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Earth's biggest animal is now the star attraction at the Natural History Museum.", "A Nasa probe returns the most detailed pictures ever of one of the Solar System's biggest storms.", "Christina Grant's family believed they had done the right thing to meet the rules of her visitor visa.", "Johanna Konta's upcoming Wimbledon semi-final and Labour's Brexit \"threat\" make the front pages.", "The request comes after a series of alcohol-related incidents on the popular party islands.", "The Brazilian firm behind the famous flip-flop is being offloaded by the scandal-hit J&F group.", "Corpus Christi police took it for a joke, before kicking in a door to withdraw the stuck workman.", "An IPCC report also criticises the way the family's complaints about the issue were handled.", "Blazer, who helped spur the Fifa corruption scandal, was found guilty of bribery and other charges.", "Former Ivory Coast international Olivier Tebily has forged a new career away from football - as Africa's first maker of Cognac.", "On average, each estate agent in the UK has 42.5 properties on its books, the lowest since 1978.", "King Felipe VI says they can overcome differences over Gibraltar and Brexit, in his state visit speech.", "Doctors recommended the eight-hour surgery after his thumb was severed by a bull.", "Underground staff are to say \"hello everyone\" to passengers in an effort to become more gender-neutral.", "Brookside creator Phil Redmond says there is \"no better home\" for the channel if it leaves London.", "The fire service changed its advice an hour and 53 minutes after the first emergency call, BBC finds.", "The craftsmen can all trace their skills back to one family who arrived on the island more than 150 years ago.", "The bee is now a symbol of solidarity among those affected by the Arena bombing.", "Donald Trump was once a harsh critic of France, but this view appears to be changing.", "His assessment comes as alleged Russian meddling in the US election continues to cast a cloud.", "Andy Price was given a CT scan after his wedding dance practice went badly wrong.", "A New Zealander has died after the force of a jet take-off knocked her down on Sint Maarten.", "Victim claims a Disneyland manager told her the injuries were \"no different to falling off a bike\".", "Janice Farman, 47, from Clydebank, died after being attacked by three men in front of her son during a robbery.", "Clinicians and medical researchers argue unpublished data suggests his condition could be improved.", "The British pop star is the main victim of changes to the Top 40 that have just come into effect.", "Firefighters describe low water pressure, radio problems and a 30-minute wait for a high ladder.", "It isn't the sex scenes that viewers have been getting in touch with Ofcom about.", "Co-creator Trey Parker says the show has fallen into the \"trap\" of mocking the US president every week.", "A report gives a rare glimpse into the procedures and dangers of removing people from the UK after convictions.", "The average price of property fell by 1% in June, the Halifax says, the largest fall since January.", "Theresa May says plans for bronze statue of former PM should not be halted over vandalism fears.", "A US hospital has offered to ship the 11-month-old an experimental treatment drug.", "Clueless envoys rely on one method to glimpse the president's thinking, even if they won't admit it.", "The pupils had been going on a school art trip when their minibus was involved in the crash with a bin lorry.", "7 days quiz: What made the Duchess giggle?", "The six-year-old struck up a friendship with striker Jermain Defoe after being diagnosed with cancer.", "The former comedy duo had an acrimonious split but have made up and now been pictured together.", "Finance manager Jacqueline Robb spent the cash on holidays and clothes during a four-year period.", "But tourists eager to see the repaired structure will have to wait to allow the glue to seal.", "The 81-year-old abused girls as a form of punishment at a Cardiff mosque.", "Tributes and reaction to the six-year-old who has died after a long illness.", "The children of a man shot dead by police sent a desperate text after being tied up by him, an inquest hears.", "More than a century ago a former slave fulfilled her dream to meet Queen Victoria, taking with her a gift.", "At least 800 people from the UK have travelled to support or fight for jihadist organisations in Syria and Iraq, according to British officials. But what do we know about them?", "The rapper also apologised for saying \"a lot of things\" because the Material Girl singer \"hurt\" him.", "Food delivery firm says it would offer sick and injury pay if employment law is changed to allow more benefits for gig workers.", "How politicians and Parliament have been at the centre of battles over gay rights over the past 60 years.", "A consumer group says many people who pre-pay for their funerals will still face extra charges", "After Donald Trump's withdrawal from the Paris climate deal, France doubles down on pollution.", "A three-month old Chihuahua was abandoned in a Las Vegas airport toilet by its owner fleeing domestic abuse", "Are 'moderate' Labour MPs facing a mass purge over past disloyalty, asks Iain Watson.", "Police say Venus Williams was driving legally during the car crash that left an elderly man dead.", "Marvyn Iheanacho is accused of battering his partner's son to death in south-east London.", "UK-based firm Bell Pottinger responds to accusations its work inflamed racial tensions.", "Tesla will build the world's biggest lithium ion battery in a state gripped by electricity woes.", "Sir Martin Moore-Bick met survivors of the west London tower block fire on Thursday evening.", "People aged 16-24 are the most likely to illegally download audio files from streaming services, research suggests.", "Rival gangs clashed in a jail in the city of Acapulco, and some of the victims were decapitated.", "The front pages focus on two young people who have been battling serious illness.", "Ofcom has suspended the station's licence for broadcasting lectures by an alleged al-Qaeda leader.", "One mother is fighting hard to make sure more young people are protected from the dangers of knives after the death of her son.", "The pair held \"robust\" talks about the allegations of Russian interference in last year's election.", "Dozens of police officers are injured in clashes with protesters, some of whom were hurling objects.", "The woman was at a rally co-organised by the ex-English Defence League leader after the Manchester attack.", "An orphanage defends the reigning Miss South Africa after a barrage of social media criticism.", "Plans for a statue of Margaret Thatcher are shelved, while business leaders want a Brexit delay.", "Oxford City Council is threatening to fine or prosecute rough sleepers who leave bags in doorways.", "Dodie describes how she plucked up the courage to try a new treatment for depersonalisation.", "Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham says the go-ahead for London will cause \"widespread anger\".", "The park's managing director says the charge on an electric fence was not high enough.", "The judge will rule by 14:00 BST on Wednesday whether his parents can take Charlie home to die.", "Emily Hughes was told someone with the same name, born on the same day in the same area has already applied.", "The lifesavers tackling refugee children's trauma of the sea head on.", "Sperm counts in men from North America, Europe and Australia halve in less than 40 years, research warns.", "The sculpture, which could potentially stand 7m high and 30m wide, symbolises a giant rusted crown", "The EU anti-fraud office is cracking down on Mafia fraud involving farm development funds in Sicily.", "His new adult animated comedy fantasy series Disenchantment will premiere in 2018.", "Alice Cooper had forgotten about the $10m artwork, which was found tucked away with tour equipment.", "Teens in the study said the vaginal ring, which cuts HIV infections by 56%, was easy to use.", "Contentment comes from paying others to take on chores such as cleaning and cooking, a study says.", "It said the phrase is unbiblical, un-Protestant, and connected to Catholicism.", "An average of 2.4 million viewers tuned in to see Kem and Amber crowned the winning couple.", "Household debt is rising much faster than incomes, the Bank of England's Alex Brazier says.", "The pop star bows out of the remaining 14 dates because of \"unforeseen circumstances\".", "For many ex-believers, leaving the religion means they can no longer speak to their children or parents.", "Chessington World of Adventures said the fox broke into the penguins' water enclosure.", "Krystyna Farley is a pageant star in the US state of Connecticut, but her life was not always this glamorous.", "The 2013 Women's World Cup barely registered with the public. England's glorious 2017 triumph could not be more different.", "The battlefields of WW1 were once marked by thousands of wooden crosses - but what happened to them?", "Ian Paterson performed unnecessary surgery and asked to be struck off without the need for a hearing.", "Several Americans and Brits are using charity donation websites to finance their war efforts in eastern Ukraine.", "Holidaymakers face unnecessary charges when they use their credit and debit cards overseas.", "Since the first commercial substitute for breast milk was launched in 1865, formula has shaped the workforce.", "Jurors heard Marvyn Iheanacho battered his partner's five-year-old son with \"brute force\".", "The graphics program will remain available on the app store, Microsoft says.", "Letting \"gorgeous\" Charlie go is \"the hardest thing we'll ever have to do\", his parents say.", "The UK is \"reliant\" on EU nationals to enforce welfare and hygiene standards in abattoirs, peers say.", "How Italian seaside city Viareggio became a hub for the superyacht manufacturing industry.", "How are Germany's economic giants viewing the UK's negotiations to leave the EU?", "Both Paddy Jackson and Stuart Olding deny all allegations against them.", "Terminally ill baby Charlie Gard dominates the front pages, as his parents end their legal battle to take him to the US for further treatment.", "Why the collection of evidence about the conflict may not result in prosecutions.", "Celine Dookhran, of Indian Muslim heritage, was allegedly killed over a relationship with an Arab Muslim.", "Police arrest a man suspected of a chainsaw rampage that left five injured, after a two-day manhunt.", "A fully electric version of the Mini is to be built at the Cowley plant in Oxford, BMW says.", "The US President also takes a swipe at the EU's \"very protectionist\" stance towards his country.", "Scientists worry that the melting of the Greenland ice sheet could accelerate and raise sea levels more than expected.", "A California radio station accuses the celebrated biologist of \"abusive speech against Islam\".", "Washington is reviewing whether to arm those fighting Russian-backed rebels, says a new envoy.", "Ministers have also unveiled a £255m fund to help councils introduce steps to deal with pollution", "How would the UK benefit from a trade deal with the US and is it likely to happen?", "Chris Gard and Connie Yates are distraught after ending their legal battle to treat their baby in the US.", "A skull found while police searched a landfill site was a woman's from before 1945, police say.", "The family of 15-year-old Leah Kerry say she knew the dangers but \"thought she was invincible\".", "Fidgety Fingers is one of many nurseries which say they cannot make government funding rates stretch.", "The two teenagers flagged down police in east London after an unknown liquid was thrown at them.", "Once the go-to plug-in for video, the technology has been usurped by more reliable and secure apps.", "The Bank of England's stability chief warns of the dangers of rising personal loans.", "The president responds to reports he is considering presidential pardons over alleged Russia collusion.", "John Heard, who played the father in the Home Alone films, has died aged 71.", "Thai monk Wirapol Sukphol denies a range of charges but the case points to a wider trend of bad karma.", "Beverly Martin said she defected to the Tories after UKIP failed to make \"significant change\".", "In Norway, anyone can find out how much anyone else is paid, and it rarely causes problems, writes Lars Bevanger.", "Minneapolis mayor says she lost confidence in the chief after officers killed an Australian woman.", "His parents were angry the results were heard in court before they had been told privately.", "A prison officer is taken to hospital with minor injuries following a disturbance at HMP Hewell.", "Great Ormond Street Hospital says the police have been called in following \"unacceptable behaviour\".", "The last phone call between Princess Diana and her sons, and a row over a BBC pay gap make the news.", "A flight from Aberdeen to Portugal has finally taken off after being delayed since early on Thursday morning.", "The comments by the painter's foundation come after his body was dug up to settle a paternity case.", "The Shropshire-born general was known to his troops as Daddy Hill due to his caring nature.", "Police describe the attack on a 30-year-old man in north Belfast as \"brutal and horrific\".", "Police end landfill search for missing airman Corrie Mckeague, who they say had \"slept in rubbish\".", "Accurate blood tests mean more groups can give blood safely, experts say.", "US citizens have now had six months to get used to their new president and still not all are finding it easy. Americans in the UK face a double dose of change with Brexit.", "South Korean women have dominated international golf for years now. Why?", "BBC Reality Check investigates whether gender balance has changed in popular TV dramas in recent years.", "Is Deckard human or a replicant? The star gives an answer.", "His trial, and car chase, paved the way for reality TV, and Donald Trump, writes Nick Bryant.", "The former Great British Bake Off presenters will host a four-episode run of the classic game show.", "The boy, 15, was travelling alone to see grandparents in France when he was asked to leave the plane.", "The company initially said it didn't want to \"incentivise inappropriate use\" of the pill.", "Drone owners will also be required to pass a safety awareness test.", "After a high-profile deportation, undocumented Irish immigrants are on edge.", "The tour has been cancelled following the death of singer Chester Bennington on Thursday.", "How Marian Hill went from cult artists to mainstream success, after Apple chose their song for an ad.", "The semi-retired businessman usually plays in £10 entry tournaments in his home casino in Hull.", "The end of some two-tier rail travel, and a Boots boycott call make newspaper headlines.", "Tensions have risen over security measures at the site in Jerusalem revered by Jews and Muslims.", "Meet the grandmother who led the charge to sponsor a family of refugees.", "Nicola Urquhart says she wants to stop police filling a landfill where she thinks her son's body is.", "William and Harry speak candidly for a documentary marking the 20th anniversary of her death.", "Michelle Brown is recorded making derogatory comments about Labour's Chuka Umunna in a phone call.", "England's women's footballers are calling for girls to recognise the strong traits in the characters.", "The picture was taken at Kensington Palace at the end of June, ahead of his birthday on Saturday.", "How Comic-Con has become an annual festival of costumes and comic books - and a multi-million dollar industry.", "Dominic Hurley is regularly mistaken for being drunk, but his slurred speech and poor balance is the result of a brain injury following a moped crash in Ayia Napa.", "A former Labour chief whip says ex-PM Blair was reluctant to discipline Corbyn when he was a backbencher.", "The transport secretary is \"absolutely\" committed to scrapping first class seats on commuter routes.", "He was the first dog to win the show, alongside owner Ashleigh Butler, in 2012.", "Equal marriage will be celebrated at Gay Pride Berlin, but adoption is still a thorny issue.", "Former producer of The Bill wanted his partner killed so he could run off with a sex worker.", "Jahed Choudhury says he has received death threats online since marrying Sean Rogan.", "First Ministers say it is a \"naked power-grab\" undermining devolution", "How do non-believers get together in a nation where blasphemy carries a death sentence?", "A US doctor offering to treat Charlie Gard agrees to visit him, if the High Court adjourns.", "Ministers hail a historic moment - but Labour and the Scottish and Welsh governments are unhappy.", "Speaking alongside his French counterpart, the US president told reporters \"something could happen\".", "The US doctor offering to treat Charlie Gard will meet the baby's medical team to discuss his care.", "Middle-class children are in danger of being groomed by criminal gangs to sell drugs, a report says.", "US President Donald Trump forms a close alliance with President Emmanuel Macron during his Paris trip.", "Footballer Jermain Defoe is among the funeral cortege as it brings Bradley's home town to a standstill.", "Opposition to the government's proposed legislation to convert EU law to UK features across the papers.", "The 1976 killing of a 15-year-old girl had a \"profound and devastating\" effect on the town of Flint.", "The government has published the bill on how EU laws will be transferred to UK law.", "Dubiously sourced rumours about transfers spread wildly on social media, but do they actually influence the game?", "Some weren't happy that the magazine said Zayn Malik and Gigi Hadid were \"gender fluid\".", "Andy Price was given a CT scan after his wedding dance practice went badly wrong.", "It comes on the eve of the first anniversary of a coup attempt that led to more than 250 deaths.", "Home Office fined £366,900 for failing to get approval for pay cap-busting salary for Alexis Jay.", "The outgoing Lib Dem leader denies deceiving voters by continuing to campaign.", "A Nasa probe returns the most detailed pictures ever of one of the Solar System's biggest storms.", "The press watchdog rules in favour of Prince Harry after Mail Online published Jamaica beach pictures.", "A man is arrested after two Germans are killed at the Egyptian resort of Hurghada, officials say.", "The star posted a picture with the babies a month after their birth - and revealed their names.", "Widespread speculation suggests the 13th Doctor will - for the first time - be a woman.", "The Times reports that new laws to restrict the sale of corrosive substances will be proposed, while other front pages focus on the case of Charlie Gard.", "Most fire services would have sent a high ladder to Grenfell Tower, BBC Newsnight has revealed.", "Jacqui Kenny can't get on a train or bus but has found a way to travel to remote corners of the world.", "Venus Williams greets success with a sleepy, oblivious shrug - but her warrior spirit and love of the game still shine through, says Tom Fordyce.", "The three gunmen, who were shot dead after fleeing to a sacred site, were Israeli Arabs, police say.", "Corpus Christi police took it for a joke, before kicking in a door to withdraw the stuck workman.", "An IPCC report also criticises the way the family's complaints about the issue were handled.", "Former Ivory Coast international Olivier Tebily has forged a new career away from football - as Africa's first maker of Cognac.", "The Home Office's new scheme aims to share intelligence on emerging drugs and help users recover.", "Charlie Gard's parents don't have the final decision on what happens to him so where do parental rights end?", "Met Commissioner Cressida Dick says police have thwarted five attacks in the past few months.", "These beautiful pictures are the first ever taken of a wild lioness feeding a young leopard.", "Civil servants have begun work for a forthcoming review of building safety rules, Newsnight learns.", "\"One word says it all. Asian,\" said host who must now attend a course on Asian-American studies.", "Bringing you the latest news, sport, travel and weather from across the North East on Friday 14 July 2017.", "Wayne Rooney marks his second debut for Everton with a stunning goal after receiving a raucous welcome from the 35,000 crowd in Tanzania.", "Douglas Innes was responsible for the Cheeki Rafiki, which lost its keel 700 miles off Nova Scotia.", "The bee is now a symbol of solidarity among those affected by the Arena bombing.", "John Bernecker died of injuries sustained while filming the zombie TV series in Georgia.", "The Air Accidents Investigation Branch is examining events leading up to the crash near Marlborough.", "Squeamish Steven Sandford had no option when his partner Joanne's waters broke in the car.", "Two boys aged 15 and 16 are arrested on suspicion of robbery and causing grievous bodily harm.", "Political artists remember Liu Xiaobo, who inspired a generation of Chinese pro-democracy activists.", "Donald Trump was once a harsh critic of France, but this view appears to be changing.", "After the Grenfell disaster, ex-firefighter Phil Murphy checked his tower block's safety - and was horrified at what he found.", "7 days quiz: Which Muppet has a new voice?", "Rob Camm is graduating in politics and philosophy at the university of Bristol.", "Cowan, who plays Mrs Brown's camp son Rory, says he's been \"unhappy\" for a couple of years.", "The Californian billionaire trying to make the best Pinot Noir in the New World.", "Joseph Houston and William Whelton opened the award-winning Hope Mill Theatre on a shoestring.", "US President Donald Trump invoked Hillary Clinton's daughter, triggering an online rebuke.", "Thames Valley Police tweeted that they had \"kindly left a note to the owner\".", "Bishops given reminder as Communion bread can now be bought in supermarkets and online.", "Labour and Tory divisions are \"enormous\" and the economy is \"deteriorating\", says Sir Vince Cable.", "The PM signals a change in her style of government - by calling for other parties to contribute ideas.", "An orphanage defends the reigning Miss South Africa after a barrage of social media criticism.", "UK government arms sales to Saudi Arabia are lawful, the High Court rules, after seeing secret evidence.", "Two cousins suffered \"life-changing injuries\" in an acid attack in east London.", "Phillip Harkins faces trial in the US over an attempted robbery in which a man died.", "Philip Morris owes millions in fees over its failed challenge to plain packaging laws, a court says.", "The toilet floor had been removed on the South Devon Railway train, exposing the carriage wheels.", "The RMT union is in dispute with the companies over driver-only-operated trains.", "Police are treating the incident involving up to 15 men at a play park in Glasgow as attempted murder.", "Tesla boss Elon Musk tweets the first pictures of the electric car firm's latest, the Model 3.", "Racist language used by a Conservative MP and the decision to cap teachers' pay feature on the front pages.", "Anne Marie Morris has the whip withdrawn for using a racist phrase during a public event on Brexit.", "People rescued from Mosul's Old City get a taste of freedom - but the misery is far from over.", "Andronicos Sideras, 54, is accused of deliberately mixing up the meats before they were sold.", "A judge says it would take something \"dramatic\" to make him change his mind about treatment in the US.", "Bombs planted in two Birmingham city centre pubs killed 21 people in November 1974.", "The teenage wilderness survival specialist poked the bear in the eyes as it tried to drag him away.", "Dale Pike \"stood and watched\" as Gareth Pugh dived into a golf club lake with a weighted belt to fish out balls.", "A government review will recommend \"dependent contractors\" receive minimum wage rights.", "Three weeks on from the Grenfell Tower fire, many local people are still suffering \"acute stress\".", "The European Parliament's lead negotiator on Brexit calls the UK PM's proposal a \"damp squib\".", "Tory minister David Lidington dismisses speculation about Theresa May's future as drinks party \"gossip\".", "Its \"ambition\" is to write off all student debts when \"we can afford to\", says a shadow minister.", "Rhodri Philipps denies threatening the leading Brexit campaigner in an online post.", "The huge blaze broke out overnight at the popular north London tourist attraction.", "Ex-Everton scout Bob Pendleton on how a shy, nine-year-old Wayne Rooney would go on to become England's greatest goalscorer.", "The co-founder of a Silicon Valley investment firm says it is \"not my job to make you all feel good\".", "More than 500,000 teachers in England and Wales face another year of real-term pay cuts.", "A cancer diagnosis is now one of the most common life-changing events in Scottish life, figures suggest.", "A storm unleashes the heaviest July rainfall on record in the French capital.", "It joins the likes of the Grand Canyon and Machu Picchu as it gets world heritage status.", "Ministers are seeking to make it harder for UK holidaymakers to make bogus food poisoning claims.", "The author of a government review into work says a modern economy should be fair and decent.", "Pro Money Holdings denies its competition texts are designed to look like spam.", "Donald Trump said a cybersecurity unit with Russia would not happen - hours after proposing the idea.", "Theresa May's hold on power and the fate of sick baby Charlie Gard dominate the front pages.", "The Glaswegian mother describes how she confronted the teenager before urging him to turn his life around.", "Some Camden Lock Market stall-holders say they have lost their entire stock in the fire.", "The police film urges British holidaymakers to be aware of the \"run, hide, tell\" safety message.", "Cousins Resham Khan and Jameel Muhktar suffered \"life-changing\" injuries in the attack in Beckton.", "Medieval tally sticks illustrate what money really is: a kind of debt that can be traded freely.", "Unseen letters and a pair of pink knickers are in an exhibition of poet Philip Larkin's possessions.", "US military officials say it was an intermediate range missile, which flew for about 37 minutes.", "The corporation is investing an extra £34m on children's services between now and 2019-20.", "The U-turn comes after ministers listen \"very carefully\" to the views of parents and schools.", "The proposed demolition of a notorious children's home and calls for state pay rises make headlines.", "The cab driver reportedly told police he stepped on the accelerator instead of the brake.", "Katie Rough was found with cuts to her neck and chest on a playing field in York.", "Round-the-clock fire warden patrols are also under way at 19 \"highest risk\" NHS trusts.", "A court hears claims the billionaire Sports Direct boss often held management meetings in pubs.", "Students accruing £57,000 in debt, and the continuing debate over state pay, are making headlines.", "Researchers unlock the chemistry of Roman concrete which has resisted the elements for thousands of years.", "A police officer, council worker, nurse and prison officer voice their dismay at the proposed 1% pay cap.", "Women and girls born in Somalia make up more than a third of those identified, but 112 were UK-born.", "Dave McClure of 500 Startups apologised for his \"inexcusable\" behaviour towards several women.", "A court hears chats with the billionaire Sports Direct boss were \"banter and bravado\".", "Investments in missile defence have been made, but critics say the system is far from reliable.", "IS militants are using female suicide bombers in the fight for the old city, Iraqi troops say.", "Denying a 16-year-old offender the chance to mix with other inmates is unlawful, a judge rules.", "Eight-year-old Saffie Roussos loved fame and thought of Ariana Grande as her idol, her father says.", "The high-profile Barclays case is a big risk for the Serious Fraud Office.", "Teen racer Billy Monger gets back behind the wheel after losing his lower legs in a crash.", "Dozens complain to the watchdog about the campaign which some say is against breastfeeding in public.", "A mother says a wasted operation on her son pushed her over the edge and spurred her into action.", "Can five-time Olympic cycling champion Sir Bradley Wiggins make it to Tokyo 2020 as a rower? BBC Sport investigates.", "The chancellor insists a balance must be struck between what is fair for workers and taxpayers.", "The Royal Military Police are investigating an allegation of unlawful killing in Afghanistan involving British special forces.", "The pop star is deluged with insults - although the mean tweets are outweighed by more positive ones.", "F1 tech has influenced sectors from aeronautics to public transport - now healthcare is benefiting.", "The singer says he \"is no longer a member of the band\", who scored hits with True and Gold.", "The Children's Commissioner found some 670,000 children live in high risk family situations.", "Pope Francis calls for Charlie Gard's parents to be allowed to \"treat their child until the end\".", "Gurls Talk is an online community, founded by model Adwoa Aboah, that offers a space for young women to talk.", "Live electrical wires were applied to children's legs, according to a report into decades of abuse.", "US media say the sacking comes amid claims of sexual harassment at Fox Sports.", "What has happened to IS chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who last appeared in public three years ago?", "The head of the European Commission launches a bitter attack on MEPs for failing to show up.", "The local MP says the judge is \"a technocrat\" who lacks \"credibility\" with affected families.", "The RAF say they can no longer fly to the British overseas territory because of problems with the airport runway.", "Figures show 39% of primary pupils in England fail to reach the expected level in reading, writing and maths.", "Promoters said the show had been cancelled because \"adverse weather conditions\" meant it was no longer safe.", "The former PM says opponents of austerity are wrongly portraying the government as \"uncaring\".", "A minister defends low pay rates for immigration detainees, saying it \"relieves boredom\".", "State-run love hotels disappeared in the 1990s when they became hurricane shelters.", "Haroon Syed, 19, is thought to have been targeting a concert in Hyde Park or London's Oxford Street.", "It's aiming for 3,000 shops in the UK and Ireland by 2020, almost twice as many as rival Greggs.", "All who want it have been offered temporary housing, officials say, but only nine have accepted.", "Offer NHS patients DNA tests to pick the best cancer and rare diseases treatment, England's top doctor says.", "The new 12-sided £1 coin now outnumbers the old version, which is soon to be withdrawn.", "The animal had swollen to about four times its normal size after air became trapped under its skin.", "Oxford City Council is threatening to fine or prosecute rough sleepers who leave bags in doorways.", "The judge will rule by 14:00 BST on Wednesday whether his parents can take Charlie home to die.", "Australian Justine Damond called 911 and was shot and killed by police less than an hour later.", "Sperm counts in men from North America, Europe and Australia halve in less than 40 years, research warns.", "Eleanor Wilson, 28, had sex with a male pupil in an aeroplane toilet while on a school trip.", "Fifty years after state and federal troops descended on Detroit to quell the unrest, locals recall the deep scars left behind.", "A teenager in Multan is raped by order of a village council after her brother was accused of rape.", "Village dubbed the \"Maldives of Milan\" is being turned into an \"open air toilet\", residents say.", "Boris Johnson, Liam Fox and David Davis will set out the UK's agenda in Australia, Mexico and Germany.", "In our series of letters from African journalists, Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani considers why women abducted by Boko Haram and then released would choose to return to their captors.", "Divorces often break a heart or two - but in this case, an extra 54 violins were left in tatters.", "Vans used by builders helping transform the home of a family affected by cancer are targeted by thieves.", "For many ex-believers, leaving the religion means they can no longer speak to their children or parents.", "Krystyna Farley is a pageant star in the US state of Connecticut, but her life was not always this glamorous.", "Ruling will allow the league to combat the illicit use of devices such as pre-loaded IPTV and Kodi boxes.", "Stronger service sector offsets weaker manufacturing and construction growth in three months to June.", "Wildfires in south-eastern France force the evacuation of 10,000 people during the night, officials say.", "The 15-year-old admitted possessing a firearm, aggravated vehicle taking and careless driving.", "The offer made during a \"drink-fuelled\" meeting was \"wishful thinking\" by Jeffrey Blue, judge says.", "Photos of the wildfires in France feature widely, alongside reports doctors are being urged to change their advice on antibiotics.", "Experts are divided over whether people should always finish a course of antibiotics.", "The battlefields of WW1 were once marked by thousands of wooden crosses - but what happened to them?", "The clean air strategy should include a scrappage scheme and clean air zones, campaigners say.", "The star explains how 'being bombarded by news' made her latest album more political.", "Some of the hundreds of mourners at Manchester Cathedral wore pink, Saffie Roussos's favourite colour.", "News that sales of new diesel and petrol cars and vans will be banned from 2040 dominates the front pages.", "Trade union Unison argued fees of up to £1,200 a case prevented workers getting access to justice.", "The UK would not agree a US trade deal which included chlorine-washed chicken, Michael Gove says.", "The social media company's profits jumped 71%, amid strong advertising spending and user growth.", "Baby's parents want him allowed home, but hospital bosses say a hospice would be a better place.", "Five Irish couples who 'won dream weddings' are distraught as the 20,000-euro prize money is withdrawn.", "Both Paddy Jackson and Stuart Olding deny all allegations against them.", "Why the collection of evidence about the conflict may not result in prosecutions.", "Celine Dookhran, of Indian Muslim heritage, was allegedly killed over a relationship with an Arab Muslim.", "Police arrest a man suspected of a chainsaw rampage that left five injured, after a two-day manhunt.", "Young princes should not have had to walk behind their mother's coffin, princess's brother says.", "Both sides are discussing arrangements for terminally-ill baby Charlie Gard's end of life care.", "Complaints from the dairy industry are dismissed as vegan group's advert is given the green light.", "The ruling could affect several hundred people who entered Europe during the migrant crisis.", "Ministers have also unveiled a £255m fund to help councils introduce steps to deal with pollution", "Why a high-end fashion brand chose a land-locked country in Africa to make some of its handbags.", "Comments come after Donald Trump says transgender personnel are to be banned from the US military.", "How would the UK benefit from a trade deal with the US and is it likely to happen?", "All but one former National Football League player in the research were found to have brain disease.", "Mark Dixie was jailed in 2008 for raping and murdering teenage model Sally Anne Bowman.", "The two teenagers flagged down police in east London after an unknown liquid was thrown at them.", "Once the go-to plug-in for video, the technology has been usurped by more reliable and secure apps.", "The Bank of England's stability chief warns of the dangers of rising personal loans.", "She was flagged down by three men who appeared to be in distress before being attacked.", "\"A bluish foreign body\" turned out to be a \"hard mass\" of 17 lenses stuck together with mucus.", "Dozens of residents suffered electricity power surges in 2013 so powerful their appliances started emitting smoke.", "Australian Justine Damond was shot dead by a US police officer she called to report a disturbance.", "The wheeled security robot in Washington DC tumbled into a fountain at an office building.", "The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge visit a concentration camp as part of their tour of Poland.", "A pilot scheme being run in the north east of England aims to put refugee doctors back to work and cover NHS shortages.", "\"Unnecessary and unacceptable\" said Delta after the conservative author had railed against them all weekend.", "A man dies after being trapped under rubble when a church collapsed in Cardiff, firefighters say.", "The worst offenders are airlines and food delivery apps, the government says.", "The White House and Kremlin both label media reporting of the meeting as \"absolutely absurd\".", "Their 79-year-old daughter says she has found peace from the discovery after a life-long search.", "Government sets out ambitious target to get remaining smokers to quit.", "Politics-heavy front pages feature cabinet discipline, schools cash and foreign aid.", "The story of why Mrs May is so cross with her cabinet.", "University Challenge host Jeremy Paxman incorrectly said Billy Connolly's banana boots were made by John Byrne.", "£1.3bn to protect core school budgets, with cuts to be made on free school spending.", "The R&B singer responds to reports accusing him of holding women in a cult-like environment.", "The EasyJet chief's career has taken her through some of the best-known companies in the UK.", "A senior backbencher backs the PM as she tries to restore discipline to her cabinet after leaks.", "Two police officers and two pilots deny filming people either naked or having sex in a garden.", "Find out what President Trump has said about where you live since he became US president.", "Thousands of British motorists could have been overcharged for car repairs over many years.", "Newsnight's editor assesses why so many people underestimated Labour's vote at the general election.", "The Tea House Theatre posted the advert for a £15,000-£20,000 administration role.", "A woman shared footage of herself openly defying the conservative Muslim kingdom's strict dress code.", "The children are visiting Poland and Germany with their parents the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.", "PC Jonathan Adams was seen on television celebrating a win at Royal Ascot while \"off sick\".", "The ruling is part of a legal challenge asking for records of visitors at Mr Trump's Florida resort.", "The pair had gone to help the tourist's daughter when she got into difficulties in rough seas.", "A security firm allegedly supplied cloned official badges to unlicensed stewards at UK festivals this summer.", "Residents in Coverack say hail the size of 50p pieces smashed window panes.", "A Russian official says talks \"almost\" resolve a row over the seizing of two diplomatic compounds.", "Tensions are raised by the arrest of the president's own brother - and the jailing of a US academic.", "Luke and Lee Payne remember killer Roy Whiting smiling and waving as he drove their sister away.", "More far-right extremists are being sent to the Prevent strategy, including \"Steve\" who explains his past.", "Expect a stampede for the exits as everyone abandons what was always an unpopular bill.", "It is the first Bank of England note to have a tactile feature to help visually impaired people.", "Fights take place in parliament to prevent the passing of legislation, but things are getting uglier.", "Justine Damond was shot after reporting a disturbance but the officers' body cameras were not turned on.", "We're all used to ants sprouting wings and taking to the air during summer, but is there really such a thing as a \"flying ant day\"?", "Ads showing women cleaning up and men failing at household chores will now be scrutinised.", "The British pop star is the main victim of changes to the Top 40 that have just come into effect.", "Firefighters describe low water pressure, radio problems and a 30-minute wait for a high ladder.", "Bishops given reminder as Communion bread can now be bought in supermarkets and online.", "Holly Brown, 14, died after a minibus carrying pupils on a school trip collided with a bin lorry.", "Nelsan Ellis, who starred in the popular HBO series, died from complications after heart failure.", "Unexplained deaths and a history of racially motivated violence have left doubts that justice in a northern Ontario city can be served.", "Caroline Hope is back home in Scotland after campaigners raised money for a private medical evacuation.", "The Barcelona star has been ordered to pay €400 for every day of the 21-month sentence.", "Boris the springer poodle eased the anxiety of a graduate's sister at the event.", "The six-year-old died from terminal cancer.", "A man who lived and worked in Brighton died during an aerial stunt at the Mad Cool festival in Madrid.", "Clueless envoys rely on one method to glimpse the president's thinking, even if they won't admit it.", "The pupils had been going on a school art trip when their minibus was involved in the crash with a bin lorry.", "In an unusual move, the first daughter sits with world leaders while Donald Trump steps away.", "The world's best wheelchair tennis players meet in the first grass-court event to precede Wimbledon.", "The six-year-old struck up a friendship with striker Jermain Defoe after being diagnosed with cancer.", "The VP made a tongue-in-cheek apology to Nasa after a photo of him touching the equipment went viral.", "But tourists eager to see the repaired structure will have to wait to allow the glue to seal.", "General Sir Nick Carter, the Army's top soldier, says the force's future depends on better public understanding.", "The two boys and a girl were all under 13; a man jumped to safety from a first floor window.", "The children of a man shot dead by police sent a desperate text after being tied up by him, an inquest hears.", "More than a century ago a former slave fulfilled her dream to meet Queen Victoria, taking with her a gift.", "Janice Farman talked of leaving the Indian Ocean island after being robbed, her estranged husband says.", "Food delivery firm says it would offer sick and injury pay if employment law is changed to allow more benefits for gig workers.", "Anti-migrant groups accuse aid agencies of providing a taxi service to migrants crossing to Europe.", "Relatives are angry at the time it's taking to identify victims. But experts say the process is a highly complicated one.", "How politicians and Parliament have been at the centre of battles over gay rights over the past 60 years.", "Police say Venus Williams was driving legally during the car crash that left an elderly man dead.", "Are 'moderate' Labour MPs facing a mass purge over past disloyalty, asks Iain Watson.", "From wonky bikes to supermarket \"petrel\" - the road markings that left contractors with red faces.", "The US president confirms he will go to London, as he holds talks with Theresa May at the G20 summit.", "Ten pages must be filled in every time officers in England and Wales use any force against someone.", "About 13,000 phones and 7,000 Sim cards were also confiscated in a year in England and Wales.", "Wimbledon seedings are calculated differently from other grand slam tournaments.", "The front pages focus on two young people who have been battling serious illness.", "The footballer says he will always carry the six-year-old's memory in his heart.", "Philip Mulryne has taken a vow of poverty, a world away from top-level professional football.", "The pair held \"robust\" talks about the allegations of Russian interference in last year's election.", "Campaigners want to reintroduce the lynx 1,300 years ago after it became extinct in the UK.", "A top Dutch football team comes to south west Scotland thanks to an act of kindness more than a decade ago.", "Unseen letters and a pair of pink knickers are in an exhibition of poet Philip Larkin's possessions.", "Bijan Ebrahimi was considered an \"attention seeker\" when he reported crimes against him, the police watchdog says.", "A report looks at the impact of sex robots on society and calls for more debate about the topic.", "Students accruing £57,000 in debt, and the continuing debate over state pay, are making headlines.", "The Swedish carmaker says all its new models will be electric or hybrid by 2019.", "Researchers unlock the chemistry of Roman concrete which has resisted the elements for thousands of years.", "Dr Fiona Wilcox described the flats in a tense private meeting with residents angry at lack of details.", "More than £47m was paid to players, managers and directors between 2001 and 2010 in tax-free loans.", "Theresa May hits back at the Labour leader by saying he would \"bankrupt\" the UK if elected.", "Teen racer Billy Monger gets back behind the wheel after losing his lower legs in a crash.", "The high-profile Barclays case is a big risk for the Serious Fraud Office.", "Memorial officials criticise Clay Higgins for his five-minute film partly shot inside a gas chamber.", "A mother says a wasted operation on her son pushed her over the edge and spurred her into action.", "Boris Johnson says the terminally ill baby cannot be transferred to the children's hospital in Rome.", "Can five-time Olympic cycling champion Sir Bradley Wiggins make it to Tokyo 2020 as a rower? BBC Sport investigates.", "The Royal Military Police are investigating an allegation of unlawful killing in Afghanistan involving British special forces.", "The pop star is deluged with insults - although the mean tweets are outweighed by more positive ones.", "Robert Trigg had claimed Caroline Devlin in 2006 and Susan Nicholson in 2011 had both died in their sleep.", "Individuals and groups are involved in exporting \"an illiberal, bigoted Wahhabi ideology\", a report says.", "The Labour leader is \"happy\" to raise the issue of laid-off workers with the festival's organisers.", "Imagine knowing you have to inject yourself 1,000 times - three people with hidden disabilities reveal the internal demands of living with an illness which can't be seen.", "Funds raised by the perpetrators of a huge cyber-attack are moved out of their Bitcoin account.", "Conservative MP's sixth child is called Sixtus Dominic Boniface Christopher.", "The Hepworth Wakefield beats the Tate Modern to the £100,000 Museum of the Year prize.", "How Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn's weekly clash in the Commons unfolded.", "Statistics suggest black people are four times more likely to be sectioned under the Mental Health Act.", "Minutes from the US central bank's June meeting reveal concern at softer inflation growth.", "Rising tuition fees and interest rates mean higher costs for graduates, says the IFS.", "Graduate women are struggling to find educated men who want to start a family, research suggests.", "About 100 government supporters force their way into Venezuela's opposition-led National Assembly.", "Promoters said the show had been cancelled because \"adverse weather conditions\" meant it was no longer safe.", "The former PM says opponents of austerity are wrongly portraying the government as \"uncaring\".", "A minister is heckled for suggesting women over 60 affected by pension charges can start apprenticeships.", "Viral videos of 'bouncing rice balls' have fuelled fake rumours of \"plastic\" rice being sold in Africa.", "One in three nursing homes fail an official inspection, and Volvo plans a switch to electric cars.", "Productivity figures are shockingly bad, and unless that changes then funding changes to public services becomes all the harder", "The tutors charging thousands of pounds to help secure a British education for wealthy overseas children.", "The temporary measure means foreign nationals affected by the fire can stay in the UK for 12 months.", "With Alaska now possibly within range, the US has to accept that the North is a \"real\" danger.", "A banker claims Mike Ashley promised to pay him £15m if he increased Sport's Direct share values.", "Ex-Wales rugby star Gareth Thomas says homophobia in football needs to be treated as seriously as racism.", "The new 12-sided £1 coin now outnumbers the old version, which is soon to be withdrawn.", "Lonely widower inundated with offers of companionship despite a backlash over his bottle messages.", "Tickets have been placed on cars in a Gants Hill street for obstructing the road's pavement.", "Parties worked together to boost Labour's chances at the election - but some feel they got nothing back.", "EU workers who move to the UK will have to register after Brexit, the home secretary says.", "Eleanor Wilson, 28, had sex with a male pupil in an aeroplane toilet while on a school trip.", "A teenager is attacked by a man at a train station and then by the driver of a car she flagged down.", "Wine can protect against the condition - but too much is still a bad thing, the research suggests.", "Stories about Brexit, ill baby Charlie Gard and the possibility of a Grenfell Tower manslaughter case feature on the front pages.", "A teenager in Multan is raped by order of a village council after her brother was accused of rape.", "Village dubbed the \"Maldives of Milan\" is being turned into an \"open air toilet\", residents say.", "The Cartier ring was reported missing in August 2011 but its loss has only just been revealed.", "Macey Hogan was killed after her mum sent the toddler's father \"one last picture\" of her.", "A spinning pendulum ride tossed its passengers into the air at high speed, officials say.", "British former Olympic bobsleigher Rebekah Wilson tells BBC Sport she self-harmed as she struggled to cope with the demands of elite sport.", "Council chiefs are told police have \"reasonable grounds\" to suspect the offence may have been committed.", "If no plan is agreed, he will be moved to a hospice and his life support withdrawn soon after.", "The singer is said to have suffered \"considerable distress\" over an article about her adopting twins.", "UK holidaymakers are among those to have been evacuated as wildfires continue to burn.", "Ruling will allow the league to combat the illicit use of devices such as pre-loaded IPTV and Kodi boxes.", "Germany's transport minister orders move to remove what he says is illegal emissions-controlling software.", "The prince is stepping down from his helicopter pilot role to take up more royal duties and charity work.", "A teenage girl's parents are \"desperate for answers\" after she was found dead near a station.", "The sniffer dog used her individual scent, preserved in advance for emergencies, to track her down.", "Photos of the wildfires in France feature widely, alongside reports doctors are being urged to change their advice on antibiotics.", "Experts are divided over whether people should always finish a course of antibiotics.", "The clean air strategy should include a scrappage scheme and clean air zones, campaigners say.", "Government tests reveal the design of cladding at Grenfell Tower was unsafe.", "Theresa May said there would be \"justifiable scepticism\" about her own position, given her voting record.", "More than a million prescriptions are paid for every year, and many go to retired personnel.", "His mother says the couple have had \"no control\" over their son's life or death.", "A lap dancing club's licence is suspended after claims of fraud and links to organised crime are made.", "The singer was said to be travelling at an \"extremely slow speed\" when the collision occurred.", "The social media company's profits jumped 71%, amid strong advertising spending and user growth.", "Grenfell Tower is being covered in a protective wrap while forensic investigations continue.", "An \"overwhelmed\" department led to delays in the overdose being recognised and treated, a report says.", "Chlorine chicken isn't the only food that has got politicians in a flap", "The bank posts profits of £2.5bn, but sets aside a further £1bn for mis-selling and mortgage failings.", "The Taiwanese electronics firm says it will invest $10bn in a Wisconsin factory making LCD panels.", "The BBC's Orla Guerin sees the suffering of cholera and malnutrition victims in Yemen's civil war.", "Seventy years after India and Pakistan won their independence, why are relations still tense?", "Many believe Nolan's blockbuster war film misses the role of Indian soldiers in the battle.", "A government adviser on equal pay says women are \"less proactive\" in asking for more money.", "Two teenager brothers from Brighton who died fighting in Syria in 2014 were radicalised in the UK.", "Mr Justice Jackson tells the 14-year-old boy why he rejected his plea to move abroad with his father.", "An active duty soldier was preparing for a promotion ceremony, but now his plans are in chaos.", "A team of astronomers has potentially discovered the first known moon located beyond the Solar System.", "The president had encouraged the Scouts to boo Barack Obama as he touted his political agenda.", "Cowan, who plays Mrs Brown's camp son Rory, says he's been \"unhappy\" for a couple of years.", "The parents and twin sister of 14-year-old Holly Brown say she lived with passion and enthusiasm.", "Premier League earnings are boosted by broadcast earnings, with TV cash set to soar.", "TV presenter Kirstie Allsopp has provoked a debate on social media for saying washing machines should not be kept in the kitchen", "Cousins Resham Khan and Jameel Muhktar suffered \"life-changing\" injuries in the attack in Beckton.", "US President Donald Trump invoked Hillary Clinton's daughter, triggering an online rebuke.", "The travel company vows to fight other fraudulent damages claims after a court victory.", "Stall holders fear for their futures after a blaze wipes out part of Camden Lock Market.", "The 4th Viscount St Davids posted \"menacing\" Facebook comments about the Brexit campaigner.", "Iberia insists the tests were for the women's own safety but is ridiculed for the claim.", "Shadow business secretary says drivers are \"exploited\" but Uber says they like being their own boss.", "Racist language used by a Conservative MP and the decision to cap teachers' pay feature on the front pages.", "Stars of The Beguiled tell the BBC about the award-winning film - and objectifying Colin Farrell.", "Anne Marie Morris has the whip withdrawn for using a racist phrase during a public event on Brexit.", "The UK foreign secretary also says there is \"no plan\" for Britain failing to get a Brexit deal.", "Psy's megahit was the most-played video for five years, but it's been overtaken by another song.", "Andronicos Sideras, 54, is accused of deliberately mixing up the meats before they were sold.", "Robber jailed for murder because his victim was too badly injured to be treated for her illness.", "Cody-Anne Jackson changes her plea during her trial and admits killing her two-year-old daughter.", "Rhodri Philipps denies threatening the leading Brexit campaigner in an online post.", "Whatever Theresa May had said this morning, she is in trouble.", "Two black men and five police officers died in three cities in three tumultuous days.", "Luke Rutter, 22, from Birkenhead, died fighting so-called Islamic State in Syria, say Kurdish fighters.", "The US investigates how the flight from Toronto almost landed on a taxiway with four planes on it.", "The \"execution-style\" murder happened as the 15-year-old victim slept, police allege.", "An undercover BBC investigation reveals \"exploitative\" working conditions at a UK cosmetics chain.", "Puppeteer Steve Whitmire is stepping down from the role and will be replaced by Matt Vogel.", "The co-founder of a Silicon Valley investment firm says it is \"not my job to make you all feel good\".", "Will the King of Spain's UK visit sweep Brexit tensions under the red carpet?", "Russia may expel 30 US diplomats and seize US property in a diplomatic tussle.", "The Femfresh advert was likely to cause \"serious offence\", according to the advertising watchdog.", "The KC-130 plane crashed in a rural area in the US state of Mississippi, with no survivors.", "More than 100 bikers congregated in Kirkstall Road before riding into the city, causing chaos.", "The author of a government review into work says a modern economy should be fair and decent.", "Pro Money Holdings denies its competition texts are designed to look like spam.", "Can girlguiding encourage more girls to take up science, technology, economics and maths?", "The negative comments she received when she appeared on Bake Off \"shocked\" her, she says.", "Leaders are urged to reach out to Sunnis to prevent jihadists returning after their Mosul defeat.", "Downing Street and the White House are believed to be looking at options for the visit.", "Many of the bank's 20 million customers will also face lower charges for authorised overdrafts.", "Eyewitnesses say Owen Jenkins fell into the River Trent while trying to save a girl.", "\"I witnessed many brave citizens risking their safety and their lives,\" one witness said.", "As you approach Castelluccio, you can see the shattered buildings more reminiscent of a war zone.", "Correspondence seen by the BBC reveals how officials agonised over publication.", "Misshapen semi-colons and straying outside of a box have cost pupils marks, teachers claim.", "Their manifesto calls for a near-total halt to immigration, but the far-right political party Britain First is now actively trying to appeal to Polish immigrants living in the UK.", "First Ministers say it is a \"naked power-grab\" undermining devolution", "Turkey's president thanks those who \"defended the nation\" against the coup attempt a year ago.", "A presenter chops his finger, and who knows what the cameraman was thinking?", "The 15-year-old writes darkly comic songs about death and revenge - plus she's a real-life pirate.", "\"My helmet saved me,\" says Jabed Hussain - one of five people attacked in one night.", "At MIT’s Biomechatronics Lab work is being done to replace limbs - and maybe one day upgrade them.", "The girl was found unconscious in the early hours in a park in Newton Abbot, Devon, and later died.", "Coventry, Paisley, Sunderland, Swansea and Stoke-on-Trent will compete for the title.", "Middle-class children are in danger of being groomed by criminal gangs to sell drugs, a report says.", "US President Donald Trump forms a close alliance with President Emmanuel Macron during his Paris trip.", "Cuba's president said attempts to destroy the revolution would fail, in his first public comment on changes.", "Scarborough Athletic FC has played home fixtures in Bridlington since the club was founded in 2007.", "Some weren't happy that the magazine said Zayn Malik and Gigi Hadid were \"gender fluid\".", "It comes on the eve of the first anniversary of a coup attempt that led to more than 250 deaths.", "Six of the world's large carnivores have lost more than 90% of their historic range, new analysis says.", "Home Office fined £366,900 for failing to get approval for pay cap-busting salary for Alexis Jay.", "A wall gave way during clashes following a League Cup final at the venue in the capital Dakar.", "Women wore sleeveless outfits to work to stand against \"outdated\" rules.", "The Scottish Labour leader has been dating Mid Fife and Glenrothes MSP Jenny Gilruth for about four months.", "Widespread speculation suggests the 13th Doctor will - for the first time - be a woman.", "The Times reports that new laws to restrict the sale of corrosive substances will be proposed, while other front pages focus on the case of Charlie Gard.", "Most fire services would have sent a high ladder to Grenfell Tower, BBC Newsnight has revealed.", "The Resolution Foundation says those aged 25-34 are worst hit compared with other age groups.", "Ex-PM says Britain could still stay in a reformed EU - but Labour says the referendum result \"must be respected\".", "Acclaimed Iranian mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani dies of breast cancer aged 40.", "The Observer features a warning from former civil servants to Theresa May over Brexit, while the Sunday Times says the cabinet is \"at war\".", "The 90kg projectile failed to explode when it was fired during the siege of Quebec City in 1759.", "Dutch footballer Abdelhak Nouri suffered brain damage after collapsing during a match in Austria.", "Charlie Gard's parents don't have the final decision on what happens to him so where do parental rights end?", "The footballer calls Janice St Fort \"a little fighter\" after she died aged 58 from cancer.", "What does the postponement of a ballet about Rudolf Nureyev reveal about Russia?", "A Chinese mall creates \"husband storage” pods for wives to leave their partners.", "John Bernecker died of injuries sustained while filming the zombie TV series in Georgia.", "Squeamish Steven Sandford had no option when his partner Joanne's waters broke in the car.", "Two boys aged 15 and 16 are arrested on suspicion of robbery and causing grievous bodily harm.", "A 16-year-old boy arrested over five acid attacks in London on Thursday is charged with 15 offences.", "Fans booed and chanted at company executives as they tried to fix problems.", "The president responds to reports he is considering presidential pardons over alleged Russia collusion.", "John Heard, who played the father in the Home Alone films, has died aged 71.", "The five-year-old had been selling 50p cups of lemonade to festival goers in east London.", "A lack of charisma? His background? Image and perception? Why does cycling great Chris Froome not receive the admiration he surely deserves?", "A prison officer is taken to hospital with minor injuries following a disturbance at HMP Hewell.", "Great Ormond Street Hospital says the police have been called in following \"unacceptable behaviour\".", "Sadiq Khan claims VW owes Transport for London £2.5m in missed congestion charges following its emissions scandal.", "The last phone call between Princess Diana and her sons, and a row over a BBC pay gap make the news.", "Police say the findings \"corroborate\" the theory Ben died in an accident involving heavy machinery.", "Accurate blood tests mean more groups can give blood safely, experts say.", "Nigel Owens, who refereed the 2015 Rugby World Cup final, says his struggle is far from over.", "Seven prison officers and one inmate were treated in hospital after the incident on Friday.", "US citizens have now had six months to get used to their new president and still not all are finding it easy. Americans in the UK face a double dose of change with Brexit.", "South Korean women have dominated international golf for years now. Why?", "Is Deckard human or a replicant? The star gives an answer.", "BBC Reality Check investigates whether gender balance has changed in popular TV dramas in recent years.", "Charlie Gard's parents say they have faced a \"backlash\" after GOSH said staff had been threatened.", "Gina Parkin now describes the seaside resort as \"the best of British\".", "The woman was climbing Munros in the Fisherfield Forest when she slipped and injured her ankle.", "The former Great British Bake Off presenters will host a four-episode run of the classic game show.", "The boy, 15, was travelling alone to see grandparents in France when he was asked to leave the plane.", "They were among dozens of people found inside the back of the vehicle suffering from dehydration.", "Liam Fox says he would not want any interim arrangement after Brexit to \"drag on\" beyond 2022.", "More than 50 people missed the first train to London after staff arrived late to open up.", "Tarek Naggar was wounded in the chest after refusing to hand over his wallet to three men.", "After a high-profile deportation, undocumented Irish immigrants are on edge.", "A man got into the woman's car as she attended to her baby, and drove off.", "How Marian Hill went from cult artists to mainstream success, after Apple chose their song for an ad.", "The eight-year-old was described by her family as \"precious and fun-loving\" whose smile lit up a room.", "The man tried to open an emergency door on board a flight from Poland but was \"wrestled to the floor\" by passengers.", "Windows were smashed overnight and fire extinguishers were used to soak furniture and fittings.", "Meet the grandmother who led the charge to sponsor a family of refugees.", "Rashan Jermaine Charles was taken ill after \"trying to swallow an object\" in a shop in east London, police say.", "The guard opened fire after being stabbed with a screwdriver, killing two Jordanians, Israel says.", "William and Harry speak candidly for a documentary marking the 20th anniversary of her death.", "The star says he's not quitting because it's \"the coolest part in any universe\".", "Labour leader says he was \"unaware of the size\" of student debts when promising help during election.", "A former Labour chief whip says ex-PM Blair was reluctant to discipline Corbyn when he was a backbencher.", "James Lacey is thought to have downed at least 28 enemy planes during World War Two.", "A 33-year-old man is charged after a 19-year-old woman was found dead at a house in London.", "Great Ormond Street Hospital says it is working on plans for terminally ill Charlie Gard's care.", "Henry Bello left the hospital in 2015 and had also been convicted of sexual assault in 2004.", "Jeremy Corbyn addressed crowds calling for an end to Theresa May's austerity programme.", "At a conference for female tech entrepreneurs, a determination to end the harassment of women.", "The rise of oxygen was a key transition in Earth history and London museum-goers will soon be able to put their hands on its rock record.", "The ongoing fall-out from the Grenfell Tower fire, including a warning over flammable insulation, makes the front pages.", "A six-year-old and an 11-year-old were left with a pan of soup while their mother made wedding plans in Paris.", "BBC Newsnight Chris Cook explains how engineering reports have been used to justify using more flammable materials on more high-rises in England", "A 16-year-old was among those wounded in the incident, which officials say was not terrorism-related.", "On the day a Nairobi pastor was due to get married a gang of men raped her, stabbed her and left her for dead. But Terry Gobanga is a survivor.", "The singer uses a social media post to express her devastation after damaging her vocal cords.", "How many seats have governments lost in Parliaments since World War Two?", "The prime minister is facing demands from senior Conservatives to overhaul state funding, according to several papers.", "Student Joe Furness, 21, says travel in the UK has become \"ridiculously expensive\".", "Ascensión López cannot pay a fine and faces prison for accusing a nun of taking her from her mother.", "The private rededication was held on what would have been their mother's 56th birthday.", "Sajid Javid says the process to select a new council leader \"will be independent of government\".", "UK Brexit chief David Davis's job is made more difficult by PM's \"red lines\", his ex-adviser says.", "Kensington and Chelsea Council leader Nick Paget-Brown said he had to accept \"perceived failings\".", "Both ships were damaged in the collision about 15 miles north east of Dover.", "When music captures the spirit of freedom it can cross any border. It crossed the Berlin Wall and eventually helped to bring it down.", "The gunman killed one doctor at the Bronx-Lebanon Hospital before shooting himself.", "Sadiq Khan says commissioners should be appointed to run the local council and reach out to \"neglected\" residents of Grenfell Tower.", "Bradley's mother said her son was finding breathing difficult \"but is fighting it\".", "The man who died suffered \"massive\" organ damage and bleeding in the collision, says a lawyer.", "Just how do you say Charlize Theron, Shia LaBeouf, Susan Sarandon or Martin Scorsese?", "Why do some aspiring YouTubers risk their lives for online hits?", "Lochaber Mountain Rescue Team said the man had suffered fatal injuries in the fall on Tower Ridge.", "Bishops given reminder as Communion bread can now be bought in supermarkets and online.", "Brexit dominates the front pages of Sunday's papers, after the prime minister and US president met.", "Unexplained deaths and a history of racially motivated violence have left doubts that justice in a northern Ontario city can be served.", "The PM signals a change in her style of government - by calling for other parties to contribute ideas.", "An orphanage defends the reigning Miss South Africa after a barrage of social media criticism.", "Two cousins suffered \"life-changing injuries\" in an acid attack in east London.", "A Buddhist ceremony and Catholic cremation have been held for Pedro Aunión Monroy, his friend says.", "Tesla boss Elon Musk tweets the first pictures of the electric car firm's latest, the Model 3.", "Police are treating the incident involving up to 15 men at a play park in Glasgow as attempted murder.", "The six-year-old moved people around the world with his fight against terminal cancer.", "A man who lived and worked in Brighton died during an aerial stunt at the Mad Cool festival in Madrid.", "But the US ambassador to the UN says her country \"can't\" and \"won't ever\" trust Russia.", "Sue Perkins says the pair are \"like twins in a cot\" so she knew what the decision would be.", "How many cans of Spam in the past 80 years - and other news nuggets.", "In an unusual move, the first daughter sits with world leaders while Donald Trump steps away.", "Tory minister David Lidington dismisses speculation about Theresa May's future as drinks party \"gossip\".", "Its \"ambition\" is to write off all student debts when \"we can afford to\", says a shadow minister.", "A mental health worker from NI has started a crowdfunding campaign to fund a judicial review.", "General Sir Nick Carter, the Army's top soldier, says the force's future depends on better public understanding.", "The two boys and a girl were all under 13; a man jumped to safety from a first floor window.", "The West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner says knife crime is a 'major concern'.", "Supporters of the white supremacist group were surrounded by many more counter protesters.", "Bear's non-conventional looks did not put off a couple who drove across the country to adopt him.", "Anti-migrant groups accuse aid agencies of providing a taxi service to migrants crossing to Europe.", "Relatives are angry at the time it's taking to identify victims. But experts say the process is a highly complicated one.", "It joins the likes of the Grand Canyon and Machu Picchu as it gets world heritage status.", "Ministers are seeking to make it harder for UK holidaymakers to make bogus food poisoning claims.", "Hotel tycoon Surinder Arora puts his scheme to the government's public consultation on the airport.", "From wonky bikes to supermarket \"petrel\" - the road markings that left contractors with red faces.", "It is described as the first confirmed meeting between a Russian national and Trump's inner circle.", "A petition signed by more than 350,000 people is handed to Great Ormond Street Hospital.", "Campaigners want to reintroduce the lynx 1,300 years ago after it became extinct in the UK.", "The US president confirms he will go to London, as he holds talks with Theresa May at the G20 summit.", "Theresa May's hold on power and the fate of sick baby Charlie Gard dominate the front pages.", "About 13,000 phones and 7,000 Sim cards were also confiscated in a year in England and Wales.", "Wimbledon seedings are calculated differently from other grand slam tournaments.", "The US president lauded the summit - despite his country's isolated position on climate change.", "The 35-year-old pointed a semi-automatic gun at another driver trying to overtake him, police say.", "The footballer says he will always carry the six-year-old's memory in his heart.", "Philip Mulryne has taken a vow of poverty, a world away from top-level professional football.", "Labour and Tory divisions are \"enormous\" and the economy is \"deteriorating\", says Sir Vince Cable.", "Nelsan Ellis, who starred in the popular HBO series, died from complications after heart failure.", "We're all used to ants sprouting wings and taking to the air during summer, but is there really such a thing as a \"flying ant day\"?", "A lawyer suggests Minneapolis police could have been startled by Justine Damond, before killing her.", "A pilot scheme being run in the north east of England aims to put refugee doctors back to work and cover NHS shortages.", "A man dies after being trapped under rubble when a church collapsed in Cardiff, firefighters say.", "The worst offenders are airlines and food delivery apps, the government says.", "Many holidaymakers no longer want just a couple of weeks' rest, but are searching for a more memorable experience.", "The White House and Kremlin both label media reporting of the meeting as \"absolutely absurd\".", "Their 79-year-old daughter says she has found peace from the discovery after a life-long search.", "Actor Paul Nicholls had been trapped for three days at a Thai waterfall after breaking his legs.", "University Challenge host Jeremy Paxman incorrectly said Billy Connolly's banana boots were made by John Byrne.", "A strategy is needed in case of dangerous events on school premises, a teaching union says.", "The cost of health insurance would double in a decade under the Republican plan, the analysis finds.", "Work rate and competitors' offers sighted in defence of £150,000-plus salaries.", "The Radio 2 host earned more than £2.2m while Claudia Winkleman was the best-paid female presenter.", "Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn clash over low pay in their final PMQs before the summer recess.", "Two police officers and two pilots deny filming people either naked or having sex in a garden.", "The 91-year-old monarch's representative in Canada touches her elbow to help her down stairs.", "A US judge halts an auction of the superstar's items, including a break-up letter from rapper Tupac.", "Of the BBC stars earning more than £150,000 last year, 62 were male and 34 were female.", "The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge also met the German chancellor on their first day in Berlin.", "This figure has been on the rise since 1990 in England and Wales, official data shows.", "The fish has been under threat for more than 10 years but stocks are recovering, a fisheries body says.", "The PM clashes with Jeremy Corbyn over wage restraint in the final PMQs before summer recess.", "About 50 properties were damaged and several people had to be rescued in the Cornish village.", "Newsnight's editor assesses why so many people underestimated Labour's vote at the general election.", "The UK state pension age will now be increased from 67 to 68 by 2039, the government says.", "A list of the top earners whose salaries came from the BBC licence fee.", "PC Jonathan Adams was seen on television celebrating a win at Royal Ascot while \"off sick\".", "A security firm allegedly supplied cloned official badges to unlicensed stewards at UK festivals this summer.", "Man arrested but never charged over Oxford child abuse attempted to argue he had a right to privacy.", "Residents in Coverack say hail the size of 50p pieces smashed window panes.", "Saturday between 11:00 and 16:00 is expected to be very busy on the roads.", "Luke and Lee Payne remember killer Roy Whiting smiling and waving as he drove their sister away.", "Expect a stampede for the exits as everyone abandons what was always an unpopular bill.", "Revelations about the earnings of some of the corporation's top stars are picked up on in the press.", "Fights take place in parliament to prevent the passing of legislation, but things are getting uglier.", "Elizabeth Campbell apologises to survivors of the tower block blaze for not doing more for them.", "Cladding on Grenfell Tower would have burned \"as quickly as petrol\", independent research suggests.", "The entertainer appeared in children's programmes in the 1980s and early 1990s.", "It isn't the sex scenes that viewers have been getting in touch with Ofcom about.", "Traders sell stock after the electric car maker's Model S is rated 'acceptable' in a key test.", "Using humour in the workplace can help make it a more enjoyable place to work, but you need to proceed with caution.", "Bath man Benjamin Wyatt is reunited with relatives after a high profile public search.", "From film-making and music to mental health care, could the use of virtual reality now truly become the norm?", "Robbie Gibb is Prime Minister Theresa May's new director of communications, the BBC announces.", "World number one Andy Murray on an impressive - and unusually impassioned - Johanna Konta, and the \"different\" challenge of his next opponent Fabio Fognini.", "The business group says it is \"impossible\" all details of an EU trade deal will be ready by March 2019.", "Nearly half of the shootings during the four-day holiday weekend happened over 12 hours.", "Ben Jones is graduating two years after his sister Florence - but he's in about £15,000 more debt than her.", "More than 100 people have been convicted of terrorism offences related to Syria and Iraq since 2014.", "The former comedy duo had an acrimonious split but have made up and now been pictured together.", "Boris Johnson says the terminally ill baby cannot be transferred to the children's hospital in Rome.", "Finance manager Jacqueline Robb spent the cash on holidays and clothes during a four-year period.", "Robert Trigg had claimed Caroline Devlin in 2006 and Susan Nicholson in 2011 had both died in their sleep.", "Despite the death of seven children and an adult, the friendly match is still played.", "Salman Abedi walked around the city centre but the Arena was his only target, police say.", "The Labour leader is \"happy\" to raise the issue of laid-off workers with the festival's organisers.", "The US leader says Russia should \"join the community of responsible nations\" in a speech in Poland.", "After last year's botched coup in Turkey, thousands were arrested or fired in a far-reaching purge - including some Turkish military officers and their families stationed abroad.", "Our clothing and laundry are polluting the marine environment, UK research reveals.", "At least 800 people from the UK have travelled to support or fight for jihadist organisations in Syria and Iraq, according to British officials. But what do we know about them?", "The rapper also apologised for saying \"a lot of things\" because the Material Girl singer \"hurt\" him.", "Conservative MP's sixth child is called Sixtus Dominic Boniface Christopher.", "The billionaire Newcastle United owner tells the High Court he enjoys binge drinking.", "Sports and movies stars sign up for a Harvard course to help them build a business after their fame fades.", "The Hepworth Wakefield beats the Tate Modern to the £100,000 Museum of the Year prize.", "After Donald Trump's withdrawal from the Paris climate deal, France doubles down on pollution.", "The former PM was \"emotionally truthful\" but relied on beliefs rather than facts, Sir John Chilcot says.", "The European Union and Japan conclude a landmark free trade deal in Brussels, EU officials announce.", "Marvyn Iheanacho is accused of battering his partner's son to death in south-east London.", "UK-based firm Bell Pottinger responds to accusations its work inflamed racial tensions.", "Robert Trigg had claimed both women died in their sleep but was convicted of their killings.", "About 100 government supporters force their way into Venezuela's opposition-led National Assembly.", "Sir Martin Moore-Bick met survivors of the west London tower block fire on Thursday evening.", "Damning verdict comes as inspectors warn a quarter of care services are failing on safety.", "She has received death threats on the internet for the act, which is not a crime.", "Jeremy Corbyn warns of \"lost decade\" of low pay, while Greening calls for \"skills revolution\".", "Foreign secretary rejects leadership questions, hailing the \"grace and steel\" Theresa May has shown.", "Viral videos of 'bouncing rice balls' have fuelled fake rumours of \"plastic\" rice being sold in Africa.", "In an unvarnished account of the inquiry he chaired, Sir John Chilcot tells me that \"rising generations\" of the military have understood and absorbed its lessons.", "One in three nursing homes fail an official inspection, and Volvo plans a switch to electric cars.", "Productivity figures are shockingly bad, and unless that changes then funding changes to public services becomes all the harder", "One mother is fighting hard to make sure more young people are protected from the dangers of knives after the death of her son.", "Dozens of police officers are injured in clashes with protesters, some of whom were hurling objects.", "The temporary measure means foreign nationals affected by the fire can stay in the UK for 12 months.", "Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham says the go-ahead for London will cause \"widespread anger\".", "The UK minister says chlorine-washed poultry is an issue for \"the very end stage of one sector\" of trade talks.", "Five people were injured in the town of Schaffhausen after being attacked with a chainsaw.", "The sculpture, which could potentially stand 7m high and 30m wide, symbolises a giant rusted crown", "A man was struck during the incident, but it was not terror-related, police said.", "New trailer shows the Twelfth Doctor's final outing, as well as the return of Bill Potts.", "A 33-year-old man is charged after a 19-year-old woman was found dead at a house in London.", "The company said delays and cancellations could continue until the end of the day.", "It said the phrase is unbiblical, un-Protestant, and connected to Catholicism.", "The meat substitute maker says it has seen \"unprecedented\" global growth this year, with sales up 19%.", "Lower activity in the first quarter of 2017 suggests both will underperform the global economy.", "New rules will encourage UK consumers to generate and store their own power, ministers say.", "The pop star bows out of the remaining 14 dates because of \"unforeseen circumstances\".", "Beauty entrepreneur Susanne Langmuir decided to concentrate on one thing and do it well - lips.", "The 2013 Women's World Cup barely registered with the public. England's glorious 2017 triumph could not be more different.", "Paint has been part of the Windows operating system since its release in 1985.", "Consumers have been paying the same amount for thousands of products that have shrunk in size.", "Police say the findings \"corroborate\" the theory Ben died in an accident involving heavy machinery.", "Several Americans and Brits are using charity donation websites to finance their war efforts in eastern Ukraine.", "Holidaymakers face unnecessary charges when they use their credit and debit cards overseas.", "Charlie Gard's parents say they have faced a \"backlash\" after GOSH said staff had been threatened.", "England's World Cup victory can be a \"springboard\" for women's cricket around the world, according to captain Heather Knight.", "Gina Parkin now describes the seaside resort as \"the best of British\".", "Since the first commercial substitute for breast milk was launched in 1865, formula has shaped the workforce.", "They were among dozens of people found inside the back of the vehicle suffering from dehydration.", "Letting \"gorgeous\" Charlie go is \"the hardest thing we'll ever have to do\", his parents say.", "A mid-air near-miss between an RAF tanker and US F-15s is blamed on military air traffic control.", "How Italian seaside city Viareggio became a hub for the superyacht manufacturing industry.", "A man got into the woman's car as she attended to her baby, and drove off.", "The Australian woman had set out with her partner, who was later found dead near a waterfall.", "How are Germany's economic giants viewing the UK's negotiations to leave the EU?", "Scientists say new immunotherapy drugs may help researchers \"unlock\" treatment for the virus.", "The supermarket has withdrawn the product for newborns for tests after a family complained.", "The eight-year-old was described by her family as \"precious and fun-loving\" whose smile lit up a room.", "Rashan Jermaine Charles was taken ill after \"trying to swallow an object\" in a shop in east London, police say.", "Scientists worry that the melting of the Greenland ice sheet could accelerate and raise sea levels more than expected.", "A California radio station accuses the celebrated biologist of \"abusive speech against Islam\".", "A new analysis suggests there's a greater chance of the heavy rain that led to extensive flooding in 2014.", "A skull found while police searched a landfill site was a woman's from before 1945, police say.", "The family of 15-year-old Leah Kerry say she knew the dangers but \"thought she was invincible\".", "Anthony Collins told Sara Cox he was disturbed with a criminal past but she was \"kind and sexy\".", "The airline says it might cut fares as much as 9% on some routes as competition intensifies.", "The Biggest Weekend is taking place next May as Glastonbury has a year off.", "Although a Sunderland fan, six-year-old Bradley Lowery moved Everton before his death from cancer.", "The nine-year-old has no active HIV in the body after catching the infection at birth.", "Labour's leader discussing student debt, and a Ben Needham case development make the front pages.", "Simon Brown, 24, hit his head on a gantry while travelling on a Gatwick Express train in August.", "Premier League earnings are boosted by broadcast earnings, with TV cash set to soar.", "TV presenter Kirstie Allsopp has provoked a debate on social media for saying washing machines should not be kept in the kitchen", "She said the foetal listening device gave her \"false reassurance\" her unborn baby was alive.", "The travel company vows to fight other fraudulent damages claims after a court victory.", "A block of ice a quarter the size of Wales calves from the eastern side of the Antarctic Peninsula.", "Prime Minister's Questions as it happened - with Damian Green and Emily Thornberry.", "People living near the scene of the blaze in Weybridge were told to leave their homes overnight.", "Internet sensation Eddie is back on Southern Rail's Twitter account and appeared on BBC Radio 1.", "New exhibition Soul of a Nation looks at how artists have explored what it means to be black.", "A host of US internet giants will protest against plans to roll back rules protecting 'net neutrality'.", "Why was an independent prison monitor sacked after voicing her concerns?", "The station was closed for about three hours, with many evening services cancelled or severely delayed.", "The NI Fire Service say they are dealing with a \"significant number\" of ongoing bonfire incidents.", "Artists and producers are being advised not to mention the inspirations for their music in case they get sued for copyright infringement.", "The austere blue-trimmed white sari has long been identified with the nun and her order.", "Opposition parties claim ministers were trying to protect Saudi Arabia by only publishing summary.", "Figures show 25,190 fewer people have applied to UK universities this year.", "It was the first item on a baggage carousel after a four-hour flight in Australia.", "The EU's top negotiator says European courts must be responsible for protecting citizens' rights.", "Whatever Theresa May had said this morning, she is in trouble.", "The US investigates how the flight from Toronto almost landed on a taxiway with four planes on it.", "The ex-education secretary sees off Eurosceptic Tory MP Jacob Rees-Mogg for the coveted position.", "The request comes after a series of alcohol-related incidents on the popular party islands.", "An illegal immigrant living in Grenfell Tower says she was worried she would not get any support.", "Unemployment fell by 64,000 to 1.49 million in the three months to May, official figures show.", "Will the King of Spain's UK visit sweep Brexit tensions under the red carpet?", "The Femfresh advert was likely to cause \"serious offence\", according to the advertising watchdog.", "The city in northern India where most of the West's second-hand clothing ends up.", "Tory and Labour MPs talk about intimidation they have faced - as ministers announce inquiry.", "Their manifesto calls for a near-total halt to immigration, but the far-right political party Britain First is now actively trying to appeal to Polish immigrants living in the UK.", "Emails revealing Donald Trump Jr was offered information about Hillary Clinton by the Russians, and Jo Konta's Wimbledon win feature on the front pages.", "Citizens Advice says energy firms have made \"excess\" profits and households should be reimbursed.", "On average, each estate agent in the UK has 42.5 properties on its books, the lowest since 1978.", "King Felipe VI says they can overcome differences over Gibraltar and Brexit, in his state visit speech.", "Christopher Wray also told senators he would not be \"pulling punches\" if confirmed in the role.", "Scientists use smartphones to track and rank activity levels around the world.", "Many of the bank's 20 million customers will also face lower charges for authorised overdrafts.", "The fire service changed its advice an hour and 53 minutes after the first emergency call, BBC finds.", "The craftsmen can all trace their skills back to one family who arrived on the island more than 150 years ago.", "Seven Twitter users are suing the US president, saying their right to free speech has been violated.", "As you approach Castelluccio, you can see the shattered buildings more reminiscent of a war zone.", "\"I witnessed many brave citizens risking their safety and their lives,\" one witness said.", "Stacey White \"unleashed a tirade of abuse\" on call handlers, costing the NHS £31,000 in one year.", "Johanna Konta's upcoming Wimbledon semi-final and Labour's Brexit \"threat\" make the front pages.", "His assessment comes as alleged Russian meddling in the US election continues to cast a cloud.", "Brexit and the reported infighting in Theresa May's cabinet over differing approaches dominates the front pages, which also feature the announcement of the 13th Doctor.", "Standards watchdog says it is a \"dangerous moment\" for UK politics and urges leaders to take action.", "Turkey's president thanks those who \"defended the nation\" against the coup attempt a year ago.", "The genre-defining zombie movie filmmaker George A Romero dies in his sleep at 77, his manager says.", "A presenter chops his finger, and who knows what the cameraman was thinking?", "The devotees from around the world for whom Jane Austen plays a big part in their lives.", "Photographer Mario Testino said Camilla, who turns 70 on Monday, has a \"wonderful sense of humour\".", "China's crackdown on what it calls \"abnormal\" sexual activity has triggered a backlash online.", "The girl was found unconscious in the early hours in a park in Newton Abbot, Devon, and later died.", "The son of Syrian refugees was named after the politician as a thank you to their adopted country.", "Nottingham's Robin Hood says money will go to charities that helped his wife, who died of cancer.", "Roger Federer is the favourite but do not discount Marin Cilic in Sunday's Wimbledon final, says four-time semi-finalist Tim Henman.", "Garbine Muguruza says it was \"amazing\" to beat \"role model\" Venus Williams to win her first Wimbledon final.", "The president wants the media to focus on jobs, the economy, IS and the border. So we did.", "As the new Time Lord prepares to enter the Tardis, we look back at her many predecessors.", "A moped being ridden by three teenagers is in collision with a police car in London.", "A \"raft\" of plastic debris spanning more than 965,000 square miles is floating in the South Pacific.", "A wall gave way during clashes following a League Cup final at the venue in the capital Dakar.", "Broadchurch star Jodie Whittaker is named as the 13th Doctor - the first woman to take the role.", "The Scottish Labour leader has been dating Mid Fife and Glenrothes MSP Jenny Gilruth for about four months.", "Widespread speculation suggests the 13th Doctor will - for the first time - be a woman.", "The Fermanagh team had been training in Bundoran and had entered the water to cool down.", "Organisers say 789 people took part, beating the previous record set in Australia by three people.", "A 16-year-old boy arrested over five acid attacks in London on Thursday is charged with 15 offences.", "The chancellor criticised John McDonnell for saying victims were \"murdered by political decisions\".", "Public servants do get a \"premium\", Philip Hammond says, amid reports he described them as \"overpaid\".", "Ex-PM says Britain could still stay in a reformed EU - but Labour says the referendum result \"must be respected\".", "Public sector pay has been falling relative to the private sector and is expected to continue falling.", "Tony Blair stands by his criticism of Jeremy Corbyn, despite changing his mind on his chances of being PM.", "Acclaimed Iranian mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani dies of breast cancer aged 40.", "The Observer features a warning from former civil servants to Theresa May over Brexit, while the Sunday Times says the cabinet is \"at war\".", "The 90kg projectile failed to explode when it was fired during the siege of Quebec City in 1759.", "Skye Olivia Mitchell and another 18-year-old, Caitlin Lydia Huddleston, died in the crash near Bootle.", "The footballer calls Janice St Fort \"a little fighter\" after she died aged 58 from cancer.", "Maria Victoria Barros is forced to leave church protected by riot police.", "There are resorts where the surge of global tourism is starting to feel like a tidal wave.", "Newly released files reveal that the UK supported the release of the Nazi leader as early as 1956.", "A Canadian governor got caught up in regal protocol as he touched a royal elbow.", "The number of workplace huggers is said to be on the rise, but it is still a social - and legal - minefield.", "A lawyer suggests Minneapolis police could have been startled by Justine Damond, before killing her.", "In our series of letters from African journalists, Yousra Elbagir explores Sudanese women's appetite for weight gain pills.", "The former sports star and actor is granted parole after almost nine years in prison for armed robbery.", "Salvador Dali has been exhumed - in a situation as surreal as his art.", "\"Most of my work has been a reflection of what I've been going through,\" Bennington once said.", "Adrian Pogmore used the aircraft to film people sunbathing naked and his friends having sex.", "The young boys drove three miles before crashing the car into a ditch on a windy road.", "The ex-paratrooper said he could barely walk, but won a triathlon and skied in the Alps.", "Universities awarding first-class degrees to over 40% of students.", "Goldman is the only City firm to have an onsite nursery - but is it only deep-pocketed banks which can afford one?", "Gayle Newland created an online persona to trick her female friend into a relationship for two years.", "Profits at the sportswear retailer plummet 60%, which the company blames on the weaker pound.", "The cost of health insurance would double in a decade under the Republican plan, the analysis finds.", "The story of Orenthal James \"OJ\" Simpson is that of the fall of an American hero.", "A coroner says the star, who was close to Soundgarden singer Chris Cornell, took his own life.", "Work rate and competitors' offers sighted in defence of £150,000-plus salaries.", "The 80-year-old US senator may undergo chemotherapy and radiation treatment, a statement says.", "The 91-year-old monarch's representative in Canada touches her elbow to help her down stairs.", "A US judge halts an auction of the superstar's items, including a break-up letter from rapper Tupac.", "Of the BBC stars earning more than £150,000 last year, 62 were male and 34 were female.", "Two supporters are treated for injuries after a disturbance ahead of the match with Siroki Brijeg.", "A report argues that universities should embrace the comprehensive principle and reject selection.", "The UK state pension age will now be increased from 67 to 68 by 2039, the government says.", "Gordon Brown says the moving of 130,000 UK children overseas was \"government-enforced trafficking\".", "The ex-NFL star and actor apologises in a bid for release after nine years in a Nevada prison.", "One BBC executive says reducing the amount paid to male stars is \"one of the levers we can pull\".", "A list of the top earners whose salaries came from the BBC licence fee.", "The AlphaBay and Hansa marketplaces were known for trade in drugs, weapons and malware.", "Instead of a thank you, city officials demand the doughty DIY hero's steps be removed.", "Russian warships sailing from the Black Sea to Syria pass through the centre of one of Europe's biggest cities - where amateur ship spotters watch their every move.", "The bag was used by astronaut Neil Armstrong to collect the first ever samples of the Moon in 1969.", "The films and TV shows getting people excited at this year's fan fest in San Diego.", "Wales, the Midlands and the North will no longer see their lines upgraded after a government review.", "As OJ Simpson gets parole, here is a recap of the football hero whose downfall gripped America.", "Xanda, the six-year-old son of Cecil the lion, is shot dead by trophy hunters in Zimbabwe.", "The broadcaster comes in for a battering on the front pages as the pay of its top stars is revealed.", "The life and times of the new Liberal Democrat leader.", "Elizabeth Campbell apologises to survivors of the tower block blaze for not doing more for them.", "The 74-year-old calls for an \"exit from Brexit\" as he is elected unopposed to succeed Tim Farron.", "Glenna Duram shot her husband before attempting suicide in a case apparently witnessed by a parrot.", "A midwife in Sweden has posted a picture of her blood-stained trousers to demonstrate her lack of time to change her sanitary products", "The skulls found in Mexico City are only a fraction of those Spanish soldiers encountered in 1521.", "Ukraine's security service says it has obtained data linking Russia to last week's malware attack.", "Jeremy Corbyn addressed crowds calling for an end to Theresa May's austerity programme.", "The cabinet minister adds his voice to growing pressure to lift the 1% public sector pay cap.", "The news comes as Murray prepares for his opening match at Wimbledon as defending champion.", "The video is released as French President Emmanuel Macron visits to support anti-militant efforts.", "The driver and passenger walked away from the destroyed 570S, which is worth about £143,000.", "Rihanna's secret boyfriend is revealed - and other news nuggets.", "The Indian woman was already under police guard after allegedly being raped and attacked.", "The four-lane stretch is expected to benefit the 130,000 motorists who use the M3 each day.", "British officials have accepted a \"painful\" trade-off in Brexit talks, and the EU is planning migrant \"crisis\" talks, according to the front pages.", "More than half would not dine alone with the opposite sex, according to a New York Times poll.", "A 16-year-old was among those wounded in the incident, which officials say was not terrorism-related.", "The prime minister is facing demands from senior Conservatives to overhaul state funding, according to several papers.", "Police were chasing three suspected suicide attackers - one blew himself up after being surrounded.", "The private rededication was held on what would have been their mother's 56th birthday.", "Sajid Javid says the process to select a new council leader \"will be independent of government\".", "Both ships were damaged in the collision about 15 miles north east of Dover.", "Ministers say ending the arrangement will help the UK take back control of access to its waters.", "The US president defends his persistent use of social media after a week of controversial tweets.", "Adam \"Carney\" Cooper, 31, was taking part in a North West Men's League Division Four match in Runcorn.", "The alleged cocaine maker had evaded police for 30 years with plastic surgery and fake names.", "Bradley's mother said her son was finding breathing difficult \"but is fighting it\".", "The video showing Mr Trump fighting a human CNN logo incites violence, 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Alun Cairns said the tolls were a \"psychological barrier\" to doing business in Wales.\n\nTolls on the Severn bridges between Wales and England will be scrapped by the end of 2018, the UK government has announced.\n\nWelsh Secretary Alun Cairns said it would be a major boost to the economy.\n\nThe fees paid on entry to Wales - currently from £6.70 to £20 a vehicle - have long been a source of contention with motorists and businesses.\n\nEconomy Secretary Ken Skates said he was \"suspicious about the timing\" and \"their genuine commitment to it\".\n\nAbout 25 million journeys are made across the two bridges annually. Those using the bridge daily could save about £1,400 a year.\n\nA study commissioned by the Welsh Government suggested the removal of tolls would boost the Welsh economy by £100m.\n\nHowever, another report, for UK ministers, predicted just halving the tolls would mean a 17% increase in traffic along the M4 and surrounding areas either side of the crossings.\n\nBut it did not indicate the impact on traffic by scrapping the tolls completely.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it had looked at the impact of scrapping the tolls as part of preparation for the public inquiry into plans for an M4 relief road around Newport.\n\n\"Our modelling shows that immediately adjacent to the Second Severn Crossing traffic levels would increase by around 20%,\" a spokesman said.\n\n\"At the Brynglas tunnels [in Newport] this would filter down to around 7%, and dropping to a 2% increase before Cardiff.\"\n\nMr Cairns told BBC Radio Wales: \"There will be issues around congestion, and I have raised this personally with the first minister on more than one occasion.\n\n\"Of course, we are doing all we can to make the money available to the Welsh Government to build a motorway around Newport; that money has been available for more than three years and it has not been spent yet.\n\n\"But we understand they are obviously pressing ahead with their inquiry, and we want to see that road built as quickly as possible.\"\n\nMr Cairns said Bristol and south Wales would also be \"bound together\" by improved rail links.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ken Skates said it was \"a cynical attempt to stop bad news\" over rail electrification\n\nBut First Minister Carwyn Jones tweeted: \"This is nothing but a desperate attempt by Alun Cairns to distract from yesterday's U-turn on electrification to Swansea.\"\n\nMr Skates later told BBC Radio Wales: \"They need to boost confidence in themselves again amongst the people of south Wales and the only way they are going to do that is making good on this promise.\"\n\nMr Cairns said the decision to abolish the tolls \"sends a powerful message to businesses, commuters and tourists alike that the UK government is committed to strengthening the Welsh economy\".\n\nHe said: \"I want to ensure that visitors and investors know what Wales has to offer socially, culturally and economically.\n\n\"Most importantly, I want the world to know how accessible we are to business.\"\n\nSome politicians are concerned that ending the tolls could increase congestion\n\nPhil Bell, executive director of Chepstow racecourse, said the scrapping of the tolls would boost its fortunes.\n\n\"We have millions of people who would potentially come to the racecourse from just the other side of the bridge,\" he told BBC Radio Wales.\n\n\"At the moment we have about 9% of our customers come from the Bristol area and we have around 100,000 racegoers a year so we expect to see significant increases in that number.\n\n\"I am asking our board of directors to invest in the infrastructure at the racecourse and upgrade the facilities, so this decision will aid my case.\"\n\nLabour Newport East MP Jessica Morden said it was a \"relief that, after years of pressure, the Tory government has finally listened\".\n\n\"For far too long, commuters and businesses in Newport East and beyond have had to absorb the extortionate toll charges.\"\n\nPeople had a chance to walk along the original Severn Bridge after it was opened in 1966\n\nHowever Llanelli Labour AM Lee Waters warned the ending of the tolls would in reality result in more misery for drivers because \"everybody expects there will be more people using their cars\".\n\n\"The Department for Transport's best guess - and nobody really knows - is the amount of traffic will go up somewhere between 12 and 20 percent,\" he told BBC Radio Wales.\n\n\"So that'll be a significant extra amount of traffic which will create congestion and delays.\"\n\nThe two crossings are currently owned and run by a private consortium but will revert to Highways England once the cost of building the second crossing, opened in 1996, is repaid. Ministers will then scrap the tolls.\n\nAbolishing the charges was included in every major party's manifesto in June's general election.\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May said during the campaign that their removal would significantly reduce the cost of doing business between Wales and England and help support the Union.\n\nThe tolls have been in place since the first Severn bridge was opened in 1966, when the fee was two shillings and sixpence (12.5p).", "Ms Martínez says she was born in 1956 as a result of an affair between Dalí and her mother\n\nForensic experts in Spain have exhumed the body of the surrealist painter Salvador Dalí to extract DNA to settle a paternity case.\n\nSamples were taken from the artist's teeth, bones and nails in a four-hour operation, officials said.\n\nThe exhumation followed a court order on behalf of a woman who says her mother had an affair with the painter.\n\nIf she is proved right, she could assume part of the Dalí's estate, currently owned by the Spanish state.\n\nIt may take weeks before the results of the tests are known.\n\nThe surrealist painter, who died in 1989 at the age of 85, was buried in a crypt in a museum dedicated to his life and work in Figueres, in north-eastern Spain.\n\nA crowd gathered outside the museum to watch as police escorted the experts into the building on Thursday evening.\n\nThe exhumation went ahead despite the objections of the local authorities and the foundation carrying Dalí's name, both of which claimed that not enough notice had been given ahead of the exhumation.\n\nMaría Pilar Abel Martínez, a tarot card reader who was born in 1956, says her mother had an affair with Dalí during the year before her birth. Her mother, Antonia, had worked for a family that spent time in Cadaqués, near the painter's home.\n\nLast month a Madrid judge ordered the exhumation to settle the claim. It is contested by the Dalí foundation, which manages the estate of the artist, who was not believed to have had any children.\n\nHer action is against the Spanish state, to which Dalí left his estate.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Will Gompertz explained how Dali's body would be removed\n\nMs Martínez says her mother and paternal grandmother both told her at an early age that Dalí was her real father.\n\nBut the claim has surprised many, including Ian Gibson, an Irish-born biographer of Dalí, who said that the notion of the artist having an affair that produced a child was \"absolutely impossible\".\n\n\"Dalí always boasted: 'I'm impotent, you've got to be impotent to be a great painter',\" the biographer said.\n\nDalí's wife, Gala, died in 1982 - after which he is said to have lost much of his zest for life", "Faizah Shaheen was reported to authorities on her honeymoon flight to Turkey\n\nA British woman says she is being forced to go to court to get an apology after she was questioned by counter-terrorism police for reading a Syrian art book on a plane.\n\nFaizah Shaheen was reported to authorities by Thomson cabin crew on a honeymoon flight to Turkey in 2016.\n\nHer lawyers told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme she believes she was singled out because of her race.\n\nThomson said its crew were \"trained to report any concerns\" as a precaution.\n\nMs Shaheen - a Muslim, whose work in mental health care in part involves looking for the signs of radicalisation in young people - was reading Syria Speaks: Art and Culture from the Frontline on the outbound flight.\n\nThe book is a collection of literature, photos, songs and cartoons from Syrian artists and writers.\n\nShe was stopped by police when she returned to the UK two weeks later.\n\nMs Shaheen and her husband were taken to a room at Doncaster Airport for questioning under Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act.\n\nShe said the interrogation lasted around 30 minutes, during which she was asked about the book, her work and the number of languages she spoke.\n\n\"I felt upset and distressed, followed by anger. I struggled to accept that I was being singled out for reading a book on art and culture,\" she explained.\n\n\"One year on, Thomson Airways has failed to provide an explanation or apology despite legal involvement.\n\n\"This attitude has left me with no option but to seek a declaration from the court under the Equality Act.\"\n\nMs Shaheen had been reading this book on Syrian culture\n\nMs Shaheen's legal team said it had written to Thomson telling the company it believed she had been a victim of discrimination.\n\nIt argued she believes she was singled out because of her race.\n\nRavi Naik, of ITN solicitors, said that while Thomson had acknowledged its initial communication, it had not responded to its correspondence since January.\n\n\"The Equality Act contains strong protections against discriminatory treatment on the basis of someone's race and religion and for good reason,\" he said.\n\n\"We have asked the airline to apologise, to which we have never received a meaningful reply.\"\n\nMs Shaheen was stopped and examined under Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act 2000\n\nMs Shaheen said she does not desire compensation, but \"an apology and explanation from Thomson Airways to ensure that it never happens again\".\n\nJo Glanville, director of English PEN - a British free speech organisation who helped fund the book Ms Shaheen was reading - said Thomson's actions amounted to \"a fundamental violation of our liberty, undermining our freedom to read any text we like in a public place\".\n\nShe added: \"Thomson should review its staff training procedures so that such an error never happens again. Reading a book should never be viewed as grounds for suspicious behaviour.\"\n\nThomson said in a statement: \"We're really sorry if Ms Shaheen remains unhappy with how she feels she was treated.\n\n\"We wrote to her to explain that our crew undergo general safety and security awareness training on a regular basis.\n\n\"As part of this they are encouraged to be vigilant and share any information or questions with the relevant authorities, who would then act as appropriate.\"\n\nWatch the Victoria Derbyshire programme on weekdays between 09:00 and 11:00 on BBC Two and the BBC News Channel.", "Addicts gather under the bridges along the freight track, away from the public eye\n\nIn a corner of Philadelphia known locally as the Badlands, where some of the purest heroin in the country can be bought for just $5 a bag, a half-mile stretch of rail track has become a refuge for hundreds of heroin addicts. Next week the city will begin to clear out the tracks, but where will the users go?\n\nAt the top end of Gurney Street in Fairhill, Philadelphia, there's a dirt path that forks through some trees and winds behind an old car repair shop, down to the rail tracks below.\n\nFollow the path and you'll find a makeshift shooting gallery under a bridge, where heroin addicts gather out of sight and the ground is a sea of used syringes, cookers and needle caps. People stand around a wooden table to fix, tying on tourniquets and tapping in the crooks of their arms to bring up their veins. One man leans into a mirror to find a spot on his neck, carefully pushing a needle through the skin and rolling back into a chair, his eyes glazing over. Others line up along a long steel beam that forms part of the bridge, unwrapping fresh syringes and preparing to inject. For anyone too nervous, or too far gone, to find a vein, there's a man in a wooden shack a few metres away known as \"the doctor\", who will stick you for a dollar.\n\nThis is \"El Campamento\", the busiest and most built-up of a handful of hidden-away injection sites along a half-mile stretch of freight track between 2nd Street and Kensington Avenue. For more than 20 years homeless people and drug users have sought refuge in this gulch, and today there are about 70 people living along the tracks and up to 200 passing through every day to shoot up. As nightmarish as it feels, users here say it's a safe place, away from the police and the rest of the public, where people look out for each other and outreach workers visit regularly. Narcan - a nasal spray that reverses overdoses - is never far away.\n\nBut next week the city will begin to clear this stretch of track and force the users out. After months of negotiations between officials and rail company Conrail, contractors, guarded by police, will enter at the Kensington Avenue end and work their way up, disposing of an estimated 500,000 used needles, tearing down structures, and eventually paving over El Campamento and installing concrete rubble under the bridges to ward off new camps.\n\nThe city wants the rail company to put up prison-grade fencing around the tracks\n\nDown by the tracks last week, news of the planned clearance was met with weary skepticism. \"If they push us up from here you're gonna have a bunch of junkies on the streets looking for somewhere else to shoot up,\" said Luis, a 41-year-old father-of-two with dark, matted hair and dull eyes, who asked us not to use his real name.\n\nLuis wakes up every morning in a rickety wooden shack and spends his days, like the doctor, injecting other users. The fee is one dollar or one sixth of a heroin shot, and most people pay in heroin. Every six injections Luis can do a hit of his own. For 22 months he was clean and clear of the tracks, until one day he came home to find his wife had suffered a heart attack in the bath and drowned.\n\nPerched on a concrete barrier on Gurney Street, he squinted against the sun, opening and closing a flick knife in one hand and letting a cigarette slowly burn away in the other. \"I had everything,\" he said. \"I had a beautiful life, I had a beautiful wife, and in the blink of an eye it got took from me. That was a year and a week ago.\"\n\nDays after she died he was back on the tracks. \"At least down here you know you can get safe dope, you can get clean works, you can get high and nobody's gonna mess with you,\" he said. \"If they board this up I have to start again. I have to find a new place I can lay my head at night where I don't have to sleep with one eye open.\"\n\nWalking the half-mile length of track, under a blistering midday sun that baked the rails, person after person said they would simply find another hole in Kensington, the neighbourhood around the tracks — a place already gripped by poverty and overrun by heroin.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nKensington was once a vibrant industrial area that people came to from around Philadelphia in search of work. As the manufacturing trades died away, employment rates and house prices plummeted, homes were abandoned and boarded up and the drug trade moved in. Now people come to Kensington from around the city, state and country in search of heroin. The area is said to be the largest open-air drugs market on the East Coast.\n\nOn nearly every block on the short walk from Gurney Street to Hope Park, dealers call out their brands — \"So Fly\", \"Caution\", \"Cowboy\" — and empty packets stamped with logos litter the way. The heroin sold here is among the purest, cheapest, and most lethal in the US. It courses through the veins of the place, turning public parks, churches, abandoned houses and street corners into venues to shoot up.\n\nBefore the deal was struck to clear the tracks, the city cleared out McPherson Square, a small park on Kensington Avenue that had become a haunt for addicts. At the centre of the square is the local library, and when national media reported in May that librarians were being trained to revive overdosed users in the square — rechristened Needle Park by locals — it was enough. The drug users were driven out.\n\n\"Back in '70 this was a beautiful park,\" said Joe Grone, a 53-year-old who moved to the edge of McPherson Square more than 40 years ago. He was pricked in the ankle by a used needle as he walked through the park last year, as was his five-year-old granddaughter as she sat on their front steps. \"This place should be for kids, not for needles,\" he said.\n\nOutreach workers fear users from the tracks will be pushed into abandoned row houses\n\nJoe Grone was pricked with a used needle near his home on McPherson Square\n\nNow a large mobile police unit sits near the middle of McPherson Square and officers roll around the perimeter on bikes. Last week, children were running around again, jumping through a sprinkler and screaming with delight. Save for the odd syringe cap nestled in the grass, it was a happy afternoon in Needle Park.\n\nBut drug outreach workers here question where the users went. Shortly after the square was cleared, there were reports that an abandoned church on Westmoreland Street had become a haven for addicts. Police moved in to clear the church too, and in the sanctuary, Kate Perch, a housing co-ordinator for local outreach charity Prevention Point, found a young couple in the grip of addiction. They had fashioned a makeshift home around a mattress and hidden their belongings under the organ pipes. As the police waited, the couple discussed different abandoned row houses in the area, debating which were safe.\n\n\"That's a conversation which will keep happening in this neighbourhood,\" Ms Perch said. \"McPherson has been cleared, Westmoreland has been cleared, now the tracks are about to get cleared. What happens to these people when that site is no longer available? Where will they go that is safe?\"\n\nAn abandoned church on Westmoreland Street which had become a haven for heroin addicts\n\nA message scrawled on the front door of the church as the users were cleared out\n\nThe worry for people like Ms Perch is that vulnerable users will be pushed into the city's hundreds of abandoned houses — \"abandos\" — where it is too dangerous for outreach workers to go, where people will overdose and no one will see.\n\nThe city is already predicting a 30% increase in overdoses this year, for the second year running, taking the grim toll from 900 to 1,200 - four times the estimated number of murders. Fentanyl — a tranquiliser 50 to 100 times more powerful than heroin which has been linked to deaths across the country - has taken hold, infecting the supply of heroin that floods into Philadelphia from the ports.\n\n\"The dope that's out there now... it's fentanyl, it's elephant tranquiliser, it's rat poison, stuff like that,\" said James Russell, a 30-year-old local with a 15-year heroin habit, who shakily made a cup of instant coffee as he waited for a check-up at Prevention Point.\n\n\"The way a lot of the fiends are here now, you hear someone shot a bag of dope and overdosed and seven out of 10 people rush to go find that dope. It's insane.\"\n\nJose Ojeda flew to Philadelphia full of hope. He came as an addict, seeking first-class treatment in the heart of the city. That's what they told him in Puerto Rico, anyway. But like thousands of others who had made the flight before him, he was heading for one of the city's unlicensed recovery houses, where users are exploited for their benefits and many wash out into the street, ending up places like the tracks.\n\n\"I'm searching for help but it's impossible for me because I don't have papers,\" said Jose, looking away as he spoke across an empty lot by the tracks, his eyes bloodshot, skin rough and needle-marked, one hand tightly cramped against his will. His ID was stolen with his wallet while he was passed out, he said. He thinks a lot about his mother who died in Puerto Rico while he was in Philadelphia, and about his daughter and his granddaughter who are still there.\n\n\"I'm trapped here now with my worn-out hands. I don't know how to speak English, I go places to ask for help and they don't understand me. It pushes me to drugs,\" he said.\n\nWithout ID he can't get treatment and he can't get home. At 42, he's stuck in Kensington, a long way from Puerto Rico, with a heroin habit he can't shake.\n\nJose Ojeda is one of thousands of Puerto Rican addicts who come to Philadelphia on a false promise of treatment\n\nEven with ID, the barriers to treatment in Philadelphia are high. The city has an estimated 70,000 active heroin users and fewer than 15,000 treatment options at any given time, adding every different type together. The Housing-First programme will put a roof over the head of users without demanding they are clean, but there are currently fewer than 40 slots available in the Kensington area for about 400 homeless people.\n\nThe city has pledged an additional $250,000 to supportive housing and is planning a three-day \"resources fair\" on an empty lot on Gurney Street, to coincide with the track closure, but police will be in attendance and mistrust among users is endemic. Even if there were treatment options here for everyone, many in the grip of addiction are simply unwilling or unable to seek them.\n\n\"Addiction is a stigma driven disease in this country,\" said Roland Lamb, deputy commissioner at the city's Department of Behavioural Health and Intellectual Disability Services (DBHIS). \"A person who is addicted only has about a one in 10 chance of getting the treatment they need.\"\n\nPrevention Point's mobile needle exchange bus sits outside the old church where the charity lives\n\nDBHIS is working with city-funded outreach groups like Prevention Point, in an attempt to engage with users before the track clearout. The charity began life 25 years ago as an underground needle exchange and two years ago moved into an old brownstone Methodist church in the heart of Kensington, a few blocks from the tracks. Hundreds of users travel to the building from all corners of the neighbourhood and beyond, for a check-up, a pack of clean needles or just a chat, and for a few hours every day the old church has a congregation of sorts.\n\n\"This place is a blessing,\" said Laura, a 41-year-old regular who endured 15 years of homelessness, drug addiction and prostitution before getting clean and finding a place in shelter. \"When I first came here I was deep in my addiction,\" she said. \"They save lives here every day.\"\n\nBut not everyone is grateful. Prevention Point has faced resistance from local officials and residents, who say it draws addicts to the area. The clean needles they give out undoubtedly save lives - HIV infections from drug use in the city have dropped from 50% to just 5% since the charity began its work - but some people were putting them to use immediately on the streets outside the building.\n\nJose Benitez is executive director at Prevention Point. \"The community's approach is, 'We don't want this in our neighbourhood', the city's approach is, 'Oh my god something must be done',\" he said. \"The trick is, what's the something?\"\n\nAs word spread that the tracks would be cleared, fear and anger began to surface in local Facebook groups. Philadelphia should \"start executing drug dealers on the spot\", wrote one resident. \"Better solution, if someone comes into an emergency room full of heroin, let them DIE,\" wrote another. \"DEAD IS BEST,\" someone replied.\n\nThe aggression worried Dan Martino, a part-time musician and local activist who volunteers with a grassroots group, Philadelphia Overdose Prevention Initiative (Popi). On the second Wednesday in June, Mr Martino went to Mick's Inn, a narrow, wood-panelled corner bar in Port Richmond, next to Kensington, where 30 or so local residents had gathered to discuss what would happen when the tracks were purged. After an hour or so of listening, he stood up to speak.\n\nHe asked the residents if they would be interested in a solution which would lower the death rate by 30%. They murmured yes. He asked if they would like to see lower crime rates and needles off the streets and they agreed. Then he said he was talking about safe injection sites, and the atmosphere in the room turned. Two women stormed out. When the meeting spilled into the street Mr Martino approached one of them. Her daughter had died of an overdose, and she told Mr Martino she would want to shoot anyone she found giving addicts a place to inject.\n\nFor some people around these neighbourhoods, safe injection sites — where users can test their drugs and inject in the presence of medical staff — are the last remaining hope. To others, they are unthinkable — a final nail in the coffin for a neighbourhood killed by heroin.\n\n\"We live in a world of heroin\" - Dan Martino advocates for safe injection sites in Philadelphia\n\n\"When I first started advocating for this there was a wall of resistance. People who would yell at me like I've never been yelled at by adult,\" Mr Martino said. \"But these people are going to use one way or the other. That's just the reality we live in. We live in a world of heroin. Until we can find a way to stop it coming in from the ports, this is what we have to do.\"\n\nThe woman who stormed out of the meeting was Kathleen Costello Berry, a lifelong Port Richmond local whose daughter overdosed at just 17 and was left in a hospital parking lot to die. \"I just had to leave, I couldn't even listen to him speak,\" she recalled.\n\n\"I lost my daughter. If anyone had dared to tell me she could come somewhere safe to shoot up and we'll keep an eye on her…\" She trailed off, her voice cracking. \"No. No way. There is no safe way to shoot poison into your veins.\"\n\nThere are no safe injection sites in America, yet. As the nation's opioid epidemic spirals, several major cities, including Seattle, San Francisco, and New York, are beginning to consider taking the leap, but there is fierce political resistance to the idea.\n\nThere is one such site in Canada though, in Vancouver, and statistics suggest it has stemmed the tide of dead bodies there. More than 700 injections take place every day in 13 mirrored booths and no one has died at the facility since it opened in 2003. The clinic estimates that it has prevented 5,000 fatal overdoses. But the then-Conservative government fought it all the way to the Supreme Court.\n\nUsers shoot up at a safe injection facility in Vancouver\n\nIn Philadelphia, a new opioid task force will \"further explore\" the possibility, said a spokesman for Mayor James Kenney, citing \"serious legal, practical, and law enforcement issues that have to be considered\" first.\n\nSome local officials remain opposed. \"It's taken a long time for us to hit rock bottom here,\" said Maria Quinones Sanchez, councilwoman for the city's 7th district, which encompasses Kensington. \"Do we want to now send a message that you can come here and buy the cheapest drugs available and then actually have a place to use them?\"\n\nBut the current strategy - clearing out one park, church, or railway gulch and pushing people to the next - doesn't appear to be working. It has created a grim merry-go-round in Kensington that threatens to cause yet more lonely deaths. Consumed by addiction, and unready for treatment, most people along the tracks will continue to slip through the net.\n\n\"Heroin is what's killing people, but not giving people the opportunity to say help me, not giving people the opportunity to seek treatment - that keeps them in the basement, it keeps them in places like the tracks,\" said Mr Martino.\n\n\"These people don't want to die, despite their best efforts. They don't want to live like this.\"\n\n\"If we get pushed out of here I'll use right on the street\", said Mark Vallotta, 39. \"I got nowhere else.\"\n\nA tattoo points towards an old needle scar\n\nDown at the tracks last week, life was going on as usual. After so many delays, few people seemed to believe that the bulldozers would really roll through. But the rail company's deadline to start work is the end of the month, and the city has had enough.\n\nLuis was still injecting people and getting high off the profits, enough to dull the pain of the anniversary, a few days earlier, of his wife's death. He couldn't see a way out.\n\n\"I'll just try and break through the fence and come back in,\" he said. \"I ain't got no place else to go. It's here or nowhere.\"\n\nA few feet away under the bridge, by the fixing table, another user, Manuel, shifted his weight from foot to foot and stared off into the distance, pushing a baseball cap absent-mindedly up and down his forehead. He recalled doing his first ever hit of heroin, years ago, by the tracks. \"This is where I started, it's the only place I've ever come to,\" he said. \"If this place wasn't here maybe it would be easier for me to stop.\n\n\"It's like my legs carry me here by themselves. If they close down these tracks, I dunno. I hope my legs take me somewhere better.\"", "Emerging from a boyband is a tricky business but, so far at least, the One Direction team has made a pretty good fist of it.\n\nZayn Malik has carved a niche in pervy electropop; Harry Styles is prog rock's new hope; Liam Payne's plumped for aspirational R&B and lovely Niall Horan is doing lovely pop ballads.\n\nSo where does that leave Louis Tomlinson?\n\nHe was always the underappreciated one - a quiet, benign presence in the world's biggest band.\n\nSpeaking to The Observer last month, the 25-year-old acknowledged he was seen by some as \"forgettable, to a certain degree\".\n\nWhat he contributed, though, was songwriting - receiving credits on more One Direction songs than any of his bandmates.\n\nAppropriately for a former singer in a Green Day tribute act, he was the one who pushed the idea that a pop band could have guitar riffs.\n\nHe might not have been directly responsible for sampling The Who's Baba O'Reilly in Best Song Ever, but it certainly fitted his vision for the band.\n\n\"Little things like that were really important to me,\" he tells the BBC. \"It was amazing that we were able to combine the two - absolute pop with guitar music.\"\n\nOne Direction sold more than 20 million albums worldwide\n\nWhen One Direction went on hiatus in 2015, Tomlinson admits he went a bit wild - making up for the teenage party years he lost to fame.\n\n\"It wasn't really me but I embraced it at the time,\" he says, looking back.\n\nThe star dipped his toes back into the pop world last December, appearing as a guest vocalist on Steve Aoki's single, Just Hold On.\n\nBut just as it was released, Tomlinson's mother died. Johannah Deakin, who had been diagnosed with leukaemia at the start of 2016, was only 43 years old.\n\nThey had been unusually close - she was the first person he told when he lost his virginity - and her death hit him particularly hard.\n\nNonetheless, Tomlinson went ahead with a planned X Factor performance of Just Hold On that week (partly at her request), finding solace in people's reaction.\n\n\"I don't like to talk about it much, but I will say I've never had anything like it in my life,\" he says.\n\n\"It felt like the support went deeper than the fans - like people across the nation had my back. That was really nice. My mum would have loved that, definitely.\"\n\nLouis Tomlinson with his mother Johannah at the Natural History Museum in 2015\n\nSince that performance, Tomlinson has been hard at work in the studio and, on Friday, releases his first solo single Back To You.\n\nA duet with US pop singer Bebe Rexha, it's a brooding pop concoction about returning to a relationship that \"stresses me out\".\n\nThe 25-year-old told the BBC how the song came about, what it felt like to leave One Direction, and how the Arctic Monkeys' lyrics influenced his debut album.\n\nWe're speaking 12 hours before your single comes out. How do you feel?\n\nI'm nervous - but less than I was three weeks ago. I've got a lot of good feedback from people at the record label and radio stations - but all that does really is ramp up the pressure because you're hoping what they say is true.\n\nAnd now you'll find out whether they were lying all along.\n\nI will finally know. Exactly!\n\nI was curious to find out why your first solo single starts with Bebe Rexha, singing the entire first verse.\n\nWe recorded a version where I sang first - but you've got to do what's best by the song.\n\nWith the emotion she gives it, and the way she opens up the song, it always had to be her, really.\n\nThe video for Back To You was shot at Doncaster Rovers Football Club - where he has played on a non-contract basis\n\nThe lyrics are pretty gritty. Do you think that might surprise people?\n\nMy whole mission with this album is to not write these Hollywood-esque songs that talk about some unfathomable crazy love story. I'm so bored of that.\n\nBecause I'm from up north, I grew up loving the likes of the Arctic Monkeys and Oasis. And the way they tell stories is such an effortless thing. It's real, it's honest and it's to the point, you know?\n\nNow, any of the Arctic Monkeys would be devastated to hear me talking like this, but there is a way of incorporating that conversational honesty into pop.\n\nSo what have you been writing about on the album?\n\nThere's one song I'm really attached to called Just Like You, which is all about this view of celebrities that we're impenetrable and almost not human, but fundamentally we all have the same problems.\n\nHeartbreak feels the same, loss feels the same, all these feelings are the same for all of us. Mine just look a load different to, maybe, Tom who works in the chippy from nine to five.\n\nI noticed that all the artwork was shot in Doncaster.\n\nWell, we did the video for Back To You in Doncaster, which was amazing. I mean, I'm just the biggest advocate of Doncaster in the world, I'd say.\n\nOK then, sell Doncaster to me in two lines…\n\nIf you're not from there it's difficult to explain - but if you wanted to completely embrace a fully fun working class night out, then you go to Doncaster.\n\nWhat did Bebe Rexha make of the city?\n\nShe was great. She thought it was cool. I did hear her team ask for sushi at lunch, which struck me as naive in Doncaster.\n\nDid you not take her for a curry chip?\n\nI didn't but I really should have! There's a great chippy round the corner from where we filmed, as well.\n\nYour last performance with One Direction was on the X Factor in 2015. Did you wake up the next morning thinking: \"I'm free!\"?\n\nOh no - it was a very emotional time. It was a really weird feeling, because [the break] is by no means definitive, so it leaves you in a place where you're like, \"OK, what comes next?\"\n\nWhat did you get offered? Film work, modelling contracts, presenting?\n\nI'm not very good at fashion but there were a few TV opportunities. But unless you are someone like Harry - who is immensely talented in so many different areas - I think it's really important to stay in your lane and do what you do well.\n\nHaving said that, the idea of acting sounds quite exciting to me. The idea of playing the ultimate rough chavvy - it's like me being everyone I always wanted to be in Doncaster!\n\nBut I'd rather get the music 100% right, rather than 90% right while trying to dip my toe in something else.\n\nThe singer says he wants to make fans more appreciative of lyrics\n\nWhat are your plans for the album?\n\nIdeally it's coming at the end of this year, but I don't want to put myself under too many time constraints and end up in a position where I have to put two fillers on it.\n\nHow many songs have you written altogether?\n\nI'd say about 50. It's a lot of work.\n\nHave you got them all on a phone somewhere?\n\nYeah! There's a couple of songs that me and my girlfriend [fashion blogger Eleanor Calder] really like that'll never be used for anything, so they're kind of just for us. That's really nice.\n\nAre they ones you've written for her?\n\nA lot of the album's about her, really. I wanted to make the album feel chronological, because that's how I wrote it.\n\nYou can hear my journey as an individual over these three years - leaving the band, then going out on to the really crazy party scene, and then I've kind of ended up full circle back with Eleanor, who I love dearly.\n\nNot many people put that much thought into an album these days. It's usually just a collection of potential singles.\n\nThen a lot of people are missing a point.\n\nLike I said to my best mate, Olly, I want there to be songs on the album that I could play to your mum, and she could listen to it and take something away from it. Maybe she doesn't love the song, but lyrically she'll understand something about me.\n\nThis is something that - for me, anyway - it doesn't feel like we have enough of. A lot of artists use words because they sound nice, or because it works for the science of the song.\n\nAgain, that's why bands like Arctic Monkeys are so great. They don't work on any script or any maths or science. They just say what they feel. If it doesn't rhyme, it doesn't matter. If it sounds awkward, it doesn't matter.\n\nI think, especially with being lucky enough to have a big fanbase, I want to say to them, \"Look, lyrics actually matter, and I want to show you why\".\n\nLouis Tomlinson's single, Back To You, is out now on Syco Music\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.", "A plan to scrap first class compartments on commuter trains is the lead for the Daily Telegraph.\n\nThe paper has an interview with Transport Secretary Chris Grayling, who uses the train to get to his Whitehall office.\n\nHe says he understands what a pain it is for passengers to stand in packed standard-class carriages, while first-class compartments are empty.\n\nThe Telegraph says it first highlighted the issue of half-empty first class carriages on packed commuter trains in 2013 and it thinks scrapping them is \"a first class idea\".\n\nThe Daily Mail leads on the row between Boots and a number of female Labour MPs over the chain's refusal to cut the price of the morning-after pill.\n\nBoots put out a statement late last night apologising for its initial response and saying it was looking for cheaper alternatives. It had earlier suggested it didn't want to encourage the overuse of the morning-after pill.\n\nIn an editorial, the Mail welcomes what it describes as Boots' \"principled stand\" calling it \"refreshing\". It describes the Labour MPs - who'd called for a boycott of Boots - as \"contemptible\".\n\nThe row over BBC pay rumbles on, and the Daily Mirror leads with a claim that BBC bosses held a string of frantic talks with female stars before details of huge pay disparities with men became public.\n\nOne unnamed source is quoted saying: \"The BBC might describe them as contract negotiations, but it looked like hush money to me.\"\n\nCharles Moore in the Telegraph points out - among many things - that if the women get more while the men stay on the same then the whole point of exposing the figures in the first place, to force the BBC to control its costs, will have been upended.\n\nAccording to the Times, hard-left Labour supporters are plotting to oust the party's deputy leader, Tom Watson, over what they see as disloyalty to Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nThey're said to want to replace him with the shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry. Sources close to Ms Thornberry have said the claims are categorically untrue.\n\nThe Guardian reports that Interpol has circulated the names of 173 so-called Islamic State militants it believes could have been trained to mount suicide attacks in Europe.\n\nThe list was drawn up by US intelligence from information captured during assaults on IS territories in Syria and Iraq.\n\nThe Daily Express, meanwhile, highlights the case of an illegal migrant in Bishop Auckland in County Durham, who's been spared jail despite allegedly saying he wanted to kill all the English; he was arrested after bursting into a Methodist church during a Sunday service.\n\nThe paper says Home Office officials failed to take the opportunity to seek a deportation order - and Crown Prosecution Service lawyers rejected a request by magistrates to consider more serious charges.\n\nAn investigation into cyber-crime by the i paper reveals what the paper calls \"the shocking truth behind the threat you face\".\n\nThe paper talks of a \"tidal wave of attacks\" costing the British public more than the budget of the NHS. It says 85% of attacks go unsolved by the police, as criminal gangs steal millions of pounds every day.\n\nExamples of victims include everyone from GPs targeted by identity thieves, to a grandmother defrauded of her life savings.\n\nAnd, the paper says, police in South Yorkshire have had to drop investigations six times in the past three years - after discovering the alleged offenders were under ten years old.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Canada's Governor General lightly touched the Queen on the elbow as she descended a flight of steps\n\nCanada's governor general has been forced to defend his actions after a \"slippy\" carpet led to a breach of royal etiquette with the Queen. But how do you avoid a protocol slip-up?\n\nDavid Johnston raised eyebrows on Wednesday as he was seen to be lightly touching Her Majesty's elbow as she descended some steps, at an event in London.\n\nMr Johnston said he was simply concerned about the Queen's safety and made the judgement that a breach of protocol was appropriate \"to be sure that there was no stumble\".\n\nTo avoid any future mishaps, however, here is a reminder of the traditional dos and don'ts.\n\nPrime minister Theresa May performs a curtsey as she greets the Queen\n\nIn 2009, traditional protocol was breached when the Queen and Michelle Obama were spotted with their arms around each other\n\nActor Tom Hiddleston gave the Duchess of Cornwall friendly shoulder squeeze when they met during a Radio 2 broadcast last year\n\nThese rules aren't steadfast and those in breach need not fear exile. The official website for the British Monarchy states \"there are no obligatory codes of behaviour when meeting the Queen or a member of the Royal Family\". It hastens to add: \"Many people wish to observe the traditional forms.\" The choice is yours.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Introducing drone registration \"is not about stopping people having fun\"\n\nThe UK government has announced plans to introduce drone registration and safety awareness courses for owners of the small unmanned aircraft.\n\nIt will affect anyone who owns a drone which weighs more than 250 grams (8oz).\n\nDrone maker DJI said it was in favour of the measures.\n\nThere is no time frame or firm plans as to how the new rules will be enforced and the Department of Transport admitted that \"the nuts and bolts still have to be ironed out\".\n\nThe drone safety awareness test will involve potential flyers having to \"prove that they understand UK safety, security and privacy regulations\", it said.\n\nThe plans also include the extension of geo-fencing, in which no-fly zones are programmed into drones using GPS co-ordinates, around areas such as prisons and airports.\n\n\"Our measures prioritise protecting the public while maximising the full potential of drones,\" said Aviation Minister Lord Martin Callanan.\n\n\"Increasingly, drones are proving vital for inspecting transport infrastructure for repair or aiding police and fire services in search and rescue operations, even helping to save lives.\n\n\"But like all technology, drones too can be misused. By registering drones and introducing safety awareness tests to educate users, we can reduce the inadvertent breaching of airspace restrictions to protect the public.\"\n\nThere has not been a significant accident involving a drone yet, but there have been several reports of near misses with commercial aircraft. There have also been incidents of drones being used to deliver drugs to prison inmates.\n\n\"Registration has its place. I would argue it will focus the mind of the flyer - but I don't think you can say it's going to be a magic solution,\" said Dr Alan McKenna, law lecturer at the University of Kent.\n\n\"There will be people who will simply not be on the system, that's inevitable.\"\n\nThere have been occasions of near misses between drones and other aircraft\n\nSimilar registration rules in the US were successfully challenged in court in March 2017 and as a result are currently not applicable to non-commercial flyers.\n\nDr McKenna said there were also issues around how a drone's owner could be identified by police and whether personal liability insurance should also be a legal requirement in the event of an accident.\n\nDJI spokesman Adam Lisberg said the plans sounded like \"reasonable common sense\".\n\n\"The fact is that there are multiple users of the airspace and the public should have access to the air - we firmly believe that - but you need systems to make sure everybody can do it safely,\" he said.\n\n\"In all of these issues the question is, where is the reasonable middle ground? Banning drones is unreasonable, having no rules is also unreasonable.\n\n\"We're encouraged that [the British government] seems to be recognising the value drones provide and looking for reasonable solutions.\"", "Ray Dare, 91, died at the scene on the A41 Aston Clinton\n\nA 91-year-old cyclist killed on a dual carriageway was doing a time trial to set a new national record for his age.\n\nRay Dare died when his bike and a van were involved in a collision on the A41 Ashton Clinton bypass, near Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, at about 14:45 BST on Wednesday.\n\nHe had belonged to the Surrey-based Kingston Phoenix Road Club for more than 60 years.\n\nA statement on the club's website expressed \"huge sadness and shock\".\n\nIt said Mr Dare had been \"attempting to set a new national record for a 91-year-old\".\n\nA post on the Timetrialling Forum said: \"Other riders have spoken of him riding well and steadily before.\n\n\"As yet there are no further details but police, of course, are conducting a fatal accident investigation.\n\n\"I am sure all riders will be as shocked as the officials were at this news.\"\n\nCircumstances surrounding the crash are being investigated and Thames Valley Police is appealing for witnesses to come forward.\n\nThe driver of the van was uninjured. No arrests have been made.\n• None Cyclist in his 90s dies in crash\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The summer holidays are under way, but for some children, the studying - and the homework - will continue.\n\nIt was a moment of pure joy: school was out for summer.\n\nYour school bag was shoved in the back of a cupboard. School shoes went the same way. Ahead lay countless days of freedom, play and sunshine.\n\nThat used to be the case for most children - yet not all youngsters today enjoy the same.\n\nThere's school work to catch up on; a year's learning to consolidate. An 11-plus test in the autumn term, perhaps.\n\nSo - some parents argue - why not study over the holidays?\n\nVivienne Stiles tutors children aged between four and 16 throughout the summer.\n\nThey attend a class twice a week, and are given between 15 and 90 minutes of maths and English homework every day.\n\n\"Children's brains need to be stimulated throughout the holidays,\" she says.\n\n\"You can't expect them to pick up in September where they left off.\"\n\nBy doing work little and often, says Vivienne, children maintain the stamina and concentration built up during term-time.\n\nVivienne - who works for Kumon, a tutor company - says the children learn new skills, develop a strong work ethic and get into a good routine.\n\nShe says her own daughter, now 19, went from a \"good C-grade student\" at the start of secondary school to getting a place at London's Royal Veterinary College, thanks in part to extra tutoring.\n\nMother-of-two Tanith Carey was also a big believer in tutoring.\n\nThat was until her eldest daughter, Lily, did not want to accept a school prize for science at the age of seven, saying she hated the fuss.\n\nIt was then Tanith found out about the pressure her daughter was under.\n\nSo, the maths tutoring through the holidays stopped, and Lily had more time to spend making up little worlds and imaginary characters with her younger sister, Clio.\n\nClio plans to spend the summer holidays taking photos and cooking, says Tanith\n\nTanith says that, like many parents, she had been swept along in a \"tide of panic\".\n\n\"Competition between parents is contagious - because they fear if another child gets ahead, their child will feel left behind. So it spreads,\" she says.\n\n\"I think it's sad that the summer months are viewed as an extension of the academic year - a chance for kids to catch up or get ahead.\"\n\nIn her book, Taming the Tiger Parent, Tanith writes about the concept of a child's spark.\n\n\"It's something that every child has and is the one thing they love doing and they lose themselves in and find easy,\" she explains.\n\n\"Children can only find it if they are left to their own devices.\"\n\nOver the summer, 12-year-old Clio has decided she wants to take photographs and turn them into an album, and compile and bake some vegan recipes.\n\nHer sister, Lily, now 15, is going abroad on a music course - despite having GCSEs coming up.\n\nShe will also enjoy the freedom of not having to get up for school, and reading whatever books she wants, Tanith adds.\n\nHer own summer holidays playing in the garden, making huts, and playing Cowboys and Indians, formed some of the happiest memories of her childhood.\n\n\"I think in their panic and fear about the future, parents are forgetting that some of the best learning is done through play and getting to know the physical world outside in nature.\n\n\"They are forgetting that children used to have two educations. The one they had at school and the one they had from nature.\"\n\nFather-of-three and author of the Idle Parent, Tom Hodgkinson, spent his summer holidays roaming freely round parks and over rubbish dumps.\n\nHe may not prescribe rubbish dumps to children today, but does believe in giving them the space to make fire, climb trees and play with knives.\n\n\"It's about responsible neglect,\" he says. \"Leave children alone - you're nearby but let them get on with it.\"\n\nLife is overscheduled so the summer holidays should be a time to live in the moment, have fun and be creative without an authority figure lurking in the background, he says.\n\nIt teaches you self-sufficiency, the ability to entertain yourself and how to look after yourself.\n\n\"These skills may not be useful in corporate life or if you want to suck on the nipple of the state but they are if you want to be a responsible grown-up human being,\" he argues.\n\nHowever, this summer he won't practise what he preaches. His eldest has A-levels next year so it will be Latin every morning.\n\n\"It's a one-off,\" he says. \"You do have to work sometimes.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Four things OJ did in while in prison\n\nFormer US football star and actor OJ Simpson has been granted parole after nine years in a Nevada prison.\n\n\"Thank you!\" said the 70-year-old, bowing his head as the board approved him for release in October.\n\nSimpson is serving time for armed robbery, assault with a deadly weapon and 10 other charges over a 2007 confrontation at a Las Vegas hotel.\n\nHe was acquitted in 1995 of the murders a year earlier of ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman.\n\nThe former Hall of Fame running back was found guilty in 2008 of the botched Las Vegas robbery - exactly 13 years to the day after he was sensationally cleared in the so-called trial of the century.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHe and a group of five others stormed into a hotel room to confront two sports-memorabilia collectors and seize items that he claimed belonged to him from his career.\n\nThe hour-long hearing for Prisoner 1027820 took place at the Lovelock Correctional Facility, a medium-security prison in the Nevada desert.\n\nSimpson told parole officials on Thursday the objects he took from the Las Vegas hotel room were later ruled by officials to legally belong to him.\n\n\"I've spent a conflict-free life,\" the prisoner said during the hour-long hearing.\n\nHowever, in 1989 Simpson admitted spousal abuse after police responded to a domestic violence call at his home.\n\nAccording to police records, his wife had run from the house screaming to officers: \"He's going to kill me!\"\n\nMore than two decades after the murders, the slow-speed car chase through the streets of Los Angeles and his sensational acquittal, OJ Simpson still commands an audience.\n\nTelevision networks across the US interrupted their regular broadcasting to cut to the drab setting of the Lovelock Correctional Center in the high desert of Nevada.\n\nAnd there he was, now 70 years old and dressed in simple blue prison garb but still instantly recognisable - the man who was a sensation from the moment he burst on to the American football field.\n\nWhen he was asked by the parole board commissioners about how he would cope with media attention if he were to be released, the man they used to call The Juice laughed.\n\nIt must have felt like they were asking him how he would cope with breathing the air.\n\nThe families of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman are not laughing - and there is evidence that OJ Simpson's supporters are a shrinking band.\n\nThe country was once divided, not least on racial lines, about the verdict in the \"trial of the century\" but a recent poll suggested that only 7% of Americans now believe the fallen star was not a killer.\n\nSimpson (C) appears to dab a tear during the testimony of Bruce Fromong\n\nOn Thursday, Bruce Fromong, who was one of Simpson's victims in the robbery a decade ago, testified in favour of his release.\n\n\"I've known OJ for a long time,\" said Mr Fromong. \"I don't feel that he's a threat to anyone.\n\n\"He's a good man. It's time to give him a second chance.\"\n\nThe prisoner told the commissioners he had helped establish a Baptist prayer meeting in prison, adding: \"I could have been a better Christian.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe prisoner also rejected suggestions he had an alcohol problem.\n\n\"I've done my time,\" he said. \"I've done it as well and as respectfully as anybody can. I think if you talk to the wardens they'll tell you.\n\n\"I've not complained for nine years. All I've done is try to be helpful… and that's the life I've tried to live because I want to get back to my kids and family.\"\n\nThe Nevada Board of Parole Commissioners said it had received hundreds of letters for and against Simpson's parole.\n\nIn 2013 the board granted him parole on some of his convictions, but not for the more violent charges.\n\nNicole Brown Simpson and friend Ron Goldman were stabbed to death\n\nHis daughter, Arnelle Simpson, choked up as she told the parole board: \"My experience with him is that he's like my best friend and my rock.\"\n\nShe added: \"He is remorseful, he truly is remorseful.\"\n\nBut Simpson's legal problems are likely to continue after he is released.\n\nAn attorney for the family of Ron Goldman vowed to pursue him for due payment of damages.\n\nSimpson rejected the suggestion that he had an alcohol problem during the hearing\n\nDespite the 1995 not-guilty verdict, a civil court jury held Simpson liable for the deaths of his ex-wife and her friend, awarding $33.5m (£25.8m) to their families.\n\nTwo years ago a court enlarged that judgment to about $58m, but it remains largely unpaid.\n\nLegal experts say the families could claim a portion of Simpson's future earnings, such as book deals or television appearances.\n\nHowever, under federal law Simpson's estimated $20,000 monthly pension from the National Football League is out of reach to creditors.\n\nFollowing his playing career, he appeared in television commercials before taking roles in movies like the comedy The Naked Gun.", "Bennington's friends have been responding to his unexpected death on social media\n\nThe angst-ridden vocals of Linkin Park frontman Chester Bennington, who died aged 41 on Thursday, helped lead the group to global critical acclaim.\n\nThe frontman's brooding charisma - added to the group's blend of rap, metal and electronic music - spawned a string of chart-topping hits.\n\nThe son of a police officer in Phoenix, Arizona, Bennington was born on 20 March 1976 and had a troubled youth.\n\nAfter years of intense drug use, he got sober and joined Linkin Park in 1998.\n\n\"Growing up, for me, was very scary and very lonely,\" he told Metal Hammer magazine in 2014.\n\n\"I started getting molested when I was about seven or eight,\" he said, describing the abuser as an older friend.\n\n\"I was getting beaten up and being forced to do things I didn't want to do.\n\n\"It destroyed my self-confidence. Like most people, I was too afraid to say anything.\n\n\"I didn't want people to think I was gay or that I was lying. It was a horrible experience,\" he told the magazine.\n\nHis parents divorced when he was 11 years old, and he went to live with his father, whom he described as \"not emotionally very stable then\", adding that \"there was no-one I could turn to\".\n\nThe singer quit hard drugs after a gang broke into a property where the future star was getting high and pistol-whipped some of his friends.\n\nBennington moved to Los Angeles and successfully auditioned to join Linkin Park.\n\nLater in the 2000s, as the band's success took off, he again began using drugs before returning to sobriety, telling Spin Magazine in 2009: \"It's not cool to be an alcoholic.\n\n\"It's not cool to go drink and be a dumbass.\n\n\"It's cool to be a part of recovery.\n\n\"Most of my work has been a reflection of what I've been going through in one way or another,\" he added.\n\nLinkin Park was formed in 1996 and the band's 2000 debut album, Hybrid Theory, surfed the popular wave of nu-metal, Rolling Stone magazine writes.\n\nIt eventually sold more than 30 million albums and became one of the top-selling albums since the start of this millennium.\n\nThe band has sold 70 million albums worldwide and won two Grammy Awards.\n\nLinkin Park had a string of hits including Faint, In The End and Crawling, and collaborated with rapper Jay-Z.\n\nTheir latest music video for the song Talking to Myself was released on Thursday, on the same day of the artist's death.\n\nBennington was said to be close to Sound Garden's Chris Cornell, who took his own life in May 2017.\n\nBennington sang at the funeral for Cornell, who would have turned 53 on Thursday.\n\nIn addition to working with Linkin Park, he also sang for Stone Temple Pilots, for his side project Dead by Sunrise, and Kings of Chaos.\n\nBennington leaves six children from two different marriages.\n\nIf you are affected by the topics in this article, the Samaritans can be contacted free on 116 123 (in the UK) or by email on jo@samaritans.org. If you are in the US, contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline on 1-800-273-8255.", "Jodie Whittaker will take the title role in Doctor Who but Helen Mirren was star of Prime Suspect back in 2006\n\nIn the week the BBC announced it was casting a woman as Doctor Who for the first time, it also revealed that only a third of its highest-paid stars are women.\n\nHeadlines about women's equality, or otherwise, in British TV abounded.\n\nIt got the Reality Check team thinking about whether Jodie Whittaker's appointment as the first female Doctor was a sign of changing times, or is news from the BBC's payroll a more accurate barometer of female fortunes in entertainment? In essence: are more women getting lead roles in TV dramas?\n\nAccording to our research, the answer seems to be: hardly.\n\nThere is a rise compared with a decade ago - but the increase is marginal. The number of females in lead television roles rose by only one - from 17 in 2006 to 18 in 2016 - although when the number of females enjoying shared lead roles is taken into account, the difference is slightly greater - 26 against 21.\n\nReality Check has looked at the 50 most-watched dramas (excluding soaps) in the UK for 2016, and the corresponding top 50 a decade earlier.\n\nTo compile each list we've used the official consolidated TV viewing figures collected and published by the Broadcasters' Audience Research Board (BARB).\n\nIn 2006, the top 50 most-watched TV dramas included literary adaptations, like Agatha Christie's Miss Marple, starring Geraldine McEwan, and Philip Pullman's The Ruby In The Smoke, featuring Billie Piper in a lead role.\n\nThere were popular original series, too. Ten years ago crime drama Blue Murder, starring Caroline Quentin as detective and single mother Janine Lewis, was in its third series on ITV. And attracting more than five million viewers was The Kindness of Strangers, a psychological drama with Julie Graham and Hermione Norris.\n\nThe top 10 for 2006 featured two female-led shows with an audience of more than eight million: Housewife, 49, based on the wartime diaries of Nella Last and starring Victoria Wood, and Helen Mirren's final appearances as Detective Superintendent Jane Tennison in Prime Suspect 7: The Final Act.\n\nPrime Suspect, of course, was instrumental in leading the way for strong female leads on TV. Lewis and A Touch of Frost were among the most viewed dramas with a male lead.\n\nOn the list in 2016 was the second series of military drama Our Girl, starring Michelle Keegan, as was Dark Angel, a chilling story set in the 19th century starring Joanne Froggatt as prolific serial killer Mary Anne Cotton.\n\nIn terms of overall popularity, three of the five dramas that proved most popular with audiences in 2016 featured a lead character or characters who were female.\n\nForensic crime drama Silent Witness, starring Emilia Fox, was in its 19th series and still attracting audiences in excess of eight million.\n\nHappy Valley, for which Sarah Lancashire won a Best Actress TV Bafta, was in its second run, and there was Call The Midwife, with its female ensemble cast.\n\nPopular shows with a male lead included Benedict Cumberbatch's Sherlock and Death In Paradise, starring Kris Marshall.\n\nSome caveats - streaming services like Netflix and Amazon Prime don't release their viewing figures. That means that undoubtedly popular shows with strong female leads, like The Crown, Orange Is the New Black and The Gilmore Girls revival, could not be included on the 2016 top-50 list.\n\nAnd of course major streaming services did not exist back in 2006.\n\nSo in conclusion, the number of female-led dramas - and the ones in which women share the lead - have slightly increased, along with their popularity with audiences.\n\nBut there's a long way to go before parity is achieved.\n• None All the Doctors, from Hartnell to Whittaker", "Former police officer Adrian Pogmore has admitted four charges of misconduct in a public office\n\nAn ex-police officer who admitted misusing his force's helicopter to film people having sex hid his \"swinging and voyeurism\", a court has heard.\n\nAdrian Pogmore, 51, used the aircraft to film people sunbathing naked and a couple, who were his friends, having sex in their garden.\n\nFour other men all deny charges of misconduct in a public office.\n\nGiving evidence at Sheffield Crown Court, a former colleague said he did not know Pogmore was \"into voyeurism\".\n\nPolice officers Matthew Lucas, 42, and Lee Walls, 47, and helicopter pilots Matthew Loosemore, 45, and Malcolm Reeves, 64, are all on trial.\n\nPogmore made four recordings from the aircraft between 2007 and 2012, including filming two naturists sitting outside a caravan on a campsite and his friends having sex, the court heard.\n\nThe jury was told he knew the couple because they \"shared his sexual interest in the swinging scene\" and the pair had \"brazenly put on a show\" for the helicopter.\n\nWhen asked by Mr Loosemore's defence barrister, Neil Fitzgibbon, if he believed it was appropriate for someone \"into swinging and voyeurism\" to operate a £1.5m police helicopter camera, ex-colleague PC Tim Smales replied: \"certainly not\".\n\nPC Smales agreed with Mr Fitzgibbon when asked: \"It would be fair to say Mr Pogmore kept his swinging and/or voyeurism a secret?\"\n\nHe replied: \"Certainly from me, yes.\"\n\nThe officer told the jury he would have reported it if he knew Pogmore was \"into voyeurism and swinging\" and that he worked with him for a number of years before Pogmore was dismissed from South Yorkshire Police.\n\nProsecutors had described Pogmore as \"a swinging and sex-obsessed air observer\", while the jury was told the other four men blamed him for the recordings.\n\nThe court heard how the footage was found among Pogmore's property at a police station, and he was the only defendant present during all four incidents.\n\nPogmore, of Guilthwaite Crescent, Whiston, Rotherham, has admitted four charges of misconduct in a public office.\n\nMr Reeves, of Farfield Avenue, Knaresborough, North Yorkshire, denies two counts of the same charge.\n\nMr Walls, of Southlands Way, Aston, Sheffield, denies one count.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Was OJ Simpson's arrest and trial the beginning of reality TV - and Donald Trump's rise?\n\nIt seems entirely fitting that OJ Simpson should reappear at this surreal juncture in American life because many of the trends that culminated in the election of Donald J Trump can be traced back to his arrest and trial.\n\nConsider first of all the impact on the US media of that slow-motion car chase, as \"The Juice\" headed down the 405 freeway in the back of his white Ford Bronco pursued by a small armada of police cars and a squadron of news helicopters. With viewers glued to their televisions ­that day, Domino's recorded a record spike in pizza deliveries.\n\nIt was the moment arguably that real-time, rolling news truly came of age.\n\nThat chase and the gavel-to-gavel coverage of the 1995 trial on CNN and Court TV demonstrated a voracious appetite for cable news. The OJ \"trial of the century\", with its blend of tabloid sensationalism and serious analysis, established the formula for ratings success.\n\nIn last year's presidential election, the media fixation with Donald Trump demonstrated how that recipe still works now. His candidacy could almost have been tailor made to fit the requirements of real-time cable news and Twitter, its digital equivalent.\n\nIn ratings terms, his road to the White House became the political equivalent of that freeway chase, an improbable journey we couldn't take our eyes off partly because we were fascinated to learn how it would end. Donald Trump exploited this. The billionaire reality TV star, sensing immediately his media pulling power, became the ringmaster of an OJ-style circus.\n\nOJ Simpson was already a star, but the whole of America was hooked on every detail of the trial\n\nAmerica's celebrity culture predates OJ Simpson, but his trial unquestionably fuelled it. Johnny Cochran, Marcia Clark, Robert Shapiro. The attorneys became stars in their own right. So, too, did Judge Lance Ito. Kato Kaelin, a minor player, parlayed his witness stand limelight into various appearances on reality TV shows.\n\nThen there's the Kardashian connection. OJ's close friend Robert Kardashian, the father of Kourtney, Kim, Chloe and Rob, sat alongside the defence team throughout the trial.\n\nThe first time that Americans were introduced to a Kardashian on television was when Robert appeared before the media on 17 June, 1994, the day of the Bronco car chase, to read a letter penned by OJ which sounded like a confession. Robert Kardashian became one of the first inadvertent celebrities of the OJ story, and his children ended up being beneficiaries.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFew episodes in American life so starkly exposed the racial divide as the OJ verdict. A majority of whites were convinced of his guilt. Polls suggested that six out of 10 African-Americans thought him innocent. In the Oscar-winning documentary OJ: Made in America, one of the most stunning sequences comes when the shots of jubilant African-Americans celebrating OJ's acquittal are juxtaposed with white viewers speechless and stunned. Such was the roar of delight from OJ's supporters gathered outside the courthouse that a police horse reared up in fright.\n\nBack then it was stunning to see how Americans presented with the same evidence could reach conclusions so diametrically opposed. But it was not altogether surprising. In the aftermath of the Rodney King beating, and the acquittal of the officers who clubbed him so mercilessly, it made sense for the defence team to put the Los Angeles Police Department on trial. Playing what became known as \"the race card\" was a clever, if cynical ploy (OJ's lawyer Robert Shapiro famously said afterwards his legal team had played the race card from \"the bottom of the pack\").\n\nAfter the celebrated former football star had been acquitted, one of the nine African-Americans on the jury was brazen enough to flash OJ Simpson the black power salute. Another black juror, Carrie Bess, unashamedly told the makers of OJ: Made in America the verdict was payback for Rodney King.\n\nAmericans reached radically different conclusions in 1995, as they do now\n\nThe black lawyer Johnny Cochran had successfully tapped into a shared sense of victimhood among African-Americans understandably appalled by the institutional racism of the LAPD. Mark Fuhrman, the detective who was recorded using a racial epithet, became exhibit one, the perfect bogey man.\n\nHere again there are parallels with the election of Donald Trump, when voters were presented with the same evidence, the same televised spectacle, and reached diametrically opposed opinions. Again America was riven, although the roots of that polarisation were different. With OJ, it was race.\n\nWith Trump, it was class, education, gender and geography. Yet he, too, tapped into a shared sense of victimhood. He portrayed himself as the victim of the Washington political establishment and East Coast liberal media, essentially telling his supporters that the same elites sneering at him were the same elites sneering at them. Whereas Cochran played the race card, Trump deployed the rage card.\n\nAnother parallel. When historians study the rise of post-truth politics, the triumph of feelings over fact, they will surely trace at least some of its origins back to the OJ Simpson trial. In that LA County courtroom, the evidence overwhelmingly pointed towards Simpson's guilt on charges of murdering his ex-wife, Nicole Simpson Brown, and her friend, Ron Goldman.\n\nYet some jury members admitted afterwards they wanted to give the LAPD and the prosecution team a bloody nose. For some jurors, it was a protest verdict, based on emotion rather than the facts of the case.\n\nWhat struck me about last year's election was how many voters were prepared to overlook Donald Trump's truth-stretching and falsehoods because of their determination to exact revenge and send a message. Trump's relied on slogans - Make America Great Again, Build the Wall, Lock Her Up - ­knowing they had more resonance than detailed policies. Feelings were more important than facts. Hillary Clinton became the perfect bogey woman. Someone who personified all that was wrong with the American body politic. Someone who used the \"d\" word, deplorables, to describe them.\n\nMany of those who voted for Trump felt the political system was rigged against the white working class, just as some of the black jurors in the OJ trial felt the political system was rigged against them.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Four things OJ did in while in prison\n\nJohnny Cochran proved a master at presenting alternative facts, even coming up with the simple, but deeply misleading, catch-phrase, \"if it doesn't fit you must acquit\". Donald Trump has become the greatest practitioner of post-truth politics, and cries \"fake media\" in much the same way that Cochran talked of fake forensic evidence. During his first six months in office, the President made 836 false statements, according to the fact-checkers at the Washington Post, but that doesn't seem to worry staunch Trump loyalists.\n\nBack in 1995 the world was captivated by the trial of OJ Simpson, just as it now is with the trials and tribulations of Donald Trump.\n\nTo outsiders, both are Only in America phenomena. When the not guilty verdict was handed down, many global onlookers found it completely inexplicable, and concluded there must be something terribly wrong with America's criminal justice system.\n\nIs that now not the question being asked of America's broken politics?", "A woman who wore a prosthetic penis and tricked her blindfolded friend into sex has been jailed.\n\nGayle Newland, 27, of Willaston, Cheshire, created an online persona pretending to be a man and continued the deceit for two years.\n\nA retrial jury found her guilty of committing three sexual assaults, which she denied, using a prosthetic penis without her victim's consent.\n\nShe was jailed at Manchester Crown Court for six-and-a-half years.\n\nSentencing her, Recorder of Manchester, Judge David Stockdale QC, said: \"Truth can sometimes be stranger than fiction.\n\n\"The truth, the whole truth, here is as surprising as it is profoundly disturbing.\"\n\nHe added: \"It is difficult to conceive of a deceit so degrading or so damaging for the victim upon its discovery.\"\n\nNewland was originally jailed for eight years in November 2015 after she was convicted of the same offences, which happened in 2013.\n\nBut the conviction was later quashed on the grounds the trial judge's summing up of the case was not fair and balanced.\n\nNewland created a fake Facebook profile when she was 15 years old\n\nDuring the retrial the victim, who gave evidence behind a curtain, told the court she was persuaded by the defendant to wear a blindfold at all times when they met.\n\nShe said she only found out she was having sex with a woman - rather than a man - when she finally took off her mask.\n\nThe victim told the court she thought she was having sex with Kye Fortune - a fake Facebook profile Newland originally created when she was 15 years old, using an American man's photographs and videos.\n\nShe said: \"There was no point until the day I took the blindfold off that I thought for one second that a woman was the person behind this.\"\n\nNewland denied concealing her gender and claimed both women were gay and struggling with their sexuality when they met and had sex, with her as Kye, during role-play.\n\nThe defendant received concurrent terms of six years for three counts of sexual assault.\n\nShe was jailed for an extra six months for defrauding her former employers - an internet advertising agency - of £9,000 by creating fake client profiles between March 2014 and September 2015.\n\nThe court heard she had held a senior position at the firm, which paid bloggers to post content.\n\nSimon Medland QC, prosecuting, said Newland \"manipulated\" the firm's payments system in which contributors were rewarded with small sums for posting content.\n\nThe retrial jury was not told of the fraud conviction until it returned its verdicts.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Comic-Con International is now a major event and has spawned festivals around the world\n\nSan Diego's Comic-Con International, happening this weekend, is an annual fiesta of costumes, comic books and celebrities that sits at the centre of a multi-billion dollar industry.\n\nFrom a gathering of less than 300 people in 1970, the event has morphed into an annual, multi-day media bonanza that draws major corporate sponsors, movie studios and more than 150,000 people.\n\nThe event made more than $17m in revenue in 2015, according to the most recent tax filing available online, and it has spawned similar festivals in cities around the world.\n\n\"San Diego's growth has been mind-boggling,\" says author John Jackson Miller, who also owns Comichron, which tracks sales of comic books.\n\nMr Miller went to San Diego for the first time in the early 1990s, when it still drew less than 40,000 people.\n\nWhen Comic-Con started just 300 came, now it involves more than 150,000 people\n\nNow thousands of people flock to San Diego for the event even without tickets and the skyrocketing demand has led some to call for San Diego to expand its convention centre.\n\nEventbrite, a ticketing website, estimated that fandom conventions in North America grossed $600m in 2013. It said the wider economic impact could be as high as $5bn.\n\nThe San Diego convention centre estimates the annual July event generates some $140m in economic impact for the region.\n\nExperts say the growth has been fuelled in part by a Hollywood that has mined comic books and science fiction for blockbusters, broadening the fan base.\n\nAdvances in special effects since 2000, when X-Men was released, have increased the success of movie adaptations, says Mr Miller. (Warner Bros. and Disney own the two major comic publishing outfits.)\n\nThe event's also been helped by higher consumer spending on live entertainment\n\nThe popularity of the events also coincides with a rise in spending on live entertainment, particularly among younger customers.\n\nSome of the shift reflects a wealthier society with money to burn beyond basic needs, says Stephanie Tully, a marketing professor at University of Southern California's Marshall School of Business, who has researched consumer spending.\n\nBut she says there's an additional factor at play: Fear Of Missing Out - a phenomenon popularly dubbed FOMO - which has been exacerbated by social media.\n\n\"It's really difficult to substitute this year's comic con with next year's comic con,\" says Eesha Sharma, a professor at Dartmouth College's Tuck School of Business who worked with Ms Tully on a new study that shows people are more likely to go into debt to pay for experiences than material goods.\n\nCompanies have taken note of the phenomenon.\n\nIn an increasingly online world, there's still no substitute for face-to-face interactions\n\nDisney is investing heavily in its theme parks and big investors such as TPG Capital, a private equity giant, have plunged money into troupes such as Cirque du Soleil.\n\n\"What I hear and what I see is that companies ... have a huge interest in live entertainment at the moment,\" says John Maatta, a former television executive who is now chief at Wizard World, which ran comic conventions in more than a dozen US cities last year.\n\nMr Maatta says he thinks people put more value on real-world interaction as more of our lives play out online.\n\n\"There's no substitute for human connection,\" he says.\n\nThe growing circus at the San Diego festival, which unlike many others is run by a not-for-profit operation, has turned off some industry stalwarts.\n\nFilm adaptations have boosted the appeal of events like Comic-Con\n\nEarlier this month, Mile High Comics, a major comics retailer, said it would not attend for the first time in more than 40 years. Other long time participants have started their own events.\n\nDavid Glanzer, a spokesman for Comic-Con International: San Diego, did not respond to questions about its approach.\n\nThe group in 2014 filed a lawsuit against a smaller Salt Lake City event, alleging that the group had violated its trademark.\n\nBut for the most part, organizers have appeared content to let the fandom multiply.\n\nReedPOP, part of a London-based company, started the New York Comic Con in 2006 - it's expected to draw some 200,000 people this year - and now runs about 30 events globally in cities that include Shanghai, Mumbai and Sydney.\n\nCosplayers at the 2015 MCM Comic Con in Manchester England\n\nEvent director Mike Armstrong says there's some room to grow in the US, and even more opportunity overseas.\n\n\"I'm very much of the mindset that rising waters will lift all ships,\" says Mr Armstrong. \"I view smaller shows as feeder opportunities to get people excited and interested so they might one day want to attend New York Comic Con.\"\n\nEarlier this year, Wizard World, which has scaled back the number of shows since 2015, warned investors it may not be able to continue in business. But Mr Maatta said the problem was temporary and didn't reflect the bigger market.\n\nThe firm has righted itself with new financing and announcements of additional conventions are coming, he says.\n\nComic book sales were flat last year but for now the industry is healthy\n\n\"The plan is just to intensify what we're doing,\" he says.\n\nAre there clouds on the horizon?\n\nRobert Salkowitz, the author of Comic-Con and the Business of Pop Culture, has followed the comic industry's rise since the 1990s.\n\n\"I always have my eye on how it could fall apart,\" he says.\n\nSales at comic book shops were flat in 2016 and have slipped this year, according to Comichron.\n\nComic book fandom: No longer a fad, for many it's a lifestyle\n\nBut Mr Marshall said that compares to banner performance in prior years. Comic sales at general audience book stores continue to grow and movies, such as Wonder Woman, still rake in millions at the box office.\n\nA few flops might scare off the industry, but for now Mr Salkowitz says he thinks the market is healthy.\n\n\"Fandom has grown big enough,\" he says.\n\nMr Maatta agrees: \"I don't think it's a fad,\" he says. \"I'd almost say it's a lifestyle.\"", "Andre Spicer said his daughter burst into tears and told him \"I've done a bad thing\"\n\nA five-year-old girl was fined £150 by a council for selling 50p cups of lemonade to festival goers.\n\nThe girl's father Andre Spicer said his daughter had set up the stall in Mile End, east London, while thousands of music fans were on their way to the Lovebox Festival at the weekend.\n\nMr Spicer said his daughter burst into tears and told him \"I've done a bad thing\".\n\nTower Hamlets Council has since cancelled the fine and apologised.\n\nThe girl was fined for trading without a licence\n\nMr Spicer said his daughter loved the idea of setting up a stall near their home.\n\n\"She just wanted to put a smile on people's faces. She was really proud of herself,\" he said.\n\n\"But after a small time trading, four enforcement officers walked over from the other side of the road.\n\n\"I was quite shocked. I thought that they would just tell us to pack up and go home.\n\n\"But they turned on their mobile camera and began reading from a big script explaining that she did not have a trading licence.\n\n\"My daughter clung to me screaming 'Daddy, Daddy, I've done a bad thing.' She's five.\n\n\"We were then issued a fine of £150. We packed up and walked home.\"\n\nA council spokesman said: \"We are very sorry that this has happened. We expect our enforcement officers to show common sense and to use their powers sensibly.\n\n\"This clearly did not happen.\n\n\"The fine will be cancelled immediately and we have contacted Mr Spicer and his daughter to apologise.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Actress Halle Berry surprised film fans by appearing to drink half a pint of whiskey in one go on stage.\n\nThe Oscar winner was promoting her latest film, Kingsman: The Golden Circle, which features a fictional bourbon that serves as a business front for US secret agents.\n\nWhen it was produced at the Comic-Con event, Berry was poured a large glass which she initially ignored.\n\nBut when a fan asked her a difficult question, she chose to drink it.\n\nWhat was the tough question? She was asked whether her action spy film - which also stars Colin Firth and Taron Egerton - was more British than James Bond.\n\nWhen Berry said she'd rather drink the whiskey than answer, panel moderator Jonathan Ross led a chant encouraging her to \"chug\" it.\n\n\"Oh I can you know, would you like to see that?\" Berry replied and then downed the drink while grimacing and pretended to fall off her chair.\n\n\"Kingsman would like to remind you to drink responsibly,\" Ross said afterwards, adding: \"She's a professional, she can handle it.\"\n\nHere's how it happened in pictures.\n\nAfter the panel, Berry was asked if it was real bourbon she drank.\n\n\"Let that be a mystery to the world,\" she told Entertainment Tonight. \"Never dare a girl like me to do anything, because I just take the challenge.\"\n\nThe sequel to Matthew Vaughn's 2014 film, about the recruitment of a young secret agent, was the first big film to kick off Comic-Con in the San Diego Convention Centre's famous Hall H.\n\nThe film's other stars including Egerton, Firth, Channing Tatum, Jeff Bridges and Pedro Pascal were on hand to talk about the movie and give fans a sneak peek of new footage.\n\nAs well as a longer trailer which was released just ahead of the panel, three clips were shown - the opening sequence, the introduction of Tatum as Statesman agent Tequila (the American equivalent to the Kingsmen), and the introduction of Julianne Moore as Poppy, the film's villain.\n\nThe stars also revealed more about their characters, with Tatum saying he \"was begging\" to have a part in the sequel as he was a fan of the franchise.\n\nBerry said her character, Ginger Ale, was \"kind of the techy, brain, nerdy character\", while Firth kept tight-lipped about his role.\n\nFans of Kingsmen will know the Oscar winner didn't make it to the end of the first film alive, although he appears in the sequel.\n\n\"It's all a mystery to me, really. I mean, I'm in the trailer! I seem to do a lot of shaving and, that's really all I can say,\" he said.\n\nThe film is released in cinemas in September.\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 What happened at Comic-Con Day One?\n• None Comic-Con: What you should look out for\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Leading Brexiteers have said they are not opposed to a period of transition or implementation\n\nThe government and the cabinet \"is united\".\n\nNow, on the surface, these words from Michael Gove shouldn't be surprising. A minister wouldn't advertise disunity.\n\nThe surprise though is that - as one of the most prominent Leave campaigners - he was talking about an implementation period post-Brexit which could last for an unspecified amount of time.\n\nInsiders say his arrival at the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and dealing with the powerful farming lobby may have influenced his view.\n\nSome of the most prominent Remain ministers have been expressing relief - tinged in one case with just a hint of triumphalism - that they think in recent weeks that they have managed to sell the idea of a soft landing - or as some say \"no cliff edge\" - after the UK leaves the EU in 2019 to some of their more sceptical colleagues.\n\nSo much for unity. Where do differences still lie?\n\nIt was interesting that, in answering my question on whether freedom of movement would continue under an implementation period, that Michael Gove didn't rule this out. Migration, he argued, would be decided by the needs of the economy.\n\nBut for how long? The tectonic plates may have moved on a transitional deal but its duration is where cabinet fault lines persist.\n\nLiam Fox has been pretty clear he doesn't want to contemplate anything more than two years.\n\nAs one minister put it - he has waited forty years to leave the EU so two more won't matter.\n\nBut anther prominent cabinet Brexiteer told me he thought it would be a \"disaster\" if the implementation period hadn't concluded by the assumed date of the next election in 2022 while others have talked about anything up to a four year period.\n\nBusiness has said a \"cliff-edge\" change in regulations and procedures must be avoided\n\nThen what form will any transition take?\n\nCould there be temporary membership of the European Economic Area? Some leavers might be suspicious that temporary would become permanent.\n\nShould we stay in the customs union a bit longer until we hammer out a bespoke deal post Brexit?\n\nThe EU is unlikely to get the clarity it seeks until there is clarity around the cabinet table.\n\nSo while some Remainer ministers I have spoken to this week were upbeat, relaxed and chipper - and believe that British business is making its influence felt - many issues remain unresolved.\n\nAnd, of course, I use the term 'Remainer\" historically - the cabinet is also united on leaving the EU but the question is how.\n\nThere has been talk of soft, hard and clean Brexits. Increasingly another word has entered the lexicon.\n\nDavid Davis uses it. Michael Gove used it today. Expect to hear more of it. Pragmatic. That's now the goal - a pragmatic Brexit. And that necessarily means compromise at cabinet level as well as with the EU.\n• None UK and EU at odds on Brexit 'bill'", "Bennington spoke publicly about being abused as a child\n\nThe coroner said Bennington apparently hanged himself. His body was found at a private home in the county at 09:00 local time (17:00 GMT) on Thursday.\n\nBennington was said to be close to Soundgarden vocalist Chris Cornell, who took his own life in May.\n\nFormed in 1996, Linkin Park have sold more than 70 million albums worldwide and won two Grammy Awards.\n\nThe band had a string of hits including Faint, In The End and Crawling, and collaborated with the rapper Jay-Z.\n\nThe album Meteora topped the Billboard 200 chart in 2003 and is regarded as one of the biggest indie rock records of all time.\n\nThe band had been due to begin a tour next week.\n\nFor a generation growing up in the early 2000s, it would have been hard to find someone who didn't own a copy of the band's debut album Hybrid Theory.\n\nIt's sold more than 30 million copies worldwide and remains one of the biggest selling albums released since the start of the millennium.\n\nLinkin Park's successful trick was to fuse elements of metal and rock with rap and hip-hop to shape the nu-metal genre on songs such as Crawling, In The End and Numb.\n\nArguably their biggest asset was Chester's powerhouse voice. He had a huge, raspy vocal which suited their stadium-filling, singalong anthems.\n\nWhilst his vocal persona could be described as angry and harsh, in person he was warm, articulate and funny.\n\nThe band's most recent album, One More Light, saw a different direction as they worked with prolific pop songwriters Julia Michaels and Justin Tranter - and collaborated with UK grime artist Stormzy.\n\nHe leaves a wife, and six children from two marriages.\n\nThe singer is said to have struggled for years with alcohol and drug abuse, and has talked in the past about contemplating suicide as a result of being a victim of abuse as a child.\n\nBennington wrote an open letter to Chris Cornell on the latter's death, saying: \"You have inspired me in ways you could never have known... I can't imagine a world without you in it.\"\n\nCornell would have celebrated his 53rd birthday on Thursday. He hanged himself after a concert in Detroit on 17 May.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Linkin Park announced a new world tour as they were inducted into the RockWalk in Los Angeles\n\nBand member Mike Shinoda confirmed the news of Bennington's death on Twitter: \"Shocked and heartbroken, but it's true. An official statement will come out as soon as we have one.\"\n\nTributes to Bennington flooded in soon after news of his death.\n\nThe band Imagine Dragons tweeted: \"no words, so heartbroken. RIP Chester Bennington.\"\n\nGrime artist Stormzy, who collaborated with Linkin Park earlier this year, tweeted: \"Bruv I can't lie I'm so upset serious.\"\n\nIf you are affected by the topics in this article, the Samaritans can be contacted free on 116 123 (in the UK) or by email on jo@samaritans.org. If you are in the US, contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline on 1-800-273-8255.", "This week the British papers revelled in news about how much the BBC's on-air stars get paid, though the salaries of their counterparts in commercial TV remain under wraps. In Norway, there are no such secrets. Anyone can find out how much anyone else is paid - and it rarely causes problems.\n\nIn the past, your salary was published in a book. A list of everyone's income, assets and the tax they had paid, could be found on a shelf in the public library. These days, the information is online, just a few keystrokes away.\n\nThe change happened in 2001, and it had an instant impact.\n\n\"It became pure entertainment for many,\" says Tom Staavi, a former economics editor at the national daily, VG.\n\n\"At one stage you would automatically be told what your Facebook friends had earned, simply by logging on to Facebook. It was getting ridiculous.\"\n\nTransparency is important, Staavi says, partly because Norwegians pay high levels of income tax - an average of 40.2% compared to 33.3% in the UK, according to Eurostat, while the EU average is just 30.1%.\n\n\"When you pay that much you have to know that everyone else is doing it, and you have to know that the money goes to something reasonable,\" he says.\n\n\"We [need to] have trust and confidence in both the tax system and in the social security system.\"\n\nIn 2015 Norwegian PM Erna Solberg earned 1,573,544 kroner (£151,001). - her assets were valued at 2,054,896 kroner (£197,179) and she paid 677,459 kroner (£65,011) in taxes\n\nThis is considered to far outweigh any problems that may be caused by envy.\n\nIn fact, in most workplaces, people have a fairly good idea how much their colleagues are earning, without having to look it up.\n\nWages in many sectors are set through collective agreements, and pay gaps are relatively narrow.\n\nThe gender pay gap is also narrow, by international standards. The World Economic Forum ranks Norway third out of 144 countries in terms of wage equality for similar work.\n\nSo the figures that flashed up on Facebook may not have taken many people by surprise. But at a certain point Tom Staavi and others lobbied the government to introduce measures that would encourage people to think twice before snooping on the salary details of a friend, neighbour or colleague.\n\nPeople now have to log in using their national ID number in order to access the data on the tax authority's website, and for the last three years it has been impossible to search anonymously.\n\n\"Since 2014 it has been possible to find out who has been doing searches on your information,\" explains Hans Christian Holte, the head of Norway's tax authority.\n\n\"We saw a significant drop to about a 10th of the volume that was before. I think it has taken out the Peeping Tom mentality.\"\n\nThere are some three million taxpayers in Norway, out of a total population of 5.2 million. The tax authority logged 16.5 million searches in the year before restrictions were put into place. Today there are around two million searches per year.\n\nIn a recent survey 92% of people said they did not look up friends, family or acquaintances.\n\n\"Earlier I did do searches, but now it's visible if you do it, so I don't do it any more,\" says a woman I meet on the streets of Oslo, Nelly Bjorge.\n\n\"I was curious about some neighbours, and also about celebrities and royalty. It could be good to know if very rich people are cheating, but you don't always know. Because they have many ways of reducing their income.\"\n\nThe tax lists only tell you people's net income, net assets and tax paid. Someone with a vast property portfolio, for instance, would probably be worth far more than the figure found in the lists, because the taxable property value is often far less than the current market value.\n\nEveryone has been able to see how much anyone earns and the taxes they pay, since 1814\n\nHege Glad, a teacher from Fredrikstad south of Oslo, remembers that when she was young, adults used to queue up to examine the \"enormous, thick\" books of income and tax data, published once a year.\n\n\"I know my father was one of those looking. When he came home he was in a bad mood because our well-to-do neighbour was listed with little income, no assets and, most of all, a very small amount of tax paid,\" she says.\n\nWhile she approves of Norway's transparency in this area, she notes that it can have negative effects. She has seen this in school.\n\n\"I remember once coming into school and a group of boys were very keen to tell me about the massive amounts of money the dad of one of the others in the class was making.\n\n\"I noticed a couple of other boys who usually were part of this gang had pulled back, saying little. The mood was not very nice,\" she says.\n\nThere have been other stories about children from low-income families who have been bullied in school, by classmates who looked up their parents' financial situation.\n\nBut Hans Christian Holte thinks the government currently has the balance about right.\n\nThe fact that anonymous searches are no longer permitted discourages criminals from searching for wealthy people to target.\n\nAnd yet, the restrictions introduced in 2014 have not stopped whistleblowers reporting things they find suspicious.\n\n\"We like people to do searches which could help us in investigating tax evasion and the amount of tips that we get has not gone down,\" he says.\n\n\"Maybe the Peeping Tom part has more or less vanished, but you still have the legitimate reasons for searching and also some good effects of that openness.\"\n\nJoin the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter.", "This is the story of the man who migrated twice.\n\nWho dodged the police along the Italian border with France - twice. Avoided officials on the train to Paris - twice. Made it to the shanty town life in Calais - twice. Risked death as he stowed away on a vehicle to Britain - twice.\n\nNow he waits for the British asylum process to decide whether he can stay. Yes, again, for a second time.\n\nIt is a story of the determination to make it to safety - wherever that is perceived to exist - and of why Europe's migration crisis is only deepening.\n\nLet's call him Adam, because he doesn't want me to use his real name, and because it's a popular name in Darfur, Sudan, from where he comes.\n\nHe calls himself a \"village man\". But today, in a smart well-ironed shirt, Adam looks at home here in the UK, although the UK has become anything but home for him.\n\nAdam left Darfur in 2012, made his way to Libya, and spent some years there. But as that country crumbled, he felt propelled onwards, to Europe.\n\nHe followed the route so many take. Sicily to Ventimiglia in northern Italy, on to Paris, then Calais and then finally Britain.\n\nHe was detained by the authorities, put into indefinite detention for four months, then released. He was then arrested again, detained this time for two months before it was decided that he should be sent back to Italy because there was a record (his fingerprints) that he had first arrived there.\n\n\"They put me in handcuffs,\" Adam says. Four officers accompanied him back to Milan and left him there.\n\n\"I stayed 10 days in Milan, on the streets.\" That was when he decided to go back, first to Ventimiglia, and this time round it was harder.\n\nHe says: \"The first time I was lucky. I just took the train from Ventimiglia to Paris.\"\n\nBut this second time was another year into Europe's migration crisis and the border was being monitored more effectively. \"I tried maybe two or three times to get to Marseille, but they sent me back again.\"\n\nFinally he stepped on to the railway tracks and started walking. \"I just walked from Ventimiglia to Cannes for like eight hours.\" From there to Paris again and on to Calais.\n\nIt was more difficult there too. The previous year \"it was better. But this time was more difficult because many people (had) come and many police officers (were there) to stop people\".\n\nOne of the back country roads into France favoured by migrants\n\nHe tried \"for like 15 days, 20 days\", until he managed to crawl into a space underneath a bus. \"And I found myself in UK the second time.\"\n\nOne month and one day after he had been deported from Britain, he was back. But this is not the end of Adam's story.\n\nDetermination, desperation, there's no one word that encapsulates fully what you find today along the trail that Adam knows so well. His analysis, that it's getting harder to cross borders, is echoed by others and this is why.\n\nItaly has become the go-to country for those seeking to come across the Mediterranean. The Turkey-Greece route is all but shut down following an agreement between the EU and Ankara.\n\nThis year, more than 93,000 migrants have arrived in Italy according to the United Nations. An EU-wide relocation scheme that should have taken the pressure off Italy has moved fewer than 8,000 since it launched almost two years ago.\n\nRome is trying to do deals with Libya to stop the boats launching in the first place - but there's no central figure of authority in that war zone. They want other countries to open ports in the Mediterranean to migrant and rescue boats - France and others have said no.\n\nSo Rome has dispersed its migrants across the country. There is growing resentment in towns and villages where people suddenly find themselves hosting others who don't speak their language. As one man in the north of Italy put it: \"I'm not against immigration, but I'm against it when it's handled like this.\"\n\nThe asylum process is stretched to breaking point. Shelters can't accommodate everyone. In Trento, towards the Austrian border, four men, from Bangladesh, Ivory Coast, Ghana and Nigeria, told how they have waited almost three years in limbo - unable to work - not knowing if their final appeal will grant them the right to remain or not.\n\n\"If I'd stayed here six months and they told me 'we are sending you back to Ghana' (then) there is no crying,\" says Ibrahim Mohammed. But after three years? \"How can you tell me to go back?\"\n\nThe likelihood is they will not be deported, even if their asylum appeals fail. Few are actually sent back. Instead they are stuck, unable to work, or provide for themselves. All this - and the poor state of the Italian jobs market - explains why so many decide to move on from Italy.\n\nNasser and his son Aladin from Sudan are trying to get from Ventimiglia in Italy to join Nasser¹s sister in France\n\nAnd with numbers growing, that is why Austria to the north and France to the west have both put in more frequent border checks.\n\nThe people they are trying to stop gather every morning for a small free breakfast at a refuge in the Italian border town Ventimiglia. Among them on one day recently were Nasser and his two-year-old son Aladin from Sudan.\n\nAladin - still in nappies - is ill and they desperately need a doctor.\n\n\"I've tried twice in the last week,\" said Nasser. \"My sister is in France waiting for us. The police sent us back.\"\n\nOn the small winding roads through the hills to France, the police check vehicles for stowaways before you can cross the border. They have set up camp in the olive groves up on the hillsides to keep watch for those trying to get across. Occasionally a patrolling helicopter passes overhead.\n\nFor France too is \"overwhelmed\" - that's the word the new president uses - and is trying to stop people coming on to its territory.\n\nIn the capital a week ago, they moved thousands off the streets around a metro station into shelters, but now another thousand are back on the streets, according to the deputy mayor, Patrick Klugman.\n\n\"What's going now today, this week, this summer, we need urgent measures. We cannot handle it by ourselves in Paris.\"\n\nThe French prime minister last week announced a series of new measures - cutting the time it takes to process asylum claims, \"systematically\" deporting so-called economic migrants and building more shelters to house refugees in the next two years.\n\nHowever, Mr Klugman says it is not enough.\n\nOnly a tiny number of the hundreds of thousands of migrants and asylum seekers in Europe follow Adam for the whole of his journey and cross from Calais to the UK.\n\nWe don't know how many of them do it twice.\n\nAs for Adam, there is no happy ending to his story. It has been around a year since he had his last interview in his new asylum process. Since then he has been in limbo, not knowing whether he will be deported again, or this time be allowed to stay.\n\nHe has a room to stay in - paid for by the government - and £75 a week to live off. He is not allowed to work. And he says it feels as if he is still on his journey, heading where he does not yet know.\n\n\"I have nothing to do. Just eat, sleep, nothing. Wait, wait and nothing changes.\" \"Sometimes you feel it's not a life. It's better to pass away.\"", "Running a men's prison is a tough job, and if you don't look like a stereotypical prison governor, part of your job is challenging people's expectations. So how does Pia Sinha do it, asks the BBC's Siobhann Tighe.\n\n\"What are youse doing here? What youse doing here?\"\n\nOver the din of HMP Risley, a prisoner shouts at us from the other side of a metal gate. He's spotted my microphone and wants to know what's going on.\n\nThe governor, Pia Sinha, is showing me round but stops to chat to him. He doesn't hold back. He tells her: \"This jail's rubbish.\"\n\nIt's almost a year since 44-year-old Sinha took charge here. People often do a double-take when this 5ft three-quarters-of-an-inch tall Asian woman introduces herself as the governor.\n\n\"You get a lot of raised eyebrows and some people openly say: 'You're not what I expected,'\" Sinha says.\n\nIt doesn't offend her. She takes it as a compliment.\n\nWhen she started her career in prisons almost 20 years ago, her friends were horrified. They weren't used to hearing workplace stories like the ones Sinha would tell them.\n\nEven today, she says, the atmosphere is an \"acquired taste\". She's often heckled by the prisoners, although she treats it as mere bravado.\n\n\"It can be very intimidating and unpleasant but when I walk on to the wings, I need to feel comfortable,\" she says.\n\nHMP Risley, near Warrington, Cheshire, is a men's resettlement prison, which means that prisoners here are nearing release.\n\nIn late 2016, a few months after Sinha took charge of it, an inspection report identified a number of failures at the prison. A fifth of prisoners felt unsafe, it said, and \"it was not a sufficiently respectful prison\".\n\n\"It was a fair report,\" says Sinha. From her point of view it was well-timed. She wasn't in her post when the inspectors visited. Arriving afterwards meant she had a clear action plan to make improvements.\n\n\"Risley feels chaotic at times,\" Sinha admits. One of the challenges staff face are \"nearly epidemic\" levels of novel psychoactive substances (NPS), also known as \"legal highs\", including Spice.\n\nWhen I'm there, Sinha catches up with some of her staff. Prison officers report that three prisoners have taken Spice today, and it's not even lunchtime. No-one's died at HMP Risley from taking the drug, but there have been deaths in other jails.\n\n\"You see people under the influence of NPS just walking around and if they seem OK, you just leave them alone,\" says Sinha of the zombie-like trance the drug can induce.\n\nBut often they're unwell and it's necessary to involve healthcare professionals.\n\n\"We're talking about an unknown quantity here.\" Her voice trails off.\n\nMechanisms for smuggling drugs inside are very sophisticated, she says, and staff are \"constantly battling\" a steady stream of banned substances, Sinha says. \"Constantly battling,\" she repeats.\n\nSometimes drones are used to get drugs over the prison walls, but the guards have had some success in catching them.\n\n\"We're good at spotting drones. We're getting better and better. We've actually employed someone to just watch the skies and we're intercepting them, but it's an everyday struggle.\"\n\nPrison is an environment where the unpredictable can happen at any time.\n\nSinha's job is one of crisis management. She and her staff have to deal with self-harm, violence, bullying and antisocial behaviour. Much of the chaos can be traced back to drugs in one way or another, she says.\n\nThere are even comic moments. The day before we met, I confirmed our interview on the phone but Sinha was in a rush and had to go. A prisoner was up a tree.\n\n\"This happens now and again, and we call it an 'incident at height',\" Sinha says.\n\nIt was a hot day, and one man in the exercise yard didn't want to come back inside, so scaled a tree.\n\n\"There's a serious point to this because potentially it's life-threatening,\" Sinha says. So the prison went into Command Mode and specially trained staff talked him down.\n\n\"The lesson is that we need to trim the branches so it's harder to climb trees,\" says Sinha.\n\nWhen Sinha tours her prison she's constantly locking and unlocking gates. For prison staff, your keys and your key pouch around your waist become part of you, she says.\n\n\"This becomes an extension of your body,\" Sinha explains, jangling her keys. \"When I first started, I'd go home and I'd try to lock myself in and out of my bedroom because I was so used to doing it.\"\n\nSinha began her career as a psychologist at HMP Holloway, a woman's prison in London which closed last summer. Since then she's worked in women's and men's prisons and institutions for young offenders. Her first governorship was the adult male prison, HMP Thorn Cross in Cheshire.\n\nAs she's risen through the ranks, Sinha has spent less time with prisoners and more time managing staff. She's also learned to adapt her approach.\n\n\"Even though Thorn Cross is a male prison there was scope to use my female dominant skills,\" she says.\n\n\"It was a place where you can be creative - the focus was overtly on resettlement. But when I came to HMP Risley it was like starting again because it had a very male culture. It required masculine skills. I had to be clear in my communication. There is no room for discussion and dialogue when you're expected to give strong leadership.\"\n\nDoes spending all her working day in a high-security environment make her feel like a prisoner at times, rather than the one in charge?\n\n\"Yes, sometimes. You're not able to bring your mobiles into work. You can't do any personal admin during lunch breaks or quiet times. We have our own intranet, but there's limited access to the internet. It's very, very firewalled.\"\n\nPrison, she says, \"shuts off the outside world, whilst the world wants to remain blissfully unaware of what happens inside\".\n\nPart of a governor's job is knowing how to deal with a bored and restless inmate who tells you that your prison is rubbish.\n\nSinha responds by asking whether it's because he's struggling. It's not that, he insists. Where has he come from, she asks.\n\n\"I've been in loads of different jails,\" he says. \"I've done seven years before.\"\n\nThe governor asks him whether she can help in any way, especially as he's not working, spending all his time behind his door.\n\nNow he's polite, and turns down her offer.\n\n\"It's all right,\" he says, and then, \"Have a nice day.\" Just as you would if you passed someone in the street.\n\nJoin the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nats released a video in 2015 illustrating flights coming in and out of airports in south-east England\n\nAir traffic controllers are warning that UK skies are running out of room amid a record number of flights.\n\nFriday is likely to be the busiest day of the year, with air traffic controllers expecting to handle more than 8,800 flights - a record number.\n\nThey have called for a drastic modernisation in the way aircraft are guided across UK airspace.\n\nIt comes as the government launches a discussion to shape the UK's aviation industry for the next 30 years.\n\nAir traffic controllers expect to manage a record 770,000 flights in UK airspace over the summer - 40,000 more than last year.\n\nBut the ability of the the UK's National Air Traffic Control Service (Nats) to deal with this surge is being stretched to the limit, it is claimed.\n\nNats director Jamie Hutchison said: \"In the last few weeks we have already safely managed record-breaking daily traffic levels, but the ageing design of UK airspace means we will soon reach the limits of what can be managed without delays rising significantly.\"\n\nThe Department for Transport estimates that, if airspace management remains unchanged, there will be 3,100 days' worth of flight delays by 2030 - that is 50 times the amount seen in 2015 - along with 8,000 flight cancellations a year.\n\nThe government's consultation paper sets out a long-term plan for UK aviation\n\nThe government wants the public to submit ideas on a wide range of subjects, from airport bag check-ins in town centres to noise reduction targets.\n\nThe six themes it will consult on over the coming months are:\n\nTransport Secretary Chris Grayling said: \"Our new aviation strategy will look beyond the new runway at Heathrow and sets out a comprehensive long-term plan for UK aviation.\n\n\"It will support jobs and economic growth across the whole of the UK.\"\n\nHe said the government wanted to consult \"as widely as possible\" over the next 18 months on its new aviation strategy.\n\n\"We've got to get through the Brexit process, we've got to conclude the negotiations, we need to have new agreements with countries like the United States and Canada,\" he said.\n\n\"I'm off next week to meet with my US counterpart to talk about how we make sure that aviation across the Atlantic has a strong future with all the growth potential that's there.\"\n\nMartin Rolfe, chief executive of Nats, said the government consultation process could take between two and three years, \"so millions and millions of people will have a say in aircraft flying over their house\".\n\nHe told the BBC's Today programme: \"Local communities are very obviously concerned about what more traffic might look like, but actually modernising [airspace] means we can keep aircraft higher for longer.\n\n\"We can have them descend more steeply than they currently do because modern aircraft are more capable than the types of aircraft that were in service when this airspace was originally designed.\"\n\nThe consultation paper will look at everything from the future of drone technology to baggage handling\n\nMeanwhile, airport capacity is expanding way beyond Heathrow's new runway.\n\nFriday also marks the start of a £1bn investment programme to double the size of Manchester Airport's Terminal 2.\n\nThe number of planes taking off and landing at Stansted has gone up every month for almost four years.\n\nCardiff Airport has seen an 11% rise in traffic, and Luton is recording growth of 7% this year alone.\n\nNats is rolling out a new £600m computer system to make traffic control more efficient\n\nThe problem of volume has been complicated by shifts in travel patterns.\n\nDestinations including Egypt, Turkey and Tunisia have lost out to Spain, Italy and the US, which means major changes in the flows of traffic into UK airspace.\n\nNats itself is rolling out a new £600m computer system known as iTec that could result in more flights and fewer delays.", "Cows have shown an \"insane\" and \"mind-blowing\" ability to tackle HIV which will help develop a vaccine, say US researchers.\n\nIn a first for immunisation, the animals rapidly produced special types of antibody that can neutralise HIV.\n\nIt is thought cows evolved a supreme immune defence due to their complex and bacteria-packed digestive system.\n\nThe US National Institutes of Health said the findings were of \"great interest\".\n\nHIV is a slippery and nefarious opponent. It mutates so readily that every time a patient's immune system finds a way of attacking the virus, HIV shifts its appearance.\n\nHowever, a small proportion of patients eventually develop \"broadly neutralising antibodies\" after years of infection. These attack parts the virus cannot change.\n\nA vaccine that could train the immune system to make broadly neutralising antibodies should help prevent people being infected in the first place.\n\nBut no jab can do the job.\n\nThen researchers at the International Aids Vaccine Initiative and the Scripps Research Institute tried immunising cows.\n\n\"The response blew our minds,\" Dr Devin Sok, one of the researchers, told the BBC News website.\n\nThe required antibodies were being produced by the cow's immune system in a matter of weeks.\n\nDr Sok added: \"It was just insane how good it looked, in humans it takes three-to-five years to develop the antibodies we're talking about.\n\n\"This is really important because we hadn't been able to do it period.\n\n\"Who would have thought cow biology was making a significant contribution to HIV.\"\n\nThe results, published in the journal Nature, showed the cow's antibodies could neutralise 20% of HIV strains within 42 days.\n\nBy 381 days, they could neutralise 96% of strains tested in the lab.\n\nDr Dennis Burton, a fellow researcher, said: \"The potent responses in this study are remarkable.\n\n\"Unlike human antibodies, cattle antibodies are more likely to bear unique features and gain an edge over HIV.\"\n\nUnusually for human antibodies, the broadly neutralising ones have a long and loopy structure. Cow antibodies are inherently more long and loopy.\n\nSo the cow immune system finds making the antibodies easily.\n\nIt is thought the cow's \"ruminant\" digestive system which ferments grass in order to digest it is a Wild West of hostile bacteria. So the animals have developed the antibodies needed to keep them in check.\n\nIt means cattle could eventually become a source of drugs to make more effective vaginal microbicides to prevent HIV infection.\n\nHowever, the real goal is to develop a vaccine that encourages the human immune system to make the antibodies it currently finds a struggle.\n\nThat remains a significant challenge, but the cattle study could help point the way.\n\nDr Anthony Fauci, the director of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said: \"From the early days of the epidemic, we have recognized that HIV is very good at evading immunity, so exceptional immune systems that naturally produce broadly neutralizing antibodies to HIV are of great interest - whether they belong to humans or cattle.\"\n• None Aids deaths halve as more get drugs", "Cassette tapes, a lunch box and ballet shoes owned and used by Princess Diana will be put on public display at Buckingham Palace.\n\nThe exhibition of Diana's rarely-seen personal belongings opens on Saturday and coincides with the 20th anniversary of her death.\n\nAlso included in the collection are photos of the Princess with her sons, the Duke of Cambridge and Prince Harry.\n\nMany of the objects in the exhibition were selected by William and Harry.\n\nThe centrepiece of the collection is a desk where the Princess of Wales read and answered official correspondence in her sitting room in Kensington Palace.\n\nHer love of music is documented in her cassette collection, which includes albums by Diana Ross, Lionel Richie and Elton John.\n\nPrinces William and Harry chose some of the pieces on the desk to reflect their memory of her\n\nThe items were taken from Princess Diana's personal belongings at Kensington Palace\n\nSome of the pieces were taken from her childhood, when she was known as Diana Spencer\n\nThe exhibition, which runs until 1 October, will also include gifts presented to the Queen over her 65-year reign.\n\nThese gifts include a paperweight made from a fossilised dinosaur bone, and a union jack badge worn in space by British astronaut Major Tim Peake.", "Watling appeared with an Ice Warrior in a 1967 episode of Doctor Who\n\nActress Deborah Watling, who played one of Patrick Troughton's companions in the early years of Doctor Who, has died at the age of 69.\n\nWatling played Victoria Waterfield in 40 episodes between 1967 and 1968, most of which were wiped after transmission.\n\nHer father was the actor Jack Watling, who appeared alongside her in two Doctor Who adventures.\n\nHer brother Giles Watling, Conservative MP for Clacton, said she would be \"sorely missed\".\n\n\"She was a lovely, lovely girl, bubbly and vibrant,\" he said of his sibling.\n\nBorn in Loughton in Essex in 1948, Watling made her first TV appearance as a child in William Tell.\n\nHer character, Victoria Waterfield, travelled with Patrick Troughton's \"second Doctor\"\n\nShe went on to appear in a TV version of HG Wells' The Invisible Man and played Alice Liddell in a Wednesday Play by Dennis Potter about author Lewis Carroll.\n\nWatling made her first appearance in Doctor Who in the second part of 1967 serial The Evil of the Daleks, the only episode of that adventure that still exists.\n\nShe went on to appear in six more serials, only two of which - The Tomb of the Cybermen and The Enemy of the World - still exist in their entirety.\n\nAfter Doctor Who, Watling appeared in The Newcomers, Rising Damp and World War II drama Danger UXB.\n\nIn 1993 she reprised her companion role for a Children in Need short called Doctor Who: Dimensions in Time.\n\nEarlier this week it was announced that Jodie Whittaker will be the first female Doctor when Peter Capaldi relinquishes the role at Christmas.\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 16 students had to return home with toys they were taking for children in India\n\nA group of students have been sent back to the UK after Indian officials said they had the wrong kind of visa to visit a charity they were supporting.\n\nThe 16 students and three staff were refused entry at Chennai Airport by immigration staff even though the school had made three previous visits.\n\nPoynton High School head teacher David Waugh said the school and local community was \"shocked and saddened\".\n\nNobody from the Indian High Commission was available for comment.\n\nThe school said airport officials claimed the group had no rights to enter the country on their visa because they were going to be undertaking work with a non-governmental organisation.\n\nThe group had to return home with the toys and other items it was taking to the children in India.\n\nMr Waugh said: \"They were going to play with the children they have helped and paint a mural.\n\n\"The staff and students are in a state of tired shock having travelled for 48 hours as a round trip.\"\n\nMr Waugh said he had contacted the Indian High Commission to complain but it had just referred him to its website.\n\nHe said the Foreign Office is now pursuing the issue with the Indian Government.\n\nThe school has raised more than £27,000 since 2005 for a small charity based in Macclesfield called India Direct which has supported building and running two children's homes in India.\n\nIndia Direct was set up after the Boxing Day tsunami in 2004.\n\nThe charity said: \"Our hearts go out to this great team of staff and students, who have already made a real difference, and who must be so disappointed.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Results of Charlie's scan were heard in court before his parents had been informed privately\n\nCharlie Gard's parents reacted angrily in court when medical information was revealed about their son which they had not previously been told about.\n\nThe High Court was told a scan of the baby's brain made for \"sad reading\". His mother responded: \"We have not even read it\" and her husband walked out.\n\nEarlier, the judge urged protestors supporting the family not to target the hospital.\n\nThe 11-month-old suffers from a rare genetic disorder and underwent a brain scan at the weekend to help settle a medical dispute about whether his treatment should be continued or whether he should be allowed to die with dignity.\n\nOn hearing the hospital lawyer's assessment of the scan, Charlie's mother Connie Yates broke down in tears and his father Chris Gard shouted \"evil\" at the lawyer before walking out of court earlier.\n\nThe case has been the subject of a lot of media attention\n\nCharlie's parents are fighting for the right to remove their child from GOSH's care. They want instead to take him to the US for experimental treatment, which a neurologist from New York said might give him a 10% chance of improving his health.\n\nThe case has attracted a lot of attention around the world and campaigners who want the judge to \"let Charlie live\" have lined the High Court entrance for the hearings.\n\nPreviously, the judge has condemned people who had abused and threatened GOSH medics on social media as a result of Charlie's case.\n\nMr Justice Francis, who is presiding, warned earlier there were \"lots and lots\" of other sick children being treated by the hospital whose families might not want to be confronted by campaigners.\n\nGOSH has confirmed it received complaints from family members of other children being treated at the hospital, but would not provide further details.\n\nConnie Yates and Chris Gard want Charlie to receive an experimental therapy called nucleoside\n\nMr Justice Francis will analyse the latest expert evidence at a High Court hearing on Monday and Tuesday.\n\nAt a preliminary hearing on Friday, he said he would need to know whether there was \"new material\" which could make a \"difference\".\n\nLawyers representing GOSH said they had \"yet to see\" any new evidence.\n\nA US doctor who has offered to treat Charlie has attended a meeting with his GOSH care team to decide whether he should travel to America for therapy.\n\nDr Michio Hirano met doctors earlier this week to examine Charlie and discuss his condition.", "Pudsey and owner Ashleigh Butler had worked together for 11 years\n\nBritain's Got Talent winner Pudsey the dog has died, ITV has confirmed.\n\nThe border collie, bichon frise and Chinese crested cross won the contest in 2012 with owner Ashleigh Butler.\n\nThe pair became famous for their dance routine to the Mission Impossible theme, and were the first dog act to win the competition.\n\nPaying tribute to Pudsey on Friday, Ashleigh described him as a \"beautiful boy\" who had changed her life.\n\nA post on the Britain's Got Talent Twitter feed said: \"We are saddened to hear that today we lost Pudsey, a most marvellous winner. Our thoughts are with Ashleigh.\"\n\nThe pair won over viewers by dancing to the Mission Impossible theme\n\nAshleigh said 11-year-old Pudsey was put down on Thursday after a short battle against leukaemia.\n\n\"I had to make the hardest decision of my life to let my beautiful boy go to sleep at the age of 11,\" she said.\n\n\"From the minute he was born he brought nothing but joy to me, and as a winner of BGT millions of others who adored him too.\n\n\"No words can express just how much I will miss him.\n\n\"He changed my life and I have so many wonderful memories of our time together. He will always be in my heart.\"\n\nPudsey even starred in his own movie in 2014\n\nPudsey and Ashleigh, from Wellingborough in Northamptonshire, had worked together for 11 years.\n\nIn October 2012, a book titled Pudsey: My Autobidography, was released, chronicling the pet's rise to fame.\n\nHe hit the big screen in 2014, taking the leading role in his own movie, Pudsey The Dog: The Movie.\n\nThe pair also travelled to America following their big win, where they performed on America's Got Talent and appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.\n\nTributes began to pour in within minutes of Britain's Got Talent sharing news of his death, with fans saying they were \"heartbroken\" and sending wishes to his family.\n\nFans said on social media that they were \"heartbroken\" at the news\n\nBritain's Got Talent judge David Walliams took to Twitter to pay tribute, writing: \"Farewell to a very special dog that the nation fell in love with\".\n\nFan Jennifer Wood tweeted: \"Actual just started crying reading and article about Pudsey the dog dying...too sad\".", "Canadian pop star Justin Bieber has been banned from performing in China, according to Beijing's Culture Bureau.\n\nIn a statement, the ministry said it was not appropriate to allow in entertainers who have engaged in \"bad behaviour.\"\n\n\"Justin Bieber is a gifted singer, but he is also a controversial young foreign singer,\" it added.\n\nThe statement was issued in response to a question recently submitted by a user of the bureau's website.\n\n\"We hope that as Justin Bieber matures, he can continue to improve his own words and actions, and truly become a singer beloved by the public,\" the statement said.\n\nTo its list of hostile foreign forces - one assumes ranking somewhere below the Dalai Lama and Taiwanese separatists - China has added the name Justin Bieber.\n\nThe news came in a statement from the Beijing municipal culture bureau, answering a question from a fan about why, with the singer about to embark on an Asia-wide tour, no venues have been scheduled in mainland China.\n\nJustin Bieber is indeed \"talented at singing\" came the reply, but nonetheless it would not be appropriate to allow him to perform, because of what it called a number of incidents of \"bad behaviour.\" It did not elaborate on exactly which of Mr Bieber's run-ins with the law it was referring to.\n\nThe pop star, who was allowed to tour China in 2013, joins a long list of musicians who have found themselves similarly blacklisted. Most though, like the British band Oasis and the US group Maroon 5, because of perceived political statements, rather than on the grounds of bad behaviour.\n\nThe shrine photo prompted a lot of scrutiny on social media\n\nThis hasn't been the first time the Sorry singer has caused controversy in Asia.\n\nIn 2014, Bieber caused upset on social media after he posted a photo of himself visiting the controversial Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo.\n\nThe shrine honours fallen warriors and pays tribute to convicted war criminals but in China and South Korea, the shrine is seen as a symbol of Japan not being sorry for its empire's past.\n\nBut despite the singer taking the photo down and apologising, the Chinese were outraged. Their foreign minister's spokesperson said he hoped the singer had left Yasukuni with \"a clear understanding of Japan's history of invasion and militarism, and of the source of Japan's militarism\".\n\nJustin Bieber will be performing in Asia as part of his Purpose World Tour from September, and will be playing in Japan, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Singapore and Indonesia.\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 forced migration of UK children overseas was a bigger sex abuse scandal than that of Jimmy Savile, ex-prime minister Gordon Brown has said.\n\nMr Brown told the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse that the 2,000 surviving British child migrants who suffered abuse should be compensated.\n\nHe said the mass transportation of 130,000 British children overseas was \"government-enforced trafficking\".\n\nAcross 50 years, the children were sent to ex-colonies such as Australia.\n\nThe transportation programme began in the 1920s, partly to ease the population of the UK's orphanages in the years after the First World War, and to give \"lost\" children the chance of a new life in Britain's colonies.\n\nBut children continued to be be sent abroad until 1974.\n\nThe Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse in England and Wales has already heard that many child migrants experienced \"unacceptable depravity\", with some having been sent abroad without the consent of parents and wrongly told they were orphans.\n\nIn 2009, the Australian government apologised for the cruelty shown to the child migrants and in 2010 Mr Brown, in his role as UK prime minister, issued an apology to victims on behalf of the UK.\n\nThe experiences of the children sent away from the UK are being looked at as part of the first phase of the wide-ranging inquiry into child abuse.\n\nMr Brown told the inquiry that the forced migration of British children was \"probably the biggest national sex abuse scandal\".\n\n\"Bigger than what people have alleged about Savile,\" he said.\n\n\"Bigger than what people have alleged about individual children's homes.\n\n\"Bigger in scale, bigger in geographical spread, and bigger in the length of time that went on undetected.\n\n\"I'm shocked about the information that I have seen.\"\n\nMr Brown said a government minister should explain to the inquiry why nothing has been done over \"sickening\" new evidence of abuse which has come to light since his 2010 apology.\n\nHe said he had become aware of so many historical cases he described as \"grave, horrifying and sickening\" and said there had been a \"violation of human rights\".\n\n\"Children were denied a childhood, an identity, a family and any sense of belonging,\" he said.\n\n\"Many, some as young as three - and this was happening as recently as the 1970s - were sent abroad having been falsely told their parents were dead.\"\n\nHe said successive governments had failed in a duty of care.\n\n\"Because we failed in our duty of care it is now time to compensate the 2,000 child migrants still alive,\" he said.\n\nMr Brown added: \"My apology seven years ago was for the gross inhumane violation of rights by forcibly removing children, depriving them of identity, family and any sense of belonging.\n\n\"An unknown but clearly large number of these children were subjected to horrific assaults sometimes before, sometimes during but in the main after they left the UK.\n\n\"Because successive governments failed in what I call their duty of care, these 2,000 surviving migrants all need and deserve redress.\"\n\nMr Brown told the inquiry that 1,000 families had been reunited since 2010.\n\nAnother former prime minister, Sir John Major, did not appear in person but provided a written statement to the inquiry which said his government took the approach that mistreatment of British children sent abroad was primarily a matter for the country concerned.", "Gay Pride Berlin is a riot of glitter, glam and rainbow flags.\n\nThis weekend people will celebrate Germany's new law to allow equal marriage. But it is not necessarily \"equal\" for gay parents.\n\nBerlin drag kings wax their moustaches, the queens dust off their biggest beehives and huge rainbow flags adorn government ministries.\n\nThis year Berlin's gay festival season has an unusually political edge.\n\nPresident Frank-Walter Steinmeier signed the new equal marriage law on Thursday, meaning that same-sex couples should be able to get married from October. Until now only civil partnerships were available, which lacked some rights.\n\nJustice Minister Heiko Maas tweeted: \"A great day for more justice. Finally all get the same rights!\"\n\nJörg Hormann and his husband Patrick have been in a civil partnership for 9.5 years and have two young children. \"We hope that now, finally, people will know that we are a completely normal family,\" said Jörg. \"We're just happy that we're no longer seen as inferior.\"\n\nI met Jörg and his family a few weeks ago at a demonstration outside the Bundesrat, Germany's upper house, as lawmakers formally voted on the measure.\n\nNext to him stood a woman holding a placard saying \"scrap homophobic adoption law\". Journalists looked confused. \"But I thought the new law sorts out adoption for gay people?\" one asked her.\n\nJörg (L) and Patrick have two children and welcome the new law\n\nIn fact Germany's new equal marriage act allows gay couples to adopt. But it ignores the precarious situation of lesbian couples where one partner has a child.\n\n\"German laws have, until now, focused on bloodline,\" explained Constanze Körner from the LSVD, a gay rights group. It means that traditionally in Germany the legal definition of two parents is a mother and a father.\n\nIn heterosexual relationships, a man becomes the legal father by marrying the mother, or by simply recognising fatherhood.\n\nFor non-biological parents in same-sex relationships, however, the only possibility is a difficult and bureaucratic formal adoption procedure.\n\nIt is a process which some mothers describe as harrowing and intrusive, with gay parents having to justify their parenting to officials. It can take up to 18 months, so it can also be a period of uncertainty, a legal limbo in which the co-parent has no parental rights and the child is potentially vulnerable if the biological mother dies.\n\n\"We definitely need the possibility that things can be regulated legally before conception, whether there's a known father, or whether the child was conceived through a sperm bank, so that families and children are legally protected,\" said Ms Körner.\n\nBerlin festival: One reveller posed as Donald Trump looking like a drag queen\n\nThe new equal marriage law took Germany by surprise. For years the issue had been blocked by Chancellor Angela Merkel's centre-right Christian Democrats (CDU), many of whom define marriage as between a man and a woman.\n\nBut attitudes in Germany have been shifting and, with elections coming in September, Mrs Merkel's rivals, the centre-left SPD, were hoping to turn gay marriage into a campaign issue.\n\nIn typical Merkel fashion, she outmanoeuvred them. She allowed parliament to vote on it, and for it to be a vote of conscience, knowing that this would guarantee the law passed.\n\nBut she kept her conservative party base happy by voting no. \"Merkel's the only person in parliament who did not vote according to her conscience,\" one observer joked.\n\nThe SPD is still keen to use the issue in the election, Berlin's SPD mayor Michael Müller told me.\n\n\"We managed to push this through against the will of the CDU. How Merkel behaved baffled many people. It's clear that it was a pure election tactic, and voters always take such things badly.\"\n\nNot according to some of those at the annual Lesbian and Gay Festival near Nollendorfplatz last weekend.\n\nFor Larissa (in dark glasses) and her friends the new law was cause for celebration\n\nLarissa has just got engaged to her girlfriend, and although she is not a Merkel fan, she is just happy that she can now get married.\n\n\"Merkel was the one who enabled this to be a vote of conscience. She has her opinion, and I can tolerate that. But she still allowed it to happen, so for me that's a positive thing.\"\n\nDo one thing, while simultaneously also doing the exact opposite - that is often how Chancellor Merkel operates. And on equal marriage she has wriggled out of a potentially explosive election issue.\n\nBut for many gay parents the fight continues.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A Canadian pensioner built a set of stairs at his local park for just C$550 when the city estimated it would cost at least C$65,000 ($51,500, £40,000).\n\nBut instead of a thank you, Toronto has blocked off access to the steps and asked Adi Astl, 73, to take them down.\n\nBefore the stairs were installed, Mr Astl said a few people had fallen down the steep muddy embankment to the park.\n\nMr Astl said he took matters into his own hands after his local councillor told him about the city's price tag.\n\n\"To me, the safety of people is more important than money,\" Mr Astl told CTV News. \"So if the city is not willing to do it, I have to do it myself.\"\n\nHe said the whole project took him and his neighbours about 14 hours.\n\nMr Astl's councillor, Justin Di Ciano, said the official estimate, which the city said could go from $65,000 to $150,000, was outlandish.\n\n\"With $150,000 you can put up half a house,\" Mr Di Ciano told GlobalNews.\n\nThe muddy embankment before the stairs were built\n\nToronto Mayor John Tory agreed the price estimate was overblown, but said it just won't do for private citizens to \"go out to Home Depot and build a staircase in a park because that is what they would like to have\".\n\nCity staff say they are re-assessing the estimate, which was based on a staircase built at another park.\n\nResident Dana Beamon told CTV News she is thankful for Mr Astl's staircase.\n\n\"We have far too much bureaucracy,\" she said.\n\n\"We do not have enough self-initiative in our city, so I am impressed.\"", "An official portrait of Prince George has been released to mark his fourth birthday.\n\nThe picture, taken at Kensington Palace ahead of his birthday on Saturday, captures a smiling future king.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Cambridge were \"delighted\" to share the photograph taken by royal photographer Chris Jackson, Kensington Palace said.\n\nThe prince has spent the run-up to his birthday on a tour of Poland and Germany with his parents.\n\nPrince George Alexander Louis - known as His Royal Highness Prince George of Cambridge - was born on 22 July 2013.\n\n\"The Duke and Duchess are very pleased to share this lovely picture as they celebrate Prince George's fourth birthday, and would like to thank everyone for all of the kind messages they have received,\" Kensington Palace said.\n\nGetty Images royal photographer Mr Jackson, who took the photo at the end of June, said: \"I'm thrilled and honoured that the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have chosen to release this portrait to celebrate Prince George's fourth birthday.\n\n\"He is such a happy little boy and certainly injects some fun into a photoshoot.\"\n\nThe prince spent five days in Poland and Germany with his parents ahead of his birthday\n\nEarlier, the Duke of Cambridge gave Prince George and Princess Charlotte a guided tour of a helicopter at the Airbus factory in Hamburg on the last day of their official tour of Germany and Poland.\n\nPrince George tried on a pilot's helmet while Princess Charlotte played with buttons in the cockpit.\n\nIn September, Prince George is due to start school.\n\nHe will go to Thomas's Battersea, a private preparatory school located a few miles from the family residence in Kensington Palace in London, where the family will be based.\n\nThe royal party finished their official tour on Friday", "The white bag still carries traces of Moon dust and small rock\n\nA bag used by US astronaut Neil Armstrong to collect the first ever samples of the Moon has sold at auction in New York for $1.8m (£1.4m).\n\nThe outer decontamination bag from the Apollo 11 mission in 1969 was bought at Sotheby's by an anonymous bidder.\n\nThe white bag still carries traces of Moon dust and small rocks.\n\nThe auction comes after a legal battle over the ownership of the only artefact from the Apollo 11 mission which was in private hands.\n\nAfter the spacecraft returned to Earth, nearly all the equipment was sent to the Smithsonian museums.\n\nHowever, the bag was left in a box at the Johnson Space Center because of an inventory error.\n\nIt was then misidentified during a government auction, selling for just $995 to a lawyer from Illinois in 2015.\n\nNasa later tried to get the bag back, but earlier this year a federal judge ruled that it legally belonged to the buyer, who then offered it for sale at Sotheby's.", "Blair Logan poured petrol onto his brother's bed before setting it alight\n\nA man has admitted murdering his brother by dousing him with petrol and setting him alight on New Year's Day.\n\nCameron Logan, 23, died in the blaze in Milngavie, East Dunbartonshire, and his girlfriend Rebecca Williams, 25, was seriously injured.\n\nAt the High Court in Glasgow, Blair Logan, 27, admitted murdering his brother and attempting to murder Ms Williams at the family home.\n\nHe confessed 12 days after the attack but claimed he did not mean to kill.\n\nThe court heard that the two brothers had a \"hostile\" relationship and Logan told police they had not spoken since the death of their grandmother in 2013.\n\nOn the night of the fire, Cameron and Rebecca had arranged to stay the night at the family home after a party and his mother Catherine set up an inflatable mattress for them in the living room.\n\nLogan remained in his bedroom, emerging only to wish his parents a happy new year.\n\nThe young couple returned from the party at about 04:00 and went to sleep.\n\nAt about 07:15, Mrs Logan was woken by the family dog whining and went downstairs, where she saw a figure in dark clothing standing inside the living room.\n\nCameron Logan and Rebecca Williams also saw the man, holding something that was on fire, and screamed.\n\nCameron Logan died and Rebecca Williams was seriously injured in the fire on New Year's Day\n\nAlex Prentice QC, prosecuting, told the court: \"Catherine Logan then heard Cameron roar in surprise, shock and fear, before the accused made a jerking motion with his arm as if throwing something.\n\n\"The accused then ran from the living room and went out the front door.\n\n\"Catherine Logan slammed the door behind him, shouting something like 'get the hell out of my house', still not knowing who it was.\n\n\"When she turned back towards the living room she saw 'orange and crackling' and the room turning black. She also heard Cameron and Rebecca screaming.\"\n\nShe tried in vain to open the door to the room before running to ask neighbours for help.\n\nRebecca Williams managed to roll onto the floor and crawl into the kitchen. Unable to open the back door, she put her head in the fridge to protect herself from the fire before passing out.\n\nMr Logan senior tried to get into the living room but was beaten back by the intensity of the smoke and flames.\n\nThe prosecutor said the accused admitted pouring petrol \"with the intention of maiming or crippling\" his brother.\n\nBut after his arrest, Logan told police: \"I didn't want to kill him.\"\n\nIn a police interview he said he took the petrol from a church garage a month and a half before the fire and stored it in his bedroom.\n\nSearches of his computer found he had researched burn injuries.\n\nThe attack was said to be in retaliation for a \"last straw\" incident at the house a week earlier, when his brother had punched him.\n\nHe said he did not realise Ms Williams was in the bed and had not intended to harm her, or his parents.\n\nCameron Logan with the family dog Gomez which also died in the fire\n\nDefence lawyer Shelagh McCall QC said Logan showed \"wicked recklessness\" but did not intend to kill his brother.\n\nHe was said to have \"felt physically sick at the whole thing\".\n\nLogan has been subject to two psychiatric reports which concluded there was not sufficient evidence for a plea of diminished responsibility.\n\nMs McCall said there were \"unusual traits\" in Logan's personality and that he had a lack of understanding of the impact of his actions on other people.\n\nRebecca Williams was in court to hear the guilty plea\n\nBoth parents were in the court room in Glasgow, along with Ms Williams, as the guilty plea was made in front of judge Lady Scott.\n\nMs Williams, a radio journalist, was rescued from the fire and treated in hospital for burns and the effects of breathing in smoke, and has undergone surgery on four occasions. She has had a tracheostomy to help her regain the power of speech.\n\nLogan's parents were treated for smoke inhalation but were not badly injured.\n\nLogan was arrested two weeks after the fire following a major Police Scotland investigation.\n\nThe family dog, Gomez, was also killed in the fire.\n\nLogan also admitted endangering the lives of his parents.\n\nLady Scott asked for a social worker report and set a sentencing date for 11 August at the High Court in Livingston.", "Davison (left) and Baker (right) expressed divergent opinions over Whittaker's casting\n\nTwo ex-Time Lords have had a war of words over Jodie Whittaker being cast as TV's first female Doctor.\n\nPeter Davison, who played the Doctor from 1981 to 1984, said he \"liked the idea\" of a male Doctor and that he felt \"a bit sad\" the character might no longer be \"a role model for boys\".\n\nHis comments were promptly dubbed \"rubbish\" by his successor Colin Baker.\n\n\"You don't have to be of a gender to be a role model,\" said the actor, who portrayed the Doctor from 1984 to 1986.\n\n\"Can't you be a role model as people?\"\n\nThe actors were speaking on Thursday at Comic-Con, the world's largest celebration of film, TV and pop culture.\n\nBaker, the father of four daughters, said the BBC show's 54-year history had given young male viewers plenty of figures to emulate.\n\n\"They've had 50 years of having a role model,\" said the 74-year-old. \"So sorry Peter, you're talking rubbish there - absolute rubbish.\"\n\nDavison - whose own daughter Georgina is married to David Tennant, another ex-Doctor - accepted \"you need to open it up\" and that he was \"maybe an old-fashioned dinosaur\".\n\nJohn Barrowman has also been at Comic-Con in San Diego this week\n\nThe news that Whittaker will inherit the Tardis from Peter Capaldi this Christmas has been a major talking point at the San Diego event.\n\nJohn Barrowman asked fans to give the Broadchurch actress a chance while making his own Comic-Con appearance on Thursday.\n\n\"If we buy into the world of Doctor Who... it doesn't say that he will be a he all the time,\" said the actor.\n\nBarrowman, who played Captain Jack Harkness in the programme and its spin-off Torchwood, donned a glittery mini-dress modelled on the Tardis while appearing at the San Diego Convention Centre.\n\nCloser to home, Whittaker's casting as the 13th Doctor continues to animate other former stars of the long-running series.\n\nFreema Agyeman, another former companion of the TV time-traveller, said she was \"overjoyed\" that a woman had finally landed the role.\n\n\"I feel like standing on top of a rooftop and shouting for joy,\" said the actress, who confessed to being \"astounded\" by the \"furore\" that the casting announcement had generated.\n\n\"The strength of the show and the reason for its longevity is the way it keeps changing and shifting,\" she told the BBC this week.\n\nAgyeman, who played Martha Jones opposite Tennant's Doctor, will shortly be seen in Apologia at London's Trafalgar Studios alongside The West Wing's Stockard Channing.\n\nEarlier this week it was revealed in the BBC's annual report that Capaldi was paid between £200,000 and £250,000 last year for his role in the series.\n\nIn an interview with the London Evening Standard, BBC director general Tony Hall said Whittaker would be paid the same as her predecessor \"for the same amount of work\".\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.", "Wonder Woman star Gal Gadot, Doctor Who's Peter Capaldi and Westworld's Thandie Newton are all expected to attend the four-day event\n\nMore than 100,000 fans have descended on San Diego in California for this year's Comic-Con, the largest event dedicated to film, TV and pop culture.\n\nStars including Ryan Gosling, Channing Tatum, Charlize Theron and the cast of the new Justice League film are expected to attend.\n\nThere will also be looks at the new seasons of Stranger Things, Westworld, Walking Dead and Game of Thrones.\n\nThe four-day fan fest concludes with a special Doctor Who session.\n\nWith hundreds of events going on, here's a guide to the main things to look out for each day, along with who is likely to turn up.\n\nTaron Egerton reprises his role in Kingsman: The Golden Circle\n\nThe seventh season of The Walking Dead ended with a regular character meeting their demise - but showrunner Scott Gimple promised series eight would be even more intense\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.", "Thomson has apologised to passengers for the delay\n\nA flight from Aberdeen to Faro in Portugal has finally arrived at its destination after take-off was delayed by more than 38 hours.\n\nThe 140 holidaymakers had been stranded at Aberdeen Airport since arriving on Thursday morning for what should have been the 06:00 flight.\n\nThe flight was delayed because of a technical issue with the aircraft.\n\nThere were also 114 stranded Thomson passengers in Portugal waiting for the return flight.\n\nThe flight from Aberdeen to Portugal did not depart until 20:43 on Friday evening, the airline said.\n\nThose affected by the delay were put up in hotels overnight and given vouchers to buy refreshments.\n\nThomson said the Aberdeen to Faro flight had arrived at 23:40 local time.\n\nPassengers flying from Portugal were diverted to Manchester and then taken to Aberdeen on a coach, arriving in the city at about 01:00 on Saturday.\n\nIn total, 245 passengers in Aberdeen and Faro were affected by the delay\n\n\"We would like to apologise for the inconvenience caused to customers who travelled on flights FPO811 from Aberdeen to Faro and FPO812 from Faro to Aberdeen, which unfortunately were delayed as a result of a technical issue,\" a spokeswoman for Thomson said.\n\n\"We provided affected customers with overnight accommodation and vouchers for refreshments. We also be providing letters to customers with EU flight delay claim information in line with the Civil Aviation Authority's guidelines.\n\n\"We understand how frustrating a flight delay can be and we would like to thank affected passengers for their patience and understanding.\"\n\nSpeaking earlier on Friday, Susan Davidson told BBC Scotland that she and the other passengers had been taken off the aircraft shortly before it had been due to depart Aberdeen on Thursday morning.\n\n\"We were really given no information whatsoever and just left waiting in the airport,\" she said.\n\n\"Finally I think it must have been about 14:15 yesterday we were told we would be put up in a hotel and just to await further information from the company.\"\n\nMrs Davidson said passengers had been \"pretty much kept in the dark\" by the airline, with most of the information coming from the hotel she had been staying at.\n\nShe added: \"The children are exhausted and desperate to get away. It has just been awful.\"\n\nJames Hepburn, who should also have been on the flight from Aberdeen on Thursday morning, described the delay as \"horrific\" and said he was \"very, very angry\".", "The UK is due to leave the EU on March 29 2019\n\nThe \"cabinet is united\" over the need for a transitional period after Britain officially leaves the European Union, Cabinet minister Michael Gove has said.\n\nHe said an \"implementation period\" ensuring access to migrant labour and economic stability would happen.\n\nHe said it must be driven by \"pragmatism\" but also recognise the UK's vote to leave the EU last year.\n\nIt follows newspaper reports that free movement for EU citizens could continue for years after March 2019.\n\nThe Times reports that the prime minister is ready to offer EU citizens free movement for up to two years after the UK officially leaves the EU - while the Guardian suggests it could be four years.\n\nA senior Downing Street source dismissed the reports as coming from \"someone on a flyer\" and said it was \"not the government's position\".\n\nBut BBC political correspondent Chris Mason said there appeared to have been a hardening of opinion in cabinet around the concept of a transitional period between full EU membership and a new relationship after the official Brexit date of March 2019 - in which the UK would be outside the EU but in which some elements of its membership would continue for a fixed period.\n\nWhat form will any transition take?\n\nCould there be temporary membership of the European Economic Area? Some leavers might be suspicious that temporary would become permanent.\n\nShould we stay in the customs union a bit longer until we hammer out a bespoke deal post Brexit? The EU is unlikely to get the clarity it seeks until there is clarity around the cabinet table.\n\nThere has been talk of soft, hard and clean Brexits. Increasingly another word has entered the lexicon.\n\nDavid Davis uses it. Michael Gove used it today. Expect to hear more of it. Pragmatic. That's now the goal - a pragmatic Brexit. And that necessarily means compromise at cabinet level as well as with the EU.\n\nInternational Trade Secretary Liam Fox - who campaigned for Brexit - said on Thursday he \"did not have a problem\" with the idea of an \"implementation phase\", which he suggested could be around two years.\n\nOn Friday, the chief executive of Goldman Sachs International Richard Gnodde said a \"significant\" transitional period needed to be agreed as soon as possible.\n\nAsked about the newspaper reports on Friday, Mr Gove said: \"The prime minister has made clear, as we leave the European Union we will have an implementation period which will ensure that we can continue to have, not just access to labour, but the economic stability and certainty which business requests. And again that is something around which the government and the cabinet is united.\"\n\nHe recognised the importance of \"access to high quality labour\" for businesses and said any such transitional period should \"be driven by a shared pragmatic judgement\" involving the best interests of the UK economy and a \"smooth\" Brexit but which was also \"in line with the result that the British people voted for just over a year ago\".\n\nImmigration to the UK, particularly from poorer EU countries, was seen as a major issue in the referendum campaign.\n\nNewly elected Lib Dem leader Sir Vince Cable said: \"It is encouraging that some of the more sensible and pragmatic members of the government are beginning to exert themselves and look for a compromise, but it is still the case that within a few years, British people are going to lose their right to move freely around the continent.\"\n\nSpeaking earlier, the former Labour chancellor Lord Darling said that a transition period after March 2019 was \"essential\" to stop businesses suddenly being deprived of European workers and told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"If it's true that they are talking about up to four years, then I think that would be very welcome.\"\n\nTransport Secretary Chris Grayling said the question of a transitional deal was \"a matter for the negotiations\" but added that the British people had \"voted to take back control of our borders and that's what will happen post-Brexit\".\n\nConservative backbencher Peter Bone told BBC Radio 4's the World at One: \"I don't think for one minute that the government is going to allow free movement after we come out of the EU.\"\n\nHe added: \"Free movement has to end no later than 31 March 2019 and I think most Conservative MPs would say that, the country would say that... and I think Mrs May would say that.\"\n\nBut UKIP's interim leader Steve Crowther said: \"Since the election, Theresa May is badly holed and unseaworthy, and the Remainer Philip Hammond, who was on his way out of the door before 8 June, now sees an opportunity to fudge, delay and obfuscate until the end of the current parliament, to try and get the decision reversed.\"\n\nOn Friday, Downing Street said the government's \"overarching goal\" was for \"a smooth, orderly exit culminating in a comprehensive free trade deal with the EU, with a period of implementation in order to avoid any cliff-edges\".", "Ella Passchendaele is one of a handful of descendants with the battle still part of their name\n\nThere were not only the names of World War One battles, but also the names given to babies, usually in commemoration of a father or relation who fought and died there.\n\nIt might sound strange to modern ears, but more than 1,600 children during and after World War One were given names related to the war, even down to calling babies Vimy Ridge or Zeppelina.\n\nThe war literally became part of their identity - and they became a form of living commemoration.\n\nThe names tended to be given to girls rather than boys and the battle names were feminised, such as Sommeria, Arrasina, Verdunia, Monsalene and Dardanella.\n\nWith the centenary commemorations approaching for the Battle of Passchendaele, there have been efforts to trace families who have passed down these names through the generations.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why were babies named after Passchendaele? Sean Coughlan reports for BBC Radio 4's PM programme\n\nElla Passchendaele Maton-Cole, a 19-year-old in Alton, Hampshire, is one of the few remaining people with a name taken from the battle of Passchendaele, which began on 31 July 1917.\n\nThis became one of the most well-known battles of World War One, with appalling conditions, terrible casualties and great heroism. There were 320,000 killed and wounded on the Allied side, in a battle fought in mud so deep and treacherous that men drowned in it.\n\nElla Passchendaele's name was handed down through her great grandmother, Florence Mary Passchendaele, named after her cousin, Frederick Fullick, who had died during the battle in September 1917, aged 24.\n\nElla says the connection is \"bittersweet\", but she likes having a name with such history behind it.\n\nShe is a similar age to many of those who died in the battle in Belgium a 100 years ago and she says that the name gives her a sense of \"connection\".\n\n\"It's not that I'm named after all the deaths,\" says Ella. But she is proud to be named in honour of an ancestor who fought there.\n\nResearchers at the National Archives in Kew found a letter sent to Frederick's sister from an officer, who had been there when he died.\n\n\"I was in charge of the party of men who carried him to the dressing station and I can certainly assure you he was perfectly calm and collected,\" the officer had written.\n\nJessamy Carlson, a historian and archivist at the National Archives, says the naming of children after battles was a way of honouring the dead and for families to keep a \"personal, tangible connection\" with a lost husband, father or relative.\n\nShe says it also shows the \"extent to which war became part of everyday life\".\n\n\"You have an experience that is all pervasive. You have women whose husbands are away, dying far from home - and naming their children in this commemorative way is a way of holding them close,\" says Ms Carlson.\n\nIn the first stages of the war, the battle names tended to be generic locations - with children given names such as Belgium or Frances (after France) or Calais, where soldiers might have disembarked.\n\nBut Ms Carlson says that as the war progressed the names became specific to battles, such as Arras, Mons and Somme, and then down to particular parts of battles, such as Delville Wood.\n\nThe trend was particularly prevalent in south Wales - and the brother of the actor Richard Burton was called Verdun, after the battle in France. Verdun became the single-most used battle names, adopted by more than 900 families.\n\nPasschendaele, with its huge casualties, also became a source of names for babies.\n\nPasschendaele was one of the bloodiest and muddiest battles of the First World War\n\n\"The thing that Passchendaele is now most famous for is the mud. It started raining the day after the battle started and continued for a month and turned the western front into a quagmire,\" says Ms Carlson.\n\n\"The modern resonance of Passchendaele is the extensive loss of life and horrific conditions - and to see children named after this seems quite poignant,\" she says.\n\nChris Oswald from Wiltshire is from another family which used Passchendaele as a name, after a grandfather who fought there and won a Distinguished Conduct Medal for bravery.\n\n\"It's difficult now for modern people to understand the effects that it must have had on a generation, the cataclysm of World War One must have changed the way people saw things.\n\n\"I can understand that creating a memorial with a name like Passchendaele is something that would have seemed perfectly normal.\"\n\nAs the war ended, there was another flurry of names such as Peace, Poppy, Armistice and Victory.\n\nThere will be national commemorations for Passchendaele beginning next week, marking one of the most intense and controversial battles of World War One, which cost hundreds of thousands of casualties and saw the front line moving only by a few miles.\n\nCulture Secretary Karen Bradley says it was \"very touching\" to think of those who died there being remembered through the descendants named after them.\n\n\"It is fitting, that in its centenary year, we are uncovering the forgotten stories that link people to Passchendaele,\" she said.\n\nElla Passchendaele is one of a handful of people who still have the name.\n\nThe monumental attack on German lines on a summer day in Belgium in 1917, is now in the name of a teenager talking on a summer's afternoon in Hampshire a century later.\n\nShe says when she was at school she was always being asked about a name that seemed so unusual.\n\n\"I used to write my name on my text books and everyone would say: 'What is that?'\"\n\nNow she says she wants to carry on the name for another generation. \"That's why when I'm older I'll be naming my children Passchendaele for their middle names.\"\n\nYou can listen to Ella Passchendaele and the story of the \"battle babies\" on BBC Radio 4's PM programme.", "A midwife in Sweden who says she was so overworked she had no time to change her sanitary products has posted an image of her trousers, stained with menstrual blood, to highlight the pressures of her job.\n\nPetra Vinberg Linder uploaded the photo on July 14 on Facebook with the comment: \"Night shift midwife = had three childbirths. You don't have time to pee or change sanitary products. Thanks and goodnight,\"\n\nMost of the reaction to the Facebook post was positive as Ms Linder was applauded for highlighting the demand on nurses and midwives in Sweden following cuts to some maternity services.\n\nThere has also been recent mounting concern at reports in Sweden of women being turned away from overcrowded maternity wards or being forced to drive long distances to give birth.\n\nIn the northern Swedish town of Sollefteå pregnant woman have to travel up to two hours to give birth after the local hospital's maternity unit was closed in January as part of wider health cuts. As a result, some couples have taken courses on how to give birth in a car.\n\nIn Spain in April this year, a Spanish police officer began a procedure for alleged harassment following a row over her abandoning her duty for 5-10 minutes because she was menstruating.\n\nMidwife Petra Vinberg Linder posted this image of her menstrual blood stained scrubs\n\nMs Linder told the BBC: \"The picture was just for my friends but when I woke up it had been shared widely and I had many messages of support.\n\n\"We need more midwives and clinics and the politicians need to wake up to this. We love our jobs but we are struggling with the heavy workload and unsure about our future.\"\n\nThe Swedish Government has allocated £45 million to improve maternity care including a new maternity project in which new mums or woman at risk of complications will be assigned a midwife for the duration of their pregnancy.\n\nResponding to Ms Linder's image one Facebook user commented: \"I don't know you, you showed up in my feed but you're worth all the admiration and it's not OK that care is so undermanned. Not for you or your patients. Thank you!\"\n\nAnother posted: \"Thank you for daring to show this. Amazing post, strong tough woman.\"\n\nHowever, there were some who thought such an image of menstruation blood was unnecessary. One user commented: \"Some things you just shouldn't share. Sure this is happening, but it's not something people want to see.\"\n• None Swedes set to occupy closing maternity ward which inspired 'car birth' course - The Local The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Two years after Cecil the lion was killed by a trophy-hunter in Zimbabwe, prompting global outrage, his son has met a similar sad end.\n\nXanda, a six-year-old lion with several young cubs, was shot dead on 7 July.\n\nHe was killed just outside the Hwange National Park in northern Zimbabwe, close to where his father died.\n\nThe lion had been fitted with an electronic tracking collar by Oxford University's Wildlife Conservation Research Unit (WildCRU).\n\nDr Loveridge, a Senior Research Fellow with Oxford's Department of Zoology, secured the collar last October.\n\n\"Xanda was one of these gorgeous Kalahari lions, with a big mane, big body, beautiful condition - a very, very lovely animal. Personally, I think it is sad that anyone wants to shoot a lion, but there are people who will pay money to do that,\" he said.\n\nThe Oxford team are calling for a wider 5km (three-mile) \"no-hunting zone\" around the National Park.\n\nSad inheritance: The much-loved Zimbabwean lion Cecil was killed in 2015\n\nThe BBC's Africa Correspondent, Andrew Harding, reports that at the age of six, Xanda was old enough to be legally targeted by big game hunters.\n\nThese individuals, many from the US, UK and South Africa, pay tens of thousands of pounds for the deadly pursuit - thereby funding the staff who protect other wildlife.\n\nIt is not yet clear who shot Xanda. A professional hunter is said to have reported the death to the authorities and returned the lion's collar.\n\nThe killing comes two years after dentist Walter James Palmer, from Minnesota in the US, sparked an international outcry by killing Cecil, a 13-year-old lion who was a major tourist attraction in the area.\n\nHis home and dentistry practice were targeted by protesters after his identity surfaced in the press.\n\nProtesters left stuffed animals at Walter Palmer's dental practice after it emerged he had shot Cecil\n\nAt the time it was reported that the lion had been shot with a bow and arrow and did not die immediately. He was followed for more than 40 hours before being shot with a rifle.\n\nMr Palmer was believed to have paid $50,000 (£32,000) to hunt a lion in Zimbabwe's largest game reserve.", "A video of Jamel Dunn's last moments appeared on social media\n\nIt is a harrowing video to watch: a man, crying out for help as he struggles to swim in the middle of a Florida pond.\n\nOff camera, the voices of five teens, mocking him.\n\n\"They drowning, what the heck,\" one laughs.\n\n\"Ain't nobody fixing to help you,\" another is heard to say.\n\nAnd, after his head disappeared under the water for the final time: \"Oh, he just died.\"\n\nThe body of Jamel Dunn - a 32-year-old disabled father-of-two - was found in the water three days later, on 12 July.\n\nUp until that point, no one knew where he had gone. No one had called 911 to report a man in trouble. No one even knew anyone had witnessed the drowning until the video emerged on social media, and Dunn's family members saw it.\n\nIts contents have shocked the community in the city of Cocoa, on Florida's east coast. But the teens, aged between 14 and 16, will face no charges, prosecutors have said: there is nothing on the statute books which deal with an incident like this, they say.\n\nThe family have shared this picture of Dunn on a GoFundMe page to help with funeral costs\n\nThe vast majority of states in America do not put a \"duty to rescue\" on their citizens, but 10 do.\n\nBut even these do not cover all instances. Florida is one of the few states to have such a law, but it only covers reporting a sexual battery if witnessed or suspected, according to The Volokh Conspiracy, a blog written mainly by law professors.\n\nIn fact, only a few countries in the world have a law which means people have to help or risk prison time, including Germany, where four people are currently being prosecuted for \"unterlassene Hilfeleistung\" (failure to provide assistance).\n\nAccording to local reports in Germany, last October an 82-year-old man collapsed in a bank in Essen, but was then ignored by other customers, ranging in age from 39 to 62, for the next 20 minutes.\n\nA fifth customer eventually called an ambulance, but it was too late, and the man died a few days later in hospital. No-one in the case has been named.\n\nPerhaps the most high-profile instance of a law like this involved the death of Princess Diana.\n\nSeven photographers were accused of failing to render assistance by French investigators following the 1997 Paris crash which killed the princess, her boyfriend Dodi Al-Fayed and driver Henri Paul.\n\nPhotographers who took pictures immediately after Princess Diana's fatal crash were investigated\n\nThe men had taken photographs rather than helping the dying occupants of the car, it was alleged.\n\nBut after two years of investigation, all charges were dropped against them.\n\nBut why would you have such rules? Surely people should help simply because it is the right thing to do?\n\nSometimes, however, people are more worried about being landed with a bill - or getting into legal trouble.\n\nIn China, that fear is so strong that when a two-year-old girl was struck in a hit-and-run accident in the city of Foshan, Guangdong Province, 18 people ignored her before one person stopped to help.\n\nWang Yue, two, is seen on CCTV before being hit by a vehicle.\n\nWang Yue, who was nicknamed \"Little Yueyue\" by Chinese media, later died in hospital.\n\nThe case sparked a national debate about China's morality, one which reared its head again this year, when a woman was struck by a car but then ignored by pedestrians crossing the road moments later.\n\nBut many social media users understood the decision, according to the New York Times.\n\n\"If I helped her to get up and sent her to the hospital, doctors would ask you to pay the medical bill,\" one wrote. \"Her relatives would come and beat you up indiscriminately.\"\n\nThe teenagers in the Florida case, however, would not have ended up in trouble. Every state in the US has a \"good Samaritan law\", which largely protects those who try to help in an emergency situation from being sued.\n\nBut whether or not this factored into their thinking is unknown. The teens were heard to mention alligators - but that would not have prevented them calling 911.\n\nAs for the moral argument, Yvonne Martinez, the Cocoa Police Department spokeswoman, told Florida Today at least one of the boys did not seem worried by the implications of what they had done.\n\n\"There was no remorse, only a smirk,\" she said.", "A record number of school exclusions were issued to pupils last year for drug and alcohol related issues, new statistics reveal.\n\nFigures show 9,250 permanent and fixed period exclusions for drugs and alcohol were handed out by schools in 2015-16.\n\nA further 2,140 exclusions were issued to pupils for sexual misconduct.\n\nThe government says every child should \"have access to a good school place where they can learn without disruption and feel safe\".\n\nThe figures published by the Department for Education, and analysed by BBC News show an increase over the past decade in the number of exclusions being issued for drugs and alcohol in state-funded schools.\n\nIn the last academic year 9,250 permanent and fixed period exclusions were issued for substance offences compared to 8,580 in 2006-07.\n\nCharly from Sheffield says without help she would have ended up in prison, after being excluded from school\n\nYorkshire and Humber has the highest rate of fixed period exclusions in the country, with more than 50,000 exclusions handed out to children in 2015-16, for a variety of reasons.\n\nLocal charities are working with schools to try and give those children excluded from school a second chance.\n\nTeenager Charly, who has been working with the charity In2Change in Sheffield, said: \"I got kicked out of three schools because I used to hit teachers and students.\n\n\"I was constantly in trouble with the police and to be honest I was like violent dog.\n\n\"Without coming here I'd be in prison.\"\n\nAs the school population has grown, the number of drug and alcohol exclusions is also at its highest rate since 2010.\n\nDrug charities say schools need to place a greater emphasis on teaching children and young people that taking drugs is not a \"social norm\".\n\nMichael O'Toole, of Mentor UK, said: \"We know fewer young people are using drugs but you can't just stand there and warn young people about their dangers.\n\n\"We need to get the message home that the vast majority of people don't take drugs.\"\n\nOverall drug usage amongst young people has been falling over the past decade.\n\nFigures from the England and Wales crime survey show that the number of 16-24 year olds who say they have used drugs in the last year, has fallen from 30% in 1996 to 18% in 2016.\n\n\"Schools need to make sure they have a drugs policy in place to deal with this issue but at the same time we need to make sure those children who are excluded for drug offences don't suffer in the long term,\" Mr O'Toole added.\n\nIn2Change in South Yorkshire work with children and young people who have been excluded from school to turn their lives around\n\nA report from the Institute of Public Policy Research suggests nearly two-thirds of the adult prison population were at some point excluded from school.\n\nHanif Mohammed, a manager at In2Change, was kicked out of his school aged 14 and later jailed for 10 years for manslaughter.\n\n\"Working with these young people is for me partly about redemption, but I can see so much potential in these kids,\" he said.\n\n\"Part of the challenge working with these young people is to get them to realise that education can be their salvation and it can allow them to build a better life\".\n\nA Department for Education spokesperson said: \"The rules are clear that exclusion powers should only be used in particular circumstances and decisions to exclude should be lawful, reasonable and fair.\n\n\"Permanent exclusion should only be used as a last resort, in response to a serious breach, or persistent breaches, of the school's behaviour policy\".", "An airman who disappeared 10 months ago was \"known to sleep in rubbish on a night out\", police have said.\n\nCorrie Mckeague, 23, has not been seen since a night out in Bury St Edmunds last September, when CCTV showed him entering a bin loading bay.\n\nSuffolk Police has confirmed its search of waste at Milton landfill was at an end.\n\nMr Mckeague's family say they are \"devastated\" at the news and disputed claims he would have slept in a bin.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Det Supt Katie Elliott, of Suffolk Police, spoke at a press conference in Martlesham, near Ipswich.\n\nPolice said all the information \"points to the fact Corrie was transported to the landfill\".\n\nDet Supt Katie Elliott said the landfill search for Mr Mckeague had been \"systematic, comprehensive and thorough\".\n\nShe said: \"Corrie had been known to go to sleep in rubbish on a night out. There is no evidence to support any other explanation at this time.\"\n\nCorrie Mckeague's girlfriend April Oliver (centre) announced the birth of their baby daughter on Father's Day\n\nResponding to the news, Corrie's father Martin Mckeague posted a statement on his Facebook page saying: \"The McKeague family in Scotland is devastated by today's announcement.\n\n\"At no point did we think that the search of the site would end this way, and as all the evidence tells us that Corrie is somewhere in that landfill site, we are heartbroken at the thought that we may not be able to bring Corrie home together.\"\n\nHis mother Nicola Urquhart said: \"I have tried really to put my trust in them (the police) but to say I am devastated that they are now saying they think he is still in there but they are going to stop searching, I cannot begin to explain how that makes me feel.\"\n\nShe said she did not believe there was evidence he slept in bins and was \"angry\" at the claim.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDet Supt Elliott said police had spoken to one witness who had previously found Mr Mckeague asleep in a bin and he had been known to previously sleep on park benches, in toilets and stair wells.\n\nAlthough material from the time and place of Mr Mckeague's disappearance has been found at the landfill, the serviceman, from Dunfermline, Fife, has not been discovered.\n\nIn June, Mr Mckeague's girlfriend April Oliver, from Norfolk, gave birth to their daughter.\n\nThe police investigation had established early on that Mr Mckeague's mobile phone tracked the same route, and at the same pace, as a bin lorry on the night of his disappearance.\n\nBut initial inquiries found the rubbish truck was carrying a load of 11kg (1st 10lb), suggesting Mr Mckeague was not on the refuse truck.\n\nThen in March it emerged the true weight of the truck contents was more than 100kg (15st 10lb).\n\nThe error was a \"genuine mistake\", Suffolk Police said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Corrie Mckeague's mother, Nicola Urquhart, spoke of her anguish as the search for the airman was ended\n\nCorrie's mother, Nicola Urquhart, said the initial assurance from police that he was not in the bin lorry had been \"the one thing that was giving me hope that he was still alive\".\n\nPolice say they will now search previously incinerated waste and carry out a review of the investigation for any fresh leads in the case.\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.", "Chuka Umunna was briefly a contender for the Labour leadership in 2015\n\nA UKIP AM has been recorded using a racial slur about an MP in a phone call to a former member of her staff.\n\nNorth Wales AM Michelle Brown was recorded using derogatory comments about Labour MP for Streatham, Chuka Umunna, in a call in May 2016 to her then senior adviser Nigel Williams.\n\nMs Brown said her language was \"inappropriate\" and has apologised.\n\nMr Williams, who was her senior adviser for 12 months, was sacked by Ms Brown in May.\n\nMs Brown, who called Mr Umunna a \"coconut\", was also recorded using an abusive remark about Tristram Hunt, who was then Labour MP for Stoke-on-Trent Central.\n\nMichelle Brown was one of seven politicians elected as UKIP AMs in 2016\n\nIn a statement, Ms Brown said: \"The point I was making is that because of his considerable wealth and privilege, Chuka Umunna cannot possibly understand the difficulties and issues that the average black person faces in this country any more than I can, and I stand by that assertion.\n\n\"I do however accept that the language I used in the private conversation was inappropriate and I apologise to anyone that has been offended by it.\n\n\"As far as the language I used about Mr Hunt is concerned, it was a private conversation and I was using language that friends and colleagues often do when chatting to each other.\"\n\nAn assembly Labour Group spokesman said: \"This is absolutely outrageous language and lays bare the disgusting racism at the heart of UKIP.\n\n\"Anything less than immediate suspension would be a clear endorsement of Michelle Brown's racist slur.\"\n\nTristram Hunt quit as an MP to become the director of London's Victoria and Albert Museum\n\nMs Brown's comments have been referred to the assembly's standards commissioner.\n\nMr Williams said he believed Ms Brown should resign from her seat and UKIP's national executive committee should remove her from the party.\n\n\"You wouldn't expect anyone to say it, let alone somebody in such a position. It's appalling,\" he said.\n\n\"Michelle Brown is not fit for office saying things like that. UKIP HQ should do the right thing. The party does not want people with views like that in the party. End of.\"\n\nUKIP AM David Rowlands said he \"thought we'd put that racist language behind us as a party\".\n\nThe regional AM for South Wales East said: \"It's an inappropriate comment. It's certainly not the kind of language I'd use.\n\n\"I don't know if there's been any provocation but I'm very disappointed that anyone in my party should be using that language.\n\n\"However, it does puzzle me that someone can record and release a private call without the knowledge of the other person.\"\n\nPlaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood said: \"This racism reflects poorly on our parliament - The National Assembly for Wales - and that's why her party should take action on this.\n\n\"No to racism in all its forms. No tolerance on racism in our Assembly.\"\n\nThis is not the first controversy Ms Brown has faced - in February, she was forced to deny claims she had smoked \"recreational drugs\" in a Cardiff Bay hotel room.\n\nHer spokesman said the smell was caused by the AM smoking a strong tobacco product.\n• None UKIP AM faces vote of no confidence", "Mr Gove says leaving the EU will allow Britiain to reform how it cares for the environment\n\nFarm subsidies will have to be earned rather than just handed out in future, the Environment Secretary Michael Gove has said in a speech.\n\nFarmers will only get payouts if they agree to protect the environment and enhance rural life, he will say.\n\nThe move is part of what he calls his vision for a \"green Brexit\".\n\nFarmers’ leaders want the current £3bn total to be spent on the environment, more infrastructure to develop farm businesses, and promoting British food.\n\nThe government has promised to keep overall payments at the same level until 2022.\n\nThe Tenant Farmers' Association - which represents tenant farmers in England and Wales - has called for the same amount of money to remain after that time.\n\nUnder the EU's current Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), farmers are paid based on the amount of land they farm.\n\nHowever, in a speech at WWF's Living Planet Centre in Woking on Friday, Mr Gove said the current system will be abolished after the UK has left the EU.\n\nHe criticised the current system for giving money to some of the UK's wealthiest landowners, for encouraging wastage, and for not recognising \"good environmental practice\".\n\nMr Gove described Brexit as \"a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to reform how we care for our land, our rivers and our seas, how we recast our ambition for our country’s environment, and the planet\".\n\nCritics say under the CAP wealthy UK landowners are given subsidies of up to £3m a year.\n\nThe issue was highlighted last year when BBC News revealed that taxpayers are paying more than £400,000 a year to subsidise a farm where a billionaire Saudi prince breeds racehorses.\n\nThe Newmarket farm of Khalid Abdullah al Saud - owner of the legendary horse Frankel - is among the top recipients of farm grants, along with the Queen.\n\nEnvironmentalists will applaud the promise of change; they blame the CAP for the huge loss of wildlife in the British countryside.\n\nThe question for Mr Gove will be what detailed policy takes its place.\n\nThe Environment Secretary says that CAP puts resources in the hands of the already wealthy\n\nMr Gove said in his speech: “There are very good reasons why we should provide support for agriculture. Seventy per cent of our land is farmed - beautiful landscape has not happened by accident but has been actively managed.\n\n“Agriculture is an industry more susceptible to outside shocks and unpredictable events - whether it’s the weather or disease. So financial assistance and mechanisms which can smooth out the vicissitudes farmers face make sense.\"\n\nHe also expressed a desire to protect the “human ecology” of Britain’s highlands, where farming without subsidy is impossible.\n\nThis won’t please radical environmentalists, who want Mr Gove to save money (and in their view enhance the environment) by letting sheep farming wither, and allowing the uplands to revert to natural forest.\n\nThe Country Land and Business Association, known as the CLA, accepts the need for reform and has launched a plan for a land management contract.\n\nRoss Murray, president of the CLA - which represents owners of land, property and businesses in England and Wales - said there is \"vital work to be done\", including to support farming practices, to manage soils and preserve land.\n\nWhen pressed on whether rich landowners should received public money, he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme he was open to change but practices such as tree planting - which are good for the environment but provide landowners with little benefit - should still be recognised.\n\nAsked if farming subsidies could be reduced in the future, he added: \"In the long term perhaps, but in the meantime I think we're going to have to support farmers who provide public goods which could never be provided by the market.\"\n\nCraig Bennett, head of Friends of the Earth, welcomed the speech, but said: “Current EU rules aimed at tackling air pollution and climate change and protecting our birds, bees and nature must not be watered down, and mechanisms must be put in place to enforce them post-Brexit.\"\n\nNational Farmers' Union (NFU) president Meurig Raymond said that, after leaving the EU, \"it is important that we see a broad and innovative range of measures to ensure farmers continue to deliver all the benefits - for our wellbeing, for our economy and for our environment - that the country enjoys\".\n\nHe added: \"Such a policy needs to be comprehensive, providing support to farmers not just for environmental work, but also to manage risk and volatility, and to improve productivity and resilience among farming businesses.\"\n\nOne crucial question will be who has the final say on proposed developments in the UK's prime wildlife sites. At the moment they are protected by the EU as part of Europe's common heritage. That protection may disappear after Brexit.", "The Times reveals that a woman will become Britain's top judge for the first time.\n\nIt says Lady Hale of Richmond is expected to be confirmed as the next president of the Supreme Court.\n\nThe paper describes her as \"clever, determined and a bit prickly\".\n\nIt points out that some of her comments have made headlines, most notably last year when she said the prevalence of what she called \"boring old farts\" in the judiciary meant there was more consistency in court rulings.\n\nMany of the papers continue to focus on the fallout from the BBC's publication of presenters' wages.\n\nThe front page headline in the Daily Mail is \"shameless BBC stars are still dodging their tax\".\n\nThe paper accuses some of the corporation's stars of having their salaries channelled into companies \"so they can avoid tax\".\n\nIn its leader, the Mail argues that the BBC is \"wedded to a funding model which is both horribly antiquated, and frankly unsustainable\".\n\nThe Financial Times wades into the debate about the preponderance of men among the BBC's highest earners.\n\nIts leader says that \"for a public corporation that often investigates inequality in business and government, these are ugly headlines\".\n\nBut it believes the controversy will have served a valid purpose if the disclosures lead to public discussion about the pay gap.\n\nThere is a range of opinions on the story in the letters pages.\n\nOne person writes to the i newspaper saying: \"The kerfuffle about BBC salaries and gender is useless unless we have real comparisons with ITV, Sky and various other broadcasters.\"\n\nA letter in the Guardian suggests that, in the interests of transparency, whenever a politician is interviewed on television their salary and the salary of the presenter should appear on the screen.\n\nThe leader in the Daily Express considers the plight of Sir Andrew Morris, the chief executive of Frimley NHS Trust.\n\nHe has provoked a backlash by saying publicly that \"blokes die off earlier because they're nagged to death by the other half\".\n\nHe later apologised for the remark.\n\nUnder the headline \"boss's trouble and strife\", the Express says: \"Let's hope for Sir Andrew's sake that at the very least his wife Linda saw the funny side.\"\n\nThe Sun is one of several papers to comment on the appointment of Sir Vince Cable as the leader of the Liberal Democrats.\n\nIn its opinion column, the paper argues that the party is still recovering from its U-turn on university tuitions fees when it formed part of the coalition government.\n\nSun goes on to suggest that Sir Vince is the \"perfect leader of a party devoid of firm principle\" because he backs a second EU referendum, having once described such a poll as an \"insult to voters\".\n\nFinally, the Daily Telegraph has details of a controversy at Lord's cricket ground.\n\nIt explains that until now, cricket fans have been able to bring as many alcoholic drinks into the venue as they wanted.\n\nTraditionally these have been consumed with picnics in the Harris Garden.\n\nHowever, the paper says that due to what it describes as \"an alcohol-fuelled bust-up\" during the recent Test against South Africa, the relaxed policy may be \"whacked for six\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. It's the first news conference Police Chief Janee Harteau has held since the fatal shooting\n\nThe fatal shooting of an Australian woman by a Minneapolis police officer \"should not have happened\", the city's police chief has said.\n\nJustine Damond, originally from Sydney, was shot when she approached a police car after reporting a suspected rape.\n\nA lawyer for Ms Damond's family has called it \"ludicrous\" to suggest the two officers inside feared an ambush.\n\nMinneapolis Police Chief Janee Harteau said the killing was \"the actions and judgement of one individual\".\n\nOfficer Mohamed Noor, who shot Ms Damond in the abdomen in an upmarket neighbourhood of the city, has refused to be interviewed by investigators, as is his legal right.\n\n\"The actions in question go against who we are as a department, how we train and the expectations we have for our officers,\" Chief Harteau told reporters in Minneapolis.\n\n\"I want to assure Justine's family our community and those in Australia that I will do everything in my power to ensure due process is followed and justice is served.\"\n\nBody cameras, which are worn by all Minneapolis police, had not been turned on at the time of the shooting and the squad car dashboard camera also failed to capture the incident.\n\nChief Harteau said the cameras worn by Officers Noor and Matthew Harrity \"should have been activated\".\n\n\"An officer should have them on and that is what we are trying to identify,\" Chief Harteau said.\n\n\"We want to do everything we can in training and in our policy to ensure that they are put on before an officer arrives at the scene.\"\n\nFred Bruno, the lawyer for Officer Harrity has said: \"It is reasonable to assume an officer in that situation would be concerned about a possible ambush.\"\n\nHowever Robert Bennett, who represents Ms Damond's family, said the yoga instructor was in her pyjamas when she approached the police and \"was not a threat to anyone\".\n\nMr Bennett told CBS News: \"I think that [the ambush fear] is ludicrous. It's disinformation. It doesn't have any basis in fact.\"\n\nHe added: \"She obviously wasn't armed, was not a threat to anyone, and nor could she have reasonably been perceived to be.\"\n\nOn Thursday, a statement from Ms Damond's family said: \"All we want to do is bring Justine home to Australia to farewell her in her hometown among family and friends.\n\n\"We are still trying to come to terms with this tragedy and we are struggling to understand how and why this could happen.\"\n\nOn Wednesday, police released the transcript of two separate 911 calls Ms Damond made after hearing screams nearby.\n\n\"I'm not sure if she's having sex or being raped,\" she told the police operator, before giving her address.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"I think she just yelled out 'help', but it's difficult, the sound has been going on for a while,\" she continued.\n\nMs Damond called back eight minutes later to ensure police had the correct address.\n\nChief Harteau said she understood why the incident could make some people more reluctant to call 911.\n\n\"Although disheartening, I understand the fear and why it exists. This has had a negative impact on the community trust we have built,\" she said.\n\nHennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman has said he will decide whether to charge the police officer.", "Linkin Park singer Chester Bennington, who has died aged 41, changed the dynamics of nu metal with his searingly personal lyrics and musical curiosity.\n\nLinkin Park weren't the first band to fuse metal and rap, but they were the most successful.\n\nTheir first album, Hybrid Theory, was certified diamond in the US, representing 10 million sales. Around the world, they sold more than 50 million records.\n\nWhat set them apart from other nu metal acts like Korn and Limp Bizkit was the vocal interplay between its two frontmen.\n\nChester Bennington's guttural screams tussled with Mike Shinoda's matter-of-fact rapping in a volatile expression of rage and frustration, while DJ Joseph Hahn framed the band's thrashing guitars with sampled dystopian soundscapes.\n\nMusically, they were miles apart from the sense-dulling artlessness of many of their contemporaries, inspired by contemporary Asia, postmodernism and sample culture. They weren't afraid to show their vulnerability on songs like Numb and In The End.\n\nLinkin Park released a collaborative EP with Jay-Z, and invited grime star Stormzy onto their latest album, One More Light - a brave, if not entirely successful, venture into mainstream pop.\n\nThey never swore on record until 2007's Minutes to Midnight (something which boosted their commercial ascent); their lyrics were vivid enough without curse words.\n\n\"There's something inside me that pulls beneath the surface / Consuming, confusing / This lack of self-control I fear is never ending,\" he sang on Crawling, a single from their debut album.\n\n\"I tried so hard and got so far,\" he sang on their biggest hit, In The End, \"but in the end, it doesn't even matter.\"\n\nBennington was candid about the dark times that inspired these songs - he was molested as a child, and later struggled with drug and alcohol problems.\n\n\"I literally hated life,\" he told Rock Sound in 2015. \"I was like, 'I don't want to have feelings. I want to be a sociopath. I don't want to do anything. I don't want to care what other people feel like. I want to feel nothing.'\"\n\nAs a result, Bennington often sang as if he was fighting for his life and, sometimes, it felt like he was winning. \"Every scar is a story I can tell,\" he sang on Sharp Edges, released earlier this year.\n\nIn retrospect, it's tempting (and easy) to find hints of suicidal thoughts in Bennington's lyrics - but that detracts from the complexity of his writing, which could be fragile and empathetic as often as it was angst-ridden.\n\nOutside of music, he tried to be a force for positivity, too - setting up the fund Music for Relief with the rest of Linkin Park, and playing a range of concerts to raise money for victims of disasters such as Hurricane Katrina and the 2004 tsunami.\n\nOn their latest album, the band teamed up with a charity installing solar panels in communities without electricity in Africa, Haiti and Jordan.\n\nThe lyrics to the title track, too, saw Bennington reach out to fans suffering depression like his own: \"If they say / Who cares if one more light goes out? / Well I do.\"\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.", "Wirapol Sukphol was seen flying in a private aircraft in a YouTube video released in 2013\n\nIt was a jarring image; a group of Buddhist monks, with shaven heads and orange robes, sitting back in the soft-leather seats of an executive jet, passing luxury accessories among themselves.\n\nThe video of the monk, now known by his pre-monk name, Wirapol Sukphol, went viral after being posted on YouTube in 2013.\n\nA subsequent investigation by the Thai Department of Special Investigations (DSI) uncovered a lifestyle of what appeared to be mind-blowing decadence. They tracked down at least 200 million Thai baht ($6m; £4.6m) in ten bank accounts, and the purchase of 22 Mercedes Benz cars.\n\nWirapol had built a mansion in southern California, owned a large and gaudily-decorated house in his home town of Ubon Ratchathani, and had also constructed a giant replica of the famous Emerald Buddha statue in Bangkok's royal palace, which he claimed - falsely, as it turned out - contained nine tonnes of gold.\n\nThere was evidence, too, the DSI said, of sexual relationships with a number of women. One woman claimed he had fathered a child with her when she was only 15 years old, a claim the DSI says is supported by DNA analysis.\n\nWirapol fled to the US. It took four years for the Thai authorities to secure his extradition. He has denied criminal charges of fraud, money laundering and rape.\n\nHow had a monk acquired so much influence, even in his early twenties? How was he allowed to behave in ways which clearly violate the patimokkha (the 227 precepts by which monks are supposed to live)? Monks are not even supposed to touch money, and sex is strictly off-limits.\n\nMonks behaving badly are nothing new in Thailand. The temptations of modern life have thrown up many examples of monks with unseemly wealth, monks taking drugs, dancing, enjoying sexual relations with men and women or abusing girls and boys.\n\nThere are also temples which have attracted large and dedicated followings, through skilful promotion of charismatic monks and abbots, said to have supernatural powers.\n\nThese have capitalised on two aspects of modern Thai life; the yearning for spiritual succour among urban Thais, who no longer have a close relationship with a traditional village temple, and a belief that donating generously to powerful temples will bring success and more material wealth.\n\nIt appears Wirapol tapped into this trend. He arrived in the poor North Eastern province of Sisaket in the early 2000s, establishing a monastery on donated land in the village of Ban Yang. But according to the sub-district head, Ittipol Nontha, few local people went to his temple, because they were too poor to offer the kind of donations he expected.\n\nWirapol was questioned as part of an investigation by the DSI\n\nThe monk started holding elaborate ceremonies, he said, selling amulets, and built his replica of the Emerald Buddha, to attract wealthier devotees from other parts of the country.\n\nThese followers have described being beguiled by his soft, warm voice, and convinced by his claim to have powers - like the ability to walk on water and talk to deities. In turn, Wirapol gave generously to those with influence in the province; many of the cars he bought were gifts for important monks and officials.\n\nEven today he still has supporters, who argue he is at heart a good man, entitled to enjoy donated luxuries.\n\nAfter a succession of scandals, people are openly talking about a crisis of Buddhism in Thailand. Numbers of ordained monks have been falling steeply in recent years, and many smaller village temples are unable to support themselves financially.\n\nThe body which is supposed to govern the Buddhist clergy is the Supreme Sangha Council, but this comprises a group of very elderly monks, and until this year had not had a properly functioning Supreme Patriarch for more than a decade. It has proved ineffective.\n\nThe National Office of Buddhism is also supposed to regulate the religion, but it too has been plagued by leadership turmoil and allegations of financial irregularities.\n\nThe government has now introduced a law requiring temples, which collectively accumulate $3-4bn (£2-3bn) in donations every year, to publicise their financial records. It is also talking about introducing a new, digital ID card for monks to ensure those tainted by malpractice cannot be ordained again.\n\nThe faltering morality of monks, though, is partly rooted in the way Buddhism has evolved in Thailand.\n\nFor 150 years there have been two quite different forms of Buddhism; that of the more austere, Thammayut tradition, practised in the elite, palace-backed temples of Bangkok, which upholds the strict rules about monks detaching themselves from the material world; and the looser Mahanikai tradition of the provinces, where monks are part of the community, joining neighbourhood activities, sometimes in violation of the patimokkhai.\n\nIn the villages, temples have served as schools or traditional centres of medicine and venues for local celebrations. The advice of monks has been sought on a range of worldly issues; in this environment the line between what is and is not acceptable behaviour can become blurred.\n\nThe other source of the problem is the hold that superstition has over many Thais, and the way this has become commercialised.\n\nMonks are these days often used more as deliverers of semi-religious rituals - like blessing new cars or houses for good luck - than practitioners of the 227 precepts. No-one in Thailand bats an eyelid at the sight of lottery tickets being sold inside temples.\n\nBuddhist monks are not supposed to touch money, and sex is strictly off-limits\n\nThis love of superstition extends to rich Thais, who are happy to donate generously in the belief this will ensure greater fortune in the future.\n\nPhra Payom Kalayano, the abbot of a temple north of Bangkok well known for his criticism of the commercialisation of Buddhism, has appealed to Thais to be more thoughtful about donating.\n\n\"Nowadays people think good karma is about throwing money at temples - especially rich people. They have faith, but they don't think. That is not practising good karma, smartly. That is just blind faith.\n\n\"At the same time, some monks are stupid. They don't know how to manage the donations they receive. Instead of managing the money to build karma and prestige for the temple, the monks end up building criminal cases against themselves,\" he said.\n\nIn a simpler age, before the arrival of globalisation and its many consumer distractions, it was easier to advocate a monastic life that disavows all material pleasures. But it is harder today to insist that monks should forego technological conveniences like smartphones and air travel.\n\nIt is even harder to define what role monks should play in 21st Century Thailand, beyond the provision of services like amulets and good luck blessings, which can so easily turn into a money-making business.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. At least two people were killed in the tourist destination of Kos\n\nA strong earthquake in the Aegean Sea has killed at least two people on the Greek island of Kos, officials say.\n\nThe 6.7-magnitude quake hit 12km (seven miles) north-east of Kos, near the Turkish coast, with a depth of 10km, the US Geological Survey said.\n\nOn Kos, around 115 people were injured, including tourists - 12 of them seriously. Some buildings were damaged.\n\nTurkey's health minister said 358 were hurt in the Turkish city of Bodrum, but none seriously.\n\nThe earthquake struck at 01:31 on Friday (22:31 GMT Thursday).\n\nThe two deceased have not been named but police said that both victims were tourists - a 22-year-old from Sweden and a 39-year-old from Turkey.\n\nThey died when the roof of a popular bar collapsed, police said.\n\nDozens were wounded when buildings collapsed, some of them suffering broken bones, Kos regional government official Giorgos Halkidios said.\n\nThe army is supporting the emergency services with the rescue operation, he added.\n\nGreek authorities said the 12 people seriously injured included tourists from Turkey, Sweden and Norway. Four were taken to Crete for treatment, and three to Athens.\n\nThe director of the hospital in Crete told Greek Skai TV that one person was in a critical condition, while a Swedish tourist had lost a leg.\n\nThe quake damaged a number of older buildings on the island of Kos\n\nLarge cracks appeared on pathways near a port on Kos\n\nThe Turkish foreign ministry said a ferry had been sent to evacuate 200 Turkish nationals from Kos back to Bodrum.\n\nData from Turkey's disaster and emergency management authority, AFAD, showed that more than 40 aftershocks were felt in Turkey and Greece in the aftermath of the quake, some up to magnitude 4.6.\n\nBritish student Naomi Ruddock felt the earthquake in Kos, where she is on holiday with her mother.\n\n\"We were asleep and we just felt the room shaking. The room moved. Literally everything was moving. And it kind of felt like you were on a boat and it was swaying really fast from side to side, you felt seasick.\"\n\nMs Ruddock said that a staff member told her it was the worst earthquake the area had seen.\n\n\"All of a sudden it felt like a train was going right through the room,\" German tourist Vernon Hausman told Reuters.\n\n\"I told my son: 'Looks like an earthquake, so let's get the hell out of here.'\"\n\nKos was nearest to the epicentre of the quake and appeared to be the worst hit, with damage caused to a number of older buildings, including cracked walls and smashed windows.\n\nOfficials say some of the damaged properties may not have been earthquake-proof\n\nTourists headed to Kos airport after evacuating hotels and apartments\n\nThe mayor said the buildings that suffered the most damage were built before \"earthquake building codes\" were introduced.\n\n\"The rest of the island has no problem. It's only the main town that has a problem,\" Mayor Giorgos Kyritsis said.\n\nKos's port was put out of action, and a ferry was unable to dock due to damage at the harbour, Greek police said.\n\nTourists later gathered outside terminal buildings at Kos airport having left their hotels and apartments.\n\nIn Turkey, some witnesses described waking in the night after being violently shaken in their beds.\n\nKristian Stevens, a British tourist in Didim, 90km (60 miles) from Bodrum, said the building he was in began to \"shake like a jelly\".\n\nResidents fled their homes and tourists ran from holiday apartments with pillows and blankets. Some sustained injuries after jumping from windows in panic, Turkish broadcaster NTV said.\n\nSophie Wild, another British tourist in Turkey, said she fled her third-floor accommodation in the coastal town of Altinkum, about 40km from Bodrum (as the crow flies), when she woke to a loud banging noise.\n\n\"People were running out of rooms, banging on people's doors to make sure they were out,\" Ms Wild told the Press Association, adding: \"Everyone just ran outside.\"\n\n\"It was a lucky escape and it could have been much worse,\" said Issa Kamara, 38, a personal trainer at the city's Maca Kizi hotel.\n\nAt a hospital in Bodrum, the wounded were being treated in the garden as a precaution after the quake caused slight damage to parts of the hospital ceiling, the Hurriyet Daily News reports.\n\nThe earthquake also triggered high waves off Gumbet, a resort town near Bodrum, which flooded roads and left parked cars stranded, Turkish media report. There were no reports of casualties there.\n\nCars were lifted on to curbs by high waves at the resort town of Gumbet in Turkey\n\nTurkey and Greece sit on significant fault lines and are regularly hit by earthquakes.\n\nOne of the deadliest in recent years hit the heavily populated northwest of Turkey, in 1999, killing some 17,000 people.", "Levonelle can be taken within three days of having unprotected sex\n\nBoots has been accused of refusing to cut the cost of one of its morning-after pills for fear of criticism from campaigners.\n\nThe British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS), which provides abortion care, wants Boots and other pharmacies to reduce the cost of emergency contraception Levonelle.\n\nBoots told the BPAS it wanted to avoid \"incentivising inappropriate use\".\n\nThe company said it was \"disappointed by the focus\" BPAS had taken.\n\nCurrently, the progestogen-based drug Levonelle costs £28.25 in Boots, and its non-branded equivalent is £26.75.\n\nBut the branded drug costs £13.50 at Tesco and a generic version is £13.49 in Superdrug.\n\nHowever, Superdrug charges £27 for Levonelle and £35 for an alternative emergency contraceptive pill, EllaOne.\n\nBPAS lobbied Boots to reduce the cost of the pill to make it more accessible for women having difficulty getting the drug quickly on the NHS.\n\nClare Murphy, BPAS director of external affairs, said: \"Most people believe women should be able to access emergency contraception from pharmacies at an affordable price.\"\n\nBut the chief pharmacist at Boots UK, Marc Donovan, said: \"In our experience, the subject of [emergency hormonal contraception] polarises public opinion and we receive frequent contact from individuals who voice their disapproval of the fact that [Boots] chooses to provide this service.\n\n\"We would not want to be accused of incentivising inappropriate use, and provoking complaints, by significantly reducing the price of this product.\"\n\nHe added that the chemist wanted to avoid the pill \"being misused or overused\".\n\nMP Yvette Cooper told Boots on Twitter: \"This is patronising and pathetic - keeping emergency contraception price too high cos you don't trust women and are scared of critics.\"\n\nWhen asked to explain their stance, Boots released a statement saying the price of emergency contraception included \"a professional healthcare consultation\".\n\nIt said: \"This consultation helps support customers in their choice by examining an individual's full medical history and any potential drug interactions.\"\n\nSandra Gidley, chair of Royal Pharmaceutical Society England, said it wanted to see all community pharmacies in England supplying emergency contraception free through the NHS.\n\n\"NHS emergency contraception services have been available free through pharmacies in Scotland and Wales for some time and we would like to see that replicated across the whole of the country so women get better access, regardless of their ability to pay.\"\n\nThe morning after pill can be taken in the days after unprotected sex to prevent pregnancy.\n\nIn England, Levonelle and EllaOne are free of charge from most sexual health clinics, most GP surgeries and most NHS walk-in centres or urgent care centres - but they are free only to women in certain age groups from pharmacies in some parts of the country.\n\nIn Scotland and Wales, the emergency contraceptive pill is available free of charge on the NHS from pharmacies, GPs and sexual health clinics.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, some pharmacies allow it to be bought on the NHS, and it is available free of charge from sexual health clinics and GPs.", "Ms Martínez (right) says she was born in 1956 as a result of an affair between Dalí and her mother\n\nSalvador Dalí's moustache is intact in the \"10 past 10\" position, the surrealist painter's foundation has said, a day after his body was exhumed.\n\n\"It was like a miracle,\" said Narcis Bardalet, who was in charge of embalming Dalí's body 28 years ago, adding that the hair was also intact.\n\nThe body was exhumed in the north-eastern Spanish city of Figueres to settle a paternity case.\n\nA woman says her mother had an affair with the world-famous artist.\n\nIf María Pilar Abel Martínez is proved right, she could assume part of Dalí's estate, currently owned by the Spanish state.\n\nDalí's body was exhumed from a crypt in a museum dedicated to his life and work on Thursday evening.\n\n\"When I took off the silk handkerchief, I was very emotional,\" Mr Bardalet told RAC1 radio station on Friday morning.\n\n\"I was eager to see him and I was absolutely stunned. It was like a miracle... his moustache appeared at 10 past 10 exactly and his hair was intact,\" he added.\n\nLluís Peñuelas, the secretary of the Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation, said that it was \"a moving moment\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDNA samples have been taken from the artist's teeth, bones and nails in a four-hour operation, the officials say.\n\nIt may take weeks before the results of the tests are known.\n\nThe exhumation went ahead following a court order on behalf of Ms Martínez.\n\nThis was despite the objections of the local authorities and the Dalí Foundation, both of which said that not enough notice had been given.\n\nMs Martínez, a tarot card reader who was born in 1956, says her mother had an affair with Dalí in the year before her birth.\n\nHer mother, Antonia, had worked for a family that spent time in Cadaqués, near the painter's home.\n\nMs Martínez's action is against the Spanish state, to which Dalí left his estate.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Will Gompertz explained how Dali's body would be removed\n\nMs Martínez says her mother and paternal grandmother both told her at an early age that Dalí was her real father.\n\nBut the claim has surprised many, including Ian Gibson, an Irish-born biographer of Dalí, who said that the notion of the artist having an affair that produced a child was \"absolutely impossible\".\n\n\"Dalí always boasted: 'I'm impotent, you've got to be impotent to be a great painter',\" the biographer said.\n\nDalí's wife, Gala, died in 1982 - after which he is said to have lost much of his zest for life", "Lady Hale is the first female president of the UK's highest court\n\nForthright in her views and a champion of diversity, Baroness Hale is a trailblazer whose life has been full of firsts.\n\nBorn in Yorkshire, Brenda Hale is a grammar school girl whose parents were both head teachers.\n\nShe achieved the only starred first in her year at the University of Cambridge, before going on to be the youngest person and first woman to be appointed to the Law Commission.\n\nLady Hale played a significant role in introducing a number of reforms to the law, including the Children Act 1989, which is widely acknowledged as the UK's most important piece of legislation protecting children.\n\nIn 2004, she became the first woman to be appointed as a Law Lord.\n\nWhen the Law Lords - who had sat in parliament as the Appellate Committee of the House of Lords - were given a new home in 2009, with the establishment of the UK Supreme Court, she became its first female justice.\n\nIn 2013, she became its first deputy president and today becomes its first female president.\n\nBut her route to becoming the most senior judge in the UK has been anything but conventional.\n\nUnlike her fellow Supreme Court justices, Lady Hale spent many years in academia rather than legal practice. She remains an educator to the core.\n\nIn 1966, she became an assistant lecturer at the University of Manchester, where her interests were in social welfare and family law.\n\nShe remained at the university for 18 years while also qualifying as a barrister.\n\nIt is no surprise that she did so by achieving the highest mark in her year in the Bar Final exams in 1969.\n\nShe followed this by developing a part-time practice in family law, which she managed to combine with her academic work.\n\nWith her burgeoning CV, it was perhaps only a matter of time before she was appointed a judge in the family division of the High Court.\n\nShe was the first academic - yet another first - to achieve such a move in 1994.\n\nShe continued to play a role in legislative reforms, such as the introduction of the Family Law Act 1996, which covered domestic violence, and the Mental Health Act 2005.\n\nLady Hale, front left, had been deputy president of the Supreme Court\n\nLady Hale has always been acutely aware of the need for judges to be drawn from a diverse group within society.\n\nShe has been all too conscious that diversity has been a stubbornly difficult problem for the judiciary to overcome and that it remains a major issue.\n\nFigures on judicial diversity released on Thursday show some progress in the last three years among senior judges.\n\nThe percentage of female judges in the Court of Appeal has risen from 18% to 24%, and from 18% to 22% in the High Court.\n\nBut there is still a woeful lack of diversity, with just 28% of court judges being female and only 7% coming from black and minority ethnic backgrounds.\n\nShortly after her appointment as the first female Law Lord in 2004, while speaking in a lecture, she said the gender and ethnicity of judges matters \"because democracy matters\".\n\n\"We are the instrument by which the will of Parliament and government is enforced upon the people. It does matter that judges should be no less representative of the people than the politicians and civil servants who govern us.\"\n\nBut she hasn't always been so diplomatic.\n\nIn 2011, with typical candour, she said she found it \"quite shocking\" that so many senior judges were members of the all-male Garrick Club, a private members' club in London's West End.\n\nShe suggested its popularity might contribute to male dominance of the bench, thanks to \"personal network relationships\".\n\nShe has talked about the background of her fellow senior judges, who have moved from public school to Oxbridge colleges, to the Inns of Court, as being \"from quadrangle, to quadrangle, to quadrangle\".\n\nShe acknowledges that she herself is part of the quadrangle by dint of going to Cambridge.\n\nLast year, the Supreme Court ruled against the government in the Article 50 case\n\nAs a Supreme Court justice she has been the court's magnetic north on matters of family law.\n\nIn 2011, in the housing case Yemshaw v LB Hounslow, she gave the lead judgement ruling that domestic violence was not limited to physical violence.\n\nIn 2014, she effectively broadened the definition of what amounts to a deprivation of liberty for those who lack mental capacity and are detained in care homes and other institutions, writing famously in her judgement that \"a gilded cage is still a cage\".\n\nThere has also been controversy.\n\nLady Hale was criticised by Brexiteers for comments in a lecture to students in Malaysia, in which she appeared to speculate on aspects of legal questions in the Article 50 case before it had been heard by the court.\n\nShe was forced to say publicly that she would not recuse herself from the case.\n\nMost importantly, she will have to steward the UK Supreme Court through the Brexit and post-Brexit period in which it will have to determine the weight to be given to decisions of the European Court of Justice.\n\nThe UK's relationship with what is in effect the Supreme Court of the EU remains highly contentious, and the eyes of the pro-Brexit press, in particular, will focus laser-like on decisions of our own Supreme Court on issues of EU law.\n\nIf she receives some personal criticism in the press, that will not be a first.", "A man has been found guilty of murder after battering his partner's five-year-old son to death in a park for losing a trainer.\n\nMarvyn Iheanacho, 39, subjected Alex Malcolm to a brutal attack in Mountsfield Park, Catford, south-east London, on 20 November last year.\n\nWitnesses heard a \"child's fearful voice saying sorry\", loud banging and a man screaming about the loss of a shoe, Woolwich Crown Court was told.\n\nHe will be sentenced on Tuesday.\n\nWitnesses in the park heard a \"child's fearful voice\", loud banging and a man screaming about the loss of a shoe\n\nThe jury heard Iheanacho, of Hounslow, was in a relationship with Alex's mother Lilya Breha and would often stay in her flat in Catford.\n\nMs Breha nodded as the verdict was announced and quietly wept in court.\n\nAlex suffered fatal head and stomach injuries and died in hospital two days after the attack.\n\nOne of his trainers was later found in the play area by police.\n\nOne of Alex's trainers was later found in the play area by police\n\nIheanacho, who was known to Alex as \"Daddy Mills\", admitted beating the boy before in a note in his diary which read: \"Do I really love Alex, five years old small cute lil boy.\n\n\"Who want nothing more, than daddy mills to love him protect him but most of all keep him from harm - even though I had to beat him just now for sicking up in the cab - why why why I say - so the answer is yes yes yes I love him and like with all my heart but may not enough.\"\n\nIheanacho, who denied murder, gave several different accounts of how the injuries were caused including that Alex fell off a climbing frame, which were all rejected by the jury.\n\nRob Davis, district crown prosecutor, CPS London Homicide, said: \"Only Marvyn Iheanacho knows how Alex was fatally wounded but it is certain his anger boiled over at some point on that evening.\n\n\"His actions that day tragically ended a young boy's life and deprived a mother of her son.\n\n\"His efforts to cover up what really happened, first to Alex's mother by claiming Alex had simply fainted and hit his head, then by lying and repeatedly changing his story to police show his greatest concern was for himself.\"\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. One witness said the crash sounded like a plane exploding\n\nTen people have been taken to hospital with injuries of \"varying severity\" after a taxi drove into people at Boston's Logan airport, police say.\n\nThe driver jumped the kerb and struck fellow cab drivers who were sitting awaiting their next fares, police said.\n\nAccording to US media, the driver told police he mistakenly stepped on the accelerator instead of the brake.\n\nThe incident, on the eve of the Independence Day holiday in the US, was not believed to be terrorism-related.\n\nMajor Frank McGinn of Massachusetts State Police said one of the victims remains in serious condition, three had significant injuries and six others suffered less serious injuries.\n\nThe driver is reported to be a 56-year-old man from Cambridge, Massachusetts\n\nAll the victims appeared to be cab drivers, he added.\n\nThe driver, who is reported to be a 56-year-old man from Cambridge, Massachusetts, stayed at the scene to co-operate with police.\n\nMaj McGinn told reporters the crash appeared to be \"just a tragic accident\".\n\nHe said the unidentified driver is known to be a \"very nice gentlemen from his peers\" and was thought to have been alone in the vehicle at the time.\n\nPolice have seized the cab and the cause of the crash remains under investigation, state police said in a statement.\n\n\"At this preliminary point in the investigation, there is no information that suggests the crash was intentional,\" the statement said.", "The public sector pay cap remains top of the agenda for several of Tuesday's newspapers.\n\nAccording to the Guardian, a report for the government's pay advisers has revealed the scale of salary cuts during a decade of freezes - teachers have seen average pay fall by £3 an hour in real terms and police officers by £2 an hour, while the wages of nurses stagnated.\n\nThe paper says the academic analysis was \"quietly\" published on Monday, and talks of the prime minister facing a \"cabinet showdown\" over the issue.\n\nThe Daily Mirror also predicts a \"Tory revolt\" and tells Prime Minister Theresa May: \"take the cap off\".\n\n\"Now put your money where your mouth is,\" says the paper's front-page headline, \"give heroes a decent rise\".\n\nThe Daily Mail says Chancellor Philip Hammond is refusing to budge on the issue.\n\nThe Sun reckons Tory MPs and ministers demanding a lift to public sector pay have \"lost the plot\".\n\nWriting in the same paper, the former Tory chancellor, Lord Lamont, tells his party to \"get a grip\". Control of public expenditure, he says, is the foundation of jobs growth in the future.\n\nThe Times says it's learnt that ministers are pushing to delay or abandon a series of tax cuts to fund an increase in public sector pay.\n\nIt reports that the chancellor is being urged to scrap commitments to reduce corporation tax and increase thresholds for the personal allowance and 40% income tax rate.\n\nAn editorial in the Daily Telegraph says the \"cacophony of Tory opinions must stop\", as it is giving the impression of an administration all at sea.\n\nThe Daily Mail says it's seen secret files revealing that NHS officials in the 1970s knew for at least five years that haemophilia patients were being given contaminated blood.\n\nNewly unearthed minutes of meetings held in the 1980s are said to show that officials consciously put patients at risk in a scandal which cost 2,000 lives.\n\nScientists were so sure the blood was dangerous, the Mail says, that they even planned to use victims as guinea pigs to develop a new test for hepatitis.\n\nThe Telegraph leads on an article inside by Lord Grade, who heads the new Fundraising Regulator for charities.\n\nCharities that pester donors for cash face being fined up to £25,000 under new rules introduced this week. Lord Grade says many charities are behaving like \"laggards\", refusing to change their behaviour.\n\nThe Sun reports that a man convicted of knife crime who was jailed for nine years has been freed, because court staff wrote nine months on prison forms.\n\nA warrant's been issued for the re-arrest of 25-year-old Ralston Dodd but he's apparently gone into hiding.\n\nA friend tells the paper: \"He feels like he's won the lottery\". The Ministry of Justice says it is \"urgently investigating so we learn the lessons to prevent it happening again\".\n\nFinally, the Daily Express tells readers a blast of heat from the continent is on the way, which will send temperatures \"rocketing\" back to the low 90s Fahrenheit, or more than 30C.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Katie Rough's parents described seeing their dying daughter after the attack\n\nThe girl, who cannot be named for legal reasons, pleaded guilty to manslaughter by diminished responsibility.\n\nKatie was smothered and slashed with a Stanley knife by the teenager on a playing field in Woodthorpe, York, on 9 January. She died later in hospital.\n\nLeeds Crown Court heard the killer suffered with severe mental health issues and was convinced people \"weren't human and were robots\".\n\nKatie's family were in court to hear the guilty plea.\n\nNicholas Johnson QC, defending, asked the court if the charge of murder could be put to the girl again and she wrote her plea on a piece of paper.\n\nHer solicitor told the court: \"I can confirm she has indicated not guilty to murder but guilty to manslaughter.\"\n\nGraham Reeds QC, prosecuting, said: \"We are going to accept that plea of manslaughter by diminished responsibility.\"\n\nKatie Rough died in hospital after suffering serious injuries to her neck and chest\n\nKatie was found on a playing field near Alness Drive, in Woodthorpe, York, on 9 January\n\nMr Reeds said the the defendant had developed severe mental health problems during 2016 and had been taken out of school as a result.\n\nHe said that she had been self harming since Christmas 2015 and suffering from delusions, believing that people around her \"may not be human and may be controlled by a higher and hostile force\".\n\nHe said that although psychosis was being investigated prior to the killing, it had not been diagnosed.\n\nHowever, he said since the killing she had undergone four psychiatric and psychological assessments and there was no dispute that her mental health problems meant she was suffering from diminished responsibility at the time she killed Katie, even though the killing was planned.\n\nHe told the court that when the teenager was found in the street in York by a member of the public, she told him Katie was dead and asked where she was.\n\nThe man then found Katie lying on a nearby piece of land with a cut to her neck.\n\nA post-mortem examination showed Katie had two severe cuts to her body - one to her neck and the other to her torso - but neither caused her death.\n\nThe prosecutor said Katie had been smothered before the cuts were made.\n\nThe court heard the teenager handed police a blood-stained Stanley knife which she had taken from her grandmother's kitchen.\n\nPolice also recovered a number of items from the scene and the teenager's home.\n\nAmong the items were drawings of stick-men in various poses depicting killing and death, and a reference to \"they are not human\".\n\nThe paper was blood-stained and the court heard it had been cut with the same knife used to slash Katie.\n\nMr Reeds said she had displayed \"strange behaviour towards other people and herself\", and had started to self-harm before she killed Katie.\n\nA friend interviewed by police following Katie's death told them she was \"nice but weird\" and said she liked to talk about death.\n\nThe judge, Mr Justice Soole, said he wanted more questions answering by the medical experts before he could pass sentence. He adjourned the case to 20 July.\n\nKatie was described as a \"daddy's girl\"\n\nKatie was a pupil at Westfield Primary School in the Acomb area of York.\n\nIn the days after Katie's death Tracey Ralph, head teacher at the school, described her as a \"kind and thoughtful child who was well-liked by both pupils and staff\".\n\nMore than 300 people attend Katie's funeral service, which took place at York Minister in February and was led by the Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu.\n\nHer coffin was decorated with characters from the Dr Seuss children's books.\n\nHer funeral service was held at York Minster\n\nDuring the service Katie's uncle described her as a \"smart, fun, beautiful child\".\n\nHe said she had selective mutism, but that it did not stop her from having fun.\n\n\"Her family were her world,\" he said.\n\n\"She loved her mum and dad but she was definitely described as a daddy's girl.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Treasury jealously guards its role as keeper of the public purse.\n\nAnd far from the mood since the general election easing on the matter of \"sound money\", the word among senior figures in the department is that now is the time \"to hold our nerve\".\n\nSources close to the chancellor point out that plans to balance the books - meaning that the government only spends as much as it receives in revenues, mostly in taxes - have already been delayed three times since 2010.\n\nThe present target is for the deficit - that difference between government income and expenditure - to be eliminated by 2025.\n\nPhilip Hammond wants to maintain that plan.\n\nHe sticks to a pretty well-known script when asked about increasing public spending.\n\nGovernment wealth, he says, comes from three main areas.\n\nThe first is taxes - which, it is pointed out, the chancellor tried to increase in March, only for plans to raise national insurance contributions to be abandoned when it was revealed that it breached the Conservatives' 2015 manifesto pledge not to increase income tax, national insurance or VAT.\n\nIs increasing taxes any more palatable now?\n\nSecond, borrowing - which the chancellor makes clear means increasing the amount of money that needs to be paid back by future generations.\n\nAnd, finally, an increase in the ability of the economy to create wealth - called productivity.\n\nIt is this last area that is the most important and, conversely, the least open to direct government intervention.\n\nThe Treasury - as much as it might want to - cannot simply demand that the private and public sector becomes more efficient at delivering goods and services.\n\nIt takes time, money and training in skills - none of which the UK has a particularly proud tradition in.\n\nAnd anything that is done by the government - such as increasing investment in infrastructure projects like digital broadband or new railway links - takes a long time to feed through to stronger wealth creation, higher economic growth and higher government tax receipts.\n\nIt is in within such classically \"Treasury\" parameters that Mr Hammond would like to see the present debate on increasing public spending considered.\n\nToday, pressure is growing from Cabinet ministers such as Boris Johnson and Michael Gove for the government to relax its approach to the public sector pay cap, as my colleague Iain Watson reports.\n\nThe Institute for Fiscal Studies estimates that every 1% increase in public sector pay would cost between £1.5 and £2bn a year.\n\nA pay rise for more than five million public sector workers who have seen their real incomes squeezed in the majority of years since the financial crisis is not cost-free.\n\nAnd private sector workers on average still earn 3% to 4% less than public sector workers - although their wages are now rising more rapidly and the gap is closing.\n\nTwo of the major pay review bodies - for the NHS and for schools - have reported increasing problems of recruitment and retention in their sectors.\n\nThat warning is likely to be repeated by the schools review body when it reports later this month.\n\nLast July, it said: \"If current recruitment and retention trends continue, we expect an uplift to the pay framework significantly higher than 1% will be required to ensure an adequate supply of good teachers for schools in England and Wales.\"\n\nThe police pay review body, also expected to report imminently, sees fewer pressures.\n\n\"The general picture on officer recruitment and retention remains healthy,\" it said last year.\n\n\"There are also no issues on the quality of applicants, the number of joiners is meeting requirements and attrition rates are stable.\"\n\nIt does, however, say that \"motivation and morale\" remain a problem.\n\nThe Treasury knows it is in a difficult position - and must be heaving a sigh of relief that the health service pay review body is not due to report until next spring.\n\nAbandoning the pay cap would certainly go some way to alleviating the standard-of-living squeeze felt by so many people.\n\nAnd would be politically popular for a lot of people.\n\nBut Mr Hammond will have plenty of other pleas for increased funding to listen to.\n\nWhat spending demands might flow from the Grenfell fire tragedy?\n\nShould teachers' pay be increased, or is it more important to focus on raising per-pupil funding?\n\nTackling both adds to the bill which someone - the Treasury argues - has to pay now, through higher taxes, in the future, through higher borrowing or via further cuts elsewhere.\n\nSuch trade-offs are the stuff of politics - and the stuff of Budgets, the next of which is not due until November.\n\nMr Hammond might prefer a period of silence from colleagues on spending commitments until then.\n\nBut, with Parliament finely balanced and a prime minister relying on the good will of others to keep her in power, he knows he is not going to get it.", "Mike Ashley was at the High Court for the hearing\n\nSportswear tycoon Mike Ashley once hosted a management meeting in a pub where he drank 12 pints and vomited into a fireplace, a court has heard.\n\nThe Newcastle United owner is being sued by finance expert Jeffrey Blue at London's High Court.\n\nHe claims Mr Ashley often held meetings in pubs, and at one time promised to pay him £15m if he managed to increase Sports Direct's share price to £8.\n\nHe said the billionaire only paid him £1m. Mr Ashley disputes the claim.\n\nMr Justice Leggatt was told the dispute between Mr Blue and Mr Ashley related to an alleged conversation in a London pub called the Horse & Groom in 2013.\n\nJeffrey Chapman QC, who is leading Mr Blue's legal team, told the judge Mr Ashley's business practices flew in the face of \"business orthodoxy\".\n\nMr Blue said he had attended several senior management meetings at another pub, the Green Dragon in Alfreton, Derbyshire.\n\nHe said: \"These meetings were like no other senior management meeting I had ever attended in all my years of investment banking experience.\"\n\nFinance expert Jeffrey Blue said Mr Ashley \"was like no other client\"\n\nDescribing it as a \"pub lock-in\" where fish and chips and kebabs would be brought in after closing time, he said: \"On one such evening, in front of his senior management team, Mr Ashley challenged a young Polish analyst in my team, Pawel Pawlowski, to a drinking competition.\n\n\"Mr Ashley and Pawel would drink pints of lager, with vodka 'chasers' between each pint, and the first to leave the bar area for whatever reason was declared the loser.\n\n\"After approximately 12 pints and chasers Pawel apologised profusely and had to excuse himself.\n\n\"Mr Ashley then vomited into the fireplace located in the centre of the bar, to huge applause from his senior management team.\"\n\nMr Blue said he first met Mr Ashley while working for Merrill Lynch in 2006.\n\n\"Mr Ashley was like no other client that anyone at Merrill Lynch had ever come across,\" he said.\n\n\"By way of example, his ability to express boredom and frustration during client meetings knew no limits, including various episodes where he would lie underneath meeting room tables to 'have a nap'.\"\n\nDavid Cavender QC, who leads Mr Ashley's legal team, told the judge Mr Blue's claim was an \"opportunistic try on\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Constantina Antaniou became a nurse because she loves caring for people.\n\n\"I want to look after people, I'm that type of person - I wanted a profession where I can do this,\" Constantina told the BBC.\n\nShe left what she describes as the \"NHS rat race\" to join a GP surgery, where she has been since September 2016. But after 27 years working in hospitals and as a community nurse, she is leaving her nursing career to work in botox.\n\n\"It's very frustrating when you want to do a job you love but you're not supported, you're not given the resources, you're not valued,\" she explained.\n\nFor the first time since 2008, more nurses and midwives in the UK are leaving the profession than are joining it, figures reveal.\n\nMeanwhile the number of unfilled posts has doubled in three years to 40,000.\n\n\"We work long hours as it is, and on top of that, we hardly get breaks because the lack of staff means we are run off our feet,\" explains Constantina.\n\n\"It was so hard working as a community nurse - I was supposed to work 8am to 5pm, but I often stayed until 8pm and I didn't get overtime.\n\n\"We've been working in unsafe conditions - there aren't enough nurses to fill the shifts because staff are off sick with stress.\n\n\"I was supposed to see 18 people in four and half hours - it is impossible to do that in a safe way.\n\nThe public sector pay cap of 1% a year, in place since 2013 following a two-year pay freeze, has not helped as inflation has outstripped real wages.\n\n\"A lot of us work six day weeks just to make ends meet,\" says Constantina.\n\n\"Now the government has stopped paying bursaries to train new nurses - it's put people off joining.\n\n\"Why get into huge debt to work in a really stressful job with low pay?\"\n\nAfter completing a course in botox administration this year, Constantina says she hopes a new career in cosmetic surgery will be less stressful and more lucrative.\n\n\"I want to work in an area where I can support myself. I might even set up my own business. They told me potential earnings are £50,000 - and I could be my own boss.\n\n\"I'd say to anyone thinking of going into nursing, 'don't bother, it's not worth it anymore'.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nNew Jersey Governor Chris Christie is facing heavy criticism after he was photographed relaxing on a state beach he had ordered closed to the public.\n\nThe Republican gave the go-ahead for non-essential services to be shut down - including the Island State Beach Park - over the 4 July holiday weekend because of a budget impasse.\n\n\"I didn't get any sun today,\" he said, before the aerial photos emerged.\n\nThe pictures show Mr Christie and his family on an otherwise empty beach.\n\nOther visitors were turned away by police.\n\nThe governor defended his actions on Monday morning, telling Fox News that he had said earlier in the week he intended to spend time with his family at his beach property.\n\n\"The governor is allowed to go to his residences,\" he said.\n\nMr Christie said his family was spending the weekend at the governor's residence there and he was commuting to work by state helicopter.\n\n\"That's just the way it goes. Run for governor, and you have can have a residence there,\" he said at a news conference on Sunday.\n\n\"I didn't get any sun today,\" he added.\n\nAfter being told of the photographs, his spokesman Brian Murray admitted Mr Christie had \"briefly\" been on the beach \"talking to his wife and family before heading into the office\", NJ.com said.\n\n\"He did not get any sun. He had a baseball hat on,\" Mr Murray reportedly added.\n\nThe image of Mr Christie lounging in a deckchair quickly spawned several memes, as Twitter jokers transplanted the governor to alternative locations.\n\nSubmissions included the Oval Office, and the beach from the 1953 classic film From Here To Eternity.\n\nThe partial government shutdown arose because New Jersey legislators had not passed a health insurance bill that Mr Christie said had to be approved alongside the state's budget.\n\nThe shutdown included the closure of Island State Beach Park, one of New Jersey's few free public beaches, and all other state parks.\n\nMr Christie had been trying to get the state's largest health insurer, Horizon Cross Blue Shield, to hand over $300m (£230m), some of which Mr Christie wanted to use to battle drug addiction, the New York Times reported.\n\nNew Jersey is one of at least nine states that were unable to meet their budget deadlines at the beginning of the month.\n\nMr Christie and his family had been staying at a residence in the beach park", "The former schoolteacher who stunned Manny Pacquiao to win the WBO world welterweight title has dismissed suggestions he did not deserve to win.\n\nJeff Horn beat Pacquiao, an eight-time world champion, following a unanimous points decision in Brisbane, Australia.\n\nPacquiao's coaches and celebrities including Lennox Lewis and Kobe Bryant were critical of the judges' call on the result.\n\nBut the relatively unknown Australian, 29, said he was worthy of the win.\n\n\"There will always be a backlash where people say I got lucky, or whatever,\" he told reporters on Monday.\n\n\"There will always be the naysayers saying I did not win the fight, but I felt like I won the fight. A lot of Queenslanders think I won the fight and people around the world.\"\n\nPacquiao's Australian coach, former heavyweight boxer Justin Fortune, had described the referee as \"sketchy\" and the judges as \"crazy\" following the bout.\n\nHowever Pacquiao, 38, congratulated his opponent and said he respected the decision.\n\nHorn celebrates his victory over the eight-time world champion\n\nPacquiao said he accepted the judges' call\n\nThe Australian responded by paying tribute to his rival, describing him as \"an absolute warrior, a legend of the sport\".\n\nHorn, who taught at a Brisbane school until only recently, said he believed his former students would be proud.\n\n\"I have a lot to do with the school still,\" he said. \"I don't go there and teach but I still go to the schools and I know the kids will be proud of what I have done.\"\n\nNicknamed \"The Hornet\", he also drew praise from admirers including Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.\n\n\"Brisbane school teacher to world champion. Against all of the pundits.\"\n\nHis grandfather, Ray Horn, said he was also very proud.\n\n\"If anyone had ever told me I would have a grandchild I would have found it hard to believe,\" he told the Australian Broadcasting Corp.\n\n\"But I would think they were nuts if they told me I would be a grandfather of a world champion one day.\"\n\nMore than 51,000 spectators watched the bout at Brisbane's Lang Park stadium.\n\nHorn set up his victory with an aggressive start before both fighters tired in the final rounds.\n\nReports claim the underdog won a guaranteed A$500,000 (£295,000; $384,000) from his fight against Pacquiao, and he could now be set for even bigger paydays.\n\nHorn has already challenged US boxer Floyd Mayweather to a fight and said he would consider a re-match against Pacquiao.", "The world number one and his wife already have a one-year-old daughter\n\nTennis star Andy Murray says he and his wife, Kim Sears, are \"very happy\" to be expecting their second child.\n\nThe couple, who married in 2015, already have a one-year-old daughter, Sophia.\n\nThe news come as the 30-year-old prepares for his opening match at Wimbledon on Monday as defending champion.\n\nHe told reporters: \"We're both obviously very happy and looking forward to it.\"\n\nThe world number one also confirmed he was fit to play following his recent hip injury, saying: \"It's felt much better the last few days.\"\n\nAsked if the news of the baby on the way would put any extra pressure on him going into the tournament, he said: \"No, I wouldn't have thought so.\"\n\nAndy Murray spoke to the media at a press conference ahead of the Wimbledon tournament\n\nHe said family life was \"certainly not a distraction in the slightest\".\n\nRegarding his wife, Murray added: \"She'll be coming to Wimbledon. And we found out a while ago. But I'm not interested in discussing the dates of that in here.\"\n\nAndy and Kim were married in Murray's home town of Dunblane in April 2015 and their daughter Sophia was born in February 2016.\n\nThe world number one has spoken about how his family is the most important thing in his life and he has said becoming a husband and father has helped his tennis.\n\nMurray said he was feeling \"good\" after practising three times on Friday as he recovers from a hip injury which saw him pull out of his final warm-up match ahead of the tournament.\n\nHe will face Kazakhstan's Alexander Bublik, who is world number 134, on Centre Court at 13:00 BST on Monday.", "As we've been reporting in the last few days, there's been a frenzied guessing game, stoked by some cabinet ministers themselves, over the future for the pay of nurses, teachers, police officers, and the rest of the five million or so people who work in the public sector.\n\nIn the aftermath of the election, some in cabinet argue that scrapping the pay cap would be a way of showing they had heard the electorate's call, proof they had listened to public concerns. No politician, not least one clinging on in a minority government, wants to appear deaf to the concerns of the public.\n\nOne senior figure arguing for a relaxation of the cap argues that the Tories have to get out in front of the issue, to neutralise it, before what could be a long, hot summer of political discontent, claiming that Cabinet is moving towards a consensus position to \"scrap the cap\", at least showing willing to accept the recommendations of the independent pay bodies as they report over the coming months.\n\nBut after a majority-losing election where the Tories ditched their core script on sound money, others are in a very different position.\n\nOne minister said, it would be \"utter madness\" to ditch a central part of their economic programme, their \"record for stewardship\", questioning whether an \"utterly useless\" election campaign should result in junking the economic discipline the government should be proud of.\n\nAnother questioned \"the idea you can just walk away from the cap without serious consequences\".\n\nYes, sticking to the cap causes the Tories political damage, but so might raising taxes, or making cuts somewhere else to do it.\n\nArguably the simpler part of the debate has been had - many public sector workers are feeling the pinch, and there is more and more pressure to remove the limit on pay rises. The more complicated bit, who or what would pay for the increase, is a conversation that's yet to happen.\n\nWhatever Boris Johnson and Michael Gove have said in the last twenty four hours, don't expect anything to happen in a hurry. The first pay review body is not due to report for another few weeks. It seems unlikely that the government will announce any plan to either ditch the cap or promise to accept the decisions of the review bodies before then.\n\nIt's not in either Theresa May or Philip Hammond's DNA to make quick decisions. One of her allies reports there is simply no decision. But how they show they are in tune with volatile public opinion while going through a decision making process is not straightforward either.", "Acid attacks are not uncommon against women in India\n\nA woman in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh who survived an alleged gang-rape and four separate acid attacks has been targeted again by an acid-thrower.\n\nShe was attacked outside a women's hostel in Lucknow while getting water from a hand pump, police said.\n\nThe woman, 35, had been receiving round-the-clock police protection because of the previous attacks, which were linked to a property dispute.\n\nAnger is growing at the authorities' inability to protect her.\n\nShe was allegedly gang-raped and first attacked with acid by two men in 2008, over a property dispute, the details of which are not clear.\n\nThe same two men are then accused of throwing acid at her twice more - in 2012 and 2013 - to try and get her to drop the criminal charges against them.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Laxmi Saa was 15 when a 32-year-old man threw acid at her after she rejected his marriage proposal - she spoke to Kinjal Pandya-Wagh from the BBC's Delhi Bureau\n\nIn March, she was attacked again while travelling on a train with her daughter. This time she was forced to drink acid.\n\nTwo men are facing trial for all of the attacks but were released on bail in April, the AFP agency reports.\n\nAccording to government figures, there are hundreds of such attacks involving acid each year in India, although campaigners say the real figures are much higher.\n\nThe victims, who have to live with terrible disfigurements, are mainly women and are often targeted by jealous partners, campaigners say.\n\nDespite a Supreme Court ruling in 2013 to regulate the sale of acid, critics say it is still widely and easily available.", "A 50mph speed limit will remain in place while traffic management systems are tested\n\nA £174m upgrade to turn the M3 into a \"smart\" motorway in Surrey and Hampshire has opened.\n\nThe 13.4-mile stretch between Farnborough and the M25 is now a four-lane carriageway after the main construction work was completed.\n\nMotorists have faced years of disruption since work began in 2014.\n\nOngoing roadworks and some overnight restrictions will continue to affect motorists with speed limits in place as the system is tested.\n\nTechnology is being used to manage traffic flows with variable speed limits and use of the hard shoulder.\n\nSpeed limits will remain in place until later this month.\n\nMotorists have faced years of road works on the M3 during the widening work\n\nThe M3 passes through Chobham Common, an area of heathland in Surrey.\n\nBefore work began, the government said the M3 smart motorway would improve journey times by 15%, but the then Highways Agency raised concerns extra traffic would cause EU air quality rules to be broken.\n\nIn June 2014, a plan to impose a 60mph speed limit on that part of the M3 to cut air pollution was put on hold by the then Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin, with the Highways Agency asked to look at other ways of tackling pollution.\n\nMaintenance work on the motorway is still to be completed, including the rebuilding of the Woodlands Lane bridge over the motorway near Windlesham, which will continue until later in the year, Highways England said.\n\nPranav Devale, project manager for Highways England, said: \"This new stretch of smart motorway will tackle congestion and improve journey times for the 130,000 drivers who use it every day.\"\n\nBack in 2014, Highways England said the main project work would be completed by December 2016.\n\nBut James Wright of Highways England said: \"The reason we are finishing construction now rather than last December is that, shortly after we started work and after a bit of local lobbying, we agreed to do a large amount of maintenance work at the same time as the smart motorway upgrade.\"\n\nHe said the extra work included fully resurfacing the road and replacing a bridge over it.\n\n\"This is extra work with extra benefits and we do not consider it a delay,\" he added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "UK officials have \"quietly abandoned\" hopes of securing \"the government's promised cake-and-eat-it Brexit deal\", the Guardian reports.\n\nAccording to the paper, government insiders have reported a \"dramatic change of mood\" in the Department for Exiting the European Union since the general election.\n\nIt says the idea of enjoying full trade access to the bloc - without concessions over immigration, courts and a financial settlement - is now being given less credence by officials.\n\nMany of the papers focus on the reported divisions within Conservative ranks about public spending.\n\n\"Cabinet split over austerity tax row\" is the front page headline in the Daily Telegraph.\n\nIt suggests Chancellor Philip Hammond has warned ministers that \"unpopular tax rises\" will be required to fund possible moves, like lifting the cap on public sector pay increases.\n\nThe Mail's editorial says the paper is \"deeply troubled by reports that some Tory MPs, including senior ministers, are demanding that the spending taps be turned back on\".\n\nAccording to the Times, Britain's new independent reviewer of counter-terrorism laws is concerned about the way jihadist attacks are covered by the media.\n\nIt says Max Hill believes the publication of images of dead terrorists can give, in his words, \"the oxygen of publicity in death, to those who apparently craved martyrdom\".\n\nBut one senior media lawyer, Mark Stephens, tells the paper: \"It is extremely unhelpful to make the argument that freedom of speech needs to be curbed, in an effort to fight terror.\"\n\nThe lead in the Financial Times is about a delegation from the City of London travelling to Brussels this week, with what it describes as \"a secret blueprint for a post-Brexit free-trade deal on financial services\".\n\nThe paper says there is concern among bankers that the deadline for the UK to leave the EU, in March 2019, will come before a \"credible deal has been struck\".\n\n\"Blame it on our boys\" is the front page headline in the Sun. It claims that Iraqis, who had alleged that they were mistreated by American troops, were told by lawyers to accuse UK forces instead, because the Ministry of Defence was easier to sue.\n\nThe paper quotes someone who used to work for a law firm handling such claims, saying it was widely known that many were fake.\n\nThe front pages of both the Daily Mirror and the Daily Express report on the latest deaths of migrants who tried to cross the Mediterranean from Africa to Europe.\n\nThe Mirror's headline is \"Migrants' hell on Costa beaches\", while in the Express it is \"EU in crisis over boat migrants\".\n\nThe paper says European Union officials are to hold emergency talks on the matter.\n\nThe Mirror's opinion column urges the authorities to \"turn the tide on the crisis\".\n\nIt believes that, faced with such a problem, the UK is \"morally right\" to spend £13bn on international development, which could help tackle some of the causes of migration.\n\nAccording to the Times, Donald Trump may \"drop in\" to the UK in the next fortnight.\n\nIt says the US president has a gap in his diary, between a visit to Germany this week for the G20 summit and a trip to France later in July.\n\nThe White House will apparently give officials here only 24 hours' notice, if he decides to come.\n\n\"Britain braced for snap Trump visit\" is the headline.\n\nFinally, amid all the preview coverage of Wimbledon, the Daily Telegraph goes straight to the front of the queue - the queue, that is, of people who have been camping since early on Saturday to get tickets for the first day of the championships.\n\nThere the paper finds Des Robson, a middle-aged computer technician from Northumberland, who put a visit to Centre Court on his bucket list, after suffering two heart attacks.\n\nBehind him is Elle-Anne Lee, a 21-year-old dental nurse.\n\nHer father had bet her £100 that she would not be among the first three in the queue.\n\nShe tells the paper: \"Now I'm quids in.\"", "Mike Pence has said he would not dine alone with any woman who was not his wife, Karen (pictured)\n\nMany eyebrows were raised when it emerged US Vice-President Mike Pence would not dine alone with a woman who was not his wife.\n\nHow old fashioned, the internet cried.\n\nOnly, now it seems he is not alone.\n\nA surprise poll for the New York Times has discovered more than half of women agree with him - as well as 45% of men.\n\nAnd as for a drink? Forget about it. Just 29% of women think that would be appropriate in a one-on-one situation.\n\nHowever, the poll - conducted by Morning Consult, surveying almost 5,300 people - found the numbers shift considerably according to your politics: the more liberal your views, the more likely you were to mix with a member of the opposite sex, one on one.\n\nJust 62% of Republicans found it acceptable, compared to 71% of Democrats.\n\nSimilar divides can also be seen according to religion - the more devout you are, the less appropriate you view it - and to education: 24% of male respondents of who did not reach college think it is inappropriate to have a one-on-one working meeting with a woman, compared with 18% who got a bachelor's degree or higher.\n\nMichael, US: Simply ask yourself: would you want your partner to go out for dinner alone with someone else? Most likely the answer is no. Hence, then why should you? It's simply being wise and not naive.\n\nSandra, US: Not entirely sure why people don't understand that you can have a platonic, working or otherwise relationship with a member of the opposite sex without sexual overtones. To my way of thinking it demeans woman in terms of woman thinking men are only interested in their bodies... If you can't trust your partner or yourself out of sight the problem is you.\n\nStephen, Australia: I totally agree with Mike Pence. He's protecting his marriage and his reputation. It is not sexist, it is wise. In an era where people look to the Kardashians for their moral standards Mike Pence's policy, in this area at least, is commendable.\n\nEmily, US: These archaic views are just another example of why we shouldn't have been surprised at a Trump/Pence victory last November.\n\nMario, South Africa: Men who are not sure about their self-control should indeed dine and drink alone. Perhaps dinner and a drink with their mothers should be permitted, but I am not so sure about sisters and daughters after reading some comments uttered by Donald Trump.\n\nVince, UK: Really? How very Victorian of them. Are they scared they might end up doing something they shouldn't. I can't believe in the 21st century some people think this is an issue.\n\nSarah, US: I'm a 52-year-old, white, college educated, atheist, left-wing, married woman ... and there's no way I would have a one-on-one meal/drink with a man who was not my husband. Not even a Starbucks.\n\nM.H., Canada: I would definitely lunch or have dinner alone with a man whom I knew and trusted and with whom I had a lot in common. I am also a year away from being 90 and find it hard to believe that there is anything wrong with this.", "More nurses and midwives are leaving the profession in the UK than joining it, for the first time since 2008, figures show.\n\nThe number registered in the UK fell by 1,783 to 690,773, in the year to March.\n\nThe Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) said the downward trend had been most pronounced among British workers. Many leavers cited working conditions.\n\nBut the government said there were now 13,000 more nurses working in hospitals in England than in 2010.\n\nIn April and May this year, there was a more dramatic fall in those leaving nursing and midwifery, with a further 3,264 workers going.\n\nOther than retirement, the main reasons given for leaving were working conditions - including staffing levels and workload - personal circumstances and disillusion with quality of care to patients, according to an NMC survey of more than 4,500 leavers.\n\nOther reasons included leaving the UK and poor pay and benefits.\n\nSaffron Cordery, director of policy and strategy at NHS Providers, which represents NHS trusts, said: \"These figures provide further evidence of the severe workforce problems NHS trusts face.\n\n\"This goes beyond the concerns over Brexit - worrying though they are.\n\n\"The reduction in numbers is most pronounced among UK registrants. And it is particularly disappointing to see so many of our younger nurses and midwives choosing to leave.\"\n\nShe said a new staff retention programme would offer support to those NHS trusts with the highest leaving rates.\n\n\"However, until we address the underlying issues driving retention problems, including the pay cap and the unsustainable workplace pressures, these approaches will only have a limited impact.\"\n\nNurses protested against the 1% public sector pay cap in June\n\nThe figures being flagged up by the Nursing and Midwifery Council are for those registered to work in the UK.\n\nThat is, of course, important - without a ready supply, the NHS cannot recruit the staff it needs.\n\nBut the figure that is perhaps of most interest to the public is how many are actually working in the health service - and whether that is enough.\n\nThe Department of Health in England has made this point, highlighting figures showing there are more than 13,000 more nurses working in hospitals than there were in 2010.\n\nBut if you look at the overall number working in the NHS - once you include the likes of district nurses and those working in mental health - the number has risen by only 5,000 to nearly 286,000. That is because the rise in hospital nurses has been partly offset by a fall elsewhere.\n\nWhat is more, if you consider the number the NHS wants to employ but cannot - by adding on the number of vacancies - you find that the health service is well short of what it needs.\n\nEarlier this year, research by the Royal College of Nursing showed there were 40,000 unfilled posts - double the number from three years ago.\n\nThe Royal College of Nursing (RCN) said poor working conditions and the \"vicious cycle\" of staffing levels had contributed to the number of nurses leaving the profession.\n\nRCN chief executive Janet Davies added that the NHS had resorted to a \"quick fix\" by bringing in \"people from overseas\" to fill the gap left by the lack of British nurses. She believes the decision on how much nurses are paid is political.\n\nShe added: \"[The government is also] removing the funding of the training of our future nurses.\n\n\"In September it will be the first time we see nurses coming in and having to take a loan.\n\n\"We know that's put people off, we haven't seen the actual figures but we know it's really low in some places and of course that just went into savings.\"\n\nNurses and midwives previously received bursaries during their studies, but the government announced it would cease the NHS bursaries system from 1 August 2017, meaning students in many healthcare fields will now have to repay the cost of their degrees.\n\nThe RCN called on the government to scrap the 1% public sector pay cap as a matter of urgency to prevent more health workers leaving.\n\nA Department of Health spokeswoman said: \"We are making sure we have the nurses we need to continue delivering world-class patient care - that's why there are almost 13,100 more on our wards since May 2010 and 52,000 in training.\n\n\"We also know we need to retain our excellent nurses and earlier this week we launched a national programme to ensure nurses have the support they need to continue their vital work.\"", "Skincare brand Baby Dove has been criticised by mums who say the company's new adverts support those who oppose breastfeeding in public.\n\nOne advert says \"75% say breastfeeding in public is fine, 25% say put them away. What's your way?\"\n\nThe Advertising Standards Authority has received 151 complaints, including concerns the ad perpetuates a negative image of breastfeeding in public.\n\nBrand owner Unilever said it aims to celebrate different parenting styles.\n\nAnother Dove advert shows a crying baby accompanied by text that reads: \"36% are for feeding him when he cries, 64% are passionately against it. What's your way?\"\n\nWhile the brand's website also reads: \"So whether you're among the 66% who think that breastfeeding in public is fine, or the 34% who think otherwise, whatever choice you make, we are with you every step of the way.\"\n\nBut \"Unmumsy Mum\" blogger Sarah Turner said in an open letter to Dove, posted on Facebook, that supporting the \"dangerous\" view that it was acceptable to criticise breastfeeding in public could put mums off.\n\n\"No woman should be made to feel ashamed for feeding their baby in public,\" she wrote.\n\n\"If you are standing with people who think breastfeeding in public is not okay, are you also with them if they ask a breastfeeding mum to cover up, or if they think she would be better off sat feeding in a restaurant toilet?\"\n\nBaby Milk Action, a non-profit organisation, called the \"What's your way?\" campaign \"seriously misguided\".\n\nIn a Facebook post, it said: \"Please do not be intimidated by the Dove marketing campaign condoning those who object to breastfeeding in public.\n\n\"It is illegal to discriminate against anyone for how they feed their child in public.\"\n\nEmma Pickett, from the Association of Breastfeeding Mothers, said: \"It's not anyone's 'way' to oppose it unless they fancy going to court or criminal action, and it's insulting to imagine that mums who formula feed automatically sympathise with people who dislike breastfeeding in public.\n\n\"This message intimidates new mums and that means increased isolation and greater risk of postnatal mental health issues.\"\n\nAnna Burbridge, from support group La Leche League, agreed that women \"need support and protection against unpleasant and aggressive comments, and advertising campaigns which ask what people think are unhelpful\".\n\n\"Women do not have to 'put them away' and anything which implies they do contradicts the legal right of women to breastfeed.\"\n\nUnilever responded to the criticisms in a statement, saying: \"We believe there are many ways to be a great mum or dad.\n\n\"Our campaign simply aims to celebrate the different approaches and opinions around parenting, including whether or not mums choose to breastfeed in public, recognising that it's ultimately what works for you and your baby that matters the most.\"\n\nMany have voiced their opinions on social media.\n\nBev Bevster said on Facebook she was \"disgusted that Dove supports the discrimination of breastfeeding mothers\" and \"promotes child cruelty\" by allowing babies to cry.\n\n\"What has any of this got to do with do with body products?\"\n\nRhiannon Kendrick wrote: \"I have just seen your ludicrous, sensationalist and downright upsetting Baby Dove advert. Who wants to see a picture of a crying baby for goodness sake?\"\n\nSome complaints have criticised the statistics quoted on Baby Dove's website\n\nIn England and Wales, it is illegal for anyone to ask a breastfeeding woman to leave a public place, such as a cafe, shop or public transport.\n\nScottish law makes it an offence to deliberately prevent or stop a person from feeding milk to a child in their charge in a public place or licensed premises.\n\nNorthern Ireland ministers have been considering legislation to protect mothers who breastfeed in public.\n\nLast year, a study published in medical journal The Lancet found that the rates of breastfeeding in the UK were the lowest in the world.\n\nThe Advertising Standards Authority said the \"general nature\" of the complaints it had received were that it was not clear where the statistics were from.\n\nThe complaints said one advert encouraged a parenting style that was poor or neglectful, while the other perpetuated a negative perception of breastfeeding in public.\n\nAn ASA spokesman said the complaints were being assessed and no decision had yet been made on whether advertising rules had been broken.", "Spandau Ballet backstage at Top of the Pops in 1983, with Hadley front and centre\n\nSinger Tony Hadley says he has left 1980s pop group Spandau Ballet, and \"will not be performing\" with them in the future.\n\nIn an oddly-worded statement, the star said: \"I am required to state that I am no longer a member of the band\".\n\nHe did not indicate why he was leaving, but blamed \"circumstances beyond my control\".\n\nThe group, who scored hits with True and Gold, broke up acrimoniously in the 1990s but had reformed in 2009.\n\nThe remaining members put the blame for the latest split on Hadley's shoulders.\n\n\"Much to our frustration, Tony had made it clear in September 2016 that he didn't want to work with the band anymore,\" they wrote on their official website.\n\n\"This has not changed and 2015 was the last time we were able to perform or work with him. So we have now made the decision to move on as a band.\"\n\nFormed in 1976 as The Cut, they cut their teeth in the punk era, before emerging as one of the planet's biggest pop bands - engaged in a fierce rivalry with fellow New Romantics Duran Duran.\n\nFollowing their first hit - 1980's To Cut A Long Story Short - they released six studio albums and had 10 UK top 10 singles, topping the charts with True in 1983.\n\nSpandau's original split came after the five-piece fell out over money.\n\nIn 1999, Hadley, saxophonist Steve Norman and drummer John Keeble sued guitarist Gary Kemp for a share of the band's songwriting royalties.\n\nKemp, who played in the band with his brother Martin, wrote all of the hits, but the other musicians believed they had a gentleman's agreement to share the profits, in recognition of their musical contribution to the songs.\n\nThe case went to the High Court, where Kemp won. He later described the battle as \"like walking away from a car crash - you're glad to be alive but mortified and shocked by the wreckage\".\n\nThe band were back in court three years later, arguing over the right to use the name Spandau Ballet. Hadley, Keeble and Norman lost again and had to tour under the humbling name of Ex-Spandau Ballet.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Soul Boys Of The Western World looks at the career of Spandau Ballet in the 1980s\n\nBy this point, Hadley was not on speaking terms with the Kemp brothers, and for a number of years a reunion seemed like an impossibility.\n\nIn 2007, the singer told the Daily Express: \"I know you should never say never, and bands in the past have said hell would freeze over before they got back together, but in our case I think hell is frozen and we still wouldn't do it.\"\n\nNaturally, they reformed two years later, hosting a press conference on HMS Belfast in London, the scene of a landmark early gig in 1980.\n\nSince then, they have toured the world, headlining the Isle of Wight Festival and producing a documentary about themselves called Soul Boys of the Western World.\n\nThey even recorded a handful of new songs for the 2014 album The Story - The Very Best of Spandau Ballet.\n\nMore recently, the band have been playing solo shows; while Martin Kemp appeared as a judge on the BBC show Let It Shine.\n\nHadley's decision to cut ties with Spandau effectively puts an end to any future reunion.\n\nThe band last toured together in 2015\n\nHis full statement read as follows: \"Due to circumstances beyond my control, it is with deep regret that I am required to state that I am no longer a member of the band Spandau Ballet and as such I will not be performing with the band in the future.\"\n\nFans on Twitter responded by quoting some of Spandau's more memorable lyrics.\n\n\"Say it's not True!\" wrote one. \"Communication let them down,\" added another. \"He didn't need this pressure on,\" noted a third.\n\n\"You'll notice it [the statement] is only one sentence,\" said Scott Taylor. \"I think @TheTonyHadley found it hard to write the next line.\"\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 Vatican said the Pope was following the case \"with affection and sadness\"\n\nPope Francis has called for the parents of terminally-ill Charlie Gard to be allowed to \"accompany and treat their child until the end\".\n\nChris Gard and Connie Yates had been expecting their 10-month-old's life support to be turned off on Friday.\n\nBut Great Ormond Street Hospital said it will continue Charlie's care to allow the family to spend more time with him.\n\nMeanwhile, President Donald Trump tweeted his support on Monday.\n\nHe wrote: \"If we can help little #CharlieGard, as per our friends in the U.K. and the Pope, we would be delighted to do so.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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 Vatican said the Pope was following the case \"with affection and sadness\".\n\nA statement released on Sunday said the Pope wished to \"expresses his closeness to his [Charlie's] parents\".\n\n\"For them he prays, hoping that their desire to accompany and care for their own child to the end is not ignored,\" it said.\n\nCharlie Gard's rare disease has left him unable to cry\n\nCharlie is thought to be one of 16 children in the world to have mitochondrial depletion syndrome.\n\nIt is a rare genetic condition which causes progressive muscle weakness and brain damage because he is unable to get energy to his organs.\n\nDoctors have said he now cannot see, hear, move, cry or swallow and has irreversible brain damage. His lungs are only able to keep going because of the treatment he is receiving.\n\nThey have argued he should be allowed to die with dignity.\n\nBut his parents and supporters have been fighting for him to be given an experimental treatment in the US.\n\nThe treatment is not a cure - there isn't one - but it has been suggested it could reduce the effects of the disease.\n\nAlthough doctors in the US have since said the benefits they have seen have not been in cases as advanced as Charlie's.\n\nThe statement came on the same day demonstrators gathered outside Buckingham Palace to protest against the decision to allow Charlie's life-sustaining treatment to be withdrawn.\n\nOn 27 June, Charlie's parents lost their final legal appeal to take him to the US for experimental treatment.\n\nHis parents also said the hospital had denied their final wish to be able to take their son home to die, and felt \"let down\" following the lengthy legal battle.\n\nJudges at the European Court of Human Rights concluded that further treatment would \"continue to cause Charlie significant harm\", in line with advice from specialists at Great Ormond Street.\n\nConnie Yates and Chris Gard raised more than £1.3m for experimental treatment for Charlie\n\nPresident Donald Trump said he would be \"delighted\" to help Charlie after his parents lost their legal battle.\n\nA spokeswoman for the White House said President Trump had not spoken to the family although members of the administration had.\n\n\"The president is just trying to be helpful if at all possible,\" she added.\n\nDoctors have said he cannot see, hear, move, cry or swallow.\n\nCharlie has been receiving specialist treatment at Great Ormond Street Hospital since October 2016.\n\nCharlie's parents raised £1.3m on a crowdfunding site to pay for the experimental treatment in the US.\n\nMs Yates previously indicated the money would go towards a charity for mitochondrial depletion syndrome if Charlie \"did not get his chance\".\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. I wanted to be able to go online and book a private jet, says Sergey Petrossov\n\nIn its infancy, commercial air travel was expensive, and seemed like the ultimate in luxury.\n\nToday, that era seems long gone. Delays, strikes, long queues at security checkpoints, packed planes, and incidents like the violent removal of a passenger from a United Airlines flight, are just some of the factors that lead many air travellers to view their next trip with dread rather than delight.\n\nDespite this, there have been attempts over the past couple of decades to bring some of the glamour back to flying, by trying to revolutionise the private aviation market.\n\nSome of these endeavours relied on the use of innovative manufacturing techniques that promised to produce small aircraft at lower costs than previously thought possible, and then to use these aeroplanes to offer new services.\n\nIn the 2000s, Dayjet, based in Florida, planned to make use of a fleet of Eclipse aircraft (one of a new breed of \"very light jets\" or VLJs) to offer \"on-demand\" flights at cheaper prices than those charged by existing private air charter firms.\n\nBooking a private jet used to involve sending faxes back and forth, says JetSmarter founder Sergey Petrossov\n\nAlthough this initiative failed, entrepreneurs have continued to try to rethink the private aviation market.\n\nA series of start-ups are now applying new technology to the challenge. This time, however, the focus is on streamlining the booking and scheduling of aircraft, rather than on the process of building them.\n\nSome of these ventures have already failed, whilst others, like Surfair, have begun to expand across the globe.\n\nAnother of the new players is JetSmarter, which has headquarters in Fort Lauderdale in Florida. Its founder, Sergey Petrossov, first became interested in the field almost a decade ago, when he was invited to join a friend on a private jet flight.\n\nMany private jets flew one way with no passengers at all, Sergey Petrossov discovered\n\nMr Petrossov, an entrepreneur who had previously launched businesses involved in education technology, found the private aviation world fascinating. He decided to research the market; what he discovered astonished him.\n\nFor one thing, in the late 2000s, booking a private flight often involved using fax machines to send documents back and forth.\n\n\"When I heard 'fax' I was thinking [that] this sounds like a stock market transaction in the eighties\", he laughs. He was amazed to learn that, at the time, it was not generally possible to book flights online.\n\nJetSmarter aims to make booking a seat on a private plane as easy as booking a taxi\n\nHe began to look deeper into the industry.\n\n\"The craziest thing about it was the average private airplane was only flying 200 hours a year, when optimally they could be flying 1500 hours a year.\n\n\"And out of the 200 hours it was flying, one-third of the hours didn't have a single passenger on them - they were just flying empty,\" Mr Petrossov recalls.\n\nHe saw a big opportunity to create a new business selling empty seats on private jets, with a modernised online booking process.\n\nThe use of smartphone apps would make immediate reservations a possibility, in the same way that users of online taxi services like Uber can make instant cab bookings.\n\nMr Petrossov believes that this approach allows him to offer flights on private jets at lower prices, and to open up the market to a new group of customers.\n\nPrivate jets are a world apart from the delays and long queues involved in normal flights\n\nThe JetSmarter business model involves a membership scheme. Customers pay an annual fee of $15,000 (£11,547; 13,127 euros), which includes access to some flights free of further charges; for an additional cost they can also arrange flights themselves, and in some cases share the cost of these with other members.\n\nThe company does not operate any planes itself. Instead flights are provided by various private jet operators in the US and several other countries around the world.\n\nThe key to success for his enterprise, says Mr Petrossov, lies in the size of the community of customers.\n\n\"It's built on having a core base of members that then start to talk about it, and building that core is by far the most difficult [task]…. it's like any other social network.\n\n\"If you don't have the people in it you can't scale it, you can't grow it,\" he explains.\n\nThe key to success lies in the size of the community of customers, says Mr Petrossov\n\nThe greater the number of members, Mr Petrossov continues, the greater the number of flights, and the more attractive the proposition becomes to both existing and new customers.\n\nThe firm is also starting to offer additional services, such as accommodation, in the hope of providing travellers with a seamless, \"end to end\" experience.\n\nIt is not yet clear whether new approaches to private aviation like the one being pioneered by JetSmarter will be viable in the long term.\n\nBut Richard Aboulafia, vice president of analysis at Teal Group which focuses on the aerospace and defence industry, says he finds these new business models \"intriguing\".\n\n\"Maybe this time technology companies can get it right,\" he says.\n\nMr Aboulafia adds that applying technology to the booking and scheduling side of the business is a smarter idea than trying to find an innovative way to dramatically cut the cost of building private jets.\n\nThe latter approach almost always ends in grief, not least because it can consume vast amounts of capital, he says.\n\nFor his part, Sergey Petrossov remains optimistic, although he recognises that there are lots of challenges ahead:\n\n\"What really makes an entrepreneur is... perseverance. Being able to find the way no matter what.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A haul of firearms has been seized in France from a car heading to the UK.\n\nSeventy-nine \"viable\" weapons were recovered from the car's trailer when it was stopped by UK Border Force officers at Coquelles near the Channel Tunnel terminal on Saturday.\n\nTwo men, a Polish and a Czech national, have been remanded in custody at Uxbridge magistrates' court in connection with the operation.\n\nThe guns were concealed in specially-adapted engine blocks.\n\nThe seizure follows a joint operation by the National Crime Agency (NCA) and the Metropolitan Police working with Border Force officials in France.\n\nGraham Gardner, the NCA's deputy director of investigations, said: \"Our recent threat assessment highlights that handguns are still commonly favoured by some criminal groups in the UK.\n\n\"They may not be the largest firearm, but they are easily concealable and lethal in the hands of anyone prepared to use them.\"\n\nThe firearms were concealed in engine blocks\n\nDenis Kolencukov, 23, originally from the Czech Republic but living in the UK, and Polish national Janusz Michek, 59, are each charged with two firearms offences.\n\nNo further action will be taken against six other Polish nationals arrested in Coquelles.", "Construction of the Hinkley Point plant is under way after government approval last year\n\nFrench energy supplier EDF has estimated that the cost of completing the new Hinkley Point nuclear plant will be nearly 10% more than expected.\n\nThe company, which is the project's main backer, said the total cost of the power station was likely to rise by £1.5bn to £19.6bn.\n\nHinkley Point C would be the UK's first new nuclear plant for decades, but has been beset with budget problems.\n\nAn EDF review found the project could also be delayed by up to 15 months.\n\nThe firm said that would result in an extra £700m in costs, but that it hoped to avoid delays and finish the first nuclear reactor by the end of 2025.\n\nClimate campaigners said Hinkley Point was \"already over time and over budget\" only nine months since being approved.\n\nEDF is building two new reactors at Hinkley Point, which are expected to provide 7% of the country's electricity needs for 60 years.\n\nWork is under way on the plant in Somerset after Prime Minister Theresa May formally gave it the go-ahead in September last year.\n\nEDF said the extra costs partly resulted from adapting the project's design to meet the demands of UK regulators.\n\nThe French state-controlled energy firm is funding two-thirds of the plant, which is expected to create more than 25,000 jobs, with China investing the rest.\n\nA government spokeswoman said: \"Consumers won't pay a penny until Hinkley is built; it will provide clean, reliable electricity powering six million homes.\"\n\nThe cost of building Hinkley Point, including any overruns, will be met by EDF and the other backers, she said.\n\nJohn Sauven, executive director at Greenpeace UK, said: \"Hinkley is already over time and over budget after just a few months of building work.\n\n\"Today's news is yet another damning indictment of the government's agreement to go ahead with this project.\"\n\nEDF said it remained on track to meet the project's first major milestone in 2019 but that delays could come later in the project.\n\nLast month, public auditors called the new nuclear plant \"risky and expensive\".\n\nThe National Audit Office said the government had \"increasingly emphasised Hinkley Point C's unquantified strategic benefits, but it has little control over these and no plan yet in place to realise them\".\n\n2007: EDF boss predicts UK households will cook their Christmas turkeys in 2017 using power from Hinkley Point C\n\n2008: The project is earmarked by the Labour government as a potential site in a \"nuclear renaissance\"\n\n2013: The Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government approves construction of Hinkley Point C and agrees commercial terms with EDF\n\n2015: EDF signs a deal with China's state-owned nuclear firm CGN to help finance the project\n\nMarch: EDF finance director quits ahead of a final investment decision on the plant\n\nJuly: Theresa May delays the final decision on Hinkley shortly after becoming prime minister\n\nSeptember: The Conservative government approves Hinkley and signs a deal with EDF and CGN\n\nJuly: EDF estimates the project will cost an extra £1.5bn and could be delayed beyond 2025 - eight years after its original target", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nChildren may still be at risk in Jersey's care system, a report into seven decades of child abuse has found.\n\nLive electrical wires were applied to children's legs, one survivor told the The Independent Jersey Care Inquiry.\n\nVictims also reported being beaten with nettles, having their heads dunked in cold water and being sexually abused.\n\nThe States of Jersey had \"proved to be an ineffectual and neglectful substitute parent\", the report said.\n\nChief Minister, Senator Ian Gorst apologised and said: \"We failed children who needed our care.\"\n\nThe inquiry, led by judge Frances Oldham QC, has recommended demolishing the Haut de la Garenne children's home, where much of the abuse took place.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSurvivor Gifford Aubin who was at the home in the 1950s described his treatment: \"They were putting these wires on your legs, that sort of thing...\n\n\"And also hitting you with a pre-war army stick, you know, like a sergeant major or officer would have. It had a metal end, so you can imagine how that cut into you.\"\n\nHe also suffered mental abuse from his experiences.\n\nThe inquiry, launched in 2014, heard 553 offences took place between 1947 and 2004, with more than half said to have occurred at Haut de la Garenne.\n\nJacky de la Haye was one of a handful of girls at the home and said she suffered psychological abuse.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"I have nightmares that I'm still there,\" she said.\n\nWhile a lot of the inquiry focused on Haut de la Garenne, a number of other incidents, not previously revealed, came to light.\n\nThe revelations of assault, bullying and slavery at the Sacré Coeur Orphanage led to a fresh call for witnesses from the inquiry panel.\n\nA witness, known as \"Mrs A\" said outside of school hours children were forced to work unpaid in a knitting factory run by the nuns at the orphanage.\n\nIn February 2015 one survivor known as \"Witness D\", now in his 40s, told the inquiry he was too scared to report the abuse he suffered to the authorities while he was at Haut de la Garenne.\n\nHe told the hearing he was sexually abused by two members of staff, William Gilbert and Phil Le Bais. They were never charged and have now died.\n\nFormer Haut de la Garenne resident, Gifford Aubin said a lack of staff meant older boys were often left in charge\n\nSource: The Independent Jersey Care Inquiry - A 62 page appendix details the abuse suffered in the care system\n\nMore than half of the alleged offences took place at Haut de la Garenne children's home\n\nThe report said: \"Children may still be still at risk in Jersey and children in the care system are not always receiving the kind or quality of care and support that they need.\"\n\nIt said the buildings at Haut de la Garenne were a reminder of an \"unhappy past or shameful history\" and of the \"turmoil and trauma\" of the police investigation, which began in 2006.\n\nThe report said there was no doubt that \"many instances\" of physical and sexual abuse were suffered by children in the care of the States of Jersey.\n\nThe wellbeing of vulnerable children had been \"low on the list\" of Jersey's priorities and unsuitable people were appointed to management roles on the basis of local connections.\n\nIt also referred to witnesses' use of the phrase the \"Jersey way\" to describe a system where \"serious issues are swept under the carpet\" and \"people avoid being held to account for abuses\".\n\nThe report said \"As a result, ill-suited carers continued to look after children in unsuitable facilities, using outdated practices.\n\n\"The consequences for the children in their care were devastating and, in many instances, lifelong.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"History will be very damning on us if we don't take steps in light of the content of this report,\" says lawyer\n\nAlan Collins, a lawyer who represented victims, said \"systematic failings\" allowed a culture to develop where \"children's welfare became a secondary issue\".\n\nMr Collins added \"Jersey is not alone in this\" and \"the UK needs to take serious note of this report\".\n\nSenator Ian Gorst, Jersey's chief minister, apologised to \"all those who suffered abuse in our islands over the years\".\n\nHe said: \"Unpalatable truths were swept under the carpet because it was the easiest thing to do.\n\n\"People cared more for the status quo, for a quiet life, than for children.\n\n\"We failed children who needed our care who needed to be protected and listened to.\n\n\"I am shocked, I am saddened and I am sorry. I accept every recommendation.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police believe the \"Ikea\" branded tablets are a \"particularly strong\" batch of ecstasy\n\nAn 18-year-old man has died from what is believed to be a \"particularly strong\" batch of ecstasy tablets.\n\nJersey Police said Kyle Pringle, from St Helier, died at the General Hospital early on Saturday morning.\n\nHis death follows a public appeal about the yellow and blue drugs circulating in the island, stamped with the word IKEA.\n\nThree people have been arrested and a quantity of the branded tablets have been seized.\n\n\"Whilst subject to toxicology reports and a post-mortem, evidence at this time suggests the death is as a result consumption of \"Ikea\" ecstasy tablets,\" a police statement said.\n\n\"We strongly advise members of the public not to take these tablets in the interests of their health.\n\n\"Anyone who does take the tablets and becomes unwell is urged to seek medical attention through their GP or in an emergency, attend at the accident and emergency department.\"\n\nA report into Mr Pringle's death will be submitted to the Deputy Viscount.\n\nEcstasy is also known as MDMA and last year the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction warned of a resurgence in use of MDMA and an increased availability of high-strength tablets and powders.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Many UK employers have had to pay \"well above market rate\" to attract employees over the past year as a skills shortage intensifies, a survey suggests.\n\nAlmost all firms in a survey of 400 by the Open University said it had been difficult to find workers with the skills they needed.\n\nThe distance learning university calculated the problem was costing companies more than £2bn a year.\n\nIt said uncertainty surrounding Brexit was exacerbating the skills gap.\n\nIt found people already in work were reluctant to move employer, while some EU nationals did not want to take a UK role because of the lack of clarity over future immigration rules.\n\nThe number of EU workers in the UK fell by 50,000 to 2.3 million in the last three months of last year, according to official statistics.\n\nMeanwhile, unemployment is at its lowest rate since records began in 1975.\n\nThis means that it is taking firms more time than usual to recruit new staff.\n\nAs a result, many firms are having to hire temporary staff and pay additional recruitment fees, as well as higher salaries, the survey found.\n\nSome 56% of the firms surveyed said they had had to increase the salary on an advertised role to get the skills they needed over the past year.\n\nFor small and medium-sized firms, the average increase was £4,150, while for larger firms it was £5,575, according to the survey.\n\nThe Open University is urging firms to help solve the issue by training staff internally via apprenticeships.\n\nFrom May, employers have been able to draw vouchers from a new fund aimed at creating three million new apprenticeships.\n\nThe vouchers are being funded from a 0.5% levy on company payrolls of larger firms with an annual wage bill of £3m and above.\n\nAround 59% of the firms surveyed are planning to offer apprenticeships over the next year, almost double the number that currently offer them, probably as a result of the new funding, the survey suggested.\n\nThe Open University's external engagement director Steve Hill said firms needed to look at recruitment and retention \"differently\".\n\n\"Now faced with a shrinking talent pool, exacerbated by the uncertainties of Brexit, it is more important that employers invest in developing their workforce,\" he added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Eberhard Spiecker's secret peace negotiations went back to the 1970s\n\nHe died in Germany in May and much of his far-reaching involvement in the labyrinthine politics of the Troubles is likely to go with him to the grave.\n\nHis work stretched over several decades, almost entirely unseen, holding meetings between people who refused to meet in public and exchanging messages between people who could deny that they had ever been in contact.\n\nIt seems to have included two undisclosed IRA ceasefires and three peace talks, only one of which has ever been fully revealed.\n\nIf you find a public reference to Dr Spiecker, it's usually as a \"shadowy clergyman\", who staged secret peace talks in Duisburg, in the old West Germany, in 1988 between deadlocked unionist and nationalist parties.\n\nThis was seen as a symbolically important piece of bridge building across the political permafrost - but it also seemed a strangely isolated event.\n\nWho was this German Lutheran who had pulled off such an unlikely meeting between representatives of the DUP, the UUP and the SDLP with a go-between for Sinn Fein, a decade before the Good Friday Agreement?\n\nWhat is now apparent is that this was far from a one-off involvement.\n\nDr Spiecker, born in Duisburg in the last days of the Weimar Republic, had been involved in peace initiatives in Northern Ireland since the early 1970s.\n\nFollowing a meeting of senior Northern Irish Catholic and Protestant church leaders in Germany, Dr Spiecker was given the role of building contacts in Northern Ireland, in an attempt to resolve the conflict and loss of life.\n\nHe was an outsider, a neutral figure, who tapped into a network of religious leaders working across Northern Ireland's divide.\n\nAmong his early contacts was Canon Bill Arlow, a Church of Ireland minister who controversially arranged a secret meeting between Protestant church representatives and IRA leaders in 1974, with the aim of establishing a ceasefire.\n\nThis meeting ended when the location was raided by the Irish police.\n\nDuring the republican hunger strikes of 1980 and 1981, Dr Spiecker put together a plan to reverse out of the impasse, with contacts that included the Archbishop of Canterbury, Robert Runcie, the head of the Catholic church in Ireland, Cardinal Tomas O'Fiaich, Irish prime minister Garret FitzGerald and Gaston Thorn, president of the EU Commission.\n\nThis was unsuccessful - and Dr Spiecker, writing a few months before his death, said the hunger strikes left a huge \"chasm\".\n\nHis response was to try to build an understanding between politicians across the sectarian divide - through secret meetings held in Germany, which would move from trust building to concrete proposals.\n\nHe described a \"relaxed meeting\" between unionists and nationalists in the town of Boppard on the Rhine in 1985.\n\nThe hunger strikes left a political \"chasm\" that Dr Spiecker wanted to bridge\n\nIt was designed to be convivial and away from the violent backdrop of Northern Ireland, where even admitting to such meetings would have been politically impossible.\n\nLater in the same year the signing of the Anglo-Irish Agreement between Margaret Thatcher and Mr FitzGerald prompted a mass resignation of unionist MPs.\n\nDr Spiecker said that at his private talks in Germany the \"rapprochement was successful\".\n\nThere were more undisclosed cross-party talks in May 1987, bringing together politicians from the Ulster Unionist Party, Social and Democratic Labour Party and the Alliance Party.\n\nDr Spiecker brought opposing sides away from the violence to talk secretly in Duisburg\n\nThis meeting took place in Essen in a Catholic seminary where Pope John Paul II had stayed a couple of weeks before.\n\n\"The participants were no longer only well-known personalities, but also representatives of political and social life,\" wrote Dr Spiecker.\n\n\"As an example, Martin Smyth can be mentioned, the then Grand Master of the Orange Order, who probably took part in negotiations in the rooms of a Catholic seminary for the first time.\"\n\nOrganisers of the Essen meeting identified another very prominent unionist politician who attended.\n\nThe talks focused on familiar territory for Northern Irish negotiations - the possible shape of self-government, the roles of the Westminster and Dublin governments, responsibility and cross-community support for policing and the engagement in talks of Sinn Fein.\n\nFurther talks followed the next year in a hotel in Duisburg - with Peter Robinson from the DUP joining Austin Currie from the SDLP and representatives of the UUP and Alliance.\n\nDr Spiecker (right), a campaigner for links between churches, in a meeting with Joseph Ratzinger, later Pope Benedict\n\nAnd significantly they were joined by Father Alec Reid, a priest who acted as a go-between with the \"republican movement\".\n\n\"Eberhard Spiecker's special qualities were shown,\" according to assistants in Germany who were at the talks.\n\n\"He brought people together who, until then, had never sat around one table. He succeeded in getting these people to work on the resolution of the conflict in a constructive and convinced way, in spite of all the differences.\"\n\nEven if in secret, politicians were engaging with each other - and a door was being opened to Sinn Fein, if there was an end to violence.\n\n\"The 1988 talks were significant and part of the 'bridge building' process,\" says Peter Taylor, documentary maker and author who followed the inside story of the peace process.\n\n\"They were around the time of the Hume/Adams talks facilitated by Father Alec Reid of the Clonard Monastery in Belfast. Those talks helped build the ideological platform for the declaration that Britain had no 'selfish or strategic interest' in Northern Ireland.\"\n\nWhile the talks in Boppard and Essen remained confidential, the Duisburg meeting was leaked - making international headline news in 1989.\n\nAccording to the team in Germany who put together the talks, this breach of confidentiality, and the exposure of such secret exchanges, was the \"end of the matter\" for this strand of negotiations.\n\nDr Spiecker put forward unionist and nationalist contacts during the Drumcree stand-off\n\nBut Dr Spiecker's work continued - this time in his own country.\n\nHe held talks with leading republicans, regarding a wave of lethal attacks on British military personnel based in Germany.\n\nAccording to Dr Spiecker's assistants, an agreement for an IRA ceasefire was reached in 1990, specific to Germany. This was a \"Waffenstillstand\" or \"weapons stand still\".\n\nIRA activity moved to neighbouring countries, with the Netherlands being mentioned, before a ceasefire for mainland Europe was agreed two years later.\n\nAlthough these localised ceasefires would later be breached, these suspensions of violence were seen as part of the \"confidence building\" during wider negotiations.\n\nBut is there any evidence for such ceasefires?\n\nThere are sources, close to the peace process, who say they have heard rumours of such unpublicised ceasefires.\n\nTony Blair responding to the IRA ceasefire in July 1997\n\nThere are unlikely to be any official records - and more risks than reward for any of the participating parties to talk about such controversial deals.\n\nAnother interpretation has been that a \"ceasefire\" could have been a cover for what was a forced withdrawal after a failed terror campaign.\n\nEd Moloney, author and historian of the Troubles and the peace process, says he had \"heard about the German and European ceasefires, but not whether Spiecker was involved\".\n\nHe says the deal had to be approved by the German authorities.\n\nBut the German government's political archive says there are no records of such an exchange.\n\nIt would not have been unheard of, because in later secret exchanges between Sinn Fein and the British government, ahead of the 1994 IRA ceasefire, there were references to unpublicised temporary suspensions in violence.\n\nBut there is more speculation than certainty about such events and more long silences than explanations.\n\nAnother curiosity is that Dr Spiecker - invariably recorded as a \"clergyman\" - was not actually a religious minister.\n\nHe was an elder in the Lutheran church and chaired church committees, and deeply involved in ecumenical causes, but by profession he was a lawyer.\n\nBrendan Duddy, the contact between the British government and the IRA, was also in communication with Dr Spiecker\n\nHe acted in secret - and was valued for his unshowy trustworthiness - but his work seems to have overlapped with other \"secret peacemakers\".\n\nBrendan Duddy, who died recently, was the secret \"back channel\" contact between the IRA and the British government, from the 1970s to the 1990s.\n\nIn Mr Duddy's archive of letters there are references to faxes he exchanged with Dr Spiecker.\n\nThere were messages from 1997 exchanged about defusing the violent stand-off over the Orange Order march at Drumcree, with Dr Spiecker putting forward representatives of unionists and republicans for talks, with the offer of hosting negotiations in Germany.\n\nThere were also confidential messages to the former Irish prime minister, Albert Reynolds, before a round of peace process negotiations in 1997. Dr Spiecker set out unresolved areas for an IRA ceasefire, such as policing, decommissioning of weapons and prisoner release.\n\nHe seemed to have had access across the landscape of Northern Ireland politics, meeting with unionists Peter Robinson, Jim Molyneaux and Martin Smyth; the SDLP's John Hume and Austin Currie and senior figures from Sinn Fein.\n\nHow much official support was there in the background for his undertakings? How were his freelance efforts linked to wider negotiations?\n\nHis assistants remember a man of deep conviction whose \"absolute discretion enabled people and groups to trust him\".\n\nIan Paisley and Martin McGuinness became symbols of the power sharing agreement\n\nThey describe his part in Christmas truces.\n\n\"Eberhard was often involved in bringing about ceasefires on Christmas Eve.\n\n\"He would come to eat with us that day, then we would go to church and the rest of the day was spent on the phone or by his fax machine in communication with various places.\"\n\nThose \"various places\" are likely to remain unknown.\n\nThis was a lifetime spent getting distrustful opponents to talk to each other, working out of sight to stop the murderous violence.\n\nWith his death, more of the secret efforts of this German peacemaker are being revealed.", "The claim: Average public sector pay is higher than private sector, even adjusted for qualifications\n\nReality Check verdict: It is a difficult comparison to make, but IFS calculations suggest that Lord Lamont is probably right. However, in recent years private sector pay has been growing faster than public sector pay and the gap between public and private pay is expected to continue to narrow in the coming years if current government policies are implemented.\n\nFormer chancellor Lord Lamont was on Radio 4 on Monday morning championing the case for continued pay restraint.\n\nHe pointed out that public sector pay in Great Britain is above private sector even taking into account qualifications.\n\nThe point about qualifications is important, because jobs in the public sector tend to require higher qualifications. Also, there has been a tendency for public sector bodies to outsource lower-paid functions such as cleaning and catering to contractors, which moves them from the public to the private sector. Doing so on a large scale would increase average earnings in the public sector.\n\nThere tends to be a wider range of pay in the private sector - there are more low earners and more high earners.\n\nIf you look at seasonally adjusted average weekly earnings for regular pay in the public sector, it was £506 a week in April, compared with £464 in the private sector.\n\nBut Lord Lamont was talking about earnings adjusted for qualifications. The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) made this comparison in May, when it found that average public sector pay was about 3% above the private sector, although it warned that it could only adjust for whether somebody had a degree, for example, and not what the degree was in, or how good a degree it was.\n\nAnother thing that makes this comparison tricky is that staff in the public sector tend to have better pension provision, with earnings-related schemes still common in the public sector but unusual in the private. This is not reflected in the average earnings figures.\n\nBonus payments are more common in the private sector and they are also not included in these average earnings figures.\n\nThe gap between public and private sector earnings has been narrowing as a result of two years of frozen public sector pay starting in 2011 followed by 1% caps.\n\nIn recent years private sector pay has been growing faster than public sector pay.\n\nPart of this effect has been to catch up with the period around 2009, when, as a result of the financial crisis, private sector average earnings fell substantially, while public sector earnings were much more resilient. During that period the gap between public and private sector earnings grew.\n\nBut inflation has been growing faster than both public and private sector pay, meaning that workers have seen their pay fall in real terms.\n\nThe IFS has warned that if the government's current plans are implemented, the gap between public and private sector pay will return to levels last seen in the 2000s, when there were considerable difficulties in recruiting and retaining staff.\n\nPublic-sector pay growing more slowly than inflation is reflected in a report commissioned by the Office of Manpower Economics published on Monday.\n\nIt looked at what had happened to real (adjusted for inflation) median wages for 10 occupations covered by pay review bodies, between 2005 and 2015.\n\nThe median wage is the one earned by the person compared with whom half of workers are paid more, and half paid less.\n\nAverage hourly pay for doctors has fallen from £38 an hour in 2005 to £30 in 2015, while the average pay of nurses is unchanged at £16 an hour.\n\nPolice officers have seen their pay fall from £20 an hour to £18, and teachers' pay is down from £25 to £22.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "\"What would we English say if we could not go from London to the Crystal Palace or from Manchester to Stockport without a passport or police officer at our heels? Depend upon it, we are not half enough grateful to God for our national privileges.\"\n\nSo wrote an English publisher named John Gadsby, travelling through Europe in the mid-19th Century.\n\nThis was before the modern passport system, wearily familiar to anyone who has ever crossed a national border.\n\nYou stand in a queue, you proffer your standardised booklet to a uniformed official, who glances at your face to check that it resembles the image of your younger, slimmer self.\n\nPerhaps she quizzes you about your journey, while her computer checks your name against a terrorist watch-list.\n\nFor most of history, passports were neither so ubiquitous nor so routine.\n\nThey were, essentially, a threat: a letter from some powerful person requesting the traveller pass unmolested - or else.\n\n50 Things That Made the Modern Economy highlights the inventions, ideas and innovations that helped create the economic world.\n\nThe concept of passport as protection goes back to biblical times. And protection was a privilege, not a right.\n\nGentlemen such as Gadsby who wanted a passport needed a personal link to the relevant government minister.\n\nAs Gadsby discovered, the more zealously bureaucratic continental nations had realised the passport's potential as a tool of social and economic control.\n\nA century earlier, French citizens had to show paperwork not only to leave the country, but to travel from town to town.\n\nWhile wealthy countries today secure their borders to keep unskilled workers out, municipal authorities historically used them to stop skilled workers from leaving.\n\nAs the 19th Century progressed, railways and steamboats made travel faster and cheaper. As Martin Lloyd details in his book The Passport, restrictive travel documents were unpopular.\n\nFrance's Emperor Napoleon III shared Gadsby's admiration for the more relaxed British approach. He described passports as \"an oppressive invention\", and abolished them in 1860.\n\nFrance was not alone. More and more countries either formally abandoned passport requirements or stopped enforcing them, at least in peacetime.\n\nYou could visit 1890s America without a passport, though it helped if you were white.\n\nThe visitors greeted by the newly installed Statue of Liberty in the 1890s did not need passports\n\nSome South American countries enshrined passport-free travel in their constitutions. In China and Japan, foreigners needed passports only to venture inland.\n\nBy the turn of the 20th Century, only a handful of countries still insisted on passports to enter or leave. It seemed possible they might soon disappear altogether.\n\nWhat would today's world look like if they had?\n\nOne morning in September 2015, Abdullah Kurdi, his wife and two young sons boarded a dinghy in Bodrum, Turkey, hoping to make it 4km (2.5 miles) across the Aegean Sea to the Greek island of Kos.\n\nBut the dinghy capsized in rough seas. Abdullah managed to cling to the boat, but his wife and children drowned.\n\nWhen the body of three-year-old Aylan Kurdi washed up on a Turkish beach and was photographed by a Turkish agency journalist, the image became an icon of the migrant crisis that had convulsed Europe all summer.\n\nTens of thousands of migrant families have tried to cross from Turkey to Greece\n\nThe Kurdis hadn't planned to stay in Greece. They hoped eventually to start a new life in Vancouver, where Abdullah's sister Teema is a hairdresser.\n\nThere are easier ways to travel from Turkey to Canada than taking a dinghy to Kos.\n\nAbdullah had money: the 4,000 euros (£2,500; $4,460) he paid a people-smuggler could have bought plane tickets for them all - if they had had the right passports.\n\nSince the Syrian government denied citizenship to ethnic Kurds, the family had no passports. But even with Syrian documents, they couldn't have boarded a plane to Canada. Passports issued by Sweden or Slovakia, or Singapore or Samoa would have been fine.\n\nIt can seem natural that the name of the country on our passport determines where we can travel and work - legally, at least.\n\nBut it's a relatively recent historical development, and, from a certain angle, it's odd.\n\nMany countries ban employers from discriminating among workers based on characteristics we can't change: whether we're male or female, young or old, gay or straight, black or white.\n\nIt's not entirely true that we can't change our passport: $250,000 (£193,000) will buy you one from St Kitts and Nevis.\n\nSt Kitts established its \"Citizenship by Investment\" programme in 1984\n\nBut, mostly, our passport depends on the identity of our parents and location of our birth. And nobody chooses those.\n\nDespite this, there's no public clamour to judge people not by the colour of their passport but by the content of their character.\n\nLess than three decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall, migrant controls are back in fashion.\n\nDonald Trump calls for a wall along the US-Mexico border.\n\nUS President Trump insists that Mexico will reimburse the US for the cost of the border wall, estimates of which vary wildly\n\nThe Schengen zone cracks under the pressure of the migrant crisis.\n\nEurope's leaders scramble to distinguish refugees from \"economic migrants\", the assumption being that someone who isn't fleeing persecution - but merely wants a better job or life - should not be let in.\n\nPolitically, the logic of restrictions on migration may be increasingly hard to dispute.\n\nYet economic logic points in the opposite direction. In theory, whenever you allow factors of production to follow demand, output rises.\n\nIn practice, all migration creates winners and losers, but research indicates there are many more winners. In the wealthiest countries - by one estimate - five in six of the existing population are made better off by the arrival of immigrants.\n\nSo why doesn't this translate into popular support for open borders?\n\nThere are practical and cultural reasons why migration can be badly managed: if public services aren't upgraded quickly enough to cope with new arrivals, or belief systems prove hard to reconcile.\n\nThe losses also tend to be more visible than the gains.\n\nSuppose a group of Mexicans arrive in America, ready to pick fruit for lower wages than Americans are earning. The benefits - slightly cheaper fruit for everyone - are too widely spread and small to notice, while the costs - some Americans lose their jobs - produce vocal unhappiness.\n\nIt should be possible to arrange taxes and public spending to compensate the losers. But it doesn't tend to work that way.\n\nThe economic logic of migration often seems more compelling when it doesn't involve crossing national borders.\n\nIn 1980s Britain, with recession affecting some of the country's regions more than others, Employment Minister Norman Tebbit notoriously suggested - or was widely interpreted as suggesting - that the jobless should \"get on their bikes\" to look for work.\n\nSome economists calculate global economic output would double if anyone could get on their bikes to work anywhere.\n\nThat suggests today's world would be much richer if passports had died out in the early 20th Century. There's one simple reason they didn't: World War One intervened.\n\nWith security concerns trumping ease of travel, governments imposed strict new controls on movement, and they proved unwilling to relinquish those powers once peace returned.\n\nIn 1920, the newly formed League of Nations called an \"International Conference on Passports, Customs Formalities and Through Tickets\", which effectively invented the passport as we know it.\n\nFrom 1921, the conference said, passports should be 15.5cm (6in) by 10.5cm, 32 pages, bound in cardboard, with a photo. The format has changed remarkably little since.\n\nLike John Gadsby, anyone with the right colour passport can only count their blessings.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nEighteen people died when their tour bus collided with a lorry and burst into flames on the A9 motorway in southern Germany, police say.\n\nAnother 30 on the bus were hurt and two of them were fighting for their lives.\n\nThe bus was carrying a group of German pensioners at the time of the fire near Stammbach in northern Bavaria.\n\nBavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann said rescuers were delayed by \"gawpers\" driving slowly and by the intensity of the blaze.\n\nThe cause of the fire is unknown. Traffic was reportedly moving slowly at the time and the collision between the two vehicles was not described as a major crash.\n\nThe lorry's trailer was also incinerated and the burnt-out wreck ended up a short distance ahead of the bus. The German news website Frankenpost reports that it was carrying mattresses and pillows.\n\nThe lorry driver was unharmed and told police the bus had gone into the back of his vehicle and burst into flames, it said.\n\nThe burnt-out wrecks of the bus and lorry trailer ended up a short distance apart\n\nThere were 46 passengers and two drivers on the bus. The bus driver was among those killed. The passengers were men and women aged 66 to 81, heading to Lake Garda in Italy for a holiday.\n\nSome of the passengers had got on the bus at Dresden station in the eastern state of Saxony. According to local media in Saxony, the bus had earlier picked up passengers elsewhere in Saxony and also in Brandenburg in the early hours of Monday before going to Dresden and then south-west towards Nuremberg.\n\nBy mid-afternoon forensic teams had recovered the charred remains of 15 people and police confirmed that 18 had died.\n\nFirefighters reached the scene within 10 minutes of the accident but were driven back by the intensity of the fire. \"Only steel parts are recognisable so you can understand what that meant for the people in this bus,\" said German Transport Minister Alexander Dobrindt.\n\nMotoring safety expert Hans-Ulrich Sander suggested that the fuel line that ran under the bus may have ruptured, prompting the fire to spread fast.\n\nFive rescue helicopters joined emergency workers at the scene.\n\nChancellor Angela Merkel said she was distressed by the accident and expressed sympathy for the injured and bereaved relatives.\n\nShe thanked the rescuers for looking after people \"in an appalling situation\".\n\nForensic experts examined the charred skeleton of the bus and human remains inside\n\nThe burnt-out shell of the bus could be seen as emergency teams reached the scene\n\nFive rescue helicopters rushed to the scene", "Andy Murray will attempt to retain his men's singles title\n\nWhen you host what is arguably the most famous tennis tournament in the world - Wimbledon - it would be tempting to rest on your sporting laurels and let things tick along as they always have done.\n\nNot only is it the longest-established of the four Grand Slam tournaments, but the Championships also enjoy sell out crowds and hospitality every year.\n\nThe two-week long event is broadcast to millions of fans, and made an operating profit of £42m last year.\n\nSo, things certainly look rosy in the green SW19 garden, with further healthy signs being a 12% increase in the prize money pot this year to £31.6m.\n\nBut income from broadcasters represents more than half of the event's turnover, and a small number of key broadcast markets, notably the UK and USA, provide the majority of that income.\n\nWith this in mind, executives from tournament operator the All England Lawn Tennis Club (AELTC), are looking at new ways to grow awareness and interest in the tournament outside their current Anglo-centric heartlands.\n\n\"We want to take the Wimbledon brand to new audiences and regions,\" Mick Desmond, AELTC commercial and media director, tells me.\n\n\"It is not just about the people here at Wimbledon, where we have sold out all spectator tickets and all hospitality again.\n\nMr Desmond says Wimbledon has been on a digital journey\n\n\"We want to grow our global fan base, the same as the likes of Premier League football or NBA basketball are doing.\"\n\nHe adds: \"Tennis as a sport is in great shape. But we take a long term view in terms of strategy.\n\n\"Not just in terms of developing physical infrastructure here on the playing site, but also about building our brand with a younger audience, and also with new audiences in different parts of the world, be it China or Colombia.\n\n\"Disruption is everywhere in the modern world, and we always have to be thinking one step ahead.\"\n\nDuring the tournament a wealth of information is available via different digital outlets\n\nThe financial reward from growing its global fan base, will come when Wimbledon signs new TV deals and sponsorship agreements, and is able to show that it can deliver a large and diverse customer base for its partners.\n\n\"It all means that we add more value to our media rights, and it means we also offer more value to our commercial partners such as IBM or Jaguar,\" he says.\n\nAnd it is with long-term partner IBM, its official supplier of information technology, that the event is looking to use digital media to spread its message and engage with new fans.\n\n\"We have been on a long digital journey over the past seven years,\" Mr Desmond says.\n\nHe says that in 2010 Wimbledon had a very good website, but that it looked the same as the other Grand Slam tournament sites, also created by IBM.\n\n\"We wanted to enhance the beauty and grace of Wimbledon. For those who could not be here in person, we wanted to give them the next-best experience,\" he says.\n\n\"The reaction of fans has been very positive. But we are never happy. We wanted to raise the bar for 2017.\"\n\nMr Desmond says that Wimbledon wants to provide a rich digital experience that ensures they connect with fans at the event and across the globe.\n\nThe Ask Fred app is named after three-times champion Fred Perry\n\nThis year the AELTC and IBM have offered a new range of digital features, which include:\n\n\"We are democratising data for tennis and sports fans,\" says Alexandra Willis, head of content and digital at the AELTC.\n\n\"We want to get under the skin of tennis matches at Wimbledon, and use digital to deepen engagement with fans.\"\n\nGraphic showing the differing types and amounts of data analysed and produced for Wimbledon fans\n\nShe adds: \"We spend a lot of time trying to build our media assets. We are trying to reach a bigger, younger, more engaged audience.\"\n\nMeanwhile, social media content from the tournament is being adapted into a number of different languages.\n\nThere will be Facebook pages for fans in Korea, Japan, India, and the Spanish speaking nations.\n\nAnd content is being produced for Weibo and Wechat in China, and for Japanese messenger service Line.\n\n\"We are trying to inform fans,\" adds Ms Willis. \"We are not just pushing content at them, we are tailoring what we do to different types of fans.\"\n\nWith such a varied digital offering, there had been criticism in the past there was no actual wi-fi at the tournament grounds to help ease access to it.\n\nThis year there will be three areas where public wi-fi is available. They are, from the entrance way at Gate 3 and along to the food court, in the ticket resale area, and at the west stand area of court 12.\n\nOrganisers say they want to see how well this works, before looking to potentially expand wi-fi access in 2018.\n\nFans will be able to access a wealth of playing facts and data\n\n\"We are not complacent about what we are doing with our media and digital assets,\" says Mr Desmond.\n\n\"Our brand is the most important thing we have, we need to nurture and develop it. The more we can drive our content and brand, as other sports rights holders are doing, the more we can grow our audience.\n\n\"And that can ultimately only help us commercially.\"", "On the first day in his new job, Choe Peng Sum was given a fairly simple brief: \"Just go make us a lot of money.\"\n\nFast forward about 20 years, and it's fair to say he has done just that.\n\nThe business he runs, Frasers Hospitality, is one of the world's biggest providers of high-end serviced apartments. Its 148 properties span about 80 capital cities, as well as financial hubs across Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Africa.\n\nBut it almost didn't get off the ground.\n\nWhen Mr Choe was appointed to launch and lead the company, Asia was booming; the tiger economies of Hong Kong, South Korea, Taiwan and Singapore were expanding rapidly.\n\nBut as Frasers prepared to open its first two properties in Singapore, the Asian financial crisis hit.\n\nIt was 1997. Currencies went into freefall. Suddenly, people were losing their jobs and stopped travelling.\n\nMr Choe recalls asking staff if they really wanted to continue working with the firm, because when the properties opened they might not get paid.\n\n\"It was really that serious,\" he says. \"I remember tearing up because they said 'let's open it, let's open it whether you can pay us or not'.\"\n\nChoe Peng Sum (second from left) with colleagues at Frasers Manila opening in 2002\n\nSurvival, Mr Choe admits, came through a bit of luck, and the misfortune of others.\n\nHe had convinced the board at parent firm, property group Frasers Centrepoint, to open serviced apartments rather than hotels - partly because getting planning permission in Singapore was easier.\n\nBut he also sensed it was a big, untapped market. And at the time of the crisis, it proved to be exactly what customers wanted.\n\n\"As we were going through this difficult patch, there were protests and riots in Jakarta,\" he says. \"A lot of companies like Microsoft called up looking for rooms for their staff because they were moving out of Jakarta.\"\n\nFrasers' 412 apartments were quickly in demand. Occupancy soon hit 70%, and then 90%.\n\nExplaining the popularity of serviced apartments, Mr Choe says that if people are staying somewhere for just a few days, they happily stay in hotels, but if they are going to be somewhere for one month to eight months, the walls of hotel rooms \"close in on you\".\n\nBut now, Mr Choe, 57, faces new challenges - the travel tastes of millennials and the disruptive nature of Airbnb.\n\n\"The way to tackle Airbnb is not to ignore it. I will never underestimate Airbnb,\" he says.\n\nThere's been no significant impact on Frasers yet. Big corporations still prefer to put employees in big service apartments, he says, because they can guarantee a level of safety and security. But that is likely to change, Mr Choe admits.\n\nA former Edinburgh hospital has been converted into serviced apartments by Frasers-owned Malmaison Hotel du Vin\n\n\"I have two daughters who to my chagrin use Airbnb,\" he says. \"We took a family trip to Florence and I stayed in this wonderful boutique hotel, but paid a bundle for it.\n\n\"When my daughter joined us, she said, 'I'm just staying next door and paying about 80 euros'. We paid about 330 euros.\n\n\"I asked why they stayed at Airbnb. They say 'it's like a surprise, it's part of the adventure'.\"\n\nAnd so now, Mr Choe wants to bring some of that vibrancy to Frasers.\n\nWhile neutral colours, beige curtains and dark wooden chairs dominate its more traditional apartments, many customers want something different, and this is shaping Fraser's strategy.\n\nIn 2015 it bought Malmaison Hotel du Vin, a UK hotel group that specialises in developing heritage properties into upscale boutique hotels.\n\nThat has taken them beyond financial centres, including to Shakespeare's hometown of Stratford-upon-Avon. Or, an intrepid traveller with $500 (£325) to spend could have a night in a converted medieval prison in Oxford.\n\nAnd Frasers has launched the Capri sub-brand - whose website promises \"inspiring art and inspirational tech\".\n\nOn a day-to-day basis Mr Choe says he still draws on his experience as a young man, who - having been given a scholarship by the Shangri-La hotel group to study at Cornell University in the US - came back to Asia to learn about the hospitality industry.\n\n\"They put me in every department conceivable. I remember one of the toughest jobs I had was in the butchery. I had to carve an entire cow. For one month, I could not eat meat.\n\n\"I'm thankful for those experiences. When you step into a hotel, you immediately pick up what works and what doesn't work.\n\n\"When I see the check-in staff walking more than three steps, I know the counter is set up wrong.\n\n\"It's like a cockpit. Can you imagine if the pilot had to turn around when he flies?\"\n\nMore The Boss features, which every week profile a different business leader from around the world:\n\nMr Choe adds that loyalty is very important to him, and he remains tremendously grateful to staff who have stayed with him.\n\n\"I will always respect and remember those who gave up their jobs to join me,\" he says.\n\nThis loyalty is something that Mr Choe has earned, according to Donald MacLaurin, associate professor at Singapore Institute of Technology, and specialist in the hospitality sector.\n\nFrasers is now a global business, with property around the world, including the Suites Le Claridge in Paris\n\nMr MacLaurin points out that Mr Choe introduced a five-day working week, in a part of the world where six days is common, thereby showing \"a focus on quality of life issues for employees\".\n\nThe associate professor adds says the early success of the business was remarkable given the timing of its launch.\n\nFast forward to today and the company is now on track to operate 30,000 serviced apartments globally by 2019. That success, say Mr Choe's admirers, should make him something of a visionary.\n\nFollow The Boss series editor Will Smale on Twitter.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The clip was originally submitted to a pro-Trump forum on the social media site Reddit\n\nThe US President has tweeted a short video clip of him wrestling a person with the CNN logo for a head.\n\nThe clip is an altered version of Donald Trump's appearance at a WWE wrestling event in 2007, in which he \"attacked\" franchise owner Vince McMahon in a scripted appearance.\n\nThe animation appears to have been posted to a pro-Trump internet forum earlier in the week.\n\nCNN later accused the president of inciting violence against the media.\n\nOne panellist on ABC's morning show, Ana Navarro - a Republican Trump critic and CNN contributor - said \"it is an incitement to violence. He is going to get somebody killed in the media.\"\n\nBut Homeland Security Adviser Thomas Bossert, who had appeared earlier on the same ABC programme, said: \"No-one would perceive that as a threat.\"\n\nThe clip was submitted to a Donald Trump forum on the social media site Reddit four days ago, where it became one of the most popular posts.\n\nAfter the president's tweets, Reddit users expressed disbelief at the president's use of the clip.\n\nIt was also retweeted by the official presidential Twitter account, @POTUS, operated by the White House.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Meet the Progressive Liberal: an anti-Trump wrestler in Appalachia\n\nMr Trump has repeatedly clashed with the CNN news network, which he calls \"fake news\".\n\nCNN's top White House correspondent Jim Acosta, who has been critical of the White House's attitude to the press, simply tweeted: \"Isn't pro wrestling fake?\"\n\nMeanwhile, the CNN Communications team tweeted a seemingly sarcastic response quoting White House press officer Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who said on Thursday: \"The President in no way form or fashion has ever promoted or encouraged violence. If anything, quite the contrary.\"\n\nIn a later statement, the news network said \"clearly, Sarah Huckabee Sanders lied... [he is] involved in juvenile behaviour far below the dignity of this office.\"\n\n\"We will keep doing our jobs. He should start doing his.\"\n\nDonald Trump has shown time and time again that he views politics as performance art; another reality television competition where the more drama and conflict there is, the better.\n\nHis CNN-wrestling video tweet is just the latest, most jarring example. For Mr Trump the political process is like a World Wrestling Entertainment match. The plot is contrived; the action is fake; the outcome predetermined.\n\nDuring his campaign, he pulled back the curtain on the show and laughed along with his supporters at the spectacle. He encouraged his crowds to cheer the hero (him) and berate the villains (everyone else).\n\nAs president, nothing has changed. CNN has just been chosen as the latest number-one bad guy.\n\nThe president's tweet will certainly harshen the level of discourse in the nation. Already there are accusations that Mr Trump is inciting violence.\n\nMost of his supporters, however, will see it as Mr Trump probably intended - the latest episode in the biggest show ever to hit the US political scene; the newest twist in the remaking of the modern US presidency.\n\nMr Trump's unusual tweet comes a day after he said his use of social media \"is not Presidential - it's modern day presidential.\"\n\nOn Thursday, the president launched a crude personal attack on MSNBC hosts Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough. His tweets were condemned by Democrats and Republicans alike.\n\nMr Trump has an entry in the World Wrestling Entertainment hall of fame for his appearance in the franchise a decade ago.\n\nIn 2007, franchise owner Vince McMahon challenged Mr Trump to a so-called \"Battle of the Billionaires\" at a Wrestlemania event, with a wager that the loser would have their head shaved.\n\nThe US professional wrestling scene is largely pre-scripted and seen as a form of entertainment rather than a sport.\n\nMr Trump was also a victim in the scripted fight\n\nDuring the same event, Mr Trump was \"thrown\" to the mat by wrestler Steve Austin with his signature move, \"the stone cold stunner.\"\n\nRather than fighting directly, each business magnate backed a performer. Mr Trump's wrestler was victorious.\n\nBut on the sidelines of the ring, Donald Trump performed his scripted attack on McMahon, providing the original video for his beat-down of CNN.\n\nMr Trump then helped to shave McMahon's head on television.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Haroon Syed was caught after trying to buy a bomb from a British security agent\n\nA 19-year-old man has been jailed for life for planning a bomb attack that may have targeted an Elton John concert or Oxford Street in central London.\n\nHaroon Syed, of west London, admitted preparing acts of terrorism after trying to source weapons including a suicide bomb and machine gun.\n\nHe was caught after approaching MI5 officers, who were posing as a fellow extremist, via social media.\n\nSyed was sentenced to a minimum of 16 years and six months.\n\nLast year, his brother was jailed for life for plotting to behead someone on Remembrance Sunday.\n\nJudge Michael Topolski QC said Syed wanted to carry out \"an act of mass murder\" and therefore a discretionary life sentence was warranted.\n\nProsecutors say Syed's plans ranged from becoming a suicide bomber to staging a gun attack, and while he initially boasted of working with others, those people did not materialise.\n\nInstead, over the summer of last year, he made increasingly urgent efforts to secure weaponry.\n\nAfter he went online looking for help, a purported jihadist fighting overseas, known only as Abu Isa, introduced him to another extremist going by the name Abu Yusuf.\n\nThis second man was, in fact, a group of MI5 officers who were playing the role of a jihadist in what became weeks of social media chat with Syed.\n\nDuncan Penny QC, prosecuting, told the Old Bailey there was initially some \"suspicion on both sides\" before Abu Yusuf concluded that Syed was a \"committed brother\" he could deal with.\n\nSyed then began talking about his aspirations and gave his contact a shopping list, saying he wanted \"do martyrdom\" after first causing \"damage\" with a machine gun.\n\n\"Can you get the gear?\" asked Syed. \"You will be involved right?\n\n\"Two things. Number one, machine gun and we need someone who can make a vest you know the dugma [button] one. So after some damage with machine gun then do itishadi [martyrdom] ... that's what I'm planning to do.\"\n\nThe undercover officer told Syed guns were expensive - but he might be able to get someone to build a bomb. Syed floated the idea of going to fight overseas with his new-found friend - but revealed his passport had been cancelled by the authorities.\n\nHe tried and failed twice to get fraudulent loans of thousands of pounds to cover the cost of firearms - and eventually agreed to meet his contact in a coffee shop in Slough, Berkshire, to finalise an alternative plan.\n\nOver two meetings, he talked about his aspirations and then handed over £150, asking for a bomb packed with nails. The conversation was secretly recorded.\n\n\"I was thinking of Oxford Street,\" he told his contact. \"If you put those things inside called nails, do you know what that is, nails? Those sharp things - lots of them inside.\n\n\"Good man, can't wait akhi [brother]. If I go to prison, I go to prison. If I die, I die, you understand? I have got to get to Jannah [heaven].\"\n\nThe undercover officer later told Syed a \"bomb-making brother\" would have the device ready within days - and the suspect went online to narrow his list of targets.\n\nHis web searches included \"packed places in London\" and \"Elton John, Hyde Park, 11 September\" - a major concert hosted by BBC Radio 2 which also featured Status Quo and Madness.\n\nProsecutors say Syed's character had begun to change outwardly in late 2014, coinciding with the growing support among British extremists for the self-styled Islamic State group.\n\nDuring the course of the investigation, detectives found his web searches jumped about as he tried to satisfy himself that an attack on civilians was theologically justifiable.\n\nOne of his last searches, a week before his arrest, was: \"How can I stop being upset about the UK killing innocent Syrians and get on with my day?\"\n\nWhen counter-terrorist detectives arrested him in September and asked him for the password for his phone, he replied: \"ISIS - you like that?\"\n\nSyed's was one of 18 terror plots to have been foiled since 2013.\n\nMitigating, Mark Summers QC said it was a \"crude, ill-thought-out\" plan made at the behest of others.\n\nThe court heard Syed had fallen under the influence of members of banned extremist group Al-Muhajiroun, and that he now publicly rejected his past beliefs and condemned the recent bomb attack in Manchester.\n\nBut Judge Topolski told Syed: \"You were not lured, you were not enticed, you were not entrapped.\n\n\"You became, and in my judgement as shown by your online activities away from your contact with Abu Yusuf, deeply committed to the ideology of a brutal and barbaric organisation that sought to hijack and corrupt an ancient and venerable religion for its own purposes and you wanted to be part of it.\"\n\nDeb Walsh, deputy head of the counter-terrorism division of the Crown Prosecution Service, said: \"Haroon Syed is clearly a danger to the public who was prepared to carry out indiscriminate attacks against innocent people.\n\n\"The compelling evidence presented by the CPS left him with no choice but to plead guilty.\"", "Thousands of homes in tower blocks across Scotland do not have potentially life-saving sprinkler systems, a BBC Scotland investigation has found.\n\nThere are no sprinklers in flats in more than 300 high-rise buildings in towns and cities across the country, including Glasgow and Edinburgh.\n\nEvery high-rise built in Scotland since 2005 must have sprinklers, by law.\n\nBut there is no obligation on councils or social landlords to fit the systems in older tower blocks.\n\nThere were no sprinkler systems in Grenfell Tower in Kensington, west London, when it was engulfed by a devastating fire last month that killed at least 80 people.\n\nIt has led to renewed calls from firefighters and politicians to retrofit the devices in high-rise buildings.\n\nAnd the Scottish government has pledged to review the evidence about the effectiveness of the systems.\n\nAn independent report published earlier this year found that sprinklers were 99% effective at controlling or extinguishing fires.\n\nBBC Scotland contacted local authorities and housing associations across Scotland in a bid to determine how many high-rise homes were fitted with sprinklers.\n\nOf those which replied to our request, only South Ayrshire Council said it had fitted the system into flats in its tower blocks.\n\nThey were fitted in 234 homes in three tower blocks in Ayr during a refurbishment of the flats in 2003.\n\nSprinkler systems are in place in flats in three tower blocks in Riverside Place in Ayr\n\nFife Council, the City of Edinburgh Council and Glasgow Housing Association have sprinklers in their bin stores - a move being considered by Aberdeen City Council.\n\nBut there are no sprinklers in high-rise homes operated by the following social landlords:\n\nThere is no suggestion that any of the councils or housing associations are breaching fire regulations and they have reassured tenants about fire safety in the wake of the Grenfell tragedy.\n\nIn response to the BBC Scotland inquiry, a number of landlords said they would act on any of the findings or recommendations made following the London fire.\n\nBrian Sweeney, the former head of Strathclyde Fire and Rescue Service, called on the Scottish government to act to protect residents of high rise buildings north of the border.\n\nHe told BBC Scotland that the Grenfell tower fire was a \"game changer\" and added that he believed a sprinkler would have prevented the fire, which started in a fridge in a fourth floor flat, from spreading.\n\n\"I think the Scottish government have led the way in requiring sprinklers since 2005 in both residential care homes and high rise blocks,\" he said\n\n\"What I want them to do now is go a little bit further and say they now want to work in partnership with the 32 local government authorities in Scotland, they want to prioritise the installation of sprinklers and they want to... to make sure these 300 high rises are fitted with sprinklers in each flat over the next three to five years.\n\n\"I think that's do-able. I think that would show a progressive approach to fire safety in Scotland. I think they could take lead in the UK in demonstrating exactly how important public safety is to them, and particularly how important the life safety of those who are most vulnerable is to them.\"\n\nHe added: \"If you can put sprinklers in hotels, if you can put them in high rise premises and office premises and commercial premises, well lets take a look at those council estates where people are most vulnerable - like Grenfell - and let's make sure they get them as well.\"\n\nThe BBC Scotland investigation also led to a call for action from Scottish Labour's deputy leader, Alex Rowley.\n\nHe said the Scottish government must agree to fund a programme to ensure the \"highest safety standards\" in all high rise flats.\n\nGraham Simpson, the Scottish Conservative's housing spokesman agreed that the government should work with councils on a sprinkler installation system.\n\n\"That's what the people living there would expect, and it's something which has to happen immediately,\" he said.\n\nThe effectiveness of sprinklers - or fire suppression systems- was confirmed in an independent report published shortly before the Grenfell tragedy.\n\nThe study, which was commissioned by the National Fire Chiefs Council and the National Sprinkler Network found that they were 99% effective at controlling or extinguising fires when they operate.\n\nLead author Peter Wood, of Edinburgh-based Optimal Economics, told BBC Scotland he was confident of the effectiveness of sprinklers but he had \"no idea\" whether they would have prevented the Grenfell Tower fire.\n\nHe said they \"very, very occasionally\" do not work when they are overwhelmed by a fire but he dismissed concerns that sprinklers could be easily triggered, causing flooding, as a \"myth\".\n\n\"Sprinklers don't go off on a whim,\" he said. \"They need heat to go off.\"\n\nAccording to the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service, many sprinklers are only triggered by heats of around 68C - 11C higher than the highest temperature ever recorded in Death Valley in California.\n\nIn 2015 a report commissioned by the Scottish government which examined the \"cost benefit analysis\" of fitting sprinkler systems in homes across Scotland found that it would cost between £1,000 and £3,000 per flat.\n\nIt concluded that it was not cost-effective to fit sprinklers in individual houses, but a \"targeted installation\" would benefit at-risk groups.\n\nPeople who live in deprived areas, those with drug and alcohol problems, or mental health problems, and elderly people are at greater risk from fire.\n\nThe Scottish government has confirmed that the provision of sprinklers will be considered in a review of fire legislation and building regulations - to which the fire service will contribute.\n\nPolice fear that around 80 people have died in the fire at the Grenfell tower block\n\nAssistant Chief Officer David McGown said: \"The SFRS recognises the value these installations can add whilst acknowledging that they may not be appropriate in all cases when applied on a risk basis.\"\n\nHe added: \"The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service works closely with local authorities and housing associations to help ensure the safety of occupants in high-rise buildings. The SFRS is here to support communities, most notably through our free home fire safety visits.\"\n\nA spokesman for the Scottish government said: \"While we continue to be confident that we have stringent building and fire safety regulations which contribute to keeping people safe, following the tragic events at Grenfell Tower it is imperative that we undertake a thorough and critical review of our regulations.\n\n\"The Ministerial Working Group overseeing this process will consider all relevant measures to ensure the safety of residents in high-rise domestic buildings, including a review of evidence on fire suppression systems.\"", "A seven-year-old girl was reportedly among those injured in the attack in Avignon, France\n\nEight people have been injured in a shooting outside a mosque in southern France, officials have confirmed.\n\nWorshippers leaving the Arrahma mosque in Avignon were approached by two hooded suspects at about 22:30 local time (21:30 GMT) on Sunday.\n\nThe suspects, carrying a handgun and a shotgun, arrived in a Renault Clio before opening fire on the crowd, La Provence newspaper reports.\n\nPolice said they were not treating the incident as a terrorist attack.\n\nFour people were wounded outside the mosque and a family of four - including a seven-year-old girl - also suffered injuries from shrapnel while in their apartment, located some 50 metres away, La Provence said, citing a source.\n\nTwo of the eight wounded were hospitalised, according to the source, who also said that worshippers leaving the mosque had not been the intended target.\n\nAn eyewitness interviewed at the scene said that dozens of people near the mosque started to run when they saw the two suspects exit the vehicle and approach them with firearms.\n\n\"It was a black Renault car,\" the witness said, adding: \"There were four individuals, only two of them, who were seated in the back, stepped out and started shooting at everyone.\"\n\nThe Avignon attack is not being treated as a terrorist incident, the prosecutor's office said. \"The fact that it happened in the street of the religious establishment was unconnected with it,\" the prosecutor said.\n\nLaure Chabaud, a district magistrate, said that the incident was likely to be the result of a dispute between youths.\n\nThe criminal investigation department has taken charge of the case, AFP news agency reports.\n\nOn Thursday, a man was arrested after trying to drive a car into a crowd in front of a mosque in the Paris suburb of Creteil. No-one was injured in the incident.\n\nFrance remains on alert amid heightened security following a deadly attack on Paris police in April and a series of terrorist incidents in recent years.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police commando Herojit has admitted to more than 100 unlawful killings. Warning: This video contains distressing images\n\nMore than 1,500 people were allegedly killed in a wave of extra-judicial executions by security forces in India's insurgency-ridden north-eastern Manipur state between 1979 and 2012. Last year, in a landmark ruling, the Supreme Court asked relatives of the victims and activists to collect information on the killings. The court will rule in July whether to order an official investigation which could lead to convictions. Soutik Biswas travelled to Manipur to find out more.\n\nNeena Ningombam vividly remembers the day her husband disappeared - and ended up a corpse on cable news.\n\nIt was a bright, sunny November day in 2008, and 32-year-old Michael was visiting a friend's house in Imphal, the non-descript, mountain-ringed valley capital of Manipur.\n\nAt home, Ms Ningombam was doing her chores. Her two boys were fast asleep. At half past three in the afternoon, her mobile phone rang.\n\nMichael was on the line saying that he had been picked up by police commandos on his way home, and that she should quickly pass on the news of his arrest to a senior policeman who was known to the family so that he could help secure his release.\n\nThe call disconnected abruptly. Two hours later, a man finally picked up the phone and told Ms Ningombam that her husband was \"in the toilet\". He said he would inform him that she had called.\n\nMichael never called. When she tried calling again, his phone was switched off.\n\nTense and confused, Ms Ningombam sat down in front of the TV. Her sister-in-law had gone in search of the police officer known to the family, but he couldn't be found.\n\nSo she waited, and waited, for Michael, watching the news on a local channel. At nine in the evening, the screen exploded with breaking news.\n\nThey were showing footage of her bloodied husband, wearing blue nylon tracksuit bottoms and a dark green T-shirt, lying dead on a stone floor. A Chinese-made grenade lay next to the body. The news reader breathlessly announced that police commandos had killed another militant.\n\nMs Ningombam says she looked at the screen and froze. Grief felt so like fear itself.\n\n\"I just remember that I cried and cried and cried. Someone came rushing in and yanked off the TV cable wire. My brother-in-law went to the morgue and identified him.\"\n\nThe police defended the killing of Michael Ningombam\n\nThe post-mortem report said Michael Ningombam had died of \"shock and haemorrhage as a result of firearm injuries to lungs and liver\".\n\nThe police said Michael and two friends were riding a motorcycle when they were stopped by half a dozen vehicle-borne commandos in a wooded area on the outskirts of the city. The pillion rider was said to have fired at the vehicle and Michael apparently tried to throw a grenade at the commandos who then shot and killed him in an act of self-defence. The police also said Michael was a militant and extortionist.\n\n\"My husband was struggling, doing odd jobs. He was a drug user and he was trying to kick the habit. But he was not a militant,\" Ms Ningombam , 40, told me. They had met in college, fallen in love, eloped and married.\n\nThe neighbourhood had erupted in protests after the killing, demanding an investigation.\n\nMs Ningombam, who holds a masters degree in history, took up a driving school job to support her sons. She also single-handedly launched an arduous battle for justice, filing official complaints, petitioning the government and the court, collecting papers and coaxing a key potential witness to testify.\n\nEvery day, for more than a month, she would drive 15km (9 miles) on her scooter to the wooded city outskirts where an ageing shop-owner had spotted the commandos drive by in a SUV with her husband on the afternoon of the killing. Then he had heard the sound of gunfire in the distance.\n\n\"After days of coaxing him and interacting with his family, the old man consented to testify and became a key witness. That is how we sometimes get some justice in Manipur. The state doesn't help you,\" she said.\n\nKamalini Ngangban's son Naoba was killed outside the family home in 2009\n\nFour years later, in July 2012, the district judge, in a report, concluded on the basis of evidence that Michael had been killed by Manipur police commandos and that there had \"been no exchange of fire\" between the policemen and the victim.\n\nThe high court accepted the report, and ordered that 500,000 rupees ($7,759; £6,115) should be paid in compensation to Ms Ningombam.\n\nMichael Ningombam was not alone in meeting such a fate. Rights groups believe as many as 1,528 people were unlawfully executed - also known as fake encounters - in Manipur between 1979 and 2012.\n\nThe overwhelming majority of the victims were men, many of them lower income and unemployed. Among those killed were 98 minors and 31 women. The oldest was an 82-year-old woman; the youngest, a 14-year-old girl.\n\nThe most well-known victim was Thangjam Manorama Devi, 32, who was allegedly gang raped and murdered by paramilitary soldiers in 2004, provoking a unique nude protest by mothers and grandmothers that stunned the world.\n\nSome of the killings have been investigated by a federal human rights organisation. Judicial inquiries have resulted in compensation for a few hundred victims' families. But what is unsettling is that not a single policeman or soldier has been put on trial in connection with the killings.\n\n\"People have been picked up, called insurgents and killed. The climate of impunity means the police often don't register cases. You have to fix accountability. You cannot just suspend the right to live and kill people,\" says Babloo Loitongbam, a prominent human rights activist.\n\nEight years ago, the families of the victims joined hands with activists to do something about this \"culture of impunity enjoyed by the police, army and paramilitaries\". On a July morning in 2009, they gathered in a room in Imphal, shared their stories and starkly christened themselves the Extrajudicial Execution Victim Families Association.\n\nThe Extra Judicial Victim Families Association works out of a single-room office in Imphal\n\nLast July, responding to a petition filed by the families, the Supreme Court, in a landmark judgement, asked the petitioners to collect more information about the alleged murders. Even if the investigations revealed that the victim was an \"enemy and an unprovoked aggressor\", the judges said, it had to be determined whether \"excessive or retaliatory force was used to kill the enemy\".\n\nSo the newly empowered civilian \"investigators\" put out adverts and appeals in the local media, and began gathering information - and potential evidence - on the killings.\n\nSome 900 families responded, bringing with them police complaints, post-mortem reports, funeral records and court orders related to killings. Volunteers - students, relatives of victims - spread out to each of the nine districts of the hilly state, collecting information. A local lawyer, working pro bono, helped with the legal work.\n\nA year later, a dozen grey filing cabinets in the office were overflowing with more than 1,500 files, each devoted to a killing. In April, the victims handed over details of 748 killings to the court even as they worked on other cases. Sometime this month, the top court is expected to rule on investigating these cases.\n\nThe banal horror of death in Manipur is possibly unequalled in India. \"It takes us a long time to raise our children. Then, when they grow up, they are shot. This cannot go on. We no longer want to look for our children in the morgue,\" a women's rights activist in the state once said.\n\nThere have been countrywide protests against the alleged killings in Manipur\n\nMen disappeared or were picked up by security forces while going to the market to buy fertiliser for their farms, parts for cars, to rent a DVD or while waiting for a passenger bus. Others were killed on their way to meet girlfriends, while fishing in a lake, or simply having food in a restaurant. A woman was shot while she was feeding her baby girl.\n\nSometimes, security forces would simply break into homes, drag out suspects in front of their families and kill them.\n\nThat is what happened to Ngangban Naoba Singh, a 29-year-old theology student, on a still summer night in May 2009.\n\nNaoba had returned home with his sister from a wedding late in the evening. The two were watching a film on TV, when their mother, Kamalini Ngangban, a retired census worker, joined her children.\n\n\"These late-night movies are not meant for elders. Go to sleep,\" Naoba joked.\n\nThose were his last words.\n\nAround midnight, Ms Ngangban woke up to \"violent knocking on the door\". Then she heard voices. Some people were trying to enter the house.\n\nShe rushed to her son's bedroom and woke him up, and tried to take him out of the back door. Did she think that they had coming looking for her son?\n\n\"I knew something was wrong. Naoba was so sleepy, I don't think he realised what was going on.\n\n\"The moment we stepped out of the back door, someone stopped us.\"\n\nShe saw silhouettes in the moonlight. She thought she saw 10 of them.\n\nOne man shouted at Naoba: \"Where are you going?\" He said his mother had asked him to come out.\n\nThings quickly spiralled out of control in the dark.\n\nThe men \"took away\" Naoba, his parents were pushed back into the house, their phones were removed and the doors bolted from outside.\n\nThere was an exchange of words, some orders were barked out, and then shots rang out in the darkness.\n\n\"Stop him! Stop him!\" somebody screamed. A vehicle was starting up behind the house.\n\nMs Ngangban hoped her son had managed to run away. It was pitch dark, and the family was confined inside the house for the rest of the night. When dawn broke, they found out that her son had been killed in their backyard and his body taken away in a vehicle.\n\nMore than 1,500 people have been allegedly executed unlawfully in Manipur\n\n\"Even today, I don't know why he was murdered. I want to know the truth. If we did something wrong and tried to escape, they could have shot him in the leg,\" she says.\n\n\"You know, he was my favourite son. We used to go to the theatre together. My two other children live and work outside Manipur. Naoba was supposed to be the man of the house.\"\n\nThe police said they had cordoned off the house that night to search for Naoba, who they said was a member of an outlawed rebel group and an extortionist.\n\nThree years later, a judicial inquiry report ruled there was no evidence to show he was either.\n\nThe judge ruled the police commandos had fired \"indiscriminately without any attempt to arrest Naoba by following the rule of law prevailing in this democratic country\". The Supreme Court is now hearing the case, and is to decide on compensating the family.\n\nStaying at home was no guarantee that your life was secure. Oinam Amina Devi, for example, was shot by paramilitary soldiers while she was feeding her one-month-old baby girl in her house in April 1996.\n\nThe soldiers had chased a suspected rebel who had run into her tin-roof village home and hidden under the bed. Amina, who was on the veranda, panicked and ran inside with her baby when she saw the soldiers running in. When she tried to shut the door, the soldiers opened fire. A bullet pierced her and exited, then entered her baby.\n\nThe bleeding daughter was taken to hospital where surgeons removed the bullet. Her mother died instantly.\n\nThere were demonstrations in the area and the family refused to accept Amina's body after the post mortem. Her corpse was taken back to the police station and later cremated. Under pressure, the government announced an inquiry.\n\nThe investigation concluded that the firing was \"unprovoked, unwarranted and indiscriminate\". The government submitted the report to the Supreme Court and the family received a compensation of 50,000 rupees.\n\nToday, the daughter, Oinam Sunita Devi, 20, lives with her father who married again.\n\n\"I cannot explain my sadness. I miss my mother and I sometimes wonder how I survived. This is my fate,\" she says.\n\nOinam Sunita Devi (right) was hit by a bullet fired by soldiers which killed her mother and now lives with her father (left)\n\nThe police and security forces have, for the most part, maintained that the encounters are genuine and the victims were militants killed in counter-insurgency or anti-terror operations.\n\nThe government told the top court last year that some \"5,000 militants were holding some 2.3 million people of Manipur to ransom and keeping people in constant fear\". It said 365 police and paramilitaries had been killed by the rebels between 2000 and October 2012.\n\nBut things have become murkier after a police commando Herojit Singh admitted to journalists in January last year that he had shot dead an unarmed, suspected rebel inside a bustling Imphal market in 2009. In a chilling interview in July he admitted to killing more than 100 people and that he kept a \"tally of his kills\" in notebooks.\n\nWhen I met him last month in a hotel room in the city, the 36-year-old policeman, son of a government worker, said he was battling depression. He said he hadn't slept at all at night for two years. He had also survived a road accident in the city; many feel someone may have tried to kill him as he had made too many enemies.\n\nWhen I asked him how many people he had killed, he said: \"I don't remember the details.\"\n\n\"Was it more than 100 people?\" I asked.\n\nHe said he felt no remorse for the killings, and he was ready to face any punishment.\n\n\"I was simply doing my duty and following the orders of my seniors. I confessed because I thought it was important to tell the truth,\" he said.\n\nLife has been difficult after his confession. Detectives from the federal Central Bureau of Investigation are investigating the killing of 23-year-old Chungkham Sanjit in the market and questioned the commando more than 10 times. Herojit Singh has been suspended a number of times for \"indiscipline and grave misconduct\", and then reinstated.\n\nBy day, he spends time with his children, helping them with their homework. When his pet chicken fell ill recently, he says he panicked, clasped it to his chest and ran with it to the vet.\n\nLeitanthem Priya Leika's husband Premananda was killed on his way to the market to buy timber in 2006\n\nNights are brutal. \"I dread nights. I wish I had my own sun, which I could put in the sky and there would never be any darkness,\" he says.\n\nYumnam Joykumar Singh, the former chief of Manipur police, and now the deputy chief minister of a newly-elected government ruling the state, says Herojit Singh is exaggerating his role in the killings.\n\n\"He's bluffing. He was possibly involved in 10-15 encounters. But he's claiming he has killed so many people. Let the courts ask him how many cases he was present in.\"\n\nMr Singh, who earned a reputation for being a firm and unyielding policeman, says rights groups are exaggerating the number of fake encounters.\n\n\"There might have been a few cases [of] extra-judicial killings, but I don't think the numbers being quoted are that many. If 1,500 people had been killed illegally, there would have been more protests in the state,\" he told me.\n\nDuring his time as the chief of police, Mr Singh beefed up the force - from 20,000 to 34,000 policemen - and made it \"the leading force\" to fight insurgents. He said militancy and extortion had led to a near-collapse of public order in the state, and he told his policemen: \"If you have a weapon, you can fire back.\"\n\n\"That is how we fought the insurgency.\"\n\nBringing up the dead is not easy. Memories fade. Potential evidence - post mortem reports, police complaints - yellow and crumble with age. Hope waxes and wanes. Time heals wounds, but also allows for reflection, and gives you renewed purpose.\n\nSo, emboldened by the Supreme Court's intervention, the families of victims in Manipur have plunged into an unexpectedly fierce fight for justice, in many cases years after they lost their loved ones. The killings have stopped, but there have been no punishments for the crimes yet.\n\nThe families have stirred with a newly-found collective courage, not because they have great hope in an egregious and slow-moving criminal justice system.\n\nMany say they don't want their children and families to be permanently tainted by fake allegations about their fathers, brothers, sons, daughters and wives. They know the crimes and misdemeanours of a family member can easily taint all born within it.\n\n\"I kept fighting because of my sons. I don't want people to call them children of a militant. I had to clear my dead husband's name to protect them,\" says Ms Neena Nongmaithem.\n\n\"And, yes, the dead should not be completely forgotten.\"", "Downing Street insists its position on public sector pay has not changed despite several ministers calling for the 1% cap on increases to be scrapped.\n\nForeign Secretary Boris Johnson is the latest senior cabinet minister to put pressure on the chancellor and the PM to change the policy.\n\nNo 10 said ministers would respond to pay review bodies in due course.\n\nBut 1% rises for dentists, nurses, doctors and the military have already been agreed for this year, it added.\n\nWhen the matter was raised in the Commons, a minister said the government wanted to ensure \"frontline public service workers\" were \"paid fairly for their work\".\n\nNick Hurd, a policing minister, told MPs how to do this was \"under active discussion\".\n\nA Whitehall source said Mr Johnson \"strongly\" believed pay rises could be achieved in \"a responsible way\", without putting undue pressure on the public finances.\n\nThe Institute for Fiscal Studies has estimated that increasing public sector pay in line with the private sector would cost an extra £6.3bn a year.\n\nIn the Queen's Speech debate last month, Mr Hammond made clear his aversion to higher borrowing.\n\nAre you a public sector worker affected by these issues? Let us know by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk\n\nHowever, on Sunday Mr Gove, the environment secretary, appeared to reject suggestions that taxes would need to go up to meet the cost of any pay rises.\n\nPay rises for most public sector workers are set by independent pay review bodies, but have effectively been capped at 1% each year since 2013.\n\nBefore that, there was a two-year freeze on pay for all but the lowest-paid workers.\n\nIn addition to the 1% annual rise, some NHS staff also get incremental increases as they progress in their roles.\n\nThe Conservatives went into the election planning to maintain the cap until 2020, but there are growing calls for a rethink after the party lost its majority in the general election.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"If you are taking the government shilling, you need to stick to the government line\" says Tory MP Stephen Crabb\n\nThe pay review bodies cover a wide range of professions, from prison officers and nurses, to judges and senior NHS managers.\n\nThose covering police and teachers' pay are due to report this month. The cap has been applied across the UK, but the Scottish government has said it plans to end it in Scotland.\n\nNurses last month held protests against the public sector pay cap\n\nArguably the simpler part of the debate has been had - many public sector workers are feeling the pinch, and there is more and more pressure to remove the limit on pay rises. The more complicated bit, who or what would pay for the increase, is a conversation that's yet to happen.\n\nWhatever Boris Johnson and Michael Gove have said in the last twenty four hours, don't expect anything to happen in a hurry. The first pay review body is not due to report for another few weeks.\n\nIt seems unlikely that the government will announce any plan to either ditch the cap or promise to accept the decisions of the review bodies before then.\n\nIt's not in either Theresa May or Philip Hammond's DNA to make quick decisions. Read more from Laura\n\nFormer Conservative Chancellor Lord Lamont told BBC Radio 4's Today programme public sector pay was on average higher than in the private sector and controlling it was \"extremely important\".\n\nHe said cases could be looked at where there were specific issues around recruitment but objected to the \"general pressure that's being applied, the idea that we should abandon restraint of public expenditure\".\n\nHe said people should not criticise austerity in the same way they might discuss \"too many repeats on television\" and said it was not right for cabinet ministers to \"gang up\" on Mr Hammond, saying they were making the chancellor's position \"very awkward\".\n\n\"This is not a choice,\" he added.\n\n\"It is unavoidable that we have restraint on public spending.\"\n\nInstitute for Fiscal Studies director Paul Johnson said \"within the scale of things\" Mr Hammond could \"afford a few billions here and there\", but added the chancellor would be worried that if he gives money to one part of the public sector he will come under pressure to do the same in other areas.\n\nNHS Confederation chairman and former Tory minister Stephen Dorrell said the pay review bodies should not be \"artificially constrained\" by the 1% policy, saying health service staff needed to be \"properly looked after\".\n\nAnd former cabinet minister Stephen Crabb said ministers who disagreed with the official government policy should not be in the cabinet.\n\n\"I don't think it's a great sight seeing different cabinet members giving slightly different messages to the media,\" he told BBC Radio 4's The World at One.\n\nSpeaking on Sunday, Mr Gove did not call directly for the 1% cap to be lifted, but said ministers should respect the \"integrity\" of the pay review process.\n\nLast week Labour attempted to scrap the 1% cap but was defeated in Parliament.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Gove's quick-fire answers on the Andrew Marr show - Brexit and his return to the cabinet\n\nShadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth said reports on the divisions within government over public sector pay revealed there was \"turmoil\" in the Conservative Party.\n\n\"They're saying 'Wait for the pay review bodies', even though they're the ones insisting on a 1% cap,\" the Labour frontbencher told the Andrew Marr Show on Sunday.\n\n\"We're saying to the pay review bodies: 'Get rid of the 1% cap and give a fair pay rise.'\"\n\nAsked what level of pay rise Labour thought was fair, Mr Ashworth said the pay review bodies should consider one in line with the rise in average earnings across the economy.", "The venue is being shut down by the city in the aftermath\n\nA rapper who was performing at the Arkansas nightclub where 25 people were shot has been arrested on unrelated charges, US police say.\n\nGunfire was exchanged during a concert at the Power Ultra Lounge nightclub in Little Rock early on Saturday.\n\nRicky Hampton, known by his stage name Finese 2 Tymes, was detained by police early on Sunday.\n\nLittle Rock Police tweeted that the arrest was on outstanding warrants and is unrelated to the shooting.\n\nA total of 28 people were injured, including three in a stampede. The youngest victim was said to be 16.\n\nTwo people were in a serious condition, but officials said all were expected to survive.\n\nThe mayor of Little Rock, Mark Stodola, said the shooting was the result of a disagreement involving a number of patrons at the club, which quickly escalated because of \"the presence of rivalries and weapons\".\n\n\"I want to reassure our public that this was not an act of terrorism, but a tragedy... It does not appear to be a planned shooting,\" Mr Stodola told reporters.\n\nMr Hampton's poster for the event was criticised in the aftermath of the shooting\n\nLittle Rock Police Chief Kenton Buckner said the authorities were investigating whether a longstanding rivalry between gangs was to blame for the shooting.\n\nIn a post on Facebook, Mr Hampton offered condolences to the injured who came to see him perform, saying \"violence is not for the club.\"\n\n\"We all come with one motive at the end of the day, and that's to have fun. Not to be hurt,\" he said.\n\nThe KATV network quoted Mr Hampton's booking agent as saying the rapper had \"nothing to do\" with the shooting.\n\nPromotional material for Mr Hampton's concert was criticised by Mayor Stodola and others on social media for its image of the rapper holding an assault rifle pointed at the camera.\n\nThe city of Little Rock has suspended the Power Ultra Lounge's licence, and officials say they plan to shut down the club permanently. The venue's landlord has also posted an eviction notice at the site, reports said.\n\nArkansas governor Asa Hutchinson thanked the first responders to the scene - but also expressed concern about violence in the city.\n\n\"Little Rock's crime problem appears to be intensifying. Every few days it seems a high-profile shooting dominates the news, culminating with this morning's event,\" he said.\n\nHe said a new strategy and extra resources were needed to \"take the violent threats off the streets\".\n\nA previous version of this article quoted US media reports that inaccurately said Mr Hampton had been arrested in connection with the shooting.", "At least 80 people are thought to have been killed in the fire\n\nNo-one will be prosecuted for illegally subletting a Grenfell Tower flat, the government says, as work continues to identify all those killed in the fire.\n\nIt says its priority is supporting survivors and identifying loved ones and is urging people to help.\n\nAt least 80 people are thought to have died in the fire at the west London block and it's feared the full death toll won't be known for months.