimes used as an anti-freeze - to their mixture to increase its strength.\n\nIf ingested in even small quantities, methanol can cause blindness, liver damage and death.\n\nState police said two excise department officials were suspended for failing to take adequate precautions over the sale of the alcohol.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Earlier in February, Sunita lost five members of her family, including her husband, after toxic alcohol was served at a mourning event", "Three Venezuelan National Guard troops have driven through a security barrier on the Simon Bolivar bridge, while civilians fled the scene.\n\nThe troops deserted to Colombia, according to the country's migration authorities, amidst rising tensions over an opposition-led effort to bring humanitarian aid into the country.", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nWales produced a stirring second half to crush England's Grand Slam dream with a record-breaking 12th consecutive Test win.\n\nEngland had led 10-3 at the interval after 20-year-old Tom Curry's first international try garlanded a brutal defensive display.\n\nBut Wales came barrelling back and took the lead with 13 minutes to go when second row Cory Hill smashed over after a relentless series of drives.\n\nAnd with replacement Dan Biggar taking control, Josh Adams sealed it at the death as he claimed his fly-half's cross-field kick to send the Principality Stadium into ear-splitting ecstasy.\n\nIf Wales can beat Scotland in Edinburgh in two weeks' time only Ireland in Cardiff on the final day of the championship will stand between them and a first Grand Slam since 2012.\n\nBut this will go down as another masterclass from their coach Warren Gatland, as England were unable to get close to their form of the opening two rounds.\n• None We let ourselves down - England coach Jones\n• None Hartley ruled out of rest of Six Nations\n\nIt was a frenetic start on an afternoon warm enough to be late April rather than February, both sides looking to kick, Kyle Sinckler charging into tackles with relish as the songs rolled down the stands.\n\nOwen Farrell and Anscombe exchanged penalties and then England struck again, Curry picking and going off an unguarded ruck seven metres out as Justin Tipuric dallied with Ben Youngs.\n\nFarrell's conversion from in front made it 10-3 and the home crowd fell uncharacteristically quiet, the score doubly chastening for Wales after Courtney Lawes had robbed the ball from an opposition maul.\n\nWhen Anscombe's attempted cross-field kick was picked off by Henry Slade it took a desperate tackle from Adams to prevent a second try.\n\nWales were running against a white wall of defenders, Curry and Sinckler relentless, yet Anscombe almost profited when Jones' men lost a scrum against the head and his chip ahead left Youngs scrambling desperately under his own posts.\n\nBut it was England who ended the half in control, Jonny May kicking long down the left wing and bundling the covering Hadleigh Parkes into touch.\n\nJones' men set up a 12-man driving maul that rumbled to the Welsh five-metre line, but Farrell opted to cross-kick to Jack Nowell in the right-hand corner and George North managed to snuff the danger out.\n\nWales had struggled in the first half of their first two games, against France and Italy, but once again they dragged themselves into a contest they had struggled to dictate.\n\nAnscombe banged over a penalty on the angle after May had been penalised for holding on and the margin was down to four points with more than a third of the contest to come.\n\nSinckler had played on the edge throughout but was penalised in the Welsh half for obstructing Anscombe and then again for a high tackle on Alun Wyn Jones in front of his own posts.\n\nAs the England tight-head was hauled off for Harry Williams, Anscombe knocked over the penalty for 10-9 and the home support was alive again.\n\nIt was Anscombe's last act, Biggar thrown on with 20 minutes left, but when Curry won a penalty as Parkes held on 25m out it was his opposite number Farrell with the three points.\n\nBack came Wales. Drive upon drive hammered at the English defence, the big ball-carriers taking it up to within a few metres, the crowd baying as the red shirts got closer.\n\nOn the 35th phase the white line cracked. Hill battered through two men on a clever angle and reached out to nudge the ball on to the try-line, and Biggar's sweet kick from the right touchline made it 16-13.\n\nAnd with England pinned back Adams soared above Elliot Daly to take the ball at the second attempt and flop into the corner.\n\nWelsh dominance in years ending with 'nine' - match stats\n• None Wales continue to dominate this fixture in years ending in 'nine' having won the corresponding fixtures in 1949, 1959, 1969, 1979, 1989, 1999 and 2009.\n• None Warren Gatland's men have won nine straight matches at home for the first time since 1999 - their last defeat in Cardiff came against New Zealand in November 2017.\n• None This is the first Six Nations encounter in the last five to be settled by more than six points.\n• None Wales have won all eight games that Gareth Anscombe has started at fly-half\n\n'England got what they deserved' - what they said\n\nWales head coach Warren Gatland: \"We created lots of problems for ourselves in the first half but we were much better in the second.\n\n\"All that pain and hard work last week in training paid dividends, in the second half tactically we were really good.\n\n\"It's a pretty special group of boys at the moment in fact a brilliant group at the moment.\"\n\nEngland captain Owen Farrell: \"We didn't really get a foothold in the last 30 minutes of the game. We did well in the first half and we had a good go at the start of the second, but then we couldn't get back that momentum.\n\n\"We made a few errors and they did what they did well. We couldn't get out of our half and they managed to build a lot of pressure. It will feel a lot worse than it should now but we will look back on it and learn from what we need to.\"\n\nFormer England international Martin Johnson on BBC TV: \"England got what they deserved, they lost the grip of it and Wales took hold with their first try. They imposed themselves physically, and there was only going to be one winner. There was a period of 20 minutes in the second half where England did nothing.\"\n\nFormer Wales international Shane Williams on Radio 5 live: \"When you see someone like Dan Biggar coming on, you know exactly what to expect.\n\n\"I remember him in his first training session at the Ospreys, and he was telling seasoned professionals what to do. You saw the structure change and he was the difference.\"\n• None Relive the match as it happened\n\nReplacements: 16-Dee (for Owens, 77), 17-Smith (for Evans, 61), 18-Lewis (for Francis, 61), 19-Beard (for Hill, 71), 20-Wainwright (for Moriarty, 77), 21-A Davies (for G Davies, 77), 22-Biggar (for Anscombe, 61), 23-Watkin.\n\nReplacements: 16-Cowan-Dickie, 17-Genge (for Moon, 77), 18-Williams (for Sinckler, 57), 19-Launchbury (for Kruis, 64'), 20-Shields (for Lawes, 77), 21-Robson, 22-Ford, 23-Cokanasiga (for May, 70).", "Linda Razzell was last seen on her way to work in Swindon in 2002\n\nA field is being searched by police probing a potential link to the disappearance of a mother of four missing since 2002.\n\nLinda Razzell was last seen on her way to work in Swindon.\n\nThe 41-year-old's body has never been found but her husband, Glyn, was sentenced to life for her murder.\n\nWiltshire Police said it was acting on a tip-off from the public and it was \"keeping an open mind\" as to whether it relates to Mrs Razzell's murder.\n\nSniffer dogs are at the site near Pentylands Lane in Highworth and a forensics tent has been erected.\n\nA force spokesman added: \"People in the local area are likely to see an increased police presence in this area over the weekend.\"\n\nDetectives are searching a field near Pentylands Lane in Highworth\n\nMrs Razzell went missing in 2002 after setting off from her Highworth home to work at Swindon College.\n\nDespite her body never being found, her husband Glyn was jailed for life in 2003, a conviction he failed to overturn in 2005.\n\nHe claimed DNA evidence against him - drops of her blood found in the boot of a car he had access to - was unreliable.\n\nFormer police detective Steve Fulcher later suggested double murderer Christopher Halliwell could have been involved with Mrs Razzell's disappearance.\n\nHalliwell was jailed in 2016 for the 2003 murder of Becky Godden, having already been convicted of killing Sian O'Callaghan in 2011.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Chris Eubank Jr landed the biggest win of his career to leave James DeGale's future in the balance with a unanimous points victory at London's O2 Arena.\n\nIn a contest which struggled to find a flow, Eubank Jr forced a count in round two after a stinging left hook.\n\nTwo-time world champion DeGale boxed tentatively from range but paid in the 10th when a close-range left hook sent him reeling and forced another count.\n\nDeGale never threatened a stoppage and the cards read 114-112 115-112 117-109.\n\n\"I'm back where I need to be - at the top of the food chain and now I'm coming for all the other belts in the super-middleweight division,\" Eubank Jr, 29, declared.\n\nDeGale, 33, held his hand aloft as the scores were read but he was well beaten by his fellow Englishman and, having stated he would likely retire if he lost, his future in the ring is uncertain.\n\n\"I'm going to go back, talk to my team and talk to my family,\" he said. \"I've been to the heights of boxing, I've won an Olympic gold medal, won the world title twice, made history and I've boxed the best around the world. I've left my mark in boxing.\"\n\nThe 2008 Olympic champion showed swift movement in patches but his single shots from range were overwhelmed by flurries of activity from Eubank Jr.\n\nIn truth, DeGale showed guts to try to keep his feet after left hooks opened him up in the second and 10th, and he somehow stayed upright again after another left hook in the final round.\n\nThe margin of victory even accounted for a point deduction Eubank Jr was handed in the 11th round when, shortly after landing a devastating uppercut, he picked his rival up on his shoulder in a grapple and threw him to the canvas.\n\nIn his first contest under the guidance of trainer Nate Vasquez, Eubank Jr showed more patience than in previous elite-level fixtures and, aside from a brief lull around the midway point, always looked the more dangerous of the two.\n\nThe Brighton fighter answered criticism in performing under pressure having been exposed in defeats to George Groves and Billy Joe Saunders.\n\nHe insisted he had \"made a statement\", while his father - former two-weight world champion Chris Eubank Sr - said he was \"ecstatic\" having said he was \"not convinced\" his son would win in the build-up.\n\n'I dominated' - what they said...\n\nEubank Jr: \"I've been working on my jabs, he is a very slick southpaw but the game plan worked, smart pressure, not getting too ahead of myself, picking my shots and choosing my time to attack.\n\n\"I dominated pretty much every round. He is a hell of a skilled fighter but my heart and tenacity got me there. A lot of people said I was going to get my head jabbed off and not stand with a proven boxer. It was the most important fight of my career and I've made the statement. It is belt season, it is collection season.\"\n\nDeGale: \"Chris is tough, he is a good prospect, he was on it. I just didn't do enough. There were a lot of wild punches, punches I didn't see. He was nicking the rounds and I have to go back and watch it. I just didn't do enough.\"\n\nChris Eubank Sr: \"To get this win tonight and for Junior to be at the top of this pay-per-view channel, we are blessed.\n\n\"Nate Vasquez is a good trainer. He has been effective. I like him. Let's see what Junior can go on and do. When he uses his jab, which he didn't do too much tonight, he can be sensational.\"\n\nLou Di Bella, promoter of Deontay Wilder: Awful fight. Sadly, James appears to have little left in the career tank. Too bad. Looks like a shadow of his old self.\n\nBritish trainer Shane McGuigan: As much as Chris Eubank mocked me in the build up against Groves, it was brilliant to see him elated when Jr's hand was raised. DeGale has to call it a day now and Eubank Jr still needs to work on his footwork to beat the top guys but the division is wide open.\n\nFormer world featherweight champion Barry McGuigan: Spot on from George Groves tonight on ITV. James DeGale should throw in the towel, he's had a great career.\n\nBritish light-middleweight Anthony Fowler: Sad to watch that. Sometimes age catches up with you. I'm gutted for DeGale. He will be remembered as the first Brit to win Olympic gold and then a world title in the pros. #Legend. Well done to Eubank on the win.", "The 2018 Oscars directly addressed the #MeToo movement against sexual assault, misconduct and inequality in Hollywood and beyond.\n\nMany believed the culture had shifted dramatically and that a record number of female filmmakers would emerge from the movement.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nSecond Test, Port Elizabeth, South Africa (day three of five)\n\nSri Lanka became the first team from Asia to win a Test series in South Africa as they chased down 197 to win the second Test in Port Elizabeth.\n\nOshada Fernando and Kusal Mendis struck unbeaten half-centuries as the tourists completed an eight-wicket victory.\n\nSri Lanka join England and Australia as the only teams to win a Test series in South Africa.\n\nBefore the two-Test series the Sri Lankans had not won a game in any format since October 2018.\n\n\"This victory is dedicated to the Sri Lanka fans who have continued to support us because they were always behind us when we were losing,\" said Sri Lanka captain Dimuth Karunaratne.\n\n\"It's not easy when you come to South Africa, so to win the series 2-0 is brilliant.\"\n\nSri Lanka's victory in the first Test came in thrilling style after they chased 304 to claim a one-wicket win in Durban, with Kusal Perera hitting an unbeaten 153 to guide the tourists to victory after they had been 229-9.\n\nThey outplayed South Africa in the second Test at St George's Park, bowling the hosts out for 128 in their second innings on Friday.\n\nSri Lanka resumed on day three at 60-2 and Mendis reached 84 while Fernando contributed 75 in an unbeaten stand of 163 for the third wicket in their successful chase.\n\nSri Lanka have won two of their last six Test series, both against South Africa whose run of seven consecutive home Test series wins came to an end.", "Some 746,000 taxpayers are believed to have missed the deadline\n\nTaxpayers who missed January's self-assessment deadline might see increased fines because of a delay in sending out penalty notices, experts have warned.\n\nHM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) normally sends warnings in February, but this year some may go out from late April.\n\nFrom 1 May the standard £100 fine rises by £10 a day - so when letters arrive, penalties could already be accruing.\n\nHMRC blamed increased workload from Brexit for the delay but said no one would be \"unfairly penalised\".\n\nIt is thought 746,000 taxpayers missed the deadline for tax returns to be submitted online on 31 January.\n\nIn a notice issued on Friday, HMRC said: \"We expect an increased demand in our call centres as the UK leaves the EU, so we intend to delay the issue of these notices to ensure we can provide the best service to our customers.\n\n\"This will release those staff for EU exit related work.\n\n\"We will issue daily penalties to individuals who have still not filed three months after the deadline, in appropriate cases, at the normal time.\"\n\nBut the Association of Taxation Technicians warned fines could begin rising before some people had even received a letter telling them.\n\nJon Stride, of the Association of Taxation Technicians, said: \"If the £100 penalty notice is issued by HMRC at the end of April, a taxpayer may, by the time the notice hits their doormat, already be incurring additional penalties.\"\n\nMr Stride is calling on HMRC to clarify whether it will take into account the late issuing of notices when considering a higher fine.\n\nAnd Dan Neidle, a tax lawyer at Clifford Chance, told the BBC: \"Where people have genuinely forgotten, it seems harsh and even unfair to remind them so late that they're already running up daily penalties.\"\n\nAn HMRC spokesman said: \"No-one will be unfairly penalised as a result of this change. The vast majority will be aware they missed the January 31 filing date, as we do remind regularly with nudge messages before the deadline.\n\n\"The latest date letters will go out is April and this will still leave customers several weeks to contact us. This is sensible planning to make sure we focus our resources on delivering important functions in the event of a no deal [Brexit].\"\n\nA source at HMRC said if letters did get sent at the end of April, people receiving them would be given plenty of time to respond.", "The BBC News app is available for Android and iOS devices\n\nWith the latest news and analysis from our journalists around the world and the unique human stories behind current events, we've got the best of our journalism in one place on the BBC News app.\n\nClick here to download the BBC News app from the App Store for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.\n\nClick here to download the BBC News app from Google Play for Android devices.\n\nWe would like to know what you think of the new app - click here to give us your feedback.\n\nDepending on the contract you have, data charges may apply for accessing the internet on your mobile device.\n\nIf you are not sure about the potential charges, please ask your mobile network provider. You may find some costs are included in your existing price plan or that you can opt for a data package that gives reduced charges for accessing the internet.\n\nThe BBC does not charge you to access mobile content.", "The Brexit vote must not be frustrated and the government needs to maintain an \"absolute\" focus on delivering it, Theresa May has said.\n\nIn a speech to Tory activists the PM said, as her negotiations with the EU reach their final stages, the \"worst thing we could do is lose our focus\".\n\nIt came as three pro-EU cabinet members warned they could vote to delay Brexit to prevent a \"disastrous\" no-deal.\n\nBut Mrs May said there must be no party \"purges\" over MPs with differing views.\n\nAhead of crucial votes in the Commons next week, Greg Clark, Amber Rudd and David Gauke told the Daily Mail they would be prepared to defy the prime minister and vote for a delay.\n\nThe intervention led to calls for their resignations by Tory Brexiteers.\n\nThe UK remains on course to leave the European Union on 29 March.\n\nHowever, the government has repeatedly refused to rule out the possibility of the UK leaving without a formal deal, in the event that Mrs May cannot get MPs to approve the deal she negotiated with Brussels in time.\n\nMrs May's speech to the National Conservative Convention in Oxford on Saturday evening came as MPs prepare for a series of votes on Wednesday which could see Parliament take control of the Brexit process.\n\nDelegates at the convention overwhelmingly backed a symbolic motion saying Brexit should not be delayed, and leaving without an agreement should remain an option.\n\nMr Clark, the business secretary, along with Ms Rudd, the work and pensions secretary, and the justice secretary, Mr Gauke, had earlier said they would be prepared to defy Mrs May and vote for a delay to Brexit.\n\nThey argued there \"simply will not be time to agree a deal and complete all the necessary legislation\" unless a deal is approved in the coming days.\n\nAn amendment tabled by former Tory minister Sir Oliver Letwin and Labour's Yvette Cooper would give Parliament the opportunity to delay Brexit and prevent a no-deal situation if there is no agreement with the EU by the middle of March.\n\nBut Mrs May told activists: \"Our focus to deliver Brexit must be absolute.\n\n\"We must not, and I will not, frustrate what was the largest democratic exercise in this country's history. In the very final stages of this process, the worst thing we could do is lose our focus.\"\n\nMrs May also said there should be no moves to deselect MPs because of their views on Brexit.\n\nThe resignations of three pro-Remain Tory MPs - Anna Soubry, Heidi Allen and Sarah Wollaston - to join a group of Labour defectors in the new Independent Group reduced the Tories working majority in Parliament to eight.\n\nMrs May said: \"No-one gets more frustrated than I do when people vote against the whip, particularly given the tight Parliamentary arithmetic that we face.\n\n\"But we are not a party of purges and retribution. We called a referendum and let people express their views - so we should not be seeking to deselect any of our MPs because of their views on Brexit.\n\n\"Our party is rightly a broad church - on that and other issues.\"\n\nMrs May is expected to hold talks with EU figures in Sharm el-Sheikh\n\nMrs May is expected to hold talks with European Council president Donald Tusk and other key EU figures in Egypt later during a summit between leaders of EU and Arab league countries.\n\nBut Downing Street has played down hopes of a breakthrough on her Brexit deal being reached in Sharm el- Sheikh.\n\nThe summit is the first between leaders of EU and Arab league countries and will focus on tackling concerns over security and migration, and boosting trade.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nTottenham boss Mauricio Pochettino angrily confronted referee Mike Dean after a damaging defeat at Burnley dealt a huge blow to his side's Premier League title hopes.\n\nThe Argentine, who was angered by a number of decisions including the award of a corner that led to Burnley's opener, had to be pulled away by Clarets defender Phil Bardsley as his frustrations spilled over.\n\nPochettino later said he had \"crossed the line\" and would \"maybe\" apologise to Dean.\n\nChris Wood broke the deadlock for the hosts early in the second half as he rose to head home Dwight McNeil's inswinging corner - his fourth goal in as many games.\n\nHarry Kane, making his first appearance since 13 January, equalised after latching on to Danny Rose's quick throw-in and poking past Tom Heaton, before Ashley Barnes tapped in Burnley's winner late on.\n\nSpurs stay in third place, five points behind Liverpool who face Manchester United at Old Trafford on Sunday.\n\nBurnley rise to 14th and are now six points clear of the relegation places.\n\nTottenham should have been buoyed by the return of Kane, who made his first appearance since picking up an ankle injury in January's defeat to Manchester United.\n\nBut he struggled to get into the game in a first half that saw him on the end of several hefty challenges by Ben Mee and James Tarkowski. When he did escape their attentions, he fired wide from the edge of the box and saw a header easily saved by Heaton.\n\nHe improved in the second period, drawing a magnificent save from Heaton who sprang acrobatically to his right to keep out a swerving shot bound for the top corner.\n\nBut not even the in-form Burnley goalkeeper could deny Kane a goal on his return as he latched on to Rose's throw and poked home to level.\n\nHowever, with Spurs pouring on the pressure late on the Clarets stood firm, with second-half substitutes Fernando Llorente and Erik Lamela both denied by blocks.\n\nDespite their excellent form - Burnley are one of only two unbeaten Premier League sides in 2019 - Sean Dyche's men were underdogs coming into this match.\n\nThat was mainly due to the fact they had taken just two points from their last 42 available at home against the established top six sides.\n\nBut the Clarets emphatically bucked that trend against Spurs.\n\nThe hosts were rarely troubled in a first half of few chances, and in the second they more than matched the visitors.\n\nSuspect Spurs defending helped Wood open the scoring, although replays suggested the corner the goal came from should not have been awarded as the ball appeared to come off Burnley's Jeff Hendrick as he challenged with Jan Vertonghen.\n\nPochettino's frustration at the decision was emulated by Dyche a short time later when Rose took a throw-in several yards upfield from where the ball went out of play and Kane ran through to tuck home the equaliser.\n\nAt that point Burnley may have been forgiven for sitting deep and taking a point, but they did anything but.\n\nAshley Westwood, Barnes and the impressive McNeil were all denied by Hugo Lloris before Barnes scored the decisive goal - tapping in from substitute Johann Berg Gudmundsson's pass.\n\nThe result means the Clarets have gone eight games without defeat - only Manchester United are on a longer unbeaten run - with any fears of relegation all but dispelled.\n\n'A big disappointment' - what they said\n\nBurnley boss Sean Dyche, speaking to BBC MOTD: \"It was a thorough performance and a good win. We know there's a lot of work to be done but they're certainly putting in the work.\n\n\"We're not a side who can slick it around like Man City but we have very good players. We waned to get in behind them. I thought our front two were outstanding.\"\n\nBurnley goalscorer Ashley Barnes on Sky Sports: \"I thought we had it then we gave them a sloppy goal from a throw-in. We needed to be alive and we switched off but for us to keep going and get the result was massive.\n\n\"They are top-quality players so we just had to concentrate on ourselves. We made it hard for them and that was what the gameplan was.\n\n\"We are getting back to ourselves now. We need to keep being resilient and compact. That's what we did.\"\n\nTottenham captain Hugo Lloris speaking to Sky Sports: \"Obviously it is a big disappointment. Today was a good opportunity for us and we missed it. It was a tough game. We expected a battle.\n\n\"We conceded the first goal and it makes things harder. Especially when you concede a corner that didn't exist. It is part of the game.\"\n\nBurnley on best top-flight run since 1966 - the stats\n• None Burnley are unbeaten in eight Premier League games (W5 D3), their longest top-flight run without defeat since a run of nine in 1966.\n• None Tottenham suffered only their second defeat in their last eight away games in the Premier League, after losing two of the four before that.\n• None Burnley have accrued 18 points from their last eight Premier League games (W5 D3), after picking up just 14 from their previous 24.\n• None Burnley scored their opening goal with their first shot on target of the game on 57 minutes.\n• None Burnley striker Chris Wood has netted four goals in his last four Premier League appearances, as many as in his previous 27 in the competition.\n• None Burnley forward Ashley Barnes has scored in each of his last four Premier League games (4 goals), after netting in just three of his previous 24 in the competition (4 goals).\n• None Johann Berg Gudmundsson has registered 15 assists for Burnley in the Premier League, nine more than any other player.\n\nBurnley will look to continue their good run against Newcastle at St James' Park on Tuesday at 20:00 GMT. Spurs will hope to bounce back when they visit Chelsea at Stamford Bridge on Wednesday (20:00).\n• None Attempt saved. Erik Lamela (Tottenham Hotspur) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.\n• None Attempt missed. Christian Eriksen (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from outside the box is too high.\n• None Offside, Burnley. Johann Gudmundsson tries a through ball, but Ashley Barnes is caught offside.\n• None Goal! Burnley 2, Tottenham Hotspur 1. Ashley Barnes (Burnley) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Johann Gudmundsson.\n• None Attempt missed. Johann Gudmundsson (Burnley) left footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Jack Cork.\n• None Johann Gudmundsson (Burnley) wins a free kick on the right wing. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "The opposition has planned to deliver foreign humanitarian aid on 23 February\n\nIn the humble neighbourhood of El Valle, in south-western Caracas, several hundred residents are gathered round in a community square, waiting for a meeting to start.\n\nOne of the organisers picks up the microphone and starts addressing the crowd.\n\n\"Why are you all here?\" he asks them. \"For Venezuela,\" they readily reply in unison before starting to sing the national anthem.\n\n\"Glory to the brave nation, which shook off the yoke,\" they all chant. \"Off with the chains! Off with the chains!\"\n\nThe anthem may reference Venezuela's colonial history, but the wording is particularly fitting for today's politics too.\n\nVenezuelans are joining in the modern-day fight to shake off President Nicolás Maduro's administration, a government that many blame for strangling the economy and people's lives.\n\nThis meeting - and many similar events across the country - is being held ahead of a deadline set by opposition leader Juan Guaidó for humanitarian aid to be brought into the country from abroad.\n\nMr Guaidó, head of the National Assembly and self-declared interim president, and his supporters are trying to gather a million volunteers.\n\nThey want to spread the word about how important this humanitarian aid is.\n\nIt does not sound like many in this meeting need convincing. When asked who wants to be a volunteer, everyone raises their hands.\n\nThere is a feeling of optimism among many Venezuelans at the moment - an energy that has not existed in the country for a long time. And the hope that Saturday may be the start of a new path.\n\nLiset Marin, who attended the meeting, says she hopes change is coming\n\nStanding on the edge of the crowd are Liset Marin and her two children. Her husband is in Panama, where he has had to find work because of the crisis.\n\n\"There have been so many struggles before and nothing's ever happened,\" she says, her voice breaking as she speaks. She apologises for being emotional, but says it is all too much.\n\n\"This time, we feel things are evolving and there will be a change. We can only hope.\"\n\nPlease upgrade your browser to view this content. Was this timeline useful? Thank you for your feedback.\n\nMr Maduro has accused the aid of being a Trojan horse, a US-orchestrated show and excuse to interfere in Venezuela.\n\nThere is no doubt this has become a political issue. But Alberto Kabbabe, the director of a local charity helping to feed Venezuelans, says the fault lies squarely with the president.\n\n\"He's the one who created the crisis here in Venezuela,\" he says. \"The National Assembly asked for humanitarian aid in 2016, we've been asking in 2017 and 2018 and now in 2019. There are a lot of people dying because they don't have access to what they need, so the show has been created by Maduro's government.\"\n\nIn parliament this week, Miguel Pizarro, the opposition politician in charge of humanitarian aid, also hit back at accusations from the international community that aid was being used for political ends.\n\n\"We're also worried that for political reasons, people are dying in this country,\" he said in a speech where he pleaded with the armed forces to let the aid through. \"And for political reasons, our surgeons don't have the right tools.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nJuan Guaidó's push to bring aid into the country is a clear strategy, experts say, and an understandable one.\n\n\"This is an attempt to put Maduro in a difficult spot of his own making,\" says David Smilde, a senior fellow at the Washington Office on Latin America think-tank. \"It's not crazy for him [Maduro] to think it's a Trojan horse, because very clearly this has been on the opposition's agenda.\n\n\"It's a way of drawing international attention,\" he continues. \"It's important to make that clear that this whole situation wouldn't exist if Maduro had said: 'OK opposition, you want to bring in some aid? Go for it.'\"\n\n\"I think that the intention is to dramatise the situation,\" says Michael Shifter of the Inter-American Dialogue think-tank in Washington.\n\n\"It's certainly not the solution - and the solution won't come without a political change in Venezuela,\" he says, adding that this is a strategy aimed at winning the hearts and minds of officers.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why Venezuela matters to the US... and vice versa\n\nThere is so much uncertainty around what will happen on Saturday. President Maduro still controls Venezuela's borders and in that respect has the upper hand.\n\nBut many are looking to next week already.\n\nIf the stand-off drags on, the fear is that this positive energy that has revived Mr Maduro's critics will wane, as will the interest of the international community, and that's what Juan Guaidó needs to achieve regime change.\n\nPeople want to know about a plan B - if indeed Mr Guaidó has thought of one. Otherwise, the hope here will soon turn to despair.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Desperate Venezuelan women are selling their hair at the border", "Jodey Whiting had suffered ill health for a number of years\n\nA woman whose disabled daughter killed herself after her benefit payments were stopped has called for officials to be prosecuted over their failings.\n\nJodey Whiting, 42, of Stockton, Teesside, took her life in 2017 when her payments were halted because she missed a capability assessment.\n\nAn independent inquiry has found the Department for Work (DWP) breached its own rules and it has been ordered to apologise and pay £10,000 compensation.\n\nThe DWP said it accepted the findings.\n\nMs Whiting, a mother of nine, suffered multiple physical and mental health issues including curvature of the spine and a brain cyst, and took 23 tablets each day.\n\nShe was suffering from pneumonia when she missed her assessment but was then ruled fit to work and had her Employment and Support Allowance halted.\n\nHer mother, Joy Dove, of Norton, said she was \"shocked\" by the extent of the failings outlined in a letter from the Independent Case Examiner.\n\nShe said: \"It was awful. There was no need. They pushed her to it.\n\n\"How can you cut someone's money off without seeing them?\"\n\nThe examiner found the DWP did not follow procedures which should have seen it telephone and visit Ms Whiting after she missed the appointment.\n\nMs Dove is seeking legal advice over whether any further action is possible.\n\n\"No-one should go through this,\" she said.\n\nAlex Cunningham, Labour MP for Stockton North, said the DWP had \"systematic problems\".\n\nHe added: \"They had opportunities to help this family and each time they failed.\"\n\nJoy Dove has described the family's compensation payment as \"blood money\"\n\nThe DWP said it apologised to Ms Whiting's family for \"failings in how we handled her case\".\n\nA spokeswoman added: \"Our thoughts are with them at this difficult time and we are providing compensation.\n\nShe said the DWP was reviewing its procedures to \"ensure this doesn't happen again\".\n• None Campaign after dead woman 'fit to work'\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Donen received an honorary Oscar in 1998, and performed an impromptu dance\n\nVeteran Hollywood musicals director Stanley Donen has died aged 94, according to US media reports.\n\nThe director was perhaps best known for the 1952 musical Singin' in the Rain, which he co-directed with its star Gene Kelly.\n\nHis other films included On the Town, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers and Funny Face.\n\nThe Chicago Tribune first reported Donen's death, citing one of his sons, Mark.\n\nA former Broadway dancer, Donen moved into cinema as a choreographer, then as a director.\n\nHe translated his love for dance to the big screen with the help of Kelly and Fred Astaire. Singin' in the Rain was named the greatest movie musical of all time by the American Film Institute in 2006.\n\nSingin' in the Rain starred Gene Kelly and Debbie Reynolds\n\nEdgar Wright, who directed films including Hot Fuzz, paid tribute to the breadth of Donen's work, from musicals to thrillers, while Mission Impossible filmmaker Christopher McQuarrie said that Donen \"understood when to move and when to let others do the moving\".\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 edgarwright This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn 1998, Donen was awarded an honorary Oscar by director Martin Scorcese \"in appreciation for a body of work marked by grace, elegance, wit and visual innovation\".\n\nIn his acceptance speech, he performed an impromptu song and dance routine while clutching his Oscar.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by Oscars This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nThe key to a successful film, he once said, was a great script, great songs and great actors. \"When filming starts, you show up and you stay the hell out of the way.\"", "While tensions flared on Venezuela’s borders, there was relative calm in the capital, Caracas.\n\nThousands of people turned up for an opposition march, many dressed in white, a symbol of peace.\n\n\"More medicine, fewer bullets,\" read one of the signs carried by the demonstrators. Another read: \"Maduro, you’re the cancer of Venezuela.\"\n\nThe crowd marched to the military barracks - all part of a strategy to pressure the armed forces to side with Juan Guaidó and let the humanitarian aid in.\n\nOne woman described today as \"breaking point\" for Maduro.\n\nIt’s certainly a test for the president. But apart from a handful of defections at the border, so far his senior officers have remained loyal.\n\nPresident Maduro waves the national flag during a pro-government march in Caracas Image caption: President Maduro waves the national flag during a pro-government march in Caracas\n\nAnd there are still those who back Maduro over what they say is a trojan horse in the form of US humanitarian aid.\n\nNot far away from the opposition march, Chavistas and government workers gathered, many dressed in red - the colours of the president’s socialist party.\n\n\"Hands off Venezuela\", was the message from here.\n\n\"If they want to help, lift all the sanctions against our country,\" state worker Frank Marchan told me. \"We don’t need their mercy.\"", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nLionel Messi scored the 50th hat-trick of his career as Barcelona came from behind to beat Sevilla and go 10 points clear at the top of La Liga.\n\nIn a masterclass from the Catalans' captain, he first equalised with a brilliant volley from 16 yards.\n\nHe levelled for a second time with a curling shot from the edge of the box.\n\nMessi then chipped Tomas Vaclik for his third, his 36th goal in 35 games against Sevilla, before setting up Luis Suarez for an injury-time fourth.\n\nIt really was a one-man show with Barcelona not playing particularly well as they extended their lead over second-placed Atletico Madrid, who host Villarreal on Sunday.\n\nSevilla - who are out of form - took the lead twice in the first half from a Jesus Navas counter-attack strike and Gabriel Mercado's eight-yard finish.\n\nMessi does it again\n\nAt the age of 31, Messi shows no signs of slowing down. His treble takes him up to 25 La Liga goals for the season, an average of one every 75 minutes. He is nine clear of Suarez in second place and almost twice the top scorer of any other team, Cristhian Stuani's 13 for Girona.\n\nIn all competitions, he has 33 goals in 32 games - including six in the Champions League as Barcelona chase the treble.\n\nHis third goal was his 650th career strike - 585 for Barca and 65 for Argentina.\n\nAll his goals were excellent with his first, a left-footed volley from Ivan Rakitic's cross, a contender for goal of the season.\n\nHis second was a fine curling effort with his right foot from Ousmane Dembele's pass. And, with five minutes to go, he clipped the ball over the goalkeeper after Carles Alena's shot was blocked.\n\nLate on he played an excellent ball over the top for Suarez to end a five-game goalless run.\n• None Goal! Sevilla 2, Barcelona 4. Luis Suárez (Barcelona) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Lionel Messi with a through ball.\n• None Roque Mesa (Sevilla) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt missed. Franco Vázquez (Sevilla) left footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the left.\n• None Attempt saved. Sergi Gómez (Sevilla) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top left corner. Assisted by Pablo Sarabia with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Wissam Ben Yedder (Sevilla) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box is saved in the bottom right corner.\n• None Goal! Sevilla 2, Barcelona 3. Lionel Messi (Barcelona) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Carles Aleñá (Barcelona) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Sergi Roberto.\n• None Wissam Ben Yedder (Sevilla) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Pablo Sarabia (Sevilla) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt blocked. Carles Aleñá (Barcelona) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "The BBC is recognised by audiences in the UK and around the world as a provider of news that you can trust. Our website, like our TV and radio services, strives for journalism that is accurate, impartial, independent and fair.\n\nOur editorial values say: \"The trust that our audience has in all our content underpins everything that we do. We are independent, impartial and honest. We are committed to achieving the highest standards of accuracy and impartiality and strive to avoid knowingly or materially misleading our audiences.\n\n\"Our commitment to impartiality is at the heart of that relationship of trust. In all our output we will treat every subject with an impartiality that reflects the full range of views. 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We usually link to official reports, sets of statistics and other sources of information, to enable you to judge for yourself the underlying information that we are reporting on.\n\nWhenever appropriate, we also offer links to relevant third-party websites that provide additional information, source material or informed comment.\n\nFor in-depth pieces of work, such as complex investigations or data journalism projects, we will help you understand how we went about our work by showing the underlying data and by disclosing any caveats, assumptions or other methodological frameworks used - for example, the study-design; the sample size; representativeness; margins of error; how the data was collected; geographical relevance and time periods.", "MPs have demanded more information on the financial risks of purchasing F-35 stealth jets\n\nThe Ministry of Defence has a funding black hole of at least £7bn in its 10-year plan to equip the UK's armed forces, according to a report by the Commons spending watchdog.\n\nThe Public Accounts Committee said the MoD lacked the ability to \"accurately cost programmes\" and that the shortfall could reach £14.8bn by 2028.\n\nMPs added the government did not have a \"coherent and credible\" funding plan.\n\nThe MoD said it was \"addressing the financial challenges\" it is facing.\n\nA spokesman for the department added: \"We are confident that we will deliver the equipment plan within budget this year, as we did last year, as we strive to ensure our military have the very best ships, aircraft and vehicles.\"\n\nThe MoD plans to spend more than £180bn on new warships, submarines, jets and armoured vehicles over the next decade.\n\nBut the PAC's chairwoman, Labour MP Meg Hillier, said the department was \"a repeat offender\" when it came to \"poor financial planning\".\n\nShe added that progress in addressing concerns raised by the committee in May 2018 had been \"woeful\".\n\nMs Hillier told the BBC's Today programme: \"There's a very big funding gap in what the Ministry of Defence says it wants to do and the money available. If they don't plug that gap there's going to be ongoing problems.\"\n\nAsked if the MoD was always facing funding difficulties, Ms Hiller said: \"It does feel a bit like Groundhog Day. There just needs to be a clear decision about what the priorities are.\n\n\"Any indecision or any delay has a huge knock-on effect. Small delays can cost millions, if not billions, of pounds.\"\n\nLord Dannatt, a former head of the Army, told the programme the defence secretary had \"a very strong case to make\" for increasing the military budget.\n\nA defence and security review that followed the 2010 general election had \"slashed and burned a lot of our capabilities\", he said.\n\n\"The Americans wring their hands now and say that we're not the reliable allies that we were because we haven't got the fully rounded capabilities.\n\n\"You can't have a nation like ours' defence on the cheap. Two per cent of GDP is the lowest we've ever spent on our defence since the second world war, and it's bought us the smallest army, navy and air force we've ever had.\"\n\nIn its report, the PAC demanded more information on the risks associated with major projects, including the purchase of F-35 stealth jets and Type 31e frigates.\n\nPart of the problem, the committee said, was that the government had dithered over which projects to fully finance and which to cancel or scale back.", "The world could put a stop to female genital mutilation (FGM) within a generation, international leaders and campaigners say. (This report contains graphic descriptions of the practices involved).\n\nThe ambitious pledge to end FGM comes from a UK summit dedicated to the topic, hosted by Prime Minister David Cameron.\n\nSo what is FGM, and why is it still being carried out on millions of women and girls around the world?\n\nFemale genital mutilation (FGM) includes any procedure that alters or injures the female genital organs for non-medical reasons.\n\nIn its most severe form, after removing the sensitive clitoris, the genitals are cut and stitched closed so that the woman cannot have or enjoy sex.\n\nA tiny piece of wood or reed is inserted to leave a small opening for the necessary flow of urine, and monthly blood when she comes of age (most FGM is carried out on infants or young girls before they reach puberty).\n\nWhen she is ready to have sex and a baby, she is \"unstitched\" - and then sewn back up again after to keep her what is described by proponents as \"hygienic, chaste and faithful\".\n\nIn societies where FGM is commonplace, a woman can bring shame on herself and her family if she does not comply. Some see it as a religious necessity - though no scriptures explicitly prescribe it.\n•Clitoridectomy - partial or total removal of the clitoris\n•Excision - removal of the clitoris and inner labia (lips), with or without the outer labia\n•Infibulation - cutting, removing and sewing up the genitalia\n•Any other type of intentional damage to the female genitalia (burning, scraping et cetera)\n\nMost often, the procedure is carried out by traditional circumcisers or preachers, using crude, accessible tools, such as thorns and thread, broken glass or razor blades, and without anaesthetic.\n\nThe pain is part of the centuries-old ritual - to prove that the woman is strong and can endure it. Corrosive substances may also be inserted into the vagina to scar, tighten and narrow it.\n\nBut about a fifth of all FGM is now performed by healthcare workers in hospital settings - bespoke clinics that use scalpels and antiseptics - and the trend towards medicalisation is increasing, says the World Health Organization.\n\nThis is partly to counter the argument that FGM is unsafe. A big risk with FGM is dangerous bleeding and infection. By doing it in a clinic, these risks can be minimised.\n\nAnother compelling reason is money. Doctors and midwives in poor countries can boost their salary by selling their services.\n\nEfua Dorkenoo, senior FGM advisor at Equality Now, who has been campaigning for decades to put an end to FGM, said: \"In Egypt, around 70% of FGM is done by medical doctors. In Kenya and Nigeria, local midwives are cutting.\n\n\"The medical professionals, they think that if it can't be stopped it's best to do it in the medical setting. And some are doing it for money.\"\n\nAnd it's not just something that's done outside of the West. There have been numerous reports of the practice documented in the UK, even though it is illegal.\n\nWhile it is hard to get a handle on the true scale, figures suggest at least 4,000 women and girls have been treated for FGM in London's hospitals since 2009.\n\nAs yet, there have been no convictions for these crimes. And it's something that's been going on quietly for decades, says Ms Dorkenoo.\n\nUnicef estimates that more than 130 million girls and women alive in the world today have undergone FGM, mostly for cultural, religious and social reasons, although support for FGM is falling.\n\nThere are no health benefits, but many risks associated with FGM even when it is done in a hygienic setting.\n\nAn obvious one is severe pain - both physical and psychological.\n\nVictims recall fighting to get free as they were held down and their legs forcibly spread for the cutting.\n\nIsa, who was cut when she was six, recalls: \"I can still remember the shouting. I can still remember the blood coming through. I can still remember the pain.\"\n\nShe's since had surgery and, as a trained midwife, helps other women who have undergone FGM.\n\nSurgery may reverse some of the damage, but it cannot restore sensitive tissue that has been removed.\n\nNor can it repair emotional scars.\n\nJanet Fyle, who is the Royal College of Midwives' lead advisor on FGM, says: \"Some women have flashbacks similar to soldiers who have been in battle.\n\nFGM is shrouded in secrecy and some women are too fearful to speak out\n\n\"If they were kidnapped on their way to collect water or someone held them down, its a trauma to them psychologically and its very difficult to deal with those scars.\"\n\nShe hopes that FGM will become a thing of the past.\n\n\"I have hopes that we will end it in a generation. At least here in the UK.\n\n\"The younger girls are more aware of it. We need to educate and empower them.\"\n\nBut she says FGM is deeply embedded in many cultures - and that could take a long time to change.\n\nEfua Dorkenoo agrees: \"In the most bizarre way, women have become the perpetrators and practisers of this and keep the tradition going. If you speak to women, they may say they want it because it's linked to them being accepted by society. It's at the core of controlling a woman's sexuality.\n\n\"Because it's to do with sexuality, it's still very taboo to talk about.\"\n\nMother-of-three Asseta was cut when she was seven years old. In Burkina Faso, where Asseta lives, more than 75% of girls and women have been cut.\n\nAsseta says: \"I was told there were some eggs to eat - so me and my friends rushed over. But when we got there, there was blood all over the floor from other girls. It was very difficult - being cut is an event I will never forget.\n\n\"Deciding not to get my daughters cut was a tough decision to make.\n\n\"Going against tradition can be difficult. First you need to convince yourself that the decision you're making is the best one - you need to know the facts in order to do that.\n\n\"I hope my daughter will have a better life, better health because of my decision. And I hope she will do the same for her daughters and avoid cutting.\"\n\nAsseta's daughter, 13-year-old Fatmata, says: \"I had heard about FGM and I've seen it happen - a friend of mine was cut when she was 12 years old. Seeing it happen made me feel scared. I don't want to be cut, and I'm happy knowing my parents aren't going to make me do it.\"\n\nIn many places where FGM is done, there is no law against it, or if there is, it's not implemented. And politicians have been afraid to push too far, says Efua Dorkenoo, who has herself received death threats for speaking out against FGM.\n\nThere was a UN resolution in 2012 to ban FGM worldwide.\n\n\"Now is the time for the international community to make this happen,\" says Ms Dorkenoo.", "UK manufacturers prepared for Brexit by stockpiling raw materials at a record pace last month, a closely-watched survey has suggested.\n\nThe research, by IHS Markit/CIPS, found companies were stockpiling goods in January at the fastest pace in the survey's 27-year history.\n\nEmployment in the sector fell, and the survey warned that export orders were \"near-stagnant\".\n\nIt added that there was a risk of the sector slipping into recession.\n\nOverall, the survey's Purchasing Managers' Index fell to 52.8 last month from 54.2 in December, which was a three-month low and the second weakest reading since July 2016.\n\nWhile the figure above 50 still implies activity in the sector is expanding, IHS Markit/CIPS said manufacturing had made a \"lacklustre\" start to the year.\n\nWith two months to go until the UK is due to leave the EU, the lack of clarity over the terms of the UK's departure means firms are having to make contingency plans.\n\n\"The start of 2019 saw UK manufacturers continue their preparations for Brexit,\" said Rob Dobson, director at IHS Markit.\n\n\"Stocks of inputs increased at the sharpest pace in the 27-year history, as buying activity was stepped up to mitigate against potential supply-chain disruptions in coming months.\n\n\"There were also signs that inventories of finished goods were being bolstered to ensure warehouses are well stocked to meet ongoing contractual obligations.\"\n\nAn equivalent survey of eurozone manufacturers also found the sector struggling in the 19-nation bloc. The PMI reading of 50.5 for January indicated minimal growth and was the lowest reading since November 2014.\n\nThe eurozone survey also found new orders were falling at the fastest rate in nearly six years,\n\nWith clarity as yet elusive, manufacturers are intensifying efforts to prepare for a possible a no-deal Brexit. Both raw materials and finished goods are being stockpiled at an unprecedented rate, to avoid disruption to supply chains and gaps on warehouse and shop shelves.\n\nSo on the face of it, the overall PMI activity balance for this survey suggests greater manufacturing momentum last month in the UK than in France or Germany.\n\nBut away from the buzz of stockbuilding, orders, particularly for export, are struggling. Overseas customers may be more reluctant to order goods, in case they face delays or tariffs on delivery in the event of a no-deal.\n\nThis survey tends to be more volatile than official manufacturing figures. But there is increasing evidence of dwindling export demand in many sectors. Orders for British malting barley, for example, from the rest of the EU has dried up, as that crop could attract particularly steep charges.\n\nThe report referred to some UK supply chains as being \"closer to breaking point\"\n\nIt noted there had been \"a marked slowdown\" in the growth of new orders, and those companies that did report an increase in output \"mainly linked this to stock-building activity\".\n\n\"January also saw manufacturing jobs being cut for only the second time since mid-2016 as confidence about the outlook slipped to a 30-month low, often reflecting ongoing concerns about Brexit and signs of a European economic slowdown,\" said Mr Dobson.\n\n\"With neither of these headwinds likely to abate in the near-term, there is a clear risk of manufacturing sliding into recession.\"", "Hospital staff have been calling the abandoned baby Roman\n\nA baby girl has been found abandoned in a shopping bag in a park in near freezing overnight temperatures.\n\nThe newborn was discovered in East Ham, east London, when a woman walking her dog heard the baby crying in a play area off Roman Road at 22:15 GMT.\n\nThe child was taken to hospital and is said to be in a stable condition.\n\nDetectives say they are growing \"increasingly concerned\" for the mother, who may be \"in need of urgent medical attention\".\n\nHospital staff have been calling the baby Roman after the road where she was found.\n\nThe child was discovered in a shopping bag in a white towel on the floor next to a park bench and had not been hidden, the Metropolitan Police said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rima and Lvidijus Zvaliauskas say the baby had a frosty forehead\n\nOvidijus Zvaliauskas, who found the baby, said it was \"terrible\" adding he had \"no words\" for the mother who abandoned the baby.\n\nHe said: \"My mum was walking the dog and she heard a noise coming out from the bag.\n\n\"She rang me up because she was too scared to approach the bag.\"\n\nMr Zvaliauskas said when he saw it was a baby inside he rang for an ambulance and the police.\n\nOfficers have urged the mother to contact police, her local hospital, a GP or the London Ambulance Service (LAS).\n\nIn a direct appeal to the mother, Insp Shane Clarke said: \"It is really important that we know that you are safe.\n\n\"I would also urge anyone who has information that could help us to reunite this baby with her mother to come forward.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Guidelines about what constitutes \"obscene\" pornography have been relaxed in England and Wales.\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service had previously listed torture and bondage, among other acts, as obscene.\n\nDistributing that type of pornography either on or offline could therefore have led to a prosecution.\n\nBut the CPS has now removed the list and replaced it with series of \"tests\" that determine whether an image or video is classed as obscene.\n\nOwning or distributing an \"obscene\" video is an offence under the Obscene Publications Act.\n\nSome of the acts previously listed by the CPS were legal to perform with a consenting adult, but were illegal to depict in photos or videos.\n\n\"Distributing\" obscene material can simply mean sending a video via private message and it can be punished with time in prison.\n\nWhile the definition of obscene is likely to mean more than just \"shocking\" or \"disgusting\", it is open to interpretation.\n\nFor that reason, the CPS previously offered guidance that described the sort of content that could lead to a prosecution.\n\nThe list included clearly illegal acts, such as having sex with an animal (bestiality).\n\nHowever, it also listed practices that others argued were not harmful among consenting adults, such as:\n\nNow, the CPS has removed all the specific examples from its guidance.\n\n\"It is not for the CPS to decide what is considered good taste or objectionable,\" it said in a statement.\n\nInstead of a list of forbidden acts, the new guidance says owning or producing pornographic material is unlikely to be prosecuted if:\n\nThe CPS said it would \"continue to robustly apply the law to anything which crosses the line into criminal conduct and serious harm\".\n\nLawyer Myles Jackman, who fought for the change, told BBC News: \"I have campaigned for this important change to the English criminal law, which has a profound impact for free speech and privacy... for over 10 years.\"\n\nSince 2014 and the introduction of the Audiovisual Media Services Regulations, professional pornography sold online and in licensed adult stores falls under the R18 rating given by the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC).\n\nThe BBFC's guidelines forbid \"material judged to be obscene under the current interpretation of the Obscene Publications Act\".\n\nA spokeswoman told the BBC: \"Because the Obscene Publications Act does not define what types of material are likely to be considered obscene, we rely upon guidance from the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) as to what classes of material they consider likely to be suitable for prosecution.\n\n\"We are aware that the CPS have updated their guidance on Obscene Publications today and we have now adjusted our own internal policies to reflect that revised guidance.\"", "Lauren Laverne and Sam Baker founded The Pool in 2015\n\nThe editor of online women's magazine The Pool has said she is \"absolutely gutted\" the venture is to fold after almost four years.\n\nCate Sevilla said she was \"heartbroken\" more than 20 members of staff faced redundancy from the firm, which was co-founded by broadcaster Lauren Laverne.\n\nStaff were not paid in January and some freelancers are owed sizeable payments.\n\nThe collapse of the firm raises questions about whether women-focused journalism can thrive online.\n\nOne industry expert said The Pool was caught in a \"deadly vortex\" of declining advertising revenues.\n\nThe site, styled as a \"platform for women too busy to browse\", went live in 2015 and signed up a collection of prominent female writers and contributors.\n\nThe Pool's editor Cate Sevilla said in a series of Twitter posts: \"I don't really know what to say. I'm absolutely gutted.\n\n\"This has been an extremely frustrating situation, and I'm heartbroken for my team. For our freelancers. For our readers.\n\n\"I always wanted to work at The Pool, and I can't quite believe what's happened.\"\n\nA GoFundMe page to help pay The Pool's staff and freelancers had raised more than £8,000 of a £24,000 target by Friday evening.\n\nEleanor Mills, chairwoman of Women in Journalism, which supports female workers in the industry, said online news websites were suffering because Google and Facebook were so dominant and took such a large share of all digital revenue, which she estimated at 95%.\n\nMs Mills, who is also the editorial director of the Sunday Times, said women's magazines faced pressure from beauty and fashion brands choosing increasingly to advertise with so-called \"influencers\"\n\n\"The Pool found itself in a deadly vortex fed by both of these trends - the unviability of online advertising supported publishing and a shake up and turndown in fashion and beauty advertising,\" she said.\n\nLauren Laverne, who resigned as a director of The Pool last year, said on Twitter: \"I haven't had an official role at @thepooluk for a while, but I am extremely sad to hear about its closure.\n\n\"However I am also very proud of what we achieved. It was an honour to work alongside such an inspiring and creative team, on something people loved.\"\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 Lauren Laverne 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\nSam Baker, co-founder and former Cosmopolitan editor, who also resigned as a director of The Pool in 2018, said on Twitter: \"We tried so hard and we failed. What matters now is getting the brilliant team and freelancers paid.\"\n\nIt comes after a month in which online publishers made deep cuts. Staff have been made redundant at a number of BuzzFeed offices, while Verizon Media Group, which owns HuffPost, has laid off hundreds of people.\n\nPress Gazette editor Freddy Mayhew said \"there seems to be no end in sight\" to redundancies at online publications.\n\n\"Readers' habits are changing as they turn away from printed newspapers and magazines to get their news and features digitally,\" he said.\n\n\"But as the media industry moves with them, it is struggling to find a business model that can sustain its journalism.\n\nThe publication is calling on Google and Facebook to take less money from online advertising.\n\nMr Mayhew added: \"If the likes of The Pool, Buzzfeed and HuffPost can't make digital journalism pay when they're the experts, who purely publish online with no print offering, then the industry truly is in crisis.\"", "A man has been convicted of the brutal murder and robbery of a handyman in Aberdeenshire.\n\nBrian McKandie, 67, was found dead in his cottage near Rothienorman on 12 March 2016.\n\nPolice initially treated Mr McKandie's death as an accident but a post-mortem examination later found he had suffered at least 15 blows to the head.\n\nSteven Sidebottom, 25, denied murder and robbery but a jury returned a guilty verdict by majority.\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 Callum Tulley 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\nSome members of the jury - who spent almost 11 hours considering the verdict over the past three days - were visibly upset.\n\nAt the High Court in Aberdeen, the judge, Lord Uist, deferred sentence on Sidebottom, who showed no emotion.\n\nLord Uist told the father-of-one and first offender: \"You have been convicted by the jury of the crimes of murder and robbery of Brian McKandie, a man who lived alone in his cottage.\n\n\"He was brutally murdered by being struck at least 15 times on the head in order to obtain money which you gave to other people and used yourself.\n\n\"The sentence for murder is fixed by law - it's imprisonment for life. You will in due course be sentenced to imprisonment for life.\"\n\nOutside court, members of Mr McKandie's family welcomed the verdict after an 18-day trial, but said they still did not know the reasons behind his murder.\n\nA statement read out on their behalf said: \"The reality is we will never understand why Brian - a complete gentleman - died in such a brutal and senseless way, and it is something we will never come to terms with.\"\n\nFor many decades, Mr McKandie was known as someone who carried out cash-in-hand car repairs at the garage at his home, as well as fixing electrical items.\n\nHe would often joke with customers that the money would \"top up\" his \"shoebox\".\n\nAlmost seven weeks after his body was found in his rural cottage, police found a number of sweet and biscuit tins and shoeboxes containing about £200,000.\n\nPolice found about £200,000 in notes kept in sweet tins and shoe boxes at Mr McKandie's cottage\n\nAfter the case became a murder inquiry, Mr McKandie's death featured on Crimewatch and a £10,000 reward was offered.\n\nIn the months that followed, police attention turned to Steven Sidebottom, who knew Mr McKandie and lived locally.\n\nOfficers saw discrepancies in the information he had given them about being outside the pensioner's home in the days before he died.\n\nMembers of Mr McKandie's family said they still did not understand why he had been murdered\n\nThe court heard evidence he suddenly had what appeared to be \"thousands\" of pounds around the time of the murder, and had \"lavished\" gifts on his student girlfriend.\n\nIt was also claimed he had been planning a criminal job to get money.\n\nHowever, his defence counsel Ian Duguid QC argued that there was no evidence any money had been taken from Mr McKandie's home.\n\nLord Uist told the jury that in order to convict Sidebottom, they would have to accept the \"whole package\" of the circumstantial case presented by the prosecution.\n\nThe victim worked in the garage next to his cottage\n\nThe judge noted that no DNA was found linking the accused to the crime, nor any fingerprints.\n\nHe said there were no eyewitnesses, no bloodied clothing, and that no witnesses had been asked what Sidebottom had been wearing on the day of the murder.\n\nFollowing the guilty verdict, members of Mr McKandie's family described him as \"a hard-working and quiet man who wouldn't have done anyone a bad turn\".\n\nBrian McKandie lived in the cottage most of his life\n\nThey said: \"Every day we think about what happened to Brian in the home he lived his whole life, and every day we struggle to understand why this happened to him.\n\n\"As a family we are extremely pleased with and welcome today's outcome, however it doesn't bring Brian back.\n\n\"We would like to thank the public for your help and support throughout this investigation and to everyone involved in bringing this case to court.\"\n\nPolice Scotland's Major Investigation Team welcomed Sidebottom's conviction for \"the cold and calculated murder\".\n\nDet Supt Iain Smith said: \"Given the private person Brian was, he didn't have a lot of close friends and didn't let anyone into his home.\n\n\"The fact he was murdered within his own house - the place he had lived since he was two years old - made this crime all the more callous.\"\n\nHe said Sidebottom went to \"extreme efforts to cover his tracks and spun a web of lies to deceive the people around him\".\n\nDet Supt Smith said police had apologised to Mr McKandie's family for his death not initially being recognised as being murder.\n\nSidebottom will be sentenced at the High Court in Edinburgh on 6 March.", "The BBC closed the so-called \"iPlayer loophole\" last year\n\nThe television licence fee is going up from £150.50 to £154.50 on 1 April 2019, the government has announced.\n\nThe annual price rise is in line with inflation.\n\nAnyone watching or recording TV programmes as they are shown on TV, or watching or downloading BBC programmes on the iPlayer, must have a licence. This also applies to laptops, tablets and phones.\n\nThe new licence fee will cost £2.97 a week or £12.87 a month.\n\nIt covers the cost of nine TV channels, regional programming, 10 national radio stations, 40 local radio stations, the BBC website, BBC Sounds and BBC iPlayer.\n\nThe BBC said that in the last financial year, \"94% of the BBC's controllable spend went on content for audiences and delivery, with just 6% spent on running the organisation\".\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 BBC licence fee to rise by £3.50 in April", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The student says she feels her experience has been for nothing\n\nA student threatened with rape by men in an online chat has told the BBC her university's investigation into the messages made her feel like she was \"on trial\".\n\nFive male students were banned from the University of Warwick last year, after details of the chat emerged.\n\nSeveral students in the chat encouraged others to rape women on campus.\n\nThe university said it \"stands by the investigation process\", but it planned to review its disciplinary procedures.\n\nA statement from the university, accompanying an open letter by vice-chancellor Professor Stuart Croft, said the university \"will ensure sexual misconduct is considered specifically as part of our review of disciplinary processes\".\n\nJennifer - not her real name - spoke out after the BBC reported on Thursday that two of the students, initially banned for 10 years, had had their punishments reduced after an appeal.\n\nThey could return to classes this year.\n\nJennifer said this left her \"devastated\" and that all of her \"traumatic experiences\" had been \"for nothing\".\n\n\"These people are still going to be back and they're still going to be dangerous ... and Warwick University are allowing that to happen.\"\n\nThe Facebook group chat was first reported last summer by Warwick student newspaper The Boar.\n\nJennifer said: \"There were a lot of threats of gang rape.\n\n\"One of them spoke about wanting to gang rape me and then after they discarded my body they wanted to ejaculate all over it.\n\n\"They talked about my friend, they wanted to genitally mutilate her.\"\n\nStudent newspapers obtained the screenshots after complaints were made to the university\n\nAfter Jennifer and another student officially complained to the university, both were interviewed as part of the subsequent investigation.\n\n\"We were made to feel the entire time that we had to justify why we were upset,\" she said.\n\n\"It was very aggressive questioning. It was as if we were on trial.\n\n\"We were given a list of male individuals involved, and we were taken through it one by one and asked our sexual history with each of them - which obviously was really traumatic. Not having anyone really there to represent me.\n\n\"I didn't know if I was supposed to be answering these kind of questions and it was really upsetting.\"\n\nThe university's director of press, whose job it is to promote the university and protect its reputation, was appointed as the official investigator.\n\nJennifer said that this was a \"clear conflict of interest\".\n\nA spokesman from the University of Warwick admitted there was a \"potential for conflict\".\n\nBut he said: \"During the length of the investigation media relations were delegated to other members of the press and media relations team.\"\n\nHe added: \"All those who were interviewed as part of the investigation were asked about whether there were prior or existing relationships with those also involved.\n\n\"The detail of any relationship was neither questioned or explored.\"\n\nIn a lengthy statement, with a further list of questions and answers attached, Professor Croft said the punished students' comments had been \"dehumanising, humiliating, and revolting\" and \"against everything that everyone holds dear in any society\".\n\nBut he said that, despite calls for the 11 individuals involved to be banned from campus, he did not have the authority to make such a decision.\n\nHe said that the university had a duty of care to all those involved and that he was not going to immediately propose a way forward \"because I think that there is a lot more listening to do first\".\n\nIn the accompanying FAQs, the university clarified: \"The male students are not allowed on campus at the present time and, should they return to complete their studies next year, their access to campus facilities and to learning opportunities will be carefully managed in line with conditions laid out in the initial punishment.\"\n\nOn Thursday, Prof Christine Ennew, a member of the executive team at Warwick University, said the university was sorry the decision to allow the students back early had \"upset so many members of our own community and beyond\".\n\nShe added the penalties were intended to allow the complainants time to finish their studies before the disciplined students were given the opportunity to return.", "None of the three main health screening programmes in England - for bowel, breast or cervical cancer - met their targets last year, according to a report by the National Audit Office.\n\nThere were also delays in cervical screening results reaching half of women tested, with a backlog of nearly 100,000 samples.\n\nA health think tank said the report was \"deeply concerning\".\n\nBut ministers said they were committed to making improvements to keep screening programmes \"among the best in the world\".\n\nThe NAO report comes after two recent incidents with breast and cervical screening raised concerns about about the management and organisation of both programmes.\n\nWhile bowel and breast screening met their minimum targets in 2017-18, neither met their upper target for the percentage of eligible people screened for signs of cancer.\n\nHowever, with 72% of women eligible for cervical screening being tested last year, even the lower target of 75% was not met.\n\nMany women also experienced delays getting their results after having smear tests, or cervical screening.\n\nAccording to the Department of Health and Social Care, results should be received within 14 days, but this target has not been met since 2015.\n\nIn March 2018, a third of women received their results on time, improving to just over half (55%) by the end of last year.\n\nBut in October, 98,628 samples were still waiting to be tested in labs across England, the report said.\n\nIt is thought that a change in the way tests are carried out affected staffing in labs, leading to the delays.\n\nThe report also highlights variation in the percentage of people screened across the country, with the lowest levels of coverage mostly in London.\n\nAnd it describes issues with complex, ageing IT systems, with the cervical screening programme relying on an estimated 350 different systems to make it work.\n\nComplicated IT problems are reported to have resulted in 5,000 women not being invited for breast screening.\n\nThe report also raises questions about the way screening programmes are governed and monitored.\n\nHowever, the report says NHS England and Public Health England have succeeded in introducing bowel scope screening, although only half of GP practices were linked to a screening centre delivering the service in 2016-17.\n\nBy September 2018, 166,000 people had been invited for this type of screening against a target of nearly 500,000.\n\nRebecca Fisher, a GP and policy fellow at the Health Foundation, said the report painted \"a deeply concerning picture of the state of screening programmes in England, with missed targets, inconsistent coverage, and ageing IT systems\".\n\nShe said screening saved lives but the public must be able to trust the quality of the services being offered.\n\nThe report said complicated IT systems were one reason for screening delays and errors\n\n\"Today's report highlights an urgent need for investment in the IT and equipment required to make improvements,\" she said.\n\n\"Policymakers must also consider how to most efficiently run screening programmes to ensure that these potentially lifesaving services are equally available right across the country.\"\n\nMeg Hillier, chairwoman of the MPs' committee of public accounts, said: \"Those responsible for screening programmes are not always capable of picking up when people are not invited for a screening appointment, or ensuring that people receive their test results on time.\n\n\"It is unacceptable that these important screening programmes are being let down by complex and ageing IT. The Department of Health and Social Care, NHS England and Public Health England need to get this fixed.\"\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson said: \"Our screening programmes are widely recognised as among the best in the world, and we are committed to making any improvements needed to keep our offer to patients world-class.\n\n\"Prevention and early diagnosis of cancer are key priorities for this government, and we are already working closely with NHS England and Public Health England to address the issues this useful report highlights.\"\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 host of British comedy stars have paid tribute to Jeremy Hardy following his death from cancer at the age of 57.\n\nJack Dee, who worked with Hardy on Radio 4's I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue, said he was \"off-the-register funny\".\n\nJulian Clary said he had always been \"the funniest and brightest\", while Victoria Coren Mitchell described him as \"a miracle of a person\".\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn also paid tribute to the socialist comic, saying he \"gave his all for everyone else.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The comedian is remembered by Mark Steel and Jeremy Corbyn\n\nJack Dee - who interviewed Hardy for an edition of Radio 4's Chain Reaction also paid tribute to the comedian.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Hardy \"could do satire without being a smart arse\", says Jack Dee\n\nCoren Mitchell said he had been \"so kind\" when her father Alan - another regular on The News Quiz - died in 2007.\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 Victoria Coren M. 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\nGraeme Garden, who appeared with Hardy on Radio 4's I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue, said he was \"saddened\" to lose a \"kind and thoughtful friend.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Graeme Garden 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\nRory Bremner, meanwhile, said he was \"sad beyond measure\" and that Hardy had been \"funnier than the lot of us put together.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rory Bremner on Jeremy Hardy: \"He cared so much more for people and causes than for fame and fortune\"\n\nThe Reverend Richard Coles recalled fondly that they would often use the toilet at the same time while working at GLR (now BBC Radio London) in the 1980s.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Richard Coles 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\nMock the Week star Angela Barnes was not alone in recalling how \"kind and supportive\" Hardy had been during their radio appearances together.\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 4 by Angela Barnes 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\nPointless quiz master Richard Osman also wrote about how \"lucky\" he had been to work with the comedian early in his career.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 5 by Richard Osman 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 David Morrissey paid tribute to Hardy for highlighting \"the absurdity of our unjust political system\" in his comedy.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 6 by David Morrissey 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\nBroadcaster Matthew Wright said the world would be \"a greyer place\" without him, while comedian Katy Brand said he had always been \"welcoming and generous\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 7 by Jeremy Corbyn 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 Corbyn's tribute followed that of shadow chancellor John McDonnell to a man he called a \"good and loyal friend\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 8 by John McDonnell 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’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSinger Billy Bragg said Hardy would be \"greatly missed by friends and fans\", while actress Rebecca Front said his death was \"heartbreaking news\".\n\n\"I was almost always paired with Jeremy on The News Quiz and he was endlessly kind, supportive, generous and of course funny,\" she wrote on Twitter.\n\nQI regular Alan Davies, meanwhile, paid tribute by posting his \"best Jeremy Hardy line\".\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 9 by Alan Davies 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\nSioned William, Radio 4's commissioning editor for comedy, described Hardy as \"one of our family\".\n\n\"Whether he was demolishing politicians on The News Quiz... or any time he was required to sing on I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue, he was always at the top of his game,\" her statement continued.\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 10 by BBC Press Office 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\nHardy's publicist said \"a fitting memorial\" would take place and that details would be announced soon.\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.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nPremier League January spending fell for the first time since 2012 with a quiet deadline day capping off a relatively low-spending window.\n\nDeadline-day and January spending were less than half of last year's totals, with 12 deals on 31 January totalling £50m - bringing the month's spending to £180m, according to figures from the Sports Business Group at Deloitte.\n\nJanuary 2018 saw £430m spent by Premier League clubs, with £150m on deadline day alone.\n\nHowever, the Premier League was still the highest-spending league in European football in the most recent window, outstripping Italy's Serie A by around £140m.\n\nThe biggest deal on transfer deadline saw Newcastle break their record to sign £20m Paraguayan playmaker Miguel Almiron from MLS side Atlanta United - as well as signing Monaco defender Antonio Barreca on loan.\n\nWolves signed Atletico Madrid full-back Jonny Castro Otto for £15m after a successful loan spell. The next highest fee was £7m as Ante Palaversa moved to Manchester City but immediately returned to Hajduk Split on loan.\n\nLeicester signed Monaco midfielder Youri Tielemans on loan - sending Adrien Silva the other way. Fulham confirmed the signing of Liverpool winger Lazar Markovic on a short-term deal 90 minutes after the deadline passed, having signed Hoffenheim midfielder Havard Nordtveit on loan earlier in the day.\n\nCrystal Palace signed Chelsea striker Michy Batshuayi on loan, revealing the news after midnight.\n\nPeter Crouch will have the chance to add to his 108 Premier League goals after joining Burnley from Stoke, with Sam Vokes going the other way. Cardiff spent £4m on Reading midfielder Leandro Bacuna.\n\nThe only other Premier League signings saw Brighton recruit two youngsters and send them back to their clubs on loan.\n\nLeague One Sunderland have agreed a £4m deal with Wigan for striker Will Grigg - a move which would be in the country's 10 most expensive signings of the window if it is confirmed on 1 February.\n\nEnglish youngsters Reece Oxford (West Ham to Augsburg) and Emile Smith-Rowe (Arsenal to RB Leipzig) completed loan moves to the Bundesliga.\n\nScottish champions Celtic signed Borussia Dortmund right-back Jeremy Toljan on loan - as well as Ukrainian winger Maryan Shved and American defenders Manny Perez and Andrew Gutman, but have loaned the three youngsters back out.\n\nWatford signed one player for their under-23s all month, while Brighton brought in three players - but loaned them all out to their previous clubs. Manchester City's only signing - Ante Palaversa - also immediately left on loan.\n\nBurnley and Leicester made their only signings of the month on deadline day.\n\nTottenham will go the entire 2018-19 season without signing anyone after a second successive window without addition to their squad. Liverpool, Manchester United, Everton and Southampton were the other sides not to make a signing during January.\n\nDeloitte say the reduction is because of:\n• None reduced activity from the 'big six' clubs\n• None a perceived lack of value in the transfer market\n• None the strongest ever financial position of Premier League clubs, reducing the need to sell their best talent in order to ensure financial stability\n• None the global value of Premier League broadcast rights, with the 2019-20 to 2021-22 cycle being only slightly higher than the previous cycle, thereby reducing clubs' desire to spend significantly in the transfer market.\n• None Across the summer and January transfer windows combined, Premier League clubs spent an estimated £1.4bn. That figure is the second highest for an entire season following record spend of £1.9 billion in 2017-18.\n• None The Premier League remains the highest importer of overseas talent, with 72% of the players bought by clubs in 2018-19 coming from abroad.\n\nJanuary deals that did not go through\n\nArsenal failed with bids to sign Inter Milan winger Ivan Perisic, Dalian Yifang wide man Yannick Carrasco and Paris St-Germain midfielder Christopher Nkunku.\n\nReal Betis and Schalke expressed interest in signing Tottenham striker Vincent Janssen but neither move materialised.\n\nEverton rejected an offer of £26.2m from Paris St-Germain for midfielder Idrissa Gueye in the closing stages of the transfer window.\n\nLeeds' prospective loan deal for Swansea winger Daniel James - which could have become permanent for £8.5m - fell through at the last moment.\n\nFormer England internationals Danny Drinkwater and Gary Cahill, who reportedly turned down Juventus, Monaco and Fulham, stayed at Chelsea despite limited prospects of getting in the team.\n\nEngland Under-17 World Cup winner Callum Hudson-Odoi also remained at Stamford Bridge despite putting in a transfer request and being the subject of a £35m bid from Bayern Munich.\n\nWest Ham's proposed £45m signing of Celta Vigo striker Maxi Gomez never happened, while Che Adams stayed at Birmingham despite reported interest from Burnley and Southampton.\n\nWhen did the window close?\n\nIn England the deadline was at 23:00 GMT on Thursday - although clubs were allowed to complete deals later as long as they completed a deal sheet in time - and in Scotland it was midnight.\n\nSpain, Germany, Italy, France and the Netherlands also had 31 January deadlines. Portugal (2 February), Russia (22 February) and China (28 February) are among nations who can still sign players.\n\nChelsea completed the biggest signing with the acquisition of winger Christian Pulisic from Borussia Dortmund for £58m, but they loaned the USA international back to the Bundesliga leaders until the end of the season.\n\nThe Blues also brought in Argentina striker Gonzalo Higuain on loan from Juventus for the remainder of the campaign - with the option to buy him outright for 36m euros (£31.4m) this summer.\n\nBournemouth were one of the busiest clubs, completing three deals. Striker Dominic Solanke came in from Liverpool for £19m, as did right-back Nathaniel Clyne on loan, while Wales defender Chris Mepham joined from Championship side Brentford for £12m.\n\nFulham also signed three, Besiktas winger Ryan Babel and their two deadline-day signings.", "Dad of baby nearly born in Asda: We were panicking a bit\n\nAmong the stories that have emerged from the snow chaos is that of mum Roxanne Campbell, who went into premature labour while stranded on the A30 in Bodmin, in Cornwall, on Thursday. Pregnant Roxanne and husband Alex went into Asda as \"it was the nearest place where it was warm\" - but soon the contractions were coming fast. Alex said when the contractions started he was \"panicking a bit\". Store manager Lee Coshall said: \"The contractions were getting closer together, I brought them down into the office. \"We got to the point where they were coming every minute and a half. So that's when we asked her to lay down and have a look and then she started breaching. \"It got to the point the baby was almost here and thankfully the paramedics did turn up.\" The couple were taken to hospital and baby Amelia was born at Treliske Hospital at 20:21, weighing 5lb 5oz.", "The UK has objected to Gibraltar being described as a \"colony\" in European Union legislation allowing UK nationals to travel to the EU after Brexit.\n\nThe EU proposed allowing visa-free travel for Britons in November.\n\nThe Spanish government has since insisted a footnote be added describing Gibraltar as a \"colony\" and referring to \"controversy\" over its status.\n\nThe UK's ambassador to the EU, Sir Tim Barrow, objected to it at a meeting in Brussels earlier.\n\nA UK government spokesperson said: \"The EU's provisions for visa-free travel into and out of the [passport-free] Schengen area cover Gibraltar, and mean that in any scenario, British nationals from Gibraltar will be able to travel for short stays in and out of Spain and other countries in the Schengen area.\n\n\"Gibraltar is not a colony and it is completely inappropriate to describe it in this way.\n\n\"Gibraltar is a full part of the UK family and has a mature and modern constitutional relationship with the UK.\n\n\"This will not change due to our exit from the EU. All parties should respect the people of Gibraltar's democratic wish to be British.\"\n\nDowning Street also condemned the description of Gibraltar as a \"colony\" in the draft EU document.\n\nGibraltar's Chief Minister Fabian Picardo accused Madrid of trying to \"bully\" the British Overseas Territory by rejecting British demands for the footnote to be removed.\n\n\"No one will be surprised to hear the Spanish government making provocative statements in respect of Gibraltar.\n\n\"The 32,000 people of Gibraltar are used to the constant attempts by successive Spanish governments to bully us in every possible way.\n\n\"This is no different to the sort of abuse we have had from former Spanish administrations.\"\n\nIn November, the European Commission offered visa-free travel for UK nationals coming to the EU for a short stay in the event of a no-deal Brexit on 29 March, as long as the UK offers the same in return.\n\nAt a meeting of EU ambassadors earlier, member states agreed their position on the proposed new law.\n\nThe European Council document says in a footnote: \"Gibraltar is a colony of the British Crown.\n\n\"There is a controversy between Spain and the United Kingdom concerning the sovereignty over Gibraltar, a territory for which a solution has to be reached in light of the relevant resolutions and decisions of the General Assembly of the United Nations.\"\n\nThe document will now be discussed by the European Parliament and the European Commission before becoming law.\n\nThe EU withdrawal agreement agreed with the UK, proposes a special protocol creating several working groups between Madrid and London to discuss the future of Gibraltar.\n\nThe BBC's Brussels reporter Adam Fleming said the Spanish government sees this as giving it a bigger say in the status of Gibraltar, and the issue is likely to be raised again as Brexit approaches, and beyond.\n\nBut the UK insists the protocol is just about the technicalities of how Brexit will work in Gibraltar, he added.\n\nGibraltar was ceded to Great Britain in the 1713 Treaty of Utrecht, but Spain has continued to press its claim for sovereignty - which is rejected by both the UK and the residents of Gibraltar itself.\n\nIn December, the United Nations called on Spain and Britain to find a \"definitive solution\" to their long-running dispute.\n\nThe UN General Assembly adopted a recommendation from its Decolonisation Committee for the two countries to reach a solution through \"dialogue and co-operation\".\n\nGibraltarians rejected by 99% to 1% the idea of the UK sharing sovereignty with Spain in a vote in 2002 and in a previous referendum in 1967.\n\nBut Gibraltar voted by 96% to stay in the EU in the 2016 referendum.", "The government has been urged to \"not turn a blind eye to\" the exploitation of workers in hand car washes.\n\nThe plea came after the government rejected a call for a trial licensing scheme to try to tackle the issue.\n\nThe Environmental Audit Committee said it had found \"widespread and alarming breaches\" of employment and environmental laws at hand car washes.\n\n\"It is disappointing that the ministers have opted for a pilot approach that is voluntary,\" EAC chair Mary Creagh said.\n\nThe government accepted two of the EAC's recommendations from its report which found that cheap hand car washes exploit workers and damage the environment.\n\nCheap hand car washes now account for 80% of the sector in the UK.\n\nThey have grown rapidly over the past 15 years, and are often in car parks and disused forecourts.\n\nMPs said 27% of cases recorded by the Modern Slavery Helpline in 2017 about labour exploitation, concerned car wash workers.\n\nDawn Frazer, managing director of Car Wash Advisory Services (CWAS), which represents a range of car wash businesses, told the BBC she was \"really disappointed\" by the government's decision.\n\nCWAS operates a \"Wash Mark\" scheme to denote a company which is meeting required standards.\n\n\"We visit every site, that's the only way we are ever able to stamp out issues,\" she said.\n\nThe government's voluntary scheme would rely on firms to self report on how they were performing, which she believed would be ineffective.\n\nIndustry body The Car Wash Association said up to 20,000 \"rogue hand car washes\" were believed to be operating in the UK.\n\n\"We are being given words of reassurance, but what we need is firm action against the modern slave owners who evade taxes and exploit vulnerable workers,\" said chair Brian Madderson.", "Roads have closed and trains have been disrupted as snow covers the south of England.\n\nIn Basingstoke, passersby helped push an ambulance up a hill under heavy snowfall.\n\nUp to 17cm (7in) of snowfall has been recorded in Hampshire, according to the Met Office.", "Kasim Khuram admitted having sex with a body in December\n\nA burglar who had sex with a corpse after breaking into a funeral parlour has been jailed for six years.\n\nKasim Khuram, 23, had sex with a woman's body after lifting the lids of coffins at the Central England Co-Operative undertakers in Walsall Road, Great Barr, Birmingham, on 11 November.\n\nSentencing at Birmingham Crown Court, Judge Melbourne Inman QC said the crimes \"offend all human sensitivity\".\n\n\"I am not aware of - and nor have I been able to find - any similar case. It would be difficult to think of a greater depravation of the dignity of the dead,\" he said.\n\nKhuram, of Kenilworth Road, Aston, forced his way into the parlour at about 03:00 GMT while high on Mamba and PCP and after drinking vodka.\n\nHe disturbed \"multiple coffins\" and desecrated the bodies of two women.\n\nKhuram was arrested at the Co-Operative funeral home in Great Barr\n\nHe was arrested at the scene by police officers alerted by the parlour's alarm.\n\nThe court heard he was sectioned for two weeks after being interviewed by police as he was showing signs of \"drug-induced psychosis\".\n\nDet Ch Insp John Askew from West Midlands Police described it as an \"horrendous and disturbing act\".\n\nKhuram wept as victim impact statements were read out in court, and his defence barrister Joseph Keating said he was \"deeply sorry\" for his actions.\n\nThe victims' families described him as a \"monster\" who had \"twisted a knife\" in their hearts.\n\nKhuram, who previously admitted sexual penetration of a body and burglary, was also ordered to register as a sex offender for 10 years.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. John Mann: This is not transactional politics\n\nLabour MPs have been warned by their party not to accept money for their constituencies in return for supporting Theresa May's Brexit deal.\n\nLabour chairman Ian Lavery said \"taking such a bribe would be fool's gold\" given the Tories' record on austerity.\n\nJohn Mann has urged the PM to \"show us the money\" with \"transformative investment\" in areas that voted Leave.\n\nBut the Labour MP, who backed Theresa May's Brexit deal, denied it amounted to \"transactional politics\".\n\nWriting on the Labour List website, Mr Lavery, the former general secretary of the National Union of Mineworkers and a close ally of Jeremy Corbyn, accused Mrs May of playing \"divide and rule\" over Brexit.\n\n\"If the prime minister wants to talk about ending austerity and protecting rights as we leave the EU, she should do so with the leader of the Labour Party and his team.\n\n\"Any Labour MP seriously considering discussions with the PM should remember her record and that of her party going back generations. Quite simply, taking such a bribe would be fool's gold.\"\n\nThe government is understood to be considering proposals from a group of Labour MPs in predominantly Leave-supporting constituencies, to allocate more funds to their communities for big infrastructure projects.\n\nIt is thought the MPs have urged the prime minister to consider re-allocating the EU's regional aid budget away from big cities and local councils and to give the cash direct to smaller communities, often in former steel and coal mining areas.\n\nJohn Mann, MP for Bassetlaw, a former coal mining area in Nottinghamshire, met cabinet office officials in Whitehall on Thursday and told reporters: \"I want to see, when we leave the European Union, significant investment in new technologies, new jobs, science and industry in areas like mine and all the other areas in the country like mine.\n\n\"This isn't transactional politics, this is about getting a national fund ... the areas that voted Leave the most are the areas that have not had that investment.\"\n\nA couple of weeks ago, a Labour MP confessed quietly that they would vote for Theresa May's Brexit deal in the end.\n\nBut they wanted something to show for it, suggesting, half-teasingly, that they wanted the PFI debt of their local hospital paid off.\n\nThat MP was frustrated that the government had taken so long, as they saw it, to try to reach out to get them on board.\n\nBut they predicted that we would soon see what they described as \"transactional politics\", in a way that we haven't seen before in this country.\n\nWith Number 10 in a frantic hunt for support, maybe that time has arrived.\n\nIt comes as ministers continue to try to win support for the withdrawal deal Theresa May has negotiated with the EU, which was rejected by a historic margin in a Commons vote more than two weeks ago. Mr Mann was one of only three Labour MPs to back the deal.\n\nDowning Street says that ministers are looking at a programme of \"national renewal\" following Brexit, to tackle inequality and rebuild communities but has denied any funding amounted to \"cash for votes\".\n\nTottenham MP David Lammy is part of the People's Vote campaign for another referendum\n\nAsked if the government was trying to bribe Labour MPs, Chancellor Philip Hammond said: \"No it doesn't work like that I'm afraid.\n\n\"What we are doing is looking at some of the drivers behind the Brexit vote.\n\n\"What was it that felt that made so many communities feel that they didn't have a stake in the way our economy was operating?\n\n\"And making sure we are investing in, for example, former coalfield communities to ensure they can keep up with the changes that are happening across the economy and that they too can share in our future prosperity.\"\n\nBut David Lammy, Labour MP for Tottenham, in north London, tweeted his response to headlines suggesting the PM was preparing to \"woo Labour MPs with cash to back Brexit\" saying: \"Cowards and facilitators. History will be brutal.\"\n\nAnd his colleague Chuka Umunna, who like Mr Lammy campaigns for another EU referendum, said on Twitter: \"Government by bung is WRONG - whether involving DUP MPs or those from any other party.\n\n\"Funding should be based on the needs of the people not on the needs of an incompetent Tory PM to secure the votes of MPs for a deal which will make the UK poorer.\"\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 Chuka Umunna This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAsked about Mr Lammy's comments, the former Labour MP Frank Field, who now sits as an independent, said: \"David would say that, he is in London. He isn't going to get any money and they are well provided for by the amount of rates they get in most areas and the wealth the business community brings to London.\"\n\nThe veteran MP for Birkenhead, on Merseyside, who backs Brexit, told BBC Newsnight Labour MPs representing Leave constituencies \"should be fighting me to get to the front of the queue to get those funds\".\n\nHe added: \"That's how politics operates. The Tory party in government is very good at shoving money their way to their constituencies. I wish Labour were as effective.\"\n\nBut Anna Turley, MP for Redcar, a Teesside coastal town, which voted to leave the EU, told the same programme she found the idea \"appalling\".\n\n\"We have had nearly a decade now of austerity that has seen constituencies like mine absolutely hammered, £6bn has come out of public spending in the North by this government and if [there is] a programme or national renewal, I'm afraid it's too little too late.\"", "Jeremy Hardy first appeared on screen in 1986\n\nComedian Jeremy Hardy, a regular on BBC Radio 4 panel shows like The News Quiz and I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue, has died of cancer aged 57.\n\nHis death was confirmed on Friday by his publicist, Amanda Emery.\n\nHardy made his name on the comedy circuit in the 1980s, winning the prestigious Perrier Award in 1988 and best live act at the ITV Comedy Awards in 1991.\n\nOn TV he appeared on shows like QI and sketch programme Now - Something Else.\n\nIn a statement, Hardy's publicist said he died early on Friday and was with his wife and daughter when he died.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"He retained to the end the principles that guided his life; trying to make the world more humane, and to be wonderfully funny,\" Ms Emery continued.\n\n\"He will be enormously missed by so many, who were inspired by him and who laughed with him.\n\n\"A fitting memorial will take place, details to be announced soon.\"\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn was among those to mark his passing, saying Hardy had \"made us all smile\" and \"made us all think.\"\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 Jeremy Corbyn This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBBC Radio 4 also expressed sadness at the loss of \"one of the funniest people around\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by BBC Radio 4 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC on Friday, impressionist Rory Bremner remembered his friend as \"a kind and compassionate man\" who \"cared more for people and causes than fame and fortune\".\n\n\"He was unique in the way he delivered thoughtful, intelligent comedy,\" he continued, revealing Hardy had been \"ill for a few months\" and that \"very few people\" had known about it.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rory Bremner on Jeremy Hardy: \"He cared so much more for people and causes than for fame and fortune\"\n\nComic and friend Jack Dee told the BBC Hardy \"spoke fluent comedy\", adding: \"He could take any subject and make it funny\".\n\nWhen asked if he could recall a moment that stood out, he said: \"I remember dropping him at the hospital at one of his earlier appointments.\n\n\"He told the staff: 'This is my friend Jack, he's on work experience for when he gets cancer'.\"\n\nBorn in Farnborough in Hampshire, in 1961, Hardy studied modern history and politics at the University of Southampton before embarking on his stand-up career.\n\nFrom the outset, he worked his socialist politics into his topical act.\n\nHe made his television debut in 1986 in Now - Something Else, an early vehicle for Bremner. Hardy was a featured writer and also played the role of Jeremy the Trainee.\n\nHardy also appeared as Corporal Perkins in an episode of the BBC comedy Blackadder Goes Forth in 1989. Seven years later, he presented an episode of Top of the Pops.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Hardy \"could do satire without being a smart arse\", says Jack Dee\n\nAlso in 1996, Hardy teamed up with comedian Jack Dee to write Channel 4 sketch show Jack and Jeremy's Real Lives. The pair would later work together again on I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue.\n\nHardy became well-known for his comically bad singing on the long-running radio panel game.\n\nHe also fronted Jeremy Hardy Speaks to the Nation, a series of comedy lectures for BBC Radio 4, from 1993.\n\nEpisodes were based around subjects as diverse as how to be a father and how to meet the challenge of the 21st Century. The show's 10th series was broadcast in 2014.\n\nHardy often worked his socialist politics into his act\n\nAnd he appeared on BBC Radio 4 with his first wife, American actress and comedian Kit Hollerbach, in the sitcoms Unnatural Acts and At Home with the Hardys. They adopted a daughter, Elizabeth, in 1990.\n\nAs a life-long socialist, Hardy's political views were often reflected in his work.\n\nUntil 2001, Hardy wrote a column for The Guardian newspaper in which he regularly expressed his support for the Socialist Alliance.\n\nHis final column for the paper criticised the news media for its \"increasingly humorous tone\".\n\nHis opinions didn't always prove popular with his audience. In 2000, he was booed by members of the Just A Minute audience when he used the subject \"parasites\" to begin a rant against the royal family.\n\nIn 2004, Burnley Council cancelled one of Hardy's performances after saying in an episode of his Speaks to the Nation show that members and supporters of the British National Party (BNP) should be shot.\n\nHardy's second wife was the film-maker Katie Barlow\n\nHardy was one of a number of names from the world of showbusiness to campaign to clear the name of Danny McNamee, who was found guilty of the IRA's 1982 Hyde Park bombing, which killed four members of the Household Cavalry and seven horses. McNamee's conviction was overturned in 1998.\n\nHardy was also a keen advocate for the rights of Palestinians, travelling to the occupied West Bank in 2002 to film the documentary Jeremy Hardy vs the Israeli Army.\n\nHardy is survived by his second wife, film-maker and photographer Katie Barlow, and his daughter.\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.", "Dr Stewart Adams was honoured for his research which led to the discovery of ibuprofen in the 1960s\n\nThe man who discovered painkiller ibuprofen worked when he cured his own hangover has died aged 95.\n\nDr Stewart Adams was involved in 10 years of trials of the drug and endured a seven-year wait for it to be approved as a prescription.\n\nHe had joined the research department at Boots after studying pharmacy at the University of Nottingham.\n\nIn 2015, Dr Adams told the BBC taking the drug for the first time gave him a clear head to deliver a speech.\n\nHis son Chris, who lives in Nottingham, confirmed his father had died on Wednesday.\n\nDr Stewart Adams, Dr John Nicholson and Mr R Cobb studying degrees of inflammation using a colour intensity measuring device at Boots\n\nProfessor Kevin Shakesheff, from the University of Nottingham, said Dr Adams's career and contribution to patients was \"inspiring\".\n\n\"He is remembered for his successes in creating one of the most important painkillers in world but, as with many inspirational people, he had to bounce back from failures in earlier clinical trials before he and his team created ibuprofen,\" he said.\n\n\"His life is a reminder to everyone in Nottingham that we can change the world through the work we do in our local companies, hospitals and universities.\"\n\nDr Adams, who was born in 1923 in Byfield, Northamptonshire, left school aged 16 and started an apprenticeship in a retail pharmacy run by Boots.\n\nThis led to a degree in pharmacy at the University of Nottingham followed by a PhD in pharmacology at Leeds University, before he returned to the research department at Boots Pure Drug Company Ltd in 1952.\n\nDr Stewart Adams, photographed here in 1970, told the BBC in 2015 what he was most pleased about was that hundreds of millions of people worldwide are taking the drug he discovered\n\nDr Adams had been honoured for his research, with an honorary doctorate of science from the University of Nottingham, and two blue plaques from the Royal Society of Chemistry.\n\nHe remained with Boots UK for the rest of his career, becoming head of pharmaceutical sciences.\n\nHe told the BBC in 2015 what he was most pleased about was that hundreds of millions of people worldwide are now taking the drug he discovered.\n\n1950s: Work starts to find a drug to treat rheumatoid arthritis that has no side effects\n\n1958: After hundreds of compounds are made and screened for activity, a compound called BTS 8402 is given a clinical trial but it is found to be no better than aspirin\n\n1961: A patent is filed for the compound 2-(4-isobutylphenyl) propionic acid - later called ibuprofen\n\n1966: Clinical trials of ibuprofen take place in Edinburgh and its anti-inflammatory effect is seen in patients\n\n1969: Ibuprofen is launched in the UK on prescription only\n\n1983: Ibuprofen becomes available over the counter because of its safety record\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on Twitter, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nWales made a dramatic winning start to the Six Nations as they staged a second-half revival to beat France.\n\nThe hosts started superbly and surged into a 16-0 half-time lead with tries from Louis Picamoles and Yoann Huget.\n\nAfter an error-strewn first 40 minutes, Wales were unrecognisable in the second as Tomos Williams and George North crossed to put them 17-16 ahead.\n\nCamille Lopez put France back in front but North intercepted a wild pass to seal Wales' 10th straight win.\n\nThe match-winning score came after a moment of madness from French lock Sebastien Vahaamahina, who undermined his side's earlier good work by throwing a recklessly high-risk miss-pass which North picked off and juggled before speeding to the line.\n\nThe British and Irish Lions wing had shown a similarly predatory instinct for his first try, pouncing on Huget's calamitous fumble on his own line.\n\nIt was fitting that Wales' triumph should come from their ability to seize on French mistakes, as this was a match littered with errors and defined by wildly fluctuating swings of momentum.\n\nFor Wales, it was also a result of huge relief after a first half which threatened to derail their Six Nations before it had begun in earnest.\n\nA clean sweep of victories in the autumn series earlier this season had helped build a groundswell of optimism around Welsh rugby with this year's World Cup on the horizon.\n\nYet that sense of buoyancy threatened to be punctured by a limp first 40 minutes, ruthlessly exploited by an impressive French side.\n\nBut Wales' second-half resurgence turned the game on its head and secured a 10th successive win for the first time since 1999.\n• None Coach, father, leader: Who is the real Gatland?\n\nWales head coach Warren Gatland had declared in typically bullish fashion that he believed his side would go on to win the Six Nations if they triumphed in Paris.\n\nThe New Zealander had some reason to be optimistic, having led Wales to seven victories from their 13 meetings with France during his reign.\n\nHowever, 2017's defeat - a chaotic match which ended with 20 minutes of added time - meant Gatland had lost on three of his five visits to the Stade de France with Wales.\n\nThis, his final trip to the French capital as Wales coach, he hoped would be a different story - and it was, in as much as this was nothing like the tight contests these two sides have produced in recent years.\n\nInstead, Wales were blown away by a French side playing their best rugby for an age.\n\nHaving handed France the initiative with Picamoles' sixth-minute try - well finished, albeit against less than fierce tackling - Wales faced torrential pressure in the early exchanges.\n\nThe visitors made matters worse with a raft of handling errors and missed tackles and, even when they fashioned a scoring opportunity, they squandered it.\n\nLiam Williams, one of the few bright sparks for Wales in the first half with his menacing runs in open play, had supporting runners either side of him when he broke clear but, after ignoring them, he crossed the line only for his try to be disallowed by the television match official as replays showed him to have knocked on.\n\nAfter Huget crossed for France's second try, Wales were staring at a heavy defeat but, after some wayward goal-kicking from Morgan Parra a half-time deficit of 16-0 felt like some form of mercy for Gatland's men.\n\nGatland and defence coach Shaun Edwards are not men to mince their words, so you would safely assume they will have given Wales' players an unflinchingly honest assessment of their performance at half-time.\n\nWhatever it is they said, it had the desired effect as Wales emerged for the second half a team transformed.\n\nWilliams got the ball rolling six minutes after the restart, scampering to the line after Josh Adams had drifted infield from the left wing to make an incisive break.\n\nLess than five minutes later, Wales had cut the French lead to just two points.\n\nWith a penalty advantage, Hadleigh Parkes tried his luck with a speculative grubber kick which looked like a simple one to gather but Huget inexplicably dithered and dropped the ball, which North then smartly picked up and dived over in one swift movement.\n\nAround the hour mark, Wales made a raft of changes and it was one of those introduced at that point, Dan Biggar, who gave them the lead for the first time, his nerveless penalty sailing over from 40 yards.\n\nFrance were not done, though. After pulverising a Welsh scrum, Les Bleus were awarded a penalty in front of the posts which Camille Lopez sent over to regain the lead and set up a tense final 10 minutes.\n\nThe hosts had wrestled momentum back but, just as it looked like they were about to strengthen their grip on the game, they pressed the self-destruct button again as Vahaamahina's brainless long pass was intercepted by North.\n\nFrance had been in a rut having won just one of their previous seven matches, and their miserable autumn campaign was rounded off with a home defeat against Fiji.\n\nHead coach Jacques Brunel sought to arrest that slump with some bold selections, replacing the experienced and exceptionally bulky centre Mathieu Bastareaud with 19-year-old debutant Romain Ntamack, son of former France wing Emile Ntamack.\n\nIf Bastareaud's surprising omission from the matchday squad meant a little less weight among the backs, there was no shortage of ballast in a pack of forwards weighing close to 20 stone each.\n\nThe intention was clear: France were looking to outmuscle Wales.\n\nThey did that initially, and then some. Les Bleus were quicker and smarter than their lacklustre opponents and, as well as the brawn of the pack, they had the brains of their backs - with Parra marshalling the side from scrum-half.\n\nWhile much of the pre-match attention was focused on new faces such as Ntamack and debutant lock Paul Willemse, it was France's more established players who inspired their first-half domination.\n\nPicamoles was prominent in defence and attack and took his try well, as did Huget as he sped to the corner.\n\nBut then in keeping with their deeply-ingrained tradition of being as erratic as they are talented, France imploded.\n\nHuget's fumble was dreadful but, if he was scrambling for excuses, he might have pointed to the difficult conditions that came with the rain.\n\nThat would have been charitable to allow that as a reason - but there was no excusing Vahaamahina's rush of blood to the head.\n\nEven by France's recent standards, it was an act of astounding self-destruction but, for North and Wales, it was an opportunity they grasped with relish.\n• None Six Nations on the BBC - coverage times", "George Mason and two other men took part in \"various sexual acts\" in the \"presence of the travelling public\"\n\nA porn actor who filmed himself and his ex-partner having a threesome in front of passengers on the London Underground has been fined £1,000.\n\nGeorge Mason, 35, and Nicholas Mullan, 24, had sex with an unknown third man between Leicester Square and Waterloo stations, Westminster Magistrates' Court heard.\n\nA video was posted on Twitter with the caption \"100% genuine footage\".\n\nMullan, of Belfast, was not fined but told to pay £170 costs and carry out a 12-month community order.\n\nThe incident happened in July 2017, but it was not reported until February last year, when it was posted on Twitter.\n\nMagistrates were told the pair had been returning to Mason's flat following a day out in London\n\nProsecutor Robert Simpson said \"the two men in the dock engaged in various sexual acts\" on the Tube \"in the presence of the travelling public\".\n\nMr Simpson said: \"The incident is recorded by them and the video of what happened was subsequently uploaded on to Twitter, where another gay man saw it, thought that had crossed the line of what was acceptable behaviour and the incident was reported to the police.\"\n\nAn investigation discovered the footage was posted to an account linked to Mason.\n\nMullan was traced after another clip linked to an escort website in Northern Ireland, where he shared his mobile number under the name Toby.\n\nThe third man was never traced.\n\nDefending both Mason and Mullan, Howard Cohen said the video was recorded as the pair travelled back to Mason's flat after a day out.\n\nHe said: \"During the course of the journey, the idea came about that they would have sexual relations on the train.\"\n\nChairing the bench, Lucinda Lubbock described the offence as \"unpleasant and serious\".\n\n\"The way it took place back in July, the seriousness of the offence, is exacerbated by the fact that it went on social media,\" she said.\n\n\"We feel that this is a lesson to both of you. As your defence lawyer said, you have been humiliated in the court of social media.\"", "The interview came after Mr Trump contacted the New York Times' publisher\n\nUS President Donald Trump has dismissed the federal investigation into alleged Russian collusion in the 2016 election and talks about a proposed border wall.\n\nHis lawyers had been reassured he was not a target in Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation, he said.\n\nTalks in Congress about wall funding - the issue behind the recent government shutdown - were a \"waste of time\".\n\nMr Trump was interviewed by the New York Times, a paper he repeatedly described as \"failing\" in the past.\n\nThe paper's interview with Mr Trump came after he contacted its publisher, AG Sulzberger.\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 Donald J. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Sulzberger asked the president to stop his attacks on the media last year, saying they could \"lead to violence\" against journalists.\n\nThe interview with Mr Trump covered a wide range of topics:\n\n\"I'll continue to build the wall, and we'll get the wall finished,\" the president said, dismissing the talks between congressional Republicans and Democrats over the impasse and implying he could declare a national emergency to ensure the barrier is built.\n\nTapping into emergency presidential powers could enable Mr Trump to bypass Congress and access the money and resources needed to complete the project.\n\nCritics have said the situation at the border does not constitute a true emergency and invoking one would be an abuse of power.\n\nMr Trump has sought $5.7 billion (£4.4bn) for a wall on the southern border. The Democrats refuse to provide it, arguing it is immoral and ineffective.\n\nThe divide led to the longest government shutdown in US history, which will resume on 15 February if no budget can be agreed.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Trump slammed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in the interview over the border wall.\n\n\"I've actually always gotten along with her, but now I don't think I will any more,\" he said. \"I think she's doing a tremendous disservice to the country.\"\n\nMs Pelosi told reporters on Thursday there would be no money for a wall in planned border security legislation.\n\nSpeaking to two New York Times reporters in the Oval Office, the president said he had received assurances from Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.\n\n\"Rod told me I'm not a target of the investigation,\" Mr Trump said. He then suggested that he may not have spoken to him in person, adding: \"The lawyers ask him. They say: 'He's not a target of the investigation'.\"\n\nIt is not clear when Mr Rosenstein made the comments attributed to him by Mr Trump. Mr Rosenstein oversaw Mr Mueller's investigation until last November, when the president transferred control to acting attorney general Matthew Whitaker.\n\nMr Rosenstein and Mr Mueller have not said whether Mr Trump is a target in the investigation.\n\nSome reports have suggested that the term \"target\" would not be used for Mr Trump because sitting presidents are immune from prosecution.\n\nMr Mueller's investigation is still ongoing and it is unclear when he will submit his findings to the attorney general.\n\nThe president also insisted he \"never did\" speak to his long-time associate Roger Stone about stolen Democratic emails published by Wikileaks in 2016.\n\nMr Stone has been charged with seven counts in the Mueller inquiry related to the emails - charges he denies.\n\nPresident Trump did however attack the FBI raid on Mr Stone's home, calling it \"a very sad thing for this country\".\n\nThe president said his lawyer Rudy Giuliani had been \"wrong\" to say that talks over a project to construct a Trump building in Moscow had continued up to the 2016 US election.\n\nMr Giuliani had already rowed back on the comments, saying that he had been mistaken.\n\nMr Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen has pleaded guilty to lying to Congress at least three times about the project - including telling Congress that the project was dissolved in January 2016.\n\nIn fact, negotiations continued through June 2016, when Mr Trump was already the Republican presidential nominee.\n\nLast month Mr Mueller's office disputed a claim in a Buzzfeed report that said Mr Trump had told Cohen to lie to Congress about when the Moscow project had ended.\n\nThe Buzzfeed report also said Mr Trump had allegedly encouraged Cohen to plan a trip to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin during the election campaign.\n\nMr Trump told the New York Times his last conversation about the project had been in \"early to middle\" 2016. He said Cohen might have been involved with the project \"a little bit longer than that\".\n\n\"I was running for president; I was doing really well. The last thing I cared about was building a building,\" he added.\n\n\"I love this job,\" Mr Trump insisted, dismissing talk he might not run for re-election in 2020.\n\nHe did however tell the paper he had lost \"massive amounts of money\" working as president.\n\nHe also spoke of Democratic candidates in next year's vote.\n\nCalifornia Senator Kamala Harris has had \"the best opening so far\", he said. She announced her plan to run for president last month.\n\nBut another possible candidate, Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren, had been \"hurt badly\" by Mr Trump's mockery of her claims to Native American heritage, he said.\n\nLast year Mr Trump described her as a \"fake Pocahontas\" and challenged her to take a DNA test.\n\nShe did and the subsequent DNA report concluded that \"the vast majority\" of Ms Warren's ancestry was European, but \"the results strongly\" supported a Native American ancestor.\n\n\"I may be wrong, but I think that was a big part of her credibility and now all of a sudden it's gone,\" Mr Trump told the New York Times.", "Comedian Jeremy Hardy has died from cancer at the age of 57.\n\nHardy made a living off people laughing, with stories about everything from parenthood to politics.\n\nThe comedian made his name on the comedy circuit in the 1980s, and was a regular on BBC Radio 4 panel shows like The News Quiz and I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue.\n\nHere are some of his highlights.", "As snow falls on large parts of the UK, we look at some of the most striking wintry images.\n\nTravel disruption on Friday hit major rail routes across the south west - but there were no such problems for this train crossing the Ribblehead Viaduct in North Yorkshire on Saturday.\n\nMost English Football League fixtures went ahead on Saturday. Ground staff at Portman Road worked hard ahead of Ipswich Town playing Sheffield Wednesday.\n\nBut six English Football League matches were postponed. No Premier League fixtures were affected, including here at Burnley's Turf Moor stadium.\n\nThe Met Office has issued yellow weather warnings for ice across much of the south of England for Saturday and Sunday.\n\nThere were icy conditions at Murrayfield on Saturday morning ahead of Scotland's Six Nations match with Italy. Rugby fans travelling to Edinburgh were urged to plan their travel arrangements in advance.\n\nForecasters have warned Saturday night could be the coldest of winter so far with many parts of the UK - including here in Whitley Bay - expected to remain covered in snow and ice.\n\nIcy roads were a familiar sight around the UK on Saturday morning - including here in Westbury, Wiltshire.\n\nChildren went sledging on Friday as they enjoyed a precious day off school in Poundbury, Dorset.\n\nThese dogs went for a walk near a snow-covered Clifton suspension bridge in Bristol on Friday.\n\nOne of four endangered Amur tiger cubs, born at Whipsnade Zoo in Bedfordshire last year, had their first taste of British winter on Friday.\n\nThe chilly conditions prompted a bit of snowboarding on the South Downs at Devil's Dyke near Brighton on Friday.\n\nThe UK's snowman population has been booming thanks in part to many students and workers whose weekend began early.\n\nBehind you! This snowball was captured mid-flight on a hillside near Brighton on Friday.\n\nPeople got creative with a snowman and snow-cat on a bench in Bristol.\n\nThis pair offered a helping hand to a driver trying to get his car moving on Friday.\n\nCars are driven through snow and slush near Chievely, Berkshire, on Friday.\n\nA commuter in Bristol sported a kilt on his way to work on Friday morning.\n\nAnother commuter looked a little better prepared, wearing ski goggles.\n\nYou looking at me? Rachel Bennett's pug dog Keith seemed to enjoy the conditions in Doncaster, South Yorkshire.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex were in Bristol on Friday lunchtime as the snow continued to fall.\n\nDespite the weather, the royal couple were met by large crowds as they visited the Bristol Old Vic theatre, which is undergoing a £26m restoration.\n\nSnow ploughs were needed to clear roads and airport runways on Friday, including this one pictured in Shaftesbury, Dorset.\n\nChildren made the most of the snow in Hartley Wintney, in Hampshire, on Friday morning.\n\nStaff worked to clear Arsenal's training ground in London Colney, Hertfordshire, on Friday morning.\n\nDriving conditions were hazardous across large parts of the UK, like here near Shaftesbury in Dorset.\n\nA very snowy Angel of the North near Gateshead, in Tyne and Wear, where heavy snowfall caused travel disruption on Friday.\n\nSpot the dog: A Dalmatian runs through the snow in Milton Keynes on Friday.\n\nA snow-covered tent in Cardiff's Queen Street, where temperatures fell below freezing on Thursday night.\n\nMore than six inches of snow had settled in Wells, Somerset, by 10:00 GMT on Friday.\n\nQueen's Square in Bristol resembled a scene from Narnia on Friday morning.\n\nThe struggle was real for this driver pictured clearing the windows of a 4x4 in Bristol on Friday.\n\nA dog out for a walk in the snow in Bristol on Friday.\n\nWhite rooftops were seen in Gold Hill, Dorset, on Friday morning after heavy snowfall.\n\nAn elderly resident makes his way up a snow-covered road in Hartley Wintney, Hampshire, in the early hours of Friday.", "Senior Conservative backbencher Sir Graham Brady has told the BBC that he could accept a delay to Brexit - as long as a deal was already agreed.\n\nHe said a short delay to the 29 March exit date would be acceptable if needed to get legislation through Parliament.\n\nThe government says its position has not changed on the date but Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt has suggested \"extra time\" may be needed.\n\nMPs rejected a bid to postpone Brexit if no deal was reached by 26 February.\n\nThat amendment, from the Labour MP Yvette Cooper, would have delayed the 29 March departure date by several months, but it was voted down by 321 to 298 on Tuesday.\n\nBut Sir Graham, chairman of the influential 1922 Committee of Conservative backbenchers, told Nick Robinson's Political Thinking podcast, the Cooper amendment \"would have been deeply counter-productive because it moves off the decision point\".\n\nPutting off the decision would only lead to more uncertainty, he said.\n\n\"I would only countenance a delay if we already had a deal agreed, it's just a matter of doing the necessary work to implement it,\" said Sir Graham.\n\n\"Once we've reached an agreement and we know the terms on which we're leaving, if we decide that we need another two weeks in order to finish the necessary legislation through Parliament, I don't think anybody's going to be too worked up about that, because we will have made a decision.\"\n\nEnter the word or phrase you are looking for\n\nThe UK is due to leave the European Union at 23:00 on 29 March, however MPs have overwhelmingly rejected the withdrawal deal that the government had negotiated with the EU.\n\nOn Tuesday they voted for the prime minister to seek \"alternative arrangements\" to the controversial Irish \"backstop\" proposal, which is opposed by many Conservative MPs and the Democratic Unionist Party.\n\nThe backstop is an \"insurance\" policy to stop the return of checks on goods and people along the Northern Ireland border, if no deal is reached in time. It would effectively keep the UK inside the EU's customs union, but with Northern Ireland also conforming to some rules of the single market.\n\nIts critics say a different status for Northern Ireland could threaten the existence of the UK and fear that the backstop could become permanent.\n\nBut the EU's chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier said on Wednesday the backstop was \"part and parcel\" of the withdrawal deal and would not be renegotiated.\n\nEarlier on Thursday, Mr Hunt said \"extra time\" may be needed to finalise legislation for Brexit and a possible delay in the UK's departure from the EU depended on the progress made in the coming weeks.\n\nAnd BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said there had been \"growing chatter\" about a potential delay and a potential extension to Article 50 - the mechanism by which the UK leaves the EU.\n\nBut the prime minister's official spokesman said the government remained committed to leaving the EU on 29 March.\n\nParliament had been due to rise for recess on Thursday, 14 February and return on Monday, 25 February but that has now been cancelled.\n\n\"The fact that recess won't be taking place shows you that we are taking all available steps to make sure that 29 March is our exit date,\" the spokesman said.\n\n\"The prime minister's position of this is unchanged - we will be leaving on the 29th.\"\n\nDowning Street was also discussing the possibility of Parliament sitting for extra hours in the run up to Brexit, the spokesman said.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn accused the government of running down the clock on Brexit.\n\nHe said: \"It is possible that there will have to be an extension in order to get an agreement because we cannot leave the EU on March 29 without an agreement.\n\n\"Crashing out would mean problems of transport, problems of medicine supply, problems of supply to the food processing industry that does just in time deliveries - and that simply is not acceptable.\n\n\"This government has had two-and-a-half years to negotiate and has failed to do so.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Labour MP John Mann has said a group of 10 MPs from his party met the prime minister two weeks ago to ask for \"a significant amount of money\" for poorer areas, \"so that we can actually move forward as we leave the EU\".\n\nWhen asked about a Times article that said Mrs May was preparing to entice Labour MPs to vote for her deal with money for constituencies, Mr Mann told the BBC he had voted for the deal already, \"so I can't be bribed\".\n\n\"There's no expectation, this isn't transactional politics. We're asking for money for areas that have not had their fair share in the past,\" he said.\n\nLabour MP John Mann was among those meeting the prime minister\n\nSeveral Conservative MPs have been spotted going to meetings in Downing Street, including former Brexit minister Steve Baker, Iain Duncan Smith, Mrs May's close ally Damian Green and Nicky Morgan.\n\nMs Morgan, a former education secretary, said she was there to discuss a plan known as the \"Malthouse Compromise\".\n\nEngineered by both Leavers and Remainers, the proposal includes extending the transition period for a year and protecting EU citizens' rights, instead of using the backstop.\n\nUnion officials have also been meeting with government officials in the Cabinet Office to discuss Mrs May's Brexit plan.\n\nBut a Trades Union Congress spokesman said the prime minister's deal came \"nowhere close\" to offering the safeguards desired for working people.", "Images of two \"people of interest\" have been released by police investigating a suspected hate attack on a US actor.\n\nJussie Smollett, known for the show Empire, was attacked by two people in Chicago earlier this week.\n\nHe was hit, had an \"unknown chemical substance\" poured on him and a rope was wrapped around his neck.\n\nThe suspects are reported to have shouted \"racial and homophobic slurs\" and Jussie says they referenced MAGA - the slogan Make America Great Again.\n\nChicago police have released this image of two \"people of interest\" in the case\n\nReleasing the two images, Chicago police said surveillance video of the attack has not yet been found, but that more cameras are being reviewed.\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 Anthony Guglielmi 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\nA police spokesperson tweeted that they were \"taking this development seriously\".\n\nCelebrities including Ariana Grande, Viola Davis, Naomi Campbell and Janelle Monae sent messages of support to Jussie after the attack.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nJussie hasn't spoken since the attack, but his publicist has released a family statement to the news agency Reuters.\n\n\"Our beloved son and brother, Jussie, was the victim of a violent and unprovoked attack,\" it says.\n\n\"We want to be clear, this was a racial and homophobic hate crime.\"\n\nThe creator of Empire, Lee Daniels, posted an emotional video on Instagram in the days after the attack.\n\nHe said: \"You didn't deserve, nor anybody deserves, to have a noose put around your neck.\n\n\"America is better than that. It starts at home. We have to love each other regardless of what sexual orientation we are, because it shows that we are united.\"\n\nUS comedian and presenter Steve Harvey also supported the actor with an Instagram video, saying: \"This ain't about sexual preference or nothing. This is about coming to the aid of another brother that has tasted the brutality of hatred and racism and bigotry.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 every weekday on BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra - if you miss us you can listen back here.", "Amelia Campbell was born at Treliske Hospital nearly three weeks before her expected due date\n\nA woman who went into premature labour in heavy snowfall has been helped by a customer and Asda staff as she waited more than three hours for an ambulance.\n\nRoxanne Campbell walked into the store in Bodmin, Cornwall for help when her contractions began nearly three weeks early at about 17:00 GMT on Thursday.\n\nHeavy snow delayed the ambulance and scores of vehicles were abandoned on the A30 in Bodmin overnight.\n\nAmelia Campbell was born at Treliske Hospital at 20:21 and weighed 5lb 5oz.\n\nHer delighted father Alex Campbell said his wife and daughter were \"doing great\" now and praised the Asda staff and Jess Creasey, a trained first aider, who responded to a store announcement for medical assistance.\n\nHe said when the contractions started he was \"panicking a bit\".\n\n\"Basically we had to get all the way to Truro from Bodmin, and there was no buses, no trains, and none of us drive,\" he continued.\n\n\"We just got stranded outside the front here. It was the nearest place that was warm.\"\n\nAsda manager Lee Coshall thanked Jess Creasey for her help\n\nStore manager Lee Coshall organised for Mrs Campbell to be taken into a backroom for privacy, and tried to keep her warm and calm while they waited.\n\nMrs Creasey, from Bude, said: \"They were amazing, they gave us everything we needed for free, straight off the shelf.\"\n\nThe ambulance was called at about 17:00 and eventually made its way through the traffic and weather at 20:00.\n\nOther motorists were not so lucky and resorted to abandoning their cars on the A30 as heavy snow caused traffic chaos on Thursday.\n\nKate Bullen was told her dog Bert was not allowed in the Premier Inn hotel\n\nIn Bodmin, a woman was thrown out of a Premier Inn in a snow storm because she had a dog with her.\n\nKate Bullen and 13-year-old Bert went to The Callywith as heavy snow fell in the area but staff told the her no dogs were allowed in the hotel and asked her to leave.\n\nThe 38-year-old graphic designer had been sent home from work as the weather worsened and was eventually forced to abandon her car.\n\n\"I am frankly disgusted by it,\" her mum Linda Bullen said. \"Why would you turn anyone out into a blizzard?\"\n\nPremier Inn said its staff could have handled the situation \"differently\" and apologised \"for any upset caused\".\n\nStaff at Jamaica Inn have laid out makeshift beds for stranded motorists\n\nMore than 100 people stranded on the A30 were given emergency shelter overnight in the nearby Jamaica Inn, made famous by Daphne Du Maurier's classic novel of the same name.\n\nGeneral manager Sammy Wheeler said people had trudged through the snow for up to five miles to reach them as \"people were fed up of being in a cold car and they were running out of fuel\".\n\nDespite their difficult journey she said spirits were \"incredibly high\" among the guests, who included about a dozen children and an eight-month-old baby.\n\nMeanwhile about 300 stranded students slept at Callywith College overnight.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Indi and Chris told BBC Breakfast that the atmosphere overnight at Callywith College had been pretty good\n\nPolice said the A30 had become \"passable\" by noon but the Highways Agency said its efforts to clear the road had been hampered by scores of abandoned vehicles.\n\nDevon and Cornwall Police said it had dealt with about 600 snow-related incidents on Thursday and overnight and the A38 was closed after a HGV crashed in the snow.\n\nCh Insp Adrian Leisk said Thursday was as busy as New Year's Eve so resources were \"extremely stretched\".\n\nPaul Davies, who was stranded for eight and a half hours, said: \"The heavens opened and the snow came down and it became very deep and impassable very quickly.\n\n\"We were on Bodmin Moor about to go down a very steep hill and that became impassable so everyone just ground to a halt.\"\n\nMotorists who abandoned their vehicles were urged to return to them to help clear the roads\n\nSnow was being cleared from the A30 on Friday morning\n\nMany schools were closed across the South West on Friday and Newquay Airport was closed until 12:00 GMT.\n\nThe sports hall at Callywith College in Cornwall became a makeshift dormitory for 300 students who because of the weather had been unable to leave either in their own vehicles or the college-run bus service.\n\nOne student Indi said: \"It was just too thick to drive through.\"\n\nFellow student Chris left his car at a petrol station and walked an hour and half back to the college.\n\nHe said: \"It was the right decision in the end as we would have been freezing out there.\"\n\n\"We had around 300 people all in the sports hall, obviously we're all good friends so it's not too bad, we made the best of a bad situation,\" he added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Amazon has forecast lower-than-expected sales for the first three months of the year sparking investor fears over slowing growth.\n\nShares in the online giant fell almost 5% in after-hours trading despite it reporting record sales and profit for the Christmas holiday period.\n\nAmazon expects sales to grow between 10% and 18% in the first quarter, slightly below analyst forecasts.\n\nA hit from currency exchange rates was partly to blame, the firm said.\n\nIn the three months to the end of the year, which included the crucial Christmas period, profit rose 63% to $3bn (£2.2bn) while revenue was up 20% to $72.4bn.\n\nWhile this was better than analysts had expected, it was still the slowest sales growth for the firm since the start of 2015.\n\nThe deceleration comes as the firm encounters challenges abroad, with changing regulations in markets such as India.\n\nIt also faces increased competition at home, as rival retailers such as Target and Walmart invest heavily in online operations.\n\nNeil Saunders, analyst at research firm GlobalData, said competitors' gains had hurt the growth of Amazon's retail division.\n\n\"In our view, the gap between Amazon and the rest is now narrowing,\" he said.\n\n\"Amazon will now need to work doubly hard to achieve any future sales gains.\"\n\nNonetheless, he said that compared to many other retailers, the firm's retail sales figures were still strong.\n\nIn North America, sales increased 18% year-on-year, while its international sales climbed 15%.\n\nMr Saunders said the firm's profits were also \"impressive\".\n\nAmazon's widening profits are largely driven by the growth of its high-margin businesses, including its cloud, advertising and third-party seller services.\n\nAmazon's cloud computing arm, Amazon Web Services provided two thirds of the firm's profit last quarter.\n\nIt is one of the services the firm is relying on to help offset slowing revenue growth in its retail arm.\n\nAmazon founder and chief executive Jeff Bezos, who is also the world's richest man, singled out its smart speaker Alexa, saying it was the company's best-selling device.\n\nNicholas Hyett, analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown, said the online retailer was \"tightening its grip\" on its customers with add-on services such as Amazon Prime which offer free delivery and other benefits.\n\n\"With so many opportunities, the biggest problem facing Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is where to focus the attention,\" he added.\n\nMr Hyett said that while he would have preferred sales guidance to be in line with expectations, \"given the rate of growth Amazon's delivering it could be more than made up by a slight outperformance in future quarters\".\n\n\"There's no evidence of a systemic slowdown as yet.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Transfers\n\nThe winter transfer window closed at 23:00 GMT on 31 January 2019 in England and midnight in Scotland, though some deals were announced on 1 February.\n\nGermany's follows the same dates, Spain's opens on 2 January and Italy's runs from 3-18 January.\n\nEFL clubs can still sign free agents as long as they left their previous club before the end of the summer window in August.\n\nFor all the latest transfer rumours check out today's gossip column.\n\n*To be completed when summer transfer window opens\n\n*To be completed when summer transfer window opens\n\n*To be completed when summer transfer window opens\n\n*Previously on loan, confirmation of transfer agreed in 2018 summer transfer window\n\n*Previously on loan, confirmation of transfer agreed in 2018 summer transfer window\n\n*To be completed when summer transfer window opens\n\n*To be completed when summer transfer window opens\n\n*To be completed when summer transfer window opens\n\n*Previously on loan, confirmation of transfer agreed in 2018 summer transfer window\n\n*Previously on loan, confirmation of transfer agreed in 2018 summer transfer window\n\n*Previously on loan, confirmation of transfer agreed in 2018 summer transfer window\n\n*Previously on loan, confirmation of transfer agreed in 2018 summer transfer window", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Pangolin: The most trafficked mammal in the world\n\nA record eight tonnes of pangolin scales and more than 1,000 elephant tusks have been seized from a shipping container in Hong Kong, officials say.\n\nThe container, from Nigeria and said to be carrying frozen beef, was searched after a tip-off.\n\nThe illegal cargo has an estimated value of about $8m (£6m). Two arrests were made, officials say.\n\nThe scales of the pangolin, an endangered anteater, are said to have medicinal value in parts of Asia.\n\nCustoms officers in Hong Kong said the shipment contained 8,300kg of pangolin scales (left)\n\nThey have previously been smuggled into countries from Africa in huge quantities, with the pangolin thought to be the world's most trafficked mammal.\n\nOn Friday, Hong Kong customs officers said they had seized some 8,300kg of pangolin scales and 2,100kg of ivory tusks hidden inside the container, AFP news agency reports.\n\nThey added that the shipment, which was bound for Vietnam, was \"a record quantity for a seizure of pangolin scales\".\n\nPangolins are sought after for the unproven medicinal properties of their scales\n\nA man and a woman from a trading company were arrested in Hong Kong, the customs department said.\n\nIt is difficult to determine how many pangolins would have been killed to make 8,300kg of scales as there are three species of the anteater ranging in weight from about 2kg to 35kg, Dr Helen O'Neill from the Zoological Society of London told the BBC.\n\nThese unusual-looking creatures are the world's most scaly animal. All eight species are endangered because they are hunted for their scales and meat - and are now protected under international law.\n\nThe scales, which are made from nothing more than keratin, the same material that makes up human fingernails and hair, are sought after for their unproven medicinal properties.\n\nSome 100,000 pangolins are snatched every year from the wild and sent to Vietnam and China.\n\nThis has led to their numbers falling drastically.\n• None What's the secret to saving this rare creature?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA 79-year-old woman has been sentenced to 28 days in prison for what officials have described as a \"campaign of intimidation\" against her neighbours.\n\nKathleen Neal, of Castle Donington, Leicestershire, sprayed weed killer and poured urine on to plants belonging to her neighbour Susan Brookes.\n\nCCTV shows Neal pushing over her neighbour's plant pots, having removed a fence panel.\n\nShe was sentenced in her absence at Nottingham County Court on Monday.\n\nNeal was also ordered to pay legal costs of £4,323 after seven breaches of an injunction placed on her in 2016.\n\nLeicestershire Police said a warrant had been issued and Neal was arrested earlier. The court said she was due to appear on Friday.\n\nSusan Brookes says she wonders if the harassment was triggered by Neal finding out she grew up in a council house\n\nMrs Brookes, 67, said her neighbour had \"relentlessly\" targeted her and husband Keith, 70, since the year after they moved into the property in 2002.\n\n\"She certainly has been a neighbour from hell,\" she said. \"For somebody who's 79, she's pretty sprightly.\n\n\"She comes over as this poor little old lady but you should see her climbing over the 5ft fence to get into our garden.\"\n\nThe court heard Neal's catalogue of anti-social behaviour included trespassing on the Brookes property and conducting a campaign of silent phone calls made from a pay-as-you-go mobile phone.\n\nShe also deliberately lit smoky bonfires in her garden and caused criminal damage.\n\n\"It's been terrible,\" Mrs Brookes told the BBC. \"Your whole life becomes about 'what's she going to do next?'.\n\n\"We haven't wanted to go away on holiday. Once when we were away she chopped down a tree and threw it into our garden.\n\n\"We've had to get CCTV and I have folders and folders of evidence about what she's done. I think the law needs to speed up a little bit in cases like this.\"\n\nMrs Brookes said she did not know what had sparked the harassment campaign but thought it might have been prompted by Neal finding out she used to live in a council house.\n\n\"This is the posh side of town,\" she said. \"She used to say things to me like, 'We don't want your sort around here'.\"\n\nNeal was caught spraying weed killer into her neighbour's garden\n\nMrs Brookes said the prison sentence had come as \"a relief\".\n\n\"No-one wants to see an elderly lady go to prison but Mrs Neal has shown no remorse for her actions,\" she said.\n\n\"My husband and I therefore now hope that the shock and shame of serving a short sentence in prison will finally change her ways.\"\n\nInsp Richard Jackson, from North West Leicestershire neighbourhood policing area, said: \"No-one should live in fear of their neighbour and unfortunately Neal has repeatedly refused to put a stop to her campaign.\n\n\"It is our hope that this sentence will finally put a stop to the behaviour which has blighted one family's lives for some considerable time.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on Twitter, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The attack was caught on CCTV inside the Home Bargains store\n\nCCTV footage of the moment a three-year-old boy had acid thrown over him in a shop has been shown to a jury.\n\nThe boy suffered serious burns when he was splashed with acid at the Home Bargains store in Worcester on 21 July 2018, a court has heard.\n\nJurors were told the attack happened in a matter of seconds while the boy was looking at toy footballs.\n\nHis father, who cannot be named, denies conspiring to commit grievous bodily harm at Worcester Crown Court.\n\nThe trial previously heard that three of the defendants, Adam Cech, Jan Dudi and Norbert Pulko, were seen on CCTV entering the shop in the Tallow Hill area.\n\nFootage played in court earlier showed a man approaching the boy and then spraying acid over him before leaving the scene, prosecutor Jonathan Rees QC said.\n\nMr Rees told the jury that the man was \"undisputedly\" Mr Cech.\n\nAs the clip was played in court, the boy's father sat in the dock and held a tissue to his face.\n\nJurors previously heard how the boy, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, screamed \"I hurt\" in the immediate aftermath of the attack.\n\nProsecutors allege that the father \"enlisted others\" to attack the boy in a bid to paint his mother as \"unfit\" and win more contact with the child.\n\nThe father is accused alongside Mr Cech, 27, of Farnham Road, Mr Dudi, 25, of Cranbrook Road and Martina Badiova, 22, of Newcombe Road, Handsworth, all of Birmingham; Mr Pulko, 22, of Sutherland Road, and Saied Hussini, 41, of Wrottesley Road, both in London; and Jabar Paktia, 41, of Newhampton Road, Wolverhampton.\n\nThey all deny conspiracy to commit grievous bodily harm.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Leave.EU and an insurance company owned by its founder Arron Banks have been fined £120,000 over data law breaches.\n\nIt represents a reduction in the £135,000 total previously announced by the Information Commissioner's office.\n\nThe pro-Brexit Leave.EU group's £60,000 fine was reduced to £45,000 after \"considering the company's representations\", the ICO said.\n\nLeave.EU said it was a \"politically motivated attack against our involvement in Brexit\".\n\nA spokesman said it was \"disappointed but not surprised\" and would be appealing against the fine in court.\n\nThe fines follow an Information Commissioner investigation into the misuse of personal data by political campaigns.\n\nThe report says more than a million emails sent to Leave.EU subscribers contained marketing for the Eldon Insurance firm's GoSkippy services. Eldon Insurance has been fined £60,000 for the breach.\n\nIn addition to the £45,000 fine for that breach, Leave.EU was also fined £15,000 for \"using Eldon Insurance customers' details unlawfully to send almost 300,000 political marketing messages\".\n\nThe ICO confirmed on Friday it would be reviewing how both are complying with data protection laws, including looking at how personal data is processed and staff training.\n\nThe watchdog will also be interviewing the directors, staff and data protection officers at both organisations.\n\nEldon Insurance has also been issued with an enforcement notice, ordering it to take steps to make sure it complies with electronic marketing regulations.\n\nInformation Commissioner Elizabeth Denham said: \"It is deeply concerning that sensitive personal data gathered for political purposes was later used for insurance purposes; and vice versa. It should never have happened.\n\n\"We have been told both organisations have made improvements and learned from these events.\n\n\"But the ICO will now audit the organisations to determine how they are using customers' personal information.\"\n\nIn November, Mr Banks defended himself on Twitter. The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), he said, had found \"we may have accidentally sent a newsletter to customers\" but \"no evidence of a grand data conspiracy\".\n\nHe added: \"Gosh we communicated with our supporters and offered them a 10% Brexit discount after the vote! So what?\"", "Facebook works with more than 30 fact-checking agencies\n\nTwo leading fact-checking agencies have stopped their work with Facebook, striking a blow to the network's efforts to fight fake news.\n\nThe social network had paid the Associated Press and Snopes to combat its misinformation crisis.\n\nBut both firms confirmed they are no longer checking articles. The AP told the BBC it was in \"ongoing conversations\" about work in future.\n\nFacebook said it was committed to fighting fake news.\n\nThe company said it would expand its efforts in 2019.\n\n\"Fighting misinformation takes a multi-pronged approach from across the industry,\" a Facebook spokeswoman told the BBC.\n\n\"We are committed to fighting this through many tactics, and the work that third-party fact-checkers do is a valued and important piece of this effort.\n\n\"We have strong relationships with 34 fact-checking partners around the world who fact-check content in 16 languages, and we plan to expand the programme this year by adding new partners and languages.\"\n\nA spokeswoman for the AP told the BBC: \"AP constantly evaluates how to best deploy its fact-checking resources, and that includes ongoing conversations with Facebook about opportunities to do important fact-checking work on its platform.\"\n\nSnopes said it needed to \"determine with certainty that our efforts to aid any particular platform are a net positive for our online community, publication and staff”.\n\nThe site's founder David Mikkelson, and head of operations Vinny Green, said in a blog post that the firm did not rule out working with Facebook in future.\n\n\"We hope to keep an open dialogue going with Facebook to discuss approaches to combating misinformation that are beneficial to platforms, fact-checking organisations and the user community alike,\" the company said.\n\nThe blog post acknowledged that choosing not to renew its work with Facebook would have financial repercussions for the company.\n\nIn 2017, Facebook paid Snopes $100,000 (£76,500) for its work. Snopes has not yet released its financial disclosures for 2018.\n\n\"Forgoing an economic opportunity is not a decision that we or any other journalistic enterprise can take lightly in the current publishing landscape,\" the company said.\n\nLate last year, the Guardian published a report that suggested fact-checking firms were frustrated by Facebook’s lack of transparency.\n\nThe article quoted former Snopes managing editor Brooke Binkowski as saying: “They’ve essentially used us for crisis PR. They’re not taking anything seriously. They are more interested in making themselves look good and passing the buck… They clearly don’t care.”\n\nIn a blog post, Facebook disputed the Guardian's report, saying it had \"several inaccuracies\".\n\nSpeaking about the news Snopes and the AP had pulled out, Ms Binkowski said she felt Facebook was too controlling over the fact-checking companies.\n\n\"Facebook can't handle any kind of pushback, any kind of public criticism,\" she told the BBC, adding that she felt the fact-checking programme at Facebook had been \"mishandled\".\n\nFacebook has worked with two other fact-checking agencies in the US. One, Politifact, told the BBC it intended to continue working with Facebook in 2019. The other, Factcheck.org, did not respond to requests for comment at the time of publication.\n\nDo you have more information about this or any other technology story? You can reach Dave directly and securely through encrypted messaging app Signal on: +1 (628) 400-7370", "A Cornish inn has made up makeshift beds for motorists stranded on the A30.\n\nStaff at Jamaica Inn near Launceston, which was made famous by Daphne Du Maurier's classic novel of the same name, have laid mattresses out on the floor.\n\n\"We originally had seven rooms booked tonight - we now have all 37 booked,\" said manager Sammy Wheeler.\n\nQuote Message: We've made up 15 beds in the lower restaurant, with another five in the lounge, and there are 10 or 12 people sleeping in the bar.\" We've made up 15 beds in the lower restaurant, with another five in the lounge, and there are 10 or 12 people sleeping in the bar.\"\n\n\"We have a poorly baby with a heart condition that one of our staff helped to bring up out of their car. We've kicked one of our other residents out of their room so that baby can have a bed.\n\n\"People are still coming in and we're going to stay open all night so people can just keep coming.\"", "More people over the age of 75 should be taking statins, scientists have said, following a review of research.\n\nThere had been a lack of evidence about how much the cholesterol-lowering drugs benefit this age group.\n\nBut the review found they cut the risk of major cardiovascular disease in all ages studied, including the over-75s.\n\nResearchers said thousands of lives could be saved each year if more than the estimated third of UK over-75s who do take statins, were given them.\n\nThey also said it could improve quality of life for many people.\n\nCardiovascular disease kills about 150,000 people in the UK each year, with two-thirds of these occurring in people over the age of 75.\n\nStatins reduce the build-up of fatty plaques that lead to blockages in blood vessels, though reported side effects and the extent of how often they are prescribed has attracted controversy.\n\nThe review, which looked at 28 randomised controlled trials - often called the \"gold standard\" of studies - involving nearly 190,000 patients, found statins lowered the risk of major cardiovascular disease in the ages studied, from under-55s to over-75s.\n\nThere were similar reductions in risk for stroke and for coronary stenting or bypass surgery.\n\nAuthors of the paper said there had until now been an \"evidence gap\" around how effective the drugs are for the elderly.\n\nThey estimate that about a third of the 5.5 million people in the UK over 75 take a statin, when the \"vast majority\" of these would meet the medicine regulator's guidelines for being prescribed the drug.\n\nProf Colin Baigent, one of the authors of the paper, said: \"One of the issues we have is that very often doctors are unwilling to consider statin therapy for elderly people simply because they're old, and that, I think, is an attitude that is preventing us from making use of the tools we have available to us.\"\n\nResearchers said statins may help people avoid disability caused by cardiovascular disease\n\nThe benefits were strongest in people who have already had vascular disease. There wasn't enough data in people over the age of 75 who haven't had it to show a benefit. Experts have called for more data to guide prescription for these people.\n\nHowever, the authors said even a smaller reduction in risk was significant because the elderly have a higher baseline risk for cardiovascular disease in the first place.\n\nThe more people reduced their low-density lipoprotein (LDL), or \"bad\" cholesterol, the more the risk of cardiovascular disease was lowered, the study found.\n\nA 1.0 mmol/L reduction in LDL cholesterol lowered the risk of major vascular events by about a fifth and a major coronary event by a quarter, when results from all age groups were combined.\n\nTo put this into perspective, about 2.5% of 63-year-olds with no history of vascular disease would be expected to have their first major vascular event per year, compared with 4% of 78-year-olds.\n\nReducing those risks by a fifth would prevent first major vascular events from occurring each year in 50 people aged 63 and 80 people aged 78 per 10,000 people treated.\n\nProf Baigent said there was an argument for giving statins to people over the age of 75 who have a \"normal\" level of LDL cholesterol.\n\nHe said: \"In many circumstances, the person may be very healthy, they may be able to avoid having a stroke or having a heart attack simply by taking a cheap and safe tablet every day.\n\n\"That may be a choice they're willing to take. At the moment I feel we're not taking the opportunity to offer that.\"\n\nThere has been controversy about statin side effects and how often they are prescribed, especially in otherwise healthy people.\n\nIt is possible to lower cholesterol levels without drugs by making lifestyle changes, such as by cutting down on saturated fat and eating more fruit, vegetables and fibre.\n\nProf Baigent said side effects were \"massively outweighed, both in middle age and the elderly, by the benefits of statin therapy that we already know about\".\n\nAnd he also said he was not calling for people to pick statins over exercise and lifestyle changes.\n\n\"I think it's not an either/or,\" he added.\n\nThe Royal College of GPs welcomed the research and said it was \"particularly reassuring\" to see evidence of the benefit of statins in over-75s.\n\nProf Martin Marshall, vice-chairman of the college, said some patients would not want to be on long-term medication.\n\n\"But GPs are highly trained to prescribe and will only recommend the drugs if they think they will genuinely help the person sitting in front of them, based on their individual circumstances - and after a frank conversation about the potential risks and benefits.\"", "A web browser warning that said the Daily Mail's website failed to maintain \"basic standards of accuracy or accountability\" has been changed.\n\nThe newspaper had complained that the NewsGuard plug-in gave its Mail Online website a negative review.\n\nNewsGuard now gives Mail Online a positive green shield after discussions with a Daily Mail executive.\n\nBut the company said Mail Online still failed to gather and present information responsibly.\n\nNewsGuard rates news sources to help people weigh up whether a website is trustworthy, or likely to publish fake news.\n\nNewsGuard used to display a warning about Mail Online\n\nIts ratings attracted attention in January after Microsoft included the plug-in with its Edge web browser for Android and iOS devices.\n\nA spokesman for Mail Online said it was an \"egregiously erroneous classification\".\n\nNewsGuard has now changed its review and says Mail Online \"generally maintains basic standards of accuracy and accountability\".\n\nIt said it had originally considered how many complaints were made about Mail Online to the Independent Press Standards Organisation, but had not weighed this up against how many stories the website publishes.\n\nHowever it still warns that Mail Online:\n\nNewsGuard refused to change one of the ratings because Mail Online did not disclose \"its conservative orientation\".\n\nDespite this, the website now gets a green shield logo overall.\n\nThe NewsGuard plug-in must be switched on by users of Microsoft's Edge app, but the BBC understands there are plans for it to become the default option in the future.\n\nThe New York-based service - which is independent of Microsoft - also has ambitions to include its tool in further products from the Windows developer as well as other tech firms.\n\nIt can also be used as an add-on extension in the desktop version of web browsers including Edge, Google's Chrome, Mozilla's Firefox and Apple's Safari.", "Actor Clive Swift, known to millions as Hyacinth Bucket's hen-pecked husband Richard in BBC One's 90s sitcom Keeping Up Appearances, has died aged 82.\n\nSwift, who spent 10 years at the RSC before breaking into television, also acted in such series as Peak Practice, Born and Bred and The Old Guys.\n\nThe role saw him patiently tolerate her ham-fisted and invariably thwarted attempts at social climbing.\n\nDame Patricia said she was \"deeply saddened\" to hear of her former co-star's death.\n\n\"Clive was a skilful and inventive actor with wide experience, as his successful career proved,\" she said.\n\n\"I so much admire what he brought to the barely sketched role of Hyacinth's husband and treasure the memories of our happy collaboration.\"\n\nOff-screen he co-founded The Actors Centre, a meeting place for members of his profession in central London.\n\nHe went on to appear with Roger Lloyd Pack in The Old Guys\n\nBorn in Liverpool in 1936, he had three children with his ex-wife, the novelist Margaret Drabble.\n\nSwift's many roles included a part in Alfred Hitchcock's 1972 film Frenzy and as King Arthur's adopted father in 1981 film Excalibur.\n\nMany years later, he would play Hitchcock in a BBC radio play called Strangers on a Film.\n\nSwift made a number of appearances in Doctor Who, most recently in the 2007 episode Voyage of the Damned.\n\nAccording to his agent, the actor died at his home on Friday after a short illness, surrounded by his family.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Police said they found evidence of \"witchcraft\" in the woman's home, including limes stuffed with written curses\n\nA woman who mutilated her three-year-old daughter has become the first person in the UK to be found guilty of female genital mutilation (FGM).\n\nThe 37-year-old mother from east London wept in the dock as she was convicted after a trial at the Old Bailey.\n\nSpells and curses intended to deter police and social workers from investigating were found at the Ugandan woman's home, the trial heard.\n\nHer 43-year-old partner was acquitted by the jury.\n\nProsecutors said the mother \"coached\" her daughter \"to lie to the police so she wouldn't get caught\".\n\nThe defendants, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, denied FGM and an alternative charge of failing to protect a girl from risk of genital mutilation.\n\nMrs Justice Whipple warned of a \"lengthy\" jail term as she remanded the woman into custody to be sentenced on 8 March.\n\nFGM - intentionally altering or injuring the female external genitalia for non-medical reasons - carries a sentence of up to 14 years in jail.\n\nDuring the trial, the woman claimed her daughter, then aged three, \"fell on metal and it's ripped her private parts\" after she had climbed to get a biscuit in August 2017.\n\nMedics alerted police to the girl's injuries after they treated her at Whipps Cross Hospital, in Leytonstone.\n\nShe \"lost a significant amount of blood as a result of the injuries they had delivered and inflicted on her\", jurors were told.\n\nWhile the parents were on bail, police searched the mother's home and said they found evidence of \"witchcraft\".\n\nProsecutor Caroline Carberry QC said two cow tongues were \"bound in wire with nails and a small blunt knife\" embedded in them.\n\nForty limes and other fruit were found with pieces of paper with names written on them stuffed inside, including those of police officers and a social worker involved in the investigation.\n\n\"These people were to 'shut up' and 'freeze their mouths',\" Ms Carberry said.\n\n\"There was a jar with a picture of a social worker in pepper found hidden behind the toilet in the bathroom,\" she added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Campaigner Aneeta Prem believes more people will now come forward to report cases\n\nIt is only the fourth FGM prosecution brought to court in the UK. The previous cases led to acquittals.\n\nFGM campaigner Aneeta Prem, from Freedom Charity, said convictions were hard to secure because cuttings were \"hidden in secrecy\".\n\n\"People are scared to come forward, professionals are scared to come forward to report this,\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"The fact that we have a conviction today is a really historic moment.\"\n\n\"We will not tolerate FGM and not rest until perpetrators of this horrific crime are brought to justice,\" he added.\n\nPolice also found two cow tongues with nails in them\n\nLynette Woodrow, from the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), said the \"sickening\" offence had been committed against a victim with \"no power to resist or fight back\".\n\n\"We can only imagine how much pain this vulnerable young girl suffered and how terrified she was,\" she said.\n\n\"Her mother then coached her to lie to the police so she wouldn't get caught, but this ultimately failed.\"\n\nMs Woodrow said FGM victims were often affected physically and emotionally for \"their entire life\".\n\nThe mother was born in Uganda but has lived in the UK for a number of years. FGM is banned in both countries, the CPS said.\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan said the conviction sent \"a clear message to those who practise this barbaric act\".\n\n\"Every woman and girl should be safe and feel safe wherever they are in London, and we will continue our fight to end FGM with every power we have,\" he added.", "The uranium was offered on a Yahoo auction site\n\nJapanese police are investigating how a substance thought to be uranium was offered in an online auction.\n\nThe seller and several bidders have been taken in for questioning, local media citing sources in the investigation say.\n\nThe product packed in a glass tube was offered as \"Uranium 99.9%\" in an auction on Yahoo.\n\nAccording to the Kyodo news agency, a first test of the powder suggested it was radioactive.\n\nThe online auction was brought to the attention of the country's nuclear regulation authority in 2017.\n\nThe agency thought the material was likely to be depleted uranium and uranium powder, the Mainichi reports.\n\nThe paper also says the seller claims to have bought the substance on a website outside Japan.\n\nThe agency contacted Yahoo over the surprising sale, the auction was stopped and the case referred to the police.\n\nIt is not confirmed whether the material was indeed uranium and if so whether it was enriched.\n\nThe sale of nuclear fuel materials is prohibited in Japan and according to local media can lead to up to one year in prison.", "Both large and small businesses are considering moving, the survey suggests\n\nAlmost a third of UK companies could move some operations abroad because of Brexit, a survey has suggested.\n\nThe Institute of Directors surveyed 1,200 business leaders and found that 16% already had relocation plans while a further 13% were actively considering a move.\n\nIt took \"no pleasure\" in revealing \"these worrying signs\", the IoD said.\n\nThe government said the best way to provide \"certainty for businesses\" was to agree a deal to leave the EU.\n\nThe study suggested that while more large companies had already moved operations, small firms were almost twice as likely to be actively considering the prospect.\n\nEdwin Morgan, the IoD's director general, said: \"For these firms, typically with tighter resources, to be thinking about such a costly course of action makes clear the precarious position they are in.\"\n\nHe added: \"We can no more ignore the real consequences of delay and confusion than business leaders can ignore the hard choices that they face in protecting their companies.\"\n\nMr Morgan concluded that the \"unavoidable disruption and increased trade barriers\" that no-deal Brexit would bring would be \"entirely unproductive\".\n\nBBC Newsnight, meanwhile, has been told by European trade agencies and business networks that hundreds of UK companies are in the process of setting up operations in the EU ahead of the 29 March Brexit deadline.\n\nArnaud de Bresson, chief executive of French business network Paris Europlace, said roughly 260 businesses, which principally operate from the UK, are \"in the phase of confirmation and implementation\" ahead of moving some operations to France.\n\nAnd according to Hub.Brussels, the Belgian government agency working to bring foreign companies to the city, the number of UK companies that have expanded or moved operations to Brussels has doubled since the 2016 referendum.\n\nIn the 31-month period following the Brexit vote, the agency claims between 95 and 100 companies created a new legal entity in Brussels.\n\nOver the same period of time prior to the referendum, between 50 and 55 companies looked to set up in the Belgian capital.\n\nHub.Brussels added, however, that it could not say for certain that the trend was a direct result of Brexit.\n\nA UK government spokesman said: \"We want to protect jobs and the economy as well as provide certainty for businesses and individuals as we leave the EU.\n\n\"The best way to do this is to leave with a deal, and that's what we're focused on doing.\"\n\nClarification 21 March 2019: The headline of this article has been amended to make clear that it relates to a third of members surveyed by the Institute of Directors.", "Two men have been shot in separate incidents in the Ballymagroarty area of Londonderry on Friday evening.\n\nThe Northern Ireland Ambulance Service (NIAS) was called shortly after 20:00 GMT, following reports a man had been shot in the legs and hands.\n\nWhile at the scene, a paramedic was made aware of another shooting incident a number of streets away in which a second man was injured.\n\nBoth men have been taken to the Altnagelvin hospital for treatment.\n\nIn a statement the Western Trust said both men were in a stable condition.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"There can be no place for the use of guns or gangs of masked men on the streets of our city,\" he said.\n\n\"All of this is in stark contrast to the good work that is going on in this community.\"", "The Oddbins off-licence chain has gone into administration, putting hundreds of jobs at risk.\n\nAdministrator Duff & Phelps (D&P) has been appointed to run the business while they attempt to find a buyer.\n\nOddbins' owner European Food Brokers (EFB) blamed tough High Street conditions and economic uncertainty created by Brexit for the situation.\n\nOddbins has about 45 outlets. Other brands affected include Wine Cellar Trading and Whittalls Wines Merchants.\n\nD&P said EFB has about 550 staff and 101 off-licences, but could not confirm exactly how many Oddbins' shops and staff were affected.\n\nBut the D&P statement said that \"EFB continues to trade and is not an entity that has entered into administration\".\n\nPhil Duffy, joint administrator, said Oddbins was a victim of tough times on the High Street, with a decline in consumer spending pointing to a squeeze on household finances.\n\n\"Add into that mix rising business rates and rents, and traditional bricks and mortar retailers are undoubtedly feeling the strain.\" he said.\n\nHowever, Oddbins faced specific challenges, according to experts.\n\nJulie Palmer, partner at Begbies Traynor, the consultancy and insolvency specialist, said Oddbins had been \"slipping down the pecking order for consumers as it struggled to compete with supermarkets offering a selection of discounted and premium wines\".\n\nThe retailer has also faced stronger competition from rival Majestic, which did well over the Christmas period, she said.\n\nChris Hunt, head of retail at law firm Gowling WLG, also pointed to the challenge from Majestic, which he said appears to have done well from in-store experiences. \"In terms of a direct comparison, the likes of Majestic hold wine tasting and other in-store events to drive footfall over and above their online successes,\" he said.\n\nIt was a lesson for the entire retail industry, he said, adding: \"Hobbycraft recently reported that in-store demonstrations were its lifeline over the Christmas period, allowing it to report record sales throughout its outlets.\"\n\nThe appointment of administrators to Oddbins came as now surprise, as EFB warned this week that it was on the brink.\n\nThe company said \"The deterioration of the High Street, combined with the continuing economic uncertainty surrounding the withdrawal of the UK from the EU, has resulted in an unsustainable, tough physical retail market,\" it said.\n\nOddbins went into administration in 2011 after HM Revenue & Customs refused to support a deal with its creditors.\n\nEFB, which is run by businessman Raj Chatha, bought up some of the Oddbins stores at the time through its Whittalls subsidiary.", "Empire actor Jussie Smollett says he's doing \"ok\" after being attacked in Chicago.\n\nIt's the first time the 36-year-old has spoken about what happened.\n\nPolice are searching for two people who punched him, poured an \"unknown chemical substance\" over him and put a rope around his neck.\n\nIn a statement, he has thanked fans for their support and says that love \"can't be kicked out of me\".\n\n\"Let me start by saying that I'm ok,\" he says.\n\n\"My body is strong but my soul is stronger. More importantly I want to say thank you. The outpouring of love and support from my village has meant more than I will ever be able to truly put into words.\"\n\nJussie has told police his attackers also made reference to \"Maga\" (Make America Great Again).\n\nThe slogan was used by Donald Trump during the 2016 US presidential campaign.\n\nPolice are investigating whether the actor was the victim of a hate crime.\n\nChicago police have released this image of two \"people of interest\" in the case\n\nWhile Jussie's had a huge amount of support, others have questioned his version of what happened.\n\nThe actress Ellen Page spoke about the case on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert - criticising some of the media for questioning whether it should be treated as a hate crime.\n\n\"It's absurd. This isn't a debate,\" she says.\n\nYou need to go to around 6m55 in this video.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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End of youtube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert\n\n\"I am working with authorities and have been 100% factual and consistent on every level,\" Jussie insists.\n\n\"As my family stated, these types of cowardly attacks are happening to my sisters, brothers and non-gender conforming siblings daily.\n\n\"I am not and should not be looked upon as an isolated incident.\"\n\nThe actor says he will give more details about the \"horrific incident\" but first needs a \"moment to process\".\n\n\"Most importantly, during times of trauma, grief and pain, there is still a responsibility to lead with love. It's all I know. And that can't be kicked out of me.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 every weekday on BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra - if you miss us you can listen back here.", "The new Land Rover Freelander being driven on Saturday\n\nThe Duke of Edinburgh has been seen driving a new Land Rover two days after being involved in a crash on a road near Sandringham, Norfolk.\n\nPictures in the Daily Mail and The Sun are said to show Prince Philip, 97, driving alone on the Sandringham estate.\n\nA replacement Freelander, the model the prince was seen driving, was delivered to Sandringham on Friday.\n\nPrince Philip was unhurt in Thursday's crash but two women were injured.\n\nThe duke was in collision with a Kia. The driver, a 28-year-old woman, suffered cuts, while a 45-year-old woman passenger broke her wrist.\n\nA nine-month-old boy in the Kia was uninjured.\n\nDamage to the Land Rover's left side could be seen after Thursday's crash\n\nA palace spokesman confirmed that the duke had \"no injuries of concern\" following a visit to the hospital for a check-up.\n\nHe also said contact had been made with the occupants of the Kia to exchange \"well-wishes\".\n\nThe duke was travelling alone in his car when the crash happened on the A149.\n\nRoy Warne, who witnessed it, described the duke's vehicle \"careering, tumbling across the road and ending up on the other side.\"\n\nHe said the duke had been \"obviously shaken\" but had been able to stand and ask if the others involved in the incident were alright.\n\nMr Warne said he overheard the duke telling police he had been \"dazzled by the sun\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nNorfolk police have said Thursday's incident will be investigated \"and any appropriate action will be taken\".\n\nChris Spinks, who led Norfolk's roads policing team for five years, said the royal would not be shown any \"favouritism\" in the investigation.", "Mike Ashley's Sports Direct has made a bid for cafe chain Patisserie Valerie, which collapsed into administration last month.\n\nA Sports Direct statement late on Friday confirmed an offer had been made, but gave no further details.\n\nAdministrator KPMG closed 70 Patisserie Valerie outlets, but kept 121 open in the hope of finding a buyer.\n\nMr Ashley, who owns House of Fraser and has a big stake in Debenhams, missed out this week on a bid for HMV.\n\nThe cafe chain employed about 3,000 staff, but some 900 jobs were lost in the initial wave of closures after KPMG was appointed to run the business on 22 January.\n\nLast October, Patisserie Valerie, where entrepreneur Luke Johnson is the biggest shareholder, uncovered \"significant, and potentially fraudulent, accounting irregularities\".\n\nThe company said in a statement last month that it did not have enough money to meet its debts. Rescue talks with banks HSBC and Barclays to restructure the business broke down, leaving no option but administration.\n\nIn addition to Patisserie Valerie, the company's other brands include Druckers Vienna Patisserie, Philpotts, Baker & Spice and Flour Power City.\n\nFinance director Chris Marsh was arrested after having been suspended by the company when the financial irregularities were uncovered.\n\nAlso under investigation, by the Financial Reporting Council, are former Patisserie Valerie auditors Grant Thornton.\n\nMr Ashley, who also owns English Premier League football club Newcastle United, made his name building budget chain Sports Direct into Britain's biggest sporting goods retailer.\n\nAt a time when retailers are struggling, he is frequently linked as a potential buyer of any that get into financial trouble.\n\nHe bought House of Fraser last year, and also acquired Evans Cycles and Agent Provocateur. Sports Direct has shareholdings in French Connection and Game Digital, and last week emerged as front runner to buy Sofa.com.\n\nEarlier this week, Canada's Sunrise Records beat Mr Ashley in a battle to by the music retailer HMV.\n\nMr Ashley is thought to be facing several competing bids for Patisserie Valerie, including, according to reports, from Costa, the coffee chain bought by Coca-Cola last year.\n\nBillionaire Mr Ashley has shown faith in the High Street at a time when many bricks-and-mortar stores are struggling due to a combination of rising rents and increasing online competition.\n\nHe says that to support the High Street, there should be a tax on firms which generate 20% of revenues from the internet.\n\nDespite acquiring several struggling retailers, analysts say that Mr Ashley is more of a opportunist than a strategist.\n\nRichard Hyman, a adviser to a number of retailers, recently told the BBC: \"Is [Mr Ashley] following a strategic plan? I don't think he is. Is he positively opportunistic? Yes. Has got the resources to take advantage of opportunities that come his way? Yes.\"\n\nAnd, Mr Hyman adds: \"Has he got courage? Yes\".", "Polar bears are forced on to land to look for food as sea ice diminishes\n\nA remote Russian region has declared a state of emergency over the appearance of dozens of polar bears in its human settlements, local officials say.\n\nAuthorities in the Novaya Zemlya islands, home to a few thousand people, said there were cases of bears attacking people and entering residential and public buildings.\n\nPolar bears are affected by climate change and are increasingly forced on to land to look for food.\n\nHunting the bears is banned, and the federal environment agency has refused to issue licences to shoot them.\n\nThe bears had lost their fear of police patrols and signals used to warn them off, meaning that more drastic measures were needed, officials said.\n\nThey say that if other means to scare off the bears fail a cull could be the only answer.\n\nThe archipelago's main settlement, Belushya Guba, has reported a total of 52 bears in its vicinity, with between six and 10 constantly on its territory.\n\nLocal administration head Vigansha Musin said more than five bears were on the territory of the local military garrison, where air and air defence forces are based.\n\n\"I've been on Novaya Zemlya since 1983,\" he said in an official press release. \"There's never been such a mass invasion of polar bears.\"\n\nHis deputy said normal life was being disrupted by the threat.\n\n\"People are scared, afraid to leave their homes, their daily routines are being broken, and parents are unwilling to let their children go to school or kindergarten,\" the deputy head of the local administration, Alexander Minayev, said.\n\nWith Arctic sea ice diminishing as a result of climate change, polar bears are forced to change their hunting habits and spend more time on land looking for food - which potentially puts them in conflict with humans.\n\nIn 2016 five Russian scientists were besieged by polar bears for several weeks at a remote weather station on the island of Troynoy, east of Novaya Zemlya.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Elizabeth Warren: 'This is the fight of our lives... to build an America that works for everyone'\n\nUS Senator Elizabeth Warren has formally launched her bid to stand for the White House in 2020 with a speech in which she promised to tackle economic inequality.\n\nShe is the latest Democrat to launch a campaign to become the party's presidential candidate.\n\nEven before she had taken to the stage, President Donald Trump's 2020 campaign team had responded calling her a fraud.\n\nIt is the first such intervention to target a possible Trump contender.\n\n\"The American people will reject her dishonest campaign and socialist ideas like the Green New Deal, that will raise taxes, kill jobs and crush America's middle-class,\" Mr Trump's campaign manager Brad Pascale wrote.\n\nHe also accused her of \"impersonating and disrespecting\" Native Americans \"to advance her professional career,\" referring to a DNA test she took to prove her Cherokee ancestry. Mr Trump had long been calling her \"fake Pocahontas\".\n\nMs Warren has apologised for taking the test.\n\nIn her speech on Saturday in Lawrence, in her home state of Massachusetts, Ms Warren called Mr Trump \"the latest and most extreme symptom of what's gone wrong in America, a product of a rigged system that props up the rich and powerful and kicks dirt on everyone else\".\n\nShe added: \"This is the fight of our lives, the fight to build an America where dreams are possible, an America that works for everyone.\"\n\nIn the shadow of long-unused smoke stacks, at the site of a famous factory strike more than a century ago, Elizabeth Warren formally launched her presidential bid.\n\nShe used the backdrop to highlight what she sees as the plight of an American working class that has been left behind by rapacious big business and indifferent government.\n\nDespite sub-zero temperatures and a blustery wind, an estimated crowd of several thousand turned out to hear the Massachusetts senator pledge to fight corruption in Washington, level the economic playing field and reform the US democratic process.\n\nWarren enters a crowded presidential field, as Democrats tell pollsters they want to find the candidate most able to beat Donald Trump.\n\nThere were some in Ms Warren's campaign kick-off crowd who expressed concern that her struggles to explain her past claims of Native American heritage could make her vulnerable to attack.\n\nMs Warren has long been a star in the progressive left, however, and she has already built a formidable nationwide campaign. She has just under a year to make her case, before voters start rendering their judgement.", "Concerns have been raised over the readiness of a British firm contracted by the government to run extra ferries in the event of a no-deal Brexit.\n\nSeaborne Freight was awarded a £13.8m contract this week to run a freight service between Ramsgate and Ostend.\n\nThe firm has never run a ferry service and a local councillor said it would be impossible to launch before Brexit.\n\nThe government said it had awarded the contract in \"the full knowledge that Seaborne is a new shipping provider\".\n\nThe Department for Transport said that \"the extra capacity and vessels would be provided as part of its first services\".\n\n\"As with all contracts, we carefully vetted the company's commercial, technical and financial position in detail before making the award,\" it added.\n\nConservative Kent county councillor Paul Messenger said it was impossible for the government to have carried out sufficient checks on the firm.\n\n\"It has no ships and no trading history so how can due diligence be done?\" he asked.\n\nMr Messenger said he didn't believe that it was possible to set up a new ferry service between Ramsgate and Ostend by 29 March - the date when the UK is due to leave the European Union.\n\nThe narrow berths for ships at the Port of Ramsgate mean there are only a few suitable commercial vessels, most of which are currently already in service, he said.\n\nFerry services have not operated from Ramsgate Port since 2013 after cross-channel operator TransEuropa collapsed, owing around £3.3m to Thanet District Council.\n\nMr Messenger said he was \"perplexed\" at the choice of Seaborne Freight to run the service.\n\n\"Why choose a company that never moved a single truck in their entire history and give them £14m? I don't understand the logic of that,\" he said.\n\nBut Seaborne Freight, which was formed less than two years ago to revive the Ramsgate-Ostend line, insisted it will launch its freight service between Ramsgate and Ostend before 29 March.\n\nChief executive Ben Sharp said the firm had been founded by seasoned shipping veterans.\n\nHe declined to give details on which ships it planned to use for the service, saying the information was commercially sensitive, but said they planned to start operations with two ships before \"very quickly\" increasing to four by late summer.\n\nHe said dredging in Ramsgate Port would start on 4 January in preparation for the freight service.\n\nThe firm said it had originally intended to start the service in mid-February but this had now been delayed until late March for operational reasons.\n\nIt said directors and shareholders had been working during the past two years to restart the service.\n\n\"This phase has included locating suitable vessels, making arrangements with the ports of Ostend and Ramsgate, building the infrastructure, as well as crewing the ferries once they start operating,\" the firm's statement added.\n\nThe government has also awarded additional, much larger ferry contracts to French company Brittany Ferries and Danish shipping firm DFDS, worth £46.6m and £42.5m (€47.3m) respectively.\n\nThe new contracts are part of the government's contingency planning, which aims to ease the potential for severe congestion at main port Dover if the UK leaves the European Union without a deal.\n\nThe department has warned that increased border checks by EU countries in the case of a no-deal Brexit could \"cause delivery of critical goods to be delayed\", and \"significant wider disruption to the UK economy and to the road network in Kent\".\n\nThe government has for some time now acknowledged that in the event of a no-deal Brexit, contingency plans at ports other than Dover would need to be in place.\n\nBut it appears that Transport Secretary Chris Grayling's department only started awarding contracts to shipping firms a few weeks ago, with no time left, it says, for a full public tender process.\n\nAnd while the two large international firms enlisted to provide extra capacity have existing fleets and large operations, Seaborne does not, and has given few details on how it will get a service up and running in a matter of months.\n\nThe Department for Transport also wasn't too keen on making much noise about these plans - it quietly posted notices of the awards on an EU portal on Christmas Eve, and the BBC was only alerted to them by a data firm, Tussell.\n\nAnd it's worth noting that without the award to Seaborne, the government would be in a position where the two beneficiaries of a no-deal Brexit were a Danish and a French firm - based, of course, in the EU.\n\nThe Department for Transport says the new contracts will provide \"significant extra capacity\" to UK ports in the event of a no-deal Brexit,\n\nThe BBC understands that the three firms chosen are likely to retain a portion of their award even if their services are no longer needed, due to a deal being reached with Brussels.\n\nHowever, in that event, the government would then seek to sell the extra capacity back to the market.\n\nLabour MP Tonia Antoniazzi, a supporter of the Best for Britain campaign for a second referendum, said: \"Never has it been clearer that our government is selling us down the river over Brexit.\n\n\"A firm that has never run a ferry service before has been awarded a multi-million pound contract and they don't even have any ships. This idea should have been sunk before it saw the light of day.\"\n\nEd Davey, home affairs spokesperson for the Liberal Democrats, said reports that the government had signed a contract with \"a ferry company with no ferries\" summed up the government's \"farcical\" approach to Brexit.\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 Lib Dem Press Office This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe UK is due to leave the EU on 29 March - following the result of the 2016 referendum.\n\nIt and the EU have agreed a withdrawal agreement - or \"divorce deal\" - and a political declaration outlining ambition for future talks - but it needs to be agreed by Parliament for it to come into force.\n\nA vote by MPs on the deal had been scheduled for 11 December, but Prime Minister Theresa May postponed it until January when it became clear her deal would be rejected, leading to widespread anger in the Commons.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Michael Rice's version of Bigger Than Us\n\nMichael Rice, who won BBC talent show All Together Now last year, has been chosen to fly the flag for the UK at this year's Eurovision Song Contest.\n\nThe 21-year-old from Hartlepool, who was also on The X Factor in 2014, was picked in a TV viewers' vote on Friday.\n\nHe will now travel to Israel in May in the hope of impressing Eurovision fans with his rousing anthem Bigger Than Us.\n\nThe UK has struggled in recent years - it has not won for 22 years and has not finished in the top 10 for a decade.\n\nRice won the £50,000 prize on All Together Now in March 2018, and used the money to take his family to Disneyland and to set up a shop selling ice cream and waffles.\n\nBelow, he reveals that he went to Europe for the first time two weeks ago (and broke his toe while away), says his Eurovision song is dedicated to his late father - and insists he has a chance of winning.\n\nYeah, definitely. I believe in this song 100%. It might just be a ballad but that song's got a big message and I can't wait to perform it and show the rest of the world what this song's all about.\n\nYou weren't born the last time the UK won Eurovision, so all you've ever known is British failure. How do you get such positivity?\n\nI think you have to be positive when it comes to stuff like this. Some people do take the mickey out of it and these other countries really do take it seriously.\n\nWe might have lost loads of times, but I think, why couldn't it change? Why can't we make this different? We've got the best music industry - Adele, Sam Smith, The Beatles - why can't we send someone and hope for the best?\n\nWhat do the song's lyrics mean to you?\n\nI grew up with my mam, and my dad had drug problems and stuff like that, and later on I got to know him. He used to know I was singing and he was dead proud of me. When I'm singing them words at the beginning - \"Hear these words that I sing to you\" - it just reminds me of him.\n\nHe's passed away, and winning All Together Now, and if he could see this today, it would make his world.\n\nHave you been to Europe much?\n\nNot really - two weeks ago was my first holiday with my friends and we went to Tenerife. It was the best time. I broke my toe as well. I fell in the pool. You couldn't write my life.\n\nDid you do karaoke in Tenerife?\n\nYes I did, in the resort. I love Tina Turner, a bit of Whitney, just fling it at me and I'll give it a crack.\n\nYou used to be a busker. Do you still busk?\n\nYeah, on a weekend sometimes I'll just pop down to York or to Newcastle and go busking. Sometimes it's really nice because people recognise you and say, \"I remember you from that show\" or, \"Do you want to play at my wedding?\" I really love it.\n\nYeah, sometimes you can make £250, maybe £300 for half a day or a day. At York Races, when they do the big races and everyone's dressed up and drunk, they just fling tenners in.\n\nWhat are your ambitions for your longer-term career?\n\nI finished my EP just before Christmas so hopefully now I'm doing Eurovision I can experience all this and then hopefully release an album and stuff like that, and see where it takes me because I'm still only young.\n\nThere might be an odd atmosphere this year because of Brexit - do you think that will play a part?\n\nI'm not really into politics and stuff because I just don't have a clue about it. It's a singing competition and I'm just thinking, work hard and get the best result and hopefully turn a few heads and see if we can get a better score.\n\nThere have been protests about the fact Eurovision's being held in Israel, with some saying it should be moved because of the treatment of the Palestinians - what's your response to that?\n\nI've seen a lot of things on social media, but it's not really my place to say. I don't know a lot about what's going on over there, and music unites everyone so hopefully we can do something positive.\n\nYou also fronted an anti-bullying campaign - tell us about that.\n\nWhen I was growing up at secondary school I used to get bullied a lot - in Year 7 and Year 8. When I left school, I did The X Factor and I got loads of hate from that, and it really sparked me on to go to schools and tell people my story and inspire them.\n\nRice will be hoping to improve on last year's UK performance, when singer SuRie finished 24th out of 26.\n\nHer performance was interrupted by a stage invader, who grabbed her microphone and shouted slogans about the media.\n\nThe contest was eventually won by Israeli singer Netta with her quirky song Toy, which encouraged people to celebrate their differences.\n\nThe winning country hosts the following year's competition, and the 2019 event will take place in Tel Aviv on 18 May.\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\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Welsh Rugby\n\nBy Gareth Griffiths BBC Sport Wales at the Stadio Olimpico\n\nA much-changed Wales side equalled their record run of 11 successive Test wins with an unconvincing victory over Italy in Rome.\n\nWarren Gatland made 10 changes from the team that beat France and tries from Josh Adams and Owen Watkin, plus 14 points from Dan Biggar, sealed victory.\n\nItaly managed tries from Braam Steyn and Edoardo Padovani.\n\nWales will break a record set in 1910 if they beat England in Cardiff on 23 February.\n• None Gatland hopes Wales 'go under the radar' before England showdown\n\nFormer England scrum-half Matt Dawson had described Wales' alterations as risky, despite the opposition, although Gatland had made as many last year when Wales defeated Italy 38-14 in March to start the current run of wins.\n\nNot many of the new Wales inclusions in this experimental side made compelling cases to start against Eddie Jones' side in two weeks, although Wasps flanker Thomas Young impressed on his Six Nations debut.\n\nCentre Jonathan Davies captained Wales for the first time while flankers Young and Aaron Wainwright, wing Jonah Holmes and scrum-half Aled Davies all made their first Six Nations starts.\n\nJosh Navidi was named man of the match after moving to number eight with Ross Moriarty dropping to the bench, alongside usual captain Alun Wyn Jones.\n\nItaly have now lost a record 19 matches in this tournament with their last victory coming against Scotland in February 2015.\n\nSeeking a first home win since beating Ireland six years ago, the hosts made a terrible start when hooker Elliot Dee forced a turnover penalty and Biggar opened the scoring after 62 seconds.\n\nThe fly-half added three more first-half penalties as Wales dominated the early scrums and enjoyed superior possession and territory.\n\nBut for all Wales' pressure, Italy scored the first try after capitalising on a sliced Adams kick. The decision to turn down a kick at goal and opt for an attacking line-out was justified when Steyn eventually burrowed over.\n\nTommaso Allan converted and Wales led only 12-7 at the interval.\n\nJones comes on to lift Wales' performance\n\nWith Italy's driving line-out proving their most effective weapon, Wales' discipline let them down at the start of the second half and Allan slotted over a penalty to reduce the gap further.\n\nWales' attack was ponderous and Gatland responded by sending on squad skipper Alun Wyn Jones alongside Dillon Lewis after 50 minutes.\n\nBut Biggar missed two kicks in the space of a couple of minutes as Wales failed to build any momentum.\n\nThe mediocrity finally lifted when scrum-half Aled Davies launched a break from a scrum down the right-hand side. When the ball was switched left, full-back Liam Williams sliced through the Italian defence to set up the try for Adams in one of the only cutting line breaks Wales produced.\n\nCentre Davies thought he had scored Wales' second try after following up his own chip kick, but he fumbled the ball in the act of scoring.\n\nThe second score did come when centre Watkin dived on to a clever chipped Gareth Anscombe kick to score the visitors' second try.\n\nItaly responded with an incisive Allan break to set up Padovani to score before Young was denied a deserved try with the final move of the match because of an earlier forward pass.\n\nThat summed up Wales' day - another chance gone astray because of poor execution.\n\nA record-equalling win it might have been, but Wales will know they require a much improved performance if they are to beat England and become history-makers in two weeks.\n\nDefeat England on that day at the Principality Stadium and this Rome trip will soon be forgotten.\n\nReplacements: McKinley for Allan (48), Gori for Palazzani (60), Traore for Quaglio (51), Bigi for Ghiraldini (60), Pasquali for Ferrari (60), Ruzza for Budd (52), Barbini for Negri (57)\n\nReplacements: Amos for L. Williams (67), Anscombe for Biggar (55), G. Davies for A. Davies (63), W. Jones for Smith (63), Elias for Dee (67), Lewis for Lee (51), A. Jones for Ball (51), Moriarty for Navidi (67)\n• None How to follow the Six Nations on the BBC", "Thousands of bus routes in England are under threat because councils have said they cannot afford to pay for them.\n\nThey blamed an \"unsustainable\" funding gap of £652m in the free bus pass scheme, which local authorities have been forced to fill.\n\nCouncils subsidise 44% of English bus routes but they warned that, without more funding, these could be cut.\n\nThe government said it provides £250m a year to support bus routes and £1bn for free bus passes.\n\nCouncils are required by law to reimburse bus operators for carrying passengers who hold a free off-peak bus pass, such as the over-65s and disabled people.\n\nThe Local Government Association (LGA), which represents councils, said that the gap between government funding for the free bus pass scheme and the actual costs has soared from £200m in 2016 to £652m in 2017/18.\n\nThat increasingly means they have less money to spend on supporting rural bus services, as well as other optional forms of subsidy such as free peak-time travel for pass holders, post-16 school transport or support for young people's travel.\n\nThe LGA is calling for the government to return to fully funding the costs of the free bus pass scheme in the Spending Review this year.\n\nCouncillor Martin Tett, the LGA's transport spokesman, said: \"Properly funding the national free bus pass scheme is essential if the government wants councils to be able to maintain our essential bus services, reduce congestion and protect vital routes.\n\n\"If this is not addressed in the Spending Review it could lead to older people having a free bus pass but no bus to travel on.\"\n\nThe LGA said more than 3,000 routes have already been withdrawn, altered or reduced since 2010/11.\n\nA Department for Transport spokeswoman said: \"It is for councils to decide which bus operations to support in their areas, but we help to subsidise costs through around £250m worth of investment every year.\"\n\nShe said that £42m of this sum goes to local authorities and an additional £1bn is used to fund free bus passes.", "Work to demolish Genoa's Morandi bridge, which partially collapsed last August killing 43 people, has begun ahead of its reconstruction.\n\nThe new bridge is expected to be Europe's most expensive.", "A group of young people were asked \"What is your London?\" The aim was to capture their London, to offer an alternative view of the capital to that seen on picture postcards. This is a selection of photographs from the five-week intensive course mentored by photographer Lua Ribeira.\"\n\n\"London has increasingly become more and more crowded over time,\" says Codner.\n\n\"It can be quite challenging for those who have anxiety, daily to live in such an environment.\n\n\"My pictures, called Red Butterflies, express and illustrate the feelings that anxiety can cause, in a poetic way.\"\n\nBarberini has spent the past year moving between Cardiff and London while caring for his granddad and pursuing a career in photography.\n\nHe says this has only been made possible by the family and friends who opened up their homes to him.\n\nThese are those moments and memories that made up his London.\n\n\"London is one of the most diverse cities in the world, our diversity is one of our greatest strengths,\" says Ansong.\n\n\"Being African-British, born and bred in London, I wanted to create a series that celebrates the ethnographic that represents our cities.\n\n\"For my project, Deep-rooted, I asked people to pose for me using African prints as a poetic means to explore our roots, through the use of colours, patterns and textures.\n\n\"Everyone has a story to tell, whether it's culturally or not. London makes everyone different - and that's a good thing.\"\n\n\"Traditional Foods explores my East Asian and British culture, through food and kitchen tools, producing colourful displays of food combinations that aren't quite what they seem,\" says Chan.\n\n\"Perched over a half-eaten sandwich, I watched them all swarm by as they got what they could from the city,\" Quigley writes. \"The grey-suited striding resting pecking racing chattering opportunists.\"\n\n\"As a Punjabi Muslim woman in the West, I am constantly negotiating contrasting cultural subjectivities,\" says Tasnim.\n\n\"My work attempts to capture the disorientation, displacement and elation experienced by those who exist at the intersection of these spheres.\n\n\"London is a place where I can freely explore all aspects of my identity and, through the use of colour and fabric, I envision the harmony and disjointedness that arises when conflicting ideologies converge.\"\n\nSee Me Not is Akindele-Ajani's exploration of how humans interact in the city and how people behave towards those who work within the service industry.\n\n\"They refuse to treat them as individuals, instead they interact with them much like they would with a machine\", he says.\n\n\"At present, we are the most globalised we have ever been in the history of humanity, yet so disconnected,\" Adesanya says.\n\n\"I found this paradox to be a pressing discussion in London and wondered... What if a consistent conversation could emerge? Not from the politicians, not from the mayors or county leaders, but from the people on the ground now? What then?\n\n\"With a camera, globe and those intentions in mind, I took to the streets to discover what grounded the people of London when the struggles and pressures of life unsettled their foundation.\"\n\nBargains celebrates style and explores the materialism in young working-class London.\n\nThe programme, organised by Create Jobs and Magnum Photos, and supported by The Mayor's Fund for London and The HudsonBec Group, aims to give young creative talent in London the connections, skills, knowledge and inspiration to tell stories that are important to them and to bring about social change. The brief, \"What is your London?\" was set by It's Nice That, Anyways and Lecture in Progress who worked with Lua Ribeira.", "The trouble occurred near to Watford's Vicarage Road ground\n\nFour people have been arrested after two men were left needing hospital treatment following a fight near Watford Football Club's stadium.\n\nThe men sustained facial cuts and bruises, according to police.\n\nOfficers were called to Vicarage Road at about 17:10 GMT following the conclusion of Watford's Premier League match against Everton.\n\nHertfordshire Constabulary said the injured men had been taken to hospital \"for further assessment\".\n\nWatford supporter Lewis, 31, who did not want to give his full name, told the Press Association he \"heard a lot of shouting\" as he left the football ground and \"went to take a look\".\n\nHe said he saw \"a Watford fan lying on the floor, apparently unconscious, with blood on his face\" and \"three Everton fans running from the scene towards the town centre\".\n\nHe added that people gathered around the injured man \"were crying and shouting for people to help and call an ambulance\".\n\nA video posted on Twitter shows people gathered around someone lying on the floor while an onlooker calls out \"coward\".\n\nBBC reporter Rick Kelsey said he saw two Watford fans on the ground, covered in blood.\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 Rick Kelsey This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn January, Everton supporters were involved in a brawl before and after an FA Cup game against Millwall in London ,which the Met Police described as \"some of the most shocking football violence seen for some time\".\n\nOne man was left with a \"life-changing\" scar when he was slashed across the face.\n\nOn Tuesday, a 27-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of wounding with intent, attempted grievous bodily harm, and violent disorder.\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\nMore than 1,000 10 to 19-year-olds were admitted to hospital with knife wounds in 2017/18.\n\nThe figure, from NHS England, reveal a 54% rise in the number of children and teenagers treated for injuries from knives over five years.\n\nIt comes as a leading consultant warns that she is seeing increasing numbers of girls involved in knife crime.\n\nDoctors also said that injuries were becoming more severe and victims getting younger.\n\nThe figures record the number of people admitted to hospital for an overnight stay or longer, for knife crime injuries between 2012-13 and 2017-18.\n\nAmong victims aged between 10 and 19, the numbers went up from 656 to 1,012 last year. Admissions have also grown by 30% across all ages, from 3,849 in 2012-13, to 4,986 last year.\n\nDoctors said the numbers could be even higher, as victims who received treatment in A&E for minor knife crime injuries were not recorded.\n\nDr Martin Griffiths, consultant trauma surgeon at The Royal London Hospital, said: \"We are seeing a lot more adolescents and young people with severe injuries. That used to be an occasional occurrence, now it is the norm.\n\n\"This week I expect to see someone of school age as a matter of course.\n\n\"I see the wasted opportunities of young people stuck on hospital wards with life-changing injuries.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Knife crime: What's it like to be stabbed?\n\nDr Gayle Hann, the lead for paediatric A&E at North Middlesex Hospital, pointed to the rising numbers of girls becoming involved.\n\n\"It used to be that we rarely saw girls and young women, but now we are seeing increasing numbers as both victims and aggressors.\n\n\"Young women are coming in who have had their mobile phones taken off them in an attack, then had their attack filmed as part of their humiliation.\n\n\"They are then told that if they say anything their attackers will put the video on the internet.\"\n\nDr Hann said knives are also getting bigger: \"I used to take kitchen knives off people, now we are seeing zombie knives.\"\n\nPatrick Green, chief executive of the Ben Kinsella Trust, a charity which campaigns against knife crime, said: \"This is a crisis. Many young people see no other alternative for them than to carry knives in their environment.\n\n\"Youth workers in hospitals who are providing ongoing support to young people are making a big difference.\n\n\"But we need to prevent them getting there in the first place, and educate them to make better choices.\"\n\nDr Griffiths said the Royal London Hospital had done work with the charity St Giles Trust to reduce the numbers of young victims of knife attacks returning to hospital with further injuries.\n\n\"We've dramatically reduced readmissions by giving our victims of injury a case worker who will meet them in the hospital, and give them a further six months of bespoke care in the community\" he said.\n\n\"The best results are obtained by consistent, nurturing bonds.\n\n\"Knife violence is endemic. We all have a responsibility to engage with supporting youth to address this.\"\n\nIn January, Home Secretary Sajid Javid announced new knife crime prevention orders which can be issued by police to anyone aged 12 or over who is believed to be carrying a blade.\n\nThe Asbo-style orders would give police more power to impose curfews, send young people caught with knives to educational courses and - in some cases - restrict their social media use to prevent rival disputes escalating.", "Police officers throw tear gas grenades in Paris during the 13th consecutive demonstration by the \"yellow vests\"\n\nA \"yellow vest\" protester in France had his fingers ripped off during clashes at the parliament building in Paris, as the protests went into their 13th week.\n\nThe protester attempted to pick up a rubber pellet grenade and it exploded in his hand, French media reported.\n\nThere was also an arson attack on the home of the head of France's National Assembly, though it was not clear if the attack was linked to the protests.\n\nThe \"yellow vest\" protests began in mid-November over fuel taxes.\n\nThey have since broadened into a revolt against the President, Emmanuel Macron, and a political class seen as out of touch with common people.\n\nAccording to French government figures, 51,400 people joined the protests on Saturday, 4,000 of them in Paris. That was down from the previous week, when official figures put the number at 58,600, 10,500 in Paris.\n\nRepresentatives for the yellow vests disputed the previous week's numbers, claiming the turnout was higher.\n\nIn Paris on Saturday, the protesters marched from the Champs-Elysees to the city's parliament buildings, where a violent contingent broke down barriers and threw projectiles at police. Police responded with tear gas and anti-riot munitions.\n\nCars have been set on fire close to the yellow vests' protest in Bordeaux\n\nAccording to an eyewitness, the person who lost their hand was a photographer attempting to take pictures of people breaking down barriers around the National Assembly building.\n\n\"When the cops went to disperse people, he got hit by a sting-ball grenade in the calf,\" 21-year-old Cyprien Royer told AFP news agency. \"He wanted to bat it away so it didn't explode by his leg and it went off when he touched it.\n\n\"We put him to one side and called the street medics. It wasn't pretty: he was screaming with pain, he had no fingers - he didn't have much above the wrist.\"\n\nParis police confirmed that a demonstrator was injured in the hand and been treated by paramedics, but did not identify the victim.\n\nTens of thousands of protesters turned out in other parts of France, including the port cities of Marseille and Montpellier and also in Bordeaux and Toulouse in the southwest.\n\nEight police officers were lightly injured during clashes with protesters in Bordeaux, local police said.\n\nPoliticians came together to condemn the arson attack on the home of Richard Ferrand, a close ally of Mr Macron, in Motreff, Brittany.\n\nMr Ferrand published pictures on Twitter of his scorched living room, writing: \"Nothing justifies intimidations and violence towards an elected official of the Republic.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Richard Ferrand 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.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. CCTV of the group during the shopping trip in Sutton was shown in court\n\nA mother accused of not helping her three-year-old son as he was crushed by her boyfriend's car seat has told a court she had let down her son.\n\nAlfie Lamb was found unresponsive and later died following a car journey in south London on 1 February last year.\n\nThe boy's mother Adrian Hoare, 23, told the Old Bailey she would have moved Alfie \"if I thought there was a serious problem\".\n\nShe and her partner Stephen Waterson, 25, both deny manslaughter.\n\nMr Waterson is accused of pushing the front passenger seat of his Audi into Alfie twice during the journey from Sutton to Croydon.\n\nIn court, prosecutors accused Ms Hoare of putting her boyfriend first before her son as their relationship was \"too important\".\n\nJurors were shown CCTV of the three-year-old apparently having to run to keep up with her and Mr Waterson as they walked along an alleyway and into Asda.\n\nReferring to the footage, Duncan Atkinson QC asked Ms Hoare why her son was having to run and \"what allowances were you making for Alfie's little legs?\".\n\nThe defendant denied she put what her partner wanted first, saying that it was \"just the way I walk\" and \"Alfie always runs.\"\n\nAlfie Lamb had been in the rear footwell of the Audi with another child during the trip\n\nWhen asked why she had not taken her son out of the footwell and comforted him when he was \"crying\", \"screaming\", and \"coughing\", Ms Hoare said she could have \"but Stephen said we was all going together.\"\n\nMr Atkinson later asked whether \"looking back on it now, do you feel you let Alfie down?\", to which Ms Hoare replied: \"Yes.\"\n\nEarlier, Mr Waterson's lawyer suggested the car seat had nothing to do with the toddler's injuries and Miss Hoare must have \"done something\".\n\nThis was denied by the 23-year-old.\n\nMr Waterson has told the court he only moved his seat back an inch, before moving forwards again\n\nMs Hoare denies manslaughter, child cruelty and common assault on Emilie Williams, who was also in the car.\n\nMr Waterson denies manslaughter and the intimidation of the car's driver Marcus Lamb.\n\nThe couple and 19-year-old Ms Williams have pleaded guilty to conspiring to pervert the course of justice by making false statements to police.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Buckingham wrote music and sang for the band\n\nFormer Fleetwood Mac guitarist Lindsey Buckingham is recovering after emergency open heart surgery but his vocal cords were damaged as a result, his wife has announced.\n\nKristen Buckingham, who is based in Los Angeles, said her husband had been taken to hospital late last week.\n\nHe is recovering at home and getting \"stronger\" every day, she said, posting a photo of him in his hospital bed.\n\nBuckingham, 69, was fired from the British-American band last year.\n\nHe then launched a legal case before settling out of court.\n\n\"This past year has been a very stressful and difficult year for our family to say the least,\" Mrs Buckingham said in her social media post.\n\n\"We feel so fortunate he's alive. As does he. He looks forward to recovery and putting this behind him.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Kristen Buckingham 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\nIt was not clear, she said, if the vocal damage would be permanent.\n\nShe also revealed Buckingham's family had had a history of heart-related health issues and urged greater reporting from people experiencing symptoms.\n\nBuckingham joined Fleetwood Mac in 1975 with his then-girlfriend, Stevie Nicks. After leaving in 1987, he returned a decade later.\n\nHe has writing credits on some of the band's best known songs, including Go Your Own Way.\n\nLast year, Buckingham's lawyer said his band mates had \"cut him off entirely\" after a disagreement reportedly emerged between them regarding a tour.\n\nIn a lawsuit filed in California, he said he had lost up to $14m (£10.5m) as a result of his firing.\n\nIn December he announced the two sides had come to a settlement out of court.", "(L-R) Keegan, Tilly Rose, Olly and Riley died in the blaze in the early hours of Tuesday\n\nA man and a woman have been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter by gross negligence after four children died in a house fire.\n\nA 24-year-old woman and a 28-year-old man are in custody, Staffordshire Police said.\n\nRiley Holt, eight, Keegan Unitt, six, Tilly Rose Unitt, four, and Olly Unitt, three, died in the blaze in Highfields, Stafford, on Tuesday.\n\nThe force urged people not to speculate on what may have happened.\n\nThe children's 24-year-old mother, Natalie Unitt, and her 28-year-old partner, Chris Moulton, leapt from a first-floor window with the siblings' two-year-old brother, Jack.\n\nThey did not sustain life-threatening injuries.\n\nNeighbours and friends have been leaving tributes near the scene\n\nStaffordshire Police said: \"This incident has had a huge impact on the community and we understand there will be confusion and a demand for information.\"\n\nThe cause of the fire is unknown and investigations are continuing.\n\nStaffordshire Fire and Rescue Service's deputy chief fire officer Rob Barber said: \"Our work investigating the cause of the fire continues and we will make that public as soon as we are able.\"\n\nA JustGiving page for the family has raised £29,000 and community centres say they have been \"inundated\" with donations.\n\nEmotional tributes have been paid to the youngsters, with teachers describing them as \"bright, happy, loving and lively\".\n\nAbout 300 people attended a candlelit vigil on Thursday where neighbours and friends walked with teddy bears and balloons to the scene.\n\nA spokeswoman for South Staffordshire Coroner's Court said the post-mortem examinations of the four children have not yet been completed but their file had been passed to the coroner.\n\nThe fire ripped through the house destroying parts of the roof", "Horse racing is facing its biggest health - and financial - crisis in 18 years, with the industry forced to close down in the UK due to an outbreak of equine flu.\n\nMore than 100 stables remain on lockdown, with six days of meetings cancelled, as the authorities work to contain an outbreak of the highly contagious illness.\n\nThe industry, which is worth an estimated £3.5bn to the UK economy a year, and the wider sector employ close to 100,000 people (with about a fifth directly employed). It has not experienced such a shutdown since the the foot-and-mouth crisis of 2001.\n\nRacing is the second-highest attended sport in the UK after football, and supports a number of other ancillary sectors, from horse training and transportation, to catering, media coverage and gambling.\n\nMedia reports have put the overall cost to racing at between £150m to £200m, with concerns that the shutdown - including the Super Saturday meeting at Newbury - will cost betting firms £2m a day.\n\nThe outbreak comes less than five weeks before the start of this year's Cheltenham Festival, which is followed by Aintree and the Grand National at the start of April.\n\nAnd there are fears that unless the outbreak is contained these high-profile showpiece events could be under threat.\n\nThe Cheltenham Festival attracts tens of thousands of horse racing fans from the UK and Ireland\n\nMore than a dozen meetings between 7 - 13 February have been called off, and the British Horseracing Authority (BHA) says it will make a further announcement on Monday.\n\n\"I don't want to be complacent but I think the best way, in all our experience, to ensure we manage things, is to lock down at the moment,\" says the BHA chief executive Nick Rust.\n\n\"Then we can identify cases if any more emerge. It gives us the best chance to isolate, and make sure our [future] fixtures are saved.\"\n\nMillions of pounds are at stake if more races have to be called off. The BBC's racing correspondent Cornelius Lysaght says: \"Any further shutdown - Cheltenham is again looming - would clearly have a considerable effect on the sport but [also] on all the ancillary industries that go with it.\"\n\nWhen the UK was hit by foot-and-mouth in 2001, the estimated cost to the local Cheltenham economy by the cancellation of the festival was put at £30m. Meanwhile, bookmakers were estimated to have lost £100m because of the call-off.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAnd when Australia was hit by equine flu in August 2007, the industry was shut down for six months and the country was not declared free of the disease until 10 months later.\n\nAt the beginning of the outbreak, containment and eradication cost A$500,000 (£273,000) a day, while wider \"associated income\" losses hit A$4.6m (£2.5m) a day.\n\nSydney's spring racing carnival, which runs from August to October, was cancelled as the bottom fell out of the racing industry.\n\nAlan Switzer, from Deloitte's Sport Business unit, monitors the racing industry and produced a major report for the BHA six years ago.\n\n\"The initial financial cost will be to the racecourse, and then flow through the sector affecting things like betting and media revenues,\" he says.\n\nBookmakers will be badly hit by the shutdown\n\nHe points out that a reduction in gambling income will also mean a reduction in the amount paid to the industry via the betting levy.\n\n\"Hopefully the shutdown will not run for weeks. What the BHA have done is right, with regards to both animal welfare and business,\" he says.\n\n\"If they can have nipped things in the bud, they will have experienced a few days of disruption but managed to secure the medium and long-term future of the industry.\n\n\"The industry could withstand a short-term blow of this nature, but if Cheltenham were to be cancelled it would be a serious blow, both for the racing industry and wider economy - transport, restaurants, entertainment, hotels - which benefit from the festival.\"\n\nHarriet Collins from Newbury Racecourse - whose cancelled weekend event is seen as an important warm-up for Cheltenham - says the \"very disappointing\" outbreak is going to be costly to the industry.\n\n\"There are always going to be costs associated with losing any race days,\" she says.\n\nShe said the Berkshire course had the necessary contingencies in place, \"including insurance\" to cover racing cancellations.\n\nIn addition, race-going ticket holders have been quickly updated, and will now receive a full refund.\n\nShe said the goal for the BHA was to balance horse welfare to ensure \"we don't lose [racing] for a longer period of time\".\n\nAt Musselburgh, near Edinburgh, the course has lost its richest-ever jumps meeting, taking place this Sunday. If the venue's next meeting, scheduled for Wednesday, goes ahead there will be free admission for all racing fans.\n\nAfter the cost of admission, catering is the highest area of expenditure for most race-goers.\n\nIvor Spreadbury runs the annual National Racecourse Catering Awards, having been involved with the sport for 30 years and employed in catering for half a century.\n\nHe says equine flu could cost the catering industry hundreds of thousands of pounds, if not more.\n\nEating and drinking is a big part of the race-going experience\n\n\"This is a huge blow for the industry, and certainly will have a major effect. It is very serious,\" he says.\n\n\"Without a shadow of a doubt it is going to cause financial damage. The ultimate cost will not be known until we know how long the lockdown is in place.\"\n\nHe said the racecourse catering sector spanned big firms like Sodexo, Arc, CGC, and Jockey Club Catering, via medium-sized outfits to one or two-person independent operators.\n\nMr Spreadbury says that all aspects of catering will be affected, including fine dining, cafeterias, fast-food concessions and bars.\n\n\"They are all going to be hit across the board.\"\n\nThe big bookmaking firms saw their shares hit on Thursday, and were down again slightly on Friday. At close Ladbrokes-owner GVC was down 1.45%, William Hill was down 0.92%, and Paddy Power Betfair lost just 0.08%.\n\nVenetia Williams is a trainer specialising in National Hunt racing, and was due to have horses running during the abandoned period.\n\nRacecourses are standing silent across the UK\n\n\"We missed a large part of the week before through frost and snow, so missing another week is a nuisance and a pain,\" she says.\n\n\"Particularly for us, because the horses are running really well at the moment.\n\n\"This to us is the 'high season', so obviously it is disappointing from that point of view.\"", "Terence Filer's funeral was well attended despite him having no living friends or relatives\n\nAbout 60 strangers turned up to the funeral of a man they had never met after an appeal from the vicar.\n\nTerence Filer, 85, died at St Martin's House Care Home in Camborne, Cornwall on 2 January.\n\nThe funeral directors and Cornwall Council attempted to find people who knew him but with no success.\n\nThis prompted the vicar to appeal for people to attend his funeral in Redruth.\n\nRev Caspar Bush said it was unusual.\n\n\"On the form from the funeral directors it said 'this man had no friends or relatives, and nothing is known of his life',\" he said.\n\n\"It just struck me as incredibly sad so thought we ought to try and do something to try and give him a good send off.\"\n\nAfter some investigation, it was discovered Mr Filer lived in Newquay for a time and had learning difficulties.\n\nIt is also thought he hailed from Bristol but had no known next of kin or close friends to mourn his death.\n\nThe only possessions passed to the funeral director was an ice-cream tub full of more than 50 American style belt buckles.\n\nFor this reason Rev Bush chose the John Denver's song 'Take Me Home Country Roads' to be part of the service.\n\nGuests attended the funeral from across Cornwall\n\nLittle was known of Terence Filer who left a collection of American-style belt buckles\n\nOne of the guests who attended, called Ann, said: \"Even if he never married or had children he was still somebody's son, somebody's grandson.\n\n\"What if they were looking down thinking nobody even saw his passing.\"\n\nAs well as 60 guests from across Cornwall, a local business also donated 75 pasties so a wake could be held in the church afterwards.", "When Kirsty Meakin says she's doing her nails, it's not just a quick coat of red gloss.\n\nThe 40-year-old from Stoke-on-Trent creates masterpieces on fingernails - or as she calls them \"her canvas\".\n\nShe started out on a Youth Training Scheme when she was 17 and has spent more than 20 years building her career by entering and winning international nail art competitions.\n\nNow she travels the world teaching her craft and judging competitions she used to enter. In addition she is a YouTuber with more than one million subscribers.\n\nBut the most important thing for her is that she has not had to move away from her home town of Stoke.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFamilies have described their shock at coming across a chimpanzee outside its enclosure at Belfast Zoo.\n\nChantal Baxter said \"one of the big chimpanzees just appeared from behind a bush\" on Saturday afternoon.\n\nDanielle Monaghan said she was \"petrified\" the chimp might \"attack or take the kids\".\n\nBut the mother of two said the animal was \"not aggressive\" and \"just watched\" and therefore the experience had been \"amazing\".\n\nFootage posted on social media shows a chimpanzee on a path with members of the public, while several other chimpanzees remained on the enclosure wall.\n\nBelfast Zoo said the chimpanzees made an improvised ladder from a large tree branch propped up against a wall.\n\nThis is the second escape attempt by animals at the zoo in as many months.\n\nIn January, a red panda called Amber went missing from the zoo overnight before being discovered in a nearby garden.\n\nMs Monaghan, from Holywood, was at the zoo with her two children Grace, eight, Leo, six, her partner Dean McFaul and his four-year-old nieces Summer and Willow.\n\nThey filmed the entire escape from start to finish, and Ms Monaghan said it was a day she would \"never forget\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. One of the chimps ventured a bit further than the others\n\nShe said they \"could not believe it\" when the \"smart\" chimpanzees started to climb out of the enclosure, and when they went to take a closer look, they ended up \"a foot\" away from one of them.\n\n\"I was petrified, obviously, having the kids and I tried not to show fear but inside I was a bit like what happens if it attacks us or tries to take the kids or runs over,\" she told BBC News NI.\n\n\"But we just had to stay calm.\n\n\"It may have been a different story if it had been aggressive but it absolutely wasn't. It made us feel at ease. We just walked past it and it was absolutely grand.\"\n\nMs Baxter, from Larne, said when the chimpanzee appeared before them, her youngest child shouted at it.\n\n\"I think she scared it and it did sort of make its way back up the hill,\" she said.\n\nOne chimpanzee went for a bit of a wander...\n\n\"But there were four of them that we could see were out. There was one on the path and there were three of them sitting on the wall.\n\n\"We were a bit shocked, obviously, being approached by this big chimpanzee. The kids were shocked.\n\n\"I suppose now it's easy to think it was funny, but it was quite dangerous.\"\n\nBelfast City Council, which runs the zoo, said one chimpanzee \"briefly\" left its enclosure.\n\n\"Zookeepers were present as the chimpanzee quickly returned from an adjacent wall to the rest of the group inside the enclosure,\" a spokeswoman said.\n\n... while the others remained on the wall\n\nThe zoo's Alyn Cairns said: \"We think what has happened is that the trees in their enclosure have been weakened by the storms and so they've been able to break them and use them as a ladder to get out.\n\nHe said the zoo's chimps were \"quite cowardly\" so went back into their enclosure themselves during the incident.\n\nThe zoo's Alan Cairns said the \"intelligent\" primates \"got back in themselves\"\n\n\"They're intelligent primates and know they're not supposed to be out of their enclosure, so got back in themselves,\" he said.\n\n\"We like things to be natural in their enclosure, to have trees in it, but we will review it.\n\n\"We may have to remove the trees or make them a smaller level, although we don't want to do that.\"\n\nThe chimpanzees were locked into their inner enclosure after the great escape.", "Peter Biar Ajak was one of Sudan's \"Lost Boys\", displaced during the civil war\n\nA Cambridge University student facing the death penalty in South Sudan is being \"arbitrarily detained in a modern-day hellhole\", his lawyer says.\n\nPhD student Peter Biar Ajak, 35, a critic of his country's regime, has been detained without charge since his arrest at Juba Airport in July.\n\nHis lawyer Jared Genser said this was \"in clear violation of his rights under international law\".\n\nThe government of South Sudan could not be reached for comment.\n\nShortly before his arrest, Mr Ajak had tweeted about South Sudan's \"so-called leaders\".\n\nHuman rights group Amnesty International is campaigning on his behalf and his plight was highlighted this week in the United States Congress.\n\nMr Genser said his client was one of Sudan's \"Lost Boys\", displaced by the country's civil war.\n\nHe resettled in the United States, studying at La Salle University in Philadelphia and Harvard University, before moving to Cambridge University.\n\nReturning to his home country on 28 July to hold a youth forum, he was arrested and taken directly to custody.\n\nMr Ajak is the father to two young children\n\nMr Genser said his client had called for the country's current leaders to step down so that younger people could take over and achieve peace.\n\n\"This has become a real problem for the government in South Sudan, which then decides to target him for arrest and arbitrary detention because he was being a very effective critic,\" he said.\n\nOn Thursday, Congresswoman Madeleine Dean, who \"knew Peter as a brilliant student and leader\" while teaching at La Salle University, drew attention to his detention in the US House of Representatives.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Genser said charges being considered by the South Sudanese authorities included treason and terrorism, both of which carry the death penalty.\n\n\"Somebody like him needs to be on the front lines fighting for freedom, democracy and human rights - not arbitrarily detained in a modern-day hellhole in clear violation of his rights under international law and for crimes he did not commit,\" said Mr Genser.\n\nA Cambridge University spokeswoman said: \"The university remains deeply concerned about Peter's welfare and his access to legal representation and the violation of his rights in accordance with the constitution of South Sudan, which guarantees all South Sudanese people liberty and security of person, due process, and freedom of expression and association.\"\n\nSeif Magango, Amnesty International's deputy regional director for East Africa, said Mr Ajak's ongoing detention without charge was \"absurd\" and in breach of South Sudan's own constitution and international law.\n\n\"South Sudanese authorities must either release him so he can re-join his wife and children who miss him dearly, or charge him with an offence recognised under international law,\" he said\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The name on Google Maps has since been changed\n\nA school was labelled on Google Maps as \"Hell on Earth\" in what is thought to have been a joke by one of its pupils.\n\nHornsea School and Language College in East Yorkshire appeared on the website labelled as \"Hornsea Prison & Hell on Earth\".\n\nIt is believed a pupil submitted the name change to the search engine and it was accepted.\n\nThe school issued a statement saying the unauthorised listing had since been removed.\n\nPlace names can be suggested to Google by anyone but must be verified by the business owner, to ensure they are the only ones who can edit them.\n\nThe entry has since been changed and the school said the identity of the person responsible for the prank was known.\n\nHead teacher Steve Ostler said: \"We recommend that all schools take ownership of their Google map icon to prevent any copy-cat behaviours.\"\n\nHornsea School and Language College is a secondary comprehensive founded in 1958 and takes pupils from Hornsea and the surrounding area.\n\nA Google spokesperson said: \"Allowing users to suggest information provides comprehensive and up-to-date info, but we recognise there may be occasional inaccuracies suggested by users.\n\n\"When this happens, we do our best to address the issue as quickly as possible.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Emiliano Sala (left) was on board a plane being flown by pilot David Ibbotson\n\nThe family of the pilot of the plane carrying footballer Emiliano Sala which crashed into the sea have launched a fundraising appeal to find his body.\n\nDavid Ibbotson of North Lincolnshire was flying the Cardiff City player from Nantes to the UK when their plane crashed near Guernsey on 21 January.\n\nThe footballer's body was recovered from the plane wreck on the seabed, but Mr Ibbotson's body has not been found.\n\nThousands of pounds have been raised on a Gofundme page in a few hours.\n\nOn the page, the family of Mr Ibbotson, from Crowle, said: \"As a family we are trying to come to terms with the tragedy and the loss of two incredible men.\n\n\"To be told the search has now been called off for the foreseeable future has only made this tragic time more difficult.\n\n\"We can not bear the thought of him being alone, we need him home so that we are able to lay him to rest.\"\n\nThe appeal has a target of £300,000.\n\nThe AAIB released this photograph of the wreckage of the Piper Malibu found in 63m (205ft) of water north west of Guernsey\n\nThe Piper Malibu N264DB was en route from France to Cardiff, two days after the Argentine striker's £15m transfer to Cardiff was announced.\n\nAn official search was called off on 24 January after Guernsey's harbour master said the chances of survival were \"extremely remote\".\n\nBut an online appeal started by Sala's agent raised £324,000 (371,000 euros) for a private search led by marine scientist and oceanographer David Mearns.\n\nWorking jointly with the Air Accidents Investigation Branch, Mr Mearns' ship and the Geo Ocean III, began combing a four square mile area of the English Channel, 24 nautical miles north of Guernsey.\n\nThe plane's wreckage was discovered on Sunday and Sala's body was recovered on Wednesday.\n\nThe search vessel Geo Ocean III found the wreckage near Guernsey\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A kitesurfer has died after getting into difficulty in high winds on a beach in north Devon as Storm Erik battered the UK for a second day.\n\nIt came after two men died in separate incidents on the roads in Devon and in Wales on Friday, the latter due to a falling tree.\n\nThe weather has caused widespread delays and disruption to transport.\n\nGusts of up to 75mph were recorded in western parts of the UK and motorists advised to take care.\n\nA 50-year-old man died on the A384 in Buckfastleigh, Devon and a van driver was killed after colliding with a fallen tree on the B4306 between Pontyberem and Llannon in west Wales.\n\nHigh winds of 40 and 50mph were typical across the country.\n\nThe highest winds were recorded in Powys at 75mph, while winds in Dumfries and Galloway reached 74mph.\n\nThe storm was dubbed Storm Erik by the Irish weather service Met Éireann where it caused winds of approaching 100mph.\n\nA Met Office yellow weather warning for high winds has now been lifted.\n\nWinds are expected to die down late on Saturday, with the weather turning wet.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA fallen tree caused the A548 to close in both directions around Mostyn, north Wales, and there were lane and speed restrictions on road bridges such as the Dartford Crossing and the Severn Bridge.\n\nThe A20 near Dover was closed while a CCTV mast that was seen swaying in the wind above the road was repaired.\n\nOn the trains, speed restrictions of 80mph were imposed on the London North Eastern Railway between Leeds and York and on trains on the Tyne Valley line between Newcastle and Carlisle, according to rail operator Northern.", "Last updated on .From the section Southampton\n\nSouthampton plan to ban two supporters who taunted Cardiff City fans about the death of striker Emiliano Sala.\n\nThe 28-year-old Argentine died in a plane crash almost three weeks ago, with his body found on Thursday.\n\nTwo Saints fans were pictured making aeroplane gestures during their side's 2-1 home defeat by the Bluebirds and were spoken to by Hampshire Police.\n\n\"Such behaviour has no place in our game and will not be tolerated at St Mary's,\" a club statement read.\n\n\"Southampton Football Club can confirm that two fans were detained and had their details taken by police during our match against Cardiff City on Saturday.\n\n\"The club will continue to work with Hampshire Police to identify any individuals deemed to have made indecent gestures towards Cardiff supporters.\n\n\"The club will be taking an extremely firm stance against anyone involved and intends to ban those supporters identified.\"\n\nAfter Cardiff's injury-time win, Bluebirds manager Neil Warnock said: \"We wanted to do it for Emiliano and I'm really proud the lads have done him justice.\"\n\nThere were tributes and a minute's silence before the game started.", "Jamal Khashoggi had gone to Istanbul to obtain a marriage document\n\nThe Trump administration has refused to respond to a request from Congress to provide a report determining who killed the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.\n\nSenators wrote in October demanding the murder be investigated and that the White House give more information.\n\nAn administration official said the president was within his rights to decline to act.\n\nKhashoggi was killed after entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in October last year.\n\nHe was a strong critic of the Saudi government. His body was reportedly dismembered and has still not been found.\n\nUS intelligence officials have reportedly said such an operation would have needed the approval of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.\n\nAnd on Saturday Baroness Helena Kennedy, member of a UN team of international experts who visited Turkey to investigate the murder, told the BBC the murder was planned at the highest level.\n\nBut Saudi officials insist he was murdered by a \"rogue\" team of Saudi agents not acting on the prince's orders.\n\nAn administration statement said Mr Trump \"maintains his discretion to decline to act on congressional committee requests when appropriate\".\n\nHowever, Democratic senators told the New York Times the president was in breach of the so-called Magnitsky Act, which requires a response within 120 days to requests from Senate committee leaders. That deadline passed on Friday.\n\nPlease upgrade your browser to view this content. Was this timeline useful? Thank you for your feedback.\n\nSecretary of State Mike Pompeo has written to Senate leaders describing actions taken against individuals.\n\nHowever, the documents do not indicate who was responsible for Khashoggi's death, as demanded by the senators.\n\nThe US has imposed sanctions on 17 Saudi officials, including Saud al-Qahtani, a former adviser to the crown prince who, it alleged, was \"part of the planning and execution of the operation\" that led to Khashoggi's murder.\n\nBut Mr Trump has faced criticism from senators for failing to condemn the crown prince directly.", "From Vietnam to Middlesbrough: Teesside's \"Saigon Sam\" has been reunited with his rescuer 40 years later.\n\nSam was a part of the two million people who fled Vietnam by small boats following the civil war.\n\nHe was rescued by a British oil tanker called Ebalina, and eventually resettled in Middlesbrough.\n\nSam tells us what it was like moving to the North East as a refugee to now owning a Chinese takeaway in Teesside.", "As Venezuela’s oil industry has plummeted with sanctions and economic collapse, President Nicolas Maduro has turned to his country’s other mineral wealth: gold.\n\nHe’s used it to win allies and raise money. But the US, which has urged Mr Maduro to stand down, has warned those profiting from what it calls Venezuela’s illegitimate gold trade.\n\nThe BBC's Mark Lowen takes a look at Venezuela's gold diplomacy gamble.", "As of January, there had been more than 153 appeals against fines for using the bus gate\n\nA psychologist fined for driving through a bus gate has won her appeal after arguing there were too many signs for the brain to process.\n\nBernardine King's penalty charge notice (PCN) was quashed after a tribunal ruled signage was \"inadequate\".\n\nEssex County Council has taken £1.5m after 54,000 drivers were fined using the Chelmsford bus gate in 18 months.\n\nIt said the PCNs had seen the number of people using the gate \"reduce to less than a quarter\" of the figure before.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Psychologist Bernardine King said there were too many signs for drivers to take in by the bus gate\n\nDr King - who has published several academic papers on how people process visual information - said the bus gate, a short section of road blocked off to all traffic except buses, cycles and taxis, was \"endangering lives\"\n\n\"Once you're committed to turn left on Duke Street, you have no way of safely turning around,\" she said.\n\n\"Drivers are being trapped in the area and they're panicking.\n\n\"There are so many signs by the bus gate but a little contradiction in the brain means we cannot absorb all the information.\n\n\"To consciously process all the information, it may take a few seconds and by that point, you've already travelled 20ft or 30ft down the road.\"\n\nThe location of height restriction signage in the city implies the bus gate comes after the railway bridge - but it does not\n\nAfter visiting the site, the traffic penalty adjudicator said that although some of the signs by the bus gate were large and easily visible, they were \"cluttered\" together and meant \"drivers could be confused\".\n\nDr King, who received her PCN in November, is now calling on the council to carry out a safety review of the bus gate, which she called \"a blight on Chelmsford\".\n\nAn Essex County Council spokesman said: \"Before turning on enforcement cameras in 2017, we increased signage at all junctions, sent more than 3,000 warning notices and painted the words \"BUS GATE\" in five-foot high letters on the road at both entrances to help make drivers aware of the restrictions.\"\n\nHe added that all money generated by fines was \"reinvested to help improve public transport, roads and the transport network across Essex\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "(L-R) Keegan, Tilly Rose, Olly and Riley died in the blaze in the early hours of Tuesday\n\nTwo people arrested on suspicion of manslaughter by gross negligence following a house fire that killed four children have been released on bail.\n\nStaffordshire Police said the 24-year-old woman and a man, 28, were bailed \"while inquiries continue\".\n\nRiley Holt, eight, Keegan Unitt, six, Tilly Rose Unitt, four, and Olly Unitt, three, died in the blaze in Highfields, Stafford, on Tuesday.\n\nPolice have urged the public not to speculate on what may have happened.\n\nIn a statement, the force said: \"The man and woman arrested are living at an address out of the area\".\n\nThey were detained by officers at about 13:30 GMT on Friday.\n\nThe children's 24-year-old mother, Natalie Unitt, and her 28-year-old partner, Chris Moulton, leapt from a first-floor window with the siblings' two-year-old brother, Jack.\n\nThey did not sustain life-threatening injuries.\n\nA fundraising page for the family has since raised almost £30,000 - with more than 1,900 people donating.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Seven jihadists have been sentenced to life in prison in Tunisia over attacks at a museum and a beach resort in 2015.\n\nSixty people, mostly tourists, died in the two attacks and many were wounded.\n\nSome of the many defendants received lesser sentences and 27 were acquitted. Prosecutors plan to appeal.\n\nThe first attack, at the Bardo Museum in Tunis in March 2015 killed 22. Three months later, 38 tourists, most of them British, were shot dead at Port El Kantaoui, near Sousse.\n\nThe so-called Islamic State group said it had carried out the attacks.\n\nThe man believed to have planned both, Chamseddine al-Sandi, remains at large. Unconfirmed reports suggested he may have died in a US air strike in February 2016 in Libya.\n\nThere were two separate trials. In the Sousse trial, four militants were given life sentences, while five others were sentenced to between six months and 16 years. In the Bardo trial, three defendants received life terms and a number of others were jailed for shorter periods. Ten were acquitted.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The sounds of gunfire triggered panic and confusion in the museum\n\nOn 18 March, two gunmen in military uniforms stormed the National Bardo Museum, near the city's parliament buildings, where anti-terrorism legislation was under discussion.\n\nTwenty-two people, including 17 foreign tourists, were killed - 21 at the scene and one more 10 days later. Among the dead were citizens from Japan, Italy, Colombia, Australia, France, Poland and Spain.\n\nTwo Tunisians, one a police officer, were also killed. More than 40 people were injured. The attackers, Tunisian citizens Yassine Labidi and Saber Khachnaoui, were killed by police.\n\nThree months later, on 26 June, a Tunisian electronics student, Seifeddine Rezgui, opened fire on tourists staying in the popular resort of Port El Kantaoui, just north of Sousse.\n\nThis image of the Seifeddine Rezgui was distributed by IS-linked social media accounts\n\nRezgui was dropped off down a side road, a short distance from the beach, and walked the rest of the way with a Kalashnikov rifle hidden in a parasol. When he arrived at the five-star Hotel Rui Imperial Marhaba, he opened fire indiscriminately at tourists on sun loungers on the beach.\n\nAs holidaymakers fled for their lives, the gunman continued his attack, entering the hotel complex via the pool area. He killed 38 people before fleeing into the streets, where he was shot by police.\n\nA state of emergency has been in place in Tunisia since the attacks.\n\nThe nation's already faltering tourism industry was badly hit, but it has shown signs of recovery in the past year with travel bans lifted by several countries, including the UK.\n\nThere has been considerable progress in combating jihadists in Tunisia thanks to concerted international help, according to the BBC's Middle East analyst, Sebastian Usher, but the militants still pose a potent threat while the endemic problems of chronic unemployment and lack of economic opportunity persist.\n\nThirty of the 38 who lost their lives in the beach attack were British.\n\nAmong the dead were a 24-year-old beauty blogger; a 49-year-old man, his father and his nephew; and several couples on holiday together.\n\nBeauty blogger Carly Lovett had recently got engaged to Liam, her childhood sweetheart of 10 years.\n\nAdrian Evans, 49, from Tipton in the West Midlands, died along with his father, 78-year-old Charles (known as Patrick) Evans, and nephew Joel Richards, 19, from Wednesbury.\n\nA number of married couples lost their lives. William Graham, 51, and Lisa Graham, 50, were in Tunisia to celebrate Mrs Graham's 50th birthday.\n\nThe victims of the Bardo museum attack came from around the world.\n\nThree Japanese tourists died, alongside four Italians, three French, two Colombians, two Spaniards, and one national each from Russia and Britain. Two Tunisian citizens, including one police officer, died.\n\nMore than 50 people were wounded.\n\nMost of those who died in the Tunisian beach attack were British", "The man was kitesurfing on Saunton Sands when he got into difficulty\n\nA kitesurfer has died after getting into difficulty amid strong winds off the north coast of Devon.\n\nPolice said the man, who has not been identified, was fatally injured on the beach at Saunton Sands near Barnstaple just after 11:00 GMT.\n\nHe was taken to North Devon District Hospital by air ambulance, but was confirmed dead at 13:27.\n\nWinds of up to 56mph were recorded in the area earlier, according to the Met Office, as a result of Storm Erik.\n\nA spokesman for Devon and Cornwall Police said: \"This incident is not being treated as suspicious at this stage.\n\n\"The incident will remain in the hands of the coroner and a file of evidence will be submitted to the coroner.\n\n\"It is then a matter for an inquest.\"", "The MP who infuriated campaigners by objecting to a ban on upskirting has been heavily criticised after blocking another private members' bill.\n\nSir Christopher Chope shouted \"object\" in a debate on laws protecting children from female genital mutilation.\n\nHis Conservative colleague, Zac Goldsmith, said his actions were \"appalling\" - Lib Dem Tom Brake said the MP had \"reached a new low\".\n\nSir Christopher has argued his aim is to stop badly thought-out legislation.\n\nHe said he had not been objecting to the substance of the issue, but wanted to see all legislation properly debated.\n\nFriday's Commons debate, brought by crossbench peer Lord Berkley of Knighton, would have allowed the courts to make interim care orders under the Children Act, in cases where children are believed to be at risk of FGM. The bill had already cleared the House of Lords.\n\nBut Parliamentary rules mean it only requires one MP to shout \"object\" to a private member's bill which is listed for a second reading but not debated to block its progress.\n\nMr Chope has a track record of objecting to them, arguing that he does it on a point of principle, because he does not agree with legislation being brought before Parliament on a Friday without enough time for a full debate.\n\nLast year he sparked fury when he objected to another bill to make \"upskirting\" a criminal offence in England and Wales - that became law last month, after the bill got government backing.\n\nBut his fellow Conservative Mr Goldsmith, who co-sponsored the bill, tweeted \"please note that once again he did not object to those put forward by his friends\".\n\nAmong others criticising his actions on Twitter, were the Labour MP David Lammy, who suggested Mr Chope \"embodies a brand of thoughtless, regressive conservatism which can ruin lives\" while anti-FGM campaigner Nimco Ali said she had \"nothing but disgust\" for Mr Chope.\n\nHome Secretary Sajid Javid said on Twitter he was \"very disappointed\" that the bill had been blocked adding: \"FGM is child abuse. I am determined to stamp out this despicable and medieval practice. We will do all we can to protect girls at risk.\"\n\nThe BBC's Parliamentary correspondent Mark D'Arcy said, with a lot of private members' bills in the queue for consideration in Parliament, this one was unlikely to become law unless the government got behind it or decided to attach it to another piece of legislation.", "Finney was a well-respected staple of both stage and screen\n\nHe was a five-time Oscar nominee who began his career at the Royal Shakespeare Company before making his mark in film.\n\nHis big film break came as \"angry young man\" Arthur Seaton in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning.\n\nHe went on to star in Tom Jones, as Hercule Poirot in Murder on the Orient Express, Erin Brockovich and Skyfall.\n\nA statement from a family spokesman said: \"Albert Finney, aged 82, passed away peacefully after a short illness with those closest to him by his side.\n\n\"The family request privacy at this sad time.\"\n\nFinney's other memorable roles include Winston Churchill in The Gathering Storm, for which he won a Golden Globe and a Bafta.\n\nHe also played the title role in Scrooge, billionaire Daddy Warbucks in Annie, Ed Bloom Senior in Tim Burton's Big Fish and the mobster Leo O'Bannon in Miller's Crossing.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFinney was nominated four times for a best actor Oscar and once in the best supporting actor category.\n\nHe got back-to-back nominations in 1984 and 1985 for The Dresser and Under the Volcano but never attended the ceremony itself, calling it \"a waste of time\".\n\nHe was the recipient of two Bafta Awards from 13 nominations and received a British Academy Fellowship in 2001.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (Rada) graduate continued working on the stage despite his film success, earning Tony nominations on Broadway for Luther and A Day in the Death of Joe Egg.\n\nHe won an Olivier Award for Orphans and was part of the original three-man cast of Art.\n\nHis last film role came in 2012 James Bond film Skyfall, in which he played the irascible gamekeeper Kincaid.\n\nA life-long fan of Manchester United, he declined a CBE in 1980 and a knighthood in 2000.\n\n\"I think the Sir thing slightly perpetuates one of our diseases in England, which is snobbery,\" he said at the time.\n\nHe was also reluctant to discuss his craft. \"My job is acting, and that is why I hate interviews or lectures, explaining myself to an audience,\" he once said.\n\nFinney's achievements at the Old Vic theatre were recognised last year on a special commemorative stamp.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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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\nFinney was married three times and had one child with his first wife, the actress Jane Wenham.\n\nHe was diagnosed with kidney cancer in 2007, after which he largely disappeared from public view.\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.", "Motions of no confidence in Labour MP Luciana Berger have been withdrawn by her local party after a bitter row.\n\nThe Liverpool Wavertree MP has been a critic of leader Jeremy Corbyn's stances on anti-Semitism and Brexit.\n\nActivists had accused the Jewish MP of \"undermining\" Mr Corbyn but several Labour MPs supported her, calling it a \"disgraceful episode\" and \"bullying\".\n\nA source close to the Labour leadership said pulling the confidence vote was the right decision.\n\nBut Labour MP for Liverpool Riverside Louise Ellman, who is also Jewish, called it \"an absolutely disgraceful episode\" and said it was \"very clear the attacks\" on Ms Berger had been down to anti-Semitism.\n\nShadow chancellor John McDonnell had earlier sparked a backlash from supporters of the MP by suggesting she should have pledged loyalty to Labour and saying she had been linked to an alleged Labour \"breakaway\" party.\n\nIn a statement after the motions were first put forward, Ms Berger said she would fight anti-Semitism wherever she found it, including in Labour, where it was being \"ignored\".\n\nLabour's deputy leader Tom Watson wrote to the party's general secretary Jennie Formby, calling for the Liverpool Wavertree Constituency Labour Party (CLP) to be suspended.\n\nHe wrote: \"It is clear to me that Luciana Berger is being bullied. This behaviour by her local party is intolerable.\"\n\nAn email has now been sent to Liverpool Wavertree Constituency Labour Party members, telling them that the meeting planned for next Sunday has been cancelled.\n\n\"This is because the two motions to be discussed have both been withdrawn by the members who proposed them,\" it said.\n\nVotes of no confidence carry no official force within the Labour Party, but local activists could hold a \"trigger ballot\", where sitting Labour MPs can be forced to compete for selection as a candidate against all-comers, ahead of the next general election.\n\nJohn McDonnell suggested Ms Berger should pledge her loyalty to the Labour Party\n\nMs Berger has been the target of online abuse and had a police escort at last year's Labour Party conference following death threats.\n\nEarlier this week, she joined other MPs at a meeting of the Parliamentary Labour Party calling for details on the party's efforts to tackle anti-Semitism to be released.\n\nMs Berger reiterated her \"long-held view that Brexit will be a disaster for the people of Liverpool Wavertree and the wider country\", and said that, as a Jewish woman representing a city with a Jewish community, she was \"deeply disturbed by the lack of response from Jeremy Corbyn... to the anti-Semitism that stains our party\", claiming it was being \"wilfully ignored.\"\n\nFormer Labour leader Ed Miliband and prominent backbencher Yvette Cooper were among a number of her colleagues to express their support for Ms Berger after the news of a no-confidence vote broke on Tuesday night.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMs Ellman, accused Mr McDonnell of thinking he and the party \"would get away with this\", and said Labour had been \"shamed\" into reversing the motions.\n\nShe told Radio 4's PM programme that it was \"too easy [for Labour] to turn a blind eye\" to anti-Semitism and said dropping the motions was \"not the end of the matter\".\n\n\"Anti-Semitism is alive in the party [and] insufficient steps had been taken to [tackle it],\" she added.\n\nFormer shadow chancellor Chris Leslie said Mr McDonnell \"should never have allowed his allies to have gone after Luciana like that in the first place\".\n\nLiverpool Mayor Labour's Joe Anderton also welcomed the decision to pull the votes.\n\nHe told Radio 4's PM programme that there should be \"robust debate and discussion\" at local Labour Party meetings instead of motions of no confidence, and that he was \"really frustrated and angry\" at how the members had acted.", "A driver who witnessed the aftermath of a crash involving the Duke of Edinburgh has told how many motorists stopped to help at the scene.\n\nNick Cobb said up to eight cars pulled up on the A149, near the Queen's Sandringham Estate in Norfolk, after the crash at about 15:00 GMT.\n\nHe said a \"lot of people\" were \"milling round and helping.\"\n\nPrince Philip, 97, was not injured in the accident.\n\nThe other car involved was a Kia. Two women in it needed hospital treatment - they have since been discharged.", "With less than three months to go until the UK is due to leave the EU, attention is focused on how to keep vital trade routes across the English Channel flowing as smoothly as possible.\n\n\"I am expecting the channel ports to operate normally in all Brexit circumstances,\" the Transport Secretary Chris Grayling told the BBC this week.\n\nBut in the event of a no-deal Brexit (the UK leaving the EU without any formal Withdrawal Agreement and no transition period), the government's own advice contradicts him.\n\nA statement issued by the Cabinet Office last month said that cross-government planning assumptions have been revised to show that, in a worst-case scenario, \"there will be very significantly reduced access across the short strait [between Dover and Calais] for up to six months\".\n\nThe statement noted that, in a no-deal scenario, the EU would impose full third-country controls on people and goods entering the EU from the UK. The impact, the Cabinet Office said, would affect both imports and exports at Dover and Folkestone (home of the Channel Tunnel) because of the \"frequent and closed loop nature\" of the crossings.\n\nSo why has Dover become so integral to the UK's economic system?\n\nIt is by far the biggest destination in the country for roll-on roll-off ferries (known as Ro-Ro, which means cargo is driven on and off rather than lifted by cranes). Dover handled 2.9 million units of Ro-Ro freight last year, most of which were lorries with drivers.\n\nIt is also the main access route for trade with the rest of the EU inside the single market. Lorries currently simply drive on and off ferries and are on the motorway within a matter of minutes.\n\nBut any lorries arriving from a non-EU country, such as Switzerland, are subject to longer delays.\n\n\"If customs don't want to check anything, that would [still] delay the vehicle by about an hour or an hour and a half [while the driver waits for a decision],\" Andrew Baxter, the managing director of the freight logistics company Europa Worldwide, told a House of Commons Committee last year.\n\n\"If customs wanted to do a documentary check, that could delay it by up to three hours, and if there was an inspection of the goods, that could delay it by up to five hours,\" he added.\n\nEven though such checks are in the low single digits in percentage terms, it doesn't take much for long queues to develop in the tight confines of the port of Dover.\n\nThat's why the government says that, in the event of no-deal, it would minimise checks at Dover to the greatest extent possible and could, in theory, simply wave trucks through. But, as the Cabinet Office acknowledges, it cannot control what the EU will do on the other side of the Channel.\n\nSupporters of Brexit, though, have said consistently that the threat of chaos at Dover has been exaggerated.\n\nThe Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg has often quoted a statistic that it takes only six seconds to complete customs checks for goods arriving at the port of Southampton from outside the EU. There is, he has suggested, no reason why ports such as Dover cannot implement similar systems.\n\nDP World Southampton, which operates the container terminal with the Port of Southampton, confirmed that customs declarations are processed in approximately six seconds, but it emphasised that, at that point, the cargo is not customs-cleared.\n\nIt normally takes about an hour for customs clearance to be completed after a vessel arrives at port, but crucially that depends on customs declarations and other documents being submitted \"typically 2 to 3 days before\" the ship reaches Southampton.\n\nIt is a system that works well at ports like Southampton or Felixstowe for goods arriving from the other side of the world. If a ship is at sea for several weeks, it gives companies plenty of time to get all their paperwork in order.\n\nThe challenge with Ro-Ro freight, which becomes more acute as crossings get shorter, is that you have less time to do that. On the 90-minute journey from Calais to Dover, with the sheer volume of traffic which uses that route, it is something of a non-starter.\n\nOne potential solution on the other side of the Channel, according to Andrew Baxter, would be to force companies not to use Calais as a customs point for checking industrial goods, but to use inland clearance points instead, perhaps in the EU country of final destination.\n\n\"No one wants delays, on either side,\" he said, \"and we have to be practical.\"\n\nBut EU law would not allow health and safety inspections for food and animal products arriving from a third country (like the post-Brexit UK) to take place very far inland.\n\nThey have to be carried out at designated Border Inspection Posts (BIPs), at the first point of entry into the single market, on 100% of products.\n\nThat has led the National Farmers Union to warn that parts of the British food industry could face 'catastrophic consequences' as a result.\n\n\"At the moment there are no Border Inspection Posts at Calais,\" Mr Gove told the Oxford Farming Conference on Thursday. \"While we do hope the French take steps to build capacity there, that capacity is unlikely by the end of March to be generous.\n\n\"It's a grim but inescapable fact that in the event of a no-deal Brexit, the effective tariffs on beef and sheep meat would be above 40%,\" he added.\n\n\"In both cases about 90% of that export trade goes to the EU.\"\n\nAnd much of it is transported via the Channel Tunnel or from Dover to Calais by sea.\n\nEnter the word or phrase you are looking for\n\nIf you have a huge amount of space, there are ways to try to minimise the problem of queuing.\n\nRotterdam in the Netherlands is Europe's largest port, and some of the freight containers that are shipped there are inspected at a BIP more than 40 kilometres from the furthest arrival terminals, but still inside the port authority area.\n\nRo-Ro traffic is a little different, because the freight is accompanied by a driver and it is much more time-dependent, especially if lorries are carrying fresh produce.\n\nBut the efficiency of the system is - according to a spokeswoman for Eurofrigo, the company that runs BIPs in Rotterdam - one of the main reasons customers use that route for import and export.\n\nSo, can other ports share the load, to take some of the strain off the systems in Dover? That is certainly part of the government's contingency planning.\n\nThe port of Ramsgate has received plenty of attention in the last few days, with the well-documented news that a company which owns no ferries has been chosen to reopen the ferry route from Ramsgate to Ostend in Belgium.\n\nThanet District Council, which runs the port, believes it has the potential to support up to 24 ferry sailings a day, although initial plans are for far fewer crossings. Dredging of the harbour, to allow the ferry route to reopen, began this week.\n\nOther ports could also increase their capacity for handling Ro-Ro traffic. About 10% of business at Felixstowe, the UK's largest port by volume of trade, is currently Ro-Ro, and it could handle more.\n\nThe government has announced that - alongside the Ramsgate-Ostend route - it has bought additional capacity on ferry routes between Immingham, Felixstowe, Portsmouth, Poole and Plymouth and destinations in France, Germany and the Netherlands, to be available in the event of no deal.\n\nBut the journey time from Felixstowe to Rotterdam is about seven hours - much longer than the Dover-Calais crossing and therefore less convenient for just-in-time manufacturing processes, and more expensive. And even if Felixstowe traffic went up by 10-20%, that would only equate to 1-2% of the traffic at Dover.\n\n\"I don't think that 'no-deal' with zero mitigation measures for transport can work,\" said Pauline Bastidon from the Freight Transport Association. \"There's no two ways about it. You can move trade to different ports, you can adjust your supply chain - none of it will be enough.\"\n\nOther ports are also concerned that they may not be ready to cope with extra traffic if it is suddenly re-routed from Dover.\n\nPortsmouth International Port, for example, currently transports up to 500 lorries a day abroad. But local councils are worried about congestion and delays if extra traffic had to be handled in the event of a no-deal Brexit.\n\n\"The distance between the freight check-in desk at Portsmouth International Port and the beginning of the motorway is just 13 lorry lengths,\" said a statement issued on Thursday by council leaders in Hampshire, \"so a queue of 14 lorries or more would mean queuing traffic on the motorway.\"\n\nThat reflects a broad consensus within the industry that there is currently no viable alternative to Dover, and that it will take time to change the system.\n\n\"Five to six months would be a reasonable time for things to settle down and for people to get used to new ways of working,\" said Andrew Potter, a logistics expert at Cardiff University.\n\nBut ports like Rotterdam and Ostend would also have to implement EU checks, and there is also the question of costs. \"Extra costs have to be paid somewhere,\" Dr Potter said. \"They either get passed on to consumers or they hit the profit margins of the companies involved.\"\n\nIn the meantime, as Parliament prepares to vote this month on Theresa May's Brexit deal, which includes a transition period of 21 months after Brexit when all the rules would stay the same, businesses are having to prepare for all possible outcomes.\n\nAs a supporter of Brexit, Andrew Baxter of Europa Worldwide is relatively unusual in the freight logistics industry.\n\nHe believes there will eventually be a Brexit deal to keep trade moving, but he has to make contingency plans just in case.\n\n\"I need to have a department with 40 people up and running for March 29th in the event of no-deal,\" he said.\n\n\"I haven't got it at the moment, and I'm starting now. We can't wait any longer.\"\n\nUPDATE - Details of the government announcement of additional ferry capacity were added on 7 January.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ulster rugby player Darren Cave gave his political views in a candid column for a sport website\n\nEx-international Darren Cave has said his generation \"couldn't stomach\" it if Brexit disrupted the \"unique balance that makes Irish rugby so successful\".\n\nIn a candid column for the Sports Chronicle, the Ulster centre said the Brexit deadlock was a \"threat\" to the Good Friday peace deal.\n\n\"Being a proud Ulsterman and playing for Ireland should not be complicated in the 21st Century,\" he added.\n\nCave also expressed dismay at the \"very sad state of affairs\" at Stormont.\n\nCave, from Holywood in County Down, has been capped 11 times by Ireland, making his last international appearance in 2015.\n\n\"After everything we've been through in Northern Ireland, can you imagine the most successful Ireland captain ever - Rory Best - having to drive through a hard border to play at the Aviva Stadium?\" the 31 year old said.\n\n\"How is this good for my generation?\"\n\nCave questioned whether Rory Best would have to \"drive through a hard border\" to captain Ireland in Dublin\n\nCave said he could not remember the Troubles but he viewed the Brexit deadlock as a \"threat\" to the Good Friday Agreement, which led to peace in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe UK's withdrawal from the EU had \"consumed my thoughts of late\", he said, and it \"deeply concerns my generation as peace is all we have ever known\".\n\nCave also commented on the impasse at Stormont, saying Northern Ireland's politics was \"still in a dreadful place\".\n\n\"The political landscape... is a very sad state of affairs,\" he added.\n\n\"I don't know how it is going to change as the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) versus Sinn Féin saga rumbles ever on with the two communities entrenched on either side.\"\n\nCave said the global perception of the Republic of Ireland had \"radically altered\"\n\nHe said problems with issues such as healthcare and homelessness had been \"ignored\" since the collapse of the Northern Ireland Assembly in January 2017.\n\n\"For over two years our elected officials have steadfastly refused to govern,\" said Cave.\n\nThat meant that societal issues such as same-sex marriage and abortion had not been addressed in Northern Ireland, he added.\n\nRecent constitutional referendums in the Republic of Ireland have scrapped the country's ban on abortion and legalised same-sex marriage.\n\n\"What is so depressing is that during this very same period of time the global perception of Ireland, has been radically altered following the [same-sex marriage and abortion] referendums,\" said Cave.\n\n\"Gone are so many old perceptions and in their stead appears Dublin, this modern, multi-cultural society.\"", "Police received a report of a woman being held by armed men in the Anchor pub but could not find her when they got there\n\nA man was accidentally shot by police as they investigated reports of a woman being held by armed men in a south-east London pub.\n\nThe Met responded to a call shortly before 04:00 GMT which reported a woman was being held against her will at the Anchor Pub in Lewisham.\n\nOfficers stopped a car near the pub and a gun was \"unintentionally discharged\" injuring a man, police said.\n\nHe and another man in the car, along with five others, have been arrested.\n\nThe five men were all arrested at the pub where a search was carried out, although police could not find a woman.\n\nPolice have not confirmed what the men have been arrested on suspicion of.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BBC London Travel This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe car had been stopped near to the junction with Blackheath Hill.\n\nThe injured man, aged in his 20s, remains in hospital. His injuries are not life-threatening or life-changing, the Met said.\n\nDet Ch Insp James Stanyer said officers \"are working hard to fully understand this incident\" and appealed for the woman who originally called 999 to contact them.\n\nLewisham Way has been closed for most of the day while officers carried out their investigation.\n\nThe police watchdog, the Independent Office for Police Conduct, has launched an independent investigation into the shooting by armed police.\n\nThe Met's own Directorate of Professional Standards has also been informed.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Melati (seen here with one of her cubs) was mauled to death by the more powerful male\n\nKeepers were \"well aware\" of the risks of introducing two Sumatran tigers before the female was killed by her potential mate, London Zoo has said.\n\nThe male, Asim, killed long-term resident Melati on Friday, 10 days after he was brought over from Denmark.\n\nMalcolm Fitzpatrick, senior curator of mammals, said introductions of large predators were \"high risk\" but it was \"important they are moved around\".\n\nThe zoo is part of breeding programme for the critically endangered mammals.\n\nTen-year-old Melati, who had been at London Zoo since 2012, was mauled by Asim shortly after they were introduced and could not be saved, despite the efforts of staff.\n\nAsim (pictured) had been matched with Melati through the European Endangered Species Programme\n\nThe zoo had hoped the pair would be compatible as their previous male tiger, Jae-Jae, sired seven cubs with Melati before he was moved to French zoo Le Parc des Félins, on 30 January.\n\nMr Fitzpatrick told the BBC that while the pair had been \"very well bonded... it is important we move them round the zoos as part of the genetic diversity that we need to ensure the population is healthy\".\n\nThere are thought to be only 300 Sumatran tigers left in the wild.\n\nJae Jae was moved to France last month\n\nSpeaking about Asim's condition, Mr Fitzpatrick said the tiger had been through a \"traumatic event\" and suffered minor injuries, which were being \"monitored\".\n\nHe added that the seven-year-old was \"sociable\" at his previous home where he had \"been introduced in an even shorter time to the female there,\" but \"occasionally incidents can happen in zoos with established pairs, and in the wild\".\n\nSpeaking about the future of the programme, he said the zoo hoped to have another breeding pair of tigers and would use the death to \"evolve\" and \"learn\" for future introductions.\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\nMore than 300 Birmingham bin workers have started the first of a series of strikes in a dispute with the council.\n\nIt stems from claims some staff have been \"blacklisted\" for taking part in industrial action in 2017, when piles of rubbish were left on the streets.\n\nThe Unite members have worked to rule since 29 December over what it calls \"secret payments\" given to GMB members who abstained from a previous strike.\n\nA \"reasonable\" offer had been made to unions, Birmingham City Council said.\n\nBin workers on the picket line at the Redfern Road depot in Tyseley held placards with the words \"betrayed\" on them\n\nCollections in the city have moved to fortnightly, which the council said was to ensure \"reliability of service\" until the dispute is resolved.\n\nPicket lines were in place at four council refuse depots from 05:00 GMT until 14:00, Unite said.\n\nUnite's assistant general secretary Howard Beckett described the action as a \"last resort\" after six weeks of talks to resolve the row collapsed last week.\n\n\"This industrial action is entirely of Birmingham council's making,\" he said.\n\nRubbish is already starting to pile up in Birmingham during the second industrial action\n\nThe three-month long strike action that started in June 2017 was part of a dispute over job losses, but GMB members were not involved.\n\nUnite said it discovered the \"secret payments\" to GMB members late last year and is demanding its members receive equal payments.\n\nThe council and GMB said the payments were not because members kept working, but because they had been left out of conciliatory talks which resolved the strike last year.\n\nGMB made a claim against the council as their members were affected by the agreement, which they were not consulted on.\n\nThe council has offered to pay Unite members up to £3,000, however the union said this was still about £600 less than GMB members received.\n\nUnite members claim they have been \"blacklisted\" for striking in 2017\n\nMr Beckett said: \"On one hand, it [the council] has said the payments were justified, but also said that they would make offers up to £3,000 to our members.\n\n\"Where is the logic in that?\"\n\nThe offer tabled by the council last week \"was worse than the one which Unite had already rejected\", he said and demanded that \"everyone will get the same\".\n\nBut the council has urged the unions to put it to members \"so they can give it the serious consideration it deserves\".\n\nBirmingham Council announced fortnightly collections to deal with the industrial action\n\nResidents said there was already \"mess everywhere\" in Birmingham\n\nUp to 150 members were expected at the Redfern Road Depot in Tyseley during the day of action. Those gathered earlier had placards which read \"betrayed by a Labour council\" and \"bin your blacklisting Birmingham Council\".\n\nAmong the crowd was councillor Majid Mahmood, former cabinet member for clean streets, waste and recycling, who resigned last month when industrial action was announced.\n\nMr Mahmood told the BBC he was \"disappointed with the cabinet\" and had joined the picket \"to show support and solidarity with the workers who I firmly believe have been discriminated against\".\n\nFormer cabinet member for clean streets councillor Majid Mahmood (far right) joined the picket in Tyseley\n\n\"I'm hoping they [the council] will see sense and end the discrimination against these workers,\" he said.\n\nDuring his time in the cabinet, from May last year until January, he said he \"did not know about any payment made to other workers\" and criticised the council's lack of transparency.\n\nResident Luke Service said his street in the Stechford area of the city had been \"covered in rubbish\" with bins \"overflowing\" since before official strike action began.\n\nHe said his recycling had not been taken since 18 December, meaning he still has waste from Christmas piling up.\n\n\"There's rubbish all over the street as people leave it next to the bins and then it gets blown by the weather,\" Mr Service said.\n\n\"This has even led to us having rats and foxes in our street at various points.\n\n\"It's a tough situation, but there needs to be some sort of compromise.\"\n\nWorkers will be striking for two days a week over the next five weeks, with Unison workers, who are also involved, due to stage their first walk-out on Friday.\n\nUsually, Birmingham residents receive a weekly general waste collection and a recycling service every two weeks, though some residents in the city have complained of missed collections over the past few months, even before industrial action began.\n\nHousehold rubbish on the streets of Alum Rock in August 2017\n\nThe council has said that from Monday, residents should put both bins out on what would be their normal recycling collection day, and that a reasonable amount of \"side waste\" could also be left.\n\nCollections were not being suspended during any strike action, the authority said.\n• None 402,337tonnes of household rubbish collected by Birmingham City Council in 2017-18\n\nSpeaking last week, councillor Brett O'Reilly, cabinet member for clean streets, waste and recycling, said the authority was \"determined\" to resolve the dispute and apologised for any missed collections so far.\n\n\"But until we reach a resolution we must do everything we can to minimise the disruption to the people who live in Birmingham,\" he said.\n\nBoth unions are also pursuing legal action against the council as part of the dispute, which will be holding an emergency cabinet meeting on Wednesday.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The victim had been stabbed multiple times before he entered the hotel in Euston Street\n\nEleven people have been arrested after a man was stabbed several times in the street in London and collapsed and died in a hotel reception.\n\nThe victim, aged in his 20s, entered the Wesley Hotel, near London's Euston Station, at about 22:45 GMT on Monday.\n\nThe man was helped by hotel staff, but he died shortly after 23:30.\n\nSeven women and four men, aged between 19 and 28, were all arrested on suspicion of murder and remain in custody, the Met has said.\n\nStaff at the luxury hotel were left \"shocked by the experience\", according to the hotel's chairman Rev Stuart Burgess.\n\nHe said: \"It was a complete shock to the staff late last night.\n\n\"They realised that the person was beyond their help and they immediately called 999.\"\n\nThe victim had been stabbed multiple times before he entered the hotel in Euston Street\n\nFour or five staff working near the lobby at the time were \"trying to come to terms with it\", he added.\n\nAyesha Begum, 38, who lives close to where the man was found, said she came out of her home after hearing a commotion.\n\n\"Police were following a trail of blood,\" she said.\n\nResidents were evacuated from the hotel following the stabbing\n\nThe Wesley Hotel is just a stone's throw away from Euston Station.\n\nThe man managed to stumble a few yards into the building where he collapsed and was later pronounced dead.\n\nMany guests were evacuated from the hotel last night. They've started to return this morning.\n\nPolice are yet to identify who the man is but an ambulance arrived earlier to remove his body.\n\nScotland Yard said it was making urgent inquiries to identify the man and contact his family.\n\nCordons have been set up in the street.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Nissan will be forced to reapply for nearly £60m of taxpayer support after backtracking on a promise to build its X-Trail SUV in Sunderland.\n\nA letter from the government to Nissan, written in 2016, revealed that the Japanese carmaker would only get the money if it made the car in the UK.\n\nThe government clarified that Nissan had received just £2.6m of the funds, but would have to reapply for the rest.\n\nBusiness Secretary Greg Clark said the X-Trail would have created 741 UK jobs.\n\nBut he told the House of Commons that Nissan had committed to building its Qashqai, Juke and Leaf models in Sunderland, where it employs 7,000 workers.\n\nMr Clark also said: \"While the decision was made on broader business grounds, Nissan commented on the need for us to come together and resolve the question of our future trading relationship with the EU. I believe their advice should be listened to and acted upon.\"\n\nIn the 2016 letter from Mr Clark to Nissan's then boss, Carlos Ghosn, he said the funding was contingent \"on a positive decision by the Nissan board to allocate production of the Qashqai and X-Trail models to the Sunderland plant\".\n\nMr Ghosn has since been sacked as Nissan's chairman and is in detention in Japan following claims of financial misconduct.\n\nNissan had originally asked for £80m in state support, but following a review by an independent advisory committee, that figure was reduced to £61m.\n\nA spokesman for the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy said Nissan has been given £2.6m and would have to reapply for the remaining £58.4m.\n\nOn Sunday, when Nissan announced its decision not to build the X-Trail SUV in Sunderland, the firm's Europe chairman, Gianluca de Ficchy, said that \"the continued uncertainty around the UK's future relationship with the EU is not helping companies like ours to plan for the future\".\n\nThe government had to clarify its position after Business Minister Richard Harrington told the BBC that Nissan would get the £61m support payment.\n\nMr Harrington told BBC Newcastle: \"The £60m still stands. It's to do with research and development and developing alternative technologies and making sure Nissan is at the forefront of that.\n\n\"This was nothing to do with the X-Trail.\"\n\nFollowing the UK's vote to leave the European Union in June 2016, Mr Ghosn had hinted that he would seek compensation if car exports to Europe were subject to tariffs.\n\nMr Ghosn met Prime Minister Theresa May to discuss the future of Nissan's plant in Sunderland, after which he said he was \"confident\" that the government would keep the UK a competitive place to do business after it leaves the EU.\n\nIn the letter to Mr Ghosn, Mr Clark said: \"It will be a critical priority of our negotiation to support UK car manufacturers and ensure that their ability to export to and from the EU is not adversely affected by the UK's future relationship with the EU.\"\n\nRachel Reeves MP, chair of the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy committee said Nissan's decision not to built the X-Trail in the UK \"is a blow to production at Sunderland\".\n\nShe added: \"The government's mishandling of Brexit, the reluctance to rule out 'no deal' and the lack of certainty around our future trading relationship with our biggest and nearest trading partner has made this decision sadly predictable, no matter what assurances may have been provided in the past.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"We're going to win\": Bernie Sanders on what's different this time\n\nUS Senator Bernie Sanders says he will run again for president in 2020, making a second attempt to win the Democratic Party's nomination.\n\nThe 77-year-old Vermont senator became a progressive political star in 2016 although he lost his candidacy bid.\n\nHis campaign says it raised $1m (£777,000) within three and half hours of launching.\n\nAn outspoken critic of President Donald Trump, Mr Sanders has described him as a \"pathological liar\" and \"racist\".\n\nMr Sanders - an independent who caucuses with the Democrats - is one of the best-known names to join a crowded and diverse field of Democratic candidates, and early polls suggest he is far ahead.\n\nHis calls for universal government-provided healthcare, a $15 national minimum wage and free college education electrified young voters, raised millions of dollars in small donations and are now pillars of the party's left wing.\n\nMr Sanders, who lost the 2016 Democratic primary to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, said in his email: \"Three years ago, when we talked about these and other ideas, we were told that they were 'radical' and 'extreme'.\n\n\"Together, you and I and our 2016 campaign began the political revolution. Now, it is time to complete that revolution and implement the vision that we fought for.\"\n\nMr Trump, speaking to White House reporters on Tuesday, wished Mr Sanders well on his second bid.\n\n\"Personally I think he missed his time,\" the president said. \"But I wish Bernie well. It will be interesting to see how he does.\"\n\n\"He ran great four years ago and he was not treated with respect by [Hillary] Clinton and that was too bad,\" he added.\n\nThe president added that he liked Mr Sanders as they both have been \"tough on trade\".\n\nAfter building a grass-roots political movement that roiled the Democratic Party in 2016, Bernie Sanders is making another run at the prize.\n\nThis time, he won't be the rumpled underdog. He'll start the race near the front of the pack - with advantages in small-donor fundraising, name recognition and a 50-state organisation of loyalists.\n\nHis front-runner status will come with a price, however. Unlike 2016, when Hillary Clinton largely avoided confronting the Vermont senator for fear of alienating his supporters, his opponents will have no such reluctance this time.\n\nIn 2016, the self-proclaimed \"Democratic socialist\" staked out a progressive agenda in contrast with Ms Clinton's pragmatic centrism. Now, in part because of Mr Sanders's efforts, the party has moved left on issues like healthcare, education and income inequality. His message is no longer unique.\n\nThe senator will keep his devoted base, but will some former supporters opt for a fresh face? That could lead to conflict with those who believe a Bernie \"revolution\" is the only way forward, inflaming Democratic wounds not fully healed from the last campaign.\n\nIn a crowded field, Mr Sanders has a realistic shot - but it could be a bumpy ride.\n\nElizabeth Warren, Kirsten Gillibrand, Kamala Harris, John Delaney and Julian Castro are among those who have also announced their intention to run in the Democratic primary in 2020, the first time more than one woman has competed.\n\nIf Mr Sanders is successful in his bid, he will become the oldest presidential candidate in US history.\n\nIn his email, which lays out a series of policy issues, Mr Sanders also says: \"You know as well as I do that we are living in a pivotal and dangerous moment in American history.\n\n\"We are running against a president who is a pathological liar, a fraud, a racist, a sexist, a xenophobe and someone who is undermining American democracy as he leads us in an authoritarian direction.\"\n\nIn response to the announcement, Trump campaign national press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said: \"Bernie Sanders has already won the debate in the Democrat primary, because every candidate is embracing his brand of socialism.\n\n\"But the American people will reject an agenda of sky-high tax rates, government-run health care and coddling dictators like those in Venezuela.\"\n\nMr Sanders speaks at a Committee on Racial Equality Sit-In in 1962\n\nMr Sanders is the longest-serving independent in congressional history, but competes for the Democratic nomination as he says standing as a third-party candidate would diminish his chances of winning the presidency.\n\nHe attended the University of Chicago, and in the 1960s and 1970s participated in anti-war and civil rights activism, like the 1963 March on Washington.\n\nHe was first elected to the House of Representatives in 1990, the first independent to achieve such a feat in 40 years. He served there until he ran for and won a seat in the Senate in 2007.\n\nMr Sanders entered the race for the 2016 Democratic nomination as a long-shot candidate but emerged as a surprise star during a series of televised debates.\n\nHe labels himself a Democratic socialist, which he has defined as someone who seeks to \"create an economy that works for all, not just the very wealthy\".\n\nMr Sanders also has a diplomacy-first attitude towards foreign policy and voted against the US invasion of Iraq in 2002.\n\nMr Sanders attracted a large amount of younger voters during his 2016 campaign\n\nHe became Mrs Clinton's closest rival, but she ultimately won the nomination before losing the presidential election to Mr Trump.\n\nIn January, Mr Sanders apologised to female staff members on his 2016 campaign after allegations of harassment against senior aides emerged.\n\nSeveral aides complained of a \"predatory culture\" in his campaign and alleged that senior male staff had mistreated younger workers.", "Several rail firms reported problems with pre-paid ticket collection from machines across the country on Tuesday morning.\n\nGreater Anglia, Thameslink, Stansted Express, Southern, Southeastern, and ScotRail all confirmed they were affected by the issue.\n\nThe Rail Delivery Group, representing train operators, said the problem was fixed at around 10:00 GMT.\n\nCustomers were advised to use staffed ticket offices where possible.\n\nMost rail companies had said any proof of purchase, such as a ticket reference number, was being accepted instead.\n\nOne person tweeted that the button to collect pre-paid tickets was greyed out on \"every machine\" at London Liverpool Street on Tuesday morning.\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 Greater Anglia 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\nA spokesman from the Rail Delivery Group said one of the suppliers of the ticket machines had been experiencing problems receiving information from computer servers.\n\nHe apologised for the inconvenience caused to passengers and advised those affected to speak to their train company or visit their ticket office.\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 Paul Herbert This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHe confirmed the issue had affected multiple operators but not all machines across the country.\n\nThe issue only affected the collection of pre-paid tickets, and all other ticket types could be bought from the machines.\n\nVirgin Trains said its ticket machines had not been affected.\n\nEarlier, rail passengers had been turning to social media to vent their frustration.\n\nGayle Gorman tweeted: \"@scotrail no ticket office open / ticket collection machine not working at Stonehaven! So much for pre planning!\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Lewis Glynn 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\nMatthew Farren, tweeted: \"Well done @tfwrail Not only is the door to get into Newport station not working, but now the ticket machines are broken too - doesn't inspire a great deal of confidence.\"\n\nA sign at Milton Keynes Central told passengers there was a \"nationwide system failure\"\n\nRail passenger Eleanor Mason warned other travellers: \"If you've booked train tickets for collection leaving Shrewsbury train station today give yourself plenty of time as both ticket machines this morning aren't allowing you to collect (and there was only one person there this morning so be prepared to queue)\"\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 4 by Eleanor Mason 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\nRail ticket machines also fell out of service last June, with on-screen messages saying there was \"no online connectivity\".\n\nThe issue, which was resolved after three hours, appeared to have originated from the software and systems provided by Scheidt & Bachmann, but the German firm did not provide additional information.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. His pet cat, Choupette, has amassed hundreds of thousands of followers online\n\nIconic fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld has died in Paris following a short illness.\n\nThe German designer, who was the creative director for Chanel and Fendi, was one of the industry's most prolific figures and worked up until his death.\n\nHis signature ponytail and dark glasses made him an instantly recognisable figure around the world.\n\n\"Today the world lost a giant among men,\" said the editor-in-chief of Vogue magazine, Anna Wintour.\n\nLagerfeld's website says his year of birth was 1938 - though most placed his age at five years older.\n\nRumours of Lagerfeld's ill health had swirled for several weeks after he missed a number of events - including Chanel's spring/summer show last month.\n\nHe died on Tuesday morning after being admitted to hospital the night before, French media report.\n\nAs a designer he transformed the fortunes of Chanel, one of the leading names in high fashion, but his work also filtered down to the high street.\n\nAway from his work, Lagerfeld made headlines for a range of provocative, and sometimes offensive, statements.\n\nMembers of the fashion industry have been lining up to praise Lagerfeld's work.\n\nDonatella Versace said his genius had \"touched so many\" and was a source of inspiration for her and her late brother.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by donatella_versace This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWintour described the designer's \"creative genius\" as \"breathtaking\".\n\n\"Karl was brilliant, he was wicked, he was funny, he was generous beyond measure, and he was deeply kind. I will miss him so very much,\" her statement went on.\n\nThe model, Claudia Schiffer, said: \"What Warhol was to art, he was to fashion; he is irreplaceable. He is the only person who could make black and white colourful.\"\n\nChanel's chief executive, Alain Wertheimer, credited Lagerfeld with transforming the brand after he joined in 1983.\n\n\"Thanks to his creative genius, generosity and exceptional intuition, Karl Lagerfeld was ahead of his time, which widely contributed to the House of Chanel's success throughout the world,\" he said in a statement.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Karl Lagerfeld often appeared at shows alongside his models\n\nIt has been announced that Virginie Viard, his deputy at fashion house Chanel, will succeed him as creative chief.\n\nPier Paolo Righi, his own fashion brand's CEO, described him as a \"creative genius\".\n\n\"He leaves behind an extraordinary legacy as one of the greatest designers of our time,\" a statement from the House of Karl Lagerfeld said.\n\nCelebrities including Victoria Beckham, actress Diane Kruger and models Gigi and Bella Hadid have also paid tribute.\n\nUS First Lady Melania Trump shared images on Twitter of a design created by Lagerfeld for her first official White House appearance.\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 Melania Trump This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHe was born Karl Otto Lagerfeldt in pre-war Germany in the 1930s.\n\nLagerfeld changed his original surname from Lagerfeldt, because he believed it sounded \"more commercial\".\n\nHe emigrated to Paris as a young teenager, and became a design assistant for Pierre Balmain, before working at Fendi and Chloe in the 1960s.\n\nBut the designer was best known for his association with the French label Chanel.\n\nHe began his long career with the fashion house in 1983, a decade after Coco Chanel died.\n\nLagerfeld's designs brought new life to the label, adding glitz to the prim tweed suits the couture house was known for.\n\nThe designer worked tirelessly, simultaneously churning out collections for LVMH's Fendi and his own label, up until his death.\n\nHe also collaborated with high street brand H&M - before high-end collaborations became more common.\n\nLagerfeld was known to encourage new designers, like Victoria Beckham - who has praised him for his kindness.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLagerfeld's own look became famous in his later years - wearing dark suits and leather gloves with a signature white pony-tail and tinted sunglasses.\n\nLagerfeld said of his appearance: \"I am like a caricature of myself, and I like that.\"\n\nDespite his age and decades within the industry, the designer remained prevalent within popular culture - appearing in 2015 as a character in Kim Kardashian's Hollywood smart-phone game.\n\nLagerfeld's beloved pet cat Choupette, whom he doted on, has a cult following of her own online.\n\nChoupette, a white Birman cat, has become a celebrity in her own right\n\nQuestions about her fate have become a talking point on Twitter following the news of the designer's death.\n\nLagerfeld became known for his scathing wit and provocative comments, famously describing sweatpants as a \"sign of defeat\".\n\nHowever, some of his remarks drew sharp criticism in recent years.\n\nIn particular, he sparked outrage when he attacked Germany's open-door response to the migrant crisis, as reported by The Guardian, and for controversial remarks he made about the #MeToo movement, as reported by Papermag.\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.", "Huawei has said it is independent and gives nothing to Beijing, aside from taxes\n\nAny risk posed by involving the Chinese technology giant Huawei in UK telecoms projects can be managed, cyber-security chiefs have determined.\n\nThe UK's National Cyber Security Centre's decision undermines US efforts to persuade its allies to ban the firm from 5G communications networks.\n\nThe Chinese government is accused of using Huawei as a proxy so it can spy on rival nations.\n\nBut Huawei has said it gives nothing to Beijing, aside from taxes.\n\nAustralia, New Zealand, and the US have already banned Huawei from supplying equipment for their future fifth generation mobile broadband networks, while Canada is reviewing whether the company's products present a serious security threat.\n\nMost of the UK's mobile companies - Vodafone, EE and Three - have been working with Huawei on developing their 5G networks.\n\nThey are awaiting on a government review, due in March or April, that will decide whether they can use Huawei technology.\n\nAs first reported by the Financial Times, the conclusion by the National Cyber Security Centre - part of the intelligence agency GCHQ - will feed into the review.\n\nThe decision has not yet been made public, but the security agency said in a statement it had \"a unique oversight and understanding of Huawei engineering and cyber security\".\n\nHuawei has denied that it poses any risk to the UK or any other country\n\nBBC business correspondent Rob Young said the National Cyber Security Centre's conclusion \"will carry weight\", but said the review could still rule against Huawei.\n\nIn an interview, Huawei's cyber security chief John Suffolk told the BBC: \"We are probably the most open and transparent organisation in the world. We are probably the most poked and prodded organisation too.\"\n\nThe former UK chief information officer added: \"We don't say 'believe us' we say 'come and check for yourself', come and do your own testing and come and do your own verification.\n\n\"The more people looking, the more people touching, they can provide their own assurance without listening to what Huawei has to say.\"\n\nIf anybody knows just how Huawei works and the threat it might pose to the UK's security, it is the National Cyber Security Centre.\n\nThis arm of GCHQ has been in charge of an annual examination of the Chinese telecoms giant's equipment, and expressed concerns in its most recent report - not about secret backdoors, but sloppy cyber-security practices.\n\nThe NCSC has also been giving advice to UK mobile operators as they order the equipment for the rollout of their 5G networks later this year.\n\nThey feel they have been given the same cautious nod the agency appears to have given the government's Supply Chain Review: keep Huawei out of the core of your 5G networks, but you are OK to use its equipment at phone masts as part of the mix of suppliers.\n\nAustralia and New Zealand have taken a very different view by taking a far harder line against Huawei.\n\nThat isn't because they know something about the Chinese firm which the NCSC has missed.\n\nTheir decisions were probably based on an assessment of the political as well as security risk of ignoring the urging from the US to shut Huawei out.\n\nAnd whatever the NCSC's advice, similar factors will determine the UK government's final decision.\n\nA spokesperson for the Department of Culture, Media and Sport, which is leading the review into the future of the telecoms industry, said its analysis was \"ongoing\".\n\n\"No decisions have been taken and any suggestion to the contrary is inaccurate,\" they said in a statement.\n\nAsked whether the findings changed her country's stance towards Huawei, the prime minister of New Zealand - which is a member of the Five Eyes intelligence sharing network that includes the UK - said her government would conduct its own assessment.\n\nJacinda Ardern told reporters: \"It is fair to say Five Eyes, of course, share information, but we make our own independent decisions.\"\n\nLast year, BT confirmed that it was removing Huawei's equipment from the EE core network that it owns.\n\nThe network provides a communication system being developed for the UK's emergency services.\n\nFifth-generation mobile broadband is coming to the UK over the next year or so, promising download and browsing speeds 10 to 20 times faster than those 4G networks can offer.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Will superfast 5G mobile be worth the money?\n\nThe US argues Huawei could use malign software updates to spy on those using 5G.\n\nIt points to China's National Intelligence Law passed in 2017 that says organisations must \"support, co-operate with and collaborate in national intelligence work\".\n\nCritics of Huawei also highlight that its founder Ren Zhengfei was a former engineer in the country's army and joined the Communist Party in 1978.\n\nHuawei recently attracted attention when its chief financial officer, Meng Wanzhou, was arrested and accused of breaking American sanctions on Iran.", "Rescuers have been digging through the snow looking for survivors\n\nOne person has died and three people are injured after an unexpected avalanche on a marked ski slope at a popular resort in the Swiss Alps.\n\nHundreds of rescuers searched through the night, but called off the search Wednesday morning after no-one was reported missing.\n\nThe avalanche was unusual in that it fell on a popular, marked slope when the avalanche risk was deemed low.\n\nMost people caught in avalanches are skiing \"off-piste\", away from the slopes maintained by ski resorts and used by the majority of tourists.\n\nSuch slopes are usually very safe, as the snow around them is carefully monitored and managed to avoid risks.\n\nThe avalanche risk in the region was set at only two out of five on Tuesday.\n\nIt happened in Crans-Montana at about 14:20 local time (13:20 GMT), when the avalanche engulfed 400m (1300ft) of piste marked out for skiers, local police commander Christian Varone said.\n\nThe dead person had been working in Crans Montana's ski patrol service, police said.\n\nThis was the avalanche that was never supposed to happen. Alpine villages, roads, railways and ski runs are all extensively risk mapped. Skiers caught up in avalanches tend to be off-piste, but this snow slide hit the lower stretch of a very popular slope.\n\nIt is too early to determine the cause, but serious questions will have to be answered about alpine safety.\n\nIt is half-term across much of Europe and the ski slopes are crowded with families. Eight thousand people were on Crans-Montana's slopes when the avalanche struck.\n\nAn official investigation, involving rescue services, but also, significantly, weather experts, is already under way.\n\nJust a few weeks ago there was heavy snow across the Alps, but the last few days have seen strong sunshine. Some are already asking whether this avalanche, unthinkable for many, might be connected to climate change.\n\nIn the initial aftermath, Mr Varone told reporters that witnesses said there may have been other people buried, and a major search and rescue operation was launched.\n\nAbout 240 rescuers continued to search the scene, aided by dogs and helicopters.\n\nBut after failing to find anyone, and in the absence of any missing persons reports, the search was abandoned on Wednesday.\n\nOfficials said they were ready to resume the search if necessary.\n\nThousands were on the resort's slopes at the time\n\nValais Public Prosecutor Catherine Seppey has opened an investigation into the reasons behind the avalanche.\n\nMs Seppey said it was not clear if the incident was triggered by skiers or by weather conditions.\n\nTemperatures in the area have reportedly warmed in recent days, causing some snow to melt.\n\nCrans-Montana is set to host two women's World Cup races this weekend.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nCommentators have been comparing the resignations of seven MPs from the Labour Party on Monday to the formation of the Social Democratic Party (SDP).\n\nBut why has the latest change in Westminster's political layout reminded some of events dating back almost 40 years?\n\nIn January 1981, four former cabinet ministers, Bill Rodgers, Shirley Williams, Roy Jenkins and David Owen, announced their intention, following the party's Wembley conference earlier that month, to move away from Labour.\n\nThe \"gang of four\", as they were nicknamed, issued what became known as the Limehouse Declaration from Mr Owen's house in east London.\n\nUnhappy with the direction Labour was moving in - namely, to the left - they claimed \"a handful of trade union leaders [could] now dictate the choice of a future prime minister\".\n\n\"The gang of four\" - Bill Rodgers, Shirley Williams, Roy Jenkins, David Owen\n\nThe founders wanted \"a new start in British politics\" and proposed a Council for Social Democracy to \"rally all those who are committed to the values, principles and policies of social democracy\".\n\nThe leader of Labour at the time - Michael Foot - said he wanted them to stay and help to shape the party.\n\nBut two months later, that council became the Social Democratic Party and eventually 28 Labour MPs would join the ranks, as well as one Conservative.\n\nIn June of the same year, the SDP joined in an electoral alliance with the Liberal Party to take its \"new politics\" to the polls.\n\nMrs Williams was the first member to stand as an SDP candidate and win, taking the seat of Crosby in November 1981.\n\nAnd come the election in 1983, the alliance was shown to have growing support - securing 25% of the vote.\n\nBut thanks to the \"first past the post\" voting system in British elections, this amounted to only 23 MPs.\n\nAfter the election, however, Mr Foot, resigning as leader, blamed the alliance for siphoning off Labour votes and giving Margaret Thatcher and the Tories another term in government.\n\nThe alliance went on to fight another election, in 1987, but again failed to make much of an impact on the numbers in the Commons - with almost 23% of the vote amounting to just 22 MPs.\n\nIt was decided in 1988 that the SDP and the Liberal Party should merge - and the Liberal Democrats were born in October 1989.\n\nMr Owen was unhappy with the decision and led a much smaller version of the SDP until 1990. Subsequent incarnations have not managed to make an impact on Westminster elections.", "HSBC has reported a lower-than-expected 15.9% rise in pre-tax profits for 2018, partly because of an economic slowdown in China and Hong Kong.\n\nEurope's largest bank made $19.9bn (£15.4bn) before tax last year, compared with $17.2bn in 2017.\n\nReported revenue was $53.8bn, a rise of 5% from the previous year.\n\nHSBC makes three-quarters of its profits in Asia, and China's trade war with the US was one reason for problems with its economy near the end of 2018.\n\nGroup chairman Mark E Tucker said that the bank was \"in a strong position\".\n\nHe added: \"Despite a challenging external environment in the fourth quarter, all of our global businesses delivered increased profits.\"\n\nLast June, new group chief executive John Flint set out eight targets for the bank to achieve, including accelerated growth from Asia and its international network, and growth in its UK customer base.\n\nHe said the latest results were good and showed that progress had been made towards achieving these goals.\n\nMr Flint added that the bank was ready for Britain's departure from the European Union next month, and said that its operations in France \"gives us a major advantage in this regard\".\n\nEoin Murray, head of investment at Hermes fund managers, told BBC Radio 4's Today Programme that he expected a \"modestly negative\" reaction to HSBC's results.\n\n\"If you look at the bigger picture, HSBC is still an incredibly profitable institution. It is pivoting towards Asia... and that strategy appears to be successful\".\n\nSteve Clayton, manager of the Hargreaves Lansdown Select UK Income Shares Fund, said: \"HSBC has always been a bank built around facilitating international trade between Asia and the rest of the world.\n\n\"Today's tariff spats between the US and China are hardly helpful and could begin to hurt the group's customers in Asia and beyond.\"\n\nHowever, he added that while the results were \"disappointing\", the bank \"can hardly be described as in crisis\".\n\nHSBC said it was planning to increase the salaries of its directors by 3.3% this year - which it said was in line with the average for its UK employees. It is the first salary rise for executive directors since 2011.\n\nThe bank is also asking shareholders to approve a new pay policy for its directors at April's annual general meeting.", "Karl Lagerfeld has responded to criticism over his recent comments that Adele is \"a little too fat\".\n\nThe fashion designer said the words were taken out of context and added: \"She is my favourite singer and I am a great admirer of her.\"\n\nThe remarks were published earlier this week after the 78-year-old was guest editing the Metro newspaper in Paris.\n\nIn the statement, Lagerfeld said his comments were actually in relation to American singer Lana Del Rey.\n\n\"Sometimes when you take a sentence out of the article it changes the meaning of the thought,\" said the German designer.\n\n\"What I said was in relation to Lana Del Rey and the sentence has since been taken out of context from how it was originally published.\"\n\nIn the original interview, Lagerfeld was quoted as saying Adele was \"a little too fat, but has a beautiful face and a divine voice\".\n\nHe also called Russian men \"ugly\" and said Greeks and Italians had \"disgusting habits\".\n\nThe German, who is Chanel's head designer and creative director, also mentioned in his statement that he sympathised with pressure to look a certain way.\n\n\"I lost over 30 kilos over 10 years ago and have kept it off,\" said Lagerfeld.\n\n\"I know how it feels when the press is mean to you in regards to your appearance.\"\n\nAppearing to backtrack further from the controversy, he added: \"Adele is a beautiful girl. She is the best. And I can't wait for her next CD.\"\n\nThe British singer meanwhile is gearing up for her big comeback performance at Sunday's Grammy awards in LA.\n\nThe 23-year-old, who's been out of action following throat surgery, is up for six awards including album and song of the year.\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. On Monday Shamima Begum told the BBC she never sought to be an IS \"poster girl\"\n\nShamima Begum, who joined the Islamic State group in Syria aged 15, is to lose her UK citizenship.\n\nWhitehall sources said it was possible to strip the 19-year-old of British nationality as she was eligible for citizenship of another country.\n\nHer family's lawyer, Tasnime Akunjee, said they were \"disappointed\" with the decision and were considering \"all legal avenues\" to challenge it.\n\nMs Begum, who left east London in 2015, had said she wanted to return home.\n\nShe was found in a Syrian refugee camp last week after reportedly leaving Baghuz - IS's last stronghold - and gave birth to a son at the weekend.\n\nIn an interview with the BBC on Monday, Ms Begum said she never sought to be an IS \"poster girl\" and now simply wished to raise her child quietly in the UK.\n\nITV News obtained the letter sent to Ms Begum's mother, asking her to inform her daughter of the decision.\n\nUnder the 1981 British Nationality Act, a person can be deprived of their citizenship if the home secretary is satisfied it would be \"conducive to the public good\" and they would not become stateless as a result.\n\nMs Begum said she travelled to Syria with her sister's UK passport but it was taken from her when she crossed the border.\n\nShe is believed to be of Bangladeshi heritage but when asked by the BBC, she said did not have a Bangladesh passport and had never been to the country.\n\nOn the question of Ms Begum's son, a child born to a British parent before they are deprived of their citizenship would still be considered British.\n\nWhile it would theoretically be possible for the UK to then remove citizenship from the child, officials would need to balance their rights against any potential threat they posed.\n\nMs Begum was 15 and living in Bethnal Green, London, when she left the UK in 2015\n\nA Home Office spokesman said: \"In recent days the home secretary has clearly stated that his priority is the safety and security of Britain and the people who live here.\"\n\nHe said the department did not comment on individual cases but decisions to remove citizenship were \"based on all available evidence and not taken lightly\".\n\nLord Carlile, a former independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, said that if Ms Begum's mother was a Bangladeshi national - as is believed to be the case - under Bangladesh law Ms Begum would be too.\n\nDal Babu, a former Metropolitan Police chief superintendent and friend of Ms Begum's family, said they were \"very surprised\" by what seemed to be a \"kneejerk reaction\" by the Home Office.