\n\nMeanwhile cladding on 181 blocks in 51 areas has now failed fire safety tests.\n\nCladding from as many as 600 tower blocks across England is being tested as it is thought Grenfell Tower's recently-installed cladding may have helped the fire to spread.\n\nAll of the material checked so far in the wake of the tragedy on 14 June has failed the tests.\n\nHowever, the Department for Communities and Local Government said it was testing the buildings it was most worried about first.\n\nEarlier this week, police warned it would not know the final death toll until at least the end of the year and appealed for the public to come forward with any information about those who were inside at the time of the fire on 14 June.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police and Home Office have also both said they are not interested in the immigration status of anyone living in the building.\n\nLegal guidance telling prosecutors not to bring charges for subletting given the \"public interest\" in identifying the victims has been issued by the Director of Public Prosecutions, Alison Saunders.\n\n\"It is a priority for investigators to establish who was in Grenfell Tower on that tragic day and it is crucial that we do everything possible to support them,\" she said.\n\nThe decision was made alongside the Attorney General, Jeremy Wright QC, who added: \"Every piece of information will help the authorities accurately identify who was in the flats at the time of the fire.\n\n\"I hope this statement provides some much needed clarity to residents and the local community, and encourages anyone with information to come forward.\"\n\nAnnouncing the move, Communities Secretary Sajid Javid added: \"Supporting those affected by the tragic events at Grenfell Tower has been the absolute priority of the government - that includes making sure that loved ones still missing are identified.\n\n\"Therefore I would urge those with information to come forward without fear of prosecution.\"\n\nSupporters of Grenfell survivors took part in anti-government protests in London on Saturday\n\nThe news follows an announcement by Kensington and Chelsea Council that it would suspend the rents of those forced to leave their homes after the fire.\n\nResidents living in nearby buildings - the so-called finger blocks - have been without hot water since the neighbourhood's boiler was destroyed during the fire.\n\nNow the council has confirmed their rent will be suspended until at least January 2018 and any rent deducted since 14 June will be refunded.\n\nIt comes after a victims' group said one resident had had rent deducted from their bank account since the fire.\n\nThe west London council has been heavily criticised for its response to the disaster, leading this week to the resignation of its leader, Nicholas Paget-Brown, and his deputy, Rock Feilding-Mellen.\n\nRobert Atkinson, leader of the opposition on Kensington and Chelsea council, told the BBC: \"I still have residents who are not housed.\n\n\"I still have residents have no hot water and I have got residents living in hotels which they are now sharing with Wimbledon spectators. That is not a satisfactory situation.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSid-Ali Atmani, who lived on the 15th floor with his family and is currently in a hotel, told the BBC: \"Still we haven't any improvement regarding our situation. Our personal opinion is [that it is] a failure for people who are responsible for that.\"\n\nA Kensington and Chelsea council spokesman said: \"We are focused on the needs of all affected residents, including those from Barandon Walk, Testerton Walk and Hurstway [the finger blocks].\n\n\"This group of residents have suffered a huge disruption to their lives as they were evacuated from their homes.\"\n\nHe added that the council expected to have the hot water supply restored in the next week.\n\nHe said some had gone back to their homes, but the council would continue to provide temporary accommodation for those who did not want to return.\n\nMeanwhile, Labour MP David Lammy, whose friend Khadija Saye died in the fire, told Sky News that the retired judge leading the public inquiry, Sir Martin Moore-Bick, would have to maintain the confidence of survivors.\n\n\"The job is not just to be independent and judicious - I am sure he is eminently legally qualified, of course he is - it is also to be empathetic and walk with these people on this journey,\" he said.\n\nYvette Williams, from the Justice 4 Grenfell campaign group, told Sky News they would boycott the public inquiry into the tragedy if it did not have a wide remit and address \"systemic issues\".\n\nDid you live in Grenfell Tower? Or are you part of the local community? What's your experience of the council's response to the fire? Email 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:", "An eccentric Eton and Oxford-educated Conservative backbencher, well known in Westminster for his unique oratory and sardonic put downs, has become an unlikely cult figure on social media - sparking rumours of an outsider party leadership bid.\n\nSocial media cults of personality are common on the left of British politics - think of Corbynistas or the Milifandom. So it should be no surprise that young right-wing activists have been seeking their own social media star. And they seem to have found one in Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg.\n\nNot only are dozens of Facebook pages devoted to Rees-Mogg - the biggest have tens of thousands of likes - but after recently joining Instagram, Rees-Mogg's quips about his life on the campaign trail have built up a huge online following. He's now more popular on Instagram than the personal account of Prime Minister Theresa May.\n\nRees-Mogg shared this image of him campaigning with his young son with the caption 'We shall have to take our business elsewhere'. It was liked thousands of times.\n\n\"I am a late convert to social media and it's turned out to be great fun,\" Rees-Mogg tells BBC Trending. \"We've put up some jolly photographs. You hear a lot about unpleasantness but it's reassuring that there is a lighter touch.\"\n\nThe MP admits that he is surprised by his newfound popularity.\n\nOn Facebook, thousands of people have joined public groups which satirise or support Rees-Mogg.\n\nThe \"Middle Class Memes for Rees-Moggian Teens\" is one of the largest, with more than 30,000 followers. It posts daily updates offering a satirical take on the day's news. Its 16 moderators range in age from 16 to 20 and are spread across the UK and Canada.\n\nIn addition to celebrating Rees-Mogg, the page includes scathing memes about Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn and other politicians. But, speaking to BBC Trending, the group's moderators insist that their main purpose is humour rather than serious politics.\n\n\"We only wish to create satire to make people laugh and engage in politics, and if we make a few more conservative voters on the way that would be a bonus,\" they say. \"We believe Mogg appeals because he is the embodiment of traditional British values. It also helps that he is a bit eccentric as this helps us create a slightly satirical image.\"\n\nIn a somewhat bizarre episode, one of the Rees-Mogg-themed groups used their page to call out an online scam artist. The parody account \"The Church of Mogg\" was approached by a man who claimed to be a Nigerian prince who said he had \"worshipped\" the Conservative MP \"for centuries\".\n\nIt was an obvious scam, so one of the moderators behind the account engaged the man in conversation. The \"prince\" asked for an airline ticket and spending money, which the \"church\" agreed to provide, as long as he sent a bunch of embarrassing pictures.\n\n\"It's an extremely funny alternative to those inheritance letters you get promising you money,\" Rees-Mogg quipped when told the story by BBC Trending.\n\n\"But I suppose I should add that as an ardent follower of the real church, I'm not sure the church would really approve of me setting up my own church in the first place,\" he says.\n\nMany of these Facebook groups have a more serious purpose - namely to persuade Rees-Mogg to stand for leader of the Conservative Party.\n\nSam Frost is a young Conservative activist from London who set up the Facebook page \"Ready for Rees Mogg\" after the recent General Election.\n\nHe told BBC Trending that what started as a fun group to share memes quickly spiralled into a significant young Tory movement.\n\n\"The general election wasn't exciting because Theresa May didn't give people something to believe in,\" he says.\n\n\"My Facebook group got 1,000 likes overnight, and I reached out to other young Conservative activists and we decided to create a website, where people could sign a petition to say they were ready to support Jacob Rees-Mogg when he launches a leadership bid.\"\n\n\"In a matter of days we had gathered more than 10,000 signatures. I was surprised because although there were large numbers from the South of England, there were a lot more than I expected from the North and Scotland.\"\n\n\"There are too many wish-washy politicians in Westminster, I think people like Jacob because he has a rare ability to explain complex issues and he's not afraid to say what he thinks,\" Frost says.\n\nJacob Rees-Mogg alluded to his new leadership potential in this popular Instagram post which includes an unscientific poll. His caption read: 'Nanny is more technologically capable than I thought'.\n\nUnfortunately, it appears that these young activists will be disappointed.\n\n\"I am fully supporting Mrs May,\" Rees-Mogg says. \"This is all light-hearted banter but it would be a mistake to let it go to one's head.\"\n\nYou can follow BBC Trending on Twitter @BBCtrending, and find us on Facebook. All our stories are at bbc.com/trending.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Girls say they hate their vaginas'\n\nGirls as young as nine are seeking surgery on their genitals because they are distressed by its appearance, the Victoria Derbyshire show has been told.\n\nDr Naomi Crouch, a leading adolescent gynaecologist, said she was concerned GPs were referring rising numbers of young girls who wanted an operation.\n\nLabiaplasty, as the surgery is known, involves the lips of the vagina being shortened or reshaped.\n\nThe NHS says it should not be carried out on girls before they turn 18.\n\nIn 2015-16, more than 200 girls under 18 had labiaplasty on the NHS. More than 150 of the girls were under 15.\n\nSome experts fear that pornography and images viewed through social media are leading young girls to have unrealistic perceptions of how their genitals should look.\n\nDr Crouch, who chairs the British Society for Paediatric and Adolescent Gynaecology, said in her work for the NHS she was yet to see a girl who needed the operation.\n\n\"Girls will sometimes come out with comments like, 'I just hate it, I just want it removed,' and for a girl to feel that way about any part of her body - especially a part that's intimate - is very upsetting.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Anna' explains why she wanted vagina surgery as a teenager\n\nAnna - not her real name - considered having labiaplasty from the age of 14.\n\n\"I just picked up from somewhere that it wasn't neat enough or tidy enough and I think I wanted it to be smaller.\n\n\"People around me were watching porn and I just had this idea that it should be symmetrical and not sticking out.\n\n\"I thought that was what everyone else looked like, because I hadn't seen any normal everyday [images] before then.\n\n\"I remember thinking, 'If there's surgery for it, then clearly I'm not the only one who wants this done, and maybe it won't be that big a deal.'.\"\n\nShe later decided not to pursue having an operation.\n\n\"I'm totally glad I didn't get it done. I didn't need it. I look totally normal. Completely and utterly normal.\"\n\nPaquita de Zulueta, a GP for more than 30 years, said it was only in the past few years that girls had started coming to her with concerns over the appearance of their labia.\n\n\"I'm seeing young girls around 11, 12, 13 thinking there's something wrong with their vulva - that they're the wrong shape, the wrong size, and really expressing almost disgust.\n\n\"Their perception is that the inner lips should be invisible, almost like a Barbie, but the reality is that there is a huge variation. It's very normal for the lips to protrude.\"\n\nPaquita de Zulueta says some girls magnify their physical symptoms to improve chances of having surgery\n\nShe blames the unrealistic images girls are being exposed to through pornography and social media.\n\n\"There isn't enough education and it should start really quite young, explaining that there is a range and that - just as we all look different in our faces - we all look different down there, and that's OK.\"\n\nNHS England said it did not carry out the operation for cosmetic reasons, only for clinical conditions.\n\nFor the past few years clinical commissioning groups have been able to refer only patients who are experiencing physical pain or emotional distress.\n\nBut Dr De Zulueta says some girls know they need to overstate their physical symptoms to get the surgery.\n\n\"There is awareness that they're more likely to get the operation if they say it's interfering with sex, with sport, they feel that will tick that box.\"\n\nDr Crouch believes labiaplasty should be given only to girls who have a medical abnormality.\n\n\"I find it very hard to believe there are 150 girls with a medical abnormality which means they needed an operation on their labia,\" she said.\n\nShe added there were uncomfortable parallels between this surgery and female genital mutilation (FGM), which is illegal in the UK.\n\n\"The law says we shouldn't perform these operations on developing bodies for cultural reasons. Current Western culture is to have very small lips, tucked inside. I see this as the same thing\".\n\nDr Gail Busby, lead adolescent gynaecologist at St Mary's Hospital, says it is important for girls and their parents to remember:\n\nThe majority of labiaplasties are done by private cosmetic surgeons on women over 18.\n\nThe industry has been criticised for normalising the procedure.\n\nPlastic surgeon Miles Berry defended the surgery, saying it could improve women's lives.\n\n\"It can change people fundamentally, the feelings they have about themselves, their confidence and self-esteem.\n\n\"I have seen patients aged between 16 and 21 who have never had a boyfriend because they are so concerned about this.\"\n\nThe Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists said the operation should not be performed until a girl had finished developing, after the age of 18.\n\nWatch the Victoria Derbyshire programme on weekdays between 09:00 and 11:00 on BBC Two and the BBC News Channel.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The car appeared to have hit the front of the building\n\nA McLaren supercar was reduced to a twisted, burned-out wreck after it struck a building and burst into flames.\n\nThe driver and passenger of the 570S, which sell for around £143,000, escaped with minor injuries following the crash at Heywood, near Trowbridge, Wiltshire.\n\nThe fire service was called to Westbury Road just before 06:30 BST on Sunday.\n\nCrews found the occupants had made it out of the burning sports car, which was stuck beneath a collapsed wall.\n\nFire crews were called to the crash site early on Sunday\n\nImages taken by Dorset and Wiltshire Fire and Rescue show small fragments of the car's distinctive orange paintwork are still visible.\n\nIt is not known what speed the McLaren had been travelling at prior to the crash.\n\nDamien Bence, from the fire service, said it was \"absolutely amazing\" the car's occupants walked away from the scene.\n\n\"Prior to hitting the building it snapped an electric pole in half, and forced the top half of the pole through the window of the house,\" he said.\n\n\"We were confronted with a live electrical cable which was strewn across the highway so crews had to negotiate their way through part of a wood in order to get to the incident.\"\n\nThe 563hp super sports car has twin-turbo 3.8-litre V8 engine and can accelerate from 0-62mph (100km/h) in just 3.2 seconds.", "Trump's history with wrestling goes back at least a decade\n\nOn Saturday, Donald Trump tweeted that he's redefining the social media behaviour of a \"modern-day\" president. On Sunday he once again proved it.\n\nMr Trump's CNN-wrestling video, apparently cribbed from a user on the internet message board Reddit, may be unfamiliar commentary coming from the chief executive of the US, but it's classic Trump.\n\nHe has shown time and time again that he views politics as performance art; another reality television competition where the more drama and conflict there is, the better.\n\nCandidate Trump belittled his Republican opponents - Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, Rand Paul and company - then shrugged it off as part of the game. He turned Hillary Clinton, whom he had once praised and buddied around with at his wedding, into a \"crooked\" caricature who should be shipped off to prison.\n\nHe portrayed the media, and CNN in particular, as cartoon villains that he can rhetorically beat into submission.\n\nMr Trump's choice of a professional wrestling clip for his latest tweet was particularly apt, as throughout his campaign he treated the political process like a World Wrestling Entertainment match. The drama is contrived; the action is fake; the outcome predetermined.\n\nHe pulled back the curtain on the show and laughed along with his supporters at the spectacle. He encouraged his crowds to cheer the hero (him) and berate the villains (everyone else).\n\nJournalists - corralled in their pens - were often singled out for derision, and his adoring legions would turn and jeer, shaking their fists, but also, for the most part, enjoying themselves.\n\nOn more than one occasion while covering Mr Trump's campaign, I would have a friendly conversation with someone at his rally - an elderly woman in a homemade Trump t-shirt in Virginia or a leather-jacket-clad rancher in Nevada - then watch as they heartily booed me and my colleagues at Mr Trump's prompting.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Are President Trump's attacks on the media undermining the news?\n\nThe press, like Mr Trump's opponents on the debate stage, were all part of his performance; the black-clad villains in his show.\n\nSome in the media have rushed to condemn Mr Trump's wrestling tweet as a thinly-veiled threat of violence against the media. CNN issued a statement calling it a \"sad day\" and asserting deputy White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders lied earlier in the week when she said the president had never \"promoted or encouraged violence\".\n\nSuch imagery coming from the president of the US will certainly harshen the level of discourse in the nation, and there is the not insignificant possibility that some may view it as a call for violence.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'I want to upset people', says the Progressive Liberal, an anti-Trump wrestler\n\nMost, however, will see it as the president probably intended - the latest episode in the biggest show ever to hit the US political scene; a new plot twist to keep the audience entertained.\n\nAs Mr Trump said in a speech lashing out against his media critics on Saturday night: \"I'm president, and they're not.\"\n\nDonald Trump played by his rules and won. He's going to keep reminding us that it's not the same game anymore.\n\nWelcome to the modern presidency.", "\"A bluish foreign body\" turned out to be a \"hard mass\" of 17 lenses stuck together with mucus\n\nSurgeons have removed 27 contact lenses from the eye of a 67-year-old woman who had come to Solihull Hospital for routine cataract surgery.\n\n\"A bluish foreign body\" turned out to be a \"hard mass\" of 17 lenses stuck together with mucus, and 10 more were then found under further examination.\n\nA report in the BMJ said she had worn disposable lenses for 35 years, and had not complained of any irritation.\n\nBut after they were removed, she said her eyes felt a lot more comfortable.\n\nSpecialist trainee in ophthalmology Rupal Morjaria told Optometry Today: \"None of us have ever seen this before.\n\n\"It was such a large mass. All the 17 contact lenses were stuck together.\n\n\"We were really surprised that the patient didn't notice it because it would cause quite a lot of irritation while it was sitting there.\n\n\"She was quite shocked. She thought her previous discomfort was just part of old age and dry eye.\"\n\nThe case report said the patient had poorer vision in her right eye and deep-set eyes, which may have been a factor in the lenses becoming lost.\n\nAssociation of Optometrists spokeswoman Ceri Smith-Jaynes said losing contact lenses in the eye was a common problem but they usually worked their way out.\n\n\"They are normally hiding, folded up under the top lid of the eye,\" she said.\n\n\"They can't go any further up than that because there is a pocket.\n\n\"It's the same under the bottom lid - the lens can only be in one of those places.\"\n\nShe said it was important to see an optometrist or optician regularly to avoid any issues when using contact lenses.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Chancellor Philip Hammond is working to \"frustrate\" Brexit, a cabinet minister has told the Daily Telegraph.\n\nThe unnamed source goes on to accuse Mr Hammond of treating pro-Leave ministers like \"pirates who have taken him prisoner\".\n\nThe Telegraph says \"all-out war\" appears to have broken out in the government.\n\nIts source says that Brexit is facing a critical moment and will \"fall apart\" if Theresa May is forced out.\n\nThe Sun reports that allies of Mr Hammond blame new Environment Secretary Michael Gove for the briefings against him.\n\nThe newspaper says \"pals\" of the chancellor think he's the victim of a smear campaign because of his support for a so-called soft Brexit.\n\nThe Financial Times says Mr Hammond is championing a transition deal with the EU lasting \"a couple of years\" to cushion the effect on business.\n\nThe newspaper reports concern is being voiced in Brussels that the cabinet is still arguing over what form Britain's departure should take.\n\nThe chancellor is also under fire from the Daily Mirror for reportedly describing public sector workers as \"overpaid\".\n\nIts front page headline calls him \"Hammond the hypocrite\".\n\nThe Mirror says he's a multi-millionaire living rent-free in two plush homes, while renting out his own house for £10,000 a month.\n\nThe Guardian cartoon has Mr Hammond sipping champagne in a chauffeur-driven car and spotting a nurse returning from the food bank. \"Bah\" - he sneers - \"another public sector fat cat!\"\n\nThe papers are all talking about regeneration - as the first woman takes on the role of the Doctor.\n\nJodie Whittaker appears on the front of the Guardian under the headline: \"Time, gentlemen, please - meet the new Doctor\".\n\nThe Sun says that \"traditionalists may moan\" but she is \"an inspired choice\".\n\nThe paper hasn't turned into Spare Rib just yet though: its coverage features Ms Whittaker in previous nude scenes and the headline \"Dalektable\".\n\nNot everyone is comfortable with the choice.\n\nThe Mail devotes a page to the question: \"Why ARE all the male heroes disappearing from the box?\"\n\nAnd the Express asks: \"Are they too PC at the BBC?\"\n\nThe Times leads with its own investigation into what it says are the hidden costs of the new fighter jets Britain is buying from the US.\n\nOfficially, the F-35 Lightning aircraft will cost up to £100m each, but analysis by the Times suggests the real figure will be more than £150m.\n\nIt says the extra costs for items such as software upgrades and spare parts have been buried in US defence contracts.\n\nIn response, the Ministry of Defence says the programme is on time, within costs and offers the best capability for the Armed Forces.\n\nAccording to the main story in the Daily Mail, patients who dial 999 are being assessed over Skype or FaceTime instead of being sent an ambulance.\n\nTrials, it says, are under way across England to see if video consultations via smartphone apps could be used for thousands of \"lower priority\" calls involving conditions such as back pain, abdominal pain, falls or heavy bleeding.\n\nThe details come from a former emergency call handler whom the Mail calls a whistleblower.\n\nThe paper says her account is \"chilling\" and asks: \"Is there any doubt that health bosses are playing with lives?\"\n\nRoger Federer appears on the front and the back pages of the Times, celebrating his record eighth Wimbledon singles title.\n\nThe paper hails him as \"the eighth wonder of the world\".\n\nThe Guardian says the champion \"cemented his reputation as the greatest player to ever grace his sport\".\n\nThe Mail's front page photographs both Federer and his opponent, Marin Cilic, in tears.\n\nThe paper says it was \"the weepiest Wimbledon final ever\".\n\nFinally, it appears that Winnie the Pooh has fallen foul of censors in China.\n\nPosts relating to Disney images of the character have been removed from social media in the country, the Financial Times reports.\n\nThere's been no official explanation, but the FT thinks it may have something to do with unflattering comparisons of China's President Xi to the portly bear.", "The age-check requirement is supposed to make it harder for children to see pornography\n\nA nine-month countdown to the introduction of compulsory age checks on online pornography seen from the UK has begun.\n\nThe April 2018 goal to protect under-18s was revealed as digital minister Matt Hancock signed the commencement order for the Digital Economy Act, which introduces the requirement.\n\nBut details as to how the scheme will work have yet to be finalised.\n\nExperts who advised ministers said the targeted date seemed \"unrealistic\".\n\nThe act also sets out other new laws including punishing the use of bots to snatch up scores of concert tickets, and mandating the provision of subtitles on catch-up TV.\n\nThe age-check requirement applies to any website or other online platform that provides pornography \"on a commercial basis\" to people in the UK.\n\nIt allows a regulator to fine any business that refuses to comply and to ask third-party payment services to withdraw support.\n\nThe watchdog will also be able to force internet providers to block access to non-compliant services.\n\nMinisters have suggested one of several ways this might work would be for pornographic sites to demand credit card details before providing any access, since in the UK consumers typically have to be over 18 to have a card of their own.\n\nBut the specifics are being left to the as-yet unappointed regulator to determine.\n\nWhile it has been proposed that the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) will assume this role, a spokesman for the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport said the appointment would not be formalised until the autumn.\n\n\"We are already working closely with DCMS to ensure the effective implementation of the act,\" a spokeswoman for the BBFC told the BBC, but added that it was too early to say more about what guidance it might issue.\n\nThe measure has been welcomed by child protection charities including Childnet.\n\n\"Protecting children from exposure, including accidental exposure, to adult content is incredibly important, given the effect it can have on young people,\" said its chief executive Will Gardner.\n\n\"Steps like this help restrict access.\"\n\nMindgeek, which operates several of the world's most popular porn sites, has also previously indicated support.\n\nBut two experts who advised the government on its plans have expressed reservations about both how quickly the scheme is being rolled out and its wider implications.\n\n\"It seems to me to be a very premature date,\" commented Dr Victoria Nash, lead author of a report commissioned in the run-up to the law being drafted.\n\n\"The idea you can get a regulatory body up and running in that timeframe seems extraordinary to me.\n\n\"And while I don't have a problem with asking these companies to act responsibly, I don't see it as a solution to stopping minors seeing pornography.\"\n\nThis, she explained, was because the act does not tackle the fact that services including Twitter and Tumblr contain hardcore pornography but will not be required to introduce age-checks. Nor, she added, would teens be prevented from sharing copied photos and clips among themselves.\n\n\"It may make it harder for children to stumble across pornography, especially in the younger age range, but it will do nothing to stop determined teenagers,\" Dr Nash concluded.\n\nOne cyber-security expert on the same advisory panel was more critical.\n\n\"The timeline is unrealistic - but beyond that, this is one of the worst proposals I have seen on digital strategy,\" said Dr Joss Wright from the Oxford Internet Institute.\n\n\"There are hundreds of thousands of websites where this material can be accessed and you are not going to catch all of those.\n\n\"There's privacy issues - you're requiring people to effectively announce the fact they are looking at this material to the credit card authorities.\n\n\"And there's serious security issues from requiring people to enter their credit card details into untrusted sites.\n\n\"They may well say there will be other magical ways to do the age check, but I very much doubt they will be non-discriminatory [against adults without credit cards], transparent, privacy-preserving and secure for end-users.\"\n\nOther topics covered by the act on which work can now formally begin include:\n\nSome provisions set out by the act have already come into force, including the introduction of a \"broadband universal service obligation\" to give households the right to request download speeds of at least 10 megabits per second, and increased fines for firms behind nuisance calls.\n\n\"The Digital Economy Act is about building a strong, safe and connected economy,\" said Mr Hancock.\n\n\"It will secure better support for consumers, better protection for children on the internet, and underpin a radical transformation of government services.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The US doctor who has offered to treat terminally ill Charlie Gard has attended a meeting at Great Ormond Street Hospital to decide whether he should travel to America for therapy.\n\nDr Michio Hirano will discuss Charlie's condition with doctors treating him and independent specialists.\n\nGreat Ormond Street has given Dr Hirano an honorary contract giving him the same status as its own physicians.\n\nIt means he can examine Charlie and has full access to his medical records.\n\nThe visit has been arranged as part of the latest stage of a court fight, brought by Charlie's parents Connie Yates and Chris Gard, from Bedfont, south west London, over whether he should be given experimental treatment in America.\n\nJudges have heard that Charlie, who was born on 4 August 2016, has a form of mitochondrial disease, a condition that causes progressive muscle weakness and brain damage.\n\nDr Hirano, a professor of neurology at the Columbia University Medical Centre in New York, has offered an experimental therapy called nucleoside.\n\nLast week, Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) released a copy of its latest submission to the High Court.\n\nIn a statement published on its website, the hospital said: \"At the heart of Charlie's parlous and terrible condition is the question, how can it be in his best interests for his life-sustaining treatment to be withdrawn?\n\n\"Charlie has been treated on GOSH's neonatal intensive care unit for many months now and very sadly, the question that arises for him arises for other patients and families at the hospital too.\"\n\nConnie Yates and Chris Gard want Charlie to receive an experimental therapy called nucleoside\n\nThe hospital added it had treated more than 1,000 patients with mitochondrial disease and offered pioneering treatment, including nucleoside treatment, where appropriate.\n\n\"Despite all the advances in medical science made by GOSH and the other hospitals around the world, there remain some conditions that we cannot cure and we cannot ameliorate.\"\n\nThe hospital said it remained the unanimous view of its doctors that withdrawal of ventilation and palliative care were all the hospital could offer Charlie.\n\nIt said his treatment team and all those from who the hospital obtained second opinions were of the view Charlie had \"no quality of life and no real prospect of any quality of life\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nurse Felicity Richards said finding a parking space could add up to an hour to her working day\n\nSeventy-five members of staff at a Cardiff hospital have been left \"broken\" by a court ruling that means they owe thousands of pounds in parking tickets, a campaigner has said.\n\nOn Friday, a judge at Cardiff Civil Justice Centre ruled private company Indigo could collect the charges from University Hospital of Wales staff.\n\nThis means 75 people with outstanding tickets must pay the debt.\n\nSophie Round, a healthcare support worker, said she was \"gutted\".\n\n\"It's not really the outcome that we wanted and what we earn doesn't really cover the fines,\" she added.\n\nCampaigner Sue Prior said: \"It's horrendous. Some of them [staff] are broken. They're scared stiff, petrified, they feel sick. This affects everyone from cleaners to doctors.\"\n\nShe said staff had permits which allowed them to park in designated areas for £1.05 a day, but a lack of spaces meant staff had been forced to park in unauthorised areas.\n\nIt had been claimed that one nurse owed £150,000 but it has since been said this is not the case.\n\nIndigo said as a \"gesture of goodwill\" in April 2016 it cancelled all parking charge notices up to the end of March 2016 and reduced the charge to £10 if paid within 14 days.\n\nHealthcare support worker Sophie Round (centre) said she was 'gutted' by the judgement\n\nA spokesman said Friday's court hearing related to three \"persistent offenders\" who had accumulated in excess of 100 tickets between them since April 2016.\n\nHe added: \"As the company responsible for managing parking and ensuring the free flow of traffic at Cardiff UHW, we have an obligation to ensure enforcement of parking restrictions... the court's ruling has justified our decision to take this action.\"\n\nStaff nurse Felicity Richards said: \"I have to allow 45 minutes to an hour extra to park my car every morning.\n\n\"By the time I get into work there are usually no parking spaces and I have to park off site and quite often I have to park a 20 to 25 minute walk away.\"\n\nBut Cardiff and Vale University Health Board said more than 98% of staff complied with parking regulations and it was \"disappointing\" some had \"chosen to refuse to co-operate\".\n\nLen Richards, the board's chief executive, said: \"People have known what the potential outcome could be and I don't think there's anything we can do, as an organisation, to defend them from that.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The health board's chief executive Len Richards said parking controls were brought in \"for health and safety\"\n\nHe said the parking controls were brought in for health and safety reasons, and the board had been \"working very hard\" to increase parking and create sustainable travel plans.\n\n\"The park and ride started in May this year... we also changed the flow of traffic through the site to make it more controlled and safer and, in doing that, we increased the amount of parking that was available by about 50 car parking spaces.\n\n\"We are working with the council around creating a public service hub for vehicles and buses to transport people and make that easier for staff, and we are working on a cycle hub to encourage people to cycle to work.\"\n\nIn 2015, it urged staff to pay any parking fines, saying they had been correctly issued and it did not intend to dispute them.\n\nIndigo has had a contract to manage and maintain the hospital's car parks for several years and has 1,250 spaces there.\n\nTina Donnelly, the director of Royal College of Nursing Wales, said it was hoped car parking charges at the hospital would be scrapped from June 2018.\n\nBut, in the meantime, she said: \"Due to the current cap on pay, nurses are contacting us with hardship issues, and car parking charges only add to their financial problems. A solution to this issue needs to be found.\"\n\nMs Prior said she had been campaigning on behalf of staff because two of her children were born blind at the hospital, but after medical intervention now have some sight.\n\n\"I had to help. Without those people and the NHS my children would be blind,\" she said.", "Delta Air Lines has responded to the \"derogatory\" tirade that conservative author Ann Coulter directed at them throughout the weekend.\n\nThe right-wing pundit's ire began after she was moved from her pre-booked seat on a flight from New York to Florida.\n\nAfter landing on Saturday she began to rant to her 1.6m Twitter followers, eventually comparing Delta to fascists.\n\n\"Delta expects mutual civility throughout the entire travel experience,\" the airline hit back.\n\n\"We are sorry that the customer did not receive the seat she reserved and paid for,\" Delta said in a statement posted to its website.\n\n\"More importantly, we are disappointed that the customer has chosen to publicly attack our employees and other customers by posting derogatory and slanderous comments and photos in social media.\"\n\n\"Her actions are unnecessary and unacceptable\", continued the statement which was posted on Sunday - more than 24 hours after Ms Coulter's onslaught began.\n\nMs Coulter's more than 30 tweets include insults to the passengers, flight crew, Wifi, and corporate employees.\n\n\"So glad I took time investigate the aircraft & PRE-BOOK a specific seat on @Delta, so some woman could waltz at the last min & take my seat,\" she wrote, returning to Twitter the next morning to mockingly say the company's motto is \"How can we make your flight more uncomfortable?\".\n\nThe pundit also posted photos of the flight attendant and the woman seated in her original seat, whom she referred to as \"dachshund-legged\".\n\nDelta said that the incident happened during boarding, when staff \"inadvertently\" moved the author - whose works include In Trump We Trust and Adios America! - to a window seat from an aisle.\n\nThe company statement added that they tried to contact Ms Coulter in order to apologise and refund her the $30 (£23) cost that she paid to pre-book the seat, but did not hear back from her until Sunday night.\n\nThey add that after some initial confusion sparked by passengers asking to change seats, Ms Coulter was eventually able to take her place at the seat listed on her ticket.\n\nBut Ms Coulter insisted on Monday that the money was never the issue, saying \"30!. It cost me $10,000 of my time to pre-select the seat I wanted, investigate type of plane & go back periodically to review seat options\".\n\nMany liberal-leaning Twitter users took pleasure in Ms Coulter's incident.", "George A Romero promoting 2005's Land of the Dead in Cannes\n\nThe American-born filmmaker George A Romero, who created the Living Dead movie franchise, has died at the age of 77, his manager has said.\n\nRomero died in his sleep on Sunday with his wife and daughter at his side, after a \"brief but aggressive battle\" with lung cancer, Chris Roe said.\n\nRomero co-wrote and directed the film that started the zombie series Night of the Living Dead in 1968.\n\nIt led to a number of sequels - and a host of imitators.\n\nRoe said Romero died listening to the score of The Quiet Man, \"one of his all-time favourite films\".\n\nAt the time of its release, Night of the Living Dead was criticised for being gory but it went on to be a cult classic and shape horror and zombie films for decades.\n\nWhile it did not use the word zombies, it was the first film to depict cannibalistic reanimated corpses.\n\nThe Living Dead franchise began in 1968, with the most recent made in 2009\n\nPrevious films had shown zombies as being living people who had been bewitched through voodoo.\n\nDespite having a budget of just $114,000, the film made $30m at the box office and was followed by five sequels and two remakes.\n\nMr Romero had a non-starring and uncredited role in the film as a news reporter.\n\nHe went on to direct other films including the 1971 romantic comedy There's Always Vanilla, the 1978 vampire film Martin, and the 1982 Stephen King adaptation Creepshow.\n\nHis only work to top the box office success enjoyed by Night of the Living Dead was Dawn of the Dead, released in 1978, which earned more than $40m.\n\nFellow film directors including Max Landis and Jordan Peele paid tribute to Romero on Twitter.\n\nDirector and producer Eli Roth wrote: \"Just heard the news about George Romero. Hard to quantify how much he inspired me & what he did for cinema. Condolences to his family.\"\n\nHe continued in a thread of tweets: \"Romero used genre to confront racism 50 years ago. He always had diverse casts, with Duane Jones as the heroic star of NOTLD.\"\n\nRoth said that \"very few others in cinema were taking such risks\" and that Romero \"as \"both ahead of his time and exactly what cinema needed at that time\".\n\nBaby Driver director Edgar Wright wrote that \"he couldn't into one tweet\" how he felt, so he wrote a blog post in memory of Romero.\n\nHe said: \"It's fair to say that without George A. Romero, I would not have the career that I have now. A lot of people owe George a huge debt of gratitude for the inspiration. I am just one of many.\"\n\nEd Harris on Romero: \"He was a great friend. I miss him.\"\n\nEd Harris said on Radio 4's Today programme: \"I really loved George. He was big, beautiful, gregarious bear of a guy.\"\n\nRomero worked with Harris on the 1981 drama film, Knightriders. Harris continued to explain how it was his first lead role in a film and that George A. Romero was \"a joy work with and treated everyone with respect.\"\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 Culture - Where do zombies come from?", "The BBC 1995 adaption of Pride and Prejudice spawned a new generation of Austen fans\n\nAlmost 200 years after Jane Austen's death, the English writer is still adored around the world. BBC News spoke to some of the fans for whom a love of Austen's work has evolved into a way of life.\n\nAustralia may still have been a penal colony when Jane Austen was writing her novels, but two centuries on, Austen fans Down Under get together each year to recreate Regency England in Canberra.\n\nAylwen Gardiner-Garden and her husband John have run the annual Jane Austen Festival for 10 years.\n\nThe event grew out of their love of Regency dancing and now more than 300 people come from all over Australia and New Zealand for promenades, grand balls, talks and dance workshops.\n\n\"Jane Austen is very popular in Australia - especially after the BBC series aired here in the 1990s - Colin Firth just did it for everyone. And it's generational - there was another whole new set of fans after the Keira Knightley film,\" she explained.\n\n\"I don't think it's harking back to the old country - it's more the sense of romance and escaping from reality. It's not the seedy side of England, like Dickens.\n\n\"At the festival, the women can dress up, feel feminine and elegant, and the guys are gentlemen. Teenagers grow up overnight on the dance floor - their manners are fantastic.\n\n\"It's people coming together to learn about the costumes, the books, the dancing. It's become part of people's lives, so I keep doing it for the love of it.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn Chicago, Deborah Miller performs her own one-woman show based on the books and letters of Austen.\n\nShe still remembers 10 September 2009 - the day she first read Austen's biography and instantly \"fell in love\". Within a year she had read all her novels and written the stage show she has been performing ever since.\n\n\"Her work is so well written - every time I read it I find something new - her concise use of language and its elegance is so beautiful,\" she said.\n\nIn researching her show, Ms Miller visited the Smithsonian Institution to find the earliest audio recording of a Hampshire accent and listened over and over again to find the correct stage voice.\n\n\"I do have to slow it down a bit - they are not used to a Hampshire accent on the south side of Chicago.\"\n\nWith more than 5,000 members of Jane Austen societies in the US and Canada, there is an eager audience for her shows.\n\n\"People have read the novels, but not the letters. People at the shows cry and say that I am Jane Austen.\n\n\"It's the ease and geniality of the time, the romance and the reassurance - in the current political climate, a Jane Austen novel has integrity and truth.\"\n\nAdge Secker is a full-time police officer in Bath who is also a tour guide for ECT Travel's Strictly Jane Austen tours - one of the companies chasing the bonnet bucks - tapping into the market of Austen enthusiasts keen to learn more about their heroine.\n\nHe described his clients as \"just mad crazy\" about Austen with Americans in particular \"absolutely nuts for her\".\n\n\"We take them to where she lived, where she danced, the places that inspired the stories and just immerse them in the history. I get people enthused and at the end tell them what they've done is walk in her footsteps.\n\n\"It's just good fun to do - they love to soak up the history and the culture.\"\n\nTour-goers get to visit places in the city where Jane Austen lived for five years from 1801. Locations include the Gravel Walk - where Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth were engaged in Persuasion - or visitors can have Regency experiences like tasting the spa water or attending a grand ball.\n\n\"Many Jane Austen experts come on the tours to see the places in her life. I'm like a sponge - always learning new stories. But you have to get your facts right, otherwise Jane Austen fans will find you out.\"\n\nAusten's work was first published in Italy in the 1930s, while films and dubbed BBC dramas have boosted her popularity in recent decades.\n\nVenetian Mara Barbuni first saw Ang Lee's Sense and Sensibility in 1995 and immediately borrowed the book from her local library.\n\nSince then she has written extensively on the author - her most recent research project is into how houses and homes are represented in Austen's novels.\n\nIn the course of her research, she has travelled to many of the \"Austenland\" sites - including Winchester, Bath and Lyme Regis.\n\nAusten's work is \"really popular and much loved\" in Italy, she explains.\n\n\"Many Italian readers of Jane Austen declare they love her settings, the old-fashioned but fashionable flair of her novels, and the love stories of her characters.\"\n\nMore than 300 academics and devotees are in the Jane Austen Society of Italy which was founded in Bologna in 2013. It is holding a \"Grand Tour\" of conferences around Italian cities this year, based on each of Austen's novels.\n\nNicole Kang and Margy Supramaniam are members of Singapore's Jane Austen Circle, enthusiasts who regularly meet for balls, tea and dramatised readings in costume.\n\nUK-born Mrs Supramaniam, who moved to Singapore in the 1980s, said: \"I'm no seamstress but I do enjoy dressing bonnets to look authentic and finding Indian trimming to make dresses look Regency.\n\n\"I have also used saris for dresses, the muslin ones with borders are the best. In the late 18th and early 19th Century cloth was imported in large quantities from India as it was in great demand in England for clothes, so some of it works really well in achieving a period look.\n\n\"Many older Singaporeans, who had a fairly British-style colonial education, were brought up with Jane Austen but the younger generation are less familiar, and often their first introduction may have been watching a film adaptation. It is exciting to see Jane Austen's popularity spread.\n\n\"The largest group of followers that we have are millennial Chinese Singaporeans who can somehow relate to Jane Austen across culture and centuries.\"\n\nOne of those younger members, Nicole Kang (pictured above left, in the dress), gives Regency dance lessons in Singaporean schools.\n\n\"I first read Northanger Abbey when I was 15 years old as I had more or less finished reading most of the 'teen' books in my school library and I think I had fancied a bit of a challenge in my reading.\n\n\"I love Austen's work because she writes about familiar subjects - not just about love - but she had such a keen insight into human nature that I believe that her characters still exist in real life today.\"", "An official portrait of the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall has been unveiled, ahead of Camilla's 70th birthday on Monday.\n\nThe photograph, taken in May, shows Charles and Camilla in the morning room of their London home, Clarence House.\n\nPhotographer Mario Testino described the duchess as a \"beautiful person\".\n\nThe duchess celebrated her birthday over the weekend with a private party at the couple's family home, Highgrove House, in Gloucestershire.\n\nTestino, known for his glamorous shots of the rich and famous, first captured Charles and Camilla in 2006 for their first wedding anniversary, on an assignment for Vogue.\n\nThe Peruvian photographer said that when he first met Camilla, more than a decade ago, he \"discovered a kind and beautiful person with a wonderful sense of humour\".\n\nHe added: \"I'm honoured to document their royal highnesses the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall on this very important date.\"\n\nTestino is something of a family favourite. He took Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge's official engagement photos in 2010, and has also taken official photographs of both Prince George and Princess Charlotte.\n\nA series of relaxed portraits of the late Diana, Princess of Wales - taken just months before she died in 1997 - became some of his best-known portraits.", "The Lib Dems picked up on a lack of papers on one side of the table in this photograph\n\nBrexit Secretary David Davis has called on both sides in the negotiations on the UK's departure from the European Union to \"get down to business\".\n\nMr Davis was in Brussels to launch the second round of formal talks.\n\nHe said his priority was to \"lift the uncertainty\" for EU citizens living in the UK and Britons living in the EU.\n\nThe EU says there must be substantial progress on this - and on a financial settlement and the issue of the Irish border - before trade talks can begin.\n\nAppearing alongside EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier, Mr Davis said there had been a good start to the process and it was time to get to the \"substance of the matter\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Barnier said the negotiators would \"now delve into the heart of the matter\".\n\nTalks will cover citizens' rights, finance, Northern Ireland and Euratom, with separate negotiating teams set up for each issue.\n\nA UK government source told the BBC that 98 British officials were in Brussels for the negotiations.\n\nMr Davis spent two to three hours in the EU quarter, meeting Mr Barnier for between 45 minutes and a hour before returning to London.\n\nThe two men are expected to give an update on progress made at a press conference on Thursday.\n\nEarlier this month, Theresa May's offer to give the three million EU citizens in the UK \"settled status\" after Brexit was immediately dismissed by European Council President Donald Tusk as \"below our expectations\".\n\nAnd Mr Barnier has said there were still major differences between the EU and UK on the subject.\n\nSpeaking at a separate European Council meeting in Brussels, Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson insisted the UK had made a \"very fair, serious offer\".\n\nThe call to \"get down to business\" from David Davis is meant to signal that the Brexit talks are entering a serious phase after an opening session of pleasantries and procedural discussions.\n\nThat might raise eyebrows on the European side where there's a perception that Britain dithered for months after the Brexit referendum before getting down to talks.\n\nThe UK says it's prioritising the issue of mutual citizens rights after its opening proposals received a lukewarm response in Brussels.\n\nThe atmosphere around this second round of talks may have been improved a little by a government acknowledgement that the UK has obligations to the EU which will survive withdrawal and which need to be resolved.\n\nMr Johnson has said that Brussels can \"go whistle\" if it expected the UK to pay an \"extortionate\" bill as part of the separation.\n\nThe government's official position, confirmed in a Parliamentary statement last week, is that it will \"work with the EU to determine a fair settlement of the UK's rights and obligations as a departing member state, in accordance with the law and in the spirit of our continuing partnership\".\n\nThe EU has insisted that citizen rights - along with the \"divorce payment\" and border issues - must be dealt with before future UK-EU trade can be discussed.\n\nSir Keir Starmer, Labour's shadow Brexit secretary, criticised Mr Davis for spending \"only a few minutes in Brussels before heading back to Whitehall\".\n\n\"There is no agreed cabinet position on vital Brexit issues, the negotiating team is not prepared and the Prime Minister has lost her authority,\" he said, calling for engagement \"with the substance of talks\".\n\nThe Liberal Democrats' Brexit spokesperson, Tom Brake, said Mr Davis' brief visit to Brussels - and a lack of briefing papers on the UK side of the table in when the negotiators posed for a photograph - was proof that government preparation for the negotiations was lacking.\n\n\"He didn't have any position papers with him because this government has no agreed Brexit position,\" he said.\n\nLord O'Donnell, the UK's former top civil servant, suggested the chances of a smooth Brexit were at risk.\n\n\"It appears that cabinet members haven't yet finished negotiating with each other, never mind the EU,\" he was quoted by Reuters news agency as saying.", "With rumour swirling, gossip in the air about the cabinet, it is hard to work out what is really going on. Since Mrs May didn't really win the prize she was expecting, ministers have become an unruly lot. Tomorrow, they're all going to get a telling off (with apologies to the truth).\n\nDavid wants her job, although he says that he doesn't and isn't thinking about it, it's only his friends getting excited.\n\nBoris wants the job too, although he says he doesn't want it yet, and guess what, it's only his friends getting a bit excited.\n\nThis excitement sometimes involves those friends saying rude things about the other one.\n\nNeither of them, nor any of their friends, want Philip to get the job.\n\nSome of Philip's friends want him to get the job, but maybe he's not so sure. What he really wants is to stay in charge of the money, whoever has the big job.\n\nBoris wants Theresa's job but not yet (he says)\n\nPhilip doesn't trust or like Michael very much.\n\nNeither, really, does Theresa like Michael very much. But lots of people think he is clever and he likes Brexit.\n\nSo does Boris, who used to like Michael a lot.\n\nThen Michael was really mean to Boris and it hurt his feelings a lot. They'll probably never go to each other's houses again for dinner but they may not quite feel like poisoning the other's dinner.\n\nThen there's Liam, who also likes Brexit a lot.\n\nHe likes running for the big job. He says he doesn't want that opportunity to come up, but if it does, he might well have another go because he likes doing it so much.\n\nThere's also Andrea, who smiles a lot and likes Brexit, a lot. She didn't really enjoy going for the big job last time, but if it happens again, the chance to run again might make her smile, a lot.\n\nThen there's the newer gang, like Priti, who also likes Brexit and might like to try for the big job one day.\n\nSo might Sajid, who doesn't really like Brexit that much, but might want to join in the big race too.\n\nAnd don't forget Amber, who Philip and David are apparently trying to get into their gang - but it's tricky because she doesn't like Brexit and could also fancy having a go at the top post too one day, although she'd probably need to make a few more friends in her home town.\n\nAnd there's Patrick, who didn't like Brexit either. No one really wants to be friends with him at the moment. He was meant to be in charge of trying to win the big prize but that didn't quite go according to plan.\n\nThen there are Greg, Karen, Justine, Michael number two, David number two, Jeremy,David number three, Alun and yes, David number four.\n\nNone of them really like Brexit very much.\n\nMost of them (apart from David number three) would also like Philip (remember him?) to write some bigger cheques for their departments.\n\nBut he isn't really in the mood to do that, remember. He wants to stay in charge of the money, whoever has the big job.\n\nThen there is James, who also didn't like the idea of Brexit but has an almost even harder project in Belfast.\n\nThere are also Liz and Brandon. She used to have to worry about cheese, he now has to worry about immigration.\n\nNeither of them really liked Brexit either but are, you guessed it \"getting on with the job\".\n\nAnd Chris, who really loves the idea of Brexit and is in charge of trains. He says he doesn't want Philip or Boris or David (number one) to be making trouble.\n\nThere's also Natalie, who has to explain to another lot who get to wear red velvet cloaks (honest) what all of the above are trying to achieve. (That's a good question)\n\nThen there is Damien, who really didn't like the idea of Brexit but who is really important because Theresa isn't cross with him.\n\nIn fact, she trusts him and my goodness, that doesn't happen very often.\n\nLast of course there is Theresa who, while being cross with this lot, is probably still cross with herself, and most likely peeved with Nick and Fi, but that's another story.\n\nThe public might well think they all must try much harder.", "A man holds a rainbow flag after taking part in the Pride Run in Shanghai in June. Homosexuality is legal in China, but authorities have implemented new rules which censor online videos featuring same sex relationships\n\nA crackdown on a wide range of internet videos by Chinese censors has caused a backlash on the country's popular micro-blogging site Sina Weibo, with many users objecting to a decision to ban content which features same-sex relationships.\n\nOn Chinese social media, many were left angry, baffled, and upset:\n\n\"Aren't people born equal? ... What right do you have to discriminate against others?\" said one. Another commented: \"Aren't homosexuals normal? Why do you push them to a corner?\"\n\nThe outcry was prompted a decision by Beijing regulators to censor the portrayal of homosexual activity in online videos. The regulations, which came into force at the beginning of July, classify homosexuality as \"abnormal\" sexual behaviour and cover not only explicit sexual content but any portrayal of same-sex relationships, positive or negative - for instance in popular online dramas.\n\nOn Weibo, the hashtag \"Online Content Review Discriminating [Against] Gays\" was viewed by millions and generated thousands of comments. And while the decision sparked the biggest backlash from Chinese social media users, the censorship extends further.\n\nThere are 84 categories of material that were banned from online video programmes by Chinese censors, including prostitution, drug addiction, extra-marital affairs and what authorities deem to be \"unhealthy\" views of the family, relationships and money. A ban on the portrayal of \"erotic behaviour\" includes kisses which last for a long time.\n\nThe guidance stipulates that all online content should help \"realize the China dream of a great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.\"\n\nA screenshot from Addicted, an online series that was censored after the new rules came into force\n\nOne prominent voice who has criticised Chinese government censorship is Li Yinhe, China's first female sexologist and a well-known commentator on LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) issues.\n\n\"To [the government], homosexuality is regarded as obscene,\" she says, adding that the LGBT community is \"very angry.\"\n\nLi Yinhe tells BBC Trending radio that when she recently wrote a piece calling on the government to end the censorship mechanism entirely, the article was taken down by Weibo censors just a few hours after publication.\n\n\"Well, this is the reality in China,\" she says.\n\nUnder the latest guidelines, which were issued by the China Netcasting Services Association, at least two to three \"auditors\" will have to check all online content to make sure it adheres to the \"advanced culture of socialism.\"\n\nThe latest regulations are part of a wide campaign by the authorities to control discourse online through the censorship of a wide range of content including live streaming, news and social media.\n\nJust over a year ago Beijing issued a set of regulations which banned the portrayal of homosexuality on television as part of what they described as being a cultural crackdown on \"vulgar, immoral and unhealthy content.\"\n\nA number of Chinese gay dating apps have also been shut down in the country - the most recent example being the lesbian dating app Rela which had more than five million users and was shut down at the end of May this year.\n\nHomosexuality is not illegal in China, and was removed from an official list of mental disorders in 2001.\n\nTim Hildebrandt, an assistant professor of social policy and development at the London School of Economics, says the recent censorship around homosexuality is surprising.\n\n\"Social acceptance of homosexuality had really gone up in China over the last five to 15 years,\" he says. \"Unlike a lot of places with institutionalised religion, it's not a place that has ever viewed homosexuality as inherently sinful. It's been viewed over time as an oddity, but not an inherent threat to society. The only threat it served was as one of non-conformity to a perfect model of the family.\"\n\nHildebrandt adds that the latest guidelines issued around homosexual content online are \"particularly worrisome.\"\n\n\"Some might assume this is just about pornography,\" he says. \"This is not really the case. It's any portrayal of homosexuality in online videos. As to what that means for gay people in China, essentially the internet is one of the few safe spaces to meet others within the community. This is how people are meeting each other both in a platonic and romantic setting.\"\n\nWenxiong, a gay Chinese man who is currently studying in the US, says that the homosexuality ban online feels \"like the Cultural Revolution again.\"\n\n\"We are seeing a group of people as a target of antagonism and people can say bad things about them, or insult them,\" he says.\n\n\"The government, aside from the regulations on LGBT content, is also issuing a lot of other cultural tightening regulations,\" he says. \"It's like Big Brother is watching you now. The government is telling you that you cannot have a gay life.\"\n\nYou can find BBC Trending on Facebook or follow us on Twitter @BBCtrending. All our stories are at bbc.com/trending.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Justine Greening said every school in England would benefit\n\nSchools in England are being promised an extra £1.3bn over two years, as the government responded to pressure from campaigns over funding shortages.\n\nBut the cash for schools will be taken from elsewhere in the education budget, such as spending on free schools.\n\nThe Institute for Fiscal Studies says it represents a real-terms freeze on school budgets for the next two years.\n\nEducation Secretary Justine Greening told MPs she recognised there was public concern over school funding.\n\nMs Greening told the House of Commons this \"significant investment\" would help to \"raise standards, promote social mobility and to give every child the best possible education\".\n\nBut Labour's shadow education secretary, Angela Rayner, said: \"This is all being funded without a penny of new money from the Treasury.\n\n\"They are not committing any new money and have not been clear about exactly what programmes they will be cutting to plug the funding back hole.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Angela Rayner: \"They've taken with one hand and put it in with the other\"\n\nBut Jules White, a West Sussex head teacher who co-ordinated a campaign over funding shortages, said: \"The government finally appears to be listening.\"\n\nBut he cautioned that any increase would need to keep up with \"rising pupil numbers and inflationary costs\".\n\nGeoff Barton, leader of the ASCL head teachers' union, said this was a \"step in the right direction and an acknowledgment of the huge level of concern around the country on this issue\".\n\nBut he said schools would still have to see the implications of the money being \"saved from elsewhere in the education budget\".\n\nChris Keates leader of the NASUWT teachers' union called Ms Greening's statement \"a recycled announcement of recycled money\".\n\nJo Yurky, who headed a parents' campaign over funding, said this was \"positive news\" and an \"amazing turn-around\" in attitude from ministers, but pressure needed to be kept up on protecting funding.\n\nA joint statement from the NUT and ATL teachers' unions accused the government of \"smoke and mirrors\".\n\n\"Whilst any extra money is welcome this isn't enough to stop the huge cuts that schools are making,\" said the teachers' unions.\n\nSchool funding became a major issue during the general election, with school leaders and teachers' unions warning that budget shortages would mean cuts to staffing and subjects.\n\nA protest over school funding cuts was held in London at the weekend\n\nThey pointed to evidence from the National Audit Office and the Institute for Fiscal Studies, which warned of £3bn funding gap and schools facing an 8% real-terms budget cut.\n\nDuring the election, the Conservatives had promised an extra £1bn per year, which on top of planned increases, would have meant the core schools budget rising by about £4bn in 2021-22.\n\nMost of this extra funding was going to come from scrapping free meals for all infants, a policy which was subsequently ditched.\n\nUnder the plans announced by Ms Greening on Monday, the overall core schools budget will rise by £2.6bn between 2017-18 and 2019-20.\n\nAll schools will receive at least an increase of 0.5% in cash terms.\n\nThe Liberal Democrat education spokeswoman Layla Moran said: \"This is a desperate attempt to pull the wool over people's eyes.\n\n\"Schools are still facing cuts to their budgets once inflation and increasing class sizes are taken into account.\"\n\nAs well as concerns about the overall amount of money available, there has been controversy over how it is divided between individual schools.\n\nA new National Funding Formula was announced by education secretary Justine Greening before Christmas.\n\nMs Greening said the new formula would go ahead and would address unfair and inconsistent levels of funding.\n\nUnder the new arrangements, from 2018-19, the minimum funding per secondary pupil would be set at £4,800 per year.\n\nFor many years there have been complaints that schools in different parts of the country were receiving different levels of per pupil funding.\n\nDetails of an updated version of the formula, with budgets for individual schools, are being promised for the autumn.", "Roger Federer's two sets of twins stood out in the crowd as they watched their dad make Wimbledon history on Sunday - for wearing matching outfits.\n\nGirls Myla Rose and Charlene Riva, seven, were dressed in identical flowery dresses.\n\nBoys Leo and Lenny, three, both wore a pale blue jacket, white trousers and the same dark shoes.\n\nDressing twins in identical outfits is not uncommon among parents, but some experts warn it may not be a good idea.\n\nKeith Reed, chief executive of the Twins and Multiple Births Association (Tamba), says it is important for parents to help multiple birth children develop their own identities.\n\nThis can be done by dressing them differently and using their individual names rather than calling them \"the twins\" or \"the triplets\".\n\nHe adds: \"If they are used to always being together or always wearing the same clothes, then the older they get the more distressed they may become if you try to make changes.\n\n\"However this does not mean denying their special relationship as one of a multiple.\n\n\"Rather it allows them to see themselves as individuals who have the bonus of being part of a multiple unit.\"\n\nTwins Farrah, left, and Rae are sometimes dressed in the same outfits\n\nCarla Hallmark, 38, from south-east London, is mum to one-year-old non-identical girls Farrah and Rae.\n\nShe says she sometimes dresses her daughters in the same outfits out of convenience.\n\n\"We don't really think about it. It's literally go into the shop and buy two of those, two of those and two of those.\n\n\"If the girls were identical I think my view would be very different. Our two look so different, so for me it wasn't really a problem and I decided it for ease.\n\n\"It's simply about getting up in the morning and going to their wardrobe and grabbing two of those and two of those. It's not a conscious decision to dress them the same every day.\n\n\"Yes it's quite cute and I don't dislike the way it looks but it really it is about ease. I don't think it really matters until they get to an age where they tell you what they are not going to wear.\n\n\"For now, while we are trying to get them out of the door in 15 minutes in the morning, it's certainly for ease.\"\n\nThe parents of identical twins Heidi, left, and Izzy ensure they wear different outfits\n\nBut for some parents of twins, they have made a conscious decision not to dress their children in matching or identical outfits.\n\nPR director Marc Cohen, 37, from north London, is a dad to seven-year-old identical twins Izzy and Heidi.\n\nHe says: \"Everyone is different but for us it's hard to get our heads around why anyone would want to have kids dressed the same, particularly if they are identical.\n\n\"They have their own personalities and they're their own people and from such an early age to have them dressed the same removes quite a lot of their personality.\n\n\"It does present challenges. I can understand if you've got a lot of kids it might be easier to be dressing them the same way.\n\n\"But as they get older it's really hard to encourage their individuality with identical twins, so I think it's worth working that bit harder to give them their own personalities.\"\n\nTwins Jasper and Phoebe Tomkins on their first day at school\n\nLauren Apfel, editor of online parenting magazine Motherwell and mum of twins Phoebe and Jasper, six, is against dressing twins the same and says parents tend to do it because it is considered \"cute\".\n\n\"People are fascinated by twins, and they love seeing them as an adorable diptych. But this is more about appearances than what is actually best for the kids themselves,\" she adds.\n\n\"Twins will always have a special bond. Dressing them differently doesn't do damage to that possibility.\n\n\"Rather it is an important step towards allowing them to thrive as individuals within their sibling relationship, as opposed to their identities being dominated by it.\"\n\nClinical psychologist Linda Blair, who has written a book exploring sibling relationships, says there is a fascination with multiple births and parents often try and \"enhance the attraction\" by making their children look alike.\n\nBut she warns it can have a negative impact on the children themselves and their relationship with their sibling.\n\n\"Children want more than anything to be seen as special in their parents' eyes, as different from everyone else.\n\n\"When you duplicate them, you're not going to harm them in some kind of long-term way, but what you're doing is putting the warmth of their relationship at risk.\n\n\"The person they are going to want to compete with and push away is the person who is most like them.\n\n\"So it isn't good for the sibling relationship to dress them alike and put them in one box.\n\n\"The best way to raise confident kids is to continually praise and be proud of their differences and uniqueness.\"\n\nDo you dress your twins in identical outfits? Share your views and 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:", "When Carolyn McCall announced that she was moving from the Guardian Media Group to become chief executive of EasyJet, rival Ryanair's Michael O'Leary dismissed her as a media luvvie.\n\nWith her new post at ITV, which she will take up early next year, Mr O'Leary can happily call her a media luvvie again, although her track record shows her capabilities spread far more widely.\n\nHer first six months in the job in 2010 were enough to make anyone match fit.\n\nThose saw three of the aviation industry's biggest headaches: volcanic ash clouds, a spike in the oil price and an air traffic controllers strike.\n\nBut there's little in her early years that would suggest her as an establishment candidate whose career would read like a perfectly mapped flight path through some of the UK's best-known boardrooms, including Lloyds TSB, Tesco, Burberry and New Look.\n\nShe once described herself as a \"coaster\" at school, and rather middling as a school student, and claims she never had a plan for her career.\n\nBorn in Bangalore, in Southern India in 1961, she completed much of her schooling there before moving to the UK, attending school in Matlock in Derbyshire before going on to university at Canterbury in Kent.\n\nAfter that she almost became a teacher, doing her training at Holland Park Comprehensive in London, one of the most notorious of its time for its mixed demographic and free-thinking ethos. That experience seemed to have served to make her own appetite for education stronger and she went for a master's degree in politics from the University of London.\n\nHer first job was at builders Costain, but she was strongly drawn towards the media.\n\nTo her delight she applied for and became a research planner at the Guardian in 1986, where her boss, a woman, shocked her by saying she could become the group's chief executive.\n\nBy 2000, she had risen through the commercial ranks to become chief executive of the newspaper business, Guardian News & Media, and in 2006 she took the helm of the parent company.\n\nManagement Today magazine called her: \"One of the toughest operators to have risen through the Guardian Media Group's ranks.\"\n\nOne of her landmark achievements there in 2005 was to take the paper from a Daily Telegraph-sized broadsheet to the pioneering, smaller Berliner format at an expense that raised eyebrows. But she also was involved at the start of the digital version of the Guardian.\n\nDuring her time at EasyJet, passenger numbers have almost doubled.\n\nShe has also doubled the number of female applicants to become pilots under the Amy Johnson initiative.\n\nOn a more prosaic level, she is known for mucking in with the flight crew when flying, helping to clear up the rubbish while getting to know the staff and their concerns.\n\nHer interest in supporting the progress of women is underlined by her naming one of her three children after political activist Emmeline Pankhurst, who helped women win the right to vote.\n\nShe is one of just a handful of female chief executives in the top 100 companies.\n\nShe was named Veuve Clicquot Business Woman of the Year in April 2008, was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to women in business, was awarded a damehood in the New Year Honours list for services to the aviation industry and on top of that has been given France's highest merit, the Legion d'Honneur.", "Leah died in Torbay Hospital after apparently suffering from an adverse reaction to the substance she had taken\n\nA man has been charged following the death of 15-year-old girl suspected of taking drugs.\n\nLeah Kerry was found unconscious at about 04:50 BST on Saturday at Bakers Park in Newton Abbot, Devon.\n\nJacob Khanlarian from Newton Abbot, was charged with two counts of intent to supply a class A drug and one of intent to supply a class B substance.\n\nThe 20-year-old entered no plea and was remanded in custody by Plymouth magistrates.\n\nHe will appear before Exeter Crown Court on 10 August.\n\nIt is believed Leah, who was not from the area, suffered an adverse reaction from the substance. She died in Torbay Hospital.\n\nTwo other girls believed to have taken the same substance were also taken to hospital over the weekend as a precaution, but have since been released.\n\nDet Supt Ken Lamont said: \"With NPS (New Psychoactive Substances) no-one knows what's in them and that's why they are so dangerous.\n\n\"Time and time again we hear of people paying the ultimate price for this.\n\n\"It's not worth experimenting with your life.\"\n\nLast year Totnes teenager Nathan Wood died after after taking the psychoactive drug N-Bomb.\n\nPolice called on parents to \"speak to your children about the dangers of drugs and legal highs\".\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. Passengers watch as woman dragged along platform by Rome metro\n\nFootage of a woman being dragged along a platform by a train, after her bag got trapped in the door, has raised safety questions about Rome's metro.\n\nNatalya Garkovich, 43, was left in intensive care after sensors failed to register the strap and emergency brakes did not stop the train's advance.\n\nThe footage also shows train driver Gianluca Tonelli eating before driving away.\n\nThe incident is being investigated, but Mr Tonelli says he followed protocol.\n\n\"I know that I was wrong and I am devastated by what happened to that woman,\" Mr Tonelli told Italian daily Corriere della Sera [in Italian]. \"But in the video it can also be seen that I looked twice in the mirror, I was not reckless.\"\n\nMs Garkovich, who local media report is a Belarusian national, was initially in intensive care, but her condition has since improved. Reports suggest she has broken bones from the accident.\n\nThe CCTV footage obtained by Corriere shows Ms Garkovich boarding the train at Termini station, before changing her mind at the last minute.\n\nAs she backs out of the train, her bag appears to become stuck - and despite the efforts of people on the platform, she cannot be freed.\n\nLocal news outlets report that passengers on board the train pulled a number of emergency levers, but were unsuccessful. It is believed Ms Garkovich was not pulled into the tunnel.\n\nThe first Mr Tonelli knew of the accident was when he pulled into the next station, according to reports.\n\nCCTV footage showed the woman being pulled along the platform\n\nThe CCTV footage shows that Mr Tonelli was eating while the train was in the platform.\n\nBut Carlo Rienzi, president of consumer rights group Codacons, said the failure of both the door and emergency levers meant Mr Tonelli could not be fully to blame.\n\n\"The emergency systems on board must function properly,\" he said in a statement, \"Therefore we consider it outrageous and offensive to say the train driver is entirely responsible, when you should thoroughly investigate the Rome subway security systems and their proper operation.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Stefano Bottoni, national secretary of trade union Sul, said extra measures were needed to avoid a repeat of the accident.\n\n\"If the trains were equipped with cameras in the cockpit it might have been different,\" he told news agency Ansa (in Italian).", "Primark has recalled thousands of men's flip-flops over fears they may contain dangerous levels of a cancer-causing chemical.\n\nThe discount fashion chain said it had come to its attention that the footwear \"does not meet the Primark usual high standards for chemical compliance\".\n\nThe products in question are men's flip-flops in blue, black and khaki.\n\nThe company said customers will be offered a full refund and do not have to produce proof of purchase.\n\nPrimark, which is owned by Associated British Foods, said the footwear was sold in stores between 4 January and 2 June this year as part of its Cedar Wood State range.\n\n\"We have found levels of a restricted substance in the product in excess of the 1.0 mg/kg requirement,\" it said on the website.\n\nA Primark spokesperson confirmed that the chemical in question was chrysene, used in dark coloured dyes, but said it was present at levels that would pose a minimal health and safety risk to customers.\n\nThe fault was discovered by Primark following up an inquiry by a third party, the company said.\n\n\"We take the safety of our customers, and the quality of our products very seriously,\" the spokesperson said.\n\nThe company has suspended all new orders from the factory that manufactures the flip-flops while the matter is investigated.", "Mr Rodrigues says he wanted to do something for a living that he really liked\n\nCarl Rodrigues says that his family and friends all thought he had lost his mind.\n\n\"Everybody thought I had gone completely nuts,\" he says. \"They were saying 'what's wrong with this guy? Is he having a hippy moment?'.\"\n\nMr Rodrigues, a successful IT consultant, had woken up one day and decided to quit the day job.\n\nInstead of doing lucrative work for other people, he was going to retire to his basement and develop a best-selling computer product.\n\nThe significant problem was that he didn't have any ideas. But to the worry of his wife, and scorn of his mother-in-law - who lived with them - he was undeterred.\n\nSo back in 2001 he shut himself away beneath his house in the Canadian city of Mississauga, and started to try to dream up something.\n\n\"My goal was that I wanted to see what I could produce if I did something I really liked,\" he says.\n\n\"I didn't know what I was going to do, but I thought I would give it a shot.\"\n\nAfter a month of working \"crazy hours\", Mr Rodrigues had come up with his first fully formed idea - a software system that allowed the user to control his or her mobile phone from their laptop.\n\nMr Rodrigues squirreled himself away in his basement\n\nNaming his company Soti, sales of the system started to grow slowly, until 12 months later Mr Rodrigues got a phone call out of the blue from one of the UK's largest supermarket groups.\n\nThe firm didn't want to sell the system to its customers, instead it wanted to incorporate it into its operations, so staff could better communicate and pass on data and other information.\n\nMr Rodrigues, now 55 and Soti's chief executive, says: \"I was still in my basement when I got a call from the company, saying they would like to place an order.\n\n\"I don't think they realised that they were talking to just one guy in a basement, so when the person asked to speak to someone in sales I came back on the phone with a slightly different tone.\"\n\nThe little ruse worked, and the UK firm placed a \"huge order\" for 20,000 units.\n\nSoti has never looked back; and while most people have never heard of the firm - because it sells its mobile technology software systems to companies instead of consumers - it today has annual revenues of $80m (£62m).\n\nThis is despite Mr Rodrigues not needing any external investment. The business remains 100% owned by him and his wife.\n\nContinuing to turn down numerous takeover bids, including an undisclosed offer from Microsoft in 2006, the Canadian business leader instead says he wants Soti to \"become as big as they get\" in the computer world.\n\nBorn in Pakistan to a Roman Catholic family that had its roots in the former Portuguese colony of Goa on India's west coast, Mr Rodrigues emigrated to Canada with his parents and four siblings when he was 11.\n\nThe decision to leave Pakistan was Mr Rodrigues' mother's. He says she was increasingly concerned at political and social instability in the country in the early 1970s.\n\nHe says: \"Dad was happy in Pakistan, but mum wanted us kids to have a nice safe place to grow up in, and have a good education.\"\n\nCarl (the youngest of the two boys) and his family left Pakistan in the early 1970s\n\nAs the family spoke English at home, Mr Rodrigues says he had no problem settling in Toronto. He even liked the significantly colder weather.\n\n\"I was dying to see snow,\" he says. \"This magical thing I had never seen.\"\n\nAfter \"doing enough at school to go to university\", Mr Rodrigues did a degree in computer science and mathematics at the University of Toronto.\n\nHe then spent a number of years working as a consultant, before launching Soti in 2001.\n\nToday the company is valued at more than $1bn (£770m), and has 17,000 business customers around the world, and 700 employees across 22 countries.\n\nInstead of still being based in Mr Rodrigues' basement, its headquarters is split across two buildings in Mississauga, which borders Toronto in the Canadian province of Ontario.\n\nThe company has 700 workers around the world\n\nTechnology journalist Martin Veitch who has followed Mr Rodrigues' career, says Soti has been so successful because of its specialised approach.\n\n\"I think Soti is an example of a company that has succeeded by being focused on a business niche,\" says Mr Veitch, who is contributing editor of website IDG Connect.\n\n\"A lot of its rivals are huge vendors that play in virtually every aspect of IT. That's fine for those customers that like 'one throat to choke', but for others a company that is a specialist represents a better fit.\"\n\nMore The Boss features, which every week profile a different business leader from around the world:\n\nOn a day-to-day basis Mr Rodrigues says he likes his senior managers to all \"be their own chief executive\".\n\nHe explains: \"I'm so busy doing other things, they need to be their own CEOs and run their own organisations.\"\n\nOne problem Mr Rodrigues says the company has faced, is struggling to recruit enough good computer programmers.\n\nMr Rodrigues wants his senior managers to consider themselves to be their own chief executives\n\nTo get around this problem he has had to think creatively, and Soti advertises for people with no programming experience or qualifications to try their luck.\n\nSo far the firm has recruited 16 or so people under the initiative that sees applicants put through a number of tests.\n\nSoti has also hired 20 programmers from the Ukraine, who it helped move to Canada with their families.\n\nWhile Mr Rodrigues no longer has to work from his basement, his mother-in-law still lives with him, his wife and their two sons.\n\n\"My mother-in-law is not a shy person shall we say... but I think she is pleased [with what I have achieved].\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "President Trump claims the news media isn't paying attention to real policy issues, like jobs, the economy, so-called Islamic State and the border.\n\n\"At some point the Fake News will be forced to discuss our great jobs numbers, strong economy, success with ISIS, the border & so much else!\" he tweeted.\n\nSix months into his presidency, how is he faring in these areas? And how much is he tweeting about these policy priorities?\n\nDuring the campaign, Mr Trump vowed to create 25 million jobs over 10 years and become \"the greatest jobs president... ever\".\n\nIn the past he discredited US jobless figures, claiming the actual unemployment rate was over forty per cent. Now he's America's CEO, he's embracing the same figures he once described as \"phony\".\n\nSo, are the jobs numbers \"great\", as his tweet suggests?\n\nYes - the jobs market is looking healthy, with the overall trend showing that unemployment is falling.\n\nThe president is also right when he says there are more jobs around - in June 222,000 jobs were created.\n\nBut this steady economic performance isn't a drastic change from what we saw under President Barack Obama, when job growth increased at a steady pace.\n\nOne area where that growth isn't being matched is in wages, and there have been calls for President Trump to address this issue.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Where did Trump the Outsourcing Slayer go?\n\nThen there's his promise to bring more jobs back to the US from overseas - a pledge which energised much of his base.\n\nShortly after his election victory he spoke of how he had saved 1,100 jobs with the Indiana based air conditioner firm, Carrier. Months later, 600 of those jobs are still moving to Mexico.\n\nOther companies like Ford are expanding production overseas, rather than in the US.\n\nDespite the president's assurances he would reverse what he described as \"job theft\" overseas, it's proving difficult.\n\nThe latest growth figures, released since President Trump took office, showed a decline in the GDP rate (1.4%) in the first three months of this year, compared with the three months preceding (2.1%).\n\nIt was one of the worst readings for nearly a year, but not necessarily bad news for President Trump, as economists say the first quarter of the year usually posts a lower rate.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOverall, the president is correct when he characterises the US economy as \"strong\". Upward growth is part of a trend, in which the US economy has picked up since the financial crisis in 2008.\n\nThe White House has set a growth target of 3%, but this does look like a challenge, as growth has only averaged less than 2% a year since 2001. The Congressional Budget Office currently estimates growth at about 1.9%.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Trump : 'I just don't want a poor person' running the US economy\n\nPresident Trump often boasts about how the stock market has risen since he took office. He can take credit for this in part.\n\nSome of the improvement in the markets can be attributed to anticipation that the president and the Republican pledge to reduce taxes and cut regulations will be implemented.\n\nBut he's still not managed to pass tax reform laws.\n\nDuring the campaign Donald Trump didn't mince his words when it came to so-called Islamic State (IS), famously using an expletive to describe how much bombing he would carry out.\n\nHe added: \"I'd just bomb those suckers. I'd blow up the pipes, I'd blow up the refineries, I'd blow up every single inch - there would be nothing left.\"\n\nBack then Mr Trump was wary to reveal details but promised he had a \"secret plan\". Since entering office, he has ordered a review of US policy on IS.\n\nDespite criticising his predecessor's handling of the militant group (\"he's the founder of ISIS\"), the Trump administration's strategy is strikingly similar. It includes continuing strikes and targeted raids, more support to local forces, and freezing the assets of IS operatives.\n\nThe goals are the same too - to take control of IS strongholds like Raqqa in Syria and Mosul in Iraq - and coalition forces have already seen success in the latter.\n\nBut there are some key differences in tactics. One is the decision to arm Syrian Kurds to help take Raqqa, despite objections from the Turkish government.\n\nThe second is a tougher stance on \"annihilating\" IS fighters, which has led to a rise in the number of civilian casualties caught up in attacks.\n\nThe third is that the Trump administration is authorising a far greater number of air strikes as it makes its push, and has ramped up operations against IS in Afghanistan, Yemen and Somalia.\n\nIn Afghanistan his administration dropped the \"Mother of All Bombs\" to kill IS militants. And, when President Trump authorised a strike against a chemical weapons factory in Syria earlier this year, he showed he's not afraid to use military force when he feels it is necessary.\n\nIt shows another key difference between him and his predecessor Barack Obama, who promised such action, but didn't deliver.\n\nSecuring America's borders was the centrepiece of Donald Trump's election pitch. At campaign rallies he promised to crack down on illegal immigrants in the US, with his focus on criminals.\n\nHe often raised the case of Kate Steinle, a young woman from Seattle who was killed by an illegal immigrant who had been deported five times.\n\nAt the end of June he introduced \"Kate's law\" which would increase penalties for immigrants who re-enter the US after they've been deported. It was passed by the House of Representatives, and will now come before the Senate.\n\nIn the president's first 100 days, more than 41,000 people were arrested on the suspicion they were in the US illegally, an increase on the previous year. About 10,800 had no criminal conviction, compared with 4,200 the previous year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. US immigration raids leave many 'afraid to open the door'\n\nBut despite his tough talk on the issue, President Trump actually deported fewer people in his first 100 days than Barack Obama.\n\nIn Trump's first 100 days 54,564 people were deported, compared with 62,062 for the same time period in the previous year under his predecessor.\n\nAnd let's not forget Donald Trump's plans to tighten the border even further - his flagship plan to \"build a wall\" is moving along. Companies have until September to pitch their prototypes. At a recent rally in Iowa, the president said it could be a \"solar wall\" which would pay for itself.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How will President Trump deliver on border wall promise?\n\nFor months the president's travel ban was blocked by the courts and failed to become law.\n\nAfter a decision by the US Supreme Court in June, it's partially in effect, but it's not as drastic. Visitors from the six designated countries can still enter, if they have a bona fide connection to the US.", "The giant iceberg known as A-68 that was produced in the Antarctic last week continues to drift seaward.\n\nAll the latest satellite images indicate the gap between the 6,000-sq-km block and the floating Larsen C Ice Shelf from which it calved is widening.\n\nThe particular image on this page was acquired by the Deimos-1 satellite.\n\nIt is not easy getting pictures of the Antarctic at this time of year because of the long winter nights and because of cloud cover.\n\nThose spacecraft that have so far spied the berg have been relying on radar or on infrared sensors to pierce these difficulties.\n\nThe monster berg - which is a quarter the size of Wales, and one of the biggest ever recorded - is so far behaving as expected.\n\nTheory suggests it should move, in the first instance, down the slope in the ocean surface that has been created by winds in the Weddell Sea pushing water up against the coast. But the leftward deflecting effect of the Coriolis force, produced by the Earth's rotation, should keep the berg relatively close to the continent's edge.\n\nInterestingly in the Deimos image, acquired on Friday, it appears as though a large segment of \"fast ice\" that was attached to the berg has broken free. This fast ice is considerably thinner than the main block - a few metres thick versus the 200-plus-metres of the berg itself.\n\nIn this Sunday thermal image from Nasa's Aqua satellite, the strong white lines are the signal of water which is warm relative to the surrounding ice and air. It also suggests a large section of fast ice has detached from the berg\n\nThomas Rackow and colleagues from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, are following the block with keen interest.\n\nThey recently published research in which they modelled the drift of icebergs through Antarctic waters - taking into account the different influences that act on small and large objects. There are essentially four \"highways\" that bergs travel, depending on their point of origin.\n\nA-68 should follow the highway up the eastern coast of the Antarctic Peninsula, leading from the Weddell Sea towards the Atlantic.\n\n\"It will most likely follow a northeasterly course, heading roughly for South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands,\" Dr Rackow told BBC News. \"It will be very interesting to see whether the iceberg will move as expected, as a kind of 'reality-check' for the current models and our physical understanding.\"\n\nSimulated highways: Small to medium bergs (Classes 1-3) generally have a lifetime of a couple of years; the big bergs (Classes 4-5) are mostly all gone after 10 years\n\nPolar research agencies are already discussing the scientific opportunities afforded by the breakaway.\n\nScientists will want to understand what effect the calving might have on the remaining parts of the ice shelf. Ten percent of Larsen C's area was removed by the departing berg, and this loss could change the way stress is configured and managed across the shelf.\n\nThere are numerous cracks just north of a pinning point known as the Gipps Ice Rise. These fissures have long remained static, held in place by a band of soft, malleable ice.\n\nResearchers will want to check the departure of A-68 will not alter the status of these cracks.\n\nThere are also some fascinating investigations to be done on the seafloor that will soon be uncovered when the berg moves completely clear of the shelf. Previous big calvings have led to the discovery of new species.\n\nJonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos", "A moped ridden by three teenagers was in collision with a police car at the junction of South Park Road and Trinity Road in Wimbledon\n\nA 16-year-old boy is in a critical condition after a collision between a police car and a moped being ridden by three teenagers in south-west London.\n\nThe crash happened at 02:15 BST on Sunday in South Park Road, Wimbledon.\n\nAll three boys were taken to a south London hospital for treatment.\n\nThe moped was believed to have been involved in an attempted robbery and was being monitored by the National Police Air Service helicopter, said the Metropolitan Police.\n\nA second 16-year-old suffered a serious injury to his leg and a 15-year-old sustained minor injuries.\n\nAll three were arrested at the scene and two large knives were recovered.\n\nThe moped had been reported to police as lost or stolen, on 12 July.\n\nThe Met said the Directorate of Professionals Standards has been informed and the incident had been referred to the police watchdog.\n\nIn a statement, the Met said the moped was not being \"pursued by police vehicles on the ground\" at the time of the collision but \"was monitored by police helicopter\".\n\n\"The moped was in collision with the rear offside of a marked police car, which was being driven to a position ahead of the moped,\" it said.", "An artist's impression of the proposed HS2 Euston station\n\nThe winners of £6.6bn worth of contracts to build the first phase of HS2 between London and Birmingham have been announced by the government.\n\nUK firms Carillion, Costain and Balfour Beatty are among the consortiums who will build tunnels, bridges and embankments on the first stretch of the new high speed rail line.\n\nThe final routes of the Manchester and Leeds branches of HS2 are due to be announced later.\n\nIt will include a decision over its path through Sheffield.\n\nTransport Secretary Chris Grayling said: \"As well as providing desperately needed new seats and better connecting our major cities, HS2 will help rebalance our economy.\"\n\nBut critics say the £56bn project will damage the environment and is too expensive.\n\nThe first trains are not expected to run until 2026.\n\nMr Grayling told the BBC's Today programme that the high-speed rail network will be \"on time, on budget\" and the government has \"a clear idea of what it will cost\".\n\nHe disputed a report that emerged over the weekend detailing a study by quantity surveyor Michael Byng who estimated that the cost of HS2 could balloon to more than £100bn, making it the most expensive railway in the world. Mr Grayling described the figure as \"nonsense\".\n\nCommenting on the decision to spend on infrastructure amid the 1% cap on public sector pay, Mr Grayling said: \"That's a very different issue because we are talking about capital investment over the next 15 years. We are not talking about current spending that the chancellor will decide on come the Budget.\"\n\nThe contracts to design and build areas of the high speed rail line have been split into three groups: south, central and north.\n\nCarillion, which last week issued a profit warning and announced the immediate departure of its chief executive, has won two \"lots\" within the central area. Its share price rose by 7.7% to 60.5p on Monday but it has fallen by more than 76% over the last 12 months.\n\nThis includes one of the most controversial and complex areas of the route that runs between the Chiltern tunnels and Brackley.\n\nCarillion, which is part of a consortium with three other companies to design and build the two lots, announced on Monday that it had appointed accountancy firm EY to support a strategic review of the business.\n\nThe decision over its route through the North of England has been delayed for several years due to a series of disagreements, the most controversial of which has been which route it should take through Sheffield.\n\nThe government's preferred plan for the route through Yorkshire would mean bulldozing the newly built Shimmer estate in Mexborough.\n\nThe government says HS2 is \"on time\" but they're clearly not talking about the route for the second phase, which was first promised in around 2014.\n\nI remember flying a drone over a farm in Cheshire four years ago, filming the proposed route at the time.\n\nThe farmer has been waiting ever since then to find out if he'll lose his business.\n\nHe got in touch with me last year saying, \"obviously we know nothing more today than we did when you were with us nearly 30 months ago, as the decision for HS2 Phase 2b has been put off yet again\".\n\nAnyone affected by the line now gets a year or two to put their case together and present it to a special committee of MPs who'll go through thousands of fears and objections before recommending any changes to the final route or the way it's designed.\n\nWhen you talk to people adversely affected by HS2 they all say the same thing. Their lives go into limbo, often for years, just waiting for answers.\n\nParliament granted powers to build the first phase of the line between London and Birmingham in February.\n\nPreparatory work has begun and major construction work is due to start in 2018-19. It is due to open in December 2026.\n\nA Bill to deliver Phase 2a from the West Midlands to Crewe will be published by Mr Grayling later on Monday. Services on this section are due to begin in 2027.\n\nPhase 2b from Crewe to Manchester, and Birmingham to the East Midlands and Leeds, is due to open in 2033.\n\nThe companies who have won the contracts to design and build the first phase of HS2 are:", "Warren Buffett has advised his wife to put her money into simple index funds after his death\n\nWhat's the best financial investment? If anyone knows, it's Warren Buffett, the world's richest investor.\n\nHe's worth tens of billions of dollars, accumulated over decades of savvy investments. His advice is in a letter he wrote to his wife, advising her how to invest after his death, which anyone can read [page 20, paragraph 6].\n\nThose instructions: pick the most mediocre investment you can imagine. Put almost everything into \"a very low-cost S&P 500 index fund\".\n\nAn index fund is mediocre by definition. It passively tracks the stock market as a whole by buying a little of everything, rather than trying to beat the market by investing in individual companies - as Warren Buffett has done so successfully for more than half a century.\n\nIndex funds now seem completely natural. But as recently as 1976, they didn't exist.\n\nBefore you can have an index fund, you need an index.\n\n50 Things That Made the Modern Economy highlights the inventions, ideas and innovations that helped create the economic world.\n\nIn 1884, a financial journalist called Charles Dow had the bright idea to take the price of some famous company stocks and average them, then publish the average going up and down.\n\nHe ended up founding not only the Dow Jones company, but also the Wall Street Journal.\n\nThe Dow Jones Industrial Average didn't pretend to do anything much except track how shares were doing, as a whole.\n\nCharles Dow's first Industrial Average tracked the closing stock prices of 12 companies\n\nBut thanks to Charles Dow, pundits could talk about the stock market rising by 2.3% or falling by 114 points.\n\nMore sophisticated indices followed - the Nikkei, the Hang Seng, the Nasdaq, the FTSE, and most famously the S&P 500. They quickly became the meat and drink of business reporting all around the world.\n\nThen, in 1974, the world's most famous economist took an interest.\n\nPaul Samuelson had revolutionised the way economics was practised and taught, making it more mathematical and engineering-like, and less like a debating club.\n\nHis book Economics was America's bestselling textbook in any subject for almost 30 years. He won one of the first Nobel memorial prizes in economics.\n\nSamuelson had already proved the most important idea in financial economics: that if investors were thinking rationally about the future, the price of assets such as shares and bonds should fluctuate randomly.\n\nThat seems paradoxical, but the intuition is that all the predictable movements have already happened: lots of people will buy a share that's obviously a bargain, and then the price will rise and it won't be an obvious bargain any more.\n\nHis idea became known as the efficient markets hypothesis.\n\nPaul Samuelson (left) received the 1996 National Medal of Science for his contribution to economic science\n\nIt's probably not quite true. Investors aren't perfectly rational, and some are more interested in covering their backsides than taking well judged risks. But the hypothesis is true-ish. And the truer it is, the harder it's going to be for anyone to beat the stock market.\n\nSamuelson looked at the data and found - embarrassingly for the investment industry - that, indeed, in the long run, most professional investors didn't beat the market.\n\nAnd while some did, good performance often didn't last. There's a lot of luck involved, and it's hard to distinguish that luck from skill.\n\nIn his essay Challenge To Judgment Samuelson argued that most professional investors should quit and do something useful instead, such as plumbing.\n\nHe also said that, since professional investors didn't seem to be able to beat the market, somebody should set up an index fund - a way for ordinary people to invest in the stock market as a whole, without paying a fortune in fees for fancy professional fund managers to try, and fail, to be clever.\n\nThen, something interesting happened: a practical businessman paid attention to an academic economist's suggestion.\n\nJohn Bogle had just founded a company called Vanguard, whose mission was to provide simple mutual funds for ordinary investors, with no fancy stuff and low fees.\n\nAnd what could be simpler and cheaper than an index fund - as recommended by the world's most respected economist?\n\nSo Bogle set up the world's first index fund, and waited for investors to rush in.\n\nInvestors were initially slow to put their money into John Bogle's index funds\n\nThey didn't. When Bogle launched the First Index Investment Trust, in August 1976, it flopped.\n\nInvestors weren't interested in a fund that was guaranteed to be mediocre. Financial professionals hated the idea - some even called it \"un-American\".\n\nIt was certainly a slap in their faces. Bogle was effectively saying: \"Don't pay these guys to pick stocks, because they can't do better than random chance. Neither can I, but at least I charge less.\" People called Vanguard's index fund \"Bogle's Folly\".\n\nBut Bogle kept the faith, and slowly people started to catch on.\n\nActive funds are expensive, after all. They often buy and sell a lot, in search of bargains. They pay analysts handsomely to fly around meeting company directors. Their annual fees might sound modest - just a percent or two - but soon mount up. Eventually, fees can swallow a quarter or more of a typical fund.\n\nIf such funds consistently outperform the market, that's money well spent. But Samuelson showed that, in the long run, most don't.\n\nThe super-cheap index funds looked, over time, to be a perfectly credible alternative to active funds - and much cheaper.\n\nToday 40% of US stock market funds are passive trackers rather than active stock-pickers\n\nSlowly and surely, Bogle's funds grew and spawned more and more imitators - each one passively tracking some broad financial benchmark or other, each one tapping into Samuelson's basic insight that if the market is working well, you might as well sit back and go with the flow.\n\nForty years after Bogle launched his index fund, fully 40% of US stock market funds are passive trackers rather than active stock-pickers. You might say that the remaining 60% are clinging to hope over experience.\n\nIndex investing is a symbol of the power of economists to change the world that they study.\n\nWhen Samuelson and his successors developed the idea of the efficient markets hypothesis, they changed the way that markets themselves worked - for better or worse.\n\nIt wasn't just the index fund. Other financial products, such as derivatives, really took off after economists worked out how to value them.\n\nSamuelson ranked the invention of the index fund alongside Gutenberg's printing press\n\nSome scholars think the efficient markets hypothesis itself played a part in the financial crisis, by encouraging something called \"mark to market\" accounting - where a bank's accountants would work out what its assets were worth by looking at their value on financial markets.\n\nThere's a risk that such accounting leads to self-reinforcing booms and busts, as everyone's books suddenly and simultaneously look brilliant, or terrible, because financial markets have moved.\n\nSamuelson himself, understandably, thought that the index fund had changed the world for the better.\n\nIt's already saved ordinary investors literally hundreds of billions of dollars.\n\nFor many, it will be the difference between scrimping and saving or relative comfort in old age.\n\nIn a speech in 2005, when Samuelson himself was 90 years old, he gave Bogle the credit.\n\nHe said: \"I rank this Bogle invention along with the invention of the wheel, the alphabet, Gutenberg printing, and wine and cheese: a mutual fund that never made Bogle rich, but elevated the long-term returns of the mutual-fund owners - something new under the Sun.\"", "Havaianas are now produced in all colours of the rainbow\n\nIt is one of the simplest shoes on the planet: a piece of plastic, roughly the outline of your foot, with a crude strap holding the sole to your toes.\n\nYet Brazil's Havaianas brand took the humble flip-flop to new heights. The company behind them was sold earlier this week for $1bn (£780m). Selling about 200 million pairs every year, it had produced a domestic and international phenomenon.\n\nAcross the country, there are whole shops dedicated to them. Rows and rows, in all colours and styles. There are strappy ones, shiny ones, ones in the colour of your favourite football team, ones with huge platform wedges.\n\nThe colourful rubber shoes have become synonymous with Brazil. Many carry a little Brazilian flag on their strap. \"Havaianas embodies Brazil's fun, vibrant & spontaneous way of life,\" claims the company's Twitter account. And it is this strong identity that has helped it hold its own, against cheap versions of what is an easy-to-replicate design.\n\nThe company adds embellishments and metallic shines to boost prices and desirability\n\nOverseas, they have also proved a hit, and often sell at highly inflated prices: A pair encrusted with Swarovski crystals currently sells for almost $100 (£80) at Saks Fifth Avenue in New York. They are sold all over the world, from the UK to Australia.\n\nThe success is a sure sign that the shoe's status has entirely flip-flopped it itself, from its 1960s origins as a purely functional, working-class footwear.\n\nBack then, they were made only in one blue-and-white design, worn by workers across the country and sold by travelling salesmen out of the back of vans.\n\nThe company maintains that the first variation happened by accident in 1969, when one batch turned out green and became a surprise hit.\n\nAnd that, according to local experts, is the secret of their success: they took a simple design and started experimenting.\n\nThis really kicked off in the 1990s, according to Daniel Gallas, the BBC's South America Business Correspondent, based in Sao Paulo.\n\n\"The company created different prototypes, accepted branding partnerships. With a few tweaks, a product costing 10 reais [£2, $3] could be sold for ten times that amount,\" he says.\n\n\"Brazil's masses could still purchase the old models; rich emerging Brazilians could afford the new, fancy ones. It was a turning point in the company - when it became an international hit and revenues multiplied.\"\n\nHavaianas has also branched into patriotic, football-themed footwear\n\nEduardo Alves, a luxury lifestyle writer based in Rio de Janeiro, calls it one of \"the most remarkable upgrades in the history of fashion\".\n\nSuddenly they were in vogue.\n\n\"It was the opposite when I was kid,\" a Brazilian friend once told me, of growing up in late-1980s Brasilia. \"I was mortified when my mum brought us all pairs to wear to school. They felt so uncool.\"\n\nBack then, they were so commonplace they were put on a list of fundamental products by the Brazilian government, alongside various household groceries, in its attempts to control inflation.\n\nBut, says Eduardo Alves, there is also a darker side to the success story.\n\nAlpargatas - the company that make the shoes - was owned by the J&F group, which manages the fortune of the billionaire Batista family and which has recently been at the centre of the biggest corruption scandal the country has known.\n\nA customer picks out a pair in a store in the upmarket Hamptons area of New York\n\nIn May, news broke that Joesley Batista, chairman of the group's meatpacking business, had secretly taped conversations with President Michel Temer; the pair were allegedly discussing bribes.\n\nThe J&F group has since been hit with a record fine of more than $3bn, and the sell-off will pay off some of those debts.\n\nDo Brazilians care? Many have boycotted other products from the J&F group, but not all have made the Havaianas connection.\n\nAnd now the famous flip-flop is moving on, under the new ownership of three Brazilian banking groups.", "The actor Martin Landau, best known for roles in the TV series Mission: Impossible and 1960s blockbusters like Cleopatra, has died, aged 89.\n\nHis publicist Dick Guttman confirmed the death, saying: \"We are overcome with sadness.\"\n\nLandau won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar in 1995 for portraying the horror movie star Bela Lugosi in Ed Wood.\n\nHe died on Saturday in Los Angeles of \"unexpected complications\" following a hospital visit.\n\nLandau was born in New York and started out as a cartoonist for the New York Daily News before moving to theatre and then cinema acting.\n\nHe featured in the Alfred Hitchcock film North by Northwest and played a commander in Space: 1999 and Geppetto in a live-action version of The Adventures of Pinocchio.\n\nBut he turned down the role of Mr Spock in Star Trek, a role that went to his friend Leonard Nimoy instead.\n\nAnd Nimoy later replaced Landau on Mission: Impossible when the latter left following a dispute over pay.\n\nMany in Hollywood hit social media to pay tribute, including Star Trek actor William Shatner, who played the role of James T. Kirk.\n\nShatner tweeted: \"Condolences to the family of Martin Landau.\"\n\nBrent Spiner, best known for his portrayal of Lieutenant Commander Data in the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation, tweeted: \"Great actor, Martin Landau leaves us at age 89. So glad the part of Lugosi came to him. He crushed it. RIP.\"\n\nStranger Things actor David Harbour wrote: \"The great Martin Landau has died. Long time member of the actor's studio and brilliant craftsman in our tradition. I will miss his work.\"\n\nRalph Macchio, who played Daniel LaRusso in the Karate Kid series, praised Landau's performance in the 1989 comedy drama Crimes and Misdemeanours.\n\nThe film was written, directed by and co-starred Woody Allen and gave Landau his second Oscar nomination for best actor in a supporting role.\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.", "French car hire firm Europcar has admitted that it may have to pay out as much as £30m to British motorists who were overcharged for car repairs.\n\nUK Trading Standards officers launched an investigation after its office in Leicester received complaints.\n\nThe Serious Fraud Office (SFO) is also planning to launch an inquiry, according to the Daily Telegraph.\n\nThe paper says more than half a million motorists could have been overcharged for repairs over many years.\n\nIn a statement, Europcar said: \"Europcar's view is that the implications of the investigation will be somewhere in the region of £30m.\"\n\nBut the company - whose shares fell by 2.5% on Monday - said it had no further comment to make.\n\nThe Telegraph said some people were charged four times what they should have been for routine repairs.\n\nThe figures suggest an average compensation payment of up to £60 for every motorist who was overcharged.\n\nEuropcar's website says it charges an administration fee of £40 for each repair, plus up to £25 for a replacement wiper blade, and up to £350 for replacing a tyre.\n\nThe investigation appears to involve motorists who hired cars through Europcar UK, either via the website or on the phone.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A promotional image for 2013's 50th anniversary special, The Day of the Doctor\n\nDoctor Who's Peter Capaldi has passed on his sonic screwdriver to Jodie Whittaker who becomes the 13th doctor and first woman to take on the role of television's famous Time Lord.\n\nShe follows a distinguished line-up of thespian (male) talent that stretches all the way back to the sci-fi favourite's first episode in 1963.\n\nWilliam Hartnell was the first actor to play the Doctor on television, appearing in the BBC show from 1963 to 1966.\n\nHartnell, who died in 1975, had previously appeared in TV's The Army Game and Carry On Sergeant, the first Carry On film, in 1958.\n\nWhile Hartnell was playing the Doctor on television, Peter Cushing could be found playing him on film in Dr Who and the Daleks, in which Roy Castle co-starred.\n\nThat 1965 film and its 1966 follow-up, Daleks - Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D., depicted the Doctor as a human scientist rather than a time-travelling Gallifreyan and are not considered part of the Doctor Who timeline.\n\nWhen ill health forced Hartnell to relinquish the role, the Doctor regenerated - for the first time - into Patrick Troughton.\n\nMemorably scruffy and eccentric, Troughton spent three years travelling time and space before stepping down in 1969.\n\nWhen the raffish Jon Pertwee became the third Doctor, he also became the first to be seen on television in colour.\n\nHis tenure, which ran from 1970 to 1974, saw the Time Lord exiled to Earth and working with Unit, aka the United Nations Intelligence Taskforce.\n\nPertwee's time with the show also saw the first of the popular ensemble stories in which previous Doctors appear alongside the current one.\n\nBroadcast over December 1972 and January 1973, The Three Doctors saw him joined by Patrick Troughton and William Hartnell in what would be the latter's final acting engagement.\n\nWhen Pertwee moved on in 1974, Tom Baker moved in - and would become the longest-serving Doctor to date.\n\nDeep-voiced, curly-haired and eternally long of scarf, his seven years in the Tardis earned him legions of fans who were delighted anew in 2013 when he popped up at the end of a 50th anniversary special.\n\nWhen Baker finally stepped down from the role in 1981, his shoes were filled by the fresh-faced Peter Davison.\n\nThe boyish actor spent three years as the Fifth Doctor before taking his leave at the end of the show's 21st series.\n\nDavison's tenure coincided with Doctor Who's 20th anniversary, celebrated by a feature-length special that saw him joined by Jon Pertwee and Patrick Troughton.\n\nThe First Doctor also made an appearance, with Richard Hurndall filling in for the late William Hartnell.\n\nTom Baker opted not to return for The Five Doctors, which covered over his absence by incorporating material from one of the actor's unbroadcast adventures.\n\nSimilar subterfuge was required for this 1983 photo shoot, which saw Hurndall, Davison, Pertwee and Troughton joined by an unconvincing Baker mannequin.\n\nDavison's departure opened the door for another Baker to take controls of the Doctor's time-travelling police box in 1984.\n\nColin Baker (no relation of Tom's) spent less than three years in the role, with his appearances limited further by an 18-month hiatus in production.\n\nThough Baker had limited time to enjoy the Tardis, he did get the chance to meet one of his predecessors when Patrick Troughton returned - for the third time - in 1985.\n\nThe Two Doctors marked Troughton's final reprise of his signature role. Some years later, his sons David and Michael would both make Doctor Who appearances.\n\nScottish actor Sylvester McCoy took over from Colin Baker in 1987 and played the Doctor until the show's axing in 1989.\n\nMichael Grade - the controller of BBC One at the time - was no fan of the programme, which was looking increasingly threadbare and cheap-looking in the face of glossier cinema fare.\n\nSome feel, though, that this period in the show's evolution has been harshly judged.\n\nAn attempt was made to revive Doctor Who in 1996 with a TV film that saw McCoy regenerate into Paul McGann on American soil.\n\nIt was hoped the special would spawn a TV series but it never materialised, making McGann's tenure the shortest of all the Doctors.\n\nIn 2005 Doctor Who regenerated into the ambitious, well-financed property it is today. It also introduced a new Doctor in the form of Christopher Eccleston.\n\nTo the disappointment of many, the Salford-born actor chose to make only one series of the rebooted show. His departure was confirmed only days after his debut episode was broadcast.\n\nEccleston's exit saw David Tennant join the show, with his first full episode - The Christmas Invasion - shown on BBC One on Christmas Day 2005.\n\nTennant's amiable style and enthusiasm made him a popular choice for the role, which he finally relinquished on the first day of 2010.\n\nThe spate of junior Doctors continued with the casting of Matt Smith, who was just 27 when he made his debut as the Time Lord's 11th incarnation.\n\nHis four years in the role, which coincided with Doctor Who's 50th anniversary, saw the programme both maintain and bolster its renewed popularity.\n\nDoctor Who's 50th anniversary in 2013 was marked by The Day of the Doctor, a feature-length special in which Matt Smith's Time Lord was joined by David Tennant's version of the character.\n\nThe Day of the Doctor also introduced a previously unknown incarnation of the Doctor, known as The War Doctor and played by Sir John Hurt.\n\nThe character rejected referring to himself as 'The Doctor' and is not considered to have the same status as his fellow TV Time Lords.\n\nPeter Capaldi was no stranger to the Doctor Who universe when he was cast as the Doctor in 2013. A lifelong fan of the show, he appeared in an episode of the programme in 2008 and also had a role in its spin-off Torchwood.\n\nHis hawkish features brought a new intensity, and maturity, to the Tardis from the moment his first full episode was broadcast in August 2014.\n\nCapaldi's most recent adventure saw him briefly joined by the \"original\" Doctor, played on this occasion by David Bradley.\n\nBradley will return in this year's Doctor Who Christmas special.\n\nBradley's appearance was a pleasing one for Whovians after his role as William Hartnell in An Adventure in Space and Time, a 2013 dramatisation of the show's early years.\n\nJodie Whittaker has been named as the 13th Doctor and will be the first woman to play the role - if one discounts Joanna Lumley, who briefly played the Doctor in a 1999 Comic Relief sketch.\n\nWhittaker will make her debut on the sci-fi show this Christmas when Peter Capaldi regenerates.\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 Was Doctor Who rubbish in the 1980s?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mission to the plastic patch: On board with Capt Charles Moore and his team\n\nA mariner who has spent years travelling \"hundreds of thousands of nautical miles\" to measure the impact of plastic waste in the ocean has estimated that a \"raft\" of plastic debris spanning more than 965,000 square miles (2.5m sq km) is concentrated in a region of the South Pacific.\n\nCapt Charles Moore has just returned from a sampling expedition around Easter Island and Robinson Crusoe Island.\n\nHe was part of the team which discovered the first ocean \"garbage patch\" in the North Pacific gyre in 1997 and has now turned his attention to the South Pacific.\n\nAlthough plastic is known to occur in the Southern Hemisphere gyres, very few scientists have visited the region to collect samples.\n\nOceanographer Dr Erik van Sebille, from Utrecht University, says the work of Capt Moore and his colleagues will help fill \"a massive knowledge gap\" in our understanding of ocean plastics.\n\n\"Any data we can get our hands on is good data at this point,\" he told BBC News.\n\nCapt Moore explained that the space occupied by sub-tropical gyres - areas of the ocean surrounded by circulating ocean currents - is approximately the same size as the entire land mass of the Earth, but they are now being \"populated by our trash\".\n\nThe phenomenon of oceanic garbage patches was originally documented in the North Pacific, but plastic has now been found in the South Pacific, Arctic and Mediterranean.\n\n\"It's hard not to find plastic in the ocean any more,\" Dr van Sebille said. \"That's quite shocking\".\n\nCapt Charles Moore has been searching the ocean for plastic since 1997\n\nCapt Moore is the founder of Algalita Marine Research, a non-profit organisation aiming to combat the \"plastic plague\" of garbage floating in the world's oceans.\n\nFor more than 30 years, he has transported scientists to the centre of remote debris patches aboard his research ship, Alguita.\n\nDragging nets behind the vessel, the crew sieves particles of plastic from the ocean, which are then counted and fed into estimates of global microplastic distribution.\n\nAlthough scientists agree that plastic pollution is a widespread problem, the exact distribution of these rafts of ocean garbage is still unclear.\n\n\"If we don't understand where the plastic is, then we don't really understand what harm it does and we can't really work on solving the problem,\" said Dr van Sebille.\n\nCapt Moore and his crew hope to address this lack of data through their research trips.\n\nOn this latest voyage, Capt Moore and his colleagues are also investigating how plastic in the South Pacific Ocean may be threatening the survival of fish.\n\nLanternfish, that live in the deep ocean, are an important part of the diet of whales, squid and king penguins and the Algalita team says that plastic ingestion by lanternfish could have a domino effect on the rest of the food chain.\n\nChristiana Boerger, a marine biologist in the US Navy, who has worked with the organisation, told BBC News that the problem of plastic consumption in fish can be \"out of sight, out of mind\".\n\nMost of the plastic is made up of tiny pieces floating at the surface\n\nShe explained that \"scientists need to actually travel to these accumulation zones\" in order to bring the issue to the world's attention.\n\nMs Boerger has seen the impact of oceanic garbage patches first hand, aboard the Alugita and she says that some fish species \"have more man-made plastic in their stomach than their natural food\".\n\nGlobally, most of the plastic that ends up in the oceans comes from the land.\n\nLitter is typically transported offshore by currents, which then form large revolving bodies of water, or gyres.\n\nBut Capt Moore says the South Pacific garbage patch is different from those in the Northern Hemisphere, because most of the litter appears to have come from the fishing industry.\n\nElsewhere, scientists are shifting their attention away from remote mid-ocean garbage patches to locations closer to home.\n\n\"If you think about plastic in terms of its impact, where does it harm marine life?\" Dr van Sebille posed.\n\n\"Near coastlines is where biology suffers. It's also where the economy suffers the most.\"\n\nDr van Sebille also says that future research efforts need to focus on ecologically sensitive regions along the continental shelf. Even though the garbage patches cover a very large area \"they are not that ecologically important\", he said.\n\nOur plastic rubbish has floated to islands that are thousands of miles from the nearest human population\n\nHis team has previously studied the risk of plastics to marine animals, including turtles and sea birds. \"Every time, we found that the risk is mostly outside of the garbage patches,\" he warned.\n\nIn the future, Dr van Sebille hopes to understand more about how plastic ends up on the coastline and is then subsequently transported to the oceans by storms. Interrupting this process might be an important mechanism for halting the growth of ocean garbage patches.\n\n\"A beach clean-up might turn out to be a very efficient way of cleaning up the ocean,\" he suggests.\n\nIn the meantime, humanity's love affair with plastic is unlikely to end soon. Plastic \"will never be the enemy\", concedes Capt Moore, \"It has too many uses\".\n\nHe explained that plastic pollution travels across national borders, so dealing with it required international collaboration.\n• None Are your clothes polluting the ocean?\n• None Plastic oceans: What do we know?\n• None South Pacific Expedition - en route to the Galapagos by Charles James Moore The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The video of \"Khulood\" walking around Ushayqir was shared initially on Snapchat\n\nThe authorities in Saudi Arabia are investigating a young woman who posted a video of herself wearing a miniskirt and crop-top in public.\n\nThe woman, a model called \"Khulood\", shared the clip of her walking around a historic fort in Ushayqir.\n\nThe footage sparked a heated debate on social media, with some calling for her arrest for breaking the conservative Muslim country's strict dress code.\n\nOther Saudis came to the woman's defence, praising her \"bravery\".\n\nWomen in Saudi Arabia must wear loose-fitting, full-length robes known as \"abayas\" in public, as well as a headscarf if they are Muslim. They are also banned from driving and are separated from unrelated men.\n\nIn the video initially shared on Snapchat over the weekend, Khulood is seen walking along an empty street in a fort at Ushayqir Heritage Village, about 155km (96 miles) north of the capital Riyadh, in Najd province.\n\nNajd is one of the most conservative regions in Saudi Arabia. It was where the founder of Wahhabism - the austere form of Sunni Islam that is practised by the Saudi royal family and religious establishment - was born in the late 18th Century.\n\nThe video was quickly picked up by Saudis on Twitter, where opinion was divided between those who believe Khulood should be punished and others who insisted she should be allowed to wear what she wanted.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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 فاطمة العيسى 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\nJournalist Khaled Zidan wrote: \"The return of the Haia [religious police] here is a must.\"\n\nAnother user argued: \"We should respect the laws of the country. In France, the niqab [face-covering veil] is banned and women are fined if they wear it. In Saudi Arabia, wearing abayas and modest clothing is part of the kingdom's laws.\"\n\nThe writer and philosopher, Wael al-Gassim, said he was \"shocked to see those angry, scary tweets\".\n\n\"I thought she had bombed or killed somebody. The story turned out to be about her skirt, which they did not like. I am wondering how Vision 2030 can succeed if she is arrested,\" he added, referring to the reform programme unveiled last year by Saudi Arabia's newly-appointed 31-year-old Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In April, Saudi women's rights campaigners filmed themselves walking silently in protest against driving restrictions\n\nSome defended Khulood by noting that US President Donald Trump's wife, Melania, and daughter, Ivanka, had chosen not to wear abayas or headscarves during a visit to Saudi Arabia in May.\n\nFatima al-Issa wrote: \"If she was a foreigner, they would sing about the beauty of her waist and the enchantment of her eyes... But because she is Saudi they are calling for her arrest.\"\n\nOn Monday, the Okaz newspaper reported that officials in Ushayqir had called on the provincial governor and police to take action against the woman.\n\nThe religious police, the Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice, meanwhile wrote on Twitter that it had been made aware of the video and was in contact with the relevant authorities.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSouth Korea has proposed holding military talks with the North, after weeks of heightened tension following Pyongyang's long-range missile test.\n\nIf they were to go ahead, they would be the first high-level talks since 2015.\n\nA senior official said talks should aim to stop \"all hostile activities that raise military tension\" at the fortified border between the Koreas.\n\nSouth Korea's President Moon Jae-in has long signalled he wants closer engagement with the North.\n\nNorth Korea has not responded to the South's proposal yet.\n\nIn a recent speech in Berlin, Mr Moon said dialogue with the North was more pressing than ever and called for a peace treaty to be signed.\n\nHe said such dialogue was crucial for those who seek the end of Pyongyang's nuclear weapons programme.\n\nHowever, the North's frequent missile tests, including the most recent one of an intercontinental ballistic missile, are in consistent violation of UN resolutions and have alarmed its neighbours and the US.\n\nSouth Korea's Vice Defence Minister Suh Choo-suk told a media briefing that talks could be held at Tongilgak, a North Korean building in the Panmunjom compound in the demilitarised zone between the two countries, which was used to host previous talks.\n\nHe proposed that the talks be held on 21 July, and said: \"We expect a positive response from the North.\"\n\nSouth Korea's Unification Minister Cho Myoung-gyon also urged the restoration of communication hotlines between the two Koreas, cut last year after a North Korean nuclear test.\n\nThe BBC's Karen Allen in Seoul says the ultimate aim of these talks would be to end the military confrontation that has dominated relations between the two Koreas for decades.\n\nBut it could begin with confidence-building measures such as ending the infamous loudspeaker propaganda broadcasts along the border, she says.\n\nThe Red Cross and the government have also proposed a separate meeting, aimed at discussing how to hold reunions of families separated by the Korean War, which ended in 1953.\n\nBut analysts say these could be highly fraught with Pyongyang still angry at the South's unwillingness to repatriate high-profile defectors.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. See how Jodie Whittaker was revealed as the next Time Lord\n\nJodie Whittaker has been announced as Doctor Who's 13th Time Lord - the first woman to be given the role.\n\nThe new Doctor's identity was revealed in a trailer broadcast at the end of the Wimbledon men's singles final.\n\nThe Broadchurch star succeeds Peter Capaldi, who took over the role in 2013 and leaves in the forthcoming Christmas special.\n\nWhittaker, 35, said it was \"overwhelming, as a feminist\" to become the next Doctor.\n\nShe will make her debut on the sci-fi show when the Doctor regenerates in the Christmas special.\n\nThe Huddersfield-born star, who was a late favourite to become the Doctor, will find a familiar face for her on set - Doctor Who's new showrunner is Broadchurch creator Chris Chibnall.\n\nWhittaker said: \"I'm beyond excited to begin this epic journey - with Chris and with every Whovian on this planet.\n\n\"It's more than an honour to play the Doctor. It means remembering everyone I used to be, while stepping forward to embrace everything the Doctor stands for: hope. I can't wait.\"\n\nThe actress also shares another Broadchurch link with Doctor Who - co-star David Tennant was the 10th Doctor.\n\nIt was always unlikely that the Doctor would continue to be white and male, especially as the BBC has committed itself to greater diversity on its programmes.\n\nCasting the first female Doctor is something many viewers have been calling for. And strong female-led stories have been successful on the big and small screen in recent years, in films ranging from The Hunger Games and Star Wars to Wonder Woman, and in TV series like Game of Thrones.\n\nThe BBC will be hoping today's announcement will not just excite viewers, but will also demonstrate that the time travel show has firmly moved into the 21st century.\n\nWhittaker said it felt \"incredible\" to take on the role, saying: \"It feels completely overwhelming, as a feminist, as a woman, as an actor, as a human, as someone who wants to continually push themselves and challenge themselves, and not be boxed in by what you're told you can and can't be.\"\n\nAnd she told fans not to be \"scared\" by her gender.\n\n\"Because this is a really exciting time, and Doctor Who represents everything that's exciting about change,\" she said, adding: \"The fans have lived through so many changes, and this is only a new, different one, not a fearful one.\"\n\nWhittaker said she had used the codename \"Clooney\" when discussing the part with her husband and agent - as actor George is \"an iconic guy\".\n\nPeter Capaldi will bow out in this year's Christmas special, featuring David Bradley as the First Doctor\n\nChibnall said the 13th Doctor was always going to be a woman.\n\nHe said: \"I always knew I wanted the 13th Doctor to be a woman and we're thrilled to have secured our number one choice.\n\n\"Her audition for the Doctor simply blew us all away. Jodie is an in-demand, funny, inspiring, super-smart force of nature and will bring loads of wit, strength and warmth to the role. The 13th Doctor is on her way.\"\n\nChibnall is taking over from Steven Moffat, who leaves the series at the same time as Capaldi.\n\nCapaldi, who had said he wanted to see a woman replace him, said: \"Anyone who has seen Jodie Whittaker's work will know that she is a wonderful actress of great individuality and charm.\n\n\"She has above all the huge heart to play this most special part. She's going to be a fantastic Doctor.\"\n\nFormer companions Billie Piper and Karen Gillan had called for a female Time Lord, while Doctor Who and Sherlock writer Mark Gatiss said it was the perfect time for a woman to take the lead role.\n\nAfter the announcement, Piper tweeted the word: \"YES\" with a red rose emoji, while fellow former companion Freema Agyeman tweeted: \"Change isn't a dirty word!!!!\"\n\nDedicated Whovians were quick to react to the news of Jodie Whittaker taking over the Tardis.\n\nOn social media, some said it would encourage them to watch the show for the first time - but others said the casting meant they would be switching off, and that the Doctor should be played by a man.\n\nCarla Joanna tweeted to say that she would be tuning in and that the trailer \"made me choke up a little\". Another tweeter, Ayad, said: \"I don't even watch Doctor Who but a woman doctor is so cool.\"\n\nBut Samantha Melton said: \"I am a woman and a feminist but I don't want a female Doctor. To me it's trying too hard to tick the boxes.\"\n\nDoctor Who writer Jenny Colgan, who has written for the series' books and audio dramas, said: \"I am of course incredibly excited the new Doctor is a woman; Steven Moffat has been paving the way for this for ages and it is absolutely about time.\n\n\"I can't imagine what it's like for Jodie: she must be so scared and excited all at once, but I couldn't be happier, and 100% can't wait to write for her.\"\n\nWill Howells, who writes for the Doctor Who magazine and has been a fan for 25 years, said: \"In 2017, there shouldn't be anything major about a TV series changing from a male lead to a female one. We'll also maybe see a solo male companion as a regular feature for the first time.\n\n\"I don't think it's a risky choice at all - but if a show that can go anywhere and do anything can't take risks, what can?\"\n\nScience fiction and fantasy author Paul Cornell said: \"It's always been time for a woman Doctor and it's great we got there.\n\n\"Well done to Steven Moffat for laying the groundwork. She's going to be amazing. And that first episode of hers is going to get a lot of new people watching.\"\n\nActress Olivia Colman, who starred in a Doctor Who episode and was one of the possible candidates for the role, said it was a \"classy decision\".\n\n\"The creatives made the right decision that the part should be a woman and it's about time,\" she told BBC News. She added that those unhappy about Whittaker being the new Time Lord should \"leave her alone and let her do her job brilliantly\".\n\nWhittaker starred as Beth Latimer in the three series of the ITV crime drama Broadchurch, as the mother of a murdered boy.\n\nAs well as TV work, Whittaker has appeared on the big screen, in One Day, Attack the Block and St Trinian's. She made her film debut in 2006's Venus, opposite Peter O'Toole.\n\nTraditionally, each Doctor has their own distinctive look, raising questions about the cloak Whittaker wears in the trailer. However, she has said it is not part of her official Doctor Who outfit, and that she does not yet know what she will wear.\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. Prince George required some gentle encouragement to leave the plane\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and their two children are in Warsaw at the start of their visit to Poland and Germany.\n\nTheir five-day tour of the two European countries is at the request of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.\n\nKensington Palace said Prince George, three, and Princess Charlotte, two, would be seen \"on at least a couple of occasions over the course of the week\".\n\nThey joined their parents in Canada last year for an official trip.\n\n\"The duke and duchess are very much looking forward to this tour and are delighted with the exciting and varied programme that has been put together for it,\" a Kensington Palace spokesman said.\n\nCharlotte and George looked out of the window after landing in Warsaw\n\nPrincess Charlotte was helped off the plane by her mother\n\nThey were greeted at Warsaw Chopin Airport by the UK's ambassador to Poland, Jonathan Knott, and his wife, alongside Poland's ambassador to Britain, Arkady Rzegocki.\n\nPrince George and Princess Charlotte were last seen in public on the balcony of Buckingham Palace for a flypast following the Trooping the Colour ceremony for the Queen's birthday last month.\n\nThe royals will travel to Germany on the second leg of their trip\n\nFor Prince George and Princess Charlotte such trips are a novelty but, as the future of the British monarchy, they'll one day become a way of life.\n\nFor their parents, the visit to Poland and Germany will inevitably be viewed in the context of Brexit.\n\nIt won't have any impact on the negotiations.\n\nIt will, the Foreign Office hopes, remind people of the strength of the ties that will endure after the UK has left the EU.\n\nIt's this mission the royals have pursued in recent months in various European cities.\n\nThe royal couple and their children were welcomed in Warsaw at a meeting with President Andrzej Duda.\n\nPrince William and the duchess joined the president and the first lady to greet well wishers around the presidential palace.\n\nStudent Magda Mordaka, 21, said: \"We were telling [the duchess] that she is beautiful and perfect, but she said it's not true - it's just the make-up.\"\n\nThe Polish ambassador to the UK presented the royal couple with three books to give to George and Charlotte. They were Mr Miniscule and the Whale, Bees: A Honeyed History, and Maps.\n\nCatherine and Poland's first lady received flowers while meeting children\n\nPrince William and Catherine visited the Warsaw Rising Museum, dedicated to the 1944 Polish uprising to liberate Warsaw from German occupation during World War Two.\n\nSome 200,000 Polish people died during 63 days of fighting.\n\nPrince William and Catherine paid their respects to the fallen soldiers of the uprising when they visited a wall of remembrance.\n\nThe names of 34 British servicemen, who died trying to give supplies to the Polish soldiers, were also listed on the wall.\n\nThe duke and President Andrzej Duda lit a candle to honour the fallen\n\nThe royals felt a pulsating wall that symbolised the Nazis not being able to stop Warsaw's heartbeat\n\nLater, William spoke at an evening garden party to celebrate the Queen's birthday, telling guests in Polish: \"Good evening, we hope you have a nice party.\"\n\nHe also also hailed Poland's \"courage, fortitude and bravery\" in surviving centuries of assaults, particularly its \"incredible bravery\" during the Nazi occupation.\n\nHe read a message from the Queen detailing 1,000 years of ties between the UK and Poland.\n\nCatherine wore a sleeveless white dress by Polish designer Gosia Baczynska for the occasion.\n\nBaczynska's designs, worn here by Catherine, featured in Paris fashion week\n\nIn Germany later this week, Chancellor Angela Merkel will hold a private meeting with the royal couple in Berlin before they visit the Brandenburg Gate, a symbol of German unification.\n\nThe duke and duchess will also visit Berlin's Holocaust museum and memorial.\n\nA boat race is planned in the Germany city of Heidelberg, which is twinned with Cambridge.\n\nWilliam and Catherine will cox opposing rowing teams in the race with crews from Cambridge and Heidelberg.", "Line is the market leading messaging app in several Asian countries\n\nHave you ever ignored your spouse's text messages? Be warned: it could be used against you in court.\n\nA woman in Taiwan has been granted a divorce, using the \"Read\" indicators on the Line messages she had sent to her husband as proof that he had been ignoring her.\n\nThe app showed he had opened the text messages, but didn't reply to any of them.\n\nA judge ruled in her favour earlier this month.\n\nIt's called \"blue-ticking\" - a term that refers to the act of reading but not replying to someone's messages. The concept comes from social media apps such as WhatsApp and Line, which use tick notifications to show when someone has received and read your message.\n\nThe judge in Hsinchu district's family affairs court cited the ignored Line messages as key evidence of the woman's marriage being beyond repair, ruling that she was therefore entitled to a divorce.\n\nOver a period of about six months, the wife, surnamed Lin, sent her husband several text messages, including one after she was admitted to hospital because of a car accident, according to Judge Kao.\n\nIn one message she told her husband she was in the emergency room and asked why he simply read her messages but didn't reply, she said.\n\nAlthough her husband did visit her once in hospital, the court found that his subsequent ignoring of her messages was grounds for divorce.\n\n\"The defendant did not inquire about the plaintiff, and the information sent by the plaintiff was read but not replied to,\" the court ruling said.\n\n\"The couple's marriage is beyond repair.\"\n\nApps like Whatsapp use a system of ticks to show users when their messages have been sent, received and read\n\nA month or two after her accident, the husband finally sent his wife a brief message.\n\n\"It was about matters related to their dog and notified her there was mail for her, but he didn't show any concern for her,\" Judge Kao said.\n\n\"It appears there's very little interaction with the plaintiff; the defendant rarely replies to the plaintiff's messages.\"\n\nThe couple had been married since 2012. She is in her 50s and had been previously married. He is in his 40s.\n\nJudge Kao said there were additional problems with the marriage.\n\nAfter moving into the home her husband shared with his mother, younger brother, and sister-in-law, Ms Lin had to pay most of the family's bills and other expenses. Her mother-in-law had also asked her to take out a loan to pay her father-in-law's taxes.\n\nHer husband did not have a stable income.\n\nHis family was cited as being \"unfriendly\" towards her, according to court documents.\n\nThey would restrict how long she could shower and how high she could turn up the water temperature, the filings say.\n\nThe ignored Line messages were the last straw, said Judge Kao.\n\n\"A normal couple shouldn't treat each other like that… The Line messages were a very important piece of evidence. It shows the overall state of the marriage… that the two parties don't have good communication,\" she said.\n\n\"Now internet communication is very common, so these can be used as evidence. In the past, we needed written hardcopy evidence,\" she noted.\n\nMs Lin's husband can file an appeal after receiving the court ruling by certified mail. But it seems unlikely to happen.\n\nAccording to Judge Kao, he has never showed up for a court hearing and hasn't responded to any of the court's other notices.\n\nAnd unlike Line messages, the court can't even tell if he's \"Read\" them.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Noel Conway: 'I want to be able to say goodbye at the right time'\n\nThe High Court has begun hearing the legal challenge of a terminally ill UK man who wants the right to die.\n\nNoel Conway, who is 67 and has motor neurone disease, wants a doctor to be allowed to prescribe a lethal dose when his health deteriorates further.\n\nHe said he wanted to say goodbye to loved ones \"at the right time, not to be in a zombie-like condition suffering both physically and psychologically\".\n\nAny doctor who helped him to die would face up to 14 years in prison.\n\nMr Conway was too weak to attend the court in person.\n\nHis lawyer, Richard Gordon QC, told the High Court in London that Mr Conway faced a stark choice either to seek to bring about his own death now whilst still physically able to do so, or await death with no control over how and when it comes.\n\nMr Gordon said the change to the law that Mr Conway wanted would apply only to adults who are terminally ill with less than six months to live and who have a settled wish to die.\n\nMr Conway, of Shrewsbury, told the BBC: \"I will be quadriplegic. I could be virtually catatonic and conceivably be in a locked-in syndrome - that to me would be a living hell. That prospect is one I cannot accept.\"\n\nMr Conway, a retired college lecturer, was once fit and active but motor neurone disease is gradually destroying all strength in his muscles.\n\nHe cannot walk and increasingly relies on a ventilator to help him breathe. As his disease progresses, he fears becoming entombed in his body.\n\nBefore his illness Noel Conway was a keen skier, climber and cyclist\n\nMr Conway is being supported by the campaign group Dignity in Dying, but the issue polarises opinion.\n\nBaroness Jane Campbell - a disability rights campaigner - says changing the law would send all the wrong signals.\n\nThe last major challenge to the law was turned down by the Supreme Court three years ago.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lord Falconer describes the assisted dying law as \"absolutely outrageous\" on Radio 4's Today\n\nIt ruled that while judges could interpret the law it was up to Parliament to decide whether to change it.\n\nIn 2015 MPs rejected proposals to allow assisted dying in England and Wales, in their first vote on the issue in almost 20 years.\n\nSupporters of the current legislation say it exists to protect the weak and vulnerable from being exploited or coerced.\n\nThe case is expected to take up to four days.\n\nAssisted suicide - helping or encouraging another person to kill themselves - is illegal under English law.\n\nUnder the terms of the Suicide Act (1961) for England and Wales, it is punishable by up to 14 year's imprisonment. In Scotland, helping someone take their own life could lead to prosecution.\n\nThere have been several unsuccessful attempts to change the law, as well as some high-profile cases that have challenged it.\n\n2001: Diane Pretty, who had motor neurone disease, fought a long, and unsuccessfully, legal battle to win the right for her to end her life. She took her case to the European Court of Human Rights, arguing that her husband should be given immunity from prosecution should he help her to die. She lost and died at a hospice near her home in 2002.\n\n2009: Debbie Purdy, who had multiple sclerosis, won a landmark ruling in 2009 when the courts agreed that it was a breach of her human rights not to know whether her husband would be prosecuted if he accompanied her to a Swiss clinic where she could end her life. That prompted Keir Starmer - the then Director of Public Prosecutions for England and Wales - to publish guidelines setting out what was taken into consideration when weighing up a prosecution. Debbie died in a hospice in England in 2014.\n\n2012: Two men suffering from locked-in syndrome lost their legal fight to be helped to die. Tony Nicklinson and a man known only as Martin - both left paralysed after a stroke - had argued that doctors should be allowed to end their lives without punishment. Martin argued that the DPP policy on encouraging or assisted suicide was not clear enough for people such as carers to know how they could provide assistance without the risk of being prosecuted. Tony Nicklinson died in August 2012 after refusing food.\n\n2016: The family of deceased locked-in syndrome sufferer Tony Nicklinson and paralysed road accident victim Paul Lamb lose their right-to-die challenges at the European Court of Human rights. They campaigned that disabled people should have the right to be helped to die with dignity.", "Baboons and other wildlife are a common site near Livingstone\n\nA baboon in Zambia has tampered with the cables at a power station in the south of the country leaving 50,000 people without electricity.\n\nIt caused the blackout on Sunday morning by climbing into the power station and pulling at the lines.\n\nThe baboon survived the \"massive electric shock\" that would have killed a human being, a power company spokesman said.\n\nA person would also have been prosecuted, Henry Kapata added.\n\nThe baboon was rescued by a wildlife organisation and is now recovering but has \"serious wounds\", he told the BBC.\n\nThe power station is in the Zambian tourist city of Livingstone, where it is common for wild animals to be roaming around as it near a national park, the BBC's Kennedy Gondwe says.\n\nElectricity has now been restored to the affected customers in Livingstone and the nearby Western Province.\n\nIn a similar incident last year, a monkey caused a nationwide power outage in Kenya.\n\nThe baboon did survive its injuries", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nChancellor Phillip Hammond has called comments made by Labour's John McDonnell about the Grenfell fire tragedy \"disgraceful\".\n\nThe shadow chancellor told the BBC's Andrew Marr he stood by his claim that victims of the disaster in west London were \"murdered by political decisions\".\n\nHe said \"social murder\" had occurred and \"people should be accountable\".\n\nBut Mr Hammond told the programme there was \"not a shred of evidence to support that\" accusation.\n\nAt least 80 people are believed to have been killed in the tower block fire in north Kensington on 14 June.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAsked if the politicians who sanctioned cuts were murderers, Mr McDonnell said he did not \"resile\" from that view.\n\nHe cited cuts to local government, to the fire service and the housing crisis.\n\n\"There's a long history in this country of the concept of social murder, where decisions are made with no regard to consequences of that, and as a result of that, people have suffered,\" he told Andrew Marr.\n\n\"That's what's happened here, and I'm angry.\"\n\nHe previously blamed the decision to \"view housing as only for financial speculation\".\n\nJohn McDonnell's turn of phrase is one that was actually coined more than 170 years ago.\n\nIt was in the 19th Century that philosopher Friedrich Engels sought to prove that society commits \"social murder\" in his book Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844.\n\n\"When society places hundreds of proletarians in such a position that they inevitably meet a too early and an unnatural death... When it deprives thousands of the necessaries of life... forces them, through the strong arm of the law, to remain in such conditions until that death ensues... its deed is murder,\" he wrote of Victorian England.\n\nEngels went on to found Marxist theory with fellow German philosopher, Karl Marx. Mr McDonnell recently said there was much to learn from reading Marx's study of capitalism, Das Kapital.\n\nSpeaking ahead of June's general election, he said he was going to be the \"first socialist in the tradition of the Labour Party\".", "US officials say the Maryland complex doubles as a spying outpost\n\nRussia has been pressing demands that the US give it access to two diplomatic compounds seized in the US last year.\n\nAfter high-level talks between both sides, one Russian official involved said the row had \"almost\" been resolved.\n\nRussia has been angered by the move, with Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov calling it \"daylight robbery\".\n\nIn December the US expelled 35 Russian diplomats and shut the compounds over suspicions of meddling in US elections.\n\nThe talks saw US Undersecretary of State Thomas Shannon host Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov in Washington on Monday.\n\nMr Ryabkov sounded upbeat after three hours of talks with the American diplomat.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What does body language tell us about the Trump-Putin G20 meeting?\n\nHe was asked by reporters if the spat over the diplomatic compounds had been settled, and he replied: \"Almost, almost.\"\n\nUS officials did not comment and there has been no official press briefing.\n\nThe meeting was meant to have been held in June in St Petersburg, but was cancelled after the US government added 38 individuals and organisations to its list of sanctions over Russian activity in Ukraine.\n\nBefore the talks Russia made clear it was demanding restored access to the facilities.\n\n\"We consider it absolutely unacceptable to place conditions on the return of diplomatic property, we consider that it must be returned without any conditions and talking,\" Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.\n\nMr Lavrov said that this was not the way decent and well-brought-up people behaved.\n\n\"How can you seize property which is protected by a bilateral, inter-governmental, ratified document and, to return it, act according to the principle 'what is mine is mine, and what is yours we'll share'?\" he said during a visit to Belarus.\n\nLast week Russia said it was considering \"specific measures\" in retaliation, including the expulsion of 30 US diplomats and seizure of US state property.\n\nEx-President Barack Obama acted against Russia after US intelligence sources accused Russian state agents of hacking into Democratic Party computers to undermine Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign.\n\nThe Long Island property is surrounded by trees\n\nPresident Donald Trump's team is under investigation over alleged Russian collusion during last year's presidential campaign. The Kremlin has denied interfering in the election.\n\nThe Obama sanctions came on top of existing Western sanctions imposed because of Russia's role in the Ukraine conflict.\n\nAt the time Mr Putin refrained from tit-for-tat retaliation - unlike in previous diplomatic spats. Mr Trump had been elected to succeed President Obama just weeks before.\n\nRussia says President Trump presented \"no plan to resolve the crisis\" when the issue was raised at the G20 meeting in Hamburg on 7 July.\n\nRussia would retaliate if no compromise was reached at the meeting between Mr Ryabkov and Mr Shannon, the Russian newspaper Izvestia reported.\n\nRussian officials welcomed the tone of the recent meeting between the two presidents.\n\nBut the political climate in Washington has only grown more toxic, with the ongoing inquiries into allegations of Russian meddling in the presidential election, and possible collusion with the Trump campaign.\n\nThat makes any concessions to Moscow controversial.\n\nRussia's threat to expel some American diplomats if it does not get its property back would further complicate the strained relationship.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Chancellor Philip Hammond tells Andrew Marr: \"Cabinet meetings are supposed to be a private space\"\n\nPublic sector workers get a 10% \"premium\" over their private sector counterparts, Philip Hammond said as he warned ministers against leaking cabinet talks on the pay cap.\n\nThe chancellor refused to comment on reports he had said at a meeting that public servants were \"overpaid\".\n\nAnd he suggested some colleagues who do not agree with his approach on Brexit were trying to undermine him.\n\nMinister Liam Fox said he \"deplored\" the briefing by some of his colleagues.\n\nThe international trade secretary told the BBC's Sunday Politics they should \"be very quiet\" and \"stick to their own departmental duties\", adding: \"Our backbenchers are furious and the only people smiling at this will be in Berlin and Paris.\"\n\nSince the general election, cabinet splits have surfaced over the issue of the 1% cap on public sector pay rises, with some ministers pressing for it to be lifted.\n\nLabour is promising £4bn which it says would offer a pay rise to workers.\n\nOn the BBC's Andrew Marr Show, Mr Hammond defended his stance, saying public sector pay had \"raced ahead\" of the private sector after the economic crash in 2008.\n\nWhile in terms of salary alone, that gap had now closed, he continued, when \"very generous\" pension contributions were taken into account, the 10% disparity between public and private salaries was a \"simple fact\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAsked about a Sunday Times report claiming he had said the former were \"overpaid\", the chancellor insisted he was not going to discuss what was and wasn't said in a cabinet meeting.\n\n\"I do think on many fronts it would be helpful if my colleagues - all of us - focused on the job at hand,\" he said.\n\nHe added: \"If you want my opinion, some of the noise is generated by people who are not happy with the agenda that I have, over the last few weeks, tried to advance, of ensuring that we achieve a Brexit which is focused on protecting our economy, protecting our jobs and making sure that we can have continued rising living standards in the future.\"\n\nMr Fox, one of the leading Brexit campaigners in the cabinet, rejected press reports he had clashed with Mr Hammond over the EU, saying the two had a \"very good working relationship\".\n\n\"I don't know where the briefing is coming from, but I do know it's got to stop,\" he said.\n\nHe added: \"I think there's too much self-indulgence, and I think people need to have less prosecco and have a longer summer holiday.\"\n\nFormer Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith criticised those briefing against Prime Minister Theresa May, saying: \"Just for once shut up, for God's sake, and let everybody else get on with the business of governing.\"\n\nPay rises for most public sector workers are set by independent pay review bodies, but have effectively been capped at 1% each year since 2013.\n\nBefore that, there was a two-year freeze on pay for all but the lowest-paid workers.\n\nThe government has come under pressure over the policy since the general election, with some Conservative ministers speaking out in favour of lifting the cap.\n\nShadow chancellor John McDonnell said Labour would spend £4bn on ending the cap, insisting this would be enough to give a real-terms increase for public sector workers.\n\nPay review bodies would be asked to come up with an \"honest judgement\" and a Labour government would follow their advice, he said.\n\nOn Pienaar's Politics on BBC Radio 5 live, First Secretary of State Damian Green was asked whether Mr Hammond said public sector workers were \"overpaid\".\n\n\"I'm not going to report from inside cabinet because cabinet ministers should not do that,\" he said.\n\n\"But the chancellor does not think that public sector workers are overpaid - the government obviously respects the millions of people who do really important jobs.\"", "Cambridge United fan Simon Dobbin was left with brain damage after he was attacked in March 2015\n\nA group of football hooligans described as \"a pack of animals\" has been jailed over an attack which left a football fan unable to walk or speak.\n\nSimon Dobbin, from Suffolk, was left brain damaged after the assault in Southend, Essex, in March 2015.\n\nThree of the 12 men sentenced at Basildon Crown Court were jailed for five years for violent disorder.\n\nMr Dobbin's wife told the court her husband had been given a life sentence through the group's actions.\n\nHe spent a year in hospital as a result of the attack which happened after his team, Cambridge United, played at Southend United's ground Roots Hall.\n\nMr Dobbin was in court for sentencing - the first time he had come face-to-face with his attackers - but had to leave when he became upset.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Simon Dobbin was left brain damaged following the attack\n\nSimon Dobbin (pictured centre) had been watching Cambridge United at Southend United before he was attacked\n\nDet Ch Insp Martin Pasmore, who led the investigation into the attack, said the men were like a \"pack of animals\".\n\nHe said: \"These are individuals that are mainly spending their time in pubs and drinking and looking for the opportunity to have fights with other so-called football fans/hooligans.\"\n\nThe detective also said accusations that Mr Dobbin had been ejected from the stadium on the day he was attacked were \"absolute nonsense\".\n\n\"Let me be clear, Simon Dobbin is a thoroughly decent man,\" he added.\n\n\"He was not involved in any form of disturbance and was not ejected from the match or any other establishment.\n\n\"He is an entirely innocent victim of an unprovoked savage attack which left him with a permanent and devastating brain injury.\"\n\nIn a victim impact statement, wife Nicole Dobbin said she \"hates what these violent thugs have done to us\".\n\nThe offence of committing violent disorder carries a maximum term of five years in prison. The shortest sentence - 16 months - was given to Rhys Pullen, who pleaded guilty to the charge earlier in proceedings.\n\nEight men were found guilty of violent disorder, while Rhys Pullen admitted the charge. They were sentenced to the following:\n\nThree men were jailed for conspiracy to commit violent disorder:\n\nAll of the men were given a 10-year football banning order.\n\nIan Young, 41, of Brightwell Avenue, Westcliff was found guilty of assisting an offender by hiding the group while police were conducting a search. He will be sentenced next month.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "President Rouhani began his second term at loggerheads with influential hardliners\n\nTwo high-profile judiciary cases in Iran this weekend have underlined renewed political tensions between the country's recently re-elected president, Hassan Rouhani, and establishment hardliners.\n\nThe first case involves the arrest of the president's own brother, and the second an American academic jailed for 10 years after being convicted of espionage.\n\nThe arrest of Hossein Fereydoun, Hassan Rouhani's brother who goes by a different surname, was not wholly unexpected.\n\nDuring Mr Rouhani's first term, Hossein Fereydoun was one of his most trusted advisors.\n\nAlthough he did not occupy any official position Mr Fereydoun was present at the high-level international nuclear negotiations over Iran's nuclear programme, acting as the president's \"eyes and ears\".\n\nHossein Fereydoun was one of the president's closest advisers\n\nHe has frequently been the target of corruption allegations, most notably during last May's bitterly hard-fought presidential election, when President Rouhani's two main challengers, Ebrahim Raisi and Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, frequently mentioned him and also accused Mr Rouhani of nepotism for continuing to support him.\n\nAlthough Mr Rouhani won the election with a clear majority, the two losing candidates show no signs in backing down in their criticism of him.\n\nWhile the charges against Mr Fereydoun are not clear, a spokesman for the Iranian judiciary said on Monday that he had been detained in relation to an ongoing investigation. He was subsequently freed on bail, according to reports.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Hassan Rouhani worked hard for re-election - but he'll have to work even harder on three big issues\n\nThe second case, which made headlines around the world, was the 10-year prison sentence for Xiyue Wang, a Princeton post-graduate history student who was in Iran doing research for a doctoral thesis on late 19th Century and early 20th Century history.\n\nHe is reported to have been arrested several months ago but the news only became public when the sentence was announced, and few details are known.\n\nCommenting on the case without naming Mr Wang, an Iranian judiciary spokesman described him as \"an American infiltrator\".\n\nAn Iranian news site with ties to the Judiciary said Mr Wang was part of a \"spider network\" - Iranian code for a spy ring.\n\nWhether by coincidence or part of a meticulous plan, both cases share one important aspect: both will put President Rouhani in a difficult position, both at home and abroad, as he begins a second term facing big challenges to fulfil the expectations of an electorate hoping for reform and economic progress.\n\nInside Iran, the arrest of the president's brother and most trusted adviser is seen by many observers as a major blow to his plans for the next four years.\n\nIf the case goes further and charges are made, specially charges of corruption, it could pave the way for more accusations to be made against other officials and even the president himself.\n\nOutside Iran, the arrest of Mr Wang, a dual Chinese-US citizen puts even more pressure on an already fragile relationship with the US government.\n\nPresident Trump and his administration have taken a much harder line on Iran than their predecessors.\n\nThe president has made clear his distaste for the 2015 nuclear deal, but while it remains in place for now, there have been no official contacts between Iran and the US since he took over, and the two countries have traded mutual accusations.\n\nThe jailing of Mr Wang can only cause more bitterness and widen the gap between the two sides.\n\nMr Wang is certainly not the first US citizen to be jailed in Iran - although all of the other current detainees are joint US-Iranian nationals.\n\nBut every time a case like this arises the result is more bad headlines, diplomatic headaches, and long negotiations which often end with none of the initial accusations being proved.\n\nIt's still too early to predict what the outcome will be for both of these current cases, and the details are still too sketchy.\n\nOne thing is certain though - both cases carry a very strong message to a president who very publicly challenged the establishment, judiciary and revolutionary guards during recent presidential campaigns, accusing them of not only sabotaging nuclear negotiations but also his domestic plans for reforming Iran's politics and economy.\n\nThey are accusations that the hardliners are not likely to forget and one for which they will be seeking revenge.", "People in the UK will have to prove they are 18 before being allowed to access pornography websites from next year, the government is to announce.\n\nWebsites will be legally required to install age verification controls by April 2018 as part of a move to make the internet safer for children.\n\nUsers may be asked to provide credit card details, as gambling websites do.\n\nCompanies breaking the rules set out in the Digital Economy Act face being blocked by their internet provider.\n\nUnder the plans, firms supplying payment and other services to the pornography websites could be notified about any breach.\n\nA regulatory body will be asked to oversee and enforce the new rules.\n\nIt is thought this could be the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) which already sets age limits for films.\n\nThe BBFC used to rate the suitability of computer games for certain ages but Pan European Game Information (PEGI) now does this.\n\nDigital minister Matt Hancock will formally begin the process, which was the subject of a 2016 consultation during David Cameron's government, in a written statement to the Commons later.\n\nMr Hancock said: \"All this means that while we can enjoy the freedom of the web, the UK will have the most robust internet child protection measures of any country in the world.\"\n\nWill Gardner from internet safety charity Childnet said: \"Steps like this to help restrict access, alongside the provision of free parental controls and education, are key.\"\n\nAn NSPCC report in 2016 said online pornography could damage a child's development and decision-making and had been seen by 65% of 15-16 year olds and 48% of 11-16 year olds.\n\nThe study found 28% of children may have stumbled across pornography while browsing, while 19% had searched for it deliberately.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Lena Headey returns as Cersei Lannister in the new series of Thrones\n\nGame of Thrones has returned for its seventh season - and the critics are generally quite happy about it.\n\n\"It was a thrill to have the show back and it looked more stunning than ever,\" wrote The Independent's reviewer.\n\n\"By the end of the episode it is clear that the stage is now set for a war of truly epic proportions,\" wrote Jess Kelham-Hohler of the Evening Standard.\n\nYet Digital Spy's Alex Mullane did feel the episode - entitled Dragonstone - was \"a little underwhelming in places\".\n\nThe first episode of the show's seventh series was broadcast in the US on Sunday evening and in the early hours of Monday morning in the UK.\n\nOnly one more season of the epic fantasy saga, inspired by the works of author George RR Martin, is planned after this one.\n\nWARNING: the following article may contain spoilers.\n\nDragonstone opened in typically gory fashion with members of the late Walder Frey's house dying in numbers after imbibing poisoned wine.\n\nIt also featured the introduction of a new character, played by the Oscar-winning Jim Broadbent, as well as a cameo from pop star Ed Sheeran.\n\nGwendoline Christie (left) also returned as the warrior Brienne of Tarth\n\nReviews of the episode welcomed Broadbent's performance as Archmaester Marwyn, with the Hollywood Reporter saying he \"fits into this ensemble flawlessly\".\n\nYet critics were far less complimentary about Sheeran, whose appearance as a soldier was dubbed \"jarring\" and \"unsubtle\" by The Independent's Christopher Hooton.\n\nIn his role as an unnamed singing soldier, the chart-topping performer is seen telling Maisie Williams' Arya Stark that the song he is singing is \"a new one\".\n\nAccording to the Daily Mirror, the exchange \"could only have been more awkward if he'd winked at the camera after and said 'Available at all good record stores'.\"\n\nSheeran posted a picture of him on set with Williams and director Jeremy Podeswa\n\nMany reviewers felt the episode's main function was to set the scene for the rest of the season, with Empire's James White calling it \"a fairly standard kick-off\".\n\nYet this did not stop Forbes' Erik Kain proclaiming it to be \"one of the best, most engaging season openers... filled with brilliant scene after brilliant scene.\"\n\nFans too have been in raptures, with Chris Gutierrez claiming the episode showed Game of Thrones to be \"quite possibly the best show ever made\".\n\n\"Arya madness. Ed Sheeran cameo. Sansa looking phenomenal. Dany finally touching Westeros. Dragons. Game of Thrones well & truly back,\" raved fellow Twitter user Luna.\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. EasyJet boss: 'Get to know people'\n\nITV has appointed the boss of EasyJet, Carolyn McCall, as its new chief executive.\n\nMs McCall, who has been at EasyJet for seven years, will take over the running of the commercial broadcaster early next year. ITV's previous chief executive, Adam Crozier, left in June.\n\nShe will be paid an annual salary of £900,000, plus pension and possible bonus and incentives.\n\nBefore running EasyJet, Ms McCall was chief executive at the Guardian.\n\nShe also is a non-executive director at fashion company Burberry, sits on the board of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and is a trustee at the Royal Academy.\n\nMs McCall said the decision to leave EasyJet had been \"really difficult\", but after seven years at the company the time was right for a move: \"The opportunity from ITV felt like the right one to take. It is a fantastic company in a dynamic and stimulating sector.\"\n\nStraight talking, no-nonsense, charming, effective. Those are some of the descriptions I've heard of Dame Carolyn McCall who this morning confirmed one of the worst kept secrets in British business that she will become the new CEO of ITV.\n\nFor the customers and shareholders of EasyJet, her track record is impressive. Since taking over in 2010, passenger numbers have grown 56% and the share price has tripled.\n\nBut it's perhaps her impact on the industry as a whole that will prove most lasting. Michael O'Leary freely admitted that EasyJet had \"wiped the floor\" with Ryanair - forcing his company into a rethink on its approach to customer relations.\n\nEasyJet doesn't like the terms \"budget\" or \"no frills\" - preferring the word \"value\". EasyJet played a big part in redefining what that word meant to customers and in doing so ruffled the feathers of the big birds of aviation like BA, Lufthansa and KLM.\n\nITV's outgoing CEO Adam Crozier was considered a great success and will be a tough act to follow at ITV but tough is another word you could chuck in to describe Carolyn McCall.\n\nITV chairman Peter Bazalgette said: \"In a very impressive field of high calibre candidates, Carolyn stood out for her track record in media, experience of an international operation, clear strategic acumen and strong record of delivering value to shareholders. I'm delighted we'll be working together at ITV.\"\n\nJohn Barton, EasyJet chairman, said: \"I speak for absolutely everyone at EasyJet in saying we will be sorry to see Carolyn leave and that we wish her well in her exciting new role.\"\n\nHer bonus plan on joining ITV will be up to a maximum of 180% of salary, and there will be a long-term incentive plan up to 265% of salary.\n\nITV described it as \"broadly the same remuneration opportunity\" to Mr Crozier's.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. EasyJet boss: 'Get to know people'\n\nThe broadcaster's shares were the top riser on the FTSE 100 in early trading, jumping almost 3% to 180p.\n\nAnalysts at Liberum said it was a positive appointment, noting that she had been credited with transforming EasyJet's fortunes over the past seven years.\n\n\"She is seen as being very good with people, at building a strong management team around her and at the ability to 'work the room',\" Liberum said.\n\n\"She also has very good links on the government side, which should be very helpful in areas such as retransmission revenues for ITV.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tony Blair told Newsnight's Ian Katz it was \"possible\" that Jeremy Corbyn could become prime minister\n\nTony Blair says he now accepts Jeremy Corbyn could become prime minister.\n\nThe ex-PM told BBC Newsnight that a year ago he would have said it was impossible for the left-wing Labour leader to win.\n\nBut he added: \"There's been so many political upsets, it's possible Jeremy Corbyn could become prime minister and Labour could win on that programme.\"\n\nMr Blair, a consistent critic of Mr Corbyn, said he had not changed his mind on the \"wisdom\" of electing him.\n\nHaving defied predictions of a heavy defeat at last month's general election - and stripped the Conservatives of their majority - Mr Corbyn now describes his party as a \"government-in-waiting\".\n\nMany of his critics have since admitted they underestimated him.\n\nSpeaking to Newsnight, Mr Blair said he still believed \"it's a surer route to power to fight from the centre\" and that it would be damaging for the country if Mr Corbyn became prime minister and imposed \"an unreconstructed far Left programme\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Corbyn: \"I hope he (Tony Blair) has looked very carefully at our manifesto\"\n\nBut on Mr Corbyn's chances of reaching Downing Street, he said nothing could be ruled out.\n\n\"For most of my political life I've been saying: 'I think this is the right way to go, and what's more it's the only way to win an election'.\n\n\"I have to qualify that now. I have to say 'no - I think it's possible you end up with Jeremy Corbyn as prime minister.'\"\n\nThe Labour leadership has dismissed Mr Blair's recent interventions - which included claiming Brexit followed by a Corbyn government would leave Britain \"flat on its back\".\n\n\"To be frank, Mr Blair hasn't really listened to the nature of the debate that is going on in the pubs, the clubs and school gates etc,\" shadow chancellor John McDonnell said on Saturday.\n\nThe interview will be shown on Newsnight, on BBC Two, at 22:30 BST on 17 July.", "Firefighters, teachers and other public sector workers are thousands of pounds a year worse off than they were in 2010, the TUC has said.\n\nWith inflation outpacing the government's 1% limit on pay rises for state employees, real wages are being eroded, said the trades union body.\n\nIt said prison officers and paramedics were more than £3,800 a year poorer.\n\nHowever, the chancellor has said state sector workers get a 10% \"premium\" over private sector counterparts.\n\nThe government has come under pressure since the election in June to alter its policy of limiting pay rises in the public sector.\n\n\"It's been seven long years of pay cuts for our public servants. And ministers still won't tell us if relief is on the way,\" TUC general secretary Frances O'Grady said.\n\nInflation measured by the most commonly used method, CPI, which does not take housing costs into account, has picked up in recent months hitting 2.9% in May. According to the Bank of England it averaged 2.7% a year between 2010 and 2016.\n\nThe TUC calculates that if firefighters' wages had kept pace with inflation their average pay would be nearly £2,900 higher than it is. For nuclear engineers and teachers the figure is about £2,500.\n\nOn the BBC's Andrew Marr Show on Sunday, Chancellor Philip Hammond said public sector pay had \"raced ahead\" of the private sector after the economic crash in 2008.\n\nHe added that when \"very generous\" public sector pension contributions were taken into account, public sector workers enjoyed a 10% \"premium\" over their private sector counterparts,\n\nBut Mr Hammond refused to comment on reports he had said at a meeting that public servants were \"overpaid\".\n\nThe average pay for an NHS paramedic is £35,577.\n\nBut if the paramedic's salary in 2010 had kept pace with inflation measured by CPI, by now he or she should be earning £39,435 - £3,888 more, says the TUC.\n\nThe TUC says if RPI (the inflation measure which does include housing costs) is used, the paramedic would need to earn £41,717 - £6,140 more - to maintain their 2010 spending power.\n\nThe TUC's analysis suggests workers in different parts of the public sector are out of pocket in real terms to varying degrees (based on CPI):\n\nPay rises for most public sector workers are set by independent pay review bodies, but have effectively been capped at 1% each year since 2013.\n\nBefore that, there was a two-year freeze on pay for all but the lowest-paid workers.\n\nTrade unions plan to submit a petition to the Treasury on Monday calling for the pay cap to be lifted.\n\nFind out if your wages are keeping up with inflation\n\nEnter your details below. Source, Office for National Statistics.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Steve\", who is on the Prevent programme, tells Today's Sangita Myska that drink and drugs helped fuel his extremism\n\nThe number of far-right extremists on the UK's anti-radicalisation scheme has risen significantly, latest figures show.\n\n\"Steve\", who is on the Prevent programme, says drink and drugs helped fuel his extremism.\n\nWhen I met Steve, the first thing I noticed were his prominent far-right and Nazi tattoos.\n\nI asked him to explain them to me and, as he did so, he appeared to examine his ink-stained skin with a mixture of confusion and disgust.\n\n\"Years ago I had a kind of warrior-type figure,\" he says, \"with a very significant English shield, a weapon.\n\n\"The other one here says 'English Martyr',\" he says, adding that \"more recently and more dangerously I had two Waffen-SS tattoos on my fingers\".\n\nSteve has asked us to disguise his identity to keep him safe from his former associates.\n\nHe tells me the tattoos no longer represent his political views and that things changed six months ago, when he was picked up by counter-extremist authorities.\n\nHe now receives intensive de-radicalisation counselling via the Channel programme, part of the government's counter-extremism strategy, Prevent.\n\nLast year, far-right extremists accounted for one-third of all referrals to Channel - which very rarely gives access to those on it - up from a quarter in 2015.\n\nThe Home Office says in some areas, far-right referrals \"account for more than half\" of all those sent on the scheme.\n\nSteve says his fascination with extremism began in his childhood.\n\n\"As a child a lot of my friends would have Action Men dressed up in British military costume.\n\n\"I'd always go for stormtroopers or any kind of Germanic influence. I felt they were the underdog,\" he says.\n\n\"As I grew, I liked the power element and the ruthlessness of the Nazi regime.\n\n\"I always told myself that the only thing I didn't like about the Nazi regime was the way they treated the Jews.\"\n\nAs he got older, he says his markings became an attempt to be taken seriously by those with hardened far-right views,\n\n\"The kind of language I was using at the time, it was evidence that it was the real deal, the real thing. It wasn't just idle chit-chat in pubs saying right-wing mantra.\"\n\nSteve has mental health issues. He is an alcoholic and occasional cocaine user.\n\n\"Your ability to make wise decisions is blurred,\" he says, when asked about his addictions.\n\n\"I was in the company of people who were quite happy to jump on a bus to the next EDL march. I'd be on my merry way just to fit in with people.\"\n\n\"It could be a simple phone call,\" he adds. \"You could be quite innocently be sitting in a pub, playing darts, chatting, and the next minute there's a phone call and there's a minibus on the way.\"\n\nThe call would come from someone in his social circle, he says, someone saying \"there's a march on 10 miles away, let's go for a drink and see what's happening\".\n\nHe is currently receiving counselling for his substance abuse and interest in far-right ideas.\n\nPrevent operates in the so-called pre-criminal space. In other words, it aims to identify people before they commit a terrorist act.\n\nSteve has not been convicted of any racially-aggravated crimes or terrorist offences. He says he has given money to a far-right political party, but was not a registered member.\n\nSix months ago, his life took \"a surreal turn\" when he ended up with a dedicated counter-terrorism unit officer assigned to him.\n\n\"During the worst moment of my drinking, I went to A&E on several occasions, where I believe I was being quite abusive in the reception area.\n\n\"I was carrying around a book lots of people consider dangerous - called American Psycho - a book full of violence and nasty stuff.\"\n\nSteve says the drinking and drug abuse meant what happened next remains hazy.\n\n\"I found myself in my flat, surrounded by policemen, and the counter-terrorism unit identified themselves. I realised, I was in some kind of serious trouble.\"\n\nIt is, controversially, now a requirement that hospital staff report those they believe to be at risk of radicalisation to the authorities.\n\nSteve cannot remember for sure whether this happened in his case. But he now receives intense one-to-one counselling funded by Channel, an arm of the Prevent strategy.\n\nHe says he has conducted de-radicalisation work with Islamist and far-right extremists. He argues Prevent is a vital tool in safeguarding vulnerable individuals - including, he adds, people like Steve.\n\n\"People were trying to use his vulnerability to drugs and other underlying mental health issues, knowing full well he was easy to prey on, easy to manipulate and easy to go and do something for them.\"\n\nHe says Steve was the victim of organised psychological groomers.\n\n\"This is how extremists work. They prey on the most vulnerable. They groom them and then go out and get them to do their dirty work.\"\n\nSteve has been sober for six months. He's left the predominantly white market town where he grew up.\n\nHis social circle perpetuated what he calls an ever-decreasing circle of alcohol, drugs and tolerance of racist attitudes - and a discourse littered with racist terms.\n\nAs he looks at his skin again, I ask Steve how he feels now about his Nazi and far-right tattoos.\n\nHe takes a long pause and says: \"It's like another world. It is what it is. It's probably the most embarrassing and unforgiving thing I've ever done in my life.", "Stephen Hough told police he was stealing petrol elsewhere when Janet was killed\n\nA man who raped and killed a 15-year-old schoolgirl in 1976 has been jailed for 15 years.\n\nJanet Commins' body was found near a school field in Flint, north Wales, by three children playing hide and seek.\n\nStephen Hough, 58, from Flint, was convicted of manslaughter, rape and sexual assault at Mold Crown Court last week. He was cleared of murder.\n\nHough was sentenced to 12 years and a further three after admitting sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl in 2016.\n\nThe two sentences will run consecutively.\n\nAfter his arrest following the 2016 incident, Hough's DNA matched samples found on Janet's body, prompting his arrest and subsequent trial on charges relating to her death.\n\nTalking about the offences dating back to 1976, Mr Justice Lewis said Hough had shown \"no remorse whatsoever for what you did to that young girl\".\n\n\"You knew what you were doing... for your own sexual pleasure\".\n\nHough was jailed for 12 years for manslaughter, eight years for rape and eight years for sexual assault - the sentences will run concurrently.\n\nThe judge said he took into account the fact Hough was 16 when he committed the crimes.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nJanet went missing after leaving her home to go swimming on 7 January 1976.\n\nFour days later, her body was found under a thicket near a school playing field. She had been suffocated during a sexual assault.\n\nNoel Jones, who was 18 at the time, admitted killing her and served half of a 12-year prison sentence.\n\nAlthough he has never challenged his conviction, he told Hough's trial he was made a scapegoat by police because he was a barely literate Gypsy.\n\nHough was questioned after Janet's death but was ruled out by police after he said he was stealing petrol the night she was killed - an offence for which he was fined.\n\nIn 2016, his DNA was taken by police in an unrelated matter and a match was found with samples taken from Janet's body at the time.\n\nThe jury heard it was a billion times more likely to belong to Hough than anyone else.\n\nSenior investigating officer Det Supt Iestyn Davies said: \"Very quickly after his DNA was taken [in 2016] and entered on the database, it hit against a crime stain from that 1976 investigation and that prompted us to fully reopen the case.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTrisha Foley, scientific support officer with North Wales Police, praised the \"foresight\" of the scientists dealing with the case at the time.\n\n\"The fact that the material was placed onto slides and then a slip was added over actually preserved that evidence.\n\n\"To obtain not only a profile but a full DNA profile with a statistical probability of one to a billion that it matched Stephen Hough, in that timescale - that's a significant result.\"\n\nThe court heard Hough had been court-martialled in 1988 for grievous bodily harm with intent while serving as a soldier in Germany.\n\nHe attacked a hotel receptionist and was in the process of \"strangling\" her when he was disturbed by others.\n\nHe was jailed for five years, reduced through the ranks and discharged.\n\nJanet left her house to go swimming and her parents Eileen and Ted never saw her alive again\n\nJanet's body was found hidden under bushes near Gwynedd Primary School\n\nDet Supt Davies added: \"Janet was subjected to an horrific, sustained and brutal sexually-motivated assault and the impact upon her family, friends an the entire community was enormous.\n\n\"Hough is now in prison, where he rightly belongs.\"\n\nIn a victim impact statement read out in court, Janet's uncle Derek Ireston described his niece as a \"loving child, slightly timid and shy, but fun to be with\".\n\nHe said Hough \"stole Janet's future\" and her mother Eileen has been \"hurting and suffering for 41 years\".\n\nHis statement added: \"The investigation in 1976 seemed to me to be shoddy... anything as a family that we put forward was dismissed.\n\n\"We also, as a family, feel for Noel Jones who has also suffered so much since 1976.\"\n\nThe Independent Police Complaints Commission is investigating how North Wales Police handled the original investigation.\n\nIwan Jenkins, of the Crown Prosecution Service, said: \"The huge advancements in forensic testing since the 1970s were the key factor in being able to bring this case to court.\n\n\"Our thoughts have been with Janet's family throughout the investigation and trial. They now have the assurance of knowing that her killer has finally been brought to justice.\"\n\nThe judge said Hough killed Janet \"in the course of a violent sexual assault\"", "An Australian woman has been killed by a US police officer responding to a 911 call in Minneapolis.\n\nThe Minnesota Department of Public Safety said police responded to \"a call of possible assault\" when \"at one point an officer fired their weapon, fatally striking a woman\".\n\nOfficials said the officers' body cameras were not turned on at the time of the Saturday shooting.\n\nThe victim has been identified by Australian officials as Justine Damond.\n\nAccording to Australian media, the 40-year old woman was living in Minneapolis with her fiancé. The woman called 911 to report a noise near her home when the incident occurred, reports said.\n\nMs Damond, dressed in her pyjamas, reportedly approached the driver's side door and was talking to the officer at the wheel after the police arrived, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune reported, citing three sources with knowledge of the incident.\n\nThe officer in the passenger seat, identified by local media as Mohamed Noor, reportedly drew his gun and shot Ms Damond through the driver's window, the newspaper reported.\n\nMr Noor's lawyer, Tom Plunkett, confirmed on Monday that his client had fired his weapon, killing Ms Damond.\n\n\"We take this seriously with great compassion for all persons who are being touched by this,\" he said in a statement to CBS News.\n\nA man claiming to be Ms Damond's stepson also said in a Facebook video that she was the one who alerted authorities.\n\n\"Basically, my mom's dead because a police officer shot her for reasons I don't know,\" said the man, named Zach.\n\n\"I demand answers. If anybody can help, just call the police and demand answers. I'm so done with all this violence,\" he said.\n\n\"America sucks. These cops need to get trained differently. I need to move out of here.\"\n\nThe Department of Public Safety's Bureau of Criminal Apprehension said an investigation is under way and authorities are looking into whether there is any video of the incident.\n\nMinneapolis mayor Betsy Hodges said in a statement she was \"heartsick and deeply disturbed by what occurred last night\".\n\nOver the past few years the US has seen a series of civilian killings at the hands of police that have caused widespread concern and criticism.\n\nShe used the surname of the man she was expected to marry in August, Don Damond, according to the Minneapolis Star-Tribune.\n\nMs Damond studied to be a veterinarian before she relocated to the US, where she is believed to have been for at least the last three years.\n\nAccording to her website, she also practised yoga and meditation for more than 17 years and is a \"qualified yoga instructor, a personal health and life coach and meditation teacher\".\n\nMohamed Noor fired his gun and killed Ms Damond, his lawyer says\n\nAlison Monaghan, a friend who trained Ms Damon in alternative therapies, told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation she was \"the most beautiful person\" who moved to the US to \"follow her heart\" for a \"new life\".\n\nAbout 200 neighbours, family members and residents shocked by the shooting gathered for a vigil on Sunday night where she died.\n\nHer death made front-page news in her native Australia.\n\n\"I mean ask anybody here, they're shocked,\" said Ms Damond's student Corey Birkholz told CBS News.\n\nHe described Ms Damond as \"a very conscious, loving person and you wouldn't associate that with a gunshot in an alley\".\n\n\"I don't know anything about the law or police work to that extent but to me, it seems really stupid. You have a body camera, aren't you supposed to use them?\" Mr Birkholz added.\n\nMrs Hodges echoed his sentiments, saying at a news conference: \"I share the same questions other people have about why we don't have body camera footage of it, and I hope to get answers to that in the days coming.\"\n\nThe two officers involved in the shooting are on paid administrative leave.\n\nThe Australian Department of Foreign Affairs released a statement on Monday on behalf of Ms Damond's family.\n\n\"This is a very difficult time for our family,\" the statement said. \"We are trying to come to terms with this tragedy and to understand why this has happened.\"", "Venetians have long complained of the big ships, and they are not alone\n\nThere are places where the surge of global tourism is starting to feel like a tidal wave.\n\nAncient cities around the shores of the Mediterranean and Adriatic are on the front line, their stone streets squeezed full of summer visitors as budget airlines and giant cruise ships unload ever-growing armies of tourists.\n\nTake the Croatian city of Dubrovnik: a perfectly preserved historical miniature, carved from honey-coloured stone set in a sea of postcard blue.\n\nAround 1,500 people live within the walls of its Old City, custodians of cultural treasures left by everyone from the Romans and the Ostrogoths to the Venetians and the Habsburgs.\n\nOn a busy day three modern cruise ships, each one the size of a floating apartment building, can disgorge five or six times that number of people into the city.\n\nDubrovnik's allure for tourists has been amplified by Game of Thrones\n\nThey join the throngs of tourists staying in local hotels and in rooms rented over the internet, in streets where almost every elegant stone house has been converted into a B&B.\n\nThe overall effect is Disneylandish - a sense that you meet no-one but other tourists or ice-cream sellers, tour guides, waiters, reception clerks and buskers who are there to keep the tourist wheels turning.\n\nMark Thomas, who edits The Dubrovnik Times, explains the phenomenon like this. \"When I first got here, I'd stand back if I saw that people were taking photographs of each other. Now there are so many people that I know if I did that, I'd never get anywhere here.\"\n\nDubrovnik has a particular problem because its ancient appeal has now been bolstered by that most modern of phenomena - the HBO mini-series. The city, unchanged for centuries, provides the main locations for Game of Thrones.\n\nFans come on pilgrimages to visit the settings. One souvenir shop owner, who told me he doesn't watch the series himself, admitted he had Googled a couple of catchphrases to help attract customers.\n\n\"It does seem crazy,\" he admitted, \"to stand here when it's 35 degrees, shouting that 'Winter is Coming'.\"\n\nThe idyllic Italian island of Capri is buckling under the thousands of daily tourists\n\nDubrovnik is not alone in struggling to balance its need for tourists' money with the need to ensure that those tourists don't end up destroying the beauty they've come to see.\n\nThe tiny Italian island of Capri has warned that it could \"explode\" under the pressure of the trade that sees as many as 15,000 visitors a day travelling by boat from the mainland, to visit its once-idyllic streets and squares.\n\nOne local official told The Daily Telegraph: \"You can't fit a litre-and-a-half into a litre pot.\"\n\nFlorence, Barcelona and some Greek islands like Santorini have suffered too, and it was perhaps Venice which experienced the problem first. Its population has been falling since the 1950s, effectively forced out by the hordes of cruise-ship visitors.\n\nTourism, of course, remains essentially a good thing and in the developed world we nearly all do it.\n\nIt means trade and cultural exchange and it's both a symbol of rising prosperity and a generator of future wealth.\n\nNot everyone in Barcelona is happy with the summer 'invasion' of tourists\n\nPart of the \"problem\" is that travellers from traditional sources like the UK, Germany and the USA are increasingly being joined by the new middle classes of countries like Russia, China and India.\n\nAdd to that the issue of security, which means that many tourists feel safer in Europe than they do in alternative destinations like Tunisia, Turkey or Egypt, and it's hard to see the numbers falling any time soon.\n\nIt will fall to local governments in places like Dubrovnik and Capri and Venice to find a way of reducing those growing pressures.\n\nFor now, ideas like installing turnstiles on ancient squares and pedestrian traffic lights on crowded streets may sound rather fanciful.\n\nBut if that tourist tide keeps rising they might start to seem a little more tempting.", "Christine Rowe was a full-time carer for her husband Brian\n\nA father-of-two has been jailed for eight years and eight months for killing a grandmother while sniffing cocaine at the wheel of his van.\n\nRyan Reardon, 34, hit seven other vehicles in his van in Newport before crashing into 70-year-old Christine Rowe's car head-on, killing her and seriously injuring her husband Brian.\n\nCardiff Crown Court heard he was speeding on the wrong side of the road.\n\nReardon, from Blackwood in Caerphilly, ran off but police caught him that day.\n\nHe was more than six times over the legal drug-drive limit when he jumped red lights and barged through other cars at about 19:00 BST on 5 June near Beechwood Park in bad weather conditions, the court heard.\n\nReardon, a managing director of an air conditioning company, was driving at 59mph in a 30mph zone.\n\nProsecutor James Wilson said: \"It was the culmination of prolonged, persistent driving by the defendant characterised by aggression and disregard for other road users.\n\nRyan Reardon was taking drugs at the wheel, the court was told\n\n\"His driving was aggravated further by consumption of cocaine, 6.5 times over the prescribed limit. He was consuming the drugs while driving.\"\n\nReardon admitted causing death by dangerous driving, causing serious injury by dangerous driving, failing to stop and possession of class A drugs.\n\nWitnesses reported seeing Reardon tailgating and barging into other cars, and he was confronted by other drivers but continued.\n\nOne witness said: \"I have never seen any driving as bad or dangerous in my life. He was driving like a man possessed.\"\n\nMr Rowe, 80, had to be cut out of the crushed car and spent four weeks in hospital with multiple fractures to his ribs.\n\nHe also now suffers from short term memory loss.\n\nHis wife had been his full time carer.\n\nReardon was disqualified from driving for 14 years and the court heard that he had previous convictions for dangerous driving.\n\nMrs Rowe's daughter-in-law Joanne Tracey said: \"Christine loved all her children and grandchildren with a ferocity that is hard to explain.\n\n\"When we were in the hospital family room, I have never seen such pain, confusion, sadness and shock in one room.\n\n\"Christine cared full-time for her husband Brian, who has asked several times where she is despite being told she is dead.\"\n\nJailing him, Recorder of Cardiff Judge Eleri Rees said: \"Your driving can only be described as appalling.\n\n\"You tailgated, undertook and drove at aggressive speeds causing drivers to take evasive action.\n\n\"You left a trail of damage and shocked drivers in your wake.\n\n\"No sentence this court passes can restore Mrs Rowe to her family or adequately reflect the loss or grief.\"\n\nFollowing sentencing, Janine Davies of the Crown Prosecution Service said: \"It is sometimes difficult to decide which charge reflects the manner of driving properly in law, but in this instance it was clear. Reardon had collided with several vehicles immediately before the fatal collision where he had simply tried to push his way between two lines of traffic.\n\n\"His consumption of cocaine was a factor in this case and the danger he posed to other road users that day was significant.\n\n\"Our sympathies are extended to the Rowe family for their loss,\" she added.", "Being an atheist in Pakistan can be life-threatening. But behind closed doors, non-believers are getting together to support one another. How do they survive in a nation where blasphemy carries a death sentence?\n\nOmar, named after one of Islam's most revered caliphs, has rejected the faith of his forefathers. He is one of the founding members of an online group - a meeting point for the atheists of Pakistan.\n\nBut even there he must stay on his guard. Members use fake identities.\n\n\"You have to be careful who you are befriending,\" he says.\n\nOne man contacted Omar to say he had visited his Facebook profile and printed out pictures of him with his family. \"You cannot be safe,\" Omar says.\n\nIn Pakistan, posting about atheism online can have serious consequences.\n\nUnder a recently passed cyber-crime law, it is now illegal to post content online - even in a private forum - that could be deemed blasphemous.\n\nThe government took out adverts in national newspapers asking members of the public to report any content they believe could constitute blasphemy.\n\nAnd the law is being enforced. In June this year, in the first case of its kind, Taimoor Raza was sentenced to death for posting blasphemous content on Facebook.\n\n\"Zahir\" is an online activist who uses social media to express atheist ideas and comment on Pakistani politics\n\n\"Dear diary, I've been through four Twitter accounts in one year now. The last one got blocked last night. It doesn't matter how vague my details are or if the pictures I use are generic. It's as if someone is watching me. Every time this happens I feel that I should just give up. They want to silence me.\"\n\nAs a result, atheists feel their ability to publicly question the existence of God is threatened.\n\nOmar believes the government is at war with atheist bloggers. \"A good friend of mine used to write against religious fundamentalism,\" he says.\n\n\"We used to run the [online] group together. I came to know he was very severely tortured. Once you are abducted, there is a high chance your body will come in a bag.\n\n\"The state is doing it deliberately, so those remaining get a sign that if you go beyond your limits you will also be facing things like this.\"\n\nThis year, six activists have reportedly been abducted after posting on forums that are pro-atheist and anti-government. One of those activists spoke to the BBC but does not want to be identified. He believes that Pakistan's intelligence service wants to stamp out not only criticism of Islam but also criticism of the state.\n\nIn his view, the government is trying to enforce the notion that a good citizen must be a good Muslim.\n\n\"Hamza\" is a blogger and a founding member of an online atheist forum\n\n\"Dear diary. Some people have called it an arrest but it was an abduction. I was held for 28 days. They wouldn't identify themselves but I'm sure it was the military. There were eight days of torture and 20 days for healing. My whole body was black. They made me sign a statement that said I regretted what I and done and that I would not engage with political or religious blogging. And that my family could be target if I spoke to the media.\"\n\nPakistan is, this year, celebrating its 70th year of independence. Since 1956, it has been an Islamic republic. Many atheists feel the nation is more monolithic than ever before.\n\nIn recent years, they say, the Islamic faith has become more visible in public life. Saudi-style dress codes are increasingly enforced. Television evangelists shape pop culture and to be Pakistani is increasingly linked to being a devout Muslim.\n\nAlthough atheism is not technically illegal in Pakistan, apostasy is deemed to be punishable by death in some interpretations of Islam. As a result, speaking publicly can be life-threatening.\n\nThe Atheists of Lahore have monthly get-togethers in guarded buildings or private homes. One of those in attendance explains: \"It's like a secret society. It's a bubble where we can talk. It's not all about Richard Dawkins or Sam Harris. We may just talk about how things are going. It's a place where you can let your hair down and truly be yourself.\"\n\nAt these meet-ups, atheists are predominantly affluent, English-speaking city-dwellers. Money does grant a degree of privilege and protection from those who are hostile towards godlessness. But many self-identified atheists also live in Pakistan's villages.\n\n\"Dear diary, this afternoon at university an acquaintance approached me and said: 'I want to have a debate with you. I heard you're an atheist.' It was an expression of disbelief, as if to ask: 'How do you function?' She wanted to know where I get my morals from. For her, morality comes from religion and without faith you can't be expected to have morals. Later that afternoon I text all my friends. 'Stop telling people I'm an atheist. I don't want to die.' I must learn that discretion is a good thing.\"\n\nZafer was once the muezzin, the man who recited the call to prayer at his village mosque. He used to pray five times a day and was a student of Islamic theology. When he got a job in IT and moved out of his family home, he found his views on religion had changed.\n\n\"My family noticed a shift. My mother thought someone had cast a spell on me. I was given holy water to drink and blessed food to eat. She thought it would break the spell.\n\n\"These days, I will go along to Friday prayers and celebrate Eid just as a social ritual. My family know I'm not a believer but they give me the space to be myself - as long as I'm not too vocal about being an atheist.\n\n\"If you're willing to do certain things - have etiquette, respect your parents and be appropriate in public - you can get away with being a disbeliever.\"\n\nMobeen Azhar's documentary Diary of a Pakistani Atheist will be broadcast on BBC World Service's Heart and Soul on Friday 14 July at 13:32 BST and available to listen afterwards on iPlayer.\n\nThe Ministry of Information Technology declined my request for an interview, saying the campaign promoting the cyber-crime laws was \"simply about raising awareness\". They would not comment on the alleged abduction of online activists.\n\nKunwar Khuldune Shahid is a journalist who has documented the government's response to atheism in the public domain. He believes online atheist activists are being abducted by the government because challenging religion and challenging the state often go hand-in-hand.\n\n\"There are two holy cows in Pakistan,\" he says. \"One is the army, the other is Islam. Any person challenging one of these holy cows would, more often than not, be talking about the other as well. The sites whose administrators were abducted were critical of the army and government policy, so blasphemy became a convenient tool.\n\n\"In one go, they simply silenced a wide array of critics.\"\n\nSome of the names in the article have been changed to protect the identity of contributors.\n\nJoin the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter.", "Charlie has a rare genetic condition and is on life support\n\nAn American doctor offering to treat terminally ill Charlie Gard has told the High Court there is a 10% chance he could improve the baby's condition.\n\nThe 11-month-old has a rare genetic disorder and severe brain damage which doctors at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) had said was irreversible.\n\nIn April, the High Court ruled that life support should be removed to enable Charlie to die with dignity.\n\nThe doctor has agreed to assess Charlie in the UK if the court adjourns.\n\nMr Justice Francis is due to rule on whether Charlie, who is on life support at GOSH, can be given a trial treatment.\n\nThe US doctor - who cannot be named for legal reasons - has been giving evidence to the High Court via video link.\n\nThe judge said he wanted to hear what the doctor thought had changed since he gave his ruling in April.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The six-year-old US boy who outlived medical expectations\n\nThe doctor suggested there was now clinical data not available in April and he thought the therapy was \"worth trying\".\n\nAlthough he has not yet seen Charlie in person, he told the judge tests on the boy's brain show \"disorganisation of brain activity and not major structural brain damage\".\n\nUsing nucleoside treatment - which is a therapy and not a cure - he estimated there would be a 10% chance of \"meaningful success\" for Charlie.\n\nHe said early tests on mice with TK2, a slightly different condition to Charlie's, had resulted in some improvements.\n\nHe acknowledged that while it would be desirable to conduct further testing on rodents, that could take a minimum of six months to two years.\n\nThe small number of people with Charlie's rare genetic condition - mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome - would make robust clinical trials difficult, he added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Alasdair Seton-Marsden read a statement from Charlie's parents that said 'he is still fighting'\n\nDoctors at GOSH - where Charlie is being cared for - say he should be moved on to palliative care but his parents have raised more than £1.3m to take their son to the US for the nucleoside therapy.\n\nThe High Court has also been hearing arguments about the child's head size, which UK doctors said indicated of lack of brain function.\n\nMr Francis said it was \"absurd\" that a dispute over his head size was \"undermining\" the case.\n\nDoctors said the baby's skull had not grown in three months.\n\nThe lawyer for Charlie's parents, Connie Yates and Chris Gard, told the court Ms Yates had regularly measured her son's head and disagreed with the hospital's measurements.\n\nThe court heard Ms Yates had measured her baby's head this morning and there was a 2cm difference with the hospital's measurements.\n\nMr Justice Francis said he wanted the matter resolved and called for an independent person to measure Charlie's head within 24 hours.\n\n\"It is absurd that the science of this case is being infected by the inability to measure a child's skull,\" he said.\n\nConnie Yates and Chris Gard walked out of the hearing at the High Court\n\nCharlie's parents, from Bedfont, west London, left the courtroom after two hours over a disagreement with the judge about what they had said at a previous hearing on whether their child was in pain.\n\nMr Gard stood up and said: \"I thought this was supposed to be independent.\"\n\nMr Justice Francis then offered to adjourn but was told the pair already knew the evidence being given by their legal team.\n\nMs Yates and Mr Gard returned for the afternoon session.\n\nSupporters of Charlie's parents have been outside the court\n\nConnie Yates and Chris Gard have raised more than £1.3m to fund a treatment trial\n\nThe case returned to the High Court following reports of new data from foreign healthcare experts who suggested treatment could improve Charlie's condition.\n\nDoctors at GOSH have said the evidence is not new but it was right for the court to explore it.\n\nGrant Armstrong, who is leading Ms Yates and Mr Gard's legal team, told the judge they wanted to reopen the case on the basis that the treatment is likely to affect Charlie's brain cells.\n\nHe said the parents disputed the view that Charlie has \"irreversible, irreparable\" brain damage.\n\nThe couple have already lost battles in the High Court, Court of Appeal and Supreme Court to allow them to take their son elsewhere for treatment.\n\nThey also failed to persuade European Court of Human Rights judges to intervene in the 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.\n\nThe Scottish and Welsh governments have threatened to block the key Brexit bill which will convert all existing EU laws into UK law.\n\nThe repeal bill, published earlier, is also facing opposition from Labour and other parties in the Commons.\n\nMinisters are \"optimistic\" about getting it through and have promised an \"ongoing intense dialogue\" with the devolved administrations.\n\nNo 10 said it had to be passed or \"there will be no laws\" after Brexit.\n\nBrexit Secretary David Davis called it \"one of the most significant pieces of legislation that has ever passed through Parliament\".\n\nHe rejected claims ministers were giving themselves \"sweeping powers\" to make changes to laws as they are repatriated.\n\nIt will be up to MPs if they want a say on the \"technical changes\" ministers plan to make to legislation, he told the BBC.\n\nLabour says it will not support the bill in its current form and is demanding concessions in six areas, including the incorporation of the European Charter of Fundamental Rights into British law.\n\nThe party wants guarantees workers' rights will be protected and also want curbs on the power of government ministers to alter legislation without full parliamentary scrutiny.\n\nLeader Jeremy Corbyn, who was in Brussels earlier for a meeting with the EU's chief negotiator Michel Barnier, said: \"Far too much of it seems to be a process where the government... will be able to bypass Parliament.\n\n\"We will make sure there is full parliamentary scrutiny. We have a Parliament where the government doesn't have a majority, we have a country which voted in two ways on Leave or Remain.\n\n\"The majority voted to leave and we respect that, but they didn't vote to lose jobs and they didn't vote to have Parliament ridden roughshod over.\"\n\nThe Conservatives are relying on Democratic Unionist Party support to win key votes after losing their Commons majority in the general election, but could face a revolt from Remain supporting backbenchers.\n\nBBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said there could be \"parliamentary guerrilla warfare\" on the bill, as opposition parties and \"Remainer Tories\" try to \"put their version of Brexit, not Theresa May's, on to the statute book\".\n\nThe repeal bill is not expected to be debated by MPs until the Autumn, but will need to have been passed by the time the UK leaves the EU - which is due to happen in March 2019.\n\nBut the Scottish and Welsh governments have to give \"legislative consent\" to the bill before it can become law - something they have said they are not willing to do.\n\nIn a joint statement, first ministers Nicola Sturgeon and Carwyn Jones, who also met Mr Barnier, described the bill as a \"naked power-grab\" by Westminster that undermined the principles of devolution.\n\nThey say the bill returns powers from Brussels solely to the UK government and Parliament and \"imposes new restrictions\" on the Scottish Parliament and the Welsh Assembly.\n\nMinisters at Holyrood will not be able to amend EU rules in devolved areas such as agriculture and fisheries after Brexit until the UK Parliament and Scottish government have reached an agreement on them.\n\nUK Scottish Secretary David Mundell claimed the repeal bill would result in a powers \"bonanza\" for Holyrood - a comment described as \"ludicrous\" by the SNP.\n\nTheresa May's official spokeswoman said the repeal bill was a \"hugely important piece of legislation\" because \"we need to have a functioning statute book on the day we leave the EU\".\n\nThe spokesman said First Secretary of State Damian Green had contacted the devolved administrations in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland and the government was confident of gaining their consent.\n\nAsked if there was a contingency plan if he didn't win their backing, the prime minister's official spokesman said \"not that I'm aware of\".\n\nLib Dem leader Tim Farron, whose party is seeking to join forces with Labour and Tory rebels, said he was \"putting the government on warning\", promising a tougher test than than it faced when passing legislation authorising the UK's departure from the EU.\n\n\"If you found the Article 50 Bill difficult, you should be under no illusion, this will be hell,\" he said.\n\nSteve Baker, a minister in the Department for Exiting the European Union, said the government was \"ready\" for a fight over the bill but would also to \"listen to Parliament\".\n\nSpeaking to BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg, Mr Davies predicted the bill \"may get amendments here and there\", saying he was open to suggestions from other parties for things that should be included.\n\n\"If we've missed something and got something wrong, then we'll debate that in the House of Commons,\" he said.\n\nMr Davis also insisted contingency plans were being made in case the UK and the EU cannot agree a Brexit deal.\n\n\"We are planning for all options,\" he said.\n\n\"The ideal outcome... right through to it not working at all and not getting a negotiated outcome at all.\"\n\nAsked why Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson had said the government had \"no plan\" for such a scenario, he said: \"That's possibly because it's my responsibility to plan for it.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Toned-down Trump: What happened to the tough talk on Paris?\n\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron said he \"respected\" Donald Trump's decision to pull out of the Paris climate accord but that France would remain committed.\n\n\"On climate we know what our differences are,\" Mr Macron said in Paris on Thursday, adding that it was important to move forward.\n\nSpeaking alongside Mr Macron, Mr Trump then hinted that the US could shift its position but failed to elaborate.\n\n\"Something could happen with respect to the Paris accord,\" he said.\n\nMr Trump added: \"We'll see what happens.\"\n\nThe US president said last month that the US would withdraw from the 2015 Paris climate agreement, citing moves to negotiate a new \"fair\" deal that would not disadvantage US businesses.\n\nMr Macron said it was right to put the climate issue to one side while the two leaders discussed how they could work together on other matters such as the ceasefire in Syria and trade partnerships.\n\n\"We have disagreements; Mr Trump had election pledges that he took to his supporters and I had pledges - should this hinder progress on all issues? No,\" Mr Macron said.\n\nMr Macron and Mr Trump then talked about their countries' joint efforts to combat terrorism and in particular the so-called Islamic State group in Syria and Iraq.\n\n\"The US is extremely involved in the Iraq war,\" Mr Macron said, \"I would like to thank the president for everything done by American troops in this area\".\n\n\"We've agreed to continue our joint work,\" he added, \"in particular building the post-war roadmap\".\n\nMr Macron said that France would seek to \"undertake several robust initiatives\" to help produce greater stability and \"control over the region\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The US president told Brigitte Macron she was \"in good shape\"\n\nMr Trump, who is in Paris for a two-day visit, was earlier welcomed by Mr Macron with an official military ceremony.\n\nThe US president then visited the tomb of Napoleon before Friday's Bastille Day celebrations.\n\nThe trip is aimed at reaffirming historic ties but comes amid tension due to the two leaders' different positions over climate change.\n\nAir Force One touched down at Orly airport in Paris earlier on Thursday; Mr Trump and the First Lady emerging from their flight across the Atlantic in an effort to help strengthen US-France relations.\n\n\"Emmanuel, nice to see you. This is so beautiful,\" Mr Trump said as he was met by Mr Macron at the Hotel des Invalides, near the site of Napoleon's tomb.\n\nDespite their clear differences, Paris has emphasised that Mr Macron will work to reaffirm historic ties between the two allies to prevent the US from being isolated.\n\nThe two presidents reviewed the troops during the ceremony at Les Invalides\n\nThe two-day visit is seen as an opportunity to reaffirm US-France relations\n\nFollowing the ceremony at Les Invalides the leaders moved on to the Élysée Palace.\n\nMr Trump will also dine with Mr Macron at the Eiffel Tower and watch the Bastille Day parade on the Champs-Élysées.\n\nThis year marks the 100th anniversary of US forces entering World War One, and for this occasion US and French troops will be marching together in the parade.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, the former US diplomat and state department official, William Jordan, said the visit was likely to be viewed by Mr Trump as an opportunity for the US president to be \"taken seriously in the world\".\n\n\"I think that there's a lot of symbolism in this,\" he said, adding: \"I doubt that there's going to be very much more beyond substantive discussion.\"\n\nThe presidents and their partners visited Napoleon Bonaparte's tomb\n\nDemonstrations are expected. French protesters have planned a \"No Trump Zone\" at the Place de la Republique. The Facebook page for the event states: \"Trump is not welcome in Paris\".\n\nMr Trump's visit comes amid fresh allegations of Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election, with his eldest son admitting he held a \"nonsense\" meeting that had promised Russian government information about his father's democratic rival Hillary Clinton.\n\nMr Trump has since described the mood in the White House as \"fantastic\" and told Reuters that the administration was \"functioning beautifully\".", "Sophie Turner and Kit Harington were among the stars attending the premiere\n\nStars including Sophie Turner and Kit Harington traded Westeros for LA, as the seventh season of Game of Thrones received a gala premiere on Wednesday.\n\nPhones were banned as the first episode of the penultimate series was screened at the Walt Disney Concert Hall.\n\nTurner, who plays Sansa Stark, said the cast felt \"very emotional\" at the prospect of the show ending.\n\n\"It feels like a death in the family [but] it's also exciting, and liberating,\" said the British star.\n\nSophie Turner said the rest of the cast felt \"like family\" after seven series\n\nGwendoline Christie, who plays the warrior Brienne of Tarth, gave off ice queen vibes on the blue carpet\n\nEmilia Clarke - who was absent from the premiere, due to filming commitments on the forthcoming Han Solo film - has also talked about the stress of concluding the series.\n\n\"I get sleepless nights over it,\" she recently told Elle Magazine. \"The higher everyone places the mantle, the bigger the fall. I don't want to disappoint anyone.\"\n\nAmong the other stars walking the blue carpet on Wednesday night were Alfie Allen, Conleth Hill, Liam Cunningham, Gwendoline Christie and Maisie Williams.\n\nThere was also a surprise appearance from British actor Joe Dempsie, who has been absent from the series since since 2013.\n\nIt has not yet been confirmed whether his character Gendry, the illegitimate son of King Robert Baratheon, will return to the show this year.\n\nJoe Dempsie was a surprise addition to the guestlist - but it has not been confirmed whether he is returning to the show\n\nReal-life couple Kit Harington (Jon Snow) and Rose Leslie (Ygritte) walked the blue carpet together\n\nThe forthcoming season, which adds Jim Broadbent to the cast, returns on 16 July.\n\nIt is airing later than its usual springtime slot, after production was delayed to shoot more scenes in the snow.\n\nThe cast, who are already used to hardships on set, said they had had to endure bitterly cold conditions for this series.\n\n\"Belfast is never not cold,\" Isaac Hempstead Wright, who plays Bran Stark, told The Hollywood Reporter. \"That's the first thing I learned when I arrived, my first day on set - my first day ever on a film set.\n\n\"It was a beautiful day in a forest, but it rained all day, and it was muddy, and I remember coming home and telling my mum that I didn't think I could do it. But we've grown accustomed to the chill.\"\n\nAlfie Allen smiled a lot more than his character Theon Greyjoy does\n\nJacob Anderson and Maisie Williams were there to drink in the first episode\n\nRichard Dormer, who plays Beric Dondarrion, had fun at the show's after-party\n\nThe seventh series of Game of Thrones fulfills the prophecy that \"Winter is coming\" - and with it, the Night King's army of the undead, and the promise of all-out war.\n\nAs the premiere took place, HBO released new images from the show, providing a few clues about the storyline - including Daenerys's return to Dragonstone, and Meera Reed meeting up with the Night's Watch.\n\nThe pictures also offer a look at the large painted map of Westeros that featured prominently in a trailer for the season.\n\n\"Enemies to the east, enemies to the west, enemies to the south, enemies to the north,\" said Lena Headey's character, Cersei, during the video. \"Whatever stands in our way, we will defeat it.\"\n\nAn eighth and final season is planned for either 2018 or 2019 - but there are already talks of spin-offs and prequels.\n\nWhat is the purpose of the map?\n\nGame of Thrones returns to HBO on 16 July and will be simulcast at 02:00 BST on Sky Atlantic. It will be repeated the following evening (17 July) on Sky Atlantic and Now TV.\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.", "\"It's definitely been enjoyable, I can tell you that for a fact,\" said Eddie\n\nEddie, the work experience teen who took over Southern Rail's Twitter feed on Tuesday, says his new-found fame is an experience he will \"carry with me for the rest of my life\".\n\nThe company earlier posted a picture of the 15-year-old manning the account for a second day.\n\nInstead of the usual complaints, he has been asked questions about duck-sized horses and how to make tea.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 1 earlier, Eddie said: \"I was just being me\".\n\nTalking to Scott Mills about the sensation caused by his tweets, he added: \"I just tried to be myself and everything just turned out as it has.\n\nSome did question whether Eddie really is who he says he is\n\n\"It's definitely been enjoyable, I can tell you that for a fact. Last week I was answering some tweets with guidance from the social team and so yesterday was the time I put myself out there and just said 'hello this is me'.\n\n\"It's been amazing, it's been an experience which I will carry with me for the rest of my life.\"\n\nHe thanked Twitter users who were \"nice and forthcoming\" but conceded some of the questions directed to him were \"very strange\".\n\n\"One of my favourites was somebody asking me what he should have for tea, Thai curry or chicken fajitas.\n\n\"Well, it's got to be chicken fajitas doesn't it?\"\n\nEddie took on controversial issues, which have caused great debate for generations\n\nThe furore has transformed the usual fury-filled Southern Rail Twitter feed, where commuters complain of delayed and cancelled services. There has also been a bitter dispute over the role of guards which has affected Southern passengers for more than a year.\n\nMills said the youngster was \"winning at life\", taking to the front line of social media while most people spend their work experience photocopying.\n\nComparing the teen to \"the new Ask Jeeves\", Mills also toyed with the idea of hiring him for an occasional Radio 1 feature, Ask Eddie.\n\nEddie said he is not sure on his dream job at the moment, he \"just wants to see what interests\" him and pursue that when the day comes.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThousands of mourners have lined the streets of Bradley Lowery's home town for his funeral.\n\nThe six-year-old Sunderland fan, from Blackhall Colliery, County Durham, died on Friday following a cancer fight.\n\nFootballer Jermain Defoe, who forged a strong bond with Bradley, joined his family in the cortege.\n\nThe service, held at St Joseph's Church in the village, paid tribute to an \"incredible little boy with a huge personality\".\n\nThe funeral cortege was led out by a bagpiper\n\nAn emotional Jermain Defoe wore an England shirt bearing Bradley's name\n\nEx Sunderland boss David Moyes was among the high-profile names from football in attendance\n\nRoads leading to the church were decked with balloons and tributes. Messages and mementos were also left outside Sunderland's Stadium of Light.\n\nSpeakers broadcast the funeral service to the crowds outside the church who were unable to make it inside.\n\nBradley's family wore football shirts in honour of his love of the sport.\n\nHis mother, Gemma, told the congregation: \"He had a smile so big and beautiful it could brighten any room. A real brave superhero, he left us all too soon.\n\n\"He touched the hearts of many - the most inspirational boy. A loving, caring son and brother - a beautiful star.\n\n\"Although your time with us was short, you must have a job to do in heaven with the angels as God has chosen you.\n\n\"For now my baby we'll say goodbye. We'll meet again our superhero high up in the sky.\"\n\nTributes to the youngster lined the route of the cortege\n\nAlmost every inch of the cortege route was lined with balloons\n\nMourners wearing football tops decorated the route of the funeral cortege with balloons\n\nShops along the cortege route were decked with balloons and tribute posters\n\nHundreds of tributes were left outside Sunderland's Stadium of Light where Bradley was a mascot\n\nAlmost all the mourners wore football shirts at the request of Bradley's family\n\nFather Ian Jackson told mourners: \"Today the football world stands united, whatever our colours, to pay their respects to this incredible little boy with a huge personality.\n\n\"As a big football fan, Bradley saw that sport teaches us the basic life lesson that one must get up after getting knocked down. It taught him to never ever quit.\"\n\nA vigil and minute's applause were also held at Grey's Monument in Newcastle city centre to coincide with the funeral, while balloons were released at the Sunderland's ground.\n\nA single piper led the funeral procession and the applause down the street could be heard well before the horse and carriage carrying Bradley's coffin could be seen.\n\nIt was preceded by a collection of superheroes - including Batman, Spider-Man and Captain America.\n\nBradley's parents, Gemma and Carl, followed the hearse and behind them came footballer Jermain Defoe - who had flown back in from a pre-season training camp in Spain.\n\nThere followed a number of players and staff from Bradley's beloved Sunderland.\n\nAt the family's request, hundreds wore football shirts including the red and white of Sunderland, black and white of Newcastle, blue of Everton and green and white of Celtic.\n\nOne mourner observed aloud that Bradley had opened the world's eyes to childhood cancer.\n\nHaving been in remission following treatment, he relapsed last year and his parents were told in December his illness was terminal.\n\nIn the months before his death he struck up a friendship with Defoe, who called him a \"little superstar\".\n\nBradley also led out the England team at Wembley, attended the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Awards and was a special guest at the Grand National.\n\nTributes poured in from around the world when his parents announced his death on Facebook.\n\nBradley was invited to the BBC's Sports Personality of the Year event\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Times considers attempts by French President Emmanuel Macron to shape what it calls a special but critical relationship with the US\n\nThe government's repeal bill, which will convert EU legislation into British law, is dismissed by the Guardian as a \"bodge-job\".\n\nThe paper expresses concern about the use of what are known as Henry VIII powers, which it believes will lead to ministers wielding a formidable weapon of executive control without accountability.\n\nThe Times shares such concerns, saying ministerial powers are too broad.\n\nThe details of Brexit are too important to be left to ministers and civil servants, argues the paper.\n\nInstead, they should be hammered out in Parliament.\n\nThe Financial Times describes the government's repeal bill as a largely technical measure that will ensure legal continuity after Brexit.\n\nBut it warns that it will become a legislative quagmire when MPs start debating it in the autumn.\n\nThe Daily Mirror also takes up the theme, predicting months of parliamentary warfare.\n\nThe Daily Mail wonders why the bill has created hysteria, describing the government's approach as common sense.\n\nThe paper say it is a straightforward and eminently workable bill.\n\nThe Daily Express describes it as entirely necessary and a vital part of the Brexit process, while the Sun says the legislation is harmless.\n\nThe Times considers attempts by French President Emmanuel Macron to shape what it calls a special but critical relationship with the US.\n\nIt talks of him as trying to portray himself as America's best friend in Europe.\n\nWith Theresa May embroiled in Brexit negotiations, the Times says Mr Macron has moved to fill the void with fulsome expressions of support for the US and its president.\n\nThe Daily Telegraph suggests that by bringing Mr Trump to Paris, Mr Macron has clearly stolen a march on the embattled Mrs May.\n\nThere are many reflections on the life of the Chinese dissident and Nobel Peace Prize winner, Liu Xiaobo, who died on Thursday from liver cancer at a heavily-guarded hospital.\n\nFor the Guardian, the fact that he was still held over his peaceful call for democratic reform, almost nine years ago, is China's shame and a stain on the world's conscience.\n\nThe Telegraph says that although he became a hero to Chinese dissidents, the country's strict censorship of the media meant most people there had probably never heard of him.\n\nThe Times sees Mr Lui's death as a reminder that China has a long distance to travel before it can class itself as a free moral nation.\n\nThe skeleton of Hope the blue whale went on show in the entrance hall of the Natural History Museum, in London, on Thursday.\n\nFor the Mail, it is the attraction's most jaw-dropping exhibit, while the chief art critic of the Times gives it five stars.\n\nRachel Campbell-Johnston describes how the skeleton seems almost to swoop down upon you.\n\nShe concludes: \"How can you help but be awestruck?\"\n\nThe skeleton of the blue whale Hope appears at the Natural History Museum\n\nThe sports pages are dominated by Briton Johanna Konta's defeat in the Wimbledon semi-final.\n\nThe Telegraph says her hopes were crushed by a ruthless performance by the five-times champion, Venus Williams.\n\nThe i talks of Konta being overwhelmed by the power and grace of the ageless US player, while the Mail says she was blown away by a pace attack.\n\nThe Daily Mirror says it was a painful loss, but believes it is just the beginning for Konta.\n\nThe Sun also strikes an optimistic tone, saying she has vowed to \"win it one day\".\n\nGreatness, suggests the Guardian, remains tantalisingly within reach, and Konta must believe she can grab it.\n\nThe Daily Mail highlights concerns from health campaigners that victims of suspected heart attacks and strokes will have to wait 10 minutes longer for an ambulance.\n\nIn its editorial, the paper says health bosses are playing with lives and it predicts they will come to regret the decision.\n\nThe Times believes an overhaul is needed, but thinks the unions have a point when they say removing inefficiency will not make problems in the system go away.\n\nThe Daily Mirror continues its campaign to change the organ donor rules in England so every person is deemed a donor unless they opt out.\n\nIt reports that Labour MP Geoffrey Robinson is planning to introduce a private member's bill to bring in such a change.\n\nThe Mirror highlights the case of nine-year-old Max Johnson, who is awaiting a heart transplant, and says the change would give him and other children a better chance.", "Stephen Hough was trapped by his DNA after 40 years\n\nThe killing of Flintshire schoolgirl Janet Commins made headlines across the UK in 1976. Now, ex-soldier Stephen Hough has been jailed for 12 years for her rape and manslaughter. He was caught by his DNA 40 years on, even though another man spent six years in prison for the crime.\n\nOn the evening of 7 January 1976, 15-year-old Janet Commins asked her mother Eileen if she could go swimming with her friends.\n\nHer mother said no, as she thought Janet looked a bit pale, but the teenager sneaked out of the family's bungalow in King Edward Drive anyway, leaving a note to say she would be back by half past eight.\n\nFour days later, Janet's lifeless body was found under a thicket near a school playing field by three girls playing hide and seek. She had been suffocated during a savage sexual assault.\n\nShe had bruising under her chin, abrasions to her neck and a wound in her scalp.\n\nHer body had been dragged along the ground and although she was still clothed, both her shoes were missing.\n\nMud found on Janet's clothing indicated part of the attack took place at the town's Gorsedd Circle, a permanent reminder of when the National Eisteddfod came to Flint in 1969.\n\nThe town - at that time a small, close-knit community - went into shock.\n\n\"It had a profound and devastating effect on Flint,\" said local councillor Alex Aldridge.\n\n\"It was an extraordinary feeling, I had a daughter who was just under two at the time and to think a young girl had befallen this awful fate, robbed of life.\n\n\"It's something you'll never forget. It's still raw and it's still hurtful.\"\n\nPolice mounted a huge manhunt, drafting in about 120 officers to scour the area around the crime scene and conduct house-to-house inquiries.\n\nJournalist Paul Mewies, who covered the story at the time, said it made the headlines across the UK.\n\nJanet's body was found hidden under bushes near Gwynedd Primary School\n\n\"I can remember how not just the town of Flint but a much wider area was shocked by this awful case - the fact that a schoolgirl was killed on a playing field,\" he said.\n\n\"It stuck in my mind. I've reported on a number of tragedies over my career but this one does stand out.\"\n\nAnn Dunn, who lived close to the field where Janet's body was discovered, remembers the town \"swarming with policemen\".\n\n\"It was quite upsetting,\" she said. \"There was a lot of fear at the time. People were frightened it would happen again.\"\n\nAbout 10,000 people were quizzed by police and all local men aged 17-22 were asked to account for their movements.\n\nAmong them was Stephen Hough, who had turned 17 the day after Janet's body was found and whose grandparents' house overlooked the area where her body had been hidden.\n\nBut police ruled him out after he told them he had been stealing petrol on the night of the killing - a crime for which he was later prosecuted and fined.\n\nPolice scoured the area around the crime scene for clues\n\nTheir attention turned to Noel Jones, a barely literate 18-year-old traveller from Coedpoeth, Wrexham.\n\nHe was picked up the day Janet's body was discovered and at first denied all knowledge of the crime.\n\nBut later his girlfriend told police he had confessed to killing Janet and had asked her to provide him with an alibi.\n\nAfter two days of questioning, he signed two detailed confession statements.\n\nOn the second day of his murder trial in June 1976, he admitted manslaughter and was sentenced to 12 years in prison.\n\nAs Noel Jones served his time, Hough must have thought he had got away with it.\n\nAll local men aged 17-22 were asked to account for their movements on the night Janet died\n\nBut 41 years on, advances in DNA profiling finally brought him to justice.\n\nIn 2006, police carried out a cold case review and DNA from a man was identified in samples which had been taken from Janet's body and stored for three decades.\n\nTen years after that, police took a sample of Hough's DNA when he was arrested for sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl - a crime he later admitted and for which he has been given three years in prison.\n\nIn a routine cross-matching exercise, it was linked to sperm cells found on Janet's body.\n\nMold Crown Court heard there was a billion-to-one chance it did not belong to Hough.\n\nDespite the evidence, Hough insisted he was innocent - repeatedly answering \"no comment\" in police interviews and telling the court he had \"no explanation\" for why his DNA was found on Janet's body.\n\nThe jury cleared him of murder but convicted him of Janet's rape, sexual assault and manslaughter.\n\nThe case also throws a spotlight on policing practices 40 years ago.\n\nGiving evidence by video link, Noel Jones described the six years he spent in prison as a \"nightmare\" which \"absolutely destroyed my life\".\n\nHe has never challenged his conviction, but says he is innocent and only confessed because police had pressured and coerced him.\n\nThe man who led the original investigation, Eric Evans - who later rose to the rank of deputy chief constable - also gave evidence at Hough's trial.\n\nHe told the court nobody thought to offer Noel Jones a solicitor during the initial stages of his questioning because he wanted to investigate \"properly and thoroughly\".\n\nPolice could be \"impeded\" by solicitors representing clients, he said, adding that \"there was no requirement in those days for a person to be advised that he could have a solicitor\".\n\nIt remains to be seen what action will now be taken over Noel Jones' conviction.\n\nResidents laid flowers in Janet's memory on Flint's Gorsedd stones after Hough's arrest in September 2016\n\nThe Independent Police Complaints Commission is probing the North Wales force's handling of the original case in 1976 and when it was revisited 30 years later.\n\nWhatever the outcome of that investigation, Janet's family now knows for sure who killed her.\n\n\"I hope there is closure for her mum,\" said councillor Alex Aldridge. \"The law has completed its part but no matter what the verdict, the loss is beyond belief.\"\n\n\"This young girl never experienced life, possibly getting married, having children, becoming a grandmother.\n\n\"Flint will never forget Janet. It's four generations now - over 40 years - and her memory is as fresh today, in a good way, that we are remembering and honouring her name.\"", "When a letter arrived bearing official Ministry of Justice markings, Faith Spear knew her time monitoring prisons had come to an end\n\nShe was the watchdog who was accused of causing \"embarrassment\" by ministers and driven to the depths of despair after voicing concerns about prison monitoring. Then serious rioting erupted at several English prisons. Was Faith Spear right to blow the whistle on the state of England's jails?\n\nHer fate was sealed with a printed, rather than handwritten, ministerial signature.\n\nReceived on a cold morning this January, Faith Spear, the suspended chairman of the Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) at Hollesley Bay in Suffolk, knew what the letter from prisons minister Sam Gyimah would say.\n\nShe had, he told her, \"repeatedly disclosed classified and other information, often in an inaccurate manner\" and had \"failed to comply with agreed policies and procedures\".\n\nHer role as chairman was terminated and she was told she could not serve on another IMB for at least five years.\n\nTo this day Mrs Spear believes she was punished by a system more interested in controlling its own reputation than listening to grave concerns over the state of prisons.\n\nThe spark for the Faith Spear case was an article published by The Prisons Handbook in April 2016 entitled \"Whistle-blower without a whistle\".\n\nUsing the pseudonym \"Daisy Mallett\", Mrs Spear challenged the idea that monitoring boards were truly independent.\n\n\"I want to speak out,\" said Mrs Spear in the article, which named neither individuals nor her own prison. \"I am here as the public's eyes and ears, that is my role, but my voice is silenced.\n\n\"Prisons today are starved of resources. When I make the prison aware of issues with prisoners I am made to feel like I'm an irritation to them, but I am not here to irritate the prison process.\"\n\nThe repercussions were immediate.\n\nA letter was fired off from the HQ of the Independent Monitoring Boards Secretariat - housed in the Ministry of Justice London HQ - to every IMB member in the country.\n\nIn it, president John Thornhill alleged Daisy Mallett's article contained \"inaccuracies and misunderstandings\".\n\nHe warned the Justice Secretary (then Michael Gove) had been alerted and \"legal advice\" sought.\n\nIn less than a year, Mrs Spear would be unmasked, suspended, involved in various hearings and ultimately sacked from her voluntary role as an IMB chairman.\n\nHer experience echoes that of Ray Bewry, who to this day is the only former prisoner (his conviction was eventually quashed) to have served on an IMB.\n\n\"Any effective IMB member cannot do their job,\" claims Mr Bewry who served for a decade on the IMB at HMP Norwich.\n\n\"They want them to do what they are told, and not rock the boat.\"\n\nAt no stage did Mrs Spear seek to deny being Daisy Mallett\n\nHaving revealed she had three years of service and a degree in criminology, the outing of Daisy Mallett was perhaps inevitable.\n\nSure enough, within days of publication Mrs Spear, a mother of three, was called at home by then vice chairman Christine Smart asking her if she was behind the article.\n\nMrs Spear confirmed that she was.\n\nAnd at the April 2016 meeting of her IMB board, Mrs Spear was made to read out a statement confessing to being the author of the offending article.\n\nShe was then expected to resign.\n\n\"It had already been planned as to how it was going be,\" she said. \"I was ambushed.\"\n\n\"Faith just walked on to a minefield,\" says Mr Leech, the Thailand-based founder and editor of The Prisons Handbook.\n\n\"She should have refused to answer any questions and just move on with her business as chairman.\"\n\nPerhaps. But hindsight is a beautiful thing.\n\nFaith Spear is a known regular at Justice Committee meetings in Parliament\n\n\"I read my statement then had 50 minutes of every member questioning me, bullying me, taunting me. It was one of the worst experiences I have endured,\" Mrs Spear says.\n\nSent outside for 40 minutes, she was then told her board had unanimously decreed she should \"step down as chairman\".\n\n\"If I did not, there was an ultimatum,\" she said. \"They would not work with me.\"\n\nSo what caused such a revolt?\n\nMr Leech believes the most likely trigger was that Mrs Spear \"criticised the recruitment process\".\n\nThis, he said, was tantamount to suggesting some IMB members were not up to the job.\n\nRay Bewry is the only former prisoner to have served on an IMB\n\nThe IMB Secretariat told the BBC it encourages members \"to engage in the national debate on prison standards\" though it cautioned \"this must be a way that does not compromise their independence and draws upon evidence and experience\".\n\nThe secretariat would not comment on the \"specifics\" of Mrs Spear's case, saying \"any questions on the termination of an IMB member should be directed to the MoJ press office as these are ministerial appointments\".\n\nSomething else happened while Mrs Spear was absent from the boardroom. Nomination forms were created for her successor and a new vice chairman.\n\nMrs Spear only learned of this because a fellow member broke ranks and sent a chain of emails to her.\n\nOne, from Mrs Spear's predecessor Dr David Smith to the then vice chairman Christine Smart, concerned \"nominees for board positions\".\n\nIn it, he wrote: \"A delicate one, that was devised in the hope or expectation that Faith would resign.\n\n\"She has not and if she became aware that nominations had been requested, it would add fuel to the fire.\n\n\"I suppose we could always tear up the nomination forms and pretend it never happened.\"\n\nMr Leech, who was also sent copies of the leaked emails, said: \"What we had here were people saying 'we will just rip it up and pretend it never happened'.\"\n\nJoseph Spear told how his wife ceased eating properly after the board meeting revolt\n\nThe BBC approached Dr Smith and Mrs Smart about both the attempt to get Mrs Spear to stand down and the leaked emails.\n\nDr Smith declined to explain what he intended by his emails to fellow board members.\n\nHowever, he said an investigation into the matter had concluded that those \"complained about had no case to answer as the allegations against them had not been substantiated\".\n\nMrs Smart too said the matter had been \"independently investigated and reported to the minister and a decision taken\" adding: \"I have nothing further to add.\"\n\nThe Ministry of Justice was asked whether the nomination forms were a contravention of IMB rules and whether it felt Mrs Spear's allegations of bullying behaviour against fellow IMB members had been properly investigated. Neither question was answered.\n\nBoth Mrs Smart and Dr Smith subsequently resigned from the IMB of Hollesley Bay.\n\nFor weeks after that fateful meeting in April, Mrs Spear continued to carry out prison visits at Hollesley Bay.\n\nAnd at the May 2016 board meeting, she found herself sitting alone.\n\n\"There have been some real lows. Seeing the physical and mental impact on Faith in front of me was remarkable.\"\n\nDuring this time, she spoke about her experience to the East Anglian Daily Times (EADT).\n\nIn June, she found she had been suspended. A letter from previous prisons minister Andrew Selous cited the EADT article - and not the Prisons Handbook piece - as grounds for the suspension .\n\nA few months after Mrs Spear was suspended, her worst fears about prisons were realised with a string of riots including at Bedford , Birmingham and Swaleside in Kent\n\nThe letter told her she was accused of \"failing to treat colleagues with respect\" and for \"acting in a manner which could bring discredit or cause embarrassment to the IMB\".\n\n\"It was just astonishing what people had engineered against her,\" says Mr Spear. \"I have seen her rebound and find her feet and a place to rearticulate the issues she was concerned about.\"\n\nIndependent Monitoring Boards are \"part of the UK's obligations to the United Nations for independent monitoring of prisons\", says Mr Leech.\n\n\"IMBs need to be fit for purpose. They are not. They are groomed to be quiet.\"\n\nThe Ministry of Justice said: \"We value the work of Independent Monitoring Boards which play a vital role in ensuring prisons are places of safety and reform.\"\n\nA few months after Mrs Spear was suspended, her worst fears were realised with a string of prison riots at places such as Bedford , Birmingham, Lewes and Swaleside in Kent.\n\nAt Bedford, £1m of damage was caused while in Birmingham stairwells were set alight and paper records destroyed during trouble on four wings of the category B prison.\n\nThe IMB Secretariat issued a statement on the riots. Its irony was not lost on Mrs Spear.\n\nIn it, Mr Thornhill claimed: \"IMB members have regularly expressed great frustration that their real concerns about the state of prisons has been largely ignored over the years.\"\n\nHe spoke of \"serious issues\" and \"staff shortages\", words not too far removed from Mrs Spear's own warnings that prisons were being \"starved of resources\".\n\nAnd then, in January, she was sacked as IMB chairman.\n\n\"The crisis in our prisons has never been as bad as it is now,\" says Mr Leech.\n\n\"In the case of the Faith, they shot the messenger and they did not read the message.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The claim: Brexit Secretary David Davis said in March that the repeal bill would allow the UK Parliament and Welsh, Scottish and Northern Ireland administrations to scrap, amend and improve laws.\n\nReality Check verdict: The bill will repeal the European Communities Act, but it will not change EU laws - it will turn them into UK laws. The UK could, if it wanted to, make changes to those laws after it leaves the EU, probably in 2019.\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May says that after Brexit, UK laws will be \"made not in Brussels but in Westminster\".\n\nIn order to do this, her government will use its Brexit repeal bill, officially called the European Union (Withdrawal) Bill.\n\nThe bill will do two things.\n\nFirst, the bill will repeal the European Communities Act, the British law that took the UK into the European Community in 1973 and established the supremacy of EU law over domestic legislation.\n\nSecond, it will transpose the entire body of EU legislation into domestic law.\n\nThe UK Parliament currently has no power to repeal EU legislation.\n\nIt is hard to calculate exactly what proportion of UK laws come from the EU - estimates range from 13% to 60%.\n\nTransposing EU legislation into domestic law will not be a simple \"copy and paste\" job. The House of Commons library says it could be \"one of the largest legislative projects ever undertaken in the UK\".\n\nMany EU laws, for example on the environment, refer to EU agencies that the UK will no longer be part of when it leaves the Union.\n\nThe repeal bill will have to find new ways of making those rules part of UK law. Any rules that cannot be transferred will have to be repealed.\n\nThe government has controversial plans to give ministers the power to make changes to some laws without full Parliamentary scrutiny, which could add further complications.\n\nThey are known as Henry VIII clauses, after the Statute of Proclamations 1539, which gave the king power to legislate by proclamation.\n\nSome opposition politicians are concerned this could mean an executive power grab - the government changing laws without proper scrutiny by MPs. The government says these powers will only be used to deal with EU-related gaps in the law, not to make substantive policy changes.\n\nAfter the bill comes into effect, probably in March 2019, the UK Parliament, and the devolved administrations in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, will be able to amend, scrap or keep laws that originated from the EU.\n\nThat process is likely to take many years.\n\nUPDATE 13 July 2017: This article was updated to include the publication of the bill and its official name.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The station remained closed for more than two hours\n\nAbout 2,000 people were evacuated and trains cancelled or delayed due to an electrical fire at London Paddington.\n\nThe station was cleared at 19:30 BST due to the fire in an intake room, which London Fire Brigade (LFB) tweeted to say had been put out at 22:00.\n\nPassengers were later let back into the station to wait on the concourse.\n\nMatt Willis, of Arriva Trains Wales, said on Twitter that some services had departed, including the 22:30 to Reading and the 22:45 to Swansea.\n\nA Network Rail spokesman said platforms one to six had reopened.\n\nHe said the others would remained closed until firefighters gave the all-clear.\n\nGavin Fellows, 50, a cyber security consultant from Gloucester, criticised the lack of information.\n\n\"I've been waiting for two hours. I was told it was going to reopen at 9.30pm,\" he said.\n\n\"I was in the station when the alarm went off and it said 'emergency situation, please evacuate'. There hasn't been any communication. I'm not happy.\"\n\nAn LFB spokesman said firefighters left the scene after the fire burnt itself out.\n\nGreat Western Railway customers were advised to use Chiltern Railways, CrossCountry, South West Trains and London Underground.", "Students do not realise how few hours they might get in lectures and seminars\n\n\"This is only going to end one way,\" says Lord Adonis, Labour peer and one of the architects of an earlier version of tuition fees.\n\n\"Almost no-one inside or outside government thinks they will survive.\"\n\nBefore last month's general election, the position of tuition fees in England looked unassailable.\n\nThe government had rammed through legislation at the last minute, increasing fees to £9,250 per year.\n\nAnd the proposal by Labour to scrap tuition fees had been met by university leaders with a polite shrug.\n\nBut there seems to have been a huge sea-change in attitudes.\n\nSo what has made such a difference?\n\n\"The straw that broke the camel's back,\" says Lord Adonis, has been \"indefensible\" interest rates of 6.1%.\n\nLord Adonis says tuition fees are now as politically doomed as the poll tax\n\nThis has focused attention on the scale of debt from higher fees and interest rates - spinning upwards to £50,000 so far for an average graduate, with fees set to increase every year with inflation.\n\n\"It's about as bad a political gambit as you could imagine,\" says Lord Adonis.\n\n\"Can you seriously see the Conservatives going in to the next election with fees at £10,000, interest rates at 7% and debts at £60,000?\"\n\nHe argues that a reformed version of the fee system could have survived with cross-party support, but now it has become irredeemably toxic.\n\nEven if fees were \"cut drastically\", he says, it would still not be enough for young people, who will want them to be completely scrapped.\n\nAnd a partial reduction would still mean a financial black hole, with \"lots of political pain for not much gain\".\n\nThe inescapable outcome, says Lord Adonis, is that an entirely different approach will be needed to fund universities.\n\nThe sense of political doom hanging over fees, he says, reminds him of the poll tax.\n\nLord Adonis is the type of reforming Labour politician the Conservatives like to applaud.\n\nWith a minority government hanging by a parliamentary thread, any cross-party push on reforming fees would cause ministers deep problems.\n\nAnd concerns about fees are emerging.\n\nJustine Greening says removing fees would mean limiting places\n\nConservative MP Nick Boles, writing in the Guardian, said charging high interest before students had even finished their courses was \"simply unacceptable\".\n\nThe meter on interest charges starts running as soon as courses begin, with the Institute for Fiscal Studies saying students would owe £5,800 in interest charges before they even graduated.\n\n\"It is unutterably depressing for hard-working students to see the amount they owe spiralling upwards, before they have even started paying it off,\" Mr Boles wrote.\n\nThe election saw huge swings to Labour in university seats - and any Conservative MP defending a narrow majority might want to review a system that will see tuition fees rising every year.\n\nThis is also a very middle-England issue. More than half a million young people start university each year.\n\nAccording to the IFS, middle earners could end up paying £40,000 in interest charges, on top of what they have borrowed.\n\nProf David Green, vice-chancellor of the University of Worcester, says the current fee arrangements have \"lost credibility\" when they become a long-term pay cut for people such as nurses.\n\nFor nurses and midwives, he says, it will mean \"their debt never diminishes in real terms until it is eventually written off after 30 years\".\n\n\"Instead, they will simply receive a take-home pay cut of 4.7% and a shackle of a growing £50,000 debt.\n\n\"This makes absolutely no sense when there is a significant and growing national shortage throughout England of both nurses and midwives.\"\n\nThe way interest is levied is also under scrutiny.\n\nEstelle Clarke, a former City lawyer on the advisory board of the Intergenerational Foundation think tank, says student loans have less consumer finance protection than a basic product such as a credit card.\n\nShe says if they were properly regulated, they would be unlikely to apply the monthly compound interest used for student loans.\n\nAnd if inflation goes up further - as is entirely possible - interest charges for students will also rise, adding to student loan debts that have already passed £100bn.\n\nThis could become even more complicated, as the government is planning to sell off students' debts to private investors.\n\nSo what will happen next?\n\nAny rowing back would mean taking a political hit and accusations of a U-turn.\n\nBut sticking to the current plans would mean committing to a long upward curve in fees, which would be even more controversial by the next election.\n\nThe Education Secretary Justine Greening says there needs to be a more honest debate about the cost of scrapping fees - both in financial terms to the public finances and in removing the funding for extra places.\n\n\"I'm someone who was the first person in my family to be able to go to university, and that matters to me a huge amount,\" says Ms Greening.\n\n\"I think the debate has revolved around what's the best way to enable access to our universities.\n\n\"We've seen a debate about whether that's no fees or no cap.\n\n\"When you bring a cap in, that means fewer students have a chance to go to university.\n\n\"We know that when there are fewer places at university, who gets them?\n\n\"We know that it's students who are doing better in our school system - and that tends to be students from better-off families.\n\n\"I really do feel that the Labour party should come clean to young people about the consequences of its no-fees policy.\n\n\"They should be frank with people that what they've said in the run-up to the election about effectively writing off student debt was a false promise.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Fire crews battled the flames in the country's south\n\nAround 700 tourists have been rescued by boat from wildfires in Sicily, as swathes of southern Italy battle blazes.\n\nAs flames neared the seaside resort of Calampiso, fishermen and boat-owners were drafted in to aid the evacuation.\n\nMatteo Rizzo, the mayor of nearby San Vito Lo Capo, appealed for help from \"anyone with safe and reliable boats\".\n\nWriting on Facebook, he called the situation at the village west of Palermo \"very urgent\".\n\nEvacuees were taken to schools in San Vito, and the mayor urged his \"friendly and generous\" town to pull together.\n\n\"We need minibuses and cars to pick people up at the little port and take them to school buildings,\" he said. \"Let's all do something.\"\n\nThe view from Naples as smoke billows from fires around Mount Vesuvius\n\nThere are no reports of injuries caused by the Calampiso fire, but witnesses described running to the beach as their accommodation burned.\n\nItalian paper La Stampa quoted one evacuated tourist, Stella Belliotti, as saying: \"We fled in swimwear and slippers. Our apartment was engulfed in flames. They were right above us. I took my daughter and I went to the beach. They made us go on the boats that go around Zingaro. First women and children, and then the others.\"\n\nTemperatures in Italy's arid south have reached over 40C (104F) after months of little rainfall.\n\nImages from the slopes of Mount Vesuvius, in the southern region of Campania, show clouds of smoke over a kilometre high pouring into the air near Naples.\n\nThe national fire service said it was engaged in 441 operations across Italy on Wednesday, including 288 wildfires. Those at Vesuvius are among the most serious.\n\nAround 70 firefighters have tackled the huge fire on the ground, alongside Civil Protection volunteers, and three helicopters have been deployed.\n\nEnvironment Minister Gian Luca Galletti said a man had been arrested on suspicion of arson in the area.\n\n\"If someone set fire to Vesuvius, I want to see them in jail for 15 years,\" Italian media quoted him as saying.\n\nCalampiso was safely evacuated, with around 700 tourists rescued by sea\n\nThe minister said a decision would be made shortly about whether to send the army to assist the stricken areas.\n\nThe World Wildlife Fund has warned that thousands of people, animals, and a nature reserve are at risk around the volcano.\n\nItaly's government declared a state of emergency last week in response to the drought in the northern provinces of Parma and Piacenza, and opposition politicians are demanding the same for the wildfires.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Theresa May was talking to BBC Radio 5 Live\n\nTheresa May has revealed she shed a \"little tear\" when she learned the result of the election exit poll suggesting she would lose her majority.\n\nThe prime minister said her husband Philip told her the news - and it came as a \"complete shock\".\n\n\"It took a few minutes for it to sink in,\" she told BBC Radio 5 Live's Emma Barnett, because \"we didn't see that result coming\".\n\n\"My husband gave me a hug,\" she added, and she cried a \"little tear\".\n\nThe prime minister said she did not watch the exit poll herself, as \"I have a little bit of superstition about things like that\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This is the moment Mrs May missed...\n\nShe knew her campaign had not been \"perfect\", she added, but all the indications she had had were that she would increase her Commons majority.\n\nMrs May called 8 June's general election to tighten her grip on power and strengthen her hand in Brexit talks by increasing the number of Conservative MPs in the Commons.\n\nBut although she started more than 20 points ahead of Labour in the opinion polls she lost most of that lead as well as 22 seats, wiping out the 17 seat majority she had inherited from predecessor David Cameron.\n\nThe ITV/Sky/BBC exit poll, which was carried out at polling stations across the UK, was met with surprise and scepticism by MPs from all parties when it was announced as voting ended - the widespread assumption had still been that the Conservatives would at least keep their majority.\n\nBut as the night unfolded its prediction that the Conservatives would be the largest party, but without an overall majority, turned out to be accurate.\n\nTalking for the first time about her reaction to the result, she said it took a \"few minutes\" for it to sink in but she then got on the phone to Conservative campaign headquarters to \"find out what had happened\".\n\nShe said it was \"devastating\" to watch people she had worked with for years lose their seats but added: \"I didn't consider stepping down because I felt there was a responsibility to ensure that the country still had a government.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAsked about the criticism she faced for failing to acknowledge her lost majority in a speech in Downing Street the following day, Mrs May said: \"At that point in time I felt what was important was giving people the confidence of knowing there was going to be a government.\"\n\nShe said she did not regret calling the election because \"I think it was the right thing to do at the time\".\n\nIn her bid to promote strength and stability during the election, Theresa May was often accused of being repetitive and robotic.\n\nMrs May's candid interview may come too late for those who weren't persuaded by her personality during the election, but no doubt her team will hope it helps garner public support for her still precarious premiership.\n\nBut she wished she had put across a more positive message during the campaign and, in particular, addressed the concerns of young people, who are believed to have voted in large numbers for Labour.\n\nThe \"clear message\" that came through from young people was that they feared they could not get on the \"property ladder\", she told Emma Barnett.\n\n\"Looking back on the campaign, I realise now and regret that we were not making more of that,\" she said.\n\nShe insisted her government had the \"humility\" to \"listen to the message we got from people at the election\".\n\nOne of those messages, she said, was that people wanted to see a \"greater consensus\" in Parliament, which was why she had appealed for support from Labour on Brexit and other policies.\n\nOn Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn - who was the target of Conservative attacks on his character and judgement during the campaign - she praised the way he had reacted to the terror attack at Finsbury Park in his constituency.\n\n\"I saw a Jeremy Corbyn there who was a good constituency MP, working with those people,\" she said.", "Blurred Lines made more than $5m (£3m) for Pharrell Williams (left) and Robin Thicke\n\nArtists are being advised not to state publicly who they're inspired by on their new music, the Victoria Derbyshire programme has learned. Could this stifle their creativity?\n\n\"There is no such thing as a completely original composition,\" says music producer and songwriter Nile Rodgers.\n\n\"We learn music by practising. And what do we practise? We practise patterns. We practise scales.\n\n\"The art of music-making is the reinterpretation of those rules that we learned.\"\n\nYou would be hard-pushed to find a musician in the charts whose work hasn't taken inspiration from their idols and contemporaries.\n\nNow though, music experts have told the Victoria Derbyshire programme that artists are being advised not to mention publicly who has inspired them.\n\nThis is because of a high-profile copyright infringement case in which US jurors ruled that Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams, on their song Blurred Lines, had copied Marvin Gaye's Got To Give It Up.\n\nThe Gaye family estate was awarded $7.3m (£4.8m) in damages, although an appeal has since been launched.\n\nThe verdict sent reverberations around the industry, with particular attention being paid to the fact that in court Pharrell Williams said Marvin Gaye's music was part of the soundtrack of his youth, and that he was \"channelling... that late 70s feeling\" in Blurred Lines.\n\nAccording to forensic musicologist Peter Oxendale \"everyone's concerned that inspiration can [now be interpreted as] a catalyst for infringement.\n\n\"All of these companies are worried that if a track is referenced on another at all, there may be a claim being brought,\" he explains.\n\nMr Oxendale says some artists are now having the requirement to name their influences written into contracts by their record labels - although he would not specify names.\n\n\"Many of the companies that I work with ask the producers and the artists to declare all of the tracks that may have been used as inspiration for their new tracks,\" he says.\n\nHe also confirmed that he is being sent new music to check the possibility of future copyright infringement claims.\n\nBut Richard Busch, the lawyer working on behalf of the some Marvin Gaye family members, says the industry has misunderstood the reasons why the Blurred Lines ruling was made, and that the judgement was not based on the \"feel\" or the \"groove\" of the song, as has been claimed.\n\n\"That's the story the Pharrell and Robin Thicke camp have been telling to try to drum up support. This 'the sky is falling', 'no-one is going to be able to create music', 'you'll be sued for whistling in public' - it's just not true.\n\n\"If anyone was actually aware of the evidence and the facts that they presented, you'll know it went far beyond that.\n\n\"In fact, I believe we had 15 different compositional elements that we identified as being significantly similar between Blurred Lines and Got To Give It Up.\"\n\nNevertheless, Simon Dixon - one of the lawyers for Ed Sheeran, Sir Elton John and the Rolling Stones - says the judgement has made some people in the industry nervous.\n\n\"[The court case] wouldn't have been decided the same way over here [in the UK],\" he explains.\n\n\"So as a result, everyone felt they knew what the law was, they knew what the parameters were.\n\n\"And when you know what the laws are and the rules are you get comfortable. This injects an element of grey into the picture.\n\n\"So as a result people are less certain now about what they can and can't do. And as a result, everybody feels a bit nervous.\"\n\nFor singer-songwriter Laura Mvula, however, if a musician is looking to create their own original material, the ruling should not be a concern.\n\n\"We're all inspired by something, there are influences in everything,\" she says.\n\n\"But I just think the responsibility of the songwriter is always to push forward.\"\n\nFellow singer-songwriter Gary Numan believes it is just a case of musicians ensuring that influences are used to progress their own work.\n\n\"We all listen to stuff and we all get ideas from the things we listen to. And the trick of it is to turn those ideas into something new rather than just repeat them or copy them.\n\n\"Every fire starts with a spark, every song starts with an idea.\n\n\"You're influenced simply by listening to music. Even if you don't like the music, it's going to have some impact on what you do.\"\n\nIn just over two months' time, the Gaye family, Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams will be back in court as the appeal process begins.\n\nThe Blurred Lines singers will be hoping they will be successful this time around.\n\nBut whatever the verdict, the industry is likely to remain extremely wary about copyright when it comes to releasing new music.\n\nWatch the Victoria Derbyshire programme on weekdays between 09:00 and 11:00 on BBC Two and the BBC News channel.", "Mother Teresa wore a simple white sari with three blue stripes on the border\n\nFor nearly half a century, Mother Teresa, the Roman Catholic nun who worked with the poor in the Indian city of Kolkata (Calcutta) wore a simple white sari with three blue stripes on the borders, one thicker than the rest. Senior nuns who work for Missionaries of Charity, a 67-year-old sisterhood which has more than 3,000 nuns worldwide, continue to wear what has now become the religious uniform of this global order.\n\nOn Monday, news washed up that this \"famous\" sari of the Nobel laureate nun, who died in 1997, has been trademarked to prevent \"unfair\" use by people for commercial purposes. India's government quietly recognised the sari as the intellectual property of the Missionaries of Charity in September last year, when the nun was declared a saint by the Vatican, but the order had decided not to make it public.\n\nBiswajit Sarkar, a Kolkata-based lawyer who works pro-bono for the order, says he had applied for the trademark in 2013. \"It just came to my mind that the colour-identified blue border of the sari had to be protected to prevent any future misuse for commercial purposes,\" he told me. \"If you want to wear or use the colour pattern in any form, you can write to us and if we are convinced that there is no commercial motive, we will allow it.\"\n\nThe austere blue-trimmed white sari has long been identified with the nun and her order. The story goes that in 1948, the Albanian nun, with permission from Rome, began wearing it and a small cross across her shoulder. According to some accounts, the nun chose the blue border as it was associated with purity. For more than three decades, the saris have been woven by leprosy patients living in a home run by the order on the outskirts of Kolkata.\n\nNuns say Mother Teresa had issued orders before her death that her name \"should not be exploited for commercial purposes\".\n\nThe austere blue-trimmed white sari has long been identified with the nun and her order\n\nAccordingly, Mr Sarkar helped the order to trademark her name two decades back. Still, nuns of the order have complained that Mother Teresa's name was being exploited for commercial gain: a school being run in her name in Nepal where teachers complained of not receiving salaries; a priest raising funds in Romania using the order's name; shops near the order's headquarters in Kolkata telling customers that proceeds from memorabilia sales were donated to the order; and a cooperative bank in India curiously named after the nun.\n\n\"So we decided to do something about it,\" says Mr Sarkar. \"Through this we are trying to tell the world that her name and reputation should not be misused.\"\n\nOwning a trademark on a colour can be a tricky business. In 2013 Nestle won a court battle against confectionery rival Cadbury, over the latter's attempt to trademark the purple colour - known as Pantone 2865c - of its Dairy Milk bars.\n\nIt is also not clear how this trademark on the famous blue striped sari will be enforced. Many online shopping sites already sell variations of \"unisex Mother Teresa dress\" - blue bordered sari, and a long sleeved blouse.\n\nAlso, the move is bound to raise the hackles of the nun's critics - and she has her fair share of them - who have accused her of glorifying poverty, hobnobbing with dictators, running shambolic care facilities and proselytising. \"How can anybody appropriate a sari, which has been a traditional Indian dress,\" one of them asked me, preferring to remain unnamed.\n\nDesigners like Anand Bhushan differ. \"Some designs of the traditional Indian towel called gamcha, for example, have been trademarked. There's nothing wrong in trademarking a distinctive and iconic design or pattern like Mother Teresa's sari. It's not like anybody is beginning to own the sari.\"", "The number of people applying for UK university places has fallen by more than 25,000 (4%) on last year, data from the admissions service Ucas shows.\n\nThe figures show a sharp decline in those applying to study nursing courses - down 19% - and a continued fall in the number of mature students, notably in England and Northern Ireland.\n\nThe number of EU students planning to study in the UK has fallen by 5%.\n\nIt is the first decline since fees were last increased in England, in 2012.\n\nFees in England will increase to £9,250 this year, and student loans are subject to an increase in interest rates - rising from 4.6% to 6.1% from this autumn.\n\nUniversity leaders said a number of factors could be fuelling the fall in applicants, including Brexit, higher fees and funding changes for trainee nurses and midwives.\n\nFrom 1 August, new nursing, midwifery and most allied health students in England will no longer receive NHS bursaries - instead, they will have access to the same student loans system as other students.\n\nThe latest Ucas figures show the number of people who had applied to UK universities for the coming academic year by the 30 June deadline was 649,700 - compared with 674,890 in 2016.\n\nThere have been reductions in applicants from all four countries in the UK. There were:\n\nApplications from EU students fell from 51,850 in 2016 to 49,250 this year.\n\nHowever, applicants from overseas countries outside of the European Union are up 2%, from 69,300 in 2016 to 70,830 this year.\n\nThere has been a significant drop in mature students (those aged 25 and over) in England and Northern Ireland - down 18% (11,190) and 13% (220) respectively.\n\nDr Mark Corver, Ucas director of analysis and research, said: \"Within the figures, there are contrasting trends.\n\n\"How these trends translate into students at university and colleges will become clear over the next six weeks, as applicants get their results and secure their places and new applicants apply direct to Ucas's clearing process.\"\n\nProf Les Ebdon, director of Fair Access to Higher Education, said: \"The downward trend in mature student numbers is now one of the most pressing issues in fair access to higher education.\n\n\"Undoubtedly, the reasons behind the fall are complex and multiple, but universities and colleges should look to do what they can to reverse the decline in mature student applications, as a matter of urgency.\"\n\nDame Julia Goodfellow, president of Universities UK, said universities recognised that there were a number of issues to address.\n\n\"Continuing to communicate to European applicants that they are welcome and enrich our education system is important,\" she said.\n\n\"The decline in part-time and mature student entrants must also be addressed.\n\n\"We recognise also the concern about the total cost of going to university.\n\n\"Any analysis needs to cover the cost of maintenance and the interest rate on the loans.\"\n\nSarah Stevens, head of policy at the Russell Group, said it would be a concern if EU students were being put off by the uncertainties of Brexit.\n\n\"It's positive that applications from overseas students outside the EU have risen slightly,\" he said.\n\n\"International students bring social and cultural diversity to our campuses and this benefits all students, and they contribute £25.8bn to the UK economy.\"\n\nThe Department for Education pointed out that the number of 18-year-olds applying for university was at record levels despite the fall in the overall number of applicants.\n\nA spokeswoman said: \"Higher education reforms will give people more choice and universities will be expected to continue improving access and participation in higher education.\n\n\"The government is committed to supporting all young people to reach their full potential - whether that is going to university, starting an apprenticeship or taking up a technical qualification.\"\n\nPam Tatlow, chief executive of MillionPlus, said the application data from Ucas was \"not good news\".\n\n\"As predicted, the abolition of bursaries has depressed rather than increased applications for nursing and there will be no additional nurses trained in spite of ministers' assurances,\" she said.\n\n\"There is no doubt that the government's approach to Brexit is damaging and is creating huge uncertainties, both for EU students and UK universities.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPresident Donald Trump says the mood in the White House is \"fantastic\" despite intense scrutiny of his campaign's alleged dealings with Russia.\n\nHe told Reuters the administration was \"functioning beautifully\".\n\nThe president also defended his son, who it has emerged met a Russian lawyer during the election campaign.\n\nUS media describe the White House as being in chaos over the story, with a Trump ally calling it a \"Category 5 hurricane\", the Washington Post said.\n\nDonald Trump Jr met Natalia Veselnitskaya believing she had information that would damage his father's opponent Hillary Clinton.\n\nMr Trump Jr told Fox News the meeting was \"such a nothing\", and \"a wasted 20 minutes\", but accepted he should have handled it differently.\n\nCritics say he may have broken federal laws.\n\nSenate Judiciary Committee chairman Chuck Grassley has said he he is asking Mr Trump Jr to testify and will subpoena him if necessary.\n\nUS intelligence believe Moscow tried to sway the 2016 election in Mr Trump's favour and there are ongoing investigations into potential links between Mr Trump's campaign team and Russia.\n\nPresident Trump's latest comments come at the start of his two-day trip to France. He is meeting French counterpart Emmanuel Macron ahead of Bastille Day on Friday, and celebrations will also commemorate the entry 100 years ago of US troops into World War One.\n\nDonald Trump and wife Melania will be guests of honour at France's Bastille Day festivities\n\nDespite early tensions over climate change and trade, President Macron has made more of an effort recently to woo Mr Trump in a bid to boost France's influence on the world stage, says the BBC's Lucy Williamson in Paris.\n\nBefore he left Washington on Wednesday, President Trump sought to dispel media reports saying his administration was in crisis over alleged collusion between his campaign team and Russia, telling Reuters it was \"a hoax made up by the Democrats\".\n\nHe has previously suggested other agents may have meddled in the election, despite senior officials in his own administration blaming Russia.\n\nMr Trump said he had not been aware of his son's meeting with Ms Veselnitskaya until a couple of days ago.\n\nDefending Donald Jr's decision to attend, he added: \"Many people, and many political pros, said everybody would do that.\"\n\nThe president described the election campaign as \"a wild time\" when \"we would meet with many people\".\n\nHe refused to say that he regretted Donald Jr's actions, commenting: \"Most of the phony politicians who are Democrats who I watched over the last couple of days... would have taken that meeting in a heartbeat.\"\n\nIn another interview, with the Christian Broadcasting Network, he also said he gets along \"very well\" with Russia's President Vladimir Putin.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Less tweeting, more doing\" - views from Trump heartland in Nebraska\n\nHis comments came days after his much-anticipated meeting with Mr Putin at the G20 summit in Hamburg.\n\n\"People said, oh, they shouldn't get along. Well, who are the people saying that? I think we get along very, very well,\" he said.\n\nMr Trump cited the recent ceasefire in south-western Syria as an example of how co-operation with Mr Putin worked.\n\nHe said he was sure the Russians would have preferred to have Democrat Hillary Clinton in the White House.\n\nWhy? \"If Hillary had won, our military would be decimated,\" he said.\n\n\"Our energy would be much more expensive. That's what Putin doesn't like about me. And that's why I say, why would he want me?\"\n\nHe told Reuters he had asked Mr Putin flat-out if his government meddled in the US election.\n\n\"I said, 'Did you do it?' He said, 'No, I did not, absolutely not.' I then asked him a second time, in a totally different way. He said, 'Absolutely not.'\"\n\n\"Somebody did say, if he did do it, you wouldn't have found out about it. Which is a very interesting point.\"", "\"I've had lots of brushes with death,\" said Mr Nadeau (left), \"but death keeps ignoring me\"\n\nNo one likes a dull wedding, but one father-of-the-bride's speech was a little too electrifying at his daughter's ceremony last weekend.\n\nJP Nadeau was reportedly struck by lightning mid-sentence in his apple orchard in New Brunswick, Canada.\n\n\"And just as I told my new son-in-law 'You're a lucky guy' - Boom!\" he told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.\n\nAside from a small scar on his thumb, Mr Nadeau says he was unscathed and the wedding proceeded.\n\nStorm clouds had gathered behind him at the ceremony on 8 July, he said, and his daughter saw lightning strike the ground nearby.\n\n\"I had the microphone and the shock jumped into the sound system and my hand just lit up and I saw the spark,\" he told the CBC.\n\n\"And I'm looking at my hand and it's all flared up… It was like I was holding a lightning bolt in my hand, it was amazing.\"\n\nEveryone was stunned at first, but that didn't stop the happy couple from continuing with the festivities.\n\n\"It was a beautiful wedding,\" Mr Nadeau's wife, Maggy Thomas, told the CBC.\n\n\"But that was pretty terrifying for a second.\"\n\nMr Nadeau says he's a lucky-unlucky man - in 2015, a cruise ship he was working on near the Falkland Islands caught fire, and he was rescued by the Royal Air Force.\n\n\"I've had lots of brushes with death,\" said Mr Nadeau. \"But death keeps ignoring me.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Le Boreal\" had 347 passengers and crew on board", "An aristocrat who wrote an online post offering £5,000 to anyone who ran over businesswoman Gina Miller has been sentenced to 12 weeks in prison.\n\nRhodri Colwyn Philipps - the 4th Viscount St Davids - posted on Facebook four days after Ms Miller won a Brexit legal challenge against the government.\n\nPhilipps, 50, of Knightsbridge, central London, was found guilty of two charges of making menacing communications.\n\nThe other count related to his response to a news article about an immigrant.\n\nAt his Westminster Magistrates' Court trial Philipps claimed the post about Ms Miller was a \"joke\" and a \"conversation piece for his Facebook friends\".\n\nSenior district judge Emma Arbuthnot said she had \"no doubt it was menacing\".\n\nShe told the peer the post effectively put a \"bounty\" on Ms Miller's head and had left the businesswoman \"shocked\" and feeling \"violated.\"\n\nPhilipps had written: \"£5,000 for the first person to 'accidentally' run over this bloody troublesome first generation immigrant.\"\n\nDescribing Ms Miller as a \"boat jumper\", he added: \"If this is what we should expect from immigrants, send them back to their stinking jungles.\"\n\nBusinesswoman Gina Miller campaigned for Parliament to have a say over Brexit\n\nGiving evidence to the trial, Ms Miller - who was born in Guyana - said she had been the subject of death threats since her role in November's legal challenge which ruled the government had to consult Parliament before formally beginning the Brexit process.\n\nThe other post Philipps was convicted over was about an immigrant and his family in Luton who were involved in a row over housing.\n\nBefore sentencing, defence lawyer Sabrina Felix told the court Philipps understood how his actions had \"impacted\" on the subjects of his posts, and \"he only hopes, wishes and prays that they do accept his sincere apology\".\n\nMs Felix added \"he accepts that the comments were wholly disgraceful\" and \"menacing in character\".\n\nBut the judge said Philipps was \"so clearly showing hostility to Ms Miller based on her race or ethnic origin that I find it ludicrous that he should say otherwise\".\n\nMs Arbuthnot said the the peer had a hatred of anyone who had different views to his and \"anyone who has recently arrived in the country\".\n\nShe added: \"You show this hatred by publicly directing abusive threats at others which is a criminal offence in this multi-racial society we are lucky enough to live in.\"", "Akbar Al Baker boasted that the average age of his company's cabin crew was \"only 26\"\n\nThe chief executive of Qatar Airways has apologised for comments he made about flight attendants that were condemned as both sexist and ageist.\n\nIn a speech at a dinner in Ireland last week, Akbar Al Baker said US airlines were \"crap\" and their passengers were \"always being served by grandmothers\".\n\nHe also boasted that \"the average age of my cabin crew is only 26\".\n\nOn Wednesday, Mr Al Baker said the \"careless\" remarks did not reflect his \"true sentiments about cabin crew\".\n\n\"Competition among air carriers is robust. This is healthy, especially for our passengers, but our competition must remain respectful,\" he wrote in a letter to the Association of Flight Attendants (AFA), a US trade union that has some 50,000 members from 20 airlines.\n\n\"For the cabin crew serving aboard all air carriers, professionalism, skill and dedication are the qualities that matter. I was wrong to imply that other factors, like age, are relevant,\" he added.\n\nThe AFA's president, Sara Nelson, said she accepted the apology.\n\nOn Monday, after a video of Mr Al Baker's speech was posted online, Ms Nelson accused him of confirming \"what AFA has said all along: Qatar Airways thrives on misogyny and discrimination.\n\n\"Qatar is not only seeking to choke out US aviation, but also the 300,000 good jobs built through opportunity created on the principle of equality.\"\n\nShe added: \"When there's an emergency on board, a flight attendant's gender, age, weight, height, race or sexuality simply do not matter. What matters is effective safety and security training, along with experience on the job.\"\n\nThe vice-president of flight service for American Airlines, Jill Surdek, also said in a message to employees that Mr Al Baker's remarks were \"incredibly offensive\".\n\nThe controversy comes amid a row between US carriers and Qatar Airways, Etihad Airways and Emirates Airline‎ over alleged state support for them.\n\nOn Wednesday, American Airlines announced that it was cancelling a code-share agreement with Qatar Airways and Etihad Airways as \"an extension of our stance against the illegal subsidies\". The airlines deny receiving state subsidies.\n\nMr Al Baker said he was disappointed with the decision on Thursday, but that he would proceed with plans to buy a 10% stake in American Airlines.\n\n\"Our stock purchase request and filing is going ahead as normal. We had to clarify certain questions of the regulator, which we compiled with,\" he told reporters.\n\nQatar Airways already owns a 20% stake in the owner of British Airways, International Airlines Group, and 10% of South America's LATAM Airlines.", "Architect Peter Deakins was horrified to see the burnt remains of Grenfell Tower.\n\nPeter Deakins drew up the master plan for the Grenfell estate in the mid 1960s, a scheme that was hailed at the time as a \"spectacular surprise\" by the Architects' Journal because of its scale and ambition. He was horrified to see its centrepiece, the tower, burnt out.\n\n\"I really can't get to grips with it,\" he told me. \"It's too terrible to think about. And compared to all the high hopes when we started doing it all... it's just too horrible.\"\n\nWhen plans were drawn up, more than 50 years ago, he said the area had been very rundown - the houses overcrowded, the gardens just mud, very often full of mattresses, no trees to be seen or planting.\n\n\"It was Steptoe and Son territory,\" he recalled. \"Some of it was actually filmed round here.\"\n\nThe aim of the scheme was to build better homes. Much of the housing was low-rise, but he says it was thought logical to include a tower block, with shops and offices on a lower deck. As it would have lifts, the Ministry of Housing would contribute to the cost.\n\nAlthough Peter Deakins was not the designer of the individual buildings on the Lancaster West estate - which includes Grenfell Tower - he worked on the estate as a whole and as an architect on many others, including the now-listed Golden Lane council estate and the Barbican.\n\nAn early conception of the Lancaster West site, where Grenfell Tower is situated\n\nIn those days, he says, the process was more closely overseen, which may help explain why the tower is still standing, despite the fierce fire that raged through it.\n\n\"It's a very solid building underneath, and would stand up to pretty well anything, I would think.\n\n\"The way buildings were detailed, there was so much control, there were so many fire officers involved, and building regulations under the London Building Acts - it was far more strict.\"\n\nToday many contracts are so-called \"design and build\". The architects will draw up the design, but hand over to the builder or developer once the project has been approved by the local authority planners.\n\nContractors will often take over the detailed design, meaning they will be responsible for compliance with regulations, and they will have a building control officer, who can either be employed by the local authority or work independently.\n\nContractors are responsible for assessing fire risk, instead of the old system where the local authority would inspect and provide a fire certificate.\n\nThe Royal Institute of British Architects (Riba) has highlighted the potential risk of this approach, and has also raised concerns about the virtual disappearance of the \"site architect\", who used to oversee the construction, and the \"clerk of works\" who would be based on the building site and check the work done.\n\nAt the time Grenfell Tower was built, Peter Deakins recalls, the job of site architect was often extremely hard work. \"The architect in those days was chairman at site meetings and totally responsible for everything that happened,\" he explains.\n\nBuilding sites can be dangerous places: he knew of one architect killed in an accident. But he does believe that architects should once again play a more central role and see the whole process through.\n\nLooking up at the tower, its concrete skeleton visible beneath the blackened, blistered remnants of the cladding and insulation, Peter Deakins mused that it might be strong enough to be restored.\n\nBut he paused, acknowledging that many people would much rather it came down.\n\n\"I wouldn't agree with people who say that all towers should come down. It's a bit like saying blue is better than green. But in this case, you just have to look at it. It's horrific.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA man has been convicted of raping and killing a 15-year-old girl in 1976.\n\nJanet Commins' body was found on a school field in Flint, north Wales, by three children playing hide and seek.\n\nStephen Hough, 58, from Flint, was convicted of manslaughter, rape and sexual assault at Mold Crown Court on Thursday. He was cleared of murder.\n\nJanet went missing after leaving her home to go swimming on 7 January 1976 and another man has already served six years for her manslaughter.\n\nNoel Jones, who was aged 18 at the time, admitted killing Janet and served half of 12-year prison sentence.\n\nHowever, he told the trial he was made a scapegoat by police because he was a Gypsy who could barely read or write.\n\nSpeaking after the case, Janet's uncle Derek Ierston said it was \"galling\" to think the man responsible for her death had been \"living in our community for all these years\".\n\nStephen Hough (right) was convicted 41 years after he sexually assaulted and killed Janet Commins\n\nJanet Commins left her house to go swimming with a friend and her parents Eileen and Ted never saw her alive again\n\nJanet made plans to go swimming on 7 January, but her mother said she did not look well so could not go.\n\nShe left her house without her parents knowing and left them a note saying she would be back by 20:30.\n\nShe left the pool just after 19:30 and told a friend she was heading straight home - but she was spotted with two boys at about 20:10.\n\nA boy who reported seeing them said one of the boys with her was thin and fair-haired, while the other was an older-looking, about 17, and they were laughing and joking with Janet.\n\nEdward Commins reported his daughter missing at about 23:00 that night and her body was found four days later.\n\nMr Hough was questioned at the time as his grandparents' house overlooked the area where Janet's body was concealed.\n\nHe said he was stealing petrol from a vehicle in Flint that night and was subsequently fined for the offence.\n\nIn 2006, a review of the scientific evidence in the case was carried out and DNA from a man was identified from samples taken from Janet's body.\n\nIn 2016, Mr Hough's DNA was taken by police in an unrelated matter and a match was found, prompting his arrest.\n\nDNA matching Hough's was found on samples stored from the crime scene at the time and the jury heard it was a billion times more likely to belong to Hough than anyone else.\n\nThe court heard Janet was killed during a sexual assault and there were signs her body had been left lying face down \"for some time\" before being moved to where it was found.\n\nProsecutor Mark Heywood QC said Janet died \"as a result of her neck and her external airway being compressed and blocked during that sexual assault\".\n\nHough, who was 16 years old when he raped and killed Janet, will be sentenced at a later date.\n\nJanet's uncle, Derek Ierston, read a statement on behalf of the family after the court case\n\nJanet's father Ted died many years ago after suffering with a long illness - her mother Eileen was hit with what the family described as \"a bombshell\" when she found out about the new suspect.\n\nIn a family statement read outside the court, Mr Ierston said: \"It's so galling to think that the person who so maliciously and violently took Janet's life has been living in our community for all these years.\n\n\"The difficulty for the family is that he has had a life, been married and had children. But he stole Janet's future and took away the opportunity for Eileen, Ted and the rest of the family to see Janet grow up, get married and have her own children.\n\n\"Today's verdict cannot bring Janet back to us, but hopefully the weeks and months to come will provide us with some closure.\"\n\nThe Independent Police Complaints Commission is investigating how North Wales Police handled the original investigation.", "The skeleton has been given a diving pose - as if it is feeding on a ball of krill\n\nLondon's Natural History Museum (NHM) has undergone a major revamp with a blue whale skeleton now forming the main exhibit as visitors come through the front door.\n\nThe marine mammal replaces the much-loved Diplodocus dinosaur, \"Dippy\", which will soon head out on a tour of the UK.\n\nThe museum believes the change will give its image a refresh.\n\nIt wants to be known more for its living science than its old fossils.\n\nThe museum employs hundreds of researchers who engage in active study on a day-to-day basis.\n\nYes, they use the 80 million-odd specimens kept at the South Kensington institution, but their focus is on learning new things that bear down on the modern world. In that sense, the blue whale is regarded as the perfect emblem.\n\nThe specimen is being given the name \"Hope\" as a \"symbol of humanity's power to shape a sustainable future\".\n\nBlue whales are now making a recovery following decades of exploitation that nearly drove them out of existence.\n\nThe Natural History Museum is closed to the public all day Thursday for final preparations\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nStaff have spent months preparing the 126-year-old skeleton for its new role.\n\nFirst, it had to be removed from its old hanging space in the mammals gallery.\n\nThen it had to be cleaned and in a few places repaired and strengthened. And finally, it had to be re-hung from the iron girders that support the ceiling in the Waterhouse building's spectacular Hintze Hall.\n\nThe BBC was given exclusive access to the whole process, and a Horizon documentary, narrated by Sir David Attenborough, will go out on BBC Two at 21:00 BST on Thursday.\n\nThe film will air at about the same time as the NHM's patron, the Duchess of Cambridge, and Sir David, inaugurate the new exhibit at a gala reception.\n\nThe young female blue whale beached on Wexford sands on 25 March 1891\n\nA great many people were involved in the make-over, but the promotion of the whale represents something of a personal triumph for Richard Sabin, the museum's principal curator of mammals.\n\nHe championed the change and suggested the dynamic lunge-feeding pose that the whale now assumes.\n\nIt was on a visit to the NHM in 1976, as a boy of 10, that Richard first saw the skeleton in its old display position. He describes that experience as transformative.\n\n\"I was absolutely blown away,\" he told BBC News. \"I remember running up the stairs to the balcony and asking an attendant if the whale skeletons in the gallery were real. And she said 'yes, and not only that you can still see these animals in the ocean today'.\n\n\"I got home and the very next day I headed down to the public library to try to find as many books as I could on whales. It was, to coin a phase, a defining moment.\"\n\nFor the Horizon film, Richard can be seen tracing the history of the specimen - meeting the descendants of the Irish fisherman who despatched the animal with a makeshift harpoon after it had beached off County Wexford in March 1891. But he also travels to North America, to the Pacific Coast, to join the Cascadia Research Group as they track migrating blue whales.\n\nThe group, co-founded by John Calambokidis, attaches tags to the giant creatures. Held on by suction cups, these devices record the behaviour of the whales, even capturing 4K video as they dive underwater.\n\nThe team is learning key facts that will help conserve the majestic animals, which went to the brink of oblivion thanks to 20th Century hunters.\n\n\"We've discovered that blue whales spend twice as much time at the surface at night than they do in the day,\" John told Horizon.\n\n\"That's the period when they're most vulnerable to ship strikes. That identified right there that we need to be most concerned about ships and their transiting through blue whale areas at night rather than the day.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A timelapse movie captures the erection of the blue whale\n\nWhale flipper: The Wexford specimen got an MOT before being re-hung\n\nFor Richard, the observation of whales in the Pacific confirmed his desire to see the conservation icon put centre-stage at his museum back in London.\n\n\"It's been an honour and a privilege to work with the specimen that inspired me all those years ago - to breathe new life into it; to inject science from the field into it; to display it in a much more meaningful way.\n\n\"I honestly believe it will take people's breath away when they see it.\n\n\"Thursday is going to be an amazing day for everyone involved; I am sure there will be plaudits for what we've done. But I can't wait for Friday morning when the first families, the first schoolchildren, walk through the door and I get to hear what they've got to say about what they see.\"\n\nFans of Dippy should not despair. After the dinosaur's two-year tour of Britain, it will return to a make-over of its own.\n\nThe skeleton, which is actually only a plaster cast, will be fashioned again in bronze and placed in the east garden in front of the museum.\n\nYou can watch a trail for Horizon: Dippy and the Whale. After broadcast on BBC Two, the programme will be available on the iPlayer.\n\nDippy, a copy of an American dinosaur specimen, vacates Hintze Hall after four decades of duty\n\nA new bronze Dippy will eventually feature in the eastern grounds of the museum\n\nJonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos", "Jason Major, a JunoCam citizen scientist and a graphic designer from Warwick, Rhode Island, took the raw images from the probe to create this perspective\n\nAn American space agency probe has returned the most detailed pictures ever of Jupiter's Great Red Spot.\n\nThe Juno spacecraft passed over the giant storm on Monday as it continued with its series of close passes of the gaseous world.\n\nThe pictures of the spot reveal the intricate nature of its swirls which encompass a region bigger than Earth.\n\nJuno's instruments all acquired data during the pass which should now provide fresh insight on the storm.\n\nThe raw images that come down from Juno are a lot more washed out. Citizen scientists like to accentuate the colours and contrast to highlight features that might otherwise be overlooked\n\nIt has been a particularly long-lived feature on Jupiter, but there is evidence that the 16,350-km-wide oval has actually been shrinking of late.\n\nThe Great Red Spot has persisted for centuries. Scientists are keen to learn its secrets and Juno provides the key\n\n\"For hundreds of years scientists have been observing, wondering and theorising about Jupiter's Great Red Spot,\" Scott Bolton, Juno principal investigator from the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, said in a Nasa statement.\n\n\"Now we have the best pictures ever of this iconic storm. It will take us some time to analyse all the data from not only JunoCam, but Juno’s eight science instruments, to shed some new light on the past, present and future of the Great Red Spot.\"\n\nScientists describe the storm as something similar to a hurricane - but there are significant differences between that kind of storm on Earth and what we see at Jupiter. Many behaviours are not the same.\n\nFor example, hurricanes on Earth quickly lose energy when they leave the ocean surface and pass over land - but on Jupiter, there is no land. Indeed, researchers are not even sure there exists any kind of hard surface under the planet's clouds.\n\nThis could be an explanation for why the spot has persisted for centuries. But Juno hopes to resolve such puzzles.\n\nIt has the instrumentation to determine the precise chemical composition of the oval's clouds, to sense their temperature and structure, and to measure how deep they go. There is a suspicion that the spot has very deep roots.\n\nThe mission should reveal the spot's internal structure and how deep its roots go\n\nJonathan Nichols, a British science team-member from the University of Leicester, marvelled at the new pictures.\n\n\"These images are stunning, and reveal Jupiter's Great Red Spot in all its glory,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"From the three swirls inside the deep red core to the waves and vortices orbiting it, the images reveal the power and chaos of this iconic storm.\n\n\"The light and dark shades reveal the wind flow in the spot and potentially the 3D structure of the cloud decks. But the images are also a perfect convergence of science and art, revealing the awesome beauty of the giant planet.\n\n\"The quality of these data are superb, and it bodes well for further Juno data that will reveal how deep into the atmosphere the Great Red Spot extends.\"\n\nJuno has been at Jupiter for just over a year. It flies large ellipses around the planet, coming in close every 53 days.\n\nMonday’s pass saw it skim just 3,500km above the cloudtops at one point. When it travelled across the spot, it was still a mere 9,000km overhead.\n\nThe practice of the mission so far has been to release raw images from JunoCam and invite the public to work on them - to process them in ways that highlight areas of scientific interest, or simply to make some fascinating artwork.\n\nMeanwhile, the science team gets to work on the data-sets from the other instruments. Their findings take a while longer to emerge - at conferences and in journal papers.\n\nJonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos", "Christina Grant moved in with family in Australia after the death of a son in Scotland\n\nA 96-year-old woman is preparing to return to Scotland from Australia after a visa wrangle.\n\nChristina Grant's family, who live in New South Wales, flew her to Australia following the death of her son and carer, Robert, in February 2015.\n\nHer family believed they had met the requirements of her visa, which has expired.\n\nImmigration officials said they had been working with the family and made no arrangements to remove Mrs Grant.\n\nHowever, the grandmother's family told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme that they had not found Australia's immigration department helpful and had gone to specialists for assistance.\n\nThey could apply for a new visa but were told that this could take 30 years to resolve.\n\nThe Grant family had hoped that because of her age and state of her heath that her situation might be treated a special case.\n\nMrs Grant's surviving son Allan and his wife Diane believe they have done everything to meet the rules of her visa after she moved to live with them in Australia.\n\nMrs Grant is booked on a flight back to the UK on 26 July.\n\nHer family told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme that the alternatives were the possibility of deportation or \"years of limbo\" while trying to obtain a new visa.\n\nMrs Grant, who is partially sighted and has dementia, was living near Grantown on Spey in the Highlands.\n\nHer son Robert had been helping to look after her.\n\nBecause of the state of her health, Allan and Diane asked her to move to Australia and live with them.\n\nThey applied for a visa for her to come to Australia.\n\nA condition of her visa was that she had to depart Australia once every 12 months but could return.\n\nConcerned that Mrs Grant was not fit enough to fly out of Australia to meet this requirement, her family booked her on a cruise into an area of French territory in the Pacific Ocean.\n\nThey believed that this trip would meet the visa requirements.\n\nHowever, after the cruise the Grants were told by the Department of Immigration and Border Protection that the visa rules had not been met.\n\nDiane told Good Morning Scotland that immigration specialists had told the family that applying for a new visa could take up to 30 years to come through.\n\nThey are now preparing to fly with Mrs Grant back to Scotland.\n\nDiane said: \"We will have to help her find a home over there.\n\n\"We have our own life here in Australia and, while I don't want to live there, Mum wants to live here.\"\n\nThe Grants have highlighted their case in an effort to alert other families that may find themselves in the same situation.\n\nThe Department of Immigration and Border Protection said all visitors to Australia must hold a valid visa for the duration of their stay and comply with the conditions of that visa.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"The department is familiar with Ms Grant's case and is not making any arrangements to remove her from Australia.\n\n\"The tourist stream visitor visa is normally valid for stays of up to 12 months and, as with all visitor visas, is designed to facilitate temporary visits to Australia rather than long-term stays or residence.\n\n\"Conscious of her circumstances, the department has been working with Ms Grant to resolve her visa status, since her visitor visa expired.\n\n\"Ms Grant has no current visa applications with the department.\"", "Theresa May is interviewed by the Sun to mark her first year as prime minister\n\nThe Times leads on a claim that Google has paid millions of dollars in secret funds to UK and US academics in the hope that their research would sway public opinion and influence government policy.\n\nAccording to a US watchdog group, payments from the tech giant ranged from $5,000 to $400,000 but were not declared by research teams in two-thirds of cases.\n\nThe paper says many of the studies made arguments in Google's favour, such as that collecting large amounts of data was a fair exchange for its free services.\n\nGoogle tells the paper the Campaign for Accountability's report was \"misleading\".\n\nYou could soon be able to write your will in a text or record it on a voicemail, the Daily Telegraph says.\n\nIt reports on a new consultation from the Law Commission for England and Wales, which says it wants to bring legislation on wills into the digital age.\n\nThe existing law on wills being written, signed and witnessed dates back to 1839.\n\nThe commission admits that the proposals could add to family disputes if people who are seriously ill make last-minute changes to their will on a smartphone or tablet.\n\nThe Sun is the only paper to have an interview with Theresa May to mark her first year as prime minister.\n\nShe appeals to be allowed to stay on in Downing Street for at least the \"next few years\", so she can deliver Brexit.\n\nBut the paper says Mrs May refused to say if she will fight the next election as leader and thinks her remarks are \"the strongest public signal yet\" that she is preparing to stand down before 2022.\n\nIn its editorial, the paper states \"it's not too late for her to rescue her time as prime minister\" and her determination to do so is \"commendably clear\".\n\n\"The Great Ambulance Betrayal\" is the headline in the Daily Mail.\n\nThe paper says health chiefs are being accused of putting lives at risk by sending cars to 999 calls instead of ambulances, to help them meet response targets.\n\nThe Mail says there is concern that seriously injured people are waiting longer for treatment because the cars can only take people to hospital if they can sit in the back seat.\n\nAn anonymous paramedic is quoted as saying that \"care, patient safety and dignity are being badly compromised\".\n\nThe paper says the NHS is now moving to close the loophole and will give call handlers more time to assess calls and dispatch ambulances.\n\nThe Financial Times leads on concerns from financial watchdogs that pension reforms are putting savers in danger of paying too much in fees, or making risky investments.\n\nThe paper's editorial says many experts predicted this would happen when former Chancellor George Osborne brought in the changes in 2015 to give savers more choice about what they did with their money.\n\nIt concludes that it is too soon to call the reforms \"a fiasco\", but the early signs \"do not look promising\".\n\nMost of the papers have pictures of a grimacing Andy Murray on the front and back pages, as the defending champion was knocked out of Wimbledon while being hampered by a hip injury.\n\n\"Pain, Set and Match\" is the Daily Star's summary, while the Metro and the Daily Mail both go for \"Andy's Agony\".\n\nMurray's exit prompts the Sun to put another British player on its front page with the headline \"Give us Hope Johanna\", which it hopes tennis fans will sing when Johanna Konta plays Venus Williams in the semi-final later.\n\nThe Times is among the papers to report that the Australian High Commissioner has tried to reclaim the British number one as an Aussie - because she was born there.\n\nBut the Telegraph tells him in no uncertain terms \"hands off Konta!\"\n\nAnd the Daily Express features a railways fan who has built a replica station, complete with a 60ft platform, in his back garden in East Sussex.\n\nThe paper says it was \"just the ticket\" to house Stuart Searle's collection of rail memorabilia including hundreds of station signs.\n\nHe has also built a 50ft-long underground station.\n\nBut according to the paper he will not stop there, and now has plans to build a cinema for his large collection of film posters.", "The request follows a string of high-profile alcohol-related incidents\n\nLocal authorities in the Balearic Islands have asked for a limit to be put on drinking alcohol on planes and in airports as they try to crack down on anti-social behaviour.\n\nPilar Carbonell, head of tourism across the islands, including Mallorca and Ibiza, has pleaded with Spain and the European Commission for the limit.\n\nThe proposal was raised in Brussels on Tuesday.\n\nIt comes after a series of high profile alcohol-fuelled incidents.\n\nIn one particular incident, passengers reported members of a stag do fighting in the aisles of a Ryanair flight on its way from Manchester to Palma, in Majorca.\n\nAccording to the Manchester Evening News, three people were arrested when it landed on the island.\n\nIn a statement, Ms Carbonell said the limit in airports and on flights would \"guarantee security... and tackle anti-social tourism\". It was not clear whether it was just aimed at flights heading to the Balearic Islands, or the wider European Union.\n\n\"The aim of the measure is to improve passenger security and also that of security forces in planes and airports in our islands, who are often faced with drunk passengers,\" it said.", "The maker of Havaianas - perhaps the world's most famous brand of flip-flops - has been sold for $1.1bn ($850m).\n\nThe Brazilian label has been highly successful at home and internationally, with about 200 million pairs of the footwear sold every year.\n\nAlpargatas, the firm behind the brand, was owned by the scandal-hit J&F group, which manages the fortune of the billionaire Batista family.\n\nIt is being bought by three prominent Brazilian banking groups.\n\nThe sale of Sao Paulo-based Alpargatas was widely expected, and is part of J&F's strategy to offload businesses after it was involved in a series of corruption scandals.\n\nIt is understood proceeds from the sale - to Cambuhy Investimentos, Itaúsa Investimentos and the fund Brasil Warrant - will help repay debt and go towards fines of more than $3bn the company has been hit with.\n\nFlip-flops are known as thongs in Australia, jandals in New Zealand, slops in South Africa and slippers in parts of Asia.\n\nBut in Brazil - and elsewhere - they are commonly referred to by the brand name Havaianas.\n\nFamed for their colourful designs and association with the Brazilian beach-lifestyle, the company has also benefitted from celebrity association.\n\nMiley Cyrus, Jennifer Aniston, Selena Gomez and Sienna Miller are among the stars who have been pictured wearing them.", "The man slipped handwritten notes pleading to bank customers to get help\n\nA Texas man who found himself trapped inside a cash machine slipped \"help me\" notes through the receipt slot.\n\nThe man, who police say was working on a renovation of the bank, left his phone in his vehicle before getting stuck in the drive-thru ATM's vault.\n\nThe unnamed workman was freed after shouting to ATM users, who continued withdrawing cash throughout his ordeal on Wednesday in Corpus Christi.\n\nPolice thought it a hoax before kicking in a door to withdraw him.\n\n\"Sure enough, we can hear a little voice coming from the machine, so we're all thinking this is a joke, it's gotta be a joke,\" said police officer Richard Olden.\n\nOne handwritten note slipped by the trapped man to a customer said: \"Please Help. I'm stuck in here, and I don't have my phone. Please call my boss.\" The message included the employer's phone number.\n\nThe man was freed after spending more than two hours inside the Bank of America machine.\n\nOfficer Olden told local media: \"Everyone is okay, but you will never see this in your life, that somebody was stuck in the ATM, it was just crazy.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Jagdip Randhawa's family appealed the results of an internal investigation into how the case was handled\n\nBail breaches by a man who killed a student were handled in a \"fundamentally flawed\" manner, a report has found.\n\nJagdip Randhawa, 19, from London, was punched by boxer Clifton Ty Mitchell during a night out in Leeds in 2011.\n\nMitchell, from Derby, had breached bail conditions for a previous violent offence 24 times in the preceding five months but no action was taken.\n\nDerbyshire Police said procedures had been reviewed and made more \"robust\".\n\nA separate investigation found Mr Randhawa's care in hospital was also below acceptable standards\n\nAfter being hit, Mr Randhawa, from Hounslow, struck his head on a pavement. He died five days later.\n\nMitchell, now 26, was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to seven years in prison in 2012.\n\nAn initial referral to the Independent Police Complaints Commission following a complaint by Mr Randhawa's family led to the force carrying out a local investigation.\n\nIn March 2015 the IPCC upheld an appeal by the family against the outcome of this inquiry and began its own.\n\nThe new report states: \"In my opinion, the procedure in place at the time of the incident was fundamentally flawed and was not fit for the control of persons deemed by the court system to require active monitoring.\n\n\"This process was in my opinion so flawed that none of the staff operating under it appeared to recognise the ongoing issues with this one individual and see the obvious opportunities missed.\"\n\nThe report also criticised the handling of complaints from the family, with a unnamed superintendent potentially facing misconduct charges if the officer had not retired.\n\nMr Randhawa's sister Majinder Randhawa said: \"Our family will always be haunted by not knowing what might have happened if Mitchell had been arrested as he should have been.\n\n\"It's important that the IPCC's report highlights the significant failings of Derbyshire Police - but it's devastating to know that Jagdip's death was avoidable.\n\n\"We believe that Jagdip would still be here today, if Derbyshire Police had correctly managed Mitchell while he was on bail. It's impossible for us to ever get over that.\"\n\nDerbyshire's Deputy Chief Constable, Gary Knighton, said \"The IPCC report recognises that following the death of Mr Randhawa, we immediately reviewed the way that the force handled breaches of bail conditions where an individual is required to report to a police station.\n\n\"The force now has a more robust system in place to deal with a suspect who has failed to comply with their bail conditions. If someone breaches their bail, an officer is allocated to take action and deal with the breach.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Blazer was banned from all football activities for life in 2015\n\nDisgraced US football official Chuck Blazer has died at the age of 72, his lawyers say.\n\nBlazer, who was banned from all football activities for life in 2015, had been suffering from cancer.\n\nIn 2013 he pleaded guilty to bribery, money laundering and tax evasion but agreed to help investigators expose corruption in Fifa.\n\nA larger-than-life character, he was ex-boss of Concacaf, North and Central American football's governing body.\n\nHis information led to charges against 14 other current or former Fifa officials, and contributed to the downfall of Sepp Blatter, the organisation's president.\n\n\"We are truly saddened by the passing of our client and friend, Chuck Blazer,\" his lawyers said in a statement.\n\n\"His misconduct, for which he accepted full responsibility, should not obscure Chuck's positive impact on international soccer.\"\n\nThe official served on Fifa's executive committee from 1997-2013, during which time he pocketed millions to fund a globe-trotting VIP lifestyle.\n\nA 2013 report by Concacaf's integrity committee said he had received more than $20.6m (£16m) in commissions, fees and rental payments from the organisation between 1996 and 2011.\n\nHis personal excesses included two apartments in New York's Trump Tower, one of which was exclusively for his cats.\n\nMr Blazer's information helped secure the downfall of former FIFA president Sepp Blatter (C)\n\nHe helped develop the game in the US and then across his confederation.\n\nBut he also personally enriched himself and was emblematic of the greed and corruption that festered within world football for many years.\n\nHowever, it was his evidence that was instrumental in the arrest and prosecution of scores of Fifa and marketing executives, a process that became publicly known with dramatic dawn raids in Zurich in 2015 and is still continuing.\n\nIn his blog Travels with Chuck Blazer and his Friends..., he was pictured enjoying time with football legends like Pele and Bobby Charlton, and other high-profile names like Prince William and Hillary Clinton.\n\nHe also introduced readers to his pet parrot, a blue-and-gold macaw named Max Blazer, even uploading a video of the bird dancing on the basket of his mobility scooter in New York's Central Park.\n\nHis luck ran out when he tried to conceal his income after failing to file tax returns from 2005 to 2010.\n\nAccording to one account, Mr Blazer was arrested by the FBI and an Internal Revenue Service official in 2011 as he rode his scooter to a favourite New York restaurant.\n\n\"We can take you away in handcuffs now, or you can co-operate,\" he was reportedly told.\n\nMr Blazer made his choice, and agreed to become an informant to help the US government expose corruption in football.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFootballers have long relied on the terraces for inspiration but when Olivier Tebily does so these days, he is looking at rows of vines - not fans.\n\nWhile many footballers' post-playing plans involve staying in the game, the former Ivory Coast international has eschewed that to quietly focus on his second passion.\n\nFootballers and alcohol have long gone together, often badly, but the former Birmingham City defender is unique in actually creating the product.\n\nWhat's more, the treble winner with Celtic is doing so in Cognac, home to some of France's - and the world's - most celebrated vineyards.\n\nFor similar to champagne, only the brandy made in the region can bear the prestigious name Cognac.\n\nAs for whether the 41-year-old is just another footballer flashing his cash on a pet project, consider this - he bought his first vineyard in his late teens.\n\n\"When I signed my first professional contract, I bought two hectares,\" Tebily told the BBC, standing amidst his vines in the south-western French village of Salles-d'Angles.\n\n\"I said to myself: 'If I get an injury and football stops, I will have something to carry on with.'\"\n\nTebily played over 80 matches for Birmingham City, many of them in the top-flight\n\n\"I did that because I used to work on this land to get a little bit of pocket money to go on holiday - to the seaside with my friends - before turning professional.\"\n\n\"It's really difficult to become a professional so I bought this straight away to insure myself.\"\n\nIt was 1993 when Tebily signed for second-tier French side Niort, an hour's drive from Poitiers, the south-western city on the edge of the Cognac region where his parents relocated from Abidjan when he was a toddler.\n\nIt was the start of a journey that took him, following brief spells with Chateauroux and Sheffield United, to the 2000 Africa Cup of Nations, a Scottish treble in 2001 and a four-year Premier League adventure with Birmingham.\n\nAfter suffering a bad injury just weeks after joining Canada's Toronto FC, Tebily cut short a four-and-a-half-year contract to return to the vineyards.\n\nThere was however a fundamental problem.\n\nTebily is learning how to distil - a key element in creating Cognac since traditional methods require a double-distillation in copper stills\n\nLand in Cognac is both expensive and seldom available - and Tebily didn't have enough of it.\n\nHe ran two local restaurants while waiting for a solution, which was laced with tragedy when it came six years later.\n\nAfter his neighbour's only son died, the retiring Cognac farmer had to decide who to sell his business to last year.\n\n\"His son was my friend and we had the same name - it's maybe because of that that he chose me,\" says Tebily.\n\n\"Around here, all the winemakers are the same,\" explains the now-retired Jean-Michel Lepine.\n\n\"Because I liked football and because Olivier was not unpleasant to me and helped me in tough times - because I've had tough times - I said why not a black man to take over my property? Why not a footballer?\n\nTebily owns 22 hectares after retiring farmer Jean-Michel Lepine chose to sell his business to the Ivorian, a friend of his late son\n\n\"I never changed my mind, even though many people tried to stop me.\"\n\nFollowing the deal, the first African maker of Cognac - who says he was initially treated like \"a Martian\" - was the proud owner of 22 hectares in a prime location.\n\nHe also took control of a distillery and although he has yet to master this crucial element of the Cognac process, he is learning from Jean-Michel, now his mentor.\n\nWhen we meet, Tebily is in his vineyard - wearing a Birmingham City fleece as he goes about his daily business, secateurs in hand, carefully tending to his grapes.\n\nSuch sensitivity may seem incongruous for those who remember the burly defender's on-field reputation.\n\nHe once finished a match despite rupturing knee ligaments in the first half while he famously thundered into one challenge with an opponent despite having lost a boot seconds earlier.\n\nTebily scored few goals during his career but managed two with Celtic, with whom he won a Scottish treble in 2001\n\n\"The local people were really, really surprised by an African footballer trying to do what they are doing,\" says Tebily, who played for Ivory Coast between 1999-2004.\n\n\"But I work Monday to Sunday and people are really surprised - they didn't think I would do this work because it's really hard.\n\n\"But I don't do this to impress people. I love this work and want to go as far as I can,\" he adds, proclaiming a love of the outdoors.\n\nLike many Cognac farmers, Tebily sells most of his produce - around 90% - to the region's bigger companies but he keeps the rest for his own eponymous range.\n\nHe first produced a bottle in 2013 - smooth upon taste - and although he sells it to local restaurants, he ultimately wants to trade only with Africa.\n\nTebily produced his first brand of Cognac in 2013, five years after quitting football\n\n\"That's my dream,\" he says. \"I am already selling to some restaurants in Africa, in Ivory Coast. It's not as much as I want but I'm still happy because it's the beginning and it's working.\"\n\nAfter that, and much in the tradition of many of the Cognac farmers, he hopes to hand his business down to his children when he takes a second retirement.\n\nUntil then, this gentle giant is revelling in being the only African maker of the world's most famous brandy.\n\n\"It makes me feel really, really happy and that's why I am fighting to do my business correctly. I try because I am passionate. I love this like I loved football.\"\n• None How I turned football into wine. Video, 00:02:15How I turned football into wine", "The UK housing market is in a state of lethargy, according to property surveyors, with estate agents reporting the lowest stock of properties for nearly 40 years.\n\nMembers of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) said the market might continue \"flatlining\" for a while.\n\nNew instructions in June fell for the 16th month in a row.\n\nMost surveyors also saw further falls in the number of properties being sold.\n\nThe average number of homes on the books of estate agents fell to 42.5 - the lowest number since the survey started in January 1978.\n\n\"Political uncertainty\" was given by 44% of surveyors as the main reason for the pessimism - nearly double the number who blamed Brexit.\n\nSimon Rubinsohn, RICS' chief economist, said that uncertainty seemed to be \"exerting itself on transaction levels, which are flat-lining, and may continue to do so for a while, particularly given the ongoing challenge presented by the low level of stock on the market\".\n\nSeparately, the Bank of England's latest Credit Conditions Survey of banks and building societies has suggested that home buyers could find it trickier to find mortgage deals with low deposits in the months ahead.\n\nThe survey found lenders were likely to rein in lending as they become more cautious about the state of the economy.\n\nLenders expect a slight reduction in mortgage availability to house buyers with deposits of less than 25%, and \"in particular\" those with a deposit of below 10%.\n\nThe survey also found that unsecured lending - which includes credit cards - had fallen in the second quarter of the year, and was expected to drop further in the third quarter.\n\nLast week, the Halifax, Britain's largest lender, reported that prices fell by 1% in June, with annual growth slipping to 2.6%.\n\nThe RICS survey suggests that property values actually rose during the month.\n\nHowever, that hides an increasing regional divide in price growth.\n\nFive years ago, prices in the south of the country were roaring ahead of prices in the north, but now there has been a reversal.\n\nPrices in London are falling, while they are flat in East Anglia and the South East, according to the RICS survey.\n\nBy contrast, property values in the North West, Wales, Northern Ireland and the West Midlands are rising significantly.\n\n\"The latest results demonstrate the danger, however tempting, of talking about a single housing market across the country,\" said Mr Rubinsohn.\n\n\"RICS indicators, particularly regarding the price trend, are pointing towards an increasingly divergent picture.\"\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. King Felipe VI said he respected the UK's decision to leave the EU\n\nBritain and Spain can overcome their differences and maintain strong ties after Brexit, the king of Spain has said in a speech at Westminster.\n\nKing Felipe VI said he believed they could begin \"the necessary dialogue\" to form an arrangement over Gibraltar.\n\nBut the government of Gibraltar said the king's focus on a dialogue between London and Madrid was \"undemocratic\".\n\nThe start of a three-day state visit to the UK by the king and queen of Spain ended with a Buckingham Palace banquet.\n\nKing Felipe made his comments on Gibraltar in a speech in the Palace of Westminster.\n\nKing Felipe VI is a distant relative of the Queen\n\nWhile discussing Britain's decision to leave the EU, he said: \"To overcome our differences will be greater in the case of Gibraltar. I am confident through the necessary dialogue and effort, our two governments will be able to work... towards arrangements that are acceptable to all involved.\"\n\nThe government of Gibraltar said it would have to be involved in any discussion between Spain and the UK.\n\nIt added that two referenda in 1967 and 2002 showed the people of Gibraltar voted to remain British.\n\nChief minister Fabian Picardo QC said: \"We have no desire to part of Spain or to come under Spanish sovereignty in any shape or form.\n\n\"In the times in which we live, territories cannot be traded from one monarch to another like pawns in a chess game.\"\n\nDuring the speech, King Felipe said Britain and Spain were \"profoundly intertwined\" and he respected the UK's decision to leave the EU.\n\nHundreds of thousands of Britons live in Spain, and a similar number of Spaniards live in the UK, King Felipe told MP and peers.\n\nThey \"form a sound foundation for our relations,\" he added.\n\n\"These citizens have a legitimate expectation of stable living conditions for their families,\" he said.\n\nThe king highlighted the two countries' important trading arrangements, adding that Britain is \"the second largest investor in our country\".\n\nThe Spanish royals were guests at a lavish state banquet at Buckingham Palace\n\nAt the banquet later hosted by the Queen and Prince Philip at Buckingham Palace, the British monarch acknowledged the two countries had not always seen \"eye to eye\".\n\nIn a speech, she also said: \"A relationship like ours founded on such great strengths and common interests will ensure that both our nations prosper now and in the future whatever challenges arise.\"\n\nThe banquet menu began with poached fillet of salmon trout with fennel. It was followed by a medallion of Scottish beef with bone marrow and truffles, with a sauce made from Madeira, and a dark chocolate and raspberry tart for dessert.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Prince Harry, the Prince of Wales, the Duchess of Cornwall, the Princess Royal, the Duke of York and the Earl and Countess of Wessex also attended.\n\nThe Duke of Edinburgh and the Queen gifted the Spanish monarchs love letters from a mutual relative, Queen Ena of Spain\n\nEarlier the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh greeted King Felipe and Queen Letizia at Horse Guards Parade, in a traditional welcoming ceremony.\n\nThe trip is the first state visit by a Spanish king to the UK since Felipe's father, Juan Carlos, came 31 years ago.\n\nThe Queen gifted King Felipe copies of love letters from his great-grandmother to King Alfonso XIII.\n\nQueen Victoria's grand-daughter Princess Victoria Eugenie met King Alfonso on a state visit to Britain in 1905.\n\nThe pair married and Princess Victoria Eugenie became Queen Ena of Spain, making King Felipe a descendant of Queen Victoria.\n\nThe wind died down and the sun broke through the clouds just as the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh stepped on to the dais at Horse Guards.\n\nEvery visiting head of state gets the same welcome - their national anthem and the chance to inspect the guard of honour with Prince Philip. With his retirement imminent, this could be the last time he performed that particular public duty.\n\nKing Felipe inspected the guard of honour with Prince Philip, on what is expected to be the prince's last state visit before retiring from public engagements this year\n\nThen King Felipe stepped into a carriage with the Queen for the traditional procession down the Mall accompanied by the Household Cavalry. The Duke of Edinburgh and Queen Letizia travelled in a separate carriage.\n\nIt was a chance for Britain to show off how well it can do \"pomp\".\n\nOn Thursday, Prince Harry will accompany the royal visitors to Westminster Abbey.\n\nKing Felipe will lay a wreath at the Grave of the Unknown Warrior and the prince will join them on a short tour of the abbey, including the Tomb of Eleanor \"Leonor\" of Castile - the 13th-Century Spanish princess who married Edward I.\n\nKing Felipe, at 6ft 5in, towered over the Queen as he kissed Her Majesty's hand on Horse Guards Parade\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May attended the welcoming ceremony with Home Secretary Amber Rudd", "An Australian cattle worker whose thumb was severed by a bull has had his toe surgically transplanted in its position.\n\nZac Mitchell, 20, was injured in April while working on a remote farming property in Western Australia.\n\n\"A bull kicked my hand into the fence,\" Mr Mitchell said of the incident.\n\nHe underwent two unsuccessful operations to reattach his thumb before doctors opted to relocate his big toe in surgery lasting eight hours.\n\nMr Mitchell said fellow workers had attempted to preserve his thumb immediately after the accident.\n\n\"They put it in the esky [cooler] with some ice,\" he told the BBC.\n\nMr Mitchell was flown to hospital in the state capital of Perth, but efforts to save his thumb ultimately failed.\n\nDespite initial reluctance, the cattle worker agreed to the transplant operation at the Sydney Eye Hospital two weeks ago.\n\nLead plastic surgeon Dr Sean Nicklin said he was not surprised it took time to accept.\n\n\"It is a bit of a crazy idea - they [patients] do not want to be injured in another part of their body,\" he said.\n\n\"[However] even if you have got four good fingers, if you do not have something to pinch against them, your hand has lost a huge amount of its function.\"\n\nMr Mitchell will need more than 12 months of rehabilitation, but he plans to return to farm work.\n\nThe Sydney Eye Hospital said it was rare to transplant a complete toe, like in Mr Mitchell's case, although partial toe relocations were more common.\n\n\"A lot of people think their balance and walking is going to be significantly affected which it generally isn't,\" Dr Nicklin said.\n\nMr Mitchell's mum, Karen, said he was making a good recovery.\n\n\"Two weeks since the operation his walking is almost back to normal.\"\n\nDoctors say Mr Mitchell should eventually be able to return to his hobby of bull riding.", "London Underground said the change was to ensure all passengers felt \"welcome\"\n\nThe \"ladies and gentlemen\" greeting on Tube announcements is to be scrapped, Transport for London (TfL) has announced.\n\nLondon Underground staff have been told to say \"hello everyone\" in an effort to become more gender-neutral.\n\nTfL said the move was to ensure all passengers felt \"welcome\".\n\nLGBT campaign group Stonewall welcomed the decision, which was supported by London mayor Sadiq Khan at a session of Mayor's Question Time last month.\n\nThe revised phrasing will be applied to all new pre-recorded announcements made across the capital's transport network.\n\nMark Evers, director of customer strategy at TfL, said: \"We want everyone to feel welcome on our transport network.\n\n\"We have reviewed the language that we use in announcements and elsewhere and will make sure that it is fully inclusive, reflecting the great diversity of London.\"\n\nLondon Mayor Sadiq Khan said he supported the change to gender neutral language\n\nMr Khan said he was \"keen\" TfL speak in a \"more neutral way\".\n\nHe said: \"TfL serves a vibrant, diverse and multicultural city, and provision of an inclusive transport service is at the heart of TfL's purpose.\n\n\"I am aware however, that some customers may not relate to or feel comfortable with the way that certain station announcements are made.\"\n\nTfL said it had briefed staff on use of the new language \"though from time-to-time, well-meaning staff may still use the term 'ladies and gentlemen\".\"\n\n\"If this happens frequently, we will issue reminders to staff,\" it added.\n\nStonewall said: \"Language is extremely important to the lesbian, gay, bi and trans community, and the way we use it can help ensure all people feel included.\n\n\"We welcome gender neutral announcements to be rolled out across TfL as it will ensure that everyone - no matter who they identify as - feels accounted for.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Phil Redmond says \"a lot of Channel 4's DNA\" was created through Brookside and Hollyoaks, filmed in Liverpool\n\nThe creator of Brookside, Phil Redmond, is leading a bid to bring Channel 4 to Liverpool, saying \"there could be no better home\".\n\nA government consultation is considering whether the broadcaster should move out of central London.\n\nMr Redmond said Liverpool was \"recognised as the UK's second cultural city\" and had always had a \"pool of creative talent\".\n\nThe move could create more than 800 jobs, he added.\n\nA consultation into the broadcaster's future was launched after the government carried out an 18-month review of the publicly owned channel, which has more than 800 staff but fewer than 30 based outside the capital.\n\nMr Redmond has joined Liverpool John Moores University, the city council and the Liverpool Film Office to try and bring the broadcaster to the city.\n\nHe said: \"Apart from Liverpool's growing reputation as a cultural centre... we have to remember [that] a lot of Channel 4's DNA was created in this city through Brookside and then through Hollyoaks, which at one stage was providing 60% of Channel 4's income... \"\n\nHe said Liverpool did not have a \"permanent broadcasting centre\" like other major cities, adding: \"We are talking about rebalancing the UK and rebalancing culture and rebalancing the news agenda outside of London. It seems like an obvious fix to come to Liverpool this time.\"\n\nThere would be huge economic benefits for Liverpool, Mr Redmond says\n\nLiverpool is at the centre of the UK geographically, he said, \"so it is closer to all the nations and regions [for commissioning]\".\n\nMr Redmond, who ran Mersey Television for 25 years, added: \"[There are] economic benefits obviously, if they bring £650-700m spend into the area - or the jobs attached to that- that is a big economic benefit.\n\n\"It would be fantastic for Liverpool but I also think it is the way to reinvigorate Channel 4 for its next 35 years.\"\n\nOnly 30 of Channel 4's staff are currently based outside London\n\nThe West Midlands Combined Authority launched a bid for the broadcaster to move to its region last week, with sites proposed in Birmingham, Coventry, Solihull and Dudley.\n\nElsewhere, two Bradford MPs have called on Channel 4 to move its HQ to West Yorkshire.\n\nJoe Anderson, mayor of Liverpool, said: \"Aside from world-beating locations and world-class creative talent, the character and the history of the city sits well with Channel 4's brand.\"\n\nThe government said it would consider all bids with the broadcaster \"to ensure that Channel 4 maximises its delivery of public value\".\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\nFire service advice to \"stay put\" inside Grenfell Tower during the fire which destroyed the building lasted nearly two hours, the BBC has learned.\n\nA change in policy recommending residents try to leave was made at 02:47 BST, one hour and 53 minutes after the first emergency call.\n\nAt least 80 people are believed to be dead after the blaze on 14 June.\n\nLondon Fire Brigade said: \"The advice our control officers give can change as the fire changes.\"\n\nMeanwhile, tributes have been laid at a wall in the tower's North Kensington neighbourhood to mark the four weeks since the blaze occurred.\n\nWhen the fire was first reported at 00:54 BST, residents were initially given advice to \"stay put\" inside the building.\n\nThis is based on the assumption that fire can be contained, but the policy has come under scrutiny after many of the tower's residents became trapped.\n\nTributes are being paid to mark the four-week anniversary of the fire\n\nKarim Musillhy spoke to his uncle Hesham Rahman, 57, on the phone at 01.30 BST.\n\nHe says the emergency services had told him to stay in his flat and put wet towels under the door.\n\n\"We all know how it all caught fire very quickly. But even then, for me I would be thinking, 'if you can make it out, make it out. Just get out of the building. Get out.'\n\n\"Within 15 minutes, the whole building caught fire. After two hours, it's too late.\"\n\nMet Police officer Matt Bonner, who is leading the investigation into the fire, was confronted by angry people during a meeting on Wednesday evening at St Clement's Church, a short distance from Grenfell Tower.\n\nMr Bonner told those gathered he could not discuss the investigation \"as it would put the investigation at risk\", but this led to cries of \"arrest someone\" from those gathered.\n\nHe also said the police investigation would \"not be quick but it would be thorough\".\n\nHilary Patel, from the Grenfell Response Team, also said the building \"has never been at risk of falling down\".\n\nAnd Dr Deborah Turbitt, from Public Health England, said the area had been monitored for traces of asbestos, but none had been found.\n\nElsewhere in the neighbourhood, not far from the church, hundreds of people slowly gathered at a wall covered with tributes, to pay respects to those who died four weeks ago. Many were in tears.\n\nThe evening vigil saw pictures, flowers and handwritten messages illuminated by candles left by those paying their respects.\n\nNabil Choucair fears he has lost six members of his family who lived on the 22nd floor of Grenfell Tower.\n\nHe says the stay put policy may have been maintained for too long.\n\n\"You take away their only chance of probably escaping. I heard of firemen making it up to the 21st, 22nd [floor] and rescuing people, but choosing who to save, and who not to save because they couldn't carry any more, or help anyone.\n\n\"After that time, the chances have dropped for them and for everybody else.\"\n\nPaul Embery of the Fire Brigades Union said the stay put advice is \"broadly sound\".\n\n\"Clearly this was an unprecedented fire, and people couldn't have foreseen the way the fire was going to spread.\n\n\"At some point it was obvious that the advice needed to change. Whether it should have been changed earlier I wouldn't want to speculate on that, but the inquiry clearly needs to look at it.\"\n\nLondon Fire Brigade said it cannot comment on its response to the fire due to the ongoing police investigation and public inquiry, but said \"the advice our control officers give can change as the fire changes\".\n\nMeanwhile, in other developments:\n\nMore than 200 firefighters and 40 fire engines were involved in battling the blaze that engulfed the block.\n\nThe BBC understands 31 firefighters were injured in the fire, almost all through smoke inhalation. One was hit by a person who fell from the tower, but insisted on returning to duty.", "Schooners typically have two or three masts with multiple sails\n\nMadagascar's master shipbuilders can all trace their skills back to just one family who arrived on the African island more than 150 years ago, writes Tim Healy in the capital, Antananarivo.\n\nIn the 19th Century, schooners were a familiar sight along France's northern coast, their majestic sails fluttering in the wind. Nowadays, they have been replaced by boats which are far faster, more efficient - and less romantic.\n\nBut there is still a corner of the world where a new generation of carpenters is keeping old maritime traditions alive by crafting these vessels to original standards.\n\nThe mastery shown by carpenters working in the town of Belo-sur-mer on Madagascar's west coast is respected around the world - at least one of their beautifully crafted schooners has been sent to collectors in France in recent years.\n\nAnd it is all thanks to one family, brought to the island by a king's ambition.\n\nIt was King Radama II of Madagascar who decided to bring the schooner to his East African island.\n\nFor more than a thousand years, Arab boats moved along the coast of Madagascar trading goods for slaves. They were joined in the 17th Century by European trading vessels. Until the 19th Century, the Malagasy fleet was composed of mainly smaller fishing boats and canoes.\n\nBut the Vezo Sakalava - coastal people from the western region - wanted to develop bigger trading boats to move cargo around the island, and King Radama was happy to grant their wish.\n\nThe king turned to the French government, asking them to send shipwrights to teach his people.\n\nThe Justins, a father-and-son team of carpenters, set to work restoring one of their schooners\n\nSoon, the Joachim family, who were creoles of mixed European and African descent, and fellow marine carpenters from France's neighbouring island of La Reunion were sailing to Madagascar.\n\nBut when the family arrived, they discovered that the king had been assassinated. His reign had lasted less than two years, from 1861 to 1863.\n\nThe Joachims soon found themselves forced to flee to the east coast and, over the course of several decades, the family circumnavigated and lived in parts of southern Madagascar, eventually settling in the western port of Morondava.\n\nIt was here, and in nearby Belo-sur-mer, that Enasse Joachim and his three sons began practicing their craft, building schooners for Madagascar.\n\nOf Dutch origin, the ships can have two or three masts decorated with several sails, and reach up to 22m (72ft) in length. As the vessel does not have a keel, it is ideal for navigating shallow Malagasy lagoons and mooring on sandbanks and beaches.\n\nThe tradition of building ships runs through families\n\nBy 1904 - some 40 years after they first stepped foot on Madagascar - some of the Joachim family had managed to establish shipbuilding schools. It was done with the approval of France's Governor Gallieni, since the French had colonised Madagascar almost a decade earlier, in 1895.\n\nThe Malagasy apprentices of the Joachims became master carpenters and shipbuilders in their own right and passed down their skills through several generations, turning Belo-sur-mer into a major shipyard for Schooners, or Botsy in Malagasy.\n\nMore than a century later, their legacy continues in Belo-sur-mer, carried on by families like the Justins, who have built two ships.\n\n\"My sons and I come from a long line of shipbuilders going back to my great-grandparents,\" says the patriarch, known simply as Mr Justin.\n\nTraders have used boats to ferry cargo around Madagascar for centuries\n\nThe name of one of their boats, Fagnanarantsoandraza, translates from poetic Malagasy to \"let it be known that the fine have no need to stay here\". It is a name worthy of the love put into building the boat, constructed with timber painstakingly collected from nearby forests.\n\nThe vessel, launched in 2012, is 18m in length and can carry loads of up to 50 tonnes, usually salt or agricultural products, to areas that are often inaccessible by road.\n\nThe ships are summoned home for regular maintenance, including the resealing of their hulls, before returning to sea.\n\nOf the three Joachim sons, Albert's influence is perhaps most felt today. The Malagasy diminutive of Albert is Bebe, and the port in Morondava bears this name.\n\nWhile descendants of Albert and Fernand Joachim are believed to live on in Morondava, less was known about their brother, Ludovic, until recently.\n\nHe had married a woman 54km (34 miles) away in the village Belo-sur-mer, where he died in 1902. A century later in 2002, a French woman living locally was determined to locate Ludovic's grave and managed to do so with the help of the mayor, and village elders.\n\nDiscovered 400m from the village where it was hidden by undergrowth, the modest grave was marked out with a mound of rocks and a fading wooden cross etched with his name.\n\nLocal authorities decided to restore the grave and mounted a miniature wooden schooner upon the tomb, to honour the Joachim family's unique contribution to the island's seafaring traditions.\n\nOne of the original shipbuilders, Ludovic Emmanuel Joachim, died in Belo-sur-mer in 1902", "City chief executive officer Ferran Soriano said players would wear bees with \"immense pride\"\n\nManchester United and City players are to honour victims of the Manchester Arena blast by wearing bee emblems on their football shirts in a derby match.\n\nThe shirts will be auctioned off after the game and proceeds will go to the We Love Manchester Emergency Fund.\n\nThe charity has raised more than £12m for the victims of the explosion on 22 May, which killed 22.\n\nCity's Ferran Soriano said players would wear bees with \"immense pride\" at the game on 20 July in Houston, US.\n\nThe fixture will be the first Manchester derby to take place outside of the UK and the first meeting between the two clubs since the attack at the end of an Ariana Grande concert.\n\nThe bee has become the symbol of solidarity among those affected by the bomb with hundreds of people getting bee tattoos.\n\nCity chief executive Mr Soriano said: \"The worker bee symbolises everything that makes Manchester such a special city and our players will wear it on their shirts with immense pride, as a demonstration of solidarity with the Manchester community.\"\n\nEd Woodward, executive chairman of United, said the city of Manchester has shown \"great strength and unity\" since the attack and shown the world \"how special this city really is\".\n\nHe added: \"Having the worker bee on our shirts... shows the community spirit of our city and football club.\"", "The Trumps will watch the Bastille Day parade on the Champs-Élysées\n\nNot long ago Donald Trump said that Paris was a terrible place. Now he's embraced the city and the nation, strengthening US-France relations.\n\nOn Thursday morning Mr Trump wore a crisp white shirt, cufflinks and a gold-coloured belt buckle that gleamed. He and the First Lady were arriving in Paris for Bastille Day. On the tarmac at Orly, he kissed his wife on both cheeks, and they headed for separate cars. It was all very French.\n\n\"A fun trip,\" one of his aides told me on Air Force One while we flew across the Atlantic. It was a journey that had once seemed unimaginable - and showed how the president's views about the city have changed since the presidential campaign.\n\nMore importantly, his trip was ushering in a new age of US-France relations, a transatlantic partnership that has roots in the history of both countries.\n\nDuring his two days in Paris, Mr Trump will spend time with Emmanuel Macron, the French president, and dine in a restaurant in the Eiffel Tower. He will watch the Bastille Day parade on the Champs-Élysées.\n\nThis year marks the 100th anniversary of US forces entering World War One, and for this occasion US and French troops will be marching together in the parade.\n\nDuring the trip the US president will also have a chance to escape the controversies over Russia and other issues that have dominated the news cycle in Washington.\n\nThe American first couple arrived in Paris early on Thursday\n\nIt is easy to understand why he would want to get away from Washington. Still the decision to visit Paris and not another city was unexpected - for just about everybody.\n\nMr Macron invited him several weeks ago, and Mr Trump \"was very excited to respond and to accept the invitation,\" said a senior administration official. It was a surprising development - particularly since the US president had just pulled out of the 2015 Paris climate accord.\n\nUntil recently he had a negative view of the city. \"Paris is no longer the safe city it was,\" he said on MSNBC in 2015. \"They have sections in Paris that are radicalised, where the police refuse to go there. They're petrified.\"\n\nDuring the presidential campaign, he said that a friend, Jim, had visited France and told him not to go there. \"France is no longer France,\" said Mr Trump, quoting \"Jim\".\n\nHe had little evidence for these remarks. Now he seems to have forgotten about them. This morning at the airport he seemed to be having fun.\n\nWhite House officials said that during the visit Mr Macron was likely to bring up the issue of the environment, and that the two world leaders would discuss the matter. They will also talk about Syria as well as about their shared military history.\n\nThe relationship has had its ups and downs.\n\nUnder President George W Bush, US-France relations hit a rocky period. Many people in the US criticised the French because they did not support the Iraq war, and some US restaurants stopped serving French fries as a protest against the French nation. \"Freedom fries\" were offered, and breakfast on Air Force One featured \"'freedom toast\" instead of French toast.\n\nPresident Trump angered many in France when he called Paris \"unsafe\" two years ago\n\nOver time, though, the two nations and their militaries drew close again. Presidents Trump and Macron will build on this relationship, one that allowed the US and France to work together in the campaign against the Islamic State group.\n\n\"There were kinks that needed to be worked out in terms of intelligence sharing,\" said Charles Kupchan, who served as the national security council's senior director for European affairs during the Obama administration. \"But the relationship between the US and the French military is extremely close.\"\n\nNow the relationship is entering a new phase - one in which the French language and culture are celebrated, however briefly. One of President Trump's aides tried gamely to say a few words in French while we flew on Air Force One. Freedom toast is a thing of the past. Spinach quiche, decorated with fresh blackberries, were served for breakfast.\n\nIn the end, it is hard to explain the shift in Donald Trump's views of France, and why he has warmed up to Paris. He sometimes acts impulsively and does not fully explain why he has done something. Still he and his aides all seemed happy to leave Washington for a bit - and what better place to go than Paris.\n\nFreedom fries are now a thing of the past", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPresident Trump says he gets along \"very well\" with Russia's President Vladimir Putin.\n\nHe was interviewed by the Christian Broadcasting Network days after his much anticipated meeting with Mr Putin at the G20 summit in Hamburg.\n\nThe US president also said he was sure Mr Putin would have preferred Hillary Clinton was sitting in the White House.\n\nSeveral investigations are under way into allegations Russia helped get Mr Trump elected.\n\nMr Trump has denied any knowledge of this and Russia has also repeatedly denied interfering.\n\nOn the meeting with Mr Putin, Mr Trump said \"people said, oh, they shouldn't get along. Well, who are the people saying that? I think we get along very, very well.\n\n\"We are a tremendously powerful nuclear power, and so are they. It doesn't make sense not to have some kind of a relationship.\"\n\nMr Trump cited the recent ceasefire in south-western Syria as an example of how co-operation with Mr Putin worked.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Trump also used the interview to pour cold water on the notion that Russia conspired to get him elected - quite the opposite, he maintained. Russia preferred Hillary Clinton, his Democrat rival, he said.\n\nWhy? \"If Hillary had won, our military would be decimated,\" he said.\n\n\"Our energy would be much more expensive. That's what Putin doesn't like about me. And that's why I say why would he want me?\"\n\nThe US president earlier defended his son Donald Jr over a meeting he had with a Russian lawyer in 2016 at the height of the presidential campaign.\n\nMr Trump's son met Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya at Trump Tower in New York in June 2016.\n\nMr Trump Jr had been told that she would offer Russian-linked information which would put Hillary Clinton in a bad light.\n\nCritics accuse Mr Trump Jr of intent to collude with the Russians, and believe he may have broken federal laws. But others dispute this.\n\nDonald Trump tweeted that his son was \"open, transparent and innocent\". He also told Reuters he was unaware of the meeting and only learned of it two days ago.\n\nMr Trump Jr himself told Fox News the meeting was \"such a nothing\", but he accepted he should have handled it differently.\n\nHe has released a series of emails in which he was told he would receive \"very high level and sensitive information\", to which in response he said \"if it's what you say I love it\".\n\nKremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov denied any link to the Russian lawyer, and Ms Veselnitskaya herself has said she was never in possession of information that could have damaged Mrs Clinton.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'We were both flat out on the floor'\n\nA couple knocked themselves unconscious practising a lift from classic 1980s film Dirty Dancing for their wedding.\n\nSharon Price and fiance Andy Price were trying to recreate its final dance scene in a pub garden in Weston-super-Mare in Somerset.\n\nMr Price said: \"I was concussed. I was out. I ended up in a neck brace and had to have a CT scan.\n\n\"We were about 30ft apart and Sharon ran and I grabbed her hips and the next thing we knew we were flat out.\"\n\nMr Price said he had a mild heart attack several years ago and so the medical experts were \"just being careful\" with the tests they ran.\n\nThey were discharged from hospital six hours later.\n\nThe couple were about 30ft apart when Sharon started the run up towards her fiance for the Dirty Dancing lift\n\n\"Dirty Dancing\" began trending on Twitter as news of the couple's mishap spread around the world.\n\nThe 1987 film, starring Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey, is one of Ms Price's favourite films.\n\n\"I've always watched it and me and my daughter watch it, over and over again,\" she said.\n\n\"We thought it would be something different. Everybody else slow dances, so we thought we'd jazz it up a bit.\"\n\nAndy said the the next thing he knew they were \"flat out on the floor\" and he was unconscious\n\nOn Saturday, on the \"spur of the moment\", the couple decided to \"get a bit of practice in\" and try out the famous Hollywood dance move.\n\n\"There was no build up, no warm up and that was it,\" said Mr Price.\n\n\"I think I knocked myself out hitting the floor as hard as I did. I wasn't too aware of what was going on after that.\"\n\nMs Price is also unsure: \"I can remember running towards Andy and then the next thing just struggling for breath and my back was hurting.\"\n\nWith him \"in and out of consciousness\" and her conscious but \"struggling for breath\" - an ambulance and rapid response vehicle were called and the couple were taken to Southmead Hospital.\n\nSharon and Andy were hoping to recreate a scene from the 1987 film, shown here in a stage musical version\n\nThe couple are now going to do a safer slow dance \"smooch\" when they marry next year\n\nThe couple, who coincidentally have the same surnames, said they would rethink their first dance for the wedding.\n\n\"I don't think we'll have that one at the wedding, I think we'll go for a traditional slow one and I'll let Andy choose,\" said Ms Price.\n\n#DirtyDancing was one of the top hashtags in the UK on Twitter earlier.\n\nWorldwide there was a 92% increase in people using the hashtag earlier compared to the previous six hours, according to social media measurement tool Spredfast.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post 6 by New York Post", "The woman was knocked over by the blast of a plane taking off: this file photo shows a plane arriving at Sint Maarten\n\nA New Zealand woman has died on the Caribbean territory of Sint Maarten after the blast from a powerful jet engine knocked her to the ground.\n\nThe incident happened at the famous Princess Juliana International Airport, which is just metres from the beach.\n\nBeachgoers can walk up to the airport fence as planes take off.\n\nPolice said the 57-year-old woman had been holding on to the fence before the force of the jet engines threw her backwards, causing serious injury.\n\nShe was taken to hospital for treatment, but died later.\n\nThe particular stretch of beach on the Dutch territory is popular with tourists, partly because the planes fly extremely low over the sand before landing.\n\nThe beginning of the runway is just 50m (160ft) from the fence on Maho beach, and about the same distance to the waterline.\n\nThere are prominent warning signs in the area instructing beachgoers not to stand near the fence because of the dangerous air blasts.\n\nDespite the danger, a number of videos circulating online show tourists clinging to the fence to prevent being swept away - and in some cases, almost being lifted off the ground.\n\nThe island's tourism director, Rolando Brison, told the New Zealand Herald he had spoken to the family of the dead woman.\n\n\"I met with the family of the deceased this evening and while they recognised that what they did was wrong, through the clearly visible danger signs, they regret that risk they took turned out in the worst possible way,\" he said.\n\nThe newspaper also said the plane taking off was a Boeing 737, a commercial jet. A number of local media reports said the woman struck her head on concrete when she was blown back from the fence line.\n\nIn a statement, Sint Maarten police said they visit the area daily to discourage tourists from clinging to the runway fence.\n\n\"The landing and taking off of all types and size of aircraft at the international airport of Sint Maarten is well known worldwide as major tourist attraction,\" police said.\n\n\"Many tourists come to the island to experience the thrills of the landing of approaching aircraft flying low above their heads and the holding on to the airport fence and standing in the jet blast of large aircraft taking off. Doing this is, however, extremely dangerous.\"", "Erica Osbourne suffered second degree burns and scars in the incident at Disneyland Paris\n\nA woman who was burned when her clothes caught fire in a Disneyland Paris restaurant says she was told it was \"no different to falling off a bike\".\n\nErica Osbourne, 37, claims it happened when a chef used a blow torch on a dessert. She lost part of her hair and eyebrows in the incident in February.\n\nShe said \"a massive fireball came across the counter towards me\" as the crème brûlée sugar was lit.\n\nDisneyland Paris said guest safety \"is our number one priority\".\n\nMrs Osbourne, from Bristol, said she suffered second degree burns when her jumper caught fire as a chef used the torch on the dessert.\n\nShe said the flames narrowly missed her 10-year-old daughter, Abigail, at the Newport Bay Hotel Restaurant.\n\n\"I had ordered the crème brûlée and Abigail had gone to get an ice cream when the chef lit the sugar and a massive fireball came across the counter towards me.\n\n\"I was so terrified that I froze to the spot but I remember an intense heat on my face.\n\n\"Abigail told me later that I was screaming 'help me! I'm on fire'. My jumper and my face were on fire.\"\n\nShe said a chef jumped over the counter and he and another customer \"bundled me to the ground and rolled me around to put out the flames\".\n\n\"Immediately after I was burnt one of the managers said to me that the incident was 'no different to falling off a bike'. I couldn't believe it.\" she added.\n\nMrs Osbourne was treated by paramedics and spent several hours in hospital. She is now taking legal action against Disneyland Paris for personal injury.\n\n\"Incidents of this type are extremely rare,\" a spokesman for the attraction said.\n\n\"As this is an ongoing legal issue which is in the process of being resolved, it would be inappropriate to discuss this further at this time.\"\n\nJames Griffin, from Slater and Gordon, who is representing Mrs Osbourne, said: \"This was a terrifying incident that could have resulted in much more serious consequences.\"\n• None Disney to buy most of Euro Disney\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Janice Farman had been in Mauritius since 2004\n\nA 47-year-old woman from Clydebank has died in Mauritius after being killed in front of her child during a robbery by masked men at her home.\n\nJanice Farman, who lived with her 10-year-old autistic son, died of asphyxiation during Friday's attack.\n\nShe had been in the Indian Ocean country since 2004 and was working as a director of a data services group.\n\nPolice believe Mrs Farman was killed during a robbery by three men. One man has been arrested, local media said.\n\nThe BBC's World Service correspondent in Mauritius, Yasine Mohabuth, said she had recently moved to Albion, in the west of the island, an area previously known for burglaries.\n\nHe said: \"A fight took place between the three robbers and the victim in the presence of her 10-year-old son.\n\n\"Police said that she was smothered to death in her bed.\n\n\"They had arrived at three in the morning. It was her son that alerted a friend. The burglars stole many things, including her jewellery and her car.\n\n\"Her son is now under the care of the child development unit because his father is abroad.\"\n\nMrs Farman's Nissan Tiida was later found by police at the side of the road\n\nA post-mortem examination has since confirmed that Mrs Farman died as a result of asphyxiation caused by compression of the neck.\n\nMrs Farman's Nissan Tiida was later found by police at the side of the road.\n\nShe was originally from Clydebank in West Dunbartonshire and was working as the managing director of PECS (Mauritius) Ltd, a privately owned group of companies providing data services.\n\nA colleague said that he had been contacted by her son in the early hours of Friday, who had told him that his mother was \"not breathing\".\n\nIn a post on social media, he wrote: \"Just imagine.... He clearly had no idea what was going on and he was simply in a state of shock. We called the police and it was later confirmed she did not make it.\"\n\nHe referred to Mrs Farman as his mentor and claimed that \"Mauritius was no longer a paradise.\"\n\nIn a statement from Mrs Farman's employer, Stephen Littlechild from PECS data services, said: \"Last night our MD in Mauritius Janice Farman was brutally murdered in her own home.\n\n\"In view of these tragic events, we have decided to close our Mauritius office today, so we can make sure all our team have access to counsellors and as a mark of respect to a wonderful lady.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with Janice's family, friends and colleagues.\"\n\nThe British Foreign Office said it was in contact with local authorities in Mauritius about the case.", "Charlie Gard has been in intensive care since October\n\nGreat Ormond Street Hospital has applied for a fresh hearing in the case of Charlie Gard following claims of \"new evidence relating to potential treatment for his condition\".\n\nIt comes after seven medical experts suggested unpublished data showed therapy could improve the 11-month-old's brain condition.\n\nPreviously, the High Court said it was unlikely a US doctor offering to treat Charlie would be able to cure him.\n\nGOSH said it would \"explore\" the data.\n\nCharlie's case will be heard by Mr Justice Francis on Monday at 14:00 BST, according to a High Court listing.\n\nUnder a High Court ruling, GOSH is forbidden from allowing Charlie to be transferred for nucleoside therapy anywhere\n\nA hospital spokesman said: \"Two international hospitals and their researchers have communicated to us as late as the last 24 hours that they have fresh evidence about their proposed experimental treatment.\n\n\"We believe, in common with Charlie's parents, it is right to explore this evidence.\n\n\"Great Ormond Street Hospital is giving the High Court the opportunity to objectively assess the claims of fresh evidence.\n\n\"It will be for the High Court to make its judgment on the facts.\n\n\"Our view has not changed. We believe it is right to seek the High Court's view in light of the claimed new evidence.\n\n\"Our priority has always been, and will always be, the best interests of Charlie Gard.\"\n\nUnder a High Court ruling, GOSH is forbidden from allowing Charlie to be transferred for nucleoside therapy anywhere.\n\nSeven clinicians and researchers, including the US doctor, signed a letter explaining that the treatment would be experimental for Charlie's particular condition.\n\nThey claim that \"ideally\" the treatment would first be tested on mice but state that, in Charlie's case, there is not time for such a trial.\n\nCharlie has mitochondrial depletion syndrome, a rare genetic condition which affects the part of the cell responsible for energy production and respiration and has left him unable to move or breathe without a ventilator.\n\nConnie Yates and Chris Gard raised more than £1.3m for experimental treatment for Charlie\n\nDoctors at GOSH have said he cannot see, hear, move, cry or swallow and that his life support should be switched off because there is no chance of his condition improving.\n\nCharlie's parents, Connie Yates and Chris Gard, raised £1.3m on a crowdfunding site to pay for experimental nucleoside therapy in the US.\n\nBut they lost a legal battle with the hospital last month when judges at the European Court of Human Rights ruled further treatment would \"continue to cause Charlie significant harm\".\n\nSignatories to the new letter include a neurologist and a research fellow from Rome Children's Hospital, a scientist from Cambridge University's Mitochondrial Biology Unit and two researchers from Vall d'Hebron Institut de Recerca in Barcelona.\n\n\"In light of this new information, reconsideration of treatment for Charlie Gard is respectfully advocated,\" the group said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ed Sheeran has the number one album but some of his singles have fallen out of the chart\n\nThe chart rules may have changed - but Justin Bieber is still number one.\n\nLast week, the Official Charts Company overhauled the way it compiles the Top 40 in an effort to stop A-list artists elbowing newer acts out of the way.\n\nThe move was prompted by Ed Sheeran, whose new album ÷ [Divide] proved so popular that it propelled 16 tracks into the top 20 in March.\n\nAppropriately, he seems to be the main victim of the new rules, with several of his songs adversely affected.\n\nLast week, Sheeran had eight songs in the Top 100. This week, he has three.\n\nFour of those former hits dropped out naturally, because their sales declined following a brief, post-Glastonbury peak.\n\nBut another song was excluded from the countdown because, under the new system, artists are only allowed a maximum of three songs on the chart at any one time.\n\nSome of Sheeran's other songs tumbled down the charts, apparently the victim of a second rule penalising tracks that are \"well past their peak and in steep, prolonged decline\".\n\nFor those songs, the Official Charts Company is applying a new formula, whereby 300 streams count as one sale (for newer songs, the ratio is 150:1).\n\nThe idea is that the longer a song has been in the charts, the faster it will fall out of the top 100.\n\nAs a result, Sheeran's former number one Shape Of You, which has been in the Top 40 for 26 weeks, suddenly dropped 12 places after weeks of steady decline.\n\nSimilarly Clean Bandit's Symphony, which has been in the chart for 16 weeks, dropped 10 places.\n\nThe upshot of these moves, however, is that newer tracks have been bumped into the Top 40; with more new entries this week than any other in 2017.\n\nJustin Bieber sings a verse on the Spanglish number one single Despacito\n\nThese include Most Girls, the new single by actress Hailee Steinfeld, which makes its top 40 debut after hovering just outside the main countdown for six weeks.\n\nFinnish singer Alma also saw her single Chasing Highs rocket from 54 to 30, giving the musician her first ever hit in the UK.\n\nElsewhere, Selena Gomez's Bad Liar jumped nine places to reach a new peak of 25.\n\nAt the top end of the charts, the new rules made little difference.\n\nLuis Fonsi's Spanish-language smash Despacito, which features a guest verse from Justin Bieber, remained at number one for an eighth week.\n\nDJ Khaled and Rihanna's Wild Thoughts, meanwhile, held steady at number two.\n\nAccording to the Official Charts Company, the new rules were designed to \"ensure the chart continues to be a showcase for the new hits and talent which are the lifeblood of UK music\".\n\nBut chart analysts questioned the need for the changes.\n\n\"It's a really odd situation,\" said Fraser McAlpine on the Top 40 podcast Unbreak My Chart. \"Part of the fun of the chart has always been that it reflects what people's listening habits are.\"\n\nPrince scored six hit singles in the week after his death - but that would be forbidden under the new system\n\n\"If you've managed to iron out the possibility that everybody in Britain is suddenly really excited by four songs by the same artist, that seems like an odd way of hammering down on enthusiasm.\"\n\nMcAlpine noted that a situation like last April, when six Prince songs entered the Top 100 in the week after his death, would no longer be possible.\n\n\"The charts have never been a pure system,\" added his co-presenter Laura Snapes. \"But never before have the rules felt like such a blatant attempt to ensure the relevance of the singles chart at a time when it is less relevant than ever.\n\n\"It just seems like desperation and panic\".\n\nJames Masterton, who has been commentating on the Top 40 for the last 25 years, was more positive on his blog, saying the new rules would \"clear out\" long-in-the-tooth hits, such as Justin Timberlake's Can't Stop The Feeling which has spent 61 weeks in the Top 100, \"and which is now clearly taking up a space that could be better used by a newer hit\".\n\nOn the album chart, where the system was unchanged, Sheeran remained at number one, closely followed by Calvin Harris's fourth album, Funk Wav Bounces Vol 1.\n\nRag N Bone Man's Human rose two places to number three, which means it will spend its 21st week in the top five.\n\nThe Bee Gees' greatest hits album Timeless jumped to number six, bolstered by Barry Gibb's recent appearance at Glastonbury.\n\nAnd TLC saw their final, self-titled album enter the chart at number 40 - an impressive placing given that fans who crowd-funded the project two years ago received their copies for free, making them ineligible for the chart.\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 Chart rules changing to help new artists\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 it take so long to get an aerial platform to the tower block? BBC Newsnight investigates\n\nA series of failings that hampered the efforts of firefighters to tackle the Grenfell Tower fire and rescue the building's residents have been identified by a BBC investigation.\n\nCrews cited low water pressure, radio problems and equipment that was either lacking or did not arrive before the fire on 14 June got out of control.\n\nNewsnight has learned a high ladder did not arrive for more than 30 minutes.\n\nThe London Fire Brigade says it has changed its procedures since the fire.\n\nA high ladder will now automatically be sent to a fire in a tower.\n\nAn independent fire expert said having the high ladder, which is also known as an \"aerial\", available earlier would have given firefighters a better chance of stopping the blaze when it jumped from a fourth floor flat in the tower block and began to race up the side of the building.\n\nMore than 200 firefighters and 40 fire engines were involved in battling the blaze that engulfed the block in North Kensington, west London.\n\nAbout 300 people are believed to have lived in Grenfell Tower and most got out on their own.\n\nThe fire brigade rescued 65 people but at least 80 people are thought to have died.\n\nFirefighters have been told not to talk to the media but Newsnight obtained a copy of the \"incident mobilisation list\", the document which details every appliance dispatched to the incident.\n\nThe programme was also sent anonymous accounts from a number of men and women involved in the operation.\n\nThe mobilisation list revealed that the 30m (100ft) aerial, which could reach the 10th floor of Grenfell Tower, was not dispatched until 01:19 BST, 24 minutes after the first crews were sent to fight what had started as a fridge fire on the fourth floor.\n\nThe aerial did not arrive until 01:32 BST, by which time the fire had raced up the building's cladding.\n\nThe list entry A213 shows the ladder did not arrive until 32 minutes after the first crews\n\nMatt Wrack, general secretary of the Fire Brigades Union, said: \"I have spoken to aerial appliance operators in London... who attended that incident, who think that having that on the first attendance might have made a difference, because it allows you to operate a very powerful water tower from outside the building onto the building.\"\n\nA London Fire Brigade (LFB) spokesman confirmed the so-called \"pre-determined attendance\" for a tower fire - the list of appliances which are automatically dispatched - has been changed from four engines to five engines plus an aerial.\n\nThe spokesman said: \"An 'interim' change to pre-determined attendance for high rise buildings was introduced in direct response to the government's action to address concerns of cladding on buildings.\n\n\"The Brigade's pre-determined attendance to high rise buildings had already been increased in June 2015 from three fire engines to four as part of our ongoing review of high rise firefighting.\n\n\"It is important to understand that fires in high rise buildings are nearly always dealt with internally, not usually needing an aerial appliance.\n\n\"The fundamental issue of high rise safety remains that buildings are maintained to stop fires spreading.\"\n\nThe spokesman added: \"The Brigade has a fleet of specialist aerial firefighting appliances and these attend a variety of incidents across the capital.\"\n\nNewsnight's investigation also heard that firefighters had struggled with water pressure problems and the fire service had to call Thames Water to ask the company to increase pressure in the area.\n\nOne firefighter said: \"The fire floors we went in were helmet-meltingly hot… when we were clearing flats, it was a case of a quick look and closing doors because the water pressure wasn't up to firefighting.\"\n\nA Thames Water spokesman said: \"We've been supporting the emergency services' response in every way possible… any suggestion there was low pressure or that Thames Water did not supply enough water to fire services during this appalling tragedy is categorically false.\"\n\nFirefighters also described problems with radio reception inside the building and said they lacked enough of the \"extended duration\" breathing apparatus they needed, especially when reaching the higher floors of the building.\n\nAll fire engines have basic breathing apparatus that provides firefighters with oxygen for around 30 minutes.\n\nThe extended duration apparatus enables them to breathe for a theoretical 45 minutes - but working in dense smoke and intense heat 20 storeys up uses up the compressed air in the equipment more quickly.\n\nThe LFB said all of its rescue units carry extended duration apparatus and \"all of the fire brigade's rescue units attended the incident\".\n\nThe LFB said the police investigation into the fire would examine the brigade's response \"including all of the issues Newsnight has raised\".\n\nQuestions have also been raised about why a 42m firefighting platform had to be called in from Surrey to fight the fire at Grenfell - itself 67m high - because the LFB does not have one of its own.\n\nThe LFB spokesman said it had never responded to a fire on the scale of Grenfell Tower before.\n\nHe said: \"The commissioner has made clear her intention to fully review the brigade's resources and seek funding for any additional requirements.\"", "Marcel Somerville and Camilla Thurlow are among the contestants\n\nViewers have been complaining about Love Island - but not for the reason you might think.\n\nThe ITV2 show sees single men and women put together in a Majorcan villa to find love and win a £50,000 prize.\n\nSo far this series, there have been several instances of, shall we say, intimate behaviour taking place.\n\nBut broadcasting regulator Ofcom says it has actually received far more complaints about scenes that show the contestants smoking.\n\nThe series airs after the 21:00 watershed but has still attracted 46 complaints to date.\n\nMore than half of those - 24 - were from viewers objecting to the portrayal of smoking.\n\nFifteen of the complaints were made about the promotion of \"sexual material and promiscuity\".\n\nThe remaining complaints were for bad language, grievances about a racial slur and violence (for the time when a contestant threw a cushion \"aggressively\").\n\nOfcom has said it will assess the 46 complaints before deciding whether to investigate further.\n\nThe ITV2 show has a large following and an audience that includes pop singer Adele.\n\nSpeaking at the second of her Wembley dates last week, she labelled one of the contestants a \"tramp\" for taking part in a show in which \"real people have real sex on real TV\".\n\nFalling in love isn't easy - let alone falling in love on national television, writes entertainment reporter Genevieve Hassan.\n\nBut that's what 13 sexy singletons hope to do on Love Island, which is halfway through its third series on ITV2.\n\nIf you've never seen it before, the premise is to couple up and convince the public to keep you on the island in order to win £50,000 - all while trying to find your perfect match.\n\nThink Big Brother but with board shorts, bikinis and more under-the-sheets shenanigans than you can shake a stick at, as the couples chop and change throughout the series.\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.", "South Park is to make fewer jokes about Donald Trump, its co-creator has said.\n\nTrey Parker told The Los Angeles Times the show had fallen into the \"trap\" of mocking the US president in its episodes every week.\n\n\"We're becoming: 'Tune in to see what we're going to say about Trump.' Matt [Stone, co-creator] and I hated it but we got stuck in it somehow,\" he said.\n\nParker added he and Stone want the show, which has been running for 20 years, to return to its roots.\n\nHe said the series should stick to the \"bread and butter\" of \"kids being kids and being ridiculous and outrageous\".\n\nRecently, the show has seen teacher Mr Garrison campaign for president on the basis he would build a wall to keep out Canadians - a reference to the wall President Trump wants to build on the Mexican border.\n\nParker said: \"We probably could put up billboards - 'Look what we're going to do to Trump next week!' - and get crazy ratings. But I just don't care.\"\n\n\"We fell into the same trap that Saturday Night Live fell into, where it was like, 'Dude, we're just becoming CNN now'.\"\n\nCNN has been critical of Mr Trump since he was elected in November 2016.\n\nParker also said the US president is using the tools of a comedian to drive his support.\n\n\"The things that we do - being outrageous and taking things to the extreme to get a reaction out of people - he's using those tools. At his rallies he gets people laughing and whooping,\" Parker said.\n\n\"I don't think he's good at it. But it obviously sells - it made him president.\"\n\nDonald Trump Jr responded to the interview on Instagram, writing: \"Hahahahaha... South Park will lay off the Trump jokes to avoid becoming CNN... Amazing. This made my day.\"\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.", "Two criminals who were being deported to Jamaica from the UK tried to thwart the process by putting razor blades in their mouths, a report has revealed.\n\nThe incident took place ahead of a charter flight carrying 32 detainees from Stansted Airport in March.\n\nPrison inspectors say the \"immediate reactions\" of the private contractors escorting the men led to a \"risky situation, although it ended calmly\".\n\nBut they said a staff briefing had not provided guidance on welfare issues.\n\nThe flight was chartered by the Home Office, with private company Tascor responsible for the guards escorting detainees from a number of immigration centres.\n\nBBC home affairs correspondent Danny Shaw said it was very rare for details of deportation flights to be made public.\n\nThe report provides an important glimpse into the process and shows how difficult and dangerous it can be, he added.\n\nThe detainees were guarded on the plane by 103 staff and three healthcare workers.\n\nHM Inspectorate of Prisons said during a briefing held before the night-time removal operation, staff had been told that \"virtually all\" the detainees were \"violent criminals who have assaulted staff\".\n\n\"There was a strong emphasis on the risk of disruptive behaviour,\" said its report.\n\nBut it added \"talking up risks undermined to some degree even experienced staff's confidence in their interpersonal and other skills\".\n\nThe two men were found to have fragments of a razor blade in their mouth at Brook House immigration centre in West Sussex.\n\n\"One of the staff swore loudly, exclaiming he had blades in his mouth, while another grabbed his arm and several staff told him to spit the blades out, which he ignored,\" says the report.\n\nHe eventually handed over the blade fragments on the aircraft after he had been placed in a \"waist restraint belt\".\n\nThe other man had been on self-harm monitoring and walked with a crutch and staff were said to have \"treated him with reasonable consideration for his disability\".\n\nThe report described the response to the two men as \"proportionate\".\n\nIt said the reasoning behind the treatment of a 57-year-old woman who was made to wear a rigid handcuff and then fitted with a waist restraint belt after refusing to board the aircraft \"was much less clear\".", "House prices in the UK fell by 1% in June, the largest monthly fall since January, according to Britain's largest lender, the Halifax.\n\nIt brings the average price of a house or flat down to £218,390.\n\nThe rolling quarterly figure, which measures changes over the previous three months, fell by 0.1%.\n\nIt is the third month running that figure has fallen - the first time that has happened since November 2012.\n\nMeasured on an annual basis, the growth in house prices eased from 3.3% in May to 2.6% in June, the lowest increase for four years.\n\nThe Halifax said one reason for the slowdown was the fact that consumers were increasingly being squeezed as increases in incomes failed to keep up with inflation.\n\n\"Although employment levels continue to rise, household finances face increasing pressure as consumer prices grow faster than wages,\" said Martin Ellis, Halifax's housing economist.\n\n\"This, combined with the new stamp duty on buy-to-let and second homes in 2016, appears to have weakened housing demand in recent months.\"\n\nHowever monthly figures - and to a lesser extent quarterly figures - can be volatile.\n\nOne economist said he did not expect a continuing fall in prices over the rest of the year.\n\n\"The dip in Halifax's measure of house prices—which dragged year-over-year growth down to its lowest rate since May 2013—probably doesn't mark the start of a sustained fall in prices,\" said Samuel Tombs, chief UK economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics.\n\n\"The index is volatile even at the best of times, and Nationwide reported a 1.1% month-to-month rise in its similar measure of prices in June. The underlying trend in prices probably is flat.\"\n\nThe number of properties being sold has also held up relatively well.\n\nFigures from HM Revenue and Customs show that the number of sales in the three months to May was 1% higher than in the previous quarter.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The bronze statue has already been created\n\nConcerns that a statue of Lady Thatcher may be vandalised should not stop it going ahead, Theresa May has said.\n\nThose behind the bronze \"life size and-a-half\" statue, created by the sculptor Douglas Jennings want it to go up in Parliament Square.\n\nBut there have been a series of objections, including the possibility it could be vandalised and that it does not have the Thatcher family's backing.\n\nThe Parliamentary Estate has also objected to the proposal.\n\nIt has pointed out there is already a statue of Lady Thatcher in the Commons and that Westminster Council's own planning guidelines state Parliament Square - home to 11 statues - is within the \"monument saturation zone, considered unsuitable for new memorials\" and that statues should adhere to a rule that they do not go up within 10 years of the subject's death.\n\nThe statue would be mounted on a stone plinth\n\nA local conservation group, the Thorney Island Society, has commented on the application, saying the 10-year-rule should be adhered to, despite the fact a statue to Nelson Mandela was put up before his death.\n\nThe group said: \"While Lady Thatcher was also widely respected it cannot be said that she was uncontroversial in this country.\n\n\"There is a strong case for the ten-year rule to be respected - there should be a decent interval before permanent statues are erected, especially when they are controversial enough to risk vandalism.\"\n\nThe society adds: \"We understand that Lady Thatcher's daughter dislikes the statue.\"\n\nThe Thatcher family has been contacted for a comment.\n\nAsked about reports that the statue had effectively been blocked over concerns about vandalism, Mrs May told the BBC: \"I understand there are a number of issues that have been raised around the statue. What I'm very clear about is there should be no suggestion that the threat of vandalism should stop a statue of Margaret Thatcher from being put up.\"\n\nAt a briefing later, her spokesman said it was a decision for Westminster Council but added that \"statues are a key part of this country's heritage\" and those in Parliament Square were an \"important reminder of people who've played a key role in this country's history\".\n\nThe statue proposal has yet to go before a planning committee and even if it was granted permission - it would then have to get the approval of the Royal Parks, which manages the Parliament Square site.\n\nThe Royal Parks has objected to the application.\n\nA spokesman said: \"Numerous times we have requested assurances from the applicant that they have approval from the family for the statue. To date we have not had those assurances.\"\n\nLady Thatcher, who was Conservative prime minister from 1979 until 1990, died on 8 April 2013, following a stroke, at the age of 87.\n\nThe Public Memorials Appeal Trust - a charity which has raised the money to erect the statue - said it was chosen to portray the former PM in her state robes, \"her most dignified attire,\" with \"a resolute posture looking towards the Houses of Parliament, with a stern gaze slightly rightwards, akin with her political leanings\".\n\nIts preferred site for the statue and stone plinth is on the west side of Parliament Square, on Canning Green, between the existing statues of former prime minister George Canning and Abraham Lincoln - two of 11 statues in the square.\n\nIn April it was announced that the suffragist Dame Millicent Fawcett would become the first woman to be honoured with a statue in the square.\n\nOther statues of Lady Thatcher include one by sculptor Antony Dufort, in the members' lobby of the House of Commons, unveiled in 2007, and a bronze bust in a museum in her home town of Grantham.\n\nIn 2002 a protester decapitated a £150,000 Italian marble statue of Lady Thatcher at London's Guildhall Library and the statue of another former PM, Sir Winston Churchill, has occasionally been the target of vandalism in Parliament Square, the site of many protests over the years.", "Charlie Gard has been in intensive care since October\n\nThe mother of terminally-ill Charlie Gard has said he is not in \"pain and suffering\".\n\nIt comes after a US hospital offered to ship an experimental drug to the UK to help treat him.\n\nIt also offered to admit the 11-month-old if \"legal hurdles\" can be cleared. Great Ormond Street hospital has said further treatment will not help.\n\nForeign Secretary Boris Johnson has said it would be impossible for Charlie to be transferred to another hospital.\n\nCharlie's mother Connie Yates told Good Morning Britain on Friday: \"We are not bad parents, we are there for him all the time, we are completely devoted to him and he's not in pain and suffering, and I promise everyone I would not sit there and watch my son in pain and suffering, I couldn't do it.\"\n\nConnie Yates and Chris Gard raised more than £1.3m for experimental treatment for Charlie\n\nMs Yates said the Pope's intervention earlier this week came after she wrote a letter to him.\n\nShe said: \"It does give us a hope definitely, because there was no hope left. Charlie was going to die on Friday and, you saw the video we did, we were absolutely devastated.\n\n\"We had no control over it, the way it was done.\n\n\"And then it was going to be on the Monday instead but I think the White House got involved over the weekend and then that changed things.\"\n\nCharlie has mitochondrial depletion syndrome, a rare genetic condition which causes progressive muscle weakness.\n\nDoctors have said he cannot see, hear, move, cry or swallow and that his life support should be switched off because there is no chance of his condition improving.\n\nCharlie's parents, Ms Yates and Chris Gard, raised £1.3m on a crowdfunding site to pay for experimental nucleoside therapy in the US.\n\nBut they lost a legal battle with the hospital last month after judges at the European Court of Human Rights ruled further treatment would \"continue to cause Charlie significant harm\".\n\nThe US hospital, which cannot be named for legal reasons, said that it would treat the boy with an experimental drug pending approval from government regulators, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).\n\nIt said it had \"agreed to admit and evaluate Charlie, provided that arrangements are made to safely transfer him to our facility, legal hurdles are cleared, and we receive emergency approval from the FDA for an experimental treatment as appropriate\".\n\nIt added: \"Alternatively, if approved by the FDA, we will arrange shipment of the experimental drug to Great Ormond Street Hospital and advise their medical staff on administering it if they are willing to do so.\"\n\nA US specialist told judges that a \"small chance\" of a meaningful improvement in Charlie's brain function would be provided by therapy.\n\nCharlie's parents, from Bedfont, west London, have spent the last days of their son's life with him, after being given more time before his life-support is turned off.\n\nLast week they said the hospital had denied them their final wish to take their son home to die.", "\"Four minutes with him is worth hours of meeting with anybody else,\" one head of state said\n\nIt's tough being a diplomat when nobody talks to you. It's even worse when they aren't talking to you because they don't think you matter anymore.\n\nWhen he was just a candidate, Donald Trump declared in his first major speech on the issue that \"our foreign policy is a complete and total disaster\". His solution was to replace it with a slogan: America First. What he hasn't replaced, now that he is president, are the people normally tasked with projecting America's power around the world.\n\n\"It can't be business as usual when the entire [upper] floor of the State Department is missing,\" one ambassador said.\n\nAmbassadors in Washington are clueless these days, or rather clues are all they have, because, as this one was explaining to me, the usual avenues of diplomacy in the US capital have broken down. The same words were spoken by several ambassadors from across the globe that I've spoken to in DC recently.\n\nThere are dozens of senior positions lying vacant at the Department of State\n\nThe \"missing people\" are the undersecretaries and assistant secretaries of state with whom all the diplomats in the US capital normally conduct their day-to-day operational business.\n\nThere are presently dozens of senior positions lying vacant. The people who are acting up in these roles, by their own admission, have no authority to take important decisions.\n\nUnfortunately for them, Washington, DC, is a city where your status is entirely defined by your ability to influence others. So the city's embassies, representing US allies in Asia, Europe and Latin America, have told their staff to largely bypass the state department and look for other avenues to get their voices heard.\n\nWith a president widely viewed as being entirely un-ideological on all issues other than trade, face time is key.\n\n\"Four minutes with him is worth hours of meeting with anybody else,\" a visiting head of state told me recently. World leaders recognise transaction is the new diplomacy.\n\nAmerica isn't taking one for the team anymore, because President Trump isn't a team player. So diplomats make sure they go into their meetings with an idea that Mr Trump can claim as a victory.\n\nSecretary of State Rex Tillerson can't be everywhere at once\n\nIt must be structured, as one diplomat put it, \"so he can say to people, 'we scored a win here,' because for him it's all about winning\".\n\nTo make their case more effectively, America's allies are cloaking their own agendas in the president's language and priorities.\n\nComplex political issues are boiled down as \"fighting terrorism\".\n\nThat's how the Saudi government played the president during his Middle East trip in May. The Saudis repackaged their long-simmering dispute with Qatar, over regional influence and the Muslim Brotherhood, as a battle against Islamist extremists.\n\nLatin American leaders are recasting their \"war on drugs'' as a \"war on terrorism\".\n\nOn trade issues, countries make their pitch on the benefits to Mr Trump's support base and how much the people who voted for him will end up paying for stuff in the shops.\n\nA Western diplomat said his team had decided there were three groups of people President Trump listens to. There is his inner circle of White House advisers containing people like Jared Kushner, the president's son-in-law; the former investment banker Gary Cohn; and Mr Trump's right-wing svengali Steve Bannon.\n\nThe second group is his cabinet, and their influence varies widely from person to person, reflected in the time they each get with him inside the Oval Office.\n\nThe third group is his pre-presidency contacts from New York, and the property and media industries.\n\nSo foreign diplomats try to talk to as many people in this group of interlocking circles as they can, in the hope that if these people see the merit in their case, they will convey it to the president. And if the president hears that view enough times, he will believe it.\n\nDiplomacy in Washington has been reduced to a modern day version of Kremlinology\n\nHowever, after laying out this elaborate strategy, the Western diplomat confessed, \"but then there are those who say the most important thing is to be the last person to talk to him before he makes a decision\".\n\nDiplomacy in Washington has been reduced to a modern-day version of Kremlinology, where each individual policy outcome is used to measure the influence of the people arguing for or against it.\n\nFrom that is determined who is up and who is down and who is therefore important to influence.\n\nThe guilty secret of every ambassador in DC is that the first thing they do in the morning is check the president's Twitter feed. That is now the best, perhaps it's the only, way to work out what is going on with US foreign policy.\n\nAnd while the White House press corps have derided Mr Trump's Twitter diplomacy, some of his allies have a grudging respect for it.\n\n\"An awful lot of politicians around the world are watching this and thinking, 'Can I learn from it?' because it's been astonishingly successful,\" one diplomat told me.\n\n\"This is a guy who had never run for public office anywhere and the first time he runs, he gets the biggest job on the planet. So he did something right.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The crash involved the minibus going on the school trip and a city council bin lorry\n\nA 14-year-old girl has died in a crash involving a minibus full of pupils going on a school art trip.\n\nEmergency services were called to the crash between the minibus and a bin lorry on the A38 in Castle Vale, Birmingham at 09:00 BST on Friday.\n\nAnother girl was taken to hospital and 24 people, including the lorry driver, were treated at the scene.\n\nThe pupils were all from John Taylor High School in Barton-under-Needwood, Staffordshire.\n\nThe girl died at the crash scene, the ambulance service said.\n\nWest Midlands Police said three teachers and a further 20 pupils were on the minibus.\n\nThe teenager who suffered minor injuries was taken to Heartlands Hospital.\n\nMachine worker Stephen Jones, 38, who works nearby, said: \"I heard a big bang at 9am this morning - a massive bang.\n\n\"I came over and had a look and the police were here with the sirens and they'd shut it all.\n\n\"I saw the coroner's ambulance and I heard a girl had passed away.\"\n\nHe added: \"There are a lot of accidents here all the time, it's a busy road.\"\n\nPolice were in place at the school gates on Friday\n\nIn a letter to parents, school principal Mike Donoghue said pupils would be able to receive support from teachers and other staff.\n\nHe said: \"Your child, who has brought this letter home today, has been told about this and they may well be very upset by this sad event.\n\n\"We therefore felt it was important you know what has happened and what we are are doing in school to support your child.\"\n\n\"Our thoughts, at this very tragic and sad time, are with the family, their friends and the pupils and staff involved,\" the letter added.\n\nThe school later tweeted its thanks for support during the \"desperately sad time\".\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 school earlier said some of its Year 9 and 12 pupils had been on an art trip when the crash happened.\n\nIn a statement, Birmingham City Council confirmed the bin lorry was one of its fleet and said it was \"deeply saddened\" about what had happened.\n\n\"As a city council trade waste vehicle was involved in the incident we will be fully co-operating with all investigations,\" it said.\n\nNo arrests have been made, however, police said that both drivers were assisting with the \"detailed and thorough\" investigation.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAsked by reporters if the pupils were wearing seatbelts, he replied: \"That will be part of our investigation and, at the moment, I can't confirm either way whether or not pupils were wearing seatbelts or otherwise.\"\n\nHe said he would not speculate on the cause of the collision.\n\nForensic experts were at the scene on Friday afternoon.\n\nFrom the roadside, damage to the bin lorry's front end was visible and the rear right-hand portion of the minibus had been covered over with a green tarpaulin.\n\nOfficers were also carrying out skid tests and taking distance markings on the dual carriageway.\n\nThe school is a specialist science and leadership academy and has 1,500 pupils.\n\nThe calendar on the school's website suggests a trip had been planned for Friday to Birmingham's Botanical Gardens and Wolverhampton Art Gallery.\n\nIt also shows the school's Year 11 prom was due to be held on Friday night.\n\nIt is located in Barton-under-Needwood, close to Burton-upon-Trent and Lichfield.\n\nLichfield MP Michael Fabricant, whose constituency includes the school, tweeted he was \"heartbroken\" to hear about the girl's death.\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\nCouncillor John Clancy, leader of Birmingham City Council, said he was \"shocked and saddened by the tragic incident\".\n\nWest Midlands Police's Force Contact team earlier tweeted that the road was expected to be closed for a \"considerable time\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "It's the weekly news quiz - have you been paying attention to what's been going on in the world over the past seven days?\n\nIf you missed last week's quiz, try it here\n\nJoin the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSix-year-old Bradley Lowery, whose plight touched the lives of many people, has died after a long illness.\n\nThe Sunderland fan was diagnosed with neuroblastoma - a rare type of cancer - when he was 18 months old.\n\nBradley went on to be the club's mascot and became \"best mates\" with his hero, striker Jermain Defoe.\n\nA minute's applause for the youngster took place just before the kick-off in the club's friendly against Bury at Gigg Lane.\n\nBury's chairman also said all gate receipts from the match will go to Bradley's fundraising campaign.\n\nPlayers from both teams, as well as the crowd at Gigg Lane, applauded the memory of the youngster\n\nHis death was confirmed on social media by his parents.\n\nThe posting read: \"My brave boy has went with the angels today.\n\n\"He was our little superhero and put the biggest fight up but he was needed else where. There are no words to describe how heart broken we are.\"\n\nBradley's mum Gemma Lowery had previously said his deterioration had been \"heartbreaking\"\n\nIn a statement Sunderland FC extended its \"'love and support\" to Bradley's family.\n\nIt said: \"He had a special relationship with Jermain Defoe and their feelings for each other were evident for all to see. Jermain, naturally, is heartbroken.\"\n\nBradley underwent treatment and was in remission, but relapsed last year.\n\nWell-wishers raised more than £700,000 in 2016 to pay for him to be given antibody treatment in New York, but medics then found his cancer had grown and his family was informed his illness was terminal.\n\nBradley was a mascot for England when they played Lithuania in March\n\nIn December, Bradley's parents Gemma and Carl, from Blackhall Colliery, County Durham, were told he only had \"months to live\".\n\nFour months later they were told the latest and final round of his treatment had failed.\n\nHe underwent \"tumour-shrinking treatment\" at Newcastle's Royal Victoria Infirmary but the cancer continued to spread.\n\nOn 24 May, Mrs Lowery said Bradley had left hospital to start palliative care at home, adding more tumours had been found and further radiotherapy was planned.\n\nThen, on 28 June the family wrote on Facebook: \"Bradley is deteriorating fast, his temperature is going very high his breathing very fast his oxygen levels low.\n\nBradley walked down the red carpet at the BBC's Sports Personality of the Year in 2016\n\n\"He is sleeping most the time apart from odd times awake. We knew this was coming but we are heartbroken beyond words.\"\n\nOn 1 July, his family posted a picture of Bradley with Defoe who, after signing for Bournemouth, returned to the North East to see him.\n\nOn Thursday, Defoe broke down in tears during a press conference for his new club and said the six-year-old would \"always be in my heart\".\n\nBradley with his dad Carl at the match between Everton and Sunderland\n\nBradley became known worldwide following an appeal that saw him receive 250,000 Christmas cards from countries as far away as Australia and New Zealand.\n\nIn December, he met England manager Gareth Southgate and Match of the Day pundit Gary Lineker at the BBC Sports Personality of the Year event in Birmingham.\n\nBradley then won the programme's December goal of the month award after he took a penalty ahead of Sunderland's game against Chelsea.\n\nBradley became firm friends with his hero Jermain Defoe\n\nHe has also appeared as a mascot for Everton, who pledged £200,000 to his fundraising campaign, and was visited in hospital by a number of Sunderland players.\n\nA dream came true when he appeared as mascot for the England team at Wembley Stadium before a game that saw Defoe score a goal.\n\nHe was also given honorary 41st place in the race card for the Grand National at Aintree in April.\n\nOn 30 June a charity single, \"Smile For Bradley\" by LIV'n'G, entered the singles chart at number 28. All proceeds from the song will go to the Bradley Lowery Foundation, which has been set up in his honour.\n\nBradley got to try out the weighing scales at Aintree - coming in at 2st 12.5lb (18.37kg)\n\nBradley was named Child of Courage at the Pride of North East Awards just days before a party was held to celebrate his sixth birthday, which was attended by Defoe and 250 other well-wishers.\n\nFewer than 100 children in the UK are diagnosed each year with neuroblastoma and most living with the condition are under the age of five.\n\nDr Guy Blanchard, chair of Neuroblastoma UK, said: \"All in the neuroblastoma community will be saddened to hear the news of Bradley's death.\n\n\"His story raised significant awareness of a disease that is responsible for one in six of all children's cancer deaths.\n\n\"Through the world-leading research funded by Neuroblastoma UK, into improving both diagnosis and treatment of the disease, we will find a cure.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Former duo David Baddiel and Rob Newman as they look today\n\nIt's no big deal for comedians to play sold-out arena shows these days - just look at Peter Kay and Michael McIntrye.\n\nBut it was unheard of before 1993, when Rob Newman and then comedy partner David Baddiel became the first comics to sell out Wembley Arena.\n\nWith Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis, they formed The Mary Whitehouse Experience in the 1990s, before getting their own show, Newman and Baddiel in Pieces.\n\nIt was such a success the pair went on tour - but by then the cracks were showing.\n\nThey later admitted that for part of the tour, the only time they spoke to each other was to deliver lines.\n\nBaddiel said in an interview: \"It was incredibly acrimonious. I remember people saying at the time that it was a publicity stunt, but it really wasn't. We weren't speaking at times, except on stage... It's interesting in terms of fame, in that it's quite toxic, and it certainly was in that relationship.\"\n\nAnd how they were in their 1990s heyday\n\nNewman - now a writer as much as a comedian - was \"affected by fame\" and became a \"difficult person to work with\", he said at the time. Baddiel went on to further fame on Fantasy Football with Frank Skinner, while Newman pretty much retreated from the limelight.\n\nSo imagine fans' delight when Newman got back in touch with his former partner earlier this year.\n\nIn a slightly clunky tweet, he requested free tickets to Baddiel's show about his father's dementia (inspiring one reply of \"See that freeloader? That's you, that is\", in a nod to their catchphrase).\n\nHe said the show was \"heart-warming\" and \"very, very funny\". It was the first time they'd been in the same room since 1993 - though Baddiel said they'd bumped into each other a few times \"in various parks and streets\".\n\nAnd now, they've been publicly reunited at the Harper Collins summer party - leading to many fans (and some fellow celebs) pinning their hopes on them getting back together.\n\nOthers said they hoped it meant they were getting back together for a one-off series - but Baddiel has previously vowed they would never work together again.\n\nWhile that might dash the hopes of comedy fans, at least they're on speaking terms.\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.", "Jacqueline Robb used the money to buy holidays and clothes\n\nA finance manager who stole £46,000 of school dinner money has been jailed.\n\nJacqueline Robb, 54, of Laburnum Avenue, Manchester, used the funds to buy foreign holidays and clothes.\n\nThe school where she worked spotted that £952 was missing from its bank account after an audit in autumn 2016. It later identified a loss of £46,011 between April 2012 and December 2016.\n\nRobb was jailed for 10 months at Manchester Crown Court after she pleaded guilty to theft.\n\nShe had been employed at a school in Openshaw since April 2009, where her duties included the administration and accounting of the school meals income.\n\nThe audit identified an annual deficit of about £10,000 missing from the school's bank account between 2012 and 2016.\n\nDet Con Laura Watson, from Greater Manchester Police, said Robb had been initially considered as a \"respected and trusted member of staff\".\n\n\"She made the decision to breach the trust instilled in her by the school, improving her financial wellbeing through illicit means, which is absolutely unacceptable.\"\n\nA proceeds or crime hearing is due to be held on 26 October.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A penis-shaped rock formation in Norway that was apparently knocked down by vandals last month has been restored to its anatomical glory.\n\nScaffolding was used to hoist up the protuberance, which is reported to weigh about 12 tonnes (12,000kg.)\n\nThe restoration operation was funded by a crowdfunding campaign which raised about 227,000 kroner ($27,000).\n\nBut tourists will have to wait a week before they can see the formation in order to allow it to fasten properly.\n\nCement, glue and metal fastenings were used to re-attach the Trollpikken, or \"The Troll's Penis\" to the cliff.\n\nPolice last month said that indentations in the rock suggested vandalism was responsible for the demise of the stone. They say a suspect has been questioned over the incident.\n\nIndentations in the rock suggested the penis had been vandalised, police said\n\nHikers found the stone, which originally came out from the rock face, resting on the ground.\n\nDays afterwards The Troll's Penis Will Be Re-Erected appeal was launched and had received money from close to 1,000 people.\n\nThe rock formation is located in the municipality of Eigersund, in the south-west of the country.", "An 81-year-old former Koran teacher who was convicted of a string of child sex offences has been jailed for 13 years.\n\nMohammed Haji Sadiq taught for 30 years at Cardiff's Madina mosque and abused four girls as a form of punishment.\n\nHe was found guilty of eight sexual assaults on a child under 13 by touching, and six indecent assaults after a trial at Cardiff Crown Court.\n\nThe court heard Sadiq, of Cyncoed, \"took advantage of his position\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Being abused by paedophile Koran teacher Mohammed Haji Sadiq 'felt normal eventually', says victim\n\nHe had denied the charges involving four girls aged between five and 11 and blamed \"politics\" in the mosque for the accusations.\n\nBut sentencing him, Judge Stephen Hopkins QC told Sadiq: \"Children called you 'uncle' as a mark of respect. You are a man in my judgement of some cunning.\"\n\nHe added: \"Beneath the veneer there is a dark and deviant side.\"\n\nSadiq, who was a part-time Imam, sexually assaulted two girls under the age of 13 by touching, and indecently assaulted two other girls over a decade between 1996 and 2006 at the Woodville Road mosque.\n\nHe abused them if they made a mistake while reciting the Koran and would use a stick as a form of punishment in class, hitting people over the hand or hard on the back.\n\nSome of his victims said they were afraid to attend the mosque because of his abuse.\n\nOne said she had attempted to take her own life because of the abuse.\n\nIn victim impact statements read to the court, others said they felt they could not tell anyone about the abuse because of the culture they grew up in.\n\nThe court heard one victim feared the consequences of speaking out following Sadiq's conviction.\n\nShe said: \"Due to my religion it was very difficult, almost impossible to tell anyone what had happened\".\n\nShe added: \"In the Muslim religion we do not talk about personal matters\".\n\nAnother victim said it was \"not acceptable\" in her culture to talk about what was happening at the mosque.\n\nShe said: \"I remember the relief I felt when I told my mother, and she believed me and went to the police.\n\n\"In my family honour is very important, but my family have been very supportive\".\n\nSadiq has had no involvement in the mosque since 2006 when it burnt down and was re-sited elsewhere in the city.\n\nHe was cleared of one indecent assault after his trial last month.\n\nIn addition to his jail sentence, he was issued with a sexual harm prevention order and will have to register as a sex offender.\n\nDet Ch Insp Rob Cronick of South Wales Police praised the \"immense courage\" of the victims who came forward.\n\n\"As a result of the verdict and today's sentence I believe there may be members of the community who may now feel confident enough to speak to the police or our support agencies,\" he added.\n\nMike Jenkin from the CPS said: \"These women have shown remarkable courage in coming forward to speak about the abuse they suffered at the hands of Mohammed Haj Sadiq when they were young girls.\n\n\"Sadiq was a respected figure in the community with considerable influence and power which makes the bravery of his victims all the more admirable.\n\n\"The evidence given by these women meant the prosecution was able to present a compelling case to the jury, resulting in the guilty verdicts.\"\n\nA spokesman for the children's charity NSPCC said: \"This was an appalling breach of trust and Sadiq has rightly received a significant prison sentence for these heinous offences.\"\n\nA Muslim Council of Wales spokeswoman said: \"We applaud the bravery and courage of the young women who now, as adults, pursued the case and pursued justice.\n\n\"Mr Sadiq was not an imam but a volunteer teacher at the former Madina Mosque.\n\n\"All mosques in Wales now have Child Protection Policies in place, and teachers and volunteers alike are all vetted and closely monitored.\"", "Play video Bradley Lowery will always be in my heart - Defoe from BBC Sport\n\nBradley Lowery will always be in my heart - Defoe", "Richard Davies was shot dead by police after firing from the upstairs window of the family home\n\nThe widow of a man shot dead by police has told an inquest of a desperate text sent by one of their children saying \"dad's going to kill himself\".\n\nRichard Davies, 41, died of a single gunshot wound to the chest after firing at officers in St Neots, Cambridgeshire, in October 2015.\n\nHis widow Samantha said she had a text from her child saying they were tied up and begging her to \"call the police\".\n\nMr Davies was shot after firing a gun from the house. The inquest continues.\n\nThe father of three said he \"wanted to end his life\" after learning his marriage was over, the hearing in Peterborough was told earlier this week.\n\nGiving evidence at the hearing, Mrs Davies said she had initially believed her husband had \"some acceptance\" about the end of their relationship and said \"there wasn't an ounce of anger\" during their conversation earlier that day.\n\nHowever, he had made several trips to a nearby shop to buy alcohol and had been carrying a knife, the inquest heard.\n\nMrs Davies went to visit her sister and when her children returned to the family home their father tied them up.\n\nFirearms officers attended the scene in Duck Lane, St Neots within minutes, the inquest heard\n\nThe inquest then heard how the children managed to make 999 calls and alert their mother.\n\nShe received a text that read: \"Call the police. Get them to come to our house. Dad's going to kill himself. He's tied us up. I'm not joking.\"\n\nWhen Mrs Davies arrived, one child had managed to escape.\n\nShe said when Mr Davies came to the door \"he didn't really look like my husband\".\n\nHe returned a short time later with a knife pointed at his chest, she told the hearing.\n\nSamantha Davies told the inquest her family had been \"changed forever\" by what happened\n\nHer other children managed to escape and Mrs Davies was taken to a neighbour's house.\n\nMr Davies was shot dead by a police marksman after firing six shots from the house, the inquest heard.\n\nMrs Davies said she had never seen his home-made gun or ammunition before, and her family was \"forever changed\" by what happened.\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\nThe two women, of a similar age, greeted each other warmly, shaking hands and smiling. One was the most powerful woman in the world - the other had been born into slavery.\n\nIt had taken more than 50 years for Martha Ann Erskine Ricks of Liberia to finally fulfil her life-long dream. And her encounter with Great Britain's Queen Victoria was extraordinary in many ways.\n\nExtraordinary because it made such an impression on the queen that she wrote about it in her daily journal; because it was so warm; and because it happened at all.\n\nThe queen and the farmer met in Windsor Castle on Saturday, 16 July 1892. Martha Ricks took with her a present of a satin quilt, embroidered with a coffee tree in full bloom, complete with red and green berries.\n\n\"At home, when a poor man comes to visit us on our farm, he never comes without some little present,\" Martha Ricks explained to the London-based newspaper, the Pall Mall Gazette, a few days after the meeting.\n\n\"How could I come to Queen Victoria, and bring her no present?\n\n\"I made it all myself, every stitch of it.\"\n\nSurrounded by courtiers, her children and grandchildren, Queen Victoria told Martha that she \"felt greatly honoured by the trouble you have taken to come to see me,\" according to a report in the Daily Graphic, a leading illustrated newspaper of the time, which also carried a sketch of the meeting on its front page.\n\nIn her diary the Queen described Martha as \"very loyal… with a kind face. I shook hands with her and she kept holding and shaking mine\".\n\nThe hand-shaking also stayed with Martha, as she told the Pall Mall Gazette:\n\n\"She did not stay long in the golden room and I forgot what she said, but I shall never forget how she smiled and how she shook hands with me.\"\n\nMartha had travelled a long distance to meet Queen Victoria - physically and metaphorically.\n\nShe had been born into slavery in 1817 in Tennessee, in the southern United States. Her father George Erskine bought the family's freedom and, in 1830, when Martha was 13, the family of nine moved to Liberia, a West African country founded by former American and Caribbean slaves.\n\nTragically, within a year, all but Martha and two brothers had died from fever.\n\nThe quilt is very special for Martha Ricks' family\n\nMartha settled on a farm in Clay Ashland, which is today a quiet village located on the lush green banks of the St Paul River, about 10 or so miles (16km) east of the capital Monrovia.\n\nClay Ashland was one of the first places settled by former slaves from the US who, with the help of the American Colonisation Society, had made West Africa their home from 1820 onwards.\n\nMartha became a farmer, growing her own vegetables and crops like ginger, cocoa, and coffee.\n\nShe also gained quite a reputation as a gifted needlewoman, winning prizes at national fairs for her silk stockings. And she was skilled in the art of quilting - a tradition brought over from the south of America by the settlers.\n\nMartha, a former slave, had spent 50 years determined to meet the Queen\n\n\"Aunt Martha really did inspire the women of Liberia to do quilting,\" Evangeline Morris Dennis says of her ancestor. Martha Ricks was the great-aunt of Mrs Dennis' mother.\n\n\"When the idea came to Aunt Martha to make this present, the first thing that came to her was to give her a quilt of a coffee tree.\"\n\nThe reason why, says Mrs Dennis who is 83, is that coffee trees flourished on Martha's farm - and were, she says, a symbol of the potential of Liberia, which in 1847 had declared itself Africa's first republic.\n\nMrs Dennis talks as if she had met Aunt Martha, although she did not.\n\nNewspapers at the time followed the story with great interest\n\nMartha died in 1901, by coincidence the same year as Queen Victoria. But Martha's stories have been handed down the generations and the stories of that event 125 years ago - and the quilt - are often spoken about.\n\nAnd also to the history of Liberia, argues Kyra Hicks, a quilter, quilt historian and the author of the children's book Martha Ann's Quilt for Queen Victoria.\n\n\"Here was a former slave who had spent 50 years wanting to give this gift,\" she says.\n\n\"The sheer audacity of the faith she had to do that - and her faith that she would, one day, see the Queen of England - that was just marvellous.\"\n\nMs Hicks says Martha's quilt was the first Liberian quilt to be given as a diplomatic gift.\n\nThe tradition was revived in 2005 when Ellen Johnson Sirleaf became Africa's first elected female president. She often gives quilts as presents to visiting dignitaries.\n\nPresident Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (L) recently gave this quilt of a cocoa tree to US Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson\n\nSo why did Martha Ricks feel so compelled to make a quilt for Queen Victoria?\n\nOne reason is that the UK was the first country to recognise Liberia's independence - even before the US.\n\nAnd, in July 1892 when speaking to the Pall Mall Gazette, Martha herself tells us that it was because of Queen Victoria's support for the anti-slavery movement.\n\n\"I had heard it often, from the time I was a child, how good the Queen had been to my people - to slaves - and how she wanted us to be free.\"\n\nSadly, the quilt is now missing.\n\nBut the family and Ms Hicks, who has spent more than seven years looking for it, hope that someday, someone could open a cupboard and find it.\n\nLooking for Aunt Martha's Quilt will be broadcast on the BBC World Service's The Documentary on 8 July 2017", "Approximately 850 people from the UK have travelled to support or fight for jihadist groups in Syria and Iraq, say the British authorities.\n\nThis BBC News database is the most comprehensive public record of its kind, telling the story of over 100 people from the UK who have been convicted of offences relating to the conflict and over 150 others who have either died or are still in the region.\n\nThis interactive content is optimised for modern, javascript-enabled web browsers. Please ensure you have javascript enabled and a current browser.\n\nThe information above has been compiled from open sources and BBC research. Some details have been withheld for legal reasons or are unavailable.", "Madonna confirmed two years ago she had a relationship with Tupac (R)\n\nTupac Shakur suggested to Madonna he broke up with her because of race, in an emotional letter attributed to the doomed rapper.\n\nThe 1995 missive, addressed to \"M\", said being with a black man could only help her career, but that he might let down his fans.\n\nMadonna confirmed two years ago they had had a relationship, though it is unclear how long it lasted.\n\nThe letter is up for auction with a starting bid of $100,000 (£77,000).\n\nDated 15 January 1995, it was penned while Tupac was serving a prison sentence for sexual assault and 18 months before he was shot dead. Both artists were then at the height of their fame.\n\n\"For you to be seen with a black man wouldn't in any way jeopardize your career, if anything it would make you seem that much more open and exciting,\" Tupac, then 23, wrote from New York's Clinton Correctional Facility.\n\n\"But for me at least in my previous perception I felt due to my 'image' that I would be letting down half of the people who made me what I thought I was.\n\n\"Like you said, I haven't been the kind of friend I know I am capable of being,\" he wrote, adding: \"I never meant to hurt you.\"\n\nRolling Stone magazine said it had confirmed the authenticity of the document, which was first published by TMZ.\n\nTupac - whose parents were both Black Panthers - also suggested Madonna, then 36, hurt him by saying in an interview that she was \"'off to rehabilitate all the rappers and basketball players' or something to that effect\".\n\n\"Those words cut me deep seeing how I had never known you to be with any rappers besides myself,\" he wrote.\n\n\"It was at this moment out of hurt and a natural instinct to strike back and defend my heart and ego that I said a lot of things.\"\n\nHe added: \"Please understand my previous position as that of a young man with limited experience with a extremely famous sex symbol.\"\n\nTupac concluded: \"It's funny but this experience has taught me to not take time for granted.\" He signed off with a heart symbol.\n\nOn 7 September 1996, the rapper - who sold over 75 million records worldwide - died in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas after watching a Mike Tyson boxing match.\n\nThe letter will be up for auction at the Gotta Have Rock and Roll sale, which is scheduled for 19 - 28 July.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Will Shu, Deliveroo's boss, says the law needs to change to catch up with the modern economy\n\nThe food delivery firm Deliveroo has said it will pay sickness and injury benefits to its 15,000 riders in the UK if the law is changed.\n\nIn a submission to the government's review of the \"on-demand\" economy seen by the BBC, the firm says that at present the law prevents it from offering enhanced rights because it classifies its riders as self-employed.\n\nDeliveroo says it uses that classification to provide its riders with the flexibility to work when they want.\n\nIt says employment rules should be changed so that people who work for companies like Deliveroo and Uber can receive enhanced benefits and not lose that flexibility.\n\nSources say that the firm is willing to look at enhanced payments to riders to cover things like sickness pay - and that the money would probably be administered under a government controlled scheme similar to national insurance or pensions contributions.\n\nIt may mean that Deliveroo riders and others working for similar on-demand firms like Uber are \"reclassified\" as gig workers.\n\nThe move comes after a slew of criticism and court cases against gig economy companies over how they treat people who work for them.\n\n\"Central to our popularity with riders and our success as a business is the flexible nature of the work that we offer,\" the submission says.\n\n\"We want to offer riders more security.\n\n\"We believe everyone - regardless of their type of contract - is entitled to certain benefits, but we are constrained in offering these at the moment.\"\n\nAt the moment \"self-employed\" workers in the gig economy do not have the right to sickness pay, holiday pay or maternity and paternity leave.\n\nThey also are not covered by the minimum wage rules.\n\nThat has led to criticism that the people who ride or drive for gig companies are actually \"workers\" and should receive a wide range of benefits.\n\nThere are also concerns that companies are exploiting loopholes in employment law and lack of enforcement to run their businesses profitably.\n\nDeliveroo says that if it did offer \"worker\" contracts, flexibility, which is very popular with its riders, would be lost.\n\nDeliveroo riders, for example, are allowed to work for other on-demand economy businesses at the same time.\n\nThis makes it impossible, the firm argues, to guarantee the minimum wage which is based on working for a single employer.\n\nDeliveroo says its riders earn on average £9.50 an hour, £2 more than the National Living Wage.\n\nThe firm says it is wrong that riders are at present involved in a \"trade-off\" between flexibility in the way they work, and the security of full employment benefits.\n\nCompany sources have told me that, following moves on sickness pay, Deliveroo would be willing to look at holiday pay, pension rights and maternity and paternity entitlements.\n\nThose rights could be \"earned\" by riders after a certain number of deliveries have been achieved.\n\n\"At present, companies in the UK are forced to class the people they work with as either 'employees', 'workers' or 'self-employed',\" the submission says.\n\n\"Our riders are 'self-employed'. This gives them full flexibility - but the quid pro quo is that they are not entitled to certain benefits.\n\n\"In short, there is currently a trade-off between flexibility and security and we want to play our part in overcoming this divide.\"\n\nDeliveroo is one of a new breed of \"on-demand\" firms which operate in what is known as the gig economy.\n\nRiders for the firm - 60% of whom are under the age of 25 - log on to the company's digital platform and receive \"jobs\" delivering food, on a bike or a scooter.\n\nMatthew Taylor, the head of the Royal Society of Arts, was asked by the government to review this new world of work, including the gig economy and zero hours contracts.\n\nHe is expected to publish his report imminently on how to reform employment law so that workers can be flexible without being exploited.\n\nDeliveroo's announcement today has received pretty short shrift from the TUC. Here's general secretary Frances O'Grady on my story this morning:\n\n\"This reads like special pleading. There's nothing stopping Deliveroo from paying their workforce the minimum wage and guaranteeing them basic rights like holiday and sick pay.\n\n\"Plenty of employers are able to provide genuine flexibility and security for their workforce. Deliveroo have no excuse for not following suit.\n\n\"The company's reluctance to offer benefits now is because they want to dodge wider employment and tax obligations by labelling staff as self-employed.\"\n\nHere's another update. The boss of Deliveroo, Will Shu, has told me that the company is willing to go further than offering its riders sick pay and injury insurance.\n\nI put it to him that the benefits debate in the gig economy went far further than sickness benefits and injury insurance, and asked whether the company would look at issues like pension payments and holiday entitlements.\n\n\"This is the beginning of the debate,\" Mr Shu told me.\n\n\"We sat down with - me personally - hundreds of riders and asked, what do you care most about today?\n\n\"It was sick pay and insurance for injury and that is what we are starting with. But we are open minded to different things.\"\n\nThat sounds like a yes, the company is willing to look at further benefit areas.\n\nIt will be interesting to see how Matthew Taylor's report, expected next week, deals with the issue of broader rights for gig workers.\n\nI asked Mr Shu for his response to critics who say that the only way firms like his make money is by not paying national insurance payments for their riders, pension contributions and other benefits.\n\n\"Not at all,\" he answered.\n\n\"I understand [the criticism] - it is a new way of doing businesses.\n\n\"The on-demand economy in Britain is five or six years old and there are hundreds of thousands of people in it so the growth has been huge, and so it is understandable that people haven't understood the intricacies.\n\n\"At the end of the day though, let's take it back, it is a very different relationship than regular employment. People can come and go as they please.\n\n\"The issue is this - if we offer benefits to people the courts may reclassify self-employed people as workers thus robbing them of the flexibility they ultimately signed up for, for the job.\n\n\"What that practically means is that you would work on a shift pattern, you wouldn't log in and out as you please. It is a very different work relationship.\"\n\nAnd would mean that Deliveroo wouldn't be, well, Deliveroo.", "Flying the flag for LGBT rights - Parliament shows it solidarity\n\nWestminster's \"palace of enchantments\" will be given an LGBTI gleam this weekend - lit up in the colours of the rainbow flag to mark both Pride Week and also the 50th anniversary of the Act of Parliament which legalised gay sex.\n\nThe decision was taken by Commons Speaker John Bercow and the Lord Speaker, Lord Fowler, who explained their thinking in their first-ever joint interview, for Radio 4's Today in Parliament.\n\nLegalisation, in 1967, was the product of a ten-year parliamentary campaign to follow-up the 1957 Wolfenden Report which had recommended the decriminalisation of consenting male homosexual sex.\n\nThere had been gathering pressure and determined resistance as the issue surfaced repeatedly in Parliament, with furious internal argument within the two main parties.\n\nMy favourite moment was a question put by the Conservative former Lord Chancellor, Lord Kilmuir, who asked \"are your Lordships going to pass a bill that would make it lawful for two senior officers of police to go to bed together?\"\n\nThe Conservative MP Humphrey Berkeley brought in a bill for reform, but lost his seat in the 1966 general election. He was not reselected, and was told that his local party could tolerate him being for either homosexual law reform or the abolition of hanging, but not both.\n\nThe torch was passed to the Labour MP, Leo Abse, who won approval for a ten-minute rule bill in July 1966, by 244 votes to 100. Abse had the support of the new Home Secretary, Roy Jenkins, who battled in Cabinet to persuade reluctant colleagues to give government support to the Bill.\n\nOpponents thought it was the product of middle class liberalism and would alienate Labour's working-class base, but the government did eventually crucial provide extra debating time in the Commons, when Abse's private members bill faced a filibuster.\n\nThe necessary 100 MPs needed to force votes at regular intervals in the debate was mustered, and at 5.50am on the morning of July 4, 1966, the Bill passed its Third Reading by 99 votes to 14, after a 20-hour sitting.\n\nLegalisation was presented in an apologetic way - a measure to end the criminalisation of unfortunates - and not a \"vote of confidence in homosexuality\".\n\nThe age of consent was set at 21, and despite attempts to lower it by, among others, the Conservative Edwina Currie, it remained at that age until 2000.\n\nEven after legalisation, the personal consequences for MPs and others in the public eye of being outed were still devastating.\n\nThere were cases like that of Maureen Colquhoun, a Labour MP elected in Northampton in 1974, who brought in bills on abortion, gender balance and the protection of prostitutes.\n\nHer relationship with another woman was revealed in the Daily Mail. She defeated two attempts to deselect her, and she was forced to campaign for re-election in 1979, with some party members refusing to support her because of her private life, rather than her politics. She lost.\n\nMaureen Colquhoun saw off two attempts to deselect her\n\nPerhaps the most high profile example was that of someone who never actually made it into Parliament, Peter Tatchell, the Labour candidate in the 1983 Bermondsey by-election, whose homosexuality became an election issue.\n\nIn an interview on Radio 4's Today in Parliament on Friday, Joanna Cherry, the gay SNP MP, said the level of \"hate filled homophobia\" he faced deterred her from any idea of a career in politics - although she would have liked (at that time) to be a Labour MP.\n\nLabour's Chris Smith, a future Culture Secretary, was the first MP to come out as gay, in 1984.\n\nAnd there was also legislation, like Section 28 of the 1988 Local Government Act, which said local councils could not \"intentionally promote homosexuality or publish material with the intention of promoting homosexuality\" or \"promote the teaching in any maintained school of the acceptability of homosexuality as a pretended family relationship\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nNo prosecution was ever brought under Section 28, but it had considerable impact on, for example, lesbian, gay and bisexual support groups in schools and colleges. It was repealed in 2000.\n\nIn recent years the battles have tended to be on legislation designed to be anti-discriminatory, first the creation of Civil Partnerships, then the legislation to allow same-sex couples to marry, and most recently the \"Turing Bill\" to pardon gay men convicted for offences that would not be considered crimes today.\n\nToday, Speaker Bercow's coat of arms features LGBT colours. And for Norman Fowler, the Lord Speaker, his experience as health secretary in the 1980s, when AIDS emerged as a major public health issue, it brought the issue for discrimination against gay people into focus.\n\nBoth wanted Parliament to pay its respects to the LGBT community and to show solidarity.\n\n\"We have gone in half a century from the criminalisation of one type of love to almost complete legal equality,\" Mr Bercow said.\n\nLord Fowler said the lighting of one of the most famous buildings in the world would be a symbol to people who were being persecuted.\n• None Why is Pride important to you?", "Thousands of people could be let down by poor funeral plans they don't understand, a new report has claimed.\n\nConsumer group Fairer Finance said people who paid for their funerals in advance could find their relatives faced extra costs after they died.\n\nIt also accused the industry of high-pressure sales tactics with vulnerable consumers, and claimed there was a danger of some firms collapsing.\n\nThe funeral industry itself said it was already campaigning for change.\n\nThe Fairer Finance study called for proper regulation of funeral plans, suggesting that the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) should play a role.\n\nThe report was commissioned by Dignity, one of the biggest providers. It said the scale of unscrupulous sales practices in the market was significant and growing.\n\nHowever it also says that buying a funeral plan from a reputable provider can provide good value for money, as it locks in current prices.\n\nThe average cost of a pre-paid funeral plan is about £4,000, according to the report.\n\nBut many plans do not cover costs such as embalming, limousines, a funeral service, a wake, burial plots or memorial stones.\n\nIn some cases, families are left having to find an extra £2,000, even though they expect such items to be included.\n\nMany customers buying such plans are elderly or vulnerable, and will not be around to check whether the product met their expectations, Fairer Finance said.\n\nAs many as 1.2 million people in the UK have pre-payment plans, and the industry is growing fast - up by 350% over the last 10 years.\n\nSales representatives have targeted at least six million adults over the age of 50, using what the report describes as \"high-pressure\" techniques.\n\nSome people have been subject to aggressive telephone marketing or in-home visits, it claimed.\n\nIn a telephone survey, nearly half of those contacted by sales reps said they felt as if they had been \"pushed\" to buy a plan.\n\nIn some instances, funeral plan firms pay commissions and fees of up to £1,000 for each policy sold - around a quarter of the total plan cost.\n\nThe report also said there was very little transparency over what happens to clients' money after they had paid it.\n\nThe National Association of Funeral Directors (NAFD) said it had been campaigning for tighter rules since November last year.\n\n\"In our view, the current lack of comprehensive oversight is allowing sharp sales practices and a lack of transparency to flourish in parts of the market,\" said Alison Crake, president of the NAFD.\n\n\"Members have reported numerous instances to us where funeral plan providers have not acted in the best interests of either the public who have paid for funeral plans, or the funeral directors who will care for them.\"\n\nThe industry is currently subject only to voluntary regulation, by the Funeral Planning Authority (FPA), and there is no ombudsman service for consumers to complain to.\n\nHowever, the report argues that funeral plans are financial products and should therefore be regulated by the FCA.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Hybrid and electric cars, like this Renault, make up about 5% of the French car market\n\nFrance is set to ban the sale of any car that uses petrol or diesel fuel by 2040, in what the ecology minister called a \"revolution\".\n\nNicolas Hulot announced the planned ban on fossil fuel vehicles as part of a renewed commitment to the Paris climate deal.\n\nHe said France planned to become carbon neutral by 2050.\n\nHybrid cars make up about 3.5% of the French market, with pure electric vehicles accounting for just 1.2%.\n\nIt is not yet clear what will happen to existing fossil fuel vehicles still in use in 2040.\n\nMr Hulot, a veteran environmental campaigner, was appointed by new French President Emmanuel Macron. Mr Macron has openly criticised US environmental policy, urging Donald Trump to \"make our planet great again\".\n\nPresident Trump's decision to withdraw from the Paris climate change agreement in June was explicitly named as a factor in France's new vehicle plan.\n\n\"France has decided to become carbon neutral by 2050 following the US decision,\" Mr Hulot said, adding that the government would have to make investments to meet that target.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPoorer households would receive financial assistance to replace older, more polluting vehicles with cleaner ones, he said.\n\nEarlier this week, car manufacturer Volvo said all of its new car models would be at least partly electric from 2019, an announcement referenced by Mr Hulot.\n\nHe said he believes French car manufacturers - including brands such as Peugeot-Citroen and Renault - would meet the challenge, although he acknowledged it would be difficult. Renault's \"Zoe\" electric vehicle range is one of the most popular in Europe.\n\nHowever, traditional fossil fuel vehicles account for about 95% of the European market.\n\nOther targets set in the French environmental plan include ending coal power plants by 2022, reducing nuclear power to 50% of total output by 2025, and ending the issuance of new oil and gas exploration licences.\n\nSeveral French cities struggle with high levels of air pollution, including Paris, which endured several days of peak pollution in March.\n\nThe capital has implemented a range of measures to cut down on cars, but air pollution is also a problem in picturesque mountain regions.\n\nLast month, a woman took the French state to court over what she said was a failure to protect her health from the effects of air pollution in Paris.\n\nNorway, which is the leader in the use of electric cars in Europe, wants to move to electric-only vehicles by 2025, as does the Netherlands. Both Germany and India have proposed similar measures with a target of 2030.", "A three-month-old chihuahua abandoned in a Las Vegas airport toilet has been taken in by a local animal rescue.\n\nChewy's owner left the puppy at McCarran International Airport on 2 July with a letter explaining she was leaving an abusive partner and could not take the dog on the plane with her.\n\n\"My owner was in an abusive relationship and couldn't afford me to get on the flight. She didn't want to leave me with all her heart but she has no other option.\"\n\nThe letter goes on to explain how her partner also hurt Chewy: \"My ex-boyfriend kicked my dog when we were fighting and he has a big knot on his head. He probably needs a vet. I love Chewy so much. Please love and take care of him.\"\n\nChewy was left in a bag in the women's toilet. The lady who found the bag worried it was a suspicious item and contacted security. The canine unit was deployed to inspect the bag but the dogs knew straight away there was a puppy in there. An officer opened up the bag and found Chewy.\n\nAn employee at the airport brought Chewy to the Connor and Millie's Dog Rescue, a local shelter where he is now being looked after.\n\n\"We took him to the emergency vet and got him checked out immediately\", Darlene Blair, of Connor & Millie's Dog Rescue, told the BBC.\n\n\"He did have a bump on his head but in 24 hours it was gone. He is fine and healthy and is being well taken care of.\"\n\nChewy is now happy and safe at a local dogs shelter\n\nDarlene said the shelter had not been contacted by Chewy's owner. \"We've had a lot of messages demanding we try to find her. The airport has been bombarded by people saying they need to find this woman.\n\n\"Chewy is going to be fine and this poor woman is out there somewhere and we don't want to draw her out. We are hoping with all our hearts that she has seen this and knows Chewy is safe and we hope she is safe.\n\n\"I wish this story would bring more attention to the fact it's a felony to abuse an animal but it's not a felony to abuse a woman.\"\n\n'Tell them Chewy sent ya'\n\nAlso speaking to News 3 Las Vegas, Darlene said the incident really got to her. \"You could tell by the way the note was written that the woman was in dire stress and she didn't want to give him up and she couldn't take him with her.\"\n\nThe shelter has since been inundated with offers of a home for Chewy.\n\n\"Chewy is safe, healthy and thriving. We have received thousands of applications and inquiries about adopting Chewy and we sincerely appreciate each and every one,\" the shelter posted on Facebook.\n\n\"We are hoping that Chewy's mom is in a safe place and will see Chewy's story so we can return Chewy to her if she so chooses and the circumstances are right for both of them.\n\n\"Chewy is still receiving some medical attention and is not ready for adoption yet. \"\n\nAlthough it has gained 1,670 online friends in the past week, the shelter is no longer accepting adoption applications for Chewy.\n\nInstead, it urges people to adopt other animals from their local rescue centres and to \"tell them Chewy sent ya\".\n\nBy the UGC and Social News team", "Luciana Berger was re-elected with an increased majority\n\nThe new Labour Party chairman Ian Lavery has told the Daily Mirror that he doesn't see the \"de-selection\" of MPs critical of Jeremy Corbyn \"as the way forward\".\n\nChills had gone up some Blairite spines when Mr Lavery himself had suggested at the weekend the Labour \"might be too broad a church\".\n\nBut he sought to calm nerves which had been further put on edge by comments from Mr Corbyn's close ally Chris Williamson, recently re-elected as the MP for Derby North having been narrowly defeated at the 2015 election.\n\nOn Thursday, Mr Williamson said: \"There are individual MPs in this party who think it's their God-given right to rule.\n\n\"No MP should be guaranteed a job for life. Labour is a big church, but we currently have a large bulk of MPs who represent one relatively small tendency in the congregation... it's unreasonable to think we as MPs can avoid any contest.\"\n\nHis words didn't sound like empty rhetoric to the MP for Liverpool Wavertree, Luciana Berger - seen as being on the moderate wing of the party.\n\nShe had resigned as a shadow minister when, a year ago, 80% of Jeremy Corbyn's MPs were expressing no confidence in his leadership.\n\nJeremy Corbyn has stressed his support for party democracy\n\nA left-wing \"slate\" of candidates had succeeded in taking almost all of the key offices on her local party's executive.\n\nAnd one of the winners - Roy Bentham - had shared his thoughts with the Liverpool Echo.\n\nHe suggested that Ms Berger, who was re-elected last month with an increased majority, publicly recant her criticism of the party leader and for the avoidance of doubt he declared: \"She is answerable to us now.\"\n\nThe local party secretary Angela Kehoe-Jones distanced herself from the remarks and suggested the branch was \"united\" in fighting the Tories.\n\nBut there is little doubt that Ms Berger - who is on maternity leave - feels her job is under threat.\n\nAnd she is not the only one.\n\nA Labour MP who held her seat against the odds at the election told me she was threatened with de-selection within 48 hours of the result.\n\nAnd you only have to visit websites which purport to back the Labour leadership to view a \"rogues' gallery\" of MPs who are seen as disloyal.\n\nFeaturing on most lists is Chuka Umunna, who upset those close to Mr Corbyn by pushing an amendment to the Queen's Speech to keep Britain in the EU single market - not official party policy.\n\nThis was seen as forcing the party leader in to sacking frontbenchers and was the first tangible sign of disunity following the euphoria of the election result.\n\nAnd while he wouldn't want to see Mr Umunna unseated, even Labour's deputy leader Tom Watson regarded that amendment as bad politics.\n\nBut some left-wing activists don't need new offences to be taken in to account.\n\nSome see those MPs who distanced themselves from Jeremy Corbyn as saboteurs of Labour's success.\n\nAnd they are building a narrative that had they been more loyal - and party officials more ambitious - they could have propelled the party from second to first place at the election.\n\nIndeed, some Corbyn critics are likely to be offered junior spokespeople roles in the autumn.\n\nBut not all of those who are seen as beyond the pale are likely to be unseated.\n\nMr Corbyn has time and again stressed how much he supports party democracy.\n\nSo unless a local party has been - as in Luciana Berger's case - taken over by members and supporters of Momentum (the group set up to keep the spirit of Mr Corbyn's leadership campaigns alive) it would be difficult to dislodge the sitting MP.\n\nAnd it should be said, not all local Momentum groups favour de-selecting sitting MPs in any case.\n\nThey would point out that they have campaigned for the re-election of MPs who aren't ideological fellow travellers.\n\nIan Lavery has spoken out against de-selection\n\nMomentum nationally weren't chuffed with a Facebook post from the South Tyneside group suggesting MPs such as Chris Leslie and Jess Phillips should \"join the Liberals\".\n\nInstead of pushing existing personalities out, largely beneath the political radar there are attempts to move Labour more solidly and permanently to the left and to ensure that, when the time comes, Jeremy Corbyn would be able to hand over the leadership to someone who largely shares his political outlook.\n\nSo at this year's Labour Party conference, there will be a move to shift the power in future leadership elections from MPs to party members.\n\nThis would mean just 5% of MPs - not the 15% of MPs and MEPs at present - would be needed to put a candidate on the ballot.\n\nWith a snap election, most anti-Corbyn MPs were returned to Parliament so while a left-wing candidate still might struggle to get 15% support, 5% is considered no barrier.\n\nThis move has already been reported extensively.\n\nMr Corbyn's internal opponents call it \"the McDonnell amendment\" - as shadow chancellor John McDonnell is a red rag to any of the party's more moderate bulls.\n\nGroups of what were called Blairites and Brownites - they would call themselves modernisers or moderates - in organisations such as Progress and Labour First have been working hard to secure enough delegates to the annual conference to defeat the leadership changes.\n\nWith the deadline for deciding delegates drawing to a close, it's not clear yet who has the upper hand.\n\nBut something of a quiet revolution could be under way that would see the power of Jeremy Corbyn, and his supporters, entrenched.\n\nUnder Labour's rules, some topics need to be put on the table this year if they are decided next year.\n\nSo a slow burning fuse will be lit in the autumn that could blow up in to a more major row in 2018.\n\nThere are moves by those on the party's left to make it easier for local parties to oust sitting MPs in future.\n\nThis would involve party branches being encouraged to put forward alternative names for consideration, or for sitting MPs to be required to demonstrate they had 66% support locally to continue.\n\nThere will also be a move to increase the number members of Labour's ruling National Executive Committee (NEC), who are elected not by MPs or the unions, but by the rank-and-file members.\n\nThe assumption is that they are more in tune with Mr Corbyn's agenda.\n\nIain McNicol (second right) sings The Red Flag at the 2015 Labour conference\n\nThe NEC approves party candidates for elections - and a panel of its members chooses by-election candidates.\n\nThere was an attempt to disbar the pro-nuclear and anti-Corbyn candidate John Woodcock at an NEC meeting just before the election.\n\nThat failed, but if the balance of power on the body were to change, so could the career prospects of the leadership's critics.\n\nAnd indeed the career prospects of Labour's general secretary Iain McNicol would be called in to question by another proposed change.\n\nThere will be an attempt to give members the right to choose the party's top official in future.\n\nAgain, this can't be decided until next year but could put Mr McNicol on notice.\n\nHe is blamed for trying to deny new (and, it was assumed, more radical) members the right to vote in last year's leadership contest and for not putting enough resources in to Labour/Tory marginals at the general election.\n\nHe would contend that the party HQ's strategy of defending vulnerable seats - as well as swiftly moving resources to seats which looked promising as the campaign progressed - was a success.\n\nSo by its actions in the coming months, Labour - 8 points ahead in one opinion poll today - could choose to remain a broad church.\n\nOr further expose the fact that many of its MPs and grassroots members aren't really singing from the same hymn sheet.", "Five-time Wimbledon champion Venus Williams has not been charged over the fatal collision\n\nFootage has emerged showing that US tennis star Venus Williams was driving lawfully during a car crash that led to the death of a 78-year-old, police say.\n\nSurveillance video obtained by Palm Beach Gardens police in Florida shows Ms Williams' vehicle entering an intersection on a green traffic signal.\n\nAn earlier police report had said Ms Williams was at fault and \"violated the right of way of [the other driver]\".\n\nMs Williams' lawyer said the fatal crash on 9 June was an accident.\n\nThe family of Jerome Barson, the man who died in the collision, have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Ms Williams.\n\nNew video evidence has revealed that the Grand Slam champion had the right of way as she entered the intersection of Northlake Boulevard in the city of Palm Beach Gardens, according to the police report.\n\nHowever as she proceeded, the report says, Ms Williams was forced to brake to avoid a collision with an oncoming vehicle, which delayed her from clearing the junction.\n\nAs she then began to move forwards, a second vehicle - travelling in a different direction - entered the intersection on a green traffic signal, and the two cars collided.\n\n\"This updated information, based upon new evidence, is still under investigation,\" the police statement said.\n\nMr Barson had been travelling with his wife who was driving their vehicle at the time. He was taken to hospital but died two weeks later from his injuries.\n\nMrs Barson was also taken to hospital but survived.\n\nThe initial police report, obtained by US media, said that no other factors such as drugs, alcohol or mobile phone distractions were being investigated.\n\nMs Williams, the 37-year-old seven-time Grand Slam champion, reportedly told police she did not see the couple's car and she was driving slowly. She was not arrested in connection with the crash.\n\nOn Monday, when questioned by reporters about the crash, Ms Williams broke down in tears, and said: \"There are no words to describe how devastating [it is]. I'm completely speechless.\"\n\nMs Williams' lawyer Malcolm Cunningham told CNN in a statement: \"Ms Williams entered the intersection on a green light. The police report estimates that Ms Williams was travelling at 5mph when Mrs Barson crashed into her.\n\n\"Authorities did not issue Ms Williams with any citations or traffic violations. This is an unfortunate accident and Venus expresses her deepest condolences to the family who lost a loved one.\"\n\nMs Williams is currently playing her 20th Wimbledon tournament in London, where she is seeded 10th.\n\nMs Williams and her sister Serena have dominated the women's game for two decades.", "Marvyn Iheanacho is accused of killing his partner's son in Mountsfield Park, Catford\n\nA five-year-old boy was battered to death by his mother's boyfriend in a south-east London park after he lost his trainer, a court has heard.\n\nMarvyn Iheanacho, 39, is accused of causing fatal head and stomach injuries to Alex Malcolm in Mountsfield Park, Catford, on 20 November last year.\n\nWitnesses in the park heard a \"child's fearful voice\", loud banging and a man screaming about the loss of a shoe, Woolwich Crown Court was told.\n\nThe jury heard the 39 year old, of Hounslow, was in a relationship with Alex's mother Lilya Breha and would often stay in her flat in Catford.\n\nCCTV captured Mr Iheanacho taking Alex on three separate buses to the park where they arrived at about 17:12 GMT.\n\nProsecutor Eleanor Laws QC said the pair then went to the play area because Alex lost one of his trainers and Mr Iheanacho \"lost his temper and violently assaulted the boy.\"\n\nShe told jurors there were no witnesses or CCTV footage of the attack but said there was \"clear evidence...the defendant lost his temper with Alex before he sustained his injuries.\"\n\nOne witness described how she saw Mr Iheanacho bending down and \"raging at the child who was very quiet\", the court was told.\n\nMs Laws said the witness's partner also heard \"loud banging and a male voice screaming about the loss of shoes and a child's fearful voice saying 'sorry'\".\n\n\"At some point, whether during this confrontation or between this confrontation and the next sighting of the defendant... the boy had received extreme injuries,\" she said.\n\nJudge Mark Dennis QC told jurors the main issue in the case was how Alex sustained the injuries.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A protest outside the Gupta family compound in Johannesburg earlier this year\n\nA UK public relations firm has apologised over a controversial social media campaign in South Africa that critics say inflamed racial tensions.\n\nBell Pottinger is accused of using a strategy that stressed the power of white-owned businesses and promoted the #WhiteMonopolyCapital hashtag.\n\nThe company has sacked one employee and suspended three, admitting the campaign was \"offensive\".\n\nCritics say it worked to the advantage of President Jacob Zuma.\n\nBell Pottinger was hired by Oakbay, a company owned by the wealthy Guptas family.\n\nThe South African president has faced corruption allegations and suspicion over his ties with the Guptas. Mr Zuma and the Guptas have consistently denied all allegations.\n\nThe campaign sought to emphasise the continued \"existence of economic apartheid\", according to leaked emails, published in the local press.\n\nOpposition party Democratic Alliance (DA) is among those to have voiced objection, filing a complaint to the London-based Public Relations and Communications Association.\n\nOn Friday, the DA said the apology was a PR stunt in itself.\n\nThe governing ANC insists it has played no role in the row.\n\nCritics in South Africa and media outlets had for some time accused the PR firm of presenting opponents of President Zuma and the Guptas as agents of \"white monopoly capital\".\n\nIn a statement on Thursday, Bell Pottinger Chief Executive James Henderson said: \"We wish to issue a full, unequivocal and absolute apology to anyone impacted.\"\n\nBell Pottinger said it had ended its contract with Oakbay three months ago.\n\nThe PR firm also said it had asked an independent law firm to review \"the account and the work done on it\", and that executives had been \"misled\" about the campaign.\n\nThere has been an outcry on social media in the country about the original campaign and the statement.