\n\nStressing that Ms Begum had never been to Bangladesh, Mr Babu said: \"It seems to be a bizarre decision and I'm not entirely sure how that will stand up legally.\"\n\nConservative MP George Freeman said the move was a \"mistake\" that would set a \"dangerous precedent\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by George Freeman 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’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLiberal Democrats MP Ed Davey said Ms Begum should be allowed to return to the UK.\n\nHe said: \"Membership of a terrorist group is a serious crime, as is encouraging or supporting terrorism, but Shamima Begum should face justice for those crimes in the UK.\"\n\nA friend of Ms Begum's family, Dal Babu, said the Home Office's decision was \"bizarre\"\n\nIslamic State has lost most of the territory it once controlled, but between 1,000 and 1,500 militants are believed to be left in a 50 sq km (20 sq mile) near Syria's border with Iraq.\n\nMr Javid told MPs earlier this week that more than 100 dual nationals had already lost their UK citizenship after travelling in support of terrorist groups.\n\nLast year, two British men, accused of being members of an IS cell dubbed \"The Beatles\" were stripped of their citizenship after being captured in Syria.\n\nMs Begum has said she does not regret travelling to Syria, however, she said she did not agree with everything the IS group had done.\n\nShe told the BBC she was \"shocked\" by the 2017 Manchester Arena attack - which killed 22 people and was claimed by IS - but she also compared it to military assaults on IS strongholds, saying it was \"retaliation\".\n\nRobbie Potter was injured in the Manchester Arena attack\n\nRobbie Potter, who was seriously injured in the attack while he waited for his children in the foyer of Manchester Arena, said he felt \"angry\" and sickened by Ms Begum's comments.\n\nMs Begum left the UK with two school friends, Kadiza Sultana and Amira Abase in February 2015. Ms Sultana is thought to have died when a house was blown up, and the fate of Ms Abase is unknown.\n\nKadiza Sultana, Amira Abase and Shamima Begum (l-r) in photos issued by police after they left the UK\n\nMs Begum gave birth to a baby boy last weekend, having previously lost two children.\n\nHer husband, a Dutch convert to Islam, is thought to have surrendered to a group of Syrian fighters about two weeks ago.\n\nMs Begum has the right to appeal the Home Office's decision.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Honda Europe boss Ian Howells says the decision was driven by big changes in the industry\n\nHonda has confirmed it will close its Swindon car plant in 2021, with the loss of about 3,500 jobs.\n\nThe Japanese company builds 160,000 Honda Civics a year in Swindon, its only car factory in the EU.\n\nHonda said the move was due to global changes in the car industry and the need to launch electric vehicles, and it had nothing to do with Brexit.\n\nBusiness Secretary Greg Clark said the decision was \"devastating\" for Swindon and the UK.\n\nA fall in demand for diesel cars and tougher emissions regulations have shaken up the car industry.\n\nIan Howells, senior vice-president for Honda in Europe, told the BBC: \"We're seeing unprecedented change in the industry on a global scale. We have to move very swiftly to electrification of our vehicles because of demand of our customers and legislation.\n\n\"This is not a Brexit-related issue for us, it's being made on the global-related changes I've spoken about.\n\n\"We've always seen Brexit as something we'll get through, but these changes globally are something we will have to respond to. We deeply regret the impact it will have on the Swindon community.\"\n• None 90%of production sold to the UK, Europe and US\n\nMr Howells said that, in the light of changes in the industry, the company had to \"look very closely\" at where it was putting its investment.\n\nThe company sells many more vehicles in North America, Japan and China than it does in Europe.\n\n\"It has to be in a marketplace of a size for Honda, where it makes investment worthwhile.\n\n\"The conclusion coming out of that is that that doesn't include Swindon - the relative size of the marketplace in Europe is significantly different.\"\n\nHonda said it would begin consulting immediately about the proposed closure with potentially affected employees.\n\nA union source told the BBC that Honda had sent the workforce at its Swindon factory home for the day.\n\nHonda also announced it would stop making the Civic at its plant in Turkey in 2021. Its European HQ will continue to be located in the UK after the changes.\n\nEarlier this month, Nissan switched plans to build its X-Trail SUV from the UK to Japan.\n\nAt that time the firm's Europe chairman, Gianluca de Ficchy, said that \"the continued uncertainty around the UK's future relationship with the EU is not helping companies like ours to plan for the future\".\n\nHonda says the Swindon closure is not Brexit-related. Is this the unvarnished truth, or is the company simply trying to avoid a political storm?\n\nHonda has in the past been vocal about the difficulties a disorderly Brexit would bring, and the timing of the announcement, a little more than a month before the UK leaves the European Union, is curious.\n\nBut the Honda statement makes no mention of Brexit at all, instead pointing to the greater forces that are reshaping the car industry.\n\nHonda is not, on the world stage, a big player, being dwarfed by the likes of Toyota, Volkswagen, General Motors and Ford.\n\nIt needs to find the resources to invest in electric power plants and autonomous vehicles - a strain that has already led to its larger rivals closing plants and cutting jobs.\n\nHonda said it needed to invest in these new frontiers and concentrate its production resources where it could be sure there would be high volumes.\n\nSwindon, which has had one of its two production lines shut for several years and which makes only 160,000 cars a year, does not fit that future. Nor does an even smaller plant in Turkey.\n\nBrexit issues may be lurking in the background, but Honda's real reasons for closing Swindon are about the future of the global car industry, not Britain's future relationship with Europe.\n\nThe EU and Japan recently struck a trade deal which lowers tariffs on both parties' car exports to zero.\n\nBBC business editor Simon Jack said the trade deal means there is a dwindling rationale to base manufacturing inside the EU.\n\nHe said production at Swindon had also been in decline for some time, with the plant currently running at about half its capacity.\n\nBusiness Secretary Greg Clark said he would convene a taskforce with local MPs, civic and business leaders, as well as trade union representatives, to help Honda workers get new skilled jobs.\n\n\"The automotive industry is undergoing a rapid transition to new technology,\" he said.\n\n\"The UK is one of the leaders in the development of these technologies and so it is deeply disappointing that this decision has been taken now.\"\n\nAlan Tomala from Unite said the scale of job losses was \"enormous\"\n\nUnite union official Alan Tomala said employees at the Swindon factory felt \"betrayed\" by the closure announcement.\n\n\"They feel that the company owes them a little more than hearing the news in the media.\n\n\"I left work yesterday to 57 missed calls and around 130 emails, and not one from Honda. It surprises me and I'm angered by it.\"\n\nOutside the factory gates, employee Chris, whose son also works at the plant, told the BBC he was \"extremely disappointed\".\n\n\"I've been here 19 years and it's devastating for all involved,\" he said.\n\n\"You've only got to look across the road at the large warehouses here too, I don't know what the jobs will be replaced with.\"\n\nLocal employment agencies have begun setting up meetings to prepare employees.\n\nKath Curr, managing director of C&D Recruitment in Swindon, said the closure was \"devastating for the town as a whole\", but Honda workers' skills were \"completely transferrable\" .\n\nIn a joint statement, Adam Marshall, director general of the British Chambers of Commerce, Phil Smith, chief executive of Business West, and Paul Britton, chief executive of Thames Valley Chamber of Commerce, said the planned closure of the Swindon plant would have a major impact, not only on Honda staff but also on the company's supply chain.\n\n\"Given the size of the operation, there will be a wide and diverse network of regional suppliers that will now be hugely concerned about their future business prospects.\n\n\"Employers, government and local authorities must do all they can to deliver tangible assistance and guidance for the people and communities that will be affected by an announcement of this scale,\" they added.", "Wallace Broecker, the US climate scientist who helped popularise the term \"global warming\" has died in New York at the age of 87.\n\nProf Broecker was among the first to connect emissions of CO2 to rising temperatures back in the 1970s.\n\nHe also studied the ocean conveyor belt, linking oceanography to climate change.\n\nScientists the world over have paid tribute, calling Prof Broecker a \"genius and pioneer\".\n\nWidely known as Wally, Prof Broecker spent a career that spanned nearly 67 years at Columbia University in New York.\n\nIn 1975, he published a paper in the journal Science that had a profound effect on thinking about the connection between carbon dioxide and temperatures around the world.\n\nIt was titled Climatic Change: Are we on the brink of a pronounced global warming? The paper was said to be the first time the phrase was used in a research paper.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe study outlined the idea that humans were having a significant impact on the climate by emitting CO2.\n\nHe argued that the world in the 1970s was experiencing what he believed was a 40-year cooling cycle that would soon end and the signal of human induced warming would soon be evident.\n\nJust a year later in 1976, temperatures started to go up and have gone up since along the lines that Wally Broecker predicted.\n\nIn the 1980s, he told US political leaders that the growth of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere warranted a \"bold, new national effort aimed at understanding the operation of the realms of the atmosphere, oceans, ice and terrestrial biosphere\".\n\nProf Broecker's work on the ocean current conveyor was also hugely important.\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 Michael E. Mann This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHe outlined the idea that the scale of circulation of these currents must help regulate the climate system by moving large amounts of heat from one place to another. He also developed the idea that the conveyor could suddenly change, leading to dramatic climatic shifts that could occur over decades not millennia, as previously thought.\n\nProf Broecker was hugely concerned about the ability of humans to tackle the root causes of climate change. He became an early advocate for the idea of extracting CO2 from the atmosphere using machines.\n\n\"I don't like the idea of a technological solution any more than anyone else does but I'm saying that unless we have a technological solution CO2 is going to keep on going up,\" he explained to the BBC in an interview back in 2009.\n\n\"We can put a tax on CO2, society has learned how to keep water clean, now we have to learn how to keep the atmosphere in a nearly natural state.\n\n\"We are not going to be able to do that because we are predestined, I think, to double CO2 in the atmosphere.\"\n\n\"And that means a 3.5C warming if the models are right, it means precipitation will change almost everywhere on the planet, polar ice will melt and sea level is going to slowly rise and these things are going to change the world we live in.\"\n\nProf Broecker's high standing as a scientist was reflected in the many messages and tweets that have followed his passing.\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 Robert Rohde This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"He has singlehandedly pushed more understanding than probably anybody in our field,\" said Richard Alley, a climatologist at Pennsylvania State University.\n\n\"He is intellectually so huge in how the Earth system works and what its history is, that all of us are following Wally in one way or other.\"\n\nProf Broecker was known for his friendly, humble demeanour. He suffered from dyslexia, and never learned how to type or use a personal computer. He was somewhat embarrassed at the fuss over coining the term \"global warming\", which he put down to \"dumb luck\".\n\nIn an obituary on the Columbia University website, Prof Broecker is quoted as warning that he would turn over in his grave if someone put the phrase on his tombstone.", "Some 20,000 people who have fled Baghuz in recent weeks have been taken to a camp\n\nThe UN has expressed concern about the fate of some 200 families reportedly trapped in the last tiny area of Syria still held by the Islamic State group.\n\nHuman rights chief Michelle Bachelet said they were apparently being prevented from leaving by IS militants.\n\nThey were also being subjected to intense bombardment by US-led coalition and allied Syrian forces, she added.\n\nOn Tuesday evening, dozens of lorries reportedly arrived on the outskirts of the IS enclave to evacuate civilians.\n\nThe Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based monitoring group, cited its sources as saying wives and children of militants would be taken to an undisclosed location as part of a deal with the coalition.\n\nEarlier, it reported that a request by militants to be given safe passage to the opposition-held Syrian province of Idlib or neighbouring Iraq had been rejected by the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) alliance.\n\nIS militants are reportedly confined to tents pitched on top of a network of tunnels and caves\n\nSDF spokesman Mustafa Bali appeared to dismiss such an idea on Tuesday morning, insisting the militants had \"only two options - either they surrender or they will be killed in battle\".\n\n\"We are working on secluding and evacuating civilians and then we will attack. This could happen soon,\" Mr Bali was quoted as saying by AFP news agency.\n\nFive years ago, IS controlled 88,000 sq km (34,000 sq miles) of territory stretching from western Syria to eastern Iraq. It proclaimed the creation of a \"caliphate\", imposing its brutal rule on almost eight million people and generating billions of dollars from oil, extortion, robbery and kidnapping.\n\nNow, an estimated 300 militants and hundreds of civilians are surrounded inside about 0.5 sq km (0.2 square miles) of land in the Baghuz area, which is in the Middle Euphrates River Valley, near the border with Iraq.\n\n\"Civilians continue to be used as pawns by the various parties,\" Ms Bachelet said.\n\n\"I call on them to provide safe passage to those who wish to flee, while those wish to remain must also be protected as much as possible.\n\n\"They should not be sacrificed to ideology on the one hand, or military expediency on the other. If protecting civilian lives means taking a few more days to capture the last fraction of land controlled by [IS], then so be it.\"\n\nUS-backed SDF fighters launched an assault on Baghuz this month\n\nAlthough no-one has reportedly made it out of Baghuz in the past three days, some 20,000 civilians have been taken by the SDF to a makeshift camp for displaced people at al-Hol, in Hassakeh province, in recent weeks.\n\nAmong them are the wives and children of IS militants and many foreign nationals, including the British teenager Shamima Begum, who was 15 when she ran away from her home to join IS four years ago.\n\nThe International Rescue Committee (IRC) said on Monday that at least 62 people had died on their way to al-Hol, two thirds of them children under the age of one. Exhaustion and malnutrition were the principal causes of the deaths.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. On Monday Shamima Begum told the BBC she never sought to be an IS \"poster girl\"\n\nMs Bachelet also said she was alarmed by an upsurge in attacks and civilian casualties in Idlib province, where a takeover by a jihadist group linked to al-Qaeda, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, has jeopardised a truce brokered by Turkey and Russia in September.\n\nThe Syrian government's bombardment of a demilitarised buffer zone, which runs along the frontline in Idlib and areas of northern Hama and western Aleppo provinces, started to escalate in December and has further intensified in recent days, according to the UN.\n\nAt the same time, there has been an increase in fighting among rebel and jihadist factions, and also in the use of improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in areas they control.\n\nOn Monday, at least 16 civilians, including women and children, were reportedly killed by two bomb explosions in the Qusour district of Idlib city. The second blast appeared to have been designed to kill those, including medical workers, coming to the aid of victims of the first.\n\nAnother nine civilians, including four women and two boys, were meanwhile reportedly killed by government strikes on Khan Sheikhoun on Friday and Saturday.\n\nPlease upgrade your browser to view this content. How the jihadist group rose and fell Was this timeline useful? Thank you for your feedback.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. His pet cat, Choupette, has amassed hundreds of thousands of followers online\n\nThere is a reason why Karl Lagerfeld, who has died at the age of 85, was called the emperor - or \"Kaiser\" in his native German - by fashion insiders.\n\nAfter all, he was one of the world's most iconic fashion designers, at the heart of not one, not two, but three fashion houses.\n\nThe man who steered Chanel for more than 30 years combined artistic flair with business acumen which would see the Parisian label's sales reach $10bn (£7.7bn) in 2017.\n\nBut Lagerfeld's brand reached beyond his business ventures and into every aspect of his life.\n\nHe was instantly recognisable, thanks to his powdered white ponytail, dark glasses and high-collared white shirts. But then, what else would you expect of a man who once noted \"anyone who wears jogging pants has lost control of their life\".\n\n\"I'm a walking label,\" he told CNN in 2011. \"My name is Labelfeld not Lagerfeld.\"\n\nKarl Lagerfeld's exact date of birth has been a contentious issue for some time. According to his eponymous website, he was born in 1938. However, others have settled on September 1933 as a more likely date of birth\n\nEither way, he was born in Hamburg to a German mother and Swedish father, Otto, who imported condensed milk. Within a few years, they had moved to the town of Bad Bremstedt, where he would spend the war years.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Karl Lagerfeld often appeared at shows alongside his models\n\nHowever, it seems a young Lagerfeld had no intention of staying in the country of his birth, having already got a taste for fashion - and a sense he might be destined for big things.\n\n\"As a child, a very young person, I had the feeling: 'It doesn't matter what you do - you're compelling!' I thought I was sacrosanct - wasted on dismal post-war Germany,\" Lagerfeld told German media.\n\nIn 1952 - having seen a Dior fashion show in Hamburg - the teenage Lagerfeld moved to Paris.\n\nHis big break came in 1954, when he won first prize for a sketch of a coat which was then made by Pierre Balmain. The designer, impressed, offered him a job as his assistant.\n\nJust three years later, he was named Jean Patou's art director.\n\nThen, in 1965, after a short stint with Chloe, he would begin a collaboration that was to last to the end of his life, with Italian fashion house Fendi.\n\nKarl Lagerfeld smiles for the camera after receiving an award in 1973\n\nBut it would be his role as Chanel's artistic director, beginning in 1983, which would truly thrust him into the limelight and create the fashion icon known for the next three decades.\n\nHowever, he acknowledged the brand's founder may not have been thrilled with the direction he took the label.\n\n\"What I do Coco would have hated,\" he said. \"The label has an image and it's up to me to update it. I do what she never did. I had to go from what Chanel was to what it should be, could be, what it had been to something else.\"\n\nHe still did not sit on his laurels. His appointment at Chanel was followed the next year by the creation of his own brand, Karl Lagerfeld.\n\nNot happy with simply designing clothes, however, in 1987 he started to photograph his own campaigns.\n\nBut in 1989 tragedy struck: his partner of almost two decades, the French aristocrat Jacques de Bascher died of an Aids-related illness.\n\nAccording to his biographer, Alicia Drake, the death of de Bascher - who had cheated on Lagerfeld with his long-term rival Yves Saint Laurent - was followed by a period of weight gain and becoming infatuated with several young men.\n\nThe turn of the century saw Lagerfeld enter a new market: that of the diet industry. He proudly shed some 43kg (93lb) and turned his experience into a book, The 3D Diet, which would go on to sell thousands.\n\n\"I suddenly wanted to wear clothes designed by Hedi Slimane, who used to work for Saint Laurent and now creates the Dior Homme collections,\" he explained in The Telegraph in 2004.\n\nThat same year, he became the first fashion designer to collaborate with high street clothes store H&M.\n\nMore collaborations followed - not least, one designing three different bottles for Diet Coke, his drink of choice.\n\nThe collaboration's 2011 launch was a suitably glitzy affair, with Cosmopolitan reporting he was followed around all night \"by a male model carrying a goblet of the drink atop a silver platter\".\n\nWalking the catwalk with his godson, Hudson Kroenig, in 2017\n\nDespite his advancing years, he kept up to date with the changes in the world of celebrity, embracing the likes of the Kardashians, while last year he released a capsule collection with Kaia Gerber - daughter of 90s supermodel Cindy Crawford.\n\nSelfies, however, were not something he could get on board with; \"electronic masturbation\" was his scathing assessment.\n\nHis pace of work did not slow up either, so when he missed a Chanel show in January - the first time he had ever done so - speculation began to mount over his health.\n\nLagerfeld's death was met with an outpouring of grief from the fashion world he had presided over for so many years. Many paid tribute to his genius and the legacy he was leaving behind.\n\nBut, it seems, Lagerfeld was less impressed with his legacy than those paying tribute. Two months before his death, the octogenarian dismissed rumours he was writing his memoirs.\n\n\"I have nothing to say,\" he said. \"I'm actually trying to make sure that I won't be remembered.\"", "Police on guard in Port-au-Prince amid protests against the president\n\nThe US state department says it understands that a number of Americans are among a group arrested in Haiti.\n\nLocal media reported semi-automatic weapons had been found but this has not been officially confirmed.\n\nThe circumstances remain unclear but local authorities told CNN the Americans were being held on conspiracy charges, but are not yet indicted.\n\nThe arrests come amid nearly two weeks of protests against President Jovenel Moïse.\n\nThe reason for the group's presence in the country also remains unclear and no identities are yet confirmed.\n\nHaiti's police did not respond when called by the BBC.\n\nBut Inspector Gary Desroisiers, a deputy spokesperson for the national police, told news agency Haiti Libre the group had \"refused to speak\".\n\nThe group, said to have eight members, was detained in the country's capital, Port-au-Prince, on Sunday.\n\nLocal media reported that the members of the group were driving two vehicles without registration plates and were arrested at the Rue des Cesars.\n\nA police source told Le Nouvelliste newspaper that the men had said they were working for the Haitian government.\n\nHaiti Foreign Minister Bocchit Edmond told CNN that five American citizens and a Haitian national were among those arrested.\n\nThe state department would not confirm any numbers.\n\nLocal media report that a Serbian citizen and a Russian was also part of the group.\n\nSince 7 February, thousands of people have been protesting in Haiti over soaring inflation and allegations of government corruption.\n\nOpposition groups are demanding an investigation over claims that officials and former ministers misappropriated development funds from an oil deal signed between Caribbean countries and Venezuela.\n\nDemonstrators have demanded the resignation of President Moise, in power since 2017.\n\nLast week he rejected the calls, saying he would not leave the country in the \"hands of armed gangs and drug traffickers\".\n\nHaiti is the poorest country in the Americas and 60% of the population live on less than $2 (£1.56) a day, according to the World Bank.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nLiverpool's Champions League last-16 tie against Bayern Munich remains finely poised after a goalless draw in the first leg at Anfield.\n\nThe hosts posed the greater threat but were either wasteful in front of goal or kept out by Bayern's well-marshalled defence.\n\nSadio Mane missed a handful of first-half chances, most notably dragging a shot on the turn wide from inside the penalty area when unmarked.\n\nJoel Matip also failed to convert Roberto Firmino's cross from six yards.\n\nMatip almost handed Bayern an away goal early on when his misdirected clearance rebounded to safety off Liverpool goalkeeper Alisson.\n\nThe German champions were excellent defensively in the second half, with Mane's 85th-minute header at the near post the closest Liverpool came to scoring.\n\nThe second leg at the Allianz Arena will take place on 13 March.\n• None Not a dream result but a good one - Klopp\n• None How you rated the players\n\nIn Champions League history, 31 sides have drawn the first leg of a knockout match at home 0-0 but only 10 have progressed.\n\nBayern have lost only two of their past 26 home Champions League games, but Liverpool know if they can score it will give them a huge advantage with away goals counting as double in the event of a draw.\n\nIf Liverpool are knocked out, they will rue their misfiring performance at Anfield.\n\nOther than Mane's late header, which was saved by Manuel Neuer, their only other shot on target came from Mohamed Salah in the first half when he failed to get enough on a brilliant ball over the top by Jordan Henderson to test the Bayern goalkeeper.\n\nThere were moments when Liverpool's trademark one-touch attacking play was evident, but they also failed to make the most of promising opportunities.\n\nCredit must also go to Bayern. They curbed their own attacking instincts to produce a resolute defensive performance, with full-backs Joshua Kimmich and David Alaba and centre-backs Mats Hummels and Niklas Sule impressive.\n\nDespite their problems in attack, Liverpool must be pleased that their makeshift defence kept Bayern's forwards quiet.\n\nThe Reds were without Virgil van Dijk, who was suspended, and the injured Dejan Lovren and Joe Gomez, meaning midfielder Fabinho had to fill in at centre-back.\n\nThere were shaky moments in possession, with Alisson and Andrew Robertson making sloppy touches early on, but Liverpool kept Bayern at arm's length and prevented their opponents from having a shot on target.\n\nRobert Lewandowski, the Champions League's top scorer this season, had 34 touches - the fewest of any player in the starting line-ups - including only three in the Liverpool penalty area.\n\nMidfielder Henderson was also excellent for Liverpool, consistently breaking up possession.\n\n'Liverpool have got every chance' - analysis\n\nThe bigger picture is that Liverpool are still in it.\n\nIt's a good result at home - they haven't conceded and they've got every chance of going to Bayern and winning the game.\n\nI just believe they could have given themselves a better chance by creating more at Anfield.\n\nAnd I was hoping the fans would have been a bit louder - it was very quiet. The fans were a bit nervous. If you don't get a goal, you can't relax.\n\n'Not a dream result but a good one' - reaction\n\nLiverpool boss Jurgen Klopp to BT Sport: \"We made life more difficult with the last pass today - about 10 or 12 times a promising situation [fizzled out].\n\n\"We can play better. We should play better.\n\n\"In the first half we had the bigger chances. I can't remember any chances for either side in the second half.\n\n\"It wasn't a Champions League night from that point of view. From a result point of view, it's OK. It's not a dream result but it's a good one.\"\n\nUnbeaten home run goes on - the best stats\n• None Each of Bayern Munich's past three visits to Anfield in European competition have finished 0-0; it is only the second time Liverpool have played out three straight goalless draws in all competitions against the same team at Anfield after Tottenham from 1969-1971 (four straight 0-0s).\n• None This was Jurgen Klopp's 30th managerial meeting with Bayern in all competitions - more than any other opponent in his career - but the first to finish 0-0.\n• None Liverpool extended their unbeaten home run in all European competitions to 20 games (W14 D6); this was their 11th clean sheet in that run.\n• None Bayern are now unbeaten in nine successive away games in the Champions League (W6 D3).\n• None Liverpool have played out a goalless draw in the first leg of a Champions League knockout tie for only the second time, and the first since the 2004-05 semi-final against Chelsea.\n• None Bayern are one of only three sides who have not been beaten in this season's Champions League (P7 W4 D3 L0) along with Lyon and Barcelona.\n• None Liverpool's Alisson has kept eight clean sheets in 10 home Champions League appearances since the start of last season (5 for Roma, 3 for Liverpool), at least double the total of any other goalkeeper in that period.\n• None Bayern did not have a shot on target in a Champions League game for the first time since the semi-final first leg at Barcelona in 2015.\n• None Divock Origi (Liverpool) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match Javi Martínez (FC Bayern München) because of an injury.\n• None Attempt missed. Joel Matip (Liverpool) with an attempt from the centre of the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Trent Alexander-Arnold with a cross following a corner.\n• None Attempt saved. Sadio Mané (Liverpool) header from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Andrew Robertson with a cross.\n• None Attempt missed. Joel Matip (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right following a corner.\n• None Attempt missed. Trent Alexander-Arnold (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right.\n• None Attempt blocked. Joel Matip (Liverpool) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Trent Alexander-Arnold with a cross.\n• None Attempt missed. James Rodríguez (FC Bayern München) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Thiago Alcántara. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "For a man known as reclusive and secretive, Ren Zhengfei seemed confident in the conviction that the business he's built for the last 30 years can withstand the scrutiny of Western government.\n\n\"There's no way the US can crush us,\" the 74-year-old founder of Huawei told me in a room filled with ornate European chairs and dining tables.\n\nThis is a man who seemed unfazed by the claims of spying and intellectual property theft. Remarkably jovial and humorous, he cracked jokes throughout the entire interview.\n\nWhen I asked him whether the US's pressure on its allies would succeed in keeping Huawei out of Western markets because it said Huawei was a tool of the Chinese government - he told me that Huawei has lots of options.\n\n\"If the lights go out in the West, the East will still shine. And if the North goes dark, there is still the South. America doesn't represent the world. America only represents a portion of the world.\"\n\nMr Ren is right, the US makes up only a fraction of his overall business.\n\nBut the US allegations against Huawei have started to influence his more important markets, like Europe and the UK where plenty of concerns have been voiced.\n\nThis is a man who wants the world to believe that his company stands strong in the face of pressure from the US.\n\nBut where I saw his mood change was when I asked him about his current links to the Chinese military and the government.\n\nWhile he answered all my questions, he refused to be drawn into a conversation on this, only to say that these were not facts, simply allegations - and insisted that political connections are not what has led Huawei to be successful today.\n\nWhen I put to him the reports that his former chairwoman, Sun Yafang, had once worked with China's Ministry of State Security, he told me that her profile was up on the company's corporate website and that he didn't think it was \"OK to suspect or guess where this person used to be\".\n\nPolitics has played a part though, in the arrest of his daughter, and chief financial officer of the company Meng Wanzhou.\n\nUp until now, Mr Ren has chosen to stay clear of wading into the motivations behind his daughter's arrest - but today he pointed the finger at the US for her predicament.\n\n\"I object to what the US has done,\" he said, speaking of his daughter's arrest.\n\n\"This kind of politically motivated act is not acceptable. The US likes to sanction others, whenever there's an issue, they'll use such methods.\"\n\n\"But now that we have gone down this path, we'll let the courts settle it.\"\n\nHe also confirmed that there is a Communist Party committee in Huawei, although he said this is what all companies - foreign or domestic - operating in China must have in order to abide by the law.\n\nOn whether his equipment was potentially vulnerable to Chinese interference, he was far more clear - and practical.\n\nHe said that the Chinese government had officially stated they have never required companies to install backdoors, yet the reality is that there is no law in China that would protect him if he were asked to provide the government with access.\n\nAnd that in itself will prove to be the deciding factor for many governments as they weigh up whether to let Huawei in to their 5G networks.\n\nChinese companies like Huawei have only started to threaten the dominance of Western businesses in the last decade.\n\nAs they have come up, the world has had to grapple with the very different system they operate in.\n\nCentral to that is the fear that they are obliged to serve the interests of the Communist Party. Whether they do or not may be beside the point.\n\nThe perception itself could determine Huawei's success in the future.\n\nYou can hear more from Ren Zhengfei in a special edition of Asia's Tech Titans: The Man Who built Huawei this weekend on BBC World News.", "Stephen Lawrence had wanted to be an architect when he was murdered at the age of 18\n\nIt could be 100 years before the Met Police has the same ethnic mix as the population it serves, the force said.\n\nCurrently 14% of Met officers are from black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, but the 2011 Census shows 40.2% of Londoners identify as BAME.\n\nAs a result the force says it wants to recruit 250 extra BAME officers a year.\n\nIt comes as the force announced how it has changed since it was branded \"institutionally racist\" following Stephen Lawrence's murder in 1999.\n\nThe force said its prediction that it could take 100 years to have a workforce that reflects Londoners would happen if it did not take further steps to \"attract and retain\" BAME officers.\n\nEighteen-year-old Lawrence was set upon by a gang, stabbed and left to die in Eltham, south-east London, on the evening of 22 April 1993.\n\nThe bungled initial investigation into his death was hampered by claims of racism, corruption and incompetence, and it took nearly 20 years for two of his five or six killers to finally be brought to justice.\n\nDavid Norris and Gary Dobson are both serving life sentences while the rest have evaded justice.\n\nMet Police Commissioner Cressida Dick said the Macpherson report into the aftermath of his murder had \"defined my generation of policing\" but she said she did not believe the force was now institutionally racist.\n\n\"We are ambitious for the future, we are not going to forget Stephen or his legacy and we will continue to educate our officers about why it is that this police service does what it does now, and how that comes from the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry,\" she said.\n\nThe latest report from the force's HR found 16% of PCs were BAME, and fewer than 10% for higher ranks. The proportion is 4% for chief officers.\n\nBAME officers and staff are also more likely to resign from the force or raise grievances.\n\nSince 1999, BAME officers have increased from 3% to 14%, while last year 30% of new recruits were from that background.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ozzy Osbourne - aka The Prince Of Darkness - has cancelled concerts in a further three countries\n\nRock star Ozzy Osbourne has had to cancel more tour dates as he recovers from pneumonia.\n\nThe former Black Sabbath singer had already called off the UK and European legs of his No More Tours 2.\n\nNow the Birmingham-born performer has cancelled planned performances in Australia, New Zealand and Japan.\n\nSharon Osbourne said in a tweet that her husband was through the worst, but his doctors have advised that he stay at home to recuperate for six weeks.\n\nOzzy and Sharon Osbourne announced that No More Tours 2 would be the singer's final full world tour last February\n\nOsbourne called off the UK and European legs of his tour in January, after coming down with the flu and bronchitis.\n\nIn a statement on his website at the time, Osbourne said he was \"devastated\" but determined to reschedule the dates for September.\n\nThe Grammy-winning singer and songwriter - who is credited with inventing heavy metal music with the band Black Sabbath - was meant to perform in Sydney, Melbourne, Christchurch, Auckland and Tokyo in March.\n\nThere's not yet been an announcement about whether the concerts will be rescheduled.\n\nThe 70-year-old is still due to begin a tour of North America with Megadeth in May.\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.", "Huawei is the poster child for China's dynamic tech sector. It has grown phenomenally in recent years, from a small manufacturer of telephone exchange switches, to become a global leader in the tech industry.\n\nWhile the brand is familiar to many from its mobile phone handsets, Huawei has its finger in many other pies - from cloud services to artificial intelligence.\n\nAnd despite increasing controversy around whether using Huawei telecoms equipment poses a security risk, the block on its business deals in some countries, and the arrest in Canada of one of its executives, the company itself has continued on its steady path of global growth.\n\nThat growth has come against the backdrop of China's continued rise, on its way to becoming the world's second largest economy, providing the firm with a huge base upon which to build its initial market as a springboard to international expansion.\n\nMost noticeably for consumers, Huawei has swept into the market for consumer electronics, in particular with smartphones.\n\nEarlier this year it overtook Apple in the number of handsets it was shipping worldwide.\n\nShipments don't always translate into phones reaching consumers, but the uptick in production and distribution still reflects a rise in Huawei's popularity, including for both premium models and its lower-priced Honor brand.\n\nExpanding sales of smartphones comes despite political hostility towards the brand in some parts of the world, especially the US. There, no carriers support Huawei, so while consumers can buy a Huawei phone, they aren't widely marketed.\n\nBut it's in telecoms network equipment, which forms the largest part of Huawei's business, that is having its greatest impact on the company.\n\nThe US has banned the use of Huawei equipment in communications networks, warning of security risks and has called for other governments to follow suit. Nevertheless, in all parts of the world, even in the Americas, the market for Huawei products has grown over the past three years.\n\nWashington's decision to block the use of Huawei equipment in telecommunications infrastructure on security grounds has been emulated in New Zealand, Australia and Japan.\n\nWith the US pressing for other governments to follow suit, that raises questions over whether the firm's global expansion is set to be curtailed in some regions in the near future.\n\nCurrently though, Huawei is holding its own in one of the largest parts of its business, the sale of mobile telecommunications infrastructure equipment, such as that needed to support the roll-out of faster 5G networks.\n\nBut how much Huawei continues to grow, won't depend only on political attitudes in Western capitals.\n\nIt will depend on how well the Chinese tech giant's products compare with its competitors. In the past, the firm has been accused - like many Chinese companies - of copying technology developed in the West and then undercutting rivals on prices.\n\nBut Huawei is currently outspending many other global players in research and development in a bid to gain a future edge.\n\nProspects may not be as bright for Huawei now as they used to be, given the political squeeze from the West.\n\nBut, the firm went through the financial crisis largely unaffected thanks to a powerful domestic market in China, IHS Markit industry analyst Stephane Teral points out.\n\nThe same could happen again if it loses more contracts in the West.\n\n\"Huawei went through this unfazed with no problems, because they were able to diversify at a time when China was just taking off, including telecoms restructuring, that really helped Huawei,\" he said.", "One of the protesters involved in an incident outside Parliament with Tory MP Anna Soubry has been charged with harassment.\n\nJames Goddard, 29, has also been charged with two public order offences, the Crown Prosecution Service said.\n\nHe will appear at Westminster Magistrates Court on 19 March.\n\nThe CPS said it had received a file of evidence from the Met Police relating to two incidents outside Parliament on 19 December and 7 January.\n\nThe details of the charges are that Mr Goddard caused harassment, between December 18 2018 and January 8 2019, contrary to section 2 of the Protection from Harassment Act 1997.\n\nHe is also charged with causing racially aggravated harassment, alarm or distress on 7 January, contrary to the Crime and Disorder Act 1998; and with causing harassment, alarm or distress on 7 January, contrary to section 5 of the Public Order Act 1986.", "President Donald Trump declares a national emergency over the border wall, then acknowledges his order could face legal challenges.", "The European Commission is investigating alleged anti-competitive practices in the industry\n\nRaids have been carried out at several salmon farming sites in Scotland in connection with an EU-wide probe into alleged illegal cartels.\n\nOfficials visited offices in Shetland, Stirling and Fife amid concerns they may have violated anti-trust rules.\n\nThe European Commission (EC) has said the investigation is at a preliminary stage.\n\nOne of the companies raided, Grieg Seafood, denied wrongdoing and said it would co-operate with the inquiry.\n\nBBC Scotland understands it is principally centred on Norway which is outside the EU.\n\nThe Scottish sites visited have Norwegian links including Marine Harvest - recently rebranded as Mowi - in Rosyth, Scottish Sea Farms in Stirling and Grieg Seafood in Lerwick.\n\nA statement from the EC said: \"The European Commission can confirm that on 19 February 2019 its officials carried out unannounced inspections in several member states at the premises of several companies in the sector of farmed Atlantic salmon.\n\n\"The commission has concerns that the inspected companies may have violated EU anti-trust rules that prohibit cartels and restrictive business practices.\n\n\"The commission officials were accompanied by their counterparts from the relevant national competition authorities.\n\n\"Unannounced inspections are a preliminary investigatory step into suspected anti-competitive practices. The fact that the commission carries out such inspections does not mean that the companies are guilty of anti-competitive behaviour nor does it prejudge the outcome of the investigation itself.\"\n\nSalmon farming has become a significant industry in Scotland\n\nThe Scottish Salmon Producers Organisation said it was aware of the inspections.\n\n\"However, we understand the focus of the investigation is another jurisdiction, not Scotland,\" said a spokesperson.\n\n\"The companies concerned are co-operating fully with the investigatory authorities and all further inquiries should be referred to the EC.\"\n\nOne of the companies, Grieg Seafood, said the industry was very competitive and that it was not aware of any illegal practices.\n\nIt added: \"We have been informed that The European Commission DG (Director General) Competition is exploring potential anti-competitive behaviour in the salmon industry. They have performed an inspection today (Tuesday) at Grieg Seafood Shetland.\n\n\"The salmon market is very competitive and we are not aware of any anti-competitive behaviour. We are fully co-operating with the European Commission DG Competition's investigation.\"\n\nA spokesperson for Scottish Sea Farms said: \"We can confirm that we, like other Norwegian-owned companies in Scotland, have been visited by EC officials and are co-operating fully.\"\n\nMowi, the world's biggest producer of farmed Atlantic salmon, said officials visited two of its businesses, in Scotland and the Netherlands.\n\nA spokeswoman said: \"We have nothing to hide, we are co-operating with the European Commission.\"", "A new rapid test for earlier diagnosis of sepsis is being developed by University of Strathclyde researchers.\n\nThe device, which has been tested in a laboratory, may be capable of producing results in two-and-a-half minutes, the Biosensors and Bioelectronics journal study suggests.\n\nThe UK Sepsis Trust said it welcomed the research but added that no test was perfect at spotting the condition.\n\nIt is estimated that 52,000 people in the UK die every year from sepsis, which is a serious complication of an infection.\n\nThere is a lot of research going on to attempt to find out what exactly triggers the sometimes fatal reaction involved in sepsis.\n\nThe initial problem can be quite mild and start anywhere - from a cut on the finger to a chest or urine infection - but if left untreated can set off a cascade of reactions, from shock to organ failure and in some cases, death.\n\nEarly diagnosis is key because for every hour that antibiotic treatment is delayed, the likelihood of death increases.\n\nDiagnosis of sepsis is usually based on clinical judgement, body temperature, heart rate, breathing rate, and a series of blood tests.\n\nAs soon as sepsis is suspected, broad-acting antibiotics should be given to the patient.\n\nA blood test that aims to determine the best antibiotic to treat the infection can take up to 72 hours.\n\nThe new test uses a device to detect if one of the protein biomarkers of sepsis, interleukin-6 (IL-6), is present in the blood.\n\nDr Damion Corrigan, who helped develop the test, said IL-6 is one of the best markers of sepsis.\n\n\"The type of test we envisage could be at the bedside and involve doctors or nurses being able to monitor levels of sepsis biomarkers for themselves.\"\n\nHe said the test would work well in GP surgeries and in A&E to quickly rule sepsis in or out, if it was eventually approved through clinical trials.\n\nDr Corrigan added that sepsis not only kills people but can also leave them with life-changing problems, such as limb loss, kidney failure and even post-traumatic stress disorder.\n\nThe idea is that the device could be implanted and used on patients in intensive care.\n\nWith early diagnosis and the correct treatment, normally antibiotics, most people make a full recovery.\n\nThe project's clinical adviser and co-author, Dr David Alcorn, from Paisley's Royal Alexandra Hospital, said the tiny electrode had the potential to detect sepsis and, at the same time, diagnose the type of infection and the recommended antibiotic.\n\n\"The implications for this are massive, and the ability to give the right antibiotic at the right time to the right patient is extraordinary.\n\n\"I can definitely see this having a clear use in hospitals, not only in this country, but all round the world.\"\n\nThe researchers have applied for funding to develop a prototype device and hope to get commercial interest in taking it forward.\n\nThey hope the low-cost test could come into everyday use in three to five years.\n\nRyan, who contracted sepsis in 2015, lost three stone in weight and struggled to walk after being in a coma\n\nRyan Sutherland, from Clackmannanshire, ended up in a coma with sepsis, which had been misdiagnosed.\n\nHe had felt unwell with a sore throat that got worse, but was told by a doctor it was a viral infection.\n\n\"As the week went on, it got worse and by the Thursday it was really bad. My wife took me to the out-of-hours doctor that night and by this point I was really unwell and could barely move. But I was given an anti-sickness injection and then I was sent home.\"\n\nHours later he collapsed. He was taken to hospital and suffered two cardiac arrests. His body went into shock with the sepsis and his organs started to shut down.\n\nAfter eight days in a coma, Ryan woke up and made an almost complete recovery.\n\n\"No-one mentioned sepsis, although looking back I had all the symptoms,\" said Ryan.\n\n\"It's hard to diagnose, so if this test had been around it could have made all the difference to what happened with me.\"\n\nThe UK Sepsis Trust estimates that earlier diagnosis and treatment across the UK would save at least 14,000 lives a year.\n\nDr Ron Daniels, the trust's chief executive officer, said: \"Any kind of test that enables us to identify sepsis earlier, before symptoms even present themselves, could help save even more lives and bring us closer to our goal of ending preventable deaths from sepsis.\n\n\"Systems like this are so important as, with every hour before the right antibiotics are administered, risk of death increases.\n\n\"No test is perfect in the identification of sepsis, so it's crucial we continue to educate clinicians to think sepsis in order to prompt them to use such tests.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rachel Day was a healthy, happy 29-year-old when she was struck down by sepsis\n\nUpdate 19 February 2019: This article has been amended to more accurately reflect the stage of development that this new rapid test has reached and the continuing difficulties in diagnosing sepsis.\n• None Sepsis- What is it - and how to spot it- - BBC Newshttps---www.bbc.co.uk-news-av-uk-wales...-sepsis-what-is-it-and-how-to-spot-it\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The photograph has appeared in exhibitions around the world\n\nThe US sailor famously photographed kissing a stranger in New York's Times Square to celebrate the end of World War Two has died aged 95.\n\nThe picture of George Mendonsa bending over and kissing 21-year-old Greta Zimmer Friedman on VJ Day (Victory over Japan) became one of the most enduring images of the period.\n\nIt was one of four photographs taken by Alfred Eisenstadt as a round-up of celebration pictures for Life magazine.\n\nMr Mendonsa's daughter, Sharon Molleur, said her father suffered a seizure and died on Sunday after a fall at a care home in Middletown, Rhode Island.\n\nGeorge Mendonsa holds the iconic photo by Alfred Eisenstadt in 2012 in his home in Rhode Island\n\nAlfred Eisenstadt did not give the names of the kissing strangers and it was years before Mr Mendonsa and Ms Friedman were confirmed as the featured couple.\n\nThe photographer described how he watched the sailor running along the street on 14 August 1945, grabbing any girl in sight.\n\n\"I was running ahead of him with my Leica looking back over my shoulder but none of the pictures that were possible pleased me,\" he wrote in the book Eisenstadt on Eisenstadt.\n\n\"Then suddenly, in a flash, I saw something white being grabbed. I turned around and clicked the moment the sailor kissed the nurse. If she had been dressed in a dark dress I would never have taken the picture.\"\n\nMs Friedman, who had been working as a dental assistant, said she had not been aware of the photo until the 1960s.\n\n\"It wasn't much of a kiss,\" she later recalled. \"It was just somebody celebrating. It wasn't a romantic event.\"\n\nMr Mendonsa had served in the Pacific and was on home leave when the picture was taken.\n\nHowever, not everyone sees the photograph as something to celebrate. Although it was widely lauded as an expression of the joy felt across the US on the day Japan surrendered, in more recent times some have considered it, as Time Magazine wrote, \"as little more than the documentation of a very public sexual assault\".\n• None New York 'puckers up for peace'", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. MPs resign from Labour over Brexit and anti-Semitism\n\nMore Labour MPs could quit the party unless it listens to their concerns, Jeremy Corbyn has been warned.\n\nSeven MPs have walked out in protest at the Labour leader's handling of anti-Semitism and Brexit.\n\nOne of the seven, Chuka Umunna, said \"a lot of Labour MPs\" could follow suit, together with Tories \"demoralised by the UKIPisation of their party\".\n\nDeputy Labour leader Tom Watson has warned his party could see more defections if it did not change.\n\nHe said Labour had to do more to tackle anti-Semitism and he also urged Mr Corbyn to reshuffle his shadow cabinet to reflect a wider range of MPs.\n\nMr Corbyn has said in a statement he was \"disappointed\" by the defections, which represent the biggest split in the Labour Party since the Social Democratic Party was set up 40 years ago.\n\nShadow Chancellor John McDonnell said the seven should now stand down as MPs and seek re-election against Labour Party candidates.\n\nThe seven MPs - Mr Umunna, Luciana Berger, Chris Leslie, Angela Smith, Mike Gapes, Gavin Shuker and Ann Coffey - quit Labour in protest at what they said was a culture of \"bullying and bigotry\" in the party and frustration over the leadership's reluctance to back another EU referendum.\n\nMr Umunna said another \"big issue for us\" was the belief that Mr Corbyn could not be trusted with national security, if he became prime minister.\n\n\"Many Labour MPs agree with us on that,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nMr Umunna said the new Independent Group was not yet a new political party, but he believed it could become one in time.\n\nHe urged members of all parties to join them in building an \"alternative\" to the current two party system, which he said was \"fundamentally broken\".\n\nThe BBC has been told two Conservative MPs are thinking of joining the new Independent Group in Parliament.\n\nMr Umunna refused to speculate on who they could be but he added: \"There are a lot of Labour MPs wrestling with their conscience on this issue but also Conservatives who have become demoralised by the UKIPisation, if you like, of the Conservative Party.\"\n\nA number of Conservative MPs are at the centre of rumours about joining the new group.\n\nSarah Wollaston, a supporter of the People's Vote campaign for another EU referendum, along with the seven Labour defectors, has warned about former UKIP members joining local Tory parties and the pro-Brexit European Research Group (ERG) pushing the party to the right.\n\nOn Monday evening, she tweeted: \"#BLUKIP has been busy taking over the Tory Party alongside the ERG. Soon there will be nothing left at all to appeal to moderate centre ground voters.\"\n\nOther Conservative MPs unhappy with the party's direction include Anna Soubry, another People's Vote supporter, who has called in the past for a new centre party.\n\nThis splintering might, just might - in time - turn into a much bigger redrawing of the landscape.\n\nFor now though that is way off. And this is first and foremost about the Labour Party - the seeds of the splinter sown more than three years ago, bearing bitter fruit just when Parliament's biggest decisions over Brexit are about to be made.\n\nSeveral Labour MPs have said they are considering their future in the party - but more have said they are sticking with it.\n\nFormer shadow environment secretary Mary Creagh told Today: \"I have [been approached] and I've said no. I think what is important is we now take a long hard look at ourselves as a political party.\n\n\"It is clear that Brexit is pushing both parties to the brink, it is clear that anti-Semitism has taken root in our party.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nEdinburgh South MP Ian Murray told the BBC he was sticking with Labour but \"may change his mind\" unless the party responded to concerns about its culture and direction.\n\nLabour MP Jess Phillips, writing in the Daily Telegraph, called on Mr Corbyn to listen to why the MPs had quit and \"act on it\", warning that reacting with bitterness could cause the party to \"burst apart\".\n\nHowever, shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry told the Daily Mirror that the resignations were a \"distracting and divisive exercise\".\n\nShadow business secretary Rebecca Long-Bailey told BBC Radio 4's Today programme Labour MPs had to \"listen to each other\".\n\nBut she added: \"Equally, I think we also have a duty to unify and make sure that we provide a force for change within Britain.\"", "Ms Ryan was chair of the Labour Friends of Israel group\n\nJoan Ryan has become the eighth Labour MP to quit the party in the past 48 hours, citing its tolerance of a \"culture of anti-Jewish racism\".\n\nThe Enfield North MP said she was \"horrified, appalled and angered\" by Labour's failure to tackle anti-Semitism, saying its leadership allowed \"Jews to be abused with impunity\".\n\nMs Ryan said she did not believe Jeremy Corbyn was fit to lead the country.\n\nSeven other MPs quit on Monday to form the Independent Group in Parliament.\n\nThere is mounting speculation that a number of Conservative MPs disillusioned with the government's policy on Brexit could join forces with them.\n\nOne source has told the BBC's assistant political editor, Norman Smith, to \"be on standby mode\".\n\nBBC Newsnight's political editor Nick Watt said Conservative whips were reporting three MPs - Sarah Wollaston, Heidi Allen and Anna Soubry - had gone \"very, very silent\".\n\nWhile the Independent Group are not confirming anything, he said he had been told by one member that Wednesday would be a \"very busy day\".\n\nAnnouncing her decision on Twitter, Ms Ryan said she would continue to represent the north London seat in Parliament.\n\nOn Tuesday, she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that she would not trigger a by-election in her constituency, as she won her seat in 2017 \"in spite of [Mr Corbyn], not because of him\".\n\n\"I didn't win my seat on his coat tails,\" she added.\n\nMs Ryan, who served as a minister under Tony Blair, follows Chuka Umunna, Mike Gapes, Luciana Berger, Ann Coffey, Angela Smith, Gavin Shuker and Chris Leslie in quitting the party.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Corbyn: \"I regret that seven MPs decided they would no longer remain part of the Labour Party\"\n\nIn her resignation statement, she said Mr Corbyn and the \"Stalinist clique which surrounds him\" was not providing real opposition at a moment of crisis for the country.\n\nInstead, she said the leadership was focused on \"purging their perceived ideological enemies within and obsessing over issues of little interest to British people\".\n\nMs Ryan, chair of the Friends of Israel group, repeated Ms Berger's claim that the party had become \"institutionally anti-Semitic\", suggesting that under Mr Corbyn's leadership Israel had been \"singled out for demonisation and de-legitimisation\".\n\n\"The Labour Party under Jeremy Corbyn has become infected with the scourge of anti-Jewish racism. The problem simply did not exist in the party before his election as leader.\n\n\"No previous Labour leader would have allowed this huge shame to befall the party. I have been horrified, appalled and angered to see the Labour leader's dereliction of duty in the face of this evil.\"\n\nMs Ryan lost a non-binding confidence vote of her party members in September which she blamed on \"Trots, Stalinists, Communists and the assorted hard left\".\n\nConservative MP Phillip Lee told BBC Radio Berkshire he had considered leaving his party.\n\nHe said: \"I do feel like my party is drifting from beneath me. There is this danger of some form of 'Ukip-lite' party developing… and I don't remember a vote of the parliamentary party to become the Brexit Party.\n\n\"So yes, I'd be lying…if I hadn't considered all these things. But my own firm belief is…the Conservative Party has always been a broad church. I'm going to stand and fight until it ceases to be so.\"\n\nMembers of the Independent Group, who have cited what they say is a culture of bullying in the party and Labour's stance on Brexit for quitting, welcomed Ms Ryan's decision to join them.\n\nMr Shuker, the MP for Luton South, tweeted that the group was \"building something powerful together\".\n\nThe seven have said their grouping could be the basis for a new political party and have urged like-minded MPs from other parties to join them.\n\nMr Corbyn has said he wants to \"take MPs with him\" but insisted that the direction he has taken the party in since 2015 is hugely popular within the country.\n\nChris Williamson, the MP for Derby North, said he was \"not entirely surprised\" by Ms Ryan's exit.\n\n\"She was probably facing a de-selection in any event,\" he told BBC's Newsnight.\n\nHe said he had never known Labour to be \"more united\" than it was now and it was \"regrettable that a minority of MPs\" were out of step with the popular mood in the country.\n\nThe embryonic Independent Group of MPs has no leader but has set out its principles\n\nLabour has suggested MPs who change political allegiance have a duty to seek a fresh mandate from their constituents.\n\nThe party is considering giving voters the power to force MPs who switch parties between general elections to face by-elections by strengthening the existing recall laws.\n\nIn a statement released before the news of Ms Ryan's exit, shadow Cabinet minister Jon Trickett said voters should not have to wait years to hold to account MPs who they believe are not \"properly representing their interests\".", "Breck Bednar met his killer online before travelling to to meet him\n\nThe family of a teenage boy who was murdered in 2014 by a man he met through a gaming website have said his killer is taunting them from prison.\n\nLewis Daynes lured Breck Bednar, 14, from Caterham, Surrey, to his flat in Grays, Essex, and stabbed him to death.\n\nDaynes is serving a life sentence, but Breck's sister Chloe, from Kent, said the killer had sent her disturbing messages on Snapchat.\n\nKent Police said officers had received a report of malicious communications.\n\nMs Bednar said the messages left her in shock, adding: \"I received things like 'I know where your brother is buried', 'I'm going to smash his tombstone'.\"\n\nThe family believe there is nothing police can do because the messages were posted with a US company.\n\nBut Breck's mother Lorin LaFave said: \"If the police need to have information about an account that's harmful... the police deserve that right to get information.\"\n\nAfter Breck's murder, his family - who now live in Kent - formed The Breck Foundation, which warns youngsters of online dangers.\n\nMartha Kirby, from the NSPCC, said: \"We see it every day, children contacting Childline telling us about the abuse they're experiencing, so we know that there is much more than social media companies can do.\"\n\nSnapchat said it did not comment on individual cases. Kent Police said its investigation was continuing.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Thirteen-year-old Alysa Liu recently became the youngest female to land a triple axel - a move that few in the sport have accomplished.\n\nThat achievement helped her to become the youngest ever US women's national figure skating champion.\n\nOur video journalist Cody Godwin visited the skating star at a training rink in Oakland, California, where Alysa gave her some tips on how to be an excellent ice skater.\n\nFind out how to get into ice skating with the BBC Get Inspired guide.", "Honda employee Martin Huggins said the news was \"a sad day for Swindon\"\n\nWorkers at Honda's factory in Swindon say the announcement that it is to close is \"devastating\" for the town.\n\nThe carmaker has confirmed it will shut the plant in 2021, with the loss of about 3,500 jobs.\n\nFactory worker Martin Huggins called the news \"a sad day for Swindon\", while a Unite union leader said the workforce had been \"betrayed\".\n\nHonda has said the closure is a result of \"unprecedented changes in the automotive industry\".\n\nOutside the factory gates, employee Chris, whose son also works at the plant, told BBC Wiltshire he was \"extremely disappointed\".\n\n\"I've been here 19 years and it's devastating for all involved,\" he said.\n\n\"You've only got to look across the road at the large warehouses here too, I don't know what the jobs will be replaced with.\n\n\"We're just going to find out what will happen and take it from there really.\"\n\nSue Newall's husband Steve has worked at the factory for 23 years.\n\nShe told the BBC he found out about the closure when a colleague who was off sick saw it on the news and called in to tell the others.\n\n\"The managers didn't know. There were rumours but we didn't expect such big news. My husband was sent home with a pack to read up on,\" she said.\n\n\"It's going to be a big salary that won't be coming into our house soon but you just have to deal with the shock to our system.\"\n\nAnother worker, Keith Murray, said the news reminded him of how the closure of the railway works in the 1980s affected the town.\n\n\"Things do change, and other businesses will come in to take over. I don't want to see anyone out of work,\" he said.\n\nAlan Tomala, from Unite, said employees at the factory felt \"betrayed\".\n\nHe added: \"They feel that the company owes them a little more than hearing the news in the media. It should have been the employer telling them yesterday.\n\n\"I left work yesterday to 57 missed calls and around 130 emails, and not one from Honda. It surprises me and I'm angered by it.\"\n\nAlan Tomala from Unite said the scale of job losses was \"enormous\"\n\nLocal employment agencies have begun setting up meetings to prepare employees, who were all sent home from the factory on Tuesday morning and told to spend the day with their families.\n\nKath Curr, managing director of C&D Recruitment in Swindon, said the closure was \"devastating for the town as a whole\", but Honda workers' skills were \"completely transferrable\" .\n\n\"Swindon is one of the fastest growing towns in Europe and let's hope Honda doesn't make the local economy suffer because of that,\" she added.\n\nSwindon Borough Council leader David Renard said: \"I don't think there's anything we could have done to keep [Honda] here.\n\n\"We wanted them to stay, but they made a different decision.\"\n\nHonda said in a statement that it would be making a commitment to electrified cars in response to \"unprecedented changes in the automotive industry\".\n\n\"We deeply regret how unsettling today's announcement will be,\" it added.\n\nAre you an employee at the Honda car plant in Swindon? Tell us about your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ren Zhengfei is one of China's richest businessmen\n\nWhen Huawei's founder and president Ren Zhengfei started his firm back in 1987 with just 21,000 yuan - the equivalent of about $6,600 today - little did he know his creation would grow to become a telecoms giant and make him one of the richest people in the world.\n\nWith his personal fortune estimated at about $1.7bn, his company currently employs 180,000 workers around the globe - and its annual revenue is forecast to be $125bn (£96bn) this year.\n\nMr Ren is something of a recluse, but in the past few weeks he has been talking to journalists, defending his firm amid rising pressure from the US and other countries over security concerns about Huawei's role in building 5G networks across the world - and the nature of its links to China's government.\n\n\"We would rather shut Huawei down than do anything that would damage the interests of our customers,\" he countered. \"I support the Communist Party of China, but I will never do anything to harm any other nation.\n\n\"Some people in the West believe that Huawei's equipment is stamped with some sort of ideology. That is as silly as people smashing textile machines back during the industrial revolution. We only provided equipment to telecom operators and that equipment does not have an ideology.\"\n\nSome argue that Huawei is being used by Beijing so it can spy on rivals\n\nBorn in 1944, he went to Chongqing University and then joined a People's Liberation Army research institute at the height of the disruption caused by the country's 1960s Cultural Revolution.\n\n\"There was chaos almost everywhere, including in agriculture and industry,\" he told reporters.\n\n\"Every Chinese person was allotted only one-third of a metre of cloth. That amount could be used only for patching, so I never wore clothes without patches when I was young.\"\n\nAs an engineer he was sent to help build a synthetic clothing factory in Liaoyang, northeast China.\n\n\"Conditions were harsh,\" he said. \"Our housing was very shabby so we constantly felt cold. The temperature could drop to -28C. The supply of meat and cooking oil was very limited - there was no supply of fresh vegetables at all.\"\n\nYet Mr Ren says he was happy there: \"If you read too many books in other parts of the country you could get criticised. The factory was probably one of the few places that people could read.\n\n\"We had to, to understand how the equipment worked.\"\n\nUp to three million people are believed to have been killed during China's Cultural Revolution\n\nIn 1978, two years after Chinese leader Mao Zedong's death, he finally joined the Communist Party having invented a key tool used for testing advanced equipment at the clothing factory.\n\nMr Ren said that he had not been allowed to do so before, because of his father's links with the losing nationalist side in China's civil war. During the 1960s, his father had been labelled a \"capitalist roader\" - a pejorative term for those considered to be trying to restore capitalism - and imprisoned.\n\nMr Ren had hoped to become the equivalent of a lieutenant colonel in the army, but instead was demobbed in 1983 when China cut back its engineering corps.\n\nAfter moving to Shenzhen in southern China and working in the country's infant electronics sector, he was eventually able to collect enough money to found Huawei.\n\nHe has two children from his first marriage - both working for Huawei - Meng Wanzhou and Meng Ping, who both took their mother's name to avoid \"unnecessary attention\".\n\nAnnabel Yao, his daughter from his second marriage, is a Harvard computer science student, ballerina and keen Instagrammer. Mr Ren's third wife is Su Wei, who was reportedly formerly his secretary.\n\nIn December, his eldest daughter - and Huawei's chief financial officer - Meng Wanzhou - was arrested in Canada at the request of the US amid fraud allegations over the company's ties to a telecoms firm that did business in Iran.\n\nMeng Wanzhou has been released on bail and is currently facing a US extradition request\n\nMr Ren said he trusted the Canadian and US legal systems would \"reach a just conclusion\", but that \"as Meng Wanzhou's father, I miss her very much\".\n\nPerhaps surprisingly, given the war of words over trade between Washington and Beijing, Mr Ren is an admirer of US President Donald Trump: \"I still believe he was a great president in the sense that he was bold to slash taxes. I think that is conducive to the development of industries in the US.\"\n\nThe firm is privately owned by thousands of employees, which he said means it could work \"truly for our ideas and for the greater good of society\".\n\nDespite the pressure from the US on countries not to use Huawei kit, Mr Ren said he is upbeat about the future. The company has more than 30 commercial 5G contracts and has already shipped 25,000 5G base stations.\n\n\"As long as we develop very compelling products, there will be customers who will buy them.\"", "The unofficial Fortnite Live festival based around the survival game was organised by Exciting Events\n\nThe company behind Fortnite is suing the organisers of a live event based on the video game.\n\nExciting Events ran the unofficial \"Fortnite event of the year\" in Norwich last weekend, which was criticised for having underwhelming attractions.\n\nAmerican firm Epic Games confirmed it had \"issued a claim against the organisers\" in London's High Court.\n\nIn an email sent to a ticket holder, Exciting Events said the festival was set-up as an \"unofficial\" fan event.\n\nBut a spokesman for Epic Games said: \"The quality of our player experience is incredibly important to us, whether it's inside the game or at official public events like last year's Fortnite Pro-Am.\n\n\"Epic Games was not in any way associated with the event that took place in Norwich.\"\n\nThe festival's cave event was a trailer with a tunnel through it\n\nAngry parents hit out at the live event, complaining of long queues and underwhelming attractions.\n\nJustine Petersen, who queued for 90 minutes to get in with her husband and her nine-year-old son, said it was \"like the episode of Father Ted when the fair comes to Craggy Island\".\n\nTickets for the event, themed around the global video game sensation, started at about £12, with wristbands for unlimited access to activities costing an extra £20.\n\nSince the event people have demanded refunds on Facebook.\n\nPeople said they gave up waiting before they made it to the front of the queue for the gaming activities\n\nIn an email sent to a ticket holder seeking a refund, Shaun Lord, a director of Exciting Events, admitted problems with queues but said: \"The vast majority of children loved Fortnite Live Norwich.\"\n\nHe added: \"Fortnite Live has always been an unofficial event created by Fortnite fans... with the activities brainstormed by an audience of 10-14 year olds.\n\n\"These proceedings by Epic Games has forced Exciting Events Limited to cease all trading activities immediately and the director of Exciting Events will now seek to limit the losses to third parties as far as possible.\"\n\nExciting Events has removed Fortnite festivals planned for Spalding and Newark from its website.\n\nThe BBC has asked Exciting Events for a comment.\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. On Monday Shamima Begum told the BBC she never sought to be an IS \"poster girl\"\n\nShamima Begum - the schoolgirl who fled London to join the Islamic State group in Syria - has said she never wanted to be an IS \"poster girl\".\n\nMs Begum, who has just given birth, said she now wants the UK's forgiveness and supports \"some British values\".\n\nShe told the BBC while it was \"wrong\" innocent people died in the 2017 Manchester attack, it was \"kind of retaliation\" for attacks on IS.\n\nThe 19-year-old left Bethnal Green four years ago with two school friends.\n\nThere has been debate about Ms Begum's plight since she was found in a Syrian refugee camp by the Times newspaper last week after reportedly leaving Baghuz, IS's last stronghold in the country.\n\nShe gave birth to a baby boy last weekend, having previously lost two children, and named him after her first son.\n\nWhile she told the BBC she would have let her late son become an IS fighter, she wants her new baby \"to be British\" and for her to return to the UK with him.\n\nIn an interview with the BBC's Middle East correspondent Quentin Sommerville on Monday, Ms Begum said: \"I don't actually agree with everything they've done.\n\n\"I actually do support some British values and I am willing to go back to the UK and settle back again and rehabilitate and that stuff.\"\n\nHome Secretary Sajid Javid told MPs on Monday that he would not \"hesitate to prevent\" the return of Britons who travelled to Syria to join IS. While the UK cannot leave people stateless, under international law, he said any such Britons would be \"questioned, investigated and potentially prosecuted\".\n\nNo British troops would be used to help or rescue them, he said. He told MPs that more than 100 dual nationals have already lost their UK citizenship after travelling in support of terrorist groups.\n\n\"If you back terror, there must be consequences,\" he said. More than 900 people have left the UK to join the conflict in Syria, said Mr Javid, adding that those who join IS have \"shown they hate our country and the values that we stand for\".\n\nMs Begum was 15 and living in Bethnal Green, London, when she left the UK in 2015\n\nAsked about the Manchester Arena attack in 2017 in which 22 people - some of them children - were killed in a bombing claimed by IS, she said: \"I was shocked. I didn't know about the kids, actually. I do feel that is wrong. Innocent people did get killed.\"\n\nShe compared the attack to military assaults on Syria, saying: \"It's one thing to kill a soldier, it's fine, it's self-defence. But to kill people like women and children just like the women and children in Baghuz who are being killed right now unjustly by the bombings - it's a two-way thing really because women and children are being killed back in the Islamic State right now.\n\n\"It's kind of retaliation. Their justification was that it was retaliation so I thought, okay, that is a fair justification.\"\n\nMs Begum said she was sorry for all the families who had lost people because of the attacks in the UK and other countries.\n\n\"That wasn't fair on them,\" she said. \"They weren't fighting anyone. They weren't causing any harm. But neither was I and neither were other women who are being killed right now back in Baghuz.\"\n\nWhen it was suggested that her going to Syria might have been a \"propaganda victory\" for IS, Ms Begum said: \"I did hear a lot of people were encouraged to come after, but I wasn't the one who put myself on the news.\"\n\nShe added: \"The poster girl thing was not my choice.\"\n\nMs Begum said she made the choice to go to Syria and could make her own decisions, despite being only 15 at the time. She said she was partly inspired by videos of fighters beheading hostages and also by videos showing \"the good life\" under IS.\n\nShe watched videos of the murders of British hostages, she told the BBC, but said she did not know the names of any of the victims.\n\nOur correspondent said that \"throughout the interview, Shamima Begum continued to espouse Islamic State philosophy.\" He added: \"When I asked her about the enslavement, murder and rape of Yazidi women by IS, she said 'Shia do the same in Iraq'.\"\n\nBut she said: \"I just want forgiveness really, from the UK. Everything I've been through, I didn't expect I would go through that.\n\n\"Losing my children the way I lost them, I don't want to lose this baby as well and this is really not a place to raise children, this camp.\"\n\nTwelve more British women have arrived at the camp in Syria in the last week and more are expected, our correspondent added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tasnime Akunjee, the lawyer for the family of Shamima Begum, expects her to be \"damaged\" by her ordeal\n\nEarlier, the lawyer representing Ms Begum's family said she is \"damaged\" and will need mental health support. Tasnime Akunjee also said her family are prepared to raise her newborn baby away from \"IS thinking\".\n\nHe said Ms Begum - who is legally British - had still not been in contact with her family and the family are trying to get the government to provide travel documents for Ms Begum and her newborn son, who he said has a right to citizenship.\n\nMs Begum left the UK in February 2015 with two other schoolgirls, Kadiza Sultana and Amira Abase. Kadiza is thought to have died when a house was blown up, and the fate of Amira is unknown.\n\nMr Akunjee also called for an \"urgent inquiry\" into how Ms Begum and the other schoolgirls were able to travel to Syria.\n\nKadiza Sultana, Amira Abase and Shamima Begum (l-r) in photos issued by police\n\nPreviously, Ms Begum said she escaped from Baghuz, Islamic State's last stronghold in eastern Syria, two weeks ago.\n\nHer husband, a Dutch convert to Islam, is thought to have surrendered to a group of Syrian fighters.\n\nUnder international law, the UK is obliged to let a Briton without the claim to another nationality return home.\n\nBut the government does not have consular staff in Syria, and says it will not risk any lives to help Britons who have joined a banned terrorist group.\n\nIf Ms Begum is able to reach a British consulate in a recognised country, it is thought security chiefs could \"manage\" her return.", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nChelsea manager Maurizio Sarri said his team played \"confused football\" as Manchester United won at Stamford Bridge to reach the FA Cup quarter-finals.\n\nThe result throws Sarri's reign deeper into crisis, while United delivered the perfect response to their first defeat under Ole Gunnar Solskjaer to set up a last-eight tie against Wolves.\n\nAnder Herrera converted Paul Pogba's perfect cross to give United a 31st-minute lead, and Pogba doubled the advantage right on half-time when he dived to head Marcus Rashford's delivery past Kepa Arrizabalaga, who should have done better.\n\nAs Chelsea slumped tamely to another damaging defeat, their fans turned on Sarri. They jeered his substitutions, mocked his 'Sarri-ball' philosophy, demanded the return of Frank Lampard as manager, and joined United's fans in chants of \"you're getting sacked in the morning\".\n\n\"We played confused football in the second half but in the first half we played well,\" said Sarri.\n\n\"I'm worried about the result but not about the fans' reaction because I understand the situation. I can understand our fans because the result wasn't really good and we are out of the FA Cup.\n\n\"I was really worried when I was in League Two in Italy, not now.\"\n\nSolskjaer had no such problems as he took the loud acclaim of United's supporters after adding another impressive victory to his collection, despite the absence of the injured Jesse Lingard and Anthony Martial.\n\n\"The performance was fantastic, our tactics worked,\" said United's interim manager. \"It's a massive result.\"\n\nThe club's fans, who loudly sang the Norwegian's name, may not have the casting vote when the decision on the next manager is made, but they made their feelings about Solskjaer clear on another important night for the man who hopes to succeed Jose Mourinho on a permanent basis.\n• None Analysis: Why end is near for Sarri at Chelsea\n• None Sarri is 'done' at Chelsea - pundits react\n\nSolskjaer has been presented with a series of key examinations since returning to Old Trafford after the sacking of Mourinho in mid-December.\n\nOne of his most crucial was how he would respond to his first serious setback - and how he would get his players to respond.\n\nThat setback duly arrived when United were well beaten by Paris St-Germain in the first leg of the Champions League last-16 tie at Old Trafford, a 2-0 scoreline flattering a team who had given Solskjaer 10 wins and a draw from his previous 11 games.\n\nThe response, here at Stamford Bridge, was top class and represented another plus point for the Norwegian as he tries to build a body of evidence that will persuade executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward and United's hierarchy to give him the job full-time.\n\nSolskjaer was stripped of Lingard and Martial but still produced a positive gameplan based around aggression, the drive of Pogba and the pace of Rashford.\n\nIt enabled United to overcome their second tough test in the capital after winning at Arsenal in the fourth round, and kept Solskjaer right in the hunt for silverware.\n• None Chelsea v Man Utd: How you rated the players\n\nSarri's stock was high in the early weeks of the season as Chelsea kept pace with Manchester City and Liverpool, and optimism was in the air as the Italian made a good first impression in English football.\n\nBut as time ticked away here, Sarri felt the full force of Stamford Bridge's anger and disdain, frustration growing at the continuing decline in Chelsea's performances.\n\nThere was awkwardness in the air as his by now customary substitution of Mateo Kovacic with Ross Barkley was met with sarcastic applause before a four-letter verdict was delivered on the much-vaunted 'Sarri-ball' that was meant to bring entertainment and results to Chelsea.\n\nThere were even calls for the return of Lampard, taking his first steps in management at Derby County, as Sarri cut a solitary figure.\n\nIt was a night when patience snapped, the tide of opinion turned, and Sarri was given noisy confirmation he is losing the battle for hearts and minds at Stamford Bridge.\n\nChelsea were limp and uninspired, and Sarri - who arrived with a stellar reputation after his work with Napoli - looked at a loss as to what to do.\n\nThe Blues face Manchester City in the Carabao Cup final on Sunday, and while it would be a bold decision for the club to sack him just days before that, it is hard to see Sarri surviving much longer as this was another grim 90 minutes.\n• None Chelsea have lost exactly half of their past 10 games in all competitions (W5 L5), as many defeats as they suffered in their previous 41 (W28 D8).\n• None United are the first team to eliminate both Arsenal and Chelsea in the same FA Cup campaign since the Red Devils themselves in 1998-99.\n• None Chelsea failed to score for only the second time in their past 51 home games in cup competitions, also drawing a blank against Arsenal in the League Cup semi-final in January 2018 (0-0).\n• None Chelsea only attempted two shots on target, with both coming in the 11th minute.\n• None United had just 33.1% of the ball during the game, their lowest figure in a fixture any competition since March 2018 against Liverpool - a game they also won (32.1%).\n• None Solskjaer has won 11 of his 13 games in charge of United, one more than Mourinho won in 2018-19 (10/24).\n• None Since Solskjaer took charge of United on 19 December 2018, the only Premier League player to have had a hand in more goals for his club than Pogba (15) is Son Heung-Min (16).\n• None Pogba has been directly involved in 15 goals in 12 games in all competitions under Solskjaer (9 goals, 6 assists), six more than he managed in 20 games under Mourinho this season (5 goals, 4 assists).\n• None Since his debut in February 2016, Rashford has been directly involved in 63 goals in all competition for United (42 goals, 21 assists), more than any other player in that time.\n• None Herrera netted his 20th goal for United in all competitions, but only his second header (also scoring with his head v Everton in the league in October 2015).\n• None Attempt missed. Eden Hazard (Chelsea) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Davide Zappacosta.\n• None Attempt blocked. Ross Barkley (Chelsea) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Jorginho. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "After his failure to win support from Congress for his demand to fund the building of his border wall, Donald Trump was left with a series of unpalatable choices.\n\nAdmit total failure on your key campaign pledge. Or go nuclear.\n\nBy declaring a state of emergency he will be able to raid other departmental budgets to cobble together $8bn for construction on the southern border.\n\nHe will show his base that he is true to his word.\n\nHe will argue he is fighting their fight, to staunch the flow of illegal immigrants and dangerous drugs into the country.\n\nAnd it is undoubtedly true that a lot of people from Central America are trying to enter the US illegally - even though less than in previous years.\n\nAnd a lot of drugs, too, are flooding into the US, courtesy of the Mexican drug lords.\n\nThere is a separate debate about how effective the blunt instrument of a wall would be.\n\nSome argue that more effective would be the use of technology and reinforcing the numbers of border patrol officers.\n\nBut as I say, let's leave that to one side. The trouble with going nuclear, is there is fall-out.\n\nThis has been presented as a predictably partisan issue.\n\nOn one side of the wall, Republicans; on the other side, Democrats.\n\nBut by going nuclear the president has made it more complicated than that. There are a lot of Republicans - in the Senate and in the House - deeply uneasy about what Mr Trump is doing.\n\nWhy? Because the constitutional arrangement of the US is that Congress controls the purse strings and allocates funds. Not the president.\n\nThis is a major land grab by the president.\n\nIt undermines the powers of Congress and sets a very dangerous precedent.\n\nLet's spin forward a few years, and it is a Democrat who is in the White House.\n\nThere is a mass shooting somewhere. The president can't force through much tighter gun control measures through Congress, but will now have the Trump card to play.\n\nI see your objections, and raise you a national emergency.\n\nOn healthcare, ditto. And what about climate control? Yep that too. Lawmakers could be totally by-passed.\n\nThe emergency powers were designed for a genuine national emergency.\n\nIf the situation on the border is a genuine national emergency, why has it taken the president over two years to make this move?\n\nYou can be sure that the Democrats will be considering a legal challenge that will wind its way up to the Supreme Court. And that will delay any building work.\n\nIt is likely that over the coming months, the lawyers in Washington will be far busier than the bricklayers in Arizona and Texas and California.\n\nAnd the legal challenge will contain one central question - is this a national emergency, or a political emergency?", "There is rarely a single reason why a company takes a very significant decision.\n\nMany will be quick to pin the blame for Honda's decision to close its Swindon plant solely on Brexit, but there are other forces at work.\n\nA new trade deal between the EU and Japan will see tariffs on cars exported from Japan to Europe reduced to zero over time.\n\nThat means a dwindling rationale to base manufacturing inside the EU, and indeed, Honda plans to move production back to Japan rather than relocate elsewhere in Europe.\n\nProduction at Swindon has been in decline for some time and is currently running at about half its capacity - another strike against it.\n\nBut having said all that, Japanese companies are very long-term investors. In the mid-1980s, Margaret Thatcher championed the UK as the perfect outpost for Japanese carmakers looking for access to European markets.\n\nIt worked. Honda, along with Toyota and Nissan, poured tens of billions of pounds into reviving the UK car industry.\n\nSince the referendum, the Japanese government, its UK ambassador and company managements have repeatedly warned about the corrosive effect of Brexit uncertainty and the possibility of losing frictionless trade with the EU.\n\nHonda is not alone in pulling investment from the UK. Nissan reversed its decision to build the X-Trail SUV in Sunderland, while Sony and Panasonic moved their European HQs to the EU.\n\nIn each case, the rationale was slightly different, but many in Japan feel that failure to provide Brexit certainty counts as a broken promise, permitting the loosening of ties that used to bind the two countries.", "Maajid Nawaz is a presenter for LBC and an anti-extremism activist\n\nAn anti-extremism campaigner said he was racially attacked and hit in the face outside a theatre.\n\nMaajid Nawaz said a white man attacked him while he was standing alone outside the Soho Theatre in central London.\n\nThe LBC radio presenter tweeted a photo of a cut to his forehead and said he was racially abused and then hit in the face with \"maybe a signet ring\".\n\nThe Met Police said it was called to a report of a racially aggravated assault at 19:10 GMT.\n\nA spokesman said the suspect had fled the scene in Dean Street before officers arrived.\n\nNo arrests have been made and an investigation has been launched, the force added.\n\nMr Nawaz, who presents a show on LBC radio on Saturday and Sunday lunchtimes, said his attacker took nothing and \"ran away like a coward\".\n\n\"My forehead will probably be scarred for life. But we will find you, you racist coward, and you will face British justice,\" he added.\n\nHe said there were witnesses \"who heard the racial abuse and have given statements\" and added police had his attacker's \"face on CCTV\".\n\nIn a later statement, Mr Nawaz thanked people who helped him saying their \"kindness kept me sane\".\n\n\"People from all ethnicities and all faiths and none helped me yesterday. It's in that spirit that I wish to carry on my work,\" he wrote.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Maajid - (Mājid) [maːʤɪd] ماجد 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 Nawaz is the founder of the Quilliam Foundation, a counter-extremism organisation.\n\nIn September, he said he had tracked down an anonymous \"hero\" who was stabbed and beaten for defending him from a racist mob in Southend 25 years ago.\n\nMr Nawaz said he was 15 when he was confronted by a group of skinheads armed with hammers and knives, who then attacked a passer-by who intervened.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The number of people in work in the UK has continued to climb, with a record 32.6 million employed between October and December, the latest Office for National Statistics figures show.\n\nUnemployment was little-changed in the three-month period at 1.36 million.\n\nThe jobless rate, remaining at 4%, is at its lowest since early 1975.\n\nWeekly average earnings went up by 3.4% to £494.50 in the year to December - after adjusting for inflation, that is the highest level since March 2011.\n\nThe number of people in work between October and December was up 167,000 from the previous quarter and 444,000 higher than at the same time in 2017.\n\nThe employment rate - defined as the proportion of people aged from 16 to 64 who are working - was estimated at 75.8%, higher than the 75.2% from a year earlier and the joint-highest figure since comparable estimates began in 1971.\n\nEmployment Minister Alok Sharma said: \"While the global economy is facing many challenges, particularly in sectors like manufacturing, these figures show the underlying resilience of our jobs market - once again delivering record employment levels.\"\n\nONS deputy head of labour market Matt Hughes said: \"The labour market remains robust, with the employment rate remaining at a record high and vacancies reaching a new record level.\n\n\"The unemployment rate has also fallen, and for women has dropped below 4% for the first time ever.\"\n\nHowever, Andrew Wishart, UK economist at Capital Economics, warned that next month's figures may not be so buoyant.\n\n\"The labour market data didn't reflect the slip in hiring surveys in December, with employment rising,\" he said.\n\n\"However, the surveys deteriorated more markedly in January, so a Brexit effect might start to weaken employment growth in the next batch of official data.\"\n\nThe jobs market remains in a robust shape despite the loss of momentum in the economy towards the end of last year - although the Brexit fog effect may be yet to register.\n\nContinuing recent trends, the majority of those entering work were previously inactive (students, looking after home, long-term sick etc).\n\nThe demand for labour continues to bolster wage growth. Real wages increased by more than 1% per year, better on the whole than in recent years although about half the rate of the pre-crisis era.\n\nSo little sign of Brexit uncertainty hitting hiring so far - but demand in the labour market tends to lag significantly behind changes in output.\n\nMore recent employment surveys show a marked deterioration in January, so a Brexit effect might start to weaken employment growth in the next batch of official data.\n\nAnd productivity - output per hour - was down by 0.2% in the fourth quarter of 2018 versus a year previously, as output rose more slowly than employment. The lack of progress in this area could weigh on wage growth in the longer term.\n\nLooking at the average earnings figures, Samuel Tombs, chief UK economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics, said: \"With surplus labour extremely scarce and job vacancies rising to a new record high, workers are having more success in obtaining above-inflation pay increases.\n\n\"Looking ahead, we doubt that wage growth will slip below 3% this year.\"\n\nDespite the wage increases and low unemployment figures, Suren Thiru, head of economics at the British Chambers of Commerce, did not think that struggling High Streets would benefit.\n\nHe said: \"The uplift to consumer spending from the recent improvement in real pay growth is likely to be limited by weak consumer confidence and high household debt levels.\n\n\"The increase in the number of vacancies to a new record high confirms that labour and skills shortages are set to remain a significant a drag on business activity for some time to come, impeding UK growth and productivity.\"", "Blink and you'll miss it... the rat was painted on a wall beneath a shop sign a decade ago, it is claimed\n\nA sheet of protective plastic has been placed over graffiti showing a rat holding a cigarette as council officials determine if it could be a work by artist Banksy.\n\nLlanelli mayor David Darkin has sent images to the art dealer who bought Banksy's design Season's Greetings, painted on a garage in Port Talbot.\n\n\"It's better to have it protected in case it is a Banksy,\" said the mayor.\n\nThe graffiti on a charity shop wall is said to have been painted a decade ago.\n\nEssex-based gallery owner John Brandler, who paid a six-figure sum for the artwork in Port Talbot, said the Llanelli rat could be authentic and he planned to visit soon to judge for himself.\n\nHe based his opinion on the photographs he had seen, and the claim that the graffiti was said to be at least a decade old, which is when \"Banksy rats\" appeared in industrial towns.\n\n\"I'm happy to go with 50-50 for now that it's a Banksy,\" Mr Brandler said.\n\nLlanelli artist and photographer Roz Moreton, 53, is more convinced. She said she recognised the work when she moved back to the area a decade ago.\n\n\"I studied in Bristol and lived in London and I've been exposed to a lot of Banksy including his rats on Westminster Bridge,\" she said.\n\n\"So I knew right away when I saw the Llanelli rat. I didn't tell anybody because I wanted to be able to come back and see it.\"\n\nMs Moreton said she revealed her suspicions to the town council after hearing reports that vandals had tried to steal pieces from the Banksy in Port Talbot.\n\nAbout 20,000 people are thought to have visited that artwork over Christmas.\n\nCommunity leaders in Llanelli are hopeful their rat could also prove popular.\n\nMr Darkin said: \"The hope is that if it is a Banksy it will bring much needed visitors to Llanelli and the town centre.\"\n\nCouncillor John Jenkins, who represents Llanelli Centre, said: \"Fingers crossed it is a Banksy, but worst-case scenario it isn't and is still a talking point and people still come and see him.\"", "The late fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld will be remembered by some as much for his barbs as his outfits.\n\nHere he is in his own words:\n\n\"I am very much down to Earth. Just not this earth.\"\n\n\"When I was four I asked my mother for a valet for my birthday.\"\n\n\"I have a sort of Alzheimer's for my own work, which I think is a very good thing. Today too many people remember what they did - just forget it all and start again.\"\n\n\"We created a product nobody needs, but people want. If you need an ugly old car, it can wait, but if you want a new fashion item, it cannot wait.\"\n\n\"Vanity is the healthiest thing in life.\"\n\n\"I am like a caricature of myself, and I like that. It is like a mask. And for me the Carnival of Venice lasts all year long.\"\n\n\"Don't sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there's nothing else you can give and nobody will care for you.\"\n\n\"Whatever it is, good or bad, it influences fashion. You can see that in fashion quicker than in any other thing going on. Fashion is something that reflects our lives and times with the shortest release because, cars, design and architecture take years to realise.\"\n\n\"Why should I stop working? If I do, I'll die and it'll be all finished.\"\n\n\"I have nothing to say. I'm actually trying to make sure that I won't be remembered.\"", "A British man flew from the Czech Republic to Newcastle on the wrong passport after accidentally taking his friend's and leaving him stranded.\n\nAllan Poole, 43, from Whitley Bay, travelled from Prague to Newcastle via Amsterdam on a KLM flight.\n\nThe passport was checked at least four times during the journey, but the mistake was not picked up.\n\nKLM described the incident as \"undesirable\", but stressed no passengers or crew were ever at risk.\n\nMr Poole's friend, Steve Vincent, 43, also from Whitley Bay, is now getting help from UK officials to get home.\n\nIt has emerged that Border control agents who checked Mr Poole's passport when leaving the Schengen area at Schiphol airport, Amsterdam, and UK immigration officials who checked it when he arrived in Newcastle did not identify the mistake.\n\nKLM staff at the boarding gate in Amsterdam also did not notice the name on his boarding card did not match the passport.\n\nMr Vincent tweeted KLM asking, \"Hey KLM you let my friend travel from Prague to Newcastle on my passport (after we swapped by mistake).\n\n\"You shouldn't have let him on the plane. I'm trapped in Prague. What are you going to do about it?\"\n\nIn a statement, the airline described the incident as \"undesirable\".\n\nIt added: \"One of the passengers flew from Prague to Newcastle via Amsterdam, without it being noticed at the various airports that he was travelling on someone else's passport.\n\n\"KLM works with competent authorities to ensure that the aircraft, passengers and crew are safe and secure during flight.\n\n\"Although this is an undesirable, but exceptional situation, the passenger went through all security checks. The safety of passengers and crew has never been compromised.\"\n\nA spokesman for the Royal Netherlands Marechaussee, which is responsible for border checks at Schiphol Airport, said: \"When mistakes do happen, we are committed to acknowledging them and putting things right for the future.\"\n\nA spokesman for the British Embassy in Prague said it was not unusual for people to travel on other people's passports.\n\nHe said: \"People do travel on (the wrong passport), they don't get checked when they come out and stuff like that.\n\n\"It's quite common actually, to be honest with you, people do travel on other people's passports accidentally, it does happen.\n\n\"Border controls sometimes don't look, I don't know for what reason.\"\n\nMr Poole said no-one noticed he was travelling on the wrong passport and he only realised himself when he got back to the UK.\n\nThe British Embassy spokesman said staff would assist Mr Vincent in obtaining an emergency travel document.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFirefighters have rescued 16 people trapped in gondolas for several hours on a ride at the SeaWorld amusement park in San Diego.\n\nSome of those trapped were lowered using harnesses, rescuers say.\n\nGondolas malfunctioned after a gust of wind tripped a circuit breaker on the Bayside Skyride, police in the US city told FOX5 News.\n\nThe National Weather Service says it was about 49F (9C) in San Diego at the time of the incident.\n\nThe rescue, which started at about 18:00 local time (02:00 GMT), came to an end just before 23:00.\n\nNine adults and seven young people were trapped on five gondolas, the San Diego fire rescue department (SDFD) said.\n\nAmong those rescued were an infant and a partially paralysed passenger who had recently suffered a stroke, local TV reported.\n\nLifeguards were also on hand in the water below during the rescue, it says.\n\nSeaWorld said it had been in contact with the guests via intercom during the rescue, and that blankets were available on board each gondola.\n\nThe company added it would conduct a \"thorough inspection\" of the ride before re-opening it.", "Swedish activist Elin Ersson caused disruption on a plane that stopped the migrant being sent home.\n\nA Swedish activist has been fined 3,000 krona ($324; £251) for trying to stop the deportation of an Afghan migrant.\n\nUniversity student Elin Ersson booked what she thought was the same flight as the Afghan, refusing to sit down unless he was taken off the plane.\n\nThe migrant in question was not on the flight after all, but another Afghan was onboard for deportation after serving a prison sentence.\n\nSince the protest in July 2018, both Afghans have been expelled from Sweden.\n\nErsson, 21, broadcasted her protest on Facebook from the Turkish Airlines plane, which was bound for Istanbul, Turkey, from Gothenburg, Sweden.\n\nIn the video, Ersson said she did not agree with Sweden's policy of sending back rejected asylum seekers.\n\nElin Ersson refused to sit until the Afghan was taken off the flight\n\n\"I'm not going to sit down until this person is off the plane, because he will most likely get killed,\" she said.\n\nThe video shows how airline crew and other passengers urge her to sit down and to stop filming.\n\nErsson was eventually removed from the plane, along with a 52-year-old Afghan and his escort from the Swedish Prison and Probation Service.\n\nSocial media reactions were largely supportive of her action, although some people are accusing her of grandstanding.", "Who are the 'South Bank seven'? And what might they do next?\n\nIn a boiling hot, cramped room in a swish venue on the south bank of the Thames this morning, a small group of MPs made a big statement.\n\nLuciana Berger, Chris Leslie, Chuka Umunna, Mike Gapes, Anne Coffey, Angela Smith and Gavin Shuker all know they face an extremely bumpy future. But they hope together they'll start as a few, and end up being a group for the many.\n\nTheir reasons for quitting are both historic and immediate.\n\nThe splinter has been a long time coming because for a couple of years these MPs have been part of the large chunk of the Labour parliamentary party which had grave concerns about Jeremy Corbyn's leadership.\n\nAngela Smith, for example, now admits that during the 2017 election she was telling voters in her constituency that her leader could not, and would not be prime minister, despite campaigning for the party he was at the top of.\n\nThe seven who have decided to quit are not the only MPs I know of who did that.\n\nThere have been fears, many publicly articulated but expressed with more fury in private, about the leadership's attitude to security policy, to Nato, as well as Jeremy Corbyn's response to the Skripal attack and his attitude to the Trident nuclear deterrent.\n\nOne of those who has left described it today as \"Marxism in disguise\", illustrating the deep-seated, long-held and profound differences of world view.\n\nAdd to that the hurt and concern inside the party over anti-Semitism that has built up over the last year, what the departing group have described as institutional racism towards Jewish people.\n\nWhatever else, let that sink in for a moment. That in 2019, a group of MPs believe that our main opposition party is institutionally biased against a minority group.\n\nBut consider too the Labour leadership's hesitancy in campaigning full throttle for another referendum on staying in the EU, and the group, all of whom believe there should be another referendum, felt they had no choice but to quit.\n\nTo do so goes against the grain of our tribal politics. Some of their colleagues are openly furious, accusing them of being \"cowards\". Others are responding more in sorrow than in anger.\n\nThis is not an easy moment for anyone in the Labour party, and you could not have sat in that stuffy room this morning and felt it was an easy moment for any of those leaving either.\n\nMany other Labour MPs and members will see this as nothing less than a betrayal. And in our first-past-the-post system it is very hard to see in the short term, what kind of impact this group will have.\n\nSo far they are not a political party, although they say they may evolve into one. So far they have no leader, and no policy programme as such. They are clearly open to welcoming disgruntled members of the Conservative party too.\n\nTheir view is that our whole political system is broken and neither the Tories nor Labour are fit for purpose. And it is possible within days that they might be joined by a sprinkling of Tory MPs.\n\nThis splintering might, just might - in time - turn into a much bigger redrawing of the landscape.\n\nFor now though that is way off. And this is first and foremost about the Labour Party - the seeds of the splinter sown more than three years ago, bearing bitter fruit just when Parliament's biggest decisions over Brexit are about to be made.\n\nMPs still in the party will have a variety of reactions, from fury to sadness.\n\nBut few of them now could pretend there isn't a problem, even prompting an astonishing admission from the party's deputy leader, Tom Watson, who - remember - is also elected by the members who so overwhelmingly supported Jeremy Corbyn.\n\n\"I love this party. But sometimes I no longer recognise it,\" he said.\n\nA warning that despite the government's many and multiple problems, it is Labour that's losing members and losing MPs.", "He was one of the world's most iconic designers, at the heart of not one, not two, but three fashion houses.\n\nKarl Lagerfeld had been at the creative helm of Chanel since 1983 and had been designing for Fendi since 1965. He also designed collections for his own brand.\n\nLagerfeld was born Karl Otto Lagerfeldt in pre-war Germany. He changed his name because he believed Lagerfeld sounded \"more commercial\".\n\nThe designer emigrated to Paris as a teenager, and became a design assistant for Pierre Balmain.\n\nKarl Lagerfeld seen in around 1960, then the artistic director of the Jean Patou fashion brand\n\nLagerfeld fits one of his designs on top model Ines de la Fressange at Chloe's Paris studio.\n\nHe began his career with Chanel in 1983, a decade after Coco Chanel died. In 1984 he launched his own name label.\n\nHe cut a striking figure wearing a distinctive ensemble of crisp white, high-collared shirts with black tailored jacket and jeans, punctuated with a tie, shades, fingerless gloves and black boots.\n\nAs a designer he transformed the fortunes of Chanel, one of the leading names in high fashion.\n\nLinda Evangelista walks the runway at the Chanel Ready to Wear Fall/Winter 1991-1992 fashion show.\n\nIn 2018 Chanel become the first luxury fashion house in the world to stop using exotic animal skins, like snake, crocodile, lizard and stingray.\n\n\"We did it because it's in the air, but it's not an air people imposed to us,\" Mr Lagerfeld said. He argued \"there was not much fur\" in Chanel's work to begin with.\n\nGerman model Claudia Schiffer and English model Kate Moss though displayed fur creations designed by Karl Lagerfeld for the Fall-Winter ready-to-wear collection of Chanel in Paris.\n\nLagerfeld also transformed the catwalk. For the Chanel AW14 show in Paris it became a high-end supermarket.\n\nIn 2016 Chanel staged its show in the Cuban capital Havana - the first international fashion show since the 1959 communist revolution, shown in the two images below.\n\nWorld celebrities gathered at a leafy promenade that was turned into a catwalk for the firm's Cruise collection, even though Chanel goods are not sold in Cuba.\n\nCelebrities - including actor Vin Diesel and supermodel Gisele Bundchen - attended the show at Havana's Prado promenade to see Lagerfeld displaying the new collection.\n\nLagerfeld said the line was inspired by Cuba's \"cultural richness\".\n\nKaty Perry, Karl Lagerfeld, Cara Delevingne and Claudia Schiffer at the Chanel show, Fall Winter 2017, Haute Couture Fashion Week, in Paris\n\nLady Gaga and Karl Lagerfeld at the Celine show, Spring Summer 2019, Paris Fashion Week\n\nThe designer had been unwell for several weeks, and had missed a number of fashion shows.", "Public links can lead people to encrypted groups where illegal material is traded\n\nImages of child sexual abuse and stolen credit card numbers are being openly traded on encrypted apps, a BBC investigation has found.\n\nSecurity experts told Radio 4's File on 4 programme that the encrypted apps were taking over from the dark web as a venue for crime.\n\nThe secure messaging apps, including Telegram and Discord, have become popular following successful police operations against criminal markets operating on what is known as the dark web - a network that can only be accessed by special browsers.\n\nThe secure apps have both a public and encrypted side.\n\nOften, the public side is listed online so users can search and join groups advertising drugs, stolen financial data and other illegal material.\n\nOnce a group is joined, however, messages are protected by peer-to-peer encryption, generally putting them beyond law enforcement's reach, say experts.\n\nThe investigators found evidence that paedophiles were using both Telegram and Discord to give people access to abuse material, and that links to Telegram groups were buried in the public comments section of YouTube videos.\n\nThese contained code words that would be indexed by search engines and, once clicked on, took people to the closed group.\n\nResearchers confirmed that at least one of these groups contained hundreds of indecent images of children.\n\nThe Telegram app uses strong encryption to protect messages\n\nThere were good reasons that paedophiles hid links on YouTube, said cyber-crime expert Dr Victoria Baines, a former Europol officer and adviser to the UK's Serious and Organised Crime Agency, the National Crime Agency's predecessor.\n\n\"YouTube is indexed by Google, which means if you are an 'entry level', for want of a better phrase, viewer of child abuse material you may start Googling,\" she said.\n\n\"And while Google tries to put restrictions on that, [the links] are publicly accessible on the web, so it is a means of getting people who are curious or idly searching into a closed space, where they can access material.\"\n\nYouTube said it has a zero tolerance approach to child sexual abuse material and has invested heavily in technology, teams and partnerships to tackle the issue.\n\nA spokesperson said if it identified links, imagery or content promoting child abuse, the material is removed and the authorities alerted.\n\nA spokesman for Telegram said it processed reports from users and engaged in \"proactive searches\" to keep the platform free of abuse, including child abuse and terrorist propaganda.\n\nIt said reports about child abuse were usually processed within one hour.\n\nThe BBC investigation also found that paedophiles are exploiting the Discord app, which is popular among young people, who use it to text and chat while gaming online.\n\nIt discovered a series of chatrooms openly promoted as suitable for 13 to 17-year-olds, but with very sexual descriptions that aimed to persuade children to hand over explicit photos.\n\nAriel Ainhoren, head of research at security firm IntSights, said the firm had recently identified a group on Discord in which one user had posted a price list for child abuse imagery. The group was no longer active, but the user had given out an email address for sales queries that was still viewable online.\n\n\"The user was offering gigabytes of pornography or paedophile material: nine gigabytes for $50 (£39), 50 gigabytes for $500, and 2.2 terabytes, which is a huge amount, for around $2,500,\" said Mr Ainhoren.\n\nNine gigabytes could contain many thousands of images, depending on the file sizes.\n\nThe user also said he was selling access to child sexual abuse and rape forums.\n\nFile on 4 has passed details of the illegal material revealed by its investigation to the National Crime Agency.\n\nOnce told about the groups, Discord said: \"The number of these violations makes up a tiny percentage of usage on Discord and the team is committed to improving our policies and processes to make it even smaller.\n\n\"Discord's Trust and Safety policy exists to proactively protect the safety of our users - on and off platform - and we have a variety of security methods that help users avoid unwanted or unknown contact.\n\n\"As all conversations are opt-in, we urge users to only chat with or accept invitations from individuals they already know.\"\n\nDr Baines: Public links can lead the curious to closed abuse chatrooms\n\nIt said it uses computer, human and community intelligence to spot violations of its rules.\n\nThe radio investigation also unearthed widespread abuse of the apps to sell stolen payment card data.\n\nOne British victim's full name, address, date of birth, password, bank account and credit card details, including the three-digit security code, were published by criminals.\n\nShe said it was \"very alarming\" to see her details, which were being offered up for free as a \"taster\".\n\n\"Someone has a very sophisticated way of hacking into my information without me knowing it\", said the woman, who is not being named by the BBC to protect her from potential harm.\n\nDetails of the illegal material revealed by the investigation have been passed to the National Crime Agency.\n\nTelegram was asked questions about the way it was being exploited by criminals, and also told it about the trading of the woman's personal information.\n\nThe AlphaBay market is one of many shut down by police action\n\nLast year, Theresa May told the Davos meeting of world leaders that small technology platforms can quickly become \"…home to criminals and terrorists\".\n\nShe said: \"We have seen that happen with Telegram and we need to see more co-operation from smaller platforms like this.\"\n\nSecurity minister Ben Wallace said the government had set up a £1.9bn cyber-security programme to increase the police's capability to infiltrate criminal groups online.\n\nHe said the government was set to publish a White Paper looking at whether tech platforms need to have a duty of care towards users, to oblige them to remove illegal material from their platform.\n\n\"We are exploring in the online harm White Paper the area of duty of care, and if they don't fulfil that, then one of the things we are exploring is that there will be a regulator involved,\" he said.\n\nFile on 4's Swipe Right for Crime' is on BBC Radio 4 on Tuesday 19 February at 20:00 GMT and available afterwards on BBC Sounds.", "One of Japan's most beautiful forests also has a sad association with suicide. But Kyochi Watanabe wants to change that.\n\nThe vlogger Logan Paul brought the forest into the global public eye when he visited the forest and posted a video showing the body of an apparent suicide victim, forcing YouTube to cut business ties with him.\n\nPlaying music loudly at the edge of the forest, Watanabe is a musician who reminds those he meets that it is a shrine to an ancient Japanese water god, and not somewhere to take one's own life.\n\nHe hopes his singing and guitar-playing reminds people that they aren't alone, and that they have a friend waiting for them if they follow the music.\n\nSupport is available if you have been affected by anything you have heard in this video. Talking to other people can be very helpful - whether this is with a family member, friends, a doctor or an organisation like Befrienders Worldwide where you can find links to help and support organisations around the world which may be near to you.\n\nFor viewers in the United Kingdom, this link gives details about organisations which offer advice and support in the UK.", "Janet Osborne hopes to continue gardening if her sight loss is halted\n\nA woman from Oxford has become the first person in the world to have gene therapy to try to halt the most common form of blindness in the Western world.\n\nSurgeons injected a synthetic gene into the back of Janet Osborne's eye in a bid to prevent more cells from dying.\n\nIt is the first treatment to target the underlying genetic cause of age-related macular degeneration (AMD).\n\nAbout 600,000 people in the UK are affected by AMD, of whom 350,000 are severely sight impaired.\n\nJanet Osborne told BBC News: \"I find it difficult to recognise faces with my left eye because my central vision is blurred - and if this treatment could stop that getting worse, it would be amazing.\"\n\nThe treatment was carried out under local anaesthetic last month at Oxford Eye Hospital by Robert MacLaren, professor of ophthalmology at the University of Oxford.\n\nHe told BBC News: \"A genetic treatment administered early on to preserve vision in patients who would otherwise lose their sight would be a tremendous breakthrough in ophthalmology and certainly something I hope to see in the near future.\"\n\nMrs Osborne, 80, is the first of 10 patients with AMD taking part in a trial of the gene therapy treatment, manufactured by Gyroscope Therapeutics, funded by Syncona, the Wellcome Trust founded investment firm.\n\nThe macula is part of the retina and responsible for central vision and fine detail.\n\nIn age-related macular degeneration, the retinal cells die and are not renewed.\n\nThe risk of getting AMD increases with age.\n\nMost of those affected, including all those on this trial, have what is known as dry AMD, where the decline in sight is gradual and can take many years.\n\nWet AMD can develop suddenly and lead to rapid vision loss but can be treated if caught quickly.\n\nAs some people age, genes responsible for the eye's natural defences start to malfunction and begin destroying cells in the macula, leading to vision loss.\n\nAn injection is made at the back of the eye, which delivers a harmless virus containing a synthetic gene.\n\nThe virus infects the retinal cells and releases the gene.\n\nThis enables the eye to make a protein designed to stop cells from dying and so keep the macula healthy.\n\nThe early stage trial, at Oxford Eye Hospital, is primarily designed to check the safety of the procedure and is being carried out in patients who have already lost some vision.\n\nIf successful, the aim would be to treat patients before they have lost any sight, in a bid to halt AMD in its tracks.\n\nThat would have major implications for patients' quality of life.\n\nIt is too early to know if Mrs Osborne's sight loss in her left eye has been halted but all those on the trial will have their vision monitored.\n\nSpeaking at home, she told BBC News: \"I still enjoy gardening with my husband, Nick, who grows a lot of vegetables.\n\n\"If I can keep peeling and cutting the veg, and retain my current level of independence, it would be absolutely wonderful.\"\n\nThere is already a successful gene therapy treatment for another rare eye disorder.\n\nIn 2016, the same team in Oxford showed that a single injection could improve the vision of patients with choroideremia, who would otherwise have gone blind.\n\nAnd, last year, doctors at Moorfields Eye Hospital, in London, restored the sight of two patients with AMD by implanting a patch of stem cells over the damaged area at the back of the eye.\n\nIt is hoped that stem cell therapy could help many people who have already lost their sight.\n\nBut the Oxford trial is different because it aims to tackle the underlying genetic cause of AMD and might be effective in stopping the disease before people go blind.\n• None 'I've been given my sight back'\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jaguar Land Rover booked a loss for the last three months of 2018 as sales collapsed in China.\n\nThe company booked a £3.1bn reduction in the value of its plants and other investments leading to a £3.4bn quarterly loss, its biggest to date.\n\nCarmakers are being hit by stronger regulations and demand for cleaner models.\n\nSales for the quarter were £6.2bn, down from £6.3bn a year earlier. It sold 144,602 vehicles, down from 154,447.\n\nJaguar chief executive Ralf Speth said: \"Jaguar Land Rover reported strong third-quarter sales in the UK and North America, but our overall performance continued to be impacted by challenging market conditions in China.\"\n\nExcluding the write-down, which affects its balance sheet but has no effect on cash, the company posted a loss of £273m.\n\nMuch of the firm's model range is currently diesel-powered, while diesel sales in Europe have been falling.\n\nJaguar Land Rover, which is owned by India's Tata Motors, has embarked on a major restructuring programme to prepare for the future and boost profitability.\n\nIt has already announced plans to cut thousands of jobs.\n\nIt has now accepted that the value of its existing investments - such as factories, equipment and model designs - is substantially lower than previously thought, said BBC business correspondent Theo Leggett.", "Hugo Palmer (left) and Erwan Ferrieux are missing, Australian police say\n\nA British man and a French man have gone missing while backpacking in Australia, sparking a police search.\n\nThe alarm was raised when passersby found items belonging to Hugo Palmer and Erwan Ferrieux, both 20, on a beach north of Sydney on Monday, authorities said.\n\nPolice searched the location, Shelly Beach, and discovered the pair's rental car nearby.\n\nOther personal items, including travel documents, were found in the vehicle.\n\nPolice began ground and water searches on Monday, but they have not found any sign of the men.\n\nThe pair had arrived in the region on Sunday, said the local Port Macquarie News, which reported that Mr Palmer was from East Sussex.\n\nPolice Insp Michael Aldridge said that recent surf conditions had been rough.\n\n\"From the information that we have received, they were travelling down the east coast, stopping at various locations along the way,\" he told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.\n\nA British High Commission spokeswoman said: \"Our staff are in contact with police in Australia and the UK following reports of a missing British man at Shelly Beach, New South Wales.\"\n\nPolice said they had contacted French consular officials.\n\nShelly Beach is a popular surfing and walking site in Port Macquarie, located about 380km (250 miles) north of Sydney.", "US ground troops first became involved in Syria in 2015\n\nUp to now the official US position has been that its forces would stay on the ground in Syria to secure the enduring defeat of the Islamic State (IS) group.\n\n\"Nobody is declaring a mission accomplished\", said Brett McGurk, the US special envoy to the global coalition to defeat IS, only two weeks ago.\n\nBut over recent months an additional narrative has been intruding, certainly among the more strident foreign policy voices in the Trump administration. A longstanding presence in Syria, it was argued, would help to contain Iran and counter Russia's growing influence in the region.\n\nUS ground troops first became involved in Syria in Autumn 2015 when then President Barack Obama sent in a small number of special forces to train and advise local Kurdish fighters who were fighting IS. The US did this reluctantly after several attempts at arming anti-IS groups had descended into chaos.\n\nOver the intervening years the numbers of US troops in Syria increased, standing today at some 2,000, though some estimates place the number perhaps even higher. A network of bases and airstrips has been established in an arc across the north-eastern part of the country.\n\nBut what is their strategic purpose now? IS is well on the way to being defeated. Syria's President Assad remains in place due to the support of his allies in Moscow and Tehran. If the goal now is to contain Iran or Russia's rising influence in the region, then 2,000 troops strung out across a vast swathe of territory may be too small a force to do this.\n\nPresident Donald Trump's decision is thus in this sense logical, and it fits in with his own apparent hostility - despite a lot of bellicose rhetoric - to entanglements in foreign wars.\n\nOthers might argue though that the presence of US troops gives the US \"skin in the game\". It is an important presence, and on occasion US forces have been involved in direct clashes with pro-Iranian militias and Russian military contractors who tried to attack the positions of their allies.\n\nAround 2,000 US troops are believed to be stationed in Syria\n\nIS may be largely defeated, but what is to happen in the roughly one third of Syria that remains outside the control of President Assad and his allies? Could a new phase of the civil war ensue? And if large parts of the country descend into renewed chaos, something related to IS or similar could easily emerge again.\n\nThe US has also played an important role in bolstering Kurdish groups in northern Syria who have been the key local element in defeating IS. But these groups are seen by Turkey as a significant threat. It is telling that the Trump policy shift has come at a time when Washington and Ankara are trying to navigate a new bout of tensions, with the Turkish authorities warning that they plan to strike further into Syria against the self-same Kurdish elements.\n\nSo has Washington done a deal with Ankara? What security guarantees will there be for Washington's local allies going forward? And if the Kurds are effectively abandoned to their fate, what does it say for the reliability of the US as an ally in future conflicts, should local fighters be encouraged to align themselves with Washington?\n\nBut above all there will now be renewed questions about the Trump administration's whole approach to the region. What are its strategic goals? What are America's enduring interests there? And what means need to be invested to secure these goals?\n\nThere is no doubt that the Middle East - once Washington's crucial energy supplier and a focus for superpower competition - is today less important in purely geo-strategic terms to the US than it once was. But it remains a region of great instability and one of huge continuing importance to Washington's closest European allies, who confront its many problems just across the Mediterranean.\n\nSo Washington needs a coherent policy, one that extends beyond a simple slogan of \"containing Iran\".\n\nWith President Trump it often appears that US policy is unduly aligned with Saudi Arabia and Israel - or more accurately the approach of two influential figures, de facto Saudi leader Mohammed bin Salman and Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu - who are perhaps taking advantage of Washington's perceived weakness in the region to promote their own particular policy views.\n\nPresident Trump's decision reverses the much-rehearsed official lines of both the Pentagon and the state department, and it places Washington's Kurdish allies in greater jeopardy.\n\nA US pullout will only revive questions about the Trump administration's whole approach to the region which, while perhaps less important in Washington's calculations, still has the potential for explosive disruption and conflict.", "Mark Clements travelled from London to Exmouth before paramedics reached his mother\n\nA man who travelled nearly 200 miles to reach his injured mother arrived before an ambulance reached her.\n\nMark Clements caught a bus, tube and two trains from London to Exmouth, Devon on Saturday after his 77-year-old mother fell and broke her hip.\n\nThe initial 999 call was made at 09:00 GMT but paramedics did not arrive until seven hours later.\n\nSouth Western Ambulance Service apologised and said it was experiencing \"an unprecedented rise in demand\".\n\nMr Clements said he and his family - some of whom were waiting with his mother - were \"appalled\" by what happened.\n\n\"My mother was lying in an awkward position on a cold conservatory floor and was unable to move,\" he said.\n\nMr Clements took three hours and 40 minutes to travel from London to Exmouth, arriving at his mother's home at 15:10, about 50 minutes before the ambulance crew.\n\nHe said relatives called 999 on six different occasions but it was seven hours before an ambulance arrived.\n\n\"An ambulance station is less than 10 minutes from my mother's home,\" he added.\n\nWhen paramedics eventually arrived, Mr Clements said they were \"equally appalled and astonished\" at the delay.\n\n\"My mother is a very strong woman and it was heartbreaking to see her go through this experience,\" he added.\n\nSouth Western Ambulance Service (SWASFT) said it had to prioritise more \"serious incidents\".\n\nIt said it was sorry it was \"not able reach this patient sooner\" but an assessment was carried out and there was considered to be \"no immediate threat to life\".\n\nMark Clements' mother was left on a \"cold conservatory floor\" after breaking her hip\n\nMr Clements' mother was initially classed as a category four case, which is considered \"less urgent\" and only requiring transport to a hospital.\n\nAmbulance services in England took an average of one hour and 24 minutes to respond to such calls between April and December 2018, according to official figures.\n\nSWASFT's average was two hours and 21 minutes, the longest in the country.\n\nHowever its average response time for category one calls - for life threatening conditions - was seven minutes and 26 seconds, just one second behind the national average.\n\nMr Clements' mother had a hip operation on Sunday and is recovering in hospital.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Donald Tusk has told a press conference that he has been \"wondering what a special place in hell looks like for those who proposed Brexit without a sketch of a plan\".\n\nThe President of the European Council also said he was prepared for the \"possible fiasco\" of a no-deal Brexit", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. It is not yet known whose body was recovered from the plane wreckage\n\nA body has been recovered from the wreckage of the plane which crashed with Cardiff City footballer Emiliano Sala and pilot David Ibbotson on board.\n\nThe Air Accidents Investigation Branch said specialist contractors joined the operation in \"challenging conditions\".\n\nIt was carried out in \"as dignified a way as possible\" and the men's families were kept updated throughout, it said.\n\nThe wreckage of the plane, which vanished two weeks ago over the English Channel, was found off Guernsey.\n\nThe Geo Ocean III, the boat carrying the body, arrived at Portland Port in Dorset on Thursday morning as it is the nearest part of the British mainland to where the plane was located.\n\nDorset Police said: \"The arrival of the body into Dorset has been reported to the coroner for Dorset.\n\n\"The coroner will investigate the circumstances of this death supported by Dorset Police. A post-mortem examination will be held in due course.\"\n\nNo formal identification has taken place, but the force said both families had been updated.\n\nEmiliano Sala (left) was on board a plane being flown by pilot David Ibbotson\n\nThe Piper Malibu N264DB was en route from France to Cardiff, after the 28-year-old Argentine striker made a quick trip back to his former club Nantes two days after his £15m transfer to Cardiff was announced.\n\nMr Ibbotson, 59, from Crowle, North Lincolnshire, was at the controls when the flight lost contact with air traffic controllers on 21 January.\n\nAn official search was called off on 24 January after Guernsey's harbour master said the chances of survival were \"extremely remote\".\n\nBut an online appeal started by Sala's agent raised £324,000 (371,000 euros) for a private search led by marine scientist and oceanographer David Mearns.\n\nWorking jointly with the AAIB, his ship and the Geo Ocean III, began combing a four square mile area of the English Channel, 24 nautical miles north of Guernsey, to make best use of the available sensors.\n\nMr Mearns said the plane was identified by sonar, before a submersible with cameras was sent underwater to confirm this.\n\nA minute's silence was held for Sala and Mr Ibbotson ahead of Cardiff's home game against Bournemouth\n\nCardiff fans left a sea of flowers outside the Cardiff City Stadium in tribute to Emiliano Sala\n\nThe AAIB used a remotely operated underwater vehicle (ROV) to aid the search, with no divers involved.\n\nThe body was moved first, and separately from the wreckage, to maximise the chances of it being successfully brought to the surface.\n\nIt said efforts to recover the crashed plane as a whole proved unsuccessful, before being abandoned due to poor weather.\n\n\"The weather forecast is poor for the foreseeable future and so the difficult decision was taken to bring the overall operation to a close,\" the AAIB said in a statement.\n\nHowever, the AAIB said video footage captured by the ROV would provide \"valuable evidence\" for its safety investigation.\n\nMeanwhile, it has emerged that Sala's former club, French Ligue 1 side Nantes, has demanded Cardiff City pay his £15m transfer fee.\n\nSala, 28, was Cardiff's record signing but never played for the club.\n\nThe fee was due to be paid over three years but Cardiff have withheld the first scheduled payment until they are satisfied with the documentation.\n\nSupporters in Nantes have also been paying tribute to Sala", "On Tuesday night, a week later than originally scheduled (the protracted government shutdown got in the way), the president will take the short car ride from the White House to the Capitol and deliver his State of the Union speech.\n\nIt's like the State Opening of Parliament at Westminster - except without the horses and carriages - and of course there's no throne or crown.\n\nBut this is the big set-piece of the Washington year. So what to expect?\n\nWell, let's break it down into three bite size chunks:\n\nThis is going to be a speech where Nancy Pelosi, the new Democratic Party Speaker of the House, is going to be looking over her shoulder.\n\nWhile Donald Trump will deliver the address from the House of Representatives floor, she sits behind a desk on a slightly raised level. Sitting to her right will be Vice-President Mike Pence.\n\nOne will be applauding a lot and smiling broadly; the other less so.\n\nWhy this matters is that there is a new political reality for Donald Trump: the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives is no longer a friendly place for the president.\n\nAdd to that the growing field of Democratic 2020 presidential challengers, all eager to become the voice of every single anti-Trump voter.\n\nAfter he speaks on Tuesday, the Democratic response will be given by Stacey Abrams, the first African-American woman to give the formal \"rebuttal\" of a president's State of the Union.\n\nShe narrowly lost a tight contest for Georgia governor last November, but impressed many in her party with her campaign and has now been marked out as a rising star.\n\nFront and centre of this speech is going to be the president's battle to get funding for his border wall.\n\nThose with pesky long memories will recall that Mexico was going to pay for it.\n\nBut that hasn't happened so the American taxpayer is going to have to foot the bill.\n\nAnd before Christmas, Donald Trump shut down the government over his demand that $5.7bn (£4.3bn) be allocated for building work.\n\nGovernment workers queued for free food during the shutdown\n\nJust shy of a million workers were laid off. After five weeks, the government re-opened without a single extra cent pledged towards the wall.\n\nHe'd got into an arm wrestle with the woman who'll be looking over his shoulder tonight, and came second.\n\nThis State of the Union comes at a midway point - the president reopened the government for three weeks in the hope that a way forward could be found on funding his wall.\n\nSpoiler alert: They won't come up with the money.\n\nThe US-Mexico border is already fenced for hundreds of miles.\n\nSo look out for the president saying something about declaring a state of emergency on the southern border as a way of being able to secure the funding.\n\nIt would be a risky move, as it will be subject to legal challenge - and that will delay things still further.\n\nIt might also lead to a vote in the Senate in which some Republicans side with Democrats and pass a motion expressing disapproval of the president's move.\n\nWith the numbers of illegal immigrants crossing the border falling annually, the president's opponents would ask, what is the national emergency?\n\nSo he might prefer not to upset the apple cart on such an auspicious occasion and keep that trump card for the days ahead.\n\nThe president still hopes he'll be able to make progress on rebuilding America's creaking infrastructure.\n\nMore on the US government shutdown\n\nOverseas he'll talk about the fight being nearly won against the Islamic State group; he'll trumpet America's support for Juan Guaidó in Venezuela.\n\nAnd of course the need for fair trade that protects the American worker.\n\nThough just as important with a President Trump State of the Union speech is what is said either side of the speech. Remember Teleprompter Donald and Twitter Donald are not always the same person.\n\nIf no deal is reached by 15 February, the shutdown may resume.\n\nGoing back to choreography, remember that Mr Trump on Tuesday night will feel Nancy Pelosi breathing down his neck (this time more metaphorically than literally).\n\nIt is true that in the mid-term elections the Republicans increased their majority in the Senate with wins in states that should never have gone to the Democrats.\n\nBut more significant were the nationwide results in the House. Suburban America for the most part turned its back on the president. Large numbers of women who'd voted for him in 2016 also cocked a snook at him.\n\nPolls during and after the government shutdown showed a lot of blue-collar families walking away from the Trump brand. There is no path to victory in 2020 without bringing these people back into the fold.\n\nUntil now, President Trump has focused on his core support and summoned his inner Meghan Trainor and sung only one song - it's all about that base.\n\nBut maybe with 2020 beckoning, the president is recognising the need to reach beyond a narrowing cohort of voters.\n\nAs befitting a child of the 1960s, maybe he's now going to be singing Come Together.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe removal of a 210ft (64m) \"monster\" fatberg which is blocking a sewer in a seaside town has begun.\n\nThe congealed mass of fat, oil, wet wipes and other rubbish was discovered in the sewers of Sidmouth in December.\n\nSouth West Water has removed the first chunk of it and taken 3D scans of the \"unwanted Christmas present\".\n\nIt is estimated it could take eight weeks to remove it by breaking it down with manual labour and sucking it up to the surface.\n\nThe first chunk of the colossal fatberg has been removed\n\nClearance teams are using a combination of pick-axes and high-pressure jets to clear the colossal chunk of congealed fat.\n\nThey are wearing full breathing apparatus and body suits because of the dangerous gases released by the fatberg.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHigh levels of hydrogen sulphide and methane mean the air is also too unstable to risk taking cameras down to film the removal, according to the water provider.\n\nIt is an unpleasant job for the teams involved, with workers from the Whitechapel fatberg in London in 2017 describing the smell as \"rotting meat mixed with the odour of a smelly toilet\".\n\nOnce broken down into a manageable consistency, the fat is being sucked up a pipe into tankers waiting on the surface.\n\nIt will then be processed at a plant which turns waste into electricity.\n\nThe fatberg in Sidmouth is the largest South West Water has ever discovered\n\nFatbergs are caused by a build-up of fat, oil and wet wipes\n\nFatbergs can be prevented by only putting the \"three Ps\" down your toilet - pee, poo and paper.\n\nMost campaigns by water companies reference the \"three Ps\" and urge people not to dispose of nappies, condoms and wet wipes this way.\n\nSouth West Water asked everyone not to \"pour fats, oil or grease down the drain, or flush wet-wipes down the loo\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nPep Guardiola says Manchester City have learned \"to never give up\" after returning to the top of the table for the first time since 15 December with a win at Everton.\n\nA week ago City were five points adrift of Liverpool but took full advantage after Jurgen Klopp's side could only manage back-to-back draws, moving ahead of the Reds on goal difference albeit having played one game more.\n\n\"A few days ago we could have been seven points behind. Now we are top of the league. That is the best advice, the lesson is never give up,\" said Guardiola.\n\n\"That is a lesson for all athletes. Try to win the games, because life can change immediately.\"\n\nDefender Aymeric Laporte met David Silva's free-kick to head home his fourth goal of the season, putting City in front just before half-time.\n\nSergio Aguero and Raheem Sterling both spurned decent opportunities to extend City's lead after the break before Gabriel Jesus sealed victory in stoppage time.\n\nIt was far from a vintage display by City, who instead had to show their battling qualities to secure the points and regain the initiative in the title race.\n\nAttention will now switch back to Liverpool, who can return to the summit with victory against Bournemouth on Saturday, 24 hours before City host Chelsea at Etihad Stadium.\n\nEverton stay ninth after suffering a fourth defeat in five Premier League games at Goodison Park, though they should take some encouragement from a resilient display that was a notable improvement on their performances in recent weeks.\n• None We'll give fans what they deserve - Everton boss Silva\n\nJust seven days ago, Manchester City faced the prospect of falling seven points behind leaders Liverpool after slipping to a fourth Premier League defeat of the season against Newcastle the previous evening.\n\nKlopp's side missed that opportunity after drawing with Leicester, and a further draw at West Ham on Monday opened the door for City to return to the top for the first time in almost seven weeks.\n\nGuardiola's side appeared determined to make an impression at Goodison Park, creating three good chances in the opening 20 minutes, with Leroy Sane and Laporte going close before Ilkay Gundogan hit the bar.\n\nCity faded after that bright opening but made the breakthrough as half-time approached. David Silva's free-kick from the left-hand side of the penalty area was headed in by the unmarked Laporte for his first Premier League goal since August.\n\nAguero and Sterling missed further chances after the break to ensure a nervy finish, though Everton, despite all their effort, failed to truly test Ederson in the Manchester City goal.\n\nVictory was sealed seconds from full-time - Jesus heading home at the second attempt after Jordan Pickford had done well to block his initial shot.\n\nThe result puts further pressure on Liverpool who, after a near-flawless campaign so far, have started to show signs of fallibility in recent weeks as they chase a first league title for 29 years.\n\nThree successive league victories have also pushed Tottenham back in contention. Mauricio Pochettino's side are just five points behind the top two and still have to visit Anfield and Etihad Stadium before the end of the season.\n\nTonight's win means City have the initiative, but the dramatic change in fortunes over the past week suggests this is just the latest twist in an increasingly unpredictable title race.\n\nEverton restore pride - but familiar failings let them down\n\nEverton fans will have been aware that a win at Goodison Park would have been a huge favour to neighbours Liverpool.\n\nBut there were no signs of divided loyalties at kick-off with the home crowd fully behind their side, and they are likely to be encouraged by a hard-working performance, even if it ultimately resulted in another defeat.\n\nManager Marco Silva sprang a surprise by making five changes to his team as he looked for a response to Saturday's defeat by Wolves.\n\nThese included dropping top scorers Richarlison and Gylfi Sigurdsson to the bench and switching to a 4-3-3 formation.\n\nHe was rewarded with a more spirited display, with the returning Idrissa Gueye bringing some much needed energy back into the Everton midfield.\n\nHowever, familiar failings cost the Toffees before the break.\n\nEverton had conceded 18 goals from set-pieces in all competitions this season, more than any other Premier League side. And that soon became 19 when Laporte was left completely unmarked to meet David Silva's free-kick and nod the champions in front on the stroke of half-time.\n\nSilva brought on Richarlison, Sigurdsson and Cenk Tosun in an attempt to get back into the game, but their only shot on target was a long-range effort from Gueye that was comfortably held by Ederson.\n\nThe result means a tally of nine defeats in 15 games in all competitions for Silva's side - an alarming slump in form after starting December in the top six.\n\nSince their defeat at Liverpool on 2 December, the Toffees have collected just 11 points - only the Premier League's bottom two, Huddersfield Town and Fulham, have earned fewer.\n\nThere were signs of improvement against the champions, but Silva knows he needs to turn performances into points quickly if Everton's season is not to peter out completely before the clocks go forward.\n\n'The players have shown incredible desire' - what the managers said\n\nManchester City manager Pep Guardiola: \"We come from champions and we are in a situation where we could have given up but it didn't happen.\n\n\"We gave an incredible game against Liverpool. These players have shown incredible desire and performances for the last two years. How could I question them?\n\n\"We have played one more game. but it's the best we can do. The reality is one month ago we could have been 10 points behind when we played Liverpool.\"\n\nEverton manager Marco Silva: \"There are positives but again we didn't take the points we want and we are working to achieve. At the moment bad things come too easy, we concede after 47 and 97 minutes. Just working like we did tonight, things will change for us, I am really positive. The team showed what we must do.\n\n\"The fans are so good, at the end of the match what they did for our players, I don't have doubts. We are all together and we will give them what they want and what they deserve.\n\n\"Everything was different compared to Wolves, I have to be honest. This has to be our image as a team. We must be consistent, it is an obligation for us. A desire to win, an aggression - it is what we have to do every time against every team.\n\n\"You have to respect every team. Be aggressive at set-pieces. We were in the zone we must be in, we moved a little bit, it was a good delivery and header but we have to challenge. I have to speak with my players about this, it is not normal.\n\n\"I cannot understand why we must play tonight, it is very tough for us.\"\n\nCity go top again - the stats\n• None Manchester City will end the day top of the Premier League for the first time since 15 December 2018, when they were top after a win over Everton.\n• None Everton have conceded more goals from set pieces than any other Premier League team in all competitions this season (19).\n• None Manchester City have scored with their first shot on target in 15 Premier League games this season - six more than any other team.\n• None All four of Aymeric Laporte's goals in all competitions for Manchester City this season have been headers from set pieces in away matches.\n• None Everton are yet to win a Premier League match when conceding first this season (P12 W0 D2 L10).\n• None Marco Silva has now lost five Premier League games against Manchester City - two more than he has against any other opponent.\n• None Everton made five line-up changes for this match - their most between Premier League matches under manager Marco Silva.\n• None Manchester City have won 10 of their last 11 matches in all competitions (L1), scoring 39 goals and conceding just five.\n\nEverton face a trip to Marco Silva's former side Watford on Saturday (15:00 GMT). Manchester City host Chelsea the following day (16:00 GMT).\n• None Goal! Everton 0, Manchester City 2. Gabriel Jesus (Manchester City) header from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner.\n• None Attempt saved. Gabriel Jesus (Manchester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Kevin De Bruyne with a through ball.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match Nicolás Otamendi (Manchester City) because of an injury.\n• None Delay in match Cenk Tosun (Everton) because of an injury. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Last updated on .From the section Horse Racing\n\nMum is a massive catch in her own right. Dad is twice her age and a super stud who commands a dating fee thought to top at least £300,000 a time.\n\nSo the outcome of this stable relationship was bound to be keenly followed as Valentine's Day nears.\n\nNow horse racing fans are celebrating the arrival of a boy - a foal born to dam Annie Power and sire Galileo.\n\nAnnie Power is a Champion Hurdle winner over the jumps while Galileo won the Derby at Epsom on the flat.\n\nThe powerful bosses at Coolmore Stud brought Annie Power to their Irish breeding base after she finished her racing career so she could mate with top stallions.\n\nAnd they had one ready-made in 2001 Derby winner Galileo - the stud who is so sought after that his breeding fee is kept a secret, and father of the legendary unbeaten champion Frankel.\n• None Who's the Daddy? The inside track on Galileo\n\nWhile the birth was keenly awaited, there was also trepidation as the 2016 Champion Hurdle winner Annie Power lost her first foal after breeding with 2012 Derby winner Camelot.\n\nCoolmore posted a cute picture of mother and child on social media on Tuesday under a post which read: \"Brilliant racemare Annie Power with her first foal, a colt by Galileo born @coolmorestud #HomeOfChampions\".\n\n\"The foal is a good, bay colt born on Saturday night. Annie Power is a great mother and both are doing well,\" a Coolmore spokesperson told BBC Sport.\n\nHow do the parents match up?\n\nWon 15 times in 17 races for trainer Willie Mullins but her one fall was a famous one - coming down at the last in 2015 when leading the Mares' Hurdle under Ruby Walsh at the Cheltenham Festival.\n\nThat scuppered countless accumulators for punters who had backed a Mullins four-timer, and saved bookmakers an estimated £40m.\n\nThe chestnut mare, who went on to win the 2016 Champion Hurdle, was owned by an aptly named banker called Rich Ricci before he added to his riches by selling to Coolmore for an undisclosed fee.\n\nSix victories in eight races only tell half the story of this horse who took the 2001 Derby at Epsom before winning the Irish Derby and King George VI & Queen Elizabeth Diamond Stakes.\n\nHe has proved a breeding phenomenon off the track since retirement from racing later that year.\n\nGalileo has been the champion European sire 10 times and has fathered 75 winners at the elite Group One level of racing.", "Mr Ahmad is said to have been arrested after watching Qatar play Iraq\n\nA Briton has been arrested and detained in the United Arab Emirates after reportedly being assaulted when he wore a Qatar football team shirt to a match.\n\nAli Issa Ahmad, 26, from Wolverhampton, is said to have been unaware of a law against \"showing sympathy\" for Qatar - brought in amid a diplomatic dispute.\n\nHis friend says he was held after telling police he had been attacked.\n\nThe UAE embassy in London said Mr Ahmad has been charged with wasting police time and making false statements.\n\nResponding to earlier media reports, a UAE official said he was \"categorically not arrested for wearing a Qatar football shirt\".\n\nThe Foreign Office said it is providing assistance to a British man and is in touch with the UAE authorities.\n\nThe UAE and four other countries in the region are currently engaged in a political and diplomatic stand-off with Qatar after they accused the state of supporting radical and Islamist groups.\n\nOn its website, the Foreign Office warns travellers to the UAE of a June 2017 announcement \"that showing sympathy for Qatar on social media or by any other means of communication is an offence.\n\n\"Offenders could be imprisoned and subject to a substantial fine\".\n\nMr Ahmad is said to have travelled to the UAE for a holiday. He was arrested after watching Qatar play Iraq in an Asian Cup match in Abu Dhabi on 22 January.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC World Service programme Newshour, his friend Amer Lokie said Mr Ahmad had called him from a police station on 30 January to tell him about the arrest.\n\nMr Lokie said: \"After he left the stadium he was followed by a couple of people and they assaulted him.\"\n\nMr Ahmad had been wearing a Qatar football shirt and was holding another one in his hands, he said.\n\n\"They took away his T-shirt and he went home. Afterwards he went back to police station to report the assault and they held him,\" Mr Lokie said.\n\nAsked whether Mr Ahmad had indicated whether the people who attacked him were members of the public, police or security officials, Mr Lokie said: \"I was trying to ask him to clarify but he could not clarify because his time was limited.\"\n\n\"He was just a person who loved sport so much,\" Mr Lokie added. \" I don't think he knew he could get into problems for wearing a T-shirt or supporting a particular team.\"\n\nThe UAE embassy in London initially said it was unable to comment specifically on the case, adding \"allegations of human rights violations are taken extremely seriously and will be thoroughly investigated\".\n\nIn a later statement issued through the embassy, a UAE official said Mr Ahmad was a dual Sudanese-British citizen.\n\nThe official said Mr Ahmad had gone to a police station to say he had been harassed and beaten up by local football fans for cheering the Qatar team.\n\n\"Police took him to hospital where a doctor who examined him, concluded that his injuries were inconsistent with his account of events and appeared to be self-inflicted,\" the official said.\n\nThey said Mr Ahmad was charged on 24 January, adding: \"We are advised that he has since admitted those offences [wasting police time and making false statements] and will now be processed through the UAE courts.\"\n\nThe tiny oil- and gas-rich Qatar has been cut off by some of its powerful Arab neighbours - including the UAE - over its alleged support for terrorism.\n\nThe continuing rift meant there were very few Qatar fans in attendance during its Asian Cup matches.\n\nWhen Qatar knocked the UAE out in the semi-final, objects and shoes were thrown at their players.\n\nQatar went on to win the tournament, defeating Japan 3-1 in the final on 1 February.", "There was a strong police presence at the game, which Millwall won 3-2\n\nAn arrest has been made after a man was slashed across the face during a brawl between Millwall and Everton fans.\n\nThe victim has a \"life-changing\" scar as a result of the attack, before an FA Cup tie in London on 26 January.\n\nA 27-year-old man was arrested on Tuesday on suspicion of wounding with intent, attempted grievous bodily harm, and violent disorder.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police described the brawl as \"some of the most shocking football violence seen for some time\".\n\nThe suspect has been bailed to return to a central London police station on 28 February.\n\nDet Sgt Matt Simpson said the disorder involved dozens of people and lasted for a number of hours.\n\n\"We have hours of CCTV and hundreds of images which we are closely reviewing, and we have a team of experts working to identify those involved,\" he said.\n\nTrouble between fans started in the Hawkstone Road area of Southwark, near Millwall's stadium The Den.\n\nA police officer was among the injured and the Met said a number of coaches carrying Everton fans were damaged.\n\nBecause the violence happened outside Millwall's stadium the Football Association said it would not be investigating.\n\nThe match, which Millwall won 3-2, was also marred by allegations of racist chanting.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Four children have died in a house fire which saw to adults jump from a first floor window with a toddler.\n\nThe blaze in the Highfields area of Stafford in the early hours also left the children's younger brother, their mother and her partner injured.\n\nRob Barber, deputy chief fire officer for Staffordshire Fire and Rescue Service, said the house was being examined but he could not comment on a possible cause.\n\nHe added, staff will remain in the area to \"provide support and advice following the heartbreaking and tragic incident\".\n\nRead more: Four children die in house fire", "Twitter users asked if the driver would be \"facing the long arms of the law\"\n\nA driver who swerved \"to avoid an octopus\" before crashing has been arrested on suspicion of drug-driving.\n\nPolice were called to the A381 between Malborough and South Milton in Devon, where they found a vehicle upside-down in a ditch on Tuesday evening.\n\nThe 49-year-old driver was checked over by paramedics before being arrested.\n\nOfficers, who tweeted about the incident, said they found no evidence of an octopus on the road.\n\nOctopuses are not unheard of in the seas off the south coast of England, but this particular cephalopod would have had to crawl more than 3 miles (5km) over hills and fields to find itself in the path of a car on the A381.\n\nPolice said they found no evidence of an octopus on the A381 between Malborough and South Milton\n\nA spokeswoman for Devon and Cornwall Police said: \"He did a bit of a slow roll into a ditch.\n\n\"An ambulance went out and the driver was checked over by paramedics but there weren't injuries enough to go to hospital.\"\n\nThe man, from Salcombe, was arrested on suspicion of driving while unfit through drugs or drink and has been released under investigation pending further inquiries.\n\nTwitter users were quick to respond with puns.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHowever, police pointed out that driving under the influence of drugs - illegal or prescription - was a serious matter, and could be \"just as dangerous as drink-driving\".\n• None New law to crack down on drug-driving\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The RAF's Tornado jets have returned to the UK for the last time in preparation for retirement after nearly 40 years in service.\n\nEight Tornados, which were based in Cyprus and used in the fight against the Islamic State group, have now landed at RAF Marham in Norfolk.\n\nThe first five jets made the five-hour flight on Monday, with the last three arriving on Tuesday.\n\nThe Tornado, in service since 1979 and first used in combat during the first Gulf War, will leave service before the end of March.", "The introduction of dozens of new accessibility-themed emojis has been welcomed by disability rights campaigners.\n\nThe new characters include hearing aids, wheelchairs, prosthetic limbs, white \"probing\" canes and guide dogs.\n\nThey follow a complaint by Apple that few existing emojis spoke to the experiences of those with disabilities.\n\nTheir inclusion in 2019's official list means many smartphones should gain them in the second half of the year.\n\n\"Social media is hugely influential and it's great to see these new disability-inclusive emojis,\" said Phil Talbot, from the disability charity Scope.\n\n\"Up to now, disability has been greatly underrepresented.\n\n\"We'd also like to see greater representation of disabled people and disability across all parts of the media and social media.\"\n\nA total of 230 new emojis feature in what is the sixth major update to the official list.\n\nIt is maintained by a California-based group made up of representatives of computing companies, software developers and others, who ensure that users of different devices and apps can send emojis to each other.\n\nThe various platform owners - including Apple, Google, Microsoft, Samsung, Facebook and Twitter - can tweak Unicode's designs to their own liking but are supposed to ensure that each character remains recognisable from one product to another.\n\nThe latest approved art includes men and women of different ethnicities using disability aids as well spotlighting individual products.\n\nIn addition, men and women are pictured moving a finger between their ear and their mouth, which is used as a deaf sign in American Sign Language.\n\nThe emojis build on the 13 drawings submitted by Apple in March 2018 after it had consulted the American Council of the Blind and the National Association of the Deaf, among other organisations.\n\nIt had noted that one in seven people around the world had some form of disability.\n\nAnother notable addition to the emoji library is a drop of blood, which is meant to offer women a new way to talk about menstruation.\n\nIts addition follows a campaign by Plan International UK, a girls' rights charity that held an online vote in 2017 for what a period-themed emoji should look like.\n\nThe most popular choice was a pair of pants marked by blood but when that was rejected by the Unicode Consortium, the charity pushed for a blood drop instead.\n\n\"For years we've obsessively silenced and euphemised periods,\" said Lucy Russell, head of girls' rights at the group.\n\n\"An emoji isn't going to solve this but it can help change the conversation. Ending the shame around periods begins with talking about it\".\n\nA skunk, parachutist and waffle also join the list", "US President Donald Trump's first official visit to the UK took place in July 2018\n\nUS President Donald Trump is expected to visit the UK in December for a Nato summit, the alliance's secretary general has said.\n\nJens Stoltenberg said in a statement that \"the Allies have agreed\" to meet to discuss security challenges and how Nato can adapt to keep people safe.\n\nTheresa May said it would be an \"important opportunity\" to modernise.\n\nMr Trump's controversial first official trip to the UK took place in July 2018, amid a backdrop of angry protests.\n\nThe US president met the Queen at Windsor Castle and held talks with the prime minister at Chequers, while thousands of people marched through central London in protest at his visit.\n\nThe police operation for the visit cost an estimated £18m, according to the National Police Chiefs' Council.\n\nThe announcement of Mr Trump's December trip led the Liberal Democrats to say they would be \"front and centre to protest his visit\", while the Green Party tweeted \"we'll be there to greet him\".\n\nThe US president, who has repeatedly criticised the military alliance, will meet heads of state in London - the home of Nato's first headquarters.\n\nTheresa May said: \"The UK is one of the founding members of Nato and I am very pleased that the secretary general has asked us to host a meeting of Nato leaders this year to mark its 70th anniversary\".\n\nMr Stoltenberg said the UK continues to play a key role in the alliance, making \"essential contributions to our shared security\".\n\nMr Trump has previously urged Nato to commit 4% of its annual output (GDP) to military spending - double the current target.\n\nOn Tuesday, he said in his State of the Union address that the US had been \"treated very unfairly by friends of ours, members of Nato\" over a period of years.\n\nThe announcement came as Nato states signed an agreement with Macedonia, clearing the way for the Balkan nation to become its 30th member.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Trump announced in his State of the Union speech that he will hold a second nuclear summit with North Korea's leader this month.\n\nPlans for a second summit have been in the works since the two leaders' historic talks last year.\n\nMr Trump and Mr Kim's meeting last June in Singapore was the first ever between a sitting US president and a North Korean leader.", "Harris was seen waving to children as they were waiting in the school hall for their lunch\n\nThe Ministry of Justice has launched an investigation after convicted paedophile Rolf Harris entered the grounds of a Berkshire primary school.\n\nThe school's head teacher confronted the former TV star, who was in conversation with a local sculptor, and asked him to leave the site.\n\nThe MoJ said it was \"looking into these reports and will take appropriate action\".\n\nHarris was jailed for five years in 2014 but released on licence in 2017.\n\nA spokeswoman for the MoJ added: \"When sex offenders are released they are subject to strict licence conditions and are liable to be returned to custody for breaching them.\"\n\nHead teacher Richard Jarrett said: \"In line with our standard procedures, an uninvited individual was asked to leave the outer perimeter of the school site yesterday, which he did without delay.\n\n\"At no time did any of our pupils come into contact with the individual nor was the individual invited by us onto the school grounds.\"\n\nHarris was seen waving to children as they were waiting in the school hall for their lunch on Tuesday.\n\nHe was talking to sculptor Nick Garnett, who was working in the school's \"Kiss and Drop\" area.\n\nHarris was seen waving to children as they were waiting for their lunch\n\nMr Garnett told the BBC: \"I turned round and there was Rolf Harris, which was a strange moment.\n\n\"He asked for a piece of timber. Apparently he's interested in making some carvings, so I gave him a couple of pieces.\"\n\nHe said: \"At no point was he near any children. The headmaster dealt with it incredibly calmly.\"\n\nSpeaking to the Press Association, the parent of a pupil at the school said: \"What was he doing there?\n\n\"I feel like it was a really bad judgement call and I don't think his excuse is effective enough.\"\n\nThames Valley Police said: \"A report was made that a man was on the site of the school.\n\n\"An officer attended the scene but no offence was committed. No arrests were made and advice has been given to the man involved.\"\n\nAustralian-born TV presenter Harris was jailed in 2014 for 12 indecent assaults, relating to four girls between 1968 and 1986.\n\nIn May 2017 he was cleared of four unconnected historical sex offences, which he had denied.\n\nIn November 2017 one of the 12 indecent assault convictions was overturned by the Court of Appeal.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Cockpit footage from the jet involved in the Shoreham air crash showed there was \"no sign\" the pilot may have blacked out, a court has heard.\n\nAviation expert and prosecution witness Jonathan Whaley told the Old Bailey it appeared all the movements made by pilot Andrew Hill were deliberate.\n\n\"His movements seem to be positive and for reasons, whatever those reasons are,\" he said.\n\nEleven men were killed when the Hawker Hunter he was flying crashed on to the A27 outside the Shoreham Airshow, in West Sussex, on 22 August 2015 following a loop manoeuvre.\n\nMr Whaley, a display pilot who has flown hundreds of flights in a Hawker Hunter, told the jury the turn performed by Mr Hill as he entered into his final \"bent loop\" was \"relatively smooth, not suddenly yanking G\".\n\nCommenting on the entire cockpit footage of the final flight shown to jurors, he said the view from the jet upside down before the final dive would have made him feel \"deeply uncomfortable\".\n\nThe Hawker Hunter jet prior to plummeting on to the A27 on 22 August 2015\n\nThe prosecution argue Mr Hill should have known he did not have the height to dive down safely and should have carried out an escape manoeuvre instead.\n\nAs the plane descends before the crash, Mr Whaley described it as being in \"deep stall\" with the wings rocking \"when one wing stalls more than the other\".\n\nHe said due to the massive drag produced by the plane in deep stall no amount of power - even full power - would make any difference.\n\n\"You're going down, that's what's going to happen,\" he told the court.\n\nMr Whaley was later asked what the pilot should do if he realised he did not have the required height.\n\n\"Stop putting the nose down. Don't commit to the loop,\" he said.\n\n\"How deeply ingrained is this?\" he was asked.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Theresa May at a community centre in Belfast on Tuesday evening\n\n\"It's not good enough to come back next week and say that the negotiations are ongoing,\" a senior Cabinet minister warned. But will the prime minister's travels this week do more than just keep the show on the road?\n\nToday she's in Northern Ireland meeting the different political parties, including the DUP - whose votes she needs in Parliament - who are totally opposed to the current version of the controversial backstop, as well as Sinn Fein, who are just as adamant that it must remain.\n\nThen on Thursday, Theresa May will be in Brussels, asking - again - for the EU to amend the policy, seeking either a time limit or a legal upgrade to the promise that both sides will only use it if they really, really, really have to, and they don't expect it to last forever.\n\nIn short, today's a chance for the PM to test out what she'll ask for, tomorrow, an opportunity to sell it as hard as she can in Brussels.\n\nRemember, she has asked for these changes before and been turned down.\n\nAnd she's heard before from both sides in Northern Ireland how dug in their positions are.\n\nSo can she do anything other than take one more turn around the same carousel while the clock ticks down?\n\nThe difference on her travels this time is that it's not just the prime minister pleading with the EU to budge, warning that this deal hypothetically might not wash.\n\nIt's the first time she'll meet the EU top brass since the plan that she agreed with them was thumpingly rejected by Parliament. And the first time too she has some evidence to show that the deal could, in theory, pass through the Commons if the backstop was eventually changed.\n\nThat's what last week's drama was all about - the so-called Brady amendment (which already feels a lifetime ago) passing Parliament paved the way for the prime minister to have another go at getting changes because it allows her to say to the EU, \"look, all those grumpy MPs could come on board, if only you are willing to give me this one thing - I know that you have said no in multiple languages, but it is the only way this is going to work\".\n\nThat's why today will also be important for the Irish leader, who has his own talks in Brussels.\n\nUntil now, Leo Varadkar has staked his political reputation on sticking to the backstop. Don't hold your breath for any signs of concessions from him later.\n\nOne source said they wouldn't be likely to move until the \"92nd minute\". But with the risk of no-deal looming larger, by simple virtue of time marching on, perhaps behind closed doors the EU's dealmakers are looking for ways out.\n\nThat's why this week, for example, Martin Selymayr did discuss with MPs whether they could accept a souped-up legal version of promises that have already been made.\n\nThat's not the same as putting it on the table as an official proposal of course. But the fact that such a conversation has taken place matters.\n\nIt seems rather optimistic though that, by the end of tomorrow, the prime minister will have conclusive proof that those kinds of noises-off make a concrete deal, or that the legal fixes being proposed by the Attorney General at home have been convincingly signed off by the EU.\n\nAnd all the while a group of Remainers and Brexiteers are working with government officials on their hoped-for alternative, the so-called Malthouse Compromise.\n\nWhile a tweaked deal with the EU could get some reluctant Brexiteers on board, some are hardening around the idea that it has to be this plan now, or there won't be a plan they can back at all.\n\nOne key member of the powerful ERG group of Tory Brexiteer MPs told me this is \"the only show in town\", claiming that if No 10 doesn't ultimately buy their plan - which you can read about here - then the government could fall.\n\nThat's quite a threat to wave around.\n\nNo 10 is trying to maintain the idea that this could be the route they follow. The simple truth is they need the votes of those MPs who back it.\n\nBut it's clear in the first instance that No 10 is trying to change the backstop in the deal they have sweated over for two years, rather than make a more significant shift.\n\nWhat Theresa May might need from the next 48 hours though is proof that the EU could move in her direction.\n\nEvidence to present back to Parliament next week that, while there might not be a deal fresh with wet ink, there is at least a proposal that's being taken seriously, that paves the way for another vote on a government-friendly amendment that can be used to signify numbers moving in her direction.\n\nIf she comes back with nothing at all to show, nor any encouragement for those strongly pushing for change, then in her colleague's words, it might \"not be good enough\" at all.", "Stephen Biegun is the US envoy for North Korea\n\nThe US envoy for North Korea has been holding talks in Pyongyang, paving the way for a second leadership summit.\n\nStephen Biegun arrived just as US President Donald Trump confirmed he would meet North Korea's Kim Jong-un in Vietnam on 27-28 February.\n\nThe two leaders will build on the vague denuclearisation commitments they made when they met in Singapore last June.\n\nMeanwhile, the UN has warned that North Korea is continuing its nuclear programme and breaking sanctions.\n\nThe report said actions including the illegal transfer of banned goods at sea could make sanctions - the international community's main way of putting pressure on North Korea - \"ineffective\".\n\nThe Singapore summit generated significant coverage and optimism, but delivered very few concrete developments.\n\nBoth sides said they were committed to denuclearisation, but with no details of how this would be carried out or verified.\n\nThe Kim-Trump summit was big on handshakes and rhetoric but low on detail\n\nExperts caution that despite Mr Trump's declaration that North Korea is no longer a nuclear threat, the country has never said it would give up its nuclear weapons programme without similar concessions from the US.\n\nAfter holding talks with officials in South Korea, Mr Biegun travelled to Pyongyang to talk with his North Korean counterpart, Kim Hyok-chol.\n\nMr Biegun said he wanted to achieve some \"concrete deliverables\".\n\nThe US state department has said his visit will \"advance further progress on the commitments the president and Chairman Kim made in Singapore\".\n\nThe US wants North Korea to make a full declaration of all its nuclear weapons facilities and commit to destroying them, under international supervision - something North Korea has never said it will do.\n\nIn a speech at Stanford University last week, Mr Biegun said the US would not agree to lift sanctions until this happens, but he indicated it could provide assistance in other ways, saying: \"We did not say we will not do anything until you do everything.\"\n\nHe also said Kim Jong-un had previously committed to \"the dismantlement and destruction\" of all North Korea's plutonium and uranium facilities, which provide the material for nuclear weapons.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBut a report to the UN Security Council on Monday suggested North Korea was continuing its nuclear and missiles programmes, while making efforts to protect its facilities from possible future strike.\n\nThe confidential report, a copy of which was seen by news agencies, also said North Korea was routinely breaking international sanctions.\n\nThe report said there had been a \"massive increase in illegal ship-to-ship transfers of petroleum products and coal\" - where material is moved from non-North Korean ships out at sea to evade monitoring.\n\nThe international sanctions against North Korea are designed to severely limit its import and export abilities, with the aim of putting pressure on the country to give up its nuclear ambitions.\n\nBut Reuters quoted the report as saying that violations on this scale \"render the latest UN sanctions ineffective\".\n\nThis UN report states what to many is blindingly obvious - North Korea's nuclear and ballistic missile programmes \"remain intact\" despite the \"tremendous progress\" hailed by the Trump administration.\n\nBut Pyongyang's pledges, which we have heard through either the South Koreans or the Americans, were very specific. They said they would destroy a nuclear testing site and dismantle a rocket launch site.\n\nThe North Koreans have at no point said they will hand over all their weapons nor that they would stop building them. This is why getting a detailed deal is so important.\n\nNorth Korea has, through the South Korean president, pledged to destroy a nuclear processing plant, but only if the US takes corresponding steps. We expect this to be the focus of at least some of the talks between the two sides over the next few weeks.\n\nWhat is interesting about this report, and perhaps more worrying for the Trump administration, is that their main diplomatic tool to encourage Kim Jong-un to get to the negotiating table may now be \"ineffective\".\n\nThere have been many reports of illegal ship-to-ship transfers of oil and coal over the last year, but sanctions monitors now say there is a \"massive increase\".\n\nIf Pyongyang is finding a way around these strict sanctions, then it means Washington's maximum pressure strategy is never going to work.\n\nWe are entering a pivotal month in this peninsula's future and this report highlights the challenges facing the Trump administration. It also raises the question, that if these talks fail, and sanctions are no longer effective, what does the US do next?", "China's lunar new year gala is the most viewed TV programme around the globe.\n\nThis year the highlight was thousands of martial arts students dazzling the audience with their synchronised moves.", "Keegan, Tilly Rose, Olly and Riley, seen here in a photo taken from social media, died in the blaze in the early hours of Tuesday\n\nFour children have died in a house fire which also left a toddler and two adults - who leapt to safety from a first-floor window - injured\n\nNeighbours reported hearing screams as the blaze, in the Highfields area of Stafford, took hold overnight.\n\nThe children killed in the fire were aged between three and eight, Staffordshire Police said.\n\nBoth adults, along with the toddler, are in hospital, but their injuries are not life-threatening.\n\nThe force named the four children, who have not been formally identified, as Riley Holt, eight, Keegan Unitt, six, Tilly Rose Unitt, four, and Olly Unitt, three.\n\nTheir two-year-old brother Jack survived, along with mother Natalie Unitt, 24 and her partner Chris Moulton, 28.\n\nPart of the roof collapsed, windows were shattered and rooms left blackened by the blaze after the fire broke out on Sycamore Lane at about 02:40 GMT.\n\nNeighbour Wendy Pickering said she heard \"screaming\" in the middle of the night, while her husband Bryan said he was alerted to the fire by his dog barking during the night.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFirefighters confirmed that a man, woman and young child had escaped from a first-floor window before emergency services arrives.\n\nThe cause of the blaze is not yet known.\n\nFlowers and soft toys have been left at the scene, while tributes have been paid to the four children who died by those who knew them\n\nNicola Glover, head teacher of Castlechurch Primary School, which Riley, Tilly and Olly attended, said the school was \"absolutely devastated\".\n\nShe described Riley as a \"confident, excitable\" and articulate boy \"who was always keen to ask lots of questions.\n\nA handwritten note attached to flowers was left at the scene from the children's grandparents\n\nTilly, meanwhile \"was a happy little girl who loved coming to nursery\" and was \"a friendly and caring child who loved to read stories, dress up and paint\", Ms Glover said.\n\nShe said Olly was \"a happy, loving boy who loved cuddles. He was always happy to come to nursery and loved to be in the role play area with the dolls\".\n\nKim Ellis, head teacher at Marshlands School, where Keegan was a pupil, said he was \"full of fun and mischief\".\n\n\"He loved school and everyone who worked with him loved him. It is very hard to accept what has happened.\"\n\nThe fire ripped through the house destroying parts of the roof\n\nCh Insp John Owen, of Staffordshire Police, described the blaze as \"absolutely heartbreaking\".\n\n\"Our firefighters were faced with very difficult conditions inside the property due to the severity of the fire,\" he said.\n\nNathan Hudson, assistant chief officer of West Midlands Ambulance, added: \"This was an immensely difficult incident for all three (emergency) services to respond to.\n\n\"Our thoughts remain with the family and friends and four children at this time.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMatthew Ellis, Staffordshire Commissioner for Police Fire and Crime, paid tribute to emergency services for working in \"tragic and difficult circumstances in the middle of the night\".\n\n\"For something like this to happen it's just heartbreaking,\" he said.\n\n\"It's very difficult to imagine just how professional and how dedicated these people are, but they are all human beings.\"\n\nCounty councillor for Stafford West, Carolyn Trowbridge, said local people had already begun to collect items and money to help the family.\n\nSpeaking near the scene, she said: \"This is a great community. We will all pull together and we will try to help this family as much as we possibly can.\"\n\nShe said the emergency services had \"worked tirelessly\", adding: \"It must have been horrendous for them.\"\n\nThere was a special service at Castle Church in Stafford at 19:00 GMT.\n\nThe Rev Philip Sowerbutts said: \"It will take this community a long time to get over such devastation.\n\n\"We as a church family along with all the other agencies have got to be here and stand together.\"\n\nThe nearby Signpost Centre on Auden Way has become one of many collection points for people looking to make donations to the family.\n\nKen Down, who runs the centre, said: \"Lots of people who knew the family were in the cafe this morning talking about it. There is lots of sadness.\n\n\"We are open five days a week for anyone who is having any issues. If they are feeling really upset about it they can come here and talk to us.\"\n\nA donation page set up to help the family \"rebuild their lives\" has amassed more than £12,000 since it was launched.\n\nIts founder, Stephen Glover, whose daughter attended the same school as Riley Holt, said he was \"delighted\" at the generosity of people not only from Stafford but all over the country.\n\nHousing association Stafford and Rural Homes, which owns the property, said it was assisting the police and fire service with investigations.", "Lisa Dunnington says she was out of debt before Universal Credit but now owes the council more than £1,000 in rent\n\nA mother of three says she has nearly been made homeless twice in two years due to the new Universal Credit benefits system.\n\nLisa Dunnington says the new system, which rolls six benefits into one, has pushed her into debt.\n\nCitizens Advice says Lisa's story is not unusual, with half of the people it helps with the system struggling to pay rent or mortgages.\n\nThe government says there is no single reason why rent arrears build up.\n\nLisa, from York, says despite being in debt most of her life, she had been debt-free before moving on to Universal Credit.\n\nBut she says she now owes York City Council over £1,000 in unpaid rent.\n\n\"Since I've got on Universal Credit last year, I've nearly lost my house twice and then I just end up in debt again.\"\n\nShe added: \"I've tried building a home for me and my kids for years and years.\n\n\"And for it to be nearly ripped away from you when you've tried to better yourself by getting a job and things like that - you just wake up and think 'what's the point?'\"\n\nMs Dunnington is being helped by debt charity Christians Against Poverty (CAP).\n\nCAP spokeswoman Rachel Gregory said: \"We are seeing some of our clients being issued with eviction notices due to the wait for their universal credit, which causes lots of stress and worry for that person.\"\n\nA spokeswoman for York City Council, which is Ms Dunnington's landlord, said it was working with the government to support people on universal credit.\n\nThe government says Universal Credit was designed to make claiming benefits simpler and help people to get back into work.\n\nMore than 1.5 million people in the UK now receive the payment.\n\nBut new Citizens Advice analysis, using 190,000 people the organisation helped between July and September 2018, suggested many people were struggling due to the means-tested benefit.\n\nAmong the people the charity helps with debt and Universal Credit:\n\nFour years ago, councils in England, Scotland and Northern Ireland were owed around £250m by tenants.\n\nLast year that figure had grown by 27% to £315m, a review of government figures by the BBC has found.\n\nThe Welsh government does not collect comparable figures.\n\nRichard Watts from the Local Government Association says the situation will only get worse.\n\n\"I fear that there's a great risk the trajectory of increasing rent arrears continues as Universal Credit gets rolled out across the country\", he said.\n\nHomeless charity Shelter said the \"shambolic\" changes to the welfare system had led to a \"dire housing emergency\" in the UK.\n\nChief executive Polly Neate, said: \"The Government urgently needs to get Universal Credit fit for purpose before rolling it out any further, as well as bringing up housing benefit and local housing allowance rates so people can actually afford their rents.\n\n\"Alongside this, it needs to ramp up social housing building so families will have a chance of a stable, affordable home.\"\n\nThe system has proved controversial almost from its inception, with reports of IT issues, massive overspends, administrative problems and delays to the scheme's rollout.\n\nIn January, two high court judges ruled the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) was wrongly interpreting universal credit regulations.\n\nFour working single mothers argued a \"fundamental problem\" with the system meant their monthly payments varied \"enormously\", leaving them out of pocket and struggling financially.\n\nA DWP spokesman said: \"Most people on Universal Credit are happy managing their money, but budgeting support is available for anyone who needs extra help.\n\n\"Many people join Universal Credit with existing rent arrears, but this falls by a third after four months.\n\n\"We will continue to work closely with Citizens Advice and other stakeholders to develop our approach in order to provide the best possible support for all of our claimants.\"", "A photo of Nancy Pelosi clapping after Mr Trump's address has gone viral\n\nAs US President Donald Trump delivered his State of the Union address to Congress, many people took to social media to discuss the event.\n\nAmong the political analysis and partisan debate, a number of altogether more light-hearted talking points came up.\n\nIt is perhaps unsurprising that Nancy Pelosi became the subject of one of the most popular memes on the night.\n\nThe new House Speaker, de facto leader of the Democratic Party, sat behind President Trump during his address and is one of the most high-profile opponents of the president.\n\nMany on social media thought this political rivalry was captured in a photo of Ms Pelosi applauding after Mr Trump called for compromise in politics.\n\nThe image, termed the \"Pelosi clap\", quickly went viral.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe female representatives sat stony-faced as President Trump said \"no-one has benefited more from our thriving economy than women\".\n\nA record number of women are now serving in Congress\n\nAfter the president said that women \"filled 58% of the newly created jobs last year\", they started enthusiastically cheering and clapping each other.\n\nMany of the Democratic lawmakers cheering took office after the recent mid-term elections, which saw a record number of women elected, and the Democrats win a majority in the House of Representatives.\n\nThe atmosphere turned quickly as the women clapped each other\n\nThe irony of this was not lost on many Twitter users.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWhile many suggested that Mr Trump didn't intend for his comments on female employment to be associated with the electoral success of Democratic congresswomen, the president did go on to praise the influx of female lawmakers.\n\nNot everyone was exactly gripped by the speech\n\nPresident Trump and First Lady Melania invited 11-year-old Joshua Trump from Wilmington, Delaware, who has been bullied at school because of his surname.\n\nPhotos appearing to show the boy, who is not related to President Trump, dozing off during the speech earned him some fans on Twitter.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 9 by M This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHis parents pulled him out of school as they said his classmates had called him an \"idiot\" and \"stupid\" for sharing the same name as the president.\n\nEline, the girl sitting next to him, has been treated for brain cancer. She seemed to enjoy the evening a lot more.\n\nThe State of the Union is an opportunity for the president to inform the nation of his goals for the year ahead. But some were distracted by less weighty issues - the position of his tie.\n\nMany took to social media to point out that the president's trademark red tie was off-centre.\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 11 by RealTrumpTie This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAfter President Trump finished his address, Stacey Abrams delivered the Democratic response.\n\nWhile the Georgia politician spoke about immigration, voting rights, healthcare and the economy, Twitter-users homed in on the way the address looked.\n\nMs Abrams could be seen standing at a lectern in front of a group of people blurred out behind her.\n\nMany wondered if she was appearing in front of a green screen.\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 17 by Jonathan Badeen 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. 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End of twitter post 18 by bryan with a y 🇺🇸\n\nHowever, as can be seen below, after Ms Abrams finished speaking and the camera zoomed out, it is clear that a green screen was not used.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Stacey Abrams: \"We want Trump to tell the truth\"", "Last updated on .From the section Cardiff\n\nFrench club Nantes have demanded payment from Cardiff City over the £15m transfer of Emiliano Sala, BBC Wales has learned.\n\nArgentine striker Sala, along with pilot David Ibbotson, was on board the Piper Malibu N264DB which lost radar contact near Guernsey on 21 January.\n\nSala, 28, was Cardiff's record signing but never played for the club.\n\nCardiff have withheld the first scheduled payment until they are satisfied with the documentation.\n\nThe transfer fee is due to be paid in instalments over three years.\n\nIn a later interview with French newspaper L'Equipe , Cardiff chairman Mehmet Dalman indicated that Nantes had sent an invoice for the first instalment, worth 6m euros (£5.27m).\n\nIn the same interview Dalman added: \"We must show respect to the family. There is the process of recovering the plane.\"\n\nOn Thursday night the Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) said a body had been recovered from the wreckage.\n\nCardiff had earlier expressed \"surprise\" that Nantes made the demand while the recovery attempts were under way.\n\nIt is understood Nantes are threatening legal action if they do not receive a payment within 10 days. The BBC has attempted to speak to Nantes for comment.\n\nA source at Cardiff says they will honour the contract but not until they have clarified \"all the facts\".\n\nIt is unclear whether or not the club have insurance covering the cost of the transfer.\n\nFrench club Bordeaux are also entitled to a cut of the fee, thought to be 50% - Sala was on their books from 2012 to 2015 before joining Nantes.\n\nThe plane carrying Sala and Ibbotson, from Crowle, Lincolnshire, disappeared en route to Cardiff after the footballer returned to Nantes to say goodbye to his former team-mates.", "The Islamic State group (IS) has lost its short-lived caliphate in the Middle East, with hundreds - possibly thousands - of would-be international jihadists stuck in limbo, and tempted to return home despite fears of arrest and imprisonment.\n\nYet the scourge of violent jihad - where extremists attack those they perceive to be enemies of Islam - has not gone away.\n\nThe hotel attack in Nairobi two weeks ago by the al-Qaeda-affiliated militant group al-Shabab was an uncomfortable reminder. Large swathes of north-west Africa are now vulnerable to attack by marauding jihadists. Somalia, Yemen and Afghanistan remain ideal refuges for jihadists.\n\nSo just what is the enduring appeal of violent jihad for certain people around the world?\n\nThe decision to leave behind a normal, law-abiding life, often abandoning family and loved ones to embark on what is frequently a short, dangerous career is a personal one. Jihadist recruiters will play on the notion of victimhood, sacrifice and rallying to a higher cause in the name of religion.\n\nFor nearly 20 years now the internet has been awash with gruesome propaganda videos, some portraying the collective suffering of Muslims in various parts of the world, others depicting revenge attacks and punishments inflicted on perceived enemies.\n\nThese serve two purposes. The first is intended to arouse sympathy and even shame, that the viewer should be watching comfortably at home on his or her laptop while \"your brothers and sisters are being murdered\" - in say, Syria, Chechnya or the Palestinian Territories.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Last September the BBC spoke to two British extremists who have lived and fought in Syria for years\n\nSecondly, the revenge videos appeal particularly to those of a sadistic nature, often attracting those with a violent criminal record.\n\nPeer pressure can be the trigger that tips an individual over from being simply angry about events in the world to taking violent action.\n\nIn Jordan I interviewed a convict in prison who had been persuaded by his best friend from school to come and join him in Syria with IS. He did, then regretted it, escaped back to Jordan and was then sentenced to five years in prison.\n\nThose who are especially vulnerable to recruitment are young men and women who have grown apart from their families or their societies.\n\nFor them, belonging to a secret, illegal organisation that appears to value them can be an attractive alternative. Even if it ends with them being told to strap on a suicide vest and blow themselves up in a market place.\n\nThere is a reason why the Middle East has long been a primary source of global jihadism. Corrupt, undemocratic and often oppressive regimes tend to drive peaceful political dissent underground.\n\nIn the early 21st Century Syria has been the most glaring example of this. After nearly eight years of civil war, with Syria's President Bashar al-Assad largely victorious against the rebels, the vast numbers of citizens who have disappeared into his jails provide a source of recruitment for extremist groups.\n\nIn Iraq, a country turned upside-down by the ill-fated US-led invasion of 2003, sectarian discrimination has played a major part in the rise of al-Qaida and then IS.\n\nFor eight years the oppression of the Sunni minority by the Shia-led government was so profound that IS (a Sunni militancy) was able to present itself as \"the protector of Iraq's Sunnis\" and easily take over much of the country. It is widely predicted that IS will look to exploit any future grievances.\n\nYemen, Afghanistan, Somalia and the Sahel (Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso, Chad and Mauritania) all contain large areas of ungoverned or conflict-riven space where jihadists have been able to recruit, train and plan attacks.\n\nIn Afghanistan billions of dollars in international aid have failed to deliver the level of governance needed to stem the Taliban-led insurgency. Corruption is endemic and the police are seen by many as untrustworthy.\n\nSome people turn to extremism in areas where basic governance, such as food availability, fail\n\nThe International Crisis Group (ICG) says state institutions there are so fragile, they are unable to \"deliver basic services to the majority of the population\". In remote, rural areas many Afghans prefer the draconian justice and rule meted out by the Taliban to that of the government.\n\nDesperate poverty, lack of employment opportunities and poor or absent governance have all combined to make the Sahel countries bordering the Sahara fertile ground for jihadist groups. Many recruits join up, not out of ideology, but simply because they see it as the only alternative to destitution.\n\nRecruiters for al-Qaida, IS, the Taliban and others have long been able to exploit religious obedience to draw young men and women into their ranks.\n\nExtremism expert Dr Erin Saltman says extremist groups often promote \"a narrative of struggle, heroic sacrifice and spiritual obligation in order to establish legitimacy and connect with potential recruits\".\n\nIt is notable that after al-Shabab carried out its attack on the Nairobi hotel it gave as its justification the decision by President Trump to move the US embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, the third most sacred site in Islam after Mecca and Medina.\n\nMore than 20 people were killed in the Nairobi attack on 15 January\n\nJerusalem has been an emotional touchstone for many people in the Middle East and al-Shabab may be trying to broaden its appeal beyond Somalia.\n\nThe ideology behind violent jihad is likely to endure for some time yet, even though it is not shared by the vast majority of peaceful Muslims around the world.\n\nAl-Qaeda has survived the death of Osama Bin Laden and still has its regional franchises in Asia and Africa. IS still has its followers, including in the UK, although since it is now deprived of a physical space to call its caliphate it may well struggle to attract recruits in such numbers.\n\nOn a global scale, containing and reducing violent jihad will require more than just good intelligence and police work. It will require far better and fairer governance, removing the drivers that spur people towards the violence that ruins so many lives.", "The 19-year-old victim was found with stab injuries at Wolsey Court on Westbridge Road in Battersea\n\nA man and a teenager have been arrested on suspicion of murder after a teen was stabbed to death in south London.\n\nThe 19-year-old victim was found injured at Wolsey Court on Westbridge Road, Battersea, on Tuesday.\n\nPolice said officers and paramedics were called just after 19:50 GMT but he was pronounced dead at the scene at 20:36.\n\nThe two arrested, aged 19 and 27, were held after presenting themselves at a central London hospital.\n\nBoth have been taken to separate central London police stations for questioning, the Metropolitan Police said.\n\nThe victim's next of kin have been informed and a post-mortem examination is due to be held.\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\nHundreds of students have protested at the University of Warwick over the way it dealt with men involved in an online group chat threatening rape.\n\nProtestors are angry that the university reduced 10-year bans for two men who appealed to a year.\n\nWarwick has been accused of \"condoning rape culture\" and faced calls for an inquiry into the investigation.\n\nThe university said an independent review of its disciplinary procedure has been launched.\n\nEarlier this week, Warwick said the two men confirmed they will not return in September.\n\nSeveral of those involved in the Facebook group chat messages last summer encouraged others to rape specific students.\n\nAfter a disciplinary inquiry by the university, two students were initially banned from campus for 10 years, two were excluded for one year and one was given a lifetime campus ban.\n\nBut the university has come under heavy criticism from students and victims.\n\nThe Reclaim Our University protest called for a life-long ban for the men involved.\n\nIn a statement on Facebook, organisers said: \"The University is sending a message this behaviour is acceptable, and the rehabilitation of those who glorify sexual violence is more important than the safety and education of those they seek to attack.\n\n\"The higher education of privileged young men who would joke about endangering their fellow students is not more important than the safety and welfare of those they targeted, or that of all abuse and harassment survivors on our campus.\"\n\nEllen Butler, 21, at the protest, said: \"I hoped it sent a message that we will not stand for this kind of behaviour from the university.\n\n\"They really need to look after their students and put them first before anything else.\"\n\nElliot Mulligan, co-editor of student newspaper The Boar, said: \"Students feel the wrong decision was made in the first place so there is still a lot of anger about that.\"\n\nUniversity of Warwick's pro-chancellor David Normington called the men's behaviour \"abhorrent and unacceptable\" and apologised for the distress to victims of abuse.\n\nHe added: \"There will be a thorough, external and independent review of our disciplinary and appeals processes.\n\n\"We will ensure that the views of our community are widely sought and the progress of this review will be communicated on a regular basis.\"\n\nThe protest demanded a life-long ban for men involved in the rape group chats", "Half of UK adults cannot identify any key risk factors for dementia, according to a study by Alzheimer's Research UK.\n\nThe charity surveyed 2,361 people and found that only 1% were able to name the seven known risk or protective factors for dementia.\n\nThe six risk factors are heavy drinking, genetics, smoking, high blood pressure, depression and diabetes.\n\nPhysical exercise is a protective factor against the disease.\n\nThe study, entitled Dementia Attitudes Monitor, found that more than half of UK adults now know someone with dementia.\n\nBut only half recognised that dementia is a cause of death, and they found that a fifth incorrectly believe it is an inevitable part of getting older.\n\nAlthough a third of cases of dementia are thought to be influenced by factors within our control, only 34% of people surveyed believe it is possible to reduce the risk of dementia, compared with 77% for heart disease and 81% for diabetes.\n\nHilary Evans, chief executive of Alzheimer's Research UK, said that despite growing dementia awareness, there was still a lot of misinformation.\n\n\"It is a sad truth that more people are affected by dementia than ever before and half of us now know someone with the condition,\" she said.\n\n\"Yet despite growing dementia awareness, we must work harder to improve understanding of the diseases that cause it.\"\n\nSue Strachan is 63 and lives in Herefordshire. She was diagnosed with vascular dementia in 2014.\n\n\"I wasn't very fit when I was diagnosed with dementia and my GP advised me to take up exercise to try to manage my condition,\" she said.\n\n\"I do wish I'd started earlier, because good heart health can have such a positive impact on the brain. I can see that society's view of dementia is improving, but I still experience misunderstanding about the condition - not least that there's nothing that can be done to help.\"\n\nSue ran last year's London Marathon for Alzheimer's Research UK to help raise awareness.\n\nThe charity said reducing the number of people who believe that dementia is an inevitable part of ageing is \"key\", as \"this belief drives other negative attitudes towards dementia\".\n\n\"Our findings show that those who believe dementia is an inevitable part of ageing are less likely to see the value in seeking a formal diagnosis, and are less likely to engage with research developments that could bring about life-changing treatments and ultimately, a cure.\"\n\nThe study found key groups of people whose understanding of dementia is lower, including those from black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, and adults under 24 and over 65.\n\nThere is not currently a test for dementia, but the survey found that if there was a breakthrough in research, 85% would be willing to take a test through their doctor before symptoms showed.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Louella Fletcher-Michie was found dead in a wooded area on the edge of the Bestival festival site\n\nA man who gave his girlfriend drugs at a music festival filmed her and branded her a \"drama queen\" as she lay dying, a court has heard.\n\nLouella Fletcher-Michie, 24, the daughter of Holby City actor John Michie, was found dead in woods on the Bestival site in Dorset in 2017.\n\nBoyfriend Ceon Broughton, 29, failed to seek help because he feared breaching a suspended jail sentence, jurors heard.\n\nWilliam Mousley QC, prosecuting at Winchester Crown Court, said the defendant had given his girlfriend the Class A drug 2CP while they attended the event in the grounds of Lulworth Castle in September 2017.\n\n\"He did not intend to cause her harm and Louella willingly took that which she was given, but it had a terrible effect,\" he said.\n\nMs Fletcher-Michie died after a \"significant period of suffering\", he said, and Mr Broughton had continued filming \"when she was disturbed, agitated, and then seriously ill\" over several hours.\n\n\"He even did so, the prosecution suggest, after she was apparently dead,\" Mr Mousley said.\n\nIn video clips shown to the court, Ms Fletcher-Michie repeatedly shouts at Mr Broughton to telephone her mother but he tells her to \"put your phone away\".\n\nCarol Fletcher-Michie eventually spoke to her daughter at 18:48 BST, growing concerned when she \"could hear her screeching\".\n\nHer parents were so worried they set off for the festival, repeatedly messaging and calling Mr Broughton, the prosecutor told the jury.\n\nSam, her brother, also contacted Mr Broughton and urged him to seek medical help.\n\nHowever, Mr Broughton replied, saying \"call back in an hour\" and referred to Louella as a \"drama queen\", jurors heard.\n\nThe court was told Mr Broughton was handed a 24-week prison sentence, suspended for one year, a month before Ms Fletcher-Michie's death.\n\n\"His failure to get her treatment which may well have saved her life was borne of selfishness and in self-preservation,\" Mr Mousley said.\n\n\"Because to have done otherwise, to have acted positively, he knew would have exposed him to the possibility of arrest and prosecution for a criminal offence punishable with imprisonment.\"\n\n\"Failure to act was a substantial cause of her death,\" he added.\n\nStephen Kamlish QC, defending, denied claims Mr Broughton acted out of selfishness, saying he tried to carry his \"loving girlfriend\" out of the woods but failed because the terrain was hilly and full of thorns and nettles.\n\nHe told jurors Ms Fletcher-Mitchie bought the drugs before Mr Broughton arrived at the festival and they could only find him guilty of gross negligence manslaughter if he had given her the drugs and she had been at an \"obvious risk of dying\".\n\nMr Kamlish said no-one had ever been known to have died from taking 2CP.\n\nHe added: \"Ceon and Louella were in love with each other and willingly chose to take drugs together. Mistakes, even serious mistakes... are nowhere near enough for a crime such as this to be guilty.\"\n\nJurors have been asked if they watch Holby City, which stars Ms Fletcher-Michie's father John Michie\n\nMr Kamlish said Mr Broughton had tried to get people to his girlfriend at an earlier stage and had tried to restrain her when she was \"thrashing about, injuring herself\".\n\nHe said: \"He couldn't actually have done any more than he did... in this difficult and frightening situation.\"\n\nHe told the court the couple liked to film each other when they were taking drugs.\n\nMr Broughton, 29, of Island Centre Way, Enfield, London, denies manslaughter and supplying Class A drugs.\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. Several people suffered burn injuries in the blast\n\nAt least five people have been hurt in a suspected gas explosion at a flat.\n\nA number of people suffered burn injuries in the blast on Hick Lane, Batley, West Yorkshire Police said.\n\nThe bomb squad was called in after one witness reported hearing a massive bang and said he saw people covered in blood fleeing from the building.\n\nThe force said said no-one appeared to have suffered life-threatening injuries. Some local residents were evacuated from their homes.\n\nWest Yorkshire Fire Service said five people were hurt in the explosion in a two-storey building, which is a block of converted flats.\n\nA Royal Logistic Corps bomb disposal van remained at the scene on Thursday morning along with police and fire service vehicles.\n\nThe bomb disposal team was still at the blast site on Hick Lane after being called out on Wednesday night\n\nOn Wednesday night, a spokesperson said: \"Firefighters are likely to be on the scene overnight and there are some concerns over the structural stability of the building.\"\n\n\"Investigations are continuing into the cause of the explosion.\"\n\nWest Yorkshire Police said the bomb squad was called in as a \"precautionary measure\"\n\nOne witness in a nearby building, who did not want to be named, told the BBC he heard \"a massive bang\".\n\n\"I've never heard anything like it,\" he said.\n\n\"I came rushing out to find glass everywhere, some even blew 300 yards.\n\n\"Then I saw two men exit the building covered in blood, smoking, obviously very shook up. It was like a war scene.\"\n\nResident, Mark Umpleby, who tweeted a picture from the scene, said \"hoping and praying everyone's OK\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Mark Umpleby📎 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOther users of social media, including Charlotte spoke of hearing the loudest bang.\n\nCh Insp Wayne Horner said: \"I understand that this will have caused concern amongst the community; residents can be reassured that police along with our partners from the other emergency services are on scene dealing with the incident.\"\n\nThe force said the bomb squad had been called in as a precautionary measure.\n\nYorkshire Ambulance Service confirmed the injured had been taken to Pinderfields Hospital in Wakefield.\n\nSpecialist staff from the service's Hazardous Area Response Team are also on site.", "Northern, which is also known as Arriva Rail North, is the main train operator in northern England\n\nStrikes on Northern rail have been suspended after a \"major breakthrough\" in a long-running dispute over plans to axe guards on trains, a union said.\n\nMembers of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) have taken 47 days of industrial action and were due to walk out on the next two Saturdays.\n\nPassengers have faced huge disruption since the dispute began two years ago.\n\nThe RMT said the company had now offered a guarantee of a conductor on all trains.\n\nThe union claimed imposing driver-only services was a risk to public safety.\n\nRMT general secretary Mick Cash said his members had shown \"resilience and determination\".\n\nHe said he wanted to thank the travelling public for their \"extraordinary support\".\n\nGreater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham and Liverpool Mayor Steve Rotheram had also been important in allowing us to \"break the deadlock\", he added.\n\nMr Cash said: \"Today's offer of a guarantee of a conductor on all services throughout the duration of the franchise, including the new fleet, is the substantial progress we have been pushing for.\n\n\"[It] has allowed RMT's executive to take the decision to suspend the current action and allow for further talks to now take place with all stakeholders around the operational details.\"\n\nRMT union members on the picket line outside Wigan Wallgate Station\n\nMr Burnham welcomed the news, saying keeping guards on trains will \"help to keep trains safer and more accessible for everybody\".\n\nHowever, he added while it was a \"step forward\" it was \"not yet a final agreement\" and hopes the two sides can reach agreement soon.\n\nNorthern's managing director David Brown said the firm \"warmly welcomed\" the suspension of strike action, which was \"good news for customers and businesses across the North\".\n\n\"We have been very clear in these discussions that there will be a conductor on all our trains now and into the future,\" he said.\n\n\"We are looking forward to further positive talks with RMT about operational models moving ahead so that we can resolve their dispute and bring it to an end.\"\n\nHowever, it was \"unfortunately too late\" to reintroduce a full timetable before this Saturday, he said.\n\nHe said Northern would run about 700 services on Saturday.\n\nIn response, RMT regional organiser Daren Ireland said that was \"madness\", adding it was the \"nonsense of a privatised industry\".\n\nHe said: \"Our members will be working normally on Saturday and it is up to the Northern management to get their act together to run the full timetable.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Angela Ahrendts, the former high fashion boss of Burberry brought in to revitalise Apple's retail stores, is stepping down after five years.\n\nApple said Ms Ahrendts will leave the company in April \"for new personal and professional pursuits\".\n\nShe is one of its highest paid executives, earning nearly twice as much as boss Tim Cook in 2017.\n\nMs Ahrendts will be replaced by Deirdre O'Brien, whose role as vice president of people will expand to cover retail.\n\nDuring her time at Apple, Ms Ahrendts opened a number of flagship stores, aimed at creating a \"community space\" as opposed to just selling the firm's latest product.\n\nMr Cook said: \"She has been a positive, transformative force, both for Apple's stores and the communities they serve. We all wish her the very best as she begins a new chapter.\"\n\nMs Ahrendts was previously chief executive of Burberry, where she oversaw its transformation from a British brand best-known for its checked raincoats to a leading name on the world's catwalks.\n\nBy the time she left in 2014, she was one of the FTSE 100's highest paid chief executives.\n\nIn 2017, Ms Ahrendts earned $24.2m, compared to Mr Cook who took home $12.8m.\n\nDeirdre O'Brien, Ms Ahrendts' successor, has worked at Apple for 30 years\n\nApple recently reported a sharp fall in revenue from its iPhone and hinted that it could lower prices to boost demand.\n\nOverall, first quarter revenue fell by 5% to $84.3bn compared to the same period last year.\n\nAnalysts at Wedbush Securities said its initial reaction to Ms Ahrendts departure was surprise \"as she was one of the key executives at Apple and a linchpin around running 500-plus retail stores on five continents and potentially was seen by some as a future heir to Cook as chief executive further down the line\".\n\nBut it said because Apple is entering a critical period amid sluggish demand for the iPhone, Ms O'Brien's 30 years working for the firm is positive \"as an outsider running retail going into one of the most pivotal, defining periods for Cook & Co in the company's history would have been a risky endeavour\".", "Members of the Stansted 15 gathered outside Chelmsford Crown Court ahead of their sentencing\n\nFifteen protesters who chained themselves to a plane to stop it deporting people to Africa have avoided immediate jail sentences.\n\nDubbed the Stansted 15, the group broke through a fence at the airport in a bid to reach the jet taking 60 people to Nigeria, Ghana and Sierra Leone.\n\nThey were found guilty of endangering the safety of an aerodrome.\n\nThree were given suspended jail terms and 12 received community orders at Chelmsford Crown Court.\n\nThe group has said they will appeal against their convictions, which they believe have serious implications for the freedom to protest.\n\nThey used bolt cutters to enter Stansted Airport and attached themselves to the Boeing 767 using tubes and expanding foam on 28 March 2017.\n\nThe runway was closed for more than an hour and 23 incoming flights had to be diverted to other airports.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPassing sentence, Judge Christopher Morgan told the 15 that while he accepted the group were seeking to demonstrate in support of their cause, they had come \"perilously close\" to causing a catastrophe.\n\nHe said: \"In normal circumstances only a normal custodial sentence would have been justified in this case, but in your case I accept that your intentions were to demonstrate.\"\n\n\"There is no doubt that you understood that there were safety implications,\" he added.\n\n\"You put at risk the safe operations of the airport and the persons who were there on the night.\"\n\nIn court, the judge faced some tough arguments from a top human rights barrister about his duties to balance the question of airport security with the need to protect freedom of speech and assembly. Judge Morgan said he did this through tempering his sentences - in other circumstances, he said, he would have jailed the lot of them.\n\nSome of the defendants looked jubilant and defiant. Others looked like defendants often do: exhausted by the process, somewhat remorseful and promising never to do it again.\n\nSo if the Court of Appeal decides not to examine the convictions, this prosecution will stand as a warning to others of the type of charge they could face for endangering an airport.\n\nA large crowd gathered outside the court in support of the Stansted 15\n\nThree of the defendants, Edward Thacker, Alistair Tamlit and Melanie Strickland were given nine-month jail sentences, suspended for 18 months.\n\nThe other 12 received 12-month community orders, with 11 of them ordered to carry out unpaid work.\n\nAll 15 were convicted on 10 December last year under the 1990 Aviation and Maritime Security Act, which was brought in after the 1988 Lockerbie bombing.\n\nThe Stansted 15 have said they will appeal their convictions\n\nThe defendants had said they were being prosecuted under the \"little known\" legislation, originally devised to combat terrorism and hjijacking.\n\nIn a statement, the Crown Prosecution Service said it was never suggested to the jury that any of the 15 were terrorists.\n\nProsecutor Tony Badenoch said the Crown would not be recouping the financial deficit caused by the protest; estimated to be more than £1m.\n\nNew mother Emma Hughes, who gave birth between being convicted and sentenced, said the group were \"massively relieved\" none of them would be going to jail.\n\nShe said: \"It is a massive vindication of what we did. There are 11 people still in the UK because of the action we took. Three of them have now been granted leave to remain; there is one man here who would have been separated from his family and is now here with his family. We are going to keep fighting until we get these convictions overturned.\"\n\nHundreds of people turned out to a demonstration outside the court, with crowds singing, clapping and waving banners.\n\nThe courtroom was packed for the hearing, with extra space created in the public gallery and all seats filled.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "John Humphrys is known for taking politicians to task on Today\n\nJohn Humphrys is to step down from presenting BBC Radio 4's Today programme later this year, admitting that he should have quit \"years ago\".\n\nHe said he was likely to leave in the autumn, but has not yet set a date.\n\nHumphrys - who also hosts TV quiz show Mastermind - has presented the flagship morning news programme since 1987.\n\n\"I love doing the programme. I have always enjoyed it. That's the problem. I should have gone years ago. Obviously I should have gone years ago,\" he said.\n\n\"But I love doing the programme,\" he told Radio 4's The World At One.\n\nThe 75-year-old also said he would continue to present Mastermind.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"I have always enjoyed it, always loved it. And I still do,” John Humphrys tells Radio 4's World at One about his decision to le\n\nSpeaking to his former Today co-presenter Sarah Montague on The World at One, Humphrys said he would miss the show's listeners the most, adding: \"You do feel that you have a relationship with a huge number of people.\"\n\nAsked what he would do after leaving, Humphrys cryptically announced: \"I like trees. I want to get more involved in trees.\"\n\nToday editor Sarah Sands said she hoped listeners would \"enjoy John's lap of honour this year\".\n\nSands, who has edited Today since 2017, said of the presenter: \"He is the Today programme patriarch but also, even now, the little boy who throws stones.\n\n\"He is deeply suspicious of power. Don't expect him to let up - he is with us for some time yet.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Would Radio 4 Today's John Humphrys or Sarah Montague ever become politicians?\n\nHumphrys joined the BBC in 1966 as a reporter based in Liverpool.\n\nDuring his career with the BBC, he has worked as a foreign correspondent in both the US and Africa, a diplomatic correspondent and presenter of the Nine O'Clock News.\n\nBut he is best-known for taking Britain's politicians to task on the Today programme.\n\nFran Unsworth, BBC Director of News and Current Affairs, said: \"John will be sorely missed by audiences and his colleagues when he leaves the programme this year - if perhaps less so by the politicians he interviews.\"\n\nHumphrys is Today's longest-serving host but has also been a divisive figure among listeners.\n\nHe was paid between £400,000-£409,999 for Today in 2017/18, according to accounts published last July.\n\nIn January 2018, Humphrys was one of six male stars who agreed to take a pay cut.\n\nBut he was criticised for off-air comments he made about the gender pay gap at the corporation.\n\nTowards the end of Wednesday's programme, he joked about his departure from Today during a discussion on the key to personal happiness.\n\nHe asked his panel of guests: \"Do you reckon me leaving the Today programme is going to make you happier? I mean, if it were to happen? It would make other people happier, possibly.\"\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.", "Colin Kroll was co-founder of both HQ Trivia and Vine\n\nThe co-founder of the popular app HQ Trivia, Colin Kroll, died of an accidental drug overdose, according to the New York City medical examiner.\n\nA post-mortem examination revealed two kinds of fentanyl, heroin and cocaine in his system.\n\nPolice found Mr Kroll dead in his Manhattan flat in December after being asked to check in on him by a woman reported to be his girlfriend.\n\nThe 34-year-old was also the co-founder of the video platform Vine.\n\nThe medical examiner's office ruled Mr Kroll's 16 December death an accident, due to \"acute intoxication\" from the combined effects of the drugs.\n\nFentanyl - a synthetic opioid 80 to 100 times stronger than morphine - and a variant, fluoroisobutyryl fentanyl, were both found in Mr Kroll's system.\n\nMr Kroll's death was suspected to be due to an overdose after police found his body without signs of trauma and with drug paraphernalia nearby.\n\nHe was reportedly found face down on his bed, and police noted signs of what appeared to be cocaine and heroin in the flat.\n\nMr Kroll's friends and family remembered him as a kind, talented young man.\n\nHis former fiancé Maggie Neuwald told the New York Post after his death that he had struggled with the pace of the tech industry.\n\n\"It's not like anyone hands you … a manual of how to deal with [success],\" she said. \"That probably, unfortunately, got the best of him, although I had hoped he'd be able to fight those demons.\"\n\nLast year, the Centers for Disease Control found synthetic opioid-related overdose death rates had risen by 45% on average across the country in one year.\n\nColin Kroll had won a Breakthrough Award for Emerging Technology in 2014\n\nMr Kroll had been named CEO of the HQ Trivia mobile app in September. He founded the game with Rus Yusupov.\n\nThe live trivia game became hugely popular, although its appeal waned last year. The free app was guest-hosted by some famous faces, including Jimmy Kimmel and Bert from Sesame Street.\n\nVine was a popular a six-second video streaming service that Twitter purchased in 2012 for $30m (£24m) and eventually discontinued in 2016.", "Hundreds of students have protested at the University of Warwick over the way it dealt with men involved in an online group chat threatening rape.\n\nProtestors are angry that the university lifted a 10-year ban for two men on appeal, reducing it to a year.\n\nThe university has been accused of \"condoning\" rape culture and called for an inquiry into the investigation.\n\nThe University of Warwick said it has launched an independent review of its disciplinary procedure.", "Four children have died in a house fire in Stafford which resulted in part of the roof collapsing.\n\nThe blaze in the Highfields area of the town in the early hours also left another child and two adults injured.\n\nNeighbour Wendy Pickering was in tears as she remembered the children, who she often saw while taking her granddaughter to school.\n\nHer husband Bryan said he was alerted to the fire by his dog barking during the night.\n\nRead more: Four children die in house fire", "Unite says workers will stage fresh walkouts for two days a week from later this month\n\nStriking bin workers in Birmingham have been offered up to £3,000 each to end their dispute, a council report says.\n\nHuge piles of rubbish littered the streets during an initial three-month strike in 2017 as people struggled to dispose of their waste.\n\nUnite members have been working to rule since December over payments made to non-striking bin staff at the GMB union.\n\nIt plans to further walkout for two days a week from later this month.\n\nA Birmingham City Council report says mounting rubbish could create a fire risk for tower block residents.\n\nMark Crook said missed collections at Pritchett Tower could cause problems\n\nMark Crook, chairman of the tenants' association at Pritchett Tower in Small Heath, said: \"We definitely have concerns.\n\n\"We haven't been told the strike could affect us but, if it does, it will become major fire risk.\n\n\"Overflow from the bin room would be a fire risk, without a question of a doubt, and the smells would be horrendous.\"\n\nCould this be a familiar site for Birmingham residents if waste piles up again?\n\nUnite is scheduled to take the authority to an employment tribunal in February 2020.\n\nIf the dispute was to continue until then, the report adds, clearing the backlog of rubbish would cost the council between £13.5m and £28.2m depending on whether there were breaks in the action.\n\nIt says waiting for the tribunal would result in rubbish mounting on the streets, while paying off workers could set a precedent for future disputes.\n\nBirmingham City Council cabinet members are to discuss four options at a meeting on Tuesday:\n\nThe report said legal advice was that a \"reasonable, well-evaluated figure\" for Unite members would be in the \"region of £2,000 to £3,000\".\n\nIt claims the authority had \"made a reasonable offer which the union has rejected on behalf of its members\".\n• None £28.2mEstimated cost to city council of running contingency service if strikes are continuous\n• None £13.5mEstimated cost if strikes are on and off\n\nUnite said it would \"not be drawn on a figure\" but it had set the council a deadline of last Friday afternoon \"to make an improved offer to the workforce\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Cat flap locked to stop rodents as bin bags pile up\n\nThe report warns Birmingham's trade and income could be hit and the \"general image of the city compromised\".\n\nBut it says payments could \"lead to an increase in industrial unrest, with union members choosing to strike because they would then be likely to expect to receive a financial settlement and not because of specific issues leading to a trade dispute\".\n\nIt adds there should be a swift end to a dispute that is causing mounting concern among residents and could cost substantially less to end than to keep fighting on.\n\nIt is currently costing the council £350,000 a week to deal with the fallout.\n\nMeanwhile, a bin worker said collectors were getting abuse on social media and \"grief\" on the streets over collections.\n\nOne told the BBC: \"Last time it felt like Birmingham was behind us, but the tide is turning.\"\n\nThe council said it was disappointed its offer to end this round of action was rejected\n\nHoward Beckett, Unite's assistant general secretary, said: \"The only acceptable outcome to this dispute is one that ensures those who failed to take strike action do not financially benefit over and above those who took industrial action.\"\n\nUnite claims its striking members had been \"blacklisted\" and were denied a payment which was given to GMB members, who did not strike in 2017.\n\nThe authority has denied that was the case and the GMB said suggestions its members received extra payments for not taking strike action were \"inaccurate and misleading\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The US president earns a chant of 'USA, USA' from supporters but a disapproving stare from Nancy Pelosi.\n\nRead more about President Trump's State of the Union address and Anthony Zurcher's five key takeaways.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Donald Tusk: \"Special place in hell\" for those without Brexit plan\n\nThe softly-spoken politician who holds the authority of all EU countries has just completely condemned a chunk of the British cabinet, wondering aloud: \"What that special place in hell looks like for those who promoted Brexit, without even a sketch of a plan how to carry it out safely\".\n\nSure, for a long time the EU has been frustrated with how the UK has approached all of this.\n\nAnd sure, plenty of voters in the UK are annoyed too at how politicians have been handling these negotiations.\n\nBut it is quite something for Donald Tusk to have gone in like this, studs up, even though he sometimes reminisces about his time as a football hooligan in his youth.\n\nBe clear, he was not intending to talk about voters who wanted to Leave, but politicians who were involved in the campaign.\n\nHe also had pretty stern remarks for those who'd been on the other side of the argument, accusing those who still want the UK to stay in the EU of having \"no political force, and no effective leadership\".\n\nMr Tusk will be all too aware that he will provoke tempers at home, even laughing about it as he left the stage with the Taoiseach, the Irish leader, Leo Varadkar.\n\nBut if you strip away the planned flash of temper, also in his remarks was an invitation to the prime minister to come forward with a different version of the backstop - a \"believable guarantee\", a promise that a \"common solution is possible\".\n\nThat is, on the face of it, in tone at least, more of an opening to the UK to put something new on the table than we have seen from the EU side.\n\nCertainly, Theresa May's most pressing job is to put something that could work on the table in Belfast, and in Brussels, and to do it fast.\n\nBut don't forget, also at her back, she has Brexiteers whom she needs to manage, whose expectations she needs to contain, whose votes she desperately needs.\n\nAnd at a time when cool tempers and compromise are absolutely needed, Mr Tusk's remarks are likely to whip up the mood instead.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Donald Tusk: \"Special place in hell\" for those without Brexit plan\n\nEuropean Council President Donald Tusk has spoken of a \"special place in hell\" for \"those who promoted Brexit without even a sketch of a plan of how to carry it out safely\".\n\nHe was speaking after talks with Irish leader Leo Varadkar in Brussels.\n\nBrexit-backing MPs reacted with anger to the comments, accusing Mr Tusk of \"arrogance\".\n\nDowning Street said it was a question for Mr Tusk \"whether he considers the use of that kind of language helpful\".\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesman said: \"We had a robust and lively referendum campaign in this country. In what was the largest democratic exercise in our history, people voted to leave the EU.\"\n\nHe added that everyone should now focus on delivering that.\n\nMr Tusk's Twitter account tweeted his comments immediately after he made them in a news conference.\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 Donald Tusk This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnd at the end of their news conference, Mr Varadkar was picked up by the microphones telling Mr Tusk: \"They'll give you terrible trouble in the British press for that.\"\n\nMr Tusk nodded at the comment and both laughed.\n\nBrussels officials were quick to clarify Mr Tusk's remarks, stressing to BBC correspondent Adam Fleming that the Brexiteers' special place in hell would be for when they are dead and \"not right now\".\n\nJean-Claude Juncker tried to laugh off the comments at a later press conference with Mr Varadkar, saying the only hell he knew was doing his job as the president of the European Commission.\n\nAnd Guy Verhofstadt, the European Parliament's chief Brexit negotiator, referencing Mr Tusk's comments, later tweeted: \"Well, I doubt Lucifer would welcome them, as after what they did to Britain, they would even manage to divide hell.\"\n\nBut leading Brexiteers in the UK took to social media to express their anger at Mr Tusk's remarks.\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 Jacob Rees-Mogg 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\nFormer UKIP leader Nigel Farage, who is now an independent MEP, tweeted: \"After Brexit we will be free of unelected, arrogant bullies like you and run our own country. Sounds more like heaven to me.\"\n\nCommons leader Andrea Leadsom, who also campaigned for Britain's exit from the EU, said Mr Tusk should apologise for his \"disgraceful\" and \"spiteful\" comments.\n\n\"I'm sure that when he reflects on it he may well wish he hadn't done it,\" she told BBC Radio 4's World at One.\n\nFormer Brexit Secretary David Davis, when asked on ITV Peston's programme how he felt \"when President Tusk practically reserved your place in hell?\", said: \"Perhaps he'll join us there.\n\n\"When people throw insults around it says more about them than the people they're insulting.\"\n\nThe Democratic Unionist Party's Brexit spokesman Sammy Wilson said: \"This devilish Euro maniac is doing his best to keep the United Kingdom bound by the chains of EU bureaucracy and control.\n\n\"It is Tusk and his arrogant EU negotiators who have fanned the flames of fear in an attempt to try and overturn the result of the referendum.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Leadsom on Tusk: \"The man has no manners\"\n\nBut Sinn Fein President Mary Lou McDonald backed Mr Tusk, arguing that it was the position of \"hardline\" Brexit-supporting MPs like Boris Johnson and Jacob Rees-Mogg that was \"intemperate\" and \"untenable\".\n\nAnd Labour MP Ben Bradshaw, who supports having another EU referendum, said Mr Tusk was \"absolutely right\" and it was \"painful\" for leading figures in the Leave campaign, such as Boris Johnson and David Davis, \"to have the truth pointed out to them\".\n\nTheresa May - who supported the UK staying in the EU during the 2016 EU referendum but has always insisted that Brexit must be delivered because that was what people voted for - is due to arrive in Brussels on Thursday to seek legal changes to the withdrawal deal she signed with the EU. She hopes these changes will help her get it through the UK Parliament.\n\nBBC political correspondent Iain Watson said the government was likely to publish a new employment bill before the next vote on Mrs May's deal, with the aim to maximise support for it from Labour MPs.\n\nMeanwhile, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has set out five demands for his party to support a Brexit deal - calling for them to be enshrined as objectives in domestic law.\n\nIn a letter to the prime minister, he said Labour wanted a UK-wide customs union, close alignment with the single market, \"dynamic alignment\" on rights and protections, \"clear commitments\" on participation in EU agencies and funding programmes and \"unambiguous agreements\" on the detail of future security arrangements.\n\nHe said Labour did not believe that \"simply seeking modifications\" to the backstop was a sufficient response.\n\nMr Corbyn added that EU leaders had been clear that changes to the political declaration were possible if a request was made by the UK government \"and if the current red lines change\".\n\nThe EU has been absolutely scathing about some of the British political class today.\n\nThe dam broke on Donald Tusk's pent-up feelings about the leaders of the Leave campaign.\n\nThe Irish prime minister suggested that MPs either didn't know what they were doing or were misled when they voted to look for alternatives to the Irish backstop.\n\nBut - and it's a big but - they have all been open to the prime minister coming to Brussels with a solution to break the deadlock.\n\nAnd while Jean-Claude Juncker ruled out the idea of the UK having the right to pull out of the backstop if it were ever needed, he didn't say anything about the other idea doing the rounds - a time limit.\n\nDonald Tusk said that the other 27 EU members had decided in December that the withdrawal agreement was \"not open for renegotiation\" - a message echoed by Mr Juncker.\n\nMr Tusk also had a message for Remain supporters in the UK, with 50 days to go until Brexit happens, with a deal or without one, saying: \"I have always been with you, with all my heart\".\n\nBut he added: \"The facts are unmistakable. At the moment, the pro-Brexit stance of the UK prime minister, and the Leader of the Opposition, rules out this question.\n\n\"Today, there is no political force and no effective leadership for Remain. I say this without satisfaction, but you can't argue with the facts.\"\n\nEnter the word or phrase you are looking for\n\nMr Tusk said the Irish border issue and the need to preserve the peace process remained the EU's \"top priority\".\n\nHe hoped Mrs May would \"give us a deliverable guarantee for peace in Northern Ireland and the UK will leave the EU as a trusted friend\" that can command a Commons majority.\n\nMr Varadkar said that while he was \"open to further discussions\" with the UK government about post-Brexit relations, the legally-binding withdrawal agreement remained \"the best deal possible\".\n\nAnd the backstop was needed \"as a legal guarantee to ensure that there is no return to a hard border on the island of Ireland\".\n\nHe later said he will meet Theresa May for talks in Dublin on Friday.\n\nJean-Claude Juncker said alternative arrangements - the form of words backed by MPs in a vote last week - \"can never replace the backstop\".\n\nClarification 27 February 2019: While the summary of this story and opening paragraph made clear that Mr Tusk was referring to a specific group of people - those who promoted Brexit without a plan - the original headlines were misleading and so were amended shortly after publication on 6 February.", "US President Donald Trump has named senior Treasury Department official David Malpass to lead the World Bank.\n\nIf approved, he is expected to push the bank to narrow the focus of its lending to the world's poorest countries, among other changes.\n\nHis nomination has stirred debate, as some worry that Mr Malpass, a critic of the bank, will seek to reduce its role.\n\nWhite House officials said Mr Malpass, a long-time Republican, would be a \"pro-growth reformer\".\n\nAt a press conference in Washington, Mr Trump praised Mr Malpass as a \"strong advocate for accountability at the World Bank for a long time\".\n\nThe president, who frequently criticises multilateral institutions, said he expected Mr Malpass to ensure that the bank's dollars \"are spent effectively and wisely, serve American interests and defend American values.\"\n\nMr Malpass, a Trump loyalist, was a senior economic adviser to the US president during his 2016 election campaign.\n\nHe has served as the Treasury Department's undersecretary for international affairs since August 2017.\n\nThe 62-year-old has criticised the World Bank, along with other institutions such as the International Monetary Fund, for being \"intrusive\" and \"entrenched\".\n\nHe has also pushed the bank to reduce its lending to China, which he says is too wealthy to deserve such aid, and deploys harsh practices when lending to other countries.\n\nThe US, the World Bank's largest shareholder and a major source of its funding, has traditionally held sway over the selection process for president.\n\nAn American has led the institution since its start in the 1940s, when it was created to help rebuild Europe in the aftermath of World War II.\n\nHowever, there has been increased pressure to diversify the bank's leadership, reflecting the economic rise of other countries in recent decades.\n\nIt is not clear if other countries will propose alternatives to challenge Mr Malpass for the presidency.\n\nThe World Bank, which has 189 members, is accepting names until 14 March and plans to create a shortlist of up to three candidates for interviews.\n\nIts executive board expects to vote on candidates before its April meeting.\n\nThe US controls 16% of the 25-member board's voting power.\n\nEuropean shareholders, who control another significant chunk of voting power, are also unlikely to block the pick, according to Reuters.\n\nThe World Bank helped to fund repairs of the Kariba Dam\n\nWhite House officials said Mr Malpass would champion \"pro-growth\" policies, emphasising the role of the private sector, increased lending transparency and more \"competitive\" tax systems.\n\nHe will also oversee implementation of reforms the US pushed last year, which coupled an increase in money for the bank with changes aimed at reducing lending to China.\n\nOfficials said Mr Malpass's nomination did not signal a lack of support for the organisation, which helps finance development projects with loans, credits and grants, committing more than $60bn (£46.3bn) in its most recent financial year,\n\nHowever, they said the administration did want to see changes to make it more effective.\n\n\"Sometimes that does require real reform and modernising ways of doing business,\" a senior administration official said during a background briefing with reporters.\n\nThe World Bank's search was triggered by the unexpected resignation of Jim Yong Kim\n\nIf approved, Mr Malpass would replace Jim Yong Kim, a doctor and former president of Dartmouth University, who unexpectedly resigned last month.\n\nMr Kim, whose tenure had been rocky, is joining a private equity fund.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Vanellope Hope Wilkins was born with no breastbone in November 2017\n\nA baby who was born with her heart outside her body has been fully discharged from hospital 14 months after she was born.\n\nVanellope Hope Wilkins, who was born with no breastbone, was delivered at Glenfield Hospital in Leicester on 22 November 2017 by Caesarean section.\n\nShe had three operations to place her heart back in her chest.\n\nVanellope has now left Nottingham's Queen's Medical Centre, which she was moved to in May to be nearer home.\n\nShe has had a few trips home overnight but now will now be there permanently.\n\nVanellope Hope Wilkins is now home with her parents and three brothers\n\nHer mother Naomi Findlay, from Bulwell, Nottingham, said it was \"absolutely amazing\" and \"a massive relief\" to have Vanellope home.\n\n\"It's exciting but it's daunting at the same time,\" she added.\n\n\"It has been an incredibly long, emotional journey.\"\n\nVanellope requires 24-hour care and is reliant on a ventilator.\n\nVanellope's heart is now covered with her own skin after three operations\n\nHer parents - who said they will get married next year - are taking over much of her care, although they will have help overnight.\n\nMs Findlay said it was \"not quite over yet\" but it was a chance for them to be a normal family.\n\nVanellope's father Dean Wilkins said: \"There is still a lot she has to undergo yet but she is home and that's the first step.\"\n\nFrances Bu'Lock, part of the team caring for Vanellope, said the baby would \"need something in the longer term\" to give structure to her chest and make her condition more stable.\n\n\"Like with all of her care we don't exactly know what's going to happen, because nobody's ever done it before, so we're going to have to keep an eye on things,\" she added.\n\nStaff at Nottingham's Queen's Medical Centre have been caring for Vanellope since May\n\nThe condition, ectopia cordis, is extremely rare with only a few cases per million births, of which most are stillborn.\n\nWhen Vanellope's rare condition was first diagnosed in pregnancy her parents were told she had less than a one in 10 chance of surviving.\n\nHowever, the experts at the children's heart surgery unit at Glenfield Hospital defeated those odds.\n\nGlenfield Hospital said it knew of no other case in the UK where the baby had survived.\n\nMinutes after her birth, Vanellope's chest was covered with a sterile bag to keep her heart moist and reduce the risk of infection\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on Twitter, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Brighthouse is shutting 30 of its shops at a cost of 350 jobs amid tough conditions on the High Street and a clampdown on rent-to-own retailers.\n\nThe company is closing about 10% of its estate which will take place over the next two months.\n\nBrighthouse, which employs about 3,000 people, said it had informed staff.\n\nA spokesman said: \"We are working to redeploy as many people as possible into alternative roles but redundancies will be inevitable.\"\n\nIn its most recent results for the six months to 29 September, Brighthouse reported a rise in pre-tax losses to £22.1m from £19.9m in the comparable period.\n\nMeanwhile, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) last year announced plans to cap the amount of interest that rent-to-own retailers charge customers.\n\nRent-to-own customers make monthly payments on a product such as a cooker or a television until they have paid in full.\n\nHowever, the price of the household appliance can soon mount up because of interest rates that can reach 99% a year.\n\nThe FCA has ruled that from April, the maximum interest paid will be no more than the cost of the product itself. So, if a fridge costs £200, customers will pay no more than £400.\n\nThe price of the goods themselves will also be cut to no more than the median - the middle price - of three mainstream retailers.\n\nCommenting on the closures, a spokesman for Brighthouse said: \"We will be speaking to all customers affected by the store closures and either transferring them to another local store or serving them online.\n\n\"We're also introducing PayPoint, allowing customers to pay BrightHouse in cash at 28,000 locations across the UK.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHomes have been evacuated because of the risk of a toxic cloud or large cylinder explosion at a large fire sweeping through an Ocado warehouse.\n\nA 500m exclusion zone has been set up as firefighters continue to tackle the blaze, which broke out on Tuesday morning.\n\nDeputy chief fire officer Andy Bowers said the evacuation of Walworth Industrial Estate in Hampshire was a precaution to keep the public safe.\n\nMr Bowers said: \"We have a risk of a toxic release or a large cylinder explosion.\n\n\"We are working extremely closely with all of our partners to keep the public safe.\"\n\nThe fire service said parts of the building are likely to collapse\n\nSome homes 1.6km away from the site were due to be evacuated depending to the wind direction, Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service said.\n\nResidents outside the exclusion zone have been told to \"stay put and close doors and windows\".\n\nTest Valley Borough Council said residents who needed to be evacuated would \"be informed by emergency services visiting your property\".\n\nBut the local authority advised people who were able leave their properties without assistance to do so.\n\nA fire service spokeswoman said about 20 families were at a rest centre set up in Harrow Way Community School, Andover, after being evacuated from their homes.\n\nShe added it was a \"strong possibility\" that people who work within the exclusion zone would not have access on Thursday morning.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Residents evacuated from homes say \"it's been a nightmare\"\n\nChief fire officer Neil Odin said the initial small fire had taken a \"dramatic turn\" early on Wednesday morning and firefighters had to be withdrawn.\n\n\"This building is not meant for humans to be interacting with the racking and the storage - it has robots moving racking on to loading bays, so for firefighters trying to get in that high and to make an effective fire-fighting strategy, it has been very difficult,\" he said.\n\nMr Odin added the \"extensive\" fire had led to a \"large cylinder with refrigerant gas in it\" being affected.\n\nFirefighters have been tackling the blaze on the Andover site for more than 40 hours, after crews were called to the scene at 02:44 GMT on Tuesday.\n\nFour firefighters have been treated for minor smoke inhalation, but no Ocado staff were injured in the blaze.\n\nThe fire was declared a major incident by Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service\n\nResidents were urged to keep their windows and doors shut due to the smoke from the fire\n\nMore than 300 firefighters were tackling the blaze on Wednesday afternoon, after it was declared a major incident.\n\nThe fire service said the blaze involved automated packaging machinery.\n\nOcado said the fire, which started in a corner of the ambient grid, has caused substantial damage to the majority of the building and its contents. Part of the roof has also collapsed.\n\nOcado shares have dropped 6% and the retailer has warned of a hit to sales.\n\nThe online grocer said it expected a fall in sales until it could shift operations to other warehouses.\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 Ocado 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\nMore than 30,000 orders are processed by robots at the Andover warehouse each week, but Ocado has not given any detail about what the impact will be to customers.\n\nThe grocer has other warehouses, including in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, which have been unaffected. The Andover site accounts for 10% of Ocado's capacity.", "The bodies of the men were found by a Coastguard helicopter crew\n\nTwo hillwalkers have died after falling on Ben Hope in Sutherland.\n\nThe bodies of the men were found by a Coastguard helicopter crew on the north-west side of the mountain at about 02:00 on Wednesday.\n\nConcerns had been raised for two men in difficulty at about 15:45 on Tuesday. The search operation also invovled a number of mountain rescue teams.\n\nPolice Scotland said both bodies had been recovered and taken off the mountain.\n\nInsp Kevin Macleod said: \"Our thoughts are with the family and friends of both of these men at this tragic time.\n\n\"I would also like to pass on our gratitude to the volunteers of Assynt Mountain Rescue Team for their efforts in extremely challenging conditions.\"\n\nAssynt Mountain Rescue Team, Dundonnell Mountain Rescue Team, Royal Air Force Mountain Rescue Service were all thanked by Scottish Mountain Rescue (SMR), an organisation representing mountain rescue teams.\n\nSMR said in a post on social media: \"We are extremely sad to hear that two climbers have died on Ben Hope.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with the friends and families of these two men at this terribly tragic time.\"\n\nBen Hope is one of Scotland's most northerly Munros\n\nSMR added: \"Thank you to Assynt Mountain Rescue Team, Dundonnell Mountain Rescue Team, Royal Air Force Mountain Rescue Service, Police Scotland, Maritime and Coastguard Agency and all the other emergency services for your outstanding efforts over the last two days during this difficult incident.\"\n\nBen Hope, in the north Highlands, is Scotland's most northerly Munro, rising to a height of 927m (3,041ft).\n\nThe two hillwalkers are the latest in a number of mountain casualties this winter.\n\nIn November, a 52-year-old woman died and her daughter, 23, was treated in hospital after they got into difficulty on a hillwalking trip between Glen Etive and Glen Coe.\n\nThey were found by Glencoe Mountain Rescue Team and a coastguard helicopter after being forced to spend the night in the hills.\n\nPatrick Boothroyd, 21, from West Yorkshire, died after falling while tackling a route in Ben Nevis' Tower Gully in December.\n\nShortly after, on New Year's Day, a climber died in a fall from a ridge.\n\nThe 21-year-old University of Bristol student from Germany was not named by police.", "Louella Fletcher-Michie was found dead in a wooded area on the edge of the Bestival site\n\nA woman who died after taking a Class A drug at a festival urged her boyfriend to film her while she was high and post it on YouTube, a court has heard.\n\nLouella Fletcher-Michie, 24, was found dead in woods on the Bestival site in Dorset in September 2017.\n\nIn his phone footage, Ms Fletcher-Michie - the daughter of Holby City actor John Michie - said she was having the \"best trip I've ever had\".\n\nWinchester Crown Court previously heard she had taken a large amount of the Class A drug 2CP at the event held in the grounds of Lulworth Castle.\n\nCeon Broughton could be seen laughing and smiling during the 50-minute video shown to the jury\n\nIn the 50-minute video, shown to jurors, she shouted: \"This is mad. I'm so happy, the best day of my life. I've taken acid before. This ain't acid. I was not expecting this.\n\n\"Mum, I love you. Dad, I love you... I see through everything.\"\n\nIn the video, Ms Fletcher-Michie was seen having a non-stop rant and repeatedly waved her arms and slapped herself.\n\nShe also urged Mr Broughton to \"make sure this goes on YouTube\" and shouted at him to \"film me\", \"call my mum\" and \"call my brother, call my sister\".\n\nAt times he appeared to smile as he turned the camera on himself and told her \"it's between me and you\".\n\nHe also told her to \"put your phone away\" and asked her to turn on airplane mode, which disables calls and messaging, as she talks about contacting her mum.\n\nThe court has previously heard Ms Fletcher-Michie's family rushed down to the festival site in Dorset from London after contacting Mr Broughton.\n\nIn later recordings on Mr Broughton's phone, Ms Fletcher-Michie made incoherent high-pitched noises and grunts.\n\nA male voice told her: \"Stop eating these thorns. You're just going to cut your beautiful skin.\"\n\nRecordings made after 21:00 BST on 10 September contained loud screams and images of blood-covered hands.\n\nThe jury was shown an image from the phone of a person, thought to be Ms Fletcher-Michie, lying on the ground with her eyes closed at 23:24.\n\nShe was found dead by security guards at 01:15 on what would have been her 25th birthday, the court previously heard.\n\nProsecutors have claimed Mr Broughton failed to seek help because he feared breaching a suspended jail sentence.\n\nJurors were asked if they watched Holby City, which stars Ms Fletcher-Michie's father John Michie\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Tributes have been left to the children close to the police cordon\n\nSycamore Lane is a quiet cul-de-sac nestled on the outskirts of Stafford.\n\nBut today it is filled with fire engines, police cars and emergency service personnel dealing with the wreckage of a burnt-out house. Hours earlier it was ravaged by a fire which claimed the lives of four children.\n\nA cordon, where journalists have gathered, blocks entry to the road. The mood is sombre as people try to go about their daily business.\n\nResidents from neighbouring streets stop and ask police officers what has happened. Visibly shocked and upset, many become tearful as the full horror of the events became clear.\n\nEmergency services workers remained at the scene of the fire today\n\nSome spoke of hearing screams while one witness described seeing a \"wall of flames\" out of the bedroom window.\n\n\"We just stood there with our hands over our mouths,\" another said.\n\nThe remnants of the property are partly covered in blue tarpaulin. The roof has collapsed, the windows shattered and the rooms left blackened.\n\nWendy Pickering and her husband Bryan said they often saw the family take the children to school\n\nWendy Pickering and her husband Bryan said they often saw the family take the children to school.\n\n\"It is a real shock,\" she said. \"We heard screaming... it is just so sad.\"\n\nPeople have started to lay flowers and teddy bears in tribute to the four children - named locally as Riley, Keegan, Tilly and Olly, and aged between three and eight - at the edge of the cordon.\n\nFirefighters helped place some of the memorials near the scene\n\nFriends and relatives visited the scene and shared tearful embraces.\n\nOne note read: \"Will be dearly missed, love Uncle Dave and Auntie Lou Lou\". Another said: \"To my lovely grandkids I will always miss you. Love you always xxx\".\n\nNeighbour Karl Griffiths was among those who left a stuffed toy\n\nNeighbour Karl Griffiths was among those who left a stuffed toy.\n\n\"I knew the family quite well. I feel distraught,\" he said. \"Stuff like this doesn't happen around here, we all looked out for each other.\n\n\"If I had known what was happening I would have come to help. I would.\n\n\"I just wanted to pay my condolences, it is the least I could do.\"\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. Around 200 firefighters were deployed to tackle the blaze\n\nOcado shares have dropped 6% and the retailer has warned of a hit to sales following a huge fire which swept through its warehouse in Hampshire.\n\nAbout 200 firefighters spent the night tackling the blaze, which broke out on Tuesday morning.\n\nThe online grocer said it expected a fall in sales growth until it could shift operations to other warehouses.\n\nMore than 30,000 orders are processed by robots at the Andover warehouse each week.\n\nOcado has not given any detail about what the impact will be to customers.\n\nThe fire was declared a major incident by Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service\n\nMany customers have contacted Ocado on Twitter to ask about cancelled deliveries, while others have expressed sympathy for the online supermarket.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOcado has other warehouses, including in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, which have been unaffected.\n\nThe site, on the Walworth Industrial Estate, accounts for 10% of Ocado's capacity.\n\nOcado said it had comprehensive insurance for the property, stock and equipment and for business interruption losses.\n\n\"Once we have had time to assess the damage and prepare a plan to return the CFC (customer fulfilment centre) to operation we will update further as appropriate,\" a spokesman said.\n\nHampshire Fire and Rescue Service said parts of the building are likely to collapse\n\nHampshire Fire and Rescue Service said about 70 firefighters remained at the site and urged nearby residents to keep doors and windows shut.\n\nChief fire officer Neil Odin said the initial small fire had taken a \"dramatic turn\" early on Wednesday morning and firefighters had to be withdrawn.\n\n\"This building is not meant for humans to be interacting with the racking and the storage - it has robots moving racking on to loading bays, so for firefighters trying to get in that high and to make an effective fire-fighting strategy, it has been very difficult,\" he said.\n\nFour firefighters have been treated for minor smoke inhalation.\n\nNo Ocado staff were injured in the blaze.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Footage shot in 2017 shows the distribution warehouse's robots collecting and packing groceries\n\nResidents were urged to keep their windows and doors shut due to the smoke from the fire\n\nOn Tuesday Ocado said it had cancelled some customer orders because of the fire and it was \"working hard to resume normal service as soon as possible\".\n\nThe blaze came on the same day it reported widening losses.\n\nThe company recorded a pre-tax loss of £44.4m for the year ending 2 December 2018, compared with £9.8m in the previous 12 months.", "Dan Mallory went straight to number one on the New York Times best-seller list\n\nDan Mallory, author of the best-selling The Woman in the Window, has admitted to lying about having brain cancer.\n\nMallory, who wrote the thriller under the pseudonym AJ Finn, said he claimed to have had cancer as a way to disguise his struggles with bipolar disorder.\n\nHis admission comes after a New Yorker profile accused him of a history of lies about his personal life.\n\nThe US author told the magazine it was \"never the goal\" to \"take advantage of anyone else's goodwill\".\n\nMallory was a book editor before The Woman in the Window, his debut novel, was published in January 2018. It debuted at number one on the New York Times best-seller list.\n\nA film adaptation of the book, about a woman with agoraphobia who begins spying on her new neighbours, is out later this year, starring Amy Adams and Gary Oldman.\n\nMallory's debut novel has sold more than two million copies\n\nThe New Yorker claimed Mallory had repeatedly said he had been diagnosed with brain cancer, including in a university application and to colleagues while working at publishing houses in London and New York.\n\nThe article also alleged that he said his mother died of cancer and his brother also died.\n\nAlthough his mother did have cancer when Mallory was a teenager, she and his brother are both alive.\n\nIn response to the New Yorker piece, the author wrote: \"It is the case that on numerous occasions in the past, I have stated, implied, or allowed others to believe that I was afflicted with a physical malady instead of a psychological one: cancer, specifically.\n\n\"My mother battled aggressive breast cancer starting when I was a teenager; it was the formative experience of my adolescent life, synonymous with pain and panic. I felt intensely ashamed of my psychological struggles - they were my scariest, most sensitive secret.\"\n\nHe said he was \"utterly terrified of what people would think of me if they knew\" about his mental health problems, and would think he was \"defective\" or would not believe him. \"Dissembling seemed the easier path.\"\n\nHe added that \"like many afflicted with severe bipolar II disorder, I experienced crushing depressions, delusional thoughts, morbid obsessions and memory problems\".\n\nHe continued: \"It's been horrific, not least because, in my distress, I did or said or believed things I would never ordinarily say, or do, or believe - things of which, in many instances, I have absolutely no recollection.\n\n\"With the benefit of hindsight, I'm sorry to have taken, or be seen to have taken, advantage of anyone else's goodwill, however desperate the circumstances; that was never the goal.\"\n\nHis agent confirmed the statement to BBC News.\n\nA spokesman for HarperCollins UK told The Bookseller: \"We don't comment on the personal lives of our employees or authors. Professionally, Dan was a highly valued editor and the publication The Woman in the Window - a Sunday Times bestseller - speaks for itself.\"\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. WATCH: First look at Huawei's folding phone\n\nHuawei has revealed its first smartphone to feature a foldable screen, less than a week after its rival Samsung did the same.\n\nHuawei's Mate X places its fold-out screen on the outside of the device, so that it covers the front and rear of the phone when closed.\n\nIn both modes, the display is larger than Samsung's. Huawei's device is also flatter and thinner when shut.\n\nSamsung's Fold does not appear to fold flat when closed\n\nHowever, unlike Samsung's Galaxy Fold it does not have a second display on its reverse side.\n\nOne analyst attending the launch event in Barcelona also remarked that a crease in the screen appeared to be visible.\n\nThe Chinese company allowed attendees at the event to get a close look at the handset following its unveiling. Its South Korean competitor has yet to let outsiders to do so with the Galaxy Fold.\n\n\"Security concerns about Huawei's 5G kit are a shadow hanging over the whole of this year's Mobile World Congress,\" commented the BBC's technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones.\n\n\"But the firm was determined in a confident, even arrogant press conference to convey that it's now the leading innovator in smartphones.\"\n\nThe Mate X went on display to the media after being unveiled in Barcelona\n\nUnlike the Fold, the Mate X does not place any of its cameras on the same side as its screen when unfolded.\n\nThe Huawei Mate X's screen goes \"edge-to-edge\" across the device when open\n\nInstead they are placed on the flipside of the device on a strip that also features a fingerprint sensor. This runs down the side of the smaller of the two folded displays when closed and doubles up as a side-grip when open.\n\nThis potentially places the Mate X at a disadvantage to the Fold, since it becomes impossible to use its unfolded screen to take selfies. However, it is not yet clear whether this will be a serious consideration in practice.\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 Ben Wood 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\nHowever, the Mate X's advantage is that it does not have a \"notch\" cut into its screen as a consequence.\n\nHuawei said the Mate X would come with one of its existing 5G modems and could download a one gigabyte movie in as little as three seconds if a fast enough connection was available.\n\nLike Samsung's device, it also features a battery on each of its two sides, but claims to be able to recharge more quickly.\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 Patrick Moorhead This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"Both foldable phones are 5G-capable and are instantly distinctive from the smartphone designs of the last 10 years,\" commented Ian Fogg, an analyst at the mobile analytics company Opensignal.\n\n\"But 5G is arriving on regular designed smartphones too, at lower prices, and more quickly.\n\n\"Because of that, more people will experience the benefits of 5G this year than the novelty of an expanding smartphone display.\"\n\nThe Mate X has been priced to start at 2,299 euros ($2,600; £1996) and is due to go on sale from the middle of this year.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Carolina Milanesi This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThat compares to the $1,980 figure quoted by Samsung, although once taxes are taken into account the gap should be smaller.\n\nHuawei's consumer devices chief Richard Yu acknowledged that the price was \"very expensive\" but said he hoped it would be reduced over time.\n\nThere were claps and cheers as Richard Yu finally unveiled Huawei's latest masterpiece after three years in development - the folding phone.\n\nAnd the hits just kept on coming: its split-screen function, its dimensions - gleefully compared to those of the iPhone and Galaxy Fold - even a protective case got its own round of applause.\n\nHowever, the biggest gasps came right at the end - when he announced the price tag. At 2,299 euros, even the hardcore enthusiasts appeared to wince.\n\nEverybody who charged to the demonstration area afterwards was disappointed as the handsets remained frustratingly behind Perspex.\n\nStill, the Mate X has still done enough to secure its \"wow factor\" at MWC.\n\nBut that price and Huawei's wider controversies threaten to act as a deterrent to even deep-pocketed early adopters.\n\nTwo other Chinese companies have also unveiled new handsets ahead of Monday's start of the Mobile World Congress trade show.\n\nOppo has showed off a handset with a 10x optical zoom.\n\nOppo has yet to name its 10x zoom camera phone\n\nUnlike digital zooms, there is no loss of quality as the shot tightens in.\n\nThe three cameras involved do not need to extend from the phone to achieve this. Instead, the device features a periscope-like system inside its chassis.\n\nThis lets it range between focal lengths of 16mm and 160mm.\n\nThe innovation builds on an earlier prototype, which was never put into production, that offered a 5x zoom.\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 4 by Party on Garth! This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post 4 by Party on Garth!\n\nHowever, the design means the handset is by necessity thicker than most rivals.\n\nIn addition, the company announced it would soon launch 5G handsets in Australia, Singapore, Switzerland and China.\n\nXiaomi also held a press conference where it revealed its forthcoming flagship Mi 9 handset will cost 449 euros when it launches in Europe.\n\nXiaomi expanded to the UK last year\n\nIt features three rear cameras, one of which offers 48 megapixel resolution.\n\nIn addition, the firm said it intended to launch a 5G handset - the Mi Mix 3 5G - costing 599 euros, which is likely to be one of the lowest-cost models to be compatible with next-generation networks.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHowever, a demo of the firm's smart home technology fell flat after a series of attempts to show off voice-controlled commands failed.", "Harry and Meghan are on a three-day visit to north Africa\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex have met young women in Morocco to show support for girls' education.\n\nThe couple were welcomed to a boarding house in the village of Asni by the girls, who waved flags and sang songs.\n\nDuring the visit, the pregnant duchess was given a traditional Moroccan henna tattoo, which is intended to bring luck to her first child.\n\nHarry and Meghan, who flew from the capital Rabat by helicopter, are on a three-day visit to the country.\n\nThe Duchess of Sussex had henna applied to her hand during the visit\n\nSamira Ouaadi, 17, who drew a floral pattern on Meghan's left hand and wrist with brown henna paste, said: \"It's tradition for pregnant women in Morocco to have a henna tattoo. We do it for major celebrations like getting married or having a baby.\"\n\nThe Duke and Duchess announced their pregnancy last October and the baby is expected at the end of April or early May.\n\nWhen the artwork was finished, the duchess said the design was \"really lovely\" and showed her husband.\n\nThe couple's first official trip to the north African nation is aimed at strengthening links with the UK.\n\nThe secondary school is run by a Moroccan group that provides classes for girls from rural areas whose families cannot afford their education.\n\nKensington Palace said the charity Education for All \"has given girls from the poorest villages and most remote areas of Morocco the chance to reach their potential and contribute to Morocco's continued development\".\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 Kensington Palace 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\nMeghan and Harry walked along a line of students and touched their hearts each time they shook a pupil's hand.\n\nThe duke asked one pupil \"is this the best school in Morocco?\" as they were led inside the boarding house.\n\nThe photographers might have been there for the bump; the journalists to see the last royal visit before the baby is due. But Harry and Meghan were there to show that a royal visit could have real purpose.\n\nSo the focus was unremitting; from start to finish in the dusty mountain town of Asni, Harry and Meghan homed in on education and in particular opening it up to girls, and granting them opportunities that women have been denied.\n\nThere was no pomp, little ceremony, not too many handshakes; they wanted to meet the teachers and students, to encourage them, to shine a spotlight on their work.\n\nA while ago a palace official told me that in 2019 we would start to see Meghan's influence and interests; they could not have been clearer today. Harry and Meghan are determined to do things differently.\n\nThe couple visited classrooms, where most of the girls speak French.\n\nThe duchess asked: \"Qu'est-ce que tu veux etre quand tu quittes l'ecole? - What do you want to be when you leave school?\"\n\nThe first Education For All project was opened in 2007 and now has 50 girls enrolled at university.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The couple were offered the traditional welcome of milk and dates", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The couple were offered the traditional welcome of milk and dates\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex have arrived in Morocco for their first official visit to north Africa.\n\nThe royal couple's three-day trip is aimed at strengthening the UK's links with Morocco - which is one of the few stable countries in the region.\n\nTheir visit will also focus on gender equality, with the pair discussing Morocco's attitudes towards women with British ambassador Thomas Reilly.\n\nMr Reilly said the issue is \"close to their royal highnesses' hearts\".\n\nPrince Harry, 34, and Meghan, 37, touched down in Casablanca airport on Saturday evening, although flight delays meant they were two hours late for their welcoming ceremony.\n\nThey entered the airport's royal suite where they were offered the traditional welcome of milk and dates.\n\nThe couple were met with a red carpet at Casablanca airport\n\nThey were greeted by officials before Prince Harry inspected a guard of honour from the Auxiliary Forces\n\nBlack limousines then took the duke and duchess - plus their entourage of nine, including a hairdresser - to meet Morocco's Crown Prince Moulay Hassan.\n\nThe couple are staying with Morocco's King Mohammed VI at a royal residence.\n\nThey met Crown Prince Moulay Hassan, who is the heir to Morocco's throne\n\nThe duchess is pregnant, with the baby due around the end of April or early May\n\nDuring their visit to Morocco - which will be an important market for the UK after Brexit - the pair will visit the famous Atlas Mountains and the country's capital, Rabat.\n\nThey will see a girls' education project, meet young social entrepreneurs and visit programmes working with children with disabilities and those with mental health problems.\n\nBritain's ambassador to Morocco, Mr Reilly, said: \"I'm really excited to showcase the vital roles that girls' education and youth employment are playing in shaping modern Morocco.\n\n\"When we began planning for this visit, I had a very clear view in my mind of the story we wanted this visit to tell. It's the same story we've been telling consistently at this embassy for the last 20 months since my arrival here.\n\n\"This official visit by the Duke and Duchess of Sussex will highlight Morocco's focus on women's empowerment, girls' education, inclusivity and the encouragement of social entrepreneurship.\"\n\nA Kensington Palace spokeswoman said the duke and duchess were \"very much looking forward to the visit\" and were \"particularly pleased\" they will be able to meet so many young Moroccans.\n\nLast year, the royal couple took their first official tour as a married couple with a 16-day royal trip around Australia, New Zealand, Fiji and Tonga.\n\nMeghan is heavily pregnant with the couple's first child.\n\nThey announced the pregnancy in October last year. Meeting crowds in Merseyside in January, the duchess revealed that she does not know the sex of the baby and it is due at the end of April or start of May.\n\nShe travelled to New York earlier this month for her luxury baby shower with her friends, including some celebrities.", "Cardinal Marx called for greater transparency within the Church\n\nA senior Roman Catholic Cardinal has said that files documenting child sexual abuse were destroyed, allowing offences to continue.\n\nGerman Cardinal Reinhard Marx told a conference on paedophilia in the Church that procedures to prosecute offenders \"were deliberately not complied with\".\n\n\"The rights of victims were effectively trampled underfoot,\" he said.\n\nThe unprecedented four-day summit has brought together 190 bishops from across the world.\n\nThe Catholic Church has faced growing pressure amid long-running cases of sexual abuse of children and young men, with victims accusing it of failing to tackle the issue.\n\n\"Files that could have documented the terrible deeds and named those responsible were destroyed, or not even created,\" Cardinal Marx told the third day of the conference in the Vatican. \"Instead of the perpetrators, the victims were regulated and silence imposed on them.\"\n\nHe urged greater transparency in the Catholic Church's response to the issue, adding: \"It is not transparency which damages the church but rather the acts of abuse committed, the lack of transparency or the ensuing cover up.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Brigitte, a survivor of child sex abuse by a chaplain, explains why she is ready to speak now (From 2019)\n\nOn Friday, Cardinal Marx - who is one of nine advisers to the pope, known as the C9 - met survivors of abuse and members of the global organisation Ending Clergy Abuse.\n\nHundreds of victims have protested outside the Vatican, calling for justice and zero tolerance over the issue.\n\nThe conference was called for by Pope Francis, who earlier this month admitted that abuse of nuns by members of the clergy had included sexual slavery.\n\nA Vatican spokesman later clarified his comments, advising that in using the words \"sexual slavery\" the Pope was referring to \"sexual manipulation\" as a form of sexual abuse.\n\nLast week, a former Catholic cardinal was defrocked over historical sexual abuse allegations.\n\nUpdate 6 March 2019: This article has been updated to make clear that the Vatican later clarified that the Pope had not meant to use the words \"sexual slavery\".", "A hairdresser has told how his five-year-old nephew, who was born with cerebral palsy, inspired him to create a salon in Essex for people with different disabilities.\n\nOscar, from Wickford, suffered brain damage at birth and needs full-time support and care.\n\nHis uncle Ian Marshall, from Brentwood, Essex, decided to start Spargoland, a salon for people with autism, learning and physical disabilities, which has since won an award.\n\nOscar's mum, Caroline Inches, said it is a \"nice and relaxed\" environment.\n\nYou can see more on Inside Out, on BBC One in the east of England at 19:30.", "Products high in salt and saturated fats are being marketed as healthy by leading supermarkets, BBC Radio 5 Live Investigates has found.\n\nThe British Dietetic Association said stores including Tesco, Morrisons and Sainsbury's were being \"unhelpful\" and \"confusing\" customers.\n\nThe Royal Society for Public Health called for an independent supermarket regulator.\n\nSupermarkets said they were committed to \"promoting healthy eating\".\n\nBBC researchers visited the top five supermarkets in the UK and found Sainsbury's, Morrisons and Tesco were stocking products high in salt and saturated fat in sections marked \"healthier choices\" and \"healthy and diet meals\".\n\nMorrisons' \"healthier choices\" section contained a vegetarian steak slice with almost 10g of saturated fat - nearly half of the recommended maximum daily amount.\n\nThe supermarket said the item \"provides customers with a red-meat free alternative\".\n\nSainsbury's edamame, coconut and lemongrass falafel contained more than 6g of saturated fat per half pack - around a third of the recommended maximum daily amount - and was located in their \"healthier choices\" section.\n\nIn Tesco's \"healthy and diet meals\" section, a \"lamb hotpot\" contained 8.5g of saturated fat, 45% of the recommended maximum daily amount.\n\nRegistered nutritionist Charlotte Stirling-Reed said she was \"quite shocked\" at some of the items being marketed as 'healthier choices'.\n\nShe said: \"I'm not saying there's anything wrong with eating them or consuming them in moderation - but telling consumers these are healthier options is a bit misleading.\"\n\nNutritionist Charlotte Stirling-Reed said the 'healthier choices' sections of supermarkets are misleading\n\nThe Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH) said many products are being identified as \"healthy\" because they are vegetarian, vegan, free from certain ingredients, or have fewer calories.\n\nBut, it said, many have high levels of fat, salt or sugar, and are highly processed.\n\n\"Supermarkets should be transparent about how they classify foods, and provide clear information about products,\" the RSPH added.\n\n\"There must be incentives and penalties for presenting clear and accurate information.\n\n\"Perhaps there is potential to have an independent supermarket regulator. It is important that the good work done so far on labelling is not undermined.\"\n\nA British Dietetic Association (BDA) spokesperson said supermarkets had a \"duty of care\" to their customers.\n\n\"It is unhelpful and confusing to the consumer, and supermarkets should avoid doing this,\" they added.\n\n\"They should be promoting and educating people to buy foods that actually are healthy - not just marketed as being so.\"\n\nTrading standards representatives said they would be speaking to supermarkets\n\nMorrisons' own brand lentil hotpot contained almost a third of the recommended maximum daily amount of salt - almost 2g - but was stocked in the \"healthier choices\" section.\n\nSmoked meat substitute slices marketed as healthy in Sainsbury's contained almost two grams of salt per four slices, making them more salty than seawater.\n\nAction on Salt, which campaigns for a reduction in the consumption of salt, said it was very time-consuming for shoppers to check every label to find a healthier option.\n\n\"Placing products in 'healthier choice' sections of supermarkets should ideally highlight products that are actually better for our health,\" it said.\n\n\"However, we've found that many of the vegetarian and vegan products in these sections of the supermarket can be high in salt, with some vegetarian burgers containing more salt than real beef burgers, meaning shoppers are being given a false sense of security.\n\n\"Supermarkets should have stronger criteria in place for products allowed to be displayed in their 'healthier choice' sections.\"\n\nDietitians say the mislabelling of foods in supermarkets is confusing\n\nCouncil trading standards officers enforce food safety laws that cover health and nutrition claims in individual supermarkets.\n\nHertfordshire and West Yorkshire trading standards services - the principal trading standards partners for Tesco and Morrisons - told BBC Radio 5 Live Investigates they will be making further enquiries with both supermarkets.\n\nTesco said: \"We are sorry that some of our products were mistakenly included under the 'Healthy and Diet Meals' sign and are rectifying this immediately.\"\n\nIt added that all nutritional information is clearly listed on packaging.\n\nSainsbury's said: \"Our range of healthier meals are currently stocked alongside our vegetarian and plant-based options. In some cases our signs were not updated to reflect this and we are putting this right.\"\n\nIt said it was committed to helping customers live \"healthier lives\".\n\nMorrisons said: \"Our 'Healthier Choices' section provides customers with the option to buy an item that is healthier than a product that meets a similar need. A 'Healthier Choices' cheese will be substantially lower in fat than ones we sell elsewhere but might still carry a red traffic light label.\"\n\n5 Live Investigates is on BBC Radio 5 Live, 24 February at 11:00 GMT - catch up on BBC Sounds", "Firefighters from three stations on Shetland attended the blaze in Lerwick\n\nOne person has died after fire broke out at a house in Shetland.\n\nEmergency services had been called to the house in Burns Lane, Lerwick, at 23:59 on Saturday.\n\nFour fire engines attended - two from Lerwick, one from Sandwick and one from Bixter - and the crews successfully put out the blaze in the two-storey building.\n\nNo details of the person who died have been released.\n\nPolice have thanked \"brave\" members of the public who tried to save a person who died.\n\nCh Insp Lindsay Tulloch said: \"I know that some members of the public tried their best at the scene to save the person involved and I would like to thank you for your brave efforts.\n\n\"Inquiries are ongoing in conjunction with the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service into the cause.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with all those affected by this tragic incident.\"", "Hugo Palmer (left) and Erwan Ferrieux are still missing, Australian police say\n\nThe mother of a British man missing in Australia has visited the spot where her son's belongings were found.\n\nTanya McNab travelled to Shelly Beach in New South Wales to attend a vigil for Hugo Palmer and his friend Erwan Ferrieux.\n\nAn air and sea search, launched after their belongings were found on the beach, was scaled back on Wednesday.\n\n\"I'm feeling numb - completely numb,\" Ms McNab said. \"I have been since I heard the news.\"\n\nMr Palmer, from East Grinstead, East Sussex, and Mr Ferrieux, a French national, both 20, arrived in Australia in November.\n\nThey had been in the Port Macquarie area since 17 February. A major search was launched late that night when their towels and car keys were found on the beach near Port Macquarie.\n\nMr Palmer's mother said her son had been living his dream by visiting Australia, but it had \"only just started\".\n\nShe told ABC News: \"I'm so incredibly proud of him. I love him so much.\"", "Brexit should be delayed if Parliament does not approve a deal in the coming days, three cabinet ministers have warned publicly for the first time.\n\nAhead of crucial votes in the Commons, Greg Clark, Amber Rudd and David Gauke told the Daily Mail they would be prepared to defy Theresa May and vote for a delay.\n\nDowning Street said the trio's views on no deal were \"scarcely a secret\".\n\nConservative Brexiteer Andrew Bridgen called on them to resign.\n\n\"They are rejecting government policy and they are threatening to vote against government policy next week,\" the MP told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\n\"In that case, they should do the honourable thing and resign from the government immediately.\"\n\nNumber 10 said in a statement: \"The PM is working hard to ensure we get a deal with the EU that allows us to deliver on the result of the referendum.\n\n\"That is where the cabinet's energy should be focused.\"\n\nEarlier, Mrs May's spokeswoman said the PM would have another \"period of engagement\" on Brexit at an EU-League of Arab States summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt - including a meeting with European Council president Donald Tusk.\n\nThe UK remains on course to leave the European Union on 29 March.\n\nBut the government has repeatedly refused to rule out the possibility of the UK leaving without a formal deal, in the event that Mrs May cannot get MPs to approve the deal she negotiated with Brussels in time.\n\nMPs are due to debate Brexit again next Wednesday and are expected to consider an amendment tabled by former Tory minister Sir Oliver Letwin and Labour's Yvette Cooper.\n\nThat would give Parliament the opportunity to delay Brexit and prevent a no-deal situation if there is no agreement with the EU by the middle of March.\n\nMr Clark, Ms Rudd and Mr Gauke argue if a deal is not endorsed by MPs imminently \"it would be better to seek to extend Article 50 and delay our date of departure rather than crash out of the European Union on March 29\".\n\nMr Clark, the business secretary, along with Ms Rudd, the work and pensions secretary, and the justice secretary, Mr Gauke, said there had been \"months of uncertainty\".\n\nThey wrote: \"It is time MPs recognised the need to get a deal, accepted that this is the only deal on offer, and supported it.\"\n\nBut they also warned Brexiteers in the European Research Group (ERG) that Parliament will block the UK leaving without a deal, stating that if there is a delay \"they will have no-one to blame but themselves\".\n\nThey said: \"Beyond the next few days, there simply will not be time to agree a deal and complete all the necessary legislation before March 29.\"\n\nTheir article comes after the BBC was told dozens of normally loyal Conservatives could back plans to stop the UK leaving the EU without a deal if a reworked version of Mrs May's plan does not pass.\n\nMark Francois, Tory MP and vice-chairman of the ERG, told the BBC that \"the prime minister will want to know why three members of her cabinet have decided to publicly decry government policy\" and added that he thought it was \"interesting that the chancellor has not signed the letter\".\n\nHowever Tory MP Nick Boles, who voted Remain but supports Mrs May's deal, said they were \"courageous and principled\" for speaking out to try to avoid a no-deal Brexit.\n\nAnna Soubry, who quit the Conservatives this week over Brexit to join the Independent Group, said the move was a sign of the \"complete chaos that's now existing at the top of government\".\n\nThe MP, who supports another EU referendum, said the trio had to go to the press because \"they can't win the argument in a deeply divided cabinet\".\n\nMeanwhile, Labour MPs Phil Wilson and Peter Kyle are planning to put forward an amendment that would allow Mrs May's deal to pass in the Commons, as long as it is then put to the public in another vote.\n\nMr Wilson told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that his amendment had the support of shadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer and shadow chancellor John McDonnell, and he hoped to secure the backing of the rest of the Labour front bench.\n\nIt is a pretty incredible intervention by these three cabinet ministers.\n\nTime and time again Theresa May has said the UK is leaving the EU on 29 March, in just five weeks' time.\n\nIt's a very different message from these three. They've all made it very clear they wouldn't accept a no deal scenario.\n\nNow publicly, for the first time, they've said Brexit would have to be delayed if Parliament doesn't back a deal next week.\n\nIn their article in the Daily Mail they've got a pretty stark warning to their colleagues.\n\nThis is happening because, on Wednesday, there will be an attempt by MPs to seize control of that Brexit process.\n\nThese three are suggesting that they will be prepared to resign in order to back that move.\n\nThis is piling the pressure on Mrs May to get the changes to the deal, to bring it back early next week, but it's also piling the pressure on their colleagues to get behind the deal.\n\nDon't be in any doubt, what they are saying is not government policy.", "The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are on a three-day visit to Morocco aiming to support girls' education and strengthening links with the UK.\n\nKensington Palace said the charity Education for All \"has given girls from the poorest villages and most remote areas of Morocco the chance to reach their potential and contribute to Morocco's continued development\".\n\nDuring the visit, the pregnant duchess was given a traditional Moroccan henna tattoo, which is intended to bring luck to her first child.", "Emily Thornberry said she would rather die than join another party\n\nA group of MPs who left Labour have \"betrayed\" their seats and would be \"crushed\" if by-elections were held, the shadow foreign secretary has said.\n\nEmily Thornberry accused eight MPs who quit the party to form The Independent Group in the Commons of going to \"cuddle up to Tories on the benches\".\n\nShe told a Labour rally in Broxtowe she would rather die than join a new party.\n\nLabour's deputy leader Tom Watson has said the defections are a cause for regret and reflection, not anger.\n\nThe departing Labour MPs said earlier this week they were leaving the party over its stance on Brexit and the leadership's handling of anti-Semitism.\n\nThey were followed by three Tory MPs who cited \"a shift to the right\" in their party and the government's \"disastrous handling of Brexit\" as reasons for their departure.\n\nThe newly-formed \"The Independent Group\" - which at the moment remains a grouping in Parliament not an official political party - says it represents \"the centre ground of British politics\".\n\nThey have urged like-minded MPs from other parties to join them.\n\nBut Ms Thornberry accused the Labour MPs of having had \"the cheek to reject our new manifesto and our new leader\".\n\nShe said: \"It was our manifesto and our leader that gave them the huge majorities that they now have in their seats - those seats they have betrayed by their actions.\"\n\n\"If our new independent splitters have got the guts to have by-elections, we will crush them.\"\n\nIf an MP changes or leaves the party they were elected under, it does not automatically trigger a by-election. This is because at the ballot box voters choose the individual they want as their MP, not the party they wanted running the country.\n\nA by-election can happen if the defectors resign as MPs or if voters in their constituencies call for a petition to recall their MP.\n\nHowever, voters can only call for a petition under specific circumstances, such as an MP being convicted of an offence and receiving a custodial sentence. None of these conditions applies to the members of the Independent Group.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn also joined Emily Thornberry at the rally\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn also addressed the crowd in Broxtowe, Nottinghamshire - the constituency of the former Conservative MP Anna Soubry, who has also joined the new grouping.\n\n\"I'm very sad at some of the things that have happened and very sad at some of the things that have been said.\n\n\"Walking away from our movement achieves nothing\", he said.\n\nOn Friday, Ian Austin become the ninth MP to quit Labour this week, blaming Mr Corbyn for \"creating a culture of extremism and intolerance\".\n\nBut the MP for Dudley North said he had no plans to join The Independent Group.\n\nMeanwhile, Theresa May's government's working majority was reduced after three MPs resigned earlier this week - Ms Soubry, Heidi Allen and Sarah Wollaston.\n\nThe trio - who all support the People's Vote campaign for another EU referendum - held a press conference and criticised the government for letting the \"hard-line anti-EU awkward squad\" take over the party.\n\nThey joined The Independent Group, with Ms Allen saying she was \"excited\" about the future and wants to be \"a part of something better, a party that people vote for because they want to, not because they feel they have to.\"\n\nThe Independent Group is not a registered political party and has not published a manifesto - although it does have a list of values on its website.\n\nNow with 11 members, the new group has the same number of MPs as the Lib Dems and is the joint fourth largest.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The victims are tea plantation workers from the north-eastern state of Assam\n\nAt least 130 people have died and more than 200 are being treated in hospital after drinking toxic bootleg alcohol in north-eastern India, officials said.\n\nSome 35 people were reported dead in the state of Assam on Sunday, days after about 100 people died in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand.\n\nTen people have been arrested over the bootleg drink, a police official said.\n\nThere were many women among the victims, who all worked on tea plantations.\n\nAn inquiry has been ordered into the tragedy. The death toll is believed to be the highest since a 2011 case in West Bengal, where more than 170 people died after ingesting bootleg alcohol.\n\nThe first victims died on Thursday, according to the administrator of the Golaghat district in Assam, Dhiren Hazarika.\n\nGolaghat district Superintendent of Police Pushkar Singh told the BBC Hindi service that police had found the home where the toxic liquor was made and had recovered one and a half litres (2.5pts) of it.\n\nDoctors at the hospitals where the victims were being treated were baffled by the ingredients used in the illegal alcohol, which has caused organ failure. An expert team from the city of Guwahati is being brought in analyse the contents of the drink\n\nA tea plantation worker who consumed the bootleg alcohol lies on a drip\n\n\"The people came to the hospital with severe vomiting, extreme chest pain and breathlessness,\" Dr Ratul Bordoloi, joint director of Golaghat's health department, told the AFP news agency.\n\nOne worker who was undergoing treatment at Golaghat Hospital told the BBC that he had been at a tea plantation on Thursday when the purchase the alcohol.\n\n\"I had bought half a litre of wine and drank it before eating,\" he said. \"Initially, everything was normal, but after some time my head started hurting. The headache grew so much that I could not eat or sleep.\"\n\nThe man felt restless until the morning, when he started getting chest pain. His wife took him to the tea plantation hospital and he was referred to the district hospital.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nearly half of the alcohol market is made up of so-called 'country-made' liquor\n\nDeaths from illegally produced alcohol, which is much cheaper than branded spirits, are common in parts of rural India. Bootleggers often add methanol - a highly toxic form of alcohol sometimes used as an anti-freeze - to their mixture to increase its strength.\n\nIf ingested in even small quantities, methanol can cause blindness, liver damage and death.\n\nState police said two excise department officials were suspended for failing to take adequate precautions over the sale of the alcohol.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Earlier in February, Sunita lost five members of her family, including her husband, after toxic alcohol was served at a mourning event", "A Neolithic human skull thought to be 5,600 years old has been discovered in the River Thames by a mudlark.\n\nIt is now on display to members of the public inside the Museum of London.", "The area around the damaged property has been cordoned off\n\nThree people have been injured after flats were damaged in what is reported to have been an explosion.\n\nThe incident happened in Whitchurch Lane in the Hartcliffe area of Bristol at about 19:50 GMT on Saturday.\n\nSeveral roads have been closed and emergency crews were at the scene.\n\nA woman who lives in the block of flats told the BBC she heard a \"humongous bang\" before her partner rescued a man on fire from one of the damaged properties.\n\nThe eyewitness, who did not want to be named, said the injured man - her neighbour- was doused with water to put out the flames, but another woman escaped from the flat unharmed.\n\nShe said she ran inside to get her four-year-old daughter and as they reached their garden gate \"the whole house just fell in\".\n\nAnother anonymous witness told the BBC: \"When I arrived they were still letting people walk down the slip road, but half way down the police came and told us the fire brigade had asked us to move back further and taped across\".\n\nShe said she saw \"lots of debris and a large glass panel that looked as though it had been expelled with some force from the upstairs window\" on the road.\n\nThe corner of the property appears to have been destroyed\n\nShe added: \"The fire brigade were standing outside the house and initially all I could see was smoke but a flame started burning inside and was starting to get brighter and brighter as the smoke smell got stronger. It looked as though it was too dangerous for them to enter.\"\n\nSteve Imrie, area manager with Avon Fire and Rescue, told Bristol Live: \"We committed two crew in breathing apparatus to contain and inspect the fire, while other firefighters began to administer first aid to a number of persons at the scene.\n\n\"All casualties were conscious and breathing. Certainly the initial person who was treated has suffered minor burns.\"\n\nThe cause of the damage to the flats is not yet known.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Floriane Vintras has had partial paralysis since she was young and has been using a wheelchair for the last two years.\n\nShe is now using an exoskeleton developed by the Paris-based start-up Wandercraft to help with her rehabilitation.\n\nAlgorithms and sensors read a person's movement in the suit, meaning that once they lean in a direction, the suit will move.\n\nAs a result, it is hands-free and does not require any upper body support.\n\nMs Vintras started working for Wandercraft after trying out their device.\n\nShe tells BBC Click's LJ Rich how this exoskeleton can be useful.\n\nSee more at Click's website and @BBCClick.", "Adrian Cook said he had not seen his daughter for two years before she died\n\nThe father of a 13-year-old girl who was found hanged said the authorities \"let her down considerably\".\n\nAmber Peat left the Nottinghamshire home she shared with her mother and stepfather after a row. Her body was found three days later, on 2 June 2015.\n\nHer father Adrian Cook and his wife said those responsible for looking after Amber needed holding to account.\n\nThe inquest heard Amber Peat complained to teachers about being punished and made to do chores\n\nThe inquest at Nottingham Coroner's Court heard the opportunities missed by schools and agencies in Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire could have resulted in a referral to social care.\n\nMr Cook said: \"In my mind they let her down considerably.\n\n\"It's a personal fight for me. I'm standing for Amber.\n\n\"Amber wasn't the first and she certainly won't be the last. It's disgraceful.\"\n\nMr Cook said he last saw Amber in 2013 when he took her for a meal.\n\nHe said he found out Amber, who lived in Mansfield, had gone missing when his wife saw something on Facebook.\n\nAmber's body was found close to her home three days after she was reported missing\n\nAfter the three-week inquest, Ms Bower said Amber's mother and stepfather, Kelly and Daniel Peat, had given \"very little, if any, consideration\" to her welfare.\n\nShe also said she considered whether to return a conclusion of suicide but she could not be sure Amber intended to die.\n\nDuring the inquest, Mr and Mrs Peat said allegations about her enduring punishments and excessive chores were untrue.\n\nMr Cook said he was not told when his daughter's surname was changed\n\nThe coroner said the fact Amber saw Mr Cook only twice after her parents separated on Christmas Eve 2012 \"would, no doubt, have had an emotional impact on Amber and a destabilising effect on her life\".\n\nMr Cook said the Peat family would often move around without him knowing and he was not told when his daughter's surname was changed.\n\nAmber's stepmother, Lynda Cook, who has been married to Mr Cook for four-and-a-half years but never met Amber, said they were not made aware of the problems the teenager was having.\n\nShe said: \"Just because Amber's not here to say physically what happened; she told people and spoke to the right people, who should have protected her and done something about it.\n\n\"Anyone who was supposed to be looking after her needs bringing to account. Hopefully that will be done.\"\n\nShe added: \"The first time I saw her in the chapel of rest, I said to Amber, 'We'll get justice for you'.\n\n\"It's what she deserves.\"\n\nYou can see this story in full on BBC Inside Out East Midlands at 19:30 GMT on Monday 25 February.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Melissa McCarthy has an outside chance of adding an Oscar to her Razzie\n\nWith this year's Oscars being handed out on Sunday, Hollywood is in the grip of awards fever. But there are some awards no movie stars want.\n\nThe winners of the Golden Raspberries, for the worst films and performances of the year, have been announced.\n\nSherlock Holmes rehash Holmes & Watson won four including worst film and worst supporting actor for John C Reilly.\n\nMelissa McCarthy won worst actress - despite the fact she is also up for the best actress gong at the actual Oscars.\n\nShe received her Razzie for her roles in both The Happytime Murders and Life of the Party.\n\nHowever, she did receive a consolation in the form of a \"Razzie redeemer award\" for Can You Ever Forgive Me? - the film for which she is nominated for best actress at the real Academy Awards.\n\nShe plays author-turned-conwoman Lee Israel, but she's an outsider for the Oscar - she'll have to beat Glenn Close and Olivia Colman, among others, to win.\n\nEven if she does, she won't be the first person to win an Oscar and a Razzie in the same year.\n\nHolmes and Watson, which starred John C Reilly (left) and Will Ferrell, was panned by critics\n\nSandra Bullock managed that in 2010, when she won the Academy Award for The Blind Side a day after she picked up the raspberry-shaped statuette for All About Steve.\n\nShe even turned up to the Razzies ceremony with a trailer full of DVDs of the offending film.\n\nUnfortunately, McCarthy didn't have the chance to receive her raspberry in person because the Razzies no longer hold a physical award ceremony.\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. Sydney Langton said she would never condone killing animals for taxidermy\n\nIn her spare time, 16-year-old Sydney Langton has a singular passion: stuffing birds and foxes and any other roadkill that comes her way. Here she explains why she loves being a teenage taxidermist.\n\nLook into a freezer belonging to any of my friends and you will most likely find chips, fish-fingers and ice cream.\n\nThat's not the case with me.\n\nMy own personal freezer, stored out in the family shed, is filled with roadkill.\n\nIn it are badgers and foxes, a seagull and duck, some pheasants and partridges.\n\nThey are not to eat, of course, but to stuff, for my rather unusual hobby - especially for a teenage girl - taxidermy.\n\nAdmittedly, it's a niche world. Growing up, while my friends were interested in sport or reading, I was fascinated by dead animals.\n\nSydney only uses animals that have died of natural causes or are roadkill\n\nIf I came across a dead hedgehog or bird, I would poke at it with a stick, or bring it home to examine, marvelling at its anatomy.\n\nMy interest was piqued further when, age eight, I was visiting a friend's house and saw a fox's head on the wall.\n\nWith my parent's help, I bought one off eBay, but swiftly realised this wasn't a sustainable path.\n\nInstead, I began contacting established taxidermists for advice, and for my 13th birthday, my parents paid for me to attend a course where I was taught how to stuff a jay.\n\nIt was quite an involved procedure, learning how to remove the meat off the bones, then separate out the feathers and stuff it with shredded wool.\n\nI had to make precise incisions and use accurate sewing.\n\nFrom there, I gradually expanded my repertoire.\n\nI have done foxes and badgers, stoats and weasels and even an eagle owl, which had been raised in captivity and died aged 10.\n\nI am a member of the Guild of Taxidermists and attend conferences, and although this isn't really a woman's world, or one for teenagers, the experts I've met have been very encouraging and helpful.\n\nMy work was also given a boost when my teachers [at school in Llandudno, Conwy], said I could submit it for my GCSE artwork.\n\nOf course, I know some people find taxidermy squeamish or controversial.\n\nBut I never condone killing animals for taxidermy, and would only ever work with creatures that have died of natural causes or been hit by cars.\n\nWhen I'm working with protected species, like red squirrels, I have to have official documents that prove they have not been killed for the purpose of taxidermy.\n\nPersonally, I think the process is beautiful; I see the creature that was once there.\n\nI also feel it's a way of preserving the animals for education and of keeping a record of that species for years to come.\n\nThe only taxidermy I don't like is pet taxidermy, as I don't feel it can ever truly capture the personality of the animal.\n\nAt work: Sydney says each piece takes days to prepare\n\nMy hobby has led me to become known locally as the 'taxidermy girl'.\n\nNeighbours bang on the door with foxes and magpies, or tell me where roadkill is, which I collect with my dad, Doug, when we're sure it is safe.\n\nI invest a lot of time in my work; a single crow can take 10 hours to stuff, and it can be a hard, frustrating process that can end in tears.\n\nIt is not simply about stuffing an animal.\n\nThe main aim, in fact, is to make the creature look as lifelike as possible by its stance or position, and it takes a lot of skill, which I'm still learning.\n\nMy interest has now grown to the extent I want to be a professional taxidermist when I leave school.\n\nAlready I have some sold some pieces.\n\nSydney's Cabinet of Curiosities for her GCSE artwork\n\nA smaller bird or animal goes for roughly £80, a full badger for £400, and my Eagle Owl is worth £800, but it's not for sale.\n\nPersonally, I love doing birds and one of my ambitions is to taxidermy a peacock.\n\nI do realise this is a niche pastime, but for me, it is one creating art of pure beauty.", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nWales produced a stirring second half to crush England's Grand Slam dream with a record-breaking 12th consecutive Test win.\n\nEngland had led 10-3 at the interval after 20-year-old Tom Curry's first international try garlanded a brutal defensive display.\n\nBut Wales came barrelling back and took the lead with 13 minutes to go when second row Cory Hill smashed over after a relentless series of drives.\n\nAnd with replacement Dan Biggar taking control, Josh Adams sealed it at the death as he claimed his fly-half's cross-field kick to send the Principality Stadium into ear-splitting ecstasy.\n\nIf Wales can beat Scotland in Edinburgh in two weeks' time only Ireland in Cardiff on the final day of the championship will stand between them and a first Grand Slam since 2012.\n\nBut this will go down as another masterclass from their coach Warren Gatland, as England were unable to get close to their form of the opening two rounds.\n• None We let ourselves down - England coach Jones\n• None Hartley ruled out of rest of Six Nations\n\nIt was a frenetic start on an afternoon warm enough to be late April rather than February, both sides looking to kick, Kyle Sinckler charging into tackles with relish as the songs rolled down the stands.\n\nOwen Farrell and Anscombe exchanged penalties and then England struck again, Curry picking and going off an unguarded ruck seven metres out as Justin Tipuric dallied with Ben Youngs.\n\nFarrell's conversion from in front made it 10-3 and the home crowd fell uncharacteristically quiet, the score doubly chastening for Wales after Courtney Lawes had robbed the ball from an opposition maul.\n\nWhen Anscombe's attempted cross-field kick was picked off by Henry Slade it took a desperate tackle from Adams to prevent a second try.\n\nWales were running against a white wall of defenders, Curry and Sinckler relentless, yet Anscombe almost profited when Jones' men lost a scrum against the head and his chip ahead left Youngs scrambling desperately under his own posts.\n\nBut it was England who ended the half in control, Jonny May kicking long down the left wing and bundling the covering Hadleigh Parkes into touch.\n\nJones' men set up a 12-man driving maul that rumbled to the Welsh five-metre line, but Farrell opted to cross-kick to Jack Nowell in the right-hand corner and George North managed to snuff the danger out.\n\nWales had struggled in the first half of their first two games, against France and Italy, but once again they dragged themselves into a contest they had struggled to dictate.\n\nAnscombe banged over a penalty on the angle after May had been penalised for holding on and the margin was down to four points with more than a third of the contest to come.\n\nSinckler had played on the edge throughout but was penalised in the Welsh half for obstructing Anscombe and then again for a high tackle on Alun Wyn Jones in front of his own posts.\n\nAs the England tight-head was hauled off for Harry Williams, Anscombe knocked over the penalty for 10-9 and the home support was alive again.\n\nIt was Anscombe's last act, Biggar thrown on with 20 minutes left, but when Curry won a penalty as Parkes held on 25m out it was his opposite number Farrell with the three points.\n\nBack came Wales. Drive upon drive hammered at the English defence, the big ball-carriers taking it up to within a few metres, the crowd baying as the red shirts got closer.\n\nOn the 35th phase the white line cracked. Hill battered through two men on a clever angle and reached out to nudge the ball on to the try-line, and Biggar's sweet kick from the right touchline made it 16-13.\n\nAnd with England pinned back Adams soared above Elliot Daly to take the ball at the second attempt and flop into the corner.\n\nWelsh dominance in years ending with 'nine' - match stats\n• None Wales continue to dominate this fixture in years ending in 'nine' having won the corresponding fixtures in 1949, 1959, 1969, 1979, 1989, 1999 and 2009.\n• None Warren Gatland's men have won nine straight matches at home for the first time since 1999 - their last defeat in Cardiff came against New Zealand in November 2017.\n• None This is the first Six Nations encounter in the last five to be settled by more than six points.\n• None Wales have won all eight games that Gareth Anscombe has started at fly-half\n\n'England got what they deserved' - what they said\n\nWales head coach Warren Gatland: \"We created lots of problems for ourselves in the first half but we were much better in the second.\n\n\"All that pain and hard work last week in training paid dividends, in the second half tactically we were really good.\n\n\"It's a pretty special group of boys at the moment in fact a brilliant group at the moment.\"\n\nEngland captain Owen Farrell: \"We didn't really get a foothold in the last 30 minutes of the game. We did well in the first half and we had a good go at the start of the second, but then we couldn't get back that momentum.\n\n\"We made a few errors and they did what they did well. We couldn't get out of our half and they managed to build a lot of pressure. It will feel a lot worse than it should now but we will look back on it and learn from what we need to.\"\n\nFormer England international Martin Johnson on BBC TV: \"England got what they deserved, they lost the grip of it and Wales took hold with their first try. They imposed themselves physically, and there was only going to be one winner. There was a period of 20 minutes in the second half where England did nothing.\"\n\nFormer Wales international Shane Williams on Radio 5 live: \"When you see someone like Dan Biggar coming on, you know exactly what to expect.\n\n\"I remember him in his first training session at the Ospreys, and he was telling seasoned professionals what to do. You saw the structure change and he was the difference.\"\n• None Relive the match as it happened\n\nReplacements: 16-Dee (for Owens, 77), 17-Smith (for Evans, 61), 18-Lewis (for Francis, 61), 19-Beard (for Hill, 71), 20-Wainwright (for Moriarty, 77), 21-A Davies (for G Davies, 77), 22-Biggar (for Anscombe, 61), 23-Watkin.\n\nReplacements: 16-Cowan-Dickie, 17-Genge (for Moon, 77), 18-Williams (for Sinckler, 57), 19-Launchbury (for Kruis, 64'), 20-Shields (for Lawes, 77), 21-Robson, 22-Ford, 23-Cokanasiga (for May, 70).", "Cephas Williams is tired of how people look at him when he wears his hoodie.\n\n\"I am a black man with a degree in architecture, and I find I am not taken seriously when I walk into a room full of strangers.\"\n\nCephas is now trying to change perceptions of black men through the use of photography.\n\nThe 27-year-old is an entrepreneur from New Cross, south-east London, who works in the community.\n\nBut he says people don't see him for the person he is - and are quick to judge and stereotype him.\n\nHe is tired of what he calls the negative portrayal of black men within the media and the stigma attached to them in public.\n\n\"I may be sitting on a train and there's a spare seat next to me, and you see people looking to see if it's OK to sit next to me. And I have to gesture to let them know it is safe.\"\n\nUsing social media as a platform, he posts striking headshots of black men in hoodies.\n\nThese men are politicians, directors, teachers - all of them have positive life stories that are irrelevant to the attire they choose to wear.\n\nBut the media very rarely tells those positive stories, he says, so the campaign \"serves as a reminder that for every black man you see represented doing something negative, there are 56 of us that aren't\".\n\nCephas, who founded Drummer Boy Studios, says he wants to show young black boys they can be something other than an entertainer or a criminal.\n\n\"Everyone is talking about knife crime and gang culture and violence and that is not the majority of us.\n\n\"How is that going to change the trajectory or the options for young black boys who are looking at the media and seeing themselves in a negative light all the time?\n\n\"A lot of us have become what we have been portrayed to be and I have had enough.\"\n\nThe men in his campaign say the hoodie is the most demonised outfit, but Cephas talks of having to change his behaviour to make people feel more comfortable even if he's in a suit.\n\n\"It's not nice knowing that I intimidate people. It makes me feel uneasy. I'm an extremely nice person and when I know that people around me feel uncomfortable, I adjust.\"\n\nDespite his qualifications and experience, he often feels he has to change his mannerisms and demeanour and speaks of putting on his \"white voice\" in meetings.\n\nHe hopes that one day, his future children won't have to - and will be comfortable in the skin they have, the way they speak and the clothing they choose to wear - even if it is a hoodie.\n\nWilliam Adoasi is number 42 on the list of 56.\n\nThe entrepreneur from Peckham, south London, says the campaign is powerful \"because it tells the next generation that the majority out there, even those who may not come from ideal backgrounds - are doing great\".\n\nWilliam, 28, owns watch company Vitae London which supports children in sub-Saharan Africa. In just two-and-a-half-years, it has sold products in more than 30 countries, gained Sir Richard Branson as an ambassador and provided more than 2,000 items of school uniform to kids in need.\n\nBut he says this doesn't stop people clutching their purses or crossing the street when he passes by.\n\n\"We have accepted this as the norm, but it shouldn't be for the next generation, they should be comfortable in their own skin and shouldn't feel like they intimidate other people.\n\n\"I really hope that this is a call for action to the media to seek out role models. We can complain about the negative, but if the media don't provide the platform needed to see more positivity, you are facilitating the negative to continue.\"\n\nEven one of the country's most high-profile black politicians says he isn't exempt from stereotypes.\n\n\"It's still too easy for people to fall into lazy impulses about what it means to be a black man in a hoodie,\" Labour MP for Tottenham David Lammy says.\n\n\"I know so many black men doing great things, as postmen, nurses, city traders and fathers. But when these guys put on a hoodie, their success becomes almost invisible.\n\n\"I want to live in a society where I can put on a pair of sweatpants and a hoodie and be seen as who I am: not a thug or a brute, but just a guy going to the gym after a long day at work.\"\n\nCephas says he is tired of asking for change and hopes the campaign will shine the light on successful black men.\n\n\"So much damage has been caused because we have been shoehorned into an identity that does not reflect our full reality.\n\n\"I am taking the shoehorn out and showcasing a bagga man who are doing great things and - who look like me.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Amy-Claire shares what life is like with a terminal illness\n\nAgonising spasms strike Amy-Claire Davies several times a day, and any one of them could kill her.