\n\nSome South Africans are also angry because Bell Pottinger had an account representing the national tourist board, which is funded by tax-payers.\n\nThe tourist board ended the three-year contract in June, with the PR company blaming the way its other work had been \"misrepresented\" in the local media.\n\nSouth African Tourism told PR Week that the Gupta connection had no bearing on its decision to switch to another firm.\n\nLast month, Bell Pottinger temporarily changed the settings on its own Twitter account to make it private, meaning critics could no longer hijack its other posts with views on the company's work in South Africa.\n\nSouth Africa \"managed to force a PR company to make their Twitter account private. A PR company\", wrote one incredulous tweeter.\n\nOn Friday, critics were still on the attack online, doctoring the company's Wikipedia page and accusing it of a \"weak, meaningless and pathetic\" apology.", "Tesla chief Elon Musk said the battery was the world's largest \"by a significant margin\"\n\nAn Australian state will install the world's largest lithium ion battery in a \"historic\" deal with electric car firm Tesla and energy company Neoen.\n\nThe battery will protect South Australia from the kind of energy crisis which famously blacked out the state, Premier Jay Weatherill said.\n\nTesla boss Elon Musk confirmed a much-publicised promise to build it within 100 days, or do it for free.\n\nThe 100MW (megawatt) / 129MWh (megawatt hour) battery should be ready in 2017.\n\n\"There is certainly some risk, because this will be largest battery installation in the world by a significant margin,\" Mr Musk said in Adelaide on Friday.\n\nHe added that \"the next biggest battery in the world is 30 megawatts\".\n\nThe Tesla-built battery, paired with a Neoen wind farm, will operate around the clock and be capable of providing additional power during emergencies, the government said.\n\n\"It will completely transform the way in which renewable energy is stored, and also stabilise the South Australian network as well as putting downward pressure on prices,\" Mr Weatherill said.\n\nMr Musk's 100-day pledge will begin once an electricity grid interconnection agreement has been signed.\n\nTesla has been expanding its battery business alongside its car production.\n\nSouth Australia has suffered from blackouts since September last year, leading to a political spat over energy policy.\n\nThe row culminated in a bizarre confrontation between Mr Weatherill and a federal government minister at a press conference in March.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"You don't respect me\": Footage from the meeting shows Sir Martin Moore-Bick defending his position\n\nThe retired judge who will head the inquiry into the Grenfell Tower block fire has faced angry residents and survivors in a three-hour long meeting.\n\nA video of the meeting shows Sir Martin Moore-Bick saying he would \"find the facts as I see them from the evidence\".\n\nJoe Delaney, of the Grenfell Action Group, told the BBC that Sir Martin was not jeered or booed, but people were sceptical about him.\n\nHe has already faced calls to step down just days after being appointed.\n\nSir Martin said he had been invited to the meeting on Thursday by the Lancaster West Residents Association.\n\nHe described it afterwards as a \"very useful meeting\".\n\nMr Delaney told BBC Radio 5 live that Sir Martin: \"You could hear people sighing and tutting.\"\n\n\"It got a bit loud before the end. I have heard public speakers who can shut up a stadium full of thousands of people. This man couldn't hold a room with 200 or so people.\"\n\nLocal resident Melvyn Akins, 30, said there had been \"frustration, anger and confusion\" in the meeting.\n\n\"People firmly believe that arrests should be made as a result of the outcome of all of this. If arrests are not made, people are going to feel justice may not be being done.\"\n\nMelvyn Akins says local residents want to see people arrested\n\nA short video of Sir Martin, recorded at the meeting, shows him telling those present: \"I can't do more than assure you that I know what it is to be impartial.\n\n\"I've been a judge for 20 years, and I give you my word that I will look into this matter to the very best of my ability and find the facts as I see them from the evidence.\n\n\"That's my job, that's my training, and that's what I intend to do. Now if I can't satisfy you because you have some preconception about me as a person, that's up to you.\"\n\nA consultation with residents to help define the scope of the inquiry into the 14 June fire in west London, in which at least 80 died, is due to end next Friday.\n\nSome survivors are calling for a delay of up to six weeks so they can seek legal advice.\n\nHowever, government officials said Sir Martin was not currently \"minded\" to extend the consultation period.\n\nSir Martin has previously faced calls to step down as head of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry\n\nKensington's Labour MP Emma Dent Coad has described Sir Martin as \"a technocrat\" who lacked \"credibility\" with victims and should step down.\n\nBut Prime Minister Theresa May said she believed it was \"important\" that the inquiry was \"judge-led\", and said it would \"address the issues that the residents and victims of this terrible fire want to see addressed\".\n\nLabour councillor Robert Atkinson, of Kensington and Chelsea Council, called on Sir Martin to publish regular updates to residents to take them through the inquiry.\n\n\"The judge has got to learn to take heckling from upset people,\" he said.\n\n\"I don't think judges are used to being shouted at - and the residents have got to understand that there are constraints on the timing on what the judiciary can do.\n\n\"Let's judge the judge by what he does in the next few weeks.\"\n\nMeanwhile, a team of outside consultants has confirmed to the Victoria Derbyshire programme that it was employed as the clerk of works to carry out checks on Grenfell Tower as recently as July last year.\n\nThe company, John Rowan and Partners, received four payments totalling more than £17,000 to carry out mechanical and engineering inspections and checks on the fabric - or material used - on the building, between March and July 2016.\n\nAccording to documents filed with Kensington and Chelsea Council, seen by the programme, the firm acted in a site-monitoring and supervision role on the project for at least 26 days last year.\n\nIt is understood the work, which started in January 2015, included making visual inspections, attending meetings and compiling a list of minor defects for the contractor, Rydon, to rectify.\n\nJohn Rowan and Partners said in a statement that it had been deeply shocked by the fire, adding: \"We provided a site-monitoring role during the refurbishment work that completed in 2016.\n\n\"The scope for this work included making visual inspections, attending meetings as required by the client and the snagging of works after the contractor has informed that works have been snagged by them.\"\n\nSeparately, cladding samples which failed safety tests in the wake of the fire will be subjected to further \"large-scale\" testing - including building a 30ft-high (9m) demonstration wall to subject the material to a \"severe fire\".\n\nUrgent tests were ordered on cladding from about 600 towers blocks in England after the blaze, but after 190 samples out of 191 failed, more tests were requested.\n\nElsewhere, Minister for London Greg Hands has called on Mayor Sadiq Khan to consider moving the Notting Hill Carnival following the fire.\n\nMr Hands tweeted a letter, in which he wrote: \"The carnival is an important and symbolic community celebration in our capital's calendar... clearly it must go ahead.\n\n\"However, we have to ask ourselves if it is appropriate to stage a carnival in the near proximity of a national disaster.\"\n\nResponding on Twitter, Mr Khan wrote: \"Notting Hill Carnival is a firm London tradition and incredibly important to the local community. It should not be moved.\"", "Converting and downloading YouTube videos is a violation of the site's terms and conditions\n\nStream-ripping is now the fastest-growing form of music piracy in the UK, new research has suggested.\n\nSeveral sites and apps allow users to turn Spotify songs, YouTube videos and other streaming content into permanent files to store on phones and computers.\n\nRecord labels claim that \"tens, or even hundreds of millions of tracks are illegally copied and distributed by stream-ripping services each month\".\n\nOne service alone is thought to have more than 60 million monthly users.\n\nAccording to research by the Intellectual Property Office and PRS For Music, 15% of adults in the UK regularly use these services, with 33% of them coming from the 16-24 age bracket.\n\nOverall usage of stream-ripping sites increased by 141.3% between 2014 and 2016, overshadowing all other illegal music services.\n\nIn September last year, these sites were used 498,681 times to pirate music in the UK. By comparison, file-sharing service BitTorrent was used 23,567 times; and Cyberlocker sites like Dropbox and Rapidshare were accessed 104,898 times.\n\n\"As soon as we think we've come up with an innovative solution [to piracy], the pirates seem to come up with an even more innovative infringement tactic,\" said Pippa Hall, Chief Economist at the IPO.\n\nA quarter of the people who use stream-ripping believed the sites had the necessary rights and permissions to allow them to download and rip content; and one in five said they felt they were not doing anything illegal.\n\nOnly 56% per cent of consumers said they felt confident in identifying illegal content online, the IPO said.\n\nRobert Ashcroft, chief executive of PRS for Music, said: \"We hope that this research will provide the basis for a renewed and refocused commitment to tackling online copyright infringement.\n\n\"The long-term health of the UK's cultural and creative sectors is in everyone's best interests, including those of the digital service providers, and a co-ordinated industry and government approach to tackling stream-ripping is essential.\"\n\nThere was some good news for the music industry in the IPO's research, however.\n\nIt found that the average consumer spent £75 on music last year, up from £68 in 2016.\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.", "Riot police entered the prison after the deadly fight\n\nA fight between rival gangs in a prison in south-western Mexico has left at least 28 inmates dead, officials say.\n\nThe pre-dawn fight broke out in the maximum security wing of Las Cruces prison in the city of Acapulco.\n\nThe victims were stabbed and beaten to death, with some decapitated. The governor has ordered an investigation.\n\nAcapulco is the largest city in Guerrero state, one of Mexico's most violent areas and a big centre for drug production.\n\nBodies were discovered throughout the unit, including inside the kitchen and in an area for conjugal visits, said Roberto Álvarez, a state security spokesman.\n\nThere were no signs that weapons were used, he added. The investigation would also focus on the prison staff.\n\n\"The incident was triggered by a permanent feud between rival groups within the prison,\" he said.\n\nFederal police and the army set up a security cordon outside the Las Cruces prison, which is reportedly overcrowded, with more than 2,000 inmates.\n\nAcapulco used to be one of Mexico's most popular tourist spots, but has seen a rise in violence as criminal gangs fight for control over illegal activities. It has become one of the country's deadliest cities.\n\nInmates' relatives tore down a security fence of the prison after hearing news of the deadly fight\n\nThis is the latest in a series of violent incidents across Mexico this year. May was the deadliest month in the country since 1997, when official statistics began, with 2,186 homicides.\n\nFrom December 2006 until May this year, there were 188,567 murders, according to government records.", "Business leaders who had been hoping that the UK could remain in the European single market or customs union have been \"rebuffed,\" declares the Financial Times.\n\nThe Guardian says the chancellor does not think it would be \"legally or politically possible\", but wants what he called \"their benefits\" to be \"retained during a transitional period\".\n\nPhilip Hammond's comments that it would be \"madness\" not to seek \"the closest possible arrangement\" with the EU, the Sun concludes, are \"explosive\".\n\nThe Daily Express warns that he \"risked widening the Tory rift over Europe\".\n\nWhile the Daily Mail says diplomatic sources revealed that the Chinese president suggested Brexit could be \"a global force for good\".\n\nThe Times says Britain will pay poorer nations' premiums for new insurance cover against natural disasters for the next four years.\n\nThe prime minister will be trying to promote the value both for poorer parts of the world and Britain of this, it says.\n\nIt says Theresa May will defend helping what she will describe as \"Britain's future trading partners\".\n\nBut the Daily Express brands it as a \"foreign aid outrage\".\n\nIt quotes Conservative MP Philip Davies, who says it is \"completely unjustifiable\".\n\nHe insists the government should instead be helping his constituents who have been flooded and cannot get insurance.\n\nThe sentiment is echoed in the Sun, which calls it \"floody obscene\".\n\nThe Times says law firm Leigh Day has suspended two trainee solicitors.\n\nThe company is said to be investigating claims that the pair may have been seeking business among survivors of the Grenfell Tower fire.\n\nIt said it was completely unaware of the alleged activities.\n\nThe paper says it also found evidence of an insurance agent offering to help former residents make claims.\n\nMeanwhile, the Daily Mirror reports that insurers expect to pay out £50m over the disaster, double the original estimate.\n\nThe call by a government minister to move the Notting Hill carnival so it was not in the shadow of the burned-out tower block has provoked anger, according to the Daily Telegraph.\n\nIt quotes a campaigner for the Grenfell residents, who argues the parade goes nowhere near the tower.\n\nThe i says there may be a justifiable fear of unrest at the carnival because of the disaster.\n\nBut it suggests the authorities should try to engage and reassure the community, rather than say: \"Sorry, because of our failures, we now have to spoil your party.\"\n\nAlmost every paper reports the new court hearing granted to the parents of terminally ill baby Charlie Gard.\n\nThe Daily Mail calls it a \"stunning move\" in which doctors have \"bowed to global pressure\".\n\nWriting in the i, Janet Street Porter shares her experience of losing her stepson at the age of 11.\n\nShe writes about the interventions of the Pope and Donald Trump, urging instead that Charlie's parents be given \"the counselling to adapt to the inevitable\".\n\nMany of the papers, too, picture Bradley Lowery, the six-year-old Sunderland football mascot, who has died from a rare form of cancer.\n\nThe Daily Star says the \"brave lad\" is \"with the angels\".\n\nThe Daily Mirror pictures the child in the arms of his favourite player, Jermain Defoe.\n\nThe paper pays tribute to the footballer and to Bradley himself who, it says, \"gave us so much\".", "A community radio station has been taken off air for broadcasting more than 25 hours of lectures by an alleged al-Qaeda leader.\n\nSheffield-based Iman FM had its licence suspended by Ofcom for playing the lectures by radical American Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki.\n\nThe regulator said parts of the material was \"likely to encourage or incite crime or lead to disorder\".\n\nIman FM told Ofcom it was not aware of Awlaki's background.\n\nIn 2011 the United Nations Security Council described Awlaki as a \"leader, recruiter and trainer for al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula\".\n\nHis sermons are thought to have inspired terrorist attacks including the attack on the Charlie Hebdo offices in Paris in 2015 in which 12 people died and the 2009 Fort Hood shootings, in which 13 US soldiers were killed.\n\nAwlaki was killed in a US drone strike in 2011.\n\nOfcom said information about Awlaki's alleged terrorist links was \"freely available\".\n\nIt launched an investigation of the station after a member of the public complained about the content of the lectures.\n\nThe station said it had downloaded and broadcast Awlaki's lectures during Ramadan - 26 May to 24 June - despite not having listened to them in their entirety beforehand.\n\nIt said it had listened to 12 hours of the audio, which it \"judged to be within the parameters [of the Broadcasting Code]\", but only samples of the remainder were checked.\n\nThe licensee said it had not listened to all of the lectures because of time constraints, it being a small radio station and the broadcasts happening during Ramadan.\n\nIt said that management had not picked up on the issue, not least because of the timing of the broadcasts when managers were \"probably catching up on sleep\".\n\nThe station then broadcast a show on 23 June in which it condemned the lectures and apologised to listeners.\n\nIn its ruling Ofcom said it considered the breaches of the Broadcasters Code to be \"extremely serious\".\n\nIt said it planned to revoke Iman FM's licence and had given the station 21 days to respond.\n\nIn a statement posted on its Facebook page, Iman FM said: \"[It] has temporarily stopped broadcasting, this has resulted due to the regulator suspending its licence for the next 21 days, on the basis that unwittingly some controversial lectures were broadcast.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Joshua's mum, Alison Cope, goes into schools to talk about how her son died\n\nRising knife crime is one of the biggest challenges facing the police, especially in the UK's major cities, but chiefs say they cannot solve the problem alone - and one mother is fighting hard to make sure more young people are protected from its dangers.\n\nAlison Cope knows first hand how damaging knife crime can be.\n\nIn September 2013, her son Joshua Ribera was stabbed to death at a party to commemorate the life of a friend who had died in a stabbing the previous year.\n\nThe 18-year-old was a well known Birmingham rapper.\n\nTo his fans around the country and to people around the world who knew him he was Depzman, an up and coming grime artist who had just produced his first album and was building his career, appearing on BBC Radio 1Xtra.\n\nBut to his mum he was much more. \"I say Joshua, not Depzman, not a grime MC, because Joshua is my little boy, my only son,\" she says.\n\n\"That little boy was a newborn baby in my arms, a toddler, and a totally obnoxious teenager who grew into the most beautiful young man.\n\n\"So I need you to understand that Depzman was nothing to me. Joshua was everything to me.\"\n\nHe became involved in a row over a girl which spiralled into a fight and his rival, Armani Mitchell, left the club but then returned with a knife.\n\nHe said he wanted to cut Josh on the arm, but as he pulled the knife, Joshua raised his arm to protect himself and Mitchell plunged the knife into his heart.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAs a passionate anti-knife campaigner, Alison has now dedicated her life to convincing teenagers there is another path in life.\n\nSpeaking to pupils at City of Birmingham school, which looks after children permanently excluded from mainstream education for a whole range of reasons - including having knives - she tells them the harsh reality of what happened to her son.\n\n\"He fought back, seven heart attacks, multiple blood transfusions, they were cutting his body open from top to bottom and all the way across desperately trying to save his life,\" she says to the class.\n\n\"But on the morning of 21 September at 05:58, my son gave up on life and he died. That changed everything for my family.\n\n\"But it also changed the life of another 18-year-old boy, Armani Mitchell. He worked and was at college part-time.\n\n\"He is now in a category-A prison, serving a life sentence. Two 18-year-old boys went on a night out and neither of them came home.\"\n\nRapper Nathan Chin has been jailed for knife crime but now aims to persuade others not to carry them\n\nRapping was Joshua Ribera's route to success. Now Alison encourages teenagers and younger children to take part in sessions at a recording studio in Birmingham, to help harness their creativity and develop a sense of self-worth in the hope it will keep them away from gangs and knives.\n\nAt the studio, another of those also trying to help the next generation is 27-year-old Nathan Chin, whose rap name is Lil Fella.\n\nAs well as being a rapper, he is trying to set up a charity called Unity Each 1, Teach 1, to support people struggling to get into education and employment.\n\nNathan spent most of his teenage years in and out of young offender institutions.\n\nHe has been in prison for knife crime, but has tried to turn his life around believing people like him are well placed to try to stop teenagers carrying knives.\n\n\"People who have gone to prison, real people who have been in situations, are the best people to help reform people,\" he says.\n\nAlison's final message to the teenagers is simple: \"With the help of your teachers and your family, you have every chance of being an amazing successful individual. You have got a choice.\n\n\"Make the best of your life.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Trump to Putin: \"It's an honour to be with you\"\n\nDonald Trump and Vladimir Putin have discussed the alleged Russian hacking of last year's US presidential election during their first meeting.\n\nUS Secretary of State Rex Tillerson described the exchanges as \"robust\".\n\nRussian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Mr Trump had accepted Mr Putin's assertions that his country was not responsible.\n\nBut Mr Tillerson said it was not clear whether the two countries would ever come to an agreement on what happened.\n\n\"I think the president is rightly focused on how do we move forward from something that may be an intractable disagreement at this point,\" he added.\n\nThe US and Russian presidents held their first face-to-face talks on the sidelines of the G20 summit in the German city of Hamburg, which is being held amid sometimes violent protests.\n\nOther topics discussed during their meeting - which lasted nearly two-and-a-quarter hours, longer than originally planned - included the war in Syria, terrorism and cybersecurity.\n\n\"The president opened the meeting with President Putin by raising the concerns of the American people regarding Russian interference in the 2016 election,\" Mr Tillerson, part of the US delegation, told reporters afterwards.\n\n\"They had a very robust and lengthy exchange on the subject. The president pressed President Putin on more than one occasion regarding Russian involvement.\n\n\"President Putin denied such involvement, as I think he has done in the past.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Tillerson said the two leaders had \"connected very quickly\", adding: \"There was a very clear positive chemistry between the two. There are so many issues on the table... Just about everything got touched upon... Neither one of them wanted to stop.\n\n\"I believe they even sent in the First Lady [Melania Trump] at one point to see if she could get us out of there, but that didn't work either... We did another hour. Clearly she failed!\"\n\nMr Lavrov said: \"President Trump said he heard clear statements... that Russian authorities did not intervene [in the US election], and he accepted these declarations.\"\n\nMr Tillerson was asked as he was leaving the news conference if this was accurate, but declined to answer.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nEarlier, as the talks began in front of the media before going into private session, Mr Trump told Mr Putin: \"It's an honour to be with you.\"\n\nMr Trump added: \"Putin and I have been discussing various things, and I think it's going very well.\n\n\"We've had some very, very good talks. We're going to have a talk now and obviously that will continue. We look forward to a lot of very positive things happening for Russia, for the United States and for everybody concerned.\"\n\nMr Putin, via a translator, said that while they had previously spoken by phone, that would never be as good as meeting face to face.\n\nThe two men had staked out opposing views on major international issues in the run-up to the summit:\n\nBased on the tone and the results of the US-Russia discussions, this meeting is being lauded here in Moscow as a breakthrough.\n\nThe head of the Russian parliament's foreign affairs committee predicted it would \"stop the rot in US-Russian relations\".\n\nEssentially, Vladimir Putin has got what Vladimir Putin wanted: a US president who is focused not on confrontation but on mutually beneficial co-operation; as American leader who is not going to sit there for two hours lecturing his Russian counterpart on democracy, but instead do deals with him.\n\nAnd there were several agreements: to co-operate in Syria, over Ukraine, and in the area of cyber security. The Kremlin will see all of this as a first step towards a bigger goal: much wider co-operation with America and the scrapping of Western sanctions.\n\nBut remember - Donald Trump is under intense pressure back home over his team's alleged links to Moscow. It's far from certain he'll be able to deliver what Russia wants.\n\nClimate change and trade are set to dominate the rest of the two-day G20 meeting, taking place amid clashes between protesters and police in the streets outside the venue that have left dozens injured.\n\nA huge police operation is trying to keep demonstrators - who are protesting against the presence of Mr Trump and Mr Putin, climate change and global wealth inequalities - well away from the summit venue, and water cannon have been deployed.\n\nThe US First Lady was at one point unable to leave her hotel in Hamburg because of the protests.\n\nMrs Trump had been due to take part in an excursion with other leaders' spouses, but her spokeswoman Stephanie Grisham said: \"The Hamburg police could not give us clearance to leave.\"\n\nMrs Trump herself tweeted about her concern for those injured in the protests.\n\nThe G20 (Group of Twenty) is a summit for 19 countries, both developed and developing, plus the EU.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSeventy-six police officers have been injured in clashes with protesters in Germany's city of Hamburg, where a G20 summit starts shortly.\n\nThree officers were taken to hospital, police said. There were also reports of injuries among protesters.\n\nThe clashes began when police charged at masked protesters at a \"Welcome to hell\" march attended by 12,000 people.\n\nWorld leaders - including US President Donald Trump - will discuss climate change, trade and other major issues.\n\nPolice fired water cannon and pepper spray at masked protesters, who hurled bottles, stones and flares.\n\nOrganisers cancelled the march where the first clashes took place, but protesters remained on the streets and police said violence spread to other areas of the city.\n\nProtesters built makeshift barricades, set vehicles alight, damaged businesses and repeatedly shone a laser at a police helicopter to dazzle its pilot, police said.\n\nMedics were seen treating several people. At least one person appeared to have been seriously hurt and was carried away covered by a foil blanket.\n\nBefore the march, police had warned of possible violence and said they had confiscated a number of homemade weapons.\n\nSome 20,000 police have been deployed in Hamburg for the summit, and security cordons have been erected to prevent protesters reaching the venues. Up to 100,000 protesters are expected in Hamburg during Friday and Saturday.\n\nThe G20 leaders face their own disagreements, including over climate change and trade.\n\nMr Trump has already met German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the pair spent an hour talking about North Korea, the Middle East, the conflict in eastern Ukraine and G20 issues, a German government spokesman said.\n\nMrs Merkel (R) and Mr Trump talked for an hour\n\nLast week Mrs Merkel said the G20 would focus on the Paris climate deal - which the US has withdrawn from. But earlier she said that as the G20 host she would work to find compromises.\n\nThe summit will also see Mr Trump meet Russian President Vladimir Putin for the first time. The meeting will take place at 14:45 local time (13:45 GMT) and last for an hour, Russian media report.\n\nEarlier in the day Mr Trump used a speech in the Polish capital Warsaw to call on Russia to stop \"destabilising\" Ukraine and other countries.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Trump: Russia should join \"the fight against common enemies and in defence of civilisation itself\"\n\nRussia should also end support for \"hostile regimes\" such as those in Syria and Iran and \"join the community of responsible nations\", he said.\n\nHe urged Russia to join the \"fight against common enemies and in defence of civilisation itself\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Trump referred to Russia's \"destabilising\" behaviour twice in one day in Poland. But the Kremlin spokesman has shrugged that off, saying simply that Moscow \"does not agree\". It's all part of the wait-and-see approach here.\n\nRussia once had great hopes that Donald Trump could rescue relations from the pit into which they were plunged after it annexed Crimea from Ukraine. Almost six months into the Trump presidency, there may be increasing pessimism.\n\nBut the Kremlin is calling Mr Trump's meeting with Mr Putin on Friday an important chance to get acquainted. Perhaps it is betting that personal dynamics will help overcome policy differences.\n\nAfter all, officials here insist that it is simply \"Russophobia\" in the US that has prevented President Trump \"getting along\" with Russia as he said he wanted.\n\nThey have certainly noted how in Poland he shied away from accusing Russia unequivocally of meddling in the US elections. Moscow has argued all along that there is no proof. In public at least, Mr Trump appeared to agree with that.\n\nThe US leader also hailed Poland as an example of a country ready to defend Western freedoms.\n\nPoland's conservative government shares Mr Trump's hostile view of immigration and strong sense of sovereignty.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Donald Trump's handshake is left hanging by the Polish president's wife\n\nNTV correspondent - \"After the icy reception [Trump] was given in Europe in May what he needs now are comfortable and favourable surroundings, a picture along the lines of 'look at how they adore us here'.\"\n\nRen TV presenter - Trump was keen to play on differences within Europe and help Poland \"cobble together an Eastern European bloc opposed to EU leaders... Trump is only too happy to pour oil onto the fire of European discord.\"", "The rally in Manchester city centre drew thousands of demonstrators\n\nA primary school dinner lady who attended a march co-organised by former English Defence League (EDL) leader Tommy Robinson has been suspended.\n\nRachel Booth was at the rally on 11 June in Manchester, which organisers said was \"against Islamic hate\".\n\nShe said she attended in sympathy for the victims of the Manchester attack that killed 22 people on 22 May.\n\nMoor Nook Primary School, in Preston, confirmed a member of staff has been suspended \"pending further inquiries\".\n\nRachel Booth has worked at Moor Nook Primary School, in Preston for four years\n\nThousands of people attended the march by a coalition that calls itself UK Against Hate, held three weeks after a suicide bombing at an Ariana Grande concert.\n\nThe rally also drew hundreds of people in a counter-demonstration against the march.\n\nMrs Booth, who has worked at the school for four years, said the suspension was \"a big shock\".\n\n\"I have never been in any kind of trouble with police.\n\n\"The grounds for suspending me are it was an EDL march, which is a load of rubbish. Even if I was part of the EDL, which I'm certainly not, it should not have affected my job.\"\n\nShe said she attended with her mixed race husband, who is a former serviceman, to show solidarity with the bombing victims, not to support far-right extremism.\n\n\"I thought it was for the children and so I went,\" she added.\n\nHundreds of counter-demonstrators also attended the rally\n\nThe march was criticised at the time by Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham who tweeted: \"These EDL-types who came today need to have a look at themselves.\"\n\nIn a letter to the school, Mohammed Fyaz, one of the march's organisers, wrote \"the event in question was not organised by or linked to the EDL in any way\".\n\nHe added: \"In the democracy in which we live political, religious and moral issues should be allowed to be discussed, questioned and at times challenged freely, without fear of persecution or discrimination.\"\n\nIt is understood a suspension in such circumstances is a \"neutral\" act and will allow the school to investigate footage from the march featuring Mrs Booth.", "Photos of Miss South Africa wearing gloves while visiting black children at an orphanage in Soweto sparked a online outcry - but the orphanage staff say any insinuation that Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters is racist is \"ridiculous\".\n\n\"Of course it wasn't because she didn't want to touch black children,\" says Carol Dyantyi, a spokesperson for the Orlando West Community Centre Ikageng.\n\nNel-Peters was volunteering to feed orphans at the centre, and the gloves were a health and safety measure.\n\n\"We told her, and all other volunteers, to wear them while they were handling food around the children,\" Dyantyi tells BBC Trending. \"It was purely to protect the children from the risk of contaminated food. This social media reaction is ridiculous.\"\n\nThousands of Twitter users criticised Nel-Peters after photos of her at a soup drive on Wednesday began to circulate on social media.\n\nMany accused the beauty queen of wearing the latex gloves \"because she didn't want to touch black children\" and shared images of her hugging dogs and white children with bare hands.\n\nIn a video posted to her Twitter account, Nel-Peters said that she wore the gloves for sanitary reasons and denied that were any racial undertones to her actions.\n\n\"All the volunteers on site wore gloves today because we honestly thought that it's the right thing to do while working with food and while handing out food to young kids,\" Nel-Peters said. She also apologised to those who were offended.\n\nClaudia Henkel, a spokesperson for the beauty queen, also sent images to BBC Trending of Nel-Peters gloveless and playing with the children after the food had been served.\n\nHowever, not everyone was satisfied with her response. The hashtag #MissSAChallenge began to trend on Twitter on Thursday, as South Africans poked fun of the \"hygiene\" reason cited for the gloves.\n\nMore than 18,000 tweets used the hashtag, and some users posted pictures of themselves doing mundane tasks whilst unnecessarily wearing gloves.\n\nNot all of the responses were critical and others defended Miss South Africa.\n\nHenkel tells Trending that whilst the social media backlash had \"saddened\" Nel-Peters, she is adamant about doing more soup drives in the near future.\n\n\"And if she is asked to wear gloves for the safety of the children, then she will again,\" Henkel adds.\n\nYou can follow BBC Trending on Twitter @BBCtrending, and find us on Facebook. All our stories are at bbc.com/trending.", "The cancellation of plans for a statue of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher makes headlines in the day's papers.\n\nThe Daily Telegraph and the Daily Mail report that plans for a statue of Lady Thatcher in London's Parliament Square have been blocked.\n\nOfficials said they couldn't back the 10ft bronze artwork without the support of Lady Thatcher's family.\n\nThe Mail says it's also feared that the statue could be a target for vandals. Tory MP Jacob Rees Mogg objects to the decision.\n\n\"Blocking it for fear of vandals\" - he tells the paper - is the \"lily livered approach Lady Thatcher most disdained.\"\n\nThe call by the business group, the CBI, for Britain to remain in the single market until the final Brexit deal has been agreed dominates the front pages of the Telegraph and the Guardian.\n\nThe two papers describe it as an \"escalation\" of the business community's attempts to \"soften Brexit\".\n\nThe head of the Engineering Employers Federation, Terry Scuoler, tells the Guardian that leaving businesses guessing about the outcome of the negotiations risks causing serious economic damage.\n\nIn the Mail, Brexit supporter Gisela Stuart accuses the big business lobby of trying to keep the the UK in the EU by the back door.\n\nIn its editorial, the Financial Times urges Prime Minister Theresa May to align herself more closely with her chancellor. It defends the stance of business leaders: \"They are not engaged in sabotage\", it says, \"what they want is greater certainty.\"\n\nThe Times and the Mail both report on what they describe as a \"plot\" to de-select a fifth of Labour MPs.\n\nThey say the grassroots group Momentum has published a list of 49 MPs, including Chuka Umunna and Chris Leslie, who they suggest should \"join the Liberals\".\n\nThe Times urges moderate Labour MPs to fight back, while the Mail asks \"Will Mr Corbyn ever disown the hate mob?\".\n\nThe Daily Mirror reports that Labour Party chairman Ian Lavery has moved to calm fears, saying \"I don't see de-selection as the way forward.\"\n\nWhile the Guardian cautions against over-interpreting every move in a local party as some kind of purge.\n\n\"Brexiteers declare war on the BBC,\" declares the i on its front page, as it reports the claim by International Trade Secretary Liam Fox that the broadcaster would rather see Britain fail than Brexit succeed.\n\nThe Mail asks: \"isn't it time for the Corporation to rediscover impartiality\".\n\nThe problem, suggests the Daily Express, is that \"the institution is run by a clique of liberals... who are overwhelmingly pro-Remain\".\n\nThe BBC tells the papers that it takes \"impartiality incredibly seriously\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Homeless people who keep possessions in doorways in Oxford can face fines of up to £2,500.\n\nHomeless people who keep possessions in doorways in Oxford have been warned they face fines of up to £2,500.\n\nNotices have been attached to piles of bags in Oxford city centre which belong to people sleeping rough.\n\nGreen Party councillor David Thomas said it was an \"outrageous\" bid to \"intimidate\" the homeless.\n\nOxford City Council said the abandoned bags posed a hazard by blocking fire exits and lockers were available to those who sought help.\n\nThe notices issued by the authority said prosecution could follow if the items were not removed.\n\nNotices issued by the council last week warned fines or prosecution could follow\n\nNeo, who sleeps rough in Oxford, said he had his possessions confiscated by the council.\n\n\"Most of the stuff which was taken was stuff that the public donated... it's a shame,\" he said, adding he now carries his possessions around in a trolley.\n\nOxford City Council said those issued with notices had two days to collect their belongings, and everything was taken by the owners except \"a soiled duvet and pieces of cardboard\" which were removed.\n\nNeo said he has been forced to carry his belongings around on a trolley\n\nThe local authority also said homeless people who engage with aid services could access lockers to store their belongings.\n\nHowever, Ashley, another homeless man from Oxford, said the lockers were not big enough.\n\n\"What Oxford needs is a just a space for stuff to be stored\" he said.\n\nIf prosecuted the individual could face a maximum fine of £2,500\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. Vlogger Dodie tells BBC Radio 5 live she is raising awareness of mental health issues by filming her treatment\n\nDepersonalisation disorder, sometimes known as DPD, leaves sufferers feeling like they're not part of the world they live in.\n\n\"I feel spaced out a lot of the time. I feel like I'm not really here, like I'm living in a dream,\" says Dodie Clark, a 22-year-old musician and vlogger from London.\n\n\"I can't open my eyes wide enough or see things properly.\"\n\nThe mental health disorder can lead to severe depression as emotions, empathy and wellbeing give way to a detachment and distance from daily life.\n\nDodie says: \"It's caused me to have depression and anxiety. I noticed suicidal thoughts creeping in and that was definitely the point where I thought I need some help.\"\n\nWhat causes the condition is not yet understood - and treatments such as medication and counselling aren't always effective.\n\nDodie has suffered from depersonalisation for about two years, and is now trying out a fairly new treatment called trans-cranial magnetic stimulation.\n\nKnown as TMS, it is currently available in only two NHS trusts and a handful of private clinics. It is a mainstream treatment in the US, but not the UK.\n\nDodie allowed BBC Radio 5 Live to accompany her for a treatment at the Smart TMS clinic in Chelsea.\n\nAt first sight, the therapy looks similar to electro-convulsive therapy, a controversial intervention that passes electric shocks through the brain to cause a minor seizure, modifying brain activity.\n\nHowever TMS is very different. No pads or probes actually touch the patient's head.\n\nInstead, an electromagnetic coil sits a few inches above the targeted area.\n\nElectromagnetic pulses are then generated that target the specific area of the brain thought to be causing the problem.\n\nOne effect of the electromagnetic pulse is unintended movement.\n\nDodie Clark is receiving treatment for feeling spaced out much of the time\n\nIn Dodie's case, the pulses make her jaw twitch with a regular clicking motion.\n\n\"At first, I was quite panicked by the whole situation, because it's quite freaky - like something's prodding your brain and making your face twitch when you don't want it to.\n\n\"A lack of control can be quite scary, but now I'm used to it,\" she says.\n\n\"When I first started getting ill, if I could see myself now, I'd be terrified. This is bizarre. But now that I'm here, I know it's not that bad. It's just a different kind of treatment, and it's important to show this.\"\n\n\"There's no shame in any of this. There's no shame in mental health or seeking treatment at all.\"\n\nThe National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) says the treatment shows no significant safety concerns.\n\nThe institute says evidence about its effectiveness in the short term is \"adequate\" but \"variable\".\n\nDr Chris Kelly, a consultant psychiatrist and a fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, is an experienced practitioner of electro-convulsive therapy and is familiar with the TMS treatment.\n\nHe says much more research is needed into its effectiveness in the field of depression.\n\n\"It may be useful to some people, particularly those who are intolerant to standard treatments,\" he says.\n\n\"At present, we know that it is of some use and not of particular harm.\n\n\"But the question is whether it's any better than established treatments that are already used to treat conditions like this - and that's what we don't yet know.\"\n\nAfter completing her course of transcranial magnetic stimulation, Dodie hasn't so far found any improvement, and is undertaking other treatment.\n\nHowever, she says she would still recommend that others consider it.\n\n\"For me, I didn't find any difference, and that's difficult to talk about. But I think it needs more recognition and for people to know about it.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Department for Transport says London will have to fund half the upfront costs of Crossrail 2 and the government had not yet committed to public funding\n\nGovernment support for a new London rail line after scrapping projects in Wales and the north of England has been described as \"frankly outrageous\".\n\nGreater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham said there would be \"widespread anger\" at the decision to back the railway line, which will run through London.\n\nLiverpool City Region's mayor said there needed to be \"balanced spending\".\n\nThe government said it was spending billions on infrastructure elsewhere.\n\nOn Friday it was announced that the rail link between Manchester and Newcastle may not be fully electrified, despite promises from the previous government.\n\nGreater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham said: \"We can't wait forever, we need improvements now, that's why the electrification is important, and it's also why we need more capacity at Manchester Piccadilly.\n\n\"People travelling [to Manchester] across the northern cities who will have a long commute home, I think, will be furious... that the government has cut back on rail investment in the north on the day that it's green light to Crossrail 2.\n\n\"They're not governing for the whole country.\"\n\nThe Liverpool-Newcastle link was to be fully electrified, according to the previous government\n\nCrossrail 2, a north-east to south-west railway, which would tunnel beneath central London, could be running by 2033.\n\nIt is estimated the scheme will cost about £30bn at 2014 prices and construction could start in the early 2020s.\n\nIt would link Hertfordshire and Surrey, passing through Tottenham Hale, Euston-St Pancras, Tottenham Court Road, Victoria and Clapham Junction.\n\nAnnouncing the decision to back Crossrail 2, the Department for Transport (DfT) said Transport Secretary Chris Grayling and Mayor of London Sadiq Khan had agreed there was \"no doubt London needs new infrastructure to support its growth and ensure it continues as the UK's economic powerhouse\".\n\nMr Grayling said: \"I am a supporter of Crossrail 2, but given its price tag we have to ensure that we get this right.\n\n\"The mayor and I have agreed to work together on it over the coming months to develop plans that are as strong as possible, so that the public gets an affordable scheme that is fair to the UK taxpayer.\"\n\nLast week, the government was criticised for scrapping the planned electrification of railway lines in parts of England and Wales.\n\nAt the time, Mr Grayling said the government would instead introduce faster trains with more seats and better on-board facilities.\n\nOn Monday Mr Burnham tweeted: \"On Friday, Tories say they can't afford rail schemes in the North.\n\n\"On Monday, they find billions more for London. Are these 2 things linked?\"\n\nHe said: \"People here have had to put up with sub-standard rail services for decades and will simply not accept that spending billions more on London is the country's highest priority for transport investment.\".\n\nHe added that the fact the announcement had been made after Parliament had broken up for the summer was \"denying any real scrutiny\" of the decision.\n\nLiverpool City Region Mayor Steve Rotheram said that while he did not \"begrudge\" the investment in London and the South East, there needed to be balanced spending to \"support growth in the North as well\".\n\nLondon Mayor Sadiq Khan said: \"Crossrail 2 is essential for the future prosperity of London and the South East, so I'm pleased that the transport secretary and I have reached an agreement to take this vital project forward.\"\n\nA DfT spokesman said that while it had agreed to work further with Transport for London on Crossrail 2, it said London needed to pay half of the upfront construction costs and that the government had not committed any public funding yet.\n\nThe spokesman added that the government was spending £57bn on HS2, £1bn to improve rail infrastructure in the north of England and £800m on new road schemes.", "The three-year-old Eurasian wolf was found outside the park fence\n\nA wolf shot dead after escaping from Cotswold Wildlife Park may have climbed an electric fence.\n\nVisitors to the park were told to stay indoors when the female animal, named Ember, was discovered outside the perimeter fence at 11:00 BST on Friday.\n\nThe park's managing director said staff were too far away to tranquilise the three-year-old Eurasian wolf.\n\nAn ongoing investigation by the park has found an electric fence was not properly charged.\n\nEarlier this year Ember gave birth to five cubs, the first wolves to be born at the park in its 47-year history.\n\nEmber gave birth to a litter of five cubs earlier this year\n\nManaging director Reggie Heyworth said the park was still investigating how the wolf escaped, as there was no obvious breach in the fence.\n\nHe revealed the charge on the electric fence was not at the level it should have been and said it was possible she climbed over the barrier.\n\nWhen keepers realised the animal was not in its enclosure the park's \"emergency plan\" was activated immediately.\n\nMr Heyworth added: \"As a precaution, all visitors and other staff were notified immediately. Those that were indoors were asked to remain where they were.\n\n\"At no time were members of the public in any danger as the wolf was away from the visitor area throughout.\"\n\nThe wolf was found just outside the park's perimeter fence, towards the A361, and was shot by a member of staff.\n\nCotswold Wildlife Park said there was no other option as its staff were too far away to guarantee a tranquiliser dart would work safely.\n\nEmber and two-year-old male wolf Ash arrived at Cotswold Wildlife Park from Sweden in October 2016 as part of a breeding programme.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Connie Yates and Chris Gard's lawyer said Great Ormond Street Hospital was obstructing attempts to take Charlie home\n\nMoving Charlie Gard to a hospice to die would be the best option for the terminally-ill baby, a court has heard.\n\nThe 11-month-old's parents had returned to the High Court to seek permission to take him home for \"a few days of tranquillity outside the hospital\".\n\nBut Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) said there were practical problems with that proposal, for example his ventilation equipment would not be able to fit through their front door.\n\nThe judge will rule on Wednesday.\n\nAt Tuesday's hearing, the judge said hospital managers had suggested a hospice would give Charlie and his parents the space, privacy and protection they needed.\n\nChris Gard and Connie Yates have pleaded for a paediatric intensive care doctor to come forward to help their son die at home.\n\n\"We promised Charlie every day we would take him home. It seems really upsetting after everything we've been through to deny us this,\" Ms Yates said.\n\nGrant Armstrong, representing the parents, told Mr Justice Francis that his clients' \"last wish is that Charlie dies at home\".\n\nHe suggested a portable ventilator and oxygen supply could be used but accused GOSH of \"putting up obstacles\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Chris Gard: \"We are so sorry we could not save you\"\n\nLawyers for the hospital told the judge they \"would like to be able to fulfil the parents' wishes... if it is safe and practicable and in Charlie's best interests\".\n\nHowever, Katie Gollop QC, who leads the hospital's legal team, said providing intensive care for Charlie away from a hospital was not simple.\n\nCharlie's condition requires air to be forced into his lungs. She said as far as the hospital was aware invasive ventilation was only provided in a hospital setting.\n\nMs Gollop said Charlie would need to be \"monitored by an ITU trained nurse at all times, with an ITU doctor on call and close at hand\".\n\nSuch resources \"cannot be provided by GOSH to Charlie at his parents' home\", she said.\n\nCharlie has been in intensive care at Great Ormond Street Hospital since October\n\nMr Justice Francis said: \"If going home can be achieved within reason then I would like to achieve that for them.\"\n\nHe said he would make a final decision, about whether Charlie can be taken home, at 14:00 BST on Wednesday.\n\nCharlie's parents, from Bedfont, west London, said they had been spending their \"last precious moments\" with their son.\n\nCharlie has encephalomyopathic mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome. He has brain damage and cannot move his arms or legs.\n\nHis parents had asked Mr Justice Francis to rule that their son should be allowed to undergo a trial of nucleoside therapy in New York, a move opposed by medics at GOSH who argued the treatment would be \"futile\".\n\nThe Family Division of the High Court heard on Monday that US neurologist Professor Michio Hirano was no longer willing to offer the experimental therapy after he had seen the results of a new MRI scan.\n\nIn a statement to the High Court, GOSH said Professor Michio Hirano had not taken the opportunity to see Charlie until last week, despite being offered the chance to do so by the hospital in January.\n\nThe hospital said it was also concerned the professor had declared a financial interest in some of the treatment he had proposed prescribing for Charlie.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Emily Hughes said she is \"appalled\" at the way Student Finance England functions\n\nA student has been unable to get a loan for university because someone with the same name, birthday and born in the same area has already applied for one.\n\nEmily Hughes, from Smethwick, West Midlands, was told by the Student Loans Company in April she could not be registered on its system.\n\nShe has now sent them her passport in the hope of being recognised in time to study medicine in Birmingham.\n\nMiss Hughes, 18, said she was fed up with the way she had been treated.\n\n\"It's been chaos,\" she said.\n\n\"Just so much unnecessary stress and it's quite embarrassing as all my friends are sorted with their loans, but not me.\"\n\nWhen she applied for a loan in April, Miss Hughes was told she could not get a customer reference number because there was someone with the same name registered on the system.\n\nAlthough her name is not that unusual, Miss Hughes said she was surprised to discover there was someone who was also born in Birmingham on the same date as her.\n\n\"I don't know anything about her,\" she said.\n\n\"I'd love to meet her, but at the same time I wouldn't.\"\n\nStudent Loans Company said once her passport arrives her application will be processed\n\nMiss Hughes finds out if she has got her place at the University of Birmingham on 17 August, depending on her A level grades, and then she would need to enrol in September and pay £9,250.\n\n\"I am now currently living with the fear of not having the means to finance my prospective degree.\n\n\"I am appalled with the way this organisation functions.\"\n\nStudent Loans Company said once her passport arrives her application will be processed.\n\n\"We apologise to Miss Hughes for any distress caused as a result of the delay in processing her student finance application.\n\n\"This was the result of a human error when transferring Miss Hughes' paper application to her online account.\"\n\nOne man, who asked not to be named, contacted the BBC to say he fell victim to the same situation when trying to help his son get a loan last year.\n\n\"I had to go on the website and put in my income details so that he could be means tested,\" he said.\n\n\"It wouldn't let me register on the website. I rang them up and apparently there was already an account in my name. Same name, including middle name, same date of birth and same place of birth.\n\n\"The only thing is I have never been to university and so never set up an account. It took many phone calls and a letter to prove who I was. Eventually it got put right but you do wonder.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Drawings like this one prompted Lesbos volunteers to treat children's water trauma\n\n\"I call it reconciliation,\" says Manuel Elviro. He is part of a Spanish volunteer group that felt compelled to act after seeing some of the dramatic drawings by children who survived the perilous sea crossing from Turkey to Greece.\n\n\"There were monsters in the sea and people drowning.\"\n\nThe volunteers' task was to try to entice traumatised children on the island of Lesbos back into the sea to help them tackle their fears. As well as the terror of the crossing, the children had depicted the war zones they had fled and the filth of the refugee camps, rife with violence and sexual abuse.\n\nThey say the sessions are not so much swimming lessons but a \"reconciliation\" with the sea\n\n\"Worst of all, they drew hopelessness,\" recalls Mr Elviro, a technology researcher from Spain's Balearic Islands University who volunteered for charity Proem-aid.\n\n\"As I am from Mallorca, a Mediterranean man, I love my sea. It was like an affront. We had to do something.\"\n\nIn 2016, some 173,000 people reached the Greek islands from Turkey. At one point, 2,000 migrants and refugees were reaching Lesbos every day and Proem-Aid says it saved about 50,000 lives.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. About 1,300 migrants have been sent back to Turkey since the EU deal in 2016\n\nBut an EU deal with Turkey last year has dramatically slowed that number to an average of up to 70 a day. The \"pull factor\" that some accuse NGOs of providing to migrants off the coast of Libya is not currently an issue on Lesbos.\n\nThe period of relative calm gave the group more time to work with survivors in makeshift immigrant camps such as Pikpa, home to some of the most vulnerable individuals who have lost relatives or suffer disabilities.\n\n\"Many of the children are from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, and had never seen the sea before. It's a hostile environment for them,\" says Lara Lussón, a volunteer who left her native Madrid for Lesbos in January.\n\nFor Sahaar, 15, and her five-year-old brother Satria, their journey from Afghanistan to the gates of Europe ended in tragedy when their mother and two brothers aged eight and 12 were washed overboard.\n\n\"Sahaar screamed every time she saw the water,\" says Manuel Elviro. \"They were like koalas, clinging to us, saying 'Blue no good, blue no good'.\"\n\n\"Now the danger is that they will get hypothermia because we can't get them out the water,\" he laughs. \"Sahaar said 'I'm going to Turkey', and I had to grab her by the leg and pull her out.\"\n\nChild psychologists believe the best way of dealing with such trauma is to confront it\n\nThe volunteers work with about a dozen children at a time on spring and summer afternoons, when the water is warm. \"They are not swimming lessons; it's not like a summer camp,\" he explains.\n\nAdam, a six-year-old Iraqi Kurd, arrived at Pikpa camp with an eye problem. His eyelids were glued together, possibly due to exposure to chemical munitions.\n\n\"We took him to the water to relax him while his eyes were getting better.\"\n\nThe best treatment for trauma is to confront it, argues Essam Daod, a child psychiatrist and co-founder of Humanity Crew, an NGO that addresses mental health issues among migrants in Greek camps.\n\n\"Swimming gives them a sense of control where they had none and fear was the sole master,\" Dr Daod told Spanish website eldiario.es.\n\nManuel Elviro tells the story of a Syrian boy who lost his entire family in a bombardment.\n\n\"He told me: 'When I come with you to swim, that night I can sleep all right'.\"\n\nThe idea has recently been extended to include some of the children's mothers. The man-free sessions, known as \"women's own water\" have benefited migrants like Fahtia, who arrived from Somalia with a new-born baby.\n\nThe work of the Spanish charity off the shores of Lesbos is not without controversy.\n\nThree Proem-Aid volunteers will face jail terms of up to 10 years if a trial due next April upholds charges of people smuggling and possession of illegal weapons.\n\nManuel Blanco, Julio Latorre and Enrique Rodríguez, all firefighters from Seville, were arrested by Greek coastguards in January 2016 on the waters off Lesbos as they were mounting a search-and-rescue mission for migrants.\n\nThe Greek authorities consider that the knives the Spaniards were carrying constitute \"illegal weapons\". The volunteers argue the knives were the minimum blade length required to cut through ropes, nets or other material when rescuing people from the sea.\n\nTwo Danish volunteers were arrested at the same time.\n\nA note on terminology: The BBC uses the term migrant to refer to all people on the move who have yet to complete the legal process of claiming asylum. This group includes people fleeing war-torn countries such as Syria, who are likely to be granted refugee status, as well as people who are seeking jobs and better lives, who governments are likely to rule are economic migrants.", "Humans could become extinct if sperm counts in men continue to fall at current rates, a doctor has warned.\n\nResearchers assessing the results of nearly 200 studies say sperm counts among men from North America, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand, seem to have halved in less than 40 years.\n\nSome experts are sceptical of the Human Reproduction Update findings.\n\nBut lead researcher Dr Hagai Levine said he was \"very worried\" about what might happen in the future.\n\nThe assessment, one of the largest ever undertaken, brings together the results of 185 studies between 1973 and 2011.\n\nDr Levine, an epidemiologist, told the BBC that if the trend continued humans would become extinct.\n\n\"If we will not change the ways that we are living and the environment and the chemicals that we are exposed to, I am very worried about what will happen in the future,\" he said.\n\n\"Eventually we may have a problem, and with reproduction in general, and it may be the extinction of the human species.\"\n\nScientists not involved in the study have praised the quality of the research but say that it may be premature to come to such a conclusion.\n\nDr Levine, from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, found a 52.4% decline in sperm concentration, and a 59.3% decline in total sperm count in men from North America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand.\n\nThe study also indicates the rate of decline among men living in these countries is continuing and possibly even increasing.\n\nIn contrast, no significant decline was seen in South America, Asia and Africa, but the researchers point out that far fewer studies have been conducted on these continents. However, Dr Levine is concerned that eventually sperm counts could fall in these places too.\n\nMany previous studies have indicated similar sharp declines in sperm count in developed economies, but sceptics say that a large proportion of them have been flawed.\n\nSome have investigated a relatively small number of men, or included only men who attend fertility clinics and are, in any case, more likely to have low sperm counts.\n\nThere is also concern that studies that claim to show a decline in sperm counts are more likely to get published in scientific journals than those that do not.\n\nAnother difficulty is that early methods of counting sperm may have overestimated the true count.\n\nTaken together these factors may have created a false view of falling sperm counts.\n\nBut the researchers claim to have accounted for some of these deficiencies, leaving some doubters, such as Prof Allan Pacey of Sheffield University, less sceptical.\n\nHe said: \"I've never been particularly convinced by the many studies published so far claiming that human sperm counts have declined in the recent past.\"\n\n\"However, the study today by Dr Levine and his colleagues deals head-on with many of the deficiencies of previous studies.\"\n\nBut Prof Pacey believes that although the new study has reduced the possibility of errors it does not entirely remove them. So, he says, the results should be treated with caution.\n\n\"The debate has not yet been resolved and there is clearly much work still to be done.\n\n\"However, the paper does represent a step forward in the clarity of the data which might ultimately allow us to define better studies to examine this issue.\"\n\nThere is no clear evidence for the reason for this apparent decrease. But it has been linked with exposure to chemicals used in pesticides and plastics, obesity, smoking, stress, diet, and even watching too much TV.\n\nDr Levine says that there is an urgent need to find out why sperm counts are decreasing and to find ways of reversing the trend.\n\n\"We must take action - for example, better regulation of man-made chemicals - and we must continue our efforts on tackling smoking and obesity.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The sculpture will be part of a £630,000 investment project at Flint Castle.\n\nPlans to create an iron ring sculpture at Flint Castle have been described as \"insulting to Wales\".\n\nThe design, said to represent the relationship between the medieval monarchies of Europe and the castles they built, was unveiled on Friday.\n\nBut critics including Plaid Cymru's North Wales AM Llyr Gruffydd said it symbolises the oppression of Welsh people.\n\nMonuments body Cadw said the plans were \"about investing in Flint\".\n\nFlint was one of the first castles to be built in Wales by Edward I - construction began in 1277.\n\nThe winning design was selected by a panel following a nation-wide competition, and the architects said it demonstrated \"the unstable nature of the crown\".\n\nBut Mr Gruffydd said a sculpture celebrating the conquest of Wales by Edward I was \"inappropriate and insulting\".\n\n\"The 'ring of steel' is the description given to the chain of castles across Wales that were built to conquer and subjugate Wales,\" he said.\n\n\"From a Welsh perspective, this is certainly not something to celebrate. It does not either reflect the many rich Welsh legends that could have been the source of a far more appropriate sculpture.\"\n\nA petition has also been launched calling the design \"extremely disrespectful\". By Monday it had attracted more than 2,000 signatures.\n\nPeople have also criticised the sculpture on social media.\n\nTJ Buck tweeted: \"I think even a 'balloon made of lead' would have gone down better than this idea\", while Carolyn Hitt posted: \"Flint has rich history of female factory workers. Turn those into legends rather than remember Edward I's Iron Ring.\"\n\nBut Andrew Barratt‏ said: \"It symbolises the role of castles, we were subjugated, it's history, sad but let's get over it living in the past won't forge our new Wales.\"\n\nIn response, a spokeswoman for Cadw said it recognises \"that art divides opinions, encourages debate, and can be interpreted in many ways\".\n\n\"These plans are about investing in Flint, increasing visitor numbers and growing the local economy. The proposed sculpture would also provide a unique opportunity to promote Welsh steel, as well as tell powerful stories that continue to shape our lives today,\" the spokeswoman said.\n\n\"We will continue to listen to a range of views on this important project as it evolves, and ensure that decisions over issues such as the words inscribed on the sculpture reflect local opinions and the complex and often difficult history of Wales.\"\n\nA spokeswoman for Arts Council of Wales said its role was to \"assist with advice in setting up the tender process and selecting the work\" alongside other panellists from Visit Wales and Cadw.", "Rural Sicily can be a difficult place to run a business because of threats from the Mafia\n\nFrom the terrace of his winery near the baroque town of Caltagirone in south-eastern Sicily, Cesare Nicodemo surveys his fields of ripening vines - a glass of his finest spumante in hand.\n\nIt's a warm July evening and the surrounding hills glow golden in the setting sun amid the chirruping of swallows and the song of cicadas.\n\nIt should be an image of rural peace and contentment, but on closer inspection, all is not quite as it seems.\n\nSecurity cameras on high stilts dot the perimeter of his land. The metal gates leading into his winery remain securely shut throughout our interview, and inside the winery's main building, images from across his vineyard flicker on a bank of screens.\n\nThis, he says, is what it takes to run a modern business in Sicily in 2017.\n\nWinemaker Cesare Nicodemo says the Mafia is trying to drive him off his land\n\nCesare has been threatened, his land has been repeatedly trespassed on, his buildings have been damaged and trees cut down or set alight. He's even been physically attacked.\n\n\"The rural Mafia was trying to drive us off our land and destroy our business,\" he says between careful sips of wine.\n\nSo who are the rural Mafia? Well, they're shepherds in the main - but some officials believe they're acting in cahoots with local lawyers, accountants and possibly even local politicians.\n\nCesare believes the battle against them pits modern Italy against forces that want Sicily to remain rooted in the ways of the past.\n\nDriving out of his winery, he points out wooden stakes in the ground. \"See that?\" he says. \"They're the signs of the rural Mafia\"\n\nThe stakes are dotted across the land around his vineyard. They're about a metre-long, distinctive for the strip of white cardboard wrapped round them.\n\nThere are more about 100km (60 miles) away from Cesare's winery, in the foothills of Mount Etna, where Sebastiano Blanco is rebuilding a house on his plot of land.\n\n\"What those stakes say is 'this land belongs to us',\" Sebastiano says. \"They, the rural Mafia, see all this land as their own, regardless of who has legal title to it.\"\n\nSebastiano Blanco in the ruins of his burnt-out house\n\nLike Cesare, he says there are local clans who believe that they, and not the Italian state, set the laws.\n\nLast year, Sebastiano's house was burnt down. The police and fire brigade said the fire was probably started by a homeless person who'd come inside to warm up.\n\nBut Sebastiano thinks it's no coincidence that the fire happened soon after stakes appeared on his land. He believes the rural Mafia took revenge when he wouldn't hand over his land.\n\nHe cuts a forlorn figure, kicking at the blackened rubble strewn across the charred ground of what were once his bedroom, with the early evening's purple sky visible through the exposed beams of his shattered roof.\n\nSebastiano believes the Mafia burnt his house when he refused to had over his land\n\nSo, what exactly is it that the Mafia wants?\n\nGiuseppe Antoci, president of Sicily's largest national park, Nebrodi, and co-ordinator of Federparchi Sicilia, the Federation of Sicilian National Parks, has been investigating the matter for the past few years.\n\nWhat he's uncovered is widespread fraud involving European Union farm and rural development funds.\n\nIn an investigation conducted together with the deputy police commissioner Daniele Manganaro of the district of Messina, Mr Antoci found that local crime networks were falsely claiming land as their own - or presenting forged documents saying they had leased it - in order to make applications for EU subsidies.\n\nPolice commissioner Daniele Manganaro says the Mafia's business now is in defrauding the EU\n\n\"We've seen an evolution of Mafia here,\" he says.\n\n\"This is not the Mafia of the illegal drugs trade or the trafficking of arms. It takes a lot of work and research to commit this sort of fraud. We're not talking about the Mafia that existed 30 years ago, where the shepherd demanded a ransom or protection payment from a tradesman.\n\n\"What we have here is a Mafia whose business is to commit fraud with EU funds. And to carry out this sort of fraud, you need more than just a shepherd.\n\n\"What it requires is a network of people, people with schooling and education, people who know how the system works, because the first step in perpetrating this sort of fraud is to set up a company,\" says the police commissioner.\n\nMr Antoci has tried to put a stop to it.\n\nHe's set in motion a new law that states that anyone claiming EU subsidies on land must now show anti-Mafia certification. In Italy, this means complying with regulations that require that a company's shareholders and directors have no restrictions, limitations and bans according to anti-mafia regulations.\n\nGiuseppe Antoci has led moves to pass new anti-mafia legislation\n\nSceptics say this is hardly enough to stop the fraud from being repeated, pointing out that many will simply make use of proxies to make claims on their behalf.\n\nThe European Union's anti-fraud office, Olaf, says it is reviewing 35,000 applications for agricultural subsidies in Italy covering some 500m euros in disbursements going back all the way to 2006.\n\nIt has also started nine criminal proceedings, all of which involve a network of organised crime. But this 500m euros (£447m) that the EU is looking into is far less than the 3.5bn euros that Mr Antoci and the local police force say may have been fraudulently claimed.\n\n\"I can tell you that there is a very strong commitment at the level of the EU as well as the level of national authorities to fight this kind of phenomenon,\" says Francesco Albore, the head of the Olaf unit investigating the matter.\n\nAnother 2.2bn euros have been earmarked in EU and Italian government funds for rural and agricultural development in the six years to 2020. So what guarantees are there that all those funds will be properly distributed?\n\nMr Albore says it's difficult to guarantee but points out the EU also demands guarantees that payments go to the correct recipients. Where this is not the case, he says, \"payments can be stopped.\"\n\nMeanwhile, back in Sicily, Mr Antoci's efforts to fight this fraud have come at a high personal price.\n\nIn response he was ambushed last year - luckily he survived\n\nHe's suffered death threats and now lives under permanent armed guard.\n\nLast year, as he was being driven home through the Nebrodi national park following a late night dinner, his car came under a volley of gunfire.\n\nIf he's alive today, he says, it's only thanks to his armed guard and the fact that his car was being followed by that of the deputy police commissioner Daniele Manganaro who managed to scupper the attack by firing back.\n\nIn the aftermath, there were attempts to discredit his investigation. Some Italian media reports questioned the authenticity of the attack, suggesting Mr Antoci and the local police force had made it up. But it's only made him more determined.\n\n\"You know, afterwards, they found petrol bombs hidden in nearby bushes,\" Mr Antoci says. \"They wanted me dead. But my first thought as I was being saved that night was for my family and for all the police officers who guard me - the sacrifices they have to make for this battle I've chosen to wage.\"\n\nStill, one businessman I speak to, who's been subjected to similar threats for not handing over land, complains that he's had little support from local Sicilian political authorities in his fight to protect his land.\n\nHow can this intimidation be happening, says Sebastiano Blanco\n\nWhich is why, back in the foothills of Mount Etna, Sebastiano Blanco wears a T-shirt emblazoned with the words: \"Rural mafia - a protected species\".\n\n\"It's 2017,\" he says. \"How can this be happening in our day and age?\"\n\nHe gestures at the smoking volcano, looming large in the distance over his land.\n\n\"This is a Unesco world heritage site,\" he says. \"But as long as we're intimidated this way, how can we possibly build on the economic value of our land and property?\"\n\nIn collaboration with Diego Gandolfo and Alessandro di Nunzio", "The first of more than 600 episodes of The Simpsons aired in December 1989\n\nSimpsons' creator Matt Groening has a new adult animated comedy fantasy series heading to Netflix next year.\n\nDisenchantment is set in the crumbling medieval kingdom of Dreamland and according to Groening, is about \"life and death, love and sex\".\n\nIt will be released 10 episodes at a time. Groening is also an executive producer on the show.\n\n\"Matt's brilliant work has resonated with generations round the world,\" said Netflix vice-president Cindy Holland.\n\n\"We couldn't be happier to work with him on Disenchantment.\n\n\"The series will bear his trademark animation style and biting wit and we think it's a perfect fit for our many Netflix animation fans.\"\n\nAmong the characters in the new series are hard-drinking young princess Bean, her feisty elf companion Elfo and her personal demon Luci.\n\nThe series will feature the voice talents of Broad City's Abbi Jacobson (Bean), Academy Award-winning screenwriter Nat Faxon (Elfo) and Man Seeking Woman's Eric Andre (Luci). The Mighty Boosh star and new Great British Bake Off host Noel Fielding will also voice a character.\n\nGroening said: \"It is also about how to keep laughing in a world full of suffering and idiots, despite what the elders and wizards and other jerks tell you.\"\n\nThere have been more than 600 episodes of The Simpsons, which was first broadcast in December 1989.\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.", "Alice Cooper's manager said the singer's jaw dropped when told of the discovery\n\nUS rock musician Alice Cooper has found a classic Andy Warhol artwork rolled up in storage after more than 40 years tucked away alongside tour equipment.\n\nThe singer had forgotten about the work, entitled Little Electric Chair, presented as a gift in the 1970s.\n\n\"It was a rock 'n' roll time, none of us thought about anything,\" Cooper's long-time manager, Shep Gordon, said.\n\nA similar version of the Warhol artwork sold at Christie's in New York in 2014 for $10.5m (£8m).\n\nCooper's find, a red silkscreen on canvas, was part of Warhol's Death and Disaster series and was discovered \"rolled up in a tube\" in a locker along with a collection of 1970s stage props, Mr Gordon told BBC Radio 5 live.\n\nIt was the decade that Cooper and Warhol met and became friends. \"It was all a swirl of drugs and drinking,\" said Mr Gordon, who has been the singer's manager for more than four decades.\n\nCooper, real name Vincent Furnier, moved to New York with his late girlfriend Cindy Lang, where they were introduced to Warhol and spent time together in New York's famed Studio 54 nightclub, according to Mr Gordon.\n\nMs Lang, who appeared on the second cover of Warhol's magazine Interview, later asked Mr Gordon to purchase the work on her behalf for about $2,500 as she planned to present it to Cooper as a birthday gift.\n\n\"He was a very heavy drinker in those days,\" Mr Gordon told the BBC, adding that Cooper's career was \"like a rocket ship taking off back in the early 70s - he was working 100 shows a year\".\n\nMr Gordon said the rock singer was \"getting electrocuted\" at the time in his live shows using a prop electric chair that looked \"very much\" like the chair in the painting.\n\nHe said that Cooper later entered rehab as a result of his drinking and \"never really moved into his apartment in New York\". The painting, he said, was forgotten.\n\n\"Nobody really ever thought about it, life went on,\" Mr Gordon said.\n\nYears later, Mr Gordon was having dinner with friends, one of whom happened to be an art dealer, when the conversation turned to a piece of work by Warhol that had sold for a large sum.\n\n\"So I got hold of Alice and I said: 'Do you still have that Warhol?' And he said: 'I don't think so'.\"\n\nMr Gordon said it was months before they tracked it down to the storage facility. \"And then we found a tube, like the type you keep posters in, and there it was - oops!\"\n\nHe said that back in the early 1970s the artwork was not considered particularly valuable. \"Andy Warhol was not 'Andy Warhol' back then,\" he said.\n\nThe artist died in 1987 at the age of 58.\n\nIn an interview with the Guardian, Mr Gordon said that Cooper had a vague recollection of discussing the artwork with Warhol.\n\n\"He thinks the conversation was real, but he couldn't put his hand on a Bible and say that it was,\" Mr Gordon said.\n\nThe work has been confirmed as authentic by Warhol expert Richard Polsky.\n\n\"You should have seen Alice's face when Richard Polsky's estimate came in,\" Mr Gordon said, adding: \"His jaw dropped and he looked at me: 'Are you serious? I own that!'\"", "A vaginal ring to prevent HIV infection is popular with teenage girls, US scientists say.\n\nWomen and girls aged 15-24 account for a fifth of all new HIV infections globally. Nearly 1,000 are infected every day in sub-Saharan Africa.\n\nInfused with microbicides, the ring, which sits on the cervix, has been shown to cut infections by 56%.\n\nExperts say it frees women from relying on men to wear condoms and allows them to protect themselves confidentially.\n\nDr Anthony Fauci, the director of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told the BBC: \"If you can give women the opportunity to protect themselves in a way that is completely confidential - that's a long and big step to helping them.\n\n\"In societies where women are, unfortunately but true, somewhat second-class citizens, that makes women extremely vulnerable to getting infected with HIV.\"\n\nThe flexible ring, similar in size to the contraceptive diaphragm, releases an antiretroviral drug called dapivirine for a month.\n\nBut scientists were unsure it would work in teenagers, who can be notoriously difficult when it comes to health advice.\n\nThe six-month US trial gave the ring to 96 sexually active girls aged 15 to 17, who had not used it before.\n\nData presented at the IAS Conference on HIV Science, showed:\n\nThere were some concerns before the trial that the girls' partners would not like the feel of the ring, but it reportedly enhanced pleasure.\n\nProf Sharon Hillier, one of the researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, said: \"HIV doesn't distinguish between a 16-year-old and an 18-year-old.\n\n\"Access to safe and effective HIV prevention shouldn't either, young women of all ages deserve to be protected.\"\n\nThere are now plans to test the ring with teenagers in Africa.\n\nIf the ring gets regulatory approval, it would be the first method of prevention exclusively for women.", "Using money to free-up time is linked to increased happiness, a study says.\n\nIn an experiment, individuals reported greater happiness if they used £30 ($40) to save time - such as by paying for chores to be done - rather than spending the money on material goods.\n\nPsychologists say stress over lack of time causes lower well-being and contributes to anxiety and insomnia.\n\nYet, they say even the very wealthy are often reluctant to pay people to do the jobs they dislike.\n\n\"In a series of surveys we find that people who spend money to buy themselves more free time are happier - that is they have higher life satisfaction,\" said Dr Elizabeth Dunn, a psychologist professor at the University of British Columbia, Canada.\n\nRising incomes in many countries has led to a new phenomenon. From Germany to the US, people report \"time famine\", where they get stressed over the daily demands on their time.\n\nPsychologists in the US, Canada and the Netherlands set out to test whether money can increase happiness levels by freeing up time.\n\nMore than 6,000 adults in the US, Canada, Denmark and the Netherlands, including 800 millionaires, were asked questions about how much money they spent on buying time.\n\nThe researchers found that fewer than a third of individuals spent money to buy themselves time each month.\n\nThose who did reported greater life satisfaction than the others.\n\nThe researchers then devised a two-week experiment among 60 working adults in Vancouver, Canada.\n\nOn one weekend, participants were asked to spend £30 ($40) on a purchase that would save them time. They did things like buying lunches to be delivered to work, paying neighbourhood children to run errands for them, or paying for cleaning services.\n\nOn the other weekend, they were told to spend the windfall on material goods. Material purchases included wine, clothes and books.\n\nThe research, published in the journal, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, found time saving compared with material purchases increased happiness by reducing feelings of time stress.\n\n\"Money can in fact buy time. And it buys time pretty effectively,\" said Prof Dunn, who worked with colleagues at Harvard Business School, Maastricht University and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.\n\n\"And so my take home message is, 'think about it, is there something you hate doing that fills you with dread and could you pay somebody else to do that for you?' If so, then science says that's a pretty good use of money.''\n\nThe psychologists say the study may help those who feel obliged to do a \"second shift\" of household chores when they come home from work.\n\n\"I think our work perhaps provides an escape route out of the second shift,\" Prof Dunn added.\n\nPast research has found that people who prioritise time over money tend to be happier than people who prioritise money over time.", "The Orange Order is the largest Protestant organisation in Northern Ireland\n\nThe Orange Order has asked its members to stop using the term 'RIP' to express grief or sympathy after a death.\n\nIt said the phrase is unbiblical, un-Protestant, and a form of superstition connected to Catholicism.\n\nRIP is an abbreviation of 'rest in peace' or in Latin, 'requiescat in pace'.\n\nIn a publication marking the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, the order called on Protestants to stop using the phrase.\n\nWallace Thompson, secretary of Evangelical Protestants Northern Ireland, wrote a Facebook post on which the article was based.\n\nHe told the BBC's Talkback programme: \"Observing social media, we have noticed that the letters RIP are used a lot by Protestants, and by some evangelical Protestants.\"\n\nMr Thompson explained that for him, 'RIP' is a prayer and he did not encourage prayers for the dead.\n\n\"From a Protestant point of view, we believe, when death comes, a person either goes to be with Christ for all eternity, or into hell.\n\nWallace Thompson believes that the phrase 'RIP' is effectively a prayer for the dead and therefore un-Protestant\n\n\"That's what we believe the gospel to be and in this 500th anniversary year of the Reformation, I think Luther, when the scales fell off his eyes, realised that it was all by faith alone, in Christ alone, the decision is made during life, on this earth, so that when death comes it has been made and no decision has been made after death,\" he said.\n\nSpeaking on the same programme, former Presbyterian moderator Dr Ken Newell said he did not use the phrase very often.\n\n\"I think when people use [RIP] in social media, there's a remembrance and a good wish in it, almost a blessing,\" he said.\n\nHe disagreed that people are praying for the dead when they used the phrase.\n\n\"If folk in the Orange Order want to take this line that's perfectly up to them, they are making a good point.\n\n\"I think ordinary people have not worked out the issues. This comes out of the human heart,\" he added.\n\nIn response to a request for a spokesperson of the issue, the Orange Order referred the BBC to comments made by the county grand master of County Fermanagh Grand Orange Lodge, Stuart Brooker, in the Impartial Reporter newspaper.\n\nIn it he said: \"I think the message in the article is very clear and well put together, and I couldn't add anything further to it.\n\n\"This article clearly explains why we as Protestants, and members of the Orange Institution, shouldn't use the term 'RIP'.\n\n\"It also reminds us that if we need guidance in any matter, we should refer to what the bible teaches.\"\n\nThe Orange Order is the largest Protestant organisation in Northern Ireland.\n\nIt regards itself as defending civil and religious liberties of Protestants and seeks to uphold the rule and ascendancy of a Protestant monarch in the United Kingdom.", "Kem and Amber were crowned the winners on Monday's final\n\nThe final episode of Love Island helped ITV2 reach its biggest ever audience on Monday night.\n\nAn average of 2.43 million viewers tuned in live to see Kem and Amber crowned the winning couple - a huge figure for the network.\n\nA further 150,000 watched the show on ITV2+1, and the total number of viewers is likely to rise dramatically when catch up services are included.\n\nITV2 have already confirmed the show will return for another series in 2018.\n\nThis year's Love Island has been something of a surprise hit for the channel, and has developed a cult following since this series launched at the beginning of June.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A look back at the last 20 years of reality television.\n\nLast year's Love Island final was watched by 1.3m viewers, while the final of the first series was watched by 737,000 viewers in 2015.\n\nMonday night's highest-rated programme was Diana: Our Mother Her Life and Legacy which was on ITV.\n\nThe documentary was watched by 6.5 million viewers (rising to 6.9 million when ITV+1 figures are included).\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.", "A sharp rise in personal loans could pose a danger to the UK economy, a Bank of England official has warned.\n\nOutstanding car loans, credit card balance transfers and personal loans have increased by 10% over the past year, the Bank's financial stability director Alex Brazier said.\n\nIn contrast household incomes have risen by just 1.5%, he said.\n\n\"Household debt - like most things that are good in moderation - can be dangerous in excess\", Mr Brazier said.\n\nMr Brazier, in a speech to the University of Liverpool's Institute for Risk and Uncertainty, added that this increase in debt was \"dangerous to borrowers, lenders and, most importantly from our perspective, everyone else in the economy\".\n\nHe warned that High Street banks were at risk of entering \"a spiral of complacency\" about mounting consumer debt levels.\n\n\"Lending standards can go from responsible to reckless very quickly.\n\n\"The sorry fact is that as lenders think the risks they face are falling, the risks they - and the wider economy face - are actually growing,\" Mr Brazier added.\n\nMr Brazier hinted that the Bank of England could force banks to take further safeguards against the risk of bad debts if it was deemed necessary.\n\nJust last month, the Bank of England told banks to beef up their finances against the risk of bad loans.\n\nThey were told to set aside £11.4bn in the next 18 months in case future economic shocks meant some borrowers could not keep up their repayments.\n\nMr Brazier said by September the Bank will have assessed whether the rapid growth in consumer lending \"has created any small gap in the line\".\n\n\"If it has, we'll plug it,\" said Mr Brazier.\n\nIn June, Bank of England governor Mark Carney said lenders appeared to have forgotten some of the lessons of the financial crisis.\n\nDespite these concerns, Mr Carney stressed that the UK financial system was far stronger than at the time of the great banking crash in 2008-09.", "Bieber had been expected to play another 14 dates in Asia and North America\n\nJustin Bieber has apologised to his fans after cancelling the remaining dates of his Purpose World Tour because of \"unforeseen circumstances\".\n\nThe move affects 14 dates in Asia and North America which were coming up over the next three months.\n\nBieber told celebrity news website TMZ.com: \"I'm sorry for anybody who feels disappointed or betrayed.\"\n\nThe singer has performed more than 150 shows on the tour, promoting his 2015 album Purpose, since March 2016.\n\nThe tour grossed $93.2m (£71.5m) in the first half of 2017, with an average of almost 40,000 ticket sales per date.\n\nBieber added: \"I have been on tour for two years. I'm looking forward to just resting, getting some relaxation and we're going to ride some bikes.\"\n\nThe singer's manager, Scooter Braun, posted on Instagram: \"To Justin, who gave it his all night after night, thank you.\n\n\"And to those that won't be able to see it... on behalf of myself, Justin, and the team, we are sorry. That was never our intent. But a man's soul and wellbeing I truly care about came first and we must all respect and honour that.\n\n\"Justin will be back and I know he looks forward to performing for you and with you all again. One chapter ends and another begins.\"\n\nA statement on Bieber's website read: \"Justin loves his fans and hates to disappoint them.\n\n\"He is grateful and honoured to have shared that experience with his cast and crew for over 150 successful shows across six continents during this run.\n\n\"However, after careful consideration he has decided he will not be performing any further dates. Tickets will be refunded at point of purchase.\"\n\nMost of Bieber's remaining dates were in the US, but he was also due to play in Japan, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Singapore and Indonesia.\n\nChinese officials said last week that the Canadian pop star had been banned from mainland China because he had engaged in what they described as \"bad behaviour\".\n\nBieber's decision comes a few weeks after British singer Adele cancelled the last two shows of her world tour on medical advice after damaging her vocal cords.\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.", "For some former Jehovah's Witnesses, leaving the faith is not just the mark of losing your religion - it can also mean losing your loved ones. In many cases, friends and family are told to cut all ties with ex-believers, leaving them isolated and sometimes suicidal.\n\n\"I don't speak to any of my family,\" Sarah - not her real name - tells the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme.\n\n\"Because of being 'disfellowshipped', I can have no contact.\"\n\nLast year, Sarah - in her 20s - was excluded by the Jehovah's Witnesses in a process known as \"disfellowshipping\", she says sparked by her refusal to live in an abusive relationship.\n\nShe claims her partner at the time had been violent towards her, at one stage leaving her with broken ribs.\n\nGoing to the police - and involving those from outside the religion - is heavily discouraged by Jehovah's Witnesses, she says, claiming that elders within the faith refused to punish her ex-partner's behaviour.\n\nIt was only when work colleagues noticed the bruising, and convinced her not to put up with the abuse, that she says she fled the relationship.\n\nSarah claims she was consequently disfellowshipped by the religion, and that her friends and family cut all ties with her.\n\nThis is because Jehovah's Witnesses believe those outside the religion can be of detriment to their faith.\n\nIn a statement the religious group told the BBC: \"If a baptised Witness makes a practice of breaking the Bible's moral code, and does not given evidence of stopping the practice, he or she will be shunned or disfellowshipped.\n\n\"When it comes to shunning, Witnesses take their instructions from the Bible and on this subject the Bible clearly states, 'Remove the wicked man from amongst yourselves.'\"\n\nThe night she was disfellowshipped, Sarah says her mother refused to talk to her. Her father woke her up at 07:00 to kick her out of their home.\n\nResponding to Sarah's claims, the Jehovah's Witnesses said that while it could not comment on individual cases, \"violence, whether physical or emotional, is strongly condemned in the Bible and has no place in a Christian family\".\n\nSarah and John (front of shot) told Victoria Derbyshire they had been shunned by their family and friends\n\nJohn - not his real name - became a Jehovah's Witness as a young child when his parents decided to join the religious group.\n\nBut two years ago, he was disfellowshipped after he missed a Jehovah's Witness memorial service - seen in the religion as an important event.\n\nHe had also begun to privately have doubts about some of the religion's teachings - questioning the faith's assertion that the end of the world is imminent, and that only 144,000 human beings will go to heaven.\n\nHis view on the religion was also tarnished after ones of his friends died, when a blood transfusion - which is not allowed in the faith - might have saved him.\n\n\"It was a waste of a life,\" he says.\n\nJohn says he later discovered his wife had testified against him during the process that led to his disfellowship, which he believes placed a great strain on their relationship.\n\nHe left the family home - living temporarily in tents and caravans.\n\n\"It was a very isolating time. I didn't have anyone, I felt quite suicidal,\" he says.\n\nHe has now lost contact with his two adult children and siblings.\n\n\"Sometimes I send them a message saying, 'I love you, I'm still thinking of you.' But usually there's no response,\" he says.\n\nTerri O'Sullivan was kicked out of her home by her mother\n\nAccording to the Jehovah's Witnesses, the faith has more than 138,000 members in the UK, and more than eight million internationally.\n\nTerri O'Sullivan left the religion 17 years ago, aged 21, and was kicked out of her home by her mother.\n\nShe now runs a support network for those who leave or are excluded from it.\n\nShe says she is yet to find a former Jehovah's Witness who has not experienced depression, alcoholism, suicidal feelings or self-harm.\n\nShe adds that while not everyone goes through a formal disfellowship when they leave, their relationships seldom go on unaffected.\n\n\"With some ex-Witnesses,\" she says, \"some of their families will still talk to them - but it will always be strained.\"\n\nSarah says the loss of her closest family ties has been \"very, very difficult\" to cope with.\n\nShe is engaged, and aware she is \"having to plan a wedding where your parents won't attend\".\n\n\"I would class myself as an orphan, which is quite sad,\" she says.\n\nHer support network comes from her friends at work. When she left the faith, she says, they \"rallied around\" her, in contrast to what she had expected.\n\n\"These people I'd been told [by the religion] were awful, were bad association, and God was going to smite them all at Armageddon.\n\n\"Yet these people opened up their homes.\"\n\nSarah is still, however, complimentary about most of the people within her former faith.\n\n\"There are good people in the religion, who believe they are saving people's lives [by spreading the faith's message],\" she says.\n\n\"I look back with some happy memories, because they were the last memories I have with my family and siblings.\n\n\"But then I do have to look back and feel a lot of heartbreak that I'm never going to be able to sit down with them for a Sunday meal again.\n\n\"When they die, I probably won't be invited to the funeral either.\"\n\nWatch the Victoria Derbyshire programme on weekdays between 09:00 and 11:00 on BBC Two and the BBC News channel.", "Five adult and three infant Humboldt penguins died\n\nEight penguins have been attacked and killed by an \"urban fox\" that broke into their water enclosure at Chessington World of Adventures.\n\nAssistant zoo manager Lisa Britton said it \"infiltrated\" their home at Penguin Bay during the night.\n\nFive adult and three infant Humboldt penguins died in the attack. A ninth was injured but made a full recovery after treatment from a vet.\n\nThe remaining 20 penguins have since been moved to a secure location.\n\nMs Britton said staff at the zoo, which has only just released details of the June attack, were \"shocked and saddened\" by the loss.\n\n\"We are investigating why this happened, as Penguin Bay, only built in 2015, had special measures put in place specifically to deter foxes,\" she said.\n\nPenguin Bay has been closed while additional security measures are undertaken.\n\nA note on the adventure park's website reads: \"Our Humboldt penguins are currently enjoying their other home behind-the-scenes while we make alterations to Penguin Bay.\"\n\nChessington World of Adventures features a theme park with more than 40 rides as well as a zoo and sea life centre.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Krystyna Farley is a 91-year-old beauty pageant queen in the US state of Connecticut, but her life was not always this glamorous. Although she grew up in a loving home in rural Poland, her childhood was cut short by the outbreak of war. This is her story.\n\n\"My skin is beautiful,\" Krystyna Farley says. \"So I don't wear any makeup, just lipstick - that's all.\"\n\nKrystyna, who will soon turn 92, has spent the last year as the incumbent Ms Connecticut Senior America.\n\n\"People think that if you're over 60 you're finished - it's not true,\" Krystyna says, describing what she likes about beauty pageants.\n\n\"You're showing people you are still alive and you still can do it - you can dance, you can sew, you can paint, you can do anything you want.\"\n\nKrystyna's optimism and joie de vivre is all the more remarkable, bearing in mind the harrowing experiences of her teenage years.\n\nShe was born in eastern Poland in 1925, the second of five children. Her family lived on 35 acres of land her father had been given in return for his military service during World War One, in a house surrounded by cherry trees.\n\n\"That life was terrific because we didn't have any worries,\" Krystyna remembers. \"We were young and we always had a good time.\"\n\nKrystyna with her cousin in 1938\n\nBut when Krystyna was 14 Germany and the Soviet Union invaded Poland - triggering World War Two.\n\n\"In 1940 there was a knock on the door,\" Krystyna says.\n\nKrystyna and her family, like hundreds of thousands of other Polish people, were rounded up on a bitingly cold night by the Russian military and Ukrainian police and bundled into cattle trains for a month-long journey into the frozen forests of the Ural mountains.\n\n\"The train had no windows,\" Krystyna says. \"There was a hole for the bathroom and there was a coal stove in the corner, and that was about it. There were about 60 people in each carriage and all we had to eat was bread.\"\n\nKrystyna's family were put to work harvesting timber in a Russian labour camp on a starvation diet.\n\n\"We didn't think about anything else apart from food,\" Krystyna remembers. \"We had nothing to eat, just black bread.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Krystyna Farley explains her life-affirming philosophy to Outlook on the BBC World Service\n\nThe family spent two dreadful years there, until Germany attacked the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941. Stalin, in need of as many allies as he could find, then suddenly released tens of thousands of Polish prisoners of war, including Krystyna and her family.\n\nKrystyna's father, Andrzej, along with many thousands of others, joined a new army, the Polish Army in Exile. But all of the women and children were left behind and since Hitler had now invaded eastern Poland they couldn't return to their homes.\n\nKrystyna, her mother Walentyna, and siblings squeezed on to a boat full of sick, malnourished deportees and sailed across the Caspian Sea, to find work picking cotton near the Uzbek capital, Tashkent.\n\nThere their diet expanded to include flat bread, blackberries, hard cheese and dried melon. But life was still very hard, so Walentyna made the heart-breaking decision to send her children - with the exception of her eldest child, Alice, who was too old - to the safety of the Persian orphanages set up by the Polish Army in Exile.\n\nTo reach Iran the children travelled by boat across the Caspian and then joined a convoy of lorries on the journey south to Tehran. They did not know then that they would never see their mother or eldest sister again.\n\nAfter the dismal conditions they had endured in Russia and Uzbekistan, life in Tehran was much improved. There were clean beds and there was plenty of food - but Krystyna fell terribly ill.\n\nBelieved to be dead, her body was sent to the mortuary, where only by chance a nurse saw Krystyna move and realised that she was still alive.\n\n\"I had pneumonia in two sides of my lungs,\" Krystyna says. \"I was half dead, so I don't remember too much in Tehran.\"\n\nWhen she recovered, Krystyna arranged for her brothers, Teddy and Chester, to join the cadets and sent sister, Natalie, who was just eight, to an orphanage in Africa. Then she enlisted in the Polish Army in Exile.\n\n\"I wanted to be in the army to drive a car,\" she explains. \"That was my own stupidity - you see if you're young, you're stupid.\"\n\nKrystyna visited Jerusalem with her father’s division in 1943 - Krystyna is 5th from the left on the top row, Andrzej is on the far right of the second row from the front\n\nKrystyna was about to turn 18, but lied about her age, as 19 was the minimum age to join the army. However, she wasn't selected to become a military driver, and instead was sent to train as a nurse's aide in Iraq.\n\nKrystyna's five years of military service - for which she received a King George medal - took her to Egypt, and then to Iraq, where she was reunited with her father. Later they were both stationed in Jerusalem together.\n\n\"That was a very nice feeling, but you see, if you're young you really just think about food and money, not family,\" Krystyna admits.\n\n\"So I came to my father and I just said, 'Pops, do you have some money?' And I looked in his pocket and he had plenty, so I took some because we just wanted to buy ourselves makeup and stuff like that.\"\n\nKrystyna and her father were among the troops who crossed the Mediterranean under constant threat from Nazi bombers to join the battle at the hilltop monastery of Monte Cassino, south of Rome.\n\nWhile patching up the injured and mutilated soldiers coming off the mountain Krystyna met a man who was to become her first husband - a soldier called Stanley Slowikowski - who was sent to her ward with a leg injury.\n\nWhen the war ended Krystyna and Stanley settled in England, and it was here that Krystyna's family were all finally reunited - her father, brothers and younger sister.\n\nKrystyna later learned that her mother had died from malaria. Nothing was ever heard of her elder sister, Alice, who had also stayed behind in Uzbekistan.\n\n\"I think my sister is still alive, if she's healthy like I am,\" Krystyna says.\n\nKrystyna and Stanley had three children together but Stanley drank heavily, possibly as a result of his experiences in the war, and Krystyna was widowed in 1949, leaving her with three young children and very little money.\n\nShe began to teach children the dances that she had learned as a child, and in 1953 her dance troupe was invited to perform at the coronation of Queen Elizabeth, wearing costumes that Krystyna had designed and made.\n\nDressed to dance for the Queen’s Coronation in 1953 – Krystyna is second from the left on the front row\n\nBefore she left the UK, Krystyna had another child, Elizabeth. The father had proposed marriage, but she wasn't ready to marry again, and says that a sense of curiosity took her to the US, where she arrived in 1955 with a fur coat on her back, a few hundred dollars in her pocket and four young children by her side.\n\nThere Krystyna built a new life for herself and her children, working for many years as a dental hygienist.\n\nWith her children, George, Little Krystyna, Elizabeth, and Alice in New Britain, Connecticut in 1955\n\nShe remarried in 1956 and had another daughter, named Eva.\n\nIt wasn't until she was in her late 50s, though, that Krystyna met the man who she describes as the love of her life, Ed Farley. They married in 1979 and have been inseparable ever since.\n\nKrystyna is very active in the Polish community in Connecticut.\n\n\"I joined all kinds of clubs,\" she says. \"I was teaching children Polish folk dances, and I took groups to Poland to the international dance festival.\"\n\nBut late in life she also embraced the very American tradition of beauty pageants, entering the Ms Connecticut Senior America competition for the first time at the age of 70.\n\nThat time she was second runner-up. At her next attempt, a few years later, she was first runner-up. At her third attempt, in 2016, she was crowned queen.\n\n\"You have to have a regular dress, you have to have a talent, then you have a gown, and you have to talk about your philosophy of life,\" Krystyna explains.\n\n\"I have three or four different talents - I can read poetry, I can dance, I can do Carmen Miranda,\" she says, referring to the singer famous for Chica Chica Boom Chic.\n\n\"And my philosophy of life is to love everybody and be good to everybody.\"\n\nShe adds: \"You have to love people and be with people, because if you don't have people around you, you're a dead pigeon.\"\n\nIn last year's Ms Senior America finals, Krystyna competed against 44 other state queens - and lost to a woman roughly 30 years her junior.\n\nKrystyna, left, with all the finalists at the 2016 Ms Senior America pageant\n\nShe handed on her Ms Senior Connecticut crown to 2017's queen back in May and, with her 92nd birthday approaching on 19 August, she says now may be the time to hang up her tiara for good.\n\n\"No more pageants for me,\" she says.\n\nBut with nine grandchildren, four great-grandchildren and a fifth on the way, she still has plenty to keep her busy.\n\n\"Right now I'm dressed, I have earrings on - I'm always ready for something to happen,\" Krystyna says.\n\n\"Sure, nothing is happening, but I'm always ready.\"\n\nListen to Krystyna Farley talking about her philosophy of life on Outlook, on the BBC World Service\n\nJoin the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter.", "If you're going to win the Women's World Cup, it might as well be the biggest ever staged.\n\nWhen Heather Knight got her hands on the ultimate prize in women's cricket on an emotional Sunday afternoon at Lord's, it marked a triumph not only for England, but the sport itself.\n\nFor Knight, kissing the silverware is a world away from four years ago, when she was clinging on to a place in an England side that failed to reach the final.\n\nBut her personal transformation, and her team under coach Mark Robinson, is nothing compared to that of the women's game from a 2013 World Cup that was barely befitting of the name.\n\nHeld in India, mainly Mumbai, it hardly registered with the locals in a nation where cricket is loved like no other.\n\nIts very staging came under threat over a row about the presence of the Pakistan team, who were eventually shifted to the other side of the country - 1,000 miles away in Cuttack - and forced to sleep at the Barabati Stadium.\n\nThe women were due to play at Mumbai's iconic Wankhede Stadium, only to be evicted to make way for men's matches. Facilities at venues were shoddy and publicity non-existent.\n\nAlthough global TV audiences were up, matches were played to near empty stadiums, despite entry being free of charge.\n\n\"It was shocking in India,\" former England batter Ebony Rainford-Brent told BBC Sport. \"In a cricket-crazy country, you would expect to see something - posters, adverts - but there was nothing.\n\n\"The only people in the grounds were a few family members. It was almost like the cricket wasn't happening.\"\n\nNow, the World Cup doesn't just seem like a different event, but women's cricket is an entirely different sport.\n• None In Short: 'There's never been a better time to be a woman in cricket'\n\nThe final at Lord's was a fitting conclusion to a tournament that has catapulted women's cricket into the national and international consciousness.\n\nWhat began with a marketing campaign on the London Underground and in cinemas ended in a sold-out Lord's and the most-watched game of women's cricket in history.\n\nAcross the tournament, all matches were shown live for the first time, with more than 50 million watching the group games alone. Over the course of the event, the International Cricket Council expects an 80% increase in worldwide viewership.\n\nMore than one million users followed England's final victory on the BBC Sport website, while the hosts' nerve-shredding semi-final victory over South Africa was also front-page news. In the host cities - Bristol, Leicester, Derby and Taunton - 30,000 people visited fan zones.\n\n\"Everything you could think of to promote the tournament has been done,\" added Rainford-Brent. \"The investment and energy that has gone into has been incredible. To finish with a packed Lord's ticked the final box.\"\n\nThe audience is a new one, too, riding a wave that perhaps began with last year's launch of the Twenty20 Super League, a competition that attracted an average attendance in excess of 1,000, larger than the inaugural season of its football equivalent in 2011.\n\nAt the World Cup, 50% of ticket-buyers were women, while 31% of those in attendance were under the age of 16. About 13,000 tickets were given away to schools and every child at Lord's on Sunday received a plastic bat as a souvenir of the incredible final.\n\nMarie, from Surrey, was at the game with seven-year-old daughter Lucy and said: \"Lucy's dad played cricket but she has become more aware that women play too.\n\n\"We've heard a lot about women's cricket on the radio and now she is more aware that there are opportunities for her in the future if she wants to play sport.\"\n\nTom, from London, brought daughters Connie, five, and Cissie, three, to their first game of cricket.\n\n\"I thought it would be a fun game for them, with lots of entertainment going on around the edges,\" he said.\n\n'Women's cricket is everywhere - now is the time'\n\nYoungsters may have Knight, Tammy Beaumont and Anya Shrubsole as their new England heroes and be keen to try their hand at Natalie Sciver's Nat-meg, but India's surprise run to the final could turn out to be far more important for the future of the women's game than England's fourth world title.\n\nFour years ago, interest in the tournament on home soil was so low that, when India were dumped out in the first round, journalists (not many of them) could wander up to a lonely Mithali Raj for their own private audience with the captain.\n\nNow, even if the impressive Raj is unlikely to reach the demi-god status of Sachin Tendulkar, Virat Kohli and MS Dhoni, her country actually knows who she and her exciting team are.\n\nWhen India's men pulled off a shock triumph in the 1983 World Cup, it began a boom in one-day cricket. When the same team won the inaugural World Twenty20 in 2007, a nation previously pretty sniffy about the shortest form of the game threw itself into the Indian Premier League.\n\nMight India now follow the example of Australia and England to launch its own T20 league for women? Raj, Smriti Mandhana and Harmanpreet Kaur are stars that could take women's cricket to the masses.\n\n\"Why not start a league of our own in India?\" said Raj. \"Now is the right time to create that in India because women's cricket is everywhere.\n\n\"If more girls participate in leagues like that, they will improve their game and gain valuable experience.\"\n\nThe man who helped make it happen\n\nIf the women's game is about to face greater commercialisation, exposure and expectation then England are lucky to have Robinson, a man who should take his share of credit for their triumph.\n\nWhen the former fast bowler made the surprise switch from Sussex's men's side, England's results had been patchy for some time. Although they had won two of the previous three Ashes series, they were without a global trophy since 2009.\n\nWhen that record was extended with a semi-final exit at the 2016 World T20, Robinson made his move.\n\nIf his public attack on the players' fitness raised eyebrows, then the axing of captain Charlotte Edwards was genuinely stunning - not least to some inside the England and Wales Cricket Board.\n\nEdwards was (and still is) a fine player, one of the greatest there has ever been in the women's game, but her maternal, dominant presence could be stifling and suffocating. Too often, England were reliant on the performances of a handful of players, with the rest left to feel like they were making up the numbers.\n\nIn the past year, Beaumont, Lauren Winfield, Fran Wilson and Alex Hartley have all established themselves at international level. Knight averages more with the bat as captain than she did in the ranks and Sarah Taylor has returned from a break enforced by an anxiety problem.\n• None Tears and a house called Alan - inside story of England's band of sisters\n\nBut it is not just on the field where Robinson has made changes.\n\nIn a game just getting to grips with professionalism, players previously signed one-year contracts. Recognising that meant they were faced with the threat of unemployment on an annual basis, Robinson successfully pushed for the security of two-year deals.\n\nHe has also created an environment of honesty, openness and acceptance in a bid to make sure the players do not lose their identities to the rigors of the game. One player was comfortable enough to bring her teddy bear to a team meeting.\n\n\"Mark has been brilliant,\" said Knight. \"He has encouraged us to be honest and that has made us as a team.\n\n\"He has annoyed us at times with tough love, but he has pushed us, improved us and made us believe. We're very thankful.\"\n\nRobinson, though, will not be in the limelight in the aftermath of England's triumph, and nor should he be.\n\nThe adulation goes to Knight and the 14 other players that have triumphed in the biggest tournament, match and spectacle women's cricket has ever seen. They are role models in a game that is taking its place at global sport's top table.", "Volunteers have located and photographed hundreds of WW1 grave markers brought back from the front, like this one at Garboldisham, Norfolk\n\nManicured lawns and gleaming white headstones now welcome visitors to the World War One cemeteries of France and Belgium. But a century ago, these soldiers' graves were marked with simple wooden crosses. What happened to them and who are the people tracking them down?\n\nOn the wall of St Anne's Church in Sale, Greater Manchester, hangs one such cross. Made from two pieces of wood nailed together, with a sharp, earth-stained point, it has a metal strip reading: \"UNKNOWN BRITISH SOLDIER\".\n\nIt was one of hundreds of thousands of markers indicating the graves of Commonwealth soldiers all along the Western Front. Some are cracked and water-damaged. Many have woodworm. Some even have the original Somme mud varnished on to them.\n\nOthers are ornate, hand-carved and painted, made in the field by comrades, often from scrap wood or old packing crates, and bearing personal inscriptions. Aviators' graves were often marked by propellers.\n\nThis cross at St Anne's Church, Sale, is one of hundreds being catalogued by the Returned from the Front project\n\nHeritage specialist Nick Stone and a band of dedicated volunteers are tracking down the repatriated grave markers to photograph and catalogue them and create an ever-growing online map and database.\n\nNick, of Norwich, jokes that when the Returned from the Front project began in July 2016, he thought \"it would all be over by Christmas\" - just as people reputedly said about the war itself.\n\nVisitors to WW1 cemeteries, like this one at Ypres, will be familiar with the uniform Portland stone headstones\n\nDuring the war, graves were usually marked with simple wooden crosses\n\nDuring the war, soldiers were typically buried where they fell or close by. The sheer volume of casualties, and the fact that units were still sometimes under fire, meant this was often done hastily.\n\nGraves were marked for later identification, sometimes by sticks or rifles pushed into the ground, or by wooden crosses. Such was the scale of the killing that crosses were mass-produced and shipped to the front.\n\nMaj John Burgh Talbot Leighton MC, Scots Guards, Royal Flying Corps, is commemorated by a propeller cross at St Michael and All Angels Church at Alberbury, Shropshire\n\nLater, under the authority of the Imperial War Graves Commission - now the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) - these bodies were exhumed and reburied in larger cemeteries, marked with the now-familiar uniform Portland stone gravestones.\n\nThe now-redundant wooden markers were then offered to the dead men's families, with each responsible for either collecting them or shipping them home. According to CWGC records, at least 10,000 were returned to next of kin.\n\nSome were given to churches or other organisations, but most of the unclaimed markers were destroyed. Often they were burnt and the ashes scattered across the burial grounds.\n\nNick Stone, the man behind the Returned from the Front project, has been fascinated by WW1 since he was a boy\n\nTrips to WW1 battlefields and cemeteries, including Bernafey Wood on the Somme, helped inspire Nick's project\n\nOf the crosses that survive today, most are in churches but others are in museums, memorial halls, private collections and even schools.\n\nNick's interest came through a lifelong fascination with World War One. His birthday is on Armistice Day, when his mother would often take out a tin containing her late father's medals, a few lace postcards and his \"Dead Man's Penny\" commemorative plaque.\n\n\"Handling this huge penny with my grandfather's name, Percy James Parr, on it left an indelible mark. I've chased who he was ever since,\" he says.\n\nNick's grandfather was 37 when he was killed at Messines Ridge on 7 June 1917.\n\nBut there is no marker for him. As Nick writes on his blog, he \"did actually vanish, totally, no evidence, no meat or bone, nothing to sew in a blanket and bury in a cemetery\".\n\nHe is, however, commemorated on the Menin Gate in Ypres, along with the other men in his company who died in the same attack - all of them missing.\n\nNick's grandfather, Percy James Parr, pictured with his wife Jesse, daughter Grace (Nick's mother) and son Tom, was killed in 1917, aged 37\n\nNick's grandfather is commemorated on the Menin Gate at Ypres\n\nNick's idea for Returned from the Front came through \"thinking out loud on Twitter\", and he harnessed social media to recruit volunteers to survey, catalogue and photograph the grave markers.\n\n\"The volunteers are great. They are from all walks of life. The youngest is four - she went with her dad - and the adults are from 18 up to 80. Everybody's been pretty marvellous, really,\" he says.\n\nMaj George F Molineux-Montgomerie, killed at the Hohenzollern Redoubt in northern France on 22 October 1915, is commemorated by a cross at Garboldisham, Norfolk\n\nSo far, about 70 volunteers have sent in photographs and surveys, with many more providing other helpful information.\n\nMargaret Draycott, a phlebotomist from Liverpool, and colleague Bev Goodwin have catalogued 85 markers, mainly around the north-west of England, but as far away as north Wales, Shropshire and Sussex.\n\nWhen not visiting the grave marker sites, Margaret is often conducting internet research. \"If my family want to find me, they know I'm 'crossing',\" she says.\n\nColleagues Bev Goodwin (left) and Margaret Draycott, pictured on a battlefield tour in Belgium, have catalogued 85 markers between them\n\nLt Col Philip Vaughan Holberton, who was mentioned in despatches five times, is remembered at St Mary's Church, Bitterley, Shropshire\n\nAnother of the more ornate crosses is at the Army Training Centre in Pirbright, Surrey, and commemorates members of the Grenadier Guards\n\nSome churches are not aware of the significance of the markers, or even what they are. \"People have engaged with us and are absolutely blown away that what they have are from soldiers' graves,\" says Margaret.\n\nAmong the markers she has photographed is that of Ellis Humphrey Evans, better known as Hedd Wyn, the Welsh poet killed on the first day of the Battle of Passchendaele on 31 July 1917.\n\nA cross for Ellis Humphrey Evans, better known as Welsh poet Hedd Wyn, is on display at the Llys Ednowain Heritage Centre at Trawsfynydd, Gwynedd, north Wales\n\nHedd Wyn, who was 30 when he died, wrote his famous poem Yr Arwr (The Hero) before leaving for the front\n\nOne unusual marker is a wooden Star of David, at Broadgreen Cemetery, Liverpool, commemorating an unknown Jewish soldier.\n\nOften it was impossible to identify an individual soldier's remains, and Merseyside has a particular concentration of markers for so-called \"unknowns\", probably brought back during pilgrimages by churches and other groups.\n\nAlthough most markers were crosses, Jewish soldiers' graves were sometimes indicated by a Star of David\n\nCapt WHM Kersey, who was killed near Ypres on 17 October 1917, is commemorated by a cross at St John the Baptist Church, Felixstowe, Suffolk\n\nCapt Kersey's cross was originally at The Huts Cemetery, Dikkebus, Belgium\n\nAfter the war, crosses at The Huts Cemetery were replaced by Portland stone headstones\n\nMinistry of Defence colleagues Samantha Fryer, from Swindon, and Dr Alison Wilken, from Lambourn, Berkshire, have surveyed markers in Oxfordshire, Wiltshire, Berkshire and Gloucestershire.\n\n\"It's quite nice to know that you are part of a project that's being published that schools and researchers might find useful in the future,\" says Samantha.\n\nSamantha Fryer is often accompanied by Arthur the terrier on her visits\n\nGnr Harry Varney is commemorated by a cross featuring an inscription scratched on a piece of tin\n\nSt Mary the Virgin Church at Wootton, Oxfordshire, has eight crosses, including one for Gnr Harry Varney, killed in September 1917, aged 30.\n\nIt bears an inscription scratched on a piece of metal, possibly from a tobacco or pilchard tin. \"To see somebody's writing like that was quite poignant,\" says Samantha.\n\n\"There is an enormous contrast between a lowly gunner's cross with a piece of tin tacked to it and the impressive carved and painted crosses of the officers.\"\n\nReturned from the Front builds on work by Imperial War Museums (IWM). \"It's an absolutely first-class project, worthy of our fullest support,\" says Ian Hook, who runs IWM's War Memorials Register of more than 68,000 memorials, including 610 battlefield markers.\n\nOnly recently, he says, has their significance has been properly appreciated. Many were lost, possibly thrown away by \"trendy vicars\", who felt that their presence was a tacit endorsement of war, he says.\n\nThe organisation that became the Commonwealth War Graves Commission was set up by Sir Fabian Ware\n\nMany crosses would not even have made it back to Britain at all. \"They were offered back to families, but many soldiers were just working lads and the families had lost their breadwinner,\" he explains.\n\n\"Given the opportunity to acquire a cross or buy food or shoes for the kids, what were they going to do?\"\n\nOthers were lost or destroyed as the fighting shifted and the makeshift cemeteries became battlefields once more.\n\nThe fact that any markers found their way home is testament to the work of the CWCG, whose founder Sir Fabian Ware was determined to ensure the resting places of the war dead would not be lost.\n\n\"It's important to preserve these relics of the war,\" says the organisation's chief historian Glyn Prysor.\n\n\"They're physical objects brought all the way back from the battlefield and they can help us to connect with that in a tangible way.\"\n\nNearly 12,000 Commonwealth servicemen are buried at Tyne Cot Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery in Passchendaele, Belgium\n\n\"The body may be far away in a cemetery but the marker may be in a local church or somewhere else significant. It's making that link between the local area and a global conflict. It's a very special thing.\"\n\nFor now, the work of Nick and his volunteers continues. They hope it will help the markers survive even longer.\n\nAlthough the many events that have been held to commemorate the war's centenary will conclude next year, Nick says: \"I think it's important we don't stop remembering after 11 November 2018.\"", "Ian Paterson was jailed for 15 years in May\n\nDisgraced breast surgeon Ian Paterson who carried out unnecessary cancer operations has been struck off.\n\nPaterson, 59, was sentenced in May to 15 years in jail for 17 counts of wounding with intent and three counts of unlawful wounding.\n\nNottingham Crown Court heard he exaggerated or invented the risk of cancer in patients.\n\nA tribunal has now ruled his actions were \"serious, calculated, and sustained\" over a 14-year period.\n\nPaterson, of Altrincham, Greater Manchester, was sentenced on 31 May for procedures he carried out while working at at the privately-run Little Aston and Parkway hospitals in the West Midlands.\n\nHe was not legally represented at the two-day disciplinary hearing in Manchester and had previously expressed the desire to be struck off without the need for a hearing.\n\nDelivering its ruling earlier, the panel said: \"The 10 patients who attended Mr Paterson were anxious about the physical symptoms they were experiencing.\n\n\"They put their trust in Mr Paterson to provide them with truthful medical advice, based on the results of assessments.\n\n\"The tribunal determined that Mr Paterson exploited this trust in order to carry out unnecessary procedures.\"\n\nHe showed a \"pattern of behaviour which involved deceit and violence, and resulted in life-long consequences for the patients involved\", the panel added.\n\nHe was suspended by the GMC after his initial arrest.\n\nThe NHS has paid almost £10m in compensation to his victims, while more than 600 private patients will pursue civil action against him later this year.", "Charity donation websites, often used to support victims of violence, are being employed by a number of Westerners to finance their personal war efforts.\n\nFighting continues in eastern Ukraine, as pro-Russian separatists battle Ukrainian government forces. More than 10,000 people have died since the conflict erupted in April 2014, and recently a rebel leader declared a state called \"Malorossiya\" (Little Russia) in Donetsk.\n\nAmong the separatists are a number of Westerners, drawn to the country by the conflict and financing their adventures using charity crowdfunding websites - sometimes in apparent violation of website rules and Ukrainian laws.\n\nOne of the most prominent is Russell Bentley, a Texas native who describes himself as a pro-Russian communist. When the conflict started, Bentley was working as an ordinary lumberjack in Austin. Yet by December 2014 he had reached the epicentre of the conflict - armed with a rocket propelled grenade launcher and tasked with repelling Ukrainian forces at Donetsk airport, a key strategic position.\n\nFrom the start, Bentley has relied on crowdfunding websites to finance his exploits. Crowdfunding websites such as GoFundMe, JustGiving and Indiegogo are typically used for charitable purposes - including to raise money for the victims of tragedies. People can donate money in exchange for small gifts or 'perks'. For example, the Manchester Evening News raised over £2.5 million through JustGiving for the families of those killed and injured in the recent Manchester terror attack in the UK.\n\nHowever, Bentley and others have been using these crowdfunding websites to fund their own personal war efforts in Ukraine. In November 2014, Bentley launched a GoFundMe page to finance a \"fact finding mission\" to Donbas, the conflict zone that includes the eastern Ukrainian regions of Donetsk and Luhansk. Bentley raised $2,000 and hasn't returned to the United States since.\n\nAfter spending six months fighting with separatists on the front line, Bentley was reassigned and now works, he says, as an \"information warrior\" - producing regular pro-separatist propaganda videos on the Ukrainian war.\n\nBentley is affiliated with the Essence of Time movement - a Russia-based communist group which seeks to create \"USSR 2.0\", involving the break-up of Ukraine. Bentley's videos are hosted on the group's YouTube page, which has 25,000 subscribers.\n\nIn the videos, Bentley encourages fellow Americans to join him in eastern Ukraine. One of his recommendations is for volunteers to raise money via crowdfunding before they travel. Bentley states in one video: \"Don't show up here broke… You can do a crowd fundraiser - a GoFundMe or an Indiegogo. Say you're coming here to help. Say you're coming here to find the truth. Don't say you're coming here to fight.\"\n\nRussell Bentley has spent nearly three years in Donbass after crowdfunding his initial journey to Ukraine\n\nBut most crowdfunding websites - including GoFundMe and Indiegogo - strictly prohibit campaigns designed to raise money for violent purposes.\n\nDespite the site's rules, Bentley's most recent campaign, hosted on Indiegogo, features a video of him touring the conflict areas with an automatic weapon - at one point firing at a Ukrainian military drone. He talks about his time on the front line, while encouraging armed resistance against \"Ukrainian Nazis\".\n\nBentley's current crowdfunding effort is raising funds to publish a self-authored book about his war experiences in Donbas. The Texan offers military shoulder patches and T-shirts for donations of between $100 and $999. Before BBC Trending contacted Indiegogo about Bentley's campaign, \"secret\" perks were offered for larger donations.\n\nThese perks could only be revealed by emailing Bentley directly, though he did disclose that a donation of $15,000 would have earned contributors a tour of Odessa and Kiev \"after we liberate them\". Bentley is asking for a minimum of $9,000 for the book project, and at the time of writing has raised more than half that amount.\n\nBBC Trending approached Bentley for an interview and he declined to talk to us, but after contacting him and Indiegogo, all mention of the secret perks on his campaign have now been removed.\n\nBentley broadcasts his videos on YouTube via Essence of Time, a communist group\n\nBentley isn't a one-off. Other Westerners have been using online crowdfunding to finance their activities in eastern Ukraine since the conflict started.\n\nAmong them is 38-year-old Graham Phillips from Nottingham in the UK. Since November 2013, Phillips has been covering the conflict, broadcasting amateur videos from Donbas, often in the midst of tearing bullets and toppling buildings. His daredevil style has drawn the attention of audiences, and he boasts 86,000 subscribers on YouTube. From 2014 to 2015, Phillips was employed by Zvezda - a media channel run by the Russian Ministry of Defence, and he also freelanced for the state-operated TV channel RT.\n\nPhillips is highly critical of the Ukrainian government and appears to back the break-up of the country. Speaking on camera to Bentley in September 2015, Phillips accuses the Ukrainian government of \"lies and propaganda\", before adding: \"I absolutely believe that we'll win in the end.\"\n\nSince May 2014, Phillips has been forbidden from entering Ukraine, on the grounds of \"national security\". The Ukrainian government even took the unusual step of issuing an open letter to UK authorities, condemning Phillips' actions.\n\nPhillips says that he's an independent journalist and claims that he has financed his activities entirely through crowdfunding from January 2016 onwards - although existing records indicate he's raised less than £7,500 through crowdfunding campaigns during that time.\n\nGraham Phillips is currently crowdfunding for a new period of reporting in eastern Europe\n\nAt least three of his campaigns have been created to fund work in Donbas, and despite being banned from the country, he's travelled to the region frequently since May 2014. On his blog, he says he enters the region via Russia, although travelling to the area via separatist controlled border crossings is currently illegal under Ukrainian law.\n\nBecause of his actions, the crowdfunding website JustGiving removed one of Phillips' appeals in July 2015. After the company was notified that Phillips was unable to legally re-enter the region, JustGiving refused to release the £2,000 that Phillips had raised through his campaign.\n\nAlthough Phillips also declined to speak to BBC Trending, he has disputed the company's actions, and his campaigns remain active on Indiegogo.\n\nUnlike Bentley, Phillips has not engaged in combat, although he has been filmed navigating a drone with the help of soldiers in Donbas and has interviewed Ukrainian prisoners of war.\n\nPhillips is not the only Brit who has travelled to the Ukraine conflict region. Earlier this month, Benjamin Stimson, from Manchester in the UK, was sentenced by Manchester Crown Court to five years and four months in prison for assisting separatist forces in Donbass.\n\nPhillips works with a third pro-separatist video maker - American-born Patrick Lancaster. Lancaster also describes himself as an independent journalist, and says his work is entirely funded through crowdfunding. Despite this, he seems to have raised less than $6,500 in the past eight months.\n\nLancaster's videos have been featured by mainstream media outlets and he has contributed to The Telegraph and Sky News.\n\nHowever, some of his reporting has been openly hostile towards Ukraine and the West. Speaking on RT in February 2015, Lancaster said that the Ukraine's current president, Petro Poroshenko, is an enemy of the people.\n\nIn November 2016, Lancaster set up an Indiegogo campaign to raise $2,000 for his reporting in eastern Ukraine. Donation incentives included a guided trip from Russia into the battle zone, which would have violated the Ukrainian border crossing law, although there's no evidence that anyone took up the offer. Lancaster recently removed this perk, after BBC Trending contacted both him and Indiegogo.\n\nOn the same crowdfunding page, Lancaster offered military souvenirs from the Ukrainian war, including pieces of shrapnel or rubble from Donetsk airport. Yet, in an email to Trending, Lancaster distanced himself from Bentley, and said that he is not a fighter or an activist in the conflict.\n\nIndiegogo released a statement on the campaigns of Bentley, Phillips and Lancaster, telling Trending: \"Indiegogo's Trust and Safety team has reviewed these campaigns in detail and has taken steps to ensure they comply with our terms of use.\"\n\nYou can follow BBC Trending on Twitter @BBCtrending, and find us on Facebook.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why you should make credit card payments in the local currency when abroad\n\nBritish holidaymakers are paying hundreds of millions of pounds in unnecessary charges when they use their credit and debit cards overseas.\n\nShops, restaurants and cash machines are offering tourists the option of paying in pounds rather than the local currency and applying a poor exchange rate if they take up the offer.\n\nThis costs UK tourists about £500m a year, analysis for the BBC has found.\n\nThe lower rates are equivalent to charging about 6% on each transaction.\n\nBut currency trader FairFX found that on some transactions tourists can lose up to 10% by paying in sterling rather than the domestic currency.\n\nThe practice of offering a pay-in-sterling option is called dynamic currency conversion.\n\nMost tourists are on their guard against being stung by high prices. What they don't expect is that they could be trapped by the payment system itself.\n\nOne of the biggest danger areas at the moment is the Netherlands, so much so that the Dutch consumer organisation, the Consumentenbond, is urging visitors to take extra care.\n\n\"Let me warn those that are being offered to pay by card and the shop owner says: 'Would you like me to give you the exchange rate of what it will be in pounds' - don't do it\", says Sandra de Jong, who speaks for the group.\n\nA high proportion of shops and bars in Amsterdam, the ones popular with tourists, offer dynamic currency conversion.\n\nDynamic currency conversion is sold as an extra convenience. But in practice, many British tourists are utterly non-plussed by the choice they are being offered.\n\n\"To be honest I find it very confusing,\" Jim Begg from Belfast told me as he was setting out on a bike tour round the city, \"I never know which is the right one to choose, though I know one gives a much better rate.\"\n\nOllie, a student from Bristol, told me he was caught out when using a card for hotel bills.\n\n\"Initially I chose to pay in pounds because I thought that paying in home currency might be better for some reason, but we ended up paying quite a significant amount more.\"\n\nAt a cheesemonger, once my card went into the payment machine, up popped a choice: a price in euros and a price in pounds.\n\nWhat happens is that if you buy in euros the transaction goes through a standard route, with the exchange rate set by Mastercard or Visa, although your bank can impose an additional charge.\n\nBut if you choose to pay in pounds, your money is changed on the spot by the shop's bank or payment processor. And they decide on the rate.\n\nWith the cheese I was buying, that meant a loss of 3.5% compared with the Mastercard rate.\n\nThen, in a bar for lunch, I was offered an exchange rate which hacked a 5% slice out of my money.\n\nAnd at a cash machine in a shop, the hit if I chose to pay in pounds for a cash withdrawal was nearly 10%. Less than 1.02 euros for each of my pounds, rather than the 1.13 euros available that day via Mastercard.\n\nThe lesson is a clear one: it's almost always better to pay in the local currency.\n\nThe BBC asked the currency card and foreign exchange provider FairFX to estimate how much people were being charged for dynamic currency conversion, by analysing its customers' overseas spending.\n\nIt says that based on the average fee of 6%, UK travellers are being charged just under £500m a year.\n\nOverall, one-in-five foreign transactions are affected, but in some countries and with some transactions the proportions are much higher.\n\nAt least half of the UK spend on cards in the Netherlands and Hungary is subject to the charges, and more than half of cash withdrawals in Sweden.\n\nThailand, Malta, Spain, Cyprus and Turkey all come high in the list of countries where people should be careful.\n\nDynamic currency conversion is legal in the UK and across Europe, as long as traders display not just the price but also the exchange rate being used before the payment is made.\n\nBut often the rate isn't shown in the form British tourists are used to and, in any case, most people find it hard to assess a rate on the spot.\n\n\"The way it is pushed is abhorrent,\" says James Hickman from FairFX, \"The amount they charge should be capped.\"\n\nWho benefits? The gains are usually split between the trader and the trader's bank or payment processor.\n\nThat means dynamic currency conversion can be sold to shops and other businesses as a way of recouping their banking costs and even make a profit on top.", "It sounded like cannon fire - pirates, probably. The British East India Company's ship Benares was docked at Makassar, on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. Its commander gave the order to set sail and hunt them down.\n\nThree days later, the crew still hadn't found any pirates. What they had actually heard was the eruption of a volcano called Mount Tambora.\n\nA cocktail of toxic gas and liquefied rock roared down the volcano's slopes at the speed of a hurricane, killing thousands. Mount Tambora was left 4,000ft (1,220m) shorter.\n\nThe year was 1815. Slowly, a vast cloud of volcanic ash drifted across the northern hemisphere, blocking the Sun.\n\nIn Europe, 1816 became \"the year without a summer\". Crops failed. Desperate people ate rats, cats and grass.\n\nIn the German town of Darmstadt, the suffering made a deep impression on a 13-year-old boy. Justus von Liebig loved helping out in his father's workshop, concocting pigments, paints and polishes.\n\nLiebig grew up to be a brilliant chemist, driven by the desire to help prevent hunger. He did some of the earliest research into fertilisers. He pioneered nutritional science and invented beef extract.\n\nHe invented something else, too: infant formula.\n\n50 Things That Made the Modern Economy highlights the inventions, ideas and innovations that helped create the economic world.\n\nLaunched in 1865, Liebig's Soluble Food for Babies was a powder comprising cow's milk, wheat flour, malt flour and potassium bicarbonate.\n\nIt was the first commercial substitute for breast milk to come from rigorous scientific study.\n\nAs Liebig knew, not every baby has a mother who can breastfeed.\n\nJustus von Liebig was inspired by the hunger he witnessed while a young man\n\nIndeed, not every baby has a mother: before modern medicine, about one in 100 childbirths killed the mother. It's little better in the poorest countries today.\n\nSome mothers can't make enough milk - the figures are disputed, but could be as high as one in 20.\n\nWhat happened to those kids before formula?\n\nParents who could afford it employed wet-nurses - a respectable profession for the working girl, and an early casualty of Liebig's invention. Some used a goat or donkey.\n\nMany gave their infants \"pap\", a bread-and-water mush, from hard-to-clean receptacles that must have teemed with bacteria.\n\nNo wonder death rates were high: in the early 1800s, only two in three babies who weren't breastfed lived to see their first birthday.\n\nGerm theory was increasingly well understood, and the rubber teat had just been invented. The appeal of formula quickly spread beyond women who couldn't breastfeed.\n\nLiebig's Soluble Food for Babies democratised a lifestyle choice that had previously been open only to the well-to-do.\n\nIt's a choice that now shapes the modern workplace. For many new mothers who want - or need - to get back to work, formula is a godsend.\n\nAnd women are right to worry that taking time out might damage their careers.\n\nRecently, economists studied the experiences of the high-powered men and women emerging from Chicago University's MBA programme and entering the worlds of consulting and high finance.\n\nAt first, the women had similar experiences to the men - but over a time, a huge gap in earnings opened up. The critical moment? Motherhood. Women took time off, and employers paid them less in response.\n\nIronically, the men were more likely than the women to have children. They just didn't change their working patterns.\n\nMark Zuckerberg is one of the few high-profile chief executives to take paternity leave\n\nThere are biological and cultural reasons why women are more likely than men to take time off when they start families.\n\nWe can't change the fact that only women have wombs, but we can try to change workplace culture.\n\nMore governments are following Scandinavia's lead by giving fathers the legal right to take time off. More leaders - such as Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg - are setting an example by taking it.\n\nAnd formula milk makes it a whole lot easier for Dad to take over while Mum gets back to work. There is, of course, the breast-pump option. But for some, it's more of an effort than formula.\n\nStudies show that the less time mothers have off work, the less likely they are to persevere with breastfeeding. That's hardly surprising.\n\nThere's just one problem. Evolution has had thousands of generations to optimise the recipe for breast milk.\n\nAnd formula doesn't quite match it, especially in the developing world, where clean water and sterilised equipment is not always available.\n\nA series of articles published by the medical journal the Lancet in 2016 lists the risks. Formula-fed infants get sick more often than breastfed children, leading to costs for medical treatment, and parents taking time off work.\n\nResearchers believe breastfeeding could help prevent more than 800,000 child deaths a year\n\nIt's thought that nearly half of all diarrhoea episodes and a third of all respiratory infections could be prevented by breastfeeding.\n\nThat, combined with the risk of using formula in less than ideal circumstances, can even lead to deaths.\n\nAccording to the Lancet's analysis of more than 1,300 studies, breastfeeding could prevent about 800,000 child deaths a year.\n\nJustus von Liebig wanted to save lives. He would be horrified.\n\nOf course, in rich countries, contaminated milk and water are far less of a concern.\n\nBut formula has another, less obvious economic cost.\n\nAgain, according to the Lancet, there is evidence that breastfed babies grow up with slightly higher IQs - about three points, when you control as best you can for other factors.\n\nWhat might be the benefit of making a whole generation of children just that little bit more clever?\n\nThe Lancet calculated it to be about $300bn (£232bn) a year. That's several times the value of the global formula market.\n\nConsequently, many governments try to promote breastfeeding. But nobody makes a quick profit from that. Selling formula, on the other hand, can be lucrative.\n\nWhich have you seen more of recently: public service announcements about breastfeeding, or formula ads?\n\nLiebig himself never claimed that his Soluble Food for Babies was better than breast milk: he simply said he'd made it as nutritionally similar as possible.\n\nBut he quickly inspired imitators who weren't so scrupulous. By the 1890s, adverts for formula routinely portrayed it as state-of-the-art.\n\nMeanwhile, paediatricians were starting to notice higher rates of scurvy and rickets among the offspring of mothers whom the advertising swayed.\n\nThe controversy peaked in 1974, when the campaigning group War on Want published a pamphlet called The Baby Killer about how Nestle marked and sold infant formula in Africa. Nestle boycotts lasted years.\n\nBy 1981, there was a World Health Organization (WHO) International Code of Marketing Breast-milk Substitutes, which Nestle says it drew on to devise its own marketing code, the first manufacturer to do so.\n\nBut the WHO code is not hard law, and many campaigners argue that it is still widely flouted.\n\nWhat if there was a way to get the best of all worlds: equal career breaks for mothers and fathers, and breast milk for infants, without the faff of breast pumps? Perhaps there is - if you don't mind taking market forces to their logical conclusion.\n\nBreast milk can be frozen and used at a later date\n\nIn Utah, there's a company called Ambrosia Labs. Its business model? Pay mothers around the world to express breast milk, screen it for quality, and sell it on to American mothers.\n\nMilk is pricey - over $100 (£77) a litre (1.75 pints). But that could come down with scale - and maybe formula could be taxed, to fund a breast-milk market subsidy.\n\nNot everyone likes this idea. Indeed, the government in Cambodia, where Ambrosia used to operate, has banned the export of breast milk.\n\nStill, more than 150 years after Justus von Liebig sounded the death knell for wet nursing as a profession, perhaps the global supply chain could find a way to bring it back.\n• None BBC Future: Are there downsides to \"breast is best\"?", "Alex Malcolm's mother described him as \"a beautiful little angel\"\n\nA man who battered his girlfriend's five-year-old son to death in a London park for losing a trainer has been jailed for life.\n\nWitnesses heard a \"child's fearful voice saying 'sorry'\", loud banging and a man screaming about the loss of a shoe, Woolwich Crown Court was told.\n\nIheanacho, who denied murder, will serve a minimum of 18 years in prison.\n\nMarvyn Iheanacho was found guilty of murder on Friday\n\nThe jury heard Alex suffered head and stomach injuries and died in hospital two days after the beating.\n\nHis mother, Lilya Breha, 30, told the court Iheanacho had also attacked her after she tried to call an ambulance when he returned to her flat carrying her injured son.\n\nIn a tearful interview, she said: \"He (Alex) was bubbly. He was just perfect you know, he was a really, really special little boy.\n\n\"He was shy, he was so shy, and very polite. He would always say 'Mummy thank you' and 'I love you Mummy'.\"\n\nAlex's mother Lilya Breha said Iheanacho hid his temper 'pretty well'\n\nMs Breha described Iheanacho as a \"good liar\" and pathetic.\n\nRecalling how she met him through a friend after he left prison, she said he had convinced her he was innocent and a good person.\n\nShe said: \"When I think about it now, to be honest I feel like it was all such a big lie and he just pretended to be a good guy pretty well.\"\n\nProsecutors revealed there had been \"problems with witness interference\" during the trial, with Iheanacho phoning Ms Breha from prison to try to persuade her to back him in court.\n\nWitnesses in the park heard a man screaming about the loss of a shoe\n\nIn a victim impact statement, Alex's father said he would \"never forget seeing him in his hospital bed fighting for his life. That image will stay with me forever.\"\n\n\"Just thinking about what's happened and trying to put words on paper is tearing me apart,\" he said.\n\nOne of Alex's trainers was later found in the play area by police\n\nSentencing, Judge Mark Dennis QC said the killer had a deeply entrenched character flaw that \"leads you to overreact and lose your temper\".\n\n\"You used your undoubted strength and simple brute force,\" against a \"completely defenceless\" child, he said.\n\nHe said Iheanacho, who has a string of previous convictions for violent offences, had given fake and misleading accounts to paramedics, hospital staff and police.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The new Doctor Who was re-created in Microsoft Paint by user @foxymulderx\n\nMicrosoft has confirmed that it will continue to offer its graphics program Paint.\n\nIn a recent update, it had listed Paint as a feature that would be either removed or no longer developed.\n\nPaint, renowned for its simplicity, has been part of the Windows operating system since its launch in 1985.\n\nMicrosoft suggested it would not remain on Windows 10 by default but did say it would be available for free on the Windows Store.\n\nIts successor, Paint 3D, will be part of the Windows 10 package.\n\nThis mountain scene was shared by user Valprine on Twitter.\n\nThere had been an outpouring of support for the program on social media, following the publication of the list on 24 July.\n\n\"If there's anything we learned, it's that after 32 years, MS Paint has a lot of fans,\" Microsoft wrote in a blog.\n\n\"It's been amazing to see so much love for our trusty old app.\"\n\nThere does not appear to have been a similar reprieve for other features on the list of casualties.\n\nThese included the Outlook Express email client, now replaced by Mail.\n\nPaddington Bear was shared with the BBC by user Foxymulderx", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Chris Gard: \"We are so sorry we could not save you\"\n\nThe parents of terminally ill baby Charlie Gard have ended their legal challenge to take him to the US for experimental treatment.\n\nA lawyer representing Chris Gard and Connie Yates told the High Court \"time had run out\" for the baby.\n\nMr Gard said it meant his \"sweet, gorgeous, innocent little boy\" will not reach his first birthday on 4 August.\n\n\"To let our beautiful little Charlie go\" is \"the hardest thing we'll ever have to do\", his mother said.\n\nCharlie's parents said they made the decision because a US doctor had told them it was now too late to give Charlie nucleoside therapy.\n\nCharlie has a rare genetic condition and would not live to see his first birthday, his father said\n\n\"We only wanted to give him a chance of life,\" Ms Yates told the court in a statement.\n\n\"A whole lot of time has been wasted,\" she added.\n\n\"We are sorry we could not save you.\"\n\nTheir lawyer Grant Armstrong said the parents' worst fears had been confirmed.\n\nHe told judge Mr Justice Francis US neurologist Dr Michio Hirano had said he was no longer willing to offer the baby experimental therapy after he saw the results of a new MRI scan last week.\n\nHe added Mr Gard and Ms Yates, from Bedfont, west London, now hoped to establish a foundation to ensure Charlie's voice \"continues to be heard\".\n\nSeveral supporters of Charlie's parents' campaign gathered outside the court\n\nIn a statement outside court, Mr Gard said Charlie was an \"absolute warrior\" and they \"could not be prouder of him.\"\n\n\"Charlie has had a greater impact on and touched more people in this world in his 11 months than many people do in a lifetime.\n\n\"We could not have more love and pride for our beautiful boy.\n\n\"We are now going to spend our last precious moments with our son Charlie, who unfortunately won't make his first birthday in just under two weeks' time.\"\n\nThey had raised £1.3m in donations to take their son abroad for treatment.\n\nCharlie has encephalomyopathic mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome. He has brain damage and cannot move his arms or legs.\n\nSome supporters shouted after hearing the news from inside the court\n\nKatie Gollop, the lawyer representing Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) where Charlie has been treated since October, said doctors disagreed with the parents who believed MRI scans in January had shown \"treatment could have been effective at that time\".\n\n\"All aspects of the clinical picture and all of Charlie's observations indicated that his brain was irreversibly damaged and that [the therapy] was futile,\" she said.\n\nThe hospital paid tribute to the \"bravery\" of the decision made by Charlie's parents.\n\nIn a statement, it said: \"Over the weekend, they communicated their desire to spend all the time they can with Charlie whilst working with the hospital to formulate the best possible plan for his end of life care.\n\n\"The agony, desolation and bravery of their decision command GOSH's utmost respect and humble all who work there.\"\n\nMr Justice Francis paid tribute to Charlie's parents and said no-one could comprehend their agony and no parents could have done more.\n\nIn his judgement, the judge said last week's MRI scans had shown \"Charlie has no muscle at all\" on parts of his body and was \"beyond help\".\n\nHe said Mr Gard and Ms Yates were now prepared to accept Charlie should be moved to palliative care and be allowed to die with dignity.\n\nThe judge also decried the \"absurd notion which has appeared in recent days that Charlie has been a prisoner of the National Health Service\", calling it \"the antithesis of the truth\".\n\n\"In this country children have rights independent of their parents,\" he said.\n\nOccasionally there were circumstances when a hospital and the parents were unable to agree what course of action was in the best interest of the child patient, in that instance the decision is referred to an independent judge, he continued.\n\nCharlie has been in intensive care at GOSH since October\n\nOutside court, Charlie's Army campaigners reacted angrily and chanted, \"shame on you judge\" and \"shame on GOSH\".\n\nFalling to the ground, one female supporter said: \"He had a chance and you took it away.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Up to 75% of abattoir workers are estimated to be migrants, many from the EU\n\nThe UK is \"overwhelmingly reliant\" on EU workers to enforce animal welfare and food hygiene standards in abattoirs, a group of peers has warned.\n\nThe Lords EU Environment Committee said it was concerned 90% of slaughterhouse vets were EU nationals and it was vital they stayed in the UK after Brexit.\n\nPeers said there was no reason that general animal welfare standards should fall after the UK leaves the EU.\n\nBut it warned of the threat to UK firms from cheap food imports.\n\nGuarantees over welfare standards should be written into future trade deals to protect the competitiveness of UK firms, the cross-party committee urges.\n\nMinisters say they expect environmental and welfare standards deriving from EU membership to be maintained, as a bare minimum, after the UK leaves the EU.\n\nBut campaigners have warned they could be watered down, in some areas, as a precondition of free trade deals with the United States and other major food exporters.\n\nOn a visit to Washington on Monday, International Trade Secretary Liam Fox had to downplay reports that concerns over the lifting of a ban on US chlorinated chicken could stand in the way of a free trade agreement between the US and UK.\n\nIn its report, the committee said the UK was rightly proud of its high standards of animal welfare and that many of the laws in the area pre-dated the UK joining the European Economic Community in 1973.\n\nBut it said the \"vast majority\" of recent legislation in the field originated in EU law and although the UK was converting all existing EU law on to the domestic statute book, the existing framework could be affected.\n\n\"We see no reason why Brexit should diminish animal welfare standards, as long as the government is aware of the challenges ahead and acts accordingly,\" said Lord Teverson, the Lib Dem peer who chairs the committee.\n\nBut he added: \"We heard evidence of undeniable concern that opening up the UK market to free global trade poses a number of issues. We heard overwhelming support for farm animal welfare standards to be maintained or improved. To help achieve that, we urge the government to secure the inclusion of high farm animal welfare standards in any free trade agreements it negotiates after Brexit.\"\n\nLord Krebs, the former chair of the Food Standards Agency, told the BBC that no-one was saying that US beef or chicken was unsafe but that the UK could not \"have it both ways\" when it came to a future trade deal.\n\n\"The prime minister has said after Brexit we will maintain high welfare standards in this country,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\n\"On the other hand we hear Liam Fox saying we want to do a trade deal with America and other countries which would encourage cheaper imports, with probably lower welfare standards.\n\n\"So that is the question - do we want to maintain our own industry with high welfare standards or do you want to race to the bottom and import the cheapest meat wherever it comes from around the world?\"\n\nThe committee said vets played a key role in ensuring animals were slaughtered humanely and animal shipments were properly certified, citing warnings from the British Veterinary Association that demand for certification was likely to increase if the remaining EU nations were regarded as third-party countries after Brexit.\n\nReferring to BVA statistics suggesting more than 90% of official veterinarians, who provide government licensed services such as disease testing in animals and ante and post mortems in abattoirs, were non-UK EU nationals, it said:\n\n\"That is a concerning number because these are people who are working for our animal health, particularly in our abattoirs, and this has a knock-on effect for food safety and hygiene\".\n\nThe BVA said official veterinarians, formerly known as local veterinary inspectors, had unique qualifications and were \"crucial for the protection of the UK consumer, certifying and supervising the import and export of animals and animal products to third countries\".\n\nThe committee said it had been told by the National Farmers Union that vets also undertook many farm inspection and enforcement roles and the union was seeking reassurances that post-Brexit immigration controls would not limit access to experienced staff.\n\nThe government has said all EU nationals living and working in the UK for five years will be entitled to apply for settled status, enjoying broadly the same rights as now, while more recent arrivals will also be guaranteed residency rights as long as they arrived before an as yet unspecified cut-off point.\n\nIn response to the Lords report, the Department for the Environment said: \"Leaving the EU provides us with an opportunity to develop gold standard policies on animal welfare.\n\n\"We are determined to get a good Brexit deal for Britain, and we have been absolutely clear we will maintain our world-leading animal welfare standards,\" a spokesman added.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. When it comes to superyachts, the bigger the better\n\nWandering along the beach in Italy's Viareggio you could be forgiven for thinking it's simply a holiday resort.\n\nYet the umbrella-lined, sandy beaches dotted with tourists mask another role, one at the heart of the shipping industry.\n\nThis unassuming seaside city is where some of the world's largest and most exclusive vessels are made.\n\nIts speciality is the superyacht. These giant crewed vessels start at about the length of an average swimming pool - 24-metres. But the biggest can stretch to five or more times this.\n\nIt's a world that belongs to only the very wealthiest of the wealthy - to buy a superyacht you have to be super rich.\n\nJust 370 superyachts were sold last year around the globe, yet collectively these sales were worth a staggering 3.4bn euros (£3bn; $4bn).\n\nThe most expensive superyacht sold so far this year cost 155m euros, according to Boat International which collates the industry data.\n\nViareggio is where about a fifth of these gigantic elite boats are made. It's the \"cradle of shipbuilding\" is how the city's mayor Giorgio del Ghingaro sums it up.\n\nTourism isn't the only big industry in Viareggio\n\nIn fact, the town's involvement in the industry goes back almost 200 years to 1819 when the first dock was built. Viareggio started to build large, strong wooden ships to transport the marble from the region's famous quarries. This laid the foundations for what would eventually become a major international shipping industry with a history of carpentry and craftsmanship.\n\nThe growing popularity of the superyacht has meant Viareggio has evolved again, shifting from making the wooden boats it was once famous for to constructing these giant metal and fibreglass vessels.\n\nVincenzo Poerio, the chief executive of shipbuilding firm Benetti, which is headquartered in Viareggio, believes the region's artistic roots have helped to drive its success in the industry.\n\nTuscan cities such as Lucca, Pisa, Siena and Florence are renowned for their craftmanship in marble, wood, leather and architecture. And people in the market for buying a superyacht expect everything - the interior as well as the exterior - to look perfect.\n\nA superyacht is \"probably the most expensive toy in the world,\" says Benetti boss Vincenzo Poerio\n\nOf course you need more than artistic flair to build a superyacht. For such large and expensive projects, engineering skills are crucial as are project management expertise to ensure the boat is built on time and on budget.\n\nBut Mr Poerio says the most important attribute to be successful in this industry is people skills to enable them to deal with the often \"challenging\" demands of the super rich.\n\nMaintaining good relations matter because it's a personal transaction, not a business one, he says:\n\n\"At the end of the day, you are building a big toy, probably the most expensive toy in the world.\"\n\nIn contrast to similar industries such as luxury cars or private aircraft, it's much harder to build these vessels in a standardised way.\n\n\"In our case most of the time we start from scratch. So the client is not buying a product, he's building a product which makes a huge difference… Most of the time it's not easy to manage these requests,\" says Mr Poerio.\n\nWhen it comes to superyachts, the interior is as important as the exterior\n\nThis approach is now starting to shift, with some shipbuilders including Benetti and Perini Navi, building smaller superyachts without first receiving an order.\n\nFor their wealthy customers, used to getting things when they want them, an instantly-available boat is a big attraction.\n\nBut for the firms investing millions when they don't yet know if they'll be able to find a customer it is a risky strategy.\n\nYet Burak Akgul, a managing director at shipbuilder Perini Navi, says he's not worried.\n\n\"We are an indulgence. There's always someone who's ready to indulge, it's just a matter of whether or not we manage to get hold of them,\" he jokes.\n\nIn fact, he says, the brand Perini has become a sort of status symbol, marking a certain level of achievement.\n\n\"We started seeing people expressing themselves as having reached the point where they now need to have their Perini.\n\n\"They didn't know what they wanted yet, but they had this feeling that they had come to the point of their personal success that time had come for them to build a Perini this was something they had to add to their stable,\" he says.\n\nOne other advantage for Viareggio is that it is already well equipped to cope with the vagaries of the superyacht industry, which because it is so small and specialised can see demand fluctuate wildly depending on the wider economy.\n\nThe skills required to build a superyacht are similar to those for a military boat with both of similar sizes.\n\nMassimo Perotti, owner of ship builder San Lorenzo, says this is a useful balance, with demand for pleasure yachts naturally reducing when military vessels are required and vice versa.\n\nNonetheless, the extreme wealth of their clientele means they're also more cushioned from the impact of world events. Even in the financial crisis, San Lorenzo managed to expand, selling about 20 yachts, partly by targeting new markets in Russia, South America, Brazil and India.\n\nThe crisis did, however, mark a shift in their customer base. Instead of getting people who wanted a superyacht to show how rich and powerful they were he says, most customers are now genuinely interested in boating.\n\nYet even with a flow of wealthy customers ready to indulge, the Italian industry is facing competition from other rivals within Europe and even China. Lower labour costs and raw materials mean these countries are able to produce a cheaper boat.\n\n\"If you want a piece of art you go to Italy,\" says San Lorenzo's Massimo Perotti\n\nBut Benetti's Mr Poerio says that for the \"very, very, very rich people\" they cater for, price isn't what matters.\n\nWhen people are spending millions and millions of euros \"the brand has to mean something,\" he says.\n\nHe believes things like the customer relationships and service they offer, as well as the guarantee of a certain level of quality, means they should be able to keep customers from going elsewhere.\n\nSan Lorenzo's Mr Perotti agrees: \"If you buy a superyacht it's for yourself. You like technology, design, luxury; you know, it's not cheap and you are not looking to to have it at the lowest cost.\"\n\nIn the end, it comes back to what Viareggio has always been renowned for - artistic flair.\n\n\"The characteristic of the Italians is individualism and creativity. Maybe you buy a German car because the Germans are better in organisation. But if you want to buy a piece of art you probably go to Italy.\"\n\nThis feature is based on interviews by series producer Neil Koenig, for the BBC's Life of Luxury series.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "It must be serious. They've deployed the Royals.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have been on tour in Germany with a very specific purpose: to reassure the country that Brexit doesn't mean the break-up of a beautiful relationship.\n\nPrince William, after speaking a few words in German, told guests at a British embassy garden party: \"This relationship between UK and Germany really matters, it will continue despite Britain's recent decision to leave the European Union. I am confident we will remain the firmest of friends.\"\n\nBut since the British election, German politicians are more troubled than ever about Brexit. The German council for foreign relations' director, Daniela Schwarzer, told me: \"Policymakers in Berlin are surprised and worried at the degree of confusion in London, the lack of clarity as to the strategy the UK wants to follow.\n\n\"There is a lot surprise about how the negotiations are being handled and the somewhat incoherent messages which come out of London.\"\n\nOf course, Germany is just one country in the European Union - but it is first among equals, its chancellor by far the most senior politician, with a new and determined ally in President Macron, who's refreshed the Franco-German alliance.\n\nEven before Brexit became a reality, there's been an argument, almost an assumption, that German industry would put pressure on German politicians to argue for a good deal for the UK - access to the European market without having to abide by the rules.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Cambridge recently toured Germany\n\nSo far, Mrs Merkel has been adamant: no cherry picking. Will German industry push her to change her mind?\n\nI visited the Trumpf company in Stuttgart, a concern with a turnover of 3bn euros (£2.7bn) a year that makes sheet metal, laser cutters and machine tools. It employs 4,000 people in Germany and another 8,000 globally: in the USA, China, Japan, South Korea - and in Luton, Southampton and Rugby.\n\nThe company's Heidi Maier tells me orders from the UK are up because people have got used to the idea of Brexit.\n\n\"Despite political insecurities and decisions we don't like and we don't back, our business is doing very well,\" she says.\n\nWe stand in front of the True Punch 5000. The machine is swift and certain, precise and elegant, all the qualities that make Germans so proud of their engineering prowess.\n\nThe exact opposite of these qualities - slowness and uncertainty - is what worries German industry about Brexit.\n\nI ask Ms Maier what they want Mrs Merkel to push for. \"What would help is decisions, and fast decisions,\" she says.\n\n\"As soon as we know the new rules, we can go ahead. We are actually preparing for tariffs, which is the implication [of what the British government is saying], which would worsen our business. The goods we produce in Great Britain would become more expensive due to the tariffs, and we don't know how our customers would react to that.\"\n\nMost German businesses tend to lobby government through powerful trade associations. And one industry has more horsepower than any other.\n\nGermany's glittering car industry is an industrial giant with immense political clout and a 400bn euro turnover, employing 800,000 people. And the relationship with the UK is very important. One in seven cars exported from Germany goes to the UK, its single biggest market.\n\nThe Trumpf machine is just one example of German high-tech engineering\n\nEver since Brexit was a speck on the horizon, enthusiasts for leaving have argued the mighty German auto industry wouldn't allow politicians to punish Britain, a point I put to Matthias Wissman, the president of the VDA, the German automotive industry association.\n\n\"What we want is to keep the European Union of the 27 together,\" he says. \"That is the first priority. Second priority is to have a trade area with the UK with no tariff barriers, no non-tariff barriers. That is possible if the UK understands what the preconditions are.\n\n\"We want a good deal for Britain, but the best deal for Britain would be to stay in the customs union. Anything else would be worse for both sides. The best thing would be to stay in the internal market, like Norway.\"\n\nHe accused pro-Brexiteers of making \"totally unrealistic\" promises. \"I see a lot which is astonishing for a friend of Great Britain. I miss the traditional British pragmatism. We would like to have it in the future, but I see more and more ideological points of view which make pragmatism very difficult and unfortunately in both parties, Conservative and Labour.\"\n\nThe UK is the German auto industry's biggest export market\n\nWhen I put to him Liam Fox's view that a trade deal with the EU could be \"one of the easiest in human history\", he laughs and says it would take years and years but \"time is running out\".\n\n\"You need a transition period. And if you want an easy solution, stay in the customs union and the internal market.\n\n\"A transition period would also be very pragmatic. We hope that on the British side that gets deeper and deeper into the intellectual capabilities of those who decide.\"\n\nThis is not just the view of one man, or one industry. There seems to be a consensus among the industrial powerbrokers.\n\nKlaus Deutsch of the federation of German industry, the BDI, makes it clear they did not want Brexit in the first place and would like the UK to stay in the single market and observe all the rules.\n\nBut that's not the government's intention, so what follows?\n\n\"We would favour a comprehensive agreement. But the most important thing is legal certainty in the period from A to B. If you don't have a transition period of many years, then there will be a huge disruption to all sorts of businesses.\n\n\"The concern of business is unless you get a clear cut and legally safe agreement, you can't sell pharmaceuticals, or cars or what have you, across the Channel, you have to stop business, divest, change business models.\"\n\nWill Germany prioritise EU unity over its economic relationship with the UK?\n\nHe makes it clear only the British government can decide what it wants, but what about the idea they'll push Mrs Merkel to soften her approach?\n\n\"That's completely unlikely,\" Mr Deutsch says. \"The importance of the European Union for German corporates is even higher than the importance of a bilateral relationship with the United Kingdom. So, the priority of safeguarding… the unity of the European Union is much more important than one economic relationship. There are a lot of illusions - it won't happen.\"\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 4's The World This Weekend programme, Owen Paterson, the former cabinet minister, who recently visited Germany, told me he had felt a \"sense of denial\" in the country over Brexit.\n\n\"It is hugely in everyone's interest that we maintain reciprocal free trade and as we have absolute conformity of standards, everyone should get their head round that,\" he told me.\n\n\"Whereas [the Germans] are still thinking entirely in terms of remaining in the current institutions and that's clearly what we are not going to do.\n\n\"We're not going to stay in the single market. We are not going to stay in the customs union. We're certainly not going to stay under the remit of the European Court of Justice. I found that that was something they had not really got their heads round.\"\n\nAnd my overriding impression of the view of the big beasts of Germany industry?\n\nFrustration that they don't know where the British government wants to head and a strong sense that any outcome will be worse than what exists.\n\nBut also, a total rejection of the idea that the economic relationship with the UK outweighs the German interest in European unity.", "Both fly-half Paddy Jackson and centre Stuart Olding deny the allegations\n\nTwo Ulster rugby stars are among four men to be prosecuted for offences relating to allegations of rape, the BBC understands.\n\nPaddy Jackson and Stuart Olding were arrested in June 2016 with two other men, and questioned about allegations of a sexual assault in south Belfast.\n\nThe PPS confirmed a decision has been taken to prosecute four men in relation to allegations of rape.\n\nBoth Mr Jackson, 25, and Mr Olding, 24, deny the allegations.\n\nThe Public Prosecution Service said: \"Following a careful review of all of the available evidence, in accordance with our Code for Prosecutors, it has been decided that there is sufficient evidence to prosecute four individuals.\"\n\nSolicitors representing Mr Jackson and Mr Olding confirmed their clients are to be prosecuted for alleged rape.\n\nAnother man is to be charged with a sexual offence and a fourth man is to be charged with intent to pervert the course of justice.\n\nSolicitor Joe Rice, representing Stuart Olding said: \"I would like to point out that my client has fully co-operated with the investigation and is not on any bail conditions and is of previous good character.\n\n\"He should be allowed to uphold his right to the presumption of innocence and rejects any allegation of wrong-doing and is confident his name will be cleared through the courts.\"\n\nIn a similar statement, Paddy Jackson's solicitor Kevin Winters said: \"He rejects the allegations completely and we're very disappointed at the PPS decision to prosecute on these particular facts.\"\n\n\"We say there is no basis for the decision to prosecute and we are confident that our client will be cleared of any charge.\"\n\nThe PPS statement added: \"As the criminal proceedings against these individuals have commenced and each has a right to a fair trial, it is extremely important that there should be no reporting, commentary or sharing of information online which could in any way prejudice proceedings.\"\n\nAll four men are due to appear in court next month.\n\nThe Irish Rugby Football Union and Ulster Rugby said the players have agreed that they be relieved of their duties and obligations until the conclusion of the legal process, to allow them time to address the matter fully.\n\nMr Jackson and Mr Olding have been involved in legal proceedings against the BBC in relation to the reporting of their arrests.", "For many papers, the main story is the tragic decision of the parents of Charlie Gard to end his life support.\n\n\"Sleep tight our beautiful little boy,\" says the Daily Mail.\n\nFor the i newspaper, it is: \"Goodbye, our little warrior.\"\n\n\"We're so sorry we couldn't save you,\" is the headline in the Sun.\n\n\"Time's run out for our brave warrior,\" is the take of the Daily Mirror.\n\nThe papers are full of praise for the bravery of Chris Gard and Connie Yates.\n\nThe Sun believes they \"fought with limitless love and awe-inspiring determination\".\n\nThe Mirror says they acted with \"great dignity\".\n\nFor the Daily Telegraph, their acceptance \"that the time has come to let Charlie go\" is a \"courageous and heartbreaking decision. It is the right one\".\n\nThe Mail says the question now is whether 11-month-old Charlie will be allowed to go home to die, an issue which has yet to be settled.\n\nIt says the High Court judge could be asked to make another ruling on that matter if talks between the parents and Great Ormond Street Hospital fail to resolve it.\n\nThe Guardian leads with the Bank of England's warning about rising levels of personal debt - and its threat of \"fresh action against reckless lending\".\n\nThe paper points out that the intervention comes a fortnight before the 10th anniversary of the beginnings of the financial crisis - and describes it as a \"ratcheting up of Threadneedle Street's rhetoric\" about the possibility of a repeat of the crash that devastated the economy in 2007.\n\nA special report in the i newspaper suggests the identities of 11 million British people are being traded on the dark web.\n\nVast amounts of confidential data - including online passwords - are being offered for sale to criminals.\n\nIt says particular areas are being targeted, with Cardiff, Leicester and Nottingham featuring prominently.\n\nThe fraudsters then take months to build a full profile of each victim, with the aim of obtaining their banking details.\n\nThe Daily Star reports that Ian Brady's body is still lying in a mortuary, two months after the Moors Murderer's death.\n\nThe paper says the bodies of Brady and the Manchester bomber Salman Abedi have been \"abandoned\" in the secret location, because undertakers are unwilling to handle their funeral arrangements.\n\nThe Police and Crime Commissioner for North Wales is said by the Times to have been accused of abusing his position because his force stopped sending officers to deal with protesters at a fracking site in Lancashire after he complained.\n\nArfon Jones, who formerly campaigned against fracking, said his opposition was only one factor in the decision.\n\nNorth Wales Police insisted it was down to the \"high demands\" on the force.\n\nThe Sun reveals how a golf fan helped Jordan Spieth win The Open - when the player's ball bounced off his head and avoided landing in the long grass at the 13th hole.\n\nA fellow spectator tells the paper Spieth shook the man's hand and apologised.\n\nIt says the sportsman admitted later that he \"felt like he'd got away with murder\".", "For six years, the United Nations Commission of Inquiry on Syria has been painstakingly gathering information about possible war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during the conflict.\n\nThe investigators have produced 13 reports, the evidence in each is harrowing. Villages destroyed, crops burnt, wells poisoned, torture, rape, starvation sieges, mass bombing of civilians, and what only a decade ago might have been unthinkable - chemical weapons.\n\nThere is no doubt that war crimes have been committed by all sides, the commission says. In each report there is a demand for \"accountability\" - that no-one should be allowed to commit such horrific acts and get away with it.\n\n\"This would be incredible, a scandal,\" says commission member Carla Del Ponte, who describes the violations in Syria as by far the worst she has ever come across. \"But nothing happens, only words, words, and more words.\"\n\nMs Del Ponte, as a former prosecutor at the tribunal for Yugoslavia, and the woman who put Slobodan Milosevic in the dock, knows how to bring war criminals to book.\n\nCarla Del Ponte says the violations of international law in the Syrian conflict are the worst she has encountered\n\nWhile the Syria commission has no power to prosecute, what it does have is a vast amount of evidence, and a confidential list of names, thought to include figures at the very top of the Syrian government and military.\n\nTo bring those individuals (including, Ms Del Ponte thinks, President Assad) to court, the UN Security Council would have to refer Syria to the International Criminal Court. And throughout the Syria conflict, the Security Council has been divided, with Russia and China in particular resisting what they regard as unnecessary interference in Syria's problems.\n\nNow, though, the United Nations, under new Secretary General Antonio Guterres, appears to be flexing its muscles.\n\nA new body has been set up, called, rather dryly, the International, Impartial and Independent Mechanism or IIIM, to sift the evidence, build cases, and pass them to any court that could have jurisdiction. Some European countries are already opening cases.\n\nAt its head is an experienced French judge, Catherine Marchi-Uhel, who has worked on the tribunal for former Yugoslavia, and the Extraordinary Courts of Cambodia, which prosecuted the Khmer Rouge.\n\n\"This gives me hope that something is moving,\" says Alain Werner, director of Civitas Maxima, a Swiss organisation that works to ensure justice for victims of war crimes and crimes against humanity.\n\n\"I didn't even think this body would be set up… this is proof [the UN] is serious.\"\n\nMr Werner's own organisation has already built cases against suspected war criminals from Sierra Leone and Liberia, and his work with victims has shown him, he says, that \"the eagerness for justice is immense\".\n\nOne of his colleagues, Antonya Tioulong, knows personally just how important this can be. Her sister and brother-in-law were tortured and murdered in Phnom Penh's notorious S-21 detention centre during the reign of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia.\n\nIn 1995, Srebrenica was the scene of the worst massacre of the Bosnian war\n\nIn the 1990s, almost two decades after her sister's death, Antonya was able to learn what had happened to her, and she tried to bring a case in the French courts against the Khmer Rouge officers who had run S-21. It was rejected.\n\n\"I felt powerless. There was no sign, either, of an international tribunal. I wondered, 'Were the two million victims of the Khmer Rouge genocide so unimportant in the eyes of the world that the criminals did not need to be judged?'\"\n\nAntonya had to wait until 2008, when an international tribunal was finally set up. The men who murdered her sister were at last convicted.\n\nShe was comforted not just by the verdict, but by the fact that the tribunal was public.\n\n\"Thousands of people came from all over the world to attend the hearings in person, showing their desire to understand what happened.\"\n\nBut many thousands of victims still wait. In the Swiss capital, Berne, the Red Cross Centre for Victims of Torture and War had more than 4,000 consultations in 2016 alone.\n\n\"Almost the most important thing is that they have the space and time to talk,\" says psychologist Carola Smolenski. \"We have patients from former Yugoslavia who still suffer chronically from their experiences.\"\n\nFor many of these patients, however, there may never be a public tribunal where perpetrators are convicted, and the suffering of their victims formally recognised in a court of law.\n\nInstead, the Red Cross Centre has included a form of \"validation\" process as part of the therapy.\n\nMany Syrians, millions of whom are in refugee camps, still await news of loved ones\n\n\"We will prepare [together with the patient] a detailed chronological report,\" says Carola Smolenski. \"We recognise the experience together, and we sign it as witnesses.\"\n\n\"It is important that they can say, 'That is my story, and it is being taken seriously.'\"\n\nFor the millions of Syrians waiting in refugee camps, or trapped in besieged cities, peace cannot come soon enough. But millions of Syrians, too, are waiting to know the fate of loved ones who disappeared into Syria's prisons, or vanished in the heat of battle.\n\nIn Geneva, the UN peace process is inching along. In the talks about Syria in the Kazakh capital, Astana, the Russians, Turks, and Iranians are working to negotiate \"de-escalation zones\" to reduce the violence.\n\nBut in neither the Geneva process nor Astana is there much talk of accountability for the undoubtedly massive number of war crimes and crimes against humanity. It is unclear whether the newly formed IIIM has a role in the peace process at all.\n\nCould this be because leaders, on all sides of Syria's conflict, might not be motivated to reach a peace deal if they thought a war crimes trial would be their reward?\n\n\"You might have put your finger on it,\" says one Western diplomat, speaking on condition of anonymity.\n\nThe idea that achieving peace, or at least an absence of war, should take priority over justice is often advanced during tricky diplomatic negotiations.\n\nSome also suggest that war crimes tribunals can sow the seeds of future discord, particularly if victims are from one ethnic group and perpetrators from another.\n\nThe Nuremburg war trials resulted in many convictions but little remorse, says UN human rights commissioner Zeid Ra'ad al Hussein\n\nArchbishop Emeritus of Cape Town the Most Reverend Desmond Tutu famously did not want a tribunal for South Africa, pushing instead for a truth and reconciliation process, in which the accused would acknowledge their crimes but also be forgiven by their victims.\n\nThe UN's human rights commissioner, Zeid Ra'ad al Hussein, agrees that creating sustainable peace is a complex process, but insists that the authors of Syria's suffering must be formally prosecuted.\n\n\"In Syria, there will never be peace if you don't put the victims at the centre of your effort,\" he says.\n\n\"You can have the most finely crafted agreement, but if victims don't feel justice, then it is worthless, a pointless exercise. There has to be an accounting, the central authors must be brought to book.\"\n\nNevertheless, he sees prosecutions as only part of the process.\n\n\"At a fundamental level, we will never have permanent peace if we don't deal with unresolved issues.\"\n\nThis means, he says, all sides in a conflict recognising their conduct, and showing \"contrition\".\n\nAnd there, Mr Hussein says, society must play its role.\n\nDuring the German trials after World War Two, he points out, there were 7,000 convictions, but few of those convicted showed any remorse.\n\nThe push for contrition and remorse came later, through work by German historians, school teachers, and post-War politicians.\n\nAlain Werner agrees that, in view of the scale of the atrocities in Syria, \"it is very difficult to think there will be no justice\".\n\nBut, he adds, because the number of cases is \"staggering\", justice is unlikely to be swift. \"Syria could take 40 years… even 100 years to investigate.\"\n• None How virtual reality could help prosecute Nazi war criminals", "A post-mortem examination revealed the cause of Celine Dookhran's death was a neck wound\n\nTributes have been paid to a 20-year-old woman who was allegedly kidnapped and raped before being killed.\n\nCeline Dookhran's body was found at an address in Coombe Lane West, in Kingston Upon Thames, on Wednesday.\n\nProsecutors allege Mujahid Arshid, 33, murdered the teenager - who was of Indian Muslim heritage - for being in a relationship with an Arab Muslim.\n\nOne user on Facebook said: \"RIP Celine. Such a beautiful, intelligent soul.\"\n\nMs Dookhran, who was born in Wandsworth and grew up in south London, had a passion for make-up and offered cosmetic advice to her followers on social media.\n\nHer social media messages included posts about religious holidays and fasting during Ramadan.\n\nThe last tweet, posted eight days before her death, said \"Alhamdulillah [praise God] for everything that's all I can say\".\n\nFollowing the news of her death, one of her Twitter followers said: \"Innalillahe wainna ilaye rajeeon [\"We belong to Allah and to Him we shall return.\"]\n\n\"RIP Celine, You did not deserve what has happened, May Allah grant you a place in Paradise. Inshallah.\"\n\nWhile another user posted: \"RIP Celine, you were very beautiful and you will never be forgotten.\"\n\nMs Dookhran had a passion for make-up and offered cosmetic advice to her Twitter followers\n\nMr Arshid is also accused of the kidnap, rape and attempted murder of a woman in her 20s.\n\nThe second woman, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, had earlier been treated for stab or slash wounds at a south London hospital.\n\nVincent Tappu, 28, from Acton, west London, is also charged with kidnapping both women.\n\nA post-mortem examination revealed the cause of Ms Dookhran's death was a neck wound.\n\nPolice found the body of the 20-year-old at a property in Kingston Upon Thames\n\nThe men have been remanded in custody.\n\nMr Arshid, of no fixed address, is scheduled to appear at the Old Bailey on 26 July.\n\nBoth defendants will appear at the same court on 21 August.\n\nUpdate 26 July 2017: The age of Celine Dookhran has been changed following new information from the Metropolitan Police.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A new image of suspect Franz Wrousis was issued by police on Tuesday\n\nA man who sparked one of the biggest manhunts in Swiss history after allegedly attacking people with a chainsaw has been arrested, police say.\n\nFranz Wrousis, 50, was arrested in Thalwil, a town about 60km (37 miles) from Schaffhausen, the border town where the incident took place.\n\nMr Wrousis, who is said to have lived in the nearby woods, allegedly attacked two people in an insurance office.\n\nMore than 100 Swiss and German officers were involved in the search.\n\nOn Tuesday afternoon, after more than 24 hours on the run, Swiss police admitted they had no idea where Mr Wrousis had gone, and could have potentially crossed into Germany,\n\nA helicopter and dogs were used to scour the area for any trace of the alleged suspect, who has two previous convictions for weapons offences.\n\nPolice eventually found him in Thalwil, just south of Zurich. No further details were available surrounding the arrest, but local media reported the police were due to hold a press conference early on Wednesday.\n\nMonday's attack unfolded shortly after 10:30 (08:30 GMT), when two workers were attacked and wounded by a chainsaw at the CSS insurance office. One was badly hurt and needed surgery in hospital.\n\nTwo other people were treated for shock, while a third was slightly hurt during the ensuing police operation.\n\nPolice said Mr Wrousis had been a customer of the firm.", "The electric vehicle will be based on the 3-door hatchback model\n\nA fully electric version of the Mini will be built at the Cowley plant in Oxford, BMW has said.\n\nThe carmaker said the model would go into production in 2019, with Oxford the main \"production location\" for the Mini three-door model.\n\nHowever, the electric motor will be built in Germany before being shipped to Cowley for assembly.\n\nBMW said it had \"neither sought nor received\" any reassurances from the UK on post-Brexit trading arrangements.\n\nLast year, the government faced questions about the \"support and assurances\" given to Nissan before the company announced that new versions of its Qashqai and X-Trail would be made in the UK.\n\nAnd there have been reports that Toyota agreed to invest in the UK after receiving a letter reassuring the Japanese carmaker over post-Brexit arrangements.\n\nAbout 360,000 Minis are made each year, with more than 60% of them built at Oxford. But BMW has built up an alternative manufacturing base in the Netherlands amid concerns about Britain's suitability as an export hub after Brexit.\n\nBMW has warned about the damage of Brexit uncertainty, and in May chief executive Harald Krueger said the company had to remain \"flexible\" about production facilities.\n\nUK Business Secretary Greg Clark hailed BMW's announcement as a \"vote of confidence\" in government plans to make Britain \"the go-to place in the world for the next generation of vehicles\". On Monday, he set out plans to invest in development of battery technology in the UK.\n\nMr Clark met BMW's head of sales and marketing, Ian Robertson, at the company's headquarters in Munich in January and March this year. The two also held meetings at Westminster in March and June.\n\nDavid Bailey, professor of industry at Aston University, said the true test of the global car industry's desire to invest in the UK would come next year: \"I don't think it [BMW's decision] tells us much about Brexit and the form of trade barriers we may face in the future.\n\n\"The big decisions will be about future models [which would have redesigned bodies], both at Mini and at companies like Vauxhall when they announce their new models in the next couple of years.\"\n\nBMW says the economic case for building the electric mini in Oxford is compelling, and it's easy to see why.\n\nThis is not a brand new car, redesigned from the ground up. It's a Mini, a 3-door hatchback, which will in many ways be identical to the cars already being built at the Cowley plant.\n\nThe electric bit - the drivetrain, which includes the motor, gearbox and battery pack - will be assembled in Germany, and fixed to the rest of the car in the factory.\n\nSo it makes sense to build this model at the same factory as the majority of existing Mini production. There is no need for a new factory or production line, meaning the size of the investment will be relatively small by auto-industry standards - in \"the tens of millions\", BMW says.\n\nThere is a potential spanner in the works - the new car is due to go into production in 2019, months after the UK leaves the EU.\n\nWith drivetrains being imported into the UK and many completed cars exported back to Europe, there's a risk costs could rise sharply if tariffs are introduced on cross-channel trade.\n\nBut the company insists it can only make decisions based on the current economic realities. There has been no \"special deal\" done with the British government, it says - and nor has it asked for one.\n\nThe German carmaker said the Mini announcement was part of a plan for electrified vehicles to account for between 15-25% of its sales by 2025.\n\nThe electric Mini will be based on the company's 3-door hatchback model. However, BMW has yet to release pictures of a prototype vehicle.\n\nBMW employs about 18,000 staff in the UK, including the Mini plant at Cowley, the Rolls-Royce factory in Sussex and at other sites in Birmingham and Swindon.\n\nUnite assistant general secretary Tony Burke said the announcement was a \"big vote of confidence\" in BMW's UK workforce. He told the BBC that there had been \"patient discussions behind the scenes\" to secure the electric Mini.\n\nAlthough there was no news about extra jobs, Mr Burke said the new Mini would \"certainly underpin existing employment\".\n\nBMW currently makes electric motors and batteries for all of its electric cars at two factories in Germany, at Dingolfing and Landshut.\n\nElectric car development has been boosted by a series of announcements in recent months. The first phase of a £246m investment by the UK government into battery technology was launched on Monday.\n\nEarlier this month, Volvo became the first traditional car maker to commit to including an electric motor in all of its new models from 2019.\n\nUS firm Tesla's first mass-market electric car, the Model 3, is expected to be unveiled on Friday at a handover party for 30 customers, before production is ramped up.\n\nAnd the first vehicle manufacturing facility to be built in Britain for more than a decade opened in Ansty, Coventry, in March to produce a new electric London black taxi.", "Donald Trump has said he is working on a \"major trade deal\" with the UK.\n\nThe US President tweeted that a bilateral trade agreement with the UK after it leaves the EU in 2019 could be \"very big and exciting\" for jobs.\n\nMr Trump, who backed Brexit, also took a swipe at the EU accusing it of a \"very protectionist\" stance to the US.\n\nThe US President, whose officials are meeting British counterparts this week, has been accused of protectionist rhetoric by his political opponents.\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 UK's International Trade Secretary Liam Fox is currently in Washington discussing the potential for a UK-US trade deal after the UK's withdrawal from the EU in March 2019. No deal can be signed until after then.\n\nMr Trump has said he would like to see a speedy deal although free trade agreements typically take many years to conclude and any agreement, which will have to be approved by Congress, is likely to involve hard negotiations over tariff and non tariff barriers in areas such as agriculture and automotive.\n\nOn Monday, Mr Fox published details of commercial ties between the UK and every congressional district in the US as a working party of officials met to discuss a future trade deal for the first time. Two-way trade between the two countries already totals £150bn.\n\nMr Fox is also discussing other issues, including the continuation of existing trade and investment accords, with trade secretary Wilbur Ross and the US Trade Representative, Robert Lighthizer.\n\nAt a breakfast meeting for members of the House of Representatives, Mr Fox said his twin objectives were to provide certainty for foreign investors ahead of Brexit and to expand the volume and value of trade with the US.\n\n\"The EU itself estimates that 90% of global growth in the next decade will come from outside Europe, and I believe as the head of an international economic department that this is an exciting opportunity for the UK to work even more closely with our largest single trading partner the US,\" he said.\n\nSir Vince Cable, the new leader of the UK parliament's fourth largest party, the Liberal Democrats, said a US-UK trade deal could bring significant benefits - but he called on the government to guarantee parliament would get a vote on it first.\n\n\"Liam Fox and Boris Johnson must not be able to stitch up trade deals abroad and impose them on the country,\" he said.\n\n\"It is parliament, not Liam Fox, that should be the final arbiter on whether to sacrifice our standards to strike a deal with Trump.\"", "The Greenland ice sheet covers an area about seven times the size of the UK\n\nScientists are \"very worried\" that the melting of the Greenland ice sheet could accelerate and raise sea levels more than expected.\n\nThey say warmer conditions are encouraging algae to grow and darken the surface.\n\nDark ice absorbs more solar radiation than clean white ice so warms up and melts more rapidly.\n\nCurrently the Greenland ice sheet is adding up to 1mm a year to the rise in the global average level of the oceans.\n\nIt is the largest mass of ice in the northern hemisphere covering an area about seven times the size of the United Kingdom and reaching up to 3km (2 miles) in thickness.\n\nThis means that the average sea level would rise around the world by about seven metres, more than 20ft, if it all melted.\n\nThat is why Greenland, though remote, is a focus of research which has direct relevance to major coastal cities as far apart as Miami, London and Shanghai and low-lying areas in Bangladesh and parts of Britain.\n\nAlgae were first observed on the Greenland ice sheet more than a century ago but until recently its potential impact was ignored. Only in the last few years have researchers started to explore how the microscopically small plants could affect future melting.\n\nA five-year UK research project known as Black and Bloom is under way to investigate the different species of algae and how they might spread, and then to use this knowledge to improve computer projections of future sea level rise.\n\nThe possibility of biologically inspired melting was not included in the estimates for sea level rise published by the UN's climate panel, the IPCC, in its latest report in 2013.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Like stepping onto the Moon\": Life on the ice\n\nThat study said the worst-case scenario was a rise of 98cm by the end of the century.\n\nOne concern now is that rising temperatures will allow algae to flourish not only on the slopes of the narrow margins of the ice-sheet but also on the flat areas in the far larger interior where melting could happen on a much bigger scale.\n\nWe joined the latest phase of research in which scientists set up camp on the ice-sheet to gather accurate measurements of the \"albedo\" or the amount of solar radiation reflected by the surface.\n\nWhite snow reflects up to 90% of solar radiation while dark patches of algae will only reflect about 35% or even as little as 1% in the blackest spots.\n\nWhen we flew by helicopter onto the ice sheet, the rolling landscape seemed surprisingly grey - my first impression was that it looked dirty.\n\nScientists are investigating the different species of algae and how they might spread\n\nMuch of the surface was covered with what looked like patches of soot and it was pockmarked with countless holes at the bottom of which were pitch-black layers of a mix of algae, bacteria and minerals known as cryoconite.\n\nProf Martyn Tranter of Bristol University, who is leading the project, told me:\n\n\"People are very worried about the possibility that the ice sheet might be melting faster and faster in the future.\n\n\"We suspect that in a warming climate these dark algae will grow over larger and larger parts of the Greenland ice sheet and it might well be that they will cause more melting and an acceleration of sea level rise.\n\n\"Our project is trying to understand just how much melting might occur.\"\n\nOver the last 20 years, Greenland has been losing more ice than it gains through snowfall in winter - a change in a natural balance that normally keeps the ice-sheet stable.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. David Shukman explains how scientists live on an ice sheet - and how you go to toilet\n\nBiological darkening has not been built into scientists' climate projections\n\nAnd one of the project scientists, Dr Andrew Tedstone, a glaciologist and also of Bristol University, said that over much of the same period, images from the MODIS satellite showed a darkening trend with the years of greatest dark producing most meltwater.\n\nHe said: \"We still don't think we've reached a point where we've seen the maximum darkness that we're going to see in this area so the fieldwork we're doing is to try to find out in a warming climate 'do we think the area is going to get any darker than we've already seen in the last 15 years?'\"\n\nEarlier research had found that the ice sheet is covered with a range of contaminants carried on the winds including dust and soot from as far away as Canadian prairie fires and the industrial heartlands of China, America and Europe.\n\nBut studies over the past five years have shown that the majority of the dark material may be biological with different kinds of algae turning the ice black, brown, green and even mauve.\n\n\"This is a living landscape,\" according to Dr Joe Cook, a glacial microbiologist at Sheffield University.\n\n\"This is an extremely difficult place for anything to live but, as we look around us, all this darkness we can see on the ice surface is living - algae, microbes, living and reproducing in the ice sheet and changing its colour.\"\n\nIce retreat does not have to be total to have a damaging impact\n\n\"We know they're very widespread and we know that they're very dark and we know that that's accelerating melt but that's not something that's built into any of our climate projections - and that's something that needs to change.\"\n\nThe final phase of the Black and Bloom project involves weaving the new factor of biological darkening into climate models to come up with revised estimates for future sea level rise.\n\nAnd, as Dr Cook explained, the retreat of the Greenland ice sheet does not need to be total to have a widespread and damaging impact.\n\n\"When we say the ice sheet is melting faster, no one saying it's all going to melt in next decade or the next 100 years or even the next 1,000 years but it doesn't all have to melt for more people to be in danger - only a small amount has to melt to threaten millions in coastal communities around world.\"\n\nMeanwhile, another factor that may be driving the melting has been identified by an Austrian member of the team, Stefan Hofer, a PhD student at Bristol.\n\nIn a paper recently published in Science Advances, he analysed satellite imagery and found that over the past 20 years there has been a 15% decrease in cloud cover over Greenland in the summer months.\n\n\"It was definitely a 'wow' moment,\" he told me.\n\nAlthough temperature is an obvious driver of melting, the paper estimated that two-thirds of additional melting, above the long-term average, was attributable to clearer skies.\n\nWhat is not known is how this might affect the algae. Their darker pigments are believed to be a protection from ultra violet light - so more sunshine might encourage that process of darkening or prove to be damaging to them.\n\nThe Black and Bloom project, funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (Nerc), aims to publish its new projections for sea level rise in two years' time.\n\nFollow David on Twitter. and Join him for a live Facebook chat at 15:30 with Arctic explorer Pen Hadow ahead of his mission to sail to the North Pole.", "Dawkins has previously written: \"Islam is the greatest force for evil in the world today\"\n\nEvolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins has denied Islamophobia after a US radio station cancelled his forthcoming speech.\n\nThe best-selling author had been due to address an event hosted by KPFA Radio in Berkeley, California, in August.\n\nOrganisers accused him of \"abusive speech against Islam\" when scrapping his appearance, an allegation he denied.\n\nHe called on the station to review his past remarks and apologise.\n\nIn a letter to ticket-holders, the publicly funded radio station wrote: \"We had booked this event based entirely on his excellent new book on science, when we didn't know he had offended and hurt - in his tweets and other comments on Islam, so many people.\"\n\nThe station, which is not affiliated with the University of California, said in a letter - which Mr Dawkins published online - that it does not support \"hurtful\" or \"abusive speech\".\n\nIt also apologised \"for not having had broader knowledge of Dawkins views much earlier\".\n\nLocal media report that Bay Area residents had brought attention to statements made by the author of the anti-religion book The God Delusion, including a 2013 tweet saying \"Islam is the greatest force for evil in the world today\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'It gets lonely': Being conservative on a liberal campus\n\nIn an open letter to organisers, Professor Dawkins wrote that he \"never used abusive speech against Islam\".\n\nHe said harsh statements he has made in the past have been directed at \"IslamISM\" - apparently referring to those who use the religion for political objectives - and not adherents of the faith.\n\n\"I have criticised the appalling misogyny and homophobia of Islam, I have criticised the murdering of apostates for no crime other than their disbelief,\" Professor Dawkins writes.\n\nHe also pointed out that he has been a \"frequent critic of Christianity but have never been de-platformed for that\".\n\nHe describes listening to KPFA \"almost every day\" during the two years he lived in Berkeley, adding that \"I especially admired your habit of always quoting sources\".\n\n\"You conspicuously did not quote a source when accusing me of 'abusive speech'.\n\n\"Why didn't you check your facts - or at least have the common courtesy to alert me - before summarily cancelling my event?\"\n\nProfessor Dawkins' book about the study of evolution, The Selfish Gene, was named last week by the Royal Society as the most inspiring science book of all time.\n\nKnown as the home of the Free Speech moment in the 1960s, Berkeley has recently left that reputation in doubt as far-left protesters have sought to silence speakers and academics with whom they disagree.\n\nConservative authors Ann Coulter and Milo Yiannopoulos have each clashed with the University of California after events where they were due to speak were cancelled by the college administration out of fear for public safety.", "Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko (second right) meets servicemen during a visit to Donetsk region in June\n\nThe new US special representative for Ukraine says Washington is actively reviewing whether to send weapons to help those fighting against Russian-backed rebels.\n\nKurt Volker told the BBC that arming Ukrainian government forces could change Moscow's approach.\n\nHe said he did not think the move would be provocative.\n\nRussia warned that anything that heightened tension could jeopardise a solution to the conflict.\n\nMr Volker, a former US permanent representative to Nato, was given the role in Kiev earlier this month.\n\n\"Defensive weapons, ones that would allow Ukraine to defend itself, and to take out tanks for example, would actually help\" stop Russia threatening Ukraine, he said in a BBC interview.\n\n\"I'm not again predicting where we go on this. That's a matter for further discussion and decision. But I think that argument that it would be provocative to Russia or emboldening of Ukraine is just getting it backwards,\" he added.\n\nHe said success in establishing peace in eastern Ukraine would require what he called a new strategic dialogue with Russia. On a visit to the front line on Sunday Mr Volker had described the situation as a \"hot war\" that had to be addressed as quickly as possible.\n\nResponding to Mr Volker's latest remarks, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told the BBC: \"We have said more than once that any actions that provoke tension on the line of separation, that provoke a situation which is already complex, will only take us further away from the moment when this internal Ukrainian issue is resolved.\"\n\nThe UN says more than 10,000 people have died since the eastern Ukraine conflict erupted in April 2014, soon after Russia annexed Ukraine's Crimea peninsula. The fighting has displaced more than 1.6 million people.\n\nA ceasefire was agreed in Minsk in February 2015, but its terms are far from being fulfilled. The leaders of France and Germany discussed the conflict over the phone with the presidents of Ukraine and Russia late on Monday.\n\nThere has been a sharp rise in violence in which eight Ukrainian soldiers were killed over 24 hours.\n\nThe US Department of State called it \"the deadliest one-day period in 2017\" in the eastern Ukraine conflict.\n\nIn a video statement, the department blamed the \"Russian-led\" rebels for the flare-up.", "New diesel and petrol cars and vans will be banned in the UK from 2040 in a bid to tackle air pollution, the government has announced.\n\nMinisters have also unveiled a £255m fund to help councils tackle emissions, including the potential for charging zones for the dirtiest vehicles.\n\nBut the £3bn clean air strategy does not include a scrappage scheme, calling previous ones \"poor value\" for money.\n\nLocal government leaders welcomed the funding but called for more detail.\n\nLocal authorities will be given direct financial support from the government, with £40m of the fund being made immediately.\n\nThey can use the funds for a range of measures, such as changing road layouts, implementing new technologies or encouraging residents on to public transport.\n\nIf those measures do not cut emissions enough, charging zones could be the next step - but the government says these should only be used for \"limited periods\".\n\nThe timetable for councils to come up with initial plans has been cut from 18 months to eight, with the Department for Environment, Farming and Rural Affairs (Defra) wanting to \"inject additional urgency\" into the process.\n\nIt follows the government being given its own deadline of 31 July after High Court judges said it was failing to meet EU pollution limits.\n\nLocal Government Association environment spokesman Martin Tett said the plans to allow councils to switch their focus from monitoring air quality to improving air quality was the right move and welcomed the additional funding.\n\nHowever, he opposed the view of the government to hold off on a scrappage scheme, arguing \"this immediate intervention could help increase the uptake of lower emission vehicles\".\n\nMinisters have been wary of being seen to \"punish\" drivers of diesel cars, who, they argue, bought the vehicles after being encouraged to by the last Labour government because they produced lower carbon emissions.\n\nThe industry trade body, the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, said it was important to avoid outright bans on diesels, which would hurt the sector.\n\nSMMT chief executive Mike Hawes said demand for alternatively fuelled vehicles was growing but still at a very low level.\n\n\"The industry instead wants a positive approach which gives consumers incentives to purchase these cars. We could undermine the UK's successful automotive sector if we don't allow enough time for the industry to adjust.\"\n\nThe AA said significant investment would be needed to install charging points across the country and warned the National Grid would come under pressure with a mass switch-on of recharging after the rush hour.\n\nThe UK announcement comes amid signs of an accelerating shift towards electric cars instead of petrol and diesel ones, at home and abroad:\n\nSo how will the air be cleaned up? Plans for a diesel scrappage scheme for old vehicles have been rejected by the Treasury as poor value for money. They may be reconsidered in the autumn.\n\nThe government has told councils to solve pollution on their own streets by improving public transport and considering restrictions on dirty diesel vehicles at peak times.\n\nIf that doesn't work, councils will be told to charge diesel drivers to come into towns.\n\nThe councils aren't happy to take the rap for the controversial policy when it was the government that encouraged the sale of diesel vehicles in the first place.\n\nToday's government plan is not comprehensive - it doesn't address pollution from construction, farming and gas boilers.\n\nAnd clean air campaigners say the government is using the 2040 electric cars announcement to distract from failings in its short-term pollution policy.\n\nAir pollution is thought to be linked to about 40,000 premature deaths a year in the UK, and transport also contributes to greenhouse gas emissions.\n\nA government spokesman said poor air quality was \"the biggest environmental risk\" to public health in the UK.\n\nThe measures are \"good\" in the long term but \"not very effective\" in the short, industry expert David Bailey said.\n\nA switch-over to electric cars would likely come in the mid-2020s, he predicted, when electric cars would out-compete petrol and diesel ones on factors like cost.\n\n\"This sets a very clear direction of travel, but petrol and diesel cars won't exist by 2040,\" he said.\n\nHe said more incentives were needed now, otherwise urban air quality would not improve.\n\nEnvironmental law firm ClientEarth welcomed the measures, but said it wanted to see more detail.\n\nChief executive James Thornton said the law found ministers must bring down illegal levels of air pollution as soon as possible.\n\nGreen Party MP Caroline Lucas welcomed a ban but said it did not go \"nearly far enough or fast enough\".\n\nFriends of the Earth said the plan was a \"cynical\" move which passed the buck of saving lives to local authorities.\n\nLabour said the government was only acting after being taken to court.\n\nEnvironment, Food and Rural Affairs spokeswoman Sue Hayman MP said the government had a \"squeamish\" attitude to clear air zones, and was shunting the problem on to local authorities.\n\n\"With nearly 40 million people living in areas with illegal levels of air pollution, action is needed now, not in 23 years' time,\" she said.", "The US has some big healthcare businesses which would be keen to establish a stronger presence in the UK\n\nRelations with the United States were always going to be a high priority for British trade policy post-Brexit.\n\nSo no surprise that Liam Fox has gone to Washington to discuss prospects.\n\nThe International Trade Secretary is pushing for a bilateral trade liberalisation agreement with the US to take effect when the UK leaves the EU.\n\nAnd his American hosts seem well disposed to the idea in principle. Better access to the US market would go down well among many UK businesses too.\n\nIt is, after all the UK's largest single export market, though well behind the rest of the EU taken together.\n\nThe US is also the second largest foreign supplier to the UK. So a freer trade relationship could reduce the cost of those imports.\n\nThere was also a great deal of enthusiasm among British business for the EU's negotiations with the US, a project known as the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP).\n\nNow that British business won't be able to make use of any benefits that might come from that exercise, if it is ever completed, a deal with the US would be helpful for many.\n\nHaving said that, many regard it as a higher priority to preserve trade access to the EU as far as possible on existing terms. That is broadly the position of a number of British business lobbies.\n\nThere are some areas of any UK/US talks that might be difficult. Experience with the TTIP negotiations gives some clues as to the kind pressures the British government is likely to face at home.\n\nGenetically modified crops - like this maize - is an area for discussion\n\nOne is resolving disputes under the agreement, particularly any involving foreign investors.\n\nMany trade and investment agreements provide for tribunals to be established if a foreign investor believes their interests have been harmed by the host government acting in a way that contravenes the agreement.\n\nThey can seek financial compensation, and there are many cases where they have been successful. The system is known as investor state dispute settlement (ISDS).\n\nIt has been around for decades, but has become more controversial in recent years. Critics see it as giving international businesses unfair leverage over the policies of elected governments.\n\nThere will be business lobbies on both sides keen to see some sort of arrangement along these lines and campaigners vigorously opposed.\n\nThere is a particular issue for some groups in the UK about how this might affect the National Health Service. It came up in the context of the TTIP negotiations.\n\nThe issue was partly whether the agreement might force the British government to privatise health service provision - and also about whether the agreement would make it hard or impossible to reverse any privatisation that did occur.\n\nThe issue was that reversing such a move could deprive a foreign health company of business, which campaigners argued could enable it to use the ISDS tribunal system to seek compensation from the host (British) government.\n\nChlorinated chicken is a familiar feature on US shelves but is banned in the EU\n\nThe US has some big healthcare businesses which would be keen to establish a stronger presence in the UK. How well founded that fear would be would depend on the wording of the agreement, but once detailed negotiations get underway it's likely to be brought up.\n\nIn the context of TTIP, the idea that it would compromise public provision of healthcare was robustly rejected by, among others the British government, but campaigners did not accept that.\n\nThen there are food issues. Dr Fox has already responded to concerns about American chicken washed with chlorine. That came up in the TTIP talks too and it might well make an appearance again. The practice is widely used in the US to remove microbial contamination, but it is not permitted in the UK.\n\nBeef fed with growth promoting hormones, another practice used in the US, could also be difficult. It's banned in the EU on the basis of health concerns.\n\nThis is a trade dispute that has rumbled on for many years and the EU has lost the case in the World Trade Organization, which accepted that the hormones were safe.\n\nThe EU has never complied with that ruling and still bans such meat.\n\nAnother food issue is genetically modified crops. They do have a presence in the European food chain, partly through animal feed. But the approval process for new GM crops is seen by US farm groups as excessively slow and cumbersome.\n\nMovement on all three of these issues is likely to be important for US negotiators. The National Farmers' Union in the UK is receptive to the idea of reforming the GM approvals process, but the other two are more of a problem.\n\nNonetheless there are certainly opportunities that businesses in both countries can see. For industry, the relatively straightforward area is tariffs, taxes on imported goods.\n\nThey are relatively low in both the US and the UK (which currently adopts the EU's tariff policy). But there are some goods for which they are relatively high (10% for cars entering the UK from outside the EU, for example).\n\nMany industry and financial services groups would also welcome closer regulatory cooperation. It would simplify business for suppliers and could conceivably lower costs for customers.\n\nIn any event, for now the UK remains a member of the EU and its common trade policy.\n\nBut that certainly doesn't stop negotiators discussing what a post-Brexit deal would look like.\n• None What is the Trans-Pacific Partnership?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Chris Gard: \"We are so sorry we could not save you\"\n\nCharlie Gard's parents are spending their \"last precious moments\" with their terminally ill son after ending their legal fight to take him to the US for treatment.\n\nChris Gard and Connie Yates want to spend the \"maximum amount of time they have left with Charlie\".\n\nThe couple ended the case after a US doctor told them it was now too late to treat Charlie's rare genetic condition.\n\nLawyers for the couple are due back in court on Tuesday afternoon.\n\nGreat Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) has not said when life support will end.\n\nHowever, Mr Gard and Ms Yates, from Bedfont, west London, said Charlie would not reach his first birthday on 4 August.\n\nCharlie has a rare genetic condition and would not live to see his first birthday, his father said\n\nIn its statement to the High Court, the hospital said it was \"increasingly surprised and disappointed\" the US doctor, Professor Michio Hirano, \"had not read Charlie's contemporaneous medical records or viewed Charlie's brain imaging or read all of the second opinions about Charlie's condition\".\n\nGOSH said Professor Hirano had not taken the opportunity to see Charlie until last week, despite being offered the chance to do so by the hospital in January.\n\nEven though the professor gave written evidence at all the court cases, the hospital said it only emerged last week that he had not read the judge's ruling following the first High Court hearing in April.\n\nThe hospital added it was concerned to hear the professor state in the witness box at the High Court hearing on 13 July that he had a financial interest in some of the treatment he proposed prescribing for Charlie.\n\nCharlie has encephalomyopathic mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome. He has brain damage and cannot move his arms or legs.\n\nHis parents had asked Mr Justice Francis to rule that their son should be allowed to undergo a trial of nucleoside therapy in New York, a move opposed by London's Great Ormond Street Hospital, which argued it would be \"futile\".\n\nThe Family Division of the High Court heard on Monday that US neurologist Dr Michio Hirano was no longer willing to offer the experimental therapy after he had seen the results of a new MRI scan last week.\n\nSpeaking outside court, Mr Gard said: \"We are now going to spend our last precious moments with our son Charlie, who unfortunately won't make his first birthday in just under two weeks' time.\n\n\"Mummy and Daddy love you so much Charlie, we always have and we always will and we are so sorry that we couldn't save you.\"\n\nMr Justice Francis said he hoped lessons could be learned from the \"tragic\" case.\n\nHe has suggested that parents and hospital bosses who disagree over life-or-death treatment for children should be forced to mediate in a bid to avoid litigation.\n\n\"I recognise, of course, that negotiating issues such as the life or death of a child seems impossible and often will be,\" he said.\n\n\"However, it is my clear view that mediation should be attempted in all cases such as this one, even if all that it does is achieve a greater understanding by the parties of each other's positions.\"\n\nCharlie has been in intensive care at Great Ormond Street Hospital since October\n\nMr Gard's and Ms Yates's five-month legal battle started after doctors at Great Ormond Street had said the therapy would not help and that life-support treatment should stop.\n\nThey subsequently failed to overturn rulings in the High Court, Court of Appeal and Supreme Court in London, and also failed to persuade judges at the European Court of Human Rights to intervene.\n\nThe couple made the \"most painful of decisions\" on Monday after reviewing new scan results which showed Charlie had deteriorated to the \"point of no return\".\n\nIn a statement, Great Ormond Street said: \"The agony, desolation and bravery of their decision command GOSH's utmost respect and humble all who work there.\"\n\nMr Gard and Ms Yates hope to establish a foundation to ensure Charlie's voice \"continues to be heard\".\n\nThey had raised more than £1.3m for the treatment in the US.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Corrie Mckeague was last seen in Bury St Edmunds on 24 September\n\nA skull found amid the large-scale search for Corrie Mckeague was not that of the missing airman, police said.\n\nIt was found at a landfill site in Landbeach, Cambridgeshire at a time when police were trawling another landfill at nearby Milton for the missing 23-year-old.\n\nPolice said the skull was female and dated back to pre-1945. Mr Mckeague's family was informed of the find.\n\nMr Mckeague, of Dunfermline, was last seen in Bury St Edmunds in September.\n\nA spokeswoman for Cambridgeshire Police said: \"On April 14 a human skull was discovered at a landfill site in Ely Road, Landbeach, near Cambridge.\n\n\"Early indications of the age of the skull meant it was highly unlikely to be that of Corrie Mckeague, however Suffolk Police and Corrie's family were informed.\n\n\"It has since been established that the skull is female and dates back to before 1945.\n\n\"There are no suspicious circumstances therefore the investigation has been closed.\"\n\nThe spokeswoman said the skull was found by workers at the site and had been traced back to a house clearance of a man who \"collected curios\". The coroner was made aware of the discovery, she said.\n\nThousands of tonnes of waste have been searched and sifted at the landfill site in Milton\n\nOn Friday, Suffolk Police confirmed it had ended its search of waste at the Milton landfill site.\n\nPolice also said on Friday an external force was reviewing the investigation.\n\nOn Monday, Suffolk Police said that until this review was completed the area of the landfill site searched would be left in \"its current state\" and would not be used for further waste disposal.\n\nCorrie's mother Nicola Urquhart has urged the force to reconsider and is considering seeking an injunction to stop the site being backfilled.\n\nMore than 21,000 people have signed a petition calling on police to continue searching the waste site.\n\nMr Mckeague's girlfriend April Oliver gave birth to their baby daughter Ellie in June\n\nThe RAF serviceman has not been seen since a night out in the Suffolk town when CCTV showed him entering a bin loading bay.\n\nSuffolk Police said Mr Mckeague was known to \"sleep in rubbish on a night out\".\n\nDet Supt Katie Elliott said the landfill search for Mr Mckeague had been \"systematic, comprehensive and thorough\".\n\nMr Mckeague's girlfriend April Oliver gave birth to their baby daughter Ellie in June.\n\nOn Facebook she wrote on Monday: \"My little Ellie brings so much joy and happiness even at the hardest of times. Love you always.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Leah Kerry died in Torbay Hospital after apparently suffering from an adverse reaction to a psychoactive substance she had taken\n\nA girl who is thought to have died because of an adverse reaction to what used be called a legal high \"paid the ultimate price\", her family has said.\n\nLeah Kerry, 15, who attended school in Salisbury, died in hospital on 16 July having been found unconscious at an address in Newton Abbot, Devon.\n\nIn a statement, her family described her as \"a courageous and confident young woman.\"\n\nShe knew the dangers of drugs, but \"thought she was invincible\", it said.\n\n\"Sadly, despite being well aware of the risks, she thought she was invincible and she rolled the dice and has paid the ultimate price\", the statement said.\n\nLeah Kerry's family said she \"rolled the dice and paid the ultimate price\"\n\nA statement given to Devon and Cornwall Police on behalf of the family said: \"Leah lit up any room she walked into with her incredible personality, sense of humour, striking looks and demeanour.\n\n\"Those who know her will ache to hear the words 'You allriiight' one last time.\"\n\nThe family warned other people against taking \"dangerous NPS (new psychoactive substances) tablets\" and urged \"the government to place the dangers of psychoactive substances at the top of their agenda for discussion on the back of their Drugs Strategy for 2017.\"\n\nJacob Khanlarian, 20, from Newton Abbot, who was charged with intent to supply drugs in connection with the incident, will appear before Exeter Crown Court on 10 August.\n• None Legal highs and chemsex to be targeted\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "When ministers pledged to double the amount of free childcare for working parents, they never dreamed it could lead to some top nurseries closing.\n\nBut just over two years on, that is exactly what is about to happen.\n\nFidgety Fingers in Essex, one of many nurseries which says it cannot make government funding rates stretch over 30 hours, will shut on Wednesday.\n\nThe government says it has boosted the rates it pays councils to fund the scheme, including Essex County Council.\n\nThe Department for Education is sure that the 30 hours scheme, which is due to start in September, will be a success, like it says its trial scheme has been.\n\nBut the popular pre-school, which has been repeatedly rated outstanding by Ofsted, has only just broken even over the last few years like many nurseries and pre-schools.\n\nThe children make full use of its expansive garden, driving around in a make-believe bus, shaded from the sun by the maternal arms of a beautiful apple tree.\n\nBased on the same site as owner Jackie Neagle's home, it has a familial feel, with all the children calling the nursery staff \"auntie\".\n\nThe children will soon be off to pastures new\n\n\"I've never had a parent look at the nursery who hasn't asked for a place,\" she says.\n\nFidgety Fingers caters for pre-school children, with all of those aged three and four being entitled to 15 hours free childcare a week.\n\nBut from September, those from families with working parents will be entitled to 30 hours free care/early years education per week - just so long as their parents do not earn more than £100,000 a year each.\n\nLike many other nurseries, the rate Jackie receives from the government via Essex County Council for the 15 free hours does not cover her staff costs or overheads.\n\nWhen she opened 10 years ago, the money just about worked, she said, but as the bills and overheads have increased it no longer stretches that far.\n\nAnd in recent months the rate the nursery is paid has been reduced to £4.21 an hour from a high of £4.61 several years ago.\n\n\"Currently we make a loss of £1.95 an hour per child, so we ask for voluntary contributions of £30 per week per child,\" she says.\n\nAlthough parents always say they are willing to pay that, she says, they may only be able to do so for a little while.\n\n\"Life happens. You can't run a business on voluntary contributions.\"\n\nBut as nurseries are not allowed to charge any top-up fees - the free hours are advertised as free and must be at the point of use - that's exactly what she is having to do.\n\nMany nurseries make up the shortfall by charging much higher rates for the additional hours, above cost for extras such as lunch or nappies, or by forcing parents to start at a certain time or take their hours in a certain way, she says.\n\n\"I am not prepared to charge £45 for an additional hour. I wouldn't be able to sleep at night.\n\n\"I am an honest person. I don't want to run a business dishonestly, to rip people off, but I do need to make a living.\"\n\nFidgety Fingers has been offering additional hours, but these are charged at £6.50 per hour.\n\nBut when the number of free hours is doubled, the nursery will not be able to charge for additional hours, unless it dramatically increases its opening hours and, as a small set-up with only a small number of staff, that will not be possible.\n\nSo after three decades of working with children, Jackie has reached the point where she feels unable to continue.\n\nHer families have of course been shocked and disappointed, says Jackie.\n\nOne mother, Jordana Mould, whose third and youngest child, Rufus, is at the nursery, said: \"Nothing will compare to Fidgety Fingers. It has become more than just a nursery for my family.\n\nAll three of Jordana's children have attended Fidgety Fingers\n\n\"However, I completely understand why Jackie has to close the doors.\n\n\"How can she run Fidgety Fingers on voluntary payments from parents every month?\"\n\nIronically, Jackie says she started thinking about closing the nursery when it received its fourth outstanding rating by Ofsted.\n\n\"I realised I am not going to be able to reward my fantastic staff with a pay rise.\"\n\nDespite the low pay of staff, children who have attended the nursery go into Reception a year ahead of their classmates on average, says Jackie.\n\nEssex County Council said it had been working with local providers on their decisions on whether to offer the extended hours.\n\nAnd it pledged to support any local families affected by the closure of this nursery.\n\nThe government says it has boosted funding rates in Essex for next year from £3.89 to £4.47 per hour.\n\nThe council is entitled to use a proportion of that money for its administration costs and like all local authorities has had to make huge budget savings in recent years.\n\nChildcare minister Robert Goodwill said the extra free hours were funded nationally by a £1bn boost to raise rates paid to local providers.\n\nHe added that the rates were based on a comprehensive review of childcare costs and took account of current and future pressures.\n\nBut for the staff of Fidgety Fingers, that's not how it feels on the ground.\n\nJackie says: \"The Early Years sector is very good at trying to patch up and make do... but for as long as we all try to do that, the more the government doesn't have to do anything.\n\n\"It's great for parents, but my staff who are earning an average of £8.50 an hour are subsidising parents who are earning up to £200,000 a year.\n\n\"And when you think about that, it just brings it all home.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Two men have been targeted in a suspected acid attack in east London\n\nThe Met Police said the men, thought to be in their late teens, flagged down officers in Bethnal Green at 19:00 BST on Tuesday.\n\nBoth men were taken to hospital. Police said it was still not known what liquid was thrown at them in Roman Road.\n\nNo arrests have been made. A Met Police spokesman said inquiries were ongoing and a crime scene remained in place in the area.\n\nThe condition of the two men is not yet known.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Two men are looked after by emergency services after an acid attack\n\nA video posted on Twitter by Chris Lennon appeared to show a man not wearing a top pouring water over his face and torso while being helped by paramedics.\n\nIn the footage, another man is seen sitting on the pavement, also receiving medical assistance.\n\nBBC journalist Neil Brennan, who lives in the area, said the attack happened outside a corner shop, about two minutes from the Tube station and near police and fire stations.\n\nHe said people nearby told him two Asian men had been attacked.\n\n\"I saw firemen filling two large bottles with water from the fire truck and ferrying it back and forth to the victims,\" he said.\n\nFirefighters filled bottles of water from their vehicle\n\nA tarpaulin was put in place at the scene\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Adobe's Flash software is regularly updated to remove flaws that cyber-thieves exploit\n\nAdobe Systems has said that it plans to phase out its Flash Player plug-in by the end of 2020.\n\nThe technology was once one of the most widely used ways for people to watch video clips and play games online.\n\nBut it also attracted much criticism, particularly as flaws in its code meant it became a popular way for hackers to infect computers.\n\nIn recent years, much of its functionality has been offered by the rival HTML5 technology.\n\nOne of HTML5's benefits is that it can be used to make multimedia content available within webpages without requiring users to install and update a dedicated plug-in.\n\nApple was one of Flash's most vocal critics. The late Steve Jobs once wrote a public letter about its shortcomings, highlighting concerns about its reliability, security and performance.\n\nThe plug-in was never supported by Apple's iOS mobile devices.\n\nAdobe's vice president of product development, Govind Balakrishnan, said the firm had chosen to end Flash because other technologies, such as HTML5, had \"matured enough and are capable enough to provide viable alternatives to the Flash player.\"\n\nHe added: \"Few technologies have had such a profound and positive impact in the internet era.\"\n\nApps developer Malcolm Barclay, who had worked on Flash in its early days, told the BBC: \"It fulfilled its promise for a while but it never saw the mobile device revolution coming and ultimately that's what killed it.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nWhen Adobe acquired Flash in its 2005 purchase of Macromedia, the technology was on more than 98% of personal computers.\n\nBut on Chrome, now the most popular web browser, Flash's usage has fallen off dramatically.\n\nIn 2014 it was used each day by 80% of desktop users, according to Google. The current figure is just 17%.\n\n\"This trend reveals that sites are migrating to open-web technologies, which are faster and more power-efficient than Flash,\" Google added. \"They're also more secure.\"\n\nGoogle phased out full support for Flash software at the end of last year.\n\nMr Balakrishnan said it did not expect the demise of Flash to affect profits at Adobe.\n\n\"We think the opportunity for Adobe is greater in a post-Flash world,\" he said.\n\nBut the firm added that it remained committed to support Flash up until the end of 2020 \"as customers and partners put their migration plans into place\".\n\nThere was immediate reaction to the news on Twitter.\n• None Google to phase out Flash on Chrome", "The Bank of England's financial stability director, Alex Brazier, has been warning about the dangers of rising personal loans.\n\nHe said that High Street banks were at risk of entering \"a spiral of complacency\" about mounting consumer debt levels.\n\n\"Household debt - like most things that are good in moderation - can be dangerous in excess,\" he said.\n\nThe Bank of England's own figures put total debt to individuals at about £1.5 trillion, which is an average of £28,000 for everyone over 16 in the UK.\n\nMost of that - about £1.3tn - is made up of mortgages. The rest is for credit cards, overdrafts and loans to buy things like cars, bikes or kitchens.\n\nIf you look at what's been happening to lending to individuals, you can see from the chart above that it was rising sharply in the years leading up to the financial crisis, then it flattened out. But in the last couple of years it's started rising again.\n\nMr Brazier talked about the risk to banks from the £200bn of non-mortgage debt, which has been growing much faster than household incomes.\n\nThe credit-card element is £68bn, which is up 18% in the last three years.\n\nOf the remaining £130bn, the big growth area has been car loans, with four-fifths of new cars last year bought using Personal Contract Purchase (PCP) deals, which tend to come from finance companies linked to car manufacturers. The Financial Conduct Authority is already concerned about the amount we're borrowing to buy cars.\n\nCan we afford all this? Household debt including mortgages as a proportion of household income rose from 95% in 1997 to 160% before the financial crisis. It then fell back to about 140% but has now started ticking back up. The Office for Budget Responsibility predicts that it will reach 153% in 2022.\n\nAnd all of these Bank of England statistics exclude student loans - currently about £89bn of outstanding student debt, which has more than doubled in the last five years.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mr Trump referred to his \"complete power to pardon\" in a tweet\n\nUS President Donald Trump has insisted he has the \"complete power\" to pardon people, amid reports he is considering presidential pardons for family members, aides and even himself.\n\nThe US authorities are probing possible collusion between the Trump team and Russia. Intelligence agencies think Russia tried to help Mr Trump to power.\n\nRussia denies this, and the president says there was no collusion.\n\nThe Washington Post reported on Thursday that Mr Trump and his team were looking at ways to pardon people close to him.\n\nPresidents can pardon people before guilt is established or even before the person is charged with a crime.\n\nDescribing the reports as disturbing, Senator Mark Warner, a Democrat who sits on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, said \"pardoning any individuals who may have been involved would be crossing a fundamental line\".\n\nOn Saturday, Mr Trump tweeted: \"While all agree the U. S. President has the complete power to pardon, why think of that when only crime so far is LEAKS against us. FAKE NEWS.\"\n\nMr Trump also attacked \"illegal leaks\" following reports his attorney general discussed campaign-related matters with a Russian envoy.\n\nThe Washington Post gave an account of meetings Attorney General Jeff Sessions held with the Russian ambassador to the US, Sergey Kislyak. The newspaper quoted current and former US officials who cited intelligence intercepts of Mr Kislyak's version of the encounter to his superiors.\n\nOne of those quoted said Mr Kislyak spoke to Mr Sessions about key campaign issues, including Mr Trump's positions on policies significant to Russia.\n\nDuring his confirmation hearing earlier this year, Mr Sessions said he had no contact with Russians during the election campaign. When it later emerged he had, he said the campaign was not discussed at the meetings.\n\nAn official confirmed to Reuters the detail of the intercepts, but there has been no independent corroboration.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Commander in tweets: What we can learn from Trump's Twitter\n\nThe officials spoken to by the Post said that Mr Kislyak could have exaggerated the account, and cited a Justice Department spokesperson who repeated that Mr Sessions did not discuss interference in the election.\n\nBut the Post's story was the focus of one of many tweets the US president fired off on Saturday morning.\n\n\"A new INTELLIGENCE LEAK from the Amazon Washington Post, this time against A.G. Jeff Sessions. These illegal leaks, like Comey's, must stop!\" Mr Trump said.\n\nThe Washington Post is owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, who has been an occasional sparring partner for Mr Trump. \"Comey\" refers to James Comey, the former FBI boss Mr Trump fired.\n\nEarlier this week, Mr Trump told the New York Times he regretted hiring Mr Sessions because he had stepped away from overseeing an inquiry into alleged Russian meddling in the US election.\n\nMr Sessions recused himself in March amid pressure over his meetings with Mr Kislyak. He says he plans to continue in his role as attorney general.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sessions said he loved the job and the department\n\nSeveral other regular targets for Mr Trump featured in his series of tweets.\n\nHe accused the \"failing\" New York Times of foiling an attempt to assassinate the leader of the Islamic State group, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.\n\nIt is not clear what Mr Trump was referring to, but on Saturday a US general complained on Fox News that a \"good lead\" on Baghdadi was leaked to a national newspaper in 2015.\n\nA New York Times report at the time revealed that valuable information had been extracted from a raid, but the paper stressed on Saturday that no-one had taken issue with their reporting until now.\n\nAnd Mr Trump again urged Republicans to \"step up to the plate\" and repeal and replace President Obama's healthcare reforms, a key campaign pledge of his that has collapsed in Congress.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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. Trump 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 star played Peter McCallister in the Home Alone films\n\nThe actor John Heard, best known for his role in the Home Alone films, has died at the age of 71.\n\nHeard was found dead on Friday in his hotel room in Palo Alto, California, according to celebrity news website TMZ.\n\nThe Santa Clara medical examiner's office confirmed the death. The cause is unknown.\n\nHeard had reportedly been staying at the hotel after \"minor back surgery\" this week.\n\n\"Our officers responded with the Fire Department to a hotel in our city on a report of a person in need of medical aid,\" the Palo Alto police department said.\n\n\"The person was determined to be deceased. While still under investigation, the death is not considered suspicious at this time.\"\n\nArguably Heard's most memorable role was as Peter McCallister, the father of Macaulay Culkin's character in the Home Alone films, in the 1990s.\n\nBut he first started acting in the 1970s, appearing on the stage, on television and in film.\n\nJames Woods worked with Heard on Too Big to Fail\n\nHe went on to play leading roles in films including Cutter's Way, C.H.U.D and Gladiator, opposite Cuba Gooding, Jr.\n\nIn 1999 he was nominated for an Emmy Award for his role as Vin Makazian - a corrupt New Jersey police detective - in television series The Sopranos.\n\nMarlon Wayans, who worked with Heard on the 2004 comedy White Chicks, wrote on Instagram: \"He was a great guy. Shared a lot of laughs. Sad to see such a good spirit and actor taken.\"", "Wirapol Sukphol was seen flying in a private aircraft in a YouTube video released in 2013\n\nIt was a jarring image; a group of Buddhist monks, with shaven heads and orange robes, sitting back in the soft-leather seats of an executive jet, passing luxury accessories among themselves.\n\nThe video of the monk, now known by his pre-monk name, Wirapol Sukphol, went viral after being posted on YouTube in 2013.\n\nA subsequent investigation by the Thai Department of Special Investigations (DSI) uncovered a lifestyle of what appeared to be mind-blowing decadence. They tracked down at least 200 million Thai baht ($6m; £4.6m) in ten bank accounts, and the purchase of 22 Mercedes Benz cars.\n\nWirapol had built a mansion in southern California, owned a large and gaudily-decorated house in his home town of Ubon Ratchathani, and had also constructed a giant replica of the famous Emerald Buddha statue in Bangkok's royal palace, which he claimed - falsely, as it turned out - contained nine tonnes of gold.\n\nThere was evidence, too, the DSI said, of sexual relationships with a number of women. One woman claimed he had fathered a child with her when she was only 15 years old, a claim the DSI says is supported by DNA analysis.\n\nWirapol fled to the US. It took four years for the Thai authorities to secure his extradition. He has denied criminal charges of fraud, money laundering and rape.\n\nHow had a monk acquired so much influence, even in his early twenties? How was he allowed to behave in ways which clearly violate the patimokkha (the 227 precepts by which monks are supposed to live)? Monks are not even supposed to touch money, and sex is strictly off-limits.\n\nMonks behaving badly are nothing new in Thailand. The temptations of modern life have thrown up many examples of monks with unseemly wealth, monks taking drugs, dancing, enjoying sexual relations with men and women or abusing girls and boys.\n\nThere are also temples which have attracted large and dedicated followings, through skilful promotion of charismatic monks and abbots, said to have supernatural powers.\n\nThese have capitalised on two aspects of modern Thai life; the yearning for spiritual succour among urban Thais, who no longer have a close relationship with a traditional village temple, and a belief that donating generously to powerful temples will bring success and more material wealth.\n\nIt appears Wirapol tapped into this trend. He arrived in the poor North Eastern province of Sisaket in the early 2000s, establishing a monastery on donated land in the village of Ban Yang. But according to the sub-district head, Ittipol Nontha, few local people went to his temple, because they were too poor to offer the kind of donations he expected.\n\nWirapol was questioned as part of an investigation by the DSI\n\nThe monk started holding elaborate ceremonies, he said, selling amulets, and built his replica of the Emerald Buddha, to attract wealthier devotees from other parts of the country.\n\nThese followers have described being beguiled by his soft, warm voice, and convinced by his claim to have powers - like the ability to walk on water and talk to deities. In turn, Wirapol gave generously to those with influence in the province; many of the cars he bought were gifts for important monks and officials.\n\nEven today he still has supporters, who argue he is at heart a good man, entitled to enjoy donated luxuries.\n\nAfter a succession of scandals, people are openly talking about a crisis of Buddhism in Thailand. Numbers of ordained monks have been falling steeply in recent years, and many smaller village temples are unable to support themselves financially.\n\nThe body which is supposed to govern the Buddhist clergy is the Supreme Sangha Council, but this comprises a group of very elderly monks, and until this year had not had a properly functioning Supreme Patriarch for more than a decade. It has proved ineffective.\n\nThe National Office of Buddhism is also supposed to regulate the religion, but it too has been plagued by leadership turmoil and allegations of financial irregularities.\n\nThe government has now introduced a law requiring temples, which collectively accumulate $3-4bn (£2-3bn) in donations every year, to publicise their financial records. It is also talking about introducing a new, digital ID card for monks to ensure those tainted by malpractice cannot be ordained again.\n\nThe faltering morality of monks, though, is partly rooted in the way Buddhism has evolved in Thailand.\n\nFor 150 years there have been two quite different forms of Buddhism; that of the more austere, Thammayut tradition, practised in the elite, palace-backed temples of Bangkok, which upholds the strict rules about monks detaching themselves from the material world; and the looser Mahanikai tradition of the provinces, where monks are part of the community, joining neighbourhood activities, sometimes in violation of the patimokkhai.\n\nIn the villages, temples have served as schools or traditional centres of medicine and venues for local celebrations. The advice of monks has been sought on a range of worldly issues; in this environment the line between what is and is not acceptable behaviour can become blurred.\n\nThe other source of the problem is the hold that superstition has over many Thais, and the way this has become commercialised.\n\nMonks are these days often used more as deliverers of semi-religious rituals - like blessing new cars or houses for good luck - than practitioners of the 227 precepts. No-one in Thailand bats an eyelid at the sight of lottery tickets being sold inside temples.\n\nBuddhist monks are not supposed to touch money, and sex is strictly off-limits\n\nThis love of superstition extends to rich Thais, who are happy to donate generously in the belief this will ensure greater fortune in the future.\n\nPhra Payom Kalayano, the abbot of a temple north of Bangkok well known for his criticism of the commercialisation of Buddhism, has appealed to Thais to be more thoughtful about donating.\n\n\"Nowadays people think good karma is about throwing money at temples - especially rich people. They have faith, but they don't think. That is not practising good karma, smartly. That is just blind faith.\n\n\"At the same time, some monks are stupid. They don't know how to manage the donations they receive. Instead of managing the money to build karma and prestige for the temple, the monks end up building criminal cases against themselves,\" he said.\n\nIn a simpler age, before the arrival of globalisation and its many consumer distractions, it was easier to advocate a monastic life that disavows all material pleasures. But it is harder today to insist that monks should forego technological conveniences like smartphones and air travel.\n\nIt is even harder to define what role monks should play in 21st Century Thailand, beyond the provision of services like amulets and good luck blessings, which can so easily turn into a money-making business.", "Beverly Martin has defected to the Conservative Party\n\nUKIP has lost overall control of the only local authority it runs following the defection of one of its councillors to the Conservatives.\n\nThe loss of Beverly Martin means the party only holds 27 seats on Thanet District Council while the other parties combined hold 28.\n\nMs Martin said she joined the Tories after UKIP failed to make \"significant change\".\n\nUKIP party members have condemned her decision to leave.\n\nUKIP councillor Stuart Piper said: \"I don't think anyone could doubt her care and concern for Ramsgate as a town, but in a sense she's just thrown away the only job she had to coordinate town promotion.\"\n\nIn October 2015 five councillors defected from the UK's first UKIP authority due to concerns over the council's lack of action over Manston Airport.\n\nHowever, the party regained control in 2016 following a by-election.\n\nCouncillor Stuart Piper, UKIP, said Ms Martin had \"thrown away\" an opportunity\n\nMs Martin has swapped allegiance twice before - from UKIP to DIG Alliance and then back to UKIP.\n\nSpeaking about this occasion, she said: \"There has to be a very good reason for making a political change.\n\n\"The first one when I became an independent was specifically on the issue of Manston.\n\n\"We had the opportunity to be a flagship council, that is a very rare privilege and I really had enormous hopes that we would make significant changes on social issues, development and economic issues. Frankly we haven't, not as UKIP.\n\n\"It's Craig Mackinlay, our MP for South Thanet who invited me last year to form a group for assessing what we might do with the port and the beaches, that came from the Conservatives.\n\n\"That is where the energy is coming from.\"\n\nIn the June general election UKIP's vote fell by 26.4% in South Thanet and 21.2% in North Thanet - leaving them with just 6% and 4.5% of the vote.\n\nFirst the local elections and the party loses every seat, then the General Election and it fails to win any seat. Now it's lost the only council it controls in the country. It's been a rough ride for the party's councillors and members. They still don't know who'll lead the party nationally.\n\nCouncillor Beverly Martin says she's always been a Conservative at heart and that joining the group felt like a \"homecoming\". But what of the voters? Did they know that underneath the purple rosette was a blue one?\n\nUKIP group leader Chris Wells told me wasn't surprised by the news, which he heard first from press. He said they'd been there before and they'd get through it again. This isn't the first time he's lost his majority. Nor is it the first time she's left UKIP.\n\nThere will undoubtedly, as there always is, when a politician changes sides be calls for a by-election. But it doesn't sound like Councillor Martin will step down before the election in two years time. She says she'll still be fighting for the things she stood for.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This week the British papers revelled in news about how much the BBC's on-air stars get paid, though the salaries of their counterparts in commercial TV remain under wraps. In Norway, there are no such secrets. Anyone can find out how much anyone else is paid - and it rarely causes problems.\n\nIn the past, your salary was published in a book. A list of everyone's income, assets and the tax they had paid, could be found on a shelf in the public library. These days, the information is online, just a few keystrokes away.\n\nThe change happened in 2001, and it had an instant impact.\n\n\"It became pure entertainment for many,\" says Tom Staavi, a former economics editor at the national daily, VG.\n\n\"At one stage you would automatically be told what your Facebook friends had earned, simply by logging on to Facebook. It was getting ridiculous.\"\n\nTransparency is important, Staavi says, partly because Norwegians pay high levels of income tax - an average of 40.2% compared to 33.3% in the UK, according to Eurostat, while the EU average is just 30.1%.\n\n\"When you pay that much you have to know that everyone else is doing it, and you have to know that the money goes to something reasonable,\" he says.\n\n\"We [need to] have trust and confidence in both the tax system and in the social security system.\"\n\nIn 2015 Norwegian PM Erna Solberg earned 1,573,544 kroner (£151,001). - her assets were valued at 2,054,896 kroner (£197,179) and she paid 677,459 kroner (£65,011) in taxes\n\nThis is considered to far outweigh any problems that may be caused by envy.\n\nIn fact, in most workplaces, people have a fairly good idea how much their colleagues are earning, without having to look it up.\n\nWages in many sectors are set through collective agreements, and pay gaps are relatively narrow.\n\nThe gender pay gap is also narrow, by international standards. The World Economic Forum ranks Norway third out of 144 countries in terms of wage equality for similar work.\n\nSo the figures that flashed up on Facebook may not have taken many people by surprise. But at a certain point Tom Staavi and others lobbied the government to introduce measures that would encourage people to think twice before snooping on the salary details of a friend, neighbour or colleague.\n\nPeople now have to log in using their national ID number in order to access the data on the tax authority's website, and for the last three years it has been impossible to search anonymously.\n\n\"Since 2014 it has been possible to find out who has been doing searches on your information,\" explains Hans Christian Holte, the head of Norway's tax authority.\n\n\"We saw a significant drop to about a 10th of the volume that was before. I think it has taken out the Peeping Tom mentality.\"\n\nThere are some three million taxpayers in Norway, out of a total population of 5.2 million. The tax authority logged 16.5 million searches in the year before restrictions were put into place. Today there are around two million searches per year.\n\nIn a recent survey 92% of people said they did not look up friends, family or acquaintances.\n\n\"Earlier I did do searches, but now it's visible if you do it, so I don't do it any more,\" says a woman I meet on the streets of Oslo, Nelly Bjorge.\n\n\"I was curious about some neighbours, and also about celebrities and royalty. It could be good to know if very rich people are cheating, but you don't always know. Because they have many ways of reducing their income.\"\n\nThe tax lists only tell you people's net income, net assets and tax paid. Someone with a vast property portfolio, for instance, would probably be worth far more than the figure found in the lists, because the taxable property value is often far less than the current market value.\n\nEveryone has been able to see how much anyone earns and the taxes they pay, since 1814\n\nHege Glad, a teacher from Fredrikstad south of Oslo, remembers that when she was young, adults used to queue up to examine the \"enormous, thick\" books of income and tax data, published once a year.\n\n\"I know my father was one of those looking. When he came home he was in a bad mood because our well-to-do neighbour was listed with little income, no assets and, most of all, a very small amount of tax paid,\" she says.\n\nWhile she approves of Norway's transparency in this area, she notes that it can have negative effects. She has seen this in school.\n\n\"I remember once coming into school and a group of boys were very keen to tell me about the massive amounts of money the dad of one of the others in the class was making.\n\n\"I noticed a couple of other boys who usually were part of this gang had pulled back, saying little. The mood was not very nice,\" she says.\n\nThere have been other stories about children from low-income families who have been bullied in school, by classmates who looked up their parents' financial situation.\n\nBut Hans Christian Holte thinks the government currently has the balance about right.\n\nThe fact that anonymous searches are no longer permitted discourages criminals from searching for wealthy people to target.\n\nAnd yet, the restrictions introduced in 2014 have not stopped whistleblowers reporting things they find suspicious.\n\n\"We like people to do searches which could help us in investigating tax evasion and the amount of tips that we get has not gone down,\" he says.\n\n\"Maybe the Peeping Tom part has more or less vanished, but you still have the legitimate reasons for searching and also some good effects of that openness.\"\n\nJoin the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mayor Betsy Hodges was interrupted by angry protesters at a news conference about the resignation\n\nA police chief in the US state of Minnesota has resigned after one of her officers fatally shot an unarmed Australian woman.\n\nJustine Damond was killed after she called the police to report a woman screaming outside her home in a quiet suburb of Minneapolis last week.\n\nPolice chief Janee Harteau had earlier said it \"should not have happened\".\n\nThe city's mayor accepted her resignation, saying she had lost confidence in Ms Harteau.\n\nMs Damond's death provoked outrage in her homeland, where Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull called it \"inexplicable\" and \"a shocking killing\".\n\nThe 40-year-old yoga and meditation teacher, originally from Sydney, was shot when she approached a police car after reporting a suspected rape.\n\nA lawyer for Ms Damond's family has called it \"ludicrous\" to suggest the two officers inside had feared an ambush.\n\nSpeaking at a news conference in Minneapolis shortly before her resignation was announced, Ms Harteau said the killing was \"the actions and judgement of one individual\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOfficer Mohamed Noor, who shot Ms Damond in the abdomen, has refused to be interviewed by investigators, as is his legal right.\n\nBody cameras, which are worn by all Minneapolis police, had not been turned on at the time of the shooting and the squad car dashboard camera also failed to capture the incident.\n\nChief Harteau said the cameras worn by Officers Noor and Matthew Harrity \"should have been activated\".\n\nMayor Betsy Hodges said, in a written statement, that it was unacceptable for body cameras \"to fail us when we needed them most\".\n\nFred Bruno, the lawyer for Officer Harrity, has said: \"It is reasonable to assume an officer in that situation would be concerned about a possible ambush.\"\n\nHowever Robert Bennett, who represents Ms Damond's family, said she \"was not a threat to anyone\".\n\nHe told CBS News: \"I think that [the ambush fear] is ludicrous. It's disinformation. It doesn't have any basis in fact.\"\n\nOn Wednesday, police released the transcript of two separate 911 calls Ms Damond made after hearing screams nearby.\n\n\"I'm not sure if she's having sex or being raped,\" she told the police operator, before giving her address.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"I think she just yelled out 'help', but it's difficult, the sound has been going on for a while,\" she continued.\n\nMs Damond called back eight minutes later to ensure police had the correct address.\n\nHennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman has said he will decide whether to charge the police officer.", "Results of Charlie's scan were heard in court before his parents had been informed privately\n\nCharlie Gard's parents reacted angrily in court when medical information was revealed about their son which they had not previously been told about.\n\nThe High Court was told a scan of the baby's brain made for \"sad reading\". His mother responded: \"We have not even read it\" and her husband walked out.\n\nEarlier, the judge urged protestors supporting the family not to target the hospital.\n\nThe 11-month-old suffers from a rare genetic disorder and underwent a brain scan at the weekend to help settle a medical dispute about whether his treatment should be continued or whether he should be allowed to die with dignity.\n\nOn hearing the hospital lawyer's assessment of the scan, Charlie's mother Connie Yates broke down in tears and his father Chris Gard shouted \"evil\" at the lawyer before walking out of court earlier.\n\nThe case has been the subject of a lot of media attention\n\nCharlie's parents are fighting for the right to remove their child from GOSH's care. They want instead to take him to the US for experimental treatment, which a neurologist from New York said might give him a 10% chance of improving his health.\n\nThe case has attracted a lot of attention around the world and campaigners who want the judge to \"let Charlie live\" have lined the High Court entrance for the hearings.\n\nPreviously, the judge has condemned people who had abused and threatened GOSH medics on social media as a result of Charlie's case.\n\nMr Justice Francis, who is presiding, warned earlier there were \"lots and lots\" of other sick children being treated by the hospital whose families might not want to be confronted by campaigners.\n\nGOSH has confirmed it received complaints from family members of other children being treated at the hospital, but would not provide further details.\n\nConnie Yates and Chris Gard want Charlie to receive an experimental therapy called nucleoside\n\nMr Justice Francis will analyse the latest expert evidence at a High Court hearing on Monday and Tuesday.\n\nAt a preliminary hearing on Friday, he said he would need to know whether there was \"new material\" which could make a \"difference\".\n\nLawyers representing GOSH said they had \"yet to see\" any new evidence.\n\nA US doctor who has offered to treat Charlie has attended a meeting with his GOSH care team to decide whether he should travel to America for therapy.\n\nDr Michio Hirano met doctors earlier this week to examine Charlie and discuss his condition.", "HMP Hewell has about 1,000 adult male prisoners at its closed site\n\nA prison officer was taken to hospital with minor injuries after an \"incident\" at HMP Hewell.\n\nSpecially trained prison security teams arrived at the prison near Redditch in Worcestershire late on Saturday night.\n\nThe Prison Service said a \"small number\" of inmates at the category B jail were involved in the disturbance.\n\nPrison authorities are now back in full control of the affected wing and the matter has been referred to West Mercia Police.\n\nMen shouting and swearing, as well as banging and dogs barking, could be heard coming from the prison.\n\nSpecialist security squads, equipped to deal with riots, arrived at the site in unmarked vans at about 19:30 BST.\n\nHMP Hewell is surrounded by farmland and houses about 1,000 inmates - including some category A remand prisoners.\n\nIn an inspection report published in January, Hewell was described as \"a prison with many challenges and areas of serious concern\".\n\nPeter Clarke, chief inspector of prisons, said the \"main concerns\" were regarding \"issues of safety and respect\".\n\nHe said levels of violence were \"far too high\", communal areas were \"dirty\" and many cells were overcrowded.\n\nA Prison Service spokesman said: \"We are absolutely clear that offenders who behave in this way will be punished and face spending extra time behind bars.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The hospital said \"unacceptable behaviour\" had been recorded \"within the hospital\"\n\nStaff at Great Ormond Street Hospital have received death threats over the treatment of baby Charlie Gard.\n\nThe hospital said police had been called after families were \"harassed\" and \"unacceptable behaviour\" was recorded in the hospital.\n\nIt is involved in a legal battle to remove life support from the 11-month-old, who has a rare genetic disorder.\n\nHis parents Connie Yates and Chris Gard said they did not condone abuse and had also faced \"nasty and hurtful remarks\".\n\nHealth Secretary Jeremy Hunt said on Twitter although Charlie's case was \"sad and complex\", this behaviour was \"totally unacceptable\".\n\nCharlie, who was born on 4 August 2016, has a form of mitochondrial disease, a condition that causes progressive muscle weakness and irreversible brain damage, and his parents want to take him to the US for pioneering treatment.\n\nConnie Yates and Chris Gard want Charlie to receive an experimental therapy called nucleoside\n\nThey have lost a succession of court cases to overturn the hospital's decision that it would be in the best interest of the child to be allowed to die with dignity.\n\nThe latest court battle involves new testimony from a US neurologist who has visited Charlie in hospital to decide whether he should travel to America for therapy.\n\nCharlie's parents want to take him to New York for experimental treatment, which the US doctor said might give him a 10% chance of improving his health.\n\nMary MacLeod, chairman of Great Ormond Street Hospital, said in a statement that Charlie's case was \"a heartbreaking one\", adding the hospital understood the \"natural sympathy people feel with his situation\".\n\nHowever, in recent weeks the hospital community had been subjected to a \"shocking and disgraceful tide of hostility and disturbance,\" she said.\n\nCharlie has a rare genetic condition and is on life support\n\nShe added: \"Staff have received abuse both in the street and online.\n\n\"Thousands of abusive messages have been sent to doctors and nurses whose life's work is to care for sick children.\n\n\"Many of these messages are menacing, including death threats.\n\n\"Families have been harassed and discomforted while visiting their children, and we have received complaints of unacceptable behaviour even within the hospital itself.\"\n\nMs MacLeod, who also chairs the hospital's clinical ethics committee, said \"there can be no excuse\" for patients, families and staff \"to have their privacy and peace disturbed\".\n\nIn a statement issued through a spokeswoman, Charlie's parents said: \"We don't condone abusive or threatening behaviour to GOSH staff or anybody in connection with our son.\n\n\"We too get abuse and have to endure nasty and hurtful remarks on a daily basis.\n\n\"People have different opinions and we accept that but there is a line that shouldn't be crossed as it makes a stressful situation worse and is very upsetting for all involved.\"\n\nThe case is due back before a High Court judge on Monday.", "The ITV documentary in which Princes William and Harry talk about the death of their mother, Princess Diana, is the lead for several of the Sunday papers.\n\nThey focus on the Princes' recollections of their final phone call with her, hours before she died in the Paris car crash - and their regret that they didn't speak for longer.\n\n\"Last call with Mum haunts us\", is the Sunday Mirror's headline, and it's a similar theme for the Star on Sunday.\n\nThe Mail on Sunday's coverage extends to 10 inside pages and includes a number of newly-released pictures.\n\nOne of them - of a young Prince Harry being cuddled by his mother during a family holiday - appears on the front pages of the Sunday Times and the Sunday Telegraph.\n\nThe open letter by more than 40 of the BBC's top female presenters to the corporation's director-general, Lord Hall, calling on him to act now to close the gender pay gap, is widely covered - and makes the lead for the Telegraph.\n\nThe paper has the headline: \"Revolt of the BBC women\". It describes the letter as an unprecedented show of anger.\n\nWriting in the Mirror, Saira Khan says what really upset her was seeing definitive proof that the BBC - the organisation we trust to be the voice of British values around the world - is \"sexist to its core\".\n\nRemarks by the Environment Secretary, Michael Gove, that the cabinet is united in wanting a transitional Brexit deal on migrant labour that meets the needs of British business, is welcomed by a number of papers.\n\nThe Mail says a wise and typically British compromise - in which the desires of all are considered, but neither side gets everything it wants - may now be taking shape.\n\nFor the Sunday Times, the cabinet is moving in the direction of an open and entrepreneurial Brexit - the only basis for Britain's future success.\n\nIn the words of Andrew Rawnsley in the Observer, the slow learners in the cabinet have finally grasped that Britain will require a smoothed departure if there is to be any hope of avoiding a shock Brexit.\n\nAccording to the Mail, President Trump has been asked to make a \"dummy\" State visit to Britain this year to show that he can avoid embarrassing the Queen.\n\nThe paper says he's been invited to come for brief talks with Theresa May - but with none of the Royal pomp and circumstance he wanted.\n\nAs a face-saving measure - the paper goes on - Mr Trump will be offered a State visit next year - but it won't take place unless the low-profile trip is a success.\n\nFinally, as the ITV 2 reality show, Love Island, reaches its climax tomorrow, a number of commentators explore what has made it such a rating success.\n\nFor Zoe Strimpel in the Telegraph, it has become the guilty pleasure of our time. The opportunity to watch other people - with perfect bodies and zero wrinkles - trying to solve the modern riddle of love is just too cathartic to miss.\n\nWriting in the Observer, Emine Saner says the show has been carefully seducing us - or to put it in Love Island speak, \"proper grafting\". Many of us will be heartbroken when it leaves us, she says.", "Thomson has apologised to passengers for the delay\n\nA flight from Aberdeen to Faro in Portugal has finally arrived at its destination after take-off was delayed by more than 38 hours.\n\nThe 140 holidaymakers had been stranded at Aberdeen Airport since arriving on Thursday morning for what should have been the 06:00 flight.\n\nThe flight was delayed because of a technical issue with the aircraft.\n\nThere were also 114 stranded Thomson passengers in Portugal waiting for the return flight.\n\nThe flight from Aberdeen to Portugal did not depart until 20:43 on Friday evening, the airline said.\n\nThose affected by the delay were put up in hotels overnight and given vouchers to buy refreshments.\n\nThomson said the Aberdeen to Faro flight had arrived at 23:40 local time.\n\nPassengers flying from Portugal were diverted to Manchester and then taken to Aberdeen on a coach, arriving in the city at about 01:00 on Saturday.\n\nIn total, 245 passengers in Aberdeen and Faro were affected by the delay\n\n\"We would like to apologise for the inconvenience caused to customers who travelled on flights FPO811 from Aberdeen to Faro and FPO812 from Faro to Aberdeen, which unfortunately were delayed as a result of a technical issue,\" a spokeswoman for Thomson said.\n\n\"We provided affected customers with overnight accommodation and vouchers for refreshments. We also be providing letters to customers with EU flight delay claim information in line with the Civil Aviation Authority's guidelines.\n\n\"We understand how frustrating a flight delay can be and we would like to thank affected passengers for their patience and understanding.\"\n\nSpeaking earlier on Friday, Susan Davidson told BBC Scotland that she and the other passengers had been taken off the aircraft shortly before it had been due to depart Aberdeen on Thursday morning.\n\n\"We were really given no information whatsoever and just left waiting in the airport,\" she said.\n\n\"Finally I think it must have been about 14:15 yesterday we were told we would be put up in a hotel and just to await further information from the company.\"\n\nMrs Davidson said passengers had been \"pretty much kept in the dark\" by the airline, with most of the information coming from the hotel she had been staying at.\n\nShe added: \"The children are exhausted and desperate to get away. It has just been awful.\"\n\nJames Hepburn, who should also have been on the flight from Aberdeen on Thursday morning, described the delay as \"horrific\" and said he was \"very, very angry\".", "Ms Martínez (right) says she was born in 1956 as a result of an affair between Dalí and her mother\n\nSalvador Dalí's moustache is intact in the \"10 past 10\" position, the surrealist painter's foundation has said, a day after his body was exhumed.\n\n\"It was like a miracle,\" said Narcis Bardalet, who was in charge of embalming Dalí's body 28 years ago, adding that the hair was also intact.\n\nThe body was exhumed in the north-eastern Spanish city of Figueres to settle a paternity case.\n\nA woman says her mother had an affair with the world-famous artist.\n\nIf María Pilar Abel Martínez is proved right, she could assume part of Dalí's estate, currently owned by the Spanish state.\n\nDalí's body was exhumed from a crypt in a museum dedicated to his life and work on Thursday evening.\n\n\"When I took off the silk handkerchief, I was very emotional,\" Mr Bardalet told RAC1 radio station on Friday morning.\n\n\"I was eager to see him and I was absolutely stunned. It was like a miracle... his moustache appeared at 10 past 10 exactly and his hair was intact,\" he added.\n\nLluís Peñuelas, the secretary of the Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation, said that it was \"a moving moment\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDNA samples have been taken from the artist's teeth, bones and nails in a four-hour operation, the officials say.\n\nIt may take weeks before the results of the tests are known.\n\nThe exhumation went ahead following a court order on behalf of Ms Martínez.\n\nThis was despite the objections of the local authorities and the Dalí Foundation, both of which said that not enough notice had been given.\n\nMs Martínez, a tarot card reader who was born in 1956, says her mother had an affair with Dalí in the year before her birth.\n\nHer mother, Antonia, had worked for a family that spent time in Cadaqués, near the painter's home.\n\nMs Martínez's action is against the Spanish state, to which Dalí left his estate.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Will Gompertz explained how Dali's body would be removed\n\nMs Martínez says her mother and paternal grandmother both told her at an early age that Dalí was her real father.\n\nBut the claim has surprised many, including Ian Gibson, an Irish-born biographer of Dalí, who said that the notion of the artist having an affair that produced a child was \"absolutely impossible\".\n\n\"Dalí always boasted: 'I'm impotent, you've got to be impotent to be a great painter',\" the biographer said.\n\nDalí's wife, Gala, died in 1982 - after which he is said to have lost much of his zest for life", "The medals were awarded to Lieutenant-General Rowland Hill who fought alongside the Duke of Wellington\n\nA military badge with medals awarded to a soldier who fought with the Duke of Wellington in 1815 has been found.\n\nThe medals were discovered in their original box in Derbyshire and will be auctioned later this month.\n\nThe brooch with the medals, including several grand crosses, belonged to Viscount Hill, Charles Hanson of Hanson's Auctioneers said.\n\nThe general, born in Shropshire, was known as Daddy Hill by his troops due to his caring nature.\n\nKnown as Daddy Hill, the general was \"renowned for looking after his men\"\n\nThe medals are expected to sell for thousands of pounds.\n\nLieutenant-General Rowland Hill was a British Army officer who served in the Napoleonic Wars as a commander under Wellington.\n\nThe medals discovered in Derbyshire include the Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, the Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Guelphic Order, the Grand Cross of the Order of the Tower and the Sword and the Peninsular Cross.\n\nA statue in Shrewsbury commemorates the Waterloo general but has been damaged by heavy rain, frost and snow\n\nMr Hanson said: \"(Hill) was a man who never married, he devoted his life to serving his country. He led armies of up to 30,000 men in some of the most important battles of the 1800s in Egypt, Spain, Portugal and France.\n\n\"He inevitably had brushes with death. At the Battle of Waterloo, where Hill commanded the II Corps, he was lost in the melee and feared dead but escaped unscathed.\n\n\"He was brilliant on the battlefield and yet humble, a commander renowned for looking after his men.\"\n\nGeneral Hill was born in 1772 at Hawkstone Hall in Shropshire and died in in 1842 at the age of 70.", "A man has been shot in both legs in what police have described as a \"brutal and horrific\" paramilitary-style attack in north Belfast.\n\nThe 30-year-old was attacked by two men as he walked along Henry Place at about 01:30 BST on Saturday.\n\nPolice said it was \"yet another example of how criminal groups seek to control communities through fear and violence\".\n\nThe man was taken to hospital for treatment to his injuries, which are not life-threatening.\n\nSocial Democratic and Labour Party MLA Nichola Mallon said the attack was \"extremely worrying\" for people in the area.\n\n\"Yet again we have had a paramilitary-style shooting,\" she said.\n\n\"It's not for paramilitaries to dispense justice - that's for the police and the courts.\n\n\"People in north Belfast are really weary that yet again north Belfast is in the headlines for something so harrowing.\"", "An airman who disappeared 10 months ago was \"known to sleep in rubbish on a night out\", police have said.\n\nCorrie Mckeague, 23, has not been seen since a night out in Bury St Edmunds last September, when CCTV showed him entering a bin loading bay.\n\nSuffolk Police has confirmed its search of waste at Milton landfill was at an end.\n\nMr Mckeague's family say they are \"devastated\" at the news and disputed claims he would have slept in a bin.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Det Supt Katie Elliott, of Suffolk Police, spoke at a press conference in Martlesham, near Ipswich.\n\nPolice said all the information \"points to the fact Corrie was transported to the landfill\".\n\nDet Supt Katie Elliott said the landfill search for Mr Mckeague had been \"systematic, comprehensive and thorough\".\n\nShe said: \"Corrie had been known to go to sleep in rubbish on a night out. There is no evidence to support any other explanation at this time.\"\n\nCorrie Mckeague's girlfriend April Oliver (centre) announced the birth of their baby daughter on Father's Day\n\nResponding to the news, Corrie's father Martin Mckeague posted a statement on his Facebook page saying: \"The McKeague family in Scotland is devastated by today's announcement.\n\n\"At no point did we think that the search of the site would end this way, and as all the evidence tells us that Corrie is somewhere in that landfill site, we are heartbroken at the thought that we may not be able to bring Corrie home together.\"\n\nHis mother Nicola Urquhart said: \"I have tried really to put my trust in them (the police) but to say I am devastated that they are now saying they think he is still in there but they are going to stop searching, I cannot begin to explain how that makes me feel.\"\n\nShe said she did not believe there was evidence he slept in bins and was \"angry\" at the claim.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDet Supt Elliott said police had spoken to one witness who had previously found Mr Mckeague asleep in a bin and he had been known to previously sleep on park benches, in toilets and stair wells.\n\nAlthough material from the time and place of Mr Mckeague's disappearance has been found at the landfill, the serviceman, from Dunfermline, Fife, has not been discovered.\n\nIn June, Mr Mckeague's girlfriend April Oliver, from Norfolk, gave birth to their daughter.\n\nThe police investigation had established early on that Mr Mckeague's mobile phone tracked the same route, and at the same pace, as a bin lorry on the night of his disappearance.\n\nBut initial inquiries found the rubbish truck was carrying a load of 11kg (1st 10lb), suggesting Mr Mckeague was not on the refuse truck.\n\nThen in March it emerged the true weight of the truck contents was more than 100kg (15st 10lb).\n\nThe error was a \"genuine mistake\", Suffolk Police said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Corrie Mckeague's mother, Nicola Urquhart, spoke of her anguish as the search for the airman was ended\n\nCorrie's mother, Nicola Urquhart, said the initial assurance from police that he was not in the bin lorry had been \"the one thing that was giving me hope that he was still alive\".\n\nPolice say they will now search previously incinerated waste and carry out a review of the investigation for any fresh leads in the case.\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.", "More people will be able to donate blood more easily under the new rules\n\nBlood donation rules for sex workers and gay men are being relaxed in England and Scotland after improvements in the accuracy of testing procedures.\n\nMen who have sex with men can now give blood three months after their last sexual activity instead of 12.\n\nAnd sex workers, who were previously barred from donating, now can, subject to the same three-month rule.\n\nExperts said the move would give more people the opportunity to donate blood without affecting blood supply safety.\n\nThe Advisory Committee on the Safety of Blood, Tissues and Organs - which advises UK health departments - recommended the changes after concluding that new testing systems were accurate and donors were good at complying with the rules.\n\nAll blood that is donated in the UK undergoes a mandatory test for Hepatitis B and C, and HIV, plus a couple of other viruses.\n\nScientists agree that three months is a comfortably long window for a virus or infection to appear and be picked up in the blood.\n\nProf James Neuberger, from the committee, said: \"Technologies to pick up the presence of the virus have greatly improved, so we can now pick up viruses at a much earlier stage in the infection, and therefore it's much easier to tell if a blood donor has the virus.\"\n\nThe rule changes will come into force at blood donation centres in Scotland in November, and in early 2018 in England.\n\nThey will now all be able to donate blood after abstaining from sex for three months.\n\nThe UK government is also considering relaxing the rules for people who have undergone acupuncture, piercing, tattooing and endoscopies, and for those with a history of non-prescribed injecting drug use.\n\nBut these also need changes to current EU legislation.\n\nAlex Phillips, blood donations policy lead at the Terrence Higgins Trust, said the changes were a \"victory for science over stigmatising assumptions\", adding: \"The evidence suggests three months is the right amount of time.\"\n\nShe told BBC One's Breakfast that the lifetime donation ban for sex industry workers was based on \"preconceptions rather than evidence\".\n\nDeborah Gold, chief executive of National Aids Trust, said the new rules were a \"huge advance\" for gay and bisexual men - who can now donate three months from their last sexual activity.\n\nMs Gold said: \"We are also delighted that NHS Blood and Transplant have said they will now investigate how possible it is for some gay men, depending on degree of risk, to donate without even the three-month deferral.\"\n\nNHS Blood and Transplant said there was not currently a shortage of blood in the UK but 200,000 new donors were needed every year to replenish supplies.\n\nIt said there was a particular need for more people from black, Asian and minority ethnic communities to give blood.", "US citizens have now had six months to get used to their new president and still not all are finding it easy. For Americans in the UK there is a double dose of change, with Brexit now firmly under way. London-based writer and broadcaster Michael Goldfarb has been finding that the combination means all conversations turn inexorably to politics.\n\nDonald Trump has been president for half a year. It is a year since Britons voted to leave the European Union. Yes, the two events are linked.\n\nLike an enormous piece of Antarctic sea ice calving off from the continent and drifting away, the Anglo-American world has detached itself from its partners and headed off into the unknown.\n\nFor those of us who are citizens of both countries it has been a strange time.\n\nTwenty years ago, when I was National Public Radio's London correspondent, I used to get invited to the annual American ambassador's 4 July shindig at the residence in Regent's Park. It was a perk of the job.\n\nI didn't hear of an Independence Day bash this year, and anyway there is no ambassador in place yet. In an example of the chaos that swirls around his administration, President Trump's nominee, Woody Johnson, heir to the Johnson & Johnson baby powder fortune and owner of the New York Jets NFL team, has only just been confirmed by the Senate but has not yet presented his credentials to the Court of St James's.\n\nWoody Johnson, pictured at Trump Tower in December, is due in London soon\n\nI haven't been to a 4 July party for ages, but this year was an exception. My hosts were an Anglo-Swiss couple, holding a party in honour of a business colleague from New York - a barbecue on their terrace overlooking a square of renovated warehouses you would never find without GPS.\n\nAfter six months of the Trump whirlwind everyone was exhausted and happy to lay off politics, but it was tough. Plus, the British half of the couple hosting the party works for a major international music publisher and has extensive business in the EU so it was impossible not to touch on Brexit, and once you're on Brexit you get to Trump and then on to this new historical epoch we've been led into - not by war or revolution but via the ballot box. Eventually, we extricated ourselves from the subject. It was time to bring out the sparklers and my 11-year-old happily waved them into the night.\n\nRonald Reagan (left) and Margaret Thatcher in Downing Street, in 1982\n\nThe \"unpresidented\" uniquely American nature of the Trump Administration makes it easy to overlook how much its existence owes to the particular political relationship the UK and the US have enjoyed since Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan came to power within a year of each other.\n\nTrump's \"unpresidented\" tweet was deleted and re-posted with the correct spelling\n\nThatcher/Reagan tried to undo their respective nations' social democratic settlements by radically deregulating markets and gutting trade unions. The pair dominated the West's international security organisations. The Anglo-American axis continued to a greater or lesser extent right through Prime Minister Tony Blair's pledge to President George W Bush to back the US in its war to overthrow Iraq's Saddam Hussein.\n\nIronically, Brexit and the election of Trump were made possible by the votes of those who were the losers in the deregulated, free-trading economic world led by Thatcher/Reagan, which laid the foundations for today's world of economic inequality and employment insecurity. The votes were also an expression of the anger of people at the Iraq War. That anger was not just a phenomenon of the left. One of the key moments in Donald Trump's successful campaign to the get the Republican nomination came in a debate when he said to Bush's brother Jeb: \"The Iraq War was a big fat mistake.\"\n\nJeb Bush (left) and Donald Trump (right) debating in February 2016\n\nLast month Henry Kissinger passed through London briefly to give the keynote address at the Centre for Policy Studies' Margaret Thatcher Conference on Security. The CPS was a think-tank founded by Mrs Thatcher and a few close colleagues in the mid-1970s. I attended expecting to hear Kissinger say something about the security implications of the uncharted waters Anglo-America has entered.\n\nIt never happened. The secret of the 94-year-old Kissinger's rise to secretary of state, and his continued presence on the world stage, is a courtier's ability to flatter his audience. Answering a question about Brexit, Kissinger admitted to the Eurosceptic audience he initially thought it was a terrible idea but now realised Brexit wasn't so bad and could be made to work.\n\nHe never mentioned Trump once. It seemed odd. I would have thought Trump's disruptive approach to foreign relations, the opposite of Kissinger's ideas of rationally maintaining order among the great powers, would have been worth a comment. Especially since the president will be with us for a while yet.\n\nHenry Kissinger and Donald Trump in the Oval Office in May 2017\n\nSix months into the Trump presidency, his popularity numbers are only slowly eroding.\n\nA recent Washington Post/ABC News Poll shows the president's approval rating down to 36%.\n\nThat's six points lower than it was in April. That month I was in America making a BBC radio programme to mark Trump's first 100 days in office and I was talking to some of his unswayable supporters that I had met covering the campaign.\n\nNothing had happened at that stage that would make them change their views, and I doubt even the Russia scandal has reached a point where they will stop supporting him.\n\nSimilarly, in Britain, Brexit voters have been unswayed by the rocky start to negotiations made by Prime Minister Theresa May's government. Despite the Conservatives' poor performance at the recent general election, more than two-thirds of Britons want to continue the Brexit process.\n\nRecently, I found myself chatting with a member of the House of Lords, a former cabinet minister in both the Thatcher and Major governments, and an ardent pro-European.\n\nWe were in the Green Room at New Broadcasting House waiting to go on different BBC news programmes. We were marvelling at the way our world had been turned on its head in the last year.\n\nAn item about Donald Trump came up on the television. The former minister shook his head in bewilderment and asked me how long I thought Trump could last. I told him that so long as the President had 35% to 40% of the country solidly behind him he would be in office a while. I also said I didn't think he would be impeached and that the end of his presidency, whenever it comes, would be \"unpresidented\".\n\nThe Conservative grandee, shook his head. \"This can't go on… it can't go on.\"", "South Korea's Park Sung-hyun has won her first women's major\n\nNewly-crowned golfing champion Park Sung-hyun has become the latest name in a stellar series of female winners from South Korea.\n\nThis week, Park, 23, won the US Women's Open by two shots to claim her first LPGA title. Eight other Korean women also made it to the tour's top 10.\n\n\"It's almost like I'm floating on a cloud in the sky,\" said Park, whose nickname Dak Gong translates to \"shut up and attack\".\n\nSouth Korean women have dominated the fiercely-competitive game, claiming victory at the US Women's Open seven times in the past decade. So what makes them so successful?\n\nFor decades, South Korea has emerged as a major exporter of popular culture. The lucrative 'K Wave' evolved from a regional development into a global phenomenon and cemented the viral status of Korean pop music groups and drama serials.\n\nKorean golfing has now joined the ranks of K-pop and K-drama stars, with its athletes being given an impressive amount of respect on the world stage.\n\n\"Many people associate South Korean women with being just K-pop and K-drama stars. But Park is just one in a long line of champion women golfers from our country,\" wrote Jin Joo-so, a golf fan on Facebook.\n\nMove aside K-drama starlets, these women are carving a new global name for their country\n\nDecades of rigorous training and intense competition has resulted in a generation of strong, young Korean women who have transformed and revolutionised the \"thinking man's game\".\n\nEric Fleming runs a fan site titled SeoulSisters, devoted to South Korean players. He says that the reason why Korean golfers dominate the sport is simple: they work hard.\n\n\"When a Korean girl shows talent in golf, her family will do whatever it takes to support her dream. Even if that means spending most of their savings to make it possible,\" he explained. \"In return, she is expected to do everything possible to maximise her potential.\"\n\nGolf is cut throat and pressure to excel in the sport is huge. But reality is harsh and sadly, not everyone becomes a champion.\n\n\"For the few that make it to the top, they have not only put in thousands of hours of training, they have developed a drive that makes sure they will continue to work hard to get as far as they can,\" Mr Fleming said.\n\n\"When a Korean girl makes it to the LPGA, I believe she is more motivated to win because of all the work and investment she has put in.\n\nShe has to make big sacrifices. Many American golfers just don't.\"\n\nPak Se-ri changed the face of women's golf and sparked a South Korean revolution\n\nThese are exciting times for South Korean golf.\n\nAnd there's one name that's synonymous with the Korean golfing wave and that's Pak Se-ri, the woman credited with starting it all.\n\nThe 39-year-old from Daejeon city is now retired but she went out on a high in 2016 with a Hall of Fame career that yielded several major titles and inspired a wave of young women players who followed her to the renowned LPGA Tour.\n\n\"I am extremely proud of all of them. To witness the success of so many South Korean players on tour makes me feel proud of what I was able to accomplish,\" Ms Pak told BBC News from Seoul.\n\n\"Together we proved and continue to prove that no matter your country, background or circumstances, if you work hard enough to pursue your dreams, anything is possible.\"\n\nShe also spoke about \"competitive training regimes\" which set the standard for many South Korean women, who have learned to adapt to the gruelling game.\n\n\"Golf is a game of repetition and very often, it is difficult to remain dedicated. But hard work, dedication, passion and a lot of support was what I had,\" she said.\n\n\"I can say that from a cultural perspective, South Koreans are exposed to insane amounts of pressure from a very young age. So we naturally deal better with pressure on tour.\"", "Jodie Whittaker will take the title role in Doctor Who but Helen Mirren was star of Prime Suspect back in 2006\n\nIn the week the BBC announced it was casting a woman as Doctor Who for the first time, it also revealed that only a third of its highest-paid stars are women.\n\nHeadlines about women's equality, or otherwise, in British TV abounded.\n\nIt got the Reality Check team thinking about whether Jodie Whittaker's appointment as the first female Doctor was a sign of changing times, or is news from the BBC's payroll a more accurate barometer of female fortunes in entertainment? In essence: are more women getting lead roles in TV dramas?\n\nAccording to our research, the answer seems to be: hardly.\n\nThere is a rise compared with a decade ago - but the increase is marginal. The number of females in lead television roles rose by only one - from 17 in 2006 to 18 in 2016 - although when the number of females enjoying shared lead roles is taken into account, the difference is slightly greater - 26 against 21.\n\nReality Check has looked at the 50 most-watched dramas (excluding soaps) in the UK for 2016, and the corresponding top 50 a decade earlier.\n\nTo compile each list we've used the official consolidated TV viewing figures collected and published by the Broadcasters' Audience Research Board (BARB).\n\nIn 2006, the top 50 most-watched TV dramas included literary adaptations, like Agatha Christie's Miss Marple, starring Geraldine McEwan, and Philip Pullman's The Ruby In The Smoke, featuring Billie Piper in a lead role.\n\nThere were popular original series, too. Ten years ago crime drama Blue Murder, starring Caroline Quentin as detective and single mother Janine Lewis, was in its third series on ITV. And attracting more than five million viewers was The Kindness of Strangers, a psychological drama with Julie Graham and Hermione Norris.\n\nThe top 10 for 2006 featured two female-led shows with an audience of more than eight million: Housewife, 49, based on the wartime diaries of Nella Last and starring Victoria Wood, and Helen Mirren's final appearances as Detective Superintendent Jane Tennison in Prime Suspect 7: The Final Act.\n\nPrime Suspect, of course, was instrumental in leading the way for strong female leads on TV. Lewis and A Touch of Frost were among the most viewed dramas with a male lead.\n\nOn the list in 2016 was the second series of military drama Our Girl, starring Michelle Keegan, as was Dark Angel, a chilling story set in the 19th century starring Joanne Froggatt as prolific serial killer Mary Anne Cotton.\n\nIn terms of overall popularity, three of the five dramas that proved most popular with audiences in 2016 featured a lead character or characters who were female.\n\nForensic crime drama Silent Witness, starring Emilia Fox, was in its 19th series and still attracting audiences in excess of eight million.\n\nHappy Valley, for which Sarah Lancashire won a Best Actress TV Bafta, was in its second run, and there was Call The Midwife, with its female ensemble cast.\n\nPopular shows with a male lead included Benedict Cumberbatch's Sherlock and Death In Paradise, starring Kris Marshall.\n\nSome caveats - streaming services like Netflix and Amazon Prime don't release their viewing figures. That means that undoubtedly popular shows with strong female leads, like The Crown, Orange Is the New Black and The Gilmore Girls revival, could not be included on the 2016 top-50 list.\n\nAnd of course major streaming services did not exist back in 2006.\n\nSo in conclusion, the number of female-led dramas - and the ones in which women share the lead - have slightly increased, along with their popularity with audiences.\n\nBut there's a long way to go before parity is achieved.\n• None All the Doctors, from Hartnell to Whittaker", "It's one of the most debated theories in sci-fi - is Harrison Ford's character in Blade Runner human or an artificially created replicant?\n\nThe answer was left as a mystery in the theatrical release of Ridley Scott's 1982 film - with even Scott and Ford arguing about it - and with a sequel due to be released in October, fans are hoping the issue will finally be resolved.\n\nFord and fellow cast members including Ryan Gosling introduced a second trailer and new clips from the movie at Comic-Con on Saturday, which connect the sequel to the original film.\n\nModerator Chris Hardwicke couldn't help but ask Ford if Blade Runner 2049 would address the lingering questions about Deckard's identity - human or replicant?\n\nAfter a long pause, the star responded: \"It doesn't matter what I think.\"\n\nSo that clears that up then.\n\nHowever he did say he returned for the sequel because: \"We had a really good script based on a really good idea. It deepened the understanding of my character… It had great depth.\"\n\nSet 30 years after the events of the first film, the sequel sees Gosling play Blade Runner Officer K, who discovers a dark secret which leads him on a quest to find Rick Deckard.\n\nThe Comic-Con panel was introduced by a hologram of Jared Leto, who stars as the villain in the movie but wasn't able to be in San Diego in person.\n\nGosling admitted making a Blade Runner sequel was surreal and it still hadn't quite sunk in yet that he was making it.\n\n\"I just remember when I was a kid it was one of the first films that I'd seen where it wasn't clear how I was supposed to feel when it was over,\" he said. \"There's a moral ambiguity to it that's quite a haunting experience.\"\n\nDirector Denis Villeneuve said he took on the job because he \"didn't want anyone else to [muck] it up\", as the original film was his inspiration to become a film-maker.\n\nHowever he thanked Ridley Scott for leaving him to get on with making the film he wanted.\n\nThe final fan question in the Q&A was put to Harrison Ford - was it his goal to reboot every single one of his franchises, having turned his hand to Indiana Jones, Star Wars and now Blade Runner?\n\n\"You bet your ass it is!\" he replied.\n\nWe can only hope for a Working Girl sequel next.\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 Comic-Con: What you should look out for\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Was OJ Simpson's arrest and trial the beginning of reality TV - and Donald Trump's rise?\n\nIt seems entirely fitting that OJ Simpson should reappear at this surreal juncture in American life because many of the trends that culminated in the election of Donald J Trump can be traced back to his arrest and trial.\n\nConsider first of all the impact on the US media of that slow-motion car chase, as \"The Juice\" headed down the 405 freeway in the back of his white Ford Bronco pursued by a small armada of police cars and a squadron of news helicopters. With viewers glued to their televisions ­that day, Domino's recorded a record spike in pizza deliveries.\n\nIt was the moment arguably that real-time, rolling news truly came of age.\n\nThat chase and the gavel-to-gavel coverage of the 1995 trial on CNN and Court TV demonstrated a voracious appetite for cable news. The OJ \"trial of the century\", with its blend of tabloid sensationalism and serious analysis, established the formula for ratings success.\n\nIn last year's presidential election, the media fixation with Donald Trump demonstrated how that recipe still works now. His candidacy could almost have been tailor made to fit the requirements of real-time cable news and Twitter, its digital equivalent.\n\nIn ratings terms, his road to the White House became the political equivalent of that freeway chase, an improbable journey we couldn't take our eyes off partly because we were fascinated to learn how it would end. Donald Trump exploited this. The billionaire reality TV star, sensing immediately his media pulling power, became the ringmaster of an OJ-style circus.\n\nOJ Simpson was already a star, but the whole of America was hooked on every detail of the trial\n\nAmerica's celebrity culture predates OJ Simpson, but his trial unquestionably fuelled it. Johnny Cochran, Marcia Clark, Robert Shapiro. The attorneys became stars in their own right. So, too, did Judge Lance Ito. Kato Kaelin, a minor player, parlayed his witness stand limelight into various appearances on reality TV shows.\n\nThen there's the Kardashian connection. OJ's close friend Robert Kardashian, the father of Kourtney, Kim, Chloe and Rob, sat alongside the defence team throughout the trial.\n\nThe first time that Americans were introduced to a Kardashian on television was when Robert appeared before the media on 17 June, 1994, the day of the Bronco car chase, to read a letter penned by OJ which sounded like a confession. Robert Kardashian became one of the first inadvertent celebrities of the OJ story, and his children ended up being beneficiaries.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFew episodes in American life so starkly exposed the racial divide as the OJ verdict. A majority of whites were convinced of his guilt. Polls suggested that six out of 10 African-Americans thought him innocent. In the Oscar-winning documentary OJ: Made in America, one of the most stunning sequences comes when the shots of jubilant African-Americans celebrating OJ's acquittal are juxtaposed with white viewers speechless and stunned. Such was the roar of delight from OJ's supporters gathered outside the courthouse that a police horse reared up in fright.\n\nBack then it was stunning to see how Americans presented with the same evidence could reach conclusions so diametrically opposed. But it was not altogether surprising. In the aftermath of the Rodney King beating, and the acquittal of the officers who clubbed him so mercilessly, it made sense for the defence team to put the Los Angeles Police Department on trial. Playing what became known as \"the race card\" was a clever, if cynical ploy (OJ's lawyer Robert Shapiro famously said afterwards his legal team had played the race card from \"the bottom of the pack\").\n\nAfter the celebrated former football star had been acquitted, one of the nine African-Americans on the jury was brazen enough to flash OJ Simpson the black power salute. Another black juror, Carrie Bess, unashamedly told the makers of OJ: Made in America the verdict was payback for Rodney King.\n\nAmericans reached radically different conclusions in 1995, as they do now\n\nThe black lawyer Johnny Cochran had successfully tapped into a shared sense of victimhood among African-Americans understandably appalled by the institutional racism of the LAPD. Mark Fuhrman, the detective who was recorded using a racial epithet, became exhibit one, the perfect bogey man.\n\nHere again there are parallels with the election of Donald Trump, when voters were presented with the same evidence, the same televised spectacle, and reached diametrically opposed opinions. Again America was riven, although the roots of that polarisation were different. With OJ, it was race.\n\nWith Trump, it was class, education, gender and geography. Yet he, too, tapped into a shared sense of victimhood. He portrayed himself as the victim of the Washington political establishment and East Coast liberal media, essentially telling his supporters that the same elites sneering at him were the same elites sneering at them. Whereas Cochran played the race card, Trump deployed the rage card.\n\nAnother parallel. When historians study the rise of post-truth politics, the triumph of feelings over fact, they will surely trace at least some of its origins back to the OJ Simpson trial. In that LA County courtroom, the evidence overwhelmingly pointed towards Simpson's guilt on charges of murdering his ex-wife, Nicole Simpson Brown, and her friend, Ron Goldman.\n\nYet some jury members admitted afterwards they wanted to give the LAPD and the prosecution team a bloody nose. For some jurors, it was a protest verdict, based on emotion rather than the facts of the case.\n\nWhat struck me about last year's election was how many voters were prepared to overlook Donald Trump's truth-stretching and falsehoods because of their determination to exact revenge and send a message. Trump's relied on slogans - Make America Great Again, Build the Wall, Lock Her Up - ­knowing they had more resonance than detailed policies. Feelings were more important than facts. Hillary Clinton became the perfect bogey woman. Someone who personified all that was wrong with the American body politic. Someone who used the \"d\" word, deplorables, to describe them.\n\nMany of those who voted for Trump felt the political system was rigged against the white working class, just as some of the black jurors in the OJ trial felt the political system was rigged against them.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Four things OJ did in while in prison\n\nJohnny Cochran proved a master at presenting alternative facts, even coming up with the simple, but deeply misleading, catch-phrase, \"if it doesn't fit you must acquit\". Donald Trump has become the greatest practitioner of post-truth politics, and cries \"fake media\" in much the same way that Cochran talked of fake forensic evidence. During his first six months in office, the President made 836 false statements, according to the fact-checkers at the Washington Post, but that doesn't seem to worry staunch Trump loyalists.\n\nBack in 1995 the world was captivated by the trial of OJ Simpson, just as it now is with the trials and tribulations of Donald Trump.\n\nTo outsiders, both are Only in America phenomena. When the not guilty verdict was handed down, many global onlookers found it completely inexplicable, and concluded there must be something terribly wrong with America's criminal justice system.\n\nIs that now not the question being asked of America's broken politics?", "Former Great British Bake Off hosts Mel and Sue are to host the return of BBC classic show The Generation Game.\n\nIt has been commissioned for an initial four-episode run, although a launch date has yet to be set.\n\n\"It's a cuddly toy, it's a toaster, it's a circular power saw, no it's Mel and Sue doing the Generation Game! We can't believe it, we are so excited!\" the hosts said.\n\nThe new show will combine aspects of the original series with new games.\n\nPerkins had hinted earlier this month on Radio 4's Desert Island Discs that the presenting duo might reunite for another TV project soon, after quitting The Great British Bake Off last year when the BBC lost the rights to Channel 4.\n\n\"I'm very hopeful Mel and I will do some pratting about, but I couldn't tell you exactly what yet. Possibly some prime-time pratting,\" she told Kirsty Young.\n\nBBC Studios said audiences had identified the Generation Game as \"the TV show that viewers most wanted to see back on their screens\".\n\nThe show sees pairs of family members across generations take part in performance and task-based games, with the ultimate goal of facing the Conveyor Belt.\n\nThis is a memory test whereby the winning pair watches prizes pass on the belt before attempting to remember each one to win it, from household appliances to the infamous cuddly toy.\n\nSir Bruce Forsyth fronted the Generation Game from 1971-77 and again from 1990-94\n\nAll the family pairs will start the show in the studio audience and only find out which game they are playing when Mel and Sue announce them.\n\nA panel of star judges will score the pairs after each game and decide which will get to face the Conveyor Belt.\n\nCharlotte Moore, the director of BBC content, said: \"The Generation Game is an iconic BBC One show, so to be able to bring it back for today's audience with Mel and Sue overseeing things is a wonderful moment for the channel.\"\n\nLarry Grayson and Jim Davidson have also presented the Generation Game\n\nOne-off editions of the show were hosted by Vernon Kay in 2011 and Graham Norton in 2005\n\nThe Generation Game began on BBC One in 1971, with Sir Bruce Forsyth as its longest-serving host. The entertainer fronted the show for two spells from 1971 to 1977 and 1990 to 1994.\n\nThe Generation Game was presented by Larry Grayson between 1978 and 1982 and Jim Davidson from 1995 to 2002.\n\nThere have also been two one-off editions of the show. Graham Norton presented a Christmas edition in 2005, while Vernon Kay took charge of a version for Comic Relief in 2011.\n\nIn 2014, one of the contestants on the Comic Relief special, Miranda Hart, was reported to be in talks to host a revival herself.\n\nThe announcement of the show's revival with Mel and Sue was described by comedian Susan Calman on Twitter as \"smashing\", while Sally-Ann Burgon tweeted: \"Just perfect, literally just the most perfect \"regeneration\" of a show\".\n\nBut Mark Rice was among several people to wonder why an old format was being revived, tweeting: \"Love Mel and Sue but, seriously, the Generation Game? Can the BBC not come up with any fresh ideas for such great presenters?\"\n\nMeanwhile, Daily Mirror TV critic Ian Hyland mischievously suggested: \"The BBC should put Mel & Sue's Generation Game on at the same time as Bake Off on C4. And have a cake icing round featuring Mary Berry.\"\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.", "Casper Read was travelling alone to grandparents in Toulouse, France\n\nThe mother of a boy taken off a plane at Gatwick due to a lack of seats is demanding EasyJet overhaul its ticketing process.\n\nCasper Read, 15, was travelling alone to grandparents in France when he was asked to leave the plane after a man was allocated the same seat.\n\nStephanie Portal, from Worthing, West Sussex, said her son felt \"he had been kicked off and cheated\".\n\nEasyJet has apologised, offered compensation and is investigating.\n\n\"There was him and an adult for one seat and the adult was getting very angry about it all,\" Miss Portal said.\n\n\"I don't know if it was a random selection, or if they thought Casper would be the easier option to get off the plane, but it's wrong.\n\n\"He was asked to go to the cockpit - thinking he would be allocated another seat - but before he knew it, was taken outside the plane and told to go to the information desk.\n\n\"He was left to make his own way through the airport, nobody in departures to meet or help him, and despite there being three more flights that day was put on the latest one and had a 10 hour wait.\"\n\nCasper Read had to wait 10 hours for the last flight of the day\n\nMiss Portal said a manager at EasyJet told her the airline overbooks its flights by up to five seats due to people often not showing up, and that it was the last people to check-in, not the last to buy their tickets, who were in danger of not getting a seat.\n\n\"The whole system needs an overhaul and the attitude of the attendants was irresponsible,\" she said.\n\n\"Children should never be pulled off a flight and the people who are should be given priority on the next one.\n\n\"Airlines cannot gamble on the probability of people not turning up.\"\n\n\"Casper is quite laid back but he really felt he had been kicked off and cheated,\" she added.\n\nA spokesman for the airline said: \"EasyJet is sorry that Casper Read's flight from London Gatwick to Toulouse was overbooked on 20 July.\n\n\"We are investigating why he was able to board the aircraft as he should have been informed at the gate.\n\n\"EasyJet has a procedure to protect unaccompanied minors but unfortunately this was not followed on this occasion.\"\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. \"Boots spectacularly misjudged public opinion,\" says Clare Murphy of the BPAS\n\nBoots has said it is \"truly sorry\" for its response to calls to cut the cost of one of its morning-after pills.\n\nThe pharmaceutical company was criticised after telling the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) it was avoiding \"incentivising inappropriate use\".\n\nIt now says it is looking for cheaper alternatives to the Levonelle brand.\n\nThe firm said it \"sincerely\" apologised for its \"poor choice of words\" over the emergency contraception pricing.\n\nThe progestogen-based drug Levonelle costs £28.25 in Boots, with a non-branded equivalent priced at £26.75.\n\nThe branded drug costs £13.50 at Tesco and a generic version is £13.49 in Superdrug.\n\nClaire Murphy from the BPAS welcomed the move by Boots but said it would keep up the pressure on the chain.\n\n\"Women struggle to access emergency contraception and the cost is a key barrier,\" she said.\n\n\"It's been wonderful to hear the women, and the men, of this country stand up and really make their voices heard in response to the position Boots originally took.\"\n\nBut Laura Perrins from the blog Conservative Women said condemning a pharmacy for setting a price on a particular drug was itself a \"form of moralising\".\n\nShe said Boots should not be forced to reduce the cost, saying Levonelle \"is a drug that is unlike others and is a drug that can be given to under-age girls without parental consent\".\n\nThe BPAS has lobbied Boots to reduce the cost of the pill to make it more accessible for women having difficulty getting the drug quickly on the NHS.\n\nThe service also found the pills can cost up to five times more in the UK than in some parts of Europe.\n\nPreviously, Boots had defended its pricing plan for the pill, saying it was often contacted by individuals who criticise the company for providing the service.\n\nIt also said it \"would not want to be accused of incentivising inappropriate use, and provoking complaints, by significantly reducing the price of this product\".\n\nThe response led to some Labour MPs saying Boots had taken an \"unacceptable\" moral position, while health campaigners talked of a \"sexist surcharge\".\n\nThe company later issued another statement, stating regret that its previous response had \"caused offence and misunderstanding\".\n\nIt added: \"The pricing of [emergency hormonal contraception] is determined by the cost of the medicine and the cost of the pharmacy consultation.\n\n\"We are committed to looking at the sourcing of less expensive EHC medicines, for example generics, to enable us to continue to make a privately-funded EHC service even more accessible in the future.\n\n\"In addition the NHS EHC service where it is locally commissioned, is provided for free in over 1,700 of our pharmacies, and we continue to urge the NHS to extend this free service more widely.\"\n\nThe morning-after pill can be taken in the days after unprotected sex to prevent pregnancy.\n\nIn England, Levonelle and EllaOne are free of charge from most sexual health clinics, most GP surgeries and most NHS walk-in centres or urgent care centres, but they are free only to women in certain age groups from pharmacies in some parts of the country.\n\nIn Scotland and Wales, the emergency contraceptive pill is available free of charge on the NHS from pharmacies, GPs and sexual health clinics.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, some pharmacies allow it to be bought on the NHS, and it is available free of charge from sexual health clinics and GPs.\n\nSandra Gidley, from the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, said the original stance taken by Boots was a \"little uncomfortable\".\n\nShe said: \"They seemed to be saying women would be irresponsible and that can't be the case because pharmacists have to ask a set number of questions so if women are regularly trying to use the morning after pill as a method of contraception they're simply not allowed to have it.\"\n• None How risky is the contraceptive pill?\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. Introducing drone registration \"is not about stopping people having fun\"\n\nThe UK government has announced plans to introduce drone registration and safety awareness courses for owners of the small unmanned aircraft.\n\nIt will affect anyone who owns a drone which weighs more than 250 grams (8oz).\n\nDrone maker DJI said it was in favour of the measures.\n\nThere is no time frame or firm plans as to how the new rules will be enforced and the Department of Transport admitted that \"the nuts and bolts still have to be ironed out\".\n\nThe drone safety awareness test will involve potential flyers having to \"prove that they understand UK safety, security and privacy regulations\", it said.\n\nThe plans also include the extension of geo-fencing, in which no-fly zones are programmed into drones using GPS co-ordinates, around areas such as prisons and airports.\n\n\"Our measures prioritise protecting the public while maximising the full potential of drones,\" said Aviation Minister Lord Martin Callanan.\n\n\"Increasingly, drones are proving vital for inspecting transport infrastructure for repair or aiding police and fire services in search and rescue operations, even helping to save lives.\n\n\"But like all technology, drones too can be misused. By registering drones and introducing safety awareness tests to educate users, we can reduce the inadvertent breaching of airspace restrictions to protect the public.\"\n\nThere has not been a significant accident involving a drone yet, but there have been several reports of near misses with commercial aircraft. There have also been incidents of drones being used to deliver drugs to prison inmates.\n\n\"Registration has its place. I would argue it will focus the mind of the flyer - but I don't think you can say it's going to be a magic solution,\" said Dr Alan McKenna, law lecturer at the University of Kent.\n\n\"There will be people who will simply not be on the system, that's inevitable.\"\n\nThere have been occasions of near misses between drones and other aircraft\n\nSimilar registration rules in the US were successfully challenged in court in March 2017 and as a result are currently not applicable to non-commercial flyers.\n\nDr McKenna said there were also issues around how a drone's owner could be identified by police and whether personal liability insurance should also be a legal requirement in the event of an accident.\n\nDJI spokesman Adam Lisberg said the plans sounded like \"reasonable common sense\".\n\n\"The fact is that there are multiple users of the airspace and the public should have access to the air - we firmly believe that - but you need systems to make sure everybody can do it safely,\" he said.\n\n\"In all of these issues the question is, where is the reasonable middle ground? Banning drones is unreasonable, having no rules is also unreasonable.\n\n\"We're encouraged that [the British government] seems to be recognising the value drones provide and looking for reasonable solutions.\"", "John Cunningham had been living in the US without papers since 1999\n\nAfter a high-profile deportation, undocumented Irish immigrants are on edge, and trying to help Latino immigrants who are more likely targets for immigration officials.\n\nJohn Cunningham came to Boston in 1999. Like many Irish immigrants to the US, he arrived on a 90-day visa for summer work. But then he settled in, worked as an electrician and ran his own company, remaining in the country without authorisation.\n\n\"All of a sudden you turn around, so much time has gone by, and you start to realise what is going to be in store for yourself for the future,\" Cunningham said in a March interview with the Irish Times.\n\nOn 16 June, nearly two decades later, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) agents came to his home to arrest him. He was deported to Ireland on 5 July. Because he arrived in the US under the visa waiver programme, one commonly used by European immigrants, he had waived his right to a hearing.\n\nRonnie Millar, who runs Boston's Irish International Immigrant Center, thinks Cunningham's decision to share his experiences and speak out for the rights of unauthorised immigrants in the United States made him a target for deportation.\n\nA warrant was issued for Cunningham's arrest in 2014 after he failed to appear in court on an allegation he did not complete work he charged a client for.\n\nBut ICE would only confirm that his arrest and deportation was due to his visa overstay.\n\nCunningham became the first high-profile Irish immigrant deported under President Donald Trump, and it's created a chilling effect in Boston.\n\n\"There were shock waves sent through the community, a disbelief that this was actually happening,\" said Millar, a close friend of Cunningham's.\n\nNew citizens sing the US national anthem in Boston\n\nIt is a chill felt by people like Jerry. He asked to be identified by only his first name because he remains unauthorised to live in the US and fears deportation. When Jerry first arrived in the US on a three-month visa waiver in the summer of 2011, he hadn't made up his mind about returning to Ireland. \"The lifestyle, the work, everything was just better here at the time. So things just kind of happened,\" he said. \"I had a return ticket booked. I just never got on the plane.\"\n\nThe Migration Policy Institute estimates there are 16,000 undocumented Irish living in the US. The Irish Embassy in Washington puts that number closer to 50,000. Most live in Boston, New York or Chicago.\n\nLike Jerry, many are hiding in plain sight, navigating a difficult world of privilege and panic as white, undocumented immigrants.\n\n\"I don't think anyone is outright targeting people who look like me,\" Jerry said, \"But there's still a fear. You could be walking in the street and bump into the wrong person, you can get pulled over while driving, walk into the wrong building or show the wrong ID.\"\n\n\"Most people think undocumented and they think people who come across the southern border,\" Cunningham said in an interview with this reporter a year before his arrest. \"They're not thinking about the Irish guy who lives right next to them.\"\n\nJerry, Millar and Cunningham all acknowledged that, as white men, they can fly under the radar of those who associate unauthorised immigrants with Mexico and Central America.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nCunningham recalled local police and immigration officials not questioning his status during stops. He felt that he was given a pass because of his Irish accent. He wondered if the officers would have treated him differently if he were black or brown.\n\nAs a whole, white and other non-Latino immigrants are targeted for arrest and detention at disproportionately lower rates, says Randy Capps of the Migration Policy Institute.\n\n\"It's the Latino immigrants from Mexico and Central America that are overrepresented in terms of arrests and deportations,\" said Capps.\n\nAccusations of unequal treatment and racial profiling among immigrant communities have also sparked criticism in Boston about local media attention to Cunningham's arrest. Carol Rose, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts, said that for every one story of a white immigrant who faces deportation, there are many other stories of non-white immigrant experiences not told.\n\nRose points to Boston's Francisco Rodríguez, a Salvadoran immigrant who, after two denied asylum requests, had been granted a stay of removal every year since 2011.\n\nThat changed this year under President Donald Trump, who greatly broadened which immigrants the government considers a priority for deportation. Rodriguez was arrested when he arrived for a check-in with immigration authorities in June and remains in custody while fighting his deportation to El Salvador.\n\nCritics also point to racial bias in how Cunningham's story was told. Julio Varela, co-host for Futuro Media's In the Thick podcast and a Boston native, has often challenged what he calls an \"Irish immigrant privilege\" in local media. In a column on the Latino Rebels blog he argues Irish and other white immigrants like Cunningham are more often portrayed as model community members undeserving of deportation.\n\nIt's why the Irish International Immigrant Center offers its legal and social services to more than Irish immigrants. Christina Freeman, a lawyer at the centre, said their \"know your rights\" workshops often include talk about racial bias and law enforcement. The participants \"know there is a racial bias, they've experienced it\".\n\n\"You look around the room and see who's in there and there's not one white face in the crowd,\" Freeman said. \"It's because the teenagers being stopped the most often are teenagers of colour.\"\n\nWhile white undocumented immigrants may benefit from blending in, there is still an impact.\n\nMillar recalls his centre aiding an Irish woman so embarrassed to reveal her immigration status to her American-born family that when a parent died back in Ireland, she instead stayed in a hotel in the US to give her family the illusion she went home, rather than admit that she's undocumented and risk not gaining re-entry into the US.\n\nFollowing Trump's electoral victory, Millar said there was an increased fear that Boston's previously welcoming stance toward Irish immigrants would soon change. Those fears were compounded following Cunningham's arrest, he adds.\n\n\"We are not in a good place as a society,\" Millar said. \"As a nation, we've really lost our way, who we are and our values - being a country that's made up of immigrants.\"\n\nThe World is a co-production of the BBC World Service, PRI and WGBH. You can listen to more here.​", "Linkin Park have cancelled their North American tour following the death of singer Chester Bennington.\n\nPromoters Live Nation said refunds would be made available to all ticket-holders for the tour, which was due to begin next Thursday.\n\nA spokesman for the company added: \"We are incredibly saddened to hear about the passing of Chester Bennington.\"\n\nThe Los Angeles County Coroner said the singer, 41, and a father of six, hanged himself on Thursday.\n\nHis body was found at a private home in the county at 09:00 local time (17:00 GMT).\n\nHe had previously struggled with addiction and had spoken to BBC Newsbeat about depression and suicide.\n\nFormed in 1996, Linkin Park have sold more than 70 million albums worldwide and won two Grammy Awards.\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.", "Marian Hill wrote their breakout song, Down, in the space of one night\n\nIt's an ordinary day in Advert-ville, USA.\n\nAs the black-and-white sun rises over a black-and-white street, authentic-looking extras with a variety of contemporary hairstyles walk past a dilapidated warehouse.\n\nA shoeshine boy flicks open his newspaper, passing time until a customer arrives. None ever will, because shoeshine boys only exist in the movies.\n\nPerched on an upturned milk crate is a tall and slender young man. Let's call him Lil Buck, because that is his name. Bored, he puts in his earphones and fires up a song.\n\nSuddenly, the music brings him to life. He springs off the crate and contorts his body to an irresistible beat, defying gravity as he dances on walls and shop-fronts.\n\nThat's how Apple chose to promote their new wireless headphones earlier this year - and the song selected for the soundtrack was Marian Hill's Down.\n\nThe \"Stroll\" commercial has been watched more than 12m times\n\nA sparsely atmospheric track, it pits Samantha Gongol's husky voice against a simple piano figure before crashing into a staccato beat in the chorus.\n\nApple's advertising agency, Media Arts Lab, stressed the importance of finding \"an unknown band\" for their commercial.\n\n\"People get excited when they discover a new band,\" music supervisor Peymon Maskan told Music Week earlier this year.\n\n\"They pull out their phone to Shazam the track and they tell their friends. That's a music fan's experience when discovering an ad like this.\"\n\nWithin days of the advert airing, the song had racked up 12 million views on YouTube and Down became the most searched-for song in America - ahead of Ed Sheeran and Bruno Mars.\n\nNielsen Soundscan, which compiles the charts, said sales of the song jumped from \"negligible\" (not worth reporting) to 101,000 in the space of a week. In the UK, it was streamed more than 3 million times.\n\n\"That commercial was the catalyst for a lot of things,\" says keyboardist and producer Jeremy Lloyd.\n\n\"It put us in so many people's living rooms - and to have them instantly love the song felt so validating for all the work we had done.\"\n\nAs they take a break from making their second album, the duo tell the BBC how they got together and found their sound.\n\nHow did the band get together?\n\nSamantha: Jeremy and I have been friends since we were about 12 or 13. We got the name Marian Hill from a production of The Music Man that we were in together in eighth grade. He played Harold Hill, I played Marian Paroo and we combined our character names.\n\nWe stayed friends throughout high school and college, until Jeremy showed me a beat and asked if I wanted to write with him. That song was called Whisky, and the rest is history.\n\nRight out of the gate you had a unique, minimalistic sound. How did it come about?\n\nJeremy: We really stumbled into it. At the time we'd written a couple of other things together that were all over the map musically. Then I was playing Sam a couple of different beats and I had one that had this hip-hop feel to it - and that was the Whisky beat. Neither of us had ever made anything like it before.\n\nI was able to recognise how much better it was - and so, for me, the goal became, how do you carry this forward?\n\n\"Jeremy and I can be honest without hurting each other's feelings,\" says Samantha\n\nJeremy: At that point, it still wasn't that serious, necessarily. It was just a thing we'd made. And when I was about to graduate college, I decided I wanted to give it a real try, so I emailed, like, 50 blogs and thankfully people picked up on the song and liked it. From then on it's been this slow, steady stream of people wanting to hear more.\n\nSamantha, your vocals are very jazzy. Who were your influences?\n\nSamantha: I grew up loving the diva vocalists - Whitney Houston, Lauryn Hill, Ella Fitzgerald, Etta James. I was a huge Norah Jones fan too. That was a huge watershed moment for me, in terms of discovering a contemporary vocalist that I connected with.\n\nJeremy: So often in songs, there's no room for the vocal to sit - the voice is just pasted on top, so the whole mix is throbbing at the seams. With our stuff I try to make sure the vocal has space, and you can hear all the textures and nuances that would otherwise get lost.\n\nBefore Marian Hill, Samantha did some work as a \"top liner\", writing melodies for big pop singers. What was that like?\n\nSamantha: Writing sessions are kind of like blind dating: You're just thrown into a room together and you hope you get along and make something incredible.\n\nHow did you go about writing Down?\n\nSamantha: We were just messing around in the studio and I think the piano line came first, Jeremy?\n\nJeremy: Yeah, it was the first thing we'd written on a piano. I was goofing around and I stumbled on that piano line. It wasn't like, \"OK, we're writing a song now.\" I wasn't quite sure about it. But I asked Sam, \"Do you think we could do something with this?\" and she figured out a melody.\n\nLooking back on it, it was such a simple process. I'm pretty sure it was all one night.\n\nThe duo released their debut EP in 2013\n\nThe song's about going to a party against your better judgment, is that right?\n\nSamantha: We just wanted to have fun with it. There are so many party songs about getting on the dancefloor and throwing your hands in the air (like you just don't care).\n\nWe thought it could be cool to write it from the perspective of Marian Hill, and what it would sound like if we did a song like that. \"I'm not sure I want to go, but do you?\" And then the crash of the chorus was the party itself.\n\nThe Apple commercial really fitted the song. How much input did you have?\n\nJeremy: We probably would have had a veto if we'd hated it, but it very much was on them. They put it together and we were just like, \"Wow, this is perfect.\"\n\nJeremy: It was amazing because our album [Act One] had been out for a minute and our fans were loving it, but it hadn't really broken out to a larger audience. Having this spotlight, it put us in so many people's living rooms, and to have them instantly love the song felt so validating for all the work we had done. It was a great way to finish off the album campaign.\n\nThe band will be playing in the UK later this year\n\nJeremy: We've been writing a lot over the last two months, together in New York and at home in Philadelphia. It's an exciting point to be at, coming off the success of Down, so we're really excited to get these songs out to our new fans.\n\nWhat changes are you making compared to the first album?\n\nJeremy: It's the same aesthetic, only it's a little more brash. But we're right in the middle of it and that direction could change.\n\nAnd when do we get so hear it?\n\nJeremy: It will be within a six-month window. We have a deadline in mind.\n\nSamantha: Probably in the fall.\n\nMarian Hill's Act One (The Complete Collection) is out now. They play a headline gig at London's Scala on 9 October.\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. John Hesp: \"I've been living the dream, I've loved every minute of it\"\n\nA grandad from East Yorkshire has won $2.6m (£2m) by finishing fourth in the world's most prestigious poker tournament.\n\nJohn Hesp, 64, of Bridlington, made it to the final table of the main event at the World Series of Poker (WSOP).\n\nThe grandfather of seven swapped his local casino in Hull for Las Vegas to take part in the 7,221-player contest.\n\nMr Hesp's progress captivated the poker world, with many of the game's biggest names rooting for him to win.\n\nThe semi-retired businessman, who paid $10,000 (£7,000) to enter the tournament, won admirers for his colourful dress sense and cheerful demeanour at the table.\n\nMr Hesp made it to the final table, narrowly missing out on the top three\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, he said: \"It's been quite awesome, I've been living the dream, I've loved every minute of it and I've had so much fun and entertainment.\n\n\"I've wanted to do this tournament for a couple of years now, it was one of the things on my bucket list.\"\n\nThe final at the Rio casino is due to conclude on Saturday, with the winner earning $8,150,000 (£6.3m).\n\nMr Hesp, who said he wasn't going to turn professional, continued: \"I got in the top 500, then 100, then 50 and so on and it got to the point where it was indescribable, nobody could believe I could do it as an amateur.\n\n\"As I dropped below 100 it seemed quite a number of the world's media got on board and started to want to talk to me.\"\n\nThe main event is the finale of the WSOP's yearly poker extravaganza\n\nThe amateur, who runs a caravan centre in Bridlington, said: \"I've just wanted to play some poker with some professionals.\n\n\"First of all I'd like to spoil the family a bit, my wife isn't that bothered about going away on holiday but we're quite happy to go to our humble, static caravan in the Yorkshire Dales at Pateley Bridge.\"\n\nProfessional poker player Danielle Anderson tweeted: \"What a pleasure it was to see John Hesp bring fun back to poker's biggest stage. Hope players follow his example. Let's grow the game.\"\n\nPoker journalist Remko Rinkema posted: \"John Hesp's 4th-place for $2.6 million is the second biggest cash ever by a British player.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A plan to scrap first class compartments on commuter trains is the lead for the Daily Telegraph.\n\nThe paper has an interview with Transport Secretary Chris Grayling, who uses the train to get to his Whitehall office.\n\nHe says he understands what a pain it is for passengers to stand in packed standard-class carriages, while first-class compartments are empty.\n\nThe Telegraph says it first highlighted the issue of half-empty first class carriages on packed commuter trains in 2013 and it thinks scrapping them is \"a first class idea\".\n\nThe Daily Mail leads on the row between Boots and a number of female Labour MPs over the chain's refusal to cut the price of the morning-after pill.\n\nBoots put out a statement late last night apologising for its initial response and saying it was looking for cheaper alternatives. It had earlier suggested it didn't want to encourage the overuse of the morning-after pill.\n\nIn an editorial, the Mail welcomes what it describes as Boots' \"principled stand\" calling it \"refreshing\". It describes the Labour MPs - who'd called for a boycott of Boots - as \"contemptible\".\n\nThe row over BBC pay rumbles on, and the Daily Mirror leads with a claim that BBC bosses held a string of frantic talks with female stars before details of huge pay disparities with men became public.\n\nOne unnamed source is quoted saying: \"The BBC might describe them as contract negotiations, but it looked like hush money to me.\"\n\nCharles Moore in the Telegraph points out - among many things - that if the women get more while the men stay on the same then the whole point of exposing the figures in the first place, to force the BBC to control its costs, will have been upended.\n\nAccording to the Times, hard-left Labour supporters are plotting to oust the party's deputy leader, Tom Watson, over what they see as disloyalty to Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nThey're said to want to replace him with the shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry. Sources close to Ms Thornberry have said the claims are categorically untrue.\n\nThe Guardian reports that Interpol has circulated the names of 173 so-called Islamic State militants it believes could have been trained to mount suicide attacks in Europe.\n\nThe list was drawn up by US intelligence from information captured during assaults on IS territories in Syria and Iraq.\n\nThe Daily Express, meanwhile, highlights the case of an illegal migrant in Bishop Auckland in County Durham, who's been spared jail despite allegedly saying he wanted to kill all the English; he was arrested after bursting into a Methodist church during a Sunday service.\n\nThe paper says Home Office officials failed to take the opportunity to seek a deportation order - and Crown Prosecution Service lawyers rejected a request by magistrates to consider more serious charges.\n\nAn investigation into cyber-crime by the i paper reveals what the paper calls \"the shocking truth behind the threat you face\".\n\nThe paper talks of a \"tidal wave of attacks\" costing the British public more than the budget of the NHS. It says 85% of attacks go unsolved by the police, as criminal gangs steal millions of pounds every day.\n\nExamples of victims include everyone from GPs targeted by identity thieves, to a grandmother defrauded of her life savings.\n\nAnd, the paper says, police in South Yorkshire have had to drop investigations six times in the past three years - after discovering the alleged offenders were under ten years old.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIsrael is willing to consider alternatives to controversial metal detectors it installed at a holy site in Jerusalem, a senior official says.\n\nMajor General Yoav Mordechai called on the Muslim world to put forward other suggestions.\n\nIsrael installed the detectors after two Israeli policemen were killed near there earlier this month.\n\nThe measures angered the Palestinians, who accuse Israel of trying to take control over a sacred place.\n\nTensions over the site, known to Muslims as Haram al-Sharif and to Jews as the Temple Mount, have surged in the past couple of days.\n\n\"We hope that Jordan and other Arab nations can suggest another security solution for this (problem),\" Maj-Gen Mordechai told BBC Arabic, referring to the metal detectors.\n\n\"Any solution be it electronic, cyber or modern technology: Israel is ready for a solution. We need a security solution; not political or religious.\"\n\nThe BBC World Service's Middle East editor Alan Johnston says it is the first sign of a softening of Israel's position over the measures.\n\nSaturday saw fresh clashes between Palestinians and Israeli security forces. At least four Palestinians have been killed in the last two days' protests.\n\nOn Friday, three Israeli civilians were stabbed to death at a settlement near Ramallah in the occupied West Bank.\n\nThe United Nations Security Council is to meet on Monday to discuss ways of defusing the violence.", "Retired nurse Christine Hughes preparing for the arrival of the refugee family\n\nThey have donated time, skills, money and even a house in a bid to be allowed to help a family of refugees resettle in the UK.\n\nBut, as the Home Office announces £1m to help more communities sponsor refugees, just how much work was it for one group of retirees, part and full-time workers to pull together and take responsibility for a family?\n\nChristine Hughes kept seeing pictures and videos on Facebook of Syrian refugees and their desperate bids to get to the UK. And she wanted to help.\n\n\"I was hearing the most awful stories and just not sleeping,\" mother-of-four and grandmother Mrs Hughes said.\n\n\"If I started thinking about it before I went to sleep, that was it, I just couldn't sleep, because I knew what people were suffering right at that moment while there I was in my cosy bed.\"\n\nNo longer wanting to feel helpless, she and a few other people held a meeting in the Pembrokeshire town of Narberth to discuss what they could do.\n\nA year later and she has finally achieved her goal - to resettle a refugee family in the picturesque market town.\n\nIt is one of 10 to have brought a group of refugees to the UK under a scheme introduced in July 2016.\n\nIt means community can take responsibility for resettling up to three refugee families - supporting their move here by setting up accommodation for them, helping them to learn English and eventually find jobs.\n\nThe vast majority of the 20,000 Syrian refugees the UK has committed to take in have come through the support of local councils. But community groups have sponsored 53 refugees in the last year.\n\nNarbeth has a population of 2,000, according to the last census\n\nThe scheme was modelled on the successful Canadian Private Sponsorship scheme which has resettled more than 200,000 refugees since it was introduced in 1978.\n\nBut the group called Croeso Arberth - meaning Narberth Welcome - said it had not been straight-forward.\n\nIt had to raise £4,500 as insurance to cover each of the seven supported refugees, which is kept in a separate bank account for emergencies, as well as having £6,000 in the bank to cover the cost of things like interpreters, transport from the airport and a £200 allowance for each member of the family - given in small amounts for six weeks while they wait for their applications for benefits to go through.\n\nA house had to be found, English lessons arranged, schools contacted and extensive Home Office forms filled in - and that was just to start.\n\nListen to Croeso Arberth prepare to welcome the family of refugees on BBC Radio Wales' Eye on Wales programme\n\nThe UK government website has information about how to sponsor a family of vulnerable refugees to resettle in the UK\n\nRetired nurse Mrs Hughes said: \"I had absolutely no idea of the amount of time I was going to have to donate to it.\n\n\"I have got a house I rent out, my mother is 93, I have got three horses, I've got four children, two of who have got grandchildren, and have a few little jobs cleaning guest houses, so I'm tearing myself away from different situations, just trying to cope, really.\n\n\"Halfway through the process I did think 'what am I doing', but thinking we were nearly there is what has kept me going.\"\n\nThe group, which has a core of 12 people with around 100 more who have expressed a desire to help, has committed to support the resettled family for a year, and be responsible for their housing - paid for with housing benefits - for two years.\n\nMrs Hughes said: \"I started off as an email pusher - just keeping people informed about meetings and fund-raising events. Then I started doing practical things like phoning up the schools, I went to the police, I went to the doctors.\"\n\nGroup tidying up the garden of the house where the refugees will be living\n\nShortly after she and other members of the group wrote an action plan for the Home Office - a plan that has been revised multiple times since the application first went in.\n\nJill Simpson, who works part-time at Pembrokeshire Coast National Park Authority, liaised with the Home Office on behalf of Croeso Arberth throughout the negotiations.\n\nShe said: \"I spent months sitting at my computer, pulling together all sorts of information, writing documents. At times it felt as if it was being made very difficult, but I think that, on reflection, it is because it is such a new scheme and the Home Office people have been feeling their way as well.\n\n\"There was a lot of support, but you needed to get through this nitty gritty bureaucracy.\"\n\nThe group needed approval from local council Pembrokeshire to go ahead with the application, as well as getting approval from Citizens UK, who acted as the lead sponsor - with legal responsibility to make sure everything runs as it should.\n\nMrs Simpson said: \"We had to describe the house to the Home Office, and it had to be available, but we didn't know how long it would take until we had a family, and that was really difficult because if you think about it no landlord is going to want to sit with a house empty waiting for a family to arrive at an unspecified time.\"\n\nOshi Owen has turned her former family home over to the refugee family\n\nBut the group struck lucky when local Oshi Owen, who was thinking about moving from her five-bedroom house in Narberth, heard the group were looking for somewhere for the refugee family.\n\nMs Owen said: \"I had thought about moving in September, but when the group were looking for somewhere for a family of refugees I just said I will somehow manage it and make it work and committed to move out by April.\"\n\nShe will be paid rent through housing benefit, although she said it is below what she could get for the house if it was privately rented.\n\nThe group initially thought they might be able to have the family arrive in April and eventually the arrival date became July.\n\nMs Owen said: \"I had to accept that for three months there wasn't going to be any rent coming in.\n\n\"But I would rather help people than it being about the money. It is about giving something to those in need.\"\n\nShe left some furniture in the house for the new tenants, while the community group cleared the garden and cleaned in preparation.\n\nCroeso Arberth had a small welcome party at the airport to meet the family of seven\n\nMs Owen said neighbours were \"shocked\" to hear who was moving in, but \"really want to make the family welcome\".\n\nWith the house spick and span there was a nervous wait before the refugees arrived on 13 July.\n\nAs they walked through arrivals at Birmingham Airport they were greeted by a welcome party of interpreters and members of Croeso Arberth clutching balloons, chocolates and a big sign between them.\n\nBBC Wales have agreed not to identify Narberth's newest Syrian residents - but we can say they are an extended family of seven from a refugee camp in the Middle East.\n\n\"I can't believe it is all over with now,\" Mrs Hughes said.\n\n\"I would never have expected it to be such a big thing to undertake, but I feel like the family are going to be fine, and it is the start of a new chapter now with them here. Things will go wrong, but we will just have to play it by ear.\"\n\nCroeso Arberth have plans to sponsor another group of refugees in the near future, but hope it will be easier next time.\n\nMrs Hughes added: \"Because we have been one of the first groups to do this it has been a learning curve for us and the Home Office, but hopefully they will be able to do things faster for other groups and it will all move along a bit quicker.\n\n\"Obviously I still think about the people still in refugee camps, but I know I cannot do any more than I have done and am doing.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The mother of missing airman Corrie Mckeague says she is considering taking out an injunction to stop police filling in the landfill site where she believes her son's body is.\n\nCorrie Mckeague, 23, was last seen since in Bury St Edmunds in September.\n\nPolice called off the landfill search near Cambridge on Friday.\n\nHis mother Nicola Urquhart said she was \"beyond devastated\". A petition calling for Suffolk Police to continue the search has more than 13,000 signatures.\n\nThe RAF serviceman from Dunfermline, Fife, has not been seen since a night out in the Suffolk town when CCTV showed him entering a bin loading bay.\n\nThousands of tonnes of waste was sifted through in the search\n\nPolice began searching the Milton landfill site in March but after 20 weeks announced it was at an end.\n\nHowever, they have said they will now search previously incinerated waste and carry out a review of the investigation.\n\nMr Mckeague's mother said: \"I'm so angry. I'm beyond devastated that they've misled me... they told us at the beginning they were searching the landfill, they lied.\n\n\"They weren't searching the landfill, they were searching an area of the landfill.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMrs Urquhart said the police told her \"we think he's still in there but we're not searching anymore\".\n\nOn Friday night a petition was started calling on police to continue searching the site.\n\nCorrie Mckeague, front, was on a night out with friends when he went missing\n\n\"Yesterday's decision to stop searching at the landfill means they have now given up on finding Corrie,\" Mrs Urquhart wrote on Facebook.\n\n\"Suffolk police have handed back the landfill and are trying to have it filled back in this week.\n\n\"I am getting advice about the possibility about an injunction to stop them filling the landfill in, at least until there is more honesty and plain speaking from the police.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Duke of Cambridge and Prince Harry\n\nPrince William and Prince Harry have spoken of their regret that their last conversation with their mother was a \"desperately rushed\" phone call.\n\nPrince Harry, who was 12 when Princess Diana died, said: \"All I do remember is probably regretting for the rest of my life how short the phone call was.\"\n\nIn an ITV documentary to mark 20 years since their mother's death, the princes also spoke of her \"fun\" parenting.\n\nDiana encouraged them to be \"naughty\" and smuggled them sweets, they said.\n\nThe princes added that she was a \"total kid through and through\", who understood the \"real life outside of palace walls\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"She was one of the naughtiest parents\": Prince Harry and Prince William on their memories of their mother\n\nUnpublished photos of the princes with their mother feature in the programme.\n\nPrince Harry and Prince William are seen looking through Diana's personal album as they talk about how their childhood memories of their mother sat alongside her global image and influence as a campaigner for the homeless, Aids victims, and banning landmines.\n\nPrincess Diana was killed in a car crash in Paris on 31 August 1997 when Prince William was 15 and Prince Harry was 12.\n\nPrince William said taking part in the programme initially seemed \"quite daunting\" but had been \"a healing process as well\".\n\nHe said they wanted \"her legacy to live on in our work and we feel this is an appropriate way of doing that\".\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge and Prince Harry Princess Diana was pregnant when photographed with Prince William here. \"Believe it or not, you and I are both in this photograph,\" the Duke of Cambridge tells his brother in the programme\n\nBut the Duke of Cambridge said the last conversation with their mother weighs \"quite heavily\" on his mind.\n\nIt took place while the brothers were having a \"very good time\" with their cousins at Balmoral, the Queen's home in Scotland.\n\n\"Harry and I were in a desperate rush to say goodbye, you know 'see you later'... if I'd known now obviously what was going to happen, I wouldn't have been so blasé about it and everything else,\" he said.\n\nPrince William says in the interview he remembers what his mother said - but does not reveal details of the conversation.\n\nPrince Harry said: \"It was her speaking from Paris, I can't really necessarily remember what I said but all I do remember is probably regretting for the rest of my life how short the phone call was.\"\n\nRecalling Princess Diana's sense of humour, Prince Harry said: \"Our mother was a total kid through and through.\n\n\"When everybody says to me 'so she was fun, give us an example' all I can hear is her laugh in my head.\"\n\nHe added: \"One of her mottos to me was, you know, 'you can be as naughty as you want, just don't get caught'.\n\n\"She was one of the naughtiest parents. She would come and watch us play football and, you know, smuggle sweets into our socks.\"\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge and Prince Harry The photos shown in the programme were taken from Princess Diana's personal album\n\nPrince William said his mother was \"very informal and really enjoyed the laughter and the fun\".\n\nShe could be \"sort of the joker\", he added, and \"loved the rudest cards you could imagine\".\n\nHe said: \"I would be at school and I'd get a card from my mother. Usually she found something, you know, very embarrassing, you know, a very funny card, and then sort of wrote very nice stuff inside.\n\n\"But I dared not open it in case the teachers or anyone else in the class had seen it.\"\n\nPrince Harry and Prince William, now aged 32 and 35 respectively, say Diana was \"the best mother ever\"\n\nHe also talked about the \"very funny memory\" of coming home from school to find his mother had invited supermodels Cindy Crawford, Christy Turlington and Naomi Campbell to their home in Kensington Palace.\n\n\"I was probably a 12 or 13-year-old boy who had posters of them on his wall,\" he told Monday's documentary, Diana, Our Mother: Her Life and Legacy.\n\n\"I went bright red, and didn't know quite what to say and sort of fumbled and I think pretty much fell down the stairs on the way up. I was completely and utterly awestruck.\"\n\nEarlier this month, the princes attended a service to re-dedicate their mother's grave at Althorp House in Northamptonshire, on what would have been her 56th birthday.\n\nPrince Harry said he had only cried twice for his mother - one of the times was at the funeral service at Althorp in 1997.\n\n\"So there's a lot of grief that still needs to be let out,\" he said.\n\nPrince William, who was accompanied at the re-dedication service by the Duchess of Cambridge, Prince George and Princess Charlotte, said he keeps the memory of his mother alive for his children by \"constantly talking about granny Diana\".\n\n\"She'd be a lovely grandmother, she'd absolutely love it, she'd love the children to bits,\" he said.\n\nAnd he joked: \"She'd be a nightmare grandmother, absolute nightmare... She'd come, probably at bath time, cause an amazing... scene, bubbles everywhere bath water all over the place and then leave.\"\n\nThe princes, pictured here with their mother in 1992, recall their last conversation with her\n\nReflecting on the anniversary of Princess Diana's death, Prince Harry told ITV: \"To myself and William she was just the best mother ever.\"\n\nHe said: \"It has been hard and it will continue to be hard, there's not a day William and I don't wish that she was still around and we wonder what kind of mother she would be now, and what kind of a public role she would have and what a difference she would be making.\"\n\nThe princes have also both agreed to take part in a forthcoming BBC documentary about their mother.\n\nThey were were speaking to ITV from their home at Kensington Palace where they will unveil a statue of their mother in its public gardens on the 20th anniversary of her death.\n\nPrince William said: \"We won't be doing this again - we won't speak as openly or publicly about her again, because we feel hopefully this film will provide the other side from close family friends you might not have heard before, from those who knew her best and from those who want to protect her memory, and want to remind people of the person that she was.\"\n\nThe documentary will be broadcast on ITV and STV at 21:00 BST on Monday, 24 July.", "Chuka Umunna was briefly a contender for the Labour leadership in 2015\n\nA UKIP AM has been recorded using a racial slur about an MP in a phone call to a former member of her staff.\n\nNorth Wales AM Michelle Brown was recorded using derogatory comments about Labour MP for Streatham, Chuka Umunna, in a call in May 2016 to her then senior adviser Nigel Williams.\n\nMs Brown said her language was \"inappropriate\" and has apologised.\n\nMr Williams, who was her senior adviser for 12 months, was sacked by Ms Brown in May.\n\nMs Brown, who called Mr Umunna a \"coconut\", was also recorded using an abusive remark about Tristram Hunt, who was then Labour MP for Stoke-on-Trent Central.\n\nMichelle Brown was one of seven politicians elected as UKIP AMs in 2016\n\nIn a statement, Ms Brown said: \"The point I was making is that because of his considerable wealth and privilege, Chuka Umunna cannot possibly understand the difficulties and issues that the average black person faces in this country any more than I can, and I stand by that assertion.\n\n\"I do however accept that the language I used in the private conversation was inappropriate and I apologise to anyone that has been offended by it.\n\n\"As far as the language I used about Mr Hunt is concerned, it was a private conversation and I was using language that friends and colleagues often do when chatting to each other.\"\n\nAn assembly Labour Group spokesman said: \"This is absolutely outrageous language and lays bare the disgusting racism at the heart of UKIP.\n\n\"Anything less than immediate suspension would be a clear endorsement of Michelle Brown's racist slur.\"\n\nTristram Hunt quit as an MP to become the director of London's Victoria and Albert Museum\n\nMs Brown's comments have been referred to the assembly's standards commissioner.\n\nMr Williams said he believed Ms Brown should resign from her seat and UKIP's national executive committee should remove her from the party.\n\n\"You wouldn't expect anyone to say it, let alone somebody in such a position. It's appalling,\" he said.\n\n\"Michelle Brown is not fit for office saying things like that. UKIP HQ should do the right thing. The party does not want people with views like that in the party. End of.\"\n\nUKIP AM David Rowlands said he \"thought we'd put that racist language behind us as a party\".\n\nThe regional AM for South Wales East said: \"It's an inappropriate comment. It's certainly not the kind of language I'd use.\n\n\"I don't know if there's been any provocation but I'm very disappointed that anyone in my party should be using that language.\n\n\"However, it does puzzle me that someone can record and release a private call without the knowledge of the other person.\"\n\nPlaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood said: \"This racism reflects poorly on our parliament - The National Assembly for Wales - and that's why her party should take action on this.\n\n\"No to racism in all its forms. No tolerance on racism in our Assembly.\"\n\nThis is not the first controversy Ms Brown has faced - in February, she was forced to deny claims she had smoked \"recreational drugs\" in a Cardiff Bay hotel room.\n\nHer spokesman said the smell was caused by the AM smoking a strong tobacco product.\n• None UKIP AM faces vote of no confidence", "A slim figure, housework skills, and the need to be rescued by a man are some of the attributes often associated with Disney princesses.\n\nBut behind the clichés, the characters can also demonstrate determination, compassion, ambition - and fearlessness.\n\nThe England women's football team believes the traits of Disney princesses are exactly what you need to be come a successful player.\n\nThe Football Association (FA) has joined with Disney on a campaign that focuses on the character's strong attributes - to encourage more young females into football.\n\nStriker Nikita Parris said: \"My favourite Disney princess is Ariel from The Little Mermaid because she was fearless.\n\n\"I was the same when it came to playing football with the boys in my home town. I had to be determined in order to make it.\"\n\nCaptain Steph Houghton added: \"Being brave, being strong and being kind are all important attributes when it comes to building a successful team.\n\n\"They are all qualities that girls can learn from Disney princesses.\"\n\nBut can modern girls pick up anything from the likes of Disney's 80-year-old Snow White - who cleans up after a bunch of men and needs a prince to save her?\n\nEngland striker Nikita Parris says Ariel's fearless character was an inspiration\n\nShe dresses up as Disney princesses for children at Bluebell Wood Children's Hospice near Sheffield.\n\nShe believes Disney princesses, both old and modern, can be positive role models for young women.\n\n\"I think the more vintage Disney princesses that are scrutinised, like Snow White, Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty, who people depict as waiting for success to come to them, can be inspirational.\n\n\"In the end they had similar drive. They wanted a better life and it just so happened male figures came into that.\n\n\"The famous quote is Cinderella didn't ask for a prince, she asked for a night off and a dress.\n\n\"Every single Disney princess has had to go through trouble to get where they want to be.\n\n\"They show the struggle and that you can get through the other side with enough work and support and a positive can-do attitude.\"\n\nStephanie, who dresses up as Cinderella to visit children, believes princesses are an inspiration\n\nOver the years, Disney has moved away from depicting its princesses as delicate and demure.\n\nThe late 1980s saw an ambitious mermaid Ariel defy her dad to achieve her dream of becoming a human - even if she did sacrifice her voice for a man.\n\nBelle in Beauty and the Beast and Jasmine in Aladdin had an independent streak, while Mulan showed women could fight just as well as men - if not better.\n\nIn 2009, Tiana became Disney's first black princess and 2012's Merida from Brave showed off an adventurous spirit and a love of archery.\n\nDespite not being official Disney princesses, Frozen's Elsa and Anna have been praised for putting sisterhood at the heart of their happiness.\n\nAnd Disney's newest female heroine Moana was depicted with an average body type and without a love interest.\n\nSuzie Longstaff, headteacher of the all-girls Putney High School in south-west London, has done assemblies about empowering girls through Disney princesses.\n\nShe says: \"Disney have come a long away, and my two children have grown up with Elsa and Anna and Moana and Ariel. They are all so much better female role models.\n\n\"They have traits that the FA is extolling, and any way we can empower girls to believe in themselves through role modelling they recognise and enjoy is fantastic.\n\n\"My five-year-old is permanently dressed as Moana at the moment. I think she is a great strong girl who can stand up for herself.\"\n\nHowever, Mrs Longstaff thinks some of the older Disney princesses do not portray strong female characteristics.\n\n\"I said to the girls at school that the one role model I wish my girls wouldn't dress up as is Cinderella.\n\n\"She sits around for years for her prince to come along and in this day and age we can't encourage girls to do that. They must go out and stand up for themselves.\n\n\"Disney and the FA are on the road but there is a long way to go to completely equalise the perception of female and male role models as well as diversity.\"\n\nDisney's Princess Tiana's ambition was to open her own restaurant\n\nDisney appears to be keen to move away from focusing on the stereotypes of what makes a princess.\n\nLast year it launched a ten-point checklist of what it takes to be a Disney princess - and it didn't include the need to wear a tiara or a ball gown.\n\nInstead, they included being honest, trying your best and never giving up.\n\nSiobhan Corria, head of inclusion for charity Action for Children, says there is a role for the more modern Disney princesses in inspiring young women.\n\nHowever, she believes there are more contemporary role models girls can aspire to.\n\n\"I think that more recent Disney characters that don't fit gender stereotypes are inspirational for young girls in terms of achieving things,\" she says.\n\n\"It's good to see Disney keep up with the changing times.\n\n\"But I'd prefer organisations like Disney to really be shattering the gender stereotypes as much as possible and give both genders non-traditional roles as a way of inspiring people.\"", "An official portrait of Prince George has been released to mark his fourth birthday.\n\nThe picture, taken at Kensington Palace ahead of his birthday on Saturday, captures a smiling future king.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Cambridge were \"delighted\" to share the photograph taken by royal photographer Chris Jackson, Kensington Palace said.\n\nThe prince has spent the run-up to his birthday on a tour of Poland and Germany with his parents.\n\nPrince George Alexander Louis - known as His Royal Highness Prince George of Cambridge - was born on 22 July 2013.\n\n\"The Duke and Duchess are very pleased to share this lovely picture as they celebrate Prince George's fourth birthday, and would like to thank everyone for all of the kind messages they have received,\" Kensington Palace said.\n\nGetty Images royal photographer Mr Jackson, who took the photo at the end of June, said: \"I'm thrilled and honoured that the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have chosen to release this portrait to celebrate Prince George's fourth birthday.\n\n\"He is such a happy little boy and certainly injects some fun into a photoshoot.\"\n\nThe prince spent five days in Poland and Germany with his parents ahead of his birthday\n\nEarlier, the Duke of Cambridge gave Prince George and Princess Charlotte a guided tour of a helicopter at the Airbus factory in Hamburg on the last day of their official tour of Germany and Poland.\n\nPrince George tried on a pilot's helmet while Princess Charlotte played with buttons in the cockpit.\n\nIn September, Prince George is due to start school.\n\nHe will go to Thomas's Battersea, a private preparatory school located a few miles from the family residence in Kensington Palace in London, where the family will be based.\n\nThe royal party finished their official tour on Friday", "Comic-Con International is now a major event and has spawned festivals around the world\n\nSan Diego's Comic-Con International, happening this weekend, is an annual fiesta of costumes, comic books and celebrities that sits at the centre of a multi-billion dollar industry.\n\nFrom a gathering of less than 300 people in 1970, the event has morphed into an annual, multi-day media bonanza that draws major corporate sponsors, movie studios and more than 150,000 people.\n\nThe event made more than $17m in revenue in 2015, according to the most recent tax filing available online, and it has spawned similar festivals in cities around the world.\n\n\"San Diego's growth has been mind-boggling,\" says author John Jackson Miller, who also owns Comichron, which tracks sales of comic books.\n\nMr Miller went to San Diego for the first time in the early 1990s, when it still drew less than 40,000 people.\n\nWhen Comic-Con started just 300 came, now it involves more than 150,000 people\n\nNow thousands of people flock to San Diego for the event even without tickets and the skyrocketing demand has led some to call for San Diego to expand its convention centre.\n\nEventbrite, a ticketing website, estimated that fandom conventions in North America grossed $600m in 2013. It said the wider economic impact could be as high as $5bn.\n\nThe San Diego convention centre estimates the annual July event generates some $140m in economic impact for the region.\n\nExperts say the growth has been fuelled in part by a Hollywood that has mined comic books and science fiction for blockbusters, broadening the fan base.\n\nAdvances in special effects since 2000, when X-Men was released, have increased the success of movie adaptations, says Mr Miller. (Warner Bros. and Disney own the two major comic publishing outfits.)\n\nThe event's also been helped by higher consumer spending on live entertainment\n\nThe popularity of the events also coincides with a rise in spending on live entertainment, particularly among younger customers.\n\nSome of the shift reflects a wealthier society with money to burn beyond basic needs, says Stephanie Tully, a marketing professor at University of Southern California's Marshall School of Business, who has researched consumer spending.\n\nBut she says there's an additional factor at play: Fear Of Missing Out - a phenomenon popularly dubbed FOMO - which has been exacerbated by social media.\n\n\"It's really difficult to substitute this year's comic con with next year's comic con,\" says Eesha Sharma, a professor at Dartmouth College's Tuck School of Business who worked with Ms Tully on a new study that shows people are more likely to go into debt to pay for experiences than material goods.\n\nCompanies have taken note of the phenomenon.\n\nIn an increasingly online world, there's still no substitute for face-to-face interactions\n\nDisney is investing heavily in its theme parks and big investors such as TPG Capital, a private equity giant, have plunged money into troupes such as Cirque du Soleil.\n\n\"What I hear and what I see is that companies ... have a huge interest in live entertainment at the moment,\" says John Maatta, a former television executive who is now chief at Wizard World, which ran comic conventions in more than a dozen US cities last year.\n\nMr Maatta says he thinks people put more value on real-world interaction as more of our lives play out online.\n\n\"There's no substitute for human connection,\" he says.\n\nThe growing circus at the San Diego festival, which unlike many others is run by a not-for-profit operation, has turned off some industry stalwarts.\n\nFilm adaptations have boosted the appeal of events like Comic-Con\n\nEarlier this month, Mile High Comics, a major comics retailer, said it would not attend for the first time in more than 40 years. Other long time participants have started their own events.\n\nDavid Glanzer, a spokesman for Comic-Con International: San Diego, did not respond to questions about its approach.\n\nThe group in 2014 filed a lawsuit against a smaller Salt Lake City event, alleging that the group had violated its trademark.\n\nBut for the most part, organizers have appeared content to let the fandom multiply.\n\nReedPOP, part of a London-based company, started the New York Comic Con in 2006 - it's expected to draw some 200,000 people this year - and now runs about 30 events globally in cities that include Shanghai, Mumbai and Sydney.\n\nCosplayers at the 2015 MCM Comic Con in Manchester England\n\nEvent director Mike Armstrong says there's some room to grow in the US, and even more opportunity overseas.\n\n\"I'm very much of the mindset that rising waters will lift all ships,\" says Mr Armstrong. \"I view smaller shows as feeder opportunities to get people excited and interested so they might one day want to attend New York Comic Con.\"\n\nEarlier this year, Wizard World, which has scaled back the number of shows since 2015, warned investors it may not be able to continue in business. But Mr Maatta said the problem was temporary and didn't reflect the bigger market.\n\nThe firm has righted itself with new financing and announcements of additional conventions are coming, he says.\n\nComic book sales were flat last year but for now the industry is healthy\n\n\"The plan is just to intensify what we're doing,\" he says.\n\nAre there clouds on the horizon?\n\nRobert Salkowitz, the author of Comic-Con and the Business of Pop Culture, has followed the comic industry's rise since the 1990s.\n\n\"I always have my eye on how it could fall apart,\" he says.\n\nSales at comic book shops were flat in 2016 and have slipped this year, according to Comichron.\n\nComic book fandom: No longer a fad, for many it's a lifestyle\n\nBut Mr Marshall said that compares to banner performance in prior years. Comic sales at general audience book stores continue to grow and movies, such as Wonder Woman, still rake in millions at the box office.\n\nA few flops might scare off the industry, but for now Mr Salkowitz says he thinks the market is healthy.\n\n\"Fandom has grown big enough,\" he says.\n\nMr Maatta agrees: \"I don't think it's a fad,\" he says. \"I'd almost say it's a lifestyle.\"", "Dominic Hurley is regularly mistaken for being drunk and it has led to him getting arrested. His slurred speech and poor balance is actually a result of a brain injury caused by a moped crash while he worked abroad.\n\nIn 1994, Hurley, then 21, went on a rare night out with his colleagues. He had been studying for a degree in hotel management and was on a year's placement at a hotel near Ayia Napa in Cyprus.\n\nThe group had been out for some food and drinks but were tired and called an early end to the night. They travelled back to their accommodation on rented mopeds.\n\n\"I had the slowest one and was at the back,\" he says. \"I must have fallen asleep or hit a pothole or lost concentration, I don't know, but I tumbled off and I wasn't wearing a helmet.\"\n\nHurley hit his head and ended up in hospital for months. His parents were told he probably wouldn't walk or talk again.\n\nHe had been in Cyprus for just seven weeks.\n\nDominic Hurley was flown back to the UK by the air ambulance days after the crash\n\n\"It totally changed me. I was in a coma for three months but I wasn't fully aware of things for at least a year.\n\n\"At 21 I had everything going in life, I was into sports, going out, and it all changed. It's like I've got two lives - I've got one until I was 21 and I've got one afterwards.\"\n\nHurley, who now lives in Rotherham, defied the doctors' expectations and did walk and talk again, but 23 years after the crash he continues to live with paralysis on his right-side and has learned to write with his left hand. His speech is slurred and he finds organising his life difficult.\n\nHis memory has also been significantly impaired. He can remember snapshots of his time in Cyprus but has a total blank of the accident and the following 12 months of recovery.\n\nHe says he can only remember \"bits and bobs\" from his childhood and even then he can't be sure if he's fabricated the memories from photographs.\n\n\"There's no time or place to my memories. My brain and memory are like a brick wall where you throw bits of mud at it - some of it sticks, some slide off and other ones bounce off.\"\n\nOther symptoms of his brain injury have got him into trouble with the law as he can appear drunk and his agitation quickly escalates.\n\n\"I am a very nice person but I've been arrested three times,\" he says.\n\nThe first arrest was during a trip to Torquay when he complained about a meal at an Indian restaurant. The food was \"awful\", he says, and had attempted to convey the point calmly to the staff.\n\n\"I tried to explain but they locked the door and said I had to pay. They phoned the police, then I had an argument with the police and I sounded drunk and I was probably stumbling a bit.\n\n\"I was thrown in the back of the van and put in a cell. It wasn't until the morning that I could explain.\"\n\nThe second time, Hurley was in a taxi with friends when the driver demanded payment before he would drive them anywhere.\n\nDominic with his parents Anne and Bill\n\nThey tried to explain their friend's situation but say the police were called and Hurley was \"yanked out the car\" and taken into custody due to what they thought was drunken behaviour.\n\n\"They're not like police cells in The Bill or cells you see on TV,\" Hurley says. \"There's excrement on the walls. They make my problems even worse when I'm cold and I get migraines.\"\n\nHe says the three arrests have seen him separated from friends, dragged from cars, and his hands forced behind his back - harsh treatment that made him feel like a \"common criminal\".\n\n\"Each time I was just seen as another drunk. I wasn't given much of an interview at all.\"\n\nThe BBC contacted the National Police Chiefs' Council but it said it could not comment on the care Hurley received.\n\nThe third time he was arrested Hurley had been in close proximity to a fight at a pub, but this time he had a trick up his sleeve.\n\nHe had been issued with a Brain Injury Identification Card, an initiative from Headway, which describes the side effects he might display.\n\n\"The police went through my wallet and found it and said they'd ring my parents. It really helped because they let me out rather than keeping me in all night.\"\n\nThe card was launched nationally this week to help all those in a similar situation to Hurley.\n\nPeter McCabe, chief executive of Headway, a brain injury charity, says: \"Many people are assumed to be drunk as a result of having slurred speech or an unsteady gait, with attempts to explain the effects of their brain injury often being ignored.\"\n\nHe says the ID card aims to raise awareness within the criminal justice system and help police officers understand the situation at the earliest opportunity.\n\nHe calls it a \"simple solution to a tricky conversation\" and believes it also gives carriers a confidence boost to which Hurley agrees.\n\nThe now 44-year-old father-of-one, says: \"All the problems started because people assumed I was intoxicated. I think the card is a great idea. You can work hard to raise awareness but you may not reach every police officer and that is where the ID card comes in.\n\n\"I want to be able to tell people rather than have them wondering what's wrong with me. It's just a better way of doing it.\"\n\nThe scheme has received support from the National Police Chiefs' Council, Police Scotland, the Police Service of Northern Ireland, Liaison and Diversion and the National Appropriate Adult Network.\n\nFollowing his accident, Dominic returned to education and studied graphic design at college in Sheffield. It's where he also met his wife, Doreen, who comes from Germany and was on a 12-month work placement.\n\n\"She met me and liked me,' he says. \"It is more difficult with a brain injury, but all it takes is just a bit more understanding.\"\n\nFor more Disability News, follow on Twitter and Facebook, and subscribe to the weekly podcast.\n• None BBC Ouch: 'My brain injury turned me into a teenager'", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Former chief whip Baroness Armstrong says Jeremy Corbyn was \"the greatest rebel ever\"\n\nA former Labour chief whip has urged Jeremy Corbyn to \"reflect\" on Tony Blair's approach when party leader by ruling out the de-selection of MPs.\n\nBaroness Hilary Armstrong told the BBC Mr Corbyn was \"the greatest rebel ever\" as a backbencher but Mr Blair was reluctant to discipline him.\n\nShe said the then prime minister felt that Labour was \"a broad church\".\n\nAmid claims Mr Corbyn's opponents could be forced out, Baroness Armstrong said he needed to show he is \"tolerant\".\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's The Westminster Hour, Baroness Armstrong said she was pleased the Labour party chairman Ian Lavery had said de-selection was not the way forward.\n\nBut she added: \"I know MPs where basically there is a process of harassment, where at every meeting they are criticised, they are challenged, they are told that they don't represent the people in the room.\n\n\"And all this is meant to do is grind them down, is wear them down, and get them to believe they shouldn't be in the Labour party any more.\"\n\nShe said \"sectarianism\" was \"ruling\" in some areas.\n\nBaroness Armstrong added: \"Jeremy has the opportunity over the summer and at party conference to make it absolutely clear that he is not going to lead a narrow sectarian faction, he's going to lead a broad church that is tolerant.\n\n\"And the real test for Jeremy is, is he up to it?\"\n\nMr Corbyn voted against his own government more than 500 times and Baroness Armstrong said at the time there was upset among party members in his Islington North constituency,\n\n\"I had a couple of folk from Jeremy's constituency come to see me and say 'People are a bit upset with Jeremy always being against the Labour government, what if we try to de-select him?'\".\n\nShe advised them they would not be supported by the leadership.\n\nBaroness Armstrong said: \"The prime minister was very clear about that when Jeremy was a backbench MP. And he was right, we shouldn't have worked to de-select him.\n\n\"But I hope that Jeremy will now reflect on that and I hope that he will be absolutely determined to make sure it doesn't happen under his watch.\"", "Train firms could be forced to reduce first class seats on busy commuter lines to ease overcrowding, Transport Secretary Chris Grayling has said.\n\nHe said people will see \"less first class in the future\" with busy suburban trains having \"one class\" instead.\n\nMr Grayling suggested operators may be forced to scrap first class areas when franchises are awarded in the future.\n\nRail Delivery Group - which represents train operators - said it would work to increase seat numbers on key lines.\n\nIn an interview with the Daily Telegraph, Mr Grayling said he was \"absolutely\" committed to scrapping first class carriages on shorter, commuter routes, at busy times of the day, and wanted train operators to take action if passengers demanded it.\n\n\"I absolutely understand what a total pain it is if you are standing on a train for 20 to 30 minutes on the way to work,\" he told the paper.\n\n\"I don't really see a case for a non-long distance journey for there to be any division between first and second class. There should just be one class on the train.\"\n\n\"People will see less first class in the future as we start to say that on busy suburban trains you can't start segregating,\" he added.\n\nThe Department for Transport issues contracts to run rail franchises in England, and can include conditions such as whether first class seating should be provided.\n\nIn March, ahead of contract negotiations to run the Southeastern franchise, passengers were asked if they wanted to remove first class seats at busy times.\n\nThe contract to run the line - which serves south-east London, Kent and parts of East Sussex - expires next year.\n\nOther franchises to be renewed in the next 12 months include the West Coast Main Line from April 2019, and the East Midlands regional contract, which has three firms bidding to run the contract from March 2018.\n\nHowever, some are not due for renewal for several years, with the Northern and East Anglia franchises currently not due for renewal until 2025.\n\nDavid Sidebottom, director of Transport Focus - which represents passengers - said it was important train users have a choice, \"as long as that choice is not to the extreme detriment of everyone else\".\n\n\"A balance needs to be achieved between the number of standard and first class carriages a train has,\" he added.\n\n\"However, it is clear that where passengers are being squeezed into standard class carriages while there are plenty of empty seats in first class, this balance is not being achieved.\n\n\"In the long-term we need a big increase in capacity. This means continued investment in new and longer trains to meet existing demand.\"\n\nPaul Plummer, chief executive of the Rail Delivery Group - which represents train operators - said firms were prepared to work with the government over the issue.\n\n\"We understand passengers' frustration when they can't get a seat which is why rail companies are working together to invest and improve journeys with thousands of new carriages and 6,400 extra train services a week by 2021,\" he said.\n\n\"We will continue to work with governments to increase seats on key routes to boost communities, businesses and the economy.\"\n• None First class faces axe in new rail deal", "Pudsey and owner Ashleigh Butler had worked together for 11 years\n\nBritain's Got Talent winner Pudsey the dog has died, ITV has confirmed.\n\nThe border collie, bichon frise and Chinese crested cross won the contest in 2012 with owner Ashleigh Butler.\n\nThe pair became famous for their dance routine to the Mission Impossible theme, and were the first dog act to win the competition.\n\nPaying tribute to Pudsey on Friday, Ashleigh described him as a \"beautiful boy\" who had changed her life.\n\nA post on the Britain's Got Talent Twitter feed said: \"We are saddened to hear that today we lost Pudsey, a most marvellous winner. Our thoughts are with Ashleigh.\"\n\nThe pair won over viewers by dancing to the Mission Impossible theme\n\nAshleigh said 11-year-old Pudsey was put down on Thursday after a short battle against leukaemia.\n\n\"I had to make the hardest decision of my life to let my beautiful boy go to sleep at the age of 11,\" she said.\n\n\"From the minute he was born he brought nothing but joy to me, and as a winner of BGT millions of others who adored him too.\n\n\"No words can express just how much I will miss him.\n\n\"He changed my life and I have so many wonderful memories of our time together. He will always be in my heart.\"\n\nPudsey even starred in his own movie in 2014\n\nPudsey and Ashleigh, from Wellingborough in Northamptonshire, had worked together for 11 years.\n\nIn October 2012, a book titled Pudsey: My Autobidography, was released, chronicling the pet's rise to fame.\n\nHe hit the big screen in 2014, taking the leading role in his own movie, Pudsey The Dog: The Movie.\n\nThe pair also travelled to America following their big win, where they performed on America's Got Talent and appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.\n\nTributes began to pour in within minutes of Britain's Got Talent sharing news of his death, with fans saying they were \"heartbroken\" and sending wishes to his family.\n\nFans said on social media that they were \"heartbroken\" at the news\n\nBritain's Got Talent judge David Walliams took to Twitter to pay tribute, writing: \"Farewell to a very special dog that the nation fell in love with\".\n\nFan Jennifer Wood tweeted: \"Actual just started crying reading and article about Pudsey the dog dying...too sad\".", "Gay Pride Berlin is a riot of glitter, glam and rainbow flags.\n\nThis weekend people will celebrate Germany's new law to allow equal marriage. But it is not necessarily \"equal\" for gay parents.\n\nBerlin drag kings wax their moustaches, the queens dust off their biggest beehives and huge rainbow flags adorn government ministries.\n\nThis year Berlin's gay festival season has an unusually political edge.\n\nPresident Frank-Walter Steinmeier signed the new equal marriage law on Thursday, meaning that same-sex couples should be able to get married from October. Until now only civil partnerships were available, which lacked some rights.\n\nJustice Minister Heiko Maas tweeted: \"A great day for more justice. Finally all get the same rights!\"\n\nJörg Hormann and his husband Patrick have been in a civil partnership for 9.5 years and have two young children. \"We hope that now, finally, people will know that we are a completely normal family,\" said Jörg. \"We're just happy that we're no longer seen as inferior.\"\n\nI met Jörg and his family a few weeks ago at a demonstration outside the Bundesrat, Germany's upper house, as lawmakers formally voted on the measure.\n\nNext to him stood a woman holding a placard saying \"scrap homophobic adoption law\". Journalists looked confused. \"But I thought the new law sorts out adoption for gay people?\" one asked her.\n\nJörg (L) and Patrick have two children and welcome the new law\n\nIn fact Germany's new equal marriage act allows gay couples to adopt. But it ignores the precarious situation of lesbian couples where one partner has a child.\n\n\"German laws have, until now, focused on bloodline,\" explained Constanze Körner from the LSVD, a gay rights group. It means that traditionally in Germany the legal definition of two parents is a mother and a father.\n\nIn heterosexual relationships, a man becomes the legal father by marrying the mother, or by simply recognising fatherhood.\n\nFor non-biological parents in same-sex relationships, however, the only possibility is a difficult and bureaucratic formal adoption procedure.\n\nIt is a process which some mothers describe as harrowing and intrusive, with gay parents having to justify their parenting to officials. It can take up to 18 months, so it can also be a period of uncertainty, a legal limbo in which the co-parent has no parental rights and the child is potentially vulnerable if the biological mother dies.\n\n\"We definitely need the possibility that things can be regulated legally before conception, whether there's a known father, or whether the child was conceived through a sperm bank, so that families and children are legally protected,\" said Ms Körner.\n\nBerlin festival: One reveller posed as Donald Trump looking like a drag queen\n\nThe new equal marriage law took Germany by surprise. For years the issue had been blocked by Chancellor Angela Merkel's centre-right Christian Democrats (CDU), many of whom define marriage as between a man and a woman.\n\nBut attitudes in Germany have been shifting and, with elections coming in September, Mrs Merkel's rivals, the centre-left SPD, were hoping to turn gay marriage into a campaign issue.\n\nIn typical Merkel fashion, she outmanoeuvred them. She allowed parliament to vote on it, and for it to be a vote of conscience, knowing that this would guarantee the law passed.\n\nBut she kept her conservative party base happy by voting no. \"Merkel's the only person in parliament who did not vote according to her conscience,\" one observer joked.\n\nThe SPD is still keen to use the issue in the election, Berlin's SPD mayor Michael Müller told me.\n\n\"We managed to push this through against the will of the CDU. How Merkel behaved baffled many people. It's clear that it was a pure election tactic, and voters always take such things badly.\"\n\nNot according to some of those at the annual Lesbian and Gay Festival near Nollendorfplatz last weekend.\n\nFor Larissa (in dark glasses) and her friends the new law was cause for celebration\n\nLarissa has just got engaged to her girlfriend, and although she is not a Merkel fan, she is just happy that she can now get married.\n\n\"Merkel was the one who enabled this to be a vote of conscience. She has her opinion, and I can tolerate that. But she still allowed it to happen, so for me that's a positive thing.\"\n\nDo one thing, while simultaneously also doing the exact opposite - that is often how Chancellor Merkel operates. And on equal marriage she has wriggled out of a potentially explosive election issue.\n\nBut for many gay parents the fight continues.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Harris approached three different men to ask them to kill his partner\n\nA retired TV producer who was convicted of trying to hire a hitman to kill his partner has been jailed for 17 years.\n\nDavid Harris, 68, offered £200,000 for the murder of Hazel Allinson so he could inherit her fortune, sell her £800,000 Sussex home and run off with a sex worker, an Old Bailey trial heard.\n\nJurors heard he approached two men over the deal but was reported to police.\n\nHarris was later filmed trying to make a deal with a third prospective hitman - but who was an undercover officer.\n\nDuring the trial, the former producer of the police drama series The Bill said he was researching a spy novel and denied soliciting murder, but jurors found him guilty on three counts.\n\nThe court heard he wanted his partner killed in a \"mugging gone wrong\".\n\nHarris wanted to run off with Ugne Cekaviciute who he met in a brothel\n\nJudge Anne Molyneux QC told Harris: \"For your pipe dream, for your obsessive infatuation with a young woman, Ms Allinson, who had protected and nurtured you, was to die a painful and terrifying death in an isolated spot.\n\n\"Her death was to fund your life. You had used her until she had outlasted her usefulness to you.\n\n\"All that you wanted from her was that she should die and you should inherit her money.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. CCTV and audio of the 'hitman hire' was released by police\n\nThe court heard Harris became besotted with Lithuanian Ugne Cekaviciute, 28, whom he met in a brothel.\n\nHe had been with Ms Allinson - a retired scriptwriter who had survived breast cancer - for 27 years and the couple shared her home in the village of Amberley.\n\nBut during his five-year affair with Ms Cekaviciute, Harris became entangled in a web of lies and debt as he lavished gifts on her.\n\nThe court heard he spent £50,000 of Ms Allinson's savings and told elaborate lies that included pretending to umpire cricket matches away from home, and claims he was looking after his sick brother in a mental hospital.\n\nHe first approached mechanic Chris May to kill his partner, but he tried to warn Ms Allinson.\n\nHarris was then put in contact with Duke Dean, but he reported him to City of London Police.\n\nAfter Harris was videoed meeting an undercover officer, police arrested him at a hotel where they found him in bed with Ms Cekaviciute.\n\nDavid Harris lied to Hazel Allinson about visiting his sick brother, when he was seeing his mistress\n\nEarlier, the court heard Harris had all the hallmarks of \"social anxiety and a narcissistic personality disorder\" with manipulative traits and a lack of remorse and guilt.\n\nProsecutor Philip Gee told the court the twice-divorced father-of-one had a \"complex and dysfunctional relationship with women\", including his partner and girlfriend.\n\nBut in mitigation, Anthony Rimmer said Harris had been a \"silly old fool\" although his infatuation did not excuse the offences.\n\nHe said Ms Cekaviciute was now \"out of the picture\" and his relationship with Ms Allinson remained an \"open question\".\n\nGiving evidence, Harris had claimed he was writing a thriller and told the court: \"I thought what was happening to me at that time, at that particular juncture, might form the basis of a good thriller.\n\n\"It was based on a guy based on me, my sort of age, meets a young girl, falls in love, becomes besotted and over development decides he wants to be with her and decides what he has to do about his wife Holly.\"\n\nHarris used Ms Allinson's good reputation to borrow money from their neighbours\n\nAfter the hearing, Det Ch Insp Edelle Michaels, from City of London Police, said the offence involved \"significant planning and persistence\" by Harris.\n\nDescribing him as ruthless, she said he had shown to be \"calculating\" and \"intent on causing serious harm\".\n\n\"His persistence was evident in his approaching not one but three different supposed hitmen,\" she added.\n\n\"This has been a hugely difficult time for the victim, who has been significantly affected.\n\n\"The situation could have been far worse had Harris succeeded with his plan and there was an element of good fortune that one of the men Harris approached informed the police, prompting our swift response.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jahed Choudhury says he has received death threats online\n\nA man thought to be one of the first UK Muslims to have a same-sex marriage said people have threatened to throw acid in his face since the ceremony.\n\nJahed Choudhury, 24, married Sean Rogan at Walsall Register Office and shared his story on YouTube.\n\nHowever, he told the Victoria Derbyshire Show he had been threatened online and in the street.\n\nBut the couple said they had also received messages of support and would continue to share their story.\n\nSince their ceremony Mr Choudhury said the couple had received death threats online and abuse on the streets.\n\n\"The worst [messages] say 'the next time I see you in the streets, I'm going to throw acid in your face'.\n\n\"Even if I walk down the streets, I have people spitting on me and calling me pig - all the nasty stuff. I just keep walking.\"\n\nThe couple say they have received \"amazing\" support from their followers\n\nThe couple said they had not yet reported the incident to police and were considering whether to do so.\n\nMr Choudhury said he had also received \"amazing\" support from his online followers, including people who said the couple had inspired them to come out.\n\n\"I've been brought up Muslim and the Koran mentions you cannot be gay and Muslim. But this is how I have chosen to live my life. I will never get rid of my faith.\"\n\nSean Rogan (left) and Jahed Choudhury want to help other people in similar situations\n\nMr Choudhury said he had attempted suicide in the past but added his family had been \"really supportive\" since he came out.\n\nHe has now set up a YouTube channel where his story received more than 5,000 views, and says he was motivated to speak out online to encourage support for gay people from religious backgrounds.", "The European Union (Withdrawal) Bill, known as the repeal bill, will convert EU laws into UK laws. Some of these will be in areas such as the environment and agriculture, which are normally the responsibility of the devolved governments in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nThe First Ministers of Scotland and Wales, Nicola Sturgeon and Carwyn Jones, have described the bill as a \"naked power-grab\" that undermines devolution. But do they have the power to block it?\n\nThe UK government says it will negotiate with the devolved governments and attempt to seek consensus. Ultimately, though, the bill could pass even without the agreement of Scotland and Wales, but not without the potential for severe political consequences.\n\nDevolution to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland transfers the power to make laws in some policy areas from Westminster to the Scottish Parliament, Welsh Assembly and Northern Ireland Assembly.\n\nBut there are times when the UK Parliament still legislates in these areas. The Sewel Convention states that when it does so, it should normally seek the consent of the devolved legislature.\n\nAnd the convention is just that, a political convention, not a legally enforceable rule.\n\nIt is named after Lord Sewel, who first set it out when the Scottish Parliament was established.\n\nA system was established whereby the UK government seeks a \"legislative consent motion\" from the devolved legislatures when it passes laws on devolved matters.\n\nThe convention was written into a memorandum of understanding between the UK and devolved governments in 2001.\n\nIt states: \"The UK government will proceed in accordance with the convention that the UK Parliament would not normally legislate with regard to devolved matters, except with the agreement of the devolved legislature.\"\n\nThe memorandum was intended as a political agreement not a legally binding code. And the word \"normally\" implies it is not absolutely essential for Westminster to seek consent.\n\nThe convention as it applies to Scotland and Wales has recently been written into law.\n\nThe Scotland Act 1998 said the power of the Scottish Parliament to make laws \"does not affect the power of the United Kingdom to make laws for Scotland\". However, the Scotland Act 2016 inserted an extra clause saying that Westminster: \"will not normally legislate with regard to devolved matters without the consent of the Scottish Parliament\".\n\nA similar clause for Wales was included in the Wales Act 2017.\n\nThere has been no such Act of Parliament for Northern Ireland, but the convention still applies there.\n\nDespite the new statutory basis, the Sewel Convention does not give the Scottish Parliament or Welsh Assembly an absolute veto.\n\nThat was determined by the Supreme Court in its judgement in the case brought by Gina Miller about the triggering of Article 50, which started the Brexit process.\n\nThe Supreme Court found that the new clauses do not mean that the Sewel Convention has been converted into a legally enforceable rule. It remains a political convention - albeit one which is recognised as a permanent feature of devolution.\n\nThe devolved legislatures in Scotland and Wales do not have the legal power to block the repeal bill. But if the UK government were to bulldoze it through without their consent, it could be politically explosive.\n\nIt may just be a convention but it is regarded by many as a key aspect of the devolution settlement and an important part of the UK's constitution.", "Being an atheist in Pakistan can be life-threatening. But behind closed doors, non-believers are getting together to support one another. How do they survive in a nation where blasphemy carries a death sentence?\n\nOmar, named after one of Islam's most revered caliphs, has rejected the faith of his forefathers. He is one of the founding members of an online group - a meeting point for the atheists of Pakistan.\n\nBut even there he must stay on his guard. Members use fake identities.\n\n\"You have to be careful who you are befriending,\" he says.\n\nOne man contacted Omar to say he had visited his Facebook profile and printed out pictures of him with his family. \"You cannot be safe,\" Omar says.\n\nIn Pakistan, posting about atheism online can have serious consequences.\n\nUnder a recently passed cyber-crime law, it is now illegal to post content online - even in a private forum - that could be deemed blasphemous.\n\nThe government took out adverts in national newspapers asking members of the public to report any content they believe could constitute blasphemy.\n\nAnd the law is being enforced. In June this year, in the first case of its kind, Taimoor Raza was sentenced to death for posting blasphemous content on Facebook.\n\n\"Zahir\" is an online activist who uses social media to express atheist ideas and comment on Pakistani politics\n\n\"Dear diary, I've been through four Twitter accounts in one year now. The last one got blocked last night. It doesn't matter how vague my details are or if the pictures I use are generic. It's as if someone is watching me. Every time this happens I feel that I should just give up. They want to silence me.\"\n\nAs a result, atheists feel their ability to publicly question the existence of God is threatened.\n\nOmar believes the government is at war with atheist bloggers. \"A good friend of mine used to write against religious fundamentalism,\" he says.\n\n\"We used to run the [online] group together. I came to know he was very severely tortured. Once you are abducted, there is a high chance your body will come in a bag.\n\n\"The state is doing it deliberately, so those remaining get a sign that if you go beyond your limits you will also be facing things like this.\"\n\nThis year, six activists have reportedly been abducted after posting on forums that are pro-atheist and anti-government. One of those activists spoke to the BBC but does not want to be identified. He believes that Pakistan's intelligence service wants to stamp out not only criticism of Islam but also criticism of the state.\n\nIn his view, the government is trying to enforce the notion that a good citizen must be a good Muslim.\n\n\"Hamza\" is a blogger and a founding member of an online atheist forum\n\n\"Dear diary. Some people have called it an arrest but it was an abduction. I was held for 28 days. They wouldn't identify themselves but I'm sure it was the military. There were eight days of torture and 20 days for healing. My whole body was black. They made me sign a statement that said I regretted what I and done and that I would not engage with political or religious blogging. And that my family could be target if I spoke to the media.\"\n\nPakistan is, this year, celebrating its 70th year of independence. Since 1956, it has been an Islamic republic. Many atheists feel the nation is more monolithic than ever before.\n\nIn recent years, they say, the Islamic faith has become more visible in public life. Saudi-style dress codes are increasingly enforced. Television evangelists shape pop culture and to be Pakistani is increasingly linked to being a devout Muslim.\n\nAlthough atheism is not technically illegal in Pakistan, apostasy is deemed to be punishable by death in some interpretations of Islam. As a result, speaking publicly can be life-threatening.\n\nThe Atheists of Lahore have monthly get-togethers in guarded buildings or private homes. One of those in attendance explains: \"It's like a secret society. It's a bubble where we can talk. It's not all about Richard Dawkins or Sam Harris. We may just talk about how things are going. It's a place where you can let your hair down and truly be yourself.\"\n\nAt these meet-ups, atheists are predominantly affluent, English-speaking city-dwellers. Money does grant a degree of privilege and protection from those who are hostile towards godlessness. But many self-identified atheists also live in Pakistan's villages.\n\n\"Dear diary, this afternoon at university an acquaintance approached me and said: 'I want to have a debate with you. I heard you're an atheist.' It was an expression of disbelief, as if to ask: 'How do you function?' She wanted to know where I get my morals from. For her, morality comes from religion and without faith you can't be expected to have morals. Later that afternoon I text all my friends. 'Stop telling people I'm an atheist. I don't want to die.' I must learn that discretion is a good thing.\"\n\nZafer was once the muezzin, the man who recited the call to prayer at his village mosque. He used to pray five times a day and was a student of Islamic theology. When he got a job in IT and moved out of his family home, he found his views on religion had changed.\n\n\"My family noticed a shift. My mother thought someone had cast a spell on me. I was given holy water to drink and blessed food to eat. She thought it would break the spell.\n\n\"These days, I will go along to Friday prayers and celebrate Eid just as a social ritual. My family know I'm not a believer but they give me the space to be myself - as long as I'm not too vocal about being an atheist.\n\n\"If you're willing to do certain things - have etiquette, respect your parents and be appropriate in public - you can get away with being a disbeliever.\"\n\nMobeen Azhar's documentary Diary of a Pakistani Atheist will be broadcast on BBC World Service's Heart and Soul on Friday 14 July at 13:32 BST and available to listen afterwards on iPlayer.\n\nThe Ministry of Information Technology declined my request for an interview, saying the campaign promoting the cyber-crime laws was \"simply about raising awareness\". They would not comment on the alleged abduction of online activists.\n\nKunwar Khuldune Shahid is a journalist who has documented the government's response to atheism in the public domain. He believes online atheist activists are being abducted by the government because challenging religion and challenging the state often go hand-in-hand.\n\n\"There are two holy cows in Pakistan,\" he says. \"One is the army, the other is Islam. Any person challenging one of these holy cows would, more often than not, be talking about the other as well. The sites whose administrators were abducted were critical of the army and government policy, so blasphemy became a convenient tool.\n\n\"In one go, they simply silenced a wide array of critics.\"\n\nSome of the names in the article have been changed to protect the identity of contributors.\n\nJoin the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter.", "Charlie has a rare genetic condition and is on life support\n\nAn American doctor offering to treat terminally ill Charlie Gard has told the High Court there is a 10% chance he could improve the baby's condition.\n\nThe 11-month-old has a rare genetic disorder and severe brain damage which doctors at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) had said was irreversible.\n\nIn April, the High Court ruled that life support should be removed to enable Charlie to die with dignity.\n\nThe doctor has agreed to assess Charlie in the UK if the court adjourns.\n\nMr Justice Francis is due to rule on whether Charlie, who is on life support at GOSH, can be given a trial treatment.\n\nThe US doctor - who cannot be named for legal reasons - has been giving evidence to the High Court via video link.\n\nThe judge said he wanted to hear what the doctor thought had changed since he gave his ruling in April.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The six-year-old US boy who outlived medical expectations\n\nThe doctor suggested there was now clinical data not available in April and he thought the therapy was \"worth trying\".\n\nAlthough he has not yet seen Charlie in person, he told the judge tests on the boy's brain show \"disorganisation of brain activity and not major structural brain damage\".\n\nUsing nucleoside treatment - which is a therapy and not a cure - he estimated there would be a 10% chance of \"meaningful success\" for Charlie.\n\nHe said early tests on mice with TK2, a slightly different condition to Charlie's, had resulted in some improvements.\n\nHe acknowledged that while it would be desirable to conduct further testing on rodents, that could take a minimum of six months to two years.\n\nThe small number of people with Charlie's rare genetic condition - mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome - would make robust clinical trials difficult, he added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Alasdair Seton-Marsden read a statement from Charlie's parents that said 'he is still fighting'\n\nDoctors at GOSH - where Charlie is being cared for - say he should be moved on to palliative care but his parents have raised more than £1.3m to take their son to the US for the nucleoside therapy.\n\nThe High Court has also been hearing arguments about the child's head size, which UK doctors said indicated of lack of brain function.\n\nMr Francis said it was \"absurd\" that a dispute over his head size was \"undermining\" the case.\n\nDoctors said the baby's skull had not grown in three months.\n\nThe lawyer for Charlie's parents, Connie Yates and Chris Gard, told the court Ms Yates had regularly measured her son's head and disagreed with the hospital's measurements.\n\nThe court heard Ms Yates had measured her baby's head this morning and there was a 2cm difference with the hospital's measurements.\n\nMr Justice Francis said he wanted the matter resolved and called for an independent person to measure Charlie's head within 24 hours.\n\n\"It is absurd that the science of this case is being infected by the inability to measure a child's skull,\" he said.\n\nConnie Yates and Chris Gard walked out of the hearing at the High Court\n\nCharlie's parents, from Bedfont, west London, left the courtroom after two hours over a disagreement with the judge about what they had said at a previous hearing on whether their child was in pain.\n\nMr Gard stood up and said: \"I thought this was supposed to be independent.\"\n\nMr Justice Francis then offered to adjourn but was told the pair already knew the evidence being given by their legal team.\n\nMs Yates and Mr Gard returned for the afternoon session.\n\nSupporters of Charlie's parents have been outside the court\n\nConnie Yates and Chris Gard have raised more than £1.3m to fund a treatment trial\n\nThe case returned to the High Court following reports of new data from foreign healthcare experts who suggested treatment could improve Charlie's condition.\n\nDoctors at GOSH have said the evidence is not new but it was right for the court to explore it.\n\nGrant Armstrong, who is leading Ms Yates and Mr Gard's legal team, told the judge they wanted to reopen the case on the basis that the treatment is likely to affect Charlie's brain cells.\n\nHe said the parents disputed the view that Charlie has \"irreversible, irreparable\" brain damage.\n\nThe couple have already lost battles in the High Court, Court of Appeal and Supreme Court to allow them to take their son elsewhere for treatment.\n\nThey also failed to persuade European Court of Human Rights judges to intervene in the 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.\n\nThe Scottish and Welsh governments have threatened to block the key Brexit bill which will convert all existing EU laws into UK law.\n\nThe repeal bill, published earlier, is also facing opposition from Labour and other parties in the Commons.\n\nMinisters are \"optimistic\" about getting it through and have promised an \"ongoing intense dialogue\" with the devolved administrations.\n\nNo 10 said it had to be passed or \"there will be no laws\" after Brexit.\n\nBrexit Secretary David Davis called it \"one of the most significant pieces of legislation that has ever passed through Parliament\".\n\nHe rejected claims ministers were giving themselves \"sweeping powers\" to make changes to laws as they are repatriated.\n\nIt will be up to MPs if they want a say on the \"technical changes\" ministers plan to make to legislation, he told the BBC.\n\nLabour says it will not support the bill in its current form and is demanding concessions in six areas, including the incorporation of the European Charter of Fundamental Rights into British law.\n\nThe party wants guarantees workers' rights will be protected and also want curbs on the power of government ministers to alter legislation without full parliamentary scrutiny.\n\nLeader Jeremy Corbyn, who was in Brussels earlier for a meeting with the EU's chief negotiator Michel Barnier, said: \"Far too much of it seems to be a process where the government... will be able to bypass Parliament.\n\n\"We will make sure there is full parliamentary scrutiny. We have a Parliament where the government doesn't have a majority, we have a country which voted in two ways on Leave or Remain.\n\n\"The majority voted to leave and we respect that, but they didn't vote to lose jobs and they didn't vote to have Parliament ridden roughshod over.\"\n\nThe Conservatives are relying on Democratic Unionist Party support to win key votes after losing their Commons majority in the general election, but could face a revolt from Remain supporting backbenchers.\n\nBBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said there could be \"parliamentary guerrilla warfare\" on the bill, as opposition parties and \"Remainer Tories\" try to \"put their version of Brexit, not Theresa May's, on to the statute book\".\n\nThe repeal bill is not expected to be debated by MPs until the Autumn, but will need to have been passed by the time the UK leaves the EU - which is due to happen in March 2019.\n\nBut the Scottish and Welsh governments have to give \"legislative consent\" to the bill before it can become law - something they have said they are not willing to do.\n\nIn a joint statement, first ministers Nicola Sturgeon and Carwyn Jones, who also met Mr Barnier, described the bill as a \"naked power-grab\" by Westminster that undermined the principles of devolution.\n\nThey say the bill returns powers from Brussels solely to the UK government and Parliament and \"imposes new restrictions\" on the Scottish Parliament and the Welsh Assembly.\n\nMinisters at Holyrood will not be able to amend EU rules in devolved areas such as agriculture and fisheries after Brexit until the UK Parliament and Scottish government have reached an agreement on them.\n\nUK Scottish Secretary David Mundell claimed the repeal bill would result in a powers \"bonanza\" for Holyrood - a comment described as \"ludicrous\" by the SNP.\n\nTheresa May's official spokeswoman said the repeal bill was a \"hugely important piece of legislation\" because \"we need to have a functioning statute book on the day we leave the EU\".\n\nThe spokesman said First Secretary of State Damian Green had contacted the devolved administrations in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland and the government was confident of gaining their consent.\n\nAsked if there was a contingency plan if he didn't win their backing, the prime minister's official spokesman said \"not that I'm aware of\".\n\nLib Dem leader Tim Farron, whose party is seeking to join forces with Labour and Tory rebels, said he was \"putting the government on warning\", promising a tougher test than than it faced when passing legislation authorising the UK's departure from the EU.\n\n\"If you found the Article 50 Bill difficult, you should be under no illusion, this will be hell,\" he said.\n\nSteve Baker, a minister in the Department for Exiting the European Union, said the government was \"ready\" for a fight over the bill but would also to \"listen to Parliament\".\n\nSpeaking to BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg, Mr Davies predicted the bill \"may get amendments here and there\", saying he was open to suggestions from other parties for things that should be included.\n\n\"If we've missed something and got something wrong, then we'll debate that in the House of Commons,\" he said.\n\nMr Davis also insisted contingency plans were being made in case the UK and the EU cannot agree a Brexit deal.\n\n\"We are planning for all options,\" he said.\n\n\"The ideal outcome... right through to it not working at all and not getting a negotiated outcome at all.\"\n\nAsked why Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson had said the government had \"no plan\" for such a scenario, he said: \"That's possibly because it's my responsibility to plan for it.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Toned-down Trump: What happened to the tough talk on Paris?\n\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron said he \"respected\" Donald Trump's decision to pull out of the Paris climate accord but that France would remain committed.\n\n\"On climate we know what our differences are,\" Mr Macron said in Paris on Thursday, adding that it was important to move forward.\n\nSpeaking alongside Mr Macron, Mr Trump then hinted that the US could shift its position but failed to elaborate.\n\n\"Something could happen with respect to the Paris accord,\" he said.\n\nMr Trump added: \"We'll see what happens.\"\n\nThe US president said last month that the US would withdraw from the 2015 Paris climate agreement, citing moves to negotiate a new \"fair\" deal that would not disadvantage US businesses.\n\nMr Macron said it was right to put the climate issue to one side while the two leaders discussed how they could work together on other matters such as the ceasefire in Syria and trade partnerships.\n\n\"We have disagreements; Mr Trump had election pledges that he took to his supporters and I had pledges - should this hinder progress on all issues? No,\" Mr Macron said.\n\nMr Macron and Mr Trump then talked about their countries' joint efforts to combat terrorism and in particular the so-called Islamic State group in Syria and Iraq.\n\n\"The US is extremely involved in the Iraq war,\" Mr Macron said, \"I would like to thank the president for everything done by American troops in this area\".\n\n\"We've agreed to continue our joint work,\" he added, \"in particular building the post-war roadmap\".\n\nMr Macron said that France would seek to \"undertake several robust initiatives\" to help produce greater stability and \"control over the region\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The US president told Brigitte Macron she was \"in good shape\"\n\nMr Trump, who is in Paris for a two-day visit, was earlier welcomed by Mr Macron with an official military ceremony.\n\nThe US president then visited the tomb of Napoleon before Friday's Bastille Day celebrations.\n\nThe trip is aimed at reaffirming historic ties but comes amid tension due to the two leaders' different positions over climate change.\n\nAir Force One touched down at Orly airport in Paris earlier on Thursday; Mr Trump and the First Lady emerging from their flight across the Atlantic in an effort to help strengthen US-France relations.\n\n\"Emmanuel, nice to see you. This is so beautiful,\" Mr Trump said as he was met by Mr Macron at the Hotel des Invalides, near the site of Napoleon's tomb.\n\nDespite their clear differences, Paris has emphasised that Mr Macron will work to reaffirm historic ties between the two allies to prevent the US from being isolated.\n\nThe two presidents reviewed the troops during the ceremony at Les Invalides\n\nThe two-day visit is seen as an opportunity to reaffirm US-France relations\n\nFollowing the ceremony at Les Invalides the leaders moved on to the Élysée Palace.\n\nMr Trump will also dine with Mr Macron at the Eiffel Tower and watch the Bastille Day parade on the Champs-Élysées.\n\nThis year marks the 100th anniversary of US forces entering World War One, and for this occasion US and French troops will be marching together in the parade.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, the former US diplomat and state department official, William Jordan, said the visit was likely to be viewed by Mr Trump as an opportunity for the US president to be \"taken seriously in the world\".\n\n\"I think that there's a lot of symbolism in this,\" he said, adding: \"I doubt that there's going to be very much more beyond substantive discussion.\"\n\nThe presidents and their partners visited Napoleon Bonaparte's tomb\n\nDemonstrations are expected. French protesters have planned a \"No Trump Zone\" at the Place de la Republique. The Facebook page for the event states: \"Trump is not welcome in Paris\".\n\nMr Trump's visit comes amid fresh allegations of Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election, with his eldest son admitting he held a \"nonsense\" meeting that had promised Russian government information about his father's democratic rival Hillary Clinton.\n\nMr Trump has since described the mood in the White House as \"fantastic\" and told Reuters that the administration was \"functioning beautifully\".", "New York physician Dr Michio Hirano has offered to treat Charlie in the US\n\nThe US neurologist Michio Hirano, who offered to treat terminally ill Charlie Gard, is due to meet the infant's medical team in London on Monday.\n\nThe High Court has resumed hearing a request to consider fresh evidence that experimental therapy offers a 10% chance of Charlie's health improving.\n\nHe has a rare genetic condition and is under the care of Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) doctors who argue that his brain damage is irreversible.\n\nFurther tests might settle the dispute.\n\nIn April, Mr Justice Francis ruled that life support should be removed and Charlie should be allowed to die with dignity.\n\nHe has a rare genetic condition called encephalomyopathic mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome (MDDS) for which there is no known cure.\n\nHe cannot move, he is on life support, his heart, liver and kidneys are affected and it is unclear whether he feels any pain.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The six-year-old US boy who outlived medical expectations\n\nCharlie's parents, Connie Yates and Chris Gard, from Bedfont in west London, have lost a succession of court cases to overturn the judge's ruling.\n\nThe US President Donald Trump and Pope Francis have offered them support, along with New York physician Dr Hirano who has waived his anonymity and offered to treat Charlie in the US.\n\nThe case has returned to the High Court following reports of new data from foreign healthcare experts who suggest nucleoside therapy might improve Charlie's condition.\n\nMr Justice Francis said he intends to give his ruling on 25 July, after GOSH medics and Dr Hirano have had a chance to meet and discuss Charlie's care.\n\nConnie Yates will be allowed to attend the experts' meeting on Monday, the judge has ruled\n\nThe size of Charlie's skull remains in dispute.\n\nGOSH doctors previously said its size indicates a lack of brain function, but a lawyer for the family disputed the measurements and the judge said it was \"absurd\" the discrepancy was undermining the science of the case.\n\nGOSH's lawyer said an MRI scan would allow for more accurate measurement but it would not be for therapeutic reasons. She also said an electroencephalogram (EEG) brain scan might detect whether Charlie was experiencing internal seizures that doctors were currently unaware of.\n\nThe judge said any tests would require the parents' consent and must be carried out prior to the medical experts' meeting on Monday.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Children from middle-class backgrounds are in danger of being groomed by criminal gangs to sell drugs, a new report has found. One mother says her son turned from \"an angel into a monster\".\n\n\"I was going out there looking for him myself,\" Claire - not her real name - explains to the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme. \"I was a nervous wreck.\"\n\nIn 2012, her son was exploited by a criminal gang to sell Class A drugs in his early teens, which led to him going missing for long periods of time - in one instance for three months.\n\n\"There was one occasion when he came home, and I heard a rustling at my door.\n\n\"To my horror, he was actually dealing from my home.\n\n\"He was getting calls on his mobile phone and asking whoever it was who was willing to purchase to come to my gate.\n\n\"Then it progressed to him being out on the streets most of the time - nowhere to be heard, nowhere to be seen.\"\n\nClaire describes her son as being a high achiever at school, who \"never had any problems with his behaviour\".\n\n\"He was actually featured in the local newspaper for very good work,\" she adds.\n\nHer story comes as a report by the All Party Parliamentary Group on Runaway and Missing Children and Adults warns that children and young people from \"stable and economically better-off backgrounds\" are being drawn in, coerced and exploited by criminal gangs.\n\n\"Any child can be groomed for criminal exploitation,\" according to the report\n\nLabour MP Ann Coffey, who chairs the group, told the programme: \"People think it's children from a particular group that are vulnerable to this and of course they are vulnerable, but we also forget that it is all children and we have a duty to protect all children, including children from better-off backgrounds who we may not think are vulnerable to this kind of exploitation and may go unnoticed.\"\n\nThe report says children are being used in so-called \"county lines\" operations - supplying Class A drugs from urban areas to county towns.\n\nIt says such grooming of missing children is \"very similar\" to sexual exploitation, but that those drawn in are effectively being blamed for their own participation in criminal activity, rather than being considered a victim.\n\nExploited children can be perceived as having \"made a choice\" and be seen as criminals rather than victims of the gangs controlling them.\n\nThe report calls for the risks of grooming and exploitation to be taught in both primary and secondary schools.\n\n\"Any child can be groomed for criminal exploitation. It affects boys and girls,\" it adds.\n\nThe National Crime Agency says the issue has spread out from London gangs to the rest of the country, including Liverpool and Greater Manchester.\n\nClaire believes her son was coerced into selling drugs.\n\n\"It could be that one of his peers, who had family members who were into criminal activity, asked their brother or sister to recruit within their mates,\" she says.\n\n\"There's the other side, where [he could have been] approached outside the school.\n\n\"I think personally he has gone through all of those stages.\"\n\nClaire says she \"screamed and shouted\" for support\n\nAsked if she received any help from social services, she says: \"Unfortunately with every service I was always told my son would have to have worse problems to have the support that I needed.\n\n\"I have screamed, I have shouted, I have done everything possible to try and prevent my son from getting deeper.\n\n\"Every way I turned I was backed up in a corner.\"\n\nReferring to Claire's case, Ann Coffey says: \"Her son's missing episodes were perhaps not seen in the way that they should have been because maybe the agencies didn't connect the risk to him in the way they might have done to another child from another different kind of background.\"\n\nThe cross-party report also called for a new national database for missing people, noting a lack of information-sharing that Claire also experienced.\n\n\"There has to be a response team that's working together, because I had to be dealing with so many services just for one child,\" she says.\n\n\"There was never anybody who could see what the other person was doing.\"\n\nThe government made tackling county lines one of its priorities in 2016 for ending gang violence and exploitation, saying: \"It is essential that police forces and their partners develop an understanding of what this means locally.\"\n\nA Home Office spokeswoman said: \"There is more that all partners can do, which is why we are tackling county lines through a national action plan and reviewing our cross-government strategy on missing children and adults and developing a clear implementation plan for delivery.\"\n\nClaire says she just feels \"fortunate\" that her son is still alive.\n\n\"He nearly passed away after being stabbed,\" she explains.\n\n\"He's alive and he's in a hospital bed, but when I saw him I broke down.\n\n\"His words to me were: 'I'm all right, Mum, I'm OK - it could have been worse.'\"\n\nAsked for her advice for any parents in similar situations, she says: \"Reach out - reach out for any help you can get.\"\n\nWatch the Victoria Derbyshire programme on weekdays between 09:00 and 11:00 on BBC Two and the BBC News channel.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Toned-down Trump: What happened to the tough talk on Paris?\n\nPresident Trump has made a new friend - Emmanuel Macron, the French president. The alliance, say analysts, is good for both Europe and the US.\n\nTrump and Macron sat next to each other and watched a Bastille Day parade on the Champs-Elysees.\n\nTrump put his hand on Macron's shoulder. A moment later Macron placed his hand on the other man's back, a sign of their new friendship.\n\nFrench and US troops both marched in the parade, honouring the fact that the Americans helped France survive two world wars. More recently French and US militaries have worked together to combat al-Qaeda in West Africa and the Islamic State group in Syria.\n\nAfterwards Trump headed back to the US, and one of his advisors, Thomas Bossert, who was travelling with him, talked about the importance of the friendship between the two leaders.\n\nWhile the president was in a private cabin on Air Force One, Bossert told me and other reporters on the aeroplane that Trump and Macron would now be able work together more closely on issues such as counterterrorism and defence.\n\n\"The relationship that the two presidents has forged will increase the trust that's required\" for intelligence sharing and other delicate matters, Bossert explained.\n\nTheir friendship came about in a surprising way.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The US president and his French counterpart shared a handshake that seemed like it would never end\n\nWhen they met in Brussels in May, Macron gave Trump a manly hand shake, showing he was a force to be reckoned with. Trump also made something clear during his first trip to Europe as president: he expected a lot from his friends.\n\nTrump said that members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (Nato) should increase their defence spending. A European official who's close to Macron told me that Trump also shared an idea with them about the contributions to Nato that members make.\n\nThe European official said that Trump wanted to present Macron with an invoice on camera as a way of showing that the French should pay more money for their defence.\n\nThe Europeans said they did not like the idea of a mini-drama about Nato spending, while a White House official told me the president never suggested it.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The US president told Brigitte Macron she was \"in good shape\"\n\nThe discrepancy in these two accounts hints at a bigger problem: Trump hasn't gotten along with Europeans. He made disparaging remarks about Nato and pulled the US out of the 2015 Paris climate accord.\n\nAfterwards Macron called Trump, asking him to come to Paris for Bastille Day.\n\n\"Macron's invitation to Trump was a bold stroke,\" said Charles Kupchan, who served as the national security council's senior director during the Obama administration.\n\nMacron's invitation was a subtle form of flattery, a national pastime in France, but in this case there was more than a kernel of sincerity too.\n\n\"If Macron is seen to be trying to ingratiate himself, that is in itself flattering,\" said Richard Stengel, who served as an under secretary of state for the Obama administration and is the author of a book called You're Too Kind: A Brief History of Flattery.\n\nMacron did not agree with much of what Trump has said and done since taking office, but still Macron wanted to get along. France's relationship with the US - for military and other reasons - is considered to be a top priority for Macron and his deputies.\n\nThe official visit saw a few protesters\n\n\"They need to make sure they don't screw it up,\" said Jeremy Shapiro, former US state department official.\n\nThe charm strategy worked - in part because Macron had a willing victim. Trump likes to single people out in hostile-ish groups and turn them into allies. In Europe, an area filled with leaders who resent Trump, Macron offered hope.\n\nBesides that, as the German Marshall Fund's Alexandra de Hoop Scheffer, said: \"Trump has a lot of respect for Macron.\"\n\nTrump arrived in Paris on Thursday. That evening he and Macron sat at a table in Jules Verne, a restaurant on top of the Eiffel Tower with a spectacular view of the city, and they talked about food.\n\nWatching the Bastille Day parade, Trump spoke to Macron in an animated way, throwing his arms around. The troops wore white gloves and feathered hats, and they carried swords and marched in lockstep. They looked like tin solders come to life, and Trump clapped exuberantly.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTrump has said lots of bad things about Europe, but Macron managed to turn things around.\n\nHe gave a speech that afternoon with Trump standing next to him. At the end of his remarks, Macron said: \"Vive la France.\"\n\nIt was a European sentiment that Trump - at least for the moment - embraced.\n• None What is the Paris climate agreement?\n• None What has Trump said about your country?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThousands of mourners have lined the streets of Bradley Lowery's home town for his funeral.\n\nThe six-year-old Sunderland fan, from Blackhall Colliery, County Durham, died on Friday following a cancer fight.\n\nFootballer Jermain Defoe, who forged a strong bond with Bradley, joined his family in the cortege.\n\nThe service, held at St Joseph's Church in the village, paid tribute to an \"incredible little boy with a huge personality\".\n\nThe funeral cortege was led out by a bagpiper\n\nAn emotional Jermain Defoe wore an England shirt bearing Bradley's name\n\nEx Sunderland boss David Moyes was among the high-profile names from football in attendance\n\nRoads leading to the church were decked with balloons and tributes. Messages and mementos were also left outside Sunderland's Stadium of Light.\n\nSpeakers broadcast the funeral service to the crowds outside the church who were unable to make it inside.\n\nBradley's family wore football shirts in honour of his love of the sport.\n\nHis mother, Gemma, told the congregation: \"He had a smile so big and beautiful it could brighten any room. A real brave superhero, he left us all too soon.\n\n\"He touched the hearts of many - the most inspirational boy. A loving, caring son and brother - a beautiful star.\n\n\"Although your time with us was short, you must have a job to do in heaven with the angels as God has chosen you.\n\n\"For now my baby we'll say goodbye. We'll meet again our superhero high up in the sky.\"\n\nTributes to the youngster lined the route of the cortege\n\nAlmost every inch of the cortege route was lined with balloons\n\nMourners wearing football tops decorated the route of the funeral cortege with balloons\n\nShops along the cortege route were decked with balloons and tribute posters\n\nHundreds of tributes were left outside Sunderland's Stadium of Light where Bradley was a mascot\n\nAlmost all the mourners wore football shirts at the request of Bradley's family\n\nFather Ian Jackson told mourners: \"Today the football world stands united, whatever our colours, to pay their respects to this incredible little boy with a huge personality.\n\n\"As a big football fan, Bradley saw that sport teaches us the basic life lesson that one must get up after getting knocked down. It taught him to never ever quit.\"\n\nA vigil and minute's applause were also held at Grey's Monument in Newcastle city centre to coincide with the funeral, while balloons were released at the Sunderland's ground.\n\nA single piper led the funeral procession and the applause down the street could be heard well before the horse and carriage carrying Bradley's coffin could be seen.\n\nIt was preceded by a collection of superheroes - including Batman, Spider-Man and Captain America.\n\nBradley's parents, Gemma and Carl, followed the hearse and behind them came footballer Jermain Defoe - who had flown back in from a pre-season training camp in Spain.\n\nThere followed a number of players and staff from Bradley's beloved Sunderland.\n\nAt the family's request, hundreds wore football shirts including the red and white of Sunderland, black and white of Newcastle, blue of Everton and green and white of Celtic.\n\nOne mourner observed aloud that Bradley had opened the world's eyes to childhood cancer.\n\nHaving been in remission following treatment, he relapsed last year and his parents were told in December his illness was terminal.\n\nIn the months before his death he struck up a friendship with Defoe, who called him a \"little superstar\".\n\nBradley also led out the England team at Wembley, attended the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Awards and was a special guest at the Grand National.\n\nTributes poured in from around the world when his parents announced his death on Facebook.\n\nBradley was invited to the BBC's Sports Personality of the Year event\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Times considers attempts by French President Emmanuel Macron to shape what it calls a special but critical relationship with the US\n\nThe government's repeal bill, which will convert EU legislation into British law, is dismissed by the Guardian as a \"bodge-job\".\n\nThe paper expresses concern about the use of what are known as Henry VIII powers, which it believes will lead to ministers wielding a formidable weapon of executive control without accountability.\n\nThe Times shares such concerns, saying ministerial powers are too broad.\n\nThe details of Brexit are too important to be left to ministers and civil servants, argues the paper.\n\nInstead, they should be hammered out in Parliament.\n\nThe Financial Times describes the government's repeal bill as a largely technical measure that will ensure legal continuity after Brexit.\n\nBut it warns that it will become a legislative quagmire when MPs start debating it in the autumn.\n\nThe Daily Mirror also takes up the theme, predicting months of parliamentary warfare.\n\nThe Daily Mail wonders why the bill has created hysteria, describing the government's approach as common sense.\n\nThe paper say it is a straightforward and eminently workable bill.\n\nThe Daily Express describes it as entirely necessary and a vital part of the Brexit process, while the Sun says the legislation is harmless.\n\nThe Times considers attempts by French President Emmanuel Macron to shape what it calls a special but critical relationship with the US.\n\nIt talks of him as trying to portray himself as America's best friend in Europe.\n\nWith Theresa May embroiled in Brexit negotiations, the Times says Mr Macron has moved to fill the void with fulsome expressions of support for the US and its president.\n\nThe Daily Telegraph suggests that by bringing Mr Trump to Paris, Mr Macron has clearly stolen a march on the embattled Mrs May.\n\nThere are many reflections on the life of the Chinese dissident and Nobel Peace Prize winner, Liu Xiaobo, who died on Thursday from liver cancer at a heavily-guarded hospital.\n\nFor the Guardian, the fact that he was still held over his peaceful call for democratic reform, almost nine years ago, is China's shame and a stain on the world's conscience.\n\nThe Telegraph says that although he became a hero to Chinese dissidents, the country's strict censorship of the media meant most people there had probably never heard of him.\n\nThe Times sees Mr Lui's death as a reminder that China has a long distance to travel before it can class itself as a free moral nation.\n\nThe skeleton of Hope the blue whale went on show in the entrance hall of the Natural History Museum, in London, on Thursday.\n\nFor the Mail, it is the attraction's most jaw-dropping exhibit, while the chief art critic of the Times gives it five stars.\n\nRachel Campbell-Johnston describes how the skeleton seems almost to swoop down upon you.\n\nShe concludes: \"How can you help but be awestruck?\"\n\nThe skeleton of the blue whale Hope appears at the Natural History Museum\n\nThe sports pages are dominated by Briton Johanna Konta's defeat in the Wimbledon semi-final.\n\nThe Telegraph says her hopes were crushed by a ruthless performance by the five-times champion, Venus Williams.\n\nThe i talks of Konta being overwhelmed by the power and grace of the ageless US player, while the Mail says she was blown away by a pace attack.\n\nThe Daily Mirror says it was a painful loss, but believes it is just the beginning for Konta.\n\nThe Sun also strikes an optimistic tone, saying she has vowed to \"win it one day\".\n\nGreatness, suggests the Guardian, remains tantalisingly within reach, and Konta must believe she can grab it.\n\nThe Daily Mail highlights concerns from health campaigners that victims of suspected heart attacks and strokes will have to wait 10 minutes longer for an ambulance.\n\nIn its editorial, the paper says health bosses are playing with lives and it predicts they will come to regret the decision.\n\nThe Times believes an overhaul is needed, but thinks the unions have a point when they say removing inefficiency will not make problems in the system go away.\n\nThe Daily Mirror continues its campaign to change the organ donor rules in England so every person is deemed a donor unless they opt out.\n\nIt reports that Labour MP Geoffrey Robinson is planning to introduce a private member's bill to bring in such a change.\n\nThe Mirror highlights the case of nine-year-old Max Johnson, who is awaiting a heart transplant, and says the change would give him and other children a better chance.", "Stephen Hough was trapped by his DNA after 40 years\n\nThe killing of Flintshire schoolgirl Janet Commins made headlines across the UK in 1976. Now, ex-soldier Stephen Hough has been jailed for 12 years for her rape and manslaughter. He was caught by his DNA 40 years on, even though another man spent six years in prison for the crime.\n\nOn the evening of 7 January 1976, 15-year-old Janet Commins asked her mother Eileen if she could go swimming with her friends.\n\nHer mother said no, as she thought Janet looked a bit pale, but the teenager sneaked out of the family's bungalow in King Edward Drive anyway, leaving a note to say she would be back by half past eight.\n\nFour days later, Janet's lifeless body was found under a thicket near a school playing field by three girls playing hide and seek. She had been suffocated during a savage sexual assault.\n\nShe had bruising under her chin, abrasions to her neck and a wound in her scalp.\n\nHer body had been dragged along the ground and although she was still clothed, both her shoes were missing.\n\nMud found on Janet's clothing indicated part of the attack took place at the town's Gorsedd Circle, a permanent reminder of when the National Eisteddfod came to Flint in 1969.\n\nThe town - at that time a small, close-knit community - went into shock.\n\n\"It had a profound and devastating effect on Flint,\" said local councillor Alex Aldridge.\n\n\"It was an extraordinary feeling, I had a daughter who was just under two at the time and to think a young girl had befallen this awful fate, robbed of life.\n\n\"It's something you'll never forget. It's still raw and it's still hurtful.\"\n\nPolice mounted a huge manhunt, drafting in about 120 officers to scour the area around the crime scene and conduct house-to-house inquiries.\n\nJournalist Paul Mewies, who covered the story at the time, said it made the headlines across the UK.\n\nJanet's body was found hidden under bushes near Gwynedd Primary School\n\n\"I can remember how not just the town of Flint but a much wider area was shocked by this awful case - the fact that a schoolgirl was killed on a playing field,\" he said.\n\n\"It stuck in my mind. I've reported on a number of tragedies over my career but this one does stand out.\"\n\nAnn Dunn, who lived close to the field where Janet's body was discovered, remembers the town \"swarming with policemen\".\n\n\"It was quite upsetting,\" she said. \"There was a lot of fear at the time. People were frightened it would happen again.\"\n\nAbout 10,000 people were quizzed by police and all local men aged 17-22 were asked to account for their movements.\n\nAmong them was Stephen Hough, who had turned 17 the day after Janet's body was found and whose grandparents' house overlooked the area where her body had been hidden.\n\nBut police ruled him out after he told them he had been stealing petrol on the night of the killing - a crime for which he was later prosecuted and fined.\n\nPolice scoured the area around the crime scene for clues\n\nTheir attention turned to Noel Jones, a barely literate 18-year-old traveller from Coedpoeth, Wrexham.\n\nHe was picked up the day Janet's body was discovered and at first denied all knowledge of the crime.\n\nBut later his girlfriend told police he had confessed to killing Janet and had asked her to provide him with an alibi.\n\nAfter two days of questioning, he signed two detailed confession statements.\n\nOn the second day of his murder trial in June 1976, he admitted manslaughter and was sentenced to 12 years in prison.\n\nAs Noel Jones served his time, Hough must have thought he had got away with it.\n\nAll local men aged 17-22 were asked to account for their movements on the night Janet died\n\nBut 41 years on, advances in DNA profiling finally brought him to justice.\n\nIn 2006, police carried out a cold case review and DNA from a man was identified in samples which had been taken from Janet's body and stored for three decades.\n\nTen years after that, police took a sample of Hough's DNA when he was arrested for sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl - a crime he later admitted and for which he has been given three years in prison.\n\nIn a routine cross-matching exercise, it was linked to sperm cells found on Janet's body.\n\nMold Crown Court heard there was a billion-to-one chance it did not belong to Hough.\n\nDespite the evidence, Hough insisted he was innocent - repeatedly answering \"no comment\" in police interviews and telling the court he had \"no explanation\" for why his DNA was found on Janet's body.\n\nThe jury cleared him of murder but convicted him of Janet's rape, sexual assault and manslaughter.\n\nThe case also throws a spotlight on policing practices 40 years ago.\n\nGiving evidence by video link, Noel Jones described the six years he spent in prison as a \"nightmare\" which \"absolutely destroyed my life\".\n\nHe has never challenged his conviction, but says he is innocent and only confessed because police had pressured and coerced him.\n\nThe man who led the original investigation, Eric Evans - who later rose to the rank of deputy chief constable - also gave evidence at Hough's trial.\n\nHe told the court nobody thought to offer Noel Jones a solicitor during the initial stages of his questioning because he wanted to investigate \"properly and thoroughly\".\n\nPolice could be \"impeded\" by solicitors representing clients, he said, adding that \"there was no requirement in those days for a person to be advised that he could have a solicitor\".\n\nIt remains to be seen what action will now be taken over Noel Jones' conviction.\n\nResidents laid flowers in Janet's memory on Flint's Gorsedd stones after Hough's arrest in September 2016\n\nThe Independent Police Complaints Commission is probing the North Wales force's handling of the original case in 1976 and when it was revisited 30 years later.\n\nWhatever the outcome of that investigation, Janet's family now knows for sure who killed her.\n\n\"I hope there is closure for her mum,\" said councillor Alex Aldridge. \"The law has completed its part but no matter what the verdict, the loss is beyond belief.\"\n\n\"This young girl never experienced life, possibly getting married, having children, becoming a grandmother.\n\n\"Flint will never forget Janet. It's four generations now - over 40 years - and her memory is as fresh today, in a good way, that we are remembering and honouring her name.\"", "The claim: Brexit Secretary David Davis said in March that the repeal bill would allow the UK Parliament and Welsh, Scottish and Northern Ireland administrations to scrap, amend and improve laws.\n\nReality Check verdict: The bill will repeal the European Communities Act, but it will not change EU laws - it will turn them into UK laws. The UK could, if it wanted to, make changes to those laws after it leaves the EU, probably in 2019.\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May says that after Brexit, UK laws will be \"made not in Brussels but in Westminster\".\n\nIn order to do this, her government will use its Brexit repeal bill, officially called the European Union (Withdrawal) Bill.\n\nThe bill will do two things.\n\nFirst, the bill will repeal the European Communities Act, the British law that took the UK into the European Community in 1973 and established the supremacy of EU law over domestic legislation.\n\nSecond, it will transpose the entire body of EU legislation into domestic law.\n\nThe UK Parliament currently has no power to repeal EU legislation.\n\nIt is hard to calculate exactly what proportion of UK laws come from the EU - estimates range from 13% to 60%.\n\nTransposing EU legislation into domestic law will not be a simple \"copy and paste\" job. The House of Commons library says it could be \"one of the largest legislative projects ever undertaken in the UK\".\n\nMany EU laws, for example on the environment, refer to EU agencies that the UK will no longer be part of when it leaves the Union.\n\nThe repeal bill will have to find new ways of making those rules part of UK law. Any rules that cannot be transferred will have to be repealed.\n\nThe government has controversial plans to give ministers the power to make changes to some laws without full Parliamentary scrutiny, which could add further complications.\n\nThey are known as Henry VIII clauses, after the Statute of Proclamations 1539, which gave the king power to legislate by proclamation.\n\nSome opposition politicians are concerned this could mean an executive power grab - the government changing laws without proper scrutiny by MPs. The government says these powers will only be used to deal with EU-related gaps in the law, not to make substantive policy changes.\n\nAfter the bill comes into effect, probably in March 2019, the UK Parliament, and the devolved administrations in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, will be able to amend, scrap or keep laws that originated from the EU.\n\nThat process is likely to take many years.\n\nUPDATE 13 July 2017: This article was updated to include the publication of the bill and its official name.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This spoof news story was widely circulated on Facebook\n\nDubiously sourced rumours about football transfers spread wildly on social media, and while experts say they don't usually affect where players end up, they can put pressure on clubs and move betting markets.\n\nIt's a type of story that long pre-dates the current mania about \"fake news\". Transfer rumours have long dominated the back pages of newspapers during the summer transfer window, and many commentators view such stories as pure speculation. Take, for instance, Match of the Day presenter and former England player Gary Lineker who recently tweeted: \"90% of transfer stories are guesswork in the hope of getting lucky.\"\n\nBut just like in many other areas of the media and entertainment industries, social media is changing the game when it comes to transfer rumours - in this case allowing fake stories to spread wider and faster than ever before.\n\nTo take one example, as speculation surged recently around the impending transfer of Wayne Rooney, a satirical story was posted on a popular Facebook group, \"Manchester United Dream Team Forever\", which has more than 550,000 members.\n\nThe story was created by a humour website, \"Soccer on Saturday\". Most who clicked on it would have picked up on the satire right away - the story was packed with jokes about Chinese politics, Rooney's hairline, his recent form and much else besides.\n\nHowever, when viewed on Facebook, the article could easily be mistake for a legitimate news headline. It features a Photoshopped image of Rooney standing with a club official, holding a Shanghai shirt with his name and number printed on the back and the headline \"Rooney Signs for Shanghai in £700,000 per week Deal\".\n\nIt's unclear how many people clicked beyond the headline and noticed the jokes and fictitious quotes in the actual story, and of course any misapprehension was quashed when Rooney signed for Everton, his boyhood team. But can fake headlines impact the transfer market while negotiations between clubs are ongoing?\n\nRaffaele Pilo, Head of CIES Football Observatory based in Switzerland, investigates the value of football players. He tells BBC Trending radio that individuals involved in transfer negotiations have an incentive to encourage rumours, regardless of whether they're accurate or not.\n\n\"Sometimes, spreading rumours gives an indication that a player is on the market… or if there is a negotiation, it puts pressure on the buying club,\" Pilo says.\n\nIn this vein, players themselves often fuel speculation by posting subtle - or not-so-subtle - hints on social media, possibly in an effort to increase their value.\n\nWayne Farry, a sports writer for the website JOE.co.uk, says that players are increasingly using their big social media followings to influence transfers. One example from this summer has been Kylian Mbappe, a young Monaco striker who's been linked with moves to Real Madrid, Arsenal and Liverpool. Mbappe recently changed his Twitter header to a photo showing him celebrating a goal in front of an advertising hoarding with the word \"Priceless\" written on it:\n\nReal Madrid and other clubs are reportedly interested in Mbappe Lotte, who's valued at roughly £100 million\n\nIt was a change that, perhaps predictably, fuelled tremendous speculation online. The striker's name has been mentioned more than 800,000 times on Twitter in the last month.\n\n\"Even if there had not been any bids, that level of [online] interest would have pushed the hand of the club to have to do something,\" Farry says. \"You either sell and grant the player his move, or you increase his contract.\"\n\nRumours also have an impact beyond contracts and transfer fees. Farry says the whispers can have a big effect on betting markets, where punters can gamble on which club a player or manager moves to next.\n\nFor instance in June, Spanish-born manager and former Real Madrid defender Fernando Hierro became an unlikely favourite for the vacant Leeds United managerial position, largely due to social media. On 13 June, a Twitter user messaged betting company Sky Bet, asking for Hierro to be added to the Leeds United manager betting market. Sky obliged, and listed Hierro's odds at 33/1.\n\nAfter seeing Hierro's name appear on the list, many punters began to bet on his appointment, and social media speculation was rampant. This process drove down his odds, which eventually reached 2/1 - leading some publications to label Hierro a favourite for the job.\n\nFarry says he's observed this same process several times. When a potential manager is added to a betting list, Ferry says, people often assume that the betting company has some sort of inside information. Twitter speculation can drive a surge of bets, which can drive down the odds of the new candidate - which generates further rumours that they might be in line for the job.\n\nIn the case of Hierro, the fan who requested the bet had no inside knowledge. He later stated on Twitter:\n\nAnd, as it turns out, all the speculation was wrong. Former Barcelona player Thomas Christiansen has since been appointed as Leeds manager, leaving Hierro punters without a payout.\n\nYou can follow BBC Trending on Twitter @BBCtrending, and find us on Facebook.", "Zayn Malik and Gigi Hadid in the US Vogue photoshoot\n\nUS Vogue has apologised for \"missing the mark\" by saying Zayn Malik and his girlfriend Gigi Hadid were \"embracing gender fluidity\".\n\nIn an interview, the former One Directioner and the US model talked about borrowing each other's clothes.\n\nThey were photographed in colourful, fairly androgynous clothes.\n\nBut readers mocked the magazine for its definition of the phrase, pointing out that what you wear does not make you \"gender fluid\".\n\nMany on social media pointed out that the term refers to people with a particular transgender identity, who do not conform to societal expectations of male or female or identify as either.\n\nFor instance Jacob Tobia wrote in Cosmopolitan: \"If you're going to talk about a marginalised community, talk to that community.\n\n\"Unlike how this new Vogue cover shoot presents it, the lived experience of being gender-nonconforming is rarely that fun and glamorous.\"\n\nVogue describes a conversation between the pair, with Hadid telling Malik: \"I shop in your closet all the time, don't I?\".\n\nThe 24-year-old singer then replies that he borrowed an Anna Sui T-shirt from her, adding: \"I like that shirt. And if it's tight on me, so what? It doesn't matter if it was made for a girl.\"\n\nHadid, 22, agrees, saying: \"Totally. It's not about gender. It's about, like, shapes. And what feels good on you that day.\n\n\"And anyway, it's fun to experiment.\"\n\nVogue writer Maya Singer comments in the piece, in US Vogue's August issue, that for many young people \"gender is a more or less arbitrary distraction\" and that there is \"a terrific opportunity for play\".\n\nShe says \"this new blase attitude toward gender codes marks a radical break\", adding: \"For these millennials, at least, descriptives like boy or girl rank pretty low on the list of important qualities - and the way they dress reflects that.\"\n\nBut poet Tyler Ford, who's quoted in the accompanying article exploring gender norms, tweeted (with an eyeroll emoji): \"The only mention of the word 'trans' is by me via interview.\"\n\nJournalist and author Hannah Orenstein said she would have preferred Tyler to have been profiled instead of Hadid and Malik, tweeting: \"Zayn and Gigi are profiled in this piece on gender fluidity because... they borrow each other's clothes sometimes?\"\n\nAnother reader noted on Twitter: \"Y'all notice Zayn isn't out here wearing dresses.\"\n\nAnd Colette Fahy wrote: \"All Z & G say is that they borrow each other's clothes. Such a big jump for the mag to declare gender fluidity.\"\n\nIn a statement issued on Friday, a Vogue spokeswoman said: \"The story was intended to highlight the impact the gender-fluid, non-binary communities have had on fashion and culture.\n\n\"We are very sorry the story did not correctly reflect that spirit - we missed the mark.\n\n\"We do look forward to continuing the conversation with greater sensitivity.\"\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. 'We were both flat out on the floor'\n\nA couple knocked themselves unconscious practising a lift from classic 1980s film Dirty Dancing for their wedding.\n\nSharon Price and fiance Andy Price were trying to recreate its final dance scene in a pub garden in Weston-super-Mare in Somerset.\n\nMr Price said: \"I was concussed. I was out. I ended up in a neck brace and had to have a CT scan.\n\n\"We were about 30ft apart and Sharon ran and I grabbed her hips and the next thing we knew we were flat out.\"\n\nMr Price said he had a mild heart attack several years ago and so the medical experts were \"just being careful\" with the tests they ran.\n\nThey were discharged from hospital six hours later.\n\nThe couple were about 30ft apart when Sharon started the run up towards her fiance for the Dirty Dancing lift\n\n\"Dirty Dancing\" began trending on Twitter as news of the couple's mishap spread around the world.\n\nThe 1987 film, starring Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey, is one of Ms Price's favourite films.\n\n\"I've always watched it and me and my daughter watch it, over and over again,\" she said.\n\n\"We thought it would be something different. Everybody else slow dances, so we thought we'd jazz it up a bit.\"\n\nAndy said the the next thing he knew they were \"flat out on the floor\" and he was unconscious\n\nOn Saturday, on the \"spur of the moment\", the couple decided to \"get a bit of practice in\" and try out the famous Hollywood dance move.\n\n\"There was no build up, no warm up and that was it,\" said Mr Price.\n\n\"I think I knocked myself out hitting the floor as hard as I did. I wasn't too aware of what was going on after that.\"\n\nMs Price is also unsure: \"I can remember running towards Andy and then the next thing just struggling for breath and my back was hurting.\"\n\nWith him \"in and out of consciousness\" and her conscious but \"struggling for breath\" - an ambulance and rapid response vehicle were called and the couple were taken to Southmead Hospital.\n\nSharon and Andy were hoping to recreate a scene from the 1987 film, shown here in a stage musical version\n\nThe couple are now going to do a safer slow dance \"smooch\" when they marry next year\n\nThe couple, who coincidentally have the same surnames, said they would rethink their first dance for the wedding.\n\n\"I don't think we'll have that one at the wedding, I think we'll go for a traditional slow one and I'll let Andy choose,\" said Ms Price.\n\n#DirtyDancing was one of the top hashtags in the UK on Twitter earlier.\n\nWorldwide there was a 92% increase in people using the hashtag earlier compared to the previous six hours, according to social media measurement tool Spredfast.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post 6 by New York Post", "Turkey has seen mass arrests and dismissals in the public sector since the 2016 coup attempt\n\nTurkey has dismissed more than 7,000 police, ministry staff and academics, ahead of the first anniversary of an attempted coup.\n\nIt comes as part of a major purge of state institutions, including the judiciary, police and education, in response to last year's unrest.\n\nOn Saturday, Turkey marks one year since rogue soldiers bombed buildings and opened fire on civilians.\n\nMore than 250 people were killed in the violence.\n\nThe Turkish authorities accuse a movement loyal to the Muslim cleric, Fethullah Gulen, of organising the July 2016 plot to bring down President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.