\n\nBorn with an unknown genetic condition, she has to take more than 40 pills every day, lives in pain and needs round-the-clock care.\n\nBut the 24-year-old, who was not expected to live past childhood, has chosen to dream of a bright future focussing on her family, friends, boyfriend and hobbies.\n\n\"Life is amazing,\" she said.\n\nShe says she is part of a \"new generation\" of people who, despite being expected to die as children, are still alive well into adulthood thanks to medical advances.\n\nAmy-Claire lives life to the full despite needing round-the-clock care for her degenerative condition\n\n\"My world is full of love. I love mammy and daddy, and I love our dogs, I love my friends and family and I love bright clothes, films and books and music, I love unicorns, coffee and of course, I love my new boyfriend Blue,\" she added.\n\n\"I have hopes and dreams for an incredible future. All normal stuff - a house, job, family and above all else, happiness and love.\"\n\nAmy-Claire's brain sends the wrong messages to the rest of her body, and any emotion such as feeling anxious, sad or happy can make her spasm.\n\nShe fights for her life every time - struggling for every breath with her heart rate rising to a dangerous level.\n\nAmy-Claire's bowel does not work so she takes four sachets of a laxative every morning, and endures a daily colonic irrigation while singing along to Whigfield's Saturday Night. She has to take the drug fentanyl which would be fatal to most people.\n\nBut she enjoys learning guitar, taking dance classes, yoga and the gym. She trained to swim at the London 2012 Paralympics, but ended up being too ill to compete.\n\nAmy-Claire, aged 10, when it was believed she had cerebral palsy\n\nUnlike most people in their 20s, Amy-Claire, who is from Swansea, has an end-of-life plan in place detailing exactly how she would like her death to be managed and details such as which songs she would like played at her funeral.\n\n\"I'd really like to trade my body in for a new model,\" she said.\n\n\"There's no cure and I literally live my life knowing each day could be my last.\"\n\nAmy-Claire, who describes herself as a \"miracle baby\" as her parents were told they could not have children, was wrongly diagnosed with cerebral palsy as a child.\n\nBut when she hit puberty, the spasms began. And at 15, doctors told Amy-Claire and her parents she could die at any time.\n\nWhen she was 15, doctors told Amy-Claire and her family she could die at any moment\n\n\"I don't ever remember not being ill,\" Amy-Claire said.\n\n\"My friends were growing up, dating and doing all sorts of cool stuff while I was going to a children's hospice... We prepared for the end.\"\n\nShe spent her teenage years in a whirlwind race to achieve 200 bucket list dreams.\n\n\"I'd never expected to grow up, then as I was daring to imagine a future everything changed,\" she said.\n\n\"I'll never forget the day. I was at home just before my 19th birthday. It was the day that I died.\"\n\nA spasm had made Amy-Claire's heart stop. Her mother and then health workers spent eight hours resuscitating her.\n\nFrom then on she and her family were terrified it could happen again and Amy-Claire moved to a residential home in Cardiff for 24-hour care.\n\nAmy-Claire loves travelling and has been to Amsterdam twice\n\nAfter initially fixating on how long she had left, she says she accepts \"I've got as long as I've got\".\n\n\"When I have the really painful ones [spasms], literally my brain just goes 'I wanna die'.\n\n\"I'll just sit there and my brain just goes over and over and over 'I wanna die'.\n\n\"I think the hardest one especially for mum and dad is I'll say sometimes 'why won't you just let me die?'\"\n\nAmy-Claire says she has a constant battle against pain\n\nDue to her spasms, Amy-Claire has been left with post-traumatic stress disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, extreme anxiety and says she has been suicidal.\n\n\"I just got so tired from the constant battle but through therapy and a lot of love and support I'm battling on,\" she added.\n\n\"I'm a strong woman because I was raised by a strong woman.\"\n\nFor Amy-Claire, being alive is about making the most of every day.\n\nHer condition is incurable, but she chooses to be an optimist and dares to think about the future.", "Chris Eubank Jr landed the biggest win of his career to leave James DeGale's future in the balance with a unanimous points victory at London's O2 Arena.\n\nIn a contest which struggled to find a flow, Eubank Jr forced a count in round two after a stinging left hook.\n\nTwo-time world champion DeGale boxed tentatively from range but paid in the 10th when a close-range left hook sent him reeling and forced another count.\n\nDeGale never threatened a stoppage and the cards read 114-112 115-112 117-109.\n\n\"I'm back where I need to be - at the top of the food chain and now I'm coming for all the other belts in the super-middleweight division,\" Eubank Jr, 29, declared.\n\nDeGale, 33, held his hand aloft as the scores were read but he was well beaten by his fellow Englishman and, having stated he would likely retire if he lost, his future in the ring is uncertain.\n\n\"I'm going to go back, talk to my team and talk to my family,\" he said. \"I've been to the heights of boxing, I've won an Olympic gold medal, won the world title twice, made history and I've boxed the best around the world. I've left my mark in boxing.\"\n\nThe 2008 Olympic champion showed swift movement in patches but his single shots from range were overwhelmed by flurries of activity from Eubank Jr.\n\nIn truth, DeGale showed guts to try to keep his feet after left hooks opened him up in the second and 10th, and he somehow stayed upright again after another left hook in the final round.\n\nThe margin of victory even accounted for a point deduction Eubank Jr was handed in the 11th round when, shortly after landing a devastating uppercut, he picked his rival up on his shoulder in a grapple and threw him to the canvas.\n\nIn his first contest under the guidance of trainer Nate Vasquez, Eubank Jr showed more patience than in previous elite-level fixtures and, aside from a brief lull around the midway point, always looked the more dangerous of the two.\n\nThe Brighton fighter answered criticism in performing under pressure having been exposed in defeats to George Groves and Billy Joe Saunders.\n\nHe insisted he had \"made a statement\", while his father - former two-weight world champion Chris Eubank Sr - said he was \"ecstatic\" having said he was \"not convinced\" his son would win in the build-up.\n\n'I dominated' - what they said...\n\nEubank Jr: \"I've been working on my jabs, he is a very slick southpaw but the game plan worked, smart pressure, not getting too ahead of myself, picking my shots and choosing my time to attack.\n\n\"I dominated pretty much every round. He is a hell of a skilled fighter but my heart and tenacity got me there. A lot of people said I was going to get my head jabbed off and not stand with a proven boxer. It was the most important fight of my career and I've made the statement. It is belt season, it is collection season.\"\n\nDeGale: \"Chris is tough, he is a good prospect, he was on it. I just didn't do enough. There were a lot of wild punches, punches I didn't see. He was nicking the rounds and I have to go back and watch it. I just didn't do enough.\"\n\nChris Eubank Sr: \"To get this win tonight and for Junior to be at the top of this pay-per-view channel, we are blessed.\n\n\"Nate Vasquez is a good trainer. He has been effective. I like him. Let's see what Junior can go on and do. When he uses his jab, which he didn't do too much tonight, he can be sensational.\"\n\nLou Di Bella, promoter of Deontay Wilder: Awful fight. Sadly, James appears to have little left in the career tank. Too bad. Looks like a shadow of his old self.\n\nBritish trainer Shane McGuigan: As much as Chris Eubank mocked me in the build up against Groves, it was brilliant to see him elated when Jr's hand was raised. DeGale has to call it a day now and Eubank Jr still needs to work on his footwork to beat the top guys but the division is wide open.\n\nFormer world featherweight champion Barry McGuigan: Spot on from George Groves tonight on ITV. James DeGale should throw in the towel, he's had a great career.\n\nBritish light-middleweight Anthony Fowler: Sad to watch that. Sometimes age catches up with you. I'm gutted for DeGale. He will be remembered as the first Brit to win Olympic gold and then a world title in the pros. #Legend. Well done to Eubank on the win.", "Counter-terrorism police in Leeds have arrested a man on suspicion of the commission, preparation and instigation of terrorist acts.\n\nThe 33-year-old was arrested on Saturday and is being held as part of a pre-planned operation into suspected extreme right-wing activity, West Yorkshire Police said.\n\nThe force added that a property in Leeds was being searched by officers.\n\nSupt Chris Bowen said public safety was their \"top priority\".\n\nHe added: \"If you see or hear something that could be terrorist related, act on your instincts by reporting your concerns.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The 61-year-old actor has been nominated for his role in Will You Ever Forgive Me, but believes Green Book star and Bafta winner Mahershala Ali will beat him to the award.\n\nGrant, who will be seen later this year in the new Star Wars movie, says he has been \"really enjoying the ride\" of the Oscar race.", "The 2018 Oscars directly addressed the #MeToo movement against sexual assault, misconduct and inequality in Hollywood and beyond.\n\nMany believed the culture had shifted dramatically and that a record number of female filmmakers would emerge from the movement.", "Secondary school pupils in England will be taught about the dangers of female genital mutilation (FGM) by 2020.\n\nThe new guidelines, to be announced on Monday, form part of the introduction of compulsory relationships and sex education classes in secondary schools.\n\nThe new guidance says secondary schools should address the physical and emotional damage caused by FGM.\n\nThe practice was outlawed in England, Wales and Northern Ireland in 2003 and in Scotland in 2005.\n\nFGM is the deliberate cutting or removal of a female's external genitalia.\n\nLessons will also raise awareness of the support that is available, and ensure children know that FGM is against the law.\n\nEducation Secretary Damian Hinds said the reforms to relationships and sex education curriculum will ensure young people are taught about different forms of abuse and their rights under the law in an age-appropriate way.\n\nHe said: \"We know that FGM can have a catastrophic effect on the lives of those affected, causing life-long physical and psychological damage.\n\n\"Everyone must do all they can to protect women and girls from this extreme form of gendered violence.\n\n\"There's a legislation aspect, and enforcement, but just as important is awareness and challenging assumptions - which is why we are making sure all pupils are given all the facts at secondary school.\"\n\nAccording to the NSPCC, there are an estimated 137,000 women and girls affected by FGM in England and Wales.\n\nSince July 2015, 296 Female Genital Mutilation Protection Orders have been made to safeguard people at risk.\n\nNimco Ali, FGM campaigner and director of the charity Daughters of Eve, said: \"As a child I had no idea FGM was illegal, I just knew it was painful. It took me years to piece together what happened to me and why I felt the way I did about it.\n\n\"Had I been given the education now being introduced, I would have been able to support those in my family to understand, and prevent other girls from being cut.\"\n\nThe new reforms, which will be presented to Parliament, will include relationship education for primary age pupils, relationships and sex education (RSE) for all secondary pupils.\n\nHealth education will also be taught to pupils of all ages in state-funded schools in England, including academies, grammar schools and free schools.\n\nSecondary school pupils will also be taught about other forms of honour-based abuse, as well as grooming, forced marriage and domestic abuse as part of a strengthened curriculum.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. It’s estimated one in 20 girls and women in the world have undergone some form of FGM\n\nSex and relationship education is part of the curriculum in Wales, but it is not currently compulsory.\n\nThe Welsh government are consulting on new guidance for schools on sexual education, which includes FGM.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, the Department of Education requires each school to have its own written policy on how it will address the delivery of relationship and sexuality education (RSE).\n\nWhilst FGM is not currently in the curriculum, last year the Safeguarding Board for Northern Ireland launched an awareness campaign after the Belfast Trust identified 17 cases of FGM over a nine-month period, involving women aged 24 to 46.\n\nThe curriculum in Scotland is non-statutory and decisions about which topics are included in the curriculum is a matter for schools and local authorities to decide, however new guidance on sex education was introduced in 2014.\n\nAlthough the practice is not covered as part of the curriculum, Scottish ministers published a consultation paper introducing a bill on FGM last year.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Richard E Grant may be one of Britain's big hopes at this year's Oscars - but his role almost went to someone else.\n\nIrish actor Chris O'Dowd was originally cast in Can You Ever Forgive Me? - one of the most prominent films in this year's awards season.\n\nBut the role eventually went to Grant, whose performance scored him both critical acclaim and an Oscar nomination for best supporting actor.\n\n\"What a heartbreak,\" O'Dowd tells BBC News at the Oscar Wilde Awards.\n\n\"We were ready to go, it was myself and Julianne Moore, and we had moved to New York, and maybe two days before we started filming, there was some creative differences that I wasn't really involved in.\"\n\nRichard E Grant and Melissa McCarthy are both nominated for Can You Ever Forgive Me?\n\nThose creative differences also saw the project lose its original director, before Marielle Heller took over. Meanwhile, Melissa McCarthy replaced Moore, and is also in the running for an Oscar.\n\n\"I was surprised, that the film wasn't going ahead at the last minute,\" says O'Dowd. \"But Richard's performance in it is so wonderful, that it feels like it was kind of meant to be.\"\n\nWhich is a diplomatic way to look at it, but surely it's gutting when you see someone else having such success with a job that was originally yours?\n\n\"Totally!\" laughs O'Dowd. \"I know Richard a bit, we've worked together, and watching him go on this journey through the Oscars has been so intoxicating.\n\n\"But definitely I would've preferred if it was me!\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Richard E. Grant 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\nO'Dowd, who now lives in Los Angeles, has starred in films such as Bridesmaids, The Sapphires and Juliet, Naked - the new adaptation of the Nick Hornby novel of the same name.\n\nHe was honoured at Thursday night's Oscar Wilde Awards - dubbed the Irish Oscars - one of the many ceremonies taking place in the days running up to Sunday's Academy Awards.\n\nThe Oscar Wildes are intended to champion relations between the US and Ireland, and the ceremony is hosted by JJ Abrams at his Bad Robot studios in Santa Monica.\n\nAbrams appeared at the party less than a week after completing filming for Star Wars: Episode IX, which is released this December, four years on from his last movie in the series.\n\n\"It's a far bigger movie [than The Force Awakens] in every way, so it was a much bigger challenge,\" the director says of the film, which coincidentally also stars Richard E Grant.\n\n\"Richard was someone who I met when I was in my 20s, I've been a fan of his for a long time, I'm so thrilled we finally got the chance to work together, and he was incredible.\n\n\"I can't wait for you to see him in this. Obviously he's got a nomination on Sunday, a very deserving nomination, I love the man.\"\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 JJ Abrams 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\nOne of this year's Oscar nominees who is considered a dead cert to win is Glenn Close, who is nominated for best actress for her role in The Wife.\n\nLady Gaga and Olivia Colman were the favourites in that category at the beginning of awards season, but momentum turned in Close's favour after a win at the Golden Globes in January.\n\n\"You know the only pressure I feel is I've gotten so much incredible love from people, and I feel like a lot of people are rooting for me,\" Close tells BBC News.\n\n\"And the pressure I feel is that I don't want to let them down. But personally, I'm OK.\"\n\nClose currently is the actress with the most Oscar nominations to her name without a win.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The stars were out in force at the 'Irish Oscars'\n\n\"If I lose,\" she laughs, \"I'll still have that record.\"\n\nThe actress's first nomination was in 1982, when she received a best supporting actress nod for The World According to Garp.\n\n\"I remember when hearing about [the nomination], it was in the basement of the home where we were filming The Big Chill,\" she recalls.\n\n\"And somebody told me I was nominated for an Oscar, and I remember my absolute astonishment, it was so far out of my expectation.\"\n\nWhen receiving her Golden Globe Award last month, Close said on stage: \"I'm so honoured to be with my category sisters. And we've gotten to know each other a little bit so far and I can't wait to spend more time with you.\"\n\nBut they haven't seen quite as much of each other as they would've liked, Close explains.\n\n\"Unfortunately we never get to sit together at any of these events! So I guess the person I've gotten to know the most so far is Melissa McCarthy.\"\n\nIndeed, McCarthy was tasked with presenting Close with an honour at the Oscar Wilde Awards, despite the pair being in competition for the real Oscar.\n\nBut, McCarthy says: \"I never think of it that way. I never think that any of us are up against anybody else.\n\n\"I think it's such a kick to just be a part of this in any way, that I'm just glad I'm here,\" adds the actress, who was excited to be paying tribute to Close on stage later in the evening.\n\n\"[Close] said, 'Don't be too nice to me' and I said, 'I won't be!' So we'll see what I can get away with, I'm really going to try to take Close down tonight!\"", "Regina King and Barry Jenkins both won for If Beale Street Could Talk\n\nIf Beale Street Could Talk was the big winner at Saturday's Independent Spirit Awards, winning three major prizes.\n\nIt took home best feature - the top award at the ceremony - plus best director for Barry Jenkins and best supporting actress for Regina King.\n\nThe Spirits honour low-budget films and are the final major awards season ceremony ahead of the Oscars on Sunday.\n\nBeale Street is Jenkins' first film since Moonlight, which won the best picture Oscar in 2017.\n\nSpeaking to BBC News, the director said he was pleased about the steps forward the Academy has made, or tried to make, in recent years.\n\n\"All this stuff with the popular film, I think all this stuff the Academy is undergoing is a period of extreme evolution, started by [former Academy president] Cheryl Boone Isaacs, there's some growing pains with that,\" Jenkins said.\n\n\"But I think this progress that began 5-10 years ago, if you really dig into it, is ongoing, and I think 5-10 years from now we'll look back and realise the Academy reshaped itself in some really amazing ways.\"\n\nJenkins posed with Alfonso Cuaron, whose film Roma won best international feature\n\nAwards season reaches its climax on Sunday night, with the Oscars taking place at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.\n\nBeale Street may not be nominated for best picture there, but its wins at the Spirits give Regina King some extra momentum as the frontrunner to win best supporting actress.\n\nJenkins said Moonlight winning the top prize at the Oscars two years ago was invaluable in helping his follow-up get made.\n\n\"Winning best picture was crazy, but it afforded me a lot of opportunities,\" he said.\n\n\"So getting it funded was quite simple ultimately, but I think adapting such an interior text, that was the challenge.\"\n\nJenkins has spoken before about the difficulties of translating non-linear format of the book, where the reader benefits from hearing the interior voices of the characters, to the big screen.\n\nSpeaking about the writer of the novel, Jenkins said: \"I love James Baldwin, and I've always wanted to adapt my favourite author.\n\n\"Black authors haven't been adapted at the same rate as their white peers. Megan Ellison [founder of Annapurna Pictures] said she wanted to support this black literary adaptation, and I was all about it.\"\n\nRichard E Grant was among the British winners at the Independent Spirits, taking home best supporting actor - a win he said he was \"utterly overwhelmed\" by.\n\nGlenn Close, a winner at the ceremony herself, presented Richard E Grant with his award\n\nIt's unlikely he will win in the same category at the Oscars, however, as there has been a clear favourite through the rest of awards season.\n\n\"It has been carved in stone for the last month that a wonderful brilliant actor called Mahershala Ali has got the award already,\" he told BBC News of the Green Book star.\n\n\"So the other four nominees, we're just enjoying the ride of it.\"\n\nHe added that the number of work offers he receives has drastically increased since his Oscar nomination.\n\n\"I have new representation in Los Angeles, and I've been sent a lot of scripts which I've never had in this quantity before in my career. But I'm sure it'll all pumpkin ride before Monday,\" he laughed.\n\nGlenn Close continued her sweep of awards season at the Spirits, taking home another trophy for best actress for her role in The Wife.\n\nShe is almost certain to win the same award at the Oscars - ending her record as the actress with the most nominees without a win.\n\nBut she played down the competitive element, telling BBC News: \"It's very hard for me to accept a win-lose situation.\n\n\"I don't think there are any losers. So to say 'I hope I win', it doesn't sit well with me, because look who's in my category and look at the incredible work that's being done.\n\n\"I think it's a huge honour at this point in my career to be in that room with some of the most creative people on the planet.\"\n\nTilda Swinton's 2017 film Okja was also released primarily on Netflix\n\nOf course, the front runner for best picture at the Oscars this year remains Roma - which won best international film at the Spirits.\n\nDespite having a limited theatrical release, its main platform was Netflix.\n\nIt's a sign that traditional film bodies are starting to show less hostility and resistance towards movies made or released by streaming services.\n\n\"I hope that Netflix are going to build some nice big cinemas in every single city around the world,\" actress Tilda Swinton told BBC News.\n\n\"That's what I want them to do... and then they'll prove that they're really dedicated to big screen entertainment.\"\n\nThe actress is someone who knows about potential snobbery towards streaming - her Netflix movie Okja proved controversial when it was shown at the Cannes Film Festival last year.\n\nSwinton said the company have indicated to her they would consider making further inroads into movie theatres, adding that \"they've got the money\" to build their own cinemas.\n\n\"I have talked to them about it, and they've made some very encouraging noises so, let's hope they do it,\" she said.\n\nAmanda Seyfried accepted the best actor prize on behalf of co-star Ethan Hawke\n\nBest feature - If Beale Street Could Talk\n\nBest supporting female - Regina King, If Beale Street Could Talk\n\nBest supporting male - Richard E. Grant, Can You Ever Forgive Me?\n\nBest director - Barry Jenkins, If Beale Street Could Talk\n\nBest first feature - Sorry to Bother You\n\nBest screenplay - Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty, Can You Ever Forgive Me?\n\nBest documentary - Won't You Be My Neighbour?", "Rachel Tucker plays a pilot in Come From Away\n\nThe aftermath of the 9/11 attacks might not seem like the most obvious inspiration for a musical, but it's the subject of a new West End show.\n\nCome From Away tells the true story of a small Canadian town that took in 7,000 stranded plane passengers after the attacks.\n\nThe Broadway production won the Tony award for best direction.\n\nHowever, some critics of the London version felt the show glossed over the trauma of 9/11.\n\nIt's not the most unusual subject to become a musical, though. Here are six other real-life and fictional stories that got the song and dance treatment.\n\nCarrie was a successful film, starring Sissy Spacek, before it became a musical flop\n\nPlots about teenagers coming of age are something of a musical staple.\n\nBut while the likes of West Side Story continue to delight audiences, the public didn't take a musical version of Stephen King's horror novel Carrie to their hearts.\n\nThe song and dance routine about slaughtering a pig, at the opening of the second act, might have put some theatre-goers off.\n\nBroadway's most notorious flop ran for only three days, when it opened in 1988. An off-Broadway revival in 2012 fared slightly better, but still closed early.\n\nMore than 20 years after her death, Princess Diana's life story continues to fascinate writers.\n\nShe's already inspired a 2013 film starring Naomi Watts and the Monica Ali novel Untold Story. A musical about her life begins previews in the US on Tuesday.\n\nDiana: A New Musical focuses on Diana's life in her twenties and features 23 songs from Bon Jovi's keyboard player David Bryan.\n\nBryan says he's used different musical styles to represent each character: \"Diana is pop-rock, royalty is string quartet, we have paparazzi as punk guitars and we try to make all those roles live on top of each other.\"\n\nEarly readings of the musical were closed to critics, so we'll have to wait until the first preview to find out more.\n\nThis isn't the first musical to be written about Diana. Footage of a different production at a Tennessee community theatre has become a viral hit on social media.\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 Ryan Bloomquist 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\nIf that's piqued your interest, you can watch the whole show here.\n\nCereal cafe founders Alan and Gary Keery didn't expect their shop to spark protests...let alone a musical\n\nThe story of the opening of the Cereal Killer cafe in east London has been made into a musical.\n\nThe cafe, which went on to become a chain, sparked angry protests from locals when it opened in Shoreditch in 2014.\n\nThe musical, originally called Spilt Milk and now renamed The Cereal Cafe, has been in development for two years.\n\nThe news that the hipster cafe was to become a musical did not go down well with some on social media.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA workshop version of The Cereal Cafe opens in London later this month for a three-day run, so you can see for yourself if it really heralds the end of civilisation.\n\nUrinetown is set in a society where everyone must pay to pee\n\nGreg Kotis got the idea for his toilet-themed musical, Urinetown, when he encountered his first pay-per-use public loo.\n\nThe satirical show is set in a future where private toilets have been banned, after years of drought.\n\nCritics and audiences managed to see past the show's rather unappealing name. Urinetown ran on Broadway for three years and scooped a trio of Tonys.\n\nThe news that the show was to open in London in 2014 led many reviewers to break out their worst toilet puns. The best of the bunch came from The Guardian's Michael Billington, who dubbed Urinetown \"the Spend-a-Penny Opera that's a welcome relief\".\n\nThe Shroud of Turin is a strip of linen that some people believe was used to wrap Jesus's body after the crucifixion\n\nWho wouldn't want to see a musical about a scientist who becomes obsessed with finding out whether the Shroud of Turin really was Jesus's burial cloth?\n\nBefore you answer, keep in mind that it features a high-kicking priest, dancing nuns, and such timeless lyrics as: \"To measure the darkness, you must stand in the dark. But when you stand in the dark, you cannot see a thing.\"\n\nDespite this, almost nobody went to see the 1986 Broadway musical Into The Light.\n\nIt closed after just six performances.\n\nThe cast of Triassic Parq do their best dinosaur impressions in rehearsals\n\nIf you ever wanted to watch Jurassic Park told from the point of view of the dinosaurs, then the 2012 off-Broadway musical comedy Triassic Parq is for you.\n\nDescribed by the New York Times as a \"bawdy tribute to dinosaurs and their newfound genitalia\", the show follows a group of dinosaurs whose lives are thrown into chaos when one of the females spontaneously turns male.\n\nNeedless to say, the show didn't achieve quite the same success as the Michael Crichton novel or the Stephen Spielberg film that inspired it.\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.", "The Brexit vote must not be frustrated and the government needs to maintain an \"absolute\" focus on delivering it, Theresa May has said.\n\nIn a speech to Tory activists the PM said, as her negotiations with the EU reach their final stages, the \"worst thing we could do is lose our focus\".\n\nIt came as three pro-EU cabinet members warned they could vote to delay Brexit to prevent a \"disastrous\" no-deal.\n\nBut Mrs May said there must be no party \"purges\" over MPs with differing views.\n\nAhead of crucial votes in the Commons next week, Greg Clark, Amber Rudd and David Gauke told the Daily Mail they would be prepared to defy the prime minister and vote for a delay.\n\nThe intervention led to calls for their resignations by Tory Brexiteers.\n\nThe UK remains on course to leave the European Union on 29 March.\n\nHowever, the government has repeatedly refused to rule out the possibility of the UK leaving without a formal deal, in the event that Mrs May cannot get MPs to approve the deal she negotiated with Brussels in time.\n\nMrs May's speech to the National Conservative Convention in Oxford on Saturday evening came as MPs prepare for a series of votes on Wednesday which could see Parliament take control of the Brexit process.\n\nDelegates at the convention overwhelmingly backed a symbolic motion saying Brexit should not be delayed, and leaving without an agreement should remain an option.\n\nMr Clark, the business secretary, along with Ms Rudd, the work and pensions secretary, and the justice secretary, Mr Gauke, had earlier said they would be prepared to defy Mrs May and vote for a delay to Brexit.\n\nThey argued there \"simply will not be time to agree a deal and complete all the necessary legislation\" unless a deal is approved in the coming days.\n\nAn amendment tabled by former Tory minister Sir Oliver Letwin and Labour's Yvette Cooper would give Parliament the opportunity to delay Brexit and prevent a no-deal situation if there is no agreement with the EU by the middle of March.\n\nBut Mrs May told activists: \"Our focus to deliver Brexit must be absolute.\n\n\"We must not, and I will not, frustrate what was the largest democratic exercise in this country's history. In the very final stages of this process, the worst thing we could do is lose our focus.\"\n\nMrs May also said there should be no moves to deselect MPs because of their views on Brexit.\n\nThe resignations of three pro-Remain Tory MPs - Anna Soubry, Heidi Allen and Sarah Wollaston - to join a group of Labour defectors in the new Independent Group reduced the Tories working majority in Parliament to eight.\n\nMrs May said: \"No-one gets more frustrated than I do when people vote against the whip, particularly given the tight Parliamentary arithmetic that we face.\n\n\"But we are not a party of purges and retribution. We called a referendum and let people express their views - so we should not be seeking to deselect any of our MPs because of their views on Brexit.\n\n\"Our party is rightly a broad church - on that and other issues.\"\n\nMrs May is expected to hold talks with EU figures in Sharm el-Sheikh\n\nMrs May is expected to hold talks with European Council president Donald Tusk and other key EU figures in Egypt later during a summit between leaders of EU and Arab league countries.\n\nBut Downing Street has played down hopes of a breakthrough on her Brexit deal being reached in Sharm el- Sheikh.\n\nThe summit is the first between leaders of EU and Arab league countries and will focus on tackling concerns over security and migration, and boosting trade.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tom Watson: \"I know that he (Jeremy Corbyn) will... share my horror\"\n\nJeremy Corbyn must take a \"personal lead\" over claims of anti-Semitism in the Labour Party, his deputy has said.\n\nTom Watson told the BBC's Andrew Marr that there was a \"crisis for the soul\" of the party, fearing more MPs might follow the nine who resigned this week.\n\nBut he said with the situation being so \"grave\", Mr Corbyn understood he needed to make a \"personal intervention\".\n\nA Labour spokesman said the party takes all complaints about anti-Semitism \"extremely seriously\".\n\nMr Watson said he had sent 50 such complaints to his leader this week.\n\nThe deputy leader's comments follow the resignations of nine Labour MPs - eight of which have joined The Independent Group.\n\nOne its members, the former Labour MP Luciana Berger, was subjected to anti-Semitic abuse while a member of the party,\n\nAppearing on the Andrew Marr Show before Mr Watson, Ms Berger criticised the party's culture, saying: \"My values haven't changed. I am the same person. It is my party that has changed.\"\n\nLuciana Berger quit the Labour Party on Monday over its handling of anti-Semitism\n\nMr Watson said Ms Berger had been \"bullied out of the party by a small number of racist thugs\", and attempts to stamp out anti-Semitism so far had \"not been adequate\" and \"have not succeeded\".\n\nHe said Mr Corbyn needed to \"rebuild that trust\" with the Jewish community across the country and it will be his \"test as leader\" to eradicate anti-Semitism from the party.\n\n\"Of course Jeremy [Corbyn] needs to understand that if we're going to be in No 10, he needs to change the Labour Party and there are things we need to do,\" he said.\n\n\"We've got to eradicate anti-Semitism, anti-Jewish racism in all its forms [and] for us to address that now, I think he needs to take a personal lead on examining those cases and if necessary, recommend it to our NEC (National Executive Committee) what needs to be done.\"\n\nMr Watson also criticised the language of shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry, who said those who resigned from her party had \"betrayed\" their seats and would be \"crushed\" if by-elections were held.\n\nShe told a Labour rally in Broxtowe, Nottinghamshire, that she would rather die than join a new party.\n\nMr Watson said he thought \"dying is a virtue that is over-rated\" and said it was \"incumbent on all of us to dial down the rhetoric\".\n\nAfter his appearance, a Labour Party spokesman said: \"The Labour Party takes all complaints of anti-Semitism extremely seriously and we are committed to challenging and campaigning against it in all its forms.\n\n\"All complaints about anti-Semitism are investigated in line with our rules and procedures and any appropriate disciplinary action is taken.\"", "The Border Force operation could be seen from St Margaret's Bay\n\nA family of seven were found by police after an empty dinghy was spotted drifting off the coast of Kent, the Home Office has said.\n\nThe group - a mother, father and five children - have been transferred to immigration officials for interview.\n\nThe Home Office said the boat, seen off the coast at Kingsdown at about 04:20 GMT, was recovered a mile offshore.\n\nFour lifeboats were launched and the Coastguard helicopter was scrambled in an effort to locate it.\n\nThe Border Force was \"confident\" the vessel had been used for a migrant crossing, the Home Office said.\n\n\"Today Border Force responded to an incident in Kingsdown, Kent, following reports of a boat in the Channel.\n\n\"Since the home secretary declared a major incident in December we have tripled the number of cutters operating in the Channel, agreed a joint action plan with France and increased activity out of the Joint Co-ordination and Information Centre in Calais.\"\n\nThe Home Office said the number of people trying to cross the Channel fell from about 250 in December to about 90 last month, adding that roughly half of the January attempts were intercepted in France before they could make it to British waters.\n\nHM Coastguard said earlier that it helped Border Force officials in the search.\n\nThe RNLI said an earlier report that a migrant had walked into Walmer lifeboat station was mistaken.\n\nA Border Force vessel was seen returning to Folkestone\n\nOn 18 February, 34 people - including men, women and children - were brought to shore at Dover from a small boat discovered in the Channel.\n\nAt least 91 people have made the 21-mile journey between France and England in small boats this year.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Security forces cordoned off the plane when it landed in Chittagong\n\nA passenger suspected of attempting to hijack a flight from Bangladesh to Dubai has been shot dead by Bangladeshi special forces, local media report.\n\nThe suspect, who reportedly warned he had a pistol, was killed when security forces stormed the plane after it made an emergency landing in Chittagong.\n\nAll 148 passengers and crew on board the Biman Bangladesh Airlines Flight BG147 disembarked safely.\n\nIt is not yet clear why the suspect may have attempted to hijack the plane.\n\nArmy officials said the man, believed to be aged 25, was initially wounded when shots were fired on Sunday but died shortly afterwards, AFP news agency reports.\n\n\"We tried to arrest him or get him to surrender but he refused and then we shot him,\" Maj Gen Motiur Rahman told reporters.\n\n\"He is a Bangladeshi. We found a pistol from him and nothing else,\" he added.\n\nEarlier reports suggested that the suspect may have been mentally ill and had demanded to speak with Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who was visiting the coastal city of Chittagong.\n\nStaff on board the flight raised concerns after the man was said to have been acting suspiciously and indicating intent to hijack the plane, Reuters news agency reports, quoting airline officials.\n\nThe aircraft was immediately cordoned off when it landed at the Shah Amanat International airport in Chittagong as officers attempted to talk to the suspect.\n\nImages posted on social media showed crowds of people on the tarmac at the airport with the Boeing 737-800 aircraft visible in the background.\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 Sidhant Sibal This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe flight was originally scheduled to arrive in Dubai on Sunday evening after departing from Dhaka.", "The taoiseach was speaking at a EU-Arab League joint summit in Egypt on Sunday\n\nThe Republic of Ireland is \"not playing chicken\" with its stance on the Brexit backstop, Leo Varadkar has warned.\n\nThe taoiseach (Irish prime minister) was speaking in Egypt on Sunday as Theresa May attempts to seek changes to her rejected withdrawal agreement.\n\nHe reiterated that his government would not accept a time limit on the backstop or a unilateral exit clause for the UK.\n\n\"We are not playing poker, we are just standing by our position which has been solid since day one,\" he said.\n\n\"We are happy to discuss with the United Kingdom assurances that they may need to give them further confidence that the backstop - were it ever applied - will not be permanent,\" he told reporters at an EU-Arab League summit.\n\nHis comments come as the prime minister announced that MPs will have a final vote on the Brexit deal on 12 March.\n\nThe taoiseach said the announcement would have no impact on the position of the Republic of Ireland or the EU.\n\nEarlier, Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney stated that his country could not be asked to \"compromise on something as fundamental as the peace process\".\n\nHowever, he said Ireland could show more flexibility after a deal has been done.\n\nMr Coveney told Sky News said that while the EU stands firm on not changing the withdrawal agreement\n\nOn Friday, his government unveiled the major legislation it has prepared to manage a no-deal scenario.\n\nIt covers a wide range of emergency measures that will be enacted if the UK leaves the EU without a deal.\n\nMrs May has ruled out a parliamentary vote on the deal before the end of February.\n\nShe is trying to renegotiate the backstop - the insurance policy to prevent the return of physical checks on the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.\n\nMr Coveney told Sky News said that while the EU stands firm on not changing the withdrawal agreement it is trying to \"provide reassurance and clarification for the British parliament to allow them to ratify this deal\".\n\nHe said Brexit was \"not just about Westminster\".\n\n\"If Britain wants a deal you can't ask Ireland to compromise on something as fundamental as a peace process and relationships linked to the Good Friday Agreement in order to get a deal through,\" he said.\n\nMr Coveney added that the government's position was \"about placating a group in the Conservative Party who are insisting on moving the prime minister away from her own policies\".\n\n\"The backstop was a British government construct as much as it was an EU and Irish government construct.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"This is about a shared responsibility,\" he added.\n\nHe again reiterated the need for a guarantee to those in border counties that they will not face physical or security border infrastructure.\n\n\"Surely that not an unreasonable request.\"\n\nThe UK remains on course to leave the European Union on 29 March.\n\nHowever, the government has repeatedly refused to rule out the possibility of the UK leaving without a formal deal, in the event that Mrs May cannot get MPs to approve the deal she negotiated with Brussels in time.\n\nFinding a solution for the Irish border is a major sticking pointing the Brexit talks\n\nMrs May is expected to hold talks with European Council president Donald Tusk and other key EU figures in Egypt later during a summit between leaders of EU and Arab league countries.\n\nBut Downing Street has played down hopes of a breakthrough on her Brexit deal being reached in Sharm el- Sheikh.\n\nThe summit is the first between leaders of EU and Arab league countries and will focus on tackling concerns over security and migration, and boosting trade.", "Last updated on .From the section League Cup\n\nManchester City won the Carabao Cup in a penalty shootout at Wembley after Chelsea goalkeeper Kepa Arrizabalaga defied manager Maurizio Sarri's attempt to substitute him.\n\nCity claimed the first major trophy as they chase a historic quadruple but this stale final, which was goalless after extra time, will be remembered for an almost unprecedented challenge to Sarri's authority by Kepa.\n\nThe £71m Spanish keeper, Chelsea's club record signing, had been struggling with cramp in the closing stages of extra time and Sarri decided to send on substitute Willy Caballero, who saved three penalties in a shootout to help Manchester City win this trophy against Liverpool in 2016.\n\nKepa refused to come off and Sarri backed down in a rage - before City won the shootout, with Raheem Sterling scoring the decisive penalty.\n• None 'This was a painful, public indignity' - has Sarri been fatally undermined?\n• None Carabao Cup final reaction from Wembley as Man City beat Chelsea on penalties\n• None Keeper refuses to come off - how bizarre episode unfolded\n\nIlkay Gundogan, Sergio Aguero and Bernardo Silva scored from the spot for City and even though Kepa saved from Leroy Sane it was to no avail.\n\nJorginho's spot-kick was saved by Ederson and David Luiz hit the post as Chelsea were sunk, despite Cesar Azplicueta, Emerson and Eden Hazard converting their penalties.\n\nCity retained the trophy but Kepa's insubordination is the headline story.\n\nThe scenes inside Chelsea's dressing room hardly bear thinking about after the chaos of those closing moments at Wembley.\n\nKepa's point-blank refusal to be replaced by Caballero led to furious exchanges between Sarri and his technical staff, with the Italian manager looking at one stage as if he would storm away and leave his Chelsea players to it for the conclusion.\n\nHe eventually returned but blazing with fury. Antonio Rudiger then restrained Sarri as he appeared set on confronting Kepa after his one-man rebellion.\n\nOf course, the goalkeeper was seriously at fault, showing his manager a complete lack of respect in ignoring his demands.\n\nWhat, however, does this say about Sarri's authority and rule at Stamford Bridge that he backed down instead of demanding the goalkeeper obey his demands?\n\nThe sad aspect was that this was a tactically sound and spirited Chelsea display, in sharp contrast to the 6-0 mauling at Manchester City on 10 February.\n\nChelsea grew into the game and consider themselves unfortunate to lose in this manner - but the ramifications of those closing moments will reverberate around Stamford Bridge and could have very serious consequences for both Sarri and his goalkeeper.\n\nCity claimed the first of the four trophies on their agenda without being at their silky, creative best.\n\nPep Guardiola's side were stifled by Sarri's astute game plan but stuck at it and did the job on penalties, they only way they could break Chelsea's resistance.\n\nThe win may come at a price, with Fernandinho injured, but the top sides can find a way to prevail when not at their peak and this was City delivering a prime example.\n\nBernardo Silva kept City ticking over throughout and while a City quadruple is still a distant prospect, they have hit their first target.\n\nThis was a final that will always be recalled for what happened in the other camp but City were not concerned about that as they celebrated wildly on the Wembley turf.\n\nSix of the best - the stats\n• None Manchester City have won the League Cup for a sixth time - only Liverpool (eight) have won the trophy more in the competition's history.\n• None The past two League Cup finals to go to penalties have both been won by City (also 2016 against Liverpool).\n• None This was the first League Cup final to end goalless since 2009, when Manchester United beat Tottenham on penalties.\n• None The past two occasions that City have failed to score in a match this season have come against Chelsea (also 0-2 at Stamford Bridge in December).\n• None The first shot of the match came in the 22nd minute, while the first shot on target wasn't until the 43rd minute.\n• None Callum Hudson-Odoi - aged 18 years and 109 days - became Chelsea's second-youngest player to appear in a League Cup final, after John Boyle (18 years 80 days) in 1965.\n• None Two of the four finals involving Pep Guardiola as a manager to have gone to penalties have been against Chelsea, with Guardiola winning both (also 2013 Super Cup with Bayern Munich).\n• None Goal! Chelsea 0(3), Manchester City 0(4). Raheem Sterling (Manchester City) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the top left corner.\n• None Goal! Chelsea 0(3), Manchester City 0(3). Eden Hazard (Chelsea) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the high centre of the goal.\n• None Goal! Chelsea 0(2), Manchester City 0(3). Bernardo Silva (Manchester City) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the centre of the goal.\n• None Penalty missed! Still Chelsea 0(2), Manchester City 0(2). David Luiz (Chelsea) hits the right post with a right footed shot.\n• None Penalty saved! Leroy Sané (Manchester City) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity, left footed shot saved in the bottom left corner.\n• None Goal! Chelsea 0(2), Manchester City 0(2). Emerson (Chelsea) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the bottom right corner.\n• None Goal! Chelsea 0(1), Manchester City 0(2). Sergio Agüero (Manchester City) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.\n• None Goal! Chelsea 0(1), Manchester City 0(1). César Azpilicueta (Chelsea) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the top right corner.\n• None Goal! Chelsea 0, Manchester City 0(1). Ilkay Gündogan (Manchester City) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Penalty saved! Jorginho (Chelsea) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity, right footed shot saved in the centre of the goal.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match Kepa Arrizabalaga (Chelsea) because of an injury.\n• None Attempt saved. Sergio Agüero (Manchester City) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Leroy Sané.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Ireland's defence of their Six Nations crown remains alive but only just after a laboured bonus-point win over Italy.\n\nQuinn Roux, Jacob Stockdale, Keith Earls and Conor Murray scored the tries as the champions held on for victory.\n\nItaly led at half-time with tries from Edoardo Padovani and Luca Morisi but were unable to score after the break.\n\nReplacement Ian McKinley missed a stoppage-time penalty as Italy could not even salvage the losing bonus point their efforts deserved.\n\nThe win sends Ireland up to third place in the championship table but Joe Schmidt's side will now need a massive slice of luck to retain their title.\n\nItaly's run of Six Nations defeats stretches to 20 but head coach Conor O'Shea will take encouragement from a superb first-half display that left Ireland rattled at the break.\n\nIreland fly-half Johnny Sexton stalked off the field in the dying minutes and swung a kick at a water bottle on a frustrating night for the holders.\n\nNeeding to win by a large margin to boost their title credentials, Ireland went in search of tries from the off but were ultimately undone by their own handling and line-out inaccuracies.\n\nItaly threatened to produce a major scare as they came charging back from 3-12 behind to lead 16-12 at the break, but the tries by Earls and Murray at least insured the Grand Slam champions remain in contention with two rounds remaining.\n\nA composed start by Ireland and some poor discipline by the home side produced an early try for the visitors as the game started along predicted lines.\n\nSexton kept the hosts pinned within their own half with a series of booming touch-finding kicks and the pressure eventually produced a try in the 12th minute.\n\nThe Irish attack steadily retained possession and forced their way up to the Italy posts before Roux muscled over for his first Six Nations try.\n\nA jinking break by Earls almost delivered another try for replacement Andrew Conway just moments later before Tommaso Allan kicked Italy's first points.\n\nFrom the restart, Ireland pushed further clear when Michele Campagnaro fumbled and Stockdale pounced without hesitation and flashed over for a lightning-quick score.\n\nItaly may have been without their captain Sergio Parisse but the returning Tito Tebaldi deputised as his side's main driving force and helped to wrestle away momentum from the visitors.\n\nThe Benetton scrum-half, who had almost scrambled over for a try before Allan's first penalty, took a quick tap-and-go that surprised the Irish defence and dashed upfield before chipping over the advancing Rob Kearney only for Jordi Murphy to rescue Ireland at the foot of his own posts.\n\nUndaunted, Italy came again and when Ireland lost a line-out in their own half the hosts raided down the left through full-back Jayden Hayward before a delightful skip pass by Allan sent Padovani over for a superb score.\n\nThe crowd were now in full voice and they were rewarded just before half-time when Tebaldi plucked the ball from Conor Murray's grasp and powered into Irish territory.\n\nThe visitors desperately retreated to defend but Chris Farrell could not stop Morisi from barrelling over for a stunning score that sent the hosts into the dressing room with a four-point lead.\n\nSexton could not get his kick-off to travel 10 metres at the start of the second half as the expected Irish fight back began with a whimper.\n\nHooker Sean Cronin was brought off shortly afterwards when another of his line-out throws went astray as the visitors' frustration continued to build.\n\nAnother relentless multi-phase attack was finally rewarded when Earls spotted a mismatch and danced inside Dean Budd and Tebaldi to regain Ireland's lead with Murray taking over the place-kicking duties to slot the conversion.\n\nEarls almost cut through for another score on the hour when a trademark set-piece attack sent the Munster wing through a narrow gap but he could not find the supporting Stockdale with his offload.\n\nInstead, Murray took on the responsibility for the bonus-point try as the scrum-half cajoled his pack forwards in a powerful maul before scooping up the ball and dotting down for the try.\n\nThe champions still had 14 minutes remaining to try and chase points but instead it was Italy who came closest to scoring again only for Federico Ruzza to concede a penalty while camped on the Irish tryline.\n\nHaving won the first turnover for his team in the opening minutes the Ireland skipper came up with another important steal as Italy threatened to regain the lead during the second half. He may never be the biggest tackler or fastest in the loose but he always comes up with big plays at big moments.\n\n'We had to get back to basics' - what they said\n\nIreland head coach Joe Schmidt: \"The bottom line is the win and the bonus point. We will go home happy with the points haul but not the performance. Credit to Italy, they made it very tough at the ruck area and put us under pressure.\n\n\"Our performance was summed up in the last play, where Jacob Stockdale does brilliantly to get out of our half but then we are one pass from scoring and it goes to ground. We have to be more accurate than that.\"\n\nIreland skipper Peter O'Mahony: \"At half-time we spoke about how we needed to make the ball stick a bit more, a little bit more accuracy. We were nearly trying too hard at times and forcing things so we just had to go back to the things that work so well for us and get back to basics a little.\"\n\nItaly head coach Conor O'Shea: \"We talked about trying to play with ambition and intensity which we did, but we gifted Stockdale a try. We lost players and had second rows playing in the back row. We have to create a consistency to get to where we want but hopefully people will see this is not an Italy side that is going to roll over.\n\nFormer Ireland flanker Chris Henry on BBC Radio Ulster: \"We know with the quality of players Ireland have, they should have had a more convincing win. Johnny Sexton was frustrated with his performance and Italy should be proud of their performance. There is a lot to work on ahead of what is a big game now against France.\"\n\nReplacements: Bigi, Traore (for Lovotti, 60), Pasquali (for Ferrari, 51), Sisi (for Tuivati, 51), Zanni (for Mbanda, 43), Palazzani (for Ferrari, 51), McKinley (for Allan, 73), Castello (for Campagnaro, 72).\n\nReplacements: Scannell (for Cronin, 47), McGrath (for Kilcoyne, 62), Ryan (for Furlong, 62), Henderson (for Roux, 57), Van der Flier (for O'Brien, 57), Cooney (for Murray, 70), Carty (for Sexton, 77), Conway (for Aki, 12).\n• None How to follow the Six Nations on the BBC", "A man has had to cancel milk deliveries to his home, ordered in a bid to cut down on plastic, because the bottles were repeatedly stolen from his doorstep.\n\nAndrew Laws captured the thefts outside his Ipswich home on CCTV on nine occasions between October and February, and provided footage to the police, but said it had happened about 50 times in a year.\n\nSometimes he even got up at 03:00 to bring the milk inside his home before it was taken.", "Tommy Robinson led a protest outside the BBC offices in Salford earlier on Saturday\n\nAbout 4,000 people joined former English Defence League leader Tommy Robinson in a protest against the BBC.\n\nThe corporation confirmed an upcoming Panorama episode was investigating Mr Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon.\n\nHe criticised the programme at the rally outside the BBC's Salford offices. About 500 people attended a counter-protest by anti-fascists.\n\nThe BBC said the episode would follow its \"strict editorial guidelines\".\n\nA counter-protest was also held at MediaCityUK by anti-fascists\n\nMr Yaxley-Lennon said the aim of the protest was to make a stand \"against the corrupt media\" and called for the BBC licence fee to be scrapped.\n\nDuring the rally, undercover filming of BBC Panorama journalist John Sweeney, carried out by a supporter of Mr Yaxley-Lennon, was broadcast on a large screen.\n\nMr Sweeney is heard saying \"one of my political heroes is the former head of the IRA Martin McGuinness\", which the BBC says was taken out of context as Mr Sweeney was referencing Mr McGuinness's role in the peace process.\n\nMr McGuinness, who, as a prominent Sinn Fein politician, became Northern Ireland's deputy first minister, had acknowledged he was a member of the IRA. He died in 2017.\n\nMr Sweeney was also recorded making remarks which Tommy Robinson has described as racist, homophobic and anti-working class.\n\nIn response, a BBC spokeswoman said: \"The BBC strongly rejects any suggestion that our journalism is 'faked' or biased.\n\n\"Any programme we broadcast will adhere to the BBC's strict editorial guidelines.\n\n\"Some of the footage which has been released was recorded without our knowledge during this investigation and John Sweeney made some offensive and inappropriate remarks, for which he apologises. BBC Panorama's investigation will continue.\"\n\nTommy Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, spoke to a crowd of about 4,000\n\nUKIP leader Gerard Batten told demonstrators that Mr Yaxley-Lennon \"speaks up for things that are right, he tells the truth and he can mobilise lots of people like you, and that's what they fear\".\n\nA rally organiser also took to the stage and told demonstrators: \"Don't touch the photographers or any of the media companies. Let them be. Just for today.\"\n\nThe National Union of Journalists (NUJ) said they \"roundly condemn Tommy Robinson... and his fellow, far-right thugs who intend to intimidate staff at the corporation, particularly those working on Panorama\".\n\n\"BBC staff should be free to do their jobs without these threats,\" the NUJ spokesperson added.\n\n\"Intimidation, threats and violence carried out by far-right protesters systematically targeting the media, especially photojournalists, are becoming more frequent and we will always call out this behaviour and report criminal activity to the police.\"\n\nIn May 2018, Mr Yaxley-Lennon was jailed for potentially prejudicing two court cases - in Canterbury and Leeds - after having been found to have broken contempt of court laws by live-streaming outside them on social media.\n\nThe Court of Appeal later quashed the Leeds conviction and ordered that it be reheard in its entirety.\n\nMr Yaxley-Lennon is waiting for a decision from the attorney general on whether he will face a full trial for the alleged contempt outside Leeds Crown Court - the ruling that he committed contempt of court by live-streaming in Canterbury still stands.\n\nHe told the Salford protest: \"I want us all to give him a message… I dare you to charge me again because I just want to see the scenes outside court.\"\n\nIn November, PayPal announced it would no longer process payments for Mr Yaxley-Lennon, saying he had broken its policy on acceptable use.\n\nHe was banned from Twitter in March 2018. It is understood that his account was suspended for breaking its \"hateful conduct policy\".", "Princess Reema follows in the footsteps of her father, who held the post until 2005\n\nSaudi Arabia has announced that Princess Reema bint Bandar Al Saud will become its next ambassador to the US - the first woman ever to take on an envoy role for the kingdom.\n\nHer appointment was made public in a royal decree on Saturday.\n\nPrincess Reema spent part of her childhood living in Washington DC.\n\nShe assumes the role at a difficult time, as Saudi Arabia tries to quell an international outcry over journalist Jamal Khashoggi's death.\n\nAfter giving conflicting explanations of what happened, the Kingdom eventually admitted Khashoggi, who was once a Royal insider, was murdered after entering the country's consulate in Istanbul last year.\n\nBefore his death the journalist was a columnist for the Washington Post newspaper, where he frequently criticised the Saudi government.\n\nSaudi Arabia denies that Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman had any involvement in his death - a claim the US intelligence community has cast doubt on.\n\nUS lawmakers have tried to pressure the White House into investigating the matter further.\n\nRecently, members of Congress have also investigated US-Saudi relations in other areas, including on nuclear technology and the war in Yemen.\n\nPrincess Reema will take over the role from the crown prince's younger brother, Prince Khalid bin Salman, who has been appointed as the country's deputy defence minister.\n\nMr Trump has faced scrutiny over the Saudi crown prince's alleged involvement in the death\n\nShe follows in the footsteps of her father, Bandar bin Sultan Al Saud, who held the US ambassador post from 1983 until 2005.\n\nBecause of his role, she spent part of her childhood growing up in the US. She also got a Bachelor of Arts degree in Museum studies from George Washington University.\n\nSince returning to Riyadh in 2005, Princess Reema has worked in both the private and public sector.\n\nShe has held several business positions, including as CEO of a retail company with Harvey Nichols Riyadh in its portfolio.\n\nThe princess is widely viewed as being an advocate of women's rights, in a country frequently criticised for its record on gender equality.\n\nMore recently, she worked at the kingdom's General Sports Authority, with a focus on increasing women's participation in sport and exercise.\n\nShe has also known for her work around breast cancer advocacy.", "Last updated on .From the section Leicester\n\nLeicester City have sacked manager Claude Puel after 16 months in charge.\n\nCity were beaten 4-1 at home by Crystal Palace on Saturday in what proved to be Puel's final game.\n\nPuel, 57, leaves the club 12th in the Premier League having lost five of their last six league games.\n\nThe Frenchman guided Leicester to a ninth-place finish in the Premier League in his first season but the club are now looking for their fourth permanent manager in 23 months.\n• None Puel had to go - but who next for Leicester?\n• None Puel almost worked against the players - Huth\n\nSaturday's defeat meant Leicester have lost four consecutive home Premier League games for the first time since January 2000 and conceded the first goal in 19 Premier League matches this season - more than any other side.\n\nAssistant manager Jacky Bonnevay will also leave the club, with first-team coaches Mike Stowell and Adam Sadler set to take temporary charge of the squad.\n\nLeicester's next game is at home in the Premier League against Brighton on Tuesday.\n\nPuel was appointed on a three-year deal in October 2017, succeeding Craig Shakespeare who in turn followed 2015-16 Premier League winning manager Claudio Ranieri in managing the club.\n\nThe former Lyon boss had been dismissed by Southampton in June 2017 and arrived at Leicester four months later with the club third from bottom of the league.\n\nHe led them to ninth in the table, just their second top-10 finish in the Premier League since 2000.\n\nThis season, Leicester have won nine of their 27 league matches, including back-to-back victories over Manchester City and Chelsea over the festive period.\n\nBut Puel's style of play and recent team selections have been met with hesitation from Foxes fans.\n\nPuel incensed some fans by fielding a weakened side against Manchester City in a Carabao Cup quarter-final defeat, with James Maddison and Marc Albrighton starting on the bench, while Jamie Vardy did not feature at all.\n\nThe Foxes' 2-1 FA Cup defeat at Newport came after Puel made seven changes to his side - with Maddison and Vardy named on the bench - despite choosing five Premier League winners in the starting XI.\n\nStriker Vardy, who has scored eight Premier League goals this season and is the club's highest goal scorer this campaign, recently admitted that Puel's tactical approach did not suit his style of play.\n\n\"Does it? No, but is that down to me to adapt to it? Yes. And obviously the only way I'm going to do that and keep progressing is working hard on the training field,\" he said.\n\nSpeculation about the Frenchman's future halted following the devastating helicopter crash outside the King Power Stadium in October, which killed Foxes owner Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha and four others.\n\n\"Playing football has not been at the front of our minds this week,\" Puel said at his first news conference after the crash.\n\n\"But for this weekend, and all the matches thereafter, we play to honour a man who did so much for our club.\"\n\nPuel received praise for his dignified approach, and revealed Leicester's players and staff had been offered counselling by the club.\n\n13 July 2015: Former Chelsea manager Claudio Ranieri takes over as manager. 23 Feb 2017: Ranieri is sacked with Leicester a point above the relegation zone with 13 games left. 21 May 2017: Craig Shakespeare guides Leicester to 14th in the Premier League and reaches the Champions League quarter-finals 17 Oct 2017: Shakespeare is sacked after only one win in his first nine matches 25 Oct 2017: Former Southampton manager Claude Puel is appointed manager on a three-year deal 27 Oct 2018: Leicester owner and four others killed in helicopter crash outside the King Power Stadium", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nHave you ever seen anything like it?\n\nA player refusing to go off - and his manager losing the plot.\n\nChelsea goalkeeper Kepa Arrizabalaga resisted Maurizio Sarri's attempt to substitute him late in extra time of the Carabao Cup final, which left his manager seething on the touchline.\n\nKepa had just been treated for cramp and, with the game at 0-0, Sarri was preparing to bring on reserve keeper Willy Caballero in his place before a penalty shootout.\n\nBut after some furious finger-wagging and screams of \"NO!\", Sarri was forced to give in.\n\nReferee Jonathan Moss ran over to confirm whether Kepa was going off or not and Sarri, begrudgingly, backed down and then stormed off down the tunnel before quickly returning, leaving Caballero a bemused spectator.\n• None 'This was a painful, public indignity' - has Sarri been fatally undermined?\n\nKepa went on to save Leroy Sane's spot-kick - prompting a fist pump from Sarri - but Raheem Sterling netted the winning penalty as Manchester City won the shootout 4-3 to lift the Carabao Cup for a second year in a row.\n\nSarri didn't react at full-time and went straight off the pitch, while his players looked dejected in defeat.\n\nFormer Blues striker Chris Sutton described the scenes as \"mutiny at Chelsea\" and said Kepa \"should never play for the club again\".\n\nThe incident comes after weeks of speculation surrounding Sarri's position as manager and concerns over his style of play, the so-called \"Sarri-ball\".\n\n\"That should be his last performance in a Chelsea shirt,\" Sutton told BBC Radio 5 live. \"He's a disgrace. I've never seen anything like it.\n\n\"If I was Sarri I would walk. You cannot be undermined. Why weren't the players dragging Kepa off anyway?\n\n\"Kepa should be sacked, not Sarri. He's been undermined - it's the worst thing that can happen to a manager.\"\n\nFormer England and Tottenham midfielder Jermaine Jenas said it is clear \"there's a lack of respect\" for the manager, but said Sarri showed \"a lack of class\" by storming off the pitch following defeat.\n\n\"His players have done him proud today,\" Jenas told BBC Radio 5 live. \"They are an inferior team to Manchester City now and they took them all the way. For him not to be congratulating the opposition or consoling his players shows a lack of class for me.\n\n\"The fact he went inside and was not out there with his players is one thing, but it has to be infuriating for one of your players to categorically tell you to 'do one' and say I'm staying on this pitch.\n\n\"This is a huge blemish. It all boils down to what is going on between Sarri and his players. That does not happen - there's a lack of respect somewhere along the line.\"\n\nHow you reacted on social media\n\nTony: What? Kepa on the transfer market tomorrow I think.\n\nCraig: Chelsea keeper has zero respect for the manager! Don't care who you are, if he wants you off he wants you off.\n\nJonathan: Sounds like Sarri has lost the dressing room, the bench and his mind.\n\nRobert: Disgusting! Kepa has just publicly embarrassed Sarri in front of everyone. Total disgrace.\n\nCallum: I'm with Kepa there I don't think he should come off, he's played the full game so confidence is high, I don't agree with goalkeepers being subbed for penalty shootouts no matter how good they have been.\n\nWill: It doesn't matter whether Kepa could continue or not, the manager made a decision to take him off and that should be the end of that. You can't refuse to work for your boss in any other line of work, why should football be any different?\n\nRob: Chelsea is broken from top to bottom. Player power has dominated that club for years. If Sarri leaves I would respect him so much.\n\nJames: Player power over everyone else at a club has been building slowly for the past few years. This is a pivotal moment for the way football clubs are run.", "Jodey Whiting had suffered ill health for a number of years\n\nA woman whose disabled daughter killed herself after her benefit payments were stopped has called for officials to be prosecuted over their failings.\n\nJodey Whiting, 42, of Stockton, Teesside, took her life in 2017 when her payments were halted because she missed a capability assessment.\n\nAn independent inquiry has found the Department for Work (DWP) breached its own rules and it has been ordered to apologise and pay £10,000 compensation.\n\nThe DWP said it accepted the findings.\n\nMs Whiting, a mother of nine, suffered multiple physical and mental health issues including curvature of the spine and a brain cyst, and took 23 tablets each day.\n\nShe was suffering from pneumonia when she missed her assessment but was then ruled fit to work and had her Employment and Support Allowance halted.\n\nHer mother, Joy Dove, of Norton, said she was \"shocked\" by the extent of the failings outlined in a letter from the Independent Case Examiner.\n\nShe said: \"It was awful. There was no need. They pushed her to it.\n\n\"How can you cut someone's money off without seeing them?\"\n\nThe examiner found the DWP did not follow procedures which should have seen it telephone and visit Ms Whiting after she missed the appointment.\n\nMs Dove is seeking legal advice over whether any further action is possible.\n\n\"No-one should go through this,\" she said.\n\nAlex Cunningham, Labour MP for Stockton North, said the DWP had \"systematic problems\".\n\nHe added: \"They had opportunities to help this family and each time they failed.\"\n\nJoy Dove has described the family's compensation payment as \"blood money\"\n\nThe DWP said it apologised to Ms Whiting's family for \"failings in how we handled her case\".\n\nA spokeswoman added: \"Our thoughts are with them at this difficult time and we are providing compensation.\n\nShe said the DWP was reviewing its procedures to \"ensure this doesn't happen again\".\n• None Campaign after dead woman 'fit to work'\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Donen received an honorary Oscar in 1998, and performed an impromptu dance\n\nVeteran Hollywood musicals director Stanley Donen has died aged 94, according to US media reports.\n\nThe director was perhaps best known for the 1952 musical Singin' in the Rain, which he co-directed with its star Gene Kelly.\n\nHis other films included On the Town, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers and Funny Face.\n\nThe Chicago Tribune first reported Donen's death, citing one of his sons, Mark.\n\nA former Broadway dancer, Donen moved into cinema as a choreographer, then as a director.\n\nHe translated his love for dance to the big screen with the help of Kelly and Fred Astaire. Singin' in the Rain was named the greatest movie musical of all time by the American Film Institute in 2006.\n\nSingin' in the Rain starred Gene Kelly and Debbie Reynolds\n\nEdgar Wright, who directed films including Hot Fuzz, paid tribute to the breadth of Donen's work, from musicals to thrillers, while Mission Impossible filmmaker Christopher McQuarrie said that Donen \"understood when to move and when to let others do the moving\".\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 edgarwright This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn 1998, Donen was awarded an honorary Oscar by director Martin Scorcese \"in appreciation for a body of work marked by grace, elegance, wit and visual innovation\".\n\nIn his acceptance speech, he performed an impromptu song and dance routine while clutching his Oscar.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by Oscars This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nThe key to a successful film, he once said, was a great script, great songs and great actors. \"When filming starts, you show up and you stay the hell out of the way.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jamie Lee Curtis on the \"moving machine\" that is the Oscars\n\nIt's fair to say the Academy Awards have rowed back on just about every change they've tried to make to the Oscars ceremony this year.\n\nThey wanted, for example, to announce some winners in the commercial breaks to save time.\n\nThey wanted to introduce a new popular film category to recognise more mainstream movies.\n\nPut together with Kendrick Lamar pulling out of performing and the lack of a host this year, it's understandable that the planning of this year's event has been described as chaotic.\n\nOne Hollywood veteran, however, tells BBC News that things should be kept in perspective ahead of Sunday's ceremony.\n\n\"Chaos? It's just an awards show! Goodness me. Take it down a level,\" says Jamie Lee Curtis at the ICG Publicists Awards in Los Angeles.\n\nThe 2019 Academy Awards take place this Sunday evening\n\n\"You know what, those were just some missteps, everybody's trying to figure out how to make these things shorter, a little more easy on the eyes.\n\n\"Obviously they made a couple of missteps but they've made some huge strides in diversity and inclusivity, so you have to remember it's a moving machine, it's not something rigid.\n\n\"And they're trying some new things. It didn't go well, they're pulling it back, and they'll figure it out. But it's an awards show, let's put it into that category.\"\n\nCurtis was being honoured with a lifetime achievement award at the publicists' luncheon, which is organised annually by the International Cinematographers Guild.\n\nThe actress, who starred in A Fish Called Wanda and several Halloween movies, used her speech at the event to highlight the important role played by both press and publicists in the entertainment industry.\n\nBen Stiller and Curtis presented at last month's Golden Globe Awards\n\n\"I believe in the freedom of the press. I believe that you have the right to ask me whatever question you want to ask me... And it is a dance that we have been doing for a very long time,\" she told the audience.\n\n\"We figure it out, we dance together and it is a mutually beneficial dance because this is show business - this is show-off business.\n\n\"[Some stars] don't talk to the press until they have a movie coming out... they are fraudulent. The truth is this is the game - this is how it's played and I am proud to play it with you.\"\n\nCurtis was one of several stars at the event keen to champion this often-overlooked area of the industry.\n\n\"You wouldn't know much about a film or the actors without a publicist,\" explains Sheryl Main, the co-chair of the awards.\n\n\"A great publicity team can make a difference, especially on a smaller film that doesn't have a big budget, maybe doesn't have a huge studio behind it.\"\n\nJon M Chu says Crazy Rich Asians would have struggled without a strong PR campaign\n\nCrazy Rich Asians is one recent film which benefitted hugely from a strong PR campaign, its director Jon M Chu acknowledges.\n\n\"We had a lot of trouble before the movie came out when testing the movie,\" he tells BBC News.\n\n\"A lot of people didn't know the book, some people who did know the book were sceptical of Hollywood. Other people thought the title wasn't for them.\n\n\"So our publicity team, our marketing team, everyone on the Warner Bros side, had to really get in the dirt and had to show the world what we were and what we stood for.\"\n\nThe team promoting the movie ensured its groundbreaking status was championed.\n\nCrazy Rich Asians was the first Hollywood film in 25 years to feature an all-Asian principal cast, a fact many news outlets started to pick up on as the campaign progressed.\n\n\"One by one, it was a masterclass for me to witness how it became a must-see movie,\" says Chu, adding he is now working on a sequel.\n\n\"We are in the very beginning stages still. Throwing around a lot of ideas, a lot of good ideas, bad ideas, so we're trying to weed it out to find the best one, we won't make it unless it's great.\"\n\nMichelle Yeoh said there was \"disappointment\" when the film didn't receive any Oscar nods\n\nOne of the film's stars, Michelle Yeoh, describes the publicity campaign as \"one of the crucial, most important things\" in the success of the film.\n\n\"We're not under the Marvel banner, with the huge name, we didn't have a lot of big stars,\" she tells BBC News.\n\n\"So we pushed it in such a way that it captured the imagination of the audiences and it drew them and made them curious about the lifestyle, the culture, the songs, the food, the glamour.\"\n\nBut despite its box office success, Crazy Rich Asians failed to pick up any nominations at this year's Oscars.\n\n\"I guess there's always hope, you'd love that your film be nominated. Of course there's the disappointment when it's not, but when you think about it, everything really went against our movie,\" Yeoh says.\n\n\"Because it's a romantic comedy, it's an all-Asian cast, that's unheard of for 25 years, so can you imagine, for it to achieve the success that it already has done, is such a reward for us.\n\n\"It would have been the cherry on the cake if we'd had a nomination, but our publicity team had to work through so many hurdles just to get us where we are.\"\n\nChu priased Jordan Peele and Alfonso Cuaron for helping change the face of Hollywood\n\nIt could have been a very different story if the Academy had pressed ahead with the popular film category - which almost certainly would've been one in which Crazy Rich Asians was recognised.\n\nBut in spite of that, Chu thinks it was the right choice for the Academy to drop it.\n\n\"I'm a big fan of the classic Academy Award categories,\" he says.\n\n\"So I wasn't a huge fan of doing a popular film category, even if it meant maybe we'd get a better chance. I honestly didn't think we had any chance to be in the awards season, so this has all been very amazing to go through and live through.\"\n\nChu recalled the most bizarre moment of the awards season so far - which occurred at a gents toilets urinal last month.\n\n\"I went to the bathroom at the Golden Globes, and on my left was Alfonso Cuaron, and on my right was Jordan Peele, and I was like 'Oh, this is Hollywood now', and it was an amazing feeling. It was great to see how the face of Hollywood had changed.\"", "Lady Gaga has been an absolute gift this awards season, brightening up the race as only she can.\n\nAll eyes were on her as she took to the stage halfway through the ceremony, kindly bringing her co-star Bradley Cooper with her for a live performance of Shallow, their duet from A Star Is Born.\n\nWith Cooper snubbed in the best director category and an outsider in the best actor category, this was a rare opportunity in the night for him to stretch his legs.\n\nGaga was back on stage later in the evening to accept the Oscar for best song.\n\n\"Thank you to every single person in this room. Bradley, there is not a single person on the planet who could've sung this song with me but you, thank you for believing in us.\"\n\nShe added: \"I've worked hard for a long time, It's not about winning, what it's about is not giving up, if you have a dream, fight for it.\"\n\nSpeaking backstage, Gaga said: \"For this film, there were many songs written, but there was one song that was written with true, true friends of mine, who know everything about me, the ups and the downs.\"\n\nShe accepted the prize alongside her three co-writers, Andrew Wyatt, Anthony Rossomando, and Mark Ronson. Cooper did not technically win this prize either as he isn't credited as a writer on the song.\n\nAsked to expand on the struggles she's had to overcome on her journey to Oscar glory, Gaga replies: \"I was so determined to live my dreams, and yet there was so much in the way.\n\n\"There were so many things I did not anticipate, that broke me, that tortured me, that traumatised me. And I think sometimes that people think that it comes easy to us, that we show up, and we have our suits on, and it's all okay.\n\n\"But the truth is this is very, very hard work.\"", "Robert Barnes was jailed for two years and four months\n\nA rail enthusiast and his wife tackled a butter knife-wielding burglar who tried to steal a prized collection of model trains, a court heard.\n\nJohn Headington, 85, and his 57-year-old wife Susan sat on Robert Barnes to restrain him after the break-in.\n\nLincoln Crown Court heard Barnes used a brick to smash his way into the house while the couple slept on 20 November.\n\nBarnes, 28, admitted burglary and possession of a bladed article and was jailed for two years and four months.\n\nThe court heard Mrs Headington was woken by the sound of Barnes, of no fixed address, breaking in through the kitchen door of the Lincolnshire home.\n\nAndrew Scott, prosecuting, said she saw a light on in an upstairs room where her husband kept his model railway collection and decided to ring the police.\n\nFormer railway worker Mr Headington, who has had two hip replacements, managed to get Barnes in a bear hug as he emerged from the room carrying some of his most valuable model trains.\n\nMr Scott said: \"Barnes barged past Mr Headington who fell backwards against the landing wall.\n\n\"As Barnes continued down the stairs he ripped the phone from Mrs Headington but then fell down and rolled on to the floor.\n\n\"Mrs Headington sat on Barnes and was joined by her husband.\"\n\nJudge Simon Hirst described the couple's bravery as \"remarkable\", while the court heard Barnes had no memory of events after drinking heavily.\n\nThe judge said Barnes \"took highly sentimental items and damaged them beyond repair\", and condemned him for \"barging past an 85-year-old man\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Amber Rudd took over the Department for Work and Pensions in November 2018\n\nAmber Rudd says the increased use of food banks is partly down to problems in rolling out universal credit.\n\nThe work and pensions secretary said she was \"absolutely clear there were challenges with the initial roll-out\" of the benefit and that the difficulty in accessing money was \"one of the causes\" of the rise.\n\nBut she said the government had made changes to help tackle food insecurity.\n\nFood bank operator Trussell Trust said it was a \"promising\" acknowledgement.\n\nUniversal credit has been plagued with problems since its inception in 2010.\n\nThe monthly payment merges six different benefits for working age people into one and has been subject to a gradual roll-out across the UK.\n\nThe system was supposed to be up and running by April 2017, but it has faced numerous delays and is now not expected to be fully operational until December 2023.\n\nResearch released by the Trussell Trust charity this month showed the use of food banks had increased by 52% in areas where universal credit had been in place for a year or more - compared with 13% in areas where it had not been.\n\nSpeaking in the Commons, Ms Rudd said the government was \"committed to a strong safety net where people need it\".\n\n\"It is absolutely clear that there were challenges with the initial roll-out of universal credit,\" she added.\n\n\"The main issue which led to an increase in food bank use could have been the fact that people had difficulty accessing their money early enough.\n\n\"We have made changes to accessing universal credit so that people can have advances, so that there is a legacy run-on after two weeks of housing benefit, and we believe that will help with food and security.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPushed again on the cause of the issue by Labour's Stephen Timms, Ms Rudd added: \"I have acknowledged that people having difficulty accessing the money on time as one of the causes of the growth in food banks, but we have tried to address that.\"\n\nThe Department for Work and Pensions has said that, under universal credit, people are moving into work faster and staying in work longer.\n\nAccording to the Resolution Foundation think tank, 2.2 million families are expected to gain under the system, with an average increase in income of £41 a week.\n\nHowever, 3.2 million families are also expected to be worse off, with an average loss of £48 a week.\n\nLabour has called for ministers to halt the roll-out \"as a matter of urgency\".\n\nNatalie Williams, from King's Church food bank in Hastings, East Sussex, which is in Ms Rudd's constituency, told BBC Radio 5 Live she was \"really pleased\" to hear the secretary of state's comments, but it was \"long overdue\".\n\nShe said her food bank had seen a 106% increase in referrals in the last two years.\n\n\"People are struggling with the wait from when they claim to when they get money,\" she said.\n\n\"People don't want to take the advance because they don't want to get into debt.\n\n\"There is a lot that needs to be fixed about Universal Credit.\"\n\nTrussell Trust chief executive Emma Revie said: \"It's promising to see the secretary of state is listening to the evidence of food banks across the UK.\n\n\"We're a country that prides itself on making sure proper support is in place for each other when help is most needed - our benefits system was created to do exactly this. But Universal Credit isn't the poverty-fighting reform that was promised.\"\n\nMs Revie called for action to address why the new welfare system has forced some people to food banks.", "Ambulance staff dealt with the casualty at the scene\n\nA six-year-old boy was thrown five floors from the 10th floor of the Tate Modern art gallery in central London, police said.\n\nHe landed on a fifth floor roof and was taken to hospital by air ambulance after he fell at about 14:45 BST on Sunday.\n\nThe boy's condition is described as critical.\n\nA 17-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder, the Met Police said.\n\nThey said the six-year-old was thrown from a viewing platform.\n\nThe emergency services arrived in force at Tate Modern after the boy's fall\n\n\"We treated a person at the scene and took them to hospital as a priority,\" a London Ambulance Service (LAS) spokesman said.\n\nThe London Air Ambulance was called to the scene and later flew the boy to hospital\n\nA police spokesman said there was \"nothing to suggest [the suspect] is known to the victim\".\n\nThe teenager had remained on the platform after the boy fell, police said.\n\nVisitors were initially locked inside the gallery at Bankside on the South Bank.\n\nAdmin worker Nancy Barnfield, 47, of Rochdale, was at the 10th floor viewing gallery with a friend and their children when her friend heard a \"loud bang\".\n\nMs Barnfield said she turned around and saw a woman screaming: \"Where's my son, where's my son?\"\n\nMembers of the public quickly gathered around a man who was nearby, she said.\n\nMs Barnfield said: \"We did not notice the mum before, we noticed her after because she was hysterical by then.\"\n\nShe said the person who was restrained by members of the public before the police arrived \"just stood there and was quite calm\".\n\nEyewitness Stuart Haggas said he saw emergency crews moving along the roof between the gallery's Turbine Hall and its recent extension.\n\n\"They were carrying a stretcher with someone on it,\" he said, \"plus a second stretcher was waiting by the door.\"\n\nBBC correspondent Jonny Dymond, who was also there, said visitors were \"funnelled towards the main Turbine Hall and the exits were all closed\".\n\n\"There were quite a lot of families with children, and security guards told us we couldn't leave,\" he said.\n\n\"There were at least two fire engines, 10 police cars and an incident control unit. Parts of the exterior of the building were taped off.\"\n\nThe Tate Modern opened in the disused power station on the River Thames in 2000.\n\nIt was the UK's most popular tourist attraction in 2018 with 5.9m visitors, according to the Association of Leading Visitor Attractions.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Poet Wendy Cope (right) was host Lauren Laverne's desert island castaway last month\n\nDesert Island Discs has been named the greatest radio programme of all time by a panel of industry experts.\n\nThe BBC Radio 4 show, which since 1942 has been inviting famous guests to share their favourite musical choices, beat drama The Archers to the top spot.\n\nOther choices in the Radio Times poll included Wake Up To Wogan, John Peel and Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.\n\nMany of the 30 programmes on the list are no longer broadcast, with almost a third being comedies or panel shows.\n\nDesert Island Discs is currently presented by Lauren Laverne, who is filling in while Kirsty Young is being treated for fibromyalgia.\n\nThe programme invites high-profile guests to choose eight discs, a book and a luxury item to take with them as they are castaway on a mythical desert island.\n\nPrime ministers and industry leaders have all been castaways, with notable recent guests having included Sir David Attenborough, JK Rowling, Yoko Ono and David Beckham.\n\nDesert Island Discs producer Cathy Drysdale said the accolade was \"wonderful\", attributing it to an \"absolute genius format\".\n\nYoko Ono appeared on the programme in 2007. She chose records both by her late husband John Lennon and son Sean\n\nRadio Times editor Mark Frith said the \"poll illustrates how memorable and timeless great radio can be\".\n\nThe list was compiled by 46 industry experts, of which 42 had a professional connection to the BBC.\n\nTerry Wogan's BBC Radio 2 breakfast show, which ran for more than 25 years until 2009, was in 12th position, just ahead of John Peel's late-night BBC Radio 1 programme, on air between 1967 and 2004.\n\nPresenter Kirsty Young quizzed footballer David Beckham for the programme's 75th anniversary in 2017", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mark Carney says no-deal Brexit would be economic shock\n\nBank of England governor Mark Carney has urged MPs to solve the Brexit impasse in a speech warning of growing threats to the global economy.\n\nHe said a no-deal Brexit would create an \"economic shock\" at a time when China's economy is slowing and trade tensions are rising.\n\n\"It is in the interests of everyone, arguably everywhere\" that a Brexit solution is found, he said.\n\nThe Bank has already cut its UK growth forecasts, partly due to Brexit issues.\n\nIn a speech at the Barbican, in London, Mr Carney said trade tensions and Brexit are \"manifestations of fundamental pressures to reorder globalisation\", and that quitting the bloc could undermine global expansion.\n\n\"It is possible that new rules of the road will be developed for a more inclusive and resilient global economy.\n\n\"At the same time, there is a risk that countries turn inwards, undercutting growth and prosperity for all.\"\n\nBrexit has created a \"high level of uncertainty\", he said, and \"companies are holding back on making big decisions\".\n\nAs such, he said it was vital for the UK economy to secure a good withdrawal deal and a smooth transition.\n\n\"A no-deal would be an economic shock for this country, and this would send a signal globally about re-founding globalisation. That would be unfortunate,\" he said.\n\nAt a global level, Mr Carney said that growth had been slowing in \"all regions\" since 2016 after peaking at 4%.\n\nHe said that growth was likely to stabilise, but warned that a further slowdown in China, rising trade tensions and complacency could get in the way.\n\n\"The Bank of England estimates that a 3% drop in Chinese GDP would knock 1% off global activity, including half a per cent off each of UK, US and euro area GDP,\" he said.\n\nHe added that a \"larger increase in tariffs of 10 percentage points between the US and all of its trading partners could take 2.5% per cent off US output and 1% off global output.\"\n\nThe governor urged policymakers everywhere to address economic risks rather than ignore them.\n\n\"Although the economic and financial imbalances in the global economy do not yet appear to contain the seeds of their own demise, global momentum is softening,\" he said.", "\"Even as a little child,\" Guzmán's mother said, \"he had ambitions\"\n\nCaked in filth, the world's most powerful drug baron hauled himself from a manhole.\n\nFor Joaquín \"El Chapo\" Guzmán, whose feats of escapology were matched only by his drug-smuggling acumen, it was a trademark yet ultimately futile manoeuvre. The 17 Mexican marines raiding his ranch nearby would catch him soon enough.\n\nSix months earlier, he had humiliated Mexican authorities by fleeing Mexico's most secure prison, his second jailbreak in two decades. This time he would not slip through their fingers, although those who caught him were left in no doubt how angry he was to have been arrested.\n\n\"You are all going to die,\" he warned police in the hours after his capture in Los Mochis, north-west Mexico, on 8 January 2016.\n\nThree years on, Guzmán has been handed a life sentence, plus 30 years, after being found guilty of international drug smuggling in a lurid three-month trial that exposed his criminal empire.\n\nAt his sentencing in New York, Guzmán said he had received an unfair trial and his treatment in solitary confinement was tantamount to torture.\n\n\"We're never going to see his like again,\" Douglas Century, the author of the book Hunting El Chapo, told the BBC.\n\nGuzmán was the oldest of seven children born into a poor family in the rural community of La Tuna in Sinaloa state, north-west Mexico.\n\nHis parents - Emilio Guzmán Bustillos and María Consuelo Loera Pérez - earned their living from farming. His father was officially a cattle rancher but is believed to have been an opium poppy farmer, Malcolm Beith writes in his book, The Last Narco.\n\nGuzmán's enterprising spirit was apparent from a young age. He would support his family by selling oranges to peasant farmers for a few pesos. His penchant for the spoils of wealth didn't go unnoticed, either. In a Vice News podcast, Guzmán's younger sister Bernarda said he would wear fake gold jewellery when visiting family members.\n\n\"Even as a little child, he had ambitions,\" his mother told filmmakers in 2014. She recalled he had \"a lot of paper money\" which he would count and recount.\n\nHis first foray into organised crime came at the age of 15, when he cultivated his own marijuana plantation with his cousins. Then, he adopted the nickname \"El Chapo\" - Mexican slang for \"Shorty\". But his ambitions belied his diminutive stature (he is only 5ft 6ins, or 1.64m).\n\nIn his late teens, Guzmán left La Tuna to seek his fortune in drug smuggling. \"He always fought for a better life,\" his mother said.\n\nGuzmán's mother arrives at the US Embassy in Mexico City in June 2019\n\nThat better life would come at a cost, paid for by illegal drugs and years of bloodshed. From his beginnings as a hitman, Guzmán's rise through the ranks of the criminal underworld was swift.\n\nFormer cartel kingpin Héctor \"El Güero\" Palma gave Guzmán his first break in Guadalajara in the late 1970s, when he oversaw a shipment of drugs from the Sierra Madre mountains. Guzmán was ambitious and eager to increase the quantities of drugs being transported, according to Mr Beith's book, The Last Narco. He was also \"no-nonsense\" and would execute employees himself if deliveries were late, Mr Beith said.\n\nGuzmán's reputation for ruthless efficiency was duly noted. In the 1980s he was introduced to Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo - known as the Godfather of the Guadalajara cartel - who put him in charge of handling logistics.\n\nWhen Félix Gallardo was arrested in 1989, his cartel's drug trafficking territories were divided among different factions, later known as The Federation. Guzmán was a beneficiary, setting up his own Sinaloa cartel with other traffickers in north-west Mexico.\n\nIn the 1990s, he honed his operation, pioneering the use of sophisticated underground tunnels to move drugs across the border.\n\n\"He was the go-to guy,\" David Weinstein, a former federal prosecutor in Miami, told the BBC. \"When the United States started shutting down ports of entry in the Atlantic and Pacific in the 1990s, drugs had to go through Mexico. And if it had to go through Mexico, it had to go through El Chapo.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A former DEA agent describes the moment he brought down El Chapo\n\nHe invested his proceeds wisely, not only expanding his enterprise, but building infrastructure that benefited locals in Sinaloa too. This cemented his popularity. \"You are Santa Claus. And everybody likes Santa Claus,\" Eduardo Medina Mora, Mexico's former ambassador in Washington, told the New Yorker in 2014.\n\nOver time, Guzmán's cartel became one of the biggest traffickers of drugs to the US and in 2009, he entered Forbes' list of the world's richest men at number 701, with an estimated worth of $1bn (£709m).\n\nAs his wealth and empire grew, so too did scrutiny from law enforcement. \"The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) have been after him for decades,\" Mr Weinstein said.\n\nIn 1993, a Roman Catholic cardinal was shot dead in a turf war with rival drug smugglers. Guzmán was among those blamed and a bounty was placed on his head by the Mexican government. His moustachioed face, previously unknown to the public, started appearing in newspapers and on TV screens. Within weeks, he was arrested in Guatemala and he was later sentenced to 20 years in prison on charges of conspiracy, drug trafficking and bribery.\n\nA prison psychological profile described him as \"egocentric, narcissistic, shrewd, persistent, tenacious, meticulous, discriminating, and secretive\", according to the New Yorker. In prison, he enjoyed a life of luxury, smuggling in lovers, prostitutes and Viagra, according to reports in Mexico.\n\nEight years behind bars was enough for Guzmán. In January 2001, he broke out of a top-security jail, Puente Grande. He did so, as the myth goes, in a laundry cart. What's more likely, multiple journalists and authors argue, is that he simply walked out of the door with the help of corrupt guards.\n\nGuzmán controlled the prison to such an extent he escaped in police uniform, Mexican journalist Anabel Hernández wrote in her book, Narcoland. Guzmán would spend the next decade evading authorities and consolidating his power as Mexico's pre-eminent drug smuggler. In that period, he always seemed to be one step ahead of would-be captors and rival cartels.\n\n\"He's a micro-manager,\" said Mr Century, who co-authored his book with Andrew Hogan, the undercover DEA agent who caught Guzmán in 2014. \"In the text messages we have, he's in the weeds of every single minor facet of his drug operation.\"\n\nSex was his other preoccupation, Mr Century said. \"He had more mistresses than you can probably fathom. This was his existence: having sex with strange women and micro-managing every detail of his operation.\"\n\nAfter 13 years on the run, Guzmán was captured by Mexican marines called in by Mr Hogan in February 2014. Guzmán's second prison break, in July 2015, was arguably even more fantastical than the first. This time, his accomplices used GPS to burrow a 1.5km (one mile) tunnel that led directly underneath his cell in Altiplano prison in central Mexico.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Guzman escaped through a tunnel which opened under the shower in his cell\n\nThe escape was elaborate and carefully planned. The tunnel had ventilation, lighting and stairs and the exit was hidden by a construction site. Mexican TV stations later aired footage that showed that guards failed to act when loud hammering was heard from inside Guzmán's cell.\n\nGuzmán had embarrassed Mexico's government for the second time, leaving then-President Enrique Peña Nieto \"deeply troubled\" and \"outraged\".\n\nHis freedom, however, was short-lived. In January 2016, Guzmán was tracked down to a house in an affluent part of Los Mochis in northern Sinaloa. Five of Guzmán's guards were killed in the raid by Mexican marines and he managed to flee out of a manhole, but was caught in a car while leaving town. One year later, he was extradited to the US.\n\nThis motorcycle, adapted to run along a track, was used by Guzmán to move through the tunnel\n\nHis Achilles' heel, Mr Century told the BBC, was his narcissism. He was reaching out to actors and directors to commission screenplays about his life, Mr Century said. His communication with actors and producers gifted Mexico's attorney general a new line of investigation.\n\n\"When he escaped from prison in 2015, he probably could have run away to the mountains and just lived,\" Mr Century said. Instead, Guzmán made the unprecedented move of granting an exclusive interview to Hollywood actor Sean Penn in October 2015. It was a decision that may have cost him his freedom.\n\n\"I have a fleet of submarines, airplanes, trucks and boats,\" he said in the interview published in Rolling Stone magazine. After his capture it was speculated - though never formally confirmed - that Mexican authorities found Guzmán by tracking Penn. \"He contacted actresses and producers, which was part of one line of investigation,\" said Mexico's attorney general, Arely Gómez.\n\nDid this meeting with Sean Penn bring about El Chapo's downfall?\n\nFacing a life sentence at a \"supermax\" prison in the US, Guzmán's fleet is of no use to him now.\n\nOver his 30-year criminal career, he is believed to have earned more than $14bn (£11bn) in cash proceeds from narcotics sales, the US Department of Justice said. So far, the value of Guzmán's assets has proven difficult to verify. Forbes even removed him from its billionaire rankings over verification concerns.\n\nThe $14bn figure is too high, Bruce Bagley, a Mexican drug cartel expert, argued. He told Forbes that most Mexican drug lords plough their revenues into \"operations and protection\", estimating that \"El Chapo probably makes well below a billion per year\". Mr Weinstein said the $14bn figure was not unrealistic, but doubted the full amount would be recovered.\n\nEl Chapo Guzmán arrived in New York under heavy escort in 2017\n\nSome of his assets were mentioned during his 11-week trial in New York. A former cartel member told the court Guzmán bought homes in every state in Mexico. Miguel Angel Martinez said Guzmán was so wealthy, he had a private zoo, a $10m beach house and yacht he named after himself (\"Chapito\"), the court heard.\n\nThe most jaw-dropping revelations, however, were not about his wealth.\n\nBBC reporter Tara McKelvey covered the trial, which started in November 2018. She said the courtroom \"looked like a real-life movie\", the jurors watching intently as they would a Netflix show.\n\nThe wife of El Chapo Guzmán, Emma Coronel Aispuro, arrives at court in New York in January 2019\n\nHis beauty queen wife, Emma Coronel Aispuro, she said, \"looked bored most of the time\" - even when Guzmán's former mistress testified. While Coronel remained placid, the trial's astonishing moments shocked others.\n\nOne witness, for example, told the court Guzmán buried a man alive. Another told of a rival narco chief who refused to shake Guzmán's hand - and paid for it with his life. Court papers also accused him of drugging and raping girls as young as 13, calling them his \"vitamins\".\n\nThe scale of his drug trafficking operation was laid bare, too.\n\nEl Chapo Guzmán and his defence attorneys are seen in court in New York in January 2017\n\nAssistant US Attorney Adam Fels alleged that Guzmán had sent the equivalent of more than a line of cocaine for every single person in the US in just four shipments. And to protect his businesses, a bribe of $100m (£77m) was paid to former President Peña Nieto when he took office in 2012, it was alleged in court. Mr Peña Nieto strenuously denies the allegation.\n\nWhen Guzmán's guilty verdict was read aloud, his mouth was \"agape\" and he looked \"vaguely stunned\", the New York Times reported.\n\nIn a trial that attracted podcasters, screenwriters and true-crime obsessives, some observers said the media attention trivialised the proceedings. The intention was quite the contrary, our correspondent said. The trial was meant to be a public spectacle to show what El Chapo and his henchmen had done and to send a warning to others, she said.\n\nThe title of Mr Beith's book, The Last Narco, suggests Guzmán is one of a dying breed of ultra-violent drug barons as bloodthirsty as they are shrewd.\n\nYet, while Guzmán is likely to die behind bars, Mexico's drug-smuggling problem is likely to outlive him. In his Rolling Stone interview, Guzmán said it was false to assume drug trafficking would cease \"the day I don't exist\".\n\nFor all his supposed vanity and self-confidence, not even Guzmán can claim to be the last narco.", "An unborn baby has had surgery on her spine while she was still in her mother's womb.\n\nBethan Simpson, 26, from Maldon, Essex, was told her unborn daughter Elouise had spina bifida at her 20-week scan.\n\nMrs Simpson has become one of the first mothers in the UK to undergo the pioneering \"foetal repair\" surgery.\n\nDuring a four-hour operation her womb was opened and her baby's bottom exposed, allowing surgeons to \"sew up\" a tiny gap in her lower spine.\n\nMrs Simpson said she \"couldn't justify terminating a child I could feel kicking\".\n\nThe procedure has been deemed successful and the baby is now due in April.\n\nMrs Simpson said she and husband Kieron were advised to terminate her pregnancy after the condition was diagnosed, but the decision to opt for foetal repair was a \"no brainer\".\n\n\"I'm being told she's paralysed, but she very much wasn't,\" Mrs Simpson said.\n\nMrs Simpson underwent surgery at 24 weeks to treat her unborn daughter's spina bifida\n\nShe was approved for surgery at University College Hospital in London in December after a series of tests and scans, and described the ensuing weeks as a \"rollercoaster\".\n\nThe operation at 24 weeks involved opening her womb and lifting her baby into position to repair the hole, as well as repositioning the baby's spinal cord.\n\n\"I came out of surgery at one o'clock and could feel her moving that evening,\" Mrs Simpson said.\n\n\"It was reassuring to feel that first kick after the anaesthetic wore off. She's bigger now, of course, and her kicks are stronger.\"\n\nMrs Simpson said she remembered the surgeon telling her on the ward later: \"I've held your baby.\"\n\nBethan and Keiron Simpson's daughter Elouise is due in April\n\nMrs Simpson is thought to be the fourth patient to undergo the surgery in the UK, with the procedure mostly carried out in Belgium and the United States.\n\nFrom April, the procedure will be available on the NHS in England. Two-hundred babies are born with spina bifida in the UK every year.\n\nLead neurosurgeon, Dominic Thompson, described the operation on Mrs Simpson's baby as \"an incredible journey\".\n\n\"Until now, when people got this devastating news there were two options - continue with the pregnancy or termination. This now offers a third option,\" he said.\n\n\"It is not a cure. But there is quite clear evidence through critical trials that the outlook can be a lot better with surgery early on.\"\n\nMrs Simpson is the fourth patient to undergo the pioneering surgery\n\nGill Yaz, of the spina bifida charity Shine, said foetal medicine consultants recognised there were options available \"rather than just termination\".\n\n\"People need to be aware that this is not a cure, it may in some cases make no difference at all,\" she said.\n\n\"They need to go into this with their eyes wide open.\"\n\nMrs Simpson urged parents in her position to consider surgery and \"give every option a go\".\n\n\"There are unknowns - it's major surgery, and the biggest decision you'll make in your life,\" she said.\n\n\"But remember most children born with spina bifida today are walking and reaching normal milestones.\"\n\nSpina bifida occurs in about four in 10,000 pregnancies\n\nSpina bifida literally means 'split spine', and occurs when the spinal column and cord are not properly formed in pregnancy (before the sixth week) - leaving nerves exposed.\n\nIt occurs in around four in 10,000 pregnancies.\n\nThe cause is unknown, however mothers are encouraged to take folic acid supplements to reduce the risk of developing spina bifida in early pregnancy.\n\nBabies born with the condition can become paralysed, suffer bladder and bowel problems - and it can affect brain development.\n\nIt is estimated that about 80% of mothers choose termination when spina bifida is diagnosed, although the condition varies in severity.\n\nThe delicate surgical procedure involves opening the uterus and closing the gap in the baby's back while they are still in the womb.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Borough Market: Famous food traders were hit hard by the London Bridge attack in 2017\n\nFirms hit by financial losses after a terror attack are to benefit from a legal loophole being shut.\n\nBusinesses will now be able to get insurance even if they have not been damaged by a bomb.\n\nThat means shops and businesses forcibly closed after an attack will be able to reclaim potentially big losses.\n\nJohn Glen, Economic Secretary to the Treasury, said the changes would now mean that businesses have \"peace of mind\".\n\nThe cover comes from a government-guaranteed scheme that pays out to insurers - and therefore their customers - in the event of terrorism.\n\nThe scheme, known as Pool Re, was created during the Northern Ireland Troubles to protect insurers from the risk of a catastrophic scale of terrorism-related claims that they ultimately could not meet.\n\nPool Re's huge fund is financed by insurance firms but it is also underpinned by the Treasury.\n\nThat means member insurance companies can offer all businesses cover against terrorism.\n\nSince its birth, Pool Re has paid out more than £1.3bn in today's prices for losses suffered in 16 major terrorism incidents.\n\nBut pay-outs have never covered losses suffered by shops and businesses that are indirectly caught up in an incident because they have been forced to close.\n\nBusinesses surrounding the scene of the London Bridge attack in June 2017, including the iconic Borough Market, were closed for 11 days because they were inside a major police cordon.\n\nMore than 100 merchants lost £1.5m as artisan traders were locked out of their premises. Food rotted and the popular restaurants surrounding the market had their shutters down at one of the busiest times of the year.\n\nReopened: Borough has worked hard to promote itself after the loss of custom\n\nNeil Coyle MP, whose constituency includes Borough Market, led the parliamentary campaign to extend Pool Re - and said the legal change would benefit businesses everywhere.\n\n\"It wasn't just the market that was affected - these are businesses that were also wholesalers supplying customers and restaurants. The losses were huge because they could not get into their own buildings.\n\n\"Only two and a half per cent of businesses have terrorism cover - so there needs to be a big campaign now to get them to take this seriously.\"\n\nSimilarly, traders in Salisbury were shut for weeks last year as police and scientists investigated the nerve agent attack.\n\nPolice closed off part of Salisbury town centre after the Novichok attack in 2018\n\nBusiness leaders lobbied ministers to change the law governing Pool Re to ensure the scheme could be extended to cover terrorism-related financial losses, whether or not a premises has been physically damaged.\n\nThat change became law on Tuesday when it received Royal Assent. John Glen said on Twitter that the government had responded to concerns raised by business.\n\nSorry, we're having trouble displaying this content. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnd Julian Enoizi, Pool Re's chief executive, urged businesses throughout the country to think hard about getting themselves covered.\n\nHe said: \"We are already collaborating with business federations, local authorities, brokers and our member insurers, all of whom need to have open conversations with their customers about just how much may depend on having this cover if the worst should happen.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Horse Racing\n\nHorse racing in Britain will resume on Wednesday after a six-day shutdown following an outbreak of equine flu.\n\nTwo scheduled jump racing fixtures will go ahead at Musselburgh and Plumpton, alongside the all-weather fixtures at Southwell and Kempton.\n\nRacing was suspended after three cases of equine flu at Donald McCain's Cheshire stables. Three further cases were later reported at his yard.\n\nA total of 174 racing stables had been placed in lockdown.\n\nTrainers will be assessed before they are given the all-clear to have runners, while five races called off during the shutdown have been rescheduled and Ascot will stage a bumper nine-race card on Saturday.\n\nThe Denman Chase, which had been due to feature last year's Cheltenham Gold Cup winner Native River, and the Betfair Hurdle will be staged at Ascot after Newbury's meeting on 9 February was cancelled.\n\nA decision to resume racing in a \"controlled, risk-managed manner\" was unanimously supported by an industry veterinary committee, said the British Horseracing Authority (BHA).\n\nThe committee felt there had been \"an unprecedented amount\" of the highly contagious virus in Europe, and it was essential precautions were taken to protect horses.\n\n\"Clearly there is some risk associated with returning to racing,\" said the BHA's chief regulatory officer Brant Dunshea.\n\n\"This risk has been assessed and, based on the evidence - and ensuring biosecurity measures are in place - the level of risk is viewed as acceptable.\"\n\nFears there would be an extended suspension of racing, and a potential impact on next month's Cheltenham Festival, were raised when a second outbreak, involving four vaccinated horses, was confirmed late on Sunday at trainer Simon Crisford's Newmarket yard.\n\nBut no further positive results were found after thousands of samples were analysed.\n\nWhile equine influenza is not unlike human flu - with typical symptoms including a cough and high temperature - it limits the competitive capability of racehorses.\n\nAll racing in Britain has been suspended since 7 February, with 23 meetings lost during the shutdown.\n\nJump racing's showpiece Cheltenham Festival is scheduled to take place from 12 to 15 March.\n\n\"Our approach since hearing about the first positive results last Wednesday has been based on accumulating as much information as we could as quickly as possible so we could properly understand the risks of this virulent strain of flu spreading to more horses,\" said Dunshea.\n\n\"That would be harmful to them and damaging to any trainers' yards that became infected.\n\n\"It has also been our intention to ensure that we avoid an issue that could result in a long-term disruption to racing with the risk of many of our major events being unduly impacted.\"\n\nThe top line of this story, that racing's unscheduled hibernation is over, is clearly a good one for the sport. However, it's not all sweetness and light.\n\nI'm hearing from stables around the country that the six-month vaccination requirement - down from a year - will hold things up as trainers give their horses a day or two off after the jab.\n\nWe await detail of what restrictions are to be placed on stables that are considered to have been more at risk to exposure to the virus than others, and just what the criteria are.\n\nSo racing will be back on Wednesday but maybe with a few holes in the programme.", "Look away now if you are of a nervous disposition.\n\nThis week's Brexit votes may not come to much.\n\nThe prime minister is essentially asking for more time to get something to show for her promise of changes to the controversial backstop.\n\nThat might mean that she's back before the end of this month with something concrete to vote on.\n\nI know that sounds nebulous, a word you might choose to use.\n\nBut there's a building impression in Westminster, and in Brussels, that there simply won't be a resolution to these months of indecision until weeks before, maybe even days before we are due to leave (that's why some cabinet ministers believe that, even though it's not desirable, the government may end up asking to extend the whole process as we discussed here before).\n\nIt was hard to find anyone in Brussels last week who believed that they would offer any crumbs to the prime minister until the final, final moment when what was described to me as a \"facesaver\", will indeed be found.\n\nAnd at the start of this Westminster week, it's hard to find anyone in Westminster who is confident that there will be any ending to the drama much before the end of March.\n\nThere is a summit with EU leaders where the prime minister will gather with her counterparts seven days before the departure date of 29 March.\n\nAnd while it seems like the kind of kamikaze politics the UK doesn't tend to do, traditionally at least, there is growing expectation, horrific to some, exciting to others, that the prime minister may well not come back with her final deal that she wants them to vote on until after that.\n\nAs one senior MP suggested today, \"imagine the mood in the house\" that night.\n\nCynics would suggest that has for months now been Theresa May's dastardly plan - run the clock as low as she can - and allow the pressure of time to build and build, until it's unbearable.\n\nMPs will almost vote, so the theory goes, for anything then, because they can't stand the prospect of the turmoil of leaving without a formal deal done.\n\nAnd shortly before, the government will have eked out some new legal verbiage from the EU that gives an impression of a time limit, that the DUP and the Eurosceptics will be challenged to dispute.\n\nHaving watched every twist of this story, I'm not so sure this is a real plan that's long in the making.\n\nIt seems the accident of where things are now, rather than the design of where Number 10 might have hoped to be.\n\nIf Number 10 had been able to conclude all of this already, it seems to me they would have done so, eagerly.\n\nSome MPs also report a growing mood among their constituents just to get on with it, even if that means leaving without a deal.\n\nBut the politics, or as their many critics would have it, Number 10's mishandling of the politics, have made getting things sorted at a much earlier date just impossible.\n\nAnd now there is building expectation that the power of the clock is the strongest muscle that Number 10 has to flex.\n\nThat's why what happens in the Commons in the next couple of weeks, that could change that timetable matters so much.\n\nWe are still on the same merry-go-round, we may be going faster and faster, but it's not completely possible to tell when the music will actually stop.", "All patients and staff have been transferred to other centres, police say\n\nA man has been arrested on suspicion of arson after a blaze broke out at a mental health centre in Staffordshire.\n\nThe 43-year-old, from Tamworth, was detained over the fire at the George Bryan Centre near the Sir Robert Peel Community Hospital in the town.\n\nThere were no reports of casualties in the fire, which broke out at about 20:50 GMT on Monday.\n\nStaffordshire Police said all occupants and staff were evacuated from the centre.\n\nEighteen patients were on the west wing unit, which cares for adults who are acutely mentally ill, at the time of the blaze and have been moved to alternative locations.\n\nA spokesman from Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (MPFT), which runs the centre, said the east wing remained occupied but this was subject to an \"ongoing review\".\n\nChief executive Neil Carr said it was \"a traumatic and distressing event\" and the trust would \"ensure that all those affected receive whatever help and care they need\".\n\nThe fire broke out at about 20:50 GMT on Monday\n\nA voluntary female patient absconded during the commotion but was found soon afterwards, a police spokesman told the BBC.\n\nThe fire service said about 20 people were evacuated from the centre, in Plantation Lane, Mile Oak.\n\nA Staffordshire fire service spokesman said \"quite a lot of the building\" had been involved in the blaze and an investigation was under way to determine the cause.\n\nTen crews from Staffordshire, West Midlands and Warwickshire fire services were deployed.\n\nThere were no reports of casualties in the fire\n\nFirefighters are expected to remain at the scene for \"some time\" damping down and checking for hot spots.\n\nWitness Bradley Stokes said the blaze could be seen from Tamworth town centre and he had \"never seen anything like this before\".\n\nChristopher Pincher, the Conservative MP for Tamworth, tweeted that he was \"very concerned\" by the fire.\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 Christopher Pincher This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe centre shares a site with the community hospital, although the two buildings are not connected.\n\nThe community hospital is open as normal on Tuesday, University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust said.\n\nCrews from three fire services were deployed", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nRegarded as one of the game's greatest in his position, Banks was named Fifa goalkeeper of the year six times and earned 73 caps for England.\n\nHe is perhaps best known for his wonder save from Pele during the 1970 World Cup against Brazil.\n\nBorn in Sheffield, he won the League Cup with Stoke and Leicester, before retiring in 1973.\n\n\"It is with great sadness that we announce that Gordon passed away peacefully overnight,\" his family said.\n\n\"We are devastated to lose him but we have so many happy memories and could not have been more proud of him.\"\n• None Obituary: '66 legend who denied Pele with wonder save four years later\n• None From hauling coal to World Cup winner - Banks in his own words\n\nSir Bobby Charlton, who was part of the team alongside Banks that won the World Cup in 1966, said: \"Gordon was a fantastic goalkeeper, without doubt one of the best England has ever had.\n\n\"I was proud to call him a team-mate. Obviously we shared that great day in 1966 but it was more than that.\n\n\"Even though I was on the pitch and have seen it many times since, I still don't know how he saved that header from Pele.\"\n\n'My friend Gordon was a goalkeeper with magic'\n\nBanks is the fourth player of the England team that started the 1966 World Cup final to have died, after Bobby Moore, Ray Wilson and Alan Ball.\n\nAnother of that XI, Sir Geoff Hurst, tweeted: \"One of the very greatest. Thinking especially of Ursula, Julia, Wendy and Robert. Sad for football, Stoke City and for England fans.\"\n\nStoke chairman Peter Coates said Banks, who made almost 200 appearances for the club, had been \"poorly for a number of weeks\".\n\nHe told Radio 5 live: \"He made his home in Stoke, and was very much part of the fabric of the club. You don't get too many like him, and he was immensely modest for all his talent.\n\n\"He was England's greatest goalkeeper when they had their finest hour.\"\n\nEngland and Manchester City forward Raheem Sterling was among the first to pay tribute, tweeting: \"Of course there was that save, but it's so much more we are mourning today. RIP Gordon Banks. England legend, your legacy will live on.\"\n\nFormer England striker Gary Lineker said: \"An absolute hero of mine, and countless others, England's World Cup winner was one of the greatest goalkeepers of all time, and such a lovely, lovely man.\"\n\nEx-England goalkeeper Peter Shilton, who replaced Banks at Leicester, tweeted: \"I'm devastated - today I've lost my hero.\"\n\n\"A World Cup winner, a legend. RIP Gordon Banks,\" tweeted Leicester and England defender Harry Maguire, while Watford keeper Ben Foster said: \"Had the pleasure of meeting you as an 18-year old-with my Dad, and him being completely star struck by you. Total gent. You will always be a member of the Goallys Union.\"\n\n'I said 'why didn't you catch it?'\n\nFormer England midfielder Alan Mullery played with Banks in the 1970 World Cup match against Brazil, and described to 5 live the famous save that denied Pele.\n\n\"Jairzinho was flying down the wing, and he clips the ball to the far post, and Pele - who climbed to such a height better than anybody else - headed the ball and Gordon went from one post to another and he flicks the ball with his fingertips and it just goes over the crossbar,\" he said.\n\n\"I patted him on his head, and I said 'why didn't you catch it?' and the abuse that came back was unbelievable.\n\n\"He was the best at that time. We had some great goalkeepers in those days, and the only person I can think came near was Pat Jennings.\n\n\"He was an absolutely marvellous goalkeeper. He was a likable man, and when it came to business, he was probably the best there has ever been.\"\n\nEngland manager Gareth Southgate paid his tributes, saying: \"An all-time great for England, I was privileged enough to be in his company on a number of occasions.\n\n\"It was particularly special to be with him at a Football Writers' tribute dinner last year and wish him well on his 80th birthday.\n\n\"Gordon spoke to the room about that incredible save from Pele and moments like that from his remarkable World Cup-winning career will continue to linger long in the memory.\n\n\"On behalf of everyone connected with England, I send my condolences to his wife Ursula, his family and friends.\"\n\nBanks started his career at Chesterfield, before joining Leicester in 1959 for £7,000, and it was at the Foxes that he established himself as England's number one, earning his first international cap in 1963 against Scotland.\n\nHe played in every game of the 1966 World Cup campaign, culminating in the 4-2 victory over West Germany in the final at Wembley.\n\nIn eight years at Leicester, he was runner-up in two FA Cup finals and won the League Cup in 1964, before joining Stoke in 1967.\n\nHe stayed at the Potters until his retirement from professional football, winning the League Cup again in 1972, the club's only major honour.\n\nLater that year he lost the sight in his right eye after a car crash.", "Gordon Banks, who has died aged 81, will take his place in history as a key component of the only England team to win the World Cup as West Germany were beaten at Wembley on 30 July 1966.\n\nThe defining moment of the legendary goalkeeper's career, however, came four years later when Sir Alf Ramsey's England went to Mexico to defend their crown - and it is that piece of brilliance for which he will always be remembered.\n\nSuch was his reliability, the phrase 'Safe As The Banks Of England' was coined about him - but he could also produce rare acts of genius and it was in Guadalajara on 7 June 1970 that he produced the save many still regard as the greatest in the game's history.\n\nEngland were facing Brazil in a group game touted as a meeting of the tournament's two finest teams. Brazil, the eventual winners, edged a classic through Jairzinho's second-half goal, but the game's iconic moment came in the first period.\n\nBrazil captain Carlos Alberto's pass set Jairzinho free past Terry Cooper on the right wing and his cross was met by the soaring figure of Pele as he rose above Tommy Wright.\n\nPele later admitted he shouted \"gol\" as he powered in a downward header, only to see the blue-shirted Banks somehow not only get across from his near post to far post, but then show incredible agility, technique and awareness to perfectly judge the bounce of the ball and scoop it over the bar with his right hand.\n• None 'My friend Gordon was a goalkeeper with magic'\n• None From hauling coal to winning the World Cup - Banks in his own words\n\nThe Brazilian superstar was disbelieving. England captain Bobby Moore threw his hands in the air in astonishment before applauding Banks. The legendary BBC commentator David Coleman simply said: \"What a save. Gordon Banks. He picked that out of the net.\"\n\nBanks, with typical modesty, later described the save as \"lucky\" but that, along with his place in England's World Cup win, secured his place in football history.\n\nHe said: \"They won't remember me for winning the World Cup. It will be for that save.\"\n\nThe Sheffield-born goalkeeper started his career at Chesterfield and showed such promise in his 23 games that he signed for First Division club Leicester City for £7,000 in July 1959.\n\nIt was here he forged his reputation, producing what he regarded as one of the finest performances of his career in the 1963 FA Cup semi-final when Leicester City beat Liverpool 1-0 at Hillsborough, although the Wembley final was a personal disappointment for Banks as they lost 3-1 to Manchester United.\n\nAt the same time, he was on the way to becoming a central figure in England's plans under Ramsey, winning the first of his 73 caps in a 2-1 defeat by Scotland at Wembley in April 1963.\n\nBanks was undisputed first choice by the time of the 1966 World Cup was played on home soil and performed faultlessly throughout the tournament, being widely acknowledged as the best goalkeeper in the game as England lifted the Jules Rimet Trophy.\n\nHe was named Fifa's 'Goalkeeper Of The Year' for six consecutive years between 1966 and 1971.\n\nHe was not enjoying such good fortunes at club level, though, and by the end of the 1966-67 season Banks was under pressure for his place from brilliant emerging teenager Peter Shilton.\n\nThe Foxes decided to go with the younger man and Banks, still with so much to offer, was out.\n\nBill Shankly, always a huge admirer, wanted him at Liverpool. Banks' World Cup colleague Roger Hunt told him: \"Don't sign for anybody. Shankly is coming for you.\"\n\nHe wanted the move to Anfield, but the call never came.\n\nOthers were interested but in an era when clubs were reluctant to pay large fees for goalkeepers, the seemingly bargain £50,000 asking price was prohibitive and he ended up joining relatively unfashionable Stoke City.\n\nRamsey had no such doubts. Banks was, in his view, still the best in the land.\n\nAnd so to Mexico in 1970 where, after his moment of brilliance, Banks was also the central figure in the game where England lost their crown and the balance of power shifted.\n\nThe day before the quarter-final against West Germany in Leon, Banks was taken ill with what the locals called 'Montezuma's Revenge', a stomach bug accompanied by cramps and a fever.\n\nBanks passed an initial fitness test but soon relapsed, leaving the devastated Ramsey to draft in Chelsea keeper Peter Bonetti at the 11th hour.\n\nEngland's number one was confined to his hotel room as Bonetti, an outstanding goalkeeper, suffered an uncertain, nervous performance and Ramsey's side conceded a two-goal lead to lose 3-2.\n\nBanks' sudden illness led to conspiracy theories that the keeper - so vital to an England team that was not popular among locals after uncomplimentary comments by Ramsey about Argentina in the 1966 World Cup - had been deliberately poisoned.\n\nThere was never any evidence this was the case and Banks himself refused to subscribe to the suggestion of any sinister interference in England's preparations.\n\nDespite that disappointment, Banks enjoyed more personal glory as he helped Stoke City win their first major trophy when they beat Chelsea 2-1 in the 1972 League Cup final, the keeper making a decisive contribution in the campaign when saving an extra-time penalty from his fellow World Cup winner Geoff Hurst as West Ham United were overcome in a semi-final that went to a replay.\n\nHe never achieved his ambition of reaching another FA Cup final, however, losing at the semi-final stage to Arsenal in 1971 and 1972.\n\nBanks played his final game for England against the country he started his international career, with a 1-0 win against Scotland at Hampden Park in May 1972.\n\nThe great goalkeeper's career was cut tragically short on Sunday 22 October that year when he lost the sight in his right eye in a car crash as he drove home after treatment for a minor injury.\n\nBanks had played at Liverpool the day before, was still two months short of his 34th birthday and was the current Football Writers' Association Footballer Of The Year.\n\nHe announced his retirement the following summer.\n\nIn April 1977, he returned to play for Fort Lauderdale Strikers in the North American Soccer League. They won their division and Banks was named 'Keeper Of The Year'. He also played one game for League Of Ireland side St Patrick's Athletic as his great career came to a close.\n\nBanks had a spell coaching at Port Vale then as a manager at Telford United but was disillusioned by his sacking in December 1980.\n\nThis is the man, however, whose name will always be regarded among the greats of the game - and the goalkeeper who made the save by which all others are still measured.", "Amber went missing from her home in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, on 30 May 2015 and was found hanged in bushes three days later\n\nThe mother and stepfather of a girl found hanged in bushes have told an inquest she lied about being given punishments and chores to do at home.\n\nAmber Peat, 13, told a teacher her stepfather woke her up in the night to finish chores and forced her to wear baggy grey jogging bottoms to school.\n\nHowever, Kelly and Daniel Peat both said these allegations were untrue.\n\nIn fact, Mrs Peat said her daughter had chosen to wear the grey jogging bottoms to school herself.\n\nMr Peat said he was not even there when his stepdaughter left for school wearing the jogging bottoms.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The couple appeared at a press conference in the days following Amber's disappearance\n\n\"Nobody made her wear them,\" Mr Peat said.\n\n\"I had nothing to do with it.\"\n\nMrs Peat said Amber had been \"adamant she wanted to wear them\", but the coroner Laurinda Bower pointed out Amber had arrived at school \"sobbing\".\n\nShe asked Mrs Peat: \"Do you have any idea why Amber, having chosen to wear this outfit, a short time later attended her form and told her form tutor she had been made to wear this ridiculous outfit by her stepfather as punishment?\"\n\nMrs Peat replied: \"I don't know why she would have said that.\"\n\nAmber went missing from her home in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, on 30 May 2015 and was found hanged in bushes three days later.\n\nAmber had a door \"shut in her face\" before going to hang herself\n\nAmber told the same form tutor that Mr Peat forced her to carry her belongings to school in a plastic bag as punishment, but Mr and Mrs Peat said this was a lie too.\n\n\"We bought her a school bag that came back broken,\" said Mrs Peat.\n\n\"I told her to grab anything, she needed something.\"\n\nAmber's stepfather said: \"There were several occasions Amber came home without her school bag. I wasn't aware of somebody saying 'you must take the carrier bag'.\"\n\nWhen asked about Amber apparently being woken up at night to finish chores, Mr and Mrs Peat both said this was not true either.\n\nMr Peat said Amber was made to do chores as punishment, but it was usually just \"to wash the pots\".\n\nThe inquest previously heard that Amber complained to her teacher about being punished and made to do chores\n\nMr and Mrs Peat told the inquest about the last moments they saw Amber alive, in which she had a door \"shut in her face\" as the coroner described it.\n\nThe inquest previously heard Amber was upset after being asked to clean a cool box.\n\nMr and Mrs Peat both said they were sitting in the living room while Amber was in the hallway. Their accounts of what happened next differed after this point.\n\nAmber's mother told the inquest: \"She was stood in the hallway with the cool box in her hand and she was just staring at me. I asked her what was going on but she was just staring at me.\n\n\"I kept asking her 'What's wrong? What's going on?'\n\n\"She stood there and she was just staring so I shut the door to.\"\n\nAmber's body was found in Westfield Lane, about a mile from her home in Bosworth Street\n\nThe coroner pointed out this account differed from her police statement, in which she said Amber had repeated \"Mum, Mum, Mum\", before her mother apparently said she did not want to talk to her.\n\n\"Was Amber saying 'Mum, Mum, Mum?\" asked the coroner.\n\nRecalling the same incident, Mr Peat said Amber was saying: \"You are my mum and I want to talk to you. Mum, Mum, Mum.\"\n\nMr and Mrs Peat agreed Amber had been left alone in the hallway after Mrs Peat shut the door. They then remained sitting in the living room, they said, and heard the door slam as Amber left the house.\n\nThis was at about 17:15 or 17:30 BST. Amber was reported missing almost eight hours later, by which time she had died.\n\nMr and Mrs Peat both told the inquest they went looking for Amber, but said they also did some shopping at Tesco, got the car washed and had a meal before calling police.\n\nThey said this was because Amber had gone missing before but usually returned home.\n\nAmber's biological father Adrian Cook asked Mr Peat if he considered going to Tesco and having the car washed when his stepdaughter was missing as \"neglecting her well-being\", to which he replied \"no\".\n\nEarlier, Mrs Peat told the inquest Amber and Mr Peat would sometimes \"butt heads\" over chores.\n\nShe said: \"He would say, 'do this' and she would say no - and Danny got to the point where he wasn't getting anywhere and he would say, 'you talk to her'.\"\n\nMrs Peat also said Amber had not run away while Mr Peat had been serving time in prison for tax fraud.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on Twitter, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA supporter of US President Donald Trump has attacked a BBC cameraman at a campaign rally in El Paso, Texas.\n\nSporting a Make America Great Again cap, the man shoved and swore at the BBC's Ron Skeans and other news crews before being pulled away.\n\nMr Skeans said the \"very hard shove\" came from his blindside. \"I didn't know what was going on.\"\n\nMr Trump saw the attack and confirmed Mr Skeans was well with a thumbs up after it happened.\n\nThe BBC has written to White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders asking for a review of security arrangements for the media attending the president's rallies following the attack.\n\nThe president has had a fractious relationship with the media from the start of his time in office.\n\nHe has claimed journalists are \"the enemy of the people\" and slammed the \"fake news\" for reports he deems unfavourable.\n\nMr Skeans said the man almost knocked him and his camera over twice before he was wrestled away by a blogger.\n\nPresident Trump checked they were well with a thumbs up, and continued his speech after Mr Skeans returned the gesture.\n\nBBC Washington producer Eleanor Montague and Washington correspondent Gary O'Donoghue were sitting in front of the camera.\n\nMs Montague said the protester had attacked other news crews but Mr Skeans \"got the brunt of it\".\n\nA campaign official for Mr Trump afterwards suggested the attacker was drunk.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe president went to El Paso, on the US border with Mexico, to campaign for a border wall, a divisive issue which caused the longest government shutdown in US history.\n\nMs Montague said the president had spoken of \"fake news\" and how the media misrepresented him in the run up to the assault.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Mr O'Donoghue said it was \"an incredibly violent attack\".\n\n\"This is a constant feature of these rallies - a goading of the crowds against the media,\" Mr O'Donoghue said, who added that he had been \"spat at before\".\n\nLast August UN experts warned Mr Trump's attacks \"increase the risk of journalists being targeted with violence\", calling his rhetoric \"strategic\".\n\nNew York Times publisher AG Sulzberger has urged the president to stop his media assaults.\n\nCNN meanwhile filmed supporters of Mr Trump yelling abuse and swearing at reporters covering a rally in Florida last year.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFormer White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci condemned Trump's supporters at the Florida rally on Twitter, saying the behaviour was \"not who we are\".", "A newborn baby was rescued from a storm drain in the South African city of Durban after a three-hour operation.\n\nThe baby's crying was heard by a passer-by who alerted the emergency services.\n\nPolice are investigating how the infant girl came to be in the drain.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Hakeem al-Araibi thanked Australians for their support on arrival in Melbourne\n\nRefugee footballer Hakeem al-Araibi has returned home to Australia after two months of detention in Thailand.\n\nThe Bahraini citizen was detained in Bangkok in November while on honeymoon, at the request of Bahrain authorities.\n\nFollowing an international outcry and diplomatic pressure, the Arab kingdom ended its extradition attempt on Monday.\n\nHundreds of supporters cheered the arrival of the 25-year-old footballer at Melbourne Airport on Tuesday.\n\nWearing his team's football jersey, al-Araibi told the crowd: \"I would like to say thanks to Australia. It's amazing to see all of the people here and all of the Australian people who supported me.\"\n\nHakeem al-Araibi was detained for over two months in Thailand\n\nThe professional footballer and vocal critic of Bahrain authorities had fled to Australia in 2014 where he was granted political asylum.\n\nBahrain had sentenced him in absentia to 10 years for vandalising a police station, charges which he has denied.\n\nThe Arab kingdom had sought his extradition, but human rights groups warned that he risked torture if he was sent back.\n\nHours before his return, his wife told the BBC she was deeply thankful for the lobbying efforts of the Australian government and public, and the international football community.\n\n\"I have had a smile all the time on my face and I can't stop crying - I am just so happy,\" said the 24-year-old, who does not wish to be named.\n\n\"I prayed and prayed that he would come back to me, and finally our nightmare is ending.\"\n\nDenied contact with her husband during his 10-week detention, she said she planned to \"buy flowers and cake\" to celebrate their reunion.\n\nShe also thanked Craig Foster, a TV host and former Australian national football captain who rallied the international football community, and sports bodies including Fifa and the International Olympic Committee to help secure a release.\n\nMr Foster, who escorted al-Araibi on his arrival, said the human rights victory marked \"the beginning of a broader fight for the values of sport\".\n\n\"We fought for one soul because Hakeem represented everyone who suffers under tyranny,\" he said in a statement.\n\nThe footballer plays for Melbourne team Pascoe Vale FC. Many of the team's members were at the airport on Tuesday.\n\nAs he walked out of the airport arrival gates, Hakeem al-Araibi seemed astounded by the welcoming party that had gathered to greet him.\n\nSome supporters had banners and posters bearing his picture, others wore T-shirts with the campaign slogan #SaveHakeem.\n\nThey cheered as if greeting a cup-winning captain and sang one of football's most poignant anthems, You'll Never Walk Alone.\n\nHis case has shown the solidarity that exists across the game, as players and fans lobbied for his return.\n\nBut the apparent delay by Fifa in becoming involved has left the game's governing body open to accusations of neglect and failing to stand by its own policy on human rights.\n\nOn Monday, Thai officials told the BBC they had released al-Araibi because Bahrain was no longer seeking his extradition.\n\nBahrain's foreign ministry said that despite the end of court extradition proceedings, the footballer's conviction still stood.\n\n\"The Kingdom of Bahrain reaffirms its right to pursue all necessary legal actions against Mr al-Araibi,\" it added.", "Mexico's brutal drug war claims thousands of lives every year, as powerful trafficking groups battle it out for territory and influence.\n\nThese cartels control vast areas of the country and are also responsible for political corruption, assassinations and kidnappings.\n\nBut which groups are the most powerful?\n\nTerritory: Much of the north-west.\n\nThe US government has described the Sinaloa Cartel as one of the largest drug-trafficking organisations in the world.\n\nFounded in the late 1980s, it was for many years headed by the notorious drug lord Joaquín \"El Chapo\" Guzmán. \"El Chapo\" - or \"Shorty\" - was once ranked as one of the world's richest men. His life and vast drug-trafficking empire have been the subject of numerous books and TV series.\n\nUnder his leadership, the cartel garnered a fierce reputation for violence and outfought several rival groups. Mexican cartels often clash with one another, but it's also worth noting that they can form strategic alliances as well.\n\nThe Sinaloa became the biggest supplier of illegal drugs to the US during Guzmán's long reign as leader, officials say.\n\n\"El Chapo\" was arrested in 2014 and is now serving a life sentence in prison\n\nThe cartel kidnapped, tortured and slaughtered members of rival criminal gangs. It also had access to a huge arsenal of weapons, including a rocket-propelled grenade launcher and Guzmán's own gold plated AK-47.\n\nBut in July 2019, the drug lord was sentenced to life in prison following one of the most high-profile trials in recent US history.\n\nProsecutors said Guzmán had trafficked cocaine, heroin and marijuana, and kept a network of dealers, kidnappers and assassins on his payroll.\n\nHis jailing led to an increase of violence in the region as other groups sought to take advantage. Despite this, the Sinaloa Cartel remains hugely powerful. It still dominates north-west Mexico and is reported to have a presence in cities ranging from Buenos Aires to New York.\n\nIt also continues to make billions of dollars from trafficking illicit narcotics to the US, Europe and Asia, experts say. With its long-time leader now behind bars, the cartel is said to be partially controlled by Mr Guzmán's son, Ovidio Guzmán Lopez.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nWhen the younger Guzmán was arrested by the security forces in October 2019, Sinaloa Cartel gunmen were quick to demonstrate the group's serious military might.\n\nThey fought street battles with the army in broad daylight, set fire to vehicles, and even staged a prison break before their leader was eventually freed. It was a sign the group remains an immensely powerful force.\n\nTerritory: The west, mainly the Tierra Caliente region.\n\nFormed in about 2010, the Jalisco cartel is the strongest and most aggressive competitor to the Sinaloa.\n\nThe group has expanded rapidly across Mexico and is now one of the country's most dominant organised crime groups. Its assets are thought to be worth more than $20bn (£15.5bn).\n\nThe cartel is led by Ruben Oseguera, known as \"El Mencho\", a former police officer who is Mexico's most wanted man. The bounty for his capture? A cool $10m.\n\nThe US government is offering a $10m reward for the capture of the Jalisco cartel's leader\n\nThe Jalisco cartel is one of the main distributors of synthetic drugs on the continent, according to the US government. It is a key player in the illegal amphetamine market in the US and Europe and is also thought to have links to the drug market in Asia.\n\nIt has grown much more powerful in recent years and its rise has been fuelled by its use of extreme violence.\n\n\"It remains the most aggressive cartel in Mexico,\" according to the US-based geopolitical analysis firm Stratfor. \"Its efforts to expand its area of control are largely responsible for the persistent wave of violence racking Tijuana, Juarez, Guanajuato and Mexico City.\"\n\nIndeed, the cartel has gained notoriety for a series of attacks on security forces and public officials.\n\nIt has downed an army helicopter with a rocket-propelled grenade, killed dozens of state officials, and has even been known to hang the bodies of its victims from bridges to intimidate its rivals.\n\nAnd, according to experts in the region, it is set to expand further.\n\nTerritory: The north-east, centred around the border state of Tamaulipas.\n\nThis is one of Mexico's oldest criminal groups and its roots can be traced back to the 1980s.\n\nIt became known around this time for trafficking cocaine and marijuana into the US. It is also thought to have smuggled heroin and amphetamines, and it worked closely with cartels in Colombia.\n\nBy the 1990s, the Gulf Cartel's drug trafficking operation was reportedly bringing in billions of dollars every year. It maintained this network by engaging in political corruption and bribery as a means to keep officials on side.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mexico's drug war: Has it turned the tide?\n\nThe cartel was initially led by Juan García Abrego, the first Mexican drug lord to be included in the FBI's 10 most wanted list. He was captured in 1996 and jailed for life in the US.\n\nHis heir, Osiel Cardenas Guillen, built up the cartel's military wing. He recruited a number of corrupt special forces soldiers and pushed an even more violent approach. Those soldiers would eventually go rogue and form a rival cartel of their own (more on this later).\n\nCardenas was arrested in 2003 and is currently serving 25 years in jail in the US. His brother and top leader of the cartel, Ezequiel Cardenas Guillen, was killed in a shootout with Mexican troops in 2010.\n\nThe cartel then split into multiple factions with different leaders. It has been weakened as a result, and is engaged in a vicious turf war with the...\n\nThis group was founded by corrupt members of an elite unit of Mexico's special forces.\n\nMore than 30 ex-soldiers were hired by the leader of the Gulf Cartel in the 1990s but, as mentioned above, they broke away and formed their own operation in 2010.\n\nThe two cartels then clashed violently, particularly in Mexico's north-east. The Zetas became particularly well-known for their brutality, often torturing and decapitating their victims.\n\nBy 2012, the Zetas had reached the peak of their powers. The were named as the country's biggest drug gang, overtaking their bitter rivals the Sinaloa, and were thought to operate in more than half of the Mexican states.\n\nThey moved beyond drugs and turned their hand to any crime that brought them money, from cigarette smuggling to human trafficking.\n\nBut, later in 2012, one of their leaders was killed in a shootout with the Mexican Navy. His replacement, Miguel Ángel Treviño Morales, was captured. His younger brother, Omar Treviño Morales, took over but was also caught in 2015.\n\nThis marked the beginning of the cartel's decline. A lack of leadership caused the Zetas to splinter and allowed rival groups to assert dominance, according to analysis from Insight Crime, which monitors organised crime in the Americas.\n\nThe Zetas lost ground as others, notably the Jalisco cartel, expanded to take their east coast territory. Internal divisions have also served to weaken the group, but it remains a dangerous force.", "(L-R) Keegan, Tilly Rose, Olly and Riley died in the blaze in the early hours of 5 February\n\nA house fire which killed four children was not caused by cannabis growth or a boiler exploding, police have said.\n\nRiley Holt, eight, Keegan Unitt, six, Tilly Rose Unitt, four, and Olly Unitt, three, died in the blaze in Highfields in Stafford last Tuesday.\n\nStaffordshire Police said they had ruled out both as possible causes of the fire amid speculation online.\n\nA woman, 24, and a man, 28, arrested on suspicion of manslaughter by gross negligence, have been bailed.\n\nA spokesman for the force told the BBC they could \"rule out cannabis growth [sic] and also do not believe the boiler is involved\" after social media speculation mounted over the cause of the fire.\n\nThey said investigative work was ongoing.\n\nThe woman and man are currently living at an address out of the area. They were detained by officers at about 13:30 GMT on Friday and have been bailed until March.\n\nThe family are being supported by specialist police officers\n\nThe children's 24-year-old mother, Natalie Unitt, and her 28-year-old partner, Chris Moulton, leapt from a first-floor window with the siblings' two-year-old brother, Jack, during the fire.\n\nThey did not sustain life-threatening injuries.\n\nA fundraising page for the family has since raised over £30,000 - with more than 1,900 people donating.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police were called at 13:33 GMT to an altercation between two groups of men on Argyle Square, near King's Cross train station.\n\nTwo men have been taken to hospital with facial injuries after a \"corrosive substance\" was thrown at them near Kings Cross station.\n\nPolice were called at 13:33 GMT to an altercation between two groups of men on Argyle Square, Bloomsbury.\n\nThe groups had left the location before officers and 10 firefighters arrived at the scene, police said.\n\nTwo men were later found nearby with facial injuries. No arrests have been made.\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 Macca 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\nIt comes after a 19-year-old man was hurt when a \"noxious substance\" was thrown at his face near Romford station on Monday.\n\nPeople have taken to Twitter to warn others about the attack.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Prince of Wales met the daughter of former South African president Nelson Mandela while on a visit to Liverpool.\n\nDr Makaziwe Mandela showed the prince a selection of her father's drawings, which she has donated for a permanent display in St George's Hall.\n\nThe Duchess of Cornwall also posed in front of Paul Curtis' famous mural, For All Liverpool's Liver Birds.\n\nThe royal couple met Ireland's President Michael D Higgins and his wife Sabina during the visit.\n\nThe Duchess of Cornwall stands between the wings of For All Liverpool's Liver Birds in Jamaica Street\n\nThe Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall arrive in Liverpool\n\nMs Mandela is also on a short trip to the UK and began her visit on Monday, the 29th anniversary of her father being released from prison after 27 years.\n\nDozens of students waited for a glimpse of the royal couple as they began their day celebrating Liverpool University's Institute of Irish Studies.\n\nDozens of students waited for a glimpse of the royal couple\n\nCharles and Camilla met Ireland's President Michael D Higgins and his wife Sabina\n\nSabina Coyne and the Duchess of Cornwall as they receive flowers at a reception at Victoria Gallery and Museum, University of Liverpool\n\nVice Chancellor, Professor Dame Janet Beer, said the visit was \"a wonderful occasion\".\n\n\"We are very fortunate indeed to have as joint patrons of the Institute of Irish Studies, the Prince of Wales and the President of Ireland and the fact that they were both able to come together has been a special day in the life of the University of Liverpool.\"\n\nThe prince and duchess's visit comes a month after the Duke and Duchess of Sussex visited Birkenhead in their first joint royal engagement of the year.\n\nPrince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall also visited the Royal Albert Dock", "The British rapper Professor Green has fractured vertebrae in his neck, forcing him to cancel his latest tour.\n\nThe 35-year-old artist, whose real name is Stephen Manderson, was due to start a UK tour in Cardiff.\n\nThe star told fans on social media he had had three seizures, resulting in a fall which caused the fractures.\n\nGreen shared a picture of himself strapped onto a stretcher with his head supported and a neck brace, with a tube in his nose.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by professorgreen This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe musician, who's known for songs like Read All About It and I Need You Tonight, said the fall happened as he was packing for his tour.\n\nIn further posts, Green said was \"extremely lucky\" and thanked \"our NHS, heroes amongst men (and women)\".\n\nHe promised fans he would be back in the winter with another tour.\n\nA spokesman for the London-born rapper said refunds for all tour dates will be made available at the point of purchase.\n\nProfessor Green was also due to play Birmingham, Glasgow, Newcastle upon Tyne, Manchester, Leeds, Sheffield and Brighton.", "The car veered to the wrong side of the A40 near the junction with Kingsdown Avenue and crashed into a coach\n\nTwo people killed when their car smashed into a coach as they were being followed by police are believed to have been young newlyweds.\n\nPatrick McDonagh, 19, and his 18-year-old pregnant wife, Shauna, have been named in hundreds of tributes.\n\nA car veered to the wrong side of the A40 near East Acton in London at about 21:00 GMT on Sunday before hitting the coach.\n\nThe car was being followed after reports of an armed burglary in Harrow.\n\nIt is believed the couple married last year and were expecting a baby girl in April. The unborn child is not believed to have survived the collision.\n\nA second man who was in the car was taken to hospital and has subsequently been arrested on suspicion of aggravated burglary.\n\nA police helicopter was also called in for the chase\n\nAround 20 minutes before the fatal collision, police had been called to reports of an aggravated burglary in Pinner.\n\nA man in his mid 30s, a woman in her late 50s and a man in his late 60s said the door to their home was forced open and four men entered.\n\nThe suspects then threatened them with a large hunting knife and screwdriver and demanded valuables.\n\nPolice said the suspects threatened to kill the residents and one punched the man in his 30s in the face.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct is investigating the police pursuit.\n• None Two die in crash after police pursuit\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. Maduro: US 'warmongering' in order to take over Venezuela\n\nVenezuela's embattled President Nicolás Maduro has called Donald Trump's government a \"gang of extremists\" and blamed the US for his country's crisis.\n\nIn an interview with the BBC, Mr Maduro said he would not allow humanitarian aid into Venezuela as it was a way for the US to justify an intervention.\n\n\"They are warmongering in order to take over Venezuela,\" he said.\n\nThe US and most Western governments have recognised opposition leader Juan Guaidó as interim president.\n\nMr Maduro is under growing internal and international pressure to call early presidential elections amid a worsening economic crisis and accusations of widespread corruption and human rights violations.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Guaidó has called for new anti-government protests later on Tuesday.\n\nRelations between the US and Venezuela were already fraught before President Trump's administration became one of the first to back Mr Guaidó as interim leader.\n\nVenezuela broke off diplomatic relations in response while Mr Trump said the use of military force remained \"an option\".\n\nIn a rare interview, Mr Maduro said he hoped \"this extremist group in the White House is defeated by powerful world-wide public opinion\".\n\nSpeaking in the capital, Caracas, he told the BBC's Orla Guerin: \"It's a political war, of the United States empire, of the interests of the extreme right that today is governing, of the Ku Klux Klan, that rules the White House, to take over Venezuela.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why Venezuela matters to the US... and vice versa\n\nThe US, which accuses Mr Maduro's government of human rights violations and corruption, has led the international pressure on the Venezuelan president to step down.\n\nIt has imposed a raft of economic measures on the country, including against the state-owned oil company, PDVSA, aiming to hit Venezuela's main source of revenue.\n\nIn recent years the US has frozen Mr Maduro's US assets, restricted Venezuela's access to US markets and blocked dealings with those involved in the country's gold trade.\n\nIt has also criticised Mr Maduro's increased use of the courts and security forces to suppress political opposition.\n\nPlease upgrade your browser to view this content. Was this timeline useful? Thank you for your feedback.\n\nSecretary of State Mike Pompeo has called the government a \"disastrous dictatorship\" while National Security Advisor John Bolton said Mr Maduro was holding an \"illegitimate claim to power\".\n\nWhen asked, in response to his Ku Klux Klan comment, if he believed Mr Trump was a \"white supremacist\", Mr Maduro said: \"He is, publicly and openly... They hate us, they belittle us, because they only believe in their own interests, and in the interests of the United States.\"\n\nThe president has rejected allowing foreign humanitarian aid into the country, a move that is being organised by the opposition. He said Venezuela had \"the capacity to satisfy all the needs of its people\" and did not have to \"beg from anyone\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Venezuela's President Maduro to BBC: US aid trucks are a charade\n\nBut for years Venezuelans have faced severe shortages of basic items such as medicine and food. Last year, the inflation rate saw prices doubling every 19 days on average.\n\nThree million people, or 10% of the population, have left the country since the economy started to worsen in 2014, according to the UN. And Mr Guaidó says more than 300,000 Venezuelans are at \"risk of dying\".\n\nMr Maduro, who has blamed US sanctions for Venezuela's economic woes, said the US intended to \"create a humanitarian crisis in order to justify a military intervention\".\n\n\"This is part of that charade. That's why, with all dignity, we tell them we don't want their crumbs, their toxic food, their left-overs.\"\n\nMr Maduro, in power since 2013, was re-elected to a second term last year but the elections were controversial with many opposition candidates barred from running or jailed, and claims of vote-rigging.\n\nHead of the opposition-controlled National Assembly, Mr Guaidó declared himself president on 23 January, saying the constitution allowed him to assume power temporarily when the president was deemed illegitimate.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Desperate Venezuelan women are selling their hair at the border\n\nMr Maduro - who still has the support of Turkey, Russia and China and, crucially, of the Venezuelan army - said he did not see the need for early presidential elections.\n\n\"What's the logic, reasoning, to repeat an election?\" he asked.\n\nHe also said only \"about 10\" governments supported Mr Guaidó - in fact, more than 30 have announced their support for the opposition leader - and that they were trying to \"impose a government that nobody has elected\".\n\n\"The extremists of the White House have taken it upon themselves to carry out a coup in Venezuela.\"", "The net independence plan is seen as a way for Russia's government to get more control over online life\n\nRussia is considering whether to disconnect from the global internet briefly, as part of a test of its cyber-defences.\n\nThe test will mean data passing between Russian citizens and organisations stays inside the nation rather than being routed internationally.\n\nA draft law mandating technical changes needed to operate independently was introduced to its parliament last year.\n\nThe test is expected to happen before 1 April but no exact date has been set.\n\nThe draft law, called the Digital Economy National Program, requires Russia's ISPs to ensure that it can operate in the event of foreign powers acting to isolate the country online.\n\nNato and its allies have threatened to sanction Russia over the cyber-attacks and other online interference which it is regularly accused of instigating.\n\nThe measures outlined in the law include Russia building its own version of the net's address system, known as DNS, so it can operate if links to these internationally-located servers are cut.\n\nCurrently, 12 organisations oversee the root servers for DNS and none of them are in Russia. However many copies of the net's core address book do already exist inside Russia suggesting its net systems could keep working even if punitive action was taken to cut it off.\n\nThe test is also expected to involve ISPs demonstrating that they can direct data to government-controlled routing points. These will filter traffic so that data sent between Russians reaches its destination, but any destined for foreign computers is discarded.\n\nEventually the Russian government wants all domestic traffic to pass through these routing points. This is believed to be part of an effort to set up a mass censorship system akin to that seen in China, which tries to scrub out prohibited traffic.\n\nRussian news organisations reported that the nation's ISPs are broadly backing the aims of the draft law but are divided on how to do it. They believe the test will cause \"major disruption\" to Russian internet traffic, reports tech news website ZDNet.\n\nThe Russian government is providing cash for ISPs to modify their infrastructure so the redirection effort can be properly tested.\n\nHow does an entire country \"unplug\" itself from the internet?\n\nIt's important to understand a little about how the internet works. It is essentially a series of thousands of digital networks along which information travels. These networks are connected by router points - and they are notoriously the weakest link in the chain.\n\nWhat Russia wants to do is to bring those router points that handle data entering or exiting the country within its borders and under its control- so that it can then pull up the drawbridge, as it were, to external traffic if it's under threat - or if it decides to censor what outside information people can access.\n\nChina's firewall is probably the world's best known censorship tool and it has become a sophisticated operation. It also polices its router points, using filters and blocks on keywords and certain websites and redirecting web traffic so that computers cannot connect to sites the state does not wish Chinese citizens to see.\n\nIt is possible to get around some firewalls using virtual private networks (VPNs) - which disguise the location of a computer so the filters do not kick in - but some regimes are more tolerant of them than others. China cracks down on them from time to time and the punishment for providing or using illegal VPNs can be a prison sentence.\n\nOccasionally countries disconnect themselves by accident - Mauritania was left offline for two days in 2018 after the undersea fibre cable that supplied its internet was cut, possibly by a trawler.", "UK firms have accused the government of leaving them \"hung out to dry\" in the event of a no-deal Brexit.\n\nWith less than 50 days until 29 March when the UK is due to leave the EU, the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) says 20 key questions remain unresolved.\n\nHow to move skilled staff between the UK and EU, which rules to follow, and what trade deals will be in place are all still unknown, the BCC says.\n\nThe government said it was focused on getting approval for its Brexit deal.\n\n\"I absolutely recognise that for many businesses it is a period of uncertainty and concern,\" Brexit Secretary Stephen Barclay told BBC Radio 4's Today Programme. \"That's why we are so committed to securing a deal.\"\n\nHe said he had already met BCC representatives to discuss the list of key questions.\n\nOn the matter of trade tariffs in the event of a no-deal Brexit, he said he expected to be able to give more information \"in the coming days\".\n\nTheresa May is currently seeking changes to her Brexit deal with the EU after it was emphatically rejected last month, in the largest defeat ever for a sitting government.\n\nThe prime minister needs to get a deal approved by Parliament by 29 March to avoid a no-deal Brexit. In that case, in the countries where the UK had no formal trade agreement, both would have to trade under the rules overseen by the World Trade Organization (WTO).\n\nUnder this system, every WTO member is free to negotiate its own tariffs - or taxes - on different goods. But under the rules, members have to offer the same tariff to every other WTO country.\n\nThe UK has signed \"continuity agreements\", which mean there will be no disruption to trade, with Switzerland, Chile, The Faroe Islands and Eastern and Southern Africa. As a result free trade agreements currently in place between the EU and those countries will apply to the UK after Brexit.\n\nMutual recognition agreements - where a product lawfully sold in one country can be sold in another - have also been signed with Australia and New Zealand.\n\nLabour has accused Mrs May of \"cynically\" running down the clock. It claims the prime minister is planning to delay the final, binding vote on the withdrawal deal she has agreed with the EU until the last possible moment, so that MPs will be faced with a stark choice between her deal and no deal.\n\nShadow Brexit Secretary Sir Keir Starmer said there was \"a growing frustration\" around Mrs May's handling of the Brexit process.\n\n\"She's coming to Parliament every other week, pretending there's progress, and trying to buy another two weeks,\" he told BBC Radio Four. \"Parliament needs to say 'that's not on'\".\n\nThe BCC - which represents thousands of firms - says its members are \"hugely concerned\" that the UK is not prepared for all eventualities.\n\nEnter the word or phrase you are looking for\n\nThe business lobby group also warned that the lack of clarity over what will happen had already \"stifled investment and growth\".\n\n\"There is a very real risk that a lack of clear, actionable information from government will leave firms, their people and their communities hung out to dry,\" said BCC director general Adam Marshall.\n\nMr Marshall said firms remained \"in the dark\" over crucial issues including contracts and customs tariffs.\n\n\"Businesses need answers they can base decisions on, no matter the outcome,\" he added.\n\nThe Bank of England governor has urged MPs to solve the current Brexit impasse\n\nThe BCC has published the list of 20 questions firms want answered. They include whether firms will be able to fly people and goods between the UK and EU after the end of March and whether there will be any import tariffs.\n\nThe business group's warning comes after Bank of England governor Mark Carney earlier urged MPs to solve the current Brexit impasse.\n\nMr Carney warned a no-deal Brexit would create an \"economic shock\" at a time when China's economy is slowing and trade tensions are rising.\n\n\"It is in the interests of everyone, arguably everywhere\" that a Brexit solution is found, he said.\n\nEarlier this week, official figures showed that the UK economy had expanded at its lowest annual rate in six years last year, with many economists blaming Brexit for the slowdown.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nEngland captain Joe Root showed integrity and leadership in his response to a comment from West Indies fast bowler Shannon Gabriel, says former batter Ebony Rainford-Brent.\n\nSky Sports published a clip of Root, 28, telling Gabriel: \"Don't use it as an insult. There's nothing wrong with being gay.\"\n\nGabriel, 30, was warned by the umpire for the language he used, though his original comment was not picked up.\n\n\"Well done Root,\" said Rainford-Brent.\n\n\"We don't know exactly what was said but what we can take from it is that whatever Joe thought he heard, his response was one of a leader.\n\n\"It's one thing being an England captain, but having that awareness and presence in that moment to be prepared to stand up for something, that's what's interesting.\"\n\nGabriel was subsequently charged by the International Cricket Council with breaching its code of conduct.\n\nRoot refused to explain exactly what was said after play on day three of the final Test in St Lucia, during which the England captain hit a fine century to put his side in a commanding position.\n• None Follow day four of the third Test & listen to The Cricket Social\n• None 'Bigger impact than hitting a six' - how social media reacted to Root stance\n\n\"Players in that scenario could respond in a lot of ways and not say much,\" Rainford-Brent told The Cricket Social.\n\n\"In this age of diversity and people being free to be themselves, when you have an England captain who stands up for something in the moment - and he didn't have to respond - it was a point that he wanted to make and it was really powerful.\n\n\"He showed his integrity and belief - it was really impressive from Root.\"\n\nSomerset wicketkeeper Steve Davies, who came out publicly as gay in 2011, praised Root's response.\n\n\"There is no room in the game for any form of discrimination,\" he said. \"Well done Joe Root and England. Respect.\"\n\nFormer Surrey player Rainford-Brent, 35, said it showed \"the sort of person\" Root is and the \"character he has deep down\".\n\n\"Banter and aggression can be fine but you can't cross a boundary - stuff that is disrespectful, like homophobia - and things like that need to be taken up,\" she added.\n\n\"If it is a homophobic comment, it needs to be investigated and taken further.\"\n\nFormer England captain Alastair Cook said that comments about race and sexuality are \"no-go areas\".\n\n\"If it is a homophobic comment, Gabriel has crossed the line,\" he said.\n\n\"You know the responsibility when you represent your country but we are all humans. He's said something which - we think - is totally unacceptable and unfortunately he must be punished for it.\"\n\nKirsty Clarke, director of sport at LGBT charity Stonewall, said: \"Language is really influential and it's great if Joe Root was willing to challenge potentially abusive comments.\n\n\"The more players, fans, clubs and organisations that stand up for equality in sport, the sooner we kick discrimination out and make sport everyone's game.\"\n\n'A very different attitude in the Caribbean'\n\nCricket commentator Fazeer Mohammed, who like Gabriel is from the island of Trinidad, believes there will be some in the Caribbean who \"might be wondering what the fuss is all about\".\n\nSpeaking to the Test Match Special podcast, Mohammed said: \"In the Caribbean, there tends to be a different attitude towards what I will describe as homophobic remarks.\n\n\"Of course in England and many other parts of the world there's a very different attitude: there's a zero level of tolerance to this sort of situation, if it is that he said something that could be defined as homophobic.\n\n\"It's all part of the learning process. If you're playing international sport, with all these microphones, all these cameras around, you're going to get caught sooner or later.\n\n\"At the end of the day, whether it's Shannon Gabriel or somebody else, they will have to recognise that the comments that they would make with their friends, their mates, in nightclubs, or in any other environment, which might be considered acceptable in that situation, is certainly not acceptable in the international field of play.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dame Frances Cairncross explains the findings of her review into the future of the UK news industry\n\nA regulator should oversee tech giants like Google and Facebook to ensure their news content is trustworthy, a government-backed report has suggested.\n\nThe Cairncross Review into the future of UK news said such sites should help users identify fake news and \"nudge people towards news of high quality\".\n\nThe review also said Ofcom should assess the BBC's impact on online news on other providers.\n\nIn addition, the report called for a new Institute for Public Interest News.\n\nSuch a body, it said, could work in a similar way to the Arts Council, channelling public and private funding to \"those parts of the industry it deemed most worthy of support\".\n\nThe report said Facebook and Google need to give more prominence to public interest news\n\nThe independent review, undertaken by former journalist Dame Frances Cairncross, was tasked with investigating the sustainability of high-quality journalism.\n\nIts recommendations include measures to tackle \"the uneven balance of power\" between news publishers and online platforms that distribute their content.\n\nServices such as Facebook, Google and Apple should continue their attempts to help readers understand how reliable a story is, and the process that decides which stories are shown should be more transparent, it says.\n\n\"Their efforts should be placed under regulatory scrutiny - this task is too important to leave entirely to the judgment of commercial entities,\" according to the report.\n\nCould a digital regulator stop the spread of so-called 'fake news'?\n\nA regulator would initially only assess how well these sites are performing - but if this doesn't work, the report warns \"it may be necessary to impose stricter provisions\".\n\nYet the report falls short of requiring Facebook, Google and other tech giants to pay for the news they distribute via their platforms.\n\nDame Frances told the BBC's media editor Amol Rajan that \"draconian and risky\" measures could result in firms such as Google withdrawing their news services altogether.\n\n\"There are a number of ways we have suggested technology companies could behave differently and could be made to behave differently,\" she said.\n\n\"But they are mostly ways that don't immediately involve legislation.\"\n\nThe review was not asked to comment specifically on the BBC but concluded that curtailing the corporation's news offering would be counter-productive after hearing arguments from other publishers that the BBC reporting on so-called \"soft content\" online was crowding out other news providers.\n\nThe review noted that the BBC Charter states the corporation should endeavour to reach all demographics, and that stories of this type are essential to appeal to an increasingly elusive younger audience.\n\nThe BBC also argues that \"soft content\" stories may attract users who might then click onwards to a public-interest news story.\n\nThe review said the BBC was delivering high quality journalism but suggested it \"could do more and think more carefully about how its news provision can act as a complement, rather than a substitute, for private news provision\".\n\nDame Frances also recommended an exploration of the market impact of BBC News, conducted by broadcasting regulator Ofcom, to find whether it is 'striking the right balance' and driving traffic to other, commercial providers.\n\nThe BBC should do more to share its technical and digital expertise for the benefit of local publishers, the report concluded.\n\nThe review suggests it would 'make little sense to curtail the BBC'\n\nShadow Culture Secretary Tom Watson urged the government to tackle Google and Facebook's \"duopoly\" in the digital advertising market, and said Dame Frances was \"barking up the wrong tree\" in recommending an inquiry into the BBC's online news output.\n\nMeanwhile, former director general of the BBC Greg Dyke defended the role of the corporation.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"It seems to me that at a time when large American media companies - the likes of Netflix and the rest of it - are going to come to dominate in the world, for the BBC to be cutting back on anything will be a mistake.\n\n\"The importance of the BBC is going to grow in the next 10 years, not decline.\"\n\nFrances Cairncross earned widespread respect as a journalist for her hard-headed and pragmatic approach to economics.\n\nThat pragmatism is the very reason the government commissioned her to look at the future of high-quality news - and also the reason many in local and regional media will be disappointed by her recommendations.\n\nWhat is most notable about her review is what it doesn't do.\n\nThis is because the practicalities of doing these things are difficult, and experience shows that the likes of Google will simply pull out of markets that don't suit them.\n\nThere are concrete measures that could boost local news, from tax relief to an extension of the Local Democracy Reporting Service.\n\nAnd Dame Frances certainly seemed cognisant of the argument that BBC News has over-reached, to the extent that it is harming the commercial sector. But this is a matter for Ofcom.\n\nUltimately, as this report acknowledges, when it comes to news, convenience is king. The speed, versatility and zero cost of so much news now means that, even if it is of poor quality, a generation of consumers has fallen out of the habit of paying for news.\n\nBut quality costs. If quality news has a future, consumers will have to pay. That's the main lesson of this report.\n\nThe report recommends \"new codes of conduct\" whose implementation would be supervised by a regulator \"with powers to insist on compliance\".\n\nThe Barnsley Chronicle goes to press in September 2017\n\nOne local newspaper editor welcomed the report's recommendations but said it \"comes too late for so many once proud and important community newspapers\".\n\nThe Yorkshire Post's James Mitchinson said: \"The various fiscal reviews and recommendations... must come quickly... if we are to turn the Cairncross Review into something which we look back upon as being instrumental in preserving what we do for generations to come.\"\n\nCulture Secretary Jeremy Wright said some of its suggestions could be acted upon \"immediately\", while others would need \"further careful consideration\".\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.\n\nA body modification artist has admitted three counts of grievous bodily harm, by carrying out tongue splitting and ear and nipple removal procedures.\n\nBrendan McCarthy, also known as Dr Evil, carried out consensual procedures without using anaesthetic.\n\nIn his defence, the 50-year-old argued that consent was given but the judge ruled the procedures could not be compared to tattoos and piercings.\n\nHe will be sentenced on 21 March at Wolverhampton Crown Court.\n\nMcCarthy, of Bushbury, Wolverhampton, ran a modification emporium in Princess Alley before he was charged with six counts of wounding in 2017.\n\nHe was arrested in December 2015 following a complaint to City of Wolverhampton Council's environmental health team.\n\nA petition in support of McCarthy amassed more than 13,400 signatures and his lawyer challenged the charges on the basis that his customers consented.\n\nHis supporters argued \"for the right to express ourselves in whatever modified manner we wish in a safe environment\".\n\nThe council said its issue was with McCarthy's lack of licence to carry out the modification procedures and the need for more regulation in the industry which delivers results \"akin to cosmetic surgery\".\n\nDr Samantha Pegg, a law lecturer at Nottingham Trent University and expert on the legality of body modification procedures, said: \"Practitioners have assumed that extreme body modifications, as forms of body adornment, were lawful when consent was given.\n\n\"Although the law has long accepted that tattooing and piercing are lawful activities there has not - until this case - been any consideration of other forms of body modification such as tongue splitting.\"\n\nPassing verdict, Judge Amjad Nawaz ruled that written consent from his customers was not sufficient defence.\n\nThe tattooist has spent two years arguing his case, contending at the Court of Appeal that the procedures should be regarded as lawful to protect the \"personal autonomy\" of his customers.\n\nJudge Nawaz drew the distinction between body modification and tattoos and piercings, saying there is \"no proper analogy\".\n\n\"What the defendant undertook for reward in this case was a series of medical procedures for no medical reason,\" he said.\n\nMcCarthy removed a client's ear in 2015 at his studio in Wolverhampton\n\nDr Pegg said the case has \"partially clarified what was previously a grey area of the law\".\n\nAlthough consensual, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said these were \"significant surgical procedures\" but McCarthy has no medical qualifications, nor is he registered with the General Medical Council (GMC).\n\n\"Surgical procedures must be carried out by properly trained, qualified and regulated surgeons or healthcare professionals,\" senior prosecutor Rhiannon Jones said.\n\nGMC guidance says doctors must be appropriately trained and experienced before practising cosmetic procedures.\n\nIt adds doctors must consider their patients' psychological needs and follow protocols for safe interventions.\n\nSpeaking before Tuesday's hearing, McCarthy told the BBC the situation was \"crushing\".\n\n\"It's crushed me completely, I'm a shadow of my former self,\" he said. \"I don't feel I've done anything wrong.\"\n\nNick Pinch went to McCarthy to have his nipple removed after previous piercings caused a build-up of scar tissue.\n\nNick Pinch went to McCarthy to have his nipple removed\n\nThe procedures carried out on Mr Pinch formed part of the prosecution's case.\n\nMr Pinch said: \"[McCarthy] wanted to know why I wanted this procedure, he wanted to make sure I knew what I was doing, he took complete duty of care. I'm really happy with what I've had done.\"\n\nWest Midlands Police said McCarthy conducted the procedures without knowing his clients' medical histories or psychiatric backgrounds. He also did not have any life-saving equipment if the surgeries went wrong.\n\nYou may also be interested in:\n\nBody Art, whose full name is King of Ink Land King Body Art The Extreme Ink-Ite but who was born Matthew Whelan, has devoted his life to body modification.\n\nHe said: \"Under current laws, we are classed as effectively consenting abuse victims.\n\nBody Art said the industry needs to be regulated\n\n\"These are private procedures and agreements between me as the client and the business person.\n\n\"But I do think there needs to be regulation. There are people in the industry that aren't protected.\"\n\nMcCarthy was refused permission to appeal to the Supreme Court and has been bailed ahead of sentencing.", "The keepers of thirteen-year-old female tiger Shouri were said to be \"extremely distraught\"\n\nA rare Amur tiger has died in a fight with two other tigers at Longleat Safari and Adventure Park.\n\nThirteen-year-old female Shouri, who died on Monday, had lived at the park since 2006.\n\nLongleat said she gained access to a paddock where two other tigers, Red and Yana, were being held and a fight ensued between the three animals.\n\nThe Warminster site was not open to the public at the time and both Red and Yana were uninjured.\n\nThe park said a full investigation was ongoing to determine the exact circumstances surrounding the \"terribly sad event\".\n\nLast week, an endangered Sumatran tiger was killed by another tiger at London Zoo.\n\nLongleat said: \"During the process of moving the tigers between the various outdoor paddocks, a door connecting two areas was opened which meant Shouri was able to gain access to the same outdoor area as Red and Yana.\n\n\"The dedicated team of keepers who care for our big cats are, understandably, extremely distraught by the events and we are doing everything we can to help and support them.\"\n\nRed and Yana arrived at Longleat last year as a breeding pair.\n\nAccording to WWF, Amur tigers, also known as the Siberian tiger, were once found throughout the Russian Far East, northern China, and the Korean peninsula.\n\nBy the 1940s, hunting had driven them to the brink of extinction.\n\nThe population is now endangered, with around 540 believed to be remaining.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Two women from Northern Ireland caught up in romance scams have lost a total of nearly £105,000 in the last fortnight, police have said.\n\nThey had been befriended by men online who duped them into sending money.\n\nIn the first 10 months of last year, police received 39 reports of dating scams in Northern Ireland, when more than £218,000 was taken.\n\nThis was \"alarming\", they said, but they believe romance scams are significantly under-reported.\n\n\"We think many people are simply too embarrassed to tell us they have been scammed in a romance fraud,\" said a spokesperson.\n\nIn one of the two recent cases, a man claimed he was in the US Army. He was in touch with a woman in Northern Ireland for about a month before their relationship became romantic.\n\nFrom May 2018, he told her he was being held by authorities in Africa and needed money to get out.\n\n\"She truly believed this man was genuine as she had found a profile online that matched his details,\" said police.\n\nShe was conned into sending him £65,000.\n\nPolice believe too many people are too embarrassed to admit being scammed\n\nThe second report involved a woman who was talking online to a man who claimed he was an engineer living in the USA.\n\nThey had been in touch since November and the man eventually asked the woman for money. She believed his story and sent him £40,000.\n\nPSNI Ch Super Simon Walls said: \"Sadly, for these two women they will not get their money back as they gave it to the fraudsters voluntarily.\n\n\"These reports illustrate how scammers don't care about their victims; that they're happy to take advantage of people's vulnerability and good faith.\n\n\"Unfortunately, there is no end to the methods fraudsters will use to dupe people into giving them money.\"\n\nIn the run-up to Valentine's Day, police are warning that romance scammers do not prey on a specific gender, sexuality, race or age.\n\nThey urged people who use the internet for romance to protect themselves.\n\nThe BBC has highlighted a number of cases in recent years including one woman who lost more than £300,000 and said she felt emotionally \"brutalised\". She thought she was paying money to her new love interest for food, rent and medical bills.\n\nIn another case, a lonely 86-year-old man said he was left suicidal after a woman he messaged through online dating, but had never met, conned him out of £6,000.", "The UK food industry has threatened to stop co-operating with government policy consultations, saying it is busy trying to stave off the \"catastrophic impact\" of a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThe warning came in a letter to Environment Secretary Michael Gove from more than 30 business leaders.\n\nThey said it looked \"ever more the likeliest outcome\" that the UK would leave the EU without an agreement.\n\nThe government said leaving the EU with a deal remained its \"top priority\".\n\n\"We are meeting weekly with representatives from our food and drink industry to help prepare for all scenarios,\" said a spokesperson for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.\n\nBut the food industry said the current situation was a \"moment of potential crisis\" for their industry.\n\nThose signing the letter included the heads of the Food and Drink Federation, the National Farmers' Union and UK Hospitality.\n\nMembers of the various trade bodies include Mondelez subsidiary Cadbury; KP Snacks, which makes Hula Hoops; and Butterkist popcorn, as well as consumer goods giant Nestle.\n\n\"Neither we nor our members have the physical resources nor organisational bandwidth to engage with and properly respond to non-Brexit related policy consultations or initiatives at this time,\" they wrote.\n\n\"Government has recruited many extra staff; we cannot.\"\n\nThe firms urge the government to place a range of current and planned industry consultations on \"pause\" until the Brexit uncertainty is over.\n\nThe consultations the firms cite include one relating to further curbs on the advertising of sugary foods, a national recycling collection strategy and proposals for a tax on plastic items with less than 30% recycled content.\n\nThe letter, first reported by Sky, is further evidence of the industry's frustration at the continuing lack of certainty over the Brexit process.\n\n\"Businesses throughout the UK food chain - and their trade associations - are now totally focused on working to mitigate the catastrophic impact of a no-deal Brexit,\" says the letter, which was sent last Friday.\n\n\"Large amounts of time, money, people and effort are being diverted to that end.\"\n\nThe letter comes just two weeks after major retailers warned MPs that a no-deal Brexit would cause huge disruption to the industry, leading to higher prices and empty shelves in the short-term.\n\nSainsbury's, Asda and McDonald's were among those who warned stockpiling fresh food was impossible, and that the UK was very reliant on the EU for produce.", "From incredible escapes to bribe allegations, smuggling drugs in plastic bananas to spying on his wife and mistresses, here are five astonishing things about El Chapo.\n\nThe Mexican drug kingpin has been found guilty on all 10 counts at his drug trafficking trial at a federal court in New York.", "Fraudster families are spearheading attempts to steal pension savings totalling millions of pounds, investigators have said.\n\nMarried couples and their adult children have been identified as leading crime groups involved in the fraud by those tackling the scams.\n\nThey try to steal life savings or persuade people to invest in high-risk schemes.\n\nRogue financial experts have been signed up to work with the fraudsters.\n\nProject Bloom, which was set up in 2012 to tackle pension fraud, said criminal investigations involving regulators, government agencies and police forces were continuing into several gangs.\n\nPension scams start with an unexpected call, text, social media approach or email - offering a free pension review or a way to make attractive returns on pension savings.\n\nBut the money may be simply stolen or transferred into a high-risk scheme completely inappropriate for retirement savings.\n\nNicola Parish, from the Pensions Regulator, said that the legitimate pensions industry was helping to identify suspect transfer requests.\n\n\"Working together, we can target those trying to plunder people's pension pots and bring them to justice,\" she said.\n\nA ban on nuisance calls about pensions came into force in January. Citizens Advice said 10.9 million unsolicited pension calls and messages were made a year.\n\nAny firm found flouting the rules faces a fine of up to £500,000, but experts suggest fraudsters may ignore the ban.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC Radio 1's Nesta McGregor on what we don't know about 21 Savage\n\nRapper 21 Savage has been granted release from US custody on bond and will be freed on Wednesday in the lead-up to his deportation hearing, his lawyers say.\n\nThe 26-year-old, real name Shayaa Bin Abraham-Joseph, was arrested last week by US immigration agents.\n\nThey say he is British and in the US illegally.\n\nHe moved to the US in July 2005 aged 12 and failed to leave when his visa expired a year later, US officials say.\n\nImmigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) say the musician is a convicted felon.\n\nHis lawyers have accused the US of trying to \"intimidate\" the rapper into leaving the country.\n\nThey say he arrived in the US from the UK in 1999, aged seven.\n\nOn Tuesday, attorneys Charles Kuck, Dina LaPolt and Alex Spiro said in a statement that they had been in talks with immigration officials to \"clarify\" the rapper's legal standing and his eligibility for bond.\n\nThere are a number of different types of bond in the US, including cash and property, and it is not clear what has been agreed in this case.\n\n\"In the last 24 hours, in the wake of the Grammy Awards at which he was scheduled to attend and perform, we received notice that [Shayaa] was granted an expedited hearing,\" the lawyers' statement reads.\n\n\"21 Savage asked us to send a special message to his fans and supporters... [he] is grateful for the support from around the world and is more than ever ready to be with his loved ones and continue making music.\"\n\nLast week, US rapper Jay-Z said 21 Savage's arrest was \"an absolute travesty\" and hired Mr Spiro to help with his fight against deportation.\n\nThis Facebook post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Facebook The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts. Skip facebook post by JAY-Z This article contains content provided by Facebook. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Facebook 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. Facebook content may contain adverts.\n\nFor many, the rapper's arrest came out of the blue and has raised more questions than answers.\n\nMr Kuck said the move was \"based upon incorrect information about prior criminal charges\" and that his client had never tried to conceal his immigration status from authorities.\n\nIn 2017, he applied for a US \"U Visa\" on the basis that he had been the \"victim of crime\", he added.\n\nU Visas are given to non-citizen victims of crime who intend to co-operate with US authorities.\n\nIn 2013, the rapper was shot six times on his 21st birthday in an attack that took the life of his best friend.\n\nMr Kuck said earlier that 21 Savage was \"not a flight risk\" and was a \"prominent member of the music industry\" who would be recognised if he tried to flee.\n\nHe said the rapper also had US-born children, which should prevent his client's deportation.", "The trial of accused druglord Joaquin \"El Chapo\" Guzman is nearing its end after eight weeks of evidence from the prosecution\n\nThe trial of Joaquín \"El Chapo\" Guzmán has provided shocking revelations about the Mexican drug lord's life.\n\nBelow are some of the most disturbing testimonies by witnesses in the high-profile trial in New York as well as some allegations which are plain bizarre.\n\nA trusted hitman for El Chapo kept a \"murder room\" in his mansion on the US border, which featured a drain on the floor to more easily clean up after slayings.\n\nEdgar Galvan testified in January that Antonio \"Jaguar\" Marrufo had a room with white tiles that was sound-proofed \"so no noise comes out\".\n\n\"In that house, no-one comes out,\" Galvan told jurors.\n\nGalvan said his role in the organisation was to smuggle weapons into the US, so that Marrufo could use them to \"clear\" the region of rivals.\n\nAt the time, he was living in El Paso, Texas, while Marrufo was living in Ciudad Juarez, just across the US-Mexico border.\n\nBut both men are now in jail on firearms and gun charges.\n\nDocuments unsealed just two days before jury deliberations offered disturbing new accusations against El Chapo from Alex Cifuentes, a Colombian drug lord who has described himself as El Chapo's \"right-hand man\".\n\nCifuentes, who prosecutors say spent two years hiding from authorities with El Chapo in the Mexican mountains, claims that El Chapo would drug and rape girls as young as 13 years old, according to the New York Times.\n\nA woman named Comadre Maria would routinely send El Chapo photographs of young girls that he and his associates could pick from.\n\nThis same woman was involved as an intermediary for El Chapo's dealings with Mexico's president, Cifuentes alleged during the trial.\n\nFor $5,000 (£3,800), Cifuentes claims Comadre Maria would send the selected girls up to Mr Guzman's mountain camps, where they would be drugged with \"a powdery substance\" and raped.\n\nThe documents allege that El Chapo called the youngest girls \"his vitamins\" and said raping them gave him \"life\".\n\nMr Guzman's lawyer said his client denies these allegations and added that the claims had been \"too prejudicial and unreliable to be admitted at trial\".\n\nEl Chapo's wife, Emma Coronel, sat quietly through a session where the FBI shared her husband's texts to his lovers\n\nCifuentes claims former Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, who served from 2012-18, accepted a $100m (£77m) bribe from El Chapo.\n\nHe alleges Mr Pena Nieto contacted El Chapo after taking office in 2012, asking for $250m in return for ending a manhunt for the drug cartel kingpin. El Chapo instead offered him $100m, which the new president allegedly accepted.\n\nMr Pena Nieto has not publicly commented on the allegations.\n\n\"El Chapo\" used his slew of mistresses to help further his narcotics operation - and his text history proves it, the FBI alleges.\n\nThanks to the Flexi-spy software Guzmán used to spy on his wife, Emma Coronel, and the women with whom he had affairs, the FBI was able to present his texts in court.\n\nGuzmán and Ms Coronel fawned over their daughters in many texts, as parents do, but some had a distinctly \"El Chapo\" sensibility.\n\nIn one sent on the twins' six-month birthday, the New York Daily News reported, he said: \"Our [daughter] is fearless, I'm going to give her an AK-47 so she can hang with me.\"\n\nAnother damaging series of texts relayed how El Chapo fled a villa during a raid by US and Mexican officials.\n\n\"I had to run out at three in the afternoon,\" Guzmán told his wife. \"I saw them pounding on the door next door, but I was able to jump out.\"\n\nHe then reportedly asked her to bring him new clothes, shoes and black moustache dye.\n\nGuzmán tracked around 50 people through phones and computers, according to the drug lord's ex-techie, Cristian Rodriguez.\n\nMr Rodriguez told the court \"El Chapo\" frequently turned on his lovers' microphones after ending calls with them \"to see what they would say about him\", the Daily News reported.\n\nOne of those lovers was Agustina Cabanillas Acosta, who allegedly helped \"El Chapo\" make deals across the region.\n\nIn between sweet nothings, they discussed drug shipments and \"non-stop\" sales.\n\nThe alleged kingpin also reportedly paid for Ms Acosta's liposuction.\n\nMs Acosta, meanwhile, was well aware of her lover's snooping - \"I'm way smarter than him,\" she reportedly texted her friends.\n\nLucero Guadalupe Sanchez Lopez, girlfriend (2nd left) of accused Mexican drug lord Joaquin \"El Chapo\" Guzman (2nd right), testifies as his wife Emma Coronel (right) looks on\n\nIn the most gruesome testimony to date, witness Isaias Valdez Rios described seeing \"El Chapo\" brutally beat at least three men before shooting them.\n\nIn one incident, Mr Valdez Rios said two people originally from Sinaloa who had joined the rival Los Zetas cartel were deemed traitors and rounded up by Guzmán's hitmen.\n\nFor more than three hours the drug lord brutally beat them, Guzmán's former bodyguard said.\n\n\"They were completely like rag dolls - their bones were totally broken. They could not move. And Joaquin was still hitting them with the branch and his weapon too,\" Mr Valdez Rios said.\n\nThe two men were later driven to an area where they could see a large bonfire.\n\nThere, the jury was told, \"El Chapo\" cursed each one before shooting them in the head with his rifle.\n\nThe leader of the Sinaloa cartel ordered that they be thrown in the bonfire, telling his men that he did not want any bones to remain, Mr Valdez Rios said.\n\nHe said the third man murdered by \"El Chapo\" was a member of the rival Arellano Felix cartel.\n\n\"He had burns made with an iron on his back, his shirt was stuck to his skin. He had burns made with a car lighter all over his body. His feet were burned,\" Mr Valdez Rios told the court.\n\nThe man was then locked in a wooden structure for days. Then he was brought blindfolded to a graveyard, his hands and legs bound.\n\n\"El Chapo\" started to interrogate him, and while he was responding, shot him with his handgun.\n\nThe man was still gasping for air - but he was dumped in a hole and buried alive, Mr Valdez Rios said.\n\nThe secrets of the drug lord's daring escape from a Mexican maximum security prison in 2015 were revealed by a former cartel associate.\n\nTestifying in court, Damaso Lopez said his boss' wife and sons had been involved from the start to get El Chapo out of Altiplano prison.\n\nHe mentioned secret meetings in 2014, where Emma Coronel delivered detailed instructions from her husband to the plotters.\n\n\"A tunnel had to be built and they [plotters] should start to work,\" Ms Coronel said.\n\n\"El Chapo\" used a specially adapted motorcycle to ride through the tunnel\n\nThe kingpin's sons later bought a property near the prison, and the digging started.\n\nA GPS watch was smuggled into the prison, giving the plotters exact co-ordinates where the drug lord's prison cell was.\n\nThe one-mile (1.6km) tunnel took months to complete, and \"El Chapo\" had complained that digging was too loud and he could hear the \"noise\" from his cell, Mr Lopez said.\n\nHe added that the concrete below his boss' cell \"had been very difficult to break through\".\n\nDespite all the problems, \"El Chapo\" escaped in July 2015, riding on a specially adapted small motorcycle through the tunnel.\n\nYet another mistress, Lucero Guadalupe Sanchez Lopez, revealed to the court details of the drug lord's 2014 escape from Mexican marines.\n\nWhen the marines burst into his safehouse, Ms Lopez said the alleged drug lord took off running - stark naked.\n\nThey used an escape tunnel under a bathtub to flee, trudging through mud for an hour before surfacing, according to the New York Post.\n\nAs the mistress began to cry while testifying, the drug lord's wife, Ms Coronel, reportedly cackled in the gallery.\n\nJust days after his affair with Ms Lopez, \"El Chapo\" would be captured by authorities - once again naked - in bed with Ms Coronel.\n\nShe and her husband were both in matching burgundy-coloured jackets during Ms Lopez's testimony, in an attempt to show their solidarity, reports the BBC's Tara McKelvey from court.\n\nThe drug lord's reputed extravagance extended even to his extensive collection of weaponry, the trial has heard.\n\nAmong his prized possessions were a diamond-encrusted, monogrammed pistol and a gold-plated AK-47.\n\nMuch of the evidence against the suspected narco chief has come from the prosecution's star witness, Jesús Zambada.\n\nMr Zambada testified that the alleged drug kingpin had the brother of another cartel leader killed because he did not shake Guzmán's hand.\n\nRodolfo Fuentes had met Guzmán to make peace in a cartel and gang war, the court heard.\n\n\"When [Rodolfo] left, Chapo gave him his hand and said, 'See you later, friend,' and Rodolfo just left him standing there with his hand extended,\" Mr Zambada said.\n\nMr Fuentes and his wife were shot and killed outside a cinema soon afterwards.\n\nFormer Sinaloa lieutenant Miguel Angel Martinez also testified for the government, telling the jury he once asked \"El Chapo\" why he killed people.\n\n\"And he answered me: 'Either your mom's going to cry or their mom's going to cry.'\"\n\nA former cartel leader told the court how \"El Chapo\" once had his own cousin killed after the man lied about being out of town.\n\nJuan Guzman had told the drug boss he would be travelling, only to be spotted at a park in the city.\n\n\"My compadre became angry, because he had lied to him,\" ex-cartel capo Damaso Lopez Nunez said.\n\nTo make an example out of Juan, \"El Chapo\" allegedly ordered him to be interrogated and assassinated. Juan's secretary, who was with him at the time, was also killed.\n\nThe drug boss' mistress Ms Lopez later told the court she remembered being with him when the news of Juan's death arrived.\n\n\"He said from that point on, whoever betrayed him, they would die,\" Ms Lopez said. \"Whether they were family or women, they were going to die.\"\n\nAssistant US Attorney Adam Fels said in his opening argument that \"El Chapo\" had sent \"more than a line of cocaine for every single person in the United States\" - in just four of his shipments.\n\nThat amounts to over 328 million lines of cocaine, said the prosecutor.\n\nMr Zambada said that once, in 1994, Guzmán gave the order to sink a boat carrying 20 tonnes of cocaine to evade authorities.\n\nDrug kingpin Joaquin \"El Chapo\" Guzmán is escorted into a helicopter at Mexico City\"s airport following his recapture during an intense military operation in Los Mochis, in Sinaloa State\n\nThe court also heard that Guzmán once used a bazooka for target practice - to relax on a family holiday.\n\nMr Zambada said \"El Chapo\" took the anti-tank rocket launcher with him on a trip with relatives in 2005.\n\nHe decided to \"test out\" the weapon after the group had finished target practice with assault rifles, according to the witness.\n\nSome of the biggest news from testimony was how the Sinaloa cartel allegedly paid off a host of top Mexican officials to ensure their drug business ran smoothly.\n\nMr Zambada said the traffickers had $50m (£39m) in protection money for former Mexican Secretary of Public Security García Luna, so that corrupt officers would be appointed to head police operations.\n\nMr Zambada said he gave the money to Mr Luna in briefcases full of cash. Mr Luna has denied the allegations.\n\nWhen former Mexico City Mayor Gabriel Regino was in line to become the next secretary of security, Mr Zambada says the cartel bribed him, too.\n\nMr Regino, who is now a professor, has also denied the claims.\n\n\"El Chapo\" (right) is the highest-ranking alleged drug lord to face trial in the US so far\n\nA 6in (15cm) figurine of a folk hero dubbed the narco-saint has been spotted on a shelf in a conference room used by the defendant's lawyers at the court, the New York Post reported.\n\nThe statue of Jesús Malverde, which has him seated on a purple throne with bags of cash, appeared on Wednesday, one of Guzmán's lawyers told the newspaper.\n\nJesús Malverde has been celebrated as a Robin Hood-type hero who, legend says, stole from the rich and gave to the poor in the early 1900s.\n\nMr Martinez told the court Guzmán was so wealthy, he had a private zoo on top of his numerous properties - including a $10m (£8) beach house as well as a yacht he named after himself (\"Chapito\").\n\nBuilt in the early '90s, El Chapo's zoo reportedly had lions, tigers, and crocodiles, as well as a little train to ferry guests through it.\n\nThe property also had a house, pool and tennis courts nearby, Mr Martinez said.", "Debenhams has secured a cash injection of £40m to buy it extra time as it battles to secure a longer-term deal with lenders.\n\nThe struggling department store chain called it a \"first step\" towards a sustainable future.\n\nThe firm - which issued three profit warnings last year - is in talks with lenders over renegotiating its debts.\n\nIt is also trying to accelerate plans to close stores and is expected to close around 20 outlets this year.\n\nThe extra money will extend the retailer's current £520m borrowing facilities with banks for 12 months and enable it to continue talks over a longer-term refinancing.\n\nNews of the funding sent the retailer's shares surging almost 40% in early trade.\n\nDebenhams chief executive Sergio Bucher said: \"Today's announcement represents the first step in our refinancing process.\n\n\"The support of our lenders for our turnaround plan is important to underpin a comprehensive solution that will take account of the interests of all stakeholders and deliver a sustainable and profitable future.\"\n\nLaith Khalaf, senior analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown, said: \"This debt agreement is a lifeline for Debenhams, but isn't going to solve its fundamental problems.\n\n\"Trading conditions remain extremely challenging and the business has a tightrope to walk between cutting costs and investing in improvements.\"\n\nHigh Street retailers have been under increasing pressure as more people choose to shop online and visit stores less.\n\nDebenhams - which has 165 stores and employs about 25,000 people - reported a record pre-tax loss of £491.5m last year and said more recently that sales had fallen sharply over Christmas.\n\nIt also announced last year that it would close up to 50 stores within three to five years, putting 4,000 jobs at risk. The chain has not yet named which stores it plans to close.\n\nHowever, it is now trying to secure an insolvency deal that would enable it to bring forward the closure of around 20 department store chains to this year.\n\nThe deal - known as a company voluntary arrangement - would also allow the chain to renegotiate its rents with landlords.\n\nThe chain has not yet named which stores it plans to close. Debenhams has 165 stores and employs about 25,000 people.\n\nMr Khalaf said: \"Debenhams' longer term prospects are still in the balance, and recent data showing a deterioration in the UK economy isn't exactly going to help matters.\n\n\"For now, Debenhams has kicked the can down the road, but will have to come back for some tough negotiations with quite a lot of internal dissent amongst its stakeholders.\"\n\nLast year, rival department store chain House of Fraser fell into administration before Mike Ashley, the billionaire Sports Direct founder, bought the department store's assets for £90m.\n\nMr Ashley is also a major shareholder in Debenhams, with a 29% stake, and he recently joined together with investor Landmark Group to vote the retailer's chairman and chief executive off the board.\n\nMr Bucher is continuing as chief executive of Debenhams but no longer sits on the board, while Sir Ian Cheshire stepped down immediately as chairman.", "The Channel Tunnel - or Eurotunnel - connects Calais in France with Folkestone in the UK\n\nTrains will be permitted to use the Channel Tunnel for three months if the UK leaves the EU without a deal, under a proposed European Commission law.\n\nThe planned legislation, published on Tuesday, will give the UK and France time to renegotiate the terms under which the railway service operates.\n\nThe law must be agreed by the European Parliament and EU member states.\n\nBritain leaving the EU with no deal is the default position on 29 March unless a withdrawal agreement can be approved.\n\nTuesday's proposal is aimed at mitigating the \"significant impact\" that a no-deal Brexit - the UK leaving the EU without any formal Withdrawal Agreement and no transition period - would have on rail transport and connectivity between the EU and the UK, the commission said.\n\nThe proposals \"are intended to ensure the continuity limited to cross-border operations and services,\" it said, warning that \"an interruption in these activities would cause significant social and economic problems.\"\n\nThe legislation states that, given the \"exceptional\" urgency of the situation, the proposal will not be subject to the normal eight-week consultation period.\n\nThe commission also emphasised that the period for renegotiation was \"strictly limited\" and that the UK must maintain safety standards \"identical to EU requirements\".\n\nIt will now work to ensure that the legislative measure is agreed and adopted by the European Parliament so that it is ready to come into force by 30 March 2019 if necessary.\n\nIn October, the UK said it was seeking bilateral arrangements with France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Ireland to \"facilitate the continued smooth functioning of cross-border rail services\".\n\nIn recent months the European Council has called for member states to \"intensify\" preparations for a no-deal outcome.\n\nIf this happens, there are a number of laws that need to be passed to ensure continuity in crucial areas.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How does the European Union work?\n\nUK Prime Minister Theresa May says she is currently working to get an improved deal from the EU.\n\nShe wants to secure changes to the legal text of the Withdrawal Agreement she had previously agreed with the 27 other member states, after it was rejected by the UK parliament.\n\nThe UK government has said that leaving the EU with a deal remains its \"top priority\".", "Bonsai trees can live to be hundreds of years old (file picture)\n\nTwo Bonsai enthusiasts have launched an emotional plea to thieves who stole seven trees from them, offering care instructions for their \"children\".\n\nSeiji Iimura and his wife Fuyumi said the prized miniature trees were taken from their garden in Saitama, near Tokyo.\n\n\"There are no words to describe how we feel,\" Mr Iimura wrote. \"They were precious [to us].\"\n\nThe tiny trees are worth at least 13m yen ($118,000, £91,750), CNN reports.\n\nStemming from East Asia and often associated with Japan, Bonsai is a delicate art-form based on specialist cultivation techniques.\n\nThe miniature plants are grown in containers. They require expert care and mimic the shape of fully-sized trees.\n\nOne of the couple's stolen trees is a Shimpaku Juniper - one of the most sought-after Bonsai types among collectors and enthusiasts. It is said to be worth over 10m yen ($91,000; £70,720).\n\n\"The Shimpaku lived for 400 years, it needs care and can't survive a week without water,\" Mrs Iimura told CNN.\n\n\"It can live forever, even after we're gone. I want whoever took it to make sure that it's properly watered.\"\n\nShe confirmed to BBC News on Tuesday their trees were still missing.\n\nThis Facebook post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Facebook The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts. Skip facebook post by Seiji This article contains content provided by Facebook. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Facebook 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. Facebook content may contain adverts.\n\n\"We are sad and forlorn but we will continue to protect our Bonsai\" Mrs Iimura wrote on Facebook. \"In the meantime, we will continue cultivating trees worthy of everyone's praise.\"\n\nFellow gardeners and bonsai collectors reached out to the Iimuras online to express their sympathy and solidarity.\n\n\"Unforgiveable,\" one commented on her post. \"These thieves do not know what it means to steal a bonsai, let alone seven. All the tender loving care goes with the theft.\"\n\n\"Bonsais are meant to be revered and celebrated and should be beyond human greed. I am heartbroken to read this,\" wrote another.\n\nThere's even a dedicated Bonsai village in the couple's home in Saitama, Japan", "The group targeted people with rape jokes and photoshopped pornography.\n\nSeveral senior French journalists have been suspended or fired for allegedly co-ordinating online harassment through a private Facebook group.\n\nThe largely-male Ligue du LOL (League of LOL) mocked women, including other journalists, with rape jokes and photoshopped pornographic images.\n\nDozens of women have spoken out since the group was uncovered by the major French daily Libération.\n\nLibération's online editor Alexandre Hervaud is among those suspended.\n\nPeople in the League of LOL set up anonymous Twitter accounts in order to harass prominent journalists, writers and activists - predominantly targeting women.\n\nVincent Glad, a well-known freelancer who also worked for Libération, admitted founding the group in 2009. He has also been suspended from the paper.\n\nHe apologised on Twitter (in French), saying that he now realised that \"such practices were unacceptable and 'LOL' was not funny at all when it is done in a pack\".\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 Vincent Glad 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 Hervaud also tweeted out an apology for his involvement, but in a later post went on to attack \"those who jump with joy\" at his suspension.\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 Alexandre Hervaud 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\nLibération is now carrying out an internal investigation into both Mr Hervaud and Mr Glad.\n\nJournalist Nora Bouazzouni, Slate France reporter Lucile Bellan, and podcaster Mélanie Wanga have all described being targeted by the group.\n\nIn a tweet, science presenter Florence Porcel said that a man had called her phone, posing as an editor of a \"prominent\" news programme. He interviewed her for a non-existent job and publicly posted the audio of their conversation online.\n\n\"When the recording was made public, I cried of shame for three days,\" Ms Porcel said.\n\nDavid Doucet, editor of French magazine Les Inrockuptibles, confessed to being behind the fake interview and publicly apologised to Ms Porcel.\n\nOthers implicated in the scandal include senior journalists and executives from major outlets including Slate France and public relations firm Publicis.\n\nFrance's minister for digital affairs, Mounir Mahjoubi, has described members of the \"League of LOL\" as \"losers\".\n\n\"It is a group of guys high on their power at being able to make fun of other people. Except that their mockery had an effect in real life,\" Mr Mahjoubi said.", "Councils make over 800 million waste collections every year according to the Local Government Association\n\nCouncils in the UK received more than 1.8 million complaints last year about waste not being collected from homes, figures obtained by the BBC have shown.\n\nA survey of councils found the number of complaints about missed collections has increased by a third since 2014.\n\nOn average, 4,500 complaints were made to UK councils every day last year.\n\nThe number of complaints may not correspond to the level of missed collections as some householders whose bins are not emptied may not report it.\n\nResidents in England made 1.5m of the complaints, with 149,000 in Scotland, 92,000 in Wales and 33,000 in Northern Ireland.\n\nAnalysing figures from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG), BBC News found real terms spending on waste collection by local authorities has fallen to £888m in 2017-18, from £1bn in 2010-11, after accounting for inflation.\n\nResidents in some parts of the Hyde Park area of Leeds said their bins hadn't been emptied for a month\n\nIn real terms, spending on waste collection in England has fallen by 17% since 2010-11, figures show.\n\nBut the Local Government Association said 99.8% of bin collections went ahead without complaint.\n\nIn Wales, a 41% rise in complaints was higher than the average rise of 32% across the UK.\n\nCouncillor Michael Michael, from Cardiff City Council, said cuts to the authority's budget had stretched local services.\n\n\"I've got to clean more streets with fewer men,\" Mr Michael told Good Morning Wales.\n\n\"We've had to reduce our overall budget by over £250m in recent years, and at some stage that is going to impact on services.\"\n\nIn Hyde Park, Leeds, residents said the council had not collected household rubbish for nearly a month.\n\n\"We see rats everywhere and it's just not a nice place to live in,\" said Miriam Muse, who made a complaint to Leeds City Council.\n\n\"The bins are overflowing and we've had this issue for a while and it's just really disgusting.\"\n\nHowever, Councillor Mohammed Rafique said the authority's missed bin collection rate stood at 0.08% a year.\n\n\"We encourage people to get in contact with us if we miss bins, and we've made it easy for people to alert us through the use of social media and the council's mobile phone app,\" said Mr Rafique.\n\nHyde Park resident Miriam Muse said overflowing bins had meant rats are often seen in the street\n\nBin workers in Birmingham were on strike for almost three months in a dispute over job losses in 2017, which led to thousands of tonnes of rubbish piling up on the city's streets.\n\nThe amount of rubbish left in some streets led to residents taking action to clear up the waste themselves and business owners claiming the uncollected waste had affected trade.\n\nThe industrial action came to an end but residents in parts of the city reported problems with uncollected waste piling up again last year after new shift patterns for refuse collectors were rolled out.\n\nFrom Monday bins in Birmingham will be collected fortnightly as workers prepare for further walk-outs.\n\nThousands of tonnes of waste were left on Birmingham's streets during a three-month strike in 2017\n\nSpeaking on behalf of councils in England, Councillor Martin Tett, from the Local Government Association (LGA), said: \"Councils carry out around 821 million waste collections from households per year - not including recycling collections - these figures actually show that 99.8% of bin collections were completed without complaint.\n\n\"Between 2010 and 2020, councils will have lost almost 60p out of every £1 the government had provided for services and councils in England face an overall funding gap of £8bn by 2025.\"\n\nA spokeswoman for MHCLG said: \"Authorities are receiving £1bn extra in funding this coming year to help deliver local services.\n\n\"We want councils to respond to the wishes of local people, many of whom want to see bin collections as frequently as possible.\"\n• None Plan for food waste to be separated", "Labour members have been protesting against anti-Semitism in the party\n\nThe Labour Party has received 673 complaints in 10 months alleging acts of anti-Semitism by its members.\n\nA letter from the party's general secretary, Jennie Formby, revealed the figures after she was pushed by MPs for specific details.\n\nShe said 96 members were immediately suspended from the party for their conduct between April 2018 and January 2019, and 12 were expelled.\n\nBut in a letter, a group of MPs said there was still a lack of information.\n\nLabour has struggled to contain a long-running row over anti-Semitism.\n\nAt a meeting of the Parliamentary Labour Party (PLP) last week, MPs unanimously passed a motion urging the leadership to do more to tackle it.\n\nThey also called for specific details about how many people were being investigated, how many letters had been written to those accused telling to them to desist and what punishments had been given.\n\nMs Formby said: \"I totally reject the suggestion that the existence of anti-Semitism in our party is a smear. I have seen hard evidence of it and that is why I have been so determined to do whatever is possible to eliminate it from the party.\"\n\nBut Labour MP Dame Margaret Hodge tweeted a warning not to trust the figures and said she was not convinced the party's leadership were \"serious on rooting out anti-Semitism\".\n\nAhead of Monday's PLP meeting, Ms Formby, who did not attend, wrote to MPs to provide more detail.\n\nShe said the party's National Executive Committee (NEC) previously believed that statistics on disciplinary matters should remain confidential and not be published.\n\nBut after MPs rejected her proposal of having three elected members monitoring the figures regularly, she said she \"pushed hard\" to get the NEC to agree to publish them.\n\nIf the Labour leadership believed that producing statistics on anti-Semitism cases would quell internal criticism, then they called it wrong.\n\nLabour MPs who had pushed for the figures to be made public, then questioned their veracity.\n\nAnd some criticised the party hierarchy for expelling so few members - 12 - who had breached the rules.\n\nThe Labour leader was also criticised for not being present at tonight's parliamentary party meeting to discuss the issue.\n\nSo flames of discontent have been fanned not extinguished.\n\nParty spokespeople point out only 0.1% of a mass membership have been accused of anti-Semitism.\n\nBut one veteran MP, who has spent many years on the front bench, thinks all this won't end well. He told me: \"The whiff of a breakaway is in the air\".\n\nDame Margaret, who has been outspoken on the party's handling of the issue, raised concerns on Twitter about the figures.\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 Margaret Hodge 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\nFollowing Monday's meeting of the PLP, a letter addressed to Jeremy Corbyn and signed by seven Labour MPs, including Dame Margaret, Luciana Berger and John Mann, accused the leadership of not respecting the PLP motion for more information on anti-Semitism cases.\n\nThe letter called for a vote on it at Tuesday's shadow cabinet meeting, as \"no-one from the leadership presented the information requested\", saying: \"The party should respect the mandate of the PLP's resolution\".\n\nIt lists eight points where the MPs believe there to be a lack of information, including the amount spent on legal counsel and the fact that only nine months' worth of data was released.\n\nQuestioning the figures provided, Dame Margaret told the BBC if she had submitted 200 complaints alone, the official figure of 673 complaints against party members suffered from \"a total lack of credibility\".\n\nShe said she was \"depressed\" and \"genuinely upset\".\n\nLabour MP Catherine McKinnell said there was a question mark over the \"inability to produce data that predates 2018\".\n\n\"The data we have does reveal the use of 'reminders of conduct' as a way of resolving a complaint without an investigation - it's not clear what criteria is being used,\" she said.\n\n\"Somebody from the leadership needs to come so we can ask the questions and get some answers. We have ongoing concerns.\"\n\nLabour MP Ruth Smeeth - who has suffered anti-Semitic abuse - added: \"This is not over.\"\n\nBBC political correspondent Iain Watson said that during the private PLP meeting, Louise Ellman - president of the Jewish Labour Movement - raised the details of a specific case where she believed insufficient action had been taken.\n\nThe former party general secretary Iain McNicol defended his record in tackling anti-Semitism before Ms Formby took over, our correspondent added.\n\nA party spokeswoman said that Ms Formby would attend a future meeting when available.", "Alexander Thomson from Glasgow was jailed for nine months in 1880 for stealing a library book\n\nA collection of mugshots of criminals jailed during the 1870s and 80s is to go on show in Aberdeen.\n\nThe rogues gallery includes a thief who was jailed for nine months for stealing a library book, as well as fraudsters and petty crooks.\n\nThe pictures of the men and women, taken inside HM General Prison in Perth before their release, will be on display as part of the Criminal Portraits exhibition at Aberdeen Central Library and the Lemon Tree later this month.\n\nAnn McGovern from Glasgow was jailed for theft in the early 1880s\n\nPrison records show that Matilda Brown was convicted of robbing an Italian seaman in Leith in 1881. She was sentenced to 12 months in jail for the theft of a sovereign, two shillings and a matchbox.\n\nJames Fleming, who was a director of the City of Glasgow Bank, was a serial fraudster. He was jailed for nine months in 1878 for crimes which affected up to 100 families. Margaret Robertson was aged 35 when she was sentenced to nine months for stealing 18 bottles of porter in Strathbungo.\n\nThe images, including mystery prisoner 4/675, will be on display from 22-24 February", "Sala's father Horacio was seen crying at the vigil for his son\n\nMourners have been paying their final respects to Cardiff City striker Emiliano Sala in his native Argentina.\n\nThe 28-year-old died when the plane he was in with pilot David Ibbotson crashed in the English Channel en route from Nantes to Cardiff on 21 January.\n\nA wake was held at the club Sala played for as a youth in his hometown of Progreso before the funeral started later on Saturday.\n\nAmong those who attended was Cardiff City manager Neil Warnock.\n\n\"I would like to find a responsible person...someone who says to me: 'this happened'; but, well, it seems this was just an accident,\" said Sala's aunt Mirta Taffarel.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSala was killed when a single-engine light aircraft, flown by pilot Mr Ibbotson, crashed near Alderney just two days after he became Cardiff City's record transfer.\n\nHis body, which was recovered from the wreckage following a privately-funded search last week, was repatriated to Argentina on Friday.\n\nIt was then driven from Buenos Aires to the Santa Fe province, where Sala grew up.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mourners applauded in tribute as the footballer's coffin was carried in his hometown of Progreso\n\nOutside the wake, fans draped a banner reading 'Emi, nunca caminaras solo' or 'Emi, You'll Never Walk Alone'.\n\n\"It's as if he was a member of my family,\" said a sobbing Lucia Torres, who lives nearby.\n\n\"It's something I can't understand nor accept because it hurts so much. The town has been in darkness since 21 January.\"\n\nEmiliano Sala is known affectionately as Emi in his hometown\n\nSala's aunt Mirta Taffarel as she left the wake on Saturday morning\n\n\"He represented a lot for us,\" said Daniel Ribero, president of Sala's boyhood club San Martin de Progreso.\n\n\"We're a small village and Emi was a celebrity, the only player to turn professional.\"\n\nAhead of the service, the club posted a message on social media saying: \"We are waiting for you ... like the first day you left but this time to stay with us forever. Eternally in our hearts.\"\n\nDaniel Ribero, president of Sala's boyhood club San Martin de Progreso, said the footballer was a \"celebrity\" in the town\n\nThe wake got under way at the sports hall in San Martin de Progreso at 07:00 local time (10:00 GMT), and the funeral started at 14:00 (17:00 GMT).\n\nAs well as Cardiff's delegation of Warnock and chief executive Ken Choo, Sala's former club FC Nantes has been represented by defender Nicolas Pallois and its general secretary.\n\nWarnock said: \"He's my player. He signed for me I think he was going to be very instrumental in what we were looking to do and I feel it's the only good thing you can do.\n\n\"Family puts it in perspective. Family is so important, everything here today has shown how important it is...it seems like the whole village has got together.\"\n\nMr Choo added: \"We feel very sad and the whole club feels very sad.\"\n\n\"Today I think it's good for the family to have some closure.\"\n\nSala's mother Mercedes and sister Romina, who travelled to Europe after his disappearance, have returned to Progreso.\n\nCardiff City manager Neil Warnock travelled to Argentina for the funeral\n\nCardiff City manager Neil Warnock is due to attend the funeral on Saturday\n\nHis father Horacio also attended the funeral.\n\nMeanwhile, a campaign to raise funds to find the body of Mr Ibbotson has reached £240,000.\n\nThe family of the 59-year-old, who is feared dead, are hoping to raise £300,000.", "President Donald Trump declares a national emergency over the border wall, then acknowledges his order could face legal challenges.", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nManchester City reached the FA Cup quarter-finals as they broke Newport County's resistance to end the League Two side's memorable run in this season's competition.\n\nNewport, fresh from beating Leicester City and Middlesbrough, produced another strong display in the competition to hold Pep Guardiola's men at the interval.\n\nBut two Phil Foden goals and strikes from Leroy Sane and Riyad Mahrez ended Newport's hopes and denied them the chance to become the first side from the fourth tier to reach the last eight since 1990.\n\nThe Welsh side even missed the best chance of the first half, when Ederson produced a diving save to deny Tyreeq Bakinson's close-range header.\n\nThe second half belonged to the visitors as Sane broke the deadlock from close range six minutes after half time.\n\nFoden doubled the advantage with an excellent dribble and finish, before Padraig Amond scored a late goal that gave the hosts brief hope of a fightback - and maintained his record of scoring in every round of the competition.\n\nHowever, Foden ensured there was no grandstand finish with his second goal moments later and Mahrez scored a fourth in injury time.\n\nNewport County's fans gave their side a standing ovation at full time as their weary players did a lap of honour.\n\nThere was no overstating the gulf between these two clubs - Newport, with a squad value totalling £70,000, against Manchester City, the world's most richly-assembled squad at around £450m.\n\nWhen Sergio Aguero was scoring the most famous goal in the history of the Premier League to fire Manchester City to their first Premier League title in 2012, Newport were still floundering in non-league.\n\nThe Exiles, so named because of a nomadic existence that saw them playing in Gloucestershire post-1989 when the original club went bust, have fought and scraped simply to return to the Football League's lower reaches, where they are 15th in League Two.\n\nThey have been the story of this season's competition, having stunned Premier League Leicester City and Championship Middlesbrough in rounds three and four.\n\nAnd, against all the odds, there seemed a chance that run might continue when Mickey Demetriou's long throw was flicked on in the 15th minute, only for Ederson to superbly claw away Bakinson's point-blank header from six yards.\n\nCounty were a menace from long throws and Joss Labadie fired wide from another of them, but the second period became a prolonged exercise in defending for the League Two side.\n\nThey did, however, give their fans a moment to savour when a long ball in the 88th minute caught City cold and allowed Amond to clip home and raise the roof in Newport.\n\nCity's consistency this term means they are still fighting for trophies on four fronts, with the Carabao Cup final against Chelsea to come next week for the Premier League leaders, who are still in the Champions League and who have been in fine form throughout 2019.\n\nAfter 25 minutes of their last Premier League game against Chelsea, Guardiola's men were 4-0 ahead, but Newport provided far stiffer resistance against their irresistible attacking talents.\n\nThe visitors were largely restricted to long-range efforts in the first half, with Mahrez forcing Day to smother and Fernandinho and Danilo shooting wide of the target.\n\nNot until the 35th minute when Sane hit the bar from a smart one-two did City look like breaking the deadlock, and Newport held firm until the interval despite Mark O'Brien appearing to block a Sane shot with his arm.\n\nSane was increasingly the most likely player to create a chance and on 51 minutes his fierce drive deflected in off Day's face as Newport's resistance was broken.\n\nDanilo struck a post as City pushed for a second to make the game safe, before Foden capped an impressive display by firing past Day at his near post with the ball going through the Newport goalkeeper's hands.\n\nCity might have wobbled after Amond's goal but Foden swept home less than a minute later, with Mahrez adding a late fourth that flattered the visitors.\n\nManchester City manager Pep Guardiola, speaking to BBC Match of the Day: \"We were calm in the second half and we made an incredible performance considering the conditions.\n\n\"David Silva is incredible, 33 years old and he fights and plays with this kind of level. David is a fantastic player, what can I add more about his qualities?\n\n\"What we have done so far is try to go game by game and try to win so the way you have to play against Chelsea at home is completely different to the game here.\n\n\"We will see in May and June how we do but it is important to be there in all competitions in February. The result will be shown at the end and now we have to recover and prepare for our trip to Germany [to face Schalke in the Champions League].\"\n\nNewport manager Michael Flynn speaking to BBC Match of the Day: \"I'm very proud of the team they were outstanding. I am disappointed with the two goals conceded in injury time, because at 2-1 you have a grandstand finish, for something to fall your way and you are coming back from 2-0 against one of the best teams in Europe. There is no disgrace in losing they have beat bigger clubs by more.\n\n\"I have got a very good group of players and I can't speak highly enough of them. We need to move on now - we have a tough game on Tuesday in the league. I'll give a tap on the back for them and then we go back to work.\"\n• None Man City have reached the FA Cup quarter-final for the 25th occasion and for the first time since 2016-17.\n• None Newport have lost just two of their last 12 FA Cup matches (W7 D3), with each defeat coming against one of the Premier League's 'big six' sides (also Spurs in 17-18).\n• None Newport County have lost both of their FA Cup fifth-round ties, also falling to defeat against Portsmouth in 1949.\n• None Man City's Leroy Sane has had a hand in 25 goals in 32 appearances in all competitions this season (12 goals, 13 assists), including registering nine goal involvements in his last eight.\n• None Man City's Gabriel Jesus has been directly involved in 21 goals in 34 games this season (16 goals, 5 assists), one more than he managed in 42 games last season (17 goals, 3 assists).\n• None All five of Phil Foden's Man City goals have come in domestic cup competitions (3 FA Cup, 2 League Cup).\n• None Newport's Padraig Amond has scored five goals in this season's FA Cup, more than any other player. The striker scored in each of the first five rounds of the competition this term.\n• None Newport's Joe Day has made more saves than any other goalkeeper in the FA Cup this season (24).\n• None Goal! Newport County 1, Manchester City 4. Riyad Mahrez (Manchester City) left footed shot from the left side of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by John Stones.\n• None Attempt blocked. Leroy Sané (Manchester City) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Goal! Newport County 1, Manchester City 3. Phil Foden (Manchester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the top left corner. Assisted by Leroy Sané.\n• None Goal! Newport County 1, Manchester City 2. Padraig Amond (Newport County) right footed shot from outside the box to the bottom left corner.\n• None Offside, Manchester City. Riyad Mahrez tries a through ball, but Gabriel Jesus is caught offside.\n• None Attempt saved. Gabriel Jesus (Manchester City) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Ilkay Gündogan.\n• None Attempt saved. Leroy Sané (Manchester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Leroy Sané (Manchester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Phil Foden.\n• None Goal! Newport County 0, Manchester City 2. Phil Foden (Manchester City) left footed shot from the right side of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Gabriel Jesus.\n• None Attempt saved. Mark O'Brien (Newport County) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Mickey Demetriou with a headed pass. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "There is an \"abundant stock\" of whelks in the Bristol Channel, Gavin Davies says\n\nThey are closely related to snails, taste like \"nan's toenails\" and, in Wales, you cannot give them away.\n\nBut those fishing for whelks off the coast of Wales claim they are popular in Japan and South Korea.\n\nEach year 10,000 tonnes of them are caught in the Bristol Channel but virtually all end up in Asia.\n\nGavin Davies has spent the last 20 years catching sea snails, but in that time he has not developed a love for the acquired taste of whelks.\n\n\"Goodness knows why they like them - they taste like nan's toenails - but it's given me a living for the last two decades,\" he said.\n\n\"I'm not even sure how they developed a taste for whelks, as they're only native to waters around Britain and the Atlantic.\"\n\nEach night Mr Davies sets off from Saundersfoot and harvests one tonne of whelks from 1,000 pots suspended from 50 buoys in the bay around Carmarthenshire.\n\nFeeling peckish? Whelks are all the rage in Seoul, but not in Saundersfoot\n\nThey are driven to Milford Haven, where they are loaded on to a factory ship which cooks and freezes them en-route to Asia.\n\nBut Mr Davies said he was lucky if he could give away a couple of carriers to Welsh customers.\n\nHywel Griffith - the Michelin-starred head chef of The Beach House on Swansea's Oxwich Bay - believes whelks are misunderstood.\n\n\"There's two issues, really,\" he said.\n\n\"One is the traditional image of whelks being cheap food, served out of a barrow on East End back streets, and the other is the idea that they are chewy and rubbery, but it's all about how you cook them.\n\nThe whelks are loaded on to a factory ship which cooks and freezes them - then, next stop... South Korea\n\n\"The same people who turn their noses up at whelks will flock for scallops.\n\n\"In Asia they're usually served with chilli and soy sauce, but I think I'd give them a more European twist, maybe some deep-fried and others simmered in white wine, cream and garlic.\"\n\nMr Davies said not only are they low in fat and high in vitamins, they are also good for the environment.\n\n\"You can't get more sustainable than whelks. There's an abundant stock of them in the Bristol Channel and the pots cause virtually no harm to the seabed.\n\n\"And when we're all wondering how we're going to trade after Brexit, well here's this amazing resource which we won't eat, but they can't get enough of on the other side of the world.\"\n\nGavin Davies and his crew feature in Nightshifters on BBC One Wales on Friday at 19:30 GMT and on BBC iPlayer.", "The first of several US military transport planes carrying humanitarian aid arrived in Cucuta on the Colombian border with Venezuela\n\nUS military planes have been delivering humanitarian aid for Venezuela in the Colombian border town of Cucuta.\n\nThe aid is being stockpiled at the request of the Venezuelan opposition leader, Juan Guaidó, who declared himself interim president last month.\n\nPresident Nicolás Maduro has alleged that the aid is part of a US plot to disguise an invasion into Venezuela.\n\nMr Guaidó said some 600,000 Venezuelan volunteers would carry the aid across the border on 23 February.\n\n\"We will mobilise within and outside our borders,\" he said in a tweet on Saturday, adding: \"Our struggle continues to yield results!\"\n\nIt remains unclear if the aid will be allowed to enter Venezuela.\n\nOne road bridge between Venezuela and Colombia remains blocked on the Venezuelan side by shipping containers.\n\nSpeaking at a news conference in Cucuta, USAID administrator Mark Green said the aid had been requested by Mr Guaidó because Venezuela was in the grip of a growing humanitarian crisis.\n\n\"Children are going hungry, and nearly every hospital in Venezuela is experiencing serious medicine shortages.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHe said the crisis had reached regional proportions, with three million Venezuelans migrating to neighbouring countries in search of food and medicine.\n\n\"Today we are standing on the frontlines of one of the largest displacements of people in the history of Latin America.\"\n\nInspectors from the Organisation of American States examined the aid on its arrival in Cucuta\n\nA representative for Mr Guaidó said more collection points for aid were being opened up in Brazil and the Caribbean.\n\nHe said meetings would take place with the Brazilian government this week to organise details of storage facilities in the Brazilian state of Roraima on the border with Venezuela.\n\nHe added that aid was being stockpiled in Miami to be flown to the Dutch territory of Curaçao early next week.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Venezuela's President Maduro to BBC: US aid trucks are a charade\n\nPresident Maduro has called the operation a US-orchestrated show and denies there is any crisis.\n\nOn Friday he ordered the military to remain on high alert against what he described as US \"war plans\".\n\nPlease upgrade your browser to view this content. Was this timeline useful? Thank you for your feedback.\n\nMr Guaidó, who has been recognised by the US and most Western governments as interim president of Venezuela, said hundreds of thousands of volunteers had signed up to create brigades to help get the aid into the country.\n\nHe repeated his call to the Venezuelan military to allow the aid to go through, but it is unclear if they will do so.\n\n\"The message we have to get through to the armed forces is that they have one week to do the right thing.\"\n\nHe has set 23 February as the date for the humanitarian aid to get moving.\n\nA second transport plane carrying aid arrived shortly after the first, with officials saying more would be landing in the coming days\n\nOfficials in Cucuta said additional aid flights would be arriving in Colombia over the coming hours and days.\n\nA statement said medical supplies and pharmaceuticals meant for use in hospitals will arrive early next week.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why Venezuela matters to the US... and vice versa", "The technology will mean police will know the whereabouts of an offender at all times\n\nThousands of criminals in England and Wales will be tagged with GPS trackers to allow authorities to trace them 24 hours a day.\n\nCurrently, electronic tags are linked to a box at a fixed address, such as an offender's home, with alerts generated if they are not there at certain hours.\n\nBut the new location tags will track a person's movements wherever they go.\n\nJustice Secretary David Gauke said the tags will better protect victims of domestic abuse or stalking.\n\nStandard electronic tags - largely used to enforce a curfew or house arrest - issue an alert if the person wearing the tag is not present at a particular address during the hours they are meant to be.\n\nAround 60,000 offenders currently wear these standard tags in England and Wales.\n\nThe GPS tags can be used to create a no-go zone, check an offender is attending a rehabilitation programme, monitor an offender's behaviour, or ban someone from going within a certain distance of an address - such as a fellow criminal's or victim's home.\n\nThe GPS tags, which cost £9 a day, will be rolled out everywhere in England and Wales from this summer.\n\nOfficials estimate that around 4,000 people will be GPS-tagged in a year. There will be a maximum of 1,000 tags in use at any one time.\n\nMr Gauke told the BBC the technology could be used for a \"broad range\" of offences - as an alternative to custodial sentences for relatively minor crimes, and to monitor more serious offenders once they have been released.\n\n\"GPS tagging will help to better protect victims and give them the reassurance that perpetrators will not be able to breach an exclusion zone without triggering an immediate alert,\" he said.\n\nMr Gauke said the GPS tags could also help keep people out of gangs.\n\nAnyone who breaches rules that have been imposed on them could then be recalled to prison or brought before the courts.\n\nThe government has used electronic tagging services as part of the sentencing and supervision of offenders since 1999. It said the new GPS tags will not replace the current system but be an extra option.\n\nSo far, GPS tags have been rolled out to three regions - north-west and north-east England, and the Midlands. The new technology will also be trialled in London particularly for knife crime offenders after they have been released from prison.\n\nThe move comes after a 17-month pilot of GPS tags was carried out in eight police forces in England. The Ministry of Justice said the pilot showed GPS tags \"can potentially save police investigation time\", and could make criminals more compliant.\n\nThe MoJ quoted one offender as saying: \"I've walked in an exclusion zone before, not realising… that was before I had the tag on, so I wasn't really bothered about getting seen. Now, with the tag, I knew full well that if I go in to that exclusion zone, I'm going to get seen no matter what.\"\n\nIn Scotland, legislation which would bring in the same GPS tagging technology is at the second stage of passing through Parliament. It has been referred back to the committee and will then be debated.", "Alexander Lewis-Ranwell is charged with three murders and has not entered a plea\n\nA man has appeared in court charged with the murder of three men in their 80s.\n\nAlexander Lewis-Ranwell, 27, of no fixed abode, appeared at Exeter Magistrates' Court and did not enter a plea. He has been remanded in custody.\n\nIt follows the discovery of three bodies in two separate houses in the city on Monday and Tuesday.\n\nTwo of the men were twins, Dick and Roger Carter, 84. The other man was Anthony Payne aged 80.\n\nMr Lewis-Ranwell is also accused of two offences of causing grievous bodily harm with intent on 9 February in Goodleigh, North Devon and 11 February in Exeter.\n\nHe is due to appear at Exeter Crown Court on Monday.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "From cheeky monkeys and tiny triplets to daring deeds, here's our weekly round-up of some of the stories you might have missed.", "The squadron of drones would have an expected cost of £7m\n\n\"Swarm squadrons\" of drones are to be deployed by British armed forces to overwhelm enemy air defences, the defence secretary has said.\n\nGavin Williamson said the specially-adapted drones could be in operation by the end of 2019.\n\nHe also warned in a speech that the UK needs a bolder and stronger armed forces prepared to use \"hard power\".\n\nLabour has said the military's role on the international stage had been \"completely undermined\" by Tory cuts.\n\nSpeaking at the Royal United Services Institute, Mr Williamson said Britain must stand up to those who \"flout international law\".\n\nThere was an extra £1.8bn for defence in the last budget and Mr Williamson said Brexit had brought the UK its \"greatest opportunity\" to strengthen its global presence.\n\nHe said the military's cyber capabilities will be reinforced to defend and launch attacks.\n\nThe squadrons of \"network enabled\" drones would cost around £7m, he added.\n\nMr Williamson says the UK needs a bigger and bolder armed forces\n\nGavin Williamson will struggle to match his global ambitions with the realities of an already overstretched defence budget and a smaller British armed forces.\n\nMPs say there is already a growing black hole in the MoD's £180bn equipment plan.\n\nBut instead of making cuts, Mr Williamson is adding more to his shopping list.\n\nHe wants two new \"multi-role vessels\" to support Royal Marines in a range of operations from humanitarian support to war-fighting.\n\nThis he believes could be done cheaply by converting civilian cargo ships but there is still no costs or mention of who will crew them - the Royal Navy certainly does not have the manpower.\n\nMr Williamson talks of introducing swarm squadrons of drones to overcome an enemy's air defences.\n\nThe MoD believes the technology could be bought \"off the shelf\" but, in truth, the concept is still untried and untested.\n\nThe MoD still insists these plans have all been costed but its past financial record will give many a reason to doubt.\n\nDetailing plans to modernise the armed forces, he said it must increase its \"mass and lethality\" - revealing plans for two ships that could be deployed for crisis support as well as military operations.\n\nHe said they would be able to respond \"at a moment's notice\" to support the Royal Marines.\n\nAccording to the MoD, the UK could purchase and adapt cargo ships or ferries with existing hulls to create the new vessels.\n\nThe defence secretary also confirmed the Royal Navy's new aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth is being deployed to the Pacific region, where China has been involved in a dispute over territorial claims in the South China Sea.\n\nThe carrier will take part in the mission along with F-35 jets from the UK and US.\n\nThe Royal Navy's HMS Queen Elizabeth is being deployed to the Pacific region\n\nMr Williamson said Britain and its allies had to be ready \"to use hard power to support our interests\".\n\nHe told those gathered for his speech that \"state-on-state competition was reviving\".\n\nThe defence secretary said Russia is \"resurgent\" and rebuilding its military arsenal, adding that China is also developing its modern capability and commercial power.\n\nHe said: \"We have to be ready to show the high price of aggressive behaviour. Ready to strengthen our resilience.\"\n\nDefending interventionist policy, he said the cost of failing to act in global crises had often been \"unacceptably high\", and that Western powers cannot \"walk on by when others are in need\".\n\n\"To talk but fail to act risks our nation being seen as little more than a paper tiger,\" he added.\n\nMr Williamson said Brexit brought an \"unparalleled opportunity\" to consider how the UK could maximise its influence around the world.\n\nHe said the UK would build new alliances and rekindle old ones, and shared his belief that Britain \"should be the nation that people turn to when the world needs leadership\".\n\nBut shadow defence secretary Nia Griffith said the UK's ability to play such a role had been \"completely undermined by eight years of Tory defence cuts\".\n\n\"The Conservatives have slashed the defence budget by over £9bn in real terms since 2010 and they are cutting armed forces numbers year after year.\n\n\"Instead of simply engaging in yet more sabre-rattling, Gavin Williamson should get to grips with the crisis in defence funding that is happening on his watch,\" she said.", "Last updated on .From the section American football\n\nColin Kaepernick has reached a settlement with the NFL over his 'collusion' case against team owners.\n\nThe former San Francisco 49ers quarterback believed owners were conspiring not to hire him because of his protests against racial injustice in the USA.\n\nKaepernick started protests by kneeling during the US national anthem.\n\nThe 30-year-old has been without a team since opting out of his 49ers contract in March 2017.\n• None Kaepernick: From one man kneeling to a movement dividing a country\n\nCarolina Panthers safety Eric Reid, who was the first player to join then 49ers team-mate Kaepernick in kneeling, has also settled his own collusion case.\n\nOn Friday, their lawyers and the league released a joint statement, saying the pair had been \"engaged in an ongoing dialogue with representatives of the NFL\" over recent months.\n\n\"As a result of those discussions, the parties have decided to resolve the pending grievances,\" the statement read.\n\n\"The resolution of this matter is subject to a confidentiality agreement so there will be no further comment by any party.\"\n\nA statement from the NFL Players Association said: \"We are not privy to the details of the settlement, but support the decision by the players and their counsel.\n\n\"We continuously supported Colin and Eric from the start of their protests, participated with their lawyers throughout their legal proceedings and were prepared to participate in the upcoming trial in pursuit of both truth and justice for what we believe the NFL and its clubs did to them.\n\n\"We are glad that Eric has earned a job and a new contract, and we continue to hope that Colin gets his opportunity as well.\"", "British regional airline Flybmi has cancelled all its flights and filed for administration, the airline has announced.\n\nThe company said it had been badly affected by rises in fuel and carbon costs and uncertainty over Brexit.\n\nThe East Midlands-based airline, which has 376 staff, operates 17 planes flying to 25 European cities.\n\nAffected passengers have been told to contact their travel agents or insurance and credit card companies.\n\nA Flybmi spokesman said: \"It is with a heavy heart that we have made this unavoidable announcement.\n\n\"The airline has faced several difficulties, including recent spikes in fuel and carbon costs, the latter arising from the EU's recent decision to exclude UK airlines from full participation in the Emissions Trading Scheme.\n\n\"Current trading and future prospects have also been seriously affected by the uncertainty created by the Brexit process, which has led to our inability to secure valuable flying contracts in Europe.\"\n\nThe airline issued the following advice to those due to fly:\n\nThe Civil Aviation Authority also published advice for travellers.\n\nRory Boland, travel editor for consumer body Which?, said: \"Some customers have claimed that tickets were being sold in the hours before the airline went bust, knowing full well those tickets would never be honoured, and passengers will rightly be outraged if this is proved to be the case.\"\n\nOne of Flybmi's domestic routes, linking Derry and Stansted, was subsidised by the government to boost trade and travel between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK.\n\nSeveral people use the flights for work and Derry Strabane Council said it was in emergency talks with the Department of Transport to seek a replacement airline on that route.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nRichard Edwards, from West Sussex, on a skiing holiday in Austria with his wife and three children, told how they had experienced problems with their scheduled flight out to Munich.\n\nHe said: \"We had gone through security at Bristol Airport when there was an announcement saying our flight had been cancelled.\n\n\"They laid on taxis to Heathrow and booked us on a Lufthansa flight to Munich.\n\n\"I don't know how we will get back yet. I'm not confident Flybmi will be able to sort it.\"\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 Richard Edwards 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\nDurham University student Mary Ward found out her flight could be affected when her mother showed her a news alert.\n\nShortly afterwards Mary received a text from the airline: \"URGENT: Important message for Flybmi customers. All flights are cancelled. Please go to www.flybmi.com for further details. Thank you.\"\n\nShe had been due to fly from Belgium to Newcastle but is not sure what she will do now.\n\n\"I paid £130 for my flight which it doesn't seem I'm going to get back - I don't know how I am going to get back to Durham,\" she said.\n\n\"I can't afford any of the flights or the Eurostar.\"\n\nThe UK regional airline Flybe tweeted to reassure some passengers who had confused the airline with the similar-sounding Flybmi.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Flybe ✈ 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\nBritish Airline Pilots' Association general secretary Brian Strutton said: \"The collapse of Flybmi is devastating news for all employees.\n\n\"Regrettably Balpa had no warning or any information from the company at all.\"\n\n\"Our immediate steps will be to support Flybmi pilots and explore with the directors and administrators whether their jobs can be saved.\"\n\nFlying from Aberdeen, Derry, Bristol, the East Midlands, Stansted and Newcastle in the UK, its planes travelled to destinations in the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Norway, Poland and Sweden.\n\nTravel expert Simon Calder told BBC News it had been an \"extremely difficult winter\" for many airlines.\n\n\"Small airlines which do not have the weight of their bigger rivals are particularly vulnerable,\" he said. \"There are simply too many seats and not enough people.\"\n\nA spokesman for the Department for Transport described the situation as \"very disappointing\" and said the government was focused on supporting affected passengers.", "Universities would be prevented from going bust under new plans unveiled by Labour to protect higher education and students from \"rampant\" market forces.\n\nThe plans to overhaul regulator the Office for Students reflect fears about some universities' viability.\n\nUnder Labour, the OfS would get an explicit objective of avoiding \"disorderly failure\" at universities, and be able to provide emergency loans.\n\nThe government said the OfS already had strong powers to regulate universities.\n\nThere have been increasing concerns about the financial sustainability of higher education institutions, with reports that three are on the brink of bankruptcy, relying on short-term loans to get by.\n\nAnd several others are planning to run deficit budgets and make significant cuts.\n\nUniversities minister Chris Skidmore has suggested some \"providers may, in a small number of cases, exit the market altogether as a result of strong competition\".\n\nBut shadow education minister Angela Rayner has highlighted that the OfS itself has said it would \"not bail out providers in financial difficulty\".\n\nShe said: \"The Tories have unleashed a failed free market experiment in higher education.\n\n\"They have created a system that goes to the very heart of their ideology - a system where market logic is imposed on public goods and where the forces of competition run rampant at the expense of students, staff and communities.\n\n\"Students would be left with immense uncertainty about their futures and entire communities would lose one of their major academic, economic and social institutions.\n\n\"Education is a public good and should be treated as such. Our universities are there for all of us,\" she added.\n\nUniversities are in competition with each other to attract students, and the larger and more popular universities have been opening up more places in order to take advantage of the significant funds each student brings with them.\n\nThis appears to be leaving smaller, or less popular universities, abandoned by prospective students.\n\nMr Skidmore told MPs earlier this week that the government's reforms to regulation were designed to promote diversity, innovation and choice in higher education, in the interests of students.\n\nBut achieving that, he said, does not equate to propping up any particular failing provider.​\n\nHe said he hoped the OfS would be able to anticipate any development such as course closure or market exit rather than react to it.\n\nIts predecessor, the Higher Education Funding Council, granted at least £1m in emergency loans last year.\n\nLabour also pledged to set limits on vice-chancellor pay, by limiting it to 20 times that of the lowest paid member of staff in the university.\n\nVice-chancellors would also be banned from sitting on the boards that set their pay.\n\nThis week an OfS report revealed that some university vice-chancellors were being paid 12 or 13 times the median (or the middle) salary of their employees.\n\nOther measures planned by Labour include requiring universities to publish more data on disadvantaged students, including details of students' socio-economic background, ethnicity, gender, and those with a disability or a caring responsibility.\n\nResponding to Labour's proposals, a Department for Education spokesperson said the OfS was set up \"to champion the interests of students, promote choice and ensure that higher education delivers value for money for both students and taxpayers\".\n\nThey continued: \"We have given it strong regulatory powers to take action where it deems necessary, including financial penalties and even deregistration.\n\n\"The OfS has already made a significant impact on the sector even though the OfS is not yet at full strength, with some of its powers due to come into force later this year.\"", "Hayley Marie Ashley quite literally lives the life of a princess.\n\nThe mum-of-two surprises children at birthday parties when she appears dressed as fairytale characters.\n\nThe 29-year-old, from Stoke-on-Trent, set up her business, Wish Upon A Princess, three years ago while she was on maternity leave.\n\nShe wanted a job with flexible hours and a short commute so she could arrange her work around time with her young family.\n\nMs Ashley launched her business on social media and says she's living her dream.", "There have been many posts on social media in the past few weeks from people shocked at having had the catalytic converters stolen from their cars.\n\nThere were videos posted online of masked thieves climbing under cars in broad daylight to saw off the components.\n\nCatalytic converters are part of a car's exhaust system that convert some of the pollutants into less harmful substances.\n\nThey are relatively easy to remove from a car, especially those, such as 4x4s, that are further off the ground, and contain precious metals such as platinum and palladium.\n\nThe thefts mean large costs for motorists or their insurers because the converter has to be replaced and the damage caused to the vehicle by removing it has to be fixed.\n\nAnecdotally, thefts of catalytic converters tend to rise when platinum and palladium prices are high.\n\nBut it is hard to find figures for how widespread the problem is, because the Home Office does not record it as a separate offence.\n\nThe Times newspaper submitted Freedom of Information requests to the 43 police forces in England and Wales to ask them how many incidents of catalytic converter theft had been reported.\n\nIt received data from 22 of those forces, which said they had had 637 reported incidents in 2017.\n\nBut the forces responding did not include the biggest force - the Metropolitan Police.\n\nThe Met told BBC Reality Check that the only data it held was for the period since July 2018, when it had recorded 900 reported thefts of catalytic converters.\n\nThe theft of catalytic converters is not a new phenomenon - BBC News reported that just over 1,100 had been taken across Britain, not including London, in 2009.\n\nThe Scrap Metal Dealer Act 2013 was supposed to make it harder for thieves to sell stolen components, by requiring dealers to be licensed and preventing them paying cash for scrap.\n\nBut after an initial peak in 2014, the number of convictions in the category that includes scrap metal dealing has fallen sharply.\n\nTrade association the British Metals Recycling Association has said stretched resources mean the police are unlikely to prosecute scrap dealers operating illegally and are more likely to encourage them to apply for licences retrospectively.\n\nIndeed, it is not unusual to see advertisements for illegal scrap metal dealers offering cash for scrap.\n\nThe Met suggests worried car-owners take steps to make their vehicles less vulnerable, such as:", "Indoor skydiving has given 85-year-old Glen Mills a new lease of life.\n\nMs Mills, from Glossop, Derbyshire was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis 50 years ago and uses a wheelchair to get around.\n\nBut the self-confessed adrenaline junkie said the weightless sport not only gives her the adrenaline rush of flying, it also offers her pain relief.\n\nAfter inspiring others with disabilities to give indoor skydiving a go, she has been made an ambassador for the centre where she does it in Manchester.", "Civilians have been fleeing Baghuz in their hundreds over the past week\n\nThe battle to claim the last pocket of territory from the Islamic State group (IS) is being held up because thousands of civilians remain trapped there.\n\nUS-backed Kurdish forces launched an assault on Baghuz, on the Syrian side of the Iraqi border, last week.\n\nUS President Donald Trump said on Friday the defeat of IS would be announced \"over the next 24 hours\".\n\nBut those 24 hours passed on Saturday with no announcement from the White House on the defeat of IS.\n\nInstead, Kurdish fighters said the news was likely to emerge \"in the coming few days\" as civilians continued to flee.\n\nJiya Furat, the leader of the battle for Baghuz for the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), said IS fighters were now trapped in a section of the town that was 700 metres long and wide.\n\n\"Thousands of civilians are still trapped there as human shields,\" he said on Saturday.\n\n\"In the coming few days, in a very short time, we will spread the good tidings to the world of the military end of Daesh [IS].\"\n\nSDF spokesman Adnan Afrin told Agence France-Presse they were surprised to learn how many civilians were still inside. The SDF had to slow its approach as a result, he said.\n\nThe UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that 440 IS fighters had surrendered over the past few days, but the SDF believes a few hundred remain trapped in Baghuz.\n\nThe Observatory said efforts were under way to find IS fighters hiding in tunnels they had dug around Baghuz.\n\nFour years ago IS controlled 88,000 sq km (34,000 sq miles) of territory stretching from western Syria to eastern Iraq, proclaimed the creation of a \"caliphate\", imposed its brutal rule on almost eight million people and generated billions of dollars from oil, extortion, robbery and kidnapping.\n\nBut in December, Mr Trump surprisingly announced the withdrawal of US troops from Syria as he believed IS had been \"beaten\".\n\nThen on Friday afternoon, he said: \"We have a lot of great announcements having to do with Syria and our success with the eradication of the caliphate and that will be announced over the next 24 hours.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Is this the end for Islamic State?\n\nIS has suffered substantial losses, but the UN has said it still reportedly controls between 14,000 and 18,000 militants in Iraq and Syria.\n\nMeanwhile, there are significant numbers of IS-affiliated militants in Afghanistan, Egypt, Libya, South-East Asia and West Africa, and to a lesser extent in Somalia, Yemen and the Sahel.\n\nPlease upgrade your browser to view this content. How the jihadist group rose and fell Was this timeline useful? Thank you for your feedback.", "The body recovered from the wreckage of a crashed plane is that of Cardiff City player Emiliano Sala, Dorset Police have said.\n\nSala, 28, was travelling to Cardiff in a plane piloted by David Ibbotson, which went missing over the English Channel on 21 January.\n\nThe Argentine's body was recovered late on Wednesday after the wreckage was found on Sunday morning.\n\nIn a statement, the force said: \"The body brought to Portland Port today, Thursday 7 February 2019, has been formally identified by HM Coroner for Dorset as that of professional footballer Emiliano Sala.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by salaromina This article contains content provided by Instagram. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"The families of Mr Sala and the pilot David Ibbotson have been updated with this news and will continue to be supported by specially-trained family liaison officers.\"\n\nThe body was spotted in the wreckage of the plane on Monday and the authorities were able to recover it two days later, despite \"challenging conditions\".\n\nThe Air Accidents Investigations Branch (AAIB) said the operation had been carried out in \"as dignified a way as possible\" and the men's families were kept updated throughout.\n\nEmiliano Sala (left) was on board a plane being flown by pilot David Ibbotson\n\nThe Geo Ocean III, which was involved in finding the wreckage, took the body back to the nearest port of Portland in Dorset, where the body was formally identified.\n\nThe Piper Malibu N264DB was en route from France to Cardiff, after the Argentine striker made a quick trip back to his former club Nantes two days after his £15m transfer to Cardiff was announced.\n\nIn a post on Instagram, Sala's sister Romina paid tribute, saying: \"Your soul in my soul, it will shine forever thus illuminating the time of my existence. I love you, tito.\"\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 Sol Bamba 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\nCardiff City issued a statement shortly after identification was confirmed saying: \"We offer our most heartfelt sympathies and condolences to the family of Emiliano. He and David will forever remain in our thoughts.\"\n\nSome of the club's players reacted via Twitter. Full back Joe Bennett wrote \"RIP Emiliano\", while centre-half Sol Bamba posted a black-and-white image of the team-mate he never got to play alongside.\n\nStars from the wider footballing world also paid tribute.\n\nChelsea defender Antonio Rudiger wrote: \"Heartbreaking to hear the news about Emiliano Sala. Rest in peace! Thoughts go out to the family and friends of Emiliano and the pilot.\"\n\nAnd Arsenal's Mesut Ozil tweeted: \"No words to describe how sad this is. Thoughts and prayers go out to his family and also to the family of the pilot.\"\n\nMr Ibbotson, 59, from Crowle, North Lincolnshire, was at the controls when the flight lost contact with air traffic controllers on 21 January.\n\nAn official search was called off on 24 January after Guernsey's harbour master said the chances of survival were \"extremely remote\".\n\nBut an online appeal started by Sala's agent raised £324,000 (371,000 euros) for a private search led by marine scientist and oceanographer David Mearns.\n\nWorking jointly with the AAIB, his ship and the Geo Ocean III, began combing a four square mile area of the English Channel, 24 nautical miles north of Guernsey, to make best use of the available sensors.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Mearns said the plane was identified by sonar, 67m (220ft) below the surface, before a submersible with cameras was sent underwater to confirm this.\n\nFollowing the confirmation, he also tweeted his tribute.\n\n\"I was glad to provide some small comfort to Romina, Mercedes and the whole Sala family during the past two weeks but my heart goes out to the family and friends of David Ibbotson whose loss is the same,\" Mr Mearns said.\n\nCardiff fans left a sea of flowers outside the Cardiff City Stadium in tribute to Emiliano Sala\n\nDuring the recovery operation, the AAIB used a remotely operated underwater vehicle (ROV) to aid the search, with no divers involved.\n\nThe body was moved first, and separately from the wreckage, to maximise the chances of it being successfully brought to the surface.\n\nIt said efforts to recover the crashed plane as a whole proved unsuccessful, before being abandoned due to poor weather.\n\n\"The weather forecast is poor for the foreseeable future and so the difficult decision was taken to bring the overall operation to a close,\" the AAIB said in a statement.\n\nThe AAIB released this photograph of the wreckage of the Piper Malibu\n\nHowever, the AAIB said video footage captured by the ROV would provide \"valuable evidence\" for its safety investigation.\n\nMr Mearns told BBC Radio Wales the AAIB could not have continued searching in the current conditions and admitted finding Mr Ibbotson's would be difficult.\n\nHe added: \"I've been involved in operations when people were lost and the bodies were found days and weeks after, not far from where they were lost.\n\n\"But this is a pretty dynamic place. It's got fairly strong currents, it's not that deep water, you've got a lot of fishing activity, a lot of scallop dredgers moving in and out of the location.\n\n\"You cannot expect that the body is going to be in that location for an extended period of time.\"\n\nMeanwhile, it has emerged that Sala's former club, French Ligue 1 side Nantes, has demanded Cardiff City pay his £15m transfer fee.\n\nSala was Cardiff's record signing but never played for the club.\n\nThe fee was due to be paid over three years but Cardiff have withheld the first scheduled payment until they are satisfied with the documentation.", "The bomb was discovered in the course of engineering work around Gare du Nord in Paris\n\nAn unexploded World War Two bomb in Paris is causing major disruption to Eurostar services.\n\nThe company said five trains between London and Paris had been cancelled on Sunday and a number of other services were affected too.\n\nThe bomb was found earlier this month by engineers working on a construction site north of Gare du Nord.\n\nPrevious attempts to neutralise the bomb have failed, according to local press.\n\nFurther deactivation attempts will be made on Sunday and roads and domestic train services in Paris are expected to be disrupted while the device is made safe.\n\nEurostar said: \"We are sorry for the impact this will have on our customers and would strongly advise anyone scheduled to travel with us between London and Paris this weekend to consider changing their plans.\"\n\nFree refunds or exchanges are being offered to passengers who were booked to travel on Friday, Saturday or Sunday.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Lord Mayor of London is often a livery company member\n\nLondon's trade guilds date back a thousand years and have billions of pounds in assets. But have they forgotten one of their original purposes - to spend money on the public good?\n\nAmong the glass skyscrapers of London's financial district, and ancient centre, are nestled some very grand-looking low-rise halls, and a clue to the home of some of the city's more unlikely pockets of wealth.\n\nLivery companies, once a combination of lobbying organisations, regulators and trade unions, are now quite different organisations, focused also on fellowship, education and charity.\n\nThey represented the old industries that used to dominate the city. Many have names which are easy to recognise, such as the Butchers, who can trace their beginnings back to the year 975, and the Fishmongers.\n\nOthers bear the names of lost trades, like the Mercers and Bowyers, who traded cloth and made longbows. All would set standards for their goods and often held exclusive rights over their trade in the city, thus wielding political power.\n\nProbably the most famous guild member, Sir Richard (Dick) Whittington, left his fortune for the Mercers to run, for the benefit of the city\n\nThe other side of their work was welfare and charity: funerals for deceased members, hospitals, and homes for the poor.\n\nToday, they sit on billions of pounds of assets, donated by members over many centuries, including the fortune of Dick Whittington, the former lord mayor.\n\nThey were ordered as long ago as 1884, after a Royal Commission's investigation, to spend more on the public good or risk their existence.\n\nBut did they? And are they now?\n\nDavid Ferris is a member of the Vintners - or Worshipful Company of Vintners, to give it its full title - and very much a fan of the companies' history and potential. But he thinks they are not.\n\n\"What I like best about them is these are ancient institutions, well alive in our midst, with wonderful old traditions,\" he says. \"They are cultural gems.\"\n\nHowever, he says, many of the most ancient have forgotten one of their prime reasons for existence from medieval times: the public good.\n\n\"They became gentlemen's clubs generally from about 1700,\" he says, \"and they have a great deal of wealth.\"\n\nThe companies do let out their halls, as the Goldsmith did for a speech by then-Foreign Secretary Lord Hague in 2010. But could they raise more?\n\nIt's the older institutions that Mr Ferris feels may not be pulling their weight.\n\nMany have investments in companies listed on the stock market. Some have large land holdings. Among the richest are the Mercers, which owns a number of blocks in Covent Garden.\n\nIn fact, the Mercers and Goldsmiths are the 55th and 73rd largest landlords in London respectively, according to Datscha, a commercial property data firm. Together, they are bigger landowners in the city than supermarket chain Sainsbury's or the National Grid.\n\nBut the companies do not have to offer accounts for public inspection, and many older ones do not.\n\nThe Goldsmiths are one of the biggest London landlords\n\nStill, public records partially covering eight companies and their charities showed £1.1bn of assets, BBC research found. Mr Ferris estimates the 110 livery companies in total might have assets worth at least £5bn.\n\nHis own livery, the Vintners, spent £210,000 of its 2017 expenditure of £2.1m on charitable giving, according to its annual review. This is too low, says Mr Ferris.\n\nAlthough there are no rules the companies must follow when it comes to charitable spending, the Vintners told the BBC a better figure to look at was its income, of which it spent 20% on charity, and that it aimed to increase its charitable endowment over time.\n\nIt said that it let out its hall to charities for free, and that doing so has raised £2.5m in the last three years.\n\nA lunch was held by the Drapers in 2017 for the Queen, who has the freedom of the company\n\nMr Ferris has raised his concerns before. He says he was suspended from events at his company for five years and was ordered to \"cease to question the company's governance and administration in any way\" in a letter seen by the BBC. He won't, he says. And so his suspension continues. The company declined to comment.\n\nEach company has different aims and varying relevance in industry, so it would be foolish to lump all livery companies together when it comes to their performance.\n\nThe Haberdashers and Merchant Taylors, for instance, support schools that bear their names. The Gunmakers tests firearms for safety.\n\nThe Goldsmiths still has a large role in London's jewellery trade, where its Assay Office hallmarks precious metals, and it supports apprentices.\n\nMany companies, such as the Tallow Chandlers, have no connection to their original trades\n\nCastro Smith, a jeweller who hand-makes rings, says of the Goldsmiths' role in today's industry: \"It [plays] a massive part, especially in training new people. It takes a long time, this sort of skill.\n\n\"They help financially, and in training, and it's a hub, an umbrella, a network.\"\n\nFor the newer livery companies, it's a different picture still. Tapping a long history and sense of permanence gives the company a base from which to attract donors for their charities, and a sense of credibility. They are transparent, chatty, and keen to show their works.\n\nAnd many, such as the Arts Scholars, are careful to keep company money - raised from members - separate from funds raised for charitable ends.\n\n\"We do encourage education. That's really [our] mainstay,\" says Georgina Gough, Upper Warden of the Arts Scholars, the youngest livery company. It brings together academics, experts and dealers.\n\nFor David Ferris, though, the older guilds must reform themselves.\n\nTheir secrecy may not be helping them. What goes on in meetings of their courts - a governing committee similar to a modern company's board - is kept confidential, Mr Ferris says.\n\nIt is also usual to become a member through patrimony - literally, because your father was a member. Newer and more forward-thinking companies say they try to avoid this.\n\n\"We need to remember that the source of our assets is the benevolence of people in medieval times,\" says Mr Ferris. \"They would be deeply shocked if they found out only a paltry amount was going to the public good.\"", "PM Narendra Modi flagged off the Vande Bharat Express on Friday\n\nIndia's fastest train has broken down on its first trip, a day after it was inaugurated by Prime Minister Modi.\n\nThe Indian-built semi high-speed Vande Bharat Express was returning to the capital Delhi from the city of Varanasi after its first outing when brakes in a carriage reportedly jammed.\n\nIndian media quoted a railways spokesperson as saying the train may have struck cattle on the line.\n\nThe train reached a speed of 180km/hr (110mph) during trials.\n\nSoon after the brakes failed, the drivers noticed smoke in the last four coaches and power was lost in all compartments.\n\nThose on board, mostly railway officials and journalists, had to take another train to get back to Delhi.\n\nDespite the railway ministry's suggestion that the train may have hit a cow, NDTV reported that there were no signs of damage on the front of the train after the incident.\n\nThe new train service is expected to start its commercial run from Sunday. It is expected to reduce the travel time between Delhi and Varanasi by six hours.", "City of Derry Airport is owned by Derry City and Strabane Council\n\nCity of Derry Airport is urgently seeking a replacement airline for its London route after Flybmi filed for administration.\n\nEmergency talks are under way between the airport, Derry City and Strabane District Council and the Department for Transport.\n\nThe airport said it was \"reviewing options\" for resuming its Stansted service, which has been cancelled.\n\nCustomers booked on Flybmi services have been advised not to travel to City of Derry Airport.\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 City of Derry Airport This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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End of twitter post by City of Derry Airport\n\nOn Thursday, the UK government announced it would continue to provide funding for the flight between City of Derry Airport and London.\n\nThe public service obligation (PSO) air route, the first of its kind in Northern Ireland, had been in place since 2017.\n\nIt had been due to expire in May, but Transport Secretary Chris Grayling said the government would continue to subsidise the route until 2021.\n\nIt was the only route Flybmi operated from City of Derry Airport.\n\nThe airline operated two return flights each day, except Saturdays when there was one flight each way.\n\nRyanair formerly operated a route between the airport and Stansted but axed the flights in March 2017.\n\nDanny McLaughlin, a civil engineer from County Donegal, had 14 flights booked over the next seven weeks between City of Derry Airport and London Stansted.\n\n\"I'm a bit stunned to be honest with you,\" he said.\n\n\"I feel sorry for the staff. I probably will get a bit annoyed as the weekend goes on and on Monday morning when I can't get to work.\"\n\nFlybmi said uncertainty over Brexit and rises in fuel and carbon costs led it to go into administration.\n\n\"I'm three miles from the border. For me, personally, it's the first thing really that's affected me. And then, in 41 days' time we just don't know what's going to happen three miles up the road.\"\n\nPresident of the Londonderry Chamber of Commerce, Brian McGrath, issued a statement saying the news was \"terribly disappointing\".\n\n\"The Derry to Stansted link is an incredibly important one for connecting those who live here in the north west to London,\" said Mr McGrath.\n\n\"The loss of this will also be very damaging to businesses in the region who rely on this flight.\"\n\nFinancial journalist Paul Gosling told BBC News NI's The Sunday News that there had been a degree of \"reputational damage\" to the airport.\n\n\"It will make many passengers wary about whether this is the right airport for them,\" he said.\n\nHe added that it was likely a new airline would be found \"in the near future\".\n\nHowever he said there were still worries about the airport's future: \"As soon as there is a good road connection between Derry and Belfast International Airport, there will be questions about its viability and sustainability,\" he said.\n\nStanding in the City of Derry Airport main terminal entrance, the footfall is still fairly busy.\n\nEmergency talks are still under way between the airport, the local council and the UK Department for Transport.\n\nIt's a unique route in many ways because it's subsided by the government.\n\nWith regards to reviewing options for resuming that Stansted service, the general consensus is that a replacement airline must be found as soon as possible.\n\nThat will allow those very important economic links between the north west and London to be preserved.\n\nOn Saturday evening, the airport tweeted: \"BMI with immediate effect no longer operate the London Stansted service.\n\n\"If you have seats booked on this service, please contact your credit card company to receive your refund.\n\n\"We are reviewing options for resuming the service with another airline as soon as possible.\"\n\nDUP MP for East Londonderry Gregory Campbell said he spoke to Mr Grayling about the future of the route \"shortly after the news broke\" on Saturday evening.\n\n\"Obviously there is concern given that this is the single, direct air connection between Londonderry and London,\" he said.\n\n\"The transport secretary indicated that he is hopeful that a new operator will agree to take on the route.\n\n\"There needs to be as seamless a transition as possible from Flybmi to the new operator in order that the travelling public suffer as little as possible.\"\n\nSinn Féin councillor Sandra Duffy said the news was a \"huge concern\" for the economy in the north west.\n\nIn July 2018 a leaked report said City of Derry Airport could close within a year because of a multi-million pound shortfall in funding.\n\nAt that time, there was uncertainty over whether or not the subsidy for the PSO route to London would be extended beyond May 2019.\n\nThe report said that if the subsidy was not extended the London route would cease and \"the airport will no longer be sustainable\".\n\nThe airport is owned by Derry and Strabane District Council.\n\nFlybmi is an East Midlands-based airline, which has 376 staff, operates 17 planes and flies to 25 European cities.\n\nAffected passengers have been told to contact their travel agents or insurance and credit card companies.", "Ganz was well-known in German-language cinema and theatre\n\nBruno Ganz, who played Hitler in the 2004 film Downfall, has died aged 77.\n\nThe Swiss actor died at home in Zurich on Friday night, his management said.\n\nGanz was well-known in German-language cinema and theatre and also had roles in English-language films including The Reader and The Manchurian Candidate.\n\nHis most famous role, however, was as Adolf Hitler in Downfall. One particular scene depicting Hitler in apoplectic fury became a meme and spawned thousands of parodies online.\n\nThe film, called Der Untergang in German, told the story of Hitler's final days in his Berlin bunker. It grossed $92m (£71.3m) at box offices around the world when it was released.\n\nIt was named winner of the BBC Four World Cinema award and was nominated for an Academy award for best foreign language film, but since then it has become almost as famous for a wave of internet parodies of its final scene, poking fun at numerous news events.\n\nTributes were paid to Ganz at the end of the Berlin film festival on Saturday, hosted by actress Anke Engelke\n\nIn 2005 Ganz told The Guardian newspaper that he spent four months preparing for the role, studying historical records including a secretly-recorded tape of Hitler and observing people with Parkinson's disease, which he came to believe the dictator had.\n\nBut he said: \"I cannot claim to understand Hitler. Even the witnesses who had been in the bunker with him were not really able to describe the essence of the man.\n\n\"He had no pity, no compassion, no understanding of what the victims of war suffered.\"\n\nGanz, probably the most famous Swiss actor, had a rich and varied career. He appeared in Werner Herzog's Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979) and played an angel in Wim Wenders' Wings of Desire (1987) and its sequel Faraway, So Close! (1993).\n\nHe also starred in noir film The American Friend (1977) and science fiction movie The Boys from Brazil (1978), which starred Sir Laurence Olivier.\n\nIn 2008 he had a role in The Baader Meinhof Complex and his last role was in Lars von Trier's 2018 film The House that Jack Built.\n\nAt the time of his death, Ganz was the holder of the Iffland-Ring, an accolade to the German-speaking actor judged \"most significant and worthy\".\n\nThe ring is passed from person to person, and it is not yet clear who Ganz had intended to transfer it to after his death.\n\nIt was reported that Ganz had been diagnosed with colon cancer.\n• None Is this 1921 cartoon the first ever meme?", "Last updated on .From the section Horse Racing\n\nHaydock Park officials are investigating after a mass brawl broke out among spectators at the racecourse.\n\nAbout 50 people were involved in the fight before and during the eighth and final race of the day. A woman and toddler were caught up in the disturbance.\n\nA spokesman said Haydock took a \"zero tolerance position\" on fighting and that those involved were \"ejected\".\n\nOne man was arrested over a public order offence.\n\nRacing has been on high alert over on-track fighting after incidents at Goodwood, Ascot and Hexham in 2018.\n\nThe spokesman said Haydock was \"continuing to work with the police on this matter\".\n\nMerseyside Police said: \"A 26-year old male was arrested on suspicion of affray and possession of a controlled drug.\n\n\"No complaints were made and there have been no reports of any injuries at this time.\"", "Police named the gunman as Gary Martin, 45, who they said had been an employee at the manufacturing company where the shooting took place.\n\nIt comes a day after the first anniversary of a school shooting in Parkland, Florida, which left 17 dead.", "Dick Churchill was described as \"tenacious, resilient and incredibly brave\"\n\nThe last surviving member of the real-life Great Escape team has died.\n\nFormer squadron leader Dick Churchill was one of 76 airmen whose escape from the Stalag Luft III camp in Nazi Germany in 1944 was immortalised in the Hollywood film starring Steve McQueen.\n\nMr Churchill, who lived in Crediton, Devon, died on Wednesday, aged 99.\n\nChief of the Air Staff Sir Stephen Hillier said: \"He was from a selfless generation who offered bravery and sacrifice to secure our freedom.\"\n\n\"On behalf of the RAF as a whole I would like to offer my condolences to the friends and family of Flt Lt Richard 'Dick' Churchill, one of the RAF personnel involved in the Great Escape.\n\n\"He will be sorely missed. Per Ardua [the RAF motto].\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The last survivor of 'The Great Escape' camp tells his story\n\nAir Vice-Marshal David Murray, of the RAF Benevolent Fund, said Mr Churchill \"embodied the spirit of the RAF - tenacious, resilient and incredibly brave in the face of adversity.\"\n\nMr Churchill's death followed that of Australian pilot Paul Royle, who died in Perth, aged 101 in 2015.\n\nThe survivors formed a sort of club and kept in contact through the Sagan Select Subway Society newsletter, of which Mr Royle and Mr Churchill were the last two recipients.\n\nMr Churchill was among 76 airmen who escaped through a 102m-long tunnel\n\nA spokesperson for the RAF Benevolent Fund said it is believed there are at least two remaining RAF veterans who were held at Stalag Luft III, which now stands in Poland.\n\nThey are named as Charles Clarke, who was not involved in the escape, and Jack Lyon, who was in the tunnel when the plot was uncovered.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Former Prime Minister Harold Wilson's secretary Baroness Falkender - formerly Marcia Williams - has died aged 86.\n\nLady Falkender, once dubbed the Duchess of Downing Street, died on 6 February.\n\nShe was Mr Wilson's private and political secretary from 1956 to 1983, which included his leadership of the Labour Party and his time in office.\n\nShe was one of the most powerful women in politics during Mr Wilson's premiership and came to prominence following his 1976 resignation.\n\nLady Falkender was believed by many to wield more influence than MPs and even cabinet ministers - something she always denied.\n\n\"I don't think I ever had any influences on policies because, as I say, it wasn't my role really. Everyone knew where I stood on things,\" she once said.\n\n\"If I had any at all, it's because they heard my voice and very often if there were a crowd of people around, mostly civil servants of the prime minister, he would be arguing policy out and he would be saying the things he wanted to hear.\n\n\"I might possibly be the only voice in the room saying things he didn't want to hear.\"\n\nHarold Wilson with Lady Falkender were often described as \"political soulmates\"\n\nPaying tribute, Lord Lipsey, who worked as a political adviser in Mr Wilson's government, said Lady Falkender might not have had much influence over policy, but had a \"general influence\" over Mr Wilson and was his \"confidante\".\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that she was a \"formidable personality\" who the Labour prime minister could turn to \"when things were getting tough\".\n\nFollowing Mr Wilson's sudden resignation in 1976, it was claimed Lady Falkender drafted his controversial resignation honours list - which included his publisher, his raincoat manufacturer and a property tycoon.\n\nThe list was dubbed The Lavender List because some of the names were written on lavender-coloured paper in Lady Falkender's handwriting.\n\nHowever, it was later pointed out that it is normal for secretaries to put their employer's dictated thoughts into writing.\n\nHarold Wilson pictured with Baroness Falkender following his 1966 election win\n\nIn 2007, Lady Falkender successfully sued the BBC for libel over her portrayal in a drama-documentary which wrongly claimed she had compiled the list and that she had included people for her own personal interests.\n\nThe programme also wrongly suggested that she had a brief affair with Mr Wilson and used this to blackmail him.\n\nShe was awarded £75,000 in libel damages.\n\nLady Falkender, born Marcia Field on 10 March, 1932, was educated at Northampton High School before attending Queen Mary College, University of London.\n\nShe was married for five years to George Williams, but the relationship foundered when he wanted to live and work in the US and she did not.\n\nShe had a long-running relationship with the late Walter Terry, a one-time political editor of the Daily Mail and Mr Wilson's favourite political reporter.\n\nLady Falkender and Mr Terry had two sons in the late 1960s.\n\nBaroness Falkender making her first appearance in the House of Lords\n\nShe was made a peer in the House of Lords in 1974, but she did not speak during her four decades there.\n\n\"My peerage has been a great problem to me because I have never known how to handle it. But now I know myself pretty well,\" she once said.\n\n\"And I think if the press has got me wrong there is nothing I can do to put it right.\"", "Karl Marx's memorial in Highgate Cemetery has been vandalised for the second time in two weeks\n\nKarl Marx's memorial in north London has been vandalised for the second time in two weeks.\n\nThe words \"Doctrine of Hate\" and \"Architect of Genocide\" are scrawled in red on the Grade I-listed grave in Highgate Cemetery.\n\nThis latest incident follows a \"deliberate and sustained\" hammer attack on 4 February that left the memorial badly damaged.\n\nThere have been no arrests in connection with either attack.\n\nFriends of Highgate Cemetery Trust said the German philosopher's memorial would \"never be the same again\" following the previous attack.\n\nThe words \"Doctrine of Hate\", \"Architect of Genocide\" and \"Memorial to Bolshevik holocaust\" were painted in red on the memorial\n\nMaxwell Blowfield, from the British Museum, said he was \"quite shocked\" to see the most recent act of vandalism when he visited the cemetery earlier with his mother.\n\nThe 31-year-old said it was particularly sad because tourists regularly visited the site.\n\n\"It's a highlight of the cemetery\".\n\n\"It's a shame. The red paint will disappear, I assume, but to see that kind of level of damage and to see it happen twice, it's not good,\" he continued.\n\n\"I am just surprised that somebody in 2019 feels they need to [go] and do something like that.\"\n\nThe marble plaque on the memorial was attacked with a hammer on 4 February\n\nIn 1970 a pipe bomb blew up part of the plaque's marble face, that was first used for Marx's wife Jenny von Westphalen in 1881.\n\nThe plaque was subsequently moved when both Marx and his wife were exhumed and moved to a more prominent location within the cemetery in 1954.\n\nIt has also been covered in Swastikas and emulsion paint has been thrown at it, in the past.", "Cardiff City manager Neil Warnock and chief executive Ken Choo will attend Emiliano Sala's funeral in Argentina on Saturday.\n\nThe 28-year-old striker was killed when the private plane carrying him crashed in the English Channel near Alderney.\n\nSala's body was recovered from the wreckage last week.\n\nWarnock and Choo will be part of a Cardiff delegation attending the funeral in the town of Progreso in the province of Santa Fe.\n\nPilot David Ibbotson remains missing following the crash on the night of 21 January, with funds being raised to continue the search for him.\n\nSala's body will be repatriated to his home country on Friday ahead of a wake at boyhood club San Martin de Progreso the following day.\n\nSala signed from Nantes for £15m last month - a record fee for Cardiff City.\n\nThe club's next fixture is a home Premier League match against Watford on Friday 22 February.", "Ms Begum was 15 and living in Bethnal Green, London, when she left the UK in 2015\n\nThe family of Shamima Begum - the teenager who went to Syria to join the Islamic State group - has called on the UK to bring her back \"urgently\".\n\nThey said the 19-year-old's unborn baby is \"a total innocent\" and had the right to grow up in the \"peace and security\" of the UK.\n\nMs Begum, from east London, told the Times she feared her child would be taken from her if she returned.\n\nThe justice secretary said the UK would evaluate each case individually.\n\nMs Begum was one of three schoolgirls from Bethnal Green, east London, who left the UK for Syria in 2015.\n\nThe teenager was found last week in a Syrian refugee camp by a reporter from the Times and on Wednesday told how she had escaped from Baghuz - IS's last stronghold in eastern Syria.\n\nIn the second instalment of her interview with the Times on Saturday, Ms Begum asked: \"What do you think will happen to my child?\n\n\"Because I don't want it to be taken away from me, or at least if it is, to be given to my family.\"\n\nShe added she had been taken to hospital because of contractions after arriving at the camp, which meant she could give birth \"any day\".\n\nMs Begum told the newspaper she knew returning to the UK \"wouldn't be a quiet thing\" and she understood she faced possible terrorism charges.\n\nHowever, in an apparent reference to the time members of her family appeared before MPs on the Home Affairs Select Committee in March 2015, she said they were told: \"I won't be charged with terrorism or anything\".\n\nMs Begum had previously told the paper she had lost two children in Syria.\n\nHer daughter died at the age of one year and nine months and was buried in Baghuz a month ago. Her second child died three months ago at eight months old of an illness compounded by malnutrition, she said.\n\nShe said she took him to a hospital but there were no drugs and not enough staff.\n\nIn a statement issued on Friday, her family said they had previously \"lost all hope\" of seeing Ms Begum again, saying she had risked \"imprisonment and death\" in escaping from IS territory.\n\nThey said they were \"utterly shocked\" by her lack of regret about joining IS, but that they were the \"words of a girl who was groomed at the age of 15\" and is surrounded by IS sympathisers.\n\nThe family said they were concerned that Ms Begum's mental health had been affected by her four years in Syria, during which she married an IS fighter and had two children who died.\n\n\"Now we are faced with the situation of knowing that Shamima's young children have died - children we will never come to know as a family. This is the hardest of news to bear,\" the family said.\n\n\"The welfare of Shamima's unborn child is of paramount concern to our family, and we will do everything within our power to protect that baby who is entirely blameless in these events.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. We asked people in Bethnal Green, where Shamima Begum previously went to school, whether the teenager should be allowed back to the UK\n\nThey said they would welcome an investigation into her actions in Syria \"under the principles of British justice\".\n\nJustice Secretary David Gauke said there were national security risks to allowing people such as Ms Begum to return to Britain but did not rule it out.\n\nHe told the BBC the UK needed to evaluate each case on \"a case by case basis\".\n\nHome Secretary Sajid Javid has said she could face charges if she returns.\n\nHe told the Times this week there were a range of measures to stop IS supporters who posed a serious threat from returning to the UK, such as depriving them of British citizenship or excluding them from the country.\n\nTasnime Akunjee, a lawyer for Ms Begum's family, said he did not believe Mr Javid had \"the legal grounds or tools to stop her coming back\".\n\nChief of the intelligence service MI6, Alex Younger, told the Munich Security Conference on Friday that British citizens \"have a right to come to the UK\".\n\nMs Begum, along with Kadiza Sultana, 16, and Amira Abase, 15, from Bethnal Green Academy in east London, entered Syria via Turkey in February 2015.\n\nShe said Kadiza Sultana had died after a house was bombed, but the fate of her other friend is still unknown.\n\nMs Begum escaped from Baghuz two weeks ago, but her husband - a Dutch convert to Islam - surrendered to a group of Syrian fighters as they left.\n\nShe told the Times that she feared she may never see or be allowed to live with her husband again, adding she loved 26-year-old Yago Riedijk \"very much\".\n\nKadiza Sultana, Amira Abase and Shamima Begum (l-r) in photos issued by police\n\nFighting against IS forces has been continuing in north-eastern Syria, where the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) say they have captured dozens of foreign fighters in recent weeks.\n\nIS has lost control of most of the territory it held in Syria and Iraq and US president Donald Trump said on Friday he expected to announced its defeat this weekend.", "John Stalker was the former deputy-chief constable of Greater Manchester Police\n\nA senior British police officer who led a controversial investigation into an alleged shoot-to-kill policy by the Royal Ulster Constabulary has died.\n\nJohn Stalker, the former deputy chief constable of Greater Manchester Police, died aged 79, a family statement said.\n\nHe was replaced as officer in charge of the RUC investigation after allegations he was associating with criminals in Manchester in 1986.\n\nHe was later exonerated and became a journalist in his retirement.\n\nMr Stalker joined Manchester City Police in 1956 and first made his mark as a young detective during the investigation into the Moors murders in the 1960s. He developed the photographs and listened to the tapes made by Ian Brady and Myra Hindley as 10-year-old Lesley Ann Downey was sexually tortured and murdered.\n\nIn 1978 his appointment aged 38 as detective chief superintendent with Warwickshire Police made him the youngest to hold that rank in the country.\n\nPaying tribute, his eldest daughter Colette Cartwright said: \"He is fondly remembered by many as going above and beyond the call of duty and was committed to making a difference for those most in need.\"\n\nMr Stalker rose to national prominence when he was taken off the investigation into alleged extra-judicial killings of suspected paramilitaries that had taken place in north Armagh in Northern Ireland in 1982, after a critical interim report into the circumstances surrounding the shootings.\n\nAmong the complaints were claims he attended social events attended by members of the so-called \"Quality Street gang\" - a group of Manchester's leading villains.\n\nThere were also behind-the-scenes fears that a Masonic plot within the police against Mr Stalker could be revealed during one of the most controversial episodes of the Troubles, according to newly declassified files that were released in 2016.\n\nHe was taken off the case at the moment he believed he was about to obtain an MI5 tape of one of the shootings.\n\nFormer Manchester Central MP Tony Lloyd, who raised Mr Stalker's case in Parliament in the 1980s, said he was \"a man of great integrity who was treated unjustly\".\n\nMr Lloyd, who now represents Rochdale, added: \"He was an excellent police officer.\"\n\nMr Stalker is survived by his two daughters, six grandchildren and two great-grandchildren", "Ariana Grande's latest album Thank U, Next has broken a UK chart record after debuting at number one.\n\nIt had the most streams of an album by a female artist in a week - breaking a record she set herself with 2018's Sweetener.\n\nAriana is also occupying both the top and second spots on the official singles chart.\n\nShe's the first female artist in UK singles chart history to replace herself at number one.\n\nBreak Up With Your Girlfriend, I'm Bored is the new number one, with 7 Rings dropping to two after holding the top spot for the last three weeks.\n\nAriana also becomes only the second female artist to fill the top two spots at the same time.\n\nThe last was Madonna, who was at number one and two simultaneously in August 1985 with Into The Groove and Holiday.\n\nThank U, Next's pole position is no surprise. According to the Official Charts Company, it had been outselling the rest of the top five albums combined.\n\nYet the success of Ariana's latest is particularly remarkable given how short the gap has been between her previous album and this one.\n\nHer last record, Sweetener, was released just six months ago, in August 2018.\n\nThe intervening months have been turbulent for the 25-year-old.\n\nHer ex-boyfriend Mac Miller died after an accidental overdose. Shortly after, she and her former fiance Pete Davidson broke off their engagement.\n\nAriana took some time out, stopped doing promo for the album and asked her team for a break.\n\n\"I said, 'I'm not going anywhere, I'm not doing anything. Please give me some time,\" she recalled last week in an interview with Zach Sang, \"and they were so respectful of that and wonderfully supportive\".\n\nBut she was back in the studio soon enough, and in November released the hugely popular Thank U, Next - a song which referenced not just her split from Davidson, but several of her exes, who she sang she was \"so thankful\" for.\n\nHowever, considering she was only three months into the Sweetener album campaign with several songs already on the radio, throwing a brand new one into the mix was highly unusual.\n\nAnother new song, Imagine, followed a month later, before the monster hit that was 7 Rings was unleashed in January.\n\nThese weren't necessarily intended to form a whole new record, but, Ariana explained: \"I was just like, wow, I love all of these so much, this is like an album.\"\n\nThe creative team who had worked on Sweetener were accordingly called back to work on the new project.\n\n\"I called the same people back, a month-and-a-half later [after completing Sweetener], and they were like, 'why are we here?',\" Ariana explained to Sang.\n\n\"And I was like, 'I wanna play you an album'.\"\n\nThe rest of Thank U, Next was recorded in just two weeks.\n\n\"The first week we already had nine songs or so,\" songwriter Victoria Monét told Rolling Stone.\n\nMac Miller and Pete Davidson are both referenced in the lyrics of Thank U, Next\n\n\"Then we spent the next week cleaning them up, adding more things, doing production, cutting a few more songs.\"\n\nThe album was released last Friday, not long after it was completed, and went straight to the top of the download and streaming charts around the world.\n\nAll the conventional rules were being broken - her team were nonchalant about crowding the market with two album releases in quick succession, and Ariana didn't do a single press or broadcast interview to promote the new record aside from her YouTube chat with Sang.\n\nAnd yet, by the end of its first sales week, Billboard reported Thank U, Next was projected to sell 330,000 in the US, having been revised up from its original estimates.\n\nThis is a full 100,000 more than Sweetener managed in its first week.\n\nRather than becoming a victim of audience fatigue or radio burnout, something which often plagues over-exposed pop stars, Ariana seemed to have actively become more popular in the short time that passed between albums.\n\nThe last singer of equivalent profile to churn out albums at this rate was Rihanna.\n\nShe released one album a year for four years while she was enjoying her most popular era between 2009 and 2012.\n\nAriana recorded a BBC One special with Davina McCall last year in one of her few UK interviews\n\nSome have argued the increased success of Thank U, Next in comparison with Sweetener is down to a subtle change in direction from Ariana, who has a songwriting credit on every song on the new album.\n\nWhile there's no drastic adjustment to the music itself, as the catchy R&B-tinged pop hooks have broadly remained the same, there appears to be a difference in the lyrics.\n\nMany have noticed that the lyrics are far more specific and personal to Ariana than any she has previously performed.\n\n\"It's the most Taylor Swift album she's ever released,\" suggested Perez Hilton.\n\nHe continued: \"She has done for the first time what Taylor Swift has always done, which is turn her life into really personal songs which chronicle certain periods of their lives.\"\n\nRather than the slightly more vague or generic lyrics of her previous hits (no shade), these were lines nobody else could sing.\n\n\"The singles leading up to her new album aggressively fed the gossip machine,\" wrote Jon Caramanica in The New York Times.\n\n\"[They] ensured that just as Ariana's music was reaching its peak popularity, she was also the subject of continuous meta-musical conversation.\"\n\nSome have likened Ariana's more personal recent lyrics to those of Taylor Swift\n\nSome of her fans are so keen on the newly-released songs, they've started a campaign to boycott 7 Rings - which Ariana herself has acknowledged.\n\nBut it's not because they don't like the song or have turned against her - but because fans are mobilising behind Break Up With Your Girlfriend, I'm Bored, hoping its chart success could match its huge popularity on YouTube.\n\nBreak Up With Your Girlfriend is the only one of the new songs that came with its own music video, effectively making it the follow-up single to 7 Rings - not that declaring something an official single matters much any more in the age of streaming.\n\nEven a public spat with the Grammy Awards on the weekend of the album's release hasn't dented her popularity.\n\nAriana had been due to perform at the biggest night in the music calendar last Sunday, but she and organisers reportedly fell out over which songs she would sing.\n\nThen, once an agreement had almost been reached, executive producer Ken Ehrlich claimed she had struggled to get a performance together in time for the ceremony.\n\nAriana refuted that, writing on Twitter: \"I can pull together a performance overnight and you know that, Ken. It was when my creativity and self expression was stifled by you, that I decided not to attend.\"\n\nMany felt it was the ceremony's loss.\n\n\"The Grammys need Ariana Grande more than she needs them,\" pointed out Courtney E Smith in Refinery 29.\n\nAnd it didn't stop Ariana from taking home (or rather, getting delivered) her first ever Grammy - best pop vocal album for Sweetener.\n\nIt was a nice, er, sweetener, for the album to receive before the singer embarks on a world tour in support of it later this year.\n\nConsidering she now has two albums' worth of new material, she's probably struggling with the set list.\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.", "Paula Sherriff says she faces far-right abuse on a regular basis\n\nA decision by the Crown Prosecution Service not to bring a prosecution after swastikas were left outside Paula Sherriff's office has been branded \"disgraceful\" by the Labour MP.\n\nThe Dewsbury MP said foil swastikas were left at her constituency office on three occasions last summer.\n\nThe CPS said the suspect would not be prosecuted because the test for a criminal offence had not been met.\n\n\"There has been a huge increase in far-right abuse since the death of Jo [Cox, in 2016],\" 43-year-old Ms Sherriff said.\n\nShe said three swastikas were left at her office in July and August, and she has had many death threats and other forms of abuse, and fears for her life.\n\nMs Sherriff, whose constituency neighbours Batley and Spen, where Ms Cox was killed, said the CPS ruled out a prosecution because the suspect \"did not fit any charges\", which she found \"absolutely disgraceful\".\n\nIn September, local newspaper editor Danny Lockwood was \"outraged\" when armed police arrested him in connection with suspected hate crimes against Ms Sherriff. He has been ruled out of the investigation.\n\nMs Sherriff said she has been targeted for far-right abuse daily, sometimes suffering hundreds of such incidents in a week.\n\nJo Cox was murdered in a neighbouring constituency in the run-up to the EU referendum\n\nHer staff have had to put safety procedures in place around her Wellington Road office, such as going to lunch in pairs.\n\nShe also said West Yorkshire Police had not taken her complaints of abuse and threats seriously.\n\nThe MP said she had \"no faith\" in the force, despite her father being in the police.\n\n\"My trust in the police has been really eroded,\" she said.\n\nGerry Wareham, chief crown prosecutor for Yorkshire and Humberside, said: \"We considered this case carefully but the evidential test was not met to prove a criminal offence so we could not prosecute. The suspect was issued with a harassment warning.\n\n\"We understand Ms Sheriff's concerns and take any potential threat of this nature very seriously. We have offered to meet with her to explain our decision in full.\"\n\nWest Yorkshire Police said: \"We can confirm a complaint has been received in relation to the police handling of an investigation into incidents in July and August 2018, when offensive material was left outside the constituency office of a local MP.\n\n\"This matter has been referred to the Independent Office for Police Conduct who are conducting an independent inquiry.\"\n\nThe force said the \"tragic murder of Jo Cox in 2016 further emphasised the risks our MPs can face and West Yorkshire Police regularly reviews security arrangements, in accordance with national protocols\".\n\n\"West Yorkshire Police has local processes to ensure there is an effective response to any threats made towards or concerns raised by local MPs.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nWatford reached the FA Cup quarter-finals for the second time in four seasons after a hard-fought win against battling Queens Park Rangers.\n\nEtienne Capoue's finish on the stroke of half-time, after Tom Cleverley's mis-hit, proved the difference.\n\nChampionship QPR went close through Massimo Luongo, while Watford keeper Heurelho Gomes marked his 38th birthday with a fine save to deny Nahki Wells.\n\nBut Watford progressed after scoring from their only shot on target.\n\nWith no replays in this season's fifth-round ties, QPR captain Toni Leistner spurned a great chance to force extra-time at Loftus Road when he missed from point-blank range after Darnell Furlong's cross in the closing stages.\n\nWatford go from strength to strength under Gracia\n\nThis was another determined performance from Javi Gracia's Watford, who had to dig deep on their way to another clean sheet.\n\nThe Premier League club have not conceded a goal in three games in this season's competition but they lived dangerously, particularly in the first half, when QPR carved out several good chances.\n\nAt the other end of the pitch, chances were few and far between.\n\nDaryl Janmaat prodded a first-time attempt over the bar and it looked like Watford would go in at the interval without managing a shot on target when Capoue struck.\n\nIt came after Cleverley mis-hit a cross, following a short corner, into the path of the French midfielder, who produced a calm first-time finish for his third goal of the campaign.\n\nWith no Video Assistant Referee system in operation, Andre Gray wrongly had a goal ruled out for offside before Leistner's incredible 87th-minute miss.\n\nEighth in the Premier League table, they now have six clean sheets in the last eight league and cup games - and have Wembley in their sights in the FA Cup.\n\nGerman defender Leistner will have nightmares about his late miss.\n\nSliding in at the back post, he somehow fired wide when it looked easier to score after Furlong fizzed the ball across the six-yard area.\n\nSteve McClaren's side are left to focus on the league, where they have dropped from eighth in the table to 18th since the start of 2019 after five successive second-tier defeats.\n\nAt least there were some positives for the former England manager from his side's latest setback.\n\nThey impressed in spells against top-flight opposition.\n\nLuongo thought he had scored after letting fly from 20 yards following Gomes' clearance from a corner before Watford's Brazilian goalkeeper somehow kept out Wells, on loan from Burnley, after Luke Freeman's ball over the top of the visitors' defence.\n\nWells wasted another chance after the interval which had McClaren waving his arms in the air in frustration.