\n\nMr Gulen, who remains in the United States, denies any involvement. Washington has so far resisted calls from the Turkish authorities to extradite the cleric.\n\nThe latest dismissals came in a decree from 5 June but only published by the official government Gazette on Friday.\n\nIt says the employees are people \"who it's been determined have been acting against the security of the state or are members of a terrorist organisation\".\n\nAmong those listed were 2,303 police officers and 302 university academics. Another 342 retired officers and soldiers were stripped of their ranks and grades, Reuters reports.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC speaks to man run over by tanks during the attempted coup\n\nTurkey has already dismissed more than 150,000 officials since the coup attempt, and arrested another 50,000 from the military, police and other sectors.\n\nThe government says the measures are necessary given the security threats it faces but critics say Mr Erdogan is using the purges to stifle political dissent.\n\nIstanbul is awash with giant anniversary billboards and posters showing people confronting pro-coup soldiers.\n\nHuge rallies are due to take place, with President Erdogan, who avoided capture last year, addressing parliament at the exact time that it was bombed.\n\nHe and his supporters see the defeat of the coup as Turkey's rebirth, but for others it's less triumphant, says the BBC's Mark Lowen.", "Professor Jay was a panel member before being named chair\n\nThe Home Office has been fined £366,900 for breaching the government's senior salary pay cap when it appointed the head of a child sex abuse inquiry.\n\nIt was penalised by the Treasury for failing to get clearance in advance before agreeing to pay Professor Alexis Jay £185,000 a year.\n\nSince 2010, all jobs with salaries of more than £142,500 agreed by ministers have had to be signed off in advance.\n\nThe Home Office said it had reviewed procedures to avoid future breaches.\n\nProf Jay became the fourth chair of the troubled inquiry after replacing Lowell Goddard in August 2016.\n\nThe fine also relates to the pay of the inquiry's three panel members one of whom, Drusilla Sharpling, received a basic salary of £152,424 in 2015-6.\n\nOn becoming chancellor in 2010, George Osborne ruled that public servants directly appointed by ministers should not be paid more than then Prime Minister David Cameron - who was earning £142,500 at the time - unless they were approved by the Treasury.\n\nIt was part of an austerity drive which saw the pay of ministers cut by 5% and then frozen for five years.\n\nProf Jay was named as chair by Home Secretary Amber Rudd at short notice in August 2016. Her predecessor, a leading New Zealand judge, resigned suddenly following criticism of her conduct of the troubled inquiry.\n\nThe inquiry is investigating historical allegations of sex abuse against local authorities, religious organisations, the armed forces and public and private institutions - as well as people in the public eye - spanning decades.\n\nThe leading academic and child protection expert was already a panel member, working in that capacity alongside Ms Sharpling, barrister Ivor Frank and academic Professor Malcolm Evans.\n\nDetails of the \"exemplary fine\" emerged in the Home Office's accounts for the past financial year.\n\nA Home Office spokesman said the department had been punished for having to secure \"retrospective approval\" for Prof Jay's salary when she became chair as well as the remuneration of other panel members agreed when the inquiry was set up in 2015.\n\n\"The Treasury has the power to consider fines for departments who breach agreed spending control processes, including those relating to senior salary approval,\" it said.\n\n\"The Home Office have since reviewed appointment procedures to prevent further such breaches.\"\n\nThe fine does not relate to Dame Lowell Goddard's remuneration\n\nThe Home Office said Prof Jay had been appointed swiftly in order to minimise disruption to the inquiry and this meant getting sign-off for her salary \"in parallel\" with her appointment - which was subsequently approved.\n\nAccording to the inquiry's accounts, Prof Jay was paid £118,360 for the period from 18 August 2016 to 31 March 2017. She also received an £27,478 accommodation allowance and expenses of £2,281.\n\nShe also received £34,465 for her work as a panel member during the first four months of the financial year before becoming its chair.\n\nThe accounts show Ms Sharpling was paid £152,285 in 2015-6, rising to £154,423 in 2016-7. The inquiry has agreed to subsidise 80% of what she was earning in her previous capacity as Her Majesty's Inspector of Constabulary.\n\nOver the same period, Prof Evans was paid £65,540 while Mr Frank received £96,332,50. In the past financial year, these salaries - which are set at a fixed rate of £565 a day - rose to £76,840 and £138,990 retrospectively.\n\nThe Home Office stressed the fine did not relate to Dame Lowell Goddard's remuneration arrangements, which were heavily criticised during her 16 months in the post, but for which officials said \"all the necessary approvals\" had been granted.\n\nIn 2015-6, she was paid £355,000 and received an accommodation and utilities allowance worth £119,207. She also received £29,156 in relocation costs and £75,246 in travel costs including the cost of air fares between the UK and New Zealand.\n\nShe was paid £123,871 for the period between 1 April and her resignation on 4 August 2016 while her allowances and expenses for the period totalled more than £80,000.\n\nThe inquiry has been beset by problems since its inception with its first two chairs, Lady Butler-Sloss and Dame Fiona Woolf, stepping down before beginning their work. The inquiry's chief lawyer, Ben Emmerson, resigned last year but Prof Jay has insisted it is continuing with its work.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tim Farron told 5 live's Emma Barnett he \"had a cry\" when his 15-year-old texted him\n\nOutgoing Lib Dem leader Tim Farron has revealed he decided to quit several weeks before the general election but did not announce his decision publicly.\n\nMr Farron said he had put the decision \"to bed\" about two weeks into the campaign, and denied deceiving voters by continuing to fight the election.\n\n\"I absolutely threw everything at it,\" he said.\n\nHe announced his departure six days after polling day, saying he was \"torn\" between the leadership and his faith.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats increased their tally of seats from nine to 12 at last month's general election, but their vote share fell from 7.9% to 7.4%.\n\nIn an interview with BBC Radio 5 live's Emma Barnett, Mr Farron said that under his leadership, the party had \"left intensive care and is back relevant\".\n\n\"My job was to save the party,\" he said.\n\n\"The Liberal Democrats still exist and we're moving forward.\"\n\nMr Farron faced repeated questions about his views on gay sex during the campaign, and when he announced his resignation, said he had found it impossible to be a committed Christian and lead a \"progressive liberal party\".\n\nAsked about his decision to quit, he said he had not wanted to \"become the story\".\n\n\"I made the decision about two weeks into the election campaign,\" he said.\n\n\"I thought there isn't a way forward out of this without me either compromising or just causing damage to the party in the long run.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tim Farron: Living as a Christian and being a political leader 'has felt impossible'\n\nHe said he had told himself to \"put that into a drawer, don't talk to anybody else about it, get on and do as good a job as you can during the election\".\n\nMr Farron said this had \"not in the slightest\" deceived voters, adding that \"in every election there is a reasonable chance that leaders will step down\".\n\n\"I just thought 'I am here to do a job,'\" he said.\n\nA leadership contest is under way to replace Mr Farron - and with a week to go before nominations close, just one candidate, former Business Secretary Sir Vince Cable, has come forward.\n\nMr Farron - who criticised Theresa May's unopposed \"coronation\" as Tory leader - said Sir Vince had already been subject to \"plenty of scrutiny\".\n\n\"If there's only one candidate, then that's how it is,\" he added.", "Jason Major, a JunoCam citizen scientist and a graphic designer from Warwick, Rhode Island, took the raw images from the probe to create this perspective\n\nAn American space agency probe has returned the most detailed pictures ever of Jupiter's Great Red Spot.\n\nThe Juno spacecraft passed over the giant storm on Monday as it continued with its series of close passes of the gaseous world.\n\nThe pictures of the spot reveal the intricate nature of its swirls which encompass a region bigger than Earth.\n\nJuno's instruments all acquired data during the pass which should now provide fresh insight on the storm.\n\nThe raw images that come down from Juno are a lot more washed out. Citizen scientists like to accentuate the colours and contrast to highlight features that might otherwise be overlooked\n\nIt has been a particularly long-lived feature on Jupiter, but there is evidence that the 16,350-km-wide oval has actually been shrinking of late.\n\nThe Great Red Spot has persisted for centuries. Scientists are keen to learn its secrets and Juno provides the key\n\n\"For hundreds of years scientists have been observing, wondering and theorising about Jupiter's Great Red Spot,\" Scott Bolton, Juno principal investigator from the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, said in a Nasa statement.\n\n\"Now we have the best pictures ever of this iconic storm. It will take us some time to analyse all the data from not only JunoCam, but Juno’s eight science instruments, to shed some new light on the past, present and future of the Great Red Spot.\"\n\nScientists describe the storm as something similar to a hurricane - but there are significant differences between that kind of storm on Earth and what we see at Jupiter. Many behaviours are not the same.\n\nFor example, hurricanes on Earth quickly lose energy when they leave the ocean surface and pass over land - but on Jupiter, there is no land. Indeed, researchers are not even sure there exists any kind of hard surface under the planet's clouds.\n\nThis could be an explanation for why the spot has persisted for centuries. But Juno hopes to resolve such puzzles.\n\nIt has the instrumentation to determine the precise chemical composition of the oval's clouds, to sense their temperature and structure, and to measure how deep they go. There is a suspicion that the spot has very deep roots.\n\nThe mission should reveal the spot's internal structure and how deep its roots go\n\nJonathan Nichols, a British science team-member from the University of Leicester, marvelled at the new pictures.\n\n\"These images are stunning, and reveal Jupiter's Great Red Spot in all its glory,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"From the three swirls inside the deep red core to the waves and vortices orbiting it, the images reveal the power and chaos of this iconic storm.\n\n\"The light and dark shades reveal the wind flow in the spot and potentially the 3D structure of the cloud decks. But the images are also a perfect convergence of science and art, revealing the awesome beauty of the giant planet.\n\n\"The quality of these data are superb, and it bodes well for further Juno data that will reveal how deep into the atmosphere the Great Red Spot extends.\"\n\nJuno has been at Jupiter for just over a year. It flies large ellipses around the planet, coming in close every 53 days.\n\nMonday’s pass saw it skim just 3,500km above the cloudtops at one point. When it travelled across the spot, it was still a mere 9,000km overhead.\n\nThe practice of the mission so far has been to release raw images from JunoCam and invite the public to work on them - to process them in ways that highlight areas of scientific interest, or simply to make some fascinating artwork.\n\nMeanwhile, the science team gets to work on the data-sets from the other instruments. Their findings take a while longer to emerge - at conferences and in journal papers.\n\nJonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos", "A complaint by Prince Harry over photos of him on a beach in Jamaica published by Mail Online has been upheld by the independent press watchdog.\n\nThe prince said the images had been taken in circumstances in which he had a reasonable expectation of privacy, as it was on a private beach.\n\nPrince Harry was on the beach with his girlfriend Meghan Markle.\n\nMail Online said it had been provided with credible information that the prince had been on a public beach.\n\nPrince Harry also complained that he was engaged in private activities unconnected to his public role and was unaware that he was being photographed.\n\nThe prince said Mail Online had made no attempt to seek his consent or to establish the circumstances in which the photographs had been taken before publication.\n\nThe article, published on 4 March, was headlined: \"Time to cool off! Happy (and hunky) Prince Harry enjoys a dip in the ocean as he and Meghan relax on the beach in Jamaica.\"\n\nIt included several photos showing Prince Harry wearing swimming shorts, at a beachside bar and in the sea.\n\nMail Online said it had relied on the information it received and had published the images in good faith.\n\nIt added that it was unfortunate and regrettable that it had been misinformed about the circumstances in which the images had been taken and it had not been its intention to cause distress to the prince.\n\nIn its ruling, the Independent Press Standards Organisation (Ipso) said: \"The complainant had been photographed during his leisure time on a private beach at a private resort.\n\n\"Indeed, the article itself stated that the complainant was staying at a private resort.\"\n\nIt continued: \"The images, which had been taken without consent, showed the complainant wearing swimwear and engaging in private leisure activities in circumstances in which he had a reasonable expectation of privacy.\n\n\"Photographing an individual in such circumstances is unacceptable, unless it can be justified in the public interest.\n\n\"The publication had not sought to justify the publication of the images in the public interest.\"\n\nIpso ordered Mail Online to publish the adjudication on its website.\n\nPrince Harry also complained to the watchdog on the basis of accuracy but this was not upheld.", "Hurghada is a popular resort renowned for its scuba diving\n\nTwo German tourists have been killed in stabbings at a hotel beach in the popular Red Sea resort of Hurghada, Egyptian officials say.\n\nAt least four other people were injured and a man has been arrested.\n\nThe suspect is being questioned by police to determine his motives, the interior ministry said.\n\nThe knifeman initially killed the two women before injuring two other tourists at the Zahabia hotel, officials told Reuters news agency.\n\nHe then swam to a nearby beach and attacked and wounded two more people at the Sunny Days El Palacio resort before he was overpowered by staff and arrested.\n\n\"He had a knife with him and stabbed each of them three times in the chest. They died on the beach,\" El Palacio hotel Security Manager Saud Abdelaziz said.\n\nMr Abdelaziz said the injured include two Czechs and two Armenians. All are now being treated in hospital.\n\nThe attacker's motive was still under investigation, the interior ministry said.\n\n\"He was looking for foreigners and he didn't want any Egyptians,\" a member of staff at the Zahabia hotel said.\n\nThree foreign tourists were stabbed at the same resort, renowned for its scuba diving, in January 2016 by two suspected militants from the Islamic State militant group (IS).\n\nEmergency services were quick to arrive at the scene of the attacks\n\nInitial reports had said those killed were Ukrainian, but Ukrainian officials denied this.\n\nIt is unclear whether the attacker had any links to jihadist groups or whether he was psychologically disturbed, officials said.\n\nEgypt's security forces are dealing with an Islamist uprising in the country's Sinai Peninsula. The tourist industry has been targeted by militants in North Africa over the past few years.\n\nA Russian passenger plane was brought down by a bomb in the peninsula in October 2015, killing all 224 people on board.\n\nIn June 2015 at least 39 people, mostly foreigners, were killed and 36 injured in an attack on a beach in the Tunisian resort town of Sousse.", "Beyonce has shared the first picture of herself with her twins to celebrate them turning one month old.\n\nThe US singer also confirmed they are called Sir Carter and Rumi - which had been rumoured after she and husband Jay-Z filed a trademark for the names.\n\nThe picture showed the 35-year-old mother-of-three and the twins draped in a purple floral sheet, while she wore a blue veil.\n\nIt clocked up more than two million likes on Instagram in an hour.\n\nBeyonce wrote: \"Sir Carter and Rumi 1 month today\", with a string of emojis of prayer hands and a woman, man, little girl and two babies.\n\nAs well as the twins, Beyonce and rapper Jay-Z are also parents to five-year-old daughter, Blue Ivy.\n\nThe style of the image, in which Beyonce stands in a garden barefoot in front of a floral archway, echoes the photoshoot she used to announce her pregnancy on the network. That post, in February, became the most-liked in the history of Instagram.\n\nThe picture which Beyonce used to share news of her pregnancy\n\nJay-Z's real name is of course Shawn Carter. Beyonce wrote that their babies' names are \"Sir Carter and Rumi\". So is Sir Carter actually Sir Carter Carter? Or does Rumi just have one name?\n\nBeyonce's mum Tina cleared things up a little, posting a message saying: \"hello Sir Carter and Rumi Carter\" and also confirmed their genders: \"Boy and girl what a blessing.\"\n\nBeyonce and Jay-Z aren't the first couple to choose some sort of grandiose honorific as a forename - Kim and Kanye have little Saint, Michael Jackson's eldest son is Prince, and Jackson's brother Jermaine named a son, er, Jermajesty.\n\nRumi, meanwhile, is a popular Japanese girl's name but some people have suggested Rumi may be named after the 13th Century Persian poet.\n\nThe world had been eagerly awaiting the first glimpse of the babies ever since American media reported the Lemonade singer had given birth last month.\n\nBut neither she nor Jay-Z had confirmed any details of the twins until now.\n\nHer father Mathew Knowles had tweeted on 18 June, saying: \"They're here!\" and \"Happy birthday to the twins\" - but the timing of Beyonce's post suggest they were actually born on 13 June.\n\nIt's no surprise that fans were quick to share their thoughts on the picture.\n\nBBC Radio 1 DJ Clara Amfo wrote on Twitter: \"Soooo extra and I LOVE it.\"\n\nBut dad Lee Simpson reacted to the picture by tweeting: \"Our 1st photo was in Jessops with me in the background eating a packet of quavers.\"\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. It’s almost time to meet the Thirteenth Doctor\n\nThe wait is nearly over for Doctor Who fans, as the identity of the 13th Doctor is due to be revealed later.\n\nThere is speculation the Time Lord could be a woman for the first time.\n\nA trailer featuring the number 13 in different locations aired on Friday, finishing with the words: \"Meet the 13th Doctor after the Wimbledon men's final, Sunday 16th July.\"\n\nThe actor will succeed Peter Capaldi, who took the role in 2013 and leaves in the 2017 Christmas special.\n\nCapaldi announced he was leaving during an interview with BBC Radio 2 presenter Jo Whiley in January.\n\nPeter Capaldi will bow out in this year's Christmas special, featuring David Bradley as the First Doctor\n\nThe Glasgow-born star said: \"I feel it's time to move on. I feel sad, I love Doctor Who, it is a fantastic programme to work on.\"\n\nThe announcement about the 13th Doctor will come directly after the final - between Roger Federer and Marin Cilic - comes to an end.\n\nDavid Tennant, the 10th Doctor, is among the audience watching at Centre Court.\n\nPhoebe Waller-Bridge has denied involvement in the sci-fi show\n\nPhoebe Waller-Bridge - the star of hit comedy Fleabag - is among the favourites tipped to become the first female Doctor.\n\nFormer companion Billie Piper told the BBC it would \"feel like a snub\" if the role went to another man - but would Phoebe be able to squeeze the Tardis in around adventures on the Millennium Falcon? The 32-year-old actress recently started filming the new Star Wars Han Solo movie.\n\nThe bookies seem confident the role will go to one of the stars of ITV's Broadchurch - even if it isn't Phoebe, who starred in the show's second series as barrister Abby Thompson.\n\nBoth Jodie Whittaker and Olivia Colman have been the subject of much speculation, especially as incoming show boss Chris Chibnall was the creator of Broadchurch.\n\nDavid Tennant - otherwise known as the 10th Doctor and Colman's Broadchurch co-star - told the BBC he thought Colman would be \"great\" in the role, but added: \"Whether that's in her sights at the moment, I suspect probably not.\"\n\nOlivia Colman won a golden globe for her role in The Night Manager\n\nFormer Death in Paradise actor Kris Marshall, Sherlock's Andrew Scott and Ben Whishaw - who plays Q in the James Bond films - also make the list of contenders, should bosses go for a more traditional casting.\n\nPearl Mackie, who plays current companion Bill Potts, posted a picture of herself with a pink Tardis at Lovebox festival on Sunday, with the message: \"Wonder who is inside..?!\".\n\nSome of those whose names have been linked to the role posted tongue-in-cheek tweets as speculation mounted over the identity of the Doctor.\n\nThe locations in the latest trailer included 10 Downing Street, Beachy Head cliffs and the Statue of Liberty.\n\nThe popular sci-fi series features a Time Lord, known only as the Doctor, who travels through time and space in the Tardis, which resembles a 1960s police telephone box.\n\nThe main character has the ability to regenerate, a quirk that has allowed a number of actors to have played the role over the years.\n\nThe series was first broadcast in 1963. It underwent a relaunch in 2005, with Christopher Eccleston as the Doctor.\n\nSophie Aldred, who played Doctor Who's companion Ace in the 1980s, said: \"I've been lucky enough to meet most of the Doctors and they've all been amazing people. Slightly eccentric in some way... very talented actors.\n\n\"They just have to be a person who (has) really got something different about them.\"\n\nCapaldi, who replaced Matt Smith as the Doctor, was previously best known for his role as foul-mouthed spin-doctor Malcolm Tucker in the BBC series The Thick of 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.", "Five people were attacked with acid within 90-minutes on Thursday in London\n\nThe front page of the Times reports that new laws to restrict the sale and possession of corrosive substances will be proposed \"within days\", because of the rise in acid attacks.\n\nThe plans are predicted to feature tougher sentencing guidelines and a ban on the sale of the chemicals to under-18s.\n\nThey will be released in the next 48 hours, the newspaper says.\n\nIn an editorial, the paper notes that Britain has one of the highest rates of recorded acid attacks in the world and calls on MPs to make the \"liquid weapons\" harder to obtain.\n\nIt also urges regulators to make readily available products less dangerous.\n\nTwo front pages lead on the arrival in Britain next week of the US specialist who will examine the seriously ill baby Charlie Gard to see if an untested therapy can save his life.\n\nDoctors tell the I newspaper that it is a \"sensible, ethical solution\".\n\nWhile the Daily Mirror says the intervention has given new hope to Charlie's parents.\n\nMany of the papers carry reports on President Trump's visit to Paris to mark Bastille Day.\n\nThe Guardian says Mr Trump revelled in the pomp and ceremony and was beaming from ear to ear as he prepared to fly home.\n\nThe Daily Mail calls the parade on the Champs-Élysées - held to mark the centenary of America's entry into World War One - \"extraordinary\".\n\nBut it says from the prominence of the French and American military hardware on display, one might have thought that the two countries had won the conflict without any help.\n\nThe Sun says Chancellor Phillip Hammond sparked \"sexist fury\" when he remarked - in front of the entire cabinet - that driving a modern train is so easy, \"even a women could do it\".\n\nMr Hammond then tried to dig himself out of trouble, according to the Sun, earning him this rebuke from Theresa May: \"Mr chancellor, I am going take your shovel away from you.\"\n\nSources close to Mr Hammond insist to the Sun that he made no such comment and some suggest another minister had unfairly caricatured the chancellor's position.\n\nThe governing body of women's tennis, the WTA, is criticised in the Times.\n\nThe organisation invited readers of its Facebook page to vote on which female competitor dressed the best at SW19.\n\nIn the poll, a dress worn by Heather Watson is praised for creating \"a harmony between contemporary sporty elements and feminine flair of the English rose pattern and pleats\".\n\nA dress worn by Heather Watson was featured in the poll\n\nThose who commented on the post were more direct. One accused the WTA of asking a \"stupid question\", which set tennis back 50 years.\n\nThe organisation defended its conduct to the Times, saying \"there's nothing wrong with promoting athleticism while promoting Wimbledon's wonderful dress code\".\n\nThe Express features a surreptitious snap taken by a passenger on board an Emirates flight, appearing to show a flight attendant pouring a glass of champagne back into its bottle.\n\nThe paper quotes a former flight attendant, who describes the recycling of liquid refreshments which have been exposed to cabin air as \"unsanitary and disgusting\".\n\nThe airline says it has begun an investigation into an apparent breach of its standards.\n\nThe Daily Mail warns British tourists about what it calls \"the summer car hire rip-off\".\n\nThe paper quotes a study showing that firms have hiked the insurance excess charges they can impose in the event of an accident.\n\nThe average figure is £1,000, even when the driver isn't to blame, with the highest rising to £2,200.\n\nExperts tell the Mail the \"astonishingly high figures\" are being used to persuade travellers to pay for costly extra cover before they set off.\n\nThe Guardian profiles a creature that's likely to be the last organism standing, if an apocalyptic catastrophe threatens life on earth.\n\nThe tardigrade, just one millimetre long, is extraordinarily hardy - shrugging off the vacuum of space, absolute-zero temperatures and extreme doses of radiation as if it was nothing.\n\nThe Guardian styles them as the \"ultimate hope for terrestrial life as we know it\", as researchers say they could survive virtually any disaster.\n\nUntil the sun eventually enlarges and boils away the oceans, that is.\n\nThe Daily Telegraph reports on efforts by the British Museum to boost interest in its forthcoming exhibition about the Scythians - a fierce, horse-back tribe of nomads who roamed central Asia.\n\nOn the museum's website, they're likened to the Dothraki - a fictional people from the book and television series Game of Thrones.\n\nIn an editorial, the Telegraph laments the need for TV fantasy comparisons.\n\nAnd while the paper acknowledges some similarities - bloodthirstiness, master bowmanship - it suggests the Scythians, unlike their fantasy counterparts, may have worn a few more clothes.", "Most UK fire services would have automatically sent a high ladder to Grenfell Tower had the fire happened in their area, BBC Newsnight can reveal.\n\nA Newsnight investigation last week revealed the London Fire Brigade failed to dispatch a high \"aerial\" ladder immediately to the west London blaze.\n\nBut 31 of the 44 UK fire services with high-rise blocks would have sent a high ladder, the programme has learned.\n\nThe Home Office said it was up to each fire authority to manage its resources.\n\nLast week's investigation found that a high ladder had not been included in the London Fire Brigade's \"predetermined attendance\" plan and it took more than 30 minutes for such an appliance to arrive at the 24-storey west London tower.\n\nThe London Fire Brigade is one of several services which has changed its procedures since Grenfell and will now automatically send high ladders to tower block fires as an interim measure.\n\nNewsnight's latest findings came after the programme requested the predetermined attendance plans - or PDAs - for high rise fires from every fire service in the country.\n\nThe PDAs detail what each service will do automatically in the moments after a fire is reported.\n\nThey show that 70% of the fire services in the UK which have high-rise blocks in their regions would automatically have dispatched a high ladder to a tower blaze before the Grenfell disaster.\n\nSince then, four services, including London, have altered their plans.\n\nSorry, your browser cannot display this map\n\nHowever, Newsnight's research reveals that nine brigades still would not immediately send an aerial ladder to a tower blaze.\n\nThe investigation also shows significant variations in the number of response vehicles dispatched by services across the country.\n\nIn Kent, three fire engines would be sent to a reported fire in a tower block, with no high ladder. Fire services in Hampshire and Surrey - for the same fire in the same tower - would send six fire engines and a high ladder as first response.\n\nA fire engine is expected to carry five firefighters.\n\nManchester, Humberside, London and Warwickshire have all increased their PDA with fires in tall buildings to include a high ladder since Grenfell.\n\nBut Leicestershire, Lancashire, Tyne and Wear, the West Midlands, Kent and Essex fire services will still not automatically send a tall ladder to a fire in a high-rise building unless specifically requested.\n\nThe figures have led to calls for the government to implement mandatory minimum requirements for fire services attending high-rise fires.\n\nFire Brigades Union general secretary Matt Wrack told Newsnight: \"It was absolutely indefensible before Grenfell Tower to have such a postcode lottery of how we respond to fires in residential blocks of flats. After Grenfell Tower it's completely outrageous.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why did it take so long to get an aerial platform to the tower block? BBC Newsnight investigates\n\nReferring to the Grenfell Tower disaster, he added: \"An aerial appliance applying large quantities of water to the outside of the building could have made a big difference. It clearly did make a difference when it arrived.\"\n\nA Home Office spokesperson said: \"It is the responsibility of each fire and rescue authority to manage their resources across prevention, protection and operational response to meet local risk.\"\n\n\"Local areas consider risk through their Integrated Risk Management Plan and over the past 10 years there has been a 52% decrease in the total number of fires attended by fire and rescue services.\"\n\nNewsnight requested PDAs for tower block fires from all 52 fire services in the UK.\n\nEvery service responded and all bar one sent details to the BBC. Seven brigades have no high rise tower blocks in their area.\n\nLast week, a London Fire Brigade spokesman told Newsnight: \"It is important to understand that fires in high-rise buildings are nearly always dealt with internally, not usually needing an aerial appliance.\n\n\"The fundamental issue of high rise safety remains that buildings are maintained to stop fires spreading.\"\n\nThe spokesman said: \"An 'interim' change to pre-determined attendance for high rise buildings was introduced in direct response to the government's action to address concerns of cladding on buildings.\n\n\"The brigade's pre-determined attendance to high-rise buildings had already been increased in June 2015 from three fire engines to four as part of our ongoing review of high rise firefighting.\"", "Jacqui Kenny's agoraphobia means a trip to the supermarket can trigger an anxiety attack and fears of impending \"catastrophe\". But she says her Instagram account is helping her and sufferers like her to explore remote corners of the world.\n\nJacqui, 43, takes shots from Google Street View - among them a group of nuns in Peru and high-rise flats in Russia - posting images to her 20,000 followers under the pseudonym \"Agoraphobic Traveller\".\n\nSince her 20s she has feared busy places and public transport - despite living in central London - but says the digital age has helped her travel to places she would otherwise never see.\n\n\"I'll go anywhere that feels a little bit magical,\" she says. \"They are places that would be incredibly difficult for me to travel to, so inevitably I'm attracted to them.\"\n\nChildren playing near the Atacama Desert in Chile\n\nJacqui, who was diagnosed with agoraphobia in 2009, chooses remote, eerie places to capture and says she likes anywhere with an \"other-worldly feel\".\n\n\"There's a lot of isolation in the shots but there is also colour and hope in there,\" she says. \"The photos I take reflect how I feel and my agoraphobia is part of that.\"\n\nBut her \"thrill\" at discovering faraway places contrasts with her fear of everyday situations.\n\nShe describes going to the local supermarket as \"a nightmare\" and says she has not taken a Tube train in 10 years.\n\n\"I'll start to panic - my palms are sweaty, I have a racing heart, I feel that my feet aren't touching the floor,\" she says.\n\n\"Thoughts are racing through my mind - that I'm going to lose control, smash everything in the aisle - and everyone will see.\"\n\nJacqui was 23 and living in Australia when she had her first panic attack during a busy day at work.\n\n\"No one told me what it was and I thought I was dying,\" she says. \"Later, a doctor said it must've been something I'd had for dinner.\n\n\"He blamed it on the black bean sauce - no one was talking about mental health.\"\n\nBefore starting the project in 2016, Jacqui managed to hide her symptoms from everyone except her family.\n\nAt work, she ran a digital marketing company but only went to meetings in the office which was two minutes' walk from her house.\n\nShe says finding and posting the images has helped her come to terms with being agoraphobic, which she had felt angry about for a long time.\n\n\"Before my anxiety set in I dreamed of being a photographer,\" says Jacqui. \"I'd resigned myself to this never happening.\"\n\n\"Now I feel that the condition doesn't define me but is within a part of me,\" she says.\n\nBut does spending hours online posting photos really help her condition?\n\nJacqui admits she \"thought it could be an unhealthy thing to do\" to trawl the internet for hours at a time.\n\nBut she says it has given her the confidence to speak about the condition and come to terms with it.\n\n\"It's only when I started posting these photos I went beyond telling my family and really close friends,\" she says.\n\n\"Before, nobody knew,\" she says. \"Now people from all over the world are coming to me sharing similar struggles - it's amazing.\"\n\nShe says many people misunderstand agoraphobia as a fear of open spaces, but she has discovered how varied people's anxiety can be.\n\nShe has been contacted by an agoraphobic journalist who struggles in a busy newsroom and photographers who may fear travelling to a photo shoot.\n\n\"Quite a few young women have asked me for advice,\" she says. \"I tell them about my experience, but I can only offer my viewpoint as I'm obviously not a psychologist.\"\n\nShe adds: \"Everybody's dealing with something and I'm really starting to realise that.\"\n\nJacqui now manages her anxiety with cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), which aims to change patterns of thinking - recently attending her sister's wedding in New Zealand.\n\n\"I had therapy which involved a lot of anxiety and not sleeping for three months,\" she says.\n\nBut she managed the flight after seeing a psychologist, who made her act out her worst fears. \"I pretended to bang down the door of the plane, trying to get out of there,\" she says.\n\n\"I realised how funny the situation was, and we both fell around laughing, and when I actually boarded the plane that humour helped me through it.\"\n\nIt was not easy - but she says the trip has given her hope.\n\n\"I try to do these things,\" she says. \"There are times when I can't do it and I go home - but I know that is making it worse.\"", "More than a few people had money on a great former champion now in their sporting dotage fighting through the rounds and years for another tilt at the Wimbledon singles crown.\n\nIt just happened to be Roger Federer, rather than a woman two years older than him who had not won a Grand Slam singles title for nine years.\n\nSome elite athletes project an image of impregnability. Venus Williams takes on the world by appearing to be oblivious to it\n\nBy taking Britain's Johanna Konta apart in straight sets before a wilting Centre Court crowd, 37-year-old Venus Williams has moved within one match of becoming the oldest ladies' singles champion in more than a century.\n\nIf that makes a mockery of time, it is worth considering that when the American turned professional in October 1994, Konta was three years old.\n\nShould Williams beat Garbine Muguruza on Saturday, it would come 17 years after her first Wimbledon singles title. Martina Navratilova, whose own longevity was once considered remarkable, had a stretch of 12 years here, Steffi Graf eight.\n\nThis was not supposed to happen.\n\nIt is nine years since Venus beat her younger sister Serena in straight sets for the most recent of her five singles title here. It is five since she lost in straight sets in the first round to Elena Vesnina.\n\nShe had three and a half years after that when she failed to make it even to the second week of a Grand Slam tournament.\n\nYou might expect her to be giddy with adrenaline afterwards, thrilled to be back for one last shot at the title that defined her career.\n\nBeing Venus, she instead looked like someone who had just woken from a long restorative nap, as bashful as the teenager who first played on these courts in 1997, as softly spoken as a kid thrust into a news conference for the very first time.\n\nAsked how excited she was, she blinked slowly, thought about it and sighed. \"Yeah, um… yeah.\" Asked about the double-fault Konta had produced on her first service of the match, she had no recollection of it.\n\nSomeone suggested there might be lessons to be taken from Serena's defeat of Muguruza in the final of 2015. Venus had no idea when it had taken place.\n\nSome elite athletes project an image of impregnability. Venus takes on the world by appearing to be oblivious to it.\n\nThree years from her fifth decade, she is a warrior who keeps a shield up at all times.\n\nIn the Royal Box on Thursday afternoon were two other great veteran entertainers, Shirley Bassey and Elaine Paige. History might be repeating for Venus, but we still don't know her so well.\n\nSome of that comes from a life lived in the spotlight, some from the influence of her sister.\n\nSerena has a name for the personalities she deploys on court: Summer, who is all smiles and thank-you notes; Psycho Serena, the feisty competitor; Taquanda, the one who screams and shouts and says things to line judges that no line judge should expect to hear.\n\nVenus prefers to stay as distant as a planet. Only occasionally does the guard drop, as when she left a news conference earlier in this tournament after being asked about the crash in Florida which led to the death of a passenger in a car that collided with hers.\n\nAll other questions are met with a stop volley.\n\nWith the years comes experience, not only of these sorts of hype-heavy Grand Slam occasions, but of how to find the holes in the defence of an opponent who has just beaten the world number two and who had beaten Williams herself in three of their past four meetings.\n\nCentre Court was ready to celebrate on Thursday, Henman Hill so packed that spectators were reduced to queuing for a gap in a hedge at the back that was itself 50 metres from the video screen.\n\nWilliams had let Konta walk out ahead, comfortable in herself, confident in her chosen tactics.\n\nFor a while it was tight. At 4-4 in the first set, Konta had two break points, one of them on a second serve.\n\nVenus slammed shut the fly-trap and then tucked into Konta's serve. Big depth on the first return, more power and depth on the second. She broke the Briton in a run of seven points in a row, and home hopes went south with the set.\n\nKonta would win just a third of the points on her second serve, and just 26% of receiving points. In a second set that accelerated towards its end, the American's groundstrokes pulled her opponent around in a way that shattered the sweet rhythm she had sat in all tournament.\n\nBy reaching the final of the Australian Open in January, 20 years on from her maiden US Open final, Williams had already set a record for the longest span between singles Slam finals in the open era.\n\nThat seemed like a comeback enough, six years on from being diagnosed with the debilitating autoimmune disease Sjogren's syndrome.\n\nMuch of her time has been spent preparing for the next chapter - expanding her fashion label EleVen, graduating with a bachelor of science degree in business administration from Indiana University East in August 2015.\n\nShe puts some of that durability down to her 'chegan' diet (mostly vegan, with the occasional bit of cheating). There has been a sense here too of wanting to compensate for the absence of Serena, away preparing for the birth of her first child.\n\nWhile she will never show it publicly, there is something else too: a love for the game at a point when most have happily slipped into sporting retirement, an ability to keep fighting when quite enough has already been won.\n\nFederer in the semi-finals on Friday, Venus returning to Centre Court on Saturday. Wimbledon, a championships awash with history, is going back to the future once again.\n• None Take on the legends in our interactive game", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The attackers were shot dead after being pursued into the sacred compound\n\nTwo Israeli policemen have been killed and a third wounded in a shooting attack near a sacred site in Jerusalem.\n\nThey were shot by three Israeli Arabs close to the compound known to Jews as the Temple Mount and to Muslims as Haram al-Sharif (Noble Sanctuary).\n\nPolice chased the attackers into the site and shot them dead.\n\nThere has been a wave of stabbings, shootings and car-rammings of Israelis predominantly by Palestinians or Israeli Arabs since late 2015.\n\nTwo of the previous attackers were Jordanians.\n\nSgt Maj Hail Sattawi (left) and Sgt Maj Kamil Shanan died of their wounds\n\nIdentity cards, believed to belong to the attackers, were pictured at the site\n\nPolice say the three men who carried out Friday's attack were aged between 19 and 29 and came from the northern Israeli city of Umm al-Fahm. Israel's Shin Bet security agency said that they were not previously known to the security services.\n\nPolice say the gunmen opened fire as they made their way from the Temple Mount/Haram al-Sharif towards Lions' Gate, an opening in the Old City walls about 100ft (30 metres) away.\n\nThe attackers were then pursued back to the compound, where they were killed.\n\nMobile phone footage showed at least one of the attackers in a confrontation with members of the security forces in the holy site before being shot.\n\nThe two policemen who died of their injuries in hospital were named as Advanced Staff Sergeant Major Kamil Shanan, aged 22, and Advanced Staff Sergeant Major Hail Sattawi, who was 30. They were Druze from Israel's northern Galilee region.\n\nThe Old City has often been a flashpoint in the conflict, which since the autumn of 2015 has seen an increase in violence involving attacks often carried out by lone individuals.\n\nBut an attack with guns by multiple assailants in the vicinity of the heavily guarded holy site, a very sensitive location, is highly unusual in recent times.\n\nAnd the confirmation from Israel's security agency that the attackers were Israeli Arab citizens of Umm Al Fahm, and not previously known to the authorities, will also cause concern about the ability of Israel to prevent such incidents.\n\nFor the Israeli government, the event has crossed \"red lines\" and there will be fears of an increase in tensions following the severity of the attack and the rare decision to close the site.\n\nIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said it was \"a sad day in which our Druze brothers pay the heaviest price in our joint mission to protect the security of our country. I salute them and their heroism\".\n\nPalestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas condemned the attack in a phone call to Mr Netanyahu, the prime minister's office said.\n\nMr Netanyahu has previously accused the Palestinian leader of failing to denounce such attacks.\n\nWorshippers held Friday prayers outside Lions' Gate after police shut the holy site\n\nIn the wake of the incident, police sealed off the site to search it for weapons. It is the first time in decades that the compound, which contains the Dome of the Rock and al-Aqsa Mosque, has been closed for Muslim Friday prayers, which normally draws thousands of worshippers.\n\nThe site is administered by an Islamic authority (Waqf), though Israel is in charge of security there. Police are investigating how the attackers managed to smuggle in a handgun, sub-machine gun and knife.\n\nThe Palestinian Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Mohammad Hussein, who had urged worshippers to defy the closure, was detained by police, but later released.\n\nHis son said the cleric was not facing any charges over his call for Muslims to converge on Jerusalem.\n\nElsewhere, a Palestinian was shot dead in clashes with Israeli forces at a refugee camp near Bethlehem on Friday, Palestinian sources said.\n\nBarra Hamamdeh, 21, was killed during a raid by troops on the Dheisheh camp, the Palestinian Wafa news agency reported.\n\nThe Temple Mount/Haram al-Sharif is the holiest site in Judaism and third holiest in Islam and is one of the most politically sensitive sacred places in the world.\n\nIt is located in East Jerusalem, occupied by Israel since the 1967 Middle East war. Israel considers the entire city its sovereign capital, while Palestinians claim East Jerusalem as the capital of their sought-after future state.\n\nThe attack happened despite heightened security around the Old City in Jerusalem\n\nIsrael's Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan said the attack was \"a serious and severe event in which red lines were crossed\", adding that security arrangements in and around the site would be reviewed.\n\nNo group has said it was responsible, though the militant Palestinian Hamas movement, which runs the Gaza Strip, praised the attack as a \"natural response to the Zionist ongoing crimes\".\n\nThe shooting comes weeks after an Israeli policewoman was killed in a knife and gun attack outside the Old City by three Palestinians from the occupied West Bank.\n\nForty-four Israelis and five foreign nationals have been killed in nearly two years of such attacks.\n\nAt least 255 Palestinians - most of them attackers, Israel says - have also been killed in that period, news agencies report. Others have been killed in clashes with Israeli troops.\n\nIsrael says Palestinian incitement has fuelled the attacks. The Palestinian leadership has blamed frustration rooted in decades of Israeli occupation.", "The man slipped handwritten notes pleading to bank customers to get help\n\nA Texas man who found himself trapped inside a cash machine slipped \"help me\" notes through the receipt slot.\n\nThe man, who police say was working on a renovation of the bank, left his phone in his vehicle before getting stuck in the drive-thru ATM's vault.\n\nThe unnamed workman was freed after shouting to ATM users, who continued withdrawing cash throughout his ordeal on Wednesday in Corpus Christi.\n\nPolice thought it a hoax before kicking in a door to withdraw him.\n\n\"Sure enough, we can hear a little voice coming from the machine, so we're all thinking this is a joke, it's gotta be a joke,\" said police officer Richard Olden.\n\nOne handwritten note slipped by the trapped man to a customer said: \"Please Help. I'm stuck in here, and I don't have my phone. Please call my boss.\" The message included the employer's phone number.\n\nThe man was freed after spending more than two hours inside the Bank of America machine.\n\nOfficer Olden told local media: \"Everyone is okay, but you will never see this in your life, that somebody was stuck in the ATM, it was just crazy.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Jagdip Randhawa's family appealed the results of an internal investigation into how the case was handled\n\nBail breaches by a man who killed a student were handled in a \"fundamentally flawed\" manner, a report has found.\n\nJagdip Randhawa, 19, from London, was punched by boxer Clifton Ty Mitchell during a night out in Leeds in 2011.\n\nMitchell, from Derby, had breached bail conditions for a previous violent offence 24 times in the preceding five months but no action was taken.\n\nDerbyshire Police said procedures had been reviewed and made more \"robust\".\n\nA separate investigation found Mr Randhawa's care in hospital was also below acceptable standards\n\nAfter being hit, Mr Randhawa, from Hounslow, struck his head on a pavement. He died five days later.\n\nMitchell, now 26, was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to seven years in prison in 2012.\n\nAn initial referral to the Independent Police Complaints Commission following a complaint by Mr Randhawa's family led to the force carrying out a local investigation.\n\nIn March 2015 the IPCC upheld an appeal by the family against the outcome of this inquiry and began its own.\n\nThe new report states: \"In my opinion, the procedure in place at the time of the incident was fundamentally flawed and was not fit for the control of persons deemed by the court system to require active monitoring.\n\n\"This process was in my opinion so flawed that none of the staff operating under it appeared to recognise the ongoing issues with this one individual and see the obvious opportunities missed.\"\n\nThe report also criticised the handling of complaints from the family, with a unnamed superintendent potentially facing misconduct charges if the officer had not retired.\n\nMr Randhawa's sister Majinder Randhawa said: \"Our family will always be haunted by not knowing what might have happened if Mitchell had been arrested as he should have been.\n\n\"It's important that the IPCC's report highlights the significant failings of Derbyshire Police - but it's devastating to know that Jagdip's death was avoidable.\n\n\"We believe that Jagdip would still be here today, if Derbyshire Police had correctly managed Mitchell while he was on bail. It's impossible for us to ever get over that.\"\n\nDerbyshire's Deputy Chief Constable, Gary Knighton, said \"The IPCC report recognises that following the death of Mr Randhawa, we immediately reviewed the way that the force handled breaches of bail conditions where an individual is required to report to a police station.\n\n\"The force now has a more robust system in place to deal with a suspect who has failed to comply with their bail conditions. If someone breaches their bail, an officer is allocated to take action and deal with the breach.\"\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\nFootballers have long relied on the terraces for inspiration but when Olivier Tebily does so these days, he is looking at rows of vines - not fans.\n\nWhile many footballers' post-playing plans involve staying in the game, the former Ivory Coast international has eschewed that to quietly focus on his second passion.\n\nFootballers and alcohol have long gone together, often badly, but the former Birmingham City defender is unique in actually creating the product.\n\nWhat's more, the treble winner with Celtic is doing so in Cognac, home to some of France's - and the world's - most celebrated vineyards.\n\nFor similar to champagne, only the brandy made in the region can bear the prestigious name Cognac.\n\nAs for whether the 41-year-old is just another footballer flashing his cash on a pet project, consider this - he bought his first vineyard in his late teens.\n\n\"When I signed my first professional contract, I bought two hectares,\" Tebily told the BBC, standing amidst his vines in the south-western French village of Salles-d'Angles.\n\n\"I said to myself: 'If I get an injury and football stops, I will have something to carry on with.'\"\n\nTebily played over 80 matches for Birmingham City, many of them in the top-flight\n\n\"I did that because I used to work on this land to get a little bit of pocket money to go on holiday - to the seaside with my friends - before turning professional.\"\n\n\"It's really difficult to become a professional so I bought this straight away to insure myself.\"\n\nIt was 1993 when Tebily signed for second-tier French side Niort, an hour's drive from Poitiers, the south-western city on the edge of the Cognac region where his parents relocated from Abidjan when he was a toddler.\n\nIt was the start of a journey that took him, following brief spells with Chateauroux and Sheffield United, to the 2000 Africa Cup of Nations, a Scottish treble in 2001 and a four-year Premier League adventure with Birmingham.\n\nAfter suffering a bad injury just weeks after joining Canada's Toronto FC, Tebily cut short a four-and-a-half-year contract to return to the vineyards.\n\nThere was however a fundamental problem.\n\nTebily is learning how to distil - a key element in creating Cognac since traditional methods require a double-distillation in copper stills\n\nLand in Cognac is both expensive and seldom available - and Tebily didn't have enough of it.\n\nHe ran two local restaurants while waiting for a solution, which was laced with tragedy when it came six years later.\n\nAfter his neighbour's only son died, the retiring Cognac farmer had to decide who to sell his business to last year.\n\n\"His son was my friend and we had the same name - it's maybe because of that that he chose me,\" says Tebily.\n\n\"Around here, all the winemakers are the same,\" explains the now-retired Jean-Michel Lepine.\n\n\"Because I liked football and because Olivier was not unpleasant to me and helped me in tough times - because I've had tough times - I said why not a black man to take over my property? Why not a footballer?\n\nTebily owns 22 hectares after retiring farmer Jean-Michel Lepine chose to sell his business to the Ivorian, a friend of his late son\n\n\"I never changed my mind, even though many people tried to stop me.\"\n\nFollowing the deal, the first African maker of Cognac - who says he was initially treated like \"a Martian\" - was the proud owner of 22 hectares in a prime location.\n\nHe also took control of a distillery and although he has yet to master this crucial element of the Cognac process, he is learning from Jean-Michel, now his mentor.\n\nWhen we meet, Tebily is in his vineyard - wearing a Birmingham City fleece as he goes about his daily business, secateurs in hand, carefully tending to his grapes.\n\nSuch sensitivity may seem incongruous for those who remember the burly defender's on-field reputation.\n\nHe once finished a match despite rupturing knee ligaments in the first half while he famously thundered into one challenge with an opponent despite having lost a boot seconds earlier.\n\nTebily scored few goals during his career but managed two with Celtic, with whom he won a Scottish treble in 2001\n\n\"The local people were really, really surprised by an African footballer trying to do what they are doing,\" says Tebily, who played for Ivory Coast between 1999-2004.\n\n\"But I work Monday to Sunday and people are really surprised - they didn't think I would do this work because it's really hard.\n\n\"But I don't do this to impress people. I love this work and want to go as far as I can,\" he adds, proclaiming a love of the outdoors.\n\nLike many Cognac farmers, Tebily sells most of his produce - around 90% - to the region's bigger companies but he keeps the rest for his own eponymous range.\n\nHe first produced a bottle in 2013 - smooth upon taste - and although he sells it to local restaurants, he ultimately wants to trade only with Africa.\n\nTebily produced his first brand of Cognac in 2013, five years after quitting football\n\n\"That's my dream,\" he says. \"I am already selling to some restaurants in Africa, in Ivory Coast. It's not as much as I want but I'm still happy because it's the beginning and it's working.\"\n\nAfter that, and much in the tradition of many of the Cognac farmers, he hopes to hand his business down to his children when he takes a second retirement.\n\nUntil then, this gentle giant is revelling in being the only African maker of the world's most famous brandy.\n\n\"It makes me feel really, really happy and that's why I am fighting to do my business correctly. I try because I am passionate. I love this like I loved football.\"\n• None How I turned football into wine. Video, 00:02:15How I turned football into wine", "New legislation to tackle \"legal highs\" was introduced last year\n\nSo-called legal highs and chemsex drugs will be targeted in a government move aimed at cutting illicit drug use.\n\nFewer than one in ten adults in England and Wales now take drugs, according to the Home Office, but drug-related deaths have risen sharply.\n\nThe strategy will target psychoactive substances, performance-enhancing drugs and the misuse of prescribed medicines.\n\nDrugs charities praised the strategy's focus on recovery, but raised concerns that budget cuts could affect delivery.\n\nThe strategy applies across England, with some elements spreading to Wales and Scotland.\n\nNew psychoactive substances (NPS), formerly known as legal highs, mimic the effects of other drugs, such as cannabis.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Harry Shapiro, from Drugwise, says drugs on the streets are \"at the highest purity levels\"\n\nLast year, laws were introduced to criminalise the production, distribution, sale and supply of them, but they continue to fall into the hands of users.\n\nChemsex - using drugs as part of sexual activity - often involves crystal methamphetamine, GHB/GBL and mephedrone.\n\nGovernment studies show the practice increases health risks, both mentally and physically, including aiding the spread of blood-borne infections and viruses.\n\nIt comes as the number of drug deaths in England and Wales increased by 10.3% to 2,479 in 2015, following rises of 14.9% in 2014 and 19.6% in 2013.\n\nHome Office statistics show the number of adults aged between 16 and 59 who take drugs is at now at 8% - a 2.5% drop from 10 years ago.\n\nIn December 2010, with Home Office priorities centred on police reform and immigration, the last government drug strategy felt like a box-ticking exercise. Just 25 pages long, it contained little detail or original thinking and just one paragraph on the problem that was later to engulf prisons, legal highs.\n\nThe theme of the last strategy was supporting people to live a \"drug-free life\". It emphasised the need for \"abstinence\" and said too many users were reliant on drug-substitute treatments such as methadone.\n\nThe 2017 strategy makes no mention of abstinence or limiting methadone use, but it sets more demanding and wide-ranging measurements of treatment success.\n\nAt double the length of the previous document, there is a sense that the Home Office is more focused on the issue than before, prompted perhaps by the recent rise in drug deaths and the need to prevent a new generation of drug users sparking a fresh crime-wave.\n\nHome Secretary Amber Rudd, who will chair a new cross-government drug strategy board, said she was \"determined to confront the scale of this issue\".\n\nThe chief executive of the drug treatment campaign Collective Voice, Paul Hayes, welcomed the fact that recovery was being put \"at the heart\" of the government's response.\n\nWhile also welcoming the shift in the government's focus, Harry Shapiro, director of online advice service DrugWise, said he was concerned about a lack of funding.\n\n\"It has shifted from the 2010 strategy [when] there was an emphasis that recovery from addiction was just about abstinence,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\n\"Anyone working in the sector knew that that wasn't the case, because if you are going to recover, you have got to have something to recover to.\n\n\"The government has recognised that more needs to be done in that area, but it all has to be delivered at a local level and local authorities are struggling with budgets, drug services are suffering from cuts.\"\n\nRon Hogg, the Police and Crime and Victims Commissioner in County Durham, said he agreed with a focus on helping users recover, but said it was \"shameful\" the strategy did not look into decriminalising drugs.\n\nHe said that in Portugal - where drugs were decriminalised 12 years ago - drug use, drug-related deaths and the number of people injecting had all fallen.\n\nHome Office Minister Sarah Newton said she had looked at arguments for decriminalisation, but added: \"When you look at all the other available evidence, we just don't agree.\"\n\nThe National Police Chiefs' Council's lead for drugs, Commander Simon Bray said police \"will play our part\" in delivering the plan.", "Parents, it is generally agreed, are allowed to choose what happens to their children.\n\nOf course, parents may make good or bad choices, but they have the right to make those decisions, whether that is about their child's diet and physical activity, their name, what school they go to, what religion they are raised in or what medical treatment they receive.\n\nProfessor of medical ethics at the University of Oxford, Dominic Wilkinson, says: \"The principle is that if parents' decisions risk significant harm to their child then they should not be allowed to make those decisions. But the state doesn't intervene every time parents don't make the best decision.\"\n\nThe concept of parental responsibility is set out in law. The Children Act 1989 describes it as \"all the rights, duties, powers, responsibilities and authority which, by law, a parent of a child has in relation to the child and his property.\"\n\nIf a public body disagrees with those choices, they must go to court in order to override this parental responsibility.\n\nIn the case of terminally ill baby Charlie Gard, medical professionals disagree with his parents over what is in his best interests. They want to stop his parents taking him to the US for experimental medical treatment, something they say is futile. And they want to stop providing his life support and allow him to die.\n\nHis parents say they believe that Charlie is \"not in pain and suffering\" as doctors have claimed, and there is nothing to be lost in trying the experimental therapy.\n\nThe team at Great Ormond Street has said Charlie is suffering and that that outweighs the \"tiny theoretical chance there may be of effective treatment\".\n\nCharlie is unable to move his legs and arms, breathe unaided or hold his eyelids open. He is also deaf, has severe epilepsy and his heart, liver and kidneys are affected.\n\nUndoubtedly, both doctors and parents want the best for Charlie. But in the final analysis, it will be for a judge to decide. This is because in the UK, in the absence of a parent's consent, a hospital needs a court order if stopping treatment would bring about death.\n\nSo far, the courts have ruled that Charlie should not be given treatment and that Great Ormond Street Hospital should be allowed to withdraw Charlie's life support.\n\nChris Fairhurst, children's law expert from Slater and Gordon, explains that in these situations, parents' wishes can only be overridden by going to court because a hospital has no legal right or responsibility to make such a decision without either the parents' or the courts' permission. It takes a judge ruling in favour of the hospital in order for the legal status of the parent's responsibility to be overridden.\n\nThe hospital has given evidence that it does not believe keeping Charlie on life support is in his best interests.\n\nConnie Yates and Chris Gard have fought a long legal battle to take their baby to the US for treatment\n\nWhen it comes to cases involving the medical treatment of children, views range from thinking that the doctor always knows best to the idea that parents should have complete freedom to make all decisions over their children's health. The law in the UK falls somewhere in-between.\n\nIn 2006, the parents of a disabled baby boy called Mahdi Bacheikh won their fight against the hospital's request to turn off the ventilator that kept him alive. The 19-month-old had spinal muscular atrophy, was almost totally paralysed and could not breathe unaided, but did not have any sign of brain damage. He died later, aged two.\n\nIn 2009, the parents of a baby known only as OT who, like Charlie suffered from a form of mitochondrial disease, lost their right to keep him on life support. The judge heard he had suffered brain damage and was in discomfort and pain. He died the next day.\n\nIn the US, though, where Charlie's parents are suggesting he could be treated, the law falls much more heavily on the side of the parents even if this goes against the recommendations of medical professionals.\n\nCharlie is thought to be the 16th baby ever to be diagnosed with his condition\n\nIn the UK, while parents have the right to make decisions about their children's medical treatment, their wishes will be overruled if they refuse a reasonable life-saving treatment which has a very high chance of working.\n\nThe classic example of this is parents who are Jehovah's Witnesses and refuse blood transfusions due to their faith. There have been many cases where the courts have sided with the doctors against the wishes of the parents.\n\nThere is a difference, of course, between parents refusing recommended treatment and parents, as in Charlie's case, asking for treatment against advice.\n\nIt is far simpler to prove that a treatment that almost certainly will keep a child alive is in their best interests than it is to argue that keeping a child alive is not in their best interests.\n\nWhen it comes to disputes between parents and the state, the vast majority involve a local authority going to court to remove a child from the care of their parents. In these cases, the authority must prove that a child is at risk of significant harm.\n\nBut because cases like Charlie's are relatively rare, unlike in care cases there is no statutory test for how judges should treat them. This means it varies case by case as to whether a judge decides what is in a child's best interests or uses the more onerous test of whether they are likely to come to significant harm.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Eight people died and dozens were injured in the London Bridge attack\n\nSeveral terror plots that \"were very close to an attack\" were thwarted \"within minutes\" of being carried out, London's most senior police officer has said.\n\nMet Police Commissioner Cressida Dick told LBC that five terror attacks had been prevented in the last few months.\n\nFour terror attacks have taken place in the UK in 2017 - three in the capital.\n\nMs Dick, who took charge of the Met in February, said the attacks in London and Manchester had been \"horrific\".\n\nShe said a \"very large number of plots\" have been foiled over the last few years.\n\nMs Dick said she could not reveal details about the nature of the terror plots because arrests had been made, but added: \"We've had a huge number of successful operations.\n\n\"It's well into the teens in the past couple of years, where we know people were intent on attacking and that's been stopped.\"\n\nMs Dick told LBC terror culprits were \"living in our communities and that's a problem for all of us\"\n\nShe added: \"In addition, [police have made] hundreds and hundreds of arrests of people who are radicalised and are either spreading hatred or supporting terrorism and wanting to carry out a terror attack.\"\n\nMs Dick, who was previously the police's lead on counter-terrorism, praised officers for their response to the attacks.\n\n\"At London Bridge it was utterly astonishing,\" she said.\n\nThe attackers - who killed eight people on London Bridge and in nearby Borough Market - were shot dead by armed police within eight minutes of the first emergency call.\n\nMs Dick, who has called for more funding in the wake of recent attacks, said police officers relied on information from local communities to identify terror suspects.\n\n\"We clearly need a lot more [information] because what has happened in the last few months alone is horrific,\" she said.\n\n\"We are undoubtedly seeking examples of people who have carried out attacks or people who are violent extremists,\" she added.\n\n\"Essentially they're living in our communities and that's a problem for all of us.\"", "Lion expert Dr Luke Hunter told the BBC the images are a once-in-a-lifetime sight\n\nA baby leopard can't change his spots, but this lioness doesn't seem to mind.\n\nThese beautiful pictures are the first ever taken of a wild lioness nursing a cub from a different species - an extremely rare event.\n\nThe pair were spotted by Joop Van Der Linde, a guest at Ndutu Safari Lodge in Tanzania's Ngorongoro Conservation Area.\n\nThe scene is the Serengeti; the attentive mother, five-year-old Nosikitok.\n\nThe lioness has a GPS collar fitted by Kope Lion, a conservation NGO, and three young cubs of her own - born around the 27-28 June.\n\nThe lioness Nosikitok recently had her second litter of cubs\n\nDr Luke Hunter, President and Chief Conservation Officer for Panthera, a global wild cat conservation organisation which supports Kope Lion, told the BBC the incident was \"truly unique\".\n\n\"It's not something that I'm aware has ever happened before between large cats like this,\" he said.\n\n\"We know there are cases where lionesses will adopt other lion cubs... But this is unprecedented.\n\n\"I know of no other case - between any large cat, for that matter - where the species has adopted or nursed the cub of another species.\"\n\nMost lionesses would normally kill a baby leopard if they found one, seeing just another predator in a competitive food-chain.\n\nThe leopard cub, whose gender is not known, is around 2-3 weeks old\n\nThe little cub is lucky it wasn't killed on sight, Dr Hunter says\n\nDr Hunter says Nosikitok has cubs the same age as the young leopard - two to three weeks.\n\nShe was around a kilometre from her den, where her own cubs are hidden, when she found the spotted substitute.\n\n\"She's encountered this little cub, and she's treated it as her own. She's awash with maternal hormones, and this fierce, protective drive that all lionesses have - they're formidable mums,\" the lion expert notes.\n\nIt is not clear yet where the baby leopard's mother is, or if the lioness will try to adopt it full-time.\n\nThe local safari lodge say there is a resident female leopard there who almost certainly has cubs. And as Nosikitok's pride are unlikely to prove as indulgent as she is, the best outcome for the leopard would be a safe return to mum.\n\nDr Hunter says his team are on tenterhooks to see what comes next.\n\n\"It's a unique thing, it will be fascinating to see how it unfolds. Nature is unpredictable. Up until earlier this week, we would have said 'Nah, that never happens' - and now it happens!\"\n\nWith luck, the tiny leopard will soon be back with its natural mother", "Officials have begun preparations for a major review of building regulations in England, Newsnight has learned.\n\nThe decision reflects official alarm at the state of building safety in the wake of last month's Grenfell Tower fire, in which at least 80 people died.\n\nAs results of checks on tall buildings have come in, civil servants have expressed shock at how the official rulebooks have been interpreted.\n\nThey remain unclear whether the problem is the rules or their enforcement.\n\nOver the past month, officials in the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) have sought both to explain how the catastrophe at the Grenfell Tower in west London came about, and why so many other buildings have been found to have problems with fire safety.\n\nIt is not clear when the government review will be officially announced, but it is likely that it will be complicated by the ongoing police investigations and the public inquiry.\n\nThe three processes may need to investigate some overlapping questions.\n\nThe discovery, in particular, that combustible material has been installed on a wide range of tall local authority and housing association buildings has alarmed officials.\n\nWhile it is permissible to use combustible insulation on buildings of more than 18m in height, it must follow strict guidelines. Cladding must follow principles which are designed to help prevent fires from spreading across the exterior of buildings.\n\nTo get cladding signed off by building inspectors, it must follow one of a few routes. Newsnight has identified weaknesses in each of them.\n\nCladding from tower blocks has been tested in the wake of the Grenfell Tower fire\n\nFirst, the regulations state that materials used in the construction of the cladding can all be either \"non-combustible\" or of \"limited combustibility\".\n\nThis is the so-called \"prescriptive\" route to getting sign-off and is the simplest route to compliance. If every part attached to the exterior of the building meets this standard - which, in practice, means they cannot catch or spread fire - no further action is needed.\n\nThis, at least, is how the rule is interpreted by the government and sector bodies, such as the Building Control Alliance.\n\nBut ambiguous drafting in the building regulations mean that some developers, cladders and architects have assumed that this rule only applied to the insulation on the outsides of buildings, not the exterior of the cladding.\n\nAdrian Buckmaster, director of TetraClad, a cladding company, said: \"The government is now... saying that both the insulation layer and the outer layer they believe should be of a... non-combustible class, whereas if I read the documents as they are at the moment, the clauses specifically say just the insulation and the outer layer is a completely different standard.\"\n\nSecond, if you wish to use materials that cannot meet the prescriptive route, you can commission a fire test.\n\nThis entails building a mock-up of your proposed design and then lighting a fire beneath it to see what happens.\n\nThe evidence gathered by this process can then be used to persuade building inspectors.\n\nBut some industry figures have told Newsnight that they fear this process, officially the \"BS 8414\" test, is not sufficiently robust.\n\nA critical concern is that the test is based on a perfectly installed portion of wall. In reality, items that have been installed imperfectly or suffered wear and tear may be much more vulnerable to fire.\n\nPhilip Preston of IF P&C Insurance, a company that has commissioned its own tests, explained \"We were concerned that the laboratory tests... didn't really reflect the risk in the real world.\n\n\"The buildings are not perfect and the panels are not perfect... Through the lifetime of the building, they get damaged and that exposes the insulating material.\"\n\nIf an engineer believes your proposed design is very similar to something that has already been tested, you need not test it again. The purpose of this route is to avoid testing functionally similar designs unnecessarily.\n\nBut Newsnight found engineers arguing that the results of tests using ceramic tiles could be used instead of tests on designs using aluminium composite panels - a very different material. Fire safety experts consulted by Newsnight said that the documents \"extrapolated apples into oranges\".\n\nThere are broader problems, too.\n\nThis part of the system also has problems with confidentiality: the fire test results - and any desktop studies - are confidential to the sponsoring organisation, who is usually the manufacturer.\n\nDevelopers must, therefore, rely on often vague product information that they choose to distribute.\n\nNewsnight also revealed how a major sector body and building inspection agency stated it would sign off the use of combustible insulation and combustible aluminium panels in a range of circumstances without even commissioning a desktop study.\n\nThis was, they said, on the basis of the volume of fire-test data and desktop studies that they had reviewed. But NHBC, the body in question, has now suspended this guidance.\n\nBuilding control officers, industry figures and fire engineers have separately told Newsnight of their concerns about fire safety issues. These range from specific concerns about cladding, fire doors and paints through to whether the materials that are sold to builders are always the same as the materials supplied to laboratories for testing.", "Dyne Suh spoke emotionally about the incident after her room was cancelled\n\nAn AirBnB host who made a racist comment to an Asian guest has been fined $5,000 - and told she must attend a course on Asian-American studies.\n\nTami Barker cancelled Dyne Suh’s booking, telling her in a message: \"One word says it all. Asian.”\n\nThe fine was imposed due to a new agreement between AirBnB and California’s Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH).\n\nIt lets the DFEH examine hosts that have had discrimination complaints.\n\nAirBnB is a service that allows members of the public to rent out spare rooms, or entire properties, to visitors.\n\nThe measures followed research and anecdotal evidence that suggested certain races found it more difficult to book rooms than others.\n\nAirBnB has acknowledged it faces a challenge to combat racial discrimination on the service\n\nThe fine and demand to attend a course, as well as community service with a civil rights organisation, marks the first time the landmark agreement has been used to punish an AirBnB host.\n\n\"The host walked into this mediation with an attitude of contribution,” Kevin Kish, director of the DFEH, told the BBC.\n\n\"That opened the door to a lot of creative thinking.\"\n\nMs Barker cancelled Ms Suh’s booking shortly before the 26-year-old was due to arrive at the location in Big Bear, California, the DFEH said.\n\nIn messages sent via the AirBnB app, Ms Barker said: \"I wouldn’t rent it to u if u were the last person on earth.”\n\nLater, she added: “I will not allow this country to be told what to do by foreigners” and “It’s why we have Trump”.\n\nIn a recording made just after the accommodation was cancelled, Ms Suh gave an emotional account of what had happened.\n\n\"It stings that after living in the US for over 23 years, this is what happens,” she said.\n\n\"No matter how well I treat others, it doesn’t matter. If you’re Asian, you’re less than human. People can treat you like trash.”\n\nAccording to the Guardian, a lawyer for Ms Barker said she regretted her behaviour, and that the DFEH’s action will hopefully be a \"positive outcome out of an unfortunate incident”.\n\nMs Suh got in touch with the DFEH to make a complaint. The department is now working with AirBnB to make it clearer to discriminated-against guests that there is a strong complaints procedure.\n\n\"Not everybody knows that we’re here,” the DFEH’s Mr Kish told the BBC.\n\n\"People don’t intuitively know where to turn. In the agreement that we reached with Airbnb, they will mandatorily provide guests with information about us.”\n\nHowever, such close ties only currently exist in California, AirBnB’s home state, where regulators have been aggressive in clamping down on various issues that have arisen from the company’s growth.\n\n\"There’s nothing to prevent other states - or other countries - from reaching similar agreements. It’s going to create work for AirBnB, but I don’t think people create one of these platforms with the intent that people will discriminate. I think it can come as a surprise to some of these founders,” Mr Kish said.\n\nHe added that he was impressed with the way in which AirBnB was dealing with the issue \"head on\".\n\nIn an interview with the BBC last year, AirBnB co-founder Brian Chesky said: \"We started this company with the belief people are fundamentally good.\n\n\"Mostly everyone is really good, but when you have 100 million people, there are some who don’t believe in what you believe in.\"\n\nYou can reach Dave securely through encrypted messaging app Signal on: +1 (628) 400-7370", "That's all for the day and for this week - thank you for joining us.\n\nTo keep up with what's happening over the weekend, head to BBC Tees, BBC Newcastle, Look North, and online.\n\nYou can tweet your photos to @BBCNewsNE , email them, or contact us via our Facebook page .\n\nWe'll be back on Monday from 08:00.\n\nOur coverage today has been dominated by the funeral of Bradley Lowery. We'll leave you with this video of his school friends celebrating his life.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nWayne Rooney marked his second debut for Everton with a stunning goal after receiving a raucous welcome from the 35,000 crowd at the National Stadium in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.\n\nRooney had the first touch of the game between Everton and Kenyan Premier League champions Gor Mahia and scored after 35 minutes, lifting a clever effort over the home goalkeeper from 25 yards.\n\nThe goal was even cheered by fans of the opposing team, with one dressed in a Manchester United shirt forcing the game to be stopped after invading the pitch to give Rooney a hug. The former England captain responded by returning the favour before the fan was bundled off the pitch.\n\nEverton ultimately won the match 2-1, with Kieran Dowell scoring a later winner after Jacques Tuyisenge levelled for the hosts.\n\nMany fans - some of whom travelled from the neighbouring East African nations of Kenya and Uganda - chanted \"Rooney, Rooney\" as the players left the stadium at the end of their two-day stint in Tanzania.\n\nRooney was replaced at half-time and several Gor Mahia players stopped him to pose for photographs after the final whistle before he was escorted away.\n\nEverton winger Aaron Lennon also made his first appearance since February 11 after receiving treatment for a stress-related illness.\n\nGor Mahia earned the right to play Everton after winning the regional SportPesa Super Cup, which pitted teams from Tanzania against those from Kenya.\n\nKenyan betting firm SportPesa sponsors both Kenya's and Tanzania's top-flight leagues and were confirmed as Everton's new shirt sponsor in May.\n\nEverton have been given royal treatment since they arrived in the East African state.\n\nThe wild chants for Rooney, along with stomping performances by Maasai cultural dancers, created a spectacle to behold.\n\nEverton's Democratic Republic of Congo winger Yannick Bolasie rivalled Rooney, England's former captain, in the popularity stakes with a band of Congolese fans welcoming him to Tanzania. They were draped in T-shirts emblazoned with his face.\n\nHowever, Rooney, who has rejoined Everton after 13 years at Manchester United, was the fans' favourite.\n\nEven Tanzania's Vice-President Samia Suluhu Hassan attested to this.\n\n\"Wayne Rooney made me support Manchester United and now I don't know what to do because he has gone back to Everton,\" she said.\n\nRooney replied: \"Being here, it has been a new experience for me and I hope the vice-president will now be able to support Everton.\"\n\nOn Wednesday, Everton's Mo Besic, Tom Davies and newly-signed Michael Keane joined Albino United in a training session in the coastal city of Dar es Salaam, soon after they landed.\n\nThe visit was aimed at helping to break the stigma against people with albinism who risk being killed in Tanzania.\n\n\"From spending time with them today, I have learnt that the players go through some tough times. It's not easy for them over here,\" said Keane, who made his debut in the second half.\n\n\"It's good that they can enjoy football and look forward to playing together. You can see their coach is really good with them.\"", "Douglas Innes ran Stormforce Coaching, the company responsible for the Cheeki Rafiki\n\nThe boss of a yachting firm has been found guilty of failing to ensure the safety of a boat which capsized in the Atlantic with the loss of four lives.\n\nDouglas Innes had been responsible for the Cheeki Rafiki, which lost its keel 700 miles off Nova Scotia in May 2014.\n\nHis company, Stormforce Coaching, was also convicted of the same charge.\n\nThe jury at Winchester Crown Court was discharged after failing to reach verdicts on four manslaughter charges, which will be the subject of a retrial.\n\nThe guilty verdicts on the safety charges were by a majority of 10-1.\n\nThe bodies of James Male, Andrew Bridge, Steve Warren, Paul Goslin have never been found\n\nAndrew Bridge, 22, from Farnham in Surrey, James Male, 22, from Southampton, Steve Warren, 52, and Paul Goslin, 56, both from Somerset, had been returning the 40ft (12m) vessel to Southampton from Antigua Sailing Week when it capsized.\n\nThe US Coastguard was criticised for calling off its search for the stricken vessel after two days, but it was restarted following intervention by the British government.\n\nThe vessel was eventually found with the life raft but no sign of the four men. Their bodies have never been found.\n\nJurors were told some of the bolts holding the keel in place had been broken for some time\n\nDuring the trial, Innes, 42, of Whitworth Crescent, Southampton, was accused of cost cutting and failing to get the vessel checked before the voyage.\n\nProsecutor Nigel Lickley QC told jurors the yacht had been given a \"category two\" code, which meant it was only authorised to be used commercially up to 60 miles away from a \"safe haven\", and the code certificate had expired shortly before the tragedy.\n\nThe court also heard the vessel, which had grounded three times in three years, had an undetected fault with the bolts which held the keel to the hull.\n\nThe vessel had been on its way to Southampton from Antigua Sailing Week\n\nJurors were told that when Innes was contacted by Mr Bridge to inform him there was a problem on board Innes, who was in a pub at the time, did not inform the coastguard.\n\nInstead, he went to another pub where he was again contacted by Mr Bridge who told him the situation had worsened.\n\nInnes returned home, called the coastguard and emailed the crew suggesting they check the bolts of the keel.\n\nMr Lickley said it later emerged that some of the bolts had been broken \"for some time\" before the yacht left the UK in October.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "City chief executive officer Ferran Soriano said players would wear bees with \"immense pride\"\n\nManchester United and City players are to honour victims of the Manchester Arena blast by wearing bee emblems on their football shirts in a derby match.\n\nThe shirts will be auctioned off after the game and proceeds will go to the We Love Manchester Emergency Fund.\n\nThe charity has raised more than £12m for the victims of the explosion on 22 May, which killed 22.\n\nCity's Ferran Soriano said players would wear bees with \"immense pride\" at the game on 20 July in Houston, US.\n\nThe fixture will be the first Manchester derby to take place outside of the UK and the first meeting between the two clubs since the attack at the end of an Ariana Grande concert.\n\nThe bee has become the symbol of solidarity among those affected by the bomb with hundreds of people getting bee tattoos.\n\nCity chief executive Mr Soriano said: \"The worker bee symbolises everything that makes Manchester such a special city and our players will wear it on their shirts with immense pride, as a demonstration of solidarity with the Manchester community.\"\n\nEd Woodward, executive chairman of United, said the city of Manchester has shown \"great strength and unity\" since the attack and shown the world \"how special this city really is\".\n\nHe added: \"Having the worker bee on our shirts... shows the community spirit of our city and football club.\"", "Bernecker reportedly suffered serious injuries after falling onto concrete\n\nStuntman John Bernecker has died after suffering a fall on the set of The Walking Dead.\n\nAMC Networks said production on the eighth season of the hit zombie TV series was \"temporarily\" shut down after Wednesday's \"tragic\" accident.\n\nA coroner in Georgia confirmed Bernecker died of blunt force trauma in hospital in Atlanta.\n\nThe stuntman's other credits include Black Panther, Logan and the 2015 version of Fantastic Four.\n\nJeffrey Dean Morgan, who plays Negan in The Walking Dead, paid tribute on Twitter. \"Deep sorrow today, and for every tomorrow,\" he wrote.\n\n\"Love, respect, and condolences to johns family, and friends. He will be forever missed.\"\n\nBritish actor Andrew Lincoln is among the stars of The Walking Dead\n\nKellan Lutz, a star of the Twilight film series, remembered Bernecker as \"one of the best, most talented stuntmen I have ever been blessed to work with.\"\n\nA statement posted by the LifeLink Foundation, an organ donor network, said: \"The family of John Bernecker is heartbroken to confirm that John has passed away from injuries sustained earlier this week.\n\n\"Although devastated by their loss, John's loved ones have ensured his legacy will live on, not only through the personal and professional contributions he made during his life, but also by their generous decision to allow John to save lives as an organ donor.\"\n\nThe Walking Dead showrunner Scott M Gimple said: \"Our production is heartbroken by the tragic loss of John Bernecker.\n\n\"John's work on The Walking Dead and dozens of other movies and shows will continue to entertain and excite audiences for generations. We are grateful for his contributions, and all of us send our condolences, love, and prayers to John's family and friends.\"\n\nAMC said Bernecker's family had decided that he would be removed from life support following organ donation.\n\n\"We are deeply saddened by this loss and our hearts and prayers are with John's family, friends and colleagues during this extremely difficult time,\" the network said in a statement.\n\nThe actors' union SAG-AFTRA described Bernecker's death as \"heartbreaking\".\n\nIt added: \"The safety of our members is paramount. We will work with the authorities and closely monitor their investigations into this tragic incident.\"\n\nThe programme stars Andrew Lincoln, Danai Gurira, Norman Reedus and Cohan as the survivors of an epidemic that has wiped out much of humanity after a zombie apocalypse.\n\nBased on the comic books by Robert Kirkman, the show is due to return to screens in October.\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 crash happened at about 18:30 BST on Thursday in Brimslade near Marlborough\n\nTwo men were killed when a light aircraft crashed in a field in Wiltshire, police have confirmed.\n\nThe crash happened at about 18:30 BST on Thursday at Brimslade Farm, south of Marlborough.\n\nThe men, who have not yet been formally identified, died at the scene, a spokesman for Wiltshire Police said.\n\nThe Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) said it has launched an investigation into the incident.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Chloe was born on Collector Road in Birmingham\n\nA dad delivered his baby daughter in the car after his partner's waters broke on a Birmingham dual carriageway.\n\nSteven Sandford, who says he is squeamish, had no option when it became clear they would not reach the hospital in time.\n\nDaughter Chloe was safely delivered five minutes before paramedics arrived at Collector Road, with an operator giving instructions over the phone.\n\nThe couple's other daughter was also in the car during the birth.\n\nThe couple thought they had plenty of time when Ms Winters' contractions started\n\nMr Sandford, 45, and his partner Joanne Winters, 39, were driving from their Chelmsley Wood home on 27 June when they had to pull over.\n\nHe said: \"It was six in the morning and my partner Joanne was having pains every 10 minutes so I thought I'd take my time.\n\n\"Next thing you know it's every four minutes then three minutes. The nurse on the phone said 'You need to get to Good Hope Hospital straight away'.\n\n\"Her waters broke in the car so I was panicking; I put my foot down a bit.\"\n\n\"I don't know how I delivered a baby,\" Mr Sandford said\n\nMr Sandford added: \"The nurse said you need to pull over, because Jo was screaming at this point in the car.\n\n\"I pulled over and then the woman said you need to check if you can see the baby's head. I could see some hair so I started to panic and sweat.\n\n\"I said 'give it one big push Jo' and she pushed and the baby came out in my hands.\n\n\"I had tears in my eyes, I couldn't speak.\"\n\nThe couple's other daughter Charlotte was in the back seat when Ms Winters gave birth\n\nThe couple's other daughter, 16-month-old Charlotte, was in the back seat throughout the dramatic birth.\n\nMr Sandford said: \"She sat in the back of the car- we were going to take her to my mom's but the plan went out the window. It all happened within minutes.\"\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. \"My helmet saved me,\" says London acid attack victim Jabed Hussain\n\nTwo teenagers have been arrested after acid was thrown in people's faces in five attacks over one night in London.\n\nTwo moped riders attacked people in a 90-minute spree in Islington, Stoke Newington and Hackney on Thursday, stealing mopeds in two of the attacks.\n\nAn eyewitness said he heard a victim, who he believed was a delivery driver, \"screaming in pain\". One victim suffered \"life-changing injuries\".\n\nPolice are looking at whether moped theft was the motive for the attacks.\n\nOfficers said they were linking the attacks and boys aged 15 and 16 have been arrested on suspicion of robbery and causing grievous bodily harm.\n\nDelivery services Deliveroo and UberEATS have confirmed two of the victims were couriers working for the firms.\n\nThe attacks happened amid rising concern about the number of assaults involving corrosive substances in London.\n\nSince 2010, there have been more than 1,800 reports of attacks involving corrosive fluids in the capital. Last year, it was used in 458 crimes, compared to 261 in 2015, according to Met Police figures.\n\nHackney resident Jon Moody said he was watching TV when he heard screaming and ran to the window.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Footage posted by Turon Miah shows an acid attack victim being doused with water\n\n\"I heard a high-pitched scream but thought it was the boys playing football... I heard more shouting and ran to my window,\" he said.\n\n\"I could see a man in serious distress, he was screaming in pain.\n\n\"There were only two police officers with the victim, they took out two large water canisters and poured it over him.\"\n\nHe said he believed the victim was a delivery driver and about 20 fellow delivery drivers turned up at the scene.\n\nEmergency services and delivery drivers came to the aid of an acid attack victim in Queensbridge Road, Hackney\n\nThe Hackney Gazette last week reported many delivery drivers are refusing to work in some areas after 21:30 BST because of robbery fears.\n\nTakeaway delivery firm Deliveroo emailed drivers saying it was working with the Met Police and urged its staff to report any information about the attacks.\n\nThe email said the firm was \"truly shocked\" about what had happened.\n\nThe assaults happened amid increasing concern about the sharp rise in acid attacks in London.\n\nMet Commissioner Cressida Dick said the growing trend of victims being doused with corrosive liquids was concerning.\n\n\"The acid can cause horrendous injuries,\" she said.\n\n\"The ones last night involved a series of robberies we believe are linked - I am glad to see we have arrested somebody.\"\n\nA Met spokesman said one line of inquiry detectives would be pursuing was whether the attackers were targeting moped riders to steal their bikes.\n\nThe 16-year-old boy was arrested in Kingsbury Road, north-west London, early on Friday, while the 15-year-old was arrested in Stoke Newington several hours later.\n\nThe attacks began at 22:25 BST on Thursday in Hackney Road.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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 Sadiq Khan 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 32-year-old man on a moped was left with facial injuries after another moped, with two male riders, pulled up alongside him and threw a corrosive substance in his face.\n\nOne of the men stole his moped and the other drove away on the vehicle they arrived on.\n\nThe Met said it was awaiting an update on the extent of the victim's injuries. Inquiries are ongoing.\n\nAssaults involving corrosive substances have more than doubled in England since 2012, with the number of acid attacks in the capital showing the most dramatic rise in recent years.\n\nThe Met's own figures show there were 261 acid attacks in 2015, rising to 458 last year.\n\nSo far this year - excluding Thursday night - the Met has recorded 119 such attacks.\n\nA man appeared in court earlier this week in connection with a separate attack on cousins Resham Khan and Jameel Muhktar, who had acid thrown at them through a car window in Beckton, east London.\n\nShadow Home Secretary and Stoke Newington MP Dianne Abbott responded to news of the attacks, tweeting: \"More terrible acid attacks, Why would you scar someone for life just to steal a moped.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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\nLabour MP for East Ham Stephen Timms has tabled an adjournment debate for Monday in the House of Commons on the rise in the number of acid attacks.\n\nAbout a third of last year's acid attacks in the capital took place in the London borough of Newham, which is in his constituency.\n\nMr Timms told BBC Radio 4's Today programme he was \"most concerned about sulphuric acid\" and that carrying a bottle without justification should be treated as an offence, like carrying a knife.\n\n\"We could certainly come up with arrangements that would allow people to use sulphuric acid in the normal way, perhaps with the benefit of a licence.\n\n\"But simply walking around the street with a bottle of sulphuric acid, that should be an offence,\" he said.\n\nA Downing Street spokesman said the prime minister viewed acid attacks as \"horrific\".\n\n\"We are working with the police to see what more we could do. The prime minister's view is that the use of acid in this way is horrific.\"\n\nHome Office minister Sarah Newton told BBC Radio 5 live Breakfast the government was considering tighter controls on some chemicals in response to the acid attacks in East London and elsewhere.\n\nBut she said regulation would be difficult, as \"these chemicals are under everyone's kitchen sinks\".\n\nShe said it was clear acid was being used \"as a weapon\" and work had been commissioned \"to understand the motivation\" of people who use it to injure others.\n\nShe also said the government was examining sentencing for those who use acid to injure people.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What should you do in case of a chemical burn?\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo was an inspiring figure for a new generation of Chinese pro-democracy activists and his death is being remembered by political artists.\n\nMany activists saw him as a godfather for their cause, and have paid tribute to a man who was branded a criminal by Chinese authorities for his activism and jailed several times for \"subversion\".\n\nOne source of inspiration was the well-documented love between Liu Xiaobo and his wife, Liu Xia, who has also been placed under house arrest.\n\nThis image of them, which was circulated recently by their activist friends, particularly resounded with many.\n\nIt has prompted several artworks paying tribute to their love, such as this one by political artist Badiucao, entitled The Patient of China.\n\nThe Australia-based artist also put up a version of the work on a wall on Hosier Lane in Melbourne on Wednesday, calling for Mr Liu's release.\n\nProminent political cartoonist Rebel Pepper drew and tweeted an alternative take on the photo.\n\nChinese cartoonist Xiaoguai also drew inspiration from the same picture and tweeted this image of two candles symbolising the couple.\n\nIn 2010, Mr Liu was not allowed to travel to Sweden to receive his Nobel Peace Prize.\n\nAn image of his empty chair has been inspiration for artists - such as in this work by Badiucao.\n\nRebel Pepper meanwhile drew a tribute to the chair with Liu Xiaobo's striped pyjamas.\n\nIn Hong Kong, where activists had been calling for Mr Liu's release, 17-year-old student Anson Hui told AFP news agency earlier this week that he feared what Mr Liu's death would mean.\n\n\"I feel scared. If we lose Liu Xiaobo, nobody could replace him... If there's no Liu Xiaobo we can't unite the whole world to speak out.", "The Trumps will watch the Bastille Day parade on the Champs-Élysées\n\nNot long ago Donald Trump said that Paris was a terrible place. Now he's embraced the city and the nation, strengthening US-France relations.\n\nOn Thursday morning Mr Trump wore a crisp white shirt, cufflinks and a gold-coloured belt buckle that gleamed. He and the First Lady were arriving in Paris for Bastille Day. On the tarmac at Orly, he kissed his wife on both cheeks, and they headed for separate cars. It was all very French.\n\n\"A fun trip,\" one of his aides told me on Air Force One while we flew across the Atlantic. It was a journey that had once seemed unimaginable - and showed how the president's views about the city have changed since the presidential campaign.\n\nMore importantly, his trip was ushering in a new age of US-France relations, a transatlantic partnership that has roots in the history of both countries.\n\nDuring his two days in Paris, Mr Trump will spend time with Emmanuel Macron, the French president, and dine in a restaurant in the Eiffel Tower. He will watch the Bastille Day parade on the Champs-Élysées.\n\nThis year marks the 100th anniversary of US forces entering World War One, and for this occasion US and French troops will be marching together in the parade.\n\nDuring the trip the US president will also have a chance to escape the controversies over Russia and other issues that have dominated the news cycle in Washington.\n\nThe American first couple arrived in Paris early on Thursday\n\nIt is easy to understand why he would want to get away from Washington. Still the decision to visit Paris and not another city was unexpected - for just about everybody.\n\nMr Macron invited him several weeks ago, and Mr Trump \"was very excited to respond and to accept the invitation,\" said a senior administration official. It was a surprising development - particularly since the US president had just pulled out of the 2015 Paris climate accord.\n\nUntil recently he had a negative view of the city. \"Paris is no longer the safe city it was,\" he said on MSNBC in 2015. \"They have sections in Paris that are radicalised, where the police refuse to go there. They're petrified.\"\n\nDuring the presidential campaign, he said that a friend, Jim, had visited France and told him not to go there. \"France is no longer France,\" said Mr Trump, quoting \"Jim\".\n\nHe had little evidence for these remarks. Now he seems to have forgotten about them. This morning at the airport he seemed to be having fun.\n\nWhite House officials said that during the visit Mr Macron was likely to bring up the issue of the environment, and that the two world leaders would discuss the matter. They will also talk about Syria as well as about their shared military history.\n\nThe relationship has had its ups and downs.\n\nUnder President George W Bush, US-France relations hit a rocky period. Many people in the US criticised the French because they did not support the Iraq war, and some US restaurants stopped serving French fries as a protest against the French nation. \"Freedom fries\" were offered, and breakfast on Air Force One featured \"'freedom toast\" instead of French toast.\n\nPresident Trump angered many in France when he called Paris \"unsafe\" two years ago\n\nOver time, though, the two nations and their militaries drew close again. Presidents Trump and Macron will build on this relationship, one that allowed the US and France to work together in the campaign against the Islamic State group.\n\n\"There were kinks that needed to be worked out in terms of intelligence sharing,\" said Charles Kupchan, who served as the national security council's senior director for European affairs during the Obama administration. \"But the relationship between the US and the French military is extremely close.\"\n\nNow the relationship is entering a new phase - one in which the French language and culture are celebrated, however briefly. One of President Trump's aides tried gamely to say a few words in French while we flew on Air Force One. Freedom toast is a thing of the past. Spinach quiche, decorated with fresh blackberries, were served for breakfast.\n\nIn the end, it is hard to explain the shift in Donald Trump's views of France, and why he has warmed up to Paris. He sometimes acts impulsively and does not fully explain why he has done something. Still he and his aides all seemed happy to leave Washington for a bit - and what better place to go than Paris.\n\nFreedom fries are now a thing of the past", "Phil Murphy watched the Grenfell disaster unfold on television from his flat on the eighth floor of a Manchester tower block. The former firefighter immediately decided to check out his own building's safety - and was horrified at what he discovered.\n\nOn the morning of 14 June, as he switched on the news, Murphy knew straight away how serious the situation in North Kensington was.\n\nMurphy had joined the fire service at the age of 28. Going into a fire, he remembers, was \"absolutely frightening\".\n\nPhil Murphy is second from the left, front row, after completing his 12 weeks basic firefighter training\n\nBut he had found the job, which he did for six years, extremely rewarding. He moved up through the ranks and became a fire safety officer.\n\nThe worst kind of call out? \"Anything to do with children.\"\n\nNow, he lived in a tower that, like Grenfell, stood 23 storeys above ground, with a single staircase. And he wanted reassurance that the same thing couldn't happen in his building.\n\nFor the past eight years, Murphy has occupied a flat in Stretford House, a 50-year-old block that sits between Manchester's inner ring road and Stretford Mall shopping centre on one of the main routes into the city.\n\n\"I love living here,\" he says. \"We work hard to make it a community that we all enjoy.\" Quite a few of his neighbours are elderly or disabled, and the residents' committee, chaired by Murphy, works hard to stop them feeling isolated. There are plans to grow fruit and vegetables on the roof, as well as to start a recycling club in the shed.\n\nHe left the fire service a decade ago. But once you've been a fireman \"it never leaves you\", he says. \"You always read the fire safety in a building when you walk in.\"\n\nMurphy wasted no time - the day after the Grenfell fire he requested a meeting with Stretford House's landlords, Trafford Housing Trust. He persuaded his local MP, Kate Green, to come with him.\n\n\"They were quite firm in reassuring us that everything was fine and they gave me a copy of the 2016 fire risk assessment for the building to take with me,\" Murphy says.\n\nIf this was meant to reassure him, it failed.\n\n\"I was horrified, frightened and astonished at the contents of that document,\" Murphy says.\n\nHe found there was a lack of documentation to show that fire alarms, emergency lights and dry risers - pipes which allow water to travel up a building in case of fire - were working or had been looked after.\n\nThere was also evidence that compartmentation - the barriers that prevent fire spreading from one part of the building to another - had been breached six years ago when new kitchens, new bathrooms and a communal energy system had been fitted. As a result, says Murphy, \"the building was, in fact, full of opportunities for fire to spread\".\n\nThe housing trust \"appeared not to understand what [the 2016 fire] risk assessment was screaming at them, and I mean screaming at them,\" he adds.\n\nSo he began a forensic, line-by-line analysis of the risk assessment and, over four days, compiled a 14-page report. \"I went into a bubble. I wasn't sleeping very much at all. And I was completely obsessed with completing it,\" he says.\n\nHe sent the report to the trust, deciding not to raise his concerns with fellow residents immediately.\n\n\"Surrounded by people that have been coming to me and crying and telling me all about their fears and why they were scared and why they weren't sleeping, after seeing those horrific scenes from Grenfell - I just thought it might push them over the edge if I showed them that document, frankly,\" he says.\n\nThe report was highly detailed and technical, but in the accompanying email Murphy was very clear about the levels of anxiety felt by the people living in his block.\n\nThe housing trust responded to Murphy's email at 04:00 the morning after he sent it. By mid-morning there was a representative from the trust in the foyer \"taking on board the concerns\" of residents.\n\nEventually Murphy had a chance to fully voice his worries at a meeting with the trust and the local fire service. A more detailed inspection was carried out by the fire service and Murphy's concerns about the compartmentation were confirmed.\n\nWhen we meet Murphy at the entrance to his building, 13 maintenance vans are parked nearby. Inside, the sound of builder's radios echoes round the corridors as workmen busily undertake fire safety repairs.\n\n\"On Thursday, as soon as the fire officer had been in, and confirmed that my report was correct, the building was full of people, putting fire stopping [insulation] round because it's fatal. The place is a death trap without that fire stopping in place\", Murphy says.\n\nWe go to the flat of one of his neighbours, Pat. Her flat has just been inspected. Four areas in need of fire safety work had been identified - by her front door, in her kitchen, in her living room and in her boiler room.\n\nPat enjoys the view from her tower block window\n\n\"I call it my cubby hole,\" Pat says.\n\nThe room is linked to a dry riser which runs the full length of the tower block.\n\nBecause it hasn't been fireproofed, Murphy says, \"if there is any smoke or fire in that riser, it will penetrate right through the building\".\n\n\"I'm frightened about smoke,\" says Pat, 70, who has breathing problems. \"That would kill me straight away.\"\n\nTo her relief, workmen are now scheduled to fix the problems.\n\n\"Maybe I'm the one who has lost more sleep,\" says Murphy. \"Because I've seen instances like this turn into real catastrophes.\"\n\n\"And that's why everyone is grateful for what you've done,\" says Pat, holding back tears. \"I mean it, Phil.\"\n\nTrafford Housing Trust, which owns and manages Stretford House, says it has reviewed its risk assessments, is undertaking urgent works on the blocks it owns and has fire wardens patrolling 24 hours a day.\n\nBack on the ground floor, in the caretaker's office, we meet Mike Corfield, Trafford Housing Trust's assistant director for customers. He says the work being done in the block is not solely down to Murphy's report.\n\n\"Within days of the fire at Grenfell we decided we would commission something called a level four risk assessment, the highest level fire risk assessment you can take,\" he says.\n\nHe admits the 2016 fire risk assessment which worried Phil did highlight some issues with the compartmentation, but \"didn't flag them as a serious risk\" and says it was written by a \"trained and professional expert\".\n\nOutside, looking at the rows of maintenance vehicles, we ask Murphy if he's pleased the problems are now being fixed.\n\n\"There's still some very, very serious things for them lot to do,\" he says. \"It's certainly warranted this level of reaction.\"\n\nHe's not giving up, though, until he feels all his concerns have been addressed. There is one thing he keeps telling the landlords: \"If you lived here, it would be different.\"\n\nAnd he is not just thinking about his own block of flats. He wants to develop an app to allow residents to run their own safety checks.\n\n\"I want to do something to empower residents of high-rise blocks all around the country to look after their own fire safety,\" he says. \"Because at the moment we're all feeling very disempowered and frightened.\"\n\nPhotographs by Luke Jones unless otherwise stated\n\nJoin the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter.", "It's the weekly news quiz - have you been paying attention to what's been going on in the world over the past seven days?\n\nIf you missed last week's quiz, try it here\n\nJoin the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter", "Mr Camm will graduate in politics and philosophy at the University of Bristol on Friday\n\nA man with tetraplegia who is graduating with a first class degree says his time at university has given him a purpose.\n\nRob Camm, 23, from Breadstone, Gloucestershire was paralysed from the neck down in a car crash in 2013.\n\nHe used voice recognition software to write essays and used head movements to control his mouse pointer.\n\nMr Camm will graduate in politics and philosophy at the University of Bristol on Friday afternoon.\n\n\"Before the accident, I had always been the type of person who wanted to be the best they can be,\" he said.\n\n\"Getting a first has made me feel that way again.\"\n\nHe said he \"could not believe it\" when he saw his result.\n\nMr Camm used voice recognition software to write essays and used head movements to control his mouse pointer\n\n\"I had to keep refreshing the student information page to be sure. Not many people get a first so I'm very proud of managing to do that.\n\n\"It's been good to get out of the house and have a purpose. Meeting people and socialising has been hard, but many things are possible with some planning.\"\n\nMr Camm will now study for a law conversion course at the University of Law in Bristol, and has recently moved to the city from his family home near Berkeley in Gloucestershire.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Rory Cowan, who plays Mrs Brown's hairdresser son Rory in hit sitcom Mrs Brown's Boys, has left the programme.\n\nCowan said he had been \"unhappy\", and left his co-stars after a Mrs Brown show at London's O2 Arena on Sunday.\n\nHe has worked with the comedy's creator Brendan O'Carroll for 26 years.\n\n\"I hadn't been happy working for the Mrs Brown's Boys company for the last 18 months to two years,\" he said. \"I feel that 26 years is enough so I decided it was time to go.\"\n\nCowan told O'Carroll last month that he wanted to quit, but was persuaded to stay for the latest part of the Mrs Brown tour.\n\n\"I told Brendan on 16 June about my decision to leave,\" Cowan told the Irish Daily Mail. \"That's when I handed in my notice.\n\nCowan and his co-stars have been on a sold out UK arena tour\n\n\"I was supposed to leave at the end of that week, but Brendan said that would be impossible and asked if I'd stay on until the end of the London O2 gigs. So I agreed to that.\"\n\nHe said there was \"no bad blood\" between the pair.\n\n\"I'm not going into details about why I was unhappy. I did the final show, packed my stuff into a small Waitrose plastic bag and just left the venue.\"\n\nIn a statement, O'Carroll described Cowan as \"a legend\".\n\n\"To all of us it feels like Ronaldo leaving Manchester United,\" he said. \"But Ronaldo went on to amazing success which I know Rory will too.\n\n\"I can't even quantify the contribution Rory has made to our success and the well-being of me and my family, not just on screen or stage but way before that as a friend and a driving force in getting us here.\"\n\nCowan started off as O'Carroll's publicist - a job he took after being made redundant as a marketing manager for EMI Records.\n\nHe only became part of the Mrs Brown's Boys cast when an actor dropped out during a tour and O'Carroll couldn't find anyone else who could learn the lines in time.\n\nThe success of the stage show led to the BBC TV series, which began in 2011.\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. The Californian trying to make wine like the French\n\nTech entrepreneur TJ Rodgers made billions of dollars founding silicon chip maker Cypress Semiconductors, now he has turned his sights to wine-making, and is on a quest to make the best Pinot Noir in the New World.\n\nA collapse in the roof of a gigantic tunnel being driven into a hillside sounds like a pretty dramatic event.\n\nBut the entrepreneur TJ Rodgers is calm as he recalls what happened.\n\n\"It's not like you see in the movies with rocks flying, and stuff like that.\n\n\"It will kill you but it's kind of a slow motion thing, and you can walk [away] and stay in front of it,\" he explains.\n\nHe is speaking inside one of three giant caves that house his winery high in the Santa Cruz mountains in California.\n\nThe construction of the facility was a monumental task, taking years and requiring advice from experts in digging tunnels under the Austrian Alps.\n\nOccasional cave-ins were just one of many challenges.\n\nThe location was so remote that it was impossible for concrete to be driven in without it setting first. Instead, they had to drive in a concrete-making plant which they assembled on site.\n\nAnd the reason for all this intense effort? \"Our mission statement is to make the best Pinot Noir [wine] in the New World,\" says Mr Rodgers.\n\nTJ Rodgers became interested in wine in his youth\n\nHe is certainly not someone to do anything by halves. He founded the huge silicon chip maker Cypress Semiconductors in 1982, and subsequently built it into an enterprise worth billions of dollars.\n\nThe silicon chips that Cypress makes are found in millions of mobile phones and many other devices. Chips are also found on the bottles produced at the winery, which is called Clos de la Tech.\n\nTJ Rodgers, who recently stood down from Cypress, first became interested in wine in his youth. Pinot Noir proved to be his favourite, in particular that made in Burgundy.\n\nHe wanted to know more, so he travelled to France, visiting vineyard after vineyard in Burgundy.\n\nDespite the bemused responses from some vineyard owners, Mr Rodgers says he learnt a lot from his time in France.\n\nTJ Rodgers has tried to replicate Burgundy's wine-making process in California's Santa Cruz mountains\n\nBack in California, his interest blossomed into a passion. He set about trying to make wine himself, and he enlisted the help of his wife, Valeta Massey, who now spends much of her time on wine-making.\n\nMr Rodgers first experimented with a vineyard at his home. Later, after the purchase of the site in the Santa Cruz mountains, the venture became more ambitious.\n\nThe plan was to aim for the highest possible quality. The best way to do that, Mr Rodgers decided, was to copy the wine-making process used in Burgundy in the 1830s.\n\nThis meant using techniques such as foot-crushing the grapes, and being as gentle as possible with the wine at every stage.\n\nPumps are avoided. Instead, the facility is a \"gravity winery\", explains Mr Rodgers. The three enormous caves are arranged one above the other, so after fermentation in the topmost cave the wine flows through pipes downhill into barrels in the second cave for the next stages of the process.\n\nSome technology is still involved in the wine-making process\n\nDespite the emphasis on traditional methods, technology also plays a role. For example, many real-time measurements are taken during fermentation, and special devices are used to measure moisture levels in the field, helping to ensure the crops get exactly the right amount of water.\n\nBut Mr Rodgers is quick to add that modern techniques are only used where appropriate: \"the technology is not to supplant the old process, the old guys were pretty smart.\"\n\nTJ Rodgers is far from the only wealthy individual to try his hand at pushing the boundaries of wine-making in California. But are ventures like his little more than the wine-making equivalent of vanity publishing?\n\nNot necessarily, says Aaron Pott, a wine-maker and consultant who has worked at the top end of the industry in France and California. With the right vineyard, and skilled staff, he says, it is perfectly possible to make excellent wine.\n\nMr Pott adds it would also be a mistake to assume that only ancient vines can produce good output. \"Great wine can be made from young vineyards,\" he says.\n\nThe French oak barrels used at Clos de la Tech cost $1,000 (£774; 876 euros) each\n\nBut while it may be feasible to make high quality wine, making money in the process is more difficult, according to both Mr Rodgers and Mr Pott.\n\nFor one thing, there is the high cost of setting up facilities like those built by Mr Rodgers and other wealthy people in California. Quite apart from the cost of the land and buildings, the equipment can be expensive.\n\nTake, for instance, the French oak barrels used at Clos de la Tech - these cost $1,000 (£774; 876 euros) each.\n\nThen there is the question of yield. The downside of aiming for high quality, says Mr Rodgers, is that output will be small.\n\n\"Our yield up here is one tonne per acre. If you go to a commercial farm in Napa you see five tonnes per acre, and if you go to Modesto you see 12 tonnes per acre. Ok so right there, the war's over with regard to economics. Your wine's going to be expensive,\" he explains.\n\nThe grape is the most important part of the wine-making process\n\nNevertheless, although economics may present a challenge, benefits can flow from what Mr Rodgers and others like him are doing, says Mr Pott.\n\nWhilst in some ways it may make it harder for smaller concerns like his own to compete, Mr Pott believes that the emergence of wealthy wine-makers in California has helped \"to raise the bar\" of quality - and that ultimately is a good thing for the industry.\n\nTJ Rodgers and Valeta Massey say they have enjoyed their venture immensely, and that they have learnt a lot about wine in the process.\n\nPerhaps the biggest lesson for them has been the prime importance of the starting point - the grape.\n\n\"The French have a phrase - 'the wine is made in the field'.\n\n\"The wine has a certain potential defined by the grapes in the field and… the best you can do is take 100 per cent grapes and make 100 per cent wine. And all wine making is downhill from there,\" he says.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "William Whelton (left) and Joseph Houston are celebrating their first London transfer and their wedding in the same week\n\nTwo struggling actors who opened their own theatre on a shoestring, doing everything from collecting the tickets to cleaning the toilets, have won a string of awards and are transferring two shows to London. And the theatre's about to host its biggest event yet - their wedding reception.\n\nThere's a job Joseph Houston and William Whelton shouldn't be doing on the day I meet them in the shabby chic cafe that they've set up in the foyer of their theatre in Manchester.\n\nIt's been 18 months since the pair cleaned the soot from the floor of the former cotton mill, and since Will's mum tiled the bathrooms and Joseph's grandfather gave the doorframes a lick of paint, after which they threw open the doors to Hope Mill Theatre.\n\nThey have just finally taken on a cleaner to give the loos a proper once-over. Except today the cleaner has called in sick.\n\n\"We still do everything,\" Joseph says. \"Last week was the first day we took on a cleaning service because we thought we would get them in one day a week and at least it makes it a bit easier for us.\n\n\"It's only the second time and they've phoned in sick. They should have been cleaned today by someone, but now we're going to have to do it.\"\n\nHope Mill Theatre's production of Yank! is now at Charing Cross Theatre\n\nJoseph and William are used to multi-tasking - whether that's scrubbing the loos, serving behind the bar, or talking to investors to raise funds to transfer their shows to London.\n\nIn October, their co-production of the classic musical Hair, which was seen at Hope Mill in 2016, will move to The Vaults underneath Waterloo Station for the show's 50th anniversary.\n\nBefore that, their staging of Yank!, a musical about two gay US servicemen during World War Two, has transferred to Charing Cross Theatre, where Monday is opening night.\n\nShows like Hair and Yank! have helped Hope Mill make its name since it opened in October 2015.\n\nLast October, Joseph and William beat Kenneth Branagh and National Theatre artistic director Rufus Norris to win the theatre prize at the Hospital Club awards.\n\nThe venue also received two prizes, including a special achievement honour, at the Manchester Theatre Awards in March.\n\nHair will transfer to The Vaults in London in October\n\nJoseph and William's biggest celebration is still to come, though. This weekend, the theatre will be transformed into the venue for their wedding reception.\n\nThe couple met as actors, but their own dreams of West End stardom faded as they struggled to get auditions and as William needed vocal surgery.\n\nAfter having the idea to open their own theatre instead, they spotted an ad for Hope Mill on Gumtree.\n\n\"I had proposed to Will on the UK tour of Pirates of Penzance,\" Joseph, 27, says. \"We were going through the process of trying to secure this [building], so we said, well, if we get the venue then we'll get married there.\"\n\nThe couple had been living in London, working as waiters between acting jobs. \"We were struggling to pay the rent, and there was not much happening,\" 28-year-old William says. \"So it makes you lose faith.\"\n\nRealising that it wasn't worth staying in the capital just to attend occasional auditions, they moved to William's home town of Macclesfield, 20 miles from Manchester.\n\nParade was Hope Mill's first full musical - and ended up selling out\n\nAs they got to know the city's theatre scene, they realised there might be a gap in the market for a fringe venue where people could see full productions of musicals up close.\n\nHope Mill was modelled on London venues like the Menier Chocolate Factory, Southwark Playhouse and Union Theatre. The pair had worked for the Union's owner Sasha Regan as actors, and she encouraged them to find a venue.\n\n\"We were like, 'Well, we don't really have any money,'\" William recalls. \"She said, 'Just do it. You never will.' That gave us the spark and the confidence.\"\n\nJoseph adds: \"We genuinely didn't have any money. We thought we'd just see what's out there and worry about the money afterwards.\"\n\nSo after finding the building to rent, they drummed up a £10,000 Business Finance Solutions loan, a crowdfunding campaign to buy the 120 seats and a loan from William's mum (\"Which we still owe her to this day\").\n\nThe pair ran a crowdfunding campaign and borrowed money from family\n\nTheir plans soon attracted the attention of theatre producer Katy Lipson, whose company Aria Entertainment has staged shows like The Addams Family musical, and who hails from Manchester. She went to meet the pair before Hope Mill opened.\n\n\"She came in one day and we were in overalls painting away,\" Will says. \"It was a total mess but she said, 'What an incredible space.'\n\n\"She's used to the kinds of spaces you get in London. Compared to that, this is quite big. She said, 'I'd love to bring some work up here.' In hindsight, she wanted to bring some work back to near home. She'd never produced work in Manchester before.\"\n\nWilliam and Joseph's ambition of staging full musicals like Yank!, Hair and Parade and taking them to London was part of a five-year plan, but with Lipson's help it has all come to fruition much sooner than expected.\n\nThe next show the team are staging at Hope Mill is the Tony Award-winning musical Pippin in late August and September.\n\nWilliam and Joseph could never have started a venue like this in London, they believe.\n\n\"It would have cost way too much,\" William explains. \"The way we opened this place, we pretty much did it on our own with limited funds.\n\n\"It was totally naive and pretty stupid when we look back. It so could have gone terribly wrong. But we just soft opened and as money came in we carried on.\"\n\nThe biggest challenge, Joseph reflects, has been learning how to work together.\n\n\"That's been hard,\" he says. \"We're a couple, so [we have been] learning what our roles are, learning how to leave work at work and not take it home.\n\n\"It doesn't really happen,\" William chips in. \"We take work everywhere we go.\"\n\nBut it's all been worth it, and Joseph says it's \"incredible\" to look back at their achievements over the last 18 months.\n\n\"We've had a lot of people who have come on board and really supported us and cheered us,\" he says.\n\n\"But ultimately, Will and I have single-handedly set this place up. So there's something very satisfying when someone walks in and goes, 'Wow, this is beautiful', or, 'That show was incredible.'\"\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.", "Ms Trump accompanied her father to earlier sessions before sitting in for him later\n\nUS President Donald Trump and former first daughter Chelsea Clinton have sparred over his decision to seat his daughter at a summit of world leaders.\n\nMr Trump tweeted that his decision to allow his daughter to take his seat at the meeting in Hamburg was \"very standard\".\n\nHe also said the media would have cheered \"CHELSEA FOR PRES!\" if Hillary Clinton had made the same choice.\n\nChelsea Clinton tweeted back that her parents would never have done so.\n\nIvanka Trump was criticised online after taking her father's seat between the British prime minister and the Chinese president at the G20 summit in Germany on Saturday as her father sat for a one-on-one meeting with the Indonesian president.\n\nThe US president tweeted on Monday morning: \"I asked Ivanka to hold seat. Very standard.\n\nIn a follow-up tweet he wrote: \"If Chelsea Clinton were asked to hold the seat for her mother, as her mother gave our country away, the Fake News would say CHELSEA FOR PRES!\"\n\nChelsea Clinton, who was 12-years-old when her father Bill Clinton was sworn in as US president, responded to say: \"Good morning Mr President.\n\n\"It would never have occurred to my mother or my father to ask me. Were you giving our country away? Hoping not.\"\n\nWhite House spokesperson Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Mr Trump's tweet was not about attacking the Clintons, but rather \"this was about responding to an outrageous attack against a White House senior adviser\".\n\n\"If she didn't have the last name that she has I think that she would be constantly celebrated instead of constantly attacked\" she added, saying that \"I think we should be proud\" of Ms Trump.\n\nThe younger Clinton has become a frequent social media critic of Mr Trump and his administration's policies ever since her mother's failed 2016 presidential campaign.\n\nLast month Mr Trump sent out a series of tweets accusing the Clinton family of having inappropriate ties with Russia.\n\nShe and Mr Trump's first daughter, Ivanka, have said they are \"very good friends\" despite their family's political rivalry.", "Thames Valley Police left the light-hearted note in woodland near Oxford\n\nPolice left a light-hearted note saying \"sorry we missed you\" after digging up a cannabis plantation.\n\nThames Valley Police received a tip off the drugs were in woodland near Oxford on Saturday.\n\nOfficers left a notice which read: \"Ooops! Sorry we missed each other, but feel free to call me on 101 so we can discuss a deal. Lots of love, TVP xx.\"\n\nThe force tweeted that they had left the note because \"#WeveGotManners\".\n\nThe drugs were discovered in woodland between Wolvercote Mill Stream and the A34 near Oxford.\n\nThames Valley Police said the drugs were \"seized and destroyed\". No-one has been arrested.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "There are about 1.2 billion Roman Catholics around the world\n\nBread used to celebrate the Eucharist during Roman Catholic Mass must not be gluten-free - although it may be made from genetically modified organisms, the Vatican has reminded its bishops.\n\nIn a letter, Cardinal Robert Sarah said the bread could be low-gluten.\n\nBut he said there must be enough protein in the wheat to make it without additives.\n\nThe cardinal said the reminder was needed because the bread was now sold in supermarkets and on the internet.\n\nRoman Catholics believe bread and wine served at the Eucharist are converted into the body and blood of Christ through a process known as transubstantiation.\n\nThe letter reiterated advice first given in 2004.\n\nThe wine used must also be \"natural, from the fruit of the grape, pure and incorrupt, not mixed with other substances\", said Cardinal Robert Sarah of the Vatican's Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments.\n\nThe ruling was issued at the request of Pope Francis, the letter said.\n\nThere are about 1.2 billion Roman Catholics around the world.\n\nCorrection 24 July 2017: This story has been revised to make clear that the letter reiterates advice previously given in 2004.\n• None Catholics focus on the art of dying well", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Vince Cable: \"I'm beginning to think Brexit may never happen\"\n\nSir Vince Cable - the likely next Lib Dem leader - says he is \"beginning to think Brexit may never happen\".\n\nHe said \"enormous\" divisions in the Labour and the Tory parties and a \"deteriorating\" economy would make people think again.\n\n\"People will realise that we didn't vote to be poorer, and I think the whole question of continued membership will once again arise,\" he said.\n\nHe was speaking on the BBC's Andrew Marr show.\n\nHis comments were dismissed by leading Eurosceptic Conservative MP Owen Paterson, who said Sir Vince was just \"chucking buckets of water around\" and ignoring the \"huge vote\" in favour of leaving in the referendum and at the general election, where the two main parties backed Brexit.\n\n\"Vince Cable's party went down in votes, as did the other little parties who want to stay in the European Union,\" he told the BBC's Sunday Politics.\n\nHe added: \"I am afraid Vince is behind history. We are going to leave. We are on target.\"\n\nSir Vince conceded that the Lib Dem policy on a second referendum on the terms of a Brexit deal \"didn't really cut through in the general election\".\n\nBut he said it could offer voters \"a way out when it becomes clear the Brexit is potentially disastrous\".\n\nThe former business secretary looks set to be crowned Lib Dem leader. He is the only candidate following the resignation of Tim Farron.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSir Vince told the BBC he wants to work with Labour and Tory MPs to block what he regards as Theresa May's \"hard Brexit\" policy.\n\n\"A lot of people are keeping their heads down,\" he said, and \"we'll see what happens\" when MPs returned from their summer break.\n\nBut he added: \"I'm beginning to think that Brexit may never happen.\n\n\"The problems are so enormous, the divisions within the two major parties are so enormous. I can see a scenario in which this doesn't happen.\"\n\nMPs are set to vote on the Repeal Bill, a key piece of Brexit legislation, in the autumn.\n\nSir Vince has said he wants to form a cross-party coalition including like-minded Tory and Labour MPs to oppose Britain's exit from the single market - the official policy of both the Conservative and Labour parties.\n\nHe said Labour MPs who disagreed with their leader's position were welcome in his party, and predicted Labour's divisions on the issue would get worse.\n\n\"Jeremy Corbyn had a good election, for sure, but there is an element of a 'bubble' about it,\" he told Andrew Marr.\n\n\"He managed to attract large numbers of people on the basis that he was leading opposition to Brexit.\n\n\"Actually he is very pro-Brexit, and hard Brexit, and I think when that becomes apparent, the divisions in the Labour Party will become more real and the opportunity for us to move into that space will be substantial.\"\n\nSir Vince has come under fire for saying Theresa May's comment, in her 2016 Conservative Party conference speech, that \"if you believe you're a citizen of the world, you're a citizen of nowhere,\" was like something out of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf.\n\nQuizzed by Andrew Marr on this, Sir Vince said he had got the wrong dictator: \"I got my literary reference wrong - I think it was Stalin who talked about 'rootless cosmopolitans'.\"\n\nSir Vince, who won back his Twickenham seat at the general election, is not expected to face a challenger for the Lib Dem leadership but he said would still produce a manifesto. He suggested he would back income tax rises to pay for improvements to health and social care.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Theresa May met her Australian counterpart Malcolm Turnbull in Downing Street\n\nTheresa May is to call on rival parties to \"contribute and not just criticise\" as she signals a post-election change in her style of government.\n\nIn a speech on Tuesday the PM will say she still wants to change the country, but will say that losing her majority means a new approach is needed.\n\nLabour says it shows the Conservatives have run out of ideas.\n\nBut First Secretary of State Damian Green said it was a \"grown-up way of doing politics\".\n\nMinisters loyal to Mrs May have dismissed reports of plots to remove her as drink-fuelled \"gossip\", but Labour remains on an election footing, with leader Jeremy Corbyn saying he hopes for a fresh poll in September.\n\nMrs May will return to the message from her first day in Downing Street last July, when she succeeded David Cameron, and vow to lead what she called a \"one nation\" government that works for all and not just the \"privileged few\".\n\nThe speech is being seen by some as a \"re-launch\" or \"fightback\" after Mrs May lost her majority - and much of her authority - in the snap election last month.\n\n\"Come forward with your own views and ideas about how we can tackle\" the challenges the country faces, Mrs May will say, adding: \"We may not agree on everything, but ideas can be clarified and improved and a better way forward found.\"\n\nBluntly, it is an explicit acknowledgement of her fragility; her authority and majority shrivelled.\n\nGovernment sources say it is a mature approach that maintains a commitment to taking on big, difficult and complex challenges; not just Brexit but reform of social care, too, for instance.\n\nLabour says Mrs May's speech proves the Conservatives have \"completely run out of ideas\" and were reduced to \"begging\" for policy proposals from them.\n\nIn her speech, the PM will say that although the result of June's election was not what she wanted, \"those defining beliefs remain, my commitment to change in Britain is undimmed\".\n\nHer \"belief in the potential of the British people and what we can achieve together as a nation remains steadfast, and the determination I have to get to grips with the challenges posed by a changing world never more sure\", she will say.\n\nShe will unveil a review - of casual and low-paid work - by Matthew Taylor, a former top adviser to Tony Blair, which she commissioned when she became prime minister.\n\nMatthew Taylor will publish his employment review on Tuesday\n\nIt is thought Mr Taylor, who has been examining the use of zero-hours contracts and the rise in app-based firms such as Uber and Deliveroo, will stop short of calling for a compulsory minimum wage for those employed in the so-called gig economy, who do not have guaranteed hours or pay rates.\n\nBut he is expected to propose a series of extra rights for those in insecure jobs and could also recommend shaking up the tax system to reduce the gap between employees and the self-employed.\n\nHe is also likely to call for measures to improve job satisfaction for people working in minimum wage jobs, according to The Guardian.\n\nIn her speech, Mrs May will say: \"When I commissioned this report I led a majority government in the House of Commons. The reality I now face as prime minister is rather different.\n\n\"In this new context, it will be even more important to make the case for our policies and our values, and to win the battle of ideas both in Parliament as well as in the country.\n\n\"So I say to the other parties in the House of Commons... come forward with your own views and ideas about how we can tackle these challenges as a country.\n\n\"We may not agree on everything, but through debate and discussion - the hallmarks of our parliamentary democracy - ideas can be clarified and improved and a better way forward found.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The PM has a programme for Britain that will spread prosperity, the first secretary of state tells Today\n\nShe will acknowledge the fragile nature of her position in the Commons but insist it will not stop her taking \"the bold action necessary to secure a better future\".\n\nSpeaking at a press conference with Australian counterpart Malcolm Turnbull on Monday, Mrs May said she had sought input from other parties in the past on issues like counter-terrorism and modern slavery.\n\nShe also said she was happy to work with Labour's Yvette Cooper and others in a cross-party approach to tackling intimidation and online abuse of MPs and others involved in the political process.\n\nAsked if her desire for co-operation extended to Brexit, including on the government's Repeal Bill when it is published later this week, the prime minister said she was seeking the \"broadest possible consensus\" surrounding the terms of the UK's exit.\n\nBut former shadow business secretary Chuka Umunna said people would take the calls for cross-party working with \"a lorry load of salt\" - and he questioned why Mrs May had not raised the issue a year ago when she entered Number 10.\n\n\"The reason she wasn't asking for it then was she didn't need to,\" he said.\n\nDamian Green: This is a grown up way of doing politics\n\nLib Dem Brexit spokesman Tom Brake said: \"A call for Labour to contribute is superfluous. On the single biggest issue of our generation, Brexit, Corbyn isn't contributing, he is cheerleading.\"\n\nScottish Government Brexit minister Michael Russell said: \"If the prime minister is genuinely interested in creating a consensus then Scotland should have a seat at the negotiations to leave the EU.\"\n\nBut Mr Green, who has known Mrs May since university and is effectively her deputy prime minister, said the public would welcome a move away from politics in which parties \"just sit in the trenches and shell each other\".\n\n\"Politicians of all parties are invited to contribute their ideas - that's a grown up way of doing politics,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nHe said Mrs May was motivated by \"her duty\" to carry on, adding: \"She still has the same ambitions for this country as she had a year ago and she's determined to put them into practice for the good of this country - that's what drives her.\"\n\nAsked if the PM could be tempted to step down after her summer holiday, he said: \"No. She thinks not just that it's her duty, but she has a programme for Britain that encompasses not just a good Brexit deal, but also a domestic agenda that will spread prosperity around this country, make this a fairer society, tackle some of the injustices that we still have in our society - and that fire burns within her as strongly as ever.\"\n\nThe BBC's assistant political editor, Norman Smith, said that the Conservatives and Labour were \"poles apart\" on many significant policy areas.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's The World at One: \"More brutally, Jeremy Corbyn is not minded to help Theresa May. He smells blood in the water.\n\n\"He wants to do everything he can to stampede Mrs May into another election, so the idea he might somehow seek to cooperate with her, I think, is bordering on the fanciful.\"", "Photos of Miss South Africa wearing gloves while visiting black children at an orphanage in Soweto sparked a online outcry - but the orphanage staff say any insinuation that Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters is racist is \"ridiculous\".\n\n\"Of course it wasn't because she didn't want to touch black children,\" says Carol Dyantyi, a spokesperson for the Orlando West Community Centre Ikageng.\n\nNel-Peters was volunteering to feed orphans at the centre, and the gloves were a health and safety measure.\n\n\"We told her, and all other volunteers, to wear them while they were handling food around the children,\" Dyantyi tells BBC Trending. \"It was purely to protect the children from the risk of contaminated food. This social media reaction is ridiculous.\"\n\nThousands of Twitter users criticised Nel-Peters after photos of her at a soup drive on Wednesday began to circulate on social media.\n\nMany accused the beauty queen of wearing the latex gloves \"because she didn't want to touch black children\" and shared images of her hugging dogs and white children with bare hands.\n\nIn a video posted to her Twitter account, Nel-Peters said that she wore the gloves for sanitary reasons and denied that were any racial undertones to her actions.\n\n\"All the volunteers on site wore gloves today because we honestly thought that it's the right thing to do while working with food and while handing out food to young kids,\" Nel-Peters said. She also apologised to those who were offended.\n\nClaudia Henkel, a spokesperson for the beauty queen, also sent images to BBC Trending of Nel-Peters gloveless and playing with the children after the food had been served.\n\nHowever, not everyone was satisfied with her response. The hashtag #MissSAChallenge began to trend on Twitter on Thursday, as South Africans poked fun of the \"hygiene\" reason cited for the gloves.\n\nMore than 18,000 tweets used the hashtag, and some users posted pictures of themselves doing mundane tasks whilst unnecessarily wearing gloves.\n\nNot all of the responses were critical and others defended Miss South Africa.\n\nHenkel tells Trending that whilst the social media backlash had \"saddened\" Nel-Peters, she is adamant about doing more soup drives in the near future.\n\n\"And if she is asked to wear gloves for the safety of the children, then she will again,\" Henkel adds.\n\nYou can follow BBC Trending on Twitter @BBCtrending, and find us on Facebook. All our stories are at bbc.com/trending.", "Thousands of civilians have died as a result of air strikes in the Yemen civil war\n\nUK government arms sales to Saudi Arabia are lawful, the High Court has ruled, after seeing secret evidence.\n\nThe court rejected campaigners' claims ministers were acting illegally by not suspending weapon sales to the kingdom, which is fighting a war in Yemen.\n\nThe UN claims strikes on Houthi rebels caused thousands of civilian deaths.\n\nThe government said defence exports would continue to be reviewed but the Campaign Against the Arms Trade said an appeal against the ruling was planned.\n\nThe group had claimed the UK has contravened humanitarian law, and it attacked the refusal of the Secretary of State for International Trade to suspend export licences for the sale or transfer of arms and military equipment.\n\nLord Justice Burnett and Mr Justice Haddon-Cave, sitting in London, said the decision to carry on the arms trade was not unlawful.\n\nThe judges said \"closed material\", which had not been made public for national security reasons, \"provides valuable additional support for the conclusion that the decisions taken by the secretary of state not to suspend or cancel arms sales to Saudi Arabia were rational\".\n\nEquipment sold to Saudi Arabia includes Typhoon and Tornado fighter jets, as well as precision-guided bombs.\n\nThe sales contribute to thousands of engineering jobs in the UK, and have provided billions of pounds of revenue for the British arms trade.\n\nSaudi Arabia has been supporting Yemen's internationally-recognised government after a civil war broke out in 2015.\n\nHouthi rebels, loyal to deposed president Ali Abdullah Saleh, began an attack in 2014, forcing leader Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi to flee the country for a time.\n\nSince then the Saudi kingdom, and eight other mostly Sunni Arab states, have supported an air campaign aimed at restoring Mr Hadi's government.\n\nAndrew Smith, of Campaign Against Arms Trade, said: \"This is a very disappointing verdict, and we are pursuing an appeal.\n\n\"If this verdict is upheld then it will be seen as a green light for government to continue arming and supporting brutal dictatorships and human rights abusers like Saudi Arabia that have shown a blatant disregard for international humanitarian law.\n\n\"Every day we are hearing new and horrifying stories about the humanitarian crisis that has been inflicted on the people of Yemen.\"\n\nRosa Curling, of law firm Leigh Day, which represented the campaign group, said: \"Nothing in the open evidence, presented by the UK government to the court, suggests this risk does not exist in relation to arms to Saudi Arabia.\n\n\"Indeed, all the evidence we have seen from Yemen suggests the opposite: the risk is very real. You need only look at the devastating reality of the situation there.\"\n\nJames Lynch, Amnesty International's head of arms control and human rights, said the ruling was \"deeply disappointing\".\n\n\"Irrespective of this ruling, the UK and other governments should end their shameless arms supplies to Saudi Arabia,\" he said.\n\n\"They may amount to lucrative trade deals, but the UK risks aiding and abetting these terrible crimes.\"\n\nThe government said UK defence exports would continue to be \"under careful review\" to ensure they meet the standards of the Consolidated EU and National Arms Export Licensing Criteria.\n\n\"We welcome this judgment, which underscores the fact that the UK operates one of the most robust export control regimes in the world,\" a spokesperson said.", "John Tomlin handed himself in at an east London police station\n\nA man named as the chief suspect in an acid attack in east London has handed himself in to police.\n\nTwo people suffered \"life-changing\" injuries when a corrosive substance was thrown on to them through their car windows.\n\nCousins Resham Khan and Jameel Muhktar, 37, had been celebrating Ms Khan's 21st birthday before the attack.\n\nJohn Tomlin, 24, has been arrested on suspicion of grievous bodily harm with intent, the Metropolitan Police said.\n\nHe walked into an east London police station on Sunday and remains in custody.\n\nResham Khan has been left with damage to her left eye\n\nMs Khan, a student at Manchester Metropolitan University, and Mr Muhktar suffered severe burns to the face and body in the attack on 21 June.\n\nPolice said they had stopped at traffic lights when a man approached them and threw the toxic substance at Ms Khan through the window.\n\nThe attacker then threw more of the acid at Mr Muhktar before fleeing the scene.\n\nJameel Muhktar was temporarily placed in an induced coma to treat his injuries\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Phillip Harkins has always denied being involved in the robbery in 1999\n\nThe European Court of Human Rights has ruled a Scottish man should be tried for murder in the US following a record-breaking extradition battle.\n\nIt said Phillip Harkins' human rights would not be breached if he was jailed for life without parole in Florida.\n\nThe 38-year-old has been in jail in the UK since 2003, after being accused over a 1999 drugs-related attempted robbery.\n\nHe has always denied being involved in the killing and returned to Scotland in 2002 after being released on bail.\n\nAfter his return to the UK, he was convicted and jailed for dangerous driving after killing a 62-year-old woman in a car crash in Greenock.\n\nFollowing that sentence, the US authorities sought his extradition for the 1999 murder of 22-year-old Joshua Hayes - triggering the unprecedented legal battle that has been before the European Court twice.\n\nThe ruling was made by the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg\n\nThis has been an unprecedented 14-year extradition battle which has gone on until today. It has been extraordinary.\n\nPhillip Harkins has been all the way through the British courts - not once, but twice - and up to the European Court.\n\nIn essence, he was saying there were two issues. The first was the possibility of the death penalty. The Americans said they wouldn't seek the death penalty in this case if he is convicted. That is a standard procedure which they always offer in British extradition cases.\n\nBut then Mr Harkins said, well if I'm going to be jailed for life without parole, it is a breach of of my human rights - it's cruel and it's degrading.\n\nThis has been a long-running row between the European Court and the British authorities about the nature of life sentences.\n\nA couple of years ago, even though he had lost his case in Strasbourg, he got a second chance because there was a little bit of doubt in the European Court's mind. That's why he went back today. This morning, he lost.\n\nUS prosecutors assured the UK that it would not seek the death penalty for Mr Harkins were he to be convicted of the murder.\n\nBut his lawyers have argued for years that the prospect of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole once reformed constituted inhuman or degrading treatment contrary to the European Convention on Human Rights.\n\nMr Harkins lost all stages of his legal battle in the British courts, and the Strasbourg judges previously ruled against him until a legal twist meant he could try to make a second appeal in 2015.\n\nIn a short statement on Monday morning, the Grand Chamber of the court said that the case would not be re-opened, meaning it would no longer stand in the way of the extradition.\n\nUnder the usual procedures, the UK is now expected to inform the US that the extradition can go ahead, so that its authorities can make arrangements to transfer Mr Harkins to American custody.\n\nMr Harkins moved to the US with his family when he was 14.\n\nShortly before his 21st birthday he was accused of shooting dead Joshua Hayes in Jackonsville, Florida, during an attempted robbery.\n\nMr Harkins returned to Scotland after being released on bail in 2002 and was involved in a car crash in his native Greenock, which claimed the life of 62-year-old Jean O'Neill.\n\nHe was jailed for five years at the High Court in Edinburgh in 2003 after he admitted causing death by dangerous driving.\n\nWhile in custody, Harkins was transferred to Wandsworth Prison in London, while proceedings got under way to extradite him to the US.\n\nThe final ruling by the European Court has been welcomed by Joshua Hayes' mother Patricia Gallagher.\n\nSpeaking from her home in Florida, she told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme: \"It's been a long time and he has had appeal after appeal, but the day that he leaves Scotland is the day that we'll believe it's over.\n\n\"This has been pure hell - honestly, it's been a fighting battle. We just want to get him back for justice. He should never have been over there - he should have been here.\n\n\"I really don't understand how he was ever allowed that many appeals. That's way too many. He says that he's a victim, but he is not.\"", "Australia's cigarette plain packaging has been adopted elsewhere\n\nTobacco giant Philip Morris has been ordered to pay the Australian government millions of dollars after unsuccessfully suing the nation over its world-first plain-packaging laws.\n\nIn 2012, Australia legislated that cigarettes must be sold in unappealing packets with graphic health warnings.\n\nPhilip Morris had tried to force the laws to be overturned, but a court dismissed its claim in 2015.\n\nThe tobacco giant has now been ordered to pay the government's legal costs.\n\nThe exact sum was redacted from the international Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) decision, but the Sydney Morning Herald reported it was as high as A$50m (£30m; $38m).\n\nIn May, Bloomberg reported that the World Trade Organization (WTO) had decided Australia's laws were a legitimate public health measure - making them more likely to be adopted overseas.\n\nAfter plain packaging was introduced, Philip Morris, Imperial Tobacco and Japan Tobacco launched a constitutional challenge in Australia's highest court.\n\nWhen that bid failed, Philip Morris went to the PCA to claim the legislation breached Australia's Bilateral Investment Treaty with Hong Kong.\n\nIt sought an end to plain packaging, or billions of dollars in compensation.\n\nThe court dismissed the company's case, calling it \"an abuse of rights\".\n\nPhilip Morris then argued the government's claim for legal costs was unreasonable, saying it was well above claims made by Canada ($4.5m) and the US ($3m) in comparable cases.\n\nHowever, the court ruled the costs were reasonable because they did \"not go beyond what is usual in other investment cases\". It also acknowledged the \"significant stakes involved\" regarding public health.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Under the new law, brand names will appear in the same position, font, size and colour on packets\n\nThe document, marked 8 March 2017, was only made publicly available on the weekend.\n\nSince Australia's laws were introduced, similar policies have been announced in other countries including the UK.\n• None How Australia is stubbing out smoking", "South Devon Railway has apologised to the family\n\nA small boy almost fell from a moving train carriage on to the track below because the toilet floor was missing.\n\nHis mother was able to catch him before he fell when she took him to the toilet on the Totnes Riverside to Buckfastleigh train in Devon.\n\nInvestigators said the floor had been removed for repairs to the carriage's brakes but had not been replaced.\n\nSouth Devon Railway (SDR), which runs the steam train, said it is taking the investigation \"extremely seriously\".\n\nThe Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) said the 13:00 BST train was running between Staverton and Buckfastleigh on the South Devon Railway when the mother took her child to the toilet in the fourth carriage on 22 June.\n\nThe train was travelling at about 20mph (32 km/h) when they opened the door and saw the floor of the compartment was missing, exposing the carriage wheels below.\n\nShe reported the matter to the train guard and the door was locked.\n\nThe carriage understood to contain the missing floor\n\nThe mother and child were left shocked and the boy suffered minor bruising.\n\nStaff had previously placed a notice on the door and tried to secure it to prevent it being opened, but those measures were not effective, the RAIB said.\n\nIts investigation, which will look at the repairs to the carriage, the adequacy of the measures to secure the door and the railway's systems for assuring the safety of rolling stock in service, will be published in due course.\n\nThe South Devon Railway has been open for 50 years\n\nAn investigation has also been launched by the Office of Rail and Road (ORR).\n\nA registered charity, SDR is a seven-mile former Great Western Railway branch line which runs steam trains and heritage rolling stock as a tourist attraction.\n\nIn a statement, SDR apologised and said: \"On the day in question, something clearly went wrong with our safety control and hazard monitoring systems as evidenced by the incident having taken place - it simply should not have happened.\"", "Merseyrail plans to introduce a new fleet of driver-only trains from 2020\n\nWorkers at three train companies have gone on strike, causing travel disruption across England.\n\nNorthern rail staff are on the last day of a three-day strike, while Merseyrail staff are on strike for the day and also plan action on 23 July.\n\nRMT union members at Southern have walked out on a one-day strike.\n\nThe union is in dispute with the companies over driver-only-operated trains, which it says would be unsafe and lead to widespread job losses.\n\n\"The threat to abolish guards and introduce driver-only-operated trains is only part of the wider attack on rail services,\" said the RMT.\n\nThe union said the dispute is not about pay or conditions but strike action is over \"concern about passenger safety\".\n\nIn April RMT members demonstrated against the proposals and to mark the one-year anniversary of its dispute with Southern rail.\n\nRail workers from across the country attended the protest outside Parliament\n\nNorthern said it expected to run more than 40% of its timetable and it would have additional rail replacement buses.\n\nSharon Keith, regional director at Northern, said: \"We are doing everything we can to keep our customers on the move during the three days of industrial action affecting our network.\"\n\nHowever, all services are expected to be extremely busy and travellers should allow extra time for their journeys, the company added.\n\nMost services are timetabled to run between 07:00 and 19:00 BST with many routes winding down from late afternoon.\n\nCommuters have been taking to social media to say how their working days are being affected by the strike.\n\nKitty tweeted: \"I was all ready to go this morning. Then I realised there is a #NorthernRail strike. So I get a half an hour lie in!\"\n\nCharlotte posted: \"Last train home at 5.32 - don't usually leave the office until 6! #earlyfinish #trainstrike #northernrail\"\n\nArriva runs its Northern services across the north-west and north-east of England, Cumbria and the East Midlands\n\nMerseyrail trains are running from 07:00 to 19:00 but some stations will be closed. There are no trains scheduled to run on the Ellesmere Port, Hunts Cross and Kirkby lines.\n\nJan Chaudhry-van der Velde, managing director, said customers were urged to check before travelling.\n\nHe added: \"The team has put together the best possible timetable that we can to provide a limited train service on both strike days.\"\n\nBut passenger Thomas George tweeted: \"Beautiful day for a rail strike! I'm wet, late and fed up. #RailStrike #MerseyRail\"\n\nSouthern's services are not expected to be affected, the company said\n\nAccording to Southern, the industrial action on 10 July is \"not expected to have any further affect on services\".\n\nPassenger DoctorY tweeted: \"Another day, another packed sardine train journey with #southernrail\"\n\nAn ASLEF union driver overtime ban is in force and a revised timetable axing a quarter of services, was brought in on 28 June.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Six men were found with injuries near a children's play area in Ballantay Terrace\n\nA 23-year-old man is in a critical condition in hospital after being shot in a large scale disturbance in the Castlemilk area of Glasgow.\n\nSix men were taken to hospital following the incident near a children's play area in Ballantay Terrace at about 20:00 on Saturday.\n\nPolice said up to 15 individuals were involved in the incident, which they described as attempted murder.\n\nA 25-year-old man is also in a stable condition in hospital.\n\nOfficers said that on arrival at the scene they found six men with various injuries.\n\nDet Ch Insp Martin Fergus said children and other members of the public were in the area at the time of the attack.\n\nHe told BBC Scotland: \"The call that we received was that there was a large scale disturbance, upwards of 12 to 15 individuals of various age groups engaged in a large scale disturbance using weapons.\n\n\"It's [too] early to say exactly what the motive behind this was, we are working on the hypothesis that this may be a localised feud between families, we don't know at this stage.\n\nDCI Martin Fergus said children and other members of the public were in the area when the disturbance broke out\n\n\"What I can confirm is that two individuals received injuries consistent with gunshot wounds, one of which is critical and fighting for his life as I speak.\n\n\"The other male also received critical injuries, however, they are not thought to be life threatening at this time.\n\n\"Other males that were also involved in the disturbance have received an array of injuries all believed to be serious.\"\n\nSince the six men were admitted to hospital in the city, four have been discharged.\n\nSupt John McBride said officers would be patrolling the area to reassure the local community.\n\nHe said: \"It happened in a sunny Saturday evening when children were undoubtedly out playing in the area and if you're a parent there and you've got a young kid, you probably want that feeling of safety.\"\n\nHe added: \"It is important for people to know that this was not a random attack, it was a targeted attack involving two separate factions.\"\n\n\"It was such a large incident. We have got six people seriously injured, one of whom is still in a critical condition in hospital, one in a stable condition, and four with serious injuries.\"\n\nThe area where the attack took place is largely overlooked by housing and officers believe many people will have witnessed the incident as a result.\n\nThey have urged anyone with information to come forward.", "Tesla co-founder Elon Musk tweeted the first image of the Model 3 after it rolled off the production line\n\nTesla co-founder and chief executive Elon Musk has shared the first images of the electric car company's Model 3 after it came off the assembly line.\n\nThe entrepreneur followed it up with another Model 3 photo, this time in colour, outside the Tesla factory site in California.\n\nThe Model 3 is Tesla's first mass-market car and the first 30 owners will get in the driver's seat on 28 July.\n\nThe four-door Model 3 will then be available to the public, with a base price of $35,000 (£27,100), almost half that of the Tesla's next-cheapest model.\n\nTesla's share price more than doubled between December and late June as investors backed Mr Musk's strategy to transform the low-volume luxury electric car maker into a producer for the crowded mass-market, but has since fallen back.\n\nRegistrations for new Teslas in California, the car maker's largest market, were down 24% in April compared with April 2016, according to IHS Markit data. The company responded by calling the figure \"cherry-picked\" data.\n\nTesla reported that first-half 2017 global deliveries for all its models rose to 47,100. That was at the lower end of its predicted sales range of 47,000 to 50,000.\n\nIn its last full financial year results the company made a loss of $889m (£689m).\n\nMr Musk's tweeted images follow news last week that Volvo would become the first traditional vehicle manufacturer to phase out the petrol and diesel powered combustion engine, in a move toward hybrid and electric car production.\n\nElon Musk tweeted this image of the Tesla Model 3 production unit", "The parents of Charlie Gard appear in many of the newspapers\n\nSeveral papers report the warning from a pay review body that schools in England are struggling to recruit teachers, after the government decided to cap their pay rises at 1%.\n\nThe story makes the lead in the Daily Telegraph, which says the prime minister is likely to face more challenges from her own MPs on the issue.\n\nThe paper says the pay review body's warning will add to mounting pressure on Chancellor Philip Hammond to ease the pay cap in his Budget later this year.\n\nThe Guardian says Mrs May has been accused of insulting teachers.\n\nIt also believes pressure is building on the government to announce a review of public sector pay in the autumn Budget.\n\nIn other education news, ministers are considering scrapping the Conservative programme to build hundreds more free schools, as they struggle to fund a manifesto promise to boost education budgets by £4bn, according to the Times.\n\nThe paper also reports the decision to continue the 1% cap on pay rises for teachers, calling it another real-terms salary cut for half a million staff in England and Wales.\n\nThe grim-faced parents of Charlie Gard are pictured on the Daily Mirror's front page, after a hearing at the High Court on Monday.\n\nThe Times reports how they shouted at the judge and a lawyer as they were told to provide fresh evidence that their terminally-ill baby should be taken abroad for treatment.\n\nThe Daily Mail says that after the hearing, many were left pondering the same simple clash of arguments.\n\nIt was the medical establishment versus a family not prepared to admit defeat, as long as someone, somewhere, was saying that something might be done.\n\nThe main story in the Financial Times is that the drugs industry is going to court to try to stop the NHS imposing new limits on the price it will pay for medicines.\n\nThe FT says the industry has complained that the policy might prevent patients from securing cutting-edge medicines for the most serious diseases.\n\nThe paper says the rules also affect drugs for very rare illnesses, which often affect children, and will be subject to a cost limit for the first time.\n\nThe Guardian's front page, meanwhile, highlights a warning from scientists that the sixth mass extinction of species in the earth's history is well under way.\n\nThe paper says the new study analysed both common and rare species and found that billions of regional or local populations had been lost, mainly because of human overpopulation and over-consumption.\n\nAnimals affected include lions in South Africa, Guatemalan bearded lizards, as well as red squirrels and barn swallows.\n\nA front-page report in the Financial Times says the government has conceded that the European Court of Justice could continue to have sway over Britain for a limited time after Brexit.\n\nThe paper sees the move as a \"blurring\" of one of Prime Minister Theresa May's red lines over negotiations with the EU, and says it could pave the way for a softer Brexit.\n\nThe FT calls it the most consequential concession since the referendum.\n\nMrs May's call for a cross-party approach to tacking the challenges facing the UK is given short shrift in the Telegraph.\n\nThe paper says that instead of prompting a great coming together, the idea seems to be falling apart almost immediately.\n\nThe Conservatives sometimes appear to have lost their bearings, the paper says, and the prime minister will not find the right path by following Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nBut the Sun believes it was honest and brave of Mrs May to offer other parties a say.\n\nWhat it calls Jeremy Corbyn's \"graceless\" rebuff was predictable, it says.\n\nAmid all the Wimbledon coverage, the Telegraph highlights complaints of sexism in the tournament's scheduling.\n\nIt says critics have pointed out that the show courts at the All England Club are routinely hosting two men's games, but only one women's match, each day.\n\nIt says Andy Murray has entered the fray, urging Wimbledon to begin play earlier on Centre Court to allow four matches and an equal split.\n\nAnd finally, there is widespread coverage of two new studies, which conclude that drinking coffee can reduce the risk of dying early.\n\nThe findings make the lead in the Daily Express, which says three cups a day can cut the risk of cancer, heart disease and strokes.\n\nThe Times adds that while coffee has been blamed for health problems such as insomnia, heartburn and weak bones, the new findings appear to show that the benefits outweigh the risks.\n\nFill the cafetiere, it advises, but ditch the cigarette.", "Ms Morris has been MP for Newton Abbot since 2010\n\nA Conservative MP has been suspended from the party after it emerged she used a racist expression during a public discussion about Brexit.\n\nAnne Marie Morris, the MP for Newton Abbot, used the phrase at an event in London to describe the prospect of the UK leaving the EU without a deal.\n\nShe told the BBC: \"The comment was totally unintentional. I apologise unreservedly for any offence caused.\"\n\nThe Conservative Party later confirmed she had had the whip withdrawn.\n\nAnnouncing the suspension, Theresa May said she was \"shocked\" by the \"completely unacceptable\" language.\n\n\"I immediately asked the chief whip to suspend the party whip,\" she said in a statement.\n\n\"Language like this has absolutely no place in politics or in today's society.\"\n\nThe BBC understands the prime minister and Conservative Chief Whip Gavin Williamson met to discuss the matter once Mrs May finished her Commons statement on last weekend's G20 summit.\n\nAccording to a recording published on the Huffington Post website, Ms Morris was discussing the impact of Brexit on the UK's financial services industry at an event organised by the Politeia think tank, which was attended by other MPs.\n\nSuggesting that just 7% of financial services would be affected by Brexit, she reportedly said: \"Now I am sure there will be many people who will challenge that but my response and my request is look at the detail - it isn't all doom and gloom.\"\n\nShe went on: \"Now we get to the real nigger in the woodpile, which is in two years what happens if there is no deal.\"\n\nThe phrase originated in the American Deep South in the mid-19th Century and is thought to have referred to slaves having to conceal themselves as they sought to flee north and secure their freedom.\n\nIt was subsequently used in the 20th Century - including by a number of leading novelists - as a metaphor to describe a hidden fact or problem.\n\nThe Lib Dems had called on Theresa May to withdraw the whip from Ms Morris, who was first elected to Parliament in 2010 and was subsequently re-elected in 2015 and earlier this year.\n\nLeader Tim Farron said he was \"shocked\" and called for her to be suspended from the parliamentary party.\n\n\"This disgusting comment belongs in the era of the Jim Crow laws and has no place in our Parliament,\" he said.\n\nLabour's Andrew Gwynne said Ms Morris had used \"outrageous and completely unacceptable\" language.\n\nGreen Party leader Caroline Lucas called on Ms Morris to resign as an MP, telling Sky News: \"There is no place for her in the House of Commons.\"\n\nShe also claimed that other Conservative MPs at the meeting \"apparently did not bat an eyelid\" at Ms Morris's language.\n\n\"At the very least, there ought to be a conversation between Theresa May and the others in that room so that they're very clear going forward that if ever that kind of language is heard in the earshot, it has to be condemned immediately,\" Ms Lucas said.\n\nLabour MP Chuka Umunna tweeted: \"Speechless, not just at the remark being made but also at the reported lack of a reaction from the Tories there. Utterly appalling.\"\n\nPoliteia's website said MPs Sir William Cash, Kwasi Kwarteng and John Redwood also took part, though Mr Kwarteng told the BBC he was not there. The BBC has contacted the other MPs for comment.\n\nMs Morris did face criticism from Tory colleagues, one of whom, Heidi Allen, tweeted: \"I'm afraid an apology is not good enough - we must show zero tolerance for racism. MPs must lead by example.\"\n\nFellow Conservative MP Helen Grant tweeted: \"Inconceivable for an MP using that expression to be incognisant of its history, impact and complete unacceptability. So ashamed!\"\n\nIn 2008, Conservative peer and party spokesman Lord Dixon-Smith apologised for using the same phrase in the House of Lords, saying that it was not appropriate and that he had \"left his brains behind\".\n\nThe peer was not dismissed.", "Smoke billowed over Mosul on Sunday as airstrikes against the Islamic State (IS) group continued\n\nEven while the Iraqi prime minister was on his way to Mosul to declare the liberation of the city, there was still the occasional sound of gunfire and coalition warplanes flying overhead.\n\nEarlier in the morning we saw a number of airstrikes in the Old City. Iraqi forces were still pinned down by snipers from the group that calls itself Islamic State.\n\nColonel Jabbar Abad told us it was the last pocket of resistance. He claimed they would be defeated within hours.\n\nHis troops helped a steady stream of civilians fleeing to safety. Mostly women and children. Their faces were haunted and some had to be helped.\n\nThe children didn't even flinch when there was more sound of gunfire. An older woman was so weak she could barely walk. A few babies being carried looked almost lifeless.\n\nChildren in Mosul have been prisoners of IS for much of their short lives\n\nThe families were given food and water. This, their first taste of freedom after three years of living under IS control. The battle briefly forgotten in their own fight for survival.\n\nIf this is victory it has come at a huge cost. Not just in human life. Nearly everyone rescued had to leave dead relatives behind.\n\nAlmost every building in the old city has been scarred or completely destroyed.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'The is still a lot of misery in Mosul'\n\nSearch and rescue teams are still pulling bodies from the rubble. The heat has contributed to the stench of decaying corpses.\n\nWe met Ali, who had come to find his brother's family. Hoping against hope that some may have survived.\n\nHe said IS fighters had been using their house when it was hit by a coalition airstrike a few weeks ago. Iraqi security forces had only recently taken the area.\n\nWith tears streaming down his face, Ali held up his mobile phone and told me he'd spoken to his brother trapped under the rubble. But over the last few days there had been no reply.\n\nAli helped the search and rescue teams make their way through the tonnes of rubble.\n\nThey tried to console him when all they could find was what must have been their remains, which they carried off in a black zipped bag. We watched them do the same at several other sites.\n\nAli is among those searching for loved ones in the rubble\n\nContrast that with the jubilation of the Iraqi security forces who mobbed Prime Minister Abadi as he arrived in the city to declare victory over IS.\n\nThis is still a significant moment. The extremists have held the city for three years. It's taken nine months of brutal street to street fighting to dislodge them.\n\nThis was their stronghold in Iraq. It was here, in the city's now flattened Great Mosque of al-Nuri, where their leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, made his one and only public appearance as Caliph of their so-called state.\n\nFor many IS fighters Mosul is their graveyard, though it is still likely that some have escaped.\n\nThe misery of Mosul is far from over. The UN estimates it will cost at least $1bn (£0.77bn) to restore the city's basic infrastructure - such as clean water and electricity.\n\nIt will take tens of billions more to rebuild this city.", "Andronicos Sideras allegedly mixed up the meats before sale\n\nA plot to pass horsemeat off as beef fell apart after horse identification chips were found in the meat by inspectors, a court has been told.\n\nAndronicos Sideras, 54, has been accused of deliberately mixing up the meats before they were sold in 2012.\n\nMr Sideras was one of the owners of meat company and sausage manufacturer Dinos & Sons.\n\nThe businessman, from Southgate, north London, denies conspiracy to defraud between 1 January and 30 November 2012.\n\nProsecutor Jonathan Polnay said alarm bells were raised after Dinos \"messed things up\" when assembling an order.\n\nA surprise inspection was triggered when the wrong size of shipment was sent to a company called Rangeland in Newry, Northern Ireland, in 2012, Inner London Crown Court was told.\n\nThe 12-pallet load was analysed and four of them contained horse.\n\nMr Polnay said: \"Some of them were found to contain significant amounts of horsemeat; roughly about a third contained horse.\"\n\nIt is alleged Mr Sideras mixed meat in this way before it was sold on to manufacturers making products for \"a vast range of well-known companies\".\n\nMr Sideras's fingerprints were found on \"fake\" labels, the court heard.\n\nMr Polnay added: \"The final piece of the jigsaw is that when the meat was analysed, three horse ID chips were found in some of it.\"\n\nThe chips were roughly the size of a 1cm grain of rice - two of which were Polish and one Irish.\n\nIt is alleged Danish-owned company Flexi Foods would buy horsemeat and beef from suppliers across Europe and then deliver to Dinos & Sons in Tottenham, north London.\n\nMr Polnay said the fraud could not have worked or taken place without the \"connivance\" of Mr Sideras.\n\nHe said: \"The meticulous records kept by FlexiFoods caused their undoing. They also provide compelling evidence of the guilt of this defendant.\"\n\nHe told the court that two men, Ulrik Nielsen, 58, the owner of FlexiFoods, and his \"right-hand man\", Alex Beech, 44, have already pleaded guilty to the same charge.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Charlie Gard has been in intensive care since October\n\nA lawyer for Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) has dismissed claims of \"fresh\" medical evidence in the case of terminally ill baby Charlie Gard.\n\nGOSH referred the case back to the High Court after reports of \"new\" data from foreign healthcare experts suggested treatment could improve his condition.\n\nCharlie's parents have made several unsuccessful challenges to a decision to end the 11-month-old's life support.\n\nGOSH told the hearing the evidence was not new but it was right to explore it.\n\nMr Justice Francis is overseeing the preliminary hearing in the Family Division of the High Court.\n\nIn April he ruled that Charlie's life support should be ended and said earlier it would take something \"dramatic and new\" to make him change his mind.\n\nMr Justice Francis is due to resume hearing the case on Thursday.\n\nOn Sunday, Charlie's parents Chris Gard and Connie Yates handed in a 350,000-signature petition calling for him to travel to the US for treatment.\n\nCharlie's parents are seeking permission to remove their son - who has the rare condition mitochondrial depletion syndrome - from the care of Great Ormond Street Hospital so he can undergo experimental treatment abroad.\n\nThe judge said: \"There is not a person alive who would not want to save Charlie.\"\n\nA lawyer for the family said new and unpublished data was recently shared with the hospital that suggested treatment could produce a \"dramatic clinical improvement\" in Charlie's condition.\n\nPreviously doctors had indicated Charlie had irreversible structural brain damage.\n\nLawyers representing the family have now said using \"cutting edge genetic science\" there was a \"small chance\" of brain recovery and that it was a chance \"worth taking\".\n\nThey questioned whether Mr Justice Francis was the correct person to assess the latest medical evidence, given that in April he had ruled Charlie's life support should be withdrawn.\n\nIn reply, the judge said: \"I did my job. I will continue to do my job.\"\n\nAt the hearing, a lawyer for GOSH said the alleged \"new research\" had been available for the judge's consideration in April and was purely lab-based anyway, and related to patients with muscle problems only rather than brain damage.\n\nCharlie inherited the faulty RRM2B gene, affecting the cells responsible for energy production and respiration and leaving him unable to move or breathe without a ventilator.\n\nGOSH describes proposed experimental therapies as \"unjustified\" and said the treatments being offered are not a cure.\n\nHowever, the hospital's decision to go back to court came after researchers at two international healthcare facilities said they had \"fresh evidence about their proposed experimental treatment\".\n\nCharlie's parents, from Bedfont in west London, want their son to have nucleoside therapy.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Breakfast, Ms Yates described the situation as a \"living hell\".\n\n\"I couldn't sit there and watch him in pain and suffering, I promise you I wouldn't,\" she said, adding: \"I think parents know when their children are ready to go and they've given up, and Charlie is still fighting.\n\n\"It's horrible that this decision has been taken out of our hands. It's not just about us knowing best, it's about having other hospitals and doctors saying we want to treat [Charlie] and we think it's the best thing to do.\"\n\nMs Yates said they were not criticising Great Ormond Street Hospital as \"they do great things\".\n\nShe said she hoped the judge would take into account new evidence as when the decision was made previously, Charlie's chance was rated at being close to 0% but now this has increased to 10%.\n\nCharlie is thought to be one of 16 children in the world to have mitochondrial depletion syndrome.\n\nIt is a rare genetic condition which causes progressive muscle weakness and brain damage because he is unable to get energy to his organs.\n\nDoctors have said he now cannot see, hear, move, cry or swallow and has irreversible brain damage. His lungs are only able to keep going because of the treatment he is receiving.\n\nThey have argued he should be allowed to die with dignity.\n\nBut his parents and supporters have been fighting for him to be given an experimental treatment in the US.\n\nThe treatment is not a cure - there isn't one - but it has been suggested it could reduce the effects of the disease.\n\nAlthough doctors in the US have since said the benefits they have seen have not been in cases as advanced as Charlie's.\n\nCharlie's parents have launched a high-profile campaign in the hope of getting their son further treatment abroad\n\nUS President Donald Trump and the Vatican have supported the parents' campaign for Charlie to be treated abroad, but a leading expert has described interventions from high-profile figures as \"unhelpful\".\n\nProf Neena Modi, president of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, said in an open letter that Charlie's situation was \"heartbreaking\" for his parents, but added that even well-meaning interventions from outsiders could be unhelpful.\n\nMr Gard said: \"If we won the court case and we got to America, and then within the first week of treatment he started suffering and he was in pain, we would let him go.\n\n\"This isn't about us. This is about Charlie and giving him the chance he needs.\"\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. Michael Hayes said he was speaking out to give 'the point of view of a participant'\n\nA self-confessed IRA bomb maker who has said he was part of the group responsible for the Birmingham pub bombings has issued an apology.\n\nTwenty-one people were killed on 21 November 1974 when bombs exploded in two city centre pubs.\n\nSix innocent men were wrongfully convicted. No-one has ever been brought to justice for one of the worst single losses of life in the Troubles.\n\nMichael Christopher Hayes said he was sorry innocent people were killed.\n\nThe 69-year-old, who now lives in south Dublin, refused to say who planted the bombs in the Mulberry Bush and the Tavern in the Town, but said he was speaking out to give \"the point of view of a participant\".\n\nThe bombs had not been intended to kill people, he said, adding that there had been a crucial eight-minute delay before police were warned of the bombs' location.\n\nOnce he became aware of the death toll from the two bombs, he personally defused a third bomb left on Birmingham's Hagley Road, said Mr Hayes.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRelatives of those killed have rejected the apology as \"gutless and spineless\".\n\nAn inquest into the bombings has been re-opened following a campaign by victims' families, who feel they have been denied justice and that their loved ones have been forgotten.\n\nVictims' relatives have always wanted the names of the suspects to be disclosed at the inquest.\n\nBut just last week the coroner ruled that suspects' identities would not be discussed - a ruling denounced by the families as a \"whitewash\".\n\nWest Midlands Police said their investigation remained open and they would respond to \"any new significant information to bring those responsible to justice\".\n\n\"An inquest is due to start and we will not be providing any further comment until the proceedings have concluded,\" said a police spokesperson.\n\nIn 1990, Michael Hayes was named in a landmark Granada TV programme as one of the men who placed the bombs in the two pubs.\n\nHe said he was arrested and questioned by West Midlands Police about the bombings in 1974, but was released.\n\nWhen asked last week if he planted the bombs, he told BBC News NI: \"No comment. No comment.\n\n\"I've been accused of a lot of things, without one shred of forensic evidence, without one statement made, without one witness coming out against me.\"\n\nHe said the bombs were made of gelignite, and were planted by two individuals.\n\nAsked if he was one of the two, he replied: \"I'm not telling you.\"\n\nTwenty-one people died in two explosions in Birmingham in November 1974\n\nHowever, he said he took what he called \"collective responsibility\" for all the IRA's actions in England - including the Birmingham pub bombings.\n\nHe said he was in the IRA for more than 30 years in both Ireland and England, adding that he was \"a participant in the IRA's activities in Birmingham\".\n\nTen people were killed in the Mulberry Bush explosion\n\nHe said: \"We were horrified when we heard because it was not intended. I personally defused the third bomb.\"\n\nAsked what expertise he had that allowed him to do that, he said: \"Quite a lot. I specialised in explosives. I knew what I was doing.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMichael Hayes said the IRA unit in Birmingham had been shocked by the scale of the death toll.\n\n\"It was not the intention of the IRA to kill innocent people,\" he told BBC News NI.\n\n\"That wasn't meant. It wouldn't have been done if that was the case.\"\n\nHe said he thought they had given sufficient time for the police to evacuate the buildings.\n\n\"We believed that we gave adequate warnings,\" he said.\n\n\"It was only later on that we realised there was eight valuable minutes missed. We were going to give them a half-hour warning.\n\n\"Out of that half hour, eight minutes elapsed - eight priceless minutes.\"\n\nHe said that as he understood it one of the phone boxes used for the telephone warnings was broken and another one was being used.\n\nThe former IRA man said he was sorry for the hurt caused to the relatives of those killed.\n\nThe families of the victims have campaigned for legal aid\n\n\"My apologies and my heartfelt sympathy to all of you for a terrible tragic loss that you have been put through,\" he said.\n\n\"In all these years that you have been trying to find closure, I hope at last God will be merciful and bring you closure.\n\n\"I apologise not only for myself, I apologise for all active republicans who had no intention of hurting anybody and sympathise with you.\"\n\nJulie Hambleton, whose 18-year-old sister Maxine was killed in the explosions, said an apology from the IRA would be offensive.\n\n\"He's a coward, as simple as that,\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"He'll take collective responsibility for those unarmed, innocent people, but won't say who done it?\n\n\"He's gutless and spineless,\" she added. \"He's told us nothing, he's admitted nothing.\"\n\nThe bombs were widely acknowledged to be the work of the IRA\n\nMichael Hayes has said he would not be attending the inquest into the bombings.\n\n\"I would not go along to it. Why should I? What reason would I have to go there? I am just kind of giving this interview.\n\n\"That is sufficient. I'm not going back to England.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the former IRA man insists he has a clear conscience.\n\n\"Very much so,\" he said. \"I can sleep at night. Because I am not a murderer.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A couple caught up in the Birmingham pub bombings relive horror\n\nHe said he would rather die than become an informer by naming the real bombers to help free the Birmingham Six, who served 16 years in prison before their sentences were quashed by the Court of Appeal in 1991.\n\nHe said: \"You would want me to go in and give the name of other men, to become an informer? I'd sooner die in front of you than become an informer.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA Colorado teenager has described awaking to find his head clamped in the jaws of a bear that was dragging him away from his campsite.\n\nThe 19-year-old, a survival instructor at Glacier View Ranch summer camp, felt \"immense pain\" as he heard the beast's teeth \"crunching\" on his skull.\n\nThe black bear dragged the boy for more than 10ft (3m) before being scared away by other campers early on Sunday.\n\nOfficials say the animal remains a threat and are currently hunting it.\n\n\"There's four spots where its claws dug into me,\" he told KTVB-TV, while gesturing to the teeth marks on the back of his head from the animal, which is estimated to weigh 400lb (181kg).\n\n\"And then it pulled me into its mouth and then it grabbed me with its teeth right back here.\n\n\"And when it pulled it tore the skin and scraped along my skull which was like the cracking noise that I heard.\"\n\nHe added: \"The crunching noise, I guess, was the teeth scraping against the skull as it dug in.\"\n\nDylan said he could feel the bear's breath on the back of his neck.\n\nHe had been sleeping outside in a teepee alongside four other camp counsellors when the attack occurred around 04:15 local time (11:15 GMT) in Ward - about 20 miles (32km) from Boulder, Colorado.\n\n\"I thought I was dreaming for a second and then I thought this hurts too bad to be dreaming,\" he continued.\n\nHe fought back against the bear, striking it the face and poking its eyes, before it let him go.\n\nHe was taken to hospital with minor injuries, and came away with just nine stitches.\n\nColorado Parks and Wildlife spokeswoman Jen Churchill told local media no food or scented items had been left out which could have attracted the bear.\n\n\"This is really a bear that could be a continual threat to people in this community,\" she said, adding that bloodhounds were being used to locate the ursine raider.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Players and staff raised the alarm when Mr Pugh got into difficulty\n\nA golf company director has been jailed after a ball collector drowned in a freezing course lake.\n\nDale Pike, 25, of Glynneath, Neath Port Talbot, \"stood and watched\" as Gareth Pugh dived into the lake with a weighted belt to fish out balls.\n\nMr Pugh's body was found in the water at Peterstone Lakes Golf Club, near Newport, after he lost his breathing equipment and drowned in February 2016.\n\nMr Pugh was using a flotation device and air compressor while searching the lake for balls\n\nCardiff Crown Court heard Pike raised the alarm when he noticed a constant stream of bubbles rising to the lake's surface and a flotation device carrying Mr Pugh's air supply floating towards the edge.\n\nEmergency service staff pulled him from the water 70 minutes after he first entered and he was found with his feet pointing upwards, weighed down by a weighted belt and a 16kg (35lbs) bag of 341 golf balls he had retrieved.\n\nThe court heard Pike, who ran Boss Golf Balls which sells balls retrieved from lakes, should have hired trained divers to carry out the work, at a cost of about £1,000 a day.\n\nBut instead he employed Mr Pugh, who had ADHD and learning difficulties, and paid him £20-40 a day.\n\nDale Pike was told he had \"a cavalier attitude towards safety\"\n\nDavid Elias QC, defending, said Pike \"naively and foolishly believed that all would be well with the use of that equipment in that lake\".\n\nSentencing Pike, Judge Keith Thomas said: \"Mr Pugh was an unsuitable contender for the diving work you employed him to undertake, but you allowed him to take those risks to make a quick buck.\n\n\"The risk of death or serious injury was obvious to you, but your cavalier attitude towards safety was the cause of Mr Pugh's death.\n\n\"With hindsight you bitterly regret what happened.\"\n\nSpeaking after the hearing, Iwan Jenkins, from the Crown Prosecution Service, said Pike \"stood by and watched\" as Mr Pugh entered the water \"knowing that safety regulations were being breached\".\n\n\"His deceit and callousness resulted in Gareth losing his life,\" he said.\n\n\"There was clear evidence Pike had made enquiries with legitimate dive operators to cost this activity but he chose not to use them, instead falsely claiming to the golf club that he was a qualified commercial diver with his own equipment.\"\n\nMr Pugh's partner Mayree Worton said: \"What upsets me the most is the bond that our daughter and Gareth had together is no longer there.\n\n\"The sentencing of Dale Pike is a relief, however it doesn't make what has happened any less painful, upsetting or distressing and it does not bring Gareth back.\"\n\nMr Pugh died after becoming separated from his breathing device in the 8ft-deep lake", "Deliveroo's takeaway food riders could be in line for the minimum wage\n\nA government review of the rapidly changing world of work is to demand a radical overhaul of employment law and new guarantees on the minimum wage.\n\nThe review is set to call for a new category of worker called a \"dependent contractor\".\n\nThose workers - likely to cover riders for firms like Deliveroo and Uber - should receive benefits such as sick pay and holiday leave, it will say.\n\nAnd they will be covered by some of the minimum wage requirements.\n\nThis will help clear up the present grey area between a fully employed and a self-employed person - presently called a \"worker\" in employment law.\n\nThe review by Matthew Taylor, the head of the Royal Society of Arts and a former Tony Blair adviser, will outline a structure obliging firms to show that a person working for them can earn at least 1.2 times the present national living wage of £7.50 an hour for over-25s.\n\nThe companies will do that by modelling the number of tasks - or \"gigs\" - an average person working at an average rate can achieve.\n\nAn estimated 1.1 million people work in the gig economy.\n\nI understand the review, due to be published on Tuesday, has looked at the agriculture sector where \"piece work\" calculations - how much a crop picker can pick in an hour, for example - work in a similar way.\n\nThe review has seen evidence that hourly rates in the sector are set at 1.2 times the national minimum wage.\n\nThe review will call for the new \"dependent contractor\" payment system to be overseen by the Low Pay Commission, the official body which sets the minimum wage.\n\nThe review of the new world of work - set up by Theresa May before the last election - has also looked positively at models where gig workers can log on at any time and see \"real time\" earnings potential.\n\nIf the company can only offer enough work to earn, say, £5 an hour, because it is a quiet period, then it is up to the gig worker whether they accept that rate.\n\nThey would not subsequently be able to take action against the gig company for not paying the minimum wage, the review will suggest.\n\nUber drivers could be classed as 'dependent contractors'\n\nSources have told me that Mr Taylor and his review panel have been impressed by how many gig firms have transformed the economy both for workers and for consumers.\n\nBut Mr Taylor wants to ensure that the relationship between the worker and the digital platform firm is a fair one, offering \"two-way flexibility\" so that workers receive benefits while at the same time retaining the ability to work when they want.\n\nFirms like Uber, Deliveroo and CitySprint at present insist that their drivers and riders are self-employed and therefore can work when they want.\n\nIn return for that flexibility, the workers do not receive the same benefits as full-time employees, such as the guaranteed minimum wage, sick pay, holiday entitlement and pension provision.\n\nThe companies also avoid paying national insurance contributions for the people who work for them.\n\nThey have been criticised for exploiting the law on \"self-employment\" to keep costs down.\n\nThough firms like Deliveroo point out that their riders earn on average between £9.50 and £10 an hour - well above the minimum wage.\n\nCritics say their model also undermines the government's tax base as self-employed people pay lower taxes than the fully employed.\n\nA report by the Trades Union Congress suggested that the Treasury could be losing up to £4bn a year in revenue due to the rapid growth of \"insecure\" work.\n\nLast week Will Shu, the founder and chief executive of Deliveroo, told me he wanted to offer a wider range of benefits to delivery riders but believed that he was constrained by present-day employment law, which he described as \"out of date\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mr Shu says the law needs to change to catch up with the modern economy\n\nIn the BBC interview, Mr Shu said the company would consider paying holiday and pension rights as well as sickness and injury benefits if the law changed.\n\nSources say that Mr Taylor's report will not name firms but will recognise that the gig economy has raised challenges for the way employment law works.\n\nUber and the courier firm CitySprint have lost court cases over whether their drivers are truly self-employed or are in fact \"workers\" who are employed largely by one firm, and therefore should receive more rights.\n\nTurning down work is often not seen as an option by riders and drivers.\n\nIt is this category which will become \"dependent contractors\" if the review's recommendations are implemented.\n\nIt could also mean gig firms are obliged to pay national insurance contributions, which they avoid at the moment.\n\nThe report goes far wider than the \"gig\" economy, and also looks at the quality of work on offer.\n\nIn an earlier interview with me, Mr Taylor said that the UK had been very good at creating a large number of jobs - which was an economic good - and that now the question was how to make those jobs of a high, and rewarding, quality.\n\nThe report will say that the quality of work and enhancing skills should be at the heart of the debate on employment in the UK.\n\nControversies such as the overuse of zero-hours contracts, for example, also have to be tackled, it will say.\n\nBut it will not back Labour's policy of banning zero-hours contracts, saying they are useful for some forms of work where demand fluctuates rapidly, such as organising conferences or in the retail sector.", "At least 80 people are believed to have died in the fire in the Kensington tower block\n\n\"In those first few days, I couldn't sleep at all. I couldn't stop thinking about the tower and I couldn't stop thinking about the people in need.\"\n\nChahine, who lives near Grenfell Tower in north Kensington, is one of a team of local volunteers working with the NHS to help residents struggling to deal with the psychological impact of the fire that killed at least 80 people.\n\nHe has been visiting people who were affected and making sure they are aware of the services available to them.\n\n\"I live in a tower too. It was like, 'that could have been me, that could have been my neighbours',\" Chahine adds.\n\n\"I think the mental health side of things is an issue that is going to last much longer than, say, the housing issue.\"\n\nChahine believes the mental health issue could have long-lasting consequences\n\nMedical evidence suggests symptoms of serious post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) often only surface four to six weeks after an incident. Three weeks on from the Grenfell Tower fire, local doctors report that many people are continuing to suffer \"acute stress\".\n\n\"We're seeing lots of patients coming in who are now obviously displaced, living in hotels and B&Bs all around - and it's starting to have an effect on them now, in terms of anxiety symptoms, not being able to sleep at night,\" says local GP Dr Oisin Bannick, who co-ordinated the first response on the morning following the fire.\n\n\"I've had patients in who wake up at night-time hearing the screaming from the building and it's very, very distressing for these patients.\"\n\nHis colleague, Dr Ahmed Kazmi, who lost 11 patients in the fire, said that while 10-30% of the population were likely to develop PTSD after any similar event, the make-up of the local population put his patients at particular risk.\n\n\"When you look at some of the factors for an event, that make PTSD more likely to arise from that, Grenfell has a lot of those factors - so, for example, man-made, involves children, lasted several hours, was unexpected - these are all features in an event that mean PTSD rates are likely to be higher.\"\n\nHe suggested practical matters, such as rehousing, can also play a vital part in the recovery process.\n\n\"Give these people suitable adequate permanent housing as soon as possible,,\" he tells BBC News. \"It's going to be really difficult to expect to get well, engage in therapy, to start to try and heal, when something as fundamental as housing is still in the air.\"\n\nThe fire in the 24-storey tower has devastated the local community and left many residents anxious and fearful\n\nIn the wake of the fire, and the recent terror attacks in London and Manchester, NHS England has sent out a letter to all GPs offering practical advice on how to help people affected by a traumatic event.\n\nPeople suffering ongoing panic attacks and flashbacks four weeks on are being advised to seek support from their doctor.\n\n\"We must remember that for those people who were affected by these horrific tragedies, the journey is not over and many will continue to face difficulties,\" said Claire Murdoch, National Clinical Director for Mental Health.\n\n\"We want everyone who has been affected to know that there is always support available and how and when they should access it. \"\n\nAnd it is not only members of the public. NHS staff who worked during recent mass casualty emergencies, including Grenfell Tower and the London Bridge terror attack, also need help dealing with the aftermath of such tragedies.\n\n\"People have been in shock up until now,\" says the Reverend Mia Hilborn, who leads the chaplaincy team at Guy's & St Thomas's NHS Foundation Trust. \"There hasn't been time to find out if people do have any mental health issues.\n\n\"We're still trying to process what happened - and to remember what happened, because your mind blanks things out.\n\n\"People's memories are beginning to come back.\"", "Theresa May's offer to give EU citizens in the UK \"settled status\" after Brexit has been described as being \"far short of what citizens are entitled to\".\n\nMEPs, including European Parliament chief Brexit negotiator Guy Verhofstadt say the proposal is a \"damp squib\".\n\nIt offers Europeans in the UK fewer rights than Britons in the EU, they say in a joint letter to newspapers.\n\nCabinet Office minister Damian Green said the \"basic rights\" of EU citizens living in the UK would be \"preserved\".\n\nHe urged Mr Verhofstadt to \"read our proposal\", which the UK government insists would allow about three million EU citizens to stay on the same basis as now.\n\nEU migrants who had lived in the UK for five years would be granted access to health, education and other benefits.\n\nBut the prime minister's proposals would be dependent on EU states guaranteeing Britons the same rights.\n\nThe leaders of the four political groups who have signed the joint letter account for two-thirds of the votes in the European Parliament.\n\nTheir letter points out that that they have the power to reject any Brexit deal before it can go ahead because the parliament must approve the withdrawal agreement.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Guy Verhofstadt says the European Parliament is unhappy with the current UK plans\n\nThe leaders said they would not endorse anything that removed rights already acquired by citizens.\n\nThey said the UK proposal \"falls short\" because it would take away rights citizens currently have, and create new red tape and uncertainty for millions of people.\n\nThe letter said this contradicted promises made by the Leave campaign that EU citizens would be treated no less favourably after Brexit.\n\nBy contrast, the letter said the EU's offer - already on the table - was simple, clear and fair because it promised that all citizens, including UK nationals living in Europe, would be treated equally and lose no current rights.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Mr Verhofstadt said EU citizens in the UK - and Britons living on the continent - should keep their current rights, rather than the government \"inventing a new status\".\n\nWhat the UK is offering EU citizens?\n\nIn full: Safeguarding the position of EU citizens\n\nWhat is the EU offering UK citizens?\n\n\"It creates a type of second class citizenship for European Citizens in the UK,\" he added. \"We don't see why their rights should be diminished and that would be the case in the proposal.\n\n\"In the end, it is the European Parliament that will say yes or no, and I can tell you it not will be a yes if the rights of European citizens - and also the rights of UK citizens living on the continent - will be diminished [and] cut off, like it is at the moment.\"\n\nGuy Verhofstadt says the EU's offer - already on the table - is simple, clear and fair\n\nThe letter stated: \"The European Parliament will reserve its right to reject any agreement that treats EU citizens, regardless of their nationality, less favourably than they are at present.\n\n\"This is a question of the basic fundamental rights and values that are at the heart of the European project.\"\n\nIt added: \"In early 2019, MEPs will have a final say on the Brexit deal. We will work closely with the EU negotiator and the 27 member states to help steer negotiations.\"\n\nA spokesperson for the UK government said the letter contained a \"number of inaccuracies\" which could cause unnecessary and needless concern to UK and EU citizens.\n\nMr Green, who as first secretary of state is a close ally of Theresa May's, told BBC Radio 4's Today that it was clear that EU citizens would have to comply with \"basic\" immigration rules after the UK leaves the EU to establish their identity and nationality.\n\nBut he insisted: \"That is not an insuperable barrier. We all fill in forms when we go on holiday and have to get visas and all that.\"\n\nHe suggested the UK was doing \"precisely\" what the EU was calling for.\n\n\"Somebody who is here now will keep the rights they already have and we hope that British citizens living in other EU countries will keep the rights they already have...the basic rights will be preserved so that should not be an obstacle to a final deal.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. David Lidington MP: \"Too much sun and warm Prosecco leads to gossipy stories in the media\"\n\nJustice Secretary David Lidington has dismissed speculation about Theresa May's future as the product of \"too much sun and too much warm Prosecco\".\n\nHe said summer drinks parties produced \"gossipy stories\" and the public wanted the PM to get on with her job.\n\nStories have suggested the PM is under pressure to name a departure date after losing her Commons majority.\n\nThere are also reports Tory MPs are unhappy with the deal Mrs May did with the DUP to prop up her government.\n\nMr Lidington, who was promoted to the job of justice secretary by Mrs May in her post-election reshuffle, described stories about Mrs May's leadership as \"gossip\".\n\nHe told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show: \"I have been in Parliament 25 years and almost every July a combination of too much sun and too much warm Prosecco leads to gossipy stories in the media.\n\n\"But the key thing is this - the public's had an election and I think they want politicians to go away and deal with the real problems this country is facing\".\n\nFormer Conservative chief whip Andrew Mitchell has, meanwhile, sought to play down comments about Mrs May, reported in the Mail on Sunday.\n\nHe reportedly told a private dinner for Tory MPs that Mrs May was dead in the water and should go.\n\nA Conservative MP present at the gathering told the paper: \"He said she was weak, had lost her authority, couldn't go on and we needed a new leader.\n\n\"Some of us were very surprised and disagreed with him.\"\n\nMr Mitchell, who was described as a key ally of Brexit Secretary David Davis, one of those being tipped as a future Tory leader, said the Mail story was \"an overheated report of a private dinner conversation\".\n\nMr Mitchell is alleged to have made the comments at a dinner on 26 June, the day Mrs May struck a deal with the DUP to prop up her minority government.\n\nHe did not mention Mr Davis in his comments at the One Nation Commons dining club of Tory MPs, of which he is the secretary, the newspaper added.", "Labour's \"ambition\" is to write off all student debt, which would cost £100bn, shadow education secretary Angela Rayner has said.\n\nThe Labour MP said it was a \"huge amount\" and the party would not commit to doing it \"unless we can afford to\".\n\nThe Conservatives said it was a \"shambolic\" proposal, which Labour had no idea how to fund and would lead to higher taxes.\n\nLabour has pledged to scrap university tuition fees if it wins power.\n\nBut leader Jeremy Corbyn went further in an interview with the NME during the election campaign, suggesting existing debts could be wiped.\n\nHe told the music magazine: \"There is a block of those that currently have a massive debt, and I'm looking at ways that we could reduce that, ameliorate that, lengthen the period of paying it off, or some other means of reducing that debt burden.\n\n\"I don't see why those that had the historical misfortune to be at university during the £9,000 period should be burdened excessively compared to those that went before or those that come after. I will deal with it.\"\n\nThe Greens were the only party at the general election to include a commitment to wipe all student debt in their manifesto.\n\nQuizzed by the BBC's Andrew Marr on how much it would cost, Ms Rayner said: \"It is a huge amount, it is £100bn, which they estimate at the moment, which will increase.\n\n\"It's a huge amount of money but we also know a third of that is never repaid.\"\n\nLord Adonis has called for tuition fees to be scrapped\n\nMs Rayner said Mr Corbyn had said it was an \"ambition\", but she added \"we will not announce that we're doing it unless we can afford to do that\".\n\nShe added: \"I like a challenge, Andrew, but we've got to start dealing with this debt crisis that we're foisting on our young people. It's not acceptable.\n\n\"They are leaving university with £57,000 worth of debt, it's completely unsustainable and we've got to start tackling that.\"\n\nLast month, the Student Loan Company said that outstanding debt on student loans had increased by 16.6% to £100.5bn at the end of March.\n\nOnly about a third of the students who have taken out £9,000-a-year loans are expected to pay them back fully, meaning the government will have to pick up part of the bill.\n\nLord Adonis, who came up with the student fees policy as Tony Blair's policy director, has called for them to be scrapped or vastly reduced, saying in an article for the Guardian that he had never meant to create a \"Frankenstein's monster of £50,000-plus debts for graduates on modest salaries\".\n\nHe blamed \"greedy\" university vice-chancellors, who successfully lobbied the coalition government to increase the £3,000 cap on fees to £9,000.\n\nConservative First Secretary of State Damian Green, who is effectively Theresa May's second-in-command, has called for a \"national conversation\" on tuition fees, to consider whether they should be paid out of taxes.\n\nAngela Rayner has previously called on the government to reverse the abolition of student maintenance grants to help the most disadvantaged students.\n\nShe also wants to reduce the interest rate that students have to pay on their loans, which has gone up to 6.1%.\n\nAsked by Andrew Marr if fewer working class youngsters were getting into university education as a result of tuition fees, she said: \"I don't believe that that's the case actually, but I do believe that many working class and part-time and older mature students are actually leaving university.\"\n\nConservative MP Luke Hall said Ms Rayner's comments contradicted Mr Corbyn's claim that fewer people from disadvantaged backgrounds were going to university.\n\nHe said: \"The truth is that the number of people going to university from disadvantaged backgrounds has never been higher.\n\n\"Now Labour are making shambolic promises to spend £100bn extra, without any idea of how to fund it, that could only be paid for through higher taxes on families.\n\n\"This government is committed to making sure that everybody has the chance to go to university no matter their background, so that we can build a country that works for everyone.\"", "The 4th Viscount St Davids, Rhodri Philipps, is accused of online threats against the anti-Brexit campaigner, Gina Miller\n\nBusinesswoman Gina Miller has said she felt \"violated\" after an aristocrat wrote a Facebook post offering a bounty for her to be run over.\n\nRhodri Colwyn Philipps, 50, the 4th Viscount St Davids, wrote the message four days after Ms Miller won a Brexit legal challenge against the government in November of last year.\n\nHe told Westminster Magistrates' Court the posts were not \"menacing\".\n\nLord St Davids, of Knightsbridge, London, wrote on the social media site on 7 November 2016: \"£5,000 for the first person to 'accidentally' run over this bloody troublesome first generation immigrant.\"\n\nHe described her as a \"boat jumper\" and added: \"If this is what we should expect from immigrants, send them back to their stinking jungles.\"\n\nMs Miller, 52, said she felt \"violated\" by his \"shocking\" comments about her.\n\nAsked by the prosecution why he had used the term \"immigrant\", Lord St Davids told the court: \"She's not part of the furniture\" adding, \"She's been here less than a generation.\"\n\nThe viscount also posted two messages referring to immigrants as \"monkeys\".\n\nIn one post, not directed at Ms Miller, he said: \"Please will someone smoke this ghastly insult to this country, why should I pay tax to feed these monkeys?\"\n\nMs Miller led the successful legal challenge which, on 3 November, ruled the government had to consult Parliament before formally beginning the Brexit process.\n\nMs Miller - who was born in Guyana - told the court she had been the subject of death threats since her role in the Article 50 case.\n\nIn a statement read to the court, she said she was \"very scared for the safety of herself and her family\".\n\n\"In addition to finding it offensive, racist and hateful, she was extremely concerned that someone would threaten to have her run over for a bounty,\" prosecutor Philip Stott said.\n\n\"She took the threat seriously, and it contributed to her employing professional security for her protection.\"\n\nLord St Davids, who was defending himself, accepted writing the posts but told the court they were not publicly visible or menacing.\n\n\"If you're in the public eye, people are going to say nasty things about you. It's the rough and tumble of public life,\" he said.\n\nHe insisted he is not racist and told the court: \"I know a number of Muslims who are dear friends.\n\n\"My own mother is an immigrant from the very same continent (as Ms Miller).\"\n\nThe case was adjourned until Tuesday afternoon when a verdict is expected.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA huge blaze broke out overnight at Camden Lock Market in north London.\n\nSeventy firefighters and 10 fire engines were sent to the site, which is a popular tourist attraction, London Fire Brigade (LFB) said.\n\nA fire officer at the scene said the fire began in a building containing a number of businesses.\n\nIt affected a small section of the area and many stalls and shops were \"operating and welcoming visitors and customers as usual\", the market said.\n\nLondon Ambulance Service was called in, but confirmed it had not treated any patients.\n\nMajor fires have hit the sprawling market area twice before in recent years, in 2008 and 2014.\n\nLFB said the first, second and third floors and the roof of the building had been damaged.\n\n\"Crews worked hard to get the fire under control and to stop it from spreading to neighbouring buildings,\" station manager David Reid said.\n\nBBC Radio London reporter Barry Caffrey said he had been told by a fire officer at the scene the blaze had begun in a building with an Honest Burger restaurant on the ground floor.\n\nLFB took 37 emergency calls about the fire\n\nThe fire spread across several floors of the building\n\nDeana Irwin, who lives next to the market, saw flames blazing \"about 5m high from the top of the building\".\n\nWitness Joan Ribes, 24, said: \"I was just passing by when I saw the fire and they started to get firefighters and police, it was all very fast.\n\n\"We called the police to close the street to the traffic because it was very dangerous, the fire was flying through the air to the surrounding areas.\"\n\nFire officers said the fire began in a building where Honest Burger is based\n\nThe market, which has been based in the area since 1974, has more than 1,000 stalls and shops.\n\nDeicola and Leora Neves, who own Camden Guitars which is based in the burnt building, said their shop had been destroyed and \"everything has gone\".\n\n\"This is where we started and we're really feeling the loss of that,\" Ms Neves said.\n\nMarket worker Kareem Khodeir said he believed about 100 traders would have been affected by the blaze and some would be \"finished\" as a result.\n\n\"There were 30-35 permanent stalls in the building who have completely lost everything while those who trade outside also store their stock in there.\n\n\"It most likely will destroy a few businesses completely,\" he said.\n\nAlex Proud, founder of the Proud Galleries in Camden, said the fire brigade had \"turned up incredibly quickly and stopped what could have been a really substantial fire which could have wiped out the market\".\n\n\"These are old buildings, they go back to the 1840s,\" he added.\n\nHe said only about 5-10% of the market had been damaged and \"75% of the market is now open\".\n\nDamping down has been continuing at the scene, the fire brigade said\n\nIt's a tourist hotspot that attracts millions and an area of the capital with rich rock 'n' roll history.\n\nBut Camden Lock Market is also the livelihood of many small businesses and a stone's throw from local residents who had to watch as the fire took hold.\n\nNestled next to Regent's Canal and beside Camden's railway bridge, visitors have vast quantities of shops to explore and cuisine to sample.\n\nNow the Market Hall - a four storey building filled with independent traders who often make their own products - looks badly burnt, with broken windows and a strong smell of smoke surrounding it.\n\n\"The hard work and aggressive action of the fire crews ensured it didn't spread to the nearby buildings,\" said London Fire Brigade station manager Andrew Walton.\n\nOzgur Kaya works on a jewellery stall in the building.\n\n\"Some of the traders have lost everything,\" he said. \"They are so upset. We are all here to be there for them.\"\n\nSam Row, who runs a vintage camera stall in the shadow of the building, only discovered the news when he came to work first thing.\n\n\"All my kit is in there,\" he said. \"I don't know if it is safe, if it has been damaged by fire or water. It's very worrying for us.\"\n\nCrews battled to stop the fire spreading in the tight alleyways around Camden Market\n\nThe ambulance service said it sent a clinical team leader and a Hazardous Area Response Team.\n\nAt about 03:00 the LFB said the blaze was \"now under control but crews will be damping down into the morning\".\n\nIn a statement, the brigade said: \"Four fire engines and around 20 firefighters will remain at the scene on Monday.\"\n\nThe cause of the blaze is unknown.\n\nThe market has over 1,000 shops and stalls\n\nOn 8 February 2008, the famous celebrity haunt The Hawley Arms was severely damaged in a blaze, along with six shops and 90 market stalls.\n\nIn 2014, some 600 people fled a blaze in the Stables Market.\n\nThe market, located in the former Pickfords stables and Grade II-listed horse hospital, burned for two hours on the evening of 20 May.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Wayne Rooney's return to Everton after 13 years lends a certain romance to a record-breaking career. Here, through the eyes of Bob Pendleton - the former Everton scout who discovered him, we learn about the buzz, the tears and die-hard Goodison roots which go hand in hand with Rooney's rise and return.\n\nI first saw Wayne Rooney playing on the Jeffrey Humble pitches on Long Lane, Walton. He was nine, and clearly lived for scoring goals. I didn't think then that this shy young man would become England's greatest goalscorer, but within two years I was absolutely certain it was going to happen.\n\nRooney's name was a talking point around the dozen or so pitches where Liverpool's Walton and Kirkdale Sunday League was played.\n\nI was there every week for more than 35 years, volunteering in all sorts of roles. On one particular Sunday, I had to amble over to get £4.50 in fees from Copplehouse Boys, who Wayne was playing for at under-11s - two years early.\n\nHe lashed a goal in from 20 yards and dribbled for fun, normally passing the ball into the net when he had chances. You could see the satisfaction he got from hitting the net - it poured from him again and again. So small yet so strong, he'd demand the ball back if he ever needed to pass it.\n\nI looked at his manager \"Big Nev\" and his reply was laced with a smile and hard luck. \"Give over, Bob. If you take him to Everton he will be at the academy and won't be able to play for us. I've only just signed him.\"\n\nI've followed Everton since 1948 week in, week out, and ended up scouting for the club. Of all those years, this day would be one of the most important.\n\nA chat with Wayne's parents - Wayne Sr and Jeanette - revealed, to my relief, they were Evertonians. His dad had great humour and, naturally, was elated. We agreed young Wayne would come into Bellefield - Everton's training ground then - on the Thursday. A smooth deal then? Not quite.\n\nWayne had already been in to train with Liverpool, and for whatever reason it hadn't worked. But the buzz had grown and I heard they were going to try and speak to him on the Tuesday, two days before his visit to Everton.\n\nSo we moved the Bellefield trip forward 48 hours. I believe Liverpool were waiting to speak to him when they were told exactly where he was.\n\nYou can take kids to Bellefield and they go stiff with nerves. These are big places after all. Not Wayne, he was unmoved. He was picking up stray balls and slamming them into the net when we went in.\n\nI spoke to Ray Hall - who was in charge of the club's youth set-up for many, many years - and said: \"You have to sign him.\"\n\nRay wondered if they should take a better look - which is normally what happened - and was curious as to why I was so worked up. I, of course, was fearful Liverpool would try again and I was so determined to get this done.\n\nJoe Royle, manager at the time, was called into the office. I can see it now. Wayne, again unmoved, was sliding down his chair almost under the table.\n\n\"Sit up straight,\" muttered his dad, who was thrilled to speak to Joe.\n\nAll credit to Ray for trusting me. Yet in that office, on that key night, Wayne was the same as he always was at that age. Shy, and distracted by anything shaped like a ball. But, let's be clear, that shyness evaporated when he walked onto any pitch.\n\nThe young man took to Everton rapidly. There were a few who thought he wasn't listening when instructions were being given, as he'd be kicking the ball in the air and all sorts, but then he'd go out and do what was being asked, so he soon showed them.\n\nQuite early on he scored an overhead kick past a young Manchester United side with Kasper Schmeichel in goal. It's still talked about to this day - apparently every parent there clapped. These stories were relayed to me at the time and I'd just be made up for his parents. By 11-12 he was flying, that touch of something special just came with him, and when he hit one, it would just whistle.\n\nI'm told when Walter Smith became manager he was made aware of this jewel Everton had in the youth set-up. He asked to see him in a game so one was organised and Wayne did the business.\n\nYears later, we were at White Hart Lane in the Youth Cup and he whacked one in from range. Glenn Hoddle and David Pleat turned to the Everton delegation with a look that said, \"where did you get him from?\"\n\nIn his teenage years I'd sometimes wait outside Goodison for him with a couple of complimentary tickets. He'd often be late because of his footballing duties and I'd end up missing the first 10 minutes. \"You play today?\" I'd ask. Shy again, he'd reply: \"Yes.\" \"Did you score?\" Regularly he'd come back with: \"Six.\" And, tickets in hand, he'd be off in a flash.\n\nWord had spread through the city about him. But there was one way to keep him in line. He worshipped the club's former player and manager Colin Harvey. If he wasn't listening, someone would just say: \"Right, I'll tell Colin Harvey then.\" Time and again, Wayne would move instantly.\n\nWhen his professional terms came at 16, I was so happy for him. I took Tony Hibbert to Everton when he was a kid too, and that satisfaction you get is wonderful.\n\nI loved walking through West Derby Village from my house and hearing people talking about them. You'd always get the odd one saying Wayne wouldn't make it but I'd just say: \"As long as he earns a living and puts food on the table for the family, that's all I'm concerned about.\"\n\n'We were crying our eyes out'\n\nThen, in October 2002, came the Arsenal game - with Everton heading for a draw against a side that hadn't lost in 30 games.\n\nAll of my family are season ticket holders and I had my son Robert next to me, with my wife and girls several rows in front.\n\nIn the last minute the ball dropped to Wayne, still only 16, and I said to Robert: \"He'll hit this.\" Dear me. Robert's glasses were hanging off his face as we all went berserk when it hit the net.\n\nI just recall being stunned at what he'd done.\n\nAll my family met by one of the exits and as I walked down I could see my daughters' eyes filling up. I'm an emotional man and we all just cried our eyes out. It was an incredible feeling.\n\nWayne's mum popped around the corner too and her face said it all, she was overjoyed. Needless to say, the whole pub wanted to speak to me after the game.\n\nWithin six months of scoring against Arsenal, he was playing for England. It all happened so fast.\n\nWhen he moved to Manchester United, I told a reporter I was looking forward to the day he would captain them and England. I was certain.\n\nFrom a young age I just thought he was a leader. Yes, he was shy, but he could just change things on the pitch, showing who was boss. Wayne was always someone you wanted by your side on and off the pitch, and I think that comes down to his family.\n\nWhenever there has been an engagement party or christening, we tend to get an invite. They've not forgotten and it's nice of them.\n\nWe were invited to his 18th birthday party in Aintree. You could see how big a deal he was because, from behind a security fence which was bigger than most houses, there were flashing camera lights going off repeatedly. Not that Wayne minded, he was up doing karaoke and his friends were all loving it. 'The white Pele' some of them called him.\n\nAnd his career has just gone on and on. Seeing him run out for England is always a joy, and when he scores for his country I'll often nod at the TV and say \"well done, mate\", safe in the knowledge I can walk through the village and give some stick to any pals who have said he's not been playing well.\n\nI still get people telling me about the next big thing. \"He's going to be better than Rooney,\" they say. And so it goes. My word he has had some career.\n\nAnd now he's home. Some people may not realise that Wayne's family are not Everton 'fans', they are true die-hards.\n\nFor a good while now I've thought he would come back, as while there were always going to be other options, I felt a return would always be number one.\n\nKnowing what Everton means to him, even with all he has achieved, I don't believe he will ever have a feeling in football like scoring that goal for his beloved club against Arsenal.\n\nThere are those who bring up the fact he joined United, but at that time the deal suited all parties. Each to your own but it's hard to be critical of a young man who went away and won all that he has. Looking at those trophies must be lovely for him.\n\nI believe Evertonians should be braced for a period of real enjoyment with him back. I think of the young players at the club who may see him poke his head around the corner and grow as a result. He can be to them what Colin Harvey was to him.\n\nOn the field, he has so much to give. Last season at United I felt he was doing so much work at times to free some of those around him.\n\nThis will be my 70th season of going to Goodison and I can't wait to hear his name sung again.\n\nA scout once asked me if I was enjoying the fact Wayne had done so well. I said \"yes\", and he replied: \"Make sure you do because you won't find another like that.\"\n\nThat is as true a statement as there is.", "The co-founder of a Silicon Valley investment firm said it is \"not my job to make you all feel good\" in a long email to staff and investors.\n\nJonathan Teo from Binary Capital was responding to negative press coverage about the firm following allegations of sexual harassment by his co-founder Justin Caldbeck.\n\nHe added that he was \"tired and indignant\", and raged against \"whiners\" who demanded his attention.\n\nMr Teo has already offered to resign.\n\nHe did so after Mr Caldbeck left the firm in June.\n\n\"I'm incredibly sorry,\" Mr Caldbeck tweeted when the news broke last month.\n\nMr Caldbeck's actions were one of several sexism scandals to rock Silicon Valley in recent months.\n\nThey include a damning report into the work culture inside ride-hailing firm Uber, and the resignation of venture capitalist Dave McClure, who admitted \"inexcusable behaviour\" towards \"multiple women\".\n\nJustin Caldbeck said he was \"incredibly sorry\" over harassment claims\n\nNo allegations have been made against Jonathan Teo, who said he had offered to step down in order to \"quell a news cycle\".\n\nHe blamed leaks to a \"corrupted\" media about investors feeling nervous about his firm and claimed his resignation offer had not yet been accepted.\n\nMr Teo also said he was \"angry that women had felt hurt\", but described a suggestion by one of the firm's portfolio companies that the next partner should be a woman as \"moronic\".\n\n\"We must choose the best person, male or female,\" he wrote in the email, which the BBC has confirmed to be genuine.\n\n\"Talent is universal if we only choose to recognize it. Anything else is again grandstanding for a personal agenda.\"\n\nMr Teo also added that reports suggesting investors were trying to buy back shares were untrue, and said that it was \"dishonourable\" for an entrepreneur to back away \"at the first sign of trouble\".\n\nOnly one firm has so far announced its intention to pull away from Binary Capital.\n\n\"As for the people here that whine that they aren't taken care of, who have not to worry about their lives being taken from them or their basic needs met, who owes them more than the voice they already have access to?\" he wrote.\n\nThe email was first published by the website Axios.\n\nJournalist Erin Griffith described the email as \"unapologetic\" on the Fortune website.\n\n\"It is angry and, in parts, barely coherent,\" she said.\n\nSilicon Valley entrepreneur and journalist Mike Malone said the email was \"a Jerry Maguire moment\" for Mr Teo.\n\n\"He's having a very bad day,\" he said.\n\n\"He says he'll resign, then turns around and says it's not his fault at all, that everyone is conspiring against him including the media.\n\n\"If you were teaching PR 101 this guy has just done everything possible wrong. He has insulted clients, he has insulted investors, he has insulted employees and he has insulted the media.\n\n\"This is a venture capital fund and venture capitalists live and die by the amount of money they can raise for their next fund.\"\n\nJonathan Teo told the BBC he didn't want to comment at this time.", "Teachers have faced a pay cap for seven years - with pay falling behind inflation\n\nTeachers' pay in England and Wales will have to stay within austerity pay limits - with another year of increases restricted to 1%.\n\nIt will mean another real-terms pay cut for more than 500,000 teachers in England and Wales.\n\nThe pay review body - which was obliged to keep pay rises to 1% - has expressed its concern.\n\nThe cap on pay, initially of 0% and then 1%, has been in place since 2010, as part of austerity measures.\n\nThe National Union of Teachers says that successive years of below-inflation pay deals has seen teachers' pay fall in real terms by 13%.\n\nHead teachers' leader Geoff Barton accused ministers of \"playing fast and loose with children's education\".\n\n\"Teachers are facing a seventh year of real-terms pay cuts at a time when we are in a full-blown recruitment crisis,\" said Mr Barton, leader of the ASCL head teachers' union.\n\nThe Department for Education said that it was striking a balance between being fair to teachers and to taxpayers.\n\nThe decision over teachers' pay will be seen as sending a signal over pay for more than five million public sector workers.\n\nIn the wake of the general election, there were reports of debates within the Cabinet about whether to ease the constraints on public sector pay and try to reverse wage stagnation.\n\nThe School Teachers' Review Body is an independent pay body that provides recommendations to ministers about the pay of more than 500,000 teachers in England and Wales.\n\nBut for the past seven years decisions have been determined by the government's limit on public sector pay.\n\nThe review body made its recommendation in line with the limits on public sector pay, but warned ministers of potential problems of teacher shortages and funding pressures.\n\nThe pay review body said there was a \"real risk that schools will not be able to recruit and retain a workforce of high quality teachers to support pupil achievement\".\n\nThere is also a warning that schools are \"working under increasing financial constraints\".\n\n\"Between now and 2020, many schools will face both real-terms reductions in the level of per-pupil funding and growing cost pressures. Difficult choices may be inescapable,\" says the pay body.\n\nThe pay limit was part of the government's efforts to reduce the budget deficit following the financial crash.\n\nRussell Hobby, leader of the National Association of Head Teachers, said the outcome was \"deeply disappointing\".\n\nHe criticised that the pay review body \"had its hands tied\" and could not recommend a pay award \"based on the evidence\".\n\nKevin Courtney, leader of the National Union of Teachers, said that after successive years with pay falling behind inflation that some teachers were \"finding life very difficult\".\n\n\"The public sector needs a pay rise,\" said Mr Courtney.\n\nJames Westhead, executive director of Teach First, said that \"recruiting teachers is becoming more and more challenging. We need to ensure teaching is fairly rewarded\".\n\nLabour's shadow education secretary Angela Rayner said the government needed to clarify how schools would pay for the increase - or whether it would be \"squeezed\" from budgets that were already under pressure.\n\n\"There are now more questions than answers about their education policy, and schools urgently need some certainty,\" said Ms Rayner.\n\nLayla Moran, the Liberal Democrat education spokeswoman, said: \"Giving teachers another below inflation pay-rise is frankly an insult to these incredibly hard working and dedicated professionals.\"\n\nA Department of Education spokeswoman said: \"We recognise and value the hard work of teachers which is why we have accepted the pay deal proposed by the independent School Teachers' Review Body, in line with the 1% public sector pay policy.\n\n\"This will ensure we continue to strike the balance between being fair to public sector workers and fair to taxpayers.\"", "There were 31,467 cancers diagnosed in Scotland in 2015\n\nA cancer diagnosis is one of the most common life-changing events in Scottish life, with more cases than marriages or first births, the latest figures show.\n\nMacmillan Cancer Support said there were 31,467 cancers diagnosed in 2015 compared with 29,691 marriages and 23,695 first births.\n\nCancer was also named as the disease people in Scotland most feared, ahead of conditions such as Alzheimer's.\n\nThe research is part of a campaign to remove the fear of a cancer diagnosis.\n\nThe figures showed that - excluding non-melanoma skin cancer - there were just over 1,700 more new cases of cancer each year in Scotland than new marriages or 8,000 more cases than women having a child for the first time.\n\nThe number of people with cancer in Scotland has risen by 18% in five years, according to Macmillan.\n\nAcross the UK, Cancer Research UK says there has been a 12% rise since the 1990s, with rates among woman up by 16% and 4% for men.\n\nMacmillan said as well as trying to remove the fear of a cancer diagnosis, its Life With Cancer campaign aimed to highlight the support available to people with the disease.\n\nOf the Scots asked, 41% said they feared getting cancer over any other disease, while one in eight said cancer was scarier than terrorism or losing a loved one.\n\nTrisha Hatt, Macmillan's partnership manager in Scotland, said: \"This research highlights that for many people, cancer will be a fact of life.\n\n\"Survival rates from the illness are increasing, and even those with incurable cancer often live for many years.\n\n\"This report is about highlighting what life with cancer really looks like for a lot of people - looking after their children, seeing friends and even going to work.\n\n\"Most people say they want to keep life as normal as possible after treatment. That's why it's vital they get the support they need to deal with the emotional, practical and financial problems cancer can cause.\"\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. Water cascades down the steps of Porte de Pantin station (Video by Tiphanie Moreau)\n\nA two-hour storm unleashed 54mm (2.1in) of rain on Sunday night in Paris, the equivalent of 27 days of rainfall.\n\nWeather services say 49.2mm fell in one hour, the French capital's heaviest July deluge on record.\n\nFlooding closed 20 metro stations and three were still shut as commuters made their way to work on Monday morning.\n\nParts of Switzerland were hit by violent winds and hail storms that also caused flooding at the weekend.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Flooding on the Boulevard Haussmann in Paris on Monday (Video by Jordi Bonabosch)\n\nHeavy rain began in Paris at 21:00 (19:00 GMT) on Sunday night and Méteo France said the amount that fell was higher than the previous record of 47.4mm set on 2 July 1995. Rain continued to fall heavily on Monday in Paris.\n\nSome areas of the west and around Paris had seen more than a month's average rainfall between Sunday afternoon and 08:00 on Monday, it said.\n\nWhile Montsouris park on the southern edge of central Paris recorded 68mm in 24 hours, the western French village of Civray saw 86mm.\n\nForecaster Patrick Galois said that radar images suggested the central-western regions of Poitou, Berry and the northern Limousin could easily top 100mm in a matter of hours. A dozen storm alerts were in force on Monday as the weather front moved east.\n\nHeavy rain continued to lash Paris as firefighters rehearsed for Friday's Bastille Day military parade\n\nThe Paris fire brigade recorded 1,700 emergency calls and responded to 87 incidents, including one in the basement of the culture ministry.\n\nThe flooding brought back memories from June 2016, when staff at the Louvre and Orsay museums moved priceless artworks to safety as the river levels on the Seine reached their highest for over 30 years and emergency barriers were raised.", "About 18 million people visit the Lake District each year\n\nThe Lake District has joined the likes of the Grand Canyon, the Taj Mahal and Machu Picchu by being awarded Unesco World Heritage status.\n\nThe national park was one of 33 sites around the world to be discussed by the Unesco committee in Krakow, Poland.\n\nThe committee praised the area's beauty, farming and the inspiration it had provided to artists and writers.\n\nIt is the 31st place in the UK and overseas territories to be put on the Unesco World Heritage List.\n\nThe committee suggested the impact of tourism be monitored and requested improvements in conservation efforts.\n\nThe delegates heard the 885 sq-mile (2,292 sq km) Lake District had been trying to obtain the Unesco status since 1986.\n\nLord Clark of Windermere, chairman of the Lake District National Park Partnership which put together the bid, described the decision as \"momentous\".\n\n\"A great many people have come together to make this happen and we believe the decision will have long and lasting benefits for the spectacular Lake District landscape, the visitors we welcome every year and for the people who call the National Park their home,\" he added.\n\nSteve Ratcliffe, director of sustainable development at the Lake District National Park, said the application had been a \"long time in the making\" and he was \"incredibly proud\" of the landscape which has been shaped by nature, farming and industry.\n\nHe told the committee: \"The Lake District now becomes an international and global property and we look forward to working with you and our communities to make sure this site inspires future generations around the world.\"\n\nSteve Ratcliffe said it \"has taken millennia to become the evolving masterpiece it is today\"\n\nAbout 18 million people visit the Lake District each year, spending a total of £1.2bn and providing about 18,000 jobs.\n\nIt is home to England's largest natural lake - Windermere - and highest mountain - Scafell Pike.\n\nThe Lake District has inspired artists and writers\n\nNigel Wilkinson, managing director of Windermere Lake Cruises, said he was hopeful the Unesco status would put the Lakes on an international level.\n\n\"What we really hope is it will act as an economic driver and will grow the value, not the volume, of tourism by giving people more... reasons to make day visits and sustained visits.\"\n\nHarriet Fraser, a writer and patron of Friends of the Lake District, said: \"It's the most beautiful district but it has a very deep culture which is largely hill farming but also conservation.\"\n\nOther UK Unesco sites include Stonehenge, Durham Castle and Cathedral, and the city of Bath.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ministers are seeking to make it harder for UK holidaymakers to make bogus food poisoning claims.\n\nTravel industry bosses and Spanish hotels have complained of a huge rise in false insurance claims.\n\nThey warned that heavy payouts could lead to British tourists paying higher package holiday prices and being barred from some resorts.\n\nThe government said it would reduce the cash incentives of bringing such cases against holiday firms.\n\nJustice Secretary David Lidington said it wanted to limit the legal costs that travel firms had to pay out for the claims.\n\n\"Our message to those who make false holiday sickness claims is clear - your actions are damaging and will not be tolerated,\" Mr Lidington said.\n\nThe problem recently led Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson to observe British digestive systems \"had become the most delicate in the world\".\n\nTravel trade body Abta said it \"strongly welcomed\" the government move.\n\nThe escalating problem of claims, according to one UK travel company boss, risked making British tourists the laughing stock of Europe.\n\nThat's because thousands of French, German, Danish etc holidaymakers staying in the same hotels and dining in the same restaurants as British tourists, didn't get as sick and as often as UK visitors.\n\nThe dilemma for hotels and restaurants is the cost of challenging these claims in the courts is so high yet the sums involved are relatively modest.\n\nSo most hotels and their insurance firms simply pay out. That ends up with higher premiums for everyone else.\n\nThis move to clamp down on bogus claims by the government could - in theory - save us all some money.\n\nUK holidaymakers who are found guilty of making a fraudulent claim face up to three years in jail, the Ministry of Justice said.\n\nIt added that the travel industry estimated holiday sickness claims had increased by 500% since 2013 - a rise not seen in other countries.\n\nThe government is closing a loophole that means legal costs are not currently capped on claims for foreign holidays.\n\nThose with genuine claims will still be able to sue for damages, it said.\n\nMark Tanzer, chief executive of Abta, said: \"These claims are tarnishing British holidaymakers' reputation abroad, particularly in Spain where they are costing hoteliers millions of pounds.\"\n\nHe welcomed efforts to stop firms from \"unduly profiting from false claims\", but called on the government to also increase transparency between claims firms and solicitors.\n\nLast month, Tui's UK managing director Nick Longman and Thomas Cook UK's managing director Chris Mottershead both warned that if the problem continued, it could spell the end of the all-inclusive holiday for UK travellers.\n\nMr Mottershead said: \"It has the potential of putting hoteliers out of business. They will stop British customers coming into their hotels.\"\n\nA British citizen was arrested in Majorca in June for encouraging holidaymakers to submit bogus claims for food poisoning against the hotel where they were staying.\n\nIt followed an undercover operation by the hotel chain which had been subjected to a spike in claims from UK tourists.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Theresa May said it was important to have a \"flexible\" approach that didn't \"exploit workers\"\n\nAll work in the UK's economy should be \"fair and decent\", a government review of employment practices has said.\n\nThe report by former aide to Tony Blair, Matthew Taylor, pays particular attention to the gig economy.\n\nIt recommends that workers for firms such as Uber and Deliveroo should be classified as dependent contractors, with extra benefits.\n\nThe Prime Minister said the government would take the report's recommendations seriously.\n\nMr Taylor said there was a perception that the gig economy put too much power into the hand of employers: \"Of all the issues that were raised with us as we went around the country, the one that came through most strongly was what the report calls one-sided flexibility.\n\n\"One-sided flexibility is where employers seek to transfer all risk onto the shoulder of workers in ways that make people more insecure and makes their lives harder to manage. It's the people told to be ready for work or travelling to work, only to be told none is available.\"\n• People who work for platform-based companies, such as Deliveroo and Uber, be classed as dependent contractors\n• Strategies must be put in place to make sure that workers do not get stuck on the National Living Wage\n• The review suggests a national strategy to provide good work for all \"for which government needs to be held accountable\"\n• The government should avoid further increasing the the non-wage costs of employing a person, such as the apprenticeship levy\n\nA spokesperson for the meal delivery service Deliveroo, one of the companies at the heart of the gig-economy debate, said: \"We would welcome the opportunity to work with the government so we can end this trade off between flexibility and security.\"\n\nMr Taylor's report did not attack the gig economy. It said that flexibility in the workplace was important and had contributed to record high employment.\n\nHe pointed to the official Labour Force Survey of March this year, which found that 68% of those on zero hours contracts did not want more hours.\n\nHowever, he said too many employers and businesses were relying on zero hours, short-hours or agency contracts, when they could be more forward thinking in their scheduling.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nEarlier, Mr Taylor had told the BBC: \"There are too many people at work who are treated like cogs in a machine rather than being human beings, and there are too many people who don't see a route from their current job to progress and earn more and do better.\"\n\nBut he said working platform providers such as Uber had to demonstrate that workers signing on for hours of work would \"easily clear\" the minimum wage.\n\nAndrew Byrne, head of policy at Uber, said that the average driver took well over the National Living Wage.\n\nHe also said Uber \"would welcome greater clarity in the law over different types of employment status\".\n\nMr Taylor also suggested that cash payments should be phased-out.\n\nHe said cash jobs such as window cleaning and decorating were worth up to £6bn a year and many were untaxed - something Mr Taylor says should be addressed.\n\nMr Taylor said he did not want to ban cash payments outright, but hoped, over time, the increasing popularity of transaction platforms such as PayPal and Worldpay would see a shift from cash-in-hand work.\n\n\"In a few years time as we move to a more cashless economy, self employed people would be paid cashlessly - like your window cleaner. At the same time they can pay taxes and save for their pension,\" he said.\n\n\"Most people who do pay for self-employed labour would like to know that that person is paying their taxes.\"\n\nHowever, Labour's shadow business secretary Rebecca Long-Bailey said the review did not go far enough for the 4.5 million people in insecure work.\n\nShe told the BBC: \"If it looks like a job or it smells like a job then it is a job, and the worker should be employed, and I think in those situations where a worker is carrying out work on behalf of an employer... they should not be exploited as a flexible workers.\"\n\nTrade unions also said Mr Taylor had not tackled many of the issues facing workers.\n\nTUC general secretary Frances O'Grady said: \"From what we've seen, this review is not the game-changer needed to end insecurity and exploitation at work.\"", "These text messages were sent on 3 June\n\nA watchdog has revealed it is investigating a premium-rate texting campaign, following complaints from recipients that they have been charged fees even though many believe they never opted into the service.\n\nOne expert claimed the messages look like spam, which could cause phone owners to ignore them.\n\nThere is also concern about conflicting advice being given to the public.\n\nThe two companies involved in the campaign deny any wrongdoing.\n\nThe BBC became aware of the campaign when one of its reporters received a text in June.\n\nIt said: \"FreeMsg: U have subscribed to Comp House competition for £4.50 per month until you send stop to 82225. SP Pro Money HELLO? 08001577502?T&C\".\n\nA shortened Bit.ly link was sent as a follow-up message, and a third communication stated that this \"text cost £1.50\".\n\nThe company behind the campaign is called Pro Money Holdings, which is registered to an Ilford, London address.\n\nIt makes use of a second service, called Veoo - a St Albans-headquartered business that provides billing and messaging platforms to mobile-related companies.\n\nThe industry's regulator, the Phone-paid Services Authority (PSA), later told the BBC it was \"informally\" investigating complaints about the Pro Money Holdings service and had \"recently\" opened a probe into Veoo.\n\n\"Under our code of practice, consumers must not be charged for phone-paid services without their consent,\" said a spokesman.\n\n\"We are currently looking into complaints regarding the service operating on 82225 and separately have an ongoing investigation into Veoo.\"\n\nMembers of the public have posted concerns about the 82225's operation over the past two months, with several saying they could not recall subscribing to anything that would account for the fees.\n\nBut Pro Money Holdings told the BBC it only charged people who had \"pushed a key\" in an online competition or in response to a phone message.\n\n\"There's a lot of compliance that goes into everything that's done with anything we do,\" customer care manager David Marshall said.\n\n\"Prior to anything starting, there's a lot of testing done to make sure that everything from our end is correct.\n\n\"From our own perspective, if there's something not 100% at our end, we would get it adjusted.\"\n\nTo prove the point, Mr Marshall offered to provide details about how the BBC journalist came to be subscribed.\n\nBut more than a month after making the promise, Pro Money Holdings has not shared the details, despite repeated follow-up requests, beyond saying the journalist had opted in and this had been \"verified by an independent third party\".\n\nIt did, however, refund the £1.50 fee that had been charged.\n\nFor its part, Veoo said it was no longer supporting the campaign.\n\n\"Following on-going compliance checks with the service... run by Pro Money Holdings, Veoo suspended the Pro Comp service and will not be reinstating that service via our messaging platform,\" said spokeswoman Vanessa D'Souza.\n\n\"We take our responsibilities very seriously.\"\n\nOne cyber-security consultant said he had concerns that the messages could be mistaken as spam, in part because of their odd punctuation and use of \"u\" rather than \"you\".\n\n\"It's exactly the sort of message that you might delete assuming it's spam only to realise, perhaps months later when checking your bill, that you've been paying,\" said Alan Woodward.\n\nPhone owners are given conflicting advice about how to deal with Stop-type texts\n\nMobile owners seeking advice about how to handle such demands are given contradictory advice online.\n\nThe PSA states that users should reply to rather than ignore Stop messages.\n\nBut the popular Money Saving Expert site, among others, says not to do so if the texts look suspicious.\n\n\"The golden rule is do not reply, at all, ever - do not text 'Stop'!\" it states.\n\n\"These texts want any response to confirm you are a real person.\n\n\"Any numbers that are confirmed are likely to be sold on to... unscrupulous marketeers who may further spam you with unsolicited calls and texts.\n\n\"Ensure you don't click on any links within the text either.\"\n\nFor its part, Pro Money Holdings denies deliberately designing its texts to look odd and defended its use of \"slang\".\n\n\"The size of an SMS is a maximum of 160 characters as you are aware,\" it told the BBC.\n\n\"In order to fit the customer care telephone number on the message, it is necessary to shorten some words where applicable.\"\n\nMobile networks say customers who receive unsolicited texts can contact their support teams to confirm whether the messages are legitimate and if a Stop response should be sent.\n\n\"I have seen people ignoring these messages and being charged a lot,\" said one Vodafone call centre employee.\n\n\"Blocking doesn't stop these as customers are charged irrespective of whether they receive these messages or not, even if the phone is off.\"\n\nThe PSA said it could not comment further about Pro Money Holding's case.\n\nBut Mr Woodward urged it to review its guidance.\n\n\"If the regulator is expecting us to reply, 'Stop', there is a danger that it causes those heeding such advice to play into the hands of scammers,\" he said.\n\n\"Either way, the regulator is the one who needs to 'stop' this, not unsuspecting recipients.\"\n\nThe PSA issued more than £5m in fines in the past financial year against companies that had breached its rules.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin had their first face-to-face talks on Friday\n\nDonald Trump has backtracked on a proposal to work with Russia to create an \"impenetrable\" cybersecurity unit to prevent election hacking.\n\nHours after promoting the idea on Sunday, the US president said that he did not think it could actually happen.\n\nThe idea of a partnership with Russia was ridiculed by senior Republicans.\n\nIt comes after Mr Trump's first face-to-face talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Germany on Friday, in which the pair discussed the issue.\n\nMr Trump described the outcome of the talks as positive and suggested closer co-operation between the two nations.\n\n\"Putin and I discussed forming an impenetrable cybersecurity unit so that election hacking, and many other negative things, will be guarded and safe,\" he said.\n\nThe initial proposal immediately prompted derision from Democrats, as well as some Republicans who questioned why the US would work with Russia after the Kremlin's alleged meddling in the 2016 US election.\n\n\"The fact that President Putin and I discussed a cybersecurity unit doesn't mean I think it can happen. It can't,\" he tweeted.\n\nHowever, he stressed that another issue discussed in his talks with Mr Putin, a ceasefire in south-western Syria, had come into effect.\n\nTreasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin had sought to defend the proposed cyber unit after Mr Trump's initial announcement.\n\nSpeaking on ABC's This Week programme, he described it as a \"significant accomplishment\" for Mr Trump.\n\n\"What we want to make sure is that we co-ordinate with Russia,\" he added.\n\nHowever, Republican Senator Marco Rubio suggested that such an initiative would be like partnering with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on chemical weapons.\n\nRepublican Senator Lindsey Graham said: \"It's not the dumbest idea I've ever heard, but it's pretty close.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Trump to Putin: \"It's an honour to be with you\"\n\nA special prosecutor is investigating whether Trump associates colluded with alleged Russian efforts to influence the 2016 US election.\n\nBoth Mr Trump and Mr Putin said the allegations had been discussed.\n\nHowever, the two sides described the content of the meeting differently.\n\nMr Trump said he \"strongly pressed\" the issue with Mr Putin, who had \"vehemently denied\" interfering in the US election.\n\nHe also said it was time to work more \"constructively\" with Russia.\n\nPresident Putin said he believed President Trump had accepted his assurances that Moscow had not interfered in the vote.\n\nHowever, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said interference in the 2016 election remained an impediment to better relations with Russia, while the US ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, said the US \"can't trust Russia\" and \"won't ever trust Russia\".", "Theresa May's speech on Tuesday reaching out to opposition parties makes the lead for several of the papers - with headlines such as \"May's cry for help to Corbyn\" in the Daily Telegraph, \"Weakened May pleads for support from rivals\" in the Times and \"May appeals to Labour for policy ideas\" in the Guardian.\n\nThe i says the prime minister's message would have been unthinkable before her election gamble backfired.\n\nThe Times says it is an admission of her political weakness.\n\nFor the Guardian, the speech will be seen as an attempt to relaunch her faltering premiership.\n\nThe Telegraph says Mrs May's appeal comes at a time when her leadership is at its weakest, with calls by Tory MPs for her to stand down after her failure to secure a majority.\n\nThe Financial Times describes it as an attempt to shore up her premiership against mutinous MPs as she prepares to publish the most significant piece of Brexit legislation - the Repeal Bill - on Thursday.\n\nManoeuvring among ambitious backbenchers and pro-EU MPs is intensifying ahead of the bill, it adds.\n\nLeo McKinstry in the Daily Express says there's no obvious, clear alternative to Mrs May, so the idea of a smooth coronation for her successor is just a fantasy.\n\nThe Sun agrees, saying a coronation to replace her won't happen and the leadership battle will be a bloodbath.\n\nIt will put the Brexit talks on hold and make us a laughing stock in Brussels, the paper adds.\n\nFor the Daily Mirror however, talk of plots means the prime minister's mind is on personal survival rather than Britain's future prosperity. It thinks she should resign and call another election.\n\nThe Daily Mail, the Daily Mirror and the Sun lead on Monday's fresh High Court hearing on the case of the terminally-ill baby, Charlie Gard.\n\nThe Mail says his heartrending fight for life has gripped the world, and even prompted dramatic interventions from the White House and the Vatican.\n\nToday, it adds, his parents will beg the court to be able to seek treatment for his rare genetic condition, which has left him on life support.\n\nIt has the headline: \"Charlie's day of destiny\".\n\nThe Sun's headline says their plea to the judge will be: \"Give our Charlie a miracle.\"\n\nReports and pictures of Iraqi forces and civilians celebrating on the streets of Mosul following the Iraqi government's announcement that the city had been liberated from the Islamic State group are on several front pages.\n\nThe Guardian says victory in Mosul is both a strategic and symbolic milestone for Iraqi fighters backed by US-led coalition forces.\n\nBut its residents have paid a steep price, with thousands killed or wounded in the battle.\n\nThe Financial Times warns that the advances on IS-held territory in Iraq and Syria will deal a heavy blow, but not eliminate the group.\n\nIt says its militants can melt into the desert and will probably keep up insurgent attacks and suicide bombings.\n\nAnd the Telegraph says the UK and other European countries must be ready for the threat arising from the return of more jihadis.\n\nOther extremists, it adds, will head for Libya or Sinai, presenting a menace to the world for years to come.\n\nThe Sun welcomes the proposal to keep zero hours contracts - one of the expected recommendations of the government's review of employment practices.\n\nIt accepts that some workers are exploited, but says most like the flexibility they offer.\n\nBanning them - it argues - would harm small businesses who can't afford full-time staff.\n\nThe review strikes a decent balance by enhancing workers' rights without damaging business, it adds.\n\nThe Times reports that ministers have rejected calls to lower interest rates on student loans.\n\nIt quotes a government source as saying that interest charged on loans is below equivalent market rates and those of payday lenders, and they offer protection to borrowers that critics overlook.\n\nThe paper says First Secretary of State Damian Green appeared to support a review of tuition fees last month.\n\nBut the source tells the paper he was trying to highlight that Labour's policy of abolishing fees would mean the reintroduction of student number controls, reversing progress in social mobility and a dramatic underfunding of universities.\n\nThe Daily Mail has the results of a study of what it calls \"motherhood in 2017\", showing how the pressures of parenting and holding down a career have meant that many traditional tasks have fallen by the wayside.\n\nAccording to the research, 23% of women said they did not have time to cook an evening meal from scratch and one in five was unable to find time to make a child's birthday cake.\n\nAmong the 1,000 mothers polled, 17% were unable to take a role in their child's Parent Teacher Association and a third said chores such as ironing bed linen were too much for them.\n\nBut - the paper adds - the vast majority made sure they never missed important events in their children's lives such as attending a school play, parents' evening or sports day.\n\nFinally, depending which paper you read, play at Wimbledon will be \"magic Monday\" for the Mail; \"mega Monday\" for the i and \"middle Monday\" for the Telegraph.\n\nWhatever it is called, the Mail explains that the second Monday of the tournament is when the last-16 in both the men's and the women's all play on the same day - the only Grand Slam where this happens.\n\nThe i says that if Andy Murray and Johanna Konta win their matches they will be through to the quarter-finals - and that would be the first time a British man and woman have made the last-eight together since 1973.\n\nThe Telegraph reports that fans have been queuing for two days to see the two players.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA Glaswegian mother who handed out a hard-hitting \"life lecture\" to a teenager caught with her son's stolen bike has been hailed a \"supermum\".\n\nVonnie Sandlan used social media to trace the bike after it was stolen in Glasgow city centre on Saturday night.\n\nIn an often hilarious Facebook video, the brave mum said she posed as a buyer before confronting the boy.\n\nShe won plaudits after revealing that she told the boy he could \"end up in Barlinnie\" - Glasgow's prison.\n\nMs Sandlan, the former president of NUS Scotland, even told the boy to think about college or an apprenticeship \"if school wasn't working out for him\".\n\nShe said: \"Part of me really hopes that the kid gets in trouble and it properly scares him and that's enough.\n\n\"Part of me hopes that he just genuinely takes it as an opportunity to make some better life choices.\"\n\nThe drama unfolded after her son Findlay's bike was taken from outside McDonald's on Argyle Street at about 21:30 on Saturday.\n\nHe had bought the cycle just a few days earlier and the theft had left the 16-year-old \"distraught\", Ms Sandlan told her followers.\n\n\"He's been less upset when pets have died,\" she said. \"He used his birthday money for it, he'd been saving up for ages. It's a big deal.\"\n\nShe said she reported the theft to Police Scotland but understood they could not deal with it as they had other priorities.\n\nInstead, she turned detective and launched a social media campaign in a bid to find her son's prized possession.\n\nBy Sunday, she had received a tip off that it was for sale on the Gumtree website.\n\nAfter checking that it was definitely Findlay's bike, she called the police. She said they supported her plan to arrange to retrieve the bike.\n\nWhile her friend filmed the meeting from a nearby bus stop, Ms Sandlan and her husband, Bob, met the boy with the bike outside The Forge shopping centre.\n\nIn her Facebook Live post, she said: \"The kid came over and he stopped in front of the bike and I was giving it big smiles and went over and put my hand on the bike and I said 'Thanks so much for coming out to meet us on such a miserable day as well, we would have came to your house'.\n\n\"And I looked underneath the frame and I checked the serial number, then I just said 'This is my bike'. And the kid just burst into tears.\"\n\nShe went on: \"So this kid is just like crying in front of me, saying 'Is it really your bike?' And I said 'Yeah, it's really my bike - it's not your bike, is it?'\n\n\"And then he's like 'It's my first time, it's my first time' and I was like 'I think we both know that's not true, pal'.\n\n\"And then somehow I ended up like pure giving him a life lecture on how this is a turning point in his life and it could have been so much worse if it had been somebody else who had came and just like battered him to get the bike back off him.\n\n\"And what he needed to be doing was thinking of his future and he said, 'I'm only 15'.\n\n\"And I said, you know what, if school's not working out for you, you need to start thinking about college or like go and do an apprenticeship or something. Stop stealing because you're terrible at it and you're going to end up in Barlinnie.\"\n\nThe video, which ends with Findlay agreeing that his mum is the \"best in the world\", has been viewed thousands of times since it was posted on Sunday night.\n\nA police spokesman said: \"Always use 101 in circumstances like this. Let us know what's happening and let us deal with the confrontation side of things.\"\n\nGumtree said it did not tolerate stolen items on its website.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"We encourage users to report anything suspicious to us through the 'report' button that sits on every ad on our website.\n\n\"Our dedicated safety team will then investigate. If you are concerned that an item you're viewing is stolen, don't buy it - report it to the police.\n\n\"We work regularly with law enforcement to share information and aid their investigations.\n\n\"We're pleased to hear that Vonnie and her son Findlay have been reunited with their bike, and recommend that all bike owners register their serial number with a service such as Bike Register.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDozens of stall-holders have lost their entire stock after a blaze ripped through Camden Lock Market in north London overnight.\n\nAbout 30 stalls were based in the Market Hall, where the fire began, while other local businesses had goods stored inside the destroyed building.\n\nOne market owner said he believed about 100 traders had been affected and some would be \"finished\" as a result.\n\nAbout 70 firefighters tackled the blaze at the popular tourist attraction.\n\nMajor fires have hit the sprawling market area twice before in recent years, with one in 2008 leading to part of the site being shut down for over a year.\n\nThe market, which has been based in the area since 1974, boasts more than 1,000 stalls and shops.\n\nNo-one was injured in the fire\n\nMarket worker Kareem Khodeir said he believed about 100 traders had been affected, while 30 who had permanent stalls in the building \"have completely lost everything\".\n\n\"It most likely will destroy a few businesses completely,\" he said.\n\nDeicola and Leora Neves, who own Camden Guitars, which is based in the damaged building, said their shop had been destroyed and \"everything has gone\".\n\n\"This is where we started and we're really feeling the loss of that,\" Ms Neves said.\n\nFirefighters contained the blaze to one building\n\nMuch of the market was not affected by the blaze\n\nOpen-air trader Laetitia Dupont said the lamps she sells in the market, which she stored in the burnt building, had all been destroyed.\n\n\"Even if the fire didn't touch it, the water has,\" she said.\n\nMs Dupont, who does not have insurance, added she was unsure what would happen to her business.\n\nLondon Fire Brigade, which was called just before midnight, sent 10 fire engines and an aerial appliance to fight the flames.\n\nStation manager Peter Wolfenden said the front of the building had been saved but the back was now \"all charcoal\".\n\nThe blaze lit up the area around Camden Lock\n\nLondon Fire Brigade said the back of the building had been turned to \"charcoal\"\n\nAlex Proud, founder of the Proud Galleries in Camden, said the fire brigade had \"turned up incredibly quickly and stopped what could have been a really substantial fire which could have wiped out the market\".\n\nHe said only about 5-10% of the market had been damaged and \"75% of the market is now open\".\n\nThe cause of the blaze is unknown.\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 \"run, hide, tell\" film shows holidaymakers what to do in the event of a terror attack\n\nA video advising UK holidaymakers what to do in the event of a terror attack abroad has been released by police.\n\nThe four-minute film depicts a firearms attack unfolding at a hotel and uses the \"run, hide, tell\" safety message.\n\nThirty British tourists were among 38 people killed when a gunman attacked a Tunisian beach resort in June 2015.\n\nCounter terrorism police said there is no specific intelligence Britons will be targeted this summer and the film is part of a general awareness campaign.\n\nBut Det Ch Supt Scott Wilson told the BBC it was \"only right\" to offer advice following the terror attacks in London and in Sousse, Tunisia.\n\n\"These people are not there to steal a mobile phone or steal your watch, they are there to kill you, you have to get yourself out of that danger zone,\" Mr Wilson told the BBC.\n\n\"It's very unlikely [that you will be caught up in a terror attack].\n\n\"It's very much like the safety briefing you get on an aeroplane before it takes off - it's very unlikely that plane is going to crash, but it's very important you are given that knowledge of what you should and what you shouldn't do.\"\n\nThe four-minute video tells holidaymakers what to do during a terror attack on their resort\n\nThe video has been produced with the Foreign Office and travel association Abta.\n\nMr Wilson said 23,000 representatives from major UK holiday companies at resorts all over the world had been trained in what to do in the event of a terror attack as well as how to spot suspicious items and activity.\n\nForeign Office minister Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon said: \"While there is no specific information that British holidaymakers will be targeted this summer, it sets out some simple steps we can all take to minimise the impact of an attack if one does take place.\"\n\nThe run, hide, tell message was first introduced by police in December 2015.", "Resham Khan has been left with damage to her left eye\n\nA man accused of throwing acid at a student and her cousin through their car window has appeared in court.\n\nResham Khan and Jameel Muhktar, 37, had been celebrating Ms Khan's 21st birthday before the attack.\n\nAcid was thrown on them through their car window on 21 June while they were waiting at traffic lights in Beckton.\n\nJohn Tomlin, 25, appeared at Thames Magistrates' Court earlier charged with two counts of grievous bodily harm with intent.\n\nJameel Muhktar was temporarily placed in an induced coma to treat his injuries\n\nHe was remanded in custody and ordered to appear at Snaresbrook Crown Court on 8 August.\n\nMr Tomlin, of Colman Road, Canning Town, was arrested on Sunday after handing himself in to police.\n\nMs Khan, a student at Manchester Metropolitan University, and Mr Muhktar suffered severe burns to the face and body in the attack at 09:13 BST on Tollgate Road.\n\nThe attacker then threw more of the acid at Mr Muhktar before fleeing the scene, police said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Tally sticks, circa 1299, showing accounts of the bailiff of Ralph de Manton of Ufford Church, Northampton\n\nNot far from where I live is Oxford's Ashmolean Museum, home to art and antiquities from around the world. I often find myself slipping down the stairs to the money gallery in its grand basement.\n\nYou can see coins from Rome, the Vikings, the Abbasid Caliphate and, closer to home, from medieval Oxfordshire and Somerset.\n\nBut while it seems obvious that the money gallery would be full of coins, most money isn't in the form of coins at all.\n\nThe trouble is, as Felix Martin points out in his book, Money: The Unauthorised Biography, that most of our monetary history hasn't survived in a form that could grace a museum.\n\n50 Things That Made the Modern Economy highlights the inventions, ideas and innovations which have helped create the economic world in which we live.\n\nIn fact, in 1834, the British government decided to destroy 600 years of precious monetary artefacts. It was a decision that was to have unfortunate consequences in more ways than one.\n\nThe artefacts in question were humble sticks of willow, about eight inches (20cm) long, called Exchequer tallies. The willow was harvested along the banks of the Thames, not far from the Palace of Westminster in central London.\n\nTallies were a way of recording debts with a system that was sublimely simple and effective.\n\nThe stick would contain a record of the debt, for example: \"£9 4s 4d from Fulk Basset for the farm of Wycombe\". Fulk Basset was a Bishop of London in the 13th Century. He owed his debt to King Henry III.\n\nNow comes the elegant part.\n\nThe stick would be split in half, down its length from one end to the other. The debtor would retain half, called the \"foil\". The creditor would retain the other half, called the \"stock\" - even today, British bankers use the word \"stocks\" to refer to debts of the British government.\n\nBecause willow has a natural and distinctive grain, the two halves would match only each other.\n\nSome of the old wooden tally sticks used by the UK Exchequer until 1826\n\nOf course, the Treasury could simply have kept a record of these transactions in a ledger somewhere. But the tally stick system enabled something radical to occur.\n\nIf you had a tally stock showing that Bishop Basset owed you £5, then unless you worried that he wasn't good for the money, the tally stock itself was worth close to £5 in its own right.\n\nIf you wanted to buy something, you might well find that the seller would be pleased to accept the tally stock as a safe and convenient form of payment.\n\nSo the tally sticks themselves became a kind of money, a particular sort of debt that could be traded freely, circulating from person to person until it utterly separated from Bishop Basset and a farm in Wycombe.\n\nWe don't have a good sense of whether tally sticks were in fact widely traded or not, for reasons that will become clear. But we know that similar debts were, some surprisingly recently.\n\nOn Monday 4 May 1970, the Irish Independent, Ireland's leading newspaper, published a matter-of-fact notice with a straightforward title: Closure of banks.\n\nEvery major bank in Ireland was closed and would remain closed until further notice. The banks were in dispute with their own employees, who had voted to strike, and it seemed likely that the whole business would drag on for weeks or even months.\n\nYou might think that such news - in what was one of the world's more advanced economies - would inspire utter panic, but the Irish remained calm. They'd been expecting trouble, so had been stockpiling reserves of cash, but what kept the Irish economy going was something else.\n\nThe Irish wrote each other cheques.\n\nPeople used cheques to cover expenses like bar bills, and publicans reused them to pay their suppliers\n\nNow, at first sight this makes no sense.\n\nCheques are paper-based instructions to transfer money from one bank account to another. But if both banks are closed, then the instruction to transfer money can't be carried out - not until the banks open, anyway. But everyone in Ireland knew that might not happen for months.\n\nNevertheless, people wrote each other cheques, and they circulated. Patrick would write a cheque for £20 to clear his tab at the local pub. The publican might then use that cheque to pay his staff, or his suppliers.\n\nPatrick's cheque would circulate around and around, a promise to pay £20 that couldn't be fulfilled until the banks reopened and started clearing the backlog.\n\nThe system was fragile. It was clearly open to abuse by people who wrote cheques they knew would eventually bounce.\n\nAs May dragged past, then June, then July, there was always the risk that people lost track of their own finances and started unknowingly writing cheques they couldn't afford and wouldn't be able to honour.\n\nPerhaps the biggest risk of all was that trust would start to fray, that people would simply start refusing to accept cheques as payment.\n\nYet the Irish kept writing each other cheques. It must have helped that so much Irish business was small and local.\n\nPeople knew their customers. They knew who was good for the money. Word would get around about people who cheated.\n\nAnd the pubs and corner shops were able to vouch for the creditworthiness of their customers, which meant that cheques could keep moving.\n\nWhen the dispute was resolved and the banks reopened in November, more than six months after they had closed, the Irish economy was still in one piece. The only problem: the backlog of £5bn worth of cheques would take another three months to clear.\n\nNor is the Irish case the only one in which cheques were passed around without ever being cashed.\n\nIn the 1950s, British soldiers stationed in Hong Kong would pay their bills with cheques on accounts back in England. The local merchants would circulate the cheques, vouching for them with their own signatures, without any great hurry to cash them in.\n\nSome British soldiers stationed in Hong Kong during the 1950s - like these troops bound for Korea - used cheques drawn on their home banks\n\nEffectively, the Hong Kong cheques - like the Irish cheques, like the Tally sticks - had become a form of private money.\n\nIf money is simply tradable debt, then tally sticks and uncashed Irish cheques weren't some weird form of quasi-money. They were simply money in a particularly unvarnished form.\n\nLike an engine running with the cover off, or a building with the scaffolding still up, they're money with the underlying mechanism laid bare.\n\nOf course, we still naturally think of money as those discs of metal in the Ashmolean Museum. After all it's the metal that survives, not the cheques or the tally sticks.\n\nThose tally sticks, by the way, met an unfortunate end. The system was finally abolished and replaced by paper ledgers in 1834 after decades of attempts to modernise.\n\nA decision to burn the obsolete tally sticks in 1834 nearly destroyed the Palace of Westminster\n\nTo celebrate, it was decided to burn the sticks - six centuries of irreplaceable monetary records - in a coal-fired stove in the House of Lords, rather than letting parliamentary staff take them home for firewood.\n\nBurning a cartload or two of tally sticks in a coal-fired stove is a wonderful way to start a raging chimney fire.\n\nSo it was that the House of Lords, then the House of Commons, and almost the entire Palace of Westminster - a building as old as the tally stick system itself - was burned to the ground.\n\nPerhaps the patron saints of monetary historians were having their revenge.", "Larkin's ties and lawnmower are among the objects in the exhibition\n\nUnseen letters, an extensive collection of tea towels and a pair of knickers bearing the words \"do not spank\" are going on show in an exhibition of items belonging to poet Philip Larkin.\n\nBooks, LPs and ties are among the other possessions that are being put on display at the University of Hull.\n\nLarkin worked in the university library for 30 years until his death in 1985.\n\nCurator Anna Farthing said: \"We've tried to piece together a life from objects rather than from words.\"\n\nThe possessions, most of which have never been seen in public before, show \"the complications and contradictions of his life, of his body, of his relationships, of his attitudes\", Farthing said.\n\nThe exhibition, titled Larkin: New Eyes Each Year, opens on Wednesday and is the main celebration of the city's most famous cultural son to be staged during Hull's year as UK City of Culture.\n\nRevelations about Philip Larkin's private life have made him a divisive figure\n\nTo some, Larkin was Britain's greatest 20th Century poet. But revelations about his unsavoury views towards race and women have tarnished his reputation for many.\n\n\"It's incredible that somebody who had such a contradictory and conflicted world and life managed to produce art that was so clean and clear. It's made me appreciate the artistic work even more,\" Farthing said.\n\nMany of the exhibits have come from the house where he lived before his death.\n\nHe had a collection of Beatrix Potter ceramic figures\n\nAnd a figure of Hitler that he was given by his father\n\nThere is his lawnmower, typewriter, stationery, camera, photographs and briefcase. There are 33 souvenir tea towels, some of which bear comic verses, and a \"tree\" made of 119 ties.\n\n\"They all represent different aspects of his personality,\" Farthing said. \"We presume the past is black and white, but these ties are full of pattern and colour.\"\n\nThere are also exhibits shedding light on his relationship with his mother, including a rare recording of the pair in conversation and examples of the letters that he wrote to her every day.\n\nAnd there are also items relating to his lovers, including Monica Jones's patterned pink dress and pink lipstick.\n\nThe pants were found in his house after his death\n\nDifferent sides of his personality can be seen in his collection of ceramic Beatrix Potter characters, which go with his Beatrix Potter books; and a miniature Adolf Hitler figure, which was passed down from his father.\n\nAnd light is shed on more tawdry parts of his inner world. As well as the knickers, there are books with titles like The Rod and The Whip, rude doodles found drawn inside books, and pornography.\n\n\"We did find some stuff which is top shelf material, shall we say,\" Farthing says. \"So we've put it on the top shelf and just drawn attention to it with a fairly innocent pair of pink knickers.\"\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.", "There have been 10 other detected missile launches by North Korea this year including this one in February\n\nNorth Korea has fired an intermediate range missile in the direction of Japan, US military officials said.\n\nThe land-based missile was fired from near Panghyon airfield, and flew for 37 minutes before landing in the Sea of Japan, said the US Pacific Command.\n\nJapan has lodged a protest and PM Shinzo Abe said the launch \"clearly shows that the threat has grown\".\n\nPyongyang has increased the frequency of its nuclear and missile tests in recent months, raising tensions.\n\nSouth Korea said Tuesday's projectile was launched at 09:40 local time (00:40 GMT) and flew about 930km (578 miles).\n\nThe missile may have landed in waters claimed by Japan as its exclusive economic zone, according to Japanese officials.\n\nThe US said it did not pose a threat to North America.\n\nMeanwhile Pyongyang is due to make an \"important announcement\" later on Tuesday, reported South Korea's Yonhap news agency.\n\nThis is the 11th detected missile launch this year.\n\nNorth Korea last test-launched missiles in May. It fired projectiles on two separate occasions, both towards the Sea of Japan.\n\nWhile Pyongyang has appeared to have made progress, experts believe North Korea does not have the capability to accurately target a place with an intercontinental ballistic missile or miniaturise a nuclear warhead that can fit on such a missile.\n\nThe big question is: What range does this missile have - could it hit the US? One expert already thinks that it might be able to reach Alaska but not the lower states.\n\nDavid Wright, a physicist with the US-based Union of Concerned Scientists, said: \"If the reports are correct, that same missile could reach a maximum range of roughly 6,700km (4,160 miles) on a standard trajectory.\n\n\"That range would not be enough to reach the lower 48 states or the large islands of Hawaii, but would allow it to reach all of Alaska.\"\n\nIt's not just a missile that North Korea would need, but also the ability to protect a warhead from the intense heat and vibration as it re-enters the atmosphere, and it's not clear if North Korea can do that.\n\nOn the prospect of North Korea being able to strike the US, President Donald Trump tweeted in January: \"It won't happen.\" The truth is that it might - most experts think within five years, probably less. What would President Trump do then?\n\nJapan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga told reporters on Tuesday: \"North Korea's repeated provocations like this are absolutely unacceptable.\"\n\nMr Abe said Japan would \"unite strongly\" with the US and South Korea to put pressure on Pyongyang.\n\nHe added that he would call on Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin - who are meeting in Moscow - \"to play a more constructive role\".\n\nUS President Donald Trump also responded swiftly on Tuesday to the missile launch.\n\nOn his Twitter account he made apparent reference to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, saying: \"Does this guy have anything better to do with his life?\"\n\n\"Hard to believe that South Korea and Japan will put up with this much longer. Perhaps China will put a heavy move on North Korea and end this nonsense once and for all!\"\n\nHe has also repeatedly called on Mr Xi to pressure North Korea to end its nuclear and missile programmes. Beijing is Pyongyang's closest economic ally.\n\nThe latest missile launch comes a day after Mr Trump spoke on the phone separately with Mr Xi and Mr Abe about North Korea. The leaders reaffirmed their commitment to a denuclearised Korean Peninsula.\n\nIn South Korea, recently-elected President Moon Jae-in has called for an emergency meeting of the country's security council.\n\nMr Moon also met with US President Donald Trump last week, with the US leader warning Pyongyang of a \"determined response\".\n\nThe US recently started setting up its controversial Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense (Thaad) system in South Korea, which is aimed at protecting against North Korean missiles.\n\nNeighbours such as China have objected to it as they believe it undermines their security and the regional balance.\n\nOn Tuesday, Mr Xi and Mr Putin reiterated their opposition to Thaad, reported Chinese state news agency Xinhua.", "CBBC launched a new logo in 2016, with the help of popular character Hacker T Dog\n\nThe BBC is to spend an extra £34m on children's content over the next three years.\n\nThe investment comes as plans were announced to reinvent the corporation \"for a new generation\" and combat competition from media giants like Netflix and Amazon.\n\nDirector general Tony Hall said it was \"the biggest investment in children's services in a generation\".\n\nThe funding was unveiled as part of the BBC's first Annual Plan.\n\nSetting out the BBC's ambitions for the coming year, the extra money for children's content is going to be invested across the three years to 2019-20.\n\nLord Hall said: \"Our ambition to reinvent the BBC for a new generation is our biggest priority for next year. Every part of the BBC will need to contribute to meeting this challenge.\"\n\nThe new investment, delivered following savings made across the BBC, will see the budget for children's programming reach £124.4m by 2019-20, up from the current figure of £110m.\n\nIn the three years, £31.4m will be spent online on content that will include video, live online programme extensions, blogs, vlogs, podcasts, quizzes, guides, games and apps.\n\nThe BBC's children's services are based in Salford\n\nLord Hall said it was \"the biggest investment for a generation\" and will \"increasingly offer a personalised online offering for our younger viewers\".\n\nThe BBC said it wants to respond to changes to the way children \"are watching and consuming programmes\", adding: \"Investment in British content - particularly for the young - is vital, unless we want more of our culture shaped and defined by the rise of West Coast American companies.\"\n\nOver the last six years, children's TV viewing has dropped by more than a quarter.\n\nYoungsters now spend more time online than they do in front of the television, around 15 hours a week. Even pre-schoolers spend more than eight hours a week online, according to Ofcom.\n\nNaturally then, the CBBC channel aimed at six to 12-year-olds has seen a drop in its audience, and increasingly children are choosing to use the BBC's iPlayer.\n\nViewing habits are changing, but so too is the content they are watching. Shorter video clips, interactive content and games are all going to increase.\n\nThe setting for all of this is a long-term decline in spending on British children's programmes by other broadcasters - ITV's programming went from 424 hours in 1998 to 64 in 2013 - and the dominance of US programming.\n\nThis will only increase in an online world dominated by the tech giants. Children's culture is being shaped by firms based on the west coast of America.\n\nThe annual plan also explains how the BBC is aiming to tackle such challenges as \"fake news\" with BBC News's Reality Check being expanded to fact-check social media claims, and work being done alongside Facebook to build trust.\n\nIt also shows how the corporation will \"rise to the challenge of better reflecting and representing a changing UK\" and how it is focusing on personalisation.\n\nThe BBC's creative plans for the next 12 months also include:\n\nThe annual plan is not the same as the BBC's annual report, which looks back over the previous year's performance and publishes details about the corporation's finances and spending. That report is expected later this month.\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.", "Since September 2014 all infant pupils have been offered a free school meal\n\nPlans to axe free lunches for infant school children from better off families in England have been scrapped.\n\nSchools minister Nick Gibb said the government would \"retain the existing provision\", having listened \"very carefully\" to the views of parents.\n\nThe Tory manifesto proposed restricting free lunches to infants from poorer homes - with free breakfasts for all primary school pupils funded instead.\n\nIt was intended to save £650m a year - but was left out of the Queen's Speech.\n\nAnd Mr Gibb told MPs: \"We have listened very carefully to the views of the sector on the proposal to remove infant free school meals and we have decided that it is right to retain the existing provision.\"\n\nThe Tories have abandoned a host of proposals since failing to win a majority, including plans to means-test winter fuel payments, end the triple lock guarantee on pension increases and to hold a vote on foxhunting.\n\nFree school lunches for all infant children were introduced by the Tory-Lib Dem coalition government in 2014.\n\nPlans to limit their availability again to low-income families had proved controversial, with some parents complaining the offer of a free breakfast was not directly comparable and was merely a cost-saving measure.\n\nMany schools were also unhappy about the move, arguing they had gone to great expense to adapt their facilities to provide hot lunches.\n\nDuring the campaign, the Conservatives argued that free breakfasts would have equal, if not greater, nutritional benefit for pupils and could be delivered at the fraction of the cost of lunches.\n\nBut challenged on the policy by shadow education secretary Angela Rayner in the Commons, Mr Gibb confirmed the government had changed its mind.\n\n\"Universal infant free school meals ensure children receive a nutritious meal during the day,\" he said. \"It saves hardworking families hundreds of pounds a year and it boosts educational achievement, especially among children from the most disadvantaged backgrounds.\"\n\nLabour is pressing the government to clarify whether plans for free breakfasts have now been scrapped.\n\nDuring education questions, Mr Gibb also promised that no school would have its budget cut as a result of the national funding formula, which aims to make funding fair for schools.", "The public sector pay cap remains top of the agenda for several of Tuesday's newspapers.\n\nAccording to the Guardian, a report for the government's pay advisers has revealed the scale of salary cuts during a decade of freezes - teachers have seen average pay fall by £3 an hour in real terms and police officers by £2 an hour, while the wages of nurses stagnated.\n\nThe paper says the academic analysis was \"quietly\" published on Monday, and talks of the prime minister facing a \"cabinet showdown\" over the issue.\n\nThe Daily Mirror also predicts a \"Tory revolt\" and tells Prime Minister Theresa May: \"take the cap off\".\n\n\"Now put your money where your mouth is,\" says the paper's front-page headline, \"give heroes a decent rise\".\n\nThe Daily Mail says Chancellor Philip Hammond is refusing to budge on the issue.\n\nThe Sun reckons Tory MPs and ministers demanding a lift to public sector pay have \"lost the plot\".\n\nWriting in the same paper, the former Tory chancellor, Lord Lamont, tells his party to \"get a grip\". Control of public expenditure, he says, is the foundation of jobs growth in the future.\n\nThe Times says it's learnt that ministers are pushing to delay or abandon a series of tax cuts to fund an increase in public sector pay.\n\nIt reports that the chancellor is being urged to scrap commitments to reduce corporation tax and increase thresholds for the personal allowance and 40% income tax rate.\n\nAn editorial in the Daily Telegraph says the \"cacophony of Tory opinions must stop\", as it is giving the impression of an administration all at sea.\n\nThe Daily Mail says it's seen secret files revealing that NHS officials in the 1970s knew for at least five years that haemophilia patients were being given contaminated blood.\n\nNewly unearthed minutes of meetings held in the 1980s are said to show that officials consciously put patients at risk in a scandal which cost 2,000 lives.\n\nScientists were so sure the blood was dangerous, the Mail says, that they even planned to use victims as guinea pigs to develop a new test for hepatitis.\n\nThe Telegraph leads on an article inside by Lord Grade, who heads the new Fundraising Regulator for charities.\n\nCharities that pester donors for cash face being fined up to £25,000 under new rules introduced this week. Lord Grade says many charities are behaving like \"laggards\", refusing to change their behaviour.\n\nThe Sun reports that a man convicted of knife crime who was jailed for nine years has been freed, because court staff wrote nine months on prison forms.\n\nA warrant's been issued for the re-arrest of 25-year-old Ralston Dodd but he's apparently gone into hiding.\n\nA friend tells the paper: \"He feels like he's won the lottery\". The Ministry of Justice says it is \"urgently investigating so we learn the lessons to prevent it happening again\".\n\nFinally, the Daily Express tells readers a blast of heat from the continent is on the way, which will send temperatures \"rocketing\" back to the low 90s Fahrenheit, or more than 30C.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. One witness said the crash sounded like a plane exploding\n\nTen people have been taken to hospital with injuries of \"varying severity\" after a taxi drove into people at Boston's Logan airport, police say.\n\nThe driver jumped the kerb and struck fellow cab drivers who were sitting awaiting their next fares, police said.\n\nAccording to US media, the driver told police he mistakenly stepped on the accelerator instead of the brake.\n\nThe incident, on the eve of the Independence Day holiday in the US, was not believed to be terrorism-related.\n\nMajor Frank McGinn of Massachusetts State Police said one of the victims remains in serious condition, three had significant injuries and six others suffered less serious injuries.\n\nThe driver is reported to be a 56-year-old man from Cambridge, Massachusetts\n\nAll the victims appeared to be cab drivers, he added.\n\nThe driver, who is reported to be a 56-year-old man from Cambridge, Massachusetts, stayed at the scene to co-operate with police.\n\nMaj McGinn told reporters the crash appeared to be \"just a tragic accident\".\n\nHe said the unidentified driver is known to be a \"very nice gentlemen from his peers\" and was thought to have been alone in the vehicle at the time.\n\nPolice have seized the cab and the cause of the crash remains under investigation, state police said in a statement.\n\n\"At this preliminary point in the investigation, there is no information that suggests the crash was intentional,\" the statement said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Katie Rough's parents described seeing their dying daughter after the attack\n\nThe girl, who cannot be named for legal reasons, pleaded guilty to manslaughter by diminished responsibility.\n\nKatie was smothered and slashed with a Stanley knife by the teenager on a playing field in Woodthorpe, York, on 9 January. She died later in hospital.\n\nLeeds Crown Court heard the killer suffered with severe mental health issues and was convinced people \"weren't human and were robots\".\n\nKatie's family were in court to hear the guilty plea.\n\nNicholas Johnson QC, defending, asked the court if the charge of murder could be put to the girl again and she wrote her plea on a piece of paper.\n\nHer solicitor told the court: \"I can confirm she has indicated not guilty to murder but guilty to manslaughter.\"\n\nGraham Reeds QC, prosecuting, said: \"We are going to accept that plea of manslaughter by diminished responsibility.\"\n\nKatie Rough died in hospital after suffering serious injuries to her neck and chest\n\nKatie was found on a playing field near Alness Drive, in Woodthorpe, York, on 9 January\n\nMr Reeds said the the defendant had developed severe mental health problems during 2016 and had been taken out of school as a result.\n\nHe said that she had been self harming since Christmas 2015 and suffering from delusions, believing that people around her \"may not be human and may be controlled by a higher and hostile force\".\n\nHe said that although psychosis was being investigated prior to the killing, it had not been diagnosed.\n\nHowever, he said since the killing she had undergone four psychiatric and psychological assessments and there was no dispute that her mental health problems meant she was suffering from diminished responsibility at the time she killed Katie, even though the killing was planned.\n\nHe told the court that when the teenager was found in the street in York by a member of the public, she told him Katie was dead and asked where she was.\n\nThe man then found Katie lying on a nearby piece of land with a cut to her neck.\n\nA post-mortem examination showed Katie had two severe cuts to her body - one to her neck and the other to her torso - but neither caused her death.\n\nThe prosecutor said Katie had been smothered before the cuts were made.\n\nThe court heard the teenager handed police a blood-stained Stanley knife which she had taken from her grandmother's kitchen.\n\nPolice also recovered a number of items from the scene and the teenager's home.\n\nAmong the items were drawings of stick-men in various poses depicting killing and death, and a reference to \"they are not human\".\n\nThe paper was blood-stained and the court heard it had been cut with the same knife used to slash Katie.\n\nMr Reeds said she had displayed \"strange behaviour towards other people and herself\", and had started to self-harm before she killed Katie.\n\nA friend interviewed by police following Katie's death told them she was \"nice but weird\" and said she liked to talk about death.\n\nThe judge, Mr Justice Soole, said he wanted more questions answering by the medical experts before he could pass sentence. He adjourned the case to 20 July.\n\nKatie was described as a \"daddy's girl\"\n\nKatie was a pupil at Westfield Primary School in the Acomb area of York.\n\nIn the days after Katie's death Tracey Ralph, head teacher at the school, described her as a \"kind and thoughtful child who was well-liked by both pupils and staff\".\n\nMore than 300 people attend Katie's funeral service, which took place at York Minister in February and was led by the Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu.\n\nHer coffin was decorated with characters from the Dr Seuss children's books.\n\nHer funeral service was held at York Minster\n\nDuring the service Katie's uncle described her as a \"smart, fun, beautiful child\".\n\nHe said she had selective mutism, but that it did not stop her from having fun.\n\n\"Her family were her world,\" he said.\n\n\"She loved her mum and dad but she was definitely described as a daddy's girl.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Three hospitals in England have failed fire safety checks ordered in the aftermath of the Grenfell Tower fire.\n\nBuildings at London's King's College Hospital, Sheffield's children's hospital and the North Middlesex Trust have been found to have combustible cladding.\n\nThose three trusts along with another 16 have also introduced 24-hour fire warden patrols to improve safety.\n\nChecks on cladding used at five sites have yet to be finished.\n\nOf the three that failed, one - the building at King's College - is an office block and does not house patients.\n\nThe other two sites have failed on buildings that house patients, but do not keep them in overnight.\n\nSteps are under way at all three to improve safety.\n\nBut a spokesman for NHS Improvement, which regulates hospitals, said there would be \"no disruption to patient services\" while changes were being made.\n\nThe checks at hospitals were ordered following the Grenfell Tower fire\n\nThe urgent checks were ordered by Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt following the Grenfell Tower fire.\n\nA total of 38 trusts were identified last week as being of highest risk as they were already known to have been struggling with basic fire standards or had high-rise buildings that had cladding.\n\nThe review has now found the cladding at 11 sites passed the checks, while the other 19 sites which flagged up potential fire safety issues have been told they do not need to take further action.\n\nKing's College Hospital has already removed the cladding from its office building as a \"precautionary measure\", while steps are being made at the other two sites to remove it.\n\nIn Scotland, health boards have confirmed combustible cladding has not been used on any buildings.", "Mike Ashley was at the High Court for the hearing\n\nSportswear tycoon Mike Ashley once hosted a management meeting in a pub where he drank 12 pints and vomited into a fireplace, a court has heard.\n\nThe Newcastle United owner is being sued by finance expert Jeffrey Blue at London's High Court.\n\nHe claims Mr Ashley often held meetings in pubs, and at one time promised to pay him £15m if he managed to increase Sports Direct's share price to £8.\n\nHe said the billionaire only paid him £1m. Mr Ashley disputes the claim.\n\nMr Justice Leggatt was told the dispute between Mr Blue and Mr Ashley related to an alleged conversation in a London pub called the Horse & Groom in 2013.\n\nJeffrey Chapman QC, who is leading Mr Blue's legal team, told the judge Mr Ashley's business practices flew in the face of \"business orthodoxy\".\n\nMr Blue said he had attended several senior management meetings at another pub, the Green Dragon in Alfreton, Derbyshire.\n\nHe said: \"These meetings were like no other senior management meeting I had ever attended in all my years of investment banking experience.\"\n\nFinance expert Jeffrey Blue said Mr Ashley \"was like no other client\"\n\nDescribing it as a \"pub lock-in\" where fish and chips and kebabs would be brought in after closing time, he said: \"On one such evening, in front of his senior management team, Mr Ashley challenged a young Polish analyst in my team, Pawel Pawlowski, to a drinking competition.\n\n\"Mr Ashley and Pawel would drink pints of lager, with vodka 'chasers' between each pint, and the first to leave the bar area for whatever reason was declared the loser.\n\n\"After approximately 12 pints and chasers Pawel apologised profusely and had to excuse himself.\n\n\"Mr Ashley then vomited into the fireplace located in the centre of the bar, to huge applause from his senior management team.\"\n\nMr Blue said he first met Mr Ashley while working for Merrill Lynch in 2006.\n\n\"Mr Ashley was like no other client that anyone at Merrill Lynch had ever come across,\" he said.\n\n\"By way of example, his ability to express boredom and frustration during client meetings knew no limits, including various episodes where he would lie underneath meeting room tables to 'have a nap'.\"\n\nDavid Cavender QC, who leads Mr Ashley's legal team, told the judge Mr Blue's claim was an \"opportunistic try on\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The spiralling costs of student debt is the main thrust of several of the day's front pages.\n\nThe Guardian says students from the poorest 40% of families entering university in England for the first time this September will accrue an average debt of about £57,000, according to the Institute of Fiscal Studies.\n\nThe economic think-tank says the end of maintenance grants in 2015 had disproportionately affected the poorest, while students from the wealthiest 30% of households would run up average borrowings of £43,000.\n\nAnd the Times reports on how three-quarters of graduates will never repay their student loans. They are liable for repayments once they earn more than £21,000 but after 30 years, whatever debt is left is written off.\n\nSome 77% were not expected to repay their debt, including interest, the IFS said.\n\nA subject \"guaranteed to stir local emotions\" - as the Times puts it - is the prospect of building new by-passes.\n\nThe paper reports that the government is about to spend £1bn a year combating congestion in towns and cities.\n\nAlmost 4,000 miles of A-roads will be upgraded, and significant sums will be put into a fund to construct by-passes around built-up areas with the worst jams.\n\nThe Telegraph says business groups and road safety campaigners have welcomed the news, but the Times thinks the scheme is bound to provoke opposition, not least from those experts who think building new roads simply creates more traffic.\n\nInterest in pay as an issue has been so strong it's surprising how little notice is taken of the offer to firefighters of a 2% rise. But the i newspaper puts the story on its front page, saying the increase will add to the pressure on Theresa May coming from the police, teachers, the armed forces and civil servants.\n\nThe Daily Mail notes that it's local authorities, not central government, which negotiates the salaries of firefighters.\n\nThere's a sharply personal tone to the attack by the Daily Mirror on former PM David Cameron for his comments about the need for pay restraint.\n\nUnder the headline, \"Cam off it, Dave,\" the paper points out that nurses and teachers have seen their wages fall in real terms while he \"coins it round the world\", giving lectures for \"up to a £120,000 an hour\".\n\nThe Guardian suggests Mr Cameron's motive may have been to have a go at Boris Johnson and Michael Gove. The Times thinks it more likely he was trying to support the chancellor, and protect his own legacy.\n\nThe Mail, rather to its own surprise, finds itself praising Mr Cameron for his \"wise words\".\n\nIt offers sympathy to state sector workers, but argues that \"a general spending splurge\" would increase debt and cost jobs and growth.\n\nTackling the shortage of homes in sought-after rural areas is, according to the Telegraph, a nettle the government is determined to grasp.\n\nThe paper believes Communities Secretary Sajid Javid will launch \"a new assault on homeowners with a nimby attitude\", forcing them to accept that more homes must be built.\n\nHe says there will have to be \"tough decisions\" because, as the Telegraph notes, \"it could prove controversial with grassroots Tory voters, many of whom live in affluent areas\".\n\nThe Sun comments that rising prices have brought \"joy to homeowners\", but it feels that the government has to find speedy ways of helping people in their 20s to find homes.\n\nThe Daily Express highlights the plight of patients who have to wait \"for crucial knee, hip and cataract operations\" on the NHS.\n\nIt describes the long delays as a new crisis for the NHS, saying surgery is provided quickly in parts of the country, while in others some patients do not receive any treatment.\n\nAccording to the Mail, clinical commissioning groups are \"having to ration procedures\" to meet financial targets.\n\nThe result, says the Times, is that \"patients are left in pain,\" and some \"are having to beg for treatment that was once routine\".\n\nThe world, says the Mail, has reached out in sympathy to Charlie Gard, the desperately ill eleven month old boy who suffers from a rare genetic condition.\n\nThe paper says it has been profoundly moved by the plight of his parents, as they sought to keep him alive.", "Scientists examined samples from this ancient Roman pier with very high-powered X-rays\n\nResearchers have unlocked the chemistry of Roman concrete which has resisted the elements for thousands of years.\n\nAncient sea walls built by the Romans used a concrete made from lime and volcanic ash to bind with rocks.\n\nNow scientists have discovered that elements within the volcanic material reacted with sea water to strengthen the construction.\n\nThey believe the discovery could lead to more environmentally friendly building materials.\n\nUnlike the modern concrete mixture which erodes over time, the Roman substance has long puzzled researchers.\n\nRather than eroding, particularly in the presence of sea water, the material seems to gain strength from the exposure.\n\nIn previous tests with samples from ancient Roman sea walls and harbours, researchers learned that the concrete contained a rare mineral called aluminium tobermorite.\n\nThey believe that this strengthening substance crystallised in the lime as the Roman mixture generated heat when exposed to sea water.\n\nResearchers have now carried out a more detailed examination of the harbour samples using an electron microscope to map the distribution of elements. They also used two other techniques, X-ray micro-diffraction and Raman spectroscopy, to gain a deeper understanding of the chemistry at play.\n\nThis new study says the scientists found significant amounts of tobermorite growing through the fabric of the concrete, with a related, porous mineral called phillipsite.\n\nThe researchers say that the long-term exposure to sea water helped these crystals to keep on growing over time, reinforcing the concrete and preventing cracks from developing.\n\n\"Contrary to the principles of modern cement-based concrete,\" said lead author Marie Jackson from the University of Utah, US, \"the Romans created a rock-like concrete that thrives in open chemical exchange with seawater.\"\n\nA close up view of the concrete from a scanning electron microscope showing the presence of the tobermorite which adds strength\n\n\"It's a very rare occurrence in the Earth.\"\n\nThe ancient mixture differs greatly from the current approach. Modern buildings are constructed with concrete based on Portland cement.\n\nThis involves heating and crushing a mixture of several ingredients including limestone, sandstone, ash, chalk, iron and clay. The fine material is then mixed with \"aggregates\", such as rocks or sand, to build concrete structures.\n\nThe process of making cement has a heavy environmental penalty, being responsible for around 5% of global emissions of CO2.\n\nSo could the greater understanding of the ancient Roman mixture lead to greener building materials?\n\nProf Jackson is testing new materials using sea water and volcanic rock from the western United States. Speaking to the BBC earlier this year, she argued that the planned Swansea tidal lagoon should be built using the ancient Roman knowledge of concrete.\n\n\"Their technique was based on building very massive structures that are really quite environmentally sustainable and very long-lasting,\" she said.\n\n\"I think Roman concrete or a type of it would be a very good choice [for Swansea]. That project is going to require 120 years of service life to amortise [pay back] the investment.\n\n\"We know that Portland cement concretes contain steel reinforcements. Those will surely corrode in at least half of that service lifetime.\"\n\nThere are a number of limiting factors that make the revival of the Roman approach very challenging. One is the lack of suitable volcanic rocks. The Romans, the scientists say, were fortunate that the right materials were on their doorstep.\n\nAnother drawback is the lack of the precise mixture that the Romans followed. It might take years of experimenting to discover the full formula.\n\nThe research has been published in the journal American Mineralogist.\n\nFollow Matt on Twitter and on Facebook", "Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond has said the 1% pay cap on public sector workers will not be lifted.\n\nThe announcement comes despite several cabinet ministers, including Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, having called on Downing Street to rethink its position on the 1% cap on public sector pay.\n\nThe limit on pay rises affects dentists, nurses, doctors, police and military, as well as those that work for local government bodies.\n\nThe majority of public sector workers who contacted BBC News to voice their opinions wished to retain their anonymity, fearing that disclosure would hinder the relationship with their employers.\n\nSteve had been a police officer for over 20 years and commented that he and his colleagues are losing faith in the government.\n\n\"I can say on good authority that the lack of staff and low morale is at critical levels,\" he explains.\n\n\"More staff are off sick with stress and every day we just want to get through the shift.\n\n\"Pay and pensions have been decimated and people are looking to leave in their droves.\"\n\nThe pay cap also affects local council staff like Adam, from Cambridgeshire, who works for a District Council.\n\n\"My pay has effectively stayed the same for over six years.\n\n\"I haven't worked for the public sector for that long so my pension is of limited benefit, but better than nothing.\n\n\"I will have to work till I'm at least 69-years-of-age to pay off my mortgage.\"\n\nAnother person frustrated with the pay cap is Bianca, a nurse working in the paediatric intensive care unit of a hospital.\n\n\"It's important to emphasise that I did not go into nursing for the money, but I did not go in to nursing to be unappreciated and underpaid either,\" she says.\n\n\"Giving up valuable time with my family and friends for £23,500 a year and experiencing what I can only describe as chronic fatigue, starts to seem like too big of a sacrifice.\n\n\"I have watched children die and I have held their parents' hands through it. I have held a child's airway open and given them breaths when they were suddenly unable to breathe themselves.\n\n\"The sacrifices that we as nurses make for minimal pay and appreciation are demoralising. It will pain me to leave but ultimately I believe it will be better for my better mental health.\n\nThe limit on pay rises also affects prison officers such as Nick who has worked in the industry for over 27 years.\n\n\"My pay has been frozen since 2010 with the exception of a one-off consolidated payment of £300 in 2014!\n\n\"The Prison Service has once again submitted a recommendation of 1% to the Prison Service Pay Review Body for staff on the new 'Fair and Sustainable' conditions.\n\n\"I will not sign up to the recommendation as it would be a pay cut as well as reducing my pensionable pay.\"", "The NHS in England recorded 5,391 new cases of female genital mutilation (FGM) in the past year, data reveals.\n\nAlmost half involved women and girls living in London, NHS Digital found.\n\nA third were women and girls born in Somalia, while 112 cases were UK-born nationals.\n\nThe practice is illegal in the UK and it is compulsory for family doctors, hospitals and mental health trusts to report any new cases in their patients.\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\nIt is the second time that NHS Digital has released annual FGM figures for England.\n\nMost of the cases were spotted by midwives and doctors working in maternity and obstetric units.\n\nThe majority had originally had FGM done to them abroad and as a young child.\n\nThe NSPCC says more should be done to end the practice: \"FGM is child abuse. Despite being illegal for over 30 years, too many people are still being subjected to it and it is right that health services have started to properly record evidence of this horrendous practice.\n\n\"It takes courage to report concerns as many feel ashamed or worry they will betray friends and family. But we need to end the silence that surrounds FGM to better protect children.\"\n\nThe National FGM Centre, which is run by the children's charity Barnardo's and the Local Government Association (LGA), tries to prevent the practice, but its director Michelle Lee-Izu is warning it could be at risk of closure if government funding is withdrawn.\n\nCllr Simon Blackburn, from the LGA, said the government \"must act now\" to secure the National FGM Centre's \"long-term future\" by providing guaranteed funding.\n\nHe said: \"Social work provision to girls and families affected by FGM has been quickly and significantly improved through the intervention of Centre social workers, embedded in council safeguarding teams, and hundreds of referrals have been received in areas that previously only recorded a handful of cases each year.\n\nMr Blackburn added that the government needed to back its commitment to ending FGM in the UK \"with the long-term funding required to make that vision a reality\".\n\nAnyone concerned about someone who has suffered, or is at risk of FGM, can contact the NSPCC FGM Helpline anonymously on 0800 028 3550 or visit nspcc.org.uk.\n\nWendy Preston, from the Royal College of Nursing, said: \"Mandatory reporting and compulsory sex-and-relationships education are important weapons in the fight against FGM, and school nurses play a vital role in both educating children and young women, and spotting those who may be at risk.\n\n\"The government must act to attract and retain school nurses, to help address the problem at grassroots level, and maintain momentum in the fight to eradicate FGM.\"\n\nA government spokesman said the start-up money for the centre came from the £200m Children's Social Care Innovation Programme, and was designed to lead to self-sustaining work, not ongoing core funding.\n\nBut he added: \"Protecting women and girls from violence and supporting victims is a key priority for this government and a personal priority for the Minister for Women and Equalities, Justine Greening.\"\n• None 'I can never leave them with anyone'\n• None FGM- 'I was crying, I couldn't help her' - BBC News\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The founder of Silicon Valley-based venture capitalist firm 500 Startups has resigned following sexual harassment claims by several women.\n\nDave McClure announced his resignation in a blog entitled: \"I'm a creep. I'm sorry.\"\n\nEntrepreneur Sarah Kunst had claimed in the New York Times that Mr McClure sent inappropriate messages after discussing a potential job offer with her.\n\nMr McClure apologised directly to her for his behaviour in his post.\n\nHe also admitted that he had behaved inappropriately towards other women.\n\n\"I made advances towards multiple women in work-related situations, where it was clearly inappropriate,\" wrote Mr McClure.\n\n\"I put people in compromising and inappropriate situations, and I selfishly took advantage of those situations where I should have known better. My behaviour was inexcusable and wrong.\"\n\nSarah Kunst claimed Dave McClure said in a message he didn't know whether to \"hire her or hit on her\" according to the New York Times\n\nAfter the article, tech entrepreneur Cheryl Yeoh also published claims of an assault in her apartment and claimed there were \"dozens\" of women who had been sexually harassed by him.\n\nShe said she had hosted Mr McClure and some other investors at her home to brainstorm new ideas in 2014. He was the last to leave.\n\n\"He pushed himself on to me to the point where I was backed into a corner, made contact to kiss me, and said something along the lines of, 'Just one night, please just this one time,'\" she wrote.\n\nMs Yeoh said she had already told Mr McClure that she had a boyfriend, and that he knew him.\n\n\"The fact that I had to say no multiple times, and that he had pushed himself on to me and kissed me without my consent was way more than crossing the line of inappropriateness,\" she wrote.\n\nIn his blog Mr McClure apologised directly to Sarah Kunst and \"the women I have hurt or offended\" but did not mention Ms Yeoh by name.\n\nHe has not commented on her claims.\n\nTechCrunch reported that a female partner in the firm had also resigned, criticising 500 Startup's leadership for its \"lack of transparency\" regarding Dave McClure.\n\nCo-founder Christine Tsai has now taken on the role of chief executive.\n\n\"As much as we want to be part of the solution, we clearly have also been part of the problem,\" she wrote.\n\n\"Undoubtedly there are ways I could have done more or acted sooner.\"\n\nDave McClure is undergoing counselling \"to work on changing his perspectives\", she added.\n\nSilicon Valley has been rocked by sexism scandals in recent months.\n\nSeveral senior executives at Uber, including founder Travis Kalanick, resigned after a damning report into the organisational culture within the firm which included sexual discrimination.\n\nLast month, Binary Capital co-founders Justin Caldbeck and Jonathan Teo both resigned from the tech investment firm following accusations of harassment carried out by Mr Caldbeck.\n\nIn a statement to The Information (which has a paywall) Mr Caldbeck said he was \"deeply disturbed\" by the allegations.\n\n\"There's no denying this is an issue in the venture community, and I hate that my behaviour has contributed to it,\" he said.\n\nAt last week's Female Founders conference, attendees said they were pleased to see action was being taken.\n\n\"People are being held accountable - they're not sweeping it under the carpet,\" Jessica Livingston, co-creator of start-up investment programme Y Combinator, told the BBC.", "Mike Ashley was at the High Court for the hearing\n\nBillionaire Mike Ashley has dismissed claims he owes a finance expert £14m and said their conversations were \"drink banter\", a court has heard.\n\nThe Newcastle United owner is being sued by Jeffrey Blue at London's High Court.\n\nMr Blue said he was promised £15m if he managed to increase Sports Direct's share price to £8, but that he only received £1m.\n\nBut Mr Ashley said their meetings were drink-fuelled \"banter\".\n\nMr Blue says Mr Ashley, who runs Sports Direct, did not stick to a commercial agreement.\n\nBut in a written statement, the sportswear tycoon said: \"I can't believe that [Mr Blue] is now trying to take me for £14m off the back of some drink banter that he is seeking to engineer into something more.\"\n\nFinance expert Jeffrey Blue claims he was promised £15m for pushing up the price of shares\n\nMr Justice Leggatt has heard that the dispute between Mr Blue and Mr Ashley relates to a conversation in a London pub called the Horse & Groom in 2013.\n\nMr Blue came under attack from Mr Ashley's lawyers as he gave evidence during the second day of the hearing.\n\nDavid Cavender QC, who leads Mr Ashley's legal team, accused Mr Blue of \"making up evidence\" and said the claim was an \"opportunistic try-on\".\n\nMr Cavender also said Mr Ashley \"fairly\" said he could not recall details of conversations in the Horse & Groom, \"particularly in the light of the amount of drinking\".\n\n\"He does recall 'that there was a lot of banter and bravado'.\n\n\"He does not recall any discussion about whether Mr Blue would be paid a sum of money if the share price reached £8 a share.\"\n\nMr Ashley is due to give evidence on Wednesday.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Whatever the precise range and capability of North Korea's latest ballistic missile test, there is no doubt that it is making steady progress towards its goal of having a nuclear-capable missile, able to threaten the continental US.\n\nThat term \"nuclear capable\" is important. Pyongyang must both miniaturise a nuclear warhead to fit on the head of a missile and be able to protect it against all the buffeting and forces as it re-enters the earth's atmosphere.\n\nWe do not know precisely where the North Koreans stand in this aspect of their programme. But it is possible that North Korea will achieve its goal during the Trump presidency.\n\nThis then throws a spotlight on the US ability to defend against such an attack. Huge quantities of money have been invested in ballistic missile defence. There is a global network of satellite sensors and relays able to spot and track a missile launch. Interceptor missiles are already in place.\n\nBut critics believe that the US system is far from reliable. The Trump administration is reviewing the whole programme. New generations of interceptor missiles are coming on stream. But in the foreseeable future, only a handful will be available to deal with the potential North Korean threat.\n\nIsrael's missile defence system has proved effective against the rockets it has faced\n\nWe are a long way from the \"Star Wars\" dream of President Ronald Reagan, who hoped for the construction of a missile-proof shield over the US and its allies. In those days ballistic missile defences were seen by many as destabilising.\n\nThat is why there was a Cold War treaty largely banning them. They would threaten the certainty of a retaliatory nuclear attack getting through, thus increasing the likelihood of a no-warning onslaught, in turn decreasing the effectiveness of nuclear deterrence.\n\nMissile defence viewed as part of the strategic equation between two nuclear-armed superpowers is one thing. Some argued that even a less-than-effective defensive system would alter an opponent's calculations.\n\nBut very quickly the idea of a missile-proof screen - like a comic book Captain America's shield protecting the continental US - was seen as science fiction if not fantasy. It would be too expensive and the technology simply did not exist.\n\nSurface-to-air missiles have been deployed outside Japan's defence ministry\n\nScroll forward a few decades and the threat that missile defence is now ranged against is very different. It is not - despite Russian protests - aimed at weakening Russia's nuclear forces. It is designed to protect against a very specific threat - from Iran or North Korea's developing missile arsenals.\n\nAgainst this kind of threat, the requirement is not simply to alter an adversary's strategic calculations, but to stop each and every missile getting through.\n\nTechnology has advanced dramatically with some of the most significant strides being made by Israel. Its interceptor systems and their associated radars - funded in large part by the US - have shown themselves spectacularly successful, even though against a full-scale onslaught even Israel's system would be sorely tested.\n\nThe Thaad defence system will take out missiles considered a threat to South Korea\n\nIn contrast the US's own defensive system, according to many critics, is not yet up to the job. Testing has provided mixed results. And there are frequent criticisms that even the most elaborate tests are not conducted in ways which fully resemble real-world conditions.\n\nEven US commanders accept that their defences are not fully missile-proof and that they might quickly be overwhelmed if a country possessed a sizeable arsenal of missiles.\n\nWhatever President Trump decides to do about North Korea and the growing reach of its missiles, time is running out.\n\nOne option he may pursue is to step up the US's own defences, just as he has deployed interceptor missiles in South Korea to try to enhance its defences against missile attack.", "The Iraqi military says it has made some progress recapturing the Old City\n\nFierce clashes and rising numbers of suicide attacks have been reported in Mosul as Iraqi troops try to recapture the city from Islamic State militants.\n\nThe last IS-held quarter, known as the Old City, was rocked by air strikes and artillery salvos, with local commanders expecting to retake full control soon.\n\nHowever, they are facing more suicide attacks, including several from female bombers, in the battle's final phase.\n\nThe major offensive against IS in Mosul was launched in October 2016.\n\nThousands of Iraqi security forces, Kurdish Peshmerga fighters, Sunni Arab tribesmen and Shia militiamen, assisted by US-led coalition warplanes and military advisers, are involved in the operation.\n\nThe government announced the full \"liberation\" of eastern Mosul in January 2017. But the west of the city has presented a more difficult challenge, with its narrow, winding streets.\n\n\"The fighting is becoming harder every day because of the nature of the Old City,\" Lt Gen Abdulghani al-Assadi, a commander of Iraq's elite Counter-Terrorism Service, was quoted as saying by the AFP news agency.\n\nHe added that the same conditions that were beneficial for IS fighters also helped to shield Iraqi troops from snipers.\n\nCivilians have been fleeing the Old City as the offensive continues\n\nLt Gen Sami al-Aridhi, another CTS commander, told AFP: \"The enemy has been using suicide bombers, especially women, for the past three days in some of the neighbourhoods. Before that, they were using snipers and bombs more.\"\n\nSome of the suicide bombers were reportedly teenage girls.\n\nThere were two female suicide attacks on troops on Monday, while seven other women bearing explosives attempted to approach troops but were intercepted, AP news agency reported.\n\nTo prevent such attacks, Iraqi commanders said they were now ordering women fleeing from the Old City to remove veils before approaching soldiers. Men were told to remove their shirts.\n\nThe UN has said that IS may be holding more than 100,000 people in Mosul as human shields.\n\nThe Iraqi army says it believes there are no more than 300 militants left in Mosul, compared with almost 6,000 at the start of the offensive in October.\n\nBrigadier General Yahya Rasool told state TV that \"victory is very near\", while another commander has estimated that \"the battle will end in five days to a week\".", "A 16-year-old boy's human rights were breached by his being kept in solitary confinement for 23-and-a-half hours a day, a judge has ruled.\n\nThe High Court said the boy, who is referred to as AB, was unlawfully denied access to education and the ability to mix with other inmates.\n\nBut it rejected claims his treatment at Feltham Young Offenders Institution was \"inhuman and degrading\".\n\nThe Ministry of Justice said it would \"carefully\" consider the findings.\n\nThe MoJ was contesting the legal challenge by AB, who has \"significant\" mental health problems. He was detained in December and is due to be released in later this month.\n\nFeltham, in south-west London, provides specialist custodial places for boys aged 15-18.\n\nOn Tuesday, the judge ruled that AB's Article 8 rights - the right to private and family life - were breached, but Mr Justice Ouseley rejected claims his treatment amounted to a breach of the human rights laws which prohibit torture and inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.\n\nThe Howard League for Penal Reform, which took forward the case on AB's behalf, said the court had \"declared this boy's isolation for certain periods and the denial of adequate education unlawful because it was against prison rules\".\n\nBut chief executive Frances Crook said the group would appeal against the \"disappointing\" part of the judgement.\n\nRebecca Hilsenrath, chief executive of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, said the 16-year-old's confinement was \"simply the wrong thing to do\".\n\nShe said: \"To lock up a young child with special educational needs for over 23 hours a day, with little to no education or exercise, is an attack on their rights.\n\n\"Isolation of this kind has been widely criticised by experts in the field, both in the UK and internationally.\"\n\nThe MoJ, however, insisted that \"proportionate and justified segregation\" was essential to managing inmates if they pose a risk to staff and other prisoners, and it was pleased the judge had found in its favour on that point.\n\nThe spokesperson added: \"The safety and welfare of young people held in custody is our highest priority.\"\n\nThe court was told by a QC for the Justice Secretary that the boy had a history of assaulting prison staff and making \"racist taunts\", and \"poses a very real risk to the good order or discipline\" at Feltham.\n\nDuring a recent inspection, separate to the case, Feltham was found to run an \"ineffective\" regime for managing bad behaviour.\n\nThe HM Inspectorate of Prisons said about 40% of boys were locked up during the school day while 30% were allowed out of their cells for only two hours each day.\n\nNevertheless, inspectors praised staff for their \"impressive\" healthcare and mental health provisions.\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\nThe youngest victim of the Manchester attack was \"everything you could wish for in a little girl\", her father said on what would have been her ninth birthday.\n\nSaffie Roussos was among 22 people killed in a bombing at an Ariana Grande concert at Manchester Arena on 22 May.\n\nHer father Andrew, said Saffie was a \"huge character\" and was \"stunning\".\n\nMr Roussos said he has not thought or asked questions about what happened because he \"can't get Saffie back\".\n\nSaffie Roussos was a pupil at Tarleton Primary School, in Lancashire\n\nIn his first interview since the attack, Mr Roussos, from Lancashire, told the BBC: \"She was a joker. She was a huge character.\n\n\"She was just everything you could wish for in a little girl.\"\n\n\"She loved dancing, music, gymnastics. If she wanted something, she would do it,\" he added.\n\n\"I knew that Saffie would love her pictures to be on, and to be spoken about on TV.\"\n\nSaffie's brother Xander and father Andrew met Ariana Grande during her visit to meet those injured in the attack\n\nSaffie Roussos would have wanted her name and images to be remembered through the media, her father said\n\nSaffie had been at the concert with her mother Lisa and 26-year-old sister Ashlee Bromwich.\n\nMrs Roussos has undergone multiple operations and was placed in an induced coma by doctors.\n\nWhen she awoke she knew her daughter had died, Mr Roussos explained.\n\n\"I was dreading it. She just looked at me and said 'she's gone isn't she?', and I said 'yeah'. She goes, 'I knew'.\"\n\nMrs Roussos is improving at a much quicker rate than doctors had expected and the rest of the family were \"all strong for each other\", he added.\n\nSaffie's sister Ms Bromwich said: \"She was Ariana Grande-obsessed.\n\n\"She kept on going, 'come on Ashlee you promised me you'd get up and dance' - so we had a little dance. She was so happy, she was elated all night, grinning.\"\n\nBut everything changed at the end of the show when suicide bomber Salman Abedi detonated a home-made device in the foyer of the arena.\n\n\"I remember I was thrown to the ground and, my next instinct, I just sort of I rolled over and crawled because I couldn't walk,\" Ms Bromwich said.\n\nMr Roussos said \"hell broke loose\" and he remembered arriving to discover Ms Bromwich being treated at the scene, while Saffie and his wife were missing.\n\nSister Ashlee Bromwich said Saffie was \"obsessed\" with Ariana Grande\n\n\"We just walked round and all the police were there. It was chaos.\n\n\"You're panicking and worrying. You don't know what's going on,\" he said.\n\nMr Roussos, with the help of a friend, eventually received confirmation from Salford Royal Hospital that they were caring for his wife. But he heard nothing of Saffie.\n\n\"As the hours went on, I thought the worst,\" he said.\n\nHis faint hope, he added, was \"that she was in one of the hotels\".\n\nHe was later informed by a detective that Saffie had died.\n\n\"I couldn't take it in. I just sat there looking at him,\" he said. \"It's just your worst nightmare. I didn't know what to say, I didn't know what to think.\"\n\nAndrew Roussos said when he was told of Saffie's death he \"couldn't take it in\"\n\nWhen asked about their thoughts on Abedi, Mr Roussos said: \"It doesn't matter what I think, It doesn't matter what I feel, how much anger I've got, it doesn't matter how much love I've got, it doesn't change a thing.\n\n\"It doesn't, so I haven't even thought about it because if I could think about it, analyse it, break it down, sort it out and get Saffie back I'll do it but I can't.\n\n\"I've not even asked questions, I don't even know what's happened, I'm not interested.\"\n\nMs Bromwich said she \"didn't want to know, I'm not interested\".\n\nFlowers and tributes flooded in for Saffie after the Manchester attack\n\nSaffie's brother Xander Roussos, 11, said it is \"quite hard to cope with\", adding there are \"times when you're sad and times when you're happy\".\n\n\"We do a little bit of laughing, a little bit of joking, a little bit of crying and cuddling, and that's how we get through the day,\" Mr Roussos said.\n\nMr Roussos said he had met Ariana Grande before her One Love Manchester concert in June.\n\n\"I wanted to tell her what she meant to Saffie,\" he said. \"I wanted to tell her from a father's point of view that she's got nothing to be sorry for... It wasn't her fault.\"\n\n\"All she could say to me was, 'I'm sorry', and I said, 'You've got nothing to be sorry for. You made Saffie so happy with what you do'.\n\n\"She thanked me,\" he said. \"She appreciated me telling her that.\"\n\nMr Roussos said he was thankful Saffie managed to enjoy the entire show before she died.\n\n\"I'm grateful she got to see all of it,\" he said.\n\nSaffie was a \"joker and a huge character\", her father said", "John Varley is the first former bank chief executive to face criminal charges over conduct during the 2008 financial crisis\n\nThe four defendants made their way through a thick press pack to take their seats - in the dock - at Westminster Magistrates court yesterday. It was a sight many thought they would never see. Senior bank executives inside a criminal court to face charges for their conduct during the great financial crisis.\n\nFormer chief executive John Varley and bankers Roger Jenkins, Tom Kalaris and Richard Boath sat, stony-faced, next to each other behind the glass panel as they gave their names, date of birth and addresses and listened as the charges against them were read by the clerk of the court.\n\nIn 2008, at the height of the financial crisis - rather than taking a government bailout (and the strings attached to it) - Barclays managed to raise a total of £12bn from Middle East investors.\n\nThis case centres around agreements struck to secure around half of that from Qatar state-owned entities.\n\nThere are two offences alleged - the first is that Barclays failed to disclose £322m in fees that it paid to its new investors - all four are facing this charge of conspiracy to defraud by misrepresentation. The second is that Barclays lent the Qataris £2bn which helped to fund the £5.3bn investment in Barclays shares. John Varley, Roger Jenkins and Barclays PLC are facing this additional charge of unlawful financial assistance. All four men are expected to contest the charges. Barclays PLC has not indicated how it will plead.\n\nThe possibility that the company may enter a different plea is important and ratchets up the stakes in this high profile case - and not just for the defendants.\n\nThe four men could face jail terms of up to 10 years if found guilty.\n\nBarclays PLC, the holding company that owns Barclays Bank, could face hundreds of millions in fines for criminal behaviour and open itself to hundreds of millions more in civil suits.\n\nBut for the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) this case coincides with a moment of existential anxiety. The Conservative manifesto contained plans to fold the SFO into the National Crime Agency and no-one in government seems clear whether the policy's omission from the Queen's Speech means it has had a reprieve or not. What is clear is that at the time he was deciding to bring these charges, the head of the SFO, David Green, would have assumed the government planned to call time on its 30-year existence. This could be the last hurrah of an organisation with a chequered history.\n\nIf it is its goodbye, the SFO has picked a hell of swansong. It's the first time that any senior banking executives have faced criminal charges for their conduct in the great financial crisis nearly a decade ago. Some will say a case like this is scandalously overdue, but legal experts tell me that it also shows you just how difficult it is to bring a case like this and therefore just how high the risks are to the credibility of the SFO if it's unsuccessful.\n\nThe biggest complication comes from charging the company - in this case Barclays PLC.\n\nCriminal proceedings against companies are rare. Not only because you have to prove that the knowledge of the offence went right to the very top - to the \"controlling minds\" of the company - but also, officials are reluctant to punish a company when doing so might result in damaging its prospects, the livelihoods of innocent workers and in the case of big companies, the economy itself.\n\nPublic interest considerations like these are the reason the SFO dropped its long-running investigation into BAE Systems infamous Al-Yamamah contract to supply fighter jets to Saudi Arabia. Tens of thousands of UK jobs were at risk for two reasons. One, the investigation risked putting one of BAE's biggest customer's nose out of joint and second, criminal convictions for a company can debar it from bidding for lucrative contracts at home and abroad.\n\nThis problem was one of the main reasons behind the adoption of a new mechanism called a Deferred Prosecution Agreement (DPA). Under a DPA, the company admits wrongdoing, gets a whopping fine but is not criminally convicted - and so its business, the livelihoods of its workers and the wider economy are not damaged. Everyone is also spared a lengthy and costly trial that might end up without the SFO securing a conviction.\n\nThe SFO has used DPAs to great effect with Rolls Royce (£671m fine) and Tesco (£129m). In fact, these successes led to many thinking the SFO had finally got its mojo back. Holding big companies to account without holding the economy to ransom. The SFO also reserves the right to feel the collars of the individuals involved at a later date.\n\nSo why wasn't this lower risk approach used by the SFO in this case?\n\nMr Green made it clear that DPAs are only for companies who fully co-operate with investigators. Barclays withheld tens of thousands of documents citing legal privilege - behaviour Mr Green described as leading the SFO \"a merry dance\". Barclays points out that it's unreasonable to punish the bank for exerting legal rights. Nevertheless, a DPA was never put on the table. The SFO has made a concession to the economic importance of Barclays to the UK. It has charged the holding company (Barclays PLC) rather than the operating company, Barclays Bank. This means the ability of this important transatlantic bank to operate in its key markets should not be affected - whatever the outcome.\n\nMany feel that the SFO, after years of mixed results, was just getting into its stride when plans for its demise were hatched and published in the Tory manifesto. Perhaps that contributed to the SFO's decision to go out in a blaze of glory of pressing for criminal convictions of both a bank and its senior management.\n\nNearly a decade on from a financial crisis and this is the first time any former bank chief executive anywhere in the world has faced criminal charges for alleged conduct during the greatest financial crisis since the 1930s. A society that paid the price of a long recession which scars the economy to this day feels short-changed by that and one insider close to the investigation described SFO chief Mr Green as being on \"a crusade\" to acknowledge that frustration.\n\nWhether there is any truth in that or not, one thing seems clear. Taking this route is a lot riskier for the SFO than offering a DPA.\n\nPhilip Marshall QC told the BBC that it is very difficult to prove that executive actions were dishonest rather than mistaken and other legal sources have told me that this case could last two years or more.\n\nAlso, what happens if the company pleads guilty while the human defendants plead not guilty? What kind of reporting restrictions might be necessary given a public company's duty to inform its shareholders of information that could materially affect the value of the company. This is complicated territory.\n\nLet's not forget one more thing. A LOT of bad stuff happened before, during and after the crisis. Reckless lending, irresponsible borrowing, lax regulation, market rigging, financially abusing customers - you can add your own items to this list.\n\nFormer City Minister Lord (Paul) Myners has said that the Barclays top brass wanted nothing to do with government money - not least because of the intrusion that would mean into matters like pay (just ask bankers at RBS and Lloyds). Also markets lose their integrity and participants all lose if some break the law - as is alleged here.\n\nBut how many people, I wonder, would put a bank - trying to raise money to prevent a taxpayer funded bailout - in the ninth circle of Hades.\n\nThe SFO is taking a big risk it could have avoided by exacting a whopping fine through a DPA. The appearance of these executives inside a criminal court may slake the public's thirst for overdue personal accountability. So far, they have only spent an hour in court.\n\nThe weeks, months and possibly years to come will determine if the SFO picked the right battle here.", "Billy Monger has driven a racing car for the first time since his crash\n\nA teenage racing driver who had to have both legs amputated after a high speed crash has got back behind the wheel.\n\nBilly Monger, from Surrey, hit the back of a stationary car at Donington Park in April and lost both of his lower legs, days before he turned 18.\n\nEleven weeks on, he has now returned to the cockpit of a racing car at Brands Hatch in Kent.\n\nThe adapted Fun Cup endurance racer is designed to look like a VW Beetle and has steering wheel mounted controls.\n\nThe Formula 4 racer returned to the track with the assistance of Team BRIT, which helps disabled drivers and injured servicemen to compete in motorsport.\n\nThe teenager said he still wanted to perfect his technique\n\nHe said: \"It's been really good just to get back behind the wheel.\n\nAnd he added: \"Team BRIT have got two steering wheels for me to try out today.\n\n\"I've decided which one I prefer, now it's just about perfecting the technique.\"\n\nDave Player, Team BRIT founder said the aim was to give the teenager his first time out on the track and to get his race licence back.\n\nMonger said his ambition now was to compete in the Le Mans 24 Hours with Frenchman Frederic Sausset, who lost both arms and legs through an illness.\n\nBilly was driving a specially-adapted car with similar power to a performance hatchback\n\n\"I'm not 100% committed to anything yet, we're just looking at different options to see what's best for me in the future,\" he said.\n\n\"There's a lot of work involved in what's going on with my own rehabilitation, but that's all going well, so hopefully we'll be back out on track soon.\"\n\nBilly's car is specially adapted with steering wheel-mounted hand controls for the throttle, brakes and clutch\n\nThe teenager thanked fans who had overwhelmed him with help: \"People keep saying I'm the inspiration but I think all these people coming together to support someone who has gone through an accident like this, they're the true inspiration.\"\n\nBilly had vowed to race again after turning 18\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Skincare brand Baby Dove has been criticised by mums who say the company's new adverts support those who oppose breastfeeding in public.\n\nOne advert says \"75% say breastfeeding in public is fine, 25% say put them away. What's your way?\"\n\nThe Advertising Standards Authority has received 151 complaints, including concerns the ad perpetuates a negative image of breastfeeding in public.\n\nBrand owner Unilever said it aims to celebrate different parenting styles.\n\nAnother Dove advert shows a crying baby accompanied by text that reads: \"36% are for feeding him when he cries, 64% are passionately against it. What's your way?\"\n\nWhile the brand's website also reads: \"So whether you're among the 66% who think that breastfeeding in public is fine, or the 34% who think otherwise, whatever choice you make, we are with you every step of the way.\"\n\nBut \"Unmumsy Mum\" blogger Sarah Turner said in an open letter to Dove, posted on Facebook, that supporting the \"dangerous\" view that it was acceptable to criticise breastfeeding in public could put mums off.\n\n\"No woman should be made to feel ashamed for feeding their baby in public,\" she wrote.\n\n\"If you are standing with people who think breastfeeding in public is not okay, are you also with them if they ask a breastfeeding mum to cover up, or if they think she would be better off sat feeding in a restaurant toilet?\"\n\nBaby Milk Action, a non-profit organisation, called the \"What's your way?\" campaign \"seriously misguided\".\n\nIn a Facebook post, it said: \"Please do not be intimidated by the Dove marketing campaign condoning those who object to breastfeeding in public.\n\n\"It is illegal to discriminate against anyone for how they feed their child in public.\"\n\nEmma Pickett, from the Association of Breastfeeding Mothers, said: \"It's not anyone's 'way' to oppose it unless they fancy going to court or criminal action, and it's insulting to imagine that mums who formula feed automatically sympathise with people who dislike breastfeeding in public.\n\n\"This message intimidates new mums and that means increased isolation and greater risk of postnatal mental health issues.\"\n\nAnna Burbridge, from support group La Leche League, agreed that women \"need support and protection against unpleasant and aggressive comments, and advertising campaigns which ask what people think are unhelpful\".\n\n\"Women do not have to 'put them away' and anything which implies they do contradicts the legal right of women to breastfeed.\"\n\nUnilever responded to the criticisms in a statement, saying: \"We believe there are many ways to be a great mum or dad.\n\n\"Our campaign simply aims to celebrate the different approaches and opinions around parenting, including whether or not mums choose to breastfeed in public, recognising that it's ultimately what works for you and your baby that matters the most.\"\n\nMany have voiced their opinions on social media.\n\nBev Bevster said on Facebook she was \"disgusted that Dove supports the discrimination of breastfeeding mothers\" and \"promotes child cruelty\" by allowing babies to cry.\n\n\"What has any of this got to do with do with body products?\"\n\nRhiannon Kendrick wrote: \"I have just seen your ludicrous, sensationalist and downright upsetting Baby Dove advert. Who wants to see a picture of a crying baby for goodness sake?\"\n\nSome complaints have criticised the statistics quoted on Baby Dove's website\n\nIn England and Wales, it is illegal for anyone to ask a breastfeeding woman to leave a public place, such as a cafe, shop or public transport.\n\nScottish law makes it an offence to deliberately prevent or stop a person from feeding milk to a child in their charge in a public place or licensed premises.\n\nNorthern Ireland ministers have been considering legislation to protect mothers who breastfeed in public.\n\nLast year, a study published in medical journal The Lancet found that the rates of breastfeeding in the UK were the lowest in the world.\n\nThe Advertising Standards Authority said the \"general nature\" of the complaints it had received were that it was not clear where the statistics were from.\n\nThe complaints said one advert encouraged a parenting style that was poor or neglectful, while the other perpetuated a negative perception of breastfeeding in public.\n\nAn ASA spokesman said the complaints were being assessed and no decision had yet been made on whether advertising rules had been broken.", "David, now 17, had to wait almost four months for an ankle foot orthosis\n\nA wasted operation which left her son David unable to walk was what spurred on Rebecca Loo to make a difference to the NHS.\n\n\"I was livid. I was so consumed by anger. I thought either I have a nervous breakdown, or I do something,\" says Rebecca, from Staffordshire.\n\nShe is only one of 300,000 people who got in touch with Healthwatch England, an independent health watchdog, to share their experiences of NHS treatment.\n\nRebecca's disgust with the orthotics service which failed her son has led to a total redesign of how children access braces, boots and callipers to help their mobility.\n\nAs a result of her hard work, children right across England are no longer facing the sort of delays which affected her son.\n\nCrucially, NHS England believes the changes have the potential to save hospitals up to £22 million.\n\nBecause of muscle abnormalities resulting from cerebral palsy, which left his foot turned inwards, David had needed to wear special, supportive NHS boots to help him walk.\n\nBut they were usually ill-fitting, and often so delayed that he had outgrown them by the time he got them - or only a few months later.\n\nDavid then endured blisters, chaffing and bleeding toes while new boots were made.\n\nIn 2009, an orthopaedic surgeon recommended serial casting to set David's foot straight.\n\nDavid was left immobile and unable to go to school\n\nImmediately after surgery he should have been fitted with an ankle foot orthosis - a brace that keeps the ankle and foot straight - but it took 17 weeks to arrive and, within days of the operation, her son was immobile.\n\nThe knock-on effect for nine-year-old David was huge, both in terms of his physical development and his emotional well-being. He missed school for four months because he couldn't access his classroom on the top floor. He was upset and in pain.\n\n\"We weren't just back at square one, we were worse than when we started,\" Rebecca told BBC News.\n\nDavid later had to undergo complex surgery that Rebecca believes would have been unnecessary if her local orthotics department had worked as it should have done.\n\nAnd it turned out Rebecca's experience was not unique. She spoke to many other parents who had endured similar experiences - but nothing had been done to improve the system.\n\nTogether, they created a dossier of evidence cataloguing the woeful state of her local orthotics department.\n\nRebecca Loo's son's wait meant surgery ultimately had to be done again\n\n\"Nobody cared who was in charge; nobody had looked at how the service was commissioned,\" explains Rebecca. \"The service was neglected and underfunded.\"\n\nHealthwatch England has launched #ItStartsWithYou to highlight the difference patient feedback can make.\n\nThe campaign is encouraging members of the public to share their experiences of the NHS - good or bad - to help improve how things are done.\n\nImelda Redmond, national director of Healthwatch England, said the NHS was \"increasingly keen to find out what people are feeding back\".\n\n\"It can help the whole health and care sector understand what it is getting right and where things need to improve.\n\n\"I urge everyone to speak up and help us make the changes we all want to see,\" she said.\n\nRebecca's feedback ultimately changed the way services were commissioned - not only in Staffordshire but across England. And in 2014, those processes were rolled out nationally.\n\n\"To have not acted would have been to accept defeat,\" says Rebecca. \"I didn't want another family to go through what we did.\n\n\"Unless you listen to patients, you can't have a service that meets needs.\"\n\nGeorge Rook's input on dementia treatment has helped improve local health and social care services\n\nGeorge Rook wanted to share his first-hand experience of being diagnosed with dementia, which has now led to the creation of two \"dementia cafes\" in Shropshire.\n\nAfter struggling with his own diagnosis, George, 63, has spent the past four years working with local doctors to help improve the way they identify and support people with early symptoms of the disease.\n\nWorking with his local Healthwatch, George has helped local GP surgeries to become \"dementia friendly\" and set up a programme to recruit local dementia champions.\n\nHe has also been instrumental in establishing the Butterfly Scheme, which sees medical staff pinning a butterfly to people's notes to enable others to quickly and discreetly see that they have dementia.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sir Bradley Wiggins is a five-time Olympic cycling champion, but will the 37-year-old's plans to swap his racing bike for a rowing boat see him reach a sixth Games?\n\nThe 2012 Tour de France winner retired from cycling in December 2016 and has taken up rowing in the gym to keep fit.\n\nHe first raised the idea of switching sports in his 2012 autobiography My Time, and has now outlined his intent to compete at the British Indoor Rowing Championships in December.\n\n\"I might be being a bit delusional, but the times suggest I'm not,\" he said. \"I'm going to see how far I can take it. Maybe a sixth Olympic gold?\"\n\nSo can Wiggins turn his rowing dreams into a reality? How does he go about bringing those plans to fruition? And what obstacles stand in his way on the road to Tokyo 2020?\n\nBBC Sport asked three-time Olympic champion Andrew Triggs Hodge what it will take for the mercurial cycling talent to become rowing royalty.\n\n'His last stroke will be his best'\n\nTriggs Hodge, 38, has won gold medals at three different Games, adding four World Championship titles to boot, and the now-retired Great Britain rower is excited to see what Wiggins can offer the sport.\n\n\"It's awesome Wiggo has thought about transferring to rowing,\" he told BBC Sport. \"I think that's never been done before, so congratulations for at least attempting it.\n\n\"I love the fact that he is trying, and I can't wait to see what he can do.\n\n\"He's going to have to do something that hasn't been done before, so I wish him all the luck and he will be welcomed into the sport with open arms.\"\n\nWith the experience of five Olympic Games behind him on a bike, Wiggins appears to have put his hopes of reaching a sixth in a boat.\n\nRebecca Romero, who became the first Briton to win medals in two sports at a summer Olympics, successfully made the switch in the opposite direction, so how will Britain's most decorated Olympian fare?\n\n\"The best advice I can give him is he is going to have to put all that to bed,\" added Triggs Hodge. \"If he comes on to the scene expecting to be an Olympic champion, he will put himself under a lot of pressure.\n\n\"If he has got the confidence and the presence to say 'OK, I will start off as a novice rower and expect nothing more' but train with that desire and that passion to put himself in the picture and let his body dictate to him a little bit, then I think he will get the most out of himself.\n\n\"I hope everyone will give him the time and space to explore the sport at his own pace, not put any pressure on.\n\n\"Give him the respect first for trying, and then give him the few years he'll need to start performing - it will be a long journey and his last stroke will be his best.\n\n\"Until that point he is on a trajectory and we should definitely give him the time and space and credit for venturing on this journey.\"\n\nWhat will be his biggest challenge?\n\nWiggins is not averse to attempting new things. He successfully made the transition from winning on the road to winning on the track and back again, clinching world and Olympic titles in both disciplines.\n\nTriggs Hodge says the former Team Sky rider obviously boasts a \"great engine\", but weight could be an issue for the 2012 Tour de France champion.\n\nWiggins said himself: \"I'm trying to get to 100 kilos, so I'd be 31 kilos heavier than when I went on Tour.\"\n\nAnd British Rowing performance director Sir David Tanner echoed those concerns in May: \"He's not the biggest of guys, so I'd guess if he did want to do rowing he'd want to be a lightweight, for which we only have two places these days.\"\n\n\"Physiologically he might be up for the challenge,\" explained Triggs Hodge. \"He's got a lot of work to do with his core and his upper body, especially when he gets into the boat, that'll be a big component.\n\n\"There's an aspect of retraining his body, retraining his aerobic system, his lactate system with the new muscles, a different capacity on his heart - there is a lot there to work and retrain.\n\n\"The tactical side in cycling is also huge. Getting a tactical advantage when you're in the peloton or in the time trial, so his advantage there is probably less so in rowing.\n\n\"But his biggest challenge is going to be the technical side. Rowing is a whole different ball game to cycling.\"\n\nIs Wiggins too old?\n\nOne obstacle facing the 37-year-old is his age. By the time the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games arrive, Wiggins will be 40.\n\nEven the likes of Sir Steve Redgrave and Sir Matthew Pinsent bowed out before hitting the same age, and Triggs Hodge says transferring any skills later in life is a challenge.\n\n\"Most of the top people retire between 35 and 40,\" added Triggs Hodge, who announced he was hanging up his oar shortly before his 38th birthday earlier this year.\n\n\"The reason being, the training volume really takes a toll on the body. Less specific muscles or bones, more just the metabolism, your kind of 'wholeness'.\n\n\"Physiologically, if you are able to take it a bit easier you can go on indefinitely. It depends how his body is going to be able to adapt.\"\n\nTriggs Hodge says the challenge for a lot of young rowers is coping with the volume of training needed, rather than actually progressing as a rower.\n\n\"You tend to see that first when people get into the national team,\" he added. \"They'll take a step back or stay static for a few years. When their body is then able to cope with the training, they will move forward and progress.\n\n\"He'll have to cope with some adjustments and it usually takes a youthful body to get over that hump.\n\n\"It won't be easy. Everyone is mortal, everyone only has one body and he will to have to take his time like the Redgraves and Pinsents did when they were young.\"\n\n'Get in a boat, that's where the magic lies'\n\nWiggins plans to showcase his talent at the British Indoor Rowing Championships in December at Lee Valley VeloPark in London, where competition takes place on static rowing machines.\n\nHe has yet to reveal whether he has been in the water, and Triggs Hodge says Wiggins' biggest challenge may be transferring from the gym to the regatta.\n\n\"If he's going to give it a go, he needs to get into a boat as soon as possible,\" said the 38-year-old.\n\n\"There's a classic saying in rowing that Ergos (rowing machines) don't float. As much as I know British Rowing are pushing indoor rowing, it simply isn't a water sport - it doesn't have the grace or elegance or even probably the injuries that the water sport has.\n\n\"There's no way to get side-by-side than to actually get on the water. He needs to see what it's like to get in a boat, that's where the magic lies in this sport.\n\n\"Especially when you are inside of it, you get to really appreciate what the sport has.\"\n\nWhat event would suit Wiggins best?\n\nWiggins is used to competing as part of a team, winning Olympic team pursuit gold medals in 2008 and 2016 and experiencing success on the road, but Triggs Hodge says the tactical element of rowing is different.\n\n\"Cycling teams yield to the main guy, the one that is leading and one you want to push to the front,\" he said. \"In rowing, it is a whole new dynamic in the team environment.\"\n\nSo is there a particular event that would suit Wiggins best?\n\n\"It's going to be tricky whatever,\" added the Molesey Boat Club rower. \"The best he can do is get himself into the middle of an eight, that's where he'll pick up the skills the fastest.\n\n\"The challenge with rowing in an eight is the team aspect is the most different to an individual sport or a sport where you have a leading star. There is a big challenge there to integrate into a top team.\n\n\"The smaller the boat class you go, down to the pairs or a single, you rely on more precision technique - it's more about the individual. You have just got to dive in and see where you prefer to be, accept the challenges wherever they may lie.\n\n\"All credit to the guy. He's going to have a big challenge but I look forward to seeing him have a go.\"", "Five million public sector workers have seen their pay capped since 2012\n\nPhilip Hammond has insisted pay policy has not changed and the \"right balance\" must continue to be struck in terms of what is fair for workers and taxpayers.\n\nThe chancellor, who is under pressure from colleagues to lift the 1% public pay cap, said he understood people were \"weary\" after seven years of austerity.\n\nBut speaking in London, he rejected calls to \"take the foot off the pedal\".\n\nGovernment must \"hold its nerve\" in the face of calls for a \"different path\" of higher taxes and borrowing, he said.\n\nMr Hammond is facing a growing chorus from within his own party for him to reconsider the 1% limit on increases in public sector salaries, which has been in place since 2012.\n\nForeign Secretary Boris Johnson expressed his support for a rethink on Monday, with sources suggesting he believed public sector workers could enjoy higher rewards in a \"responsible way\" that did not damage the public finances.\n\nRises of 1% for dentists, nurses, doctors and the military have already been agreed for this year and No 10 said ministers would respond to pay review bodies in due course.\n\nNigel Lawson, a former chancellor to Margaret Thatcher, said it was Mr Hammond's job to keep control of public spending to avoid \"economic disaster\".\n\n\"It's not easy but it is necessary,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme. \"People understand we need to pay our way on the road to economic success.\"\n\nLord Lawson called on ministers to formulate the policy behind closed doors, adding: \"Stop having this debate in public, it's ludicrous\".\n\nSpeaking to business leaders at a CBI dinner, Mr Hammond acknowledged there was widespread frustration at the stagnation in real-terms pay growth at a time of rising inflation.\n\nAddressing the current debate over public sector pay, he said government policy had \"always been designed to strike the right balance of between being fair to our public servants and fair to those who pay for them\".\n\n\"That approach has not changed; and we continually assess that balance. But we do, of course, recognise that the British people are weary after seven years hard slog repairing the damage of the great recession.\n\n\"They have travelled a long way… but still the sunlit uplands seem stubbornly to remain one further ridge away.\n\n\"And once again, some are questioning whether we should abandon the economic plan that has brought us so far… and take a different path.\"\n\nAfter the Conservatives' failure to win an overall majority, he said it was up to his party to again make the case for a market-based economy, underpinned by sound public finances.\n\nArguably the simpler part of the debate has been had - many public sector workers are feeling the pinch, and there is more and more pressure to remove the limit on pay rises. The more complicated bit, who or what would pay for the increase, is a conversation that's yet to happen.\n\nWhatever Boris Johnson and Michael Gove have said in the last 24 hours, don't expect anything to happen in a hurry. The first pay review body is not due to report for another few weeks.\n\nIt seems unlikely that the government will announce any plan to either ditch the cap or promise to accept the decisions of the review bodies before then.\n\nIt's not in either Theresa May or Philip Hammond's DNA to make quick decisions.\n\n\"After seven long and tough years, the high-wage, high-growth economy for which we strive is tantalisingly close to being within our grasp,\" he added.\n\n\"It would be easy to take our foot off the pedal. But instead we must hold our nerve... and maintain our focus resolutely on the prizes that are so nearly within reach.\"\n\nThe country needed \"the right Brexit deal agreed in the months ahead… a steady determination to restore our public finances to balance by 2025… and a relentless focus on transforming Britain's productivity performance\".\n\nThe BBC's political editor Laura Kuenssberg said there were intense discussions among ministers about the political wisdom of shifting position but while there was \"change in the air\" there was, as yet, no common position.\n\nLabour said immediate action was needed from the government not \"just more empty words or infighting from members of the Cabinet\".\n\nBut former Conservative minister Sir Oliver Letwin warned that \"some modest tax rises\" would be necessary to fund any public sector pay rise. \"If you want to spend more, then you have to raise some more,\" he told BBC2's Daily Politics.\n\nHe added that decisions like these need \"to be made as part of a package\".", "One man says members of his family were killed in an SAS night raid\n\nThe Royal Military Police is investigating an allegation that British special forces killed unarmed Afghan civilians, the BBC understands.\n\nThe BBC has spoken to one man who says four members of his family were killed in a night raid involving the SAS in 2011.\n\nThe Sunday Times has also reported other allegations of unlawful killing by British special forces.\n\nAn investigation into British troops' conduct in Afghanistan began in 2015.\n\nIn 2016, the Ministry of Defence said about 600 complaints against British forces in Afghanistan had been made, relating to a period between 2005 and 2013.\n\nThe MoD says 90% of those have already been dismissed, with fewer than 10% still the subject of investigation by the Royal Military Police under Operation Northmoor.\n\nThe man, who did not want to be named, told the BBC he was held, blindfolded, in a room overnight.\n\n\"Early morning, they came and opened my eyes and said to me that I should not go out until they left the area. When the helicopters left the area we came out of the room.\n\n\"As soon as I came out of the room I saw that they had shot my father, two brothers and cousin.\"\n\nThe BBC has been told the raid did involve special forces and is now being investigated.\n\nA former British Army intelligence officer, Chris Green, who served in Afghanistan, said he had been blocked when he tried to look into allegations of abuses by special forces officers.\n\n\"British forces, and the troops that I worked with, worked under very very strict rules of engagement and it seemed to me that special forces did not have to apply the same rules in quite the same way,\" he said.\n\n\"My overview of their accountability was - I didn't see any.\n\n\"When I sought information from them, this wall of secrecy was put in front of me and I could see no good reason why the information I was asking for was denied from me and nor could they give me a good reason for denying me that information.\"\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn and the former director of public prosecutions, Lord Macdonald, are among those who have called for an independent inquiry into the claims.\n\n\"Our armed forces have a reputation for decency and bravery,\" said Mr Corbyn.\n\n\"If we do not act on such shocking allegations we risk undermining that reputation, our security at home and the safety of those serving in the armed forces abroad.\"\n\nThe former head of the army, General Lord Richard Dannatt, said people shouldn't jump to conclusions.\n\n\"No witch hunts, but no cover ups,\" he said.\n\n\"If there is evidence of wrongdoing, it should be investigated, but we should be very, very careful of throwing mud at our very special, special forces.\"\n\nAllegations of widespread abuse in Iraq have already been mostly discredited and that investigation is now closed.", "The star was accused of using a backing track at Glastonbury\n\nEd Sheeran says he's quit Twitter after receiving a stream of abuse.\n\n\"I've actually come off Twitter completely,\" he told The Sun. \"I can't read it.\n\n\"I go on it and there's nothing but people saying mean things. One comment ruins your day. But that's why I've come off it.\"\n\nThe star, who has 19 million followers, says he'll keep the account open, but it will only share automatic updates from his Instagram page from now on.\n\nA quick scan of Twitter finds a number of negative - although not necessarily abusive - comments directed towards the 26-year-old.\n\n\"Irritating ginger busker\" is a particularly common insult; while the song Galway Girl has provoked a torrent of anger.\n\n\"Revolting, fudged cultural appropriation,\" wrote David N about the jaunty jig, in which Sheeran describes falling for a girl who \"played the fiddle in an Irish band\".\n\nAnother user described it as \"awful 'diddly-eye leprachaun'\" music, full of \"stereotypical nonsense\".\n\nRichard Roche had some helpful advice regarding the lyrics, which he described as: \"Full of geographical inaccuracies (there's no pub on Grafton St).\"\n\nMost recently, Sheeran had to defend himself against accusations of using a backing track during his headline set at Glastonbury.\n\nThe star uses a loop pedal during his performances, which allows him to record his vocal and guitar lines, creating a layered, looped accompaniment live, on the spot.\n\n\"Is it a backing track or invisible musicians?!? Who's playing when Ed Sheeran stops?!?\" wrote one mystified fan. \"Couldn't he get real musicians? I like him but all a bit karaoke,\" wrote another.\n\nIn his last personally-authored tweet, the star sounded exasperated by the accusations.\n\n\"Never thought I'd have to explain it, but everything I do in my live show is live, it's a loop station, not a backing track. Please google,\" he wrote.\n\nOther users took aim at Sheeran's televised Glastonbury show after he suffered guitar problems during the song Bloodstream.\n\n\"Ed Sheeran come to my house and I will show you how to tune a guitar you useless mess,\" wrote one.\n\nSpeaking to The Sun, Sheeran said he had \"been trying to work out why people dislike me so much\" but the simple answer is that he's the victim of his own success.\n\nHis third album ÷ (Divide) is the year's biggest-seller, dominating the charts and radio around the world. In the UK, every song on the record made the top 20 of the singles chart, while the lead single, Shape Of You, spent 14 weeks at number one.\n\nThat sort of ubiquity draws out the more mean-spirited and aggressive users of Twitter - which has gained a reputation for harbouring trolls.\n\nStars including Miley Cyrus, Sue Perkins, Stephen Fry, Halsey and Avengers director Joss Whedon have all quit the site after suffering abuse.\n\nOthers, including Selena Gomez and Tom Daley, have received death threats. (We saw no evidence of similar tweets to Sheeran, although it is possible such messages would have been deleted for violating Twitter's terms and conditions).\n\nLast year, Bloomberg reported that Disney chose not to pursue an acquisition of the social media network in part because it thought the bullying behaviour of some users might damage the film company's image.\n\nTwitter has since taken action to combat abuse - giving users better tools to mute or block trolls.\n\nBased upon a trawl of Sheeran's account, mean tweets are vastly outweighed by positive ones.\n\nEvery time he posts a photo or a comment, the majority of responses are variations of, \"I love you\", \"te amo\" and \"come to Portugal!\"\n\nAnd if Sheeran ventures back onto the site, he'll find heartwarming messages like this one from Castie Collins, who wrote: \"I'm learning guitar because of you.\"\n\n\"Thank u @edsheeran for making great music so studying isn't always SO terrible,\" said Emily Estopare.\n\nHannah Robinson added: \"I'm sick and feel like crap but I turned on some Ed Sheeran songs and felt better.\"\n\nAnd Karen Porter had kind words for Sheeran's Glastonbury slot: \"Could tell you were having the best time ever up on that stage,\" she said. \"Amazing to see true talent and a genuine soul. Much love.\"\n\nEven the star's least-liked song received some (faint) praise from Sadie Lyon, who wrote: \"My Uber driver knows the rap bit in Galway 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.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFormula 1 technology has had an impact in many other sectors, from aeronautics to cycling, public transport to data analytics, but now Williams has come up with a hi-tech carrier for critically ill new-born babies.\n\nEvery year the Williams Formula 1 team spends more than £100m ($130m; 114m euros) trying to make two cars go round a racing track as fast as possible.\n\nIgnore the adrenaline-fuelled appeal of wheel-to-wheel racing, and it might all seem rather pointless. Yet the technology developed in the white heat of competition can turn up in some surprising places.\n\nThe materials and techniques used to build Williams' F1 cars, for example, are now being used to make an altogether different type of transport - for new-born babies.\n\nThe Babypod 20, as it is known, is a sleek, lightweight box with a sliding transparent lid and a heavily padded interior. It is designed for transporting infants who are critically ill, whether by car, ambulance or helicopter.\n\nIt looks pretty basic, but is the result of an intensive development process. The material used in the design is carbon fibre, the same remarkably strong material used in F1 cars.\n\nThe \"Babypod\" is designed to be light, strong and easily accessible\n\nThe pod is being built by Williams Advanced Engineering, a sister business to the Formula 1 team, based at the same UK site in Grove, Oxfordshire.\n\nThe firm has been working on the new design alongside Advanced Healthcare Technology (AHT), a company that has been building transport systems for babies for a number of years.\n\nCarrying new-born babies from place to place is not easy.\n\nThey need to be kept at a constant temperature and protected from vibration and noise, while being monitored closely by medical staff.\n\nIn the past, incubators were used. But these are heavy, cumbersome devices, that require an external electricity supply and often dedicated vehicles to carry them as well.\n\nThe Babypod was initially developed by AHT as a lightweight and more practical alternative. Williams was then called in to develop a new, more advanced design.\n\nThe Williams Babypod 20 infant carrier (foreground) owes at lot to F1 car tech\n\nThe result is a device that weighs just 9.1kg (20lb) - about the same as three bricks - takes up relatively little space, and that can withstand an impact of up to 20G (in case the ambulance carrying it is involved in an accident, for example).\n\nTo begin with, it is being used by the Children's Acute Transport Service (CATS) of Great Ormond Street Hospital in London, though the plan is to market it much more widely.\n\nCATS operational manager Eithne Polke says the service is delighted with the new pod, which costs £5,000 per unit.\n\nFast and effective transportation can save lives in emergency situations, she says, and the pod \"allows for greater flexibility and manoeuvrability when moving critically ill infants \".\n\nWilliams Advanced Engineering was set up in 2010 to make broader use of the technology and expertise developed at such huge expense in Formula 1.\n\nMuch of what it does is still linked to the automotive sector.\n\nFor example, it helped design a hybrid supercar for Jaguar, as well as an electric version of Aston Martin's Rapide sportscar - known as the RapidE.\n\nBut it has also branched out into other areas - designing energy storage systems for solar power projects, for example.\n\nTucked away in a corridor of the factory is what looks like a fairly normal supermarket fridge - except that the edge of each shelf, where you'd normally see a price tag, is a bit broader and curvier than normal.\n\nWilliams spends more than £100m a year trying to make its cars as fast as possible\n\nIt is, in fact, an aerofoil, designed to channel cold air down the front of the fridge, rather than allowing it to spill out into the supermarket aisle. This makes the fridge more efficient, cheaper to run, and keeps customers warmer.\n\nIt may be a world away from Formula 1 - but it uses the same expertise in aerodynamics.\n\nAccording to Clare Williams, deputy principal of the F1 team, there's plenty of room for F1 know-how to be exploited in this way.\n\n\"Lightweight materials, composites, aerodynamics… all of these technologies can be so easily applied to other industries, other sectors, other project and products,\" she says, \"in order invariably to make them better, but most importantly - sometimes safer.\n\n\"And that's the case with the Babypod.\"\n\nRival F1 team McLaren also has its own engineering and design spin-off - McLaren Applied Technologies - which has contributed its expertise to a diverse range of companies, from cycle-maker Specialized, to deep-sea drilling firm Ecofisk.\n\nFundamentally though, these applied engineering businesses have one overriding purpose: to generate much-needed money for the F1 team.\n\nWilliams teamed up with Jaguar to create the C-X75 hybrid supercar\n\nSo far, Williams Advanced Engineering has been moderately successful.\n\nIt contributed £37m to the group's revenues last year, out of a total of £167m. And profit - before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation - was £4.2m.\n\nIn a sport which guzzles cash as fast as the cars involved use fuel, that may not seem like a great deal. But as Williams struggles to compete with much richer teams like Ferrari, Mercedes and Red Bull, it needs every penny.\n\n\"The F1 team is still at the heart of what we do\", says Ms Williams.\n\n\"Racing is in our DNA. But we have branched out and diversified - and having that revenue stream from Advanced Engineering will be, one day, hugely important for us.\"\n\nAnd if the Babypod is a success, in future there may be a fair few people walking around who owe their lives to technology developed in Formula 1.", "Spandau Ballet backstage at Top of the Pops in 1983, with Hadley front and centre\n\nSinger Tony Hadley says he has left 1980s pop group Spandau Ballet, and \"will not be performing\" with them in the future.\n\nIn an oddly-worded statement, the star said: \"I am required to state that I am no longer a member of the band\".\n\nHe did not indicate why he was leaving, but blamed \"circumstances beyond my control\".\n\nThe group, who scored hits with True and Gold, broke up acrimoniously in the 1990s but had reformed in 2009.\n\nThe remaining members put the blame for the latest split on Hadley's shoulders.\n\n\"Much to our frustration, Tony had made it clear in September 2016 that he didn't want to work with the band anymore,\" they wrote on their official website.\n\n\"This has not changed and 2015 was the last time we were able to perform or work with him. So we have now made the decision to move on as a band.\"\n\nFormed in 1976 as The Cut, they cut their teeth in the punk era, before emerging as one of the planet's biggest pop bands - engaged in a fierce rivalry with fellow New Romantics Duran Duran.\n\nFollowing their first hit - 1980's To Cut A Long Story Short - they released six studio albums and had 10 UK top 10 singles, topping the charts with True in 1983.\n\nSpandau's original split came after the five-piece fell out over money.\n\nIn 1999, Hadley, saxophonist Steve Norman and drummer John Keeble sued guitarist Gary Kemp for a share of the band's songwriting royalties.\n\nKemp, who played in the band with his brother Martin, wrote all of the hits, but the other musicians believed they had a gentleman's agreement to share the profits, in recognition of their musical contribution to the songs.\n\nThe case went to the High Court, where Kemp won. He later described the battle as \"like walking away from a car crash - you're glad to be alive but mortified and shocked by the wreckage\".\n\nThe band were back in court three years later, arguing over the right to use the name Spandau Ballet. Hadley, Keeble and Norman lost again and had to tour under the humbling name of Ex-Spandau Ballet.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Soul Boys Of The Western World looks at the career of Spandau Ballet in the 1980s\n\nBy this point, Hadley was not on speaking terms with the Kemp brothers, and for a number of years a reunion seemed like an impossibility.\n\nIn 2007, the singer told the Daily Express: \"I know you should never say never, and bands in the past have said hell would freeze over before they got back together, but in our case I think hell is frozen and we still wouldn't do it.\"\n\nNaturally, they reformed two years later, hosting a press conference on HMS Belfast in London, the scene of a landmark early gig in 1980.\n\nSince then, they have toured the world, headlining the Isle of Wight Festival and producing a documentary about themselves called Soul Boys of the Western World.\n\nThey even recorded a handful of new songs for the 2014 album The Story - The Very Best of Spandau Ballet.\n\nMore recently, the band have been playing solo shows; while Martin Kemp appeared as a judge on the BBC show Let It Shine.\n\nHadley's decision to cut ties with Spandau effectively puts an end to any future reunion.\n\nThe band last toured together in 2015\n\nHis full statement read as follows: \"Due to circumstances beyond my control, it is with deep regret that I am required to state that I am no longer a member of the band Spandau Ballet and as such I will not be performing with the band in the future.\"\n\nFans on Twitter responded by quoting some of Spandau's more memorable lyrics.\n\n\"Say it's not True!\" wrote one. \"Communication let them down,\" added another. \"He didn't need this pressure on,\" noted a third.\n\n\"You'll notice it [the statement] is only one sentence,\" said Scott Taylor. \"I think @TheTonyHadley found it hard to write the next line.\"\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.", "Ministers do not know how many hundreds of thousands of children in England are living risky or vulnerable lives, says children's commissioner Anne Longfield.\n\nEngland's children's champion has tried to calculate the total in a report, in the absence of overall official data.\n\nShe found some 670,000 children live in high risk family situations, thousands with parents in addiction treatment.\n\nChildren's minister Robert Goodwill said support for vulnerable children was being given across government.\n\nBut he acknowledged there was more to do.\n\nMs Longfield highlighted that half a million children are so vulnerable that the state has to step in with support, and 46,000 are thought to be in gangs.\n\nSome 200,000 are judged by the local council to have experienced trauma or abuse and 119,000 children are homeless or living in insecure or unstable accommodation.\n\nDespite widespread concern, the most recent estimate of children suffering from mental health conditions - around 800,000 - is 13 years out of date.\n\nThe children's commissioner is clear that despite its researchers' best efforts, the figures it has to draw from may contain lots of overlaps and double counting.\n\nIt is the start of a longer piece of work to clarify the scale and nature of child vulnerability and to encourage the government to collect better data and define what counts as vulnerability.\n\nShe is also clear that there will be many \"invisible\" children living in vulnerable situations who have not been reported to services and also because of gaps in data.\n\nMs Longfield says: \"This report should be a wake-up call to the government and policy-makers, who have been in the dark about the level of child vulnerability for too long.\n\n\"It is shocking that half a million children need direct intervention or care from the state because they are living vulnerable lives.\n\n\"On top of that there are many hundreds of thousands of other children growing up in potentially high risk situations.\n\n\"Yet even more shocking is that this is only the tip of the iceberg.\n\nMinisters have a wealth of information about children's attainment\n\n\"The actual numbers are likely to be much higher. The truth is nobody knows the exact number of vulnerable children.\"\n\nThe report highlights the fact that there are many different indicators used in varied ways by government departments, agencies and others, causing confusion about the scale of the problems among children.\n\nShe adds that behind the confusion are unidentified and invisible children, suffering a variety of risks and vulnerabilities.\n\n\"We can trace in minute detail the academic progress of a child from four to 18 and beyond, but when it comes to describing and assessing the scale of negative factors in a child's life which will hamper their progress, we are floundering,\" Ms Longfield says.\n\nMr Goodwill said that every single child should have their voice heard and receive the care and support that they need to realise their potential.\n\n\"Across government, we are taking action to address this issue - whether through reforming children's social care, prioritising mental health, or better protecting victims of domestic violence and abuse.\n\n\"For some of the most vulnerable, our new What Works Centre for children's social care will ensure social workers across the country are able to learn from best practice in keeping children safe.\n\n\"We recognise the scale of this challenge - and, while the number of children in need has remained relatively stable since 2010, there is always more to do.\n\n\"We will look carefully at these exploratory statistics and I am looking forward to working with the children's commissioner as this important work continues.\"", "The Vatican said the Pope was following the case \"with affection and sadness\"\n\nPope Francis has called for the parents of terminally-ill Charlie Gard to be allowed to \"accompany and treat their child until the end\".\n\nChris Gard and Connie Yates had been expecting their 10-month-old's life support to be turned off on Friday.\n\nBut Great Ormond Street Hospital said it will continue Charlie's care to allow the family to spend more time with him.\n\nMeanwhile, President Donald Trump tweeted his support on Monday.\n\nHe wrote: \"If we can help little #CharlieGard, as per our friends in the U.K. and the Pope, we would be delighted to do so.\"\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 Vatican said the Pope was following the case \"with affection and sadness\".\n\nA statement released on Sunday said the Pope wished to \"expresses his closeness to his [Charlie's] parents\".\n\n\"For them he prays, hoping that their desire to accompany and care for their own child to the end is not ignored,\" it said.\n\nCharlie Gard's rare disease has left him unable to cry\n\nCharlie is thought to be one of 16 children in the world to have mitochondrial depletion syndrome.\n\nIt is a rare genetic condition which causes progressive muscle weakness and brain damage because he is unable to get energy to his organs.\n\nDoctors have said he now cannot see, hear, move, cry or swallow and has irreversible brain damage. His lungs are only able to keep going because of the treatment he is receiving.\n\nThey have argued he should be allowed to die with dignity.\n\nBut his parents and supporters have been fighting for him to be given an experimental treatment in the US.\n\nThe treatment is not a cure - there isn't one - but it has been suggested it could reduce the effects of the disease.\n\nAlthough doctors in the US have since said the benefits they have seen have not been in cases as advanced as Charlie's.\n\nThe statement came on the same day demonstrators gathered outside Buckingham Palace to protest against the decision to allow Charlie's life-sustaining treatment to be withdrawn.\n\nOn 27 June, Charlie's parents lost their final legal appeal to take him to the US for experimental treatment.\n\nHis parents also said the hospital had denied their final wish to be able to take their son home to die, and felt \"let down\" following the lengthy legal battle.\n\nJudges at the European Court of Human Rights concluded that further treatment would \"continue to cause Charlie significant harm\", in line with advice from specialists at Great Ormond Street.\n\nConnie Yates and Chris Gard raised more than £1.3m for experimental treatment for Charlie\n\nPresident Donald Trump said he would be \"delighted\" to help Charlie after his parents lost their legal battle.\n\nA spokeswoman for the White House said President Trump had not spoken to the family although members of the administration had.\n\n\"The president is just trying to be helpful if at all possible,\" she added.\n\nDoctors have said he cannot see, hear, move, cry or swallow.\n\nCharlie has been receiving specialist treatment at Great Ormond Street Hospital since October 2016.\n\nCharlie's parents raised £1.3m on a crowdfunding site to pay for the experimental treatment in the US.\n\nMs Yates previously indicated the money would go towards a charity for mitochondrial depletion syndrome if Charlie \"did not get his chance\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Gurls Talk is an online community for young women to discuss things like mental health, sex, and social media.\n\nIts first real-life festival has taken place in London, with talks and workshops.\n\n\"I told other girls they could open up to me, so I'm not leaving,\" says founder and model Adwoa Aboah, who's had her own struggles with depression.\n\n\"The moment I opened my mouth I took on that responsibility.\"\n\n\"A lot of the time people put up a front. Events like this allow people to break that down,\" says Ellie\n\nHundreds of young women and men came along to the free event.\n\n\"I think it's important that girls can speak to each other about their problems because sexism is at all levels of society,\" says 18-year-old Clara.\n\n\"I'm in high school, and it's still very obvious that the guys get to talk more, and get to take more places than the girls.\"\n\nUmi and Hodaya customised their Gurls Talk bags with embroidery\n\nGurls Talk began as an Instagram account in 2015, encouraging women to share their stories.\n\nSince then it's grown into something bigger, with Adwoa giving talks in schools, and lots of women writing in for advice.\n\n\"These are my girls, these are my tribe. Having them all here was amazing,\" says Adwoa.\n\nShe spent much of Saturday hugging the girls who went along, and even started a conga line with them at one point.\n\nPhotographers took portraits of everyone to take home\n\n\"I think it's important for women to know that they're not alone,\" says Umi, who is 17. \"We're always stigmatised with words like 'bossy', or [people will say] 'That's not ladylike', or 'slut.'\"\n\nShe feels teenagers are often not listened to.\n\n\"Young girls experience sexual harassment in ways that we don't talk about enough, or people don't take seriously. From age 13 onwards, I've been catcalled in the street. That's not OK.\"\n\nAdwoa was among the speakers at Saturday's event, alongside top model Hanne Gaby Odiele, feminist columnist Laurie Penny, doctors and relationship experts.\n\n\"Hearing someone that you put on a pedestal talk about their experiences in such a raw way is really nice. You realise that all the people you idolise are just people,\" says Lauren, 19.\n\n\"I was very worried that as a guy this wasn’t a space for me, but it’s important that everyone’s included in these discussions,\" says Matt\n\nMany girls at the event asked Adwoa about how to cope with the pressure they feel from social media to look a certain way.\n\n\"I completely understand because I was in that place of projecting this very fake image of who I was,\" Adwoa tells Newsbeat.\n\n\"Sometimes I feel like I'm adding to that worm hole of imagery that's so detrimental to how women look at themselves.\n\n\"The people at the top of the social media game don't always take on that responsibility. They show a life that's out of many people's reach.\"\n\nSeventeen-year old Isra tells Newsbeat she wants to see more diverse images of beauty promoted.\n\n\"When you look at television adverts, when you look at magazines, you see the models and they're all of one body type, one colour type, and it does get to you,\" she says.\n\n\"You're like, 'Why do they epitomise white European features so much? Am I not beautiful?'\n\n\"They're embracing diversity only through [skin] colour, not through facial features, body features. Diversity's so much more than colour.\"\n\n\"It’s a safe space for girls. For me that means all girls, regardless of colour, sexuality, style,\" says Lola, with her friend Lauren\n\nAdwoa is often credited with helping to increase diversity in modelling.\n\nShe appeared on the March cover of American Vogue, alongside six models of differing skin tone and body shape, and in the new Gap advert, directed by new Vogue editor Edward Enninful, with the slogan 'Unified in harmony'.\n\n\"Social media makes being a woman all the more complex,\" says Alexa, \"you start to seek validation through these negative ideals.\"\n\nShe says she hopes campaigns like these signify real change in the industry.\n\n\"I am only one type of girl as well. It shouldn't just be, 'OK we put Adwoa in so we've hit that quota.' It's not good enough.\"\n\nFind us on Instagram at BBCNewsbeat and follow us on Snapchat, search for bbc_newsbeat", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nChildren may still be at risk in Jersey's care system, a report into seven decades of child abuse has found.\n\nLive electrical wires were applied to children's legs, one survivor told the The Independent Jersey Care Inquiry.\n\nVictims also reported being beaten with nettles, having their heads dunked in cold water and being sexually abused.\n\nThe States of Jersey had \"proved to be an ineffectual and neglectful substitute parent\", the report said.\n\nChief Minister, Senator Ian Gorst apologised and said: \"We failed children who needed our care.\"\n\nThe inquiry, led by judge Frances Oldham QC, has recommended demolishing the Haut de la Garenne children's home, where much of the abuse took place.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSurvivor Gifford Aubin who was at the home in the 1950s described his treatment: \"They were putting these wires on your legs, that sort of thing...\n\n\"And also hitting you with a pre-war army stick, you know, like a sergeant major or officer would have. It had a metal end, so you can imagine how that cut into you.\"\n\nHe also suffered mental abuse from his experiences.\n\nThe inquiry, launched in 2014, heard 553 offences took place between 1947 and 2004, with more than half said to have occurred at Haut de la Garenne.\n\nJacky de la Haye was one of a handful of girls at the home and said she suffered psychological abuse.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"I have nightmares that I'm still there,\" she said.\n\nWhile a lot of the inquiry focused on Haut de la Garenne, a number of other incidents, not previously revealed, came to light.\n\nThe revelations of assault, bullying and slavery at the Sacré Coeur Orphanage led to a fresh call for witnesses from the inquiry panel.\n\nA witness, known as \"Mrs A\" said outside of school hours children were forced to work unpaid in a knitting factory run by the nuns at the orphanage.\n\nIn February 2015 one survivor known as \"Witness D\", now in his 40s, told the inquiry he was too scared to report the abuse he suffered to the authorities while he was at Haut de la Garenne.\n\nHe told the hearing he was sexually abused by two members of staff, William Gilbert and Phil Le Bais. They were never charged and have now died.\n\nFormer Haut de la Garenne resident, Gifford Aubin said a lack of staff meant older boys were often left in charge\n\nSource: The Independent Jersey Care Inquiry - A 62 page appendix details the abuse suffered in the care system\n\nMore than half of the alleged offences took place at Haut de la Garenne children's home\n\nThe report said: \"Children may still be still at risk in Jersey and children in the care system are not always receiving the kind or quality of care and support that they need.\"\n\nIt said the buildings at Haut de la Garenne were a reminder of an \"unhappy past or shameful history\" and of the \"turmoil and trauma\" of the police investigation, which began in 2006.\n\nThe report said there was no doubt that \"many instances\" of physical and sexual abuse were suffered by children in the care of the States of Jersey.\n\nThe wellbeing of vulnerable children had been \"low on the list\" of Jersey's priorities and unsuitable people were appointed to management roles on the basis of local connections.\n\nIt also referred to witnesses' use of the phrase the \"Jersey way\" to describe a system where \"serious issues are swept under the carpet\" and \"people avoid being held to account for abuses\".\n\nThe report said \"As a result, ill-suited carers continued to look after children in unsuitable facilities, using outdated practices.\n\n\"The consequences for the children in their care were devastating and, in many instances, lifelong.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"History will be very damning on us if we don't take steps in light of the content of this report,\" says lawyer\n\nAlan Collins, a lawyer who represented victims, said \"systematic failings\" allowed a culture to develop where \"children's welfare became a secondary issue\".\n\nMr Collins added \"Jersey is not alone in this\" and \"the UK needs to take serious note of this report\".\n\nSenator Ian Gorst, Jersey's chief minister, apologised to \"all those who suffered abuse in our islands over the years\".\n\nHe said: \"Unpalatable truths were swept under the carpet because it was the easiest thing to do.\n\n\"People cared more for the status quo, for a quiet life, than for children.\n\n\"We failed children who needed our care who needed to be protected and listened to.\n\n\"I am shocked, I am saddened and I am sorry. I accept every recommendation.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Fox's treatment of Jamie Horowitz (pictured) had been appalling, his lawyer said\n\nFox Sports has sacked Jamie Horowitz, head of sports programming at the US company.\n\nIt gave no reasons for the dismissal, but stressed on the importance of \"professional conduct\".\n\nMeanwhile, US media report that Mr Horowitz's departure comes amid claims of sexual harassment at Fox Sports.\n\nMr Horowitz's lawyer said \"the way Jamie has been treated by Fox is appalling\" and that the executive had worked \"in an exemplary fashion\".\n\nIn the memo to sent to employees, Fox Sports President Eric Shanks wrote that everyone should \"adhere to professional conduct at all times\".\n\nMr Horowitz's lawyer Patricia Glaser said in response to his dismissal: \"At no point in his tenure was there any mention by his superiors or human resources of any misconduct, nor an inability to adhere to professional conduct.\n\n\"Jamie was hired by Fox to do a job, the job that until today he has performed in an exemplary fashion. Any slanderous accusations to the contrary will be vigorously defended.\"\n\nHowever, Fox Sport's lawyer Daniel Petrocelli said that \"Mr Horowitz's termination was fully warranted and his lawyer's accusations are ill-informed and misguided\".\n\nFox Sports is part of 21st Century Fox, which is owned by Rupert Murdoch.\n\nThe Los Angeles Times and the New York Times reported that about a week ago Fox began an investigation into claims of sexual harassment at its sports division. The newspapers quoted a person briefed on the matter.\n\nFox has not publicly commented on the media reports, which could not be independently verified.\n\nIn April, prime-time presenter Bill O'Reilly was dropped from Fox News over sexual harassment claims. He described the claims as \"completely unfounded\".\n\nLast July, Roger Ailes, a long-time boss of Fox News, resigned after a number of female employees had accused him of sexual harassment.\n\nAt the time he said he was resigning because he had become a \"distraction\". Mr Ailes died in May.", "Baghdadi's 2014 appearance in Mosul was the last time he was seen in public\n\nThree years ago, video emerged of the leader of so-called Islamic State (IS), Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, commanding allegiance in a sermon at the Great Mosque of al-Nuri in Mosul. The Iraqi city had been freshly captured by the jihadist group and a \"caliphate\" declared.\n\nAt the time, IS controlled a region the size of the United Kingdom - but since then a global war against the jihadists has sent them into retreat, and the whereabouts of Baghdadi - a man with a $25m US bounty on his head - are a mystery.\n\nOn the third anniversary of Baghdadi's first - and last public - public appearance, IS no longer controls most of the land it once held. Its leader has been conspicuously silent since addressing followers in a recorded audio message last November, after the battle to dislodge the group from Mosul began.\n\nAmid this silence, unconfirmed reports of Baghdadi's death have recently surfaced. Russia's deputy foreign minister said it was \"highly likely\" Baghdadi was killed in a Russian air force strike on Raqqa on 28 May, and an Iranian official asserted last week that he was \"definitely dead\". However, both claims were questioned by American officials.\n\nIn a video released from Raqqa a week after the Russian report surfaced, IS members referred to \"our sheikh\" without mentioning Baghdadi by name, leaving a question mark over his fate. After all, the Taliban and al-Qaeda hid the death of Taliban leader Mullah Omar for two years.\n\nFor both his supporters and enemies, Baghdadi's absence at such a critical moment is perplexing.\n\nThe answer to the question about Baghdadi's whereabouts might be related to his claim to legitimacy as caliph, or \"commander of the faithful\".\n\nAccording to a contentious religious rule, a candidate can (among other criteria) claim the title if he has \"ardh tamkeen\", or \"land to rule\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nToday, the ardh tamkeen is shrinking. IS is all but a spent force in Mosul and is under immense pressure in Raqqa, its two de facto capitals in Iraq and Syria.\n\n(In recognition of the defining moment in Iraq, IS blew up the al-Nuri mosque two weeks ago before security forces could seize the site).\n\nBaghdadi might be in hiding in what could be described as IS's \"third capital\", namely the areas currently controlled by the group on the two sides of the Syrian and Iraqi borders.\n\nIS calls this area Wilayat al-Furat, or \"Euphrates Province\", which mainly comprises the Iraqi town of al-Qaim and the Syrian town of Albu Kamal.\n\nIn 2014, the rise of IS began in Wilayat al-Furat and surrounding areas. According to the group's own accounts, in videos produced recently from Anbar province in Iraq, the militants used the region as a launchpad for its blitzkriegs in Iraq and Syria.\n\nRussia says Baghdadi might have been killed in an air strike on this building (right-hand image)\n\nThe region also has relatively weakly armed militias and tribes, which could hold and secure the region if and when it is recaptured.\n\nEven in supposedly liberated areas like Rutba, a town to the south, IS has still managed to carry out frequent deadly hit-and-run attacks.\n\nNo campaign has been launched yet to liberate these remote towns. Discussions as to whether the US or the Syrian government and its allies should lead the offensive on the Syrian side of the border are still being held in Washington.\n\nIf the US conducts the campaign, questions remain as to whether rebel fighters or the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) should lead the fight.\n\nIn Iraq, places like Tal Afar, west of Mosul, appear to be a current priority for the pro-government forces.\n\nHisham al-Hashimi, an adviser to the Iraqi government and an expert on Iraqi jihadist groups, suggests that Wilayat al-Furat is where al-Baghdadi is likely to be hiding.\n\nThe Iraqi government has carried out several air strikes in Albu Kamal over the past two years. Iyad al-Jamili, one of al-Baghdadi's closest aides has been spotted in the Syrian town, according to Mr Hashimi.\n\nA number of other close associates of the IS leader have also been seen in Albu Kamal and Mayadin, another key IS town in the Syrian province of Deir al-Zour, Mr Hashimi says.\n\nWilayat al-Furat is the only remaining region where IS can claim ardh tamkeen.\n\nThe campaign to clear the region might take many months to begin and much longer to conclude.\n\nEven after these areas are liberated, IS is likely to use the desert, river valleys and border zones as hideouts and to launch attacks on urban centres.\n\nBaghdadi, unlike other jihadist leaders, tends to speak or appear only when there is an extreme need for it - as seen with the announcement of the caliphate and the appeal to followers to stand and fight in Mosul.\n\nThe higher up the IS chain of command, the more communication with superiors becomes restricted to a small number of trusted loyalists.\n\nLess than a handful people would therefore know Baghdadi's whereabouts. That makes it hard for the US, which has dedicated special forces constantly on the look-out for any traces of the world's most wanted man.\n\nThe borderlands of Syria and Iraq provide Baghdadi with relatively secure and familiar terrain, in which he can hide and circumvent attempts to capture or kill him.\n\nThey also provide him with the ability to continue to claim legitimacy as commander of the faithful.\n\nHassan Hassan is a senior fellow at the Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy, Washington, and co-author of ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror. Follow him on Twitter @hxhassan", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Juncker: I will never again attend a meeting of this kind\n\nEuropean Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker has launched a bitter attack on members of the European Parliament for failing to show up.\n\nStanding up in almost empty chamber in Strasbourg, he denounced the body as \"ridiculous, totally ridiculous\".\n\nEstimating the number of MEPs present at about 30, he said it proved that the parliament was \"not serious\".\n\nParliament President Antonio Tajani reacted furiously, accusing him of a lack of respect.\n\n\"You can criticise the Parliament, but it's not the Commission's job to control the parliament, it's the Parliament that has to control the Commission,\" he said.\n\nBut the clash continued. Mr Juncker, who is in charge of the EU's executive body, angrily rebuked MEPs for failing to attend the session reviewing the six-month presidency of Malta, the bloc's smallest member state.\n\nIt was one of the most acrimonious public rows between top EU officials in recent years. A Parliament spokesman said later that the two men had met and Mr Juncker had expressed regret for the words he had chosen.\n\nThe vast majority of MEPs were absent from the morning debate\n\nIt is rare for the head of one European institution to take such a public swipe at the legitimacy of another.\n\nI counted fewer than 100 people in the chamber this morning, and that included the officials accompanying Mr Juncker and the Maltese prime minister.\n\n\"People can't be bothered to turn up,\" a British MEP told me. \"Some have started their seven weeks of paid holiday already.\"\n\nOthers point out that much of the work in this place is done in low-profile committees, and that the building has become busier throughout the day. Nevertheless, parliamentary authorities will be unhappy they have been criticised so publicly by such a high profile figure as Mr Juncker.\n\nMalta's Prime Minister Joseph Muscat looked on with a broad grin as the argument unfolded. The debate was due to focus primarily on the EU's struggle to relocate 160,000 refugees from Italy and Greece.\n\n\"There are only a few members in the plenary to control the commission. You are ridiculous,\" Mr Juncker repeated. In total, the parliament has 751 deputies.\n\nIgnoring a further objection by the Parliament president to his choice of language, Mr Juncker told the few MEPs in the chamber: \"I will never again attend a meeting of this kind.\"\n\nAntonio Tajani (R) took over as president of the Parliament in January\n\nMr Juncker complained that if Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel or French President Emmanuel Macron had been in the chamber, it would have been full.\n\nThe spat overshadowed Mr Muscat's own assessment of the EU's response to the migrant crisis.\n\nDescribing the situation as a \"fiasco\", the Maltese leader called for an honest debate on Europe's values.\n\nThe vast majority of the 101,000 migrants entering Europe in 2017 so far have crossed the Mediterranean towards Italy. According to latest figures, 2,247 people have died or are missing at sea.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe judge heading the Grenfell Tower inquiry should stand down because those affected need \"somebody we can trust\", the local MP for Kensington has said.\n\nLabour's Emma Dent Coad said Sir Martin Moore-Bick was \"a technocrat\" who lacked \"credibility\" with victims.\n\nOn Monday, lawyers representing some of the families called for him to quit.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn said Sir Martin should \"listen to residents\", but minister David Lidington said he had \"complete confidence\" in him.\n\nThe Tory MP and Lord Chancellor said Sir Martin would lead the inquiry \"with impartiality and a determination to get to the truth and see justice done\".\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan warned the retired Court of Appeal judge must urgently improve relations with local residents.\n\nThe fire on 14 June is thought to have killed at least 80 people, although police say the final toll will not be known until at least the end of the year.\n\nMeanwhile, official figures from the Grenfell Response Team show 139 offers of accommodation have been made to families left homeless, but just nine have been accepted.\n\nIn the aftermath of the tragedy, the prime minister promised that 158 families would be offered a good quality temporary home within three weeks - a target the response team said has now been met.\n\nThe remaining 19 families do not want to be contacted, or are out of the country, it added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Grenfell Tower survivor Antonio is living in a hotel and has turned down two flats.\n\nOne tenant from the 10th floor of Grenfell Tower, who only gave his name as Antonio, is among those who turned down the offer of temporary accommodation.\n\n\"We want to move to a permanent accommodation so we can remake it and then we can call it home,\" he told BBC Radio 5 live.\n\nSpeaking after his appointment as chairman of the inquiry, Sir Martin said he understood the \"desire of local people for justice\" following the disaster, but warned he was \"doubtful\" the process would be as wide-ranging as some residents hoped.\n\nOn Monday, however, a source told the BBC he was prepared to be \"open-minded\" in his \"very broad\" inquiry.\n\nAlthough the remit will be decided by the prime minister, the source said he would consider in detail whether the nature of the building regulations contributed to the fire.\n\nDespite that attempted reassurance, Ms Dent Coad said she had spoken to hundreds of people affected by the fire who were unhappy with his appointment.\n\n\"We need somebody who can do the detail but we need somebody who can actually understand human beings as well and what they've been through...\" she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\n\"I don't think he should do it. I don't think there will be any credibility.\n\n\"Some people are saying they are not going to co-operate with it, so it's not going to work.\"\n\nHer call for Sir Martin to stand down has been backed by shadow fire services minister Chris Williamson.\n\n\"I think it's important that we listen to the survivors... local people are saying they don't have faith in him,\" he told BBC Radio Derby.\n\nHe said he agreed with shadow chancellor John McDonnell's comment that the victims were \"murdered by political decisions\".\n\n\"If you look at decisions taken over the last three or four decades, it's all about unbridled market economics - essentially deregulation - using public services as a cash-cow and cutting corners,\" he said.\n\nOn Sunday, Labour MP David Lammy said a \"white, upper-middle class man\" who had \"never\" visited a tower block housing estate should not have been appointed.\n\nGrenfell residents have also questioned whether Sir Martin's background in commercial law is appropriate.\n\nAnd they have been angered by his decision to allow Kensington and Chelsea Council - which was criticised for its slow and ineffective response to the disaster - to contribute to the inquiry.\n\nElsewhere, Met Police Commander Stuart Cundy and Westminster coroner Fiona Wilcox - who will lead will the inquests of the victims of the fire - will hold a private meeting with relatives later.\n\nSir Martin visited the scene of the tragedy last week and spoke to residents and the police", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Caroline Yon says this runway is so old and fragile planes can't land\n\nAscension Island, home to around 800 people, is even more cut off than it used to be after weekly flights linking the island to the UK were stopped - due to a dodgy runway and the wrong kind of RAF aircraft.\n\nThe British overseas territory is the tip of an old volcano in the Atlantic Ocean, mid-way between Africa and Brazil.\n\nIt's so remote, that when the Portuguese discovered it on Ascension Day in 1501, they didn't even bother colonising it.\n\n\"Half of the island looks like the surface of the moon, the other half looks like Mars, but in a good way,\" says Caroline Yon, station manager for the European Space Agency tracking station on Ascension.\n\n\"But I wouldn't want to put anyone off. We do have gorgeous white sandy beaches, and pristine clear blue seas absolutely jam-packed with marine life - it's a very unique place.\"\n\nThe island, which covers around 45 square miles just south of the equator, is formed by around 40 volcanic peaks.\n\nIt is rough and rugged - barren in parts - but at its heart has a lush peak known as Green Mountain, home to rare bird colonies which are the result of a unique botanical experiment led by Charles Darwin.\n\n\"We have the second largest turtle colony in the Atlantic Ocean,\" says Johnny Hobson, the island's dentist who has lived on the island for 31 years.\n\n\"Outside our house at the moment there are baby turtles erupting on a beautiful golden beach,\" he says.\n\n\"Everyone's finding it hard to get to and from Ascension at the moment.\n\n\"Currently the only real way off for most of us is an eight or nine day journey by sea to Cape Town and to fly back to the UK that way - at a cost of £3000-4000 for the round trip and the ship, the RMS St Helena, only passes by every three weeks.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Residents Jacqui Ellick and Johnny Hobson say the island's economy could be potentially destroyed over the runway closure\n\nJohnny, who also owns a hotel and car hire business, tells me visitors to the island have increased steadily over the past few years. Some were going to St Helena, the nearest landmass some 700 km to the southeast, while others included deep sea fishermen, conservationists and people arriving to see the turtles.\n\n\"Last year we had five or six thousand visitor nights,\" he says.\n\nBut with the end of the weekly flights all that has changed and businesses are quickly collapsing.\n\nThe runway, designed as an emergency landing strip for the Space Shuttle, is maintained by the US military.\n\nIt used to be one of the longest in the world but now badly needs maintenance, and while there's a plan to have the tarmac repaired by 2020, the Airbus A330 Voyager aircraft the RAF uses to land on the island is no longer suitable.\n\nThe Ministry of Defence says it is committed to running an air bridge between the UK and the Falkland Islands, but not necessarily to Ascension.\n\nThe plane was very convenient as it stopped off on the island to refuel, but now it lands on Cape Verde, and the residents have been left somewhat stranded.\n\nAscension Island was the major staging post in the Falklands War in 1982\n\n\"Well basically it was the hub, so all the flights came here before they went on to the Falklands - the planes, the ships came here,\" said Jacqui Ellick whose husband's job brought them to the island 22 years ago.\n\nShe's an elected island councillor, volunteers for the local newspaper and manages the interns who come each year to monitor the turtles.\n\n\"There are other planes that can land here, just not the A330. At the moment the American planes still land here and the MoD have a C17 once a month for their own people, but for the rest of us there is no way off except for the ship.\"\n\n\"It's such a big question. I don't think there's anyone in the foreign office or the government with the time and inclination to sit down and sort it out,\" says Caroline Yon.\n\n\"But it would be a shame if the island couldn't continue.\"\n\nA UK government spokeswoman said: \"We know that the rerouting of the South Atlantic air bridge flights has caused difficulties for those on Ascension Island and we are working closely with relevant parties to find and agree alternative access arrangements as quickly as possible.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Could you answer the questions in a Sats exam?\n\nTwo-fifths (39%) of primary school pupils in England have failed to meet the expected standard in reading, writing and mathematics, figures show.\n\nThe results are from national curriculum tests, often known as Sats, sat by 11-years-olds earlier this term.\n\nIn total, 61% did reach the expected level in the \"three Rs\", an improvement on last year's score of 53%.\n\nMinisters praised the hard work of schools, but head teachers said the results showed only a partial picture.\n\nThis year's cohort was the second to sit new tougher tests in line with a new national curriculum introduced in 2014.\n\nLast year, the percentage of primary school leavers making the grade fell to 53% from 80% in 2015.\n\nThe results of the tests are used by the government to measure primary schools' success, in so-called league tables.\n\nSchool Standards Minister Nick Gibb told BBC News the new curriculum had \"significantly higher expectations of pupils than the previous one\".\n\n\"Schools and pupils have responded extremely well,\" he said.\n\n\"Today's results show sustained progress in reading, writing and maths and are a testament to the hard work of teachers and pupils across England.\n\n\"Thanks to their commitment and our new knowledge-rich curriculum, thousands more children will arrive at secondary school having mastered the fundamentals of reading, writing and maths, giving them the best start in life.\"\n\nBut the National Association of Head Teachers said the results should be taken \"with a pinch of salt\".\n\nGeneral secretary Russell Hobby said: \"Sats data only gives parents part of the picture when judging a pupil's success or a school's effectiveness.\n\n\"League tables are the least helpful way of knowing if a school is the right place for your child.\n\n\"At the moment, parents and schools know that these results have to be taken with a pinch of salt.\"\n\nHe added that simply looking at data missed most of the real work being done to help youngsters achieve their full potential.\n\nMr Hobby added: \"Schools do need to be held to account, but inspectors should look at more than just data.\n\n\"That way, when parents are reading Ofsted reports they can have more confidence that the report properly reflects how good the school actually is.\"\n\nDr Mary Bousted, general secretary of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers, said the results showed children and teachers had \"worked extremely hard to get to grips with these new-look Sats\".\n\n\"But Sats continue to have a negative impact on children's education, and the exams are not fit for purpose,\" she said.\n\n\"Preparing for Sats takes up too much class time, with schools focusing on getting children through the tests.\"\n\nKevin Courtney, general secretary of the National Union of Teachers, said the results told 39% of 11-year-olds that they were not ready to begin secondary education.\n\n\"This demoralising situation says less about the efforts of teachers and pupils than about the deep flaws of our current system,\" he said.\n\n\"Designed to hold schools to account, it treats primary children as collateral damage.\"\n\nChris Keates, general secretary of the NASUWT, said pupils and teachers should be congratulated for their achievements.\n\n\"That this has been achieved despite the confusion created by the chaotic introduction of the new assessment framework, which barely a year after introduction is already under review by government, is of great credit to the resilience of the teaching profession,\" he said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Promoters have blamed bad weather for the decision to cancel a concert by Green Day in Glasgow, only hours before it was due to begin.\n\nThe American band had been set to perform in Bellahouston Park on Tuesday.\n\nHowever, promoters PCL said the show had been cancelled because \"adverse weather conditions\" meant it was \"no longer safe\" for the bands to perform.\n\nIn a statement on their website Green Day said they were \"very distraught\".\n\nThey said the stage was deemed \"unsafe for the fans and everyone involved\".\n\nThe band added: \"We are very distraught about this as we are in Glasgow now and were very much looking forward to this show as one the highlights of our tour.\n\n\"We have been playing in extreme weather conditions throughout this European tour, and the last thing we want to do is see a show cancelled.\n\n\"We love our Scottish fans and we don't care if it's raining... sideways, although the safety of our fans and our crew is always our top priority.\n\n\"We love you Scotland, we love the city of Glasgow and it goes without saying that we will be back.\"\n\nSigns have been put up at Bellahouston Park advising that the Green Day gig is cancelled\n\nPolice Scotland said officers were at the park making sure ticket holders were able to get home safely\n\nIn a strongly worded post on Instagram, the band's bassist Mike Dirnt posted a video of himself next to a Saltire.\n\nHe said: \"We are devastated and it... sucks that the show today has been cancelled due to safety issues.\n\n\"I know today's show would have been insane! I'm at a loss for words and so disappointed right now, but please know we will be back ASAP! Rage & Love.\"\n\nBassist Mike Dirnt posted a video on Instagram of himself next to a Scottish flag\n\nDisappointed fans have also voiced their anger at the last-minute announcement.\n\nCharlotte Durcan, from Lincolnshire, said she and her family had travelled nearly four hours to attend the concert.\n\n\"We arrived safely, paid for parking, paid for our hotel, and at 13:45 received an e-mail to say that the concert has been cancelled,\" she said.\n\n\"We could have saved our money,\" she added.\n\n\"The hotel won't reimburse us as there is a 72-hour notice period. We will be staying there for one night only as we just came for the concert. We're not really sure how to pass the time now.\n\n\"It's my first time in Glasgow and it has ruined my Glasgow experience.\"\n\nThe promoters announced the cancellation of the gig just half an hour before the gates were due to open\n\nThe last-minute decision to cancel has raised questions over how well prepared the organisers were for the concert.\n\nMany ticket holders took to social media to express their disappointment.\n\nOne said she was \"absolutely devastated\" by the decision, after waiting seven years to see the band perform in Scotland.\n\nOthers raised questions over the weather conditions, claiming that T in the Park and Glastonbury often go ahead in heavy rain.\n\nIt also led to queries about how well prepared the organisers were for the sell-out concert.\n\nGlasgow City Council, which operates Bellahouston Park, said they did not tell the promoters to cancel the gig.\n\nThey said the decision was taken by the promoters and the band's management, who informed the council of the move.\n\nThe promoters announced the cancellation on Twitter shortly before 13:30. The gates were due to open at 14:00. They said fans would receive refunds.\n\nIn a statement, they said: \"Adverse weather conditions overnight and throughout the morning, during the bands scheduled load in, led to issues on stage.\n\n\"A meeting between the on site health and safety, event management, the artists representatives and promoters concluded that it would be unsafe in the timescale to proceed with the event.\"\n\nPolice Scotland said they had officers at the park advising fans that the gig was cancelled and ensuring that they got home safely.\n\nGreen Day were due to be supported by Rancid, Slaves and Skids.\n\nSlaves hastily arranged a replacement gig, announcing on Twitter that the \"good people of Glasgow still need a gig\". It quickly sold out.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The former PM says leaving debts to future generations is wrong\n\nDavid Cameron has said opponents of fiscal discipline are \"selfish\" not \"compassionate\", as the debate within the Tories over austerity continues.\n\nThe ex-prime minister, who introduced the public sector pay cap, said those who believed in \"sound finances\" were wrongly being painted as \"uncaring\".\n\n\"The exact reverse is true,\" he said at an event in South Korea. \"Giving up sound finances isn't being generous.\"\n\nChancellor Philip Hammond has urged ministers to \"hold their nerve\".\n\nAs a growing number of Tory MPs, as well as opposition parties and unions, call for the 1% cap on public sector pay increases to be reviewed, the chancellor has said the \"right balance\" must be struck in terms of fairness to workers and taxpayers.\n\nForeign Secretary Boris Johnson expressed his support for a rethink on Monday, while Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has said he sympathises with the millions of NHS workers whose pay has been squeezed since 2010 - firstly through a two-year pay freeze and then through the cap, which was imposed in 2012.\n\nBut Mr Cameron, who as prime minister of the Conservative-Lib Dem coalition oversaw six years of cuts to public spending, defended his government's record on cutting the multibillion pound annual deficit and suggested it would be a mistake to now loosen up efforts.\n\nFive million public sector workers have seen their pay capped since 2012\n\n\"The opponents of so-called austerity couch their arguments in a way that make them sound generous and compassionate,\" said the former PM, who stood down as an MP last year, at a conference in Seoul.\n\n\"They seek to paint the supporters of sound finances as selfish, or uncaring. The exact reverse is true.\n\n\"Giving up on sound finances isn't being generous, it's being selfish: spending money today that you may need tomorrow.\"\n\nRises of 1% for dentists, nurses, doctors and the military have already been agreed for this year and No 10 said ministers would respond to pay review bodies next recommendations in due course.\n\nNigel Lawson, a former chancellor to Margaret Thatcher, said it was Mr Hammond's job to keep control of public spending and urged ministers to formulate the policy behind closed doors.\n\n\"It's not easy but it is necessary,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme. \"People understand we need to pay our way on the road to economic success.\"\n\nThe Institute for Fiscal Studies has said increasing pay in line with inflation next year could cost about £5bn and to do so for the rest of the Parliament could \"easily cost twice that\".\n\nHowever, director Paul Johnson told the BBC that Mr Hammond had a range of options to ease the constraints on pay without breaching his immediate financial targets.\n\n\"If that were the government's biggest priority then it could probably afford to do it,\" he said. \"The country would hardly be bankrupt if the government were to borrow a few billion more than currently planned.\"\n\nBut he said it was not clear how much \"headroom\" Mr Hammond would have given uncertainty over the performance of the economy and other spending pressures.\n\nAfter the Tories' failure to win a majority, the chancellor has said it is up to his party to again make the case for a market-based economy, underpinned by sound public finances, and oppose those calling for a \"different path\".\n\nLabour said immediate action was needed from the government not \"just more empty words or infighting from members of the cabinet\".\n\n\"The fact that some of the pillars of our community and the public sector such as teachers, doctors and police officers are seeing their pay cut exposes the double standards of a government that likes to praise their work but will not actually truly reward it,\" said shadow chancellor John McDonnell.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Baroness Williams was answering a question in the Lords\n\nDetainees benefit from being able to work for £1-an-hour at immigration centres, a minister has insisted.\n\nLib Dem Baroness Hamwee had asked if the £1 pay rate \"for people who have committed no crime\" was \"something that as a society we can be proud of\".\n\nBaroness Williams of Trafford told the Lords the work by inmates was voluntary and was a way to \"relieve boredom\".\n\nShe said it helped meet \"recreational and intellectual\" needs - and was not a scheme designed to save money.\n\nBaroness Williams, who faced jeers as she answered questions in the House of Lords, argued that any rights detainees had to work were curtailed, so their pay rights were \"not the same as people who are not subject to immigration detention\".\n\nBaroness Boothroyd was the House of Commons Speaker between 1992 and 2000\n\nLabour frontbencher Lord Rosser argued that a Freedom of Information request in May 2014 suggested that hundreds of detainees had been paid £45,438 for 44,832 hours work.\n\n\"The saving of using detainees for £1 an hour, compared to paying employed staff on minimum wage, would be in the region of £300,000 a month.\n\n\"Who gets the benefit of this apparently considerable saving each month by using detainees at immigration centres on just £1 an hour to do necessary work, as opposed to using employed staff on the minimum wage? Is it the government or is the firm running the centre who reap treat financial benefit?\"\n\nBaroness Williams insisted the work at immigration removal centres was not about supplementing contractors, who she said were obliged to provide a minimum number of opportunities for detainees to participate voluntarily in paid activities.\n\nBut after Lib Dem Lord Paddick received a similar reply, former Commons Speaker Lady Boothroyd pressed the minister: \"The question that's being asked is who benefits? That was the original question and that's the question we're all waiting to hear the answer.\"\n\nLady Williams replied: \"Who benefits is the detainee.\"\n\nShe said that \"this money is not wages as the ordinary working population would see it\", adding that the rate is \"being reviewed\" and a report is expected at the end of the year.", "Havana's Malecon seafront has always been a haven for couples\n\nThe authorities in the Cuban capital, Havana, say they are restoring a network of hotels where rooms are rented by the hour to lovers.\n\nState-run \"posadas\", or love motels, disappeared during Cuba's economic crisis in the 1990s, when they became hurricane shelters.\n\nPrivate householders filled the gap in the market, but at exorbitant prices.\n\nOfficials say the posadas will be cheaper and will help end the practice of love-making in Havana's open spaces.\n\nPrivate renters usually provide air-conditioning, a fridge and a comfortable bed and cost about $5 for three hours.\n\nBut that is around a sixth of the average monthly Cuban salary (£22.90; $29.60) and unaffordable for most people.\n\nState housing officials at the Provincial Housing Company of Havana say the new network of five posadas will be highly lucrative and will help people struggling with Havana's overcrowded and scarce housing.\n\nMany families in Havana have to share apartments. Divorced couples are often forced to remain together because of the housing shortage.\n\nThe officials said they hoped the new chain would provide cheaper options for love-making in the city.\n\nCouples making love are a common sight in Havana's parks, on the beach and on the famed Malecon seafront.\n\nA commentator in the Trabajadores newspaper (in Spanish) recalled that the first posadas opened at the end of the 19th Century in central Havana and that most Cubans had vivid memories,\n\n\"Of memorable kisses and of the porter calling to the lovers when their time had finished\".", "Haroon Syed was caught after trying to buy a bomb from a British security agent\n\nA 19-year-old man has been jailed for life for planning a bomb attack that may have targeted an Elton John concert or Oxford Street in central London.\n\nHaroon Syed, of west London, admitted preparing acts of terrorism after trying to source weapons including a suicide bomb and machine gun.\n\nHe was caught after approaching MI5 officers, who were posing as a fellow extremist, via social media.\n\nSyed was sentenced to a minimum of 16 years and six months.\n\nLast year, his brother was jailed for life for plotting to behead someone on Remembrance Sunday.\n\nJudge Michael Topolski QC said Syed wanted to carry out \"an act of mass murder\" and therefore a discretionary life sentence was warranted.\n\nProsecutors say Syed's plans ranged from becoming a suicide bomber to staging a gun attack, and while he initially boasted of working with others, those people did not materialise.\n\nInstead, over the summer of last year, he made increasingly urgent efforts to secure weaponry.\n\nAfter he went online looking for help, a purported jihadist fighting overseas, known only as Abu Isa, introduced him to another extremist going by the name Abu Yusuf.\n\nThis second man was, in fact, a group of MI5 officers who were playing the role of a jihadist in what became weeks of social media chat with Syed.\n\nDuncan Penny QC, prosecuting, told the Old Bailey there was initially some \"suspicion on both sides\" before Abu Yusuf concluded that Syed was a \"committed brother\" he could deal with.\n\nSyed then began talking about his aspirations and gave his contact a shopping list, saying he wanted \"do martyrdom\" after first causing \"damage\" with a machine gun.\n\n\"Can you get the gear?\" asked Syed. \"You will be involved right?\n\n\"Two things. Number one, machine gun and we need someone who can make a vest you know the dugma [button] one. So after some damage with machine gun then do itishadi [martyrdom] ... that's what I'm planning to do.\"\n\nThe undercover officer told Syed guns were expensive - but he might be able to get someone to build a bomb. Syed floated the idea of going to fight overseas with his new-found friend - but revealed his passport had been cancelled by the authorities.\n\nHe tried and failed twice to get fraudulent loans of thousands of pounds to cover the cost of firearms - and eventually agreed to meet his contact in a coffee shop in Slough, Berkshire, to finalise an alternative plan.\n\nOver two meetings, he talked about his aspirations and then handed over £150, asking for a bomb packed with nails. The conversation was secretly recorded.\n\n\"I was thinking of Oxford Street,\" he told his contact. \"If you put those things inside called nails, do you know what that is, nails? Those sharp things - lots of them inside.\n\n\"Good man, can't wait akhi [brother]. If I go to prison, I go to prison. If I die, I die, you understand? I have got to get to Jannah [heaven].\"\n\nThe undercover officer later told Syed a \"bomb-making brother\" would have the device ready within days - and the suspect went online to narrow his list of targets.\n\nHis web searches included \"packed places in London\" and \"Elton John, Hyde Park, 11 September\" - a major concert hosted by BBC Radio 2 which also featured Status Quo and Madness.\n\nProsecutors say Syed's character had begun to change outwardly in late 2014, coinciding with the growing support among British extremists for the self-styled Islamic State group.\n\nDuring the course of the investigation, detectives found his web searches jumped about as he tried to satisfy himself that an attack on civilians was theologically justifiable.\n\nOne of his last searches, a week before his arrest, was: \"How can I stop being upset about the UK killing innocent Syrians and get on with my day?\"\n\nWhen counter-terrorist detectives arrested him in September and asked him for the password for his phone, he replied: \"ISIS - you like that?\"\n\nSyed's was one of 18 terror plots to have been foiled since 2013.\n\nMitigating, Mark Summers QC said it was a \"crude, ill-thought-out\" plan made at the behest of others.\n\nThe court heard Syed had fallen under the influence of members of banned extremist group Al-Muhajiroun, and that he now publicly rejected his past beliefs and condemned the recent bomb attack in Manchester.\n\nBut Judge Topolski told Syed: \"You were not lured, you were not enticed, you were not entrapped.\n\n\"You became, and in my judgement as shown by your online activities away from your contact with Abu Yusuf, deeply committed to the ideology of a brutal and barbaric organisation that sought to hijack and corrupt an ancient and venerable religion for its own purposes and you wanted to be part of it.\"\n\nDeb Walsh, deputy head of the counter-terrorism division of the Crown Prosecution Service, said: \"Haroon Syed is clearly a danger to the public who was prepared to carry out indiscriminate attacks against innocent people.\n\n\"The compelling evidence presented by the CPS left him with no choice but to plead guilty.\"", "Subway's first new look store opened in Manchester in March\n\nSandwich chain Subway is planning to open another 500 stores by 2020 as it seeks to cement its place as the UK's largest High Street fast food chain.\n\nThat would bring its total to 3,000 across the UK and Ireland - almost double that of closest rival Greggs, which has 1,698 outlets.\n\nSubway said growing customer demand for its sandwiches had driven the decision.\n\nThe firm is also in the process of overhauling its stores with a revamped menu and a new look for the shops.\n\nIt said its expansion plans would create 5,000 new jobs.\n\nSubway's UK boss Peter Dowding also said it had taken steps to ensure staff were paid the minimum wage.\n\nSeven Subway franchisees were found by HMRC to be failing to pay staff the minimum wage, he said.\n\nMr Dowding told the BBC: \"They are contracted to abide by the laws of the land, and if not, then there are things in their contract that we can implement, and we can take action.\"\n\nTheir franchises were not taken away from them, he added, declining to say what sanctions were imposed.\n\nA six-inch Subway sandwich is one of your five a day, according to its boss\n\nThe firm overtook McDonald's as the world's largest restaurant chain more than six years ago, but Mr Dowding said the fast food giant was not its only competitor.\n\n\"It's everyone. It's a very competitive world out there,\" he said.\n\nThe chain's main menu is still \"subs\" - long, US-style baguette-like sandwiches made with soft bread - but it also now offers salads.\n\nMr Dowding said it was also looking at overhauling its breakfast and evening menus.\n\n\"We already have a breakfast menu, but it's a part of the day we need to work on,\" he said.\n\nThe firm's UK boss said the chain's most popular sandwiches varied according to location, but were typically the Italian BMT sandwich containing salami, pepperoni and ham, the meatball marinara and the tuna sandwich.\n\nHe said it was \"a misconception\" that fast food was unhealthy, noting that six of the nine sandwiches on its core menu contained under 400 calories.\n\nOne of its six-inch subs provides customers with one of their five-a-day for fruit and vegetables, while its salads provide two, he said.\n\nSubway's distinctive smell comes from baking bread three times a day - Mr Dowding says\n\nAll of Subway's stores are independently owned and operated as franchises of the US brand, with three-fifths of its UK and Irish outlets located on traditional high streets.\n\nMr Dowding said the firm had so far seen no impact from the UK's decision to leave the European Union.\n\n\"It's business as usual. Like any other business we're waiting to see what the government does and will tackle it from there,\" he said.\n\nMr Dowding joined the firm just nine months ago, but said he'd eaten at the company for the past 20 years.\n\n\"When they offered me the job I almost bit their arm off. I'm delighted to be taking their evolution forward.\"\n\nSubway, which was founded in the US just over 50 years ago, now has 44,000 stores in 112 countries.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "All Grenfell Tower fire survivors who want to be rehoused have been offered temporary accommodation, officials say, but only nine offers have been accepted and many are still in hotels.\n\nTheresa May promised housing would be offered to those in need by Wednesday.\n\nThe Grenfell Response Team says 139 formal offers have now been made.\n\nBut North Kensington Law Centre, which represents many victims, said some had been offered homes in other towers, other areas, or without enough rooms.\n\nThe fire on 14 June killed at least 80 people, although police say the final toll will not be known for many months.\n\nIn the aftermath of the tragedy, the prime minister said 158 families would be \"found a home nearby\" within three weeks, later saying they would be offered \"rehousing\" within three weeks.\n\nThe Grenfell Response Team said that target had now been met.\n\nIt said the remaining 19 families did not want to be contacted, or were out of the country.\n\nHowever, a spokesman for North Kensington Law Centre - which represents more than 100 Grenfell victims - said many of the offers had been unsuitable.\n\nSome of the firm's clients had been offered homes in other high-rise blocks, while some had gone to view a three-bedroom home only to discover it was a two-bedroom flat.\n\nMany had been offered a year-long tenancy and would need to be permanently rehomed afterwards.\n\nMany victims were \"concerned the decision they make now could affect their long-term tenancy\", he added.\n\n\"Doing that from a hotel room is difficult at the best of times, let alone when you are fairly traumatised.\"\n\nHe added: \"These people do have various complex issues.\n\n\"We are dealing with very traumatised people, we have a limited housing stock, we are working to a tight schedule and there is also a sense of scepticism among some residents.\"\n\nOnly three of the firm's clients had accepted accommodation offers, he added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Grenfell Tower survivor Antonio is living in a hotel and has turned down two flats.\n\nConnie Cullen, from the homelessness charity Shelter, said people had often been unsure whether to take up residency agreements.\n\n\"It is often very difficult for people to know what the offer they are being offered means. So how long they might be there, what terms they are on, what rent they are paying.\n\n\"We are keen to see people offered like-for-like tenancies, housing and rent, so people retain the same security of tenure that they had before.\"\n\nMs Cullen said the demand for social housing following the fire was \"unprecedented\" but had highlighted a general lack of affordable housing in the area.\n\nOne tenant from the 10th floor of Grenfell Tower, who only gave his name as Antonio, is among those who has turned down the offer of temporary accommodation.\n\n\"We want to move to permanent accommodation so we can remake it and then we can call it home,\" he told BBC Radio 5 live.\n\nIt comes amid growing pressure for Sir Martin Moore-Bick - the judge leading the inquiry into the fire - to stand down.\n\nEarlier, Labour's Emma Dent Coad, MP for Kensington, said he was \"a technocrat\" who lacked \"credibility\" with victims.\n\nShe said she had spoken to hundreds of people affected by the fire who were unhappy with Sir Martin's appointment.\n\nOn Monday, lawyers representing some of the families also called for him to quit.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn stopped short of demanding his resignation, but said he should \"listen to residents\", while Mayor of London Sadiq Khan warned he must urgently improve relations with the area.\n\nBut one senior minister, Lord Chancellor David Lidington, said he had \"complete confidence\" in Sir Martin, whom he believed would lead the inquiry \"with impartiality and a determination to get to the truth and see justice done\".\n\nFormer Lord Chief Justice for England and Wales, Lord Judge, also defended claims that Sir Martin was a \"technocrat\", saying it was his job to look at the evidence \"unemotionally\".\n\n\"He can't come and make an emotional finding. He's got to look at the facts and decide what happened,\" he told BBC Radio 4's PM programme.\n\n\"That does not mean he's unaware of the emotional impact on those who were involved in it, but a judge can't make emotional decisions.\"\n\nOn Sunday, Labour MP David Lammy said a \"white, upper-middle class man\" who had \"never\" visited a tower block housing estate should not have been appointed.", "Cancer patients should be routinely offered DNA tests to help select the best treatments for them, according to England's chief medical officer.\n\nProf Dame Sally Davies says in her annual report that the NHS must deliver her \"genomic dream\" within five years.\n\nOver 31,000 NHS patients, including some with cancer, have already had their entire genetic code sequenced.\n\nDame Sally wants whole genome sequencing (WGS) to become as standard as blood tests and biopsies.\n\nHumans have about 20,000 genes - bits of DNA code or instructions that control how our bodies works.\n\nTiny errors in this code can lead to cancer and other illnesses.\n\nSometimes these mistakes are inherited from a parent, but most of the time they happen in previously healthy cells.\n\nWGS - which costs about £700 - can reveal these errors by comparing tumour and normal DNA samples from the patient.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prof Dame Sally Davies says DNA testing should not be ruled out on the basis of cost\n\nDame Sally says that in about two-thirds of cases, this information can then improve their diagnosis and care.\n\nDoctors can tailor treatments to the individual, picking the drugs mostly likely to be effective.\n\nAnd WGS can also show which patients are unlikely to benefit, so they can avoid having unnecessary drugs and unpleasant side-effects.\n\nDame Sally wants DNA testing to become standard across cancer care, as well as some other areas of medicine, including rare diseases and infections.\n\n\"I want the NHS across the whole breadth to be offering genomic medicine - that means diagnosis of our genes - to patients where they can possibly benefit,\" her report says.\n\nPeople with rare diseases could benefit from having greater access to the technology, speeding up diagnosis.\n\nDoctors are already using genetic tests to identify and better treat different strains of the infectious disease tuberculosis.\n\nDame Sally said patients could be assured that their genetic data would be stored securely and \"de-identified\" so that their privacy would be protected.\n\nOver 10 years ago, international scientists reached a breakthrough in DNA work - sequencing the entire genetic blueprint of man. The Human Genome Project meant experts now had a catalogue of DNA code to explore and refer to.\n\nThey began to understand which genes controlled which processes in the body and how these could go wrong.\n\nDoctors then started to \"read\" a patient's DNA to get a better idea of what might be causing their symptoms and how best to treat their illness.\n\nGenomic medicine - tailoring care based on an individual's unique genetic code - is now transforming the way people are cared for by the NHS.\n\nGenes can predict if a woman with breast cancer might respond to certain drugs, or whether radiotherapy is likely to shrink a tumour, for example.\n\nCurrently, genetic testing of NHS patients in England is done at 25 regional laboratories, as well as some other small centres.\n\nDame Sally wants to centralise the service and set up a national network to ensure equal access to the testing across the country.\n\nA new National Genomics Board would be set up, chaired by a minister, to oversee the expansion and development of genomic services.\n\nDame Sally told BBC Breakfast that a lot of money was being spent because it was currently operating like a \"cottage industry\".\n\nBy having centralised laboratories, more could be done with the money, including keeping up with the latest technology, she said.\n\nShe said one hurdle could be doctors themselves, who \"don't like change\", and she urged cancer service patients to press their doctors to move from a local to a national service.\n\nShe also said patients must understand they needed to allow use of their data, alongside other data, in order to get the best diagnosis, and therefore the best treatment.\n\nPhil Booth, from campaigning organisation, MedConfidential, said this move had \"huge potential\" for patients and the NHS, but there were \"great risks with large collections of sensitive data\".\n\n\"Every single use of patient data must be consensual, safe and transparent,\" he told BBC Radio Four's Today programme, and patients should be able to opt-out if they so wish.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Consumers have less than three months to spend, bank or donate round £1 coins as the new 12-sided version outnumbers the old for the first time.\n\nThe Treasury says there are now more of the new £1 coins, which first entered circulation in March, than the old round pound.\n\nFrom 15 October, shops can refuse the old version of the coin.\n\nHowever, most banks and Post Office counters will continue to accept them from customers.\n\n\"The clock is ticking. We are urging the public to spend, bank or donate their old pound coins and asking businesses who are yet to do so, to update their systems before the old coin ceases to be legal tender,\" said Andrew Jones, the Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Royal Mint is striking 1.5 billion new 12-sided £1 coins, which were introduced to help crack down on counterfeiting.\n\nThe Mint has claimed the new £1 is the \"most secure coin in the world\", replacing the previous £1 coin, of which about one in 40 are thought to be fake.\n\nThe new coin has a string of anti-counterfeiting details, including material inside the coin itself which can be detected when electronically scanned by coin-counting or payment machines.\n\nOther security measures include an image that works like a hologram, and micro-sized lettering inside both rims.\n\nNumber to enter circulation: 1.5 billion - about 23 per person. Old £1 coins will be melted down to make new ones", "Zeppelin was spotted in Shotts, North Lanarkshire, on Sunday\n\nA hedgehog that had swollen to the size of a beach ball is being cared for by the Scottish SPCA.\n\nThe animal was spotted by a member of the public on Sunday in Shotts, North Lanarkshire.\n\nVets believe the hedgehog was clipped by a car, puncturing a lung and causing air to be trapped under the skin.\n\nThe Scottish SPCA said the hedgehog, nicknamed \"Zeppelin\" by staff, had now \"deflated\" and was being cared for at one of the charity's rescue centres.\n\nThe swollen hedgehog was discovered near Minard Road in Shotts and was suffering from \"balloon syndrome\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Vets believe the hedgehog had air trapped under its skin after puncturing a lung\n\nColin Seddon, manager of the Scottish SPCA's National Wildlife Rescue Centre in Fishcross said: \"Our animal rescue officer Louise Hume got a bit of a shock when she went to pick him up.\n\n\"He's certainly one of the largest hedgehogs we've taken into our care.\n\n\"He's been seen by our vet Romain, who is hopeful that Zeppelin - now deflated- will make a full recovery.\n\n\"He'll be closely monitored at our centre to make sure infection doesn't set in before being released back into the wild once he's fully recovered.\"\n\nThe hedgehog has now \"deflated\" to its normal size\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. Homeless people who keep possessions in doorways in Oxford can face fines of up to £2,500.\n\nHomeless people who keep possessions in doorways in Oxford have been warned they face fines of up to £2,500.\n\nNotices have been attached to piles of bags in Oxford city centre which belong to people sleeping rough.\n\nGreen Party councillor David Thomas said it was an \"outrageous\" bid to \"intimidate\" the homeless.\n\nOxford City Council said the abandoned bags posed a hazard by blocking fire exits and lockers were available to those who sought help.\n\nThe notices issued by the authority said prosecution could follow if the items were not removed.\n\nNotices issued by the council last week warned fines or prosecution could follow\n\nNeo, who sleeps rough in Oxford, said he had his possessions confiscated by the council.\n\n\"Most of the stuff which was taken was stuff that the public donated... it's a shame,\" he said, adding he now carries his possessions around in a trolley.\n\nOxford City Council said those issued with notices had two days to collect their belongings, and everything was taken by the owners except \"a soiled duvet and pieces of cardboard\" which were removed.\n\nNeo said he has been forced to carry his belongings around on a trolley\n\nThe local authority also said homeless people who engage with aid services could access lockers to store their belongings.\n\nHowever, Ashley, another homeless man from Oxford, said the lockers were not big enough.\n\n\"What Oxford needs is a just a space for stuff to be stored\" he said.\n\nIf prosecuted the individual could face a maximum fine of £2,500\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Connie Yates and Chris Gard's lawyer said Great Ormond Street Hospital was obstructing attempts to take Charlie home\n\nMoving Charlie Gard to a hospice to die would be the best option for the terminally-ill baby, a court has heard.\n\nThe 11-month-old's parents had returned to the High Court to seek permission to take him home for \"a few days of tranquillity outside the hospital\".\n\nBut Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) said there were practical problems with that proposal, for example his ventilation equipment would not be able to fit through their front door.\n\nThe judge will rule on Wednesday.\n\nAt Tuesday's hearing, the judge said hospital managers had suggested a hospice would give Charlie and his parents the space, privacy and protection they needed.\n\nChris Gard and Connie Yates have pleaded for a paediatric intensive care doctor to come forward to help their son die at home.\n\n\"We promised Charlie every day we would take him home. It seems really upsetting after everything we've been through to deny us this,\" Ms Yates said.\n\nGrant Armstrong, representing the parents, told Mr Justice Francis that his clients' \"last wish is that Charlie dies at home\".\n\nHe suggested a portable ventilator and oxygen supply could be used but accused GOSH of \"putting up obstacles\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Chris Gard: \"We are so sorry we could not save you\"\n\nLawyers for the hospital told the judge they \"would like to be able to fulfil the parents' wishes... if it is safe and practicable and in Charlie's best interests\".\n\nHowever, Katie Gollop QC, who leads the hospital's legal team, said providing intensive care for Charlie away from a hospital was not simple.\n\nCharlie's condition requires air to be forced into his lungs. She said as far as the hospital was aware invasive ventilation was only provided in a hospital setting.\n\nMs Gollop said Charlie would need to be \"monitored by an ITU trained nurse at all times, with an ITU doctor on call and close at hand\".\n\nSuch resources \"cannot be provided by GOSH to Charlie at his parents' home\", she said.\n\nCharlie has been in intensive care at Great Ormond Street Hospital since October\n\nMr Justice Francis said: \"If going home can be achieved within reason then I would like to achieve that for them.\"\n\nHe said he would make a final decision, about whether Charlie can be taken home, at 14:00 BST on Wednesday.\n\nCharlie's parents, from Bedfont, west London, said they had been spending their \"last precious moments\" with their son.\n\nCharlie has encephalomyopathic mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome. He has brain damage and cannot move his arms or legs.\n\nHis parents had asked Mr Justice Francis to rule that their son should be allowed to undergo a trial of nucleoside therapy in New York, a move opposed by medics at GOSH who argued the treatment would be \"futile\".\n\nThe Family Division of the High Court heard on Monday that US neurologist Professor Michio Hirano was no longer willing to offer the experimental therapy after he had seen the results of a new MRI scan.\n\nIn a statement to the High Court, GOSH said Professor Michio Hirano had not taken the opportunity to see Charlie until last week, despite being offered the chance to do so by the hospital in January.\n\nThe hospital said it was also concerned the professor had declared a financial interest in some of the treatment he had proposed prescribing for Charlie.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Investigators say that before Justine Damond was shot to death by a Minneapolis police officer, a woman \"slapped\" the back of his patrol car.\n\nThe search warrant issued by the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) does not say if that woman was the Australian yoga teacher.\n\nThe document may shed light on the possible source of the \"loud sound\" that startled the car's driver.\n\nDamond was killed by Officer Mohamed Noor after calling 911 two weeks ago.\n\nThe search warrant, which was provided to local news stations by investigators, stated: \"Upon police arrival, a female 'slaps' the back of the patrol squad.\n\n\"After that, it is unknown to BCA agents what exactly happened, but the female became deceased in the alley.\"\n\nMohamed Noor, who fired the fatal shot across his partner and through the driver's window, has so far refused to be interviewed by investigators.\n\nOfficer Matthew Harrity, who was driving the police cruiser through the alley behind Damond's home, has told detectives that they were startled by a \"loud sound\" just before the shooting.\n\nMock-official signs were posted around the city over the weekend, but quickly were taken down\n\nNeither officer had turned on their body camera, which recently-adopted regulations require every officer to carry.\n\nBoth men have been placed on paid administrative leave.\n\nThe BCA report was compiled about seven hours after the shooting\n\nAlso detailed in the report are several items recovered from the scene and submitted for forensic examination by investigators.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mayor Betsy Hodges was interrupted by angry protesters at a news conference about the police chief's resignation\n\nA 9mm cartridge shell, Damond's mobile phone, blood from the rear driver's side door of the squad car, and fingerprints and spots on the rear and exterior of the vehicle were all recorded by the BCA.\n\nInvestigators have determined that Damond, who moved from Australia two years ago, was unarmed when she was killed.\n\nDamond, 40, had called 911 twice before midnight to report a possible rape in her upscale Minneapolis neighbourhood about 20 minutes before her death,.\n\nHer death, as well as the deaths of black men Philando Castile and Jamar Clark at the hands of police, has led to criticism of the police department and forced the resignation of the police chief on Friday.", "Humans could become extinct if sperm counts in men continue to fall at current rates, a doctor has warned.\n\nResearchers assessing the results of nearly 200 studies say sperm counts among men from North America, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand, seem to have halved in less than 40 years.\n\nSome experts are sceptical of the Human Reproduction Update findings.\n\nBut lead researcher Dr Hagai Levine said he was \"very worried\" about what might happen in the future.\n\nThe assessment, one of the largest ever undertaken, brings together the results of 185 studies between 1973 and 2011.\n\nDr Levine, an epidemiologist, told the BBC that if the trend continued humans would become extinct.\n\n\"If we will not change the ways that we are living and the environment and the chemicals that we are exposed to, I am very worried about what will happen in the future,\" he said.\n\n\"Eventually we may have a problem, and with reproduction in general, and it may be the extinction of the human species.\"\n\nScientists not involved in the study have praised the quality of the research but say that it may be premature to come to such a conclusion.\n\nDr Levine, from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, found a 52.4% decline in sperm concentration, and a 59.3% decline in total sperm count in men from North America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand.\n\nThe study also indicates the rate of decline among men living in these countries is continuing and possibly even increasing.\n\nIn contrast, no significant decline was seen in South America, Asia and Africa, but the researchers point out that far fewer studies have been conducted on these continents. However, Dr Levine is concerned that eventually sperm counts could fall in these places too.\n\nMany previous studies have indicated similar sharp declines in sperm count in developed economies, but sceptics say that a large proportion of them have been flawed.\n\nSome have investigated a relatively small number of men, or included only men who attend fertility clinics and are, in any case, more likely to have low sperm counts.\n\nThere is also concern that studies that claim to show a decline in sperm counts are more likely to get published in scientific journals than those that do not.\n\nAnother difficulty is that early methods of counting sperm may have overestimated the true count.\n\nTaken together these factors may have created a false view of falling sperm counts.\n\nBut the researchers claim to have accounted for some of these deficiencies, leaving some doubters, such as Prof Allan Pacey of Sheffield University, less sceptical.\n\nHe said: \"I've never been particularly convinced by the many studies published so far claiming that human sperm counts have declined in the recent past.\"\n\n\"However, the study today by Dr Levine and his colleagues deals head-on with many of the deficiencies of previous studies.\"\n\nBut Prof Pacey believes that although the new study has reduced the possibility of errors it does not entirely remove them. So, he says, the results should be treated with caution.\n\n\"The debate has not yet been resolved and there is clearly much work still to be done.\n\n\"However, the paper does represent a step forward in the clarity of the data which might ultimately allow us to define better studies to examine this issue.\"\n\nThere is no clear evidence for the reason for this apparent decrease. But it has been linked with exposure to chemicals used in pesticides and plastics, obesity, smoking, stress, diet, and even watching too much TV.\n\nDr Levine says that there is an urgent need to find out why sperm counts are decreasing and to find ways of reversing the trend.\n\n\"We must take action - for example, better regulation of man-made chemicals - and we must continue our efforts on tackling smoking and obesity.