\n\nIt was nothing compared to the QPR manager's reaction when Leistner fired wide in front of an open goal near the end.\n\n'Our fans are enjoying this season' - what they said\n\nQueens Park Rangers manager Steve McClaren: \"We're not far way. We just need the rub of the green.\n\n\"We have to keep working hard and eventually our luck will turn.\n\n\"Five games ago we were talking about the play-offs. We need to get players back from injury and finish the season strong.\"\n\nWatford boss Javi Gracia: \"We knew Premier League teams have been knocked out against teams from other leagues so we knew this would be a demanding game.\n\n\"Our fans are enjoying the season not only with the FA Cup but with the league as well.\n\n\"They can see the team is giving everything and the results are coming.\"\n• None QPR have lost six of their last eight games in all competitions after a run of six games unbeaten directly before that.\n• None Watford have kept five clean sheets in their last six games in all competitions, as many shut-outs as they managed in their previous 24.\n• None The Hornets have won eight of their last nine FA Cup ties against sides from a lower division, losing only against Millwall in the fourth round in 2016-17.\n• None Four of Etienne Capoue's last five goals for Watford have come in cup competitions (2 FA Cup, 2 League Cup, 1 Premier League).\n\nQPR are back in action on Tuesday when they host West Brom in the Championship (19:45 GMT), while Watford travel to Cardiff City in the Premier League next Friday (19:45).\n• None Troy Deeney (Watford) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Offside, Watford. Daryl Janmaat tries a through ball, but Will Hughes is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Toni Leistner (Queens Park Rangers) right footed shot from the left side of the six yard box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Darnell Furlong following a set piece situation.\n• None Attempt missed. Darnell Furlong (Queens Park Rangers) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right misses to the left following a set piece situation.\n• None Abdoulaye Doucouré (Watford) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt blocked. Troy Deeney (Watford) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Daryl Janmaat.\n• None Attempt missed. Christian Kabasele (Watford) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by José Holebas with a cross following a set piece situation.\n• None Offside, Queens Park Rangers. Jordan Cousins tries a through ball, but Eberechi Eze is caught offside. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "This is not about terminator robots but \"conventional weapons systems with autonomy\"\n\nA group of scientists has called for a ban on the development of weapons controlled by artificial intelligence (AI).\n\nIt says that autonomous weapons may malfunction in unpredictable ways and kill innocent people.\n\nEthics experts also argue that it is a moral step too far for AI systems to kill without any human intervention.\n\nThe comments were made at the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Washington DC.\n\nHuman Rights Watch (HRW) is one of the 89 non-governmental organisations from 50 countries that have formed the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots, to press for an international treaty.\n\nAmong those leading efforts for the worldwide ban is HRW's Mary Wareham.\n\n\"We are not talking about walking, talking terminator robots that are about to take over the world; what we are concerned about is much more imminent: conventional weapons systems with autonomy,\" she told BBC News.\n\n\"They are beginning to creep in. Drones are the obvious example, but there are also military aircraft that take off, fly and land on their own; robotic sentries that can identify movement. These are precursors to autonomous weapons.\"\n\nHis company takes military contracts, but it has denounced AI systems for warfare and stated that it would not develop them.\n\n\"When they fail, they fail in unpredictable ways,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"As advanced as we are, the state of AI is really limited by image recognition. It is good but does not have the detail or context to be judge, jury and executioner on a battlefield.\n\n\"An autonomous system cannot make a decision to kill or not to kill in a vacuum. The de-facto decision has been made thousands of miles away by developers, programmers and scientists who have no conception of the situation the weapon is deployed in.\"\n\nAccording to Peter Asaro, of the New School in New York, such a scenario raises issues of legal liability if the system makes an unlawful killing.\n\n\"The delegation of authority to kill to a machine is not justified and a violation of human rights because machines are not moral agents and so cannot be responsible for making decisions of life and death.\n\n\"So it may well be that the people who made the autonomous weapon are responsible.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThey say you can judge people by the company they keep. Oligarchs hang out with art dealers, yacht brokers and muscle-bound bodyguards. Fading film stars winter in Miami among plastic surgeons and country club members. Undertakers chauffeur the dead. But who - outside the Houses of Parliament - would choose oddballs, misfits, and exhibitionists as their squad?\n\nStep forward Diane (pronounced Dee-Anne BTW) Arbus. The American photographer loved an eccentric like a salesman loves a sucker. They were her people: outsiders of all shapes and sizes - short, giant, obese, skinny - who had the courage and character to expose their vulnerability in front of her searching lens.\n\nDiane Arbus poses for a rare portrait with her beloved camera in New York, circa 1968\n\nYou don't just look at the subjects of Diane Arbus's photographs, you meet them. Her New York street photography was quite different from the images produced by the likes of Walker Evans and Robert Frank, who were also documenting mid-century urban America.\n\nShe wasn't a click-and-run flâneur surreptitiously snapping away from a camera buried within an overcoat, or one poking out from the passenger window of a passing car.\n\nAn Arbus image was the product of a collaboration between the seer and the seen: the photographer and the photographed.\n\nShe would spend hours, days even, building a rapport with the strippers, inkers and razorblade swallowers she portrayed.\n\nArbus established a bond with her subjects, before photographing them, as with Stripper with bare breasts sitting in her dressing room, New Jersey, 1961\n\nThe more specific she could be, she learnt, the more universal the image.\n\nInspiration came from an unlikely source.\n\nIt wasn't another photographer, although she knew and admired many, but sweary Geoffrey Chaucer - the 14th Century Middle English writer. She was particularly taken with The Canterbury Tales, his satirical collection of stories in which a motley bunch of pilgrims travel from London to Canterbury amusing themselves by competing for the title of best storyteller.\n\nArbus was influenced by Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales and his \"tender\" portrayal of the pilgrims\n\nArbus not only admired the range and depth of characters to whom Chaucer gave literary life, but also the \"tenderness\" with which he treated them. It was a humanity she strove to replicate when photographing the discriminated against, the sort of people from whom most turn away but she looked upon with empathy.\n\nFemale impersonator holding long gloves in Long Island, 1959, is an unflinching portrait but full of humanity\n\n\"If you scrutinize reality closely enough,\" she said, \"if in some way you really, really get to it, it becomes fantastic.\"\n\nFreaks, as she called them (a description of the time that has not endured like her pictures), were her muse:\n\n\"They were one of the first things I photographed. It had a terrific excitement for me. I adored them. They made me feel a mixture of shame and awe. There's a quality of legend about freaks… Most people go through life dreading they will have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They have already passed their test in life. They are aristocrats.\"\n\nAs was she - a \"department store princess,\" who grew up in New York on the Upper West Side; the daughter of a wealthy retailer with a huge shop on Fifth Avenue. The fur her father sold was real, but she felt like a fake when walking between the aisles - hence, I suppose, the attraction to oddballs brave enough to be themselves.\n\nHer parents got into art and wanted their 10-year-old daughter to become a painter. Diane was good but found the process annoying.\n\nEight years later she married Allan Arbus. He gave her that Nikon 35mm camera. It was 1941.\n\nDiane Arbus did fashion shoots with her husband Allan, but wanted to explore worlds other photographers shunned\n\nThey set up as a husband-and-wife team producing fashion photos for glossy magazines: Allan took the pictures, Diane was the stylist. Until she grew bored of the role around 1955 and dug out the Nikon.\n\nThis is where the Hayward Gallery exhibition starts; with the revelation of Arbus's idiosyncratic aesthetic immediately apparent. Images such as Taxicab Driver at the Wheel with Two Passengers, N.Y.C. 1956, and Lady on a Bus N.Y.C. 1957, demonstrate her innate sensibility for composition, contrast, and content.\n\nEvery picture she takes is like a single page torn from a novel: a fragment of a story you find yourself reconstructing as you look.\n\nTaxicab driver at the wheel with two passengers, N.Y.C, 1956, shows Arbus's talent for composition\n\nWith Lady on a bus, N.Y.C, 1957, Arbus creates an arresting image and story\n\nThe Hayward Gallery focuses on her early 35mm pictures taken before she started using a Rolleiflex square format camera in 1962. They are displayed a bit like \"Wanted\" posters pinned to the trees of New York's Central Park.\n\nYou walk among them in a forest of vertical white columns, on either side of which is a black and white figure staring right back at you. It is an effective and affecting presentation.\n\nThese are not sentimental photographs.\n\nNor are they eye candy to entertain and titillate. There is a seriousness about them, a solemnity which can drift toward the surreal and macabre: a moment caught between the vernacular and the uncanny.\n\nThe picture of an elderly woman lying on a hospital bed who appears more dead than alive is neither a celebration of life nor a lament for its imminent end. It is something else altogether, more a reflection on the thin invisible line that divides the two for us all.\n\nArbus doesn't restrict herself to strange folk in order to depict strangeness.\n\nFor her it is a fact of life.\n\nA woman carrying a child, a boy stepping off a kerb - everyday occurrences when isolated and observed become loaded and peculiar.\n\nBoy stepping off the curb, N.Y.C, 1957, captures an everyday action but takes on a loaded meaning\n\n\"Everybody has that thing where they need to look one way but they come out looking another way…You see somebody on the street and essentially what you notice about them is the floor. It's just extraordinary.\"\n\nYou can see the occasional flaw in her photographs. Sometimes they feel too staged, her presence too obvious. Others make you question the relationship between photographer and subject: is one taking advantage of the other? A salesman and a sucker, maybe? But which way around?\n\nIt is, though, that ambivalence that draws you in.\n\nThe more you look the more you see.\n\nTake the photograph of two kids horsing about on the street, for instance. It appears charming at first, but grows darker the longer you spend with it: who is teasing whom and why?\n\nIt is just one example of the faintly forbidding atmosphere that pervades the show: an ominousness that comes not just from Arbus's work but also from her life, which she ended abruptly in 1971 by taking her own life, at the age of 48.\n\nHere we see the work of a photographer blessed with great intelligence and a wonderful eye, both of which were aligned to and informed by a curious, troubled mind.\n\nThere are a lot of images in this show but no self-portraits. At least, not in the conventional sense. Looked at from another perspective, however, and you can see the sensitive, striving artist that was Diane Arbus in every single one.\n• None The Gompertz Guide to... Diane Arbus. Video, 00:03:26The Gompertz Guide to... Diane Arbus", "A forensic tent remains outside the property where Anthony Payne was found dead on Monday\n\nA man has been charged with the murders of three elderly men found dead in Exeter.\n\nAlexander Lewis-Ranwell, 27, from Croyde, Braunton, is charged with the murders of Anthony Payne, 80, and 84-year-old twin brothers, Richard and Roger Carter.\n\nHe has also been charged with two offences of causing grievous bodily harm with intent.\n\nMr Lewis-Ranwell will appear at Exeter Magistrates' Court on Saturday.\n\nThe body of Anthony Payne - known as Tony - was found at his house in Bonhay Road on Monday\n\nMr Payne was found dead at his Bonhay Road house on Monday.\n\nThe Carter brothers were found dead in Cowick Lane about 1.5 miles (2.4km) away the following day.\n\nMr Lewis-Ranwell was first arrested that evening. He remains in custody.\n\nA friend of Mr Payne - who was known as Tony - earlier described him as a \"decent, ordinary 80-year-old bloke\".\n\nKeith Baker, 68, said Mr Payne had worked on a farm after leaving school, before doing National Service in the Army, and later building work.\n\nHe said his friend was an Exeter City fan who enjoyed maintaining his allotment and looking after his pet cats.\n\nThe crime scenes are being guarded by police as tributes are left outside\n\nA friend of one of the twin brothers who were murdered said he \"wouldn't have done anything to harm anybody\".\n\nMartyn Liddon, who runs Exeter-based charity Men in Sheds, said he became friends with Dick Carter when talking to him on the bus.\n\nSupt Matt Lawler, of Devon and Cornwall Police, thanked local communities for their messages of support, adding: \"All of our thoughts remain with the family and friends of the victims.\"\n\nHe said officers from the force would be speaking to residents and conducting investigative work at the two addresses in the city over the coming days.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "After his failure to win support from Congress for his demand to fund the building of his border wall, Donald Trump was left with a series of unpalatable choices.\n\nAdmit total failure on your key campaign pledge. Or go nuclear.\n\nBy declaring a state of emergency he will be able to raid other departmental budgets to cobble together $8bn for construction on the southern border.\n\nHe will show his base that he is true to his word.\n\nHe will argue he is fighting their fight, to staunch the flow of illegal immigrants and dangerous drugs into the country.\n\nAnd it is undoubtedly true that a lot of people from Central America are trying to enter the US illegally - even though less than in previous years.\n\nAnd a lot of drugs, too, are flooding into the US, courtesy of the Mexican drug lords.\n\nThere is a separate debate about how effective the blunt instrument of a wall would be.\n\nSome argue that more effective would be the use of technology and reinforcing the numbers of border patrol officers.\n\nBut as I say, let's leave that to one side. The trouble with going nuclear, is there is fall-out.\n\nThis has been presented as a predictably partisan issue.\n\nOn one side of the wall, Republicans; on the other side, Democrats.\n\nBut by going nuclear the president has made it more complicated than that. There are a lot of Republicans - in the Senate and in the House - deeply uneasy about what Mr Trump is doing.\n\nWhy? Because the constitutional arrangement of the US is that Congress controls the purse strings and allocates funds. Not the president.\n\nThis is a major land grab by the president.\n\nIt undermines the powers of Congress and sets a very dangerous precedent.\n\nLet's spin forward a few years, and it is a Democrat who is in the White House.\n\nThere is a mass shooting somewhere. The president can't force through much tighter gun control measures through Congress, but will now have the Trump card to play.\n\nI see your objections, and raise you a national emergency.\n\nOn healthcare, ditto. And what about climate control? Yep that too. Lawmakers could be totally by-passed.\n\nThe emergency powers were designed for a genuine national emergency.\n\nIf the situation on the border is a genuine national emergency, why has it taken the president over two years to make this move?\n\nYou can be sure that the Democrats will be considering a legal challenge that will wind its way up to the Supreme Court. And that will delay any building work.\n\nIt is likely that over the coming months, the lawyers in Washington will be far busier than the bricklayers in Arizona and Texas and California.\n\nAnd the legal challenge will contain one central question - is this a national emergency, or a political emergency?", "The City of Derry to Stansted flight is the first public service obligation (PSO) air route in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe UK government will continue to provide funding for a flight between City of Derry Airport and London.\n\nThe public service obligation (PSO) air route, the first of its kind in Northern Ireland, has been in place since 2017.\n\nIt had been due to expire in May.\n\nTransport Secretary Chris Grayling has now confirmed the government will continue to subsidise the route until 2021.\n\n\"The government is committed to this route because it strengthens the union, protects choice and boosts trade and travel opportunities,\" he told the House of Commons.\n\nThe Department for Transport provides funding for PSO routes if the service is \"vital for the economic and social development of the region\".\n\nNorthern Ireland Secretary Karen Bradley said the announcement was hugely welcome.\n\nShe said the service was vital for Northern Ireland's economic growth.\n\n\"Connectivity to Derry-Londonderry helps boost the huge potential on offer, including tourism and global business opportunities,\" she said.\n\nFlybmi - formerly known as bmi regional - operates two return flights each day, except Saturday, when there is one each way flight.\n\nThe funding announcement has also been welcomed in Northern Ireland's north west.\n\nThere had been fears for the future of the airport in Londonderry.\n\nMayor of Derry and Strabane John Boyle said the airport was \"an important regional gateway that is an essential part of the future development of the north west city region.\"\n\n\"We are delighted to retain this important air link with London and continue a route that offers timings that are conveniently scheduled for a full working day at either destination, and offers connectivity with adequate capacity and competitive fares,\" he said.", "A 16-year-old boy has died, two days after he was stabbed in the chest near the college where he was a student.\n\nHe was injured on Belgrave Road, outside Joseph Chamberlain Sixth Form College in Highgate, Birmingham, at about 16:00 GMT on Wednesday.\n\nWest Midlands Police said the boy's life support system was switched off on Friday evening and he died in hospital with his family around him.\n\nA boy, 16, was charged with attempted murder before the student died.\n\nHe is due at Birmingham Crown Court on Monday.\n\nThe victim had been in a coma since the stabbing. Police said a post-mortem examination would take place in due course.\n\nCh Supt Kenny Bell said: \"This is a tragic outcome and a dreadful loss of another young life to knife crime.\n\n\"My sympathies are with this young man's family in their time of grief.\n\n\"This serves as another stark reminder that knives have no place on our streets and we must all play a part in deterring our young people from carrying them.\"\n\nChief Constable Dave Thompson described the incident on Twitter as \"horrific and senseless\".\n\nA statement on the college's website said: \"We are devastated and shocked.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with the student's family, his friends and with our whole college community.\"\n\nThe charged boy is also accused of two counts of wounding and one charge of possessing an offensive weapon in relation to what happened outside the college.\n\nPolice said he had also been charged with causing grievous bodily harm and possession of an offensive weapon after a man was stabbed in the wrist in December.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Children's car seats, dubbed \"killers\" by trading standards officers, have repeatedly appeared for sale on online marketplaces, Which? has warned.\n\nThe consumer group said the fabric seats, which can cost as little as £8, offered almost no protection in a crash and were illegal to use in the UK.\n\nThe online sites - Amazon, eBay and AliExpress - all said they had removed the seats from sale.\n\nBut Which? said the listings should have been deleted quicker.\n\nWhich? said the seats had been described online as suitable for children from newborns up to the age of five.\n\nHowever, in 2014, Surrey Trading Standards had conducted tests on a fabric seat which fell to pieces in a 30 mph accident. The crash test dummy of a three-year-old child was flung through the windscreen when the straps securing the seat failed.\n\nTrading standards officers dubbed them \"killer car seats\" and removed dozens of them from sale. Which? said they lacked the support needed to protect babies and toddlers.\n\nHowever, the consumer group said that they had repeatedly re-appeared for sale on online marketplaces ever since.\n\nAlex Neill, from Which?, said: \"Parents will be horrified at the thought they could be unwittingly putting their child's life at risk with one of these 'killer' car seats. Online marketplaces cannot continue to turn a blind eye to dangerous and illegal products being sold on their sites.\"\n\nRegulations state that only EU-approved child car seats can be used in the UK.\n\nApproved seats carry a clear orange label with the codes ECE R44-03, ECE R44-04 or ECE R129 to indicate they have been put through EU safety testing and can therefore be legally sold on the UK market.\n\nConsumer groups suggest car seats should never be bought secondhand, as they could have been involved in an accident but damage to the seat may be unclear.\n\nSales site eBay told Which? that it had asked the sellers involved to contact the buyers to organise a return, and to pay for the return shipping.\n\n\"Our specialist teams work with regulators and Trading Standards to ensure our block filters stay up to date, using sophisticated software that monitors billions of listings a day to remove any prohibited items,\" an eBay spokesman said.\n\nAmazon said: \"All sellers must follow our selling guidelines and those who don't will be subject to action including potential removal of their account. The products in question are no longer available.\"\n\nAliExpress said: \"After we were told by Which? about these third-party listings, we took prompt action to remove them. We will continue to take action against sellers who violate our terms of use.\"", "The biggest and brightest supermoon of 2019 has been observed around the world.\n\nWhen it occurs in February, the phenomenon is sometimes dubbed a 'super snow moon', as the month is often associated with heavy snowfall in Europe and America.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Shamima Begum: \"I got tricked and I was hoping someone would have sympathy with me\"\n\nShamima Begum is not a Bangladeshi citizen and there is \"no question\" of her being allowed into the country, Bangladesh's ministry of foreign affairs has said.\n\nThe UK has stripped the 19-year-old - who fled London to join the Islamic State group - of British citizenship.\n\nSuch a move is only possible if an individual is eligible for citizenship elsewhere.\n\nIt was thought Ms Begum had Bangladeshi citizenship through her mother.\n\nBut the ministry of foreign affairs said the government was \"deeply concerned\" she had been \"erroneously identified\" as a Bangladeshi national.\n\nIn a statement, it said Ms Begum had never applied for dual nationality with Bangladesh and had never visited the country.\n\nIt added that the country had a \"zero tolerance\" approach to terrorism and violent extremism.\n\nMs Begum was a schoolgirl when she left Bethnal Green in 2015, and was found in a Syrian refugee camp last week after reportedly leaving Baghuz - IS's last stronghold.\n\nShe gave birth to a son at the weekend and now wants to return home.\n\nMs Begum's mother is believed to be a Bangladeshi national, and lawyers have told the BBC that under Bangladesh law this means Ms Begum is automatically a citizen of the country as well.\n\nBut Ms Begum told the BBC's Middle East correspondent Quentin Sommerville that she only had \"one citizenship\" and it was wrong for the UK to revoke it without speaking to her first.\n\n\"I wasn't born in Bangladesh, I've never seen Bangladesh and I don't even speak Bengali properly, so how can they claim I have Bangladeshi citizenship,\" she said.\n\nWhile he said he would not comment on individual cases, Home Secretary Sajid Javid has suggested Ms Begum's baby could still be British.\n\nHe told the Commons: \"Children should not suffer. So, if a parent does lose their British citizenship, it does not affect the rights of their child.\"\n\nMr Javid said the power to deprive a person of citizenship was only used \"in extreme circumstances\", for example, \"when someone turns their back on the fundamental values and supports terror\".\n\nAsked about the situation on ITV's Peston, the home secretary said he would not leave an individual \"stateless\".\n\nHe said: \"I'm not going to talk about an individual, but I can be clear on the point that I would not take a decision - and I believe none of my predecessors ever have taken a decision - that at the point the decision is taken would leave that individual stateless.\"\n\nBut shadow home secretary Diane Abbott accused him of breaching the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which states that \"no-one shall be arbitrarily deprived of their nationality\".\n\nShamima Begum left the UK with two school friends, Kadiza Sultana (l) and Amira Abase\n\nMs Begum told the BBC: \"I was hoping Britain would understand I made a mistake, a very big mistake, because I was young and naive.\"\n\nShe said she changed her mind about IS after they imprisoned and tortured her Dutch husband - an armed jihadi.\n\nEscape was impossible, she claimed: \"They'd kill you if you tried.\"\n\nThe lawyer for Ms Begum's family, Tasnime Akunjee, said they were considering \"all legal avenues\" to contest the Home Office decision and that she had effectively been made stateless.\n\nEarlier, Ms Begum told ITV News that she found the Home Office's decision \"heartbreaking\", but she may try for Dutch citizenship via her husband.\n\nHe is a Dutch convert to Islam and is thought to have surrendered to a group of Syrian fighters about two weeks ago.\n\nIslamic State has lost most of the territory it once controlled, but an estimated 300 militants are believed to be left in a tiny pocket of land near Syria's border with Iraq.\n\nUnder the 1981 British Nationality Act, a person can be deprived of their citizenship if the home secretary is satisfied it would be \"conducive to the public good\" and they would not become stateless as a result.\n\nMs Begum has the right to challenge the Home Office's decision either by tribunal or judicial review, said former independent reviewer of terrorism legislation Lord Carlile, but would have to prove the home secretary had acted disproportionately.\n\nHe said it was a \"complex issue\" which \"could run for a very long time through the courts\", and Ms Begum could stay where she is \"for maybe two years at least\".\n\nLord Carlile said her baby may be entitled to British, Dutch and Bangladeshi nationality.\n\nLawyers have told the BBC that under Bangladesh law, a UK national born to a Bangladeshi parent is automatically a Bangladeshi citizen - a dual national - but the Bangladeshi authorities assert that's not the case for Ms Begum.\n\nUnder this \"blood line\" law, Bangladeshi nationality and citizenship lapse when a person reaches the age of 21, unless they make active efforts to retain it.\n\nSo, it is Ms Begum's age, 19, that is likely - in part - to have given Home Office lawyers and the home secretary reassurance there was a legal basis for stripping her of her UK citizenship.\n\nIn 2017, the government lost an appeal case brought by two British citizens of Bangladeshi origin who were stripped of their citizenship when they were abroad.\n\nThe Special Immigration Appeals Commission ruled that E3 and N3 had not tried to retain their citizenship before they reached the age of 21, and so it had automatically lapsed.\n\nThat meant that the decision to strip them of their UK citizenship had rendered them stateless.\n\nMs Begum's case is different. Her Bangladeshi citizenship, if established, would remain intact until she reaches 21, even if she has never visited the country or made active efforts to retain her citizenship.", "The Nest Guard contained a microphone, but Google did not disclose that in the product's specifications\n\nGoogle has acknowledged that it made an error in not disclosing that one of its home alarm products contained a microphone.\n\nProduct specifications for the Nest Guard, available since 2017, had made no mention of the listening device.\n\nBut earlier this month, the firm said a software update would make Nest Guard voice-controlled.\n\nOn Twitter, concerned Nest owners were told the microphone \"has not been used up to this point”.\n\nBusiness Insider was first to report the development.\n\nThe Nest Guard is one component in the Nest Secure range of home security products. The system includes various sensors that can be monitored remotely by the user.\n\nNest Guard is an all-in-one alarm, keypad, and motion sensor but, despite being announced well over a year ago, the word “microphone” was only added to the product’s specification this month.\n\nThe change coincided with the announcement that it was now compatible with Google Assistant.\n\nThe Nest Guard acts as a way to arm and disarm the firm's home security alarm system by use of a code or tap of a key fob\n\nIn response to criticism, Google said on Tuesday: \"The on-device microphone was never intended to be a secret and should have been listed in the tech specs. That was an error on our part.”\n\nIt added: “The microphone has never been on and is only activated when users specifically enable the option.\n\n\"Security systems often use microphones to provide features that rely on sound sensing. We included the mic on the device so that we can potentially offer additional features to our users in the future, such as the ability to detect broken glass.”\n\nThe firm's mea culpa has been accepted as genuine by many company watchers, but some say it still raises significant privacy concerns.\n\n\"This is the kind of thing that makes me paranoid of smart home devices,\" commented Nick Heer, who writes the Pixel Envy blog.\n\n\"If I owned one of these things and found out that the world's biggest advertising company hid a microphone in my home for a year, I'd be livid.\"\n\nUK-based privacy campaign group Big Brother Watch added: \"Many of our worries about smart home devices appear to be proving true... Google should be held to account for wrongly advertising this product.\"\n\nNest Guard went on sale in the US last year as part of Google's Secure alarm system. A European and Canadian release is also planned but has yet to occur.\n\nNest, a company known for its smart thermostat, was acquired by Google in February 2014, for a reported $3.2bn (£2.5bn).\n\nThe acknowledgment comes days after Singapore Airlines faced criticism for installing cameras into the backs of some of its planes' seats as part of a new in-flight entertainment system.\n\nThe company confirmed the cameras' existence on Sunday, but said they had been disabled and added that it had no plans to use them.\n\nDo you have more information about this or any other technology story? You can reach Dave directly and securely through encrypted messaging app Signal on: +1 (628) 400-7370", "Young people in the UK are more likely to die from asthma than those in other wealthy countries, a report has found.\n\nDeath rates for asthma in 10 to 24-year-olds was highest in the UK among all 14 European nations included in an analysis of 19 high-income countries.\n\nThe UK also had the highest obesity rates for 15 to 19-year-olds among the European nations.\n\nThe government said it had \"world-leading plans\" to safeguard child health.\n\nOverall, the report found the UK to be lagging behind other nations across a number of health indicators.\n\nThe study, from the Nuffield Trust think tank and and the Association for Young People's Health, analysed 17 measures of health and wellbeing for 10 to 24-year-olds in countries that included Germany, France and Italy, as well as Japan, the US and Australia.\n\nIt found that while young people in the UK are making some healthier choices, such as drinking less alcohol and smoking less, more are entering adulthood with long-term health conditions.\n\nNearly one in five young people in the UK is estimated to be living with a longstanding health condition, such as type 2 diabetes, the report finds. In England, the figure has gone from 13.5% in 2008 to 18% in 2016.\n\nThe UK was also found to be one of the worst countries for young people to suffer from years lost to ill-health and the burden of their diseases, with only Australia, the US and New Zealand being worse.\n\nChildren and young people in the UK are also far more likely to be obese if they are poor, with the UK having some of the highest inequalities between the richest and poorest when it comes to the proportion that are obese, the study found.\n\nOn poverty among older age groups, the report said: \"Despite living in the world's fifth largest economy, young people aged 20 to 24 in the UK are experiencing one of the highest rates of severe material deprivation among the countries in our international comparison.\n\n\"Reducing poverty among young people is key to improving their health outcomes in the UK.\"\n\nThe report finds young people are smoking less and drinking less alcohol\n\nOverall, the UK sits in the bottom third of countries in nine out of 17 indicators, and in the top third in three.\n\nIn four of the 17 measures, trends have been getting worse, while in five areas previous improvements have stalled.\n\nNigel Edwards, chief executive of the Nuffield Trust, said the study suggested health services in the UK were \"getting something badly wrong\".\n\nHe said: \"I worry this reflects a dangerous complacency.\n\n\"Young people in the UK are entering adulthood with more long-term health conditions and, as a result a poorer quality of life, storing up problems further down the line.\n\n\"If we don't take action now, the next generation will be entering adulthood sicker than the one before it.\"\n\nAsthma UK said it was \"appalling\" that people were more likely to die from asthma in the UK than in other European countries.\n\nThe charity said its research has previously found that millennials - typically those born between the early 1980s and mid-1990s - get the worse asthma care of any age group.\n\nDr Samantha Walker, director of research and policy at Asthma UK, said: \"We are now urging the NHS to move with the times and put technology at the heart of asthma management, helping to engage this tech-savvy generation.\"\n\nEmma Rigby, chief executive at the Association for Young People's Health, said there needed to be a greater understanding of young people's health needs.\n\nResearchers analysed data from the mid-1990s to the last year for which data was comparable with other countries, 2016.\n\nThe 19 countries were: The UK, the Netherlands, Denmark, France, Ireland, Portugal, Greece, Germany, Spain, Austria, Belgium, Finland, Italy, Sweden, Japan, US, New Zealand, Australia, and Canada.\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokeswoman said: \"We have world-leading plans in place to safeguard child health by combating obesity, improving mental health and vaccinating against some of the world's deadliest diseases.\n\n\"Prevention is at the heart of the NHS Long Term Plan, and as part of this we are increasing funding by an average 3.4% per year, meaning that by 2023-24 it will receive £20.5bn a year more than it currently does.\"", "Staff at Reilly's Daybreak in Naul, where the winning ticket was sold, celebrated the family's big win\n\nA family syndicate from Dublin has come forward to claim Tuesday's EuroMillions jackpot, worth more than 175m euros (£152m).\n\nIt is the biggest jackpot claimed by an Irish ticket holder in its history.\n\nThe syndicate is from Naul in north County Dublin, close to the border with County Meath.\n\nA spokesperson for the winners, who is married to one of the syndicate members, said the family is \"very close\".\n\n\"This is unbelievable - it will take us some time to get our heads around this win and to organise ourselves,\" he said.\n\n\"This is a dream come true.\n\n\"We don't want this to change our lives.\n\n\"What is so exciting is that we will be able to share this money with children, grandchildren and extended family members.\"\n\nOne of the syndicate members realised their good fortune when she checked the winning ticket after Tuesday night's draw.\n\nShe said: \"I heard on the RTÉ news that there was a win in Ireland and I caught the last three numbers.\n\n\"I checked the rest of the numbers online.\n\n\"I was numb! It took a bit of convincing everybody that we had won.\"\n\nThe family member put the winning ticket in an Argos catalogue and put it under her mattress for safe keeping.\n\nOn Wednesday, the family deposited the winning ticket for safe keeping with the National Lottery and arrangements are now being made for the prize claim to be paid out in the next few weeks.\n\nThe ticket was bought at Reilly's Daybreak in Naul.\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 Sinéad Hussey 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\nLes Reilly, the owner of the shop, said he dropped the phone after finding out he had sold the winning ticket.\n\n\"I actually got a sick stomach and my legs started to shake.\n\n\"I don't know how the people felt who won it but I was in total shock, just total shock,\" he told BBC News NI.\n\nMr Reilly said the win had whipped up excitement in Naul.\n\n\"I've never seen a buzz or anything like this.\n\n\"The whole village - a small village in a rural county - it's just buzzing, it's just amazing,\" he said.\n\nNational Lottery spokeswoman Miriam Donohoe told the BBC the win \"will be a huge shock to the ticket holder\".\n\nShe said it was the 14th EuroMillions win in Ireland.\n\nThe previous biggest Irish winner was Dolores McNamara from Limerick, who won €115m (£100m) in 2005.\n\nDermot Griffin, the CEO of the National Lottery, said that it has been \"an incredibly lucky period for players on the island of Ireland\".\n\nFrances and Patrick Connolly, who live in Moira, County Down, matched the winning numbers in the New Year's Day draw.\n\nIt was the fourth biggest UK EuroMillions win and the biggest in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe jackpot has been rolling over since the start of January this year, and will see the winner pick up a cheque for €175,475,380.", "Food ordering app Just Eat is to remove all restaurants with a hygiene rating of zero from their platform.\n\nAny new outlet attempting to join Just Eat will also have to be rated at least \"generally satisfactory\" - a three on the five point scale - for hygiene.\n\nIt comes after a BBC investigation found half of outlets rated zero by the Food Standards Agency in Manchester, Bristol and London appeared on the app.\n\nJust Eat said restaurants rated zero would be removed by 1 May.\n\nIn England, Wales, and Northern Ireland a hygiene rating of zero means \"urgent improvement is required\".\n\nIn October, the BBC found one takeaway with a zero rating, featured on Just Eat, had mouse droppings on washing up gloves and dead mice in a pool of grease in the kitchen.\n\nEnvironmental Health took this picture of dead mice at a takeaway in Walthamstow, east London which features on Just Eat\n\nJust Eat says it will be investing £1m to raise food hygiene and safety standards, and will help any restaurant on its platform with a rating of zero, one or two to improve.\n\nIt will fund a one-to-one visit from an expert food safety practitioner, help to draw up an action plan, and offer guidance on how to request a re-inspection.\n\nThe company says outlets that fail to make changes and are still rated zero by 1 May will be kicked off.\n\n\"We know that running a small, independent business is not without its challenges, and food hygiene and safety is a vital area that restaurants need to get right,\" said managing director Graham Corfield.\n\nThe company added that \"the vast majority\" of takeaway restaurants have a good hygiene rating score.\n\nLocal authorities are responsible for inspecting restaurants and takeaways.\n\nIn England, Wales and Northern Ireland outlets are given a rating ranging from zero, for \"in need of urgent improvement\", to five, for \"food hygiene is very good\".\n\nIn Scotland there are just three ratings - Pass, Improvement Required and Exempt Premises (which are given to premises such as newsagents or chemists that are checked but are not predominantly food businesses).\n\nJust Eat will also offer help to those who need improvement in Scotland.\n\nRestaurants in Wales and Northern Ireland must display their rating prominently.\n\nIn England, many outlets choose to do so, particularly if it shows a high score for hygiene, but it is not mandatory.\n\nJust Eat announced in December that it would start to include the official FSA food hygiene rating of each restaurant more prominently on its website and app - something it is now doing in Northern Ireland.\n\nUntil it's rolled out across the UK though, most users must leave the app and look up the rating on the FSA website.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. An investigation by the BBC last year found Just Eat were listing outlets rated zero by the FSA\n\nHeather Hancock, chairman of the FSA, welcomed Just Eat's investment.\n\nShe said: \"The company influences thousands of food businesses and reaches millions of customers.\n\n\"Quite rightly, Just Eat is making clear that food safety and hygiene must be a top priority for all their partner businesses.\"", "The European Commission is investigating alleged anti-competitive practices in the industry\n\nRaids have been carried out at several salmon farming sites in Scotland in connection with an EU-wide probe into alleged illegal cartels.\n\nOfficials visited offices in Shetland, Stirling and Fife amid concerns they may have violated anti-trust rules.\n\nThe European Commission (EC) has said the investigation is at a preliminary stage.\n\nOne of the companies raided, Grieg Seafood, denied wrongdoing and said it would co-operate with the inquiry.\n\nBBC Scotland understands it is principally centred on Norway which is outside the EU.\n\nThe Scottish sites visited have Norwegian links including Marine Harvest - recently rebranded as Mowi - in Rosyth, Scottish Sea Farms in Stirling and Grieg Seafood in Lerwick.\n\nA statement from the EC said: \"The European Commission can confirm that on 19 February 2019 its officials carried out unannounced inspections in several member states at the premises of several companies in the sector of farmed Atlantic salmon.\n\n\"The commission has concerns that the inspected companies may have violated EU anti-trust rules that prohibit cartels and restrictive business practices.\n\n\"The commission officials were accompanied by their counterparts from the relevant national competition authorities.\n\n\"Unannounced inspections are a preliminary investigatory step into suspected anti-competitive practices. The fact that the commission carries out such inspections does not mean that the companies are guilty of anti-competitive behaviour nor does it prejudge the outcome of the investigation itself.\"\n\nSalmon farming has become a significant industry in Scotland\n\nThe Scottish Salmon Producers Organisation said it was aware of the inspections.\n\n\"However, we understand the focus of the investigation is another jurisdiction, not Scotland,\" said a spokesperson.\n\n\"The companies concerned are co-operating fully with the investigatory authorities and all further inquiries should be referred to the EC.\"\n\nOne of the companies, Grieg Seafood, said the industry was very competitive and that it was not aware of any illegal practices.\n\nIt added: \"We have been informed that The European Commission DG (Director General) Competition is exploring potential anti-competitive behaviour in the salmon industry. They have performed an inspection today (Tuesday) at Grieg Seafood Shetland.\n\n\"The salmon market is very competitive and we are not aware of any anti-competitive behaviour. We are fully co-operating with the European Commission DG Competition's investigation.\"\n\nA spokesperson for Scottish Sea Farms said: \"We can confirm that we, like other Norwegian-owned companies in Scotland, have been visited by EC officials and are co-operating fully.\"\n\nMowi, the world's biggest producer of farmed Atlantic salmon, said officials visited two of its businesses, in Scotland and the Netherlands.\n\nA spokeswoman said: \"We have nothing to hide, we are co-operating with the European Commission.\"", "A Liverpool supporter pulled fans from a \"human cascade\" on the terrace at Hillsborough, he has told a court.\n\nFrederick Eccleston said the central pens of the Leppings Lane terrace were \"ram-packed full of people\" while pens to the side were \"half-empty\".\n\nHe told Preston Crown Court he recalled \"pulling people by their arms, their legs, their hair, their cheeks\".\n\nFormer match commander David Duckenfield, 74, denies the gross negligence manslaughter of 95 fans.\n\nMr Eccleston said said he attended the FA Cup semi-final on April 15 1989 with his son and a family friend and watched the match from a corner overlooking the Leppings Lane end.\n\nThe former nursing manager said that when the match was stopped he went on to the pitch to help and joined a police officer pulling fans from the central pens.\n\nHe said: \"We both were pulling people out of that human cascade, it was like a waterfall with people tumbling on each other.\"\n\nHe told the court he had attended the stadium for Liverpool's 1988 semi-final, but on that occasion the tunnel to the central pens had been blocked off.\n\n\"There were a number of police officers and stewards standing together, they said 'no, this is full, these pens are full, you can't come down here', those were more or less their words,\" he told the court.\n\nThe court also heard from former police constable Fiona Nicol, who was stationed on the perimeter track in front of the Leppings Lane terrace.\n\nAsked for her impression of former chief superintendent Mr Duckenfield, she said: \"I did believe him to be 'what he said went', and if he told us what was going to happen and that's how he wanted it to go, that's the way we were supposed to do it.\"\n\nShe told the court he had visited her and colleagues at Hammerton Road police station just weeks before the disaster and \"basically told us he was here to sort it out and make us toe the line\".\n\nThe court heard that officers stationed in front of the terrace were told no-one was allowed access to the pitch perimeter track from the pens without consent of a senior officer, except to receive medical aid.\n\nBut Ms Nicol said she opened the gate to pen three to allow fans to leave and enter a side pen after a man with a group of boy scouts asked if they could move.\n\nShe said: \"I was frightened about opening the gate because I knew I wasn't meant to but I also could see these children were clearly upset and I thought I could walk with them back down to pen one and it wouldn't cause too much of a problem.\"\n\nThe people who lost their lives in the Hillsborough disaster\n\nEarlier, former police inspector Robert McRobbie told the court he could recall no orders after Mr Duckenfield authorised a gate to be opened.\n\nMr McRobbie, who was observing the operation in the ground's police control box, said Mr Duckenfield twice refused requests from an officer to open a gate to relieve a crush outside the ground before agreeing to a final \"frantic\" appeal.\n\nPart of the prosecution case against Mr Duckenfield, of Ferndown, Dorset, is that he gave no thought to what would happen when people flooded through the gate and were drawn down a tunnel to pens that were already packed with spectators.\n\nHe is on trial alongside Sheffield Wednesday's ex-club secretary Graham Mackrell, 69, who denies a charge relating to the stadium's safety certificate and a health and safety charge.\n\nUnder cross-examination by Mr Duckenfield's defence barrister, Ben Myers QC, Mr McRobbie agreed that in a statement he made in 2014 he said he was impressed with the standard of attention to detail from Mr Duckenfield when he briefed police at Hillsborough on the morning of the match.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Blink and you'll miss it... the rat was painted on a wall beneath a shop sign a decade ago, it is claimed\n\nA sheet of protective plastic has been placed over graffiti showing a rat holding a cigarette as council officials determine if it could be a work by artist Banksy.\n\nLlanelli mayor David Darkin has sent images to the art dealer who bought Banksy's design Season's Greetings, painted on a garage in Port Talbot.\n\n\"It's better to have it protected in case it is a Banksy,\" said the mayor.\n\nThe graffiti on a charity shop wall is said to have been painted a decade ago.\n\nEssex-based gallery owner John Brandler, who paid a six-figure sum for the artwork in Port Talbot, said the Llanelli rat could be authentic and he planned to visit soon to judge for himself.\n\nHe based his opinion on the photographs he had seen, and the claim that the graffiti was said to be at least a decade old, which is when \"Banksy rats\" appeared in industrial towns.\n\n\"I'm happy to go with 50-50 for now that it's a Banksy,\" Mr Brandler said.\n\nLlanelli artist and photographer Roz Moreton, 53, is more convinced. She said she recognised the work when she moved back to the area a decade ago.\n\n\"I studied in Bristol and lived in London and I've been exposed to a lot of Banksy including his rats on Westminster Bridge,\" she said.\n\n\"So I knew right away when I saw the Llanelli rat. I didn't tell anybody because I wanted to be able to come back and see it.\"\n\nMs Moreton said she revealed her suspicions to the town council after hearing reports that vandals had tried to steal pieces from the Banksy in Port Talbot.\n\nAbout 20,000 people are thought to have visited that artwork over Christmas.\n\nCommunity leaders in Llanelli are hopeful their rat could also prove popular.\n\nMr Darkin said: \"The hope is that if it is a Banksy it will bring much needed visitors to Llanelli and the town centre.\"\n\nCouncillor John Jenkins, who represents Llanelli Centre, said: \"Fingers crossed it is a Banksy, but worst-case scenario it isn't and is still a talking point and people still come and see him.\"", "Huawei has said it is independent and gives nothing to Beijing, aside from taxes\n\nThe UK is vulnerable to Chinese influence and interference, according to a defence and security think tank.\n\nA report from the Royal United Services Institute (Rusi) said it would be \"naive\" and \"irresponsible\" to allow Chinese tech giant Huawei to access the UK's telecommunications system.\n\nThe UK is currently reviewing whether to allow the company to build new 5G phone networks.\n\nA spokesperson for the Chinese embassy said the claims were \"scaremongering\".\n\nThe report, written by Charles Parton, a former British diplomat who spent most of his 30 year career working on China, said that if Huawei was allowed to participate in the rollout of the new 5G mobile networks it could install a \"hidden backdoor\", giving the Chinese government access to the system.\n\nIt also warned of the risk of interference in other areas including academia, politics and technology.\n\nWhile there has been \"widespread debate\" about Chinese interference in countries such as the US and Australia, Mr Parton told the BBC that the UK's response had been characterised by \"silence\".\n\n\"We need it out in the open,\" he said.\n\nThe report describes how the Chinese Communist Party has tried to place its people as advisers to Western politicians.\n\nIt also highlights what it calls \"elite capture\" - the appointment of former politicians, civil servants and businessmen to lucrative jobs after they leave office in which they promote Chinese interests.\n\nMr Parton admitted that distinguishing between legitimate and illegitimate interference was a challenge. \"It's a spectrum,\" he said.\n\nWhile Russia seeks simply to disrupt, China, he said, primarily seeks to maintain the legitimacy of Communist Party rule in the country and limit dissent against it, as well as build support for its policies overseas.\n\n\"In many fields of interference what lies behind it is Chinese funding and that creates dependencies and either the overt threat or perhaps even just the fear that funding would be jeopardised,\" Mr Parton said.\n\nHe argued this can lead to self-censorship, for instance in academia.\n\nTheresa May held trade talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping on a visit to Beijing last year\n\nProf Steve Tsang, director of the Soas China Institute at the University of London, told the BBC he was aware of cases of Chinese pressure on other UK universities.\n\n\"In one Russell Group University a pro-vice chancellor was spoken to by someone in the Chinese embassy and as a result he stood a speaker who was already invited down,\" Prof Tsang said.\n\n\"I am also aware of a vice-chancellor again under pressure from the Chinese embassy asking one of his senior academics not to make political comments on China at a specified period of time.\"\n\nProf Tsang said it was hard to know how widespread the problem is since academics are cautious about speaking out.\n\nMr Parton argued there needs to be more transparency about Chinese influence and especially funding when it comes to universities, think tanks and public life.\n\nA spokeswoman for the Chinese embassy told the BBC the report's claims of interference were \"groundless\".\n\nShe said that in recent years, the China-UK \"Golden Era\" had yielded fruitful results including more Chinese investment in the UK in the past five years than the previous 30.\n\n\"Staying open and inclusive is key to maintaining UK's global influence,\" the spokeswoman said.\n\n\"China is willing to work with an open UK to deliver more benefits to the peoples of both countries and of the whole world.\"\n\nThere has been a shift in recent years in the UK's posture towards China, according to former national security officials.\n\nUnder the then-Prime Minister David Cameron - who now works part-time for a China investment fund - and his Chancellor George Osborne, economics tended to trump security and values, whereas under Theresa May, the balance has shifted back towards security.\n\nChina itself is also evolving under President Xi Jinping, with the potential for greater divergence over values.\n\nAnd under Donald Trump, the US-China dispute has raised the temperature, with Washington also putting pressure on allies over the role Huawei in their infrastructure.\n\nThe imminent approach of Brexit potentially complicates the issue since it could lead to the UK looking towards China more for trade and investment.\n\nBut Mr Parton argued there was no reason relations cannot still be strong if they are based on clarity of the boundaries of what constitutes unacceptable interference.\n\n\"We need to be mature about our relationship,\" Mr Parton said.\n\n\"In this whole Chinese Communist Party interference debate let's not lose sight of the fact that it is very much in our interest to build up good relations with China - just realistic ones.\"", "A British man flew from the Czech Republic to Newcastle on the wrong passport after accidentally taking his friend's and leaving him stranded.\n\nAllan Poole, 43, from Whitley Bay, travelled from Prague to Newcastle via Amsterdam on a KLM flight.\n\nThe passport was checked at least four times during the journey, but the mistake was not picked up.\n\nKLM described the incident as \"undesirable\", but stressed no passengers or crew were ever at risk.\n\nMr Poole's friend, Steve Vincent, 43, also from Whitley Bay, is now getting help from UK officials to get home.\n\nIt has emerged that Border control agents who checked Mr Poole's passport when leaving the Schengen area at Schiphol airport, Amsterdam, and UK immigration officials who checked it when he arrived in Newcastle did not identify the mistake.\n\nKLM staff at the boarding gate in Amsterdam also did not notice the name on his boarding card did not match the passport.\n\nMr Vincent tweeted KLM asking, \"Hey KLM you let my friend travel from Prague to Newcastle on my passport (after we swapped by mistake).\n\n\"You shouldn't have let him on the plane. I'm trapped in Prague. What are you going to do about it?\"\n\nIn a statement, the airline described the incident as \"undesirable\".\n\nIt added: \"One of the passengers flew from Prague to Newcastle via Amsterdam, without it being noticed at the various airports that he was travelling on someone else's passport.\n\n\"KLM works with competent authorities to ensure that the aircraft, passengers and crew are safe and secure during flight.\n\n\"Although this is an undesirable, but exceptional situation, the passenger went through all security checks. The safety of passengers and crew has never been compromised.\"\n\nA spokesman for the Royal Netherlands Marechaussee, which is responsible for border checks at Schiphol Airport, said: \"When mistakes do happen, we are committed to acknowledging them and putting things right for the future.\"\n\nA spokesman for the British Embassy in Prague said it was not unusual for people to travel on other people's passports.\n\nHe said: \"People do travel on (the wrong passport), they don't get checked when they come out and stuff like that.\n\n\"It's quite common actually, to be honest with you, people do travel on other people's passports accidentally, it does happen.\n\n\"Border controls sometimes don't look, I don't know for what reason.\"\n\nMr Poole said no-one noticed he was travelling on the wrong passport and he only realised himself when he got back to the UK.\n\nThe British Embassy spokesman said staff would assist Mr Vincent in obtaining an emergency travel document.", "MPs Anna Soubry, Sarah Wollaston and Heidi Allen have written to the prime minister to resign from the Conservative Party. Here is their letter.\n\nIt is with regret that we are writing to resign the Conservative whip and our membership of the Party.\n\nWe voted for you as Leader and Prime Minister because we believed you were committed to a moderate, open-hearted Conservative Party in the One Nation tradition. A party of economic competence, representing the best of British business, delivering good jobs, opportunity and prosperity for all, funding world class public services and tackling inequalities. We had hoped you would also continue to modernise our party so that it could reach out and broaden its appeal to younger voters and to embrace and reflect the diversity of the communities we seek to represent.\n\nSadly, the Conservative Party has increasingly abandoned these principles and values with a shift to the right of British Politics. We no longer feel we can remain in the Party of a Government whose policies and priorities are so firmly in the grip of the ERG and DUP.\n\nBrexit has re-defined the Conservative Party - undoing all the efforts to modernise it. There has been a dismal failure to stand up to the hard line ERG which operates openly as a party within a party, with its own leader, whip and policy.\n\nThis shift to the right has been exacerbated by blatant entryism. Not only has this been tolerated, it has been actively welcomed in some quarters. A purple momentum is subsuming the Conservative Party, much as the hard left has been allowed to consume and terminally undermine the Labour Party.\n\nWe have tried consistently and for some time to keep the Party close to the centre ground of British Politics. You assured us when you first sought the leadership that this was your intention. We haven't changed, the Conservative Party has and it no longer reflects the values and beliefs we share with millions of people throughout the United Kingdom.\n\nThe final straw for us has been this Government's disastrous handling of Brexit.\n\nFollowing the EU referendum of 2016, no genuine effort was made to build a cross party, let alone a national consensus to deliver Brexit. Instead of seeking to heal the divisions or to tackle the underlying causes of Brexit, the priority was to draw up \"red lines\". The 48% were not only sidelined, they were alienated.\n\nWe find it unconscionable that a Party once trusted on the economy, more than any other, is now recklessly marching the country to the cliff edge of no deal. No responsible government should knowingly and deliberately inflict the dire consequences of such a destructive exit on individuals, communities and businesses and put at risk the prospect of ending austerity.\n\nWe also reject the false binary choice that you have presented to Parliament between a bad deal and no deal. Running down the clock to March 20 amounts to a policy of no deal and we are not prepared to wait until our toes are at the edge of the cliff.\n\nWe can no longer act as bystanders.\n\nWe intend to sit as independents alongside The Independent Group of MPs in the centre ground of British politics. There will be times when we will support the Government, for example, on measures to strengthen our economy, security and improve our public services. But we now feel honour bound to put our constituents' and country's interests first.\n\nWe would like to thank all those who have supported us and worked alongside us within our constituencies over many years. We genuinely wish our many friends and colleagues within the Party well, indeed we know many of them share our concerns.\n\nWe will continue to work constructively, locally and nationally, on behalf of our constituents.\n\nHowever, the country deserves better. We believe there is a failure of politics in general, not just in the Conservative Party but in both main parties as they\n\nmove to the fringes, leaving millions of people with no representation. Our politics needs urgent and radical reform and we are determined to play our part.", "Power was lost at about 19:30 GMT\n\nA hospital asked people not to visit its emergency department while it was struck by a power cut for several hours.\n\nThe Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother Hospital, in Margate, Kent, lost power at about 19:30 GMT.\n\nIt said patients were moved to other departments and fire crews assisted with emergency lighting before power was restored shortly before 23:00.\n\nAmbulances were also diverted to the William Harvey Hospital in Ashford.\n\nIn a statement, East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust said the hospital was \"now operating as normal\".\n\nEarlier, the hospital asked people not to attended its emergency department, which was in the area affected by the power cut.\n\nA spokesperson had said \"contingency plans\" were in place \"to keep patients safe until power is restored\".\n\nKent Fire and Rescue Service said it sent four fire engines to \"assist with emergency lighting\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Martina Navratilova has been a longstanding campaigner for gay rights\n\nA US-based organisation that campaigns for LGBT sportspeople has cut its links with tennis legend Martina Navratilova over comments she made about male-to-female transgender athletes.\n\nThe 18-time Grand Slam champion wrote it was \"cheating\" to allow transgender women to compete in women's sport as they had unfair physical advantages.\n\nAthlete Ally said the remarks were transphobic and perpetuated myths.\n\nIt said it had sacked the star from its advisory board and as an ambassador.\n\nIn an article for the British newspaper The Sunday Times, Navratilova wrote: \"A man can decide to be female, take hormones if required by whatever sporting organisation is concerned, win everything in sight and perhaps earn a small fortune, and then reverse his decision and go back to making babies if he so desires.\"\n\nShe added: \"It's insane and it's cheating. I am happy to address a transgender woman in whatever form she prefers, but I would not be happy to compete against her. It would not be fair.\"\n\nTrans sportswomen quickly hit back. Rachel McKinnon, who last year became the first transgender woman to win a world track cycling title, called the comments \"disturbing, upsetting and deeply transphobic\".\n\nIn its statement, Athlete Ally said Navratilova's comments were \"transphobic, based on a false understanding of science and data, and perpetuate dangerous myths that lead to the ongoing targeting of trans people through discriminatory laws, hateful stereotypes and disproportionate violence\".\n\nIt added: \"This is not the first time we have approached Martina on this topic. In late December, she made deeply troubling comments across her social media channels about the ability for trans athletes to compete in sport. We reached out directly offering to be a resource as she sought further education, and we never heard back.\"\n\nAthlete Ally said Navratilova joined as an ambassador and was honoured with an Action Award at the group's first annual gala in 2014.\n\nShe has since taken part in advocacy campaigns including signing an open letter calling on the International Basketball Federation (Fiba) to overturn its ban on the hijab and an open letter speaking out against an anti-trans bill in Texas in 2017.\n\nThe group said the former champion had not yet responded to its decision to drop her.\n\nNavratilova has been a longstanding campaigner for gay rights and suffered abuse when she came out as gay in the 1980s.\n\nUnder guidelines introduced in 2016, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) allows athletes transitioning from female to male to participate without restrictions.\n\nMale to female competitors, however, are required to have kept their levels of testosterone - a hormone that increases muscle mass - below a certain level for at least 12 months.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: First look at the Galaxy Fold and S10 models\n\nSamsung has unveiled a foldable smartphone - the Galaxy Fold - alongside a 5G Galaxy S10 handset and three other Galaxy S10 mobiles.\n\nThe Fold will go on sale in just over two months time, earlier than many expected.\n\nThe Galaxy S10 5G features the firm's biggest-ever non-folding phone display and promises faster data speeds when networks become available.\n\nThe S10 line-up also includes the introduction of a lower-cost model.\n\nSamsung had previously acknowledged that the cost of its S9 range had contributed to \"lower-than-expected sales\".\n\nSamsung said the Galaxy Fold would open up to create a 7.3in (18.5cm) tablet-like display and would be able to run up to three apps at once.\n\nA demo showed off \"app continuity\" features by which the device transferred from one mode to another much more smoothly than had been the case with an earlier foldable phone - Royole's FlexPai.\n\nOne example involved a Google Maps screen appearing on the Fold's smaller front display and then expanding to a larger view when the handset was opened following a one-second pause.\n\nSamsung added that Whatsapp, Facebook, YouTube and Microsoft Office would also be optimised to suit the new form-factor.\n\nIt said that it had designed a new type of hidden hinge system that would withstand hundreds of thousands of folds and unfolds, and contained a battery on each side to extend its runtime.\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 Bryan Ma This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn addition, the South Korean firm said the phone contained six cameras - three on the back, two on the inside and one on the front - to ensure it could take photos however it is held.\n\nA 4G version of the Galaxy Fold is set to go on sale on April 26 and will start at $1,980 (£1,515). A more expensive 5G edition was also promised.\n\nSamsung described it as being a \"luxury\" item.\n\n\"Fold is an experience that gives people who want a phone but also a larger screen with no compromise on the phone experience,\" commented Carolina Milanesi from the consultancy Creative Strategies.\n\n\"There's a lot of tech packed in there. And it makes sense to have kept it under $2,000 even if only for the psychological effect that has.\"\n\nThe phone comes in four colours\n\nBut another market watcher still had doubts.\n\n\"In theory, foldables are hugely attractive: they pack a giant screen into a small design,\" commented Neil Mawston from the research firm Strategy Analytics.\n\n\"But in reality, consumers don't know exactly how they will work, and the applications for them are still fairly immature.\n\n\"You can look back at history at the dual-screen folder phones that ZTE and NEC and others release. They haven't sold particularly well mostly due to price and lack of distribution.\n\n\"So, there's good potential, but still a lot of uncertainty.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Samsung shows off how its foldable phone works\n\nIn the short demonstration we saw today, Samsung's use case of watching entertainment, playing games and app multi-tasking will make a lot of sense for a lot of people. This is a tremendously creative feat of engineering. Folding screens seem like a good idea.\n\nWhat won't work, however, is the price. I've been at many launch events like this, and normally the worst case scenario for the firms putting on the show is a lack of applause when the price is announced. Today we saw something worse - loud grumbles, even some laughter. $1,980? Simply too much.\n\nAlso, I wonder about some other aspects of this phone we can't judge yet as we haven't had a chance to hold it. When Samsung's head of mobile placed it into his suit pocket on stage, it landed with all the grace of a cartoon anvil.\n\nSo: possibly heavy, with two likely-hot batteries, and a huge price tag.\n\nCreative, sure? Practical? For me, Samsung has fallen short - but the effort should excite gadget fans who have been longing for something different for so long. I suspect this device will have people flocking to stores to see it up close, if not to actually purchase it.\n\nThe S10 series is likely to remain Samsung's focus when it comes to sales for the foreseeable future.\n\nThe S10 and S10+ will cost more than the phones they supersede - beginning at £799 and £899 respectively when they go on sale on 8 March.\n\nBut the S10e means the Galaxy S range now starts at a lower price-point - £669 - albeit with lower specifications to match.\n\nThe S10 5G is yet to be priced and only has a vague \"summer\" release planned.\n\nThe S10 family comes in four different sizes, each with a choice of different storage\n\n\"Having a 5G variant is strategically important for Samsung as it gives them the jump on Apple and helps maintain the firm's brand strength and perceived technology leadership,\" commented Ben Wood, from the CCS Insight consultancy.\n\n\"It also gives the operators a tier-one brand for their 5G launches.\n\n\"But as far as consumers are concerned, unless you have a very good reason to buy a 5G phone this summer, one of the other three S10 handsets is probably a better investment, and will be viable for use for many years.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe launch comes days before Mobile World Congress in Barcelona - a trade event where Samsung's rivals will unveil new handsets of their own.\n\nThe overall smartphone market shrank in 2018, but Samsung's sales saw a particularly pronounced drop-off as Huawei and other Chinese manufacturers wooed away customers.\n\nAll four versions of the S10 are distinguished from last year's models by embedding the front cameras within their displays.\n\nThe phone's selfie camera is surrounded by its screen\n\nSamsung refers to this as being the Infinity O design, but it is more commonly referred to as the \"hole punch\".\n\nThe move allows the phones to feature a thinner top bezel without having the kind of \"notch\" found on many rivals.\n\nIt has, however, caused the firm to ditch the eye iris-scanner introduced in the S8.\n\nSamsung says a new ultrasonic fingerprint sensor placed under the screens of the three higher-end phones offers close to the same level of security, and is more convenient to use than a scanner formerly placed on phone backs.\n\nA graphic symbol tells users where they need to press to provide a fingerprint\n\nIt is based on a technology unveiled by Qualcomm in 2015.\n\nAll versions of the handset feature wireless charging and introduce the ability to wirelessly charge other compatible devices in turn.\n\nThis mirrors a feature first offered by Huawei's Mate 20.\n\nSamsung demoed the facility at a dual London and San Francisco launch as a way to recharge a new pair of Bluetooth headphones without having to use a separate cable or power mat.\n\nThe phone can be used to send power to the Galaxy Buds' charging case\n\nAll four devices now feature a 10 megapixel selfie camera and introduce a 16MP \"ultra-wide\" rear version, which offers a slightly larger field-of-view than our eyes.\n\nThe S10+ also has a second selfie camera to help it take depth readings.\n\nIn addition, the S10+ and S10 5G now offer up to one terabyte of internal storage, which the firm says could appeal to those shooting lots of 4K video or storing many game files.\n\nThe S10 phones can tell when they are taking photos of a shoe and will adjust the image to suit\n\n\"What's positive is that Samsung has moved away from software that nobody wants - like AR emojis and Samsung Cloud - and has gone back to its roots to deliver market-leading hardware,\" commented Ben Stanton, from market analysis firm Canalys.\n\n\"So for the premium part of the market, these are good phones.\n\n\"But my concern is that [they are still] not innovative enough to stop people from looking down to lower-price bands and being drawn into mid-range products from Chinese companies that are super-competitive.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by George Jijiashvili This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe introduction of a lower price tier may help address this.\n\nBut trade-offs for picking the S10e include:\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 4 by Stuart Miles 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\nBy contrast, the S10 5G benefits from several exclusive features:\n\nThe S10 5G features three photo cameras and a 3D depth sensor on its rear\n\n\"The phone had to be larger to feature a bigger battery because 5G [data transfers] will drain it much faster,\" commented Mr Stanton.\n\n\"But it was also smart to offer a large screen.\n\n\"The use cases for 5G aren't yet defined, but one potential is to stream 4K video rather than HD. And having a bigger screen makes that more compelling.\"\n\nThe original S-series handset was released days ahead of Apple's iPhone 4, and had a bigger 4in screen and microSD card slot in its favour.\n\nAt that point, its main Android rival was the HTC Desire, and although Samsung's device was lighter, thinner, and had a more powerful graphics processor, some reviewers said it felt less \"premium\" in the hand than its competitor.\n\nThe second-generation device saw its display grow to 4.3in, its rear camera increase in resolution to 8MP, and its processor move over to a dual-core design.\n\nIt was praised for allowing owners to unlock it by pressing the home key, rather than having to press a button on top as before. And although some griped that it still felt plasticky, it sold in its millions - helping Samsung overtake Nokia as the world's bestselling mobile phone-maker.\n\nThe third-generation model established a trend of including a bigger display but compensating for the growth by shrinking the size of the bezels.\n\nIts innovations included the ability to detect when the screen was being looked at, so as to avoid dimming the image. And it introduced S Voice, allowing users to command music to play and photos to be taken by speaking to it.\n\nSamsung added further touchless controls to the S4, letting owners scroll through text by making eye movements, and accept calls with a hand wave.\n\nA dual-camera feature also created photos that blended together the views from the front and rear lenses.\n\nSome critics found this all to be a bit gimmicky, and although the handset was a hit, there were reports that its sales fell short of Samsung's expectations.\n\nThe S5 added a fingerprint scanner, which could be used to authenticate purchases via PayPal.\n\nIt also introduced a black-and-white mode to help save battery life. But predictions that the firm would ditch Android for its in-house operating system Tizen proved to be inaccurate.\n\nThe S-series split in two in 2015 with a premium-priced Edge version offering a screen that curved round one of its sides.\n\nA metal frame and glass back gave the handsets a more luxury feel, but they ditched water resistance and a microSD slot to make this possible.\n\nThe seventh-generation phones looked pretty similar to their predecessors, but restored the ability to dunk them in water and slot in extra storage.\n\nOther improvements centred on the camera with better low-light and autofocus capabilities.\n\nThe S8 and larger S8+ ditched the home button, took Samsung's logo off the front and added the virtual assistant Bixby.\n\nThey also gained an iris scanner, which was billed as \"one of the safest ways\" to keep data private.\n\nAfter scandals involving exploding Note 7s and the arrest of the firm's vice-chairman, the launch helped return the firm to surer footing.\n\nThe S9 and S9+ gained new camera features including a super-slow-motion video mode and a variable aperture - allowing owners to control how much light reached the sensor.\n\nAR emojis also allowed users to create animated cartoon characters that looked like them.\n\nBut sales were lacklustre, and several months after it was unveiled Samsung acknowledged there had been \"resistance\" to its price.\n\nCameras that poke out of the screen and four distinct models mark out the latest generation.\n\nBut there are signs Samsung's smartphone dominance is slipping...", "Sainsbury's shares have dived 15% after the UK's competition watchdog cast doubt on its plan to buy Asda.\n\nCustomers could see higher prices and less choice if the two grocers combined, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said.\n\nIt said it could block the deal or force the sale of a large number of stores or even one of the brand names.\n\nHowever, it also said it was \"likely to be difficult\" for the chains to \"address the concerns\".\n\nSainsbury's boss said the findings were \"outrageous\".\n\nIn its provisional report on the proposed merger, the CMA also said the merger could lead to a \"poorer shopping experience\".\n\nStuart McIntosh, chair of the CMA's independent inquiry group, said it had found \"very significant competition concerns in a number of areas - they are to do with grocery shopping in supermarkets, grocery shopping online and the companies' petrol stations\".\n\n\"However, if one recognises that the competition concerns are quite broadly based... putting together a package of measures which addresses those concerns is likely to be complex and quite challenging,\" he said.\n\nBut Sainsbury's chief executive Mike Coupe described the CMA's analysis as \"fundamentally flawed\" and said the firm would be making \"very strong representations\" to it about its \"inaccuracy and lack of objectivity\".\n\n\"They have fundamentally moved the goalposts, changed the shape of the ball and chosen a different playing field,\" he told the BBC.\n\nSupermarket bosses know that British competition regulators have always had a strong interest in the grocery market. There has been a string of inquiries over the last two decades, both into individual deals and the bigger question of how well the market serves consumer interests.\n\nSo Sainsbury's board members would have been nervous when they proposed a takeover of Asda last year - but they did at least have the encouragement that the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) had approved a tie-up between Tesco and Booker just a few months earlier.\n\nUnfortunately for them, the light at the end of the tunnel turned out to be an oncoming train.\n\nThe regulator has crushed Sainsbury's plans. There is no veto, but the strong language used, and the breadth of the problems found, suggest there is no way back.\n\nThe firms will have a chance to respond to the CMA's provisional findings, before it publishes its final decision on 30 April.\n\nThe watchdog said it had identified two potential remedies to the loss of competition: either blocking the merger entirely or forcing the sale of \"assets and operations\", including stores or even the Sainsbury's or Asda brands.\n\nHowever, it added that it \"currently considers that there is a significant risk that a divestiture will not be effective in this particular case\".\n\nThe two chains would need to sell \"sufficient assets and operations to enable any purchaser to compete effectively as a national in-store grocery retailer\".\n\nIt added that it may not be possible to achieve an effective solution to the loss of competition \"without also divesting one or other of the Asda or Sainsbury's brands, in addition to physical assets and operations\".\n\nThe deal would create the UK's biggest supermarket chain, a business accounting for £1 in every £3 spent on groceries, with a 31.4% market share and 2,800 stores.\n\nThe CMA's Mr McIntosh said: \"We have provisionally found that, should the two merge, shoppers could face higher prices, reduced quality and choice, and a poorer overall shopping experience across the UK.\n\n\"We also have concerns that prices could rise at a large number of their petrol stations.\"\n\nHowever, in a joint statement, Sainsbury's and Asda said combining the two chains would create \"significant cost savings, which would allow us to lower prices\".\n\n\"Despite the savings being independently reviewed by two separate industry specialists, the CMA has chosen to discount them as benefits.\"\n\nHargreaves Lansdown senior analyst Laith Khalaf said the CMA had \"basically kicked the Sainsbury-Asda merger into touch\".\n\n\"While the regulator left the door open for the supermarkets to sell off assets to complete the deal, it's clearly not keen on that solution.\n\nSainsbury's and Asda would also have to find a suitable buyer for the assets on sale, one who is big enough to provide proper competition in the eyes of the regulator, he added.\n\nPatrick O'Brien, UK retail research director for GlobalData, said the CMA's provisional findings had \"devastated any prospect of the merger going ahead\".\n\n\"The CMA has raised concerns about the tie-up in just about every conceivable way - on national and local grounds, on store and online competition concerns and on major stores, convenience stores and petrol stations.\"", "Ms Ryan was chair of the Labour Friends of Israel group\n\nJoan Ryan has become the eighth Labour MP to quit the party in the past 48 hours, citing its tolerance of a \"culture of anti-Jewish racism\".\n\nThe Enfield North MP said she was \"horrified, appalled and angered\" by Labour's failure to tackle anti-Semitism, saying its leadership allowed \"Jews to be abused with impunity\".\n\nMs Ryan said she did not believe Jeremy Corbyn was fit to lead the country.\n\nSeven other MPs quit on Monday to form the Independent Group in Parliament.\n\nThere is mounting speculation that a number of Conservative MPs disillusioned with the government's policy on Brexit could join forces with them.\n\nOne source has told the BBC's assistant political editor, Norman Smith, to \"be on standby mode\".\n\nBBC Newsnight's political editor Nick Watt said Conservative whips were reporting three MPs - Sarah Wollaston, Heidi Allen and Anna Soubry - had gone \"very, very silent\".\n\nWhile the Independent Group are not confirming anything, he said he had been told by one member that Wednesday would be a \"very busy day\".\n\nAnnouncing her decision on Twitter, Ms Ryan said she would continue to represent the north London seat in Parliament.\n\nOn Tuesday, she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that she would not trigger a by-election in her constituency, as she won her seat in 2017 \"in spite of [Mr Corbyn], not because of him\".\n\n\"I didn't win my seat on his coat tails,\" she added.\n\nMs Ryan, who served as a minister under Tony Blair, follows Chuka Umunna, Mike Gapes, Luciana Berger, Ann Coffey, Angela Smith, Gavin Shuker and Chris Leslie in quitting the party.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Corbyn: \"I regret that seven MPs decided they would no longer remain part of the Labour Party\"\n\nIn her resignation statement, she said Mr Corbyn and the \"Stalinist clique which surrounds him\" was not providing real opposition at a moment of crisis for the country.\n\nInstead, she said the leadership was focused on \"purging their perceived ideological enemies within and obsessing over issues of little interest to British people\".\n\nMs Ryan, chair of the Friends of Israel group, repeated Ms Berger's claim that the party had become \"institutionally anti-Semitic\", suggesting that under Mr Corbyn's leadership Israel had been \"singled out for demonisation and de-legitimisation\".\n\n\"The Labour Party under Jeremy Corbyn has become infected with the scourge of anti-Jewish racism. The problem simply did not exist in the party before his election as leader.\n\n\"No previous Labour leader would have allowed this huge shame to befall the party. I have been horrified, appalled and angered to see the Labour leader's dereliction of duty in the face of this evil.\"\n\nMs Ryan lost a non-binding confidence vote of her party members in September which she blamed on \"Trots, Stalinists, Communists and the assorted hard left\".\n\nConservative MP Phillip Lee told BBC Radio Berkshire he had considered leaving his party.\n\nHe said: \"I do feel like my party is drifting from beneath me. There is this danger of some form of 'Ukip-lite' party developing… and I don't remember a vote of the parliamentary party to become the Brexit Party.\n\n\"So yes, I'd be lying…if I hadn't considered all these things. But my own firm belief is…the Conservative Party has always been a broad church. I'm going to stand and fight until it ceases to be so.\"\n\nMembers of the Independent Group, who have cited what they say is a culture of bullying in the party and Labour's stance on Brexit for quitting, welcomed Ms Ryan's decision to join them.\n\nMr Shuker, the MP for Luton South, tweeted that the group was \"building something powerful together\".\n\nThe seven have said their grouping could be the basis for a new political party and have urged like-minded MPs from other parties to join them.\n\nMr Corbyn has said he wants to \"take MPs with him\" but insisted that the direction he has taken the party in since 2015 is hugely popular within the country.\n\nChris Williamson, the MP for Derby North, said he was \"not entirely surprised\" by Ms Ryan's exit.\n\n\"She was probably facing a de-selection in any event,\" he told BBC's Newsnight.\n\nHe said he had never known Labour to be \"more united\" than it was now and it was \"regrettable that a minority of MPs\" were out of step with the popular mood in the country.\n\nThe embryonic Independent Group of MPs has no leader but has set out its principles\n\nLabour has suggested MPs who change political allegiance have a duty to seek a fresh mandate from their constituents.\n\nThe party is considering giving voters the power to force MPs who switch parties between general elections to face by-elections by strengthening the existing recall laws.\n\nIn a statement released before the news of Ms Ryan's exit, shadow Cabinet minister Jon Trickett said voters should not have to wait years to hold to account MPs who they believe are not \"properly representing their interests\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"We're going to win\": Bernie Sanders on what's different this time\n\nUS Senator Bernie Sanders says he will run again for president in 2020, making a second attempt to win the Democratic Party's nomination.\n\nThe 77-year-old Vermont senator became a progressive political star in 2016 although he lost his candidacy bid.\n\nHis campaign says it raised $1m (£777,000) within three and half hours of launching.\n\nAn outspoken critic of President Donald Trump, Mr Sanders has described him as a \"pathological liar\" and \"racist\".\n\nMr Sanders - an independent who caucuses with the Democrats - is one of the best-known names to join a crowded and diverse field of Democratic candidates, and early polls suggest he is far ahead.\n\nHis calls for universal government-provided healthcare, a $15 national minimum wage and free college education electrified young voters, raised millions of dollars in small donations and are now pillars of the party's left wing.\n\nMr Sanders, who lost the 2016 Democratic primary to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, said in his email: \"Three years ago, when we talked about these and other ideas, we were told that they were 'radical' and 'extreme'.\n\n\"Together, you and I and our 2016 campaign began the political revolution. Now, it is time to complete that revolution and implement the vision that we fought for.\"\n\nMr Trump, speaking to White House reporters on Tuesday, wished Mr Sanders well on his second bid.\n\n\"Personally I think he missed his time,\" the president said. \"But I wish Bernie well. It will be interesting to see how he does.\"\n\n\"He ran great four years ago and he was not treated with respect by [Hillary] Clinton and that was too bad,\" he added.\n\nThe president added that he liked Mr Sanders as they both have been \"tough on trade\".\n\nAfter building a grass-roots political movement that roiled the Democratic Party in 2016, Bernie Sanders is making another run at the prize.\n\nThis time, he won't be the rumpled underdog. He'll start the race near the front of the pack - with advantages in small-donor fundraising, name recognition and a 50-state organisation of loyalists.\n\nHis front-runner status will come with a price, however. Unlike 2016, when Hillary Clinton largely avoided confronting the Vermont senator for fear of alienating his supporters, his opponents will have no such reluctance this time.\n\nIn 2016, the self-proclaimed \"Democratic socialist\" staked out a progressive agenda in contrast with Ms Clinton's pragmatic centrism. Now, in part because of Mr Sanders's efforts, the party has moved left on issues like healthcare, education and income inequality. His message is no longer unique.\n\nThe senator will keep his devoted base, but will some former supporters opt for a fresh face? That could lead to conflict with those who believe a Bernie \"revolution\" is the only way forward, inflaming Democratic wounds not fully healed from the last campaign.\n\nIn a crowded field, Mr Sanders has a realistic shot - but it could be a bumpy ride.\n\nElizabeth Warren, Kirsten Gillibrand, Kamala Harris, John Delaney and Julian Castro are among those who have also announced their intention to run in the Democratic primary in 2020, the first time more than one woman has competed.\n\nIf Mr Sanders is successful in his bid, he will become the oldest presidential candidate in US history.\n\nIn his email, which lays out a series of policy issues, Mr Sanders also says: \"You know as well as I do that we are living in a pivotal and dangerous moment in American history.\n\n\"We are running against a president who is a pathological liar, a fraud, a racist, a sexist, a xenophobe and someone who is undermining American democracy as he leads us in an authoritarian direction.\"\n\nIn response to the announcement, Trump campaign national press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said: \"Bernie Sanders has already won the debate in the Democrat primary, because every candidate is embracing his brand of socialism.\n\n\"But the American people will reject an agenda of sky-high tax rates, government-run health care and coddling dictators like those in Venezuela.\"\n\nMr Sanders speaks at a Committee on Racial Equality Sit-In in 1962\n\nMr Sanders is the longest-serving independent in congressional history, but competes for the Democratic nomination as he says standing as a third-party candidate would diminish his chances of winning the presidency.\n\nHe attended the University of Chicago, and in the 1960s and 1970s participated in anti-war and civil rights activism, like the 1963 March on Washington.\n\nHe was first elected to the House of Representatives in 1990, the first independent to achieve such a feat in 40 years. He served there until he ran for and won a seat in the Senate in 2007.\n\nMr Sanders entered the race for the 2016 Democratic nomination as a long-shot candidate but emerged as a surprise star during a series of televised debates.\n\nHe labels himself a Democratic socialist, which he has defined as someone who seeks to \"create an economy that works for all, not just the very wealthy\".\n\nMr Sanders also has a diplomacy-first attitude towards foreign policy and voted against the US invasion of Iraq in 2002.\n\nMr Sanders attracted a large amount of younger voters during his 2016 campaign\n\nHe became Mrs Clinton's closest rival, but she ultimately won the nomination before losing the presidential election to Mr Trump.\n\nIn January, Mr Sanders apologised to female staff members on his 2016 campaign after allegations of harassment against senior aides emerged.\n\nSeveral aides complained of a \"predatory culture\" in his campaign and alleged that senior male staff had mistreated younger workers.", "Former Labour MP Ivan Lewis says the \"current Labour leadership have always believed that the creation of Israel was a catastrophe\".\n\nHe says this is in contravention of their belief that all minorities around the world have the right to self-determination.\n\nHe says the only time the Labour leadership does not believe a minority group should have self-determination is on Israel.\n\nHe asks how Labour can \"tackle the cancer of anti-Semitism\" with the current leadership in charge.\n\n\"If all of this has happened in the party, imagine what would happen in the country, if the right honourable gentleman ever became prime minister\", he asks.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. On Monday Shamima Begum told the BBC she never sought to be an IS \"poster girl\"\n\nShamima Begum, who joined the Islamic State group in Syria aged 15, is to lose her UK citizenship.\n\nWhitehall sources said it was possible to strip the 19-year-old of British nationality as she was eligible for citizenship of another country.\n\nHer family's lawyer, Tasnime Akunjee, said they were \"disappointed\" with the decision and were considering \"all legal avenues\" to challenge it.\n\nMs Begum, who left east London in 2015, had said she wanted to return home.\n\nShe was found in a Syrian refugee camp last week after reportedly leaving Baghuz - IS's last stronghold - and gave birth to a son at the weekend.\n\nIn an interview with the BBC on Monday, Ms Begum said she never sought to be an IS \"poster girl\" and now simply wished to raise her child quietly in the UK.\n\nITV News obtained the letter sent to Ms Begum's mother, asking her to inform her daughter of the decision.\n\nUnder the 1981 British Nationality Act, a person can be deprived of their citizenship if the home secretary is satisfied it would be \"conducive to the public good\" and they would not become stateless as a result.\n\nMs Begum said she travelled to Syria with her sister's UK passport but it was taken from her when she crossed the border.\n\nShe is believed to be of Bangladeshi heritage but when asked by the BBC, she said did not have a Bangladesh passport and had never been to the country.\n\nOn the question of Ms Begum's son, a child born to a British parent before they are deprived of their citizenship would still be considered British.\n\nWhile it would theoretically be possible for the UK to then remove citizenship from the child, officials would need to balance their rights against any potential threat they posed.\n\nMs Begum was 15 and living in Bethnal Green, London, when she left the UK in 2015\n\nA Home Office spokesman said: \"In recent days the home secretary has clearly stated that his priority is the safety and security of Britain and the people who live here.\"\n\nHe said the department did not comment on individual cases but decisions to remove citizenship were \"based on all available evidence and not taken lightly\".\n\nLord Carlile, a former independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, said that if Ms Begum's mother was a Bangladeshi national - as is believed to be the case - under Bangladesh law Ms Begum would be too.\n\nDal Babu, a former Metropolitan Police chief superintendent and friend of Ms Begum's family, said they were \"very surprised\" by what seemed to be a \"kneejerk reaction\" by the Home Office.\n\nStressing that Ms Begum had never been to Bangladesh, Mr Babu said: \"It seems to be a bizarre decision and I'm not entirely sure how that will stand up legally.\"\n\nConservative MP George Freeman said the move was a \"mistake\" that would set a \"dangerous precedent\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by George Freeman 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’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLiberal Democrats MP Ed Davey said Ms Begum should be allowed to return to the UK.\n\nHe said: \"Membership of a terrorist group is a serious crime, as is encouraging or supporting terrorism, but Shamima Begum should face justice for those crimes in the UK.\"\n\nA friend of Ms Begum's family, Dal Babu, said the Home Office's decision was \"bizarre\"\n\nIslamic State has lost most of the territory it once controlled, but between 1,000 and 1,500 militants are believed to be left in a 50 sq km (20 sq mile) near Syria's border with Iraq.\n\nMr Javid told MPs earlier this week that more than 100 dual nationals had already lost their UK citizenship after travelling in support of terrorist groups.\n\nLast year, two British men, accused of being members of an IS cell dubbed \"The Beatles\" were stripped of their citizenship after being captured in Syria.\n\nMs Begum has said she does not regret travelling to Syria, however, she said she did not agree with everything the IS group had done.\n\nShe told the BBC she was \"shocked\" by the 2017 Manchester Arena attack - which killed 22 people and was claimed by IS - but she also compared it to military assaults on IS strongholds, saying it was \"retaliation\".\n\nRobbie Potter was injured in the Manchester Arena attack\n\nRobbie Potter, who was seriously injured in the attack while he waited for his children in the foyer of Manchester Arena, said he felt \"angry\" and sickened by Ms Begum's comments.\n\nMs Begum left the UK with two school friends, Kadiza Sultana and Amira Abase in February 2015. Ms Sultana is thought to have died when a house was blown up, and the fate of Ms Abase is unknown.\n\nKadiza Sultana, Amira Abase and Shamima Begum (l-r) in photos issued by police after they left the UK\n\nMs Begum gave birth to a baby boy last weekend, having previously lost two children.\n\nHer husband, a Dutch convert to Islam, is thought to have surrendered to a group of Syrian fighters about two weeks ago.\n\nMs Begum has the right to appeal the Home Office's decision.", "Anna Soubry resigned from the Conservatives on Wednesday to join The Independent Group\n\nOnly a notion three days ago, The Independent Group now has more members than the DUP and the same number as the Lib Dems.\n\nThe Tory trio's defection matters for three big reasons, way beyond the enormous personal decision taken by each individual.\n\nFirst, when a government has no majority on its own, even shy of a dozen MPs can wield political strength.\n\nThe defections change not just the official arithmetic in Parliament, but its alchemy and atmosphere.\n\nWhile none of those who have made the jump are likely to back the prime minister's Brexit deal, they are a new block for the government, and the Labour front bench, to contend with - ultimately, whose votes are up for grabs, and whose numbers are likely to swell in the coming days.\n\nSecond, today's departures are evidence of how serious Conservative divisions have become.\n\nRight now, as with Labour, it's a splinter, not a split. But don't underestimate how hard a decision it is for any MP to abandon their tribe.\n\nThese departures illustrate, therefore, a real problem for the governing party.\n\nFor a very long time, before the referendum even, a clash was apparent in the Conservative Party with those who wanted to accelerate, make real and more relevant David Cameron's so-called modernisation project.\n\nIn other words, it was an effort to respond to the hopes and desires of floating voters in the middle, rather than the traditional Tory base, and to be more of a mirror of the country and how it was changing.\n\nHeidi Allen, Sarah Wollaston and Anna Soubry now all sit as independent MPs\n\nThis was not just the well-heeled Notting Hill set musing about how best to hold onto power, but a very real question over how the party ought to evolve - what, and who, was it for?\n\nThose questions have, of course, been drowned out by the clamour over Brexit.\n\nThe split in the Tory party over Europe is not a perfect reflection of that division, but it is certainly one of its contours.\n\nFears over Brexit and the party drifting to the right - and away from relevance - are held far beyond today's \"three amigos\", but by dozens of MPs privately, including ministers in the government.\n\nIf, as is likely, more MPs move across, those private pleas to stay in the centre ground have more weight.\n\nLike Labour, the Tories have big questions they can't answer at the moment - profound quandaries that it's not clear their leaderships are ready, or perhaps even capable right now of meeting.\n\nLastly, today's departures mean there is now a group in Parliament who hope to escape the traditional party lines.\n\nOf course, there are huge hurdles to that. We know what they all don't like - but we're not sure yet what they all do.\n\nIt's not remotely clear that the group will actually become a political party.\n\nWe can't know yet if they will ever be able to agree common cause to produce a whole manifesto, far less that they would become a big enough force to put forward multiple candidates in the hope of actually winning elections.\n\nBut Brexit, which criss-crosses party lines in Parliament, has already shaken the stability of our two main Westminster parties, and it's always had the potential to reshape our political tribes.\n\nThis group's potential is easy to dismiss, but unwise for the established parties to ignore.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Honda Europe boss Ian Howells says the decision was driven by big changes in the industry\n\nHonda has confirmed it will close its Swindon car plant in 2021, with the loss of about 3,500 jobs.\n\nThe Japanese company builds 160,000 Honda Civics a year in Swindon, its only car factory in the EU.\n\nHonda said the move was due to global changes in the car industry and the need to launch electric vehicles, and it had nothing to do with Brexit.\n\nBusiness Secretary Greg Clark said the decision was \"devastating\" for Swindon and the UK.\n\nA fall in demand for diesel cars and tougher emissions regulations have shaken up the car industry.\n\nIan Howells, senior vice-president for Honda in Europe, told the BBC: \"We're seeing unprecedented change in the industry on a global scale. We have to move very swiftly to electrification of our vehicles because of demand of our customers and legislation.\n\n\"This is not a Brexit-related issue for us, it's being made on the global-related changes I've spoken about.\n\n\"We've always seen Brexit as something we'll get through, but these changes globally are something we will have to respond to. We deeply regret the impact it will have on the Swindon community.\"\n• None 90%of production sold to the UK, Europe and US\n\nMr Howells said that, in the light of changes in the industry, the company had to \"look very closely\" at where it was putting its investment.\n\nThe company sells many more vehicles in North America, Japan and China than it does in Europe.\n\n\"It has to be in a marketplace of a size for Honda, where it makes investment worthwhile.\n\n\"The conclusion coming out of that is that that doesn't include Swindon - the relative size of the marketplace in Europe is significantly different.\"\n\nHonda said it would begin consulting immediately about the proposed closure with potentially affected employees.\n\nA union source told the BBC that Honda had sent the workforce at its Swindon factory home for the day.\n\nHonda also announced it would stop making the Civic at its plant in Turkey in 2021. Its European HQ will continue to be located in the UK after the changes.\n\nEarlier this month, Nissan switched plans to build its X-Trail SUV from the UK to Japan.\n\nAt that time the firm's Europe chairman, Gianluca de Ficchy, said that \"the continued uncertainty around the UK's future relationship with the EU is not helping companies like ours to plan for the future\".\n\nHonda says the Swindon closure is not Brexit-related. Is this the unvarnished truth, or is the company simply trying to avoid a political storm?\n\nHonda has in the past been vocal about the difficulties a disorderly Brexit would bring, and the timing of the announcement, a little more than a month before the UK leaves the European Union, is curious.\n\nBut the Honda statement makes no mention of Brexit at all, instead pointing to the greater forces that are reshaping the car industry.\n\nHonda is not, on the world stage, a big player, being dwarfed by the likes of Toyota, Volkswagen, General Motors and Ford.\n\nIt needs to find the resources to invest in electric power plants and autonomous vehicles - a strain that has already led to its larger rivals closing plants and cutting jobs.\n\nHonda said it needed to invest in these new frontiers and concentrate its production resources where it could be sure there would be high volumes.\n\nSwindon, which has had one of its two production lines shut for several years and which makes only 160,000 cars a year, does not fit that future. Nor does an even smaller plant in Turkey.\n\nBrexit issues may be lurking in the background, but Honda's real reasons for closing Swindon are about the future of the global car industry, not Britain's future relationship with Europe.\n\nThe EU and Japan recently struck a trade deal which lowers tariffs on both parties' car exports to zero.\n\nBBC business editor Simon Jack said the trade deal means there is a dwindling rationale to base manufacturing inside the EU.\n\nHe said production at Swindon had also been in decline for some time, with the plant currently running at about half its capacity.\n\nBusiness Secretary Greg Clark said he would convene a taskforce with local MPs, civic and business leaders, as well as trade union representatives, to help Honda workers get new skilled jobs.\n\n\"The automotive industry is undergoing a rapid transition to new technology,\" he said.\n\n\"The UK is one of the leaders in the development of these technologies and so it is deeply disappointing that this decision has been taken now.\"\n\nAlan Tomala from Unite said the scale of job losses was \"enormous\"\n\nUnite union official Alan Tomala said employees at the Swindon factory felt \"betrayed\" by the closure announcement.\n\n\"They feel that the company owes them a little more than hearing the news in the media.\n\n\"I left work yesterday to 57 missed calls and around 130 emails, and not one from Honda. It surprises me and I'm angered by it.\"\n\nOutside the factory gates, employee Chris, whose son also works at the plant, told the BBC he was \"extremely disappointed\".\n\n\"I've been here 19 years and it's devastating for all involved,\" he said.\n\n\"You've only got to look across the road at the large warehouses here too, I don't know what the jobs will be replaced with.\"\n\nLocal employment agencies have begun setting up meetings to prepare employees.\n\nKath Curr, managing director of C&D Recruitment in Swindon, said the closure was \"devastating for the town as a whole\", but Honda workers' skills were \"completely transferrable\" .\n\nIn a joint statement, Adam Marshall, director general of the British Chambers of Commerce, Phil Smith, chief executive of Business West, and Paul Britton, chief executive of Thames Valley Chamber of Commerce, said the planned closure of the Swindon plant would have a major impact, not only on Honda staff but also on the company's supply chain.\n\n\"Given the size of the operation, there will be a wide and diverse network of regional suppliers that will now be hugely concerned about their future business prospects.\n\n\"Employers, government and local authorities must do all they can to deliver tangible assistance and guidance for the people and communities that will be affected by an announcement of this scale,\" they added.", "Hugo Palmer (left) and Erwan Ferrieux are still missing, Australian police say\n\nAn air and sea search for a British tourist and his friend missing in Australia has been scaled back.\n\nItems belonging to Hugo Palmer, from East Sussex, and Erwan Ferrieux, a French national, were found on Shelly Beach, near Sydney, on Monday morning.\n\nThe men, both 20, who had attended the same school in East Grinstead, had been travelling together along the New South Wales coast.\n\nOfficials in Australia said land searches for the men would continue.\n\nA New South Wales Police spokesman said: \"Based on advice from experts, police have scaled back the air and sea search, but sweeps of the coastline and foreshore will continue over the coming days.\"\n\nIt is believed Mr Palmer, from Forrest Row, and Mr Ferrieux had arrived in Australia in November and had been in the Port Macquarie area since Sunday.\n\nThe men's hire car was found near the beach.\n\nEarlier on Wednesday, Insp Peter Neville said he still had hope of finding the two men alive.\n\n\"This whole operation is about locating and rescuing these young men. From some of the discussions I've had this morning we honestly believe these people could well be alive,\" he told the Port Macquarie News.\n\n\"At the moment this is strictly a rescue mission.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe 1975 were the big winners at the Brits, taking home the awards for best British group and album of the year.\n\nThe band said they were \"humbled\" to beat Anne-Marie, Arctic Monkeys and George Ezra to win the top prize.\n\nSinger Matty Healy also used the best group acceptance speech to address misogyny in the music industry.\n\nHowever, some viewers found out about the band's big night in advance, after a rogue TV advert announced their win ahead of the ceremony.\n\nIt is unclear whether the band knew they had won in advance, and they did not acknowledge the mix-up during the awards show.\n\nOther winners on the night included George Ezra and Jorja Smith, who won best male and female respectively.\n\nEzra, who performed his number one single Shotgun at the event, said \"There's a not a day goes by where I don't count myself very lucky and this is the icing on the cake.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nCalvin Harris bagged his first two Brit awards - from a total of 16 career nominations - for music producer of the year and best single, for One Kiss with Dua Lipa.\n\nHe said on stage at London's O2: \"I've been coming here for a few years and never had the opportunity to say anything.\n\n\"I want to thank anyone that's bought a tune, streamed a tune, come to a show, listened to the song by accident on the radio and gone 'what's this?'.\n\nDua Lipa and Calvin Harris took home the award for best single for One Kiss\n\nOne Kiss, his collaboration with Dua Lipa, spent eight weeks at number one and was the best-selling single of 2018, with more than 1.5million combined sales, streams and downloads.\n\nThe pair now have five Brit awards between them - Lipa won best female and British breakthrough act at last year's show.\n\nPop star Anne-Marie was this year's Craig David: Leaving empty-handed after going into the ceremony with four nominations.\n\nThe show was packed with performances from some of the biggest British artists, including The 1975, Jess Glynne and Jorja Smith.\n\nHugh Jackman opened the show with the theme song to the hit film The Greatest Showman, with his performance featuring hundreds of dancers, acrobats and fire-breathing extras.\n\nHugh Jackman performed a song from The Greatest Showman to open the awards\n\nThe movie soundtrack, which was not nominated for any awards, was the UK's best-selling album of 2018.\n\nLittle Mix won best video for Woman Like Me, which they performed on the night, and admitted they had \"absolutely no shame in asking fans to vote for it every day\".\n\nThis year's international winners were noticeably absent, with best male and female winners Drake and Ariana Grande sending in pre-recorded acceptance speeches.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Carters - aka Beyonce and Jay Z - won international group, and restaged the famous video for Ape****, which was shot in the Louvre, in their acceptance video.\n\nHowever, instead of posing in front of the Mona Lisa, the couple stood next to a portrait of the Duchess of Sussex.\n\nPink took home the outstanding contribution to music award, before taking to the stage to perform a 10-minute medley of her greatest hits.\n\nAfter performing her new single, Walk Me Home, backstage, the star appeared in the roof of the O2 Arena, descending to the ground in a ring of fire, before playing Try in the middle of a screen of cascading water.\n\nShe said in her acceptance speech: \"To be considered in the same category as David Bowie and The Beatles and Sir Elton and Sir Paul and Fleetwood Mac is beyond anything I can comprehend.\n\n\"It's been an awesome journey from busking... to playing Wembley Stadium this summer. It's really exciting!\n\n\"Thank you for having me here. it's been an awesome 20 years. Here's to 20 more.\"\n\nThe 1975 emerged as the night's big winners, thanks to their their outrageous, ambitious and confessional third album A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships.\n\nSinger Matty Healy, who last year caused controversy by claiming misogyny \"no longer existed in rock and roll\", used the acceptance speech for best group to modify his comments.\n\n\"Male misogynist acts are examined for nuance and defended as traits of 'difficult' artists, [while] women and those who call them out are treated as hysterics who don't understand art,\" he said, quoting a 2015 article by The Guardian's Laura Snapes, which gained renewed attention after allegations about US star Ryan Adams emerged last week.\n\nLet's be honest, most of us have wondered whether award show winners get tipped off before the ceremony.\n\nSometimes it seems painfully obvious: If you watched last week's Grammy Awards, you'll have seen Drake's name read out in the best rap song category - at which point a camera was conveniently positioned backstage to film the star, who had arrived, unannounced, to collect his award. Either the director was a clairvoyant, or someone had steamed open the envelope before the show.\n\nTonight, digital channel UKTV Play confirmed what we've always suspected, by playing out a pre-taped advert for \"double Brit award winners\" The 1975, before the ceremony had even started.\n\nIt's not clear whether the band had been made aware of what their marketing department knew - but it shone an awkward spotlight on every tearful \"this is so unexpected\" speech we've seen this awards season.\n\nThat embarrassing mix-up aside, this was one of the slickest, most engaging Brit Awards in recent memory. All the performances hit home, from George Ezra's warm-hearted rendition of Shotgun to Pink's death-defying greatest hits medley (notable as much for the songs it left out as the ones it included).\n\nThe only real let-down was the lack of major global talent. Pink aside, all the international winners - Ariana Grande, Drake and The Carters - were absent; their trophies handed out in a desultory video montage.\n\nLuckily for the Brits, this was more a case of bad luck than bad karma. Drake, who used his Grammy appearance to criticise the show's very existence, sent out positive vibes in his Brits' video message, wryly noting that, \"I very much look forward to attempting to win [best international male] many more times.\"\n\nMaybe expanding the categories would help rectify the problem. The fact that there's still no award for best international album seems increasingly odd in a globalised streaming market.\n\nChange could easily be afoot. The Brits get a new chairman in 2020 and, with the Grammys still subject to an unofficial boycott by the likes of Kanye West and Childish Gambino, their first priority should be to lure that US talent to the UK.\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. His pet cat, Choupette, has amassed hundreds of thousands of followers online\n\nIconic fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld has died in Paris following a short illness.\n\nThe German designer, who was the creative director for Chanel and Fendi, was one of the industry's most prolific figures and worked up until his death.\n\nHis signature ponytail and dark glasses made him an instantly recognisable figure around the world.\n\n\"Today the world lost a giant among men,\" said the editor-in-chief of Vogue magazine, Anna Wintour.\n\nLagerfeld's website says his year of birth was 1938 - though most placed his age at five years older.\n\nRumours of Lagerfeld's ill health had swirled for several weeks after he missed a number of events - including Chanel's spring/summer show last month.\n\nHe died on Tuesday morning after being admitted to hospital the night before, French media report.\n\nAs a designer he transformed the fortunes of Chanel, one of the leading names in high fashion, but his work also filtered down to the high street.\n\nAway from his work, Lagerfeld made headlines for a range of provocative, and sometimes offensive, statements.\n\nMembers of the fashion industry have been lining up to praise Lagerfeld's work.\n\nDonatella Versace said his genius had \"touched so many\" and was a source of inspiration for her and her late brother.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by donatella_versace This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWintour described the designer's \"creative genius\" as \"breathtaking\".\n\n\"Karl was brilliant, he was wicked, he was funny, he was generous beyond measure, and he was deeply kind. I will miss him so very much,\" her statement went on.\n\nThe model, Claudia Schiffer, said: \"What Warhol was to art, he was to fashion; he is irreplaceable. He is the only person who could make black and white colourful.\"\n\nChanel's chief executive, Alain Wertheimer, credited Lagerfeld with transforming the brand after he joined in 1983.\n\n\"Thanks to his creative genius, generosity and exceptional intuition, Karl Lagerfeld was ahead of his time, which widely contributed to the House of Chanel's success throughout the world,\" he said in a statement.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Karl Lagerfeld often appeared at shows alongside his models\n\nIt has been announced that Virginie Viard, his deputy at fashion house Chanel, will succeed him as creative chief.\n\nPier Paolo Righi, his own fashion brand's CEO, described him as a \"creative genius\".\n\n\"He leaves behind an extraordinary legacy as one of the greatest designers of our time,\" a statement from the House of Karl Lagerfeld said.\n\nCelebrities including Victoria Beckham, actress Diane Kruger and models Gigi and Bella Hadid have also paid tribute.\n\nUS First Lady Melania Trump shared images on Twitter of a design created by Lagerfeld for her first official White House appearance.\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 Melania Trump This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHe was born Karl Otto Lagerfeldt in pre-war Germany in the 1930s.\n\nLagerfeld changed his original surname from Lagerfeldt, because he believed it sounded \"more commercial\".\n\nHe emigrated to Paris as a young teenager, and became a design assistant for Pierre Balmain, before working at Fendi and Chloe in the 1960s.\n\nBut the designer was best known for his association with the French label Chanel.\n\nHe began his long career with the fashion house in 1983, a decade after Coco Chanel died.\n\nLagerfeld's designs brought new life to the label, adding glitz to the prim tweed suits the couture house was known for.\n\nThe designer worked tirelessly, simultaneously churning out collections for LVMH's Fendi and his own label, up until his death.\n\nHe also collaborated with high street brand H&M - before high-end collaborations became more common.\n\nLagerfeld was known to encourage new designers, like Victoria Beckham - who has praised him for his kindness.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLagerfeld's own look became famous in his later years - wearing dark suits and leather gloves with a signature white pony-tail and tinted sunglasses.\n\nLagerfeld said of his appearance: \"I am like a caricature of myself, and I like that.\"\n\nDespite his age and decades within the industry, the designer remained prevalent within popular culture - appearing in 2015 as a character in Kim Kardashian's Hollywood smart-phone game.\n\nLagerfeld's beloved pet cat Choupette, whom he doted on, has a cult following of her own online.\n\nChoupette, a white Birman cat, has become a celebrity in her own right\n\nQuestions about her fate have become a talking point on Twitter following the news of the designer's death.\n\nLagerfeld became known for his scathing wit and provocative comments, famously describing sweatpants as a \"sign of defeat\".\n\nHowever, some of his remarks drew sharp criticism in recent years.\n\nIn particular, he sparked outrage when he attacked Germany's open-door response to the migrant crisis, as reported by The Guardian, and for controversial remarks he made about the #MeToo movement, as reported by Papermag.\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.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nManchester City are \"still not ready to fight for the latter stages\" of the Champions League, said manager Pep Guardiola after his side staged a brilliant late comeback to beat Schalke in the first leg of their last-16 tie.\n\nEngland forward Raheem Sterling scored the decisive goal in the last minute of normal time - latching on to goalkeeper Ederson's long kick and coolly slotting home.\n\nThe Premier League champions had come into the match as strong favourites and went in front on 18 minutes through Sergio Aguero.\n\nBut the game swung in Schalke's favour before half-time after a contentious VAR decision and two Nabil Bentaleb penalties.\n\nThe first of Schalke's spot-kicks came after the intervention of the VAR, who penalised City defender Nicolas Otamendi for handball when the ball struck his arm as he moved it behind his back.\n\nThe second was given for a foul by Fernandinho on Salif Sane - the referee sticking with his decision after briefly consulting the VAR.\n\nAfter being booked for the handball, Otamendi was shown a second yellow card for a foul on Guido Burgstaller in the second half - meaning he will sit out the second leg, as will Fernandinho.\n\nWith City heading for a surprise defeat, manager Pep Guardiola sent on former Schalke player Leroy Sane - and the Germany international curled home a free-kick from 30 yards out to level, before Sterling struck.\n\n\"It was a great result,\" said Guardiola. \"We gave them two penalties, we gave them a red card, and in this competition that is not too good.\n\n\"We are still not ready to fight for the latter stages, that is reality, but the result is good.\n\n\"We played with incredible personality. We gave two goals when they did absolutely nothing. It is not over, this competition is completely different.\"\n\nThe second leg takes place in Manchester on Tuesday, 12 March.\n• None Guardiola and pundits have their say on VAR calls\n\nQuestions were asked about City when they lost 2-1 at Newcastle in late January, but five successive victories later and talk has turned to whether they can win an unprecedented quadruple of trophies this season.\n\nWhile Phil Foden believes they can \"definitely\" win all four, fellow midfielder Kevin de Bruyne has suggested it would be \"nearly impossible\" and Guardiola said it was \"silly\" to be asked the question in February.\n\nCity top the Premier League on goal difference - albeit having played a game more than Liverpool - and will face Swansea in the FA Cup quarter-finals.\n\nTheir first chance of silverware comes in the Carabao Cup final against Chelsea on Sunday, but four days before that their Champions League campaign looked to be stalling.\n\nCity dominated the opening half an hour - with 70% possession - and Aguero's goal came via a gift from goalkeeper Ralf Fahrmann, whose pass sold defender Sane short as David Silva nipped in and laid the ball off for his team-mate to finish.\n\nGuardiola's side showed their resolve, though, by scoring twice late on and will now be heavy favourites to progress to the last eight.\n\nSane said: \"I was a little bit sad for Schalke, because the atmosphere was amazing like it always is. Schalke did really well, the way they defended made it difficult.\n\n\"At the end we did it, we scored three goals away - that was the most important thing. You can see the will is a lot. We never give up, we always want to keep fighting.\"\n\n'I don't know what is handball and what isn't'\n\nThe hosts trailed 1-0 when wing-back Daniel Caligiuri cut in from the right and struck a shot goalwards, which hit Otamendi on the arm.\n\nIt seemed as though the Argentine was trying to tuck his arm behind his back, and Spanish referee Carlos del Cerro Grande initially awarded a corner. But after consultation with VAR Alejandro Hernandez - a discussion which took nearly three minutes - he pointed to the penalty spot, and former Tottenham midfielder Bentaleb converted.\n\nIt later emerged the pitchside monitor used to review decisions was broken, so the referee could not watch a replay of the incident.\n\nFormer City defender Danny Mills said on BBC Radio 5 live: \"I don't know what is handball and what isn't any more. Otamendi is trying to get his arm out of the way, it's in a natural position, but it stops the ball hitting the target.\"\n\nEx-City midfielder Michael Brown added: \"It was probably the longest VAR in history deciding the right decision. I don't think they knew and then finally they gave the penalty.\"\n\nThe second penalty decision was more straightforward for the referee as he penalised Fernandinho for holding - and Bentaleb scored once more.\n\nSchalke head coach Domenico Tedesco said: \"We are obviously very disappointed by the result. We deserved more.\n\n\"For one of the few times this season we had a bit of luck on our side. We knew we would be pushed deep, but we were sloppy too often on the counter and conceding the goals we did late on was heartbreaking.\"\n• None Sterling's goal was City's first 90th-minute winner in the Champions League since Kevin de Bruyne's against Sevilla in October 2015.\n• None City are unbeaten in their past eight Champions League games against German opponents (W7 D1), since a 1-0 defeat by Bayern Munich in September 2014.\n• None Defeat ended Schalke's nine-game unbeaten home run in Europe (W6 D3), with their previous defeat in February 2016 against Shakhtar Donetsk.\n• None Aguero has scored 10 goals in his past seven appearances, and is the top goalscorer in the top five European leagues in 2019 (11).\n• None Since the start of last season, only Cristiano Ronaldo (8) has scored more away goals in the Champions League than Aguero (7).\n• None Sane has been directly involved in eight goals in his past seven appearances for City (three goals, five assists).\n• None Bentaleb has converted each of his 14 penalties for Schalke.\n• None Otamendi was shown his first red card for City in his 161st appearance for the club.\n• None Attempt missed. Steven Skrzybski (FC Schalke 04) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Salif Sané with a headed pass.\n• None Goal! FC Schalke 04 2, Manchester City 3. Raheem Sterling (Manchester City) right footed shot from the right side of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Ederson.\n• None Goal! FC Schalke 04 2, Manchester City 2. Leroy Sané (Manchester City) from a free kick with a left footed shot to the top right corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Steven Skrzybski (FC Schalke 04) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Mark Uth. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Some 20,000 people who have fled Baghuz in recent weeks have been taken to a camp\n\nThe UN has expressed concern about the fate of some 200 families reportedly trapped in the last tiny area of Syria still held by the Islamic State group.\n\nHuman rights chief Michelle Bachelet said they were apparently being prevented from leaving by IS militants.\n\nThey were also being subjected to intense bombardment by US-led coalition and allied Syrian forces, she added.\n\nOn Tuesday evening, dozens of lorries reportedly arrived on the outskirts of the IS enclave to evacuate civilians.\n\nThe Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based monitoring group, cited its sources as saying wives and children of militants would be taken to an undisclosed location as part of a deal with the coalition.\n\nEarlier, it reported that a request by militants to be given safe passage to the opposition-held Syrian province of Idlib or neighbouring Iraq had been rejected by the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) alliance.\n\nIS militants are reportedly confined to tents pitched on top of a network of tunnels and caves\n\nSDF spokesman Mustafa Bali appeared to dismiss such an idea on Tuesday morning, insisting the militants had \"only two options - either they surrender or they will be killed in battle\".\n\n\"We are working on secluding and evacuating civilians and then we will attack. This could happen soon,\" Mr Bali was quoted as saying by AFP news agency.\n\nFive years ago, IS controlled 88,000 sq km (34,000 sq miles) of territory stretching from western Syria to eastern Iraq. It proclaimed the creation of a \"caliphate\", imposing its brutal rule on almost eight million people and generating billions of dollars from oil, extortion, robbery and kidnapping.\n\nNow, an estimated 300 militants and hundreds of civilians are surrounded inside about 0.5 sq km (0.2 square miles) of land in the Baghuz area, which is in the Middle Euphrates River Valley, near the border with Iraq.\n\n\"Civilians continue to be used as pawns by the various parties,\" Ms Bachelet said.\n\n\"I call on them to provide safe passage to those who wish to flee, while those wish to remain must also be protected as much as possible.\n\n\"They should not be sacrificed to ideology on the one hand, or military expediency on the other. If protecting civilian lives means taking a few more days to capture the last fraction of land controlled by [IS], then so be it.\"\n\nUS-backed SDF fighters launched an assault on Baghuz this month\n\nAlthough no-one has reportedly made it out of Baghuz in the past three days, some 20,000 civilians have been taken by the SDF to a makeshift camp for displaced people at al-Hol, in Hassakeh province, in recent weeks.\n\nAmong them are the wives and children of IS militants and many foreign nationals, including the British teenager Shamima Begum, who was 15 when she ran away from her home to join IS four years ago.\n\nThe International Rescue Committee (IRC) said on Monday that at least 62 people had died on their way to al-Hol, two thirds of them children under the age of one. Exhaustion and malnutrition were the principal causes of the deaths.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. On Monday Shamima Begum told the BBC she never sought to be an IS \"poster girl\"\n\nMs Bachelet also said she was alarmed by an upsurge in attacks and civilian casualties in Idlib province, where a takeover by a jihadist group linked to al-Qaeda, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, has jeopardised a truce brokered by Turkey and Russia in September.\n\nThe Syrian government's bombardment of a demilitarised buffer zone, which runs along the frontline in Idlib and areas of northern Hama and western Aleppo provinces, started to escalate in December and has further intensified in recent days, according to the UN.\n\nAt the same time, there has been an increase in fighting among rebel and jihadist factions, and also in the use of improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in areas they control.\n\nOn Monday, at least 16 civilians, including women and children, were reportedly killed by two bomb explosions in the Qusour district of Idlib city. The second blast appeared to have been designed to kill those, including medical workers, coming to the aid of victims of the first.\n\nAnother nine civilians, including four women and two boys, were meanwhile reportedly killed by government strikes on Khan Sheikhoun on Friday and Saturday.\n\nPlease upgrade your browser to view this content. How the jihadist group rose and fell Was this timeline useful? Thank you for your feedback.", "Are the tectonic plates of British politics moving with the formation of a new \"centrist\" group in Parliament - or are we experiencing a minor tremor?\n\nIt's too soon to say - but that won't stop some MPs and commentators declaiming as though they were expert political seismologists.\n\nSo let's stand back and examine the landscape.\n\nA split is quite an easy thing to understand.\n\nBut currently there are fissures that run all the way through British politics and which makes the future look far from stable.\n\nThe addition of three Conservative MPs to the ranks of eight Labour defectors could, on the surface, look like the breaking of the British political mould.\n\nBut let's examine the multiple fissures more closely.\n\nMomentum - the influential group of Labour left wingers - has denounced the nascent political grouping as neo-liberal Blairites and Tories.\n\nYet not many \"Blairites\" or centrists have, as yet, signed up to this project.\n\nOne reason is Brexit - the primary reason for the breakaway, according to defecting former Labour MP Chris Leslie.\n\nSenior members of the People's Vote campaign for another EU referendum - who most people would regard as ardent supporters of the last Labour government - pleaded for months with Chuka Umunna not to set up a breakaway group before Brexit had been settled one way or another.\n\nThey did not want People's Vote to be seen as a de facto new party because they felt this might breed suspicion among left-wing Labour Party members who are far more pro-EU than their party leader.\n\nLeading lights in the People's Vote campaign wanted to detach these Labour members from Mr Corbyn, so that they could back a new referendum without feeling disloyal.\n\nBut the defectors have gone over the top now - they have formed what looks like the beginning of a new party.\n\nThey might have been able to take more \"centrists\" with them had they waited.\n\nBut timing and tactics aren't the only divisions amongst the so-called \"centrists\" in Parliament.\n\nThis is an over simplification but essentially the centrists split in to two groups.\n\nFirst, the defectors, along with those who are all but ready to defect or for whom it wouldn't take much to push over the brink that they have precariously occupied.\n\nAnd secondly, those who will \"stay and fight\".\n\nThe success of the breakaway will - in part - depend on how many will move from group two to group one.\n\nEssentially, the current fissure is based on those for whom \"stop Corbyn\" is their overriding objective - and those whose fundamental deep seated raison d'etre is to Stop the Tories.\n\nAnd the sight today of former Labour MP Ann Coffey chatting away, in apparently chummy terms, to former Conservative Sarah Wollaston on the same Parliamentary bench will make it more difficult, not less, for the Independents to attract further Labour support.\n\nHaving said that, I still expect to see a few more defectors - the Labour leadership expect a dozen in total to go.\n\nIncidentally, it may also limit the appeal to those Labour voters long uncomfortable with Mr Corbyn but who have felt they had nowhere else to go.\n\nFormer Scottish Labour leader Jim Murphy told me the story of when he canvassed a voter very disillusioned with his party on a number of issues including immigration.\n\n\"I was thinking of backing the BNP then I thought 'naw, that would just let the Tories in'\", said the voter.\n\nIn some parts of the country a group which takes in former Labour and Conservative MPs could be seen as refreshing - but in others it will be toxic.\n\nThe Conservative defections have also allowed abrasive left wingers to say they were right all along to paint Chuka Umunna and chums as \"red Tories\".\n\nThere is a debate in Labour leadership circles about whether to call another confidence vote in the government, in the hope that the new group will vote with Theresa May and be depicted not so much as red Tories but actual Tories.\n\nOne prominent \"centrist\" Labour MP told me privately he was pleased some of his colleagues had gone as he would no longer himself be \"tarred\" with the accusation that he would leave - or that his loyalty wasn't first and foremost to the party.\n\nBut there are also divisions within the Left on how to handle this.\n\nIs it better to be conciliatory and try to address not just the defections but the causes of them?\n\nThis is the approach favoured not only by Dave Prentis - the general secretary of Britain's largest union Unison - but privately by some much closer to Mr Corbyn.\n\nBut others want to \"clean out the stables\" and step up the de-selection of the Corbyn critics who remain in the party.\n\nSome close to the leadership do not want this to happen - but admit that controlling some of the activists who have joined the party in recent times isn't an easy task.\n\nOne left-wing insider told me that they had been genuinely shocked at some of the examples of anti-Semitism in the party but trying to convince some rank and file members that the allegations and investigations were not part of an anti-Corbyn plot was a forlorn task.\n\nSo the number of future defectors may depend on how disciplined and measured the reaction is from the Labour leadership's supporters in local parties. Some MPs could yet feel \"forced out\".\n\nWhere the Left is united is in calling for the defectors to stand down as MPs and fight by-elections.\n\nMany of those MPs have large majorities and, don't forget, many of them would - as we revealed at the last election - have barely mentioned the Labour leader in their 2017 campaign literature and instead punted the message that Theresa May needed reining in.\n\nAnd both Shirley Williams and Roy Jenkins scored spectacular (but short lived) by-election victories in the early days of the Social Democratic Party, which broke away from Labour in the early 1980s.\n\nSo the Left may have to be careful what they wish for.\n\nA couple of members of the new Independent Group are said to be considering putting themselves in front of the electorate.\n\nSo far, we know more about what this new group is against than for.\n\nAnd possibly for former Labour MPs the biggest risk in a by-election would not be defeat by their old party but so dividing the centre-left vote that a Conservative wins.\n\nThat might do more to herd some potential defectors back in to their Labour fold.\n\nAny anti-Brexit former Tories would face a brutal campaign which would seek to rally pro-Brexit voters by portraying the defectors as part of a political establishment which would betray the verdict of the people.\n\nBut perhaps the way the new Independent Group might change the political dynamic is this - their mere existence tells the leadership of the traditional parties that if they don't listen to the concerns of their parliamentarians they - and some their voters - really do have somewhere else to go.\n\nSo they present a challenge to those at the top of the existing parties.\n\nHow - and if - the leaderships of these parties change could determine whether the defections eventually register on the political Richter scale.", "Burberry has apologised for featuring a hoodie with a noose around the neck at London Fashion Week.\n\nThe fashion brand was criticised by one of its own models, Liz Kennedy, in a long post on Instagram in which she said: \"Suicide is not fashion.\"\n\n\"Let's not forget about the horrifying history of lynching either,\" she added.\n\nBurberry boss Marco Gobbetti said the brand was \"deeply sorry for the distress\" caused, adding: \"It was insensitive and we made a mistake.\"\n\nThe hoodie featured in a collection called Tempest which was on the runway at London Fashion Week on Sunday.\n\nThe show featured \"rebellious youths\" scaling walls in one space and Burberry's creative director Riccardo Tisci dedicated it to \"the youth of today\".\n\nModel Liz, who had been part of the Burberry show but didn't wear the hoodie, said the design was \"not glamorous nor edgy\".\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by liz.kennedy_ This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nShe wrote on Instagram: \"How could anyone overlook this and think it would be okay to do this especially in a line dedicated to young girls and youth?\n\n\"The impressionable youth. Not to mention the rising suicide rates worldwide.\"\n\nLiz said she felt \"extremely triggered\" after seeing the design and felt \"as though I was right back where I was when I was going through an experience with suicide in my family\".\n\nShe told her Instagram followers she had tried to bring up the issue in the dressing room but was told to write a letter instead.\n\nThe hoodie was one of several designs that feature in the Tempest collection\n\nLiz added: \"I had a brief conversation with someone but all that it entailed was 'It's fashion. Nobody cares about what's going on in your personal life so just keep it to yourself'.\n\n\"Well I'm sorry but this is an issue bigger than myself. The issue is not about me being upset, there is a bigger picture here of what fashion turns a blind eye to, or does to gain publicity.\n\n\"A look so ignorantly put together and a situation so poorly handled.\"\n\nBurberry boss Marco Gobbetti said Liz's experience \"does not reflect who we are and our values\".\n\n\"We will reflect on this, learn from it and put in place all necessary actions to ensure it does not happen again.\"\n\nRiccardo Tisci also apologised and said that \"while the design was inspired by a nautical theme, I realise that it was insensitive\".\n\nBurberry is the latest fashion brand to be criticised for releasing designs which have been considered insensitive this month.\n\nGucci pulled a woollen jumper from sale after it was criticised for \"resembling blackface\".\n\nKaty Perry also removed two items from her shoe range after complaints that one of the designs was racist.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 every weekday on BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra - if you miss us you can listen back here.", "Ducting collapsed in the roof of a bar, the fire service said\n\nEighteen people have been treated, including six who were taken to hospital, after part of a ceiling fell down at a holiday camp in Somerset.\n\nThe collapse happened at Pontins Brean Sands, near Weston-super-Mare, at about 18:20 GMT, the fire service said.\n\nIt said structural ducting and ceiling sections collapsed in a bar area \"exposing live damaged electrics\".\n\nA \"number of people\" suffered minor injuries but no-one was seriously hurt, Avon and Somerset Police said.\n\nSouth Western Ambulance Service said 18 people had been treated.\n\nPolice said that a search of the scene had been carried out and confirmed that no-one was trapped under the debris.\n\nThe Health and Safety Executive has been informed of the incident.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Iain O'Brien 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\nLaura Robinson, whose family of five children are at the site, said about 100 people were inside the building at the time of the collapse.\n\nShe said: \"We were in the family clubhouse, suddenly part of the roof [came] down halfway across the room, all across tables and people.\n\n\"It has come straight down over the tables in a long line.\n\n\"I heard this cracking noise and looked up and part of it's coming down and then the whole way along it went.\"\n\nOne woman told the BBC: \"If I wouldn't have moved a big slab of concrete would have landed on my head and split my head open.\n\n\"It landed right by my feet.\"\n\nSouth Western Ambulance Service said 18 people had been treated\n\nFormer New Zealand cricketer Iain O'Brien said on Twitter: \"Arrived back to Pontins Brean Sands this afternoon, after a day out, to a major site panic.\n\n\"Word is, and hopefully it's accurate, no-one seriously hurt.\n\n\"Serious amount of emergency services here. Staff very shaken and look like they could do with a hug or two.\n\nAnother man told the BBC: \"My wife just ran out of the way of it.\n\n\"The seat where it went down on was the seat I was going to be because my coat was on the chair, so I had to pull my coat out.\"\n\nThe scene was made safe by fire crews\n\nDevon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service said in a statement: \"The incident involved the collapse of approximately 40m of structural ducting and ceiling sections, exposing live damaged electrics and making the scene unstable.\n\n\"Fire crews used eight high-pressure airbags and small tools to establish that no persons were trapped beneath the collapse.\"\n\nThe scene was made safe and fire crews had left the scene, they added.", "One of three MPs to quit the Conservative Party says she's \"really worried\" the prime minister has a \"problem with immigration\".\n\nAnna Soubry, who now sits with the Independent Group, told Newsnight's Kirsty Wark: \"The only reason why she will not agree to [continued membership of] the single market is because of free movement of people.\"\n\nYou can watch Newsnight on BBC 2 weekdays 22:30 or on iPlayer. Subscribe to the programme on YouTube or follow them on Twitter.", "Ten-year-old David Yamba's new home was vandalised with the words \"No Blacks\" painted on the front door.\n\nHe tells the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme he is still too scared to walk to school.\n\nWatch the Victoria Derbyshire programme on BBC Two and BBC News Channel, 10:00 to 11:00 GMT - and see more of our stories here.", "Supermarket chain Asda has reported a slowdown in sales growth amid another \"challenging year\" for retailers.\n\nIn the final three months of 2018, like-for-like sales grew 1%, compared with a 2% rise in the previous quarter.\n\nAsda chief executive Roger Burnley said that Brexit uncertainties were \"playing on our customers' minds\".\n\nAsda and rival Sainsbury's are waiting for the preliminary results of a UK competition probe into their proposed merger.\n\nThe UK's competition regulator is looking into whether the proposed merger would leave shoppers facing higher prices or less choice.\n\nDespite the slowdown, this was still the seventh consecutive quarter of sales growth for Asda, which has been outpacing its potential partner. In January, Sainsbury's reported a 1.1% fall in like-for-like sales for the comparable period.\n\nMr Burnley said: \"The year ahead looks no less turbulent than the last.\n\n\"Whilst I am pleased with our performance in 2018, we must remain focused on ensuring the long-term sustainable success of Asda for our customers.\"\n\nHe said 2018 had been another \"challenging\" period in retail, but that there had been higher demand for the grocer's own-brand products in the fourth quarter.\n\nThe owner of Asda, US retail giant Walmart, also reported fourth quarter results on Tuesday. It posted strong like-for-like sales growth of 4.2% after a boost in online sales and higher consumer spending in the US.\n\nThomas Brereton, a retail analyst at GlobalData, described Asda's results as \"lacklustre\".\n\nMr Brereton said that \"the overall feeling will be that Asda has been somewhat unsuccessful in truly exploiting its rebuilt image over the festive period\", after returning to Black Friday sales and cutting prices to stay competitive with discounters.\n\nBut he added that the latest results would be \"unlikely to create waves at either Sainsbury's or Asda\" as they only cover 13 weeks of sales.\n\n\"Exactly how the two businesses will merge remains an unclear but intriguing issue, with both owning significant market share - not only across food but also GM [general merchandise] and clothing.\"", "If a personalised number plate simply isn't enough to express your complex personality, worry not - soon you will be able to add an emoji to the mix.\n\nOk, you'll have to move to Queensland, Australia - but once that's sorted, you can get your own little smiley starting next month.\n\nThe emojis will cost you some extra of course, and are only for decoration.\n\nOh, and only a few positive faces are allowed, so you'd better be a chirpy driver or else things won't match up.\n\nYour choice will be limited to laughing out loud, a winking face emoji, the cool sunglasses, the heart eyes, and the good old standard smiley face.\n\nThe symbols won't be part of the sequence to identify your car, though; that will still be down to the letters and numbers on the plate.\n\nAccording to local media, the Royal Automobile Club of Queensland (RACQ) has no issue with the new scheme. Spokeswoman Rebecca Michael told 7News Brisbane it was no different from drivers putting the logo of their favourite sports team on a plate.\n\n\"For quite some time we've seen that you can support your favourite team or your favourite town with a symbol on your number plate. And using an emoji is no different,\" she said.\n\nSocial media reactions to the new plates have ranged from enthusiasm to irony and disdain. While some can't wait to get one, others have branded the idea a bit tacky or vain.\n\nAnd of course, some said they'd be keener if the full spectrum of emojis was available - everything from angry faces to... well, the cartoon poop.\n\nSince the plates have a price point of 475AUD (£260, $340), some commenters pointed out that it's a nifty way for authorities to make yet more money from personalised plates.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. On Monday Shamima Begum told the BBC she never sought to be an IS \"poster girl\"\n\nShamima Begum - the schoolgirl who fled London to join the Islamic State group in Syria - has said she never wanted to be an IS \"poster girl\".\n\nMs Begum, who has just given birth, said she now wants the UK's forgiveness and supports \"some British values\".\n\nShe told the BBC while it was \"wrong\" innocent people died in the 2017 Manchester attack, it was \"kind of retaliation\" for attacks on IS.\n\nThe 19-year-old left Bethnal Green four years ago with two school friends.\n\nThere has been debate about Ms Begum's plight since she was found in a Syrian refugee camp by the Times newspaper last week after reportedly leaving Baghuz, IS's last stronghold in the country.\n\nShe gave birth to a baby boy last weekend, having previously lost two children, and named him after her first son.\n\nWhile she told the BBC she would have let her late son become an IS fighter, she wants her new baby \"to be British\" and for her to return to the UK with him.\n\nIn an interview with the BBC's Middle East correspondent Quentin Sommerville on Monday, Ms Begum said: \"I don't actually agree with everything they've done.\n\n\"I actually do support some British values and I am willing to go back to the UK and settle back again and rehabilitate and that stuff.\"\n\nHome Secretary Sajid Javid told MPs on Monday that he would not \"hesitate to prevent\" the return of Britons who travelled to Syria to join IS. While the UK cannot leave people stateless, under international law, he said any such Britons would be \"questioned, investigated and potentially prosecuted\".\n\nNo British troops would be used to help or rescue them, he said. He told MPs that more than 100 dual nationals have already lost their UK citizenship after travelling in support of terrorist groups.\n\n\"If you back terror, there must be consequences,\" he said. More than 900 people have left the UK to join the conflict in Syria, said Mr Javid, adding that those who join IS have \"shown they hate our country and the values that we stand for\".\n\nMs Begum was 15 and living in Bethnal Green, London, when she left the UK in 2015\n\nAsked about the Manchester Arena attack in 2017 in which 22 people - some of them children - were killed in a bombing claimed by IS, she said: \"I was shocked. I didn't know about the kids, actually. I do feel that is wrong. Innocent people did get killed.\"\n\nShe compared the attack to military assaults on Syria, saying: \"It's one thing to kill a soldier, it's fine, it's self-defence. But to kill people like women and children just like the women and children in Baghuz who are being killed right now unjustly by the bombings - it's a two-way thing really because women and children are being killed back in the Islamic State right now.\n\n\"It's kind of retaliation. Their justification was that it was retaliation so I thought, okay, that is a fair justification.\"\n\nMs Begum said she was sorry for all the families who had lost people because of the attacks in the UK and other countries.\n\n\"That wasn't fair on them,\" she said. \"They weren't fighting anyone. They weren't causing any harm. But neither was I and neither were other women who are being killed right now back in Baghuz.\"\n\nWhen it was suggested that her going to Syria might have been a \"propaganda victory\" for IS, Ms Begum said: \"I did hear a lot of people were encouraged to come after, but I wasn't the one who put myself on the news.\"\n\nShe added: \"The poster girl thing was not my choice.\"\n\nMs Begum said she made the choice to go to Syria and could make her own decisions, despite being only 15 at the time. She said she was partly inspired by videos of fighters beheading hostages and also by videos showing \"the good life\" under IS.\n\nShe watched videos of the murders of British hostages, she told the BBC, but said she did not know the names of any of the victims.\n\nOur correspondent said that \"throughout the interview, Shamima Begum continued to espouse Islamic State philosophy.\" He added: \"When I asked her about the enslavement, murder and rape of Yazidi women by IS, she said 'Shia do the same in Iraq'.\"\n\nBut she said: \"I just want forgiveness really, from the UK. Everything I've been through, I didn't expect I would go through that.\n\n\"Losing my children the way I lost them, I don't want to lose this baby as well and this is really not a place to raise children, this camp.\"\n\nTwelve more British women have arrived at the camp in Syria in the last week and more are expected, our correspondent added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tasnime Akunjee, the lawyer for the family of Shamima Begum, expects her to be \"damaged\" by her ordeal\n\nEarlier, the lawyer representing Ms Begum's family said she is \"damaged\" and will need mental health support. Tasnime Akunjee also said her family are prepared to raise her newborn baby away from \"IS thinking\".\n\nHe said Ms Begum - who is legally British - had still not been in contact with her family and the family are trying to get the government to provide travel documents for Ms Begum and her newborn son, who he said has a right to citizenship.\n\nMs Begum left the UK in February 2015 with two other schoolgirls, Kadiza Sultana and Amira Abase. Kadiza is thought to have died when a house was blown up, and the fate of Amira is unknown.\n\nMr Akunjee also called for an \"urgent inquiry\" into how Ms Begum and the other schoolgirls were able to travel to Syria.\n\nKadiza Sultana, Amira Abase and Shamima Begum (l-r) in photos issued by police\n\nPreviously, Ms Begum said she escaped from Baghuz, Islamic State's last stronghold in eastern Syria, two weeks ago.\n\nHer husband, a Dutch convert to Islam, is thought to have surrendered to a group of Syrian fighters.\n\nUnder international law, the UK is obliged to let a Briton without the claim to another nationality return home.\n\nBut the government does not have consular staff in Syria, and says it will not risk any lives to help Britons who have joined a banned terrorist group.\n\nIf Ms Begum is able to reach a British consulate in a recognised country, it is thought security chiefs could \"manage\" her return.", "The no-fly zone for drones around airports is to be extended following the disruption at Gatwick in December, the government says.\n\nFrom 13 March it will be illegal to fly a drone within three miles of an airport, rather than the current 0.6-mile (1km) exclusion zone.\n\nThe government also said it wants police to have new stop and search powers to tackle drone misuse.\n\nGatwick was shut for more than a day after drone sightings near the runway.\n\nIt caused chaos for travellers, affecting more than 1,000 flights and about 140,000 passengers.\n\nSince then airports have been trying to improve their procedures to detect drones, but they continue to see illegal flights near their perimeters.\n\nIn January departures at Heathrow were temporarily stopped after a drone was reportedly sighted.\n\nTransport Secretary Chris Grayling said: \"The law is clear that flying a drone near an airport is a serious criminal act.\n\n\"We're now going even further and extending the no-fly zone to help keep our airports secure and our skies safe.\n\n\"Anyone flying their drone within the vicinity of an airport should know they are not only acting irresponsibly, but criminally, and could face imprisonment.\"\n\nThere were sightings of drones at Gatwick in December\n\nIt is already illegal to fly a drone above 400ft or within 1km of an airport boundary, and those who recklessly or negligently endanger an aircraft with a drone face up to five years in jail.\n\nThe government said the new stop and search powers would apply to people suspected of using drones maliciously nears airports.\n\nThe powers, to be included in the government's new Drones Bill, would also allow police to access electronic data stored on a drone.\n\nThe Association of Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (Arpas UK), which represents the drone industry, welcomed the wider no-fly zone but cautioned on the stop-and-search plans.\n\n\"Police will need to know exactly what the rules are and in exercising their powers do so in the right way,\" said Rupert Dent, an Arpas UK committee member.\n\n\"We are keen it doesn't prevent legitimate operators from operating drones in a legitimate fashion.\"\n\nFollowing the Gatwick disruption, Sussex Police arrested a drone enthusiast and his partner who lived near the airport, but they were released without charge on 23 December, having been cleared of any involvement.\n\nIn a statement Sussex Police said they had still not found the perpetrators, despite having 130 eyewitness accounts of illegal drone flights.\n\n\"We continue our criminal investigation, which is challenging in its scale and in the type and quality of evidence immediately available,\" a spokeswoman said.\n\n\"Despite a reward of £50,000 for public information leading police to the person or persons responsible, we have not received the critical information that we believed exists within the community.\"", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nLiverpool's Champions League last-16 tie against Bayern Munich remains finely poised after a goalless draw in the first leg at Anfield.\n\nThe hosts posed the greater threat but were either wasteful in front of goal or kept out by Bayern's well-marshalled defence.\n\nSadio Mane missed a handful of first-half chances, most notably dragging a shot on the turn wide from inside the penalty area when unmarked.\n\nJoel Matip also failed to convert Roberto Firmino's cross from six yards.\n\nMatip almost handed Bayern an away goal early on when his misdirected clearance rebounded to safety off Liverpool goalkeeper Alisson.\n\nThe German champions were excellent defensively in the second half, with Mane's 85th-minute header at the near post the closest Liverpool came to scoring.\n\nThe second leg at the Allianz Arena will take place on 13 March.\n• None Not a dream result but a good one - Klopp\n• None How you rated the players\n\nIn Champions League history, 31 sides have drawn the first leg of a knockout match at home 0-0 but only 10 have progressed.\n\nBayern have lost only two of their past 26 home Champions League games, but Liverpool know if they can score it will give them a huge advantage with away goals counting as double in the event of a draw.\n\nIf Liverpool are knocked out, they will rue their misfiring performance at Anfield.\n\nOther than Mane's late header, which was saved by Manuel Neuer, their only other shot on target came from Mohamed Salah in the first half when he failed to get enough on a brilliant ball over the top by Jordan Henderson to test the Bayern goalkeeper.\n\nThere were moments when Liverpool's trademark one-touch attacking play was evident, but they also failed to make the most of promising opportunities.\n\nCredit must also go to Bayern. They curbed their own attacking instincts to produce a resolute defensive performance, with full-backs Joshua Kimmich and David Alaba and centre-backs Mats Hummels and Niklas Sule impressive.\n\nDespite their problems in attack, Liverpool must be pleased that their makeshift defence kept Bayern's forwards quiet.