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A teacher who had sex with a student in a plane toilet on a school trip has been banned from the profession.\n\nEleanor Wilson, 28, who worked in Bristol, kissed the pupil and drank alcohol with him while on the flight.\n\nA National College for Teaching & Leadership (NCTL) panel found she engaged in sexual activity with a male pupil in August 2015.\n\nThe panel's report found her guilty of unacceptable professional conduct and banned her from teaching indefinitely.\n\nThe NCTL found an \"inappropriate relationship\" took place with the pupil in 2015/16 when she met him in her office, shared her mobile number with him, took him on outings, drank alcohol with him and kissed him on more than one occasion.\n\nMiss Wilson also encouraged the pupil, who has not been identified, to hide their relationship and lied about it when an investigation into the allegations was undertaken by the school, the panel said.\n\nThe panel ruled she \"fell significantly short of the standards expected of the profession\".\n\nThe teacher, who had denied the allegations, was sacked by the school last year and was not present at the NCTL hearing.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The civil unrest left 43 people dead and more than 1,000 injured\n\nDarryle Buchanan was approaching his 12th birthday when he awoke on the morning of 23 July 1967 to the sounds of what appeared to be a raucous party outside.\n\nAs the young altar boy rose from his bed and ironed his cassocks that Sunday morning, preparing for duty at St Agnes Catholic Church, he could smell smoke.\n\n\"I thought people must be barbecuing or something,\" he recalled.\n\nThe phone rang and his mother, an emergency room technician who worked an overnight shift, called to tell her son to stay put.\n\nFewer than 10 blocks away, Detroit was beginning to burn.\n\nFifty years ago and five days before Mr Buchanan's birthday, police raided an after-hours African-American blind pig, or an unlicensed drinking and gambling club, and arrested 82 people in the middle of the night.\n\nThe incident touched off civil unrest across Detroit over the next five days, prompting Michigan Governor George Romney to deploy the National Guard and eventually President Lyndon Johnson to send troops from the US Army's 82nd and 101st Airborne Division to quell the violence.\n\nOnce the dust settled, 43 people were dead, 1,000 were injured and more than 7,000 were arrested - many of whom were African-American - in what seemed like a warzone to the rest of the country.\n\nThe subject is the focus of Oscar-winning director Kathryn Bigelow's forthcoming film Detroit, which centres on a single incident at the Algiers Motel during that week of violence.\n\nPolice fatally shot three black teens at point-blank range and beat other black men while looking for snipers at the motel.\n\nOnly one officer faced trial for the shootings and was acquitted by an all-white jury - a refrain that has continued in recent years amid a national debate on excessive use of police force.\n\nThe disorder caused more than $50m (£38m) in damages and reduced an upwards of 2,000 buildings to rubble\n\nMr Buchanan spent the next week watching as the 12th Street neighbourhood - once a bustling business and commercial district - became engulfed in chaos, destroyed brick by brick.\n\n\"People were coming down the street with shopping carts and things in their hands,\" he recalled of that first morning.\n\n\"I actually saw a guy run from the meat market across 12th Street with a side of beef on his back,\" he says with a chuckle. \"I for one didn't know what he was going to do with it because you gotta have the right carving tools for that, but that's just how insane it was.\"\n\nMr Buchanan remembers sweaty nights sleeping beneath his grandparents' dining room table that week, peering out the window as police raided the building next door and watching looters burn down a dry cleaners as he stood across the street.\n\n\"When the building collapsed through the floor, there was this rush of cool air that came out of the basement that you could feel change in the intensity of the heat,\" he says.\n\n\"These rats were on fire, running down on 12th Street, as the whole thing came down.\n\n\"When a building catches fire it doesn't smell like a bonfire or paper burning. It is a smell like after an earthquake or something, that smell of decay. And that lingered because the rubble just sat there.\"\n\n\"It was a warzone,\" Mr Buchanan says\n\nThe devastation included more than $50m (£38m) in damages and reduced more than 2,000 buildings to piles of smouldering ashes, plunging the one-time Model City into a downward spiral of poverty and blight.\n\nDuring the stifling temperatures of the summer of 1967, known elsewhere as the Summer of Love, civil unrest erupted across nearly 130 cities across the country - but Detroit would mark the bloodiest and its scars would run deep for decades to come.\n\n\"Detroit's story is America's story,\" says Marlowe Stoudamire, the director of the Detroit Historical Museum's exhibit commemorating the event.\n\nDetroit 67: Looking Back to Move Forward, is a three-year project spanning the 50 years before and after 1967, including oral histories from hundreds of locals and former residents.\n\n\"We've had some victories and we've had a lot of failures,\" he says. \"But it's important for us to look at our collective history no matter where we are and understand how it intersects with our lives.\"\n\nBefore the unrest, Detroit Mayor Jerome Cavanaugh, often described as a white liberal visionary, touted the Motor City as a successful example of President Johnson's Model Cities Program.\n\nDetroit was among several cities to receive millions in federal funding for urban development as its booming economy attracted thousands of workers to the centre of the automobile industry.\n\n\"Detroit was really this shining city on a hill in terms of racial harmony,\" says Jeffrey Horner, a Wayne State University urban studies and planning senior lecturer who is teaching a course on the events.\n\nThe city, home to the three largest US carmakers, brimmed with wealth and boasted more than 90% of the car market after World War Two.\n\n\"Detroit had this amazing history before the riots, but it was this 10-year period of time where city's fortunes completely reversed,\" Mr Horner says.\n\nFor many, the blind pig arrests marked the final straw in the black community's long-simmering frustrations with economic strife, housing discrimination and racial tensions with a predominantly white police force.\n\nBy 1967, African-Americans made up just 5% of the police force, but roughly 40% of the population.\n\nThe 1967 crisis has been described as riots, with hundreds of locals taking part in burning buildings, ransacking local businesses and widespread violence.\n\nOf the 43 people killed, 33 were African-American and 10 were white, including a police officer, two firefighters and a National Guardsman.\n\nBut the disorder has also been called a rebellion, underscoring long-standing economic and racial frustrations among the city's large black community amid a period of urban renewal.\n\n\"The timber was dry that weekend,\" says Mr Horner. \"It should have been no surprise to anybody in the black community but I think there is almost unanimity this took the white power base in the city completely by surprise.\"\n\nThe chaos on the streets was indeed met by shock from city officials and police, who were overwhelmed by the violence and required both state and federal help to put an end to the volatility.\n\nBoth state and federal troops were called in to help quell the unrest\n\nMr Horner is among those who refer to the unrest as a rebellion, titling his class The 1967 Rebellion: Retrospect and Prospect.\n\nHe says his research shows that the black community was \"entirely morally justified\" in rebellion against its mistreatment.\n\n\"These were very disenfranchised people and people who were being treated as second-class citizens,\" he says. \"But I don't think there was any justification for the horrible outcomes and loss of lives and loss of property.\n\n\"It really turned the city upside down and in many respects the city hasn't recovered from it, but as far as the rebellion occurring in the first place, I think it was justified.\"\n\nIke McKinnon, a former police chief and deputy mayor, was one of the few African-American police officers on duty as the unrest roiled Detroit.\n\nHe was driving home after a long shift when he was pulled over by two white officers, he recalled in the Detroit 67 project.\n\nStill dressed in uniform, Mr McKinnon was ordered to get out of his car, where one of the officers pointed a gun in his face and said: \"Tonight you're going to die, nigger.\"\n\nMr McKinnon said he saw the officer begin to pull the trigger, then he dived back into his car and took off as they open fire.\n\n\"So that was a sad reality to me that here we had these two police officers who shot at me, and it hit me in terms of, if they shot at me, a fellow police officer, what are they going to do to other people in the street, the city?\" he said.\n\nBefore the unrest, Stella Heatley, a British nanny from Suffolk who worked for the British Council in nearby Grosse Pointe Park from 1966 to 1969, recalls the thrill of taking a bus downtown to shop at department stores, never concerned for her safety.\n\n\"It was really a pleasant life. We really didn't think anything about it,\" she says of how she spent her days as a nanny. But then came the outbreak of violence and her sense of well-being changed.\n\n\"The riots really put a stop to going downtown with the same sense of security.\"\n\nMrs Heatley, who permanently returned to Detroit in 1973 after marrying her American husband, Henry, remembers hearing about the violence a day after the police raid.\n\nShe received a phone call from the Council to pack a bag and to be ready to leave, possibly by boat, on Monday afternoon.\n\nThe family remained, but Mrs Heatley remembers watching television images of plumes of smoke billowing from the streets.\n\n\"There was a media blackout so it was about a week before the full gravity of the damage done became clear to the general public,\" she says.\n\n\"They burned everything,\" Mrs Heatley says\n\n\"It was just block after block after block just burnt to the ground,\" she says, describing the days that followed. \"They had burnt their own homes, their own shops, their own professionals - it was just decimated.\n\n\"People were genuinely alarmed that if it started there it could continue elsewhere. There was a fear,\" she added, \"an apprehension.\"\n\nThe fear was palpable - and it hung over the city, Mrs Heatley says.\n\n\"People literally left in the next few weeks because they weren't sure of what would happen, what the impact on immediate future of the city would be and they were afraid, in some cases, for the children going to school,\" she says. \"They just didn't feel safe.\"\n\nThe city's population would indeed shrink from 1.8 million people, at its peak in 1950 as the country's fifth largest city, to just 672,000 people today.\n\nThe Twelfth Street business district never recovered after 1967, leading many of the buildings to fall into a state of disrepair and shop owners to abandon the area.\n\nThe street now stands commercially barren, marked by empty plots of land, a park and housing complexes.\n\n\"I felt this sense of loss that the community I knew was never going to be the same. And it wasn't,\" Mr Buchanan says.\n\nThe events also exacerbated the white flight of the middle class to the suburbs, which began in the 1950s, starving the city of tax revenue and ultimately leading to the decline of Detroit's public schools.\n\nBut the unrest is also a reminder to residents of the community leadership that rose from the ashes of 1967, with the creation of several organisations including New Detroit and Focus: HOPE.\n\nSome of those community-driven changes served as the city's backbone as it endured the following decades of economic turmoil, Mr Horner points out, including the so-called Great Recession of the late 2000s, the near collapse of the car industry and Detroit's historic declaration of municipal bankruptcy in 2013.\n\n\"The community development movement was a very important link between city government and residents, to the extent that it spurred discussion amongst stakeholders and groups such as aggrieved citizens,\" he says.\n\n\"Just the fact that there's a lot more talking going on now than there was in 1967 is an important lesson.\"\n\nThe state also passed the Michigan Fair Housing Act to fight housing discrimination and Detroit elected its first black mayor, Coleman Young, in 1973.\n\nThese lessons are more important than ever as the city undertakes a massive revitalisation effort, accelerated by young entrepreneurs returning to the city, Mr Stoudamire says.\n\n\"Detroit is not a blank canvas. You don't build on top or around people, you build with people,\" he says.\n\n\"That's why we're trying to use this as a catalyst to move forward. Our identity doesn't need to be recalibrated, but our stories need to be told.\"", "A villager points to the house where a teenage girl was raped in Muzaffarabad, Multan\n\nSome 20 people from Multan, Pakistan, have been arrested for ordering the rape of a teenage girl, in revenge for a rape her brother allegedly committed.\n\nPolice said the families of the two girls are related.\n\nMembers of both had joined forces to decide what should be done.\n\n\"A jirga [village council] had ordered the rape of a 16-year-old girl as punishment, as her brother had raped a 12-year-old,\" police official Allah Baksh told AFP.\n\nHe said the village council was approached earlier this month by a man who said his 12-year-old sister had been raped by their cousin.\n\nThe council then ordered the complainant to rape the sister of the accused in return - which police say he did.\n\nPakistan's Dawn newspaper reported that the girl was forced to appear before the group and raped in front of them and her parents.\n\nThe mothers of the two girls later filed complaints at the local police station.\n\nMedical examinations have confirmed rape in both cases.\n\nReports suggest the second girl was raped in front of the family council\n\nAnother officer, Ahsan Younas, told BBC Urdu that the first girl to be raped was aged between 12 and 14. The victim of the revenge rape is said to be 16 or 17.\n\nHe said police had registered a complaint against 25 people, and that the suspect accused of raping the 12-year-old was still at large.\n\nWhile some reports say the group that ordered the rape was a jirga - or village council - BBC sources said it was actually formed by members of the two families.\n\nJirgas, a kind of council formed of local elders, often settle disputes in rural Pakistan. However, they are illegal and have been condemned for a series of controversial rulings - including ordering so-called \"honour killings\" and past incidents of \"revenge rape\".\n\nIn 2002, a jirga ordered the gang rape of 28-year-old Mukhtar Mai, whose 12-year-old brother was accused of an affair with an older woman.\n\nMukhtar Mai, pictured in 2011, was gang-raped by order of a tribal council\n\nMs Mai took her rapists to court - an act of extraordinary courage in Pakistan, where sexual assault victims still face considerable stigma.\n\nWhen their convictions were overturned by Pakistan's Supreme Court, she was offered many ways out of the country. However, she chose to stay in her village and start a girls' school and a women's refuge yards away from where she was raped.\n\nMs Mai is now a prominent women's rights activist, and her story inspired an opera, \"Thumbprint\", which opened in New York in 2014.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The video (in Italian) showing the river next to Lavertezzo, in Switzerland, has gone viral\n\nMost people would be delighted if their home town was compared to the Maldives, one of the world's top beauty spots.\n\nBut not, it seems, those living in the village of Lavertezzo, Switzerland.\n\nResidents here are thoroughly fed up with a recent influx of tourists, who they accuse of turning their idyllic valley into \"an open air toilet\".\n\nThis latest stream of tourists were all apparently inspired by a minute-long video, which has been watched 2.6m times so far, dubbing the area \"the Maldives of Milan\".\n\nIn it, filmmaker Marco Capedri and his friend Federico Sambruni frolic in the crystal clear waters of the Verzasca river, in the shadow of an imposing double-arched stone bridge.\n\n\"A magnificent canyon crossed with emerald waters - one hour from Milan and 45 minutes from Varese,\" Mr Capedri's post proclaimed.\n\nWith that, Lavertezzo's residents - who are no strangers to tourists - found themselves overwhelmed by Italians crossing the border in search of a taste of paradise.\n\n\"I thought the valley had exploded,\" one resident told Ticino News [in Italian].\n\nAnother accused the tourists, who came from all over, of turning the valley into \"an outdoor toilet\" and \"running semi-naked down the street\". The reporter, meanwhile, noted the \"socks, cigarettes and cans\" left behind by the day-trippers.\n\nThe town's mayor, Roberto Bacciarini, was more circumspect in his response.\n\nSpeaking to Italian newspaper Repubblica [in Italian], he admitted the video had done \"a good job\" in attracting people to the area, but added: \"[Mr Capedri] would do us a favour if he asked his compatriots to park their cars in an orderly manner, and respect the rules of the place.\"", "David Davis, Boris Johnson and Liam Fox, pictured at the Tory Party conference, were dubbed the \"three Brexiteers\"\n\nSenior cabinet ministers will push the UK's Brexit agenda on three different continents later.\n\nInternational Trade Secretary Liam Fox will travel from the US to meet Mexican counterparts to discuss trading relationships.\n\nForeign Secretary Boris Johnson is on a two-day tour of Australia, saying post-Brexit trade is \"top of the agenda\".\n\nAnd Brexit Secretary David Davis will hold private talks in Germany ahead of the next round of negotiations.\n\nThe globetrotting by the three ministers - dubbed the \"three Brexiteers\" for their role in backing a Leave vote - comes amid increased scrutiny of the opportunities and challenges facing Britain in terms of negotiating free trade agreements with other countries once it leaves the EU.\n\nNo deals can be done until withdrawal in March 2019 but the UK has established a series of inter-ministerial working groups in the US and Australia to discuss the way ahead while also signalling to other countries, such as New Zealand, that they will be \"near the front of the queue\".\n\nUS President Donald Trump has said a deal with the UK could be \"big and exciting\" in terms of jobs, accusing the EU of a \"very protectionist\" stance towards America.\n\nThe EU has insisted Brexit talks will only be held by the European Commission, and the Department for Exiting the European Union confirmed Mr Davis' talks with officials in Germany would be private.\n\nBrussels has also made clear that trade talks between the UK and the EU must wait until other issues, including the status of expats and any \"divorce bill\" to be paid by the UK, have been settled.\n\nThe role of the European Court of Justice has emerged as a stumbling block to a deal on citizen's rights, despite both sides insisting that they want to come an arrangement.\n\nThe UK is seeking a \"comprehensive free trade deal\" with the EU after Brexit to replace its membership of the common market and customs union.", "Aisha was showered with expensive gifts by the militant who took her as his wife\n\nIn our series of letters from African journalists, Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani looks at why some Nigerian women have gone back to the militant Islamists who abducted them.\n\nWhen news emerged that some of the Chibok schoolgirls, abducted by Boko Haram in 2014, had declined to return home with the batch of 82 freed in May, the world found it difficult to believe.\n\nNot even the release of a Boko Haram video showing some hijab-clad, Kalashnikov-wielding girls saying they were happy in their new lives, was enough to convince people. \"They must have been coerced,\" some said.\n\n\"It must be Stockholm syndrome,\" others said. What else could explain why any girl, any woman, would choose to remain with such horrible men?\n\nYet, some women rescued by the Nigerian military from captivity are willingly returning to Boko Haram's Sambisa forest hideout in north-eastern Nigeria to be with these same horrible men.\n\nIn January, I met Aisha Yerima, 25, who was kidnapped by Boko Haram more than four years ago. While in captivity, she got married to a commander who showered her with romance, expensive gifts and Arabic love songs.\n\nThe fairytale life in the Sambisa forest she described to me was suddenly cut short by the appearance of the Nigerian military in early 2016, at a time her husband had gone off to battle with other commanders.\n\nWhen I first interviewed Aisha, she had been in government custody for about eight months, and completed a de-radicalisation programme run by psychologist Fatima Akilu, the executive director of the Neem Foundation and founder of the Nigerian government's de-radicalisation programme.\n\n\"I now see that all the things Boko Haram told us were lies,\" Aisha said. \"Now, when I listen to them on the radio, I laugh.\"\n\nBut, in May, less than five months after being released into the care of her family in north-eastern Maiduguri city, she returned to the forest hideout of Boko Haram.\n\nThe Nigerian military have been battling Boko Haram since 2009\n\nOver the past five years, Dr Akilu has worked with former Boko Haram members - including some commanders, their wives and children - and with hundreds of women who were rescued from captivity.\n\n\"How women were treated when in Boko Haram captivity depends on which camp a woman was exposed to. It depends on the commander running the camp,\" she said.\n\n\"Those who were treated better were the ones who willingly married Boko Haram members or who joined the group voluntarily and that's not the majority. Most women did not have the same treatment.\"\n\nAisha had boasted to me about the number of slaves she had while in the Sambisa forest, the respect she received from other Boko Haram commanders, and the strong influence she had over her husband. She even accompanied him to battle once.\n\n\"These were women who for the most part had never worked, had no power, no voice in the communities, and all of a sudden they were in charge of between 30 to 100 women who were now completely under their control and at their beck and call,\" Dr Akilu said.\n\n\"It is difficult to know what to replace it with when you return to society because most of the women are returning to societies where they are not going to be able to wield that kind of power.\"\n\nApart from loss of power, other reasons Dr Akilu believes could lead women to willingly return to Boko Haram include stigmatisation from a community which treats them like pariahs because of their association with the militants, and tough economic conditions.\n\nDealing with the aftermath of release can be a struggle for some of those who were abducted\n\n\"De-radicalisation is just one part of it. Reintegration is also a part of it. Some of them have no livelihood support built around them,\" Dr Akilu said.\n\n\"The kind of support you have in de-radicalisation programmes does not follow you when you leave. They often come out successful from de-radicalisation programmes but they struggle in the community and it is that struggle that often leads them to go back,\" she said.\n\nRecently, I visited Aisha's family, who were still in shock at her departure and worried about her wellbeing.\n\nHer mother, Ashe, recalled at least seven former Boko Haram \"wives\" she knew, all friends of her daughter, who had returned to the Sambisa forest long before her daughter did.\n\n\"Each time one of them disappeared, her family came to our house to ask Aisha if she had heard from their daughter,\" she said. \"That's how I knew.\"\n\nSome of the women kept in touch with Aisha after they returned to Boko Haram. Her younger sister, Bintu, was present during at least two phone calls.\n\n\"They told her to come and join them but she refused,\" Bintu said. \"She told them she didn't want to go back.\"\n\nUnlike some former Boko Haram \"wives\" I've met, who are either struggling to survive harsh economic conditions or dealing with stigma, Aisha's life seemed to be on track.\n\nShe was earning money from buying and selling fabric, regularly attending social events and posting photos of herself all primped up on social media, and had a string of suitors.\n\n\"At least five different men wanted to marry her,\" her mother said, pointing out that there could be no greater form of acceptance shown to a woman, and presenting this as evidence that her daughter faced no stigma whatsoever from the community.\n\n\"One of the men lives in Lagos. She was thinking of marrying him,\" she said.\n\nBut, everything went awry when Aisha received yet another phone call from the women who had returned to the forest, informing her that her Boko Haram \"husband\" was now with a woman who had been her rival.\n\nFrom that day, the vivacious and gregarious Aisha became a recluse.\n\n\"She stopped going out or talking or eating,\" Bintu said. \"She was always sad.\"\n\nTwo weeks later, she left home and did not return. Some of her clothes were missing. Her phones were switched off. She took the two-year-old son fathered by the commander in the Sambisa forest, but left the older one she had with the husband she divorced before her abduction.\n\n\"De-radicalisation is complicated by the fact that we have an active, ongoing insurgency. In cases where a group has reached settlement with the government and laid down their arms, it is easier,\" Dr Akilu said. \"But, when you have fathers, husbands, sons still in the movement, they want to be reunited, especially women.\"\n\nAsta, another former Boko Haram \"wife\", told me that she has heard of the many women returning to the group, but has no plans to do so herself.\n\nHowever, the 19-year-old described how terribly she misses her husband, and how keen she is to hear from him and to be reunited with him.\n\nShe insisted that she would not return to the forest, not even if he were to ask her.\n\n\"I will tell him to come and stay here with us and live a normal life,\" she said.\n\nBut as with Aisha, the desire to be with the man she yearns for may turn out to be more compelling for Asta than the aversion to a group responsible for the deaths of thousands of people in north-east Nigeria, and for the displacement of millions who are struggling to survive in refugee camps.\n\nFollow us on Twitter @BBCAfrica, on Facebook at BBC Africa, on Instagram at bbcafrica or email africalive@bbc.co.uk", "Divorces are known to break a heart or two but in one case in Japan, an extra 54 violins were left in tatters.\n\nA woman has been arrested for destroying her former partner's violin collection and 70 bows, together worth 105.9m yen ($950,700, £770,000).\n\nThe 34-year-old suspect broke into his apartment in Nagoya and wrecked the instruments, police said.\n\nThe incident took place in 2014 in the midst of their breakup but the woman has only just been arrested.\n\nHer 62-year-old former husband is said to have been both a maker and collector of violins.\n\nThe most valuable instrument among the 54 casualties was an Italian-made violin worth 50m yen, the Kyodo news agency said.\n\nAccording to Japanese media, the woman is a Chinese national and was arrested on Tuesday upon returning from China to Tokyo.", "Volunteers helping Nick Knowles on the DIY SOS show had their vans broken into\n\nThieves broke into vans and stole tools being used by a team working on a life-changing project for TV show DIY SOS.\n\nBuilders working on the BBC programme were targeted while helping with the project in West Bromwich. Show bosses said three vans have been hit in the past week.\n\nVolunteers are transforming the family home of a mother who died from cancer.\n\nPresenter Nick Knowles tweeted on Wednesday to say he was \"really disappointed\" by the thefts.\n\nThe programme is extending the home of Sandra Chambers, who has looked after her two grandchildren since the death of their mother Crystal in October 2015.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Crystal Chambers' family are being helped by the TV show\n\nShow bosses said two vans - a Peugeot and a Ford - were broken into on Wednesday morning and tools taken.\n\nOn Thursday a Mercedes Sprinter was also broken into, but nothing was stolen. The thefts have been reported to West Midlands Police.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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 Nick Knowles 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 Knowles' tweet prompted a local Peugeot dealership to get in touch and he later thanked them for their help, as well as another person who gave £30 to cover repairs.\n\nThe project to extend the house is being completed by the DIY SOS team and an army of volunteers, including local tradespeople and neighbours, in a nine-day build.", "For some former Jehovah's Witnesses, leaving the faith is not just the mark of losing your religion - it can also mean losing your loved ones. In many cases, friends and family are told to cut all ties with ex-believers, leaving them isolated and sometimes suicidal.\n\n\"I don't speak to any of my family,\" Sarah - not her real name - tells the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme.\n\n\"Because of being 'disfellowshipped', I can have no contact.\"\n\nLast year, Sarah - in her 20s - was excluded by the Jehovah's Witnesses in a process known as \"disfellowshipping\", she says sparked by her refusal to live in an abusive relationship.\n\nShe claims her partner at the time had been violent towards her, at one stage leaving her with broken ribs.\n\nGoing to the police - and involving those from outside the religion - is heavily discouraged by Jehovah's Witnesses, she says, claiming that elders within the faith refused to punish her ex-partner's behaviour.\n\nIt was only when work colleagues noticed the bruising, and convinced her not to put up with the abuse, that she says she fled the relationship.\n\nSarah claims she was consequently disfellowshipped by the religion, and that her friends and family cut all ties with her.\n\nThis is because Jehovah's Witnesses believe those outside the religion can be of detriment to their faith.\n\nIn a statement the religious group told the BBC: \"If a baptised Witness makes a practice of breaking the Bible's moral code, and does not given evidence of stopping the practice, he or she will be shunned or disfellowshipped.\n\n\"When it comes to shunning, Witnesses take their instructions from the Bible and on this subject the Bible clearly states, 'Remove the wicked man from amongst yourselves.'\"\n\nThe night she was disfellowshipped, Sarah says her mother refused to talk to her. Her father woke her up at 07:00 to kick her out of their home.\n\nResponding to Sarah's claims, the Jehovah's Witnesses said that while it could not comment on individual cases, \"violence, whether physical or emotional, is strongly condemned in the Bible and has no place in a Christian family\".\n\nSarah and John (front of shot) told Victoria Derbyshire they had been shunned by their family and friends\n\nJohn - not his real name - became a Jehovah's Witness as a young child when his parents decided to join the religious group.\n\nBut two years ago, he was disfellowshipped after he missed a Jehovah's Witness memorial service - seen in the religion as an important event.\n\nHe had also begun to privately have doubts about some of the religion's teachings - questioning the faith's assertion that the end of the world is imminent, and that only 144,000 human beings will go to heaven.\n\nHis view on the religion was also tarnished after ones of his friends died, when a blood transfusion - which is not allowed in the faith - might have saved him.\n\n\"It was a waste of a life,\" he says.\n\nJohn says he later discovered his wife had testified against him during the process that led to his disfellowship, which he believes placed a great strain on their relationship.\n\nHe left the family home - living temporarily in tents and caravans.\n\n\"It was a very isolating time. I didn't have anyone, I felt quite suicidal,\" he says.\n\nHe has now lost contact with his two adult children and siblings.\n\n\"Sometimes I send them a message saying, 'I love you, I'm still thinking of you.' But usually there's no response,\" he says.\n\nTerri O'Sullivan was kicked out of her home by her mother\n\nAccording to the Jehovah's Witnesses, the faith has more than 138,000 members in the UK, and more than eight million internationally.\n\nTerri O'Sullivan left the religion 17 years ago, aged 21, and was kicked out of her home by her mother.\n\nShe now runs a support network for those who leave or are excluded from it.\n\nShe says she is yet to find a former Jehovah's Witness who has not experienced depression, alcoholism, suicidal feelings or self-harm.\n\nShe adds that while not everyone goes through a formal disfellowship when they leave, their relationships seldom go on unaffected.\n\n\"With some ex-Witnesses,\" she says, \"some of their families will still talk to them - but it will always be strained.\"\n\nSarah says the loss of her closest family ties has been \"very, very difficult\" to cope with.\n\nShe is engaged, and aware she is \"having to plan a wedding where your parents won't attend\".\n\n\"I would class myself as an orphan, which is quite sad,\" she says.\n\nHer support network comes from her friends at work. When she left the faith, she says, they \"rallied around\" her, in contrast to what she had expected.\n\n\"These people I'd been told [by the religion] were awful, were bad association, and God was going to smite them all at Armageddon.\n\n\"Yet these people opened up their homes.\"\n\nSarah is still, however, complimentary about most of the people within her former faith.\n\n\"There are good people in the religion, who believe they are saving people's lives [by spreading the faith's message],\" she says.\n\n\"I look back with some happy memories, because they were the last memories I have with my family and siblings.\n\n\"But then I do have to look back and feel a lot of heartbreak that I'm never going to be able to sit down with them for a Sunday meal again.\n\n\"When they die, I probably won't be invited to the funeral either.\"\n\nWatch the Victoria Derbyshire programme on weekdays between 09:00 and 11:00 on BBC Two and the BBC News channel.", "Krystyna Farley is a 91-year-old beauty pageant queen in the US state of Connecticut, but her life was not always this glamorous. Although she grew up in a loving home in rural Poland, her childhood was cut short by the outbreak of war. This is her story.\n\n\"My skin is beautiful,\" Krystyna Farley says. \"So I don't wear any makeup, just lipstick - that's all.\"\n\nKrystyna, who will soon turn 92, has spent the last year as the incumbent Ms Connecticut Senior America.\n\n\"People think that if you're over 60 you're finished - it's not true,\" Krystyna says, describing what she likes about beauty pageants.\n\n\"You're showing people you are still alive and you still can do it - you can dance, you can sew, you can paint, you can do anything you want.\"\n\nKrystyna's optimism and joie de vivre is all the more remarkable, bearing in mind the harrowing experiences of her teenage years.\n\nShe was born in eastern Poland in 1925, the second of five children. Her family lived on 35 acres of land her father had been given in return for his military service during World War One, in a house surrounded by cherry trees.\n\n\"That life was terrific because we didn't have any worries,\" Krystyna remembers. \"We were young and we always had a good time.\"\n\nKrystyna with her cousin in 1938\n\nBut when Krystyna was 14 Germany and the Soviet Union invaded Poland - triggering World War Two.\n\n\"In 1940 there was a knock on the door,\" Krystyna says.\n\nKrystyna and her family, like hundreds of thousands of other Polish people, were rounded up on a bitingly cold night by the Russian military and Ukrainian police and bundled into cattle trains for a month-long journey into the frozen forests of the Ural mountains.\n\n\"The train had no windows,\" Krystyna says. \"There was a hole for the bathroom and there was a coal stove in the corner, and that was about it. There were about 60 people in each carriage and all we had to eat was bread.\"\n\nKrystyna's family were put to work harvesting timber in a Russian labour camp on a starvation diet.\n\n\"We didn't think about anything else apart from food,\" Krystyna remembers. \"We had nothing to eat, just black bread.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Krystyna Farley explains her life-affirming philosophy to Outlook on the BBC World Service\n\nThe family spent two dreadful years there, until Germany attacked the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941. Stalin, in need of as many allies as he could find, then suddenly released tens of thousands of Polish prisoners of war, including Krystyna and her family.\n\nKrystyna's father, Andrzej, along with many thousands of others, joined a new army, the Polish Army in Exile. But all of the women and children were left behind and since Hitler had now invaded eastern Poland they couldn't return to their homes.\n\nKrystyna, her mother Walentyna, and siblings squeezed on to a boat full of sick, malnourished deportees and sailed across the Caspian Sea, to find work picking cotton near the Uzbek capital, Tashkent.\n\nThere their diet expanded to include flat bread, blackberries, hard cheese and dried melon. But life was still very hard, so Walentyna made the heart-breaking decision to send her children - with the exception of her eldest child, Alice, who was too old - to the safety of the Persian orphanages set up by the Polish Army in Exile.\n\nTo reach Iran the children travelled by boat across the Caspian and then joined a convoy of lorries on the journey south to Tehran. They did not know then that they would never see their mother or eldest sister again.\n\nAfter the dismal conditions they had endured in Russia and Uzbekistan, life in Tehran was much improved. There were clean beds and there was plenty of food - but Krystyna fell terribly ill.\n\nBelieved to be dead, her body was sent to the mortuary, where only by chance a nurse saw Krystyna move and realised that she was still alive.\n\n\"I had pneumonia in two sides of my lungs,\" Krystyna says. \"I was half dead, so I don't remember too much in Tehran.\"\n\nWhen she recovered, Krystyna arranged for her brothers, Teddy and Chester, to join the cadets and sent sister, Natalie, who was just eight, to an orphanage in Africa. Then she enlisted in the Polish Army in Exile.\n\n\"I wanted to be in the army to drive a car,\" she explains. \"That was my own stupidity - you see if you're young, you're stupid.\"\n\nKrystyna visited Jerusalem with her father’s division in 1943 - Krystyna is 5th from the left on the top row, Andrzej is on the far right of the second row from the front\n\nKrystyna was about to turn 18, but lied about her age, as 19 was the minimum age to join the army. However, she wasn't selected to become a military driver, and instead was sent to train as a nurse's aide in Iraq.\n\nKrystyna's five years of military service - for which she received a King George medal - took her to Egypt, and then to Iraq, where she was reunited with her father. Later they were both stationed in Jerusalem together.\n\n\"That was a very nice feeling, but you see, if you're young you really just think about food and money, not family,\" Krystyna admits.\n\n\"So I came to my father and I just said, 'Pops, do you have some money?' And I looked in his pocket and he had plenty, so I took some because we just wanted to buy ourselves makeup and stuff like that.\"\n\nKrystyna and her father were among the troops who crossed the Mediterranean under constant threat from Nazi bombers to join the battle at the hilltop monastery of Monte Cassino, south of Rome.\n\nWhile patching up the injured and mutilated soldiers coming off the mountain Krystyna met a man who was to become her first husband - a soldier called Stanley Slowikowski - who was sent to her ward with a leg injury.\n\nWhen the war ended Krystyna and Stanley settled in England, and it was here that Krystyna's family were all finally reunited - her father, brothers and younger sister.\n\nKrystyna later learned that her mother had died from malaria. Nothing was ever heard of her elder sister, Alice, who had also stayed behind in Uzbekistan.\n\n\"I think my sister is still alive, if she's healthy like I am,\" Krystyna says.\n\nKrystyna and Stanley had three children together but Stanley drank heavily, possibly as a result of his experiences in the war, and Krystyna was widowed in 1949, leaving her with three young children and very little money.\n\nShe began to teach children the dances that she had learned as a child, and in 1953 her dance troupe was invited to perform at the coronation of Queen Elizabeth, wearing costumes that Krystyna had designed and made.\n\nDressed to dance for the Queen’s Coronation in 1953 – Krystyna is second from the left on the front row\n\nBefore she left the UK, Krystyna had another child, Elizabeth. The father had proposed marriage, but she wasn't ready to marry again, and says that a sense of curiosity took her to the US, where she arrived in 1955 with a fur coat on her back, a few hundred dollars in her pocket and four young children by her side.\n\nThere Krystyna built a new life for herself and her children, working for many years as a dental hygienist.\n\nWith her children, George, Little Krystyna, Elizabeth, and Alice in New Britain, Connecticut in 1955\n\nShe remarried in 1956 and had another daughter, named Eva.\n\nIt wasn't until she was in her late 50s, though, that Krystyna met the man who she describes as the love of her life, Ed Farley. They married in 1979 and have been inseparable ever since.\n\nKrystyna is very active in the Polish community in Connecticut.\n\n\"I joined all kinds of clubs,\" she says. \"I was teaching children Polish folk dances, and I took groups to Poland to the international dance festival.\"\n\nBut late in life she also embraced the very American tradition of beauty pageants, entering the Ms Connecticut Senior America competition for the first time at the age of 70.\n\nThat time she was second runner-up. At her next attempt, a few years later, she was first runner-up. At her third attempt, in 2016, she was crowned queen.\n\n\"You have to have a regular dress, you have to have a talent, then you have a gown, and you have to talk about your philosophy of life,\" Krystyna explains.\n\n\"I have three or four different talents - I can read poetry, I can dance, I can do Carmen Miranda,\" she says, referring to the singer famous for Chica Chica Boom Chic.\n\n\"And my philosophy of life is to love everybody and be good to everybody.\"\n\nShe adds: \"You have to love people and be with people, because if you don't have people around you, you're a dead pigeon.\"\n\nIn last year's Ms Senior America finals, Krystyna competed against 44 other state queens - and lost to a woman roughly 30 years her junior.\n\nKrystyna, left, with all the finalists at the 2016 Ms Senior America pageant\n\nShe handed on her Ms Senior Connecticut crown to 2017's queen back in May and, with her 92nd birthday approaching on 19 August, she says now may be the time to hang up her tiara for good.\n\n\"No more pageants for me,\" she says.\n\nBut with nine grandchildren, four great-grandchildren and a fifth on the way, she still has plenty to keep her busy.\n\n\"Right now I'm dressed, I have earrings on - I'm always ready for something to happen,\" Krystyna says.\n\n\"Sure, nothing is happening, but I'm always ready.\"\n\nListen to Krystyna Farley talking about her philosophy of life on Outlook, on the BBC World Service\n\nJoin the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter.", "The Premier League has been awarded a High Court order for the forthcoming 2017-18 season, which will help it combat the illegal streaming of games.\n\nThe blocking order will require UK Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to prevent people from illegally accessing streams of its matches.\n\nIt will allow the league to combat the illicit sale and use of devices such as pre-loaded IPTV and Kodi boxes.\n\nA similar order was obtained for the final two months of the 2016-17 season.\n\nThat saw more than 5,000 server IP addresses blocked that had previously been streaming Premier League content.\n\nSky and BT Sport hold the live rights for Premier League football. The two firms paid a record £5.136bn for rights to show live matches for three seasons.\n\nKodi is free software, built by volunteers, that is designed to bring videos, music, games and photographs together in one easy-to-use application.\n\nSome shops sell set-top boxes and TV sticks known as Kodi boxes, preloaded with the software.\n\nThe developers behind Kodi say their software does not contain any content of its own and is designed to play legally owned media or content \"freely available\" on the internet.\n\nHowever, the software can be modified with third-party add-ons that provide access to pirated copies of films and TV series, or provide free access to subscription television channels and programmes, including sports events.\n\nThe English top flight League is currently undertaking its biggest ever copyright protection programme.\n\nIts anti-piracy efforts have also contributed to a range of prominent apps and add-ons being closed down as the law catches up with them.\n\n\"This blocking order is a game-changer in our efforts to tackle the supply and use of illicit streams of our content,\" said Premier League Director of Legal Services, Kevin Plumb.\n\n\"It will allow us to quickly and effectively block and disrupt the illegal broadcast of Premier League football via any means, including so called 'pre-loaded Kodi boxes'.\n\n\"The protection of our copyright, and the investment made by our broadcast partners, is hugely important to the Premier League and the future health of English football.\"", "A stronger UK film industry helped the service sector to expand, the ONS said.\n\nUK economic growth edged slightly higher in the three months to June, as a stronger service sector offset weaker manufacturing and construction.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics (ONS) said the economy expanded by 0.3% in the quarter, up from 0.2% in the previous three months.\n\nBut the ONS added there had been a \"notable slowdown\" from last year.\n\nWithin the service sector, the retail and the film industries helped underpin growth, the ONS said.\n\n\"While services such as retail, and film production and distribution showed some improvement in the second quarter, a weaker performance from construction and manufacturing pulled down overall growth,\" said Darren Morgan, ONS head of national accounts.\n\nAlthough the economy eked out higher growth in the second quarter, it was below levels seen in the final three months of 2016, when gross domestic product grew by 0.7%.\n\nAnalysts said the latest ONS data, which is an initial estimate, diminished the chances of an interest rate rise any time soon.\n\nChris Williamson, chief business economist at IHS Markit, said: \"The confirmation of the lacklustre performance of the economy so far this year surely also diminishes the chance of an interest rate hike any time soon, especially as growth prospects for coming months have become increasingly skewed to the downside.\"\n\nFilm production in the UK, plus box-office receipts from cinemas, was one of the best performing parts of the economy during the April-June period.\n\nThe ONS said ticket receipts from Wonder Woman and the latest Pirates of the Caribbean film were among the items that had boosted the sector it calls motion picture activities.\n\nThat sector grew 8% in the second quarter.\n\nChancellor Philip Hammond said the UK economy had now grown consistently for four-and-a-half years.\n\n\"We can be proud of that, but we are not complacent,\" he added.\n\n\"We need to focus on restoring productivity growth to deliver higher wages and living standards for people across the country.\"\n\nLabour shadow chancellor John McDonnell said: \"Growth for the first half of 2017 is below expectations, and it follows continued data showing working families are being squeezed with wages not keeping up with prices.\"\n\nAberdeen Asset Management chief economist Lucy O'Carroll said: \"This pick-up will be taken as good news, but it really doesn't amount to much.\n\n\"The figures are the first estimate of growth, based on very patchy data. They always get revised over time, and often substantially so.\n\n\"It's the underlying trends that matter. They don't look favourable at the moment, given the uncertainties around Brexit and the pressure on household budgets from higher inflation.\"\n\nThe construction sector weakened in the second quarter, according to the ONS.\n\nThat was backed up by Andrew Sweeney, from Care Building Services. He told the BBC: \"We seem to be pricing a lot more projects. We price projects for clients; we have estimators in the office. After we've priced it the clients pull it because it is coming over the budget.\n\n\"We've been given orders for jobs and at the last minute the clients have pulled them away from us due to concerns over the market.\"\n\nKallum Pickering, senior UK economist at Berenberg, said the UK's growth in the first half of the year had been its slowest since 2013.\n\nHe added: \"Whereas growth has accelerated significantly so far this year in continental Europe and many emerging markets, the UK is missing out.\n\n\"While the downside risks from the Brexit vote have not yet played out in a major way, the uncertainty stemming from Brexit is leading to caution in all areas of spending and policy that have long-term implications.\n\n\"The UK would probably be growing at 2.5% or above this year were it not for Brexit, with strong gains in real wages and more business investment.\"\n\nThe latest growth figure was in line with economists' expectations, and is unlikely to change expectations that, at its policy meeting next week, the Bank of England will keep interest rates at their current record low.\n\nOn Monday, the International Monetary Fund downgraded its forecast for UK economic growth this year because of the weak first-quarter figure.\n\nThe IMF said it expects UK GDP to grow by 1.7% instead of its previous projection of 2%.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"We're still not out of the woods yet\" - tourist who witnessed the wildfires\n\nWildfires in south-eastern France have forced the evacuation of 10,000 people overnight, officials say.\n\nHundreds of firefighters have been deployed to battle the fires near Bormes-les-Mimosas, in the country's Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region.\n\nFrance earlier asked its EU neighbours for more help fighting the fires.\n\nSome 4,000 hectares (15.4 sq miles) of land have burned along the Mediterranean coast, in the mountainous interior and on the island of Corsica.\n\n\"The evacuations, at least 10,000, followed the progression of the fire,\" a fire official was quoted as saying by the AFP news agency.\n\n\"It's an area that doubles or triples its population in summer,\" the official added.\n\nAt least 10,000 people have been evacuated after wildfires swept through south-eastern France\n\nSome 4,000 hectares (15.4 sq miles) of land have burned along the Mediterranean coast\n\nOne of the worst fires is raging in an area near the popular resort of Saint-Tropez.\n\nIn Corsica, hundreds of homes have been evacuated.\n\nOverall, more than 4,000 firefighters and troops backed by water bombers have been trying to extinguish the flames since Monday.\n\nAt least 12 firefighters have been injured and 15 police officers affected by smoke inhalation, officials say.\n\nWater bombers have been deployed to battle the fires\n\nMore than 4,000 firefighters have been deployed\n\nLisa Minot, a British tourist staying in a campsite near St-Tropez, told the BBC that all tourists were evacuated at about 02:00 local time (00:00 GMT) and spent the night on the beach as it was not safe to stay in the wooded campsite.\n\nShe said that as many as 3,000 people - including tourists from other campsites - ended up staying on the beach in cold winds.\n\n\"People are just very tired,\" Ms Minot said, adding that there very young children among the evacuees.\n\nWater bombers have been tackling the blaze since Monday\n\nThese homes came close to being destroyed\n\nShe said she saw planes scooping up water from the sea and then going back \"into the pool of black smoke\" on the coast.\n\nMs Minot added that there were reports that some campsites had already been destroyed by the blazes.", "A 15-year-old boy has admitted tipping over a car with a fork-lift truck while armed with an air rifle.\n\nA police helicopter was scrambled when reports emerged of a truck \"driving erratically\" around Hazel Gardens in Sonning Common in September last year.\n\nThe boy told Oxford Magistrates' Court court: \"It probably wasn't the best thing to have done.\"\n\nHe admitted aggravated vehicle taking, possessing an unloaded firearm, and careless driving.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A member of the public filmed the boy on the fork-lift\n\nThe magistrates heard the teenager stole the vehicle from Oliver Agriculture in Cane End, near Reading, and drove it two-and-a-half miles to Sonning Common.\n\nThere he wrote off a Fiat Punto by tipping it on to its side, a prosecutor said.\n\nChairman of the magistrates Colin Mcguire described the fork-lift truck as \"a lethal machine\" and asked the Youth Justice Service to carry out a report.\n\nThe teenager from Henley-on-Thames, who cannot be named for legal reasons, will be sentenced on 16 August.\n\nThe Fiat Punto was written off\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mike Ashley was described in court as a \"power drinker\"\n\nSports Direct boss Mike Ashley has won a High Court battle with an investment banker over a £15m deal allegedly made in a pub.\n\nJeffrey Blue told the court Newcastle United's owner reneged on a promise to pay him a multimillion-pound sum if he increased the firm's share price.\n\nThe court heard about \"drink-fuelled\" meetings in pubs, including one where Mr Ashley \"vomited into a fireplace\".\n\nMr Ashley's lawyers said he had won a \"comprehensive\" victory.\n\nThe hearing was told that four years ago Mr Ashley met Mr Blue and three other finance specialists at the Horse and Groom in London and \"consumed a lot of alcohol\".\n\nMr Ashley said: \"I can't remember the details of the conversations that we had in the pub as it was a heavy night of drinking.\n\n\"If I did say to Mr Blue that I would pay him £15m if he could increase [Sports Direct's] share price to £8, it would be obvious to everyone, including Mr Blue, that I wasn't being serious.\"\n\nHe said he paid Mr Blue £1m in \"other deals\" unrelated to the Horse and Groom meeting.\n\nMr Blue described Mr Ashley as a \"serious businessman\", but said the work ethic at Derbyshire-based Sports Direct was \"like nothing else I have ever seen\" with business conducted \"in unorthodox ways and in unusual venues\".\n\nThe £14m High Court case between Newcastle United owner Mike Ashley and a banker offered a revealing insight into how business is done in some quarters.\n\nStories of monster drinking sessions, kebabs and vomiting into a fireplace emerged as financial expert Jeffrey Blue tried to get Ashley to cough up.\n\nHe claimed the Sports Direct founder had promised him the money in a deal struck in a pub, but Ashley said the conversation was no more than a joke.\n\nAnd a judge has now agreed no-one could have thought he was being serious.\n\nThe judge said that during the Horse and Groom meeting Mr Ashley promised him £15m, but Sports Direct chairman Keith Hellawell said Mr Blue only mentioned the figure of £1m to him.\n\nRuling in Mr Ashley's favour, judge Justice Leggatt said: \"No reasonable person present... would have thought that the offer to pay Mr Blue £15m was serious and was intended to create a contract.\n\n\"They all thought it was a joke. The fact that Mr Blue has since convinced himself that the offer was a serious one, and that a legally binding agreement was made, shows only that the human capacity for wishful thinking knows few bounds.\"\n\nHe ordered that Mr Blue would have to pick up Mr Ashley's legal bill of £1.5m, as well as his own of \"one million odd\".\n\nIn a statement after the ruling Mr Ashley said: \"The only reason the Sports Direct share price exceeded £8, and will hopefully do so again, is because of the sterling efforts of all the people who work at Sports Direct.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "There are dramatic images on several front pages of people fleeing the wildfires in south-eastern France by grabbing a few belongings and making for the beach at Bormes-Les-Mimosas.\n\nOne woman tells the Daily Telegraph \"all we had time to bring was our passports\". The paper says dozens of British holidaymakers were preparing for another night sleeping on the sand.\n\nThe Daily Mail shows some of those who escaped what it calls the \"inferno on the Riviera\", covered in blankets and using bags as pillows.\n\nThe Sun's travel editor, Lisa Minot, who was among those evacuated from a campsite, writes the British mantra of \"keep calm and carry on has turned into despair\" as many holidaymakers are likely to lose their cars and possessions.\n\nAccording to the Times, those caught up in the chaos have been left \"with little idea of whether their insurance would cover the disruption\". It says the fires have been propelled by strong winds through pine-covered hillsides and officials in Provence believe they were started deliberately.\n\nThe government's strategy for tackling air pollution comes under intense scrutiny.\n\nThe Daily Telegraph reports that experts predict another 10,000 wind turbines will have to be built to meet the demand of electric-only cars.\n\nFor the Sun it is not enough to \"blithely announce\" a ban on sales of new petrol and diesel cars \"without a co-ordinated, costed national plan for achieving it\".\n\nThe Guardian warns the government could face further legal action \"to force it to produce a more comprehensive plan, with environmentalists, doctors and opposition politicians arguing it is insufficient to deal with a 'health emergency' estimated to be killing 40 thousand people a year\".\n\nThe paper's environment editor, Damian Carrington, condemns the proposals as a \"smokescreen\" that hides the \"true villains\" - car manufacturers. He says they've \"dodged the emissions regulations that would have kept air pollution in check\".\n\nThe Daily Telegraph leads with the call for GPs to be urged to stop telling patients to complete their full course of antibiotics.\n\nInfectious disease experts welcome it, saying that the current guidance is based on a fear of under-treating, but actually increases the risk of bacterial resistance.\n\nThe story also features on the front page of the Guardian and Times.\n\nHowever, the Royal College of GPs expresses concern that advising patients to take the medication only until they feel better would lead to confusion.\n\nThe front page report in the i newspaper suggests the \"era of designer babies\" is a step closer, with scientists in the US succeeding in altering genes in IVF embryos.\n\nIt says new technology has been employed to \"correct\" the genes responsible for inherited disease and could, in theory, be used to enhance those that produce traits such as better eyesight or stronger muscles.\n\nThe Times reports the suspected rape of an autistic man by another resident at a private care home was not made public by the regulator, the Care Quality Commission.\n\nIt says the incident was left out of a report, produced after an inspection of the home in north London.\n\nThe Care Quality Commission defends its decision, explaining that it has to balance its desire to be \"open and transparent\" with the need to avoid \"compromising ongoing investigations\".\n\nThe chairman of ITV is said by the Daily Mirror to have insisted he will \"never discuss\" how much the channel's stars earn.\n\nThe paper says the intervention of Sir Peter Bazalgette comes as the presenter of Good Morning Britain, Piers Morgan, has been challenged by his BBC rival, Dan Walker, to reveal whether his salary is the same as that of his co-host, Susanna Reid.\n\nFinally, the Daily Mail examines one man who can boast impressive muscles - the world champion swimmer Adam Peaty.\n\nIt details the physical attributes that have propelled him from \"a lad who used to be afraid of water\" to a record-breaker.\n\nHis size 12 feet and his double-jointed knees, which help with power and flexibility; his body fat of a mere 6%; and his 46-inch chest, which allows him to lift 30% more than his bodyweight.", "It is time to reconsider the widespread advice that people should always complete an entire course of antibiotics, experts in the BMJ say.\n\nThey argue there is not enough evidence to back the idea that stopping pills early encourages antibiotic resistance.\n\nInstead, they suggest, more studies need to be done to see if stopping once feeling better can help cut antibiotic use.\n\nBut GPs urge people not to change their behaviour in the face of one study.\n\nProf Helen Stokes-Lampard, leader of the Royal College of General Practitioners, said an improvement in symptoms did not necessarily mean the infection had been completely eradicated.\n\n\"It's important that patients have clear messages, and the mantra to always take the full course of antibiotics is well known - changing this will simply confuse people.\"\n\nThe opinion piece, by a team of researchers from across England, argues that reducing the use of antibiotics is essential to help combat the growing problem of antibiotic resistance.\n\nProf Martin Llewelyn, from the Brighton and Sussex Medical School, together with colleagues, argues that using antibiotics for longer than necessary can increase the risk of resistance.\n\nHe suggests traditional long prescriptions for antibiotics were based on the outdated idea that resistance to an antibiotic could develop when a drug was not taken for a lengthy time and an infection was undertreated.\n\nInstead, he says, there is now growing evidence that short courses of antibiotics - lasting three to five days, for example - work just as well to treat many bugs.\n\nHe accepts there are a few exceptions - for example, giving just one type of antibiotic for TB infections - which is known to lead to rapid resistance.\n\nBut the team says it is important to move away from blanket prescriptions and, with more research, give antibiotic prescriptions that are tailored to each infection and each person.\n\nThe study acknowledges that hospitals are increasingly reviewing the need for antibiotics from day to day and that there is a growing trend towards shorter courses of drugs.\n\nBut it questions whether advice such as stopping once feeling better would be beneficial - particularly when patients do not get the opportunity to be reviewed in the hospital every day.\n\nThey accept this idea would need more research.\n\nProf Helen Stokes-Lampard, leader of the Royal College of General Practitioners, says while it is important to take new evidence into account, she \"cannot advocate widespread behaviour change on the results of just one study\".\n\nShe says recommended courses of antibiotics are \"not random\" but tailored to individual conditions and in many cases courses are quite short.\n\nAnd she says: \"We are concerned about the concept of patients stopping taking their medication mid-way through a course once they 'feel better', because improvement in symptoms does not necessarily mean the infection has been completely eradicated.\n\nMeanwhile, Kieran Hand, spokesman for the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, said: \"This opinion article from respected NHS infection experts is a welcome opening of the debate in the UK on the relationship between the length of a course of antibiotics, efficacy and resistance.\n\n\"As researchers have pointed out, further research is needed before the 'Finish the course' mantra for antibiotics is changed and any alternative message, such as, 'Stop when you feel better,' can be confidently advocated.\n\n\"The ideal future scenario would be that the right length of treatment for a specific infection for patients is identified from clinical trials and the exact quantity prescribed and dispensed.\"\n\nPublic Health England says patients should continue to follow their health professional's advice about using antibiotics.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Volunteers have located and photographed hundreds of WW1 grave markers brought back from the front, like this one at Garboldisham, Norfolk\n\nManicured lawns and gleaming white headstones now welcome visitors to the World War One cemeteries of France and Belgium. But a century ago, these soldiers' graves were marked with simple wooden crosses. What happened to them and who are the people tracking them down?\n\nOn the wall of St Anne's Church in Sale, Greater Manchester, hangs one such cross. Made from two pieces of wood nailed together, with a sharp, earth-stained point, it has a metal strip reading: \"UNKNOWN BRITISH SOLDIER\".\n\nIt was one of hundreds of thousands of markers indicating the graves of Commonwealth soldiers all along the Western Front. Some are cracked and water-damaged. Many have woodworm. Some even have the original Somme mud varnished on to them.\n\nOthers are ornate, hand-carved and painted, made in the field by comrades, often from scrap wood or old packing crates, and bearing personal inscriptions. Aviators' graves were often marked by propellers.\n\nThis cross at St Anne's Church, Sale, is one of hundreds being catalogued by the Returned from the Front project\n\nHeritage specialist Nick Stone and a band of dedicated volunteers are tracking down the repatriated grave markers to photograph and catalogue them and create an ever-growing online map and database.\n\nNick, of Norwich, jokes that when the Returned from the Front project began in July 2016, he thought \"it would all be over by Christmas\" - just as people reputedly said about the war itself.\n\nVisitors to WW1 cemeteries, like this one at Ypres, will be familiar with the uniform Portland stone headstones\n\nDuring the war, graves were usually marked with simple wooden crosses\n\nDuring the war, soldiers were typically buried where they fell or close by. The sheer volume of casualties, and the fact that units were still sometimes under fire, meant this was often done hastily.\n\nGraves were marked for later identification, sometimes by sticks or rifles pushed into the ground, or by wooden crosses. Such was the scale of the killing that crosses were mass-produced and shipped to the front.\n\nMaj John Burgh Talbot Leighton MC, Scots Guards, Royal Flying Corps, is commemorated by a propeller cross at St Michael and All Angels Church at Alberbury, Shropshire\n\nLater, under the authority of the Imperial War Graves Commission - now the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) - these bodies were exhumed and reburied in larger cemeteries, marked with the now-familiar uniform Portland stone gravestones.\n\nThe now-redundant wooden markers were then offered to the dead men's families, with each responsible for either collecting them or shipping them home. According to CWGC records, at least 10,000 were returned to next of kin.\n\nSome were given to churches or other organisations, but most of the unclaimed markers were destroyed. Often they were burnt and the ashes scattered across the burial grounds.\n\nNick Stone, the man behind the Returned from the Front project, has been fascinated by WW1 since he was a boy\n\nTrips to WW1 battlefields and cemeteries, including Bernafey Wood on the Somme, helped inspire Nick's project\n\nOf the crosses that survive today, most are in churches but others are in museums, memorial halls, private collections and even schools.\n\nNick's interest came through a lifelong fascination with World War One. His birthday is on Armistice Day, when his mother would often take out a tin containing her late father's medals, a few lace postcards and his \"Dead Man's Penny\" commemorative plaque.\n\n\"Handling this huge penny with my grandfather's name, Percy James Parr, on it left an indelible mark. I've chased who he was ever since,\" he says.\n\nNick's grandfather was 37 when he was killed at Messines Ridge on 7 June 1917.\n\nBut there is no marker for him. As Nick writes on his blog, he \"did actually vanish, totally, no evidence, no meat or bone, nothing to sew in a blanket and bury in a cemetery\".\n\nHe is, however, commemorated on the Menin Gate in Ypres, along with the other men in his company who died in the same attack - all of them missing.\n\nNick's grandfather, Percy James Parr, pictured with his wife Jesse, daughter Grace (Nick's mother) and son Tom, was killed in 1917, aged 37\n\nNick's grandfather is commemorated on the Menin Gate at Ypres\n\nNick's idea for Returned from the Front came through \"thinking out loud on Twitter\", and he harnessed social media to recruit volunteers to survey, catalogue and photograph the grave markers.\n\n\"The volunteers are great. They are from all walks of life. The youngest is four - she went with her dad - and the adults are from 18 up to 80. Everybody's been pretty marvellous, really,\" he says.\n\nMaj George F Molineux-Montgomerie, killed at the Hohenzollern Redoubt in northern France on 22 October 1915, is commemorated by a cross at Garboldisham, Norfolk\n\nSo far, about 70 volunteers have sent in photographs and surveys, with many more providing other helpful information.\n\nMargaret Draycott, a phlebotomist from Liverpool, and colleague Bev Goodwin have catalogued 85 markers, mainly around the north-west of England, but as far away as north Wales, Shropshire and Sussex.\n\nWhen not visiting the grave marker sites, Margaret is often conducting internet research. \"If my family want to find me, they know I'm 'crossing',\" she says.\n\nColleagues Bev Goodwin (left) and Margaret Draycott, pictured on a battlefield tour in Belgium, have catalogued 85 markers between them\n\nLt Col Philip Vaughan Holberton, who was mentioned in despatches five times, is remembered at St Mary's Church, Bitterley, Shropshire\n\nAnother of the more ornate crosses is at the Army Training Centre in Pirbright, Surrey, and commemorates members of the Grenadier Guards\n\nSome churches are not aware of the significance of the markers, or even what they are. \"People have engaged with us and are absolutely blown away that what they have are from soldiers' graves,\" says Margaret.\n\nAmong the markers she has photographed is that of Ellis Humphrey Evans, better known as Hedd Wyn, the Welsh poet killed on the first day of the Battle of Passchendaele on 31 July 1917.\n\nA cross for Ellis Humphrey Evans, better known as Welsh poet Hedd Wyn, is on display at the Llys Ednowain Heritage Centre at Trawsfynydd, Gwynedd, north Wales\n\nHedd Wyn, who was 30 when he died, wrote his famous poem Yr Arwr (The Hero) before leaving for the front\n\nOne unusual marker is a wooden Star of David, at Broadgreen Cemetery, Liverpool, commemorating an unknown Jewish soldier.\n\nOften it was impossible to identify an individual soldier's remains, and Merseyside has a particular concentration of markers for so-called \"unknowns\", probably brought back during pilgrimages by churches and other groups.\n\nAlthough most markers were crosses, Jewish soldiers' graves were sometimes indicated by a Star of David\n\nCapt WHM Kersey, who was killed near Ypres on 17 October 1917, is commemorated by a cross at St John the Baptist Church, Felixstowe, Suffolk\n\nCapt Kersey's cross was originally at The Huts Cemetery, Dikkebus, Belgium\n\nAfter the war, crosses at The Huts Cemetery were replaced by Portland stone headstones\n\nMinistry of Defence colleagues Samantha Fryer, from Swindon, and Dr Alison Wilken, from Lambourn, Berkshire, have surveyed markers in Oxfordshire, Wiltshire, Berkshire and Gloucestershire.\n\n\"It's quite nice to know that you are part of a project that's being published that schools and researchers might find useful in the future,\" says Samantha.\n\nSamantha Fryer is often accompanied by Arthur the terrier on her visits\n\nGnr Harry Varney is commemorated by a cross featuring an inscription scratched on a piece of tin\n\nSt Mary the Virgin Church at Wootton, Oxfordshire, has eight crosses, including one for Gnr Harry Varney, killed in September 1917, aged 30.\n\nIt bears an inscription scratched on a piece of metal, possibly from a tobacco or pilchard tin. \"To see somebody's writing like that was quite poignant,\" says Samantha.\n\n\"There is an enormous contrast between a lowly gunner's cross with a piece of tin tacked to it and the impressive carved and painted crosses of the officers.\"\n\nReturned from the Front builds on work by Imperial War Museums (IWM). \"It's an absolutely first-class project, worthy of our fullest support,\" says Ian Hook, who runs IWM's War Memorials Register of more than 68,000 memorials, including 610 battlefield markers.\n\nOnly recently, he says, has their significance has been properly appreciated. Many were lost, possibly thrown away by \"trendy vicars\", who felt that their presence was a tacit endorsement of war, he says.\n\nThe organisation that became the Commonwealth War Graves Commission was set up by Sir Fabian Ware\n\nMany crosses would not even have made it back to Britain at all. \"They were offered back to families, but many soldiers were just working lads and the families had lost their breadwinner,\" he explains.\n\n\"Given the opportunity to acquire a cross or buy food or shoes for the kids, what were they going to do?\"\n\nOthers were lost or destroyed as the fighting shifted and the makeshift cemeteries became battlefields once more.\n\nThe fact that any markers found their way home is testament to the work of the CWCG, whose founder Sir Fabian Ware was determined to ensure the resting places of the war dead would not be lost.\n\n\"It's important to preserve these relics of the war,\" says the organisation's chief historian Glyn Prysor.\n\n\"They're physical objects brought all the way back from the battlefield and they can help us to connect with that in a tangible way.\"\n\nNearly 12,000 Commonwealth servicemen are buried at Tyne Cot Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery in Passchendaele, Belgium\n\n\"The body may be far away in a cemetery but the marker may be in a local church or somewhere else significant. It's making that link between the local area and a global conflict. It's a very special thing.\"\n\nFor now, the work of Nick and his volunteers continues. They hope it will help the markers survive even longer.\n\nAlthough the many events that have been held to commemorate the war's centenary will conclude next year, Nick says: \"I think it's important we don't stop remembering after 11 November 2018.\"", "The government's £3bn clean air strategy does not go \"far enough or fast enough\", campaigners have said.\n\nMoves including banning the sale of new diesel and petrol cars from 2040 and £255m for councils to tackle air pollution locally have been welcomed.\n\nTransport Secretary Chris Grayling said the government was determined to deliver a \"green revolution\".\n\nBut environmental groups criticised the decision not to include a scrappage scheme or immediate clean air zones.\n\nThe plan to stop all sales of petrol and diesel cars by 2040 is part of the government's intention for almost every car and van on UK roads to be zero emission by 2050.\n\nThe government report includes the promise of £40m immediately to start local schemes rolling, which could include changing road layouts, retrofitting public transport or schemes to encourage people to leave their cars at home.\n\nThe funding pot will come from changes to tax on diesel vehicles and the reprioritising departmental budgets - the exact details will be announced later in the year.\n\nIf those measures do not cut emissions enough, charging zones for the most polluting vehicles could be the next step.\n\nWhile air pollution has been mostly falling in the UK, in many cities, nitrogen oxides - which form part of the discharge from car exhausts - regularly breach safe levels.\n\nMr Grayling said the new plan showed the government was \"determined to deliver a green revolution in transport and reduce pollution in our towns and cities\".\n\nBut campaigners say these are the measures that need to be implemented now to tackle environmental and health problems, with air pollution linked to about 40,000 premature deaths a year in the UK.\n\nProfessor Neena Modi, president of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Hea lth, said air pollution \"is a public health emergency\" and said it was \"frankly inexcusable\" that the plans still did not go far enough.\n\nGreen Party MP Caroline Lucas welcomed the 2040 announcement, but added: \"We also need action that tackles this health emergency in the coming months and years.\n\n\"We should use this opportunity to revamp our towns and cities with investment in walking and cycling, and by ensuring that public transport is affordable and reliable.\"\n\nGreenpeace UK's clean air campaigner Areeba Hamid said 2040 was \"far too late\" and called for the UK to \"lead the world in clean transport revolution\".\n\nAnd ClientEarth - the law firm that took the government to court over pollution levels - said the plans were \"underwhelming\" and \"lacking in urgency\".\n\nThe shadow environment secretary, Labour's Sue Hayman, said the plan saw the government \"shunting the problem on to local authorities\" and accused it of having a \"squeamish attitude\" towards clean air zones.\n\n\"With nearly 40 million people living in areas with illegal levels of air pollution, action is needed now, not in 23 years' time,\" she added.\n\nLiberal Democrat and former Energy Secretary Ed Davey criticised the lack of scrappage scheme as a \"shameful betrayal\" of diesel car drivers, and said it showed \"the utter lack of ambition\" of the plan.\n\nAnd London Mayor Sadiq Khan said people in the capital were \"suffering right now\" because of air pollution and \"can't afford to wait\".\n\nThe AA also said significant investment would be needed to install charging points across the country for electric vehicles and warned the National Grid would come under pressure with a mass switch-on of recharging after the rush hour.\n\nThe government said a new bill would allow it to require the installation of charge points at motorway service areas and large fuel retailers.\n\nThe timetable for councils to come up with initial plans has been cut from 18 months to eight, with the Department for Environment, Farming and Rural Affairs (Defra) wanting to \"inject additional urgency\" into the process.\n\nIt follows the government being given its own deadline of 31 July after High Court judges said it was failing to meet EU pollution limits.\n\nLocal Government Association environment spokesman Martin Tett welcomed the additional funding, but opposed holding off on a scrappage scheme, arguing \"this immediate intervention could help increase the uptake of lower emission vehicles\".\n\nBBC environment analyst Roger Harrabin said councils were not happy to be taking the rap for the controversial policy when it was the government that had encouraged the sale of diesel vehicles in the first place.\n\n\"Today's government plan is not comprehensive - it doesn't address pollution from construction, farming and gas boilers,\" he added.\n\n\"And clean air campaigners say the government is using the 2040 electric cars announcement to distract from failings in its short-term pollution policy.\"\n\nThe UK announcement comes amid signs of an accelerating shift towards electric cars instead of petrol and diesel ones, at home and abroad:\n\nFord's chief financial officer Bob Shanks told the BBC that he supported the ban and believed that Europe would be \"ground zero\" in leading a global trend to electric vehicles.\n\n\"We certainly see that trajectory being quite feasible, and is something that we support,\" he added.", "She's just been in the studio with Radio 1's Nick Grimshaw, trying to make him giggle while he goes about some serious radio presenting business; and she's daydreaming about her favourite UK delicacy - a sandwich from Pret.\n\nWhen she discovers she's in the same building as the BBC newsroom, the star politely asks for a guided tour.\n\n\"I never get to do stuff like this,\" marvels the singer, as she walks wide-eyed past the studios and satellite feeds.\n\nIn this context, Del Rey is oddly anonymous. Jane Hill, who is preparing to read the lunchtime news on BBC One, doesn't even look up when the superstar squeezes past her desk.\n\nIt's a rare luxury for someone who's followed by paparazzi and the all-seeing cameras of TMZ when she's at home in California.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nShe addresses the lack of privacy on her new album, Lust For Life, where a song called 13 Beaches finds Del Rey searching for a spot \"past Ventura and lenses plenty\" where she can enjoy a romantic moment in seclusion.\n\nWhen we sit down to chat, she reveals those same concerns stopped her attending the women's marches in Los Angeles, earlier this year.\n\n\"I drove my sister and her girlfriends to the marches,\" she says. \"I thought about [joining in] but I felt, like, not really sure how it would go.\n\n\"I didn't really want to be a distraction to that group of 10 girls who were going. I wanted them to think about the actual march and not about me standing right next to them.\"\n\nBut the star is making her contribution in other ways. A new song, God Bless America And All The Beautiful Women In It, is an ode to womankind (\"may you stand proud and strong\"); while Coachella - Woodstock In My Mind, mines the contradictions of dancing at a festival \"whilst watching tensions with North Korea mount\".\n\nIt's a new dimension for Del Rey's lyrics - which have traditionally concerned themselves with \"looking for love in all the wrong places\".\n\n\"I kind of got jolted into the real world again,\" she says.\n\n\"Just being in California, it's such a liberal state, I was bombarded with the news every day. So my studio became like a think tank - during the elections it was a constant conversation with my producer and engineers and assistant engineers.\n\n\"And then obviously during Coachella, that news broke about North Korea and pointing missiles at each other. That was a bit of a rude awakening.\"\n\nLust For Life sees Lana questioning America's place in the world\n\nDel Rey's work rate is astonishing. Lust For Life is her fifth album in six years - and it bursts at the seams, with 16 tracks all co-written with her longtime producer Rick Nowels.\n\nThey record everything at his studio in Santa Monica, just blocks away from the beach, so it \"never feels like work,\" she says.\n\n\"Just walking in every day and having a coffee together and taking a walk, and then we start.\n\n\"So it doesn't ever feel like I'm pumping them [the songs] out. Although it's definitely a blessing that I've been able to put out so much music.\"\n\nOn Lust For Life, the singer has opened up musically, as well as lyrically. The title track is a pulse-raising duet with The Weeknd, while Summer Bummer almost self-destructs, dissolving into digital noise and blacked-out beats, with Lana's vocals barely holding the song together.\n\nShe's also welcomed collaborators into her world for the first time - absorbing them into her aesthetic, rather than capitalising on chart trends.\n\n\"It was really fun!\" she says of working with A$AP Rocky and The Weeknd. \"I wanted those guys to add a little fire, a little energy to the record.\"\n\nThe Lust For Life video finds Lana and The Weeknd sharing a romantic evening on top of the Hollywood sign\n\nMore daunting was inviting rock legend Stevie Nicks to duet on Beautiful People, Beautiful Problems.\n\n\"I was definitely nervous,\" says Del Rey of the recording session.\n\n\"She got off the plane at 10:30, so she didn't get to the studio until midnight - and she just breezed in, black on black, gold everywhere. She was kind of a vision.\n\n\"When she started singing, she told me she wanted to hear me sing something, too. And then I really freaked out!\n\n\"I said to her over the mic, 'I just sound so quiet compared to you.' And she was like, 'That's ok, you can be my little echo!'\n\n\"I thought that was so cool. I'm not as loud as her. My voice isn't as low as hers. But she loves it for what it is.\n\n\"That, as it was happening, was a career-defining moment for me.\"\n\nThe star's hits include Video Games, Born To Die, High By The Beach and Ultraviolence\n\nOther songs on the album had a more troubled gestation. Del Rey says the closing track, Get Free, originally had a different title, and much more personal lyrics.\n\n\"That song started out really revealing,\" she says. \"I wanted to summarise my whole experience over the last six years; and then I realised, I don't want to reveal everything.\"\n\nOnce the initial version was \"out of my system\", she says, the recording was \"deleted completely then started from scratch\".\n\nThe lyrics became more vague and more hopeful; and the re-recorded version ends with Del Rey referencing Neil Young: \"I want to move out of the black, into the blue\".\n\n\"I think it would have been hard for me to do interviews if I'd said a couple of particular things that I was thinking of,\" she says of the original.\n\n\"Kind of the way Ultraviolence did. It was harder to promote that record.\"\n\nShe's referring to the title track of her second album, which depicted Del Rey in a destructive, abusive relationship. Del Rey has previously hinted the song refers to her association with an \"underground sect\" in New York, which was controlled by a charismatic guru.\n\nIn concert, she has recently stopped singing the song's key line, \"he hit me and it felt like a kiss\".\n\n\"I don't feel comfortable with that lyric any more,\" she says now. \"Whatever my concept of affection was at the time, it does not serve me any more. Obviously. Hopefully.\"\n\nLana's fanbase is particularly devoted - she leaves most shows carrying armfuls of bouquets\n\nOn Lust For Life she seems happier, more outward-looking than before. On stage, she's more confident, too.\n\nLaunching the album at a one-off gig in London, she's forced to abandon her performance of the opening track, Love.\n\nEarlier in her career, she might have frozen. Now, she just sings it a capella, with the crowd stepping in as her own personal choir.\n\n\"I'm not exactly sure what happened, but I think my keyboard player was playing the wrong chords,\" she explains. \"I was leaning in to him and saying, 'That's not it, that's not it' and he was like, 'That is it, trust me'.\n\n\"I listened for 10 seconds and I was like, 'Damn, I definitely can't get it'. I couldn't get it in rehearsal, either. So I just told him to stop. I feel bad - I was kind of abrasive.\n\n\"But that song is at the heart of the record and I thought it'd be weird if I didn't do it. So, luckily the people who were at the show knew the words and they sang along with me.\"\n\nShe listens with glee to a recording of the song - explaining how, because she wears in-ear headphones, she hadn't realised how loud the crowd had been.\n\n\"I'm so glad,\" she says. \"Being in the audience, did you feel that, too?\"\n\nI tell her it was like being in church. \"Oh, stop!\" she beams, and bursts into laughter.\n\nThat good mood isn't going anywhere 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.\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 montage of photos, set to Ariana Grande's One Last Time, was played in the service\n\nThe youngest Manchester bombing victim was a \"superstar in the making\", her father has said at her funeral.\n\nWiping away tears, Andrew Roussos joined mourners at the city's packed cathedral to remember \"stunning, stunning\" eight-year-old Saffie.\n\nShe was among 22 people killed when Salman Abedi detonated a homemade bomb at an Ariana Grande concert at Manchester Arena on 22 May.\n\nThe service was the last of the funerals for the victims.\n\nHundreds of mourners filed into the cathedral, some wearing pink, which was Saffie's favourite colour.\n\nAndrew Roussos puts a hand around his son Xander as he carries his daughter's coffin\n\nOthers carried a single rose, as requested by the family, in tribute to their daughter's middle name, Rose.\n\nSaffie's coffin was also covered in roses.\n\nSaffie, from Lancashire, had been at the venue with her mother Lisa and sister, Ashlee Bromwich, 26, who were both injured in the attack.\n\nDuring the service, Mr Roussos said he had been \"honoured to be her dad\" and she was \"a superstar in the making\".\n\n\"To become something in life, you need to have that something,\" he said.\n\n\"That spark. That charisma. The ones that make it are born with it, they get it from the very beginning.\n\nSaffie's mother Lisa Roussos and brother Xander watched as her coffin, covered with roses, was carried out of the hearse\n\nAndrew Roussos described his daughter as \"a joker\" and \"a huge character\"\n\nMr Roussos added the \"Manchester community, family and friends have been fantastic\".\n\nThe cortege left Wythenshawe Hospital, where Mrs Roussos, who has undergone multiple operations since the attack and for a while was in an induced coma, is still receiving treatment.\n\nA letter from her sister Ashlee was read out in which she wrote: \"I close my eyes and I see your face with your brown eyes burning.\n\n\"I imagine how you run up and jump into my arms. I see you everywhere, with your smile from ear to ear.\n\n\"You lived to entertain, and to keep us all smiling. Something about you got everyone's attention. Your silliness and jokes are the highlights of my memories.\n\n\"Whatever you wanted, you were going to make it happen. I wish I could do you justice with my words.\n\n\"Nothing more, nothing less could I have ever wanted in a baby sister.\"\n\nManchester Cathedral, just around the corner from the scene of the bombing, seemed an especially poignant location for a day of tributes to the atrocity's youngest victim.\n\nIt also marked the last of 22 funerals for those who died.\n\nMany of those ceremonies have been private, unpublicised affairs, but the family of Saffie Roussos extended an open invitation for anyone to come to pay their respects.\n\nA bleak, rainy afternoon did not dissuade hundreds from attending. The cathedral itself was packed, with dozens of others - including many children - listening to the service via speakers set up outside.\n\nMourners heard how eight-year-old Saffie had loved dance, performance and stardom. She lived to entertain, and had dreamt of one day being as famous as her idol, Ariana Grande.\n\nToday's service, back in the heart of Manchester, was a reminder that she, and all of the victims, will certainly not be forgotten.\n\nSaffie was a pupil at Tarleton Primary School in Lancashire\n\nA montage of photos, set to the music of Grande's hit One Last Time, was also shown before being released by her family and friends.\n\nThe YouTube video clip shows a series of photographs and the family said they hoped it would be liked and shared to fulfil her dream of becoming famous.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRev Govender said 22 decorative bees would be placed in the cathedral's furniture as a memorial to the victims of the bombing.\n\nHe asked Mrs Roussos to hold one of the model bees as he dedicated it to Saffie.\n\nHe said the service was a \"poignant moment\", not just for Saffie's family but also for the people of Manchester.\n\nSaffie's coffin was carried outside to the sound of school friends singing Over The Rainbow as spontaneous applause rang out from members of the public as the funeral cars left the cathedral for a private cremation.\n\nFlowers and tributes flooded in for Saffie after the Manchester attack\n\nA short service was also held at Holy Trinity Church in Tarleton, where Saffie went to school, for those who could not travel to Manchester.\n\nThe Rev David Craven said: \"There was a real desire among some in the community to have a gathering to mark Saffie's life.\n\n\"We wanted to open the doors of the church, which will be open all day for quiet reflection, and collective grief.\n\n\"You can't even begin to imagine what the families are going through. It's times like this when words seem hollow.\"\n\nTwenty-one funerals had previously been held for the victims of the attack, several of them private.\n\nThe first was for 14-year-old Eilidh MacLeod in Barra, Scotland, on 5 June, and the most recent was for Kelly Brewster in Sheffield on 21 July.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Sun calls the planned ban on the sale of petrol and diesel cars from 2040 a \"bombshell for motoring\".\n\nThe \"war on diesels\", declares the Daily Mail, is \"getting dirty\".\n\nThe Daily Telegraph suggests that any scrappage scheme is likely to be \"very, very targeted\".\n\nThe Times warns that measures such as removing road humps and changing road layout will not go far enough for air quality campaigners who want fees imposed on diesel drivers entering cities.\n\nBut the Sun says \"the government should be congratulated\" on a plan that does not \"punish diesel drivers\".\n\nThe paper raises concerns of what it calls a \"looming power crisis\", saying that recharging electric cars would increase demand on the electricity grid by 16%.\n\nThe Mail suggests a ban on diesel vehicles at peak times has not been ruled out.\n\nWhile the papers say goodbye to \"gas guzzlers\", they welcome BMW's decision to build its electric Minis in Britain.\n\nThe Sun, Daily Express and Daily Mail all pronounce it as a \"Brexit boost\".\n\nThe Daily Mirror calls it \"E-Mini marvel,\" with Unite trade union boss Len McCluskey attributing the move to the \"world-class workforce\" at BMW's plant near Oxford.\n\nBut the Financial Times raises concerns that the car's batteries are to be made in Germany, saying it \"flags up a British weak spot\".\n\nThe lack of a battery factory here, says the FT, caused Jaguar Land Rover to make its first electric vehicle in Austria.\n\nOn its front page, the Mirror shows pictures of Charlie Gard and one of the the killers of Stephen Lawrence, David Norris.\n\nIt says it is \"beyond belief\" that the baby's parents received no legal aid, unlike Norris who is pursuing a case against prison chiefs.\n\nIt suggests there is something \"deeply wrong\" with the means-testing system.\n\nThe Mail focuses on Charlie Gard's parents' court case, where it says \"tempers flared\".\n\nIt calls for the parents to be \"given some peace\".\n\nThe i focuses on the US specialist in the case, saying anger is growing since he had admitted a financial interest in the experimental procedure Charlie's parents were pushing for.\n\nThe Guardian suggests the case raises the ethics of questioning the expert even though he had not seen the child.\n\nThe Daily Telegraph reports that Casualty actor Tom Chambers is \"completely mortified\" after he faced condemnation for suggesting the wage differential was down to men supporting their families.\n\nThe Times says Labour MP Stella Creasy likened his mindset to someone in the 50s.\n\nChambers apologised, saying that in no way did he advocate the pay gap.\n\nAfter a difficult week there are some positive headlines for the BBC - both the Sun and the Mirror note that it takes three places in the top 10 most highly rated brands, with John Lewis claiming the top spot.\n\nBrand May gets a bit of a bashing in some of the papers.\n\nThe prime minister is pictured in most of them on her holidays, wearing a pink shirt-dress.\n\nThe Times notes her \"sartorial choices\" are \"more muted\".\n\nThe Daily Mail is more direct, suggesting she should not have worn the pale number until her legs were tanned.\n\nBut the Daily Star has different concerns.\n\n\"May we ask who is in charge?\", questioning why she has not named a minister to take her place in her absence.", "Fees for those bringing employment tribunal claims have been ruled unlawful, and the government will now have to repay up to £32m to claimants.\n\nThe government introduced fees of up to £1,200 in 2013, which it said would cut the number of malicious and weak cases.\n\nGovernment statistics showed 79% fewer cases were brought over three years - trade union Unison said the fees prevented workers accessing justice.\n\nThe government said it would take steps to stop charging and refund payments.\n\nThe Supreme Court ruled the government was acting unlawfully and unconstitutionally when it introduced the fees.\n\nUnison general secretary Dave Prentis said: \"The government has been acting unlawfully, and has been proved wrong - not just on simple economics, but on constitutional law and basic fairness too.\"\n\nHe added: \"These unfair fees have let law-breaking bosses off the hook these past four years, and left badly treated staff with no choice but to put up or shut up.\n\n\"We'll never know how many people missed out because they couldn't afford the expense of fees.\"\n\nThe government had already made a voluntary commitment to reimburse all fees if it was found they acted unlawfully. Fees have raised about £32m since being introduced.\n\nJustice minister Dominic Raab said the government would cease taking fees for employment tribunals \"immediately\" and begin the process of reimbursing claimants, dating back to 2013.\n\nHe said: \"We respect the judgement and we are going to take it fully on board and we are going to comply with it.\"\n\nIt would fall to the taxpayer to pick up the bill, he said.\n\n\"The tricky, the difficult, the fluid balancing act that we've got is we want to make sure there's proper access to justice, we want to make sure frivolous or spurious claims don't clog up the tribunal and at the same time we've got to make sure we've got the right way to fund it.,\" he said.\n\nFees ranged between £390 and £1,200. Discrimination cases cost more for claimants because of the complexity and time hearings took.\n\nThe Supreme Court found this was indirectly discriminatory because a higher proportion of women would bring discrimination cases.\n\nIt also said that some people would not bring cases to employment tribunals because paying the fees would render any financial reward pointless.\n\nThe court's summary added claimants in low or middle income household could not afford the fees \"without sacrificing ordinary and reasonable expenditure for substantial periods of time\".\n\nTUC general secretary Frances O'Grady said it was a \"massive win\" for workers.\n\n\"Too many low-paid workers couldn't afford to uphold their rights at work, even when they've faced harassment or have been sacked unfairly,\" she said.\n\nThe decision was welcomed by employment lawyer Karen Jackson, who said: \"I don't know an employment lawyer who didn't think it was wrong to have fees.\n\n\"We all felt that morally it was the wrong thing to do as a barrier to justice.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Environment Secretary Michael Gove tells Today a US trade deal will not allow chlorinated chicken\n\nThe UK should not accept imports of chlorinated chickens as part of any future trade deal with the US, Michael Gove has said.\n\nThe environment secretary told the BBC that the UK would not \"compromise\" on or \"dilute\" its animal welfare standards in the interests of trade.\n\nThe EU currently bans chlorine-washed chickens on welfare grounds.\n\nInternational Trade Secretary Liam Fox has questioned this but downplayed the potential for UK-US disagreement.\n\nIt will be up to the UK to decide whether to retain the ban once it leaves the EU in March 2019.\n\nLabour said the government's \"casual and inconsistent\" approach risked undermining British farmers.\n\nOn a visit to Washington on Monday, Mr Fox said chlorinated chicken was just one detail in one sector that would only be addressed at the end of discussions about a free trade deal - which are likely to be years away.\n\nHe has suggested there are no food safety issues regarding chlorine-washed chickens, a view shared by many UK experts.\n\nIn the US, it is legal to wash chicken carcasses in strongly chlorinated water.\n\nProducers argue that it stops the spread of microbial contamination from the animal's digestive tract to the meat, a method approved by US regulators.\n\nBut the practice has been banned in the EU since 1997, where only washing with cold air or water is allowed.\n\nThe EU argues that chlorine washes could increase the risk of bacterial-based diseases such as salmonella on the grounds that dirty abattoirs with sloppy standards would rely on it as a decontaminant rather than making sure their basic hygiene protocols were up to scratch.\n\nThere are also concerns that such \"washes\" would be used by less scrupulous meat processing plants to increase the shelf-life of meat, making it appear fresher than it really is.\n\nAgriculture is likely to be one of the sticking points in talks over a deal, amid concerns about differing farming and welfare practices, such the use of growth hormones given to cows and cattle.\n\nAsked whether lifting the ban on chlorinated chickens was a price to be paid for sealing a post-Brexit deal with the US, Mr Gove told BBC Radio 4's Today: \"No. I have made it perfectly clear we are not going to dilute our high environmental standards or our animal welfare standards in the pursuit of a trade deal.\n\n\"We need to ensure that we do not compromise those standards. And we need to be in a position as we leave the European Union to be leaders in environmental and in animal welfare standards.\"\n\nOn whether poultry could scupper a US trade deal, he added: \"The Trade Secretary, quite rightly, pointed out that, of course, this issue is important, but we mustn't concentrate just on this one issue when we look at the huge potential that a trade deal can bring.\"\n\nWhile membership of the EU meant the UK had to accept some environmental obligations \"which do not work in the interests of the environment\", he said the UK had been a world leader in environmental standards for decades and that would continue after Brexit.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Fox: It's early days in US trade discussions\n\nMr Fox, who concluded a four-day trip to the US on Wednesday, has said the UK will not be lowering its food safety or animal welfare standards after Brexit but decisions on US chicken imports and other consumer protection issues should be based on scientific advice.\n\n\"There is no health issue with that - the European Union has said that it is perfectly safe,\" he said. \"The issue lies around some of the secondary issues of animal welfare and it's perfectly reasonable for people to raise that, but it will come much further down the road.\"\n\nA Lords report on Wednesday warned that UK farmers' livelihoods could be threatened by an influx of cheaper food imports from the US. It said there was evidence that UK consumers would be willing to pay more for food reared to higher standards but it remained to be seen if this would happen in practice.\n\nFor Labour, shadow environment secretary Sue Hayman said the cabinet was in disarray over the issue.\n\n\"Theresa May must set the record straight by publicly supporting British poultry farmers and committing to protect the British public from substandard food produce in a race-to-the-bottom Brexit,\" she said.\n\nBut Conservative MP John Redwood said British farmers were already losing out to cheaper competition from the European continent, where welfare standards - both in terms of the rearing and transport of animals - were not as high as in the UK.\n\n\"When we leave the EU we will be free to set our own standards, which will be higher than EU minimum requirements,\" he wrote on his blog. \"This makes animal welfare an odd argument for people to use who want us to stay in the EU system.\"", "Facebook revenues and profits soared in the most recent quarter, as advertising dollars poured into the social media company and users continued to flock to the site.\n\nMore than two billion people - more than a quarter of the world's population - log into the site every month, a powerful draw for advertisers.\n\nThe firm said revenues hit $9.3bn (£7.09bn) over the April to June period, jumping 45% year-on-year.\n\n\"We had a good second quarter and first half of the year,\" said chief executive Mark Zuckerberg, who founded Facebook in 2004.\n\nFacebook has been adding more advertising as well as more consumers, as it explores how to monetise its other social networking platforms, Instagram and WhatsApp.\n\nThe company said that Instagram was making an increasing contribution to growth, but that the news feed at the heart of Facebook remained the biggest driver.\n\nIt was still early days for advertising on Facebook's messenger service, said Mr Zuckerberg, but he told an investor call he was \"confident we're going to get this right in the long term\".\n\nChief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg said brands were experimenting with different advertising formats within Facebook's platforms, for example Tropicana had found that six-second ads gave better results than longer versions, she said.\n\nFacebook faces competition from Snapchat, a platform particularly popular amongst young social media users, which pioneered the idea of \"stories\", a series of messages aimed at a wider audience that lasts for 24 hours.\n\nInstagram and WhatsApp are now offering similar features.\n\nFacebook shares, which have risen steadily this year, bounced 3.6% in after-hours trade.\n\nThe company said mobile ads represented 87% of its advertising revenue of $9.16bn, up from 84% a year ago.\n\nThe firm now employs more than 20,600 people, up 43% year-on-year.\n\nThe firm said the number of monthly active users at the end of June - 2.01 billion - was 17% higher than a year ago and two thirds of those logged onto the site daily.", "Connie Yates and Chris Gard accept Charlie should be moved to palliative care\n\nA High Court judge is set to decide later where Charlie Gard's life will end after another dispute between his parents and hospital bosses.\n\nChris Gard and Connie Yates want permission to take the 11-month-old home for his final days.\n\nBut Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) said it was not practical to provide the level of life-support treatment to Charlie at the couple's London home.\n\nIt says a hospice would be a more appropriate place for him.\n\nThe court hearing is due to resume at 14:00 BST.\n\nDoctors at the London hospital have said moving Charlie to a hospice is the best option as a ventilator would not fit through the couple's front door in Bedfont, west London.\n\nMr Justice Francis, who analysed the dispute at a hearing in the Family Division of the High Court on Tuesday, said that, having heard the evidence, the chances of Charlie's parents' wishes being granted were small.\n\nCharlie has a rare genetic condition and would not live to see his first birthday, his father said\n\nCharlie has the rare genetic disorder, encephalomyopathic mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome. He has brain damage and cannot move his arms or legs.\n\nSpeaking on Tuesday, Ms Yates said: \"We promised Charlie every day we would take him home. It seems really upsetting after everything we've been through to deny us this.\"\n\nGrant Armstrong, representing the parents, accused hospital bosses of \"putting up obstacles\".\n\n\"The parents wish for a few days of tranquillity outside of a hospital setting,\" he said.\n\n\"The parents had hoped that Great Ormond Street would work with them.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Chris Gard: \"We are so sorry we could not save you\"\n\nBut lawyers for the hospital said staff had \"moved heaven and earth\" for Charlie.\n\nKatie Gollop QC said the couple's needs had to be balanced against Charlie's best interests.\n\nShe said GOSH staff had found an \"excellent hospice\" that would give Charlie and his parents the space, privacy and protection they needed.\n\nCharlie has been in intensive care at Great Ormond Street Hospital since October\n\nThe latest hearing comes after Charlie's parents abandoned attempts to persuade the judge to let their son travel to the US for experimental treatment.\n\nThey had asked Mr Justice Francis to rule their son should be allowed to undergo a trial of nucleoside therapy in New York developed by Professor Michio Hirano, a move opposed by hospital medics who argued the treatment would be \"futile\".\n\nBut in its statement to the High Court, the hospital said it was also \"increasingly surprised and disappointed\" that Dr Hirano, \"had not read Charlie's contemporaneous medical records or viewed Charlie's brain imaging or read all of the second opinions about Charlie's condition\".\n\nGOSH said Professor Hirano had not taken the opportunity to see Charlie until last week, despite being offered the chance to do so by the hospital in January.\n\nEven though the professor gave written evidence at all the court cases, the hospital said it only emerged last week that he had not read the judge's ruling following the first High Court hearing in April.\n\nThe hospital added it was concerned to hear the professor state in the witness box at the High Court hearing on 13 July that he had a financial interest in some of the treatment he proposed prescribing for Charlie.\n\nBut Dr Hirano said: \"I became involved in Charlie's case when I was contacted by his parents, and I subsequently agreed to speak with his doctors to discuss whether an experimental therapy being developed in my lab could provide meaningful clinical improvement in Charlie's condition.\n\n\"As I disclosed in court on 13 July, I have relinquished and have no financial interest in the treatment being developed for Charlie's condition.\n\n\"Unfortunately, a MRI scan of Charlie's muscle tissue conducted in the past week has revealed that it is very unlikely that he would benefit from this treatment.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Laura Hussey and her fiancé, Gary Smyth, were due to get married in March after winning a 20,000 euro (£18,000) package\n\nFive Irish couples who won what they thought were dream weddings have been left heartbroken after the 20,000 euro (£18,000) prize money was withdrawn.\n\nEach couple topped a poll after their friends and family bought the most votes from the Win Our Wedding competition online and via text.\n\nVotes were encouraged by the promise that 5% of the money would be given to the Make A Wish Charity.\n\nBut now the winners have been informed their weddings will not be funded.\n\nElaine Whitney, the face of the company behind Win Our Wedding, wrote in an email that the competition had to close due to \"cash-flow\" struggles and \"bad publicity\".\n\nElaine Whitney delivered the bad news to 'winning' couples in an email on Friday\n\nShe said she \"sincerely apologised\" for letting the couples down and hinted that some of the suppliers may agree to go ahead without payment. The competition's Facebook page has since been taken down.\n\nMs Whitney has been contacted by the BBC and made no comment, but told the Irish Examiner: \"There are two things I'm guilty of, one is not closing the company in 2016 and the other is letting couples down.\n\nMs Whitney has started a new company based on a new model and has said she will be able to cover the cost of two weddings in 2018 once the new model is up and running, The Examiner reported.\n\nA spokesperson for Make A Wish Ireland, who grant wishes to children with life-threatening conditions, said Win Our Wedding had not honoured its donation agreement, and the partnership had been terminated in December 2015.\n\n\"If the Make-A-Wish Ireland logo appeared on any Win Our Wedding literature since 31 December 2015, it was without the approval of Make-A-Wish Ireland,\" said the charity.\n\nThe Consumers' Association of Ireland has raised concerns the platform upon which the scheme resembles a pyramid scheme.\n\n\"This brings concerns as to the legal advice sought and received upon establishment of the company,\" said the association's Dermott Jewell.\n\n\"It is clear from the messages that the situation has deteriorated over the last six months,\" he told BBC News NI.\n\n\"This raises questions regarding the consideration of continuing while knowing of a financial problem which raises the consideration of reckless trading.\"\n\nThe Competition and Consumer Protection Commission Ireland has advised anyone with concerns about the competition to contact their consumer helpline.\n\nLaura Hussey and her fiancé, Gary Smyth, were due to get married in March after winning a 20,000 euros package.\n\nMiss Hussey, from Longford, County Longford, said a friend tagged her in a post about the competition last September.\n\nMiss Hussey estimates about 2,000 euro (£1,780) was spent on the competition by friends and family\n\n\"We have been together 21 years and have three beautiful children, but one thing and another means we've never had the money for a wedding,\" she said.\n\n\"We are both from the same very close-knit community, so everyone got behind us straight away.\n\n\"Everyone from the Girl Guides to the local driving school supported us.\"\n\nMiss Hussey has already chosen her wedding dress\n\nMiss Hussey estimates that about 2,000 euros was spent on the competition by their friends and family.\n\nEach couple topped a competition poll after friends and family bought thousands of euros worth of votes\n\nThe couple even threw some of their own wages into votes in the closing days of the competition.\n\nMiss Hussey replied to Friday's email saying: \"How am I going to explain this to my kids and family?\n\nCompetition winners Carol Fleming and her fiancé Dermot Molloy, from Drangan, County Tipperary, discovered the funding would not be forthcoming less than four weeks before their wedding in August.\n\nCarol Fleming, her fiancé Dermot Molloy and their son Danny\n\nWinning the competition was supposed to have made the family's life easier, but it had instead become a \"nightmare\", said Miss Fleming.\n\nMiss Fleming said the competition had become a nightmare\n\nShe said the couple had entered the competition in March - three months after the agreement between Make A Wish and Win Our Wedding was terminated - but were not made aware no money would be going to the charity.\n\nMost of the suppliers booked for the wedding have agreed to do the work for free and the wedding will still go ahead in August.\n\nCynthia Geelan and her fiancé Michael Cruise were also winners and were due to get married in December\n\nCynthia Geelan and her fiancé Michael Cruise, from Newtownforbes, County Longford, are due to get married on 9 December, and remain hopeful their wedding will go ahead as planned.\n\nPeggy O'Callaghan, from New South Wales in Australia and her fiancé Keith Smith, from County Cavan, are now doubtful their wedding will go ahead\n\nPeggy O'Callaghan and Keith Smith, who both live in Australia, were hoping to move home to Ireland after winning the competition, as they did not think they would be able to afford the expense of both flights and a wedding.\n\nThey are now doubtful their wedding will go ahead.\n\nKathy Smith and Luke Kelly, from Cavan won the competition in 2015 and were due to get married in November this year.\n\nKathy Smith and Luke Kelly have decided to downsize their wedding\n\nMiss Smith said: \"We were constantly running into issues with them for payments, saying they had other weddings in front of ours that had to be priority and that we couldn't book in anything else for another while.\n\n\"Now that we have heard that the competition won't be paying out any more money, we have had to downsize our wedding.\n\n\"In total, we have received around 4,500 euros from them and are still owed around 15,000, which has left us in a difficult position to pay for our wedding this November.\"", "Both fly-half Paddy Jackson and centre Stuart Olding deny the allegations\n\nTwo Ulster rugby stars are among four men to be prosecuted for offences relating to allegations of rape, the BBC understands.\n\nPaddy Jackson and Stuart Olding were arrested in June 2016 with two other men, and questioned about allegations of a sexual assault in south Belfast.\n\nThe PPS confirmed a decision has been taken to prosecute four men in relation to allegations of rape.\n\nBoth Mr Jackson, 25, and Mr Olding, 24, deny the allegations.\n\nThe Public Prosecution Service said: \"Following a careful review of all of the available evidence, in accordance with our Code for Prosecutors, it has been decided that there is sufficient evidence to prosecute four individuals.\"\n\nSolicitors representing Mr Jackson and Mr Olding confirmed their clients are to be prosecuted for alleged rape.\n\nAnother man is to be charged with a sexual offence and a fourth man is to be charged with intent to pervert the course of justice.\n\nSolicitor Joe Rice, representing Stuart Olding said: \"I would like to point out that my client has fully co-operated with the investigation and is not on any bail conditions and is of previous good character.\n\n\"He should be allowed to uphold his right to the presumption of innocence and rejects any allegation of wrong-doing and is confident his name will be cleared through the courts.\"\n\nIn a similar statement, Paddy Jackson's solicitor Kevin Winters said: \"He rejects the allegations completely and we're very disappointed at the PPS decision to prosecute on these particular facts.\"\n\n\"We say there is no basis for the decision to prosecute and we are confident that our client will be cleared of any charge.\"\n\nThe PPS statement added: \"As the criminal proceedings against these individuals have commenced and each has a right to a fair trial, it is extremely important that there should be no reporting, commentary or sharing of information online which could in any way prejudice proceedings.\"\n\nAll four men are due to appear in court next month.\n\nThe Irish Rugby Football Union and Ulster Rugby said the players have agreed that they be relieved of their duties and obligations until the conclusion of the legal process, to allow them time to address the matter fully.\n\nMr Jackson and Mr Olding have been involved in legal proceedings against the BBC in relation to the reporting of their arrests.", "For six years, the United Nations Commission of Inquiry on Syria has been painstakingly gathering information about possible war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during the conflict.\n\nThe investigators have produced 13 reports, the evidence in each is harrowing. Villages destroyed, crops burnt, wells poisoned, torture, rape, starvation sieges, mass bombing of civilians, and what only a decade ago might have been unthinkable - chemical weapons.\n\nThere is no doubt that war crimes have been committed by all sides, the commission says. In each report there is a demand for \"accountability\" - that no-one should be allowed to commit such horrific acts and get away with it.\n\n\"This would be incredible, a scandal,\" says commission member Carla Del Ponte, who describes the violations in Syria as by far the worst she has ever come across. \"But nothing happens, only words, words, and more words.\"\n\nMs Del Ponte, as a former prosecutor at the tribunal for Yugoslavia, and the woman who put Slobodan Milosevic in the dock, knows how to bring war criminals to book.\n\nCarla Del Ponte says the violations of international law in the Syrian conflict are the worst she has encountered\n\nWhile the Syria commission has no power to prosecute, what it does have is a vast amount of evidence, and a confidential list of names, thought to include figures at the very top of the Syrian government and military.\n\nTo bring those individuals (including, Ms Del Ponte thinks, President Assad) to court, the UN Security Council would have to refer Syria to the International Criminal Court. And throughout the Syria conflict, the Security Council has been divided, with Russia and China in particular resisting what they regard as unnecessary interference in Syria's problems.\n\nNow, though, the United Nations, under new Secretary General Antonio Guterres, appears to be flexing its muscles.\n\nA new body has been set up, called, rather dryly, the International, Impartial and Independent Mechanism or IIIM, to sift the evidence, build cases, and pass them to any court that could have jurisdiction. Some European countries are already opening cases.\n\nAt its head is an experienced French judge, Catherine Marchi-Uhel, who has worked on the tribunal for former Yugoslavia, and the Extraordinary Courts of Cambodia, which prosecuted the Khmer Rouge.\n\n\"This gives me hope that something is moving,\" says Alain Werner, director of Civitas Maxima, a Swiss organisation that works to ensure justice for victims of war crimes and crimes against humanity.\n\n\"I didn't even think this body would be set up… this is proof [the UN] is serious.\"\n\nMr Werner's own organisation has already built cases against suspected war criminals from Sierra Leone and Liberia, and his work with victims has shown him, he says, that \"the eagerness for justice is immense\".\n\nOne of his colleagues, Antonya Tioulong, knows personally just how important this can be. Her sister and brother-in-law were tortured and murdered in Phnom Penh's notorious S-21 detention centre during the reign of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia.\n\nIn 1995, Srebrenica was the scene of the worst massacre of the Bosnian war\n\nIn the 1990s, almost two decades after her sister's death, Antonya was able to learn what had happened to her, and she tried to bring a case in the French courts against the Khmer Rouge officers who had run S-21. It was rejected.\n\n\"I felt powerless. There was no sign, either, of an international tribunal. I wondered, 'Were the two million victims of the Khmer Rouge genocide so unimportant in the eyes of the world that the criminals did not need to be judged?'\"\n\nAntonya had to wait until 2008, when an international tribunal was finally set up. The men who murdered her sister were at last convicted.\n\nShe was comforted not just by the verdict, but by the fact that the tribunal was public.\n\n\"Thousands of people came from all over the world to attend the hearings in person, showing their desire to understand what happened.\"\n\nBut many thousands of victims still wait. In the Swiss capital, Berne, the Red Cross Centre for Victims of Torture and War had more than 4,000 consultations in 2016 alone.\n\n\"Almost the most important thing is that they have the space and time to talk,\" says psychologist Carola Smolenski. \"We have patients from former Yugoslavia who still suffer chronically from their experiences.\"\n\nFor many of these patients, however, there may never be a public tribunal where perpetrators are convicted, and the suffering of their victims formally recognised in a court of law.\n\nInstead, the Red Cross Centre has included a form of \"validation\" process as part of the therapy.\n\nMany Syrians, millions of whom are in refugee camps, still await news of loved ones\n\n\"We will prepare [together with the patient] a detailed chronological report,\" says Carola Smolenski. \"We recognise the experience together, and we sign it as witnesses.\"\n\n\"It is important that they can say, 'That is my story, and it is being taken seriously.'\"\n\nFor the millions of Syrians waiting in refugee camps, or trapped in besieged cities, peace cannot come soon enough. But millions of Syrians, too, are waiting to know the fate of loved ones who disappeared into Syria's prisons, or vanished in the heat of battle.\n\nIn Geneva, the UN peace process is inching along. In the talks about Syria in the Kazakh capital, Astana, the Russians, Turks, and Iranians are working to negotiate \"de-escalation zones\" to reduce the violence.\n\nBut in neither the Geneva process nor Astana is there much talk of accountability for the undoubtedly massive number of war crimes and crimes against humanity. It is unclear whether the newly formed IIIM has a role in the peace process at all.\n\nCould this be because leaders, on all sides of Syria's conflict, might not be motivated to reach a peace deal if they thought a war crimes trial would be their reward?\n\n\"You might have put your finger on it,\" says one Western diplomat, speaking on condition of anonymity.\n\nThe idea that achieving peace, or at least an absence of war, should take priority over justice is often advanced during tricky diplomatic negotiations.\n\nSome also suggest that war crimes tribunals can sow the seeds of future discord, particularly if victims are from one ethnic group and perpetrators from another.\n\nThe Nuremburg war trials resulted in many convictions but little remorse, says UN human rights commissioner Zeid Ra'ad al Hussein\n\nArchbishop Emeritus of Cape Town the Most Reverend Desmond Tutu famously did not want a tribunal for South Africa, pushing instead for a truth and reconciliation process, in which the accused would acknowledge their crimes but also be forgiven by their victims.\n\nThe UN's human rights commissioner, Zeid Ra'ad al Hussein, agrees that creating sustainable peace is a complex process, but insists that the authors of Syria's suffering must be formally prosecuted.\n\n\"In Syria, there will never be peace if you don't put the victims at the centre of your effort,\" he says.\n\n\"You can have the most finely crafted agreement, but if victims don't feel justice, then it is worthless, a pointless exercise. There has to be an accounting, the central authors must be brought to book.\"\n\nNevertheless, he sees prosecutions as only part of the process.\n\n\"At a fundamental level, we will never have permanent peace if we don't deal with unresolved issues.\"\n\nThis means, he says, all sides in a conflict recognising their conduct, and showing \"contrition\".\n\nAnd there, Mr Hussein says, society must play its role.\n\nDuring the German trials after World War Two, he points out, there were 7,000 convictions, but few of those convicted showed any remorse.\n\nThe push for contrition and remorse came later, through work by German historians, school teachers, and post-War politicians.\n\nAlain Werner agrees that, in view of the scale of the atrocities in Syria, \"it is very difficult to think there will be no justice\".\n\nBut, he adds, because the number of cases is \"staggering\", justice is unlikely to be swift. \"Syria could take 40 years… even 100 years to investigate.\"\n• None How virtual reality could help prosecute Nazi war criminals", "A post-mortem examination revealed the cause of Celine Dookhran's death was a neck wound\n\nTributes have been paid to a 20-year-old woman who was allegedly kidnapped and raped before being killed.\n\nCeline Dookhran's body was found at an address in Coombe Lane West, in Kingston Upon Thames, on Wednesday.\n\nProsecutors allege Mujahid Arshid, 33, murdered the teenager - who was of Indian Muslim heritage - for being in a relationship with an Arab Muslim.\n\nOne user on Facebook said: \"RIP Celine. Such a beautiful, intelligent soul.\"\n\nMs Dookhran, who was born in Wandsworth and grew up in south London, had a passion for make-up and offered cosmetic advice to her followers on social media.\n\nHer social media messages included posts about religious holidays and fasting during Ramadan.\n\nThe last tweet, posted eight days before her death, said \"Alhamdulillah [praise God] for everything that's all I can say\".\n\nFollowing the news of her death, one of her Twitter followers said: \"Innalillahe wainna ilaye rajeeon [\"We belong to Allah and to Him we shall return.\"]\n\n\"RIP Celine, You did not deserve what has happened, May Allah grant you a place in Paradise. Inshallah.\"\n\nWhile another user posted: \"RIP Celine, you were very beautiful and you will never be forgotten.\"\n\nMs Dookhran had a passion for make-up and offered cosmetic advice to her Twitter followers\n\nMr Arshid is also accused of the kidnap, rape and attempted murder of a woman in her 20s.\n\nThe second woman, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, had earlier been treated for stab or slash wounds at a south London hospital.\n\nVincent Tappu, 28, from Acton, west London, is also charged with kidnapping both women.\n\nA post-mortem examination revealed the cause of Ms Dookhran's death was a neck wound.\n\nPolice found the body of the 20-year-old at a property in Kingston Upon Thames\n\nThe men have been remanded in custody.\n\nMr Arshid, of no fixed address, is scheduled to appear at the Old Bailey on 26 July.\n\nBoth defendants will appear at the same court on 21 August.\n\nUpdate 26 July 2017: The age of Celine Dookhran has been changed following new information from the Metropolitan Police.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A new image of suspect Franz Wrousis was issued by police on Tuesday\n\nA man who sparked one of the biggest manhunts in Swiss history after allegedly attacking people with a chainsaw has been arrested, police say.\n\nFranz Wrousis, 50, was arrested in Thalwil, a town about 60km (37 miles) from Schaffhausen, the border town where the incident took place.\n\nMr Wrousis, who is said to have lived in the nearby woods, allegedly attacked two people in an insurance office.\n\nMore than 100 Swiss and German officers were involved in the search.\n\nOn Tuesday afternoon, after more than 24 hours on the run, Swiss police admitted they had no idea where Mr Wrousis had gone, and could have potentially crossed into Germany,\n\nA helicopter and dogs were used to scour the area for any trace of the alleged suspect, who has two previous convictions for weapons offences.\n\nPolice eventually found him in Thalwil, just south of Zurich. No further details were available surrounding the arrest, but local media reported the police were due to hold a press conference early on Wednesday.\n\nMonday's attack unfolded shortly after 10:30 (08:30 GMT), when two workers were attacked and wounded by a chainsaw at the CSS insurance office. One was badly hurt and needed surgery in hospital.\n\nTwo other people were treated for shock, while a third was slightly hurt during the ensuing police operation.\n\nPolice said Mr Wrousis had been a customer of the firm.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Earl Spencer tells Today he was \"lied to\" over princes' wish to follow Diana's coffin\n\nPrincess Diana's brother Earl Spencer says he was lied to about Prince William and Prince Harry wanting to walk behind their mother's coffin.\n\nHe said it was a \"bizarre and cruel thing\" for the princes to do and the funeral procession was \"the most horrifying half an hour of my life\".\n\nHe told Radio 4's Today: \"I was lied to and told that they wanted to do it, which of course they didn't.\"\n\nHe spoke as the 20th anniversary of her death approaches on 31 August.\n\n\"It was the worst part of the day by a considerable margin, walking behind my sister's body with two boys who were obviously massively grieving their mother.\n\n\"It was a sort of bizarre circumstance where we were told you just have to look straight ahead.\n\n\"But the feeling, the sort of absolute crashing tidal wave of grief coming at you as you went down this sort of tunnel of deep emotion, it was really harrowing actually and I still have nightmares about it now.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Princess Diana's brother tells Radio 4's Today he still has nightmares about walking behind her coffin\n\nThe earl also said there had been four attempted break-ins at the family home where Princess Diana was buried after she was killed in a Paris car crash.\n\nHe said he had been a \"passionate advocate\" for William and Harry not to have to walk behind their mother's body but was told the plan had been decided.\n\n\"I was liaising with some courtier at Buckingham Palace and he mentioned it and I said of course not, of course they are not going to do that, and he said it had been decided.\n\n\"I said she [Diana] just would not want them to do this and there was lots of sort of embarrassed coughing and various other conversations.\n\n\"Then eventually I was lied to and told that they wanted to do it, which of course they didn't, but I didn't realise that.\"\n\nPrince Harry, who was 12 when his mother died, has previously spoken about walking in the funeral procession, saying no child \"should be asked to do that\".\n\nDescribing the procession, the earl said he could hear people sobbing, wailing and shouting messages of love to Diana and the princes which was a \"very tricky time\".\n\n\"But it was impossible not to connect with the emotion coming from the crowd. It was so powerful. Pulsing through us, I think.\n\n\"And it was so bizarre, there was a sort of crunching of our procession, the horses and the carriage and our footsteps, and then the incredible crashing emotion coming in from every side. It was really horrifying.\"\n\nThe earl revealed he wrote the eulogy to his sister in his study, a place loved by Princess Diana, and the speech was about speaking for \"my sister who was no longer there\".\n\nHis promise at the funeral in 1997 that William and Harry would be protected by \"blood family\" was seen as an attack on the Royal Family.\n\nThe earl says his eulogy was trying to \"celebrate\" Diana\n\nThe earl said he believes Princess Diana would have been proud of his speech, which he re-read to her body a couple of days before she was buried.\n\n\"I know people will think that I am some sort of fruitcake, but I do remember hearing almost some sort of approval then and then I realised then I probably had got some of the thoughts in order.\"\n\nReflecting on the eulogy, he said: \"I don't feel I said many pointed things. I believe that every word I said was true and it was important for me to be honest.\n\n\"I wasn't looking to make any jabs at anyone actually, I was trying to celebrate Diana and if by doing that it showed up particularly the press I think in a bad way, well, they had that coming.\"\n\nThe earl's eulogy also touched on Princess Diana's eating disorders and criticised the paparazzi.\n\n\"In her final years Diana was really brought low by elements of the paparazzi and the tabloids,\" he said.\n\n\"I remember she told me about one man that promised to hound her until the day she died, then would urinate on her grave.\n\n\"So, she was dealing with a very dark side of the media and, even at her funeral, I think it was appropriate to touch on that.\"\n\nPrincess Diana was one of the most-photographed women in the world\n\nThe earl said he has re-read his speech for the first time in 20 years and believes it was \"very balanced\".\n\nWhen asked whether the Queen, who is his godmother, said anything to him about the eulogy, he said a friend had told him she said he had a right to say whatever he felt.\n\n\"I am not some rabid republican, but the speech was about Diana, it wasn't really about anyone else,\" he said.\n\nPrincess Diana is buried in the grounds of her childhood home\n\nPrincess Diana was buried in the grounds of Althorp estate, her childhood home in Northamptonshire, after the earl changed plans for her to be laid to rest in the family tombs at a local church.\n\nHe said it seemed \"natural\" to bury her at their family home as he \"wanted to keep her safe\".\n\nThe earl added: \"There was such a whipped up feeling of emotion everywhere that I was very worried about where we could safely bury her.\"", "A specialist doctor has volunteered to give Charlie end of life care in a hospice\n\nThe parents of terminally-ill Charlie Gard have agreed he should spend his final days in a hospice.\n\nConnie Yates and Chris Gard originally asked to be allowed to take their son home to die, after ending their legal case on Monday to seek therapy abroad.\n\nFor practical reasons, Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) said a hospice was the most appropriate place for him.\n\nHis parents and the hospital have until 12:00 BST on Thursday to agree his end of life care and how long he has left.\n\nConnie Yates was in court to hear the decision about where her son will spend his final days\n\nThe court heard there was a dispute between hospital bosses and Charlie's parents about care plans for the 11-month old baby.\n\nMs Yates and Mr Gard have now accepted their son has to be moved to a hospice but wanted to spend a week there with him before he died.\n\nSome nurses from GOSH and a doctor have volunteered to care for the terminally-ill baby during that time, the family's lawyer Grant Armstrong said.\n\nThe family had been unable to find an intensive care specialist, which the hospital had said was \"essential\" for Charlie's care, though.\n\nSetting the deadline, Mr Justice Francis said he hoped all parties could reach an agreement by 12:00 BST on Thursday, otherwise Charlie would be moved anyway and his life support treatment ended soon after that.\n\nHe said the name of the hospice and when Charlie was admitted would remain private.\n\nAs the judge made his decision, Ms Yates shouted \"I hope you are happy with yourselves\" and left the court crying.\n\nOn Monday his parents ended their legal fight to take Charlie to the US for experimental therapy on the advice of the US doctor who had offered the treatment.\n\nMr Gard said his \"beautiful\" son was not expected to live to see his first birthday on 4 August.\n\nCharlie has encephalomyopathic mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome. He has brain damage and cannot move his arms or legs.\n\nCharlie has been in intensive care since October", "An advert by a vegan campaign group claiming \"Humane milk is a myth\" has been cleared by regulators, despite complaints from the dairy industry.\n\nMilk producers said it described the separation of mothers from their calves in an inaccurate and misleading way.\n\nThe ad featured a photo of a cow behind a piece of barbed wire and the headline \"Humane milk is a myth. Don't buy it.\"\n\nThe Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) said it was \"unlikely to materially mislead readers\".\n\nThe national newspaper advert for campaign group Go Vegan World goes on to state: \"I went vegan the day I visited a dairy. The mothers, still bloody from birth, searched and called frantically for their babies.\n\n\"Their daughters, fresh from their mothers' wombs but separated from them, trembled and cried piteously, drinking milk from rubber teats on the wall instead of their mothers' nurturing bodies. All because humans take their milk.\"\n\nThe ASA said seven complainants, some of whom had experience working in the dairy industry, suggested the claims were misleading and questioned whether they could be substantiated.\n\nGo Vegan World said the advert did not state or imply that calves were separated from their mothers prior to the 12 to 24 hours recommended by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra).\n\nBut they said they believed the exact timing was irrelevant, and most people would consider separation at 25 hours equally as unjust as separation at 24 hours.\n\nThe ASA said the language in the advert was \"emotional and hard-hitting\"\n\nClearing the advert, the ASA said it understood the complainants were concerned the advert implied a significant number of dairy farms did not comply with animal welfare standards in place in the UK, and milk production was therefore \"inhumane\" in that sense.\n\nBut it concluded that while \"the language used to express the claims was emotional and hard-hitting\", it was a fact that calves were generally separated from their mothers very soon after birth under Defra regulations and so the advert was unlikely to materially mislead.", "In 2015, hundreds of thousands of migrants and refugees crossed from Hungary into Austria\n\nThe EU's top court has ruled that a law requiring refugees to seek asylum in the first country they reach applies even in exceptional circumstances.\n\nThe case, brought by Austria and Slovenia, could affect the future of several hundred people who arrived during the migrant crisis of 2015-16.\n\nThe ruling concerns two Afghan families and a Syrian who applied for asylum after leaving Croatia.\n\nThe court says it is Croatia's responsibility to decide their cases.\n\nThe crisis unfolded during the summer of 2015, as one million migrants and refugees travelled through the Western Balkans.\n\nUnder the so-called Dublin regulation, refugees typically have to seek asylum in the first EU state they reach. But Germany suspended the Dublin regulation for Syrian refugees, halting deportations to the countries they arrived in.\n\nFrom August 2015, hundreds - and sometimes thousands - arrived in Austria every day, initially via Hungary and later through Slovenia.\n\nMany wanted to travel on to Germany, but around 90,000 applied for asylum in Austria, equivalent to about 1% of its population.\n\nAmong them were two Afghan sisters, Khadija and Zainab Jafari, and their children who arrived at the Austrian border in February 2016.\n\nAccording to Stephan Klammer, a lawyer from the Diakonie charity, \"they came through the organised transports from the Austrian and other governments\".\n\nIn 2015, the equivalent of 1% of Austria's population applied for asylum there\n\n\"They came from Macedonia in a few days directly to Austria. At the Austrian border the Jafari sisters were allowed in because they said they wanted to go to Austria and ask for asylum,\" he said.\n\nBut unlike many other Afghans, they were not granted asylum.\n\nThe Austrian authorities eventually decided that they should be deported back to Croatia, their point of entry to the EU, under the Dublin regulation.\n\nMr Klammer said: \"In some cases, the authorities said 'We are not responsible because of the Dublin procedure, Croatia is responsible'. So the Jafaris got this decision.\"\n\nThe Jafari sisters' case was taken to the European Court of Justice (ECJ), along with a similar incident in Slovenia involving a Syrian national.\n\nOn Wednesday the ECJ ruled that their crossing of the Croatian border had to be considered irregular under the Dublin rule. Just because one EU country allows a non-EU citizen to enter its territory on humanitarian grounds, that authorisation is not valid in other EU countries.\n\nAustrian lawyer Clemens Lahner said that hundreds of asylum seekers would be affected by the ECJ's decision. \"For those already in Croatia - 700 or so - for them the story is over. Austria won't take them back.\"\n\nBut the fate of others is unclear.\n\nFarzad Mohammadi from Afghanistan came to Austria in February 2016 when he was 17 years old. He was deported back to Croatia last November.\n\n\"It was very difficult. I had tried so hard. I was in a choir, I played football, I was doing a German course, I did everything I could, but they said that is the law - you have to go,\" he told the BBC.\n\nHowever, he was allowed to return to Austria pending the court decision.\n\nMr Mohammadi in Austria is unclear as a result of the ruling\n\n\"Croatia was very bad, worse than Austria. We only had a thin blanket, there were problems with the heating. The toilets were dirty. Very very difficult.\"\n\nIn its ruling the ECJ stressed that EU countries could show a \"spirit of solidarity\" under a sovereignty clause that allows member states to examine asylum applications even if they do not have to.\n\nLawyer Clemens Lahner told the BBC that for \"those whose asylum claims have been frozen, technically they can be sent back but the court reminds states they can show solidarity or leniency\".\n\nIn response to the big migrant influx, the EU agreed to relocate 160,000 refugees from Italy and Greece, the two countries that have seen the biggest number of arrivals.\n\nHowever, only 24,600 people have been relocated so far, according to an EU report published on Wednesday.\n\nAlthough the pace of relocations has improved, two countries have refused to take any refugees, Poland and Hungary. The Czech Republic has not taken anyone since 2016 and Austria has only recently agreed to accept refugees.\n\nHungary along with Slovakia and Poland called for the relocation policy to be scrapped, but their complaint received a setback from an ECJ legal adviser on Wednesday.\n\nThe advocate general recommended that the objection be thrown out, partly because the policy helped \"relieve the considerable pressure on the asylum systems of Italy and Greece following the migration crisis in the summer of 2015\".\n\nA note on terminology: The BBC uses the term migrant to refer to all people on the move who have yet to complete the legal process of claiming asylum. This group includes people fleeing war-torn countries such as Syria, who are likely to be granted refugee status, as well as people who are seeking jobs and better lives, who governments are likely to rule are economic migrants.", "New diesel and petrol cars and vans will be banned in the UK from 2040 in a bid to tackle air pollution, the government has announced.\n\nMinisters have also unveiled a £255m fund to help councils tackle emissions, including the potential for charging zones for the dirtiest vehicles.\n\nBut the £3bn clean air strategy does not include a scrappage scheme, calling previous ones \"poor value\" for money.\n\nLocal government leaders welcomed the funding but called for more detail.\n\nLocal authorities will be given direct financial support from the government, with £40m of the fund being made immediately.\n\nThey can use the funds for a range of measures, such as changing road layouts, implementing new technologies or encouraging residents on to public transport.\n\nIf those measures do not cut emissions enough, charging zones could be the next step - but the government says these should only be used for \"limited periods\".\n\nThe timetable for councils to come up with initial plans has been cut from 18 months to eight, with the Department for Environment, Farming and Rural Affairs (Defra) wanting to \"inject additional urgency\" into the process.\n\nIt follows the government being given its own deadline of 31 July after High Court judges said it was failing to meet EU pollution limits.\n\nLocal Government Association environment spokesman Martin Tett said the plans to allow councils to switch their focus from monitoring air quality to improving air quality was the right move and welcomed the additional funding.\n\nHowever, he opposed the view of the government to hold off on a scrappage scheme, arguing \"this immediate intervention could help increase the uptake of lower emission vehicles\".\n\nMinisters have been wary of being seen to \"punish\" drivers of diesel cars, who, they argue, bought the vehicles after being encouraged to by the last Labour government because they produced lower carbon emissions.\n\nThe industry trade body, the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, said it was important to avoid outright bans on diesels, which would hurt the sector.\n\nSMMT chief executive Mike Hawes said demand for alternatively fuelled vehicles was growing but still at a very low level.\n\n\"The industry instead wants a positive approach which gives consumers incentives to purchase these cars. We could undermine the UK's successful automotive sector if we don't allow enough time for the industry to adjust.\"\n\nThe AA said significant investment would be needed to install charging points across the country and warned the National Grid would come under pressure with a mass switch-on of recharging after the rush hour.\n\nThe UK announcement comes amid signs of an accelerating shift towards electric cars instead of petrol and diesel ones, at home and abroad:\n\nSo how will the air be cleaned up? Plans for a diesel scrappage scheme for old vehicles have been rejected by the Treasury as poor value for money. They may be reconsidered in the autumn.\n\nThe government has told councils to solve pollution on their own streets by improving public transport and considering restrictions on dirty diesel vehicles at peak times.\n\nIf that doesn't work, councils will be told to charge diesel drivers to come into towns.\n\nThe councils aren't happy to take the rap for the controversial policy when it was the government that encouraged the sale of diesel vehicles in the first place.\n\nToday's government plan is not comprehensive - it doesn't address pollution from construction, farming and gas boilers.\n\nAnd clean air campaigners say the government is using the 2040 electric cars announcement to distract from failings in its short-term pollution policy.\n\nAir pollution is thought to be linked to about 40,000 premature deaths a year in the UK, and transport also contributes to greenhouse gas emissions.\n\nA government spokesman said poor air quality was \"the biggest environmental risk\" to public health in the UK.\n\nThe measures are \"good\" in the long term but \"not very effective\" in the short, industry expert David Bailey said.\n\nA switch-over to electric cars would likely come in the mid-2020s, he predicted, when electric cars would out-compete petrol and diesel ones on factors like cost.\n\n\"This sets a very clear direction of travel, but petrol and diesel cars won't exist by 2040,\" he said.\n\nHe said more incentives were needed now, otherwise urban air quality would not improve.\n\nEnvironmental law firm ClientEarth welcomed the measures, but said it wanted to see more detail.\n\nChief executive James Thornton said the law found ministers must bring down illegal levels of air pollution as soon as possible.\n\nGreen Party MP Caroline Lucas welcomed a ban but said it did not go \"nearly far enough or fast enough\".\n\nFriends of the Earth said the plan was a \"cynical\" move which passed the buck of saving lives to local authorities.\n\nLabour said the government was only acting after being taken to court.\n\nEnvironment, Food and Rural Affairs spokeswoman Sue Hayman MP said the government had a \"squeamish\" attitude to clear air zones, and was shunting the problem on to local authorities.\n\n\"With nearly 40 million people living in areas with illegal levels of air pollution, action is needed now, not in 23 years' time,\" she said.", "The branding of the On Purpose products is \"subtle but appropriate\", says Mary Beech\n\nIt's easy to miss. The words \"on purpose\" are printed on a small label inside the tote bag alongside the name of the woman who made it.\n\nIt sits inconspicuously next to the other handbags on the shelves at high-end fashion brand Kate Spade.\n\nThere is nothing notably different about it.\n\nYet it was made in a factory that doesn't have a reliable source of running water, where the electricity routinely cuts out, and where, until relatively recently, the workers didn't have the necessary manufacturing skills.\n\nIt's in a tiny village called Masoro in landlocked Rwanda.\n\nThere are no dependable roads, which means all the products made here have to be airlifted out - a much more expensive option than the usual way of sending them by ship.\n\nAnd perhaps most unusually, this factory didn't exist at all until global fashion firm Kate Spade decided to open it and fund its creation just over three years ago.\n\nThe obvious question is: Why?\n\nOn Purpose senior manager Taryn Bird says it was important the project was commercial as well as charitable\n\n\"We like to stretch ourselves,\" laughs Mary Beech, chief marketing officer at the firm.\n\nShe says as a brand that makes clothing and handbags for women, and whose employees are mainly female, doing something to help empower women \"came very naturally\".\n\nThe branding of the product is subtle, says Ms Beech, because they don't want it to be a token charity product.\n\n\"We want women to buy these bags because they walk into the store and love them. First and foremost it has to be a beautiful product which is completely natural and integrated,\" she adds.\n\nRwanda's horrifying 1994 genocide, when 800,000 Rwandans were killed, continues to affect people today, and Kate Spade says this history was an added incentive for choosing the location.\n\nAround 150 people, mainly women, work at Abahizi Dushyigikirane Corporation, known as ADC\n\nOf course, many brands undertake charitable projects.\n\nFashion firm Asos, for example, sells a \"Made In Kenya\" range produced by local clothing manufacturer Soko, which it says aims to support local craftsmanship.\n\nSimilarly, footwear firms Toms and Roma Boots both give away a pair of shoes to a child in need for each pair they sell.\n\nThe difference with Kate Spade's charitable initiative On Purpose, the firm says, is that it's a business venture that had to make commercial as well as emotional sense.\n\n\"It couldn't be a crafty aside done for corporate social responsibility that didn't tie back into economic sustainability,\" says Taryn Bird, senior manager of the On Purpose initiative.\n\nShe said this was because the firm wanted to set up something that lasted and enabled the factory to be financially independent, eventually taking orders from other fashion brands and becoming part of the global supply chain.\n\nThe only way to make sure this happened, was to set it up themselves, says Ms Bird.\n\nKate Spade has trained ADC's workers so they have the skills needed to make its products\n\nThe factory is not owned by Kate Spade, but is an official supplier. The people who work there - around 150 - are employed by Abahizi Dushyigikirane Corporation, known as ADC.\n\nSo is this just exploiting Rwanda's low-wage economy?\n\nKate Spade says not, pointing out even the lowest paid worker's salary in the country is considerably higher than the median salary for private sector jobs in Rwanda.\n\nIt has also set up a life skills programme at the company, offering counselling, information on health and nutrition and English language lessons.\n\nWhile the firm won't be drawn on how much exactly it ploughed into the factory to get it going, Ms Beech says it was \"a minimal investment\". Almost four years on she says they are \"on track\" to get their investment back and for the factory to become profitable. The staff retention rate is an impressive 98%.\n\nBut Africa is not such an unusual choice for a firm looking to diversify its supplier base.\n\nLabour costs are already much lower than in China. According to Georgetown University in Washington, which studied the Kate Spade project, staff in factories in coastal China earned around $700 (£537) a month, over six times the average $113 monthly salary at the ADC factory.\n\nAfrica is seen by many as the world's next low-cost manufacturing hub\n\nAfrica also offers what Ms Bird describes as \"a very business friendly climate for export companies\".\n\nADC does not have to pay duties on incoming raw materials and is also able to export the finished bags to the US without tariffs.\n\nIn contrast, tariffs on handbags from Asian suppliers range from 4.5% to 17.5%, according to Georgetown University.\n\nSo Africa has the potential to become the world's next low-cost manufacturing hub thanks to a cheap workforce and an abundance of raw materials. A lot of production has moved there already.\n\nMs Beech, however, says that wasn't why Kate Spade chose Rwanda. The bags made there were additional orders reflecting increased demand for its products.\n\nPietra Rivoli, a professor teaching finance and international business at Georgetown University, and part of the team which researched the project, says it proves it's possible to put a factory anywhere.\n\n\"The set up was not terribly complex. It's not something that other companies could not do given the motivation and support from management,\" she says.\n\nShe says the supportive factory set-up made ADC feel very different to any other factory she had visited.\n\nKate Spade offers \"a demonstrative case study\" of an alternative approach, says Prof Pietra Rivoli\n\n\"I'm not saying other factories are somehow bad. But most supplier relationships tend to be very transactional. The relationship is one of monitoring for labour abuses, whereas the ADC approach is a much more positive philosophy.\"\n\nTypically, how cheaply and quickly something can be made are the main criteria a company uses for deciding where to locate a factory.\n\nProf Rivoli says the Kate Spade example offers \"a demonstrative case study\" of an alternative approach.\n\n\"What they have shown is that it can really be a win-win. The factory can pay the company back [for the set-up costs] and the firm can support the worker and their communities.\n\nSo far it's one small-scale experiment. But Kate Spade says it is already planning to pilot a second factory in a different developing country in the next couple of years.\n\n\"This time we'll make sure it has access to a port,\" laughs Ms Beech.\n\nMore from the BBC's series taking an international perspective on trade:\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Commanders from British armed forces have opposed any ban on transgender people serving in the military.\n\nIt comes after Donald Trump said that transgender people would not be allowed in the US military due to \"tremendous\" medical costs and disruption.\n\nBut British officials have supported people serving in the Army, Royal Navy and Royal Air Force.\n\nCommander of UK Maritime Forces Rear Admiral Alex Burton tweeted: \"I am so glad we are not going this way.\"\n\nThe Obama administration decided last year to allow transgender people to serve openly in the US military.\n\nBut in June, Defence Secretary James Mattis agreed to a six-month delay in the recruitment of transgender people.\n\nNow President Trump has posted a series of tweets saying: \"After consultation with my generals and military experts, please be advised that the United States government will not accept or allow transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the US military.\n\n\"Our military must be focused on decisive and overwhelming victory and cannot be burdened with the tremendous medical costs and disruption that transgender in the military would entail.\"\n\nIn response, Rear Admiral Burton of the Royal Navy tweeted: \"As a Royal Navy LGBT champion and senior warfighter I am so glad we are not going this way.\"\n\nAnd Second Sea Lord Vice Admiral Jonathan Woodcock tweeted: \"So proud of our transgender personnel. They bring diversity to our Royal Navy and I will always support their desire to serve their country.\n\n\"I suspect many who doubt the abilities of our diverse service personnel might be more reluctant to serve than they are to comment.\"\n\nIn February, the Army's LGBT champion, Lieutenant General Patrick Sanders said: \"Only if individuals are free to be themselves can we release the genie of their potential.\"\n\nThe Houses of Parliament were lit up with the rainbow flag during this year's LGBT Pride celebrations\n\nEach of Britain's armed forces welcomes transgender people to serve.\n\nThe Ministry of Defence told the BBC that President Trump's tweets were \"an American issue\".\n\nA spokesman added: \"We are clear that all LGBT members of our armed forces play a vital role in keeping our nation safe. We will continue to welcome people from a diverse range of backgrounds, including transgender personnel.\"\n\nBBC defence correspondent Jonathan Beale said the MoD would not provide the number of transgender people serving in the British military, but that one source had told him there were fewer than 10.", "The US has some big healthcare businesses which would be keen to establish a stronger presence in the UK\n\nRelations with the United States were always going to be a high priority for British trade policy post-Brexit.\n\nSo no surprise that Liam Fox has gone to Washington to discuss prospects.\n\nThe International Trade Secretary is pushing for a bilateral trade liberalisation agreement with the US to take effect when the UK leaves the EU.\n\nAnd his American hosts seem well disposed to the idea in principle. Better access to the US market would go down well among many UK businesses too.\n\nIt is, after all the UK's largest single export market, though well behind the rest of the EU taken together.\n\nThe US is also the second largest foreign supplier to the UK. So a freer trade relationship could reduce the cost of those imports.\n\nThere was also a great deal of enthusiasm among British business for the EU's negotiations with the US, a project known as the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP).\n\nNow that British business won't be able to make use of any benefits that might come from that exercise, if it is ever completed, a deal with the US would be helpful for many.\n\nHaving said that, many regard it as a higher priority to preserve trade access to the EU as far as possible on existing terms. That is broadly the position of a number of British business lobbies.\n\nThere are some areas of any UK/US talks that might be difficult. Experience with the TTIP negotiations gives some clues as to the kind pressures the British government is likely to face at home.\n\nGenetically modified crops - like this maize - is an area for discussion\n\nOne is resolving disputes under the agreement, particularly any involving foreign investors.\n\nMany trade and investment agreements provide for tribunals to be established if a foreign investor believes their interests have been harmed by the host government acting in a way that contravenes the agreement.\n\nThey can seek financial compensation, and there are many cases where they have been successful. The system is known as investor state dispute settlement (ISDS).\n\nIt has been around for decades, but has become more controversial in recent years. Critics see it as giving international businesses unfair leverage over the policies of elected governments.\n\nThere will be business lobbies on both sides keen to see some sort of arrangement along these lines and campaigners vigorously opposed.\n\nThere is a particular issue for some groups in the UK about how this might affect the National Health Service. It came up in the context of the TTIP negotiations.\n\nThe issue was partly whether the agreement might force the British government to privatise health service provision - and also about whether the agreement would make it hard or impossible to reverse any privatisation that did occur.\n\nThe issue was that reversing such a move could deprive a foreign health company of business, which campaigners argued could enable it to use the ISDS tribunal system to seek compensation from the host (British) government.\n\nChlorinated chicken is a familiar feature on US shelves but is banned in the EU\n\nThe US has some big healthcare businesses which would be keen to establish a stronger presence in the UK. How well founded that fear would be would depend on the wording of the agreement, but once detailed negotiations get underway it's likely to be brought up.\n\nIn the context of TTIP, the idea that it would compromise public provision of healthcare was robustly rejected by, among others the British government, but campaigners did not accept that.\n\nThen there are food issues. Dr Fox has already responded to concerns about American chicken washed with chlorine. That came up in the TTIP talks too and it might well make an appearance again. The practice is widely used in the US to remove microbial contamination, but it is not permitted in the UK.\n\nBeef fed with growth promoting hormones, another practice used in the US, could also be difficult. It's banned in the EU on the basis of health concerns.\n\nThis is a trade dispute that has rumbled on for many years and the EU has lost the case in the World Trade Organization, which accepted that the hormones were safe.\n\nThe EU has never complied with that ruling and still bans such meat.\n\nAnother food issue is genetically modified crops. They do have a presence in the European food chain, partly through animal feed. But the approval process for new GM crops is seen by US farm groups as excessively slow and cumbersome.\n\nMovement on all three of these issues is likely to be important for US negotiators. The National Farmers' Union in the UK is receptive to the idea of reforming the GM approvals process, but the other two are more of a problem.\n\nNonetheless there are certainly opportunities that businesses in both countries can see. For industry, the relatively straightforward area is tariffs, taxes on imported goods.\n\nThey are relatively low in both the US and the UK (which currently adopts the EU's tariff policy). But there are some goods for which they are relatively high (10% for cars entering the UK from outside the EU, for example).\n\nMany industry and financial services groups would also welcome closer regulatory cooperation. It would simplify business for suppliers and could conceivably lower costs for customers.\n\nIn any event, for now the UK remains a member of the EU and its common trade policy.\n\nBut that certainly doesn't stop negotiators discussing what a post-Brexit deal would look like.\n• None What is the Trans-Pacific Partnership?", "The donated brains of college and high school players were also studied\n\nA study of American football players' brains has found that 99% of professional NFL athletes tested had a disease associated with head injuries.\n\nThe report published on Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association studied 202 deceased players - 111 of them from the NFL.\n\nAll but one former National Football League player were found to have chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE).\n\nThe study is the largest of its kind yet conducted, its authors say.\n\nDr Ann McKee, director of Boston University's CTE Center, which led the study, cautioned against drawing any immediate conclusions.\n\n\"There's a tremendous selection bias,\" she said, explaining how many of the brains were donated specifically by families who had suspected that their loved ones were suffering from CTE, which researchers believe is caused by repeated blows to the head.\n\n\"There's no question that there's a problem in football. That people who play football are at risk for this disease,\" she told US media.\n\nThe neurodegenerative brain disease CTE is typically found in people who have suffered repeated blows to the head, studies have found.\n\nIt causes a build-up of so-called tau proteins which can disable neuro-pathways and cause memory loss, impaired judgment, confusion and a variety of other mental health issues.\n\nAll 202 players studied - ranging in age from 23 to 89 - were required to have football as their primary exposure to head trauma.\n\nOf the 202 total players, 87% were found to have traces of CTE.\n\nIt was also found in 48 of 53 college players and three of the 14 high school players.\n\nPlayers featured in the study came from every position on the field, and from high school, university, and Canadian leagues, in addition to the NFL.\n\nIn a statement the NFL said it was grateful for the study and the \"value it adds in the ongoing quest for a better understanding of CTE\".\n\n\"There are still many unanswered questions relating to the cause, incidence and prevalence of long-term effects of head trauma such as CTE,\" the organisation continued.\n\n\"The NFL is committed to supporting scientific research into CTE and advancing progress in the prevention and treatment of head injuries.\"\n\nThe NFL in 2016 acknowledged for the first time that there is a connection between CTE and football.\n\nIn 2015, a federal judge approved a class-action lawsuit brought against the NFL by thousands of players, who had alleged they had suffered brain damage as a result of concussions.\n\nRon Sinai, of US legal funding firm Nova Legal Funding, said that similar lawsuits are being brought against the NCAA.\n\n\"College football players are having many of the same health issues as the pro players. In July 2016 a judge approved a $75 million settlement to resolve many, but not all, of these cases,\" he said.", "Eighteen-year-old Sally Anne Bowman was murdered in south London in 2005\n\nA man serving a life sentence for raping and murdering teenage model Sally Anne Bowman has admitted attacks on two other women previously.\n\nMark Dixie, 46, was jailed in 2008 for repeatedly stabbing Miss Bowman then raping her as she lay dead or dying in Croydon, south London in 2005.\n\nDixie now admits raping a woman in her car in Croydon when he was 16.\n\nThe former chef also molested another woman near a railway bridge in 2002 and will be sentenced on 22 September.\n\nA previous hearing was told he ambushed a woman in an isolated car park in 1987 then raped her.\n\nFollowing the sex attack, he tied her to the back seat of her car then set fire to the front seat.\n\n\"He later told police he had set fire to a Tampax,\" prosecutor Crispin Aylett QC told Southwark Crown Court earlier.\n\nShe managed to escape and raised the alarm.\n\nMark Dixie was jailed for a minimum of 34 years in 2008\n\nDixie has also admitted charges of indecent assault and GBH after hitting another woman on the head several times with a chef's steel - used to sharpen kitchen blades.\n\nHe attacked her near a railway bridge in Croydon and told his victim \"I'm going to kill you\".\n\nDragging her up the stairs he proceeded to assault her but was interrupted by another woman who heard the commotion.\n\n\"When she asked what was going on, Dixie said 'nothing, nothing, it's just a row with my girlfriend,'\" the prosecutor said.\n\nDixie fled after the victim said: \"help, help, he's attacking me\".\n\nThe teen model's body was found by a skip in Croydon\n\nMr Aylett QC told the court Dixie had revealed the attacks to police after finally admitting in January 2015 that he had killed Miss Bowman.\n\nMiss Bowman's murder was something Dixie had previously denied.\n\n\"He wrote to police indicating he wanted to tell them the truth of what had happened to Sally Anne, because at the trial he said that he was not responsible for her murder,\" Mr Aylett said.\n\nDuring the original three-week murder trial Dixie claimed to have found Miss Bowman dead and proceeded to have sex with her lifeless body after he had been on a drink and drugs binge.\n\nThe 18-year-old's body was found next to a skip in Croydon in September 2005.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Two men have been targeted in a suspected acid attack in east London\n\nThe Met Police said the men, thought to be in their late teens, flagged down officers in Bethnal Green at 19:00 BST on Tuesday.\n\nBoth men were taken to hospital. Police said it was still not known what liquid was thrown at them in Roman Road.\n\nNo arrests have been made. A Met Police spokesman said inquiries were ongoing and a crime scene remained in place in the area.\n\nThe condition of the two men is not yet known.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Two men are looked after by emergency services after an acid attack\n\nA video posted on Twitter by Chris Lennon appeared to show a man not wearing a top pouring water over his face and torso while being helped by paramedics.\n\nIn the footage, another man is seen sitting on the pavement, also receiving medical assistance.\n\nBBC journalist Neil Brennan, who lives in the area, said the attack happened outside a corner shop, about two minutes from the Tube station and near police and fire stations.\n\nHe said people nearby told him two Asian men had been attacked.\n\n\"I saw firemen filling two large bottles with water from the fire truck and ferrying it back and forth to the victims,\" he said.\n\nFirefighters filled bottles of water from their vehicle\n\nA tarpaulin was put in place at the scene\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Adobe's Flash software is regularly updated to remove flaws that cyber-thieves exploit\n\nAdobe Systems has said that it plans to phase out its Flash Player plug-in by the end of 2020.\n\nThe technology was once one of the most widely used ways for people to watch video clips and play games online.\n\nBut it also attracted much criticism, particularly as flaws in its code meant it became a popular way for hackers to infect computers.\n\nIn recent years, much of its functionality has been offered by the rival HTML5 technology.\n\nOne of HTML5's benefits is that it can be used to make multimedia content available within webpages without requiring users to install and update a dedicated plug-in.\n\nApple was one of Flash's most vocal critics. The late Steve Jobs once wrote a public letter about its shortcomings, highlighting concerns about its reliability, security and performance.\n\nThe plug-in was never supported by Apple's iOS mobile devices.\n\nAdobe's vice president of product development, Govind Balakrishnan, said the firm had chosen to end Flash because other technologies, such as HTML5, had \"matured enough and are capable enough to provide viable alternatives to the Flash player.\"\n\nHe added: \"Few technologies have had such a profound and positive impact in the internet era.\"\n\nApps developer Malcolm Barclay, who had worked on Flash in its early days, told the BBC: \"It fulfilled its promise for a while but it never saw the mobile device revolution coming and ultimately that's what killed it.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nWhen Adobe acquired Flash in its 2005 purchase of Macromedia, the technology was on more than 98% of personal computers.\n\nBut on Chrome, now the most popular web browser, Flash's usage has fallen off dramatically.\n\nIn 2014 it was used each day by 80% of desktop users, according to Google. The current figure is just 17%.\n\n\"This trend reveals that sites are migrating to open-web technologies, which are faster and more power-efficient than Flash,\" Google added. \"They're also more secure.\"\n\nGoogle phased out full support for Flash software at the end of last year.\n\nMr Balakrishnan said it did not expect the demise of Flash to affect profits at Adobe.\n\n\"We think the opportunity for Adobe is greater in a post-Flash world,\" he said.\n\nBut the firm added that it remained committed to support Flash up until the end of 2020 \"as customers and partners put their migration plans into place\".\n\nThere was immediate reaction to the news on Twitter.\n• None Google to phase out Flash on Chrome", "The Bank of England's financial stability director, Alex Brazier, has been warning about the dangers of rising personal loans.\n\nHe said that High Street banks were at risk of entering \"a spiral of complacency\" about mounting consumer debt levels.\n\n\"Household debt - like most things that are good in moderation - can be dangerous in excess,\" he said.\n\nThe Bank of England's own figures put total debt to individuals at about £1.5 trillion, which is an average of £28,000 for everyone over 16 in the UK.\n\nMost of that - about £1.3tn - is made up of mortgages. The rest is for credit cards, overdrafts and loans to buy things like cars, bikes or kitchens.\n\nIf you look at what's been happening to lending to individuals, you can see from the chart above that it was rising sharply in the years leading up to the financial crisis, then it flattened out. But in the last couple of years it's started rising again.\n\nMr Brazier talked about the risk to banks from the £200bn of non-mortgage debt, which has been growing much faster than household incomes.\n\nThe credit-card element is £68bn, which is up 18% in the last three years.\n\nOf the remaining £130bn, the big growth area has been car loans, with four-fifths of new cars last year bought using Personal Contract Purchase (PCP) deals, which tend to come from finance companies linked to car manufacturers. The Financial Conduct Authority is already concerned about the amount we're borrowing to buy cars.\n\nCan we afford all this? Household debt including mortgages as a proportion of household income rose from 95% in 1997 to 160% before the financial crisis. It then fell back to about 140% but has now started ticking back up. The Office for Budget Responsibility predicts that it will reach 153% in 2022.\n\nAnd all of these Bank of England statistics exclude student loans - currently about £89bn of outstanding student debt, which has more than doubled in the last five years.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A Met Police spokesman said the substance was non-corrosive but it is investigating\n\nA lone paramedic had a substance thrown on to her face, neck and chest while answering a 999 call.\n\nShe was on her way to a patient when she was flagged down by three men who appeared to be in distress in Tottenham Hale, north London.\n\nThe 32-year-old stopped to help but they pulled bandanas over their faces before one threw liquid through her window.\n\nShe was taken to hospital after the attack on 16 July but later discharged.\n\nA Met Police spokesman said the substance was non-corrosive but it is investigating the incident.\n\nSince 2010, there have been more than 1,800 reports of attacks involving corrosive fluids in the capital. Last year, it was used in 458 crimes, compared to 261 in 2015, according to Met Police figures.\n\nThe paramedic, who did not want to be named, was on her way to help a man suffering from chest pains when she was targeted in the early hours.\n\n\"It was terrifying. This was so cowardly,\" she said.\n\n\"It is my job to help people. I was on my way to help a patient and I stopped because I am caring and I thought they needed my help.\n\n\"They have taken away my trust.\n\n\"What they've done is horrific in so many ways. It was premeditated and it delayed a patient getting treatment.\"\n\nShe said the attack took a paramedic off the road that night.\n\n\"And yet if one my attackers were hurt, I would still treat them because that is the job,\" she added.\n\nThe substance caused irritation to her face, neck and chest. The man who threw it was wearing latex gloves.\n\nLondon Ambulance Service is reminding its staff of the need to be cautious when flagged down by anyone requesting help or assistance.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "\"A bluish foreign body\" turned out to be a \"hard mass\" of 17 lenses stuck together with mucus\n\nSurgeons have removed 27 contact lenses from the eye of a 67-year-old woman who had come to Solihull Hospital for routine cataract surgery.\n\n\"A bluish foreign body\" turned out to be a \"hard mass\" of 17 lenses stuck together with mucus, and 10 more were then found under further examination.\n\nA report in the BMJ said she had worn disposable lenses for 35 years, and had not complained of any irritation.\n\nBut after they were removed, she said her eyes felt a lot more comfortable.\n\nSpecialist trainee in ophthalmology Rupal Morjaria told Optometry Today: \"None of us have ever seen this before.\n\n\"It was such a large mass. All the 17 contact lenses were stuck together.\n\n\"We were really surprised that the patient didn't notice it because it would cause quite a lot of irritation while it was sitting there.\n\n\"She was quite shocked. She thought her previous discomfort was just part of old age and dry eye.\"\n\nThe case report said the patient had poorer vision in her right eye and deep-set eyes, which may have been a factor in the lenses becoming lost.\n\nAssociation of Optometrists spokeswoman Ceri Smith-Jaynes said losing contact lenses in the eye was a common problem but they usually worked their way out.\n\n\"They are normally hiding, folded up under the top lid of the eye,\" she said.\n\n\"They can't go any further up than that because there is a pocket.\n\n\"It's the same under the bottom lid - the lens can only be in one of those places.\"\n\nShe said it was important to see an optometrist or optician regularly to avoid any issues when using contact lenses.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Former residents of Grenfell say electricity problems at the tower persisted into the months preceding the fire\n\nDozens of residents of Grenfell Tower suffered electricity power surges so strong their appliances malfunctioned, overheated and emitted smoke a few years before the fire, it has emerged.\n\nDocuments seen by the BBC reveal how 25 residents claimed compensation from the council following the surges in 2013.\n\nSome say electricity problems persisted into the months before June's fire.\n\nPolice say the blaze, in which at least 80 are thought to have died, started in a fridge freezer on the fourth floor.\n\nOne fire expert told the BBC the electricity spikes could have been an issue which led to the fire starting in the first place.\n\nNeither the council nor the tenant management organisation which looks after the tower have commented.\n\nThe documents show that 45 of the tower's 129 flats were affected by a particularly powerful electricity surge on 29 May 2013.\n\nEventually, 25 of those residents claimed compensation and received £200 each from the Conservative-controlled Kensington and Chelsea Council, a sum that many of them considered derisory.\n\nIn a letter dated 24 July 2013, the council's housing department stated that \"…a series of surges were reported in Grenfell Tower…\" and that the Kensington and Chelsea Tenant Management Organisation, or TMO, that was responsible for managing the block \"…has been actively investigating the cause…\".\n\nJudith Blakeman, the local Labour councillor and a board member for the TMO, believes the problem was never satisfactorily solved\n\nThe letter was sent to Judith Blakeman, the local Labour councillor.\n\nCllr Blakeman, who is also a board member for the TMO, said the surge affected many electrical appliances including fridges and computers.\n\nShe believes the electricity problem was never satisfactorily solved, saying: \"One of the things they tried to suggest was that the smoke that people had seen was actually steam.\n\n\"Now, that didn't go down well with residents, because they can tell the difference between smoke and steam.\"\n\nResidents' representatives expressed deep concern about electricity at the block.\n\nOne document indicates that the surges caused some appliances to explode and smoke.\n\nIn an email to the TMO in November 2013, more than six months after the serious surges, a tenant representative claimed that \"electrical engineers failed to detect any problem\", adding \"…how could this be?\n\n\"Even the dogs in the street knew by this time that the Grenfell Tower power supply was in a highly volatile and dangerous state.\"\n\nSajad Jamalvatan, who moved into Grenfell Tower only in August last year, says he was concerned about the safety of electricity\n\nFormer residents of Grenfell say electricity problems at the tower even persisted following the refurbishment and into the months preceding the fire.\n\nSajad Jamalvatan, a biomechanical engineering student, moved into a flat on the third floor of Grenfell Tower only in August last year following the completion of the refurbishment works.\n\nHe said he was concerned about the safety of the electricity in the tower.\n\nMr Jamalvatan said the newly installed electrical meter often made a strange buzzing sound at night and constantly had to be topped up with money.\n\nHe was also concerned about the state of the wiring at the bottom of the tower, adding: \"I went to the basement once and I saw a huge mess in the basement. So much wiring.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nGrenfell residents belonging to the Grenfell Action Group blogged warnings about the power surges and other problems at the tower at the time in 2013.\n\nJoe Delaney, spokesman for the group, told the BBC there were problems with the electricity at the tower in the months leading up to the fire. He said: \"There's been lots of issues with the electrics. There seemed to be a litany of problems.\"\n\nGeoff Wilkinson, a building inspector and fire expert, said: \"Certainly the issue with electricity spikes could well have been an issue which led to the fire in the first instance.\n\n\"If you're getting appliances overheat as a result of that then that could be an initial ignition source but that itself would not have led to the spread.\"\n\nPolice say the Grenfell Tower fire started in a fridge-freezer\n\nHe added, \"I think it clearly concerns anyone that if you hear that there are 20 appliances in one day, there is something that is clearly wrong.\"\n\nBoth the TMO and Kensington and Chelsea Council said they could not comment, because of the public inquiry and police investigation into the fire.\n\nThe TMO added: \"We recognise our responsibility to ensure that the investigative process is not hampered or undermined in any way.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Justine should be here. This shouldn't have happened\"\n\nThe \"heartbroken\" American fiancé of an Australian shot dead by a US police officer has said they have received almost no information from officials.\n\nDon Damond said his wife-to-be, Justine Damond, was gunned down after calling police to report a possible sexual assault in their quiet neighbourhood.\n\nHe said they were \"desperate\" to find out how Saturday's shooting in Minneapolis, Minnesota, happened.\n\nThe officers' body cameras were not turned on at the time.\n\nThe shooting happened in a relatively affluent area, where violent crime is rare.\n\nDon Damond said his fiancée, Justine, \"was so kind and so darn funny\"\n\nMr Damond told a news conference outside his home on Monday evening: \"Our hearts are broken and we are utterly devastated by the loss of Justine.\n\n\"As you know it was Justine who called 911 on Saturday evening, reporting what she believed was an active sexual assault occurring nearby.\n\n\"Sadly her family and I have been provided with almost no additional information from law enforcement regarding what happened after police arrived.\"\n\nMr Damond continued: \"Our lives are forever changed as a result of knowing her. She was so kind and so darn funny.\"\n\nForty-year-old Ms Damond was living in Minneapolis with her fiancé, whose surname she had already adopted.\n\nThe Minneapolis Star-Tribune, citing three sources with knowledge of the incident, reported that Ms Damond was dressed in her pyjamas and approached the driver's side door to talk to the officer at the wheel after police arrived.\n\nThe officer in the passenger seat, identified by local media as Mohamed Noor, drew his gun and shot Ms Damond through the driver's window, the newspaper reported.\n\nMr Noor's lawyer, Tom Plunkett, confirmed on Monday that his client had fired his weapon, killing Ms Damond.\n\nMohamed Noor fired his gun and killed Ms Damond, his lawyer says\n\n\"America sucks,\" he said. \"These cops need to get trained differently. I need to move out of here.\"\n\nThe Department of Public Safety's Bureau of Criminal Apprehension said an investigation is under way and authorities are looking into whether there is any video of the incident.\n\n\"I've asked for the investigation to be expedited to provide transparency and to answer as many questions as quickly as we can,\" she said.\n\nThe two officers involved in the shooting are on paid administrative leave.\n\nMinneapolis Mayor Betsy Hodges said she was \"heartsick and deeply disturbed\".\n\nShe told a news conference: \"I share the same questions other people have about why we don't have body camera footage of it, and I hope to get answers to that in the days coming.\"\n\nMs Damond, nee Justine Ruszczyk, taught meditation classes at the Lake Harriet Spiritual Community in Minneapolis.\n\nShe studied to be a veterinarian before relocating to the US, where she is believed to have been for at least the last three years.\n\nAccording to her website, she is a \"qualified yoga instructor, a personal health and life coach and meditation teacher\".\n\nAbout 200 neighbours, family members and residents gathered for a vigil on Sunday night where she died.\n\nOver the past few years the US has seen a series of civilian killings at the hands of police that have caused widespread concern and criticism.", "The Knightscope K5 robot tumbled into the fountain by accident\n\nA security robot in Washington DC suffered a watery demise after falling into a fountain by an office building.\n\nThe stricken robot, made by Knightscope, was spotted by passers-by whose photos of the aftermath quickly went viral on social media.\n\nFor some, the incident seemed to sum up the state of 21st Century technology.\n\n\"We were promised flying cars, instead we got suicidal robots,\" wrote one worker from the building on Twitter.\n\nRescuers soon appeared to retrieve the fallen bot\n\n\"Steps are our best defence against the Robopocalypse,\" commented Peter Singer - author of Wired for War, a book about military robotics.\n\nIt is not the first accident involving Knightscope's patrolling robots, which are equipped with various instruments - including face-recognition systems, high-definition video capture, infrared and ultrasonic sensors.\n\nLast year, a 16-month-old toddler was run over by one of the autonomous devices in a Silicon Valley shopping centre.\n\nAnd earlier this year, a Californian man was arrested after attacking a Knightscope robot.\n\nThe man, who was drunk at the time of the incident, later said he wanted to \"test\" the machine, according to Knightscope.", "The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have visited a former concentration camp as they continue their tour of Poland.\n\nThey described their visit to Stutthof as \"shattering\", saying the site is a \"terrible reminder of the cost of war\".\n\nThe royal couple met five Holocaust survivors at the camp near Gdansk, where 65,000 people were killed by the Nazis in World War Two.\n\nThe five-day tour of Poland and Germany will see the Cambridges also visit Berlin and Heidelberg.\n\nPrince George, three, and Princess Charlotte, two, have accompanied their parents on the trip.\n\nThe Royal couple met former prisoners of the concentration camp, Manfred Goldberg and Zigi Shipper\n\nDuring their visit to Stutthof, William and Catherine met British survivors Manfred Goldberg and Zigi Shipper, both 87.\n\nAs a teenager, Mr Goldberg spent more than eight months as a slave worker in Stutthof. There he met Mr Shipper, who had previously been at Auschwitz.\n\nDays before the war ended, the camp was abandoned and prisoners were sent on a death march to the German town of Neustadt. The pair - both 15 at the time - were liberated at Neustadt on 3 May 1945. They later moved to the UK, where they remained friends.\n\nMr Goldberg said he was \"extremely nervous\" about returning to the camp, adding: \"I agonised before I agreed to come here, because I felt I'd put it all behind me.\n\n\"In 1946 when I was a youngster I was admitted to England, I didn't dream I would ever have the privilege of shaking the hand of a future King of this country.\"\n\nA message left in the visitors' book, which both the duke and duchess signed, said: \"We were intensely moved by our visit to Stutthof, which has been the scene of so much terrible pain, suffering and death.\n\n\"All of us have an overwhelming responsibility to make sure that we learn the lessons and that the horror of what happened is never forgotten and never repeated.\"\n\nThe royal couple then met Poland's first democratically-elected president, Lech Walesa, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983 for leading Solidarity - the party that helped bring to an end communism in Poland.\n\nPrince William and Catherine had a tour of the European Solidarity Centre, which represents the movement Mr Walesa championed, before laying roses at the Monument to the Fallen Shipyard Workers of 1970.\n\nThe memorial - made up of three 42m steel crosses - was unveiled in 1980, to commemorate the 44 people who died during anti-communist riots.\n\nIn Germany later this week, Chancellor Angela Merkel will hold a private meeting with the royal couple in Berlin before they visit the city's famous landmark, the Brandenburg Gate.\n\nThe duke and duchess will also visit Berlin's Holocaust museum and memorial.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince George required some gentle encouragement to leave the plane\n\nA boat race is planned in the German city of Heidelberg, which is twinned with Cambridge.\n\nWilliam and Catherine will cox opposing rowing teams in the race with crews from Cambridge and Heidelberg.\n\nOn the second day of the Polish leg of the tour, the royal couple joined a street party at Gdansk's central market square, where they were offered Goldwasser - a Gdansk liqueur - and traditional Polish pierogi dumplings.\n\nThey also visited the Gdansk Shakespeare theatre, opened in 2014, which has the Prince of Wales as patron.\n\nPrince William tastes traditional Polish dumplings on the second day of a tour of Poland\n\nWilliam and Catherine are joined by the cast of a play at the Gdansk Shakespeare theatre", "Refugee doctor Rouni Youssef with his mentor Dr Sue Jones and an elderly patient\n\nA pioneering scheme that aims to harness the skills of refugees fleeing conflict and unrest in their home countries could help boost health services in north-east England.\n\nMiddlesbrough has the highest number of asylum seekers in the UK. Around one in every 186 people in the town is seeking refugee status, well over the government guidelines of no more than one in every 200 of the local population.\n\nBut many of the refugees are skilled professionals such as doctors or pharmacists, skills that happen to be in short supply in the area.\n\nI have been to meet the foreign doctors who are participating in the scheme. Unable to practise their profession at home, they are embracing the opportunity to use their skills in an understaffed NHS.\n\nRouni Youssef, 27, picks up a patient's notes from the trolley outside the curtained cubicle and begins to thumb through the details.\n\n\"Interesting,\" he mutters to himself. \"I think we should do an MRI.\"\n\nI ask him what the day ahead on the hospital ward is looking like but Dr Youssef does not hear me. He is focused on the medical details before him, his eyes flicking feverishly over the scans like a sleuth over clues.\n\n\"Maybe some kidney malfunction here,\" he says.\n\nDr Rouni Youssef is currently on an unpaid clinical placement\n\nDr Youssef is polite and friendly towards me but I know I am holding him back from what he would rather be doing. It is, after all, what he has dreamed of doing all his life and what he has spent so many years training to do.\n\n\"I'm a Kurd from Aleppo,\" he shrugs. \"And I'm a medical doctor but it just became too unsafe to stay in Syria and in 2014, I had to flee.\n\n\"I ended up here in Middlesbrough with nothing: no friends, no family and no career. I couldn't be a doctor any more. You can't imagine how that feels. It was like someone had cut off a body part.\n\n\"I was nothing and I had to start from scratch.\"\n\nBut thanks to the scheme run by the North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Trust and a refugee charity called Investing in People and Culture, Dr Youssef once again is sporting a stethoscope around his neck.\n\nHe is currently on an unpaid clinical placement at the University Hospital of North Tees but he has just taken the second part of his Plab exams (an assessment conducted by the General Medical Council which all overseas doctors from outside the EEA must pass before they can legally practise medicine in the UK). If he passes, he will start applying for jobs in September.\n\n\"I'd love to be a consultant paediatrician,\" he admits shyly. \"Babies are such dear little creatures - they're like angels, you know?\"\n\nDr Jane Metcalf says the pilot scheme is a \"win-win situation\"\n\nDr Jane Metcalf, deputy medical director at the hospital, pops down to the ward to find out how his latest exams have gone.\n\nShe describes the Resettlement Programme For Overseas Doctors as primarily a humanitarian project to get skilled healthcare professionals back into practice but she also admits that, since the North East has a shortage of qualified doctors, it is also in the trust's interests to use their refugee resources.\n\nThe current scheme comprises 11 doctors and one pharmacist, from Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Yemen, Sudan, Pakistan and the Congo.\n\n\"It's a win-win situation,\" Dr Metcalf explains. \"Although the training is rigorous, the cost is low... to help the doctors through their exams and English tuition it's about £5,000 per doctor and when you compare that to the £250,000 it takes to train someone in the UK through medicine, it's pretty cost-effective.\n\n\"If we can get doctors like Rouni back into practice within a year that would be a tremendous achievement.\"\n\nThe biggest hurdle for the doctors though is passing the extremely high level, but requisite, English exam.\n\nIn an upstairs room at Middlesbrough library, the other doctors on the pilot scheme are learning about the inappropriate use of colloquial English in the written form.\n\nEveryone is grumbling about the finicky example on the white board which, despite being a native speaker and having a university degree in English, even makes me pause for thought.\n\nEli (L) and Ahmad (R) are among those on the scheme studying for the extremely rigorous English exam\n\nEli, a GP from Congo, has had a long and difficult battle to win refugee status and was unable to join the scheme until his asylum papers were granted. While waiting however, he volunteered for the Alzheimer's Society and is now determined to work in geriatric medicine.\n\n\"We are refugees, yes,\" he smiles. \"But we are doctors too. We don't take this opportunity for granted. Before this programme we had no road, no route. Now we have hope again. And we can give something back.\"\n\nAhmad, from Afghanistan, was just months away from completing his medical training as a specialist in paediatric orthopaedics when his life was threatened by the Taliban, forcing him and his family to flee Kabul.\n\n\"Now I'm optimistic for the future,\" he says. \"I know that one day soon I will practise my passion again.\"\n\nOutside the library I meet Bini Araia, founder of Investing in People and Culture, the charity working in partnership with North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Trust. He tells me that before the scheme's existence, many of the refugee surgeons and doctors, under pressure from their local job centre, were resigned to a life in the UK working in factories, garages or supermarkets.\n\n\"But we have a ready-made skill set!\" he tells me. \"And it's great to show with this programme that refugees can benefit UK society.\"\n\nThe programme shows refugees can benefit UK society, says IPC founder Bini Araia\n\nBack on the ward at the hospital, there are no \"baby angels\" for Dr Youssef to treat today. Instead, his mentor, consultant physician Dr Sue Jones, asks him to join her as she examines an elderly patient who has been complaining of acute hip pain. Dr Youssef jogs eagerly to the patient's bedside.\n\n\"Well hello sir!\" he beams. \"And how are you feeling today? Is it really true you're 101?\" He squats down and holds the man's hand, joking with him and reassuring him. I catch Dr Jones's eye. \"Isn't he impressive?\" she mouths delightedly.\n\nDr Metcalf wants to encourage other NHS trusts to implement the resettlement scheme for refugee doctors, something Dr Youssef welcomes.\n\n\"When I first walked back on to the ward,\" he remembers, \"it felt like I had been fasting for 18 hours and then someone gave me a sip of cold, delicious water.\"\n\nWe walk together to the Rapid Assessment clinic.\n\n\"I want to be a doctor here in Middlesbrough,\" he continues, \"because the people are so friendly.\" Then he grins.\"But the local accent here, it's a bit, um, fresh, isn't it?\"\n\nEmma Jane Kirby reports for BBC Radio 4's World at One programme.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Delta Air Lines has responded to the \"derogatory\" tirade that conservative author Ann Coulter directed at them throughout the weekend.\n\nThe right-wing pundit's ire began after she was moved from her pre-booked seat on a flight from New York to Florida.\n\nAfter landing on Saturday she began to rant to her 1.6m Twitter followers, eventually comparing Delta to fascists.\n\n\"Delta expects mutual civility throughout the entire travel experience,\" the airline hit back.\n\n\"We are sorry that the customer did not receive the seat she reserved and paid for,\" Delta said in a statement posted to its website.\n\n\"More importantly, we are disappointed that the customer has chosen to publicly attack our employees and other customers by posting derogatory and slanderous comments and photos in social media.\"\n\n\"Her actions are unnecessary and unacceptable\", continued the statement which was posted on Sunday - more than 24 hours after Ms Coulter's onslaught began.\n\nMs Coulter's more than 30 tweets include insults to the passengers, flight crew, Wifi, and corporate employees.\n\n\"So glad I took time investigate the aircraft & PRE-BOOK a specific seat on @Delta, so some woman could waltz at the last min & take my seat,\" she wrote, returning to Twitter the next morning to mockingly say the company's motto is \"How can we make your flight more uncomfortable?\".\n\nThe pundit also posted photos of the flight attendant and the woman seated in her original seat, whom she referred to as \"dachshund-legged\".\n\nDelta said that the incident happened during boarding, when staff \"inadvertently\" moved the author - whose works include In Trump We Trust and Adios America! - to a window seat from an aisle.\n\nThe company statement added that they tried to contact Ms Coulter in order to apologise and refund her the $30 (£23) cost that she paid to pre-book the seat, but did not hear back from her until Sunday night.\n\nThey add that after some initial confusion sparked by passengers asking to change seats, Ms Coulter was eventually able to take her place at the seat listed on her ticket.\n\nBut Ms Coulter insisted on Monday that the money was never the issue, saying \"30!. It cost me $10,000 of my time to pre-select the seat I wanted, investigate type of plane & go back periodically to review seat options\".\n\nMany liberal-leaning Twitter users took pleasure in Ms Coulter's incident.", "A man has died after being trapped under a large amount of rubble after the derelict church collapsed\n\nA man has died after being trapped in rubble when a church collapsed near a railway line in Cardiff.\n\nFirefighters, rescue dogs and a drone had been searching for the man in the wreckage of the derelict church in Splott, which collapsed at about 14:50 BST.\n\nTwo people escaped from the building - which was being demolished - and were treated for minor injures.\n\nSouth Wales Fire and Rescue Service workers are trying to recover the body.\n\nGareth Davies, area manager for SWFRS, said the man had been trapped under a large amount of rubble.\n\nHe said: \"As a service, we wish to extend our sympathies to the individual's family at this very sad time.\"\n\nCardiff demolition firm Young Contractors, which has been working on the derelict church for about three weeks, confirmed none of its staff were on the site at the time.\n\nA report, prepared for Cardiff council in June 2016 ahead of work to replace a bridge nearby as part of rail upgrades, described the building as a \"dangerous structure\" at risk of \"imminent collapse\".\n\nReport authors Bruton Knowles warned part of the building close to the railway line was unstable and needed to be stabilised or it may \"fall\" and damage the tracks.\n\nCardiff council leader Huw Thomas said questions would have to be asked as to how the building got into the state it did, adding it had been \"left to deteriorate for decades\".\n\nAs the building collapsed a warning was sent to a train heading towards the scene, but the driver did not report anything \"untoward\" on the line, Network Rail said.\n\nHowever, South Wales Police has since confirmed scaffolding was on the tracks.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Firefighter Gareth Davies said crews worked in a very \"challenging environment\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Cardiff council leader Huw Thomas says questions over the state of the church must be asked\n\nOfficers have taped off part of Pearl Street close to the derelict church.\n\nAll trains were initially cancelled between Cardiff and Newport, but two lines have now reopened. Limited services are in operation as a precautionary measure.\n\nNetwork Rail warned commuters rail services across the network could be affected following the incident.\n\nA Network Rail spokesman said: \"We are working with our partners, Arriva Trains Wales, Great Western Railway and Cross Country, to update passengers as and when more information becomes available.\"\n\nCardiff Central MP Jo Stevens tweeted: \"This is awful news from #Adamsdown my thoughts are with the victim's family & friends\".\n\nThe Evac emergency alert phone app - which provides information about major incidents, fires, floods and terrorist attacks - warned users all main train lines between the capital and Newport were closed.\n\nSouth Wales Police has asked people to avoid the area", "Consumers are no longer to be charged extra for paying by debit or credit card, the government has said.\n\nFrom January next year, businesses will not be allowed to add any surcharges for card payments.\n\nThe worst offenders currently are airlines and food delivery apps, and small businesses which typically add a fee for cards.\n\nIn 2010 alone consumers spent £473m on such charges, according to estimates by the Treasury.\n\nIt follows a directive from the European Union, which bans surcharges on Visa and Mastercard payments.\n\nHowever the government has gone further than the directive, by also banning charges on American Express and Paypal too.\n\nCampaigners welcomed the move, saying it was great news for consumers.\n\nAt the moment those booking airline tickets with credit cards pay an extra 3% with Flybe, with a minimum payment of £5.\n\nHowever Flybe has already promised to get rid of the minimum payment, and cut its charges.\n\nRyanair said it would comply with any changes in the law.\n\nFlybe has already promised to cut card surcharges\n\nSeveral airlines, including Monarch and British Airways, have reduced their charges in the last year.\n\nTake-away food apps are also amongst the highest-charging businesses, the Treasury said.\n\nBoth Hungryhouse and Just Eat add 50p to the bill for paying by card, although in some cases the charge may be paid by the restaurant.\n\nOn a £10 bill, that amounts to 5%.\n\nMany local authorities also levy charges of around 2.5%. The DVLA - which charges a flat fee of £2.50 for a card -will also have to change its card payment policy.\n\nSince 2012, it has made £42m from such fees. HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) charges up to 0.6% for payment by credit card.\n\nThe change in the law is likely to mean some companies will simply put up their prices, to cover the extra costs they bear with card payments.\n\nBanks typically charge large retailers between 10p and 20p for each debit card transaction, or 0.6% for credit cards.\n\n\"Maybe they will bump the price up,\" said James Daley, the managing director of Fairer Finance, which has been campaigning for the change.\n\n\"That's fair game. You have to take customers' money somehow. And it's not reasonable to add that cost on at the end of the process.\n\nWhy not put it in the headline price?\"\n\nThere is also a question as to how the ban will be policed. Under the Consumer Rights Regulations, businesses are only allowed to charge a sum that reflects their own costs in processing a transaction.\n\nBut Mr Daley said many businesses are in breach of the regulations.\n\nSome small shops charge a fee for the use of a card - but they are also have to pay more to the banks for processing such transactions.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUS President Donald Trump and Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin had another, previously undisclosed conversation at this month's G20, the White House has confirmed.\n\nThey spoke towards the end of a formal dinner but the White House has not revealed what was discussed.\n\nPresident Trump has condemned media revelations of the talks as \"sick\".\n\nThe two leaders' relationship is under scrutiny amid allegations of Russian interference in the US election.\n\nUS intelligence agencies believe Moscow tried to tip the election in Mr Trump's favour, something denied by Russia. Mr Trump has rejected allegations of any collusion.\n\nThe extra conversation happened during a private meal of heads of state at the G20 summit in Hamburg earlier in the month.\n\nThe Kremlin said at the time that the two leaders had had \"an opportunity to continue their discussion during the dinner\", but the extent of the meeting was not known.\n\nMr Trump left his seat and headed to Mr Putin, who had been sitting next to Mr Trump's wife, Melania, US media said. The US president was alone with Mr Putin, apart from the attendance of the Russian president's official interpreter.\n\nMr Trump had been seated next to Japanese PM Shinzo Abe's wife, so the US interpreter at the dinner spoke Japanese, not Russian. No media were in attendance.\n\nGiven the poor state of relations between Washington and Moscow and the controversy surrounding Russia's efforts to interfere with the US presidential campaign, each and every encounter between Mr Putin and Mr Trump is bound to be carefully scrutinised.\n\nThus the apparently impromptu discussion between the two men at the G20 dinner inevitably raises many questions. What was President Trump seeking to do in approaching the Russian president? Were matters of substance discussed? If so, why was no formal note taken? And why did the US president have to rely upon a Russian official for translation?\n\nThis is all highly unusual, especially at a time when relations between the two countries are laden with so many problems.\n\nMr Trump also appeared unaware of another dimension - the message that his tete-a-tete would send to other leaders in the room, who must have watched the US president's gambit with some unease.\n\nMr Trump's spokesperson Sarah Sanders told reporters at the White House on Wednesday that the dinner was part of the president's publicly released schedule.\n\n\"You guys came and took pictures of it,\" she told journalists. \"It wasn't like this was some sort of hidden dinner. To act as if this was some secret is just absolutely absurd.\"\n\nKremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the two leaders had \"exchanged opinions and phrases in the margins of the visit on more than one occasion\".\n\n\"There were no covert or secret meetings. It is absolutely absurd to claim this,\" he was quoted as saying by Russia's TASS news agency.\n\nMr Peskov also mocked the notion that the subject of a conversation between the two men could have been kept secret, saying that is a \"manifestation of schizophrenia\".\n\nThe length of the talks has been disputed.\n\nIan Bremmer, president of the US-based Eurasia Group, who first reported them in a newsletter to clients, said: \"Donald Trump got up from the table and sat down with Putin for about an hour. It was very animated and very friendly.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What Trump said of his first, formal meeting with Putin\n\nNo-one else was nearby, so the topics of discussion were not known, he said.\n\nMr Bremmer had not been at the dinner but said details were given to him by unnamed attendees who, he said, were \"flummoxed, confused and startled\" by the turn of events.\n\n\"At summit meetings you have little 'pull-asides' between heads of state to discuss business all the time - a one-hour pull-aside is highly unusual in any context,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"A one-hour pull-aside between Putin and Trump where only the Kremlin translator is there, where we don't know what's discussed, given the uniqueness of the US-Russia relationship... makes the [US] president, surprisingly and disturbingly, not credible.\"\n\nIn a statement, a senior White House official said there was no \"second meeting\", just a brief conversation after dinner.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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. Trump 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 official said: \"The insinuation that the White House has tried to 'hide' a second meeting is false, malicious and absurd. It is not merely perfectly normal, it is part of a president's duties, to interact with world leaders.\"\n\nNational Security Council spokesman Michael Anton said: \"A conversation over dessert should not be characterised as a meeting.\"\n\nMr Trump later said on Twitter: \"Fake News story of secret dinner with Putin is 'sick.' All G20 leaders, and spouses, were invited by the Chancellor of Germany. Press knew!\"\n\nThe dinner and its attendees have always been known. Only the Trump-Putin discussion had not been reported before.\n\nAt the dinner, Mr Trump's wife, Melania, sat next to Mr Putin\n\nAt the earlier, formal meeting, their first face-to-face encounter, Mr Trump said he had repeatedly pressed Mr Putin about the allegations of interference in the US vote.\n\n\"I said, 'Did you do it?' He said, 'No, I did not, absolutely not.' I then asked him a second time, in a totally different way. He said, 'Absolutely not.'\"\n\nThere are congressional investigations, and one by a special counsel, into the allegations of Russian interference in the US election and possible collusion with the Trump team.\n\nOn Tuesday, the Senate intelligence committee said it wanted to interview Mr Trump's son, Donald Jr, and other members of the Trump team, over a meeting they had with a Russian lawyer in June last year.\n\nMr Trump Jr said he had attended the meeting with Natalia Veselnitskaya as he was promised damaging material on Hillary Clinton, but it did not materialise.\n\nOn Wednesday, Ms Veselnitskaya told Russia's RT television channel she would be willing to testify before the Senate on the matter.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Commander in tweets: What we can learn from Trump's Twitter\n\nMeanwhile, the White House said Mr Trump would nominate former Utah governor Jon Huntsman as ambassador to Russia, a key post for a president who promised to improve relations with Moscow.\n\nMr Huntsman, who served as ambassador to China and Singapore, needs to have his name confirmed by the Senate.\n\nThe suspicions over Russian interference are likely to play a significant factor in his confirmation process, correspondents say.", "Bernhard Tschannen shows where the bodies were found in the ice\n\nA shrinking glacier in Switzerland has revealed two frozen bodies believed to be of a couple who went missing 75 years ago, Swiss media report.\n\nMarcelin and Francine Dumoulin disappeared at a height of 2,600m (8,530ft) after going to tend to their cows in the Alps in August 1942.\n\nThey were farmers whose seven children never gave up hope of finding them.\n\nTheir youngest daughter, 79, said she was now planning to give her parents the funeral they deserved.\n\nMr and Mrs Dumoulin were never found despite extensive searches.\n\n\"We spent our whole lives looking for them,\" Marceline Udry-Dumoulin told Lausanne daily Le Matin.\n\n\"I can say that after 75 years of waiting this news gives me a deep sense of calm.\"\n\nA DNA test will be conducted in several days' time, police say.\n\nLocal police said the bodies were discovered last week on Tsanfleuron glacier, above the Les Diablerets resort, by a worker from ski-lift company, Glacier 3000.\n\nDirector Bernhard Tschannen said his employee found some backpacks, tin bowls and a glass bottle, as well as male and female shoes, and part of a body under the ice.\n\nValais police said in a statement that a book, a backpack and a watch had been taken to Lausanne for forensic analysis.\n\nMr Tschannen said that it was likely the couple had fallen into a crevasse and the way they were dressed implied that they could have been there for 70 or 80 years.\n\n\"The bodies were lying near each other. It was a man and a woman wearing clothing dating from the period of World War Two,\" he told Le Matin.\n\nThe weathered belongings of Marcelin and Francine Dumoulin were also found on the Tsanfleuron glacier alongside their bodies\n\nMs Udry-Dumoulin said her mother, a teacher, rarely went on such walks with her husband, a shoemaker, because she spent much of her adult life pregnant and it was difficult terrain.\n\nShe said that she had never given up hoping that one day she would find her parents, even climbing the glacier three times to look for them.\n\nWithin two months of the disappearance of her parents, she and her siblings were placed with different families, and lost contact over the years.\n\nShe told Le Matin that she wanted to hold a long-awaited funeral, but would not wear black.\n\n\"I think that white would be more appropriate. It represents hope, which I never lost,\" she said.\n\nThe bodies of a number of missing climbers have been discovered in the Alps in recent years.\n\nClimatologists say a rise in global temperatures is causing the ice to recede, revealing the corpses of those missing for decades.", "The government has set out an ambitious plan to make England, in effect, smoke-free in the next few decades.\n\nThe new Tobacco Control Plan aims to slash smoking rates from 15.5% to 12% of the population by 2022, paving the way to a smoke-free generation.\n\nIf national smoking rates continue to fall, this generation of non-smokers could be achieved by 2030, says charity Action on Smoking and Health (Ash).\n\nHealth officials say smoking currently kills 200 people a day in England.\n\nSmoking rates in England are at the lowest level since records began.\n\nBut the Department of Health says there is still much further to go.\n\nIt has sets out a range of targets:\n\nCommenting on the proposals, Deborah Arnott, the chief executive of Ash, said: \"The vision of a smoke-free generation it sets out is a welcome step-change in ambition from the last Tobacco Control Plan for England and should be achievable by 2030.\"\n\nBut she warned that the success of the plan - which emphasises local over national action - was threatened by \"severe government cuts in public health funding\".\n\nThere is no new money to achieve this plan and no penalties for local areas that fail to meet the targets.\n\nAnd smoking rates remain stubbornly high in some regions, particularly among the lowest earners.\n\nPublic Health England's chief executive Duncan Selbie said the country was at a \"pivotal point\" where the end was in sight and a smoke-free generation a reality.\n\nBut he added: \"The final push, reaching the most vulnerable and disadvantaged, will undoubtedly be the hardest.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Simon Clark, director of the smokers' group Forest, called on ministers to \"stop lecturing\" people.\n\nHe said: \"The most important stakeholder is the consumer, yet they are routinely ignored by the government. Ministers should stop lecturing smokers and engage with them.\"\n\nPublic health minister, Steve Brine, said: \"Smoking continues to kill hundreds of people a day in England, and we know the harms fall on some of the poorest and most vulnerable people in our society.\n\n\"That is why we are targeting prevention and local action to address the variation in smoking rates in our society, educate people about the risks and support them to quit for good.\"\n\nOne of the areas the government's plan focuses on is cutting smoking rates in pregnancy, partly by calling on local areas to appoint smoke-free pregnancy \"champions\".\n\nIt comes as the Smoking in Pregnancy Challenge Group - which includes academic institutions and charities- says pregnant women who find it hard to quit should be encouraged to try e-cigarettes as an alternative.\n\nProf Linda Bauld, chairwoman of the group, told the BBC: \"Smoking in pregnancy is uniquely harmful. It causes 2,000 premature births, 5,000 miscarriages and 300 deaths of babies every year in the UK.\n\n\"So if somebody is struggling to stop, let us be open about that, let us talk about all the options.\n\n\"If a woman is really struggling and wants to use e-cigarettes, then from what we know to date in the UK, we shouldn't be preventing those women from using them.\"\n• None How has smoking ban changed the UK?\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Guardian says the £1.3bn committed to schools in England was intended to head off a revolt from Tory MPs who think the issue of school funding cost the party its majority.\n\nThe paper says the announcement was designed to \"placate\" schools and teachers before their summer holiday but has left many MPs - including Conservatives - concerned about unfairness.\n\nIn his parliamentary sketch in the Daily Telegraph, Michael Deacon asks what on earth the Department for Education had been doing that it could now save £1.3bn through \"efficiencies\".\n\n\"A gold plated departmental water cooler?\" he wonders, or \"printers with ink made from unicorns' blood?\".\n\nThe paper's editorial says a revised funding formula for schools was inevitable given the political pressures but that success does not come through money alone and rigorous checks on spending are needed.\n\nThe Sun says it is right that schools get the money they need but without blowing billions which the country does not have.\n\nThe Times reports on \"raised eyebrows\" in Brussels that Brexit Secretary David Davis took part in less than an hour of talks with the EU.\n\nThe Guardian says his swift departure prompted suggestions that the government's parliamentary weakness was impeding the talks, adding that EU officials have feared since the election that the lack of a majority in the Commons could hinder Brexit negotiations.\n\nBritish officials insisted Mr Davis had always intended to leave after a meet-and-greet with his opposite number Michel Barnier.\n\nWith all these issues, questions of government in-fighting lurk close behind.\n\nThe Daily Mirror says Tory squabbles have \"exploded into all-out war\" in which the country will be the loser.\n\nThe Times warns government ministers that \"careless talk\" and \"recklessness\" could open the way for Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nIt says Philip Hammond has been strengthened by the election result, with his focus on a Brexit that protects the economy, and says cabinet colleagues should listen to him instead of seeing \"a minor irritant in the path of the Brexit juggernaut\".\n\nConcern about general election fraud is uppermost in the mind of the Daily Mail.\n\nIt leads with an investigation into what the Electoral Commission called \"troubling\" evidence that some students had voted twice in the election because they could easily register at their home address and their term-time address.\n\nThe paper's editorial warns of \"the growing stench of fraud\" and says this \"glaring loop-hole\" in election law should be closed.\n\nPrince George is featured on many of the front pages in what the Times calls a \"stubborn mood\" during his visit to Poland.\n\nThe Telegraph says he was reluctant to perform his royal duties and he had to be persuaded to walk down the red carpet.\n\nBut the headline writers in the Mirror and the Daily Express are in forgiving mood - for them he was \"His Royal Shyness\".\n\nThe Express says the prince may not have intended it but his nerves will turn out to be \"a diplomatic triumph\".", "With rumour swirling, gossip in the air about the cabinet, it is hard to work out what is really going on. Since Mrs May didn't really win the prize she was expecting, ministers have become an unruly lot. Tomorrow, they're all going to get a telling off (with apologies to the truth).\n\nDavid wants her job, although he says that he doesn't and isn't thinking about it, it's only his friends getting excited.\n\nBoris wants the job too, although he says he doesn't want it yet, and guess what, it's only his friends getting a bit excited.\n\nThis excitement sometimes involves those friends saying rude things about the other one.\n\nNeither of them, nor any of their friends, want Philip to get the job.\n\nSome of Philip's friends want him to get the job, but maybe he's not so sure. What he really wants is to stay in charge of the money, whoever has the big job.\n\nBoris wants Theresa's job but not yet (he says)\n\nPhilip doesn't trust or like Michael very much.\n\nNeither, really, does Theresa like Michael very much. But lots of people think he is clever and he likes Brexit.\n\nSo does Boris, who used to like Michael a lot.\n\nThen Michael was really mean to Boris and it hurt his feelings a lot. They'll probably never go to each other's houses again for dinner but they may not quite feel like poisoning the other's dinner.\n\nThen there's Liam, who also likes Brexit a lot.\n\nHe likes running for the big job. He says he doesn't want that opportunity to come up, but if it does, he might well have another go because he likes doing it so much.\n\nThere's also Andrea, who smiles a lot and likes Brexit, a lot. She didn't really enjoy going for the big job last time, but if it happens again, the chance to run again might make her smile, a lot.\n\nThen there's the newer gang, like Priti, who also likes Brexit and might like to try for the big job one day.\n\nSo might Sajid, who doesn't really like Brexit that much, but might want to join in the big race too.\n\nAnd don't forget Amber, who Philip and David are apparently trying to get into their gang - but it's tricky because she doesn't like Brexit and could also fancy having a go at the top post too one day, although she'd probably need to make a few more friends in her home town.\n\nAnd there's Patrick, who didn't like Brexit either. No one really wants to be friends with him at the moment. He was meant to be in charge of trying to win the big prize but that didn't quite go according to plan.\n\nThen there are Greg, Karen, Justine, Michael number two, David number two, Jeremy,David number three, Alun and yes, David number four.\n\nNone of them really like Brexit very much.\n\nMost of them (apart from David number three) would also like Philip (remember him?) to write some bigger cheques for their departments.\n\nBut he isn't really in the mood to do that, remember. He wants to stay in charge of the money, whoever has the big job.\n\nThen there is James, who also didn't like the idea of Brexit but has an almost even harder project in Belfast.\n\nThere are also Liz and Brandon. She used to have to worry about cheese, he now has to worry about immigration.\n\nNeither of them really liked Brexit either but are, you guessed it \"getting on with the job\".\n\nAnd Chris, who really loves the idea of Brexit and is in charge of trains. He says he doesn't want Philip or Boris or David (number one) to be making trouble.\n\nThere's also Natalie, who has to explain to another lot who get to wear red velvet cloaks (honest) what all of the above are trying to achieve. (That's a good question)\n\nThen there is Damien, who really didn't like the idea of Brexit but who is really important because Theresa isn't cross with him.\n\nIn fact, she trusts him and my goodness, that doesn't happen very often.\n\nLast of course there is Theresa who, while being cross with this lot, is probably still cross with herself, and most likely peeved with Nick and Fi, but that's another story.\n\nThe public might well think they all must try much harder.", "Edmund Smith created the boots for Billy Connolly in 1975\n\nThe BBC has upheld a complaint from the daughter of a Scottish artist after Jeremy Paxman gave the wrong answer to a question on University Challenge.\n\nThe quiz show host incorrectly attributed Billy Connolly's banana boots to artist John Byrne rather than their true creator Edmund Smith.\n\nGlasgow pop artist Smith made the size 9 bananas for the comedian in 1975.\n\nThe BBC said it had drawn the \"oversight\" to the attention of the programme's producers.\n\nThe error was made during a Christmas celebrity special of the quiz show, broadcast on 27 December 2016.\n\nDuring the semi final, presenter Jeremy Wade, journalist Shiulie Ghosh and Prof Jamie Angus - for the University of Kent - were asked by Paxman: \"Born in Paisley in 1940, which artist and playwright designed Billy Connolly's banana boots and wrote the 'Slab Boys trilogy' for the theatre and the series Tutti Frutti for television?\"\n\nTo which Paxman responded: \"Funny answer, but not right. John Byrne\".\n\nThe University of Kent team featured Jeremy Wade, Shiulie Ghosh, Paul Ross and Prof Jamie Angus\n\nThe BBC acknowledged that the answer was wrong and conceded that the correct information was widely available, including from the biography of Billy Connolly, written by his wife Pamela Stephenson.\n\nIn a ruling from the Complaints Unit, the BBC said: \"The daughter of Edmund Smith complained that the answer was incorrect, her father having designed and made the boots in question.\n\n\"Evidence from several sources, including a detailed account of the matter in Pamela Stephenson's biography of Billy Connolly, confirmed that the boots had been designed and made by Edmund Smith.\n\n\"The executive producer responsible for oversight of the series drew the finding to the attention of the independent production company which makes it.\"\n\nEdmund Smith's banana boots are currently on display at the People's Palace Museum at Glasgow Green.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Justine Greening said every school in England would benefit\n\nSchools in England are being promised an extra £1.3bn over two years, as the government responded to pressure from campaigns over funding shortages.\n\nBut the cash for schools will be taken from elsewhere in the education budget, such as spending on free schools.\n\nThe Institute for Fiscal Studies says it represents a real-terms freeze on school budgets for the next two years.\n\nEducation Secretary Justine Greening told MPs she recognised there was public concern over school funding.\n\nMs Greening told the House of Commons this \"significant investment\" would help to \"raise standards, promote social mobility and to give every child the best possible education\".\n\nBut Labour's shadow education secretary, Angela Rayner, said: \"This is all being funded without a penny of new money from the Treasury.\n\n\"They are not committing any new money and have not been clear about exactly what programmes they will be cutting to plug the funding back hole.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Angela Rayner: \"They've taken with one hand and put it in with the other\"\n\nBut Jules White, a West Sussex head teacher who co-ordinated a campaign over funding shortages, said: \"The government finally appears to be listening.\"\n\nBut he cautioned that any increase would need to keep up with \"rising pupil numbers and inflationary costs\".\n\nGeoff Barton, leader of the ASCL head teachers' union, said this was a \"step in the right direction and an acknowledgment of the huge level of concern around the country on this issue\".\n\nBut he said schools would still have to see the implications of the money being \"saved from elsewhere in the education budget\".\n\nChris Keates leader of the NASUWT teachers' union called Ms Greening's statement \"a recycled announcement of recycled money\".\n\nJo Yurky, who headed a parents' campaign over funding, said this was \"positive news\" and an \"amazing turn-around\" in attitude from ministers, but pressure needed to be kept up on protecting funding.\n\nA joint statement from the NUT and ATL teachers' unions accused the government of \"smoke and mirrors\".\n\n\"Whilst any extra money is welcome this isn't enough to stop the huge cuts that schools are making,\" said the teachers' unions.\n\nSchool funding became a major issue during the general election, with school leaders and teachers' unions warning that budget shortages would mean cuts to staffing and subjects.\n\nA protest over school funding cuts was held in London at the weekend\n\nThey pointed to evidence from the National Audit Office and the Institute for Fiscal Studies, which warned of £3bn funding gap and schools facing an 8% real-terms budget cut.\n\nDuring the election, the Conservatives had promised an extra £1bn per year, which on top of planned increases, would have meant the core schools budget rising by about £4bn in 2021-22.\n\nMost of this extra funding was going to come from scrapping free meals for all infants, a policy which was subsequently ditched.\n\nUnder the plans announced by Ms Greening on Monday, the overall core schools budget will rise by £2.6bn between 2017-18 and 2019-20.\n\nAll schools will receive at least an increase of 0.5% in cash terms.\n\nThe Liberal Democrat education spokeswoman Layla Moran said: \"This is a desperate attempt to pull the wool over people's eyes.\n\n\"Schools are still facing cuts to their budgets once inflation and increasing class sizes are taken into account.\"\n\nAs well as concerns about the overall amount of money available, there has been controversy over how it is divided between individual schools.\n\nA new National Funding Formula was announced by education secretary Justine Greening before Christmas.\n\nMs Greening said the new formula would go ahead and would address unfair and inconsistent levels of funding.\n\nUnder the new arrangements, from 2018-19, the minimum funding per secondary pupil would be set at £4,800 per year.\n\nFor many years there have been complaints that schools in different parts of the country were receiving different levels of per pupil funding.\n\nDetails of an updated version of the formula, with budgets for individual schools, are being promised for the autumn.", "R Kelly has been accused of sexual misconduct before but was not found guilty\n\nR&B singer R Kelly has denied allegations that he is holding several young women in an \"abusive cult\".\n\nThe singer's lawyer said he would work \"diligently and forcibly to pursue his accusers and clear his name\".\n\nA BuzzFeed report accuses the singer of brainwashing women, who got closer to him in an effort to boost their musical careers.\n\nOne of the women said she was \"not being brainwashed\". Kelly denies any wrongdoing.\n\nHe has faced previous accusations of sexual misconduct, but was never found guilty.\n\nThe report, which quoted three unnamed sets of parents, said they had not seen or spoken with their daughters for months, and that the women, all of them over the age of consent, had their routines controlled by the singer.\n\nThat included rules about what they could eat and wear, when to bathe and sleep and how to engage in sexual encounters recorded by him, they said.\n\nOne of the women, Joycelyn Savage, 21, told the TMZ website she was not in a cult.\n\nIn a video posted hours after the allegations emerged, she said: \"I'm in a happy place in my life. I'm not being brainwashed or anything like that.\" She added that the issue had \"definitely got out of hand\".\n\nThree former members of Kelly's inner circle were also interviewed, saying that six women lived in properties managed by the singer in similar conditions.\n\nIf they broke the \"rules\", they said, the women could be punished physically and verbally by the singer, according to the report.\n\nSome of the parents reported their concerns to the police, but the women said they were not being held against their will.\n\nThe singer's lawyer, Linda Mensch, said in a statement: \"Robert Kelly is both alarmed and disturbed at the recent revelations attributed to him. Mr Kelly unequivocally denies such allegations.\"\n\nBuzzFeed has said it is standing by its reporting.\n\nIn 2008, R Kelly was acquitted of 14 charges of making child pornography after a videotape emerged allegedly showing him having sex with a 14-year-old girl.\n\nKelly is one of the most successful R&B artists of all time, with 40 million records sold worldwide. His best known hits include I Believe I Can Fly and Ignition (Remix).", "When Carolyn McCall announced that she was moving from the Guardian Media Group to become chief executive of EasyJet, rival Ryanair's Michael O'Leary dismissed her as a media luvvie.\n\nWith her new post at ITV, which she will take up early next year, Mr O'Leary can happily call her a media luvvie again, although her track record shows her capabilities spread far more widely.\n\nHer first six months in the job in 2010 were enough to make anyone match fit.\n\nThose saw three of the aviation industry's biggest headaches: volcanic ash clouds, a spike in the oil price and an air traffic controllers strike.\n\nBut there's little in her early years that would suggest her as an establishment candidate whose career would read like a perfectly mapped flight path through some of the UK's best-known boardrooms, including Lloyds TSB, Tesco, Burberry and New Look.\n\nShe once described herself as a \"coaster\" at school, and rather middling as a school student, and claims she never had a plan for her career.\n\nBorn in Bangalore, in Southern India in 1961, she completed much of her schooling there before moving to the UK, attending school in Matlock in Derbyshire before going on to university at Canterbury in Kent.\n\nAfter that she almost became a teacher, doing her training at Holland Park Comprehensive in London, one of the most notorious of its time for its mixed demographic and free-thinking ethos. That experience seemed to have served to make her own appetite for education stronger and she went for a master's degree in politics from the University of London.\n\nHer first job was at builders Costain, but she was strongly drawn towards the media.\n\nTo her delight she applied for and became a research planner at the Guardian in 1986, where her boss, a woman, shocked her by saying she could become the group's chief executive.\n\nBy 2000, she had risen through the commercial ranks to become chief executive of the newspaper business, Guardian News & Media, and in 2006 she took the helm of the parent company.\n\nManagement Today magazine called her: \"One of the toughest operators to have risen through the Guardian Media Group's ranks.\"\n\nOne of her landmark achievements there in 2005 was to take the paper from a Daily Telegraph-sized broadsheet to the pioneering, smaller Berliner format at an expense that raised eyebrows. But she also was involved at the start of the digital version of the Guardian.\n\nDuring her time at EasyJet, passenger numbers have almost doubled.\n\nShe has also doubled the number of female applicants to become pilots under the Amy Johnson initiative.\n\nOn a more prosaic level, she is known for mucking in with the flight crew when flying, helping to clear up the rubbish while getting to know the staff and their concerns.\n\nHer interest in supporting the progress of women is underlined by her naming one of her three children after political activist Emmeline Pankhurst, who helped women win the right to vote.\n\nShe is one of just a handful of female chief executives in the top 100 companies.\n\nShe was named Veuve Clicquot Business Woman of the Year in April 2008, was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to women in business, was awarded a damehood in the New Year Honours list for services to the aviation industry and on top of that has been given France's highest merit, the Legion d'Honneur.", "The cabinet has been posing for an official photo\n\nTheresa May would have the backing of Tory MPs if she sacked disloyal ministers for plotting and briefing, a senior backbencher says.\n\nCharles Walker, vice-chairman of the backbench 1922 Committee, told ministers to \"stop chattering away\".\n\nEarlier the prime minister told her cabinet to show \"strength and unity\" as she attempted to stem recent leaks.\n\nAnd Defence Secretary Sir Michael Fallon called for the military virtues of \"loyalty, cohesion and discipline\".\n\nSpeaking at an event organised by the Policy Exchange think tank on Tuesday evening, Sir Michael urged the cabinet to \"concentrate their fire\" on Jeremy Corbyn, whom he described as a \"dangerous enemy in reach of Downing Street\".\n\nAt the same time, he said his party needed to make traditional Conservative arguments for \"lower taxation, for honest public financing, for wider opportunity, enterprise and ownership\".\n\nMrs May's attempt to instil discipline follows a sustained outbreak of cabinet leaks and leadership gossip.\n\nNumber 10 said press briefings were a case of colleagues not taking their responsibilities seriously.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 4's The World at One, Mr Walker said that aside from a few \"outliers\", the party was united behind Mrs May - adding that those plotting were \"not doing themselves any favours at all\".\n\nThe defence secretary has issued a warning to his colleagues\n\n\"I do not care about people's personal ambitions,\" he said.\n\n\"If the prime minister has to start removing secretaries of state because they are not focusing on their job, they are focusing on their own personal ambitions, so be it.\n\n\"And she will have the support of the 1922 Committee.\"\n\nAccording to her spokesman, the PM told cabinet at its regular Tuesday meeting: \"There's a need to show strength and unity as a country and that starts around the cabinet table.\"\n\nTuesday's cabinet meeting was the last before the summer recess\n\nForeign Secretary Boris Johnson was among those at Downing Street\n\nTrade Secretary Liam Fox, seen arriving with Environment Secretary Michael Gove, has said he \"deplores\" leaks\n\nOn Monday she told Tory MPs to end the \"backbiting\" over disagreements within the party.\n\nAt a summer reception for backbench Tory MPs on the House of Commons terrace on Monday, Mrs May told the party \"no backbiting, no carping\".\n\nThe choice, she said, is \"me or Jeremy Corbyn... and nobody wants that\".\n\nGo away over the summer for a \"proper break\", she told MPs, and \"come back ready for serious business\".\n\nSpeaking on BBC Breakfast, Home Secretary Amber Rudd said media reports of splits and negative briefings did not reflect her experience in cabinet.\n\nShe said Mrs May was \"absolutely right\" to tell ministers that \"what is said in the cabinet should stay in the cabinet\".\n\nThe PM's plea to her party for unity comes after she lost her Commons majority when her snap general election gamble backfired.\n\nHostile briefings in the press over the weekend appeared to show a growing rift in the cabinet.\n\nOn Sunday, Chancellor Philip Hammond suggested colleagues opposed to his approach to Brexit had been briefing against him, following press reports of his cabinet remarks on public sector pay.\n\nDuring Treasury questions in the Commons, Mr Hammond dismissed Lord Heseltine's claim - raised by Labour - that he was \"enfeebled\".\n\n\"I don't feel particularly enfeebled,\" he said.", "A police helicopter was used to film two people \"brazenly\" having sex in their garden, a court heard.\n\nThe trial of two South Yorkshire Police officers and two pilots has begun at Sheffield Crown Court.\n\nMatthew Lucas, 42, Lee Walls, 47, Matthew Loosemore, 45, and Malcolm Reeves, 64, all deny misconduct in a public office.\n\nOn other occasions people sunbathing naked and naturists at a campsite were filmed, the court was told.\n\nRichard Wright QC prosecuting, said the crew used their \"unique viewing position [and] powerful video camera\" to film people \"in a gross violation of privacy.\"\n\nThe court heard that five people were filmed sunbathing naked, as well as naturists on a campsite, and a couple having sex in their garden.\n\nFormer police officer Adrian Pogmore has previously admitted four charges of misconduct in a public office\n\nPilots Mr Reeves, of Farfield Avenue, Knaresborough, North Yorkshire, denies two counts of misconduct in a public office, and Mr Loosemore, of Briar Close, Auckley, Doncaster, denies one count.\n\nPolice officers Mr Walls, of Southlands Way, Aston, Sheffield, denies one count, and Mr Lucas, of Coppice Rise, Chapeltown, Sheffield, denies three counts.\n\nA fifth man, former police officer Adrian Pogmore, 50, of Whiston in Rotherham, has admitted four charges of misconduct in a public office.\n\nFootage showed a couple having sex on their patio in July 2008 and at one point the naked woman waves at the aircraft.\n\nThe court was told the crew used a powerful video camera to film people\n\nMr Wright said the couple shared Pogmore's interest in swinging and added it was \"no coincidence\" that the helicopter flew above \"while they brazenly put on a show.\"\n\nThe accused deny the charges and, \"in short\", blame Pogmore for what happened, Mr Wright said.\n\nA couple sitting naked by a caravan were also filmed unawares in July 2008, and the aircraft filmed a garden where a woman was sunbathing naked with her daughters in 2007.\n\nThe court heard the woman felt the filming was \"a complete and utter violation of my privacy\" and added: \"It makes me feel sick to think that this took place.\"\n\nIn 2012 other naked sunbathers were filmed, the jury were told.\n\nStatements from all except the couple filmed having sex on the patio - who did not make a statement to police - said their privacy had been invaded.\n\nMr Wright told the court it was a \"gross waste of valuable resource\".\n\nThe trial continues and is expected to last three weeks.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "\"It was a pleasure to have President Ashraf Ghani of Afghanistan with us this morning!\" President Ghani and Mr Trump shake hands before a meeting in New York (AFP) Afghanistan has been near the top of every president's in-tray since US forces invaded the country in 2001. \n\n\n\nOn the campaign trail, Mr Trump repeatedly described the war in Afghanistan as a \"disaster\" and talked about pulling the remaining 10,000 or so US troops out of the country. \n\n\n\nBack in 2013, he tweeted: \"We have wasted an enormous amount of blood and treasure in Afghanistan. Their government has zero appreciation. Let's get out!\"\n\n\n\nBut in September 2017, he agreed to send 3,000 extra troops to bolster the US contingent there as the Taliban gained ground and security deteriorated. \n\n\n\nEarlier that year, the US used the largest non-nuclear bomb ever deployed in combat, targeting a tunnel complex near Afghanistan's border with Pakistan that was said to have been used by the so-called Islamic State group (IS).\n\n\n\nAround 100 IS militants were thought to have been killed in the huge blast and President Trump praised his armed forces for \"another successful job\". \n\n\n\nAfghan officials said the attack had been carried out in co-ordination with the government in Kabul, but former President Hamid Karzai said the country should not be used as a \"testing ground for new and dangerous weapons\". \n\n\n\nMr Trump and Mr Ghani met during the UN General Assembly in September 2017 to discuss their commitment to combating terrorism and improving economic development opportunities for American companies in Afghanistan.\n\n\"Great talk with my friend President Mauricio Macri of Argentina this week. He is doing such a good job for Argentina. I support his vision for transforming his country's economy\" Argentina's President Mauricio Macri is a relative newcomer to politics, but his relationship with Donald Trump dates back decades to when he and his father were doing business in 1980s New York.\n\n\n\nThat relationship came under scrutiny when Mr Macri called the US president-elect in November 2016 to congratulate him on his victory.\n\n\n\nAccording to reports in Argentina, Mr Trump asked the Argentine president for help with a stalled building project by one of his companies in Buenos Aires - a claim both men denied. \n\n\n\nSince then the pair have spoken on the phone a few times, most recently in May, to discuss Argentina's role in the region and the political crisis in Venezuela. They've also met once at the White House.\n\n\"Spoke to PM @TurnbullMalcolm of Australia. He is committed to having a very fair and reciprocal military and trade relationship. Working very quickly on a security agreement so we don't have to impose steel or aluminum tariffs on our ally, the great nation of Australia!\" President Trump shakes hands with Mr Turnbull in the Oval Office (Getty Images) Australia has been one of America's closest allies in recent years, with its troops fighting alongside the US in Iraq and Afghanistan. But that relationship came under strain almost as soon as President Trump entered the White House. \n\n\n\nMr Trump was said to have had a \"contentious\" phone call with Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull at the end of January, reportedly over a deal agreed with President Obama that the US would take in about 1,200 refugees who had been denied entry into Australia. \n\n\n\nA Washington Post report said Mr Trump abruptly ended the planned one-hour phone call after just 25 minutes having condemned the refugee agreement as \"the worst deal ever\". President Trump, who later publicly criticised the deal as \"dumb\", insisted the phone call had been \"civil\" while Mr Turnbull said it was a \"very frank and forthright\" conversation.\n\n\n\nLast summer, footage leaked to the media showing Mr Turnbull poking fun at his US counterpart at a dinner for media but both US and Australia dismissed the incident as harmless fun.\n\n\n\nThe pair have held three meetings since Mr Trump came into office. During the latest, at the White House in February, Mr Trump said: \"The relationship we have with Australia is a terrific relationship, and probably stronger now than ever before — maybe because of our relationship, our friendship.\"\n\nPresident Trump and his wife Melania with Queen Mathilde and King Philippe (Getty Images) Events passed off without incident on Mr Trump's first visit to Belgium as president in May 2017, when he met King Philippe and Queen Mathilde before taking part in a Nato summit. \n\n\n\nMr Trump met Prime Minister Charles Michel at the summit, praising Belgian contributions the fight against the Islamic State group and noting the \"critical importance of Belgian F-16s flying missions in Iraq and Syria\". \n\n\n\nHe also took the chance to remind him of \"the responsibility of all nations to share our common defense burden,\" and to meet Nato spending commitments - a topic Mr Trump raised again at the 2018 Nato summit in Brussels.\n\n\n\nNo one seems to have mentioned his campaign trail claims that Brussels was a \"hellhole\" or the geographically dubious \"Belgium is a beautiful city\".\n\nPresident Trump and Mr Temer pose for photos before a dinner with Latin American leaders (AFP) Despite being South America's most influential country, Mr Trump has had little to say about Brazil so far. \n\n\n\nThe president has met Michel Temer, his Brazilian counterpart, just once - at a working dinner he hosted in New York with representatives from Colombia, Panama and Argentina to discuss the situation in Venezuela. \n\n\n\nVice-President Mike Pence did speak to Mr Temer on the phone in June this year but the topic of conversation was not Venezuela but rather \"Brazil-US cooperation on the peaceful uses of outer space\".\n\n\"Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?\" - President Trump's widely reported comments made in private during a meeting on immigration, 11 Jan 2018 Mr Trump's reported remark came as lawmakers from both parties visited him to propose a bipartisan immigration deal. Democratic Senator Richard Durbin had just been discussing US temporary residency permits granted to citizens of countries hit by natural disasters, war or epidemics, when Mr Trump asked, \"Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?\"\n\n\n\nMr Trump tweeted that he had used \"tough\" language but not that specific term. Senator Durbin responded by saying Mr Trump used \"racist\" language.\n\n\n\nAs the African Union expressed \"shock, dismay and outrage\" and demanded an apology, Botswana summoned the US ambassador and asked the envoy \"to clarify if Botswana is regarded as a 'shithole' country given that there are Botswana nationals residing in the US.\" \n\n\n\nAccording to the Washington Post, Mr Trump told lawmakers the US should instead be taking in migrants from countries like Norway, whose prime minister visited him a day earlier, or Asian nations.\n\n\"PM Justin Trudeau of Canada acted so meek and mild during our @G7 meetings only to give a news conference after I left saying that, 'US Tariffs were kind of insulting' and he 'will not be pushed around.' Very dishonest & weak. Our Tariffs are in response to his of 270% on dairy!\" President Trump and Mr Trudeau pose for photos at a G7 summit (Reuters) Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was among the first dozen or so world leaders to visit the White House under Donald Trump and could be pleased with how it went.\n\n\n\nNot only did he deal with President Trump's fierce handshake, he also got a guarantee that the White House would only be making \"tweaks\" to its relationship with Canada. \n\n\n\nMr Trudeau, meanwhile, admitted that the two men had several differences, most notably on accepting refugees, but said the \"last thing Canadians expect is for me to come down and lecture another country on how they choose to govern themselves\".\n\n\n\nThe relationship between the two leaders has become strained since that first meeting though and tensions came to the surface in June at a G7 summit in Quebec. \n\n\n\nWhen Mr Trudeau said he would not be pushed around by the US at a post-summit press conference, Mr Trump responded by refusing to sign the joint G7 communique on trade before tweeting that the Canadian leader \"acts hurt when called out\". Mr Trump's top economic aide later said Mr Trudeau had \"stabbed us in the back\" while another adviser said there was \"a special place in Hell for any leader that engages in bad faith diplomacy\" with the president. \n\n\n\nWith Mr Trump set to continue his tough stance on trade, it's unclear how US-Canada relations will develop during the rest of his term.\n\nMr Trump spoke to President Sebastian Pinera, a conservative like himself, in January to congratulate him on his election win. President Trump emphasised his desire to work with President Pinera on \"issues of mutual interest,\" according to a read-out of the call.\n\n\n\nThe two billionaire presidents - Mr Pinera's estimated personal fortune is about $2.7bn (£2bn) - also discussed their \"desire to see democracy restored for the Venezuelan people.\"\n\n\"In the coming months and years ahead I look forward to building an even STRONGER relationship between the United States and China.\" Mr Trump takes part in a welcoming ceremony in Beijing with President Xi (Getty Images) Donald Trump mentioned China so frequently on the campaign trail it turned into a meme. He repeatedly called the Communist state a \"currency manipulator\" and even accused them of \"raping\" the US. \n\n\n\nSince the election, however, most of the interactions between the two leaders have focused on the threat posed by North Korea's nuclear ambitions.\n\n\n\nMr Trump welcomed Chinese President Xi Jinping to his Mar-a-Lago retreat in Florida with open arms and described the pair's relationship as \"outstanding\". \n\n\n\nHe decided against a round of golf with China's leader though - Mr Xi has shut down several golf courses since coming into power and banned the Communist Party's 88 million members from teeing off. \n\n\n\nPresident Xi also welcomed Mr Trump to China in November last year for discussions on North Korea and international trade. The trip appeared to go well, with Mr Trump describing the Chinese leader as a \"very special man\". \n\n\n\nThe US president called on China to be tougher on North Korea until they agreed to come to the negotiating table - a stance that paid off when Mr Trump met Kim Jong-un in Singapore in June. \n\n\n\nBut away from North Korea, US-China relations have been more complicated with Mr Trump going on the offensive over trade and imposing tariffs on over $30bn of Chinese goods. \n\n\n\n\"When a country (USA) is losing many billions of dollars on trade with virtually every country it does business with, trade wars are good, and easy to win,\" he tweeted in March. \n\n\n\nChina responded by putting its own tariffs on US goods in place and at the moment, it's difficult to predict how the trade war will develop.\n\n\"A great honor to welcome President Juan Manuel Santos of Colombia to the White House today!\" President Trump and Mr Santos hold a joint news conference at the White House (Getty Images) Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos visited the White House in May last year after reports of a secret meeting between Mr Trump and two former Colombian presidents.\n\n\n\nThe White House brushed off the claims, saying the two former Colombian leaders were invited to the president's Mar-a-Lago Club by one of its members and the leaders shared a handshake. \n\n\n\nThe pair also discussed the Colombian government's peace process with the Farc rebel group, which gave up its weapons in June 2017. \n\n\n\nMr Trump also met President Santos in New York in September, along with other South American leaders, to discuss the Venezuela crisis.\n\n\"To the Cuban government, I say: Put an end to the abuse of dissidents. Release the political prisoners. Stop jailing innocent people.\" Mr Trump signs into effect some policy changes towards Cuba at an event in Miami (Getty Images) Mr Trump said he was \"cancelling\" President Barack Obama's deal to thaw relations with Cuba, saying he was re-imposing certain travel and trade restrictions eased by his predecessor. \n\n\n\nBut the president's approach has not scrapped all of the Obama-era policy regarding the island nation. \n\n\n\nBoth countries will keep their embassies open in each other's capitals, commercial flights will continue and US tourists can still return home with Cuban goods. \n\n\n\nDuring a speech in Miami's Little Havana neighbourhood, where Mr Trump signed a directive outlining his policy, he lambasted the deal with the \"brutal\" Castro government as \"terrible\" and \"misguided\".\n\n\n\nHe said the US would not lift sanctions on Cuba until \"all political prisoners are freed\" and vowed to \"help the Cuban people themselves form businesses and pursue much better lives\".\n\n\"This administration should be judged by its actions, and not single tweets, because it's tough to get all the nuance out in 140 characters\" Danish Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen was one of the first world leaders to meet Donald Trump at the White House. \n\n\n\nTheir talks at the end of March 2017 focused on the future of the Nato alliance and President Trump \"urged\" the Danish leader to commit to the target of spending 2% of his country's GDP on defence. \n\n\n\nThe meeting appeared to go well, with Mr Rasmussen saying afterwards that he was \"more positive\" about Denmark's relationship with the US than when he \"evaluated the situation right after the [US] election.\"\n\n\"I just want to let everybody know in case there was any doubt that we are very much behind President Sisi\" Mr Trump praised Egypt's leader after talks at the White House (Getty Images) Donald Trump first met Abdul Fattah al-Sisi - a \"fantastic guy\" - in September 2016 and when he won the election two months later, Mr Sisi was reportedly the first foreign leader to call him. \n\n\n\nTheir close relationship has continued since Mr Trump's inauguration and President Sisi visited the White House at the start of April for the first time since he led a military coup in Egypt in 2013. \n\n\n\nHuman rights groups, however, have criticised the US president for meeting a man who led a violent crackdown against the Muslim Brotherhood group which left more than 1,000 people dead.\n\n\n\nBut officials say Mr Trump is seeking to \"reboot\" relations between the two countries because he sees a stable Egypt as an invaluable ally in the battle against the so-called Islamic State group. \n\n\n\nMr Sisi, who wants to ensure Egypt continues to receive US military aid worth about $1.3bn a year, has praised President Trump as someone who has a \"deep and great understanding\" of the Middle East.\n\n\n\nThe two met again during Mr Trump's first foreign visit to Saudi Arabia, where the US president said he hoped to visit Cairo soon. At a summit in Riyadh, Mr Trump said Mr Sisi had \"done a tremendous job under trying circumstance\".\n\n\n\nAn image of Mr Trump, Mr Sisi and Saudi King Salman placing their hands on a glowing orb at the meeting also set social media abuzz. \n\n\n\nThe pair also held another meeting on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York in November last year.\n\n\"Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?\" - President Trump's widely reported comments made in private during a meeting on immigration, 11 Jan 2018 Mr Trump's reported remark came as lawmakers from both parties visited him to propose a bipartisan immigration deal. Democratic Senator Richard Durbin had just been discussing US temporary residency permits granted to citizens of countries hit by natural disasters, war or epidemics, when Mr Trump asked, \"Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?\"\n\n\n\nMr Trump tweeted that he had used \"tough\" language but not that specific term. Senator Durbin responded by saying Mr Trump used \"racist\" language and that the president did call some African nations \"shitholes\".\n\n\n\nAccording to the Washington Post, Mr Trump told lawmakers the US should instead be taking in migrants from countries like Norway, whose prime minister visited him a day earlier, or Asian nations.\n\n\n\nMr Trump's administration announced in January 2018 that it would cancel permits that allow nearly 200,000 people from El Salvador to live and work in the US.\n\n\n\nThey were granted Temporary Protected Status (TPS) after earthquakes rocked the Central American country in 2001.\n\n\n\nSalvadoreans now have until 9 September 2019 to leave or face deportation, unless they find a legal way to stay.\n\nMr Trump met Finnish President Sauli Niinisto ahead of his meeting with Mr Putin Mr Trump met the president before his face-to-face meeting in Helsinki with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on 16 July.\n\n\"Just landed from Paris, France. It was an incredible visit with President @EmmanuelMacron. A lot discussed and accomplished in two days!\" Mr Trump and Mr Macron shake hands before a meeting in Canada (AFP) President Trump accepted an invitation to attend 2017's Bastille Day celebrations in France after a somewhat rocky start with the French president . \n\n\n\nBefore Emmanuel Macron was elected in May 2017, Mr Trump suggested in a tweet that a deadly attack on a police bus in Paris would \"have a big effect\" on the election.\n\n\n\nMany thought Mr Trump was referring to National Front leader Marie Le Pen, the anti-immigrant and anti-globalisation candidate who lost to Mr Macron. But Mr Trump later refused to comment on the election and congratulated Mr Macron in a tweet.\n\n\n\nMr Macron described his white-knuckled handshake with Mr Trump at their first meeting in May last year in Brussels as \"not innocent\". \n\n\n\nBut since then their relationship has warmed, with Mr Trump describing the Bastille Day parade as \"one of the greatest parades I've ever seen\" and saying the US relationship with France was \"stronger than ever\". \n\n\n\nPresident Macron visited the White House in April this year and was also given the honour of making an address to the US Congress. His speech was described as a \"thinly veiled rebuke\" to President Trump by the BBC's North America editor, Jon Sopel. \n\n\n\nBut despite that and the various differences the two men have on policy, they appear to get on well and Mr Trump has spoken to President Macron on the phone more than any other world leader.\n\n\"Honored to welcome Georgia Prime Minister, Giorgi Kvirikashvili to the @WhiteHouse today with @VP Mike Pence.\" President Trump has yet to formally meet with or call the Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili, though he did pose for a photo and tweeted a welcome message when the leader visited Washington and met with Vice-President Mike Pence. \n\n\n\nDuring his White House visit, the Trump Administration thanked Mr Kvirikashvili for Georgia's sacrifices fighting with NATO forces in Afghanistan and also vowed to explore better trade relations between the two countries.\n\n\"I have a great relationship with Angela Merkel of Germany, but the Fake News Media only shows the bad photos (implying anger) of negotiating an agreement - where I am asking for things that no other American President would ask for!\" Chancellor Merkel and Mr Trump exchange views at a G7 meeting in Canada (Reuters) When Donald Trump won the US election he did so with the isolationist slogan of \"America First\", leading many to declare German Chancellor Angela Merkel as the new leader of the free world. \n\n\n\nHer pivotal role in global politics could be seen clearly on the White House call sheet during Mr Trump's first few months in office - she was one of the world leaders he spoke to most frequently and she also paid the new president a visit in March 2017. \n\n\n\nPresident Trump's tone towards Mrs Merkel has changed significantly since he took office. In 2015, he took to Twitter to describe her as the \"person who is ruining Germany\" after Time magazine picked her as their person of the year. \n\n\n\nThe German leader clearly noticed Mr Trump's disparaging comments, saying at their joint press conference that she's \"always said it's much, much better to talk to one another and not about one another\". \n\n\n\nThe meeting appeared amicable enough - albeit with one eye-catching moment of awkwardness - but some reports suggested Mrs Merkel was unimpressed with Mr Trump's command of policy details.\n\n\n\nThe pair have met several times and spoken on the phone regularly since that first meeting, but there has been a more adversarial tone to Mr Trump's comments on Germany recently. \n\n\n\nOn immigration, Mr Trump tweeted: \"The people of Germany are turning against their leadership as migration is rocking the already tenuous Berlin coalition.\"\n\n\n\nOn Nato and trade, he tweeted: \"Presidents have been trying unsuccessfully for years to get Germany and other rich Nato Nations to pay more toward their protection from Russia. They pay only a fraction of their cost. The U.S. pays tens of Billions of Dollars too much to subsidize Europe, and loses Big on Trade!\"\n\n\n\nAt the latest Nato summit in July, Mr Trump accused Germany of being \"totally controlled by Russia\" because it imports \"so much of its energy\" from the country and has a new pipeline planned. Mrs Merkel responded by saying Germany \"can make our own policies and make our own decisions\". \n\n\n\nWhile Mr Trump was right that Germany imports most of its gas from Russia, gas makes up less than 20% of its overall energy mix, according to BBC Reality Check.\n\nThe visit of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras to the White House in October could have been awkward, after he openly criticized Mr Trump during the campaign and even called him \"evil\".\n\n\n\nBut the two held a cordial joint press conference and Trump joked about the Greek leader's past remarks: \"I wish I knew before my speech\". \n\n\n\nHe added: \"The American people stand with the Greek people as they recover from the economic crisis that recently afflicted their nation.\" \n\n\n\nThe Greek leader said the two had a productive exchange and he shared common values with the US.\n\n\"Why do we need more Haitians? Take them out.\" - President Trump's widely reported comments made in private during a meeting on immigration, 11 Jan 2018 Mr Trump's reported remark came as lawmakers from both parties visited him to propose a bipartisan immigration deal. He tweeted that he had \"never said anything derogatory about Haitians other than Haiti is, obviously, a very poor and troubled country. Never said 'take them out.'\" \n\n\n\nDemocratic Senator Richard Durbin had just been discussing US temporary residency permits granted to citizens of countries hit by natural disasters, war or epidemics, when Mr Trump reportedly asked, \"Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?\"\n\n\n\nMr Trump tweeted that he had used \"tough\" language but not that specific term. Senator Durbin responded by saying Mr Trump used \"racist\" language.\n\n\n\nAccording to the Washington Post, Mr Trump told lawmakers the US should instead be taking in migrants from countries like Norway, whose prime minister visited him a day earlier, or Asian nations.\n\n\n\nIn 2017, the Department of Homeland Security announced that Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designation, granted to Haiti following the 2010 earthquake, would end in July 2019.\n\n\n\nHaiti's US Ambassador Paul Altidor told the BBC the idea that \"we're simply immigrants who come here to take advantage of the US\" is wrong.\n\n\"Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?\" - President Trump's widely reported comments made in private during a meeting on immigration, 11 Jan 2018 Democratic Senator Richard Durbin had just been discussing US temporary residency permits granted to citizens of countries hit by natural disasters, war or epidemics, when Mr Trump asked \"Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?\" \n\n\n\nMr Trump tweeted that he had used \"tough\" language but not that specific term. Senator Durbin said Mr Trump used \"racist\" language and that the president did call some African nations \"shitholes\".\n\n\n\nAccording to the Washington Post, Mr Trump told lawmakers the US should instead be taking in migrants from countries like Norway, whose prime minister visited him a day earlier, or Asian nations.\n\n\n\nIn June of this year, the Trump administration announced that it was ending the temporary protection status that had granted nearly 60,000 Hondurans the right to live in the US, meaning they could be forced to leave the the country by 5 January 2020.\n\n\n\nHondurans were granted this status after Hurricane Mitch hit the Central American country in 1998, but the Department of Homeland Security said conditions in the country had \"notably improved\" since the disaster. \n\n\n\nThe move came a couple of months after Mr Trump has complained that a \"caravan\" of migrants from Honduras were making their way towards the US, tweeting: \"Honduras, Mexico and many other countries that the US is very generous to, sends many of their people to our country through our WEAK IMMIGRATION POLICIES. Caravans are heading here. Must pass tough laws and build the WALL.\"\n\nMr Modi visited the White House in June last year (Getty Images) President Trump has met Prime Minister Narendra Modi twice, once at the White House and once at the Association of South East Nations summit in the Philippines last November. \n\n\n\nAt the White House, the two leaders shared a warm embrace in front of reporters before vowing to fight terrorism together and praising US-India relations.\n\n\n\n\"The relationship between India and the United States has never been stronger, never been better,\" said Mr Trump, who describes himself and Mr Modi as \"world leaders in social media\".\n\n\n\nPresident Trump has yet to visit India himself, but he dispatched his daughter, Ivanka, there last November for what was described by local media as a \"royal visit\". \n\n\n\nShe was given the red-carpet treatment in Hyderabad, one of India's tech hubs, with local authorities reported to have removed beggars from the streets before her arrival as well as rushing through repairs to roads.\n\n\"Donald Trump said 'my friends are many in Indonesia and I have businesses in Indonesia.' He said this\" Donald Trump's election win was the top story in Indonesia in November 2016 (Getty Images) Mr Trump has held one meeting with Indonesian President Joko Widodo so far, on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Hamburg in July 2017. \n\n\n\nThe two leaders also attended the Riyadh Summit in Saudi Arabia in May 2017, but they did not have a one-on-one meeting. \n\n\n\nMr Widodo didn't get an invitation to Mr Trump's inauguration, but Indonesian businessman Hary Tanoesoedibjo reportedly did and the president's relationship with him has raised eyebrows in the US. \n\n\n\nMr Tanoesoedibjo is overseeing the development of a Trump Hotel in West Java and another resort in Bali and recently told an Indonesian magazine that he has \"close access\" to the US president.\n\n\"To Iranian President Rouhani: NEVER, EVER THREATEN THE UNITED STATES AGAIN OR YOU WILL SUFFER CONSEQUENCES THE LIKES OF WHICH FEW THROUGHOUT HISTORY HAVE EVER SUFFERED BEFORE. WE ARE NO LONGER A COUNTRY THAT WILL STAND FOR YOUR DEMENTED WORDS OF VIOLENCE & DEATH. BE CAUTIOUS!\" While Donald Trump hasn't spoken to Iran's leader since coming to power, he has spent a lot of his time talking about the country. \n\n\n\nOne of his administration's first moves was to impose new sanctions against the country in response to a ballistic missile test, which Tehran said had not violated a UN resolution on its nuclear activities.\n\n\n\nThe US confirmed that Tehran was continuing to comply with the UN agreement but Mr Trump labelled it a \"terrible deal\" and ordered a review into it nonetheless. \n\n\n\nDuring a trip to Israel in 2017, Mr Trump said Iran \"must never be allowed to possess a nuclear weapon - never, ever - and must cease its deadly funding, training and equipping of terrorists and militias.\"\n\n\n\nHe later claimed in a tweet that Iran was working with North Korea to develop nuclear weapons.\n\n\n\nThen in May this year, President Trump finally decided to pull out of the UN agreement with Iran, saying: \"It is clear to me that we cannot prevent an Iranian nuclear bomb under the decaying and rotten structure of this deal.\"\n\n\n\nGoing against advice from European allies, he said he would reimpose economic sanctions that were waived when the deal was signed in 2015. \n\n\n\nContinuing his hardline stance, in June the US threatened to enforce sanctions on countries that have not stopped importing Iranian oil by November 2018.\n\n\"I want to thank you very much for being here, great respect for you. I know you're working very hard, [my staff] have all been telling me that you're doing a job - it's not an easy job, it's a very tough job\" - President Trump to Prime Minister Abadi at the White House, 20 Mar 2017 President Trump welcomed Prime Minister Abadi to the White House in March last year (Getty Images) Donald Trump made defeating the so-called Islamic State group (IS) the focus of much of his campaign, so Iraq is central to his foreign policy objectives. \n\n\n\nHowever, his relationship with Iraq's leaders got off to a bumpy start when he called for a ban on the travel of people from seven predominantly Muslim countries, including Iraq. \n\n\n\nThe ban was eventually blocked by US judges, and when the Trump administration tried to implement a similar order a few weeks later, Iraq was left off the list - and judges blocked it again anyway.\n\n\n\nThat omission came after Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi spoke to President Trump over the phone on 10 February amid a large-scale offensive by his army to retake the city of Mosul from IS fighters. \n\n\n\nMr Abadi travelled to the US a few weeks later for a meeting at the White House, when President Trump told reporters: \"Our main thrust is we have to get rid of [IS]. We're going to get rid of [IS]. It will happen. It's happening right now.\"\n\n\n\nIn July last year, Mr Abadi formally declared victory over IS in Mosul and Mr Trump congratulated his Iraqi counterpart, saying the city had been \"liberated from its long nightmare\" under the rule of IS.\n\n\"It was my honor to welcome Prime Minister Leo Varadkar of Ireland to the @WhiteHouse!\" The Trump administration's plans to toughen America's immigration laws have been focused on Mexico and the Middle East, but they could also affect thousands of unregistered Irish immigrants in the US.\n\n\n\nFormer Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny raised this issue with President Trump when he visited the White House in March last year, saying there were \"millions out there who want to... make America great.\"\n\n\n\nThe taoiseach traditionally presents the new US president with a bowl of shamrocks and Mr Kenny did so while making his views on President Trump's immigration policies clear. \n\n\n\nMr Trump avoided mentioning immigration during the pair's joint remarks, but he did tell reporters: \"We love Ireland and we love the people of Ireland.\"\n\n\n\nMr Trump met the new taoiseach, Leo Varadkar, at the White House's St Patrick's Day celebrations in March, saying the two had \"become friends — fast friends — over a short period of time.\"\n\n\n\nMr Varadkar was confirmed as Ireland's youngest and first openly gay leader in June 2017.\n\n\n\nAfter the meeting at the White House, Mr Varadkar said there was \"enthusiasm from the administration to work on a solution\" for the thousands of undocumented Irish immigrants that are in the US.\n\n\n\nMr Trump has business interests in Ireland in the form of a golf course and resort in Doonbeg, County Clare.\n\n\"I have determined that it is time to officially recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. I am also directing the State Department to begin preparation to move the American Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem…\" Mike Pence watches as Mr Trump signs his Jerusalem policy into effect (EPA) President Trump looked set to follow a fairly traditional path in his relationship with America's closest ally, Israel.\n\n\n\nHe was quick to invite Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the White House and during a visit to Tel Aviv in May 2017, he said he came to \"reaffirm the unbreakable bond\" between the US and Israel and that there was a \"rare opportunity to bring security and stability and peace\" to the region. \n\n \n\nAt the UN General Assembly in September, Mr Trump stressed America's commitment to Israel's security and fair treatment at the United Nations. The two leaders also discussed their continuing efforts to achieve an enduring Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement. \n\n\n\nIn August, Mr Trump tweeted that \"Peace in the Middle East would be a truly great legacy for ALL people!\"\n\n\n\nBut by December he had chosen a new path, recognising Jerusalem as Israel's capital, to the amazement of much of the international community.\n\n\n\nThe UN General Assembly backed a resolution calling on the US to withdraw the decision, leading to Trump threatening to cut financial aid to those who backed the resolution.\n\n\"Just met the new Prime Minister of Italy, @GiuseppeConteIT, a really great guy. He will be honored in Washington, at the @WhiteHouse, shortly. He will do a great job - the people of Italy got it right!\" In a sign of how fast politics moves in the country, President Trump has already met two Italian prime ministers. \n\n\n\nThe first, Paolo Gentiloni, was welcomed to the White House in April last year and his relationship with Mr Trump appeared amicable enough. \n\n\n\nBut the president was clearly more excited when he met Giuseppe Conte, the leader of a populist coalition who became Italy's 58th prime minister in June. \n\n\n\nAfter the brief meeting at the G7 summit in Canada, during which Mr Conte backed Mr Trump's call for Russia to be readmitted to the group, the US president called Mr Conte a \"great guy\" and announced he would be visiting the White House in July.\n\n\"Even Usain Bolt from Jamaica, one of the greatest runners and athletes of all time, showed RESPECT for our National Anthem!\" Amid the NFL national anthem controversy, President Trump singled out Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt as an example for other sportspeople to follow.\n\n\n\nHe tweeted: \"Even Usain Bolt from Jamaica, one of the greatest runners and athletes of all time, showed RESPECT for our National Anthem!\"\n\n\n\nMr Trump had criticised NFL players who kneel during the national anthem as a protest, to highlight the treatment of black Americans.\n\n\"My visit to Japan and friendship with PM Abe will yield many benefits, for our great Country. Massive military & energy orders happening+++!\" Shinzo Abe was invited out for golf by President Trump while visiting Florida (AFP) Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has developed a strong relationship with President Trump, with the pair having met several times both in the US and in Japan. \n\n\n\nMr Abe has visited Mr Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida twice so far, playing golf with the president on both occasions. \n\n\n\nThe pair also found time for a round of golf when President Trump visited Japan in November last year - although Mr Abe may want to forget about that after he took a tumble into a bunker on the course. \n\n\n\nMr Trump has described US-Japan relations as a \"very crucial alliance\" and it has proved to be just that as the president has embarked on negotiations with neighbouring North Korea. \n\n\n\nMr Abe will be hoping that his relationship with the president will keep Japan at the front of his mind as he pursues a diplomatic solution to the North Korean crisis. \n\n\n\nAway from North Korea, Mr Trump has also been talking to Mr Abe about trade between the two countries but the tone appears more amicable than it is with others - for now. \n\n\n\nIn June, he tweeted: \"PM Abe and I are also working to improve the trading relationship between the US and Japan, something we have to do. The US seeks a bilateral deal with Japan that is based on the principle of fairness and reciprocity.\"\n\n\"I am deeply committed to preserving our strong relationship & to strengthening America's long-standing support for Jordan\" King Abdullah has met with Donald Trump several times since he became president (Getty Images) Jordan's King Abdullah was the first Arab leader to meet President Trump and has had three further meetings since.\n\n\n\nThe first occasion came in February on the sidelines of the National Prayer Breakfast, an annual event held in Washington DC, and appeared to be little more than a brief conversation. \n\n\n\nKing Abdullah was invited back to the capital in April last year for an official meeting with President Trump at the White House and he was back in Washington DC in June this year as well. \n\n\n\nJordan is a key member of the US-led coalition in the fight against the so-called Islamic State group (IS) in Iraq and Syria and Mr Trump has praised the king and his armed forces for their help. \n\n\n\n\"Jordanian service members have made tremendous sacrifices in this battle against the enemies of civilisation, and I want to thank all of them for their, really, just incredible courage,\" Mr Trump said.\n\nUS relations with Kenya are likely to be very different under Donald Trump to how they were under Barack Obama, whose father was Kenyan. \n\n\n\nMr Trump's decision to speak to the leaders of three African nations - Egypt, Nigeria and South Africa - before speaking to Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta was taken as a snub by some in the country. \n\n\n\nThe two leaders discussed security in the region and President Trump praised Kenya's \"significant contributions\" to the African Union force fighting against the al-Shabaab group in neighbouring Somalia. \n\n\n\nThe US in May suspended $21m of funding to Kenya's ministry of health over corruption allegations and weak account procedures, according to the state department. Kenya has said it would strengthen its accounting.\n\nPresident Trump met the emir of Kuwait, Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah, during his May visit to Saudi Arabia.\n\n\n\nDuring his visit, he called the leader a \"special person\" and said Kuwait's purchasing of \"tremendous amounts of our military equipment\" means \"jobs, jobs, jobs\" for Americans.\n\n\n\nThe emir then visited the White House in September 2017 and held a joint press conference, during which Mr Trump claimed the relationship between the US and Kuwait \"has never been stronger - never, ever\".\n\n\n\nPresident Trump also referenced the \"tremendous investments\" that Kuwait has made in the US, especially in plane sales. Mr Trump lamented to New York and New Jersey politicians after the press conference that his plane was not as big as the emir's, according to Politico.\n\n\"We would be so much better off if Gaddafi would be in charge right now\" Mr Trump cited Libya as an example of the failure of Western military intervention regularly on his way to winning the US election, but the record shows he backed it at the time.\n\n\n\nThe country has been beset by chaos since Nato-backed forces helped rebel fighters overthrow long-serving ruler Col Muammar Gaddafi in October 2011. Fighters aligned to the so-called Islamic State group (IS) have threatened to cause further chaos in recent years.\n\n\n\nPresident Trump held a meeting with Libya's prime minister, Fayez Al-Sarraj, at the White House in December last year during which they discussed political reconciliation in the country and the threat from IS. \n\n\n\nBut the US leader is keen to take a less engaged approach to the country, telling reporters he did not \"see a role\" there for the US.\n\n\"With Mexico being one of the highest crime Nations in the world, we must have THE WALL. Mexico will pay for it through reimbursement/other.\" Donald Trump's harsh rhetoric towards Mexico during the US election campaign turned him into a pantomime villain south of the border (Getty Images) No Donald Trump rally during the presidential campaign was complete without the crowd chanting \"Build the wall, build the wall!\" \n\n\n\nIt was the policy that defined Mr Trump's insurgent run for office, so it was little surprise that who would pay for the wall caused a diplomatic dispute just days into his presidency. \n\n\n\nMr Trump, who has said repeatedly that Mexico will pay it, officially announced his intention to build the wall in an executive order signed on 25 January 2017. \n\n\n\nTwo days later, Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto used a televised address to tell Mr Trump: \"I've said time and again: Mexico won't pay for any wall.\" \n\n\n\nMore than a year later, Mr Trump is still tweeting about it: \"Our Southern Border is under siege. Congress must act now to change our weak and ineffective immigration laws. Must build a Wall.\" \n\n\n\nConstruction on the wall is yet to start because Mr Trump needs Congress to pass the funding for it, but there is evidence that law enforcement agencies on the border have been given more power.\n\n\n\nMr Pena Nieto, who has now been replaced, met Mr Trump once on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Germany last July. He was due to visit the White House but twice cancelled planned trips because of disagreements with the US president. \n\n\n\nThe most recent one came in February when Mr Trump is said to have lost his temper during a phone call with Mr Pena Nieto when he refused to change his position on the wall. \n\n\n\nMr Trump appears to have changed tack with Mexico's new leader, Andrés Manuel López Obrador. They spoke for the first time at the beginning of July and, according to Mr López Obrador, the wall was not brought up by Mr Trump. \n\n\n\nHow long the cordial tone lasts is unclear, but Mr Trump is sending a delegation to meet the new leader, including his son-in-law and adviser, Jared Kushner, and US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo.\n\nJacinda Ardern and Donald Trump at the APEC summit (Getty Images) Did Mr Trump mistake New Zealand's prime minister for the wife of Canadian leader Justin Trudeau at November's APEC meeting in Vietnam?\n\n\n\nPM Jacinda Ardern denied Mr Trump had made that error, telling TVNZ that \"Someone observed that they thought that it happened, but in all my interactions, certainly President Trump didn't seem to have confused me when I interacted with him. But someone else observed this.\"\n\n\n\nMr Trump certainly seems to have recognised her when he patted her on the shoulder at a gala dinner during the summit and declared \"This lady caused a lot of upset in her country\".\n\n\n\n\"I said, 'You know', laughing, 'no-one marched when I was elected',\" she told the website newsroom.co.nz.\n\n\"Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?\" - President Trump's widely reported comments made in private during a meeting on immigration, 11 Jan 2018 Democratic Senator Richard Durbin had just been discussing US temporary residency permits granted to citizens of countries hit by natural disasters, war or epidemics, when Mr Trump asked \"Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?\" \n\n\n\nMr Trump tweeted that he had used \"tough\" language but not that specific term. Senator Durbin said Mr Trump used \"racist\" language and that the president did call some African nations \"shitholes\".\n\n\n\nAccording to the Washington Post, Mr Trump told lawmakers the US should instead be taking in migrants from countries like Norway, whose prime minister visited him a day earlier, or Asian nations.\n\n\n\nMr Trump's administration announced in November 2017 that it would remove the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designation for Nicaragua, introduced in 1999 after Hurricane Mitch devastated Central America.\n\n\n\nThousands of Nicaraguans living in the US will now have until 5 January 2019 to seek \"an alternative lawful immigration status\" or leave.\n\n\"President Trump assured the Nigerian president of US readiness to cut a new deal in helping Nigeria in terms of military weapons to combat terrorism\" - A statement from the Nigerian presidency after a phone call with President Trump, 13 Feb 2017 President Trump caused some controversy when he first spoke to Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari over the phone in February last year. \n\n\n\nDuring the call, Mr Trump signalled his intention to renew a deal to sell military aircraft put on hold by the Obama administration after Nigerian forces mistakenly bombed a refugee camp in the country's north-east, killing more than 100 people.\n\n\n\nThe deal needs to be approved by the US Congress, but if it goes ahead it will raise questions over how important human rights concerns are to President Trump when it comes to trade. \n\n\n\nMeeting President Buhari for the first time at the White House in April, Mr Trump said the pair were working on a \"very big trade deal\" that included \"helicopters and the like\".\n\n\"Many good conversations with North Korea-it is going well! In the meantime, no Rocket Launches or Nuclear Testing in 8 months. All of Asia is thrilled. Only the Opposition Party, which includes the Fake News, is complaining. If not for me, we would now be at War with North Korea!\" Kim Jong-un shakes hands with President Trump during their historic US-North Korea summit in Singapore (Getty Images) President Trump made history in June when he became the first sitting US president to meet with a North Korean leader. \n\n\n\nIt was an event few could have imagined just a few months after Mr Trump had threatened to unleash \"fire and fury\" against North Korea if it endangered the US. \n\n\n\nThe heated rhetoric from Mr Trump was in response to North Korea's repeated testing of long-range missiles in its pursuit to establish itself as a nuclear power. North Korea responded by vowing to launch a \"nuclear pre-emptive strike\" if it felt at risk. \n\n\n\nPresident Trump and Kim Jong-un then traded insults for a few months as military conflict began to look inevitable. But then all of a sudden, the tone changed. \n\n\n\nIn January, Mr Trump signalled that he would be willing to sit down and talk with Mr Kim and a couple of months later the two sides said they had agreed to a meeting. \n\n\n\n\"Possible progress being made in talks with North Korea. For the first time in many years, a serious effort is being made by all parties concerned. The World is watching and waiting! May be false hope, but the U.S. is ready to go hard in either direction!\" Mr Trump tweeted in March. \n\n\n\nAlthough the mooted summit was briefly cancelled by Mr Trump, it did eventually happen in Singapore in June, with the US president describing it as a \"tremendous success\". \n\n\n\nThe pair signed an agreement that while historic, was a little short on details. It commits North Korea to work towards \"the complete denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula\" and promises \"new relations\" between Washington and Pyongyang.\n\n\n\nIn a sign of possible trouble ahead though, North Korea accused the US of using \"gangster-like\" tactics to push it towards nuclear disarmament after a fresh round of high-level talks in July.\n\n\n\nBut this was followed by a letter sent to Mr Trump by Mr Kim, which the US president tweeted. Part of it read: \"I firmly believe that the strong will, sincere efforts and unique approach of myself and Your Excellency Mr President aimed at opening up a new future between the DPRK and the US will surely come to fruition.\"\n\nWhen Prime Minister Solberg met Mr Trump in Washington he may have been surprised to be told Norway had bought a fighter jet only available in Call of Duty, a computer game. \n\n\n\nA day later Norway was reportedly mentioned by Mr Trump as an example of the sort of country the US should be taking migrants from in a meeting with lawmakers from both parties to propose a bipartisan immigration deal. \n\n\n\nDemocratic Senator Richard Durbin had just been discussing US temporary residency permits granted to citizens of countries hit by natural disasters, war or epidemics. \n\n\n\nAccording to the Washington Post, Mr Trump told the lawmakers the US should instead be taking in migrants from countries like Norway, or Asian nations.\n\n\"The United States has foolishly given Pakistan more than 33 billion dollars in aid over the last 15 years, and they have given us nothing but lies & deceit, thinking of our leaders as fools. They give safe haven to the terrorists we hunt in Afghanistan, with little help. No more!\" Tensions between the US and its historical ally have been strained for years, but they reached a new low in January 2018, when Mr Trump threatened to withdraw US assistance. Previously he had put Pakistan on notice as he unveiled his new Afghan strategy in August 2017.\n\n\n\n\"We have been paying Pakistan billions and billions of dollars at the same time they are housing the very terrorists that we are fighting. It is time for Pakistan to demonstrate its commitment to civilisation, order and peace.\"\n\n\n\nBut he had warmer words when Islamabad helped secure the release of an American-Canadian couple held hostage in the country for five years.\n\nBut with the Palestinians no longer willing to talk peace, why should we make any of these massive future payments to them?\" The tone has changed between Mr Trump and President Abbas since they met in New York last September (Getty Images) Mr Trump first met President Mahmoud Abbas during the Palestinian Authority leader's White House visit at the beginning of May 2017. \n\n\n\nHe said there was a \"very good chance\" of a Middle East peace deal, telling Mr Abbas during a joint news conference: \"We will get this done\".\n\n\n\nDuring a visit to Bethlehem to meet Mr Abbas again in May last year, Mr Trump said he would \"do everything\" to help Israelis and Palestinians achieve peace. \n\n\n\nIn September, Mr Trump and Mr Abbas met in New York during the UN General Assembly. Mr Trump noted his personal commitment to \"improving the economic opportunities available to the Palestinian people\".\n\n\n\nBut Mr Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital led to a sharp deterioration in relations as did his threats to withdraw financial support.\n\n\n\nThe move led to a draft UN Security Council resolution being put forward by Egypt, which called on all states to \"comply with Security Council resolutions regarding the Holy City of Jerusalem\". \n\n\n\nThe US vetoed the resolution, but in a sign of its isolation on the issue, the four other permanent members of the Security Council - China, France, Russia and the UK - and 10 non-permanent members voted in favour of it.\n\nPresident Trump met President Juan Carlos Varela of Panama in June, discussing illegal immigration, organised crime and drug gangs.\n\n\n\nBut perhaps the strangest part of the visit was Mr Trump's focus on the Panama Canal, which was opened by the US in 1914. \n\n\n\n\"The Panama Canal is doing quite well,\" he said at the White House meeting. \"I think we did a good job building it.\"\n\n\n\nMr Trump also praised US-Panama relations, saying \"things are going well\" and \"the relationship has been very strong\". \n\n\n\nDuring a working dinner in New York with leaders from Brazil, Colombia, Argentina, and Panama, the group reaffirmed the principles of the Lima Declaration from August 2017 and their commitment to the priority of restoring democracy to Venezuela.\n\n\n\nMr Varela met the US president again in September last year, at a working dinner in New York with South American leaders to discuss the \"importance of working together to help restore democracy to Venezuela\".\n\n\"We're interested in the free movement of people. I emphasised that to President Trump and we prefer bridges to walls\" - President Kuczynski after a meeting at the White House, 24 Feb 2017 Mr Trump met with President Kuczynski in the Oval Office in February 2017 (AFP) Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski has already had a substantial amount of contact with President Trump. The two men have spoken several times over the phone and Mr Kuczynski has also visited the White House. \n\n\n\nAs well as discussing regional security and trade between the two countries, the Peruvian president is particularly interested in persuading the US to deport its fugitive ex-leader Alejandro Toledo.\n\n\n\nMr Toledo, who is believed to be in San Francisco, is accused of taking $20m (£16m) in bribes. He denies that and says he is the victim of a witch-hunt. Mr Kuczynski is understood to have asked Mr Trump to \"evaluate\" the situation.\n\n\n\nIn March, Mr Kuczynski spoke to Mr Trump about tackling the economic and political crisis in Venezuela.\n\n\"He was wishing me success in my campaign against the drug problem... He understood the way we are handling it and he said there is nothing wrong with protecting your country.\" President Duterte after an April phone call with Mr Trump President Duterte toasts Mr Trump during his visit to the Philippines (AFP) President Trump's has only had a couple of interactions with President Rodrigo Duterte, but they have caused much controversy in the US. \n\n\n\nMr Trump first spoke to Mr Duterte over the phone in April 2017, in what was a \"very friendly conversation\" about North Korea and \"the fact that the Philippine government is fighting very hard to rid its country of drugs, a scourge that affects many countries throughout the world.\" \n\n\n\nMr Duterte has been widely criticised for human rights violations in the Philippines, after he authorised police and vigilantes to maim and kill drug users on the streets of Manila. \n\n\n\nHis relationship with the US had been rocky in the past, in part because former President Barack Obama criticised the extrajudicial executions. Mr Obama cancelled a trip to the Philippines in September 2016 after Mr Duterte called him a \"son of a whore\".\n\n\n\nMr Trump, however, has had a warmer relationship with his Philippine counterpart so far. \n\n\n\nAfter meeting Mr Duterte during a visit to the Philippines in November 2017, Mr Trump hailed their \"great relationship\" and their joint statement pledged to \"further deepen the extensive United States-Philippine economic relationship\".\n\n\n\nMr Trump was understood to have invited Mr Duterte to the White House but that meeting has yet to take place.\n\nMr Trump gave a speech in front of the Warsaw Uprising monument (Getty Images) Donald Trump is a big fan of Poland and its people. \n\n\n\nDuring a visit there in July last year, he described Poland as an example of a country ready to defend Western freedoms, warning against the threats of \"terrorism and extremism\".\n\n\n\nMr Trump spoke of \"the triumph of the Polish spirit over centuries of hardship\" as an inspiration \"for a future in which good conquers evil, and peace achieves victor over war\" during his speech in Warsaw.\n\n\n\nHe also thanked the country for buying Patriot missile defence systems from the US in a multi-billion dollar contract as well as its investments in the Nato alliance. \n\n\n\n\"America loves Poland, and America loves the Polish people,\" he declared.\n\nThe first phone call with the Qatari emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, came in February 2017 amid an attempted travel ban by Mr Trump that affected several Middle Eastern countries, but not Qatar itself.\n\n\n\nThe two men are said to have discussed the fight against the so-called Islamic State group, with Qatar being a prominent member of the US-led coalition. \n\n\n\nEarlier this year, several Gulf countries cut travel and embassy links with Qatar over its alleged support for militants. Qatar strongly denies supporting radical Islamism.\n\n\n\nMr Trump took initial credit for applying pressure on Qatar in the longstanding Arab-world rift, saying it could mark \"the beginning of the end to the horror of terrorism\". \n\n\n\nIn June last year, he again accused Qatar of funding terrorism, tweeting:\"During my recent trip to the Middle East I stated that there can no longer be funding of Radical Ideology. Leaders pointed to Qatar – look!\"\n\n\n\nBut Washington would stand to benefit most from a resolution with Qatar as the US ally is home to the largest American military facility in the Middle East. Mr Trump's strategy on Qatar lies in encouraging Qatar's neighbours to find a peaceful resolution to the conflict, as well as implementing the United States-Qatar bilateral memorandum of understanding on counterterrorism cooperation.\n\n\"Our relationship with Russia has NEVER been worse thanks to many years of U.S. foolishness and stupidity and now, the Rigged Witch Hunt!\" President Trump chats with Mr Putin at the APEC summit in Vietnam (AFP) No US relationship with a country has been more scrutinised than Donald Trump's ties to Russia. \n\n\n\nAt a summit with Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, Mr Trump defended Russia over claims of interference in the 2016 US election.\n\n\n\nSpeaking with the Mr Putin at his side, Mr Trump was asked if he believed his own intelligence agencies or the Russian president when it came to allegations of meddling in the election. \n\n\n\n\"President Putin says it's not Russia. I don't see any reason why it would be,\" he replied.\n\n\n\nBut a day later, Mr Trump said he had misspoke.\n\n\n\n\"The sentence should have been: 'I don't see any reason why I wouldn't' or 'why it wouldn't be Russia'. Sort of a double negative,\" he explained to reporters when he arrived back in the US.\n\n\n\nThe US intelligence agencies have accused Russia of being behind the hacking of the Democratic Party's email server. A dossier has also emerged containing unsubstantiated claims about Mr Trump's ties to Russia. \n\n\n\nA special counsel was set up in May 2017 to investigate whether there was any collusion between Russia and Mr Trump's campaign and whether the president unlawfully tried to obstruct the inquiry after the election.\n\n\n\nPresident Trump has dismissed the entire Russia scandal as \"fake news\" and accused Democrats of launching a political witch-hunt against him because they are angry he defeated Hillary Clinton. \n\n\n\nMr Trump has tweeted more and more about Russia and the investigation in recent months - a sign that the allegations have got under his skin.\n\n\n\nSince becoming president in January 2017, he has sought to improve relations with Russia. \n\n\n\nIn March, he tweeted: \"I called President Putin of Russia to congratulate him on his election victory (in past, Obama called him also). The Fake News Media is crazed because they wanted me to excoriate him. They are wrong! Getting along with Russia (and others) is a good thing, not a bad thing…\"\n\n\n\nIn June, he alarmed allies by saying Russia should be readmitted to the G7 group of industrialised nations. Russia was suspended from what was then the G8 after it annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014.\n\n\"I have great confidence in King Salman and the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, they know exactly what they are doing... Some of those they are harshly treating have been 'milking' their country for years!\" Saudi Arabia has had a close relationship with the US for decades and that appears to be continuing under President Trump. \n\n\n\nMr Trump made his first foreign trip as president to meet King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, where the White House said it signed deals worth more than $350bn (£270bn) with Saudi Arabia.\n\n\n\nMr Trump appeared a little out of his comfort zone when he took part in a ceremonial sword dance during the trip. \n\n\n\nRelations had soured somewhat under President Obama after his administration's nuclear deal with Iran, but Mr Trump appeared to restore the partnership after he sided with Saudi Arabia in a diplomatic standoff with Qatar. \n\n\n\nSaudi Arabia and other Gulf nations cut off ties with Qatar over allegations that it funds terror groups. But Mr Trump told King Salman that it was \"important that the Gulf be united for peace and security in the region\".\n\n\n\nWhen Saudi Arabia's leaders launched a purge of allegedly corrupt officials last November, Mr Trump tweeted: \"I have great confidence in King Salman and the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, they know exactly what they are doing... Some of those they are harshly treating have been \"milking\" their country for years!\"\n\n\n\nMore recently, Mr Trump has called on the king to increase the kingdom's oil production, complaining that the price of a barrel of oil had risen too high.\n\nPresident Trump has met Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong three times so far, the most recent time being during his visit to the country in June. \n\n\n\nLast year, Mr Trump said of Singapore: \"We're very close, the relationship is very close, and we expect to do some excellent things together in many ways. And we have a very big relationship now. It will probably get much bigger.\"\n\n\n\nAfter Mr Trump's first meeting with Mr Lee, his social media team posted a photo of the two leaders on Instagram and mistakenly identified the prime minister as Indonesian President Joko Widodo, but later corrected the blunder. \n\n\n\nSingapore and the US have had a friendly relationship in the past, though some Singapore officials have criticized the rising sentiment of economic protectionism in America. \n\n\n\nMr Lee was welcomed to the White House in October last year during a visit in which Singapore Airlines signed a deal with Boeing for new aircraft worth more than $13.8 billion. \n\n\n\nReacting to the deal, Mr Trump said: \"I want to thank the Singaporean people for their faith in the American engineering and American workers.\"\n\nWhile President Trump has not spoken to Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, he has tried to ban Somalis from entering the US. \n\n\n\nThe proposed ban has been partly reinstated by the Supreme Court after it was twice by rejected judges in the US, allowing Mr Trump to bar visitors from Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen for 90 days. \n\n\n\nHe has described the affected nations as \"terror-prone countries\".\n\n\n\nIn May last year, a member of the US military was killed in Somalia, the first confirmed combat death there since the 1993 disastrous Black Hawk Down incident. There was another fatality in June this year. \n\n\n\nThe deaths came after the US announced in April 2017 that it was sending dozens of troops to Somalia to train forces fighting Islamist group al-Shabab.\n\n\"I really like Nelson Mandela but South Africa is a crime ridden mess that is just waiting to explode-not a good situation for the people!\" Donald Trump the businessman didn't have much positive to say about South Africa, tweeting that the country was a \"mess\". \n\n\n\nHe took a slightly different approach as president though, telling President Jacob Zuma that he hopes to \"expand cooperation and trade\" between the two countries. \n\n\n\nThe two leaders spoken once on the phone, mainly to discuss new opportunities to boost trade. According to the President Zuma's government, there are 600 US companies operating in South Africa.\n\n\n\nMr Zuma also met President Trump once, before he was forced to resign in February. Mr Trump held a working lunch for African leaders, including Mr Zuma, in New York in September. During the meeting, Mr Trump reportedly said: \"Africa has tremendous business potential. I have so many friends going to your countries, trying to get rich.\"\n\n\n\nSouth Africa's new president, Cyril Ramaphosa, is yet to meet Mr Trump.\n\n\"With all of the failed 'experts' weighing in, does anybody really believe that talks and dialogue would be going on between North and South Korea right now if I wasn't firm, strong and willing to commit our total 'might' against the North. Fools, but talks are a good thing!\" Mr Trump walks alongside President Moon at a welcoming ceremony for him in Seoul (Getty Images) President Trump's tough rhetoric towards North Korea had many in the South feeling worried for much of 2017. But there is hope that tensions on the peninsular have been diffused since the US president brought Kim Jong-un to the negotiating table. \n\n\n\nAfter President Moon Jae-in's historic meeting with Mr Kim in April, Mr Trump tweeted: \"After a furious year of missile launches and Nuclear testing, a historic meeting between North and South Korea is now taking place. Good things are happening, but only time will tell!\"\n\n\n\nMr Moon, for his part, said Mr Trump \"deserves big credit\" for getting North Korea to agree to talks.\n\n\n\nAway from the issue of North Korea, there have been lots of talks on trade between the two countries as well. \n\n\n\nDonald Trump had long wanted to renegotiate the \"horrible\" free trade agreement the US struck with South Korea in 2012, claiming it had \"destroyed\" the US. \n\n\n\nIn March, the two sides reached an agreement on changes to that deal, allowing US carmakers greater access to the South Korean market while protecting Seoul from some of the tariffs that the US introduced on steel. \n\n\n\nSouth Korea is a major US trade partner, with the US exchanging about $144.6bn (£112bn) in goods and services with the country last year. \n\n\n\nMr Trump visited the country in November last year and his daughter, Ivanka, also made the trip to South Korea for the Winter Olympics there in February.\n\nPresident Trump with King Felipe outside the Oval Office (Getty Images) Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy held one face-to-face meeting with Donald Trump before he was ousted by a vote of no confidence in June this year. \n\n\n\nAt the White House meeting, Mr Trump said he thought Spain was \"a great country\" and that he hoped it would remain \"united\" despite a push from people in the Catalonia region for independence. \n\n\n\nMr Trump was also ridiculed for referring to Mr Rajoy as \"president\" twice during their joint press conference. But it turns out Mr Trump may not have made an error as Mr Rajoy's official title in Spain is \"president of the government\" despite the role being known internationally as prime minister.\n\n\n\nIn June, Mr Trump and his wife Melania welcomed Spain's King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia to the White House to celebrate \"over 300 years of historic and cultural ties between our two great countries\". \n\n\n\nPedro Sánchez, Spain's new prime minister, met Donald Trump for the first time at the Nato summit in Brussels in July, but there was no one-on-one meeting this time.\n\nSudan is another of the predominantly Muslim countries that Donald Trump has included on his travel ban list. \n\n\n\nThe Supreme Court partly reinstated the ban after it was twice rejected by judges in the US. \n\n\n\nIt means people without \"close\" family or business relationships in the US could be denied visas and barred entry. \n\n\n\nMore recently, Mr Trump postponed a deadline on whether to permanently lift US sanctions against Sudan so he could have more time to \"establish that the government of Sudan has demonstrated sufficient positive action\" on counter-terrorism efforts, providing humanitarian relief and securing a ceasefire in conflict areas.\n\n\n\nThe US has issued sanctions against Sudan since the 1990s, when it was accused of state-sponsored terrorism.\n\n\n\nMr Trump has yet to appoint a special envoy for Sudan.\n\n\"Give the public a break - The FAKE NEWS media is trying to say that large scale immigration in Sweden is working out just beautifully. NOT!\" President Trump caused a bit of a stir about Sweden during one of his regular attacks on the media at a rally in February. \n\n\n\n\"Look at what's happening last night in Sweden. Sweden, who would believe this. Sweden. They took in large numbers [of migrants]. They're having problems like they never thought possible,\" the new US president told the crowd in Florida.\n\n\n\nThe only problem was that no-one seemed to know what incident Mr Trump was referring to - not least lots of baffled Swedes. \n\n\n\nIt later emerged that Mr Trump had been referring to a report on Fox News about gun violence and rape in Sweden since it opened its doors to large numbers of asylum-seekers in 2013. \n\n\n\nBut police officers interviewed for the feature said their comments had been taken out of context and data didn't appear to back up claims that there had been a surge in gun crimes or rape. \n\n\n\nAlthough Mr Trump did not speak to Prime Minister Stefan Lofven during this saga, he did phone the Swedish leader in April to express condolences over an attack in Stockholm.\n\n\"Don't attack Syria - an attack that will bring nothing but trouble for the U.S. Focus on making our country strong and great again!\" The US fired 59 cruise missiles at the Shayrat airbase in Syria in April 2017 (Getty Images) Syria is another country that Donald Trump has changed his views on quite substantially since becoming the US president. \n\n\n\nWhen his predecessor was considering military action in Syria back in 2013, Mr Trump was a vocal critic against intervention.\n\n\n\n\"Again, to our very foolish leader, do not attack Syria - if you do many very bad things will happen & from that fight the US gets nothing,\" Mr Trump tweeted in September 2013. \n\n\n\nBut just over two months into his presidency, President Trump said he was so moved by images of children in the aftermath of a chemical attack by Syrian forces that he was taking military action. \n\n\n\n\"Using a deadly nerve agent, [Syrian President] Assad choked out the lives of helpless men, women and children,\" Mr Trump said. \"No child of God should ever suffer such horror.\"\n\n\n\nTwo US Navy ships fired 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles at a Syrian air base from their positions in the Mediterranean. It was the first direct US military action against the Syrian president's forces.\n\n\n\nMr Trump deployed his military again in April this year, with 100 missiles targeting suspected government chemical weapons facilities in response to a suspected deadly chemical attack on the town of Douma.\n\n\n\nAfter the strikes, Mr Trump tweeted: \"A perfectly executed strike last night. Thank you to France and the United Kingdom for their wisdom and the power of their fine Military. Could not have had a better result. Mission Accomplished!\"\n\nPresident Donald Trump called Thailand's Prime Minister Prayut Chan-ocha, who took control of the country in a 2014 coup, to state his commitment to the US alliance with the country.\n\n\n\nThailand's relationship with the US had been somewhat strained in the past because of human rights complaints. Former President Barack Obama did not invite Mr Chan-ocha to visit Washington.\n\n\n\nMr Trump seems to have warmer feelings toward Thailand's prime minister. According to a White House statement, the two leaders discussed \"a strong shared interest in strengthening the trade and economic ties between the two countries.\" Mr Trump also invited Mr Chan-ocha to visit the White House for the first time since Mr Chan-ocha assumed power.\n\n\n\nIn September, Mr Chan-ocha visited the White House for the first time. During the visit, the two leaders released a joint statement that outlined \"their shared commitment to promoting peace, security, and prosperity in the Indo-Pacific region and beyond\".\n\nPerhaps the unlikeliest country to have made our list, Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Keith Rowley spoke to Donald Trump on the phone in February 2017 to discuss \"shared priorities\". \n\n\n\nOne of those priorities is terrorism, with some US officials worried that the small Caribbean island could become a \"breeding ground for extremists\", according to the New York Times. \n\n\n\nThe island's former US ambassador John Estrada told the newspaper that more than 100 people have travelled from there to fight with the so-called Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria.\n\nWhen Donald Trump announced a ban on people entering the US from several predominantly Muslim countries, some analysts were surprised not to see Tunisia on the list. \n\n\n\nThe Arab Spring began there in 2010, but it has become a breeding ground for the so-called Islamic State group (IS) in recent years - more Tunisians have joined them to fight in Iraq and Syria than any other nationality. \n\n\n\nPresident Trump appears to have decided that a close relationship with Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi is important in the fight against IS and he praised the country's \"stability and security\" in a phone call with its leader in February.\n\n\"I am in Istanbul, Turkey. Just opened magnificent #TrumpTowers - a big hit\" Mr Trump met with President Erdogan in the Oval Office in May 2017 (Getty Images) Donald Trump's relationship with Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is one that his critics will be keeping a close eye on. \n\n\n\nMr Trump had business links to Turkey before he was elected president, licensing his name to a Turkish businessman in 2008 who opened a Trump Tower complex in Istanbul in 2012. \n\n\n\nMr Trump was at the launch of the property, as was Mr Erdogan (who was prime minister at that point). \n\n\n\nBut tensions were high after Mr Erdogan's White House visit in May last year, when clashes broke out between protesters and the Turkish president's supporters and members of security personnel. \n\n\n\nUS Congress has called for criminal charges against those involved in the brawl outside the Turkish ambassador's residence in Washington DC. \n\n\n\nRelations have also been strained with the Nato ally by Mr Trump's decision to arm the Syrian Kurds in the battle against the so-called Islamic State. \n\n\n\nTurkey views the YPG (Popular Protection Units) as a terrorist group linked to the PKK, a Kurdish separatist group. \n\n\n\nWhile at the United Nations General Assembly in September, together, Mr Trump and Mr Erdogan reaffirmed their rejection of the planned Kurdistan referendum planned for later that month.\n\n\"Crimea was TAKEN by Russia during the Obama Administration. Was Obama too soft on Russia?\" Donald Trump said he had \"very, very good discussions\" with Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko during the foreign leader's White House visit in June 2017. \n\n\n\nThe pair discussed \"support for the peaceful resolution to the conflict in eastern Ukraine\", where government forces have been fighting Russian-backed rebels since 2014.\n\n\n\nIn July last year, Mr Trump called on Russia to stop \"destabilising\" Ukraine and \"join the community of responsible nations\". The Kremlin brushed off the comments. \n\n\n\nMr Trump has previously accused Barack Obama of having been weak on Russia and allowing them to \"pick off\" the Crimean peninsula from Ukraine. \n\n\n\nThe US president's calls for better ties to Russia have worried Ukrainian authorities, observers say. \n\n\n\nBut Mr Trump announced sanctions against Russia for its role in the conflicts in Ukraine and Syria would remain even after his meeting with President Vladimir Putin at the G20 summit in Hamburg.\n\n\n\nThe president said he would work \"constructively\" with Russia, but to lift the sanctions would be premature.\n\n\n\nAt the United Nations General Assembly in September, Mr Trump met with Mr Poroshenko and encouraged the European leader to improve his nation's business and political climates. Mr Trump also reiterated his support for Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity.\n\nThe Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan spoke with Donald Trump on the phone just a few days after the former businessman became the new US president. \n\n\n\nThe two leaders spoke about the fight against international terrorism and according to the White House, the crown prince backed Mr Trump's idea of safe zones for refugees in the Middle East. \n\n\n\nThe UAE was not one of the countries that Mr Trump tried to ban people travelling to the US from, and the state's foreign minister was one of the few Middle East officials to defend the move. \n\n\n\nSheikh Abdullah Bin Zayed Al Nahyan described Mr Trump's proposed ban as a \"sovereign decision\" and said some of the countries on the list \"face structural problems\" that need to be dealt with. \n\n\n\nIn May last year, Mr Trump met the Crown Prince at the White House, where the two leaders discussed \"bilateral defense cooperation, counterterrorism, resolving the conflicts in Yemen and Syria, and the threat to regional stability posed by Iran.\"\n\n\"I would have done [Brexit] much differently. I actually told Theresa May how to do it but she didn't agree, she didn't listen to me. She wanted to go a different route. I would actually say that she probably went the opposite way. And that is fine.\" - Donald Trump in an interview with The Sun newspaper, 13 Jul 2018 President Trump and Mrs May with their partners outside Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire (PA) Mr Trump arrived for his first visit to the UK as president on 12 July. \n\n\n\nHis first event was a black-tie dinner with Mrs May and British business leaders, but it was overshadowed by the publication of an interview the US president gave to The Sun newspaper. \n\n\n\nIn it, he said the UK would \"probably not\" get a trade deal with the US if the prime minister's Brexit plan goes ahead. \n\n\n\n\"If they do a deal like that, we would be dealing with the European Union instead of dealing with the UK, so it will probably kill the deal,\" he told the paper, adding that Mrs May's plan \"will definitely affect trade with the United States, unfortunately in a negative way.\"\n\n\n\nHe also said Mrs May's blueprint for its post-Brexit relations with the EU was \"a much different deal than the people voted on\".\n\n\n\nBut at a joint news conference on the second day of his visit, he changed his tone and said a trade deal \"will absolutely be possible\" after the UK leaves the EU. He also said Brexit was an \"incredible opportunity\". \n\n\n\nMr Trump also met the Queen, although there was no open carriage ride with her through the streets of the capital as the trip was designated a \"working visit\" rather than an official state visit. \n\n\n\nHe had been expected to visit in February to open the new $1bn (£738m) embassy but, having voiced his displeasure, that trip was cancelled. \n\n\n\nAsked about the protests that greeted his arrival in the UK, he insisted many people were \"delighted\" he was visiting, adding: \"I get thousands of notifications from people in the UK that they love the President of the United States.\"\n\nMr Trump spoke to Uzbekistan's President Shavkat Mirziyoyev in December 2017 to discuss \"discuss regional security and to explore opportunities for improved cooperation.\"\n\n\n\nThat came after Mr Mirziyoyev told Mr Trump his country was ready to \"use all forces and resources\" to help investigate the New York truck attack, in which eight people were killed, and where the suspect arrested by police was an Uzbek immigrant.\n\n\n\nThe two leaders met for the first time in May at the White House.\n\nHuman rights have not been at the top of President Trump's agenda so far, but he has called for the release of a political prisoner in Venezuela. \n\n\n\n\"Venezuela should allow Leopoldo Lopez, a political prisoner & husband of @liliantintori out of prison immediately,\" he tweeted in mid-February. \n\n\n\nVenezuela is in the middle of an economic and political crisis, with the country deeply divided between those who support the government of the socialist President Nicolas Maduro and those who blame him. \n\n\n\nMr Trump has discussed the situation in Venezuela on the phone with leaders of neighbouring countries, including Brazil and Colombia, but he has not spoken directly to President Maduro. \n\n\n\nIn an October tweet, Mr Trump called \"for the full restoration of democracy and political freedoms in Venezuela.\" The tweet reflected statements made by Mr Trump at a dinner with Latin American leaders in which he thanked them for supporting the Venezuelan people and condemning the Maduro \"dictatorship\".\n\n\n\nMr Maduro, however, has sent a word of warning to President Trump, saying in a televised speech: \"Don't repeat the errors of Obama and Bush when it comes to Venezuela and Latin America.\"\n\n\n\nIn April 2017 it emerged that Citgo Petroleum, the state oil company, gave half a million dollars to Trump's inaugural committee and a General Motors plant in the country was seized by the state.\n\n\n\nMr Trump celebrated the release of an American man in Venezuela in May this year, tweeting: \"Good news about the release of the American hostage from Venezuela.\" The man, a Mormon missionary from Utah, had been held without trial on weapons charges since 2016.\n\nVietnam played host to Trump with a lavish two-day state visit around the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Leaders' Meeting in November 2017. \n\n \n\nMr Trump tweeted his thanks for \"a wonderful visit\". \n\n \n\nMr Trump was keen to highlight a $12bn (£9bn) purchase of Boeing aircraft in a joint statement after the visit.\n\n\"[Navy Seal] Ryan died on a winning mission (according to General Mattis), not a \"failure\". Time for the US to get smart and start winning again!\" President Trump's main focus in Yemen has been his ban on its citizens from travelling to America.\n\n\n\nIn December 2017, the US Supreme Court ruled President Donald Trump's travel ban on six mainly Muslim countries could go into full effect, pending legal challenges.\n\n\n\nMr Trump has also called on Saudi Arabia to \"allow food, fuel, water, and medicine to reach the Yemeni people who desperately need it,\" in response to the humanitarian crisis linked to the ongoing Saudi campaign and blockade against Houthi rebels.\n\n\n\nYemen was the site of the first military operation authorised by Mr Trump, in which a special forces team raided the compound of a suspected terrorist leader.\n\n \n\nThe mission didn't go to plan. The US Navy Seals came under fire from fighters belonging to the al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula group (AQAP) and one member of the elite team was killed. \n\n\n\nIt later emerged that a number of civilians were also killed in the operation, which had been drawn up in November 2016 but approved by Mr Trump.\n\n \n\nIn an interview with Fox News, Mr Trump appeared to lay blame for the death of Navy Seal William \"Ryan\" Owens on military leaders. \n\n \n\n\"This was a mission that was started before I got here,\" Mr Trump said. \"They came to see me and they explained what they wanted to do, the generals, who are very respected... And they lost Ryan.\"\n\n \n\nA New York Times article claimed the Navy Seals found out their mission had been compromised after intercepting AQAP communications but they \"pressed on toward their target\" nonetheless. \n\n \n\nMr Trump responded to criticism by tweeting that it had been \"a winning mission... not a failure\". A White House statement said it was a \"successful raid\" that yielded \"important intelligence\".\n\n \n\nCarryn Owens, the widow of the Navy Seal, was invited to Mr Trump's joint address to Congress. She got a standing ovation and as the room applauded, the president said her husband's legacy was \"etched into eternity\".", "French car hire firm Europcar has admitted that it may have to pay out as much as £30m to British motorists who were overcharged for car repairs.\n\nUK Trading Standards officers launched an investigation after its office in Leicester received complaints.\n\nThe Serious Fraud Office (SFO) is also planning to launch an inquiry, according to the Daily Telegraph.\n\nThe paper says more than half a million motorists could have been overcharged for repairs over many years.\n\nIn a statement, Europcar said: \"Europcar's view is that the implications of the investigation will be somewhere in the region of £30m.\"\n\nBut the company - whose shares fell by 2.5% on Monday - said it had no further comment to make.\n\nThe Telegraph said some people were charged four times what they should have been for routine repairs.\n\nThe figures suggest an average compensation payment of up to £60 for every motorist who was overcharged.\n\nEuropcar's website says it charges an administration fee of £40 for each repair, plus up to £25 for a replacement wiper blade, and up to £350 for replacing a tyre.\n\nThe investigation appears to involve motorists who hired cars through Europcar UK, either via the website or on the phone.\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 do pollsters - and the media - keep getting elections so wrong? Ian Katz reports\n\nFew species can match the brutality of a teenage child appraising its parent.\n\nI was reminded of this the morning after last month's election as I passed my 18-year-old daughter on the stairs. \"I'm never going to believe another word you say about politics,\" she announced matter-of-factly. \"Because you've been wrong about EVERYTHING.\"\n\nIt was hard to argue. The 2015 election, Brexit, Trump, and now Corbyn's sort of moral victory… I'd called them all wrong. I was, as they say in American sport, \"Oh for four\". The only comfort was: most of the media and political world were, too.\n\nOver the last month, I've been reflecting on why we keep getting surprised, for a Newsnight film. Has the political landscape changed in some profound way we have not yet got our heads around? Or have we simply been through a period of freak political weather?\n\nNot impressed... Ian Katz's daughter is sceptical now of pundits and pollsters\n\nAnd, more immediately, how did most of the media, the pollsters and even much of the Left underestimate Labour's vote so badly?\n\nIn the spirit of group therapy, I thought I'd start with someone who was even wronger than me. Martin Boon has long been one of Britain's most respected pollsters. This time his company, ICM, got it quite spectacularly wrong; their eve-of-election poll gave the Tories a 12-point lead, a full 10 points bigger than the actual result.\n\nI found him in contemplative, even penitent, mood. In 2015, ICM got it wrong by overestimating the Labour vote. This time, they tried to address the problem by making sceptical assumptions about how many younger voters (among other groups) would turn out - and ended up massively underestimating Labour's vote.\n\n\"We were bamboozled by the turnout which we predicted wouldn't happen in the way it did,\" he said. \"And I have to hold up my hands and say that…\n\n\"The problem for me is that the techniques which didn't work in 2015 did work in 2017, and indeed the techniques which the likes of me applied in 2017 wouldn't have worked retrospectively in 2015.\"\n\nThe result of the election was a shock to many\n\nWith a degree of humility not often encountered in either politics or the media, he said pollsters had to think hard about whether \"classical orthodox polling techniques\" were still worth persevering with.\n\nOne source of comfort to pollsters and journalists mulling over why they didn't see last month's result coming is the fact that most politicians didn't either. A source told me the Labour Party's internal predictions, minutes before the exit poll was released, were for a Tory majority of around 60 seats.\n\nLabour MP Jess Phillips said she and other MPs simply weren't hearing anything on the ground to make them doubt the widely shared belief that they were heading for a drubbing.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tony Blair: \"There's been so many political upsets, it's possible that Jeremy Corbyn could become prime minister\"\n\n\"What we potentially missed in classic campaigning and classic polling is the people we're not talking to, and still I'm driving round my constituency thinking, 'Did you vote for me? Did you vote for me?' We just weren't talking to the right people.\"\n\nOne man not willing to don sackcloth and ashes just yet is ITV's political editor Robert Peston, who was more upbeat than many in the media about Jeremy Corbyn's prospects: right up to polling day when, he says, he was persuaded by senior politicians on both sides that his instincts were mistaken.\n\nLike many of us, Mr Peston confessed he was still trying to find his bearings in a world where many of the things we thought were true no longer seem to apply. \"The old rules have gone and we've got to try and make sense of how politics works. And the truthful answer is we're all feeling our way a bit.\"\n\nSo what about the man who, perhaps more than anyone, can claim to have divined the rules of modern politics? Even Tony Blair, a man not famous for self-doubt, says the events of the last two years have made him rethink some of his assumptions about politics.\n\nRobert Peston: \"The old rules have gone\"\n\n\"For most of my political life I've been saying, 'I think this is the right way to go, and what's more it's the only way to win an election.' I have to qualify that now. I have to say, 'No, I think it's possible you end up with Jeremy Corbyn as prime minister.'\n\n\"I personally think it's a surer route to power to fight it from the centre but I'm being open with you in saying that I accept now what if you'd asked me a year ago I'd have said is impossible.\"\n\nGiven that there's a fair chance we'll be grappling with another UK election in months rather than years, how can we do better at reading it than we have done on recent votes?\n\nA good person to ask seemed to be one of the few commentators who called the 2017 election almost exactly right, Rod Liddle of the Spectator and the Sunday Times.\n\nLiddle's prescription: \"Get out of town, get out of London. Unless the polls change the way they are being done ignore them. And don't follow the herd.\"\n\nMost pollsters and pundits underestimated how well Jeremy Corbyn would do in the election\n\nOf course, the BBC and other media organisations did have lots of on the ground reporting from across the country during the election and some of it did suggest that Mr Corbyn was doing better than most pollsters and pundits thought. But there's a tendency to tune out evidence that doesn't fit the prevailing narrative.\n\nOne person who never doubted that Mr Corbyn would surprise his detractors is Matt Turner, a (just) 22-year-old who, while not doing his finals last month, was helping to edit Evolve Politics, one of a clutch of pro-Corbyn websites which claimed to have their finger closer to the national pulse than traditional media.\n\nAlthough there is never a shortage of seers claiming to be wise after any surprise event, Turner has the betting slip to prove it: he put money on a hung parliament at 10-1 back in April.\n\n\"Sites like ours had our ear to the ground and we gave a more accurate reflection of what people were actually feeling. People have accused us of living in a bubble when we've accurately predicted the hung parliament. If anything it's now the Westminster media who are living in that bubble.\"\n\nThe one common thread among all those I talked to was an acknowledgement that social media - simultaneously mobilising, and polarising - has clearly changed the way millions of people experience politics. And we haven't yet worked out how to take the pulse of an election played out in 50 million timelines.\n\nFiguring out how to do that may be the most urgent challenge facing all of us whose job it is to read the political runes. For the foreseeable future, though, you'd be best advised to ignore all political predictions. And I, my daughter at least will be pleased to know, won't be making any.\n\nIan Katz is editor of BBC Newsnight - watch his full report here", "The advert was posted on Arts Council England's ArtsJobs site\n\nA theatre company has questioned if millennials \"are taught anything about... the real world\" after being unimpressed by applicants for a job.\n\nThe Tea House Theatre, in Vauxhall, south London, posted an advert for the £15,000-£20,000 administration role on Arts Council England's ArtsJobs site.\n\nIn it, the advert read that \"it shouldn't be this hard\" to find \"a grafter, who can commit\".\n\nThe theatre has so far not commented and the advert has since been removed.\n\nArts Council England said the advert was deleted for breaching terms as it targeted a specific age group.\n\nThe term \"millennial\" is typically applied to those born between 1980 and 1999, who reached adulthood in the 21st century.\n\nTea House Theatre wonders why \"millennials\" - the generation born between 1980 and 1999 and the largest age group since the baby boomers - are so turned off a job that \"shouldn't be this hard\" to fill, but perhaps the answer lies in the pay.\n\nIt wants to offer someone between £15,000 and £20,000 a year for an administrative job in London.\n\nThis works out at between £288 and £384 a week. That's less than the UK median wage for a full-time administration worker (excluding secretaries).\n\nRent is also significantly higher in London than anywhere else in England. According to the latest figures from the Valuation Office Agency, a one-bedroom property in London will cost a renter about £1,300 a month. That compares with £595 for England as a whole.\n\nSo far from having not been taught \"anything about existing in the real world, where every penny counts\", it may simply be that potential applicants, many of whom came of age after the 2008 financial crisis, were all too aware of the costs of living and working in the capital.\n\nIn the post, the firm described itself as a \"receiving house, producing house\" which has \"an outdoor events company putting on festivals on the Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens.\"\n\nHowever, the company wrote that it was the third time they had put up the advert in as many months as they \"have not been impressed so far.\"\n\n\"One old lady used to run the whole of Mountview Academy with an IBM computer, it shouldn't be this hard,\" the advert said.\n\nTea House Theatre was criticised for attacking millenials while serving \"smashed avocado on toast\"\n\nSeveral people took to social media to comment on the advert.\n\nTheatre company Creative Electric tweeted: \"Dear Tea House Theatre, it's never good to advertise that you're entitled, patronising and abusive. Love Millennials x\"\n\nRob Holley, from Camberwell, south east London, tweeted: \"You run a tea house theatre selling smashed avocado, Lohikeitto and loose leaf tea by the ounce - maybe lay off the millennials, eh?\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The video of \"Khulood\" walking around Ushayqir was shared initially on Snapchat\n\nThe authorities in Saudi Arabia are investigating a young woman who posted a video of herself wearing a miniskirt and crop-top in public.\n\nThe woman, a model called \"Khulood\", shared the clip of her walking around a historic fort in Ushayqir.\n\nThe footage sparked a heated debate on social media, with some calling for her arrest for breaking the conservative Muslim country's strict dress code.\n\nOther Saudis came to the woman's defence, praising her \"bravery\".\n\nWomen in Saudi Arabia must wear loose-fitting, full-length robes known as \"abayas\" in public, as well as a headscarf if they are Muslim. They are also banned from driving and are separated from unrelated men.\n\nIn the video initially shared on Snapchat over the weekend, Khulood is seen walking along an empty street in a fort at Ushayqir Heritage Village, about 155km (96 miles) north of the capital Riyadh, in Najd province.\n\nNajd is one of the most conservative regions in Saudi Arabia. It was where the founder of Wahhabism - the austere form of Sunni Islam that is practised by the Saudi royal family and religious establishment - was born in the late 18th Century.\n\nThe video was quickly picked up by Saudis on Twitter, where opinion was divided between those who believe Khulood should be punished and others who insisted she should be allowed to wear what she wanted.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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 فاطمة العيسى 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\nJournalist Khaled Zidan wrote: \"The return of the Haia [religious police] here is a must.\"\n\nAnother user argued: \"We should respect the laws of the country. In France, the niqab [face-covering veil] is banned and women are fined if they wear it. In Saudi Arabia, wearing abayas and modest clothing is part of the kingdom's laws.\"\n\nThe writer and philosopher, Wael al-Gassim, said he was \"shocked to see those angry, scary tweets\".\n\n\"I thought she had bombed or killed somebody. The story turned out to be about her skirt, which they did not like. I am wondering how Vision 2030 can succeed if she is arrested,\" he added, referring to the reform programme unveiled last year by Saudi Arabia's newly-appointed 31-year-old Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In April, Saudi women's rights campaigners filmed themselves walking silently in protest against driving restrictions\n\nSome defended Khulood by noting that US President Donald Trump's wife, Melania, and daughter, Ivanka, had chosen not to wear abayas or headscarves during a visit to Saudi Arabia in May.\n\nFatima al-Issa wrote: \"If she was a foreigner, they would sing about the beauty of her waist and the enchantment of her eyes... But because she is Saudi they are calling for her arrest.\"\n\nOn Monday, the Okaz newspaper reported that officials in Ushayqir had called on the provincial governor and police to take action against the woman.\n\nThe religious police, the Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice, meanwhile wrote on Twitter that it had been made aware of the video and was in contact with the relevant authorities.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince George required some gentle encouragement to leave the plane\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and their two children are in Warsaw at the start of their visit to Poland and Germany.\n\nTheir five-day tour of the two European countries is at the request of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.\n\nKensington Palace said Prince George, three, and Princess Charlotte, two, would be seen \"on at least a couple of occasions over the course of the week\".\n\nThey joined their parents in Canada last year for an official trip.\n\n\"The duke and duchess are very much looking forward to this tour and are delighted with the exciting and varied programme that has been put together for it,\" a Kensington Palace spokesman said.\n\nCharlotte and George looked out of the window after landing in Warsaw\n\nPrincess Charlotte was helped off the plane by her mother\n\nThey were greeted at Warsaw Chopin Airport by the UK's ambassador to Poland, Jonathan Knott, and his wife, alongside Poland's ambassador to Britain, Arkady Rzegocki.\n\nPrince George and Princess Charlotte were last seen in public on the balcony of Buckingham Palace for a flypast following the Trooping the Colour ceremony for the Queen's birthday last month.\n\nThe royals will travel to Germany on the second leg of their trip\n\nFor Prince George and Princess Charlotte such trips are a novelty but, as the future of the British monarchy, they'll one day become a way of life.\n\nFor their parents, the visit to Poland and Germany will inevitably be viewed in the context of Brexit.\n\nIt won't have any impact on the negotiations.\n\nIt will, the Foreign Office hopes, remind people of the strength of the ties that will endure after the UK has left the EU.\n\nIt's this mission the royals have pursued in recent months in various European cities.\n\nThe royal couple and their children were welcomed in Warsaw at a meeting with President Andrzej Duda.\n\nPrince William and the duchess joined the president and the first lady to greet well wishers around the presidential palace.\n\nStudent Magda Mordaka, 21, said: \"We were telling [the duchess] that she is beautiful and perfect, but she said it's not true - it's just the make-up.\"\n\nThe Polish ambassador to the UK presented the royal couple with three books to give to George and Charlotte. They were Mr Miniscule and the Whale, Bees: A Honeyed History, and Maps.\n\nCatherine and Poland's first lady received flowers while meeting children\n\nPrince William and Catherine visited the Warsaw Rising Museum, dedicated to the 1944 Polish uprising to liberate Warsaw from German occupation during World War Two.\n\nSome 200,000 Polish people died during 63 days of fighting.\n\nPrince William and Catherine paid their respects to the fallen soldiers of the uprising when they visited a wall of remembrance.\n\nThe names of 34 British servicemen, who died trying to give supplies to the Polish soldiers, were also listed on the wall.\n\nThe duke and President Andrzej Duda lit a candle to honour the fallen\n\nThe royals felt a pulsating wall that symbolised the Nazis not being able to stop Warsaw's heartbeat\n\nLater, William spoke at an evening garden party to celebrate the Queen's birthday, telling guests in Polish: \"Good evening, we hope you have a nice party.\"\n\nHe also also hailed Poland's \"courage, fortitude and bravery\" in surviving centuries of assaults, particularly its \"incredible bravery\" during the Nazi occupation.\n\nHe read a message from the Queen detailing 1,000 years of ties between the UK and Poland.\n\nCatherine wore a sleeveless white dress by Polish designer Gosia Baczynska for the occasion.\n\nBaczynska's designs, worn here by Catherine, featured in Paris fashion week\n\nIn Germany later this week, Chancellor Angela Merkel will hold a private meeting with the royal couple in Berlin before they visit the Brandenburg Gate, a symbol of German unification.\n\nThe duke and duchess will also visit Berlin's Holocaust museum and memorial.\n\nA boat race is planned in the Germany city of Heidelberg, which is twinned with Cambridge.\n\nWilliam and Catherine will cox opposing rowing teams in the race with crews from Cambridge and Heidelberg.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. PC Jonathan Adams called in sick but was seen on TV celebrating a win at Ascot (Footage courtesy Racing UK)\n\nA police officer who threw a \"sickie\" three times to watch horse racing has been sacked after being found guilty of gross misconduct.\n\nPC Jonathan Adams, of Ross-on-Wye, went twice to Nottingham Racecourse and to Royal Ascot where he was seen celebrating a win on television.\n\nThe officer said the trips were \"therapeutic\" to deal with a \"toxic\" work environment.\n\nA disciplinary hearing concluded PC Adams was \"not as sick as he claimed\".\n\nPC Adams, an officer at Gloucester's Barton Street station, part-owned a horse with a racing syndicate.\n\nPC Jonathan Adams said trips to the races were 'therapeutic'\n\nThe panel was told that in September 2015 and April 2016 he had reported in sick and went to Nottingham racecourse to watch the horse he part-owned, named Little Lady Katy.\n\nIn June 2016 he reported in sick again and went to Royal Ascot to watch Quiet Reflection, another horse owned by his syndicate, win the Commonwealth Cup.\n\nThe misconduct panel was shown a television clip of PC Adams jumping around and celebrating.\n\nStephen Morley, presenting the case for the force, told the hearing: \"In a nutshell, on three occasions he deliberately reported sick in order to go to the horse races.\n\n\"We do not accept he was sick at all. He was throwing a sickie to go horse racing.\"\n\nPC Adams said he had taken time off to avoid a \"toxic\" environment at Barton Street station. He described suffering stomach cramps, migraines and irritable bowel syndrome.\n\nThe hearing was told it was \"quite clear\" he was \"not OK\" and was \"struggling with his environment\".\n\nRichard Shepherd, representing PC Adams, said: \"He would not have let his colleagues down to go on a jolly at the races. It is not in his DNA.\"\n\nBut Alex Lock, chair of the panel, said: \"We are forced to conclude that Pc Adams was not suffering the degree of sickness that he claimed he was.\n\n\"It is important that police officers are honest and that public confidence should be upheld.\n\n\"In the circumstances we conclude that dismissal without notice is appropriate in order to maintain public confidence in the force.\"\n• None PC 'pulled triple sickie' to go to races\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mr Trump has hosted several high-profile guests in Mar-a-Lago\n\nA US court has ordered that President Donald Trump release records of visitors to his Mar-a-Lago resort in southern Florida.\n\nMr Trump has been to the property seven times this year, including when he hosted foreign leaders. But it is unclear who else he had as guests.\n\nThe move is part of a legal challenge brought by a non-profit watchdog group.\n\nMeanwhile, the outgoing head of the government ethics agency says the US has been made a virtual laughing stock.\n\nWalter Shaub told the New York Times that the Trump administration has ignored long-established guidelines, and that the flouting of ethics rules at home makes it hard for the US to tackle corruption overseas.\n\nThe White House has dismissed the criticism, saying that Mr Shaub was promoting himself and had failed to do his job properly.\n\nAmong the visitors that Mr Trump has hosted at his resort - which he calls the \"Winter White House\" - are Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Chinese President Xi Jinping.\n\nThe legal case for details of the visitors was launched by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (Crew), the National Security Archive (NSA) and the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University.\n\nMr Trump and Mr Abe played golf in the Florida resort in February\n\nThe records must be released by 8 September, a US District Court for the Southern District of New York judge decided. It is not clear what information will be revealed.\n\nThe groups had also filed lawsuits for visitor records at the White House and Trump Tower in New York, a statement said.\n\nThe Department of Homeland Security, which oversees the Secret Service, said it had no records of visitors at Trump Tower, while the lawsuit was still ongoing for the White House.\n\n\"The public deserves to know who is coming to meet with the president and his staff,\" Crew Executive Director Noah Bookbinder said.\n\n\"We are glad that as a result of this case, this information will become public for meetings at his personal residences - but it needs to be public for meetings at the White House as well.\"\n\nThe Trump administration has not revealed the names of White House visitors. The Obama government started disclosing its visitor records in 2009, after a lawsuit brought by Crew.", "There were strong currents in the sea when the accident happened. Picture courtesy of Ostuni Notizie\n\nA British man and a beach worker have died at an Italian beach after they went to help the tourist's daughter who got into difficulties in rough seas.\n\nItalian reports say the 11-year-old girl had been playing in the sea with her grandfather at a beach at Ostuni on the south-east coast near Brindisi.\n\nWhen the pair struggled in a strong current, the girl's father and the local worker rushed to their aid.\n\nThey too were overcome by the waves and rescuers struggled to reach them.\n\nThe girl and her grandfather were eventually brought to safety.\n\nThe British tourist has not been officially identified, but local media named him as 48-year-old Simon Alessandro Pearson.\n\nThe UK foreign office said in a statement it was \"supporting the family of a British man following his death\".\n\nThe local worker has been identified as Martino Maggi, 49.\n\nThey were both rescued alive but died shortly afterwards despite attempts by rescue workers to save them, Ostuni Notizie website reports (in Italian).\n\nThe incident unfolded at about 10:00 (08:00 GMT) on Tuesday, at Bosco Verde beach.\n\nOfficials say the sea there is notorious for a strong north-easterly wind and local reports suggest the two men who died were unable to get back to the shore because of the strength of the current.\n\n\"That stretch of coastline unfortunately isn't new to this kind of tragedy,\" Giuseppe Chiarelli of Brindisi port authority told Rai TV.", "A security firm is under investigation for allegedly supplying cloned badges to unlicensed stewards at UK festivals this summer.\n\nThe Security Industry Authority (SIA) confirmed it was investigating LS Armour Security Ltd of Barry, south Wales, following a compliance check.\n\nThe watchdog issues licences to bouncers and security firms.\n\nIt said it was \"exceptional\" for it to comment and had taken \"unprecedented action due to public safety\".\n\nThe inspection has led to two arrests and the seizure of business records, including some relating to future events with contracts for security operatives around the UK.\n\nThe SIA has also written to various organisers of events and festivals that have used the firm in the past and have bookings in the future.\n\nIn a statement, an SIA spokesman said: \"This type of unlawful conduct remains rare due to responsible organisers and security providers conducting appropriate due diligence.\n\n\"Nevertheless, the SIA understands that at this time of year, event organisers and primary contractors may not have sufficient SIA-licensed staff, which can lead to extensive sub-contracting.\n\n\"This provides opportunities to rogue providers that, with appropriate checks by organisers and primary contractors, can be largely mitigated.\"\n\nEntertainment venues are seen as potential targets for terrorists\n\nIn a letter to promoters, the SIA's deputy director said: \"If SIA-licensed staff arrive on site and are unknown to you, you must take all reasonable steps to ensure the person named on and in possession of the licence are the same person by requiring them to provide further evidence of identity.\n\n\"This will mitigate the risk of the cloned licence.\"\n\nIn response to the report, LS Armour Security Ltd's director Erica Lloyd told the BBC: \"As a company we have only been made aware of one arrest as a result of a cloned badge, and this individual was cautioned by police and subsequently released without charge.\n\n\"At this point this individual was contacted by LS Armour and told he would no longer be employed for any future events.\"\n\nShe said that the SIA's system to check whether someone holds a valid licence - the Register of Licence Holders, available on the SIA website - was \"simplistic\" and \"inadequate\".\n\nShe added that this view was \"brought to the attention of an SIA representative earlier this month, although at this time and on looking at the SIA website this appears to still be the only avenue of checking available\".\n\nMs Lloyd said LS Armour Security Ltd were \"fully complying with the SIA investigation\".\n\nThe Victoria Derbyshire programme is broadcast on weekdays between 09:00 and 11:00 on BBC Two and the BBC News Channel.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Drone footage of the flash floods which hit the village of Coverack in Cornwall\n\nFlash flooding has seen torrents of water sweep through a Cornish village.\n\nResidents in Coverack, on the Lizard Peninsula, reported roads being blocked and hailstones the size of 50 pence pieces smashing windows.\n\nHeavy rainfall hit at about 15:00 BST on Tuesday and about 50 properties are estimated to be affected by the flooding, but no injuries have been reported.\n\nEmergency services will meet at 09:00 BST \"to coordinate the recovery phase\".\n\nCornwall Fire and Rescue Service said its crews attended \"multiple flooding-related incidents\" and urged people to \"avoid this area\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The coastguard helicopter crew winch people to safety in Coverack, Cornwall\n\nCornwall Council said the first calls about the flooding were received about 15:40. One person was reported to be trapped in an outbuilding and six people were on the roof of their property.\n\nA major incident was declared at 17:20 and the helicopter was deployed to rescue the people trapped on the roof.\n\nGloria Knight, who lives on a hill above Coverack, said her garden became 'like a waterfall'\n\nA spokeswoman for the Maritime and Coastguard Agency said a helicopter was sent from Newquay.\n\nShe said: \"Six people were in a house and two have been rescued from the house by helicopter.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The helicopter rescue was caught on video\n\nKarla Wainwright, who works at the Paris Hotel, said: \"This afternoon we could tell it was going to get about stormy, then about 3pm it hit.\n\n\"There were hailstones as big as 50p pieces and a lot of small panes in our windows are broken.\"\n\nMs Wainwright said the storm continued for an hour and a half.\n\n\"Once it cleared off then we could see a massive flood of water coming down the main way into Coverack.\"\n\nWater ran through the village before crashing over cliffs and into the sea\n\n15:00 BST - Heavy rain moves in to the village of Coverack\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBill Magill, who owns the nearby White Hart Hotel, said the water was \"over a foot high\" in some areas.\n\n\"It was nothing like I've ever known in this area, we were totally unprepared for it and it was totally unexpected,\" he said.\n\n\"[It was] racing down a little country lane, pouring over the banks like these waterfalls.\"\n\nThe Met Office said the flood followed heavy thunderstorms and rain in Cornwall and Devon on Tuesday afternoon.\n\nBill Frisken, a local councillor in Coverack, said he could not access the centre of the village because the main road was underwater.\n\nA bus became stuck in the water on the road into Coverack\n\nDescribing the speed with which the flood hit, he said: \"It was almost instantaneous.\"\n\n\"The village has effectively been cut in half, you can't cross the river,\" he added.\n\nMr Frisken said he and his wife had to bail water out of their kitchen, while their garage was also flooded.\n\n\"It was several feet of water coming down and pouring into the house. The depth of water was immense.\"\n\nAnother witness said: \"I have never seen such big hails. The sun was shining and the wind was blowing and it was hailing, all at the same time.\n\n\"It was quite amazing really.\"\n\nA Cornwall Council spokesman confirmed some properties in the village and one of the roads suffered structural damage and are due to be inspected by structural engineers.\n\nA local hotel offered accommodation to anyone unable to return to their home, while one elderly resident was moved to a local nursing home.\n\nA meeting is due to be held for residents at the village's Paris Hotel at 11:30 BST on Wednesday which will be attended by council officers.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "US officials say the Maryland complex doubles as a spying outpost\n\nRussia has been pressing demands that the US give it access to two diplomatic compounds seized in the US last year.\n\nAfter high-level talks between both sides, one Russian official involved said the row had \"almost\" been resolved.\n\nRussia has been angered by the move, with Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov calling it \"daylight robbery\".\n\nIn December the US expelled 35 Russian diplomats and shut the compounds over suspicions of meddling in US elections.\n\nThe talks saw US Undersecretary of State Thomas Shannon host Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov in Washington on Monday.\n\nMr Ryabkov sounded upbeat after three hours of talks with the American diplomat.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What does body language tell us about the Trump-Putin G20 meeting?\n\nHe was asked by reporters if the spat over the diplomatic compounds had been settled, and he replied: \"Almost, almost.\"\n\nUS officials did not comment and there has been no official press briefing.\n\nThe meeting was meant to have been held in June in St Petersburg, but was cancelled after the US government added 38 individuals and organisations to its list of sanctions over Russian activity in Ukraine.\n\nBefore the talks Russia made clear it was demanding restored access to the facilities.\n\n\"We consider it absolutely unacceptable to place conditions on the return of diplomatic property, we consider that it must be returned without any conditions and talking,\" Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.\n\nMr Lavrov said that this was not the way decent and well-brought-up people behaved.\n\n\"How can you seize property which is protected by a bilateral, inter-governmental, ratified document and, to return it, act according to the principle 'what is mine is mine, and what is yours we'll share'?\" he said during a visit to Belarus.\n\nLast week Russia said it was considering \"specific measures\" in retaliation, including the expulsion of 30 US diplomats and seizure of US state property.\n\nEx-President Barack Obama acted against Russia after US intelligence sources accused Russian state agents of hacking into Democratic Party computers to undermine Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign.\n\nThe Long Island property is surrounded by trees\n\nPresident Donald Trump's team is under investigation over alleged Russian collusion during last year's presidential campaign. The Kremlin has denied interfering in the election.\n\nThe Obama sanctions came on top of existing Western sanctions imposed because of Russia's role in the Ukraine conflict.\n\nAt the time Mr Putin refrained from tit-for-tat retaliation - unlike in previous diplomatic spats. Mr Trump had been elected to succeed President Obama just weeks before.\n\nRussia says President Trump presented \"no plan to resolve the crisis\" when the issue was raised at the G20 meeting in Hamburg on 7 July.\n\nRussia would retaliate if no compromise was reached at the meeting between Mr Ryabkov and Mr Shannon, the Russian newspaper Izvestia reported.\n\nRussian officials welcomed the tone of the recent meeting between the two presidents.\n\nBut the political climate in Washington has only grown more toxic, with the ongoing inquiries into allegations of Russian meddling in the presidential election, and possible collusion with the Trump campaign.\n\nThat makes any concessions to Moscow controversial.\n\nRussia's threat to expel some American diplomats if it does not get its property back would further complicate the strained relationship.", "President Rouhani began his second term at loggerheads with influential hardliners\n\nTwo high-profile judiciary cases in Iran this weekend have underlined renewed political tensions between the country's recently re-elected president, Hassan Rouhani, and establishment hardliners.\n\nThe first case involves the arrest of the president's own brother, and the second an American academic jailed for 10 years after being convicted of espionage.\n\nThe arrest of Hossein Fereydoun, Hassan Rouhani's brother who goes by a different surname, was not wholly unexpected.\n\nDuring Mr Rouhani's first term, Hossein Fereydoun was one of his most trusted advisors.\n\nAlthough he did not occupy any official position Mr Fereydoun was present at the high-level international nuclear negotiations over Iran's nuclear programme, acting as the president's \"eyes and ears\".\n\nHossein Fereydoun was one of the president's closest advisers\n\nHe has frequently been the target of corruption allegations, most notably during last May's bitterly hard-fought presidential election, when President Rouhani's two main challengers, Ebrahim Raisi and Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, frequently mentioned him and also accused Mr Rouhani of nepotism for continuing to support him.\n\nAlthough Mr Rouhani won the election with a clear majority, the two losing candidates show no signs in backing down in their criticism of him.\n\nWhile the charges against Mr Fereydoun are not clear, a spokesman for the Iranian judiciary said on Monday that he had been detained in relation to an ongoing investigation. He was subsequently freed on bail, according to reports.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Hassan Rouhani worked hard for re-election - but he'll have to work even harder on three big issues\n\nThe second case, which made headlines around the world, was the 10-year prison sentence for Xiyue Wang, a Princeton post-graduate history student who was in Iran doing research for a doctoral thesis on late 19th Century and early 20th Century history.\n\nHe is reported to have been arrested several months ago but the news only became public when the sentence was announced, and few details are known.\n\nCommenting on the case without naming Mr Wang, an Iranian judiciary spokesman described him as \"an American infiltrator\".\n\nAn Iranian news site with ties to the Judiciary said Mr Wang was part of a \"spider network\" - Iranian code for a spy ring.\n\nWhether by coincidence or part of a meticulous plan, both cases share one important aspect: both will put President Rouhani in a difficult position, both at home and abroad, as he begins a second term facing big challenges to fulfil the expectations of an electorate hoping for reform and economic progress.\n\nInside Iran, the arrest of the president's brother and most trusted adviser is seen by many observers as a major blow to his plans for the next four years.\n\nIf the case goes further and charges are made, specially charges of corruption, it could pave the way for more accusations to be made against other officials and even the president himself.\n\nOutside Iran, the arrest of Mr Wang, a dual Chinese-US citizen puts even more pressure on an already fragile relationship with the US government.\n\nPresident Trump and his administration have taken a much harder line on Iran than their predecessors.\n\nThe president has made clear his distaste for the 2015 nuclear deal, but while it remains in place for now, there have been no official contacts between Iran and the US since he took over, and the two countries have traded mutual accusations.\n\nThe jailing of Mr Wang can only cause more bitterness and widen the gap between the two sides.\n\nMr Wang is certainly not the first US citizen to be jailed in Iran - although all of the other current detainees are joint US-Iranian nationals.\n\nBut every time a case like this arises the result is more bad headlines, diplomatic headaches, and long negotiations which often end with none of the initial accusations being proved.\n\nIt's still too early to predict what the outcome will be for both of these current cases, and the details are still too sketchy.\n\nOne thing is certain though - both cases carry a very strong message to a president who very publicly challenged the establishment, judiciary and revolutionary guards during recent presidential campaigns, accusing them of not only sabotaging nuclear negotiations but also his domestic plans for reforming Iran's politics and economy.\n\nThey are accusations that the hardliners are not likely to forget and one for which they will be seeking revenge.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Brothers Lee and Luke Payne speak out about Sarah's murder\n\nThe older brothers of murdered schoolgirl Sarah Payne have spoken for the first time of their guilt in not being able to save her.\n\nThe eight-year-old was abducted and murdered by paedophile Roy Whiting in 2000.\n\nSpeaking to Channel 5, Luke and Lee Payne said she ran ahead of them before being snatched by Whiting.\n\nLee said: \"I did for a few years beat myself up .... that if I ran faster ... I might have caught up with her\".\n\nSarah Payne was killed in 2000 by paedophile Roy Whiting\n\nLuke, now 28, and Lee, 30, said Sarah ran from them and sister Charlotte to a road on the edge of a field while on a day out in Kingston Gorse, West Sussex.\n\nShe was not seen alive again and the brothers remember Whiting smiling at them as he drove her away.\n\nLuke, who was 12 at the time, said the thought he could have saved her \"eats you up inside\".\n\nHe said he is haunted by what happened: \"I don't get a lot of sleep. I dread the night, because it's just you and your thoughts.\"\n\nHis late father, Michael, bought a sawn-off shotgun and talked to him about what he would do if Whiting was found not guilty.\n\nLuke added that when he sees Sarah's friends now: \"I always wonder where she would be... what she would be doing... whatever she would have been doing, she would have shined.\"\n\nLee, who was then 13, remembers seeing Whiting drive past the field in his van looking \"dodgy\" - smiling and waving at him seconds after the abduction.\n\nLee said he was \"literally 30 seconds behind her\" but initially thought she was hiding.\n\nLuke Payne says he is haunted by the memory of losing his sister\n\nHe said he would never get over the loss.\n\nThe family lived in Hersham, Surrey, and mother Sara Payne described seeing Whiting in court for the first time and realising he \"wasn't a monster\" but a \"sad, lonely person\".\n\nWhiting was jailed for life in 2001 and will serve a minimum of 40 years.\n\nThe family spoke to Channel 5 for the documentary Sarah Payne: A Mother's Story.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Steve\", who is on the Prevent programme, tells Today's Sangita Myska that drink and drugs helped fuel his extremism\n\nThe number of far-right extremists on the UK's anti-radicalisation scheme has risen significantly, latest figures show.\n\n\"Steve\", who is on the Prevent programme, says drink and drugs helped fuel his extremism.\n\nWhen I met Steve, the first thing I noticed were his prominent far-right and Nazi tattoos.\n\nI asked him to explain them to me and, as he did so, he appeared to examine his ink-stained skin with a mixture of confusion and disgust.\n\n\"Years ago I had a kind of warrior-type figure,\" he says, \"with a very significant English shield, a weapon.\n\n\"The other one here says 'English Martyr',\" he says, adding that \"more recently and more dangerously I had two Waffen-SS tattoos on my fingers\".\n\nSteve has asked us to disguise his identity to keep him safe from his former associates.\n\nHe tells me the tattoos no longer represent his political views and that things changed six months ago, when he was picked up by counter-extremist authorities.\n\nHe now receives intensive de-radicalisation counselling via the Channel programme, part of the government's counter-extremism strategy, Prevent.\n\nLast year, far-right extremists accounted for one-third of all referrals to Channel - which very rarely gives access to those on it - up from a quarter in 2015.\n\nThe Home Office says in some areas, far-right referrals \"account for more than half\" of all those sent on the scheme.\n\nSteve says his fascination with extremism began in his childhood.\n\n\"As a child a lot of my friends would have Action Men dressed up in British military costume.\n\n\"I'd always go for stormtroopers or any kind of Germanic influence. I felt they were the underdog,\" he says.\n\n\"As I grew, I liked the power element and the ruthlessness of the Nazi regime.\n\n\"I always told myself that the only thing I didn't like about the Nazi regime was the way they treated the Jews.\"\n\nAs he got older, he says his markings became an attempt to be taken seriously by those with hardened far-right views,\n\n\"The kind of language I was using at the time, it was evidence that it was the real deal, the real thing. It wasn't just idle chit-chat in pubs saying right-wing mantra.\"\n\nSteve has mental health issues. He is an alcoholic and occasional cocaine user.\n\n\"Your ability to make wise decisions is blurred,\" he says, when asked about his addictions.\n\n\"I was in the company of people who were quite happy to jump on a bus to the next EDL march. I'd be on my merry way just to fit in with people.\"\n\n\"It could be a simple phone call,\" he adds. \"You could be quite innocently be sitting in a pub, playing darts, chatting, and the next minute there's a phone call and there's a minibus on the way.\"\n\nThe call would come from someone in his social circle, he says, someone saying \"there's a march on 10 miles away, let's go for a drink and see what's happening\".\n\nHe is currently receiving counselling for his substance abuse and interest in far-right ideas.\n\nPrevent operates in the so-called pre-criminal space. In other words, it aims to identify people before they commit a terrorist act.\n\nSteve has not been convicted of any racially-aggravated crimes or terrorist offences. He says he has given money to a far-right political party, but was not a registered member.\n\nSix months ago, his life took \"a surreal turn\" when he ended up with a dedicated counter-terrorism unit officer assigned to him.\n\n\"During the worst moment of my drinking, I went to A&E on several occasions, where I believe I was being quite abusive in the reception area.\n\n\"I was carrying around a book lots of people consider dangerous - called American Psycho - a book full of violence and nasty stuff.\"\n\nSteve says the drinking and drug abuse meant what happened next remains hazy.\n\n\"I found myself in my flat, surrounded by policemen, and the counter-terrorism unit identified themselves. I realised, I was in some kind of serious trouble.\"\n\nIt is, controversially, now a requirement that hospital staff report those they believe to be at risk of radicalisation to the authorities.\n\nSteve cannot remember for sure whether this happened in his case. But he now receives intense one-to-one counselling funded by Channel, an arm of the Prevent strategy.\n\nHe says he has conducted de-radicalisation work with Islamist and far-right extremists. He argues Prevent is a vital tool in safeguarding vulnerable individuals - including, he adds, people like Steve.\n\n\"People were trying to use his vulnerability to drugs and other underlying mental health issues, knowing full well he was easy to prey on, easy to manipulate and easy to go and do something for them.\"\n\nHe says Steve was the victim of organised psychological groomers.\n\n\"This is how extremists work. They prey on the most vulnerable. They groom them and then go out and get them to do their dirty work.\"\n\nSteve has been sober for six months. He's left the predominantly white market town where he grew up.\n\nHis social circle perpetuated what he calls an ever-decreasing circle of alcohol, drugs and tolerance of racist attitudes - and a discourse littered with racist terms.\n\nAs he looks at his skin again, I ask Steve how he feels now about his Nazi and far-right tattoos.\n\nHe takes a long pause and says: \"It's like another world. It is what it is. It's probably the most embarrassing and unforgiving thing I've ever done in my life.", "Is this the end of the repeal-and-replace war?\n\nIn the end the death blow to the latest iteration of Obamacare repeal came from the right flank.\n\nSenate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was always going to have to walk a fine line in his effort to keep both moderates and hardcore conservatives in the party on board with his healthcare reform proposal.\n\nAfter his first draft failed to garner sufficient support, he came out with a new version that moved farther to the right in key areas while throwing money to keep the moderates satiated.\n\nThat strategy worked in the House, where Freedom Caucus arch-conservatives and just enough moderates came around to rescue the legislation from death's doorstep.\n\nIn the Senate, the entire rickety structure came tumbling down. Mike Lee of Utah and Jerry Moran balked, citing insufficient tax and regulation rollbacks.\n\nExpect a stampede for the exits in the coming days, as everyone abandons what was always an unpopular bill.\n\nOn Monday night the president himself led the way, calling for repeal without so much as a plan for what to do next.\n\nThen again, the Republican Party never really had a replacement plan, and its attempts to craft one on the fly - something that would perform better than Obamacare while costing less money - were like one of those hapless early airplane designs that flapped its wings or spun its wheels but never left the ground.\n\nThe Senate may very well try to vote on straight-up repeal, as the president has suggested - one with a two-year fuse - but it stands little chance of winning majority support. If and when that fails, it's back to the drawing board for Republicans.\n\nThe urgent need to do something, anything, to fulfil their years of healthcare promises is still there.\n\nThe White House is pledging to keep up the pressure.\n\nThere could even be a move, as some Republicans are now urging, to reach out to Democrats for help crafting a bipartisan solution to fix some of the current system's more glaring shortcomings.\n\nThis isn't the end of congressional efforts to pass healthcare legislation. But it's likely the end of the repeal-and-replace war as it's been waged for the past six months.\n\nThe final casualty list won't be tabulated at least until the midterm elections in November 2018, but it's not too early to wonder exactly how high the political death count for Republicans might run.\n\nThe Senate's Obamacare repeal bill is woefully unpopular and has led to numerous protests\n\nAll the members of the House of Representatives who gathered on the grounds of the White House to celebrate voting for a bill that was both politically toxic and will now never see the light of day have to be wondering if they stuck their neck out only to see the glint of the guillotine.\n\nOthers may be left wondering if the grassroots Tea Party faithful who rallied to their sides in opposition to Barack Obama and the Democrats in years past may find better things to do than vote when the next election day rolls around.\n\nPolitical epitaphs aren't written in a day, and Mr Trump and the Republicans still have the opportunity to regroup and recover. They could find solace in a tax reform package or some new, as yet unrevealed infrastructure spending plan.\n\nThis is a serious setback, however. And time is a commodity in increasingly limited supply.", "The new plastic £10 note has been unveiled by Bank of England governor Mark Carney at Winchester Cathedral.\n\nThe note, which follows the polymer £5, will be issued on 14 September and has a portrait of Jane Austen on the 200th anniversary of the author's death.\n\nIt is also the first Bank of England note to include a tactile feature to help visually impaired people.\n\nMeanwhile, a limited supply of a new £2 coin honouring Jane Austen has been put into circulation by the Royal Mint.\n\nThe coin will initially only be available in tills at key locations in the Winchester and Basingstoke areas that have connections with Austen, including Winchester Cathedral and the Jane Austen House Museum.\n\nIt will be circulated more widely across the UK later this year.\n\nThe £10 note will be made of the same material as the £5 note, which means it also contains some traces of animal fat - an issue which caused concern for vegans and some religious groups when it was launched last September.\n\nA petition to ban the note attracted more than 100,000 signatures but the new £10 will again contain some tallow, which is derived from meat products.\n\nThe new £10 note (top) is smaller than the current one\n\nThe Jane Austen quote on the note from Pride and Prejudice has also attracted some unfavourable comment.\n\nThe quotation: \"I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!\" is uttered by a character called Caroline Bingley who in fact has no interest in books and is merely trying to impress Mr Darcy, a potential suitor.\n\n\"It captures much of her [Jane Austen's] spirit, at least in my mind,\" he said. \"It draws out some of the essence of some of her social satire and her insight into people's character. So it works on multiple levels.\"\n\nA new polymer £20 featuring artist JMW Turner is due to be issued by 2020, but there are no plans to replace the current £50 note, which was released in 2011.\n\nThe Bank of England says the new £10 notes contain sophisticated security features and are expected to last five years, which is two-and-a-half times longer than the current note.\n\nThe tactile feature was developed in conjunction with the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) and is a series of raised dots in the top left-hand corner of each note.\n\nBank notes are already in tiered sizes, and have bold numerals, raised print and differing colours to help blind and partially sighted people.\n\nLaunching the note in Winchester Cathedral, Austen's final resting place, Mr Carney paid tribute to the author, saying: \"The new £10 note celebrates Jane Austen's work. Austen's novels have a universal appeal and speak as powerfully today as they did when they were first published.\"\n\nVictoria Cleland, the Bank's chief cashier, said: \"The new £10 note marks the next exciting step in our introduction of cleaner, safer, stronger polymer banknotes, and I am grateful to the cash industry for their work towards a smooth transition.\"\n\nThe design of the note includes the quote \"I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!\" from Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice and a portrait of the novelist based on an original sketch drawn by her sister Cassandra.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jane Austen \"would have been gobsmacked\" by the new £2 coin and £10 note says biographer\n\nMeanwhile, the Austen £2 coin, designed by Royal Mint graphic designer Dominique Evans, features Austen's silhouette, set in a period frame against a backdrop of Regency wallpaper.\n\nMs Evans said: \"I imagined Jane Austen's framed silhouette as if it were in one of the houses featured in her books, on the wall of a corridor as guests passed by to attend a dance, perhaps in Pride and Prejudice, or on the wall in the home of Emma.\"\n\nAusten had her first novel Sense and Sensibility published anonymously in 1811 at the age of 35.\n\nThe Bank of Scotland unveiled the design of its new plastic £10 note at the end of May.\n\nFeaturing Scottish novelist and poet Sir Walter Scott alongside The Mound in Edinburgh on the front and the Glenfinnan Viaduct on the back, it also has a picture of a steam locomotive hauling a heritage tourist train.\n\nThe note is due to come into circulation in the autumn.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. After a huge brawl on Thursday last week, fighting has resumed in Taiwan's parliament\n\nOn the outside, the main building of Taiwan's Legislative Yuan - or parliament - is a picture of calm.\n\nTwo rows of neatly-trimmed shrubbery and trees line the courtyard leading to the stately-looking, white building with a Republic of China (Taiwan) flag on top.\n\nBut inside, the picture is very different.\n\nIn fact, while parliamentary brawls occur occasionally in other countries, Taiwan's Legislative Yuan is notorious for them.\n\nScuffles are common in Taiwan's Legislative Yuan - but they are getting uglier\n\nRowdy and sometimes violent scuffles occur as often as several times a year and even every few days or weeks.\n\nPunching, hair pulling, throwing plastic bottles and water balloons, as well as splashing cups of water on the faces of rival party legislators are common scenes. Air-horns and filibustering - more like shouting - are also used to drown out one's opponents.\n\n23 March 2004: A scuffle erupted between the ruling and opposition party members over vote recounts from the presidential election.\n\n7 May 2004: Legislator Zhu Xingyu grabbed legislator William Lai and tried to wrestle him onto a desk and headbutt him, and jabbed him in the stomach, due to disagreements over legislative procedures.\n\n26 October 2004: A food fight took place between the opposition and ruling party during a debate on a military hardware purchase ordinance.\n\n30 May 2006: Then opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) legislator Wang Shu-hui snatched a written proposal and shoved it into her mouth to prevent voting on allowing direct transportation links with Mainland China. Ruling party members tried to force her to cough it up by pulling her hair. She later spat it out but tore it up.\n\n8 May 2007: Several members of the ruling DPP and opposition Kuomintang (KMT) party fought over control of the Speaker's podium, with some throwing punches and spraying water over an alleged delay of the annual budget. At least one person was admitted to hospital.\n\nHowever this month's fights have become even uglier. Last Thursday, legislators lifted up and threw chairs at each other when they brawled over the ruling DPP's massive $29bn (£22bn) infrastructure spending bill, which the opposition (headed by the KMT) claims benefits cities and counties loyal to the DPP and is aimed at helping the party win forthcoming elections.\n\nThe fighting continued on Tuesday in a legislative committee meeting. The opposition KMT legislators wrestled DPP members to the floor and unplugged the cables of loud speakers to prevent the DPP from putting the bill through a committee review to move it towards passage into law.\n\nOpposition parties, a minority in the 113-seat parliament, see physical fights as the only way to stop legislation they oppose, by blocking them from being voted on.\n\nThe standoffs can last for hours, even into the middle of the night. Legislators take turns eating or delay meals.\n\nMany staff from local governments, ministries or government agencies have to be there, to see if legislation that affects them might pass, or to be on hand to answer questions in case there is actual discussion and debating, not just brawling.\n\nThese people find ways to put up with the chaotic scenes. Some cover their ears, others focus on their smartphones, and a few smart ones find the most comfortable couches in the back and manage to sleep through it all.\n\nIt's become a normal part of Taiwan's democracy - one of the most vibrant in the world.\n\nParties see parliamentary fights as an effective way to prevent the passing of legislation\n\nBut the fights shouldn't be taken too seriously, says a local journalist who covers parliament on a daily basis. He wished to be identified only by his first name.\n\n\"The legislators are partly acting - trying to show their constituents they're working hard to fight for their cause,\" said Danny.\n\nHowever, he and other Taiwanese people say the brawls - with some broadcasted worldwide - are humiliating and do not advance democracy.\n\n\"The fights only allow the people to see the surface, not real issues. People often don't even understand the bills,\" said Danny.\n\nHe admitted that many journalists don't either. This current infrastructure bill is 10,000 pages long; it's impossible for them to read through all of it.\n\n\"If the legislators actually debate the contents of the bill instead of fight, the public might understand it better,\" said Danny. \"I majored in politics in college. This is not what I had expected.\"", "An Australian woman has been killed by a US police officer responding to a 911 call in Minneapolis.\n\nThe Minnesota Department of Public Safety said police responded to \"a call of possible assault\" when \"at one point an officer fired their weapon, fatally striking a woman\".\n\nOfficials said the officers' body cameras were not turned on at the time of the Saturday shooting.\n\nThe victim has been identified by Australian officials as Justine Damond.\n\nAccording to Australian media, the 40-year old woman was living in Minneapolis with her fiancé. The woman called 911 to report a noise near her home when the incident occurred, reports said.\n\nMs Damond, dressed in her pyjamas, reportedly approached the driver's side door and was talking to the officer at the wheel after the police arrived, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune reported, citing three sources with knowledge of the incident.\n\nThe officer in the passenger seat, identified by local media as Mohamed Noor, reportedly drew his gun and shot Ms Damond through the driver's window, the newspaper reported.\n\nMr Noor's lawyer, Tom Plunkett, confirmed on Monday that his client had fired his weapon, killing Ms Damond.\n\n\"We take this seriously with great compassion for all persons who are being touched by this,\" he said in a statement to CBS News.\n\nA man claiming to be Ms Damond's stepson also said in a Facebook video that she was the one who alerted authorities.\n\n\"Basically, my mom's dead because a police officer shot her for reasons I don't know,\" said the man, named Zach.\n\n\"I demand answers. If anybody can help, just call the police and demand answers. I'm so done with all this violence,\" he said.\n\n\"America sucks. These cops need to get trained differently. I need to move out of here.\"\n\nThe Department of Public Safety's Bureau of Criminal Apprehension said an investigation is under way and authorities are looking into whether there is any video of the incident.\n\nMinneapolis mayor Betsy Hodges said in a statement she was \"heartsick and deeply disturbed by what occurred last night\".\n\nOver the past few years the US has seen a series of civilian killings at the hands of police that have caused widespread concern and criticism.\n\nShe used the surname of the man she was expected to marry in August, Don Damond, according to the Minneapolis Star-Tribune.\n\nMs Damond studied to be a veterinarian before she relocated to the US, where she is believed to have been for at least the last three years.\n\nAccording to her website, she also practised yoga and meditation for more than 17 years and is a \"qualified yoga instructor, a personal health and life coach and meditation teacher\".\n\nMohamed Noor fired his gun and killed Ms Damond, his lawyer says\n\nAlison Monaghan, a friend who trained Ms Damon in alternative therapies, told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation she was \"the most beautiful person\" who moved to the US to \"follow her heart\" for a \"new life\".\n\nAbout 200 neighbours, family members and residents shocked by the shooting gathered for a vigil on Sunday night where she died.\n\nHer death made front-page news in her native Australia.\n\n\"I mean ask anybody here, they're shocked,\" said Ms Damond's student Corey Birkholz told CBS News.\n\nHe described Ms Damond as \"a very conscious, loving person and you wouldn't associate that with a gunshot in an alley\".\n\n\"I don't know anything about the law or police work to that extent but to me, it seems really stupid. You have a body camera, aren't you supposed to use them?\" Mr Birkholz added.\n\nMrs Hodges echoed his sentiments, saying at a news conference: \"I share the same questions other people have about why we don't have body camera footage of it, and I hope to get answers to that in the days coming.\"\n\nThe two officers involved in the shooting are on paid administrative leave.\n\nThe Australian Department of Foreign Affairs released a statement on Monday on behalf of Ms Damond's family.\n\n\"This is a very difficult time for our family,\" the statement said. \"We are trying to come to terms with this tragedy and to understand why this has happened.\"", "The emergence of winged ants during summer often provokes a strong public reaction\n\nWe're all used to ants sprouting wings and taking to the air during summer, but is there really such a thing as a \"flying ant day\"? A new study appears to have solved the mystery, using data submitted by the public. Here, Prof Adam Hart, one of the report's authors, explains how they did it.\n\nNo one can guarantee a rain-free Bank Holiday weekend or a sun-drenched Wimbledon but, no matter what the summer weather brings, you can guarantee that flying ants will make their annual appearance at some point.\n\nFlying ants are a bit of a surprise for many people. After all, the ants we are used to seeing under stones in our gardens don't have wings and cannot fly. These wingless ants are female workers, toiling to ensure the colony survives and grows.\n\nOnce the colony has grown large enough though, it can stop investing in growth and start investing in reproduction. The problem for ants is that workers cannot start a new colony; for that you need a larger, fertile, \"queen\" ant that has mated with a male from a different colony.\n\nThe flying ants we see in the summer are these potential new female queens and male ants embarking on a mating flight.\n\nOnce they have mated, on the wing, the females drop to the ground and attempt to start a new colony. Most of them will not make it, becoming bird food or dying before they are able to produce worker ants (their daughters) and develop a new colony.\n\nBut some will go on to head up new colonies that will eventually produce their own flying ants\n\nOnce ants have mated, females drop to the ground in attempts to start new colonies\n\nThe mass emergence of these winged ants across the UK always seems to provoke a strong public and media reaction, but rather than celebrating one of the great spectacles of nature, it seems that most people would much rather it didn't happen at all!\n\nReading social media feeds during a flying ant event is a lesson in insect-hating, with words like \"disgusting\", \"horrible\" and \"invasion\" being typical. The term \"flying ant day\", with its implication of a single mass flying event across the country, is virtually ubiquitous.\n\nThe emergence of flying ants certainly does give the impression that these mating flights are coordinated across the whole country, and the collective media reporting of them lends weight to the idea that there is a single flying ant day.\n\nBut is there really such a day, how coordinated are these flights across the country and what triggers the ants to take to the air on the day or days that they do? These were questions I set out to answer with a team from the University Gloucestershire and the Royal Society of Biology.\n\nIt turns out that the widely-held idea of a \"flying ant day\" is actually a misconception.\n\nInvestigating mass events like flying ants presents scientists with a problem; to find out more about what is happening we need to record when and where flying ants are emerging but to do that means being everywhere at once.\n\nWith the advent of the internet, and especially the rise of smart phones, scientists have been able to harness the power of the public, who are more-or-less everywhere all the time, to record events for them.\n\nCitizen science, as such scientist-public partnerships have become known, is an increasingly powerful tool being used in all corners of science. We decided to harness the power of the public to find out more about flying ants.\n\nWhether ants flew seemed to be determined both by temperature and wind speed\n\nStarting in 2012 and continuing for three years, the University of Gloucestershire and the Royal Society of Biology, ran an annual online Flying Ant Survey to find out where and when people were seeing flying ants.\n\nAfter the first year, we also asked some people, \"super-engagers\" who were keen on doing more, to send us samples of the flying ants from their sightings. Using the thousands of ants returned to us we were able to determine that close to 90% of flying ants were from just one species - the black pavement ant Lasius niger.\n\nWe were also able to use the thousands of sightings to say once and for all that the media cliché of Flying Ant Day is a myth.\n\nIn fact, what the public-reported data showed us was that flying ants are much less coordinated across space and much less synchronised than we thought.\n\nWe found that ants were flying somewhere in the UK on as many as 96% of days between the start of June and the start of September.\n\nThe pattern of flying ants differed massively between years. For example, in 2012 there were just a few days in late July and a few more in mid-August where around 80% of the flying activity was focussed.\n\nIn 2012, there was a terrible patch of wet and cold weather at the end of July which seems to have concentrated flights in the periods before and after. But in other years we found very different patterns, for example the fine weather in 2013 resulted in \"pulses\" of ant flights across the country every few weeks throughout the summer.\n\nWe had expected to find flights clustered together geographically when we looked at records across the country but we found that flying ants were much less coordinated than we expected, with no clustering at any level at which we looked.\n\nYou might have flying ants in your garden one day and your neighbour might have them the week, or even the month, after. Even in your own garden, you might have one colony flying today and another tomorrow.\n\nAlthough only a small effect, we did find that flying ant emergences move northwards and westwards across the UK over time, so those early flying ants in Wimbledon (the south-east) this year are exactly what we might expect, albeit a couple of weeks earlier than has been reported previously.\n\nWeather turns out to be an absolutely critical factor in triggering ants to fly. By comparing records of flying ants with the nearest weather station data, we were able to untangle some of the factors that trigger ants to take to the sky.\n\nAnts only flew when the temperature was above 13C and when the wind speed was less than 6.3 metres per second but overall ants like it calm and warm. During the course of the study, every day in the UK summer that had a mean temperature above 25C had ants flying somewhere.\n\nThe records sent in by the public also showed that ants are excellent at short-term weather forecasting. By examining the changes in weather in the days before and after each flying ant event, we discovered that ants were more likely to fly on days that were warmer and had lower wind speeds than the day before.\n\nIt seems that ants are able to judge if the weather is likely to get better or deteriorate. If the weather is going to improve then they will wait, but if it is going to deteriorate then as long as the temperature and wind speed are above their critical thresholds they will fly.\n\nAnts are incredibly important in the ecosystem. As predators they keep on top of other insects and as prey (especially flying ants) they feed many birds and mammals.\n\nTheir nest digging helps to aerate and structure soil as well as acting to cycle nutrients. Thousands of people have helped to make sure the emergence of flying ants, forecasting the weather and evading hungry gulls, can be celebrated as a highly visible sign of these vital ecosystem engineers.\n\nThis research, by Adam Hart (the author of this article), Anne Goodenough (University of Gloucestershire), Thomas Hesselberg (University of Oxford) and Rebecca Nesbit (Royal Society of Biology) is published in the journal Ecography.", "The advert for Aptamil baby formula showed girls wanting to be ballerinas\n\nAdvertisements that show men failing at simple household tasks and women left to clean up are set to be banned by the UK advertising watchdog.\n\nThe Advertising Standards Authority will crack down on ads that feature stereotypical gender roles.\n\nAds that mock people for not conforming to gender types or reinforce gender roles had \"costs for individuals, the economy and society\", the ASA said.\n\nAs a result new rules will be drawn up that will take effect next year.\n\nThe ASA said it had decided to conduct a review following the public's reaction to the \"beach body ready\" advertising campaign in 2015. It prompted a wave of complaints for showing a bikini-clad model in an advertisement for a slimming product, which critics said was socially irresponsible.\n\nIn the past the ASA has banned ads on grounds of objectification, inappropriate sexualisation, and for suggesting it is desirable for young women to be unhealthily thin.\n\nBut in several instances the regulator had received complaints about ads that featured sexist stereotypes or mocked people who didn't follow traditional roles, which it had not investigated or ruled against, because they were not in breach of the current guidelines.\n\nOne example was an advert for Aptamil baby milk formula that showed girls growing up to be ballerinas and boys becoming engineers.\n\nComplaints had also been made about adverts for clothing retailer Gap that showed a boy becoming an academic, and a girl becoming a \"social butterfly\".\n\nAn advertisement for KFC featured one man teasing another, who said he suffered from anxiety, over his lack of masculinity.\n\nThe review suggested that new standards should consider whether the stereotypes shown would \"reinforce assumptions that adversely limit how people see themselves and how others see them.\"\n\n\"Portrayals which reinforce outdated and stereotypical views on gender roles in society can play their part in driving unfair outcomes for people,\" said Guy Parker, chief executive of the ASA.\n\n\"While advertising is only one of many factors that contribute to unequal gender outcomes, tougher advertising standards can play an important role in tackling inequalities and improving outcomes for individuals, the economy and society as a whole.\"\n\nNot all stereotypes would be barred, however.\n\nThe ASA suggested showing a woman cleaning or a man doing DIY tasks was acceptable.\n\nHowever it would be unacceptable if a family was shown making a mess and the woman was left with the sole responsibility to clean it up, or a man was shown \"trying and failing to undertake simple parental or household tasks\".\n\nThe ASA also said ads suggesting specific activities were suitable only for boys or girls were problematic.", "Ed Sheeran has the number one album but some of his singles have fallen out of the chart\n\nThe chart rules may have changed - but Justin Bieber is still number one.\n\nLast week, the Official Charts Company overhauled the way it compiles the Top 40 in an effort to stop A-list artists elbowing newer acts out of the way.\n\nThe move was prompted by Ed Sheeran, whose new album ÷ [Divide] proved so popular that it propelled 16 tracks into the top 20 in March.\n\nAppropriately, he seems to be the main victim of the new rules, with several of his songs adversely affected.\n\nLast week, Sheeran had eight songs in the Top 100. This week, he has three.\n\nFour of those former hits dropped out naturally, because their sales declined following a brief, post-Glastonbury peak.\n\nBut another song was excluded from the countdown because, under the new system, artists are only allowed a maximum of three songs on the chart at any one time.\n\nSome of Sheeran's other songs tumbled down the charts, apparently the victim of a second rule penalising tracks that are \"well past their peak and in steep, prolonged decline\".\n\nFor those songs, the Official Charts Company is applying a new formula, whereby 300 streams count as one sale (for newer songs, the ratio is 150:1).\n\nThe idea is that the longer a song has been in the charts, the faster it will fall out of the top 100.\n\nAs a result, Sheeran's former number one Shape Of You, which has been in the Top 40 for 26 weeks, suddenly dropped 12 places after weeks of steady decline.\n\nSimilarly Clean Bandit's Symphony, which has been in the chart for 16 weeks, dropped 10 places.\n\nThe upshot of these moves, however, is that newer tracks have been bumped into the Top 40; with more new entries this week than any other in 2017.\n\nJustin Bieber sings a verse on the Spanglish number one single Despacito\n\nThese include Most Girls, the new single by actress Hailee Steinfeld, which makes its top 40 debut after hovering just outside the main countdown for six weeks.\n\nFinnish singer Alma also saw her single Chasing Highs rocket from 54 to 30, giving the musician her first ever hit in the UK.\n\nElsewhere, Selena Gomez's Bad Liar jumped nine places to reach a new peak of 25.\n\nAt the top end of the charts, the new rules made little difference.\n\nLuis Fonsi's Spanish-language smash Despacito, which features a guest verse from Justin Bieber, remained at number one for an eighth week.\n\nDJ Khaled and Rihanna's Wild Thoughts, meanwhile, held steady at number two.\n\nAccording to the Official Charts Company, the new rules were designed to \"ensure the chart continues to be a showcase for the new hits and talent which are the lifeblood of UK music\".\n\nBut chart analysts questioned the need for the changes.\n\n\"It's a really odd situation,\" said Fraser McAlpine on the Top 40 podcast Unbreak My Chart. \"Part of the fun of the chart has always been that it reflects what people's listening habits are.\"\n\nPrince scored six hit singles in the week after his death - but that would be forbidden under the new system\n\n\"If you've managed to iron out the possibility that everybody in Britain is suddenly really excited by four songs by the same artist, that seems like an odd way of hammering down on enthusiasm.\"\n\nMcAlpine noted that a situation like last April, when six Prince songs entered the Top 100 in the week after his death, would no longer be possible.\n\n\"The charts have never been a pure system,\" added his co-presenter Laura Snapes. \"But never before have the rules felt like such a blatant attempt to ensure the relevance of the singles chart at a time when it is less relevant than ever.\n\n\"It just seems like desperation and panic\".\n\nJames Masterton, who has been commentating on the Top 40 for the last 25 years, was more positive on his blog, saying the new rules would \"clear out\" long-in-the-tooth hits, such as Justin Timberlake's Can't Stop The Feeling which has spent 61 weeks in the Top 100, \"and which is now clearly taking up a space that could be better used by a newer hit\".\n\nOn the album chart, where the system was unchanged, Sheeran remained at number one, closely followed by Calvin Harris's fourth album, Funk Wav Bounces Vol 1.\n\nRag N Bone Man's Human rose two places to number three, which means it will spend its 21st week in the top five.\n\nThe Bee Gees' greatest hits album Timeless jumped to number six, bolstered by Barry Gibb's recent appearance at Glastonbury.\n\nAnd TLC saw their final, self-titled album enter the chart at number 40 - an impressive placing given that fans who crowd-funded the project two years ago received their copies for free, making them ineligible for the chart.\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 Chart rules changing to help new artists\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 it take so long to get an aerial platform to the tower block? BBC Newsnight investigates\n\nA series of failings that hampered the efforts of firefighters to tackle the Grenfell Tower fire and rescue the building's residents have been identified by a BBC investigation.\n\nCrews cited low water pressure, radio problems and equipment that was either lacking or did not arrive before the fire on 14 June got out of control.\n\nNewsnight has learned a high ladder did not arrive for more than 30 minutes.\n\nThe London Fire Brigade says it has changed its procedures since the fire.\n\nA high ladder will now automatically be sent to a fire in a tower.\n\nAn independent fire expert said having the high ladder, which is also known as an \"aerial\", available earlier would have given firefighters a better chance of stopping the blaze when it jumped from a fourth floor flat in the tower block and began to race up the side of the building.\n\nMore than 200 firefighters and 40 fire engines were involved in battling the blaze that engulfed the block in North Kensington, west London.\n\nAbout 300 people are believed to have lived in Grenfell Tower and most got out on their own.\n\nThe fire brigade rescued 65 people but at least 80 people are thought to have died.\n\nFirefighters have been told not to talk to the media but Newsnight obtained a copy of the \"incident mobilisation list\", the document which details every appliance dispatched to the incident.\n\nThe programme was also sent anonymous accounts from a number of men and women involved in the operation.\n\nThe mobilisation list revealed that the 30m (100ft) aerial, which could reach the 10th floor of Grenfell Tower, was not dispatched until 01:19 BST, 24 minutes after the first crews were sent to fight what had started as a fridge fire on the fourth floor.\n\nThe aerial did not arrive until 01:32 BST, by which time the fire had raced up the building's cladding.\n\nThe list entry A213 shows the ladder did not arrive until 32 minutes after the first crews\n\nMatt Wrack, general secretary of the Fire Brigades Union, said: \"I have spoken to aerial appliance operators in London... who attended that incident, who think that having that on the first attendance might have made a difference, because it allows you to operate a very powerful water tower from outside the building onto the building.\"\n\nA London Fire Brigade (LFB) spokesman confirmed the so-called \"pre-determined attendance\" for a tower fire - the list of appliances which are automatically dispatched - has been changed from four engines to five engines plus an aerial.\n\nThe spokesman said: \"An 'interim' change to pre-determined attendance for high rise buildings was introduced in direct response to the government's action to address concerns of cladding on buildings.\n\n\"The Brigade's pre-determined attendance to high rise buildings had already been increased in June 2015 from three fire engines to four as part of our ongoing review of high rise firefighting.\n\n\"It is important to understand that fires in high rise buildings are nearly always dealt with internally, not usually needing an aerial appliance.\n\n\"The fundamental issue of high rise safety remains that buildings are maintained to stop fires spreading.\"\n\nThe spokesman added: \"The Brigade has a fleet of specialist aerial firefighting appliances and these attend a variety of incidents across the capital.\"\n\nNewsnight's investigation also heard that firefighters had struggled with water pressure problems and the fire service had to call Thames Water to ask the company to increase pressure in the area.\n\nOne firefighter said: \"The fire floors we went in were helmet-meltingly hot… when we were clearing flats, it was a case of a quick look and closing doors because the water pressure wasn't up to firefighting.\"\n\nA Thames Water spokesman said: \"We've been supporting the emergency services' response in every way possible… any suggestion there was low pressure or that Thames Water did not supply enough water to fire services during this appalling tragedy is categorically false.\"\n\nFirefighters also described problems with radio reception inside the building and said they lacked enough of the \"extended duration\" breathing apparatus they needed, especially when reaching the higher floors of the building.\n\nAll fire engines have basic breathing apparatus that provides firefighters with oxygen for around 30 minutes.\n\nThe extended duration apparatus enables them to breathe for a theoretical 45 minutes - but working in dense smoke and intense heat 20 storeys up uses up the compressed air in the equipment more quickly.\n\nThe LFB said all of its rescue units carry extended duration apparatus and \"all of the fire brigade's rescue units attended the incident\".\n\nThe LFB said the police investigation into the fire would examine the brigade's response \"including all of the issues Newsnight has raised\".\n\nQuestions have also been raised about why a 42m firefighting platform had to be called in from Surrey to fight the fire at Grenfell - itself 67m high - because the LFB does not have one of its own.\n\nThe LFB spokesman said it had never responded to a fire on the scale of Grenfell Tower before.\n\nHe said: \"The commissioner has made clear her intention to fully review the brigade's resources and seek funding for any additional requirements.\"", "There are about 1.2 billion Roman Catholics around the world\n\nBread used to celebrate the Eucharist during Roman Catholic Mass must not be gluten-free - although it may be made from genetically modified organisms, the Vatican has reminded its bishops.\n\nIn a letter, Cardinal Robert Sarah said the bread could be low-gluten.\n\nBut he said there must be enough protein in the wheat to make it without additives.\n\nThe cardinal said the reminder was needed because the bread was now sold in supermarkets and on the internet.\n\nRoman Catholics believe bread and wine served at the Eucharist are converted into the body and blood of Christ through a process known as transubstantiation.\n\nThe letter reiterated advice first given in 2004.\n\nThe wine used must also be \"natural, from the fruit of the grape, pure and incorrupt, not mixed with other substances\", said Cardinal Robert Sarah of the Vatican's Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments.\n\nThe ruling was issued at the request of Pope Francis, the letter said.\n\nThere are about 1.2 billion Roman Catholics around the world.\n\nCorrection 24 July 2017: This story has been revised to make clear that the letter reiterates advice previously given in 2004.\n• None Catholics focus on the art of dying well", "Holly Brown was a pupil at John Taylor High School in Barton-under-Needwood\n\nA 14-year-old girl who died after a minibus carrying school pupils on a field trip collided with a bin lorry has been named in reports as Holly Brown.\n\nThe pupil was on a bus carrying 21 students from Barton-under-Needwood in Staffordshire when it crashed in Birmingham.\n\nShe was confirmed dead at the scene in the Castle Vale area of the city.\n\nThe teenager was a pupil at John Taylor High School.\n\nTributes have been paid to Holly, with one person writing on social media: \"Absolutely heartbroken for Holly Brown.\n\n\"To her family and friends, know that pupils from John Taylor, past and present are devastated RIP.\"\n\nA second teenage girl was taken to hospital with minor injuries and others were treated at the roadside.\n\nJohn Taylor High School has tweeted its thanks for support during the \"desperately sad time\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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 Taylor High 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\nWest Midlands Police said the minibus was also carrying four adults - the driver and three teachers.\n\nNo arrests have been made. Police said that both drivers were assisting with the \"detailed and thorough\" investigation.\n\nPolice are investigating whether or not all those on board were wearing seat belts.\n\nBirmingham City Council confirmed one of its bin lorries was involved in the crash and they \"will be fully co-operating with all investigations\".\n\nIn a statement, it said: \"We are deeply saddened by the death of a teenage girl... on Kingsbury Road and our thoughts are with her family, friends and all those affected.\"\n\nIn a letter home to parents, the school's headteacher explained there had been a fatal accident involving one of its Year 9 pupils and said it would offer any students struggling with the news support and comfort.\n\nPrincipal Mike Donoghue said: \"Our thoughts, at this very tragic and sad time, are with the family, their friends and the pupils and staff involved.\n\n\"I am sure that you will join everyone at John Taylor High School in supporting our community in every way you can.\"", "Co-stars of Nelsan Ellis said they were \"stunned\" and \"devastated\" by the news\n\nUS actor Nelsan Ellis, who starred in the popular HBO series True Blood, has died aged 39, his manager confirmed.\n\nEllis, best known for playing the flamboyant Lafayette Reynolds in the horror-drama series, died after complications from heart failure.\n\n\"He was a great talent, and his words and presence will be forever missed,\" his manager Emily Gerson Saines told the Hollywood Reporter.\n\nEllis appeared in True Blood from 2008 until the series ended in 2014.\n\n\"We were extremely saddened to hear of the passing of Nelsan Ellis,\" HBO said in a statement on Saturday.\n\n\"Nelsan was a long-time member of the HBO family whose groundbreaking portrayal of Lafayette will be remembered fondly,\" the statement added.\n\nEllis appeared regularly throughout the series of True Blood after first appearing as the cook at a local restaurant in 2008. He played the role of Lafayette, a charismatic gay medium who was able to contact ghosts.\n\nHe also featured alongside Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer in the film adaptation of Kathryn Stockett's novel The Help in 2011.\n\nSpencer paid tribute to Ellis on Saturday with a comment posted on Twitter: \"Just got word that we lost @nelsanellisofficial. My heart breaks for his kids and family.\"\n\nOthers to pay their respects were True Blood co-stars Michael McMillian, Lauren Bowles, Kristin Bauer and Joe Manganiello.\n\nManganiello said that he had been \"crushed by the loss of my friend\".\n\nBauer wrote in a post on the image sharing app Instagram: \"One of the sweetest most talented men I've ever met. A terrible loss for all of us.\"\n\nMcMillan said on Twitter that he was \"stunned\" and \"devastated\" by the news.\n\nEllis is survived by his grandmother Alex Brown, his father Tommie Lee Thompson and his son Breon, along with seven siblings.", "The death of an indigenous woman in Thunder Bay is the latest in a series of violent incidents affecting the local indigenous community. As the police ponder whether to charge her assailant with murder, many are wondering if the force has what it takes to pursue justice for all.\n\nBarbara Kentner, an Anishinaabe woman, was walking down the street with her sister in January when she was struck by a trailer hitch someone had thrown at her out of the window of a car.\n\n\"Oh, I got one,\" her sister, Melissa Kentner, heard someone say.\n\nThe hitch struck Barbara in the abdomen and she was taken to hospital.\n\nShortly after, Thunder Bay police charged Brayden Bushby, 18, with aggravated assault. Over the next five months, Kentner lay in hospital, suffering from internal injuries and damage to her organs.\n\nShe died on 4 July at the age of 34.\n\nNow her family and the indigenous community want to see Bushby's charges upgraded, and the driver and other passengers in the car charged as well.\n\n\"I want them to be in jail and feel the same kind of pain I've been feeling,\" she says.\n\nBut a number of external reviews of the Thunder Bay Police Service, as well as decades of racially-motivated violence, have left many with considerable doubt.\n\n\"At this point in time, we don't have the faith in the Thunder Bay police to be able to conduct a proper investigation and a fair investigation,\" says Anna Betty Achneepineskum, the Nishnawbe Aski Nation Deputy Grand Chief.\n\nAttacks like the one that killed Kentner are all too commonplace in Thunder Bay, says her childhood friend Deanne Hupfield.\n\nThe city of about 100,000 is one of the last urban outposts on the way to Ontario's vast north, which is mostly inhabited by indigenous people on reserves.\n\nIn 2011, 10% of the city's population had Aboriginal identity, compared to about 4% across the country.\n\nHupfield says throwing things at indigenous women \"is a normal thing here\".\n\n\"It happened to me growing up. It happened to my mom, my sisters and my friends.\" She says people would yell racial and sexual epithets and chuck beer cans, water bottles or trash at them.\n\nOne time, a man threw a crowbar at her sister in front of an undercover police officer.\n\nThe officer chased the assailant down, yelled at him and then returned, without taking the man into custody. The officer told her and her sister: \"Don't worry, we scared them\", she says.\n\nWhen Hupfield was a teenager, she watched in horror as a group of cops beat up her cousin after the two of them had been arrested for joyriding.\n\nNow an arts educator living in Toronto, Hupfield wants Thunder Bay police to address systemic racism in the force.\n\n\"They're not willing to take that hard look at themselves and acknowledge their own beliefs about us,\" she says.\n\nBoth Kentner's sister and Hupfield believe the attack on Barbara Kentner was racially motivated, and hope it is prosecuted as a hate crime.\n\nBut her death is not the first to strike the community.\n\nIn May, the bodies of teenagers Josiah Begg and Tammy Keeash were both found in local waterways.\n\nIn 2015, Stacey DeBungee, 41, was found dead in the McIntyre River. And between 2000 and 2011, seven indigenous students died after moving to the city to attend high school.\n\nNone of these deaths led to criminal charges; many were ruled accidental by police after brief investigations.\n\nThese 10 deaths are now the subject of a systemic review by Ontario's police oversight board, and its \"ongoing concern\" about how Thunder Bay police investigate the deaths of indigenous people.\n\nThe review was prompted by a 2016 coroner's inquest into the deaths of the seven students, which found that the cause of four out of the seven deaths was \"undetermined\".\n\n14-year-old Josiah Begg was found dead after disappearing while visiting Thunder Bay with his father.\n\nOntario's chief coroner, Dr Dirk Huyer, has also asked for assistance from an outside police force, the York Regional Police, in the ongoing investigation into the deaths of Begg and Keeash.\n\n\"When I looked at the investigations, I felt that there would be a benefit from some additional resources, another set of eyes, external perspective, to work together with the Thunder Bay police to really give us the best opportunity to give those answers,\" Dr Huyer says.\n\nChris Adams, a spokesperson for the Thunder Bay Police Service, says they welcome working with York police.\n\n\"We certainly supported it and we still do,\" he told the BBC. \"It's really in the interest of finding answers.\"\n\nAdams says the police is working on improving community relations, looking to a number of other communities to understand how they can improve their police force, including more efforts to recruit indigenous officers.\n\n\"We really recognise the need to have some reconciliation in that regard,\" he says.\n\nAdams adds the force is working with Fort William First Nation to better understand some of the issues at play, and would welcome working with the Nishnawbe Aski Nation as well.\n\nMeanwhile, Kentner's family is eagerly awaiting the result of the coroner's post-mortem. Police say they will wait for the results before deciding on whether they will upgrade the charges.\n\nBarbara Kentner (right) with her cousin Debbie Kakagamic\n\nDoctors told Melissa Kentner her sister died of liver failure exacerbated by the internal injuries she suffered during the attack, which included a ruptured intestine.\n\n\"Yeah, sure, she had problems with her liver,\" Ms Kentner says. \"But she quit drinking and everything. She wanted to have that transplant.\"\n\nShe's sickened by comments on social media that disparage her sister's memory, saying Barbara was a \"caring and loving person\".\n\nIn her last weeks alive, Kentner knew she was going to die but hoped for justice, her sister says.\n\n\"She just wished that it never happened to anybody else.\"", "Caroline Hope became gravely ill after contracting E.coli during cancer treatment in Turkey\n\nA Scottish woman who contracted E.coli while undergoing treatment for cancer in a Turkish hospital has returned to Glasgow.\n\nCaroline Hope, who is from Clydebank, had been working as an English teacher in the country when she fell ill.\n\nHer family had feared she would not survive after contracting the bacteria and launched a JustGiving page to raise money for her return to Scotland.\n\nThat appeal raised more than £31,000 to pay for a private medical evacuation.\n\nThe fundraising appeal was in response to UK government guidelines that strictly limit the repatriation of UK citizens for medical reasons.\n\nOn arrival at the airport, Caroline Hope was taken by ambulance to a hospital in the city. She will eventually be moved to the Beatson cancer treatment centre.\n\nBefore being diagnosed with stage four colon cancer, Caroline Hope had been teaching English at an international school in Turkey.\n\nShe had planned to return to Scotland and her employer had taken out medical insurance to cover her stay at the Medical Park Hospital in Izmir until the end of July.\n\nCaroline Hope was transferred from the plane to an ambulance at Glasgow Airport\n\nHowever, her recovery was undermined when she became infected with E.coli during an operation to remove a tumour last month.\n\nHer mother, Catherine Hope, had been due to fly out to Turkey on Thursday but was told to stay in Scotland after the money needed to bring her daughter home was raised within hours of the appeal being launched.\n\nCatherine Hope said: \"She thought she was going to die. She wants home. She said she thought her body was giving up on her.\n\n\"But when she got on the plane, my son Scott sent me a picture of her, and she was smiling.\"\n\nScott Hope, Caroline's brother, told the BBC that doctors in Turkey had been in contact with doctors at the Beatson cancer treatment centre in Glasgow and that they were expecting his sister to be admitted there once she returned to Scotland.\n\nHe added that any money raised above and beyond that required to get Ms Hope back home would be donated to the Beatson.\n\nWriting on the JustGiving page, Caroline Hope's friend Bella Shek wrote: \"We've smashed our target, unbelievable!\n\n\"Thank you, Thank you, Thank you so much. We can now get Caroline home.\n\n\"On behalf of Caroline, her family and all her friends, the support from all of you and the general public, many of whom have never met Caroline before, has been truly overwhelming.\"", "Lionel Messi will pay €400 for every day of the 21-month sentence\n\nFootball star Lionel Messi's 21-month prison sentence for tax fraud has been changed to a fine by the Spanish courts.\n\nThe Barcelona star must pay €252,000 ($288,000, £223,000), equating to €400 for each day of the sentence, the court said in a statement.\n\nMessi, along with his father Jorge, was found guilty of defrauding Spain of €4.1m between 2007 and 2009.\n\nHis father's 15-month sentence was replaced with a €180,000 fine.\n\nThe pair had been found guilty of using tax havens in Belize and Uruguay to conceal earnings from image rights.\n\nAs well as the suspended jail terms, the Argentina international was fined about €2m and his father €1.5m. They made a voluntary €5m \"corrective payment\", equal to the alleged unpaid tax plus interest, in August 2013.\n\nMessi's appeal against the sentence was rejected by Spain's Supreme Court last month, but his father's jail time was reduced because he had paid some of the taxes.\n\nThe footballer was never expected to serve time in jail as under the Spanish system, prison terms of under two years can be served under probation.", "Hollie Evans (left) credited pet Boris for enabling her to see sister Daisy graduate\n\nA mortar board-wearing family dog was invited to a university graduation ceremony to help soothe a guest's anxiety.\n\nDaisy Evans, 23, was watched by four-year-old springer poodle Boris as she picked up her degree at the University of Reading on Friday.\n\nHer 19-year-old sister Hollie suffers with anxiety, which eases in the presence of her pet.\n\nThe university said it was \"delighted\" Boris could attend.\n\nHollie was unable to speak for two years at the height of her anxiety, a problem she said improved after Boris's arrival in her life.\n\nShe said the university allowing Boris to attend the graduation resulted in her family's first outing together in five years.\n\nThe teenager added: \"It's lovely to have Boris here. I get very nervous but he helps as he's a bit of a distraction.\n\n\"He's part of the family so he should be here. Boris comes with me everywhere - he rescued me.\"\n\nA university spokesman said they were \"delighted to hear the family enjoyed their day and that bringing Boris made such a difference.\"\n• None BBC News - Scotland, Dog and owner 'graduate' from university in Edinburgh", "Bradley was a huge Sunderland fan and became a mascot for the club\n\nTributes have poured in from across the world for Bradley Lowery, who has died from terminal cancer.\n\nThe Sunderland fan, six, was diagnosed with a rare cancer aged 18 months old and went on to become \"best mates\" with his hero, striker Jermain Defoe.\n\nAfter the announcement of his death by his family on social media, thousands took to Twitter to offer condolences.\n\nIn a statement, Sunderland Football Club said: \"Bradley captured the hearts and minds of everyone at our club.\"\n\nThe family uploaded this photo of Bradley to social media on Friday\n\nThe England football squad, for which Bradley was also a mascot, tweeted: \"There's only one Bradley Lowery.\"\n\nAlan Shearer tweeted: \"So sorry that little @Bradleysfight has passed away. An inspirational life cut way too short. Thoughts with his amazing family & friends RIP.\"\n\nGary Lineker, who hosted the Sports Personality Of The Year awards at which Bradley was a special guest, tweeted: \"Terribly sad to hear that little Bradley Lowery has passed away. A warrior and an inspiration to the end. RIP Bradley.\"\n\nA selection of photos were on display at his sixth birthday party in May\n\nIn its statement, Sunderland FC said: \"[Bradley's] heart-warming friendship with players and staff alike epitomised the impact this wonderful little boy had on everyone he met.\n\n\"He had a special relationship with Jermain Defoe and their feelings for each other were evident for all to see. Jermain, naturally, is heartbroken.\n\n\"Bradley's story not only touched our club and our fans, but also the wider football community. Football can be a powerful force for good and our sport came together to embrace Bradley's fight in a unique way.\n\n\"We would like to extend our sincere thanks to every club and fan who supported Bradley in recent months and showed such warmth and kindness to the Lowerys - we are truly grateful.\"\n\nEverton FC donated £200,000 to a cancer treatment fund when Bradley was mascot for the match between the club and Sunderland.\n\nChairman Bill Kenwright said: \"We are so privileged to have known him... and will always be proud that he chose us as his second club.\n\n\"We send our loving thoughts to his family... plus those who were inspired by him throughout the world of football.\"\n\nSunderland fans held up a banner of support for Bradley at the match against Swansea in May\n\nNewcastle United tweeted: \"Our deepest condolences go out to the family of Bradley Lowery and all who supported him throughout his brave battle.\"\n\nFormer Chelsea goalkeeper Asmir Begovic, whom Bradley scored the Goal of the Month against in January, tweeted: \"RIP little man. You will be sadly missed.\"\n\nThe world governing football body, Fifa, tweeted: \"Today, the football world lost one of its bravest fans. Rest in peace, Bradley Lowery.\"\n\nJermain Defoe tweeted after the England game saying it was perfect to walk out with his best mate at Wembley\n\nThere were also tributes from the world outside football.\n\nDurham Cricket Club tweeted a video of the crowd applauding his memory ahead of its game against Lancashire.\n\nAintree Racecourse - which honoured him on Grand National Day - tweeted: \"Very sad to hear that Bradley Lowery has passed away. Our thoughts are with family and friends.\"\n\nJulie Elliott, Labour MP for Sunderland Central, tweeted: \"Bradley packed so much into his short life. My thoughts are with his family & friends on this very sad day. RIP Bradley Lowery.\"\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn tweeted: \"Heartbreaking to hear that Bradley Lowery has died. I'll never forget images of Defoe & Bradley when he was Sunderland and England's mascot.\"", "An acrobat from Brighton has died after reportedly falling 100ft (30m) during a stunt at a rock festival in Spain.\n\nSpecialist in aerial dance Pedro Aunión Monroy, was suspended in a cage during the Mad Cool festival in Madrid, on Friday night.\n\nWhile near the main stage, in-between the performances by alt-J and Green Day, he fell.\n\nParamedics spent 30 minutes trying to revive him, but were unable to save him.\n\nMr Monroy from Portslade, who trained in the schools of Pilar López, Cristina Rota and in the Royal Conservatory of Dance, had his own performance company, In Fact Aerial Dance, based in Brixton, London.\n\nHe also worked as a self-employed massage therapist at The Grand Hotel, Brighton.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, the hotel's general manager Andrew Mosley said: \"We are all very sad to hear the news, it is the most terrible news and our hearts go out to his friends and family.\"\n\nHe added the sports masseur enjoyed half marathons and was a very popular member of the staff.\n\nJust a few days before the festival, he posted a picture and a last message on Facebook of himself and his partner which said \"love, come to my arms\".\n\nMr Monroy's last Facebook post before his death was a loving message to his partner\n\nThe festival organisers did not initially inform the audience or the bands the fall was fatal because of \"security reasons\" and around 40 minutes after, Green Day took to the stage for their set.\n\nTweeting after their performance Green Day said: \"We just got off stage at Mad Cool Festival to disturbing news. A very brave artist named Pedro lost his life tonight in a tragic accident. Our thoughts and prayers go out to his family and friends.\"\n\nIt is unclear at this stage what happened with Mr Monroy's equipment which caused him to fall.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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 Green Day 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\nSlowdive, which was due on stage after Green Day, suspended its performance, saying: \"Due to the tragic accident in Mad Cool this night we feel it is not appropriate to play. Our thoughts are with those affected.\"\n\nA statement on the 45,000-ticket sell out festival's website from directors Javier Arnaiz and Farruco Castromán reads: \"Mad Cool Festival regrets the terrible accident that the aerial dancer suffered during the second day of the festival.\n\nMr Monroy fell just before rock band Green Day went on stage\n\n\"For security reasons, the festival decided to continue with its programming. We send our most sincere condolences to all his family.\n\n\"Tomorrow Saturday 8, during the festival, we will render a heartfelt tribute to the artist.\"\n\nThe mayor of Madrid, Manuela Carmena, has also tweeted to say she was sorry to hear of the death and sent \"a loving embrace to your family, friends and colleagues\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "\"Four minutes with him is worth hours of meeting with anybody else,\" one head of state said\n\nIt's tough being a diplomat when nobody talks to you. It's even worse when they aren't talking to you because they don't think you matter anymore.\n\nWhen he was just a candidate, Donald Trump declared in his first major speech on the issue that \"our foreign policy is a complete and total disaster\". His solution was to replace it with a slogan: America First. What he hasn't replaced, now that he is president, are the people normally tasked with projecting America's power around the world.\n\n\"It can't be business as usual when the entire [upper] floor of the State Department is missing,\" one ambassador said.\n\nAmbassadors in Washington are clueless these days, or rather clues are all they have, because, as this one was explaining to me, the usual avenues of diplomacy in the US capital have broken down. The same words were spoken by several ambassadors from across the globe that I've spoken to in DC recently.\n\nThere are dozens of senior positions lying vacant at the Department of State\n\nThe \"missing people\" are the undersecretaries and assistant secretaries of state with whom all the diplomats in the US capital normally conduct their day-to-day operational business.\n\nThere are presently dozens of senior positions lying vacant. The people who are acting up in these roles, by their own admission, have no authority to take important decisions.\n\nUnfortunately for them, Washington, DC, is a city where your status is entirely defined by your ability to influence others. So the city's embassies, representing US allies in Asia, Europe and Latin America, have told their staff to largely bypass the state department and look for other avenues to get their voices heard.\n\nWith a president widely viewed as being entirely un-ideological on all issues other than trade, face time is key.\n\n\"Four minutes with him is worth hours of meeting with anybody else,\" a visiting head of state told me recently. World leaders recognise transaction is the new diplomacy.\n\nAmerica isn't taking one for the team anymore, because President Trump isn't a team player. So diplomats make sure they go into their meetings with an idea that Mr Trump can claim as a victory.\n\nSecretary of State Rex Tillerson can't be everywhere at once\n\nIt must be structured, as one diplomat put it, \"so he can say to people, 'we scored a win here,' because for him it's all about winning\".\n\nTo make their case more effectively, America's allies are cloaking their own agendas in the president's language and priorities.\n\nComplex political issues are boiled down as \"fighting terrorism\".\n\nThat's how the Saudi government played the president during his Middle East trip in May. The Saudis repackaged their long-simmering dispute with Qatar, over regional influence and the Muslim Brotherhood, as a battle against Islamist extremists.\n\nLatin American leaders are recasting their \"war on drugs'' as a \"war on terrorism\".\n\nOn trade issues, countries make their pitch on the benefits to Mr Trump's support base and how much the people who voted for him will end up paying for stuff in the shops.\n\nA Western diplomat said his team had decided there were three groups of people President Trump listens to. There is his inner circle of White House advisers containing people like Jared Kushner, the president's son-in-law; the former investment banker Gary Cohn; and Mr Trump's right-wing svengali Steve Bannon.\n\nThe second group is his cabinet, and their influence varies widely from person to person, reflected in the time they each get with him inside the Oval Office.\n\nThe third group is his pre-presidency contacts from New York, and the property and media industries.\n\nSo foreign diplomats try to talk to as many people in this group of interlocking circles as they can, in the hope that if these people see the merit in their case, they will convey it to the president. And if the president hears that view enough times, he will believe it.\n\nDiplomacy in Washington has been reduced to a modern day version of Kremlinology\n\nHowever, after laying out this elaborate strategy, the Western diplomat confessed, \"but then there are those who say the most important thing is to be the last person to talk to him before he makes a decision\".\n\nDiplomacy in Washington has been reduced to a modern-day version of Kremlinology, where each individual policy outcome is used to measure the influence of the people arguing for or against it.\n\nFrom that is determined who is up and who is down and who is therefore important to influence.\n\nThe guilty secret of every ambassador in DC is that the first thing they do in the morning is check the president's Twitter feed. That is now the best, perhaps it's the only, way to work out what is going on with US foreign policy.\n\nAnd while the White House press corps have derided Mr Trump's Twitter diplomacy, some of his allies have a grudging respect for it.\n\n\"An awful lot of politicians around the world are watching this and thinking, 'Can I learn from it?' because it's been astonishingly successful,\" one diplomat told me.\n\n\"This is a guy who had never run for public office anywhere and the first time he runs, he gets the biggest job on the planet. So he did something right.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The crash involved the minibus going on the school trip and a city council bin lorry\n\nA 14-year-old girl has died in a crash involving a minibus full of pupils going on a school art trip.\n\nEmergency services were called to the crash between the minibus and a bin lorry on the A38 in Castle Vale, Birmingham at 09:00 BST on Friday.\n\nAnother girl was taken to hospital and 24 people, including the lorry driver, were treated at the scene.\n\nThe pupils were all from John Taylor High School in Barton-under-Needwood, Staffordshire.\n\nThe girl died at the crash scene, the ambulance service said.\n\nWest Midlands Police said three teachers and a further 20 pupils were on the minibus.\n\nThe teenager who suffered minor injuries was taken to Heartlands Hospital.\n\nMachine worker Stephen Jones, 38, who works nearby, said: \"I heard a big bang at 9am this morning - a massive bang.\n\n\"I came over and had a look and the police were here with the sirens and they'd shut it all.\n\n\"I saw the coroner's ambulance and I heard a girl had passed away.\"\n\nHe added: \"There are a lot of accidents here all the time, it's a busy road.\"\n\nPolice were in place at the school gates on Friday\n\nIn a letter to parents, school principal Mike Donoghue said pupils would be able to receive support from teachers and other staff.\n\nHe said: \"Your child, who has brought this letter home today, has been told about this and they may well be very upset by this sad event.\n\n\"We therefore felt it was important you know what has happened and what we are are doing in school to support your child.\"\n\n\"Our thoughts, at this very tragic and sad time, are with the family, their friends and the pupils and staff involved,\" the letter added.\n\nThe school later tweeted its thanks for support during the \"desperately sad time\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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 Taylor High 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 school earlier said some of its Year 9 and 12 pupils had been on an art trip when the crash happened.\n\nIn a statement, Birmingham City Council confirmed the bin lorry was one of its fleet and said it was \"deeply saddened\" about what had happened.\n\n\"As a city council trade waste vehicle was involved in the incident we will be fully co-operating with all investigations,\" it said.\n\nNo arrests have been made, however, police said that both drivers were assisting with the \"detailed and thorough\" investigation.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAsked by reporters if the pupils were wearing seatbelts, he replied: \"That will be part of our investigation and, at the moment, I can't confirm either way whether or not pupils were wearing seatbelts or otherwise.\"\n\nHe said he would not speculate on the cause of the collision.\n\nForensic experts were at the scene on Friday afternoon.\n\nFrom the roadside, damage to the bin lorry's front end was visible and the rear right-hand portion of the minibus had been covered over with a green tarpaulin.\n\nOfficers were also carrying out skid tests and taking distance markings on the dual carriageway.\n\nThe school is a specialist science and leadership academy and has 1,500 pupils.\n\nThe calendar on the school's website suggests a trip had been planned for Friday to Birmingham's Botanical Gardens and Wolverhampton Art Gallery.\n\nIt also shows the school's Year 11 prom was due to be held on Friday night.\n\nIt is located in Barton-under-Needwood, close to Burton-upon-Trent and Lichfield.\n\nLichfield MP Michael Fabricant, whose constituency includes the school, tweeted he was \"heartbroken\" to hear about the girl's death.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Michael Fabricant 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\nCouncillor John Clancy, leader of Birmingham City Council, said he was \"shocked and saddened by the tragic incident\".\n\nWest Midlands Police's Force Contact team earlier tweeted that the road was expected to be closed for a \"considerable time\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ms Trump accompanied her father to earlier sessions before sitting in for him later\n\nIn an unusual move Ivanka Trump briefly took her father Donald's seat at a summit of world leaders on Saturday.\n\nThe US president had stepped away for a meeting with the Indonesian leader during the G20 meeting.\n\nMs Trump is an adviser to her father, but a leader's absence is usually covered by high-ranking officials.\n\nA BBC correspondent at the summit said he could recall no similar precedent. There has been widespread criticism on social media.\n\nMr Trump returned a short while later to retake his seat between the British prime minister and the Chinese president.\n\nMs Trump did not seem to make any major contribution to the session on African migration and health during her father's absence.\n\nA photograph of her presence was tweeted by a Russian attendee, but later deleted.\n\nSome users highlighted that Ms Trump is unelected, or questioned her credentials - as a fashion brand owner - to sit at such a senior diplomatic meeting.\n\nOthers lampooned her appearance among the world's most powerful leaders after her claim in an interview two weeks ago that she tries to \"stay out of politics\".\n\nBut her brother appeared to suggest there was nothing wrong and asked the \"outraged left\" if they would rather he sat in instead.\n\nMs Trump had joined her father for an earlier G20 event on Saturday on women's entrepreneurship and finance, along with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Christine Lagarde, director of the International Monetary Fund.\n\nAll three women had previously appeared together on a panel during the G20 women's summit in Berlin in April.\n\nAt that appearance she defended her father as a \"tremendous champion of supporting families and enabling them to thrive\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ivanka Trump explains her praise for her father\n\nEarlier on Saturday, Donald Trump said having him for a father was the only \"bad thing\" in Ms Trump's life.\n\n\"I'm very proud of my daughter, Ivanka - always have been, from day one,\" he told world leaders at the panel on female entrepreneurs.\n\n\"If she weren't my daughter, it would be so much easier for her. Might be the only bad thing she has going, if you want to know the truth.\"\n\nWhile her siblings, Donald Jr and Eric, took over the family business, Ms Trump put her own fashion brand assets in a trust in order to take an unpaid White House position, a move criticised as nepotism.\n\nAfter a brief modelling career as a teenager, Ms Trump was given a job in her father's company.\n\nThere, she expanded the Trump hotel brand and became an executive vice-president of development, alongside her siblings.\n\nMs Trump is married to Jared Kushner, who also plays an influential role in Donald Trump's White House.", "Grand slam winners, Paralympians and Wimbledon champions have gone head-to-head at a new tennis championship.\n\nThirteen of the world's best wheelchair players competed at the first Surbiton Wheelchair Tennis Tournament as a warm-up to Wimbledon.\n\nIt's the first time players have had a chance to try out their grass-court game in a tournament setting before heading to SW19, where three British players will be defending titles.\n\nWheelchair tennis is played on a regular size court with the same balls and rackets but the athletes use specialist wheelchairs and the ball can bounce twice each side of the net.\n\nDouble Paralympic bronze medallist Lucy Shuker took up the sport after she was paralysed from the waist down in a motorbike accident.\n\nShe has represented Great Britain at three Paralympics and won a bronze medal in the doubles at both London 2012 and Rio 2016, alongside Jordanne Whiley.\n\n\"When I first started everyone said I was too disabled to compete,\" says Shuker.\n\n\"I'm the most disabled girl on the tour and, as much as it's tough, I've managed to develop a chair and straps that help me with my body to compete, but it's challenging every day.\"\n\n\"It's made me stronger, it's made my body better so dealing every day with my disability is easier.\"\n\nThe top players travel the world to play the game with the four Grand Slams taking place in Melbourne, Paris, Wimbledon and New York.\n\nFresh from winning the men's singles at this year's French Open, Britain's Alfie Hewett has a title to defend after winning the men's doubles at Wimbledon last year with fellow Briton and world number one Gordon Reid.\n\nHewett started playing in 2005 and made his Paralympic debut in Rio. He came away with two silvers - in the doubles with Reid, and in the singles after Reid defeated him.\n\nHe says: \"Playing on grass requires a different approach. We've not previously had the opportunity to play competitive matches on grass ahead of Wimbledon, so this tournament will form a crucial part of my preparations.\"\n\nReigning Australian Open champion, and world number two, Gustavo Fernandez beat Hewett on day one in a reverse match in Surbiton, soon after the Briton's triumph in Paris.\n\nThe Tennis Foundation, which organised the event, says it hopes the warm-up tournament will give the players the edge for Wimbledon, where the wheelchair events start on 13 July.\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\nSix-year-old Bradley Lowery, whose plight touched the lives of many people, has died after a long illness.\n\nThe Sunderland fan was diagnosed with neuroblastoma - a rare type of cancer - when he was 18 months old.\n\nBradley went on to be the club's mascot and became \"best mates\" with his hero, striker Jermain Defoe.\n\nA minute's applause for the youngster took place just before the kick-off in the club's friendly against Bury at Gigg Lane.\n\nBury's chairman also said all gate receipts from the match will go to Bradley's fundraising campaign.\n\nPlayers from both teams, as well as the crowd at Gigg Lane, applauded the memory of the youngster\n\nHis death was confirmed on social media by his parents.\n\nThe posting read: \"My brave boy has went with the angels today.\n\n\"He was our little superhero and put the biggest fight up but he was needed else where. There are no words to describe how heart broken we are.\"\n\nBradley's mum Gemma Lowery had previously said his deterioration had been \"heartbreaking\"\n\nIn a statement Sunderland FC extended its \"'love and support\" to Bradley's family.\n\nIt said: \"He had a special relationship with Jermain Defoe and their feelings for each other were evident for all to see. Jermain, naturally, is heartbroken.\"\n\nBradley underwent treatment and was in remission, but relapsed last year.\n\nWell-wishers raised more than £700,000 in 2016 to pay for him to be given antibody treatment in New York, but medics then found his cancer had grown and his family was informed his illness was terminal.\n\nBradley was a mascot for England when they played Lithuania in March\n\nIn December, Bradley's parents Gemma and Carl, from Blackhall Colliery, County Durham, were told he only had \"months to live\".\n\nFour months later they were told the latest and final round of his treatment had failed.\n\nHe underwent \"tumour-shrinking treatment\" at Newcastle's Royal Victoria Infirmary but the cancer continued to spread.\n\nOn 24 May, Mrs Lowery said Bradley had left hospital to start palliative care at home, adding more tumours had been found and further radiotherapy was planned.\n\nThen, on 28 June the family wrote on Facebook: \"Bradley is deteriorating fast, his temperature is going very high his breathing very fast his oxygen levels low.\n\nBradley walked down the red carpet at the BBC's Sports Personality of the Year in 2016\n\n\"He is sleeping most the time apart from odd times awake. We knew this was coming but we are heartbroken beyond words.\"\n\nOn 1 July, his family posted a picture of Bradley with Defoe who, after signing for Bournemouth, returned to the North East to see him.\n\nOn Thursday, Defoe broke down in tears during a press conference for his new club and said the six-year-old would \"always be in my heart\".\n\nBradley with his dad Carl at the match between Everton and Sunderland\n\nBradley became known worldwide following an appeal that saw him receive 250,000 Christmas cards from countries as far away as Australia and New Zealand.\n\nIn December, he met England manager Gareth Southgate and Match of the Day pundit Gary Lineker at the BBC Sports Personality of the Year event in Birmingham.\n\nBradley then won the programme's December goal of the month award after he took a penalty ahead of Sunderland's game against Chelsea.\n\nBradley became firm friends with his hero Jermain Defoe\n\nHe has also appeared as a mascot for Everton, who pledged £200,000 to his fundraising campaign, and was visited in hospital by a number of Sunderland players.\n\nA dream came true when he appeared as mascot for the England team at Wembley Stadium before a game that saw Defoe score a goal.\n\nHe was also given honorary 41st place in the race card for the Grand National at Aintree in April.\n\nOn 30 June a charity single, \"Smile For Bradley\" by LIV'n'G, entered the singles chart at number 28. All proceeds from the song will go to the Bradley Lowery Foundation, which has been set up in his honour.\n\nBradley got to try out the weighing scales at Aintree - coming in at 2st 12.5lb (18.37kg)\n\nBradley was named Child of Courage at the Pride of North East Awards just days before a party was held to celebrate his sixth birthday, which was attended by Defoe and 250 other well-wishers.\n\nFewer than 100 children in the UK are diagnosed each year with neuroblastoma and most living with the condition are under the age of five.\n\nDr Guy Blanchard, chair of Neuroblastoma UK, said: \"All in the neuroblastoma community will be saddened to hear the news of Bradley's death.\n\n\"His story raised significant awareness of a disease that is responsible for one in six of all children's cancer deaths.\n\n\"Through the world-leading research funded by Neuroblastoma UK, into improving both diagnosis and treatment of the disease, we will find a cure.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Nasa later reassured Mr Pence that it was \"OK to touch the surface\"\n\nUS Vice-President Mike Pence has made a tongue-in-cheek apology to Nasa after a photo of him touching a piece of space flight equipment went viral.\n\nMr Pence was visiting the Kennedy Space Center in Florida when he placed his hand on a piece of hardware - despite a large sign that read \"do not touch\".\n\nHe later apologised to Nasa on Twitter, joking that Florida Senator Marco Rubio \"dared\" him to do it.\n\nNasa has assured Mr Pence the equipment was in need of a clean anyway.\n\nThe vice-president, who addressed Nasa staff at Cape Canaveral on Thursday, sparked a social media storm after a photo emerged of him touching a cover for the Orion spacecraft, which was labelled as a piece of \"critical space flight hardware\".\n\nOn Friday, Mr Pence apologised to the space agency - while pointing the finger at his colleague.\n\nNasa replied that it was OK, and said in a statement that \"procedures require the hardware to be cleaned before tiles are bonded to the spacecraft, so touching the surface is absolutely okay.\"\n\nIf the hardware was not OK to touch, it \"would have had a protective cover over it\", Nasa added.\n\nMr Pence later posted a further tweet mocking the incident, replacing the Nasa hardware in the photo with a porcupine.\n\nThe original photo had gone viral within hours - with some social media users criticising Mr Pence for ignoring the sign.\n\n\"Good to know our vice president has the self control of a sugar-charged third grader on a field trip,\" wrote Twitter user @KentoTFH.\n\nOthers said those criticising Mr Pence were taking the matter far too seriously, and injected a little humour into their tweets.\n\n\"After six months at Trump's side, Mike Pence quietly envies the capsule for its journey to the cold, tranquil emptiness of space,\" wrote @KevinMKruse.\n\nTwitter user @Michael_Bell_, in reference to the administration's previous viral photo involving US President Donald Trump on a visit to Saudi Arabia, said: \"Now, on to the orb of destiny!\"\n\nA photo of Mr Trump and his Saudi and Egyptian counterparts around a glowing orb had also sparked online jokes\n• None Is Pence distancing himself from Trump?", "A penis-shaped rock formation in Norway that was apparently knocked down by vandals last month has been restored to its anatomical glory.\n\nScaffolding was used to hoist up the protuberance, which is reported to weigh about 12 tonnes (12,000kg.)\n\nThe restoration operation was funded by a crowdfunding campaign which raised about 227,000 kroner ($27,000).\n\nBut tourists will have to wait a week before they can see the formation in order to allow it to fasten properly.\n\nCement, glue and metal fastenings were used to re-attach the Trollpikken, or \"The Troll's Penis\" to the cliff.\n\nPolice last month said that indentations in the rock suggested vandalism was responsible for the demise of the stone. They say a suspect has been questioned over the incident.\n\nIndentations in the rock suggested the penis had been vandalised, police said\n\nHikers found the stone, which originally came out from the rock face, resting on the ground.\n\nDays afterwards The Troll's Penis Will Be Re-Erected appeal was launched and had received money from close to 1,000 people.\n\nThe rock formation is located in the municipality of Eigersund, in the south-west of the country.", "As he visits troops bolstering Nato's eastern border in Estonia in response to rising tensions with Russia, General Sir Nick Carter - the British army's top soldier - explains how the armed forces need to win support for their changing mission.\n\nPublic support in Britain for the Army has been consistently strong. But General Carter says there are risks here as well as benefits.\n\n\"That public support,\" he says, \"is very much based upon sympathy and not necessarily upon empathy.\n\n\"And I think if we wish to sustain our numbers, and indeed the sort of attitude you would want your army to have, I think it's important that the cursor swings more towards empathy than sympathy, so that people understand more about what an army does and why you need an army, and therefore what its final task might be.\"\n\nOf course the Army is about much more than that final task - \"closing with and engaging the enemy\".\n\nBut the unpopularity of some of Britain's recent wars, the lack of understanding about military matters among much of the public, and the increasing sensitivity to casualties, have all meant that the term \"boots on the ground\" - putting soldiers into harm's way - has become almost toxic.\n\nGeneral Carter has some sympathy with this view.\n\n\"I think the term 'boots on the ground' has become difficult for people to comprehend.\n\n\"The trick of course is for boots on the ground to be applied in a way that is not necessarily risk-free, but is done for appropriate gain and benefit.\"\n\nThis issue of the relationship between Britain and her army is a central aspect of General Carter's thinking.\n\nHe is speaking at an Estonian army base in Tapa, a garrison town a little under 100 miles from the Russian border.\n\nThe general is visiting the British-led multi-national battle group, which is there as part of a Nato deployment to reassure the Estonians and to demonstrate the alliance's cohesion to Moscow.\n\nBritish soldiers took part in a ceremony welcoming the Nato battalion to Estonia earlier this year\n\n\"Young people join an army to be used and that is important to us,\" he says.\n\n\"So the opportunity to do something like we are doing up here in Estonia is important.\n\n\"But we also need to be prepared to be used in other ways as well, providing we can be used in an effective fashion.\"\n\nFor the British army, this is a period of unprecedented change as it transitions away from a dominant focus on counter-insurgency operations in the heat of Iraq and Afghanistan, and re-builds its capability to fight modern high-intensity combat - the sort of conflict it trained for day-in and day-out during the Cold War years.\n\nThe strategic picture is also changing dramatically.\n\nThe potential threats are becoming more complex, the dividing line between peace and war ever less clear.\n\nSome people argue that the modern, Western way of war is at arm's-length - exemplified by armed drones and stand-off weapons fired at great distances from their intended targets.\n\nBy such readings the traditional army - leaving aside maybe the special forces - seems strangely out of step with the apparent new reality.\n\n\"I don't subscribe to the view that we find ourselves in a new era of warfare where you can do it all with stand-off; you can do it all with bombing; you can do it all with special forces and you can do it all with proxies,\" he tells me emphatically.\n\n\"Those are all simply fallacies. The bottom line in all of this is that, in the final analysis, people live on land and it is ultimately the land component that has to 'mix it' where people live. History proves that that is a requirement.\n\n\"Our policy makers absolutely understand that you have an army because, in the final analysis, armies are the business when it comes to a decision, and ultimately it's about a decision.\"\n\nBritain's army is of course an awful lot smaller than it once was.\n\nHow big should it be in part depends upon what the country can afford. So does General Carter think that he has enough soldiers?\n\n\"The straightforward answer to that question is that given the tasks that we have currently got, we have adequate numbers,\" he says.\n\n\"If the tasks change or the tasks increase then we might have to ask questions about it.\"\n\nOn equipment he is confident that the Army will get things that it needs, though \"how quickly it arrives is always a question\".\n\nBut the Army itself is going to change even more dramatically in the years ahead. And this too is something that General Carter is pushing forward.\n\nTraditionally the Army - like most others - is what he terms \"bottom-fed\".\n\nIn other words, \"it recruits people who are youngsters and we grow them through a career\".\n\nBut he believes that as the Army requires and takes on more specialists, it is going to have to offer a very different career structure.\n\n\"I suspect,\" he says, \"that maybe as much as 30% of the army may be specialists in the future - and how we supply those specialist career schemes is something we have to think about.\"\n\nThis could mean a lot more of what the Army calls \"lateral entry\" (ie joining at a much later age, probably from an established career) or indeed sharing people with industry.\n\nNonetheless, at least in his lifetime, General Carter does not expect the combat arms of the Army \"to look particularly different\" to the way they do today.\n\n\"I think we will still deliver that effect through a bottom-fed delivery system in the way that we understand it.\"\n\nBut he says specialists will need to be recruited differently and that will have significant implications requiring a review of ranks, career structures, working practices and so on.\n\nGeneral Carter thinks that the Army is about a year or two away from taking on regular personnel by this lateral entry method.\n\nBut the core business of the Army is not going to change.\n\nWhile its roles go way beyond just training for high-intensity combat, as here in Estonia, it remains part of the nation's insurance policy.\n\nSo being so close to the Russian border, what security challenge does the general worry about most?\n\n\"Probably the greatest risk at the moment,\" he says, \"is the risk of miscalculation.\n\n\"Understanding your potential opponents,\" he says, \"and having the communications systems in place and the processes in place so that you realise what messages you are sending is fundamental.\n\n\"Miscalculation is the thing that we probably need to watch.\"", "The two boys and a girl were all under the age of 13, police say\n\nA woman and three children have died after a house fire in Bolton.\n\nThe blaze broke out at Rosamond Street in the Daubhill area of the town just after 09:00 BST.\n\nA man managed to jump from a first floor window but two boys and a girl - all under the age of 13 - and a woman were still inside.\n\nOne of the children was pronounced dead at the scene and the woman and two other children died later in hospital, Greater Manchester Police (GMP) said.\n\nThe force said it was currently not treating the fire as suspicious.\n\nA man jumped from the first floor before trying to rescue other residents\n\nOne resident said: \"It's terrible, absolutely terrible. I saw them bringing people out. They were doing chest compressions.\n\n\"I saw them bring two out and then they put a green sheet up.\"\n\nShe said she was first alerted to a \"commotion\" when she heard a man \"banging on a door\" of one of the terraced houses.\n\n\"There was just a load of hammering... I went to the window and saw smoke billowing.\n\n\"When I saw him after, he had his hands bandaged up and his head.\"\n\nAssistant fire officer Tony Hunter said the man, believed to be the children's father, had jumped from the first floor window and tried to get back into the property to rescue them and their mother.\n\nHe is currently being treated in hospital.\n\nMr Hunter added firefighters had to use a specialist tool to break the front door down. They found the heat had been so \"intense\" it had burnt off plaster on the walls to reveal the brick underneath, he said.\n\nA child was pronounced dead at the scene and a woman and two other children died in hospital\n\nPolice have launched a joint investigation with Manchester Fire and Rescue into the cause of the blaze.\n\nDet Ch Insp Chris Bridge, from GMP, said: \"These are utterly heartbreaking circumstances and our thoughts go out to anyone affected by this tragic incident.\n\n\"This happened on a Saturday morning when many people would be up and about and I would appeal to anyone with any information about this incident to please call us.\"\n\nThe fire, which has now been extinguished, led to the temporary closure of nearby roads.\n\nManchester Fire and Rescue tweeted: \"Our deepest condolences go to the family and the community. We will be in the local area in the coming days reassuring residents.\"\n\nGreater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham posted on Twitter: \"Dreadful news coming out of Bolton today. My thoughts are with the family, their friends and the whole community.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Richard Davies was shot dead by police after firing from the upstairs window of the family home\n\nThe widow of a man shot dead by police has told an inquest of a desperate text sent by one of their children saying \"dad's going to kill himself\".\n\nRichard Davies, 41, died of a single gunshot wound to the chest after firing at officers in St Neots, Cambridgeshire, in October 2015.\n\nHis widow Samantha said she had a text from her child saying they were tied up and begging her to \"call the police\".\n\nMr Davies was shot after firing a gun from the house. The inquest continues.\n\nThe father of three said he \"wanted to end his life\" after learning his marriage was over, the hearing in Peterborough was told earlier this week.\n\nGiving evidence at the hearing, Mrs Davies said she had initially believed her husband had \"some acceptance\" about the end of their relationship and said \"there wasn't an ounce of anger\" during their conversation earlier that day.\n\nHowever, he had made several trips to a nearby shop to buy alcohol and had been carrying a knife, the inquest heard.\n\nMrs Davies went to visit her sister and when her children returned to the family home their father tied them up.\n\nFirearms officers attended the scene in Duck Lane, St Neots within minutes, the inquest heard\n\nThe inquest then heard how the children managed to make 999 calls and alert their mother.\n\nShe received a text that read: \"Call the police. Get them to come to our house. Dad's going to kill himself. He's tied us up. I'm not joking.\"\n\nWhen Mrs Davies arrived, one child had managed to escape.\n\nShe said when Mr Davies came to the door \"he didn't really look like my husband\".\n\nHe returned a short time later with a knife pointed at his chest, she told the hearing.\n\nSamantha Davies told the inquest her family had been \"changed forever\" by what happened\n\nHer other children managed to escape and Mrs Davies was taken to a neighbour's house.\n\nMr Davies was shot dead by a police marksman after firing six shots from the house, the inquest heard.\n\nMrs Davies said she had never seen his home-made gun or ammunition before, and her family was \"forever changed\" by what happened.\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\nThe two women, of a similar age, greeted each other warmly, shaking hands and smiling. One was the most powerful woman in the world - the other had been born into slavery.\n\nIt had taken more than 50 years for Martha Ann Erskine Ricks of Liberia to finally fulfil her life-long dream. And her encounter with Great Britain's Queen Victoria was extraordinary in many ways.\n\nExtraordinary because it made such an impression on the queen that she wrote about it in her daily journal; because it was so warm; and because it happened at all.\n\nThe queen and the farmer met in Windsor Castle on Saturday, 16 July 1892. Martha Ricks took with her a present of a satin quilt, embroidered with a coffee tree in full bloom, complete with red and green berries.\n\n\"At home, when a poor man comes to visit us on our farm, he never comes without some little present,\" Martha Ricks explained to the London-based newspaper, the Pall Mall Gazette, a few days after the meeting.\n\n\"How could I come to Queen Victoria, and bring her no present?\n\n\"I made it all myself, every stitch of it.\"\n\nSurrounded by courtiers, her children and grandchildren, Queen Victoria told Martha that she \"felt greatly honoured by the trouble you have taken to come to see me,\" according to a report in the Daily Graphic, a leading illustrated newspaper of the time, which also carried a sketch of the meeting on its front page.\n\nIn her diary the Queen described Martha as \"very loyal… with a kind face. I shook hands with her and she kept holding and shaking mine\".\n\nThe hand-shaking also stayed with Martha, as she told the Pall Mall Gazette:\n\n\"She did not stay long in the golden room and I forgot what she said, but I shall never forget how she smiled and how she shook hands with me.\"\n\nMartha had travelled a long distance to meet Queen Victoria - physically and metaphorically.\n\nShe had been born into slavery in 1817 in Tennessee, in the southern United States. Her father George Erskine bought the family's freedom and, in 1830, when Martha was 13, the family of nine moved to Liberia, a West African country founded by former American and Caribbean slaves.\n\nTragically, within a year, all but Martha and two brothers had died from fever.\n\nThe quilt is very special for Martha Ricks' family\n\nMartha settled on a farm in Clay Ashland, which is today a quiet village located on the lush green banks of the St Paul River, about 10 or so miles (16km) east of the capital Monrovia.\n\nClay Ashland was one of the first places settled by former slaves from the US who, with the help of the American Colonisation Society, had made West Africa their home from 1820 onwards.\n\nMartha became a farmer, growing her own vegetables and crops like ginger, cocoa, and coffee.\n\nShe also gained quite a reputation as a gifted needlewoman, winning prizes at national fairs for her silk stockings. And she was skilled in the art of quilting - a tradition brought over from the south of America by the settlers.\n\nMartha, a former slave, had spent 50 years determined to meet the Queen\n\n\"Aunt Martha really did inspire the women of Liberia to do quilting,\" Evangeline Morris Dennis says of her ancestor. Martha Ricks was the great-aunt of Mrs Dennis' mother.\n\n\"When the idea came to Aunt Martha to make this present, the first thing that came to her was to give her a quilt of a coffee tree.\"\n\nThe reason why, says Mrs Dennis who is 83, is that coffee trees flourished on Martha's farm - and were, she says, a symbol of the potential of Liberia, which in 1847 had declared itself Africa's first republic.\n\nMrs Dennis talks as if she had met Aunt Martha, although she did not.\n\nNewspapers at the time followed the story with great interest\n\nMartha died in 1901, by coincidence the same year as Queen Victoria. But Martha's stories have been handed down the generations and the stories of that event 125 years ago - and the quilt - are often spoken about.\n\nAnd also to the history of Liberia, argues Kyra Hicks, a quilter, quilt historian and the author of the children's book Martha Ann's Quilt for Queen Victoria.\n\n\"Here was a former slave who had spent 50 years wanting to give this gift,\" she says.\n\n\"The sheer audacity of the faith she had to do that - and her faith that she would, one day, see the Queen of England - that was just marvellous.\"\n\nMs Hicks says Martha's quilt was the first Liberian quilt to be given as a diplomatic gift.\n\nThe tradition was revived in 2005 when Ellen Johnson Sirleaf became Africa's first elected female president. She often gives quilts as presents to visiting dignitaries.\n\nPresident Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (L) recently gave this quilt of a cocoa tree to US Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson\n\nSo why did Martha Ricks feel so compelled to make a quilt for Queen Victoria?\n\nOne reason is that the UK was the first country to recognise Liberia's independence - even before the US.\n\nAnd, in July 1892 when speaking to the Pall Mall Gazette, Martha herself tells us that it was because of Queen Victoria's support for the anti-slavery movement.\n\n\"I had heard it often, from the time I was a child, how good the Queen had been to my people - to slaves - and how she wanted us to be free.\"\n\nSadly, the quilt is now missing.\n\nBut the family and Ms Hicks, who has spent more than seven years looking for it, hope that someday, someone could open a cupboard and find it.\n\nLooking for Aunt Martha's Quilt will be broadcast on the BBC World Service's The Documentary on 8 July 2017", "Janice Farman had been in Mauritius since 2004\n\nA woman who was murdered at the home she shared with her 10-year-old son in Mauritius had wanted to return to Scotland after being robbed two weeks ago, it has emerged.\n\nJanice Farman, who was 47 and originally from Clydebank, told her husband she wanted to leave the Indian Ocean island on Wednesday.\n\nMrs Farman was asphyxiated on Friday after three masked men raided her home.\n\nShe had been in Mauritius since 2004 and was working for a data group.\n\nMrs Farman's estranged husband, Jean-Baptiste Moutou, told the BBC: \"I talked to her on the phone on Wednesday and she had expressed her wish to return to Scotland.\n\n\"She asked for my help in initiating the proceedings.\"\n\nMr Moutou said Ms Farman was robbed two weeks ago after moving to the Albion region of the country.\n\nHe added: \"She decided to move to Albion and when I asked her the reason she told me she loved the beautiful beach in this region.\"\n\nPolice said they had yet to make an arrest in the case, contradicting earlier reports from local media that a man had been detained.\n\nDaniel Monvoisin, from the country's western criminal investigation division, said Mrs Farman had been beaten and smothered with a cushion by the intruders.\n\nThey fled with a number of items, including jewellery and her car, a Nissan Tiida, which was later found abandoned by the side of the road.\n\nMrs Farman's Nissan Tiida was later found by police at the side of the road\n\nMrs Farman's 10-year-old son remains under the care of local child services.\n\nThe British Foreign Office said it was in contact with local authorities in Mauritius about the case.\n\nAn online petition has been set up by Mrs Farman's friends and work colleagues urging government action in the case.\n\nThe Justice for Janice petition read: \"Janice was a gregarious lady who wholeheartedly embraced life as an islander.\n\n\"She worked tirelessly to support charitable causes and was protective towards her employees. Janice was snatched away from us by three brutes and this crime is beyond comprehension.\n\n\"How many more Janices are we going to lose because our criminal justice system is flawed?\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Will Shu, Deliveroo's boss, says the law needs to change to catch up with the modern economy\n\nThe food delivery firm Deliveroo has said it will pay sickness and injury benefits to its 15,000 riders in the UK if the law is changed.\n\nIn a submission to the government's review of the \"on-demand\" economy seen by the BBC, the firm says that at present the law prevents it from offering enhanced rights because it classifies its riders as self-employed.\n\nDeliveroo says it uses that classification to provide its riders with the flexibility to work when they want.\n\nIt says employment rules should be changed so that people who work for companies like Deliveroo and Uber can receive enhanced benefits and not lose that flexibility.\n\nSources say that the firm is willing to look at enhanced payments to riders to cover things like sickness pay - and that the money would probably be administered under a government controlled scheme similar to national insurance or pensions contributions.\n\nIt may mean that Deliveroo riders and others working for similar on-demand firms like Uber are \"reclassified\" as gig workers.\n\nThe move comes after a slew of criticism and court cases against gig economy companies over how they treat people who work for them.\n\n\"Central to our popularity with riders and our success as a business is the flexible nature of the work that we offer,\" the submission says.\n\n\"We want to offer riders more security.\n\n\"We believe everyone - regardless of their type of contract - is entitled to certain benefits, but we are constrained in offering these at the moment.\"\n\nAt the moment \"self-employed\" workers in the gig economy do not have the right to sickness pay, holiday pay or maternity and paternity leave.\n\nThey also are not covered by the minimum wage rules.\n\nThat has led to criticism that the people who ride or drive for gig companies are actually \"workers\" and should receive a wide range of benefits.\n\nThere are also concerns that companies are exploiting loopholes in employment law and lack of enforcement to run their businesses profitably.\n\nDeliveroo says that if it did offer \"worker\" contracts, flexibility, which is very popular with its riders, would be lost.\n\nDeliveroo riders, for example, are allowed to work for other on-demand economy businesses at the same time.\n\nThis makes it impossible, the firm argues, to guarantee the minimum wage which is based on working for a single employer.\n\nDeliveroo says its riders earn on average £9.50 an hour, £2 more than the National Living Wage.\n\nThe firm says it is wrong that riders are at present involved in a \"trade-off\" between flexibility in the way they work, and the security of full employment benefits.\n\nCompany sources have told me that, following moves on sickness pay, Deliveroo would be willing to look at holiday pay, pension rights and maternity and paternity entitlements.\n\nThose rights could be \"earned\" by riders after a certain number of deliveries have been achieved.\n\n\"At present, companies in the UK are forced to class the people they work with as either 'employees', 'workers' or 'self-employed',\" the submission says.\n\n\"Our riders are 'self-employed'. This gives them full flexibility - but the quid pro quo is that they are not entitled to certain benefits.\n\n\"In short, there is currently a trade-off between flexibility and security and we want to play our part in overcoming this divide.\"\n\nDeliveroo is one of a new breed of \"on-demand\" firms which operate in what is known as the gig economy.\n\nRiders for the firm - 60% of whom are under the age of 25 - log on to the company's digital platform and receive \"jobs\" delivering food, on a bike or a scooter.\n\nMatthew Taylor, the head of the Royal Society of Arts, was asked by the government to review this new world of work, including the gig economy and zero hours contracts.\n\nHe is expected to publish his report imminently on how to reform employment law so that workers can be flexible without being exploited.\n\nDeliveroo's announcement today has received pretty short shrift from the TUC. Here's general secretary Frances O'Grady on my story this morning:\n\n\"This reads like special pleading. There's nothing stopping Deliveroo from paying their workforce the minimum wage and guaranteeing them basic rights like holiday and sick pay.\n\n\"Plenty of employers are able to provide genuine flexibility and security for their workforce. Deliveroo have no excuse for not following suit.\n\n\"The company's reluctance to offer benefits now is because they want to dodge wider employment and tax obligations by labelling staff as self-employed.\"\n\nHere's another update. The boss of Deliveroo, Will Shu, has told me that the company is willing to go further than offering its riders sick pay and injury insurance.\n\nI put it to him that the benefits debate in the gig economy went far further than sickness benefits and injury insurance, and asked whether the company would look at issues like pension payments and holiday entitlements.\n\n\"This is the beginning of the debate,\" Mr Shu told me.\n\n\"We sat down with - me personally - hundreds of riders and asked, what do you care most about today?\n\n\"It was sick pay and insurance for injury and that is what we are starting with. But we are open minded to different things.\"\n\nThat sounds like a yes, the company is willing to look at further benefit areas.\n\nIt will be interesting to see how Matthew Taylor's report, expected next week, deals with the issue of broader rights for gig workers.\n\nI asked Mr Shu for his response to critics who say that the only way firms like his make money is by not paying national insurance payments for their riders, pension contributions and other benefits.\n\n\"Not at all,\" he answered.\n\n\"I understand [the criticism] - it is a new way of doing businesses.\n\n\"The on-demand economy in Britain is five or six years old and there are hundreds of thousands of people in it so the growth has been huge, and so it is understandable that people haven't understood the intricacies.\n\n\"At the end of the day though, let's take it back, it is a very different relationship than regular employment. People can come and go as they please.\n\n\"The issue is this - if we offer benefits to people the courts may reclassify self-employed people as workers thus robbing them of the flexibility they ultimately signed up for, for the job.\n\n\"What that practically means is that you would work on a shift pattern, you wouldn't log in and out as you please. It is a very different work relationship.\"\n\nAnd would mean that Deliveroo wouldn't be, well, Deliveroo.", "More than 80,000 migrants have crossed the Mediterranean to Italy this year\n\nThey call themselves Generation Identity. Made up of mainly 20-something tech-savvy members, the Identitarian movement has been described as the hipster right.\n\nFiercely anti-immigration and anti-Muslim, its aim is to stop mass migration to Europe. With headquarters in Austria and France, the group may be small in size, but its message is starting to resonate in Italy - a country where sympathy for migrants is wearing thin.\n\nAs the number of people seeking to reach Europe rises again, Italy continues to be the major point of entry for those arriving illegally on boats - particularly in the south.\n\nHowever, attitudes are hardening and now this new \"alt-right\" movement says it will do whatever it can to protect Italian identity and culture from outsiders.\n\nSince the start of 2017, more than 80,000 people have made the journey from Libya, across the Mediterranean, to Italian shores, the vast majority landing in Sicily.\n\nAround 2,000 are thought to have died in the attempt, but with almost all other European countries closing their borders, most of the survivors end up staying in Italy.\n\nThe vast majority are not refugees fleeing war, but are considered economic migrants and mainly come from sub-Saharan Africa and as far as the Indian sub-continent.\n\nAlarmingly, there's been a rise in the number of young girls from Nigeria who are forced into prostitution, while boys as young as 16 from Bangladesh are coming via Dubai and Libya looking for work.\n\n\"More than 90% of the immigrants coming here by boat are economic refugees,\" claims 20-year-old Viviana Randazzo, a newly-recruited member of the Identitarians, although official Italian statistics put the figure at 85%.\n\n\"We Italians are also suffering from poverty. Yet we are not given the same treatment - our needs perhaps count even less than theirs.\"\n\nItaly is feeling the full burden of these new arrivals and there are now concerns that anti-immigration activists are exploiting the crisis for their own ends, calling for the \"remigration\" of second and third generation immigrants and the closure of mosques.\n\nThe Identitarians point the finger of blame at aid agencies and NGOs (non-governmental organisations) operating close to the Libyan coastline, accusing them of essentially acting as a taxi service to Europe.\n\n\"I think these [migrants] are coming to Europe because they know someone will save them,\" the movement's Italy co-ordinator, Lorenzo Fiato, told me in Catania, on Sicily's eastern coast.\n\n\"You can't solve this problem by helping the human traffickers do their jobs, because they want to transport illegal migrants.\"\n\nLorenzo Fiato says the Identitarians want to defend Europe against multiculturalism\n\nThe NGOs say they operate in co-ordination with the Italian coastguard and argue that they are there to save lives.\n\n\"[The people smugglers] don't need a 'pull' factor. They are pushing these people out come what may, and if we're not there, they will drown. We're not prepared to let that happen,\" says a defiant and frustrated David Alexander, from the charity Save the Children, talking to me in the western port of Trapani.\n\nThis summer the Identitarian movement tried to stop a Medecins Sans Frontieres rescue ship from leaving port.\n\nThe stunt failed but the group has now managed to raise more than €70,000 (£62,000) in less than three weeks, which it says it will invest in its \"Defend Europe\" campaign.\n\nSave the Children says the Vos Hestia has rescued 4,000 migrants since September 2016\n\nUltimately, this means the group will keep targeting boats run by NGOs trying to rescue the migrants. \"We want to defend Europe against mass immigration and multiculturalism,\" says Mr Fiato.\n\n\"We think that in every city where multiculturalism is present, radical Islam and violence is also present.\n\n\"This is a different kind of migration. These are thousands of illegal migrants coming to our shores and flooding into our cities,\" he adds.\n\nThis comes amid two ongoing investigations by the Italian authorities, who are trying to determine whether the NGOs are bringing migrants to Italy according to international maritime laws of saving lives, or whether they are merely assisting illegal migrants on their journey.\n\nAmbrogio Cartosio, the chief prosecutor in Trapani, said he felt that the NGOs were somehow encouraging the people smuggling trade.\n\n\"It pushes the traffickers to load the migrants on ever more precarious vessels. They can be sure that after a few miles, they will be picked up by the ships,\" he told me.\n\nThe buying and selling of people is big business and the human trafficking trade continues to become more sophisticated and organised.\n\nIt is estimated that this year a quarter of a million migrants will make the perilous journey from Libya to Italy, after the escalation in numbers which typically happens over the summer months. It's been described as Europe's graveyard but it's also now the only route available to them.\n\nDavid Alexander says people would drown if aid agencies did not get involved\n\n\"I think what is clear is that people will continue to do this, unless and until there is a safer, legal way to do it,\" says Mr Alexander.\n\n\"In the meantime, this tragedy will go on unfolding, and we will continue to pick up the pieces, and we will continue to get the blame for something that other people can solve.\"\n\nWhile the crisis continues, so will criticism of the humanitarian effort. As will the message of intolerance.\n\nAnd a solution? No end in sight.", "Relatives of those who died in the Grenfell Tower tragedy are angry at the time it's taking to recover and name victims. But police and forensic science experts say the process of identifying severely fire-damaged remains is a highly complicated one - and it will take some time before families can know the fate of their loved ones.\n\nOn Tuesday night, tempers flared in a closed-door meeting as survivors of the Grenfell Tower disaster demanded to know why the police and coroner weren't able to give out more details about those still missing.\n\nSo far, 21 people have been formally identified as having died in the fire and their families informed. But police believe at least 80 were killed. Met Police Commander Stuart Cundy has said there have been a total of 87 \"recoveries\" but, due to \"catastrophic damage\" inside the building, that did not mean 87 people.\n\nSome residents suspect the figure could be even higher, and the slow pace of progress has fuelled fears of a cover-up.\n\nThe distress and frustration felt by survivors as a result of the delay is understandable, especially given that police have said the final death toll will not be known until the end of the year.\n\nBut experts in the specialised field of victim identification say this fire is a particularly challenging disaster and, that despite fears that the job is not being done properly, the UK has one of the best identification systems in the world.\n\n\"We need to make sure by scientific means,\" says the UK's Disaster Victim Identification Co-ordinator, Det Supt Alan Crawford. \"That's why it takes longer to get identification, but then and only then, when we are 100% certain, do we tell the family.\"\n\nScotland Yard says all \"visible human remains\" have now been removed from the building. Specially trained officers and forensic anthropologists will continue to sift through more than 15 tonnes of debris on each floor by hand in the hope of finding other human material.\n\nDisaster victim identification (DVI) is a police discipline that has developed out of lessons learnt from dealing with incidents of mass casualties around the world.\n\nEvery airplane crash, terrorist bombing and natural disaster adds to the collective sum of knowledge around issues - such as where to locate a temporary mortuary, how to collect and categorise fragmented remains and what the most accurate method is to identify them.\n\nThe practice is regulated internationally according to Interpol standards, adhered to by 197 countries.\n\nIn the UK, a pivotal moment in disaster victim identification came after the 1989 Marchioness boat tragedy in the Thames, in which 51 people died.\n\nEleven years after the Marchioness sank, a public inquiry was ordered to look into the work of the coroner after relatives complained they were kept in the dark, prevented from seeing bodies and that the hands of some victims had been removed unnecessarily for fingerprinting.\n\nVictims' families complained they were kept in the dark after the Marchioness disaster\n\n\"The inquiry made a number of recommendations, principles we hold true now,\" says Det Supt Crawford.\n\n\"Avoid misidentification at all costs, treat the deceased with respect and dignity, be open and honest with families at all times and give as much information as we can.\"\n\nIn the UK, there are now around 2,000 police officers throughout the country who have volunteered for specialist DVI training in addition to their normal duties. They can be called on at any moment.\n\n\"We're up there in relation to being one of the best in the world at what we do,\" says Det Supt Crawford.\n\n\"We lead a lot of countries and they seek our advice.\"\n\nWhen a disaster like Grenfell Tower happens, there are two distinct strands to the process of identifying victims.\n\nOne is gathering as much information as possible about potential victims from relatives, and friends, including collecting medical and dental records.\n\nOn the morning of the Grenfell Tower fire, the number for a Casualty Bureau phone line was given out the media. Members of the public who called in were asked a number of specially scripted questions designed to prioritise those with information about potential victims.\n\nThose deemed likely to know someone caught up in the fire were allocated a family liaison officer who logged details about the missing person onto an official Interpol form.\n\nThe other strand of identification involves collecting information from the bodies themselves. This work is led by a senior identification manager (SIM), who appoints a scene evidence recovery manager, or SERM, who in turn oversees the work of DVI-trained body recovery teams.\n\nThese teams log every detail before moving them to a designated mortuary.\n\n\"At that time, we don't know who we are recovering so it's really important we recover the body or human remains in a dignified manner,\" says Det Supt Crawford.\n\n\"We need to make sure it's photographed, there's a continuity of evidence, there's a forensic preservation and all the way through that process from body recover to being lodged at the mortuary is done to a judicial standard.\"\n\nWhen bodies are brought into the mortuary, experts try to identify them according to standards set by Interpol.\n\nThis means identification must be made using dental records, fingerprints or DNA. Medical implants that carry serial numbers such as pacemakers or hip replacements can be used as secondary identifiers, as can scars, marks and tattoos.\n\nVisual identification by relatives is not used because this is regarded as unreliable. Nor is the discovery of property on a body, such as bag or purse.\n\nDet Supt Crawford cites a 2006 case in the US where five college students were killed in a minibus crash. One family was told their daughter had died, after her body was identified from the bag she was found with. In fact, she had survived and was heavily bandaged in intensive care being watched over by another family whose daughter had been killed in the crash. It was several weeks before the mistake was discovered.\n\nIn the case of Grenfell Tower, there are several factors complicating this identification process.\n\nThe first is that the fire is what's referred to as an \"open\" disaster. A \"closed\" disaster is a situation such as a plane crash, in which a manifest exists of all the passengers and crew. In such a case, identification is a relatively straightforward case of matching the dental records of those on board with the victims.\n\nOpen disasters are more difficult. Here, investigators might have an idea of who was present, but do not know conclusively, making it hard to collect references for DNA, fingerprints or dental records.\n\nAlthough the police have a list of those missing and presumed dead from the fire, they still have no information on the inhabitants of 23 out of the 129 flats in the building.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police says it is working with the Red Cross and community groups to spread their message of an amnesty for illegal immigrants, as well as those illegally sub-letting, so more potential victims can be identified.\n\nThe intensity of the fire also poses an immense challenge to forensic experts. The Westminster coroner, Dr Fiona Wilcox, is reported to have described the scene inside the burnt-out tower block as \"apocalyptic\".\n\nDr Denise Syndercombe-Court is a forensic scientist at Kings College London who works with the Metropolitan Police. She says experts will have to rely on new, sensitive techniques to analyse the remains. It's a slow and painstaking procedure.\n\n\"In some cases, these bodies are so badly damaged by the heat - terrific heat temperatures - we literally will have fragments of bones,\" she says.\n\n\"We'll work on providing strategies for what material is suitable for what analysis technique.\"\n\nKnowing where the remains have been found is a key part of solving the identification puzzle. That is why it is so important for the DVI-trained body teams to log every detail before the body is moved.\n\n\"There's no point analysing material if you have no idea where it came from,\" says Dr Syndercombe-Court.\n\nWhen the World Trade Center towers collapsed on 9/11, human remains were fragmented and mingled in among the debris of the buildings. As a result, 40% of the victims have still not been identified.\n\nIf DNA can be extracted, it then needs to be matched with that of potential victims. Here again, the ferocity of the fire poses additional challenges as surrogate samples of DNA, such as from personal items or toothbrushes, will have also been destroyed.\n\nBecause many of the victims were immigrants, investigators may need to work with police forces in other countries to collect DNA from at least two family members - all of which takes time.\n\nThe process can also take a huge emotional toll on those carrying it out.\n\nForensic scientist Prof Peter Vanezis is a veteran of identification investigations, including working on mass graves in the Balkans.\n\n\"There were some people who weren't very keen on being counselled,\" he says of his time in Kosovo. \"They were the ones who were really affected because they thought they were being very macho by not worrying about these things, but they do get to you.\"\n\nDet Supt Crawford says that officers who volunteer for DVI-duties are monitored and offered counselling because of the traumatic nature of the work.\n\nIt's only when the coroner is satisfied that the information provided about the missing person from relatives, dental and medical records matches that taken from the remains that a formal identification can be made.\n\nThis can be an extremely slow process.\n\n\"There might be an awareness of how long it takes if one sits down and thinks about it in the cool light of day,\" says Prof Peter Vanezis, who was part of the team who identified the final Kings Cross fire victim, 20 years after the disaster.\n\n\"But when you're dealing with relatives who are bereaved or waiting to find out what happened, frustration comes along very quickly.\"\n\nJoin the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter.", "Flying the flag for LGBT rights - Parliament shows it solidarity\n\nWestminster's \"palace of enchantments\" will be given an LGBTI gleam this weekend - lit up in the colours of the rainbow flag to mark both Pride Week and also the 50th anniversary of the Act of Parliament which legalised gay sex.\n\nThe decision was taken by Commons Speaker John Bercow and the Lord Speaker, Lord Fowler, who explained their thinking in their first-ever joint interview, for Radio 4's Today in Parliament.\n\nLegalisation, in 1967, was the product of a ten-year parliamentary campaign to follow-up the 1957 Wolfenden Report which had recommended the decriminalisation of consenting male homosexual sex.\n\nThere had been gathering pressure and determined resistance as the issue surfaced repeatedly in Parliament, with furious internal argument within the two main parties.\n\nMy favourite moment was a question put by the Conservative former Lord Chancellor, Lord Kilmuir, who asked \"are your Lordships going to pass a bill that would make it lawful for two senior officers of police to go to bed together?\"\n\nThe Conservative MP Humphrey Berkeley brought in a bill for reform, but lost his seat in the 1966 general election. He was not reselected, and was told that his local party could tolerate him being for either homosexual law reform or the abolition of hanging, but not both.\n\nThe torch was passed to the Labour MP, Leo Abse, who won approval for a ten-minute rule bill in July 1966, by 244 votes to 100. Abse had the support of the new Home Secretary, Roy Jenkins, who battled in Cabinet to persuade reluctant colleagues to give government support to the Bill.\n\nOpponents thought it was the product of middle class liberalism and would alienate Labour's working-class base, but the government did eventually crucial provide extra debating time in the Commons, when Abse's private members bill faced a filibuster.\n\nThe necessary 100 MPs needed to force votes at regular intervals in the debate was mustered, and at 5.50am on the morning of July 4, 1966, the Bill passed its Third Reading by 99 votes to 14, after a 20-hour sitting.\n\nLegalisation was presented in an apologetic way - a measure to end the criminalisation of unfortunates - and not a \"vote of confidence in homosexuality\".\n\nThe age of consent was set at 21, and despite attempts to lower it by, among others, the Conservative Edwina Currie, it remained at that age until 2000.\n\nEven after legalisation, the personal consequences for MPs and others in the public eye of being outed were still devastating.\n\nThere were cases like that of Maureen Colquhoun, a Labour MP elected in Northampton in 1974, who brought in bills on abortion, gender balance and the protection of prostitutes.\n\nHer relationship with another woman was revealed in the Daily Mail. She defeated two attempts to deselect her, and she was forced to campaign for re-election in 1979, with some party members refusing to support her because of her private life, rather than her politics. She lost.\n\nMaureen Colquhoun saw off two attempts to deselect her\n\nPerhaps the most high profile example was that of someone who never actually made it into Parliament, Peter Tatchell, the Labour candidate in the 1983 Bermondsey by-election, whose homosexuality became an election issue.\n\nIn an interview on Radio 4's Today in Parliament on Friday, Joanna Cherry, the gay SNP MP, said the level of \"hate filled homophobia\" he faced deterred her from any idea of a career in politics - although she would have liked (at that time) to be a Labour MP.\n\nLabour's Chris Smith, a future Culture Secretary, was the first MP to come out as gay, in 1984.\n\nAnd there was also legislation, like Section 28 of the 1988 Local Government Act, which said local councils could not \"intentionally promote homosexuality or publish material with the intention of promoting homosexuality\" or \"promote the teaching in any maintained school of the acceptability of homosexuality as a pretended family relationship\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nNo prosecution was ever brought under Section 28, but it had considerable impact on, for example, lesbian, gay and bisexual support groups in schools and colleges. It was repealed in 2000.\n\nIn recent years the battles have tended to be on legislation designed to be anti-discriminatory, first the creation of Civil Partnerships, then the legislation to allow same-sex couples to marry, and most recently the \"Turing Bill\" to pardon gay men convicted for offences that would not be considered crimes today.\n\nToday, Speaker Bercow's coat of arms features LGBT colours. And for Norman Fowler, the Lord Speaker, his experience as health secretary in the 1980s, when AIDS emerged as a major public health issue, it brought the issue for discrimination against gay people into focus.\n\nBoth wanted Parliament to pay its respects to the LGBT community and to show solidarity.\n\n\"We have gone in half a century from the criminalisation of one type of love to almost complete legal equality,\" Mr Bercow said.\n\nLord Fowler said the lighting of one of the most famous buildings in the world would be a symbol to people who were being persecuted.\n• None Why is Pride important to you?", "Five-time Wimbledon champion Venus Williams has not been charged over the fatal collision\n\nFootage has emerged showing that US tennis star Venus Williams was driving lawfully during a car crash that led to the death of a 78-year-old, police say.\n\nSurveillance video obtained by Palm Beach Gardens police in Florida shows Ms Williams' vehicle entering an intersection on a green traffic signal.\n\nAn earlier police report had said Ms Williams was at fault and \"violated the right of way of [the other driver]\".\n\nMs Williams' lawyer said the fatal crash on 9 June was an accident.\n\nThe family of Jerome Barson, the man who died in the collision, have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Ms Williams.\n\nNew video evidence has revealed that the Grand Slam champion had the right of way as she entered the intersection of Northlake Boulevard in the city of Palm Beach Gardens, according to the police report.\n\nHowever as she proceeded, the report says, Ms Williams was forced to brake to avoid a collision with an oncoming vehicle, which delayed her from clearing the junction.\n\nAs she then began to move forwards, a second vehicle - travelling in a different direction - entered the intersection on a green traffic signal, and the two cars collided.\n\n\"This updated information, based upon new evidence, is still under investigation,\" the police statement said.\n\nMr Barson had been travelling with his wife who was driving their vehicle at the time. He was taken to hospital but died two weeks later from his injuries.\n\nMrs Barson was also taken to hospital but survived.\n\nThe initial police report, obtained by US media, said that no other factors such as drugs, alcohol or mobile phone distractions were being investigated.\n\nMs Williams, the 37-year-old seven-time Grand Slam champion, reportedly told police she did not see the couple's car and she was driving slowly. She was not arrested in connection with the crash.\n\nOn Monday, when questioned by reporters about the crash, Ms Williams broke down in tears, and said: \"There are no words to describe how devastating [it is]. I'm completely speechless.\"\n\nMs Williams' lawyer Malcolm Cunningham told CNN in a statement: \"Ms Williams entered the intersection on a green light. The police report estimates that Ms Williams was travelling at 5mph when Mrs Barson crashed into her.\n\n\"Authorities did not issue Ms Williams with any citations or traffic violations. This is an unfortunate accident and Venus expresses her deepest condolences to the family who lost a loved one.\"\n\nMs Williams is currently playing her 20th Wimbledon tournament in London, where she is seeded 10th.\n\nMs Williams and her sister Serena have dominated the women's game for two decades.", "Luciana Berger was re-elected with an increased majority\n\nThe new Labour Party chairman Ian Lavery has told the Daily Mirror that he doesn't see the \"de-selection\" of MPs critical of Jeremy Corbyn \"as the way forward\".\n\nChills had gone up some Blairite spines when Mr Lavery himself had suggested at the weekend the Labour \"might be too broad a church\".\n\nBut he sought to calm nerves which had been further put on edge by comments from Mr Corbyn's close ally Chris Williamson, recently re-elected as the MP for Derby North having been narrowly defeated at the 2015 election.\n\nOn Thursday, Mr Williamson said: \"There are individual MPs in this party who think it's their God-given right to rule.\n\n\"No MP should be guaranteed a job for life. Labour is a big church, but we currently have a large bulk of MPs who represent one relatively small tendency in the congregation... it's unreasonable to think we as MPs can avoid any contest.\"\n\nHis words didn't sound like empty rhetoric to the MP for Liverpool Wavertree, Luciana Berger - seen as being on the moderate wing of the party.\n\nShe had resigned as a shadow minister when, a year ago, 80% of Jeremy Corbyn's MPs were expressing no confidence in his leadership.\n\nJeremy Corbyn has stressed his support for party democracy\n\nA left-wing \"slate\" of candidates had succeeded in taking almost all of the key offices on her local party's executive.\n\nAnd one of the winners - Roy Bentham - had shared his thoughts with the Liverpool Echo.\n\nHe suggested that Ms Berger, who was re-elected last month with an increased majority, publicly recant her criticism of the party leader and for the avoidance of doubt he declared: \"She is answerable to us now.\"\n\nThe local party secretary Angela Kehoe-Jones distanced herself from the remarks and suggested the branch was \"united\" in fighting the Tories.\n\nBut there is little doubt that Ms Berger - who is on maternity leave - feels her job is under threat.\n\nAnd she is not the only one.\n\nA Labour MP who held her seat against the odds at the election told me she was threatened with de-selection within 48 hours of the result.\n\nAnd you only have to visit websites which purport to back the Labour leadership to view a \"rogues' gallery\" of MPs who are seen as disloyal.\n\nFeaturing on most lists is Chuka Umunna, who upset those close to Mr Corbyn by pushing an amendment to the Queen's Speech to keep Britain in the EU single market - not official party policy.\n\nThis was seen as forcing the party leader in to sacking frontbenchers and was the first tangible sign of disunity following the euphoria of the election result.\n\nAnd while he wouldn't want to see Mr Umunna unseated, even Labour's deputy leader Tom Watson regarded that amendment as bad politics.\n\nBut some left-wing activists don't need new offences to be taken in to account.\n\nSome see those MPs who distanced themselves from Jeremy Corbyn as saboteurs of Labour's success.\n\nAnd they are building a narrative that had they been more loyal - and party officials more ambitious - they could have propelled the party from second to first place at the election.\n\nIndeed, some Corbyn critics are likely to be offered junior spokespeople roles in the autumn.\n\nBut not all of those who are seen as beyond the pale are likely to be unseated.\n\nMr Corbyn has time and again stressed how much he supports party democracy.\n\nSo unless a local party has been - as in Luciana Berger's case - taken over by members and supporters of Momentum (the group set up to keep the spirit of Mr Corbyn's leadership campaigns alive) it would be difficult to dislodge the sitting MP.\n\nAnd it should be said, not all local Momentum groups favour de-selecting sitting MPs in any case.\n\nThey would point out that they have campaigned for the re-election of MPs who aren't ideological fellow travellers.\n\nIan Lavery has spoken out against de-selection\n\nMomentum nationally weren't chuffed with a Facebook post from the South Tyneside group suggesting MPs such as Chris Leslie and Jess Phillips should \"join the Liberals\".\n\nInstead of pushing existing personalities out, largely beneath the political radar there are attempts to move Labour more solidly and permanently to the left and to ensure that, when the time comes, Jeremy Corbyn would be able to hand over the leadership to someone who largely shares his political outlook.\n\nSo at this year's Labour Party conference, there will be a move to shift the power in future leadership elections from MPs to party members.\n\nThis would mean just 5% of MPs - not the 15% of MPs and MEPs at present - would be needed to put a candidate on the ballot.\n\nWith a snap election, most anti-Corbyn MPs were returned to Parliament so while a left-wing candidate still might struggle to get 15% support, 5% is considered no barrier.\n\nThis move has already been reported extensively.\n\nMr Corbyn's internal opponents call it \"the McDonnell amendment\" - as shadow chancellor John McDonnell is a red rag to any of the party's more moderate bulls.\n\nGroups of what were called Blairites and Brownites - they would call themselves modernisers or moderates - in organisations such as Progress and Labour First have been working hard to secure enough delegates to the annual conference to defeat the leadership changes.\n\nWith the deadline for deciding delegates drawing to a close, it's not clear yet who has the upper hand.\n\nBut something of a quiet revolution could be under way that would see the power of Jeremy Corbyn, and his supporters, entrenched.\n\nUnder Labour's rules, some topics need to be put on the table this year if they are decided next year.\n\nSo a slow burning fuse will be lit in the autumn that could blow up in to a more major row in 2018.\n\nThere are moves by those on the party's left to make it easier for local parties to oust sitting MPs in future.\n\nThis would involve party branches being encouraged to put forward alternative names for consideration, or for sitting MPs to be required to demonstrate they had 66% support locally to continue.\n\nThere will also be a move to increase the number members of Labour's ruling National Executive Committee (NEC), who are elected not by MPs or the unions, but by the rank-and-file members.\n\nThe assumption is that they are more in tune with Mr Corbyn's agenda.\n\nIain McNicol (second right) sings The Red Flag at the 2015 Labour conference\n\nThe NEC approves party candidates for elections - and a panel of its members chooses by-election candidates.\n\nThere was an attempt to disbar the pro-nuclear and anti-Corbyn candidate John Woodcock at an NEC meeting just before the election.\n\nThat failed, but if the balance of power on the body were to change, so could the career prospects of the leadership's critics.\n\nAnd indeed the career prospects of Labour's general secretary Iain McNicol would be called in to question by another proposed change.\n\nThere will be an attempt to give members the right to choose the party's top official in future.\n\nAgain, this can't be decided until next year but could put Mr McNicol on notice.\n\nHe is blamed for trying to deny new (and, it was assumed, more radical) members the right to vote in last year's leadership contest and for not putting enough resources in to Labour/Tory marginals at the general election.\n\nHe would contend that the party HQ's strategy of defending vulnerable seats - as well as swiftly moving resources to seats which looked promising as the campaign progressed - was a success.\n\nSo by its actions in the coming months, Labour - 8 points ahead in one opinion poll today - could choose to remain a broad church.\n\nOr further expose the fact that many of its MPs and grassroots members aren't really singing from the same hymn sheet.", "The wonky bike, which was spotted by a chuckling Paula Brown, has since been repainted by the contractors responsible\n\nA wonky cycle path sign that appeared in the Lincolnshire market town of Sleaford last weekend caused much mirth among local residents, who described it as looking like a penny farthing - albeit one with angular wheels.\n\nBut this was far from the first time bungling contractors have been left with red faces. BBC News rounds up some of the gaffes that have hit the headlines.\n\nThe sign outside Highfield Community Primary School was corrected within 24 hours\n\nWhen a misspelt road marking appeared outside a school in Chester, the finger of blame was as usual pointed at hapless contractors.\n\nThe lettering outside Highfield Community Primary School, in Blacon, was \"claer\" evidence that spelling was not the forte of the person who painted it.\n\nThe marking was hastily corrected, at no cost to the council, after it appeared in February 2014.\n\nThe unnecessary \"I\" was eventually covered up with black paint\n\nAt least the simplest of fixes was possible when blundering workmen misspelled the word \"minutes\" as \"minuites\" at an NCP car park at Cambridge's railway station.\n\nAlthough it was two years before anything was done about the gaffe, eventually an NCP boss harnessed an inner Mick Jagger and gave the order: \"I want it painted black.\"\n\nThus the offending \"I\" was covered up to restore basic literacy to this corner of Cambridge.\n\nNCP said those responsible for the cock-up were \"committed to playing Scrabble in their lunchtimes as spelling revision\".\n\nA set of double yellow lines that appeared in Cardiff last summer couldn't be faulted in terms of execution - but the location chosen for the markings led to the city council being widely mocked.\n\nThat's because the road on which the lines were painted is barely 5ft (1.5m) wide and too narrow for anything but a toy car.\n\nDespite the markings being branded \"ridiculous\" and a \"waste of money\", the beleaguered council stuck to its guns, arguing the double yellows were necessary to \"deter anti-social parking on the narrow access lane\".\n\nMotorists using a supermarket petrol station in Doncaster were amused to find themselves being directed towards a species of low-flying seabird.\n\nThe word \"petrel\" was painted in 3ft letters, next to the flawlessly spelt word \"exit\" and some perfectly drawn arrows, on the approach to the pumps at the Sainsbury's Edenthorpe store in September 2016.\n\nIn a light-hearted response, Sainsbury's said it was \"correcting the misteke\".\n\nThis \"ridiculous\" piece of road painting led the council to urge contractors to use \"common sense\"\n\nNot wanting to let anything as inconvenient as a parked car get in their way, slapdash council contractors tasked with painting double yellow lines in a suburb of Leeds simply daubed the markings around the vehicle.\n\nHowever, once the car's owner returned and drove away, the lines were left sticking out from the kerb.\n\nLeeds City Council branded the markings in Hyde Terrace, Clarendon, as \"ridiculous\" and said it would remind contractors \"to use common sense\" in future. The lines were later repainted.\n\nAll official road signs in Wales are bilingual\n\nWelsh-speaking drivers in Swansea were bemused to encounter a road sign that informed them: \"I am not in the office at the moment. Send any work to be translated.\"\n\nAbove the baffling statement on the dual-language sign was the correct wording in English: \"No entry for heavy goods vehicles. Residential site only\".\n\nThe howler came about because a non-Welsh speaking council employee emailed the authority's in-house translation service, and took the response received as the translation being sought for the new road sign.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Donald Trump: \"Trade will be a very big factor between our two countries\"\n\nUS President Donald Trump has said he expects a \"powerful\" trade deal with the UK to be completed \"very quickly\".\n\nSpeaking at the G20 summit in Hamburg, he said he would visit London. Asked when, he said: \"We'll work that out.\"\n\nIn one-to-one talks, Mr Trump and UK Prime Minister Theresa May agreed to prioritise work on a post-Brexit trade deal, a UK government official said.\n\nMrs May said she was \"optimistic\" about a deal, but warned there was \"a limit\" to what could be done before Brexit.\n\nShe told a news conference that world leaders - including those from China, India and Japan, as well as the US - had expressed a \"strong desire\" to forge \"ambitious new bilateral trading relationships\" with Britain.\n\nThe prime minister hailed it as a \"powerful vote of confidence\" in Britain.\n\nAsked about Mr Trump's visit the UK, Mrs May said: \"We don't have a date yet, we are still working on a date.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Theresa May was asked about Donald Trump's proposed visit to the UK\n\nEarlier, during a 50-minute meeting with Mr Trump - which overran by 20 minutes - the two leaders spent a \"significant\" amount of time on trade, in a discussion described as entirely \"positive\", Downing Street said.\n\nBefore their meeting, Mr Trump hailed the \"very special relationship\" he had developed with Mrs May.\n\n\"There is no country that could possibly be closer than our countries,\" he told reporters.\n\n\"We have been working on a trade deal which will be a very, very big deal, a very powerful deal, great for both countries and I think we will have that done very, very quickly.\"\n\nUnder EU rules, formal talks between London and Washington cannot begin until after the UK leaves the EU in March 2019, without EU agreement.\n\nSir Christopher Meyer, a former British ambassador to Washington, said Mr Trump's statement of intent was a \"very good sign for the future\" and would be \"useful\" to Mrs May.\n\nHowever, Sir Simon Fraser, a former diplomat who served as a permanent under-secretary at the Foreign Office, cast doubt on how soon any trade deal could be reached.\n\nGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel, Donald Trump, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Theresa May seem to be enjoying another photo shoot\n\n\"The point is we can't negotiate with them or anyone else until we've left the European Union,\" he said.\n\n\"And the Americans and others will not negotiate with us until they know what our relationship with the EU is going to be, because the access we have in Europe is hugely important for the advantages that they can get from their relations with us.\"\n\nMr Trump has previously accepted an invitation for a state visit to the UK - a prospect that has caused controversy - although no date has been given.\n\nMr Meyer said his visit would be a \"very important moment\" to nail down Mr Trump's commitment to a strong bilateral agreement.\n\nUnder EU rules, formal talks between London and Washington cannot begin until March 2019, unless Brussels agrees the UK can make a start earlier.\n\nTrade talks tend to be complex and technical, lasting several years.\n\nThe EU and Japan took four years to reach an agreement in principle. But those discussions involved 29 nations; UK-US talks would involve just two.\n\nWith strong political will and determination, a transatlantic agreement could perhaps be completed more speedily than has been the norm for trade pacts.\n\nTalks would cover cutting customs duties, making products such as cars and food cheaper.\n\nThe average UK-US tariff is relatively low anyway, at 3%, and huge amounts of trade already take place.\n\nNegotiations usually cover thornier topics, such as food safety and environmental standards.\n\nIf one side agreed to accept the other's rules, a deal could be done quickly. But that would be controversial in various sectors. That's when negotiations can begin to drag.\n\nMrs May later said she was \"dismayed\" Mr Trump had withdrawn the US from the Paris Agreement on climate change.\n\nThe accord, signed in Paris in 2015, is an international agreement on how to deal with greenhouse gas emissions.\n\nMrs May said she raised the issue during one of \"a number\" of conversations she had with Mr Trump at the summit - not during the official bilateral talks.\n\nThe prime minister said she had \"urged President Trump to rejoin\", adding: \"I continue to hope that is exactly what the United States will do.\"\n\nMrs May also held a 20-minute meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and a 25-minute meeting with Indian prime minister Narendra Modi.\n\nTalks with Mr Abe focused on trade and North Korea's nuclear missile programme.\n\nJapan's new trade deal with the EU, signed off on Thursday, \"could form the basis\" of an agreement between London and Tokyo following Brexit, Mrs May told her fellow leader.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Modi told Mrs May he wanted to see economic links with the UK deepen now and after Brexit, according to a UK government official.\n\nShinzo Abe and Theresa May discussed trade and North Korea's nuclear missile programme\n\nAfter a meeting on Friday, Chinese President Xi Jinping said China and the UK were in a \"golden era\" of relations and increased investment from his country since the Brexit vote showed its confidence in Britain.\n\nThe G20 summit is the first gathering of world leaders since the UK's general election last month, during which Mrs May's Conservative party lost seats and her performance was widely criticised.\n\nThe two-day meeting is being held against a backdrop of violent protests on the streets of Hamburg, with demonstrators and heavily-armed police clashing into the early hours of Saturday.\n\nThe protests centre mainly on the presence of Mr Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, climate change and global wealth inequalities.", "Handcuffing must be recorded as a use of force\n\nPolice officers in England and Wales have criticised a new 10-page form they have to fill out every time they use any kind of force against someone.\n\nSince April this year officers have had to record a series of details every time they use handcuffs, CS spray or draw a baton.\n\nOne Police Federation official said the new process was \"very bureaucratic\".\n\nBut the Home Office defended the form, saying it would help bring about \"unprecedented transparency\".\n\nThe new rules were announced in March by Mrs May's successor as Home Secretary, Amber Rudd, with the aim of ensuring that police record every encounter involving force.\n\nSome in the police say the form could help to counter \"accusations\" that officers use excessive force.\n\nSimon Kempton, operational lead on policing for the Police Federation, said: \"We will now be able to argue, with solid evidence, that in comparison to the huge numbers of incidents we attend, we rarely have to resort to using force.\"\n\nHe said the data would demonstrate that police \"always try to use the lowest level of force available to us\".\n\nMs Rudd said that \"when police take the difficult decision to deploy force, it is also vital that the people they serve can scrutinise it.\n\n\"These new rules will introduce unprecedented transparency to this important subject and reinforce the proud British model of policing by consent.\"\n\nBut John Apter, chairman of the Hampshire Police Federation, which represents rank-and-file officers, said filling out the 10-page form had proved to be like \"writing an exam essay\".\n\nMr Apter said he understood the need to capture data about the use of force, but thought the process was too complex and took too long, especially at a time when police were already over-stretched.\n\nIt is \"over-engineered\", he said.\n\n\"I know officers who haven't got the time to fill in the form,\" he said, adding that in some city forces, such as London's Metropolitan Police, officers might have to fill in six forms on each shift.\n\nHe believes a better approach would be to scan officers' pocketbooks and use samples of these to provide and analyse data.\n\nJan Berry, a former Police Federation chairman who worked with the Home Office to cut red tape, said there was \"absolutely no reason\" to introduce the form.\n\n\"I sort of despair, and think have we gone backwards?\" she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme, describing the process as \"the wrong way\".\n\nMs Berry, who produced a report on reducing bureaucracy for the Conservative-led coalition in 2010, said the information on the form was already being collected by custody officers.\n\n\"That information is being captured anyway, certainly if they've arrested a person or used handcuffs,\" she said.\n\nOfficers must mark a diagram to indicate where on the body force was used\n\nPolice forces will begin publishing data from the forms over the next couple of weeks.\n\nThe rules require a \"use of force monitoring form\", administered by the National Police Chiefs' Council, to be completed \"as soon as practicable\" after any incident involving force.\n\nA separate form must be completed for each person on whom force is used and officers are expected to complete forms for their own constabulary, even if the incident took place in another police force's area.\n\nThe forms require full details of the incident, including location, whether officers were themselves threatened or assaulted and what sort of force they used.\n\nOfficers are expected to mark a diagram showing what areas of the person's body the force was used on, whether the person was injured and whether medical assistance was offered or provided.\n\nPreviously each force was required to provide details of the use of Tasers and firearms, but the new rules also ask for details of the use of batons, spit-guards, dogs, shields, handcuffs and unarmed restraint, as well as irritant sprays such as CS.\n\nSpeaking in May 2011, during her six years as Home Secretary, Mrs May promised that her policies would \"do away with the bureaucratic accountability of the past. So we will free the police to do their job\".\n\n\"I have said loud and clear that the days of the bureaucrats controlling and managing the police from Whitehall are over.\n\n\"The Home Office will no longer scrutinise and supervise police performance and come up endlessly with new schemes and initiatives.\"\n\nA Home Office spokeswoman said the changes were \"police-led\".\n\n\"Our police reforms have overhauled the previous cumbersome regime of top-down targets and unnecessary bureaucracy,\" the spokeswoman said.\n\n\"But when officers take the difficult decision to deploy force it is vital that they can be scrutinised by the people they serve.\n\n\"These rules changes, which are police-led, bring unprecedented transparency and reinforce the proud British model of policing by consent.\"", "Prison officers have confiscated 225kg (about 500lb) of drugs in one year in England and Wales, according to the Ministry of Justice.\n\nIn 2016, 13,000 mobile phones and 7,000 Sim cards were also seized from prisoners.\n\nThe haul comes after new mobile phone detectors were introduced, as well as 300 specialist dogs for drug detection.\n\nNew Justice Secretary David Lidington said he was not content with the state of prisons, and hoped to improve them.\n\nFour weeks into his new post, Mr Lidington told BBC's Andrew Marr show that he planned to put in place \"effective measures\" to more accurately detect drugs, phones and drones.\n\nIn recent years, legal highs - or psychoactive drugs - had become a problem, he said, as the prison population had shifted in character to include more gangsters and a higher proportion of sexual and violent offenders.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch a drone deliver drugs and mobile phones to London prisoners in April 2016\n\nThe government's National Offender Management scheme previously said that by using mobile phones, inmates had: \"commissioned murder, planned escapes, imported automatic firearms and arranged drug imports\".\n\nShadow Justice Secretary Richard Burgon said it was \"clear that we have a crisis\" and blamed the findings on cuts to prison budgets.\n\nDirector of the Prison Reform Trust, Peter Dawson, said the Prison Service should consider giving prisoners legitimate access to mobile phones as they helped people \"cope with the experience\" and prepare for release.\n\n\"It's in all our interests that people retain their family ties and the phone is an obvious way of doing that,\" he said.\n\nMr Dawson said it was \"pointless\" tracking down inmates who used a mobile to \"call their mum\" rather than for criminal purposes.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFormer prisoner Alex Cavendish, who was released in March 2014, said the contraband haul was the \"tip of the iceberg\".\n\nHe told BBC Radio 5 live that cuts to staffing budgets and \"corrupt\" prison officers were to blame, adding: \"It's really proving a struggle to keep these things out of prisons.\"\n\nDave Todd of the Prison Officers Association conceded that \"you get corruption\" in the prison workforce, but added that a lack of experienced staff \"destabilised regimes\".\n\n\"It needs addressing fundamentally by recruitment and retention of prison officers,\" he told BBC One's Breakfast, adding: \"New prison officers may be compromised by threats, they may be taken in by financial gain, which is not acceptable and my union doesn't defend those people.\"\n\nIn February, a reporter from BBC's Panorama programme went undercover at HMP Northumberland, where he found a number of inmates incapacitated from taking the drug spice.\n\nIn 2016, more than 45% of prisoners in a survey conducted by the HM Inspectorate of Prisons said it was easy to get drugs behind bars.\n\nThe overall number of staff employed across prisons has fallen from 45,000 to just under 31,000 in September 2016.\n\nMr Lidington said the government planned to have 2,500 new officers trained and in place in England and Wales by the end of next year - 500 of whom were already working.\n\nHe said that at the cabinet table he would push forward \"very vigorously\" with a programme for prison reform and measures to increase security and reduce violence.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice also said prisons were working to curb the use of drones in delivering phones and drugs, by creating \"a specialist squad of prison and police officers\".\n\nTo date, 35 people have been arrested and 11 others have been convicted for drone-related activities.\n\nThe department began rolling out tests for psychoactive substances at prisons in September 2016.\n\nIt is also working with mobile network operators to develop ways of blocking mobile phone signals in prisons.", "Wimbledon's seeding system for the men's singles has made an unusually big difference this year, as you can see from the lists above of the ATP rankings a week before the tournament and the Wimbledon rankings.\n\nWimbledon uses a system that favours grass-court specialists - taking the ATP ranking points, doubling the points earned at grass tournaments in the past year and adding on 75% of the points earned on grass the previous year. The other grand slams just use the ATP rankings.\n\nThere are usually only two or three changes in the top eight seeds each year.\n\nOver the last five years you could classify three of the changes to the top eight seeds as being \"good\" in that they make the seeding a better predictor of the outcome, and four of them as \"bad\" because they make it a worse predictor.\n\nThe highest profile example came in 2014, when Novak Djokevic was made number one seed at Wimbledon, despite being number two on the ATP rankings. He won the tournament while Rafa Nadal, who was demoted to the number two slot, was knocked out in the fourth round.\n\nOn the other hand, in 2012 Tomas Berdych was promoted above David Ferrer in the seedings and was knocked out in the first round, while David Ferrer reached the quarter-finals.\n\nThe difference has been marginal overall, but it also must be taken into account that changing seedings is partly a self-fulfilling policy, because a higher-seeded player is likely to get further in the tournament as a result of playing lower-ranked players.\n\nNovak Djokovic won Wimbledon as top seed in 2014 when he was number two in the ATP rankings\n\nLooking at how much difference the Wimbledon seeding system makes got the Reality Check team wondering about whether it had been a better predictor than seedings at other grand slams.\n\nTo compare the seedings with the outcomes for the top eight seeds in grand slams from 2012 to 2016, we allocated a numerical value for the stage at which a player was knocked out. For example, a player knocked out in the semi-finals gets a value of 3.5, because he could have come either third or fourth. Similarly, someone knocked out in the first round would get a value of 96.5.\n\nIf the seeding system was perfect then adding up the outcomes for the top eight seeds in a single year would give a total of 36 (one + two + 3.5 + 3.5 + four lots of 6.5). In fact, the average number you get for the last five years at Wimbledon is 146. And actually, you also get 146 if you do the calculation with the ATP rankings instead of the Wimbledon seedings.\n\nBut that is considerably higher than the figures of 106 at the US Open, 93 at the French Open and 89 at the Australian Open. It should be said that all of these numbers are pretty high. There is not a strong correlation between seeding and outcome.\n\nNonetheless, it is much worse an indicator at Wimbledon, suggesting that Wimbledon has been a less predictable tournament over the past five years than the other grand slams.\n\nCorrection 10 July 2017: This report has been updated to include rankings for the 2017 tournament and to correct some outcomes from the analysis.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Business leaders who had been hoping that the UK could remain in the European single market or customs union have been \"rebuffed,\" declares the Financial Times.\n\nThe Guardian says the chancellor does not think it would be \"legally or politically possible\", but wants what he called \"their benefits\" to be \"retained during a transitional period\".\n\nPhilip Hammond's comments that it would be \"madness\" not to seek \"the closest possible arrangement\" with the EU, the Sun concludes, are \"explosive\".\n\nThe Daily Express warns that he \"risked widening the Tory rift over Europe\".\n\nWhile the Daily Mail says diplomatic sources revealed that the Chinese president suggested Brexit could be \"a global force for good\".\n\nThe Times says Britain will pay poorer nations' premiums for new insurance cover against natural disasters for the next four years.\n\nThe prime minister will be trying to promote the value both for poorer parts of the world and Britain of this, it says.\n\nIt says Theresa May will defend helping what she will describe as \"Britain's future trading partners\".\n\nBut the Daily Express brands it as a \"foreign aid outrage\".\n\nIt quotes Conservative MP Philip Davies, who says it is \"completely unjustifiable\".\n\nHe insists the government should instead be helping his constituents who have been flooded and cannot get insurance.\n\nThe sentiment is echoed in the Sun, which calls it \"floody obscene\".\n\nThe Times says law firm Leigh Day has suspended two trainee solicitors.\n\nThe company is said to be investigating claims that the pair may have been seeking business among survivors of the Grenfell Tower fire.\n\nIt said it was completely unaware of the alleged activities.\n\nThe paper says it also found evidence of an insurance agent offering to help former residents make claims.\n\nMeanwhile, the Daily Mirror reports that insurers expect to pay out £50m over the disaster, double the original estimate.\n\nThe call by a government minister to move the Notting Hill carnival so it was not in the shadow of the burned-out tower block has provoked anger, according to the Daily Telegraph.\n\nIt quotes a campaigner for the Grenfell residents, who argues the parade goes nowhere near the tower.\n\nThe i says there may be a justifiable fear of unrest at the carnival because of the disaster.\n\nBut it suggests the authorities should try to engage and reassure the community, rather than say: \"Sorry, because of our failures, we now have to spoil your party.\"\n\nAlmost every paper reports the new court hearing granted to the parents of terminally ill baby Charlie Gard.\n\nThe Daily Mail calls it a \"stunning move\" in which doctors have \"bowed to global pressure\".\n\nWriting in the i, Janet Street Porter shares her experience of losing her stepson at the age of 11.\n\nShe writes about the interventions of the Pope and Donald Trump, urging instead that Charlie's parents be given \"the counselling to adapt to the inevitable\".\n\nMany of the papers, too, picture Bradley Lowery, the six-year-old Sunderland football mascot, who has died from a rare form of cancer.\n\nThe Daily Star says the \"brave lad\" is \"with the angels\".\n\nThe Daily Mirror pictures the child in the arms of his favourite player, Jermain Defoe.\n\nThe paper pays tribute to the footballer and to Bradley himself who, it says, \"gave us so much\".", "Footballer Jermain Defoe has paid tribute to his \"best friend\" Bradley Lowery.\n\nThe six-year-old Sunderland fan died on Friday following a fight with neuroblastoma - a rare type of cancer.\n\nThe club's former striker struck up a close friendship with the avid Black Cats fan and club mascot in the months before his death.\n\nA tweet by the 34-year-old described Bradley as a \"little superstar\".\n\nIt said the youngster's \"courage and bravery will inspire me for the rest of my life\".\n\nHe wrote: \"Goodbye my friend, gonna miss you lots. I feel so blessed God brought u into my life and had some amazing moments with u and for that I'm so grateful\".\n\nBradley, from Blackhall Colliery, County Durham, was diagnosed with the disease when he was 18 months old. He underwent treatment and was in remission, but relapsed last year.\n\nHis plight touched the lives of many, and well-wishers raised more than £700,000 in 2016 to pay for him to be given antibody treatment in New York.\n\nBut medics then found his cancer had grown and his family was informed his illness was terminal.\n\nBradley has been Sunderland mascot several times with his \"best mate\" Defoe\n\nHis death was confirmed on social media by his parents.\n\nThe posting read: \"My brave boy has went with the angels today.\n\n\"He was our little superhero and put the biggest fight up but he was needed else where. There are no words to describe how heart broken we are.\"\n\nTributes have poured in to the football fan, including one from his beloved club which said: \"Bradley captured the hearts and minds of everyone.\"\n\nThe England football squad, for which Bradley was also a mascot, tweeted: \"There's only one Bradley Lowery.\"\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. Fr Philip Mulryne says his switch from pitch to priesthood was a 'kind of a mystery'\n\nThe former Northern Ireland footballer Philip Mulryne has been ordained a Roman Catholic priest in the Dominican Order.\n\nFather Mulryne, who is reported to have once earned £600,000 a year, has also taken a vow of poverty.\n\nPhilip Mulryne prostrate as he was ordained a priest in Dublin on Saturday\n\nHe was ordained in Dublin on Saturday by Archbishop Joseph Augustine Di Noia, who had travelled from Rome for the ceremony.\n\nFr Mulryne had been ordained a deacon in October last year.\n\nBelfast-born Fr Mulryne won 27 caps for Northern Ireland in a career that included spells with Norwich City and Leyton Orient.\n\nHe made his debut for Manchester United in 1997 after progressing through the youth team.\n\nUnable to forge a lengthy career with the Premier League club, he moved to Norwich City in 1999, but his time at Carrow Road was plagued by injuries.\n\nThe west Belfast man was capped 27 times for Northern Ireland, scoring three goals\n\nHe officially retired from football in 2009 and began his journey to ordination, entering the Diocesan Seminary of Saint Malachy's Belfast.\n\nHe spent two years studying philosophy at Queen's University in Belfast and at the Maryvale Institute before going to the Pontifical Irish College in Rome to study theology for one year at the Gregorian University.\n\nHe entered the Dominican Novitiate House in Cork in 2012.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Trump to Putin: \"It's an honour to be with you\"\n\nDonald Trump and Vladimir Putin have discussed the alleged Russian hacking of last year's US presidential election during their first meeting.\n\nUS Secretary of State Rex Tillerson described the exchanges as \"robust\".\n\nRussian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Mr Trump had accepted Mr Putin's assertions that his country was not responsible.\n\nBut Mr Tillerson said it was not clear whether the two countries would ever come to an agreement on what happened.\n\n\"I think the president is rightly focused on how do we move forward from something that may be an intractable disagreement at this point,\" he added.\n\nThe US and Russian presidents held their first face-to-face talks on the sidelines of the G20 summit in the German city of Hamburg, which is being held amid sometimes violent protests.\n\nOther topics discussed during their meeting - which lasted nearly two-and-a-quarter hours, longer than originally planned - included the war in Syria, terrorism and cybersecurity.\n\n\"The president opened the meeting with President Putin by raising the concerns of the American people regarding Russian interference in the 2016 election,\" Mr Tillerson, part of the US delegation, told reporters afterwards.\n\n\"They had a very robust and lengthy exchange on the subject. The president pressed President Putin on more than one occasion regarding Russian involvement.\n\n\"President Putin denied such involvement, as I think he has done in the past.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Tillerson said the two leaders had \"connected very quickly\", adding: \"There was a very clear positive chemistry between the two. There are so many issues on the table... Just about everything got touched upon... Neither one of them wanted to stop.\n\n\"I believe they even sent in the First Lady [Melania Trump] at one point to see if she could get us out of there, but that didn't work either... We did another hour. Clearly she failed!\"\n\nMr Lavrov said: \"President Trump said he heard clear statements... that Russian authorities did not intervene [in the US election], and he accepted these declarations.\"\n\nMr Tillerson was asked as he was leaving the news conference if this was accurate, but declined to answer.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nEarlier, as the talks began in front of the media before going into private session, Mr Trump told Mr Putin: \"It's an honour to be with you.\"\n\nMr Trump added: \"Putin and I have been discussing various things, and I think it's going very well.\n\n\"We've had some very, very good talks. We're going to have a talk now and obviously that will continue. We look forward to a lot of very positive things happening for Russia, for the United States and for everybody concerned.\"\n\nMr Putin, via a translator, said that while they had previously spoken by phone, that would never be as good as meeting face to face.\n\nThe two men had staked out opposing views on major international issues in the run-up to the summit:\n\nBased on the tone and the results of the US-Russia discussions, this meeting is being lauded here in Moscow as a breakthrough.\n\nThe head of the Russian parliament's foreign affairs committee predicted it would \"stop the rot in US-Russian relations\".\n\nEssentially, Vladimir Putin has got what Vladimir Putin wanted: a US president who is focused not on confrontation but on mutually beneficial co-operation; as American leader who is not going to sit there for two hours lecturing his Russian counterpart on democracy, but instead do deals with him.\n\nAnd there were several agreements: to co-operate in Syria, over Ukraine, and in the area of cyber security. The Kremlin will see all of this as a first step towards a bigger goal: much wider co-operation with America and the scrapping of Western sanctions.\n\nBut remember - Donald Trump is under intense pressure back home over his team's alleged links to Moscow. It's far from certain he'll be able to deliver what Russia wants.\n\nClimate change and trade are set to dominate the rest of the two-day G20 meeting, taking place amid clashes between protesters and police in the streets outside the venue that have left dozens injured.\n\nA huge police operation is trying to keep demonstrators - who are protesting against the presence of Mr Trump and Mr Putin, climate change and global wealth inequalities - well away from the summit venue, and water cannon have been deployed.\n\nThe US First Lady was at one point unable to leave her hotel in Hamburg because of the protests.\n\nMrs Trump had been due to take part in an excursion with other leaders' spouses, but her spokeswoman Stephanie Grisham said: \"The Hamburg police could not give us clearance to leave.\"\n\nMrs Trump herself tweeted about her concern for those injured in the protests.\n\nThe G20 (Group of Twenty) is a summit for 19 countries, both developed and developing, plus the EU.", "The Lynx UK Trust wants to place up to six lynx in Kielder for a five-year trial\n\nPlans to reintroduce the Eurasian lynx 1,300 years after it became extinct in the UK will be submitted soon, campaigners have said.\n\nThe Lynx UK Trust wants to import up to six of the cats from Sweden to Kielder Forest in Northumberland.\n\nWith a public consultation over, the trust said the five year trial plan would go to Natural England by September.\n\nIt has been criticised by some residents and sheep farmers.\n\nThe trust said the lynx hunt in woods and would control the deer population\n\nThe scheme would see four to six lynx wearing radio tracking devices with Kielder chosen due to its dense woodland and low number of roads.\n\nThe trust said the animals would help control deer numbers as well provide a tourism boost.\n\nDr Paul O'Donoghue from the trust told the Guardian the lynx \"belongs here\" and is an \"intrinsic part of the the UK environment\".\n\nHe also told the paper he hoped the lynx could be in the forest by the end of the year.\n\nSheep farmers fear the animals could target their livestock although the trust said the cats would hunt in woods rather than fields.\n\nThe trust did admit, however, that some sheep could be killed but farmers would be \"generously compensated\" for any losses.\n\nPhil Stocker, chief executive of the National Sheep Association, said there were several hundred sheep farmers around Kielder, any one of whom could be affected by the lynx.\n\nHe said valuing a sheep was complex and, money aside, there were major welfare concerns.\n\nMr Stocker said people would not accept animals facing \"unnecessary pain\" and one sheep being attacked by a lynx could cause major stress and possible damage to others in the flock.\n\nHe said the UK no longer had the \"landscape\" for the lynx to be \"genetically sustainable\" and it would not be in the cat's interest to be reintroduced into an environment that, thanks to roads and industry, has changed so much since the cat existed here.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Scottish League One outfit Stranraer have played host to Dutch top division side FC Twente thanks to links which started with a fan's dying wish.\n\nThe match, which finished 5-0 to the visitors at Stair Park, was attended by hundreds of visiting fans.\n\nThe clubs' links were formed when Stranraer and Rangers fan Jim McKie helped out terminally-ill FC Twente supporter Dennis van Unen.\n\nHis dying wish was to see an Old Firm game, which they managed to arrange.\n\nMr McKie and his friend James Hilton, 61, a Stranraer and Celtic fan, got hold of tickets for Mr van Unen and when he arrived in Glasgow for the game they took him on tours of Ibrox, Parkhead and Hampden.\n\nMr van Unen (left) visited Ibrox, Parkhead and Hampden as well as attending an Old Firm game\n\nThe fixture this weekend marks a decade since Mr van Unen's death from skin cancer aged 34.\n\nLinks between the two clubs, some 520 miles apart, have remained strong since with Saturday's game the latest example.\n\nMr McKie admitted he was surprised the Dutch side agreed to take part.\n\nHe said: \"To be honest, when I asked them if they would come I was almost sure they would say: 'No, we can't come.'\"\n\n\"They said: 'Yes, we are coming and we are bringing the full squad - 27 players, all the coaches, everything.'\"\n\n\"Plus we don't know how many fans - it could be anything between 200 and 600 - we don't know.\"\n\nHe said he and Mr Hilton had never imagined what helping Mr van Unen could have led to.\n\nLinks between the clubs have stayed strong since Mr van Unen's death\n\n\"It is huge, it is amazing just how it has come by one simple act,\" he said.\n\n\"James and me feel very humble about the whole thing - it is difficult at times to talk about.\"\n\nHowever, he said that the surroundings of Stranraer's ground had come as something of a surprise to their more illustrious opponents.\n\n\"When they sent one of their team managers across to look at the facilities I could see the shock on her face,\" said Mr McKie.\n\n\"Stair Park is old school - but these guys like old school.\n\n\"They like the fact that it has not been modernised, it is not a 3G pitch - everything has been left as it is.\"\n\nStranraer chairman Iain Dougan said it was \"incredible\" to finally have the two teams meet on the pitch.\n\n\"The boys are really looking forward to it and even though it's a friendly, they're probably one of the biggest opponents we've come up against,\" he said.\n\n\"We're expecting the stadium to be packed with supporters from both sides, and businesses in the town will benefit as a result.\"\n\nA memorial tournament is played every year at FC Twente in honour of Mr van Unen and another fan Boris Dijkhuizen, which Stranraer youth teams regularly participate in.\n\nJan van Halst, technical director at the Dutch side, said: \"It's fantastic that the Scottish FC Twente supporters have helped to arrange this fixture.\n\n\"What started with a last wish from supporter Dennis van Unen has now become a close friendship between FC Twente and Stranraer.\"\n\nHe said they were looking forward to a \"very special friendly match\" in Scotland.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Larkin's ties and lawnmower are among the objects in the exhibition\n\nUnseen letters, an extensive collection of tea towels and a pair of knickers bearing the words \"do not spank\" are going on show in an exhibition of items belonging to poet Philip Larkin.\n\nBooks, LPs and ties are among the other possessions that are being put on display at the University of Hull.\n\nLarkin worked in the university library for 30 years until his death in 1985.\n\nCurator Anna Farthing said: \"We've tried to piece together a life from objects rather than from words.\"\n\nThe possessions, most of which have never been seen in public before, show \"the complications and contradictions of his life, of his body, of his relationships, of his attitudes\", Farthing said.\n\nThe exhibition, titled Larkin: New Eyes Each Year, opens on Wednesday and is the main celebration of the city's most famous cultural son to be staged during Hull's year as UK City of Culture.\n\nRevelations about Philip Larkin's private life have made him a divisive figure\n\nTo some, Larkin was Britain's greatest 20th Century poet. But revelations about his unsavoury views towards race and women have tarnished his reputation for many.\n\n\"It's incredible that somebody who had such a contradictory and conflicted world and life managed to produce art that was so clean and clear. It's made me appreciate the artistic work even more,\" Farthing said.\n\nMany of the exhibits have come from the house where he lived before his death.\n\nHe had a collection of Beatrix Potter ceramic figures\n\nAnd a figure of Hitler that he was given by his father\n\nThere is his lawnmower, typewriter, stationery, camera, photographs and briefcase. There are 33 souvenir tea towels, some of which bear comic verses, and a \"tree\" made of 119 ties.\n\n\"They all represent different aspects of his personality,\" Farthing said. \"We presume the past is black and white, but these ties are full of pattern and colour.\"\n\nThere are also exhibits shedding light on his relationship with his mother, including a rare recording of the pair in conversation and examples of the letters that he wrote to her every day.\n\nAnd there are also items relating to his lovers, including Monica Jones's patterned pink dress and pink lipstick.\n\nThe pants were found in his house after his death\n\nDifferent sides of his personality can be seen in his collection of ceramic Beatrix Potter characters, which go with his Beatrix Potter books; and a miniature Adolf Hitler figure, which was passed down from his father.\n\nAnd light is shed on more tawdry parts of his inner world. As well as the knickers, there are books with titles like The Rod and The Whip, rude doodles found drawn inside books, and pornography.\n\n\"We did find some stuff which is top shelf material, shall we say,\" Farthing says. \"So we've put it on the top shelf and just drawn attention to it with a fairly innocent pair of pink knickers.\"\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. Bijan Ebrahimi was considered an \"attention seeker\" - he was told to \"shut up\" by a police officer\n\nA disabled Iranian refugee repeatedly reported death threats and racial abuse to police for seven years before being brutally murdered, a report has found.\n\nBijan Ebrahimi was beaten to death and set alight on a Bristol estate amid false claims he was a paedophile.\n\nThe IPCC said he had been treated \"consistently differently from his neighbours\" in what could be \"racial bias, conscious or unconscious\".\n\nAvon and Somerset's police chief said \"we failed him in his hour of need\".\n\nMr Ebrahimi's sisters, Mojgan Kahayatian and Manisha Moores, said the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) report showed \"how terrible a life he had during those last few years\".\n\nMr Ebrahimi was killed by his neighbour Lee James in Brislington in July 2013.\n\nBijan Ebrahimi was brutally murdered outside his flat in Brislington in July 2013\n\nThree days before his death, police arrested Mr Ebrahimi following complaints he had taken pictures of children near his home. However nothing suspicious was found and he was released without charge.\n\nThese false allegations led to what Mr Justice Simon called during James's sentencing \"a vigilante crime\" and \"an act of murderous injustice\".\n\nDuring the fatal attack, James repeatedly stamped on the victim's head shouting \"have some of that\".\n\nEvidence gathered by the IPCC uncovered \"poor responses\" by police for at least seven years before the murder and repeated failures to protect him or record crimes against him.\n\nIn 73 of the calls Mr Ebrahimi made between 2007 and 2013, he reported incidents of racial abuse, criminal damage and threats to kill.\n\nBut police failed to record crimes on at least 40 occasions, the watchdog said.\n\nThe report also found there was \"consistent systematic failure\" by call handlers, who breached standards on recording crimes, identifying hate offences and repeat victims.\n\nIPCC commissioner Jan Williams said: \"Bijan Ebrahimi self-identified as a victim of race hate crime, but was never recognised as a repeat victim of abuse who needed help.\n\n\"Instead, his complaints about abusive neighbours were disbelieved and he was considered to be a liar, a nuisance and an attention seeker.\"\n\nHis sister Mojgan said the family had been \"devastated\" by his death and the police had \"failed\" him.\n\n\"It was so hard to see Bijan all these years suffering and his voice never listened to,\" she said.\n\n\"He was always waiting on police, he was thinking it's their duty to care for him and protect him so he didn't think it was up to us.\n\n\"He never gave up and he always thought he was in a country that police was there to protect people and he couldn't see anything beyond that.\"\n\nBijan Ebrahimi was murdered near his home in Brislington, Bristol\n\n2007 - 9 reports made, the number recorded as a crime is unknown\n\nMs Williams said police accepted the neighbours' versions of events at face value and viewed Mr Ebrahimi as the culprit rather than the victim.\n\nShe described Mr Ebrahimi's faith in the force despite their repeated rejection of his version of events, as a \"sad, poignant fact\".\n\nThe commissioner added: \"We found evidence that Bijan Ebrahimi had been treated consistently differently from his neighbours, to his detriment and without reasonable explanation.\n\n\"Some of the evidence has the hallmarks of what could be construed as racial bias, conscious or unconscious.\"\n\nPC Kevin Duffy and PCSO Andrew Passmore were convicted of misconduct and jailed\n\nPC Kevin Duffy and PCSO Andrew Passmore were jailed last year for misconduct over their dealings with Mr Ebrahimi. They and two other police officers were also dismissed from the force.\n\nChief Constable Andy Marsh said: \"We failed [Mr Ebrahimi] in his hour of need and I am unreservedly sorry for the pain his family have suffered in the last four years.\n\n\"Some of these failings were systematic but it's important to acknowledge that the actions of a very small number of individuals had a catastrophic effect.\"\n\nBristol's elected mayor, Marvin Rees said this was \"a horrific case which highlighted the need for many things to change\". He said the city council is \"very sorry for any shortcomings that are identified\".\n\nMr Rees added he had been assured the council's current practice \"meets the needs of vulnerable people\" and that the authority would be looking \"very closely\" at the IPCC report.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAvon and Somerset Police has since implemented changes across its systems relating to culture, anti-social behaviour and vulnerability.\n\nPolice and Crime Commissioner Sue Mountstevens said: \"There is nothing that can do justice to the collective failure to protect Mr Ebrahimi and to treat him as a victim of hate crime.\n\n\"Over the past four years I am satisfied that the constabulary has recognised the mistakes that were made and put in place wide-reaching changes which are already embedded today.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Abyss makes dolls for clients around the world, but does not release figures on how many it sells\n\nThere should be a ban on the import of sex robots designed to look like children, the author of a new report into the phenomenon has said.\n\nProf Noel Sharkey said that society as a whole needed to consider the impact of all types of sex robots.\n\nHis Foundation for Responsible Robotics has conducted a consultation on the issue.\n\nOnly a handful of companies were currently making sex robots, said Prof Sharkey.\n\nBut, he added, the upcoming robot revolution could change that.\n\nThe report, Our Sexual Future With Robots, was written to focus attention on an issue barely discussed at the moment, he said.\n\nThe report acknowledged that finding out how many people actually owned such robots was difficult because the companies that made them did not release the numbers.\n\nBut, said Prof Sharkey, it was time society woke up to a possible future where humans and robots had sex.\n\n\"We do need policymakers to look at it and the general public to decide what is acceptable and permissible,\" he said.\n\n\"We need to think as a society what we want to do about it. I don't know the answers - I am just asking the questions.\"\n\nCompanies making sex robots include Android Love Doll, Sex Bot and True Companion. Most have previously made realistic, silicone-skinned sex dolls and are now considering or starting to ship dolls that can move and speak.\n\nThe most advanced of these is San Diego-based Abyss Creations, which ships a product known as Real Doll and is due to release a sex doll with artificial intelligence later this year. Called Harmony, the robot moves its head and eyes and speaks via a tablet-enabled app.\n\nThe company has already released the app, which allows users to program moods and voices for an existing doll.\n\nThe report considers a few options for how such robots could be employed as:\n\nThe last of these was the most problematic, said Prof Sharkey.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Aimee Van Wynsberghe, co-director of the Foundation for Responsible Robotics on the pros and cons of sex robots\n\nSex dolls that resemble children do exist, and a court in Canada is currently determining whether owning one is illegal.\n\nThe company is on a Canadian watch-list, and the doll was intercepted at the airport. Mr Harrison was charged with possessing child pornography but has pleaded not guilty.\n\nIn Asia, there are already brothels that use adult sex dolls. And there are reports that a doll-maker operated one in Barcelona, although this has not been verified.\n\nThe report examines the nature of a human-robot relationship, but would women want a male sex robot?\n\nDr Kathleen Richardson, a robot ethicist at De Montfort University, agreed with the report authors that child sex robots should be banned but stopped short of calling for a ban on all such sex dolls.\n\n\"The real problem here is not the dolls but the commercial sex trade. Sex robots are just another type of pornography,\" she said.\n\nShe believes such robots would inevitably \"increase social isolation\".\n\nShe also criticises the report for what she said is a failure to address the issue of gender.\n\n\"Why does the report have a picture of a male robot on the cover when we know that the doll market - which is driving this - is mainly female dolls?\n\n\"It is perpetrating the idea that this is gender-neutral, but the truth is that there are not many women buying such dolls, it is largely driven by men and male ideas of sexuality.\"\n\nProf Sharkey said that there was currently a mismatch between what those selling such dolls wanted their customers to believe about the dolls and the reality of what they offered.\n\n\"The manufacturers of sex robots want to create an experience as close to a human sexual encounter as possible,\" he said.\n\n\"But robots cannot feel love, tenderness or form emotional bonds. The best that robots can do is to fake it.\"\n\nSex robots are a relatively new phenomenon and an obvious next stage for sex dolls, which have become increasingly sophisticated in recent years. Most have silicone skin, articulated metal skeletons and realistic features such as hair and eyes.\n\nIn the main, these dolls are designed in female form, although Sinthetics has had some commercial success with its male sex dolls.\n\nBut Prof Sharkey has doubts about how human-like such dolls will become.\n\n\"I can't see them as being like humans in the next 50 years. They will always be slightly spooky, and their conversation skills now are awful,\" he said.\n\nDr Richardson also questioned whether such robots would become mainstream or even be possible technologically.\n\n\"The report assumes that you can create a functioning robot that can respond to humans, but in fact it is incredibly complex,\" she said\n\nOne of this year's big TV series - Westworld - explored the idea of people paying to have sex with human-like robots", "The spiralling costs of student debt is the main thrust of several of the day's front pages.\n\nThe Guardian says students from the poorest 40% of families entering university in England for the first time this September will accrue an average debt of about £57,000, according to the Institute of Fiscal Studies.\n\nThe economic think-tank says the end of maintenance grants in 2015 had disproportionately affected the poorest, while students from the wealthiest 30% of households would run up average borrowings of £43,000.\n\nAnd the Times reports on how three-quarters of graduates will never repay their student loans. They are liable for repayments once they earn more than £21,000 but after 30 years, whatever debt is left is written off.\n\nSome 77% were not expected to repay their debt, including interest, the IFS said.\n\nA subject \"guaranteed to stir local emotions\" - as the Times puts it - is the prospect of building new by-passes.\n\nThe paper reports that the government is about to spend £1bn a year combating congestion in towns and cities.\n\nAlmost 4,000 miles of A-roads will be upgraded, and significant sums will be put into a fund to construct by-passes around built-up areas with the worst jams.\n\nThe Telegraph says business groups and road safety campaigners have welcomed the news, but the Times thinks the scheme is bound to provoke opposition, not least from those experts who think building new roads simply creates more traffic.\n\nInterest in pay as an issue has been so strong it's surprising how little notice is taken of the offer to firefighters of a 2% rise. But the i newspaper puts the story on its front page, saying the increase will add to the pressure on Theresa May coming from the police, teachers, the armed forces and civil servants.\n\nThe Daily Mail notes that it's local authorities, not central government, which negotiates the salaries of firefighters.\n\nThere's a sharply personal tone to the attack by the Daily Mirror on former PM David Cameron for his comments about the need for pay restraint.\n\nUnder the headline, \"Cam off it, Dave,\" the paper points out that nurses and teachers have seen their wages fall in real terms while he \"coins it round the world\", giving lectures for \"up to a £120,000 an hour\".\n\nThe Guardian suggests Mr Cameron's motive may have been to have a go at Boris Johnson and Michael Gove. The Times thinks it more likely he was trying to support the chancellor, and protect his own legacy.\n\nThe Mail, rather to its own surprise, finds itself praising Mr Cameron for his \"wise words\".\n\nIt offers sympathy to state sector workers, but argues that \"a general spending splurge\" would increase debt and cost jobs and growth.\n\nTackling the shortage of homes in sought-after rural areas is, according to the Telegraph, a nettle the government is determined to grasp.\n\nThe paper believes Communities Secretary Sajid Javid will launch \"a new assault on homeowners with a nimby attitude\", forcing them to accept that more homes must be built.\n\nHe says there will have to be \"tough decisions\" because, as the Telegraph notes, \"it could prove controversial with grassroots Tory voters, many of whom live in affluent areas\".\n\nThe Sun comments that rising prices have brought \"joy to homeowners\", but it feels that the government has to find speedy ways of helping people in their 20s to find homes.\n\nThe Daily Express highlights the plight of patients who have to wait \"for crucial knee, hip and cataract operations\" on the NHS.\n\nIt describes the long delays as a new crisis for the NHS, saying surgery is provided quickly in parts of the country, while in others some patients do not receive any treatment.\n\nAccording to the Mail, clinical commissioning groups are \"having to ration procedures\" to meet financial targets.\n\nThe result, says the Times, is that \"patients are left in pain,\" and some \"are having to beg for treatment that was once routine\".\n\nThe world, says the Mail, has reached out in sympathy to Charlie Gard, the desperately ill eleven month old boy who suffers from a rare genetic condition.\n\nThe paper says it has been profoundly moved by the plight of his parents, as they sought to keep him alive.", "Carmaker Volvo has said all new models will have an electric motor from 2019.\n\nThe Chinese-owned firm, best known for its emphasis on driver safety, has become the first traditional carmaker to signal the end of the internal combustion engine.\n\nIt plans to launch five fully electric models between 2019 and 2021 and a range of hybrid models.\n\nBut it will still be manufacturing earlier models that have pure combustion engines.\n\nGeely, Volvo's Chinese owner, has been quietly pushing ahead with electric car development for more than a decade.\n\nIt now aims to sell one million electric cars by 2025.\n\n\"This announcement marks the end of the solely combustion engine-powered car,\" said Hakan Samuelsson, chief executive of Volvo's carmaking division.\n\n\"People increasingly demand electrified cars, and we want to respond to our customers' current and future needs,\" he said.\n\nVolvo's announcement sounds dramatic, but the reality is it simply reflects the direction much of the auto industry is travelling in.\n\nThe internal combustion engine is not dead - and won't be for a while at least. It still offers a relatively cheap and well-proven means of getting around.\n\nThe problem is that emissions regulations are getting much tighter. From 2021, for example, carmakers in the EU will have to ensure that across their fleets, average CO2 output is no higher than 95g of CO2 per kilometre. That's a lot lower than current levels.\n\nCarmakers are reacting by developing fully-electric models. Some are already pretty impressive. But developing mass market cars that are affordable and have the right levels of performance is a research-intensive and expensive process, while persuading consumers to buy them in large numbers may also be time consuming.\n\nIn the meantime, hybridisation - fitting electric motors to cars which also have conventional engines - offers a convenient way to bring down emissions without harming performance. And there are plenty of different kinds of hybrid systems to choose from.\n\nVolvo is making headlines, but other manufacturers are doing much the same kind of thing.\n\nTim Urquhart, principal analyst at IHS Automotive, said the move was a \"clever sort of PR coup - it is a headline grabber\".\n\n\"It is not something that moves the goalposts hugely,\" he said.\n\n\"Cars launched before that date [of 2019] will still have traditional combustion engines.\n\n\"The announcement is significant, and quite impressive, but only in a small way.\"\n\nIt comes after US-based electric car firm Tesla announced on Sunday that it will start deliveries of its first mass-market car, the Model 3, at the end of the month.\n\nElon Musk, Tesla's founder, said the company was on track to make 20,000 Model 3 cars a month by December.\n\nHis company's rise has upset the traditional power balance of the US car industry.\n\nTesla, which makes no profits, now has a stock market value of $58bn, nearly one-quarter higher than that of Ford, one of the Detroit giants that has dominated the automotive scene for more than a century.", "Scientists examined samples from this ancient Roman pier with very high-powered X-rays\n\nResearchers have unlocked the chemistry of Roman concrete which has resisted the elements for thousands of years.\n\nAncient sea walls built by the Romans used a concrete made from lime and volcanic ash to bind with rocks.\n\nNow scientists have discovered that elements within the volcanic material reacted with sea water to strengthen the construction.\n\nThey believe the discovery could lead to more environmentally friendly building materials.\n\nUnlike the modern concrete mixture which erodes over time, the Roman substance has long puzzled researchers.\n\nRather than eroding, particularly in the presence of sea water, the material seems to gain strength from the exposure.\n\nIn previous tests with samples from ancient Roman sea walls and harbours, researchers learned that the concrete contained a rare mineral called aluminium tobermorite.\n\nThey believe that this strengthening substance crystallised in the lime as the Roman mixture generated heat when exposed to sea water.\n\nResearchers have now carried out a more detailed examination of the harbour samples using an electron microscope to map the distribution of elements. They also used two other techniques, X-ray micro-diffraction and Raman spectroscopy, to gain a deeper understanding of the chemistry at play.\n\nThis new study says the scientists found significant amounts of tobermorite growing through the fabric of the concrete, with a related, porous mineral called phillipsite.\n\nThe researchers say that the long-term exposure to sea water helped these crystals to keep on growing over time, reinforcing the concrete and preventing cracks from developing.\n\n\"Contrary to the principles of modern cement-based concrete,\" said lead author Marie Jackson from the University of Utah, US, \"the Romans created a rock-like concrete that thrives in open chemical exchange with seawater.\"\n\nA close up view of the concrete from a scanning electron microscope showing the presence of the tobermorite which adds strength\n\n\"It's a very rare occurrence in the Earth.\"\n\nThe ancient mixture differs greatly from the current approach. Modern buildings are constructed with concrete based on Portland cement.\n\nThis involves heating and crushing a mixture of several ingredients including limestone, sandstone, ash, chalk, iron and clay. The fine material is then mixed with \"aggregates\", such as rocks or sand, to build concrete structures.\n\nThe process of making cement has a heavy environmental penalty, being responsible for around 5% of global emissions of CO2.\n\nSo could the greater understanding of the ancient Roman mixture lead to greener building materials?\n\nProf Jackson is testing new materials using sea water and volcanic rock from the western United States. Speaking to the BBC earlier this year, she argued that the planned Swansea tidal lagoon should be built using the ancient Roman knowledge of concrete.\n\n\"Their technique was based on building very massive structures that are really quite environmentally sustainable and very long-lasting,\" she said.\n\n\"I think Roman concrete or a type of it would be a very good choice [for Swansea]. That project is going to require 120 years of service life to amortise [pay back] the investment.\n\n\"We know that Portland cement concretes contain steel reinforcements. Those will surely corrode in at least half of that service lifetime.\"\n\nThere are a number of limiting factors that make the revival of the Roman approach very challenging. One is the lack of suitable volcanic rocks. The Romans, the scientists say, were fortunate that the right materials were on their doorstep.\n\nAnother drawback is the lack of the precise mixture that the Romans followed. It might take years of experimenting to discover the full formula.\n\nThe research has been published in the journal American Mineralogist.\n\nFollow Matt on Twitter and on Facebook", "Grenfell Tower survivors gathered at the Olympia conference centre in London for the meeting\n\nThe scene inside Grenfell Tower is \"apocalyptic\", a coroner told angry survivors calling for more details.\n\nDuring a three-hour meeting with Dr Fiona Wilcox, survivors asked for information about the missing, but were told the \"recovery phase\" could last until the end of the year.\n\nPolice also faced questions as to why there had not as yet been any arrests.\n\nIt comes after officials said all survivors who want to be rehoused had been offered temporary accommodation.\n\nThe fire on 14 June killed at least 80 people, although police say the final toll will not be known for many months.\n\nThe meeting was held at the Olympia conference centre in West Kensington on Tuesday evening.\n\nLotifa Begum, from the Grenfell Muslim Response Unit (GMRU), told the Press Association some of those in attendance were \"very upset and angry\", while several became overwhelmed and had to leave.\n\nMs Begum said many families \"would have appreciated a lot more time and notice\" before the meeting was held.\n\nNabil Choucair fears he has lost six members of his family who lived on the 22nd floor of Grenfell Tower.\n\nThree adults - Nadia, Sirria and Bassam - are believed to have been in the flat, as well as children Zainab, Fatima and Mierna, aged three, 10 and 13.\n\nHe told the BBC: \"We personally asked where is our family? We want to know are our family's bodies still there and is there anything from them?\n\n\"Whatever it is we want to know exactly what it is, do not hide anything. But the answers that were coming back were 'we don't know, we don't know, we don't know'.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Grenfell Tower survivor Antonio is living in a hotel and has turned down two flats.\n\nIt has been reported that people were told before the meeting they would not be allowed to directly question Dr Wilcox or Met Police Commander Stuart Cundy. They were also told to email their questions in by 11:00 BST on Monday.\n\nMeanwhile, the Grenfell Response Team says 139 formal offers of housing have now been made to survivors, after Prime Minister Theresa May promised housing would be offered to those in need by Wednesday.\n\nHowever, only 14 offers have been accepted and many are still in hotels.\n\nA spokesman for North Kensington Law Centre - which represents more than 100 Grenfell victims - said many of the offers had been unsuitable.\n\nSid-Ali Atmani said the accommodation his family had been offered was too far away from his daughter's school and not big enough.\n\n\"They need to deal with us as victims in an appropriate way and with dignity,\" he told BBC Breakfast. \"We become numbers and we don't have names. This is so frustrating… in three weeks they haven't found any solution.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sid-Ali Atmani and daughter Hayam lived on the 15th floor in Grenfell Tower\n\nAntonio, who lived on the 10th floor of Grenfell Tower, has turned down two offers of accommodation, saying they do not meet his needs.\n\n\"I had a very comfortable and nice flat on the 10th floor,\" he told the BBC. \"I had a very comfortable life, I had a very comfortable home.\n\n\"Now the feeling is that they are trying to put us into places just to say 'we have complied with what we said we were going to do'.\"\n\nEleanor Kelly, chief executive of Southwark Council and spokeswoman for the Grenfell Response Team, told BBC Breakfast there was an \"enormous emotional impact\" on the families, so it would take time for permanent moves to take place.\n\n\"It is going to take people a long time to really work through where they want to go,\" she said. \"That's why many of the families are choosing to stay in the emergency hotel accommodation for the moment and then make a permanent move.\n\n\"We have to understand that and we have to deal with each individual family and their circumstances as appropriately and as sensitively as we can.\"\n\nRobert Atkinson, leader of the Labour Party at Kensington and Chelsea Council, said decisions about accommodation should be taken by survivors when they are ready - and not just to meet government deadlines.\n\n\"It's very important that the survivors are allowed to make their decisions in their own good time and I'm somewhat annoyed at the focus on getting this target met so that the prime minister can say that she has fulfilled her promise,\" he said.\n\n\"I want these arrangements to be made in the timescale and at the pace at which the victims and survivors wish to make these decisions.\"\n\nIt comes amid growing pressure for Sir Martin Moore-Bick - the judge leading the inquiry into the fire - to stand down.\n\nLabour's Emma Dent Coad, MP for Kensington, has described him as \"a technocrat\" who lacked \"credibility\" with victims.\n\nOn Monday, lawyers representing some of the families also called for him to quit.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn stopped short of demanding his resignation, but said he should \"listen to residents\", while Mayor of London Sadiq Khan warned he must urgently improve relations with the area.\n\nBut one senior minister, Lord Chancellor David Lidington, said he had \"complete confidence\" in Sir Martin, whom he believed would lead the inquiry \"with impartiality and a determination to get to the truth and see justice done\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Supreme Court has ruled in favour of HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) in its fight with Rangers over the club's use of Employee Benefit Trusts (EBTs).\n\nMore than £47m was paid to players, managers and directors between 2001 and 2010 in tax-free loans.\n\nHowever, HMRC argued the payments were earnings and should be taxable.\n\nThe court's decision is not expected to have any material or financial impact on Rangers now as the club is owned by a different company.\n\nRangers' use of EBTs and the subsequent appeals by HMRC became known as the \"big tax case\".\n\nTwo tribunals in 2012 and 2014 had previously found in Rangers' favour, but the Court of Session found in favour of HMRC after an appeal in 2015.\n\nLiquidators BDO were then allowed to appeal to the Supreme Court in London as the ruling has implications for future cases.\n\nOn Wednesday, the Supreme Court unanimously dismissed RFC's appeal and ruled in favour of HMRC.\n\nThere will undoubtedly be calls for the football authorities to act following this judgement.\n\nA Scottish Premier League investigation headed by Lord Nimmo Smith found Rangers guilty of not registering players properly and the company was fined in 2013.\n\nNimmo Smith's judgement was made at a time when the EBT scheme was deemed acceptable by a tax tribunal and he resisted calls for the club to be stripped of honours won during the years the scheme was in operation, saying \"Rangers FC did not gain any unfair competitive advantage from the contraventions of the SPL Rules.\"\n\nIt's unlikely the football authorities will have much appetite to sanction another investigation but that won't stop some calling for just that.\n\nA spokesman said the Scottish Premier Football League will \"take time to examine the ‎judgement in detail and to consider any implications.\"\n\nThe result is a major victory for HMRC in its attempts to recoup tax from thousands of other companies which ran EBTs and similar schemes, which were the subject of a crackdown in legislation enacted in December 2010.\n\nHMRC could now issue \"follower notices\", which would demand payment from companies who ran similar schemes.\n\nA number of football clubs in England fall into this category.\n\nA settlement opportunity in light of the 2010 legislation ran out in July 2015 and other firms could now be liable for major sums.\n\nIn a written judgment, the judges said: \"The sums paid to the trustee of the Principal Trust for a footballer constituted the footballer's earnings. The risk that the trustee might not set up a sub-trust or give a loan of the sub-trust funds to the footballer does not alter the nature of the payments made to the trustee of the Principal Trust.\n\n\"The discretionary bonuses made available to RFC's employees through the same trust mechanisms also fall within the tax charge as these were given in respect of the employee's work.\n\n\"Payment to the Principal Trust should have been subject to deduction of income tax under the PAYE regulations.\"\n\nSir David Murray took control of Rangers in 1988 and sold the club in 2011\n\nThe EBT scheme was administered by the Murray Group, then majority shareholder of the Glasgow club, from 2001 to 2009.\n\nIn February 2012, Rangers, which was then run by Craig Whyte, went into administration over a separate tax debt and the tax authority rejected a creditors agreement in June of that year.\n\nThe supreme court decision is in relation to Murray Group companies, including the liquidated company RFC 2012, and not the current owners at Ibrox.\n\nThe result will mean the creditors of RFC 2012 will receive less money from the pot collected by liquidators BDO, as HMRC will now be owed more money.\n\nFormer Rangers chairman Sir David Murray said he was \"hugely disappointed\" with the verdict, which he said ran counter to the legal advice which was consistently provided to Rangers Football Club.\n\nHe said: \"It should be emphasised that there have been no allegations made by HMRC or any of the courts that the club was involved in tax evasion, which is a criminal offence.\n\n\"The decision will be greeted with dismay by the ordinary creditors of the club, many of which are small businesses, who will now receive a much lower distribution in the liquidation of the club, which occurred during the ownership of Craig Whyte, than may otherwise have been the case.\"\n\nIn a statement, HMRC said: \"This decision has wide-ranging implications for other avoidance cases and we encourage anyone who has tried to avoid tax on their earnings to now agree with us the tax owed.\n\n\"HMRC will always challenge contrived arrangements that try to deliver tax advantages never intended by parliament.\"\n\nRangers liquidators BDO said it believed taking the case to the Supreme Court had been the correct course of action \"given the significance of the matter\".\n\nIt said: \"We will now engage with HMRC on adjudicating its claim.\n\n\"Further advice and guidance will be provided to creditors in due course.\"\n\nThe Scottish FA said that, after examining the judgement, it would take no further disciplinary action.\n\nIt said it had been advised it was unlikely the Scottish FA would be successful pursuing a complaint about whether disciplinary rules could have been breached.\n\nIt added that, even if successful, any sanctions available to a judicial panel would be limited in their scope.\n\nMeanwhile, Celtic said they were sure that the football authorities would review their findings that Rangers gained no sporting advantage from the tax-avoidance scheme.\n\nA league commission fined Rangers in 2013 but did not strip the club of any titles they had won during the years the scheme was in operation.\n\nCeltic disagreed with that ruling at the time, and said the Supreme Court judgement \"re-affirms that view.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Corbyn: I hope the prime minister is proud of her record\n\nJeremy Corbyn has accused the government of \"flip flopping and floundering\" over public sector pay.\n\nDuring PMQs, the Labour leader said that through the 1% pay cap the government was \"recklessly exploiting the goodwill of public servants\" and called for it to be scrapped.\n\nTheresa May said the government would study pay review recommendations \"very carefully\" when they are made.\n\nAnd she said Labour would \"bankrupt our country\" if Mr Corbyn became PM.\n\nSeveral ministers have suggested they want the public sector pay cap, introduced in 2013 following a two-year pay freeze, to be lifted, and some Conservative MPs have called for a change of direction after the Tories lost their majority in the general election.\n\nMr Corbyn focused on the subject during Prime Minister's Questions in the Commons, saying there was a \"low pay epidemic\" in the UK, and that pay levels were causing a \"real shortage\" of NHS staff.\n\nIn a reference to the Conservatives' deal with the Democratic Unionists, he said: \"The prime minister found £1bn to keep her own job - why can't she find the same amount of money to keep nurses and teachers in their own job - who after all serve all of us.\"\n\nMrs May said she valued public sector workers' \"incredibly important work\", adding: \"I understand why people feel strongly about the issue of their pay.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. May: Corbyn's 'Waiting to put up taxes'\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. James Duddridge is the first MP to take advantage of relaxed dress rules and speak at PMQs without a tie.\n\nThe government would balance future decisions with \"the need to live within our means\" she said, adding that the policy had to be \"fair to those who pay for it\".\n\nShe also mounted a fierce defence of the Conservatives' record in cutting the deficit and increasing wages and employment.\n\nAnd she referred to Mr Corbyn's description of Labour as a \"government in waiting\".\n\n\"We all know what that means,\" she said. \"Waiting to put up taxes, waiting to destroy jobs, waiting to bankrupt our country. We will never let it happen.\"\n\nLabour continued the pressure on the pay cap after PMQs, tabling an urgent question in the Commons.\n\nShadow chancellor John McDonnell compared cabinet ministers to children \"scrapping in the school playground\" over what should happen to the policy.\n\nChief Secretary to the Treasury Liz Truss said the cap remained in place \"because it is the responsible thing to do\".\n\nEarlier one union described the 1% cap as \"dead in the water\" after receiving an offer of a 2% increase for its workers.\n\nNonetheless, the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) said the offer was \"simply not good enough\".\n\n\"It does not recognise the extra work firefighters have been doing, it fails to address their falling living standards and, despite hints at improvements, does not make clear what they will be earning in future years,\" said FBU general secretary Matt Wrack.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Transport Secretary Chris Grayling rejected the suggestion the offer to firefighters had \"busted\" the 1% cap, saying they were the responsibility of local authorities rather than central government.\n\nThe wages of public servants the government is responsible for \"will be a matter that's addressed in future Budgets\", he said.\n\nThe Fire Brigades' Union has criticised the 2% offer but says it shows the cap is \"dead in the water\"\n\nMost public sector workers' wages are set by ministers after receiving recommendations by independent pay review bodies, which are delivered at different points in the year.\n\nTeachers and police are expecting a government response to their pay bodies' recommendations later this month.\n\nDowning Street has insisted the policy has not changed, with Chancellor Philip Hammond urging ministers to \"hold their nerve\".\n\nAsked about the debate within government, Mr Grayling said: \"There is always going to be a debate around the cabinet table about what to do - and we are not all clones - but the bottom line is that we are a team.\"\n\nSome ministers have called for the 1% pay cap to be scrapped\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 5 live, former Conservative Party chairman Lord Patten called on Theresa May to tell \"others who've got their own opinion to shut up\".\n\n\"There is a sense you have at the moment of everybody doing their own thing,\" he said.\n\n\"Nobody actually asserting very clearly what they want to do in the national interest.\n\n\"We can't go on living from hand-to-mouth in this sort of shambolic way.\"\n\nMeanwhile the FDA union, which represents senior civil servants, has written to Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson along with other cabinet ministers who have indicated they support easing pay restraint, calling on them to follow up their \"warm words\" with action.\n\n\"Each of these ministers will have sign off on the pay settlement for their staff this year. They cannot hide behind pay review bodies with restricted remits. Failure to act will demonstrate these warm words were little more than meaningless platitudes,\" said general secretary Dave Penman.\n\nThe Institute for Fiscal Studies has said increasing pay in line with inflation next year - rather than 1% - could cost about £5bn.\n\nSpeaking at a conference in South Korea on Tuesday, former prime minister David Cameron said people calling for an end to austerity were \"selfish\".\n\n\"The opponents of so-called austerity couch their arguments in a way that make them sound generous and compassionate,\" he said.\n\n\"They seek to paint the supporters of sound finances as selfish, or uncaring. The exact reverse is true.\n\n\"Giving up on sound finances isn't being generous, it's being selfish: spending money today that you may need tomorrow.\"", "Billy Monger has driven a racing car for the first time since his crash\n\nA teenage racing driver who had to have both legs amputated after a high speed crash has got back behind the wheel.\n\nBilly Monger, from Surrey, hit the back of a stationary car at Donington Park in April and lost both of his lower legs, days before he turned 18.\n\nEleven weeks on, he has now returned to the cockpit of a racing car at Brands Hatch in Kent.\n\nThe adapted Fun Cup endurance racer is designed to look like a VW Beetle and has steering wheel mounted controls.\n\nThe Formula 4 racer returned to the track with the assistance of Team BRIT, which helps disabled drivers and injured servicemen to compete in motorsport.\n\nThe teenager said he still wanted to perfect his technique\n\nHe said: \"It's been really good just to get back behind the wheel.\n\nAnd he added: \"Team BRIT have got two steering wheels for me to try out today.\n\n\"I've decided which one I prefer, now it's just about perfecting the technique.\"\n\nDave Player, Team BRIT founder said the aim was to give the teenager his first time out on the track and to get his race licence back.\n\nMonger said his ambition now was to compete in the Le Mans 24 Hours with Frenchman Frederic Sausset, who lost both arms and legs through an illness.\n\nBilly was driving a specially-adapted car with similar power to a performance hatchback\n\n\"I'm not 100% committed to anything yet, we're just looking at different options to see what's best for me in the future,\" he said.\n\n\"There's a lot of work involved in what's going on with my own rehabilitation, but that's all going well, so hopefully we'll be back out on track soon.\"\n\nBilly's car is specially adapted with steering wheel-mounted hand controls for the throttle, brakes and clutch\n\nThe teenager thanked fans who had overwhelmed him with help: \"People keep saying I'm the inspiration but I think all these people coming together to support someone who has gone through an accident like this, they're the true inspiration.\"\n\nBilly had vowed to race again after turning 18\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "John Varley is the first former bank chief executive to face criminal charges over conduct during the 2008 financial crisis\n\nThe four defendants made their way through a thick press pack to take their seats - in the dock - at Westminster Magistrates court yesterday. It was a sight many thought they would never see. Senior bank executives inside a criminal court to face charges for their conduct during the great financial crisis.\n\nFormer chief executive John Varley and bankers Roger Jenkins, Tom Kalaris and Richard Boath sat, stony-faced, next to each other behind the glass panel as they gave their names, date of birth and addresses and listened as the charges against them were read by the clerk of the court.\n\nIn 2008, at the height of the financial crisis - rather than taking a government bailout (and the strings attached to it) - Barclays managed to raise a total of £12bn from Middle East investors.\n\nThis case centres around agreements struck to secure around half of that from Qatar state-owned entities.\n\nThere are two offences alleged - the first is that Barclays failed to disclose £322m in fees that it paid to its new investors - all four are facing this charge of conspiracy to defraud by misrepresentation. The second is that Barclays lent the Qataris £2bn which helped to fund the £5.3bn investment in Barclays shares. John Varley, Roger Jenkins and Barclays PLC are facing this additional charge of unlawful financial assistance. All four men are expected to contest the charges. Barclays PLC has not indicated how it will plead.\n\nThe possibility that the company may enter a different plea is important and ratchets up the stakes in this high profile case - and not just for the defendants.\n\nThe four men could face jail terms of up to 10 years if found guilty.\n\nBarclays PLC, the holding company that owns Barclays Bank, could face hundreds of millions in fines for criminal behaviour and open itself to hundreds of millions more in civil suits.\n\nBut for the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) this case coincides with a moment of existential anxiety. The Conservative manifesto contained plans to fold the SFO into the National Crime Agency and no-one in government seems clear whether the policy's omission from the Queen's Speech means it has had a reprieve or not. What is clear is that at the time he was deciding to bring these charges, the head of the SFO, David Green, would have assumed the government planned to call time on its 30-year existence. This could be the last hurrah of an organisation with a chequered history.\n\nIf it is its goodbye, the SFO has picked a hell of swansong. It's the first time that any senior banking executives have faced criminal charges for their conduct in the great financial crisis nearly a decade ago. Some will say a case like this is scandalously overdue, but legal experts tell me that it also shows you just how difficult it is to bring a case like this and therefore just how high the risks are to the credibility of the SFO if it's unsuccessful.\n\nThe biggest complication comes from charging the company - in this case Barclays PLC.\n\nCriminal proceedings against companies are rare. Not only because you have to prove that the knowledge of the offence went right to the very top - to the \"controlling minds\" of the company - but also, officials are reluctant to punish a company when doing so might result in damaging its prospects, the livelihoods of innocent workers and in the case of big companies, the economy itself.\n\nPublic interest considerations like these are the reason the SFO dropped its long-running investigation into BAE Systems infamous Al-Yamamah contract to supply fighter jets to Saudi Arabia. Tens of thousands of UK jobs were at risk for two reasons. One, the investigation risked putting one of BAE's biggest customer's nose out of joint and second, criminal convictions for a company can debar it from bidding for lucrative contracts at home and abroad.\n\nThis problem was one of the main reasons behind the adoption of a new mechanism called a Deferred Prosecution Agreement (DPA). Under a DPA, the company admits wrongdoing, gets a whopping fine but is not criminally convicted - and so its business, the livelihoods of its workers and the wider economy are not damaged. Everyone is also spared a lengthy and costly trial that might end up without the SFO securing a conviction.\n\nThe SFO has used DPAs to great effect with Rolls Royce (£671m fine) and Tesco (£129m). In fact, these successes led to many thinking the SFO had finally got its mojo back. Holding big companies to account without holding the economy to ransom. The SFO also reserves the right to feel the collars of the individuals involved at a later date.\n\nSo why wasn't this lower risk approach used by the SFO in this case?\n\nMr Green made it clear that DPAs are only for companies who fully co-operate with investigators. Barclays withheld tens of thousands of documents citing legal privilege - behaviour Mr Green described as leading the SFO \"a merry dance\". Barclays points out that it's unreasonable to punish the bank for exerting legal rights. Nevertheless, a DPA was never put on the table. The SFO has made a concession to the economic importance of Barclays to the UK. It has charged the holding company (Barclays PLC) rather than the operating company, Barclays Bank. This means the ability of this important transatlantic bank to operate in its key markets should not be affected - whatever the outcome.\n\nMany feel that the SFO, after years of mixed results, was just getting into its stride when plans for its demise were hatched and published in the Tory manifesto. Perhaps that contributed to the SFO's decision to go out in a blaze of glory of pressing for criminal convictions of both a bank and its senior management.\n\nNearly a decade on from a financial crisis and this is the first time any former bank chief executive anywhere in the world has faced criminal charges for alleged conduct during the greatest financial crisis since the 1930s. A society that paid the price of a long recession which scars the economy to this day feels short-changed by that and one insider close to the investigation described SFO chief Mr Green as being on \"a crusade\" to acknowledge that frustration.\n\nWhether there is any truth in that or not, one thing seems clear. Taking this route is a lot riskier for the SFO than offering a DPA.\n\nPhilip Marshall QC told the BBC that it is very difficult to prove that executive actions were dishonest rather than mistaken and other legal sources have told me that this case could last two years or more.\n\nAlso, what happens if the company pleads guilty while the human defendants plead not guilty? What kind of reporting restrictions might be necessary given a public company's duty to inform its shareholders of information that could materially affect the value of the company. This is complicated territory.\n\nLet's not forget one more thing. A LOT of bad stuff happened before, during and after the crisis. Reckless lending, irresponsible borrowing, lax regulation, market rigging, financially abusing customers - you can add your own items to this list.\n\nFormer City Minister Lord (Paul) Myners has said that the Barclays top brass wanted nothing to do with government money - not least because of the intrusion that would mean into matters like pay (just ask bankers at RBS and Lloyds). Also markets lose their integrity and participants all lose if some break the law - as is alleged here.\n\nBut how many people, I wonder, would put a bank - trying to raise money to prevent a taxpayer funded bailout - in the ninth circle of Hades.\n\nThe SFO is taking a big risk it could have avoided by exacting a whopping fine through a DPA. The appearance of these executives inside a criminal court may slake the public's thirst for overdue personal accountability. So far, they have only spent an hour in court.\n\nThe weeks, months and possibly years to come will determine if the SFO picked the right battle here.", "Mr Higgins made points about US national security during his video\n\nOfficials at Auschwitz have criticised a US congressman for making and voicing a video inside a gas chamber at the former Nazi death camp.\n\nThe memorial and museum tweeted that the gas chamber was \"not a stage\" but was a place for mournful silence.\n\nRepublican Clay Higgins said in the video that the horrors of the WW2 death camps were the reason why the US military should be \"invincible\".\n\nSome 1.1 million people, mainly Jews, died at the Nazi-occupied Poland camp.\n\nMr Higgins made a five-minute video showing him in different parts of the museum talking about the atrocities in the death camp.\n\nAt one point, he goes inside a gas chamber and explains how the victims were gassed.\n\nThe museum posted a picture of the plaque outside the gas chamber building on Twitter\n\n\"This is why Homeland Security must be squared away, why our military must be invincible,\" he says.\n\nBut the museum responded that it was inappropriate to speak inside the gas chambers.\n\n\"Everyone has the right to personal reflections. However, inside a former gas chamber, there should be mournful silence. It's not a stage,\" it tweeted on Tuesday.\n\nLater it posted a picture of the entrance to the building showing a plaque asking for silence.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lt Clay Higgins is known to call out the criminals directly on camera\n\nThe Louisiana congressman has not yet responded to the criticism. His offices were closed for the Fourth of July holiday.\n\nHowever, the video was not being displayed on his website and social media users suggested it had been removed.\n\nThe Anti-Defamation League, an American-Jewish anti-discrimination organisation, said the video was \"incredibly disrespectful to the hallowed ground\" of the memorial and museum.", "David, now 17, had to wait almost four months for an ankle foot orthosis\n\nA wasted operation which left her son David unable to walk was what spurred on Rebecca Loo to make a difference to the NHS.\n\n\"I was livid. I was so consumed by anger. I thought either I have a nervous breakdown, or I do something,\" says Rebecca, from Staffordshire.\n\nShe is only one of 300,000 people who got in touch with Healthwatch England, an independent health watchdog, to share their experiences of NHS treatment.\n\nRebecca's disgust with the orthotics service which failed her son has led to a total redesign of how children access braces, boots and callipers to help their mobility.\n\nAs a result of her hard work, children right across England are no longer facing the sort of delays which affected her son.\n\nCrucially, NHS England believes the changes have the potential to save hospitals up to £22 million.\n\nBecause of muscle abnormalities resulting from cerebral palsy, which left his foot turned inwards, David had needed to wear special, supportive NHS boots to help him walk.\n\nBut they were usually ill-fitting, and often so delayed that he had outgrown them by the time he got them - or only a few months later.\n\nDavid then endured blisters, chaffing and bleeding toes while new boots were made.\n\nIn 2009, an orthopaedic surgeon recommended serial casting to set David's foot straight.\n\nDavid was left immobile and unable to go to school\n\nImmediately after surgery he should have been fitted with an ankle foot orthosis - a brace that keeps the ankle and foot straight - but it took 17 weeks to arrive and, within days of the operation, her son was immobile.\n\nThe knock-on effect for nine-year-old David was huge, both in terms of his physical development and his emotional well-being. He missed school for four months because he couldn't access his classroom on the top floor. He was upset and in pain.\n\n\"We weren't just back at square one, we were worse than when we started,\" Rebecca told BBC News.\n\nDavid later had to undergo complex surgery that Rebecca believes would have been unnecessary if her local orthotics department had worked as it should have done.\n\nAnd it turned out Rebecca's experience was not unique. She spoke to many other parents who had endured similar experiences - but nothing had been done to improve the system.\n\nTogether, they created a dossier of evidence cataloguing the woeful state of her local orthotics department.\n\nRebecca Loo's son's wait meant surgery ultimately had to be done again\n\n\"Nobody cared who was in charge; nobody had looked at how the service was commissioned,\" explains Rebecca. \"The service was neglected and underfunded.\"\n\nHealthwatch England has launched #ItStartsWithYou to highlight the difference patient feedback can make.\n\nThe campaign is encouraging members of the public to share their experiences of the NHS - good or bad - to help improve how things are done.\n\nImelda Redmond, national director of Healthwatch England, said the NHS was \"increasingly keen to find out what people are feeding back\".\n\n\"It can help the whole health and care sector understand what it is getting right and where things need to improve.\n\n\"I urge everyone to speak up and help us make the changes we all want to see,\" she said.\n\nRebecca's feedback ultimately changed the way services were commissioned - not only in Staffordshire but across England. And in 2014, those processes were rolled out nationally.\n\n\"To have not acted would have been to accept defeat,\" says Rebecca. \"I didn't want another family to go through what we did.\n\n\"Unless you listen to patients, you can't have a service that meets needs.\"\n\nGeorge Rook's input on dementia treatment has helped improve local health and social care services\n\nGeorge Rook wanted to share his first-hand experience of being diagnosed with dementia, which has now led to the creation of two \"dementia cafes\" in Shropshire.\n\nAfter struggling with his own diagnosis, George, 63, has spent the past four years working with local doctors to help improve the way they identify and support people with early symptoms of the disease.\n\nWorking with his local Healthwatch, George has helped local GP surgeries to become \"dementia friendly\" and set up a programme to recruit local dementia champions.\n\nHe has also been instrumental in establishing the Butterfly Scheme, which sees medical staff pinning a butterfly to people's notes to enable others to quickly and discreetly see that they have dementia.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Charlie Gard has been in intensive care since October\n\nIt is impossible for terminally ill Charlie Gard to be transferred to the Vatican's children's hospital for treatment, Boris Johnson has said.\n\nThe foreign secretary told Italian Foreign Minister Angelino Alfano legal reasons prevented him from being moved.\n\nThe president of the Bambino Gesu hospital in Rome had asked British doctors if 10-month-old Charlie could be transferred to his care.\n\nIt comes after the Pope tweeted his support for Charlie on Monday.\n\nCharlie has been receiving specialist treatment at Great Ormond Street Hospital since October.\n\nMr Johnson has told his Italian counterpart it is \"right that decisions continued to be led by expert medical opinion, supported by the courts\", in line with Charlie's \"best interests.\"\n\nCharlie has mitochondrial depletion syndrome, a rare genetic condition which causes progressive muscle weakness. Doctors say he cannot see, hear, move, cry or swallow.\n\nDuring questions to the prime minister, on Wednesday, Theresa May said she was \"confident\" Great Ormond Street Hospital \"have, and always will, consider any offers or new information that has come forward with consideration of the well-being of a desperately ill child\".\n\nConnie Yates and Chris Gard raised more than £1.3m for experimental treatment for Charlie\n\nCharlie's parents raised £1.3m on a crowdfunding site to pay for experimental treatment in the US.\n\nBut they lost a legal battle with the hospital last month after judges at the European Court of Human Rights concluding further treatment would \"continue to cause Charlie significant harm\".\n\nThe Vatican's paediatric hospital stepped in after Pope Francis called for Charlie's parents, Chris Gard and Connie Yates, to be allowed to \"accompany and treat their child until the end\".\n\nThe hospital's president Mariella Enoc said: \"I was contacted by the mother, who is a very determined and decisive person and doesn't want to be stopped by anything.\"\n\nRenowned scientist and genetics expert Robert Winston told ITV's Good Morning Britain that courts and doctors should not be interfering with the parents' wishes, saying the loss of a child was \"about the worst injury that any person can have\".\n\nHowever, he said \"interferences from the Vatican and from Donald Trump\" were \"extremely unhelpful and very cruel\".\n\nLord Winston added: \"This child has been dealt with at a hospital which has huge expertise in mitochondrial disease and is being offered a break in a hospital that has never published anything on this disease, as far as I'm aware.\"\n\nLord Winston said \"interferences from the Vatican\" were \"unhelpful\"\n\nThe Vatican said the Pope was following the case \"with affection and sadness\".\n\nA statement added: \"For [Charlie's parents] he prays, hoping that their desire to accompany and care for their own child to the end is not ignored.\"\n\nUS President Donald Trump also tweeted about Charlie on Monday, writing: \"If we can help little #CharlieGard, as per our friends in the UK and the Pope, we would be delighted to do so.\"\n\nCharlie's parents, from Bedfont, west London, have spent the last days of their son's life with him, after being given more time before his life-support is turned off.\n\nOn Thursday they said the hospital had denied them their final wish to take their son home to die.", "Sir Bradley Wiggins is a five-time Olympic cycling champion, but will the 37-year-old's plans to swap his racing bike for a rowing boat see him reach a sixth Games?\n\nThe 2012 Tour de France winner retired from cycling in December 2016 and has taken up rowing in the gym to keep fit.\n\nHe first raised the idea of switching sports in his 2012 autobiography My Time, and has now outlined his intent to compete at the British Indoor Rowing Championships in December.\n\n\"I might be being a bit delusional, but the times suggest I'm not,\" he said. \"I'm going to see how far I can take it. Maybe a sixth Olympic gold?\"\n\nSo can Wiggins turn his rowing dreams into a reality? How does he go about bringing those plans to fruition? And what obstacles stand in his way on the road to Tokyo 2020?\n\nBBC Sport asked three-time Olympic champion Andrew Triggs Hodge what it will take for the mercurial cycling talent to become rowing royalty.\n\n'His last stroke will be his best'\n\nTriggs Hodge, 38, has won gold medals at three different Games, adding four World Championship titles to boot, and the now-retired Great Britain rower is excited to see what Wiggins can offer the sport.\n\n\"It's awesome Wiggo has thought about transferring to rowing,\" he told BBC Sport. \"I think that's never been done before, so congratulations for at least attempting it.\n\n\"I love the fact that he is trying, and I can't wait to see what he can do.\n\n\"He's going to have to do something that hasn't been done before, so I wish him all the luck and he will be welcomed into the sport with open arms.\"\n\nWith the experience of five Olympic Games behind him on a bike, Wiggins appears to have put his hopes of reaching a sixth in a boat.\n\nRebecca Romero, who became the first Briton to win medals in two sports at a summer Olympics, successfully made the switch in the opposite direction, so how will Britain's most decorated Olympian fare?\n\n\"The best advice I can give him is he is going to have to put all that to bed,\" added Triggs Hodge. \"If he comes on to the scene expecting to be an Olympic champion, he will put himself under a lot of pressure.\n\n\"If he has got the confidence and the presence to say 'OK, I will start off as a novice rower and expect nothing more' but train with that desire and that passion to put himself in the picture and let his body dictate to him a little bit, then I think he will get the most out of himself.\n\n\"I hope everyone will give him the time and space to explore the sport at his own pace, not put any pressure on.\n\n\"Give him the respect first for trying, and then give him the few years he'll need to start performing - it will be a long journey and his last stroke will be his best.\n\n\"Until that point he is on a trajectory and we should definitely give him the time and space and credit for venturing on this journey.\"\n\nWhat will be his biggest challenge?\n\nWiggins is not averse to attempting new things. He successfully made the transition from winning on the road to winning on the track and back again, clinching world and Olympic titles in both disciplines.\n\nTriggs Hodge says the former Team Sky rider obviously boasts a \"great engine\", but weight could be an issue for the 2012 Tour de France champion.\n\nWiggins said himself: \"I'm trying to get to 100 kilos, so I'd be 31 kilos heavier than when I went on Tour.\"\n\nAnd British Rowing performance director Sir David Tanner echoed those concerns in May: \"He's not the biggest of guys, so I'd guess if he did want to do rowing he'd want to be a lightweight, for which we only have two places these days.\"\n\n\"Physiologically he might be up for the challenge,\" explained Triggs Hodge. \"He's got a lot of work to do with his core and his upper body, especially when he gets into the boat, that'll be a big component.\n\n\"There's an aspect of retraining his body, retraining his aerobic system, his lactate system with the new muscles, a different capacity on his heart - there is a lot there to work and retrain.\n\n\"The tactical side in cycling is also huge. Getting a tactical advantage when you're in the peloton or in the time trial, so his advantage there is probably less so in rowing.\n\n\"But his biggest challenge is going to be the technical side. Rowing is a whole different ball game to cycling.\"\n\nIs Wiggins too old?\n\nOne obstacle facing the 37-year-old is his age. By the time the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games arrive, Wiggins will be 40.\n\nEven the likes of Sir Steve Redgrave and Sir Matthew Pinsent bowed out before hitting the same age, and Triggs Hodge says transferring any skills later in life is a challenge.\n\n\"Most of the top people retire between 35 and 40,\" added Triggs Hodge, who announced he was hanging up his oar shortly before his 38th birthday earlier this year.\n\n\"The reason being, the training volume really takes a toll on the body. Less specific muscles or bones, more just the metabolism, your kind of 'wholeness'.\n\n\"Physiologically, if you are able to take it a bit easier you can go on indefinitely. It depends how his body is going to be able to adapt.\"\n\nTriggs Hodge says the challenge for a lot of young rowers is coping with the volume of training needed, rather than actually progressing as a rower.\n\n\"You tend to see that first when people get into the national team,\" he added. \"They'll take a step back or stay static for a few years. When their body is then able to cope with the training, they will move forward and progress.\n\n\"He'll have to cope with some adjustments and it usually takes a youthful body to get over that hump.\n\n\"It won't be easy. Everyone is mortal, everyone only has one body and he will to have to take his time like the Redgraves and Pinsents did when they were young.\"\n\n'Get in a boat, that's where the magic lies'\n\nWiggins plans to showcase his talent at the British Indoor Rowing Championships in December at Lee Valley VeloPark in London, where competition takes place on static rowing machines.\n\nHe has yet to reveal whether he has been in the water, and Triggs Hodge says Wiggins' biggest challenge may be transferring from the gym to the regatta.\n\n\"If he's going to give it a go, he needs to get into a boat as soon as possible,\" said the 38-year-old.\n\n\"There's a classic saying in rowing that Ergos (rowing machines) don't float. As much as I know British Rowing are pushing indoor rowing, it simply isn't a water sport - it doesn't have the grace or elegance or even probably the injuries that the water sport has.\n\n\"There's no way to get side-by-side than to actually get on the water. He needs to see what it's like to get in a boat, that's where the magic lies in this sport.\n\n\"Especially when you are inside of it, you get to really appreciate what the sport has.\"\n\nWhat event would suit Wiggins best?\n\nWiggins is used to competing as part of a team, winning Olympic team pursuit gold medals in 2008 and 2016 and experiencing success on the road, but Triggs Hodge says the tactical element of rowing is different.\n\n\"Cycling teams yield to the main guy, the one that is leading and one you want to push to the front,\" he said. \"In rowing, it is a whole new dynamic in the team environment.\"\n\nSo is there a particular event that would suit Wiggins best?\n\n\"It's going to be tricky whatever,\" added the Molesey Boat Club rower. \"The best he can do is get himself into the middle of an eight, that's where he'll pick up the skills the fastest.\n\n\"The challenge with rowing in an eight is the team aspect is the most different to an individual sport or a sport where you have a leading star. There is a big challenge there to integrate into a top team.\n\n\"The smaller the boat class you go, down to the pairs or a single, you rely on more precision technique - it's more about the individual. You have just got to dive in and see where you prefer to be, accept the challenges wherever they may lie.\n\n\"All credit to the guy. He's going to have a big challenge but I look forward to seeing him have a go.\"", "One man says members of his family were killed in an SAS night raid\n\nThe Royal Military Police is investigating an allegation that British special forces killed unarmed Afghan civilians, the BBC understands.\n\nThe BBC has spoken to one man who says four members of his family were killed in a night raid involving the SAS in 2011.\n\nThe Sunday Times has also reported other allegations of unlawful killing by British special forces.\n\nAn investigation into British troops' conduct in Afghanistan began in 2015.\n\nIn 2016, the Ministry of Defence said about 600 complaints against British forces in Afghanistan had been made, relating to a period between 2005 and 2013.\n\nThe MoD says 90% of those have already been dismissed, with fewer than 10% still the subject of investigation by the Royal Military Police under Operation Northmoor.\n\nThe man, who did not want to be named, told the BBC he was held, blindfolded, in a room overnight.\n\n\"Early morning, they came and opened my eyes and said to me that I should not go out until they left the area. When the helicopters left the area we came out of the room.\n\n\"As soon as I came out of the room I saw that they had shot my father, two brothers and cousin.\"\n\nThe BBC has been told the raid did involve special forces and is now being investigated.\n\nA former British Army intelligence officer, Chris Green, who served in Afghanistan, said he had been blocked when he tried to look into allegations of abuses by special forces officers.\n\n\"British forces, and the troops that I worked with, worked under very very strict rules of engagement and it seemed to me that special forces did not have to apply the same rules in quite the same way,\" he said.\n\n\"My overview of their accountability was - I didn't see any.\n\n\"When I sought information from them, this wall of secrecy was put in front of me and I could see no good reason why the information I was asking for was denied from me and nor could they give me a good reason for denying me that information.\"\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn and the former director of public prosecutions, Lord Macdonald, are among those who have called for an independent inquiry into the claims.\n\n\"Our armed forces have a reputation for decency and bravery,\" said Mr Corbyn.\n\n\"If we do not act on such shocking allegations we risk undermining that reputation, our security at home and the safety of those serving in the armed forces abroad.\"\n\nThe former head of the army, General Lord Richard Dannatt, said people shouldn't jump to conclusions.\n\n\"No witch hunts, but no cover ups,\" he said.\n\n\"If there is evidence of wrongdoing, it should be investigated, but we should be very, very careful of throwing mud at our very special, special forces.\"\n\nAllegations of widespread abuse in Iraq have already been mostly discredited and that investigation is now closed.", "The star was accused of using a backing track at Glastonbury\n\nEd Sheeran says he's quit Twitter after receiving a stream of abuse.\n\n\"I've actually come off Twitter completely,\" he told The Sun. \"I can't read it.\n\n\"I go on it and there's nothing but people saying mean things. One comment ruins your day. But that's why I've come off it.\"\n\nThe star, who has 19 million followers, says he'll keep the account open, but it will only share automatic updates from his Instagram page from now on.\n\nA quick scan of Twitter finds a number of negative - although not necessarily abusive - comments directed towards the 26-year-old.\n\n\"Irritating ginger busker\" is a particularly common insult; while the song Galway Girl has provoked a torrent of anger.\n\n\"Revolting, fudged cultural appropriation,\" wrote David N about the jaunty jig, in which Sheeran describes falling for a girl who \"played the fiddle in an Irish band\".\n\nAnother user described it as \"awful 'diddly-eye leprachaun'\" music, full of \"stereotypical nonsense\".\n\nRichard Roche had some helpful advice regarding the lyrics, which he described as: \"Full of geographical inaccuracies (there's no pub on Grafton St).\"\n\nMost recently, Sheeran had to defend himself against accusations of using a backing track during his headline set at Glastonbury.\n\nThe star uses a loop pedal during his performances, which allows him to record his vocal and guitar lines, creating a layered, looped accompaniment live, on the spot.\n\n\"Is it a backing track or invisible musicians?!? Who's playing when Ed Sheeran stops?!?\" wrote one mystified fan. \"Couldn't he get real musicians? I like him but all a bit karaoke,\" wrote another.\n\nIn his last personally-authored tweet, the star sounded exasperated by the accusations.\n\n\"Never thought I'd have to explain it, but everything I do in my live show is live, it's a loop station, not a backing track. Please google,\" he wrote.\n\nOther users took aim at Sheeran's televised Glastonbury show after he suffered guitar problems during the song Bloodstream.\n\n\"Ed Sheeran come to my house and I will show you how to tune a guitar you useless mess,\" wrote one.\n\nSpeaking to The Sun, Sheeran said he had \"been trying to work out why people dislike me so much\" but the simple answer is that he's the victim of his own success.\n\nHis third album ÷ (Divide) is the year's biggest-seller, dominating the charts and radio around the world. In the UK, every song on the record made the top 20 of the singles chart, while the lead single, Shape Of You, spent 14 weeks at number one.\n\nThat sort of ubiquity draws out the more mean-spirited and aggressive users of Twitter - which has gained a reputation for harbouring trolls.\n\nStars including Miley Cyrus, Sue Perkins, Stephen Fry, Halsey and Avengers director Joss Whedon have all quit the site after suffering abuse.\n\nOthers, including Selena Gomez and Tom Daley, have received death threats. (We saw no evidence of similar tweets to Sheeran, although it is possible such messages would have been deleted for violating Twitter's terms and conditions).\n\nLast year, Bloomberg reported that Disney chose not to pursue an acquisition of the social media network in part because it thought the bullying behaviour of some users might damage the film company's image.\n\nTwitter has since taken action to combat abuse - giving users better tools to mute or block trolls.\n\nBased upon a trawl of Sheeran's account, mean tweets are vastly outweighed by positive ones.\n\nEvery time he posts a photo or a comment, the majority of responses are variations of, \"I love you\", \"te amo\" and \"come to Portugal!\"\n\nAnd if Sheeran ventures back onto the site, he'll find heartwarming messages like this one from Castie Collins, who wrote: \"I'm learning guitar because of you.\"\n\n\"Thank u @edsheeran for making great music so studying isn't always SO terrible,\" said Emily Estopare.\n\nHannah Robinson added: \"I'm sick and feel like crap but I turned on some Ed Sheeran songs and felt better.\"\n\nAnd Karen Porter had kind words for Sheeran's Glastonbury slot: \"Could tell you were having the best time ever up on that stage,\" she said. \"Amazing to see true talent and a genuine soul. Much love.\"\n\nEven the star's least-liked song received some (faint) praise from Sadie Lyon, who wrote: \"My Uber driver knows the rap bit in Galway 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.", "Jurors were told there were similarities between the cases of Caroline Devlin (left) and Susan Nicholson\n\nA man has been found guilty of killing two girlfriends five years apart.\n\nRobert Trigg, 52, was convicted of the murder of 52-year-old Susan Nicholson in 2011, and the manslaughter of Caroline Devlin, 35, in March 2006.\n\nTrigg, of Park Crescent, Worthing, West Sussex, had denied the charges, claiming they had died in their sleep.\n\nHe will be sentenced at Lewes Crown Court on Thursday after a jury took six-and-a-half hours to reach its verdicts following a 10-day trial.\n\nThe women's deaths at their homes in Worthing were initially treated as not being suspicious.\n\nThe death of Ms Devlin, whose body was found by one of her four children on Mother's Day, was originally recorded as an aneurysm.\n\nAn inquest into Ms Nicholson's death ruled she died accidentally after Trigg claimed he inadvertently rolled onto her in his sleep while they were on a sofa.\n\nRobert Trigg failed to call the emergency services after the deaths of both women\n\nTrigg, who declined to give evidence in his defence, blew out his cheeks as the verdicts were announced.\n\nJurors were told both causes of death were re-examined years later by pathologist Dr Nathaniel Cary who concluded Ms Nicholson was suffocated by having her head forced into the bed.\n\nDr Cary found Ms Devlin's death was caused by a blow to the back of her head.\n\nThe trial heard both women suffered violence at the hands of Trigg during their relationships with him.\n\nAfter one such incident, Ms Devlin said: \"I won't be here for my 40th.\"\n\nHe was described as a \"possessive, controlling and jealous\" man and by one former girlfriend as a \"Jekyll and Hyde\" character who drank heavily.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The parents of Susan Nicholson suspected Robert Trigg was guilty\n\nThe trial heard of \"striking similarities\" between the deaths, with both victims found in an unusual position and Trigg failing to call the emergency services, and getting other people to do it for him.\n\nThe family of Ms Nicholson refused to accept foul play did not play a part in their daughter's death, and launched a six-year campaign to get to the truth.\n\nElizabeth and Peter Skelton said getting justice had been \"mental torture\".\n\n\"We knew right from the start... there's no way two people could sleep on that sofa,\" Mrs Skelton said.\n\nMr Skelton added: \"At the inquest they said Susan was lying on her back all night.\n\n\"There would be no room for anybody to sleep on their back or even lie on the rest of the sofa.\"\n\nHe criticised Sussex Police, saying: \"Their first investigation wasn't very good.\n\n\"That's why we had to get a barrister and a pathologist to back up our case because they wouldn't listen to us.\n\n\"We told them all the facts, even the facts that came out in court but the police still wouldn't listen, but in the end they had to listen,\" Mr Skelton said.\n\nBrandyn McKenna, the youngest son of Ms Devlin, said outside court: \"We have always said that it was all down to the Skelton family that we finally got justice.\"\n\nFollowing the verdicts, Nigel Pilkington, from the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), said Trigg had \"a history of violence and controlling behaviour towards his partners\".\n\n\"In the face of this, it was extremely unlikely that two of Trigg's partners had died of natural causes while sharing a bed with him,\" he said.\n\nDet Supt Tanya Jones from Sussex Police said both deaths had been investigated at the time and post mortem examinations carried out.\n\n\"The forensic information available on each case at the times of the deaths did not provide any avenues for further investigation.\"\n\nThe parents of Susan Nicholson commissioned a review by a third pathologist and new evidence was presented to police, she said.\n\n\"On this fresh information we carried out a new thorough investigation including both deaths.\n\n\"Sussex Police are sorry that we had not presented all the facts before the CPS previously but we have now thoroughly investigated both cases.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Saudi Arabian embassy in London says Saudi itself has been subject to attacks by al-Qaeda and so-called Islamic State\n\nSaudi Arabia is the chief foreign promoter of Islamist extremism in the UK, a new report has claimed.\n\nThe Henry Jackson Society said there was a \"clear and growing link\" between Islamist organisations in receipt of overseas funds, hate preachers and Jihadist groups promoting violence.\n\nThe foreign affairs think tank called for a public inquiry into the role of Saudi Arabia and other Gulf nations.\n\nThe Saudi embassy in London says the claims are \"categorically false\".\n\nMeanwhile, ministers are under pressure to publish their own report on UK-based Islamist groups.\n\nThe Home Office report into the existence and influence of Jihadist organisations, commissioned by former Prime Minister David Cameron in 2015, has reportedly yet to be completed amid questions as to whether it will ever be published.\n\nCritics have suggested it could make uncomfortable reading for the government, which has close and longstanding diplomatic, security and economic links with the Gulf, particularly Saudi Arabia.\n\nBBC security correspondent Frank Gardner said he understood the report was \"largely finished and sitting on Theresa May's desk\", but there was probably a reluctance to publish it because of \"embarrassing\" content.\n\nThe Henry Jackson Society is a foreign policy think tank that advocates the robust spreading of liberal democracy, the rule of law and the market economy.\n\nTheir report says a number of Gulf nations, as well as Iran, are providing financial support to mosques and Islamic educational institutions which have played host to extremist preachers and been linked to the spread of extremist material.\n\nAt the top of the list, the report claims, is Saudi Arabia, the UK's closest ally in the Middle East and biggest trading partner.\n\nIt alleges individuals and foundations have been heavily involved in exporting what it calls \"an illiberal, bigoted Wahhabi ideology\", quoting a number of examples.\n\nIn a minority of cases, the report alleges institutions in the UK that receive Saudi funding are run directly from Saudi Arabia, although in most instances the money appears to \"simply buy foreign donors' influence\".\n\nWhy the UK is so close to Saudi Arabia\n\nBritain has a close, long-standing and sometimes controversial relationship with Saudi Arabia, birthplace of Islam and today the world's biggest oil producer and exporter.\n\nAnnual bilateral trade is worth billions of pounds, UK exports to Saudi Arabia, notably in defence, employ thousands of people in both countries, and there is close co-operation on counter-terrorism.\n\nBut UK and US-supplied warplanes and munitions are being used by the Royal Saudi Air Force to bomb targets in Yemen, sometimes resulting in civilian casualties.\n\nSaudi Arabia also has a much-criticised human rights record. This has prompted calls from some, including Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, for an arms embargo on Saudi Arabia.\n\nBut Theresa May has spoken of the economic and security benefits of this alliance and has pushed for closer ties with Britain's Gulf Arab partners.\n\nIn a statement, the Saudi embassy in London said any accusations that the kingdom had radicalised \"a small number of individuals are baseless and lack credible evidence\".\n\nAnd it pointed out that the country has itself been subject to numerous attacks by al-Qaeda and so-called Islamic State.\n\nIt added: \"We do not and will not condone the actions or ideology of violent extremism and we will not rest until these deviants and their organisations are destroyed.\"\n\nThe Home Office said it was determined to cut off the funding of extremism but it declined to comment on the think tank's report.\n\nThe BBC's Frank Gardner said the report's release comes at a sensitive time with Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain and Egypt all accusing Qatar of supporting extremism - a charge the report says is hypocritical.\n\nThe think tank also accuses Qatar of links to terrorism, which it denies.\n\nArab foreign ministers are meeting in Cairo on Wednesday to discuss possible further sanctions on Qatar, while the Qatari foreign minister will be making his own country's case at a press conference in London.\n\nEndorsing the report, Labour MP Dan Jarvis said it shed light on \"very worrying\" links between Saudi Arabia and the funding of extremism and he called for the government to release its report on foreign funding.\n\n\"In the wake of the terrible and tragic terrorist attacks we have seen this year, it is vital that we use every tool at our disposal to protect our communities,\" he said.\n\n\"This includes identifying the networks that promote and support extremism and shutting down the financial networks that fund it.\"\n\nHe said the proposed Commission for Countering Extremism, a new body intended to expose examples of extremism in civil society, should make the foreign funding of UK institutions a priority.\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May, who visited Saudi Arabia in April, has insisted the UK's historic relationship with the desert kingdom is important for British security and trade.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn has called for the immediate suspension of UK arms exports to Saudi Arabia because of its human rights record and involvement in military action in Yemen.", "Jeremy Corbyn is to speak to the organisers of the Glastonbury festival about their use of zero-hours contracts, his spokesman has said.\n\nThe Labour leader appeared on stage at last month's event to speak about employment rights among other issues.\n\nMost of the workers hired, from around Europe, to clean up after the festival were reportedly laid off early.\n\nBut organisers said the litter pickers had \"temporary\" agreements which guaranteed at least eight hours work.\n\nIn a statement, Glastonbury festival said the \"unusually dry\" weather was partly responsible for reducing the amount of work after this year's festival.\n\nAccording to the Independent, about 700 workers had travelled to Somerset from the Czech Republic, Spain, Poland and Latvia to help with the post-festival clean-up operation, on zero-hours contracts.\n\nThey were reportedly promised two weeks' paid work but were laid-off after two days because there was less litter than expected, leaving them stranded and out of pocket.\n\nIn a video filmed by the Independent, a supervisor is heard telling sacked workers obstructing vehicles in protest that they should be grateful for two days' work.\n\nMr Corbyn used his appearance on the festival's Pyramid stage to say young people should not have to \"accept low wages and insecurity as just part of life\".\n\nAsked whether he would boycott Glastonbury in future, Mr Corbyn's spokesman said: \"Jeremy and the Labour Party have taken a very strong stand against the use of zero-hours contracts and the exploitation of migrant and other workers, and we would take that view wherever it happened.\n\n\"How Glastonbury runs its event and runs its finances is entirely a matter for them.\n\n\"But these contracts should not be in place and shouldn't be used.\n\n\"We oppose them, and next time we are in government we will ban them.\"\n\nAsked whether Mr Corbyn would raise the issue with organisers next time he visits the festival, the spokesman said: \"He is happy to raise it right now.\n\n\"This kind of contract and these kinds of employment conditions are unacceptable.\"\n\nIn a statement, Glastonbury festival denied they had used zero-hours contracts, saying: \"We would like to state that Glastonbury festival's post-event litter picking team are all given temporary worker agreements for the duration of the clean-up.\n\n\"The length of the clean-up varies considerably from year to year, based largely upon the weather conditions before, during and after the festival.\n\n\"This is something the litter pickers - many of whom return year after year - are made aware of in their worker agreements (which assure them of a minimum of eight hours' work).\n\n\"This year was an unusually dry one for Glastonbury. That, coupled with a fantastic effort from festival goers in taking their belongings home, meant that the bulk of the litter picking work was completed after 2.5 days (in 2016, a very wet year, the equivalent period was around 10 days).\"", "Georgia took part in a campaign as a child to show life is not restricted by diabetes\n\nImagine having to inject yourself thousands of times over the course of your lifetime, but never talking about it to anyone.\n\nMany people live with hidden disabilities - conditions which don't have physical signs but are painful, exhausting and isolating. Sympathy and understanding from others can often be in short supply.\n\nSimon Magnus, Georgia Macqueen Black, Erika North and Natasha Lipman explain what it's like to have a hidden disability, which some of your friends and family may silently be dealing with.\n\nHe is the artistic director of arts charity Root Experience.\n\nIt's taken me some time to properly \"own\" my dyslexia. It has been a source of shame and embarrassment for most of my life. In trying to conceal my condition, I have let people think I am lazy and disorganised. The truth is, I really can't get my ideas onto paper, and my fear and anxiety around \"being unable to write\" has stopped me from achieving things I wanted.\n\nI had a meeting recently and it was going well, then they asked me to do a written evaluation. It made my heart sink. I had to tell them that I couldn't do it. Eyebrows were raised, but I told them about my dyslexia and owned it. The outcome might not have been what I wanted, but it was a huge step for me.\n\nProvision for dyslexic people in everyday life is not available across the board yet, and nor is provision for those of us with anxiety or other hidden disabilities, but I hope they thought about it afterwards and perhaps, in the future, they might consider how they could work with someone like me.\n\nInvisible conditions are just different to how we think the world operates, but the more of us that 'come out' the more we realise how many people live with these experiences and that a simple change in a process can mean all the difference.\n\nGeorgia Macqueen Black has Type 1 Diabetes and was diagnosed at the age of 11.\n\nShe works for Shape Arts on the National Disability Arts Collection and Archive.\n\nType 1 Diabetes cannot be seen until I take out my insulin pen and inject myself, but the mechanical parts - blood tests and injections - are only the surface layers of what I have to manage.\n\nSomeone may see me inject, but there's an isolating exhaustion I take with me afterwards. There will always be another injection and it can generate a disconnection between myself and other people.\n\nEvery day I gather the willpower to be a \"good\" diabetic, but when I follow the rules and still have high blood sugar I feel alone. It makes me feel foggy with a limited ability to concentrate. And the side-effects of too much or too little sugar in your blood can lead to you turning in on yourself.\n\nThe biggest challenge is accepting the monotony of managing diabetes. There are days when I'm tired of having a weaker immune system - a lesser know side-effect of diabetes - or when I find lumps under my skin from injections, but then I have to put those feelings to one side and carry on.\n\nSome people might not think diabetes deserves the label \"disability\", but if unmanaged it affects my ability to carry out tasks and I have to think how exercise, stress or dehydration will impact my blood sugar levels.\n\nI often worry about how life will be when I'm older. This feeling of uncertainty hangs over me from time to time, and can make me feel lonely and a bit lost.\n\nBut I know there's a silent solidarity out there. Someone with an impairment could be having a day where everything has become derailed and they feel ill, but I bet you they won't show it. It's that resilience that I really connect to.\n\nErika North has multiple sclerosis (MS). She is a broadcaster.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Erika North presents a show on Radio Kent and has multiple sclerosis\n\nIt's a connective tissue disorder that causes dislocations, chronic pain and fatigue.\n\nShe is a blogger and podcaster.\n\nIf you've got an invisible disability, you've got to look convincingly stricken because people often don't believe it's there.\n\nIf you were to meet me on the street, you'd probably think I was a pretty average 20-something. You'd certainly take for granted that I can stand, walk up the stairs, work and move without pain. But I can't.\n\nI suffer from severe chronic pain, my joints pop out at will and I'm often too fatigued to get out of bed. If someone knocks into me in the wrong way I could end up in hospital or wiped out from high pain levels for weeks. Standing makes me dizzy and worsens my fatigue, and being squished against other people sends me into a panic.\n\nI'm legally entitled to the same support that other disabled people get, yet I often find myself ignored or told those resources \"aren't for you\".\n\nOne week, five people refused to let me sit down on the Tube - three of whom told me a healthy young girl like me should give up her seat. The only time people ever gave up their seat was when I passed out on the floor - a pretty visible sign something was wrong.\n\nI often feel humiliated when I have to beg for help and I've been lectured more times than I can count for using disabled toilets. I'm told over and over that I'm \"not disabled enough\". Over the years I've become too scared to ask for help.\n\nThings change when I show \"evidence\" of my disabilities. I use an Access Card, which states any difficulties I might face and the adjustments that could be made, and I purchased a Radar Key, which unlocks accessible toilets across the country without me having to ask permission.\n\nDespite proof, some people only take me seriously when they see me struggling. I realise most people don't understand what they can't see, but my disabilities shouldn't need to be displayed to be believed.\n\nFor more Disability News, follow on Twitter and Facebook, and subscribe to the weekly podcast.", "Ukrainian cyber-security researchers have been trying to uncover the secrets of the malware's code\n\nThe perpetrators of a recent cyber-attack that disrupted businesses across the world appear to have accessed the ransom payments they raised.\n\nJust over £7,900-worth of virtual currency has been moved from the Bitcoin address listed in the blackmail demand that appeared on hacked PCs.\n\nOne expert said there was little doubt the funds had been tapped by those responsible for the crime.\n\nAnd it seems they have now made a fresh ransom demand.\n\nHowever, analysts suggest the move is intended to confuse investigations into the matter.\n\nIn other related developments, Ukraine's interior minister has said the police managed to prevent a second wave of attacks by shutting down and confiscating computer servers used by a local software company, which is thought to have unwittingly helped the Petya-variant virus to spread.\n\nUkrainian police issued this image of the confiscated computer servers\n\nAnd after having repeatedly denied any involvement in the transmission of the malware, the developer Intellect Service has acknowledged an upgrade to its MeDoc tax software was indeed \"contaminated\", allowing the attack to be carried out.\n\n\"As of today, every computer which is on the same local network as our product is a threat,\" the company's chief executive Olesya Bilousova told reporters.\n\nShe added that one million computers in Ukraine had MeDoc installed on them.\n\nThe police have recommended that everyone stops using the program and turns off computers that have it.\n\nHacked computers were forced to reboot, after which they displayed this ransom demand\n\nAlthough the majority of the detected attacks occurred within Ukraine, according to analysis by security firm Eset the malware also affected businesses across the world.\n\nTheir computers became inaccessible after the code spread over their internal networks, scrambling a part of the PCs' operating systems used to locate where files are stored.\n\nHigh-profile casualties included Nurofen-maker Reckitt Benckiser, Oreo cookie manufacturer Mondelez International, the shipping group Maersk and the advertising agency WPP.\n\nMost of those struck did not, however, pay the ransom demand. This was in part because the email address given by the attackers to contact them was shut down by its German operator.\n\nAnd until Tuesday, the funds that were raised lay dormant.\n\nThe Bitcoin address used in the ransom demand has been emptied of most of its contents\n\nBut at 22:32 BST on Tuesday, three transfers were triggered.\n\nTwo of these were sent to Bitcoin wallets used to collect donations to the PasteBin and DeepPaste text-sharing services - platforms often used by hackers to announce their activities.\n\nThe third and largest of the transfers went to an address that had previously been empty.\n\nA little later, a post appeared on DeepPaste demanding 100 bitcoins ($256,300; £198,500) for a \"private key to decrypt any hard disk\" affected by the attack.\n\nThis message appeared on DeepPaste shortly after funds were transferred to the site's Bitcoin account\n\n\"Unless the hackers gave away the Bitcoin account linked to the original ransom demand, only they could have moved the funds,\" Prof Alan Woodward from the University of Surrey told the BBC.\n\n\"People are gobsmacked they have gone anywhere near it - they can't be daft enough to try and cash it out.\n\n\"As far as we can tell, there's no way to actually decrypt affected PCs even if you paid the new demand.\n\n\"So, it may be that they are trying to lead a false trail away from themselves.\"\n\nUkraine has accused Russia of being involved in the attack, but the Kremlin has denied any responsibility.\n\nThe news site Motherboard said it spoke to someone claiming to be one of the hackers on a dark web chatroom.\n\nThe supposed criminal offered to demonstrate that they could decrypt any file scrambled by the Petya-variant. And Motherboard reports that they did indeed manage to decrypt a test file after a two hour wait.\n\nBut Prof Woodward said this did not necessarily mean the key could be used to recover all the lost data.\n\n\"Once the PC's MFT [Master File Table] is corrupted the files on that disc are lost,\" he explained, referring to the fact that the virus had scrambled a critical part of the PCs' operating systems and not just individual documents.\n\n\"And as far as we can tell, there is an error in the encryption they used, so larger files can't be decrypted.\"\n\nUpdate 6 July 2017: This article was updated to reflect the fact the hackers demonstrated their private key could decrypt files", "The backbencher announced the new arrival on Instagram, where attention focused on the eye-catching name.\n\nThe name Sixtus is shared with five popes, most recently in 1590.\n\n\"Helena and I announce with great joy that we have a baby Sixtus Dominic Boniface Christopher, a brother for Peter, Mary, Thomas, Anselm and Alfred.\" Mr Rees-Mogg said.\n\nThe other children's full names are Alfred Wulfric Leyson Pius, Thomas Wentworth Somerset Dunstan, Peter Theodore Alphege, Anselm Charles Fitzwilliam and Mary Anne Charlotte Emma Rees-Mogg.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe MP has previously shared this family photo\n\nThis one was taken on the general election campaign trail\n\nThe MP captioned this photo: \"We shall have to take our business elsewhere\"\n\nThe Tory MP for North East Somerset, who recently joined Instagram, has become something of a cult figure on social media, with dozens of Facebook pages devoted to him.\n\n\"I am a late convert to social media and it's turned out to be great fun,\" he told BBC Trending recently.\n\n\"We've put up some jolly photographs. You hear a lot about unpleasantness but it's reassuring that there is a lighter touch.\"", "The Hepworth Wakefield is named after sculptor Barbara Hepworth and has some of her works\n\nThe Hepworth Wakefield gallery in West Yorkshire has beaten the Tate Modern to be crowned the UK's Museum of the Year.\n\nThe venue, which opened six years ago, will receive a £100,000 prize from The Art Fund as well as the kudos that comes with winning the annual award.\n\nThe Art Fund director Stephen Deuchar said it had been \"a powerful force of energy from the moment it opened\".\n\nTate Modern had been nominated after a year in which it attracted a record 5.8 million visitors and opened a new wing.\n\nBut that was not enough to earn it the award at a ceremony at the British Museum in London on Wednesday.\n\nThe other nominees were the Lapworth Museum of Geology in Birmingham, Sir John Soane's Museum in London and the National Heritage Centre for Horseracing and Sporting Art in Suffolk.\n\nThe Museum of the Year judges (with Hepworth director Simon Wallis) got tangled up in the JW Anderson exhibition\n\nThe gallery sits on the banks of the River Calder\n\nThe Hepworth, which is named after sculptor Barbara Hepworth, impressed the judges by increasing its visitor numbers by 21% and launching a major new award for British sculpture last year, among other things.\n\nMr Deuchar praised the way the gallery had \"kept growing in reach and impact\" since it opened in a £35m building designed by David Chipperfield in 2011.\n\nHe also complimented the \"determined originality\" of the curatorial team, and said it served its local community \"with unfailing flair and dedication\".\n\nLast year saw it stage exhibitions of painter Stanley Spencer, photographer Martin Parr and art-pop installationist Anthea Hamilton.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSo far this year, it has had an exhibition curated by designer Jonathan Anderson, who brought together the worlds of fashion and sculpture.\n\nAnd it has just opened a show focusing on the late painter Howard Hodgkin's fascination with India.\n\nIt also recently took receipt of 50 artworks donated by collector and former BBC radio news journalist Tim Sayer, while a 65,000 sq ft (6,000 sq m) riverside garden is due to be created in its grounds.\n\nThe Museum of the Year prize is the largest single arts prize in the UK. Last year's winner was the V&A in London.\n\nThe Art Fund aims to reward an institution that has shown \"exceptional imagination, innovation and achievement across the preceding 12 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.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "BBC assistant political editor Norman Smith said Theresa May came under pressure during Prime Minister's Questions over the public sector pay cap.\n\nHe said there had been growing criticism from the \"big beasts\" of her Cabinet - Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson and Environment Secretary Michael Gove - that it could be eased without any tax rises.\n\nMrs May had tried to \"douse down\" any momentum or expectation that there is going to be any \"early give\" on public sector pay, he said.\n\nHer message was the government needed to bring down the deficit, live within its means, because to do anything else would be \"going down the road of Greece\", he said.\n\nNorman Smith said it was striking the PM had echoed the words used by Chancellor Philip Hammond in his speech to the CBI, that he would push back on easing off austerity.\n\nHe said she had told MPs there was a need to strike the right balance between taxpayers and public sector workers.\n\nA key development on public sector pay was that firefighters are to to get a rise of up to 3%, which Norman said would prompt other public sector unions to think 'why can't we have 3%?'.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Eche explains how he was Tasered when sectioned under the Mental Health Act\n\nBlack people are being failed by the UK's mental health services because of \"institutional racism\", it has been warned. How does this affect those who experience it?\n\nWhen Eche Egbuonu, who has bipolar disorder, was sectioned under the Mental Health Act, he should have been taken to a safe environment - usually a hospital - for a medical assessment.\n\nInstead, he was taken straight to a police station.\n\n\"Being in the police cell was probably the worst thing they could have done to me in the state of mind that I was in,\" he tells the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme.\n\nUnder the Mental Health Act, a person can be detained if they are considered to be suffering from a mental disorder and in immediate need of care or control.\n\nEche was released two days later. But shortly after, following an altercation at his home, his parents called the police.\n\nThis time, after he refused to go willingly, one of the officers used a Taser.\n\nEche says: \"I'm in my room, and I'm like, 'I'm not going [with police].' The first time, I was compliant.\n\n\"Physically they tried to get me down, that didn't work. So they brought the Taser out, 50,000 volts.\n\n\"Before I know it, I'm back in handcuffs.\n\n\"It's made me more resistant and distrusting of the system in general because it felt like a prison experience. I feel like a criminal.\"\n\nThe matter of black overrepresentation within the mental health system is a complex one.\n\nStatistics suggest a black man in the UK is 17 times more likely than a white man to be diagnosed with a serious mental health condition such as schizophrenia or bipolar.\n\nBlack people are also four times more likely to be sectioned under the Mental Health Act.\n\nIssues such as unemployment and poverty play a part in the inequality, but there are fears that institutional racism also has a role.\n\nCouncillor Jacqui Dyer says mental health services must change for black communities to trust them\n\nJacqui Dyer - a councillor in Lambeth, London, the borough with the biggest black population in the country - believes this is the case.\n\nShe is vice-chair of the government-appointed Mental Health Taskforce for England.\n\n\"What we find is that there's a differential experience so these I might describe as structural inequalities, unconscious bias, institutional racism, whatever you're more comfortable with in terms of terminology which means decisions that are made in these structures, sort of biases those communities,\" she says.\n\nMs Dyer says there is a belief within some black communities that if you go into mental health services, \"it's not that you get recovery, it's that you die [there]\".\n\nThis, she says, leads to people \"presenting later\" for treatment, when their case is more severe.\n\n\"We have to change the narrative, by actually changing the services,\" she says.\n\nThe Reverend Freddie Brown says the church is \"indispensible to the solution\"\n\nAccording to the Reverend Freddie Brown, from Tooting New Testament Assembly, the Church could play a vital role in creating this change.\n\nHe is part of the Pastor's Network, set up because of concern about the number of parishioners presenting with mental health problems.\n\nChurch leaders in the network have taken accredited family therapy courses to try to improve the situation.\n\nHe believes - by working with other mental health services - they can be \"indispensable to the solution\".\n\nLorraine Khan, from the Centre for Mental Health, also believes \"institutional racism\" is embedded in the system.\n\nA new report from the think tank found when black people tried to access help, they were less likely to receive the support they wanted.\n\nThey are now calling on the government to overhaul its approach to mental health to tackle the issue, which she says has been overlooked:\n\n\"I think there is a problem with institutional racism in the way we take action and try to improve things. This problem doesn't affect the majority of the country so it becomes a minority issue as far as commissioners are concerned.\n\n\"We find there's not the investment in research to improve the programmes that young men and women say they want. It's not considered the priority. The priority is, all the services are geared towards white people.\"\n\nA Department of Health spokeswoman said: \"We want to make sure that everyone, regardless of ethnicity, age or background, gets the mental health treatment they need.\n\n\"Work to consider reform of mental health legislation will begin to ensure mental health is prioritised in the NHS in England - and in part reflecting concern about the disproportionate rate of detention of black people under the existing system.\"\n\nMaitreya, a singer-songwriter, was sectioned for a second time a few weeks ago, following an argument with a family member.\n\nShe says she found it difficult to access mental health care from the NHS in the year before she was detained.\n\n\"I was actually trying to tell them, 'I feel very much suicidal at the moment.'\n\nMaitreya says she was not taken seriously when she reported suicidal thoughts to doctors\n\n\"I took myself into a hospital. I took myself into A&E. I've called ambulances.\"\n\nBut Maitreya says she was not taken seriously.\n\n\"It's made me lose trust in the mental health service.\n\n\"Now I've gone through a whole process of being sectioned - and I need more help to deal with the trauma - I'm scared because I'm like, 'How will the help come now?'\"\n\nAfter being sectioned, Maitreya has now been diagnosed with psychosis, something she disputes.\n\nWhen she was detained she rejected medication, saying she had developed her own coping mechanisms.\n\nAccording to some experts, black people are more likely to be medicated while admitted to mental health services.\n\nDonald Masi, a psychiatric doctor, believes this is the result of a wider cultural perception that black people are more dangerous.\n\n\"Say there's a petite 50-year-old white lady with a mental illness and a 6ft [1.8m] black guy with the same illness,\" he says.\n\nDonald Masi says there is a societal perception of \"black people being the aggressor\"\n\n\"Both may be calm but may have episodes of irritability, frustration or aggression because they're distressed from their mental illness.\n\n\"People are more likely to think that the black guy is going to do something and hurt them, because essentially there is a cultural idea of black people being the aggressor.\"\n\nDr Masi says, however, that the problem is more of a wider societal issue, rather than one specific to the health service - adding that the NHS was \"a lot better than it used to be\".\n\nEche believes in his case \"there could have been a subconscious [racial] bias\".\n\nHe says: \"When I think about some of the other people that I saw in the ward, I'm like, 'What that person was doing was definitely more aggressive than me - but they stayed in that open ward, they didn't come into intensive care.'\"\n\nEche says \"it was basically all BME [black and minority ethnic]\" in the intensive care unit.\n\nAnd the \"whole system needs an overhaul\" to deal with the ingrained bias.\n\n\"How race impacts your experience in the mental health system, how painful it is, I think something needs to be done,\" he says.\n\nWatch the Victoria Derbyshire programme on weekdays between 09:00 and 11:00 on BBC Two and the BBC News channel.", "There was little change on Wall Street on Wednesday following the release of the Federal Reserve's most recent minutes.\n\nThey revealed that the Fed's policymakers were split on the outlook for inflation and how it might affect the future pace of interest rate rises\n\nInvestors had been hoping for insight on the central bank's plans for interest rate hikes or possible balance sheet reduction. \"I see a murky, opaque message,\" Stephen Massocca, senior vice president at Wedbush Securities in San Francisco, said of the Fed minutes.\n\nThe Dow Jones edged down to 21,478.17, a fall of 1 point or 0.01%.\n\nThe S&P 500 was at 2,432.54, up 4 points or 0.15%.\n\nAnd the tech-heavy Nasdaq closed up 41 points or 0.67% at 6,150.86.", "Students will have accrued £5,800 in interest charges before they graduate, says the IFS\n\nStudents in England are going to graduate with average debts of £50,800, after interest rates are raised on student loans to 6.1%, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies.\n\nThose from the poorest backgrounds, with more loans available to support them, will graduate with debts of over £57,000 says the think tank.\n\nInterest charges are levied as soon as courses begin and the IFS says students on average will have accrued £5,800 in interest charges by the time they have graduated from university.\n\nReport author Chris Belfield describes the interest as \"very high\", but the Department for Education declined to comment on the increase in charges.\n\nUniversities Minister Jo Johnson says that more disadvantaged students than ever are going to university.\n\nThe study from the IFS compares England's current student finance system introduced in 2012, where fees were raised to £9,000, with the previous system introduced in 2006, when fees were about £3,000.\n\nBecause the level at which graduates have to repay also increased, to £21,000, it meant that those with low incomes were initially better off, says the IFS.\n\nBut the repayment threshold has been frozen since 2012 - and the IFS report says that graduates on all income levels are now worse off than under the previous fee regime.\n\nStudents from disadvantaged backgrounds can borrow more in maintenance support - but because these are now loans rather than grants, it means that the poorest students will leave with the highest debts.\n\nThe increase in interest rates and tuition fees going up to £9,250 per year will push up the cost of loans for all graduates - and higher earners will pay interest of £40,000 on top of the amount borrowed.\n\nMr Belfield says the 6.1% being charged on loans is \"very high compared with current market rates\".\n\nBut if loans are not repaid after 30 years, they are written off - and the IFS forecasts that about three-quarters of students will not pay off all their debt, despite making payments from their earnings into their 50s.\n\nThe government also wants to sell off student loans to private investors - with some pre-2012 loans having already been put up for sale.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Universities minister refuses to say on Today whether student loan interest rates will go down\n\nThe report says there have been two main beneficiaries from the current fee system - universities and the government's finances.\n\nUniversities have increased per-student funding by 25% since fees rose to £9,000, says the IFS, after taking into account the money they no longer receive directly from the government.\n\nLast week, Mr Johnson warned against university leaders being paid excessive salaries - with some vice-chancellors earning over £400,000.\n\nReplacing grants with loans and freezing the earnings threshold for repayment has made the system less expensive for the government.\n\nThe IFS says that the lowest-earning third of graduates are paying 30% more than in 2012, when the £21,000 threshold was introduced.\n\nThe switch in costs to students will mean cutting government borrowing by £3bn in the long term.\n\nTuition fees became a high-profile issue during the general election - with Labour promising to scrap tuition fees.\n\nThe big swing to Labour in university seats was seen as suggesting that young people were concerned about tuition fees - and plans for them to begin rising each year.\n\nSenior Conservative minister Damian Green, speaking last week, recognised that fees had become a big issue, particular for young voters, and that universities needed to show they were providing value for money.\n\nThe IFS analysis says scrapping tuition fees would cost £11bn per year. But it also warns that continuing on the current trajectory of \"high debts, high interest rates and low repayment rates\" would mean problems both for \"graduates and the public finances\".\n\nThe report says that the overall trend has been to increase university funding, reduce government spending on higher education, \"while substantially increasing payments by graduates, especially high-earning graduates\".\n\nLabour's shadow education minister, Gordon Marsden, said: \"This report shows that any argument that the current fee system is progressive is absolute nonsense.\n\n\"From scrapping the maintenance grant to freezing the repayment threshold, this government has increased the debt burden of students from disadvantaged backgrounds, who will graduate with debts in excess of £57,000.\"\n\n\"Under the Tories, student debt continues to rise with no end in sight, and students in the UK will now graduate with a shocking average of over £50,000 in debt.\"\n\nMr Johnson said: \"The government consciously subsidises the studies of those who for a variety of reasons, including family responsibilities, may not repay their loans in full.\n\n\"This is a vital and deliberate investment in the skills base of this country, not a symptom of a broken student finance system.\n\n\"And the evidence bears this out: young people from poorer backgrounds are now going to university at a record rate - up 43% since 2009.\"", "Professional women are freezing their eggs due to a \"dearth of educated men to marry\", a US study has claimed.\n\nYale University researchers suggested an \"oversupply\" of graduate women left them struggling to find a partner and \"desperate\" to preserve fertility.\n\nThey said the \"man deficit\" was worse in countries where more women were going to university, as in the UK.\n\nThe researchers interviewed 150 women who had frozen eggs, of whom 90% said they could not find a suitable partner.\n\nAuthor Prof Marcia Inhorn said the research challenged perceptions that women put off having a baby so they could prioritise their job.\n\n\"Extensive media coverage suggests that educational and career ambitions are the main determinants of professional women's fertility postponement, especially as they 'lean in' to their careers,\" she said.\n\n\"Rather, they were desperately preserving their fertility beyond the natural end of their reproductive lives, because they were single without partners to marry.\"\n\nSpeaking at the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology conference in Geneva, Switzerland, Prof Inhorn thought there were \"not enough graduates for them\".\n\nIn the majority of cases the women, who were treated at eight IVF clinics in the US and Israel and interviewed between June 2014 to August 2016, said they could not find an educated man who was willing to commit to family life.\n\n\"Women lamented the 'missing men' in their lives, viewing egg freezing as a way to buy time while on the continuing - online - search for a committed partner,\" Prof Inhorn said.\n\nProf Adam Balen, president of the British Fertility Society, said that he had noticed a \"big shift\" in UK society, with many university-educated women delaying starting a family.\n\n\"In my clinic I certainly see more older women seeking fertility treatment than in the past,\" he said.\n\nThe research comes amid a sex imbalance at British universities. In the academic year 2015-2016, 56% of UK students were women and 44% men, according to the Higher Education Statistics Agency.\n\nProf Balen warned that freezing eggs can be a painful and costly process.\n\n\"Freezing eggs for a future pregnancy is not a decision to be taken lightly,\" he said.\n\n\"The technology in egg freezing has improved a great deal but it is still no guarantee of a baby later in life.\n\n\"Women choosing to 'bank' eggs until they are ready to start a family have to go through painful procedures and what can be a difficult regime of medications - this is not without potential risks to the woman undertaking the procedure.\"\n\nIn the UK, the number of women storing their eggs has increased substantially despite success rates remaining low.\n\nIn 2014, 816 women froze some eggs for in vitro fertilisation (IVF) later, up 25% on 2013, according to the latest figures from the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA), which regulates the industry.\n\nEggs are more fragile than embryos, and less likely to survive the freeze-thaw process. The pregnancy rate for transferring frozen embryos was 21.9% in 2013, and 22.2% in 2014.\n\nThe law allows for eggs to be frozen for up to 10 years, and in some circumstances up to 55 years.\n\nEgg-freezing can cost several thousand pounds, with added costs for storing the eggs, while one cycle of IVF treatment may cost up to £5,000 or more.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAbout 100 government supporters have burst into Venezuela's opposition-controlled National Assembly, where they beat up several lawmakers.\n\nWitnesses said the confrontation came after an assembly session to mark the country's Independence Day.\n\nMilitary police guarding the site stood by as intruders brandishing sticks and pipes broke through the gate, AFP news agency said.\n\nThe government has vowed to investigate.\n\n\"I will not be complicit in acts of violence,\" said President Nicolás Maduro.\n\nAbout 350 people were besieged for hours, including journalists, students and visitors, according to the assembly's speaker Julio Borges.\n\nMr Borges also named five of the lawmakers injured. Some were taken away for medical treatment, including Deputy Américo De Grazia, who was carried out on a stretcher.\n\nVenezuela has been shaken by often violent protests in recent months and is in economic crisis.\n\n\"This does not hurt as much as seeing every day how we are losing our country,\" deputy Armando Armas told reporters as he got into an ambulance, his head swathed in bloody bandages.\n\nThe US state department condemned the violence, calling it \"an assault on the democratic principles cherished by the men and women who struggled for Venezuela's independence 206 years ago today\".\n\nAFP, whose journalists were at the scene, said reporters were ordered to leave by the attackers, one of whom had a gun.\n\nThe assembly was holding a session to mark the country's Independence Day\n\nBefore the intruders rushed the building, Vice-President Tareck El Aissami made an impromptu appearance in the congress with the head of the armed forces, Vladimir Padrino López, and ministers.\n\nMr El Aissami gave a speech urging the president's supporters to come to the legislature to show support for him.\n\nA crowd had been rallying outside the building for several hours before breaking into the grounds.\n\nA statement from the the ministry of communication said, the government had ordered an investigation \"to establish the whole truth, and on that basis, to apply sanctions to those responsible\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Your video guide to the crisis gripping Venezuela\n\nJust hours before, the attorney general was facing suspension for refusing to appear in court.\n\nLuisa Ortega Díaz has been accused of committing errors in her job, but critics believe she is being targeted after speaking out against the president's reform plans.\n\nLast week, she also criticised Mr Maduro after an incident in which a stolen police helicopter flew over Caracas, dropping grenades and firing shots.\n\nThe president called it a \"terrorist attack\" but Ms Ortega said the country was suffering from \"state terrorism\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The helicopter circles buildings before gunshots and a bang are heard\n\nWhile Venezuelan security forces later found the abandoned helicopter near the coast, parliamentary speaker Julio Borges said there was a possibility that the incident was a hoax.\n\nOn Tuesday, the fugitive policeman who piloted the helicopter, Oscar Pérez, posted a video online saying he was still in Caracas.\n\nHe urged Venezuelans to stand firm in the streets in protests against the president.", "Promoters have blamed bad weather for the decision to cancel a concert by Green Day in Glasgow, only hours before it was due to begin.\n\nThe American band had been set to perform in Bellahouston Park on Tuesday.\n\nHowever, promoters PCL said the show had been cancelled because \"adverse weather conditions\" meant it was \"no longer safe\" for the bands to perform.\n\nIn a statement on their website Green Day said they were \"very distraught\".\n\nThey said the stage was deemed \"unsafe for the fans and everyone involved\".\n\nThe band added: \"We are very distraught about this as we are in Glasgow now and were very much looking forward to this show as one the highlights of our tour.\n\n\"We have been playing in extreme weather conditions throughout this European tour, and the last thing we want to do is see a show cancelled.\n\n\"We love our Scottish fans and we don't care if it's raining... sideways, although the safety of our fans and our crew is always our top priority.\n\n\"We love you Scotland, we love the city of Glasgow and it goes without saying that we will be back.\"\n\nSigns have been put up at Bellahouston Park advising that the Green Day gig is cancelled\n\nPolice Scotland said officers were at the park making sure ticket holders were able to get home safely\n\nIn a strongly worded post on Instagram, the band's bassist Mike Dirnt posted a video of himself next to a Saltire.\n\nHe said: \"We are devastated and it... sucks that the show today has been cancelled due to safety issues.\n\n\"I know today's show would have been insane! I'm at a loss for words and so disappointed right now, but please know we will be back ASAP! Rage & Love.\"\n\nBassist Mike Dirnt posted a video on Instagram of himself next to a Scottish flag\n\nDisappointed fans have also voiced their anger at the last-minute announcement.\n\nCharlotte Durcan, from Lincolnshire, said she and her family had travelled nearly four hours to attend the concert.\n\n\"We arrived safely, paid for parking, paid for our hotel, and at 13:45 received an e-mail to say that the concert has been cancelled,\" she said.\n\n\"We could have saved our money,\" she added.\n\n\"The hotel won't reimburse us as there is a 72-hour notice period. We will be staying there for one night only as we just came for the concert. We're not really sure how to pass the time now.\n\n\"It's my first time in Glasgow and it has ruined my Glasgow experience.\"\n\nThe promoters announced the cancellation of the gig just half an hour before the gates were due to open\n\nThe last-minute decision to cancel has raised questions over how well prepared the organisers were for the concert.\n\nMany ticket holders took to social media to express their disappointment.\n\nOne said she was \"absolutely devastated\" by the decision, after waiting seven years to see the band perform in Scotland.\n\nOthers raised questions over the weather conditions, claiming that T in the Park and Glastonbury often go ahead in heavy rain.\n\nIt also led to queries about how well prepared the organisers were for the sell-out concert.\n\nGlasgow City Council, which operates Bellahouston Park, said they did not tell the promoters to cancel the gig.\n\nThey said the decision was taken by the promoters and the band's management, who informed the council of the move.\n\nThe promoters announced the cancellation on Twitter shortly before 13:30. The gates were due to open at 14:00. They said fans would receive refunds.\n\nIn a statement, they said: \"Adverse weather conditions overnight and throughout the morning, during the bands scheduled load in, led to issues on stage.\n\n\"A meeting between the on site health and safety, event management, the artists representatives and promoters concluded that it would be unsafe in the timescale to proceed with the event.\"\n\nPolice Scotland said they had officers at the park advising fans that the gig was cancelled and ensuring that they got home safely.\n\nGreen Day were due to be supported by Rancid, Slaves and Skids.\n\nSlaves hastily arranged a replacement gig, announcing on Twitter that the \"good people of Glasgow still need a gig\". It quickly sold out.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The former PM says leaving debts to future generations is wrong\n\nDavid Cameron has said opponents of fiscal discipline are \"selfish\" not \"compassionate\", as the debate within the Tories over austerity continues.\n\nThe ex-prime minister, who introduced the public sector pay cap, said those who believed in \"sound finances\" were wrongly being painted as \"uncaring\".\n\n\"The exact reverse is true,\" he said at an event in South Korea. \"Giving up sound finances isn't being generous.\"\n\nChancellor Philip Hammond has urged ministers to \"hold their nerve\".\n\nAs a growing number of Tory MPs, as well as opposition parties and unions, call for the 1% cap on public sector pay increases to be reviewed, the chancellor has said the \"right balance\" must be struck in terms of fairness to workers and taxpayers.\n\nForeign Secretary Boris Johnson expressed his support for a rethink on Monday, while Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has said he sympathises with the millions of NHS workers whose pay has been squeezed since 2010 - firstly through a two-year pay freeze and then through the cap, which was imposed in 2012.\n\nBut Mr Cameron, who as prime minister of the Conservative-Lib Dem coalition oversaw six years of cuts to public spending, defended his government's record on cutting the multibillion pound annual deficit and suggested it would be a mistake to now loosen up efforts.\n\nFive million public sector workers have seen their pay capped since 2012\n\n\"The opponents of so-called austerity couch their arguments in a way that make them sound generous and compassionate,\" said the former PM, who stood down as an MP last year, at a conference in Seoul.\n\n\"They seek to paint the supporters of sound finances as selfish, or uncaring. The exact reverse is true.\n\n\"Giving up on sound finances isn't being generous, it's being selfish: spending money today that you may need tomorrow.\"\n\nRises of 1% for dentists, nurses, doctors and the military have already been agreed for this year and No 10 said ministers would respond to pay review bodies next recommendations in due course.\n\nNigel Lawson, a former chancellor to Margaret Thatcher, said it was Mr Hammond's job to keep control of public spending and urged ministers to formulate the policy behind closed doors.\n\n\"It's not easy but it is necessary,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme. \"People understand we need to pay our way on the road to economic success.\"\n\nThe Institute for Fiscal Studies has said increasing pay in line with inflation next year could cost about £5bn and to do so for the rest of the Parliament could \"easily cost twice that\".\n\nHowever, director Paul Johnson told the BBC that Mr Hammond had a range of options to ease the constraints on pay without breaching his immediate financial targets.\n\n\"If that were the government's biggest priority then it could probably afford to do it,\" he said. \"The country would hardly be bankrupt if the government were to borrow a few billion more than currently planned.\"\n\nBut he said it was not clear how much \"headroom\" Mr Hammond would have given uncertainty over the performance of the economy and other spending pressures.\n\nAfter the Tories' failure to win a majority, the chancellor has said it is up to his party to again make the case for a market-based economy, underpinned by sound public finances, and oppose those calling for a \"different path\".\n\nLabour said immediate action was needed from the government not \"just more empty words or infighting from members of the cabinet\".\n\n\"The fact that some of the pillars of our community and the public sector such as teachers, doctors and police officers are seeing their pay cut exposes the double standards of a government that likes to praise their work but will not actually truly reward it,\" said shadow chancellor John McDonnell.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA minister has been heckled by MPs for suggesting women over 60 facing poverty could start an apprenticeship.\n\nThe government has been accused of failing to do more to help 2.6 million women born in the 1950s who have lost out because of changes to pension law.\n\nThe SNP's Mhairi Black said it was \"laughable\" the problem could not be fixed when the government had found £1bn to fund its deal with the DUP.\n\nMinister Guy Opperman said he would look at cases of financial hardship.\n\nBut he faced shouts of \"shame on you\" when he said the government was \"actually doing a significant amount\" to address the individual difficulties of older workers trying to enter the labour market - including by offering them apprenticeships.\n\nMr Opperman, setting out the government's work on \"lifelong learning\" said: \"The reality is over 200,000 people over 60 have entered further education since 2014/15.\n\n\"We have also extended apprenticeship opportunities as one of the best routes to skilled employment for people of all ages and gender.\n\n\"Such apprenticeships in England, for example, in 2014/15... 12% of the starting apprenticeships were for those aged 45.\"\n\nMr Opperman was heckled by MPs as he outlined the details.\n\nSNP MP Mhairi Black said it would cost £8bn over five years to fix the anomaly\n\nLabour's Graham Jones, raising a point of order, said: \"I'm struggling to hear the debate, did the minister just say that women aged 64 could go on an apprenticeship course?\"\n\nThe debate centred on the plight of the so-called Waspi women - Women Against State Pension Inequality - whose aim is to achieve fair transitional arrangements for women born in the 1950s, for whom the state pension age is being raised from 60 to 66 by 2020.\n\nMs Black said she had been contacted by a woman who said her friend had committed suicide after the general election result \"because she could not face what was going to happen to her\".\n\n\"Citizens committing suicide over an issue that could be solved like that - an issue the government could do a U-turn on at any given moment,\" she said.\n\nMs Black said it was \"an absolute disgrace\" that a debate on the issue was having to be held again.\n\nTurning to Mr Opperman, a pensions minister, she said it was \"laughable\" that the government \"can find a billion pounds for a deal to cling on to power, but we cannot find the money to give women the pensions that they are due\".\n\n\"The only other two things they are guilty of is being born in the 50s and the fact they are women.\"\n\nLabour's Carolyn Harris said the government \"has betrayed these women - they've stolen their security and they've shattered their dreams without time to prepare and make the necessary alternative arrangements\".", "A video which falsely claims to \"prove\" the existence of fake plastic rice in the food supply\n\nDespite little evidence that it's a widespread problem, rumours of \"plastic\" rice being sold in Africa and elsewhere persist on social media - driven in particular by viral videos which show bouncing rice balls.\n\nThe rumours spread over the last few weeks in Senegal, The Gambia and Ghana - and reached such a pitch that the Ghana Food and Drugs Authority decided to carry out an investigation.\n\nThey invited consumers and traders to submit samples of any rice brands they suspected of being made of plastic - and eventually concluded that there was no plastic rice being sold on the Ghanaian market.\n\nOriginating in China, rumours on social media have circulated since about 2010 of plastic rice being manufactured and mixed in with the real rice supply in order to trick consumers. The rumours were originally prompted by \"fake rice\" scandals, although they didn't involve food made entirely out of plastic.\n\nIn one case, companies were passing off ordinary but edible rice as premium \"Wuchang\" grains. Then in 2011, reports emerged that rice was being produced with potatoes and an industrial sticky resin. The rumours were further compounded when a Chinese restaurant association official warned that eating three bowls of \"plastic rice\" was the equivalent of eating one plastic bag.\n\nAt no point, however, were there confirmed cases of large amounts of plastic chips being passed off as rice. \"Plastic rice\" is manufactured for use in shipping boxes, but it's likely that in most cases the cost of the chips would actually be more expensive than real rice.\n\nThe story had reached social media in Africa by 2016 when Nigerian customs authorities confiscated 2.5 tonnes of rice. Customs officials initially claimed that the rice was plastic - and were later forced to backtrack when the country's health minister said there was no evidence for the claims. Tests showed that the rice did however contain a high level of bacteria, Nigeria's National Agency For Food and Drugs said.\n\nBut rumours have persisted that plastic is being sold as rice, fuelled by videos which show people bouncing rice balls. Some also purport to show how the rice is made in factories.\n\nAlexander Waugh, director of the Rice Association, a UK-based industry group, says the videos may be authentic - but not because the grains are plastic. Rice - when prepared in the right way - can actually bounce, Waugh told BBC Trending radio.\n\n\"The natural characteristics of rice are carbohydrates and proteins and you can do something like that with rice,\" Waugh says.\n\nIt could be that protectionism and a distrust of foreign imports is behind the persistence of the rumours, according to journalist Alexandre Capron of France 24's, The Observers.\n\nCapron has worked extensively to debunk the myths around plastic rice and says some people are deliberately sharing fake videos to encourage consumers to buy more locally grown rice.\n\n\"The rumour is more popular in countries which are dependent on imported rice like Ivory Coast or Senegal,\" he says. \"The rumour is so huge that governments are compelled to make statements... as to why there is no plastic rice.\"\n\nHassan Arouni, editor of the BBC's Focus on Africa, has looked into the \"fake rice\" rumours and says he's not sure whether people in West African countries are deliberately targeting food exporting countries such as China. But he does think food safety authorities in West Africa are doing the right thing by addressing the rumours head-on.\n\n\"I think that's the way to go and demonstrate to the public this [rumour] is not true,\" he says. \"I think it will reassure people that this is fake news and probably somebody being naughty on the internet.\"\n\nYou can find BBC Trending on Facebook or follow us on Twitter @BBCtrending. All our stories are at bbc.com/trending.", "A warning about care home safety makes several of the day's front pages.\n\nThe Daily Telegraph says choosing one is like \"Russian roulette\" and quotes officials who advise that people should check how homes smell before making a commitment.\n\nThe paper thinks it's particular depressing that care home standards are getting worse. It argues that amid the political debate about ending austerity, elderly provision has to be regarded as a priority.\n\nThe Guardian says those in the east of England have the best overall results, while those in the north-west are the worst - with smaller homes also likely to achieve a higher rating.\n\nIn its lead, the Daily Mirror warns of a dementia time bomb - with the number of people with the disease expected to reach 1.2 million by 2040 - a 60% rise.\n\nThe research by University College London and the University of Liverpool also predicts the bill for their care will rise to £36bn.\n\nThe Alzheimer's Society says the study is a \"wake up call... showing the social care system, already on its knees from decades of underfunding, needs urgent attention\".\n\nMany papers assess car manufacturer Volvo's announcement that from 2019 all new models will be hybrids or powered exclusively by electricity.\n\n\"Volvo death knell for petrol cars\" is the Daily Mail's front page headline.\n\nThe Times sees Volvo's move as the first big bet on the electrification of cars based on consumer demand, rather than a mixture of hope and subsidies.\n\nThe Guardian believes if the whole car industry were to follow suit then it would begin to make a serious difference, as transport accounts for 14% of greenhouse gas emissions.\n\nBut the Financial Times points out the environmental advantages of the electric car peter out if the batteries are charged from coal-fired power stations.\n\nMany of the papers ponder how the world should respond to North Korea's missile test.\n\nThe Financial Times has been hearing from several experts who believe the US has only limited military options, without risking a retaliation which could destroy the South Korean capital, Seoul.\n\nA major problem, according to the article, is that North Korean missiles are hidden in underground bunkers.\n\nThe i paper believes pressuring China to cut off trade isn't working because Beijing is determined to undermine efforts to isolate Kim Jong-un.\n\nThe Times thinks China has one last chance to show it's a globally responsible player and the paper calls for sanctions to be imposed on all Beijing institutions which profit from the Kim regime.", "Today's productivity figures are bad to the point of shocking.\n\nA fall of 0.5% in the first three months of the year takes the UK economy's ability to create wealth back below the level of 2007.\n\nIf an economy cannot create wealth efficiently, then the debates about government spending, public sector pay and austerity become all the harder.\n\nIf an economy cannot create wealth, then tax receipts - the mainstay of government income - weaken.\n\nThere is plenty of data which suggest that the government's inability to \"balance the books\" is not because targets to reduce spending have been missed.\n\nRather, it is down to disappointing tax income because economic growth is weak.\n\nPoor business performance and falling real incomes appear to be leading to a stagnating economy.\n\nHow motivating is work when at the end of the year you are earning, given the impact of higher inflation, less than you were at the beginning of the year?\n\nDemotivated workforces tend not to work more efficiently.\n\nAnd if productivity is falling and labour costs are rising, as they are, then that leads to a profits squeeze.\n\nAnd means that the prospect of pay rises recedes - creating something of a vicious circle and going someway to explaining why wage growth is falling.\n\nI interviewed Lord Adair Turner, the former head of the Low Pay Commission, yesterday and he made a rather startling - but correct - admission.\n\n\"The UK over the last 10 years has created a lot of jobs, but today real wages are below where they were in 2007,\" he said.\n\n\"That is not the capitalist system delivering its promise that over a decade or so it will raise all boats, and it is a very fundamental issue.\n\n\"There is something about the economy which - left to itself - will proliferate very, very low paid jobs.\"\n\nUntil that is solved, our productivity problem, our wealth problem, will continue.", "Mark Maclaine, dubbed \"a super tutor\" due to his students' success rate, charges from £150 to £1,000, an hour\n\nEducation services bring in £17.5bn a year to the UK economy, but what is driving the demand for a British education and why are some parents willing to spend thousands of pounds to secure a \"super tutor\" for their child?\n\n\"It was on the plane over I realised I'd made a mistake,\" a 25-year-old private tutor tells me.\n\nHe was flying to New York to spend the summer helping to prepare a 12-year-old boy for the Common Entrance exam - a test taken by children applying to private secondary schools.\n\nThe boy's mother had insisted he sat next to the boy so he could spend the flight time teaching him.\n\nHe did an hour and then given they were spending the next three weeks together, decided to take a nap.\n\nThe next thing he knew, he was being woken up by the mother standing over him, shouting \"You think this is some kind of holiday?\".\n\nGiven the high fees charged by such tutors and the intense competition for places at top British schools it's perhaps not surprising that tensions can sometimes run high.\n\n\"In an already privileged world, tutoring is an extra level of pushing,\" he says.\n\nForeign students often use British tutors to prepare them for private school entrance exams\n\nThe Londoner uses the job's flexibility to fund his real passion of film production and acting. He is unwilling to be named in this article in case it jeopardises future jobs.\n\nYet he says the money easily makes up for the occasional difficulties. He charges anywhere from £40 to £90 an hour in the UK, although the agencies he is hired through take a 25% to 50% cut of this.\n\nWhen he takes an overseas job, the fees are much higher to compensate for the fact that he can't do any other work. Typically he earns between £800 and £1,500 a week.\n\nIn three years as a tutor he's worked in India, Indonesia and Costa Rica, as well as the US.\n\nHiring an English tutor is increasingly common in many countries, particularly for those who want their children to go to an overseas private secondary school, he says.\n\nThe fact that he \"sounds a bit posh\" and went to a top London school are \"valuable trading cards\" in an international industry which is \"a lot about image as well as actual background,\" he says.\n\nThis kind of tutoring is one of the British education services that makes a valuable contribution to the UK economy. Collectively, education exports were worth a whopping £17.5bn in 2011, the most recent figure available. This includes education products and services, income from international students in higher education as well as schools and English language lessons.\n\nThe tradition of a British education is appealing to many wealthy overseas families\n\nThose working in the industry suggest the value is likely to have grown since then.\n\nMark Maclaine, who co-founded the agency, Tutorfair, in 2012 after over a decade of tutoring, says overseas demand is enormous and growing. His overseas customers are mostly from Asia, the Middle East, eastern Europe and Russia.\n\nDubbed \"a super tutor\" due to his students' success rate, he charges fees on a sliding scale, anywhere from £150 an hour up to a staggering £1,000.\n\nAt the upper end of the scale, he says it's typically consultancy. A short time to teach someone how to study and prepare for an exam independently as opposed to a continuing arrangement.\n\nWord of mouth recommendations have seen him hired by US actors and actresses and he's taught in a variety of exotic locations from a yacht sailing around the Caribbean to private islands in luxury holiday resorts.\n\nHe admits that the high pressure can create a toxic environment, and says experience has taught him to interview a family before he commits to a job.\n\nWe're speaking over the phone while he's in Bali, where he has tagged a holiday onto the end of a tutoring job.\n\n\"The British private education system is seen as one of the best in the world. Royal families, rulers of countries are very very keen that their kids get some form of education in Britain,\" he says.\n\nThe demand is high enough that two to three times a year Mr Maclaine will get an \"emergency call\" from a family desperate for his immediate services.\n\nNormally these calls come when a child has failed a practice exam for a UK school and \"everyone panics\".\n\nOften he'll offer to tutor by Skype, but occasionally when he's offered a \"stupid amount of money\" he'll agree to fly out.\n\n\"I'm a human being. I've got a mortgage to pay\".\n\nTo help address the balance, Tutorfair says that for every child whose parents pay for its service it gives tutoring to another boy or girl whose mother and father, or other guardian, cannot afford to pay.\n\nIt's not just tutoring agencies cashing in on the foreign demand for a British education.\n\nThe teaching at Dulwich College, Beijing, is based on the English national curriculum\n\nMany private schools have opened branches overseas: Harrow has schools in Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai and Bangkok; while Dulwich College and Wellington College both have overseas franchises in China.\n\nSuch extensions create a handy extra revenue stream for private schools as the domestic market slows.\n\nBut Charles Bonas, founder of Bonas MacFarlane, which offers tuition and also advises on choices of schools from nursery to university, says many families still prefer to send their children to school in the UK.\n\nHe says partly it's because it's a way for wealthy families with drivers and nannies to help their offspring become more independent.\n\nBut he says the main reasons that parents choose the UK is because English is spoken as a first language, and the education is deemed well-rounded - teaching children how to think critically and take risks.\n\nMore from the BBC's series taking an international perspective on trade:\n\nOften parents only want the top name schools, he says recalling the time two years ago when the parents of a five-year-old girl said they wanted her to go to Eton next term. \"They didn't take no as an immediate answer,\" he says.\n\nBut this is where the firm uses its consultation skills, a process costing from £3,000 to £12,000 with a relationship that can last years.\n\n\"I took on a parent last year whose children weren't even born yet. They're going to need a nursery, pre-prep, prep and a senior school,\" he explains.\n\nWhether or not these arrangements are simply perpetuating inequality, Mr Bonas argues that they are of long-term benefit to the UK, and not just because of the economic boost.\n\n\"These children have often got a family business to take over and will be the movers and shakers in their world.\n\n\"If they have an affinity for Britain then that can only be a good thing,\" he says.\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. Kensington and Chelsea Council's new leader, Elizabeth Campbell, spoke after attending a residents' meeting\n\nForeign nationals directly affected by the Grenfell Tower fire are to be allowed to stay in the UK for 12 months regardless of their immigration status.\n\nThe Home Office said it would not conduct immigration checks on survivors and those coming forward with information.\n\nMeanwhile, ministers have ordered a taskforce to help run Kensington and Chelsea Council, which has faced heavy criticism for its handling of disaster.\n\nThe specialist team will take over the running of key services, including housing and the longer term recovery of the area in North Kensington.\n\nAt least 80 people died in the fire on 14 June.\n\nThe Home Office said its priority was to see residents \"deal with the extremely difficult circumstances\" so they could start to rebuild their lives.\n\nIn a written statement to Parliament, Home Office minister Brandon Lewis said: \"Everyone affected by this tragedy needs reassurance that the government is there for them at this terrible time and we will continue to provide the support they need to help them through the difficult days, weeks and months to come.\"\n\nHe said extending the period of leave to remain for foreign residents affected by the fire would also allow them to assist the police and other authorities with their inquiries.\n\nShadow home secretary Diane Abbott said the government should give permanent residency to the residents.\n\n\"Some survivors have literally lost everything in this horrific tragedy, all their possessions, homes and loved ones,\" she said.\n\n\"The idea that on top of this they could be deported later is grotesque.\"\n\nA statement from the Met Police said 250 specialist investigators were working on the inquiry into the fire and the last visible human remains were removed from Grenfell Tower on Monday.\n\nMet Police Commander Stuart Cundy said there had been a total of 87 \"recoveries\" but, due to the \"catastrophic damage\" inside, that did not mean 87 people.\n\nSo far, 21 people have been formally identified and their families informed.\n\nMore inquests into the deaths of victims have been opened, with the Westminster coroner hearing the body of one of the oldest people to have been killed was identified by dental records.\n\nDr Fiona Wilcox was told the body of 84-year-old Sheila, formerly known as Sheila Smith, was found on the 16th floor, while Vincent Chiejina, 60, was recovered from the 17th floor and identified by DNA.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Alok Sharma was close to tears when making a statement\n\nEarlier, housing minister Alok Sharma fought back tears as he told the Commons of hearing \"harrowing accounts\" from survivors, saying it had been the most \"humbling and moving experience of my life\".\n\nOnly 14 out of the 158 affected families have accepted offers of temporary accommodation but ministers say no-one will be forced to move.\n\nMr Sharma said 19 families \"have not yet been ready to engage\" in the process of being rehoused, while others were waiting for offers of permanent tenancy and many were still in hotels.\n\nBut he acknowledged some residents still had a \"lack of trust\" in the authorities.\n\nElizabeth Campbell, who is taking over as the new Kensington and Chelsea Council leader, denied the council was \"being taken over by outside commissioners\" after the government sent in a taskforce to run some of its services.\n\n\"We have asked people to come because we need more help because this is something on a national scale,\" she said.\n\n\"We will do absolutely everything we can as a council to help our community and to help our community heal.\"\n\nThe mood is tense in the area surrounding Grenfell Tower.\n\nMany residents have been living in small hotel rooms, with four people crammed into each room.\n\nThey are desperately trying to carry on with their lives by taking their children to school and going to work. But the stark reality is that they are not in a place they can call home.\n\nBoth adults and children are having trouble sleeping, waking up to nightmares of the tower burning. One parent explained that his daughter kept drawing pictures of the building on fire.\n\nDespite counselling sessions on offer at local community centres, residents say they want people to visit them at their hotel.\n\nThey feel the help should be coming to them. They say they should not be going in search of help.\n\nMany are traumatised and feel they are not being treated like victims. This is causing hostility and anger towards the services.\n\nMany have also turned down offers of temporary accommodation.\n\nResidents say they want to move into somewhere permanent and nearby. Many explain they have been offered numerous places that simply are not suitable due to the size, location and disabled access.\n\nThe newly-elected Labour MP for Kensington, MP Emma Dent Coad, told Mr Sharma that some residents were being offered \"totally unsuitable accommodation\".\n\nThe retired judge chairing the public inquiry into the fire has promised to hear from people directly affected.\n\nThe judge leading the inquiry has vowed to listen to the concerns of residents\n\nSir Martin Moore-Bick, who has faced calls to stand down, initially suggested the inquiry may not be broad enough to satisfy survivors.\n\nLaunching a consultation document, the retired judge said: \"I am determined to establish the causes of the tragedy, and ensure that the appropriate lessons are learnt.\n\n\"To produce a report as quickly as possible, with clear recommendations for action, I will listen to people and consider a broad range of evidence, including on the role of the relevant public authorities and contractors, in order to help me answer the important questions.\"\n\nEarlier, the government said 190 buildings in England that underwent fire tests on their cladding - a renovation that is thought to have contributed to the spread of the Grenfell Tower fire - have failed. It also announced that cladding from one building had passed the test - the only sample to do so to date.\n\nIn the afternoon, emergency teams working on the shell of Grenfell Tower were temporarily withdrawn after sensors in the building showed it had shifted more than 5mm.\n\nThe public were said to be at \"no risk\" and the work later restarted.\n\nBut the use of air horns to alert crews was reported to have \"upset\" some neighbours of nearby blocks, prompting officials to say the practice would not be repeated in future.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"One expert says the missile could reach Alaska\"\n\nNorth Korea's confident announcement that it has successfully launched an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) capable of striking the US is another iteration in the high stakes game of international poker that Pyongyang appears to excel at.\n\nCarefully timed to coincide with the 4 July holidays in the US, Kim Jong-un's triumphal blast has simultaneously allowed the North Korean authoritarian leader to make good on his promises of military modernisation to his own people while exposing the hollow overconfident tweets of President Donald Trump that an ICBM launch \"won't happen\".\n\nThe launch of the North's Hwasong-14 rocket is in practical terms merely an incremental step forward from an earlier launch in May, when a similar rocket flew for 30 minutes, to a height of some 1,312 miles (2,111km) over a distance of some 489 miles.\n\nThe most recent missile added seven to nine minutes of flight time, an extra 400 miles or so in height and a further 88 miles in overall distance.\n\nSuperficially this is simply more of the same pattern of provocation and tactical sabre-rattling that the North has been pursuing for decades, whether through its longstanding quest to acquire nuclear weapons (dating from the 1960s) or its missile testing programme, sharply accelerated in the course of last year.\n\nYet, by bringing Alaska within range, the new test is an unambiguous game-changer in both symbolical and practical terms.\n\nUS territory (albeit separate from the contiguous continental US) is now finally within Pyongyang's cross-hairs and for the first time a US president has to accept that the North poses a \"real and present\" danger not merely to north-east Asia and America's key allies - but to the US proper.\n\nHow would Donald Trump respond to the North's latest test?\n\nPresident Trump's weakness lies in having overplayed his hand too publicly and too loudly.\n\nHis initial gambit of deploying a US \"armada\" to the region in the form of the USS Carl Vinson battle group, not only involved a poor use of historical analogies (the ill-fated 16th Century Spanish fleet was probably the least auspicious of reference points), but also signally failed to intimidate the North Koreans.\n\nSimilarly, openly pressuring the Chinese to impose punitive sanctions on North Korea in return for economic restraint from the US through a Trumpian concession not to list Beijing as a currency manipulator also appears to have failed.\n\nPresident Xi, notwithstanding the positive mood music of the April Mar-a-Lago summit, appears to have avoided being boxed in by Trump, and China's reaction to the North's latest provocation is likely to be limited to a familiar pattern of rhetorical condemnation and a call for calm from all parties.\n\nMilitary action - notwithstanding the hawkish recommendations of Republican senators such as John McCain and Lindsay Graham - is next to impossible given the risks involved to Seoul and the poor prospects of success, either in terms of removing the North's strategic assets or its political leadership.\n\nSanctions are likely to be revisited, through a reconvening of the UN Security Council, but the political process is slow and enforcement is at best a partial and therefore ineffectual approach.\n\nTalks are one way forward and the convergence of views between Washington and Seoul on the back of President Moon's recent visit to the US suggest that some sort of partial re-engagement with the North might be on the cards, albeit within a framework of reinforced deterrence.\n\nYet, for now the momentum is all with Pyongyang, which has little incentive to sit down with the US and can afford to play for time in accelerating its military modernisation efforts while capitalising on divisions within the international community.\n\nWhile the US, South Korean and Japanese leaders will be united in pushing for tough measures at this week's G20 summit in Germany, they will be hard pressed to secure the support of either China or Russia for anything beyond a bland, condemnatory declaration.\n\nThe dangers of the present crisis are two-fold.\n\nA more confident Kim Jong-un, emboldened by his latest success may become less risk-averse, engaging in conventional military brinkmanship which, while not going as far as pre-emptive attacks on his neighbours, might spill over into conflict through miscalculation rather than through design.\n\nAlternatively, the US confronted by the unpalatable reality of seeing the North cross yet another supposedly non-negotiable \"red line\" may simply choose to avert its eyes.\n\nFor a president wedded to his own version of \"fake news\", the easiest way to cope with an inconvenient truth may be to redefine or simply ignore the original \"red line\".\n\nThis would be a major mistake since it will do nothing to deter the North while encouraging other states in the region to pursue their own military modernisation plans, storing up even greater problems for the future.\n\nUltimately, Mr Trump, if he wishes to demonstrate that he is indeed master of the \"art of the deal\", will need to give up the bully pulpit of megaphone diplomacy via twitter and pivot towards a more enlightened approach.\n\nThis could involve the imaginative despatch of a high-profile US senior statesman to negotiate with and appeal to the ego and amour propre of the young North Korean leader.\n\nIt could also involve closer co-ordination with America's allies, most notably South Korea, in offering some high-profile political concessions to the North - whether the establishment of a US liaison mission in Pyongyang or a sequenced pattern of asymmetric conventional force reductions on the peninsula.\n\nRight now, Washington (for the sake of the region and the wider world) urgently needs a long-term, sustained and calibrated strategy for dealing with the North that is more than a reactive game of eye-ball to eye-ball posturing.\n\nAn impulsive, attention deficient and hyper-active President Trump would be better advised to switch from playing poker to chess.\n\nDr John Nilsson-Wright is a Senior Research Fellow for Northeast Asia, Asia Programme, Chatham House and Senior Lecturer in Japanese Politics and the International Relations of East Asia, University of Cambridge", "Newcastle United owner Mike Ashley (left) arrives at the High Court to give evidence\n\nBillionaire Mike Ashley said a claim that he agreed to pay a finance expert £15m during a drinking session in a pub is \"nonsense\".\n\nInvestment banker Jeffrey Blue said the Newcastle United owner promised to pay him £15m if he increased Sports Direct's share price to £8 each.\n\nHe was paid £1m but is suing Mr Ashley for the rest at London's High Court.\n\nMr Ashley said it \"would be obvious\" to anyone at the pub where they were drinking that he \"was not serious\".\n\nMr Ashley told Mr Justice Leggatt, in a witness statement, he met Mr Blue and three other finance specialists at the Horse And Groom pub in central London in January 2013.\n\n\"When we got to the pub we started drinking heavily at the bar and consumed a lot of alcohol during the evening,\" Mr Ashley told the judge.\n\n\"We must have had four or five rounds of drinks in the first hour.\n\n\"I can't remember the detail of conversations but I do remember that we had a lot of drinks and a lot of banter.\n\nFinance expert Jeffrey Blue claims he was promised £15m for pushing up the price of shares\n\n\"We were pulling each other's legs about what hypothetical value my shares would be worth 'on paper' at different share prices.\n\n\"It was a fun night, as it was intended to be, and everyone was on good form.\"\n\nMr Ashley said the group went to another bar afterwards but could not remember which one.\n\nHe said: \"I find it incredible that Mr Blue is actually suggesting that I made a binding agreement for £15m.\n\n\"If I did say to Mr Blue that I would pay him £15m, it would be obvious to everyone, including Mr Blue, that I wasn't being serious.\"\n\nMr Ashley said the inference that Sports Direct had senior management meetings in a pub was \"100% incorrect\".\n\nHe said he occasionally made decisions in a pub.\n\n\"Definitely not as a norm,\" he said. \"Otherwise I would have to live in a pub.\"\n\nHe added: \"I take business decisions all day every day, from home, from the bath.\"\n\nMr Ashley told the judge: \"Serious, serious decisions are not done on drunken nights out.\"\n\nWhat Mr Blue called \"senior management meetings\" at pubs was actually just a \"drink after work\", Mr Ashley said.\n\nHe also said \"going for a drink\" was \"what we do after work\" and Shirebrook, Derbyshire, where Sports Direct is based, was a \"very boring, lonely place\".\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. Gareth Thomas tackled homophobia in football in a 2017 investigation for the BBC\n\nFootball risks \"being left in the dark ages\" unless more is done to tackle homophobia in the game, ex-Wales rugby star Gareth Thomas has said.\n\nThomas came out as gay in 2009 after hiding his sexuality for years.\n\nHe admitted it almost drove him to suicide after his wife Jemma left him when he told her the truth.\n\nThomas said unless homophobia in football was \"policed as stringently as racism is policed, then it will always be a problem\".\n\nThursday marks 50 years since the partial decriminalisation of homosexuality between men aged 21 and over in England and Wales.\n\nThe former Cardiff Blues player looked at the issue in a documentary for BBC Wales.\n\nThere have been no openly gay professional footballers in the top four divisions since former Norwich striker Justin Fashanu in 1990, who killed himself in 1998.\n\nThomas spoke to Amal Fashanu, Justin's niece, who made a documentary on the issue in 2012.\n\n\"In that five years, from talking to her, absolutely nothing has changed,\" he said.\n\nA spokesman for the FA said the governing body was \"committed to tackling homophobia, biphobia and transphobia in football at every level of the game\".\n\nRobbie Rogers, who plays for LA Galaxy, came out after leaving English football\n\nWales' governing body - the FAW - has been asked for comment.\n\nIn recent years, ex-Aston Villa midfielder Thomas Hitzlsperger and former Leeds United and United States player Robbie Rogers have revealed they are gay.\n\nHitzlsperger had retired and Rogers plays in the US' Major League Soccer.\n\nIn 2015, 2% of UK men identified as gay or bisexual but none of the approximately 5,000 professional footballers have publicly come out.\n\nThomas said they would be \"walking into the unknown\" as governing bodies had not done enough \"to create an environment for a player to feel like he can be himself\".\n\nWhile great efforts have been made to tackle racism, Thomas said homophobia was not treated as seriously.\n\nHe spoke to a steward who had thrown out a fan for using racist language and asked him if he would have done the same had he used a gay slur.\n\n\"His honest answer, which is the truth of it, was very much the case he doubts it would have been,\" he said.\n\nGareth Thomas is known as Alfie by Welsh rugby fans\n\nWhile those throughout the game have supported efforts to rid football of racism, Thomas said \"you'll struggle to get a single player to openly talk about his support against homophobia because he stands the backlash of guilt by association.\n\n\"It does feel like football is not ready for it. If a player is ready it could be a great success or it could be a great disaster.\n\n\"I think they need reassurance that everything will be OK and they'll be judged on their footballing ability and not their sexuality.\"\n\nThe FA said it worked with leagues, LGBT clubs and campaign groups to sanction and educate perpetrators of abuse and encouraged \"players to be themselves and support their teammates to do likewise\".\n\nThomas said while there was \"no excuse\" for homophobic language, he thought some fans singing anti-gay chants felt \"they can be somebody who, on the outside of that stadium, would be somebody that they might look down their nose at\".\n\nHe believes change must come from the top of the game: \"Unless football wants to be left behind in the dark ages then it has to [improve].\n\n\"But until it's policed as stringently as racism is policed, then it will always be a problem.\"", "Consumers have less than three months to spend, bank or donate round £1 coins as the new 12-sided version outnumbers the old for the first time.\n\nThe Treasury says there are now more of the new £1 coins, which first entered circulation in March, than the old round pound.\n\nFrom 15 October, shops can refuse the old version of the coin.\n\nHowever, most banks and Post Office counters will continue to accept them from customers.\n\n\"The clock is ticking. We are urging the public to spend, bank or donate their old pound coins and asking businesses who are yet to do so, to update their systems before the old coin ceases to be legal tender,\" said Andrew Jones, the Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Royal Mint is striking 1.5 billion new 12-sided £1 coins, which were introduced to help crack down on counterfeiting.\n\nThe Mint has claimed the new £1 is the \"most secure coin in the world\", replacing the previous £1 coin, of which about one in 40 are thought to be fake.\n\nThe new coin has a string of anti-counterfeiting details, including material inside the coin itself which can be detected when electronically scanned by coin-counting or payment machines.\n\nOther security measures include an image that works like a hologram, and micro-sized lettering inside both rims.\n\nNumber to enter circulation: 1.5 billion - about 23 per person. Old £1 coins will be melted down to make new ones", "Craig Sullivan cast about 2,000 bottles into the sea and rivers across the UK\n\nA man who sparked outrage for his efforts to find love by releasing thousands of messages in bottles at beauty spots across the UK has said he now has dozens of potential dates.\n\nWidower Craig Sullivan, who is 49 and originally from North Lanarkshire, set 2,000 bottles adrift last week.\n\nHowever, his efforts resulted in scorn from some who accused him of littering and polluting the environment.\n\nMr Sullivan said that his quest had attracted 50 offers of companionship.\n\nHe was reported to the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (Sepa) after releasing about 200 of the bottles into the River Cree in Dumfries and Galloway.\n\nSepa said the bottles had since been removed from the river by locals.\n\nMr Sullivan, who runs a website consultancy firm in London, said he embarked upon his plan to release the bottles following the death of his wife Julia from breast cancer 18 months ago.\n\nHe said he wanted to find someone for companionship and that he had been inspired by The Police song Message in a Bottle.\n\nWriting on his blog, he said: \"I decided to do something about it.\n\n\"Using any of the normal channels for this sort of thing (dating sites, friends, matchmaking services) seemed clichéd or somehow less elegant, less noble in intentions than my own mind.\"\n\nMr Sullivan was reported for placing about 200 bottles in the River Cree in Dumfries and Galloway\n\nHe added: \"So, armed with maps, tidal tables, a motorhome, 4G data, provisions and a week driving around the UK, I might just be able to send them to beaches across the world.\"\n\nOne of the spots Mr Sullivan picked for releasing his bottles was the River Cree, near Newton Stewart.\n\nThat resulted in an angry message from one resident who wrote to him in response: \"Sepa informed of you fly tipping into the river Cree salmon hatchery, your total disregard for our beautiful clean river is palpable. Don't come back to Newton Stewart your [sic] not welcome. Incidentally all bottles recovered from the Cree hatchery.\"\n\nIn a statement, a spokesman for the environment agency said: \"Our officers are comfortable that there is no environmental risk to the River Cree as a result of the bottles being released and, following inquiries, understand almost all of the bottles were contained and removed from the river fairly quickly by local residents.\"\n\nMr Sullivan embarked on his week-long journey around the UK on 20 July, stopping in Wales and at Hinkley Point before driving on to Scotland.\n\nHowever, rather than drawing potential partners, his efforts resulted in a backlash, with one woman writing to him: \"Hi Craig, I love how romantic your idea is but please reconsider putting all of these into the sea, lots of us spend hours picking up beach litter.\n\n\"How about joining a big beach clean, you may pick up a hobby & meet someone there too? We deserve love & clean beaches!\n\nAnother person wrote: \"Can we get this half-wit arrested, stopped, educated or something? I simply cannot believe he can put this rubbish in the ocean unpunished.\"\n\nMr Sullivan told the BBC that he had stopped releasing the bottles as soon as he became aware of the anger they were causing.\n\nMr Sullivan said he was inspired by the lyrics of the Police song Message in a Bottle\n\nHe said: \"The abuse was not very good. In several instances it got out of hand. It was never my intent to harm the environment. It was more accident, naivety as well as stupidity in the execution.\n\n\"There was the fact that they all washed up on the beach in Wales at the same time or got caught in the net at the river in Scotland. It was just my intention to send a wee love bottle with a message to someone I had not yet met.\"\n\nMr Sullivan said that he had since received 50 responses from women who were interested in knowing him, including one from Ireland and another from the west coast of Scotland.\n\nHe added: \"I am genuinely sorry for upsetting people, but I do not regret what I did.\"\n\nSepa said it was satisfied that the issue had been resolved and said that it did not intend to pursue any further action against Mr Sullivan.", "Cars are receiving fines for parking more than 50cm from the edge of their drives\n\nResidents in a London street have criticised the council for issuing their cars with \"crazy fines\" when they are parked on private drives.\n\nVehicles parked on drives in Roll Gardens, Gants Hill, have been ticketed as they \"slightly obstruct the road's pavement\".\n\nThe short drives, built in the 1940s, mean most modern cars overhang the pavement.\n\nRedbridge Council said some residents are \"clearly obstructing the pavement\".\n\nCatherine Meletiou, a resident on the street, said the fines were \"crazy\".\n\nShe added: \"It's absolute madness. If the car is not small it's going to come over the driveway and onto the footpath, there's no allowances for that.\"\n\nIrshad Nabee said there had never been a problem in the area in 40 years\n\nIrshad Nabee, Roll Gardens Neighbourhood Association chairman, said: \"For the greater part of 40 years, this has not been a problem.\n\n\"But since July, we have seen a spate of parking fines. I don't know where the council expect us to park.\"\n\nLocal councillor Karen Packer said the residents had no warning or consultation about the issue.\n\nShe suggested a potential solution was to introduce a residents only permit scheme or a temporary suspension of all ticketing in the area.\n\n\"These are hard working people and one ticket is hard for some to fit in their weekly financial budget, let alone two, three or even four in some cases.\"\n\nLinda Horwood, who has lived on the street for 45 years, said she received a fine of £110 for the first time since moving to the area.\n\n\"It's totally unfair, and to make sure I'm not overhanging too much I'm parking my car so close to my house that I'm bashing it every time I park.\"\n\nRedbridge Council said tickets could be issued for parking \"more than 50cm from the edge of the carriageway and not within a designated parking space\".\n\nA spokesman said the majority of residents in Gants Hill were \"making every effort to use the driveway space available to them and parking without causing an issue\".\n\n\"Residents have told us they are confused about the parking guidelines and we will be working with them to offer advice to avoid them receiving future fines.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Left-leaning parties worked together to cut Theresa May's majority at the general election - was it a one-off or is the \"progressive alliance\" here to stay?\n\nOne of the many surprises on 8 June was how Britain appeared to have turned the clock back to the era of two party politics, with 82% of voters casting their ballot for Labour or the Conservatives.\n\nSome of the surge in Labour's support may have been down to tactical voting, with left-leaning voters spooked by the prospect of a huge Conservative majority deciding to back whichever party they believed stood the best chance of beating the Conservatives in their constituency. Which, in most cases, was Labour.\n\nBut in some parts of the country the choice was made easier for them.\n\nLocal electoral deals saw some would-be election candidates stand aside to avoid splitting the \"anti-Tory\" vote.\n\nBut despite warm words from some Labour and Lib Dem MPs, one party ended up doing most of the heavy lifting.\n\nOf the 41 seats listed by the Progressive Alliance, one of the organisations promoting tactical voting and cross-party cooperation, where \"progressive candidates have stood aside to help another progressive candidate defeat the Tories\", 38 of them were Greens, two were Lib Dems and one represented the Women's Equality Party.\n\nNot one Labour candidate stood aside, even though it was the Labour Party that got most of the benefit, in terms of extra votes and seats.\n\nThe Green Party's co-leaders Caroline Lucas and Jonathan Bartley got behind the idea of electoral alliances as a way of forcing proportional representation on to the political agenda, having spent years getting nowhere with efforts to get candidates that back electoral reform elected through first-past-the-post.\n\nLast year's Richmond Park by-election, which saw the Greens stand aside to help Lib Dem Sarah Olney defeat the then (and future) Tory MP Zac Goldsmith, had shown them what was possible and they had the backing of Green party members.\n\nBut the Labour and Lib Dem leaderships refused to play ball, rejecting their offer of a formal deal at June's snap election out of hand.\n\nLabour's shadow chancellor John McDonnell told the BBC: \"I just think the electorate would be concerned if they thought parties were stitching up elections privately. I don't think that's the way forward. The way forward is to support and vote for the Labour Party.\"\n\nLib Dem leader Tim Farron was equally dismissive, despite support for the idea among some in his party, saying the \"only plausible route of any kind towards the Conservatives not winning a majority\" was having a sizable Liberal Democrat group of MPs.\n\nIt was left to local Green parties to strike their own deals, if they could.\n\nIt worked in some places, most notably Brighton Pavilion, where Caroline Lucas doubled her majority, after the Lib Dem candidate stood aside, as payback for Green support in Richmond Park.\n\nSarah Olney won the Richmond by-election but lost the seat at the general election\n\nBut her result was a rare bright spot in a dismal night for the Greens, who failed to gain any of their other target seats, and saw their vote drop from 1.1 million in 2015 to just over 500,000.\n\nIt was a bad night for smaller parties in general. UKIP saw an even more dramatic collapse in its share of the vote than the Greens.\n\nThe Lib Dems also saw their vote share squeezed - but only the Greens stood aside in significant numbers to aid other parties.\n\nOn the day after the election, the Green Party's co-leader Jonathan Bartley hailed the \"brave\" decision by 24 Green candidates in marginal seats to stand aside, which he said had made a \"big difference to the election result\".\n\nBut that's not how some of the candidates-that-never-were felt.\n\nGreen Party activist Jill Perry, who opted not to stand in Workington, said she now has \"regrets\" about doing so because she does not think it made any difference to the result, which saw the Labour candidate Sue Hayman retain the seat with a slightly reduced majority.\n\nIt also deprived local Green members and supporters - including herself - of the opportunity to vote for their party, which on nuclear power, nuclear weapons and airport expansion, to name just a few issues, is diametrically opposed to the official Labour position.\n\n\"I voted with a heavy heart because, obviously, I could not vote Green,\" she says.\n\n\"It was a very difficult decision. It wasn't a personal decision, it was a group decision, but the group was very divided with strong feelings on both sides.\n\n\"Really, I don't think it made any difference where candidates stood down\" because a lot of people voted tactically to prevent the Conservatives getting a \"massive majority\" and, as a result, \"everybody went back into the Conservative and Labour silos\".\n\nThe local Labour Party appreciated their gesture but Greens had been \"put under an awful lot of pressure\" by Labour activists in areas where they refused to stand aside, she added, and some Labour activists had been \"very aggressive towards them\".\n\n\"In solidarity with those groups, I think we should stand next time,\" said Ms Perry.\n\nAndy D'Agorne, leader of the Green group on York City Council, told the BBC he does not regret standing aside for Labour at the general election but he would not do it again, unless Labour was committed to proportional representation.\n\nA seven way debate preceded a return to two-party politics\n\nThe Greens have strong support in York, gaining 10% of the vote at the 2015 general election in York Central, but Mr D'Agorne said the unexpected surge in the Labour vote has made it a safe seat for Jeremy Corbyn's party, rendering any future gestures of solidarity unnecessary.\n\nNicole Haydock, co-ordinator of Bury Green Party, which opted not to run candidates in June, said the \"backlash in the party after the election\" was because \"most people thought the progressive alliance meant we are standing down where Labour has a chance of winning\" when it was actually about getting an agreement to back proportional representation.\n\nGreen activist John Coyne refused to stand aside in Wirral West, despite pressure from local Labour activists and members of Momentum, to help Labour's Margaret Greenwood hang on to the seat she had won from Tory Esther McVey by 417 votes in 2015.\n\nThe 429 votes Mr Coyne received in June might have made all the difference in another close contest, but Ms Greenwood was returned as Wirral West's MP with a majority of 5,365.\n\nMr Coyne said: \"If Labour said, 'yes we want PR' then that would make a big difference but all that's happened in discussions about alliances is that there has been an attempt to get people switching from Green to Labour, there has been no element of reciprocity at all, in this relationship.\n\n\"And for that reason, if no other, I think there is no real future for it.\"\n\nThe BBC understands Liverpool Green Party plans to table a motion at the party's annual conference in October to rule out future alliances unless there is a PR deal on offer.\n\nThere is also the practical concern that the electoral pacts have hit the Green Party in the wallet, as Short Money is handed out by Parliament in line with the number of votes parties get.\n\nIn 2016/17 the Green Party of England and Wales got £216,994 in Short Money. It will be a lot less this year.\n\nThe progressive alliance borrowed tactics from Bernie Sanders' campaign\n\nCaroline Lucas said it was time for \"reflection and planning\" in the Green Party and has promised to listen to the membership about future electoral deals.\n\nShe said it was \"clear\" that the local Green activists who stood aside in June \"helped cut down the Conservative majority\".\n\nBut she added: \"The commitment to forming alliances was always about advancing significant electoral reform to give every voter a voice.\n\n\"We want to forge a new kind of politics, and simply tactical voting under first past the post does not even begin to rise to that challenge.\n\n\"Sadly there was no leadership from either Labour or the Liberal Democrats to put the urgent need for a fairer voting system at the heart of this election nationally.\"\n\nFrances Foley, campaign co-ordinator of Compass, the cross-party pressure group that set up the Progressive Alliance website and used tactics and personnel borrowed from Bernie Sanders in the US to promote it around the country, said she could understand how some Greens felt \"chastened\" by the drop in their party's vote share.\n\nBut, she added, \"despite that there is still a really strong appetite for the progressive alliance in the Green Party\".\n\nThere was also far more enthusiasm for cross-party cooperation, and proportional representation, among Labour activists than the party leadership, she claimed, and that change would eventually come \"from the ground up\".\n\nAccording to Compass's own research, \"progressive\" candidates performed 5.7% better where there was an electoral deal in place.\n\nShe said the Labour leadership should view their success on 8 June as a \"shared victory,\" as a handful of Labour MPs, such as Clive Lewis, in Norwich South, and Tulip Siddiq, in Hampstead and Kilburn, had done - and it would be a mistake for them to believe they could win a general election on their own.\n\nTo supporters like Ms Foley, the progressive alliance holds out the prospect of an end to petty tribal politics, as parties with similar world views - pro-European, anti-austerity, greenish - work together for what they see as the \"common good\".\n\nThe combined forces of the SNP, Plaid Cymru, the Lib Dems, Labour and the Green Party, as well as smaller outfits like the Women's Equality Party and the NHS party, add up to a \"progressive\" majority, they argue. More than enough to beat what they call the \"regressive alliance\" of the Tories, UKIP and the Ulster Unionists.\n\nBut to have any future it is going to take a major change in attitude at the top of the Labour Party to convince the Greens and other smaller parties it is worth the sacrifice.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFree movement of people between the EU and UK will end in March 2019, UK government ministers have said.\n\nFrom that date EU workers moving to the UK will have to register, at least until a permanent post-Brexit immigration policy is put in place.\n\nBut Home Secretary Amber Rudd has sought to reassure business there will not be a \"cliff edge\" in terms of employing foreign workers after Brexit.\n\nShe said policy would be evidence-based and take into account economic impact.\n\nThe CBI said businesses \"urgently\" needed to know what EU migration would look like, both in any \"transitional\" period after March 2019 and beyond.\n\nImmigration was one of the central topics of last year's EU referendum campaign, and ministers have promised to \"take back control\" of the UK's borders as they negotiate Brexit.\n\nThe UK is currently due to leave the EU at the end of March 2019, but there has been increasing talk of a \"transitional\" (or \"implementation\") stage of around two years to smooth the Brexit process.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Home Office minister Brandon Lewis said details of how the government would manage immigration after Brexit would be revealed in a white paper later this year, and that the immigration bill would go through Parliament in 2018.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Freedom of movement will end \"in the spring of 2019\", immigration minister Brandon Lewis tells Today\n\nMr Lewis said it was a \"simple matter of fact\" that EU free movement rules would not apply after 2019.\n\nMore detail of what would happen was later provided by the home secretary, with Ms Rudd, speaking during a visit to Troon, South Ayrshire, saying the \"implementation phase\" would involve new EU workers registering their details when they come to the UK.\n\nShe also said the government had promised an \"extensive\" consultation to listen to the views of businesses, unions and universities.\n\nThe Home Office has asked the Migration Advisory Committee to study the \"economic and social costs and benefits of EU migration to the UK economy\", its impact on competitiveness, and whether there would be benefits to focusing migration on high-skilled jobs. It is due to report back by September 2018 - six months before Brexit.\n\nThe home secretary said: \"We will ensure we continue to attract those who benefit us economically, socially and culturally.\n\n\"But, at the same time, our new immigration system will give us control of the volume of people coming here - giving the public confidence we are applying our own rules on who we want to come to the UK and helping us to bring down net migration to sustainable levels.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. I'm \"flabbergasted\" it has taken 13 months to ask \"basic questions\" about EU migration, says Yvette Cooper\n\nSpeaking in Sydney, Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said he was unaware of the report that has been commissioned, adding that immigration had been \"fantastic for the energy and dynamism of the economy\" but \"that doesn't mean that you can't control it\".\n\nFor Labour, shadow home secretary Diane Abbott said there was \"far too much heat and not enough light about immigration, so any truly objective and well-informed analysis must be welcome\".\n\nBut she raised concerns about the timescale for the Migration Advisory Committee report: \"Six months before Brexit will not be enough time to structure a new immigration system.\"\n\nLib Dem home affairs spokesman Sir Ed Davey said the move would \"do nothing to reassure the hospitals that are already seeing record numbers of EU nurses leaving, or the companies struggling to recruit the staff they need\".\n\n\"The NHS, businesses and universities that depend on European citizens need answers now, not in another 14 months' time,\" he added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe CBI said commissioning the report was a \"sensible first step\", adding: \"Workers from across Europe strengthen our businesses and help our public services run more smoothly - any new migration system should protect these benefits while restoring public confidence.\"\n\nBut the Labour MP Yvette Cooper, who chairs the Commons home affairs committee, said it was \"staggering\" that it had taken the government a year since the EU referendum to commission it.\n\nAnd property developer Richard Tice, co-chairman of Leave Means Leave, told BBC Radio 4's World at One: \"This commission should be reporting by this Christmas, not by next September. It's completely unacceptable for this to drag on ... the government needs to rapidly accelerate this.\"\n\nManufacturers' organisation EEF said the migration committee was \"best placed\" to advise on what EU migration should look like after Brexit.\n\nBoth EEF and the CBI called for an immediate resolution of the question of the status of EU nationals already living in the UK.", "A teacher who had sex with a student in a plane toilet on a school trip has been banned from the profession.\n\nEleanor Wilson, 28, who worked in Bristol, kissed the pupil and drank alcohol with him while on the flight.\n\nA National College for Teaching & Leadership (NCTL) panel found she engaged in sexual activity with a male pupil in August 2015.\n\nThe panel's report found her guilty of unacceptable professional conduct and banned her from teaching indefinitely.\n\nThe NCTL found an \"inappropriate relationship\" took place with the pupil in 2015/16 when she met him in her office, shared her mobile number with him, took him on outings, drank alcohol with him and kissed him on more than one occasion.\n\nMiss Wilson also encouraged the pupil, who has not been identified, to hide their relationship and lied about it when an investigation into the allegations was undertaken by the school, the panel said.\n\nThe panel ruled she \"fell significantly short of the standards expected of the profession\".\n\nThe teacher, who had denied the allegations, was sacked by the school last year and was not present at the NCTL hearing.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police are urging anyone who saw the girls around the time of the attacks to come forward\n\nA girl of 15 was raped at a train station in Birmingham before being sexually assaulted by the driver of a car she flagged down to help her.\n\nDetectives called the two attacks at Witton station \"horrifying\" and said they were launching a major manhunt.\n\nThe teenager was with a friend when she was approached by a man who led her to a secluded part of the station and raped her.\n\nShortly after she flagged down a passing car and was assaulted again.\n\nBritish Transport Police and West Midlands Police are treating it as two separate reports of rape.\n\nThe first attacker is described by police as an Asian man in his early 20s with light skin, brown eyes, skinny build and about 6ft tall.\n\nPolice said the second man was also Asian and in his early 20s and about 5ft 6in to 5ft 7in tall. He was of a large build, with a beard and wore a blue jumper and black jeans.\n\nThe attacks happened between 19:00 BST on Tuesday and 02:00 on Wednesday.\n\nCCTV has been seized and is being investigated.\n\nDet Ch Insp Tony Fitzpatrick said: \"This was a horrifying ordeal for this young girl and we have specially trained officers supporting her.\n\n\"It is now vitally important we investigate exactly what happened on Wednesday morning as well as identifying offenders for both of these awful incidents.\n\n\"I would be keen to speak with anyone who may have been in the area at the time. If you were passing by the station and saw two girls walking with an older man, then please get in touch immediately.\n\n\"Likewise, if you saw any suspicious vehicles close to Witton station close to 2am then please get in touch as soon as possible. Your information could prove vital in our enquiries to identify the perpetrators.\"", "Raising a glass to the findings of the Danish study?\n\nDrinking three to four times a week has been linked to a lower risk of type 2 diabetes than never drinking, Danish researchers suggest.\n\nWine appears to be particularly beneficial, probably as it plays a role in helping to manage blood sugar, the study, published in Diabetologia, says.\n\nThey surveyed more than 70,000 people on their alcohol intake - how much and how often they drank.\n\nBut experts said this wasn't a \"green light\" to drink more than recommended.\n\nAnd Public Health England warned that consuming alcohol contributed to a vast number of other serious diseases, including some cancers, heart and liver disease.\n\n\"People should keep this in mind when thinking about how much they drink,\" a spokeswoman said.\n\nProf Janne Tolstrup, from the National Institute of Public Health of the University of Southern Denmark, who led the research, said: \"We found that drinking frequency has an independent effect from the amount of alcohol taken.\n\n\"We can see it's a better effect to drink the alcohol in four portions rather than all at once.\"\n\nAfter around five years, study participants were followed up and a total of 859 men and 887 women group had developed diabetes - either type 1 or the more common type 2.\n\nThe researchers concluded that drinking moderately three to four times a week was linked to a 32% reduced risk of diabetes in women, and 27% in men, compared with people drinking on less than one day a week.\n\nRed wine is thought to help with the management of blood sugar\n\nFindings also suggest that not all types of alcohol had the same effect.\n\nWine appeared to be particularly beneficial because polyphenols, particularly in red wine, play a role in helping to manage blood sugar.\n\nWhen it came to drinking beer, men having one to six beers a week lowered their risk of diabetes by 21%, compared to men who drank less than one beer a week - but there was no impact on women's risk.\n\nMeanwhile, a high intake of spirits among women seemed to significantly increase their risk of diabetes - but there was no effect in men.\n\nUnlike other studies, this research did not find a link between binge drinking and diabetes.\n\nProf Tolstrup said this could be down to the small number of participants that reported binge drinking, which was defined as drinking five drinks or more on one occasion.\n\nDr Emily Burns, head of research communications at Diabetes UK, said people needed to be wary as \"the impact of regular alcohol consumption on the risk of type 2 will be different from one person to the next\".\n\nWhile the findings were interesting she said they \"wouldn't recommend people see them as a green light to drink in excess of the existing NHS guidelines\".\n\nThat advice suggests that men and women should drink no more than 14 units of alcohol a week - equivalent to six pints of average strength beer or 10 small glasses of low strength wine - over the course of three days or more, with some days being alcohol-free.\n\nRosanna O'Connor, director of drugs, alcohol and tobacco at Public Health England, said: \"It is not helpful to talk about the effect of alcohol consumption on diabetes alone.\n\n\"Consuming alcohol contributes to a vast number of other serious diseases, including some cancers, heart disease and liver disease, so people should keep this in mind when thinking about how much they drink.\"\n\nProf Tolstrup and her team have used the same survey to research the effect of alcohol on other conditions.\n\nThey found that drinking moderately a few times a week was linked to a lower risk of cardiovascular disorders, such as heart attack and stroke.\n\nBut consuming any amount of alcohol increased the risk of developing gastrointestinal diseases, such as alcohol liver disease and pancreatitis.\n\nProf Tolstrup added: \"Alcohol is associated with 50 different conditions, so we're not saying 'go ahead and drink alcohol'.\"\n\nUpdate 7 September 2017: This article has been updated to clarify that while Danish researchers found no causal relationship between drinking and the risk of developing type 2 diabetes, they did find that those who drink three to four times a week are less likely than those who never drink to develop diabetes.", "Theresa May held talks with Leo Varadkar at Downing Street in June\n\nThe Times says Prime Minister Theresa May faces a new setback in her Brexit negotiations after the Irish government said her plan for free trade between the border that separates the north and south is unworkable.\n\nThe paper says on its front page the Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar, wants the Irish Sea to become the post-Brexit border with customs and immigration checks to be located at ports and airports instead.\n\nUK officials were said to be taken aback by Dublin's change in tone, expressed at an EU summit in Brussels last week.\n\nThe Financial Times reports the Chancellor Philip Hammond is seeking a transitional deal with the EU that he wants to break down into two phases.\n\nThe paper understands he told business leaders in Downing Street on Monday this would start with what is been described as an \"off-the-shelf\" period - rather than a new legal framework for an interim agreement.\n\nThis would allow the UK to continue having full access to the single market and the customs union, while a new trade deal was finalised.\n\nThe Daily Telegraph fears a study commissioned by the Home Secretary Amber Rudd to assess the contribution of EU nationals to the British economy may be used to set up the case for continued free movement.\n\nIn an editorial, the paper say it is concerned that what it calls a \"trap\" could be set at the last minute because the findings will not be published until six months before Brexit.\n\nThe Daily Mail seizes on contradictory remarks from Ms Rudd, who suggested free movement could continue for a transitional period, and the immigration minister, Brandon Lewis, who said it should end when the UK leaves the EU in 2019.\n\nThe paper calls this a \"shambles\", and says it not only shakes public confidence, but gives ammunition to Brussels negotiators.\n\nThe Daily Mirror says Brexit was never going to be easy but it did expect the government to have a coherent plan; instead we have more positions than the Kama Sutra.\n\nFor the Times a strategy of sorts has been announced. The paper calls on ministers to confer more carefully with business to avoid sowing confusion among employers planning for the future.\n\nThe Sun says the Ministry of Justice suffered \"outright shame\" when it published figures which show that more than 70 inmates were freed from prisons in England and Wales by mistake last year.\n\nThe paper claims an average of 20 prison guards are beaten up each day and it is of the opinion that too many jails are lawless, overcrowded cesspits dramatically worsened by a shortage of staff.\n\nThe Daily Mirror says ministers need to wake up to the fact that our \"failing\" overcrowded jails need fundamental reform.\n\n\"Manslaughter\" is the Daily Mail's front page headline after police found \"reasonable grounds\" to consider corporate manslaughter charges in connection with the fire at Grenfell Tower which killed at least 80 people.\n\nThe paper describes this as a \"dramatic development\" which means town hall chiefs at Kensington and Chelsea in west London face police interviews over claims they ignored repeated safety warnings.\n\nYvette Williams from the campaign group Justice4Grenfell tells the Guardian the decision will restore some faith in the police investigation but she would like to see individuals prosecuted as well.\n\nAngelina Jolie features in several papers after she revealed how a Cambodian child was cast in her film about the Khmer Rouge.\n\nThe Daily Express says the Hollywood actress, director and United Nations goodwill ambassador has sparked a \"bizarre child actor row\".\n\nThe Daily Telegraph reports the auditions involved the crew giving impoverished youngsters money which was then snatched away, in order for the children to come up with a reason for wanting the cash.\n\nJolie is quoted in the Daily Mail saying she wanted to elicit an \"authentic connection to pain\" and found a girl who said her family did not have enough money for a nice funeral for her grandfather.\n\nBut critics on social media have accused the star of \"torturing children\" and using a \"monstrous\" and \"cruel\" psychological casting game.", "A villager points to the house where a teenage girl was raped in Muzaffarabad, Multan\n\nSome 20 people from Multan, Pakistan, have been arrested for ordering the rape of a teenage girl, in revenge for a rape her brother allegedly committed.\n\nPolice said the families of the two girls are related.\n\nMembers of both had joined forces to decide what should be done.\n\n\"A jirga [village council] had ordered the rape of a 16-year-old girl as punishment, as her brother had raped a 12-year-old,\" police official Allah Baksh told AFP.\n\nHe said the village council was approached earlier this month by a man who said his 12-year-old sister had been raped by their cousin.\n\nThe council then ordered the complainant to rape the sister of the accused in return - which police say he did.\n\nPakistan's Dawn newspaper reported that the girl was forced to appear before the group and raped in front of them and her parents.\n\nThe mothers of the two girls later filed complaints at the local police station.\n\nMedical examinations have confirmed rape in both cases.\n\nReports suggest the second girl was raped in front of the family council\n\nAnother officer, Ahsan Younas, told BBC Urdu that the first girl to be raped was aged between 12 and 14. The victim of the revenge rape is said to be 16 or 17.\n\nHe said police had registered a complaint against 25 people, and that the suspect accused of raping the 12-year-old was still at large.\n\nWhile some reports say the group that ordered the rape was a jirga - or village council - BBC sources said it was actually formed by members of the two families.\n\nJirgas, a kind of council formed of local elders, often settle disputes in rural Pakistan. However, they are illegal and have been condemned for a series of controversial rulings - including ordering so-called \"honour killings\" and past incidents of \"revenge rape\".\n\nIn 2002, a jirga ordered the gang rape of 28-year-old Mukhtar Mai, whose 12-year-old brother was accused of an affair with an older woman.\n\nMukhtar Mai, pictured in 2011, was gang-raped by order of a tribal council\n\nMs Mai took her rapists to court - an act of extraordinary courage in Pakistan, where sexual assault victims still face considerable stigma.\n\nWhen their convictions were overturned by Pakistan's Supreme Court, she was offered many ways out of the country. However, she chose to stay in her village and start a girls' school and a women's refuge yards away from where she was raped.\n\nMs Mai is now a prominent women's rights activist, and her story inspired an opera, \"Thumbprint\", which opened in New York in 2014.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The video (in Italian) showing the river next to Lavertezzo, in Switzerland, has gone viral\n\nMost people would be delighted if their home town was compared to the Maldives, one of the world's top beauty spots.\n\nBut not, it seems, those living in the village of Lavertezzo, Switzerland.\n\nResidents here are thoroughly fed up with a recent influx of tourists, who they accuse of turning their idyllic valley into \"an open air toilet\".\n\nThis latest stream of tourists were all apparently inspired by a minute-long video, which has been watched 2.6m times so far, dubbing the area \"the Maldives of Milan\".\n\nIn it, filmmaker Marco Capedri and his friend Federico Sambruni frolic in the crystal clear waters of the Verzasca river, in the shadow of an imposing double-arched stone bridge.\n\n\"A magnificent canyon crossed with emerald waters - one hour from Milan and 45 minutes from Varese,\" Mr Capedri's post proclaimed.\n\nWith that, Lavertezzo's residents - who are no strangers to tourists - found themselves overwhelmed by Italians crossing the border in search of a taste of paradise.\n\n\"I thought the valley had exploded,\" one resident told Ticino News [in Italian].\n\nAnother accused the tourists, who came from all over, of turning the valley into \"an outdoor toilet\" and \"running semi-naked down the street\". The reporter, meanwhile, noted the \"socks, cigarettes and cans\" left behind by the day-trippers.\n\nThe town's mayor, Roberto Bacciarini, was more circumspect in his response.\n\nSpeaking to Italian newspaper Repubblica [in Italian], he admitted the video had done \"a good job\" in attracting people to the area, but added: \"[Mr Capedri] would do us a favour if he asked his compatriots to park their cars in an orderly manner, and respect the rules of the place.\"", "The Cartier ring is thought to have been given to the museum by an anonymous donor\n\nA £750,000 diamond ring, missing from the British Museum for six years, has only now been registered as lost.\n\nThought to have been bequeathed to the museum by an anonymous donor, the Cartier ring was reported missing to the police in 2011.\n\nThe loss was revealed with the publication of museum's annual accounts where its cost has been written off.\n\nA spokesperson said it was museum procedure to report losses five years after discovering a missing piece.\n\nThe ring was not on public display when it went missing, the museum said.\n\nThe loss of a £750,000 Cartier ring only came to light with the publication of the British Museum's latest accounts\n\nA spokesperson said: \"The ring was found missing from its proper location by British Museum staff in August 2011.\n\n\"British Museum procedure, as agreed by trustees, requires the ring formally to be reported as lost five years after the initial discovery of its absence.\n\n\"The museum has since reviewed its security and collections management procedures and dedicated significant investment to improved security across the estate.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Cody-Anne Jackson sent a photo of her daughter Macey Hogan before killing her\n\nA mum who suffocated her two-year-old daughter after sending the toddler's father \"one last picture\" of her has been jailed for a minimum of 16 years.\n\nCody-Anne Jackson killed Macey Hogan after texting her ex a message reading: \"Sorry, just thought you deserved one last picture and memory of her.\"\n\nThe 20-year-old, of Fenton, Stoke-on-Trent, denied murder but changed her plea part-way through her trial.\n\nShe was jailed for life at Stafford Crown Court.\n\nHis Honour Judge Michael Chambers QC told the young mother she had committed a \"wicked and appalling act\".\n\nShe also tried to take her own life because she was angry and resentful towards Macey's father Paul Hogan after he ended their relationship a week earlier, the court heard.\n\nStaffordshire Police released the harrowing 999 call made by Jackson after she smothered the little girl.\n\nThe little girl's body was found on the floor in a bedroom on the morning of 10 October last year after officers broke into her home.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police were called after the chilling 999 call from the girl's mother\n\nJackson, who was in the same room attempting CPR, was found with \"superficial\" chest, neck and wrist injuries.\n\nShe had written a suicide note before the killing, stating: \"There's nothing for me or Macey.\"\n\nBefore changing her plea, Jackson claimed she woke up and found Macey's cold body next to her in bed, in between two pillows.\n\nPolice broke in through the front door at the house in Packett Street, Fenton\n\nJudge Chambers, the Recorder of Stafford, told her: \"You have had the courage to plead guilty and recognise the enormity of what you have done.\n\n\"I accept that may not have come easy but this remains a very serious case - for a mother to kill her young child, who depends on her for protection above all others, is a wicked and appalling act.\n\n\"This is not a case where you suffered from mental illness. The clear inference is that you thought about killing yourself and decided to kill Macey as well to prevent her having a life without a mother.\n\n\"That was an expression of utter self-absorption.\"\n\nDet Insp Dan Ison, of Staffordshire Police, said: \"This was not a killing that occurred due to a struggling single parent, nor was it a killing where in some perverse way it was felt that Macey was being protected from someone or something.\n\n\"This was a killing that was cold and callous and set to exact revenge on Paul Hogan as he had broken off the relationship with Cody-Anne Jackson.\"\n\n\"It is absolutely unforgivable that a beautiful and healthy child has had her life taken away and I am sorry for the loss that this has left for Paul and his family.\"\n\nAn NSPCC spokesperson said: \"Macey Hogan, a defenceless toddler, was robbed of a childhood that should have been filled with awe and wonder.\n\n\"Instead of bringing this happiness into her daughter's life, Cody-Anne Jackson ended it. It is only right that she has faced the full force of the law.\"\n• None Child killer sent 'last photo' to her ex", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Riders were catapulted into the air, witnesses said\n\nOne person has been killed and several injured after an accident on a ride at the Ohio State Fair.\n\nFire chief Steve Martin told local media outlets that victims were thrown from the \"fireball\" spinning pendulum ride in the city of Columbus.\n\nThree of the injured are in a critical condition, officials said.\n\nState Governor John Kasich confirmed at least one death, and said he had ordered all fair rides shut until safety inspections were carried out.\n\nHe also said a full investigation would be carried out.\n\nThe fireball ride swings from side to side while simultaneously spinning passengers in circles at high speed. It is known by the name \"afterburner\" in European markets.\n\nSpeaking to reporters, a doctor treating some victims said: \"Passengers were ejected at high speed with high energy, many feet - at least 20 or 30, if not more - into the air, and then crashed at a significant distance from the ride.\"\n\nHe said the speed of the impact could be similar to a vehicle crash.\n\nA video circulating online appeared to show one passenger carriage breaking loose near the bottom of its pendulum swing, tossing passengers into the air as it rose again.\n\nThe video has not been independently verified.\n\nThe state fair confirmed on Twitter that there was \"a report of a ride incident\" but provided no further details.\n\nLocal NBC affiliate WCMH reported that one of the injured is a 13-year-old child. Multiple local news outlets have said the deceased is an 18-year-old.\n\nThe accident took place on Wednesday evening, the opening day of the fair.\n\nThe Columbus Dispatch reported that safety inspections of the rides had taken place earlier in the week.\n\nChief inspector Mike Vartorella said: \"My grandchildren ride this equipment… our guys do not rush through this stuff. We look at it, we take care of it, we pretend it's our own.\"\n\nHe said the ride was inspected \"three or four times\" in the past two days by both his own inspectors and a \"third party\".", "A British Winter Olympic athlete has told how she self-harmed as she struggled to cope with the demands of elite competition.\n\nRebekah Wilson, a member of Team GB's two-woman bobsleigh crew at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, told BBC Sport she would secretly cut - and even try to concuss - herself as the \"intense pressure\" of training took its toll.\n\nSuch were the problems she faced, she quit the sport after Sochi aged just 23, and spent the next 18 months receiving treatment at a specialist mental health hospital.\n\nWilson says she has spoken out in order to raise awareness of the strain placed on athletes.\n\n\"It goes on a lot more than we allow ourselves to think,\" she said.\n\nThe British Bobsleigh and Skeleton Association (BBSA) said it was unable to comment about Wilson specifically because of patient confidentiality.\n\nBut it said it \"recognises that elite sport features both physical and mental demands\" and it provided access to specialist support in both areas.\n\nIn recent months, a third of UK Sport-funded governing bodies have had to confront athlete welfare issues or complaints, raising fears medal success has come at the expense of duty of care.\n\nSports minister Tracey Crouch told BBC Sport she would be meeting with governing bodies in a bid to tackle the issue.\n• None Should welfare come before winning?\n\n'Self-worth comes down to hundredths of seconds'\n\nA promising junior sprinter, Wilson turned to bobsleigh as a teenager and won the World Junior Championship in 2011. She dreamed of becoming an Olympian.\n\nBut, having become a full-time professional, she says the demands of the GB squad's training regime in Bath, and life on the road competing, became too much.\n\nShe struggled with mental health issues and says athletes were \"treated as a piece of data, a statistic\" in the pursuit of medals and funding.\n\n\"Every move you made was analysed,\" she said. \"If you were not good enough, it was, 'you need to up it, have a look at this feedback, this analysis'.\n\n\"That's a difficult pressure when you're just trying to do your best. It's quite cold - not a friendly environment.\n\n\"You are scared almost. Scared to say, 'actually, I shouldn't be being treated like this', because your place is on the line, your whole self-worth and career is going down to tenths and hundredths of seconds.\n\n\"It was too much for a young girl at the age of 19 who was just trying to do the best she could do.\"\n\nWilson says the \"strong, muscular\" image of an athlete representing their country masked the vulnerability she was feeling.\n\nShe was self-harming in an attempt to relieve the pressure and deal with the lack of support, but hiding it from her team-mates and coaches.\n\n\"Because I knew I had a race at the end of the week, and I'd be putting on my British kit, I had to hold it together,\" she said.\n\n\"I would try and find anything I could to hurt myself. I would cut the top of my arms and my legs - anywhere where I could put a bit of tape and nobody would really notice.\n\n\"And I was banging my head against a wall trying to knock myself out, just to stop that pressure.\"\n\nWilson rejects the notion her actions were a cry for help, because the wounds were not obvious and she was not telling anyone about them.\n\nAsked to what extent the sport itself brought on her mental health issues, she said: \"I would say that I'm probably a little bit predisposed to finding things difficult.\n\n\"The extent of what I was doing… that was certainly the environment and the sport.\n\n\"It was because I felt like there was no other outlet. It was intense. You didn't feel like you were being listened to as an athlete.\"\n\nWilson took a year out in a bid to get herself well again, keeping her issues a secret from her coaches and telling them she would come back fitter and stronger.\n\nShe does not blame them or consider it their fault - either then or now - and says her coach was very supportive.\n\nWilson rejoined the Olympic squad a year later, gaining selection for Sochi, where she and partner Paula Walker finished 12th, missing their top-eight performance target set by UK Sport.\n\nStill suffering with her mental health, she decided she needed to walk away from the sport for good and seek specialist help.\n\nWilson spent 18 months going in and out of The Priory - a renowned mental health hospital - in what she called an attempt to \"build myself back up\".\n\nShe says it came to be recognised that the pressure of sport is what had made her so unwell.\n\n\"I'd attributed every ounce of self-worth I had to sport and to 0.01 of a second,\" Wilson said. \"It was a psychological battle that I wasn't good enough and I didn't get a medal.\n\n\"Funding was put in place so I could go to see a psychologist, so there was a support in place. But you're still in that environment, with the same people around you and the same issues.\n\n\"You're almost just putting bandages or plasters on to something that is ongoing so I realised I needed to just remove myself because I'd had enough and I wasn't well.\n\n\"My team-mate Paula was retiring - she and I had really held each other together that year - so without her there could I get that small amount of enjoyment from it any more? I didn't think so.\"\n\n'Sport does not define me'\n\nWilson is now a programme manager with the Diane Modahl Foundation in Manchester, and plays rugby for Waterloo Ladies in the Women's Premiership.\n\nShe can still clock 11.77 seconds for the 100m but largely plays sport for fun now - although she says she is considering trying to break into the GB rugby sevens squad for the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo.\n\n\"Since coming out of bobsleigh, I've gone from strength to strength,\" she said.\n\n\"It was difficult because a lot of people would say, 'you've got two, three, four more Olympics in you', but spending that time away and rebuilding myself, I found that I'm more than sport.\n\n\"It's a part of you but its not the be all and end all - it doesn't define you.\"\n\nWilson wants her story to serve as an example to other young athletes - to show them \"it's very real and it's OK to speak up\".\n\nShe suspects there have been plenty before her and since who have been lost to sport because they are unwilling to talk about a taboo subject such as mental health.\n\n\"When you're strong and you're fast and chuck yourself down the ice at 95mph, it's hard to come to terms with that, actually, inside you feel very weak and vulnerable and unsafe,\" she said.\n\n\"It's great when there's a big championships on TV, but that's the front of it and you don't necessarily see the back.\n\n\"I think what's been coming out recently across sports shows there is an issue and there is something with wellbeing that we're not quite getting right.\"\n\nCrouch told BBC Sport stories such as Wilson's are \"incredibly important for us to make sure that we prevent that from happening in the future\".\n\nShe added: \"We always believe sport is good for people suffering from a mental health condition, but what we have perhaps forgotten, or not dealt with, is the mental health and wellbeing of professional sports people.\"\n\nUK Sport has promised a \"root-and-branch review\" of culture in high-performance programmes, and appointed a new head of integrity.\n\nThe organisation's new chair, former Olympic rower Dame Katherine Grainger, told BBC Sport last month she had \"huge concerns about athlete welfare\" and that things \"need to improve\".\n• None If you are affected by self-harm, help and support is available at the BBC Action Line", "Police investigating the Grenfell Tower fire say they have \"reasonable grounds\" to suspect that corporate manslaughter offences may have been committed.\n\nIt means senior executives from the council and the tenant management organisation that ran the block are likely to be interviewed under caution.\n\nA letter from the Met Police to residents said officers had \"seized a huge amount of material\".\n\nAt least 80 people died in the fire in North Kensington on 14 June.\n\nOrganisations guilty of the offence of corporate manslaughter are liable to an \"unlimited fine\".\n\nIndividuals cannot be charged with corporate manslaughter, an offence which is intended to work \"in conjunction\" with other forms of accountability.\n\nThe relevant section of the letter says Met Police officers have \"seized a huge amount of material and taken a large number of witness statements\".\n\n\"After an initial assessment of that information, the officer leading the investigation has today notified the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and the Kensington and Chelsea Tenancy Management Organisation that there are reasonable grounds to suspect that each organisation may have committed the offence of corporate manslaughter under the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007,\" it said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. New Kensington and Chelsea council leader Elizabeth Campbell: \"I will co-operate in any way I possibly can\"\n\nThe Met Police also released a statement on Thursday, stating that its investigation into the cause and spread of the fire was a \"complex and far reaching investigation that by its very nature will take a considerable time to complete\".\n\nNewly elected council leader Elizabeth Campbell, who was booed and heckled at a public meeting earlier this month, said residents \"deserve answers\" about the blaze and the \"police investigation will provide these\".\n\n\"We fully support the Metropolitan Police investigation and we will co-operate in every way we can,\" Ms Campbell added.\n\n\"It would not be appropriate to comment further on matters subject to the police investigation.\"\n\nBBC home affairs correspondent Tom Symonds says the Met Police has briefed a number of times that corporate manslaughter is a possible offence, along with breaches of health and safety laws.\n\nThe effect of what the police have said is to put both organisations on notice that their senior executives are likely to be questioned under caution in relation to the fire.\n\nThis means that evidence can be used against both bodies in a court, our correspondent added.\n\nLabour MP for Tottenham, David Lammy, whose friend Khadija Saye died in the fire, said the punishment for corporate manslaughter, a fine, would not \"represent justice for the Grenfell victims and their families\".\n\n\"Gross negligence manslaughter carries a punishment of prison time, and I hope that the police and the CPS are considering charges of manslaughter caused by gross negligence,\" he added.\n\nYvette Williams, a co-ordinator at the Justice 4 Grenfell campaign group, said the development would help increase levels of trust between the police and the community.\n\n\"However, what we would like to see running alongside that is individuals being prosecuted. We want is individuals named and prosecuted - you can have both, but we don't want corporate manslaughter on its own,\" she added.\n\nKensington and Chelsea Council has been criticised for its response to the Grenfell fire\n\nThe local authority has been accused of being slow to react to the disaster on the ground and not doing enough to re-house residents of Grenfell Tower.\n\nCouncil leader Nicholas Paget-Brown and his deputy Rock Feilding-Mellen resigned following continued criticism of its response to the tragedy.\n\nRobert Black, chief executive of Kensington and Chelsea Tenant Management Organisation, also stepped down to \"concentrate on assisting with the investigation and inquiry\".\n\nThe news comes after site manager at the tower block, Michael Lockwood, told a public meeting on Wednesday that the building would be covered in August.\n\nHe said that he expected the demolition of the tower block would begin \"towards the end of 2018\".\n\nSome possessions could be retrieved from 33 of the block's flats, he added.\n\nThe residents of Grenfell Tower had reportedly raised fire safety concerns for several years before the blaze, according to a community action group.\n\nA Newsnight investigation has shown that an official test of the types of materials used at Grenfell Tower suggest that designs such as that used in the tower's cladding are fundamentally flawed.\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May has ordered a public inquiry into the tower fire, which will be led by retired Court of Appeal judge Sir Martin Moore-Bick.\n\nHe told survivors at a meeting on Tuesday he would \"get to the bottom\" of the tragedy but insisted he had \"no power\" to make arrests over the blaze.", "Charlie has been in intensive care since October\n\nThe deadline for reaching an agreement over the end-of-life care for terminally-ill Charlie Gard has passed.\n\nCharlie's parents want a private medical team to care for their son in a hospice so they can have days with him before his life support ends.\n\nBut Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) said it was not in his interests to spend a long period in a hospice.\n\nIf no plan is agreed, the 11-month-old will be moved to a hospice and his life support withdrawn soon after.\n\nCharlie's parents, Connie Yates and Chris Gard, and GOSH had until 12:00 BST to agree his end-of-life care.\n\nHis parents have accepted their son could be moved to a hospice, the High Court heard on Wednesday.\n\nChris Gard has said his son is not expected to live to see his first birthday on 4 August\n\nTheir lawyer, Grant Armstrong said they wanted to spend a period of days with him there and nurses from GOSH and a GP had volunteered to provide care for him.\n\nBut hospital bosses said they could not agree to the arrangement as his parents had not found a hospice or a paediatric intensive care specialist.\n\nMr Justice Francis ruled that without an agreement, Charlie will be transferred to a hospice where palliative care will be given to him and his breathing tube withdrawn \"shortly after\".\n\nThe judge added that no details about when he would be moved and where could be made public.", "The article appeared before the adoption process was completed\n\nMadonna and her adopted twin daughters have accepted undisclosed damages from Associated Newspapers over a \"serious invasion of privacy\".\n\nThe singer adopted four-year-old twins Stella and Estere in February.\n\nAt the time she asked the media to \"respect our privacy during this transitional time.\"\n\nMadonna brought the case at London's High Court over a MailOnline article that caused her \"considerable personal distress\", her solicitor said.\n\nThe article - which appeared in January, before Madonna had formally adopted the twins - revealed the girls' names, race and age.\n\nIt also disclosed the fact they lived in an orphanage in Malawi and were the subject of pending applications for adoption by the singer.\n\nThe singer was pictured this month with the twins and her other children, David and Mercy\n\n\"The MailOnline published it at a time when, as the journalist ought to have appreciated, Madonna would be powerless to protect the girls from harm,\" solicitor Jenny Afia told Mrs Justice Nicola Davies on Thursday.\n\n\"Their actions could, in her view, have threatened the integrity and/or outcome of the adoption process which would have had potentially life-changing implications for the girls, as well as for Madonna and her family.\"\n\n\"Many people in Malawi know of Madonna as an individual of fame and financial means,\" she went on.\n\n\"In the circumstances, Madonna believes that it would (and should) have been self-evident to the reporter that the protection of the girls' identities pending the decision about their potential adoption was likely to be vital for their safety and welfare.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAfter the hearing, Ms Afia said: \"Madonna brought this litigation because the newspaper threatened her girls' safety by naming them before they were adopted.\n\n\"She will always take all possible steps to protect her family's well-being.\"\n\nMs Afia added that Madonna would donate the damages to The Mercy James Institute for Paediatric Surgery.\n\nThe children's hospital in Malawi opened earlier this month and is named after one of the singer's other adopted daughters.\n\n\"She is pleased that at least some good can come out of the situation,\" Ms Afia 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.", "British holidaymakers have described a sky lit up \"like Dante's inferno\" as wildfires continue to burn in south-eastern France.\n\nMore than 10,000 people have been evacuated, according to officials.\n\nHundreds of firefighters have been tackling the blazes.\n\nBut British tourists in the area have told the BBC that a change in the wind direction has seen flames continue to spread. Many are now anxiously waiting for further instructions.\n\nRob Huckle, 18, is on holiday with his family in Port de Bormes, east of Toulon.\n\n\"It's really taking a nasty turn now,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"It kind of died down in the morning, but the wind has changed direction so [the fire has] blown onto new areas of unburned forest.\"\n\nRob Huckle, 18, is on holiday with his family\n\nMr Huckle, who lives close to Cambridge, said the fire was now as big as he had seen it.\n\nFrom the apartment where he is staying he saw \"thousands\" of people being evacuated throughout the night.\n\n\"The apartment we're in looks out on to Camp du Domaine,\" he said.\n\n\"People were evacuated from there and from the hillside.\n\n\"There were thousands of people on the beach.\"\n\nAmong those evacuated from the Camp du Domaine campsite was Lisa Minot, a travel editor at the Sun newspaper.\n\nShe told the BBC: \"At 01:00 (local time), what we could see was the orange burning on the horizon, and by 02:00 the campsite decided they had to evacuate us.\n\n\"The children… were being pulled down onto the beach by their parents.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"We're still not out of the woods yet\" - Lisa Minot, travel editor of the Sun newspaper\n\n\"We have a pitch that is right on the beach so we were there and we took in as many of these families as we could, with very young children.\n\n\"They are very tired and very, very upset kids now.\"\n\nChris Wright is on holiday with his family at the Camp du Domaine campsite\n\nChris Wright is also holidaying in the Camp du Domaine campsite.\n\n\"We were asleep last night and there was a knock on the door,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"A friend said, 'I don't want to worry you, but you might have to pack a bag to evacuate.'\n\n\"We couldn't see anything at first, but as we walked to reception we could see the flames.\n\n\"There must have been a thousand people on the beach.\"\n\nJohn Grant, on holiday near Bormes-les-Mimosas, told the BBC the night sky was lit up \"like Dante's inferno\".\n\n\"We are regulars to the area and are used to the odd fire but this was certainly larger than anything we had seen previously.\"\n\nCatherine Prentis told the BBC that people had been instructed to collect valuables and flee\n\nHolidaymakers in Cavalaire-sur-Mer look on as fires continue to burn\n\nWriting on Instagram on Wednesday, Ms Minot said that some tourists were uncertain as to their next movements.\n\n\"[The] fire is getting fierce,\" she said. \"We are packed but don't know what to do.\"\n\nCatherine Prentis, on holiday with her children, was evacuated from the campsite for a second time on Wednesday.\n\n\"They're telling us on the Camp du Domaine website to stay away,\" she said.\n\n\"The last update we had was that the flames were near the gates of the site.\n\n\"We don't know what to do. Our campsite is about a mile away from where we are now.\n\n\"People here are windsurfing, swimming, having fun - but if you look behind you, there's a cloud of smoke covering the campsite.\"\n\nShe said planes collecting water to fight the fires were \"having to dodge the windsurfers\".\n\n\"They've not really realised the carnage that's going on.\"", "The Premier League has been awarded a High Court order for the forthcoming 2017-18 season, which will help it combat the illegal streaming of games.\n\nThe blocking order will require UK Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to prevent people from illegally accessing streams of its matches.\n\nIt will allow the league to combat the illicit sale and use of devices such as pre-loaded IPTV and Kodi boxes.\n\nA similar order was obtained for the final two months of the 2016-17 season.\n\nThat saw more than 5,000 server IP addresses blocked that had previously been streaming Premier League content.\n\nSky and BT Sport hold the live rights for Premier League football. The two firms paid a record £5.136bn for rights to show live matches for three seasons.\n\nKodi is free software, built by volunteers, that is designed to bring videos, music, games and photographs together in one easy-to-use application.\n\nSome shops sell set-top boxes and TV sticks known as Kodi boxes, preloaded with the software.\n\nThe developers behind Kodi say their software does not contain any content of its own and is designed to play legally owned media or content \"freely available\" on the internet.\n\nHowever, the software can be modified with third-party add-ons that provide access to pirated copies of films and TV series, or provide free access to subscription television channels and programmes, including sports events.\n\nThe English top flight League is currently undertaking its biggest ever copyright protection programme.\n\nIts anti-piracy efforts have also contributed to a range of prominent apps and add-ons being closed down as the law catches up with them.\n\n\"This blocking order is a game-changer in our efforts to tackle the supply and use of illicit streams of our content,\" said Premier League Director of Legal Services, Kevin Plumb.\n\n\"It will allow us to quickly and effectively block and disrupt the illegal broadcast of Premier League football via any means, including so called 'pre-loaded Kodi boxes'.\n\n\"The protection of our copyright, and the investment made by our broadcast partners, is hugely important to the Premier League and the future health of English football.\"", "The German government believes Porsche will quickly address the software problem\n\nGermany's transport minister has announced a recall of 22,000 Porsche cars to remove what he says is illegal emissions-controlling software.\n\nHe said that luxury marque Porsche would bear the cost of the recalls of the affected 3-litre Cayenne models.\n\nIt comes as Porsche's sister firm Volkswagen says it will refit almost a million more diesel cars in Germany.\n\nVW admitted in 2015 that some of its diesel cars were fitted with a \"defeat device\" to cheat on emissions tests.\n\nAllegations about Porsche first emerged in German magazine Der Spiegel last month.\n\nIt said it was told by a source that the Porsche Cayenne had a \"warm up mode\" whose true purpose was to comply with emissions requirements. It said tests showed that once the car was confronted with small bends or a slope it switched to a different mode and emissions were higher.\n\n\"There is no explanation why this software was in this vehicle,\" German Transport Minister Alexander Dobrindt said on Thursday.\n\n\"These vehicles are equipped with modern emissions-controlling technology so we think these vehicles are technically able to stick to emissions limits and we therefore believe Porsche will quickly be in a position to bring the software into conformity (with the law).\"\n\nMeanwhile, VW will \"offer to refit four million vehicles and thereby significantly reduce emissions,\" chief executive Matthias Mueller said on Thursday after meeting Environment Minister Barbara Hendricks.\n\nSome 2.5 million VW cars are already covered by a recall of diesel vehicles introduced after the firm first owned up to cheating regulatory emissions tests.\n\nLast week it was announced that VW subsidiary Audi would be offering a free software upgrade for 850,000 diesel cars across Europe, some 600,000 of them in Germany.\n\nThat leaves close to a million other cars to be included in the new refit plans. These include models from subsidiary Porsche, VW's Touareg sport utility vehicles, and some of its Transporter vans.\n\nSeparately, VW has been forced to defend its record after allegations that it teamed up with other German car giants to breach EU cartel rules.\n\nVW said it was normal for manufacturers to exchange technical information to speed up innovation.\n\nHowever, it declined to comment on specific allegations that five German carmakers colluded on price and technology.\n\nDaimler has also called the allegations speculative.\n\nEU and German anti-trust regulators are looking at allegations that BMW, Daimler and VW, including its subsidiaries Audi and Porsche, collaborated for decades on many aspects of development and production, disadvantaging customers and suppliers.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge has begun his final shift for the East Anglian Air Ambulance (EAAA).\n\nHis last duty as a paid pilot for the EAAA is the night shift from its base at Cambridge Airport.\n\nWriting in the Eastern Daily Press (EDP) Prince William said he had a \"profound respect\" for those who serve in the emergency services.\n\nHe is stepping down to take on more royal duties on behalf of the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh.\n\nA former RAF search and rescue pilot, the duke is part of a team including doctors and paramedics providing emergency medical cover across Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Norfolk and Suffolk, and to Essex and Hertfordshire at night.\n\nThe duke received a briefing as part of his final shift\n\nHe then posed with medics and pilots in front of the air ambulance\n\nEarlier this year, he said: \"It has been a huge privilege to fly with the East Anglian Air Ambulance.\n\n\"Following on from my time in the military, I have had experiences in this job I will carry with me for the rest of my life, and that will add a valuable perspective to my royal work for decades to come.\"\n\nAfter two years in the role, he told the EDP: \"I have met people from across the region who were in the most desperate of circumstances.\n\n\"As part of the team, I have been invited into people's homes to share moments of extreme emotion, from relief that we have given someone a fighting chance, to profound grief.\"\n\nSpeaking of the \"incredibly skilled doctors and paramedics\" he has worked with, the prince said: \"These experiences have instilled in me a profound respect for the men and women who serve in our emergency services, which I hope to continue to champion even as I leave the profession.\n\n\"I am hugely grateful for having had this experience.\"\n\nPilot William Wales, as he is known at work, receives a salary for his job which he donates in full back to the EAAA charity.\n\nThe duke said he was \"proud to have served with such an incredible team of people\"\n\nSpeaking with colleagues about incidents he had attended was the \"best way of dealing\" with the \"dark moments\", Prince William said\n\nWhile on duty, he works as part of a close-knit team of four, on a nine-and-a-half hour shift, attending the worst medical emergencies of the 2,000-plus calls per day the service receives.\n\nAs a prince and as a future king, William has worn and will wear plenty of uniforms.\n\nBut the flight suit he'll hang up after his last shift has particular significance.\n\nFor two years it's been his \"passport\" to a life where, on merit, he helped people save lives.\n\nThis after all is a man who wishes that when he was younger he could have done more to protect his mother.\n\nHe has been exposed to the National Health Service in a way that no other senior royal has been or possibly ever will be.\n\nIt's an experience he is determined will shape his future.\n\nThe words the East Anglian Air Ambulance has used to describe the pilot prince are warm, not perfunctory.\n\nThey are losing someone they call \"much-loved\", \"hard-working\" and a \"wonderful character\".\n\nWilliam is losing something he's cherished - working in a team.\n\nA lonelier destiny, which he's put on hold for so long, now beckons.\n\nThe air ambulance charity has attended patients injured by fires, horseback riding accidents, poisoning and road traffic accidents.\n\n\"There are some very sad, dark moments. We talk about it a lot, and that's the best way of dealing with some of these situations,\" Prince William revealed in September.\n\nHe pilots a H-145 helicopter, which has a maximum speed of 145 knots (170mph) and can be on the scene of an incident in East Anglia within a matter of minutes.\n\nThe prince received a salary for his job which he donated in full back to the EAAA charity\n\nWilliam has been an \"integral part\" of the service, Patrick Peal, chief executive of EAAA, said.\n\n\"He is not only a fantastic pilot, but a much-loved and valued member of the crew. He will be truly missed by everyone at EAAA.\n\n\"William... has been a true professional, delivering our doctors and critical care paramedics to patients under testing conditions,\" he added.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, whose family home has been in Anmer, Norfolk, have taken up residence in Kensington Palace ahead of their eldest child, Prince George, starting school in September.\n\nA statement issued in January by the palace, said the pair wanted to increase their official duties on behalf of the Queen and their charity work - which would mean more time in London.\n\n\"As I hang up my flight suit, I am proud to have served with such an incredible team of people, who save lives across the region every day,\" Prince William told the EDP.\n• None Inside the trauma team where Prince William is a pilot\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Taiyah Peebles was with friends just before she died\n\nA 16-year-old girl has been found dead on the tracks at a railway station.\n\nOfficers said Taiyah Peebles was with friends near Herne Bay station in Kent shortly before 23:00 BST on Tuesday.\n\nThe teenager was injured between then and 07:00 on Wednesday, when she was confirmed dead by emergency crews.\n\nShe is believed to have been electrocuted, but Detective Chief Inspector Paul Langley from British Transport Police said her family were desperate for answers.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with the family and friends of this young girl as they try to come to terms with this awful news.\n\n\"We have deployed specially trained officers to the family to provide them with support.\"\n\nTributes have been left at Herne Bay station\n\nHe added: \"Understandably the family are now desperate for answers and my officers are focused on understanding how this girl came to be on the tracks.\"\n\nTaiyah's death is being treated as unexplained while officers look into the circumstances, he said.\n\nA post-mortem examination is due to take place on Friday but police said Taiyah suffered serious injuries, believed to have been caused by electrocution.\n\nOfficers want to speak to anyone who was near the station between Tuesday night and Wednesday morning.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A woman with dementia who went missing in Florida was found by a police dog in a matter of minutes, having bottled her scent in advance.\n\nCitrus County Sheriff's Office said the anonymous woman had used a specialist scent preservation kit.\n\nIt can hold a person's scent for up to seven years.\n\nIn a Facebook post police said she stored the scent two-and-a-half years ago, and a picture of the jar showed it was dated January 2015.\n\nScent preservation kits involve rubbing a pad on a person's underarm, then sealing it in a sterile jar so police dogs have a reliable scent to smell before looking for a missing person.\n\nManufacturers say they work better and more quickly than articles of clothing, because they are not contaminated by other people's smells or smells from the environment.\n\nDogs have a stronger sense of smell than humans and working police dogs are trained to sniff out drugs, people and in some cases corpses.\n\nSome police forces around the world, including in China and Germany, have held scent samples from criminal suspects and crime scenes to help in their investigations.\n\nBut there are concerns over a high failure rate; in 2006 it was found that only a quarter of people indicated by dogs in New South Wales, Australia, turned out to be carrying drugs when they were searched.\n\nIn this case, though, the missing person was found and the dog earned a celebratory ice cream.\n\nPolice said the dog, Ally, was rewarded with an ice cream after finding the woman", "There are dramatic images on several front pages of people fleeing the wildfires in south-eastern France by grabbing a few belongings and making for the beach at Bormes-Les-Mimosas.\n\nOne woman tells the Daily Telegraph \"all we had time to bring was our passports\". The paper says dozens of British holidaymakers were preparing for another night sleeping on the sand.\n\nThe Daily Mail shows some of those who escaped what it calls the \"inferno on the Riviera\", covered in blankets and using bags as pillows.\n\nThe Sun's travel editor, Lisa Minot, who was among those evacuated from a campsite, writes the British mantra of \"keep calm and carry on has turned into despair\" as many holidaymakers are likely to lose their cars and possessions.\n\nAccording to the Times, those caught up in the chaos have been left \"with little idea of whether their insurance would cover the disruption\". It says the fires have been propelled by strong winds through pine-covered hillsides and officials in Provence believe they were started deliberately.\n\nThe government's strategy for tackling air pollution comes under intense scrutiny.\n\nThe Daily Telegraph reports that experts predict another 10,000 wind turbines will have to be built to meet the demand of electric-only cars.\n\nFor the Sun it is not enough to \"blithely announce\" a ban on sales of new petrol and diesel cars \"without a co-ordinated, costed national plan for achieving it\".\n\nThe Guardian warns the government could face further legal action \"to force it to produce a more comprehensive plan, with environmentalists, doctors and opposition politicians arguing it is insufficient to deal with a 'health emergency' estimated to be killing 40 thousand people a year\".\n\nThe paper's environment editor, Damian Carrington, condemns the proposals as a \"smokescreen\" that hides the \"true villains\" - car manufacturers. He says they've \"dodged the emissions regulations that would have kept air pollution in check\".\n\nThe Daily Telegraph leads with the call for GPs to be urged to stop telling patients to complete their full course of antibiotics.\n\nInfectious disease experts welcome it, saying that the current guidance is based on a fear of under-treating, but actually increases the risk of bacterial resistance.\n\nThe story also features on the front page of the Guardian and Times.\n\nHowever, the Royal College of GPs expresses concern that advising patients to take the medication only until they feel better would lead to confusion.\n\nThe front page report in the i newspaper suggests the \"era of designer babies\" is a step closer, with scientists in the US succeeding in altering genes in IVF embryos.\n\nIt says new technology has been employed to \"correct\" the genes responsible for inherited disease and could, in theory, be used to enhance those that produce traits such as better eyesight or stronger muscles.\n\nThe Times reports the suspected rape of an autistic man by another resident at a private care home was not made public by the regulator, the Care Quality Commission.\n\nIt says the incident was left out of a report, produced after an inspection of the home in north London.\n\nThe Care Quality Commission defends its decision, explaining that it has to balance its desire to be \"open and transparent\" with the need to avoid \"compromising ongoing investigations\".\n\nThe chairman of ITV is said by the Daily Mirror to have insisted he will \"never discuss\" how much the channel's stars earn.\n\nThe paper says the intervention of Sir Peter Bazalgette comes as the presenter of Good Morning Britain, Piers Morgan, has been challenged by his BBC rival, Dan Walker, to reveal whether his salary is the same as that of his co-host, Susanna Reid.\n\nFinally, the Daily Mail examines one man who can boast impressive muscles - the world champion swimmer Adam Peaty.\n\nIt details the physical attributes that have propelled him from \"a lad who used to be afraid of water\" to a record-breaker.\n\nHis size 12 feet and his double-jointed knees, which help with power and flexibility; his body fat of a mere 6%; and his 46-inch chest, which allows him to lift 30% more than his bodyweight.", "It is time to reconsider the widespread advice that people should always complete an entire course of antibiotics, experts in the BMJ say.\n\nThey argue there is not enough evidence to back the idea that stopping pills early encourages antibiotic resistance.\n\nInstead, they suggest, more studies need to be done to see if stopping once feeling better can help cut antibiotic use.\n\nBut GPs urge people not to change their behaviour in the face of one study.\n\nProf Helen Stokes-Lampard, leader of the Royal College of General Practitioners, said an improvement in symptoms did not necessarily mean the infection had been completely eradicated.\n\n\"It's important that patients have clear messages, and the mantra to always take the full course of antibiotics is well known - changing this will simply confuse people.\"\n\nThe opinion piece, by a team of researchers from across England, argues that reducing the use of antibiotics is essential to help combat the growing problem of antibiotic resistance.\n\nProf Martin Llewelyn, from the Brighton and Sussex Medical School, together with colleagues, argues that using antibiotics for longer than necessary can increase the risk of resistance.\n\nHe suggests traditional long prescriptions for antibiotics were based on the outdated idea that resistance to an antibiotic could develop when a drug was not taken for a lengthy time and an infection was undertreated.\n\nInstead, he says, there is now growing evidence that short courses of antibiotics - lasting three to five days, for example - work just as well to treat many bugs.\n\nHe accepts there are a few exceptions - for example, giving just one type of antibiotic for TB infections - which is known to lead to rapid resistance.\n\nBut the team says it is important to move away from blanket prescriptions and, with more research, give antibiotic prescriptions that are tailored to each infection and each person.\n\nThe study acknowledges that hospitals are increasingly reviewing the need for antibiotics from day to day and that there is a growing trend towards shorter courses of drugs.\n\nBut it questions whether advice such as stopping once feeling better would be beneficial - particularly when patients do not get the opportunity to be reviewed in the hospital every day.\n\nThey accept this idea would need more research.\n\nProf Helen Stokes-Lampard, leader of the Royal College of General Practitioners, says while it is important to take new evidence into account, she \"cannot advocate widespread behaviour change on the results of just one study\".\n\nShe says recommended courses of antibiotics are \"not random\" but tailored to individual conditions and in many cases courses are quite short.\n\nAnd she says: \"We are concerned about the concept of patients stopping taking their medication mid-way through a course once they 'feel better', because improvement in symptoms does not necessarily mean the infection has been completely eradicated.\n\nMeanwhile, Kieran Hand, spokesman for the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, said: \"This opinion article from respected NHS infection experts is a welcome opening of the debate in the UK on the relationship between the length of a course of antibiotics, efficacy and resistance.\n\n\"As researchers have pointed out, further research is needed before the 'Finish the course' mantra for antibiotics is changed and any alternative message, such as, 'Stop when you feel better,' can be confidently advocated.\n\n\"The ideal future scenario would be that the right length of treatment for a specific infection for patients is identified from clinical trials and the exact quantity prescribed and dispensed.\"\n\nPublic Health England says patients should continue to follow their health professional's advice about using antibiotics.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The government's £3bn clean air strategy does not go \"far enough or fast enough\", campaigners have said.\n\nMoves including banning the sale of new diesel and petrol cars from 2040 and £255m for councils to tackle air pollution locally have been welcomed.\n\nTransport Secretary Chris Grayling said the government was determined to deliver a \"green revolution\".\n\nBut environmental groups criticised the decision not to include a scrappage scheme or immediate clean air zones.\n\nThe plan to stop all sales of petrol and diesel cars by 2040 is part of the government's intention for almost every car and van on UK roads to be zero emission by 2050.\n\nThe government report includes the promise of £40m immediately to start local schemes rolling, which could include changing road layouts, retrofitting public transport or schemes to encourage people to leave their cars at home.\n\nThe funding pot will come from changes to tax on diesel vehicles and the reprioritising departmental budgets - the exact details will be announced later in the year.\n\nIf those measures do not cut emissions enough, charging zones for the most polluting vehicles could be the next step.\n\nWhile air pollution has been mostly falling in the UK, in many cities, nitrogen oxides - which form part of the discharge from car exhausts - regularly breach safe levels.\n\nMr Grayling said the new plan showed the government was \"determined to deliver a green revolution in transport and reduce pollution in our towns and cities\".\n\nBut campaigners say these are the measures that need to be implemented now to tackle environmental and health problems, with air pollution linked to about 40,000 premature deaths a year in the UK.\n\nProfessor Neena Modi, president of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Hea lth, said air pollution \"is a public health emergency\" and said it was \"frankly inexcusable\" that the plans still did not go far enough.\n\nGreen Party MP Caroline Lucas welcomed the 2040 announcement, but added: \"We also need action that tackles this health emergency in the coming months and years.\n\n\"We should use this opportunity to revamp our towns and cities with investment in walking and cycling, and by ensuring that public transport is affordable and reliable.\"\n\nGreenpeace UK's clean air campaigner Areeba Hamid said 2040 was \"far too late\" and called for the UK to \"lead the world in clean transport revolution\".\n\nAnd ClientEarth - the law firm that took the government to court over pollution levels - said the plans were \"underwhelming\" and \"lacking in urgency\".\n\nThe shadow environment secretary, Labour's Sue Hayman, said the plan saw the government \"shunting the problem on to local authorities\" and accused it of having a \"squeamish attitude\" towards clean air zones.\n\n\"With nearly 40 million people living in areas with illegal levels of air pollution, action is needed now, not in 23 years' time,\" she added.\n\nLiberal Democrat and former Energy Secretary Ed Davey criticised the lack of scrappage scheme as a \"shameful betrayal\" of diesel car drivers, and said it showed \"the utter lack of ambition\" of the plan.\n\nAnd London Mayor Sadiq Khan said people in the capital were \"suffering right now\" because of air pollution and \"can't afford to wait\".\n\nThe AA also said significant investment would be needed to install charging points across the country for electric vehicles and warned the National Grid would come under pressure with a mass switch-on of recharging after the rush hour.\n\nThe government said a new bill would allow it to require the installation of charge points at motorway service areas and large fuel retailers.\n\nThe timetable for councils to come up with initial plans has been cut from 18 months to eight, with the Department for Environment, Farming and Rural Affairs (Defra) wanting to \"inject additional urgency\" into the process.\n\nIt follows the government being given its own deadline of 31 July after High Court judges said it was failing to meet EU pollution limits.\n\nLocal Government Association environment spokesman Martin Tett welcomed the additional funding, but opposed holding off on a scrappage scheme, arguing \"this immediate intervention could help increase the uptake of lower emission vehicles\".\n\nBBC environment analyst Roger Harrabin said councils were not happy to be taking the rap for the controversial policy when it was the government that had encouraged the sale of diesel vehicles in the first place.\n\n\"Today's government plan is not comprehensive - it doesn't address pollution from construction, farming and gas boilers,\" he added.\n\n\"And clean air campaigners say the government is using the 2040 electric cars announcement to distract from failings in its short-term pollution policy.\"\n\nThe UK announcement comes amid signs of an accelerating shift towards electric cars instead of petrol and diesel ones, at home and abroad:\n\nFord's chief financial officer Bob Shanks told the BBC that he supported the ban and believed that Europe would be \"ground zero\" in leading a global trend to electric vehicles.\n\n\"We certainly see that trajectory being quite feasible, and is something that we support,\" he added.", "An official test of the types of materials used at Grenfell Tower suggest that designs like that used in the tower's cladding are fundamentally flawed, Newsnight can reveal.\n\nA so-called \"fire test\" is intended to establish whether a design would withstand fire if installed perfectly.\n\nThe Grenfell cladding has been blamed for the fire's rapid spread.\n\nThe local government department stated they aimed to \"publish results as soon as possible\".\n\nThis test is the first full-scale test of the combination of insulation and cladding of the types used at Grenfell. The test involves setting a fire underneath a large-scale mock-up of the insulation system in a fire laboratory.\n\nPrevious tests have only sought to establish what types of materials have been installed on high-rises across England. This test is the first in a series that is intended to work out which combinations of materials can safely be installed together and which cannot.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Chris Cook: \"The test was an absolute failure\"\n\nThe test result makes it more likely that the choice of materials in use at Grenfell Tower, rather than poor installation of the cladding, was to blame for the fire's spread across the face of the building. People familiar with the results stated that it also supports the conclusion that the cladding was the critical component that spread the fire.\n\nThis test, conducted by the Building Research Establishment near Watford, will be followed by five others, each of which will use a different combination of insulation and exterior aluminium panelling. This first test used a so-called PIR plastic foam, a type of combustible insulation, and aluminium panels with a combustible polyethylene plastic core.\n\nThis is the most flammable of the six combinations of insulation and exterior cladding that will be tested. While other buildings with this combination have been identified, this specific combination of PIR foam and polyethylene-core cladding is not currently believed to be in widespread use.\n\nMost buildings that have been found to have suspect cladding will not be installed with this combination of materials.\n\nA spokesman for the Department for Communities and Local Government said: \"We've already issued practical advice so that landlords can make properties safe for residents, and our priority now is informing landlords of the latest results so that they can take any further actions that are necessary.\"\n\nThe test rig at the BRE before the alumnium cladding was installed, showing the interior design of the cladding. The silver foil covers the insulation. The vertical yellow stripes are firebreaks intended to stop the fire moving horizontally. The black stripes are firebreaks designed to stop vertical fire spread\n\nThis test result, however, raises major questions about why this combination of materials was actually signed off by building control officers.\n\nThe fire test conducted by the BRE is a standard test which is designed to establish whether a specific combination of materials, installed in a specified fashion, will be safe during a fire.\n\nIf developers wish to use combustible material on the exterior of tall buildings, it is supposed to be on the basis of data from such a test.\n\nNewsnight has, however, previously revealed how developers have installed combustible elements on tall buildings without having tested the components.\n\nThey can commission engineers to write reports arguing that the material is functionally similar to material that has already been tested.\n\nOr, in one case, Newsnight found building inspectors willing to sign off material of the same combustibility as at Grenfell without even that level of evidence.\n\nThe publication of this test makes it impossible for this design and combination of materials to be used in future without it passing a further test.\n\nFire test rig used at the BRE, with reporter for scale\n\nNewsnight has also previously revealed concerns about the adequacy of the testing regime - not least because test data is usually confidential and therefore difficult for fire safety officials to scrutinise.\n\nThe test is also conducted on a test bed which has been installed slowly by cladding engineers over several days.\n\nIn reality, material may be installed hastily, and may be damaged in installation or use in ways that reduce their fire safety.\n\nNewsnight has also revealed that the government has begun work on a review of building standards.\n\nThe decision reflects official alarm at the state of building safety in the wake of last month's Grenfell Tower fire, in which at least 80 people died.\n\nAs results of checks on tall buildings have come in, civil servants have expressed shock at how the official rulebooks have been interpreted.\n\nThey remain unclear whether the problem is the rules or their enforcement.", "The Conservative Party has been \"wrong\" on gay rights in the past - but can be proud of the role it has played in recent years, Theresa May has said.\n\nSpeaking to website Pinknews to mark 50 years since the partial decriminalisation of homosexuality in England and Wales, the PM said she and the party had both \"come a long way\".\n\nThe Sexual Offences Act was introduced on 27 July 1967.\n\nIt decriminalised homosexual acts in private between men aged 21 and over.\n\nMrs May said: \"I am proud of the role my party has played in recent years in advocating a Britain which seeks to end discrimination on the grounds of sexuality or gender identity, but I acknowledge where we have been wrong on these issues in the past.\"\n\nAs an MP in 1998, Mrs May voted against reducing the age of consent for homosexual acts from 18 to 16 and four years later opposed allowing gay couples to adopt.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Comedian and radio presenter Peter Price: I was sent for 'gay cure'\n\nMrs May was also absent for several votes affecting LGBT rights - but in 2004 backed civil partnerships, and as a member of the coalition government supported a succession of measures including same sex-marriages.\n\nIn a separate article, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn told Pinknews that the anniversary was a time to \"recognise the great strides towards equality that have been made\".\n\nHe said: \"I am proud of the role the Labour Party played in these advances... but this progress is not down to MPs in Parliament... these achievements belong first and foremost to the LGBT community who have persevered against prejudice for many years.\"\n\nRoger Lockyer, who began a gay relationship the year before the law changed, said the reforms offered \"a very limited concession\" but did improve gay men's lives.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 5Live: \"Initially many of us thought it won't make any difference, but it made an enormous difference.\n\n\"It made one feel one was walking tall and that the big barriers that had been there forever were gradually beginning to dissolve.\"\n\nHuman rights campaigner Peter Tatchell said the 1967 legislation was \"progress\" but the remaining laws, such as gross indecency, were \"policed more aggressively than before\".\n\nHe said: \"Don't be misled by the celebrations on 27 July... The law continued to discriminate homosexual men post-1967.\"\n\nThe government announced in September 2016 that gay and bisexual men convicted of now-abolished sexual offences in England and Wales would receive posthumous pardons.\n\nIt followed the pardoning of World War Two code-breaker Alan Turing for gross indecency in 2013.\n\nThe amendment, dubbed the \"Turing law\", led to about 49,000 men being cleared of crimes of which they would be innocent today.\n\nPartners Somchai Phukkhlai and George Montague set up a petition for a government apology\n\nThousands more living men who convicted over consensual same-sex relationships are also eligible for the pardon.\n\nBut some campaigners want an apology from the government, not a pardon.\n\nGeorge Montague, convicted in 1974 of gross indecency, said: \"I want an apology to the whole of the gay community for the persecution of us, for so many years.\n\n\"The police went out of their way to catch us and persecute and prosecute us.\n\n\"What I say is I didn't ask to be gay, I didn't choose to be gay, I was born that way. The law of gross indecency should never have been brought in.\"\n\nOn 27 July 1967, the Sexual Offences Act was passed.\n\nIt was the first significant liberalisation of gay law in English history. Female homosexuality had never been a criminal offence.\n\nThe legislation stated that \"a homosexual act in private shall not be an offence provided that the parties consent thereto and have attained the age of 21 years\".\n\nIt has been called the decriminalisation of homosexuality, although many more changes have been made since to improve gay men's rights.\n\nScotland passed similar reforms in 1980, with Northern Ireland the last country in the United Kingdom to do so in 1982.", "The Pentagon spends tens of billions of dollars on healthcare for active and retired service personnel\n\nAmid the fall-out from US President Donald Trump's announcement on Twitter that transgender people will not be able to serve in the US military, one statistic has been frequently raised to draw attention to the comparatively small estimated costs of transgender healthcare.\n\nIt refers to the amount the Pentagon spends on erectile dysfunction medication annually: about $84m (£63m), according to the Military Times newspaper.\n\nIn contrast, the Rand Corporation think tank estimated last year that gender transition-related health care costs for transgender personnel would increase the military's active duty health budget by $8.4m per year at the most.\n\nBut why does the US defence department spend so much on erectile dysfunction drugs?\n\nFirst, it is worth pointing out that the Military Times' February 2015 report based its figure on 2014 data from the Defense Health Agency.\n\nThe spend of $84.2m was for that year, but the newspaper also reported that $294m had been spent on Viagra, Cialis and other such medications since 2011.\n\nIt pointed out that this cost the equivalent of more than a few fighter jets.\n\nIn 2014, some 1.18 million prescriptions were filled, mostly for Viagra. But who were they for? The answer goes some way in explaining the massive spend.\n\nIt is true that some of the erectile dysfunction medication went to active-duty personnel.\n\nBut the vast majority went to other groups eligible, including millions of military retirees and their family members. In fact, around 10 million people in total are estimated to be covered by the Pentagon's healthcare system, which cost $52bn in 2012.\n\nIt is well known that erectile dysfunction is more common among older men - which would explain a hefty bill for retired service members.\n\nIn fact, less than 10% of the prescriptions were for active duty personnel, according to the Military Times.\n\nStill, erectile dysfunction among those currently serving in the US military has been increasing since the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan began.\n\nA 2014 study by the Armed Forces Health Surveillance Branch (AFHSB) found that 100,248 cases of erectile dysfunction were diagnosed among active service members between 2004 and 2013, with \"annual incidence rates\" more than doubling in that time period.\n\nNearly half of all the cases were due to psychological causes, according to the study.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Riley Dosh explains why she wants to defend her country\n\nA study published in the Journal of Sexual Medicine in 2015 found that male veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) were \"significantly more likely than their civilian counterparts to report erectile dysfunction or other sexual problems\", according to the US Department of Veterans Affairs.\n\nOne study cited found that 85% of male combat veterans with PTSD report erectile dysfunction, nearly four times the rate among those returning from combat who are not diagnosed with a mental health disorder.\n\nIn 2008, the Rand Corporation reported that one in five US veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were suffering from PTSD or major depression.\n\nHowever, a key statistic buried in the AFHSB study of active duty personnel between 2004 and 2013 suggests one should be cautious of reading too much into the links between America's recent wars, PTSD and erectile dysfunction in relation to the military's massive spend on Viagra.\n\nPersonnel who had never been deployed were actually more likely to suffer from erectile dysfunction than their counterparts who had been.\n\nFinally, erectile dysfunction is linked to common conditions, including heart disease, high blood pressure, and diabetes.\n\nIn 2007, it was estimated that the prevalence of erectile dysfunction among US men was 18%.\n\nIn summary: it is a common condition, and the US military pays for the healthcare of millions of men, meaning it spends a lot on Viagra and other such drugs.", "Terminally-ill Charlie Gard will be moved to a hospice and have his life support withdrawn soon after, a High Court judge has decided.\n\nGreat Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) said it was not in his best interests to spend a long time in a hospice.\n\nHis parents had wanted a private team to care for Charlie so they could have more time with him. \"GOSH have denied us our final wish,\" his mother said.\n\nThe judge approved a plan that will see Charlie die shortly after being moved.\n\nMr Justice Francis added that no details about when he would be moved and where could be made public.\n\nIn a statement, the hospital said it deeply regretted \"that profound and heartfelt differences\" between Charlie's doctors and parents have \"had to be played out in court over such a protracted period\".\n\nCharlie has been in intensive care since October\n\nParents, Connie Yates and Chris Gard, and GOSH had until 12:00 BST to agree Charlie's end-of-life care. However, an agreement was not reached by the noon deadline.\n\nThe parents' lawyer, Grant Armstrong said they wanted to spend days with Charlie at a hospice before his death.\n\nBut hospital bosses said they could not agree to the arrangement as his parents had not found a paediatric intensive care specialist.\n\nCommenting on the decision, Connie said: \"We just want some peace with our son, no hospital, no lawyers, no courts, no media, just quality time with Charlie away from everything, to say goodbye to him in the most loving way.\n\n\"Most people won't ever have to go through what we have been through, we've had no control over our son's life and no control over our son's death.\n\n\"Despite us and our legal team working tirelessly to arrange this near impossible task, the judge has ordered against what we arranged and has agreed to what GOSH asked.\n\n\"This subsequently gives us very little time with our son.\"\n\nConnie Yates was in court on Wednesday to hear the decision about where her son will spend his final days\n\nThe hospital said there was \"simply no way that Charlie... can spend any significant time outside of an intensive care environment safely\".\n\nIt added: \"We will arrange for Charlie to be transferred to a specialist children's hospice... who will do all they can to make these last moments as comfortable and peaceful for Charlie and his loved ones.\"\n\nGOSH said that \"while we always respect parents' views, we will never do anything that could cause our patients unnecessary and prolonged suffering\".\n\nThe High Court order says Charlie will continue to be treated in hospital for a \"period of time\" before being moved to the hospice, which cannot be named for legal reasons.\n\nIt says doctors can then withdraw \"artificial ventilation\" after a period of time.\n\nEveryone involved has agreed that the \"arrangements\" will \"inevitably result in Charlie's death within a short period thereafter\", the order adds.\n\nThe High Court order says Charlie will be treated in hospital for a \"period\" of time before being moved to the hospice", "The council has temporarily suspended the club's licence\n\nA lap dancing club allegedly drugged customers and charged thousands of pounds of unauthorised transactions to their credit cards, a report claims.\n\nThe report, which was compiled by Birmingham City Council's licensing team, contains police allegations that up to £93,042 was taken from customers of Legs 11 on Broad Street.\n\nThe council has suspended the club's alcohol licence, pending a full review.\n\nLegs 11 has not responded to a request for a comment.\n\nIn the council report Supt Andy Parsons said two men had claimed they were drugged, with one testing positive for methadone with a home testing kit.\n\nThe force is also investigating claims large amounts of money was taken from people's bank accounts without their knowledge.\n\nSome customers had paid for dances \"in a private area\" but additional transactions were taking place that they had not authorised, he said.\n\nOne victim claimed he had lost as much as £19,417.\n\n\"In this year alone, four fraud offences have been reported totalling £23,965 with two of the victims reporting they had been drugged,\" he said.\n\n\"One of the victims went as far as getting a home drug test kit which indicated he was under the influence of methadone. This victim had £9,000 taken from his credit card.\"\n\nThe club was being investigated over 17 fraud-related allegations since 2013, West Midlands Police said.\n\nSupt Parsons added \"intelligence checks\" suggested the club was linked to \"organised crime groups from Albania\".\n\n\"These premises are involved in serious criminality and serious offences are being committed at the premises,\" he said.\n\nThe report also contained details of an undercover trading standards investigation, during which officers were offered sexual services in a locked room for a fee of £1,000 and were \"rubbed\" by naked dancers, contravening the club's licence.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Bieber remained at the scene and co-operated with officers, according to police\n\nJustin Bieber has been involved in a car collision in Beverley Hills, police have confirmed to the BBC.\n\nVideo footage showed the singer striking a photographer with his car after he left a service at The City Church in Los Angeles on Wednesday.\n\nThe Beverly Hills Police Department said the vehicle had been travelling at an \"extremely slow speed\" when the collision took place.\n\nThe BBC has contacted the 23-year-old's team for comment.\n\n\"At 21:24 local time [05:24 BST] we received a radio call about a vehicle-pedestrian collision on Hamilton Drive,\" Sergeant Matthew Stout of the Beverly Hills Police Department told the BBC.\n\n\"We arrived on scene and found a 57-year-old pedestrian on the ground. He was transferred to local hospital with non life-threatening injuries.\n\n\"Justin Bieber remained on scene, co-operated with officers and was released.\"\n\nBieber was seen standing over and speaking to the injured man, who was reportedly a photographer, after the incident.\n\nSergeant Stout confirmed Bieber \"got out of the car and attempted to render aid\" after the collision.\n\nThe pop star cancelled his remaining world tour dates earlier this week\n\nThe pop star was heard asking paparazzi to give the pedestrian some space and offering to help him immediately after the incident.\n\nBieber was seen kneeling down on the ground and asking the man: \"Is there anything we can do to help you?\"\n\nThe singer has been hitting the headlines in the last week after being banned from China due to \"bad behaviour\".\n\nHe has also cancelled his remaining world tour dates, citing \"unforeseen circumstances\".\n\nThe move affects 14 dates in Asia and North America which were coming up over the next three months.\n\nHis Purpose world tour included a date at London's Hyde Park and attracted attention when his rather demanding tour rider leaked online.\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.", "Facebook revenues and profits soared in the most recent quarter, as advertising dollars poured into the social media company and users continued to flock to the site.\n\nMore than two billion people - more than a quarter of the world's population - log into the site every month, a powerful draw for advertisers.\n\nThe firm said revenues hit $9.3bn (£7.09bn) over the April to June period, jumping 45% year-on-year.\n\n\"We had a good second quarter and first half of the year,\" said chief executive Mark Zuckerberg, who founded Facebook in 2004.\n\nFacebook has been adding more advertising as well as more consumers, as it explores how to monetise its other social networking platforms, Instagram and WhatsApp.\n\nThe company said that Instagram was making an increasing contribution to growth, but that the news feed at the heart of Facebook remained the biggest driver.\n\nIt was still early days for advertising on Facebook's messenger service, said Mr Zuckerberg, but he told an investor call he was \"confident we're going to get this right in the long term\".\n\nChief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg said brands were experimenting with different advertising formats within Facebook's platforms, for example Tropicana had found that six-second ads gave better results than longer versions, she said.\n\nFacebook faces competition from Snapchat, a platform particularly popular amongst young social media users, which pioneered the idea of \"stories\", a series of messages aimed at a wider audience that lasts for 24 hours.\n\nInstagram and WhatsApp are now offering similar features.\n\nFacebook shares, which have risen steadily this year, bounced 3.6% in after-hours trade.\n\nThe company said mobile ads represented 87% of its advertising revenue of $9.16bn, up from 84% a year ago.\n\nThe firm now employs more than 20,600 people, up 43% year-on-year.\n\nThe firm said the number of monthly active users at the end of June - 2.01 billion - was 17% higher than a year ago and two thirds of those logged onto the site daily.", "The deconstruction of the tower is expected to begin towards the end of 2018\n\nGrenfell Tower will be covered in a protective wrap to help with forensic investigations, the site manager says.\n\nMichael Lockwood told a public meeting on Wednesday that the charred building, in North Kensington in London, would be covered in August.\n\nHe said that he expected the demolition of the tower block, where at least 80 people died in the fire on 14 June, would begin \"towards the end of 2018\".\n\nHe added that some possessions could be retrieved from 33 of the block's flats.\n\nSpeaking at the Notting Hill Methodist Church, Mr Lockwood said the recovery operation tower block could last until November this year.\n\nThe criminal investigation into the building - which requires material to be collected - could go on until January.\n\nThe covering of the 24-storey tower block will use scaffolding, which Mr Lockwood said would aid workers in demolishing the building.\n\nWorkers continue to comb through tonnes of debris from the site for remains and evidence\n\nHe said: \"I think that to be honest, the building will stay up throughout 2018.\n\n\"Then towards the end of 2018, I think we could start to bring it down, if that is what the community wants, and the scaffolding will help us to do that because we can do that within the wrap.\"\n\nAny decision on what happens to the site after its deconstruction would be made with input from the community, he added.\n\nSome flats in the building remain \"completely untouched and in perfect condition\" he said, while others are devastated.\n\nThere are some 33 flats in the block from which some possessions could be retrieved and returned to residents \"in the next week or so\", he added.\n\nMembers of various churches attended the memorial service\n\nA memorial service for five of the residents who perished in the fire was held at St Helen's Church in North Kensington.\n\nThe service, attended by the Archbishop of York, remembered artist Khadiya Saye and her mother Mary Mendy, Berktki Haftom and her 12-year-old son Beruk, and a five-year-old boy called Isaac.\n\nMeanwhile, experts who recovered remains after the 9/11 attack in New York are helping police investigators comb through debris from the fire.\n\nMetropolitan Police Deputy Commissioner Craig Mackey said last week that 200 officers would be sifting through 15 tonnes of debris \"until Christmas time\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Bethany Shipsey's mother is critical of the hospital care the 21-year-old received\n\nA young woman who had taken slimming drug DNP died after an \"overwhelmed\" hospital department failed to spot the \"potentially fatal overdose\".\n\nBethany Shipsey, 21, was being treated at Worcestershire Royal Hospital when there were delays recognising her condition, a report has found.\n\nHer father, Doug Shipsey, said he had warned a nurse how serious the diet pill was.\n\nThe NHS Trust said it would not comment until after Miss Shipsey's inquest.\n\nA five-day hearing is due to take place from 8 January.\n\nMiss Shipsey had a history of mental health issues and had taken overdoses previously, her family said. A man has been convicted of raping her.\n\nOn 13 February, while a patient in the hospital's Elgar mental health unit, she was found with DNP, which was confiscated.\n\nTwo days later while visiting her family at home, she told a friend on social media she had taken the drug, which her parents believe she had in supply after buying it online.\n\nMiss Shipsey's family believes the overdose was a cry for help and not a genuine attempt to kill herself\n\nAn ambulance was called and Miss Shipsey told paramedics she had taken 30 tablets, though her family said she was prone to exaggeration.\n\nHer father said he warned nurses about the DNP and after a delay, his daughter was put in the resuscitation room.\n\nHowever, she was later moved because other patients were considered more seriously ill, he added.\n\nWorcestershire Royal Hospital is part of a trust which has been in special measures since 2015\n\nHer mother, Carole Shipsey, who is a nurse, said she could not believe the lack of care she had witnessed.\n\nShe told staff her daughter was having a respiratory arrest. A tracheotomy was performed to try to get her breathing, but it was too late, she said.\n\nMr Shipsey believes the overdose was a cry for help and not a genuine attempt to kill herself.\n\nA forensic toxicology report recorded a level of 8 milligrams of DNP per litre. Deaths have been recorded at 28-99 mg/litre.\n\nDoug Shipsey said he had warned staff how serious DNP could be\n\nWorcestershire Acute Trust carried out an internal report into Miss Shipsey's death, which it shared with her family and has been seen by the BBC.\n\nIt said \"an overwhelmed department led to a delay in recognition of a potentially fatal overdose and delayed implementation of cooling measures\" - a treatment used in DNP overdoses.\n\nIn its internal report, the trust said it believed Miss Shipsey's death was inevitable.\n\nAnother report, a so-called root cause analysis, concluded there had been a \"system failure\".\n\nCarole Shipsey said she told a nurse her daughter was in respiratory arrest\n\nMiss Shipsey died just weeks after the Care Quality Commission issued the trust, which has been in special measures since 2015, with a warning notice ordering it to make significant improvements.\n\nConcerns raised related to all three main hospital sites - Worcester Royal, Kidderminster and the Alexandra Hospital in Redditch - and focused on patient safety, compliance and governance.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Trade talks, tense affairs at the best of times, often get particularly sticky when it comes to food.\n\nWhen the UK starts to negotiate new trade deals as it leaves the EU in 2019, food will be one of many areas that will need to be addressed.\n\nThe ongoing spat over chlorine chicken highlights how tastes and safety practices around the world can differ hugely.\n\nWhat might seem normal practice in one country can seem problematic elsewhere.\n\nIn the US, it is legal to wash chicken carcasses in chlorinated water to kill germs - but this has been banned in the EU since 1997.\n\nUK Environment Secretary Michael Gove has said the UK should not allow these imports in a post-Brexit trade deal with the US, but Trade Secretary Liam Fox says the practice is \"perfectly safe\".\n\nAnthony Scaramucci, US president Donald Trump's new communications director, told BBC Newsnight that there would \"100%\" be a trade deal between his country and the UK - although he confessed he had no idea what was happening about chlorinated chicken.\n\nHere are five occasions when spats over food have made past trade talks tricky.\n\nThe US wouldn't import Mexican avocados for many years\n\nFor more than 80 years, the US refused to import Mexican avocados on the grounds that the fruit was infested with fruit flies and other bugs.\n\nAfter the signing of the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta) in 1994, the US came under pressure to relax its ban, rather than rely on its pricier home-grown avocados.\n\n\"Avocados are always used as a pawn in the trading process. Whenever the United States talks to Mexico about opening up other agricultural commodities to US growers... it always comes back to avocados,\" Jerome Steyhle, who chairs the California Avocado Growers Commission, told the BBC in 2003.\n\nIn 1997, the restrictions started to be lifted, and by 2016 the US was importing 1.7 billion avocados across the border each year, according to marketing group Avocados from Mexico.\n\nBut the avocado war could be reignited now that President Trump has threatened to renegotiate Nafta - which he described as \"the single worst trade deal ever approved [by the United States]\".\n\nEarlier this year, there were reports of several Mexican avocado lorries being turned away at the border following an argument about US potato imports.\n\nSome cattle in the US are fed growth hormones\n\nOne of the best known food-related trade disputes was over hormone-fed beef.\n\nThe use of certain growth hormones in cattle rearing is legal in the US.\n\nBut in 1988, the EU banned the use of several major growth promotion hormones, which it said posed a potential risk to human health. This was an effective ban on American beef.\n\nA decade later, the World Trade Organization (WTO) ruled the EU's refusal to import US beef was not based on scientific evidence and violated its members' obligations.\n\nHowever, the trading bloc still wouldn't buy the meat, leading the US to retaliate by levying higher trade tariffs on some of its EU imports.\n\n\"American ranchers raise some of the best beef on the planet, but restrictive European Union policies continue to deny EU consumers access to US beef at affordable prices. For several years we have been asking the EU to fix an agreement that is clearly broken, despite its original promise to provide a favourable market for US beef,\" US Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said last year.\n\nIndian Prime Minister Narendra Modi wanted assurances that the country would still be able to stockpile food\n\nSeveral years ago, India blocked the implementation of a 2013 global trade agreement it feared would stop it stockpiling food for the poor.\n\nIndia refused to back the Trade Facilitation Agreement until it was assured proposed limits to farming subsidies would not affect its $12bn (£9.2bn) food-security programme.\n\nIt pays farmers over the odds for grain, some of which it sells to poorer households while the rest is set aside in case of shortages.\n\nThe WTO trade agreement simplified customs procedures and was designed to add $1tn to the global economy, and benefit developing countries in particular, so India's defiance was strongly criticised by the global community.\n\nIndia agreed to lift the veto after WTO members agreed that an arrangement known as a \"peace clause\" - which protects food stockpiling - would remain valid until the WTO could find a permanent solution.\n\nIt was due to expire in 2017, but will now effectively continue indefinitely.\n\nEU negotiators wanted to sell more dairy products to the Japanese, who in turn wanted to sell more cars\n\nNegotiations on a big trade deal between Japan and the EU began in 2013.\n\nBoth sides wanted to slash tariffs on a huge range of goods, to boost trade.\n\nThis is a sensitive process because domestic producers tend to be wary of foreign competition.\n\nThe Japanese side was particularly keen to boost car sales in Europe, while the EU negotiators wanted to sell more dairy products.\n\nLoosening the dairy rules wasn't such a big deal for hard cheeses such as cheddar and gouda, which are not made in Japan.\n\nBut Japanese dairy farmers do make softer cheeses, which proved a roadblock in the final stages of the talks, earlier this year.\n\nAfter some late night haggling, the EU's Agriculture Commissioner, Phil Hogan, secured a compromise.\n\nThe EU would have a yearly quota of 31,000 tonnes for soft cheese exports, in exchange for almost complete market access for hard cheese.\n\nA few days later in Brussels, EU leaders and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced the completion of the deal, dubbed \"cars for cheese\".\n\nSome Belgian dairy farmers were worried about the impact of free trade\n\nAfter years of negotiations, the EU completed its most ambitious free-trade deal to date: the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (Ceta) with Canada.\n\nBut under EU rules, some far-reaching trade agreements require the consent of all 28 EU countries before they can come into force.\n\nTo make things even more complicated, in Belgium seven federal, regional and community bodies had to give their approval as well.\n\nWallonia, the country's French-speaking region, said no.\n\nPoliticians in the staunchly socialist region had concerns about the dispute-settlement mechanism in the agreement, along with something else - milk.\n\nWallonian dairy farmers worried about the impact of free trade on their sales.\n\nA group of them marched outside the European Commission in Brussels to voice their disapproval of Ceta.\n\nEventually, Belgian political leaders reached a consensus and broke the deadlock, agreeing an addendum to the Canadian deal, which addressed concerns over the rights of farmers and governments.\n\nThe European Parliament approved Ceta in February, although it has not come into force yet.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Lloyds Banking Group has set aside another £1bn to cover the cost of insurance mis-selling and the treatment of mortgage customers.\n\nOf that, £700m will cover payment protection insurance (PPI) claims and £283m will be used to repay about 590,000 mortgage holders.\n\nThe bank had already put away an extra £350m this year to cover PPI costs.\n\nIt came as Lloyds posted half-year pre-tax profits of £2.5bn, 4% higher than last year.\n\nThe results are the first since the government sold its stake in the bank.\n\nThe repayment to mortgage customers comes after they were charged from 2009 to 2016 for going into arrears.\n\nThe Financial Conduct Authority had been investigating the issue, concluding that the charges should not have been applied as the bank did not always do enough to understand customers' circumstances and check that their arrears payment plans were affordable and sustainable.\n\nThe FCA says Lloyds will refund all fees charged for arrears management and broken payment arrangements, and it will also pay any litigation fees that were applied unfairly to customers who were involved in related legal action.\n\nOn top of that, it will also offer payments for potential distress and inconvenience.\n\nThe bank will itself approach customers to prompt them to make a claim.\n\nLloyds became the UK's biggest force in personal banking as a result of its absorption of HBOS - the former Halifax and Bank of Scotland - at the height of the financial crisis and was bailed out by the government at a cost of about £20bn.\n\nLloyds is also having to compensate some of its small business customers, who suffered as a result of widespread fraud at its former HBOS branch in Reading.\n\nVictims saw their businesses taken over by so-called specialists recommended by the branch between the years 2003-07.\n\nThese \"specialists\" destroyed a number of the businesses, squandering the money they made on prostitutes and luxury holidays.\n\nLloyds is in the process of paying compensation to the victims of the fraud, for which it set aside £100m in the first quarter.\n\nIt is also currently undertaking a review of what happened.\n\nIt is the PPI mis-selling scandal, though, that dwarfs all others.\n\nLloyds has now increased provisions for claims some 17 times. Its chief financial officer, George Culmer, said it was \"disappointing\" to be having to do it again.\n\nHe also offered no guarantee that there would be no further increases in provisions, although he did say the number \"looked appropriate in terms of covering us between now and August 2019\".\n\nLloyds alone has now set aside £18bn. In total, UK lenders have been forced to set aside more than £30bn to cover PPI compensation costs.\n\nPPI became controversial after it was revealed that many customers had been sold it without understanding that the cost was being added to their loan repayments.\n\nThe bank's chief executive, Antonio Horta-Osario, said of the various pots of money set aside for customer redress: \"We have a commitment as a management team of putting these legacy charges behind us as soon as possible.\"\n\nHe admitted, though, that there would \"always be redress costs\" when running a banking business.\n\nLaith Khalaf, senior analyst at stockbrokers Hargreaves Lansdown, said that despite the size of the provisions for the various types of misconduct, Lloyds' performance was satisfactory.\n\n\"It's a sign of Lloyds' strength that it can shrug off £1.6bn of misconduct charges to post a strong rise in profits,\" he said.\n\n\"Overall, this is a strong set of numbers from Lloyds, blighted, but not overshadowed, by misconduct costs. The government has exited the bank and is now no longer selling stock in the market, which removes a significant downward pressure on the share price.\"\n\nThe government had been steadily offloading its Lloyds stake, resulting in about £21bn being returned to the taxpayer.\n\nThe government still owns 73% of Royal Bank of Scotland, which was rescued with £45.5bn of taxpayers' cash during the crisis in the world's biggest bank bailout.", "Foxconn said it will invest $10bn over the next four years to build a new manufacturing facility in Wisconsin\n\nTaiwanese manufacturing giant Foxconn announced plans to invest $10bn (£7.6bn) in a new factory in the US.\n\nThe plant, to be located in Wisconsin, is expected to make LCD panels and employ 3,000 people initially.\n\nPresident Donald Trump, claimed credit for Foxconn's \"incredible investment\" which he said would not have happened if he had not been elected.\n\nFoxconn has been promised $3bn in subsidies which would come from the state of Wisconsin.\n\nThe firm's chief executive, Terry Gou, made the announcement at the White House in Washington on Wednesday.\n\nHowever he did not give details of when construction would begin or identify where the site would be precisely.\n\nPresident Trump, who met Mr Gou to discuss the subject and suggested Wisconsin as a location, took credit for the investment during a press conference.\n\n\"To make such an incredible investment, Chairman Gou put his faith and confidence in the future of the American economy,\" the President said.\n\n\"In other words, if I didn't get elected, he definitely would not be spending $10 billion.\"\n\nDuring the election campaign Donald Trump focused much of his rhetoric on reviving the US manufacturing sector and \"making America great again\".\n\nFoxconn is part of Hon Hai Precision Industry, one of the largest electronics manufacturers in the world, with about 1 million employees globally and revenue of more than $100 billion in 2016. The firm has invested heavily in automating its production and works with a variety of companies, including Apple, Tesla and BMW.\n\nFoxconn said it employs about 3,000 people in the US currently, including at sites in Indiana and Virginia. But a big investment announced in Pennsylvania has not materialised.\n\nThe Wisconsin facility, which Foxconn said could be the first of many investments, marks its biggest expansion into the US yet.\n\nBut some observers questioned the business rationale.\n\n\"This is clearly a response by Foxconn to pressure from the administration,\" said Willy Shih, a professor at the Harvard Business School.\n\nMr Shih said even with the subsidies, the firm faces a challenge since additional supply will keep pressure on prices and many of the other parts required for the screens and factory aren't made in the US.\n\n\"Can they make it work? I'm sure they can... The question is, what do the economics looks like? How much money are they willing to lose getting there?\"\n\nAt the press conference Mr Gou said his goal is to jumpstart a new manufacturing ecosystem in the US. The liquid crystal display panels could be used for televisions, self-driving cars and other products.\n\nFoxconn earlier this year said it was exploring possible locations for an investment, sparking fierce competition among different states to win the facility.\n\nWisconsin Governor Scott Walker said his state is preparing a package worth $3bn to secure Foxconn's commitment. Further details were not immediately available, but the scale of the incentives has raised eyebrows locally.\n\nGovernor Walker said the promise of the campus, which could one day employ as many as 13,000 people and cover 20 million square feet, was worth it.\n\n\"This is exciting and transformational,\" he said.\n\nThe plant is planned for south eastern Wisconsin, a part of the state not far from Chicago and Milwaukee.\n\nThe state, which has historically leaned Democratic, is politically important for President Trump. He won the state by less than 25,000 votes in the 2016 election.\n\nRepublican Paul Ryan, who leads his party in the House of Representatives, represents the area. Other members of the White House also have ties.\n\nThe state has seen the number of manufacturing jobs shrink by almost a quarter since 2000, but its economy has remained strong. Wisconsin's unemployment rate is estimated at 3.1%, lower than the US average.\n\n\"All of those locations are bouncing back and having Foxconn in the midst of that … is really going to be helpful,\" said Tom Still, president of the Wisconsin Technology Council. \"This helps round out the story.\"", "Ahmad weighs half what he should at 10 months old - acute malnutrition rates in Yemen have soared since the war\n\nAmid UN warnings of the dire humanitarian situation in Yemen, the BBC's Orla Guerin has overcome attempts by Saudi Arabia to block her team from entering the country and has seen for herself the depth of the suffering.\n\nYemen's health, water and sanitation systems are collapsing after two years of war between government forces - backed by a Saudi-led coalition carrying out air strikes - and the rebel Houthi movement.\n\nThe conflict and a blockade imposed by the coalition have triggered a humanitarian disaster, leaving 70% of the population in need of aid.\n\nOrla has been tweeting about what she saw.\n\nWe reached the Southern port of Aden after 13 hours at sea. Saudis grounded the UN plane due to fly us in\n\nThe Saudis prevented us from flying into Yemen though we all had visas from the internationally recognised government\n\nIn a hospital in Aden, Orla saw staff battle to save the life of an elderly cholera victim - Abdullah Mohammed Salem - who was brought into the building without a pulse.\n\nCholera is an acute diarrhoeal infection caused by ingestion of food or water contaminated with the bacterium Vibrio cholera.\n\nMost of those infected will have no or mild symptoms but, in severe cases, the disease can kill within hours if left untreated.\n\nAbdullah Mohammed Salem was brought to hospital with no pulse but revived before our eyes. Most cholera victims recover quickly - if treated\n\nHis life was saved in minutes\n\nHundreds of thousands of Yemenis have contracted cholera in recent months, making it the worst outbreak in history.\n\nHospitals are overcrowded and severe food shortages have led to widespread malnutrition, making people - especially children - even more vulnerable to the infection.\n\nMalak, whose name means angel, is too weak to hold her head up straight so her mother does it for her\n\nThirteen-year-old Hassan got prompt attention in Aden but one person is dying every hour from this treatable disease\n\nSome 60% of Yemenis do not know where their next meal will come from and the World Food Programme is warning of the danger of famine.\n\nDoctors told the BBC that Yemen was in danger of losing its future, with 500,000 children now severely malnourished.\n\nIf you remember nothing of Yemen remember Hussein Mazen Hussein - malnourished and fighting for every breath\n\nIn two years of war, houses, hospitals and schools have been destroyed by Saudi airstrikes and more than 3,000 civilians have been killed.\n\nSome people are living in the rubble of what were once their homes.\n\nYet despite the destruction, no side appears close to a decisive military victory.\n\nThe Awal family in the wreckage of their home - hit by two Saudi air strikes. Some of them still live in the ruins\n\nCivilians are under fire from both sides in Yemen. Imad, 10, used to love football but lost both legs to Houthi shelling\n\nPro-government forces - made up of soldiers loyal to internationally-recognised President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi and predominantly Sunni southern tribesmen and separatists - stopped the rebels taking Aden.\n\nMr Hadi and his government have returned from exile and established a temporary home there. But they have been unable to dislodge the rebels from their northern strongholds, including the capital Sanaa.\n\nThe sides have drifted into stalemate - but the human suffering continues unabated.\n\nAfter two years of war a military stalemate - Yemen’s president still not restored to the capital by Saudi allies", "As India and Pakistan celebrate 70 years of independence, Andrew Whitehead looks at the lasting legacy of the Partition of British India, and the turmoil and trauma which marred the birth of the two nations.\n\nIt's about 700km (430 miles) from Delhi to Islamabad - less than the distance between London and Geneva. A short hop in aviation terms.\n\nBut you can't fly non-stop from the Indian capital to the Pakistani capital. There are no direct flights at all. It is only one of the legacies of seven decades of mutual suspicion and tension.\n\nTake another example: cricket.\n\nIndia and Pakistan played each other a few weeks ago in the final of the Champions' Trophy. Both countries are cricket crazy.\n\nHowever, the game was played not in South Asia, but in London. India and Pakistan don't play cricket in each other's countries any more, although they have met in one-day matches around the world, including in countries in their region like Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.\n\nIt's almost 10 years since India and Pakistan played a Test match on South Asian soil\n\nBut it is almost 10 years since they faced each other on South Asian soil in a Test match. Despite a lot of shared culture and history, they are not simply rivals, but more like enemies.\n\nIn the 70 years since India and Pakistan gained independence, they have fought three wars. Some would say four, although when their armies last fought in 1999, there was no formal declaration of war.\n\nThe simmering tension between India and Pakistan is one of the world's most enduring geopolitical fault lines. It has prompted both countries to develop their own nuclear weapons.\n\nSo the uneasy stand-off is much more than a regional dispute: it is fraught with wider danger.\n\nIndian nationalist leader Jawaharlal Nehru (l), Viceroy of India Lord Louis Mountbatten (c) and the president of the All-India Muslim League Muhammad Ali Jinnah (r) discuss Partition in 1947\n\nIndia and Pakistan gained their independence at the same moment. British rule over India, by far its biggest colony, ended on 15 August 1947.\n\nAfter months of political deadlock, Britain agreed to divide the country in two.\n\nA separate and mainly Muslim nation, Pakistan, was created to meet concerns that the large Muslim minority would be at a disadvantage in Hindu-majority India.\n\nThis involved partitioning two of India's biggest provinces, Punjab and Bengal. The details of where the new international boundary would lie were made public only two days after independence.\n\nPartition triggered one of the great calamities of the modern era, perhaps the biggest movement of people - outside war and famine - that the world has ever seen.\n\nNo one knows the precise numbers, but about 12 million people became refugees as they sought desperately to move from one newly independent nation to another.\n\nMuslim women board a train in Delhi to travel to Pakistan on 7 August 1947\n\nAmid a terrible slaughter in which all main communities were both aggressors and victims, somewhere between half a million and a million people were killed.\n\nTens of thousands of women were abducted, usually by men of a different religion.\n\nIn Punjab in particular, where Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs had lived together for generations and spoke the same language, a stark segregation was brought about as Muslims headed west to Pakistan and Hindus and Sikhs fled east to India.\n\nAmritsar saw violent clashes in March 1947 between the city's Muslims, who wanted to be part of Pakistan, and its Sikh and Hindu population, who wanted to stay in India\n\nThis was not a civil war with battle lines and rival armies - but nor was it simply spontaneous violence.\n\nOn all sides, local militias and armed gangs planned how to inflict the greatest harm on those they had come to see as their enemies.\n\nAn estimated 2,000 were killed, and more than 4,000 injured in communal riots ahead of Partition in Kolkata (Calcutta) in 1946\n\nThose wounds have been left to fester. No one has been held to account - there's been no reconciliation process - and for a long time, the full story of what happened has been smothered in silence.\n\nLiterature and cinema found ways of representing the horror of what happened. Historians initially focused on the politics of Partition. It took them much longer to turn their attention to the lived experience of this profound rupture.\n\nBig oral history projects have got under way only in the last few years, as the number of survivors dwindles. There are no towering memorials to the Partition dead.\n\nThe first museum devoted to Partition opened in 2016 in Amritsar in Indian Punjab.\n\nPartition poisoned relations between India and Pakistan, and has shaped - many would say distorted - the geopolitics of South Asia as a whole.\n\nPakistan initially consisted of two wings 2,000km (1,240 miles) apart, but in 1971, East Pakistan gained its independence, with Indian military support. Another new nation, Bangladesh, was born.\n\nIndia and Pakistan have fought two wars over the Muslim-majority Kashmir, which both claim in full but control in part\n\nAmong the loose ends of the independence arrangement was the future of Kashmir, a princely state in the foothills of the Himalayas which had a largely Muslim population. The maharaja, a Hindu, decided his state should become part of India.\n\nWithin months, Indian and Pakistani troops were fighting each other for control of Kashmir.\n\nThe complex conflict remains unresolved and, more than any other issue, has bedevilled relations between the two countries.\n\nIndia also accuses Pakistan of supporting militant organisations which have carried out terrorist-style attacks in Indian cities. Pakistan says India colludes with breakaway movements in areas such as Balochistan.\n\nThe political leaders of the two countries have met from time to time. There have been occasional hopes of a breakthrough in relations but, at the moment, relations are distinctly frosty.\n\nActivists burn a poster showing Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif during Mr Modi's visit to Pakistan in December 2015\n\nThe consequences have been far-reaching.\n\nIndia has much more trade with countries such as Nigeria, Belgium or South Africa than with its neighbour to the west.\n\nAlthough India's phenomenally successful Hindi-language film industry - known as Bollywood - is hugely popular in Pakistan, and Pakistan's TV soaps are eagerly watched in India, cultural links are fragile.\n\nWhen tensions rise, which they do regularly, every aspect of relations suffers.\n\nAfter a backlash against his film Ae Dil Hai Mushkil (Difficulties of the heart), Indian director Karan Johar pledged not to use Pakistani actors\n\nJust a few months ago, one of India's leading film directors Karan Johar felt obliged to promise that he would never again cast a Pakistani actor in one of his movies.\n\nThe two countries are not well informed about what is happening on the other side of the border. No major Indian or Pakistani news organisation currently has a correspondent in the other country's capital.\n\nFor both Indians and Pakistanis, travelling to the other country is not easy - even if it is to visit family.\n\nIt is not the difficulty of getting a visa or the lack of direct flights between the two capital cities. There are very few air links between the two countries at all.\n\nThe elaborate daily closing ceremony at the India-Pakistan Wagah border crossing near Amritsar attracts many spectators on both sides\n\nDespite a lengthy shared border, India and Pakistan have hardly any border crossings.\n\nIn Pakistan, the army and its intelligence wing are by far the most powerful institutions - and the country has had repeated spells of military rule.\n\nThe abiding sense of a military threat from its much larger neighbour has - many feel - boosted the power of the armed forces and hindered the development of a mature democracy.\n\nPakistan has a population of about 200 million - mostly Muslims. India has almost 1,300 million citizens and about one in seven follow Islam. There are almost as many Indian Muslims as Pakistani Muslims.\n\nOne projection suggests that by 2050, India will overtake Indonesia to become the country with the world's biggest Muslim population. But Muslims are under-represented in India's parliament and many other areas of public life.\n\nSome observers believe the perception - however unfair - that Indian Muslims sympathise with Pakistan has fed prejudice and discrimination.\n\nThe pride that almost all Indians and Pakistanis feel about their nation is self-evident. Patriotism is a powerful force in both countries.\n\nIt is on public display every time they play each other at cricket. But both have been unable to overcome the legacy of the tragedy which accompanied what should have been their finest moment 70 years ago.\n\nAnd the result of their most recent tussle on the cricket pitch? Well, for the record, Pakistan won a surprise - and emphatic - victory.\n\nSome in India were gracious in defeat. But on social media, and some sections of India's news media, there was anger and anguish - losing face to your old rival remains, for many, almost too painful to endure.\n\nThis analysis was commissioned by the BBC from an expert working for an outside organisation.\n\nDr Andrew Whitehead is a former BBC India correspondent. He is the author of a book about Kashmir in 1947 and is currently honorary professor at the University of Nottingham.", "Dunkirk tells the story of British and Allied troops trapped on a beach surrounded by enemy forces in 1940\n\nChristopher Nolan's epic World War Two film, Dunkirk, which tells the story of the mass evacuation of Allied troops from the northern coast of France in 1940, has been getting glowing reviews in India.\n\nBut many are glowering over Nolan turning a blind eye to the role of Indian soldiers in the battle. The Times of India wrote that their \"significant contribution\" was missing from Nolan's \"otherwise brilliant\" work. Writing for Bloomberg View, columnist Mihir Sharma said the film \"adds to the falsehood that plucky Britons stood alone against Nazi Germany once France fell, when, in fact, hundreds of millions of imperial subjects stood, perforce, with them\".\n\nFew can deny the role of the subjects. Some five million Commonwealth servicemen joined the military services of the British empire during WW2. Almost half of them were from South Asia. Indian soldiers played a key role in major battles like Tobruk, Monte Cassino, Kohima and Imphal. A multinational force of British, Indian and African units recaptured Burma (Myanmar) for the Allies.\n\nWhat happened with the Indian soldiers in Dunkirk is less clear. Yasmin Khan, historian and author of The Raj at War: A People's History of India's Second World War, says she has often wondered why there is very little factual data on their role in the battle, which many say cost Germany the war.\n\nWhat is well known, she told me, is that four companies of the Royal Indian Army Service Corps, including a unit of the Bikaner State forces, served in France during the campaign on the Western Front, and some were evacuated from Dunkirk. Among them were three contingents of the Royal Indian Army Service Corps. One contingent was taken prisoner by German forces.\n\nAccording to one account, India also provided more than 2,500 mules - shipped from Bombay (now Mumbai) to Marseilles - to the war effort as the British animal transport companies had been phased out. An Indian soldier, Jemadar Maula Dad Khan, was feted for showing \"magnificent courage, coolness and decision\" in protecting his men and animals when they were shelled from the ground and strafed from the air by the enemy.\n\nAn Indian soldier who was evacuated from Dunkirk\n\nThe Indian soldiers and the mules were eventually ordered towards the coast. Many of the men could not take their animals on the retreat and gave them away to local people in France, according to the same account.\n\nHistorian John Broich says the Indian soldiers in Dunkirk were \"particularly cool under fire and well organised during the retreat\".\n\n\"They weren't large in number, maybe a few hundred among hundreds of thousands, but their appearance in the film would have provided a good reminder of how utterly central the role of the Indian Army was in the war,\" he told Slate.\n\n\"Their service meant the difference between victory and defeat. In fact, while Britain and other allies were licking their wounds after Dunkirk, the Indian Army picked up the slack in North Africa and the Middle East.\n\nTo be fair, Nolan has said that he approached the story \"from the point of view of the pure mechanics of survival rather than from the politics of the event\".\n\n\"We don't have generals in rooms pushing things around on maps. We don't see Churchill. We barely glimpse the enemy,\" he told the Telegraph. \"It's a survival story.\"\n\nHistorian Joshua Levine, who is also the film's historical consultant, told me that Dunkirk was a work of fiction and \"it isn't a film's job to tell the full story of Dunkirk... and nor, in the time available, could it even try to do so\".\n\n\"This film focuses on a few protagonists whose paths cross occasionally, each one of whom experiences just a tiny corner of the whole story. As Hilary Mantel says about historical fiction, 'The man who is fighting can't see over the hill, out of the trench.' What I'd love to see, though, is an Indian film about Dunkirk, or WW2 generally, and I sincerely hope Indian filmmakers are working on it.\"\n\nBut what about the criticism that the role of Indian and their South Asian counterparts in WW2 has been forgotten?\n\nTwo Indian soldiers evacuated from Dunkirk arrive in England in June 1940\n\nYasmin Khan says that their \"sheer scale of the contribution\" has become apparent in Britain in recent years. \"No longer is it simply an island story of heroic, plucky British fighting against Nazi-occupied continental Europe; it has now become increasingly customary for historians to refer to the contribution made by Asian, African and Caribbean servicemen in the 1940s\", she writes in her book.\n\nA memorial to honour the role of these soldiers came up on London's Constitution Hill in 2002. There have been museum exhibitions, oral history projects and TV documentaries to \"reveal how crucial they [the soldiers] often were to the action, the sacrifices that they made in the face of terrible odds, and also to divulge individual stories of great bravery and intrepid action\".\n\n\"It is no longer true to suggest that this is an entirely forgotten story,\" she says.\n\nMeanwhile, Indians are flocking to watch Dunkirk, which opened at 416 screens, including 10 Imax screens, across the country, on Friday.\n\nUnlike most Hollywood films, Dunkirk hasn't been dubbed in any Indian language for wider viewership. Still, says Denzil Dias of Warner Brothers (India), the film raked in $2.4m (£1.84m) over the weekend. \"This is the biggest opening of an English language-only film in India,\" Mr Dias told me. Clearly, viewers are not fretting about the lack of Indian soldiers in Nolan's tour-de-force.", "Emily Maitlis, Victoria Derbyshire, Sue Barker, Clare Balding, Fiona Bruce and Alex Jones were among BBC stars to sign a letter demanding the BBC take action over the gender pay gap\n\nFemale staff at the BBC let the gender pay gap happen \"because they weren't doing much about it\", a government adviser on equal pay has said.\n\nBusinessman Sir Philip Hampton told the Evening Standard newspaper in London that in contrast to men, he had \"never, ever had a woman ask for a pay rise\".\n\nBBC presenter Jane Garvey said he seemed \"peculiarly out of touch\".\n\nThe corporation has faced criticism since it revealed last week that its top earners were largely men.\n\nThe list showed that Chris Evans was the the top-paid male star on between £2.2m and £2.25m, while Claudia Winkleman was the highest-paid female celebrity, earning between £450,000 and £500,000 last year.\n\nIt also revealed that two-thirds of the 96 presenters and celebrities paid more than £150,000 were men, and director general Tony Hall admitted there was \"more to do\" on the gender pay gap.\n\nSir Philip, the co-author of the government's Hampton-Alexander review looking at ways of increasing the number of women in top paid jobs, was asked about the situation by the newspaper.\n\nHe said: \"How has this situation arisen at the BBC that these intelligent, high-powered, sometimes formidable women have sat in this situation?\n\n\"They [the female broadcasters] are all looking at each other now saying: 'How did we let this happen?' I suspect they let it happen because they weren't doing much about it.\"\n\nSir Philip, who is chairman of global drugs company GSK, where he earns £700,000 a year, added: \"It's just a difference between men and women: men go for promotions and leadership roles, women are less proactive in asking for more money.\n\n\"I've had lots of women reporting to me or coming in to talk to me about their careers - either for general guidance or employees of companies where I've been working. I have never, ever had a woman ask for a pay rise.\n\n\"There isn't a list long enough for all the men who've asked. Lots of men have trooped into my office saying they are under-paid but no woman has ever done that.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How to ask for a pay rise\n\nBut Ms Garvey, who presents Radio 4's Woman's Hour and organised a protest letter from the BBC's top female stars to Mr Hall, told the Standard: \"The likes of Sir Philip Hampton can never begin to understand. He seems peculiarly out of touch given the task he has.\n\n\"Many women have learnt to question their position in the workplace, partly because of the dominance and success of people like him.\"\n\nAnd Liberal Democrat deputy leader Jo Swinson accused him of heaping \"insult on injustice\", adding that his comments were \"at best, astonishingly ill-judged\".\n\n\"His remarks that the BBC women 'let this happen' display a worrying lack of understanding of the structural gender, race and class bias across all of society at all levels, including the BBC,\" she added.", "Abdullah Deghayes (left) and his brother Jaffar Deghayes died in Syria\n\nOpportunities were missed to spot the radicalisation of two teenage British Muslim brothers who died fighting in Syria in 2014, a report has found.\n\nAgencies had insufficient knowledge and understanding of minority and faith groups, a serious case review said.\n\nAbdullah and Jaffar Deghayes were in a child protection plan before 2010, the report by a senior social worker said.\n\nBut the review found their radicalisation was a \"total shock and surprise\" to authorities in Brighton.\n\nAbdullah, 18, and Jaffar, 17, were both killed having followed their older brother, Amer, to Syria to fight for an Al-Qaeda-affiliated jihadist group.\n\nBoth boys had suffered bullying and racism, and had reported physical abuse by their father.\n\nThe report by Edi Carmi said the brothers were taken out of the child protection plan in 2010 because there was professional \"helplessness\" among social workers about what else to do.\n\nThe report said this was expressed by some workers as having \"no tools in the toolbox\".\n\nIt concluded that professionals often lack \"effective ways to intervene in families who have suffered long-standing trauma\".\n\nAmer Deghayes said he was prepared to suffer the same fate as his brothers\n\nIn the years that followed the end of the protection plan, Abdullah, Jaffar and Amer showed signs of radicalisation.\n\nIn early 2013, a school reported concerns about some young people including Jaffar.\n\nOne of the brothers further came to the attention of social workers over an \"emotional\" comment he made about \"Americans\" after he returned from a trip to his family's home country of Libya.\n\nThis led to a referral to the \"Channel panel\" - a de-radicalisation process - but it was decided he was \"not at risk of being drawn into terror-related activities\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Graham Bartlett said the report is a \"wake-up call\"\n\nGraham Bartlett, independent chair of the Brighton and Hove Local Safeguarding Children Board, said: \"The system as a whole let these young boys down. It's a wake up call.\n\n\"This case has had a major impact on our understanding of the risks posed to children of exploitation through radicalisation.\"\n\nThe report identified 13 key findings, including that professional responsibilities springing from the government's counter-terrorism strategy were not fully understood by all staff.\n\nIt also said professionals had no effective ways to intervene in families who have suffered long-standing trauma, and local statutory agencies had \"insufficient knowledge about, and understanding of, local minority ethnic and faith community groups and how best to work together to safeguard children\".\n\nThe Safeguarding Children Board said it fully accepted the report's findings.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A judge has written a personal letter to a 14-year-old boy explaining why he has rejected his request to move with his father to Scandinavia.\n\nMr Justice Jackson said he felt the teenager had brought the case to the High Court \"as a way of showing your dad how much you love him\".\n\nHe told the boy he was \"doing well in life\" and did not believe that the move abroad would work.\n\nHe said: \"I am confident that it is the right order for you in the long run.\"\n\nMr Justice Jackson, who is based in the Family Division of the High Court in London, wrote the letter to the teenager which laid down his ruling after a hearing in July.\n\nSam, not his real name, had applied for permission to live with his father in a Scandinavian country, which his mother and step-father opposed.\n\nThe application was later taken over by his dad.\n\nIn the letter, the judge told the boy he believed \"that your feelings are that you love everyone in your family very much, just as they love you\".\n\nHowever, he noted that Sam's parents had \"very different personalities\" and the fact they found it hard to agree was \"stressful for you\".\n\nIn the letter, the judge said he found Sam's dad to be someone who was \"troubled\" and had a \"lot of influence over you\".\n\n\"All fathers influence their sons, but your father goes a lot further than that. I'm quite clear that if he was happy with the present arrangements, you probably would be too. Because he isn't, you aren't.\"\n\nHe questioned whether the idea for the proceedings came from Sam or his dad and said he believed the teenager had \"brought the proceedings mainly as a way of showing your dad how much you love him\".\n\nHe told the teenager: \"Also, I may be wrong, but when you gave your evidence I didn't get the feeling that you actually see your future in Scandinavia at all.\n\n\"Instead, what I saw was you doing your duty by your dad while trying not to be too unfair to your mum. But you still felt you had to boost your dad wherever you could.\n\n\"That's how subtle and not-so-subtle pressure works. So I respect your views, but I don't take them at face value because I think they are significantly formed by your loyalty to your father.\"\n\nThe judge said Sam's dad had a \"manipulative side\" and has \"in some ways lost sight of what was best\" for his son.\n\nHe told the boy he had no confidence that a move to Scandinavia would work and hoped his dad would decide to stay in England \"for your sake\".\n\nThe judge said the evidence showed Sam was doing well in life in England and that he \"should make the most of the many opportunities that life here has to offer you\".\n\nHe went on: \"If, when you finish your A-levels, you want to move to Scandinavia, you will be 18 and an adult - it will be up to you.\"\n\nMr Justice Jackson dismissed his dad's application to take Sam to live in Scandinavia and for Sam to apply for citizenship there.\n\nHe ruled that Sam would have contact with his dad on alternate weekends and any arrangement after he moved to Scandinavia alone would have to be agreed between both parents.\n\nIn the letter, he added: \"Whatever each of your parents might think about it, I hope they have the dignity not to impose their views on you, so that you can work things out for yourself.\"\n\nThe judge finished by saying he and Sam's dad had enjoyed finding out they loved the film My Cousin Vinny - but for different reasons.\n\n\"He mentioned it as an example of a miscarriage of justice, while I remember it for the best courtroom scenes in any film, and the fact that justice was done in the end.\"", "President Trump addresses US military personnel in Italy in May\n\nDrill sergeant Kennedy Ochoa was putting on his dress uniform when he heard the news.\n\nPresident Trump had fired off a series of tweets saying the country would no longer \"accept or allow\" transgender Americans to serve in the military, citing \"tremendous medical costs and disruption\".\n\nThis was not the way it was supposed to go. For more than a year Sergeant Ochoa had served as a man, following an Obama-era policy change that paved the way for transgender troops to serve openly.\n\nAnnouncing the change, then-defence secretary Ash Carter called it \"the right thing to do\" for \"talented Americans who are serving with distinction\".\n\nMany transgender troops came out to their commanders and their colleagues and won the support of both.\n\nOn Wednesday morning, Sergeant Ochoa was proudly putting on his uniform - the male regulation dress blues he has been allowed to wear for a year - and preparing to graduate from a training course that puts him on track for a promotion in September.\n\nThen he saw the president's tweets. \"It was heartbreaking, my stomach dropped,\" he said in a phone interview. \"I had to just try and compartmentalise it so I could enjoy today.\"\n\nSergeant Ochoa is unwavering in his desire to continue serving his country. In five days he is due to re-enlist.\n\n\"Now I don't even know if I can do that,\" he said. \"It just seems like chaos, so many unknowns.\"\n\nSergeant Ken Ochoa is due to re-enlist in five days but now does not know if he can\n\nIt wasn't just service members that were caught by surprise, the timing of the announcement appeared to wrong-foot the military too. A spokeswoman for the Department of Defense (DOD) referred all questions to the White House, saying only that new guidance would be issued soon.\n\nThe White House did not respond to a request for comment. At a news conference, President Trump's spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said the administration would work with the DOD to iron out the details. \"I would imagine the Department of Defense will be the lead on that,\" she said.\n\nFor some, the fallout from the president's tweets was more certain. Riley Dosh trained for four years at the West Point military academy, graduating in May this year.\n\nMs Dosh came out as transgender while at the academy. She was secure in her decision following the Obama-era policy change and she had the full support of her commanders. Then, earlier this month, she was abruptly told she would not be allowed to commission as an officer alongside her peers.\n\nBack at home in Austin, Texas, with no employment and no health insurance, she was awaiting a review of that decision. Now it seems certain that she's headed out of the army for good.\n\n\"I was already losing hope that I could commission, now I have absolutely no reason to have any,\" she said. \"It's a final nail in the coffin for my military career.\"\n\nShe would find a Plan B though, she said. The situation was worse for those already in. \"This is an absolute nightmare for my trans brothers and sisters who are serving. They now have absolutely no idea what their future is going to be.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Riley Dosh wanted to defend her country but now can't\n\nMr Trump's tweets may have come out of the blue but they followed a series of attacks on transgender service by Congressional Republicans.\n\nAmong them, Vicky Hartzler, Republican for Missouri, introduced an amendment to the near-$700bn armed forces funding bill - currently before congress - which sought to bar any military funds from being used for transgender medical care.\n\nThe amendment narrowly failed, but Mr Trump's tweets echoed Ms Hartzler in citing supposedly burdensome costs of transgender medical care - a concern which has riled Republican lawmakers.\n\nAn authoritative 2016 study by the Rand Corporation suggests the concern is unfounded. The study estimated that transgender health care costs for the estimated 2,450 active duty transgender troops would increase the health budget by between $2.4m and $8.4m annually - just 0.04% to 0.13% of the overall healthcare budget.\n\nBy comparison, the Pentagon spends about $84m annually on erectile dysfunction medication, according to a Military Times analysis - 10 times the upper estimate for transgender related costs.\n\nMany active duty service members are already undergoing medical care related to transition. Sergeant Ochoa receives hormone therapy from his army physician, and was anticipating having a hysterectomy to lower the risk of cervical cancer created by testosterone.\n\nIt was unclear on Wednesday whether he would be able to continue with his treatment through the army, whether he would be forced to revert to female dress regulations, or if he could continue his army career at all.\n\n\"The thought of going back to serving as someone I'm not... It's just not something I could do and stay true to my character,\" he said.\n\nLGBT advocacy groups were blindsided, and outraged, by the president's sudden announcement.\n\n\"This is a despicable assault on transgender troops who have been serving openly for more than a year,\" said Aaron Belkin, the director of the Palm Centre, a think tank which studies gender and sexuality in the military.\n\n\"You can't force people to go back in the closet, and you can't force them to serve on the basis of a lie if they've already been honest about their identity. It's unworkable for the troops and it's unworkable for the military, and it will compromise military readiness.\"\n\nMatthew Thorn, executive director of OutServe, warned that discharging thousands of active duty troops would would cause chaos and resentment.\n\n\"The most important thing for service members is that the person sitting on their right and their left has their back, particularly in a wartime situation,\" he said. \"When you start stripping away those people, that's what disrupts unit cohesion.\"\n\nFor those actively serving, who came out as transgender with an understanding from their commanders, and from President Obama, that they would no longer be discriminated against, the future is once again clouded by prejudice.\n\nFor Sergeant Ochoa, the only sensible response was to put on his dress blues, go to his graduation ceremony, and keep doing his job.\n\n\"The only thing I can do is carry on as best as I can, continue to be a professional and a drill sergeant to the best of my ability, and do that for as long as I have the opportunity,\" he said.", "Artist's impression: Where there are exoplanets, there are probably exomoons\n\nA team of astronomers has potentially discovered the first known moon beyond the Solar System.\n\nIf confirmed, the \"exomoon\" is likely to be about the size and mass of Neptune, and circles a planet the size of Jupiter but with 10 times the mass.\n\nThe signal was detected by Nasa's Kepler Space Telescope; astronomers now plan to carry out follow-up observations with Hubble in October.\n\nA paper about the candidate moon is published on the Arxiv pre-print site.\n\nTo date, astronomers have discovered more than 3,000 exoplanets - worlds orbiting stars other than the Sun.\n\nA hunt for exomoons - objects in orbit around those distant planets - has proceeded in parallel. But so far, these extrasolar satellites have lingered at the limits of detection with current techniques.\n\nDr David Kipping, assistant professor of astronomy at Columbia University in New York, says he has spent \"most of his adult life\" looking for exomoons.\n\nFor the time being, however, he urged caution, saying: \"We would merely describe it at this point as something consistent with a moon, but, who knows, it could be something else.\"\n\nThe Kepler telescope hunts for planets by looking for tiny dips in the brightness of a star when a planet crosses in front - known as a transit. To search for exomoons, researchers are looking for a dimming of starlight before and after the planet causes its dip in light.\n\nThe promising signal was observed during three transits - fewer than the astronomers would like to have in order to confidently announce a discovery.\n\nThe researchers will conduct follow-up observations with Hubble in October\n\nThe work by Dr Kipping, his Columbia colleague Alex Teachey and citizen scientist Allan R Schmitt, assigns a confidence level of four sigma to the signal from the distant planetary system. The confidence level describes how unlikely it is that an experimental result is simply down to chance. If you express it in terms of tossing a coin, it's equivalent to tossing 15 heads in row.\n\nBut Dr Kipping said this is not the best way to gauge the potential detection.\n\nHe told BBC News: \"We're excited about it... statistically, formally, it's a very high probability. But do we really trust the statistics? That's something unquantifiable. Until we get the measurements from Hubble, it may as well be 50-50 in my mind.\"\n\nThe candidate moon is known as Kepler-1625b I and is observed around a star that lies some 4,000 light-years from Earth. On account of its large size, team members have dubbed it a \"Nept-moon\".\n\nA current theory of planetary formation suggests such an object is unlikely to have formed in place with its Jupiter-mass planet, but would instead be an object captured by the gravity of the planet later on in the evolution of this planetary system.\n\nThe researchers could find no predictions of a Neptune-sized moon in the literature, but Dr Kipping notes that nothing in physics prevents one.\n\nA handful of possible candidates have come to light in the past, but none as yet has been confirmed.\n\n\"I'd say it's the best [candidate] we've had,\" Dr Kipping told me.\n\n\"Almost every time we hit a candidate, and it passes our tests, we invent more tests until it finally dies - until it fails one of the tests... in this case we've applied everything we've ever done and it's passed all of those tests. On the other hand, we only have three events.\"\n\nThe work by Dr Kipping and colleagues forms part of the Hunt for Exomooons with Kepler (HEK) collaboration.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Donald Trump delivered a speech to remember to the Boy Scouts of America\n\nThe chief scout of the Boy Scouts of America has apologised for the remarks made by President Donald Trump at the group's national event this week.\n\nOver 30,000 people attending the event, where Mr Trump promoted his agenda and criticised his political rivals.\n\nMichael Surbaugh says the president's invitation was customary.\n\n\"I want to extend my sincere apologies to those in our Scouting family who were offended by the political rhetoric that was inserted into the jamboree.\"\n\nHe went on to say how the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) have tried to avoid taking political positions since its creation.\n\n\"We sincerely regret that politics were inserted into the Scouting programme,\" he said.\n\nHe added: \"We teach youth to become active citizens, to participate in their government, respect the variety of perspectives and to stand up for individual rights.\"\n\nDuring Mr Trump's remarks in West Virginia, he assailed his former opponent Hillary Clinton, touted his election victory, and railed against the \"fake news\" media.\n\n\"Who the hell wants to speak about politics?\" Mr Trump asked the audience, before beginning his remarks.\n\nMany parents and members of the Scout community criticised the highly-politicised nature of the speech that followed.\n\nThe whoops and hollers ran contrary to some parents' views of boy scout values\n\nOn Wednesday, BSA president Randall Stephenson, told AP News that the group had been concerned that Mr Trump may say something controversial during his speech.\n\nBut they felt obliged to issue an invitation to him, as they have done previously for every sitting US president, he said.\n\n\"If I suggested I was surprised by the president's comments, I would be disingenuous,\" said Mr Stephenson.", "Rory Cowan, who plays Mrs Brown's hairdresser son Rory in hit sitcom Mrs Brown's Boys, has left the programme.\n\nCowan said he had been \"unhappy\", and left his co-stars after a Mrs Brown show at London's O2 Arena on Sunday.\n\nHe has worked with the comedy's creator Brendan O'Carroll for 26 years.\n\n\"I hadn't been happy working for the Mrs Brown's Boys company for the last 18 months to two years,\" he said. \"I feel that 26 years is enough so I decided it was time to go.\"\n\nCowan told O'Carroll last month that he wanted to quit, but was persuaded to stay for the latest part of the Mrs Brown tour.\n\n\"I told Brendan on 16 June about my decision to leave,\" Cowan told the Irish Daily Mail. \"That's when I handed in my notice.\n\nCowan and his co-stars have been on a sold out UK arena tour\n\n\"I was supposed to leave at the end of that week, but Brendan said that would be impossible and asked if I'd stay on until the end of the London O2 gigs. So I agreed to that.\"\n\nHe said there was \"no bad blood\" between the pair.\n\n\"I'm not going into details about why I was unhappy. I did the final show, packed my stuff into a small Waitrose plastic bag and just left the venue.\"\n\nIn a statement, O'Carroll described Cowan as \"a legend\".\n\n\"To all of us it feels like Ronaldo leaving Manchester United,\" he said. \"But Ronaldo went on to amazing success which I know Rory will too.\n\n\"I can't even quantify the contribution Rory has made to our success and the well-being of me and my family, not just on screen or stage but way before that as a friend and a driving force in getting us here.\"\n\nCowan started off as O'Carroll's publicist - a job he took after being made redundant as a marketing manager for EMI Records.\n\nHe only became part of the Mrs Brown's Boys cast when an actor dropped out during a tour and O'Carroll couldn't find anyone else who could learn the lines in time.\n\nThe success of the stage show led to the BBC TV series, which began in 2011.\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.", "Holly Brown was caring and lived with enthusiasm, her family said\n\nA 14-year-old girl who died when a school minibus was in collision with a bin lorry was a \"beautiful daughter\", her family said.\n\nHolly Brown was among 21 students on a field trip when the crash happened on the A38 in Birmingham on Friday.\n\nIn a statement, her parents said they were \"so proud\" of the teenager's achievements.\n\nFlowers have been left outside John Taylor High School, in Barton-under-Needwood, Staffordshire.\n\nFor more on this story and other Birmingham news or Staffordshire stories.\n\nWest Midlands Police appealed for any witnesses who had not yet come forward to contact the force.\n\nDozens of flowers and messages have been left outside Holly's school\n\nHolly was confirmed dead at the scene of the crash which happened in the Castle Vale area of the city at about 09:00 BST.\n\nAnother teenage girl was taken to hospital with minor injuries and other pupils were treated at the roadside.\n\nIn their tribute, Holly's parents and twin sister Emma said: \"You grasped every opportunity that life presented to you, displaying so much passion, enthusiasm and determination in pursuit of your dreams.\n\n\"All this without forgetting to care about people, being there for others and having time for those that needed it.\n\n\"We will miss you so much but you will always be in our thoughts, hearts and prayers.\"\n\nBirmingham City Council has confirmed one of its bin lorries was involved in the crash and said it would \"be fully co-operating with all investigations\".", "Buoyant Uefa TV income helped Premier League clubs' revenues rise 9% to a record £3.6bn in the 2015-16 season, according to analysis from Deloitte.\n\nIt says broadcast earnings of £1.9bn accounted for more than half of the top flight clubs' total revenues.\n\nA new domestic TV deal which kicked in last year means overall revenues continue to grow strongly, it added.\n\nFor a third straight season, clubs' combined operating profits exceeded £500m, but wages rose 12% to £2.3bn.\n\n\"Even in the final year of its old broadcast contracts, Premier League revenues continued to set new records,\" said Dan Jones, partner in Deloitte's sports business group, which has unveiled its latest Annual Review of Football Finance.\n\nHe said the broadcasting boost to revenues in 2015-16 was mainly down to European federation Uefa increasing its payments to Premier League clubs by £100m.\n\nMr Jones said Premier League clubs were now reaping the benefit of a new broadcast rights cycle which started in 2016-17, plus new commercial agreements, and match day revenue growth from new and expanded stadia.\n\nDeloitte says it now expects total Premier League clubs' revenues to be more than £4.5bn in 2017-18.\n\nA new broadcasting cycle is now in operation\n\nMeanwhile, Premier League net debt fell for the third consecutive season, by £125m (5%) to £2.2bn at the end of the 2015-16 season.\n\nHowever, while Premier League clubs returned to a collective pre-tax loss in 2015-16. Deloitte said this was the result of exceptional, or one-off, accounting adjustments, without which clubs collectively would have broken even.\n\nOne example of these one-off adjustments was Chelsea making a big financial provision to cover the cost of the early cancellation of their kit deal with Adidas.\n\n\"We fully expect that Premier League clubs will collectively achieve record levels of profitability in the seasons to come,\" said Mr Jones.\n\nIn the Championship, overall revenues increased to a new record level of £556m in 2015-16, and have risen by 74% in the past decade.\n\nBut for the third time in four years, clubs spent more on wages (£561m) than they generated in revenue, resulting in a record operating loss of £261m. This follows two seasons where losses have been reduced.\n\nClubs in the Championship stand to see their revenues jump by at least £170m from promotion to the Premier League, rising to over £290m if they survive one season.\n\nBut Deloitte says there there is a danger that Championship clubs may continue to be tempted \"to spend excessively relative to their revenues, particularly on wages\".\n\nFormer Chelsea captain John Terry has signed for Aston Villa on a reported £60,000 a week, plus further cash incentives should they win promotion\n\nYet Deloitte points out that Huddersfield Town's promotion at the end of the 2016-17 season shows any Championship club can reach the Premier League, regardless of their budget. And they point out that in 2015-16 Huddersfield had the Championship's fourth-lowest wage costs.\n\nIncluding Football League clubs, the top 92 professional teams in England generated a record £4.4bn in revenue in 2015-16, Deloitte said.\n\nThe 92 clubs contributed £1.6bn to UK government in taxes in 2015-16, up from £1.5bn the year before.\n\nIn Scotland, despite Celtic's failure to qualify for the Uefa Champions League group stages for the second consecutive season, Scottish Premiership clubs' aggregate revenues grew 10% to 149m euros.\n\nCeltic continued to generate more than 50% of total revenues as they won the league for a fifth consecutive season, and Deloitte says \"their participation in the 2016-17 Uefa Champions League group stages will result in a substantial uplift in revenue\".\n\nOscar (r) has been one of the Chinese Super League's biggest signings\n\nChina's investment and influence in football has been growing in both domestic clubs' playing squads and infrastructure, and foreign club purchases and sponsorship.\n\nIn their 2016-17 winter transfer window, Chinese Super League clubs spent more than £300m on players, including Oscar's transfer from Chelsea to Shanghai SIPG and Odion Ighalo's move from Watford to Changchun Yatai.\n\nBut Deloitte says some recent political moves could curtail this player spending boom.\n\nIn January, the government body responsible for regulation of sport in China said that a cap on player salaries and transfer fees would be established to control \"irrational investment\".\n\nThat month, the Chinese Football Association also implemented a stricter rule allowing only three foreign players to participate for a club in a super league fixture. This replaced the previous \"4 plus 1\" rule which allowed four foreigners plus one (non-Chinese) Asian player in a matchday squad.\n\nAnd in June 2017, the Chinese Football Association said clubs that were loss making and spent in excess of 45m yuan (c.£5m) on a foreign player must pay an amount equivalent to the excess into a national fund to develop young Chinese players.", "When it comes to the laundry, it's all about location, location, location, according to TV host Kirstie Allsopp. The presenter of property programmes has provoked a debate after posting on Twitter that it is disgusting to keep washing machines in the kitchen.\n\nThe remark, in response to a journalist's comments about Americans finding the British way of placing washing machines in kitchens confusing, provoked a (mostly) humorous backlash on social media.\n\nMoments after the post one Twitter user asked where exactly in the home the washing machine should be located if a homeowner did not have a utility room to which Ms Allsopp replied: \"Bathroom, hall cupboard, airing cupboard, google tiny laundry rooms.\"\n\n\"Really? We live in a moderately-sized, four-bed semi and couldn't fit a washing machine anywhere other than the kitchen!\" remarked another Twitter user, while another commented: \"What is disgusting is disrespecting those who have nowhere else to put one. \"\n\nAnother Tweeter referred to the issue as \"first world problems.\"\n\nRealising the washing machine comment had provoked such a debate, Ms Allsopp attempted to quell the barrage of negative comments directed at her.\n\nBut the mocking continued, provoking some post-watershed language from the TV presenter, aimed at those who had still failed to grasp she was joking when she said it was her \"life's work\" to get washing machines out of the kitchen.\n\nMost got the message as the responses took a humorous turn.\n\nWashing machines in many parts of the US and Europe are placed in the bathroom or separate utility rooms, but in most UK homes they are usually found in the kitchen, in part because in the UK there are no electrical sockets in the bathroom and most UK bathrooms could not fit a washing machine.\n\nOr maybe there were alternatives, suggested Nick.", "Resham Khan has been left with damage to her left eye\n\nA man accused of throwing acid at a student and her cousin through their car window has appeared in court.\n\nResham Khan and Jameel Muhktar, 37, had been celebrating Ms Khan's 21st birthday before the attack.\n\nAcid was thrown on them through their car window on 21 June while they were waiting at traffic lights in Beckton.\n\nJohn Tomlin, 25, appeared at Thames Magistrates' Court earlier charged with two counts of grievous bodily harm with intent.\n\nJameel Muhktar was temporarily placed in an induced coma to treat his injuries\n\nHe was remanded in custody and ordered to appear at Snaresbrook Crown Court on 8 August.\n\nMr Tomlin, of Colman Road, Canning Town, was arrested on Sunday after handing himself in to police.\n\nMs Khan, a student at Manchester Metropolitan University, and Mr Muhktar suffered severe burns to the face and body in the attack at 09:13 BST on Tollgate Road.\n\nThe attacker then threw more of the acid at Mr Muhktar before fleeing the scene, police said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ms Trump accompanied her father to earlier sessions before sitting in for him later\n\nUS President Donald Trump and former first daughter Chelsea Clinton have sparred over his decision to seat his daughter at a summit of world leaders.\n\nMr Trump tweeted that his decision to allow his daughter to take his seat at the meeting in Hamburg was \"very standard\".\n\nHe also said the media would have cheered \"CHELSEA FOR PRES!\" if Hillary Clinton had made the same choice.\n\nChelsea Clinton tweeted back that her parents would never have done so.\n\nIvanka Trump was criticised online after taking her father's seat between the British prime minister and the Chinese president at the G20 summit in Germany on Saturday as her father sat for a one-on-one meeting with the Indonesian president.\n\nThe US president tweeted on Monday morning: \"I asked Ivanka to hold seat. Very standard.\n\nIn a follow-up tweet he wrote: \"If Chelsea Clinton were asked to hold the seat for her mother, as her mother gave our country away, the Fake News would say CHELSEA FOR PRES!\"\n\nChelsea Clinton, who was 12-years-old when her father Bill Clinton was sworn in as US president, responded to say: \"Good morning Mr President.\n\n\"It would never have occurred to my mother or my father to ask me. Were you giving our country away? Hoping not.\"\n\nWhite House spokesperson Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Mr Trump's tweet was not about attacking the Clintons, but rather \"this was about responding to an outrageous attack against a White House senior adviser\".\n\n\"If she didn't have the last name that she has I think that she would be constantly celebrated instead of constantly attacked\" she added, saying that \"I think we should be proud\" of Ms Trump.\n\nThe younger Clinton has become a frequent social media critic of Mr Trump and his administration's policies ever since her mother's failed 2016 presidential campaign.\n\nLast month Mr Trump sent out a series of tweets accusing the Clinton family of having inappropriate ties with Russia.\n\nShe and Mr Trump's first daughter, Ivanka, have said they are \"very good friends\" despite their family's political rivalry.", "There has been a spike in fake sickness claims by UK holidaymakers, industry bodies say\n\nTravel company Thomas Cook says it has won a legal victory against a fake holiday sickness claim and plans to challenge other such claims in court.\n\nIt comes after a family tried to win up to £10,000 in damages for food poisoning on a trip to the Canary Islands.\n\nA judge at Liverpool County Court dismissed the case on Monday after concluding they were not sick.\n\nIt follows reports of a \"huge rise\" in fake sickness claims by UK tourists.\n\nIn June, the travel trade organisation Abta launched a campaign to tackle the problem, saying it was \"one of the biggest issues that has hit the travel industry for many years\".\n\nIt said tens of thousands of holidaymakers had made claims in the past year - worth between £3,000 and £5,000 each - despite reported sickness levels in resorts remaining stable.\n\nSpeaking after the hearing in Liverpool, Thomas Cook managing director Chris Mottershead said the company would \"not accept liability\" in such cases.\n\n\"It's not comfortable for us to be in court questioning our customers' credibility, but the significant increase in unreported illness claims being received by the travel industry threatens holidays for all UK customers,\" he said.\n\nThe claimants said poor food and hygiene at their hotel made them sick\n\n\"This case follows an increasingly common pattern for these claims, with a previously unreported illness being raised years after the holiday, with no medical or other evidence to support the illness having occurred.\"\n\nThomas Cook said that Julie Lavelle, 33, her partner Michael McIntyre, 34, and their two young children had sought compensation after stating they suffered gastroenteritis on the third day of a two-week holiday in 2013.\n\nThe family blamed poor food and hygiene at their hotel on Gran Canaria and said their symptoms continued after they had returned the UK.\n\nThomas Cook said they did not mention their condition to hotel staff or tour representatives in the resort.\n\nThe company also said Mr McIntyre filled out a holiday feedback questionnaire on his flight home and left the section on illness unanswered.\n\nThe family's law firm, Bridger & Co of Carmarthenshire, was not immediately available for comment.\n\nAbta said that rules designed to stop a spike in fraudulent whiplash claims have fuelled the rise in holiday sickness reports as they do not apply to incidents abroad.\n\nIt said holidaymakers pursuing fake or exaggerated claims risked being barred from resorts or ending up in prison.\n\nIn July, the government said it planned to tackle the problem by reducing the cash incentives of bringing such cases against holiday firms.\n\nJustice Secretary David Lidington also said the government wanted to limit the legal costs that travel firms had to pay out for the claims.\n\n\"Our message to those who make false holiday sickness claims is clear - your actions are damaging and will not be tolerated,\" Mr Lidington said.", "The windows of the Market Hall were smashed as the fire took hold\n\nThe blaring music and bustling streets surrounding Camden Lock Market have been replaced with tearful stall holders worried about their futures.\n\nIn the early hours of the morning, 70 firefighters and 10 fire engines attended the scene as flames burst from the top of the Market Hall building - next to the iconic railway bridge at the heart of the North London destination.\n\nThe top three floors of the former Pickfords stables and Grade II-listed horse hospital were engulfed in the blaze that took London Fire Brigade almost three hours to bring under control.\n\nAnd as the traders arrived to the smoky remains of where they had once sold their creations, there was upset and confusion around how it could have happened.\n\nAnna Sionek has been selling her artwork in the hall for four years and was devastated at what she may have lost.\n\n\"Every piece I had in there was handmade by me,\" she said. \"That is my business, my livelihood, and I am very upset.\n\n\"But it is not just me who will suffer - it is the people we employ. They depend on us and now I don't know what we are going to do.\"\n\nFirefighters were still on the scene come lunchtime to investigate\n\nThe famous market started in the 1970s with just 16 stalls and grew from a Saturday afternoon event to a seven-day-a-week shopping experience, with more than 1,000 places to shop, eat, drink and dance into the early hours.\n\nDue to the hard work of the fighters - who were still on the scene come lunchtime - the blaze was stopped from spreading to nearby buildings, no-one is believed to have been hurt and much of the market remains safe.\n\nOne woman who runs a food stall near the entrance said: \"We are going to be opening today and lots of the market is safe, so we are very lucky and very grateful.\"\n\nBut for those who worked out of the hall, this was their patch - a part of a larger community that they love dearly.\n\n\"This place is my heart and soul,\" said Laetitia Dupont, who has lived in Camden for 10 years and set up her stall selling lamps and jewellery just 18 months ago.\n\n\"Even if the things I sell survived the fire, they won't have survived the smoke and water.\n\n\"The firefighters are doing everything they can, but it is devastating for the people who work here.\"\n\nEmergency services were guarding the scene as teams investigated the cause of the blaze\n\nThis isn't the first time that Camden stall holders have been hit by fire.\n\nOn 8 February 2008, the famous celebrity haunt The Hawley Arms was severely damaged in a blaze, along with six shops and 90 market stalls.\n\nAnd in 2014, some 600 people fled a blaze in the Stables Market, which saw the whole area destroyed and sold to new developers.\n\nOzgur Kaya, who works on a jewellery stall in the building, now fears for the market hall's future.\n\n\"We must protect this market,\" he said. \"It is so unique and there is nothing left like this in London.\n\n\"Whether your stall was inside or not, it is so important to all of us and we really hope it will be back up and running soon, how it was.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe sense of community around the incident is palpable.\n\nJordan Lemon works on an Italian leather stall on the ground floor of the building - so his stock is safe - but he wanted to offer his support.\n\n\"There are people in tears that have lost everything,\" he said. \"These are their jobs and their businesses.\n\n\"I wasn't even going to be working today, but when I heard the news, I wanted to come and be here for people.\"\n\nTwo fire investigation teams are trying to get to the bottom of what caused the blaze.\n\nBut, for the meantime, those world-famous traders will have to wait until the smoke clears to find out whether their future is bright.", "An aristocrat who wrote an online post offering £5,000 to anyone who ran over businesswoman Gina Miller has been found guilty of two charges of making menacing communications.\n\nRhodri Colwyn Philipps, 50 - the 4th Viscount St Davids - wrote the message four days after Ms Miller won a Brexit legal challenge against the government.\n\nChief magistrate Emma Arbuthnot said she had \"no doubt it was menacing\".\n\nHe was found guilty of two counts of making malicious communications and acquitted of a third at Westminster Magistrates' Court.\n\nOne of the counts related to a post regarding Ms Miller, published on Facebook on 7 November 2016, which said: \"£5,000 for the first person to 'accidentally' run over this bloody troublesome first generation immigrant.\"\n\nPhilipps, of Knightsbridge, London, described her as a \"boat jumper\" and added: \"If this is what we should expect from immigrants, send them back to their stinking jungles.\"\n\nThe court heard how Ms Miller, 52, said she felt \"violated\" by Philipps's \"shocking\" comments about her.\n\nMs Miller led a successful legal challenge which, on 3 November, resulted in the government being told to consult Parliament before formally beginning the Brexit process.\n\nPhilipps, who defended himself throughout the trial, said his posts had been simply reflecting how he and others felt following this ruling in the High Court.\n\nA statement from Gina Miller was read out to the court\n\nHe told the court: \"My family motto is 'Love of Country is my motivation'.\"\n\nHe said his comments were \"meant to be a form of satire, a literary technique, iterated in my personal style, which may not be to everyone's taste, but is understood and accepted by everyone who knows me\".\n\nMs Arbuthnot, in a series of exchanges with the peer, asked Philipps: \"Boat jumper, how can I see that as anything other than a racial, ethnic aggravation?\"\n\nBut Philipps denied the allegation that his posts were \"racially aggravated\" saying that describing Ms Miller as a \"boat jumper\" and that she should go back to the \"steaming jungle\" were \"statements of fact not a racist comment at all\".\n\nHe added that he would not have made any serious threat \"on an account where I could easily be identified\".\n\nHe added he had deleted the posts as soon as he realised that his closed circle of Facebook friends had been \"infiltrated\" and screen shots of the posts had been passed to Ms Miller.\n\nDelivering her verdict, Ms Arbuthnot said there was \"nothing private about a Facebook post\".\n\nThe other post Philipps was convicted for was in response to a news article about an immigrant in Luton, who was involved in a row over housing.\n\nPhilipps wrote: \"I will open the bidding. £2,000 in cash for the first person to carve Arnold Sube into pieces.\"\n\nKate Mulholland, from the Crown Prosecution Service said: \"No-one should have these kind of menacing comments made to them or about them.\"\n\nPhilipps will be sentenced later this week.", "Iberia insists it did not refuse to hire anyone for being pregnant - and says requiring tests is commonplace in Spain\n\nThe Spanish airline Iberia has said it will stop requiring female job candidates to take a pregnancy test after it was fined for the practice.\n\nLabour inspectors in the Balearic Islands discovered the airline insisted on the tests, and fined it €25,000 (£22,000; $28,000).\n\nThe airline argued it had only been trying to \"guarantee that [pregnant women] did not face any risks\".\n\nBut this explanation drew ridicule on social media.\n\n\"You need help to improve your arguments,\" tweeted one blogger, Eva Snijders, having earlier tweeted, \"Hello, we are Iberia and we live in medieval times.\"\n\nThe airline practice was uncovered after a campaign on the Balearic Islands to combat discrimination in the workplace, reports El Pais in English.\n\nInspectors subsequently found Iberia had required a recruitment company, Randstad, to carry out the test on candidates along with other medical checks, the paper says.\n\nIberia insists it did not turn down candidates discovered to be pregnant, saying five had been hired. It also reportedly argues that requiring pregnancy tests is commonplace in Spain.\n\n\"You need help to improve your arguments,\" tweeted Eva Snijders\n\nBut Spanish Health Minister Dolors Montserrat said she \"rejected\" the practice.\n\n\"Maternity can in no way be an obstacle for access to a job,\" she told reporters.\n\nIberia, which merged with British Airways in 2010, is free to appeal against the fine imposed by the Balearic regional government.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLabour's shadow business secretary Rebecca Long-Bailey has said she doesn't use taxi app Uber because it is not \"morally acceptable\".\n\n\"I don't like the way they treat their workers,\" she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nMs Long-Bailey claimed Uber drivers were being \"exploited\" and should have the same rights as workers with permanent jobs.\n\nUber said its drivers liked \"being their own boss\".\n\nMs Long-Bailey told Today: \"I don't personally use Uber because I don't feel that it is morally acceptable but that's not to say they can't reform their practices.\"\n\nShe added: \"I don't want to see companies model their operations on the Uber model.\"\n\nThe San Francisco-based company argues that its drivers are not employees but self-employed contractors.\n\nAn Uber spokesman said: \"Millions of people rely on Uber to get around and tens of thousands of drivers use our app to make money on their own terms.\n\n\"Almost all taxi and private hire drivers have been self-employed for decades before our app existed and with Uber they have more control.\n\n\"Drivers are totally free to choose if, when and where they drive with no shifts or minimum hours. In fact the main reason people say they sign up to drive with Uber is so they can be their own boss.\n\n\"Drivers using Uber made average fares of £15 per hour last year after our service fee and, even after costs, the average driver took home well over the National Living Wage.\n\n\"We're also proud to have moved things on from this industry's cash-in-hand past since every fare is electronically recorded, traceable and transparent.\"\n\nAn employment tribunal last year ruled that Uber drivers were entitled to holiday pay, paid rest breaks and the national minimum wage.\n\nThe tribunal described Uber's claim that its London operation was a network of 30,000 small businesses linked by a common technology platform as \"faintly ridiculous\".\n\nThe company's appeal against the employment tribunal decision will be heard later this year.\n\nThe tribunal said Uber drivers were not employees in the traditional sense, so were not entitled to the full range of employment rights, but could be classed as workers while they were using the Uber app and so were entitled to the minimum wage.\n\nA government commissioned report by Tony Blair's former adviser, Matthew Taylor, recommends creating a new category of worker called a \"dependent contractor\", who should be given extra protections by firms such as Uber and Deliveroo.\n\nBut Ms Long-Bailey said this would not necessarily help them.\n\n\"We don't really need a new status, the court victories that we've far have proved that many of these so-called self-employed people who work for the likes of Uber, for example, are workers and should be given adequate protections.\n\n\"And I do worry that if this isn't dealt with in sufficient detail, it could undermine the court rulings of Uber, for example, which it was hoped to have wide-ranging implications for the industry.\"\n\nMs Long-Bailey's deputy, shadow business minister Chi Onwurah, said she used Uber, but would have to reconsider if workers' rights were not strengthened.\n\nThe Labour MP told Sky News: \"These services bring real benefits to people. As a single woman leaving a meeting at 11 o'clock at night, being able to trace and see that your Uber is approaching is a benefit.\n\n\"We are not putting the blame on consumers and users of these applications.\"\n\nBut, she added, \"if the regulatory form doesn't come through then I would find it very hard to use Uber or Deliveroo because it is important that we support strong working rights\".", "The parents of Charlie Gard appear in many of the newspapers\n\nSeveral papers report the warning from a pay review body that schools in England are struggling to recruit teachers, after the government decided to cap their pay rises at 1%.\n\nThe story makes the lead in the Daily Telegraph, which says the prime minister is likely to face more challenges from her own MPs on the issue.\n\nThe paper says the pay review body's warning will add to mounting pressure on Chancellor Philip Hammond to ease the pay cap in his Budget later this year.\n\nThe Guardian says Mrs May has been accused of insulting teachers.\n\nIt also believes pressure is building on the government to announce a review of public sector pay in the autumn Budget.\n\nIn other education news, ministers are considering scrapping the Conservative programme to build hundreds more free schools, as they struggle to fund a manifesto promise to boost education budgets by £4bn, according to the Times.\n\nThe paper also reports the decision to continue the 1% cap on pay rises for teachers, calling it another real-terms salary cut for half a million staff in England and Wales.\n\nThe grim-faced parents of Charlie Gard are pictured on the Daily Mirror's front page, after a hearing at the High Court on Monday.\n\nThe Times reports how they shouted at the judge and a lawyer as they were told to provide fresh evidence that their terminally-ill baby should be taken abroad for treatment.\n\nThe Daily Mail says that after the hearing, many were left pondering the same simple clash of arguments.\n\nIt was the medical establishment versus a family not prepared to admit defeat, as long as someone, somewhere, was saying that something might be done.\n\nThe main story in the Financial Times is that the drugs industry is going to court to try to stop the NHS imposing new limits on the price it will pay for medicines.\n\nThe FT says the industry has complained that the policy might prevent patients from securing cutting-edge medicines for the most serious diseases.\n\nThe paper says the rules also affect drugs for very rare illnesses, which often affect children, and will be subject to a cost limit for the first time.\n\nThe Guardian's front page, meanwhile, highlights a warning from scientists that the sixth mass extinction of species in the earth's history is well under way.\n\nThe paper says the new study analysed both common and rare species and found that billions of regional or local populations had been lost, mainly because of human overpopulation and over-consumption.\n\nAnimals affected include lions in South Africa, Guatemalan bearded lizards, as well as red squirrels and barn swallows.\n\nA front-page report in the Financial Times says the government has conceded that the European Court of Justice could continue to have sway over Britain for a limited time after Brexit.\n\nThe paper sees the move as a \"blurring\" of one of Prime Minister Theresa May's red lines over negotiations with the EU, and says it could pave the way for a softer Brexit.\n\nThe FT calls it the most consequential concession since the referendum.\n\nMrs May's call for a cross-party approach to tacking the challenges facing the UK is given short shrift in the Telegraph.\n\nThe paper says that instead of prompting a great coming together, the idea seems to be falling apart almost immediately.\n\nThe Conservatives sometimes appear to have lost their bearings, the paper says, and the prime minister will not find the right path by following Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nBut the Sun believes it was honest and brave of Mrs May to offer other parties a say.\n\nWhat it calls Jeremy Corbyn's \"graceless\" rebuff was predictable, it says.\n\nAmid all the Wimbledon coverage, the Telegraph highlights complaints of sexism in the tournament's scheduling.\n\nIt says critics have pointed out that the show courts at the All England Club are routinely hosting two men's games, but only one women's match, each day.\n\nIt says Andy Murray has entered the fray, urging Wimbledon to begin play earlier on Centre Court to allow four matches and an equal split.\n\nAnd finally, there is widespread coverage of two new studies, which conclude that drinking coffee can reduce the risk of dying early.\n\nThe findings make the lead in the Daily Express, which says three cups a day can cut the risk of cancer, heart disease and strokes.\n\nThe Times adds that while coffee has been blamed for health problems such as insomnia, heartburn and weak bones, the new findings appear to show that the benefits outweigh the risks.\n\nFill the cafetiere, it advises, but ditch the cigarette.", "The 19-year-old previously worked with Sofia Coppola on Somewhere\n\nElle Fanning can't stop smiling as she describes her racy character in gothic thriller The Beguiled, set in a girls' boarding school during the American Civil War.\n\n\"It's funny because my character got to wear her hair down and have a couple of buttons unbuttoned and got to show her ankle - that was scandalous in Civil War times,\" she tells the BBC.\n\nThe film tells the story of what happens when Union soldier Corporal John McBurney (played by Colin Farrell) is taken in when one of the schoolgirls finds him injured - and he becomes an object of fascination for pupils and teachers alike.\n\nThe 19-year-old plays rebellious Alicia in the Sofia Coppola film, which won her the best director accolade at Cannes this year.\n\nFanning, star of last year's Neon Demon, said she'd stayed \"extremely close\" to Coppola since working with her on 2010's Somewhere. She got an email with the script for The Beguiled attached, saying Kirsten Dunst was to play teacher Edwina - and with a specific part in mind for Fanning.\n\n\"She thought that would be fun to make me the naughty one,\" said Fanning, adding that another draw was that it's set in the south, where she's from herself.\n\nHer character Alicia gets to \"show her ankle\", said Fanning\n\nThe Beguiled is based on the Clint Eastwood film of the same name - and the Thomas P Cullinan novel The Painted Devil, which inspired that 1971 movie.\n\n\"It's a remake of that and also a different take on that - Sofia Coppola-esque, from a different point of view, from the women's perspective this time,\" explains Fanning.\n\nNicole Kidman (left) and Kirsten Dunst (second right) also star in the film, directed by Sofia Coppola (second left)\n\nSo what was it like being the \"bad one\"?\n\n\"It was really fun,\" she grins. \"Also with Sofia, it feels so safe. She's so tasteful and keeps it classy.\"\n\nThe other girls got to have their fun too - in a \"girls gone wild behind-the-scenes\" film that Coppola also directed. \"We're holding these red Solo cups and showing our ankles,\" Fanning says.\n\nShe says that McBurney \"really shakes things up\" and \"also how he becomes the object\", adding: \"Normally women in films are objectified but in our film, we really got to objectify Colin.\n\n\"We had a calendar shoot with him, where all the girls were there and he was shirtless and he was sawing and we were laughing at him. He was a really good sport about it, it was really funny.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Kirsten Dunst on her new film The Beguiled and why things are harder for women\n\nHer co-star Kirsten Dunst said there were \"a lot of interesting dynamics with the household before McBurney comes in\" - notably between her and headmistress Miss Martha, played by Nicole Kidman.\n\nI don't know if something's gone on with me and Miss Martha or if she's made me do things that aren't kosher, you know what I mean?\" she says, adding that there are a lot of underlying tensions.\n\n\"This whole movie's about what's not being said,\" she adds.\n\n\"I think my character is extremely repressed by her but has to keep a good front for the girls because she's their teacher and being a good Christian woman and so I think my character swallows a lot.\n\n\"But I think it's relatable in any way - it's not because we're women. I think that's just being stuck in that household all together is making us a bit stir crazy.\"\n\nDunst is also directing a film version of Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar, starring Elle's sister Dakota - explaining the script is currently being rewritten.\n\nShe said she picks up tips from all the directors she works with and adds that Coppola, who directed her in The Virgin Suicides and Marie Antoinette, could have her play \"any role\".\n\n\"I've taken a lot from every director I've worked with,\" says Dunst - who was so overwhelmed at being on the Cannes red carpet with Coppola earlier this year that she burst into tears.\n\n\"Sofia makes a nice community on set which is a really lovely working environment. To be the most vulnerable you have to have a kind and open set and really listen to everyone and work as a team. So that's, I think, very important.\"\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.", "Ms Morris has been MP for Newton Abbot since 2010\n\nA Conservative MP has been suspended from the party after it emerged she used a racist expression during a public discussion about Brexit.\n\nAnne Marie Morris, the MP for Newton Abbot, used the phrase at an event in London to describe the prospect of the UK leaving the EU without a deal.\n\nShe told the BBC: \"The comment was totally unintentional. I apologise unreservedly for any offence caused.\"\n\nThe Conservative Party later confirmed she had had the whip withdrawn.\n\nAnnouncing the suspension, Theresa May said she was \"shocked\" by the \"completely unacceptable\" language.\n\n\"I immediately asked the chief whip to suspend the party whip,\" she said in a statement.\n\n\"Language like this has absolutely no place in politics or in today's society.\"\n\nThe BBC understands the prime minister and Conservative Chief Whip Gavin Williamson met to discuss the matter once Mrs May finished her Commons statement on last weekend's G20 summit.\n\nAccording to a recording published on the Huffington Post website, Ms Morris was discussing the impact of Brexit on the UK's financial services industry at an event organised by the Politeia think tank, which was attended by other MPs.\n\nSuggesting that just 7% of financial services would be affected by Brexit, she reportedly said: \"Now I am sure there will be many people who will challenge that but my response and my request is look at the detail - it isn't all doom and gloom.\"\n\nShe went on: \"Now we get to the real nigger in the woodpile, which is in two years what happens if there is no deal.\"\n\nThe phrase originated in the American Deep South in the mid-19th Century and is thought to have referred to slaves having to conceal themselves as they sought to flee north and secure their freedom.\n\nIt was subsequently used in the 20th Century - including by a number of leading novelists - as a metaphor to describe a hidden fact or problem.\n\nThe Lib Dems had called on Theresa May to withdraw the whip from Ms Morris, who was first elected to Parliament in 2010 and was subsequently re-elected in 2015 and earlier this year.\n\nLeader Tim Farron said he was \"shocked\" and called for her to be suspended from the parliamentary party.\n\n\"This disgusting comment belongs in the era of the Jim Crow laws and has no place in our Parliament,\" he said.\n\nLabour's Andrew Gwynne said Ms Morris had used \"outrageous and completely unacceptable\" language.\n\nGreen Party leader Caroline Lucas called on Ms Morris to resign as an MP, telling Sky News: \"There is no place for her in the House of Commons.\"\n\nShe also claimed that other Conservative MPs at the meeting \"apparently did not bat an eyelid\" at Ms Morris's language.\n\n\"At the very least, there ought to be a conversation between Theresa May and the others in that room so that they're very clear going forward that if ever that kind of language is heard in the earshot, it has to be condemned immediately,\" Ms Lucas said.\n\nLabour MP Chuka Umunna tweeted: \"Speechless, not just at the remark being made but also at the reported lack of a reaction from the Tories there. Utterly appalling.\"\n\nPoliteia's website said MPs Sir William Cash, Kwasi Kwarteng and John Redwood also took part, though Mr Kwarteng told the BBC he was not there. The BBC has contacted the other MPs for comment.\n\nMs Morris did face criticism from Tory colleagues, one of whom, Heidi Allen, tweeted: \"I'm afraid an apology is not good enough - we must show zero tolerance for racism. MPs must lead by example.\"\n\nFellow Conservative MP Helen Grant tweeted: \"Inconceivable for an MP using that expression to be incognisant of its history, impact and complete unacceptability. So ashamed!\"\n\nIn 2008, Conservative peer and party spokesman Lord Dixon-Smith apologised for using the same phrase in the House of Lords, saying that it was not appropriate and that he had \"left his brains behind\".\n\nThe peer was not dismissed.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson's message to the EU: \"Go whistle seems to me to be an entirely appropriate expression\"\n\nForeign Secretary Boris Johnson has told MPs the European Union can \"go whistle\" for any \"extortionate\" final payment from the UK on Brexit.\n\nAnd he said that the government had \"no plan\" for what to do in the event of no deal being agreed with the EU.\n\nHe said: \"The sums I have seen that they propose to demand from this country appear to be extortionate.\"\n\n\"Go whistle seems to me to be an entirely appropriate expression,\" he added.\n\nThe foreign secretary was responding to a question from backbench MP Philip Hollobone, who urged him to tell the EU they could \"go whistle\" if they wanted \"a penny piece more\" than the money the UK had already paid to the EU since 1973.\n\nThe question of any \"divorce bill\" paid by the UK is one of the first subjects to be tackled in the Brexit talks, and EU leaders say it must be settled before a future trading relationship can be negotiated.\n\nReports have suggested the demand from Brussels could be as high as 100bn euros. The UK government has said it will not pay this amount but will settle its \"obligations\" as it leaves.\n\nTaking questions in the House of Commons, Mr Johnson also denied reports Chancellor Philip Hammond and First Secretary of State Damian Green had said there will be a transition period of at least three years after Brexit, when the UK will remain under the jurisdiction of the Europe Court of Justice.\n\nAnd he was asked if there was a strategy, either public or private, for what would happen if there was no agreement on Brexit.\n\n\"There is no plan for no deal because we are going to get a great deal,\" he replied.\n\nHis comments come after No 10 sources played down suggestions that Theresa May plans to walk out of Brexit talks in September to show defiance over EU demands for a divorce bill worth tens of billions of pounds.\n\nMrs May has said that her view going into the Brexit negotiations was that \"no deal is better than a bad deal\".\n\nMr Johnson's comments seem to be at odds with Brexit Secretary David Davis, who told the BBC last month that the government had \"worked up in detail\" the \"no deal\" option on Brexit.\n\nAsked about the foreign secretary's remarks, the prime minister's spokeswoman said: \"We have said it is right to plan for all eventualities, and that planning is taking place across government.\"\n\nLiberal Democrat Brexit Spokesperson Tom Brake said the foreign secretary's remarks showed a \"shocking level of complacency\".\n\n\"It is simply not good enough when people's jobs, living standards and rights are all on the line,\" he said.\n\n\"People should be able to judge Boris Johnson on his actions not his words, with the chance to reject a disastrous Brexit deal and stay in the EU.\"\n\nLabour MP Chris Bryant added: \"For the government to threaten to leave the EU with no deal, while boasting about not having a plan for that eventuality, is completely unacceptable.\"\n\nMr Davis was asked during a House of Lords committee hearing about Mr Johnson's \"go whistle\" remark.\n\nIn response he laughed and said: \"Bluntly, I wouldn't worry, I mean you'll have to get the foreign secretary here to explain his views if you really want him to, I'm not going to comment on other ministers.\"", "Gangnam Style had been YouTube's most-watched video for five years\n\nPsy's Gangnam Style is no longer the most-watched video on YouTube.\n\nThe South Korean megahit had been the site's most-played clip for the last five years.\n\nThe surreal video became so popular that it \"broke\" YouTube's play counter, exceeding the maximum possible number of views (2,147,483,647), and forcing the company to rewrite its code.\n\nBut the song has now been overtaken by another music video - Wiz Khalifa and Charlie Puth's See You Again.\n\nThe heart-wrenching ballad has now been streamed 2,895,373,709 times; beating Psy's current count of 2,894,426,475 views.\n\nAdding it up, that means See You Again has been streamed for a total of 21,759 years. If one person was to listen to each of those streams consecutively, they'd have to have started during the glacial peak of the last Ice Age.\n\n\"I joined YouTube in 2007 hoping to make a video that would reach 10,000 views,\" wrote Charlie Puth on Twitter. \"Just heard about See You Again... Wow.\"\n\nCharlie Puth wrote See You Again, while rapper Wiz Khalifa added verses at the request of the film company\n\nThe song was written for the action movie Furious 7, playing over the closing credits in tribute to the actor Paul Walker, who died in a car accident before the film was completed.\n\nWith its unabashedly sentimental lyrics (\"it's been a long day without you my friend/ And I'll tell you all about it when I see you again\"), See You Again has become one of the most frequently requested pop songs at funerals in the UK.\n\nIt was the best-selling song worldwide in 2015, and received best song nominations at both the Grammys and the Oscars.\n\nThe music video features the final scene of Furious 7, in which the two main characters Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) and Brian O'Conner (Cody Walker, filling in for his brother, Paul), drive side-by-side, sharing a smile for the last time before they pull onto separate roads and drive into the sunset.\n\nAs the camera pans up into the sky, a title card reads \"For Paul\" and the video ends.\n\nThe song is a tribute to Paul Walker, who died in a car accident during a break in filming for Furious 7\n\nThe video reached 1 billion views in six months, and hit 2 billion last September. However, its reign as YouTube's most-watched clip may be short-lived.\n\nLuis Fonsi's summer smash Despacito has racked up 2.5 billion views in just six months, and it shows no signs of slowing down.\n\nThe Puerto Rican song - sung in a mixture of Spanish and English - has been number one in the UK for the last eight weeks, thanks in part to a remix featuring Justin Bieber.\n\nWhoever takes the title, though, its good news for Universal Music, which owns all of the songs.\n\nMeanwhile, 47 of the top 50 clips on YouTube are music videos, proving the importance of the streaming site to the music industry - despite the fact the two sides are locked in a battle over royalty payments.\n\nAccording to analysis by Midia Research, every stream on YouTube generates $0.001 for the music industry.\n\nIf accurate, that means Wiz Khalifa and Charlie Puth's song has earned $2.9m (£2.2m) from YouTube - roughly the same amount it has made from 665 million plays on Spotify.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Despacito: The Latin hit taking over the world\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.", "Andronicos Sideras allegedly mixed up the meats before sale\n\nA plot to pass horsemeat off as beef fell apart after horse identification chips were found in the meat by inspectors, a court has been told.\n\nAndronicos Sideras, 54, has been accused of deliberately mixing up the meats before they were sold in 2012.\n\nMr Sideras was one of the owners of meat company and sausage manufacturer Dinos & Sons.\n\nThe businessman, from Southgate, north London, denies conspiracy to defraud between 1 January and 30 November 2012.\n\nProsecutor Jonathan Polnay said alarm bells were raised after Dinos \"messed things up\" when assembling an order.\n\nA surprise inspection was triggered when the wrong size of shipment was sent to a company called Rangeland in Newry, Northern Ireland, in 2012, Inner London Crown Court was told.\n\nThe 12-pallet load was analysed and four of them contained horse.\n\nMr Polnay said: \"Some of them were found to contain significant amounts of horsemeat; roughly about a third contained horse.\"\n\nIt is alleged Mr Sideras mixed meat in this way before it was sold on to manufacturers making products for \"a vast range of well-known companies\".\n\nMr Sideras's fingerprints were found on \"fake\" labels, the court heard.\n\nMr Polnay added: \"The final piece of the jigsaw is that when the meat was analysed, three horse ID chips were found in some of it.\"\n\nThe chips were roughly the size of a 1cm grain of rice - two of which were Polish and one Irish.\n\nIt is alleged Danish-owned company Flexi Foods would buy horsemeat and beef from suppliers across Europe and then deliver to Dinos & Sons in Tottenham, north London.\n\nMr Polnay said the fraud could not have worked or taken place without the \"connivance\" of Mr Sideras.\n\nHe said: \"The meticulous records kept by FlexiFoods caused their undoing. They also provide compelling evidence of the guilt of this defendant.\"\n\nHe told the court that two men, Ulrik Nielsen, 58, the owner of FlexiFoods, and his \"right-hand man\", Alex Beech, 44, have already pleaded guilty to the same charge.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Paul Storm Blueitt will serve at least 27 years in prison\n\nA robber who carried out a \"horrendous\" attack on a cancer patient has been jailed for life for her murder.\n\nPaul Storm Blueitt, 36, assaulted Judith Ducker during the raid at a newsagents in Rotherham on 1 September.\n\nPolice said the injuries stopped Mrs Ducker receiving treatment for breast cancer and she died prematurely from the disease in hospital a month later.\n\nBlueitt, of Cambridge Crescent, Rotherham, was convicted after a trial at Sheffield Crown Court.\n\nDet Sgt Andy Shields said 64-year-old Mrs Ducker was left with a fractured skull, a fractured eye socket, multiple head lacerations and bruising to the brain following a \"horrendous assault\".\n\nDet Sgt Shields added: \"The consequence of this assault, was that Judith would never be well enough to receive further cancer treatment and after being taken to hospital, a CT head scan revealed that Judith's breast cancer had spread to her brain.\n\n\"Such were her head injuries that further cancer treatment could not be given to her and she sadly died in hospital on 20 October last year. She died from the breast cancer that had spread to her brain.\"\n\nJudith Ducker died in hospital after the attack prevented her from receiving cancer treatment\n\nSouth Yorkshire Police said Blueitt was initially charged with attempted murder but after Mrs Ducker's death, the charge was upgraded to murder, following consultation with the Crown Prosecution Service.\n\nThe prosecution case was that the serious head injuries caused by Blueitt prevented Mrs Ducker from receiving vital cancer treatment and resulted in her premature death.\n\nBlueitt was also found guilty of robbery and will have to serve a minimum of 27 years in prison.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Cody-Anne Jackson killed Macey and then tried to take her own life, the court heard\n\nA mother who sent a \"last photo\" of her two-year-old daughter to her ex-partner shortly before she killed her has admitted murder.\n\nCody-Anne Jackson, 20, changed her plea to guilty after Stafford Crown Court heard evidence about how her daughter, Macey Hogan, may have died.\n\nMacey was smothered to death in 2016, shortly before Jackson called 999 and then tried to kill herself.\n\nThe jury heard Jackson told paramedics she had been stabbed.\n\nJackson resented Macey's father following the breakdown of their relationship and sent him a photo of the toddler along with the message \"Sorry, just thought you deserved one last picture and memory of her\", the trial heard.\n\nThe 20-year-old, of Packett Street, Fenton, Stoke-on-Trent, claimed she had woken up on 10 October 2016 to find her daughter lifeless next to her between two pillows, police said.\n\nMacey died at her home last October\n\nJurors heard she called paramedics to report that her daughter was not breathing.\n\nForensic pathologist Dr Alexander Kolar said the exact cause of Macey's death had not been defined.\n\nIt was impossible to give an exact time of death, he said, but evidence pointed to it being at least 30 minutes before the emergency services arrived.\n\nProsecutor Jonas Hankin QC said a suicide note written by Jackson, who had a history of self harm, was found at the house.\n\nShe was seen by a doctor who confirmed she had three superficial stab wounds but no significant injuries.\n\n\"The prosecution case is the defendant deliberately smothered Macey,\" he said,\n\nToys and flowers were left outside the home in Packett Street\n\n\"The defendant acted on her stated intention to kill Macey but failed to follow through with her suicide. It is that simple.\"\n\nDet Insp Dan Ison, of Staffordshire Police, said: \"We welcome this guilty plea, albeit during the trial, but nothing can ever replace Macey.\n\n\"This incident resulted in the dreadful loss of a two-year-old girl who is dearly missed.\"\n\nJackson will be sentenced on 27 July.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The 4th Viscount St Davids, Rhodri Philipps, is accused of online threats against the anti-Brexit campaigner, Gina Miller\n\nBusinesswoman Gina Miller has said she felt \"violated\" after an aristocrat wrote a Facebook post offering a bounty for her to be run over.\n\nRhodri Colwyn Philipps, 50, the 4th Viscount St Davids, wrote the message four days after Ms Miller won a Brexit legal challenge against the government in November of last year.\n\nHe told Westminster Magistrates' Court the posts were not \"menacing\".\n\nLord St Davids, of Knightsbridge, London, wrote on the social media site on 7 November 2016: \"£5,000 for the first person to 'accidentally' run over this bloody troublesome first generation immigrant.\"\n\nHe described her as a \"boat jumper\" and added: \"If this is what we should expect from immigrants, send them back to their stinking jungles.\"\n\nMs Miller, 52, said she felt \"violated\" by his \"shocking\" comments about her.\n\nAsked by the prosecution why he had used the term \"immigrant\", Lord St Davids told the court: \"She's not part of the furniture\" adding, \"She's been here less than a generation.\"\n\nThe viscount also posted two messages referring to immigrants as \"monkeys\".\n\nIn one post, not directed at Ms Miller, he said: \"Please will someone smoke this ghastly insult to this country, why should I pay tax to feed these monkeys?\"\n\nMs Miller led the successful legal challenge which, on 3 November, ruled the government had to consult Parliament before formally beginning the Brexit process.\n\nMs Miller - who was born in Guyana - told the court she had been the subject of death threats since her role in the Article 50 case.\n\nIn a statement read to the court, she said she was \"very scared for the safety of herself and her family\".\n\n\"In addition to finding it offensive, racist and hateful, she was extremely concerned that someone would threaten to have her run over for a bounty,\" prosecutor Philip Stott said.\n\n\"She took the threat seriously, and it contributed to her employing professional security for her protection.\"\n\nLord St Davids, who was defending himself, accepted writing the posts but told the court they were not publicly visible or menacing.\n\n\"If you're in the public eye, people are going to say nasty things about you. It's the rough and tumble of public life,\" he said.\n\nHe insisted he is not racist and told the court: \"I know a number of Muslims who are dear friends.\n\n\"My own mother is an immigrant from the very same continent (as Ms Miller).\"\n\nThe case was adjourned until Tuesday afternoon when a verdict is expected.", "It wasn't meant to be called a \"relaunch\" or a \"fightback\" or even a \"reset\".\n\nThe prime minister's speech this morning was, however, the first big speech she has made since the election.\n\nYou might, therefore, have expected it to be bold, determined, as she said it would be. You might have expected it to be, at least in part, a genuine mea culpa from the PM for the mistakes of the election campaign.\n\nIt was, however, more a rather pedestrian response to the long awaited Taylor review on the changing world of work and insecure employment (insert obvious jokes here) and a restatement of purpose than a dazzling rebrand.