\n\nThe Reds were without Virgil van Dijk, who was suspended, and the injured Dejan Lovren and Joe Gomez, meaning midfielder Fabinho had to fill in at centre-back.\n\nThere were shaky moments in possession, with Alisson and Andrew Robertson making sloppy touches early on, but Liverpool kept Bayern at arm's length and prevented their opponents from having a shot on target.\n\nRobert Lewandowski, the Champions League's top scorer this season, had 34 touches - the fewest of any player in the starting line-ups - including only three in the Liverpool penalty area.\n\nMidfielder Henderson was also excellent for Liverpool, consistently breaking up possession.\n\n'Liverpool have got every chance' - analysis\n\nThe bigger picture is that Liverpool are still in it.\n\nIt's a good result at home - they haven't conceded and they've got every chance of going to Bayern and winning the game.\n\nI just believe they could have given themselves a better chance by creating more at Anfield.\n\nAnd I was hoping the fans would have been a bit louder - it was very quiet. The fans were a bit nervous. If you don't get a goal, you can't relax.\n\n'Not a dream result but a good one' - reaction\n\nLiverpool boss Jurgen Klopp to BT Sport: \"We made life more difficult with the last pass today - about 10 or 12 times a promising situation [fizzled out].\n\n\"We can play better. We should play better.\n\n\"In the first half we had the bigger chances. I can't remember any chances for either side in the second half.\n\n\"It wasn't a Champions League night from that point of view. From a result point of view, it's OK. It's not a dream result but it's a good one.\"\n\nUnbeaten home run goes on - the best stats\n• None Each of Bayern Munich's past three visits to Anfield in European competition have finished 0-0; it is only the second time Liverpool have played out three straight goalless draws in all competitions against the same team at Anfield after Tottenham from 1969-1971 (four straight 0-0s).\n• None This was Jurgen Klopp's 30th managerial meeting with Bayern in all competitions - more than any other opponent in his career - but the first to finish 0-0.\n• None Liverpool extended their unbeaten home run in all European competitions to 20 games (W14 D6); this was their 11th clean sheet in that run.\n• None Bayern are now unbeaten in nine successive away games in the Champions League (W6 D3).\n• None Liverpool have played out a goalless draw in the first leg of a Champions League knockout tie for only the second time, and the first since the 2004-05 semi-final against Chelsea.\n• None Bayern are one of only three sides who have not been beaten in this season's Champions League (P7 W4 D3 L0) along with Lyon and Barcelona.\n• None Liverpool's Alisson has kept eight clean sheets in 10 home Champions League appearances since the start of last season (5 for Roma, 3 for Liverpool), at least double the total of any other goalkeeper in that period.\n• None Bayern did not have a shot on target in a Champions League game for the first time since the semi-final first leg at Barcelona in 2015.\n• None Divock Origi (Liverpool) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match Javi Martínez (FC Bayern München) because of an injury.\n• None Attempt missed. Joel Matip (Liverpool) with an attempt from the centre of the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Trent Alexander-Arnold with a cross following a corner.\n• None Attempt saved. Sadio Mané (Liverpool) header from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Andrew Robertson with a cross.\n• None Attempt missed. Joel Matip (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right following a corner.\n• None Attempt missed. Trent Alexander-Arnold (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right.\n• None Attempt blocked. Joel Matip (Liverpool) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Trent Alexander-Arnold with a cross.\n• None Attempt missed. James Rodríguez (FC Bayern München) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. 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Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Derek Hatton has been suspended by the Labour Party less than 48 hours after he was admitted back into the party.\n\nThe ex-deputy leader of Liverpool council's membership was provisionally approved on Monday, more than 30 years after he was expelled from the party.\n\nBut senior Labour figures have since complained about the move and comments the ex-Militant man made about Israel.\n\nIn a tweet in 2012, he urged \"Jewish people with any sense of humanity\" to condemn Israel's \"ruthless murdering\".\n\nA Labour party source said the party was \"not aware of this material\" when it had provisionally approved Mr Hatton's application to rejoin the party.\n\nAnd \"once this was brought to our attention\", Mr Hatton's membership application had been suspended pending a final decision by the party's ruling body, the National Executive Committee.\n\nMr Hatton was a key figure in Militant, a Trotskyite far-left group that ran Liverpool council in the early 1980s.\n\nHe was expelled in 1985 after a high-profile battle with Labour's then leader, Neil Kinnock, who accused him and others of seeking to infiltrate and subvert the party.\n\nIt emerged on Monday that his application to rejoin the Liverpool Wavertree branch of the Labour Party had been provisionally approved by a special panel of the party.\n\nBut this drew fierce criticism from many leading figures in the party, coming on the same day as seven MPs quit the party in protest at what they said was a culture of anti-Semitism in the party.\n\nEarlier on Wednesday, shadow cabinet member Barry Gardiner told MPs he had lodged a formal complaint about the 2012 tweet and believed action was being taken.\n\n\"It was a travesty for the news of his readmission to come to public attention on the day when some members of our party were forced out was appalling,\" he added.\n\nThe party's deputy leader Tom Watson has also written to Labour's general secretary, Jennie Formby, questioning the decision to provisionally readmit Mr Hatton.\n\nMr Hatton posted the 2012 message during \"Operation Pillar of Defence\" a week-long offensive by the Israel Defence Forces in Gaza.\n\nAccording to a UNHCR report, 174 Palestinians were killed during the operation, and hundreds were injured.\n\nAt the time, NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said \"of course Israel has the right to self-defence and attacks against Israel must end, but the international community would also expect Israel to show restraint\".", "Prime Minister Theresa May will return to Brussels later to continue Brexit talks with the European Union.\n\nShe is trying to renegotiate the Irish backstop - the insurance policy to prevent the return of customs checks on the Irish border.\n\nMrs May is expected to request legally-binding assurances that the backstop will not extend indefinitely.\n\nHowever, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker has said he does not expect a \"breakthrough\" in talks.\n\nThe backstop policy is part of the withdrawal agreement Mrs May agreed with the EU, and became one of the main reasons her Brexit deal was voted down in Parliament in January.\n\nCritics fear it would leave the UK tied to a customs union with the EU indefinitely and see Northern Ireland treated differently.\n\nMPs gave their backing for Mrs May to renegotiate the policy in a vote earlier this month and said she was \"working hard to secure the legally binding changes\" that Parliament wants.\n\nBut the EU has consistently refused to make changes.\n\nChancellor Philip Hammond said on Tuesday evening the government accepted the EU will not agree to replace the backstop arrangements for the Irish border with technological alternatives in time for the scheduled date of Brexit on 29 March.\n\nThe so-called \"Malthouse Compromise\" - proposed by Remainers and Leavers - included proposals to use technology and checks away from the border to ensure the backstop was never activated.\n\nBut Mr Hammond said he hoped the technological solution would form part of negotiations over the following 21 months on the UK's future relationship with the EU.\n\nHe added that legally-binding changes to ensure the backstop does not become permanent \"would deliver the core of a majority for a deal in the House of Commons\".\n\nLeading Brexiteers Jacob Rees-Mogg and Steve Baker insisted they were happy with this arrangement, saying the Malthouse proposals were \"alive and kicking\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nJeremy Corbyn also announced he would be going to Brussels to meet the EU's chief negotiator, Michel Barnier, on Thursday.\n\nThe Labour leader said they would discuss his party's Brexit proposals - including a permanent customs union and a strong relationship with the single market - and that it was a \"necessity\" to take no deal off the table.\n\nBrexit Secretary Stephen Barclay updated the Cabinet on talks with Mr Barnier on Tuesday.\n\nThe meeting, on the issue of the Irish backstop, was described as \"productive\" but Mr Barnier \"expressed concerns\".\n\nAt the time, a European Commission spokesman said: \"The EU27 will not reopen the withdrawal agreement.\n\n\"We cannot accept a time limit to the backstop or a unilateral exit clause - and further talks will be held this week to see whether a way through can be found that would gain the broadest possible support in the UK parliament and respect the guidelines agreed by the European Council.\"\n\nThe PM has promised that if she is unable to negotiate an amended deal by 26 February then she'll return to Parliament and allow a further day of debate, with further chances for MPs to vote, the following day.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Diane Anderson speaks out over the pressure her husband was under\n\nThe widow of a university lecturer who killed himself has demanded action to tackle workload pressures to save other families having their \"dad taken away\".\n\nDiane Anderson said Cardiff University knew her husband Dr Malcolm Anderson was under significant pressure.\n\nInternal surveys, seen by BBC Wales, show a third of staff said they must work unreasonable hours to fulfil their job requirements.\n\nCardiff University said they take the welfare of staff extremely seriously.\n\nThe inquest into Dr Anderson's death heard he had left two notes before he fell from the university building in which he worked - one to his family and another referring to work pressures and long hours.\n\nAccording to his wife, he was working evenings, weekends and holidays to keep on top of marking, preparing lectures, setting exam papers and answering emails. She said the university should have known he was struggling.\n\n\"He did tell them. In his appraisals he told them that his workload was massive and it was unmanageable but nothing ever changed,\" said Mrs Anderson.\n\n\"There was no account taken for it. And it was just more of the same.\"\n\nAnnual work appraisals show Dr Anderson, who lived in Weston-super-Mare in Somerset, raised concerns that he was unable to take annual leave due to his workload in 2015, 2016 and 2017.\n\nHe was dealing with over 600 students and on the day he took his life, in February 2018, he was in the middle of marking 418 exam papers, and preparing for a day of lectures.\n\nHis wife said he had also accepted an additional role within the Business School, fearing that turning it down could count against him in future.\n\n\"He didn't want to apply for that job because he knew he was really going to struggle and the stress involved. It was just too much,\" she said.\n\nCardiff University said Dr Anderson was a \"committed, dedicated and well-liked\" member of staff\n\nMore than 600 members of staff have signed an open letter to the university's vice-chancellor, executive board and council, urging them to safeguard others from pressures of excessive workloads.\n\nAmong them was Prof Victoria Wass, one of Dr Anderson's colleagues at the Business School.\n\nShe said the university's work allocation model - introduced in 2016 - should be replaced because it significantly underestimates the time it takes to do key tasks and ignores other duties altogether.\n\n\"Staff have no confidence in [the model] and no confidence in management who keep trying to implement it,\" she said.\n\n\"We ought to be acting on it. We ought not to be leaving staff thinking they are alone in being unable to manage their workload and that there's some particular weakness on their behalf that they can't do it. Because in the end that is what you are left feeling.\"\n\nProf Victoria Wass said the university's timetabling system \"obscures\" the increase in workload\n\nCardiff University said it was reviewing the work allocation model.\n\nA spokesperson added: \"We are committed to working with all the members of the university community, including the recognised trade unions, to ensure the welfare of our staff.\n\n\"Over the last four years we have been seeking to establish a fair and transparent framework for allocating workloads.\"\n\nCardiff University has announced plans to cut 380 posts over the next five years to deal with a budget deficit of more than £20m.\n\nProf Wass believes those financial pressures will hurt staff and students.\n\n\"There are no plans to cut back on students, the plan is to maintain or even increase student numbers but cut back on the staff. It's an impossible situation,\" she added.\n\nThe University and College Union in Wales said new demands such as online marking and National Student Surveys had increased workload pressures on staff in institutions across the country.\n\nIt said: \"Employers can do so much, but the governments and their agencies must start to impact assess their requirements of the post-16 sector and the potential impact that a change in policy or practice will have on workload.\"\n\nThe university hopes to make many of the 380 job cuts through voluntary redundancies and recruitment controls\n\nThe Welsh Government said it was due to make an announcement on supporting mental health and wellbeing at universities, colleges and students.\n\nIt added: \"We believe in higher education as a common good. Welsh universities' overall income levels have increased by over £200m since 2012, and we expect universities to provide the best possible student experience whilst also being active at community, national and international levels.\"\n\nIf you are struggling to cope, you can call Samaritans free on 116 123 (UK and Ireland) or visit the BBC Action Line website.\n\nWales Live is on BBC One Wales at 22:35 GMT on Wednesday and is also available on the BBC iPlayer.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Daniel Williams, 19, was last seen in a student union bar at the University of Reading's Whiteknights campus\n\nSearch and rescue teams are trying to find a missing university student.\n\nDaniel Williams, 19, was last seen in a student union bar at the University of Reading's Whiteknights campus in the early hours of Thursday.\n\nHe was reported missing after he failed to return to his student accommodation.\n\nThames Valley Police said officers, volunteers and Berkshire Lowland Search & Rescue had been deployed. It added that anyone who knew his whereabouts should \"urgently\" contact the force.\n\nSuperintendent Jim Weems said: \"We are continuing to appeal for anyone with information about Daniel's whereabouts to contact police urgently, as we are extremely concerned for his welfare.\n\n\"Our officers and volunteers have worked tirelessly searching for Daniel, and will continue to do so.\"\n\nPolice said anyone who knew of Mr William's whereabouts should \"urgently\" contact the force\n\nMr Williams is described as 6ft tall, slim, with short light brown hair and blue eyes.\n\nHe was wearing jeans, black shoes and a black hooded top over a black T-shirt.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The A2045 in Walderslade is closed due to falling trees\n\nFreezing temperatures are continuing to disrupt travel and sports events.\n\nA number of League One and League Two football matches have been postponed, some roads remain closed and hundreds of homes are without power.\n\nParts of southern England saw 19cm (7.5in) of snow on Friday, with motorists stuck in vehicles overnight and falling trees blocking train lines.\n\nTemperatures could fall as low as -16C (3F) on Saturday night, with the Met Office warning of icy conditions.\n\nHighways England said police had worked until 02:00 GMT on Saturday to free vehicles from the M3 near Basingstoke, Hampshire.\n\nRobert Bell, Highways England South East operations manager, said: \"We have every sympathy for drivers who found themselves stranded in the severe weather.\n\n\"Safety is our top priority and our teams of gritters and snow ploughs, supported by our traffic officers, worked through the night to keep the roads treated.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUp to 1,500 people are without power in the Basingstoke area following the heavy snowfall.\n\nScottish and Southern Electricity Networks said engineers were struggling to reach \"fault locations... with snowdrifts of up to 5ft in places\" but hoped to have power restored to all affected homes by Saturday afternoon.\n\nThe area bore the brunt of Friday's snowfall, with drivers abandoning vehicles and the local hospital urging people not to use the A&E department if possible.\n\nKent County Council said they had 18 tree surgeons working to clear the A2045 where a number of trees were brought down by the weight of the snow.\n\nOvernight sleet and snow in the county on Friday hampered efforts to free drivers trapped on the roads, with police reporting an \"incredibly busy night\".\n\nThe A2045 in Walderslade was not expected to be open again until Sunday afternoon.\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 KCC Highways This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn the West Country, Bristol Airport - which closed its runway on Friday - said there may be some further delays due to the de-icing of runways.\n\nCardiff Airport was also anticipating some disruption \"due to adverse weather\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Met Office has issued a yellow weather warning for ice across southern parts of the UK from 16:00 GMT on Saturday to late Sunday morning.\n\nIt said, while most areas would be dry, temperatures are expected to fall rapidly after dark with wet surfaces refreezing, meaning an increased likelihood of accidents due to icy surfaces.\n\nThe weather has also affected this weekend's football programme.\n\nSix English Football League matches have been postponed because of snow and freezing conditions in the UK, including one League One match, Accrington v Blackpool, and five league two matches.\n\nFive Scottish League One and Two matches have also been postponed.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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This is the weather forecast for the British Isles.\n\nBBC weather presenter Helen Willetts said there was lying snow in many parts of the UK, and the ice risk remained high through Saturday night and into Sunday morning.\n\nSnow showers would ease in the later part of the day, but the weather is expected to turn very cold overnight, with experts predicting \"the coldest night of the winter so far\".\n\nTemperatures even in cities such as London and Birmingham could fall to a \"very unusual\" -4 or -5, with -12 expected over the snowfields in Scotland.\n\nHowever Sunday will mark \"a day of change\" with milder air pushing in bringing heavy rain and some windy conditions in the coming week.\n\nTemperatures fell to their lowest level this winter in the early hours of Friday, with Braemar, Aberdeenshire, dropping to -15.4C (6F).\n\nThis is the lowest in the UK since 2012 - when temperatures fell to -15.6C in Holbeach, Lincolnshire.\n\nYou must enable JavaScript to view this content. Compare the temperature where you are with more than 50 cities around the world, including some of the hottest and coldest inhabited places. Enter your location or postcode in the search box to see your result.\n\nThis temperature comparison tool uses three hourly forecast figures. For more detailed hourly UK forecasts go to BBC Weather.\n\nIf you can't see the calculator, tap here.\n\nHow have you been affected by the bad weather? Tell us your story by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:\n\nThe A2045 in Walderslade is closed due to falling trees", "The world could put a stop to female genital mutilation (FGM) within a generation, international leaders and campaigners say. (This report contains graphic descriptions of the practices involved).\n\nThe ambitious pledge to end FGM comes from a UK summit dedicated to the topic, hosted by Prime Minister David Cameron.\n\nSo what is FGM, and why is it still being carried out on millions of women and girls around the world?\n\nFemale genital mutilation (FGM) includes any procedure that alters or injures the female genital organs for non-medical reasons.\n\nIn its most severe form, after removing the sensitive clitoris, the genitals are cut and stitched closed so that the woman cannot have or enjoy sex.\n\nA tiny piece of wood or reed is inserted to leave a small opening for the necessary flow of urine, and monthly blood when she comes of age (most FGM is carried out on infants or young girls before they reach puberty).\n\nWhen she is ready to have sex and a baby, she is \"unstitched\" - and then sewn back up again after to keep her what is described by proponents as \"hygienic, chaste and faithful\".\n\nIn societies where FGM is commonplace, a woman can bring shame on herself and her family if she does not comply. Some see it as a religious necessity - though no scriptures explicitly prescribe it.\n•Clitoridectomy - partial or total removal of the clitoris\n•Excision - removal of the clitoris and inner labia (lips), with or without the outer labia\n•Infibulation - cutting, removing and sewing up the genitalia\n•Any other type of intentional damage to the female genitalia (burning, scraping et cetera)\n\nMost often, the procedure is carried out by traditional circumcisers or preachers, using crude, accessible tools, such as thorns and thread, broken glass or razor blades, and without anaesthetic.\n\nThe pain is part of the centuries-old ritual - to prove that the woman is strong and can endure it. Corrosive substances may also be inserted into the vagina to scar, tighten and narrow it.\n\nBut about a fifth of all FGM is now performed by healthcare workers in hospital settings - bespoke clinics that use scalpels and antiseptics - and the trend towards medicalisation is increasing, says the World Health Organization.\n\nThis is partly to counter the argument that FGM is unsafe. A big risk with FGM is dangerous bleeding and infection. By doing it in a clinic, these risks can be minimised.\n\nAnother compelling reason is money. Doctors and midwives in poor countries can boost their salary by selling their services.\n\nEfua Dorkenoo, senior FGM advisor at Equality Now, who has been campaigning for decades to put an end to FGM, said: \"In Egypt, around 70% of FGM is done by medical doctors. In Kenya and Nigeria, local midwives are cutting.\n\n\"The medical professionals, they think that if it can't be stopped it's best to do it in the medical setting. And some are doing it for money.\"\n\nAnd it's not just something that's done outside of the West. There have been numerous reports of the practice documented in the UK, even though it is illegal.\n\nWhile it is hard to get a handle on the true scale, figures suggest at least 4,000 women and girls have been treated for FGM in London's hospitals since 2009.\n\nAs yet, there have been no convictions for these crimes. And it's something that's been going on quietly for decades, says Ms Dorkenoo.\n\nUnicef estimates that more than 130 million girls and women alive in the world today have undergone FGM, mostly for cultural, religious and social reasons, although support for FGM is falling.\n\nThere are no health benefits, but many risks associated with FGM even when it is done in a hygienic setting.\n\nAn obvious one is severe pain - both physical and psychological.\n\nVictims recall fighting to get free as they were held down and their legs forcibly spread for the cutting.\n\nIsa, who was cut when she was six, recalls: \"I can still remember the shouting. I can still remember the blood coming through. I can still remember the pain.\"\n\nShe's since had surgery and, as a trained midwife, helps other women who have undergone FGM.\n\nSurgery may reverse some of the damage, but it cannot restore sensitive tissue that has been removed.\n\nNor can it repair emotional scars.\n\nJanet Fyle, who is the Royal College of Midwives' lead advisor on FGM, says: \"Some women have flashbacks similar to soldiers who have been in battle.\n\nFGM is shrouded in secrecy and some women are too fearful to speak out\n\n\"If they were kidnapped on their way to collect water or someone held them down, its a trauma to them psychologically and its very difficult to deal with those scars.\"\n\nShe hopes that FGM will become a thing of the past.\n\n\"I have hopes that we will end it in a generation. At least here in the UK.\n\n\"The younger girls are more aware of it. We need to educate and empower them.\"\n\nBut she says FGM is deeply embedded in many cultures - and that could take a long time to change.\n\nEfua Dorkenoo agrees: \"In the most bizarre way, women have become the perpetrators and practisers of this and keep the tradition going. If you speak to women, they may say they want it because it's linked to them being accepted by society. It's at the core of controlling a woman's sexuality.\n\n\"Because it's to do with sexuality, it's still very taboo to talk about.\"\n\nMother-of-three Asseta was cut when she was seven years old. In Burkina Faso, where Asseta lives, more than 75% of girls and women have been cut.\n\nAsseta says: \"I was told there were some eggs to eat - so me and my friends rushed over. But when we got there, there was blood all over the floor from other girls. It was very difficult - being cut is an event I will never forget.\n\n\"Deciding not to get my daughters cut was a tough decision to make.\n\n\"Going against tradition can be difficult. First you need to convince yourself that the decision you're making is the best one - you need to know the facts in order to do that.\n\n\"I hope my daughter will have a better life, better health because of my decision. And I hope she will do the same for her daughters and avoid cutting.\"\n\nAsseta's daughter, 13-year-old Fatmata, says: \"I had heard about FGM and I've seen it happen - a friend of mine was cut when she was 12 years old. Seeing it happen made me feel scared. I don't want to be cut, and I'm happy knowing my parents aren't going to make me do it.\"\n\nIn many places where FGM is done, there is no law against it, or if there is, it's not implemented. And politicians have been afraid to push too far, says Efua Dorkenoo, who has herself received death threats for speaking out against FGM.\n\nThere was a UN resolution in 2012 to ban FGM worldwide.\n\n\"Now is the time for the international community to make this happen,\" says Ms Dorkenoo.", "While Meghan and Harry were visiting a charity that helps street sex workers in Bristol, the Duchess of Sussex had a fruitful idea.", "Kay Bailey Hutchison said the US wanted to find a diplomatic solution to this problem\n\nThe threat from a senior US diplomat to \"take out\" Russian missiles that Washington believes are in breach of an important Cold War arms control treaty looks set to cause additional tensions with Moscow, just ahead of a meeting of Nato defence ministers that opens in Brussels on Wednesday.\n\nThe US ambassador to Nato, Kay Bailey Hutchison, was speaking ahead of that meeting and brought up once again Washington's contention that Russia is in breach of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) agreement of 1987.\n\nThis treaty banned a whole category of weapons: ground-launched medium-range missiles, capable of striking targets at distances between 500 and 5,500km (310-3,100 miles).\n\nNow, the Americans insist, despite Russian denials, that Moscow has a new medium-range missile in its inventory - the Novator 9M729 - known to Nato as the SSC-8.\n\nThis would enable Russia to launch a nuclear strike at Nato countries at very short notice.\n\nSoviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and US President Ronald Reagan signed the INF treaty in 1987\n\nAmbassador Hutchison said the US wants to find a diplomatic solution to this problem.\n\nBut she appeared to indicate that the US might consider military action if Russia's development of the system continued.\n\n\"At that point we would be looking at the capability to take out a (Russian) missile that could hit any of our countries,\" she said, adding counter-measures (by the US) would be to take out the missiles that are in development by Russia in violation of the treaty.\n\nAt first sight, this seems to be a fairly blunt warning from President Donald Trump's Nato ambassador.\n\nBut it is not exactly clear what she is saying. Is she threatening a pre-emptive strike out of the blue? Surely not.\n\nIs she warning that if the Russian development of these weapons goes ahead then the US will find systems to target them in the event of a crisis?\n\nIndeed, other US experts have sometimes suggested that a more likely US response might be to throw over the INF treaty itself and deploy a similar category of weapon.\n\nThat would be very bad news for arms control.\n\nBack in the Cold War, the US was alarmed at the then Soviet Union's deployment of the SS-20 system.\n\nSome of Washington's allies agreed to receive US Pershing and Cruise missiles in response. The move prompted widespread protests and huge political tensions.\n\nThe resulting INF treaty swept this whole category of weapon away and significantly reduced tensions.\n\nMr Putin and ex-President Barack Obama had diplomatic run-ins over the INF Treaty\n\nBut now, once again, the INF Treaty is back in the news.\n\nRussia has said little about its new missile other than to deny that it is in breach of the agreement.\n\nIt has not answered any of the Nato countries' concerns.\n\nIndeed, in his pre-ministerial press conference, Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg noted that \"the most plausible assessment would be that Russia is in violation of the treaty\".\n\n\"It is therefore urgent,\" he went on, \"that Russia addresses these concerns in a substantial and transparent manner.\"\n\nHe also added that, according to US intelligence, Russia had started to deploy the new missile.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Russian defence ministry released video it said shows missiles being launched\n\nExactly what the Americans know is still not clear.\n\nFor a long time experts were not even certain which specific missile was being talked about. Is this just an extended range version of the Iskander-M - an existing Russian weapon?\n\nOr could it be a new variant of the sea-launched Kalibr land attack missile that has been used by the Russian navy against targets in Syria?\n\nWhatever the details, the US insists the Russians are in breach of the INF agreement. That matters.\n\nAmbassador Hutchison may have spoken a little loosely. Russia's foreign affairs ministry spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova, said: \"It seems that people who make such statements do not realise the level of their responsibility and the danger of aggressive rhetoric.\"\n\nBut if the deployment of the weapon continues, then the US could well make some equivalent move in response.\n\nThe issue is bound to be high on the agenda when Nato defence ministers meet in Brussels.", "Emiliano Sala (left) was on board a plane being flown by pilot David Ibbotson\n\nA seabed search for the missing plane carrying footballer Emiliano Sala and his pilot will start on Sunday.\n\nCardiff City's new signing disappeared with pilot David Ibbotson over the English Channel on 21 January.\n\nTwo vessels will conduct sonar surveys off Guernsey, said David Mearns who is coordinating part of the search.\n\nThere were emotional tributes to the footballer as Cardiff played their first home game since the disappearance earlier on Saturday.\n\nArgentine Sala, 28, and Mr Ibbotson, 59, from Crowle, North Lincolnshire, were travelling from Nantes, where Sala previously played, when the flight was lost.\n\nCushions believed to be from the plane were found on a beach near Surtainville, on France's Cotentin Peninsula, on Monday.\n\nThe Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) said Geo Ocean III departed at 09:00 GMT on Saturday with investigators on board, and is expected to arrive at the search area at 09:00 on Sunday to start the underwater search, which will last three days.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. David Mearns explains the next steps in the search expected to begin on Sunday\n\nCardiff City played their first match at home since Sala, the club's record £15m signing, went missing.\n\nA minute's silence was held before the game with Bournemouth at 17:30 GMT.\n\nCardiff's match shirts were embroidered with daffodils and players warmed up in t-shirts paying tribute to Sala.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Fans pay tribute to missing footballer Sala at the first home Cardiff City match since he disappeared\n\nSpeaking from Guernsey harbour, Mr Mearns said his team would work jointly with a second vessel commissioned by the AAIB.\n\nThey plan to search an area covering two square miles about 24 nautical miles north of Guernsey.\n\nIt has been based on the flight path before it lost radar contact, said Mr Mearns, a shipwreck hunter.\n\n\"The family are devastated and struggling with what has happened,\" he said.\n\n\"What we are doing is trying to provide some answers for them.\"\n\nAn official search following the plane's disappearance was called off after three days with Guernsey officials saying there was little chance those on board survived.\n\nIt prompted a privately-funded search to be set up after £324,000 was raised in an online appeal.\n\nSala's family arrived on Guernsey following his disappearance and were taken to see the area that was searched, circling the island of Alderney.\n\nMr Mearns said both vessels would divide the search area in half, looking for \"wreckage\" and a \"debris field\" in a depth of 60-120m (196-390ft).\n\n\"We will continue to work until the plane is located,\" he said.", "Rugby’s Six Nations tournament kicked off in Paris on Friday night with the opening match between France and Wales.\n\nThe deaths of four players – two of them professionals – has cast a shadow over French rugby, and there are now growing calls for reforms to make the game safer.", "Lauren Laverne and Sam Baker founded The Pool in 2015\n\nThe editor of online women's magazine The Pool has said she is \"absolutely gutted\" the venture is to fold after almost four years.\n\nCate Sevilla said she was \"heartbroken\" more than 20 members of staff faced redundancy from the firm, which was co-founded by broadcaster Lauren Laverne.\n\nStaff were not paid in January and some freelancers are owed sizeable payments.\n\nThe collapse of the firm raises questions about whether women-focused journalism can thrive online.\n\nOne industry expert said The Pool was caught in a \"deadly vortex\" of declining advertising revenues.\n\nThe site, styled as a \"platform for women too busy to browse\", went live in 2015 and signed up a collection of prominent female writers and contributors.\n\nThe Pool's editor Cate Sevilla said in a series of Twitter posts: \"I don't really know what to say. I'm absolutely gutted.\n\n\"This has been an extremely frustrating situation, and I'm heartbroken for my team. For our freelancers. For our readers.\n\n\"I always wanted to work at The Pool, and I can't quite believe what's happened.\"\n\nA GoFundMe page to help pay The Pool's staff and freelancers had raised more than £8,000 of a £24,000 target by Friday evening.\n\nEleanor Mills, chairwoman of Women in Journalism, which supports female workers in the industry, said online news websites were suffering because Google and Facebook were so dominant and took such a large share of all digital revenue, which she estimated at 95%.\n\nMs Mills, who is also the editorial director of the Sunday Times, said women's magazines faced pressure from beauty and fashion brands choosing increasingly to advertise with so-called \"influencers\"\n\n\"The Pool found itself in a deadly vortex fed by both of these trends - the unviability of online advertising supported publishing and a shake up and turndown in fashion and beauty advertising,\" she said.\n\nLauren Laverne, who resigned as a director of The Pool last year, said on Twitter: \"I haven't had an official role at @thepooluk for a while, but I am extremely sad to hear about its closure.\n\n\"However I am also very proud of what we achieved. It was an honour to work alongside such an inspiring and creative team, on something people loved.\"\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 Lauren Laverne 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\nSam Baker, co-founder and former Cosmopolitan editor, who also resigned as a director of The Pool in 2018, said on Twitter: \"We tried so hard and we failed. What matters now is getting the brilliant team and freelancers paid.\"\n\nIt comes after a month in which online publishers made deep cuts. Staff have been made redundant at a number of BuzzFeed offices, while Verizon Media Group, which owns HuffPost, has laid off hundreds of people.\n\nPress Gazette editor Freddy Mayhew said \"there seems to be no end in sight\" to redundancies at online publications.\n\n\"Readers' habits are changing as they turn away from printed newspapers and magazines to get their news and features digitally,\" he said.\n\n\"But as the media industry moves with them, it is struggling to find a business model that can sustain its journalism.\n\nThe publication is calling on Google and Facebook to take less money from online advertising.\n\nMr Mayhew added: \"If the likes of The Pool, Buzzfeed and HuffPost can't make digital journalism pay when they're the experts, who purely publish online with no print offering, then the industry truly is in crisis.\"", "The shootings of two men in Londonderry were an attempt to \"control communities through fear and violence\", the PSNI has said.\n\nThe men were shot in separate incidents in the Ballymagroarty area of Londonderry on Friday evening.\n\nThe shootings happened within 10 minutes of each other and less than 100 metres apart.\n\nBoth men were taken to hospital for treatment.\n\nIn the first attack, a 24-year-old man was shot in the knee on a grassed area close to Corrib Court.\n\nThe incident was reported to police at about 20.10 GMT.\n\nThe second shooting was reported just after 20.20 GMT.\n\nA 32-year-old man was shot once in the leg on a grassed area near O'Casey Court.\n\n\"We are treating both incidents as paramilitary-style attacks; attacks that were brutal and vicious and will leave these two men with both physical and psychological scars,\" Det Sgt Michelle Boyd said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Sara Neill This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"These attacks are yet again more examples of how criminal groups seek to control communities through fear and violence.\"\n\nThe Western Trust said both men were in a stable condition at Altnagelvin hospital in the city.\n\n\"There can be no place for the use of guns or gangs of masked men on the streets of our city,\" he said.\n\n\"All of this is in stark contrast to the good work that is going on in this community.\"", "England collapsed in dismal fashion yet again to lose the second Test by 10 wickets as West Indies sealed the series with a match to spare.\n\nAfter West Indies were bowled out for 306 - a lead of 119 - the tourists slipped from 35-0 to 132 all out, with Kemar Roach and Jason Holder taking four wickets each in Antigua.\n\nWith West Indies chasing only 14, John Campbell wrapped up victory with a six.\n\nA three-day victory gave them a 2-0 lead in the three-match series.\n\nIt is West Indies' first Test series win over England since 2009 and their first against a side other than Bangladesh and Zimbabwe since 2012.\n\nHolder's impressive team have a chance to secure a whitewash when the third Test in St Lucia begins on 9 February.\n\nThis England side are not blessed with prodigious Test-match batsmen - only captain Joe Root and Ben Foakes average more than 40 and the latter has played just five matches.\n\nBut neither are West Indies, yet the hosts were able to adapt their game to eke out a vital lead on a challenging pitch, epitomised by Darren Bravo's defiant 50 off 216 balls.\n\nBravo batted for 342 minutes - the third slowest fifty in Test history by time. England's second innings lasted 211 minutes, the tourists having failed to learn from both their previous collapses in this series and the approach of their determined hosts.\n\nRory Burns cut a ball that was too close to him straight to third slip to depart for 16 and fellow opener Joe Denly - who was dropped on nought - was bowled for 17, leaving a delivery from Alzarri Joseph to end a nervy innings full of ill-advised shots.\n\nJonny Bairstow made 14 before he was bowled through the gate trying to drive Holder down the ground. He has been bowled in nine of his past 18 innings and 29 times this decade - the most of any batsmen in Tests.\n\nIn total, four England batsmen were bowled, Ben Stokes dragging on when playing too far away from his body and Moeen Ali missing an attempted drive down the ground off a very full delivery, both off Roach.\n\nOf the recognised batsmen, only Root, Foakes and perhaps Jos Buttler were undone by fine deliveries. The rest were down to poor decision-making.\n\nEngland had the better of the morning session, bowling well to take the last four West Indies wickets for 34 runs before Burns and Denly battled through to lunch.\n\nWith opening bowlers Shannon Gabriel and Roach dropping too short, Holder brought himself into the attack and struck with his first ball to remove Burns before dismissing Bairstow shortly after.\n\nJoseph bowled beautifully in tandem with Holder, claiming 2-12 in a splendid seven-over spell, made all the more powerful given the 22-year-old was playing after his mother Sharon died in the early hours of Saturday.\n\nTouching 90mph and finding sharp bounce, he knocked over Denly and had Root caught behind after Holder's shrewd decision to call for a review, despite Joseph thinking it had only hit Root's hip and not the glove as well.\n\nHolder proved adept at using the decision review system again to help a revitalised Roach dismiss Foakes lbw for 13 - a ball that ducked in appearing to be sliding down in real time but shown on ball-tracking to be hitting leg stump.\n\nRoach then trapped Stuart Broad in front and Holder had James Anderson caught by a diving Joseph at mid-on before raising his arms and yelling in celebration.\n\nHolder dedicated the victory to Joseph and his family, a unified, spirited West Indies hoping this stunning series win is the start of a welcome resurgence.\n\n'Our shot selection was well below par' - reaction\n\nEngland captain Joe Root: \"We've been outperformed once again and that's quite hard to take. Scoring under 200 isn't going to win you many games of cricket.\n\n\"West Indies know these conditions well and they've exploited them to their advantage. They've played some really good stuff at times and made it very difficult. They're fully deserving of winning the series.\"\n\nEngland coach Trevor Bayliss on Sky Sports: \"Our batting has been poor. Some of our shot selection was well below par. The first two dismissals today were very loose shots. That doesn't set a great example for guys coming in.\n\n\"We've got to be harder to get out. It's a case of applying ourselves a little better. Our concentration and will to bat for a long period of time is the way forward.\"\n\nWest Indies captain Jason Holder: \"It's difficult to describe my emotions.\n\n\"We wanted to do it for Alzarri's mother. For him to come out, play and bowl the way he bowled, was a credit to him. This win is for him and his family.\"\n\nMan of the match Kemar Roach, who took 4-30 and 4-52: \"It's a special award. A series win at home against England, the third best team in the world, is fantastic. I'm proud of the guys.\"\n\nBBC cricket correspondent Jonathan Agnew on the BBC's The Cricket Social: \"This West Indies team is full of character - their resistance, the bravery, the stubbornness, the discipline to play for 131 overs compared to the way England went about their business. You couldn't blame the pitch for many of England's dismissals.\"", "Intense rain in north-eastern Australia has triggered severe flooding, turning streets into rivers, sweeping away cars and forcing families to evacuate.\n\nThe city of Townsville in Queensland has been worst hit, with dozens of homes inundated with water.\n\nThe army is helping with the emergency effort.\n\nRead more: Monsoon rains cause floods in Queensland", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The student says she feels her experience has been for nothing\n\nA student threatened with rape by men in an online chat has told the BBC her university's investigation into the messages made her feel like she was \"on trial\".\n\nFive male students were banned from the University of Warwick last year, after details of the chat emerged.\n\nSeveral students in the chat encouraged others to rape women on campus.\n\nThe university said it \"stands by the investigation process\", but it planned to review its disciplinary procedures.\n\nA statement from the university, accompanying an open letter by vice-chancellor Professor Stuart Croft, said the university \"will ensure sexual misconduct is considered specifically as part of our review of disciplinary processes\".\n\nJennifer - not her real name - spoke out after the BBC reported on Thursday that two of the students, initially banned for 10 years, had had their punishments reduced after an appeal.\n\nThey could return to classes this year.\n\nJennifer said this left her \"devastated\" and that all of her \"traumatic experiences\" had been \"for nothing\".\n\n\"These people are still going to be back and they're still going to be dangerous ... and Warwick University are allowing that to happen.\"\n\nThe Facebook group chat was first reported last summer by Warwick student newspaper The Boar.\n\nJennifer said: \"There were a lot of threats of gang rape.\n\n\"One of them spoke about wanting to gang rape me and then after they discarded my body they wanted to ejaculate all over it.\n\n\"They talked about my friend, they wanted to genitally mutilate her.\"\n\nStudent newspapers obtained the screenshots after complaints were made to the university\n\nAfter Jennifer and another student officially complained to the university, both were interviewed as part of the subsequent investigation.\n\n\"We were made to feel the entire time that we had to justify why we were upset,\" she said.\n\n\"It was very aggressive questioning. It was as if we were on trial.\n\n\"We were given a list of male individuals involved, and we were taken through it one by one and asked our sexual history with each of them - which obviously was really traumatic. Not having anyone really there to represent me.\n\n\"I didn't know if I was supposed to be answering these kind of questions and it was really upsetting.\"\n\nThe university's director of press, whose job it is to promote the university and protect its reputation, was appointed as the official investigator.\n\nJennifer said that this was a \"clear conflict of interest\".\n\nA spokesman from the University of Warwick admitted there was a \"potential for conflict\".\n\nBut he said: \"During the length of the investigation media relations were delegated to other members of the press and media relations team.\"\n\nHe added: \"All those who were interviewed as part of the investigation were asked about whether there were prior or existing relationships with those also involved.\n\n\"The detail of any relationship was neither questioned or explored.\"\n\nIn a lengthy statement, with a further list of questions and answers attached, Professor Croft said the punished students' comments had been \"dehumanising, humiliating, and revolting\" and \"against everything that everyone holds dear in any society\".\n\nBut he said that, despite calls for the 11 individuals involved to be banned from campus, he did not have the authority to make such a decision.\n\nHe said that the university had a duty of care to all those involved and that he was not going to immediately propose a way forward \"because I think that there is a lot more listening to do first\".\n\nIn the accompanying FAQs, the university clarified: \"The male students are not allowed on campus at the present time and, should they return to complete their studies next year, their access to campus facilities and to learning opportunities will be carefully managed in line with conditions laid out in the initial punishment.\"\n\nOn Thursday, Prof Christine Ennew, a member of the executive team at Warwick University, said the university was sorry the decision to allow the students back early had \"upset so many members of our own community and beyond\".\n\nShe added the penalties were intended to allow the complainants time to finish their studies before the disciplined students were given the opportunity to return.", "A man clears snow in a street in Westbury, Wiltshire, on Saturday morning\n\nWeather warnings for ice have been issued for Saturday afternoon and evening in parts of England as wintry conditions continue to affect the UK.\n\nThe Met Office is advising care as snow is expected to melt during the day and freeze as temperatures drop.\n\nEastern and southern England are braced for their coldest night of the winter, with -12C (10F) forecast, while parts of Scotland could see similar lows.\n\nThe freezing weather has disrupted travel and sports events.\n\nA number of football matches, in League One and League Two and the Scottish League One and Two, have been postponed, and some roads remain closed.\n\nThames Valley Police say they rescued an eight-week-old baby from a vehicle which came off a road in icy conditions in Bracknell, Berkshire, on Friday night, and ended up in a ditch.\n\nOfficers rescued a baby from this vehicle in Bracknell after it came off an icy stretch of road\n\nMeanwhile, a woman who went to the aid of a dog after it fell into a frozen river in Haddington, East Lothian, has been rescued by emergency services. She was helped off the ice on the River Tyne but the dog could not be saved.\n\nKent County Council said they had 18 tree surgeons working to clear the A2045 in Walderslade, where a number of trees were brought down by the weight of the snow and drivers were left trapped in their cars overnight. The road is not expected to reopen until Sunday afternoon.\n\nThe Met Office has issued a yellow weather warning for ice across southern and eastern parts of the UK from 16:00 GMT on Saturday to 11:00 on Sunday morning.\n\nIt said that while most areas would be dry, temperatures are expected to fall rapidly after dark with wet surfaces refreezing, meaning an increased likelihood of accidents due to icy surfaces.\n\nThe cold weather is forecast to continue in parts of central and southern Scotland where a yellow warning has been issued for between midnight and 14:00 GMT on Monday, with the snow and ice expected to hit the morning commute.\n\nParts of southern England saw 19cm (7.5in) of snow on Friday, with motorists stuck in vehicles overnight and falling trees blocking train lines.\n\nHighways England said police had worked until 02:00 GMT on Saturday to free vehicles from the M3 near Basingstoke.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUp to 1,500 people were without left power in the Basingstoke area of Hampshire - but power was restored around lunchtime.\n\nScottish and Southern Electricity Networks said its engineers had struggled to reach \"fault locations... with snowdrifts of up to 5ft in places\".\n\nBristol Airport - which closed its runway on Friday - saw some delays on Saturday morning because of the de-icing of runways but a full flight schedule was in operation.\n\nThe A96 was open on Saturday morning but police said conditions were treacherous\n\nThe village of Rowde and surrounding fields in Wiltshire remains covered in a blanket of snow\n\nCars were left abandoned at the side of roads near Maidstone in Kent\n\nThe A96 in the north east of Scotland was blocked overnight after a lorry jackknifed just south of Keith in Moray on Friday afternoon.\n\nPolice said three other lorries got into difficulties further south on the same road on Saturday.\n\nSix English Football League matches have been postponed because of snow and freezing conditions, including one League One match, Accrington v Blackpool, and five League Two games.\n\nFive Scottish League One and Two matches have also been called off.\n\nGround staff make sure Scotland's Six Nations clash with Italy can go ahead - but a host of sporting fixtures have been cancelled\n\nMeanwhile, skiers and snowboarders have been warned against taking to the streets in urban areas.\n\nDaniel Loots, from the Ski Club of Great Britain, said he advised against skiing or snowboarding on the street or pavement as \"although it looks fun it's pretty dangerous\".\n\nHis advice was to stick to the countryside and parks.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This is the weather forecast for the British Isles.\n\nBBC weather presenter Mel Coles said there was lying snow in many parts of the UK, and the ice risk remained high through Saturday night and into Sunday morning.\n\nSnow showers would ease in the later part of the day, but the weather is expected to turn very cold overnight, with experts predicting \"the coldest night of the winter so far\" in England, where temperatures in areas where snow has fallen could dip to -12C.\n\nTemperatures even in cities such as London and Birmingham could fall to a \"very unusual\" -4 or -5, with -12 also expected over the snowfields in Scotland, such as Aboyne and Braemar.\n\nHowever, Sunday will mark \"a day of change\" with milder air pushing in bringing heavy rain and some windy conditions in the coming week.\n\nTemperatures fell to their lowest level this winter in the early hours of Friday, with Braemar, Aberdeenshire, dropping to -15.4C (6F).\n\nThis is the lowest in the UK since 2012 - when temperatures fell to -15.6C in Holbeach, Lincolnshire.\n\nYou must enable JavaScript to view this content. Compare the temperature where you are with more than 50 cities around the world, including some of the hottest and coldest inhabited places. Enter your location or postcode in the search box to see your result.\n\nThis temperature comparison tool uses three hourly forecast figures. For more detailed hourly UK forecasts go to BBC Weather.\n\nIf you can't see the calculator, tap here.", "Blair Kinghorn scored a hat-trick as Scotland beat Italy to record a seventh consecutive home Six Nations victory.\n\nThe hosts trailed to a Tommaso Allan penalty, but wing Kinghorn finished off two imaginative first-half moves as the hosts asserted their authority.\n\nStuart Hogg touched down a Finn Russell grubber, before Kinghorn jinked through for his sixth try in eight Tests.\n\nChris Harris crossed before Guglielmo Palazzani, Edoardo Padovani and Angelo Esposito scored late consolation tries.\n\nIt was a disappointing conclusion to a bonus-point win for Gregor Townsend's side, who played the last 10 minutes with 14 men after prop Simon Berghan was yellow-carded.\n\nBut the victory still marks just the third time in 20 attempts that Scotland have won a Six Nations opener.\n• None Scotland 'have to improve for Ireland test'\n• None Reaction & relive the action as it happened\n• None Could Scotland really win the Six Nations?\n\nScotland's dominance, if not their sharp decision-making, started early and never, ever let up. The hosts could have - and should have - scored twice in the opening five minutes, big and handsome overlaps being ignored and opportunities wasted as a result.\n\nGreig Laidlaw missed the first one, opting to go himself instead of finding Jamie Ritchie outside him. Kinghorn wasted the second. The wing, who made amends in a thunderous way later on, had Stuart Hogg and Tommy Seymour with him and failed to spot either of them.\n\nIn the middle of all of this, Grant Gilchrist plonked the ball on the Italian line but got done for a double movement.\n\nBizarre, then, that Italy took the lead with an Allan penalty, but that was a short-lived lead. The mismatch played out soon enough.\n\nFor much of the day, Scotland used their kicking game to pin Italy back in their own 22, and then put fierce pressure on the visitors as they attempted to exit. At times, the variety in Scotland's attack bamboozled the visitors.\n\nThe rewards were initially slow to appear on the scoreboard, but Kinghorn got the process started in the 12th minute. Italy lost control of ruck ball and Scotland made them pay, Russell spotting Kinghorn alone on the left wing. The fly-half's cross-kick was precise and the wing darted over.\n\nScotland lost Sam Skinner straight away, Josh Strauss coming on in his place with Ryan Wilson moving to blind-side. Strauss showed up well.\n\nA second score came at the beginning of the second quarter, a Tommaso Castello fumble near his own posts gifting the Scots a scrum. From there, it was all about the home team slicing through impetuous and porous Italian defence.\n\nFrom right to left, Laidlaw shifted the point of the attack from the back of the scrum. Russell ran a wraparound play with Sam Johnson, who was terrific on his debut. Huw Jones' decoy run took away some Italian defenders, Russell took away another, Hogg took away three more when he got on the ball, and then got his pass way to Kinghorn.\n\nThe wing ran it in and Laidlaw converted and Scotland led 12-3. It stayed that way until half-time, which was a surprise given the one-sidedness of the game and the non-existence of the Italians as an attacking force.\n\nScots pour on pain, then switch off\n\nScotland poured on the pain after the break. A set-play off a line-out and Seymour's scything break were the catalyst for the third try. With a penalty advantage, Russell grubbered for Hogg, who got there a millimetre ahead of Esposito. The conversion made it 19-3.\n\nKinghorn's hat-trick came soon after, Ritchie running a gorgeous line to send Italy scrambling again. Laidlaw fed it on to Kinghorn, who dummied his way through a wretchedly soft visiting defence. For a wing who probably would not have been in the team had it not been for Sean Maitland's injury, it was a hell of a moment and was Scotland's first Six Nations hat-trick.\n\nYou have got to go all the way back to March 1989 and Iwan Tukalo to find Scotland's last treble in this competition, back when there were just the five teams.\n\nA coruscating Hogg break was the spark for Scotland's fifth try. Hogg took Italy to the cleaners and found support in Russell and Strauss who put Harris over. Game done at 33-3.\n\nWhat happened next was a Scottish shambles and an Italian freak show. Scotland emptied the bench, Berghan got binned, and the wheels fell off in the most gobsmacking way.\n\nPalazzani sniped in from close range in the 71st minute, Padovani ran in an easy second, and more chaos in Scotland's defence gave Esposito a third.\n\nNobody was home at the back for Scotland. Nobody was switched-on. Three Italian tries in seven minutes took some of the feel-good out of it for the home crowd, who were not quite sure what to do, or think, at the end.\n\nReplacements: Kerr (for McInally, 63), Bhatti (for Dell, 58), Berghan (for Nel, 50), Graham (for Wilson, 72), Strauss (for Skinner, 13), Price (for Laidlaw, 58), Hastings (for Russell, 76), Harris for Jones, 58).\n\nReplacements: Bigi (for Ghiraldini, 59), Traore (for Lovotti, 51) Pasquali (for Ferrari, 52), Tuivaiti (for Negri, 58), Ruzza (for Budd, 51), Benvenuti (for Morisi, 78), McKinley (for Allan, 26-35, then 71), Padovani (for Castello, 48).", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir David thinks the move would benefit generations of black children\n\nArchitect Sir David Adjaye has called for a \"long overdue\" museum celebrating black culture in Britain.\n\nHe believes it would help generations of black children to feel part of \"the language, DNA and roots\" of the UK.\n\nHe explained that the contribution of black people to the British Isles was an important talking point.\n\nThe British-Ghanaian achieved global fame as the architect of the National Museum of African-American History and Culture in Washington DC.\n\nSpeaking to BBC arts editor Will Gompertz, Sir David said that most people believe black Britain began with the Windrush generation but it actually started much earlier.\n\nThe Windrush generation refers to those people who moved to the UK from Caribbean countries between 1948 and 1971.\n\nSir David Adjaye grew up in Africa, Yemen and Lebanon before moving to Britain\n\nRecords suggest that the reign of Queen Elizabeth I from 1558 to 1603 saw the beginning of Britain's first black community, with black people in Britain as far back as the Roman empire.\n\nThe museum that Sir David is proposing would aim to make generations of black children feel like they have a place in the nation's future.\n\nHe said: \"It is really amazingly important for the representation of people in the sort of cultural tropes of the nation.\"\n\nSir David, who found it difficult to get commissions at the beginning of his career, started out designing spaces for old art school friends before coming to public attention with the Idea Store library in east London.\n\nHe originally regarded architecture as an \"insider game\" which he was not part of.\n\nThe architect is currently designing a national Holocaust memorial and learning centre next to the Houses of Parliament in Westminster.\n\nIndividual museums around the UK have celebrated black British history and culture over the years with exhibitions of their own.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nExceptional monsoon rains have caused severe flooding in parts of Australia's north-eastern state of Queensland.\n\nCars and livestock have been swept away over a large area around the coastal city of Townsville. Emergency crews are evacuating people on rafts.\n\nUp to 20,000 homes could be flooded if the downpours continue, officials warn.\n\nA dam has reached twice its capacity and water is being released to avoid putting further strain on it. More rain is expected in the coming days.\n\nNorthern Queensland has a tropical climate and experiences monsoon rain from December to April. But the current conditions in the Townsville area are rare.\n\n\"We have not been in this situation before,\" Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk is quoted as saying by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC).\n\n\"There has been a lot of rain falling over the Townsville catchment and some of these levels are unprecedented.\"\n\nUp to 20,000 homes in the Townsville area are at risk\n\nThe army is helping to protect homes with sandbags.\n\nResident Chris Brookehouse, whose home is flooded, told ABC: \"The volume of water is just incredible. Downstairs is gone, the fridge and freezer are floating. Another five or six steps and upstairs is gone too.\"\n\nMeanwhile, parts of southern Australian are in the grip of a severe drought.\n\nBushfires are burning in the southern island state of Tasmania, and January was the hottest month on record for Australia as a whole.", "Roads have closed and trains have been disrupted as snow covers the south of England.\n\nIn Basingstoke, passersby helped push an ambulance up a hill under heavy snowfall.\n\nUp to 17cm (7in) of snowfall has been recorded in Hampshire, according to the Met Office.", "Kasim Khuram admitted having sex with a body in December\n\nA burglar who had sex with a corpse after breaking into a funeral parlour has been jailed for six years.\n\nKasim Khuram, 23, had sex with a woman's body after lifting the lids of coffins at the Central England Co-Operative undertakers in Walsall Road, Great Barr, Birmingham, on 11 November.\n\nSentencing at Birmingham Crown Court, Judge Melbourne Inman QC said the crimes \"offend all human sensitivity\".\n\n\"I am not aware of - and nor have I been able to find - any similar case. It would be difficult to think of a greater depravation of the dignity of the dead,\" he said.\n\nKhuram, of Kenilworth Road, Aston, forced his way into the parlour at about 03:00 GMT while high on Mamba and PCP and after drinking vodka.\n\nHe disturbed \"multiple coffins\" and desecrated the bodies of two women.\n\nKhuram was arrested at the Co-Operative funeral home in Great Barr\n\nHe was arrested at the scene by police officers alerted by the parlour's alarm.\n\nThe court heard he was sectioned for two weeks after being interviewed by police as he was showing signs of \"drug-induced psychosis\".\n\nDet Ch Insp John Askew from West Midlands Police described it as an \"horrendous and disturbing act\".\n\nKhuram wept as victim impact statements were read out in court, and his defence barrister Joseph Keating said he was \"deeply sorry\" for his actions.\n\nThe victims' families described him as a \"monster\" who had \"twisted a knife\" in their hearts.\n\nKhuram, who previously admitted sexual penetration of a body and burglary, was also ordered to register as a sex offender for 10 years.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nissan worker: \"If Nissan went down, the north-east would be gone\"\n\nNissan has confirmed it will build both the new Qashqai and the X-Trail SUV at its Sunderland plant following government \"support and assurances\".\n\nThe Japanese company's commitment to Britain's biggest car plant had been in doubt following the EU referendum.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn said the government must make public any deals struck with the firm.\n\nHowever, Business Secretary Greg Clark said there was \"no question of financial compensation\" for Nissan.\n\nThe company's decision comes as economic growth in the three months after the Brexit vote confounded expectations, increasing by 0.5% - slower than the 0.7% in the previous quarter but higher than analysts' estimates of about 0.3%.\n\nNissan's decision is the first major development for the car industry since the Brexit vote and secures 7,000 jobs.\n\n\"The support and assurances of the UK government enabled us to decide that the next-generation Qashqai and X-Trail will be produced at Sunderland,\" said Carlos Ghosn, Nissan's chief executive, adding that he welcomed Prime Minister Theresa May's \"commitment to the automotive industry in Britain\".\n\nLast month, he warned that Nissan might not invest in the Sunderland plant unless the government guaranteed compensation for costs related to any new trade tariffs resulting from Brexit.\n\nMrs May described the announcement as \"fantastic news\", adding: \"This vote of confidence shows Britain is open for business.\"\n\nMr Clark said: \"The fact Nissan have not only made a long-term commitment to build the next generation Qashqai and X-Trail at Sunderland, but decided to upgrade their factory to a super-plant, manufacturing over 600,000 cars a year, is proof of the strength of the sector.\"\n\nA Nissan spokesman said making the X-Trail at Sunderland could lead to hundreds of new jobs being created in the coming years. It will be the first time the model has been made outside Japan.\n\nThe production line was stopped at 11am on Thursday so workers could be told about the decision.\n\nA senior Nissan Europe executive, Colin Lawther, said the company had received \"no special deal\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nissan boss Colin Lawther tells The World At One there has been no special deal\n\n\"It's just a commitment from the government to work with the whole of the automotive industry to make sure the whole automotive industry in the UK remains competitive,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"We would expect nothing for us that the rest of the industry wouldn't be able to have access to. We see this as a whole industry thing, not a Nissan thing.\"\n\nWe don't know the details of the \"support and assurance\" that Nissan extracted from the UK government. But it was clearly enough to secure a commitment from Nissan to build not one, but two new cars at the Sunderland plant.\n\nThe promise to shield Nissan from the impact of Brexit will not be lost on rival manufacturers, both those already in the UK as well as those that might be tempted to come.\n\nWill other carmakers with big investment decisions to make now favour Britain? It's possible - but now only after securing a few government guarantees.\n\nThe UK car industry has been vocal in warning about the impact of an exit from the single market.\n\nAlthough the cheaper pound makes their exports more attractive, a hard Brexit and the prospect of trade tariffs will add to their costs.\n\nIt seems likely that the government has now promised some sort of financial support to cushion Nissan against such an impact. That will be controversial, of course. But once outside the EU, it won't necessarily be illegal.\n\nBuilding the X-Trail SUV is an unexpected addition to the model line-up at Sunderland, which makes almost one in three cars built in Britain and produced 475,000 vehicles last year - 80% of which were exported.\n\nThe Sunderland plant opened in 1986 and has produced almost nine million cars over the past three decades.\n\nProduction of the next Qashqai model is expected to begin in 2018 or 2019.\n\nMike Hawes, chief executive of industry body the SMMT, said Nissan's announcement was good news for the UK's automotive sector.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nissan has confirmed it will build two new cars at its Sunderland plant.\n\nBut he added: \"We need government to provide public assurance to investors that our advantages will be maintained - namely, a competitive business environment, the ability to recruit talent from abroad and the continuation of all the benefits of the single market as we leave the EU.\"\n\nFigures released by the SMMT on Thursday showed the UK's car industry is performing strongly, with almost 1.3 million vehicles produced in the nine months to September - a 10.5% increase on the same period last year.\n\nJust over one million vehicles were produced for export markets.\n• None UK cars 'must be in EU single market'", "England pulled off arguably the most impressive victory of the Eddie Jones era as they ran in four tries to inflict Ireland's first Six Nations defeat in Dublin in six years.\n\nEngland had led 17-10 at half-time with tries from Jonny May and the impressive Elliot Daly separated by Cian Healy's burrowing score from close in, and could have been further ahead.\n\nAnd with their defence outstanding, their tactical kicking precise and the back three rock-solid under the high ball, they added two more opportunistic tries in the second period through the livewire Henry Slade.\n\nIreland had seen off world champions New Zealand in an unbeaten autumn but their dream of consecutive Grand Slams came crashing down under a thunderous English assault.\n\nJohnny Sexton was subdued as an attacking force, his pass being picked off for Slade's second score, England a side transformed with the return of the bullocking Vunipola brothers and Manu Tuilagi.\n\nJohn Cooney's late try for Joe Schmidt's men did little to dampen the pain of a defeat that will jolt Irish confidence as the World Cup in Japan looms into view.\n\nFor Jones it kick-starts beautifully the biggest year of his long career, this only England's second Six Nations win in Dublin since 2003, the sort of scalp that will bring belief back to those who had wondered if his team had flatlined.\n• None England 'nowhere near our best' - Jones\n\nIt had been eight years since England's last Six Nations try in Dublin but they had to wait just 95 seconds more as Farrell struck first in his battle with opposite number Sexton.\n\nAfter muscular carries into the Irish 22 from Tuilagi and Billy Vunipola England went left, and it was Farrell's fast, flat cut-out pass that put Daly in space to draw the last man and send May over in the corner.\n\nFarrell landed the conversion from the touchline before Sexton's penalty brought a frantic contest back to 7-3, and on a freezing Dublin afternoon the men in green then turned up the heat.\n\nEngland survived the sin-binning of 20-year-old flanker Tom Curry after his late hit on Keith Earls but could not hold out when Sexton kicked a penalty to the corner and Healy hammered over from a yard out.\n\nBut they struck back again when Daly's grubber kick through was juggled and spilt by Jacob Stockdale under pressure from Jack Nowell, Daly diving on the loose ball for the score and Farrell stroking over the conversion.\n\nEngland's fly-half then struck a perfect penalty from out wide again after Mako Vunipola had been correctly denied a try for a double movement for a seven-point lead at the interval.\n\nIreland had not conceded as many first-half points in a Six Nations match in Dublin for 13 years, and had lost the last 20 games in which they were more than a point behind at half-time.\n\nBut after England failed to work a drop-goal after a long spell deep in Irish territory, Ulster's Stockdale hacked long, Kyle Sinckler was penalised for a late tackle on Garry Ringrose and Sexton reduced the margin to just four points.\n\nWith England lock Maro Itoje off injured the belief started to swell among the home support, the roars growing louder as Farrell missed a penalty - conceded by Sexton for hands in the ruck - that by his standards was straightforward.\n\nBoth sides freshened up their packs as the minutes ticked away and the tension grew.\n\nAnd it was England who struck the pivotal blow with a fine move at pace from a scrum inside their own half.\n\nBen Youngs ran left, Slade threw a miss-pass out to May on the touchline and ran on to gather the winger's clever kick ahead to dive on the ball for England's third try.\n\nFarrell again tugged the conversion wide but banged over a penalty moments later after replacement Courtney Lawes's big hit in midfield, and with the scoreboard showing 25-13 with less than 10 minutes left the choruses of England fans' anthem Swing Low began to sound.\n\nSlade spotted Sexton's desperate pass in his own 22 and gathered brilliantly to slide over for his second try, and English celebrations could begin.\n\nWith only one more away match to come in this championship, a humdinger in Cardiff at the end of the month in round three, England at last have the momentum that had slipped away during a testing, turbulent 2018.\n\nThe beating heart of England's relentless defence, an all-encompassing performance from a prop whose absence through injury England had keenly felt.\n\nWhat they said\n\nFormer England scrum-half Matt Dawson on BBC Radio 5 live: \"If there was one team who was going to bloom in the last 20 minutes, you'd have thought it would be Ireland.\n\n\"But Ireland couldn't get out of their 22 and England capitalised. When you win in Dublin against the second-best team in the world, you are going to be flying for the rest of the tournament.\"\n\nFormer Ireland winger Denis Hickie: \"I don't think Ireland have been overconfident. They will be very hard on themselves after that game.\n\n\"Ireland were favourites last year and won the Grand Slam then took that form into November. They just haven't played well enough today.\"\n\nReplacements: Larmour for Earls (41), Carbery for Ringrose (73), Cooney for Murray (77), Kilcoyne for Healy (62), Cronin for Best (67), Porter for Furlong (62), Roux for Toner (57), O'Brien for Stander (65).\n\nReplacements: Ashton for Nowell (74), Ford for Tuilagi (77), Genge for M. Vunipola (77), Cowan-Dickie for George (77), Williams for Sinckler (65), Hughes for Itoje (54), Lawes for Kruis (53).\n• None How to follow the Six Nations live on the BBC", "A father and son have appeared in court accused of keeping a man as a slave for two years.\n\nAnthony Howard Baker, 48, and Harvey Baker, 19, from Jersey Marine, Neath Port Talbot, are also jointly charged with six counts of causing actual bodily harm.\n\nThey pleaded not guilty at Swansea Magistrates' Court on Saturday.\n\nSouth Wales Police said a 20-year-old man was currently receiving hospital treatment.\n\nAbul Hussain, prosecuting, told the court that the Bakers kept their alleged victim as a slave for two years and used him as a worker.\n\nThe defendants were remanded in custody and are due to appear at Swansea Crown Court on Monday.", "The report said someone who searched for \"Jew jokes\" was 100 times more likely to also search for racist jokes about black people\n\nWales has the highest proportion of anti-Semitic Google searches in the UK, a report has said.\n\nAnalysis for the Community Security Trust (CST) included search terms such as \"Jews evil, kill Jews and die Jews\".\n\nGoogle estimated the area, based on the user's IP address or phone location, and searches in Wales were 7.2% above average for the population size.\n\nCST's Dave Rich said it was hard to say why, but fewer Jewish communities could mean more people were uninformed.\n\nBy comparison, searches in England were 1.9% above average, Northern Ireland was 2.4% below average and Scotland was 6.7% below average.\n\nThere are about 170,000 anti-Semitic Google searches in the UK each year, but CST did not include a baseline figure against which these averages were measured.\n\nDr Rich, CST's head of policy, said: \"It's hard to speculate about why it may have been higher in Wales - it could be because the Jewish communities are smaller so there's perhaps more ignorance - a lot of racism is based on ignorance.\"\n\nHidden hate: what Google searches tell us about antisemitism today was compiled by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, a former data scientist at Google, for the CST and Antisemitism Policy Trust.\n\nThe report said Netta's Eurovision win for Israel in 2018 sparked a 30% spike in anti-Semitic searches online\n\nIt looked at search terms between 2004 and 2018, including Jew combined with words such as greedy, cheap, racist and ugly.\n\nMr Stephens-Davidowitz admitted it would not capture every instance of anti-Semitic searches, but \"provides a reliable baseline measure\".\n\nHe also acknowledged it was \"impossible to know for sure that any given search is made by a person with anti-Semitic attitudes, as it is always possible someone was making a search out of curiosity rather than as a result of malign intent\".\n\nHis research focused on negative stereotypes, violent thoughts, racial epithets and jokes.\n\nAnti-Jewish slurs such as yid, kike and heeb were examined - but research for the report showed the majority of those searches were people looking for the definitions of the words \"perhaps because people had heard it being used about Jews and had not come across it before\".\n\nDr Rich, CST's head of policy, said: \"Internet companies have a really important part to play in directing people towards or away from hate content. These companies can use their power for good or for ill.\"\n\nA Google spokesman said: \"We partner with organisations in the UK who work to tackle hate speech including CST and Stop Hate UK.\n\n\"Autocomplete helps you get to the information you are looking for as quickly as possible. For certain issues, including hateful predictions against groups and individuals based on religion we have developed policies to exclude such terms.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A winning lotto ticket in Canada will likely not be paid out because it was bought with a stolen credit card.\n\nThe woman who allegedly bought the ticket was arrested by police while on her way to the lottery offices.\n\nPolice were following up on a report of a stolen wallet and discovered the victim's credit cards had been used to buy lottery tickets.\n\nThe suspect was identified with security footage from the Newfoundland store where the tickets were bought.\n\nThe 33-year-old suspect, who was taken into custody on Thursday by officers from the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary, was charged with two counts of possessing a stolen credit card and five counts of fraud.\n\nConst James Cadigan told the BBC that the amount of the winnings was a \"substantial sum\".\n\nThe Atlantic Lottery Corporation confirmed it was a C$50,000 ($38,000; £29,000) ticket but said that it only pays prizes for lawfully acquired tickets.\n\n\"Ultimately, if not paid, this amount will go to Atlantic Lottery's unclaimed prize account and will be used for future prizes,\" it said in a statement.\n\n\"We will continue to monitor the situation.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nWales made a dramatic winning start to the Six Nations as they staged a second-half revival to beat France.\n\nThe hosts started superbly and surged into a 16-0 half-time lead with tries from Louis Picamoles and Yoann Huget.\n\nAfter an error-strewn first 40 minutes, Wales were unrecognisable in the second as Tomos Williams and George North crossed to put them 17-16 ahead.\n\nCamille Lopez put France back in front but North intercepted a wild pass to seal Wales' 10th straight win.\n\nThe match-winning score came after a moment of madness from French lock Sebastien Vahaamahina, who undermined his side's earlier good work by throwing a recklessly high-risk miss-pass which North picked off and juggled before speeding to the line.\n\nThe British and Irish Lions wing had shown a similarly predatory instinct for his first try, pouncing on Huget's calamitous fumble on his own line.\n\nIt was fitting that Wales' triumph should come from their ability to seize on French mistakes, as this was a match littered with errors and defined by wildly fluctuating swings of momentum.\n\nFor Wales, it was also a result of huge relief after a first half which threatened to derail their Six Nations before it had begun in earnest.\n\nA clean sweep of victories in the autumn series earlier this season had helped build a groundswell of optimism around Welsh rugby with this year's World Cup on the horizon.\n\nYet that sense of buoyancy threatened to be punctured by a limp first 40 minutes, ruthlessly exploited by an impressive French side.\n\nBut Wales' second-half resurgence turned the game on its head and secured a 10th successive win for the first time since 1999.\n• None Coach, father, leader: Who is the real Gatland?\n\nWales head coach Warren Gatland had declared in typically bullish fashion that he believed his side would go on to win the Six Nations if they triumphed in Paris.\n\nThe New Zealander had some reason to be optimistic, having led Wales to seven victories from their 13 meetings with France during his reign.\n\nHowever, 2017's defeat - a chaotic match which ended with 20 minutes of added time - meant Gatland had lost on three of his five visits to the Stade de France with Wales.\n\nThis, his final trip to the French capital as Wales coach, he hoped would be a different story - and it was, in as much as this was nothing like the tight contests these two sides have produced in recent years.\n\nInstead, Wales were blown away by a French side playing their best rugby for an age.\n\nHaving handed France the initiative with Picamoles' sixth-minute try - well finished, albeit against less than fierce tackling - Wales faced torrential pressure in the early exchanges.\n\nThe visitors made matters worse with a raft of handling errors and missed tackles and, even when they fashioned a scoring opportunity, they squandered it.\n\nLiam Williams, one of the few bright sparks for Wales in the first half with his menacing runs in open play, had supporting runners either side of him when he broke clear but, after ignoring them, he crossed the line only for his try to be disallowed by the television match official as replays showed him to have knocked on.\n\nAfter Huget crossed for France's second try, Wales were staring at a heavy defeat but, after some wayward goal-kicking from Morgan Parra a half-time deficit of 16-0 felt like some form of mercy for Gatland's men.\n\nGatland and defence coach Shaun Edwards are not men to mince their words, so you would safely assume they will have given Wales' players an unflinchingly honest assessment of their performance at half-time.\n\nWhatever it is they said, it had the desired effect as Wales emerged for the second half a team transformed.\n\nWilliams got the ball rolling six minutes after the restart, scampering to the line after Josh Adams had drifted infield from the left wing to make an incisive break.\n\nLess than five minutes later, Wales had cut the French lead to just two points.\n\nWith a penalty advantage, Hadleigh Parkes tried his luck with a speculative grubber kick which looked like a simple one to gather but Huget inexplicably dithered and dropped the ball, which North then smartly picked up and dived over in one swift movement.\n\nAround the hour mark, Wales made a raft of changes and it was one of those introduced at that point, Dan Biggar, who gave them the lead for the first time, his nerveless penalty sailing over from 40 yards.\n\nFrance were not done, though. After pulverising a Welsh scrum, Les Bleus were awarded a penalty in front of the posts which Camille Lopez sent over to regain the lead and set up a tense final 10 minutes.\n\nThe hosts had wrestled momentum back but, just as it looked like they were about to strengthen their grip on the game, they pressed the self-destruct button again as Vahaamahina's brainless long pass was intercepted by North.\n\nFrance had been in a rut having won just one of their previous seven matches, and their miserable autumn campaign was rounded off with a home defeat against Fiji.\n\nHead coach Jacques Brunel sought to arrest that slump with some bold selections, replacing the experienced and exceptionally bulky centre Mathieu Bastareaud with 19-year-old debutant Romain Ntamack, son of former France wing Emile Ntamack.\n\nIf Bastareaud's surprising omission from the matchday squad meant a little less weight among the backs, there was no shortage of ballast in a pack of forwards weighing close to 20 stone each.\n\nThe intention was clear: France were looking to outmuscle Wales.\n\nThey did that initially, and then some. Les Bleus were quicker and smarter than their lacklustre opponents and, as well as the brawn of the pack, they had the brains of their backs - with Parra marshalling the side from scrum-half.\n\nWhile much of the pre-match attention was focused on new faces such as Ntamack and debutant lock Paul Willemse, it was France's more established players who inspired their first-half domination.\n\nPicamoles was prominent in defence and attack and took his try well, as did Huget as he sped to the corner.\n\nBut then in keeping with their deeply-ingrained tradition of being as erratic as they are talented, France imploded.\n\nHuget's fumble was dreadful but, if he was scrambling for excuses, he might have pointed to the difficult conditions that came with the rain.\n\nThat would have been charitable to allow that as a reason - but there was no excusing Vahaamahina's rush of blood to the head.\n\nEven by France's recent standards, it was an act of astounding self-destruction but, for North and Wales, it was an opportunity they grasped with relish.\n• None Six Nations on the BBC - coverage times", "More than 70 officers have been searching through the night\n\nPolice searching for a 21-year-old student who went missing after leaving a club have said they have \"significant concerns\" about her safety.\n\nLibby Squire was last seen by her friends getting into a taxi outside The Welly on Beverley Road, Hull, at about 23:00 GMT on Thursday.\n\nShe got out of a taxi near her home on Wellesley Avenue and was last seen on CCTV about 23:45 on Beverley Road.\n\nDet Supt Simon Gawthorpe said her disappearance was out of character.\n\nSpeaking at a press conference, he said: \"Her family have described Libby as a very thoughtful young woman who always put other people before herself.\n\n\"They have said this is very out of character for Libby, and clearly that raises our concerns about her significantly.\"\n\nA police dog unit is being used in the search\n\nFire crews have been searching a frozen pond near where she was last seen\n\nDet Supt Gawthorpe said Ms Squire was spotted on the CCTV on Beverley Road, close to its junction with Haworth Street.\n\nThe officer said from there, she may have walked in either direction down Beverley Road or Haworth Street.\n\nPolice had made an earlier appeal to trace a driver who had stopped to help Ms Squire on Beverley Road, but they said he had now been located.\n\nLibby Squire got a taxi outside The Welly club\n\nMore than 70 officers are involved in the search, and fire crews have been searching a frozen pond at Oak Road playing fields.\n\nThey have spoken to friends, and visited pubs and clubs in the area, as well as speaking to residents.\n\nDet Supt Gawthorpe appealed for drivers with dashcam footage who were in the Beverley Road area between 23:00 and 03:00 to get in touch.\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 Amelia This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPolice have also asked residents to check their gardens, sheds and outbuildings to see if she may have taken shelter there.\n\nFriends of the student have also organised their own search party through social media.\n\nSeveral have taken to Twitter, pleading for help to find her.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMs Squire, who is 5ft 7ins tall and has long dark brown hair, was wearing a black leather jacket, black long sleeved top and a black denim skirt with lace.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Pupils should be banned from taking smartphones into school, the minister for school standards in England has told the BBC.\n\nNick Gibb spoke out ahead of the government publishing new guidance for schools, expected to address internet safety, social media and online gaming.\n\nIt is expected to say children should be taught to limit the amount of time they spend online.\n\nSchools have the power to ban phones from being taken on to the premises.\n\nBut government policy is that it is the responsibility of head teachers to determine whether this is appropriate.\n\nPatsy Kane, executive head teacher at the Education and Leadership Trust in Manchester, said Mr Gibb's plan was \"missing the point on just how fantastically useful mobile phones can be for learning.\"\n\nShe told BBC Breakfast her multi-academy trust encourages the responsible use of smartphones during lessons and that teachers do remove the devices if they are used inappropriately during school time.\n\nShe added: \"There's a fantastic range of apps now for revision - and the students are really motivated to use them.\"\n\nThe trade union that represents head teachers has expressed its scepticism about outright bans.\n\nBut Mr Gibb said: \"Many schools have already taken the decision to ban mobile phones from the classroom.\n\n\"While this is clearly a matter for the head teacher, my own view is that schools should ban their pupils from bringing smartphones into school or the classroom.\"\n\nKatie Ivens, of the Campaign for Real Education, said she supported a classroom ban but that pupils should be allowed to carry phones to and from school for safety.\n\nWhat is known as \"relationships education\" is to become compulsory from September 2020, with schools being encouraged to teach it from September of this year.\n\nLast summer, the government published draft guidance about how this could be implemented.\n\n\"Children and young people are growing up in an increasingly complex world and living their lives seamlessly on and offline,\" it said.\n\nBut it acknowledged that while this presented \"many positive and exciting opportunities\" there were also \"challenges and risks\".\n\nSince the publication of the document, which said \"pupils should be taught about the benefits of balancing time spent on and offline\", there have been more than 11,000 responses to it and new guidance is expected soon.\n\n\"Children should not be spending hours and hours on their smartphones or iPads. There are obviously huge benefits to the internet and there's nothing intrinsically damaging about spending time online,\" Mr Gibb said.\n\n\"But if the time children spend using social media or playing computer games becomes excessive, it drives out time for them to talk to their parents, exercise, do their homework or play with friends.\n\n\"It eats into the amount of sleep and rest children have, resulting in their coming into school the next day tired and unable to concentrate.\"\n\nThe minister, who has spent more than six years at the Department for Education, added: \"Ensuring children can regulate their own use of smartphones and social media is becoming an increasingly important life skill for them to learn.\"\n\nBut the NAHT union, which represents school leaders, has said banning pupils from taking a mobile phone to school can be counterproductive.\n\nGiving evidence to the Commons Science and Technology Committee in October last year, the union's senior policy adviser Sarah Hannafin said: \"Mobile phone bans certainly work for some schools but there isn't one policy that will work for all schools.\n\n\"Outright banning mobile phones can cause more problems than it solves, driving phone use 'underground' and making problems less visible and obvious for schools to tackle.\"\n\nShe added: \"Ultimately, schools work to prepare young people for the outside world, giving them the awareness and strategies to responsibly monitor their own screen use and the ability to identify and deal with any negative impacts or problematic content they encounter.\"", "Renault and Nissan have pledged to continue their alliance as its architect, Carlos Ghosn, resigned from the French carmaker.\n\nMr Ghosn's resignation came as he remained incarcerated in Japan where he is accused of financial misconduct at Nissan.\n\nRenault said Michelin's Jean-Dominique Senard had been appointed chairman, and Thierry Bolloré chief executive.\n\nMr Ghosn was sacked by Nissan shortly after his arrest on 19 November.\n\n\"In the big picture, this is a big milestone that we are reaching. We are starting a new chapter. So I welcome this new leadership of Renault,\" Mr Saikawa said.\n\nThe architect of the Renault-Nissan alliance, Mr Ghosn had not been sacked by Renault. Instead, the French car giant had handed day-to-day operations to Mr Bolloré, who now takes the role permanently.\n\nMr Ghosn faces three charges in Japan of financial misconduct, including understating his income and aggravated breach of trust. He denies any wrongdoing and could remain in custody for months after his application for bail earlier this week was denied.\n\nQuestions had been asked about future of the alliance - which Mitsubishi joined three years ago - which Mr Ghosn oversaw.\n\nIt sold 10.6 million vehicles in 2017 and together employs 470,000 around the globe.\n\nOn Thursday, as Renault announced its boardroom change it did not use Mr Ghosn's name but said: \"The board praised the alliance's track record, which has enabled it to become the world's leading automobile manufacturer\".\n\nUntil his arrest, Mr Ghosn had achieved star status in Japan. Born in Porto Velho, Brazil, to Lebanese parents, according to one poll he was the man most Japanese women wanted to marry and in another he came seventh in a poll of who should run the country.\n\nHe oversaw Nissan's recovery after Renault took a stake in the then-troubled car maker in 1999, the start of the alliance.\n\nRenault's new chairman, Mr Senard, will be responsible for managing Renault's alliance with Japanese carmaker Nissan, while Mr Bolloré will co-ordinate the carmaker's activities.\n\nMr Senard also backed the alliance. \"It's important that this alliance remain extremely strong,\" Mr Senard said. \"It is our compulsory duty to go forward together.\"\n\nThe French union CGT has estimated that Mr Ghosn could be in line for a severance deal of up to €28m (£24.5m) in addition to an annual pension of €800,000.\n\nFrench Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire told AFP the government, which owns a 15% stake in Renault, would be \"extremely vigilant as key shareholders on the exit conditions that will be set by the (Renault) board of directors\".\n\nHe said Mr Senard's main responsibility \"will be to ensure the future of the alliance between Renault and Nissan and to strengthen it\".\n\nCarlos Ghosn faces three charges of financial misconduct in Japan for understating his income and aggravated breach of trust\n\nProf David Bailey at Aston Business School said the alliance would no longer be able to rely on Mr Ghosn to hold it together, but it was important that the alliance remained, because of the cost pressures facing the industry.\n\n\"They are going to have to come up with new ways to glue it together,\" Prof Bailey said.\n\nRenault has said previously that it has not found any evidence of wrongdoing yet, and an investigation into executive pay has shown no signs of fraud so far.\n\nMr Saikawa said \"communication between the boards of the two companies has been a bit difficult\" since Mr Ghosn's arrest, and that he was looking forward to \"better communication\".\n\nNissan said it had now begun preparations to hold an extraordinary general meeting in April to discuss new board members.\n\nThe agenda will be to cover the departure of Carlos Ghosn and Greg Kelly, an aide to Mr Ghosn who was arrested in November and bailed on Christmas Day. The shareholder meeting will also cover the appointment of a new director to be nominated by Renault.", "The Dark Hedges are estimated to date back to about 1775\n\nA tree made famous by the TV fantasy drama Game of Thrones has fallen in strong winds.\n\nGale force winds of up to 60 mph hit Northern Ireland overnight on Saturday.\n\nThe Dark Hedges are a tunnel of beech trees on the Bregagh Road near Armoy that have become an an international tourist attraction since featuring in the hit series.\n\nThe intertwined beech branches and gnarled trunks make the Dark Hedges an iconic sight\n\nThe trees were originally planted by the Stuart family along the entrance to their Gracehill House mansion.\n\nOver the decades, the branches grew over the road and became entangled and intertwined, creating a covered passageway with something of an ethereal feel.\n\nOriginally, there were about 150 trees, but time has taken its toll and now only about 90 remain.\n\nPaddy Cregg, from the Woodland Trust, told BBC News NI that the trees date back to 1775 and by beech tree standards, they were \"old aged pensioners\".\n\nHe added: \"They are coming to the end of their life, normally beech trees survive around 250 years, they are probably now 240 years old.\n\n\"It's sad to see that one by one they are actually falling\".", "As snow falls on large parts of the UK, we look at some of the most striking wintry images.\n\nTravel disruption on Friday hit major rail routes across the south west - but there were no such problems for this train crossing the Ribblehead Viaduct in North Yorkshire on Saturday.\n\nMost English Football League fixtures went ahead on Saturday. Ground staff at Portman Road worked hard ahead of Ipswich Town playing Sheffield Wednesday.\n\nBut six English Football League matches were postponed. No Premier League fixtures were affected, including here at Burnley's Turf Moor stadium.\n\nThe Met Office has issued yellow weather warnings for ice across much of the south of England for Saturday and Sunday.\n\nThere were icy conditions at Murrayfield on Saturday morning ahead of Scotland's Six Nations match with Italy. Rugby fans travelling to Edinburgh were urged to plan their travel arrangements in advance.\n\nForecasters have warned Saturday night could be the coldest of winter so far with many parts of the UK - including here in Whitley Bay - expected to remain covered in snow and ice.\n\nIcy roads were a familiar sight around the UK on Saturday morning - including here in Westbury, Wiltshire.\n\nChildren went sledging on Friday as they enjoyed a precious day off school in Poundbury, Dorset.\n\nThese dogs went for a walk near a snow-covered Clifton suspension bridge in Bristol on Friday.\n\nOne of four endangered Amur tiger cubs, born at Whipsnade Zoo in Bedfordshire last year, had their first taste of British winter on Friday.\n\nThe chilly conditions prompted a bit of snowboarding on the South Downs at Devil's Dyke near Brighton on Friday.\n\nThe UK's snowman population has been booming thanks in part to many students and workers whose weekend began early.\n\nBehind you! This snowball was captured mid-flight on a hillside near Brighton on Friday.\n\nPeople got creative with a snowman and snow-cat on a bench in Bristol.\n\nThis pair offered a helping hand to a driver trying to get his car moving on Friday.\n\nCars are driven through snow and slush near Chievely, Berkshire, on Friday.\n\nA commuter in Bristol sported a kilt on his way to work on Friday morning.\n\nAnother commuter looked a little better prepared, wearing ski goggles.\n\nYou looking at me? Rachel Bennett's pug dog Keith seemed to enjoy the conditions in Doncaster, South Yorkshire.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex were in Bristol on Friday lunchtime as the snow continued to fall.\n\nDespite the weather, the royal couple were met by large crowds as they visited the Bristol Old Vic theatre, which is undergoing a £26m restoration.\n\nSnow ploughs were needed to clear roads and airport runways on Friday, including this one pictured in Shaftesbury, Dorset.\n\nChildren made the most of the snow in Hartley Wintney, in Hampshire, on Friday morning.\n\nStaff worked to clear Arsenal's training ground in London Colney, Hertfordshire, on Friday morning.\n\nDriving conditions were hazardous across large parts of the UK, like here near Shaftesbury in Dorset.\n\nA very snowy Angel of the North near Gateshead, in Tyne and Wear, where heavy snowfall caused travel disruption on Friday.\n\nSpot the dog: A Dalmatian runs through the snow in Milton Keynes on Friday.\n\nA snow-covered tent in Cardiff's Queen Street, where temperatures fell below freezing on Thursday night.\n\nMore than six inches of snow had settled in Wells, Somerset, by 10:00 GMT on Friday.\n\nQueen's Square in Bristol resembled a scene from Narnia on Friday morning.\n\nThe struggle was real for this driver pictured clearing the windows of a 4x4 in Bristol on Friday.\n\nA dog out for a walk in the snow in Bristol on Friday.\n\nWhite rooftops were seen in Gold Hill, Dorset, on Friday morning after heavy snowfall.\n\nAn elderly resident makes his way up a snow-covered road in Hartley Wintney, Hampshire, in the early hours of Friday.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nMaurizio Sarri says Gonzalo Higuain and Eden Hazard are \"suitable\" to play with each other, as the pair both struck twice in Chelsea's dominant victory over Huddersfield, which moved the Blues back into the top four.\n\nIt was Higuain's first goals since signing on loan from Juventus in the January transfer window.\n\n\"Higuain is improving,\" said Sarri. \"He wasn't physically at the top when he arrived, because he had a back problem and wasn't involved, so only played a few matches.\n\n\"He is a great player. Apart from the goals, he is really very suitable to play very close to Eden.\"\n\nArgentina international Higuain opened the scoring in the 16th minute at Stamford Bridge.\n\nN'Golo Kante played him in with a delightful reverse pass to beat the offside trap and the striker finished first time, lashing his shot in at the near post.\n\nJust before half-time Elias Kachunga nudged Cesar Azpilicueta over and referee Paul Tierney awarded a penalty, although replays suggested the foul occurred outside the penalty area.\n\nHazard stepped up to smash in the penalty and score his first league goal since 26 December.\n\nThe Belgium international made it 3-0 on 66 minutes, rounding Terriers keeper Jonas Lossl and slotting in from a tight angle.\n\nAnd just three minutes later Higuain got his second, curling in a shot from the edge of the area, with the help of a deflection.\n\nDavid Luiz added a fifth in the closing minutes, with a powerful header from a corner that was deflected into his own net by Kachunga.\n\nThe win ended a troubled week for Sarri, following Wednesday's 4-0 loss to Bournemouth - their heaviest league defeat in 23 years.\n\nChelsea are now fourth, three points ahead of Arsenal, who play Manchester City on Sunday (16:30 GMT).\n\nBut it is an 11th defeat in 12 league games for the Terriers, who remain bottom of the league and 13 points from safety.\n\nChelsea came into the game having lost successive league matches against Arsenal and Bournemouth.\n\nIn recent weeks Sarri has questioned their motivation and Wednesday's defeat led to an angry dressing room inquest.\n\nHis players gave the perfect response against Huddersfield, with a free-flowing attacking performance in what felt like a must-win game.\n\nChelsea had failed to score in three of their past four league games going into Saturday's match, which was why Sarri brought in Higuain.\n\nThe 31-year-old, who had scored just eight goals in 22 appearances for AC Milan in the first half of the season, showed Chelsea exactly what he can bring to the side with clinical finishing.\n\nHiguain played under Sarri while at Napoli in 2015-16, equalling the Serie A goalscoring record with 36 goals.\n\nHe continued his remarkable scoring record under Sarri on his home league debut, with his 37th and 38th goals in 37 league games for the Italian.\n\nSarri has previously said Hazard \"has to do more\" and the 28-year-old put in a performance to please his boss.\n\nHe was a constant menace in attack, terrorising the Terriers' defence as he was given the run of Stamford Bridge and taking his goal tally to 15 for the season.\n\nSarri said: \"Today is all positive, we played a full 90 minutes, defended very well, so it was a very good match but we need consistency now, we have to continue to play with the same mentality in all the matches.\n\n\"I hope in the future we will not need to lose a match to find the right mentality.\"\n\nJermaine Jenas said: \"Eden Hazard and Gonzalo Higuain are two world class players and when they get on that wave length with each other, great things can happen.\n\n\"It was very telepathic at times between the two of them. Higuain likes to drop deep at times and Hazard likes to run with it.\n\n\"Higuain came alive inside the area for the first goal but he linked up everything really well. If Maurizio Sarri can get a tune out of him that will be great.\n\n\"Hazard was ruthless and his finish for the second goal makes it look simple.\"\n\nThis was Jan Siewert's first away game in charge since succeeding David Wagner as Terriers boss and he was able to welcome back Aaron Mooy and Philip Billing.\n\nBut a change in manager has not solved their biggest problem, which is a lack of a goalscorer.\n\nStuck on just 13 league goals this season, they never looked like adding to that tally at Stamford Bridge, registering just two shots on target from five attempts.\n\nMooy had the best effort, heading over in the seventh minute, but that was as good as it got.\n\nThey also struggled in defence and were outclassed by Hazard, Higuain and Kante.\n\nWith just two wins all this season, they seem destined for a return to the Championship.\n\n\"I don't feel well at the moment because we lost 5-0 and we cannot compete with Chelsea,\" said Siewert.\n\n\"I think when you look at the game we had the first chance then conceded early and the penalty came at the wrong moment. I'm not sure if it was a penalty.\n\n\"We will not talk about these decisions because we lost 5-0 and this doesn't feel good. We had the first chance and had several moments but missed our shots. We have to be more aggressive in the box to go for our goals.\"\n• None Chelsea have only lost one of their past 16 home Premier League games (won nine, drawn six)\n• None Huddersfield have failed to score in a league-high 13 different Premier League games this season.\n• None Chelsea scored five goals in a Premier League game for the first time since December 2017, when they beat Stoke 5-0 at Stamford Bridge\n• None Higuain became the first Chelsea player to score twice on their home league debut for the club since Mario Stanic v West Ham in August 2000\n• None Kante provided two assists in a single league match for the first time in his top-flight career.\n\nChelsea travel to reigning champions Manchester City on Sunday, 10 February (16:00 GMT), while Huddersfield host Arsenal next Saturday (15:00 GMT).\n• None Attempt missed. Callum Hudson-Odoi (Chelsea) right footed shot from the left side of the box is too high. Assisted by David Luiz with a through ball.\n• None Goal! Chelsea 5, Huddersfield Town 0. David Luiz (Chelsea) header from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Willian with a cross following a corner.\n• None Offside, Huddersfield Town. Terence Kongolo tries a through ball, but Steve Mounie is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Gonzalo Higuaín (Chelsea) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Marcos Alonso.\n• None Attempt blocked. Mateo Kovacic (Chelsea) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Willian. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Comedian Jeremy Hardy has died from cancer at the age of 57.\n\nHardy made a living off people laughing, with stories about everything from parenthood to politics.\n\nThe comedian made his name on the comedy circuit in the 1980s, and was a regular on BBC Radio 4 panel shows like The News Quiz and I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue.\n\nHere are some of his highlights.", "Social media companies should ban \"damaging\" celebrity-endorsed social media ads promoting weight loss aids, England's top doctor has said.\n\nSome celebrities with large followings are promoting products such as diet pills and detox teas on social media.\n\nProf Stephen Powis, NHS medical director, argues these products have a damaging effect on the physical and mental health of young people.\n\nHe is also urging influential celebrities to act \"responsibly\".\n\nProf Powis said: \"If a product sounds like it is too good to be true, then it probably is.\n\n\"The risks of quick-fix weight loss outweigh the benefits, and advertising these products without a health warning is damaging.\n\n\"Highly influential celebrities are letting down the very people who look up to them, by peddling products which are at best ineffective and at worst harmful.\n\n\"Social media companies have a duty to stamp out the practice of individuals and companies using their platform to target young people with products known to risk ill health,\" he said.\n\nSome influential celebrities have promoted weight loss aids for payment on social media, and this type of advertising is growing as brands realise how influential their posts are with young people.\n\nThe Competition and Markets Authority recently announced a clampdown on celebrities who do not clearly label their posts as being paid-for advertisements, but there are few rules around what they can promote.\n\nNHS England's national mental health director Claire Murdoch told BBC Breakfast that the intention was not to \"suppress business or comment on what good business looks like\".\n\nHowever, she expressed concern over the influence these celebrities had over young people at an \"impressionable\" stage in their lives.\n\n\"Both the celebrities themselves and these social media companies themselves should be more responsible,\" she added.\n\nKim Kardashian West, who has 126 million followers on Instagram, was criticised for advertising appetite-suppressing lollypops last year. She later deleted the post.\n\nIn January, she posted an ad promoting meal replacement shakes.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by kimkardashian This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nKatie Price (1.9 million followers) has advertised an appetite suppressant on her Instagram page, as did Vikki Patterson (4.2 million followers) of TV shows Geordie Shore and Loose Women.\n\nLauren Goodger of The Only Way is Essex has also advertised diet aids.\n\nActress Jameela Jamil, who campaigns for body positivity, has described Kardashian West as a \"terrible and toxic influence on young girls\", and a meal replacement shake as \"laxative teas.\"\n\nMs Jamil is the founder of the I Weigh social media campaign on Twitter and Instagram - where she encourages women to measure their value beyond their weight and looks.\n\nResearch from the National Citizens Service shows that at least one in four young people say that their appearance was the most important thing to them, with over half of girls feeling the pressure to be thinner, and a third of boys thinking they should be more muscular.\n\n\"Taking any substance which impacts the body, without proper medical advice and support, is a risk\" said Prof Powis.\n\n\"Cosmetic treatments and get-thin-quick products which are readily and increasingly available and promoted, can be harmful if not used correctly.\"", "Ellie Yarrow-Sanders disappeared with her son Olly Sheridan in July\n\nA High Court judge has used Twitter to urge a mother who vanished with her three-year-old son to return home.\n\nEllie Yarrow-Sanders, 26, disappeared with Olly Sheridan in July after becoming involved in family court litigation with her ex-partner Patrick Sheridan.\n\nIt is thought to be the first time a judge has used Twitter in this way.\n\nMiss Yarrow-Sanders' family have since issued a statement saying she should only return \"under certain conditions\".\n\nMr Justice Williams's plea was delivered in a tweet posted on the Judicial Office Twitter account using the hashtag #comehomeolly.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn a post on Facebook, Miss Yarrow-Sanders' mother Donna, 47, and sister Maddie, 22, insisted the family were not \"not siding\" with Mr Sheridan, who is in his mid-40s, after a joint plea for the young mother to return home was issued on Friday.\n\nMaddie Yarrow said the family appeal was being made by \"us independently, and with the judge\" and said that for her sister, the decision to \"go on the run with her son\" was the \"hardest decision of her life\".\n\nShe wrote: \"As her mother and sister, we support her coming home but only on certain conditions, such as safety from being prosecuted and that she will not lose custody.\n\n\"Please believe that we are doing this with the best interest of them both, as a life on the run is very lonely.\"\n\nMiss Yarrow also said that she missed her sister and nephew \"more every day\".\n\nThis Facebook post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Facebook The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts. Skip facebook post by Maddie This article contains content provided by Facebook. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Facebook 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. Facebook content may contain adverts.\n\nMr Justice Williams' tweet used the hashtag #comehomeolly and analysed the latest stage of the litigation at a hearing on Friday.\n\nHe oversaw a hearing in private, but authorised lawyers to release a statement detailing his message to Miss Yarrow-Sanders.\n\nIt reassured her that she would not be \"punished\" for coming back and promised that she would be \"given a voice in court\" in order for the case to be dealt with fairly.\n\nThe statement also said a senior social worker had been appointed to \"promote Olly's welfare\".\n\nLawyers said the judge had made it clear that such a move did not mean there was any chance of the toddler being placed in foster care.\n\nEssex Police has urged anyone with information about the missing pair to get in touch.\n\nPatrick Sheridan has previously urged his estranged partner to \"see sense\"", "This terret ring would have guided the chariot reins\n\nParts of an Iron Age chariot found by a metal detectorist have been declared treasure by the Pembrokeshire coroner.\n\nMike Smith made the discovery in February 2018 on farmland in the south of the county.\n\nThe court at Milford Haven heard on Thursday the finds were part of the ritual burial of an entire chariot and that the site is now legally protected.\n\nMr Smith says the 2,000-year-old finds could be worth a \"life-changing\" six to seven figure sum.\n\nThe nine artefacts are now Crown property and a independent valuation committee will decide on the payment to Mr Smith.\n\nThat will be shared fifty-fifty between Mr Smith and the landowner.\n\nMike Smith expects to receive a 'life-changing' payment for his finds\n\n\"It's guess work,\" said Mr Smith after the inquest. \"But you're definitely talking six or seven figures.\n\n\"It's the biggest ever metal detecting find, as in there's never been a chariot ever discovered by a metal detectorist. There've been hoards found, but never anything like this.\"\n\nHe now hopes he can afford to buy a bungalow for himself and his wife who has difficulty climbing stairs.\n\n\"I still can't believe it. Obviously I've read other people's finds. I've watched them on telly, and I've always thought, I wouldn't mind finding that, it's still surreal, and life-changing,\" said Mr Smith who has been metal detecting since 1977.\n\nNational Museum Wales said it will try to acquire the treasure \"for the national collection and on behalf of the people of Wales\".\n\nMike Smith first thought this bridle decoration was a medieval brooch\n\nIt was a chance find after the weather forced Mr Smith's to switch to another field.\n\nWhen an expert told him it was a Celtic harness decoration and not a medieval brooch, he realised there might be more.\n\nMr Smith, from Milford Haven said: \"It's very difficult to describe, you know it when you see it, and you know it's special.\"\n\nHe thought immediately that the artefacts pointed to the site of a traditional burial, usually reserved for high-ranking tribe members who would be interred complete with their chariot, horses, tack and weapons.\n\n\"The chariot's definitely there… and the body's in it… It's the first one found outside of Yorkshire,\" he said.\n\nLast summer he helped archaeologists carry out an initial dig which revealed more parts.\n\nThe undisclosed site was then covered up again and scheduled as an ancient monument.\n\nThe tops of a pair of wheels revealed by the trial excavation\n\nThe finds were identified and dated to probably AD 25-75 by curators and museum archaeologists at National Museum Wales by comparing them with others already known across Britain.\n\nRed glass was made and allowed to cool into shaped recesses in the bronze surfaces, creating distinctive and vibrant flowing designs.\n\nGwilym Hughes, head of Cadw said: \"The objects demonstrate imaginative and clever craftsmanship, reflecting an inner world of colour and beauty.\"\n\nThe Celtic designs known as late La Tène art are the first to be discovered in Pembrokeshire\n\nThe museum's principal curator of prehistoric archaeology, Adam Gwilt, said: \"These chariot pieces may have been witness to some of the historical events of the time, as Iron Age peoples defended their ways of life and identities, in the face of an expanding Roman empire.\"\n\nThe museum now hopes it has the funding for a full excavation in the Spring.\n\n\"Something like this takes a lot of organisation and funding as well so we've been working with a number of partners to put together what's needed to do a continuing investigation,\" he said.\n\nIt is expected that more treasure inquests will be needed when the new dig gets underway and Mr Smith would still have a claim to future finds.", "Kristo Kaarmann initially wondered whether anyone would trust a website \"set up by two Estonian dudes\"\n\nThe BBC's weekly The Boss series profiles a different business leader from around the world. This week we speak to Kristo Kaarmann, co-founder and chief executive of money transfer business TransferWise.\n\nWhen Kristo Kaarmann was kicking himself for being \"incredibly stupid\", little did he know that it would spark an idea for a business that is now estimated to be worth more than £1.2bn.\n\nBack in 2008, the then 28-year-old Estonian was working in London as a management consultant when he got a very chunky Christmas bonus of £10,000.\n\nAs interest rates were higher back in Estonia, he decided that he'd transfer the money from his UK current account to his Estonian savings account, so as to earn more from the cash.\n\nThe company has its second largest office in Tallinn, the Estonian capital\n\n\"So I paid my UK bank a £15 fee, and transferred the £10,000, and then a week later I saw that £500 less than I had expected had arrived in the Estonian account,\" says Kristo, now 38.\n\n\"I started digging to find out what had happened, and I realised that I had been incredibly stupid.\n\n\"I had foolishly expected that my UK bank would have given me the exchange rate I saw when I looked on [news wires] Reuters and Bloomberg.\n\n\"Instead the bank had used an exchange rate 5% less favourable, which is how it and all the other banks get their cut. It was my mistake.\"\n\nAnnoyed with himself, Kristo vowed to come up with a way of transferring money overseas that removed banks from the process.\n\nInitially this involved just him and his Estonian friend Taavet Hinrikus, who was then director at telecommunications firm Skype, informally transferring money between themselves.\n\nKristo says that he and Taavet share the leadership work\n\nIt worked because Kristo often wanted to swap pounds sterling for kroons, the Estonian currency at the time, and vice versa for Taavet. They simply picked whatever was the mid-market exchange rate - the average exchange rate on any given day.\n\nSoon they had built up a network of Estonian friends - both expats and those back in Estonia - who were all doing the same thing, and Kristo and Taavet realised they could make a business out of it.\n\nSo in 2011 they launched London-based TransferWise, a financial technology or \"fintech\" website that allows users to transfer money overseas to a different currency at the mid-market rate for a set fee of 0.5%.\n\nToday, TransferWise is a global business, and investors include Virgin boss Sir Richard Branson and PayPal co-founder Max Levchin.\n\nFor the first year, Kristo and Taavet grew the business organically, relying on their savings.\n\nCustomers first arrived in a trickle thanks to word-of-mouth, but then rose sharply after a positive review on a technology website.\n\nKristo motorcyles in Africa every year over Christmas and New Year\n\nTo avoid any legal problems, Kristo and Taavet had secured clearance and licences from the UK's then regulatory body, the Financial Services Authority, before they launched.\n\n\"It was the first time they had ever seen anything like us,\" says Kristo. \"But they saw enough that they weren't worried that we would be doing anything shady.\"\n\nIn early 2012 Kristo and Taavet started to look for their first investors, but initially struggled to secure any.\n\n\"We talked to maybe 15 investors in total, but they all turned us down,\" says Kristo. \"No-one in Europe would touch us - European investors back then were far more risk averse than American ones.\n\n\"So we took our first funding from a small fund in New York called IA Ventures.\"\n\nAs TransferWise then steadily grew, other investors followed. It has now raised £305m in total.\n\nMeanwhile, its website and app have been used by more than four million people, and are available in 50 countries and 49 currencies. The company says that £3bn is now transferred via its service every month.\n\nWith a second big office in the Estonian capital, Tallinn, and eight others in locations such as Tampa Bay, Budapest and Tokyo, TransferWise saw its revenues rise 75% to £117m in the year to the end of March 2018.\n\nIts annual profit remained flat at £6.2m. Prior to March 2017, the company had always reported a loss, as funds were put into its expansion. It now has 1,400 employees.\n\nFintech author and commentator Chris Skinner says that TransferWise grew so quickly because it was cheap for people to use, and there were no hidden fees.\n\nThe company has 10 offices around the world\n\n\"Add to this some major heavyweights investing in and backing the business, and you have a potential success on your hands,\" he says.\n\n\"I say potential though, as even with a good idea, good marketing, good investors and good backing, nothing is guaranteed in this world.\n\n\"However, along with Monzo, Starling, Revolut and a number of other UK fintech start-ups, TransferWise is a standout from the crowd and is transforming financial services by targeting great customer experience at the lowest cost through technology.\"\n\nWhile Kristo has the chief executive title, he says that he and co-founder Taavet, 37, have \"from the beginning both been involved in everything. We are very overlapping in what we do.\"\n\nWhen not working, Kristo likes to relax by kite surfing, and every Christmas and New Year he goes long-distance motorcycling in Africa with his brother.\n\n\"There were lots of unknowns when we started,\" he says. \"Would anyone trust this website set up by two Estonian dudes? Would anyone else have this problem that we wanted to solve?\n\n\"And all these people around the world did have the same problem, and they did trust us.\"\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. Nissan boss: 10% tariffs would be 'handicap' for Sunderland plant\n\nWhen Carlos Ghosn made his not-very-veiled threat about the future of the giant Nissan plant in Sunderland last week, he might have thought locals would have quailed and rallied to his cause.\n\nPeople in Sunderland don't always do as they are told; before the vote on Britain's membership of the European Union, the Nissan chief executive urged people to vote to remain, stressing the advantages to Nissan, the region's biggest employer, of staying in the single market.\n\nThey ignored him, with just under two-thirds of the Sunderland electorate voting to leave.\n\nPaul Watson, Labour and Co-operative leader of the city council since 2008, says people value Nissan's contribution to the local economy - it is the region's largest employer, providing work for 7,000 people - but that Sunderland is used to the vagaries of the world economy having big effects at home.\n\nThe coal industry here powered the empire, employing hundreds of thousands to work the Durham field in scores of pits.\n\nSunderland Bridge and Lambton coal drops on the River Wear, circa 1880.\n\nThe industry still shapes the local culture; Washington, the new town beside the Nissan plant, remains in reality an amalgamation of about a dozen pit villages, where people still identify with their immediate area rather than the wider north east.\n\nWhen the pits closed in the 1980s - a victim of high costs relative to imported coal and a protracted battle for supremacy between mining unions and the Thatcher government - people learned the hard way that the tide of global commerce can go out quickly.\n\nIn Washington, they do not bemoan the loss of the pits themselves, as they brought their own horrible legacy of occupational diseases, but they rue the lack of something to replace them.\n\nShipbuilding was Sunderland's other great loss. At one stage the River Wear, which divides the city, could boast that it accounted for one-quarter of the world's new ships. Only 50 years ago it was still an international force, but now there are few signs the industry ever existed.\n\nMr Watson says the real dark days for Sunderland - the 1980s, when the town reeled under the combined closures of pits and shipyards - are now behind it. The economy has been reinvented, with call centres, Nissan and now a burgeoning tech scene picking up the slack.\n\n\"The big monolithic industries have gone,\" said Mr Watson, who once worked in a shipyard, \"but other things have come in. It is about having a strategy, and our strategy is simply to make Sunderland prosperous.\"\n\nAt Sunderland Software City, a tech hub that would not be out of place in London's Silicon Roundabout, part of that vision is coming true. There are special effects firms, web designers and games makers.\n\nDavid Van der Velde, managing director of Consult and Design, a digital agency based in the centre, says people in the North East have a natural inventiveness that lends itself to technology companies.\n\n\"Sunderland has always been a place where people make things, people are inventive. We've moved from making things out of steel to making things out of software, but we're still making things\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOn Wednesday 12 February 1947 at around 09:45, a queue of insanely glamorous people stood outside 30 Avenue Montaigne, Paris, shivering in temperatures below -5C.\n\nAmong them was the artist Jean Cocteau, the socialite Lady Diana Cooper and the editors of American Vogue and Harper's Bazaar.\n\nIt was the coldest winter in a generation. They were freezing.\n\nMeanwhile, inside the recently derequisitioned house, people were scurrying around adding the finishing touches to a radical new womenswear fashion collection.\n\nIt was the launch of an haute couture label thought to have cost millions of francs.\n\nAt 09:59, a portly, middle aged man with a passing resemblance to Alfred Hitchcock walked between the countless flower arrangements installed throughout the house, calmly spraying the scent that Paul Vacher had created for him to set the tone of his eponymous business.\n\nAt 10:00 precisely, he instructed a member of his staff to open the front door.\n\nThe 42-year old host, whom the photographer Cecil Beaton described as \"a bland country curate made out of pink marzipan\", welcomed each guest individually and invited them to relax before the presentation of his highly anticipated first collection.\n\nThat was this particular man's way: it was the mark of Christian Dior.\n\nChristian Dior's first collection in 1947 was the hottest show in town\n\nYou can find out what happened next at the V&A in London, which is presenting a retrospective of the Dior label's subsequent 72 years among the international fashion elite.\n\nIt starts where the story stops at 30 Avenue Montaigne.\n\nChristian Dior knew that the townhouse at 30 Avenue Montaigne in Paris would be the home to his couture label\n\nAs you walk up to the imposing front door, your way is blocked by a black mannequin wearing the two-tone two-piece that defined both that inaugural 1947 show and Christian Dior.\n\nIt was an extravagant, rebellious response to the grim austerity of post-war Europe. Instead of a dull boxy jacket and no-nonsense skirt that required minimal fabric or imagination to make, Dior presented a soft-shouldered, wasp-waisted silk jacket fanning out over the hips to reveal a long, dark blue pleated skirt, which took many metres of fabric to produce.\n\nWith its feminine silhouette, the Bar Suit (1947) became the the emblem of the New Look\n\nIt was outrageously decadent in an era of rationing, but also fabulously exciting: a vision for the future that was colourful, opulent and beautiful.\n\nThe politicians hated it, as did some members of the public who notoriously spat at and attacked models wearing Dior. There was even an incident, famously captured by the photographer Walter Carone, where a young woman was set upon and stripped by two older ladies of the \"make-do-and-mend\" school who were appalled by what they perceived as her wanton wastefulness.\n\nWalter Carone captured the moment a young woman had her clothes torn off by women outraged at what they saw as a waste of fabric\n\nThe fashionistas saw things differently. They absolutely loved what was immediately known as the New Look.\n\nWhy his work had such an immediate impact is obvious when you step over the threshold and into the first gallery. The designs he produced and the fabrics he used were the epitome of old-school glamour, with elegant lines - or silhouettes - cut from luxurious materials. They are a wonder to behold, at least on the outside.\n\nI imagine the whalebone corsets and under-wired structures needed to retain the shape felt neither elegant nor luxurious. Still, Il faut souffrir pour être belle, as they say.\n\nPrincess Margaret commissioned the Frenchman to make her 21st birthday dress; here - at last - was a designer producing clothes for modern young women, not rich old ladies.\n\nThe gown he produced for Margaret is displayed beside Beaton's famous photograph of the princess modelling it, behind which is a double-decker display case of the dresses Dior made for other members of Britain's next-gen high society.\n\nChristian Dior designed this dress for Princess Margaret, which she wore for 21st birthday celebrations\n\nWhen you enter the third gallery, everything changes… for a reason. Christian Dior is dead.\n\nA decade after that cold February morning in 1947, the designer, who had by now become a household name, suffered a fatal heart attack in Italy.\n\nThere was talk of closing the business, but Dior had a 21-year-old assistant who was showing some promise, so the board decided to give him a go.\n\nYves Saint Laurent didn't let them down.\n\nYou can see his Dior design classics mixed with those produced by the five creative directors who followed him, including pieces of Baroque ebullience by John Galliano. They all have their own idiosyncratic style, but there is a \"Diorness\" that unites them, which is most apparent in the display of their re-imagined Bar Suits.\n\nYves Saint Laurent was just 21 years old when he was appointed Dior's creative director, but didn't disappoint\n\nJohn Galliano at Dior pushed the definition of haute couture with his extraordinary and lavish designs\n\nThemes rather than chronology take you through the rest of the exhibition.\n\nThere are galleries dedicated to historicism, the garden, the ateliers and, finally, a glitzy ballroom featuring animated glitter erupting across the ceiling and down the walls. The effect is only marginally compromised by non-slip rubber matting underfoot rather than a sprung wooden floor polished for dancing.\n\nChristian Dior wasn't known for skimping on costs, and nor has the V&A.\n\nThe museum created a rod for its own back with its blockbuster Alexander McQueen show in 2015. It changed visitor expectations forever. A couple of display cases of some nice dresses won't cut the mustard nowadays - punters want a theatrical experience to remember and post on Instagram.\n\nAnd curator Oriole Cullen has delivered just that. This is a fantastic show that builds from a modest scrapbook of family photos at the beginning to a climatic end with over 70-years of creative excellence displayed in the round.\n\nIt is an unashamed celebration of Christian Dior's joie de vivre.\n\nThis is by far the most successful exhibition to be held in the museum's recently-opened subterranean gallery. It is a space that would make a decent parking lot, but is a fiendishly difficult place to programme. To give visitors any sense of a narrative flow requires the construction of an inner world that costs, I am told, an eye-watering amount of money.\n\nStill, the Kensington institution is expecting a lot of people to come and see the show over the next six months, and so - in the spirit of Christian Dior - it has chosen to invest heavily in Nathalie Crinière's exhibition design.\n\nNotwithstanding a hairpin bend in the third gallery, she and her team have pulled it off with aplomb and presented an environment that I suspect Christian Dior would not only recognise, but would wander through merrily spraying his Miss Dior perfume.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nA Serie B game was halted five seconds after kick-off and then abandoned following a head injury to Lecce midfielder Manuel Scavone.\n\nThe 31-year-old, who is on loan from Parma, collided in the air with Ascoli forward Giacomo Beretta and fell heavily on his head.\n\nLecce said Scavone was treated on the pitch and regained consciousness before being taken to hospital.\n\nOn Saturday, Lecce released a photo of Beretta visiting Scavone in hospital.\n\nThe Vito Fazzi hospital in Lecce said Scavone is \"out of danger.\"\n\nIn a statement the hospital said Scavone's condition was \"good\" and they had carried out several tests which all came back negative. He will be kept in hospital under observation for 24 hours.", "Products meeting the standard would carry the UKCA symbol, such as in this mock-up\n\nThe government has drawn up plans to replace the CE safety symbol on products in the event of a no-deal Brexit, the BBC has learned.\n\nHousehold items such as kettles, light bulbs and toys are stamped with the letters CE.\n\nThe mark belongs to the European Union, so if Britain leaves the EU without a deal, goods will have to be stamped with a new symbol - UKCA.\n\nSome manufacturers are concerned that such a change will be costly.\n\nSince 1993, the CE mark has shown consumers that an item meets EU legal requirements and has been tested.\n\nThe new logo drawn up by the UK government stands for UK Conformity Assessed (UKCA).\n\nOfficials are expected to unveil the logo shortly.\n\n\"A UK mark would provide confidence to consumers and to the authorities that these products meet UK regulatory requirements,\" Scott Steedman of the British Standards Institution told the BBC.\n\n\"It provides flexibility for government should there be divergence of regulations to insist that manufacturers were committing to that UK regulatory practice in future,\" he said.\n\nThe symbol could replace the CE mark in the UK on products such as this toy\n\nIf the new logo is to be used, companies would have to change their packaging, advertising and an element of the products themselves.\n\nFor manufacturers, that will mean a one-off cost.\n\n\"In a very short period of time, thousands of companies are going to have to spend millions of pounds collectively on changing all their markings to comply with the new mark,\" Stephen Phipson, chief executive of the manufacturers' organisation EEF, told the BBC.\n\n\"It's another cost as a result of not doing a deal on Brexit,\" he said.\n\nEnter the word or phrase you are looking for\n\nGoods made in the UK which are exported to the European Union may have to be stamped with two marks - CE for EU markets and UKCA for Great Britain and Northern Ireland.\n\nFor some products that could also mean two sets of tests, as EU nations may not recognise ones done by UK organisations.\n\n\"Products which were assessed by a UK-based notified body will need to be reassessed by an EU-recognised conformity assessment body before placing on the EU market,\" explained part of the government's no deal planning guidance for manufacturers.\n\nIf there is no deal, at the end of March or later, product makers will not have to adopt the new UKCA marking straight away.\n\nIt is expected that companies will be given a period of grace.\n\nThat means all the products on the shelves and in warehouses which have the CE mark on them can still be sold legally in the UK.\n\nIn a previous no-deal planning notice, the government said \"goods made and assessed against EU regulatory requirements can continue to be placed on the UK market after 29 March 2019. This is intended to be for a time-limited period.\"\n\nA consultation on the length of time is likely to take place.\n\nThe government insists delivering a deal remains its priority, but it is accelerating no-deal preparations to ensure businesses are prepared for the end of March.", "Facebook works with more than 30 fact-checking agencies\n\nTwo leading fact-checking agencies have stopped their work with Facebook, striking a blow to the network's efforts to fight fake news.\n\nThe social network had paid the Associated Press and Snopes to combat its misinformation crisis.\n\nBut both firms confirmed they are no longer checking articles. The AP told the BBC it was in \"ongoing conversations\" about work in future.\n\nFacebook said it was committed to fighting fake news.\n\nThe company said it would expand its efforts in 2019.\n\n\"Fighting misinformation takes a multi-pronged approach from across the industry,\" a Facebook spokeswoman told the BBC.\n\n\"We are committed to fighting this through many tactics, and the work that third-party fact-checkers do is a valued and important piece of this effort.\n\n\"We have strong relationships with 34 fact-checking partners around the world who fact-check content in 16 languages, and we plan to expand the programme this year by adding new partners and languages.\"\n\nA spokeswoman for the AP told the BBC: \"AP constantly evaluates how to best deploy its fact-checking resources, and that includes ongoing conversations with Facebook about opportunities to do important fact-checking work on its platform.\"\n\nSnopes said it needed to \"determine with certainty that our efforts to aid any particular platform are a net positive for our online community, publication and staff”.\n\nThe site's founder David Mikkelson, and head of operations Vinny Green, said in a blog post that the firm did not rule out working with Facebook in future.\n\n\"We hope to keep an open dialogue going with Facebook to discuss approaches to combating misinformation that are beneficial to platforms, fact-checking organisations and the user community alike,\" the company said.\n\nThe blog post acknowledged that choosing not to renew its work with Facebook would have financial repercussions for the company.\n\nIn 2017, Facebook paid Snopes $100,000 (£76,500) for its work. Snopes has not yet released its financial disclosures for 2018.\n\n\"Forgoing an economic opportunity is not a decision that we or any other journalistic enterprise can take lightly in the current publishing landscape,\" the company said.\n\nLate last year, the Guardian published a report that suggested fact-checking firms were frustrated by Facebook’s lack of transparency.\n\nThe article quoted former Snopes managing editor Brooke Binkowski as saying: “They’ve essentially used us for crisis PR. They’re not taking anything seriously. They are more interested in making themselves look good and passing the buck… They clearly don’t care.”\n\nIn a blog post, Facebook disputed the Guardian's report, saying it had \"several inaccuracies\".\n\nSpeaking about the news Snopes and the AP had pulled out, Ms Binkowski said she felt Facebook was too controlling over the fact-checking companies.\n\n\"Facebook can't handle any kind of pushback, any kind of public criticism,\" she told the BBC, adding that she felt the fact-checking programme at Facebook had been \"mishandled\".\n\nFacebook has worked with two other fact-checking agencies in the US. One, Politifact, told the BBC it intended to continue working with Facebook in 2019. The other, Factcheck.org, did not respond to requests for comment at the time of publication.\n\nDo you have more information about this or any other technology story? You can reach Dave directly and securely through encrypted messaging app Signal on: +1 (628) 400-7370", "Nissan is expected to announce that it is cancelling a planned investment at its plant in Sunderland.\n\nIn 2016 the car maker said it would build the new model of its X-Trail SUV in the UK after receiving \"assurances\" from the government over Brexit.\n\nThe Japanese company is expected to say investment will be now be pulled, rather than existing work being halted.\n\nLabour MP for Houghton and Sunderland South, Bridget Phillipson, spoke of her concern at the prospect.\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 Bridget Phillipson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"If confirmed, this would represent deeply troubling news for the north east economy,\" she tweeted.\n\n\"So many jobs and livelihoods depend on Nissan's success.\"\n\nLabour Sunderland Central MP Julie Elliott suggested there was an \"inevitable role that Brexit plays here.... None of it is conducive to encouraging business investment in this country\".\n\n\"I will be doing everything I can to protect the jobs at the Sunderland plant. I will be asking for the government to intervene, and will stay in close contact with the company itself,\" she said in a Twitter post.\n\nNissan has produced cars at Sunderland since 1986 and employs almost 7,000 people.\n\nNissan announced in October 2016 it would build the next-generation X-Trail and Qashqai at Sunderland.\n\nProduction of the Qashqai - the best-selling crossover vehicle in Europe - makes up the majority of the current work at Sunderland and is not expected to be affected by the announcement on the X-Trail.\n\nBBC business reporter Rob Young said: \"The reasons for the investment cancellation are not known, but the industry as a whole has been warning Brexit uncertainty might hit investment.\"\n\nOur correspondent said as the announcement was expected to be about planned future investment, the impact on Nissan's current workforce may be very minimal.\n\nNissan refused to shed light on the situation. A spokesman said it \"does not comment on rumour or speculation\".\n\nThere had been concerns that Nissan - part-owned by France's Renault - could move production to France in future to avoid any post-Brexit EU tariffs.\n\nBut when the X-Trail investment was initially announced, Nissan said hundreds of jobs would be created at the Sunderland plant.\n\nIt sparked questions over whether a deal between the car-maker and the government had been struck although ministers insisted that no \"financial compensation\" had been offered.\n\nPeter Campbell, the motor industry correspondent at the Financial Times, said the fall in demand for diesels would appear to be one of the main factors in the announcement as Nissan was planning to make mainly diesel versions of the X-Trail in Sunderland.\n\nHe told the BBC: \"If Nissan decided to make those cars in petrol it would have to ship engines over from Japan and the cost of doing that work against the decision to build it in the UK.\"\n\nHe added: \"There are obviously other factors - car sales are down in the UK, they have fallen across Europe... and there is obviously the overhang of Brexit and the worries of the impact that might have on a plant that exports about 80% of its vehicles.\"\n\nLast April, Nissan said it was to cut hundreds of jobs at Sunderland, amid a decline in diesel sales.", "Police said they found evidence of \"witchcraft\" in the woman's home, including limes stuffed with written curses\n\nA woman who mutilated her three-year-old daughter has become the first person in the UK to be found guilty of female genital mutilation (FGM).\n\nThe 37-year-old mother from east London wept in the dock as she was convicted after a trial at the Old Bailey.\n\nSpells and curses intended to deter police and social workers from investigating were found at the Ugandan woman's home, the trial heard.\n\nHer 43-year-old partner was acquitted by the jury.\n\nProsecutors said the mother \"coached\" her daughter \"to lie to the police so she wouldn't get caught\".\n\nThe defendants, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, denied FGM and an alternative charge of failing to protect a girl from risk of genital mutilation.\n\nMrs Justice Whipple warned of a \"lengthy\" jail term as she remanded the woman into custody to be sentenced on 8 March.\n\nFGM - intentionally altering or injuring the female external genitalia for non-medical reasons - carries a sentence of up to 14 years in jail.\n\nDuring the trial, the woman claimed her daughter, then aged three, \"fell on metal and it's ripped her private parts\" after she had climbed to get a biscuit in August 2017.\n\nMedics alerted police to the girl's injuries after they treated her at Whipps Cross Hospital, in Leytonstone.\n\nShe \"lost a significant amount of blood as a result of the injuries they had delivered and inflicted on her\", jurors were told.\n\nWhile the parents were on bail, police searched the mother's home and said they found evidence of \"witchcraft\".\n\nProsecutor Caroline Carberry QC said two cow tongues were \"bound in wire with nails and a small blunt knife\" embedded in them.\n\nForty limes and other fruit were found with pieces of paper with names written on them stuffed inside, including those of police officers and a social worker involved in the investigation.\n\n\"These people were to 'shut up' and 'freeze their mouths',\" Ms Carberry said.\n\n\"There was a jar with a picture of a social worker in pepper found hidden behind the toilet in the bathroom,\" she added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Campaigner Aneeta Prem believes more people will now come forward to report cases\n\nIt is only the fourth FGM prosecution brought to court in the UK. The previous cases led to acquittals.\n\nFGM campaigner Aneeta Prem, from Freedom Charity, said convictions were hard to secure because cuttings were \"hidden in secrecy\".\n\n\"People are scared to come forward, professionals are scared to come forward to report this,\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"The fact that we have a conviction today is a really historic moment.\"\n\n\"We will not tolerate FGM and not rest until perpetrators of this horrific crime are brought to justice,\" he added.\n\nPolice also found two cow tongues with nails in them\n\nLynette Woodrow, from the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), said the \"sickening\" offence had been committed against a victim with \"no power to resist or fight back\".\n\n\"We can only imagine how much pain this vulnerable young girl suffered and how terrified she was,\" she said.\n\n\"Her mother then coached her to lie to the police so she wouldn't get caught, but this ultimately failed.\"\n\nMs Woodrow said FGM victims were often affected physically and emotionally for \"their entire life\".\n\nThe mother was born in Uganda but has lived in the UK for a number of years. FGM is banned in both countries, the CPS said.\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan said the conviction sent \"a clear message to those who practise this barbaric act\".\n\n\"Every woman and girl should be safe and feel safe wherever they are in London, and we will continue our fight to end FGM with every power we have,\" he added.", "Two out of five hospital trusts and health boards in the UK do not give sanitary products to patients who need them, or only in emergencies, an investigation by the BMA has found.\n\nThe doctors' union says pads and tampons are a basic need and should be available free to inpatients.\n\nBut in some trusts, razors and shaving foam were handed out free while sanitary products were not.\n\nThe BMA has written to NHS England asking for action to be taken.\n\nFor its investigation, the BMA asked a total of 223 trusts and health boards across the UK about the policy towards supplying sanitary products.\n\nOut of 187 who responded, 104 said they did supply them.\n\nBut 25 said they did not supply them at all and 54 said they did, but only in emergencies or in small amounts.\n\nNone of the trusts and health boards which responded said they had a policy on when sanitary products were handed out.\n\nAnd at 27 trusts, there was nowhere to buy sanitary products anywhere on site.\n\nThe BMA's investigation is part of a wider campaign to end period poverty, which focuses on making sanitary items more affordable.\n\nEleanor Wilson, a member of the BMA medical students' committee, said: \"When patients are under our care in the NHS, we need to make sure that we make them feel as welcome and as looked after as possible.\n\n\"By not providing them with something so key to their health and wellbeing, it has a big impact on their sense of self-worth - we are effectively withholding that dignity from them.\n\n\"While some hospitals have good provision, in others, patients have had to face embarrassment and hope that relatives can bring them in.\n\n\"For some that is not an option, and it can often become more challenging for young and teenage paediatric patients.\"\n\nShe said sanitary products should be part of a basic package including toilet paper, food, razors and shaving foam, made available to patients when they go into hospital.\n\nThe BMA also says the impact on the wellbeing of a patient far outweighed the relatively small cost to the NHS.\n\nProf Dame Parveen Kumar, chair of the BMA board of science, said hospitals should provide clear information on how patients can access sanitary products during their stay in hospital.\n\n\"Hospitals have an opportunity to lead the way in tackling period poverty and should be a shining example of the progress that can be made on this important issue.\"", "Actor Clive Swift, known to millions as Hyacinth Bucket's hen-pecked husband Richard in BBC One's 90s sitcom Keeping Up Appearances, has died aged 82.\n\nSwift, who spent 10 years at the RSC before breaking into television, also acted in such series as Peak Practice, Born and Bred and The Old Guys.\n\nThe role saw him patiently tolerate her ham-fisted and invariably thwarted attempts at social climbing.\n\nDame Patricia said she was \"deeply saddened\" to hear of her former co-star's death.\n\n\"Clive was a skilful and inventive actor with wide experience, as his successful career proved,\" she said.\n\n\"I so much admire what he brought to the barely sketched role of Hyacinth's husband and treasure the memories of our happy collaboration.\"\n\nOff-screen he co-founded The Actors Centre, a meeting place for members of his profession in central London.\n\nHe went on to appear with Roger Lloyd Pack in The Old Guys\n\nBorn in Liverpool in 1936, he had three children with his ex-wife, the novelist Margaret Drabble.\n\nSwift's many roles included a part in Alfred Hitchcock's 1972 film Frenzy and as King Arthur's adopted father in 1981 film Excalibur.\n\nMany years later, he would play Hitchcock in a BBC radio play called Strangers on a Film.\n\nSwift made a number of appearances in Doctor Who, most recently in the 2007 episode Voyage of the Damned.\n\nAccording to his agent, the actor died at his home on Friday after a short illness, surrounded by his family.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Two men have been shot in separate incidents in the Ballymagroarty area of Londonderry on Friday evening.\n\nThe Northern Ireland Ambulance Service (NIAS) was called shortly after 20:00 GMT, following reports a man had been shot in the legs and hands.\n\nWhile at the scene, a paramedic was made aware of another shooting incident a number of streets away in which a second man was injured.\n\nBoth men have been taken to the Altnagelvin hospital for treatment.\n\nIn a statement the Western Trust said both men were in a stable condition.\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 PSNI This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"There can be no place for the use of guns or gangs of masked men on the streets of our city,\" he said.\n\n\"All of this is in stark contrast to the good work that is going on in this community.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Overnight, something went very wrong'\n\nA mother is calling for greater awareness of a little-known condition she believes changed her easy-going son overnight.\n\nAlison Maclaine fears some children are being misdiagnosed with autism and mental health issues when they are really suffering an infection which can be treated simply with antibiotics.\n\nHer eight-year-old son Jack suffered distressing personality changes and \"lost a year of his life\".\n\nAnd she said she was left \"in despair\" that she and her family had \"no quality of life\".\n\nNow Alison believes he was suffering from Paediatric Acute-onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome (PANDAS), triggered by a streptococcal infection - a condition that can be treated with simple antibiotics and anti-inflammatories.\n\nJack went to bed one Friday in January last year, looking forward to a football tournament he was playing in the next day.\n\nBut on arrival at the venue on Saturday morning he became overwhelmed with anxiety. After several attempts, he was unable to enter the building.\n\nAt home in Dumfries, Alison realised something was very wrong.\n\nShe told the BBC: \"He started to repeatedly apologise. He said he didn't deserve to have fun, didn't deserve to have friends, didn't deserve to have nice things, didn't deserve to play football.\n\nAlison Maclaine knew her son's diagnosis was not right and did her own research into his symptoms\n\n\"That eventually led to 'I don't deserve to live, when I get home I am just going to sit outside until I freeze to death'.\"\n\nWhen it came to bedtime, Jack refused to have covers and pillows and started to repeat that he needed to die, until he fell asleep.\n\nThe following day saw his behaviour sink further.\n\nAlison said: \"One of the worst things in the world must be listening to your child telling you he wanted to die and asking you to help him.\"\n\nAccording to the charity PANS PANDAS UK, PANS (Paediatric Acute-onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome) is a neuropsychiatric condition which is triggered by a misdirected immune response which results in an inflammation of a child's brain.\n\nPANDAS is a subset of PANS, triggered by a misdirected immune response to a streptococcal infection which results in an inflammation of a child's brain.\n\nHappening very quickly, this can cause a child to exhibit symptoms including anxiety, aggressive behaviour, depression, clumsiness, insomnia and the onset of obsessive-compulsive disorder.\n\nIt was first recognised in the United States in 1998 where PANS PANDAS charities estimate as many as one in 200 children could be affected.\n\nIn 2018, the World Health Organisation recognised the condition, but in the UK it is not widely known.\n\nThere is no clear test for the condition so doctors often have to rule out psychiatric conditions. The immediate response to antibiotic or anti-inflammatory treatment is often what confirms the condition.\n\nThe charity PANS PANDAS UK said a failure to understand the condition in the UK means that children are regularly wrongly referred to Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS).\n\nJack then became aggressive and withdrew from his beloved younger sister Cara. He would become irritable and angry and started to regress, playing with baby toys.\n\nOver the next several months he was repeatedly diagnosed as having autism and severe anxiety.\n\nShe said: \"It got to the point where I really felt absolute despair.\n\n\"I felt that he had no quality of life, we had no quality of life. There were times when I contemplated things.\"\n\nHis family feels that Jack is \"back\"\n\nThat despair led to Alison doing her own research and the discovery of PANS and PANDAS.\n\nAlison said reading the symptoms was like reading a description of her son and his behavioural changes.\n\nJack was finally diagnosed privately by a consultant paediatrician in England and treated with simple antibiotics.\n\nThey worked overnight and Alison had her son back.\n\nShe said: \"Jack responded dramatically to the treatment. He hadn't left the street in five months except for school. After two days on antibiotics he wanted to come to Morrisons with me and Cara. It felt like Jack was back.\"\n\nAlison is frustrated now, believing if Jack had been given got antibiotics when he first presented to the GP in January, the outcome would have been different.\n\nShe said: \"It is so frustrating knowing the treatment was so simple. Now I hate to think there are other children in the situation that they have this disorder that has not been picked up on and have been sent down a mental health/psychological route which can't fix the problem.\"\n\nDr Tim Ubhi, who diagnosed Jack's condition, said: \"The problem here is if we do not recognise this condition and we ignore it, potentially there are children out there who are suffering who could actually get treated and actually improve their symptoms.\n\n\"So we have a responsibility as physicians to think about this as a condition and do the work to actually create an awareness of what the condition is doing in the UK.\"\n\nA Scottish government spokeswoman said: \"We appreciate that watching any loved one suffer is heartbreaking, even more so when it is a child.\n\n\"We are working together with partners to improve the outcomes and support for adults and children with rare conditions, and ensure that everyone receives the appropriate treatment.\n\n\"Ministers are unable to make or influence clinical decisions or definitions, and it would not be appropriate for them to do so.\"\n\nIf you, or someone you know, have been affected by mental health issues, these organisations may be able to help.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Empire actor Jussie Smollett says he's doing \"ok\" after being attacked in Chicago.\n\nIt's the first time the 36-year-old has spoken about what happened.\n\nPolice are searching for two people who punched him, poured an \"unknown chemical substance\" over him and put a rope around his neck.\n\nIn a statement, he has thanked fans for their support and says that love \"can't be kicked out of me\".\n\n\"Let me start by saying that I'm ok,\" he says.\n\n\"My body is strong but my soul is stronger. More importantly I want to say thank you. The outpouring of love and support from my village has meant more than I will ever be able to truly put into words.\"\n\nJussie has told police his attackers also made reference to \"Maga\" (Make America Great Again).\n\nThe slogan was used by Donald Trump during the 2016 US presidential campaign.\n\nPolice are investigating whether the actor was the victim of a hate crime.\n\nChicago police have released this image of two \"people of interest\" in the case\n\nWhile Jussie's had a huge amount of support, others have questioned his version of what happened.\n\nThe actress Ellen Page spoke about the case on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert - criticising some of the media for questioning whether it should be treated as a hate crime.\n\n\"It's absurd. This isn't a debate,\" she says.\n\nYou need to go to around 6m55 in this video.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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End of youtube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert\n\n\"I am working with authorities and have been 100% factual and consistent on every level,\" Jussie insists.\n\n\"As my family stated, these types of cowardly attacks are happening to my sisters, brothers and non-gender conforming siblings daily.\n\n\"I am not and should not be looked upon as an isolated incident.\"\n\nThe actor says he will give more details about the \"horrific incident\" but first needs a \"moment to process\".\n\n\"Most importantly, during times of trauma, grief and pain, there is still a responsibility to lead with love. It's all I know. 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