\n\nBut whatever Theresa May had said this morning, as MPs stagger towards the finish line of this tumultuous year, and stumble towards the sun loungers, she is in trouble.\n\nAnd Tories will leave Westminster next week with the question of her future very much on their minds - the issue: how long can she survive?\n\nThere are some fundamental obstacles to her doing so, but some advantages to her position too (honest). This list is not exhaustive, nor predictive, and may, as is the way of things these days, not age well at all.\n\n1) Smack bang in the middle of her speech Theresa May said she is still convinced that her vision for the country is the right one, and she is completely committed to delivering it. The problem with that is that plenty of her MPs believe that the election result gave the country's verdict on that vision, and it wasn't pretty. They believe simply that she has to change, to show she can be flexible. How can she do that if she refuses to accept that some of her judgements were wrong?\n\n2) The cabinet has big disagreements on a lot of things, most notably of course on Brexit, and since the election they have little compunction in giving their views. Remainer members like the chancellor have not held back from arguing for a more flexible position than the PM's negotiating position as outlined earlier in the year. But others are adamant she must stick. I'm told that in cabinet this morning the foreign secretary urged the PM to reaffirm that the government position remained the Lancaster House speech and that she did so, despite the fact others sitting round the table have been arguing for that approach to bend.\n\n3) There are plenty of would-be rebels who believe they have the numbers on all sorts of issues to force the government to back down. First up could be membership of the European nuclear safety agency, Euratom. The rebels are very confident they have the numbers to get the prime minister to back down without even having to put an amendment down. One cabinet minister told me it would be a sensible move to show willing to compromise on an issue which doesn't raise much public concern, and would not raise too much suspicion of Brexit backsliding. Another source said it was simply now an issue for Number 10, with the Brexit Secretary David Davis understood to be \"relaxed\" about the issue. Theresa May might end up isolated with only her red lines for company.\n\n4) Some Brexiteer Tory MPs are what's described by a minister as \"absolutist\" - ready to pounce on any sign of compromise from Theresa May as evidence that she is about to betray their cause. Simply, she is trapped by the parliamentary numbers that dictate she will have to compromise, and by some in her own party who would be ready to condemn any whiff of her doing so.\n\n5) The Tory party particularly has little sympathy for leaders who look like they will damage all of their fortunes. You cannot find Tory MPs who say that she should lead them into the next election. It is a question of when not if. One former minister said she was finished (a much more delicate term than the ex-minister actually used) adding: \"We know it, and she knows it too.\" And as they enter the summer, many believe it would only take one more big thing to go wrong for the plotters to seize their moment.\n\n1) While Tory MPs agree that Theresa May can't stay on indefinitely, they pretty much all agree that they don't want to risk a general election right now. A few sources around the margins argue that a period of opposition is the only thing that will bring true reflection - but the overwhelming sense is that they need at least to stick together until the Autumn, for risking any leadership changes could slam them into another such contest. They worry that by plunging into another internal battle, they would push voters to choose Jeremy Corbyn for Number 10.\n\n2) There is no obvious successor to her. If there was a universally popular and respected alternative leader the situation might feel extremely different. Despite the chatter about all sorts of people, particularly Mr Davis, who is in notably buoyant form, there is no one figure that the party could obviously rally around. For those younger politicians who might hope for the job in a few years' time, there is a cynical - but also strategically understandable - appeal in allowing her to stay on to soak up all the potentially difficult months of Brexit, before being able to appear as a change candidate.\n\n3) Labour, while definitely riding high, are still divided on some issues, and not universally convinced that Jeremy Corbyn is the man for the job in the long term. United, and determined, they could make day-by-day life extremely difficult and uncomfortable for the Tories in Parliament. But it's not clear yet that they will be able to deliver that kind of sustained pressure, nor that they will be able to continue to build support.\n\n4) On the hardest thing of all, Brexit, there have - whisper it - been some signs of compromise on both sides. For example, while the UK folded on its key demand for parallel talks over withdrawal and future relationship, the EU side did concede a phased approach - there is a rather optimistic but well-informed outline of signs of compromise here.\n\n5) Pretty much everyone (including the journalists!) who works in Westminster is exhausted after 12 months of turmoil. One of those knackered MPs suggested this week that last year, May ended up PM by being \"the only grown-up in the room\" left after the mess of the referendum. No-one else had the energy to fight - and, 12 months on, they suggested, while Mrs May is damaged, no-one wants - yet - to get on another rollercoaster with an unknown destination - at least until they have had a lie down.", "In a single week last summer, the deaths of two black men and then five police officers in a series of shootings across three US states left some wondering where the country was heading. One year on, what's changed?\n\nLast week, on 5 July, Sandra Sterling lay awake in her bed nearly the entire night.\n\n\"At 1:30 this morning, you'll never know what I went through,\" she said later.\n\nBefore the sun rose on 6 July, Diamond Reynolds also could not sleep.\n\n\"The first thing I did was think, 'Phil's not here,'\" she said. \"Last year we was waking up together around this time.\"\n\nAnd in the wee hours of 7 July, Abigail Irizarry, a dispatcher for the Dallas Police Department, was also struggling.\n\n\"I woke up early and it was kind of hard seeing everything on the news all over again,\" she said. \"The footage of what happened.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'The nation is at tipping point'\n\nOne year ago, in rapid succession, a series of incidents shook three American cities over the course of three days:\n\nAfter the three events splintered apart into their own individual investigations, memorials, trials, and controversies, it became difficult to remember that they occurred back to back, on a week when it felt as if the nation was on the brink of a race war.\n\nBut last week, they were pulled back together as the friends, families and survivors central to each incident dutifully marked the anniversaries, one after the other. Though they did so in vastly different ways, with at times diametrically opposed messages, the three communities were all in mourning. They shared those sleepless nights.\n\n\"As much as we politicise and advocate our position when these tragedies happen, the grief of the family of an officer and the grief of the family of a person killed by an officer is the same grief,\" said David O Brown, who was the chief of the Dallas police on the night of the ambush.\n\n\"These funerals - they're all the same,\" he said. \"These families hurt in the same ways.\"\n\nWhile the race war never arrived, a new presidential administration did, one with a very different view on the federal government's role in police-involved killings and law enforcement reform in general. President Donald Trump's attorney general, Jeff Sessions, believes that consent decrees - agreements between local police departments and the Department of Justice on a set of reforms that often occur after a high profile incident - can \"lower police morale\" and actually increase crime.\n\nSessions has ordered all current consent decrees to be \"reviewed\". Fourteen police or sheriff's departments currently have such decrees, including Ferguson, Missouri, and many others were in the works in cities like Baltimore and Chicago.\n\nPolitics aside, the consequences of these incidents continue to pulse through the nation as a whole, affecting not just the families of the deceased, but those on the periphery as well.\n\nAbdullah Muflahi behind the counter at Triple S Food Mart in Baton Rouge, Louisiana\n\nOn the sweltering Baton Rouge afternoon of 5 July, Abdullah Muflahi smoked a cigarette outside of his store, Triple S Convenience, and watched a video on his cell phone.\n\nIt was not the one he recorded a year ago, of the death of his friend Alton Sterling, who died just feet from where Muflahi was sitting. It was one from that morning, when a group of protesters from the New Black Panther Party clashed with Baton Rouge police officers at their headquarters a few miles away.\n\nThe video, taken by a local news crew, showed the group of about 30 demonstrators try to walk through an opening in barricades surrounding the police headquarters when a brawl broke out with the officers blocking the way. The officers deployed their Tasers - they alleged later that one of the Black Panthers also had a Taser - one shot a PepperBall gun at the demonstrators, and seven protesters were arrested.\n\nTwo of Sterling's aunts are seen on the tape being dragged to the back of the protest screaming and crying.\n\n\"Nothing has changed,\" said Muflahi. \"It's very depressing.\"\n\nJust a week earlier, US Department of Justice officials declined to charge the two officers who shot Sterling with civil rights violations. Louisiana state officials have yet to announce whether they will pursue their own indictment.\n\nMuflahi, a laconic, bearded 28-year-old Yemeni immigrant, allowed Sterling to sell bootleg CDs on a table outside his shop in a busy but economically depressed part of Baton Rouge. They'd sit outside on days just like this one and talk over cigarettes.\n\nOne year ago, Muflahi noticed the flashing lights of police vehicles pull up outside the store. Someone called to say Sterling had threatened them with a gun.\n\nBy the time Muflahi pulled out his cell phone and started recording one of two videos that went viral of the incident, Sterling was already on his back with two officers on top of him. Within seconds, one officer yelled, \"Gun!\" and that's when the shooting started. The video footage shows Sterling's eyes go wide, blood pooling on his chest.\n\n\"It's not as easy as just seeing it on the tape or the screen,\" said Muflahi. \"Seeing it in front of you, somebody that you know, you knew for a while, it takes a big effect on your whole life.\"\n\nSince the incident Muflahi has started seeing a psychiatrist. He said he has trouble sleeping, and when he does sleep, he finds it impossible to get up in the morning.\n\n\"My doctor's been trying to give me something to help me out,\" he said. \"He said it was all because of depression.\"\n\nArthur \"Silky Slim\" Reed sits in the back of his \"hearse ambulance\"\n\nStanding next to Muflahi was Arthur \"Silky Slim\" Reed, a former gang leader turned activist. Reed runs an organisation called \"Stop the Killing\" whose members listen to police scanners and race to the scene of every homicide in Baton Rouge. This is how Reed got his hands on the second tape of Sterling's death, which he turned over to the press, not trusting the local police to make it public.\n\n\"They have put new policies in place for policing,\" Reed conceded. \"But even when you break the policy there's no [accountability]. So it's the same old thing and it's not just Baton Rouge, it's all over America.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The story behind this photo at Baton Rouge protests\n\nReed's vehicle sat in the Triple S car park - an ambulance painted black blasting \"Tha Crossroads\" on a loop. Inside was a bench seat facing a television screen, which played footage of the aftermath of real homicides in Baton Rouge that Reed and his associates filmed, in the hope that showing the extremely graphic tapes to the friends and family of the dead will motivate them to change their lives.\n\nThe screen that afternoon showed a young man in a white tank top lying in the street. When the police lifted him by his arms, his head pitched lifelessly to one side, blood pouring out of his nose and mouth.\n\n\"So many people like to try to throw this cliche on us like, 'Oh, how come they don't worry about when they killing each other?' We do,\" said Reed. \"We show this.\"\n\nNot long afterwards, Sandra Sterling - the aunt who raised Alton from the age of 10 when his mother died - walked into the Triple S. She looked exhausted, her voice hoarse from screaming.\n\n\"I don't have no strength left,\" she said.\n\nSandra said she did her best to raise her sister's children, but Alton and his siblings were often in trouble, sometimes locked up.\n\nDuring his last stint in prison, Sandra said, Alton's brother died of a drug overdose. When she went to pick Alton up after his release, he insisted she take him straight to his brother's gravesite.\n\n\"Later on they buried [Alton] exactly where he was standing,\" she said.\n\nAs dusk approached, a group of about 60 activists and community members gathered in the parking lot of the Triple S. It was an informal gathering, light-up placards spelled out the words \"JUSTICE FOR ALTON STERLING\". A few activists spoke, several state and city officials milled about, but there were no celebrities or crowds like the hundreds that had descended on the food mart a year ago.\n\n\"Why nobody out here?\" she cried, her voice breaking. \"This street was flooded with people. Y'all make me think that y'all forgot about Alton. How could you forget?\"\n\nDespite the chants of \"justice for Alton Sterling\", despite the activist who turned to her and promised in a soaring voice that the two police officers would certainly be indicted, Sandra was not optimistic.\n\n\"After the Philando Castile murderer got off, I don't feel a lot of hope,\" she said.\n\nUnlike the Sterling family, which is still waiting to find out if Louisiana authorities will indict the two officers involved in Alton's death, the friends and family of Philando Castile have their answer. On 17 June, a jury acquitted Officer Jeronimo Yanez on all counts in Castile's death.\n\nOn the 6th of July, Diamond Reynolds woke up early, around the time that her boyfriend Castile used to wake up to get ready for his job as a cafeteria supervisor at an elementary school in St Paul, just a few blocks from where he lived as a boy.\n\nWaking up alone, Reynolds said she felt sluggish and weak.\n\n\"It's just gonna be a hard day,\" she said.\n\nDiamond Reynolds holds her daughter Dae'Anna as she addresses a crowd the day after Castile's death in 2016\n\nReynolds doesn't have a lot of time for outrage over the court decision. She has to be out of the apartment she and her five-year-old Dae'Anna are currently living in by the end of the month, and since she can't find work, coming up with the money for a new place is proving impossible.\n\n\"No one will hire her,\" said her mother, Dafina Doty. \"We're really, really, really having a hard time right now.\"\n\nStill, Reynolds got up, and loaded Dae'Anna into the car to go do last-minute shopping for an event she was hosting later that afternoon to mark the year anniversary of Castile's death, titled \"Black Love: A Remembrance Celebration\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'I don't want you to get shooted': Inside police car after Castile shooting\n\nAt about the same time that Reynolds was heading for the store, a press conference was starting at the Minnesota State Capitol in downtown St Paul.\n\nRather than feeling forgotten in a dusty parking lot like Sandra Sterling had the day before, Castile's uncle Clarence found himself standing beside Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton, who announced the appointment of Clarence to the state's Peace Officer Standards and Training board.\n\n\"I can be angry at the system because they let Yanez off the hook. I can be angry at that. But I can also feel empowered because I've been appointed to this board,\" he said later. \"For me, that's power.\"\n\nGovernor Dayton also announced a $12m infusion of money into the board, in a fund named after Philando.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mark Dayton, Minnesota Governor: \"Would this have happened if he was white?\"\n\n\"We need this extra training for our police officers,\" Valerie Castile, Philando's mother, told reporters. \"Because at the end of the day, everyone wants to go home. The police wants to go home, and the civilian wants to go home.\"\n\nThe Castiles hosted a memorial dinner at an idyllic farm for about 250 friends and family later that day - no media allowed - just to the west of where Philando was killed. Reynolds held her separate event in a lakeside park to the east of the site.\n\nNotably, Castile's name and image were absent from the flier for Reynolds' event. This was in accordance with Castile's mother's wishes, which Reynolds agreed to but was still bothered by.\n\n\"The fact that my child wasn't his child and we weren't married doesn't discredit the love that we had for each other,\" she said. \"Doesn't mean we weren't a family.\"\n\nDiamond Reynolds and a friend observe the anniversary of Castile's death at a park in St Paul, Minnesota\n\nAt both events, attendees ate and danced, listened to live music. The atmosphere was relaxed, the surroundings were lush. Dae'Anna played with her therapy dog, Chedda - Philando's nickname. Reynolds called it the \"closure\" that she and her daughter had been craving for the last year.\n\nStill, in the back of Reynolds' mind there are many pressing worries. She rattled off a list of the kinds of jobs she's applied for over the last year: administrative work, customer service, childcare provider, nurse's aid.\n\n\"People notice who I am and they don't want to work with me,\" she said.\n\nThen there's Dae'Anna. Reynolds needs to find a new home in time to enrol her for her first day of elementary school. The five year old is thriving in some ways - already reading chapter books and excited to start the first grade - but she also gets picked on by other kids who needle her about Castile. She's receiving therapy, but still ducks down in her car seat at the sound of sirens.\n\n\"She thinks any police officer [could hurt her],\" said Reynolds. \"Even when I tell her all police officers aren't bad, she's still going to be scared of them.\"\n\nShetamia Taylor remembers the face of the burly, bald officer who turned as he was being shot and called out to her as she and her four sons were leaving what had been a peaceful protest in downtown Dallas.\n\n\"He's got a gun,\" the officer yelled. \"Get down!\"\n\nTaylor and her sons turned to run, but before she could, a bullet ripped through her leg with a red-hot stinging sensation, shattering her tibia bone. She grabbed on to her second oldest son and tumbled to the ground, covering him with her body.\n\nA group of officers formed a protective circle around Taylor, including the one who'd first warned her. Later on she learned his name: Dallas police officer Lorne Ahrens. He would not survive.\n\n\"He was one of the five,\" she recalls. \"I am so thankful to god that he spared us, but I'm so saddened that these men, these husbands, these fathers didn't.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. People in Dallas started running when they hear dozens of gun shots\n\nOn 7 July 2017, the city of Dallas commemorated the deaths of Officer Ahrens, Officer Patrick Zamarripa, Officer Michael Krol, Sergeant Michael Smith, and Dallas Area Rapid Transit officer Brent Thompson. All five were killed in an ambush by Micah Xavier Johnson, who reportedly told police negotiators he wanted to kill white officers in retaliation for the deaths of black men and women at the hands of police. Johnson was killed after an hours-long standoff by an explosion set off by the Dallas police.\n\nOne year later, in the dim light of the room which served as her recovery room for three months, Taylor still walked with a slight limp. She had a metal plate and six screws holding the bone together, and though she was finally able to return to work she still has thousands of dollars in medical bills left to pay.\n\nShe had no plans to venture back into downtown Dallas for memorial events that day. Just seeing the news about the anniversary that morning sent her into a minor panic attack, her chest pounding and hands shaking.\n\n\"I guess it's just part of the PTSD,\" she said.\n\nEl Centro College police officer John Abbott didn't have that option. That morning, 12 months on, Abbott donned his uniform and headed in for his shift, patrolling the same campus where he took fire from Johnson. He walked the same street where he had pulled a wounded officer to safety - his own legs shredded by flying glass - only to roll him over and see that it was his long-time friend, DART officer Brent Thompson. Abbott, who is also a Navy medic, worked to save Thompson's life, but it was too late.\n\n\"I was just angry. I wanted to get a hold of that guy,\" recalled Abbott. \"I don't know that there really is anyone who is a civilian who will ever be able to understand that type of reaction.\"\n\nFor Dr Alex Eastman - lead medical officer for the Dallas Police Department SWAT team, assistant professor of surgery at UT Southwestern Medical Center, and a trauma surgeon at Parkland Memorial Hospital - the day began with a short prayer in the \"trauma pod\" at Parkland surrounded by the medical team that had worked feverishly to save the officers' lives that night.\n\n\"I know many of us have hurt deeply over the last year,\" he told the small gathering of doctors, nurses, technicians and security guards. \"This has certainly been, for me, one of the most challenging events of my career.\"\n\nThen he swapped out of his white doctor's coat, and suited up in the same SWAT gear he wore a year ago when he found himself in the middle of the shooting.\n\nPortraits of the five fallen officers at Dallas police headquarters\n\n\"I'm doing [on 7 July] what the rest of the police department and what Parkland Hospital is doing - we're going to take a few minutes for ourselves and we're going to reflect and honour the memory of our colleagues that aren't with us anymore,\" he said. \"And then we're going to do what we do everyday. We're going to come to work and do our jobs and protect this great city.\"\n\nEastman went on duty to help watch over the city-wide memorial held in front of Dallas' city hall. Hundreds poured into the grassy areas in front of the building to listen to state and local politicians express condolences and grief, pledges of loyalty to the men and women in blue, and for extra spending on police tactical gear. At exactly 8:58pm, when the shooting began a year earlier, the crowd held tiny blue lights aloft as bagpipers played Amazing Grace.\n\nAlthough the deaths of the officers took place at a protest over the deaths of Castile and Sterling, few of those present drew a link from those deaths to the deaths of the officers.\n\n\"I guess my perspective was we hadn't had anything like that happen in Dallas, so why did we pay for other issues?\" said police dispatcher Abigail Irizarry, who was on duty the night of the ambush. \"Why us?\"\n\nFor Jose Vela, the contrast was even more stark. One year ago, he'd come to the demonstration as the leader of an organisation called \"Cop Block\" which filmed and scrutinized police behaviour. Vela said he was a block and a half away when the shots began.\n\n\"I saw the police literally run towards the bullets flying,\" he said.\n\nVela was so affected he completely reversed course. He resigned from Cop Block, started showing up to police stations in Dallas with an American flag, donating money to police causes, and instead of filming cops, filming civilians to try to be of assistance to law enforcement.\n\n\"Crime is going up. The police department is short 400 officers. They're tired, they're desperate,\" he said. \"There will always be bad police, but overall, all police are good. They all have families, they're all human beings.\"\n\nJose Vela has gone from a protester of police to their number one fan\n\nOpinions split from Baton Rouge to St Paul to Dallas on whether or not there is a way to connect the three days, and the seven deaths.\n\nThe Sterling family bristled at the thought that Alton somehow caused the deaths of the Dallas officers. Clarence Castile freely admitted he'd been too steeped in his own grief and effort to hold his family together to think about much about the other families.\n\nThe police community feels increasingly embattled after several ambush killings of officers over the past year including just last week, the death of a New York City police officer who was shot through the window of her cruiser by a mentally ill man.\n\nBut Shetamia Taylor quietly connected all these worlds. She was born in Louisiana, raised in Minnesota, and now lives in Texas - a set of facts that leads internet conspiracy theorists to accuse her of being a \"crisis actor\" and a hoaxer.\n\nShe went to the march a year ago to protest over police brutality, on behalf of her four black sons. She left wounded, but alive, thanks, she believes, to the bravery of an officer who died helping her.\n\nEven before that day one year ago, her youngest son declared he wants to become a police officer, a decision she supports.\n\n\"I know there is false fear on both sides,\" she said on 7 July. \"But being a black mother of four young black men at a time where race tensions are so high, to have these white officers so willingly risk their own lives for my black life? Come on now - everybody matters.\"", "A 22-year-old British man has been killed fighting against so-called Islamic State in northern Syria, Kurdish fighters have said.\n\nLuke Rutter, of Birkenhead, Merseyside, was killed on 6 July in a neighbourhood south of Raqqa, they said.\n\nIn a statement, the Kurdish YPG fighters said he had been killed \"during the big campaign to liberate Raqqa from the terrorism of IS\".\n\nMr Rutter's family said they did not wish to comment.\n\nHe is the fourth British man to be killed while fighting against IS in Syria.\n\nBBC News correspondent Emma Vardy said an eyewitness who had been close by told her Mr Rutter had not been killed during a planned operation, but had died in what he described as an ambush.\n\nWhile Mr Rutter and a group of other soldiers were some distance back from the front line, one fighter stepped on a landmine which exploded, and then IS fighters attacked, the eyewitness said.\n\nThey were quickly overpowered and the incident lasted only minutes, he added.\n\nYPG representatives told our correspondent that while IS is slowly being defeated in Raqqa, this ambush is proof that the jihadists are very much active within the city and are using snipers, tunnels, booby traps and hidden explosive devices.\n\nIn a video posted online by the general command of the YPG, Mr Rutter said he had joined the group because it \"stands for the best opportunity for peace that this region might have\".\n\n\"I lied to people I care about to come here,\" he said.\n\n\"I said I was going somewhere else - I didn't. I apologise massively for that.\n\n\"Apart from that I don't regret my decision and I hope that you respect it.\"\n\nThe statement from the YPG said Mr Rutter was also known by the name \"Soro Zinar\" and he had arrived in Rojava, a Kurdish region in northern Syria, at the beginning of March 2017.\n\nIt said Mr Rutter had had military training at the YPG academy in Rojava and that \"despite lacking professional military background, he was among the best in training.\"\n\n\"We send our thoughts and prayers to Martyr Soro, his family, and his comrades who fought courageously on behalf of all humanity,\" the statement said.\n\n\"Soro will always be remembered by our people and all peace-loving people around the world as a hero who sacrificed his life for the sake of protecting the value of the free world.\"\n\nThe British Foreign Office advises people not to travel to Syria to fight.\n\nLuke Rutter is one of a number of volunteers who have been willing to go to the front line and fight against the jihadists.\n\nIt is seen as a fight of good versus evil, a vision of hope against a fascist mindset.\n\nDespite warnings from authorities, many volunteers from the UK and other countries have felt a strong draw to go and to take part.\n\nThe Kurdish YPG is a non-religious force fighting for a libertarian, socialist ideology. They say their struggle is a revolution, and many westerners have come to play a role.\n\nBut Mr Rutter's death is a reminder of the risks they take.", "Air Canada says it is investigating the incident\n\nThe US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is investigating an apparent near-miss involving an Air Canada flight at San Francisco's airport.\n\nIt says Flight AC759 from Toronto was cleared to land on a runway last Friday, but the pilot \"inadvertently\" lined up for a taxiway where four aircraft were waiting to depart.\n\nAn air traffic controller became aware of the problem and ordered the pilot to pull up and make another approach.\n\nThe FAA is currently investigating the distance between the Air Canada aircraft and the aircraft lined up on the taxiway, which runs parallel to the runway.\n\nIt describes the 7 July incident as \"very rare\".\n\nAir Canada says 135 passengers and five crew members were aboard the flight from Toronto.\n\nIt was not immediately clear how many people were in the four planes on the taxiway.\n\nAir Canada is also investigating the incident, a spokesman for the company says.\n\n\"Air Canada flight AC759 from Toronto was preparing to land at San Francisco airport Friday night when the aircraft initiated a go-around,\" Peter Fitzpatrick is quoted as saying by CBC News.\n\n\"The aircraft landed normally without incident. We are still investigating the circumstances and therefore have no additional information to offer.\"\n\nMeanwhile, an audio recording has emerged of what are said to be last Friday's communications between air traffic controllers and pilots at San Francisco's airport.\n\nIn it, a male voice believed to be that of the Air Canada pilot is heard saying that there are lights on the runway.\n\nOne of the air traffic controllers replies that there are no other planes there.\n\nAnother - unidentified - voice is then heard saying: \"Where's this guy going? He's on the taxiway.\"\n\nThe air traffic controller then apparently realises the danger of the Air Canada plane crashing into the four aircraft on the ground, and orders the pilot to pull up and make another approach.\n\nA pilot from one of the planes on the ground is then heard saying: \"United One, Air Canada flew directly over us.\"\n\n\"If it is true, what happened probably came close to the greatest aviation disaster in history,\" retired United Airlines Capt Ross Aimer, CEO of Aero Consulting Experts, told the Mercury News.\n\n\"If you could imagine an Airbus colliding with four passenger aircraft wide bodies, full of fuel and passengers, then you can imagine how horrific this could have been,\" he said.\n\nThe deadliest incident in aviation history was in 1977, when 583 people were killed after two Boeing planes collided on a runway at Los Rodeos airport in northern Tenerife, on Spain's Canary Islands.", "Brayden Dillon was shot dead in his Sydney home\n\nAn Australian man has been charged with the \"execution-style\" killing of a 15-year-old boy who was shot in his bed.\n\nBrayden Dillon was sleeping on Good Friday in April when a masked gunman entered his family's Sydney home and shot him in the head, police said.\n\nOn Monday, heavily armed officers arrested a 26-year-old man and charged him with murder.\n\nIt came hours after police released images of a car being driven in the area around the time of the shooting.\n\nIn April, police said the gunman had threatened Brayden's mother before entering his room and shooting him at close range.\n\nHis stepfather and young step-siblings were also in the house at the time.\n\n\"Brayden's murder was particularly callous,\" Detective Chief Inspector Mark Henney said on Monday.\n\nHe would have celebrated his 16th birthday on Wednesday, police said.\n\nThe man will appear in a Sydney court on Tuesday.", "In the undercover investigation, a senior manager demanded staff work six days a week\n\nSome workers at a cosmetics chain in major London shopping sites, including Westfield, are getting paid as little as £2.05 an hour, a BBC investigation has found.\n\nThe month-long undercover investigation found people were made to sign up as self-employed when legally they should have been classified as employees.\n\nSoap and Co. said it was \"extremely concerned\" about the allegations.\n\nIt said it planned to review the employment status of workers.\n\nThe company describes its products as \"an ideal balance between beauty, health and simple indulgence\".\n\nDuring the BBC London-Newsnight investigation, an undercover reporter spent one month working for the company, documenting the treatment of staff and their employment conditions.\n\nThey were made to be at work for a minimum of six days per week, for around 60 hours, at the firm's stores.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC filmed undercover for this investigation. Watch Guy Lynn's report for BBC Newsnight\n\nWorkers are paid by commission based on their sales. Some earned better under the arrangement than others.\n\nThe BBC's undercover reporter was paid £199 in commission for 97 hours' work - equivalent to an hourly rate of £2.05.\n\nThe national minimum wage ranges from £4.05 for under-18s to £7.50 for someone aged over 25.\n\nThe BBC also asked the two managers that the undercover reporter worked for about their understanding of the working relationship. They did not respond.\n\nThe BBC was told similar arrangements were in place at the company's affiliated Sakare outlets in Mayfair and Covent Garden.\n\nOne employee said: \"I cannot move, I'm tired, my body hurts.\"\n\nAnother said: \"My lower back hurts. I'm smashed physically and mentally. This is not normal.\"\n\nFines were handed out if workers were caught checking their mobile phones.\n\nSoap and Co. mainly recruits workers from Eastern Europe, and some staff paid for cramped accommodation with shared bedrooms.\n\nPartner at employment law firm, BDBF, Arpita Dutt described what had happened as a \"flagrant breach\" of minimum wage legislation.\n\nShe said: \"This does seem to be exploitation of workers.\n\n\"It reminds me of those days where we used to have master-servant relationships.\"\n\nStaff had prescriptive hours, they were not allowed to work elsewhere, or to substitute another \"self-employed\" individual to cover a shift.\n\nThe investigation found workers had to sign contracts saying they were self-employed.\n\nThis Soap and Co. manager fined staff for looking at mobile phones\n\nBut lawyers have told the BBC that the high level of control exercised by managers over workers meant in reality they were employees.\n\nThis means they should have been paid the minimum wage and a host of other in-work benefits - including sick pay and holiday pay.\n\n\"What we're finding is a real case of abuse... a whole raft of employment legislation that has been with us for 30 years is being cast aside in one blink of an eye,\" said Meredith Hurst, a partner at employment lawyers Thomas Mansfield. \"I find it quite shocking.\n\n\"This is a very extreme case of control over an individual, and there is no doubt in my mind these individuals are employees.\n\n\"I would say that what we're seeing is a sham situation.\"\n\nNeither HM Revenue & Customs nor the Office of National Statistics publishes official figures for bogus self-employment.\n\nBut the overall PAYE tax gap - the difference between the amount of tax that should theoretically be collected from people's pay packets and what is actually taken - is currently £2.8bn.\n\nIn a statement, Soap and Co. said: \"Soap and Co. takes their responsibility under UK law very seriously. We are therefore extremely concerned to learn about the allegations made by some individuals about the company's working arrangements.\n\n\"As a consequence we are reviewing those allegations and the implications (if any) regarding the employment status of those who work with us.\"\n\nWestfield said it was \"concerned\" about the findings of the BBC investigation, but said it \"does not comment on specific allegations relating to individual retailers\".\n\nIt said: \"Retailers in our centres directly manage their employees, independently of Westfield.\"\n\nUpdate: The Soap Co. has asked us to point out that it has no connection to the company Soap and Co. which features in this report\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Kermit the Frog is getting a new voice for the first time in nearly three decades as his puppeteer steps down.\n\nSteve Whitmire has supplied Kermit's nasal tones since 1990, after the death of Muppets creator Jim Henson.\n\nUS reports confirmed his departure and said he was going to be replaced by Matt Vogel.\n\nWhitmire has worked on the Muppets since 1978 and also provided the voice of Sesame Street favourite Ernie, of Bert and Ernie fame.\n\nNo reason has been given for his exit.\n\nKermit and Miss Piggy arriving at the premiere for 2014 film Muppets Most Wanted\n\nWhitmire has portrayed Fraggle Rock characters and appeared in films Labyrinth and The Dark Crystal.\n\nHe was chosen to take over as Kermit by Henson's son Brian, online magazine Kill Screen reported.\n\nFans said they were \"devastated\" that Whitmire would no longer work with Kermit, with one saying they were \"trying not to cry\" at the news, and shared stories of meeting him.\n\nVogel has also worked on Sesame Street\n\nVogel, who voiced Kermit imitator Constantine in 2014 film Muppets Most Wanted, will first be heard as Kermit - the long-time love of Miss Piggy - in a Muppets Thought of the Week video next week, The Hollywood Reporter 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.\n• None Why Kermit the Frog memes are so popular\n• None First Kermit given to Smithsonian\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The co-founder of a Silicon Valley investment firm said it is \"not my job to make you all feel good\" in a long email to staff and investors.\n\nJonathan Teo from Binary Capital was responding to negative press coverage about the firm following allegations of sexual harassment by his co-founder Justin Caldbeck.\n\nHe added that he was \"tired and indignant\", and raged against \"whiners\" who demanded his attention.\n\nMr Teo has already offered to resign.\n\nHe did so after Mr Caldbeck left the firm in June.\n\n\"I'm incredibly sorry,\" Mr Caldbeck tweeted when the news broke last month.\n\nMr Caldbeck's actions were one of several sexism scandals to rock Silicon Valley in recent months.\n\nThey include a damning report into the work culture inside ride-hailing firm Uber, and the resignation of venture capitalist Dave McClure, who admitted \"inexcusable behaviour\" towards \"multiple women\".\n\nJustin Caldbeck said he was \"incredibly sorry\" over harassment claims\n\nNo allegations have been made against Jonathan Teo, who said he had offered to step down in order to \"quell a news cycle\".\n\nHe blamed leaks to a \"corrupted\" media about investors feeling nervous about his firm and claimed his resignation offer had not yet been accepted.\n\nMr Teo also said he was \"angry that women had felt hurt\", but described a suggestion by one of the firm's portfolio companies that the next partner should be a woman as \"moronic\".\n\n\"We must choose the best person, male or female,\" he wrote in the email, which the BBC has confirmed to be genuine.\n\n\"Talent is universal if we only choose to recognize it. Anything else is again grandstanding for a personal agenda.\"\n\nMr Teo also added that reports suggesting investors were trying to buy back shares were untrue, and said that it was \"dishonourable\" for an entrepreneur to back away \"at the first sign of trouble\".\n\nOnly one firm has so far announced its intention to pull away from Binary Capital.\n\n\"As for the people here that whine that they aren't taken care of, who have not to worry about their lives being taken from them or their basic needs met, who owes them more than the voice they already have access to?\" he wrote.\n\nThe email was first published by the website Axios.\n\nJournalist Erin Griffith described the email as \"unapologetic\" on the Fortune website.\n\n\"It is angry and, in parts, barely coherent,\" she said.\n\nSilicon Valley entrepreneur and journalist Mike Malone said the email was \"a Jerry Maguire moment\" for Mr Teo.\n\n\"He's having a very bad day,\" he said.\n\n\"He says he'll resign, then turns around and says it's not his fault at all, that everyone is conspiring against him including the media.\n\n\"If you were teaching PR 101 this guy has just done everything possible wrong. He has insulted clients, he has insulted investors, he has insulted employees and he has insulted the media.\n\n\"This is a venture capital fund and venture capitalists live and die by the amount of money they can raise for their next fund.\"\n\nJonathan Teo told the BBC he didn't want to comment at this time.", "The UK is rolling out the red carpet for King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia of Spain, sprinkling pomp and glamour over some deep-rooted tensions.\n\nBrexit and the centuries-old dispute over Gibraltar might suggest that UK-Spanish relations are between a Rock and a hard place.\n\nBut the 12-14 July state visit could send a sunburst through those clouds. The royal couple were due to arrive in London on Tuesday.\n\nBoth royal lines are descended from Queen Victoria - something to celebrate, in tough times for both countries.\n\nThis visit is nothing if not a survivor, having been called off - once in 2016, when Spain endured 10 months of political crisis without a government, and again this year, when UK Prime Minister Theresa May called a snap election in June.\n\n\"These have been times of great difficulty on both sides, with the double cancellation telling its own story,\" says Ana Romero, a leading Spanish journalist and royal observer. She wrote a book - Final de Partida (End Game) - about the strained personal circumstances surrounding the abdication of King Felipe's father, Juan Carlos.\n\nMs Romero says King Felipe's reign has been three years of \"permanent difficulty\", including a fraud trial in which his sister, Princess Cristina, was eventually acquitted, while her husband Iñaki Urdangarin was sentenced to six years in jail.\n\nAlmost as damaging were supportive text messages Queen Letizia reportedly sent to a suspect in another corruption case.\n\n\"Now after three years of hard climbing, it is as if Felipe and Letizia have reached the bright summit, because the British monarchy represents the height of royal protocol,\" Ms Romero says, before adding that both countries face great problems.\n\nSpain is still emerging from an economic crisis that has seen confidence in institutions plummet due to corruption scandals.\n\nBritish politics entered a turbulent period with last year's referendum vote to leave the EU. Brexit remains shrouded in uncertainty.\n\nMany of Spain's leading companies have made bold moves into Britain, including Santander bank and Ferrovial, an infrastructure group that owns Heathrow's operating company, among other UK concerns.\n\nBrexit is also a worry for the many citizens living in each other's country and for those with investments at stake.\n\nThe almost 300,000 British citizens registered as residents in Spain, and many more who come and go, are concerned about their healthcare and pensions, says Anne Hernandez, leader of Brexpats in Spain, a group with more than 4,000 members.\n\nWhile British diplomatic sources say they consider Spain an ally in negotiating relatively benign terms for Brexit, they also admit they are concerned about Madrid's insistence on re-examining the status of Gibraltar - an already delicate equation.\n\nThis is especially the case after the European Council included a clause in its guidelines for talks, stating that no agreement on the EU's future relationship with the UK would apply to Gibraltar without the consent of Spain, giving Madrid a potential veto.\n\nAll eyes will be on King Felipe when he speaks to UK parliamentarians on Wednesday, to see if he emulates his father Juan Carlos. As king back in 1986 Juan Carlos raised Spain's claim over the Rock when addressing MPs and Lords, on the last Spanish state visit to the UK.\n\nGibraltar's status is a hot topic again because of Brexit\n\nThe signs are that Felipe is prepared to broach the issue as he did before the UN General Assembly last autumn. Describing Gibraltar as the last colony in Europe, Spain's king invited the UK to \"put an end to this anachronism\".\n\nKing Felipe, who will also have a private meeting with Prime Minister May, is considered a consummate diplomat, having been patiently groomed for the job by representing Spain in Latin America and elsewhere for almost two decades before his coronation.\n\nHe also proved in 2004 that he was his own man by marrying the TV journalist Letizia Ortiz, a commoner and divorcee.\n\nFor the first time Prince Harry, 32, will have an important ceremonial role, escorting Felipe and Letizia to Westminster Abbey.\n\nHe will also attend a grand state banquet, after the Queen has welcomed her Spanish guests to Buckingham Palace on Wednesday.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Kremlin is urging Donald Trump to lift the sanctions, as Steve Rosenberg reports\n\nRussia says it is \"outrageous\" that the US has not yet handed back two Russian intelligence compounds seized in the US under the Obama administration.\n\nForeign Minister Sergei Lavrov said he was \"considering specific measures\" in response, but did not elaborate.\n\nEarlier, unnamed Russian officials said Moscow was ready to expel about 30 US diplomats and seize US state property.\n\nIn December the Obama administration expelled 35 Russian diplomats and shut down two intelligence compounds.\n\nEx-President Barack Obama acted against Russia after US intelligence sources had accused Russian state agents of hacking into Democratic Party computers to undermine Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign.\n\nMr Lavrov told Russian media it was \"simply shameful for such a great country as the United States, a champion of international law, to leave the situation in such a state of suspended animation\".\n\n\"Justice and international law must be restored,\" he said, accusing the US Congress of being \"charged up with Russophobia\".\n\nA huge Russian diplomatic estate in Maryland was seized by the US government in December\n\nRussian President Vladimir Putin raised the issue of the Obama sanctions with US President Donald Trump when they met in Hamburg on 7 July, the daily Izvestia reported.\n\nThe Trump team is under investigation over alleged Russian collusion during last year's presidential campaign. The Kremlin has denied interfering in the election.\n\nIf Donald Trump has ever read Joseph Heller's famous satirical novel, he'll recognise the situation as Catch-22.\n\nIf President Trump hands back the Russian diplomatic compounds seized by President Obama last year, he will cement his image of Kremlin stooge in the eyes of his opponents. At this point any concessions to Russia would be highly controversial, in light of current investigations in America into alleged links between Mr Trump's team and Moscow.\n\nBut if the Russian compounds are not returned, Moscow may well expel a number of US diplomats and seize some US diplomatic buildings. That could complicate what Mr Trump says he wants to achieve: better relations with Russia.\n\nThis is not the first time that reports have emerged of Russia planning counter-measures. The latest threat - via a foreign ministry source in a pro-Kremlin newspaper - may be designed to increase the pressure on Washington, ahead of US-Russia talks on the issue.\n\nThe Obama sanctions came on top of existing Western sanctions imposed because of Russia's role in the Ukraine conflict.\n\nMr Putin refrained from tit-for-tat retaliation - unlike in previous diplomatic spats. Mr Trump had been elected to succeed President Obama just weeks before.\n\nRussia says President Trump presented \"no plan to resolve the crisis\" when the issue was raised in Hamburg last week.\n\nAn unnamed Russian diplomat told Izvestia that in retaliation Russia could seize a US government dacha (country villa) at Serebryany Bor, to the northwest of Moscow, and a US warehouse in the city itself.\n\nHowever, the US ambassador's Spaso House residence and the Anglo-American School in St Petersburg would not be affected.\n\nRussia would carry out the threat if no compromise was reached at a St Petersburg meeting later this month between Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov and US Under Secretary of State Thomas Shannon, Izvestia reported.", "The video-on-demand Femfresh advert was shown in March and April of this year\n\nAn advert for bikini line shaving products has been banned by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), which found it was likely to cause \"serious or widespread offence\".\n\nShown on ITV and Channel 4 on-demand services earlier this year, it included close-up shots of the women's crotches.\n\nThe ASA received 17 complaints that the advert objectified women and portrayed them in an overly sexualised way.\n\nChurch & Dwight UK - the brand which owns Femfresh - did not believe the advert for the so-called \"intimate shaving collection\" was offensive or socially irresponsible.\n\nIt said it was aimed at a target audience of 18 to 34-year-old women and that close-ups were used to illustrate that the product could give consumers a smooth bikini line.\n\nNeither Channel 4 or ITV received any complaints about the advert directly and both agreed with comments made by Church & Dwight that it did not objectify women.\n\nBut the ASA noted that the dance sequence was \"highly sexualised\", there were \"few shots\" of the women's faces and the high-cut swimsuits \"were more exposing\" than most.\n\n\"Even taking into account the nature of the product, we considered that it had been presented in an overly-sexualised way that objectified women,\" the ASA said.\n\n\"We concluded that the ad was likely to cause serious or widespread offence and therefore breached the code.\"\n\nIt ruled that the advert must not appear again in its current form.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Smoke was seen billowing from the plane crash site\n\nAt least 16 people have died after a US military plane crashed in the southern state of Mississippi at around 16:00 local time (21:00 GMT) on Monday.\n\nThe crash happened in LeFlore County, about 100 miles (160km) north of Jackson, the state capital.\n\nAll 16 victims were on the Marine Corps aircraft and there were no survivors, Leflore County emergency management director Fred Randle said.\n\nMississippi Governor Phil Bryant said the incident was a \"tragedy\".\n\n\"Our men and women in uniform risk themselves every day to secure our freedom,\" he said.\n\nUS President Donald Trump tweeted on Tuesday morning: \"Marine Plane crash in Mississippi is heartbreaking. Melania and I send our deepest condolences to all!\"\n\nNo official details were immediately available on the circumstances of the crash.\n\nMississippi outlet the Clarion-Ledger said the plane came down in a soybean field on the Sunflower-Leflore county line, and left a five-mile trail of debris. It said the FBI was assisting at the scene.\n\nLocal Fire Chief Marcus Banks told the Greenwood Commonwealth that firefighters were driven back by several \"high-intensity explosions\", possibly caused by jet fuel igniting. He said 4,000 gallons of foam were sprayed at the aircraft in a bid to subdue the fire.\n\nCaptain Sarah Burns, a spokeswoman for the Marine Corps, said only that a US Marines KC-130 Hercules transport aircraft had \"experienced a mishap\".\n\n\"On behalf of the entire Marine Corps, I want to express my deepest condolences to the families of those killed in the aircraft mishap yesterday afternoon in Mississippi,\" said Marine Corp Commandant Gen Robert Neller.\n\n\"Our focus remains on notifying and supporting the families while we conduct a thorough investigation into the cause of this tragedy.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Bikers who took part in a \"ride-out\" in Leeds which caused chaos are jailed\n\nThe gang behind a Halloween \"ride-out\" in Leeds which was likened to scenes from the film Mad Max has been jailed.\n\nMore than 100 bikers congregated in Kirkstall Road before riding into the city, disrupting traffic and driving through pedestrianised areas.\n\nDavid Armitage did not take part in the event but had organised it through social media, Leeds Crown Court heard.\n\nAlso jailed were 12 other defendants, who had all admitted causing a public nuisance at an earlier hearing.\n\nThe judge said their actions on 31 October could \"not be tolerated\".\n\nMore than 100 bikers caused chaos on the streets during the Halloween \"ride-out\"\n\nArmitage, 26, of Brookfield Road, Headingley, had been filmed on 31 October telling riders to \"shut down\" the city centre.\n\nJailing him for two years, Judge Geoffrey Marson QC said: \"This is a case which calls for a deterrent sentence.\n\n\"Behaviour of this sort, having serious effects on this city, cannot be tolerated.\"\n\nDavid Armitage had organised the event through social media\n\nWest Yorkshire Police received around 160 calls from members of the public, some of whom had likened it to scenes from the Mel Gibson film, Mad Max.\n\nCh Supt Paul Money said: \"The behaviour of these individuals and others that night put people's safety at risk, caused unnecessary fear to the public and created an image of lawlessness in the heart of the city that we simply could not allow to go unchallenged.\"\n\nFollowing the incident, Leeds City Council secured an injunction banning people from anti-social driving of vehicles, including motorbikes and quad bikes, in any public place where it involves two or more vehicles.\n\nCouncillor Debra Coupar said the group had shown \"sheer disregard\" for public safety.\n\nDavid Armitage, 26, of Brookfield Road, Headingley - jailed for two years\n\nBen Colley, 26, of Butterbowl Road, Farnley, also convicted of driving while disqualified and without insurance - jailed for 14 months\n\nNicholas Flaherty, aged 29, of Prospect Street, Farsley, also convicted of perverting the course of justice - jailed for 18 months\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 said it was important to have a \"flexible\" approach that didn't \"exploit workers\"\n\nAll work in the UK's economy should be \"fair and decent\", a government review of employment practices has said.\n\nThe report by former aide to Tony Blair, Matthew Taylor, pays particular attention to the gig economy.\n\nIt recommends that workers for firms such as Uber and Deliveroo should be classified as dependent contractors, with extra benefits.\n\nThe Prime Minister said the government would take the report's recommendations seriously.\n\nMr Taylor said there was a perception that the gig economy put too much power into the hand of employers: \"Of all the issues that were raised with us as we went around the country, the one that came through most strongly was what the report calls one-sided flexibility.\n\n\"One-sided flexibility is where employers seek to transfer all risk onto the shoulder of workers in ways that make people more insecure and makes their lives harder to manage. It's the people told to be ready for work or travelling to work, only to be told none is available.\"\n• People who work for platform-based companies, such as Deliveroo and Uber, be classed as dependent contractors\n• Strategies must be put in place to make sure that workers do not get stuck on the National Living Wage\n• The review suggests a national strategy to provide good work for all \"for which government needs to be held accountable\"\n• The government should avoid further increasing the the non-wage costs of employing a person, such as the apprenticeship levy\n\nA spokesperson for the meal delivery service Deliveroo, one of the companies at the heart of the gig-economy debate, said: \"We would welcome the opportunity to work with the government so we can end this trade off between flexibility and security.\"\n\nMr Taylor's report did not attack the gig economy. It said that flexibility in the workplace was important and had contributed to record high employment.\n\nHe pointed to the official Labour Force Survey of March this year, which found that 68% of those on zero hours contracts did not want more hours.\n\nHowever, he said too many employers and businesses were relying on zero hours, short-hours or agency contracts, when they could be more forward thinking in their scheduling.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nEarlier, Mr Taylor had told the BBC: \"There are too many people at work who are treated like cogs in a machine rather than being human beings, and there are too many people who don't see a route from their current job to progress and earn more and do better.\"\n\nBut he said working platform providers such as Uber had to demonstrate that workers signing on for hours of work would \"easily clear\" the minimum wage.\n\nAndrew Byrne, head of policy at Uber, said that the average driver took well over the National Living Wage.\n\nHe also said Uber \"would welcome greater clarity in the law over different types of employment status\".\n\nMr Taylor also suggested that cash payments should be phased-out.\n\nHe said cash jobs such as window cleaning and decorating were worth up to £6bn a year and many were untaxed - something Mr Taylor says should be addressed.\n\nMr Taylor said he did not want to ban cash payments outright, but hoped, over time, the increasing popularity of transaction platforms such as PayPal and Worldpay would see a shift from cash-in-hand work.\n\n\"In a few years time as we move to a more cashless economy, self employed people would be paid cashlessly - like your window cleaner. At the same time they can pay taxes and save for their pension,\" he said.\n\n\"Most people who do pay for self-employed labour would like to know that that person is paying their taxes.\"\n\nHowever, Labour's shadow business secretary Rebecca Long-Bailey said the review did not go far enough for the 4.5 million people in insecure work.\n\nShe told the BBC: \"If it looks like a job or it smells like a job then it is a job, and the worker should be employed, and I think in those situations where a worker is carrying out work on behalf of an employer... they should not be exploited as a flexible workers.\"\n\nTrade unions also said Mr Taylor had not tackled many of the issues facing workers.\n\nTUC general secretary Frances O'Grady said: \"From what we've seen, this review is not the game-changer needed to end insecurity and exploitation at work.\"", "These text messages were sent on 3 June\n\nA watchdog has revealed it is investigating a premium-rate texting campaign, following complaints from recipients that they have been charged fees even though many believe they never opted into the service.\n\nOne expert claimed the messages look like spam, which could cause phone owners to ignore them.\n\nThere is also concern about conflicting advice being given to the public.\n\nThe two companies involved in the campaign deny any wrongdoing.\n\nThe BBC became aware of the campaign when one of its reporters received a text in June.\n\nIt said: \"FreeMsg: U have subscribed to Comp House competition for £4.50 per month until you send stop to 82225. SP Pro Money HELLO? 08001577502?T&C\".\n\nA shortened Bit.ly link was sent as a follow-up message, and a third communication stated that this \"text cost £1.50\".\n\nThe company behind the campaign is called Pro Money Holdings, which is registered to an Ilford, London address.\n\nIt makes use of a second service, called Veoo - a St Albans-headquartered business that provides billing and messaging platforms to mobile-related companies.\n\nThe industry's regulator, the Phone-paid Services Authority (PSA), later told the BBC it was \"informally\" investigating complaints about the Pro Money Holdings service and had \"recently\" opened a probe into Veoo.\n\n\"Under our code of practice, consumers must not be charged for phone-paid services without their consent,\" said a spokesman.\n\n\"We are currently looking into complaints regarding the service operating on 82225 and separately have an ongoing investigation into Veoo.\"\n\nMembers of the public have posted concerns about the 82225's operation over the past two months, with several saying they could not recall subscribing to anything that would account for the fees.\n\nBut Pro Money Holdings told the BBC it only charged people who had \"pushed a key\" in an online competition or in response to a phone message.\n\n\"There's a lot of compliance that goes into everything that's done with anything we do,\" customer care manager David Marshall said.\n\n\"Prior to anything starting, there's a lot of testing done to make sure that everything from our end is correct.\n\n\"From our own perspective, if there's something not 100% at our end, we would get it adjusted.\"\n\nTo prove the point, Mr Marshall offered to provide details about how the BBC journalist came to be subscribed.\n\nBut more than a month after making the promise, Pro Money Holdings has not shared the details, despite repeated follow-up requests, beyond saying the journalist had opted in and this had been \"verified by an independent third party\".\n\nIt did, however, refund the £1.50 fee that had been charged.\n\nFor its part, Veoo said it was no longer supporting the campaign.\n\n\"Following on-going compliance checks with the service... run by Pro Money Holdings, Veoo suspended the Pro Comp service and will not be reinstating that service via our messaging platform,\" said spokeswoman Vanessa D'Souza.\n\n\"We take our responsibilities very seriously.\"\n\nOne cyber-security consultant said he had concerns that the messages could be mistaken as spam, in part because of their odd punctuation and use of \"u\" rather than \"you\".\n\n\"It's exactly the sort of message that you might delete assuming it's spam only to realise, perhaps months later when checking your bill, that you've been paying,\" said Alan Woodward.\n\nPhone owners are given conflicting advice about how to deal with Stop-type texts\n\nMobile owners seeking advice about how to handle such demands are given contradictory advice online.\n\nThe PSA states that users should reply to rather than ignore Stop messages.\n\nBut the popular Money Saving Expert site, among others, says not to do so if the texts look suspicious.\n\n\"The golden rule is do not reply, at all, ever - do not text 'Stop'!\" it states.\n\n\"These texts want any response to confirm you are a real person.\n\n\"Any numbers that are confirmed are likely to be sold on to... unscrupulous marketeers who may further spam you with unsolicited calls and texts.\n\n\"Ensure you don't click on any links within the text either.\"\n\nFor its part, Pro Money Holdings denies deliberately designing its texts to look odd and defended its use of \"slang\".\n\n\"The size of an SMS is a maximum of 160 characters as you are aware,\" it told the BBC.\n\n\"In order to fit the customer care telephone number on the message, it is necessary to shorten some words where applicable.\"\n\nMobile networks say customers who receive unsolicited texts can contact their support teams to confirm whether the messages are legitimate and if a Stop response should be sent.\n\n\"I have seen people ignoring these messages and being charged a lot,\" said one Vodafone call centre employee.\n\n\"Blocking doesn't stop these as customers are charged irrespective of whether they receive these messages or not, even if the phone is off.\"\n\nThe PSA said it could not comment further about Pro Money Holding's case.\n\nBut Mr Woodward urged it to review its guidance.\n\n\"If the regulator is expecting us to reply, 'Stop', there is a danger that it causes those heeding such advice to play into the hands of scammers,\" he said.\n\n\"Either way, the regulator is the one who needs to 'stop' this, not unsuspecting recipients.\"\n\nThe PSA issued more than £5m in fines in the past financial year against companies that had breached its rules.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Girl Guide Catherine Young wants to encourage more women into engineering\n\nThe World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts is updating its image with a number of new achievement badges aimed at encouraging young women into science and technology.\n\nMy memories of the Girl Guides involve marshmallow toasting, tying knots and being assessed on my table-laying skills for a badge no doubt long-consigned to the archives.\n\nFast forward some 25 years and it's clear much has changed.\n\nIn an international organisation that liaises with Google and Microsoft among others, today's young guides are just as likely to be gathered round an engineering bench as a campfire.\n\nSixteen-year-old Catherine Young is on a mission to boost girls' interest in engineering and has found the Girl Guides a valuable platform for her campaign.\n\nShe surveyed girls aged 11-18 and found that 74% didn't have the opportunity to take the subject at school.\n\nAs part of the Girl Guide Scotland Action for Change project, she is lobbying MPs to make the subject more readily available across all UK schools.\n\n\"Having a national stage for my project has been incredible as this is something I'm very passionate about,\" she says.\n\n\"There is a huge lack of female engineers due to the subject not being available, or girls not knowing about it, and we need more females to bring new ideas that could solve Earth's biggest problems.\"\n\nAs the battle to engage girls with Stem subjects - science, technology, engineering and maths - extends beyond the classroom, attention is turning to the role this 106-year-old movement has to play in cultivating this interest.\n\nThe World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts has a presence in 146 countries and is busy forging links with tech companies and organisations across the globe.\n\nFor example, guides in Tanzania have hooked up with Techchix, a non-profit body that promotes science and engineering to girls at local secondary schools through mentoring programmes.\n\nAnd in India, girls have teamed up with US-based artificial intelligence giant, Nvidia, to boost female employability in the tech sector.\n\nPiloted in the city of Pune, the Screen Girls project aims to deliver computer courses to 400 girls who have recently completed secondary school education. If successful, the project will be extended to other parts of the country.\n\n\"Every country will have different approaches and where there is success we will showcase it to the rest of the world,\" says Anita Tiessen, chief executive of the World Association of Girl Guides.\n\n\"In the US, for example, there has always been a very strong outdoors culture, so they introduce Stem activities in this way through robot camps and Stem field trips.\"\n\nA forthcoming overhaul of achievement badges is likely to see Coding and Mechanics added to the list. Google is currently advising on the delivery of a new Web and App Design badge. In the UK, the main Stem-related badges are Science and Communicator.\n\nGirlguiding UK's recent survey with Microsoft found that many members did not see technology as a potential career option, their views influenced by enduring gender stereotypes.\n\n\"It is a concern that many girls think of Stem as boys' subjects and don't identify any female role models in this area,\" says Angie Pitt, head of Girlguiding youth programmes.\n\n\"We have to think about what we can do to counter this, and the first thing is offering a space where they can learn about these subjects in a way that is fun, accessible and relevant to them - and doesn't feel like school or that they're being judged.\"\n\nProjects with Rolls-Royce and BAE systems have led to the development of new \"science investigator\" and \"engineering\" badges - while cloud computing specialist Salesforce recently ran a weekend workshop for 200 guides in London.\n\nWhen Lady Olave Baden-Powell (centre) was Chief Guide, roles for girls were more traditional\n\nCharlotte Finn, Salesforce's vice president of programs, says: \"Aspects of the school curriculum are rooted in the past and are simply not pairing young people with the skills they need for today's jobs in technology.\n\n\"So it's important that organisations like us complement formal education by bringing these skills to the forefront.\"\n\nSalesforce also helped develop a volunteer recruitment app for the US Girl Scouts.\n\nEllie Overland, senior lecturer in computing education at the UK's Manchester Metropolitan University, recently developed a Computing badge with 30 guides.\n\n\"I have a son in the Scouts and daughter in the Brownies and I noticed a difference in the technology-related badges on offer,\" she says.\n\n\"The Scouts badges seemed to get into the nitty-gritty of computing, while in the Guides the focus was more about online image and e-safety, so I felt it was important with this badge to drill deeper and include components on networks, data and algorithms.\"\n\n\"Safe space\": Anita Tiessen, head of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts\n\nWhile evolution is inevitable in an institution with a 100-plus year heritage, Ms Tiessen believes much of the progress in this area will be underpinned by the movement's core values of girl-led learning and leadership.\n\n\"In many countries around the world there are very few opportunities for girls to have that 'safe space' to develop their skills and leadership opportunities,\" she says.\n\n\"And with all the evidence pointing to girls holding back in more mixed environments, we are giving girls greater freedom to explore those things.\"\n\nEver since a small group of girls gate-crashed the first ever Scout rally in 1909 demanding \"something for the girls\", girl guides have been challenging the status quo.\n\nMore power to their elbows.", "Great British Bake Off winner Nadiya Hussain feared she was seen as the \"token Muslim\" when she appeared on the BBC TV show, she has revealed.\n\nThe champion of the 2015 series told the Radio Times religion was \"incidental\" to her and she \"struggled\" with it being so tied to her identity.\n\nThe negative comments she received \"shocked\" her, she told the magazine.\n\nBut she said those people were in the \"minority\" and most of the UK had reacted to her with \"open arms\".\n\nHussain, 32, told Radio Times magazine: \"I certainly didn't enter a baking show in the hope of representing anyone.\n\n\"Being a Muslim for me was incidental, but from the day the show was launched, I was 'the 30-year-old Muslim' and that became my identity.\"\n\nShe told Radio Times it was difficult to adjust to that \"identity\" being forced upon her.\n\n\"I struggled at the beginning, because I thought: 'Am I the token Muslim?'\n\n\"I'd never, in all my years, been labelled like that.\n\n\"I heard it constantly, 'Oh, she's the Muslim, she's the Muslim'...\n\n\"And I was so shocked by the amount of negative comments I got.\"\n\nHussain will be one of the hosts of the Big Family Cooking Showdown, which airs in the autumn\n\nHussain, a second-generation British Bangladeshi, said she hears and sees \"negativity\" but that it does not affect her as those sharing such comments are in the minority.\n\n\"We are so much more accepting than that: I never realised Britain had such open arms,\" she said.\n\nSince winning Bake Off, Hussain has appeared in her own series, The Chronicles Of Nadiya.\n\nShe is set to launch her new BBC TV show, Nadiya's British Food Adventure, on 17 July and will release a book of the same name alongside it.\n\nHussain will also host the BBC Two series The Big Family Cooking Showdown with Zoe Ball and judges Rosemary Shrager and Giorgio Locatelli this autumn.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Soldiers and police officers cheered as PM Abadi joined the celebrations\n\nThe senior US commander in Iraq has warned that the war against so-called Islamic State (IS) is not over, despite a \"historic\" victory in Mosul.\n\nLt Gen Stephen Townsend told the BBC Iraqis needed to unite to ensure IS was defeated across the rest of Iraq.\n\nHe also urged the government to reach out to the Sunni Arab minority.\n\n\"If we're to keep... ISIS 2.0 from emerging, the Iraqi government is going to have to do something pretty significantly different,\" he said.\n\n\"They're going to have to reach out and reconcile with the Sunni population, and make them feel like their government in Baghdad represents them.\"\n\nIS (also known as ISIS) seized control of much of northern and western Iraq three years ago after exploiting widespread Sunni anger at the sectarian policies of the country's Shia Arab-led government.\n\nIraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, who has promised to bridge the gap between the two Muslim communities, formally declared victory over IS in Mosul on Monday.\n\nStanding alongside troops at a base in the city, he announced \"the end and the failure and the collapse of the terrorist state of falsehood and terrorism \".\n\nA member of Iraq's security forces holds an IS flag as he celebrates in Mosul\n\nThe US-led Coalition that provided air and ground support to Iraqi security forces confirmed they had Mosul \"firmly under their control\" but noted that areas of the Old City still had to be cleared of bombs and possible IS fighters in hiding.\n\nLater, US President Donald Trump sent his congratulations to his Iraqi counterpart, saying Mosul had been \"liberated from its long nightmare under the rule of ISIS\".\n\n\"We mourn the thousands of Iraqis brutally killed by ISIS and the millions of Iraqis who suffered,\" he added, promising to seek the \"total destruction\" of the jihadists.\n\nLt Gen Stephen Townsend is the commander of the US-led operation against IS\n\nOn Tuesday, UN special representative Jan Kubis said the \"historic\" victory provided an \"outstanding opportunity for Iraq to rise again strong and united\".\n\nBut he warned that reconstruction work had to run parallel to a \"robust political process to conduct elections and achieve national and societal reconciliation and rebuild the social fabric\".\n\n\"The peace... must be based on solid foundations of unity, co-operation, justice, tolerance and co-existence starting at the societal, community and tribal levels to prevent falling back into the past and risk disastrous consequences,\" he added.\n\nThe battle for Mosul lasted almost nine months, left large areas in ruins, killed thousands of civilians and displaced more than 920,000 others.\n\nThe UN says 5,000 buildings have been damaged and 490 destroyed in the Old City alone\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC reports from Mosul where rescue teams are searching for survivors\n\nThe UN says that of the 54 residential districts in the western half of Mosul - where the Old City is located - 15 are heavily damaged and at least 23 moderately damaged.\n\nIn a report published on Tuesday, Amnesty International said Iraqi and coalition forces had used unnecessarily powerful weapons in Mosul and failed to take adequate measures to protect civilians.\n\nA coalition spokesperson described the allegations as \"irresponsible and an insult\" to the troops who had died freeing civilians in Mosul from IS rule.\n\nAmnesty also documented abuses by IS, including the use of human shields.\n\nIS militants overran Mosul in June 2014, before seizing control of large parts of northern and western Iraq. The following month, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi made his first and only public appearance as IS leader at the city's Great Mosque of al-Nuri, and gave a speech proclaiming the creation of a \"caliphate\".\n\nIS blew up the mosque last month as Iraqi troops prepared to retake it.\n\nIS still controls territory in three areas of Iraq - around Hawija, 130km (80 miles) south-east of Mosul, around Tal Afar, 65km west, and from Ana to Al-Qaim in the Euphrates river valley, 250km to the south-west.\n\nIt also holds a string of towns along the Euphrates in Syria, including Albu Kamal and Mayadin, but its stronghold of Raqqa is besieged by US-backed fighters.", "US President Donald Trump is likely to come to the UK next year, the BBC understands.\n\nDowning Street and the White House are believed to be looking at options for the visit.\n\nMr Trump accepted the Queen's invitation for him to travel to Britain on a state visit when UK PM Theresa May visited Washington in January.\n\nBut the prospect of a state visit caused much controversy and reportedly led Mr Trump to change his mind.\n\nIt was said he did not want to visit while there was potential for protests against him.\n\nNearly two million people signed one of a number of petitions saying Mr Trump should not be invited to the UK on a state visit.\n\nSenior politicians, including Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and former Lib Dem leader Tim Farron who called Mr Trump \"an embarrassment to America\", said the visit should not go ahead.\n\nQuestions were also raised as to why Mr Trump was invited so soon after taking office - it was two-and-a-half years into his first term before his predecessor Barack Obama came to the UK for his state visit.\n\nThe Queen welcomed President Barack Obama to Buckingham Palace in 2011\n\nMrs May extended the invitation to the president just as he sparked anger across the world with his proposed travel ban on visitors from seven predominantly Muslim countries.\n\nThe mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, clashed with Mr Trump over the immigration measures, later saying the UK should not \"roll out the red carpet to the president of the USA in the circumstances where his policies go against everything we stand for\".\n\nConfirmation of Mr Trump's visit had been expected in last month's Queen's Speech, in which the Queen set out her official plans for the year.\n\nBut there was no mention of it, and October was later mooted as a possible date.\n\nThe White House denied reports that Mr Trump had reservations about visiting, saying they looked forward to working out a \"mutually acceptable date\".\n\nThe Queen usually receives one or two heads of state a year. She has hosted 109 state visits since becoming monarch in 1952.\n\nState visits are grand, ceremonial occasions, but have a political purpose too, with governments using them to further what they see as Britain's national interests.\n• None Donald Trump state visit: All you need to know", "Fees for unplanned overdrafts are to be scrapped for the 20 million customers of Lloyds Banking Group, which includes the Halifax and Bank of Scotland.\n\nFrom November this year, any customer going over their overdraft limit will face no fees at all, Lloyds said.\n\nHowever, the bank may continue to block payments from the account until the overdraft is paid off.\n\nIt follows criticism of high charges by consumer groups and the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA).\n\nThe Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is also expected to propose measures on overdraft fees within the next few weeks, as part of its inquiry into high-cost credit.\n\nPreviously Lloyds customers taking out unauthorised overdrafts faced interest payments at an annual rate of 19.89%, a daily charge of up to £10, the monthly charge of £6, and up to £30 a day for returned (unpaid) items.\n\nThese will all now be abolished.\n\nFees for missed payments from basic bank accounts will also disappear.\n\nLloyds said that it expected to make less money as a result of the changes, although it said fewer people now use an unauthorised facility than used to be the case.\n\nBarclays has already abolished unauthorised lending. Since June 2014, customers cannot exceed their overdraft limit, unless they obtain permission for emergency lending.\n\nAs well as scrapping charges for unplanned overdrafts, Lloyds is also simplifying fees for planned overdrafts, making it cheaper for many customers to borrow.\n\nThose with overdrafts of less than £500 are likely to pay less, while those borrowing more than £1000 are likely to see higher charges.\n\nAnyone who takes out an authorised overdraft with Lloyds Banking Group - in other words the bank has agreed to it - is currently charged a £6 monthly fee, on top of interest at 19.89% a year.\n\nWhile the £6 fee will be dropped, the interest charge will rise sharply, to 68.4% on an annual basis.\n\nLloyds said that amounts to 1p a day for every £7 borrowed.\n\nAs a result nine out of 10 customers will either be better off, or see no difference, it said.\n\nHowever, the changes will not make Lloyds the cheapest lender on the market.\n\nAndrew Hagger, personal finance expert with Moneycomms, said there were at least eight banks providing lower cost overdrafts.\n\nTap on the image above, then pinch and zoom to enlarge\n\nThe move by Lloyds to abolish unauthorised borrowing fees was welcomed by consumer groups.\n\n\"Lloyds' decision to do away with these fees is a positive step, and its proposed simpler pricing will benefit many of its customers,\" said Peter Vicary-Smith, Which? chief executive.\n\n\"However, not everyone will be better off, so it's critical that Lloyds supports customers to help them avoid high charges and to reduce their level of debt.\"\n\nThe FCA should encourage other banks to follow suit, he added.\n\nAs part of its inquiry into current accounts, the CMA ruled last year that banks should introduce a maximum monthly charge - set by each bank - by the end of September 2017.\n\nLloyds is due to introduce a maximum monthly charge of £95 for unauthorised overdrafts in August, although this will be superseded by the changes in November.\n\nRBS and NatWest will introduce a £80 maximum on 24 July.\n\nHSBC is to remove interest charges on most unarranged overdrafts, but will still charge a £5 daily fee, up to a maximum of £80 a month.\n\nAre you a Lloyds customer? How will you be affected by the changes? Share your views and 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.", "Owen's family thanked the emergency services who had tried to help him\n\nThe family of a 12-year-old boy, who died trying to rescue a girl from a weir, has described him as a \"hero\".\n\nOwen Jenkins went missing in the River Trent near Beeston Marina, Nottinghamshire, on Monday afternoon.\n\nTributes have been paid to the boy, whose body was found in the water during a major search operation.\n\nHis great aunt, Liz Ryan, said: \"He went in the water to save a girl and help her get out, and he couldn't swim much himself.\n\n\"We don't know the full story but all we know is that he is a hero.\"\n\nIn a statement his parents, Nicola and Gary Jenkins, said: \"Our little boy, our English rose, our champion will be missed and never forgotten.\n\n\"We wish to thank all of the emergency services, who have been amazing, and all of the people that helped to look for Owen.\"\n\nA weir on the River Trent is located near to Beeston Marina\n\nA Facebook post by the boy's rugby team, Nottingham Casuals RFC, said: \"It is with profound sadness and regret that we confirm the loss of 12-year-old Owen Jenkins who died at Beeston Weir last night.\n\n\"We cannot express how deep our sorrow is and our thoughts are with Owen's family and friends.\n\n\"Owen has played Rugby for Nottingham Casuals RFC since he was 7 and was loved [by] his teammates and everyone he came into contact with.\n\n\"His teammates are in bits this morning.\"\n\nIan Brierly, head teacher at Chilwell School where Owen was a student, described him as an \"enthusiastic and gregarious young man\".\n\n\"He was an exceptional sportsman and we recently celebrated his success from sports day when he broke several long-standing school records; most notably the 200m.\n\n\"Owen was a key member of our community and we are heartbroken at his loss,\" he added.\n\nDozens of firefighters and police officers were called to Beeston Marina\n\nAnna Soubry, Conservative MP for Broxtowe, tweeted Owen had \"lost his life in the Trent trying to help others\".\n\nThe MP also raised the issue in the House of Commons, calling for government action to co-ordinate safety measures around open water.\n\n\"This is a terrible accident and everyone's thoughts are with Owen's family and friends,\" she said.\n\nA body was found four hours after the alarm was raised\n\nNarrow boat owner Brad O'Riordan said the water at Riverside Road, near to where Owen was last seen, was very dangerous.\n\nHe said: \"It's a very fast current there. I don't think the kids realise what they're getting into when they go into the water.\"\n\nAbout 30 firefighters helped with the search, which involved three power boats, a police helicopter and an air ambulance.\n\nThere was a sombre mood among the barge owners and dog walkers at Beeston Marina early this morning.\n\nSome described seeing the boy entering the water to help a pair of girls who had got into trouble at the weir.\n\nOne barge owner told me the 12-year-old was standing on the weir when he picked a girl out, but his legs gave way and he never surfaced.\n\nMany had questions over safety at the beauty spot, which is a magnet for youngsters when the weather is good.\n\nMost people I spoke to said lifebelts had been stolen or vandalised.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Eighty beachgoers linked hands at Panama City beach in Florida to rescue a family\n\nIn a testament to the true human spirit, 80 beachgoers formed a human chain in Panama City Beach in Florida to help save a family pulled in to the water by strong tides.\n\nRoberta Ursey and her family were at the beach on Saturday when she heard her sons crying out for help.\n\nLuckily, Jessica Simmons and her husband came to the rescue, encouraging people to hold hands and reach out for those who were in difficulties.\n\nMs Ursey's mother, who was among several others trapped in the rip current, suffered a heart attack and remains in hospital.\n\nMs Simmons, who is from Alabama and said she was raised in a pool and a lake since she could crawl, posted on Facebook that there were heavy rains at the beach when the incident occurred.\n\n\"I can hold my breath underwater and go around a Olympic pool with ease! I knew I could get them to the human chain of people that wanted to help,\" she stated.\n\nAlongside her husband and the help of those forming the human chain, Ms Simmons shuttled people to safety on her bodyboard.\n\n\"To see people from different races and genders come into action to help total strangers is absolutely amazing! People who didn't even know each other went hand in hand in a line, into the water to try and reach them,\" she continued.\n\nRosalind Beckton, 38, who is a regular visitor to the beach, was there at the time with her 12-year-old son and witnessed the incident.\n\nShe told the BBC that she administered CPR to a woman who looked to be in need and who later suffered a heart attack.\n\n\"I witnessed many brave citizens risking their safety and their lives to form this human chain. It was amazing and heart warming to see,\" she continued.\n\nMs Beckton added that she didn't see any lifeguards on duty at the time.\n\nMs Ursey, who was rescued from the water alongside her family, told the News Herald: \"I am so grateful... These people were God's angels that were in the right place at the right time.\n\n\"I owe my life and my family's life to them. Without them, we wouldn't be here.\"\n• None Home washed away after rescue in Australia", "From a distance Castelluccio looks the same as it has done for 1,000 years, a beautiful hilltop town in the midst of one of Italy's most celebrated plains, the Piano Grande.\n\nBut even from the road below the village you can see the buildings are shattered, roofs collapsed, more reminiscent of a war zone than the Umbrian countryside.\n\nNearly a year on from the earthquakes which devastated this region of central Italy, visitors have just been allowed back into the so-called \"zona rossa\" near Castellucio, although not the village itself.\n\nThe red zone marks areas still regarded as too dangerous to visit but an exception was made for people to see \"La Fioritura\". This is a spectacular showing of wild flowers in the meadows of the Piano Grande.\n\nWe joined a convoy of around 40 cars to be taken through army road blocks high up into the Sibillini mountains.\n\nCornflowers and poppies colour the 16 sq km plain surrounded by the Sibillini mountains\n\nVillage after village showed the impact of the earthquakes that hit this region, first in August 2016 and then again in October.\n\nThese villages look as if the earthquake had just happened, instead of nearly a year ago. Most of the people who lived there have been moved to hotels on the coast.\n\nWe left our cars on top of a high ridge and trekked for two hours down on to the plain, overlooked by the jagged peak of Monte Vettore, which marks the boundary between Umbria and Le Marche.\n\nA deep, black crack could be seen high up on the mountainside which had appeared after the earthquake.\n\nThe crack on the mountain, the lower of two lines, is up to a metre wide\n\nAs we came down on to the plain, extraordinary splashes of colour came into view, reminiscent of an Impressionist canvas.\n\nMeadows were tinted red with swathes of poppies, others bright blue with cornflowers. Normally there would be 10,000 visitors a day to photograph the splendours of the Fioritura, we were told. This year it is in the hundreds.\n\nThere are more beehives than people in the fields.\n\nThe Piano Grande's fields are unusually deserted this year\n\nThe 16 sq km (6 sq miles) Piano Grande - literally the big plain - was once a glacier lake and is surrounded by mountains.\n\nIt is here that the farmers of Castelluccio plant their lentils, a crop that has become famous amongst foodies around the world.\n\nThis year they were only allowed in by convoy to prepare for the season ahead. No-one is allowed up into this ghost village at 1,452m (4,760 ft).\n\nBelow what has been his home for generations, Lorenzo Caponecchi is selling lentils and wild peas in a stall by the side of the road.\n\nI wondered why it was taking time for rebuilding to begin. Was it because these were such old buildings or was it a question of money?\n\nLorenzo and Monia run a stall in the shadow of Castelluccio\n\nNo, said his partner Monia Falzetti angrily. \"It's the state and the politicians. There is plenty of money from the EU but we aren't seeing any of it.\"\n\nOther former inhabitants of Castelluccio are so angry at the lack of help that they believe visitors should not be allowed into the Piano Grande.\n\nIt is the tourism of rubble, they proclaim.\n\nRubble tourism? The remains of homes in the village of Trisungo\n\nBut the local mayor told La Repubblica that the flowers of the Piano Grande do not just belong to the people of Castelluccio. They are the world's heritage and, besides, more tourism will help the local economy.\n\nSide by side in this unique valley, you can see the sublime beauty of nature at its most spectacular but also the forces of nature at its most destructive.\n\nIn a few moments here houses that existed for hundreds of years were torn down and reverted to stones.", "NHS monthly performance stats are not everyone's idea of a gripping read. Spreadsheets and tables are buried in the NHS England website and hard to find for the uninitiated. But they amount to a vitally important barometer of the pressures in A&E units and the waits experienced by patients for both emergency care and routine surgery.\n\nA set of data due during the General Election campaign was postponed. Correspondence seen by the BBC reveals how politically sensitive this decision was.\n\nWhitehall conventions ban the release of controversial announcements during election campaigns. Data releases for which the release date has not already been published will be held till after polling day. But official stats with a publication date already in the calendar will be put out as normal.\n\nThe NHS England monthly performance data had been carded some time before for June 8th which, it later turned out, was to be polling day. A Freedom of Information request by BBC News has revealed delicate internal discussions about whether or not to press on with publication on that day.\n\nAn official from the UK Statistics Authority advises Government bodies and departments in an email that statistical publications of \"significant public interest\" due on June 8th should be rescheduled - \"publishing on polling day presents difficulties in communicating data clearly and fully, not least because of restrictions in place around reporting.\"\n\nIntriguingly an NHS England manager responds with a concern that \"changing the timing of this release in either direction would, to me, create the perception of political interference which tends me towards keeping the release for the original date.\"\n\nThe unnamed UK Statistics Authority (UKSA) official, acting on behalf of the National Statistician, warns again of the difficulties with communicating data on polling day and continued: \"If you were challenged about political interference, the response would be that this is about ensuring orderly release\".\n\nThe NHS manager comes back questioning how the release of data on polling day would not be orderly and asking for more of an explanation of the difficulties releasing data that day. There is another reference to \"reticence\" about changing the date because of how that might be perceived.\n\nThe UKSA official points out that broadcast media are not permitted to report anything about the election on polling day and the Whitehall conventions prevent any corrections of mistakes by journalists. NHS England then decides to announce a 24 hour delay in publication till June 9th and puts out a statement saying the decision was taken on the recommendation of the National Statistician, UK Statistics Authority.\n\nThe figures, which came out on June 9th, revealed a slight improvement in A&E performance (patients seen within four hours), but also the highest number of patients waiting longer than 18 weeks for routine surgery since September 2008.\n\nThe postponed publication will not warrant a mention in the history books and in the hurly burly of the election campaign the decision did not generate much of a political row beyond social media. But the email exchange lifts a lid on the world of politics and data. It raises questions about whether the data should have been brought forward one day instead of delayed - and whether snap general elections should derail planned data releases.\n\nAll this comes a short time after NHS England quietly changed the timing of future data. In 2015, the organisation controversially moved from publishing weekly A&E waiting time figures to monthly. The logic given was that this would be in line with other statistics, such as waits for routine surgery. The result was a delay of six weeks so, for example, the key January A&E data was not published till March.\n\nA leak of internal NHS A&E data to the BBC's Faye Kirkland in January resulted in the intervention of the UK Statistics Authority. NHS England was criticised for circulating weekly data inside the organisation but delaying official publication for six weeks. The organisation has now decided to cut the delay till two weeks so, for example, from August this year, A&E data for July will be published.\n\nOfficial statistics allow patients and the media to assess the performance of the NHS. Delays are not in anyone's interest. Recent revelations suggest that the timing of these stats has not been as straightforward as it might have been.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Primary head teacher Cathryn Throup highlighted the guidance given to markers\n\nPrimary school teachers in England have taken to social media to vent their anger about what they claim are inconsistencies in the marking of this year's national curriculum test (Sats).\n\nUsing the hashtag #SATsshambles on Twitter, teachers have listed a range issues and are calling on all schools to go through their pupils' marked papers to check for errors.\n\nThe Department for Education said results of the tests were \"robust and accurate\" but head teachers could apply for a review of contested marks.\n\nAccording to the teachers tweeting, 10- and 11-year-olds were asked to put punctuation in a pre-written sentence and - even though they got the right answer - did not get a mark because their commas were not curved the right way or their semi-colon was too large or not in precisely the right place.\n\nThey also complained about marking guidance which they claimed only markers, not teachers, had access to.\n\nPrimary head teacher Cathryn Throup tweeted some of the issued guidance which gave details of the \"origin, height, depth and orientation\" of semi-colons - or where pupils' should write their answers.\n\nPrimary teacher Liz Hindley, who tweets as @Leaping_liz, put up pictures of four answers all featuring the semi-colon in the correct place, but two were given a mark and two were not.\n\n\"The lack of consistency is so frustrating,\" she said.\n\nOther teachers raised similar issues, such as pupils' answers straying outside of the box.\n\nBrian Walton, head teacher of Brookside Academy in Somerset, told the BBC that schools had not been told that markers would mark pupils down for misshapen semi-colons and answers straying outside of a box.\n\n\"The markers had guidance that none of the teachers, none of the schools knew about, so a lot of this guidance about the size and the shape and the orientation and how we form letters - we didn't know that,\" he told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme.\n\n\"Remember, they [pupils] are putting written semi-colons in text type with no gaps between the writing at the same time - we're really getting pernickety when we're getting to that level.\"\n\nMr Walton said he did know the scale of the problem, but had already had 50 or 60 heads in his area contact him with concerns.\n\nWriter and poet Michael Rosen tweeted: \"The punctuation police demand that the mark has to be drawn correctly and at the right angle.\"\n\nIn a statement, Pearson, the company which administered the Sats, said: \"Marking quality is extremely important and is something we monitor continuously.\n\n\"In the unusual circumstance that there is an error, there is a review process in place which ensures a fair and transparent system and enables Pearson to correct any discrepancies and ensure pupils receive a fair mark.\"\n\nA spokesman for the DfE said there were \"a number of measures in place to ensure that schools' Key Stage 2 writing teacher assessment judgements are robust and accurate\".\n\n\"The Standards and Testing Agency takes any issues with the accuracy of schools' teacher assessment judgments very seriously.\n\n\"Any concerns about particular schools should be reported to the STA so that they may be properly investigated.\"\n\nBut teacher unions criticised the marking for being inconsistent, saying pupils were being marked down on a technicality when it was clear they knew the correct answer to the question.\n\nThis pupil received no marks, despite appearing to answer the question correctly\n\nRussell Hobby, general secretary of school leaders' union NAHT, said: \"We now operate within a testing culture which appears focused on catching young children out rather than recording their achievements.\n\n\"Such a culture will swiftly erode the confidence of parents and teachers that the system is operating in the best interests of pupils.\n\n\"The stakes are so high that we seem unable to apply reasonable common sense.\"\n\nKevin Courtney, general secretary of the National Union of Teachers, said: \"\"We already know that moderation is inconsistent and open to gaming.\n\n\"Now, teachers are finding out that marking is unreliable too.\n\n\"The system does not deserve anyone's trust, and it should not be the basis on which schools are held to account.\"\n\nLast week, official figures showed two-fifths (39%) of primary school pupils in England had failed to meet the expected standard in reading, writing and mathematics.\n\nHowever, this summer's results were an improvement on the success rate last year (53%), which was the first year of new, more rigorous tests.", "Although their manifesto calls for a near-total halt to immigration, the far-right political party Britain First is now actively trying to appeal to Polish immigrants.\n\nThey are a fringe group, with no elected officials at any level, but Britain First has about 1.9 million Facebook likes - more than any other UK political party. And now they're trying to use that social media footprint to make explicit appeals to Polish immigrants living in the UK.\n\nA string of Britain First videos that seem designed to attract a Polish audience have appeared online. Recent ones include a video from Jacek Miedlar, a Polish far-right former priest, an interview with a Polish media outlet that has over half a million views, and videos by Polish Britain First supporters encouraging others to support the party.\n\nMiedlar, who has over 25,000 subscribers on YouTube, is an activist known for his anti-Semitic and anti-Islamic views. He has tried to travel to the UK twice this year to attend Britain First rallies but was stopped by UK authorities.\n\nThe videos have been posted despite Britain First's anti-immigration manifesto which calls for cash payments to foreigners to leave the UK, a complete halt to immigration except for people who marry British citizens, and a call to make it \"an act of treason to implement any policy or measure, or sign any agreement, that facilitates and/or results in significant numbers of foreigners entering the sovereign territory of the United Kingdom with the aim of settling.\"\n\nDespite the party's hard line on immigration, Britain First deputy leader Jayda Fransen told BBC Trending that post-Brexit, all European immigrants who are already in the UK should be allowed to stay, as long as they aren't criminals or Muslims. The party also supports a total ban on Islam in the UK, a policy they believe will attract some support from Polish migrants.\n\nPoles form the largest immigrant community in Britain. There were an estimated 831,000 Polish-born residents in 2015 - a jump of almost 750,000 compared with the number in 2004, the year Poland joined the European Union.\n\nRafal Pankowski from the Polish anti-hate charity Never Again says the party's attempts to appeal to UK-based Polish people may have something to do with what he perceives to be a trend towards the far-right in Polish society.\n\n\"We have been witnessing a rise in far-right activity in Poland itself as well,\" he says. \"And unfortunately the Polish people in the UK have been victims of discrimination and hate crime especially since the Brexit referendum. And some of them have been turning to Polish far-right nationalist groups for a sense of belonging.\"\n\nA number of videos have appeared on the Britain First Youtube channel seemingly aimed at the UK's Polish population\n\nWiktor Moszczynski, a former spokesperson for the Federation of Poles in Great Britain, agrees that there has been a spike of far-right activity amongst Polish people living in the UK, but says that such activity has recently died down.\n\n\"At the moment the trend tends to be towards the right in Polish society, both in Poland and to some extent here in the UK, but when I say right that doesn't necessarily mean radical right,\" Moszczynski tells BBC Trending radio.\n\n\"Suddenly these groups began turning up in demonstrations in the UK over the last two or three years generally wearing Polish fascist symbols, but what I do have to say is I have not seen anything of this in the last year,\" he says. \"I have been spoken to by the police who are very concerned about these groups, so we do know that there may still be an undercurrent. But at the moment the problem seems to have been in remission, temporarily at least.\"\n\nHe says a majority of the younger Polish community are resistant to the influence of far-right groups, including Britain First, but nevertheless the far-right spike is \"not pleasant, particularly at a time when we're trying to build up sympathy for the Poles living in this country on the way they've been treated after the Brexit vote.\"\n\nA recent report from the campaigning group Hope Not Hate said the largest and most organised neo-Nazi group in the UK is the National Rebirth of Poland. The presence of groups like these, Hope Not Hate says, has fuelled extreme far-right activists.\n\nBritain First rarely runs candidates. When they do they receive a small amount of the vote, such as the 1.2% of the vote party leader Paul Golding attracted in the 2016 London mayoral election. Its outsized social media following is due to a combination of factors including paid advertising, a core group of dedicated followers, and the use of less controversial posts - for instance messages encouraging people to support the troops or the royal family - and other tactics to drive up the numbers of likes.\n\nThe group's Facebook page has also become something of an international hub people attracted to its anti-Islam message. According to an analysis by Trending, less than half (44%) of the group's Facebook likes come from accounts based inside the UK, with large numbers of likes coming from the US, Australia and Canada. Around 23,000 of the page's likes come from Polish accounts.\n\nBy way of comparison, 87% of the Labour Party's 1 million likes come from UK accounts. The figure for the Conservative Party (more than 600,000 likes) is 78%.\n\nFransen claims the party has a \"growing number\" of Polish members and supporters, but refused to provide membership figures. She says the party's low appeal at the ballot box can be explained by the fact that the group has been concentrating on direct action, including turning up at the homes and offices of elected officials.\n\nFormer Polish wrestling champion Marian Lukasik (left) called for the assassination of Angela Merkel over her country's refugee policy\n\nPankowski believes the membership figures are very small, yet says his organisation saw via social media a number of Polish flags and Polish people at a Britain First rally in Birmingham last month.\n\nIn one video from the event, a UK-based Polish former wrestling champion Marian Lukasik, can be heard advocating the assassination of German Chancellor Angela Merkel because of her country's refugee policy. Lukasik has recently made other videos in support of Britain First.\n\n\"Britain First decided to attract support among the Polish community in the UK against Muslims, and a small section of the Polish community in the UK is probably prone to such messages,\" Pankowski says. \"But obviously it's ironic because Polish migrants and Muslim migrants in the UK actually have a lot in common in terms of the everyday challenges they face.\"\n\nYou can find BBC Trending on Facebook or follow us on Twitter @BBCtrending. All our stories are at bbc.com/trending.", "The European Union (Withdrawal) Bill, known as the repeal bill, will convert EU laws into UK laws. Some of these will be in areas such as the environment and agriculture, which are normally the responsibility of the devolved governments in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nThe First Ministers of Scotland and Wales, Nicola Sturgeon and Carwyn Jones, have described the bill as a \"naked power-grab\" that undermines devolution. But do they have the power to block it?\n\nThe UK government says it will negotiate with the devolved governments and attempt to seek consensus. Ultimately, though, the bill could pass even without the agreement of Scotland and Wales, but not without the potential for severe political consequences.\n\nDevolution to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland transfers the power to make laws in some policy areas from Westminster to the Scottish Parliament, Welsh Assembly and Northern Ireland Assembly.\n\nBut there are times when the UK Parliament still legislates in these areas. The Sewel Convention states that when it does so, it should normally seek the consent of the devolved legislature.\n\nAnd the convention is just that, a political convention, not a legally enforceable rule.\n\nIt is named after Lord Sewel, who first set it out when the Scottish Parliament was established.\n\nA system was established whereby the UK government seeks a \"legislative consent motion\" from the devolved legislatures when it passes laws on devolved matters.\n\nThe convention was written into a memorandum of understanding between the UK and devolved governments in 2001.\n\nIt states: \"The UK government will proceed in accordance with the convention that the UK Parliament would not normally legislate with regard to devolved matters, except with the agreement of the devolved legislature.\"\n\nThe memorandum was intended as a political agreement not a legally binding code. And the word \"normally\" implies it is not absolutely essential for Westminster to seek consent.\n\nThe convention as it applies to Scotland and Wales has recently been written into law.\n\nThe Scotland Act 1998 said the power of the Scottish Parliament to make laws \"does not affect the power of the United Kingdom to make laws for Scotland\". However, the Scotland Act 2016 inserted an extra clause saying that Westminster: \"will not normally legislate with regard to devolved matters without the consent of the Scottish Parliament\".\n\nA similar clause for Wales was included in the Wales Act 2017.\n\nThere has been no such Act of Parliament for Northern Ireland, but the convention still applies there.\n\nDespite the new statutory basis, the Sewel Convention does not give the Scottish Parliament or Welsh Assembly an absolute veto.\n\nThat was determined by the Supreme Court in its judgement in the case brought by Gina Miller about the triggering of Article 50, which started the Brexit process.\n\nThe Supreme Court found that the new clauses do not mean that the Sewel Convention has been converted into a legally enforceable rule. It remains a political convention - albeit one which is recognised as a permanent feature of devolution.\n\nThe devolved legislatures in Scotland and Wales do not have the legal power to block the repeal bill. But if the UK government were to bulldoze it through without their consent, it could be politically explosive.\n\nIt may just be a convention but it is regarded by many as a key aspect of the devolution settlement and an important part of the UK's constitution.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTurkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has given emotional speeches to tens of thousands of people a year after a coup attempt was faced down in the streets.\n\nMr Erdogan praised those people, including MPs, who had defended democracy and his government.\n\nHe backed the death penalty for coup plotters and said they should wear Guantanamo Bay-style uniforms.\n\nNearly 250 people died and 2,196 were wounded fighting the coup attempt by an army faction on 15 July last year.\n\nThe government has since led a crackdown on alleged coup supporters, with the dismissal of more than 150,000 state employees and the arrest of some 50,000 people.\n\nThe coup failed for several reasons, including a lack of support in higher echelons of the armed forces and a lack of political or public backing.\n\nPlotters tried to detain Mr Erdogan as he holidayed in an Aegean resort, but he had left and the coup was thwarted by civilians and soldiers loyal to the president. It is on these people that the president has focused in commemorations.\n\n\"People that night did not have guns, they had a flag and more importantly, they had their faith,\" he told thousands of supporters.\n\nHowever, the national unity that was initially felt against the coup has faded, and divisions have widened, correspondents say.\n\nOpponents of Mr Erdogan boycotted the day and night of speeches and pageantry. They say his government's actions over the past year amount to an attempt to purge dissent.\n\nSuch purges continued right up to last Friday, when more than 7,000 state employees were dismissed.\n\nMr Erdogan addressed Turks who had rallied to the bridge over the Bosphorus where civilians had confronted pro-coup soldiers last year.\n\nHe said: \"I am grateful to all members of my nation who defended their country.\"\n\nMr Erdogan said that 250 people had lost their lives but the country had won its future.\n\n\"Putschists who closed off the bridge on that night wanted to show the world that they were in control,\" he said, but were countered by \"millions who took to the streets that night to defend the honour of their nation\".\n\nHe said he would \"break the heads of the traitors\" who plotted the coup.\n\nMr Erdogan also said he had spoken to Prime Minister Binali Yildirim about the coup plotters, saying: \"When they appear in court, let's make them appear in uniform suits like in Guantanamo.\"\n\nThe president then unveiled a \"martyrs' memorial\" at the bridge, which has been renamed the Bridge of the Martyrs of July 15.\n\nTens of thousands went to the bridge in Istanbul that has become a landmark of the failed coup\n\nMoving on to Ankara, the capital, he spoke in parliament a year to the hour after it was bombed by warplanes.\n\nHe said that on the night of the coup, \"our nation showed the whole world what a nation we are\".\n\nOne supporter in the crowd, who gave his name only as Murat, said: \"\"If it happened again, I would stay out again. That night, it was like a war. We take ownership of this country and this people.\"\n\nThe date of 15 July has been declared an annual holiday called Democracy and National Unity Day.\n\nEarlier Mr Yildirim told a special session of parliament that 15 July 2016 was a \"second War of Independence\", following the conflict that led to the creation of the modern state in the 1920s.\n\n\"It has been exactly one year since Turkey's darkest and longest night was transformed into a bright day, since an enemy occupation turned into the people's legend,\" the prime minister said.\n\nBut Kemal Kilicdaroglu, the head of the main opposition Republican People's Party, said: \"This parliament, which withstood bombs, has been rendered obsolete and its authority removed.\n\n\"In the past year, justice has been destroyed. Instead of rapid normalisation, a permanent state of emergency has been implemented.\"\n\nThe Turkish authorities accused a movement loyal to the Muslim cleric, Fethullah Gulen, of organising the plot.\n\nMr Gulen, who remains in the United States, denies any involvement, and Washington has so far resisted calls from the Turkish authorities to extradite him.\n\nPresident Erdogan inspected the honour guard ahead of special session of parliament in Ankara\n\nThe BBC's Turkey correspondent, Mark Lowen, says that for half of the country, he says, 15 July 2016 was its rebirth; for the other half, its aftermath is killing off what was left of Turkish democracy.\n\nCivilians, as those here on the Bosphorus bridge, helped defy the coup last year\n\nBillboards like this one paying tribute to the \"Legend of 15 July\" have been erected\n\nCritics say Mr Erdogan is using the purges to stifle political dissent, and last week hundreds of thousands of people gathered in Istanbul at the end of a 450km (280-mile) \"justice\" march against the government.\n\nThe president accused the marchers of supporting terrorism.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHost Nadiya Hussain was charming, celebrity guest Julian Clary provided the jokes, and presenter Donal Skehan was preparing food for the live BBC cookery show Saturday Kitchen.\n\nDonal sliced his finger open and blood starting pouring onto the chopping board.\n\nViewers at home watched with sympathy and amusement at the unfolding scene.\n\n\"Wow! Donal Skehan is so professional! Cut finger on live TV and he cracks on!\" said viewer Tania O'Donell on Twitter.\n\nThe presenter carried on cooking and chatting valiantly, until he seemed to realise quite how bad the cut was.\n\n\"Nothing like a bit of blood on a Saturday morning just to get you alive and kicking. I'm glad Julian is here to keep us going,\" he said, though some viewers remarked he had gone slightly pale.\n\nMany sent their best wishes to Donal.\n\nBut just when everyone had recovered, things took another turn.\n\nA cameraman strode confidently in front of the camera as guests gathered around a table behind him.\n\nWhen alerted to his presence, he meekly put his hand to his mouth in surprise before sharply exiting the set.\n\n\"Loving the show today. Give the cameraman some of the food,\" one watcher said on Twitter.\n\nThe show was compared to domestic chaos in another BBC show.\n\n\"Reminds me of an episode of Fawlty Towers,\" said one viewer.\n\n\"My sides! My sides! Hope you're OK #Keepcalmandcarryon,\" another said.\n\nThe team at Saturday Kitchen took the whole thing well though.\n\n\"Thanks all our #saturdaykitchen viewers for their comments. This morning's show certainly proved we are LIVE!!\" they tweeted.", "Billie Eilish: \"Lyrics are so important. I don't think people realise how important they are\".\n\nBillie Eilish may only be 15 years old, but she's already a formidable talent (and a real-life pirate, but more on that later).\n\nA member of the Los Angeles Children's Chorus, she wrote her first song - about falling into a black hole - when she was four.\n\nBut it was her dance instructor who unlocked her talent for smart, dark pop songs when he asked her to submit a song for class.\n\nAlong with her older brother Finneas, Billie came up with Ocean Eyes - an astonishingly assured ballad which compared falling in love to falling off a cliff under \"napalm skies\".\n\nShe posted it on Soundcloud so her teacher could hear it, went to bed, and woke up to a flurry of emails about her burgeoning music career.\n\nOcean Eyes has racked up nine million plays since Eilish uploaded it to Soundcloud last summer\n\nSince then, she's been on a steep upswing, signed by Interscope Records and releasing one head-turning track after another. The highlight (so far) is Bellyache, in which she sings from the point of view of a conflicted psychopath.\n\n\"Where's my mind?\" she trills as an acoustic guitar trades blows with a gut-punch drum loop. \"Maybe it's in the gutter, where I left my lover.\"\n\nIt's the pop equivalent of a Tarantino movie - finding comic absurdity in the midst of eye-popping gore. The lyrics might keep it off the radio, but Billie isn't too worried.\n\n\"I don't need many people to care,\" says the singer. \"Even if other people don't like it, I like it.\"\n\nAs she gears up to release her first EP, Eilish sat down for a frank chat with the BBC about her lyrical fantasies, getting to grips with the music industry and her very unusual middle name.\n\nHello Billie Eilish… Have I pronounced that right?\n\nYes! It's eye-lish, like eyelash with a lish.\n\nYour family name is O'Connell, though, so is that a stage name?\n\nIt is my middle name. So I'm Bille Eilish Pirate Baird O'Connell.\n\nPirate! That's an amazing name.\n\nPretty weird, right? Pirate was going to be my middle name but then my uncle had a problem with it because pirates are bad. Then Baird is my mother's name.\n\nThe singer co-writes most of her material with her brother, Finneas, who you may recognise as Alistair from the TV show Glee\n\nIt's been a year since Ocean Eyes went onto Soundcloud. It was written for a dance class, right?\n\nOh yeah! My dance teacher knew that I sing, so he asked us to make a song and I thought that was the coolest thing ever.\n\nMy brother had written Ocean Eyes and we recorded it, basing all of the production around contemporary and lyrical dance. I think of most songs that way - if you can't dance to a song, it's not a song.\n\nAnyway, we put it on Soundcloud, literally to send the link to my teacher and then it just grew from there.\n\nIt's been played more than nine million times now. When did you notice it was taking off?\n\nIt was really confusing. I didn't understand what was going on. I literally thought it was like my popular friend had reposted it. 'Wow, it's getting so many listens!'\n\n\"I don't like it when people know my age,\" says the singer.\n\nWhat are those meetings like? Do you go in super-confident, like, \"I've got the goods, what are you going to offer me?\" or is it totally nerve-wracking?\n\nI was 13 when this started, so I didn't know anything about anything. I'd go into meetings and they'd say, \"So Billie, what do you think?\" and I'd just be like, \"Am I supposed to know? Because I don't,\".\n\nBut eventually I got the hang of it. And now the meetings I have are a bit more like, \"OK, Billie, what exactly do you want?' and then I explain every single detail of every single thing that I'm thinking; and people do it!\n\nIt's insane. You have stuff floating around in your mind and you tell somebody and they go, \"Oh yeah, we can make that happen\". It's like, \"What? WHY?\".\n\nSo it's like Spider-Man. With great power comes great responsibility.\n\nI am exactly like Spider-Man. I promise.\n\nI get the impression from your lyrics, especially, that you have a very clear idea of the things you want to talk about. How do you approach writing?\n\nLyrics are so important but they're really underrated. So many lyrics right now are just the same thing - \"Oh, I love you but I'm sad because you don't love me and... blah\". You can say that in a more interesting way.\n\nMe and my brother write a lot of fiction. Like in Bellyache, obviously. I don't kill people.\n\nRight? But you can put yourself in a character or a situation you would not normally be in. You don't have to be in love to write a love song. You don't have to kill somebody to write a song about killing somebody. It's like jumping into another world.\n\nThe singer says she's been approached to write songs for other people after her own music got noticed\n\nSo do you consider it like acting? Or do you really want to murder someone, but haven't got round to it yet?\n\nBut both of my parents are actors, and I was in plays when I was younger. Then I went to an audition and I came back going, \"I hate this. I'm not doing this ever again.\"\n\nWhat happened at that audition?\n\nBut it's just fun to get to tell a story [in a song]. If you just write about things you've been through, you might get to a point where you go, \"I don't feel like this any more, so it's not worth pursuing\".\n\nNo. No. It's especially worth it.\n\nWell, I wrote Bellyache with my brother, and he wrote Ocean Eyes, and we have a ton of other songs on the EP that I'm really excited about.\n\nDo you find you write better with him than anyone else?\n\nWe've had sessions with artists and writers and producers and not that those sessions were bad, but when we write, just us together, it's so much more raw, I guess. And straight from the heart.\n\nTell me how Bellyache came to be...\n\nI wasn't like, \"Let's write a song about killing someone!\". We were sitting in my garage rehearsing for a show with my brother's friends. Finneas started riffing on the guitar, and one of them started playing on the piano, and I sang the first line - \"Sitting all alone, with a mouthful of gum in the driveway\".\n\nThen my brother sang, \"My friends aren't far, in the back of the car\" and I was like \"Lay their bodies,\" like I had killed them. And he just said, \"Woah, that's so cool!\".\n\nThe video for Bellyache sees Billie on the run after her crime spree, pulling a trolley full of cash\n\nIt just grew from there. He came into my room a couple of days later and he was like, 'dude, I wrote the chorus for this'. And he sang it all, and the last line was, \"And now I got a bellyache\" and I was like, \"That is genius\".\n\nIt's such a childish line. No grown up says, \"I have a bellyache, I gotta go\". But it's kind of part of the song, because it's about someone whose really young and knows they're a psychopath. They're like, \"Maybe I shouldn't steal this money and kill these people... but I'm going to anyway\".\n\nIt's a very cinematic lyric. You can see the film opening on you in the car, then the camera cuts to the bodies in the boot.\n\nSome people don't really realise what I'm saying until they've listened to it a couple of times. My friends would be like, \"Dude I was listening to Bellyache the other day, actually listening to it, and what the hell were you writing about?\".\n\nAnd then you say, \"I'm glad you've heard it. Now never cross me again\".\n\nYour new song is called Copycat. What's that about?\n\nYou'll understand when you hear it, but it's about people who feel justified in copying everything you do. It's not about someone particular, I just wrote it.\n\nI had two sisters growing up - and that sort of thing seemed to happen quite frequently in their peer groups. Is it a girl thing?\n\nIt probably is, and it's tortuous. Especially if it's somebody close to you. It's like, \"Be your own self - don't try to be me!\".\n\nThe singer, who turned 15 in December, is accompanied on the road by her mother\n\nYou've just played your first headline show in the UK. Do you get nervous?\n\nNot really. I don't get nerves, I just get excited.\n\nDoes your dance training help with confidence and stage presence?\n\nYeah. I mean, I was really a dancer. Then I got injured, so I haven't really danced since Ocean Eyes came out.\n\nI strained my growth plate. My bone separated from my muscle in my hip. It was really bad.\n\nIt's so weird, because it can't happen to you if you're over 16 - but I was in a class with a bunch of seniors, because I was at that level. We were doing hip-hop and it just popped. So I haven't really danced since then, which was like a year-and-a-half ago, which has been horrible.\n\nThere is a dance video for Ocean Eyes, though, so are you on the mend?\n\nI was injured for the dance video, actually. I had sprained my ankle in December,and I had also strained my groin and I have shoulder problems.\n\nThat's a sign to concentrate on the music.\n\nI guess it is, but I'm trying to get back into dance slowly.\n\nI love movement. I love moshing. I always heads right for the front and dig in there and mosh really hard with all the guys. None of the girls want to mosh, so I'm like the only girl getting punched in the face.\n\nBillie Eilish releases her new song, Copycat, today. Her previous singles, Ocean Eyes, Bored, Bellyache and Watch are all available now.\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. \"My helmet saved me,\" says London acid attack victim Jabed Hussain\n\nThe victim of an acid attack has said it felt like fire had been thrown at him when two moped riders pulled up alongside him and threw a corrosive substance in his face.\n\nJabed Hussain, 32, was one of five people attacked during a 90-minute period in London on Thursday night.\n\nThe delivery driver, whose own moped was stolen, said \"my helmet saved me\".\n\nTwo teenage boys have been arrested. The government said it was considering more controls on corrosive substances.\n\n\"I took off my helmet and I was just screaming for help because it's getting dry and as much as it's getting dry it's burning. So I was just screaming for water,\" Mr Hussain said, adding that he was now too scared to go back to work.\n\nThe attacks - five in total - took place across Islington, Stoke Newington and Hackney on Thursday, with one victim suffering \"life-changing injuries\".\n\nCh Insp Ben Clark, from the Met's Hackney Borough, said all of the victims were riding mopeds.\n\nPolice have said they are linking the attacks and the boys - aged 15 and 16 - had been arrested on suspicion of robbery and causing grievous bodily harm.\n\nFood delivery services Deliveroo and UberEATS confirmed two of the victims were couriers working for the firms. Deliveroo called the attack \"truly shocking\" while UberEats said it was \"horrific and senseless\".\n\nThe attacks happened amid rising concern about the number of assaults involving corrosive substances in London.\n\nSince 2010, there have been more than 1,800 reports of attacks involving corrosive fluids in the capital.\n\nSo far this year - excluding Thursday night - the Met has recorded 119 such attacks. And in 2016, it was used in 458 crimes, compared with 261 in 2015, according to Met Police figures.\n\nOn Friday, a moped rider in his 20s was possibly hit with acid following an attempted robbery at 17:00 BST in Dagenham, east London.\n\nThe Met said the victim was approached by two males on a moped who squirted what was described as a \"noxious substance\" at him as they tried to steal his moped.\n\nHe was taken to hospital but has now been discharged.\n\nMet Commissioner Cressida Dick said the growing trend of victims being doused with corrosive liquids was concerning.\n\nLabour MP for East Ham Stephen Timms has tabled an adjournment debate for Monday in the House of Commons on the rise.\n\nJaf Shah, from the Acid Survivors Trust, has called for a licensing system and said under 18s should be prohibited from purchasing sulphuric or any form of concentrated acid.\n\nA Downing Street spokesman said the prime minister viewed acid attacks as \"horrific\".\n\n\"We are working with the police to see what more we could do.\"\n\nHome Office minister Sarah Newton said the government was considering tighter controls, but said regulation would be difficult, as \"these chemicals are under everyone's kitchen sinks\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Footage posted by Turon Miah shows an acid attack victim being doused with water\n\nA Met spokesman said officers were looking at whether the attackers were targeting moped riders to steal their bikes.\n\nThe 16-year-old boy was arrested in Kingsbury Road, north-west London, early on Friday, while the 15-year-old was arrested in Stoke Newington several hours later.\n\nHackney resident Jon Moody said he was watching TV on Thursday when he heard screaming and ran to the window.\n\n\"I heard a high-pitched scream but thought it was the boys playing football... I heard more shouting and ran to my window,\" he said.\n\n\"I could see a man in serious distress, he was screaming in pain.\n\n\"There were only two police officers with the victim, they took out two large water canisters and poured it over him.\"\n\nHe said he believed the victim was a delivery driver and about 20 fellow delivery drivers turned up at the scene.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What should you do in case of a chemical burn?\n\nDid you witness the attacks? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk with your stories.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Professor Hugh Herr believes we're entering a new era of human-machine interoperability\n\nWe all like to joke about what might happen if robots, powered by artificial intelligence, decide they want to overthrow humans.\n\nThat scenario is, at best, decades away. But this week I’ve been pondering something much more immediate, and in my view, more likely. What will happen when humans decide to become robots?\n\n\"We’re at a key transition in human history,” says Prof Hugh Herr, who heads the Biomechatronics Group at the famed Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).\n\nHe says the group’s aim is to establish the scientific and technological conditions that will eventually eliminate disability, whether through paralysis or amputation.\n\nBut when that incredible goal has been achieved, then what?\n\n\"We’re fusing the nervous system with the built world,” he says.\n\n\"We’re transitioning from a relationship where we use technology that is separate from our nervous system, to a new epoch of integration, of human physiology.\"\n\nProf Herr is a double amputee. In 2012, I saw him move a room in London to tears when he revealed his incredibly sophisticated bionic legs that allowed him to move with natural poise and grace.\n\nIn 2014, Prof Herr’s technology meant Adrianne Haslet-Davis returned to the dancefloor, less than a year after losing a limb in the Boston marathon bombings. Her first performance after the incident brought a TED talk audience instantly to its feet.\n\nI visited Prof Herr’s lab last week to learn more about the work his team is doing, and where it may lead. Right now, much of the research is focused on doing things the human body can do instinctively, but which are extremely complex to engineer.\n\nThis foot is able to detect when it is in mid-air, and react accordingly\n\nRoman Stolyarov, a researcher at the lab, demonstrated how they are using sensors similar to those found on self-driving cars to give prosthetic legs an awareness of what is around them.\n\nThis is important to make the leg behave differently when, for example, walking down stairs. The human brain, whether the person realises it or not, is able to instinctively prepare the leg to land on a step. Teaching a prosthesis to do the same is the difference between having a bionic leg and, to put it crassly, a peg leg.\n\n“The motor is able to work in such a way that simulates a real biological ankle joint,” Mr Stolyarov told me.\n\n“The [leg] uses on-board sensors to infer whether the leg is in the air or on the ground, and perform actions that to the person feel much more like real walking than they would get from a passive prosthesis.”\n\nThe end result is that walking is considerably less tiring for amputees like Ryan Cannon, who lost his leg following complications after he broke it.\n\n“I can move in a more rhythmic, symmetrical way,” he told me.\n\n\"Being able to move in that manner allows me to walk at a faster pace for a longer distance and to do more activities during the day.”\n\nBut not all the work carried out here is about replacing limbs. It’s also looking at improving them.\n\nOne exoskeleton project reduces the physical exertion when walking by 25%, explained researcher Tyler Clites.\n\n“What that means is, if you were to walk 100 miles, it would only feel like you walked 75.\n\n\"We’re able to do that today. Those are devices I would expect to see rolling out commercially in the next several years.”\n\nBeyond MIT, others are working on similar initiatives. US retail chain Lowes is piloting exoskeltons for staff, developed at Virginia Tech, that assist them with lifting at work.\n\n“I definitely think that we are entering an age in which the line between biological systems and synthetic systems is going to be very much blurred,” Mr Clites said.\n\nStaff at US chain Lowes are trying out new exoskeleton technology\n\nHe said this future brings a concern that the rich and fortunate of the world may become physically superior, too.\n\n“Then what you do is create a new baseline for physical ability, and perhaps mental ability, that’s only achievable by people who are already in a position of privilege.”\n\nThat said, Prof Herr said he was confident that as the cost of prosthetics became lower, it wouldn’t leave poorer people behind.\n\n\"The cost of robotics is going to plummet,” he said.\n\n\"It’s hard to predict whether there’ll be large separations in society.\"\n\nBefore that day, work will be mostly focused on improving the lives of amputees. But in that endeavour, one of the obstacles hindering Prof Herr’s work is one of compatibility.\n\nMuch like an old computer peripheral that can't plug into a new laptop, nor can most amputees “plug in” to the latest technologies being developed in this lab.\n\nTo solve this, the team is urgently trying to change the way limbs are amputated.\n\n\"The method that is used today to amputate limbs has fundamentally not changed since the US Civil War,” Prof Herr said.\n\n\"So while you’ve seen tremendous progress in mechatronics and robotics, you’ve not seen progress in how surgeries are performed to amputate limbs. That is now changing.\n\n\"We’re redesigning how limbs are amputated to create the right mechanical and electrical interfacing environment.”\n\nHe said this interfacing would join the brain directly to the limb, creating a sense among amputees that they are making their bodies whole again.\n\n\"What we’re experiencing clinically is that when we attach these limbs to people and we listen to their testimonials, they use language such as 'I have my limb back, I’m healed, it’s part of me’.”\n\nOnce that breakthrough is fully achieved - and there’s evidence of progress literally walking around Prof Herr’s lab - he said humans will surely begin to consider themselves eligible for an upgrade.\n\n\"We’ll be more open to using all kinds of materials to make up our bodies,” he said.\n\nYou can reach Dave securely through encrypted messaging app Signal on: +1 (628) 400-7370", "Two other girls found in the park were also taken to hospital as a precaution\n\nA 15-year-old girl has died after suffering an adverse reaction from a suspected \"legal high,\" police said.\n\nThe girl was found unconscious at about 04:50 BST at Bakers Park in Newton Abbot, Devon, and died at Torbay Hospital. She was not from the area.\n\nTwo other girls were also taken to hospital as a precaution.\n\nPolice said they were \"confident\" local people would know who supplied the drugs to the girl and appealed for them to come forward.\n\nInvestigations are continuing and a cordon is in place at the scene\n\nDet Supt Ken Lamont said: \"With NPS (New Psychoactive Substances) no-one knows what's in them and that's why they are so dangerous.\n\n\"Time and time again we hear of people paying the ultimate price for this.\n\n\"It's not worth experimenting with your life.\"\n\nThe girl's next of kin have been informed but police have not yet named her.\n\nInvestigations are continuing and a cordon is in place at the scene.\n\nLast year Totnes teenager Nathan Wood died after after taking the psychoactive drug N-Bomb.\n\nPolice called on parents to \"speak to your children about the dangers of drugs and (formerly known as) legal highs\".\n\n\"They can cause death even if taken just once.\"", "Coventry, Paisley, Sunderland, Swansea and Stoke-on-Trent will compete to host a year-long celebration of art and performance as UK City of Culture 2021.\n\nThe five locations are on a shortlist for the title, but six other bidding towns and cities missed out.\n\nThe five left in the race will hope to emulate the success of Hull, which is UK City of Culture this year.\n\nThe title is awarded every four years and the winner for 2021 will be the third UK City of Culture.\n\nIt's the birthplace of Philip Larkin, one of England's finest poets, and the home of the 2 Tone ska movement through bands like The Specials and The Selecter.\n\nVenues would include Warwick Arts Centre, the Belgrade Theatre and the Herbert Art Gallery and Museum. It's not just about the existing culture - it is, as the bid organisers say, \"about changing the reputation of a city\".\n\nThis Renfrewshire town, population 76,000, is perhaps most famous for the Paisley print - the intricate, colourful designs that were inspired by Kashmiri patterns in the 18th Century and popularised in the psychedelic 1960s.\n\nIt was also home to Gerry Rafferty, known for his hit Baker Street. Former Doctor Who star David Tennant grew up in the city, while Paolo Nutini's dad runs a fish and chip cafe there. There are plans for Paisley Museum to have a £42m revamp - though it's not due to reopen until 2022.\n\nStoke is most famous as the capital of the English ceramics industry, which it is trying to revive, with designers like Emma Bridgewater there and Keith Brymer Jones from the BBC's Great Pottery Throwdown about to move into the old Spode factory.\n\nIt can also claim Robbie Williams, the Staffordshire Hoard - a treasure trove of Anglo-Saxon gold - and, in nearby Newcastle-under-Lyme, the pioneering New Vic theatre.\n\nSunderland's claims to fame range from Middle Ages chronicler Venerable Bede and England's first ever stained glass window to a fertile indie music scene that spawned bands like Frankie and the Heartstrings and The Futureheads.\n\nIt also has The National Glass Centre, the Northern Gallery of Contemporary Art and Sunderland Empire. And a new £10m cultural quarter is in development, including a music and arts hub in the old fire station.\n\nSwansea Bay was on the shortlist last time and the city has now come back again.\n\nIt is the home of poet Dylan Thomas - as well as a permanent exhibition that opened on his 100th birthday in 2014 - not to mention Catherine Zeta Jones and TV writer Russell T Davies.\n\nIts Glynn Vivian Art Gallery reopened last year after a £6m facelift, and the council says being City of Culture would kick-start its longer-term plans for \"culture-led regeneration\".\n\nThe places that didn't make the shortlist include Perth, which had been the bookmakers' favourite.\n\nAll the bidding cities are particularly keen to win the title after seeing the example of what's been achieved in Hull.\n\nRecent research suggests nine out of 10 local residents experienced a City of Culture event in the first three months of the year, while being City of Culture has boosted the local economy by an estimated £60m.\n\nHull's year as City of Culture has been seen as a success so far\n\nArts minister John Glen said: \"The strength of the competition showed us how valuable our cultural assets are to our towns, boosting tourism and jobs in local communities.\n\n\"I have seen first hand how Hull has embraced its status as City of Culture 2017, and how beneficial it has been for the area. I am looking forward to seeing what will come in 2021.\"\n\nThe UK City of Culture scheme is separate from the European Capital of Culture, a title shared this year by Aarhus in Denmark and Paphos in Cyprus.\n\nA British city is expected to be European Capital of Culture in 2023 - despite Brexit - with Leeds, Dundee and Milton Keynes among those interested.\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.", "Children from middle-class backgrounds are in danger of being groomed by criminal gangs to sell drugs, a new report has found. One mother says her son turned from \"an angel into a monster\".\n\n\"I was going out there looking for him myself,\" Claire - not her real name - explains to the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme. \"I was a nervous wreck.\"\n\nIn 2012, her son was exploited by a criminal gang to sell Class A drugs in his early teens, which led to him going missing for long periods of time - in one instance for three months.\n\n\"There was one occasion when he came home, and I heard a rustling at my door.\n\n\"To my horror, he was actually dealing from my home.\n\n\"He was getting calls on his mobile phone and asking whoever it was who was willing to purchase to come to my gate.\n\n\"Then it progressed to him being out on the streets most of the time - nowhere to be heard, nowhere to be seen.\"\n\nClaire describes her son as being a high achiever at school, who \"never had any problems with his behaviour\".\n\n\"He was actually featured in the local newspaper for very good work,\" she adds.\n\nHer story comes as a report by the All Party Parliamentary Group on Runaway and Missing Children and Adults warns that children and young people from \"stable and economically better-off backgrounds\" are being drawn in, coerced and exploited by criminal gangs.\n\n\"Any child can be groomed for criminal exploitation,\" according to the report\n\nLabour MP Ann Coffey, who chairs the group, told the programme: \"People think it's children from a particular group that are vulnerable to this and of course they are vulnerable, but we also forget that it is all children and we have a duty to protect all children, including children from better-off backgrounds who we may not think are vulnerable to this kind of exploitation and may go unnoticed.\"\n\nThe report says children are being used in so-called \"county lines\" operations - supplying Class A drugs from urban areas to county towns.\n\nIt says such grooming of missing children is \"very similar\" to sexual exploitation, but that those drawn in are effectively being blamed for their own participation in criminal activity, rather than being considered a victim.\n\nExploited children can be perceived as having \"made a choice\" and be seen as criminals rather than victims of the gangs controlling them.\n\nThe report calls for the risks of grooming and exploitation to be taught in both primary and secondary schools.\n\n\"Any child can be groomed for criminal exploitation. It affects boys and girls,\" it adds.\n\nThe National Crime Agency says the issue has spread out from London gangs to the rest of the country, including Liverpool and Greater Manchester.\n\nClaire believes her son was coerced into selling drugs.\n\n\"It could be that one of his peers, who had family members who were into criminal activity, asked their brother or sister to recruit within their mates,\" she says.\n\n\"There's the other side, where [he could have been] approached outside the school.\n\n\"I think personally he has gone through all of those stages.\"\n\nClaire says she \"screamed and shouted\" for support\n\nAsked if she received any help from social services, she says: \"Unfortunately with every service I was always told my son would have to have worse problems to have the support that I needed.\n\n\"I have screamed, I have shouted, I have done everything possible to try and prevent my son from getting deeper.\n\n\"Every way I turned I was backed up in a corner.\"\n\nReferring to Claire's case, Ann Coffey says: \"Her son's missing episodes were perhaps not seen in the way that they should have been because maybe the agencies didn't connect the risk to him in the way they might have done to another child from another different kind of background.\"\n\nThe cross-party report also called for a new national database for missing people, noting a lack of information-sharing that Claire also experienced.\n\n\"There has to be a response team that's working together, because I had to be dealing with so many services just for one child,\" she says.\n\n\"There was never anybody who could see what the other person was doing.\"\n\nThe government made tackling county lines one of its priorities in 2016 for ending gang violence and exploitation, saying: \"It is essential that police forces and their partners develop an understanding of what this means locally.\"\n\nA Home Office spokeswoman said: \"There is more that all partners can do, which is why we are tackling county lines through a national action plan and reviewing our cross-government strategy on missing children and adults and developing a clear implementation plan for delivery.\"\n\nClaire says she just feels \"fortunate\" that her son is still alive.\n\n\"He nearly passed away after being stabbed,\" she explains.\n\n\"He's alive and he's in a hospital bed, but when I saw him I broke down.\n\n\"His words to me were: 'I'm all right, Mum, I'm OK - it could have been worse.'\"\n\nAsked for her advice for any parents in similar situations, she says: \"Reach out - reach out for any help you can get.\"\n\nWatch the Victoria Derbyshire programme on weekdays between 09:00 and 11:00 on BBC Two and the BBC News channel.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Toned-down Trump: What happened to the tough talk on Paris?\n\nPresident Trump has made a new friend - Emmanuel Macron, the French president. The alliance, say analysts, is good for both Europe and the US.\n\nTrump and Macron sat next to each other and watched a Bastille Day parade on the Champs-Elysees.\n\nTrump put his hand on Macron's shoulder. A moment later Macron placed his hand on the other man's back, a sign of their new friendship.\n\nFrench and US troops both marched in the parade, honouring the fact that the Americans helped France survive two world wars. More recently French and US militaries have worked together to combat al-Qaeda in West Africa and the Islamic State group in Syria.\n\nAfterwards Trump headed back to the US, and one of his advisors, Thomas Bossert, who was travelling with him, talked about the importance of the friendship between the two leaders.\n\nWhile the president was in a private cabin on Air Force One, Bossert told me and other reporters on the aeroplane that Trump and Macron would now be able work together more closely on issues such as counterterrorism and defence.\n\n\"The relationship that the two presidents has forged will increase the trust that's required\" for intelligence sharing and other delicate matters, Bossert explained.\n\nTheir friendship came about in a surprising way.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The US president and his French counterpart shared a handshake that seemed like it would never end\n\nWhen they met in Brussels in May, Macron gave Trump a manly hand shake, showing he was a force to be reckoned with. Trump also made something clear during his first trip to Europe as president: he expected a lot from his friends.\n\nTrump said that members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (Nato) should increase their defence spending. A European official who's close to Macron told me that Trump also shared an idea with them about the contributions to Nato that members make.\n\nThe European official said that Trump wanted to present Macron with an invoice on camera as a way of showing that the French should pay more money for their defence.\n\nThe Europeans said they did not like the idea of a mini-drama about Nato spending, while a White House official told me the president never suggested it.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The US president told Brigitte Macron she was \"in good shape\"\n\nThe discrepancy in these two accounts hints at a bigger problem: Trump hasn't gotten along with Europeans. He made disparaging remarks about Nato and pulled the US out of the 2015 Paris climate accord.\n\nAfterwards Macron called Trump, asking him to come to Paris for Bastille Day.\n\n\"Macron's invitation to Trump was a bold stroke,\" said Charles Kupchan, who served as the national security council's senior director during the Obama administration.\n\nMacron's invitation was a subtle form of flattery, a national pastime in France, but in this case there was more than a kernel of sincerity too.\n\n\"If Macron is seen to be trying to ingratiate himself, that is in itself flattering,\" said Richard Stengel, who served as an under secretary of state for the Obama administration and is the author of a book called You're Too Kind: A Brief History of Flattery.\n\nMacron did not agree with much of what Trump has said and done since taking office, but still Macron wanted to get along. France's relationship with the US - for military and other reasons - is considered to be a top priority for Macron and his deputies.\n\nThe official visit saw a few protesters\n\n\"They need to make sure they don't screw it up,\" said Jeremy Shapiro, former US state department official.\n\nThe charm strategy worked - in part because Macron had a willing victim. Trump likes to single people out in hostile-ish groups and turn them into allies. In Europe, an area filled with leaders who resent Trump, Macron offered hope.\n\nBesides that, as the German Marshall Fund's Alexandra de Hoop Scheffer, said: \"Trump has a lot of respect for Macron.\"\n\nTrump arrived in Paris on Thursday. That evening he and Macron sat at a table in Jules Verne, a restaurant on top of the Eiffel Tower with a spectacular view of the city, and they talked about food.\n\nWatching the Bastille Day parade, Trump spoke to Macron in an animated way, throwing his arms around. The troops wore white gloves and feathered hats, and they carried swords and marched in lockstep. They looked like tin solders come to life, and Trump clapped exuberantly.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTrump has said lots of bad things about Europe, but Macron managed to turn things around.\n\nHe gave a speech that afternoon with Trump standing next to him. At the end of his remarks, Macron said: \"Vive la France.\"\n\nIt was a European sentiment that Trump - at least for the moment - embraced.\n• None What is the Paris climate agreement?\n• None What has Trump said about your country?", "Mr Castro said he rejected Mr Trump's \"manipulation of the topic of human rights\"\n\nThe president of Cuba has spoken publicly for the first time against US President Donald Trump's rollback of a thaw between the two countries a month ago.\n\nPresident Raul Castro said \"attempts to destroy the revolution\" would fail.\n\nMr Trump has tightened restrictions on US travel to and business with the communist island.\n\nBut the US embassy in Havana, re-opened by former President Barack Obama, is still operating.\n\nMr Castro was speaking in front of Cuba's national assembly. It was his first public comment on the policy changes Mr Trump announced a month ago.\n\nState-run Cuban media quoted Mr Castro as saying that Mr Trump was using \"old and hostile rhetoric\" and had returned to \"confrontation that roundly failed over 55 years\".\n\nHe said: \"We reject the manipulation of the topic of human rights against Cuba, which can be proud of much in this area and does not need to receive lessons from the United States nor anyone.\"\n\nMr Trump anchored his policy rollback in human rights concerns raised by political opponents of Cuba's communist government, many of whom have fled to Miami where Mr Trump announced the changes on 16 June.\n\nMr Castro continued: \"Cuba and the United States can cooperate and live side by side, respecting their differences. But no one should expect that for this, one should have to make concessions inherent to one's sovereignty and independence.\"\n\nMr Castro will step down as president in seven months, but will remain the head of the country's Communist Party.", "A crowd of 2,000 people turned out to watch Scarborough Athletic FC play their first home match in 10 years\n\nA football team has played its first home game in more than 10 years after moving into a new stadium.\n\nScarborough Athletic FC played in its home town for the first time since the club was founded in 2007.\n\nThe team, formed after the collapse of Scarborough FC, has been playing home fixtures nearly 20 miles away in Bridlington.\n\nThe Sea Dogs lost 4-1 against a Sheffield United XI in front of a sell-out crowd at Flamingo Land Stadium.\n\nChairman Trevor Bull said: \"Today is not only a great day for our club, it is also a massive day for our town.\"\n\nScarborough Athletic FC faced a Sheffield United XI in their first match at the Flamingo Land Stadium\n\nThe stadium forms part of a £50m development built on a former park and ride site\n\nThe club was formed after Scarborough FC went out of business with debts of £2.5m. It is jointly owned by about 350 supporters.\n\nFan and club communications officer Will Baines said: \"A lot of people have put a lot of work in to the club while we've been in exile, but now we're coming home.\"\n\nMr Baines said the move back to Scarborough was key to the future success of the side.\n\n\"We're fan-owned which means we've got our destiny in our own hands,\" he said.\n\n\"We've not got a big investor backing us, so that's why it's important that we're back in town as it's the money that we get through the turnstiles every week that will pay for the club.\"\n\nScarborough FC played at the McCain Stadium until the club went out of business in 2007\n\nThe homecoming fixture generated such interest the council and club warned people not to congregate on the hill overlooking the ground as it has no public right of way.\n\nThe stadium forms part of a £50m development built on the town's former Weaponness Park and Ride site, which includes a swimming pool, new University Technical College and Coventry University's Scarborough campus.\n\nScarborough FC's former ground - the McCain Stadium - was demolished in 2011.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Zayn Malik and Gigi Hadid in the US Vogue photoshoot\n\nUS Vogue has apologised for \"missing the mark\" by saying Zayn Malik and his girlfriend Gigi Hadid were \"embracing gender fluidity\".\n\nIn an interview, the former One Directioner and the US model talked about borrowing each other's clothes.\n\nThey were photographed in colourful, fairly androgynous clothes.\n\nBut readers mocked the magazine for its definition of the phrase, pointing out that what you wear does not make you \"gender fluid\".\n\nMany on social media pointed out that the term refers to people with a particular transgender identity, who do not conform to societal expectations of male or female or identify as either.\n\nFor instance Jacob Tobia wrote in Cosmopolitan: \"If you're going to talk about a marginalised community, talk to that community.\n\n\"Unlike how this new Vogue cover shoot presents it, the lived experience of being gender-nonconforming is rarely that fun and glamorous.\"\n\nVogue describes a conversation between the pair, with Hadid telling Malik: \"I shop in your closet all the time, don't I?\".\n\nThe 24-year-old singer then replies that he borrowed an Anna Sui T-shirt from her, adding: \"I like that shirt. And if it's tight on me, so what? It doesn't matter if it was made for a girl.\"\n\nHadid, 22, agrees, saying: \"Totally. It's not about gender. It's about, like, shapes. And what feels good on you that day.\n\n\"And anyway, it's fun to experiment.\"\n\nVogue writer Maya Singer comments in the piece, in US Vogue's August issue, that for many young people \"gender is a more or less arbitrary distraction\" and that there is \"a terrific opportunity for play\".\n\nShe says \"this new blase attitude toward gender codes marks a radical break\", adding: \"For these millennials, at least, descriptives like boy or girl rank pretty low on the list of important qualities - and the way they dress reflects that.\"\n\nBut poet Tyler Ford, who's quoted in the accompanying article exploring gender norms, tweeted (with an eyeroll emoji): \"The only mention of the word 'trans' is by me via interview.\"\n\nJournalist and author Hannah Orenstein said she would have preferred Tyler to have been profiled instead of Hadid and Malik, tweeting: \"Zayn and Gigi are profiled in this piece on gender fluidity because... they borrow each other's clothes sometimes?\"\n\nAnother reader noted on Twitter: \"Y'all notice Zayn isn't out here wearing dresses.\"\n\nAnd Colette Fahy wrote: \"All Z & G say is that they borrow each other's clothes. Such a big jump for the mag to declare gender fluidity.\"\n\nIn a statement issued on Friday, a Vogue spokeswoman said: \"The story was intended to highlight the impact the gender-fluid, non-binary communities have had on fashion and culture.\n\n\"We are very sorry the story did not correctly reflect that spirit - we missed the mark.\n\n\"We do look forward to continuing the conversation with greater sensitivity.\"\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.", "Turkey has seen mass arrests and dismissals in the public sector since the 2016 coup attempt\n\nTurkey has dismissed more than 7,000 police, ministry staff and academics, ahead of the first anniversary of an attempted coup.\n\nIt comes as part of a major purge of state institutions, including the judiciary, police and education, in response to last year's unrest.\n\nOn Saturday, Turkey marks one year since rogue soldiers bombed buildings and opened fire on civilians.\n\nMore than 250 people were killed in the violence.\n\nThe Turkish authorities accuse a movement loyal to the Muslim cleric, Fethullah Gulen, of organising the July 2016 plot to bring down President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.\n\nMr Gulen, who remains in the United States, denies any involvement. Washington has so far resisted calls from the Turkish authorities to extradite the cleric.\n\nThe latest dismissals came in a decree from 5 June but only published by the official government Gazette on Friday.\n\nIt says the employees are people \"who it's been determined have been acting against the security of the state or are members of a terrorist organisation\".\n\nAmong those listed were 2,303 police officers and 302 university academics. Another 342 retired officers and soldiers were stripped of their ranks and grades, Reuters reports.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC speaks to man run over by tanks during the attempted coup\n\nTurkey has already dismissed more than 150,000 officials since the coup attempt, and arrested another 50,000 from the military, police and other sectors.\n\nThe government says the measures are necessary given the security threats it faces but critics say Mr Erdogan is using the purges to stifle political dissent.\n\nIstanbul is awash with giant anniversary billboards and posters showing people confronting pro-coup soldiers.\n\nHuge rallies are due to take place, with President Erdogan, who avoided capture last year, addressing parliament at the exact time that it was bombed.\n\nHe and his supporters see the defeat of the coup as Turkey's rebirth, but for others it's less triumphant, says the BBC's Mark Lowen.", "The Ethiopian wolf has lost 99% of its range\n\nSix of the world's large carnivores have lost more than 90% of their historic range, according to a study.\n\nThe Ethiopian wolf, red wolf, tiger, lion, African wild dog and cheetah have all been squeezed out as land is lost to human settlements and farming.\n\nReintroduction of carnivores into areas where they once roamed is vital in conservation, say scientists.\n\nThis relies on human willingness to share the landscape with the likes of the wolf.\n\nThe research, published in Royal Society Open Science, was carried out by Christopher Wolf and William Ripple of Oregon State University.\n\nThey mapped the current range of 25 large carnivores using International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List data. This was compared with historic maps from 500 years ago.\n\nThe work shows that large carnivore range contractions are a global issue, said Christopher Wolf.\n\n\"Of the 25 large carnivores that we studied, 60% (15 species) have lost more than half of their historic ranges,'' he explained.\n\n\"This means that scientifically sound reintroductions of large carnivores into areas where they have been lost is vital both to conserve the large carnivores and to promote their important ecological effects.\n\n\"This is very dependent on increasing human tolerance of large carnivores - a key predictor of reintroduction success.\"\n\nThe tiger has lost 95% of its range\n\nThe researchers say re-wilding programmes will be most successful in regions with low human population density, little livestock, and limited agriculture.\n\nAdditionally, regions with large networks of protected areas and favourable human attitudes toward carnivores are better suited for such schemes.\n\n\"Increasing human tolerance of large carnivores may be the best way to save these species from extinction,\" said co-researcher William Ripple.\n\n\"Also, more large protected areas are urgently needed for large carnivore conservation.\"\n\nWhen policy is favourable, carnivores may naturally return to parts of their historic ranges.\n\nThis has begun to happen in parts of Europe with brown bears, lynx, and grey wolves.\n\nThe Eurasian lynx and grey wolf are among the carnivores that have the smallest range contractions.\n\nThe dingo and several types of hyena are also doing relatively well, compared with the lion and tiger.", "Professor Jay was a panel member before being named chair\n\nThe Home Office has been fined £366,900 for breaching the government's senior salary pay cap when it appointed the head of a child sex abuse inquiry.\n\nIt was penalised by the Treasury for failing to get clearance in advance before agreeing to pay Professor Alexis Jay £185,000 a year.\n\nSince 2010, all jobs with salaries of more than £142,500 agreed by ministers have had to be signed off in advance.\n\nThe Home Office said it had reviewed procedures to avoid future breaches.\n\nProf Jay became the fourth chair of the troubled inquiry after replacing Lowell Goddard in August 2016.\n\nThe fine also relates to the pay of the inquiry's three panel members one of whom, Drusilla Sharpling, received a basic salary of £152,424 in 2015-6.\n\nOn becoming chancellor in 2010, George Osborne ruled that public servants directly appointed by ministers should not be paid more than then Prime Minister David Cameron - who was earning £142,500 at the time - unless they were approved by the Treasury.\n\nIt was part of an austerity drive which saw the pay of ministers cut by 5% and then frozen for five years.\n\nProf Jay was named as chair by Home Secretary Amber Rudd at short notice in August 2016. Her predecessor, a leading New Zealand judge, resigned suddenly following criticism of her conduct of the troubled inquiry.\n\nThe inquiry is investigating historical allegations of sex abuse against local authorities, religious organisations, the armed forces and public and private institutions - as well as people in the public eye - spanning decades.\n\nThe leading academic and child protection expert was already a panel member, working in that capacity alongside Ms Sharpling, barrister Ivor Frank and academic Professor Malcolm Evans.\n\nDetails of the \"exemplary fine\" emerged in the Home Office's accounts for the past financial year.\n\nA Home Office spokesman said the department had been punished for having to secure \"retrospective approval\" for Prof Jay's salary when she became chair as well as the remuneration of other panel members agreed when the inquiry was set up in 2015.\n\n\"The Treasury has the power to consider fines for departments who breach agreed spending control processes, including those relating to senior salary approval,\" it said.\n\n\"The Home Office have since reviewed appointment procedures to prevent further such breaches.\"\n\nThe fine does not relate to Dame Lowell Goddard's remuneration\n\nThe Home Office said Prof Jay had been appointed swiftly in order to minimise disruption to the inquiry and this meant getting sign-off for her salary \"in parallel\" with her appointment - which was subsequently approved.\n\nAccording to the inquiry's accounts, Prof Jay was paid £118,360 for the period from 18 August 2016 to 31 March 2017. She also received an £27,478 accommodation allowance and expenses of £2,281.\n\nShe also received £34,465 for her work as a panel member during the first four months of the financial year before becoming its chair.\n\nThe accounts show Ms Sharpling was paid £152,285 in 2015-6, rising to £154,423 in 2016-7. The inquiry has agreed to subsidise 80% of what she was earning in her previous capacity as Her Majesty's Inspector of Constabulary.\n\nOver the same period, Prof Evans was paid £65,540 while Mr Frank received £96,332,50. In the past financial year, these salaries - which are set at a fixed rate of £565 a day - rose to £76,840 and £138,990 retrospectively.\n\nThe Home Office stressed the fine did not relate to Dame Lowell Goddard's remuneration arrangements, which were heavily criticised during her 16 months in the post, but for which officials said \"all the necessary approvals\" had been granted.\n\nIn 2015-6, she was paid £355,000 and received an accommodation and utilities allowance worth £119,207. She also received £29,156 in relocation costs and £75,246 in travel costs including the cost of air fares between the UK and New Zealand.\n\nShe was paid £123,871 for the period between 1 April and her resignation on 4 August 2016 while her allowances and expenses for the period totalled more than £80,000.\n\nThe inquiry has been beset by problems since its inception with its first two chairs, Lady Butler-Sloss and Dame Fiona Woolf, stepping down before beginning their work. The inquiry's chief lawyer, Ben Emmerson, resigned last year but Prof Jay has insisted it is continuing with its work.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A survivor describes how a wall fell directly onto the crowd\n\nA wall collapsed at a football stadium in Senegal on Saturday, killing eight people and injuring almost 90.\n\nIt fell in after fighting began between rival fans and police responded with tear gas, with a stampede ensuing.\n\nStade de Mbour were playing Union Sportive Ouakam at the Demba Diop stadium in the capital Dakar.\n\nThe country has suspended all sporting and cultural events for the rest of the month.\n\nDuring the clashes, home fans threw projectiles including stones at others. Pictures circulating online appear to show people scrambling over a low wall amid clouds of gas.\n\nPassions were high at the game, the League Cup final.\n\nWith the score 1-1 after 90 minutes, Mbour took a goal in the first period of extra time to win 2-1, and violence broke out at the final whistle.\n\nCheikh Maba Diop, whose friend died in the incident and who helped move people out of the stadium, told AFP news agency: \"All of a sudden when the wall fell... we knew exactly that some of our own had lost their lives because the wall fell directly on to people.\"\n\nA spokesman for President Macky Sall said campaigning for upcoming elections would be suspended on Sunday as a mark of respect, and that there should be \"punishments serving as a warning\".\n\nThere are also suggestions that the stadium itself was in a poor state of repair, BBC Africa reporter James Copnall says.\n\nAn enquiry announced by the government will no doubt examine all this, he adds.\n• None 'The wall fell directly onto people' Video, 00:00:38'The wall fell directly onto people'", "Women gathered on the steps of Congress for their \"sleeveless Friday\" protest\n\nUS Congresswomen have protested for the right to bare arms in parts of Washington DC's Capitol building.\n\nThe National Rifle Association may be disappointed to learn that this is not a typo. They are not campaigning to bear weapons, but to stand against the Congressional dress code.\n\nThe long-standing code bans sleeveless tops, among other things.\n\nThe protest comes after a number of women have recently reported being told their outfits violated the rules.\n\nFemale reporters have said they had been prevented from entering the lobby area, where the press meets to ask questions of US politicians.\n\nOn Friday, Representative Jackie Speier tweeted to encourage colleagues to dress in clothes that showed their arms, calling the protest \"Sleeveless Friday\".\n\nA group of around 25 women gathered on the steps of Congress, wearing sleeveless shirts and dresses.\n\n\"It's 2017 and women vote, hold office, and choose their own style. Time to update House Rules to reflect the times!\" tweeted Congress member Chellie Pingree.\n\nWomen gathered on the steps of the US Capitol building on Friday morning\n\nAlthough the rules are long-standing, they are rarely enforced, and so those affected recently expressed surprise.\n\nNews network CBS said one reporter tried to fashion makeshift sleeves out of her notebook so she would be able to work.\n\nThe sleeves rule also applies to men, who are required to wear suit jackets and ties to enter the same areas.\n\nOpen-toed shoes are also not allowed.\n\nPolicing of the rules is left to the chamber's security team, under the guidance of the house speaker.\n\nJan Schakowsky, a representative for Illinois, also joined in\n\nAfter a backlash, House Speaker Paul Ryan emphasised that the code had not been devised under his term, and agreed it needs to be modernised.\n\n\"It came to my attention that there was an issue about dress code,\" he said in a press conference on Thursday morning, with a laugh.\n\nSpeaker Ryan said, earlier in June, that members should wear \"appropriate business attire\".\n\nIn the UK, a similar debate recently erupted when House of Commons Speaker John Bercow said he was happy to relax the rules.\n\nIn June, he accepted a question from a member of parliament who was not wearing a tie.\n\nHe also said members should wear \"businesslike attire\".\n\nYet what this constitutes in 2017 - especially with the rise of more casual media and tech companies - is not always clear.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n• None What not to wear in Parliament", "Ms Gilruth and Ms Dugdale thanked their friends, family and colleagues for their love and support\n\nScottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale is in a relationship with an SNP MSP.\n\nMs Dugdale has been dating Mid Fife and Glenrothes MSP Jenny Gilruth for about four months.\n\nAt the beginning of the year the Labour leader split up with her former partner of nine years, Louise Riddell.\n\nIn a joint statement, Ms Dugdale and Ms Gilruth asked for their privacy to be respected and said they did not consider their new relationship to be \"news\".\n\nMs Gilruth was elected to Holyrood last May and is a parliamentary liaison officer to Deputy First Minister John Swinney.\n\nThe statement said: \"We don't consider this to be 'news' - but we appreciate others might and we want to go about our daily lives normally.\n\n\"We would like to thank our friends, family and colleagues for their kindness over the past few months and for their love and support.\n\n\"We'd politely ask that our privacy is respected because while we are both politicians, we are also human beings - in a new relationship, which we cherish.\"\n\nA close friend of the couple said: \"Kez and Jenny are so happy together and make a great couple. They share much in common, but like so many couples they differ over their politics - which is something they will always agree to disagree on.\"\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon tweeted her congratulations to the couple.\n\nShe said: \"So love really does conquer all! Wishing every happiness to @JennyGilruth & @kezdugdale.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. It’s almost time to meet the Thirteenth Doctor\n\nThe wait is nearly over for Doctor Who fans, as the identity of the 13th Doctor is due to be revealed later.\n\nThere is speculation the Time Lord could be a woman for the first time.\n\nA trailer featuring the number 13 in different locations aired on Friday, finishing with the words: \"Meet the 13th Doctor after the Wimbledon men's final, Sunday 16th July.\"\n\nThe actor will succeed Peter Capaldi, who took the role in 2013 and leaves in the 2017 Christmas special.\n\nCapaldi announced he was leaving during an interview with BBC Radio 2 presenter Jo Whiley in January.\n\nPeter Capaldi will bow out in this year's Christmas special, featuring David Bradley as the First Doctor\n\nThe Glasgow-born star said: \"I feel it's time to move on. I feel sad, I love Doctor Who, it is a fantastic programme to work on.\"\n\nThe announcement about the 13th Doctor will come directly after the final - between Roger Federer and Marin Cilic - comes to an end.\n\nDavid Tennant, the 10th Doctor, is among the audience watching at Centre Court.\n\nPhoebe Waller-Bridge has denied involvement in the sci-fi show\n\nPhoebe Waller-Bridge - the star of hit comedy Fleabag - is among the favourites tipped to become the first female Doctor.\n\nFormer companion Billie Piper told the BBC it would \"feel like a snub\" if the role went to another man - but would Phoebe be able to squeeze the Tardis in around adventures on the Millennium Falcon? The 32-year-old actress recently started filming the new Star Wars Han Solo movie.\n\nThe bookies seem confident the role will go to one of the stars of ITV's Broadchurch - even if it isn't Phoebe, who starred in the show's second series as barrister Abby Thompson.\n\nBoth Jodie Whittaker and Olivia Colman have been the subject of much speculation, especially as incoming show boss Chris Chibnall was the creator of Broadchurch.\n\nDavid Tennant - otherwise known as the 10th Doctor and Colman's Broadchurch co-star - told the BBC he thought Colman would be \"great\" in the role, but added: \"Whether that's in her sights at the moment, I suspect probably not.\"\n\nOlivia Colman won a golden globe for her role in The Night Manager\n\nFormer Death in Paradise actor Kris Marshall, Sherlock's Andrew Scott and Ben Whishaw - who plays Q in the James Bond films - also make the list of contenders, should bosses go for a more traditional casting.\n\nPearl Mackie, who plays current companion Bill Potts, posted a picture of herself with a pink Tardis at Lovebox festival on Sunday, with the message: \"Wonder who is inside..?!\".\n\nSome of those whose names have been linked to the role posted tongue-in-cheek tweets as speculation mounted over the identity of the Doctor.\n\nThe locations in the latest trailer included 10 Downing Street, Beachy Head cliffs and the Statue of Liberty.\n\nThe popular sci-fi series features a Time Lord, known only as the Doctor, who travels through time and space in the Tardis, which resembles a 1960s police telephone box.\n\nThe main character has the ability to regenerate, a quirk that has allowed a number of actors to have played the role over the years.\n\nThe series was first broadcast in 1963. It underwent a relaunch in 2005, with Christopher Eccleston as the Doctor.\n\nSophie Aldred, who played Doctor Who's companion Ace in the 1980s, said: \"I've been lucky enough to meet most of the Doctors and they've all been amazing people. Slightly eccentric in some way... very talented actors.\n\n\"They just have to be a person who (has) really got something different about them.\"\n\nCapaldi, who replaced Matt Smith as the Doctor, was previously best known for his role as foul-mouthed spin-doctor Malcolm Tucker in the BBC series The Thick of 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.", "Five people were attacked with acid within 90-minutes on Thursday in London\n\nThe front page of the Times reports that new laws to restrict the sale and possession of corrosive substances will be proposed \"within days\", because of the rise in acid attacks.\n\nThe plans are predicted to feature tougher sentencing guidelines and a ban on the sale of the chemicals to under-18s.\n\nThey will be released in the next 48 hours, the newspaper says.\n\nIn an editorial, the paper notes that Britain has one of the highest rates of recorded acid attacks in the world and calls on MPs to make the \"liquid weapons\" harder to obtain.\n\nIt also urges regulators to make readily available products less dangerous.\n\nTwo front pages lead on the arrival in Britain next week of the US specialist who will examine the seriously ill baby Charlie Gard to see if an untested therapy can save his life.\n\nDoctors tell the I newspaper that it is a \"sensible, ethical solution\".\n\nWhile the Daily Mirror says the intervention has given new hope to Charlie's parents.\n\nMany of the papers carry reports on President Trump's visit to Paris to mark Bastille Day.\n\nThe Guardian says Mr Trump revelled in the pomp and ceremony and was beaming from ear to ear as he prepared to fly home.\n\nThe Daily Mail calls the parade on the Champs-Élysées - held to mark the centenary of America's entry into World War One - \"extraordinary\".\n\nBut it says from the prominence of the French and American military hardware on display, one might have thought that the two countries had won the conflict without any help.\n\nThe Sun says Chancellor Phillip Hammond sparked \"sexist fury\" when he remarked - in front of the entire cabinet - that driving a modern train is so easy, \"even a women could do it\".\n\nMr Hammond then tried to dig himself out of trouble, according to the Sun, earning him this rebuke from Theresa May: \"Mr chancellor, I am going take your shovel away from you.\"\n\nSources close to Mr Hammond insist to the Sun that he made no such comment and some suggest another minister had unfairly caricatured the chancellor's position.\n\nThe governing body of women's tennis, the WTA, is criticised in the Times.\n\nThe organisation invited readers of its Facebook page to vote on which female competitor dressed the best at SW19.\n\nIn the poll, a dress worn by Heather Watson is praised for creating \"a harmony between contemporary sporty elements and feminine flair of the English rose pattern and pleats\".\n\nA dress worn by Heather Watson was featured in the poll\n\nThose who commented on the post were more direct. One accused the WTA of asking a \"stupid question\", which set tennis back 50 years.\n\nThe organisation defended its conduct to the Times, saying \"there's nothing wrong with promoting athleticism while promoting Wimbledon's wonderful dress code\".\n\nThe Express features a surreptitious snap taken by a passenger on board an Emirates flight, appearing to show a flight attendant pouring a glass of champagne back into its bottle.\n\nThe paper quotes a former flight attendant, who describes the recycling of liquid refreshments which have been exposed to cabin air as \"unsanitary and disgusting\".\n\nThe airline says it has begun an investigation into an apparent breach of its standards.\n\nThe Daily Mail warns British tourists about what it calls \"the summer car hire rip-off\".\n\nThe paper quotes a study showing that firms have hiked the insurance excess charges they can impose in the event of an accident.\n\nThe average figure is £1,000, even when the driver isn't to blame, with the highest rising to £2,200.\n\nExperts tell the Mail the \"astonishingly high figures\" are being used to persuade travellers to pay for costly extra cover before they set off.\n\nThe Guardian profiles a creature that's likely to be the last organism standing, if an apocalyptic catastrophe threatens life on earth.\n\nThe tardigrade, just one millimetre long, is extraordinarily hardy - shrugging off the vacuum of space, absolute-zero temperatures and extreme doses of radiation as if it was nothing.\n\nThe Guardian styles them as the \"ultimate hope for terrestrial life as we know it\", as researchers say they could survive virtually any disaster.\n\nUntil the sun eventually enlarges and boils away the oceans, that is.\n\nThe Daily Telegraph reports on efforts by the British Museum to boost interest in its forthcoming exhibition about the Scythians - a fierce, horse-back tribe of nomads who roamed central Asia.\n\nOn the museum's website, they're likened to the Dothraki - a fictional people from the book and television series Game of Thrones.\n\nIn an editorial, the Telegraph laments the need for TV fantasy comparisons.\n\nAnd while the paper acknowledges some similarities - bloodthirstiness, master bowmanship - it suggests the Scythians, unlike their fantasy counterparts, may have worn a few more clothes.", "Most UK fire services would have automatically sent a high ladder to Grenfell Tower had the fire happened in their area, BBC Newsnight can reveal.\n\nA Newsnight investigation last week revealed the London Fire Brigade failed to dispatch a high \"aerial\" ladder immediately to the west London blaze.\n\nBut 31 of the 44 UK fire services with high-rise blocks would have sent a high ladder, the programme has learned.\n\nThe Home Office said it was up to each fire authority to manage its resources.\n\nLast week's investigation found that a high ladder had not been included in the London Fire Brigade's \"predetermined attendance\" plan and it took more than 30 minutes for such an appliance to arrive at the 24-storey west London tower.\n\nThe London Fire Brigade is one of several services which has changed its procedures since Grenfell and will now automatically send high ladders to tower block fires as an interim measure.\n\nNewsnight's latest findings came after the programme requested the predetermined attendance plans - or PDAs - for high rise fires from every fire service in the country.\n\nThe PDAs detail what each service will do automatically in the moments after a fire is reported.\n\nThey show that 70% of the fire services in the UK which have high-rise blocks in their regions would automatically have dispatched a high ladder to a tower blaze before the Grenfell disaster.\n\nSince then, four services, including London, have altered their plans.\n\nSorry, your browser cannot display this map\n\nHowever, Newsnight's research reveals that nine brigades still would not immediately send an aerial ladder to a tower blaze.\n\nThe investigation also shows significant variations in the number of response vehicles dispatched by services across the country.\n\nIn Kent, three fire engines would be sent to a reported fire in a tower block, with no high ladder. Fire services in Hampshire and Surrey - for the same fire in the same tower - would send six fire engines and a high ladder as first response.\n\nA fire engine is expected to carry five firefighters.\n\nManchester, Humberside, London and Warwickshire have all increased their PDA with fires in tall buildings to include a high ladder since Grenfell.\n\nBut Leicestershire, Lancashire, Tyne and Wear, the West Midlands, Kent and Essex fire services will still not automatically send a tall ladder to a fire in a high-rise building unless specifically requested.\n\nThe figures have led to calls for the government to implement mandatory minimum requirements for fire services attending high-rise fires.\n\nFire Brigades Union general secretary Matt Wrack told Newsnight: \"It was absolutely indefensible before Grenfell Tower to have such a postcode lottery of how we respond to fires in residential blocks of flats. After Grenfell Tower it's completely outrageous.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why did it take so long to get an aerial platform to the tower block? BBC Newsnight investigates\n\nReferring to the Grenfell Tower disaster, he added: \"An aerial appliance applying large quantities of water to the outside of the building could have made a big difference. It clearly did make a difference when it arrived.\"\n\nA Home Office spokesperson said: \"It is the responsibility of each fire and rescue authority to manage their resources across prevention, protection and operational response to meet local risk.\"\n\n\"Local areas consider risk through their Integrated Risk Management Plan and over the past 10 years there has been a 52% decrease in the total number of fires attended by fire and rescue services.\"\n\nNewsnight requested PDAs for tower block fires from all 52 fire services in the UK.\n\nEvery service responded and all bar one sent details to the BBC. Seven brigades have no high rise tower blocks in their area.\n\nLast week, a London Fire Brigade spokesman told Newsnight: \"It is important to understand that fires in high-rise buildings are nearly always dealt with internally, not usually needing an aerial appliance.\n\n\"The fundamental issue of high rise safety remains that buildings are maintained to stop fires spreading.\"\n\nThe spokesman said: \"An 'interim' change to pre-determined attendance for high rise buildings was introduced in direct response to the government's action to address concerns of cladding on buildings.\n\n\"The brigade's pre-determined attendance to high-rise buildings had already been increased in June 2015 from three fire engines to four as part of our ongoing review of high rise firefighting.\"", "Young families were particularly hard hit by an \"abrupt\" slowdown in living standards in the year before the general election, a think tank says.\n\nThe Resolution Foundation found that average income growth halved to 0.7% during that period compared with the previous year.\n\nThose aged 25-34 were worst hit, it said, with their average incomes no higher than they were in 2002-03.\n\nThe Treasury said it was taking \"concrete steps\" to help families.\n\nThe Resolution Foundation analyses living standards, and says its goal is to improve outcomes for people on low and modest incomes.\n\nIt said young families were the only group whose incomes have failed to return to pre-financial crisis levels.\n\nPensioner incomes grew by 30% over that 15-year period, the think tank said.\n\n\"The typical 25 to 34-year-old appears no better off today than in 2002-03,\" the report said.\n\n\"In comparison, typical incomes for all other age groups are now above, or very near, their pre-recession peaks.\"\n\nThe fall in average income growth followed a \"mini-boom\" between 2013 and 2015, the foundation said, when living standards improved.\n\nFamilies in rented accommodation have experienced little or no income growth, while home-owners had a 1.7% growth, the report found.\n\nA Treasury spokesperson said the government was taking action to increase people's incomes and help families \"keep more of what they earn\".\n\nThe Treasury said: \"We have cut taxes so a basic rate taxpayer pays £1,000 less income tax compared to 2010 and introduced the National Living Wage which means £1,400 a year extra for a worker.\"\n\nThe spokesperson said the government was investing in affordable homes and government-backed loans to help first-time buyers.\n\nThe think tank's senior economic analyst, Adam Corlett, said: \"For millions of young and lower-income families the slowdown over the last year has come off the back of a tough decade for living standards, providing a bleak economic backdrop to the shock election result.\n\n\"Over the last 15 years and four prime ministers, Britain has failed to deliver decent living standards growth for young families and those on low incomes.\n\n\"Rising housing costs have added further financial pressures.\"\n\nOver the year, incomes among low to middle-income families grew by 0.4%, compared with 1% for those in the top half of the income distribution.\n\nTwo out of five of this group said they were not able to save £10 per month, while 42% cannot afford a holiday at least one week per year.\n\n\"Despite the welcome political focus on such 'just managing families', we estimate that income growth for this group in 2016-17, ahead of the election, was lower than for higher income groups,\" the report said.\n\nThe top 1% of households had a \"rapid recovery\" in incomes, the report said, and now have an 8.7% share of the nation's income.\n\nThe think tank said the fortunes of the top 1% had been the driving force of rising inequality since the mid-1990s.\n\nInequality among the remaining 99% of the population fell over the same period.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tony Blair: \"One option... would be Britain staying within a reformed European Union\"\n\nSome EU leaders may be prepared to compromise on the free movement of people to help Britain stay in the single market, Tony Blair has said.\n\nHe told the Today programme one option was for Britain \"staying within a reformed EU\".\n\nThe ex-PM said he would not disclose conversations he had had in Europe - but insisted he was not speaking \"on a whim\".\n\nThe government insists Brexit will give the UK greater control of its borders.\n\nLabour's shadow chancellor, John McDonnell, said Mr Blair \"hadn't really listened to the nature of the debate going on in the pubs, the clubs and school gates\".\n\n\"We have to respect the referendum result,\" Mr McDonnell said, adding that Labour could \"negotiate access to the single market\".\n\nMr Blair spoke to the BBC after he argued in an article for his own institute that there was room for compromise on free movement of people.\n\nHe told Today the situation in Europe was different to when Britain voted to leave the EU - a move Mr Blair described as \"the most serious it's taken since the Second World War\".\n\nHe said France's new president, Emmanuel Macron - whose political party was formed last year - was proposing \"far-reaching reforms\" for the EU.\n\n\"Europe itself is now looking at its own reform programme,\" Mr Blair said.\n\n\"They will have an inner circle in the EU that will be part of the eurozone and an outer circle.\"\n\nWhen pressed on what evidence there was to suggest European nations would compromise, Mr Blair said: \"I'm not going to disclose conversations I've had within Europe, but I'm not saying this literally on the basis of a whim.\n\n\"They will make reforms that I think will make it much more comfortable for Britain to fit itself in that outer circle.\"\n\nHe said \"majorities\" of people in France, Germany and the UK supported changes around benefits and with regards to those who come to Europe without a job.\n\n\"I'm not saying these could be negotiated,\" Mr Blair said.\n\n\"I'm simply saying if we were looking at this from the point of view of the interests of the country, one option within this negotiation would be Britain staying within a reformed European Union.\"\n\nHe said the majority of EU migrants in the UK are \"people we want in this country\".\n\nEU leaders have previously said the UK must accept free movement of people if it wants to stay inside the single market.\n\nBut in his article for the Institute for Global Change, Mr Blair said senior figures had told him they were willing to consider changes to one of the key principles of the single market.\n\n\"The French and Germans share some of the British worries, notably around immigration, and would compromise on freedom of movement,\" he wrote.\n\nBut last week the EU's chief negotiator, Michel Barnier, said the freedom of movement of people, goods, services and capital - the key principles of the single market - were \"indivisible\".\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May has pledged to control EU migration and has reiterated her commitment to reducing net migration to the tens of thousands.\n\nShe has said that outside the single market, and without rules on freedom of movement, the UK will be able to make its own decisions on immigration.\n\nMr Blair also said more was known now about the effects of the Brexit process on the UK.\n\n\"We know our currency is down significantly, that's a prediction by the international markets as to our future prosperity. We know businesses are already moving jobs out of the country.\n\n\"We know last year we were the fastest-growing economy in the G7. We're now the slowest.\"\n\nMr Blair accepted Labour was behind its leader Jeremy Corbyn \"for now\".\n\nBut he warned if Brexit was combined with leaving the single market, and \"the largest spending programme Labour had ever proposed\" the country \"would be in a very serious situation.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Corbyn: \"I hope he (Tony Blair) has looked very carefully at our manifesto\"\n\nMr Blair said leaving the single market was a \"damaging position\" shared by Labour and he urged the party's leadership to champion a \"radically distinct\" position on Europe.\n\nBut Jeremy Corbyn said Labour's position on free movement was \"very clear\", adding: \"We would protect EU nationals' rights to remain here, including the rights of family reunion.\"\n\nResponding to Mr Blair's comments, the party leader said: \"I think our economy will do very well under a Labour government.\n\n\"It will be an investment-led economy that works for all - so we won't have zero-hour contracts, insecure employment.\n\n\"We won't have communities being left behind.\"\n\nMr Blair has previously said Brexit was an issue he felt so strongly about, that it tempted him to return to politics.\n\nBut Labour MP Frank Field, who backed Brexit, said he did not think Mr Blair was \"a person to influence public opinion now\".\n\n\"We're now set on the course of leaving [the EU]. We actually need a safe harbour to continue those negotiations when we're out.\n\n\"And I wouldn't actually be believing those people who are set on destroying our attempts to leave, who are now appearing as wolves in sheep's clothing.\"\n\nRichard Tice, of pro-Brexit group Leave Means Leave, said Mr Blair's comments \"demonstrate how out of touch he is with British voters\".\n\n\"The former prime minister believes that freedom of movement is the only issue with the EU, when in reality the British people also voted to leave in order to take back control of our laws and money and no longer be dictated to by the European Court of Justice,\" he added.\n\nConservative MEP David Campbell Bannerman said Mr Blair's assertion that Britain could find a way to remain within a reformed EU was a \"dodgy claim, as opposed to a dodgy dossier\".\n\n\"We've heard this all before. David Cameron was given such assurances and in the end the EU did nothing for him.\n\n\"If they do nothing for Cameron, they're not going to do anything for Blair, I'm afraid.\"", "Prof Mirzakhani is seen as an inspiration for young female mathematicians\n\nMaryam Mirzakhani, the first woman to receive the prestigious Fields Medal for mathematics, has died in the US.\n\nThe 40-year-old Iranian, a professor at Stanford University, had breast cancer which had spread to her bones.\n\nNicknamed the \"Nobel Prize for Mathematics\", the Fields Medal is only awarded every four years to between two and four mathematicians under 40.\n\nIt was given to Prof Mirzakhani in 2014 for her work on complex geometry and dynamical systems.\n\nForeign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said her death was a cause for grief for all Iranians.\n\n\"A light was turned off today. It breaks my heart... gone far too soon,\" US-Iranian scientist Firouz Naderi posted on Instagram.\n\nHe added in a subsequent post: \"A genius? Yes. But also a daughter, a mother and a wife.\"\n\nProf Mirzakhani and her husband, Czech scientist Jan Vondrak, had one daughter.\n\nSome social media users criticised Iranian officials for not using recent images of Prof Mirzakhani which showed her uncovered hair. Iranian women must cover their hair in line with a strict interpretation of Islamic law on modesty.\n\nIranian official media and politicians used older pictures in their social media tributes, which show her hair covered.\n\nIranian Speaker Ali Larijani - using an older image of Prof Mirzakhani - said on Instagram that her loss \"caused great regret\"\n\nStanford University President Marc Tessier-Lavigne described Prof Mirzakhani as \"a brilliant mathematical theorist and also a humble person who accepted honours only with the hope that it might encourage others to follow her path\".\n\n\"Maryam is gone far too soon but her impact will live on for the thousands of women she inspired to pursue math and science,\" he said.\n\n\"Her contributions as both a scholar and a role model are significant and enduring and she will be dearly missed here at Stanford and around the world.\"\n\nBorn in 1977, Prof Mirzakhani was brought up in post-revolutionary Iran and won two gold medals in the International Mathematical Olympiad as a teenager.\n\nShe earned a PhD at Harvard University in 2004, and later worked at Princeton before securing a professorship at Stanford in 2008.\n\nHer receipt of the Fields Medal three years ago ended a long wait for women in the mathematics community for the prize, first established in 1936.\n\nProf Mirzakhani was also the first Iranian to receive it.\n\nThe citation said she had made \"striking and highly original contributions to geometry and dynamical systems\" and that her most recent work constituted \"a major advance\".\n\nProf Dame Frances Kirwan, a member of the medal selection committee from the University of Oxford, said at the time: \"I hope that this award will inspire lots more girls and young women, in this country and around the world, to believe in their own abilities and aim to be the Fields Medallists of the future.\"", "If the Observer is right, the mood in Brussels - a day before the next round of Brexit talks - is \"cautiously optimistic.\"\n\nBut the message doesn't seem to have reached the cartoonists.\n\nIn keeping with the start of the holiday season, the Sunday Express offers an image of Theresa May at the wheel of the Brexit car - the back seat is crammed with people, all shouting advice: \"Speed up!\" \"Slow down!\" \"Turn back!\"\n\nThe drawing in the Sunday Times shows Mrs May and her cabinet colleagues entangled in a never-ending bill.\n\n\"What do you mean?\" she complains. \"This is just for starters!\"\n\nOf course both cartoons are about the seemingly inescapable politics of the subject.\n\nAccording to the Observer, the kind of exit from the EU that Mrs May is pursuing has revealed \"a picture of incapacity, incompetence, self-deception, dishonesty, partisanship, and harmful confusion\".\n\nThe paper sees \"the Tory hard Brexiteers\" as \"the lords of misrule.\"\n\nThe Sunday Telegraph asks what the term \"hard Brexit\" means and answers \"really just Brexit with some negative branding\".\n\nIf supporters of withdrawal want to cheer themselves up, the Sun on Sunday says they should just consider Tony Blair's latest intervention.\n\n\"As ever,\" the paper says, he ignored the will of the British people, providing \"a classic example of the kind of arch-deviousness that became his stock-in-trade as prime minister\".\n\nThe Sunday Mirror reports that a quarter of teachers who have qualified since 2011 have already left the profession, according to figures obtained by Labour.\n\nIt suggests their motives for quitting were low pay and harsh conditions.\n\nLaura Jackson writes in the Sunday Express that she left after two years because the job was eroding her mental health.\n\nShe describes the miseries she experienced: the horrifying behaviour of the pupils towards each other and her, the open hostility of parents, the power cuts in her classroom and the crushing workload.\n\nThe Sunday Times thinks TV viewers may be shocked when the BBC reveals how much its better paid presenters earn.\n\nThe former newsreader Peter Sissons tells the newspaper things might get ugly when \"some of the biggest egos\" find out what their colleagues are getting.\n\nThe Sunday Telegraph says the corporation is also \"braced\" for embarrassment and rows on the grounds that \"women are not being paid as much as men in the same jobs\".\n\nBut the paper also notes that the salaries of \"many stars\" won't be revealed because they are paid through production companies or through the BBC's commercial arm.\n\nThe Observer expects more viewers to be excited by the return of Game of Thrones.\n\nIt says the drama \"casts a shadow over the television landscape at least as large as that of one of its fire-breathing dragons\".\n\nBut even more coverage is given to ITV2's Love Island, a show described by the Sunday Express as \"racy.\"\n\nFormer Blazin' Squad singer Marcel Somerville is a contestant on Love Island\n\nThe Sunday People says there's been a \"sudden rise\" in its popularity.\n\nThe Sun on Sunday asks its readers whether they have \"never seen the hottest show on TV?\" and offers an introduction to the contestants, the rules and the \"lingo\" they use.\n\nRosie Millard, in the Sunday Times, says her three eldest children \"think and talk about nothing else\" and she calls it \"a mother's idea of hell\".", "Builders in the old part of the Canadian city of Quebec have unearthed a live shell fired by the British during a siege in 1759.\n\nThey posed for photos with the large, 90kg (200lb) projectile, unaware that it was still potentially explosive.\n\nArmy bomb disposal experts later collected the device, saying there was still a danger, CBC reports.\n\nThe British besieged Quebec while fighting the French at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham.\n\nQuebec City archaeologist Serge Rouleau, who examined the munition before the army and noticed that it still contained a charge, described it as an incendiary bomb, Le Soleil news site (in French) reports.\n\nHe had taken it home after the builders' firm, Lafontaine Inc, contacted the municipal authorities.\n\n\"The ball would break and the powder would ignite, setting fire to the building,\" Master Warrant Officer Sylvain Trudel, a senior munitions technician, was quoted by CBC as saying.\n\n\"With time, humidity got into its interior and reduced its potential for exploding, but there's still a danger,\" he added.\n\n\"Old munitions like this are hard to predict. You never know to what point the chemicals inside have degraded.\"\n\nThe shell is now at a safe site and will either be disarmed or destroyed if necessary, CBC says.\n\nIt is believed it was fired at Quebec City from Levis, across the St Lawrence River, the broadcaster adds.\n\nThe Battle of the Plains of Abraham, part of the Seven Years' War, ended in victory for the British, and was a major milestone towards the end of French rule in what is now Canada.", "Fans made a huge show of support for Abdelhak Nouri and his family\n\nHundreds of fans of the Dutch football team Ajax have staged an emotional rally outside the family home of a player who suffered brain damage after collapsing in a friendly match.\n\nTributes have been pouring in for 20-year-old Abdelhak Nouri who collapsed in a game in Austria a week ago.\n\nThe club says the midfielder suffered \"serious and permanent brain damage\".\n\nNouri, known as Appie, has been transferred to an Amsterdam hospital for further treatment.\n\nIn an emotional display of support for the player, Ajax fans gathered outside his parents' home in the Geuzenveld district of Amsterdam, applauding, lighting flares and chanting \"Appie, Appie\".\n\nNouri suffered cardiac arrhythmias - heart rhythm problems - during the game against German team Werder Bremen, Ajax said in a statement,\n\nHe received emergency treatment on the pitch and was flown by helicopter to a hospital in Innsbruck.\n\nThe club has said there is no chance of him recovering from the damage.\n\n\"The diagnosis was made that a lot of [his] brain is not functioning. All this probably occurred due to a lack of oxygen supply,\" the statement said.\n\nThe promising young player, known as Appie, is now being treated in an Amsterdam hospital\n\nThe player's family responded to the crowd\n\nShock at the news has been reflected in Dutch media.\n\n\"News that the Ajax super-talent Abdelhak Nouri has suffered severe brain damage burst like a bombshell,\" the Algemeen Dagblad newspaper said.\n\n\"It doesn't get more bitter than this,\" commented De Telegraaf, adding that the \"friendly, soft-spoken but roguish Appie who once put a smile on everybody's face has now become the centre of dismay and sadness\".\n\nNouri made his debut for Ajax last September and played 15 league and cup games, scoring a goal in a cup tie.", "Parents, it is generally agreed, are allowed to choose what happens to their children.\n\nOf course, parents may make good or bad choices, but they have the right to make those decisions, whether that is about their child's diet and physical activity, their name, what school they go to, what religion they are raised in or what medical treatment they receive.\n\nProfessor of medical ethics at the University of Oxford, Dominic Wilkinson, says: \"The principle is that if parents' decisions risk significant harm to their child then they should not be allowed to make those decisions. But the state doesn't intervene every time parents don't make the best decision.\"\n\nThe concept of parental responsibility is set out in law. The Children Act 1989 describes it as \"all the rights, duties, powers, responsibilities and authority which, by law, a parent of a child has in relation to the child and his property.\"\n\nIf a public body disagrees with those choices, they must go to court in order to override this parental responsibility.\n\nIn the case of terminally ill baby Charlie Gard, medical professionals disagree with his parents over what is in his best interests. They want to stop his parents taking him to the US for experimental medical treatment, something they say is futile. And they want to stop providing his life support and allow him to die.\n\nHis parents say they believe that Charlie is \"not in pain and suffering\" as doctors have claimed, and there is nothing to be lost in trying the experimental therapy.\n\nThe team at Great Ormond Street has said Charlie is suffering and that that outweighs the \"tiny theoretical chance there may be of effective treatment\".\n\nCharlie is unable to move his legs and arms, breathe unaided or hold his eyelids open. He is also deaf, has severe epilepsy and his heart, liver and kidneys are affected.\n\nUndoubtedly, both doctors and parents want the best for Charlie. But in the final analysis, it will be for a judge to decide. This is because in the UK, in the absence of a parent's consent, a hospital needs a court order if stopping treatment would bring about death.\n\nSo far, the courts have ruled that Charlie should not be given treatment and that Great Ormond Street Hospital should be allowed to withdraw Charlie's life support.\n\nChris Fairhurst, children's law expert from Slater and Gordon, explains that in these situations, parents' wishes can only be overridden by going to court because a hospital has no legal right or responsibility to make such a decision without either the parents' or the courts' permission. It takes a judge ruling in favour of the hospital in order for the legal status of the parent's responsibility to be overridden.\n\nThe hospital has given evidence that it does not believe keeping Charlie on life support is in his best interests.\n\nConnie Yates and Chris Gard have fought a long legal battle to take their baby to the US for treatment\n\nWhen it comes to cases involving the medical treatment of children, views range from thinking that the doctor always knows best to the idea that parents should have complete freedom to make all decisions over their children's health. The law in the UK falls somewhere in-between.\n\nIn 2006, the parents of a disabled baby boy called Mahdi Bacheikh won their fight against the hospital's request to turn off the ventilator that kept him alive. The 19-month-old had spinal muscular atrophy, was almost totally paralysed and could not breathe unaided, but did not have any sign of brain damage. He died later, aged two.\n\nIn 2009, the parents of a baby known only as OT who, like Charlie suffered from a form of mitochondrial disease, lost their right to keep him on life support. The judge heard he had suffered brain damage and was in discomfort and pain. He died the next day.\n\nIn the US, though, where Charlie's parents are suggesting he could be treated, the law falls much more heavily on the side of the parents even if this goes against the recommendations of medical professionals.\n\nCharlie is thought to be the 16th baby ever to be diagnosed with his condition\n\nIn the UK, while parents have the right to make decisions about their children's medical treatment, their wishes will be overruled if they refuse a reasonable life-saving treatment which has a very high chance of working.\n\nThe classic example of this is parents who are Jehovah's Witnesses and refuse blood transfusions due to their faith. There have been many cases where the courts have sided with the doctors against the wishes of the parents.\n\nThere is a difference, of course, between parents refusing recommended treatment and parents, as in Charlie's case, asking for treatment against advice.\n\nIt is far simpler to prove that a treatment that almost certainly will keep a child alive is in their best interests than it is to argue that keeping a child alive is not in their best interests.\n\nWhen it comes to disputes between parents and the state, the vast majority involve a local authority going to court to remove a child from the care of their parents. In these cases, the authority must prove that a child is at risk of significant harm.\n\nBut because cases like Charlie's are relatively rare, unlike in care cases there is no statutory test for how judges should treat them. This means it varies case by case as to whether a judge decides what is in a child's best interests or uses the more onerous test of whether they are likely to come to significant harm.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Former England captain Rio Ferdinand has paid tribute to his mother, Janice St Fort, calling her \"a little fighter\" after the 58-year-old died on Thursday from cancer.\n\nThe footballer posted a message to \"Mummy\" on Instagram with a picture of them together.\n\nThanking his \"huge hearted\" mother, Ferdinand said all he had wanted to do \"was to make you proud\".\n\nIn May 2015, Ferdinand's wife Rebecca, 34, died of breast cancer.\n\nThe ex-Manchester United defender referred to the support Mrs St Fort had given him and her three grandchildren following his wife's death.\n\nHe said: \"At my most difficult time, you were my shining light and made it your mission to be there for me and my kids... trust me that will never be forgotten.\"\n\nEarlier this year, Ferdinand appeared in a BBC documentary, Being Mum & Dad, where he spoke about his difficulties in dealing with grief and finding the best way to talk to their children about the loss of their mother.\n\nIn an emotional eulogy to his mother, Ferdinand said: \"You were fiery, you were protective, you were soft and hard faced when need be... you loved hard, you disciplined me, you were a grafter & you were my everything.\"\n\nFerdinand's brother and former Premier League footballer Anton also paid tribute to their \"loving, caring and forever selfless mum\" on Instagram.\n\n\"Mum for 32 years of my life you've done nothing but put me first!\" he said.\n\n\"Always cared and worried about others before yourself, an inspiration to me, my brothers, sister and husband Peter and anyone she had in her life.\"\n\nFriends and former colleagues tweeted messages of support to the brothers.\n\nTo Rio, Gary Lineker tweeted: \"Thoughts are with @rioferdy5 and family. They've suffered way too much lately.\"\n\nSol Campbell tweeted: \"So sad to hear my England team mate and friend's mother Janice passing away. My heart goes out to you and your family Rio @rioferdy5. RIP.\"\n\nFormer West Ham and Aston Villa footballer Marlon Harewood tweeted to Anton: \"So sorry for your loss bro.\"\n\nMrs St Fort died at Guy's Cancer Unit in London Bridge Hospital on Thursday with her husband Peter and her four children at her bedside.", "For some, Rudolf Nureyev's relationships with men as well as women have tarnished his reputation in Russia\n\nThe Bolshoi hasn't pulled a premiere so late in the day since Soviet times. So when it called off Nureyev: The Ballet, rumours immediately began to fly.\n\nThe theatre boss insisted the work was so complex it just wasn't ready.\n\nBut another theory has persisted - that Rudolf Nureyev, who mesmerised audiences and defined an era in dance, was just too gay for today's Russia.\n\nThe theatre denied that. After all, they knew Nureyev's story when they commissioned the ballet: his love affairs and his death after developing Aids.\n\nSo why are so many so quick to disbelieve them?\n\nHomophobia is pretty rife in Russia. Talk of gay rights often brings snorts about \"Western values\" that no-one wants imposed.\n\nRussia has a different culture, different values, say people from politicians and religious figures down. Tolerance doesn't always seem like one of them.\n\nAttempts to stage Gay Pride events have ended in punch-ups and arrests: anti-gay vigilantes have set up dates, only to attack the men on arrival and film it. And in Chechnya, it's not long since reports emerged of dozens of gay men being rounded up by police and tortured.\n\nThe events in Chechnya are exceptional. But it seems that a rise in homophobia has matched a rise in anti-Western feeling more generally here, all of it part of a broader backlash against the chaos - others call it freedom - of the 1990s.\n\nThat decade is now painted as a time when the West was running the show here, supposedly \"forcing\" its alien ways and values on Russia, weak after the collapse of the USSR. Now back on its own two feet, this country's busy shaking off that \"domination\".\n\nIt's all led by the ultimate macho man, Vladimir Putin.\n\nTo his supporters, Putin is the judo black belt, teetotal athlete who's taking on a degenerate, weak - even effeminate - West. He's the president who strips naked to the waist and rides horses; he descends in submarines and soars through the skies in fighter jets.\n\nImages of all of those adrenalin-pumped moments and more are plastered over souvenir mugs for sale in Moscow underpasses, so enthusiasts can enjoy their very own Putin pin-up with their coffee.\n\nIt's under Putin that Russia's been flexing its military muscle again too. Whether it's flying fighter jets or launching cruise missiles in Syria or rolling tanks on parade across Red Square, this country wants to be seen as powerful again.\n\nSo it's no surprise that Vladimir Vladimirovich is a big fan of manspreading.\n\nFrom news conferences to receiving foreign presidents, sitting with his legs wide apart is Putin's favourite macho pose. At the G20 summit in Hamburg, he and Donald Trump seemed to be competing to see who could spread furthest.\n\nThe Bolshoi says that Nureyev will open in May 2018\n\nAll of this, of course, is painting with broad brushstrokes. Russia is not totally testosterone-fuelled but a place of nuance and variety.\n\nIf not, the head of Russia's most celebrated theatre would never have chosen a ballet about Nureyev in the first place. The director would never have included love scenes, or men in drag and there would have been no vast, full-frontal nude portrait of the Soviet star.\n\nOne dancer I met called Nureyev the most important ballet he's ever worked on - precisely because of the themes it tackles. But he fears the production may prove too radical for the Bolshoi, more like an antiques shop, in his view, full of old, admired classics.\n\nThe Bolshoi has promised that Nureyev will open - uncensored - early next May. If it does, then maybe President Putin could go. He could sit in the front row, minus the manspread, and show that he sees Rudolf Nureyev as a great Russian to celebrate - whatever his sexuality.", "Husbands can play old-school games such as Tekken 3 in the pods\n\nA Chinese mall has introduced \"husband storage\" facilities for wives to leave their spouse while they shop, it's reported.\n\nAccording to The Paper, the Global Harbour mall in Shanghai has erected a number of glass pods for wives to leave any disgruntled husbands that don't want to be dragged around the shops.\n\nInside each individual pod is a chair, monitor, computer and gamepad, and men can sit and play retro 1990s games. Currently, the service is free, but staff told the newspaper that in future months, users will be able to scan a QR code and pay a small sum for the service using their mobile phones.\n\nA few men that tried out the pods told The Paper that they thought they were a novel idea.\n\nMr Yang said he thinks the pods are \"Really great. I've just played Tekken 3 and felt like I was back at school!\"\n\nAnother man, Mr Wu, agreed, but said that that he thought there were areas for improvement. \"There's no ventilation or air conditioning, I sat playing for five minutes and was drenched in sweat.\"\n\nThe pods have been the source of much humour on Chinese social media, and have sparked debate about whether they could be rolled out even wider.\n\nOne user approves the decision, saying that the pods \"give these men an incentive to go shopping, and to pick up the bill\" for their wives shopping.\n\nBut others disagree. \"If my husband just wants to go out and play games, what's the point of bringing him out?\"\n\nUse #NewsfromElsewhere to stay up-to-date with our reports via Twitter.", "Bernecker reportedly suffered serious injuries after falling onto concrete\n\nStuntman John Bernecker has died after suffering a fall on the set of The Walking Dead.\n\nAMC Networks said production on the eighth season of the hit zombie TV series was \"temporarily\" shut down after Wednesday's \"tragic\" accident.\n\nA coroner in Georgia confirmed Bernecker died of blunt force trauma in hospital in Atlanta.\n\nThe stuntman's other credits include Black Panther, Logan and the 2015 version of Fantastic Four.\n\nJeffrey Dean Morgan, who plays Negan in The Walking Dead, paid tribute on Twitter. \"Deep sorrow today, and for every tomorrow,\" he wrote.\n\n\"Love, respect, and condolences to johns family, and friends. He will be forever missed.\"\n\nBritish actor Andrew Lincoln is among the stars of The Walking Dead\n\nKellan Lutz, a star of the Twilight film series, remembered Bernecker as \"one of the best, most talented stuntmen I have ever been blessed to work with.\"\n\nA statement posted by the LifeLink Foundation, an organ donor network, said: \"The family of John Bernecker is heartbroken to confirm that John has passed away from injuries sustained earlier this week.\n\n\"Although devastated by their loss, John's loved ones have ensured his legacy will live on, not only through the personal and professional contributions he made during his life, but also by their generous decision to allow John to save lives as an organ donor.\"\n\nThe Walking Dead showrunner Scott M Gimple said: \"Our production is heartbroken by the tragic loss of John Bernecker.\n\n\"John's work on The Walking Dead and dozens of other movies and shows will continue to entertain and excite audiences for generations. We are grateful for his contributions, and all of us send our condolences, love, and prayers to John's family and friends.\"\n\nAMC said Bernecker's family had decided that he would be removed from life support following organ donation.\n\n\"We are deeply saddened by this loss and our hearts and prayers are with John's family, friends and colleagues during this extremely difficult time,\" the network said in a statement.\n\nThe actors' union SAG-AFTRA described Bernecker's death as \"heartbreaking\".\n\nIt added: \"The safety of our members is paramount. We will work with the authorities and closely monitor their investigations into this tragic incident.\"\n\nThe programme stars Andrew Lincoln, Danai Gurira, Norman Reedus and Cohan as the survivors of an epidemic that has wiped out much of humanity after a zombie apocalypse.\n\nBased on the comic books by Robert Kirkman, the show is due to return to screens in October.\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.", "Chloe was born on Collector Road in Birmingham\n\nA dad delivered his baby daughter in the car after his partner's waters broke on a Birmingham dual carriageway.\n\nSteven Sandford, who says he is squeamish, had no option when it became clear they would not reach the hospital in time.\n\nDaughter Chloe was safely delivered five minutes before paramedics arrived at Collector Road, with an operator giving instructions over the phone.\n\nThe couple's other daughter was also in the car during the birth.\n\nThe couple thought they had plenty of time when Ms Winters' contractions started\n\nMr Sandford, 45, and his partner Joanne Winters, 39, were driving from their Chelmsley Wood home on 27 June when they had to pull over.\n\nHe said: \"It was six in the morning and my partner Joanne was having pains every 10 minutes so I thought I'd take my time.\n\n\"Next thing you know it's every four minutes then three minutes. The nurse on the phone said 'You need to get to Good Hope Hospital straight away'.\n\n\"Her waters broke in the car so I was panicking; I put my foot down a bit.\"\n\n\"I don't know how I delivered a baby,\" Mr Sandford said\n\nMr Sandford added: \"The nurse said you need to pull over, because Jo was screaming at this point in the car.\n\n\"I pulled over and then the woman said you need to check if you can see the baby's head. I could see some hair so I started to panic and sweat.\n\n\"I said 'give it one big push Jo' and she pushed and the baby came out in my hands.\n\n\"I had tears in my eyes, I couldn't speak.\"\n\nThe couple's other daughter Charlotte was in the back seat when Ms Winters gave birth\n\nThe couple's other daughter, 16-month-old Charlotte, was in the back seat throughout the dramatic birth.\n\nMr Sandford said: \"She sat in the back of the car- we were going to take her to my mom's but the plan went out the window. It all happened within minutes.\"\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. \"My helmet saved me,\" says London acid attack victim Jabed Hussain\n\nTwo teenagers have been arrested after acid was thrown in people's faces in five attacks over one night in London.\n\nTwo moped riders attacked people in a 90-minute spree in Islington, Stoke Newington and Hackney on Thursday, stealing mopeds in two of the attacks.\n\nAn eyewitness said he heard a victim, who he believed was a delivery driver, \"screaming in pain\". One victim suffered \"life-changing injuries\".\n\nPolice are looking at whether moped theft was the motive for the attacks.\n\nOfficers said they were linking the attacks and boys aged 15 and 16 have been arrested on suspicion of robbery and causing grievous bodily harm.\n\nDelivery services Deliveroo and UberEATS have confirmed two of the victims were couriers working for the firms.\n\nThe attacks happened amid rising concern about the number of assaults involving corrosive substances in London.\n\nSince 2010, there have been more than 1,800 reports of attacks involving corrosive fluids in the capital. Last year, it was used in 458 crimes, compared to 261 in 2015, according to Met Police figures.\n\nHackney resident Jon Moody said he was watching TV when he heard screaming and ran to the window.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Footage posted by Turon Miah shows an acid attack victim being doused with water\n\n\"I heard a high-pitched scream but thought it was the boys playing football... I heard more shouting and ran to my window,\" he said.\n\n\"I could see a man in serious distress, he was screaming in pain.\n\n\"There were only two police officers with the victim, they took out two large water canisters and poured it over him.\"\n\nHe said he believed the victim was a delivery driver and about 20 fellow delivery drivers turned up at the scene.\n\nEmergency services and delivery drivers came to the aid of an acid attack victim in Queensbridge Road, Hackney\n\nThe Hackney Gazette last week reported many delivery drivers are refusing to work in some areas after 21:30 BST because of robbery fears.\n\nTakeaway delivery firm Deliveroo emailed drivers saying it was working with the Met Police and urged its staff to report any information about the attacks.\n\nThe email said the firm was \"truly shocked\" about what had happened.\n\nThe assaults happened amid increasing concern about the sharp rise in acid attacks in London.\n\nMet Commissioner Cressida Dick said the growing trend of victims being doused with corrosive liquids was concerning.\n\n\"The acid can cause horrendous injuries,\" she said.\n\n\"The ones last night involved a series of robberies we believe are linked - I am glad to see we have arrested somebody.\"\n\nA Met spokesman said one line of inquiry detectives would be pursuing was whether the attackers were targeting moped riders to steal their bikes.\n\nThe 16-year-old boy was arrested in Kingsbury Road, north-west London, early on Friday, while the 15-year-old was arrested in Stoke Newington several hours later.\n\nThe attacks began at 22:25 BST on Thursday in Hackney Road.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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 Sadiq Khan 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 32-year-old man on a moped was left with facial injuries after another moped, with two male riders, pulled up alongside him and threw a corrosive substance in his face.\n\nOne of the men stole his moped and the other drove away on the vehicle they arrived on.\n\nThe Met said it was awaiting an update on the extent of the victim's injuries. Inquiries are ongoing.\n\nAssaults involving corrosive substances have more than doubled in England since 2012, with the number of acid attacks in the capital showing the most dramatic rise in recent years.\n\nThe Met's own figures show there were 261 acid attacks in 2015, rising to 458 last year.\n\nSo far this year - excluding Thursday night - the Met has recorded 119 such attacks.\n\nA man appeared in court earlier this week in connection with a separate attack on cousins Resham Khan and Jameel Muhktar, who had acid thrown at them through a car window in Beckton, east London.\n\nShadow Home Secretary and Stoke Newington MP Dianne Abbott responded to news of the attacks, tweeting: \"More terrible acid attacks, Why would you scar someone for life just to steal a moped.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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\nLabour MP for East Ham Stephen Timms has tabled an adjournment debate for Monday in the House of Commons on the rise in the number of acid attacks.\n\nAbout a third of last year's acid attacks in the capital took place in the London borough of Newham, which is in his constituency.\n\nMr Timms told BBC Radio 4's Today programme he was \"most concerned about sulphuric acid\" and that carrying a bottle without justification should be treated as an offence, like carrying a knife.\n\n\"We could certainly come up with arrangements that would allow people to use sulphuric acid in the normal way, perhaps with the benefit of a licence.\n\n\"But simply walking around the street with a bottle of sulphuric acid, that should be an offence,\" he said.\n\nA Downing Street spokesman said the prime minister viewed acid attacks as \"horrific\".\n\n\"We are working with the police to see what more we could do. The prime minister's view is that the use of acid in this way is horrific.\"\n\nHome Office minister Sarah Newton told BBC Radio 5 live Breakfast the government was considering tighter controls on some chemicals in response to the acid attacks in East London and elsewhere.\n\nBut she said regulation would be difficult, as \"these chemicals are under everyone's kitchen sinks\".\n\nShe said it was clear acid was being used \"as a weapon\" and work had been commissioned \"to understand the motivation\" of people who use it to injure others.\n\nShe also said the government was examining sentencing for those who use acid to injure people.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What should you do in case of a chemical burn?\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A 16-year-old boy who was arrested in connection with five acid attacks in London on Thursday has been charged with 15 offences, police have said.\n\nThe charges include robbery, grievous bodily harm and possession of an item to discharge a noxious substance.\n\nThe five attacks took place in 90 minutes across north and east London.\n\nThe 16-year-old has been remanded in custody to appear at Stratford Youth Court on Monday. A 15-year-old boy also arrested has been released on bail.\n\nThe 16-year-old has been charged with:\n\nPolice said the investigation into the five separate attacks \"remains ongoing\".\n\nSpeaking before the boy was charged Ch Insp Ben Clark, from the Met's Hackney Borough, said all of the victims had been riding mopeds.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"My helmet saved me,\" says London acid attack victim Jabed Hussain\n\nJabed Hussain, 32, was one of the five people attacked on Thursday and said his helmet saved him from worse injury.\n\n\"I took off my helmet and I was just screaming for help because it's getting dry and as much as it's getting dry it's burning. So I was just screaming for water,\" Mr Hussain said.", "Organisers did a valiant job of keeping attendees upbeat despite the issues\n\nAs many as 20,000 attendees at a Pokemon Go festival in Chicago are being offered refunds after technical glitches meant fans were mostly unable to catch anything - let alone “them all”.\n\nDisappointed fans will also be offered $100 in the form of the app’s in-game currency, Pokecoins.\n\nThe event on Saturday had been touted as a chance for fans to come together and catch some of the rarest monsters on the hugely successful app.\n\nBut fans booed and chanted “fix our game!” and “we can’t play!\" as executives from Niantic, the game’s creator, attempted to explain the problems.\n\nAt one point a bottle was thrown at a presenter on stage - it missed.\n\nPokemon Go was launched last summer and has since been downloaded over 750 million times, reportedly making more than $1bn in revenue. The game required players to walk around the real world in order to find monsters in different locations.\n\nFans had hoped to catch rare Pokemon at the event in Chicago's Grant Park\n\nOn Saturday, in Chicago’s Grant Park, fans had hoped to find some species of Pokemon that were otherwise not available or extremely rare.\n\nTickets to the event sold out within around 10 minutes of going on sale, leading to many tickets being resold at almost 10 times their face value.\n\nBut the festival succumbed to a combination of overwhelmed mobile networks, and several bugs that Niantic admitted were “on our side”.\n\n“We know that this is not the day that we had all envisioned,” Mike Quigley, the firm’s chief marketing officer, told angry attendees.\n\n“But we appreciate your patience.”\n\nAs well as the technical problems, long lines prevented many ticket holders from getting into the event for more than three hours.\n\n“This is the worst time I have ever had doing anything,” tweeted one fan, who later left.\n\nIn an attempt to fix the issues, the company increased the radius of the event by a further two miles, meaning players could leave Grant Park in order to try and connect to the game and get access to the rare creatures.\n\nAnd just before 6pm local time, attendees were told they would all get a Lugia - a Pokemon that had not been available on the game before, an announcement that drew big cheers from an otherwise dejected crowd.\n\nYou can reach Dave securely through encrypted messaging app Signal on: +1 (628) 400-7370\n• None Pokemon Go or Pokemon Gone? You decide!", "Mr Trump referred to his \"complete power to pardon\" in a tweet\n\nUS President Donald Trump has insisted he has the \"complete power\" to pardon people, amid reports he is considering presidential pardons for family members, aides and even himself.\n\nThe US authorities are probing possible collusion between the Trump team and Russia. Intelligence agencies think Russia tried to help Mr Trump to power.\n\nRussia denies this, and the president says there was no collusion.\n\nThe Washington Post reported on Thursday that Mr Trump and his team were looking at ways to pardon people close to him.\n\nPresidents can pardon people before guilt is established or even before the person is charged with a crime.\n\nDescribing the reports as disturbing, Senator Mark Warner, a Democrat who sits on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, said \"pardoning any individuals who may have been involved would be crossing a fundamental line\".\n\nOn Saturday, Mr Trump tweeted: \"While all agree the U. S. President has the complete power to pardon, why think of that when only crime so far is LEAKS against us. FAKE NEWS.\"\n\nMr Trump also attacked \"illegal leaks\" following reports his attorney general discussed campaign-related matters with a Russian envoy.\n\nThe Washington Post gave an account of meetings Attorney General Jeff Sessions held with the Russian ambassador to the US, Sergey Kislyak. The newspaper quoted current and former US officials who cited intelligence intercepts of Mr Kislyak's version of the encounter to his superiors.\n\nOne of those quoted said Mr Kislyak spoke to Mr Sessions about key campaign issues, including Mr Trump's positions on policies significant to Russia.\n\nDuring his confirmation hearing earlier this year, Mr Sessions said he had no contact with Russians during the election campaign. When it later emerged he had, he said the campaign was not discussed at the meetings.\n\nAn official confirmed to Reuters the detail of the intercepts, but there has been no independent corroboration.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Commander in tweets: What we can learn from Trump's Twitter\n\nThe officials spoken to by the Post said that Mr Kislyak could have exaggerated the account, and cited a Justice Department spokesperson who repeated that Mr Sessions did not discuss interference in the election.\n\nBut the Post's story was the focus of one of many tweets the US president fired off on Saturday morning.\n\n\"A new INTELLIGENCE LEAK from the Amazon Washington Post, this time against A.G. Jeff Sessions. These illegal leaks, like Comey's, must stop!\" Mr Trump said.\n\nThe Washington Post is owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, who has been an occasional sparring partner for Mr Trump. \"Comey\" refers to James Comey, the former FBI boss Mr Trump fired.\n\nEarlier this week, Mr Trump told the New York Times he regretted hiring Mr Sessions because he had stepped away from overseeing an inquiry into alleged Russian meddling in the US election.\n\nMr Sessions recused himself in March amid pressure over his meetings with Mr Kislyak. He says he plans to continue in his role as attorney general.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sessions said he loved the job and the department\n\nSeveral other regular targets for Mr Trump featured in his series of tweets.\n\nHe accused the \"failing\" New York Times of foiling an attempt to assassinate the leader of the Islamic State group, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.\n\nIt is not clear what Mr Trump was referring to, but on Saturday a US general complained on Fox News that a \"good lead\" on Baghdadi was leaked to a national newspaper in 2015.\n\nA New York Times report at the time revealed that valuable information had been extracted from a raid, but the paper stressed on Saturday that no-one had taken issue with their reporting until now.\n\nAnd Mr Trump again urged Republicans to \"step up to the plate\" and repeal and replace President Obama's healthcare reforms, a key campaign pledge of his that has collapsed in Congress.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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. Trump 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 star played Peter McCallister in the Home Alone films\n\nThe actor John Heard, best known for his role in the Home Alone films, has died at the age of 71.\n\nHeard was found dead on Friday in his hotel room in Palo Alto, California, according to celebrity news website TMZ.\n\nThe Santa Clara medical examiner's office confirmed the death. The cause is unknown.\n\nHeard had reportedly been staying at the hotel after \"minor back surgery\" this week.\n\n\"Our officers responded with the Fire Department to a hotel in our city on a report of a person in need of medical aid,\" the Palo Alto police department said.\n\n\"The person was determined to be deceased. While still under investigation, the death is not considered suspicious at this time.\"\n\nArguably Heard's most memorable role was as Peter McCallister, the father of Macaulay Culkin's character in the Home Alone films, in the 1990s.\n\nBut he first started acting in the 1970s, appearing on the stage, on television and in film.\n\nJames Woods worked with Heard on Too Big to Fail\n\nHe went on to play leading roles in films including Cutter's Way, C.H.U.D and Gladiator, opposite Cuba Gooding, Jr.\n\nIn 1999 he was nominated for an Emmy Award for his role as Vin Makazian - a corrupt New Jersey police detective - in television series The Sopranos.\n\nMarlon Wayans, who worked with Heard on the 2004 comedy White Chicks, wrote on Instagram: \"He was a great guy. Shared a lot of laughs. Sad to see such a good spirit and actor taken.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Andre Spicer tells 5 live: \"We should be encouraging our kids to get out there\"\n\nA five-year-old girl who was fined £150 by a council for selling 50p cups of lemonade has received dozens of offers to set up stalls at other events.\n\nAndre Spicer, a business school professor, had let his daughter set up a stall to sell refreshments outside Lovebox Festival, east London.\n\nHowever, four council officials fined the pair for trading without a licence.\n\nTower Hamlets Council has since apologised for issuing the fixed penalty notice and cancelled the fine.\n\nMr Spicer said his daughter had received offers to set up lemonade stands at festivals and at Borough Market in Southwark.\n\nThe family tweeted: \"We have been overwhelmed by the kind response from people across the world.\n\n\"Dozens of festivals, markets and businesses have offered us the opportunity to set up a lemonade stand.\n\n\"We hope they will extend this invitation to others who'd love to make a stand.\"\n\nBorough Market tweeted the girl's father: \"In all seriousness, would your daughter like to sell some lemonade at Borough Market? We'd love to make that happen for her.\"\n\nLeeFest: Neverland has also invited the pair to sell lemonade at its August festival in Kent.\n\nThe fine was for trading without a licence\n\nMr Spicer told how his daughter had \"burst into tears\" after enforcement officers \"began reading from a big script explaining that she did not have a trading licence\".\n\nHe said: \"My daughter clung to me screaming 'Daddy, Daddy, I've done a bad thing.' She's five.\n\n\"We were then issued a fine of £150. We packed up and walked home.\"\n\nA council spokesman said: \"We are very sorry that this has happened. We expect our enforcement officers to show common sense and to use their powers sensibly.\n\n\"This clearly did not happen.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Bearing in mind that it took 110 years for the first Briton to win a Tour de France, you'd expect the man who then wins four of the next five to be one of the most loved and admired sportsmen of this or any other era.\n\nThere is no fluking a yellow jersey. Three weeks of physical attrition, of relentless mental calculations and stress, of staying ahead of a shifting mass of rivals ganging up to unseat you, of managing egos and efforts within your own team, of high mountains and cruel cross-winds.\n\nAnd yet when Chris Froome won his third Tour last year, having run up Mont Ventoux in his cleats on his way to victory, he failed to even make the 16-strong shortlist for the BBC's Sports Personality of the Year.\n\nIn case you want to blame the host broadcaster, it is worth remembering that in addition to the three BBC representatives on the selection panel there were former sporting greats Ryan Giggs, Victoria Pendleton and Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson; sports presenter Ore Oduba, writers Amy Lawrence and Liz Nicholl, chief executive of UK Sport; David James (sports editor of the Sunday Mirror and Sunday People), Adam Sills (sports editor of the Daily and Sunday Telegraph) and the Mail on Sunday's Alison Kervin.\n\nThat is a pretty wide cross-section of the sport-obsessed. It was also in an Olympic and Paralympic year. But 2015, when Froome became the first Briton to win the Tour twice, was not. He still came seventh in the eventual public vote, with just 3.86% of the total votes cast.\n\nIn 2013 he finished sixth with 5.2% of the vote. This after a five-year period when British male cyclists - Chris Hoy, Mark Cavendish and Bradley Wiggins - had won SPOTY three times between them.\n• None Stage-by-stage - how the Tour has unfolded\n\nFroome is not a man to bemoan his lot. Yet as he rides into Paris in yellow once again, having survived multiple challenges in one of the most competitive and ferocious Tours in memory, you could forgive him wondering what else he must do to be as cherished as some who have achieved significantly less.\n\nThere was certainly a shadow cast at the start of his reign by the success of Wiggins, the Neil Armstrong to his Buzz Aldrin. The second man on the moon will never enjoy the instinctive adoration as the first. There was the perception too, unfair though it may have been, that on the stage to La Toussuire during Wiggins' coronation in 2012, Froome had at least considered regicide if not tried to commit it.\n\nIt explains a slow start to his dance with the British public. But now, when his own Tour deeds have thrown Wiggins' achievements into stark relief, when the revelations about his former team-mate's therapeutic use exemptions have made some place a mental asterisk next to his win?\n\nOnly four other men in history have won three yellow jerseys in a row before. Each of them is a giant of the sport: Louison Bobet, Jacques Anquetil, Eddy Merckx, Miguel Indurain. Only the last three of them and Bernard Hinault have won four or more in total.\n\nIf you do not appreciate Froome now, you probably never will. If the Champs-Elysees this Sunday doesn't make you relish what he has done and sense it in its proper context, you may also be missing out.\n\n\"Just to complete the Tour is hard enough,\" says Geraint Thomas, his team-mate first at Barloworld almost a decade ago and with Sky in the garlanded years since.\n\n\"Just to physically get round 3,000-odd kilometres of mountains, sprints, wind and rain, the pressure you're under - you have to be on top of your game to get through it. To win it takes a whole new level, and to win it multiple times, year in, year out hitting that same level, is super impressive.\n\n\"The training to even get there is full-on. Chris lives and breathes it from November all the way through to the following October. There is a lot of time away from his young family, a lot of training camps, on top of a volcano in Tenerife, hour after hour of hard graft.\n\n\"And it's not just the training - it's living the right way. The mental discipline is just as hard as the physical work. I do the training and I enjoy it. That's the easy part.\n\n\"It's when you're at home and you're starving hungry and you want to pig out but can't, when tea is quinoa rather than the massive pizza you'd really like. You go out with your partner and she will have a glass of wine or a dessert, or she orders a steak and you have to settle for a piece of steamed fish. Chris lives like that throughout the year.\"\n\nWiggins was a great stylist on his bike, smooth on the pedals, a track rider's instinctive handling skills. Froome is all elbows and effort, grimacing up mountains, descending like the last few frames before an almighty pile-up.\n\nIf that has kept the aesthetes cool towards him, the struggling amateurs can understand both the determination and the improvement it has brought. Wiggins could be wonderful company for his team-mates, but he could also be moody and introverted. Froome has grown into the role of team alpha male, learning from his predecessor, managing all the messy stuff that comes with the leader's jersey.\n\n\"Being in yellow takes at least half an hour away from your recovery every day,\" says Thomas, who spent four days on top of the GC standings this month.\n\n\"You finish the stage, you try to do your warm-down, then it's on to the podium, and that's the good bit. Then you have to do TV and radio, and you get asked the same two questions 15 times, which gets quite monotonous when you're already so tired.\n\n\"You then speak to the print media, you go into another press conference, and then doping control. If you can get the job done in doping control you can be in and out in 10 minutes. If it's been a hot day and you're dehydrated, you can be in there for an hour. All the other guys will be straight onto the team bus to do their warm-down, get some food down them and put their feet up.\n\n\"You get booed a lot. And it can be intimidating on those mountain roads. It's not like football, when the spectators can abuse you but not actually touch you. On those big climbs on the open roads, you never know. They could hit you; riders in our team have been punched before. It's another challenge.\"\n\nFroome is restrained in his public utterances, polite rather than extrovert. But he is no cycling robot. There is a back story which should both amaze and endear: growing up in Kenya with rock pythons for pets, spending long weeks in a small corrugated iron hut, with no running water and only a long-drop toilet, in a small village high in the red-dirt hills of Kenya's Rift Valley, the only white kid for miles around; getting knocked off by his own mother in his first race, aged 13; entering himself in his first world championships after borrowing the email account of the head of Kenyan cycling.\n\nThere is quirk and there is humour. Thomas tells a story from the pair's younger days when they were preparing for the national championships by staying at his girlfriend's parents' house.\n\nTwo nights before the race, Froome insisted on making everyone a potent Kenyan cocktail called a dawa. Except the ones he made for his team-mate were both more numerous and significantly stronger. He ended up beating his host by 10 enfeebled seconds.\n\nVuelta a Espana stage wins - four (three individual and one team time trial) Olympic medals - two (time trial bronze at London 2012 and Rio 2016) Made an OBE for services to cycling in 2015\n\nThere was also an engaging naivety. \"Sometimes he had no idea about other riders,\" remembers Thomas.\n\n\"'Who was that guy? He looked strong today.' 'Yeah mate, that was Nibali. Only someone who's won every Grand Tour there is to win…'\n\n\"He's still like that now. Someone can switch teams and it will fool him. 'Who's that in the Trek jersey? He's quick!' 'Mate, that's Contador…'\"\n\nSky's organisational and ethical struggles since the first revelations 10 months ago about Wiggins' use of the corticosteroid triamcinolone have both damaged the brand and leaked into the image of its other riders, no matter how removed from it some were.\n\nFroome too will always have the unconverted in his congregation, unwilling to accept his improvement over the past seven years nor the explanation that blood parasite bilharzia was to blame for his previous inconsistencies.\n\nThen there is how British or not he is perceived to be, born in Nairobi, schooled in South Africa, resident now in Monaco, although it is not a unique story; Wiggins was born in Belgium to an Australian father, former England cricket captain Andrew Strauss spent his early years in Johannesburg and England rugby union captain Dylan Hartley was born and raised in Rotorua, New Zealand. Jenson Button and Lewis Hamilton also live in Monaco.\n\n\"I'd lived in Kenya but I didn't feel Kenyan,\" Froome told me after his first Tour win. \"I'm British, with a British passport from birth.\"\n\nEnglish cricketing darlings Colin Cowdrey and Ted Dexter were born in Bangalore and Milan respectively. The first man to win a medal for Great Britain at a modern Olympics, way back in 1896, was Charles Gmelin, born in Krishnagar, India. Terry Butcher, the epitome of blood-soaked, badge-kissing Englishness, was born in Singapore.\n\nYou can pick your own path through that debate. What is unarguable is the manner in which Froome has won his Tours - with a solo attack at the top of Ventoux, with an ambush attack on the descent of the Col de Peyresourde, with an audacious uphill escape at the end of stage 14 this time around, having also ridden through picnics and survived a broken rear wheel.\n\nTwo years ago he had urine thrown at him by one spectator. He has been spat on. On this Tour he was jeered by partisan supporters of home favourite Romain Bardet. His composure has survived all that, with even French journalists who were charmed enough by Wiggins to dub him \"Le Gentleman\" coming round from acceptance to admiration.\n\n\"Cav is like the Muhammad Ali of cycling,\" says Thomas. \"He's so close to Merckx's record for stage wins at the Tour.\n\n\"Brad had so much variety in all he achieved, Sir Chris did things no British rider had ever done before. It's so hard to compare across the different disciplines, but Froomey is right up there with them. He's not behind any of them.\"", "HMP Hewell has about 1,000 adult male prisoners at its closed site\n\nA prison officer was taken to hospital with minor injuries after an \"incident\" at HMP Hewell.\n\nSpecially trained prison security teams arrived at the prison near Redditch in Worcestershire late on Saturday night.\n\nThe Prison Service said a \"small number\" of inmates at the category B jail were involved in the disturbance.\n\nPrison authorities are now back in full control of the affected wing and the matter has been referred to West Mercia Police.\n\nMen shouting and swearing, as well as banging and dogs barking, could be heard coming from the prison.\n\nSpecialist security squads, equipped to deal with riots, arrived at the site in unmarked vans at about 19:30 BST.\n\nHMP Hewell is surrounded by farmland and houses about 1,000 inmates - including some category A remand prisoners.\n\nIn an inspection report published in January, Hewell was described as \"a prison with many challenges and areas of serious concern\".\n\nPeter Clarke, chief inspector of prisons, said the \"main concerns\" were regarding \"issues of safety and respect\".\n\nHe said levels of violence were \"far too high\", communal areas were \"dirty\" and many cells were overcrowded.\n\nA Prison Service spokesman said: \"We are absolutely clear that offenders who behave in this way will be punished and face spending extra time behind bars.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The hospital said \"unacceptable behaviour\" had been recorded \"within the hospital\"\n\nStaff at Great Ormond Street Hospital have received death threats over the treatment of baby Charlie Gard.\n\nThe hospital said police had been called after families were \"harassed\" and \"unacceptable behaviour\" was recorded in the hospital.\n\nIt is involved in a legal battle to remove life support from the 11-month-old, who has a rare genetic disorder.\n\nHis parents Connie Yates and Chris Gard said they did not condone abuse and had also faced \"nasty and hurtful remarks\".\n\nHealth Secretary Jeremy Hunt said on Twitter although Charlie's case was \"sad and complex\", this behaviour was \"totally unacceptable\".\n\nCharlie, who was born on 4 August 2016, has a form of mitochondrial disease, a condition that causes progressive muscle weakness and irreversible brain damage, and his parents want to take him to the US for pioneering treatment.\n\nConnie Yates and Chris Gard want Charlie to receive an experimental therapy called nucleoside\n\nThey have lost a succession of court cases to overturn the hospital's decision that it would be in the best interest of the child to be allowed to die with dignity.\n\nThe latest court battle involves new testimony from a US neurologist who has visited Charlie in hospital to decide whether he should travel to America for therapy.\n\nCharlie's parents want to take him to New York for experimental treatment, which the US doctor said might give him a 10% chance of improving his health.\n\nMary MacLeod, chairman of Great Ormond Street Hospital, said in a statement that Charlie's case was \"a heartbreaking one\", adding the hospital understood the \"natural sympathy people feel with his situation\".\n\nHowever, in recent weeks the hospital community had been subjected to a \"shocking and disgraceful tide of hostility and disturbance,\" she said.\n\nCharlie has a rare genetic condition and is on life support\n\nShe added: \"Staff have received abuse both in the street and online.\n\n\"Thousands of abusive messages have been sent to doctors and nurses whose life's work is to care for sick children.\n\n\"Many of these messages are menacing, including death threats.\n\n\"Families have been harassed and discomforted while visiting their children, and we have received complaints of unacceptable behaviour even within the hospital itself.\"\n\nMs MacLeod, who also chairs the hospital's clinical ethics committee, said \"there can be no excuse\" for patients, families and staff \"to have their privacy and peace disturbed\".\n\nIn a statement issued through a spokeswoman, Charlie's parents said: \"We don't condone abusive or threatening behaviour to GOSH staff or anybody in connection with our son.\n\n\"We too get abuse and have to endure nasty and hurtful remarks on a daily basis.\n\n\"People have different opinions and we accept that but there is a line that shouldn't be crossed as it makes a stressful situation worse and is very upsetting for all involved.\"\n\nThe case is due back before a High Court judge on Monday.", "There are 500,000 cars with VW engines registered in London, 80,000 of which were fitted with the \"defeat devices\"\n\nCar firm Volkswagen (VW) has said it will not pay the £2.5m the mayor of London claims it owes in missed congestion charge payments, following the 2015 emissions-rigging scandal.\n\nSadiq Khan said 80,000 VW engines fitted with \"defeat devices\" were registered in London.\n\nThe devices, which detected when an engine was being tested, changed performance to improve results.\n\nVW said the cars had \"validly\" qualified for a low emissions discount.\n\nThe world's largest car manufacturer admitted about 11 million cars worldwide were fitted with the device.\n\nHowever, a spokesperson for VW said all of its vehicles which benefitted from the Congestion Charge Greener Vehicle Discount \"did so validly throughout the relevant period\".\n\nThere is \"no basis on which it can be said that Transport for London has lost any sums as a result of the NOx issue.\"\n\n\"No sums are therefore due in compensation,\" the spokesperson added.\n\nMr Khan said the actions of VW were \"nothing short of a disgrace\".\n\nLast year a US court ordered VW pay a $14.7bn (£12bn) settlement over the scandal.", "The ITV documentary in which Princes William and Harry talk about the death of their mother, Princess Diana, is the lead for several of the Sunday papers.\n\nThey focus on the Princes' recollections of their final phone call with her, hours before she died in the Paris car crash - and their regret that they didn't speak for longer.\n\n\"Last call with Mum haunts us\", is the Sunday Mirror's headline, and it's a similar theme for the Star on Sunday.\n\nThe Mail on Sunday's coverage extends to 10 inside pages and includes a number of newly-released pictures.\n\nOne of them - of a young Prince Harry being cuddled by his mother during a family holiday - appears on the front pages of the Sunday Times and the Sunday Telegraph.\n\nThe open letter by more than 40 of the BBC's top female presenters to the corporation's director-general, Lord Hall, calling on him to act now to close the gender pay gap, is widely covered - and makes the lead for the Telegraph.\n\nThe paper has the headline: \"Revolt of the BBC women\". It describes the letter as an unprecedented show of anger.\n\nWriting in the Mirror, Saira Khan says what really upset her was seeing definitive proof that the BBC - the organisation we trust to be the voice of British values around the world - is \"sexist to its core\".\n\nRemarks by the Environment Secretary, Michael Gove, that the cabinet is united in wanting a transitional Brexit deal on migrant labour that meets the needs of British business, is welcomed by a number of papers.\n\nThe Mail says a wise and typically British compromise - in which the desires of all are considered, but neither side gets everything it wants - may now be taking shape.\n\nFor the Sunday Times, the cabinet is moving in the direction of an open and entrepreneurial Brexit - the only basis for Britain's future success.\n\nIn the words of Andrew Rawnsley in the Observer, the slow learners in the cabinet have finally grasped that Britain will require a smoothed departure if there is to be any hope of avoiding a shock Brexit.\n\nAccording to the Mail, President Trump has been asked to make a \"dummy\" State visit to Britain this year to show that he can avoid embarrassing the Queen.\n\nThe paper says he's been invited to come for brief talks with Theresa May - but with none of the Royal pomp and circumstance he wanted.\n\nAs a face-saving measure - the paper goes on - Mr Trump will be offered a State visit next year - but it won't take place unless the low-profile trip is a success.\n\nFinally, as the ITV 2 reality show, Love Island, reaches its climax tomorrow, a number of commentators explore what has made it such a rating success.\n\nFor Zoe Strimpel in the Telegraph, it has become the guilty pleasure of our time. The opportunity to watch other people - with perfect bodies and zero wrinkles - trying to solve the modern riddle of love is just too cathartic to miss.\n\nWriting in the Observer, Emine Saner says the show has been carefully seducing us - or to put it in Love Island speak, \"proper grafting\". Many of us will be heartbroken when it leaves us, she says.", "Ben Needham vanished on the Greek island of Kos in July 1991\n\nSigns of blood have been found on part of a sandal and on soil inside a toy car recovered by police searching for missing Sheffield toddler Ben Needham.\n\nBen was 21 months old when he disappeared on the Greek island of Kos in July 1991.\n\nSouth Yorkshire Police said forensic work was being carried out in Aberdeen to try to extract DNA from the items.\n\nDet Insp Jon Cousins said it was still his \"professional belief\" Ben died in an accident at the farmhouse.\n\nDetails of the findings have been released on the 26th anniversary of Ben's disappearance.\n\nThe car found in Kos is thought to be similar to this one\n\nBen was last seen playing near to a farmhouse his grandfather was renovating\n\nBen went missing while playing near a farmhouse, which was being renovated by his grandfather in Iraklis.\n\nAn extensive 21-day search of land around the building and a second site 750m (820 yards) away took place in October after it emerged the toddler may have been crushed to death by a digger working on the site.\n\nAbout 60 items discovered during the search were brought back to the UK for analysis, some of which were sent for testing at the James Hutton Institute in Aberdeen.\n\nSouth Yorkshire Police were assisted by members of the Hellenic Rescue Team and Red Cross\n\nThe search of the two sites was carried out over 21 days in October\n\nProfessor Lorna Dawson, head of the soil forensics group, said the team of scientists had discovered the \"profile indicative of human blood decomposition on a fragment of a sandal.\"\n\nThe profile had also been found on soil from inside a toy car, however, the stronger signal had been found on the footwear sandal, she said.\n\nProfessor Dawson said the discovery was the \"chemical finger print\" of compounds left behind \"when there has been decomposition or decay\".\n\n\"There's a strong indication from this chemical profile that this was present on those items as a result of blood decomposition,\" she said.\n\n\"It's significant in identifying that there had been a human who had bled in contact with those items.\n\n\"The biologist has to come in now and identify who left that blood on that item by extracting the DNA.\"\n\nProfessor Lorna Dawson was part of the team responsible for analysing the items\n\nDet Insp Cousins said: \"Based on the facts and the information obtained, as previously stated it is still my professional belief that Ben died as a result of a tragic incident at the farmhouse involving heavy machinery.\n\n\"It's my belief that [the findings] corroborate and strengthen that theory.\"\n\nThe Needham family has been informed and the force would continue to assist the Greek authorities with any ongoing enquiries, South Yorkshire Police said.", "More people will be able to donate blood more easily under the new rules\n\nBlood donation rules for sex workers and gay men are being relaxed in England and Scotland after improvements in the accuracy of testing procedures.\n\nMen who have sex with men can now give blood three months after their last sexual activity instead of 12.\n\nAnd sex workers, who were previously barred from donating, now can, subject to the same three-month rule.\n\nExperts said the move would give more people the opportunity to donate blood without affecting blood supply safety.\n\nThe Advisory Committee on the Safety of Blood, Tissues and Organs - which advises UK health departments - recommended the changes after concluding that new testing systems were accurate and donors were good at complying with the rules.\n\nAll blood that is donated in the UK undergoes a mandatory test for Hepatitis B and C, and HIV, plus a couple of other viruses.\n\nScientists agree that three months is a comfortably long window for a virus or infection to appear and be picked up in the blood.\n\nProf James Neuberger, from the committee, said: \"Technologies to pick up the presence of the virus have greatly improved, so we can now pick up viruses at a much earlier stage in the infection, and therefore it's much easier to tell if a blood donor has the virus.\"\n\nThe rule changes will come into force at blood donation centres in Scotland in November, and in early 2018 in England.\n\nThey will now all be able to donate blood after abstaining from sex for three months.\n\nThe UK government is also considering relaxing the rules for people who have undergone acupuncture, piercing, tattooing and endoscopies, and for those with a history of non-prescribed injecting drug use.\n\nBut these also need changes to current EU legislation.\n\nAlex Phillips, blood donations policy lead at the Terrence Higgins Trust, said the changes were a \"victory for science over stigmatising assumptions\", adding: \"The evidence suggests three months is the right amount of time.\"\n\nShe told BBC One's Breakfast that the lifetime donation ban for sex industry workers was based on \"preconceptions rather than evidence\".\n\nDeborah Gold, chief executive of National Aids Trust, said the new rules were a \"huge advance\" for gay and bisexual men - who can now donate three months from their last sexual activity.\n\nMs Gold said: \"We are also delighted that NHS Blood and Transplant have said they will now investigate how possible it is for some gay men, depending on degree of risk, to donate without even the three-month deferral.\"\n\nNHS Blood and Transplant said there was not currently a shortage of blood in the UK but 200,000 new donors were needed every year to replenish supplies.\n\nIt said there was a particular need for more people from black, Asian and minority ethnic communities to give blood.", "Rugby union referee Nigel Owens reveals his struggle with eating disorder bulimia nervosa is not over and remains an ongoing battle.\n\nThere have been a number of 'firsts' in my life.\n\nAs a referee in world-class rugby, one of the most macho sports on the planet, I was the first in the sport to come out as being gay.\n\nIn the hope of reaching out to other young people struggling with mental health, I was also one of the first sportsmen to speak openly about the biggest regret of my life - a suicide attempt.\n\nEarly one morning at the age of 26, I left a note for my mum and dad, both of whom had been hugely supportive of me, explaining I couldn't carry on, that I desperately wanted to bring it all to an end.\n\nI took an overdose, laid down on a Welsh mountainside and waited to die. Doctors later told me I was just 20 minutes from death when I was airlifted to hospital by a police helicopter.\n\nSo I got a second chance. I was determined not to waste it and using my experience to help someone else is a pretty good way of ensuring that.\n\nWhich brings me onto another 'first'; I've spoken about dealing with bulimia in the past but have never before revealed that to this day I continue to struggle with an eating disorder.\n\nSince the age of 18, I have had bulimia nervosa.\n\nRefereeing a local game not long after first picking up the whistle\n\nIt is a disorder of overeating followed by fasting or self-induced vomiting or purging.\n\nIt was a secret I was still battling to control as I stepped on to the pitch to referee the Rugby World Cup in 2015.\n\nEating disorders have the highest death rate of any mental health illness and are estimated to affect 1.6 million people in the UK. Around 400,000 are thought to be men and boys.\n\nAnd that number is growing.\n\nThe reasons vary from person to person; body image, obsessive exercise, sporting achievement and the relentless bombardment of ripped physiques on social media and so on.\n\nWhen I was growing up in a small village in rural Carmarthenshire, west Wales, over 30 years ago, social media didn't exist.\n\nI enjoyed a happy childhood with loving, supportive parents, grandparents, uncles and aunties. I had a good time at school and loved to go fishing and, of course, play rugby.\n\nBut when I reached my late teenage years, things changed. I started to realise that I was different, that \"something was wrong\".\n\nIn the world I grew up in, you get a girlfriend, you get married, you have children, become grandparents… and that's the way the world turns.\n\nBut I was finding myself attracted to men and couldn't figure out what on earth was going on.\n\nNigel was a teenager when depression over his sexuality began\n\nNo one around him had any idea about the dark secret behind his weight loss (Nigel, left)\n\nIt was totally alien to me. I had no idea what being gay was, I'd never even met a gay person before.\n\nDesperate not to become this person, I struggled to suppress him. I felt I was lying to my parents, the people that mattered the most to me, which went against everything I'd been taught.\n\nAdd to the burden the fact that I was overweight, about 16.5 stone (105 kg).\n\nIn my eyes I was obese and thought \"no-one who I find attractive was ever going find me attractive while I'm fat\".\n\nPanorama: Men, Boys and Eating Disorders on BBC One and BBC iPlayer 24 July 2017 at 20:30 BST\n\nNigel Owens: Bulimia and Me on BBC One Wales and BBC iPlayer on 24 July 2017 at 20:30 BST\n\nLinks to organisations offering support on eating disorders below or visit BBC Action Line\n\nFor help and information on eating disorders visit BBC Advice\n\nI loved food then as much as I do now. I'd eat all I wanted then go the loo and make myself sick.\n\nI suffered from mild colitis, a bowel condition, so would use that as an ideal excuse to friends when I had to slip off to the toilet all the time. I was lying and being sly which only exacerbated my depression.\n\nBefore long I was bringing up every meal I ate.\n\nOver a period of four months, I'd lost five stone.\n\nNo-one suspected a thing. I was running and training a lot and my friends and family could see me scoffing food every mealtime, so as far as they were concerned I was eating well. I was training hard so outwardly I looked fit and healthy.\n\nAn eating disorder wouldn't have crossed anyone's mind. There wasn't much awareness back then and if there was it was associated with young girls.\n\nMeanwhile, I was about to get sucked even further into the vortex of self-harm and depression.\n\nNigel as a teenager with his mother in the family home in Mynyddcerrig, Carmarthenshire\n\nIn my eyes, I was now too thin and now thought \"no-one I find attractive is ever going to find me attractive while I'm skinny\".\n\nSo I went to the gym and began using steroids. I became hooked on them for the next seven, eight years.\n\nMental health issues, depression over my sexuality, bulimia and steroids - my life was an unrelenting nightmare.\n\nI'll never forgive myself for what I put my parents through. Imagine getting up in the morning and finding that goodbye letter, the sheer panic that they're never going to see their son again.\n\nBut if there was any consolation from this dreadful event, it was while recovering in hospital that my life began to turn around.\n\nNigel with his father and late mother whom he describes as \"pillars of strength\"\n\nI tried to come to terms with who I was, I stopped taking the steroids and tried to fight against the bulimia.\n\nAfter years of struggling with an eating disorder it was when my beloved mother was diagnosed with cancer and given a year to live that I finally vowed to stop. I was 36 then. It stopped for a few years.\n\nI never sought professional help but I took advice from a professional nutritionist and followed a food plan. I cut a lot of carbohydrates from my diet and trained differently and I was in the best shape I'd ever been in, physical and mentally.\n\nThe bulimia had stopped and I was doing the right thing to keep my weight down by eating sensibly. I would have treats but in moderation, I'm a big believer in that. Trouble can rear its head when you totally deny yourself some pleasures in life like chocolate or the odd pint of beer.\n\nIn 2015 I reached the pinnacle of my career - I refereed a World Cup Final - in a memorable match between New Zealand and Australia.\n\nBen Smith of New Zealand is shown the yellow card during the 2015 Rugby World Cup final at Twickenham\n\nI'm known for being a steely, authoritative and, I hope, fair referee. As I walked onto the pitch that day, no-one would have believed that I was battling the creeping return of my bulimia.\n\nIn the run up to the Rugby World Cup, I'd been under huge pressure to reach certain fitness levels - you have to reach an advanced level on the Yo-Yo Endurance Test (a variation on the bleep test used to measure physical fitness).\n\nFitness expectations are extremely high, particularly for somebody who was 44 years of age. Bear in mind international athletes in their prime, in their 20s, are expected to reach that level and I was expected to do the same.\n\nI was training hard but knew that if I could only shed four to five kilos my chances of passing the fitness test would improve - I'd be carrying less weight and my body would take longer to get tired.\n\nI remember looking at the mirror and thinking: \"Damn. I could get rid of this quite quickly.\"\n\nAnd so the bulimia returned.\n\nRefereeing demands fitness to keep up with elite athletes half his age\n\nOnce I'd passed the test, I resumed a good routine of fitness and nutrition and went into the Rugby World Cup in peak condition.\n\nWhat an incredible honour and experience that was. I'm not blowing my own trumpet but you're refereeing the world cup final, you're considered the best in the world.\n\nNot bad going for a former farm worker from west Wales eh? And a world away from the first time I'd picked up a whistle as a 16-year-old having accepted I was never going to make it as a player.\n\nBut the following year, the pressure was off and I notice I was putting on weight and so the bulimia returned.\n\nIt might have been twice a week then nothing for months and months. I know it does more harm than good so why do I still do it from time to time? I don't know.\n\nBut what I do know is that unless I control what I eat and I'm sensible about it, there's going to come a time when I'm going to put on weight and I'm going to end up making myself sick again.\n\nSo I do everything I can to prevent getting to that stage.\n\nReferee of the Year Award at the World Rugby Awards in London 2015\n\nAwarded an MBE for services to sport in 2016\n\nFor those who are caught up in eating disorders and say there's nothing they can do about it, I understand what they are saying because it takes you over and you feel there is nothing you can do.\n\nBut I would urge anyone suffering to do something - seek professional advice, tell people about it, don't hide it, don't lie about it, that's a great first step.\n\nI thought I was in control but since making the Panorama programme, I've realised I'm not.\n\nI came back from refereeing the England summer tour in Argentina a few weeks ago. While I was out there, I made myself sick three to four times - I think because I was eating more food than I needed.\n\nIt's been a reality check. Speaking to experts I acknowledge now that I need to do something, to sit down and speak to someone and try and get this out of my life forever.\n\nPeople who've never had an eating disorder can try to imagine what it's like but they will never know.\n\nIt's not as bad as 30 years ago but even today there's an attitude towards conditions like anorexia of 'oh for God's sake, don't be silly, eat some food!'. If only it was that easy.\n\nAfter all I've experienced in my life and having to deal with the pressure out in the field of making split-second decisions in front of millions of people, you would think I'd be strong enough to stop my bulimia.\n\nBoxer Bradley Pryce talks on Panorama about how he resorted to making himself sick to get his weight down\n\nI'm speaking openly about it because I know that men and boys can view it as a sign of weakness by admitting there's a problem that you can't sort out yourself.\n\nBut it's not a sign of weakness; it's a sign of great strength to do that.\n\nOn the programme I speak to professional boxer Bradley Pryce who made himself in the past sick to lose weight. You see these guys in the ring and think they embody mental toughness and physical strength.\n\nIt goes to show that everybody can suffer from it - a world cup rugby referee, young teenage boys and professional boxers.\n\nIf men can find it within themselves to open up about their own experiences of eating disorders, you would find them in all walks of life and in every sport in the world.\n\nOne of the experts I've spoken to highlights how much body image has changed for men. A generation ago manliness would have been seen as being good at sport, providing for the family. Now there's so much more emphasis on being muscular, having a ripped body with a six-pack.\n\nAnd if you don't have a six-pack you're not going to be happy and no-one's going to like you. That's complete rubbish. And for the majority of us this is a totally unrealistic expectation.\n\nSo the more men do open up and talk about eating disorders, then the easier it's going be to bust the stigma that this is only a female problem and, more importantly, raise awareness of the help needed to tackle this and ensure the funding is in place to provide it.\n\nAs for me, I'm focusing on passing the fitness test for the 2019 world cup. What the challenges will be when I finish refereeing and I won't have to train for something specific, I really don't know.\n\nBut one thing I absolutely do know is that the bulimia can't carry on. And I just hope that by speaking about my experience I can help many others reach the same conclusion.\n\nIt's not always easy to get the help you need when you need it so the sooner you start talking to people the better.\n\nDon't be in my situation; 27 years on and still suffering from it.", "The young offender institution houses the longest sentenced young adult males in the English prison system\n\nSeven prison officers and one prisoner were taken to hospital after \"disorder\" at a young offender institution, police have said.\n\nIt happened at HM YOI Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire on Friday morning, Thames Valley Police said.\n\nAn online prison blog said 30 inmates took part in the \"mass brawl\".\n\nPolice said the injured people had since been released from hospital. The Prison Service said it was investigating the incident with police.\n\nOfficers were called to \"a report of disorder\" at the young offender institution in Bierton Road at about 11:00 BST, but \"officer deployment was not required at the incident\", a spokeswoman said.\n\n\"Seven prison officers and one prisoner were taken to hospital for treatment.\"\n\nThe incident came to light in an online blog on Prison UK.\n\nAuthor Alex Cavendish, a former prisoner, said he was passed the information via \"reliable, professional sources inside the system\".\n\n\"A mass brawl broke out yesterday morning... Prisoners were attacking each other with weapons - and staff,\" the informant said.\n\nHe described the incident as \"horrific\".\n\n\"Staff were trying to save their lives and got battered. Some were seriously injured. Another officer was on the landing unconscious.\n\n\"We had ambulances and fire service in, trying to help alongside our healthcare department.\n\n\"The wing has been brewing for a while,\" he added.\n\nA Prison Service Spokesman confirmed that \"an incident involving a number of prisoners took place on Friday 21 July\".\n\n\"We do not tolerate violence against our hard-working staff. Where incidents like this occur, we will always work closely with the police to push for the strongest possible punishment,\" he added.\n\nThe incident is being jointly investigated by the Prison Service and Thames Valley Police.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "US citizens have now had six months to get used to their new president and still not all are finding it easy. For Americans in the UK there is a double dose of change, with Brexit now firmly under way. London-based writer and broadcaster Michael Goldfarb has been finding that the combination means all conversations turn inexorably to politics.\n\nDonald Trump has been president for half a year. It is a year since Britons voted to leave the European Union. Yes, the two events are linked.\n\nLike an enormous piece of Antarctic sea ice calving off from the continent and drifting away, the Anglo-American world has detached itself from its partners and headed off into the unknown.\n\nFor those of us who are citizens of both countries it has been a strange time.\n\nTwenty years ago, when I was National Public Radio's London correspondent, I used to get invited to the annual American ambassador's 4 July shindig at the residence in Regent's Park. It was a perk of the job.\n\nI didn't hear of an Independence Day bash this year, and anyway there is no ambassador in place yet. In an example of the chaos that swirls around his administration, President Trump's nominee, Woody Johnson, heir to the Johnson & Johnson baby powder fortune and owner of the New York Jets NFL team, has only just been confirmed by the Senate but has not yet presented his credentials to the Court of St James's.\n\nWoody Johnson, pictured at Trump Tower in December, is due in London soon\n\nI haven't been to a 4 July party for ages, but this year was an exception. My hosts were an Anglo-Swiss couple, holding a party in honour of a business colleague from New York - a barbecue on their terrace overlooking a square of renovated warehouses you would never find without GPS.\n\nAfter six months of the Trump whirlwind everyone was exhausted and happy to lay off politics, but it was tough. Plus, the British half of the couple hosting the party works for a major international music publisher and has extensive business in the EU so it was impossible not to touch on Brexit, and once you're on Brexit you get to Trump and then on to this new historical epoch we've been led into - not by war or revolution but via the ballot box. Eventually, we extricated ourselves from the subject. It was time to bring out the sparklers and my 11-year-old happily waved them into the night.\n\nRonald Reagan (left) and Margaret Thatcher in Downing Street, in 1982\n\nThe \"unpresidented\" uniquely American nature of the Trump Administration makes it easy to overlook how much its existence owes to the particular political relationship the UK and the US have enjoyed since Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan came to power within a year of each other.\n\nTrump's \"unpresidented\" tweet was deleted and re-posted with the correct spelling\n\nThatcher/Reagan tried to undo their respective nations' social democratic settlements by radically deregulating markets and gutting trade unions. The pair dominated the West's international security organisations. The Anglo-American axis continued to a greater or lesser extent right through Prime Minister Tony Blair's pledge to President George W Bush to back the US in its war to overthrow Iraq's Saddam Hussein.\n\nIronically, Brexit and the election of Trump were made possible by the votes of those who were the losers in the deregulated, free-trading economic world led by Thatcher/Reagan, which laid the foundations for today's world of economic inequality and employment insecurity. The votes were also an expression of the anger of people at the Iraq War. That anger was not just a phenomenon of the left. One of the key moments in Donald Trump's successful campaign to the get the Republican nomination came in a debate when he said to Bush's brother Jeb: \"The Iraq War was a big fat mistake.\"\n\nJeb Bush (left) and Donald Trump (right) debating in February 2016\n\nLast month Henry Kissinger passed through London briefly to give the keynote address at the Centre for Policy Studies' Margaret Thatcher Conference on Security. The CPS was a think-tank founded by Mrs Thatcher and a few close colleagues in the mid-1970s. I attended expecting to hear Kissinger say something about the security implications of the uncharted waters Anglo-America has entered.\n\nIt never happened. The secret of the 94-year-old Kissinger's rise to secretary of state, and his continued presence on the world stage, is a courtier's ability to flatter his audience. Answering a question about Brexit, Kissinger admitted to the Eurosceptic audience he initially thought it was a terrible idea but now realised Brexit wasn't so bad and could be made to work.\n\nHe never mentioned Trump once. It seemed odd. I would have thought Trump's disruptive approach to foreign relations, the opposite of Kissinger's ideas of rationally maintaining order among the great powers, would have been worth a comment. Especially since the president will be with us for a while yet.\n\nHenry Kissinger and Donald Trump in the Oval Office in May 2017\n\nSix months into the Trump presidency, his popularity numbers are only slowly eroding.\n\nA recent Washington Post/ABC News Poll shows the president's approval rating down to 36%.\n\nThat's six points lower than it was in April. That month I was in America making a BBC radio programme to mark Trump's first 100 days in office and I was talking to some of his unswayable supporters that I had met covering the campaign.\n\nNothing had happened at that stage that would make them change their views, and I doubt even the Russia scandal has reached a point where they will stop supporting him.\n\nSimilarly, in Britain, Brexit voters have been unswayed by the rocky start to negotiations made by Prime Minister Theresa May's government. Despite the Conservatives' poor performance at the recent general election, more than two-thirds of Britons want to continue the Brexit process.\n\nRecently, I found myself chatting with a member of the House of Lords, a former cabinet minister in both the Thatcher and Major governments, and an ardent pro-European.\n\nWe were in the Green Room at New Broadcasting House waiting to go on different BBC news programmes. We were marvelling at the way our world had been turned on its head in the last year.\n\nAn item about Donald Trump came up on the television. The former minister shook his head in bewilderment and asked me how long I thought Trump could last. I told him that so long as the President had 35% to 40% of the country solidly behind him he would be in office a while. I also said I didn't think he would be impeached and that the end of his presidency, whenever it comes, would be \"unpresidented\".\n\nThe Conservative grandee, shook his head. \"This can't go on… it can't go on.\"", "South Korea's Park Sung-hyun has won her first women's major\n\nNewly-crowned golfing champion Park Sung-hyun has become the latest name in a stellar series of female winners from South Korea.\n\nThis week, Park, 23, won the US Women's Open by two shots to claim her first LPGA title. Eight other Korean women also made it to the tour's top 10.\n\n\"It's almost like I'm floating on a cloud in the sky,\" said Park, whose nickname Dak Gong translates to \"shut up and attack\".\n\nSouth Korean women have dominated the fiercely-competitive game, claiming victory at the US Women's Open seven times in the past decade. So what makes them so successful?\n\nFor decades, South Korea has emerged as a major exporter of popular culture. The lucrative 'K Wave' evolved from a regional development into a global phenomenon and cemented the viral status of Korean pop music groups and drama serials.\n\nKorean golfing has now joined the ranks of K-pop and K-drama stars, with its athletes being given an impressive amount of respect on the world stage.\n\n\"Many people associate South Korean women with being just K-pop and K-drama stars. But Park is just one in a long line of champion women golfers from our country,\" wrote Jin Joo-so, a golf fan on Facebook.\n\nMove aside K-drama starlets, these women are carving a new global name for their country\n\nDecades of rigorous training and intense competition has resulted in a generation of strong, young Korean women who have transformed and revolutionised the \"thinking man's game\".\n\nEric Fleming runs a fan site titled SeoulSisters, devoted to South Korean players. He says that the reason why Korean golfers dominate the sport is simple: they work hard.\n\n\"When a Korean girl shows talent in golf, her family will do whatever it takes to support her dream. Even if that means spending most of their savings to make it possible,\" he explained. \"In return, she is expected to do everything possible to maximise her potential.\"\n\nGolf is cut throat and pressure to excel in the sport is huge. But reality is harsh and sadly, not everyone becomes a champion.\n\n\"For the few that make it to the top, they have not only put in thousands of hours of training, they have developed a drive that makes sure they will continue to work hard to get as far as they can,\" Mr Fleming said.\n\n\"When a Korean girl makes it to the LPGA, I believe she is more motivated to win because of all the work and investment she has put in.\n\nShe has to make big sacrifices. Many American golfers just don't.\"\n\nPak Se-ri changed the face of women's golf and sparked a South Korean revolution\n\nThese are exciting times for South Korean golf.\n\nAnd there's one name that's synonymous with the Korean golfing wave and that's Pak Se-ri, the woman credited with starting it all.\n\nThe 39-year-old from Daejeon city is now retired but she went out on a high in 2016 with a Hall of Fame career that yielded several major titles and inspired a wave of young women players who followed her to the renowned LPGA Tour.\n\n\"I am extremely proud of all of them. To witness the success of so many South Korean players on tour makes me feel proud of what I was able to accomplish,\" Ms Pak told BBC News from Seoul.\n\n\"Together we proved and continue to prove that no matter your country, background or circumstances, if you work hard enough to pursue your dreams, anything is possible.\"\n\nShe also spoke about \"competitive training regimes\" which set the standard for many South Korean women, who have learned to adapt to the gruelling game.\n\n\"Golf is a game of repetition and very often, it is difficult to remain dedicated. But hard work, dedication, passion and a lot of support was what I had,\" she said.\n\n\"I can say that from a cultural perspective, South Koreans are exposed to insane amounts of pressure from a very young age. So we naturally deal better with pressure on tour.\"", "It's one of the most debated theories in sci-fi - is Harrison Ford's character in Blade Runner human or an artificially created replicant?\n\nThe answer was left as a mystery in the theatrical release of Ridley Scott's 1982 film - with even Scott and Ford arguing about it - and with a sequel due to be released in October, fans are hoping the issue will finally be resolved.\n\nFord and fellow cast members including Ryan Gosling introduced a second trailer and new clips from the movie at Comic-Con on Saturday, which connect the sequel to the original film.\n\nModerator Chris Hardwicke couldn't help but ask Ford if Blade Runner 2049 would address the lingering questions about Deckard's identity - human or replicant?\n\nAfter a long pause, the star responded: \"It doesn't matter what I think.\"\n\nSo that clears that up then.\n\nHowever he did say he returned for the sequel because: \"We had a really good script based on a really good idea. It deepened the understanding of my character… It had great depth.\"\n\nSet 30 years after the events of the first film, the sequel sees Gosling play Blade Runner Officer K, who discovers a dark secret which leads him on a quest to find Rick Deckard.\n\nThe Comic-Con panel was introduced by a hologram of Jared Leto, who stars as the villain in the movie but wasn't able to be in San Diego in person.\n\nGosling admitted making a Blade Runner sequel was surreal and it still hadn't quite sunk in yet that he was making it.\n\n\"I just remember when I was a kid it was one of the first films that I'd seen where it wasn't clear how I was supposed to feel when it was over,\" he said. \"There's a moral ambiguity to it that's quite a haunting experience.\"\n\nDirector Denis Villeneuve said he took on the job because he \"didn't want anyone else to [muck] it up\", as the original film was his inspiration to become a film-maker.\n\nHowever he thanked Ridley Scott for leaving him to get on with making the film he wanted.\n\nThe final fan question in the Q&A was put to Harrison Ford - was it his goal to reboot every single one of his franchises, having turned his hand to Indiana Jones, Star Wars and now Blade Runner?\n\n\"You bet your ass it is!\" he replied.\n\nWe can only hope for a Working Girl sequel next.\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 Comic-Con: What you should look out for\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jodie Whittaker will take the title role in Doctor Who but Helen Mirren was star of Prime Suspect back in 2006\n\nIn the week the BBC announced it was casting a woman as Doctor Who for the first time, it also revealed that only a third of its highest-paid stars are women.\n\nHeadlines about women's equality, or otherwise, in British TV abounded.\n\nIt got the Reality Check team thinking about whether Jodie Whittaker's appointment as the first female Doctor was a sign of changing times, or is news from the BBC's payroll a more accurate barometer of female fortunes in entertainment? In essence: are more women getting lead roles in TV dramas?\n\nAccording to our research, the answer seems to be: hardly.\n\nThere is a rise compared with a decade ago - but the increase is marginal. The number of females in lead television roles rose by only one - from 17 in 2006 to 18 in 2016 - although when the number of females enjoying shared lead roles is taken into account, the difference is slightly greater - 26 against 21.\n\nReality Check has looked at the 50 most-watched dramas (excluding soaps) in the UK for 2016, and the corresponding top 50 a decade earlier.\n\nTo compile each list we've used the official consolidated TV viewing figures collected and published by the Broadcasters' Audience Research Board (BARB).\n\nIn 2006, the top 50 most-watched TV dramas included literary adaptations, like Agatha Christie's Miss Marple, starring Geraldine McEwan, and Philip Pullman's The Ruby In The Smoke, featuring Billie Piper in a lead role.\n\nThere were popular original series, too. Ten years ago crime drama Blue Murder, starring Caroline Quentin as detective and single mother Janine Lewis, was in its third series on ITV. And attracting more than five million viewers was The Kindness of Strangers, a psychological drama with Julie Graham and Hermione Norris.\n\nThe top 10 for 2006 featured two female-led shows with an audience of more than eight million: Housewife, 49, based on the wartime diaries of Nella Last and starring Victoria Wood, and Helen Mirren's final appearances as Detective Superintendent Jane Tennison in Prime Suspect 7: The Final Act.\n\nPrime Suspect, of course, was instrumental in leading the way for strong female leads on TV. Lewis and A Touch of Frost were among the most viewed dramas with a male lead.\n\nOn the list in 2016 was the second series of military drama Our Girl, starring Michelle Keegan, as was Dark Angel, a chilling story set in the 19th century starring Joanne Froggatt as prolific serial killer Mary Anne Cotton.\n\nIn terms of overall popularity, three of the five dramas that proved most popular with audiences in 2016 featured a lead character or characters who were female.\n\nForensic crime drama Silent Witness, starring Emilia Fox, was in its 19th series and still attracting audiences in excess of eight million.\n\nHappy Valley, for which Sarah Lancashire won a Best Actress TV Bafta, was in its second run, and there was Call The Midwife, with its female ensemble cast.\n\nPopular shows with a male lead included Benedict Cumberbatch's Sherlock and Death In Paradise, starring Kris Marshall.\n\nSome caveats - streaming services like Netflix and Amazon Prime don't release their viewing figures. That means that undoubtedly popular shows with strong female leads, like The Crown, Orange Is the New Black and The Gilmore Girls revival, could not be included on the 2016 top-50 list.\n\nAnd of course major streaming services did not exist back in 2006.\n\nSo in conclusion, the number of female-led dramas - and the ones in which women share the lead - have slightly increased, along with their popularity with audiences.\n\nBut there's a long way to go before parity is achieved.\n• None All the Doctors, from Hartnell to Whittaker", "Connie Yates and Chris Gard want Charlie to receive an experimental therapy called nucleoside\n\nThe parents of Charlie Gard say they have been victims of a \"backlash\" after Great Ormond Street Hospital revealed staff had received death threats.\n\nThe hospital said police were called after families and staff were harassed.\n\nThe hospital and Charlie's parents are in a legal battle over continuing life support for the 11-month-old, who has a rare genetic disorder.\n\nConnie Yates and Chris Gard said they had suffered \"the most hurtful comments from the public\".\n\nIn a statement, Mr Gard said: \"Without the excellent care of the doctors at GOSH [Great Ormond Street Hospital] our son would not even be alive and not a day goes by when we don't remember that.\"\n\nMs Yates said: \"We do not, and have not ever, condoned any threatening or abusive remarks towards any staff member at GOSH.\"\n\nHowever, she criticised the hospital for not asking the public \"not to say anything hurtful to us as well as their doctors and other members of staff\".\n\nResponding to Charlie's parents' statement on Sunday night, a spokesperson for GOSH said: \"We are grateful for what Charlie's parents have said, and agree wholeheartedly that any abuse of anybody involved in this case is unacceptable.\n\n\"This is a heartbreaking time for Charlie's loving parents when they should be given every support.\"\n\nGreat Ormond Street Hospital said \"unacceptable behaviour\" had been recorded \"within the hospital\"\n\nCharlie, who was born on 4 August 2016, has a form of mitochondrial disease, a condition that causes progressive muscle weakness and irreversible brain damage. His parents want to take him to the US for pioneering treatment.\n\nThey have lost a succession of court cases to overturn the hospital's decision that it would be in the best interest of Charlie to be allowed to die with dignity.\n\nThe latest court battle involves new testimony from a US neurologist who has visited Charlie in hospital to decide whether he should travel to America for therapy.\n\nCharlie's parents want to take him to New York for experimental treatment, which the US doctor said might give him a 10% chance of improving his health.\n\nThe case is due back before a High Court judge on Monday.", "Gina Parkin said she only made the off-the-cuff comment as a joke, but it was then featured in the Lotto advert\n\nA woman featured in a TV advert saying she would holiday \"anywhere but Skegness\" has been won over by the resort after a VIP tour with the mayor.\n\nIn the Lotto ad, people were asked where they would go on a getaway if they won a large sum of money, with Gina Parkin then making the comment.\n\nAfter apologising for the off-the-cuff remark, she was invited to see what the Lincolnshire seaside town had to offer.\n\nAfter an extensive tour, Ms Parkin described it as \"the best of British\".\n\nOn her only previous trip, she said the town's nightlife had been \"a bit too boozy and raucous for my liking\".\n\nTown mayor Danny Brookes accompanied Ms Parkin, her boyfriend and a group of friends as they ticked off some of Skegness's top attractions.\n\nThe 40-year-old from Leeds said: \"I've had an absolutely amazing weekend, they did everything to try and win me over and they have.\n\n\"It was all first class; we were treated like royalty and everyone was so lovely and just super friendly.\"\n\nGina Parkin was given a grand tour by Skegness mayor Danny Brookes\n\nMs Parkin recently returned from 18 months of travelling the world, visiting 21 countries, but said feeding the tigers at Lincolnshire Wildlife Park rivalled the best things she had experienced on the trip.\n\nShe said: \"When I got back from travelling I had a renewed sense of respect for Britain in general, it was like I was seeing everything again with new eyes.\n\n\"I felt a bit bad; Skegness is a beautiful, traditional seaside town with its bright colours, deck chairs - it's the best of British, we should be very proud of it.\"\n\nMs Parkin and her boyfriend Simon Saintly gave the resort the thumbs up\n\nThe pair dressed up as pirates at Skegness Aquarium\n\nThe Lonely Planet travel guide described the resort as \"the ABC of the English seaside - amusements, bingo and candy-floss, and added that \"culture vultures will probably run a mile\".\n\nTourism bosses in Skegness previously came under fire themselves for using unflattering images of Blackpool and Brighton in a bid to promote the resort.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Dundonnell Mountain Rescue Team said the Fisherfield Forest was one of the most remote areas of the UK\n\nA woman has been rescued from one of the UK's most remote areas after crawling for hours with an injured ankle.\n\nThe woman was attempting the \"Fisherfield Five\" Munros near Dundonnell with her partner when she slipped and was unable to walk further.\n\nAfter a \"lengthy crawl\", Dundonnell Mountain Rescue Team said the pair had spent the night on the mountain.\n\nThe woman was airlifted on Saturday, about 20 hours after her slip.\n\nThe pair, who are in their late 20s, initially set out on Friday to tackle the five Munros in the Fisherfield Forest, an area south-west of Ullapool known as the \"Great Wilderness\".\n\nA spokesman for the rescue team said the woman had injured her ankle at about 15:00 on Friday.\n\nShe crawled for several hours before they decided to \"bed down\" for the night, the spokesman said.\n\nNeither of them had a mobile phone signal so the woman's uninjured partner set off on a five-hour walk in the early hours of Saturday morning to raise the alarm.\n\nThe Coastguard rescue helicopter from Stornoway airlifted the woman to Raigmore Hospital for treatment at about 10:00 on Saturday.\n\nFifteen members of Dundonnell Mountain Rescue Team were also involved in the rescue. The team also collected the couple's camping gear from the Shenavall bothy.\n\nTeam leader Donald MacRae said: \"The couple did the right thing and were both well equipped.\n\n\"We were very grateful for the air assistance received as it would otherwise have resulted in over a 10-hour stretcher carry given the truly remote location.\"", "Former Great British Bake Off hosts Mel and Sue are to host the return of BBC classic show The Generation Game.\n\nIt has been commissioned for an initial four-episode run, although a launch date has yet to be set.\n\n\"It's a cuddly toy, it's a toaster, it's a circular power saw, no it's Mel and Sue doing the Generation Game! We can't believe it, we are so excited!\" the hosts said.\n\nThe new show will combine aspects of the original series with new games.\n\nPerkins had hinted earlier this month on Radio 4's Desert Island Discs that the presenting duo might reunite for another TV project soon, after quitting The Great British Bake Off last year when the BBC lost the rights to Channel 4.\n\n\"I'm very hopeful Mel and I will do some pratting about, but I couldn't tell you exactly what yet. Possibly some prime-time pratting,\" she told Kirsty Young.\n\nBBC Studios said audiences had identified the Generation Game as \"the TV show that viewers most wanted to see back on their screens\".\n\nThe show sees pairs of family members across generations take part in performance and task-based games, with the ultimate goal of facing the Conveyor Belt.\n\nThis is a memory test whereby the winning pair watches prizes pass on the belt before attempting to remember each one to win it, from household appliances to the infamous cuddly toy.\n\nSir Bruce Forsyth fronted the Generation Game from 1971-77 and again from 1990-94\n\nAll the family pairs will start the show in the studio audience and only find out which game they are playing when Mel and Sue announce them.\n\nA panel of star judges will score the pairs after each game and decide which will get to face the Conveyor Belt.\n\nCharlotte Moore, the director of BBC content, said: \"The Generation Game is an iconic BBC One show, so to be able to bring it back for today's audience with Mel and Sue overseeing things is a wonderful moment for the channel.\"\n\nLarry Grayson and Jim Davidson have also presented the Generation Game\n\nOne-off editions of the show were hosted by Vernon Kay in 2011 and Graham Norton in 2005\n\nThe Generation Game began on BBC One in 1971, with Sir Bruce Forsyth as its longest-serving host. The entertainer fronted the show for two spells from 1971 to 1977 and 1990 to 1994.\n\nThe Generation Game was presented by Larry Grayson between 1978 and 1982 and Jim Davidson from 1995 to 2002.\n\nThere have also been two one-off editions of the show. Graham Norton presented a Christmas edition in 2005, while Vernon Kay took charge of a version for Comic Relief in 2011.\n\nIn 2014, one of the contestants on the Comic Relief special, Miranda Hart, was reported to be in talks to host a revival herself.\n\nThe announcement of the show's revival with Mel and Sue was described by comedian Susan Calman on Twitter as \"smashing\", while Sally-Ann Burgon tweeted: \"Just perfect, literally just the most perfect \"regeneration\" of a show\".\n\nBut Mark Rice was among several people to wonder why an old format was being revived, tweeting: \"Love Mel and Sue but, seriously, the Generation Game? Can the BBC not come up with any fresh ideas for such great presenters?\"\n\nMeanwhile, Daily Mirror TV critic Ian Hyland mischievously suggested: \"The BBC should put Mel & Sue's Generation Game on at the same time as Bake Off on C4. And have a cake icing round featuring Mary Berry.\"\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.", "Casper Read was travelling alone to grandparents in Toulouse, France\n\nThe mother of a boy taken off a plane at Gatwick due to a lack of seats is demanding EasyJet overhaul its ticketing process.\n\nCasper Read, 15, was travelling alone to grandparents in France when he was asked to leave the plane after a man was allocated the same seat.\n\nStephanie Portal, from Worthing, West Sussex, said her son felt \"he had been kicked off and cheated\".\n\nEasyJet has apologised, offered compensation and is investigating.\n\n\"There was him and an adult for one seat and the adult was getting very angry about it all,\" Miss Portal said.\n\n\"I don't know if it was a random selection, or if they thought Casper would be the easier option to get off the plane, but it's wrong.\n\n\"He was asked to go to the cockpit - thinking he would be allocated another seat - but before he knew it, was taken outside the plane and told to go to the information desk.\n\n\"He was left to make his own way through the airport, nobody in departures to meet or help him, and despite there being three more flights that day was put on the latest one and had a 10 hour wait.\"\n\nCasper Read had to wait 10 hours for the last flight of the day\n\nMiss Portal said a manager at EasyJet told her the airline overbooks its flights by up to five seats due to people often not showing up, and that it was the last people to check-in, not the last to buy their tickets, who were in danger of not getting a seat.\n\n\"The whole system needs an overhaul and the attitude of the attendants was irresponsible,\" she said.\n\n\"Children should never be pulled off a flight and the people who are should be given priority on the next one.\n\n\"Airlines cannot gamble on the probability of people not turning up.\"\n\n\"Casper is quite laid back but he really felt he had been kicked off and cheated,\" she added.\n\nA spokesman for the airline said: \"EasyJet is sorry that Casper Read's flight from London Gatwick to Toulouse was overbooked on 20 July.\n\n\"We are investigating why he was able to board the aircraft as he should have been informed at the gate.\n\n\"EasyJet has a procedure to protect unaccompanied minors but unfortunately this was not followed on this occasion.\"\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. Migrant deaths: How one Texas county is struggling to cope\n\nPolice in the US state of Texas have arrested a truck driver whose vehicle was found in a Walmart car park with dozens of people in the back of it.\n\nNine men had died inside, and 28 others, including children, were taken to hospital.\n\nThey were inside the trailer in San Antonio without access to air conditioning or water while outside temperatures hit 38C (100F).\n\nPolice say they believe the incident is linked to people smuggling.\n\nThe truck's driver, named by authorities as James Mathew Bradley Jr, 60, of Clearwater, Florida, is expected to appear in court later.\n\nVideo footage from the store reportedly showed a number of vehicles arriving to pick up some of the survivors. Several others may have managed to escape on foot into the woods nearby.\n\nOne person found in the woods was being treated, local officials said.\n\nMexico's government said it was working closely with US authorities to identify the nationalities of the victims.\n\nSan Antonio is a few hours' drive from the border with Mexico, and the US immigration department is trying to establish the victims' legal status.\n\nSan Antonio Mayor Ron Nirenberg told the BBC that caring for the victims was the authorities' first aim.\n\n\"Our most important focus right now is to deliver compassionate care,\" he said.\n\n\"You know our first responders immediately were on the scene, delivering first aid, transporting - sometimes by air - critical condition patients to local hospitals, and trying to prevent more loss of life than what had already occurred.\"\n\n\"We are working with authorities, we are working with... witnesses to understand the magnitude of these crimes.\n\n\"But in this case, where we are witnesses to a human tragedy in our city, our first response and our response as local officials is to render aid.\"\n\nEight people were found to be dead at the scene while another died in hospital, immigration officials said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police Chief William McManus and Fire Chief Charles Hood told reporters about the discovery\n\nOfficials were brought to the trailer by a man who had approached an employee of the Walmart and asked for water.\n\nThe driver would be charged in connection with the \"horrible tragedy\", said San Antonio police chief William McManus in a press briefing.\n\nHe said the people ranged from school age to in their 30s.\n\nLocal fire chief Charles Hood said the survivors had heart rates of over 130 beats per minute and were very hot to touch. In addition to the 20 people in a critical condition, eight others were taken to hospital in a less severe state.\n\nThe fire chief confirmed at least two of the victims were school-age children. Their condition is not clear.\n\n\"We're very fortunate that there weren't 38 of these people who were all locked inside this vehicle dead,\" he added.\n\nThe truck was towed away from the scene hours after the discovery\n\nThe US attorney for the Western District of Texas, Richard Durbin, said the authorities were working to identify those responsible for the incident.\n\n\"These people were helpless in the hands of their transporters. Imagine their suffering, trapped in a stifling trailer in 100-plus degree heat,\" he said in a statement.\n\nThey were victims of \"ruthless human smugglers indifferent to the wellbeing of their fragile cargo\", he added.\n\nThirty-three migrants were found in a trailer in the same part of Texas earlier this month\n\nExperts say people smuggling is a serious issue in southern Texas, and there have been a number of similar cases in the area just in this past month.\n\nOn 7 July, US Border Patrol agents found 72 undocumented immigrants from Central American countries locked inside a trailer \"with no means of escape\".\n\nThe next day 33 people were found locked inside a trailer at a checkpoint on the road to San Antonio.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAny transitional arrangement with the EU after Brexit must end by the time of the next election, Liam Fox has said.\n\nThe international trade secretary told the BBC he had no ideological objection to interim arrangements to minimise disruption after the UK's exit in 2019.\n\nBut he said he did not want them to \"drag on\" beyond the date of the next general election, scheduled for 2022.\n\nThe cabinet is said to be united behind a transition although reports it could last four years have been downplayed.\n\nChancellor Philip Hammond is reported to support a lengthy transitional period to bring certainty to business, which is concerned about the impact on trade and employment of a \"cliff-edge\" departure.\n\nNewspaper reports on Friday suggested ministers had accepted it could last anywhere between two and four years.\n\nMr Fox, who is in Washington for discussions on future trade relations with the US, told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show that it was \"perfectly reasonable\" for there to be a transition period to ensure the process was as \"smooth as possible\" for British business and foreign investors.\n\nBut he suggested that voters would want any \"voluntary\" arrangement to end by the time of the next general election, due to take place in May 2022.\n\nAnd he said he would want the UK to be able to negotiate its own trade deals during that period so it could take \"full advantage\" of its new status.\n\n\"Having waited over 40 years to leave the EU, 24 months would be a rounding error.\n\n\"Whether that is 23 or 25 is not a huge deal and neither is it an ideological one.\n\nGerman car manufacturers have said the UK must put pragmatism ahead of ideology\n\n\"It is about the practical issues we would face, such as getting any new immigration system into place, getting any new customs system into place.\"\n\nHowever, he made clear there would have to be clarity not only on the duration of any transitional phase but what limitations it would place on the UK.\n\nSeveral Conservative MPs have suggested that any deal which required the UK to accept continued free movement for a limited period of time or the jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice in return for continued temporary membership of the single market would be unacceptable.\n\nMr Fox added: \"I think we would want to get it out of the way before the election.\n\n\"I don't think people would want to have it dragging on. I think we would have to be very clear it was time-limited and limited in its scope.\"\n\n\"It is imperative that we leave the EU first and that any implementation period is done \"voluntarily\" alongside the EU to minimise any disruption.\"\n\nThe head of the powerful trade body representing German car manufacturers has told the BBC there will be a threat to jobs and investment in Britain if the UK leaves both the single market and the customs union.\n\nMatthias Wissman, whose members include Volkswagen, BMW and Porsche, said his preferred option was for the UK to adopt a Norwegian-style membership of the European Economic Area but, failing that, a lengthy transitional period was a bare minimum.\n\n\"You need a transition period,\" he told Radio 4's The World This Weekend. \"We hope that on the British side that gets deeper and deeper into the intellectual capabilities of those who decide.\"\n\nUrging British politicians to put pragmatism ahead of ideology, he said a tariff-free trade deal with the EU was possible but only if \"the UK understands what the preconditions are\".\n\n\"Any kind of unwise, dramatic changes would have an effect on investment and jobs in the automotive industry. Hard Brexit would mean barriers, control of goods.\"\n\nSpeaking on the Andrew Marr Show, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said he accepted the UK would be leaving the single market, as it was in his words \"inextricably linked\" with EU membership, but suggested he had not reached a final view on whether it would be better to remain within the customs union.\n\nHe also suggested future trade deals should be linked to commitments on environmental protection and human rights.\n\n\"What is interesting is that the EU has said quite clearly, and rightly in my view, that they would only do new trade agreements with countries that sign up to the Paris climate change accord,\" he said.\n\n\"The US has said it wants to leave... so it calls into question the whole of the UK government's strategy on a one-off trade deal with the US.\"", "Commuters and other passengers were locked out until 08:00 BST on Sunday\n\nA blunder by Oxford station staff left dozens of passengers locked out and unable to catch their train.\n\nPeople were left waiting until 08:00 BST - 15 minutes after the first train to London had departed.\n\nCommuter Robert Atkins said on Twitter: \"How is Oxford station still not open? The first train has already left but all doors closed.\"\n\nGreat Western Railway (GWR) apologised and said \"staff arrived later than they should have\".\n\nFrancis Barr, from Oxford University, said: \"My partner was on her way to London for work first thing this morning.\n\n\"She had a ticket booked for the 07:43 Chiltern Railways train to Marylebone but was unable to get into the station since it was still locked and there were no staff to be seen.\"\n\n\"There were over 50 people waiting, more by the time the doors were opened,\" he added.\n\nMr Atkins tweeted that the person who called customer services was told \"the only person with keys had decided to not come in\".\n\nA GWR spokesman said: \"We're sorry staff arrived later than they should have, and this incident is being looked into.\"\n• None Nine days of disruption on trains\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Tarek Naggar was outside a shop with his fiancee when he was shot in the chest\n\nA Scottish man has been shot during a robbery hours before he was due to get married in the Philippines.\n\nTarek Naggar, 44, was outside a shop in Cebu City when three men demanded he hand over his wallet.\n\nWhen he refused to give it up, one of the men pulled out a gun and shot him in the chest.\n\nMr Naggar, who is from Milngavie in East Dunbartonshire, has undergone surgery and remains seriously ill in hospital.\n\nThe joiner, who recently had been working in Sweden, was due to get married this weekend to his fiancée Angie, who is from the Philippines.\n\nHe was standing outside a convenience store in her home city of Cebu in the early hours of Thursday when a motor scooter with three men clinging to it pulled up.\n\nHis best man Chris McLaughlin, who had flown out bringing his friend a kilt for the wedding, was a short distance away when the attack happened.\n\nMr McLaughlin, 40, from Bearsden, East Dunbartonshire, said: \"I heard a commotion and ran over to see what was happening. A guy pulled a gun out and shot Tarek in the chest. Then he pointed the gun at myself.\"\n\nHe said an ambulance was called but failed to show up and they had to travel to hospital in a rickshaw.\n\n\"Tarek's fiancee was trying to call taxis but there was none stopping. I was on the floor with Tarek. He was conscious. After about 10 minutes or so a guy stopped in a rickshaw,\" he told BBC Scotland.\n\nMr Naggar was treated at a nearby emergency room, then transferred to a larger hospital for surgery.\n\n\"The surgeon said the bullet went in the right side but ricocheted and travelled over to the left lung. Miraculously it didn't go through his heart, it actually went behind his heart.\n\n\"He seems to be recovering well. He's conscious and awake - and has been talking the last couple of days. He's out of the ICU and has been moved to a recovery room.\"\n\nHe said he did not believe Mr Naggar had any health insurance, and the family have already had to make payments for his treatment.\n\nAnother friend has begun a crowdfunding appeal to raise money for his medical costs.", "John Cunningham had been living in the US without papers since 1999\n\nAfter a high-profile deportation, undocumented Irish immigrants are on edge, and trying to help Latino immigrants who are more likely targets for immigration officials.\n\nJohn Cunningham came to Boston in 1999. Like many Irish immigrants to the US, he arrived on a 90-day visa for summer work. But then he settled in, worked as an electrician and ran his own company, remaining in the country without authorisation.\n\n\"All of a sudden you turn around, so much time has gone by, and you start to realise what is going to be in store for yourself for the future,\" Cunningham said in a March interview with the Irish Times.\n\nOn 16 June, nearly two decades later, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) agents came to his home to arrest him. He was deported to Ireland on 5 July. Because he arrived in the US under the visa waiver programme, one commonly used by European immigrants, he had waived his right to a hearing.\n\nRonnie Millar, who runs Boston's Irish International Immigrant Center, thinks Cunningham's decision to share his experiences and speak out for the rights of unauthorised immigrants in the United States made him a target for deportation.\n\nA warrant was issued for Cunningham's arrest in 2014 after he failed to appear in court on an allegation he did not complete work he charged a client for.\n\nBut ICE would only confirm that his arrest and deportation was due to his visa overstay.\n\nCunningham became the first high-profile Irish immigrant deported under President Donald Trump, and it's created a chilling effect in Boston.\n\n\"There were shock waves sent through the community, a disbelief that this was actually happening,\" said Millar, a close friend of Cunningham's.\n\nNew citizens sing the US national anthem in Boston\n\nIt is a chill felt by people like Jerry. He asked to be identified by only his first name because he remains unauthorised to live in the US and fears deportation. When Jerry first arrived in the US on a three-month visa waiver in the summer of 2011, he hadn't made up his mind about returning to Ireland. \"The lifestyle, the work, everything was just better here at the time. So things just kind of happened,\" he said. \"I had a return ticket booked. I just never got on the plane.\"\n\nThe Migration Policy Institute estimates there are 16,000 undocumented Irish living in the US. The Irish Embassy in Washington puts that number closer to 50,000. Most live in Boston, New York or Chicago.\n\nLike Jerry, many are hiding in plain sight, navigating a difficult world of privilege and panic as white, undocumented immigrants.\n\n\"I don't think anyone is outright targeting people who look like me,\" Jerry said, \"But there's still a fear. You could be walking in the street and bump into the wrong person, you can get pulled over while driving, walk into the wrong building or show the wrong ID.\"\n\n\"Most people think undocumented and they think people who come across the southern border,\" Cunningham said in an interview with this reporter a year before his arrest. \"They're not thinking about the Irish guy who lives right next to them.\"\n\nJerry, Millar and Cunningham all acknowledged that, as white men, they can fly under the radar of those who associate unauthorised immigrants with Mexico and Central America.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nCunningham recalled local police and immigration officials not questioning his status during stops. He felt that he was given a pass because of his Irish accent. He wondered if the officers would have treated him differently if he were black or brown.\n\nAs a whole, white and other non-Latino immigrants are targeted for arrest and detention at disproportionately lower rates, says Randy Capps of the Migration Policy Institute.\n\n\"It's the Latino immigrants from Mexico and Central America that are overrepresented in terms of arrests and deportations,\" said Capps.\n\nAccusations of unequal treatment and racial profiling among immigrant communities have also sparked criticism in Boston about local media attention to Cunningham's arrest. Carol Rose, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts, said that for every one story of a white immigrant who faces deportation, there are many other stories of non-white immigrant experiences not told.\n\nRose points to Boston's Francisco Rodríguez, a Salvadoran immigrant who, after two denied asylum requests, had been granted a stay of removal every year since 2011.\n\nThat changed this year under President Donald Trump, who greatly broadened which immigrants the government considers a priority for deportation. Rodriguez was arrested when he arrived for a check-in with immigration authorities in June and remains in custody while fighting his deportation to El Salvador.\n\nCritics also point to racial bias in how Cunningham's story was told. Julio Varela, co-host for Futuro Media's In the Thick podcast and a Boston native, has often challenged what he calls an \"Irish immigrant privilege\" in local media. In a column on the Latino Rebels blog he argues Irish and other white immigrants like Cunningham are more often portrayed as model community members undeserving of deportation.\n\nIt's why the Irish International Immigrant Center offers its legal and social services to more than Irish immigrants. Christina Freeman, a lawyer at the centre, said their \"know your rights\" workshops often include talk about racial bias and law enforcement. The participants \"know there is a racial bias, they've experienced it\".\n\n\"You look around the room and see who's in there and there's not one white face in the crowd,\" Freeman said. \"It's because the teenagers being stopped the most often are teenagers of colour.\"\n\nWhile white undocumented immigrants may benefit from blending in, there is still an impact.\n\nMillar recalls his centre aiding an Irish woman so embarrassed to reveal her immigration status to her American-born family that when a parent died back in Ireland, she instead stayed in a hotel in the US to give her family the illusion she went home, rather than admit that she's undocumented and risk not gaining re-entry into the US.\n\nFollowing Trump's electoral victory, Millar said there was an increased fear that Boston's previously welcoming stance toward Irish immigrants would soon change. Those fears were compounded following Cunningham's arrest, he adds.\n\n\"We are not in a good place as a society,\" Millar said. \"As a nation, we've really lost our way, who we are and our values - being a country that's made up of immigrants.\"\n\nThe World is a co-production of the BBC World Service, PRI and WGBH. You can listen to more here.​", "As the woman stopped at traffic lights, four men demanded she get out the car\n\nA man who stole a woman's car while she and her baby were still inside is being sought by police.\n\nHe was among group of four men who confronted the woman and demanded she get out of the car when she stopped at traffic lights in Solihull.\n\nAs she attended to her baby, one of them got into the Audi RS6 and drove off.\n\nShe escaped with the infant when the driver pulled into a side road before driving off again. No-one was hurt.\n\nThe woman had stopped at lights on Lode Lane when the men pulled up behind her at about 18:00 BST on Saturday.\n\nThe offender drove the car at speed down Seven Star Road towards Warwick Road.\n\nDet Sgt Stew Lewis said: \"Luckily the woman and her baby were not hurt but the woman is very shaken by what happened.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Marian Hill wrote their breakout song, Down, in the space of one night\n\nIt's an ordinary day in Advert-ville, USA.\n\nAs the black-and-white sun rises over a black-and-white street, authentic-looking extras with a variety of contemporary hairstyles walk past a dilapidated warehouse.\n\nA shoeshine boy flicks open his newspaper, passing time until a customer arrives. None ever will, because shoeshine boys only exist in the movies.\n\nPerched on an upturned milk crate is a tall and slender young man. Let's call him Lil Buck, because that is his name. Bored, he puts in his earphones and fires up a song.\n\nSuddenly, the music brings him to life. He springs off the crate and contorts his body to an irresistible beat, defying gravity as he dances on walls and shop-fronts.\n\nThat's how Apple chose to promote their new wireless headphones earlier this year - and the song selected for the soundtrack was Marian Hill's Down.\n\nThe \"Stroll\" commercial has been watched more than 12m times\n\nA sparsely atmospheric track, it pits Samantha Gongol's husky voice against a simple piano figure before crashing into a staccato beat in the chorus.\n\nApple's advertising agency, Media Arts Lab, stressed the importance of finding \"an unknown band\" for their commercial.\n\n\"People get excited when they discover a new band,\" music supervisor Peymon Maskan told Music Week earlier this year.\n\n\"They pull out their phone to Shazam the track and they tell their friends. That's a music fan's experience when discovering an ad like this.\"\n\nWithin days of the advert airing, the song had racked up 12 million views on YouTube and Down became the most searched-for song in America - ahead of Ed Sheeran and Bruno Mars.\n\nNielsen Soundscan, which compiles the charts, said sales of the song jumped from \"negligible\" (not worth reporting) to 101,000 in the space of a week. In the UK, it was streamed more than 3 million times.\n\n\"That commercial was the catalyst for a lot of things,\" says keyboardist and producer Jeremy Lloyd.\n\n\"It put us in so many people's living rooms - and to have them instantly love the song felt so validating for all the work we had done.\"\n\nAs they take a break from making their second album, the duo tell the BBC how they got together and found their sound.\n\nHow did the band get together?\n\nSamantha: Jeremy and I have been friends since we were about 12 or 13. We got the name Marian Hill from a production of The Music Man that we were in together in eighth grade. He played Harold Hill, I played Marian Paroo and we combined our character names.\n\nWe stayed friends throughout high school and college, until Jeremy showed me a beat and asked if I wanted to write with him. That song was called Whisky, and the rest is history.\n\nRight out of the gate you had a unique, minimalistic sound. How did it come about?\n\nJeremy: We really stumbled into it. At the time we'd written a couple of other things together that were all over the map musically. Then I was playing Sam a couple of different beats and I had one that had this hip-hop feel to it - and that was the Whisky beat. Neither of us had ever made anything like it before.\n\nI was able to recognise how much better it was - and so, for me, the goal became, how do you carry this forward?\n\n\"Jeremy and I can be honest without hurting each other's feelings,\" says Samantha\n\nJeremy: At that point, it still wasn't that serious, necessarily. It was just a thing we'd made. And when I was about to graduate college, I decided I wanted to give it a real try, so I emailed, like, 50 blogs and thankfully people picked up on the song and liked it. From then on it's been this slow, steady stream of people wanting to hear more.\n\nSamantha, your vocals are very jazzy. Who were your influences?\n\nSamantha: I grew up loving the diva vocalists - Whitney Houston, Lauryn Hill, Ella Fitzgerald, Etta James. I was a huge Norah Jones fan too. That was a huge watershed moment for me, in terms of discovering a contemporary vocalist that I connected with.\n\nJeremy: So often in songs, there's no room for the vocal to sit - the voice is just pasted on top, so the whole mix is throbbing at the seams. With our stuff I try to make sure the vocal has space, and you can hear all the textures and nuances that would otherwise get lost.\n\nBefore Marian Hill, Samantha did some work as a \"top liner\", writing melodies for big pop singers. What was that like?\n\nSamantha: Writing sessions are kind of like blind dating: You're just thrown into a room together and you hope you get along and make something incredible.\n\nHow did you go about writing Down?\n\nSamantha: We were just messing around in the studio and I think the piano line came first, Jeremy?\n\nJeremy: Yeah, it was the first thing we'd written on a piano. I was goofing around and I stumbled on that piano line. It wasn't like, \"OK, we're writing a song now.\" I wasn't quite sure about it. But I asked Sam, \"Do you think we could do something with this?\" and she figured out a melody.\n\nLooking back on it, it was such a simple process. I'm pretty sure it was all one night.\n\nThe duo released their debut EP in 2013\n\nThe song's about going to a party against your better judgment, is that right?\n\nSamantha: We just wanted to have fun with it. There are so many party songs about getting on the dancefloor and throwing your hands in the air (like you just don't care).\n\nWe thought it could be cool to write it from the perspective of Marian Hill, and what it would sound like if we did a song like that. \"I'm not sure I want to go, but do you?\" And then the crash of the chorus was the party itself.\n\nThe Apple commercial really fitted the song. How much input did you have?\n\nJeremy: We probably would have had a veto if we'd hated it, but it very much was on them. They put it together and we were just like, \"Wow, this is perfect.\"\n\nJeremy: It was amazing because our album [Act One] had been out for a minute and our fans were loving it, but it hadn't really broken out to a larger audience. Having this spotlight, it put us in so many people's living rooms, and to have them instantly love the song felt so validating for all the work we had done. It was a great way to finish off the album campaign.\n\nThe band will be playing in the UK later this year\n\nJeremy: We've been writing a lot over the last two months, together in New York and at home in Philadelphia. It's an exciting point to be at, coming off the success of Down, so we're really excited to get these songs out to our new fans.\n\nWhat changes are you making compared to the first album?\n\nJeremy: It's the same aesthetic, only it's a little more brash. But we're right in the middle of it and that direction could change.\n\nAnd when do we get so hear it?\n\nJeremy: It will be within a six-month window. We have a deadline in mind.\n\nSamantha: Probably in the fall.\n\nMarian Hill's Act One (The Complete Collection) is out now. They play a headline gig at London's Scala on 9 October.\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.", "Kayla MacDonald died after logs fell on her\n\nA \"precious and fun-loving\" eight-year-old girl who died after logs fell on her in an Argyll forest has been named by police.\n\nKayla MacDonald, from Dunbeg, had become trapped by the logs near the village of Benderloch, north of Oban, at about 14:40 BST on Sunday.\n\nHer family said Kayla was fluent in Gaelic and her smile would \"light up a room\".\n\nA 12-year-old girl was also injured and is in a stable condition in hospital.\n\nShe was airlifted to Lorn and Islands Hospital in Oban but was then transferred to the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Glasgow.\n\nKayla was pronounced dead at the scene.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The incident happened near the village of Benderloch on Sunday afternoon\n\nIn a statement her family said: \"Kayla was a precious fun loving eight-year-old who was loved by everyone around her. Kayla's smile would light up a room. She attended Rockfield's Gaelic Medium where she was fluent in Gaelic.\n\n\"Our wee girl loved music and dance as well as doing hair, nails and make up. Kayla has two younger brothers who, along with the rest of her family and friends, will miss her dearly.\"\n\nA joint investigation between Police Scotland and the Health and Safety Executive will take place to establish the full circumstances surrounding the death, however, it is not being treated as suspicious.\n\nThe area where the incident happened is part of the Barcaldine Forest, where there has been logging activity recently.\n\nMargaret Adams, convenor of the local community council, told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme that the tragedy would have a \"massive\" impact on the community.\n\n\"Even if people don't know the child they will know the family, in a small community,\" she said.\n\n\"It really will have quite an affect on the locals.\"\n\nMs Adams said logging had been going on in the area for several months, with signs up warning of the dangers.\n\nShe added: \"The signs make it very clear that they don't want people to go up because there will be heavy machinery and logs stacked.\"\n\nLocal resident Elaine Walton told BBC Scotland there had been plenty of warnings about forestry operations but it was possible to access the area by avoiding the fenced-off tracks.\n\n\"The Forestry (Commission) sent every household in the area a letter telling us the plans for the works, that the place would be sealed off and that there were other walks down at Sutherland's Grove,\" she said.\n\n\"But if you live in the area you know that there are little ways to get up on the hill if you want to and young people explore and find these ways.\"\n\nA spokesman for Forest Enterprise Scotland said: \"Our thoughts are with the family and their friends at this very difficult time and we offer them our deepest condolences.\n\n\"We will now focus on working with the site contractor, Tilhill Forestry, and the Health and Safety Executive as investigations into this tragic incident continue.\"", "The incident happened on board a flight from Poland\n\nA plane passenger was tackled by fellow travellers as he tried to open an emergency door on board a flight.\n\nPolice were called to London's Luton Airport shortly before 23:00 BST on Saturday to deal with a \"disruptive passenger\" on a flight from Poland.\n\nHe was prevented from opening the door by passengers who \"wrestled him to the floor\", a witness said.\n\nHe was arrested on suspicion of endangering an aircraft, police said.\n\nThe incident happened on board Wizz Air flight W61005 from Katowice International Airport in southern Poland.\n\nAbout 30 minutes before landing the man \"walked from the front of the plane and sat next to a woman by the emergency exit over the wing\", passenger David Salon said.\n\n\"Suddenly he lunged across her and tried to open the door. She was terrified.\n\n\"Luckily there were three big Polish men in the row behind and they and some other passengers wrestled him to the floor and sat on him,\" Mr Salon, 44 said.\n\nAir crew then restrained his hands using seatbelts used in safety demonstrations.\n\nThe man was arrested at the airport when the flight landed\n\nMr Salon, originally from Poland but now working as a chef in Oxford, said the man was Polish and in his 20s.\n\nHe had been \"acting weirdly on the bus on the way to the plane in Poland\", he added.\n\nPassengers were asked to remain on board once the flight landed until police had taken the suspect away.\n\nBedfordshire Police confirmed the arrested man was initially taken to hospital to be treated for minor injuries and was now being questioned.\n\nWizz Air confirmed an incident had taken place on the flight, saying a passenger had \"become unruly and abusive\".\n\n\"The Wizz crew on duty followed standard procedures to ensure the continued safe operation of the flight. Upon landing, the passenger was handed over to the respective authorities,\" a spokeswoman said.\n\n\"Safety and security are the top priorities of the airline and there is zero tolerance for abusive behaviour towards our passengers and staff.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The windows of the carriages were smashed, with further damage inside\n\nVandals have caused thousands of pounds of damage to heritage railway carriages used in the filming of TV drama Downton Abbey.\n\nEight teak carriages on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway in Pickering had windows smashed overnight, with furniture and fixings also ruined.\n\nThe carriages, dating from 1930 to 1950, have regularly been featured in films and television, the railway said.\n\nFire extinguishers were also set off throughout the carriages, soaking the furniture and wall fittings.\n\nFire extinguishers were sprayed inside the carriages, with furniture and fittings damaged\n\nThe railway said the full extent of the damage was not yet known, but repair costs would run \"into the thousands if not more\".\n\nChris Price, general manager at the railway, said: \"We were absolutely devastated to discover that the carriages had been damaged overnight, obviously all the staff and volunteers are extremely upset.\n\n\"I doubt very much that the set will run again in the 2017 season.\"\n\nThe railway had been holding a 1960s themed event on Saturday\n\nOn Saturday, thousands of people attended a live music event at the railway called '60s Fest' - held metres away from where the carriages were vandalised.\n\nThe railway warned there would be service disruptions on the line due to the damage caused.\n\nNorth Yorkshire Police said the carriages were vandalised at some point between 22:00 BST on Saturday and 07:00 on Sunday.\n\nInsp Martin Dennison said: \"What has been a busy and enjoyable weekend for all those involved in the North Yorkshire Moors Railway, has now been overshadowed by this mindless act of vandalism.\n\n\"There is understandably a feeling of anger and outrage amongst the community and police are determined to find those responsible and bring them to justice.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Retired nurse Christine Hughes preparing for the arrival of the refugee family\n\nThey have donated time, skills, money and even a house in a bid to be allowed to help a family of refugees resettle in the UK.\n\nBut, as the Home Office announces £1m to help more communities sponsor refugees, just how much work was it for one group of retirees, part and full-time workers to pull together and take responsibility for a family?\n\nChristine Hughes kept seeing pictures and videos on Facebook of Syrian refugees and their desperate bids to get to the UK. And she wanted to help.\n\n\"I was hearing the most awful stories and just not sleeping,\" mother-of-four and grandmother Mrs Hughes said.\n\n\"If I started thinking about it before I went to sleep, that was it, I just couldn't sleep, because I knew what people were suffering right at that moment while there I was in my cosy bed.\"\n\nNo longer wanting to feel helpless, she and a few other people held a meeting in the Pembrokeshire town of Narberth to discuss what they could do.\n\nA year later and she has finally achieved her goal - to resettle a refugee family in the picturesque market town.\n\nIt is one of 10 to have brought a group of refugees to the UK under a scheme introduced in July 2016.\n\nIt means community can take responsibility for resettling up to three refugee families - supporting their move here by setting up accommodation for them, helping them to learn English and eventually find jobs.\n\nThe vast majority of the 20,000 Syrian refugees the UK has committed to take in have come through the support of local councils. But community groups have sponsored 53 refugees in the last year.\n\nNarbeth has a population of 2,000, according to the last census\n\nThe scheme was modelled on the successful Canadian Private Sponsorship scheme which has resettled more than 200,000 refugees since it was introduced in 1978.\n\nBut the group called Croeso Arberth - meaning Narberth Welcome - said it had not been straight-forward.\n\nIt had to raise £4,500 as insurance to cover each of the seven supported refugees, which is kept in a separate bank account for emergencies, as well as having £6,000 in the bank to cover the cost of things like interpreters, transport from the airport and a £200 allowance for each member of the family - given in small amounts for six weeks while they wait for their applications for benefits to go through.\n\nA house had to be found, English lessons arranged, schools contacted and extensive Home Office forms filled in - and that was just to start.\n\nListen to Croeso Arberth prepare to welcome the family of refugees on BBC Radio Wales' Eye on Wales programme\n\nThe UK government website has information about how to sponsor a family of vulnerable refugees to resettle in the UK\n\nRetired nurse Mrs Hughes said: \"I had absolutely no idea of the amount of time I was going to have to donate to it.\n\n\"I have got a house I rent out, my mother is 93, I have got three horses, I've got four children, two of who have got grandchildren, and have a few little jobs cleaning guest houses, so I'm tearing myself away from different situations, just trying to cope, really.\n\n\"Halfway through the process I did think 'what am I doing', but thinking we were nearly there is what has kept me going.\"\n\nThe group, which has a core of 12 people with around 100 more who have expressed a desire to help, has committed to support the resettled family for a year, and be responsible for their housing - paid for with housing benefits - for two years.\n\nMrs Hughes said: \"I started off as an email pusher - just keeping people informed about meetings and fund-raising events. Then I started doing practical things like phoning up the schools, I went to the police, I went to the doctors.\"\n\nGroup tidying up the garden of the house where the refugees will be living\n\nShortly after she and other members of the group wrote an action plan for the Home Office - a plan that has been revised multiple times since the application first went in.\n\nJill Simpson, who works part-time at Pembrokeshire Coast National Park Authority, liaised with the Home Office on behalf of Croeso Arberth throughout the negotiations.\n\nShe said: \"I spent months sitting at my computer, pulling together all sorts of information, writing documents. At times it felt as if it was being made very difficult, but I think that, on reflection, it is because it is such a new scheme and the Home Office people have been feeling their way as well.\n\n\"There was a lot of support, but you needed to get through this nitty gritty bureaucracy.\"\n\nThe group needed approval from local council Pembrokeshire to go ahead with the application, as well as getting approval from Citizens UK, who acted as the lead sponsor - with legal responsibility to make sure everything runs as it should.\n\nMrs Simpson said: \"We had to describe the house to the Home Office, and it had to be available, but we didn't know how long it would take until we had a family, and that was really difficult because if you think about it no landlord is going to want to sit with a house empty waiting for a family to arrive at an unspecified time.\"\n\nOshi Owen has turned her former family home over to the refugee family\n\nBut the group struck lucky when local Oshi Owen, who was thinking about moving from her five-bedroom house in Narberth, heard the group were looking for somewhere for the refugee family.\n\nMs Owen said: \"I had thought about moving in September, but when the group were looking for somewhere for a family of refugees I just said I will somehow manage it and make it work and committed to move out by April.\"\n\nShe will be paid rent through housing benefit, although she said it is below what she could get for the house if it was privately rented.\n\nThe group initially thought they might be able to have the family arrive in April and eventually the arrival date became July.\n\nMs Owen said: \"I had to accept that for three months there wasn't going to be any rent coming in.\n\n\"But I would rather help people than it being about the money. It is about giving something to those in need.\"\n\nShe left some furniture in the house for the new tenants, while the community group cleared the garden and cleaned in preparation.\n\nCroeso Arberth had a small welcome party at the airport to meet the family of seven\n\nMs Owen said neighbours were \"shocked\" to hear who was moving in, but \"really want to make the family welcome\".\n\nWith the house spick and span there was a nervous wait before the refugees arrived on 13 July.\n\nAs they walked through arrivals at Birmingham Airport they were greeted by a welcome party of interpreters and members of Croeso Arberth clutching balloons, chocolates and a big sign between them.\n\nBBC Wales have agreed not to identify Narberth's newest Syrian residents - but we can say they are an extended family of seven from a refugee camp in the Middle East.\n\n\"I can't believe it is all over with now,\" Mrs Hughes said.\n\n\"I would never have expected it to be such a big thing to undertake, but I feel like the family are going to be fine, and it is the start of a new chapter now with them here. Things will go wrong, but we will just have to play it by ear.\"\n\nCroeso Arberth have plans to sponsor another group of refugees in the near future, but hope it will be easier next time.\n\nMrs Hughes added: \"Because we have been one of the first groups to do this it has been a learning curve for us and the Home Office, but hopefully they will be able to do things faster for other groups and it will all move along a bit quicker.\n\n\"Obviously I still think about the people still in refugee camps, but I know I cannot do any more than I have done and am doing.\"\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. CCTV shows Rashan Jermaine Charles being apprehended by police inside a shop, as the BBC's Andy Moore reports.\n\nA 20-year-old man has died after being apprehended by a police officer in an east London shop.\n\nThe Met Police said the man, named by his family as Rashan Jermaine Charles, was followed on foot after officers tried to stop a car in Kingsland Road, Hackney, at 01:45 BST on Saturday.\n\nMr Charles was taken ill after trying to swallow an object and was pronounced dead in hospital, police said.\n\nFootage apparently showing the incident has been shared on social media, along with the hashtag #JusticeForRash.\n\nThe film, recorded by a security camera, shows Mr Charles entering a shop pursued by a uniformed police officer.\n\nIn the footage, there is a struggle on the floor, and Mr Charles appears to put his hand to his mouth.\n\nAnother man in plain clothes is seen helping the officer. Mr Charles is seen handcuffed with his hands behind his back.\n\nMembers of the local community have been laying flowers and lighting candles at the scene of the incident\n\nScotland Yard said the officer \"intervened and sought to prevent the man from harming himself\".\n\nA force medic provided first aid at the scene before London Ambulance Service paramedics arrived.\n\nMr Charles was taken to the Royal London Hospital in east London and pronounced dead at 02:55 BST.\n\nPolice said next of kin had been informed and a post-mortem examination would be held.\n\nA makeshift memorial to Mr Charles has sprung up by the scene of the incident as members of the local community have laid flowers and lit candles outside the shop.\n\nSimon Laurence, the Met's borough commander for Hackney, said: \"There is likely to be speculation over the next few days regarding what led to this man becoming ill, so I would encourage people to keep up-to-date with the IPCC's statements, as and when they are released.\n\n\"All police officers are fully aware that they will be asked to account for their actions - officers are not exempt from the law and we would not wish to be.\"\n\nThe IPCC confirmed it had begun an independent investigation, taking evidence from eyewitnesses and police officers.\n\nIt said CCTV footage from inside the shop and police body-worn video evidence had been gathered and viewed.\n\n\"The IPCC has obtained evidence which indicates an object was removed from [Mr Charles's] throat at the scene,\" a spokesman said.\n\nHe appealed for information from witnesses who were in the Kingsland Road and Middleton Road area of Hackney.\n\nCampaigners from Hackney Stand Up To Racism have announced a vigil for Mr Charles outside Stoke Newington police station on Monday evening.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Security forces have closed roads in the area\n\nAn Israeli guard has shot dead a Jordanian who attacked him with a screwdriver next to the Israeli embassy in Jordan, Israeli officials say.\n\nA second Jordanian was inadvertently killed in the gunfire, Israel says. The guard was reportedly wounded.\n\nThe attacker was a carpenter working in a residential building used by the embassy, an Israeli statement said.\n\nIt is one of the most serious incidents between the two countries since they signed a peace treaty in 1994.\n\nThe second Jordanian, who died from his wounds in hospital, was identified as the building's landlord.\n\nJordanian police have sealed off the area around the heavily protected embassy in the Rabiyeh neighbourhood, an affluent part of the capital city.\n\nAccording to the Vienna Convention of 1961 the security man has immunity from investigation and arrest, the Israeli foreign ministry said.\n\nThe incident came at a time of heightened tension in the region over a Jerusalem holy site.\n\nOn Friday, thousands of Jordanians protested in Amman against Israel over the installation of metal detectors outside a site sacred to both Muslims and Jews in East Jerusalem.\n\nJordan, which occupied East Jerusalem from 1949 to 1967, is the custodian of the site, which is known to Muslims as Haram al-Sharif and Jews as the Temple Mount.\n\nTensions between Israelis and Palestinians over the site have surged in recent days in response to the metal detectors, which were put in place following the killing nearby of two Israeli policemen.\n\nSecurity cameras have now also been installed at a gateway leading to the site.", "The Duke of Cambridge and Prince Harry\n\nPrince William and Prince Harry have spoken of their regret that their last conversation with their mother was a \"desperately rushed\" phone call.\n\nPrince Harry, who was 12 when Princess Diana died, said: \"All I do remember is probably regretting for the rest of my life how short the phone call was.\"\n\nIn an ITV documentary to mark 20 years since their mother's death, the princes also spoke of her \"fun\" parenting.\n\nDiana encouraged them to be \"naughty\" and smuggled them sweets, they said.\n\nThe princes added that she was a \"total kid through and through\", who understood the \"real life outside of palace walls\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"She was one of the naughtiest parents\": Prince Harry and Prince William on their memories of their mother\n\nUnpublished photos of the princes with their mother feature in the programme.\n\nPrince Harry and Prince William are seen looking through Diana's personal album as they talk about how their childhood memories of their mother sat alongside her global image and influence as a campaigner for the homeless, Aids victims, and banning landmines.\n\nPrincess Diana was killed in a car crash in Paris on 31 August 1997 when Prince William was 15 and Prince Harry was 12.\n\nPrince William said taking part in the programme initially seemed \"quite daunting\" but had been \"a healing process as well\".\n\nHe said they wanted \"her legacy to live on in our work and we feel this is an appropriate way of doing that\".\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge and Prince Harry Princess Diana was pregnant when photographed with Prince William here. \"Believe it or not, you and I are both in this photograph,\" the Duke of Cambridge tells his brother in the programme\n\nBut the Duke of Cambridge said the last conversation with their mother weighs \"quite heavily\" on his mind.\n\nIt took place while the brothers were having a \"very good time\" with their cousins at Balmoral, the Queen's home in Scotland.\n\n\"Harry and I were in a desperate rush to say goodbye, you know 'see you later'... if I'd known now obviously what was going to happen, I wouldn't have been so blasé about it and everything else,\" he said.\n\nPrince William says in the interview he remembers what his mother said - but does not reveal details of the conversation.\n\nPrince Harry said: \"It was her speaking from Paris, I can't really necessarily remember what I said but all I do remember is probably regretting for the rest of my life how short the phone call was.\"\n\nRecalling Princess Diana's sense of humour, Prince Harry said: \"Our mother was a total kid through and through.\n\n\"When everybody says to me 'so she was fun, give us an example' all I can hear is her laugh in my head.\"\n\nHe added: \"One of her mottos to me was, you know, 'you can be as naughty as you want, just don't get caught'.\n\n\"She was one of the naughtiest parents. She would come and watch us play football and, you know, smuggle sweets into our socks.\"\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge and Prince Harry The photos shown in the programme were taken from Princess Diana's personal album\n\nPrince William said his mother was \"very informal and really enjoyed the laughter and the fun\".\n\nShe could be \"sort of the joker\", he added, and \"loved the rudest cards you could imagine\".\n\nHe said: \"I would be at school and I'd get a card from my mother. Usually she found something, you know, very embarrassing, you know, a very funny card, and then sort of wrote very nice stuff inside.\n\n\"But I dared not open it in case the teachers or anyone else in the class had seen it.\"\n\nPrince Harry and Prince William, now aged 32 and 35 respectively, say Diana was \"the best mother ever\"\n\nHe also talked about the \"very funny memory\" of coming home from school to find his mother had invited supermodels Cindy Crawford, Christy Turlington and Naomi Campbell to their home in Kensington Palace.\n\n\"I was probably a 12 or 13-year-old boy who had posters of them on his wall,\" he told Monday's documentary, Diana, Our Mother: Her Life and Legacy.\n\n\"I went bright red, and didn't know quite what to say and sort of fumbled and I think pretty much fell down the stairs on the way up. I was completely and utterly awestruck.\"\n\nEarlier this month, the princes attended a service to re-dedicate their mother's grave at Althorp House in Northamptonshire, on what would have been her 56th birthday.\n\nPrince Harry said he had only cried twice for his mother - one of the times was at the funeral service at Althorp in 1997.\n\n\"So there's a lot of grief that still needs to be let out,\" he said.\n\nPrince William, who was accompanied at the re-dedication service by the Duchess of Cambridge, Prince George and Princess Charlotte, said he keeps the memory of his mother alive for his children by \"constantly talking about granny Diana\".\n\n\"She'd be a lovely grandmother, she'd absolutely love it, she'd love the children to bits,\" he said.\n\nAnd he joked: \"She'd be a nightmare grandmother, absolute nightmare... She'd come, probably at bath time, cause an amazing... scene, bubbles everywhere bath water all over the place and then leave.\"\n\nThe princes, pictured here with their mother in 1992, recall their last conversation with her\n\nReflecting on the anniversary of Princess Diana's death, Prince Harry told ITV: \"To myself and William she was just the best mother ever.\"\n\nHe said: \"It has been hard and it will continue to be hard, there's not a day William and I don't wish that she was still around and we wonder what kind of mother she would be now, and what kind of a public role she would have and what a difference she would be making.\"\n\nThe princes have also both agreed to take part in a forthcoming BBC documentary about their mother.\n\nThey were were speaking to ITV from their home at Kensington Palace where they will unveil a statue of their mother in its public gardens on the 20th anniversary of her death.\n\nPrince William said: \"We won't be doing this again - we won't speak as openly or publicly about her again, because we feel hopefully this film will provide the other side from close family friends you might not have heard before, from those who knew her best and from those who want to protect her memory, and want to remind people of the person that she was.\"\n\nThe documentary will be broadcast on ITV and STV at 21:00 BST on Monday, 24 July.", "Ben Affleck has scotched rumours he is quitting as the caped crusader after his upcoming role in Justice League.\n\nHe'd been due to star in and direct another standalone film - The Batman - but pulled out of directing duties in January.\n\nAfter Affleck's script was also ditched by incoming director Matt Reeves, it looked like he was going to jump ship.\n\nBut he denied he was leaving the franchise, saying: \"Batman is the coolest part in any universe.\"\n\n\"Let me be very clear - I am the luckiest guy in the world. I'm so thrilled to do it,\" the star told fans at Comic-Con on Saturday.\n\n\"There's a misconception that because I wasn't directing it, I wasn't enthusiastic about it, but it's amazing.\"\n\nBen Affleck reprises his role as Batman in Justice League, which sees him team up with heroes including The Flash, Superman, Cyborg, Wonder Woman and Aquaman\n\nAffleck also addressed reports that Warner Bros was working on plans to \"usher out\" his Batman gracefully as he is getting too old.\n\n\"I still can't believe that after two films [Warner Bros bosses] Kevin Tsujihara, Sue Kroll and Toby Emmerich have said, 'We want you to be our Batman' - and I believe them.\"\n\nRegarding War for the Planet of the Apes director Reeves taking over his directing role and starting afresh with scripting, Affleck said: \"I would be an ape on the ground for Matt Reeves, never mind Batman.\n\n\"It's a great time in the DC universe, so you can see why I am so excited to be Batman.\"\n\nThe Warner Bros panel also featured a new Justice League trailer and confirmed that Gal Gadot's Wonder Woman would be getting a sequel.\n\nIt's unsurprising as Patty Jenkins' film is the biggest of the summer, taking $386m (£297m) so far in the US and $771m (£593m) around the world.\n\nIt's also the third highest-grossing Warner Bros movie ever, behind The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises - and the highest-grossing live action film by a female director.\n\nWarner Bros also confirmed it intends to make a standalone Batgirl film and a new Green Lantern 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.\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. Jeremy Corbyn: \"I did not make a commitment that we would write it off\"\n\nJeremy Corbyn has insisted he did not promise to write off all student debt while appealing to young voters during the general election.\n\nDuring the campaign, the Labour leader said he would \"deal with\" the issue of graduates burdened with debt since tuition fees rose to £9,000.\n\nHe told the BBC he had never promised to abolish all debt as Labour \"were unaware of the size of it at the time\".\n\nTory MPs have accused him of misleading students and said he should apologise.\n\nHistorical levels of student debt in England since tuition fees were introduced rose to £76.3bn last year and senior Labour figures have said an across the board debt moratorium could cost in the region of £100bn.\n\nMany believe Labour's pledge to scrap university tuition fees for future undergraduates and help existing students was one of the factors behind its better-than-expected election performance last month.\n\nAn unexpectedly large turnout among students helped Labour win seats such as Canterbury, which it took for the first time in 100 years, and increase its majority in cities such as Cambridge, Bristol and Leeds.\n\nMr Corbyn has been accused of using students as \"election fodder\" after he claimed during the campaign that he would also look at ways to lengthen the period of paying existing debt off or \"some other means of reducing that debt burden\".\n\nHe told the music and lifestyle title NME he didn't see \"why those that had the historical misfortune to be at university during the £9,000 period should be burdened excessively compared to those that went before or those that come after\".\n\nIn recent weeks, senior Labour figures have distanced themselves from talk of a debt amnesty, saying that while it remains a long-term ambition, they do not yet know how it could be funded.\n\nSpeaking on the Andrew Marr show, Mr Corbyn said his remarks during the election did not amount to a \"commitment\" to erase student debt and the party would be expanding on its position in the near future.\n\n\"I did not make a commitment we would write it off because I couldn't at that stage,\" he said.\n\n\"I pointed out we had written the manifesto in a short space of time because there was a surprise election but that we would look at ways of reducing that debt burden, recognising that a lot of it is never going to be collected anyway and try and reduce that.\"\n\n\"We never said we would completely abolish it because we were unaware of the size of it at the time,\" he added.\n\nUniversities minister Jo Johnson said Labour was abandoning what he called \"a welter of outlandish promises\" made to young people during the election.\n\n\"It is becoming ever clearer that Jeremy Corbyn is looking to walk away from a host of undeliverable pre-election promises to students, making this the most blatant example of switch and bait in recent political history,\" he said.\n\nUnder the current system, loans that are not repaid after 30 years are written off for graduates who began their degree courses after 2012 and after 25 years for those who studied from 2006 to 2012.\n\nRecent research from the Institute for Fiscal Studies suggested students in England are set to graduate with average debts of £50,800, with many poorer students incurring much higher sums.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Former chief whip Baroness Armstrong says Jeremy Corbyn was \"the greatest rebel ever\"\n\nA former Labour chief whip has urged Jeremy Corbyn to \"reflect\" on Tony Blair's approach when party leader by ruling out the de-selection of MPs.\n\nBaroness Hilary Armstrong told the BBC Mr Corbyn was \"the greatest rebel ever\" as a backbencher but Mr Blair was reluctant to discipline him.\n\nShe said the then prime minister felt that Labour was \"a broad church\".\n\nAmid claims Mr Corbyn's opponents could be forced out, Baroness Armstrong said he needed to show he is \"tolerant\".\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's The Westminster Hour, Baroness Armstrong said she was pleased the Labour party chairman Ian Lavery had said de-selection was not the way forward.\n\nBut she added: \"I know MPs where basically there is a process of harassment, where at every meeting they are criticised, they are challenged, they are told that they don't represent the people in the room.\n\n\"And all this is meant to do is grind them down, is wear them down, and get them to believe they shouldn't be in the Labour party any more.\"\n\nShe said \"sectarianism\" was \"ruling\" in some areas.\n\nBaroness Armstrong added: \"Jeremy has the opportunity over the summer and at party conference to make it absolutely clear that he is not going to lead a narrow sectarian faction, he's going to lead a broad church that is tolerant.\n\n\"And the real test for Jeremy is, is he up to it?\"\n\nMr Corbyn voted against his own government more than 500 times and Baroness Armstrong said at the time there was upset among party members in his Islington North constituency,\n\n\"I had a couple of folk from Jeremy's constituency come to see me and say 'People are a bit upset with Jeremy always being against the Labour government, what if we try to de-select him?'\".\n\nShe advised them they would not be supported by the leadership.\n\nBaroness Armstrong said: \"The prime minister was very clear about that when Jeremy was a backbench MP. And he was right, we shouldn't have worked to de-select him.\n\n\"But I hope that Jeremy will now reflect on that and I hope that he will be absolutely determined to make sure it doesn't happen under his watch.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. James Lacey is thought to have downed 28 enemy planes during WW2\n\nWorld War Two fighter pilot James Harry \"Ginger\" Lacey is being honoured with a blue plaque this weekend at his birthplace - now the site of a German-owned supermarket. While WW2 pilots like Douglas Bader and Guy Gibson became household names, Lacey's story is less well known.\n\nWith a nickname straight out of a Biggles adventure book, and a life story to match the fictional pilot, Ginger Lacey went from learning to fly to becoming one of the heroes of the Battle of Britain in just three years.\n\nOne of \"The Few\", Lacey downed at least 28 enemy planes during World War Two and was a rare example of someone who served in the RAF on both the first and final day of the war.\n\nDue to both skill and luck, in his own words, he survived nine crash landings and famously shot down a German plane that had just bombed Buckingham Palace.\n\nLacey died in 1989 and his achievements have been honoured with a blue plaque on the land where his childhood home once stood in Wetherby, West Yorkshire.\n\nThe site is now home to an Aldi supermarket, with the plaque displayed at the store's entrance.\n\n\"Dad would have enjoyed the irony,\" said his daughter Min Lacey.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ginger Lacey was one of the pilots described as the \"backbone of RAF Fighter Command\"\n\nBorn on 1 February 1917 at Fairfield Villas in Wetherby, West Yorkshire, Lacey had a rural upbringing, with his father adamant he would join the family business.\n\nMs Lacey, 57, said: \"He desperately wanted to join the RAF, but his dad wanted him to be a farmer - it wasn't until his father died that he managed to convince his mum.\n\n\"He was a pale and skinny kid and his mum thought he would fail the medical, but of course he didn't.\"\n\nWhile working as a trainee pharmacist in Leeds, Lacey learnt to fly with the RAF Volunteer Reserve at weekends and became an instructor at the Yorkshire Flying School in Yeadon in 1938.\n\nAs war broke out in 1939, he had amassed 1,000 hours of flight time and was sent to France as an RAF flight sergeant to support the British troops.\n\nLacey attended Crossley Street Primary School, seen in this photograph sitting in the front row second from the left\n\nFlying a Hurricane with Number 501 Squadron, on the morning of 13 May 1940, he shot down two German planes over the Ardennes region.\n\nMs Lacey said: \"When he landed, no-one believed him. He later shot down another in the afternoon - three in his first combat of World War Two.\"\n\nFor his bravery during the Battle of France, he was awarded the French Croix de Guerre medal, but was not presented with it until the 1980s.\n\n\"The Germans marched into Paris on the day he was due to collect it, so they had to put that on hold,\" his daughter said.\n\nGinger Lacey was stationed at Gravesend Airport during the Battle of Britain\n\nLacey, seen on the left, served in the RAF for the duration of World War Two\n\nBy the summer of 1940, France had surrendered to Germany, and Adolf Hitler had turned his attention to Britain, but the Nazi leader needed the Luftwaffe to take control of the skies above the south of England before he could contemplate a ground invasion.\n\nGordon Leith, curator at the Royal Air Force Museum, said: \"It was a critical time. Following the defeat at Dunkirk they must have been aware that invasion was impending and a lot depended on their efforts.\"\n\nAs the Luftwaffe started to bomb airfields and factories, Lacey was ordered back to Britain and was stationed at Gravesend Airport for the majority of the Battle of Britain.\n\nGinger Lacey's thoughts on the Luftwaffe, from a 1978 BBC radio interview\n\nWe called them bandits... which meant either unidentified or enemy aircraft. It was never meant to describe the people in it or anything like that.\n\nI much preferred to kill someone without them even knowing I was there - the first indication he was being shot at was when bullets were coming out of his chest.\n\nYou were there to get rid of his aeroplane, it didn't cross your mind that it was a man You were firing at an aeroplane of a different kind wearing the wrong markings and flying in our sky.\n\nWe had been told to get rid of them, so we got rid of them; there was no feeling about it.\n\nI didn't go round hating Germans or liking Germans. I had never met a German in my life so I couldn't have any preconceived opinion of what one looked like, acted like or sounded like.\n\nIn a 1978 BBC interview, he recalled waking up in a hut by the runway as the pilots waited for the phone to ring.\n\n\"You would have a cup of tea, some breakfast, you would go out to your aircraft, a couple of hundred yards, check the aircraft, get our parachutes out, fit our helmets in the aircraft, hang them over the control column and make ourselves as comfortable as possible waiting for the first call,\" Lacey said.\n\nNumber 501 Squadron lost 17 men during the Battle of Britain, with Lacey's roommates regularly changing as comrades were killed.\n\nAsked by the BBC's Norman Tozer how he ended up still alive and holding one of Britain's highest \"scores\" of the battle, Lacey said it was down to experience and \"an awful lot of luck\".\n\n\"I was shot down nine times in 16 weeks. Twice I got out with my aeroplane burning from end to end, once with no tail on it,\" he said.\n\n\"When someone has done that to your plane, you've got to have had a lot of luck to have avoided the bullets which mangled the aeroplane.\"\n\nHis daughter thinks his survival and hit rate was down to his shooting skills, with ammunition in short supply at the time.\n\nShe said: \"He was a very good marksman, he brought down aircraft with five shots, so he was never going to run out of ammunition, was he?\n\n\"He was also able to conquer sheer terror day after day: can you imagine being in that tiny cockpit, frozen, terrified, doing seven flights a day and not knowing if you were going to come back from any of them?\"\n\nDuring the Blitz, Lacey was scrambled to stop a Heinkel He 111 plane that had flown above the capital and bombed Buckingham Palace.\n\n\"He was injured when the rear gunner fired back at him and he had to crash land. He was actually forced to glide the aircraft back to Gravesend,\" Mr Leith said.\n\nLacey was presented with the first parachute to be manufactured in Australia in 1941\n\nDespite still being in his early 20s, Lacey was one of the more experienced pilots of the Battle of Britain.\n\nMr Leith said: \"He was one of the famous sergeant pilots which made up the backbone of RAF Fighter Command.\n\n\"He isn't as well known as some of the officer pilots, but for those who study it he is given the respect he deserves as one of the leading pilots of the battle.\"\n\nHe added: \"Not many survived the entire war, most were either killed, injured or taken prisoner, so for an aircrew member to have a record like that, it must have been pretty scarce.\"\n\nLacey was asked to be a technical adviser on the 1969 film Battle of Britain\n\nBianca Jagger and Michael Caine, pictured on the set of the film\n\nAfter the Battle of Britain, Lacey was promoted to flight lieutenant and awarded a Bar to his Distinguished Flying Medal.\n\nHe continued flying fighter missions until the end of the war, including a transfer to India where he took on the Japanese.\n\nAt the end of World War Two, he was credited with having shot down 28 confirmed planes, four \"probables\" and nine damaged - one of the highest tallies of all the RAF's British fighter pilots.\n\nLacey, pictured on the left, returned to Yorkshire to be a flying instructor after he left the RAF\n\nMarried with three children, Lacey went full circle after the conflict and started to teach flying again in Yorkshire.\n\nHis daughter recalls a particularly memorable 16th birthday present, after he had told her he had not planned anything special.\n\n\"He flew a plane up and I jumped out of it with a parachute,\" Ms Lacey said.\n\n\"It's the third scariest thing I've done in my life, behind going on Mastermind and showing my dog around the Crufts arena.\"\n\nGinger took his daughter Min for a parachute jump on her 16th birthday\n\nLacey was asked to be a technical adviser on the 1969 film Battle of Britain, starring Michael Caine, as director Guy Hamilton - who had a distinguished war record himself - wanted the movie to be as true to real life as possible.\n\nLiving in Bridlington, East Yorkshire, Ginger later became an instructor at Hull Aero Club, helping more than 4,000 flyers attain a private pilot's licence.\n\nPeter Spencer, club secretary, said: \"His style was unorthodox but very accomplished on account of his experience flying RAF fighter aircraft in the war.\n\n\"In 2016, we dedicated our new training facility at Beverley Airfield in his memory.\"\n\nThe plaque has been installed at the site where Lacey was born in Wetherby\n\nPeter Catton, of the Wetherby Civic Society, which was behind the move to award the blue plaque, said: \"It sounds like he had a very wry sense of humour and was a practical joker, so I think that he would have found it quite funny that he was being commemorated in a German-owned supermarket.\n\n\"I get the impression that he loved flying, and I think he was a genuine hero, but I doubt that he would have recognised himself as one.\"\n\nA Battle of Britain Memorial Flight Lancaster bomber performed a flypast above the plaque-unveiling ceremony in Wetherby\n\nThe blue plaque was officially unveiled on Sunday, with the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight performing a flypast.\n\nClare Vause, store manager at Aldi in Wetherby, said the team were pleased to \"play our part in marking this important historical milestone\".\n\nAttempting to sum up Lacey's legacy, Mr Leith said: \"He was a very popular, influential person who served his country, was keen to get people into flying and a real RAF enthusiast.\"\n• None How was the Battle of Britain won?", "Police found the body of the 19-year-old at this property in Kingston Upon Thames\n\nA man has been charged with the kidnap, rape and murder of a 19-year-old woman.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said the 33-year-old had also been charged with the rape, attempted murder and kidnap of a woman in her 20s.\n\nAnother man, 28, has been charged with the kidnap of both women.\n\nThe teenager's body was found at an address in Coombe Lane West, in Kingston Upon Thames, on Wednesday night, three hours after she had been reported missing, police said.\n\nThe second woman had earlier been treated for stab or slash wounds at a south London hospital.\n\nPolice had visited the women's addresses in Sutton and Merton following a concerned call about their safety at about 17:00 BST on Wednesday.\n\nThe teenager's name has not yet been released, but her next of kin have been informed.\n\nA post-mortem examination revealed the cause of death was a neck wound.\n\nThe two men, who have not been named by police, will appear at Wimbledon Magistrates' Court on Monday.", "Charlie Gard's rare disease has left him unable to cry\n\nCharlie Gard's parents have been told they will be able to spend more time with their terminally ill baby.\n\nChris Gard and Connie Yates had been expecting their 10-month-old's life support to be turned off on Friday.\n\nGreat Ormond Street Hospital has since disclosed it is putting plans in place for Charlie's care to allow his family to spend more time with him.\n\nOn Tuesday, Charlie's parents lost their final legal appeal to take him to the US for experimental treatment.\n\nJudges at the European Court of Human Rights concluded that further treatment would \"continue to cause Charlie significant harm\", in line with advice from specialists at Great Ormond Street.\n\nHe has a rare genetic disease as well as brain damage and is believed to be one of 16 children in the world to have the condition; mitochondrial depletion syndrome.\n\nConnie Yates and Chris Gard raised more than £1.3m for experimental treatment for Charlie\n\nDoctors have said he cannot see, hear, move, cry or swallow.\n\nCharlie has been receiving specialist treatment at Great Ormond Street Hospital since October 2016.\n\nHis parents said they had been denied their final wish to be able to take their son home to die and felt \"let down\" following the lengthy legal battle.\n\nAlongside a video posted on YouTube on Thursday, Charlie's parents wrote: \"We are utterly heartbroken spending our last precious hours with our baby boy.\n\n\"We're not allowed to choose if our son lives and we're not allowed to choose when or where Charlie dies.\n\n\"We, and most importantly Charlie, have been massively let down throughout this whole process.\"\n\nA spokesperson for Great Ormond Street Hospital said earlier: \"As with all of our patients we are not able to, and nor will we, discuss these specific details of care.\n\n\"This is a very distressing situation for Charlie's parents and all the staff involved and our focus remains with them.\"\n\nCharlie's parents raised £1.3m on a crowdfunding site to pay for the experimental treatment in the US.\n\nMs Yates previously indicated the money would go towards a charity for mitochondrial depletion syndrome if Charlie did \"not get his chance\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police confirmed this Facebook image to be that of Henry Bello\n\nThe doctor who attacked his former New York hospital workplace had resigned in 2015 after being accused of sexual harassment, reports said.\n\nHenry Bello had also been convicted of sexual assault a decade earlier, the New York Times reported.\n\nHe opened fire with an assault rifle in the Bronx-Lebanon hospital, killing a female doctor and injuring six other people, five of them seriously.\n\nHe then shot himself after attempting to set himself on fire, police said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSome New York newspapers quoted a doctor at the hospital as saying Bello had vowed revenge on his colleagues after he left.\n\n\"We fired him because he was kind of crazy,\" Dr Maureen Kwankam told the New York Daily News newspaper. \"He promised to come back and kill us then.\"\n\nIn 2004 Bello was charged with sexual abuse and unlawful imprisonment after a 23-year-old woman said he had grabbed her crotch outside a Manhattan building, the New York Times reported.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mayor Bill de Blasio said the shooting was isolated and appeared to be \"workplace-related\"\n\nBello walked into the 1,000-bed hospital at about 14:55 local time (18:55 GMT) with an assault rifle hidden inside his white medical coat, reports said.\n\nMayor Bill de Blasio said the attack had been a \"horrific situation in the middle of a place that people associate with care and comfort\".\n\nSeveral of the injured are \"fighting for their lives,\" he said.\n\nThe attack began on the 16th floor and all the victims were shot on the 16th and 17th floors.\n\nAn assault rifle was also discovered nearby, which a local politician separately said appeared to be a military-grade M16 rifle.\n\nDoctors were among those injured\n\nMessages on social media spoke of doctors and nurses barricading themselves inside the building in the Mount Hope district.\n\nOne patient in the radiology department, Felix Puno, tweeted: \"Building is in complete shut down, I was in the middle of getting an X-ray when security alerted us to the active shooter situation.\"\n\nGarry Trimble, whose fiancée works at the hospital, said security was not good enough.\n\nHe said: \"I can walk through the back door with an employee. If the employee opens the door, I can walk in. I think every hospital should have one police officer at each entrance. They only ever do something when something happens.\"\n\nBronx-Lebanon is a private, not-for-profit hospital that has been operating for 120 years.\n\nThe shootings happened on the 16th and 17th floors\n\nShootings at hospitals are not common, but there have been several such instances in recent years.\n\nIn 2015, a man entered a Boston hospital and asked for a cardiologist by name, shooting him dead when he arrived. During the investigation, it emerged that the man's mother had previously been a patient at the hospital.\n\nIn July 2016, another man opened fire in a patient's room at a Florida medical centre, killing an elderly woman and a hospital worker. The suspect was later deemed to suffer from mental health issues, casting doubt over his competency to stand trial.\n\nIn July last year, a patient at a Berlin hospital shot a doctor before turning the gun on himself. The city had also seen a shooting outside another hospital earlier in the year, in which no-one was killed.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Protesters listened to speeches from politicians and activists in Parliament Square\n\nThousands of people gathered in central London to demonstrate against the UK government's economic policies.\n\nThe protest was organised by a group called the People's Assembly Against Austerity.\n\nDemonstrators met outside BBC Broadcasting House in Portland Place, before marching past Downing Street and on to Parliament Square.\n\nThe Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn was among the speakers who addressed crowds at The Not One Day More protest.\n\nSpeaking in Parliament Square, Mr Corbyn said: \"The Tories are in retreat, austerity is in retreat, the economic arguments of austerity are in retreat.\n\n\"It's those of social justice, of unity, of people coming together to oppose racism and all those that would divide us, that are the ones that are moving forward.\"\n\nThe crowd chanted \"oh Jeremy Corbyn\" and \"Tories out\" during the rally, while many carried banners saying Justice For Grenfell.\n\nOne protester told BBC News that \"anger\" had motivated her to join the protest, saying: \"What's going on isn't good enough under the Tory government.\n\n\"There have been cuts to every single service you can think of. It's just the pure negligence. How can you be cutting vital services?\"\n\nThe organisers said on Facebook that they \"invite everyone - from campaigns and community groups across the country, from the trade unions, from political parties and any individual - to come together in one massive show of strength and solidarity\".\n\nThe statement added: \"We're marching against a government committed to austerity, cuts and privatisation.\n\n\"We're marching for a decent health service, education system, housing, jobs and living standards for all.\"\n\nDowning Street did not want to comment on the protest.", "Jessica Livingston, right, believes women are forcing change in Silicon Valley\n\n\"It's been going on for a while.\"\n\nIt's a phrase I've heard a lot since Susan Fowler, an ex-Uber employee, published her explosive blog post that ultimately toppled one of the most powerful chief executives in San Francisco.\n\n\"I'll tell you - Susan Fowler kicked off a big thing here,\" says Jessica Livingston, who co-created Y Combinator, the most highly-respected start-up investment programme in Silicon Valley.\n\n\"That's what you have to understand. This stuff was happening all the time and people were complaining to their confidants and sharing it with their family.\n\n\"No-one was coming forward on the record with 'here's an account of these horrible things that happened to me'. It just felt too scary, a possible career breaker for people. That was the feeling.\"\n\nBut that may be changing, if the mood at Y Combinator's Female Founders conference is anything to go by. The annual event is a gathering of would-be and successful female entrepreneurs. And this year it has been given added vigour. Call it, the \"Uber in the room\".\n\n\"We couldn't have this conference without referencing it, I mean come on!\" Ms Livingston continues.\n\n\"It's such crazy stuff. I do think there is an undercurrent in the conference today of 'this is awful stuff that's happening, but it's been going on for a while... and now things are going to change.'\"\n\nChange won't come easy, but for the first time it may be in reach.\n\nAvni Patel Thompson says a support network for new entrepreneurs would help\n\nWhile Uber's crisis has garnered the most headlines, perhaps the more significant fall-from-grace in Silicon Valley this year has been that of Justin Caldbeck, a venture capitalist who just a week ago was accused of several instances of sexual harassment.\n\nIn the space of two days he denied the claims, then took a leave of absence, and then resigned. Now the investment firm he founded, Binary Capital, has capitulated - with backers removing their support and, crucially, their money.\n\n\"If you look at the way things have played out over the past week at Binary, there's been a change every single day, and it's gotten more dramatic every single day,\" Ms Livingston tells me.\n\n\"To the point where we are feeling like people are responding. People are being held accountable - they're not sweeping it under the carpet.\"\n\nAbuse often harbours in situations when one individual holds the key to another's dream: an actress desperate to land that first big role, or an athlete wanting to get closer to the big leagues.\n\nIn Silicon Valley, it's often an inexperienced entrepreneur, panicking about rent money, and desperate for that first piece of funding that would set them on their way to creating their company.\n\nThose early investments, known as seed funding, are make or break.\n\nLaura Behrens-Wu says female entrepreneurs seeking their first funding round are most vulnerable\n\n\"Pre-seed, before you're part of the network, that's when women are most vulnerable,\" says Laura Behrens-Wu, co-founder of shipping start-up Shippo, which recently raised $7m.\n\n\"They don't know anyone here yet, they don't have anyone to turn to.\n\n\"If someone harassed me today I'd have people to turn to, people who can stand up for me and make sure that this never happens again.\"\n\nWithout that support network, Ms Behrens-Wu argues, the prospect of speaking out against abusers is terrifying and insurmountable.\n\n\"When [investors] Google your name, you don't want stories about sexual harassment to be the first thing that comes up.\n\n\"[Women are] worried they're being seen as the trouble makers by other people.\"\n\nFilling this support and accountability vacuum could perhaps change things here - something that might give new arrivals in Silicon Valley a strong footing from which to protect themselves.\n\nOne suggestion, that I wrote about last week, is a \"Decency Pledge\" - a code of conduct shared across the technology industry. That has been met with a mixed response. Surely, many argue, people shouldn't have to sign a \"pledge\" to exercise what should be common decency?\n\nAvni Patel Thompson, founder of on-demand childcare start-up Poppy, says the best solution may be to equip new entrepreneurs with the same kind support network that give more experienced women the strength to come forward and confront unacceptable behaviour.\n\n\"Everyone talks about backchannel references, right? I think there are those of us that are plugged into certain networks that have access to that.\n\n\"But how do we make that accessible to the people that need it the most, which are the folks that are just getting started and don't know up from down and all these type of things. They're just trying to fight the good fight.\n\n\"How can we make some of these things available? That's some of the conversations that we, as female founders, are having.\"\n\nY Combinator is a tech incubator programme that twice a year takes on a bunch of promising start-ups, gives them about $100,000, and coaches them to potential success. It has spawned several successes, such as Dropbox, Reddit and payments firm Stripe.\n\nAnd for those lucky enough to get on the programme, it also provides an added layer of protection against possible abuses.\n\n\"We will speak up on the founders' behalf, always,\" Jessica Livingston tells me.\n\n\"We've just launched internally an anonymous forum if anyone has faced racism or harassment they can let us know anonymously. We are trying to do things to help.\"\n\nBut looking long-term, a more gender-diverse technology industry is seen as the only genuine solution to this problem.\n\n\"I'm always hoping that more women get into the game,\" Ms Livingston continues.\n\n\"We do need to have more female venture capitalists (VCs), and managing director level VCs. Almost all of them are men.\n\n\"There are so many things that have to work together to really create change.\"\n\nYou can reach Dave securely through encrypted messaging app Signal on: +1 (628) 400-7370", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Richard Herrington: \"It's that free oxygen that gives us the diversity of life we have on Earth today\"\n\nYou're going to want to touch it; you're definitely going to want to run your fingers over its wavy lines.\n\nThis 2.5-tonne lump of rock will be one of the new star exhibits when London's Natural History Museum re-opens its front entrance-space in a couple of weeks' time.\n\nThe Hintze Hall has been closed for most of this year to allow the South Kensington attraction to remodel its welcome to visitors. Out has gone \"Dippy\" the diplodocus dinosaur, and in its place has come a massive skeleton of a blue whale.\n\nFrom 14 July, as you go into the NHM, you'll be confronted by the largest animal on the planet diving down at you from the ceiling. Your correspondent has had a sneak peek, and it's spectacular.\n\nThe NHM's blue whale skeleton is to take centre-stage from now on\n\nBut look around the edges of the hall and you'll see its alcoves have also been refreshed. The NHM is calling them the \"Wonder Bays\".\n\nThe Wonder Bays aim to showcase the origins, evolution and diversity of life on Earth\n\nI want you to head for one alcove in particular on the right, just under the whale's tail.\n\nAbout 2m along the base and 1.5m high, the object represents a wonderful juxtaposition between the animate (whale) and the inanimate (rock) and the very deep connection that exists between the two.\n\nBIFs were laid down on ocean floors more than two billion years ago. They record a key chemical transition in Earth's history when oxygen started to become abundant.\n\nIt was a profound change that would ultimately make complex life - such as the giant cetaceans - possible.\n\nThose wavy lines in the BIF are bands of iron oxide (mostly haematite) interspersed with chert (silica).\n\nRio Tinto donated the BIF, sourcing it from a mine in north-western Australia\n\nEarth's early oceans would have been full of reduced iron in solution that had been washed off the continents, and when it combined with the nascent oxygen being produced by photosynthetic bacteria, the resulting oxides would have precipitated to settle on the seafloor.\n\nThe different layers incorporated into the rock probably mark cycles of bacterial boom and bust. Ultimately, all of the right type of iron in the ancient waters was consumed and the free oxygen had nowhere else to go but up and out into the atmosphere.\n\nEarth had become a different place.\n\n\"The rock tells a fantastic story,\" says Prof Richard Herrington, the head of Earth sciences at the NHM.\n\n\"This is the prelude to complex life. We're oxygen breathers. An organism needs an energy source and the burning of carbon in the presence of oxygen is largely where we get our energy from. It still took two billion years from this rock to get to multicellular organisms, but that's another story,\" he told BBC News.\n\nThe Imilac meteorite was found in the Atacama Desert in Chile in 1822\n\nPart of the decision to put the whale centre-stage at the museum is to highlight issues of sustainability - to get us all to think a little deeper about how we use Earth's resources.\n\nBIFs are an important commercial material. Their iron content has helped build the modern world. The Wonder Bay rock comes from the Pilbara region in north-western Australia. Rio Tinto identified the block at one of its open-cast mines, and had it cut, polished and shipped to London.\n\n\"The piece itself is not actually ore-grade; it's got about 32% iron in it, when most of the product we produce out of the Pilbara is between 58% and 62% iron,\" explained Stephen McIntosh, a senior executive with Rio Tinto. \"But the rock's got all the qualities and textures you'd want to see. And, as you say, it records an amazing moment in time - a time that was incredibly important for the Earth we live on today.\"\n\nThe BIF will be joined by nine other Wonder Bay objects, including a blue marlin, a giant Turbinaria coral and a Chilean meteorite that is regarded as one of the most beautiful ever recovered because of its large olivine crystals.\n\nSeaweeds will feature in a Wonder Bay to highlight the incredible complexity of the Tree of Life\n\nThe rock installation is supported by the Claude and Sofia Marion Foundation\n\nJonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos", "There is concern for Andy Murray and his hip injury in the papers\n\nThe fallout from the Grenfell Tower tragedy continues to occupy many of the front pages.\n\nThe Times says Kensington and Chelsea council has been \"thrown into chaos\" after the resignation of its leader Nicholas Paget-Brown and his deputy.\n\nBritain's richest borough is now \"rudderless\", says the paper, \"with hundreds of people still homeless.\"\n\nThe Sun says the men were forced to step aside after Number 10 \"demanded their heads\".\n\nSources tell the paper that Mr Paget-Brown was told by the London minister, Greg Hands, that the government had no confidence in him after his \"catastrophically poor handling\" of the disaster.\n\nIn its editorial, The Sun decries what it calls the \"shameful behaviour\" of the \"rotten\" council and says the time has come for it to be taken over by government commissioners.\n\nThe Mirror remarks that a \"sneering\" Mr Paget-Brown has \"still failed to apologise\" in the wake of the authorities' disastrous response to the tragedy.\n\nIn its editorial, the paper says Kensington and Chelsea has become \"the most reviled borough in Britain for its callous mishandling of the survivors\".\n\nIt too calls for the government to take over the running of the council.\n\nThe i says there is a \"deadly\" new tower block risk.\n\nThe paper reports that police have warned that insulation in tower blocks is just as flammable as the cladding that is thought to have contributed to the spread of the Grenfell Tower fire, in which at least 80 are believed to have died.\n\nThe Telegraph says business sources are warning Theresa May that she risks \"crippling the economy\" if The City of London is neglected in Brexit talks.\n\nSenior figures have told the paper that financial services are \"the backbone of the economy\" and must be at the forefront of negotiations.\n\nThey fear the prime minister is prioritising other industries - such as manufacturing - which employ fewer people and raise less tax.\n\nIt would be \"madness\", the Telegraph argues, \"for Britain to shoot itself in the foot because of popular ignorance about what the City does\".\n\nThe Express has other concerns.\n\nThe paper says Brussels has issued what it calls an \"outrageous\" demand for \"vast swathes\" of Britain's post-Brexit rules to be decided by the European Court of Justice.\n\nA spokesman for the Brexit department tells the paper that ending the court's direct jurisdiction over British laws is \"a red line in the negotiations\".\n\nThere is much speculation about the direction of Labour's strategy on Brexit, after the party's leader, Jeremy Corbyn, sacked three members of his front bench for voting in favour of keeping Britain in the single market and customs union.\n\nThe shadow Brexit secretary Keir Starmer has told the Mirror that the party plans to block a hard withdrawal from the EU.\n\nHe says the party will push for a \"transition arrangement\", which would extend the talks and avoid the \"cliff edge\" if a deal is not reached by the March 2019 deadline.\n\nThe Times reports on what it says is the first \"care-home nursery\" in Britain.\n\nIt says a nursery and home for the elderly are to be located on the same site in Clapham, in south-west London.\n\nThe move, says the paper, is designed to tackle the \"age apartheid that increasingly keeps generations apart\".\n\nThirty children a day will attend the nursery - with young and old taking part in activities together, including singing, cooking, gardening and story-telling.\n\nThe Sun reports on the extraordinary antics of Arnie the tortoise, who has been reunited with his owners two years after going missing.\n\nThe adventurous reptile was discovered wandering up the driveway of his owners' former home in Shropshire, even though he had never lived there.\n\nThe property was just a mile from his owners' current home, where the tortoise had been living.\n\nTortoises are known to have well-developed homing instincts.\n\nBut the Sun has a far simpler explanation for this remarkable feat - concluding that he must be \"Shellapathic\".\n\nThere is anxiety in many papers that Andy Murray's hip injury could thwart his Wimbledon ambitions.\n\nBut the Sun offers a possible solution ahead of his first match on Monday.\n\nIt asks readers to place their hands on an image of the player at precisely 15:40 BST on Saturday and send him all their positive energy.\n\nThe timing has a special significance, says the paper, as it matches the \"coveted score\" for a double break point.", "The boys were left at home in Bradford while their mother flew to Paris to organise her wedding\n\nTwo young boys were left home alone in Bradford with just a pan of soup to eat when their mother went on a two-day trip to Paris, a court has heard.\n\nThe brothers, aged six and 11, were found by police after the younger boy told his teacher his mum was in France.\n\nThe single mother had taken the trip to make arrangements for her wedding to a man she met online.\n\nShe was sentenced to six months in jail, suspended for a year after admitting two charges of child neglect.\n\nBradford Crown Court heard earlier the woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, went to Manchester Airport in March and boarded a flight to Paris leaving the youngsters \"home alone\".\n\nProsecutor Philip Adams told the court she intended to fly back the next day, but would not have arrived home until about midnight.\n\nThe court was told the younger boy's school tried unsuccessfully to contact his mother before his older brother turned up to collect him.\n\nHe was allowed to go with his brother, but the school alerted police and the boys were placed in overnight accommodation.\n\nTheir mother was arrested the following day when she returned.\n\nShe told police she had travelled to Paris to make arrangements to marry and had initially wanted the boys to stay with a friend.\n\nShe said she was then \"persuaded\" by her older son that he and his brother would be fine at home.\n\nDefending her, Tom Rushbrooke said she realised that she had made a \"terrible mistake\", and in all other respects was a caring mother.\n\nSentencing her, Judge Robert Bartfield told her she had put them \"in significant danger\".\n\nHowever, he said the case was different from those where people went on holiday leaving small children behind, and fortunately no harm was done.\n\nJudge Bartfield said as the boys had only recently been returned to their mother, this had persuaded him not to impose an immediate jail sentence.\n\nThe court also heard that she still hoped to go ahead with her wedding.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Newsnight has obtained confidential reports that help explain how flammable material has become more common on tall buildings.\n\nCombustible cladding has been permitted based on reports arguing fires involving combustible aluminium panels would behave similarly to ones with non-combustible ceramic tiles.\n\nDevelopers use them to persuade inspectors to sign off buildings.\n\nExova, the company that produced the reports, refused to comment.\n\nThe company, also known as Exova Warringtonfire, is a fire testing and engineering company.\n\nIt has previously cited client confidentiality in refusing to comment and has not responded to requests since Newsnight obtained copies of the reports relating to two buildings late on Friday afternoon.\n\nThe confidential reports obtained by Newsnight contain assessments that persuaded inspectors that a given cladding design was safe and met legal standards.\n\nPart of the engineers' reasoning was that, in a fire test, you would get similar results if you were to use either combustible aluminium panels or non-combustible ceramic tiles.\n\nAs a consequence, it argued, you could use successful fire tests involving ceramic tiles as a guide to the likely fire safety of a system using aluminium panels.\n\nThe report said: \"If this... would be tested... the external flame spread results would be comparable to those with ceramic tile.\"\n\nWhile there is no test that contradicts the authors' conclusions about the safety of the proposed cladding system, experts were surprised at the arguments advanced by the authors, which they felt was not strongly supported by evidence.\n\nAluminium composite panels are two sheets of thin aluminium around a \"core\" of some other substance. In a fire, these panels can \"delaminate\": the outer aluminium peels away, exposing the inner core.\n\nIf the inner core is combustible, these panels can allow the rapid spread of fire. Ceramic tiles do not contain combustible material and do not have layers that can come apart.\n\nThat fire performance is why so much attention has been paid to the use of aluminium panelling with a plastic core on Grenfell Tower. The government is currently demanding local authorities and housing associations send in samples of aluminium panelling for test.\n\nOne of the documents obtained by Newsnight was used to approve materials now in use in the Greetham Street student residences run by Unite Students, a student accommodation provider, in Portsmouth.\n\nThe two reports both related to a style of cladding system similar to that used at Grenfell Tower: a combustible insulation material underneath aluminium composite panels.\n\nNeither of the reports, though, proposed using the same materials as those used on Grenfell Tower. Both reports related to aluminium cladding containing fire retardants.\n\nWhile the reports related to slightly different designs and had different authors, both advanced the same technical arguments which concerned experts.\n\nThese assessments, one said, \"appeared to extrapolate an apple into an orange\" and they agreed that this showed up weaknesses in the way that we make sure buildings are fire safe.\n\nThese reports - known as \"desktop studies\" - are a legal alternative to laboratory testing.\n\nThere are several regulatory routes to demonstrating to an inspector that cladding is safe on a tall building.\n\nFirst, all the parts of the cladding can be tested separately and found to be of \"limited combustibility\", broadly meaning that the parts will not catch alight or spread fire.\n\nIf, however, some parts do not meet that standard, developers can arrange for a laboratory to construct a model of the entire proposed wall system and assess what would happen in a fire.\n\nBut if a developer wishes to follow plans similar to a setup which has already been fire-tested, they can ask an engineer to perform a desktop study, certifying that the proposed construction would pass the test without the need for one to be carried out.\n\nUnite Students have sent cladding for testing and consulted with local fire authorities to make sure their Greetham Street building in Portsmouth in safe\n\nThe scale of the use of desktop studies is actually still unknown: they are not published and are even considered commercially confidential.\n\nBut there is now growing concern in government that desktop studies may be an important factor - directly and indirectly - in explaining why so many buildings have been found to have combustible components within their cladding.\n\nNewsnight has applied for documents from the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea to establish whether desktop studies were used to justify the cladding configuration used on the Grenfell Tower.\n\nUnite, which runs the building in Portsmouth, said: \"Fire safety is always a key priority for Unite - which is why we work with the Avon Fire and Rescue Service to ensure that our buildings, policies and procedures not only comply with existing regulations but exceed them.\n\n\"As a matter of general practice, we regularly review and assess the fire risk in all of our buildings, using members of the Institution of Fire Engineers.\"\n\nBoth documents were commissioned and paid for by Kingspan, the makers of the insulation used in the cladding.\n\nKingspan said: \"In the instances where Kingspan has commissioned desktop studies, it has always been from the UK's most highly respected fire assessment consultancies.\n\n\"These experts put their professional reputations on the line when providing their safety opinion and we are very confident that this is never compromised.\"", "Police cordoned off the scene following reports of multiple shootings at a nightclub\n\nAt least 25 people have been shot at a nightclub in the US state of Arkansas, two of whom are in critical condition, police say.\n\nThree others were injured in a stampede of people fleeing the scene. The youngest victim was said to be 16.\n\nThe exchange of gunfire took place at about 02:30 local time (07:30 GMT) at a concert, but there was no immediate information about a suspect.\n\nPolice and local officials said the incident was not terrorism-related.\n\nThe mayor of Little Rock, Mark Stodola, said it was the result of a disagreement involving a number of patrons at the Power Ultra Lounge nightclub, which quickly escalated because of \"the presence of rivalries and weapons\".\n\n\"I want to reassure our public that this was not an act of terrorism, but a tragedy... It does not appear to be a planned shooting,\" Mr Stodola told reporters.\n\nHe said that all of the 28 people injured in the incident were expected to survive.\n\nLittle Rock police chief Kenton Buckner said the authorities were investigating whether a longstanding rivalry between gangs was to blame.\n\nSpecial agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives were also assisting local police.", "When Terry Gobanga - then Terry Apudo - didn't show up to her wedding, nobody could have guessed that she had been abducted, raped and left for dead by the roadside. It was the first of two tragedies to hit the young Nairobi pastor in quick succession. But she is a survivor.\n\nIt was going to be a very big wedding. I was a pastor, so all our church members were coming, as well as all our relatives. My fiance, Harry, and I were very excited - we were getting married in All Saints Cathedral in Nairobi and I had rented a beautiful dress.\n\nBut the night before the wedding I realised that I had some of Harry's clothes, including his cravat. He couldn't show up without a tie, so a friend who had stayed the night offered to take it to him first thing in the morning. We got up at dawn and I walked her to the bus station.\n\nAs I was making my way back home, I walked past a guy sitting on the bonnet of a car - suddenly he grabbed me from behind and dumped me in the back seat. There were two more men inside, and they drove off. It all happened in a fraction of a second.\n\nA piece of cloth was stuffed in my mouth. I was kicking and hitting out and trying to scream. When I managed to push the gag out, I screamed: \"It's my wedding day!\" That was when I got the first blow. One of the men told me to \"co-operate or you will die\".\n\nThe men took turns to rape me. I felt sure I was going to die, but I was still fighting for my life, so when one of the men took the gag out of my mouth I bit his manhood. He screamed in pain and one of them stabbed me in the stomach. Then they opened the door and threw me out of the moving car.\n\nI was miles from home, outside Nairobi. More than six hours had passed since I had been abducted.\n\nA child saw me being thrown out and called her grandmother. People came running. When the police came they tried to get a pulse, but no-one could. Thinking I was dead, they wrapped me in a blanket and started to take me to the mortuary. But on the way there, I choked on the blanket and coughed. The policeman said: \"She's alive?\" And he turned the car around and drove me to the biggest government hospital in Kenya.\n\nI arrived in great shock, murmuring incoherently. I was half-naked and covered in blood, and my face was swollen from being punched. But something must have alerted the matron, because she guessed I was a bride. \"Let's go around the churches to see if they're missing a bride,\" she told the nurses.\n\nAll Saint's Cathedral is the oldest Anglican cathedral in Nairobi\n\nBy coincidence, the first church they called at was All Saints Cathedral. \"Are you missing a bride?\" the nurse asked.\n\nThe minister said: \"Yes, there was a wedding at 10 o'clock and she didn't come.\"\n\nWhen I didn't show up to the church, my parents were panicking. People were sent out to search for me. Rumours flew. Some wondered: \"Did she change her mind?\" Others said: \"No, it's so unlike her, what happened?\"\n\nAfter a few hours, they had to take down the decorations to make room for the next ceremony. Harry had been put in the vestry to wait.\n\nWhen they heard where I was, my parents came to the hospital with the whole entourage. Harry was actually carrying my wedding gown. But the media had also got wind of the story so there were reporters too.\n\nI was moved to another hospital where I'd have more privacy. That was where the doctors stitched me up and gave me some devastating news: \"The stab wound went deep into your womb, so you won't be able to carry any children.\"\n\nI was given the morning-after pill, as well as antiretroviral drugs to protect me from HIV and Aids. My mind shut down, it refused to accept what had happened.\n\nHarry kept saying he still wanted to marry me. \"I want to take care of her and make sure she comes back to good health in my arms, in our house,\" he said. Truth be told, I wasn't in a position to say Yes or No because my mind was so jammed with the faces of the three men, and with everything that had happened.\n\nA few days later, when I was less sedated, I was able to look him in the eye. I kept saying sorry. I felt like I had let him down. Some people said it was my own fault for leaving the house in the morning. It was really hurtful, but my family and Harry supported me.\n\nThe police never caught the rapists. I went to line-up after line-up but I didn't recognise any of the men, and it hurt me each time I went. It set back my recovery - it was 10 steps forward, 20 back. In the end I went back to the police station and said: \"You know what, I'm done. I just want to leave it.\"\n\nThree months after the attack I was told I was HIV-negative and got really excited, but they told me I had to wait three more months to be sure. Still, Harry and I began to plan our second wedding.\n\nAlthough I had been very angry at the press intrusion, somebody read my story and asked to meet me. Her name was Vip Ogolla, and she was also a rape survivor. We spoke, and she told me she and her friends wanted to give me a free wedding. \"Go wild, have whatever you want,\" she said.\n\nI was ecstatic. I went for a different type of cake, much more expensive. Instead of a rented gown, now I could have one that was totally mine.\n\nIn July 2005, seven months after our first planned wedding, Harry and I got married and went on a honeymoon.\n\nHarry Olwande and Terry on their wedding day in July 2005\n\nTwenty-nine days later, we were at home on a very cold night. Harry lit a charcoal burner and took it to the bedroom. After dinner, he removed it because the room was really warm. I got under the covers as he locked up the house. When he came to bed he said he was feeling dizzy, but we thought nothing of it.\n\nIt was so cold we couldn't sleep, so I suggested getting another duvet. But Harry said he couldn't get it as he didn't have enough strength. Strangely, I couldn't stand up either. We realised something was very wrong. He passed out. I passed out. I remember coming to. I would call him. At times he would respond, at other times he wouldn't. I pushed myself out of bed and threw up, which gave me some strength. I started crawling to the phone. I called my neighbour and said: \"Something is wrong, Harry is not responding.\"\n\nShe came over immediately but it took me ages to crawl to the front door to let her in as I kept passing out. I saw an avalanche of people coming in, screaming. And I passed out again.\n\nI woke up in hospital and asked where my husband was. They said they were working on him in the next room. I said: \"I'm a pastor, I've seen quite a lot in my life, I need you to be very straight with me.\" The doctor looked at me and said: \"I'm sorry, your husband did not make it.\"\n\nGoing back to church for the funeral was terrible. Just a month earlier I had been there in my white dress, with Harry standing at the front looking handsome in his suit. Now, I was in black and he was being wheeled in, in a casket.\n\nPeople thought I was cursed and held back their children from me. \"There's a bad omen hanging over her,\" they said. At one point, I actually believed it myself.\n\nOthers accused me of killing my husband. That really got me down - I was grieving.\n\nThe post-mortem showed what really happened: as the carbon monoxide filled his system, he started choking and suffocated.\n\nI had a terrible breakdown. I felt let down by God, I felt let down by everybody. I couldn't believe that people could be laughing, going out and just going about life. I crashed.\n\nOne day I was sitting on the balcony looking at the birds chirping away and I said: \"God, how can you take care of the birds and not me?\" In that instant I remembered there are 24 hours a day - sitting in depression with your curtains closed, no-one's going to give you back those 24 hours. Before you know, it's a week, a month, a year wasted away. That was a tough reality.\n\nI told everybody I would never ever get married again. God took my husband, and the thought of ever going through such a loss again was too much. It's something I wouldn't wish on anybody. The pain is so intense, you feel it in your nails.\n\nBut there was one man - Tonny Gobanga - who kept visiting. He would encourage me to talk about my husband and think about the good times. One time he didn't call for three days and I was so angry. That's when it hit me that I had fallen for him.\n\nTonny proposed marriage but I told him to buy a magazine, read my story and tell me if he still loved me. He came back and said he still wanted to marry me.\n\nBut I said: \"Listen, there's another thing - I can't have children, so I cannot get married to you.\"\n\n\"Children are a gift from God,\" he said. \"If we get them, Amen. If not, I will have more time to love you.\"\n\nI thought: \"Wow, what a line!\" So I said Yes.\n\nTonny went home to tell his parents, who were very excited, until they heard my story. \"You can't marry her - she is cursed,\" they said. My father-in-law refused to attend the wedding, but we went ahead anyway. We had 800 guests - many came out of curiosity.\n\nIt was three years after my first wedding, and I was very scared. When we were exchanging vows, I thought: \"Here I am again Father, please don't let him die.\" As the congregation prayed for us I cried uncontrollably.\n\nA year into our marriage, I felt unwell and went to the doctor - and to my great surprise he told me that I was pregnant.\n\nAs the months progressed I was put on total bed rest, because of the stab wound to my womb. But all went well, and we had a baby girl who we called Tehille. Four years later, we had another baby girl named Towdah.\n\nToday, I am the best of friends with my father-in-law.\n\nI wrote a book, Crawling out of Darkness, about my ordeal, to give people hope of rising again. I also started an organisation called Kara Olmurani. We work with rape survivors, as I call them - not rape victims. We offer counselling and support. We are looking to start a halfway house for them where they can come and find their footing before going back to face the world.\n\nI have forgiven my attackers. It wasn't easy but I realised I was getting a raw deal by being upset with people who probably don't care. My faith also encourages me to forgive and not repay evil with evil but with good.\n\nThe most important thing is to mourn. Go through every step of it. Get upset until you are willing to do something about your situation. You have to keep moving, crawl if you have to. But move towards your destiny because it's waiting, and you have to go and get it.\n\nListen to Terry's interview on Outlook on the BBC World Service\n\nJoin the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter.", "Adele has cancelled the final two shows of her world tour, due to take place at London's Wembley Stadium this weekend, after damaging her vocal cords.\n\nThe \"devastated\" singer said she had taken the decision on medical advice.\n\n\"To say I'm heartbroken would be a complete understatement,\" London-born Adele wrote in a Twitter post in the early hours.\n\nShe had been due to perform at Wembley on Saturday and Sunday, ending a four-date run at the venue.\n\nIn her post, the 29-year-old said her first two Wembley shows this week had been \"the biggest and best shows of my life\", but that she had struggled vocally.\n\nDespite the voice problems, Adele's performances on 28 and 29 June were well-received by critics, with the Guardian describing her as \"instinctively charismatic\", the Times as \"poignant\", while the Telegraph wrote: \"She is such a natural on stage.\"\n\nAdele explained: \"I had to push a lot harder than I normally do... it turns out I have damaged my vocal cords.\n\n\"On medical advice, I am simply unable to perform over the weekend.\n\n\"I've considered doing Saturday night's show, but it's highly unlikely I'd even make it through the set and I simply can't crumble in front of you all and walk out on you in that way.\"\n\nShe added that she was so desperate to be with her fans that she had even considered miming at the final two shows.\n\n\"But I've never done it and I cannot in a million years do that to you. It wouldn't be the real me up there,\" Adele said.\n\n\"I'm sorry for your disappointment... You know I would not make this decision lightly.\"\n\nShe concluded by saying refunds would be available if the shows could not be rescheduled.\n\n\"There will be more information over the next few days. I'm sorry, I'm devastated... please forgive me x.\"\n\nIt is not the first time Adele has experienced problems with her vocal cords. In 2011, she underwent throat surgery to remove a benign polyp.\n\nWednesday's Adele concert at Wembley was attended by 98,000 fans - a stadium record for a UK music event.\n\nIn a message in the programme, the singer indicated her four Wembley shows could be her last ever tour dates.\n\n\"I wanted my final shows to be in London because I don't know if I'll ever tour again,\" she said.\n\n\"I've done 119 shows and these last four will take me up to 123, it has been hard but an absolute thrill and pleasure to have done.\"\n\nWhen Adele opened her world tour in Belfast in February last year, it was her first UK concert in four-and-a-half years.", "The deal struck this week between the Conservatives and the DUP gives the government a majority in the House of Commons on certain votes, enabling it to win the vote on the Queen's Speech.\n\nWith the DUP, it has a majority of six across all 650 MPs - but with the seven Sinn Fein MPs not taking their seats, in practice it is a working majority of 13.\n\nThat's still an uncomfortably small number. It would only take a rebellion of seven people to defeat the government if all opposition MPs were to vote together.\n\nWe have already seen how the government has had to be more responsive to its backbenchers, conceding to demands that women from Northern Ireland should be able to receive free abortions in England.\n\nBut it is not just rebellions that the government needs to worry about. The majority could be eroded over time if the Conservatives or DUP were to lose seats at by-elections.\n\nJim Callaghan (left) and Sir John Major both lost their majorities\n\nSeven losses might sound a lot but if we look back at previous parliaments it is by no means unprecedented. Just ask Jim Callaghan or Sir John Major. Their governments lost their majorities because of illness, defection and death.\n\nThe Conservative government suffered a net loss of eight seats at by-elections between 1992 and 1997; and seven seats between 1987 and 1992.\n\nThe 1974-79 Labour government also lost seven seats, eliminating its wafer-thin majority and ultimately leading to defeat in a vote of no confidence in the House of Commons.\n\nThese turbulent times were dramatised on the West End stage in the play This House, which showed how, in 1978 and 1979, MPs were taken to votes in ambulances. Government whips also had special keys to unlock toilet doors to ensure drunken MPs weren't napping on the toilet.\n\nBetween 1966 and 1970 Labour's net loss was 15 seats. That was a particularly tough Parliament for the Labour Party because 20 sitting MPs died, as those elected two decades earlier in the 1945 landslide fell to ill health and old age.\n\nIn the 1960s, many Labour MPs had endured harder lives than their Conservative counterparts because they often came from manual professions such as mining or factory work.\n\nThe table below shows how many seats governing parties have gained or lost at by-elections over the course of each parliament since World War Two.\n\nIn four of those 19 parliaments, the government lost at least seven seats.\n\nIt means that Theresa May doesn't just have to fear backbench rebellions; she also has to fear illness, defection and death.", "The papers report on a growing battle within the cabinet over austerity and public spending\n\nThe Sunday Telegraph says a new front has opened up in the cabinet battle over austerity.\n\nThe paper says Education Secretary Justine Greening has told Prime Minister Theresa May the Tories should abandon plans to cut per-pupil funding, with the change in direction being announced soon so that schools know where they stand.\n\nAccording to the paper, senior figures at Number 10 admit they are braced for \"a big battle\" over spending this summer.\n\nThe Sunday Times reports that more than 20 MPs cornered the Conservative chief whip last week, demanding change, and more than double that number are threatening to rebel over spending plans unless the 1% public sector pay cap is lifted.\n\nUniversity tuition fees are the focus in the Mail on Sunday, which leads with the suggestion by Mrs May's most senior minister, Damian Green, that a national debate may be needed on the issue.\n\nThe paper also highlights what it describes as fading public support for austerity policies, but it notes that lifting the pay cap, and linking it to inflation instead, would cost the Treasury an extra £1.4bn a year alone.\n\nThe Sun on Sunday reports that Ms Greening and Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt are leading the charge for public sector workers to get a pay rise.\n\n\"There are very good arguments for continuing to bear down on the deficit,\" a cabinet source tells the paper, \"but the case on public sector pay is becoming irresistible.\"\n\nAccording to The Observer, Mr Hunt may press for the lifting of the public sector pay cap for NHS workers, citing a pay review body report that suggests the costs of plugging gaps caused by staff shortages could soon be greater than the savings.\n\nIt refers to a \"chorus of Tory demands\" facing Mrs May.\n\nWriting in The Sunday Mirror, shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth says nurses and paramedics should not have to wait until the autumn Budget to learn whether the pay cap will be lifted.\n\nBut The Sunday Times is having none of it.\n\nDescribing it as \"a government in danger of losing its financial wits,\" the paper warns that a Conservative Party that stands for nothing, including fiscal discipline, will flounder.\n\nThe Telegraph, likewise, urges Chancellor Philip Hammond to resist the calls for change, saying the government is in danger of giving up on financial prudence as though it is a television programme we have got bored with.\n\nThe country as a whole, it says, should have the moral fibre to face the financial reality in front of us.\n\nBut The Observer argues that capping public sector pay has fuelled recruitment and retention problems.\n\nIt is not just mean, the paper says, it is a false economy.\n\nThe news that British fishermen are to have the exclusive rights to a 12-mile zone around the coastline leads The Sunday Express.\n\nThe paper welcomes it as a first step towards taking control of the country's fishing policy.\n\nThe new Environment Secretary, Michael Gove, tells The Sunday Times that his father's fishing business was hit by the EU, and pulling out of the London Fisheries Convention was \"a chance to put things right\".\n\nThe Sunday Times also has what it calls \"awkward\" scientific findings.\n\nResearchers in Rotterdam have apparently found that men's average IQ is four points above women's - because they typically have bigger brains.\n\nThe paper describes the finding as the latest twist in a debate with powerful political implications.\n\nIt notes that in the 19th Century, the view that women's smaller brains made them less intelligent was used to justify denying them rights such as voting.\n\nFinally, the day before the start of Wimbledon has brought with it the inevitable exhaustive analysis of Andy Murray's chances.\n\n\"It's been brutal but I'm ready,\" is the headline in The Mirror, which describes how a hip injury has wrought havoc with the player's preparations.\n\nThe Express says the man who it describes as \"Battler Andy\" has grown into a dignified champion, and it wishes him good luck in defence of his Wimbledon title.\n\nReporting that Murray has now declared himself fit, The Sun recalls how it urged millions of its readers on Saturday to collectively lay their soothing hands on a front-page picture of his troublesome hip.\n\n\"It Was The Sun Wot Rubbed It!\", the paper declares.", "Joe Furness slept in a hire car during his 12-hour stopover in Menorca\n\nA student discovered it was cheaper to fly from Newcastle to London via Menorca than to take the train.\n\nWhen Joe Furness, 21, decided on a last-minute trip to see friends, the lowest rail fare he found was £78.50.\n\nBut after an internet search the trainee marine officer found the same journey, including a 12-hour stopover on the Spanish island, for £26.98.\n\nHe said it showed train travel in the UK had become \"ridiculously expensive\".\n\nMr Furness, from Oldham, is a trainee cadet with shipping firm Maersk and is studying at South Shields Marine College.\n\nAs well as the flights, he also spent £7.50 on a hire car, which he slept in, and splashed out on a £4 cocktail - meaning his entire trip was £40 cheaper than taking the train.\n\nMr Furness admitted the trip was \"no good for anyone who needs to do a commute\".\n\n\"But it does show how cheap it can be to travel and have a bit of fun at the same time,\" he added.\n\n\"I had a great time, saw a festival, drove around the island for a bit and met loads of people.\n\n\"Trains in the UK have become ridiculously expensive. I've never once got on a train and got off at the other end thinking I've had value for money.\"\n\nMr Furness made a video of his trip, which took a total of 22 hours and consisted of a flight out of Newcastle to Menorca with Thomas Cook on 23 June for £15.99.\n\nHis return flight to London Gatwick the next day cost £10.99 with the same airline.\n\nMr Furness uses comparison sites to find the cheapest flights\n\nThis is not the first time Mr Furness claims to have found cheaper flights than trains. He said he recently travelled from Newcastle to Manchester via Geneva by air at a cost of £39 when the cheapest train ticket he could find would have cost £64.\n\nHe added: \"I use comparison sites to find the cheapest flight from my departure point to anywhere in the world. Then find the cheapest from there to my destination.\n\n\"This time I found it was way cheaper to go via Menorca. It took a lot longer, but I think it's still better than sitting on a train for four hours.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ascension Lopez says she has found documents indicating that her adoption was illegal\n\n\"Even if I go to jail, I will remain freer than those who are prisoners of their own lies,\" says Ascensión López, who faces five months in prison for slandering a nun. \"They cannot take away what I know in my mind.\"\n\nLopez is too poor to pay €40,000 (£35,000; $46,000) in damages after a court ruled she had wrongly accused the nun of taking her from her biological mother and handing her to ageing adoptive parents in 1962.\n\nIf the government does not pardon her, the 55-year-old will be the first person to be jailed over Spain's enormous baby-snatching racket stemming from the Franco era.\n\nProtesters have presented a 30,000-strong petition to Spain's justice ministry calling for her to be let off.\n\n\"I have a bone-wasting disease, I have not been able to work for three years and my two children are unemployed and have no contact with their father,\" a tearful López told the BBC.\n\nAccording to López, her adoptive father, a senior figure in Gen Francisco Franco's regime in Almeria whose marriage was barren, bought her for 250,000 pesetas (about €50,000, £44,000 , $57,000 in today's money) via his niece, Dolores Baena, a nun working in a Seville hospital at the time. Her father was 67, and her new mother around 60. Dolores became her cousin.\n\nWhen she was eight, she came home from school to find local dignitaries in her parents' bedroom. Before her lay her father's body. He had suffered a stroke and died.\n\n\"I went to my room to cry, and a member of the family came to see me and asked why I was crying for that man who had nothing to do with me, but had only bought me when I was a new-born.\"\n\nAscension's adoptive father died when she was eight\n\nAsking for information from her mother and relatives, López began to suspect there was something not quite right about her adoption, long before the issue of babies being stolen from poor or politically suspect parents became a public issue in Spain.\n\nFor a start, she had different names on the various bits of paperwork that confirmed her identity.\n\nOn the first sheet from the Seville hospital nursery where she was kept for a few days, she was called Consuelo.\n\nAs a small child, her name was María Dolores - \"I was always Loli at home\" - but her first identity card named her officially as María Ascensión.\n\n\"Whatever happened to my mother, I am very clear that my identity was stolen.\"\n\nAscensión López believes she was bought by a senior figure in Gen Francisco Franco's regime\n\nLópez asked the nun, her cousin, if she could help her trace her background.\n\n\"She told me that, try as she might, I would never find my biological parents. When I was 15 she took me to an orphanage in Almeria and showed me all the babies there. 'If we hadn't done what we did for you, you'd have been left alone, like these children with no family'.\"\n\nLópez's investigation has uncovered an adoption sheet signed by Sister Dolores, but the Seville authorities cannot find any document in which her biological mother surrendered her child.\n\nAs an activist and president of SOS Stolen Babies Almería, representing other possible victims of the stolen baby scandal that stretches over half a century from the 1930s to the 1990s, López spoke of her case in the media, naming Sister Dolores as the person who \"organised\" her illegal adoption.\n\nThe nun sued her cousin for defamation, winning a 2015 trial. López was ordered to pay a €3,000 fine, plus €40,000 in damages to Sister Dolores and costs.\n\nNo documents have been found indicating that Ascensión López was given up by her birth mother\n\nDuring the trial, Sister Dolores declared: \"There was nobody behind the adoption; it was all legal and nobody charged any money.\"\n\nThe judge said Ascensión López had utterly failed to prove that her adoption had been illegally carried out by her cousin and had falsely accused her.\n\nSister Dolores did not reply to requests by the BBC to comment for this article.\n\nLópez admits she may have been \"careless\" in her wording when accusing the nun, but feels let down by the legal system. \"I was judged as a daughter, as a mother and as a woman; my whole life was put on trial.\"\n\nEstimates of the number of cases of stolen babies in Spain range from 30,000 to 300,000.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Manoli Pagador told the BBC in 2011 how her baby son was taken away from her in 1971\n\nAlmost all of thousands of cases reported to the courts have led nowhere. But later this year, Eduardo Vela, an 82-year-old Madrid gynaecologist, is due to become the first person to go on trial accused of baby snatching.\n\nLópez, who cared for her adoptive mother before she died in 1990, says that she too has fallen into bad health and economic ruin. She suffers from a rare bone condition and an inherited blood disorder.\n\n\"They have erased my memories. I look at my son and wonder who he looks like. I look at my daughter and wonder if she could have the same disease as me because it's genetically transmitted.\n\n\"I just wonder what happened and how did I end up here?\"", "It is nearly 20 years since William and Harry lost their mother, Diana.\n\nPrince William and Prince Harry have attended a private service to rededicate the grave of their mother, Princess of Wales, almost 20 years after her death.\n\nThe service was held at Diana's family home in Northamptonshire on what would have been her 56th birthday.\n\nThe ceremony was also attended by the Duchess of Cambridge, Prince George and Princess Charlotte.\n\nPrince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall are in Canada.\n\nThe service, at Althorp House, was conducted by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby.\n\nThe Princess of Wales died on 31 August 1997 in a car crash in Paris, when the Duke of Cambridge was 15 and his brother was 12.\n\nThis is the start of a difficult few months for Prince William and Prince Harry as they remember their mother who, they say, smothered them in love.\n\nThey were traumatised children when she died.\n\nHarry has spoken of how he shouldn't have been made to walk behind Diana's coffin.\n\nWilliam has expressed his considerable regret that they weren't old enough to do more to protect her.\n\nTwenty years on, together, they're taking control of how she will be remembered.\n\nThey've commissioned a statue. Its unveiling, in the future, will be public.\n\nToday's service was to be very private, with no media present.\n\nThe princes, like their mother, have a complex relationship with the press.\n\nThey will never forgive the paparazzi who pursued their mother's car in Paris.\n\nAlso absent from the graveside was Prince Charles.\n\nIt's fortuitous he's in Canada and it's probably a relief for all concerned.\n\nThe princes have commissioned a statue of Princess Diana to mark the 20th anniversary of her death.\n\nThe sculpture will be placed in the public grounds of her former residence, Kensington Palace.", "Supporters of Grenfell survivors took part in anti-government protests in central London on Saturday\n\nThe government will keep \"a close eye\" on Kensington and Chelsea council after its leader quit over the Grenfell Tower fire, the communities secretary says.\n\nSajid Javid said it was \"right\" that Nicholas Paget-Brown stepped down and said the process to select a successor would be \"independent of government\".\n\nLondon mayor Sadiq Khan has called for commissioners to take over the council.\n\nEarlier, a victims' group said one resident had had rent deducted from their bank account since the fire.\n\nAt least 80 people are believed to have died as fire engulfed the Grenfell Tower block, in west London, on 14 June.\n\nMr Javid said: \"It is right the council leader stepped down given the initial response to the Grenfell tragedy,\" adding: \"If we need to take further action, we won't hesitate to do so.\"\n\nMr Paget-Brown resigned following sustained criticism of the council and an aborted meeting of its cabinet on Thursday, from which leaders had tried to ban members of the public and press.\n\nThe council is due to elect a leader next week.\n\nYvette Williams, co-ordinator of the Justice4Grenfell campaign, said one former Grenfell Tower resident had had rent deducted from their bank account since the tragedy.\n\nThe survivor, who is housed in a hotel, got her bank card back and only realised that the rent had been taken when she went to withdraw funds from a cash point, Ms Williams said.\n\n\"It's just disgusting,\" she added.\n\nKensington and Chelsea council said to the best of its knowledge rent charges for Grenfell Tower and Grenfell Walk had been stopped.\n\n\"We are very sorry if this has happened and we are working to find out who has been affected so we can offer reassurance and an immediate refund,\" a council statement said.\n\n\"But if anyone has had money inadvertently taken as part of a direct debit or standing order we will make arrangements to have it immediately refunded.\"\n\nCatherine Faulks, Conservative councillor for Kensington and Chelsea council, told the BBC: \"It obviously is a mistake and I'm sorry that that has happened.\"\n\nShe said they would try to put it right.\n\nSupporters of the Grenfell survivors joined anti-government protests through central London on Saturday, calling for an end to austerity measures.\n\nCouncil leaders claimed on Thursday that an open meeting would \"prejudice\" the forthcoming public inquiry into the disaster.\n\nBut angry protests followed and Labour councillor Robert Atkinson, whose ward includes Grenfell Tower, branded the abandoned meeting a \"fiasco\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nick Paget-Brown: \"I have to accept my share of responsibility\"\n\nIn his resignation statement, Mr Paget-Brown said he had received legal advice not to \"compromise\" the public inquiry into the fire by having the meeting open to the public and press.\n\nBut he added this decision \"has itself become a political story\".\n\n\"It cannot be right that this should have become the focus of attention when so many are dead or still unaccounted for,\" he said.\n\nReacting to Mr Paget-Brown's resignation, Mr Khan said it had been \"clear that the local community in and around North Kensington has lost trust in the council and that the administration is not fit for purpose\".\n\nHe had earlier called on the prime minister to appoint \"untainted\" commissioners with \"a genuine empathy for local people and the situation they face\" to take over the running of the council until the next local council elections.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Council tries to ban press and public from meeting\n\nDeputy council leader and cabinet member for housing, property and regeneration, Rock Feilding-Mellen, has also stood down.\n\nThe fire at the 24-storey block in North Kensington destroyed 151 homes, both in the tower and in surrounding areas.\n\nDocuments obtained by the BBC suggest cladding fitted to Grenfell Tower during its refurbishment was changed to a cheaper version, which was less fire resistant.\n\nThe tower's cladding has been the focus of attention, amid suggestions it was why the flames spread so quickly.\n\nThe head of Kensington and Chelsea Tenant Management Organisation has also stepped aside so he can focus on \"assisting with the investigation and inquiry\".\n\nDid you live in Grenfell Tower? Or are you part of the local community? What's your experience of the council's response to the fire? Email 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:", "Theresa May has made David Davis's job more difficult by setting \"red lines\" for him in Brexit talks, his ex-chief of staff has told the BBC.\n\nJames Chapman said the Brexit secretary had been \"hamstrung\" by the prime minister's stance on the European Court of Justice (ECJ), among other things.\n\nHe said Mrs May would not get a Brexit deal through Parliament unless she showed more \"flexibility\".\n\nDowning Street and the Department for Exiting the EU declined to comment.\n\nMrs May has insisted the ECJ will have no jurisdiction over the UK.\n\nBut the EU insists that the ECJ must continue to offer legal protection for its citizens in the UK, just as it does now.\n\nThe ECJ's main role is to uphold the rules of the single market, rather than rule on criminal matters like the European Court of Human Rights.\n\nMr Davis has said a new international body will have to be set up to settle disputes between the UK and the EU after Brexit, a job currently done by the ECJ.\n\nMr Chapman accused Mrs May of taking an \"absolutist\" position on the ECJ, saying: \"She's set a red line effectively for a conference speech that hamstrung these negotiations in my view.\"\n\nHe added: \"There have been red lines that have been set for him that make the job he has to do very difficult.\"\n\nMr Chapman also warned, in an interview with The Week in Westminster to be broadcast on Saturday at 11:00 BST on BBC Radio 4, that Mrs May would struggle to get her version of Brexit past MPs.\n\n\"If she doesn't, in my point of view, show more flexibility, show more pragmatism than she did demonstrate in the Home Office, she won't get this stuff through Parliament.\"\n\nA former Daily Mail journalist, Mr Chapman was George Osborne's director of communications before becoming Mr Davis's chief of staff at the new department for exiting the EU.\n\nTheresa May and Spain's PM Mariano Rajoy at a G20 summit\n\nHe also revealed that cabinet ministers wanted Mrs May to do a U-turn over plans to pull the UK out of Euratom, the pan-European atomic energy regulator.\n\nEuratom is a separate legal entity from the EU and gives Britain's nuclear industry access to technology and fissile material.\n\nMr Chapman said the reason for wanting to withdraw from Euratom was to prevent the free movement of nuclear scientists, which is governed by the ECJ.\n\n\"Now I would have thought the UK would like to continue welcoming nuclear scientists, who are all probably being paid six figures and are paying lots of tax,\" he said.\n\n\"But we're withdrawing from it because of this absolutist position on the European Court.\"\n\nHe added: \"If she doesn't shift on this I think Parliament will do it for her.\"\n\nHe also took a swipe at the ability of ministers in Mrs May's top team, which he said was \"not groaning with talent\".\n\n\"I think a political party is in a bad place when there's more talented people on its back benches than there are on the front benches.\"\n\nHe said the cabinet's leading \"Brexiteers\", David Davis and Boris Johnson, were \"actually pretty liberal on issues like immigration\" and would like to \"recalibrate\" Mrs May's position, \"but at the moment she is showing no willingness to do this\".\n\nMr Chapman stopped working for David Davis at the election and is now a partner at lobbying company Bell Pottinger.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nick Paget-Brown: \"I have to accept my share of responsibility\"\n\nKensington and Chelsea Council leader Nick Paget-Brown has resigned following continued criticism of the council's handling of the Grenfell Tower tragedy.\n\nMr Paget-Brown faced calls to resign from London Mayor Sadiq Khan and a number of other senior politicians.\n\nIt comes after an aborted meeting of the council's cabinet in which leaders had tried to ban members of the public and press.\n\nAt least 80 people are believed to have died in the blaze on 14 June.\n\nAnnouncing his resignation, Mr Paget-Brown said he had to accept responsibility for \"perceived failings\" by the council after the tragedy..\n\n\"I have therefore decided to step down as leader of the council as soon as a successor is in place,\" he said.\n\nMembers of the public and press had been barred from the council meeting until a court order overturned the decision minutes before it was due to start\n\nCommunities Secretary Sajid Javid said: \"This is clearly a personal matter for the leader of Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, as well as the council.\n\n\"However, given local people had lost confidence in the leader, it is right that he has stepped aside.\"\n\nHe said the government's priority \"remains focussed on the ongoing response efforts and providing all necessary support to those affected by this tragic incident\".\n\nDeputy council leader and cabinet member for housing, property and regeneration, Rock Feilding-Mellen, also announced his resignation.\n\nThe decision to adjourn Thursday night's meeting led to a rebuke from Downing Street on Friday.\n\nA Number 10 spokesman said: \"The High Court ruled that the meeting should be open and we would have expected the council to respect that.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Council tries to ban press and public from meeting\n\nCouncil leaders claimed an open meeting would \"prejudice\" the forthcoming public inquiry.\n\nBut angry protests followed and Labour councillor Robert Atkinson, whose ward includes Grenfell Tower, branded the abandoned meeting a \"fiasco\".\n\nMr Atkinson, the Labour group leader on Kensington and Chelsea, told the BBC he was \"ashamed\" of the authority.\n\nHe accused leaders of \"hiding from residents, they have been hiding from backbench councillors for over a week\".\n\nThe London mayor demanded the resignation of the entire council leadership on Friday morning, adding the council's decision to scrap the meeting \"beggars belief\".\n\nMr Khan welcomed Mr Paget-Brown stepping down, saying: \"Ever since the awful events of two weeks ago, it has been clear that the local community in and around north Kensington has lost trust in the council and that the administration is not fit for purpose.\n\n\"Last night's decision to abandon the council's cabinet meeting has merely compounded the misery for local people who are grieving, traumatised and desperate for answers.\"\n\nMr Khan later tweeted a letter he sent to the prime minister, asking her to appoint commissioners to take over the running of the council until next May's council elections.\n\nThe fire at the 24-storey block in North Kensington destroyed 151 homes, both in the tower and surrounding areas.\n\nDocuments obtained by the BBC suggest cladding fitted to Grenfell Tower during its refurbishment was changed to a cheaper version, which was less fire resistant.\n\nMr Paget-Brown said many \"questions about the cause of the fire and how it spread so quickly\" would need to be answered by the public inquiry.\n\nHe added: \"The scale of this tragedy was always going to mean that one borough alone would never have sufficient resources to respond to all the needs of the survivors and those made homeless on its own.\n\n\"We have been very lucky to have the support of other London boroughs, the emergency services and community associations based in north Kensington and I'm very grateful to them.\"\n\nMr Paget-Brown said the council had been criticised for not answering \"all of the questions people had\". He said that was \"properly a matter for the public inquiry\".\n\nBut he said his decision to accept legal advice that he \"should not compromise the public inquiry by having an open discussion in public\" on Thursday night had \"itself become a political story\".\n\n\"It cannot be right that this should have become the focus of attention when so many are dead or still unaccounted for,\" he added.\n\nAnnouncing his resignation, Mr Feilding-Mellen said it had been suggested several times since the blaze that he should step down but he had felt it was his \"duty\" to back the council's efforts to help the victims.\n\n\"It will be for others to judge whether it would have been better for me to resign immediately, but I would have found it hard to forgive myself if I had ducked out at such a moment of crisis for the borough,\" he said.\n\nCladding on at least 149 high-rise buildings across 45 local authority areas in England has failed fire safety tests.\n\nLast weekend, Camden Borough Council evacuated five tower blocks which were found to have the same flammable cladding as that of Grenfell Tower.\n• None 'I have to accept my share of responsibility' Video, 00:02:10'I have to accept my share of responsibility'", "An oil tanker and a cargo ship have collided in the English Channel.\n\nThe collision happened 15 miles north east of Dover at 02:00 BST, the coastguard said.\n\nThe 183m (600ft) tanker Seafrontier, which is loaded with petrol, has a hole above the waterline and damage to the superstructure, the RNLI said.\n\nThe 225m (740ft) Huayang Endeavour was also damaged. None of the crew on board either ship was injured.\n\n\"Although both vessels have been damaged, there is no water ingress and no pollution,\" a coastguard spokesman said.\n\nHuayang Endeavour was en route to Lagos in Nigeria and Seafrontier was travelling to Puerto Barrios in Guatemala. The vessels have Chinese and Indian crews on board, the UK coastguard said.\n\nThe Huayang Endeavour was on its way to Nigeria when the collision happened\n\nThe Seafrontier was damaged above the waterline, the RNLI said\n\nA tug from Boulogne was called and the Seafrontier was taken under tow. The Huayang Endeavour is anchored mid-Channel between the two shipping lanes.\n\nBoth ships are registered in Hong Kong.\n\nWeather conditions at the time of the callout showed a moderate wind and the state of the sea was calm, the RNLI said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "When music captures the spirit of freedom it can cross any border. In 1961, Communist East Germany built a wall across Berlin, and tried to seal itself off from the West. But new research shows how concrete, barbed wire and a huge effort by the secret police, the Stasi, failed to silence the seductive beat of rock and roll and punk.\n\nThe rise of Beatlemania in the 1960s brought a scathing response from Walter Ulbricht, the leader of the German Democratic Republic (GDR).\n\n\"Do we really have to copy all the rubbish that comes from the West… with all the monotony of their 'Yeah, yeah, yeah,'\" he sneered during one of his turgid speeches to the Communist Party faithful.\n\nHe was 70 years old and in some ways his comments weren't so different from those of many Western politicians, says Dagmar Hovestaedt, a senior figure at the BStU, the organisation investigating the archives of the East German secret police, the Stasi.\n\n\"The older generation, the war generation, was aghast at what youth was doing,\" she says.\n\nBut for East Germany's leaders, much more was at stake. They feared that love of Western music would lead to love of Western politics. So they desperately tried to develop \"their own version of cool youth culture\".\n\nThere were state-planned dance steps, such as the Lipsi, an attempt to prevent the rise of rock and roll dancing. There was also a ludicrous and much ignored quota system restricting how much Western music could be played at parties. But \"you can't organise a youth culture,\" Hovestaedt says. \"That's not how it works.\"\n\nWhich is why many young East Germans remained glued to their radios, trying to catch the latest tunes beamed in by Western stations, and the Stasi did what it could to stop them.\n\nIf there's one story that symbolises GDR paranoia about music - and the tragedy of being a young music fan there - it's the story of a Rolling Stones concert that never happened.\n\nIt all began in 1969 with a throwaway comment by a DJ on the radio station RIAS - based in West Berlin but much listened to on the other side of the Berlin Wall. Imagine, he said, if the new publishing house built by entrepreneur Axel Springer in the West, right next to the Wall, staged a concert featuring the Stones on its roof so Easterners could come and listen too.\n\nStasi photographs of crowds in East Berlin gathering to hear the Rolling Stones\n\nIn East Germany the DJ's notion quickly became rumour and then widely believed fact. Thousands of young East Germans convinced themselves that the Stones really would play. And, what's more, on the same day their rulers were planning a day of celebrations in East Berlin to mark the 20th anniversary of the GDR's founding.\n\nCue panic among the Stasi. They hated Springer - seen as a capitalist ogre bent on luring young people away from the communist faith. Their files from the time are full of things like photographs of slogans chalked on roads in East German towns telling Stones fans to come to Berlin - and reports detailing how the Stasi tracked down and arrested the subversive sloganisers.\n\nBut hundreds did still come to Berlin on the day. I met Eckart Mann, then a 16-year-old, at the same spot opposite the Springer building where he'd waited in 1969. He'd heard the rumour, and thought, \"Stones, play here. Wow, wow, wow!\"\n\nIn fact, the Stones never appeared, but the GDR authorities did. As the crowd moved towards the Brandenburg Gate the policed arrived, and Mann was beaten and arrested.\n\nHe was convicted of being an \"anti-socialist element\". In his files I discovered that the head of the Stasi, Erich Mielke, had taken a personal interest in his case. Mann was given two years in prison, then expelled to the West, away from his family.\n\nEckart Mann, near the spot where he was arrested 48 years ago\n\n\"What was prison like?\" I ask. He shrugged. \"Not OK, but what could I do?\" he says. And so a teenager paid a bitter price for his love of music.\n\nThat kind of brutal reprisal was meant to deter all young East Germans from dancing to Western \"imperialist\" tunes.\n\nBut the hunger for Western music just grew - reaching places a long way from the big cities.\n\nYoung people suspected of listening to Western music, secretly snapped by the Stasi (1969)\n\nAnother teenager, Alexander Kuehne, was desperate to bring more music into his life in a remote village hours from Berlin. What about getting hold of the latest Western records? As pensioners - not seen as vital to the state - were allowed by the GDR regime to visit the West, he'd give his grandmother shopping lists. It didn't go well. She misread The Clash and came back with Johnny Cash - you can still see the pain in Alexander's face as he recalls this \"huge nightmare\".\n\nSo instead he decided to turn his village into a major music venue.\n\nIt happened to be near a major rail junction, and he persuaded all kinds of music fans and bands to head for the room behind the village pub.\n\n\"This place is where we made the biggest parties in East Germany,\" he says, as he shows me round. Farmers at the bar would look on bemused as hundreds of New Wave fans or Glamrockers headed past them - with up to 1,000 packing a hall meant, according to police regulations, to hold only 100.\n\nAs it was so remote the police and Stasi were slow to react to these huge gatherings - apart from on one occasion when Alexander was arrested, taken to a police station and told the Stasi would come for him the next day. \"I was very frightened,\" he says.\n\nLuckily for him his mother had once taught the local police officer. She ordered him to release her son, and then dealt with the Stasi when they arrived. She never told her son exactly what happened. \"She's my hero\" is all he says now, with quiet admiration.\n\nBut back in the big cities pressure from the Stasi was relentless on music fans seen as \"subversive\" and \"anti-social\".\n\nI remember visiting East Berlin in the early 1980s, seeing a few punks on the streets, and thinking you've got to be brave wearing slashed clothes, safety pins and spiky hair when the regime wanted you parading in a socialist youth group uniform.\n\nBerlin's Stasi Museum displays the police mugshot of an arrested punk\n\nBut how could the secret police deal with or even understand something like punk? The archives contain recordings of Stasi meetings where the organisation's boss Erich Mielke tried to get his brain - and his tongue - around such utterly baffling concepts as punks and heavy metal fans.\n\nI managed to track down Jürgen Breski, then a Stasi officer ordered to monitor and infiltrate the punk scene. He agreed to meet in a discreet corner of a city-centre restaurant and tell me what his bosses had wanted him to do.\n\n\"They wanted to bring a kind of socialist lifestyle to the people so we tried to combat anything that didn't belong to that,\" he says. \"The aim was to control 'the scene' as it expanded, to stop it from becoming too well known.\"\n\nIn the end the Stasi did what it always did -recruited as many informers as possible.\n\nOther tactics including calling up members of illegal bands for compulsory military service and sending them to different parts of the country. \"Suddenly the band had no musicians,\" Breski says.\n\nBut many were determined to resist. Dirk Kalinowski from the punk band Zerfall told me how the Stasi put heavy pressure on him and his band.\n\nThey survived as performers thanks to an extraordinary alliance with a Berlin church which gave them shelter. The GDR authorities, mostly ruthless, were wary of attracting international attention by interfering directly with church activities.\n\nThe church, he says, was a \"protected space\".\n\n\"They could arrest you as you arrived in front of the door or as you left. But here inside you were safe.\"\n\nSo his group - banned by the state from normal concerts - was able to perform in the middle of Evangelical church services. The pastor would pause… and then ask his mostly elderly congregation to listen to something just a bit different.\n\n\"It was mad,\" Kalinowski remembers. \"As front man I could see right into the faces of the congregation who were completely shocked. The only ones who were laid back about it were the children who jumped up straight away. I'll never forget it - one old couple covered their ears and then walked out.\"\n\nA church also provided the venue for another extraordinary concert, when British music producer Mark Reeder managed to smuggle a West German punk band, Die Toten Hosen, across the Berlin Wall to play a concert.\n\nMark Reeder before the fall of the Wall\n\n\"I told my friends, 'If I get caught I get thrown out of the country. If you get caught your lives will change because you'll be classed as enemies of the state,'\" recalls Reeder. \"They said, 'We don't care we'll do it anyway.'\"\n\nCampino, lead singer of Die Toten Hosen, remembers how the band disguised themselves to get through border controls between West and East Berlin. \"We had to comb our hair, get proper clothes on.\" He knew why the East German authorities would stop them if they recognised them. \"Punk rock didn't officially exist in the East, they didn't want to spread the virus in any form.\"\n\nOnly around 25 could come to the secret concert in an East Berlin church. But \"everyone in the room know this was something very special and maybe would never happen again\".\n\nCampino performing with the Toten Hosen in 2015\n\nHe was very impressed, he says, with the way young East Germans created their own cultural space in spite of - or perhaps because of - all the regime's pressure.\n\n\"They had a certain kind of pride, a belief. They said, 'You in the West you've got the best clothing, the fashion, all those things. But we've got friendship and we help each other and we're not superficial,'\" he says.\n\nTheir friendships \"meant more because they had to pay a bigger price for everything that went wrong\", as he puts it.\n\nAnd so this amazing musical life rocked on - soundtrack to a kind of freedom that few outsiders ever realised was possible. Yes, the regimes could impose all kinds of restrictions. But still music fans created free spaces, a unique state of mind across communist-ruled Europe.\n\nMikhail Gorbachev and East German leader Erich Honecker sing the International in East Berlin (1986)\n\nFrom the mid-1980s, as a new leader in Moscow, Mikhail Gorbachev, began loosening the Soviet grip on East Germany, Western music was reverberating more and more strongly around the Berlin Wall itself.\n\nIn 1987 no less a figure than David Bowie played a concert right by the Wall on the Western side - Bowie a global star who'd lived in Berlin, knew its surreal Cold War atmosphere and musical energy well. And fans from the East gathered near the Wall to try and listen.\n\nFor the relatively young deputy police chief of East Berlin, Dieter Dietze, this posed a professional and personal dilemma. He knew a brutal police response - like that against those who'd come hoping to hear the Rolling Stones in 1969 - would be counter-productive. And as a rock fan himself who'd once played in a band, he told me he had much sympathy with the young fans. But GDR bosses still wanted order above all.\n\n\"It was clear to me that music, rock music belonged to young people, that there was no way you could deny that to young people. So I and a couple of others began to argue - why don't we do something like this?\" he says.\n\nThe GDR authorities were persuaded to allow concerts on their territory by global superstars including Bob Dylan and, in 1988, Bruce Springsteen. It was meant as a safety valve to appease the younger generation. But the concerts just amplified a new spirit of freedom.\n\nA Stasi report on the Dylan concert struggles with the name of Tom Petty's band\n\nConcerts like Bruce Springsteen's, says Dagmar Hovestaedt, \"became a rallying point for demands for human rights, for access to travel and to express yourself. Imagine - 100,000 young East Germans singing 'Born in the USA'.\"\n\nWhereas in the 1960s Rolling Stones fans hoping to hear their heroes had faced persecution, \"in the 80s that fear had gone, the state had lost control\".\n\nThere are many reasons, political and economic, why the Cold War came to an end. But that spirit of freedom that brought thousands on the streets in 1989 to challenge communist regimes was also vital.\n\nAnd that spirit had been sustained - for many - by music.\n\nAfter the Wall came down and the GDR disappeared so too did the Stasi. Former officers like Jürgen Breski have had much time to reflect on their attempt to control everything - and why it failed.\n\n\"From today's perceptive much seems pointless, a waste of effort,\" he told me. When it came to punk music \"sometimes we had influence, but in the end there were no results\" .\n\nAnd what about the young people persecuted, sometimes imprisoned, for their love of music?\n\n\"Today I'd be against doing something like that. But you grow up in a society, grow with this society's norms, you profit from them. And when later you have the chance to see that from a different perspective you say: 'OK - it shouldn't have been that way.'\"\n\nConcrete borders, machine guns and barbed wire could stop some things. But not music.\n\n\"Music comes into your spirit and your head and you listen,\" says Dagmar Hovestaedt. For her, it all goes back to an old German proverb: Die Gedanken sind frei - thoughts are free.\n\n\"Music that can't be stopped by borders reminds you constantly there is joy in self-expression.\"\n\nClick here for the BStU report on the 1969 Rolling Stones concert that never was (in German)\n\nJoin the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter.\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 gunman has opened fire with an assault rifle inside a hospital in the Bronx borough of New York, killing one doctor and injuring six other people, five of them seriously.\n\nThe gunman, a former doctor at the hospital, killed himself in the attack.\n\nThe shooting began at about 14:55 local time (18:55 GMT) at the 1,000-bed Bronx-Lebanon Hospital.\n\nMayor Bill de Blasio said the shooting was not an act of terrorism, but rather workplace-related.\n\nHe said the attack had been a \"horrific situation in the middle of a place that people associate with care and comfort\".\n\nSeveral of the injured are \"fighting for their lives,\" he said, adding that the doctor killed in the attack was a woman.\n\nPolice said the suspect was wearing a white medical coat when found. An assault rifle was also discovered nearby, which a local politician separately said appeared to be a military-grade M16 rifle.\n\nPolice confirmed this Facebook image to be that of Henry Bello\n\nPolice Commissioner James O'Neill said the attack began on the 16th floor and all the victims were shot on the 16th and 17th floors.\n\nThe gunman has not been officially named but police sources told US media he was Henry Bello, 45, a former family-medicine doctor at the hospital. Sources quoted by NBC said he had resigned in 2015 in lieu of termination.\n\nMr O'Neill said the gunman had tried to set himself on fire and died of a self-inflicted wound.\n\nMessages on social media spoke of doctors and nurses barricading themselves inside the building in the Mount Hope district.\n\nNew York police urged the public to avoid the area around the hospital at 1650 Grand Concourse\n\nDoctors were among those injured\n\nOne patient in the radiology department, Felix Puno, tweeted: \"Building is in complete shut down, I was in the middle of getting an X-ray when security alerted us to the active shooter situation.\"\n\nGarry Trimble, whose fiancée works at the hospital, said security was not good enough.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mayor Bill de Blasio said the shooting was isolated and appeared to be \"workplace-related\"\n\nHe said: \"I can walk through the back door with an employee. If the employee opens the door, I can walk in. I think every hospital should have one police officer at each entrance. They only ever do something when something happens.\"\n\nBronx-Lebanon is a private, not-for-profit hospital that has been operating for 120 years.\n\nShootings at hospitals are not common, but there have been several such instances in recent years.\n\nIn 2015, a man entered a Boston hospital and asked for a cardiologist by name, shooting him dead when he arrived. During the investigation, it emerged that the man's mother had previously been a patient at the hospital.\n\nIn July 2016, another man opened fire in a patient's room at a Florida medical centre, killing an elderly woman and a hospital worker. The suspect was later deemed to suffer from mental health issues, casting doubt over his competency to stand trial.\n\nIn July last year, a patient at a Berlin hospital shot a doctor before turning the gun on himself. The city had also seen a shooting outside another hospital earlier in the year, in which no-one was killed.\n\nAre you in the area? If it's safe to do so, please share your pictures, videos and 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:", "London's mayor has urged Theresa May to appoint commissioners to run Kensington and Chelsea council after its leader resigned over the Grenfell Tower fire.\n\nSadiq Khan welcomed Nicholas Paget-Brown's decision to stand down, but said public trust could not be restored by other members of the council.\n\nHe said residents \"quite rightly feel desperately neglected\".\n\nMr Paget-Brown resigned on Friday, saying he had to accept his \"share of responsibility for perceived failings\".\n\nAt least 80 people are believed to have died as fire engulfed the Grenfell Tower block, in west London, on 14 June.\n\nMr Paget-Brown resigned following sustained criticism of the council and an aborted meeting of its cabinet on Thursday, from which leaders had tried to ban members of the public and press.\n\nThe decision led to a rebuke from Downing Street, which said it would have expected the council to respect a High Court ruling that the meeting be open to the public.\n\nReacting to Mr Paget-Brown's resignation, Mr Khan said it had been \"clear that the local community in and around North Kensington has lost trust in the council and that the administration is not fit for purpose\".\n\nHe called on the prime minister to appoint \"untainted\" commissioners with \"a genuine empathy for local people and the situation they face\" to take over the running of the council until the next local council elections.\n\nYvette Williams, co-ordinator of the Justice4Grenfell campaign, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that the community was \"very, very angry\" and would not accept commissioners without consultation.\n\n\"I do support the mayor in terms of a commissioner-led borough, but how are those people going to be selected?\" she said.\n\nShe added that one former Grenfell Tower resident had had rent deducted from their bank account since the tragedy.\n\nThe survivor, who is housed in a hotel, got her bank card back and only realised that the rent had been taken when she went to withdraw funds from a cash point, Ms Williams said.\n\n\"It's just disgusting,\" she added.\n\nKensington and Chelsea council said to the best of its knowledge rent charges for Grenfell Tower and Grenfell Walk had been stopped.\n\n\"We are very sorry if this has happened and we are working to find out who has been affected so we can offer reassurance and an immediate refund,\" a council statement said.\n\n\"But if anyone has had money inadvertently taken as part of a direct debit or standing order we will make arrangements to have it immediately refunded.\"\n\nCatherine Faulks, Conservative councillor for Kensington and Chelsea council, said: \"Of course we weren't immediately quick off the ground, it was an enormous tragedy... I challenge any borough in the whole country to immediately have had an action plan that they could put into place.\"\n\nWhen asked whether commissioners should take over the council, she said: \"It's a decision for government.\"\n\nThe council will elect a leader next week, she said.\n\nBut shadow housing secretary John Healey told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that he backed Mr Khan's call because the council had \"demonstrated they are not up to the job\".\n\n\"The public and residents' trust can't be restored by simply replacing the leader and deputy leader by other politicians from the same political group and this is where ministers need to step in,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nick Paget-Brown: \"I have to accept my share of responsibility\"\n\nThe former head of the civil service, Lord Kerslake, a cross-bench peer, told Today commissioners were \"not brought in lightly\" and it had \"only happened on very few occasions\".\n\n\"The test for me about whether commissioners come in - I wouldn't like to make that judgement not being close to the detail - is really, essentially, can the council do the job that is necessary to make the building safe and in particular to support those who have been affected?\" he said.\n\n\"The pace of response has been the issue and also I have to say the communication. The public have a right to know what's going on.\"\n\nCouncil leaders claimed on Thursday that an open meeting would \"prejudice\" the forthcoming public inquiry into the disaster.\n\nBut angry protests followed and Labour councillor Robert Atkinson, whose ward includes Grenfell Tower, branded the abandoned meeting a \"fiasco\".\n\nIn his resignation statement, Mr Paget-Brown said he had received legal advice not to \"compromise\" the public inquiry into the fire by having the meeting open to the public and press.\n\nBut he added this decision \"has itself become a political story\".\n\n\"It cannot be right that this should have become the focus of attention when so many are dead or still unaccounted for,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Council tries to ban press and public from meeting\n\nCommunities Secretary Sajid Javid said the resignation was a \"personal matter\" for Mr Paget-Brown, but added that it was \"right that he has stepped aside\".\n\nDeputy council leader and cabinet member for housing, property and regeneration, Rock Feilding-Mellen, also stood down.\n\nThe fire at the 24-storey block in North Kensington destroyed 151 homes, both in the tower and surrounding areas.\n\nDocuments obtained by the BBC suggest cladding fitted to Grenfell Tower during its refurbishment was changed to a cheaper version, which was less fire resistant.\n\nThe tower's cladding has been the focus of attention, amid suggestions it was why the flames spread so quickly.\n\nMeanwhile, the head of Kensington and Chelsea Tenant Management Organisation has stepped aside so he can focus on \"assisting with the investigation and inquiry\".\n\nDid you live in Grenfell Tower? Or are you part of the local community? What's your experience of the council's response to the fire? Email 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• None 'I have to accept my share of responsibility' Video, 00:02:10'I have to accept my share of responsibility'", "Defoe pledged to keep in touch with the family after his move to Bournemouth\n\nFootballer Jermain Defoe has visited terminally-ill Bradley Lowery after his family revealed the six-year-old is having difficulty breathing.\n\nFormer Sunderland star Defoe has struck up a close friendship with the avid Black Cats fan and club mascot.\n\nBradley, from Blackhall Colliery, near Hartlepool, has neuroblastoma and is receiving palliative care at home.\n\nDefoe, 34, made the trip to County Durham on Friday, the day after he joined Premier League club Bournemouth.\n\nBradley's parents have already said they believe he has just a short time to live.\n\nBradley has been Sunderland mascot several times with his \"best mate\" Defoe\n\nIn a statement, his mother Gemma said: \"Brad is very weak and finding breathing difficult, but he is fighting it.\n\n\"Last night, his best friend Jermain came to visit him and it was so heart warming seeing how Bradley reacted.\n\n\"He was so happy and laid for ages getting cuddles. Bradley was really relaxed with him.\"\n\nDefoe, who pledged to keep in touch with the family after his move to Bournemouth, has described his relation with the ill youngster as the \"highlight of his season\".\n\n\"Away from football the relationship I've managed to develop with Bradley and what I've brought to his life and what he's brought to mine has been really special,\" he said.\n\n\"It's just been sad to see him go through what he has been and he's only six. But I still feel blessed that I'm able to be in his life.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Venus Williams had recently been eliminated from the French Open when the crash occurred\n\nVenus Williams faces a wrongful death lawsuit from the family of a man who died in a Florida car crash involving the tennis star, says a lawyer.\n\nThe 78-year-old man suffered \"massive\" fatal injuries from the 9 June collision in Palm Beach Gardens city, an attorney for his widow says.\n\nAccording to police, Ms Williams was at fault for the traffic accident, which caused the death of Jerome Barson.\n\nThe 37-year-old is due to make her 20th appearance at Wimbledon on Monday.\n\nAccording to the police report, Linda Barson told police she was driving with her husband, Jerome, in the passenger seat of their 2016 Hyundai Accent at the time of the collision.\n\nMrs Barson told police that as they passed through an intersection on a green light, Ms Williams' 2010 Toyota Sequoia cut across in front of their car.\n\nThe Barsons had been married for over 30 years\n\nMs Williams told police she became stuck in the middle of the intersection because of other traffic, according to the report.\n\n\"Mrs Barson is suffering intense grief and doesn't know how she will go on,\" her lawyer, Michael Steinger, told ABC television's Good Morning America.\n\n\"Her husband of 35 years was struck by Venus Williams, who was at fault in a car accident, which ultimately resulted in Mr Barson being hospitalised 14 days with multiple surgeries which resulted in his death.\"\n\nThe lawsuit, filed by the couple's daughter, Audrey Gassner-Dunayer, asserts that her father's injuries included \"severed main arteries, massive internal bleeding, a fractured spine, and massive internal organ damage\".\n\nThe Barsons' car was \"crushed, the front windshield shattered, the airbags deployed, there was crush damage to the rear on the driver's side, and the back window was shattered\", the lawsuit states.\n\nThe lawyer added: \"At this point, we are attempting to both preserve the evidence and gain access to evidence.\"\n\nMr Barson died in hospital on 22 June, his wife Linda's 68th birthday.\n\nMrs Barson was also admitted to hospital after the crash.\n\nAccording to a police report obtained by US media, Ms Williams \"is at fault for violating the right of way of\" the Barsons' vehicle.\n\nMs Williams' car suddenly darted into their path and was unable to clear the junction in time due to traffic jams, witnesses told police.\n\nThe police incident report says that the estimated speed of Ms Williams' vehicle at the time was 5mph (8km/h).\n\nIn a statement to US media, the tennis star's lawyer, Malcolm Cunningham, said: \"Ms Williams entered the intersection on a green light.\n\n\"Authorities did not issue Ms Williams with any citations or traffic violations.\n\n\"This is an unfortunate accident and Venus expresses her deepest condolences to the family who lost a loved one.\"\n\nThe accident occurred just days after the seven-time Grand Slam champion was eliminated from the French Open.\n\nShe has not been criminally charged.\n\nMs Williams is currently in London to train for the Wimbledon tournament, which she has won five times - most recently in 2008.\n\nThe All England Club tournament begins on Monday.", "As Wonder Woman, Gal Gadot can do anything - apart from getting people to pronounce her name correctly.\n\nYou've probably been calling her Gal Gah-dote or Gal Gah-doh all this time. Or maybe you're not at all sure and have been mumbling her surname, hoping no one will notice.\n\nBut the Israeli actress recently cleared up the confusion by telling Jimmy Kimmel it's actually pronounced Gal Gad-dott.\n\nShe's not the only one who's struggled with name issues. Here are a few other famous faces whose name you may have been saying wrong.\n\nTwenty years ago, no one had heard of Harry Potter author JK Rowling. But with great fame comes great name mispronunciation.\n\nIs it Roe-ling or Rowl-ling? The author once corrected an interviewer saying: \"It's Rolling - as in Stone.\"\n\nMamma Mia! star Amanda Seyfried is constantly correcting people on how to say her name.\n\nSieg-freed, Sigh-freed, Sieg-fred and Say-freed have all been said to her face, and every time she cringes.\n\nShe cleared it up once and for all in a 2012 interview - it's Sigh-fred.\n\nEveryone knows it's Scor-say-zee, right? Wrong. It's Scor-sess-see.\n\nThe director says so himself in the fifth series of Entourage.\n\nLast year Barbra Streisand made headlines after she complained to Apple boss Tim Cook about the way Siri says her name.\n\nHow is that? Well, it's pretty much the way everyone pronounces it: Strei-zand.\n\n\"She pronounces my name wrong,\" the singer told NPR. \"Streisand with a soft S, like sand on the beach.\"\n\nSo that's Strei-sand to you and me.\n\nShia LaBeouf famously wore a paper bag on his head at the Berlin Film Festival in 2014, saying he wasn't famous anymore.\n\nBut in talking about the incident, people were forced to say his name - which was a little tricky for some.\n\nThe South African actress has had a rough time getting people to say her surname right.\n\nIt's not Ther-on or Ther-own (rhymes with Throne) - she goes by Ther-in.\n\nTo make things even more confusing, that's not even her actual name either. In Afrikaans, it's pronounced Shar-leeze Thrawn, but she's opted for Ther-in as she thinks it's easier to say.\n\nHere she is telling Piers Morgan how to say it properly.\n\nSimpsons creator Matt Groening has one of those names whose spelling instantly flummoxes you.\n\nBut it's not Groan-ing or Green-ing - it's Gray-ning.\n\nIf you've merrily been living your life calling her Susan Sarun-dun you're wrong.\n\nThe Oscar winner once helpfully explained to interviewers how to pronounce her name: \"It's Sa-ran-don - rhymes with abandon.\"\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.", "\"They were in love, they loved each other,\" Pedro Ruiz's aunt said of the aspiring YouTubers\n\nMonalisa Perez, 19, and her boyfriend Pedro Ruiz, 22, wanted to be famous on YouTube.\n\nBut until a dramatic stunt on 26 June involving a gun and a hardcover book that left Pedro dead, there was little indication in their videos how far they were prepared to go in order to attain online celebrity.\n\nThe couple from the US state of Minnesota had been uploading videos for less than two months documenting their everyday lives.\n\nThough they had filmed some minor pranks - Monalisa dusting a donut with baby powder before feeding it to Pedro, for example - they seemed relatively harmless.\n\nIn one video filmed in a hospital, they learn their new baby is going to be a boy.\n\n\"Imagine when we have 300,000 subscribers,\" Monalisa pondered in a video uploaded at a fun fair on the day Pedro was killed. \"People will be like 'oh my god, hi!'\"\n\nNow she faces a second-degree manslaughter charge over a reckless stunt that was said to be her boyfriend's idea to boost their profile. She fired a Desert Eagle handgun from close range, as he held an encyclopaedia in front of his chest.\n\nHe had experimented previously and thought the thick book would protect him, but the couple's three-year-old child and nearly 30 onlookers watched as she fired a fatal bullet.\n\nShe told police the stunt had been Ruiz's idea, and that he had to convince her to do it\n\nSince YouTube launched in 2005, it has attracted people willing to do things on camera for a slice of minor online fame.\n\nBut in 2012, the company made it easier for contributors to obtain a chunk of the advertising revenue they generate from videos. Studios were created and grants given out to groom a stable of stars who need to make fresh, compelling content to keep the clicks - and advertising dollars - rolling in.\n\nThey are often media personalities in their own right, with agents and slickly produced videos.\n\nHundreds of thousands of others, like the Minnesota couple, sit below them and are trying to gather followings. Many have little success.\n\nBut the rewards of becoming one of the few who make it big can be a huge motivation to keep trying. (According to Forbes, the top 12 highest-earning YouTube stars made a combined $70.5m from June 2015 - June 2016.)\n\nAnd while stunts are merely one genre of an extremely diverse landscape of videos made by YouTubers - from cooking to comedy and music to beauty - they do get millions of views.\n\nDr Arthur Cassidy, a British psychologist specialising in social media, says videos of dangerous stunts can inspire teenage copycats who \"haven't got the cognitive function to figure out this could be very fatal\".\n\n\"It's perceived as being 'fun' or 'exciting' or 'high-risk'. Anything that is high risk is intriguing, gets adrenaline going and sets up highly competitive game playing within the fraternity of late adolescence.\"\n\nBut what the Minnesota couple tried to film is \"one of the most horrific cases\" he has come across.\n\nFears that young people watching from home could try it, but with a less powerful weapon to see if it could work, are \"salient and highly profound\", Dr Cassidy says.\n\nDoing dangerous things for online attention is nothing new.\n\nIn 2011, Australian Acton Beale fell to his death after trying to \"plank\" on the balcony of a seventh floor flat in Brisbane.\n\nThe planking craze - which involved people lying down straight-bodied in unusual, but mostly safe, places - was largely confined to still images uploaded to Facebook.\n\nBut the Australian case signalled how a growing internet \"stunt\" culture for attention could lead to tragedy, and since then several online trends have reportedly caused deaths worldwide.\n\nRussian Alexander Chernikov set his trousers on fire before jumping into snow. Video of the stunt went viral\n\nOf course, YouTube has no borders, and stunt videos from anywhere can go viral globally.\n\nRussia's Interior Ministry recently launched a \"safe selfie\" campaign in response to a growing local culture of amateur daredevils filming their stunts.\n\nIn one video watched by millions of people, Alexander Chernikov lights his trousers on fire and jumps off a nine-storey building into the snow.\n\nThese kinds of stunts make the antics of TV pranksters from a pre-YouTube era, like those of the MTV reality show Jackass, seem tame.\n\nCritics say that YouTube, owned by Google, needs to do more to take down videos of extremely dangerous stunts.\n\nThe company said it was \"horrified to learn of the tragedy in Minnesota\" and that its thoughts were with the family. No video of the incident is believed to have been uploaded.\n\nA spokesperson told the BBC that it removes content flagged by users that breaks its rules.\n\nIts policy on harmful and dangerous content says it draws the line at content \"that intends to incite violence or encourage dangerous or illegal activities that have an inherent risk of serious physical harm or death\".\n\nExamples of what would be banned include videos depicting \"bomb making, choking games, hard drug use, or other acts where serious injury may result\".", "The climber died after falling on Tower Ridge on Ben Nevis\n\nA climber has died after falling on Tower Ridge on Ben Nevis.\n\nLochaber Mountain Rescue Team said the man had suffered fatal injuries in the fall on Saturday morning.\n\nThe Coastguard rescue helicopter from Inverness was diverted from training and arrived on the scene at about 11:10 BST.\n\nThe climber was airlifted from the mountain and transferred to an ambulance at the Torlundy helicopter landing site near Fort William.\n\nThe rescue team praised the helicopter crew for recovering the man from a \"very difficult location\" on the mountain.\n\nTower Ridge is one of several big ridges on the north-east face of the 1,345m (4,413ft) Ben Nevis and is considered by many climbers to have an Alpine feel because of its length and exposure.\n\nA spokeswoman for the Coastguard said the operation had taken about two hours.\n\nA Coastguard rescue helicopter airlifted the man from the mountain\n\nIn a post on the Lochaber Mountain Rescue Team's Facebook page, a spokesperson for the team wrote: \"We are sad to report that a call out yesterday was to a climber who suffered fatal injuries sustained in fall while climbing Tower Ridge.\n\n\"Our thoughts and condolences go out to his family and friends.\"\n\n\"A big thank you to R951 who did a fantastic job to make the recovery from a very difficult location and all the climbers who assisted and brought down the climber's friend.\"\n\nTwenty people died in the Scottish mountains last year, according to Mountaineering Scotland.\n\nThree of the fatalities were on Ben Nevis, including the deaths of Rachel Slater and Tim Newton, who were killed by an avalanche on the mountain in February 2016.\n\nMore than 100,000 people are thought to reach the summit of the UK's highest mountain each year.", "There are about 1.2 billion Roman Catholics around the world\n\nBread used to celebrate the Eucharist during Roman Catholic Mass must not be gluten-free - although it may be made from genetically modified organisms, the Vatican has reminded its bishops.\n\nIn a letter, Cardinal Robert Sarah said the bread could be low-gluten.\n\nBut he said there must be enough protein in the wheat to make it without additives.\n\nThe cardinal said the reminder was needed because the bread was now sold in supermarkets and on the internet.\n\nRoman Catholics believe bread and wine served at the Eucharist are converted into the body and blood of Christ through a process known as transubstantiation.\n\nThe letter reiterated advice first given in 2004.\n\nThe wine used must also be \"natural, from the fruit of the grape, pure and incorrupt, not mixed with other substances\", said Cardinal Robert Sarah of the Vatican's Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments.\n\nThe ruling was issued at the request of Pope Francis, the letter said.\n\nThere are about 1.2 billion Roman Catholics around the world.\n\nCorrection 24 July 2017: This story has been revised to make clear that the letter reiterates advice previously given in 2004.\n• None Catholics focus on the art of dying well", "Many of the Sunday papers deliver their verdict on Theresa May's whirlwind diplomacy in Hamburg.\n\nThe Sunday Telegraph says the prime minister played her \"trump card\" when she called attention to world leaders' enthusiasm for deeper trade ties with the UK.\n\nIt was a tactical move in the Telegraph's view - aimed at rebuking Cabinet colleagues who stress the risks of leaving the single market and customs union.\n\nThe Sunday Times says Donald Trump \"rode to her rescue\", giving the PM an opportunity to take a swipe at her mutinous ministers.\n\nThe future after Brexit is not so bright in the Observer. Two of Germany's biggest industry groups tell the paper they will prioritise protecting the single market over forging a new deal with Britain - and warn that negative effects for British business will be hard to avoid in the coming months.\n\nA former SAS soldier makes a number of startling claims in an interview with the Mail on Sunday about allegations of illegal killings by special forces in Afghanistan.\n\nThe unnamed trooper says he took part in raids now being investigated by the Royal Military Police and that civilians - some of them children - died when operations went wrong.\n\nHe admits that unarmed Afghans were \"routinely killed\" - but only when they were confirmed to be high-ranking Taliban, who would have been released within days had they been captured.\n\n\"The tactics sound gruesome but these were bad men whose guilt had been established,\" the soldier reasons. \"For me\", he says, \"the ends justify the means.\"\n\nThe Sun on Sunday calls on the government to act urgently to warn of the health risks associated with some types of breast implants.\n\nThe paper cites data from the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency showing that two women have died and more than 20 others required surgery after receiving \"textured surface implants\", which can damage the immune system.\n\nIn an editorial, the Sun demands ministers come clean about what they know, and follow the example of France and the US by issuing a public warning.\n\nThe Sunday Express has details of an alleged plot to plant an Argentine flag on the Falkland Islands.\n\nRogue generals are said to be planning a night-time commando raid on a remote part of the territory.\n\nThere, a photographer would capture an image of Argentina's colours on British soil which, the Express claims, would be published to humiliate the governments of both countries.\n\nArgentina's President Macri is said to be aware of the plot, and the paper says an RAF Chinook helicopter is on standby to counter any incursion.\n\nThe Sunday Mirror seeks to end speculation about which actor will next play 007. The series' long-time producer Barbara Broccoli is said to have retained the services of the blonde Bond, Daniel Craig.\n\nThe singer Adele is tipped to return on theme tune duties as, according to a source, they are \"the winning team, the real money-spinners\".\n\nThe Mirror remembers that in 2015 Mr Craig said if he did return to the world of fast cars, gunfights and disposable women, he would not be doing it for the money. The paper estimates he will be paid £60m to reprise his role.", "The death of an indigenous woman in Thunder Bay is the latest in a series of violent incidents affecting the local indigenous community. As the police ponder whether to charge her assailant with murder, many are wondering if the force has what it takes to pursue justice for all.\n\nBarbara Kentner, an Anishinaabe woman, was walking down the street with her sister in January when she was struck by a trailer hitch someone had thrown at her out of the window of a car.\n\n\"Oh, I got one,\" her sister, Melissa Kentner, heard someone say.\n\nThe hitch struck Barbara in the abdomen and she was taken to hospital.\n\nShortly after, Thunder Bay police charged Brayden Bushby, 18, with aggravated assault. Over the next five months, Kentner lay in hospital, suffering from internal injuries and damage to her organs.\n\nShe died on 4 July at the age of 34.\n\nNow her family and the indigenous community want to see Bushby's charges upgraded, and the driver and other passengers in the car charged as well.\n\n\"I want them to be in jail and feel the same kind of pain I've been feeling,\" she says.\n\nBut a number of external reviews of the Thunder Bay Police Service, as well as decades of racially-motivated violence, have left many with considerable doubt.\n\n\"At this point in time, we don't have the faith in the Thunder Bay police to be able to conduct a proper investigation and a fair investigation,\" says Anna Betty Achneepineskum, the Nishnawbe Aski Nation Deputy Grand Chief.\n\nAttacks like the one that killed Kentner are all too commonplace in Thunder Bay, says her childhood friend Deanne Hupfield.\n\nThe city of about 100,000 is one of the last urban outposts on the way to Ontario's vast north, which is mostly inhabited by indigenous people on reserves.\n\nIn 2011, 10% of the city's population had Aboriginal identity, compared to about 4% across the country.\n\nHupfield says throwing things at indigenous women \"is a normal thing here\".\n\n\"It happened to me growing up. It happened to my mom, my sisters and my friends.\" She says people would yell racial and sexual epithets and chuck beer cans, water bottles or trash at them.\n\nOne time, a man threw a crowbar at her sister in front of an undercover police officer.\n\nThe officer chased the assailant down, yelled at him and then returned, without taking the man into custody. The officer told her and her sister: \"Don't worry, we scared them\", she says.\n\nWhen Hupfield was a teenager, she watched in horror as a group of cops beat up her cousin after the two of them had been arrested for joyriding.\n\nNow an arts educator living in Toronto, Hupfield wants Thunder Bay police to address systemic racism in the force.\n\n\"They're not willing to take that hard look at themselves and acknowledge their own beliefs about us,\" she says.\n\nBoth Kentner's sister and Hupfield believe the attack on Barbara Kentner was racially motivated, and hope it is prosecuted as a hate crime.\n\nBut her death is not the first to strike the community.\n\nIn May, the bodies of teenagers Josiah Begg and Tammy Keeash were both found in local waterways.\n\nIn 2015, Stacey DeBungee, 41, was found dead in the McIntyre River. And between 2000 and 2011, seven indigenous students died after moving to the city to attend high school.\n\nNone of these deaths led to criminal charges; many were ruled accidental by police after brief investigations.\n\nThese 10 deaths are now the subject of a systemic review by Ontario's police oversight board, and its \"ongoing concern\" about how Thunder Bay police investigate the deaths of indigenous people.\n\nThe review was prompted by a 2016 coroner's inquest into the deaths of the seven students, which found that the cause of four out of the seven deaths was \"undetermined\".\n\n14-year-old Josiah Begg was found dead after disappearing while visiting Thunder Bay with his father.\n\nOntario's chief coroner, Dr Dirk Huyer, has also asked for assistance from an outside police force, the York Regional Police, in the ongoing investigation into the deaths of Begg and Keeash.\n\n\"When I looked at the investigations, I felt that there would be a benefit from some additional resources, another set of eyes, external perspective, to work together with the Thunder Bay police to really give us the best opportunity to give those answers,\" Dr Huyer says.\n\nChris Adams, a spokesperson for the Thunder Bay Police Service, says they welcome working with York police.\n\n\"We certainly supported it and we still do,\" he told the BBC. \"It's really in the interest of finding answers.\"\n\nAdams says the police is working on improving community relations, looking to a number of other communities to understand how they can improve their police force, including more efforts to recruit indigenous officers.\n\n\"We really recognise the need to have some reconciliation in that regard,\" he says.\n\nAdams adds the force is working with Fort William First Nation to better understand some of the issues at play, and would welcome working with the Nishnawbe Aski Nation as well.\n\nMeanwhile, Kentner's family is eagerly awaiting the result of the coroner's post-mortem. Police say they will wait for the results before deciding on whether they will upgrade the charges.\n\nBarbara Kentner (right) with her cousin Debbie Kakagamic\n\nDoctors told Melissa Kentner her sister died of liver failure exacerbated by the internal injuries she suffered during the attack, which included a ruptured intestine.\n\n\"Yeah, sure, she had problems with her liver,\" Ms Kentner says. \"But she quit drinking and everything. She wanted to have that transplant.\"\n\nShe's sickened by comments on social media that disparage her sister's memory, saying Barbara was a \"caring and loving person\".\n\nIn her last weeks alive, Kentner knew she was going to die but hoped for justice, her sister says.\n\n\"She just wished that it never happened to anybody else.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Theresa May met her Australian counterpart Malcolm Turnbull in Downing Street\n\nTheresa May is to call on rival parties to \"contribute and not just criticise\" as she signals a post-election change in her style of government.\n\nIn a speech on Tuesday the PM will say she still wants to change the country, but will say that losing her majority means a new approach is needed.\n\nLabour says it shows the Conservatives have run out of ideas.\n\nBut First Secretary of State Damian Green said it was a \"grown-up way of doing politics\".\n\nMinisters loyal to Mrs May have dismissed reports of plots to remove her as drink-fuelled \"gossip\", but Labour remains on an election footing, with leader Jeremy Corbyn saying he hopes for a fresh poll in September.\n\nMrs May will return to the message from her first day in Downing Street last July, when she succeeded David Cameron, and vow to lead what she called a \"one nation\" government that works for all and not just the \"privileged few\".\n\nThe speech is being seen by some as a \"re-launch\" or \"fightback\" after Mrs May lost her majority - and much of her authority - in the snap election last month.\n\n\"Come forward with your own views and ideas about how we can tackle\" the challenges the country faces, Mrs May will say, adding: \"We may not agree on everything, but ideas can be clarified and improved and a better way forward found.\"\n\nBluntly, it is an explicit acknowledgement of her fragility; her authority and majority shrivelled.\n\nGovernment sources say it is a mature approach that maintains a commitment to taking on big, difficult and complex challenges; not just Brexit but reform of social care, too, for instance.\n\nLabour says Mrs May's speech proves the Conservatives have \"completely run out of ideas\" and were reduced to \"begging\" for policy proposals from them.\n\nIn her speech, the PM will say that although the result of June's election was not what she wanted, \"those defining beliefs remain, my commitment to change in Britain is undimmed\".\n\nHer \"belief in the potential of the British people and what we can achieve together as a nation remains steadfast, and the determination I have to get to grips with the challenges posed by a changing world never more sure\", she will say.\n\nShe will unveil a review - of casual and low-paid work - by Matthew Taylor, a former top adviser to Tony Blair, which she commissioned when she became prime minister.\n\nMatthew Taylor will publish his employment review on Tuesday\n\nIt is thought Mr Taylor, who has been examining the use of zero-hours contracts and the rise in app-based firms such as Uber and Deliveroo, will stop short of calling for a compulsory minimum wage for those employed in the so-called gig economy, who do not have guaranteed hours or pay rates.\n\nBut he is expected to propose a series of extra rights for those in insecure jobs and could also recommend shaking up the tax system to reduce the gap between employees and the self-employed.\n\nHe is also likely to call for measures to improve job satisfaction for people working in minimum wage jobs, according to The Guardian.\n\nIn her speech, Mrs May will say: \"When I commissioned this report I led a majority government in the House of Commons. The reality I now face as prime minister is rather different.\n\n\"In this new context, it will be even more important to make the case for our policies and our values, and to win the battle of ideas both in Parliament as well as in the country.\n\n\"So I say to the other parties in the House of Commons... come forward with your own views and ideas about how we can tackle these challenges as a country.\n\n\"We may not agree on everything, but through debate and discussion - the hallmarks of our parliamentary democracy - ideas can be clarified and improved and a better way forward found.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The PM has a programme for Britain that will spread prosperity, the first secretary of state tells Today\n\nShe will acknowledge the fragile nature of her position in the Commons but insist it will not stop her taking \"the bold action necessary to secure a better future\".\n\nSpeaking at a press conference with Australian counterpart Malcolm Turnbull on Monday, Mrs May said she had sought input from other parties in the past on issues like counter-terrorism and modern slavery.\n\nShe also said she was happy to work with Labour's Yvette Cooper and others in a cross-party approach to tackling intimidation and online abuse of MPs and others involved in the political process.\n\nAsked if her desire for co-operation extended to Brexit, including on the government's Repeal Bill when it is published later this week, the prime minister said she was seeking the \"broadest possible consensus\" surrounding the terms of the UK's exit.\n\nBut former shadow business secretary Chuka Umunna said people would take the calls for cross-party working with \"a lorry load of salt\" - and he questioned why Mrs May had not raised the issue a year ago when she entered Number 10.\n\n\"The reason she wasn't asking for it then was she didn't need to,\" he said.\n\nDamian Green: This is a grown up way of doing politics\n\nLib Dem Brexit spokesman Tom Brake said: \"A call for Labour to contribute is superfluous. On the single biggest issue of our generation, Brexit, Corbyn isn't contributing, he is cheerleading.\"\n\nScottish Government Brexit minister Michael Russell said: \"If the prime minister is genuinely interested in creating a consensus then Scotland should have a seat at the negotiations to leave the EU.\"\n\nBut Mr Green, who has known Mrs May since university and is effectively her deputy prime minister, said the public would welcome a move away from politics in which parties \"just sit in the trenches and shell each other\".\n\n\"Politicians of all parties are invited to contribute their ideas - that's a grown up way of doing politics,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nHe said Mrs May was motivated by \"her duty\" to carry on, adding: \"She still has the same ambitions for this country as she had a year ago and she's determined to put them into practice for the good of this country - that's what drives her.\"\n\nAsked if the PM could be tempted to step down after her summer holiday, he said: \"No. She thinks not just that it's her duty, but she has a programme for Britain that encompasses not just a good Brexit deal, but also a domestic agenda that will spread prosperity around this country, make this a fairer society, tackle some of the injustices that we still have in our society - and that fire burns within her as strongly as ever.\"\n\nThe BBC's assistant political editor, Norman Smith, said that the Conservatives and Labour were \"poles apart\" on many significant policy areas.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's The World at One: \"More brutally, Jeremy Corbyn is not minded to help Theresa May. He smells blood in the water.\n\n\"He wants to do everything he can to stampede Mrs May into another election, so the idea he might somehow seek to cooperate with her, I think, is bordering on the fanciful.\"", "Photos of Miss South Africa wearing gloves while visiting black children at an orphanage in Soweto sparked a online outcry - but the orphanage staff say any insinuation that Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters is racist is \"ridiculous\".\n\n\"Of course it wasn't because she didn't want to touch black children,\" says Carol Dyantyi, a spokesperson for the Orlando West Community Centre Ikageng.\n\nNel-Peters was volunteering to feed orphans at the centre, and the gloves were a health and safety measure.\n\n\"We told her, and all other volunteers, to wear them while they were handling food around the children,\" Dyantyi tells BBC Trending. \"It was purely to protect the children from the risk of contaminated food. This social media reaction is ridiculous.\"\n\nThousands of Twitter users criticised Nel-Peters after photos of her at a soup drive on Wednesday began to circulate on social media.\n\nMany accused the beauty queen of wearing the latex gloves \"because she didn't want to touch black children\" and shared images of her hugging dogs and white children with bare hands.\n\nIn a video posted to her Twitter account, Nel-Peters said that she wore the gloves for sanitary reasons and denied that were any racial undertones to her actions.\n\n\"All the volunteers on site wore gloves today because we honestly thought that it's the right thing to do while working with food and while handing out food to young kids,\" Nel-Peters said. She also apologised to those who were offended.\n\nClaudia Henkel, a spokesperson for the beauty queen, also sent images to BBC Trending of Nel-Peters gloveless and playing with the children after the food had been served.\n\nHowever, not everyone was satisfied with her response. The hashtag #MissSAChallenge began to trend on Twitter on Thursday, as South Africans poked fun of the \"hygiene\" reason cited for the gloves.\n\nMore than 18,000 tweets used the hashtag, and some users posted pictures of themselves doing mundane tasks whilst unnecessarily wearing gloves.\n\nNot all of the responses were critical and others defended Miss South Africa.\n\nHenkel tells Trending that whilst the social media backlash had \"saddened\" Nel-Peters, she is adamant about doing more soup drives in the near future.\n\n\"And if she is asked to wear gloves for the safety of the children, then she will again,\" Henkel adds.\n\nYou can follow BBC Trending on Twitter @BBCtrending, and find us on Facebook. All our stories are at bbc.com/trending.", "John Tomlin handed himself in at an east London police station\n\nA man named as the chief suspect in an acid attack in east London has handed himself in to police.\n\nTwo people suffered \"life-changing\" injuries when a corrosive substance was thrown on to them through their car windows.\n\nCousins Resham Khan and Jameel Muhktar, 37, had been celebrating Ms Khan's 21st birthday before the attack.\n\nJohn Tomlin, 24, has been arrested on suspicion of grievous bodily harm with intent, the Metropolitan Police said.\n\nHe walked into an east London police station on Sunday and remains in custody.\n\nResham Khan has been left with damage to her left eye\n\nMs Khan, a student at Manchester Metropolitan University, and Mr Muhktar suffered severe burns to the face and body in the attack on 21 June.\n\nPolice said they had stopped at traffic lights when a man approached them and threw the toxic substance at Ms Khan through the window.\n\nThe attacker then threw more of the acid at Mr Muhktar before fleeing the scene.\n\nJameel Muhktar was temporarily placed in an induced coma to treat his injuries\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The funeral for a Brighton acrobat who died during a performance has been held in Spain, a family friend has said.\n\nSpecialist aerial dancer Pedro Aunión Monroy was suspended in a cage during the Mad Cool festival in Madrid on Friday when he plunged 100ft to his death.\n\nA Buddhist ceremony was held on Saturday and a Catholic cremation carried out earlier.\n\nHis friend Gary Taylor said Mr Monroy was a \"huge bundle of energy\".\n\nHe told the BBC a Prince song was played during the funeral for the Portslade-based dancer, and his ashes will be buried with his grandmother's in Spain on Monday.\n\nGary Taylor has paid tribute to his 'kind and energetic' friend\n\n\"Pedro and his partner Mike are both Buddhists and [Mike] said afterwards it was a very powerful experience,\" Mr Taylor said.\n\n\"Pedro was a huge ball of energy, a very big character and a very kind man.\n\n\"I've got a lot of funny memories, but far too few memories now. He was a big showman and died as you might expect, with an audience.\n\n\"His family are lovely... they are all devastated and shocked.\"\n\nMr Monroy's last Facebook post before his death\n\nMr Monroy died between performances by Alt-J and Green Day, and paramedics spent 30 minutes trying to revive him.\n\nIt is unclear at this stage what caused the fall.\n\nMr Taylor said he expects there will be an investigation into the circumstances, as the Mayor of Madrid, Manuela Carmena, had told the family she wanted to know exactly what happened.\n\nMr Monroy had his own performance company, In Fact Aerial Dance, based in Brixton, London, and previously worked as a self-employed massage therapist at The Grand Hotel, Brighton.\n\nIn statement on the 45,000-ticket sell out festival's website, directors Javier Arnaiz and Farruco Castromán said they did not initially inform the audience or the bands the fall was fatal because of \"security reasons\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Tesla co-founder Elon Musk tweeted the first image of the Model 3 after it rolled off the production line\n\nTesla co-founder and chief executive Elon Musk has shared the first images of the electric car company's Model 3 after it came off the assembly line.\n\nThe entrepreneur followed it up with another Model 3 photo, this time in colour, outside the Tesla factory site in California.\n\nThe Model 3 is Tesla's first mass-market car and the first 30 owners will get in the driver's seat on 28 July.\n\nThe four-door Model 3 will then be available to the public, with a base price of $35,000 (£27,100), almost half that of the Tesla's next-cheapest model.\n\nTesla's share price more than doubled between December and late June as investors backed Mr Musk's strategy to transform the low-volume luxury electric car maker into a producer for the crowded mass-market, but has since fallen back.\n\nRegistrations for new Teslas in California, the car maker's largest market, were down 24% in April compared with April 2016, according to IHS Markit data. The company responded by calling the figure \"cherry-picked\" data.\n\nTesla reported that first-half 2017 global deliveries for all its models rose to 47,100. That was at the lower end of its predicted sales range of 47,000 to 50,000.\n\nIn its last full financial year results the company made a loss of $889m (£689m).\n\nMr Musk's tweeted images follow news last week that Volvo would become the first traditional vehicle manufacturer to phase out the petrol and diesel powered combustion engine, in a move toward hybrid and electric car production.\n\nElon Musk tweeted this image of the Tesla Model 3 production unit", "Six men were found with injuries near a children's play area in Ballantay Terrace\n\nA 23-year-old man is in a critical condition in hospital after being shot in a large scale disturbance in the Castlemilk area of Glasgow.\n\nSix men were taken to hospital following the incident near a children's play area in Ballantay Terrace at about 20:00 on Saturday.\n\nPolice said up to 15 individuals were involved in the incident, which they described as attempted murder.\n\nA 25-year-old man is also in a stable condition in hospital.\n\nOfficers said that on arrival at the scene they found six men with various injuries.\n\nDet Ch Insp Martin Fergus said children and other members of the public were in the area at the time of the attack.\n\nHe told BBC Scotland: \"The call that we received was that there was a large scale disturbance, upwards of 12 to 15 individuals of various age groups engaged in a large scale disturbance using weapons.\n\n\"It's [too] early to say exactly what the motive behind this was, we are working on the hypothesis that this may be a localised feud between families, we don't know at this stage.\n\nDCI Martin Fergus said children and other members of the public were in the area when the disturbance broke out\n\n\"What I can confirm is that two individuals received injuries consistent with gunshot wounds, one of which is critical and fighting for his life as I speak.\n\n\"The other male also received critical injuries, however, they are not thought to be life threatening at this time.\n\n\"Other males that were also involved in the disturbance have received an array of injuries all believed to be serious.\"\n\nSince the six men were admitted to hospital in the city, four have been discharged.\n\nSupt John McBride said officers would be patrolling the area to reassure the local community.\n\nHe said: \"It happened in a sunny Saturday evening when children were undoubtedly out playing in the area and if you're a parent there and you've got a young kid, you probably want that feeling of safety.\"\n\nHe added: \"It is important for people to know that this was not a random attack, it was a targeted attack involving two separate factions.\"\n\n\"It was such a large incident. We have got six people seriously injured, one of whom is still in a critical condition in hospital, one in a stable condition, and four with serious injuries.\"\n\nThe area where the attack took place is largely overlooked by housing and officers believe many people will have witnessed the incident as a result.\n\nThey have urged anyone with information to come forward.", "The family of six-year-old Bradley Lowery have said all are welcome at his funeral.\n\nBradley, from Blackhall Colliery near Hartlepool, died on Friday following a fight with neuroblastoma - a rare type of cancer.\n\nIn a post on Facebook, his family said his funeral will be held at St Joseph's church in the village at 11:15 BST on Friday.\n\nThe Sunderland fan moved people around the world with his story.\n\nThe youngster's plight captured the hearts of people around the world\n\nHis family said: \"[The funeral] is open to everyone who would like to come and celebrate Bradley's life and pay their respects to show him how much he was loved.\"\n\nSpeakers will be set up outside the church and, although attendees are told they can wear what they want, his family will be wearing football shirts.\n\nA private ceremony will be held afterwards at a crematorium.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "An acrobat from Brighton has died after reportedly falling 100ft (30m) during a stunt at a rock festival in Spain.\n\nSpecialist in aerial dance Pedro Aunión Monroy, was suspended in a cage during the Mad Cool festival in Madrid, on Friday night.\n\nWhile near the main stage, in-between the performances by alt-J and Green Day, he fell.\n\nParamedics spent 30 minutes trying to revive him, but were unable to save him.\n\nMr Monroy from Portslade, who trained in the schools of Pilar López, Cristina Rota and in the Royal Conservatory of Dance, had his own performance company, In Fact Aerial Dance, based in Brixton, London.\n\nHe also worked as a self-employed massage therapist at The Grand Hotel, Brighton.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, the hotel's general manager Andrew Mosley said: \"We are all very sad to hear the news, it is the most terrible news and our hearts go out to his friends and family.\"\n\nHe added the sports masseur enjoyed half marathons and was a very popular member of the staff.\n\nJust a few days before the festival, he posted a picture and a last message on Facebook of himself and his partner which said \"love, come to my arms\".\n\nMr Monroy's last Facebook post before his death was a loving message to his partner\n\nThe festival organisers did not initially inform the audience or the bands the fall was fatal because of \"security reasons\" and around 40 minutes after, Green Day took to the stage for their set.\n\nTweeting after their performance Green Day said: \"We just got off stage at Mad Cool Festival to disturbing news. A very brave artist named Pedro lost his life tonight in a tragic accident. Our thoughts and prayers go out to his family and friends.\"\n\nIt is unclear at this stage what happened with Mr Monroy's equipment which caused him to fall.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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 Green Day 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\nSlowdive, which was due on stage after Green Day, suspended its performance, saying: \"Due to the tragic accident in Mad Cool this night we feel it is not appropriate to play. Our thoughts are with those affected.\"\n\nA statement on the 45,000-ticket sell out festival's website from directors Javier Arnaiz and Farruco Castromán reads: \"Mad Cool Festival regrets the terrible accident that the aerial dancer suffered during the second day of the festival.\n\nMr Monroy fell just before rock band Green Day went on stage\n\n\"For security reasons, the festival decided to continue with its programming. We send our most sincere condolences to all his family.\n\n\"Tomorrow Saturday 8, during the festival, we will render a heartfelt tribute to the artist.\"\n\nThe mayor of Madrid, Manuela Carmena, has also tweeted to say she was sorry to hear of the death and sent \"a loving embrace to your family, friends and colleagues\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mr Putin (L) and Mr Trump met on Friday in Germany and, among other things, spoke about Russia's alleged interference in the US election\n\nUS President Donald Trump says it is time to work \"constructively\" with Russia after his meeting with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin.\n\nHe tweeted that Mr Putin \"vehemently denied\" interfering in the US election at their first face-to-face encounter at the G20 on Friday.\n\nBut Mr Trump's position contrasts with some of his own senior officials.\n\nAnd he is facing criticism from within his party after revealing a proposal to partner with Russia on online security.\n\nHe tweeted that he and Mr Putin had discussed forming \"an impenetrable Cyber Security unit so that election hacking and many other negative things will be guarded and safe\", prompting derision on social media and from the Republican Party.\n\nSenator Marco Rubio suggested that such an initiative would be like partnering with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on chemical weapons.\n\nAnd Republican Senator Lindsey Graham told MSNBC: \"It's not the dumbest idea I've ever heard but it's pretty close.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the US ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley said the US \"can't trust Russia\" and \"won't ever trust Russia\".\n\nShe told CNN that talking to Russia should never mean that the US \"take our eyes off the ball\".\n\nAnd US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said interference in the 2016 election remained an impediment to better relations with Russia.\n\nA special prosecutor is investigating whether Trump associates colluded with alleged Russian efforts to influence last November's US election.\n\nAt the meeting at the G20 in Hamburg, both sides confirmed that the presidents had discussed Russia's alleged meddling, but at the time seemed unable to agree on the exact outcome.\n\nRussian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Mr Trump accepted Mr Putin's assertions that the allegations were not true.\n\nMr Tillerson, meanwhile, said the two men held a \"robust\" discussion on the issue, and that Mr Trump had pressed the Russian leader on several occasions - but that an \"intractable disagreement\" might remain.", "Mel and Sue quit hosting The Great British Bake Off when it was announced the show would be moving to Channel 4\n\nFormer Great British Bake Off host Sue Perkins says she knew Mel Giedroyc was also going to leave the show - even though they had never discussed it - because they are \"like twins in a cot\".\n\nThe pair both decided to quit the programme when the BBC lost the rights to Channel 4 in a bidding war last year, saying they weren't \"going with the dough\".\n\nPerkins said the pair were so close after a 30-year friendship that they frequently did the same thing.\n\n\"I didn't need to ring her and say 'what are you going to do?', because I knew what she was going to do - it was merely a question of how we were going to do it,\" she told Radio 4's Desert Island Discs.\n\nPerkins told Kirsty Young she missed hosting Bake Off and would have carried on fronting it if it had remained on the BBC.\n\nIn explaining her decision to leave, she joked: \"I think we were running out of puns - there's only so many in the tank.\"\n\n\"Every bap pun, every Hungarian ring pun was mined and mined.\n\n\"But there was one point when I did think 'can I do this forever?' - four days before I came to the Bake Off tent I had been with the first family of the Mekong in Tibet, who had no electricity and no running water and they would [only eat] yak butter and barley.\n\n\"Four days later I was in a tent where somebody was crying because they couldn't find the packet of marron glace, and I did think how can I rationalise these two worlds?\"\n\nNext year marks the 30th anniversary of when Mel and Sue first met at Cambridge University and went on to forge a career as a comedy double-act.\n\n\"The first thing I noticed was she had some dusky pink DMs (Doctor Martin shoes) and I looked up and saw a shock of bleached blonde hair, this profusion of teeth like a broken piano and a hearty laugh,\" Perkins said.\n\n\"I felt compelled to just move into her orbit and I knew we'd know each other forever.\n\n\"We have seen each other through such highs and lows, and above and beyond our working relationship we're friends - we love each other and want the best for each other.\"\n\nNow their time on Bake Off has come to an end, Perkins hinted they might reunite for another TV project soon.\n\n\"I'm very hopeful Mel and I will do some pratting about, but I couldn't tell you exactly what yet. Possibly some prime-time pratting.\"\n\nDesert Island Discs will be broadcast on Sunday at 11:15 BST on BBC Radio 4.\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.", "1. More than eight billion cans of Spam have been sold over the past 80 years.\n\n2. Sports Direct's Mike Ashley allegedly \"vomited into fireplace\" at a business meeting in a pub - a court has heard.\n\nFind out more (The Guardian)\n\n3. Rice - when prepared in the right way - can bounce.\n\n4. The world's most detailed scan of the brain's internal wiring has been produced by scientists at Cardiff University.\n\n5. The asteroid strike that killed off the dinosaurs could be the reason there are so many different kinds of frogs.\n\n6. More than a third of Premier League football fans watch matches live online via unofficial streams.\n\n7. The grandson of the first-ever NHS patient married the granddaughter of the prime minister whose government founded the service in 1948.\n\n9. If Facebook were a religion, it would be the second largest in the world (after Christianity).\n\n10. Just 150 passengers use Wales's quietest train station each year.\n\nSeen a thing? Tell the Magazine on Twitter using the hashtag #thingididntknowlastweek\n\nJoin the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter.", "Ms Trump accompanied her father to earlier sessions before sitting in for him later\n\nIn an unusual move Ivanka Trump briefly took her father Donald's seat at a summit of world leaders on Saturday.\n\nThe US president had stepped away for a meeting with the Indonesian leader during the G20 meeting.\n\nMs Trump is an adviser to her father, but a leader's absence is usually covered by high-ranking officials.\n\nA BBC correspondent at the summit said he could recall no similar precedent. There has been widespread criticism on social media.\n\nMr Trump returned a short while later to retake his seat between the British prime minister and the Chinese president.\n\nMs Trump did not seem to make any major contribution to the session on African migration and health during her father's absence.\n\nA photograph of her presence was tweeted by a Russian attendee, but later deleted.\n\nSome users highlighted that Ms Trump is unelected, or questioned her credentials - as a fashion brand owner - to sit at such a senior diplomatic meeting.\n\nOthers lampooned her appearance among the world's most powerful leaders after her claim in an interview two weeks ago that she tries to \"stay out of politics\".\n\nBut her brother appeared to suggest there was nothing wrong and asked the \"outraged left\" if they would rather he sat in instead.\n\nMs Trump had joined her father for an earlier G20 event on Saturday on women's entrepreneurship and finance, along with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Christine Lagarde, director of the International Monetary Fund.\n\nAll three women had previously appeared together on a panel during the G20 women's summit in Berlin in April.\n\nAt that appearance she defended her father as a \"tremendous champion of supporting families and enabling them to thrive\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ivanka Trump explains her praise for her father\n\nEarlier on Saturday, Donald Trump said having him for a father was the only \"bad thing\" in Ms Trump's life.\n\n\"I'm very proud of my daughter, Ivanka - always have been, from day one,\" he told world leaders at the panel on female entrepreneurs.\n\n\"If she weren't my daughter, it would be so much easier for her. Might be the only bad thing she has going, if you want to know the truth.\"\n\nWhile her siblings, Donald Jr and Eric, took over the family business, Ms Trump put her own fashion brand assets in a trust in order to take an unpaid White House position, a move criticised as nepotism.\n\nAfter a brief modelling career as a teenager, Ms Trump was given a job in her father's company.\n\nThere, she expanded the Trump hotel brand and became an executive vice-president of development, alongside her siblings.\n\nMs Trump is married to Jared Kushner, who also plays an influential role in Donald Trump's White House.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. David Lidington MP: \"Too much sun and warm Prosecco leads to gossipy stories in the media\"\n\nJustice Secretary David Lidington has dismissed speculation about Theresa May's future as the product of \"too much sun and too much warm Prosecco\".\n\nHe said summer drinks parties produced \"gossipy stories\" and the public wanted the PM to get on with her job.\n\nStories have suggested the PM is under pressure to name a departure date after losing her Commons majority.\n\nThere are also reports Tory MPs are unhappy with the deal Mrs May did with the DUP to prop up her government.\n\nMr Lidington, who was promoted to the job of justice secretary by Mrs May in her post-election reshuffle, described stories about Mrs May's leadership as \"gossip\".\n\nHe told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show: \"I have been in Parliament 25 years and almost every July a combination of too much sun and too much warm Prosecco leads to gossipy stories in the media.\n\n\"But the key thing is this - the public's had an election and I think they want politicians to go away and deal with the real problems this country is facing\".\n\nFormer Conservative chief whip Andrew Mitchell has, meanwhile, sought to play down comments about Mrs May, reported in the Mail on Sunday.\n\nHe reportedly told a private dinner for Tory MPs that Mrs May was dead in the water and should go.\n\nA Conservative MP present at the gathering told the paper: \"He said she was weak, had lost her authority, couldn't go on and we needed a new leader.\n\n\"Some of us were very surprised and disagreed with him.\"\n\nMr Mitchell, who was described as a key ally of Brexit Secretary David Davis, one of those being tipped as a future Tory leader, said the Mail story was \"an overheated report of a private dinner conversation\".\n\nMr Mitchell is alleged to have made the comments at a dinner on 26 June, the day Mrs May struck a deal with the DUP to prop up her minority government.\n\nHe did not mention Mr Davis in his comments at the One Nation Commons dining club of Tory MPs, of which he is the secretary, the newspaper added.", "Labour's \"ambition\" is to write off all student debt, which would cost £100bn, shadow education secretary Angela Rayner has said.\n\nThe Labour MP said it was a \"huge amount\" and the party would not commit to doing it \"unless we can afford to\".\n\nThe Conservatives said it was a \"shambolic\" proposal, which Labour had no idea how to fund and would lead to higher taxes.\n\nLabour has pledged to scrap university tuition fees if it wins power.\n\nBut leader Jeremy Corbyn went further in an interview with the NME during the election campaign, suggesting existing debts could be wiped.\n\nHe told the music magazine: \"There is a block of those that currently have a massive debt, and I'm looking at ways that we could reduce that, ameliorate that, lengthen the period of paying it off, or some other means of reducing that debt burden.\n\n\"I don't see why those that had the historical misfortune to be at university during the £9,000 period should be burdened excessively compared to those that went before or those that come after. I will deal with it.\"\n\nThe Greens were the only party at the general election to include a commitment to wipe all student debt in their manifesto.\n\nQuizzed by the BBC's Andrew Marr on how much it would cost, Ms Rayner said: \"It is a huge amount, it is £100bn, which they estimate at the moment, which will increase.\n\n\"It's a huge amount of money but we also know a third of that is never repaid.\"\n\nLord Adonis has called for tuition fees to be scrapped\n\nMs Rayner said Mr Corbyn had said it was an \"ambition\", but she added \"we will not announce that we're doing it unless we can afford to do that\".\n\nShe added: \"I like a challenge, Andrew, but we've got to start dealing with this debt crisis that we're foisting on our young people. It's not acceptable.\n\n\"They are leaving university with £57,000 worth of debt, it's completely unsustainable and we've got to start tackling that.\"\n\nLast month, the Student Loan Company said that outstanding debt on student loans had increased by 16.6% to £100.5bn at the end of March.\n\nOnly about a third of the students who have taken out £9,000-a-year loans are expected to pay them back fully, meaning the government will have to pick up part of the bill.\n\nLord Adonis, who came up with the student fees policy as Tony Blair's policy director, has called for them to be scrapped or vastly reduced, saying in an article for the Guardian that he had never meant to create a \"Frankenstein's monster of £50,000-plus debts for graduates on modest salaries\".\n\nHe blamed \"greedy\" university vice-chancellors, who successfully lobbied the coalition government to increase the £3,000 cap on fees to £9,000.\n\nConservative First Secretary of State Damian Green, who is effectively Theresa May's second-in-command, has called for a \"national conversation\" on tuition fees, to consider whether they should be paid out of taxes.\n\nAngela Rayner has previously called on the government to reverse the abolition of student maintenance grants to help the most disadvantaged students.\n\nShe also wants to reduce the interest rate that students have to pay on their loans, which has gone up to 6.1%.\n\nAsked by Andrew Marr if fewer working class youngsters were getting into university education as a result of tuition fees, she said: \"I don't believe that that's the case actually, but I do believe that many working class and part-time and older mature students are actually leaving university.\"\n\nConservative MP Luke Hall said Ms Rayner's comments contradicted Mr Corbyn's claim that fewer people from disadvantaged backgrounds were going to university.\n\nHe said: \"The truth is that the number of people going to university from disadvantaged backgrounds has never been higher.\n\n\"Now Labour are making shambolic promises to spend £100bn extra, without any idea of how to fund it, that could only be paid for through higher taxes on families.\n\n\"This government is committed to making sure that everybody has the chance to go to university no matter their background, so that we can build a country that works for everyone.\"", "Ciaran McClean stood unsuccessfully for the Green Party in West Tyrone in June's election\n\nA mental health worker is to legally challenge the UK government's deal with the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP).\n\nCiaran McClean, who is a member of the Green Party, says the pact breaches the Good Friday Agreement and the Bribery Act.\n\nThe DUP has agreed to support the minority Conservative government in important votes, in return for money for Northern Ireland.\n\nA former government lawyer said the bribery claim was \"spurious\".\n\nThe government has said it believes the confidence and supply agreement is within the law.\n\nMr McClean has launched a crowdfunding campaign to fund the judicial review.\n\nDavid Greene, Mr McClean's solicitor, said an application for a judicial review would be submitted either on Monday or Tuesday.\n\nOn his crowdfunding webpage, Mr McClean, who stood unsuccessfully for the Green Party in West Tyrone in June's election, says the government is \"threatening hard-won peace\" with its DUP deal.\n\nThe Tory-DUP deal came two weeks after June's election resulted in a hung Parliament\n\n\"The Tories are being propped up by the DUP in order to cling to power after the recent election. This horrifies me. It's straight bribery - money for votes.\n\n\"The deal flies in the face of the Good Friday Agreement, under which the government is obligated to exercise its power with 'rigorous impartiality' on behalf of all the people in the diversity of their identities and traditions.\"\n\nHe is pursuing the legal challenge as an individual, not on behalf of the Green Party.\n\nMr McClean's solicitor is a senior partner at London-based Edwin Coe solicitors, who represented hairdresser Deir Tozetti Dos Santos, one of the claimants in the successful Brexit challenge in the Supreme Court.\n\nMr Greene told the BBC there had been a \"public outcry\" over the Tory-DUP deal.\n\n\"It's not a question of foisting views and the important point is this is about the rule of law,\" he said.\n\n\"This is about a citizen's entitlement to go in front of a court and say that doesn't look right and to be able to challenge it in some meaningful way.\"\n\nDUP MP Sir Jeffrey Donaldson and Tory Chief Whip Gavin Williamson sign off on the deal\n\nAlberto Costa, former government lawyer and now MP for South Leicestershire, told the BBC the investment given to Northern Ireland as part of the deal was not a \"personal inducement\" and Prime Minister Theresa May had a constitutional duty to form a government.\n\nHe said the deal was \"transparent and lawful\" and the bribery claim was \"vexatious\" and \"totally without merit\".\n\nUnder the confidence and supply arrangement, the DUP guarantees that its 10 MPs will vote with the government on the Queen's Speech, the Budget, and legislation relating to Brexit and national security - while Northern Ireland will receive an extra £1bn over the next two years.\n\nWhile rival parties in Northern Ireland have largely welcomed the additional funding, concerns have been raised that the deal could undermine the peace process and devolution negotiations, with the UK government dependent on the support of the DUP.\n\nThe deal was also widely criticised by opposition parties in the UK.\n\nLabour branded it \"shabby and reckless\", while the Welsh First Minister Carwyn Jones called it a \"straight bung\" and said it \"kills the idea of fair funding\".", "As he visits troops bolstering Nato's eastern border in Estonia in response to rising tensions with Russia, General Sir Nick Carter - the British army's top soldier - explains how the armed forces need to win support for their changing mission.\n\nPublic support in Britain for the Army has been consistently strong. But General Carter says there are risks here as well as benefits.\n\n\"That public support,\" he says, \"is very much based upon sympathy and not necessarily upon empathy.\n\n\"And I think if we wish to sustain our numbers, and indeed the sort of attitude you would want your army to have, I think it's important that the cursor swings more towards empathy than sympathy, so that people understand more about what an army does and why you need an army, and therefore what its final task might be.\"\n\nOf course the Army is about much more than that final task - \"closing with and engaging the enemy\".\n\nBut the unpopularity of some of Britain's recent wars, the lack of understanding about military matters among much of the public, and the increasing sensitivity to casualties, have all meant that the term \"boots on the ground\" - putting soldiers into harm's way - has become almost toxic.\n\nGeneral Carter has some sympathy with this view.\n\n\"I think the term 'boots on the ground' has become difficult for people to comprehend.\n\n\"The trick of course is for boots on the ground to be applied in a way that is not necessarily risk-free, but is done for appropriate gain and benefit.\"\n\nThis issue of the relationship between Britain and her army is a central aspect of General Carter's thinking.\n\nHe is speaking at an Estonian army base in Tapa, a garrison town a little under 100 miles from the Russian border.\n\nThe general is visiting the British-led multi-national battle group, which is there as part of a Nato deployment to reassure the Estonians and to demonstrate the alliance's cohesion to Moscow.\n\nBritish soldiers took part in a ceremony welcoming the Nato battalion to Estonia earlier this year\n\n\"Young people join an army to be used and that is important to us,\" he says.\n\n\"So the opportunity to do something like we are doing up here in Estonia is important.\n\n\"But we also need to be prepared to be used in other ways as well, providing we can be used in an effective fashion.\"\n\nFor the British army, this is a period of unprecedented change as it transitions away from a dominant focus on counter-insurgency operations in the heat of Iraq and Afghanistan, and re-builds its capability to fight modern high-intensity combat - the sort of conflict it trained for day-in and day-out during the Cold War years.\n\nThe strategic picture is also changing dramatically.\n\nThe potential threats are becoming more complex, the dividing line between peace and war ever less clear.\n\nSome people argue that the modern, Western way of war is at arm's-length - exemplified by armed drones and stand-off weapons fired at great distances from their intended targets.\n\nBy such readings the traditional army - leaving aside maybe the special forces - seems strangely out of step with the apparent new reality.\n\n\"I don't subscribe to the view that we find ourselves in a new era of warfare where you can do it all with stand-off; you can do it all with bombing; you can do it all with special forces and you can do it all with proxies,\" he tells me emphatically.\n\n\"Those are all simply fallacies. The bottom line in all of this is that, in the final analysis, people live on land and it is ultimately the land component that has to 'mix it' where people live. History proves that that is a requirement.\n\n\"Our policy makers absolutely understand that you have an army because, in the final analysis, armies are the business when it comes to a decision, and ultimately it's about a decision.\"\n\nBritain's army is of course an awful lot smaller than it once was.\n\nHow big should it be in part depends upon what the country can afford. So does General Carter think that he has enough soldiers?\n\n\"The straightforward answer to that question is that given the tasks that we have currently got, we have adequate numbers,\" he says.\n\n\"If the tasks change or the tasks increase then we might have to ask questions about it.\"\n\nOn equipment he is confident that the Army will get things that it needs, though \"how quickly it arrives is always a question\".\n\nBut the Army itself is going to change even more dramatically in the years ahead. And this too is something that General Carter is pushing forward.\n\nTraditionally the Army - like most others - is what he terms \"bottom-fed\".\n\nIn other words, \"it recruits people who are youngsters and we grow them through a career\".\n\nBut he believes that as the Army requires and takes on more specialists, it is going to have to offer a very different career structure.\n\n\"I suspect,\" he says, \"that maybe as much as 30% of the army may be specialists in the future - and how we supply those specialist career schemes is something we have to think about.\"\n\nThis could mean a lot more of what the Army calls \"lateral entry\" (ie joining at a much later age, probably from an established career) or indeed sharing people with industry.\n\nNonetheless, at least in his lifetime, General Carter does not expect the combat arms of the Army \"to look particularly different\" to the way they do today.\n\n\"I think we will still deliver that effect through a bottom-fed delivery system in the way that we understand it.\"\n\nBut he says specialists will need to be recruited differently and that will have significant implications requiring a review of ranks, career structures, working practices and so on.\n\nGeneral Carter thinks that the Army is about a year or two away from taking on regular personnel by this lateral entry method.\n\nBut the core business of the Army is not going to change.\n\nWhile its roles go way beyond just training for high-intensity combat, as here in Estonia, it remains part of the nation's insurance policy.\n\nSo being so close to the Russian border, what security challenge does the general worry about most?\n\n\"Probably the greatest risk at the moment,\" he says, \"is the risk of miscalculation.\n\n\"Understanding your potential opponents,\" he says, \"and having the communications systems in place and the processes in place so that you realise what messages you are sending is fundamental.\n\n\"Miscalculation is the thing that we probably need to watch.\"", "The two boys and a girl were all under the age of 13, police say\n\nA woman and three children have died after a house fire in Bolton.\n\nThe blaze broke out at Rosamond Street in the Daubhill area of the town just after 09:00 BST.\n\nA man managed to jump from a first floor window but two boys and a girl - all under the age of 13 - and a woman were still inside.\n\nOne of the children was pronounced dead at the scene and the woman and two other children died later in hospital, Greater Manchester Police (GMP) said.\n\nThe force said it was currently not treating the fire as suspicious.\n\nA man jumped from the first floor before trying to rescue other residents\n\nOne resident said: \"It's terrible, absolutely terrible. I saw them bringing people out. They were doing chest compressions.\n\n\"I saw them bring two out and then they put a green sheet up.\"\n\nShe said she was first alerted to a \"commotion\" when she heard a man \"banging on a door\" of one of the terraced houses.\n\n\"There was just a load of hammering... I went to the window and saw smoke billowing.\n\n\"When I saw him after, he had his hands bandaged up and his head.\"\n\nAssistant fire officer Tony Hunter said the man, believed to be the children's father, had jumped from the first floor window and tried to get back into the property to rescue them and their mother.\n\nHe is currently being treated in hospital.\n\nMr Hunter added firefighters had to use a specialist tool to break the front door down. They found the heat had been so \"intense\" it had burnt off plaster on the walls to reveal the brick underneath, he said.\n\nA child was pronounced dead at the scene and a woman and two other children died in hospital\n\nPolice have launched a joint investigation with Manchester Fire and Rescue into the cause of the blaze.\n\nDet Ch Insp Chris Bridge, from GMP, said: \"These are utterly heartbreaking circumstances and our thoughts go out to anyone affected by this tragic incident.\n\n\"This happened on a Saturday morning when many people would be up and about and I would appeal to anyone with any information about this incident to please call us.\"\n\nThe fire, which has now been extinguished, led to the temporary closure of nearby roads.\n\nManchester Fire and Rescue tweeted: \"Our deepest condolences go to the family and the community. We will be in the local area in the coming days reassuring residents.\"\n\nGreater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham posted on Twitter: \"Dreadful news coming out of Bolton today. My thoughts are with the family, their friends and the whole community.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Four men have died in a week of stabbings in the West Midlands.\n\nThe first of the four separate attacks happened on Monday, with the latest on Saturday afternoon.\n\nThe offences in Birmingham and Solihull are not linked, but have raised fears about knife crime in the area.\n\nDavid Jamieson, the region's police and crime commissioner, said knife crime was a \"major concern and has been for quite some time\".\n\nA man died in a stabbing outside The Forge Tavern in Digbeth\n\nMr Jamieson said: \"There has been a growing trend that's particularly prevalent in the warmer weather, The warm weather does bring out more crime, particularly crime that happens on the streets.\n\n\"It's desperately worrying. Any increase in any violent crime is worrying.\n\n\"The police are there to tackle the violence so people will have the full weight of the law thrown at them.\"\n\nElsewhere, a man was arrested on Saturday in connection with a stabbing at Merry Hill shopping centre in Brierley Hill at about 11:15 BST.\n\nA 19-year-old man was taken to hospital to be treated for a stab injury, where he remains in a stable condition.\n\nRonan Parker, 19, of Dixons Green Road, Dudley, has since been charged with wounding with intent. He will appear at Dudley Magistrates' Court on Monday, 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. Riot police stood between Ku Klux Klan and its opponents\n\nA march by supporters of the white supremacist Ku Klux Klan (KKK) group in the US state of Virginia has been met by hundreds of rival demonstrators.\n\nDozens of KKK members took part in an authorised march to protest at the planned removal of a statue of General Robert E Lee from Charlottesville.\n\nLee commanded forces of the pro-slavery Confederacy in the US Civil War.\n\nThe marchers, some carrying Confederate flags, were separated from rival groups by metal barricades and armed police.\n\nThe KKK supporters were escorted to and from the rally on Saturday by police.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Racism in the US: Is there a single step that can bring equality?\n\nThey were greeted in the university town by large crowds chanting \"shame\" and \"racists go home\" shortly after they had gathered at Justice Park.\n\n\"Police were deployed to secure access to the park and ensure the safety of all involved,\" a Virginia State Police spokeswoman said.\n\nPolice declared the counter-protests \"unlawful\" and used tear gas to disperse the crowds. Several people were arrested, local media report.\n\nHundreds of demonstrators took to the streets in protest at the KKK rally\n\nA protester is doused with water after being tear-gassed\n\nWhile some Americans regard the Confederate flag and associated Civil War monuments as part of their Southern heritage, the far right have adopted them as a rallying cause.\n\nSome observers argue that US President Donald Trump's election to the White House re-energised the far right across the US.\n\nIn May, a torch-lit rally against the removal of Confederate monuments in Virginia was condemned by a local mayor. More than 100 people attended a counter-protest the following night.\n\nA rally in February 2016 ended with the arrests of 13 people after a violent brawl between members of the KKK and rival demonstrators resulted in a number of stabbings in Anaheim, California.", "A kitten left almost blind by cat flu has found a new home on the other side of the country after a couple fell in love with him on the internet.\n\nBear arrived at the Blue Cross's Ipswich centre \"in an appalling state\" when he was just three months old.\n\nA couple in Somerset spotted him on the charity's website and knew, despite his deformed eyelids and partial sight, that they had to adopt him.\n\nSeveral months later and after a 400-mile trip he is now settled with them.\n\nBear could barely see due to ulcers on his eyes, and his inner eyelids had fused together when he arrived in December. He needed two operations to save his vision, the Blue Cross said.\n\nHe can still only partially see and has deformed eyelids.\n\nBear can go outdoors but needs to be accompanied because of his poor sight\n\nHowever, his non-conventional looks did not put off Tara Newton and Luke Thomas, from Yeovil.\n\n\"We wanted to give a home to a cat with a disability, as a lot of people overlook them,\" Ms Newton said.\n\n\"I saw Bear on the website and I just knew we had to have him. He looked like such a lovely little guy and he is.\"\n\nThey made the round trip of about 400 miles (645km) to Suffolk, and more than seven hours later, Bear was settling into his new home.\n\nHe still needs daily eye drops and morning and night eye bath as his tear ducts are deformed.\n\nBear also needs to be closely monitored as the cat flu that caused his problems - caused by the feline herpes virus - is incurable and will remain in his body for life, the animal charity said.\n\n\"He is so loving and affectionate,\" Ms Newton said.\n\n\"To go through so much at such a young age and still be so friendly is amazing.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "More than 80,000 migrants have crossed the Mediterranean to Italy this year\n\nThey call themselves Generation Identity. Made up of mainly 20-something tech-savvy members, the Identitarian movement has been described as the hipster right.\n\nFiercely anti-immigration and anti-Muslim, its aim is to stop mass migration to Europe. With headquarters in Austria and France, the group may be small in size, but its message is starting to resonate in Italy - a country where sympathy for migrants is wearing thin.\n\nAs the number of people seeking to reach Europe rises again, Italy continues to be the major point of entry for those arriving illegally on boats - particularly in the south.\n\nHowever, attitudes are hardening and now this new \"alt-right\" movement says it will do whatever it can to protect Italian identity and culture from outsiders.\n\nSince the start of 2017, more than 80,000 people have made the journey from Libya, across the Mediterranean, to Italian shores, the vast majority landing in Sicily.\n\nAround 2,000 are thought to have died in the attempt, but with almost all other European countries closing their borders, most of the survivors end up staying in Italy.\n\nThe vast majority are not refugees fleeing war, but are considered economic migrants and mainly come from sub-Saharan Africa and as far as the Indian sub-continent.\n\nAlarmingly, there's been a rise in the number of young girls from Nigeria who are forced into prostitution, while boys as young as 16 from Bangladesh are coming via Dubai and Libya looking for work.\n\n\"More than 90% of the immigrants coming here by boat are economic refugees,\" claims 20-year-old Viviana Randazzo, a newly-recruited member of the Identitarians, although official Italian statistics put the figure at 85%.\n\n\"We Italians are also suffering from poverty. Yet we are not given the same treatment - our needs perhaps count even less than theirs.\"\n\nItaly is feeling the full burden of these new arrivals and there are now concerns that anti-immigration activists are exploiting the crisis for their own ends, calling for the \"remigration\" of second and third generation immigrants and the closure of mosques.\n\nThe Identitarians point the finger of blame at aid agencies and NGOs (non-governmental organisations) operating close to the Libyan coastline, accusing them of essentially acting as a taxi service to Europe.\n\n\"I think these [migrants] are coming to Europe because they know someone will save them,\" the movement's Italy co-ordinator, Lorenzo Fiato, told me in Catania, on Sicily's eastern coast.\n\n\"You can't solve this problem by helping the human traffickers do their jobs, because they want to transport illegal migrants.\"\n\nLorenzo Fiato says the Identitarians want to defend Europe against multiculturalism\n\nThe NGOs say they operate in co-ordination with the Italian coastguard and argue that they are there to save lives.\n\n\"[The people smugglers] don't need a 'pull' factor. They are pushing these people out come what may, and if we're not there, they will drown. We're not prepared to let that happen,\" says a defiant and frustrated David Alexander, from the charity Save the Children, talking to me in the western port of Trapani.\n\nThis summer the Identitarian movement tried to stop a Medecins Sans Frontieres rescue ship from leaving port.\n\nThe stunt failed but the group has now managed to raise more than €70,000 (£62,000) in less than three weeks, which it says it will invest in its \"Defend Europe\" campaign.\n\nSave the Children says the Vos Hestia has rescued 4,000 migrants since September 2016\n\nUltimately, this means the group will keep targeting boats run by NGOs trying to rescue the migrants. \"We want to defend Europe against mass immigration and multiculturalism,\" says Mr Fiato.\n\n\"We think that in every city where multiculturalism is present, radical Islam and violence is also present.\n\n\"This is a different kind of migration. These are thousands of illegal migrants coming to our shores and flooding into our cities,\" he adds.\n\nThis comes amid two ongoing investigations by the Italian authorities, who are trying to determine whether the NGOs are bringing migrants to Italy according to international maritime laws of saving lives, or whether they are merely assisting illegal migrants on their journey.\n\nAmbrogio Cartosio, the chief prosecutor in Trapani, said he felt that the NGOs were somehow encouraging the people smuggling trade.\n\n\"It pushes the traffickers to load the migrants on ever more precarious vessels. They can be sure that after a few miles, they will be picked up by the ships,\" he told me.\n\nThe buying and selling of people is big business and the human trafficking trade continues to become more sophisticated and organised.\n\nIt is estimated that this year a quarter of a million migrants will make the perilous journey from Libya to Italy, after the escalation in numbers which typically happens over the summer months. It's been described as Europe's graveyard but it's also now the only route available to them.\n\nDavid Alexander says people would drown if aid agencies did not get involved\n\n\"I think what is clear is that people will continue to do this, unless and until there is a safer, legal way to do it,\" says Mr Alexander.\n\n\"In the meantime, this tragedy will go on unfolding, and we will continue to pick up the pieces, and we will continue to get the blame for something that other people can solve.\"\n\nWhile the crisis continues, so will criticism of the humanitarian effort. As will the message of intolerance.\n\nAnd a solution? No end in sight.", "Relatives of those who died in the Grenfell Tower tragedy are angry at the time it's taking to recover and name victims. But police and forensic science experts say the process of identifying severely fire-damaged remains is a highly complicated one - and it will take some time before families can know the fate of their loved ones.\n\nOn Tuesday night, tempers flared in a closed-door meeting as survivors of the Grenfell Tower disaster demanded to know why the police and coroner weren't able to give out more details about those still missing.\n\nSo far, 21 people have been formally identified as having died in the fire and their families informed. But police believe at least 80 were killed. Met Police Commander Stuart Cundy has said there have been a total of 87 \"recoveries\" but, due to \"catastrophic damage\" inside the building, that did not mean 87 people.\n\nSome residents suspect the figure could be even higher, and the slow pace of progress has fuelled fears of a cover-up.\n\nThe distress and frustration felt by survivors as a result of the delay is understandable, especially given that police have said the final death toll will not be known until the end of the year.\n\nBut experts in the specialised field of victim identification say this fire is a particularly challenging disaster and, that despite fears that the job is not being done properly, the UK has one of the best identification systems in the world.\n\n\"We need to make sure by scientific means,\" says the UK's Disaster Victim Identification Co-ordinator, Det Supt Alan Crawford. \"That's why it takes longer to get identification, but then and only then, when we are 100% certain, do we tell the family.\"\n\nScotland Yard says all \"visible human remains\" have now been removed from the building. Specially trained officers and forensic anthropologists will continue to sift through more than 15 tonnes of debris on each floor by hand in the hope of finding other human material.\n\nDisaster victim identification (DVI) is a police discipline that has developed out of lessons learnt from dealing with incidents of mass casualties around the world.\n\nEvery airplane crash, terrorist bombing and natural disaster adds to the collective sum of knowledge around issues - such as where to locate a temporary mortuary, how to collect and categorise fragmented remains and what the most accurate method is to identify them.\n\nThe practice is regulated internationally according to Interpol standards, adhered to by 197 countries.\n\nIn the UK, a pivotal moment in disaster victim identification came after the 1989 Marchioness boat tragedy in the Thames, in which 51 people died.\n\nEleven years after the Marchioness sank, a public inquiry was ordered to look into the work of the coroner after relatives complained they were kept in the dark, prevented from seeing bodies and that the hands of some victims had been removed unnecessarily for fingerprinting.\n\nVictims' families complained they were kept in the dark after the Marchioness disaster\n\n\"The inquiry made a number of recommendations, principles we hold true now,\" says Det Supt Crawford.\n\n\"Avoid misidentification at all costs, treat the deceased with respect and dignity, be open and honest with families at all times and give as much information as we can.\"\n\nIn the UK, there are now around 2,000 police officers throughout the country who have volunteered for specialist DVI training in addition to their normal duties. They can be called on at any moment.\n\n\"We're up there in relation to being one of the best in the world at what we do,\" says Det Supt Crawford.\n\n\"We lead a lot of countries and they seek our advice.\"\n\nWhen a disaster like Grenfell Tower happens, there are two distinct strands to the process of identifying victims.\n\nOne is gathering as much information as possible about potential victims from relatives, and friends, including collecting medical and dental records.\n\nOn the morning of the Grenfell Tower fire, the number for a Casualty Bureau phone line was given out the media. Members of the public who called in were asked a number of specially scripted questions designed to prioritise those with information about potential victims.\n\nThose deemed likely to know someone caught up in the fire were allocated a family liaison officer who logged details about the missing person onto an official Interpol form.\n\nThe other strand of identification involves collecting information from the bodies themselves. This work is led by a senior identification manager (SIM), who appoints a scene evidence recovery manager, or SERM, who in turn oversees the work of DVI-trained body recovery teams.\n\nThese teams log every detail before moving them to a designated mortuary.\n\n\"At that time, we don't know who we are recovering so it's really important we recover the body or human remains in a dignified manner,\" says Det Supt Crawford.\n\n\"We need to make sure it's photographed, there's a continuity of evidence, there's a forensic preservation and all the way through that process from body recover to being lodged at the mortuary is done to a judicial standard.\"\n\nWhen bodies are brought into the mortuary, experts try to identify them according to standards set by Interpol.\n\nThis means identification must be made using dental records, fingerprints or DNA. Medical implants that carry serial numbers such as pacemakers or hip replacements can be used as secondary identifiers, as can scars, marks and tattoos.\n\nVisual identification by relatives is not used because this is regarded as unreliable. Nor is the discovery of property on a body, such as bag or purse.\n\nDet Supt Crawford cites a 2006 case in the US where five college students were killed in a minibus crash. One family was told their daughter had died, after her body was identified from the bag she was found with. In fact, she had survived and was heavily bandaged in intensive care being watched over by another family whose daughter had been killed in the crash. It was several weeks before the mistake was discovered.\n\nIn the case of Grenfell Tower, there are several factors complicating this identification process.\n\nThe first is that the fire is what's referred to as an \"open\" disaster. A \"closed\" disaster is a situation such as a plane crash, in which a manifest exists of all the passengers and crew. In such a case, identification is a relatively straightforward case of matching the dental records of those on board with the victims.\n\nOpen disasters are more difficult. Here, investigators might have an idea of who was present, but do not know conclusively, making it hard to collect references for DNA, fingerprints or dental records.\n\nAlthough the police have a list of those missing and presumed dead from the fire, they still have no information on the inhabitants of 23 out of the 129 flats in the building.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police says it is working with the Red Cross and community groups to spread their message of an amnesty for illegal immigrants, as well as those illegally sub-letting, so more potential victims can be identified.\n\nThe intensity of the fire also poses an immense challenge to forensic experts. The Westminster coroner, Dr Fiona Wilcox, is reported to have described the scene inside the burnt-out tower block as \"apocalyptic\".\n\nDr Denise Syndercombe-Court is a forensic scientist at Kings College London who works with the Metropolitan Police. She says experts will have to rely on new, sensitive techniques to analyse the remains. It's a slow and painstaking procedure.\n\n\"In some cases, these bodies are so badly damaged by the heat - terrific heat temperatures - we literally will have fragments of bones,\" she says.\n\n\"We'll work on providing strategies for what material is suitable for what analysis technique.\"\n\nKnowing where the remains have been found is a key part of solving the identification puzzle. That is why it is so important for the DVI-trained body teams to log every detail before the body is moved.\n\n\"There's no point analysing material if you have no idea where it came from,\" says Dr Syndercombe-Court.\n\nWhen the World Trade Center towers collapsed on 9/11, human remains were fragmented and mingled in among the debris of the buildings. As a result, 40% of the victims have still not been identified.\n\nIf DNA can be extracted, it then needs to be matched with that of potential victims. Here again, the ferocity of the fire poses additional challenges as surrogate samples of DNA, such as from personal items or toothbrushes, will have also been destroyed.\n\nBecause many of the victims were immigrants, investigators may need to work with police forces in other countries to collect DNA from at least two family members - all of which takes time.\n\nThe process can also take a huge emotional toll on those carrying it out.\n\nForensic scientist Prof Peter Vanezis is a veteran of identification investigations, including working on mass graves in the Balkans.\n\n\"There were some people who weren't very keen on being counselled,\" he says of his time in Kosovo. \"They were the ones who were really affected because they thought they were being very macho by not worrying about these things, but they do get to you.\"\n\nDet Supt Crawford says that officers who volunteer for DVI-duties are monitored and offered counselling because of the traumatic nature of the work.\n\nIt's only when the coroner is satisfied that the information provided about the missing person from relatives, dental and medical records matches that taken from the remains that a formal identification can be made.\n\nThis can be an extremely slow process.\n\n\"There might be an awareness of how long it takes if one sits down and thinks about it in the cool light of day,\" says Prof Peter Vanezis, who was part of the team who identified the final Kings Cross fire victim, 20 years after the disaster.\n\n\"But when you're dealing with relatives who are bereaved or waiting to find out what happened, frustration comes along very quickly.\"\n\nJoin the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter.", "About 18 million people visit the Lake District each year\n\nThe Lake District has joined the likes of the Grand Canyon, the Taj Mahal and Machu Picchu by being awarded Unesco World Heritage status.\n\nThe national park was one of 33 sites around the world to be discussed by the Unesco committee in Krakow, Poland.\n\nThe committee praised the area's beauty, farming and the inspiration it had provided to artists and writers.\n\nIt is the 31st place in the UK and overseas territories to be put on the Unesco World Heritage List.\n\nThe committee suggested the impact of tourism be monitored and requested improvements in conservation efforts.\n\nThe delegates heard the 885 sq-mile (2,292 sq km) Lake District had been trying to obtain the Unesco status since 1986.\n\nLord Clark of Windermere, chairman of the Lake District National Park Partnership which put together the bid, described the decision as \"momentous\".\n\n\"A great many people have come together to make this happen and we believe the decision will have long and lasting benefits for the spectacular Lake District landscape, the visitors we welcome every year and for the people who call the National Park their home,\" he added.\n\nSteve Ratcliffe, director of sustainable development at the Lake District National Park, said the application had been a \"long time in the making\" and he was \"incredibly proud\" of the landscape which has been shaped by nature, farming and industry.\n\nHe told the committee: \"The Lake District now becomes an international and global property and we look forward to working with you and our communities to make sure this site inspires future generations around the world.\"\n\nSteve Ratcliffe said it \"has taken millennia to become the evolving masterpiece it is today\"\n\nAbout 18 million people visit the Lake District each year, spending a total of £1.2bn and providing about 18,000 jobs.\n\nIt is home to England's largest natural lake - Windermere - and highest mountain - Scafell Pike.\n\nThe Lake District has inspired artists and writers\n\nNigel Wilkinson, managing director of Windermere Lake Cruises, said he was hopeful the Unesco status would put the Lakes on an international level.\n\n\"What we really hope is it will act as an economic driver and will grow the value, not the volume, of tourism by giving people more... reasons to make day visits and sustained visits.\"\n\nHarriet Fraser, a writer and patron of Friends of the Lake District, said: \"It's the most beautiful district but it has a very deep culture which is largely hill farming but also conservation.\"\n\nOther UK Unesco sites include Stonehenge, Durham Castle and Cathedral, and the city of Bath.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ministers are seeking to make it harder for UK holidaymakers to make bogus food poisoning claims.\n\nTravel industry bosses and Spanish hotels have complained of a huge rise in false insurance claims.\n\nThey warned that heavy payouts could lead to British tourists paying higher package holiday prices and being barred from some resorts.\n\nThe government said it would reduce the cash incentives of bringing such cases against holiday firms.\n\nJustice Secretary David Lidington said it wanted to limit the legal costs that travel firms had to pay out for the claims.\n\n\"Our message to those who make false holiday sickness claims is clear - your actions are damaging and will not be tolerated,\" Mr Lidington said.\n\nThe problem recently led Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson to observe British digestive systems \"had become the most delicate in the world\".\n\nTravel trade body Abta said it \"strongly welcomed\" the government move.\n\nThe escalating problem of claims, according to one UK travel company boss, risked making British tourists the laughing stock of Europe.\n\nThat's because thousands of French, German, Danish etc holidaymakers staying in the same hotels and dining in the same restaurants as British tourists, didn't get as sick and as often as UK visitors.\n\nThe dilemma for hotels and restaurants is the cost of challenging these claims in the courts is so high yet the sums involved are relatively modest.\n\nSo most hotels and their insurance firms simply pay out. That ends up with higher premiums for everyone else.\n\nThis move to clamp down on bogus claims by the government could - in theory - save us all some money.\n\nUK holidaymakers who are found guilty of making a fraudulent claim face up to three years in jail, the Ministry of Justice said.\n\nIt added that the travel industry estimated holiday sickness claims had increased by 500% since 2013 - a rise not seen in other countries.\n\nThe government is closing a loophole that means legal costs are not currently capped on claims for foreign holidays.\n\nThose with genuine claims will still be able to sue for damages, it said.\n\nMark Tanzer, chief executive of Abta, said: \"These claims are tarnishing British holidaymakers' reputation abroad, particularly in Spain where they are costing hoteliers millions of pounds.\"\n\nHe welcomed efforts to stop firms from \"unduly profiting from false claims\", but called on the government to also increase transparency between claims firms and solicitors.\n\nLast month, Tui's UK managing director Nick Longman and Thomas Cook UK's managing director Chris Mottershead both warned that if the problem continued, it could spell the end of the all-inclusive holiday for UK travellers.\n\nMr Mottershead said: \"It has the potential of putting hoteliers out of business. They will stop British customers coming into their hotels.\"\n\nA British citizen was arrested in Majorca in June for encouraging holidaymakers to submit bogus claims for food poisoning against the hotel where they were staying.\n\nIt followed an undercover operation by the hotel chain which had been subjected to a spike in claims from UK tourists.", "A wealthy businessman has submitted plans for a third runway at Heathrow which he says would be £5bn cheaper than the airport's current scheme.\n\nHotel tycoon Surinder Arora has put his proposal to the government's public consultation on Heathrow.\n\nMinisters have expressed a preference for the airport's plans for a new runway and terminal costing £17.5bn.\n\nHeathrow said it was already considering some of the ideas, and wanted to lower the cost too.\n\nArora Group's proposals include changing the design of terminal buildings and taxiways, and reducing the amount of land it is built on.\n\nMr Arora said: \"We want passengers to be at the heart of our plans and the current monopoly at Heathrow, which over-charges airlines and in turn raises fares for passengers, is not the right model for the future.\n\n\"Heathrow needs competition and innovation which puts passengers and airlines at the heart of the expansion project.\"\n\nHe added: \"One of the options we have proposed to government includes a possible shift of the runway so that it does not impact on the M25 and M4, as we know the M25 junction being affected threatens the deliverability of the whole project.\n\n\"We appreciate this is a politically sensitive issue but it is merely an option with additional savings of £1.5bn, whereas the rest of our proposals save up to £5.2bn without the need to amend the runway location.\"\n\nHe said: \"The government should look closely at Arora's proposal as it would significantly reduce costs.\"\n\nAn airport spokeswoman said: \"Heathrow's expansion proposals are supported by the government and have widespread cross-party political, business and union support.\n\n\"We continue to develop our plans to improve passenger experience, reduce the impact on local communities and lower the cost so we deliver expansion at close to current charges.\n\n\"Some of the options we are looking at sound similar to those suggested in this submission, and we will welcome views on these in the public consultation later this year.\"\n\nConstruction will not begin for at least three years, and it could be delayed by legal challenges over the runway's environmental impact.\n\nA Department for Transport spokesperson said: \"The government has made clear that it believes a new north-west runway at Heathrow is the best scheme to deliver the economic and connectivity benefits this country needs.\n\n\"New capacity will increase competition between airlines resulting in lower fares for passengers.\n\n\"A consultation on a draft airports national policy statement closed on 25 May and we are currently analysing the responses, and will set out our next steps in due course.\"\n\nThe Department for Transport has estimated a new runway at Heathrow would bring economic benefits to passengers and the wider economy worth up to £61bn, and create as many as 77,000 additional local jobs over the next 14 years.", "The wonky bike, which was spotted by a chuckling Paula Brown, has since been repainted by the contractors responsible\n\nA wonky cycle path sign that appeared in the Lincolnshire market town of Sleaford last weekend caused much mirth among local residents, who described it as looking like a penny farthing - albeit one with angular wheels.\n\nBut this was far from the first time bungling contractors have been left with red faces. BBC News rounds up some of the gaffes that have hit the headlines.\n\nThe sign outside Highfield Community Primary School was corrected within 24 hours\n\nWhen a misspelt road marking appeared outside a school in Chester, the finger of blame was as usual pointed at hapless contractors.\n\nThe lettering outside Highfield Community Primary School, in Blacon, was \"claer\" evidence that spelling was not the forte of the person who painted it.\n\nThe marking was hastily corrected, at no cost to the council, after it appeared in February 2014.\n\nThe unnecessary \"I\" was eventually covered up with black paint\n\nAt least the simplest of fixes was possible when blundering workmen misspelled the word \"minutes\" as \"minuites\" at an NCP car park at Cambridge's railway station.\n\nAlthough it was two years before anything was done about the gaffe, eventually an NCP boss harnessed an inner Mick Jagger and gave the order: \"I want it painted black.\"\n\nThus the offending \"I\" was covered up to restore basic literacy to this corner of Cambridge.\n\nNCP said those responsible for the cock-up were \"committed to playing Scrabble in their lunchtimes as spelling revision\".\n\nA set of double yellow lines that appeared in Cardiff last summer couldn't be faulted in terms of execution - but the location chosen for the markings led to the city council being widely mocked.\n\nThat's because the road on which the lines were painted is barely 5ft (1.5m) wide and too narrow for anything but a toy car.\n\nDespite the markings being branded \"ridiculous\" and a \"waste of money\", the beleaguered council stuck to its guns, arguing the double yellows were necessary to \"deter anti-social parking on the narrow access lane\".\n\nMotorists using a supermarket petrol station in Doncaster were amused to find themselves being directed towards a species of low-flying seabird.\n\nThe word \"petrel\" was painted in 3ft letters, next to the flawlessly spelt word \"exit\" and some perfectly drawn arrows, on the approach to the pumps at the Sainsbury's Edenthorpe store in September 2016.\n\nIn a light-hearted response, Sainsbury's said it was \"correcting the misteke\".\n\nThis \"ridiculous\" piece of road painting led the council to urge contractors to use \"common sense\"\n\nNot wanting to let anything as inconvenient as a parked car get in their way, slapdash council contractors tasked with painting double yellow lines in a suburb of Leeds simply daubed the markings around the vehicle.\n\nHowever, once the car's owner returned and drove away, the lines were left sticking out from the kerb.\n\nLeeds City Council branded the markings in Hyde Terrace, Clarendon, as \"ridiculous\" and said it would remind contractors \"to use common sense\" in future. The lines were later repainted.\n\nAll official road signs in Wales are bilingual\n\nWelsh-speaking drivers in Swansea were bemused to encounter a road sign that informed them: \"I am not in the office at the moment. Send any work to be translated.\"\n\nAbove the baffling statement on the dual-language sign was the correct wording in English: \"No entry for heavy goods vehicles. Residential site only\".\n\nThe howler came about because a non-Welsh speaking council employee emailed the authority's in-house translation service, and took the response received as the translation being sought for the new road sign.", "Mr Trump Jr said there was no follow-up to the meeting\n\nThe US president's son, Donald Trump Jr, has admitted meeting a Kremlin-linked Russian lawyer last year.\n\nThe encounter is thought to be the first confirmed private meeting between a Russian national and a member of Donald Trump's inner circle.\n\nA special prosecutor is investigating whether Trump associates colluded with alleged Russian efforts to influence last November's US election.\n\nBoth Mr Trump Jr and the lawyer say the campaign was not discussed.\n\nMr Trump Jr was accompanied by the president's son-in-law Jared Kushner, and then-campaign head Paul J Manafort, meeting Natalia Veselnitskaya at New York's Trump Tower on 9 June, two weeks after Donald Trump secured the Republican nomination.\n\nMr Trump Jr said in a statement that they discussed a suspended programme for Americans to adopt Russian children.\n\nHe said it \"was not a campaign issue at that time and there was no follow-up\".\n\nMr Kushner's lawyer said he had previously disclosed the meeting on security clearance forms.\n\nPresident Vladimir Putin suspended the adoption programme in 2012 after the US Congress voted in a law to allow the US to withhold visas and freeze financial assets of Russian officials thought to have been involved with human rights violations.\n\nMs Veselnitskaya, who played a key role campaigning against the law, said \"nothing at all was discussed about the presidential campaign.\n\n\"I have never acted on behalf of the Russian government and have never discussed any of these matters with any representative of the Russian government.\"\n\nLast week Mr Trump said interference in the election \"could well have been\" carried out by countries other than Russia and interference \"has been happening for a long time\".\n• None Russian interference in US election- No-one knows - Trump - BBC News", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Charlie's parents want to take him to the US\n\nThe parents of Charlie Gard have joined supporters to deliver a petition to Great Ormond Street Hospital calling on doctors to allow the sick baby to travel to the USA for treatment.\n\nThe petition has been signed by more than 350,000 people.\n\nThe 11-month old boy's case is due to return to the High Court on Monday after the hospital said it had seen claims of new evidence relating to the potential therapy.\n\nHis family said the fight was not over.\n\nSpeaking outside the hospital, Charlie's parents, Connie Yates and Chris Gard thanked their supporters and the media for sharing the story of their 11-month-old son worldwide.\n\nThe couple both in their 30s and from Bedfont, west London, want to take the baby to a hospital in the US for experimental treatment, but lost a lengthy legal battle after judges ruled in favour of doctors at GOSH.\n\nGOSH doctors argued the therapy would not improve Charlie's quality of life.\n\nCharlie Gard has been in intensive care since October\n\nMr Gard said they needed a specialist in Charlie's condition and therefore need to send him to America to \"give him the chance he deserves.\"\n\nMs Yates added: \"We have seven doctors supporting us from all around the world.\n\n\"There is up to 10% chance that this treatment may work and that's a chance worth taking.\n\n\"He's our son, he's our flesh and blood. We feel that it should be our right as parents to decide to give him a chance at life.\"\n\nShe added: \"There is nothing to lose, he deserves a chance.\"\n\nIt comes after GOSH said on Friday it had applied to the High Court for a fresh hearing \"in light of claims of new evidence relating to potential treatment for his condition\".\n\nClinicians from the Bambino Gesu paediatric hospital's neurosciences department said tests in mice and patients with a similar, but not the same, genetic condition as Charlie had shown \"dramatic clinical improvements\".\n\nCharlie inherited the faulty RRM2B gene from his parents, affecting the cells responsible for energy production and respiration and leaving him unable to move or breathe without a ventilator.\n\nCharlie's case will be heard by Mr Justice Francis on Monday at 14:00 BST, according to a High Court listing.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Lynx UK Trust wants to place up to six lynx in Kielder for a five-year trial\n\nPlans to reintroduce the Eurasian lynx 1,300 years after it became extinct in the UK will be submitted soon, campaigners have said.\n\nThe Lynx UK Trust wants to import up to six of the cats from Sweden to Kielder Forest in Northumberland.\n\nWith a public consultation over, the trust said the five year trial plan would go to Natural England by September.\n\nIt has been criticised by some residents and sheep farmers.\n\nThe trust said the lynx hunt in woods and would control the deer population\n\nThe scheme would see four to six lynx wearing radio tracking devices with Kielder chosen due to its dense woodland and low number of roads.\n\nThe trust said the animals would help control deer numbers as well provide a tourism boost.\n\nDr Paul O'Donoghue from the trust told the Guardian the lynx \"belongs here\" and is an \"intrinsic part of the the UK environment\".\n\nHe also told the paper he hoped the lynx could be in the forest by the end of the year.\n\nSheep farmers fear the animals could target their livestock although the trust said the cats would hunt in woods rather than fields.\n\nThe trust did admit, however, that some sheep could be killed but farmers would be \"generously compensated\" for any losses.\n\nPhil Stocker, chief executive of the National Sheep Association, said there were several hundred sheep farmers around Kielder, any one of whom could be affected by the lynx.\n\nHe said valuing a sheep was complex and, money aside, there were major welfare concerns.\n\nMr Stocker said people would not accept animals facing \"unnecessary pain\" and one sheep being attacked by a lynx could cause major stress and possible damage to others in the flock.\n\nHe said the UK no longer had the \"landscape\" for the lynx to be \"genetically sustainable\" and it would not be in the cat's interest to be reintroduced into an environment that, thanks to roads and industry, has changed so much since the cat existed here.\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. Donald Trump: \"Trade will be a very big factor between our two countries\"\n\nUS President Donald Trump has said he expects a \"powerful\" trade deal with the UK to be completed \"very quickly\".\n\nSpeaking at the G20 summit in Hamburg, he said he would visit London. Asked when, he said: \"We'll work that out.\"\n\nIn one-to-one talks, Mr Trump and UK Prime Minister Theresa May agreed to prioritise work on a post-Brexit trade deal, a UK government official said.\n\nMrs May said she was \"optimistic\" about a deal, but warned there was \"a limit\" to what could be done before Brexit.\n\nShe told a news conference that world leaders - including those from China, India and Japan, as well as the US - had expressed a \"strong desire\" to forge \"ambitious new bilateral trading relationships\" with Britain.\n\nThe prime minister hailed it as a \"powerful vote of confidence\" in Britain.\n\nAsked about Mr Trump's visit the UK, Mrs May said: \"We don't have a date yet, we are still working on a date.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Theresa May was asked about Donald Trump's proposed visit to the UK\n\nEarlier, during a 50-minute meeting with Mr Trump - which overran by 20 minutes - the two leaders spent a \"significant\" amount of time on trade, in a discussion described as entirely \"positive\", Downing Street said.\n\nBefore their meeting, Mr Trump hailed the \"very special relationship\" he had developed with Mrs May.\n\n\"There is no country that could possibly be closer than our countries,\" he told reporters.\n\n\"We have been working on a trade deal which will be a very, very big deal, a very powerful deal, great for both countries and I think we will have that done very, very quickly.\"\n\nUnder EU rules, formal talks between London and Washington cannot begin until after the UK leaves the EU in March 2019, without EU agreement.\n\nSir Christopher Meyer, a former British ambassador to Washington, said Mr Trump's statement of intent was a \"very good sign for the future\" and would be \"useful\" to Mrs May.\n\nHowever, Sir Simon Fraser, a former diplomat who served as a permanent under-secretary at the Foreign Office, cast doubt on how soon any trade deal could be reached.\n\nGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel, Donald Trump, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Theresa May seem to be enjoying another photo shoot\n\n\"The point is we can't negotiate with them or anyone else until we've left the European Union,\" he said.\n\n\"And the Americans and others will not negotiate with us until they know what our relationship with the EU is going to be, because the access we have in Europe is hugely important for the advantages that they can get from their relations with us.\"\n\nMr Trump has previously accepted an invitation for a state visit to the UK - a prospect that has caused controversy - although no date has been given.\n\nMr Meyer said his visit would be a \"very important moment\" to nail down Mr Trump's commitment to a strong bilateral agreement.\n\nUnder EU rules, formal talks between London and Washington cannot begin until March 2019, unless Brussels agrees the UK can make a start earlier.\n\nTrade talks tend to be complex and technical, lasting several years.\n\nThe EU and Japan took four years to reach an agreement in principle. But those discussions involved 29 nations; UK-US talks would involve just two.\n\nWith strong political will and determination, a transatlantic agreement could perhaps be completed more speedily than has been the norm for trade pacts.\n\nTalks would cover cutting customs duties, making products such as cars and food cheaper.\n\nThe average UK-US tariff is relatively low anyway, at 3%, and huge amounts of trade already take place.\n\nNegotiations usually cover thornier topics, such as food safety and environmental standards.\n\nIf one side agreed to accept the other's rules, a deal could be done quickly. But that would be controversial in various sectors. That's when negotiations can begin to drag.\n\nMrs May later said she was \"dismayed\" Mr Trump had withdrawn the US from the Paris Agreement on climate change.\n\nThe accord, signed in Paris in 2015, is an international agreement on how to deal with greenhouse gas emissions.\n\nMrs May said she raised the issue during one of \"a number\" of conversations she had with Mr Trump at the summit - not during the official bilateral talks.\n\nThe prime minister said she had \"urged President Trump to rejoin\", adding: \"I continue to hope that is exactly what the United States will do.\"\n\nMrs May also held a 20-minute meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and a 25-minute meeting with Indian prime minister Narendra Modi.\n\nTalks with Mr Abe focused on trade and North Korea's nuclear missile programme.\n\nJapan's new trade deal with the EU, signed off on Thursday, \"could form the basis\" of an agreement between London and Tokyo following Brexit, Mrs May told her fellow leader.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Modi told Mrs May he wanted to see economic links with the UK deepen now and after Brexit, according to a UK government official.\n\nShinzo Abe and Theresa May discussed trade and North Korea's nuclear missile programme\n\nAfter a meeting on Friday, Chinese President Xi Jinping said China and the UK were in a \"golden era\" of relations and increased investment from his country since the Brexit vote showed its confidence in Britain.\n\nThe G20 summit is the first gathering of world leaders since the UK's general election last month, during which Mrs May's Conservative party lost seats and her performance was widely criticised.\n\nThe two-day meeting is being held against a backdrop of violent protests on the streets of Hamburg, with demonstrators and heavily-armed police clashing into the early hours of Saturday.\n\nThe protests centre mainly on the presence of Mr Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, climate change and global wealth inequalities.", "Theresa May's speech on Tuesday reaching out to opposition parties makes the lead for several of the papers - with headlines such as \"May's cry for help to Corbyn\" in the Daily Telegraph, \"Weakened May pleads for support from rivals\" in the Times and \"May appeals to Labour for policy ideas\" in the Guardian.\n\nThe i says the prime minister's message would have been unthinkable before her election gamble backfired.\n\nThe Times says it is an admission of her political weakness.\n\nFor the Guardian, the speech will be seen as an attempt to relaunch her faltering premiership.\n\nThe Telegraph says Mrs May's appeal comes at a time when her leadership is at its weakest, with calls by Tory MPs for her to stand down after her failure to secure a majority.\n\nThe Financial Times describes it as an attempt to shore up her premiership against mutinous MPs as she prepares to publish the most significant piece of Brexit legislation - the Repeal Bill - on Thursday.\n\nManoeuvring among ambitious backbenchers and pro-EU MPs is intensifying ahead of the bill, it adds.\n\nLeo McKinstry in the Daily Express says there's no obvious, clear alternative to Mrs May, so the idea of a smooth coronation for her successor is just a fantasy.\n\nThe Sun agrees, saying a coronation to replace her won't happen and the leadership battle will be a bloodbath.\n\nIt will put the Brexit talks on hold and make us a laughing stock in Brussels, the paper adds.\n\nFor the Daily Mirror however, talk of plots means the prime minister's mind is on personal survival rather than Britain's future prosperity. It thinks she should resign and call another election.\n\nThe Daily Mail, the Daily Mirror and the Sun lead on Monday's fresh High Court hearing on the case of the terminally-ill baby, Charlie Gard.\n\nThe Mail says his heartrending fight for life has gripped the world, and even prompted dramatic interventions from the White House and the Vatican.\n\nToday, it adds, his parents will beg the court to be able to seek treatment for his rare genetic condition, which has left him on life support.\n\nIt has the headline: \"Charlie's day of destiny\".\n\nThe Sun's headline says their plea to the judge will be: \"Give our Charlie a miracle.\"\n\nReports and pictures of Iraqi forces and civilians celebrating on the streets of Mosul following the Iraqi government's announcement that the city had been liberated from the Islamic State group are on several front pages.\n\nThe Guardian says victory in Mosul is both a strategic and symbolic milestone for Iraqi fighters backed by US-led coalition forces.\n\nBut its residents have paid a steep price, with thousands killed or wounded in the battle.\n\nThe Financial Times warns that the advances on IS-held territory in Iraq and Syria will deal a heavy blow, but not eliminate the group.\n\nIt says its militants can melt into the desert and will probably keep up insurgent attacks and suicide bombings.\n\nAnd the Telegraph says the UK and other European countries must be ready for the threat arising from the return of more jihadis.\n\nOther extremists, it adds, will head for Libya or Sinai, presenting a menace to the world for years to come.\n\nThe Sun welcomes the proposal to keep zero hours contracts - one of the expected recommendations of the government's review of employment practices.\n\nIt accepts that some workers are exploited, but says most like the flexibility they offer.\n\nBanning them - it argues - would harm small businesses who can't afford full-time staff.\n\nThe review strikes a decent balance by enhancing workers' rights without damaging business, it adds.\n\nThe Times reports that ministers have rejected calls to lower interest rates on student loans.\n\nIt quotes a government source as saying that interest charged on loans is below equivalent market rates and those of payday lenders, and they offer protection to borrowers that critics overlook.\n\nThe paper says First Secretary of State Damian Green appeared to support a review of tuition fees last month.\n\nBut the source tells the paper he was trying to highlight that Labour's policy of abolishing fees would mean the reintroduction of student number controls, reversing progress in social mobility and a dramatic underfunding of universities.\n\nThe Daily Mail has the results of a study of what it calls \"motherhood in 2017\", showing how the pressures of parenting and holding down a career have meant that many traditional tasks have fallen by the wayside.\n\nAccording to the research, 23% of women said they did not have time to cook an evening meal from scratch and one in five was unable to find time to make a child's birthday cake.\n\nAmong the 1,000 mothers polled, 17% were unable to take a role in their child's Parent Teacher Association and a third said chores such as ironing bed linen were too much for them.\n\nBut - the paper adds - the vast majority made sure they never missed important events in their children's lives such as attending a school play, parents' evening or sports day.\n\nFinally, depending which paper you read, play at Wimbledon will be \"magic Monday\" for the Mail; \"mega Monday\" for the i and \"middle Monday\" for the Telegraph.\n\nWhatever it is called, the Mail explains that the second Monday of the tournament is when the last-16 in both the men's and the women's all play on the same day - the only Grand Slam where this happens.\n\nThe i says that if Andy Murray and Johanna Konta win their matches they will be through to the quarter-finals - and that would be the first time a British man and woman have made the last-eight together since 1973.\n\nThe Telegraph reports that fans have been queuing for two days to see the two players.", "Prison officers have confiscated 225kg (about 500lb) of drugs in one year in England and Wales, according to the Ministry of Justice.\n\nIn 2016, 13,000 mobile phones and 7,000 Sim cards were also seized from prisoners.\n\nThe haul comes after new mobile phone detectors were introduced, as well as 300 specialist dogs for drug detection.\n\nNew Justice Secretary David Lidington said he was not content with the state of prisons, and hoped to improve them.\n\nFour weeks into his new post, Mr Lidington told BBC's Andrew Marr show that he planned to put in place \"effective measures\" to more accurately detect drugs, phones and drones.\n\nIn recent years, legal highs - or psychoactive drugs - had become a problem, he said, as the prison population had shifted in character to include more gangsters and a higher proportion of sexual and violent offenders.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch a drone deliver drugs and mobile phones to London prisoners in April 2016\n\nThe government's National Offender Management scheme previously said that by using mobile phones, inmates had: \"commissioned murder, planned escapes, imported automatic firearms and arranged drug imports\".\n\nShadow Justice Secretary Richard Burgon said it was \"clear that we have a crisis\" and blamed the findings on cuts to prison budgets.\n\nDirector of the Prison Reform Trust, Peter Dawson, said the Prison Service should consider giving prisoners legitimate access to mobile phones as they helped people \"cope with the experience\" and prepare for release.\n\n\"It's in all our interests that people retain their family ties and the phone is an obvious way of doing that,\" he said.\n\nMr Dawson said it was \"pointless\" tracking down inmates who used a mobile to \"call their mum\" rather than for criminal purposes.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFormer prisoner Alex Cavendish, who was released in March 2014, said the contraband haul was the \"tip of the iceberg\".\n\nHe told BBC Radio 5 live that cuts to staffing budgets and \"corrupt\" prison officers were to blame, adding: \"It's really proving a struggle to keep these things out of prisons.\"\n\nDave Todd of the Prison Officers Association conceded that \"you get corruption\" in the prison workforce, but added that a lack of experienced staff \"destabilised regimes\".\n\n\"It needs addressing fundamentally by recruitment and retention of prison officers,\" he told BBC One's Breakfast, adding: \"New prison officers may be compromised by threats, they may be taken in by financial gain, which is not acceptable and my union doesn't defend those people.\"\n\nIn February, a reporter from BBC's Panorama programme went undercover at HMP Northumberland, where he found a number of inmates incapacitated from taking the drug spice.\n\nIn 2016, more than 45% of prisoners in a survey conducted by the HM Inspectorate of Prisons said it was easy to get drugs behind bars.\n\nThe overall number of staff employed across prisons has fallen from 45,000 to just under 31,000 in September 2016.\n\nMr Lidington said the government planned to have 2,500 new officers trained and in place in England and Wales by the end of next year - 500 of whom were already working.\n\nHe said that at the cabinet table he would push forward \"very vigorously\" with a programme for prison reform and measures to increase security and reduce violence.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice also said prisons were working to curb the use of drones in delivering phones and drugs, by creating \"a specialist squad of prison and police officers\".\n\nTo date, 35 people have been arrested and 11 others have been convicted for drone-related activities.\n\nThe department began rolling out tests for psychoactive substances at prisons in September 2016.\n\nIt is also working with mobile network operators to develop ways of blocking mobile phone signals in prisons.", "Wimbledon's seeding system for the men's singles has made an unusually big difference this year, as you can see from the lists above of the ATP rankings a week before the tournament and the Wimbledon rankings.\n\nWimbledon uses a system that favours grass-court specialists - taking the ATP ranking points, doubling the points earned at grass tournaments in the past year and adding on 75% of the points earned on grass the previous year. The other grand slams just use the ATP rankings.\n\nThere are usually only two or three changes in the top eight seeds each year.\n\nOver the last five years you could classify three of the changes to the top eight seeds as being \"good\" in that they make the seeding a better predictor of the outcome, and four of them as \"bad\" because they make it a worse predictor.\n\nThe highest profile example came in 2014, when Novak Djokevic was made number one seed at Wimbledon, despite being number two on the ATP rankings. He won the tournament while Rafa Nadal, who was demoted to the number two slot, was knocked out in the fourth round.\n\nOn the other hand, in 2012 Tomas Berdych was promoted above David Ferrer in the seedings and was knocked out in the first round, while David Ferrer reached the quarter-finals.\n\nThe difference has been marginal overall, but it also must be taken into account that changing seedings is partly a self-fulfilling policy, because a higher-seeded player is likely to get further in the tournament as a result of playing lower-ranked players.\n\nNovak Djokovic won Wimbledon as top seed in 2014 when he was number two in the ATP rankings\n\nLooking at how much difference the Wimbledon seeding system makes got the Reality Check team wondering about whether it had been a better predictor than seedings at other grand slams.\n\nTo compare the seedings with the outcomes for the top eight seeds in grand slams from 2012 to 2016, we allocated a numerical value for the stage at which a player was knocked out. For example, a player knocked out in the semi-finals gets a value of 3.5, because he could have come either third or fourth. Similarly, someone knocked out in the first round would get a value of 96.5.\n\nIf the seeding system was perfect then adding up the outcomes for the top eight seeds in a single year would give a total of 36 (one + two + 3.5 + 3.5 + four lots of 6.5). In fact, the average number you get for the last five years at Wimbledon is 146. And actually, you also get 146 if you do the calculation with the ATP rankings instead of the Wimbledon seedings.\n\nBut that is considerably higher than the figures of 106 at the US Open, 93 at the French Open and 89 at the Australian Open. It should be said that all of these numbers are pretty high. There is not a strong correlation between seeding and outcome.\n\nNonetheless, it is much worse an indicator at Wimbledon, suggesting that Wimbledon has been a less predictable tournament over the past five years than the other grand slams.\n\nCorrection 10 July 2017: This report has been updated to include rankings for the 2017 tournament and to correct some outcomes from the analysis.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mr Trump said the G20 summit in Germany was \"carried out beautifully\" by Mrs Merkel\n\nUS President Donald Trump has declared the G20 summit in Germany a \"wonderful success\", despite his country's isolated position on climate change.\n\nIn a joint statement, the leaders of 18 nations and the EU recognised the US decision to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement.\n\nHowever, they also said other G20 members remained committed to the \"irreversible\" accord.\n\nDeadlock over the issue had held up the last day of talks in Hamburg.\n\nA final agreement was eventually reached and the joint summit statement was officially released on Saturday.\n\nThe statement also said the US would seek \"to work closely with other countries to help them access and use fossil fuels more cleanly and efficiently\".\n\nThe Paris accord sets targets for greenhouse gas emissions aimed at curbing global temperature increases.\n\nIn her closing news conference, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who hosted the summit in Hamburg, said she still deplored Mr Trump's position but that she was \"gratified\" the other 19 nations opposed its renegotiation.\n\nHowever Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan later said that his country's ratification of the Paris accord was now in doubt, as the US withdrawal jeopardised compensation for developing countries.\n\nMr Erdogan said the US stance on the Paris accord makes Turkey less inclined to ratify the deal\n\nMr Erdogan said that when Turkey signed the accord, France had promised that Turkey would be eligible for compensation for some of the financial costs of compliance.\n\n\"So we said if this would happen, the agreement would pass through parliament. But otherwise it won't pass,\" Mr Erdogan told a news conference, adding that parliament had not yet approved it.\n\nMr Trump also won a concession on trade, with leaders underlining the right of countries to protect their markets with what they referred to as legitimate trade defence instruments.\n\nHe later tweeted: \"The #G20Summit was a wonderful success and carried out beautifully by Chancellor Angela Merkel. Thank you!\"\n\nMr Trump held his final talks of the event with Chinese President Xi Jinping, and the two leaders discussed efforts to rein in North Korea's nuclear ambitions.\n\nThe US president told his Chinese counterpart that \"something has to be done\" after Pyongyang tested an intercontinental ballistic missile on Tuesday with the potential to hit the US state of Alaska.\n\nPresident Xi said he supported denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula, and said the China US relationship had made \"progress... despite some sensitive issues\", state news agency Xinhua said.\n\nMr Xi suggested visits between the two countries' defence ministers, Xinhua added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Water cannon was used on protesters\n\nThere were violent protests in the early hours of Sunday, with demonstrators setting cars on fire and throwing projectiles.\n\nHamburg has seen several days of anti-G20 demonstrations, with some of the rallies turning violent.\n\nPolice say 213 officers were injured, and 143 people were detained at the protests.\n\nThe demonstrators were protesting against the presence of Mr Trump and Vladimir Putin, as well as climate change and global wealth inequalities.", "A North Carolina priest faces assault charges after he pulled out a gun in a road rage incident, officials say.\n\nThey say the priest, William Rian Adams, was driving near Palm City in Florida when a pick-up truck that had been following his Chevrolet Corvette closely tried to overtake him.\n\nMr Adams, 35, then \"pointed a semi-automatic hand gun\" at the two people in the other vehicle, police say.\n\nThe priest was arrested on Friday after the victims reported the incident.\n\nHe is charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon without intent to kill.", "Footballer Jermain Defoe has paid tribute to his \"best friend\" Bradley Lowery.\n\nThe six-year-old Sunderland fan died on Friday following a fight with neuroblastoma - a rare type of cancer.\n\nThe club's former striker struck up a close friendship with the avid Black Cats fan and club mascot in the months before his death.\n\nA tweet by the 34-year-old described Bradley as a \"little superstar\".\n\nIt said the youngster's \"courage and bravery will inspire me for the rest of my life\".\n\nHe wrote: \"Goodbye my friend, gonna miss you lots. I feel so blessed God brought u into my life and had some amazing moments with u and for that I'm so grateful\".\n\nBradley, from Blackhall Colliery, County Durham, was diagnosed with the disease when he was 18 months old. He underwent treatment and was in remission, but relapsed last year.\n\nHis plight touched the lives of many, and well-wishers raised more than £700,000 in 2016 to pay for him to be given antibody treatment in New York.\n\nBut medics then found his cancer had grown and his family was informed his illness was terminal.\n\nBradley has been Sunderland mascot several times with his \"best mate\" Defoe\n\nHis death was confirmed on social media by his parents.\n\nThe posting read: \"My brave boy has went with the angels today.\n\n\"He was our little superhero and put the biggest fight up but he was needed else where. There are no words to describe how heart broken we are.\"\n\nTributes have poured in to the football fan, including one from his beloved club which said: \"Bradley captured the hearts and minds of everyone.\"\n\nThe England football squad, for which Bradley was also a mascot, tweeted: \"There's only one Bradley Lowery.\"\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. Fr Philip Mulryne says his switch from pitch to priesthood was a 'kind of a mystery'\n\nThe former Northern Ireland footballer Philip Mulryne has been ordained a Roman Catholic priest in the Dominican Order.\n\nFather Mulryne, who is reported to have once earned £600,000 a year, has also taken a vow of poverty.\n\nPhilip Mulryne prostrate as he was ordained a priest in Dublin on Saturday\n\nHe was ordained in Dublin on Saturday by Archbishop Joseph Augustine Di Noia, who had travelled from Rome for the ceremony.\n\nFr Mulryne had been ordained a deacon in October last year.\n\nBelfast-born Fr Mulryne won 27 caps for Northern Ireland in a career that included spells with Norwich City and Leyton Orient.\n\nHe made his debut for Manchester United in 1997 after progressing through the youth team.\n\nUnable to forge a lengthy career with the Premier League club, he moved to Norwich City in 1999, but his time at Carrow Road was plagued by injuries.\n\nThe west Belfast man was capped 27 times for Northern Ireland, scoring three goals\n\nHe officially retired from football in 2009 and began his journey to ordination, entering the Diocesan Seminary of Saint Malachy's Belfast.\n\nHe spent two years studying philosophy at Queen's University in Belfast and at the Maryvale Institute before going to the Pontifical Irish College in Rome to study theology for one year at the Gregorian University.\n\nHe entered the Dominican Novitiate House in Cork in 2012.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Vince Cable: \"I'm beginning to think Brexit may never happen\"\n\nSir Vince Cable - the likely next Lib Dem leader - says he is \"beginning to think Brexit may never happen\".\n\nHe said \"enormous\" divisions in the Labour and the Tory parties and a \"deteriorating\" economy would make people think again.\n\n\"People will realise that we didn't vote to be poorer, and I think the whole question of continued membership will once again arise,\" he said.\n\nHe was speaking on the BBC's Andrew Marr show.\n\nHis comments were dismissed by leading Eurosceptic Conservative MP Owen Paterson, who said Sir Vince was just \"chucking buckets of water around\" and ignoring the \"huge vote\" in favour of leaving in the referendum and at the general election, where the two main parties backed Brexit.\n\n\"Vince Cable's party went down in votes, as did the other little parties who want to stay in the European Union,\" he told the BBC's Sunday Politics.\n\nHe added: \"I am afraid Vince is behind history. We are going to leave. We are on target.\"\n\nSir Vince conceded that the Lib Dem policy on a second referendum on the terms of a Brexit deal \"didn't really cut through in the general election\".\n\nBut he said it could offer voters \"a way out when it becomes clear the Brexit is potentially disastrous\".\n\nThe former business secretary looks set to be crowned Lib Dem leader. He is the only candidate following the resignation of Tim Farron.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSir Vince told the BBC he wants to work with Labour and Tory MPs to block what he regards as Theresa May's \"hard Brexit\" policy.\n\n\"A lot of people are keeping their heads down,\" he said, and \"we'll see what happens\" when MPs returned from their summer break.\n\nBut he added: \"I'm beginning to think that Brexit may never happen.\n\n\"The problems are so enormous, the divisions within the two major parties are so enormous. I can see a scenario in which this doesn't happen.\"\n\nMPs are set to vote on the Repeal Bill, a key piece of Brexit legislation, in the autumn.\n\nSir Vince has said he wants to form a cross-party coalition including like-minded Tory and Labour MPs to oppose Britain's exit from the single market - the official policy of both the Conservative and Labour parties.\n\nHe said Labour MPs who disagreed with their leader's position were welcome in his party, and predicted Labour's divisions on the issue would get worse.\n\n\"Jeremy Corbyn had a good election, for sure, but there is an element of a 'bubble' about it,\" he told Andrew Marr.\n\n\"He managed to attract large numbers of people on the basis that he was leading opposition to Brexit.\n\n\"Actually he is very pro-Brexit, and hard Brexit, and I think when that becomes apparent, the divisions in the Labour Party will become more real and the opportunity for us to move into that space will be substantial.\"\n\nSir Vince has come under fire for saying Theresa May's comment, in her 2016 Conservative Party conference speech, that \"if you believe you're a citizen of the world, you're a citizen of nowhere,\" was like something out of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf.\n\nQuizzed by Andrew Marr on this, Sir Vince said he had got the wrong dictator: \"I got my literary reference wrong - I think it was Stalin who talked about 'rootless cosmopolitans'.\"\n\nSir Vince, who won back his Twickenham seat at the general election, is not expected to face a challenger for the Lib Dem leadership but he said would still produce a manifesto. He suggested he would back income tax rises to pay for improvements to health and social care.", "Co-stars of Nelsan Ellis said they were \"stunned\" and \"devastated\" by the news\n\nUS actor Nelsan Ellis, who starred in the popular HBO series True Blood, has died aged 39, his manager confirmed.\n\nEllis, best known for playing the flamboyant Lafayette Reynolds in the horror-drama series, died after complications from heart failure.\n\n\"He was a great talent, and his words and presence will be forever missed,\" his manager Emily Gerson Saines told the Hollywood Reporter.\n\nEllis appeared in True Blood from 2008 until the series ended in 2014.\n\n\"We were extremely saddened to hear of the passing of Nelsan Ellis,\" HBO said in a statement on Saturday.\n\n\"Nelsan was a long-time member of the HBO family whose groundbreaking portrayal of Lafayette will be remembered fondly,\" the statement added.\n\nEllis appeared regularly throughout the series of True Blood after first appearing as the cook at a local restaurant in 2008. He played the role of Lafayette, a charismatic gay medium who was able to contact ghosts.\n\nHe also featured alongside Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer in the film adaptation of Kathryn Stockett's novel The Help in 2011.\n\nSpencer paid tribute to Ellis on Saturday with a comment posted on Twitter: \"Just got word that we lost @nelsanellisofficial. My heart breaks for his kids and family.\"\n\nOthers to pay their respects were True Blood co-stars Michael McMillian, Lauren Bowles, Kristin Bauer and Joe Manganiello.\n\nManganiello said that he had been \"crushed by the loss of my friend\".\n\nBauer wrote in a post on the image sharing app Instagram: \"One of the sweetest most talented men I've ever met. A terrible loss for all of us.\"\n\nMcMillan said on Twitter that he was \"stunned\" and \"devastated\" by the news.\n\nEllis is survived by his grandmother Alex Brown, his father Tommie Lee Thompson and his son Breon, along with seven siblings.", "The emergence of winged ants during summer often provokes a strong public reaction\n\nWe're all used to ants sprouting wings and taking to the air during summer, but is there really such a thing as a \"flying ant day\"? A new study appears to have solved the mystery, using data submitted by the public. Here, Prof Adam Hart, one of the report's authors, explains how they did it.\n\nNo one can guarantee a rain-free Bank Holiday weekend or a sun-drenched Wimbledon but, no matter what the summer weather brings, you can guarantee that flying ants will make their annual appearance at some point.\n\nFlying ants are a bit of a surprise for many people. After all, the ants we are used to seeing under stones in our gardens don't have wings and cannot fly. These wingless ants are female workers, toiling to ensure the colony survives and grows.\n\nOnce the colony has grown large enough though, it can stop investing in growth and start investing in reproduction. The problem for ants is that workers cannot start a new colony; for that you need a larger, fertile, \"queen\" ant that has mated with a male from a different colony.\n\nThe flying ants we see in the summer are these potential new female queens and male ants embarking on a mating flight.\n\nOnce they have mated, on the wing, the females drop to the ground and attempt to start a new colony. Most of them will not make it, becoming bird food or dying before they are able to produce worker ants (their daughters) and develop a new colony.\n\nBut some will go on to head up new colonies that will eventually produce their own flying ants\n\nOnce ants have mated, females drop to the ground in attempts to start new colonies\n\nThe mass emergence of these winged ants across the UK always seems to provoke a strong public and media reaction, but rather than celebrating one of the great spectacles of nature, it seems that most people would much rather it didn't happen at all!\n\nReading social media feeds during a flying ant event is a lesson in insect-hating, with words like \"disgusting\", \"horrible\" and \"invasion\" being typical. The term \"flying ant day\", with its implication of a single mass flying event across the country, is virtually ubiquitous.\n\nThe emergence of flying ants certainly does give the impression that these mating flights are coordinated across the whole country, and the collective media reporting of them lends weight to the idea that there is a single flying ant day.\n\nBut is there really such a day, how coordinated are these flights across the country and what triggers the ants to take to the air on the day or days that they do? These were questions I set out to answer with a team from the University Gloucestershire and the Royal Society of Biology.\n\nIt turns out that the widely-held idea of a \"flying ant day\" is actually a misconception.\n\nInvestigating mass events like flying ants presents scientists with a problem; to find out more about what is happening we need to record when and where flying ants are emerging but to do that means being everywhere at once.\n\nWith the advent of the internet, and especially the rise of smart phones, scientists have been able to harness the power of the public, who are more-or-less everywhere all the time, to record events for them.\n\nCitizen science, as such scientist-public partnerships have become known, is an increasingly powerful tool being used in all corners of science. We decided to harness the power of the public to find out more about flying ants.\n\nWhether ants flew seemed to be determined both by temperature and wind speed\n\nStarting in 2012 and continuing for three years, the University of Gloucestershire and the Royal Society of Biology, ran an annual online Flying Ant Survey to find out where and when people were seeing flying ants.\n\nAfter the first year, we also asked some people, \"super-engagers\" who were keen on doing more, to send us samples of the flying ants from their sightings. Using the thousands of ants returned to us we were able to determine that close to 90% of flying ants were from just one species - the black pavement ant Lasius niger.\n\nWe were also able to use the thousands of sightings to say once and for all that the media cliché of Flying Ant Day is a myth.\n\nIn fact, what the public-reported data showed us was that flying ants are much less coordinated across space and much less synchronised than we thought.\n\nWe found that ants were flying somewhere in the UK on as many as 96% of days between the start of June and the start of September.\n\nThe pattern of flying ants differed massively between years. For example, in 2012 there were just a few days in late July and a few more in mid-August where around 80% of the flying activity was focussed.\n\nIn 2012, there was a terrible patch of wet and cold weather at the end of July which seems to have concentrated flights in the periods before and after. But in other years we found very different patterns, for example the fine weather in 2013 resulted in \"pulses\" of ant flights across the country every few weeks throughout the summer.\n\nWe had expected to find flights clustered together geographically when we looked at records across the country but we found that flying ants were much less coordinated than we expected, with no clustering at any level at which we looked.\n\nYou might have flying ants in your garden one day and your neighbour might have them the week, or even the month, after. Even in your own garden, you might have one colony flying today and another tomorrow.\n\nAlthough only a small effect, we did find that flying ant emergences move northwards and westwards across the UK over time, so those early flying ants in Wimbledon (the south-east) this year are exactly what we might expect, albeit a couple of weeks earlier than has been reported previously.\n\nWeather turns out to be an absolutely critical factor in triggering ants to fly. By comparing records of flying ants with the nearest weather station data, we were able to untangle some of the factors that trigger ants to take to the sky.\n\nAnts only flew when the temperature was above 13C and when the wind speed was less than 6.3 metres per second but overall ants like it calm and warm. During the course of the study, every day in the UK summer that had a mean temperature above 25C had ants flying somewhere.\n\nThe records sent in by the public also showed that ants are excellent at short-term weather forecasting. By examining the changes in weather in the days before and after each flying ant event, we discovered that ants were more likely to fly on days that were warmer and had lower wind speeds than the day before.\n\nIt seems that ants are able to judge if the weather is likely to get better or deteriorate. If the weather is going to improve then they will wait, but if it is going to deteriorate then as long as the temperature and wind speed are above their critical thresholds they will fly.\n\nAnts are incredibly important in the ecosystem. As predators they keep on top of other insects and as prey (especially flying ants) they feed many birds and mammals.\n\nTheir nest digging helps to aerate and structure soil as well as acting to cycle nutrients. Thousands of people have helped to make sure the emergence of flying ants, forecasting the weather and evading hungry gulls, can be celebrated as a highly visible sign of these vital ecosystem engineers.\n\nThis research, by Adam Hart (the author of this article), Anne Goodenough (University of Gloucestershire), Thomas Hesselberg (University of Oxford) and Rebecca Nesbit (Royal Society of Biology) is published in the journal Ecography.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe lawyer for a US police officer whose partner killed an Australian woman says it would be \"reasonable\" for the pair to have feared an ambush.\n\nMinneapolis officer Matthew Harrity has reportedly said they were startled by a \"loud sound\" before last Saturday night's shooting of Justine Damond.\n\nPolice have released the transcript of her call to police, in which the 40-year-old reports a suspected rape.\n\nShe was fatally shot in the abdomen by one of the officers she had called.\n\nOfficer Mohamed Noor, who fired the fatal shot in Ms Damond's upmarket neighbourhood, has refused to be interviewed by investigators, as is his legal right.\n\nFred Bruno, a lawyer for Officer Harrity, said on Wednesday: \"It is reasonable to assume an officer in that situation would be concerned about a possible ambush.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"It was only a few weeks ago when a female NYPD cop and mother of twins was executed in her car in a very similar scenario.\"\n\nHe was referring to the 5 July shooting of a 48-year-old police officer as she sat in her patrol car in the Bronx borough of New York City.\n\nThe attorney's comments come a day after Officer Harrity spoke to investigators with the state's Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, which is leading the investigation.\n\nDuring the interview, he described seeing a young person on a bicycle pass by moments before Ms Damond pounded on the door of the police car, according to KSTP-TV.\n\nDetectives have appealed to the cyclist to come forward with any information he may have.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Justine should be here. This shouldn't have happened\"\n\nOn Wednesday police released the transcript of her two separate 911 calls, which she made after hearing screams nearby.\n\n\"I'm not sure if she's having sex or being raped,\" she told the police operator, before giving her address.\n\n\"I think she just yelled out 'help', but it's difficult, the sound has been going on for a while,\" she continued.\n\nMs Damond called back eight minutes later to ensure police had the correct address.\n\nBody cameras, which are worn by all Minneapolis police, had not been turned on at the time of the shooting and the squad car dashboard camera also failed to capture the incident.\n\nOfficers Harrity and Noor, who between them have spent three years on the police force, have been placed on paid administrative leave.\n\nAustralian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is appealing to the US for an explanation.\n\n\"It is a shocking killing, and yes, we are demanding answers on behalf of her family,\" he told Australian TV on Wednesday.\n\nHundreds of friends and family of Ms Damond held a vigil on Sydney's Freshwater beach on Wednesday morning.\n\nThe slain yoga instructor and spiritual healer was engaged to marry an American man.\n\nMinnesota Governor Mark Dayton told reporters he has been in touch with the Australian embassy, adding the state may need to review rules covering police use of body cameras.", "Refugee doctor Rouni Youssef with his mentor Dr Sue Jones and an elderly patient\n\nA pioneering scheme that aims to harness the skills of refugees fleeing conflict and unrest in their home countries could help boost health services in north-east England.\n\nMiddlesbrough has the highest number of asylum seekers in the UK. Around one in every 186 people in the town is seeking refugee status, well over the government guidelines of no more than one in every 200 of the local population.\n\nBut many of the refugees are skilled professionals such as doctors or pharmacists, skills that happen to be in short supply in the area.\n\nI have been to meet the foreign doctors who are participating in the scheme. Unable to practise their profession at home, they are embracing the opportunity to use their skills in an understaffed NHS.\n\nRouni Youssef, 27, picks up a patient's notes from the trolley outside the curtained cubicle and begins to thumb through the details.\n\n\"Interesting,\" he mutters to himself. \"I think we should do an MRI.\"\n\nI ask him what the day ahead on the hospital ward is looking like but Dr Youssef does not hear me. He is focused on the medical details before him, his eyes flicking feverishly over the scans like a sleuth over clues.\n\n\"Maybe some kidney malfunction here,\" he says.\n\nDr Rouni Youssef is currently on an unpaid clinical placement\n\nDr Youssef is polite and friendly towards me but I know I am holding him back from what he would rather be doing. It is, after all, what he has dreamed of doing all his life and what he has spent so many years training to do.\n\n\"I'm a Kurd from Aleppo,\" he shrugs. \"And I'm a medical doctor but it just became too unsafe to stay in Syria and in 2014, I had to flee.\n\n\"I ended up here in Middlesbrough with nothing: no friends, no family and no career. I couldn't be a doctor any more. You can't imagine how that feels. It was like someone had cut off a body part.\n\n\"I was nothing and I had to start from scratch.\"\n\nBut thanks to the scheme run by the North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Trust and a refugee charity called Investing in People and Culture, Dr Youssef once again is sporting a stethoscope around his neck.\n\nHe is currently on an unpaid clinical placement at the University Hospital of North Tees but he has just taken the second part of his Plab exams (an assessment conducted by the General Medical Council which all overseas doctors from outside the EEA must pass before they can legally practise medicine in the UK). If he passes, he will start applying for jobs in September.\n\n\"I'd love to be a consultant paediatrician,\" he admits shyly. \"Babies are such dear little creatures - they're like angels, you know?\"\n\nDr Jane Metcalf says the pilot scheme is a \"win-win situation\"\n\nDr Jane Metcalf, deputy medical director at the hospital, pops down to the ward to find out how his latest exams have gone.\n\nShe describes the Resettlement Programme For Overseas Doctors as primarily a humanitarian project to get skilled healthcare professionals back into practice but she also admits that, since the North East has a shortage of qualified doctors, it is also in the trust's interests to use their refugee resources.\n\nThe current scheme comprises 11 doctors and one pharmacist, from Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Yemen, Sudan, Pakistan and the Congo.\n\n\"It's a win-win situation,\" Dr Metcalf explains. \"Although the training is rigorous, the cost is low... to help the doctors through their exams and English tuition it's about £5,000 per doctor and when you compare that to the £250,000 it takes to train someone in the UK through medicine, it's pretty cost-effective.\n\n\"If we can get doctors like Rouni back into practice within a year that would be a tremendous achievement.\"\n\nThe biggest hurdle for the doctors though is passing the extremely high level, but requisite, English exam.\n\nIn an upstairs room at Middlesbrough library, the other doctors on the pilot scheme are learning about the inappropriate use of colloquial English in the written form.\n\nEveryone is grumbling about the finicky example on the white board which, despite being a native speaker and having a university degree in English, even makes me pause for thought.\n\nEli (L) and Ahmad (R) are among those on the scheme studying for the extremely rigorous English exam\n\nEli, a GP from Congo, has had a long and difficult battle to win refugee status and was unable to join the scheme until his asylum papers were granted. While waiting however, he volunteered for the Alzheimer's Society and is now determined to work in geriatric medicine.\n\n\"We are refugees, yes,\" he smiles. \"But we are doctors too. We don't take this opportunity for granted. Before this programme we had no road, no route. Now we have hope again. And we can give something back.\"\n\nAhmad, from Afghanistan, was just months away from completing his medical training as a specialist in paediatric orthopaedics when his life was threatened by the Taliban, forcing him and his family to flee Kabul.\n\n\"Now I'm optimistic for the future,\" he says. \"I know that one day soon I will practise my passion again.\"\n\nOutside the library I meet Bini Araia, founder of Investing in People and Culture, the charity working in partnership with North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Trust. He tells me that before the scheme's existence, many of the refugee surgeons and doctors, under pressure from their local job centre, were resigned to a life in the UK working in factories, garages or supermarkets.\n\n\"But we have a ready-made skill set!\" he tells me. \"And it's great to show with this programme that refugees can benefit UK society.\"\n\nThe programme shows refugees can benefit UK society, says IPC founder Bini Araia\n\nBack on the ward at the hospital, there are no \"baby angels\" for Dr Youssef to treat today. Instead, his mentor, consultant physician Dr Sue Jones, asks him to join her as she examines an elderly patient who has been complaining of acute hip pain. Dr Youssef jogs eagerly to the patient's bedside.\n\n\"Well hello sir!\" he beams. \"And how are you feeling today? Is it really true you're 101?\" He squats down and holds the man's hand, joking with him and reassuring him. I catch Dr Jones's eye. \"Isn't he impressive?\" she mouths delightedly.\n\nDr Metcalf wants to encourage other NHS trusts to implement the resettlement scheme for refugee doctors, something Dr Youssef welcomes.\n\n\"When I first walked back on to the ward,\" he remembers, \"it felt like I had been fasting for 18 hours and then someone gave me a sip of cold, delicious water.\"\n\nWe walk together to the Rapid Assessment clinic.\n\n\"I want to be a doctor here in Middlesbrough,\" he continues, \"because the people are so friendly.\" Then he grins.\"But the local accent here, it's a bit, um, fresh, isn't it?\"\n\nEmma Jane Kirby reports for BBC Radio 4's World at One programme.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A man has died after being trapped under a large amount of rubble after the derelict church collapsed\n\nA man has died after being trapped in rubble when a church collapsed near a railway line in Cardiff.\n\nFirefighters, rescue dogs and a drone had been searching for the man in the wreckage of the derelict church in Splott, which collapsed at about 14:50 BST.\n\nTwo people escaped from the building - which was being demolished - and were treated for minor injures.\n\nSouth Wales Fire and Rescue Service workers are trying to recover the body.\n\nGareth Davies, area manager for SWFRS, said the man had been trapped under a large amount of rubble.\n\nHe said: \"As a service, we wish to extend our sympathies to the individual's family at this very sad time.\"\n\nCardiff demolition firm Young Contractors, which has been working on the derelict church for about three weeks, confirmed none of its staff were on the site at the time.\n\nA report, prepared for Cardiff council in June 2016 ahead of work to replace a bridge nearby as part of rail upgrades, described the building as a \"dangerous structure\" at risk of \"imminent collapse\".\n\nReport authors Bruton Knowles warned part of the building close to the railway line was unstable and needed to be stabilised or it may \"fall\" and damage the tracks.\n\nCardiff council leader Huw Thomas said questions would have to be asked as to how the building got into the state it did, adding it had been \"left to deteriorate for decades\".\n\nAs the building collapsed a warning was sent to a train heading towards the scene, but the driver did not report anything \"untoward\" on the line, Network Rail said.\n\nHowever, South Wales Police has since confirmed scaffolding was on the tracks.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Firefighter Gareth Davies said crews worked in a very \"challenging environment\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Cardiff council leader Huw Thomas says questions over the state of the church must be asked\n\nOfficers have taped off part of Pearl Street close to the derelict church.\n\nAll trains were initially cancelled between Cardiff and Newport, but two lines have now reopened. Limited services are in operation as a precautionary measure.\n\nNetwork Rail warned commuters rail services across the network could be affected following the incident.\n\nA Network Rail spokesman said: \"We are working with our partners, Arriva Trains Wales, Great Western Railway and Cross Country, to update passengers as and when more information becomes available.\"\n\nCardiff Central MP Jo Stevens tweeted: \"This is awful news from #Adamsdown my thoughts are with the victim's family & friends\".\n\nThe Evac emergency alert phone app - which provides information about major incidents, fires, floods and terrorist attacks - warned users all main train lines between the capital and Newport were closed.\n\nSouth Wales Police has asked people to avoid the area", "Consumers are no longer to be charged extra for paying by debit or credit card, the government has said.\n\nFrom January next year, businesses will not be allowed to add any surcharges for card payments.\n\nThe worst offenders currently are airlines and food delivery apps, and small businesses which typically add a fee for cards.\n\nIn 2010 alone consumers spent £473m on such charges, according to estimates by the Treasury.\n\nIt follows a directive from the European Union, which bans surcharges on Visa and Mastercard payments.\n\nHowever the government has gone further than the directive, by also banning charges on American Express and Paypal too.\n\nCampaigners welcomed the move, saying it was great news for consumers.\n\nAt the moment those booking airline tickets with credit cards pay an extra 3% with Flybe, with a minimum payment of £5.\n\nHowever Flybe has already promised to get rid of the minimum payment, and cut its charges.\n\nRyanair said it would comply with any changes in the law.\n\nFlybe has already promised to cut card surcharges\n\nSeveral airlines, including Monarch and British Airways, have reduced their charges in the last year.\n\nTake-away food apps are also amongst the highest-charging businesses, the Treasury said.\n\nBoth Hungryhouse and Just Eat add 50p to the bill for paying by card, although in some cases the charge may be paid by the restaurant.\n\nOn a £10 bill, that amounts to 5%.\n\nMany local authorities also levy charges of around 2.5%. The DVLA - which charges a flat fee of £2.50 for a card -will also have to change its card payment policy.\n\nSince 2012, it has made £42m from such fees. HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) charges up to 0.6% for payment by credit card.\n\nThe change in the law is likely to mean some companies will simply put up their prices, to cover the extra costs they bear with card payments.\n\nBanks typically charge large retailers between 10p and 20p for each debit card transaction, or 0.6% for credit cards.\n\n\"Maybe they will bump the price up,\" said James Daley, the managing director of Fairer Finance, which has been campaigning for the change.\n\n\"That's fair game. You have to take customers' money somehow. And it's not reasonable to add that cost on at the end of the process.\n\nWhy not put it in the headline price?\"\n\nThere is also a question as to how the ban will be policed. Under the Consumer Rights Regulations, businesses are only allowed to charge a sum that reflects their own costs in processing a transaction.\n\nBut Mr Daley said many businesses are in breach of the regulations.\n\nSome small shops charge a fee for the use of a card - but they are also have to pay more to the banks for processing such transactions.", "Polly Rowe says she likes to step outside of her comfort zone\n\nFor some of us, holidays are becoming more than just a chance to relax in the sun but the chance to experience something different - and this growth in out-of-the-way travel is playing a vital role in many countries' economic development.\n\n\"I like to to try and tick off the bucket list if I can,\" says Polly Rowe.\n\nThe 26-year-old is planning to go to Mexico this October to meet up with an old school friend who is house-sitting at a ranch.\n\n\"Might try my hand at some farming,\" she laughs.\n\nLast year she went to Belize to volunteer for a marine conservation company, and scuba-dived every day for a month.\n\nHer bigger holidays so far have included New Zealand and Japan. When she travels she spends most of her money on flights and experiences.\n\nSocial media is a big influence on where people are choosing to go\n\n\"I try to mainly stay in hostels and then save my money for the bigger experiences and things I want to try out there,\" she says.\n\nPolly is part of a generation of travellers seeking not just relaxation and leisure when they take a break from work, but also an experience.\n\nHolidays for this age group are now all about the \"braggability factor,\" says Tim Fryer, UK country manager at STA Travel.\n\nHe says bookings to more adventurous destinations have risen significantly in the past few years.\n\nWhile Thailand remains one of its most popular destinations, the firm has seen an increase in bookings to less mainstream places such as the Philippines and Sri Lanka.\n\nThailand remains a popular long-haul destination - but faces competition from Sri Lanka and the Philippines\n\n\"It's driven by social media influence. They want to discover something unique and special and show everyone,\" he says.\n\nThe travel agency's customers are predominantly 20-somethings, many of whom are taking a gap year, after finishing school or university.\n\nEven here, he said people are now seeking out more unusual options. The traditional year out may now be just six months, or even as long as 18 months.\n\n\"We've seen less off the shelf round the world trips and more picking and choosing of 'I want this and I want that',\" he says.\n\nAzerbaijan, Mongolia, Iceland, Cyprus, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Costa Rica, Georgia and Sri Lanka are some of the countries which are seeing the strongest growth globally in travel and tourism, according to global industry body The World Travel and Tourism Council.\n\nTheir widening appeal is outpacing that of some of the more traditional holiday markets such as India, China and Indonesia.\n\nThe Foreign and Commonwealth Office continues to advise against all but essential travel to Tunisia\n\nThis kind of jump in tourism can be a massive boost for a country which has few other ways of generating money. But even in developed nations the sector is crucial.\n\nLast year, visitor exports - how much international tourists spend - accounted for some 6.6% of total world exports, and just under a third of total services exports. Overall the sector was responsible for around 10% of global growth last year.\n\nWhere we go on holiday is of course determined by wider world events.\n\nTraditional holiday destination Tunisia has fallen off the map since the 2015 attack in the resort of Sousse in which 30 British tourists and eight others were killed by a gunman with links to Islamic State. The Foreign and Commonwealth Office continues to advise against all but essential travel there.\n\nSource: Thomas Cook, based on UK tour operator and flight-only bookings until 2 May\n\nYet Turkey, hit by security fears last year, has seen its popularity bounce back for this summer, according to Thomas Cook. The country is the third most popular destination for its customers this summer after Spain and Greece.\n\nOld favourites the US and Cyprus are fourth and fifth, says the travel agency which arranges travel for around 19 million customers a year.\n\nThe pound's fall, which is still down around 15% against the dollar since last year's EU referendum, has had a clear impact on holidaymakers' choices with trips to Mexico and South Africa boosted by the relative weakness of their currencies.\n\nNonetheless, Thomas Cook too has noticed a growing appetite for adventure, with families with children going to long-haul destinations that you might not expect.\n\nFamily package holiday bookings for this summer are up 24% year-on-year to Cuba, 39% to Cancun in Mexico and 17% to the Dominican Republic, it says.\n\nThe Sao Lourenco do Barrocal hotel complex in Portugal used to be a traditional farming village\n\nAt the more expensive end of the market, luxury travel club Mr and Mrs Smith says Portugal and Sri Lanka are currently in vogue.\n\nThe biggest trend the firm's co-founder James Lohan has noticed is that people now want all their trips to be memorable, not just ones taken to mark special occasions such as honeymoons and birthdays. He says FOMO - or fear of missing out - means people now want to \"collect the world\".\n\n\"The rise of social media has opened people's eyes to the world's possibilities. People now want transformational travel - something to enrich their lives more,\" he says.\n\nTheir typical client is \"a slightly cliched cash-rich, time-poor person with an average age of 40,\" he says.\n\nTheir customers are not after extreme adventures such as climbing Kilimanjaro, but want what he describes as \"boutique adventure more in keeping with a holiday\".\n\nIn some ways, he says, they're simply re-inventing typical holiday pursuits such as museum tours for a new generation, offering instead things such as photography tours and cookery lessons.\n\n'Frazzled urbanites' want to get back to nature says Mr & Mrs Smith co-founder James Lohan\n\nCustomers might not even realise it, but they're seeking something beyond just a hotel and \"smart hoteliers are responding to that,\" he says.\n\nHe says a old Portuguese farming village, which has now been renovated and turned into the Sao Lourenco do Barrocal hotel by Jose Antonio Uva, the eighth generation of the same family to have lived there, is a good example.\n\n\"People are excited about things like kitchen gardens and provenance and being part of the hotel's working, particularly us frazzled urbanites. We want to get back to nature and be involved with it all,\" he says.\n\nReflecting their customers' demands, the firm which started out as a publisher, producing a guidebook on the top UK boutique hotels, now organises tailor-made travel itineraries for its travel club members.\n\nIsn't it all just a bit stressful for a holiday. Shouldn't people just be relaxing on a beach?\n\nHe laughs, saying there's still plenty of bookings to \"fly and flop\" destinations.\n\nAlthough for Polly it's not the type of holiday she'll be seeking out.\n\n\"I think it's really important to experience different cultures and step outside of your comfort zone,\" she says.\n\n\"It's also a great opportunity to come back home with a different perspective.\"\n\nMore from the BBC's series taking an international perspective on trade:\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\nUS President Donald Trump and Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin had another, previously undisclosed conversation at this month's G20, the White House has confirmed.\n\nThey spoke towards the end of a formal dinner but the White House has not revealed what was discussed.\n\nPresident Trump has condemned media revelations of the talks as \"sick\".\n\nThe two leaders' relationship is under scrutiny amid allegations of Russian interference in the US election.\n\nUS intelligence agencies believe Moscow tried to tip the election in Mr Trump's favour, something denied by Russia. Mr Trump has rejected allegations of any collusion.\n\nThe extra conversation happened during a private meal of heads of state at the G20 summit in Hamburg earlier in the month.\n\nThe Kremlin said at the time that the two leaders had had \"an opportunity to continue their discussion during the dinner\", but the extent of the meeting was not known.\n\nMr Trump left his seat and headed to Mr Putin, who had been sitting next to Mr Trump's wife, Melania, US media said. The US president was alone with Mr Putin, apart from the attendance of the Russian president's official interpreter.\n\nMr Trump had been seated next to Japanese PM Shinzo Abe's wife, so the US interpreter at the dinner spoke Japanese, not Russian. No media were in attendance.\n\nGiven the poor state of relations between Washington and Moscow and the controversy surrounding Russia's efforts to interfere with the US presidential campaign, each and every encounter between Mr Putin and Mr Trump is bound to be carefully scrutinised.\n\nThus the apparently impromptu discussion between the two men at the G20 dinner inevitably raises many questions. What was President Trump seeking to do in approaching the Russian president? Were matters of substance discussed? If so, why was no formal note taken? And why did the US president have to rely upon a Russian official for translation?\n\nThis is all highly unusual, especially at a time when relations between the two countries are laden with so many problems.\n\nMr Trump also appeared unaware of another dimension - the message that his tete-a-tete would send to other leaders in the room, who must have watched the US president's gambit with some unease.\n\nMr Trump's spokesperson Sarah Sanders told reporters at the White House on Wednesday that the dinner was part of the president's publicly released schedule.\n\n\"You guys came and took pictures of it,\" she told journalists. \"It wasn't like this was some sort of hidden dinner. To act as if this was some secret is just absolutely absurd.\"\n\nKremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the two leaders had \"exchanged opinions and phrases in the margins of the visit on more than one occasion\".\n\n\"There were no covert or secret meetings. It is absolutely absurd to claim this,\" he was quoted as saying by Russia's TASS news agency.\n\nMr Peskov also mocked the notion that the subject of a conversation between the two men could have been kept secret, saying that is a \"manifestation of schizophrenia\".\n\nThe length of the talks has been disputed.\n\nIan Bremmer, president of the US-based Eurasia Group, who first reported them in a newsletter to clients, said: \"Donald Trump got up from the table and sat down with Putin for about an hour. It was very animated and very friendly.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What Trump said of his first, formal meeting with Putin\n\nNo-one else was nearby, so the topics of discussion were not known, he said.\n\nMr Bremmer had not been at the dinner but said details were given to him by unnamed attendees who, he said, were \"flummoxed, confused and startled\" by the turn of events.\n\n\"At summit meetings you have little 'pull-asides' between heads of state to discuss business all the time - a one-hour pull-aside is highly unusual in any context,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"A one-hour pull-aside between Putin and Trump where only the Kremlin translator is there, where we don't know what's discussed, given the uniqueness of the US-Russia relationship... makes the [US] president, surprisingly and disturbingly, not credible.\"\n\nIn a statement, a senior White House official said there was no \"second meeting\", just a brief conversation after dinner.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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. Trump 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 official said: \"The insinuation that the White House has tried to 'hide' a second meeting is false, malicious and absurd. It is not merely perfectly normal, it is part of a president's duties, to interact with world leaders.\"\n\nNational Security Council spokesman Michael Anton said: \"A conversation over dessert should not be characterised as a meeting.\"\n\nMr Trump later said on Twitter: \"Fake News story of secret dinner with Putin is 'sick.' All G20 leaders, and spouses, were invited by the Chancellor of Germany. Press knew!\"\n\nThe dinner and its attendees have always been known. Only the Trump-Putin discussion had not been reported before.\n\nAt the dinner, Mr Trump's wife, Melania, sat next to Mr Putin\n\nAt the earlier, formal meeting, their first face-to-face encounter, Mr Trump said he had repeatedly pressed Mr Putin about the allegations of interference in the US vote.\n\n\"I said, 'Did you do it?' He said, 'No, I did not, absolutely not.' I then asked him a second time, in a totally different way. He said, 'Absolutely not.'\"\n\nThere are congressional investigations, and one by a special counsel, into the allegations of Russian interference in the US election and possible collusion with the Trump team.\n\nOn Tuesday, the Senate intelligence committee said it wanted to interview Mr Trump's son, Donald Jr, and other members of the Trump team, over a meeting they had with a Russian lawyer in June last year.\n\nMr Trump Jr said he had attended the meeting with Natalia Veselnitskaya as he was promised damaging material on Hillary Clinton, but it did not materialise.\n\nOn Wednesday, Ms Veselnitskaya told Russia's RT television channel she would be willing to testify before the Senate on the matter.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Commander in tweets: What we can learn from Trump's Twitter\n\nMeanwhile, the White House said Mr Trump would nominate former Utah governor Jon Huntsman as ambassador to Russia, a key post for a president who promised to improve relations with Moscow.\n\nMr Huntsman, who served as ambassador to China and Singapore, needs to have his name confirmed by the Senate.\n\nThe suspicions over Russian interference are likely to play a significant factor in his confirmation process, correspondents say.", "Bernhard Tschannen shows where the bodies were found in the ice\n\nA shrinking glacier in Switzerland has revealed two frozen bodies believed to be of a couple who went missing 75 years ago, Swiss media report.\n\nMarcelin and Francine Dumoulin disappeared at a height of 2,600m (8,530ft) after going to tend to their cows in the Alps in August 1942.\n\nThey were farmers whose seven children never gave up hope of finding them.\n\nTheir youngest daughter, 79, said she was now planning to give her parents the funeral they deserved.\n\nMr and Mrs Dumoulin were never found despite extensive searches.\n\n\"We spent our whole lives looking for them,\" Marceline Udry-Dumoulin told Lausanne daily Le Matin.\n\n\"I can say that after 75 years of waiting this news gives me a deep sense of calm.\"\n\nA DNA test will be conducted in several days' time, police say.\n\nLocal police said the bodies were discovered last week on Tsanfleuron glacier, above the Les Diablerets resort, by a worker from ski-lift company, Glacier 3000.\n\nDirector Bernhard Tschannen said his employee found some backpacks, tin bowls and a glass bottle, as well as male and female shoes, and part of a body under the ice.\n\nValais police said in a statement that a book, a backpack and a watch had been taken to Lausanne for forensic analysis.\n\nMr Tschannen said that it was likely the couple had fallen into a crevasse and the way they were dressed implied that they could have been there for 70 or 80 years.\n\n\"The bodies were lying near each other. It was a man and a woman wearing clothing dating from the period of World War Two,\" he told Le Matin.\n\nThe weathered belongings of Marcelin and Francine Dumoulin were also found on the Tsanfleuron glacier alongside their bodies\n\nMs Udry-Dumoulin said her mother, a teacher, rarely went on such walks with her husband, a shoemaker, because she spent much of her adult life pregnant and it was difficult terrain.\n\nShe said that she had never given up hoping that one day she would find her parents, even climbing the glacier three times to look for them.\n\nWithin two months of the disappearance of her parents, she and her siblings were placed with different families, and lost contact over the years.\n\nShe told Le Matin that she wanted to hold a long-awaited funeral, but would not wear black.\n\n\"I think that white would be more appropriate. It represents hope, which I never lost,\" she said.\n\nThe bodies of a number of missing climbers have been discovered in the Alps in recent years.\n\nClimatologists say a rise in global temperatures is causing the ice to recede, revealing the corpses of those missing for decades.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Footage has emerged of Paul Nicholls being rescued\n\nBritish actor Paul Nicholls has been rescued after being trapped at the bottom of a waterfall in Thailand for three days, his agent has said.\n\nThe ex-EastEnders star had motorcycled to the site in Koh Samui before falling, breaking both legs and shattering a knee.\n\nHe was unable to use his phone after it broke, but local villagers alerted police to his abandoned motorbike.\n\nThe 38-year-old Bolton-born actor's agent said he was \"recovering well\".\n\nNicholls will be flown back to the UK next week.\n\nThe actor, who played Joe Wicks on the BBC soap in the 1990s, was on holiday in Thailand after finishing filming for the Channel 4 series Ackley Bridge.\n\nAfter being alerted, police searched records to find out who had rented the bike and found it had been rented to a British tourist called Paul Greenhalgh - Nicholls' real name.\n\nVolunteer rescuers, police, and medics went to search for the actor, and found him several hours after setting off.\n\nMr Nicholls came to prominence in long-running BBC soap EastEnders\n\nNicholls' first TV appearance was aged 10 in Granada Television show Children's Ward.\n\nHis EastEnders character Joe Wicks lived with schizophrenia, and the popular soap was praised for its portrayal of mental health on-screen.\n\nSince EastEnders, Nicholls has appeared in a number of TV shows, including Law and Order UK, Casualty, and Grantchester.\n\nHis most recent TV appearance is in Channel 4's Ackley Bridge, where he plays a teacher in a school where British Asian and white British communities merge.", "Edmund Smith created the boots for Billy Connolly in 1975\n\nThe BBC has upheld a complaint from the daughter of a Scottish artist after Jeremy Paxman gave the wrong answer to a question on University Challenge.\n\nThe quiz show host incorrectly attributed Billy Connolly's banana boots to artist John Byrne rather than their true creator Edmund Smith.\n\nGlasgow pop artist Smith made the size 9 bananas for the comedian in 1975.\n\nThe BBC said it had drawn the \"oversight\" to the attention of the programme's producers.\n\nThe error was made during a Christmas celebrity special of the quiz show, broadcast on 27 December 2016.\n\nDuring the semi final, presenter Jeremy Wade, journalist Shiulie Ghosh and Prof Jamie Angus - for the University of Kent - were asked by Paxman: \"Born in Paisley in 1940, which artist and playwright designed Billy Connolly's banana boots and wrote the 'Slab Boys trilogy' for the theatre and the series Tutti Frutti for television?\"\n\nTo which Paxman responded: \"Funny answer, but not right. John Byrne\".\n\nThe University of Kent team featured Jeremy Wade, Shiulie Ghosh, Paul Ross and Prof Jamie Angus\n\nThe BBC acknowledged that the answer was wrong and conceded that the correct information was widely available, including from the biography of Billy Connolly, written by his wife Pamela Stephenson.\n\nIn a ruling from the Complaints Unit, the BBC said: \"The daughter of Edmund Smith complained that the answer was incorrect, her father having designed and made the boots in question.\n\n\"Evidence from several sources, including a detailed account of the matter in Pamela Stephenson's biography of Billy Connolly, confirmed that the boots had been designed and made by Edmund Smith.\n\n\"The executive producer responsible for oversight of the series drew the finding to the attention of the independent production company which makes it.\"\n\nEdmund Smith's banana boots are currently on display at the People's Palace Museum at Glasgow Green.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Reinwood Junior School is one of several in West Yorkshire which carries out lockdown drills\n\nSchools need a coherent strategy for lockdown procedures in case of a dangerous event taking place on their premises, a teaching union said.\n\nThe NASUWT said schools currently had ad hoc drills to deal with various threats and called on the government to put together a comprehensive plan.\n\nMore than 200 head teachers in West Yorkshire have attended council-run seminars providing advice on lockdowns.\n\nThe government said it \"constantly reviewed\" security guidance it issues.\n\nThe seminars, run in collaboration with police, the fire service and the North East Counter Terrorism Unit, give advice on managing a potentially violent or dangerous event in or around a school.\n\nFive have been held since the beginning of 2016, with organisers aiming to have covered every school in West Yorkshire by Easter 2018.\n\nScenarios covered include noxious fumes from a fire or chemical incident, weapons in school, animals in school grounds, aggressive pupils or parents and bomb threats.\n\nMany schools across the UK practise lockdown drills\n\nHuddersfield's Reinwood Junior School is one of several in West Yorkshire which carries out lockdown drills, with pupils and staff practising twice a year.\n\nAfter a pre-recorded alarm and message is played from the tannoy, pupils get under tables, teachers lock classroom doors, lights are turned off and window shutters pulled down.\n\nIan Darlington, Year Six teacher at the school, said it was better to practise so that it \"almost becomes second nature\" to the pupils.\n\n\"Initially it might appear that we are raising concerns, raising children's fears, but in actual fact they're quite calm doing it now,\" he said.\n\n\"They understand the importance of doing it and it doesn't worry them.\"\n\nChris Keates, NASUWT General Secretary, said: \"Responsibility for ensuring security and terrorism preparedness should be the responsibility of the whole governing body.\n\n\"It would not be appropriate for the government simply to require schools to have preparedness plans in place and assume that they are able to do this.\n\n\"Schools will already have plans in place to respond to a range of emergency scenarios, but it's important that they are given specific advice and support on what additional provisions are considered necessary and the support and advice to implement them.\"\n\nA Department for Education spokesperson said: \"Schools have a legal responsibility to ensure staff and pupils are safe.\n\n\"We provide a range of support for schools and constantly review guidance to ensure it is comprehensive and up to date.\"\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\nThirty-two million Americans would lose health coverage under a Republican plan to repeal Obamacare, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has forecast.\n\nThe non-partisan office's analysis found the cost of a medical insurance policy would increase 25% next year and double by 2026.\n\nThe repeal bill would also cut the federal deficit by $473bn (£363bn), predicted the CBO.\n\nThe Republican-controlled Senate has twice failed to pass a healthcare bill.\n\nIts members plan to vote next week on a plan to repeal President Barack Obama's 2010 health law with a two-year delay.\n\nBut the CBO estimates the number of uninsured would rise by 17 million next year alone if the Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare, were to be overturned.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. President Trump has been switching his position what do about the health bill in recent days\n\nPresident Donald Trump earlier called on his party to postpone their summer holiday until they have repealed Obamacare and replaced it with the Republican plan.\n\nMr Trump told 49 Republican senators at the White House: \"We should hammer this out and get it done.\"\n\nIn the past two days he has switched position several times, urging the repeal and replace of Obamacare, just repealing it, allowing it to fail, before reverting to repeal and replace on Wednesday.\n\nMr Trump said: \"For seven years you promised the American people that you would repeal Obamacare.\n\n\"People are hurting. Inaction is not an option. And frankly I don't think we should leave town unless we have a health insurance plan.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. President Trump won big in Kentucky last year but the state also depends heavily on Obamacare\n\nMr Trump warned a senator who was seated next to him that he could lose his job if he did not toe the party line.\n\nA ripple of uncomfortable laughter was heard in the room as the president said of Nevada's Dean Heller: \"And he wants to remain a senator, doesn't he? OK.\"\n\nMr Heller, who was one of the earliest senators to oppose the first version of the Republican health bill, is up for re-election next year.\n\nSenate Republican leader Mitch McConnell has scheduled a vote early next week on a straight-up repeal of Obamacare.\n\nHowever, it looks likely to fail after the defections on Tuesday of at least three of the party's senators.\n\nMr McConnell pointed out it was the same legislation that all but one Republican senator voted to send to President Barack Obama in 2015, safe in the knowledge he would veto it.\n\nBut now the party controls the White House and both chambers of Congress, some rank-and-file Republicans seem wary of enacting legislation that would eliminate medical insurance for millions of Americans.\n\n\"We thankfully have a president in office who will sign it,\" said Mr McConnell, whose reputation as a master tactician has been dented by the imbroglio.\n\n\"So we should send it to him.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Trump's battles with Obamacare - in his own words\n\nWith Democrats united in opposition, Mr McConnell can only lose two votes from his 52-48 majority in the 100-seat Senate to pass the bill.\n\nSenators Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia are opposed to repeal.\n\nOverturning Obamacare was a top campaign pledge for Mr Trump and congressional Republicans, who view the law as a costly intrusion into the healthcare system.\n\nThe party's proposed alternative includes steep cuts to Medicaid, a healthcare programme for the poor and disabled.\n\nIt would also remove Obamacare's individual mandate, which requires all Americans to have health insurance or pay a tax penalty.\n\nAnd there would be a six-month ban on obtaining new medical coverage for anyone who lets their previous policy lapse for more than two months.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Commander in tweets: What we can learn from Trump's Twitter", "Stars and broadcasters have given their reaction to the BBC releasing details of what it pays its top talent.\n\nRadio 2 host Chris Evans topped the table, in a salary bracket of £2,200,000 - £2,249,999.\n\nHe was followed by Gary Lineker, Graham Norton and Jeremy Vine - in a list that revealed a gender pay gap and a lack of diversity BBC Director General Tony Hall said must be addressed.\n\nOf those, in the top pay brackets, Gary Lineker tweeted he would be looking for his \"tin helmet\" after wishing everyone \"Happy BBC salary day\".\n\nHe quipped his agent and commercial channels were to \"blame\"- possibly for his salary in the region of £1,750,000 - £1,799,999.\n\n\"This whole BBC salary exposure business is an absolute outrage,\" he went on to tweet. \"I mean how can @achrisevans be on more than me?\"\n\nAnother at the top of the list is Radio 4's Today presenter John Humphrys, who admitted his salary of £600,000 was hard to justify.\n\n\"What do I do? On paper, absolutely nothing that justifies that huge amount of money, if you compare me with lots of other people who do visibly.\n\n\"If a doctor saves a child's life, if a nurse comforts a dying person, a fireman rushes into Grenfell Tower, then of course you could argue that compared with that sort of thing I'm not worth tuppence ha'penny. However we operate in a market place.\"\n\nPolitical, documentary and radio host Andrew Marr confirmed he is paid £400,475 a year, describing how that is less than the £600,000 he was \"widely reported\" to be paid a couple of years ago.\n\nThat covered his Sunday morning politics show, radio work, documentaries, obituaries and work on key news events such as elections and referendums, he said.\n\nThe presenter, who suffered a stroke in 2013, added: \"As the BBC moves to deal with highly paid employees, my salary has been coming down.\n\n\"I now earn £139,000 a year less than I did two years ago.\n\n\"In the past I have been offered deals by the BBC's commercial rivals at a higher rate than the corporation would pay.\"\n\nJeremy Vine says he feels \"lucky every day\"\n\nRadio 2 presenter Jeremy Vine was accused on air on Wednesday by a former miner of being \"grossly, grossly overpaid\" along with the other 95 on the talent list.\n\nHarry Jones from Glamorgan told Vine: \"I enjoy your programme and I enjoy you personally but I'd like to ask you a direct question, are you embarrassed to pick up your pay cheque?\"\n\nVine said: \"I just feel very lucky every day, is the answer to that.\"\n\nMr Jones asked: \"Do you think you're overpaid?\" to which Vine replied: \"I don't really want to answer that because I don't think it's the moment for me.\"\n\nRadio 5 live presenter and The Big Questions TV show host Nicky Campbell said simply that he had been on network radio for 30 years this year.\n\n\"Every day I realise what a privilege it is and how lucky I am,\" he tweeted.\n\nAndrew Neil makes the list but co-host Jo Coburn does not\n\nAndrew Neil mentioned his inclusion during Wednesday morning's Daily Politics, hosted with Jo Coburn, who is not on the list.\n\nHe said: \"The BBC has published details of on-screen talent, which you may be surprised to know includes me - as on-screen talent.\"\n\nDiscussing sport, he joked: \"Is Gary Lineker coming on to do this bit? That means the budget will be gone for the year.\"\n\nThe list has provoked debate, not least because two-thirds of those on it are men and there are seven of them ahead of the highest-paid woman, Claudia Winkleman.\n\nShe earns an amount in the £450,000 - £499,999 bracket. Her agent offered \"no comment\" in response to the publication.\n\n\"We'll be discussing #GenderPayGap. As we've done since 1946. Going well, isn't it?\"\n\nSpeaking on BBC News former shadow culture secretary and former Labour leader Harriet Harman said publishing the list meant \"pay discrimination\" at the BBC had been \"laid bare\".\n\nShe described it as \"the old boys' network where they're feathering their own nests and each others' and there is discrimination and unfairness against women\".\n\n\"Although everybody will think it's very unfair and outrageous, this is a moment now, when it can be sorted out,\" she added.\n\nMaria Miller, Basingstoke MP and chair of the Women and Equalities Select Committee questioned how the BBC would handle the disparity between men's and women's pay.\n\n\"If individuals are doing exactly the same job, it is actually against the law to pay them differently,\" she said.\n\n\"It is still incredibly unclear how the BBC is going to avoid getting into some very difficult legal positions with some of the people they employ.\"\n\n\"All #BBCpay numbers are eye-watering,\" tweeted Green Party co-leader Caroline Lucas. \"But to see so many extremely talented women paid less than male 'equivalents' is utterly infuriating.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"We do have further to go\" says James Purnell, BBC Director of Radio and Education\n\nBut BBC Breakfast's Dan Walker took to Twitter to say he earns the same as co-host Louise Minchin for the programme - it is his other BBC commitments in BBC Sport that take his total salary higher.\n\nAnd Radio 1's Scott Mills opened the floodgates to a large lunch bill with his riposte to fellow DJ Chris Stark's request to buy him lunch.\n\nHungry Twitterers piled in to place their order after the £250,000 - £299,999 wage bracket earner generously replied: \"What would you like?\"", "Evans and Winkleman are the BBC's highest paid male and female stars\n\nChris Evans has topped the list of the BBC's best-paid stars.\n\nHe made between £2.2m and £2.25m in 2016/2017, while Claudia Winkleman was the highest-paid female celebrity, earning between £450,000 and £500,000.\n\nAbout two-thirds of stars earning more than £150,000 are male, compared to one-third female, according to the BBC annual report.\n\nDirector general Tony Hall said there was \"more to do\" on gender and diversity.\n\nIt is the first time the pay of stars earning more than £150,000 has been made public.\n\nThe BBC has been compelled to reveal the information, including the pay of 96 of its top stars, under the terms of its new Royal Charter.\n\nThe total bill for the 96 personalities was £28.7m; but the figures in the report reveal large disparities between what men and women are paid.\n\nOverall, 25 men on the talent list receive more than £250,000, compared to just nine women.\n\nSpeaking on LBC Radio, Prime Minister Theresa May said: \"We've seen the way the BBC is paying women less for doing the same job... I want women to be paid equally.\"\n\nWhen asked if Chris Evans was worth 12 of her, Mrs May - who earns about £150,000 - said: \"What's important is that the BBC looks at the question of paying men and women the same for doing the same job.\"\n\n\"On gender and diversity, the BBC is more diverse than the broadcasting industry and the civil service,\" Lord Hall said.\n\n\"We've made progress, but we recognise there is more to do and we are pushing further and faster than any other broadcaster.\"\n\nWhen asked if female talent working at the BBC would now be asking for pay rises, Lord Hall said: \"We will be working carefully on our relationship with our talent.\"\n\nWoman's Hour's Jane Garvey tweeted: \"I'm looking forward to presenting @BBCWomansHour today. We'll be discussing #GenderPayGap . As we've done since 1946. Going well, isn't it?\"\n\nNewsnight presenter Emily Maitlis, who did not appear on the list, retweeted Garvey's message.\n\nThere is also a gap between the pay for white stars and those from a black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) background.\n\nGeorge Alagiah, Jason Mohammad and Trevor Nelson are the highest paid BAME presenters, each receiving between £250,000 and £300,000.\n\nThe highest-paid female star with a BAME background is BBC news presenter Mishal Husain, who earned between £200,000 and £250,000.\n\nThe annual report contains pay information in bands and does not reveal exact amounts. Nor does it include stars who receive their pay through BBC Worldwide, the corporation's commercial arm.\n\nThe figures quoted only refer to the amount of licence fee money each person receives and do not include their earnings from other broadcasters or commercial activities.\n\nThey also exclude stars paid through independent production companies.\n\nThat means some big name stars - such as David Attenborough, Benedict Cumberbatch and Matt LeBlanc - do not appear on the list.\n\nThe list also does not distinguish between people who are paid for doing multiple jobs within the BBC and those who are just paid for one.\n\nTwo of the judges on Strictly are in a higher pay bracket than the others - but they also work for other BBC shows\n\nStrictly Come Dancing head judge Len Goodman - who has now left the show - and fellow judge Bruno Tonioli were both in the £200,000-£250,000 band.\n\nThe show's other judges, Craig Revel Horwood and Darcey Bussell, got between £150,000 and £200,000.\n\nTess Daly, Winkleman's Strictly Come Dancing co-host, was paid between £350,000 and £400,000.\n\nGraham Norton earned more than £850,000 but this does not include payments to his production company, which makes The Graham Norton Show and pays him a separate salary.\n\nThe BBC is alone amongst the UK's major broadcasters in releasing pay details for its on-air and on-screen talent. Talent pay is considerably higher in the commercial sector.\n\nAs he left the BBC after his Radio 2 breakfast show on Wednesday, Chris Evans said it was right \"on balance\" that star salaries were being disclosed.\n\n\"We are the ultimate public company I think, and therefore it's probably right and proper people know what we get paid,\" he told reporters.\n\nDuring a briefing on the annual report on Wednesday morning, Lord Hall said: \"Chris Evans is presenting the most popular show on the most popular radio network in Europe.\n\n\"The BBC does not exist in a market on its own where it can set the market rates.\n\n\"If we are to give the public what they want, then we have to pay for those great presenters and stars.\"\n\nAside from Strictly, Winkleman's other BBC roles include presenting The Great British Sewing Bee and her Radio 2 Sunday night show.\n\nHer agent said she would be making no comment.\n\nIf you ask experienced people in the world of broadcasting what they think of these salary disclosures, three clear and consistent points are apparent.\n\nFirst, the BBC pays below - and sometimes much below - market rates, both at management level and in terms of top broadcasting talent.\n\nSecond, this move will prove inflationary. Those on the list will think to themselves: \"Why is that inferior presenter getting paid more than me?\" - and will demand a pay rise.\n\nThird, if you thought it was tin hat time for the talent, pity the poor agents they work with.\n\nCasualty star Derek Thompson was the BBC's highest paid actor, receiving between £350,000 and £400,000 over the last financial year.\n\nAmanda Mealing, who also stars in Casualty as well as Holby City, was the highest paid actress, receiving between £250,000 and £300,000.\n\nPeter Capaldi, the outgoing star of Doctor Who, was paid between £200,000 and £250,000.\n\nClare Balding earned between £150,000 and £200,000 for her work on sports shows including Wimbledon Today and the Rio Olympics.\n\nCasualty stars Derek Thompson and Amanda Mealing are the BBC's best-paid actors\n\nThe overall spend on talent was £193.5m - down on the £200m spent in 2015/2016.\n\nThe figures also showed a decrease - from 109 to 96 - in the number of stars paid more than £150,000.\n\nThe total spend on stars with salaries of more than £150,000 was also down £5 million on the £31.9 million paid in the previous financial year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ex-BBC chairman Lord Grade describes the corporation's disclosure of talent pay as \"disturbing\"\n\nSpeaking on the Today programme, Lord Grade - a former BBC One controller - called the government's insistence that talent pay be disclosed \"distasteful and disturbing\".\n\n\"The net result of this is inflation,\" he said. \"Talent salaries and wages will round upwards, they won't go down.\"\n\nFormer culture secretary John Whittingdale MP said: \"If somebody is earning the equivalent of 1,000 households' licence fees put together… the licence fee payer deserves to know.\"\n\nThe annual report showed that the BBC continues to reach 95 percent of UK adults every week.\n\nIt also said the iPlayer had its most successful year to date, with an average of 246 million requests each month.\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.", "Bob Neill, the chair of the Justice Committee says it is right that the minister is frank about the problems facing prisons.\n\nHe asks if the government will take forward the prison reform agenda which does not rely on legislation, and if he will commit to providing data to the House and the committee on implementing the Prison Inspector's recommendations.\n\nThe minister says he would be more than happy to discuss this further with the committee.\n\nHe adds that the government have not ruled out future legislation for prisons, but there is a lot that can be done without requiring legislation.", "A police helicopter was used to film two people \"brazenly\" having sex in their garden, a court heard.\n\nThe trial of two South Yorkshire Police officers and two pilots has begun at Sheffield Crown Court.\n\nMatthew Lucas, 42, Lee Walls, 47, Matthew Loosemore, 45, and Malcolm Reeves, 64, all deny misconduct in a public office.\n\nOn other occasions people sunbathing naked and naturists at a campsite were filmed, the court was told.\n\nRichard Wright QC prosecuting, said the crew used their \"unique viewing position [and] powerful video camera\" to film people \"in a gross violation of privacy.\"\n\nThe court heard that five people were filmed sunbathing naked, as well as naturists on a campsite, and a couple having sex in their garden.\n\nFormer police officer Adrian Pogmore has previously admitted four charges of misconduct in a public office\n\nPilots Mr Reeves, of Farfield Avenue, Knaresborough, North Yorkshire, denies two counts of misconduct in a public office, and Mr Loosemore, of Briar Close, Auckley, Doncaster, denies one count.\n\nPolice officers Mr Walls, of Southlands Way, Aston, Sheffield, denies one count, and Mr Lucas, of Coppice Rise, Chapeltown, Sheffield, denies three counts.\n\nA fifth man, former police officer Adrian Pogmore, 50, of Whiston in Rotherham, has admitted four charges of misconduct in a public office.\n\nFootage showed a couple having sex on their patio in July 2008 and at one point the naked woman waves at the aircraft.\n\nThe court was told the crew used a powerful video camera to film people\n\nMr Wright said the couple shared Pogmore's interest in swinging and added it was \"no coincidence\" that the helicopter flew above \"while they brazenly put on a show.\"\n\nThe accused deny the charges and, \"in short\", blame Pogmore for what happened, Mr Wright said.\n\nA couple sitting naked by a caravan were also filmed unawares in July 2008, and the aircraft filmed a garden where a woman was sunbathing naked with her daughters in 2007.\n\nThe court heard the woman felt the filming was \"a complete and utter violation of my privacy\" and added: \"It makes me feel sick to think that this took place.\"\n\nIn 2012 other naked sunbathers were filmed, the jury were told.\n\nStatements from all except the couple filmed having sex on the patio - who did not make a statement to police - said their privacy had been invaded.\n\nMr Wright told the court it was a \"gross waste of valuable resource\".\n\nThe trial continues and is expected to last three weeks.\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. Canada's Governor General lightly touched the Queen on the elbow as she descended a flight of steps\n\nCanada's Governor General David Johnston says a \"slippy\" carpet is to blame for an apparent breach of royal etiquette with the Queen.\n\nHe was pictured lightly touching the Queen's elbow during an event in London to mark Canada's 150th birthday.\n\nMr Johnston said he was simply concerned about the Queen's safety as she navigated a short flight of stairs.\n\n\"I was just anxious to be sure there was no stumbling on the steps,\" he told the CBC.\n\n\"It's a little bit awkward, that descent from Canada House to Trafalgar Square, and there was carpet that was a little slippy, and so I thought perhaps it was appropriate to breach protocol just to be sure that there was no stumble.\"\n\nThe Queen, 91, was accompanied by Prince Philip as she attended Wednesday's event at Canada's High Commission.\n\nMr Johnston, who is the Queen's representative in Canada, is not the first to make headlines for apparently breaching royal protocol.\n\nEyebrows raised in 2009 when former US First Lady Michelle Obama put her arm around the Queen.\n\nIn 1992, former Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating was called \"the lizard of Oz\" for wrapping his arm around the Queen during a royal tour.\n\nQueen Elizabeth is also not the only member of the royal family to find people getting more friendly than royal etiquette recommends.\n\nAmerican basketball star LeBron James made news in 2014 after placing his arm around the Duchess of Cambridge.\n\nBasketball player LeBron James placing his arm around the Duchess of Cambridge\n\nAnd actor Tom Hiddleston was pictured in 2016 with an arm wrapped around the Duchess of Cornwall.\n\nMr Johnston, 76, will not have another opportunity for any royal missteps.\n\nHe is to leave his position in September and will be replaced in the official role by Canadian astronaut Julie Payette.\n\nThis trip was his final visit to the UK to meet with the Queen.", "Madonna confirmed two years ago that she had had a relationship with Tupac (R)\n\nA US judge has halted an auction of personal items of Madonna, after she said her privacy was violated.\n\nNew York Justice Gerald Lebovits set a full hearing for 6 September, banning auction house Gotta Have Rock and Roll from holding a sale in the meantime.\n\nMadonna's underwear, a chequebook, a hairbrush, photos and a break-up letter from the late rapper Tupac Shakur had been among the scheduled lots.\n\nThe pop superstar said her possessions had been stolen by a former friend.\n\nTupac's letter, in which the rapper suggests he broke up with Madonna because of her race, was expected to fetch as much as $400,000 (£307,000).\n\nThe letter is dated 15 January 1995 and was penned while Tupac was serving a prison sentence for sexual assault, 18 months before he was shot dead. Both artists were then at the height of their fame.\n\nA series of pictures purportedly showing parts of the prison letter written by Tupac to Madonna, released by Gotta Have Rock and Roll\n\nMadonna, 58, confirmed two years ago that the pair had had a relationship, though it is unclear how long it lasted.\n\n\"For you to be seen with a black man wouldn't in any way jeopardise your career, if anything it would make you seem that much more open and exciting,\" Tupac, then 23, wrote from New York's Clinton Correctional Facility.\n\n\"But for me at least in my previous perception I felt due to my 'image' that I would be letting down half of the people who made me what I thought I was.\n\n\"Like you said, I haven't been the kind of friend I know I am capable of being,\" he wrote, adding: \"I never meant to hurt you.\"\n\nIn court documents, Madonna said she had only learned from press reports that the letter from her former boyfriend - and many of the other items - were no longer in her possession.\n\nMany of the lots were presented for sale by New York art dealer Darlene Lutz.\n\nMadonna said Ms Lutz had access to them when she helped the singer pack up a house in Miami.\n\n\"It seems obvious that Defendant Lutz betrayed my trust in an outrageous effort to obtain my possessions without my knowledge or consent,\" Madonna told the court.\n\nA spokesperson for Ms Lutz and the auction house said Madonna and \"her legal army\" had taken a \"completely baseless\" action to temporarily halt the sale, and vowed to challenge the allegations in court.\n\nObjecting to the sale of her hairbrush, Madonna told the judge: \"I understand that my DNA could be extracted from a piece of my hair. It is outrageous and grossly offensive that my DNA could be auctioned for sale to the general public.\"\n\nThe pop singer also sought to block the sale of a frank letter to another former lover, actor John Enos.\n\nWriting in the early 1990s, Madonna said she envied the careers of singer Whitney Houston and actress Sharon Stone, saying they were \"horribly mediocre\" and had profited from her own success.\n\n\"Maybe this is what black people felt like when Elvis Presley got huge,\" she wrote.\n\nSharon Stone wrote in a Facebook post last week that she is friends with Madonna, adding: \"I love and adore you; won't be pitted against you by any invasion of our personal journeys.\"", "Claudia Winkleman and Alex Jones are the BBC's highest paid female stars\n\nThe BBC has revealed two-thirds of its stars earning more than £150,000 are male, with Chris Evans the top-paid on between £2.2m and £2.25m.\n\nClaudia Winkleman was the highest-paid female celebrity, earning between £450,000 and £500,000 last year, its annual report for 2016/2017 says.\n\nThe One Show's Alex Jones was second, earning between £400,000 and £450,000.\n\nBBC director general Tony Hall said there was \"more to do\" on the gender pay gap.\n\nThe top seven earners, in the list of the BBC's 96 best-paid stars, were all male.\n\nIt is the first time the pay of stars earning more than £150,000 has been made public.\n\nThe BBC has been compelled to reveal the information under the terms of its new Royal Charter.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why the gender pay gap could mean problems for the BBC\n\nSpeaking on LBC Radio, Prime Minister Theresa May said: \"We've seen the way the BBC is paying women less for doing the same job... I want women to be paid equally.\"\n\nWhen asked if Evans was worth considerably more than her, she said: \"What's important is that the BBC looks at the question of paying men and women the same for doing the same job.\"\n\nThe total bill for the 96 personalities was £28.7m but the figures in the report reveal large disparities between what men and women are paid.\n\n\"On gender and diversity, the BBC is more diverse than the broadcasting industry and the civil service,\" Lord Hall said.\n\n\"We've made progress, but we recognise there is more to do and we are pushing further and faster than any other broadcaster.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"We do have further to go\" on the gender pay gap says BBC Director of Radio and Education\n\nWhen asked if female stars working at the BBC would now be asking for pay rises, Lord Hall said: \"We will be working carefully on our relationship with our talent.\"\n\nHe also pledged to close the gender pay gap by 2020.\n\nTrade union Equity said in a statement: \"The apparent pay gaps in gender and for those from a black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) background are troubling.\"\n\nWoman's Hour's Jane Garvey tweeted: \"I'm looking forward to presenting @BBCWomansHour today. We'll be discussing #GenderPayGap . As we've done since 1946. Going well, isn't it?\"\n\nOther high profile omissions including the Today programme's Sarah Montague, BBC Breakfast's Louise Minchin and Woman's Hour's Jenni Murray.\n\nRadio 4 Today presenter John Humphrys, acknowledged that his £600,000 salary was hard to justify: \"On paper, absolutely nothing that justifies that huge amount of money, if you compare me with lots of other people who do visibly.\n\n\"If a doctor saves a child's life, if a nurse comforts a dying person, a fireman rushes into Grenfell Tower, then of course you could argue that compared with that sort of thing I'm not worth tuppence ha'penny. However, we operate in a market place.\"\n\nThere is also a gap between the pay for white stars and those from a black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) background.\n\nGeorge Alagiah, Jason Mohammad and Trevor Nelson are the highest paid BAME presenters, each receiving between £250,000 and £300,000.\n\nThe highest-paid female star with a BAME background is BBC news presenter Mishal Husain, who earned between £200,000 and £250,000.\n\nThe annual report does not include stars who receive their pay through BBC Worldwide, the corporation's commercial arm.\n\nThe figures quoted only refer to the amount of licence fee money each person receives and do not include their earnings from other broadcasters or commercial activities. They also exclude stars paid through independent production companies.\n\nThat means some big name stars - such as David Attenborough, Benedict Cumberbatch and Matt LeBlanc - do not appear on the list.\n\nThe list also does not distinguish between people who are paid for doing multiple jobs within the BBC and those who are just paid for one. Talent pay is considerably higher in the commercial sector.\n\nAs he left the BBC after his Radio 2 breakfast show on Wednesday, Chris Evans said it was right \"on balance\" that star salaries were being disclosed.\n\n\"We are the ultimate public company I think, and therefore it's probably right and proper people know what we get paid,\" he told reporters.\n\nDuring a briefing on the annual report on Wednesday morning, Lord Hall said: \"Chris Evans is presenting the most popular show on the most popular radio network in Europe.\n\n\"The BBC does not exist in a market on its own where it can set the market rates.\n\n\"If we are to give the public what they want, then we have to pay for those great presenters and stars.\"\n\nAside from Strictly, Winkleman's other BBC roles include presenting The Great British Sewing Bee and her Radio 2 Sunday night show. Her agent said she would be making no comment.\n\nCasualty stars Derek Thompson and Amanda Mealing are the BBC's best-paid actors\n\nCasualty star Derek Thompson was the BBC's highest paid actor, receiving between £350,000 and £400,000 over the last financial year.\n\nAmanda Mealing, who also stars in Casualty as well as Holby City, was the highest paid actress, receiving between £250,000 and £300,000.\n\nClare Balding earned between £150,000 and £200,000 for her work on sports shows including Wimbledon Today and the Rio Olympics.\n\nThe overall spend on talent was £193.5m - down on the £200m spent in 2015/2016.\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 royal couple also met Holocaust survivors in Poland\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have visited Berlin's Holocaust memorial to pay tribute to the millions of Jewish people who died.\n\nPrince William and Catherine saw the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, which represents a graveyard.\n\nOne survivor told them about his time at Auschwitz, where his parents were killed, and recalled the smell of burning bodies.\n\nThe couple are on a five-day tour of Poland and Germany with their children.\n\nAfter looking around an underground museum at the memorial, the royal couple learned about some of the stories of the six million Jewish people killed during the Holocaust.\n\nThe duke and duchess then met a survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp. Leon Schwarzbaum, 96, told them what life was like inside the camp.\n\nAt the age of 21, he worked as a runner for the camp commander.\n\nLeon Schwarzbaum says it took him 10 years to talk about his experience\n\nMr Schwarzbaum showed the duke and duchess pictures of his family and told the duchess six people slept in one bunk.\n\nHe spoke about the smell of bodies while pointing to a chimney, adding: \"You could smell the chimney throughout the whole camp. It was a terrible smell.\"\n\nThe couple also met several children on their first day in Berlin, at a centre for mental health and young people and also at the Strassenkinder charity for disadvantaged children.\n\nCatherine was greeted with hugs by some children, rather than traditional handshakes\n\nSome children opted for a high five from Prince William\n\nWhile others cheered alongside the royal couple\n\nThe duke and duchess also met German Chancellor Angela Merkel and attended a private lunch.\n\nPrince William and Catherine were expected to discuss European politics, global issues and volunteer work.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The royals were given a tour of the chancellery by Angela Merkel\n\nThe duke and duchess visited Berlin's famous landmark, the Brandenburg Gate\n\nThe royal couple, accompanied on the tour by Prince George, three, and Princess Charlotte, two, arrived in Germany after spending two days in Poland, where they met its first democratically-elected president, Lech Walesa, and visited a former concentration camp.\n\nOn Thursday the royals will move on to the German city of Heidelberg, which is twinned with Cambridge.\n\nA boat race is planned which will see William and Catherine cox opposing rowing teams in the race, with crews from Cambridge and Heidelberg.\n\nPrince George and Princess Charlotte are accompanying William and Kate on the tour", "The average age women become mothers is just over 30 in England and Wales\n\nThe number of foreign-born mothers having babies in England and Wales in 2016 reached 28% - the highest level on record, official statistics show.\n\nThis figure has increased every year since 1990.\n\nData from the Office for National Statistics also shows more women in their 40s are giving birth than women aged under 20.\n\nThis is the second year in a row this has happened - a pattern last recorded in 1947.\n\nThe fertility rate for women aged 40 and over has now trebled since 1990, to 15.9 babies born per 1,000 women in that age group.\n\nThe rate at which women in their 30s are having babies has been on the rise since the 1980s.\n\nIn contrast, among women under 20 and aged 20-24, fertility rates are now at their lowest level since 1938.\n\nThe proportion of all live births to mothers born outside the UK stood at 11.6% at the start of the 1990s.\n\nThe ONS says one of the reasons for the increase since then is that fertility levels are generally higher among foreign-born women.\n\nThe overall number of live births in England and Wales decreased slightly last year, to just under 700,000.\n\nThe average age of mothers in 2016 increased to 30.4 years, compared with 30.3 years in 2015.\n\nNatika Halil, chief executive of the sexual health charity FPA, said the figures were a reminder that fertility does not stop at 40.\n\n\"Although it can take longer and be more difficult to get pregnant if you are over 35, many women over 35 have healthy pregnancies and babies.\n\n\"However, this also highlights the importance for women who are not planning to have children, or have completed their family, to continue to use contraception until menopause.\"\n\nShe said cuts to public health budgets could have a future impact on teenage pregnancy rates, which had been falling steadily.\n\n\"It's worth noting that the UK still has one of the highest teenage birth rates in Western Europe: three times the rate in Italy, and more than four times the rate in Sweden,\" Ms Halil added.\n\nThere was a small decrease in the number of deaths - 525,048 - registered in England and Wales last year, following a large increase in 2015.\n\nBut the number of deaths among people aged 65 to 74 increased, possibly due to those born in the baby boom immediately after World War Two moving into old age.\n\nThe figures for children dying from asthma were lower than last year, though Asthma UK says the level of boys dying from the condition is the highest since 2004.\n\nIn 2016, the stillbirth rate decreased to 4.4 per 1,000 total births, the lowest rate since 1992.", "The Marine Stewardship Council said North Sea cod stocks have recovered enough to be considered sustainable\n\nNorth Sea cod is now sustainable and can be eaten with a \"clear conscience\", a fisheries body has said.\n\nThe fish has been considered under threat for more than a decade after stocks fell to 36,000 tonnes in 2006.\n\nBut the industry has agreed measures to help regenerate the population, including new nets and closing spawning areas to fishing.\n\nThe Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) said it could now be sold with its \"blue tick\" label.\n\nThe label indicates that North Sea cod caught by Scottish and English boats is \"sustainable and fully traceable\".\n\nCod stocks in the North Sea reached 270,000 tonnes in the 1970s. After the 2006 low, the fishing industry began work with the Scottish government and the EU Fisheries Council to agree a recovery plan.\n\nThe MSC said the announcement that cod was now sustainable was a \"momentous achievement\" for the industry and was the result of work of a coalition of fishing organisations, supermarkets, seafood brands and the industry body Seafish.\n\nHowever, conservation body WWF has warned that historically, the population of North Sea cod remains at a low level.\n\nThe stocks have to be independently assessed before they can be given the MSC blue tick.\n\nSkipper David Milne aboard MSC-certified Adorn. A range of conservation measures have been put in place to protect the cod stocks\n\nBarry Reid, skipper of the Audacious mooring up at Peterhead in north-east Scotland\n\nCod is one of the UK's most popular fish, with almost 70,000 tonnes eaten each year, but the MSC said a recent YouGov survey showed there was confusion about whether it was sustainable or not.\n\nToby Middleton, MSC programme director for the north-east Atlantic said: \"Today's certification marks the end of the cod confusion.\n\n\"If you can see the MSC label on your cod, you know that it has come from a sustainable source. By choosing fish with that label, you will be helping to protect stocks long into the future.\"\n\nHe added: \"Thanks to a collaborative, cross-industry effort, one of our most iconic fish has been brought back from the brink.\n\n\"Modified fishing gear, catch controls, well-managed fishing practices - all these steps have come together to revive a species that was in severe decline.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Cod is one of the UK's most popular fish\n\nAs part of the plan to regenerate stocks, boats were allocated a certain number of days fishing which were linked to the conservation measures they signed up to.\n\nThe fishing industry is also able to close fishing areas at short notice to protect local populations and has developed a system of remote monitoring using CCTV cameras on board boats.\n\nMike Park, chairman of the Scottish Fisheries Sustainable Accreditation Group said: \"This is a massive development for the catching sector and is a testament to the power of collective action.\n\n\"The years of commitment to rebuilding North Sea cod has shown that fishermen are responsible and can be trusted to deliver stable and sustainable stocks. The consumer can now eat home-caught cod with a clear conscience.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"The cod recovery plan was a joint effort,\" MSC spokesperson tells Radio 4's World at One\n\nHowever, the WWF has warned that the population levels of North Sea cod remained low compared with 50 years ago.\n\nLyndsey Dodds, head of UK marine policy at WWF said: \"The recovery of cod in the North Sea reflects what's possible if fishermen work together with fisheries managers, scientists and the wider industry to recover fish stocks.\n\n\"However, the amount of North Sea cod at breeding age is well below late 1960s levels and recovery remains fragile.\n\n\"If we're to get North Sea cod back on British plates for good, it's vital that we don't lose focus on sustainably managing fish stocks and ensuring the protection of the marine wildlife and habitats as the UK develops its post-Brexit fisheries policy.\n\n\"Embracing new technology and installing cameras on the UK fleet would be a highly cost-effective and efficient way to help manage and monitor cod catches, as well as the range of other fish also caught by these boats.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Corbyn: \"Wages are falling, the economy is slowing\"\n\nTheresa May has said she recognises the \"sacrifice\" made by public sector workers as Jeremy Corbyn urged her to lift the 1% cap on their wages.\n\nIn the last PMQs before the summer break, Mr Corbyn said people were held back by low pay and accused ministers of a \"lack of touch with reality\".\n\nMrs May said she, like the Labour leader, valued public services.\n\n\"The difference is on this side of the house we know we have to pay for them,\" she added.\n\nMrs May is seeking to restore order to her party following a series of leaks and negative briefings, with Chancellor Philip Hammond reported to have told a private cabinet meeting public service workers were \"overpaid\".\n\nMr Corbyn asked whether, given the \"squabbling\" inside government, Mr Hammond had been talking about Mrs May's ministers.\n\nThe SNP's Hannah Bardell, seen in the background, sported a Scottish football shirt in the Commons\n\nHe urged her to lift the cap on wage rises and cited the case of a nurse living with pay restraint for seven years.\n\n\"I look along that front bench opposite and I see a cabinet bickering and backbiting while the economy gets weaker and people are pushed further into debt,\" he added.\n\nMrs May said she recognised the sacrifices made by public servants towards reducing the deficit. She said the Tories had a \"record to be proud of\" and accused Labour of unfunded spending pledges.\n\n\"The government doesn't seem to have any problem paying for DUP support,\" Mr Corbyn replied, in a reference to the £1bn package that secured the Democratic Unionist Party's backing for the Tories' minority administration.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Theresa May: \"When did the Labour Party ever introduce the national living wage?' Never!\"\n\nParliament goes into recess on Thursday and returns on 5 September.\n\nMrs May, under pressure since losing her Commons majority last month, has warned ministers and MPs that any \"backbiting\" between party figures could let Mr Corbyn into Downing Street.\n\nDuring PMQs, Labour MP Ian Murray referred to her as the \"interim prime minister\" when he asked his question.\n\nBBC assistant political editor Norman Smith said there was now \"something of a backlash\" from MPs towards the \"big beasts\" thought to be manoeuvring themselves behind the scenes to replace her.\n\n\"I sense there's a real pushback now to keep her in place at least for the short to medium term,\" he added.\n\nA senior backbencher, 1922 Committee vice-chairman Charles Walker, said Mrs May would have MPs' backing if she sacked plotting ministers.\n\nAnd Defence Secretary Sir Michael Fallon called for military discipline from the cabinet ranks to confront the \"dangerous enemy\" of Mr Corbyn.\n\nIn an interview with LBC Radio, Mrs May urged ministers to \"accept collective responsibility\".\n\nAsked whether there would be any punishment for those who'd leaked private conversations, she said there was \"no such thing as an unsackable minister but at the moment the team is together and we're getting on with the job of delivering what we believe that British public want us to do\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHeavy rain which sent a 4ft torrent of water through a Cornish village has left a \"devastating\" scene, a fire chief said.\n\nAbout 50 properties were damaged and several people had to be rescued in Coverack, on the Lizard Peninsula, as storms hit on Tuesday afternoon.\n\nWater swept through the village, leaving roads in and out impassable. A school bus remains stranded.\n\nPeople described being hit in the face by marble-sized hailstones.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Flash floods in Coverack, Cornwall: Residents deal with the aftermath\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Woman winched from flash flood in Coverack, Cornwall, speaks to BBC\n\nHeavy rainfall hit at about 15:00 BST on Tuesday and about 50 properties are thought to be affected by the flooding, but there were no reports of serious injuries.\n\nThe Environment Agency said 4in (100mm) of rain fell over two to three hours.\n\nCornwall Fire and Rescue Service said its crews attended \"multiple flooding-related incidents\" and urged people to avoid the area.\n\nStan Harris had been laying slate in the village when the rain began to fall.\n\n\"We started to hear the rumble and then suddenly I was hit with marbles, hitting me in the face. I couldn't get out. I was just stuck in a shed,\" he said.\n\nHe said he thought his was the last vehicle to make it out of the village.\n\n\"By the time we got up past the lady we were working for, she said we were probably one of the last ones to get through because then another van floated through.\n\n\"By the time we got home it was chaos. Absolute chaos.\"\n\nAssistant Chief Fire officer Phil Martin said there was now a \"pile of rubble\" about \"3ft or 4ft high, that goes across about 20ft\".\n\n\"You can see rubble on the beach and debris that's been washed down by the water,\" he added.\n\nHe described the flash flood as \"devastating\", adding \"when I was listening to this incident unfold on the radio I had a real fear that this was going to have a tragic outcome \".\n\nSo far, the main focus has been Coverack's pretty harbour, which is littered with debris of every kind.\n\nI've seen boulders, fence panels, a shed, a mobility scooter and even a kitchen sink, which have all been washed down from the hills above in the torrents of water.\n\nThe mud and silt are unpleasant - but that damage is mainly cosmetic.\n\nThe more worrying aspect of all this for local people is the main road into the village.\n\nA route which normally brings in thousands of tourists every day during the summer months is a total mess. The Tarmac has been ripped up.\n\nThere are holes several feet deep, exposing pipes and cables. Repairing this road looks like a major engineering task.\n\n\"But we're Cornish,\" said one local lady. \"We'll cope\".\n\nThe flood water has completely destroyed the main road into the village\n\nA school bus driver caught up in the Coverack flood said he was determined to make sure his sole passenger got home safely after they became stranded on the road into the village.\n\n\"The boulders from people's gardens were pummelling the bus,\" said Thomas Duffield, 33.\n\n\"They were about the size of a wheel and kept whacking the vehicle, making loud bangs, which was obviously quite worrying.\"\n\nHe kept his foot on the brake pedal even though he had the handbrake on while he waited for help.\n\nHe said: \"I felt a little bit uneasy about taking my foot off the pedal, because it was like we were in the water rapids.\"\n\nThe Maritime and Coastguard Agency sent a helicopter from Newquay which rescued two people from a house.\n\nWater tore through the village on Tuesday afternoon\n\nAdam Paynter, Cornwall Council leader, said he hoped the authority's reserves would cover the cost of the clean-up.\n\n\"It's been absolutely unbelievable to see,\" he added,\n\n\"I think it's going to take a little while to get this sorted out and tidied up but obviously the main thing is that nobody's been injured and everybody is OK in the village.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Coverack resident Mary Roberts said the water had swept away her things - including a shed and a kitchen sink\n\nAt a meeting for local residents earlier Cornwall Councillor Geoff Brown said the authority's main concern was the care home in the village, which has lost power on the ground floor. He added that a generator was on the way.\n\nHis pledge to ensure the damaged road was repaired quickly, and would take \"weeks rather than months\", was met with loud applause.\n\nA major incident was declared at 17:20 on Tuesday and the helicopter was deployed to rescue the people trapped on the roof.\n\nBen Johnston from the Environment Agency said the flood had caused some watercourses to become polluted but drinking water was safe.\n\nA bus became stuck in the water on the road into Coverack\n\nThe bus was still stuck on the road after being trapped by water this morning\n\nHave you been affected by the flash flood? If it is safe to do so, you can share your experience 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.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why do pollsters - and the media - keep getting elections so wrong? Ian Katz reports\n\nFew species can match the brutality of a teenage child appraising its parent.\n\nI was reminded of this the morning after last month's election as I passed my 18-year-old daughter on the stairs. \"I'm never going to believe another word you say about politics,\" she announced matter-of-factly. \"Because you've been wrong about EVERYTHING.\"\n\nIt was hard to argue. The 2015 election, Brexit, Trump, and now Corbyn's sort of moral victory… I'd called them all wrong. I was, as they say in American sport, \"Oh for four\". The only comfort was: most of the media and political world were, too.\n\nOver the last month, I've been reflecting on why we keep getting surprised, for a Newsnight film. Has the political landscape changed in some profound way we have not yet got our heads around? Or have we simply been through a period of freak political weather?\n\nNot impressed... Ian Katz's daughter is sceptical now of pundits and pollsters\n\nAnd, more immediately, how did most of the media, the pollsters and even much of the Left underestimate Labour's vote so badly?\n\nIn the spirit of group therapy, I thought I'd start with someone who was even wronger than me. Martin Boon has long been one of Britain's most respected pollsters. This time his company, ICM, got it quite spectacularly wrong; their eve-of-election poll gave the Tories a 12-point lead, a full 10 points bigger than the actual result.\n\nI found him in contemplative, even penitent, mood. In 2015, ICM got it wrong by overestimating the Labour vote. This time, they tried to address the problem by making sceptical assumptions about how many younger voters (among other groups) would turn out - and ended up massively underestimating Labour's vote.\n\n\"We were bamboozled by the turnout which we predicted wouldn't happen in the way it did,\" he said. \"And I have to hold up my hands and say that…\n\n\"The problem for me is that the techniques which didn't work in 2015 did work in 2017, and indeed the techniques which the likes of me applied in 2017 wouldn't have worked retrospectively in 2015.\"\n\nThe result of the election was a shock to many\n\nWith a degree of humility not often encountered in either politics or the media, he said pollsters had to think hard about whether \"classical orthodox polling techniques\" were still worth persevering with.\n\nOne source of comfort to pollsters and journalists mulling over why they didn't see last month's result coming is the fact that most politicians didn't either. A source told me the Labour Party's internal predictions, minutes before the exit poll was released, were for a Tory majority of around 60 seats.\n\nLabour MP Jess Phillips said she and other MPs simply weren't hearing anything on the ground to make them doubt the widely shared belief that they were heading for a drubbing.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tony Blair: \"There's been so many political upsets, it's possible that Jeremy Corbyn could become prime minister\"\n\n\"What we potentially missed in classic campaigning and classic polling is the people we're not talking to, and still I'm driving round my constituency thinking, 'Did you vote for me? Did you vote for me?' We just weren't talking to the right people.\"\n\nOne man not willing to don sackcloth and ashes just yet is ITV's political editor Robert Peston, who was more upbeat than many in the media about Jeremy Corbyn's prospects: right up to polling day when, he says, he was persuaded by senior politicians on both sides that his instincts were mistaken.\n\nLike many of us, Mr Peston confessed he was still trying to find his bearings in a world where many of the things we thought were true no longer seem to apply. \"The old rules have gone and we've got to try and make sense of how politics works. And the truthful answer is we're all feeling our way a bit.\"\n\nSo what about the man who, perhaps more than anyone, can claim to have divined the rules of modern politics? Even Tony Blair, a man not famous for self-doubt, says the events of the last two years have made him rethink some of his assumptions about politics.\n\nRobert Peston: \"The old rules have gone\"\n\n\"For most of my political life I've been saying, 'I think this is the right way to go, and what's more it's the only way to win an election.' I have to qualify that now. I have to say, 'No, I think it's possible you end up with Jeremy Corbyn as prime minister.'\n\n\"I personally think it's a surer route to power to fight it from the centre but I'm being open with you in saying that I accept now what if you'd asked me a year ago I'd have said is impossible.\"\n\nGiven that there's a fair chance we'll be grappling with another UK election in months rather than years, how can we do better at reading it than we have done on recent votes?\n\nA good person to ask seemed to be one of the few commentators who called the 2017 election almost exactly right, Rod Liddle of the Spectator and the Sunday Times.\n\nLiddle's prescription: \"Get out of town, get out of London. Unless the polls change the way they are being done ignore them. And don't follow the herd.\"\n\nMost pollsters and pundits underestimated how well Jeremy Corbyn would do in the election\n\nOf course, the BBC and other media organisations did have lots of on the ground reporting from across the country during the election and some of it did suggest that Mr Corbyn was doing better than most pollsters and pundits thought. But there's a tendency to tune out evidence that doesn't fit the prevailing narrative.\n\nOne person who never doubted that Mr Corbyn would surprise his detractors is Matt Turner, a (just) 22-year-old who, while not doing his finals last month, was helping to edit Evolve Politics, one of a clutch of pro-Corbyn websites which claimed to have their finger closer to the national pulse than traditional media.\n\nAlthough there is never a shortage of seers claiming to be wise after any surprise event, Turner has the betting slip to prove it: he put money on a hung parliament at 10-1 back in April.\n\n\"Sites like ours had our ear to the ground and we gave a more accurate reflection of what people were actually feeling. People have accused us of living in a bubble when we've accurately predicted the hung parliament. If anything it's now the Westminster media who are living in that bubble.\"\n\nThe one common thread among all those I talked to was an acknowledgement that social media - simultaneously mobilising, and polarising - has clearly changed the way millions of people experience politics. And we haven't yet worked out how to take the pulse of an election played out in 50 million timelines.\n\nFiguring out how to do that may be the most urgent challenge facing all of us whose job it is to read the political runes. For the foreseeable future, though, you'd be best advised to ignore all political predictions. And I, my daughter at least will be pleased to know, won't be making any.\n\nIan Katz is editor of BBC Newsnight - watch his full report here", "Six million men and women will have to wait a year longer than they expected to get their state pension, the government has announced.\n\nThe rise in the pension age to 68 will now be phased in between 2037 and 2039, rather than from 2044 as was originally proposed.\n\nThose affected are currently between the ages of 39 and 47.\n\nThe announcement was made in the Commons by the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, David Gauke.\n\nHe said the government had decided to accept the recommendations of the Cridland report, which proposed the change.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The change was announced by Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, David Gauke\n\n\"As life expectancy continues to rise and the number of people in receipt of state pension increases, we need to ensure that we have a fair and sustainable system that is reflective of modern life and protected for future generations,\" he told MPs.\n\nAnyone younger than 39 will have to wait for future announcements to learn what their precise pension age will be.\n\nThe change will affect those born between 6 April 1970 and 5 April 1978.\n\nThe government said the new rules would save the taxpayer £74bn by 2045/46. While it had been due to spend 6.5% of GDP on the state pension by 2039/40, this change will reduce that figure to 6.1% of GDP.\n\nLabour said the move was \"astonishing\", given recent reports suggesting increases in life expectancy were beginning to stall, and long-standing health inequalities between different income groups and regions in retirement.\n\nShadow work and pensions secretary Debbie Abrahams told MPs that many men and women were beginning to suffer ill health in the early 60s, well before they were entitled to their state pension.\n\n\"Most pensioners will now spend their retirement battling a toxic cocktail of ill-health,\" she said.\n\n\"The government talks about making Britain fairer but their pensions policy, whether it is the injustice that 1950s-born women are facing, or today's proposals, is anything but fair.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Shadow work and pensions secretary Debbie Abrahams says the pension change is \"anything but fair\"\n\n\"In large parts of the country, the state pension age will be higher than healthy life expectancy,\" she said.\n\n\"And low-paid workers at risk of insecurity in their working lives will now face greater insecurity in old age too.\n\n\"Rather than hiking the pension age, the government must do more for older workers who want to keep working and paying taxes.\"\n\nAge UK was also critical of the change.\n\n\"In bringing forward a rise in the state pension age by seven years, the government is picking the pockets of everyone in their late forties and younger, despite there being no objective case in Age UK's view to support it at this point in time,\" said Caroline Abrahams, charity director at Age UK.\n\n\"Indeed, it is astonishing that this is being announced the day after new authoritative research suggested that the long term improvement in life expectancy is stalling.\"\n\nThe government has also committed to regular reviews of the state pension age in the years ahead.\n\nThat raises the prospect of further rises. Indeed a report by the government's actuary department in March suggested that workers now under the age of 30 may have to wait until 70 before they qualify for a state pension.\n\nTom McPhail, head of policy at Hargreaves Lansdown, said the government would need to do more to encourage saving, particularly amongst younger people.\n\n\"For anyone yet to reach age 47, there is still time to adjust their retirement plans by looking to contribute more,\" he said.\n\n\"We feel it is important the government meets them halfway; we need a national savings strategy to help people save and invest for their future. A good starting point would be for the government to look at a savings commission.\"\n\nThe SNP said it remained opposed to raising the pension age beyond 66 and reiterated its call for an independent pensions commission to be set up to look at \"demographic differences across the UK\".\n\nIn response, Mr Gauke said the Scottish government would have the power to provide extra financial help for those approaching retirement if they so chose.\n\n\"This announcement will be a blow to many people. It is absolutely crucial that everyone - no matter what their age - seeks pensions advice from a reputable organisation and really understands their options and how those options fit in with their own retirement expectations.\n\n\"I know young people don't think this really impacts them as it is such a long way off, but they are the ones who will be impacted by state pension ages and support in the longer term more than any of us,\" said Carl Robertson, from Smart Pension.", "The BBC has, for the first time, published salaries of its highest-paid stars - with all those earning £150,000 or more included.\n\nThe salaries are grouped into £50,000 blocks and are for the financial year 2016-17, where they came directly from the licence fee. They do not include each individual's earnings from other broadcasters or commercial activities. Here, we round up the top earners and what they do.\n\nThe nation's most listened-to radio station, Radio 2, has the highest BBC earner among its presenters - Chris Evans.\n\nGraham Norton, Jeremy Vine and Steve Wright are also among the top seven highest-paid stars.\n\nThe top earner on the list, Chris Evans has hosted Radio 2's Breakfast Show every weekday morning since 2010. He also co-presented one series of TV show Top Gear.\n\nHost of a Saturday morning show on Radio 2, Norton co-presented BBC One's Saturday evening talent show Let It Shine, and also commentates on the Eurovision Song Contest. His earnings do not include those from his Friday night chat show, for which the BBC pays an independent production company, which in turn pays his salary.\n\nJeremy Vine hosts the lunchtime show on Radio 2 every weekday. He also presents Crimewatch, Points of View, and Eggheads on BBC TV.\n\nA long-standing BBC DJ, Steve Wright presents Radio 2 weekday show Steve Wright in the Afternoon and Steve Wright's Sunday Love Songs on Sunday mornings.\n\nSimon Mayo has presented Simon Mayo Drivetime on weekday afternoons since 2010. He is also the co-host of Kermode and Mayo's Film Review on Radio 5 live on Friday afternoons.\n\nVanessa Feltz presents an early morning show on Radio 2 and the BBC London Breakfast Show every weekday.\n\nA co-host of Radio 5 live's Breakfast Show on weekday mornings, Campbell also presents BBC One's Sunday morning programme The Big Questions.\n\nStephen Nolan presents The Nolan Show on BBC Radio Ulster and presents a programme on BBC Radio 5 live several nights a week. He also hosts Question Time: Extra Time on 5 Live and Nolan Live on BBC One Northern Ireland.\n\nNick Grimshaw has presented the Radio 1 Breakfast Show since 2012.\n\nFormer England striker Gary Lineker presents the BBC's flagship football highlights programme Match of the Day on Saturday nights. He is also one of the hosts for the annual Sports Personality of the Year awards night.\n\nJohn Humphrys has presented Radio 4's Today programme since 1987. He also has been the quizmaster of BBC Two's Mastermind since 2003.\n\nToday presenters (left to right) Mishal Husain, Nick Robinson and Justin Webb\n\nFellow presenter Sarah Montague is not on the list.\n\nDerek Thompson is the highest-paid actor on the list. He has played Charlie Fairhead in hospital drama Casualty since the series started in 1986.\n\nAmanda Mealing plays Connie Beauchamp in Casualty, having previously played the character in the BBC's other hospital drama Holby City.\n\nClaudia Winkleman has co-hosted Strictly Come Dancing, with Tess Daly, since 2014 and also presents a Sunday night show on Radio 2. She presented BBC One's Film programme from 2010 to 2016, though she left the programme before the start of the 2016-17 financial 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.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. PC Jonathan Adams called in sick but was seen on TV celebrating a win at Ascot (Footage courtesy Racing UK)\n\nA police officer who threw a \"sickie\" three times to watch horse racing has been sacked after being found guilty of gross misconduct.\n\nPC Jonathan Adams, of Ross-on-Wye, went twice to Nottingham Racecourse and to Royal Ascot where he was seen celebrating a win on television.\n\nThe officer said the trips were \"therapeutic\" to deal with a \"toxic\" work environment.\n\nA disciplinary hearing concluded PC Adams was \"not as sick as he claimed\".\n\nPC Adams, an officer at Gloucester's Barton Street station, part-owned a horse with a racing syndicate.\n\nPC Jonathan Adams said trips to the races were 'therapeutic'\n\nThe panel was told that in September 2015 and April 2016 he had reported in sick and went to Nottingham racecourse to watch the horse he part-owned, named Little Lady Katy.\n\nIn June 2016 he reported in sick again and went to Royal Ascot to watch Quiet Reflection, another horse owned by his syndicate, win the Commonwealth Cup.\n\nThe misconduct panel was shown a television clip of PC Adams jumping around and celebrating.\n\nStephen Morley, presenting the case for the force, told the hearing: \"In a nutshell, on three occasions he deliberately reported sick in order to go to the horse races.\n\n\"We do not accept he was sick at all. He was throwing a sickie to go horse racing.\"\n\nPC Adams said he had taken time off to avoid a \"toxic\" environment at Barton Street station. He described suffering stomach cramps, migraines and irritable bowel syndrome.\n\nThe hearing was told it was \"quite clear\" he was \"not OK\" and was \"struggling with his environment\".\n\nRichard Shepherd, representing PC Adams, said: \"He would not have let his colleagues down to go on a jolly at the races. It is not in his DNA.\"\n\nBut Alex Lock, chair of the panel, said: \"We are forced to conclude that Pc Adams was not suffering the degree of sickness that he claimed he was.\n\n\"It is important that police officers are honest and that public confidence should be upheld.\n\n\"In the circumstances we conclude that dismissal without notice is appropriate in order to maintain public confidence in the force.\"\n• None PC 'pulled triple sickie' to go to races\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A security firm is under investigation for allegedly supplying cloned badges to unlicensed stewards at UK festivals this summer.\n\nThe Security Industry Authority (SIA) confirmed it was investigating LS Armour Security Ltd of Barry, south Wales, following a compliance check.\n\nThe watchdog issues licences to bouncers and security firms.\n\nIt said it was \"exceptional\" for it to comment and had taken \"unprecedented action due to public safety\".\n\nThe inspection has led to two arrests and the seizure of business records, including some relating to future events with contracts for security operatives around the UK.\n\nThe SIA has also written to various organisers of events and festivals that have used the firm in the past and have bookings in the future.\n\nIn a statement, an SIA spokesman said: \"This type of unlawful conduct remains rare due to responsible organisers and security providers conducting appropriate due diligence.\n\n\"Nevertheless, the SIA understands that at this time of year, event organisers and primary contractors may not have sufficient SIA-licensed staff, which can lead to extensive sub-contracting.\n\n\"This provides opportunities to rogue providers that, with appropriate checks by organisers and primary contractors, can be largely mitigated.\"\n\nEntertainment venues are seen as potential targets for terrorists\n\nIn a letter to promoters, the SIA's deputy director said: \"If SIA-licensed staff arrive on site and are unknown to you, you must take all reasonable steps to ensure the person named on and in possession of the licence are the same person by requiring them to provide further evidence of identity.\n\n\"This will mitigate the risk of the cloned licence.\"\n\nIn response to the report, LS Armour Security Ltd's director Erica Lloyd told the BBC: \"As a company we have only been made aware of one arrest as a result of a cloned badge, and this individual was cautioned by police and subsequently released without charge.\n\n\"At this point this individual was contacted by LS Armour and told he would no longer be employed for any future events.\"\n\nShe said that the SIA's system to check whether someone holds a valid licence - the Register of Licence Holders, available on the SIA website - was \"simplistic\" and \"inadequate\".\n\nShe added that this view was \"brought to the attention of an SIA representative earlier this month, although at this time and on looking at the SIA website this appears to still be the only avenue of checking available\".\n\nMs Lloyd said LS Armour Security Ltd were \"fully complying with the SIA investigation\".\n\nThe Victoria Derbyshire programme is broadcast on weekdays between 09:00 and 11:00 on BBC Two and the BBC News Channel.", "A man arrested but never charged in connection with an investigation into child sexual grooming has lost a legal battle to keep his identity secret.\n\nTariq Khuja attempted to use privacy laws to stop press and media reports after he was named at the high profile 2013 trial of nine men from Oxford.\n\nThe Supreme Court stressed Mr Khuja was an innocent man but ruled he had no \"reasonable expectation of privacy\" under human rights legislation.\n\nSeven men were convicted and jailed at the Old Bailey in May 2013 for serious sexual offences in connection with what became known as the \"Oxford grooming case\".\n\nThe Supreme Court ruling, by a 5-2 majority, stemmed from an attempt by the Times and the Oxford Mail newspapers to name Mr Khuja.\n\nBBC legal correspondent Clive Coleman described the court's decision as significant, saying it reaffirmed the powerful principle of open justice.\n\nThe case examined the rights of the press and public under Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights to freedom of expression and the rights of Mr Khuja and his family under Article 8.\n\nDescribed as a \"prominent figure in the Oxford Area\" Mr Khuja had been arrested in March 2012 after one of the complainants told police she had been abused by a man with his first name. She failed to pick him out at an identity parade and he was released.\n\nOrders imposed during the magistrates and crown court proceedings prevented Mr Khuja's name from being published to prevent reports potentially prejudicing a future trial.\n\nHe was subsequently told he would be released without charge, although his case would be kept under review.\n\nThe newspapers applied to lift the anonymity order on the basis there were no pending or imminent proceedings.\n\nBut Mr Khuja applied to the High Court for a privacy injunction to stop publication on the basis it was needed to protect his private and family life. The court rejected the application and the Court of Appeal dismissed his appeal.\n\nGiving the Supreme Court's judgment, Lord Sumption said the case related to matters discussed at a public trial and the public interest in allowing press reporting of court proceedings extended to Mr Khuja's identity.\n\n\"The impact on his family life was indirect and incidental. Neither he nor his family participated in any capacity at the trial, and nothing that was said at the trial related to his family,\" he said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Drone footage of the flash floods which hit the village of Coverack in Cornwall\n\nFlash flooding has seen torrents of water sweep through a Cornish village.\n\nResidents in Coverack, on the Lizard Peninsula, reported roads being blocked and hailstones the size of 50 pence pieces smashing windows.\n\nHeavy rainfall hit at about 15:00 BST on Tuesday and about 50 properties are estimated to be affected by the flooding, but no injuries have been reported.\n\nEmergency services will meet at 09:00 BST \"to coordinate the recovery phase\".\n\nCornwall Fire and Rescue Service said its crews attended \"multiple flooding-related incidents\" and urged people to \"avoid this area\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The coastguard helicopter crew winch people to safety in Coverack, Cornwall\n\nCornwall Council said the first calls about the flooding were received about 15:40. One person was reported to be trapped in an outbuilding and six people were on the roof of their property.\n\nA major incident was declared at 17:20 and the helicopter was deployed to rescue the people trapped on the roof.\n\nGloria Knight, who lives on a hill above Coverack, said her garden became 'like a waterfall'\n\nA spokeswoman for the Maritime and Coastguard Agency said a helicopter was sent from Newquay.\n\nShe said: \"Six people were in a house and two have been rescued from the house by helicopter.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The helicopter rescue was caught on video\n\nKarla Wainwright, who works at the Paris Hotel, said: \"This afternoon we could tell it was going to get about stormy, then about 3pm it hit.\n\n\"There were hailstones as big as 50p pieces and a lot of small panes in our windows are broken.\"\n\nMs Wainwright said the storm continued for an hour and a half.\n\n\"Once it cleared off then we could see a massive flood of water coming down the main way into Coverack.\"\n\nWater ran through the village before crashing over cliffs and into the sea\n\n15:00 BST - Heavy rain moves in to the village of Coverack\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBill Magill, who owns the nearby White Hart Hotel, said the water was \"over a foot high\" in some areas.\n\n\"It was nothing like I've ever known in this area, we were totally unprepared for it and it was totally unexpected,\" he said.\n\n\"[It was] racing down a little country lane, pouring over the banks like these waterfalls.\"\n\nThe Met Office said the flood followed heavy thunderstorms and rain in Cornwall and Devon on Tuesday afternoon.\n\nBill Frisken, a local councillor in Coverack, said he could not access the centre of the village because the main road was underwater.\n\nA bus became stuck in the water on the road into Coverack\n\nDescribing the speed with which the flood hit, he said: \"It was almost instantaneous.\"\n\n\"The village has effectively been cut in half, you can't cross the river,\" he added.\n\nMr Frisken said he and his wife had to bail water out of their kitchen, while their garage was also flooded.\n\n\"It was several feet of water coming down and pouring into the house. The depth of water was immense.\"\n\nAnother witness said: \"I have never seen such big hails. The sun was shining and the wind was blowing and it was hailing, all at the same time.\n\n\"It was quite amazing really.\"\n\nA Cornwall Council spokesman confirmed some properties in the village and one of the roads suffered structural damage and are due to be inspected by structural engineers.\n\nA local hotel offered accommodation to anyone unable to return to their home, while one elderly resident was moved to a local nursing home.\n\nA meeting is due to be held for residents at the village's Paris Hotel at 11:30 BST on Wednesday which will be attended by council officers.\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. How do you avoid holiday traffic jams?\n\nMotorists are being warned of heavy traffic as about nine million vehicles take to the roads over the weekend ahead of a summer getaway.\n\nThe RAC predicts 36.5 million \"leisure\" journeys in the first fortnight of the English and Welsh school holidays.\n\nIt said drivers would experience \"customary chaos\" and warned of traffic hotspots on motorways to popular destinations.\n\nThe busiest period is likely to be Saturday between 11:00 and 16:00 BST.\n\nRAC traffic spokesman Rod Dennis said: \"This weekend will bring unwelcome customary chaos to Britain's major roads as people flock to take advantage of the first week or two of the summer holidays on home soil.\n\n\"While not as busy as Easter, which is typically the pinnacle of leisure traffic due to it being the first break for several months, the Great British summer holiday getaway begins with an initial rush for the roads this weekend as that's when the majority of schools break up.\n\n\"Sadly, for many the very much-needed family summer holiday might begin stressfully as long tailbacks are inevitable, particularly in the South West on the M5 which is the main conduit to the beaches of Devon and Cornwall.\"\n\nA new stretch of dual carriageway on the A30 west of Temple should provide some relief for drivers heading to Cornwall, he said.\n• M5 Almondsbury Interchange and from Bristol to Taunton\n• A34 and M3 south and south west to the south coast\n• A14 between the Midlands and the east coast\n• A590/A591 between the M6 and the Lake District\n• A66 between M6 and the coast\n\nThere are hundreds of roadworks planned for the weekend on motorway and major trunk roads where the delay to journeys is expected to be more than 30 minutes, with many of them taking place overnight.\n\nHighways England will not be lifting roadworks for the weekend. It only does so when a getaway coincides with a bank holiday, such as at Christmas or Easter.\n\nHighways England chief executive Jim O'Sullivan said: \"I want all drivers to arrive at their destinations safely during the summer holidays.\n\n\"We are urging motorists to make sure they are ready to go on their journeys by checking their fuel, tyres and oil. With a few simple checks everyone will be safer.\"\n\nFigures from the organisation revealed 22 drivers a day broke down last July and August because they had run out of fuel.\n\nThe RAC's figures are based on the travel plans of 3,100 motorists, with 36.5 million leisure journeys expected between Friday 21 July and Sunday 6 August.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Brothers Lee and Luke Payne speak out about Sarah's murder\n\nThe older brothers of murdered schoolgirl Sarah Payne have spoken for the first time of their guilt in not being able to save her.\n\nThe eight-year-old was abducted and murdered by paedophile Roy Whiting in 2000.\n\nSpeaking to Channel 5, Luke and Lee Payne said she ran ahead of them before being snatched by Whiting.\n\nLee said: \"I did for a few years beat myself up .... that if I ran faster ... I might have caught up with her\".\n\nSarah Payne was killed in 2000 by paedophile Roy Whiting\n\nLuke, now 28, and Lee, 30, said Sarah ran from them and sister Charlotte to a road on the edge of a field while on a day out in Kingston Gorse, West Sussex.\n\nShe was not seen alive again and the brothers remember Whiting smiling at them as he drove her away.\n\nLuke, who was 12 at the time, said the thought he could have saved her \"eats you up inside\".\n\nHe said he is haunted by what happened: \"I don't get a lot of sleep. I dread the night, because it's just you and your thoughts.\"\n\nHis late father, Michael, bought a sawn-off shotgun and talked to him about what he would do if Whiting was found not guilty.\n\nLuke added that when he sees Sarah's friends now: \"I always wonder where she would be... what she would be doing... whatever she would have been doing, she would have shined.\"\n\nLee, who was then 13, remembers seeing Whiting drive past the field in his van looking \"dodgy\" - smiling and waving at him seconds after the abduction.\n\nLee said he was \"literally 30 seconds behind her\" but initially thought she was hiding.\n\nLuke Payne says he is haunted by the memory of losing his sister\n\nHe said he would never get over the loss.\n\nThe family lived in Hersham, Surrey, and mother Sara Payne described seeing Whiting in court for the first time and realising he \"wasn't a monster\" but a \"sad, lonely person\".\n\nWhiting was jailed for life in 2001 and will serve a minimum of 40 years.\n\nThe family spoke to Channel 5 for the documentary Sarah Payne: A Mother's Story.", "Is this the end of the repeal-and-replace war?\n\nIn the end the death blow to the latest iteration of Obamacare repeal came from the right flank.\n\nSenate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was always going to have to walk a fine line in his effort to keep both moderates and hardcore conservatives in the party on board with his healthcare reform proposal.\n\nAfter his first draft failed to garner sufficient support, he came out with a new version that moved farther to the right in key areas while throwing money to keep the moderates satiated.\n\nThat strategy worked in the House, where Freedom Caucus arch-conservatives and just enough moderates came around to rescue the legislation from death's doorstep.\n\nIn the Senate, the entire rickety structure came tumbling down. Mike Lee of Utah and Jerry Moran balked, citing insufficient tax and regulation rollbacks.\n\nExpect a stampede for the exits in the coming days, as everyone abandons what was always an unpopular bill.\n\nOn Monday night the president himself led the way, calling for repeal without so much as a plan for what to do next.\n\nThen again, the Republican Party never really had a replacement plan, and its attempts to craft one on the fly - something that would perform better than Obamacare while costing less money - were like one of those hapless early airplane designs that flapped its wings or spun its wheels but never left the ground.\n\nThe Senate may very well try to vote on straight-up repeal, as the president has suggested - one with a two-year fuse - but it stands little chance of winning majority support. If and when that fails, it's back to the drawing board for Republicans.\n\nThe urgent need to do something, anything, to fulfil their years of healthcare promises is still there.\n\nThe White House is pledging to keep up the pressure.\n\nThere could even be a move, as some Republicans are now urging, to reach out to Democrats for help crafting a bipartisan solution to fix some of the current system's more glaring shortcomings.\n\nThis isn't the end of congressional efforts to pass healthcare legislation. But it's likely the end of the repeal-and-replace war as it's been waged for the past six months.\n\nThe final casualty list won't be tabulated at least until the midterm elections in November 2018, but it's not too early to wonder exactly how high the political death count for Republicans might run.\n\nThe Senate's Obamacare repeal bill is woefully unpopular and has led to numerous protests\n\nAll the members of the House of Representatives who gathered on the grounds of the White House to celebrate voting for a bill that was both politically toxic and will now never see the light of day have to be wondering if they stuck their neck out only to see the glint of the guillotine.\n\nOthers may be left wondering if the grassroots Tea Party faithful who rallied to their sides in opposition to Barack Obama and the Democrats in years past may find better things to do than vote when the next election day rolls around.\n\nPolitical epitaphs aren't written in a day, and Mr Trump and the Republicans still have the opportunity to regroup and recover. They could find solace in a tax reform package or some new, as yet unrevealed infrastructure spending plan.\n\nThis is a serious setback, however. And time is a commodity in increasingly limited supply.", "The BBC's admission that two-thirds of its highest-paid stars are men - ahead of the disclosure of the salaries of all top-earning presenters - makes the lead for the Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail and the i.\n\nThe Telegraph says the corporation is braced for a staff revolt as employees discover that colleagues in the same job are paid vastly more.\n\nIn some cases, the paper continues, female presenters who sit alongside male colleagues on the same shows will be revealed to earn less.\n\nIt quotes one well-known female presenter as saying the corporation is stuffed with \"male 'intellectual titans' with egos the size of planets\" who demand huge salaries and get them.\n\nThe Mail runs the story under the headline: \"Pay panic at the BBC.\"\n\nIt says the stars have been warned to expect public anger over the huge salaries - and a backlash from staff on lower salaries.\n\nThe story is reported in most of the other papers, too.\n\nThe Guardian says the BBC will allow its stars to engage with critics and defend themselves on social media after their pay is revealed.\n\nIt has offered support and advice on dealing with the fallout, the paper adds.\n\nThe Guardian's lead is a call by Conservative backbenchers for Theresa May to sack any disloyal ministers found to have leaked details of cabinet meetings or plotted against her leadership.\n\nAccording to the paper, three senior members of the backbench 1922 Committee have said the prime minister has their full support to re-establish discipline in her team and rejected the idea of a leadership election.\n\nA number of papers publish the first official picture of the cabinet at Downing Street since the post-election reshuffle - alongside reports of Mrs May's plea to ministers to unite and not to brief the media about cabinet discussions.\n\nThe Times has the headline: \"Ministers keep a lid on their squabbles for official photo.\"\n\nThe Daily Mirror describes it as a \"jolly\" photo but says potential leadership contenders were uncomfortably lined up together - and two bitter rivals - Chancellor Philip Hammond and Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson - sat awkwardly next to each other on the front row.\n\nThe Times leads on the announcement that surcharges for using credit and debit cards are to be outlawed from next year - a move it believes that could save shoppers £500m a year.\n\nIt says the ban follows an investigation by the paper that exposed widespread abuse of laws designed to stop companies using card charges to pad out profits.\n\nAirlines, travel agents, ticket booking websites, universities and councils were among those found to be levying fees of up to 3.5%, it adds.\n\nFinally, news that North Sea cod has been certified as sustainable, a decade after stocks were facing collapse, is welcomed.\n\nThe Financial Times says cod has been consumed in Britain at least since the arrival of the Norsemen in the 9th Century - and its return caps a remarkable recovery for a popular fish.\n\nThe Guardian says British cod is back on the menu - and fish and chip lovers can enjoy it with a clear conscience.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. After a huge brawl on Thursday last week, fighting has resumed in Taiwan's parliament\n\nOn the outside, the main building of Taiwan's Legislative Yuan - or parliament - is a picture of calm.\n\nTwo rows of neatly-trimmed shrubbery and trees line the courtyard leading to the stately-looking, white building with a Republic of China (Taiwan) flag on top.\n\nBut inside, the picture is very different.\n\nIn fact, while parliamentary brawls occur occasionally in other countries, Taiwan's Legislative Yuan is notorious for them.\n\nScuffles are common in Taiwan's Legislative Yuan - but they are getting uglier\n\nRowdy and sometimes violent scuffles occur as often as several times a year and even every few days or weeks.\n\nPunching, hair pulling, throwing plastic bottles and water balloons, as well as splashing cups of water on the faces of rival party legislators are common scenes. Air-horns and filibustering - more like shouting - are also used to drown out one's opponents.\n\n23 March 2004: A scuffle erupted between the ruling and opposition party members over vote recounts from the presidential election.\n\n7 May 2004: Legislator Zhu Xingyu grabbed legislator William Lai and tried to wrestle him onto a desk and headbutt him, and jabbed him in the stomach, due to disagreements over legislative procedures.\n\n26 October 2004: A food fight took place between the opposition and ruling party during a debate on a military hardware purchase ordinance.\n\n30 May 2006: Then opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) legislator Wang Shu-hui snatched a written proposal and shoved it into her mouth to prevent voting on allowing direct transportation links with Mainland China. Ruling party members tried to force her to cough it up by pulling her hair. She later spat it out but tore it up.\n\n8 May 2007: Several members of the ruling DPP and opposition Kuomintang (KMT) party fought over control of the Speaker's podium, with some throwing punches and spraying water over an alleged delay of the annual budget. At least one person was admitted to hospital.\n\nHowever this month's fights have become even uglier. Last Thursday, legislators lifted up and threw chairs at each other when they brawled over the ruling DPP's massive $29bn (£22bn) infrastructure spending bill, which the opposition (headed by the KMT) claims benefits cities and counties loyal to the DPP and is aimed at helping the party win forthcoming elections.\n\nThe fighting continued on Tuesday in a legislative committee meeting. The opposition KMT legislators wrestled DPP members to the floor and unplugged the cables of loud speakers to prevent the DPP from putting the bill through a committee review to move it towards passage into law.\n\nOpposition parties, a minority in the 113-seat parliament, see physical fights as the only way to stop legislation they oppose, by blocking them from being voted on.\n\nThe standoffs can last for hours, even into the middle of the night. Legislators take turns eating or delay meals.\n\nMany staff from local governments, ministries or government agencies have to be there, to see if legislation that affects them might pass, or to be on hand to answer questions in case there is actual discussion and debating, not just brawling.\n\nThese people find ways to put up with the chaotic scenes. Some cover their ears, others focus on their smartphones, and a few smart ones find the most comfortable couches in the back and manage to sleep through it all.\n\nIt's become a normal part of Taiwan's democracy - one of the most vibrant in the world.\n\nParties see parliamentary fights as an effective way to prevent the passing of legislation\n\nBut the fights shouldn't be taken too seriously, says a local journalist who covers parliament on a daily basis. He wished to be identified only by his first name.\n\n\"The legislators are partly acting - trying to show their constituents they're working hard to fight for their cause,\" said Danny.\n\nHowever, he and other Taiwanese people say the brawls - with some broadcasted worldwide - are humiliating and do not advance democracy.\n\n\"The fights only allow the people to see the surface, not real issues. People often don't even understand the bills,\" said Danny.\n\nHe admitted that many journalists don't either. This current infrastructure bill is 10,000 pages long; it's impossible for them to read through all of it.\n\n\"If the legislators actually debate the contents of the bill instead of fight, the public might understand it better,\" said Danny. \"I majored in politics in college. This is not what I had expected.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Elizabeth Campbell said she was \"deeply sorry\" for the \"grief and trauma\"\n\nThe newly elected leader of Kensington and Chelsea Council has been booed and heckled amid continuing anger over the Grenfell Tower fire.\n\nProtesters shouted \"resign\" and \"shame on you\" as Elizabeth Campbell was made council leader at a public meeting.\n\nThe councillor said she was \"deeply sorry\" for the \"grief and trauma\" caused by the blaze in west London.\n\nThe fractious meeting ended early after a female resident fell to the ground and was attended to by medics.\n\nAbout 70 of the 255 people who survived the blaze attended the meeting after condemnation of the council's response.\n\nAt least 80 people are dead or missing after the tower block fire on 14 June.\n\nThe council has been accused of being slow to react on the ground and not doing enough to re-house Grenfell Tower residents.\n\nMany people in the public gallery at Kensington Town Hall were calling for the Conservative group that runs the council to resign and for new elections.\n\nIt was the first cabinet meeting since the fire, after the council abandoned an earlier meeting - which had been planned as a closed one - when members of the press were allowed in after a High Court judgement.\n\nAddressing survivors in the chamber, Ms Campbell said: \"I am truly sorry that we did not do more to help you when you needed it the most.\"\n\nThere was heckling from the public gallery\n\nFormer Grenfell Tower residents sat in the public gallery, while at least 150 community members and volunteers were in an overspill room.\n\nOne by one, residents and those who lost loved ones gave accounts of their traumatic experiences, voicing their distrust in local services.\n\nOne survivor, from the 16th floor of Grenfell Tower, who gave his name as Hamid, said he had \"had enough\".\n\n\"I need a place to go and start my life,\" he said. \"I'm not asking for something big.\n\n\"We need to move on. We want to go to work - kids got to go to school.\"\n\nAnother survivor told the chamber he had been living in a hotel room since the fire, with just one double bed between him, his wife and three children.\n\nHe said that the residents' main problem was a lack of action.\n\n\"I was forgotten about,\" he added.\n\n\"You know who has done something for us? The residents of North Kensington. Our community. Our neighbours.\"\n\nAs the meeting progressed, attention turned to a petition calling for the council's entire elected leadership to resign.\n\nIt was signed by more than 1,500 people, passing the threshold for a debate by councillors.\n\nLabour's newly elected MP for Kensington, Emma Dent Coad, said: \"I agree entirely with the petition's demands.\"\n\nMs Campbell, who was heckled again as she responded to the petition, said: \"We will not continue business as usual and we will rebuild trust, as I said, brick by brick.\"\n\nEarlier, she said 68 new homes for Grenfell Tower survivors would be identified and bought within the next two weeks, and an additional 31 homes would be acquired in the next few weeks.\n\nThe councillor also promised that 400 new social houses would be built over the next five years.\n\nShe took over as de facto leader after Nicholas Paget-Brown resigned on 30 June.\n\nShe later admitted on the Today programme that she had never been in a tower block, but added that she had visited many council houses.\n\nA group of demonstrators stood outside Kensington Town Hall during the meeting holding Justice for Grenfell placards.", "Burning cladding on Grenfell Tower would have released 14 times more heat than a key government test allows, the Victoria Derbyshire show has learned.\n\nEnergy emitted from the cladding and insulation would have been equivalent to burning 51 tonnes of pinewood, University of Leeds research suggests.\n\nThe cladding's plastic core would have burned \"as quickly as petrol\", it said.\n\nThe contractors who fitted the cladding and insulation said they both passed all regulations.\n\nAccording to data released by French authorities, and seen by the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme, the cladding would have released 43.2 MJ/kg of heat.\n\nThe European A2 standard for \"limited combustibility\" is 3 MJ/kg.\n\nThe foam insulation underneath the cladding was, separately, thought to emit around 26 MJ/kg of heat.\n\nFigures from UK government tests have not yet been made publicly available.\n\nThe work to fit Grenfell Tower's cladding was completed in 2016\n\nAn estimated 18 tonnes of insulation foam and eight tonnes of cladding panels were attached to the tower, analysis of planning documents by the University of Leeds suggests.\n\nThe energy released when all these combustible materials burned would have been equivalent to around 51 tonnes of pinewood wrapped around the building in two thin 12mm sheets, separated by a 50mm gap with holes cut out for windows, it says.\n\n\"If you set that on fire near the bottom you can imagine what would happen and how fast the fire will grow,\" Dr Roth Phylaktou, a senior lecturer specialising in fire and explosion engineering at the university, told the BBC.\n\n\"This is not dissimilar to the wood cribs that we use in fire science to create fast-growing fires that reach a large size very quickly.\"\n\nDr Phylaktou believes the configuration of the cladding and the foam - known as polyisocyanurate (PIR) - was \"optimum for vertical fire spread\".\n\n\"This explains the speed of the fire propagation. The polyethylene in the cladding would have burnt as quickly as petrol,\" he added.\n\nHe believes the air gap between the insulation and the external cladding panels on Grenfell Tower may have created a so-called \"chimney effect\", increasing the speed of the fire spreading.\n\n\"The insulation formed another combustible layer underneath which would also give off toxic fumes,\" he added.\n\nThe type of PIR foam used, Celotex RS5000, and the brand of cladding, Reynobond PE, have now been withdrawn from sale for use in buildings over 18m high.\n\nEven if cladding or insulation do not meet the European A2 standard for limited combustibility, they can theoretically still be allowed on the outside of a tall building if combined with other components in a whole system which passes a different type of test, known as BR135.\n\nAn independent company, BRE, is now conducting tests for the government to see how different combinations of insulation and cladding perform in the event of a serious fire.\n\nBRE also conducts fire tests for the private sector and a local government leader has called for the release of test data which is considered commercially confidential.\n\nIn its marketing Arconic, which manufactures Reynobond PE panels, has never claimed the product met the \"limited combustibility\" standard. It said it was only \"one component\" in the overall cladding system.\n\nSaint-Gobain, which manufacturers the Celotex RS5000 PIR, said it could not comment while there was an investigation into the circumstances around the Grenfell Tower fire.\n\nWatch the Victoria Derbyshire programme on weekdays between 09:00 and 11:00 on BBC Two and the BBC News channel.", "Actress Carol Lee Scott, who was best known as Grotbags the witch, has died at the age of 74.\n\nShe appeared in children's programmes in the 1980s and early 1990s, including ITV's Rod Hull's Emu's World.\n\nHer family confirmed the news on social media, with her niece Gina Mear writing on Facebook on Wednesday that the actress had \"lost her brave fight against cancer\".\n\n\"To many of you she was Grotbags - a legend!\" she said.\n\nLee Scott appeared in a TV show with Rod Hull and Emu\n\n\"To me she was just aunty Carol. I shall miss her hugely, rest in peace Carol.\"\n\nThe actress was warmly remembered by comic and performer Rufus Hound, who described her as \"an icon for folk of my generation\".\n\nHull's son Toby added his voice to the tributes, tweeting: \"Sending our thoughts to the family of Carol Lee Scott, what great memories we have of her. Xx\"\n\nDavid Lee, from Pantoni Pantomimes, told the BBC: \"I was saddened to receive news of Carol's passing. She appeared in two pantomimes for me; Aladdin in Canterbury in 1984 and Aston Under Lyne with the late Ken Goodwin.\n\n\"She was a real trooper and in the time honoured tradition of showbiz, 'the show must go on!'. During the Canterbury panto run we had agreed she could take a cabaret appearance on Xmas Day near London.\n\n\"That day she badly injured her ankle but she was back on stage on Boxing Day and completed the run pushed around in a wheelchair by her sidekick in the show who played a Dragon.\n\n\"She was also a tremendous cabaret artist and great rock and roll performer. Thanks for some fabulous memories. RIP Carol.\"\n\nHer character Grotbags was a dastardly pantomime witch, with a bright green wig and face to match. She famously hated \"brats\" and did her best to spoil the fun of children, using her \"Bazazzer\" - a pointy stick with a gold hand on the end of it.\n\nFans of the show flooded Twitter with comments, with Gary Dewar writing: \"Daleks. Zelda. Skeletor. Nothing - NOTHING - terrified me quite like Grotbags. Bravo!\"\n\nNoob added: \"Rest in peace Grotbags. You made my early years awesome. I was so scared of you!\"\n\nLee Scott, who was born in Somerset, began her career with cabaret performances touring clubs in the north of England, as well as stints as a London pub singer and as a Pontins Blue Coat.\n\nShe worked for the holiday park for 19 years before she began collaborating with Hull on a series of children's 1980s TV shows. They created the character Grotbags during a summer season in Cleethorpes and stayed friends until his death in 1999.\n\nGrotbags first appeared in Emu's World before going on to get her own eponymous show, which ran on ITV for three series between 1991 and 1993.\n\nIt featured Lee Scott alongside characters including Colin the Bat, Doris the Dodo and Grumble the cauldron.\n\nThe show, set in the Gloomy Fortress, also starred puppeteer Richard Coombs.\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.", "Marcel Somerville and Camilla Thurlow are among the contestants\n\nViewers have been complaining about Love Island - but not for the reason you might think.\n\nThe ITV2 show sees single men and women put together in a Majorcan villa to find love and win a £50,000 prize.\n\nSo far this series, there have been several instances of, shall we say, intimate behaviour taking place.\n\nBut broadcasting regulator Ofcom says it has actually received far more complaints about scenes that show the contestants smoking.\n\nThe series airs after the 21:00 watershed but has still attracted 46 complaints to date.\n\nMore than half of those - 24 - were from viewers objecting to the portrayal of smoking.\n\nFifteen of the complaints were made about the promotion of \"sexual material and promiscuity\".\n\nThe remaining complaints were for bad language, grievances about a racial slur and violence (for the time when a contestant threw a cushion \"aggressively\").\n\nOfcom has said it will assess the 46 complaints before deciding whether to investigate further.\n\nThe ITV2 show has a large following and an audience that includes pop singer Adele.\n\nSpeaking at the second of her Wembley dates last week, she labelled one of the contestants a \"tramp\" for taking part in a show in which \"real people have real sex on real TV\".\n\nFalling in love isn't easy - let alone falling in love on national television, writes entertainment reporter Genevieve Hassan.\n\nBut that's what 13 sexy singletons hope to do on Love Island, which is halfway through its third series on ITV2.\n\nIf you've never seen it before, the premise is to couple up and convince the public to keep you on the island in order to win £50,000 - all while trying to find your perfect match.\n\nThink Big Brother but with board shorts, bikinis and more under-the-sheets shenanigans than you can shake a stick at, as the couples chop and change throughout the series.\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.", "US stocks are still trading down, but why?\n\nChris Zaccarelli, chief investment officer at Cornerstone Financial Partners, says: \"It's the lull before earnings. There's not as much enthusiasm for buying.\n\n\"Investors don't think companies will surprise as positively as they did in the first quarter.\"\n\nJan Dehn, fund manager at Ashmore, said investors may be spooked for other reasons.\n\n\"One is the Middle East and the Qatar-Saudi situation and even the oil market doesn't know how to handle that one,\" he said. \"The second is North Korea, which is classic geopolitical risk, and finally, and probably most importantly, there has been the recent hawkish tilt from the major central banks and it seems to be coordinated.\"", "Have you heard the joke about the humourless office worker who went for a promotion? He didn't get it.\n\nIn workplaces around the world a bit of humour can go a long way towards making it a more enjoyable place to spend eight or so hours a day.\n\nBut for every genuinely funny employee or boss, there are others whose unfunny or inappropriate jokes make colleagues wince.\n\nSo treading carefully, how exactly does humour help both improve a workplace and the standing of the person who is good at it?\n\nWhen Steve Carlisle, president of General Motors of Canada, walks around the firm's Ontario headquarters he shares jokes, and uses humour to bond with his staff.\n\n\"I believe having a sense of humour is part of the leadership package,\" Mr Carlisle says. \"It can help people feel more relaxed, more comfortable and thus be more effective at what they do.\"\n\nSteve Carlisle says President Donald Trump has been a rich source of material\n\nWhat Mr Carlisle brings to his role at the car giant is exactly what a business professor called Maurice Schweitzer cautiously recommends.\n\nIt found that a worker or boss who successfully use humour is seen as both confident and competent, which in turn increases his or her status.\n\n\"In the workplace context, people look up to those who are confident,\" says Prof Schweitzer, who works at the University of Philadelphia's Wharton School.\n\n\"Being funny is taking a risk, and being risky shows confidence.\"\n\nProf Schweitzer urges any would-be office humorist to be cautious\n\nBut do workers think that a humorous colleague is more competent at his or her job?\n\nProf Schweitzer says that telling a good joke requires both intellect and empathy, which makes colleagues believe that the person has a greater level of competency across the board.\n\n\"Being funny requires us to take into consideration other people's points of view, and what they may find funny,\" he explains.\n\n\"And being funny means you understand effective timing, and how to straddle a fine line between what is humorous and what's offensive.\"\n\nProf Schweitzer adds that if a person tells inappropriate jokes, be they insulting or unfunny, they are still regarded as more confident, but - perhaps unsurprisingly - also incompetent.\n\nThe study says: \"Telling inappropriate jokes signals low competence, and the combined effect of high confidence and low competence harms status.\"\n\nRicky Gervais' toe-curling character David Brent, in The Office, regularly over-stepped the mark when it came to office humour\n\nEssentially, you don't want to be like David Brent, the cringeworthy fictional boss from The Office, the TV comedy series that was a hit on both sides of the Atlantic.\n\n\"Humour creates a flattening of relationships in a hierarchal company,\" says Jennifer Moss, co-founder of Toronto's Plasticity Labs, which conducts research on emotional intelligence and happiness for businesses.\n\n\"To create stronger engagement with your staff, it helps to be humorous.\"\n\nOne example Prof Schweitzer cites of a good use of humour is a tweet sent out back in 2009 by former Twitter chief operating officer Dick Costolo.\n\nMr Costolo tweeted: \"First full day as Twitter COO tomorrow. Step one, undermine CEO, consolidate power.\"\n\nAs it happened, Mr Costolo did actually go on to become Twitter's chief executive a year later, holding the role for five years before ultimately leaving the company.\n\nProf Schweitzer says: \"Mr Costolo's not a seasoned veteran when it comes to comedy, he's not a comedian but he endeared himself to the company.\"\n\nIn fact, having some fun in the office can combat negative side effects of intense jobs.\n\nIn a 2006 study published in The Journal of Behavioral and Applied Management, researchers found that for healthcare workers, emotional exhaustion was significantly lower among those who experienced greater levels of fun at work.\n\nWill someone please file a complaint with HR\n\nAlso, research out of Vrije University Amsterdam concluded that teams that share more jokes gave more supportive and constructive statements to each other, such as \"that's a great idea\" or \"we could solve this problem by doing X\".\n\nWhen it comes to the type of humour you might want to try out on your workmates, Prof Schweitzer says that self-deprecation \"can be effective\" because it humanises the joke-teller.\n\nSarcasm can also be effectively used, according to Prof Adam Galinsky of Columbia Business School, but he urges a cautious approach.\n\nHe says sarcastic humour works best when trust and playfulness has been established between parties, otherwise a wrongly-placed sarcastic comment can appear flippant or cruel.\n\n\"Sarcasm requires a cognitive capacity to understand flexibility of thinking and how words can be interpreted,\" says Prof Galinsky. \"It is a particular type of social intelligence that not everyone uses or grasps.\"\n\nMore stories from the BBC's Business Brain series looking at quirky or unusual business topics from around the world:\n\nBarbara Plester, senior lecturer at the University of Auckland Business, says it is simply vital for jokes to not cause offence.\n\nThe author of The Complexity of Workplace Humour: Laughter, Jokers and the Dark Side of Humour, also cautions about high-ranking managers bringing comedy to the office.\n\n\"While some managers do retain and use their sense of humour, the potential for causing distress is even greater when you add a power differential,\" she says.\n\n\"Therefore, a manager joking with a subordinate risks not only offending the worker if the humour is taken poorly, but may come in for other accusations, such as sexual harassment, if the humour backfires.\"\n\nWorkplace expert Barbara Plester wonders if staff just laugh at jokes to please the boss\n\nMs Plester also warns that senior staff sharing jokes \"can never be sure if they are really funny, or if others laugh because the manager has power and so subordinates laugh strategically to please the boss.\"\n\nConnecticut resident Tim Washer never shied away from being the \"funny guy at work\", thanks to growing up appreciating comedians and even trying some stand-up.\n\nNow a comedy writer and consultant, Mr Washer says the right wisecrack will ease tension and help bonding.\n\nHe says: \"If I tell a joke and you laugh, then we've shared a moment and we have something in common.\"", "A British tourist who went missing from a beach in Australia has been found safe and well.\n\nBenjamin Wyatt, from Bath, had been the subject of a police search in Melbourne after he disappeared on Tuesday while on holiday with his parents.\n\nRelatives had pleaded for help to find the 34-year-old man, who has autism.\n\nOn Wednesday night, the family said that Mr Wyatt had returned to his sister's home in Melbourne, about 28km (17 miles) from where he was last seen.\n\n\"We are pleased to announce that Ben has just walked through the door,\" they wrote.\n\n\"We want to thank everyone who has helped us find him. A big thank you to Victoria Police with everything they did for us!\"\n\nPolice confirmed he was safe and well.\n\nThe Herald Sun newspaper reported that Mr Wyatt is believed to have walked 5km from Half Moon Bay beach to a shopping centre, where he caught a bus across the city then walked a further 5km to his sister's home.", "The band Miro Shot explored virtual reality with their audience in Amsterdam in May\n\nVirtual reality (VR) is being touted as a big growth area for film-makers, engaging audiences in ways traditional film can't. But it is also being explored everywhere from rock music to psychiatric treatments. Is it all just a passing fad - or could VR really change the way we see the world about us?\n\nIn film-making it's hard to avoid talk of VR as the next big thing. A report this April claimed it could add $7bn (£5.4bn) to film-industry revenues this year and by 2021, that figure might have risen 10-fold.\n\nHowever, performer-composer Roman Rappak and his new band Miro Shot are at the forefront of bringing VR to rock music.\n\nIn May, Rappak premiered a VR show at the Centre for Contemporary Art in Amsterdam, funded by a Dutch grant.\n\nAround 10 people at a time took their seats as Rappak and the other musicians stood ready to perform on stage. Before a note of his composition Lifeforms was played, audience members were helped into VR headsets through which they experienced a performance of around eight minutes.\n\nThe band became graphic versions of themselves before the audience was suddenly flying over an empty landscape and then a giant blue head of a woman emerged.\n\nThe show is designed to appeal to every sense: Electric fans wafted specially-concocted fragrances over the audience. Some people were quicker than others to work out that the event is 360 degrees: It's a good idea to look up or down and turn to see what's behind you.\n\n\"It's everything that's exciting about a concert but more intense. There are the colours, the sense of place, the aromas, the beats. If you're at a gig and love it that will transform you. With virtual reality it's magnified.\"\n\nRappak is impressively ahead of the game in his ambitions for VR and music - but some non-performance uses are surprisingly well-established.\n\nProf Daniel Freeman of the University of Oxford says using VR to treat anxiety disorders goes back to the early 1990s.\n\n\"VR has the potential to revolutionise how we treat certain mental health problems and phobias,\" he says.\n\n\"Many of the problems are linked to our environment in some way, such as a fear of enclosed spaces. With virtual reality we can now put people in the physical situation which disturbs them. Then we coach them in the best way to overcome these anxieties.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nProf Freeman says VR could potentially help people deal with conditions like acrophobia (fear of heights) and even depression.\n\n\"Therapists have been using VR to treat patients with claustrophobia,\" he explains. \"We can use a headset gradually to populate a lift, allowing the patient to control their tension level. What we're working on in Oxford is a programme which doesn't even require a therapist to be there. VR could bring the benefits of therapy to more people.\n\n\"With depression, therapy would for now probably complement evidence-based treatment with a skilled therapist. But VR can certainly help people re-engage with the world and be stimulated by it.\"\n\nThe VR recreations were of everyday situations. A London Tube train and a lift could each be made more or less crowded in a carefully controlled experiment.\n\n\"There's still research to be done but for certain patients the potential benefits are great.\"\n\nIf clinical psychologists were quick off the mark, journalism is coming late to the VR party. Zillah Watson of the BBC has just written a report for the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism called VR for News: The New Reality?\n\n\"The Reuters Institute was keen to cut through some of the hype about VR and ask some difficult questions: How can VR ever be monetised for news and how compelling is it currently for audiences?\" she says.\n\n\"What really got newsrooms excited was when, in November 2015, the New York Times decided it was getting into VR and launched an app.\n\n\"The newspaper wanted to discover new and exciting ways to tell stories. VR compels you to think in a completely different way about journalism which has to be a good thing - but the practicalities are complicated.\"\n\nWatson says there are problems even with what is meant by VR. \"Full VR - at least at this stage - involves putting on a headset which is tracked and, as you look around, the scene you see is rendered in real time and you feel you are there.\n\n\"For now, what is branded VR in news is in fact largely 360 video which people watch on their computer screen or on a phone. People watching news basically don't want to put on a headset. It's a problem - though technology will develop.\"\n\nNotes on Blindness was released in 2016\n\nWatson thinks the best VR material available is often at the features end of the news spectrum.\n\n\"A fantastic piece to seek out is Notes on Blindness, which isn't hard news at all. It illustrated the audio diaries of the academic John Hull who, in the 1980s, had to come to terms with blindness.\n\n\"Virtual reality is a challenge for TV news where traditionally it's assumed a story is mediated through the reporter. But if an editor wants to hear from refugees somewhere, then for VR it could work just as well - or better - if the refugees tell their own stories.\"\n\nWatson says journalistic VR is in a fusion period. \"Virtual reality is taking baby steps and no one yet is sure what the public demand is.\"\n\nToby Coffey, head of digital development at London's National Theatre, is convinced that VR will become part of what its audience expects.\n\n\"Twenty-two years ago I wrote a dissertation about virtual reality in the treatment of repeat offenders - so it's all older than people think,\" he says.\n\n\"But about four years ago it was clear modern VR was becoming important and when Rufus Norris arrived to run the National he wanted to explore it as a storytelling mechanism.\"\n\nThe theatre had rave reviews this year when it co-presented the VR piece Draw Me Close at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York.\n\nWritten by Jordan Tannahill, it's an extraordinary one-on-one piece where the viewer - wearing a headset - moves through a physical set of a child's bedroom and interacts with what may be a memory of Tannahill's own mother.\n\nThe mother is played by an actress in a motion-capture suit (which means purists would say the piece isn't VR but augmented reality).\n\nDraw Me Close involves an actress in a motion capture suit who interacts with you live\n\nCoffey says he still doesn't know what the National will offer in terms of VR. \"Like everyone, we're feeling our way and we're still not at the mass adoption stage.\n\n\"I'm looking forward to when someone will buy a National Theatre ticket and VR will be a major part of the experience. But I can't say if it will physically be in one of the National Theatre auditoriums.\n\n\"There's one-on-one storytelling, such as Draw Me Close, but also there's social VR. That can be where a group of people wear individual headsets and see the same thing but are cut off from everyone else.\n\n\"Or there's what I call social social VR, where people are aware of one another even with the headset on and that's really what I'm looking at.\"\n\nAlmost everyone in VR talks of how quickly technology is changing and how ambitions are changing too.\n\nRappak says a huge part of the attraction of VR is that for now, nothing is certain.\n\n\"In 2017, VR is about a headset which you strap to your skull. But a couple of years from now it could be glasses or some new kind of contact lens. It's important not to get obsessed with the technology because the one certainty is it will change within months.\n\n\"There's lots being written about virtual reality and I'm sure some predictions will prove completely wrong. But VR is almost totally unexplored which is why it's an amazing opportunity.\"\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 head of the BBC's Westminster political programmes team has been named as Prime Minister Theresa May's new director of communications.\n\nRobbie Gibb, who edits the Daily Politics, replaces Katie Perrior, who quit before the general election.\n\nHe worked for the Conservative MP Francis Maude in the 1990s, as well as Michael Portillo.\n\nHe tweeted it had been \"a privilege to work for the BBC \" and he would \"always be a supporter\" of the corporation.\n\nMr Gibb has edited several BBC political programmes during a long career at the Corporation, including the Daily Politics, This Week and the Andrew Marr Show, and is a former deputy editor of Newsnight.\n\nThe BBC's director of news, James Harding, said he had been \"an innovator in story-telling on television and an unrelenting advocate of the BBC, its independence and our public service role\".\n\n\"The signal quality he and his programmes have shown is the willingness to speak truth to power - I suspect it will come in handy,\" he added.\n\nFollowing reports that he had been interviewed for the job, the BBC's diplomatic correspondent James Landale tweeted that he had been asked to consider it but decided not to apply.\n\nMs Perrior, a former PR executive, resigned as Mrs May's director of communications when the PM called a snap general election in April. She went on to criticise Mrs May's closest advisers Nick Timothy and Fiona Hill, who were forced to stand down when the PM lost her majority.\n\nHer predecessor in the Downing Street communications role, Sir Craig Oliver, was also poached from the BBC, where he was editor of the Ten O'Clock News.\n\nMr Gibb's brother is the Conservative MP and schools minister Nick Gibb.\n\nThe position of Downing Street director of communications, which was first held by Alastair Campbell under Labour PM Tony Blair, has normally been held by a former newspaper or TV journalist.", "Live: Coverage across BBC TV, BBC Radio and BBC Sport website with further coverage on Red Button, Connected TVs and app. Click for full times.\n\nWhen you get the chance to play in front of a home crowd on Centre Court, you've got to use the support and the atmosphere to your advantage as much as you can.\n\nI saw the end of Jo Konta's win over Donna Vekic in the gym while I was waiting to go on, and her calmness in such a tense finish really impressed me.\n\nA number of times she was pretty close to getting broken at the end - she was 0-30 down - and she stayed focused and managed to get through it.\n\nYou saw right at the end just how much emotion she had inside her. You don't see Jo react like that too much and certainly not during a match, but it's obviously in there.\n\nShe can go a long way here. She's certainly good enough, and hopefully Wednesday's match was the first of many on Centre Court.\n• None Konta thrilled at British success but Murray wants more\n• None Edmund to face Monfils on day four\n\nIt's difficult to give other players advice because playing on that court is obviously a great experience but everyone deals with those things differently; everyone has different personalities.\n\nI found for myself that when I've been in tight matches like Jo's on Wednesday, maybe engaging the crowd a little more can help - but that might not be something she's comfortable doing.\n\nShe remains very calm on the court and that's a positive thing, but there can be times out there when it's good to let the emotions out as well.\n\n'You need to try and block that out'\n\nPlaying with the crowd on your side is not a regular experience for most tennis players and it can take some getting used to.\n\nWe play all over the world and I'd say 90% of the time in matches it's a fairly neutral crowd.\n\nObviously when you play against Roger or Rafa or Novak in different places they have huge, huge fanbases and people may want them to win, but most of the time people just want to see a great match. They want to be entertained.\n\nBut when we're playing at Wimbledon, pretty much all of the crowd want the Brits to win, and using that to your advantage and enjoying it and embracing it can really make the difference.\n\nIt always feels a little bit different out on Centre Court, not just because of the crowd but also the history there.\n\nYou can tell how much they want you to win because they live every point from the very first game, often groaning or sighing when you make a mistake. You need to try and block that out for sure, but then it's part of the Centre Court experience.\n\nMaybe the first few times it can be frustrating to hear that, or you can worry a little bit, but now I know exactly what to expect when I go out on that court.\n\nJo is top 10 in the world, she's British and looking to get into the second week for the first time here.\n\nShe will play more and more matches on that court and hopefully over time become more and more comfortable. Wednesday's match will have done her a lot of good, that's for sure.\n\n'Fabio can be a little different out there'\n\nFabio Fognini is one player who does let his feelings show on court.\n\nI expect a really serious test when we play on Friday because he's good off both forehand and backhand, and can hit a lot of winners. This will be our first meeting on grass, so we'll see how that changes things.\n\nWe're the same age and we grew up playing each other pretty much since we were 12, so I've known Fabio a long time as well as his family, because his dad, mum and sister have come to a lot of tournaments over the years.\n\nOn the court he can sometimes be a little bit different out there and show his emotions a lot - but then so can I.\n\nDespite the extrovert competitor you see on court, he's nice and friendly off it and I've always got on well with him. I'm looking forward to seeing him out on Centre Court.", "The UK should stay in the single market and customs union until a final Brexit deal is in force, according to the CBI business lobby group.\n\nCBI head Carolyn Fairbairn said it was \"impossible\" for all the details of a new trade deal with the European Union to be in place by March 2019.\n\nThat is when talks about the UK's withdrawal are due to formally finish.\n\nTo minimise disruption, UK businesses need a \"bridge\" instead of a \"cliff edge\" for the new deal, she said.\n\nBusinesses are delaying investment because of the uncertainty, according to the CBI, whose members employ nearly 7 million people.\n\nThe CBI's comments come ahead of a government conference on Friday with business figures from sectors across the UK.\n\nThe event, to be hosted at Chevening House in Kent, is part of government plans to work more closely with industries over Brexit.\n\n\"While we will be leaving the single market and the EU customs union, we want to achieve a comprehensive free trade agreement that allows for the most frictionless possible trade,\" a government spokesman said.\n\nIn her speech at the London School of Economics, Ms Fairbairn said it was \"common sense\" to stay in the single market and customs union until a trade deal was in place.\n\n\"This is not about whether we are leaving the EU, it is about how,\" she said.\n\n\"Once the Article 50 clock strikes midnight on 29 March 2019 the UK will leave the EU.\"\n\nSpeaking on Radio 4's Today programme, the founder of the Wetherspoons pub chain and campaigner for Brexit, Tim Martin, said constant talk about the UK \"falling off a cliff and standing on the top of buildings\" was the re-emergence of Project Fear again.\n\n\"The desire expressed by the doom-laden comments of the head of the CBI, Carolyn Fairbairn is to stay in the customs union and the single market and of course that is the equivalent of staying in the EU for now and perhaps forever.\n\n\"I don't know what the motivation is but it certainly doesn't speak for a business as a whole, 93% of which doesn't even trade with the EU,\" he added.\n\nHe suggested after the meeting at Chevening, the Brexit Secretary David Davis should \"have a cup of tea, listen to everything that has been said and give me a bell and I'll put him straight\".\n\nThose who successfully voted to leave the EU, fear that prolonged transitional arrangements could be used by Remainers as a way of reversing the Brexit vote by stealth.\n\nBut the CBI said businesses feared they could be forced to adapt twice - first to a transitional arrangement, and then to the final trade deal.\n\nThat would be \"wasteful, difficult and uncertain in itself,\" Ms Fairbairn said.\n\nShe told the BBC that a survey of CBI members found that 40% had reduced investment plans due to Brexit uncertainty.\n\n\"The urgency is simply growing. March 2019 is tomorrow for a lot of businesses. They are having to make their plans now,\" she said.\n\nHer comments were backed by Labour, which said it wanted an early commitment to \"strong transitional arrangements\" on similar terms to those currently in place.\n\nMs Fairbairn says it's \"time to be realistic\" about Brexit\n\nThe CBI's proposal was backed by a range of business bodies, including from retail, aerospace and manufacturing.\n\nTerry Scuoler, chief executive of the manufacturers' body EEF, said: \"The absence of any clarity for businesses makes this a sensible approach to transition.\"\n\nThe TUC also supported the move, saying \"it's crucial that we get the transition right as we leave the EU\".\n\nHowever, Patrick Minford, chairman of the Economists for Free Trade and an economics professor at Cardiff University, said it was not clear what the CBI wanted.\n\n\"They are constantly arguing for remain through the back door and this sounds like the same thing,\" he told the BBC.\n\nHe said the UK and EU would have to reach some kind of deal by the end of March 2019 and that would involve transitional arrangements.\n\nBusiness groups have increased their calls in recent weeks for the UK to maintain existing trading relations with the EU.\n\nAfter last month's election, five business bodies - including the CBI and EEF - called for the government to maintain the economic benefits of the single market and the customs union.\n\nThe CBI has now gone further by urging that the UK stay in those trading arrangements until a final deal is in place.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Ian Pannell and Darren Conway report on life - and death- on the streets of Chicago\n\nAt least 101 people were shot in Chicago over the Fourth of July weekend, 15 of them fatally, according to a city newspaper.\n\nNearly half of the shootings during the four-day holiday happened over 12 hours, reports the Chicago Tribune.\n\nThe youngest victim was a 13-year-old boy and the oldest a 60-year-old man.\n\nUS President Donald Trump recently said he was sending in federal agents to help local police contain the Illinois city's gang wars.\n\nAbout half of the shootings happened between 15:30 on Tuesday and 03:30 on Wednesday, mainly in Chicago's south and west sides.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In September last year, the toll for homicides in Chicago passed 500\n\nNot even the deployment of more than 1,000 extra officers by Chicago police department could staunch the violence.\n\nThe casualties are significantly higher than 2016, when 66 people were shot in Chicago over the Independence Day weekend, which lasted three days.\n\nIt brings the total number of people shot in Chicago so far in 2017 to more than 1,800, reports the Tribune.\n\nBut that figure is not as severe as last year when 2,035 people had been shot by this point.\n\nAt the weekend, Chicago police said shootings this year had declined 14% compared with the first six months of last year.\n\nCrime scene tape stretched around the front of a home where a man was shot in Chicago in May", "Students are facing debts rising to more than £50,000 when they leave university.\n\nThe poorest will owe around £57,000 when they graduate, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS).\n\nInterest rates on student loans will be 6.1% from September 2017, and tuition fees are also rising to £9,250.\n\nIt means that, on average, students will graduate having already built up £5,800 in interest.\n\nBen Jones, 22, finished his course this summer with more than £40,000 of debt. His sister Florence, 25, graduated in 2015 with around £15,000 less to pay back.\n\n\"I'm just annoyed about it,\" says Ben, who studies TV and radio production at the University of Salford.\n\n\"It's such a small age difference but it's such a huge difference in money.\"\n\nBen says that he and his sister don't talk about the difference too much, because it annoys him.\n\n\"She'll brag about it - I would if I was her too - and I'm just annoyed about it.\"\n\nBut Florence says that she feels bad that her younger brother has to pay more.\n\nShe says she would have \"thought twice\" about going to university if she had to pay £9,000 a year in fees.\n\nAlthough she trained to be a teacher, Florence now works in the charity sector.\n\nFor her, the lower debt means that she feels less under pressure to do a job where she has to earn a lot of money.\n\nShe pays off £22 a month of her total debt, which began at just over £25,000 - an amount she \"doesn't notice at all\" when it comes out of her payslip.\n\n\"I work in the charity sector which is lower-paid, so I was lucky to not need to pay back as much.\"\n\nShe doesn't think she'd be able to do the job she does now if she was in the same amount of debt as her brother.\n\nFlorence is worried that Ben's higher debt will weigh heavily on his shoulders once he graduates.\n\n\"I think he'll be a lot more concerned about [jobs] that are higher paid rather than ones that he might be interested in doing,\" she tells Newsbeat.\n\nAnd it seems that she's right - Ben says: \"if I was on three times less of a student debt, it would make it a lot easier to start out in life.\"\n\nMost people never pay off their student loans in full, according to the IFS.\n\nBut for Ben, the fact that the debt is \"such a huge amount of money\" means that \"it's just at the back of your mind all the time that you're going to be slowly paying it off\".\n\n\"I feel like the government doesn't really realise how much difference it is.\n\n\"It's not a small margin - it's not like they went up by a grand or so - it's three times the amount.\n\n\"It's OK for people to pay for university, but it shouldn't be such a huge cost.\"\n\nFlorence thinks that as well as changing peoples' career decisions, such a heavy debt burden means that going to university has become more of a transaction than anything else.\n\nAccording to her, people feel under pressure to pick a course which will earn them more money, rather than something purely out of interest.\n\n\"I didn't really have the issue of the higher loans, so I could just decide to go to uni whenever I wanted,\" she says.\n\n\"Whereas with my brother... he debated it a lot more than I did.\"\n\nBen shows this change in attitude when he says: \"You go to university to try to increase your chance of getting the job that you want.\n\n\"It felt like an investment - I think that's how most people see university.\"\n\nFind us on Instagram at BBCNewsbeat and follow us on Snapchat, search for bbc_newsbeat", "Imran Khawaja, 27, of west London, was jailed in 2015 after travelling to fight in Syria\n\nMore than 100 people in the UK have been convicted of terrorism offences related to Syria and Iraq since 2014, research by the BBC has revealed.\n\nThe youngest is a schoolboy from Blackburn who was 14 when he incited an act of terrorism in Australia.\n\nThe figures also show there are growing numbers of women and girls being prosecuted.\n\nPolice say five terror plots have been foiled since March and 18 thwarted since 2013.\n\nFor the last two years the BBC has tracked the numbers of people from the UK who have been drawn into the conflict in Syria and Iraq.\n\nThe most comprehensive online record of its kind, it shows the rapidly escalating number of prosecutions since 2014.\n\nThose convicted come from a wide cross section of society and include former prisoners, a hospital director and the son of a police officer.\n\nMarried couples, siblings and a mother of six have also been prosecuted.\n\nOf the 109 people convicted, 18 (16%) were women and girls and interestingly, over 85% of those convicted have never been to Syria or Iraq.\n\nThat's because some of the offences relate to those who have plotted to go and fight but who were arrested before putting their plans into action.\n\nOthers have been convicted of using social media to encourage support for banned groups such as Islamic State.\n\nDirector of Public Prosecutions, Alison Saunders told the BBC: \"We need to be acutely aware that if people can't go to Syria - and we have certainly seen this in some of the cases we have prosecuted - they may plan a sort of an attack here instead or they may do more to radicalise other people here to attack so we need to be very aware of that.\"\n\nThe DPP says the Crown Prosecution Service has the resources it needs to deal with the increased number of cases.\n\nAfter the London Bridge attack in which eight members of the public were killed, the prime minister called for a review of Britain's counter-terrorism strategy to make sure the police and the security services have the powers they need.\n\nMeanwhile, the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has announced that some of the country's most dangerous extremists have been moved to a \"prison within a prison\".\n\nThe inmates have been relocated to what the MoJ has called 'separation centres' within HMP Frankland in County Durham.\n\nThe move was promised by the then-Justice Secretary, Liz Truss, after a report into Islamist extremism in prisons.", "Former duo David Baddiel and Rob Newman as they look today\n\nIt's no big deal for comedians to play sold-out arena shows these days - just look at Peter Kay and Michael McIntrye.\n\nBut it was unheard of before 1993, when Rob Newman and then comedy partner David Baddiel became the first comics to sell out Wembley Arena.\n\nWith Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis, they formed The Mary Whitehouse Experience in the 1990s, before getting their own show, Newman and Baddiel in Pieces.\n\nIt was such a success the pair went on tour - but by then the cracks were showing.\n\nThey later admitted that for part of the tour, the only time they spoke to each other was to deliver lines.\n\nBaddiel said in an interview: \"It was incredibly acrimonious. I remember people saying at the time that it was a publicity stunt, but it really wasn't. We weren't speaking at times, except on stage... It's interesting in terms of fame, in that it's quite toxic, and it certainly was in that relationship.\"\n\nAnd how they were in their 1990s heyday\n\nNewman - now a writer as much as a comedian - was \"affected by fame\" and became a \"difficult person to work with\", he said at the time. Baddiel went on to further fame on Fantasy Football with Frank Skinner, while Newman pretty much retreated from the limelight.\n\nSo imagine fans' delight when Newman got back in touch with his former partner earlier this year.\n\nIn a slightly clunky tweet, he requested free tickets to Baddiel's show about his father's dementia (inspiring one reply of \"See that freeloader? That's you, that is\", in a nod to their catchphrase).\n\nHe said the show was \"heart-warming\" and \"very, very funny\". It was the first time they'd been in the same room since 1993 - though Baddiel said they'd bumped into each other a few times \"in various parks and streets\".\n\nAnd now, they've been publicly reunited at the Harper Collins summer party - leading to many fans (and some fellow celebs) pinning their hopes on them getting back together.\n\nOthers said they hoped it meant they were getting back together for a one-off series - but Baddiel has previously vowed they would never work together again.\n\nWhile that might dash the hopes of comedy fans, at least they're on speaking terms.\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.", "Charlie Gard has been in intensive care since October\n\nIt is impossible for terminally ill Charlie Gard to be transferred to the Vatican's children's hospital for treatment, Boris Johnson has said.\n\nThe foreign secretary told Italian Foreign Minister Angelino Alfano legal reasons prevented him from being moved.\n\nThe president of the Bambino Gesu hospital in Rome had asked British doctors if 10-month-old Charlie could be transferred to his care.\n\nIt comes after the Pope tweeted his support for Charlie on Monday.\n\nCharlie has been receiving specialist treatment at Great Ormond Street Hospital since October.\n\nMr Johnson has told his Italian counterpart it is \"right that decisions continued to be led by expert medical opinion, supported by the courts\", in line with Charlie's \"best interests.\"\n\nCharlie has mitochondrial depletion syndrome, a rare genetic condition which causes progressive muscle weakness. Doctors say he cannot see, hear, move, cry or swallow.\n\nDuring questions to the prime minister, on Wednesday, Theresa May said she was \"confident\" Great Ormond Street Hospital \"have, and always will, consider any offers or new information that has come forward with consideration of the well-being of a desperately ill child\".\n\nConnie Yates and Chris Gard raised more than £1.3m for experimental treatment for Charlie\n\nCharlie's parents raised £1.3m on a crowdfunding site to pay for experimental treatment in the US.\n\nBut they lost a legal battle with the hospital last month after judges at the European Court of Human Rights concluding further treatment would \"continue to cause Charlie significant harm\".\n\nThe Vatican's paediatric hospital stepped in after Pope Francis called for Charlie's parents, Chris Gard and Connie Yates, to be allowed to \"accompany and treat their child until the end\".\n\nThe hospital's president Mariella Enoc said: \"I was contacted by the mother, who is a very determined and decisive person and doesn't want to be stopped by anything.\"\n\nRenowned scientist and genetics expert Robert Winston told ITV's Good Morning Britain that courts and doctors should not be interfering with the parents' wishes, saying the loss of a child was \"about the worst injury that any person can have\".\n\nHowever, he said \"interferences from the Vatican and from Donald Trump\" were \"extremely unhelpful and very cruel\".\n\nLord Winston added: \"This child has been dealt with at a hospital which has huge expertise in mitochondrial disease and is being offered a break in a hospital that has never published anything on this disease, as far as I'm aware.\"\n\nLord Winston said \"interferences from the Vatican\" were \"unhelpful\"\n\nThe Vatican said the Pope was following the case \"with affection and sadness\".\n\nA statement added: \"For [Charlie's parents] he prays, hoping that their desire to accompany and care for their own child to the end is not ignored.\"\n\nUS President Donald Trump also tweeted about Charlie on Monday, writing: \"If we can help little #CharlieGard, as per our friends in the UK and the Pope, we would be delighted to do so.\"\n\nCharlie's parents, from Bedfont, west London, have spent the last days of their son's life with him, after being given more time before his life-support is turned off.\n\nOn Thursday they said the hospital had denied them their final wish to take their son home to die.", "Jacqueline Robb used the money to buy holidays and clothes\n\nA finance manager who stole £46,000 of school dinner money has been jailed.\n\nJacqueline Robb, 54, of Laburnum Avenue, Manchester, used the funds to buy foreign holidays and clothes.\n\nThe school where she worked spotted that £952 was missing from its bank account after an audit in autumn 2016. It later identified a loss of £46,011 between April 2012 and December 2016.\n\nRobb was jailed for 10 months at Manchester Crown Court after she pleaded guilty to theft.\n\nShe had been employed at a school in Openshaw since April 2009, where her duties included the administration and accounting of the school meals income.\n\nThe audit identified an annual deficit of about £10,000 missing from the school's bank account between 2012 and 2016.\n\nDet Con Laura Watson, from Greater Manchester Police, said Robb had been initially considered as a \"respected and trusted member of staff\".\n\n\"She made the decision to breach the trust instilled in her by the school, improving her financial wellbeing through illicit means, which is absolutely unacceptable.\"\n\nA proceeds or crime hearing is due to be held on 26 October.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jurors were told there were similarities between the cases of Caroline Devlin (left) and Susan Nicholson\n\nA man has been found guilty of killing two girlfriends five years apart.\n\nRobert Trigg, 52, was convicted of the murder of 52-year-old Susan Nicholson in 2011, and the manslaughter of Caroline Devlin, 35, in March 2006.\n\nTrigg, of Park Crescent, Worthing, West Sussex, had denied the charges, claiming they had died in their sleep.\n\nHe will be sentenced at Lewes Crown Court on Thursday after a jury took six-and-a-half hours to reach its verdicts following a 10-day trial.\n\nThe women's deaths at their homes in Worthing were initially treated as not being suspicious.\n\nThe death of Ms Devlin, whose body was found by one of her four children on Mother's Day, was originally recorded as an aneurysm.\n\nAn inquest into Ms Nicholson's death ruled she died accidentally after Trigg claimed he inadvertently rolled onto her in his sleep while they were on a sofa.\n\nRobert Trigg failed to call the emergency services after the deaths of both women\n\nTrigg, who declined to give evidence in his defence, blew out his cheeks as the verdicts were announced.\n\nJurors were told both causes of death were re-examined years later by pathologist Dr Nathaniel Cary who concluded Ms Nicholson was suffocated by having her head forced into the bed.\n\nDr Cary found Ms Devlin's death was caused by a blow to the back of her head.\n\nThe trial heard both women suffered violence at the hands of Trigg during their relationships with him.\n\nAfter one such incident, Ms Devlin said: \"I won't be here for my 40th.\"\n\nHe was described as a \"possessive, controlling and jealous\" man and by one former girlfriend as a \"Jekyll and Hyde\" character who drank heavily.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The parents of Susan Nicholson suspected Robert Trigg was guilty\n\nThe trial heard of \"striking similarities\" between the deaths, with both victims found in an unusual position and Trigg failing to call the emergency services, and getting other people to do it for him.\n\nThe family of Ms Nicholson refused to accept foul play did not play a part in their daughter's death, and launched a six-year campaign to get to the truth.\n\nElizabeth and Peter Skelton said getting justice had been \"mental torture\".\n\n\"We knew right from the start... there's no way two people could sleep on that sofa,\" Mrs Skelton said.\n\nMr Skelton added: \"At the inquest they said Susan was lying on her back all night.\n\n\"There would be no room for anybody to sleep on their back or even lie on the rest of the sofa.\"\n\nHe criticised Sussex Police, saying: \"Their first investigation wasn't very good.\n\n\"That's why we had to get a barrister and a pathologist to back up our case because they wouldn't listen to us.\n\n\"We told them all the facts, even the facts that came out in court but the police still wouldn't listen, but in the end they had to listen,\" Mr Skelton said.\n\nBrandyn McKenna, the youngest son of Ms Devlin, said outside court: \"We have always said that it was all down to the Skelton family that we finally got justice.\"\n\nFollowing the verdicts, Nigel Pilkington, from the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), said Trigg had \"a history of violence and controlling behaviour towards his partners\".\n\n\"In the face of this, it was extremely unlikely that two of Trigg's partners had died of natural causes while sharing a bed with him,\" he said.\n\nDet Supt Tanya Jones from Sussex Police said both deaths had been investigated at the time and post mortem examinations carried out.\n\n\"The forensic information available on each case at the times of the deaths did not provide any avenues for further investigation.\"\n\nThe parents of Susan Nicholson commissioned a review by a third pathologist and new evidence was presented to police, she said.\n\n\"On this fresh information we carried out a new thorough investigation including both deaths.\n\n\"Sussex Police are sorry that we had not presented all the facts before the CPS previously but we have now thoroughly investigated both cases.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Thousands queued to get into the stadium, even after the earlier stampede\n\nEight people - including seven children - have died in a stampede ahead of a football match in Malawi, police say.\n\nDozens more were injured in the crush at Lilongwe's Bingu national stadium.\n\nThe stampede happened as thousands of people rushed for seats ahead of a friendly between top sides Nyasa Big Bullets and Silver Strikers.\n\nDespite the deaths, the match did go ahead in a packed stadium, although President Peter Mutharika did not attend as planned.\n\nHe offered his condolences and said the government would do all it could to assist the families of the bereaved.\n\nHe said he was shocked to learn of the tragedy.\n\nThe BBC's Frank Kandu in Malawi said gates at the 40,000-capacity stadium were supposed to open at 06:30 local time (04:30GMT) to allow free entry of people - but there was a delay of about three hours.\n\nHowever, thousands had already turned up, and some tried to force their way in, prompting the police to fire tear gas.\n\nInspector General of Police Lexan Kachama told Reuters news agency he expected the number of casualties to rise.\n\nThe football match was being held as part of events to mark the 53rd anniversary of Malawi's independence from British colonial rule.\n\nWhen the match did go ahead, Nyasa Big Bullets won 2-1.", "Abedi was walking around Manchester city centre with the bomb for several hours before he detonated it\n\nThe Manchester Arena bomber carried the device through city centre streets for \"several hours\" before the attack, police believe.\n\nSalman Abedi detonated the home-made bomb, with metal nuts used as shrapnel, at an Ariana Grande concert on 22 May.\n\nAbedi was not part of a larger network, the head of the North West Counter Terrorism unit has said.\n\nCh Supt Russ Jackson said others may have been \"aware or complicit\" in the attack that killed 22 people.\n\nHe said further arrests may follow.\n\nMore than 250 people were hurt in the blast and have injuries ranging from paralysis and loss of limbs to internal and facial injuries, he said.\n\nAbedi was walking around Manchester city centre with the bomb before he detonated it, but police do not believe he had any target other than the Arena in mind.\n\nHashem Abedi, the bomber's 20-year-old brother, was detained in Tripoli\n\nThe bomb had a \"devastating\" impact and gouged out a section of the concrete floor.\n\nCh Supt Jackson confirmed officers want to interview the bomber's younger brother, Hashem Abedi, who continues to be held by special deterrence forces in Tripoli.\n\nHe would not comment on whether officers had travelled to the country, but said the force was engaged with the Libyan authorities and the Crown Prosecution Service.\n\nBriefing reporters at the headquarters of Greater Manchester Police on Thursday, Ch Supt Jackson said it was \"hard to get inside [Abedi's] head\" in terms of how he was radicalised.\n\n\"Salman Abedi travelled to Libya a number of times in his life. What we are looking at is the number of ways he learned the skills to build the device,\" he said.\n\nOfficers are still searching for a blue suitcase used by Abedi\n\nAbedi left no note or video explaining his actions, he said.\n\nCh Supt Jackson said officers were still searching for a blue suitcase in a landfill site, and this was a \"key line in the inquiry\".\n\nThe investigation was expected to continue for \"many, many months to come\", he said.\n\nIt will not be quick, as police have 16,000 hours of CCTV footage and 755 statements to analyse, he added.\n\n\"Significant forensic evidence\" was also found in a Nissan Micra in Rusholme, Greater Manchester.\n\nPolice earlier said Abedi may have used items stored in his car \"to help assemble the device\" he used to kill.\n\nCh Supt Jackson said \"digital exhibits\" containing more than three million files and 15 terabytes of data have also been recovered.\n\nAsked if Abedi was involved in gang activity in Manchester, Ch Supt Jackson said he may have known \"people who would be identified as being in gangs\", but there was no suggestion of a link to gang activity in the attack.\n\nPolice are not looking for any particular suspects.\n\nCh Supt Jackson said people who were arrested then released without charge had \"not reached the threshold\" [for further investigation].\n\n\"It should be noted that terrorism offences do not carry the option of bail. They can only be released without charge.\"\n\nForensic officers who were working at the arena in the days after the attack laid roses next to name plates at each spot where the 22 victims were killed, Ch Supt Jackson revealed.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jeremy Corbyn is to speak to the organisers of the Glastonbury festival about their use of zero-hours contracts, his spokesman has said.\n\nThe Labour leader appeared on stage at last month's event to speak about employment rights among other issues.\n\nMost of the workers hired, from around Europe, to clean up after the festival were reportedly laid off early.\n\nBut organisers said the litter pickers had \"temporary\" agreements which guaranteed at least eight hours work.\n\nIn a statement, Glastonbury festival said the \"unusually dry\" weather was partly responsible for reducing the amount of work after this year's festival.\n\nAccording to the Independent, about 700 workers had travelled to Somerset from the Czech Republic, Spain, Poland and Latvia to help with the post-festival clean-up operation, on zero-hours contracts.\n\nThey were reportedly promised two weeks' paid work but were laid-off after two days because there was less litter than expected, leaving them stranded and out of pocket.\n\nIn a video filmed by the Independent, a supervisor is heard telling sacked workers obstructing vehicles in protest that they should be grateful for two days' work.\n\nMr Corbyn used his appearance on the festival's Pyramid stage to say young people should not have to \"accept low wages and insecurity as just part of life\".\n\nAsked whether he would boycott Glastonbury in future, Mr Corbyn's spokesman said: \"Jeremy and the Labour Party have taken a very strong stand against the use of zero-hours contracts and the exploitation of migrant and other workers, and we would take that view wherever it happened.\n\n\"How Glastonbury runs its event and runs its finances is entirely a matter for them.\n\n\"But these contracts should not be in place and shouldn't be used.\n\n\"We oppose them, and next time we are in government we will ban them.\"\n\nAsked whether Mr Corbyn would raise the issue with organisers next time he visits the festival, the spokesman said: \"He is happy to raise it right now.\n\n\"This kind of contract and these kinds of employment conditions are unacceptable.\"\n\nIn a statement, Glastonbury festival denied they had used zero-hours contracts, saying: \"We would like to state that Glastonbury festival's post-event litter picking team are all given temporary worker agreements for the duration of the clean-up.\n\n\"The length of the clean-up varies considerably from year to year, based largely upon the weather conditions before, during and after the festival.\n\n\"This is something the litter pickers - many of whom return year after year - are made aware of in their worker agreements (which assure them of a minimum of eight hours' work).\n\n\"This year was an unusually dry one for Glastonbury. That, coupled with a fantastic effort from festival goers in taking their belongings home, meant that the bulk of the litter picking work was completed after 2.5 days (in 2016, a very wet year, the equivalent period was around 10 days).\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Trump: Russia should join \"the fight against common enemies and in defence of civilisation itself\"\n\nUS President Donald Trump has called on Russia to stop \"destabilising\" Ukraine and other countries and end support for \"hostile regimes\" such as those in Syria and Iran.\n\nSpeaking in the Polish capital Warsaw, Mr Trump urged Russia to \"join the community of responsible nations\".\n\nThe US leader has travelled to Hamburg for the G20 summit, where he will meet Russian President Vladimir Putin for the first time.\n\nHe also faces differences with other leaders, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who said last week that the G20 would focus on the Paris climate deal - which the US has withdrawn from.\n\nUp to 100,000 protesters are expected over the two-day event and police have warned of potentially violent clashes. They have already confiscated a number of homemade weapons.\n\nThe \"Welcome to Hell\" protest march is under way\n\n\"It's important because you have the biggest meeting of all of the leading rulers of the main countries in the world - the G20 - and I don't like some of the politics that they're doing, especially that of [Recep Tayyip] Erdogan, of Putin and of Trump,\" one protester told the BBC.\n\nIn Warsaw, Mr Trump argued that the future of Western civilisation itself was at stake and asked whether the West had the \"will to survive\".\n\nHe urged Russia to join the \"fight against common enemies and in defence of civilisation itself\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Trump referred to Russia's \"destabilising\" behaviour twice in one day in Poland. But the Kremlin spokesman has shrugged that off, saying simply that Moscow \"does not agree\". It's all part of the wait-and-see approach here.\n\nRussia once had great hopes that Donald Trump could rescue relations from the pit into which they were plunged after it annexed Crimea from Ukraine. Almost six months into the Trump presidency, there may be increasing pessimism.\n\nBut the Kremlin is calling Mr Trump's meeting with Mr Putin on Friday an important chance to get acquainted. Perhaps it is betting that personal dynamics will help overcome policy differences.\n\nAfter all, officials here insist that it is simply \"Russophobia\" in the US that has prevented President Trump \"getting along\" with Russia as he said he wanted.\n\nThey have certainly noted how in Poland he shied away from accusing Russia unequivocally of meddling in the US elections. Moscow has argued all along that there is no proof. In public at least, Mr Trump appeared to agree with that.\n\nThe US leader also hailed Poland as an example of a country ready to defend Western freedoms.\n\nPoland's conservative government shares Mr Trump's hostile view of immigration and strong sense of sovereignty.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Donald Trump's handshake is left hanging by the Polish president's wife\n\nGiving a news conference ahead of his Warsaw speech, Mr Trump also:\n\nNTV correspondent - \"After the icy reception [Trump] was given in Europe in May, what he needs now are comfortable and favourable surroundings, a picture along the lines of 'look at how they adore us here'.\"\n\nRen TV presenter - Trump was keen to play on differences within Europe and help Poland \"cobble together an Eastern European bloc opposed to EU leaders... Trump is only too happy to pour oil onto the fire of European discord.\"", "Last July, a botched military coup led to fighting on the streets of Ankara and Istanbul. Quickly peace was restored, the perpetrators were arrested - and a purge began of thousands of people, from judges to teachers, accused of links with the plotters. As Maria Psara in Brussels explains, the purge reached as far as Belgium, where its effects are still being felt.\n\nSitting at the back of a small cafe in Brussels, the two men were looking around to check whether they had been followed. The two women who accompanied them were silent, waiting for a signal that it was safe to talk.\n\nIbrahim had already told me that they all feared for their lives.\n\n\"The Turkish media call us 'terrorists' and say that Turkish or even Russian intelligence should kill us,\" he said. \"Turkish officials describe us as traitors and advise people to attack us if they meet us.\"\n\nA year ago, Ibrahim and Abdullah (not their real names) were high-ranking members of the Turkish military delegation to Nato. Now they are jobless and de facto stateless - two of the myriad casualties of a purge that followed an attempted military coup in Turkey a year ago.\n\nAyse and Deniz (also pseudonyms) are the wives of two other purged Turkish Nato officers. All their lives have changed dramatically. They have lost their homes and their incomes and may never be able to return to the country of their birth.\n\nAfter the unsuccessful coup on the night of 15 July 2016, tens of thousands of civil servants, judges, teachers, journalists, and others were arrested, suspected of being followers of Fethullah Gulen, the exiled cleric who is supposed - although he denies it - to have orchestrated the attempt to overthrow Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.\n\nAmong them were hundreds of military officers, but those serving abroad felt safe. It was clear, at least, that they had not taken any active role in the fighting.\n\n\"The Turkish army has more than 600,000 personnel,\" says Ibrahim. \"If an army of this size has decided to carry out a coup, it does not need the few officers it has abroad to execute it. The ones in Turkey would suffice.\"\n\nOne of the officers holds his cancelled passport\n\nIn August, however, lists of names began to arrive in Brussels every Friday after business hours - they were the names of officers who had been suspended or dismissed without explanation.\n\nAt the end of September, a long document with 221 names arrived at Turkish missions abroad, including the Nato headquarters in Brussels and in Mons, nearby. In it, the Turkish General Staff ordered the officers to return to Turkey immediately, again without explanation.\n\n\"My name was in the list. We called Turkey in an attempt to understand the accusations against us,\" says Abdullah.\n\n\"Take the first flight back,\" was the only response.\n\nThose who didn't comply were purged in a decree issued on 22 November, accusing them of links with a \"terrorist organisation\", a reference to the Gulenist movement.\n\nTheir assets in Turkey were frozen and their passports were cancelled.\n\nBy this stage it had long become clear that obeying the summons to Turkey was fraught with danger.\n\nA group of officers who were quick to sell their furniture and their cars, and close their contracts with electricity and gas suppliers, returned in early October and almost all were arrested - some on arrival at the airport, others when they reported to headquarters.\n\nAround the same time, a Navy officer was called from Brussels to an emergency meeting on \"standardisation\" at the general staff in Ankara.\n\n\"Anyone in the armed forces knows that standardisation is not a subject that one would ever classify as emergency. Even though everything about this meeting was fishy, the officer went because there was no reason to be afraid,\" says Ibrahim.\n\nIt turned out to be a set-up. He was arrested and has been in jail awaiting trial ever since. \"Up until now, he has not been informed about any evidence against him,\" Abdullah says.\n\nHis wife and three children, who were not officially notified of his arrest, remain behind in Belgium, trying to survive without him.\n\nDescribing these family tragedies, and their own, the officers and officers' wives are understandably grim-faced. One story, though, evokes a bitter smile. The men explain that a colleague was involved in a serious road accident in the days before the coup. At the time it happened he was in intensive care in a Belgian hospital. \"He was unconscious,\" Ibrahim says. But he too was accused of being involved in the coup.\n\nOverall, more than 700 officers out of 950 officers serving at Nato and in Turkish diplomatic missions around the world are estimated to have been purged. Most have applied for asylum in their host countries, and some - in Germany and Norway, for example - have already received it.\n\nMost of the Turkish officers in Belgium were living with their families in military housing. Many were ordered to move out at the end of September, though those in Mons were allowed to stay until the end of the school year, because their children went to school on the base. Some left early anyway, to start adapting to their new life as soon as possible. Others stayed, on the grounds that they had nothing to hide and were not afraid.\n\n\"However hard the Turkish national military representative tried to make us leave the base and make life harder for us, Nato put up a stance against his illogical arguments,\" says Abdullah.\n\nThe head of Nato's allied command headquarters in Mons, Gen Curtis Scaparotti, dismissed the idea that these officers could have been involved in the planning of a coup, Abdullah says. Foreign colleagues tried to help in different ways. Some offered monetary help, others invited the Turkish families to Christmas dinner, some even offered their personal houses in their homelands.\n\n\"Unanimously, all advised against going back to Turkey.\"\n\nFor children, moving from the Nato school to a Belgian school is a huge change. Suddenly, instead of studying in English, they are in an environment where everyone speaks either Flemish or French.\n\nThe families have so far been surviving on their savings. They will soon need to find work - but they are barred from employment until, or unless, they are granted asylum.\n\nThey are also hesitant about leaving the house, afraid of being targeted by pro-Erdogan zealots. More than three-quarters of Turks in Belgium who cast a ballot in a referendum held last April voted in favour of granting sweeping new powers to the president. Clashes between the president's supporters and opponents, as voting took place, left several in hospital.\n\nSince they were teenagers the officers have been at military schools, and have always been reluctant to express political views. They deny any connection with Fethullah Gulen. At the same time, they are clearly deeply alarmed by the direction President Erdogan is leading the country - away from the West, as they see it, closer to the Muslim world and to Russia.\n\nThe role of the Turkish Army as the guardian of a modern secular republic is under threat, they argue, while the purge has resulted in pro-Western officers being replaced with officers who either support political Islam or have a \"pro-East, pro-Russia ideology\".\n\nPrivately, Nato sources admit that the quality of the new officers is nowhere near that of those who were forced out.\n\nThe patriotism of the former officers is visible in their anger.\n\n\"See this?\" asks Abdullah, showing his passport. \"Throughout my whole life I have served my country, my flag, and now I have to hide my identity, although I did nothing wrong.\"\n\n\"Our husbands sacrificed their daily life, their family life for their work. They were married with their work, not with us,\" says Ayse.\n\nAbdullah says his greatest wish for the future is for Turkey to \"return to normality\" as he puts it.\n\n\"To be again a country we would be proud of,\" he adds.\n\n\"And we want to go back.\"\n\nMaria Psara is Brussels correspondent for the Ethnos newspaper\n\nJoin the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter.", "In an indoor \"Manchester-drizzle-simulating\" rain room at the University of Leeds, and in a laundry lab in Plymouth, research is revealing the unexpected environmental cost of the very clothes on our backs.\n\n\"Not many people know that lots of our clothes are made of plastic,\" says Imogen Napper, a PhD student at Plymouth University, \"polyester, acrylic.\"\n\nMs Napper and Prof Richard Thompson study marine microplastics - fragments and fibres found in the ocean surface, the deep sea and the marine food chain.\n\nAnd in a recent lab study, they found that polyester and acrylic clothing shed thousands of plastic fibres each time it was washed- sending another source of plastic pollution down the drain and, eventually, into the ocean.\n\n\"My friends always make fun of me because they think of marine biology as such a sexy science - it's all turtles, hot countries and bikinis,\" says Ms Napper.\n\n\"But I've been spending hours washing clothes and counting the fibres.\"\n\nIt might not be exotic, but this painstaking \"laundry-science\" has revealed that an average UK washing load - 6kg (13lb) of fabric - can release:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Some of the plastic found in the ocean has come from clothing, scientists say\n\nThat is from every load of synthetic laundry from every UK washing machine. \"A lot more fibres were released in the wash than we expected,\" Ms Napper says.\n\n\"They're going down the drain, so they are making their way into the sewage treatment works and maybe, from there, into the marine environment.\"\n\nProf Thompson says washing clothes could be a \"significant source\" of plastic microfibres in the ocean.\n\n\"When we sample, we find plastic fibres less than the width of a human hair - in fish, in deep sea sediments, as well as [floating] at the surface.\"\n\nChanges need to happen \"at the design stage\", he says; better, harder-wearing and less \"disposable\" clothing would last longer and be good for the environment.\n\n\"The garments [we washed] were similar fleecy garments, and some were shedding fibres much faster than others,\" Prof Thompson says.\n\n\"We need to understand why some garments wear out much more quickly than others, so we can try to minimise unnecessary emissions of plastic.\"\n\nAnd scientists now have the backing of possibly the most wholesome of British organisations; the Women's Institute, decided just last month to campaign for what they called \"innovative solutions\" to the problem of microplastic fibres in the ocean.\n\nOur plastic rubbish has floated to islands that are thousands of miles from the nearest human population\n\nProf Richard Blackburn, head of the sustainable materials research group at the University of Leeds, agrees that textile-makers need to think about what happens \"in use\", when we wear and wash our clothes.\n\n\"People don't consider it,\" he says. \"So, potentially, the pollution could be caused by us - the consumers - rather than the manufacturers.\"\n\nProf Blackburn's colleague in Leeds, Philippa Hill, was also drawn to the subject of laundry - by chemical coatings being washed off outdoor clothing.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Chemical coating make our nylon raincoats repel water - but they could come off in the wash\n\nThe waterproofing most high-end, rain-proof jackets are treated with consists of perfluorinated chemicals (PFCs), which are persistent and potentially toxic pollutants.\n\nCoating textiles and other materials with PFCs makes them resistant to stains, grease, and water. They are also used in some non-stick pans and food packaging.\n\nThese molecules sit on top of the (usually nylon) outer fabric like a protective layer of chemical barbed wire - the tip of every barb pushes away water molecules, which are too large to pass through the spaces in between. Air molecules can pass through freely, resulting in a non-sweaty, breathable, waterproof jacket.\n\nFluorochemical coatings have been used for decades to make nylon jackets water-repellent, but breathable\n\nBut, as Dr Andrew Sweetman, from the Lancaster Environment Centre, points out, lab and field studies have shown that some PFCs can accumulate in the tissues of fish and other wildlife as they consume contaminated food and water - building up a dose that can become harmful.\n\nEssentially, they don't degrade,\" he explains to BBC News. \"So if we take samples from waterways, as a result of their widespread use and persistence, we basically find them wherever we look.\"\n\nScientists report finding fluorinated chemicals in waterways 'wherever they look'\n\nAnd while textiles manufacturers have to abide by regulations to limit the pollution they release into waterways, Prof Blackburn says, \"there are no limits on what we can release from our own homes\".\n\nProf Blackburn and Ms Hill compared PFC-coated fabric with that treated with more benign oil-based coatings that also repel water.\n\n\"We took samples of fabrics that had been coated with the different treatments,\" says Prof Blackburn.\n\n\"And we'd carry out industry-standard tests - showering them with water and measuring their performance.\n\n\"We demonstrated that new coatings - that are not based on [fluorochemicals, or PFCs,] give just as good water-repellency as the fluorochemical coatings that have been around for decades.\"\n\nA campaign last year by Greenpeace spurred several outdoor brands to promise to end their use of PFCs in their clothing\n\nAnd a representative of the European Outdoor Group (EOG) - the body that represents the outdoor industry - said of Prof Blackburn and Ms Hill's research: \"This is the kind of data we need to make decisions on.\n\n\"It's a real challenge, but brands are very keen to have this information and to move away from PFCs.\"\n\nHowever, Prof Blackburn also makes the point that in comparison with the environmental footprint of the natural fibre cotton, many synthetics are actually \"pretty clean\".\n\n\"I always tell my new students that to grow 1kg of cotton consumes the amount of water you've drunk in your lifetime,\" he says.\n\nAnd bringing into the mainstream what are currently relatively niche \"bio-plastic\" fabrics could help clean up the industry further.\n\nThese bio-synthetics are available and gradually becoming more popular:\n\nBut, Prof Blackburn says, \"these never received the research focus or attention, with the advent of the petrochemical synthetic fibre industry\".\n\nHe cites further examples, of fibres made from fermented food waste and fruit skins.\n\n\"Poly[lactic acid] fibre or PLA is made by fermenting waste corn to make lactic acid, which is then polymerised to make this bio-polyester,\" he says.\n\n\"That's a great fibre, but has largely been used for packaging - the [fabric research] has fallen by the wayside.\"\n\nBut while the new research puts pressure on the textile and clothing manufacturers to clean up their act, there is something we can all very easily do to reduce the impact of what we wear on the environment.\n\n\"We are unsustainably addicted to consumption,\" says Prof Blackburn.\n\n\"I cannot emphasise enough how much of a step-change it would be for sustainability if we bought fewer items of clothing per year, wore them for longer and threw them away less often.\"", "Approximately 850 people from the UK have travelled to support or fight for jihadist groups in Syria and Iraq, say the British authorities.\n\nThis BBC News database is the most comprehensive public record of its kind, telling the story of over 100 people from the UK who have been convicted of offences relating to the conflict and over 150 others who have either died or are still in the region.\n\nThis interactive content is optimised for modern, javascript-enabled web browsers. Please ensure you have javascript enabled and a current browser.\n\nThe information above has been compiled from open sources and BBC research. Some details have been withheld for legal reasons or are unavailable.", "Madonna confirmed two years ago she had a relationship with Tupac (R)\n\nTupac Shakur suggested to Madonna he broke up with her because of race, in an emotional letter attributed to the doomed rapper.\n\nThe 1995 missive, addressed to \"M\", said being with a black man could only help her career, but that he might let down his fans.\n\nMadonna confirmed two years ago they had had a relationship, though it is unclear how long it lasted.\n\nThe letter is up for auction with a starting bid of $100,000 (£77,000).\n\nDated 15 January 1995, it was penned while Tupac was serving a prison sentence for sexual assault and 18 months before he was shot dead. Both artists were then at the height of their fame.\n\n\"For you to be seen with a black man wouldn't in any way jeopardize your career, if anything it would make you seem that much more open and exciting,\" Tupac, then 23, wrote from New York's Clinton Correctional Facility.\n\n\"But for me at least in my previous perception I felt due to my 'image' that I would be letting down half of the people who made me what I thought I was.\n\n\"Like you said, I haven't been the kind of friend I know I am capable of being,\" he wrote, adding: \"I never meant to hurt you.\"\n\nRolling Stone magazine said it had confirmed the authenticity of the document, which was first published by TMZ.\n\nTupac - whose parents were both Black Panthers - also suggested Madonna, then 36, hurt him by saying in an interview that she was \"'off to rehabilitate all the rappers and basketball players' or something to that effect\".\n\n\"Those words cut me deep seeing how I had never known you to be with any rappers besides myself,\" he wrote.\n\n\"It was at this moment out of hurt and a natural instinct to strike back and defend my heart and ego that I said a lot of things.\"\n\nHe added: \"Please understand my previous position as that of a young man with limited experience with a extremely famous sex symbol.\"\n\nTupac concluded: \"It's funny but this experience has taught me to not take time for granted.\" He signed off with a heart symbol.\n\nOn 7 September 1996, the rapper - who sold over 75 million records worldwide - died in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas after watching a Mike Tyson boxing match.\n\nThe letter will be up for auction at the Gotta Have Rock and Roll sale, which is scheduled for 19 - 28 July.", "The backbencher announced the new arrival on Instagram, where attention focused on the eye-catching name.\n\nThe name Sixtus is shared with five popes, most recently in 1590.\n\n\"Helena and I announce with great joy that we have a baby Sixtus Dominic Boniface Christopher, a brother for Peter, Mary, Thomas, Anselm and Alfred.\" Mr Rees-Mogg said.\n\nThe other children's full names are Alfred Wulfric Leyson Pius, Thomas Wentworth Somerset Dunstan, Peter Theodore Alphege, Anselm Charles Fitzwilliam and Mary Anne Charlotte Emma Rees-Mogg.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe MP has previously shared this family photo\n\nThis one was taken on the general election campaign trail\n\nThe MP captioned this photo: \"We shall have to take our business elsewhere\"\n\nThe Tory MP for North East Somerset, who recently joined Instagram, has become something of a cult figure on social media, with dozens of Facebook pages devoted to him.\n\n\"I am a late convert to social media and it's turned out to be great fun,\" he told BBC Trending recently.\n\n\"We've put up some jolly photographs. You hear a lot about unpleasantness but it's reassuring that there is a lighter touch.\"", "Sports Direct boss Mike Ashley has told a High Court judge he is a \"power drinker\" who likes to get drunk.\n\nThe Newcastle United owner was giving evidence on the fourth day of a trial in London where he is being sued by investment banker Jeffrey Blue.\n\nMr Blue says the sportswear tycoon promised to pay him £15m if he used his expertise to increase Sports Direct's share price to £8 each.\n\nHowever, the finance expert claims he was paid only £1m.\n\nMr Ashley denies the claim and says Mr Blue is talking \"nonsense\".\n\nMr Justice Leggatt has heard the dispute relates to a conversation in a central London pub, called the Horse and Groom, four years ago.\n\nMr Ashley told the judge he would have had four to five pints within an hour, after being asked how much he had drunk by a lawyer representing Mr Blue.\n\n\"It was a fun evening, drinking at pace,\" he said. \"I like to get drunk. I am a power drinker.\"\n\nMr Ashley added: \"My thing is not to drink regularly. It is binge drinking. I am trying to get drunk.\"\n\nJeffrey Blue claims he was promised £15m by Mr Ashley in a London pub\n\nMr Ashley also said he had been trying to \"have a good night out\".\n\nAsked how much Mr Blue had drunk, he replied: \"He would never have been able to keep up. He's a lightweight when it comes to drinking.\"\n\nMr Ashley went on say he had \"never taken a penny out of Sports Direct - salary or otherwise\".\n\nHe added that he was the \"last person to know\" at Newcastle United, saying: \"They are really not interested in my opinion.\"\n\nThe court was previously told Mr Ashley would regularly hold management meetings in pubs and on one occasion vomited into a fireplace after drinking 12 pints.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Katie Holmes is among the famous names signing up as students for the Harvard course\n\nThe football superstar, the actress and the rapper walk into a classroom.\n\nThis is not the set-up for a joke, but a four-day executive education course held at Harvard Business School in the United States last month.\n\nAmong the students taking the Business of Sport, Media and Entertainment course were Barcelona defender Gerard Pique, actress Katie Holmes and Irish rugby union player Jamie Heaslip.\n\nRapper LL Cool J is another former graduate.\n\n\"Many of the participants want to know how to monetise their brand and build a business around it, to launch a second career after their current one is over, or to enter new careers,\" says course leader Professor Anita Elberse.\n\nCelebrities are not used to being told what to do - or that they have got something wrong.\n\nBut she insists none of them receives special treatment.\n\nGet me a raise: Prof Elberse with actress Katie Holmes and sports stars CJ McCollum, Gerard Pique, Rashean Mathis and Jamie Heaslip\n\n\"They know that if they say something that makes no sense, then I or someone else in the class will tell them they are wrong,\" she says.\n\n\"This might actually be quite refreshing for them and one of the reasons they enjoy the course so much.\"\n\nDuring the course, they eat meals together and sleep in the Harvard dormitories.\n\nWhen a celebrity applies to the course, Prof Elberse often phones them up to make sure they know what to expect.\n\n\"So far all of them have been very engaged,\" she says. \"I have not been disappointed.\"\n\nThe reason so many big names from sports and entertainment apply for the course is to capitalise on the growing importance of individual superstar brands in these fields.\n\nThe trend was identified by Prof Elberse in her book, Blockbusters.\n\nShe argues that building a business around \"blockbuster products\" - a small number of high impact, big investment films, TV shows, books or star names - is \"the surest path to long-term success\".\n\nBarcelona and Real Madrid football clubs are claimed as examples - gaining sporting and commercial success by spending a large proportion of their budgets on a few stars like Cristiano Ronaldo and Neymar Jr.\n\nThe rise of the superstar has been accelerated by social media, which allows individuals to connect directly with fans, rather than work through publishers or agents.\n\nRapper LL Cool J has been a fan of the course at Harvard\n\nIrish rugby union player Jamie Heaslip might have been setting off for New Zealand with the Lions tour last month, but a serious injury in March meant he had time to attend this year's course.\n\nHe hopes to apply what he learned to his own sport.\n\n\"I was fascinated by the blockbuster theory and how it can be implemented in rugby, which has only been professional for 20 years, so is a relatively young sport in that sense,\" he says.\n\n\"We looked at how other sports have sold themselves as entertainment products, and how everyone involved in a sport is a stakeholder who can have a role in growing the game.\"\n\n\"I had some interesting discussions with [basketball player] C.J. McCollum about the differences between the business side of rugby and the NBA.\"\n\nHe says he would be interested in working to grow rugby in new markets after he retires from playing.\n\nProf Elberse's course could have an impact on the future of sport and entertainment, if her students go on to become leaders in these industries.\n\nGerard Pique has been suggested as a future president of Barcelona. Will he apply the blockbuster theory to running the Spanish club?\n\n\"I don't know, but I told him if he's president then I insist on being vice-president,\" she says.\n\nIdeas for the Global education series? Get in touch.\n\nThe course is taught using Harvard Business School's case study method. Students look at 10 recent examples of success and failure in the sports, entertainment and music industries.\n\nThese include Beyonce's gamble to release an album in 2013 without any prior marketing and promotion, and the decision by a production company to sell the TV series House of Cards to Netflix rather than a traditional TV network in 2011.\n\nStudents are divided into small groups to discuss the case studies, then the groups present their findings to the rest of the class.\n\n\"I ask questions and hope they come up with the answers, and I provide models for how they can think about or frame the discussion,\" says Prof Elberse, who also teaches the MBA at Harvard Business School.\n\nJamie Heaslip has an undergraduate degree in medical engineering and a master's in business. He says the case study method was \"very different to what I've experienced in my own education\" but \"very insightful\".\n\nThis was partly because of the backgrounds of his fellow students - only 10 were from the \"talent\" side of sport and entertainment and the rest were from the management and business side.\n\n\"There were high-up executives running TV companies and studios in the room so it was really interesting to get their perspective,\" he says.\n\nThe course costs $10,000 (£7,700) per head and no prior educational qualifications are required.\n\nWith around 60 students attending each year, cynics could say that it is an easy source of income for Harvard.\n\nProf Dan Sarofian-Butin, dean of the school of education and social policy at Merrimack College in Massachusetts, says the course benefits from Harvard's prestige.\n\n\"This type of course allows students to say they went to Harvard, were taught by a famous professor, and interacted with other cool students,\" he says.\n\nHe says most students on executive education courses are already \"insiders\" who may know more about their industries than a professor.\n\nBut he says they can still benefit from the wider view provided by teachers.\n\n\"This is what a good teacher can bring to the table - the ability to point things out that are obvious, but only once you are able to see the bigger picture,\" he says.", "The Hepworth Wakefield is named after sculptor Barbara Hepworth and has some of her works\n\nThe Hepworth Wakefield gallery in West Yorkshire has beaten the Tate Modern to be crowned the UK's Museum of the Year.\n\nThe venue, which opened six years ago, will receive a £100,000 prize from The Art Fund as well as the kudos that comes with winning the annual award.\n\nThe Art Fund director Stephen Deuchar said it had been \"a powerful force of energy from the moment it opened\".\n\nTate Modern had been nominated after a year in which it attracted a record 5.8 million visitors and opened a new wing.\n\nBut that was not enough to earn it the award at a ceremony at the British Museum in London on Wednesday.\n\nThe other nominees were the Lapworth Museum of Geology in Birmingham, Sir John Soane's Museum in London and the National Heritage Centre for Horseracing and Sporting Art in Suffolk.\n\nThe Museum of the Year judges (with Hepworth director Simon Wallis) got tangled up in the JW Anderson exhibition\n\nThe gallery sits on the banks of the River Calder\n\nThe Hepworth, which is named after sculptor Barbara Hepworth, impressed the judges by increasing its visitor numbers by 21% and launching a major new award for British sculpture last year, among other things.\n\nMr Deuchar praised the way the gallery had \"kept growing in reach and impact\" since it opened in a £35m building designed by David Chipperfield in 2011.\n\nHe also complimented the \"determined originality\" of the curatorial team, and said it served its local community \"with unfailing flair and dedication\".\n\nLast year saw it stage exhibitions of painter Stanley Spencer, photographer Martin Parr and art-pop installationist Anthea Hamilton.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSo far this year, it has had an exhibition curated by designer Jonathan Anderson, who brought together the worlds of fashion and sculpture.\n\nAnd it has just opened a show focusing on the late painter Howard Hodgkin's fascination with India.\n\nIt also recently took receipt of 50 artworks donated by collector and former BBC radio news journalist Tim Sayer, while a 65,000 sq ft (6,000 sq m) riverside garden is due to be created in its grounds.\n\nThe Museum of the Year prize is the largest single arts prize in the UK. Last year's winner was the V&A in London.\n\nThe Art Fund aims to reward an institution that has shown \"exceptional imagination, innovation and achievement across the preceding 12 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.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Hybrid and electric cars, like this Renault, make up about 5% of the French car market\n\nFrance is set to ban the sale of any car that uses petrol or diesel fuel by 2040, in what the ecology minister called a \"revolution\".\n\nNicolas Hulot announced the planned ban on fossil fuel vehicles as part of a renewed commitment to the Paris climate deal.\n\nHe said France planned to become carbon neutral by 2050.\n\nHybrid cars make up about 3.5% of the French market, with pure electric vehicles accounting for just 1.2%.\n\nIt is not yet clear what will happen to existing fossil fuel vehicles still in use in 2040.\n\nMr Hulot, a veteran environmental campaigner, was appointed by new French President Emmanuel Macron. Mr Macron has openly criticised US environmental policy, urging Donald Trump to \"make our planet great again\".\n\nPresident Trump's decision to withdraw from the Paris climate change agreement in June was explicitly named as a factor in France's new vehicle plan.\n\n\"France has decided to become carbon neutral by 2050 following the US decision,\" Mr Hulot said, adding that the government would have to make investments to meet that target.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPoorer households would receive financial assistance to replace older, more polluting vehicles with cleaner ones, he said.\n\nEarlier this week, car manufacturer Volvo said all of its new car models would be at least partly electric from 2019, an announcement referenced by Mr Hulot.\n\nHe said he believes French car manufacturers - including brands such as Peugeot-Citroen and Renault - would meet the challenge, although he acknowledged it would be difficult. Renault's \"Zoe\" electric vehicle range is one of the most popular in Europe.\n\nHowever, traditional fossil fuel vehicles account for about 95% of the European market.\n\nOther targets set in the French environmental plan include ending coal power plants by 2022, reducing nuclear power to 50% of total output by 2025, and ending the issuance of new oil and gas exploration licences.\n\nSeveral French cities struggle with high levels of air pollution, including Paris, which endured several days of peak pollution in March.\n\nThe capital has implemented a range of measures to cut down on cars, but air pollution is also a problem in picturesque mountain regions.\n\nLast month, a woman took the French state to court over what she said was a failure to protect her health from the effects of air pollution in Paris.\n\nNorway, which is the leader in the use of electric cars in Europe, wants to move to electric-only vehicles by 2025, as does the Netherlands. Both Germany and India have proposed similar measures with a target of 2030.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Blair 'not straight' with country over Iraq, says Sir John Chilcot\n\nTony Blair was not \"straight with the nation\" about his decisions in the run up to the Iraq War, the chairman of the inquiry into the war has told the BBC.\n\nSpeaking for the first time since publishing his report a year ago, Sir John Chilcot discussed why he thinks the former PM made those decisions.\n\nHe said the evidence Mr Blair gave the inquiry was \"emotionally truthful\" but he relied on beliefs rather than facts.\n\nA spokesman for Mr Blair said \"all these issues\" had been dealt with.\n\nThey added that Sir John had also made clear that he believed Mr Blair had \"not departed from the truth\".\n\nIn a wide-ranging, exclusive interview with the BBC's political editor Laura Kuenssberg, Sir John also talked about Mr Blair's state of mind during the inquiry and his relationship with the then US President George W Bush in the build-up to the 2003 conflict.\n\nSir John also admitted that at the start of the inquiry he had \"no idea\" how long it would take, but defended its conduct and the seven years it took to complete.\n\nThe inquiry concluded that Mr Blair overstated the threat posed by Iraq leader Saddam Hussein and the invasion was not the \"last resort\" action presented to Parliament, when it backed the action, and the public.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nWhen the inquiry finally emerged in its full two million words, in the chaotic aftermath of the EU referendum, its analysis was polite, but firmly critical of the decision-making process and behaviour of the UK government both in the run-up to, conduct of, and aftermath of one of the most controversial conflicts in British foreign policy - what many now regard as one of the UK's biggest foreign policy mistakes.\n\nIn the immediate aftermath of the inquiry itself, Sir John, a former Whitehall permanent secretary who had worked for decades at the highest level of government, declined to take further part in the debate, as his and his panels' conclusions were digested.\n\nBut in the run-up to the report's anniversary, he agreed to speak for the first time about the inquiry's conclusions, its criticisms and consequences for us all.\n\nAsked if the former prime minister had been as straight as he could have been with the country and the inquiry, Sir John told the BBC: \"Any prime minister taking a country into war has got to be straight with the nation and carry it, so far as possible, with him or her. I don't believe that was the case in the Iraq instance.\"\n\nHe went on: \"Tony Blair is always and ever an advocate. He makes the most persuasive case he can. Not departing from the truth but persuasion is everything. Advocacy for my position, 'my Blair position'.\"\n\nHe said the former Labour leader gave the case for war based on his own assessment of the circumstances, saying Mr Blair made the case \"pinning it on my belief, not on the fact, what the assessed intelligence said.\"\n\n\"You can make an argument around that, both ethical and - well, there is an ethical argument I think.\"\n\nAsked by the BBC whether Mr Blair gave the fullest version of events, Sir John replied: 'I think he gave an - what was - I hesitate to say this, rather but I think it was from his perspective and standpoint, emotionally truthful and I think that came out also in his press conference after the launch statement.\n\n\"I think he was under very great emotional pressure during those sessions… he was suffering. He was deeply engaged. Now in that state of mind and mood you fall back on your instinctive skill and reaction, I think.\"\n\nThe UK's seven-year involvement in Iraq resulted in the deaths of 179 British personnel\n\nSir John criticises Tony Blair's \"with you whatever\" memo to US President George W Bush in 2002\n\nSir John also talked at length about Mr Blair's relationship with the US president in the build-up to the war.\n\n\"Tony Blair made much of, at various points, the need to exert influence on American policy making,\" he said.\n\n\"To do that he said in terms at one point, 'I have to accept their strategic objective, regime change, in order to exert influence.' For what purpose? To get them to alter their policy? Of course not. So in effect it was a passive strategy. Just go along.\"\n\nCommenting on the documentation revealed when the Iraq Inquiry was published, Sir John revealed that his first response on reading a note sent by Mr Blair to Mr Bush in 2002 in which he told him 'I shall be with you whatever', was \"you mustn't say that\".\n\nHis reaction was: \"You're giving away far too much. You're making a binding commitment by one sovereign government to another which you can't fulfil. You're not in a position to fulfil it. I mean he didn't even know the legal position at that point.\"\n\nAsked if the relationship between Mr Blair and Mr Bush was appropriate, Sir John says the former prime minister was running \"coercive diplomacy\" that clashed with the settled position of the government.\n\n\"I think that the fundamental British strategy was fractured, because our formal policy, right up to the autumn of 2002 was one of containment. That was the concluded decision of cabinet.\n\n\"But the prime minister was running one of coercive diplomacy. With the knowledge and support of the foreign secretary, but the foreign secretary hoped that diplomacy would win and not coercion. I think to the prime minister it probably looked the other way round.\".\n\nResidents fled the city of Basra in March 2003\n\nSpeaking after the publication of the Iraq Inquiry report last year, Mr Blair said he felt sorrow and regret at the deaths of 179 British personnel in Iraq between 2003 and 2009 and those of countless Iraqi civilians.\n\nHe accepted the intelligence had been wrong and post-war planning had been poor.\n\nBut he insisted that he did what he thought was the \"right thing\" at the time and he still believed Iraq was \"better off\" without Saddam Hussein.\n\nIn response to Sir John's interview, a spokesman for Mr Blair said on Thursday: \"A full reading of the interview shows that Sir John makes clear that Mr Blair had not 'departed from the truth'.\n\n\"Sir John also makes clear that on the eve of the invasion Mr Blair, 'asked the then Chair of the Joint Intelligence Committee, can you tell me beyond any reasonable doubt that Saddam has weapons of mass destruction. To which the answer was, yes I can. He was entitled to rely on that'.\n\n\"Five different inquiries have all shown the same thing: that there was no falsifying of the intelligence.\"\n\nMaj Gen Tim Cross, who was involved in post-war planning in Iraq and gave evidence to the inquiry, said Mr Blair was \"an emotional guy\" and that he was \"sure\" his emotions affected the decision to go to war.\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast: \"When I briefed Tony Blair, it was quite clear that he felt this was a necessity, that there was a just cause, that we had to do something about this. How he portrayed that politically… I do not think he played it very well.\"\n\nCurrent Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, who was an opponent of the Iraq War, said various reports into it had concluded \"there was an interpretation placed on advice that Tony Blair was given that was simply not correct and we ended up going to war with Iraq and the consequences are still with us\".\n\nLord Menzies Campbell, who was foreign affairs spokesman for the Lib Dems at the time they were opposing the war, said: \"In truth, Mr Blair's decision was fundamentally wrong.\n\n\"A bad decision, even if made in good faith, is still a bad decision.\"", "The European Union and Japan have formally agreed an outline free-trade deal.\n\nThe agreement paves the way for trading in goods without tariff barriers between two of the world's biggest economic areas.\n\nHowever, few specific details are known and a full, workable agreement may take some time.\n\nTwo of the most important sectors are Japanese cars and, for Europe, EU farming goods into Japan.\n\nThe EU and Japan have done two deals for the price of one: a trade deal and a complementary \"Strategic Partnership\". One will create a major free-trading economic bloc, the second will see them co-operate in other areas like combating climate change.\n\nBoth are \"in principle\" deals, some details to be agreed, so there could still be hurdles. But the signal this sends, bringing two of the world's biggest economic powers together, is unmistakeable.\n\nEU-Japan negotiations began in 2012 then stalled. It was Donald Trump's election, and the inward turn America is taking, that spurred the EU and Japan to overcome their differences. Both want to show domestic audiences they can deliver signature deals that promise new economic opportunities.\n\nThey also want to send a clear message internationally that the EU and Japan, highly-developed democracies, remain committed to a liberal, free-trading, rules-based world, and they will seek to shape it even if the US won't.\n\nThe outline plan was signed in Brussels after a meeting between the Japanese Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, and the European Commission president, Jean-Claude Juncker, on the eve of a meeting of the G20 group of leading economies in Hamburg.\n\nIt comes hard on the heels of the collapse of a long-awaited trade agreement between Japan, the US and other Pacific ring countries, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), which was scrapped in January by US President Donald Trump.\n\nThe president of the European Council, Donald Tusk, said the agreement showed the EU's commitment to world trade: \"We did it. We concluded EU-Japan political and trade talks. EU is more and more engaged globally.\"\n\nMr Tusk also said the deal countered the argument put forward by some of those in favour of Brexit that the EU was unable to promote free trade: \"Although some are saying that the time of isolationism and disintegration is coming again, we are demonstrating that this is not the case.\"\n\nHe added that the deal was not just about common trade interests, but reflected \"the shared values that underpin our societies, by which I mean liberal democracy, human rights and the rule of law\".\n\nJapan is the world's third-largest economy, with a population of about 127 million.\n\nAs it stands, the country is Europe's seventh biggest export market.\n\nOne of the most important trade categories for the EU is dairy goods.\n\nJapan's appetite for milk and milk-based products has been growing steadily in recent years.\n\nThe EU's dairy farmers are struggling with falling demand in its home nations and an ultra-competitive buying climate, which farmers say means they are paid less than the cost of production.\n\nEven once the agreement is fully signed, the deal is likely to have in place long transition clauses of up to 15 years to allow sectors in both countries time to adjust to the new outside competition.", "Marvyn Iheanacho is accused of killing his partner's son in Mountsfield Park, Catford\n\nA five-year-old boy was battered to death by his mother's boyfriend in a south-east London park after he lost his trainer, a court has heard.\n\nMarvyn Iheanacho, 39, is accused of causing fatal head and stomach injuries to Alex Malcolm in Mountsfield Park, Catford, on 20 November last year.\n\nWitnesses in the park heard a \"child's fearful voice\", loud banging and a man screaming about the loss of a shoe, Woolwich Crown Court was told.\n\nThe jury heard the 39 year old, of Hounslow, was in a relationship with Alex's mother Lilya Breha and would often stay in her flat in Catford.\n\nCCTV captured Mr Iheanacho taking Alex on three separate buses to the park where they arrived at about 17:12 GMT.\n\nProsecutor Eleanor Laws QC said the pair then went to the play area because Alex lost one of his trainers and Mr Iheanacho \"lost his temper and violently assaulted the boy.\"\n\nShe told jurors there were no witnesses or CCTV footage of the attack but said there was \"clear evidence...the defendant lost his temper with Alex before he sustained his injuries.\"\n\nOne witness described how she saw Mr Iheanacho bending down and \"raging at the child who was very quiet\", the court was told.\n\nMs Laws said the witness's partner also heard \"loud banging and a male voice screaming about the loss of shoes and a child's fearful voice saying 'sorry'\".\n\n\"At some point, whether during this confrontation or between this confrontation and the next sighting of the defendant... the boy had received extreme injuries,\" she said.\n\nJudge Mark Dennis QC told jurors the main issue in the case was how Alex sustained the injuries.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A protest outside the Gupta family compound in Johannesburg earlier this year\n\nA UK public relations firm has apologised over a controversial social media campaign in South Africa that critics say inflamed racial tensions.\n\nBell Pottinger is accused of using a strategy that stressed the power of white-owned businesses and promoted the #WhiteMonopolyCapital hashtag.\n\nThe company has sacked one employee and suspended three, admitting the campaign was \"offensive\".\n\nCritics say it worked to the advantage of President Jacob Zuma.\n\nBell Pottinger was hired by Oakbay, a company owned by the wealthy Guptas family.\n\nThe South African president has faced corruption allegations and suspicion over his ties with the Guptas. Mr Zuma and the Guptas have consistently denied all allegations.\n\nThe campaign sought to emphasise the continued \"existence of economic apartheid\", according to leaked emails, published in the local press.\n\nOpposition party Democratic Alliance (DA) is among those to have voiced objection, filing a complaint to the London-based Public Relations and Communications Association.\n\nOn Friday, the DA said the apology was a PR stunt in itself.\n\nThe governing ANC insists it has played no role in the row.\n\nCritics in South Africa and media outlets had for some time accused the PR firm of presenting opponents of President Zuma and the Guptas as agents of \"white monopoly capital\".\n\nIn a statement on Thursday, Bell Pottinger Chief Executive James Henderson said: \"We wish to issue a full, unequivocal and absolute apology to anyone impacted.\"\n\nBell Pottinger said it had ended its contract with Oakbay three months ago.\n\nThe PR firm also said it had asked an independent law firm to review \"the account and the work done on it\", and that executives had been \"misled\" about the campaign.\n\nThere has been an outcry on social media in the country about the original campaign and the statement.\n\nSome South Africans are also angry because Bell Pottinger had an account representing the national tourist board, which is funded by tax-payers.\n\nThe tourist board ended the three-year contract in June, with the PR company blaming the way its other work had been \"misrepresented\" in the local media.\n\nSouth African Tourism told PR Week that the Gupta connection had no bearing on its decision to switch to another firm.\n\nLast month, Bell Pottinger temporarily changed the settings on its own Twitter account to make it private, meaning critics could no longer hijack its other posts with views on the company's work in South Africa.\n\nSouth Africa \"managed to force a PR company to make their Twitter account private. A PR company\", wrote one incredulous tweeter.\n\nOn Friday, critics were still on the attack online, doctoring the company's Wikipedia page and accusing it of a \"weak, meaningless and pathetic\" apology.", "A man who killed two girlfriends five years apart has been jailed for life.\n\nRobert Trigg was convicted of murdering 52-year-old Susan Nicholson in 2011 and of the manslaughter of Caroline Devlin, 35, who died in March 2006. Both were treated as not suspicious at the time\n\nTrigg, 52, was told he would serve a minimum of 25 years in prison.\n\nIn a statement in court, Ms Nicholson's elderly mother questioned why she had been able to gather enough evidence to bring the case to court but not police.\n\nDespite initial investigations into both deaths, in Worthing, West Sussex, finding nothing suspicious, Ms Nicholson's family refused to believe them.\n\nThey started what would be a five-year campaign to get to the truth.\n\nMs Nicholson's parents Elizabeth and Peter Skelton complained on three occasions to the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) but were unsatisfied with its response.\n\nJurors were told there were similarities between the cases of Caroline Devlin (left) and Susan Nicholson\n\nIn 2014 they hired a barrister and a forensic pathologist, Dr Nathaniel Carey, to re-examine the original pathologist's report.\n\nHe concluded that Ms Nicholson was suffocated by having her head forced into the bed.\n\nIn Ms Devlin's case, he found her death was was caused by a blow to the back of her head.\n\nIn a victim impact statement read out in court, Mrs Skelton said the family wanted answers over why she and her husband, now both in their 80s, were able to bring Trigg's case to court and not the police.\n\nShe said the fight for justice had caused \"mental torture\" which triggered a mild heart attack in her and caused depression in Ms Nicholson's brother.\n\nDuring the sentencing hearing, judge Mrs Justice Ingrid Simler said Mr and Mrs Skelton had \"fought doggedly and continuously since their daughter's death for the police to re-investigate her death\".\n\nShe added: \"The efforts of Ms Nicholson's family led to a review and re-investigation of her death and its cause.\"\n\nAddressing Trigg, the judge said: \"The grief and sadness of these two families will never leave them.\n\n\"These were senseless deaths and nothing can now restore their lives, nor can any part of this sentencing process restore them either.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The parents of one of two women murdered by Robert Trigg speak out\n\nDuring the trial the court heard both women suffered domestic violence at the hands of Trigg during their relationships with him.\n\nHe was described as a \"possessive, controlling and jealous\" man and by one former girlfriend as a \"Jekyll and Hyde\" character who drank heavily.\n\nThe Skeltons said officers had never warned their daughter about Trigg's history of domestic violence.\n\nSussex Police has apologised to both families of Trigg's victims for not presenting all the facts to prosecutors following the original investigation.\n\nAsst Ch Con Laurence Taylor said: \"I am sorry it has taken so long to get the justice they wanted.\"\n\nThe IPCC said it upheld two complaints into the way Sussex Police dealt with complaints about its investigation into Ms Nicholson's death. A third appeal was not upheld, a spokeswoman said.\n\nSussex Police has now referred the case to the IPCC for \"an independent view and advice\", Mr Taylor said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBrandyn McKenna, the youngest son of Ms Devlin, said outside court on Wednesday: \"We have always said that it was all down to the Skelton family that we finally got justice.\"\n\nDuring his trial Trigg was described as \"no more than a drunken slob who could act in a loutish way\".\n\nThe court heard in both cases after the women died, a neighbour called 999 after Trigg failed to do so despite knowing they were dead.\n\nIn the case of Ms Devlin, Trigg had gone out for milk and made a coffee before telling one of her four children - then aged 14 - to go upstairs and check on his mother, knowing she was already dead.\n\nIn Ms Nicholson's case, he bought cigarettes before phoning his brother and then phoning a neighbour who lived upstairs.\n\nDuncan Atkinson QC, prosecuting, told the jury Trigg's presence, actions and inaction after the deaths of both women bound them together.\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\nAbout 100 government supporters have burst into Venezuela's opposition-controlled National Assembly, where they beat up several lawmakers.\n\nWitnesses said the confrontation came after an assembly session to mark the country's Independence Day.\n\nMilitary police guarding the site stood by as intruders brandishing sticks and pipes broke through the gate, AFP news agency said.\n\nThe government has vowed to investigate.\n\n\"I will not be complicit in acts of violence,\" said President Nicolás Maduro.\n\nAbout 350 people were besieged for hours, including journalists, students and visitors, according to the assembly's speaker Julio Borges.\n\nMr Borges also named five of the lawmakers injured. Some were taken away for medical treatment, including Deputy Américo De Grazia, who was carried out on a stretcher.\n\nVenezuela has been shaken by often violent protests in recent months and is in economic crisis.\n\n\"This does not hurt as much as seeing every day how we are losing our country,\" deputy Armando Armas told reporters as he got into an ambulance, his head swathed in bloody bandages.\n\nThe US state department condemned the violence, calling it \"an assault on the democratic principles cherished by the men and women who struggled for Venezuela's independence 206 years ago today\".\n\nAFP, whose journalists were at the scene, said reporters were ordered to leave by the attackers, one of whom had a gun.\n\nThe assembly was holding a session to mark the country's Independence Day\n\nBefore the intruders rushed the building, Vice-President Tareck El Aissami made an impromptu appearance in the congress with the head of the armed forces, Vladimir Padrino López, and ministers.\n\nMr El Aissami gave a speech urging the president's supporters to come to the legislature to show support for him.\n\nA crowd had been rallying outside the building for several hours before breaking into the grounds.\n\nA statement from the the ministry of communication said, the government had ordered an investigation \"to establish the whole truth, and on that basis, to apply sanctions to those responsible\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Your video guide to the crisis gripping Venezuela\n\nJust hours before, the attorney general was facing suspension for refusing to appear in court.\n\nLuisa Ortega Díaz has been accused of committing errors in her job, but critics believe she is being targeted after speaking out against the president's reform plans.\n\nLast week, she also criticised Mr Maduro after an incident in which a stolen police helicopter flew over Caracas, dropping grenades and firing shots.\n\nThe president called it a \"terrorist attack\" but Ms Ortega said the country was suffering from \"state terrorism\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The helicopter circles buildings before gunshots and a bang are heard\n\nWhile Venezuelan security forces later found the abandoned helicopter near the coast, parliamentary speaker Julio Borges said there was a possibility that the incident was a hoax.\n\nOn Tuesday, the fugitive policeman who piloted the helicopter, Oscar Pérez, posted a video online saying he was still in Caracas.\n\nHe urged Venezuelans to stand firm in the streets in protests against the president.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"You don't respect me\": Footage from the meeting shows Sir Martin Moore-Bick defending his position\n\nThe retired judge who will head the inquiry into the Grenfell Tower block fire has faced angry residents and survivors in a three-hour long meeting.\n\nA video of the meeting shows Sir Martin Moore-Bick saying he would \"find the facts as I see them from the evidence\".\n\nJoe Delaney, of the Grenfell Action Group, told the BBC that Sir Martin was not jeered or booed, but people were sceptical about him.\n\nHe has already faced calls to step down just days after being appointed.\n\nSir Martin said he had been invited to the meeting on Thursday by the Lancaster West Residents Association.\n\nHe described it afterwards as a \"very useful meeting\".\n\nMr Delaney told BBC Radio 5 live that Sir Martin: \"You could hear people sighing and tutting.\"\n\n\"It got a bit loud before the end. I have heard public speakers who can shut up a stadium full of thousands of people. This man couldn't hold a room with 200 or so people.\"\n\nLocal resident Melvyn Akins, 30, said there had been \"frustration, anger and confusion\" in the meeting.\n\n\"People firmly believe that arrests should be made as a result of the outcome of all of this. If arrests are not made, people are going to feel justice may not be being done.\"\n\nMelvyn Akins says local residents want to see people arrested\n\nA short video of Sir Martin, recorded at the meeting, shows him telling those present: \"I can't do more than assure you that I know what it is to be impartial.\n\n\"I've been a judge for 20 years, and I give you my word that I will look into this matter to the very best of my ability and find the facts as I see them from the evidence.\n\n\"That's my job, that's my training, and that's what I intend to do. Now if I can't satisfy you because you have some preconception about me as a person, that's up to you.\"\n\nA consultation with residents to help define the scope of the inquiry into the 14 June fire in west London, in which at least 80 died, is due to end next Friday.\n\nSome survivors are calling for a delay of up to six weeks so they can seek legal advice.\n\nHowever, government officials said Sir Martin was not currently \"minded\" to extend the consultation period.\n\nSir Martin has previously faced calls to step down as head of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry\n\nKensington's Labour MP Emma Dent Coad has described Sir Martin as \"a technocrat\" who lacked \"credibility\" with victims and should step down.\n\nBut Prime Minister Theresa May said she believed it was \"important\" that the inquiry was \"judge-led\", and said it would \"address the issues that the residents and victims of this terrible fire want to see addressed\".\n\nLabour councillor Robert Atkinson, of Kensington and Chelsea Council, called on Sir Martin to publish regular updates to residents to take them through the inquiry.\n\n\"The judge has got to learn to take heckling from upset people,\" he said.\n\n\"I don't think judges are used to being shouted at - and the residents have got to understand that there are constraints on the timing on what the judiciary can do.\n\n\"Let's judge the judge by what he does in the next few weeks.\"\n\nMeanwhile, a team of outside consultants has confirmed to the Victoria Derbyshire programme that it was employed as the clerk of works to carry out checks on Grenfell Tower as recently as July last year.\n\nThe company, John Rowan and Partners, received four payments totalling more than £17,000 to carry out mechanical and engineering inspections and checks on the fabric - or material used - on the building, between March and July 2016.\n\nAccording to documents filed with Kensington and Chelsea Council, seen by the programme, the firm acted in a site-monitoring and supervision role on the project for at least 26 days last year.\n\nIt is understood the work, which started in January 2015, included making visual inspections, attending meetings and compiling a list of minor defects for the contractor, Rydon, to rectify.\n\nJohn Rowan and Partners said in a statement that it had been deeply shocked by the fire, adding: \"We provided a site-monitoring role during the refurbishment work that completed in 2016.\n\n\"The scope for this work included making visual inspections, attending meetings as required by the client and the snagging of works after the contractor has informed that works have been snagged by them.\"\n\nSeparately, cladding samples which failed safety tests in the wake of the fire will be subjected to further \"large-scale\" testing - including building a 30ft-high (9m) demonstration wall to subject the material to a \"severe fire\".\n\nUrgent tests were ordered on cladding from about 600 towers blocks in England after the blaze, but after 190 samples out of 191 failed, more tests were requested.\n\nElsewhere, Minister for London Greg Hands has called on Mayor Sadiq Khan to consider moving the Notting Hill Carnival following the fire.\n\nMr Hands tweeted a letter, in which he wrote: \"The carnival is an important and symbolic community celebration in our capital's calendar... clearly it must go ahead.\n\n\"However, we have to ask ourselves if it is appropriate to stage a carnival in the near proximity of a national disaster.\"\n\nResponding on Twitter, Mr Khan wrote: \"Notting Hill Carnival is a firm London tradition and incredibly important to the local community. It should not be moved.\"", "Vulnerable people are playing \"Russian roulette\" when they need care in England, campaigners warn, as a quarter of services are failing on safety.\n\nThe Care Quality Commission said drug errors, lack of staff and falls were major problems, after inspecting 24,000 services.\n\nNursing homes had the worst problems, with a third falling short on safety.\n\nThe CQC said the failings across services for the elderly and disabled were \"completely unacceptable\".\n\nThe findings mark the completion of the first round of inspections under the \"tougher\" system launched in 2014 amid concerns problems were going undetected.\n\nOne million vulnerable people use care services - either getting their fees paid by councils or funding it themselves.\n\nMore than 200,000 of them live in nursing homes, which had the most serious problems.\n\nSome 37% of homes failed on safety, with inspectors noting they had a particular problems recruiting and retaining nurses.\n\nJust below a quarter of care homes and home helps were rated not safe enough, while in community support, including sheltered housing, 17% fell short.\n\nOverall, inspectors have successfully prosecuted five care providers and another 1,000 have had enforcement action taken against them, from being closed down to handed warning notices.\n\nAll the services deemed to be failing would continue to be monitored and re-inspected, the CQC said.\n\nBut it pointed out that, despite the concerns, most had achieved good or outstanding ratings on safety.\n\nTo find out more, view the checklist here.\n\nChief inspector Andrea Sutcliffe said funding remained an issue for the sector and a \"long-term solution\" needed to be found but lack of money was \"no excuse\".\n\n\"There is still too much poor care, some providers are failing to improve, and there is even some deterioration,\" she said.\n\n\"This is completely and utterly unacceptable.\"\n\nCaroline Abrahams, of Age UK, said the findings were \"alarming\" and vulnerable people were \"effectively playing Russian roulette when they need care\".\n\nShe added: \"Taken as a whole, this report is a graphic demonstration of why older people desperately need the government to follow through on its commitment to consult on proposals for strengthening social care later this year.\"\n\nMargaret Willcox, president of the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services, said councils and providers would be \"re-doubling our mutual efforts to ensure older and disabled people and their families get the reliable, personal care they need and deserve\".\n\nShe said the additional investment announced - £2bn over three years - and the forthcoming consultation on the social care system expected later this year would put the sector on a \"stable footing\".", "Emily Lance shared a video of herself urinating on a US flag\n\nA woman who shared a video of herself urinating on an American flag has asked that people stop targeting her family, saying they do not support her actions.\n\nEmily Lance received online threats of murder and rape after posting the video during Independence Day celebrations.\n\nHer account is no longer on Facebook but she previously posted that her father and his workplace had also been \"targeted\", reports say.\n\nDesecrating a US flag is not illegal due to strong freedom of speech laws.\n\nIn the video, Ms Lance is seen standing over a toilet on which a US flag is draped, and urinating on it with the aid of a device that allows women to do so standing up.\n\nShe captioned it with: \"F*** your nationalism. F*** your country. F*** your stupid f****** flag\".\n\nLater she made a plea for her opponents not to \"take your anger out on the wrong people\", saying no-one in her family \"agrees with my shenanigans\".\n\n\"They've got nothing to do with my decisions,\" she continued.\n\nShe did not explain how her father and his workplace had been \"targeted\".\n\n\"What don't you people understand? You're celebrating freedom while damning me for doing the same. You can't have it both ways,\" she said.\n• None What must Americans do during the anthem?", "Jeremy Corbyn says businesses should pay higher taxes to invest in skills\n\nJeremy Corbyn has called for a major investment in skills to tackle a \"lost decade\" in which there had been an \"explosion\" of low-paid, insecure jobs.\n\nBut Education Secretary Justine Greening, also addressing the British Chambers of Commerce, says she wants firms to back a \"skills revolution\" and her plans for new technical qualifications.\n\nWith warnings of a post-Brexit skills gap, the Labour and Conservative representatives gave business leaders their plans to improve skills.\n\nLabour leader Mr Corbyn told a British Chambers of Commerce conference in London that investing in education was the path away from \"stagnant living standards\", even if it meant raising taxes.\n\nJustine Greening says that England needs a \"skills revolution\"\n\nBut Ms Greening called on business leaders to support the so-called \"T-levels\", which are intended to raise the quality and status of vocational qualifications.\n\nThe education secretary said that in England from next April, £50m will be available to fund work placements and £15m to help improve further education.\n\nThe investment is part of the £500m for technical education announced by Chancellor Philip Hammond in the Budget in March.\n\nMs Greening told business leaders that she wanted an \"army of skilled young people\".\n\nBut Mr Corbyn said the economy needed to be revived by a much bigger investment in skills - and that would mean businesses paying higher corporation tax.\n\nThe Labour leader said that improving the UK's poor record on productivity meant investing in education and training.\n\nOtherwise he warned of an economy built on \"low-paid insecure jobs\".\n\nMr Corbyn said that too often only \"lip service\" was paid to valuing vocational training.\n\nHe rejected the idea of lower taxes, saying that there were \"no short cuts\" for a strong education system, and the alternative was becoming a \"low tax haven on the shores of Europe\".\n\nMr Corbyn repeated his commitment to scrapping university tuition fees - and said that high levels of debt could deter young people from staying in education.\n\nHe said that \"not everyone can access the bank of mum and dad to go to university\".\n\nMr Corbyn called for better funding for schools - saying that it was \"utterly unacceptable where schools were having to beg parents for donations to cover the basics\".\n\n\"We lose out as a society if we don't have a highly qualified workforce,\" he told the business and education conference.\n• None T-levels- What are they- - BBC Newsbeat", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson tells Today there is no PM vacancy\n\nBoris Johnson has dismissed leadership speculation, saying Theresa May has shown \"unbelievable grace and steel\".\n\nThe foreign secretary said the PM had \"put things back together and got the show back on the road\" after a \"difficult\" election.\n\nAsked about about any leadership contest, he said there would not be a vacancy \"for a very long time\".\n\nHe also appeared to backtrack on his previous support for axing the public sector pay cap.\n\nIn an interview with BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Mr Johnson said he agreed with Chancellor Philip Hammond on public sector pay and the need to take a \"fiscally sensible and responsible\" approach.\n\nA source close to Mr Johnson had previously said the foreign secretary supported a better pay deal for public sector workers and believed this could be done without causing \"fiscal pressures\".\n\nMr Johnson, who was briefly a rival to Mrs May in the Conservative leadership contest which followed David Cameron's resignation last year, sought to play down talk of a fresh contest.\n\nHe said: \"The last thing people want is any more of this kind of nonsense.\n\n\"They want to see a long period of stability and calm and progress for the British people.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Johnson also used his Today interview to urge China to step up economic pressure on North Korea following the launch of a long-range missile in defiance of a ban by the UN Security Council.\n\n\"My view is that what the North Koreans are doing is reckless, it's indefensible, it's in defiance of UN resolutions, repeated UN resolutions, it's illegal and I think that it is very important that the world stands together against what they re doing.\n\n\"People will say well, what can we actually physically do, and the single most important thing is for the country with the most direct economic relationship with North Korea, that is China, has got to continue to put on the pressure.\n\n\"In the last six months or so, we are seeing some real changes in Beijing's attitude to North Korea and that's got to go further.\"\n\nChina and Russia have urged the United States to show restraint, after the American ambassador to the United Nations warned that North Korea's test launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile had cast a dark shadow over the world.\n\nNikki Haley told an emergency meeting of the Security Council that the test represented a sharp military escalation.\n\nAsked about whether he believed US President Donald Trump, who will later meet Theresa May in Hamburg, was unpredictable she said the UK did not \"agree with everything Washington currently says\".\n\nBut she added: \"I think, actually, that Donald Trump's approach to politics has been something that has gripped the imagination of people around the world.\n\n\"He's engaged people in politics in a way that we haven't seen for a long time, with his tweets and all the rest of it. I do think that he raises people's awareness of issues, he engages in a very direct way.\"", "A video which falsely claims to \"prove\" the existence of fake plastic rice in the food supply\n\nDespite little evidence that it's a widespread problem, rumours of \"plastic\" rice being sold in Africa and elsewhere persist on social media - driven in particular by viral videos which show bouncing rice balls.\n\nThe rumours spread over the last few weeks in Senegal, The Gambia and Ghana - and reached such a pitch that the Ghana Food and Drugs Authority decided to carry out an investigation.\n\nThey invited consumers and traders to submit samples of any rice brands they suspected of being made of plastic - and eventually concluded that there was no plastic rice being sold on the Ghanaian market.\n\nOriginating in China, rumours on social media have circulated since about 2010 of plastic rice being manufactured and mixed in with the real rice supply in order to trick consumers. The rumours were originally prompted by \"fake rice\" scandals, although they didn't involve food made entirely out of plastic.\n\nIn one case, companies were passing off ordinary but edible rice as premium \"Wuchang\" grains. Then in 2011, reports emerged that rice was being produced with potatoes and an industrial sticky resin. The rumours were further compounded when a Chinese restaurant association official warned that eating three bowls of \"plastic rice\" was the equivalent of eating one plastic bag.\n\nAt no point, however, were there confirmed cases of large amounts of plastic chips being passed off as rice. \"Plastic rice\" is manufactured for use in shipping boxes, but it's likely that in most cases the cost of the chips would actually be more expensive than real rice.\n\nThe story had reached social media in Africa by 2016 when Nigerian customs authorities confiscated 2.5 tonnes of rice. Customs officials initially claimed that the rice was plastic - and were later forced to backtrack when the country's health minister said there was no evidence for the claims. Tests showed that the rice did however contain a high level of bacteria, Nigeria's National Agency For Food and Drugs said.\n\nBut rumours have persisted that plastic is being sold as rice, fuelled by videos which show people bouncing rice balls. Some also purport to show how the rice is made in factories.\n\nAlexander Waugh, director of the Rice Association, a UK-based industry group, says the videos may be authentic - but not because the grains are plastic. Rice - when prepared in the right way - can actually bounce, Waugh told BBC Trending radio.\n\n\"The natural characteristics of rice are carbohydrates and proteins and you can do something like that with rice,\" Waugh says.\n\nIt could be that protectionism and a distrust of foreign imports is behind the persistence of the rumours, according to journalist Alexandre Capron of France 24's, The Observers.\n\nCapron has worked extensively to debunk the myths around plastic rice and says some people are deliberately sharing fake videos to encourage consumers to buy more locally grown rice.\n\n\"The rumour is more popular in countries which are dependent on imported rice like Ivory Coast or Senegal,\" he says. \"The rumour is so huge that governments are compelled to make statements... as to why there is no plastic rice.\"\n\nHassan Arouni, editor of the BBC's Focus on Africa, has looked into the \"fake rice\" rumours and says he's not sure whether people in West African countries are deliberately targeting food exporting countries such as China. But he does think food safety authorities in West Africa are doing the right thing by addressing the rumours head-on.\n\n\"I think that's the way to go and demonstrate to the public this [rumour] is not true,\" he says. \"I think it will reassure people that this is fake news and probably somebody being naughty on the internet.\"\n\nYou can find BBC Trending on Facebook or follow us on Twitter @BBCtrending. All our stories are at bbc.com/trending.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Chilcot report became a by-word for dispute, delay, and doubt.\n\nWhen the inquiry finally emerged in its full two million words, in the chaotic aftermath of the EU referendum, its analysis was polite.\n\nBut it was firmly critical of the decision-making process and behaviour of the UK government both in the run-up to, conduct of, and aftermath of one of the most controversial conflicts in British foreign policy - what many now regard as one of the UK's biggest foreign policy mistakes.\n\nIn the immediate aftermath of the inquiry itself, Sir John, a former Whitehall permanent secretary who had worked for decades at the highest level of government, declined to take further part in the debate, as his and his panels' conclusions were digested.\n\nBut in the run-up to the report's anniversary, he agreed to speak for the first time about the inquiry's conclusions, its criticisms and consequences for us all.\n\nExactly a year ago, he produced two million words in 12 volumes, to detail a seven-year long study of the tumultuous political and diplomatic events in the run-up to, conduct, and aftermath of the 2003 Iraq War.\n\nBut what was implicit in the lengthy pages of that document is now crystal clear in his personal, succinct and unvarnished view of the hours of evidence, thousands of documents, and witness accounts of one of the country's most significant public inquiries.\n\nHe defends its duration, its conduct, and believes strongly that the work could stop another rush to war in the future.\n\nSir John told me believes the \"rising generations\" of the military have understood and absorbed the lessons of the inquiry so much that they would demand and insist that future governments would be required to be more rigorous, more thorough in their examinations of the case for war.\n\nHe explained his exhaustive criticism of the relationship between Tony Blair and George W Bush, his shock on seeing their private correspondence for the first time. He also spoke of his own relief at how the families of those killed in the conflict received his report when it was finally published.\n\nBut he speaks plainly on perhaps the most fundamental political question of all, the role of the former prime minister. When asked if Tony Blair had been as straight with the country and the inquiry as he ought to have been, Sir John told me, 'any prime minister taking a country into war has got to be straight with the nation and carry it, so far as possible, with him or her. I don't believe that was the case in the Iraq instance.\"\n\nHe went on to say he believed Tony Blair had given an \"emotional truth\" to the inquiry, and had been \"suffering\" during its sessions - Tony Blair was always, he said ,\"the advocate\" for whom, \"persuasion is everything\".\n\nA spokesperson for the former prime minister referred us to his comments when the inquiry was published, when he said the report showed there were no lies, and no deceit, but that he took responsibility for the criticisms of how decisions had been made.\n\nYou won't be surprised, having undertaken such a huge task, that Sir John speaks on a massive range of issues concerned with the Iraq war.\n\nThe conflict may have begun 14 years ago now, the inquiry taking longer than the war itself. But for our politics, our diplomacy, and our military, this new more personal account will still resonate today.", "A warning about care home safety makes several of the day's front pages.\n\nThe Daily Telegraph says choosing one is like \"Russian roulette\" and quotes officials who advise that people should check how homes smell before making a commitment.\n\nThe paper thinks it's particular depressing that care home standards are getting worse. It argues that amid the political debate about ending austerity, elderly provision has to be regarded as a priority.\n\nThe Guardian says those in the east of England have the best overall results, while those in the north-west are the worst - with smaller homes also likely to achieve a higher rating.\n\nIn its lead, the Daily Mirror warns of a dementia time bomb - with the number of people with the disease expected to reach 1.2 million by 2040 - a 60% rise.\n\nThe research by University College London and the University of Liverpool also predicts the bill for their care will rise to £36bn.\n\nThe Alzheimer's Society says the study is a \"wake up call... showing the social care system, already on its knees from decades of underfunding, needs urgent attention\".\n\nMany papers assess car manufacturer Volvo's announcement that from 2019 all new models will be hybrids or powered exclusively by electricity.\n\n\"Volvo death knell for petrol cars\" is the Daily Mail's front page headline.\n\nThe Times sees Volvo's move as the first big bet on the electrification of cars based on consumer demand, rather than a mixture of hope and subsidies.\n\nThe Guardian believes if the whole car industry were to follow suit then it would begin to make a serious difference, as transport accounts for 14% of greenhouse gas emissions.\n\nBut the Financial Times points out the environmental advantages of the electric car peter out if the batteries are charged from coal-fired power stations.\n\nMany of the papers ponder how the world should respond to North Korea's missile test.\n\nThe Financial Times has been hearing from several experts who believe the US has only limited military options, without risking a retaliation which could destroy the South Korean capital, Seoul.\n\nA major problem, according to the article, is that North Korean missiles are hidden in underground bunkers.\n\nThe i paper believes pressuring China to cut off trade isn't working because Beijing is determined to undermine efforts to isolate Kim Jong-un.\n\nThe Times thinks China has one last chance to show it's a globally responsible player and the paper calls for sanctions to be imposed on all Beijing institutions which profit from the Kim regime.", "Today's productivity figures are bad to the point of shocking.\n\nA fall of 0.5% in the first three months of the year takes the UK economy's ability to create wealth back below the level of 2007.\n\nIf an economy cannot create wealth efficiently, then the debates about government spending, public sector pay and austerity become all the harder.\n\nIf an economy cannot create wealth, then tax receipts - the mainstay of government income - weaken.\n\nThere is plenty of data which suggest that the government's inability to \"balance the books\" is not because targets to reduce spending have been missed.\n\nRather, it is down to disappointing tax income because economic growth is weak.\n\nPoor business performance and falling real incomes appear to be leading to a stagnating economy.\n\nHow motivating is work when at the end of the year you are earning, given the impact of higher inflation, less than you were at the beginning of the year?\n\nDemotivated workforces tend not to work more efficiently.\n\nAnd if productivity is falling and labour costs are rising, as they are, then that leads to a profits squeeze.\n\nAnd means that the prospect of pay rises recedes - creating something of a vicious circle and going someway to explaining why wage growth is falling.\n\nI interviewed Lord Adair Turner, the former head of the Low Pay Commission, yesterday and he made a rather startling - but correct - admission.\n\n\"The UK over the last 10 years has created a lot of jobs, but today real wages are below where they were in 2007,\" he said.\n\n\"That is not the capitalist system delivering its promise that over a decade or so it will raise all boats, and it is a very fundamental issue.\n\n\"There is something about the economy which - left to itself - will proliferate very, very low paid jobs.\"\n\nUntil that is solved, our productivity problem, our wealth problem, will continue.", "Joshua's mum, Alison Cope, goes into schools to talk about how her son died\n\nRising knife crime is one of the biggest challenges facing the police, especially in the UK's major cities, but chiefs say they cannot solve the problem alone - and one mother is fighting hard to make sure more young people are protected from its dangers.\n\nAlison Cope knows first hand how damaging knife crime can be.\n\nIn September 2013, her son Joshua Ribera was stabbed to death at a party to commemorate the life of a friend who had died in a stabbing the previous year.\n\nThe 18-year-old was a well known Birmingham rapper.\n\nTo his fans around the country and to people around the world who knew him he was Depzman, an up and coming grime artist who had just produced his first album and was building his career, appearing on BBC Radio 1Xtra.\n\nBut to his mum he was much more. \"I say Joshua, not Depzman, not a grime MC, because Joshua is my little boy, my only son,\" she says.\n\n\"That little boy was a newborn baby in my arms, a toddler, and a totally obnoxious teenager who grew into the most beautiful young man.\n\n\"So I need you to understand that Depzman was nothing to me. Joshua was everything to me.\"\n\nHe became involved in a row over a girl which spiralled into a fight and his rival, Armani Mitchell, left the club but then returned with a knife.\n\nHe said he wanted to cut Josh on the arm, but as he pulled the knife, Joshua raised his arm to protect himself and Mitchell plunged the knife into his heart.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAs a passionate anti-knife campaigner, Alison has now dedicated her life to convincing teenagers there is another path in life.\n\nSpeaking to pupils at City of Birmingham school, which looks after children permanently excluded from mainstream education for a whole range of reasons - including having knives - she tells them the harsh reality of what happened to her son.\n\n\"He fought back, seven heart attacks, multiple blood transfusions, they were cutting his body open from top to bottom and all the way across desperately trying to save his life,\" she says to the class.\n\n\"But on the morning of 21 September at 05:58, my son gave up on life and he died. That changed everything for my family.\n\n\"But it also changed the life of another 18-year-old boy, Armani Mitchell. He worked and was at college part-time.\n\n\"He is now in a category-A prison, serving a life sentence. Two 18-year-old boys went on a night out and neither of them came home.\"\n\nRapper Nathan Chin has been jailed for knife crime but now aims to persuade others not to carry them\n\nRapping was Joshua Ribera's route to success. Now Alison encourages teenagers and younger children to take part in sessions at a recording studio in Birmingham, to help harness their creativity and develop a sense of self-worth in the hope it will keep them away from gangs and knives.\n\nAt the studio, another of those also trying to help the next generation is 27-year-old Nathan Chin, whose rap name is Lil Fella.\n\nAs well as being a rapper, he is trying to set up a charity called Unity Each 1, Teach 1, to support people struggling to get into education and employment.\n\nNathan spent most of his teenage years in and out of young offender institutions.\n\nHe has been in prison for knife crime, but has tried to turn his life around believing people like him are well placed to try to stop teenagers carrying knives.\n\n\"People who have gone to prison, real people who have been in situations, are the best people to help reform people,\" he says.\n\nAlison's final message to the teenagers is simple: \"With the help of your teachers and your family, you have every chance of being an amazing successful individual. You have got a choice.\n\n\"Make the best of your life.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSeventy-six police officers have been injured in clashes with protesters in Germany's city of Hamburg, where a G20 summit starts shortly.\n\nThree officers were taken to hospital, police said. There were also reports of injuries among protesters.\n\nThe clashes began when police charged at masked protesters at a \"Welcome to hell\" march attended by 12,000 people.\n\nWorld leaders - including US President Donald Trump - will discuss climate change, trade and other major issues.\n\nPolice fired water cannon and pepper spray at masked protesters, who hurled bottles, stones and flares.\n\nOrganisers cancelled the march where the first clashes took place, but protesters remained on the streets and police said violence spread to other areas of the city.\n\nProtesters built makeshift barricades, set vehicles alight, damaged businesses and repeatedly shone a laser at a police helicopter to dazzle its pilot, police said.\n\nMedics were seen treating several people. At least one person appeared to have been seriously hurt and was carried away covered by a foil blanket.\n\nBefore the march, police had warned of possible violence and said they had confiscated a number of homemade weapons.\n\nSome 20,000 police have been deployed in Hamburg for the summit, and security cordons have been erected to prevent protesters reaching the venues. Up to 100,000 protesters are expected in Hamburg during Friday and Saturday.\n\nThe G20 leaders face their own disagreements, including over climate change and trade.\n\nMr Trump has already met German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the pair spent an hour talking about North Korea, the Middle East, the conflict in eastern Ukraine and G20 issues, a German government spokesman said.\n\nMrs Merkel (R) and Mr Trump talked for an hour\n\nLast week Mrs Merkel said the G20 would focus on the Paris climate deal - which the US has withdrawn from. But earlier she said that as the G20 host she would work to find compromises.\n\nThe summit will also see Mr Trump meet Russian President Vladimir Putin for the first time. The meeting will take place at 14:45 local time (13:45 GMT) and last for an hour, Russian media report.\n\nEarlier in the day Mr Trump used a speech in the Polish capital Warsaw to call on Russia to stop \"destabilising\" Ukraine and other countries.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Trump: Russia should join \"the fight against common enemies and in defence of civilisation itself\"\n\nRussia should also end support for \"hostile regimes\" such as those in Syria and Iran and \"join the community of responsible nations\", he said.\n\nHe urged Russia to join the \"fight against common enemies and in defence of civilisation itself\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Trump referred to Russia's \"destabilising\" behaviour twice in one day in Poland. But the Kremlin spokesman has shrugged that off, saying simply that Moscow \"does not agree\". It's all part of the wait-and-see approach here.\n\nRussia once had great hopes that Donald Trump could rescue relations from the pit into which they were plunged after it annexed Crimea from Ukraine. Almost six months into the Trump presidency, there may be increasing pessimism.\n\nBut the Kremlin is calling Mr Trump's meeting with Mr Putin on Friday an important chance to get acquainted. Perhaps it is betting that personal dynamics will help overcome policy differences.\n\nAfter all, officials here insist that it is simply \"Russophobia\" in the US that has prevented President Trump \"getting along\" with Russia as he said he wanted.\n\nThey have certainly noted how in Poland he shied away from accusing Russia unequivocally of meddling in the US elections. Moscow has argued all along that there is no proof. In public at least, Mr Trump appeared to agree with that.\n\nThe US leader also hailed Poland as an example of a country ready to defend Western freedoms.\n\nPoland's conservative government shares Mr Trump's hostile view of immigration and strong sense of sovereignty.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Donald Trump's handshake is left hanging by the Polish president's wife\n\nNTV correspondent - \"After the icy reception [Trump] was given in Europe in May what he needs now are comfortable and favourable surroundings, a picture along the lines of 'look at how they adore us here'.\"\n\nRen TV presenter - Trump was keen to play on differences within Europe and help Poland \"cobble together an Eastern European bloc opposed to EU leaders... Trump is only too happy to pour oil onto the fire of European discord.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Kensington and Chelsea Council's new leader, Elizabeth Campbell, spoke after attending a residents' meeting\n\nForeign nationals directly affected by the Grenfell Tower fire are to be allowed to stay in the UK for 12 months regardless of their immigration status.\n\nThe Home Office said it would not conduct immigration checks on survivors and those coming forward with information.\n\nMeanwhile, ministers have ordered a taskforce to help run Kensington and Chelsea Council, which has faced heavy criticism for its handling of disaster.\n\nThe specialist team will take over the running of key services, including housing and the longer term recovery of the area in North Kensington.\n\nAt least 80 people died in the fire on 14 June.\n\nThe Home Office said its priority was to see residents \"deal with the extremely difficult circumstances\" so they could start to rebuild their lives.\n\nIn a written statement to Parliament, Home Office minister Brandon Lewis said: \"Everyone affected by this tragedy needs reassurance that the government is there for them at this terrible time and we will continue to provide the support they need to help them through the difficult days, weeks and months to come.\"\n\nHe said extending the period of leave to remain for foreign residents affected by the fire would also allow them to assist the police and other authorities with their inquiries.\n\nShadow home secretary Diane Abbott said the government should give permanent residency to the residents.\n\n\"Some survivors have literally lost everything in this horrific tragedy, all their possessions, homes and loved ones,\" she said.\n\n\"The idea that on top of this they could be deported later is grotesque.\"\n\nA statement from the Met Police said 250 specialist investigators were working on the inquiry into the fire and the last visible human remains were removed from Grenfell Tower on Monday.\n\nMet Police Commander Stuart Cundy said there had been a total of 87 \"recoveries\" but, due to the \"catastrophic damage\" inside, that did not mean 87 people.\n\nSo far, 21 people have been formally identified and their families informed.\n\nMore inquests into the deaths of victims have been opened, with the Westminster coroner hearing the body of one of the oldest people to have been killed was identified by dental records.\n\nDr Fiona Wilcox was told the body of 84-year-old Sheila, formerly known as Sheila Smith, was found on the 16th floor, while Vincent Chiejina, 60, was recovered from the 17th floor and identified by DNA.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Alok Sharma was close to tears when making a statement\n\nEarlier, housing minister Alok Sharma fought back tears as he told the Commons of hearing \"harrowing accounts\" from survivors, saying it had been the most \"humbling and moving experience of my life\".\n\nOnly 14 out of the 158 affected families have accepted offers of temporary accommodation but ministers say no-one will be forced to move.\n\nMr Sharma said 19 families \"have not yet been ready to engage\" in the process of being rehoused, while others were waiting for offers of permanent tenancy and many were still in hotels.\n\nBut he acknowledged some residents still had a \"lack of trust\" in the authorities.\n\nElizabeth Campbell, who is taking over as the new Kensington and Chelsea Council leader, denied the council was \"being taken over by outside commissioners\" after the government sent in a taskforce to run some of its services.\n\n\"We have asked people to come because we need more help because this is something on a national scale,\" she said.\n\n\"We will do absolutely everything we can as a council to help our community and to help our community heal.\"\n\nThe mood is tense in the area surrounding Grenfell Tower.\n\nMany residents have been living in small hotel rooms, with four people crammed into each room.\n\nThey are desperately trying to carry on with their lives by taking their children to school and going to work. But the stark reality is that they are not in a place they can call home.\n\nBoth adults and children are having trouble sleeping, waking up to nightmares of the tower burning. One parent explained that his daughter kept drawing pictures of the building on fire.\n\nDespite counselling sessions on offer at local community centres, residents say they want people to visit them at their hotel.\n\nThey feel the help should be coming to them. They say they should not be going in search of help.\n\nMany are traumatised and feel they are not being treated like victims. This is causing hostility and anger towards the services.\n\nMany have also turned down offers of temporary accommodation.\n\nResidents say they want to move into somewhere permanent and nearby. Many explain they have been offered numerous places that simply are not suitable due to the size, location and disabled access.\n\nThe newly-elected Labour MP for Kensington, MP Emma Dent Coad, told Mr Sharma that some residents were being offered \"totally unsuitable accommodation\".\n\nThe retired judge chairing the public inquiry into the fire has promised to hear from people directly affected.\n\nThe judge leading the inquiry has vowed to listen to the concerns of residents\n\nSir Martin Moore-Bick, who has faced calls to stand down, initially suggested the inquiry may not be broad enough to satisfy survivors.\n\nLaunching a consultation document, the retired judge said: \"I am determined to establish the causes of the tragedy, and ensure that the appropriate lessons are learnt.\n\n\"To produce a report as quickly as possible, with clear recommendations for action, I will listen to people and consider a broad range of evidence, including on the role of the relevant public authorities and contractors, in order to help me answer the important questions.\"\n\nEarlier, the government said 190 buildings in England that underwent fire tests on their cladding - a renovation that is thought to have contributed to the spread of the Grenfell Tower fire - have failed. It also announced that cladding from one building had passed the test - the only sample to do so to date.\n\nIn the afternoon, emergency teams working on the shell of Grenfell Tower were temporarily withdrawn after sensors in the building showed it had shifted more than 5mm.\n\nThe public were said to be at \"no risk\" and the work later restarted.\n\nBut the use of air horns to alert crews was reported to have \"upset\" some neighbours of nearby blocks, prompting officials to say the practice would not be repeated in future.", "The Department for Transport says London will have to fund half the upfront costs of Crossrail 2 and the government had not yet committed to public funding\n\nGovernment support for a new London rail line after scrapping projects in Wales and the north of England has been described as \"frankly outrageous\".\n\nGreater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham said there would be \"widespread anger\" at the decision to back the railway line, which will run through London.\n\nLiverpool City Region's mayor said there needed to be \"balanced spending\".\n\nThe government said it was spending billions on infrastructure elsewhere.\n\nOn Friday it was announced that the rail link between Manchester and Newcastle may not be fully electrified, despite promises from the previous government.\n\nGreater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham said: \"We can't wait forever, we need improvements now, that's why the electrification is important, and it's also why we need more capacity at Manchester Piccadilly.\n\n\"People travelling [to Manchester] across the northern cities who will have a long commute home, I think, will be furious... that the government has cut back on rail investment in the north on the day that it's green light to Crossrail 2.\n\n\"They're not governing for the whole country.\"\n\nThe Liverpool-Newcastle link was to be fully electrified, according to the previous government\n\nCrossrail 2, a north-east to south-west railway, which would tunnel beneath central London, could be running by 2033.\n\nIt is estimated the scheme will cost about £30bn at 2014 prices and construction could start in the early 2020s.\n\nIt would link Hertfordshire and Surrey, passing through Tottenham Hale, Euston-St Pancras, Tottenham Court Road, Victoria and Clapham Junction.\n\nAnnouncing the decision to back Crossrail 2, the Department for Transport (DfT) said Transport Secretary Chris Grayling and Mayor of London Sadiq Khan had agreed there was \"no doubt London needs new infrastructure to support its growth and ensure it continues as the UK's economic powerhouse\".\n\nMr Grayling said: \"I am a supporter of Crossrail 2, but given its price tag we have to ensure that we get this right.\n\n\"The mayor and I have agreed to work together on it over the coming months to develop plans that are as strong as possible, so that the public gets an affordable scheme that is fair to the UK taxpayer.\"\n\nLast week, the government was criticised for scrapping the planned electrification of railway lines in parts of England and Wales.\n\nAt the time, Mr Grayling said the government would instead introduce faster trains with more seats and better on-board facilities.\n\nOn Monday Mr Burnham tweeted: \"On Friday, Tories say they can't afford rail schemes in the North.\n\n\"On Monday, they find billions more for London. Are these 2 things linked?\"\n\nHe said: \"People here have had to put up with sub-standard rail services for decades and will simply not accept that spending billions more on London is the country's highest priority for transport investment.\".\n\nHe added that the fact the announcement had been made after Parliament had broken up for the summer was \"denying any real scrutiny\" of the decision.\n\nLiverpool City Region Mayor Steve Rotheram said that while he did not \"begrudge\" the investment in London and the South East, there needed to be balanced spending to \"support growth in the North as well\".\n\nLondon Mayor Sadiq Khan said: \"Crossrail 2 is essential for the future prosperity of London and the South East, so I'm pleased that the transport secretary and I have reached an agreement to take this vital project forward.\"\n\nA DfT spokesman said that while it had agreed to work further with Transport for London on Crossrail 2, it said London needed to pay half of the upfront construction costs and that the government had not committed any public funding yet.\n\nThe spokesman added that the government was spending £57bn on HS2, £1bn to improve rail infrastructure in the north of England and £800m on new road schemes.", "Chlorinated chicken is a familiar feature on US shelves but is banned in the EU\n\nLiam Fox has downplayed talk that a future US-UK trade deal after Brexit could be threatened by disagreements over chlorinated chicken imports.\n\nThe international trade secretary said the issue of whether the current UK ban on chlorine-washed poultry would be lifted was \"a detail of the very end stage of one sector\" of future talks.\n\nThe EU bans imports on health grounds but free market groups want a rethink.\n\nDowning Street said any trade deal must work for both consumers and farmers.\n\nMr Fox is in Washington DC for two days of talks with US officials about the existing transatlantic trade relationship and how this will change once the UK leaves the EU in March 2019.\n\nAlthough the UK cannot seal a free trade deal of its own with the US until it leaves the EU, both sides have expressed a desire to make quick progress and to scope out some of the barriers to an expedited deal.\n\nThe EU currently bans imports of poultry meat which is rinsed in chlorine and it will be up to the UK to decide, after it leaves the EU, whether this ban stays in place.\n\nEnvironmental campaigners have expressed concerns that the UK's desire for a quick deal could pave the way for the ban to be lifted as well as a loosening of other restrictions on imports of unlabelled genetically modified (GM) foods and beef from cattle implanted with growth hormones.\n\nConcerns about differing EU and US standards were among issues that resulted in the two sides failing to agree a comprehensive trade and investment partnership last year.\n\nIn the US, it is legal to wash chicken carcasses in strongly chlorinated water.\n\nProducers argue that it mitigates the spread of microbial contamination from the animal's digestive tract to the meat while regulators agree\n\nThe practice is banned in the EU on health grounds, arguing it could increase the risk of bacterial-based diseases such as salmonella on the grounds that dirty abattoirs with sloppy standards would rely on it as a decontaminant rather than making sure their basic hygiene protocols were up to scratch.\n\nThere are also concerns that such \"washes\" would be used by less scrupulous meat processing plants to increase the shelf-life of meat, making it appear fresher than it really is.\n\nAsked whether he would be happy eating chlorinated chicken, Mr Fox suggested that the British media was \"obsessed\" by the issue and asked whether reporters would be shunning US chicken during their visit.\n\nIn what he described as the \"complex\" process of negotiating an over-arching deal to advance the mutual prosperity of the US and UK people, he suggested the issue ranked low down on his list of current priorities.\n\nSpeaking more broadly, Mr Fox said discussions about global trade too often focused around talk about the interests of producers and jobs rather than the needs of consumers as people.\n\n\"We have to make the case for free trade and consumer gains,\" he said.\n\nOn Sunday, he conceded that reciprocal access to markets for agri-food products were one of the hardest-fought elements of trade deals and often among the last areas to be agreed.\n\nThere have been reports of disagreement in the Cabinet over the issue of chicken imports.\n\nMr Fox said the UK and the US had to make the case for the further liberalisation of global trade\n\nEnvironment Secretary Michael Gove has said the UK will retain existing standards of environmental and animal welfare outside of the EU and that his goal was to improve them further.\n\nSpeaking last week, he said there would be \"no compromise\" on standards and that he believed being a world leader in free trade and animal welfare should not be incompatible.\n\nFree market economists have called for the UK to permit imports of chlorinated chicken as a goodwill gesture to help facilitate a comprehensive trade deal.\n\nThe Adam Smith Institute said there was no evidence that eating chlorinated chicken in moderation posed any risk to human health.\n\nIn a report published on Monday, it said lifting restrictions would be good for hard-pressed consumers as a kilo of chicken was 21% cheaper in the US than its UK equivalent.\n\n\"Trade critics like to suggest that signing a deal with the USA will mean that Brits will be forced to eat unsafe produce,\" said its author Peter Spence.\n\n\"In reality, chlorinated chicken is so harmless that even the EU's own scientific advisers have declared that it is \"of no safety concern.\"\n\n\"Agreeing to US poultry imports would help to secure a quick US trade deal, and bring down costs for British households. European opposition to US agricultural exports has held up trade talks for years.\"\n\nAsked whether the government was guaranteeing to maintain EU-level food standards after Brexit, a Downing Street spokesman said: \"Our position when it comes to food is that maintaining the safety and public confidence in the food we eat is of the highest priority\n\n\"Any future trade deal must work for UK farmers, businesses and consumers.\"\n• None UK and US to start trade deal talks", "Central parts of Schaffhausen have been sealed off by police\n\nPolice are hunting for a man who attacked five people with a chainsaw in the Swiss town of Schaffhausen.\n\nFranz Wrousis is alleged to have launched his assault at a health insurance office shortly after 10:30 local time (08:30 GMT).\n\nThe attack sparked a manhunt involving more than 100 officers from both Switzerland and Germany.\n\nPolice say the 51-year-old, who lives in the woods, is dangerous and believed to be still armed with the chainsaw.\n\nHis exact motives are still not clear, but police Major Ravi Landolt told a news conference: \"This is not an attack against a hypothetical person. This is clearly against people from the insurer.\"\n\nSwiss police are searching for this man\n\nMr Wrousis, who has two previous convictions for weapons offences, is reported to have entered the offices in Schaffhausen on Monday morning.\n\nHe then allegedly attacked a number of people working in the branch of health insurance company CSS.\n\nAt least one employee was left with serious injuries, but is now out of danger.\n\nOn Monday afternoon, police said the vehicle he was believed to be driving - a white Volkswagen - had been found, but Mr Wrousis remained at large.\n\nPeople living near the woods just outside the city confirmed to Switzerland's 20 Minuten (in German) that Mr Wrousis had been living in the area for at least a couple of weeks.\n\nOne resident told the news site they had reported him to police on two occasions after he verbally attacked them.\n\nSchaffhausen is the capital of the Swiss canton of the same name.\n\nAbout 36,000 people live in the historic town.", "The sculpture will be part of a £630,000 investment project at Flint Castle.\n\nPlans to create an iron ring sculpture at Flint Castle have been described as \"insulting to Wales\".\n\nThe design, said to represent the relationship between the medieval monarchies of Europe and the castles they built, was unveiled on Friday.\n\nBut critics including Plaid Cymru's North Wales AM Llyr Gruffydd said it symbolises the oppression of Welsh people.\n\nMonuments body Cadw said the plans were \"about investing in Flint\".\n\nFlint was one of the first castles to be built in Wales by Edward I - construction began in 1277.\n\nThe winning design was selected by a panel following a nation-wide competition, and the architects said it demonstrated \"the unstable nature of the crown\".\n\nBut Mr Gruffydd said a sculpture celebrating the conquest of Wales by Edward I was \"inappropriate and insulting\".\n\n\"The 'ring of steel' is the description given to the chain of castles across Wales that were built to conquer and subjugate Wales,\" he said.\n\n\"From a Welsh perspective, this is certainly not something to celebrate. It does not either reflect the many rich Welsh legends that could have been the source of a far more appropriate sculpture.\"\n\nA petition has also been launched calling the design \"extremely disrespectful\". By Monday it had attracted more than 2,000 signatures.\n\nPeople have also criticised the sculpture on social media.\n\nTJ Buck tweeted: \"I think even a 'balloon made of lead' would have gone down better than this idea\", while Carolyn Hitt posted: \"Flint has rich history of female factory workers. Turn those into legends rather than remember Edward I's Iron Ring.\"\n\nBut Andrew Barratt‏ said: \"It symbolises the role of castles, we were subjugated, it's history, sad but let's get over it living in the past won't forge our new Wales.\"\n\nIn response, a spokeswoman for Cadw said it recognises \"that art divides opinions, encourages debate, and can be interpreted in many ways\".\n\n\"These plans are about investing in Flint, increasing visitor numbers and growing the local economy. The proposed sculpture would also provide a unique opportunity to promote Welsh steel, as well as tell powerful stories that continue to shape our lives today,\" the spokeswoman said.\n\n\"We will continue to listen to a range of views on this important project as it evolves, and ensure that decisions over issues such as the words inscribed on the sculpture reflect local opinions and the complex and often difficult history of Wales.\"\n\nA spokeswoman for Arts Council of Wales said its role was to \"assist with advice in setting up the tender process and selecting the work\" alongside other panellists from Visit Wales and Cadw.", "The incident happened in Well Street on Sunday night\n\nA pick-up truck was driven at pedestrians in Manchester city centre, police have said.\n\nA man was hit when the Isuzu D-Max Fury vehicle was \"deliberately\" driven at people on Well Street at about 23:20 BST on Sunday.\n\nPolice say it was a \"targeted attack\" but \"not terror-related\". The man who was struck left the scene in a BMW and the truck chased him for a short time.\n\nThe car window was smashed but the man was not seriously injured.\n\n\"This was the city centre and there were lots of people in the area who would have witnessed the commotion,\" he said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Christmas episode is called Twice Upon A Time and features the return of Pearl Mackie as Bill Potts.\n\nDetails of Peter Capaldi's final outing in Doctor Who have been revealed as the first trailer for the Christmas special was released online.\n\nThe one-minute clip for the episode, titled Twice Upon A Time, sees Capaldi and the First Doctor team up.\n\nIt features the return of Pearl Mackie as Bill Potts, who had seemingly left the show at the end of series 10.\n\nThe clip also showed a guest appearance from Mark Gatiss, who plays a World War One soldier called The Captain.\n\nThe release of the trailer coincided with the cast appearing at Comic-Con in San Diego on Sunday, where they talked about the upcoming episode, the last series and looked back at Capaldi's time on the sci-fi drama.\n\nGatiss described the Christmas special as being \"a Christmas episode without being overtly Christmassy - it's very happy-sad\".\n\nHe added: \"[It's] a fantastic episode and we had a great time doing it. It was a lovely way out.\"\n\nIt will be the third time the Sherlock actor and writer has appeared on Doctor Who, after previously starring in episodes in series three and six.\n\nMackie also confirmed the festive episode will be her last appearance on the show.\n\nTwice Upon a Time is the final episode for Peter Capaldi's Twelfth Doctor and for outgoing showrunner Steven Moffat. Both have been huge Doctor Who fans for most of their lives, and their final story is clearly a love letter to a show that means a huge amount to both.\n\nThis first trailer begins with original footage of the First Doctor, William Hartnell, from 1966's The Tenth Planet (episode two if you're interested), which then mixes through to David Bradley who plays him in this story.\n\nBut it also shows a glimpse of a scene with the First Doctor and his assistant Polly from episode four - Hartnell's final episode before Patrick Troughton took over. Sadly that episode is one of the dozens that are still missing from the BBC archives.\n\nThe minute-long teaser also makes clear that this Christmas story won't just be accessible to long term fans. Bill will be back, after she was last seen heading off to travel the universe with student-turned-space and time traveller Heather.\n\nThe trailer also shows actor and writer Mark Gatiss making another Doctor Who appearance. In 2007 he played Professor Lazarus, and he also briefly popped up playing a different character in 2011.\n\nComic-Con fans were shown a three-minute goodbye video for Capaldi, thanking him for his time on the show, which led to a standing ovation.\n\nThe actor praised writer and executive producer Steven Moffat, saying: \"Every shot you saw there came through his gentleman's mind. The message of the show comes from his heart.\"\n\nWhittaker was announced in a trailer on BBC One after the Wimbledon men's final\n\nThe team also addressed the casting of Jodie Whittaker as the Thirteenth Doctor and first female to take on the role.\n\nCapaldi called it \"a great choice\", adding: \"I think Jodie's going to be amazing and she's so full of excitement and full of passion about the show.\n\nIt's really thrilling to know it's in the hands of somebody who cares for it so deeply and is going to do exciting things with it.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Moffat criticised the \"imaginary backlash\" in the media on the issue.\n\n\"There's so many press articles about a backlash among Doctor Who fandom against the casting of a female Doctor. There has been no backlash at all,\" he said.\n\n\"[Jodie has] an 80% approval rating on social media. I wish every single journalist who is writing the alternative would shut the hell up - it's not true.\"\n\nThe outgoing writer and executive producer also cleared up the issue of whether the character's name is Doctor Who or the Doctor.\n\n\"There isn't any doubt about it, I'm sorry,\" Moffat said. \"It was established in The War Machines (episode) that his name is Doctor Who.\"\n\nHe provided evidence to back up his point, including signing letters \"Doctor W\" and the third Doctor having a \"Who\" licence plate.\n\n\"He doesn't often call himself Doctor Who because it's a bloody stupid name,\" Moffat added.\n\nOn Saturday, Capaldi told Empire he was both sad to be leaving the series and excited for its future.\n\n\"[The Christmas special] is a wonderful episode and I couldn't have wanted for any more.\n\n\"It's an emotional and moving end to my time as Doctor Who.\"\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.", "Police found the body of the 19-year-old at this property in Kingston Upon Thames\n\nA man has been charged with the kidnap, rape and murder of a 19-year-old woman.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said the 33-year-old had also been charged with the rape, attempted murder and kidnap of a woman in her 20s.\n\nAnother man, 28, has been charged with the kidnap of both women.\n\nThe teenager's body was found at an address in Coombe Lane West, in Kingston Upon Thames, on Wednesday night, three hours after she had been reported missing, police said.\n\nThe second woman had earlier been treated for stab or slash wounds at a south London hospital.\n\nPolice had visited the women's addresses in Sutton and Merton following a concerned call about their safety at about 17:00 BST on Wednesday.\n\nThe teenager's name has not yet been released, but her next of kin have been informed.\n\nA post-mortem examination revealed the cause of death was a neck wound.\n\nThe two men, who have not been named by police, will appear at Wimbledon Magistrates' Court on Monday.", "South West Trains is warning of severe disruption across the whole network for the rest of the day.\n\nThe train company said delays were still ongoing on journeys towards London Waterloo after a loss of all signalling in the Earlsfield area of south-west London.\n\nIt said trains could be cancelled, delayed by up to 90 minutes or revised until the end of service.\n\nSWT had already warned of disruption because of a track defect on a set of points between Woking and Surbiton, which blocked the London-bound fast line.\n\nA company spokesman said: \"Services are still recovering from a major signal failure on mainline services through Clapham Junction to Waterloo.\"\n\nNetwork Rail apologised for the disruption and said it would continue to work to resume a normal service as quickly as possible.\n\nSouth West Trains passengers are set to face severe disruption next month when work begins to extend platforms at Waterloo, meaning many services will not be running and some commuter stations will be closed altogether.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Orange Order is the largest Protestant organisation in Northern Ireland\n\nThe Orange Order has asked its members to stop using the term 'RIP' to express grief or sympathy after a death.\n\nIt said the phrase is unbiblical, un-Protestant, and a form of superstition connected to Catholicism.\n\nRIP is an abbreviation of 'rest in peace' or in Latin, 'requiescat in pace'.\n\nIn a publication marking the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, the order called on Protestants to stop using the phrase.\n\nWallace Thompson, secretary of Evangelical Protestants Northern Ireland, wrote a Facebook post on which the article was based.\n\nHe told the BBC's Talkback programme: \"Observing social media, we have noticed that the letters RIP are used a lot by Protestants, and by some evangelical Protestants.\"\n\nMr Thompson explained that for him, 'RIP' is a prayer and he did not encourage prayers for the dead.\n\n\"From a Protestant point of view, we believe, when death comes, a person either goes to be with Christ for all eternity, or into hell.\n\nWallace Thompson believes that the phrase 'RIP' is effectively a prayer for the dead and therefore un-Protestant\n\n\"That's what we believe the gospel to be and in this 500th anniversary year of the Reformation, I think Luther, when the scales fell off his eyes, realised that it was all by faith alone, in Christ alone, the decision is made during life, on this earth, so that when death comes it has been made and no decision has been made after death,\" he said.\n\nSpeaking on the same programme, former Presbyterian moderator Dr Ken Newell said he did not use the phrase very often.\n\n\"I think when people use [RIP] in social media, there's a remembrance and a good wish in it, almost a blessing,\" he said.\n\nHe disagreed that people are praying for the dead when they used the phrase.\n\n\"If folk in the Orange Order want to take this line that's perfectly up to them, they are making a good point.\n\n\"I think ordinary people have not worked out the issues. This comes out of the human heart,\" he added.\n\nIn response to a request for a spokesperson of the issue, the Orange Order referred the BBC to comments made by the county grand master of County Fermanagh Grand Orange Lodge, Stuart Brooker, in the Impartial Reporter newspaper.\n\nIn it he said: \"I think the message in the article is very clear and well put together, and I couldn't add anything further to it.\n\n\"This article clearly explains why we as Protestants, and members of the Orange Institution, shouldn't use the term 'RIP'.\n\n\"It also reminds us that if we need guidance in any matter, we should refer to what the bible teaches.\"\n\nThe Orange Order is the largest Protestant organisation in Northern Ireland.\n\nIt regards itself as defending civil and religious liberties of Protestants and seeks to uphold the rule and ascendancy of a Protestant monarch in the United Kingdom.", "Meat substitute company Quorn Foods says it has seen \"unprecedented\" global growth in the first half of this year, with sales up 19% worldwide.\n\nThe firm says it is benefiting from the rise of the \"flexitarian\" diet.\n\nThis means more people have been reducing meat consumption in favour of more sustainable protein sources.\n\nAs a result, it is investing £150m to double production at its main plant in Teesside and expects to create 300 new jobs there in the next five years.\n\n\"We are proud to be contributing to the UK's export drive and to be investing in a British innovation that is vital to addressing the future need for protein across a growing global population,\" said Quorn chief executive Kevin Brennan.\n\n\"Our growth will continue as expected, regardless of the Brexit deal that is reached.\n\n\"In fact, today's investment is indicative of our confidence in becoming a billion-dollar brand in the next 10 years.\"\n\nThe firm, which has been owned by Monde Nissin of the Philippines since 2015, says it made a pre-tax operating profit of £13.7m in the first six months of 2017.\n\nQuorn, a meat substitute made from fungus, is sold on its own for use in recipes at home or in ready meals and products that mimic items such as burgers and sausages. It is available in 15 countries.\n\nQuorn Foods has 650 employees on three UK sites and internationally: Stokesley in North Yorkshire, Billingham on Teesside and Methwold in Norfolk, as well as Frankfurt in Germany and Chicago in the US.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The IMF's forecast for UK growth in 2018 is unchanged\n\nThe UK and US economies will expand more slowly in 2017 than previously predicted, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF).\n\nIt said \"weaker-than-expected activity\" in the first three months of the year meant the UK would grow by 1.7%, compared with an earlier 2% forecast.\n\nThe IMF also revised down its US growth forecast from 2.3% to 2.1%.\n\nHowever, its overall global economic predictions - of 3.5% growth in 2017 and 3.6% in 2018 - remain unchanged.\n\nThe UK growth forecast for 2018 remains unchanged at 1.5%, but US growth for next year is now predicted to come in at 2.1%, instead of the 2.5% previously forecast.\n\nIn its latest World Economic Outlook, the IMF said the \"pick-up in global growth\" that it had anticipated in its previous survey in April remained \"on track\".\n\nBut it added that while the global growth projection was unchanged that masked \"somewhat different contributions at the country level\".\n\nThe IMF's chief economist, Maurice Obstfeld, told the BBC that the organisation was watching closely the impact of Brexit on the UK's future economic health.\n\n\"We have long predicted that Brexit would have some negative long-term effects, but in the case of this year's forecast [downgrade] we are basing it purely on the observation of data for the first part of this year which has been weaker than expected.\n\n\"Our projections for long-term British growth are actually based on a pretty optimistic assessment of how the negotiations are likely to turn out, so if things are worse than that it will turn out to be correspondingly worse for the British economy.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The IMF has warned on the Today programme that Brexit will be a \"mild negative\" to the British economy\n\nA UK Treasury spokesperson said the IMF forecast underlined why the government's plans to increase productivity and get \"the very best deal with the EU\" after Brexit were \"vitally important\".\n\n\"Employment is at a record high and the deficit is down by three quarters, showing that the fundamentals of our economy are strong,\" they added.\n\nEconomists warned that IMF forecasts were not always right.\n\n\"The IMF, a multi-lateral institution, takes a step back and looks at a broad range of activities across the world, but they do sometimes get things wrong and we wouldn't want to put too much emphasis on what's been released today,\" said Lucy O'Carroll, chief economist of Aberdeen Asset Management.\n\nThe downgrade in the UK's forecast reflects the weak start to the year.\n\nThe economy grew by 0.2% in the first three months. That is all we get by way of explanation from the IMF.\n\nIt is a short report - just seven pages - and it updates the IMF's assessment for the whole world economy so there isn't much space to spell it out.\n\nThe IMF is well known, some would say notorious, for warning before last year's referendum of the adverse economic consequences of leaving the European Union.\n\nDo the agency's economists think that the downgrade reflects evidence suggesting that they were right? The report doesn't say. The IMF's chief economist told the BBC that the revision was based purely on the weakness at the start of the year.\n\nWe will get a bit of hard evidence on how justified the downgrade was or was not later this week, when the Office for National Statistics publishes its first estimate of economic growth in the second quarter of the year.\n\nThe IMF said that the main factor behind its downward revision for US growth in 2018 was \"the assumption that fiscal policy will be less expansionary than previously assumed, given the uncertainty about the timing and nature of US fiscal policy changes\".\n\n\"Market expectations of fiscal stimulus have also receded.\"\n\nPresident Donald Trump's administration had been widely expected to pursue policies including tax cuts and infrastructure investment to try to boost the US economy.\n\nHowever, the chances of the administration being able to push through these policies now appears less likely.\n\nThe eurozone is seeing \"stronger momentum\", the IMF said\n\nThe IMF's outlook for several eurozone economies was brighter than initially thought, with countries including France, Germany, Italy and Spain seeing growth forecasts revised up.\n\nThe biggest eurozone revisions were for the Spanish and Italian economies. Spain is now forecast to grow 3.1% this year, up from the previous prediction of 2.6%. Italy's 2017 growth forecast has risen from 0.8% to 1.3%.\n\nThe euro area as a whole is expected to grow by 1.9% this year, up from 1.7%.\n\nThe IMF said first-quarter growth in many of those countries was better than expected, and that there was evidence of \"stronger momentum in domestic demand than previously anticipated\".\n\nChina's growth projections have also been revised up, reflecting, the Fund says, \"a strong first quarter of 2017 and expectations of continued fiscal support\".\n\nIts 2017 forecast has risen from 6.6% to 6.7%, while growth in 2018 is now expected to be 6.4% instead of 6.2%.\n\nThe IMF hailed China's \"policy easing and supply-side reforms\", including efforts to reduce excess capacity in the industrial sector.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Consumers in the UK could save billions of pounds thanks to major changes in the way electricity is made, used and stored, the government has said.\n\nNew rules will make it easier for people to generate their own power with solar panels, store it in batteries and sell it to the National Grid.\n\nIf they work, consumers will save £17bn to £40bn by 2050, according to the government and energy regulator Ofgem.\n\nThe rules are due to come into effect over the next year.\n\nThey will reduce costs for someone who allows their washing machine to be turned on by the internet to maximise use of cheap solar power on a sunny afternoon.\n\nAnd they will even support people who agree to have their freezers switched off for a few minutes to smooth demand at peak times.\n\nThey'll also benefit a business that allows its air-conditioning to be turned down briefly to help balance a spell of peak energy demand on the National Grid.\n\nAmong the first to gain from the rule changes will be people with solar panels and battery storage. At the moment they are charged tariffs when they import electricity into their home or export it back to the grid.\n\nThe government has realised that this rule must change because it deters people from using power more flexibly in a way that will benefit everyone.\n\nThanks to improvements in digital technology, battery storage and renewables, these innovations in flexibility are already under way with millions of people across the UK generating and storing electricity.\n\nThe new rules have been designed to cash in on this.\n\nThe government will set up a \"battery institute\" to fund firms seeking major breakthroughs in battery research and development.\n\nIts critics say it has been slow to support the burgeoning battery industry - and has allowed South Korea, Japan and China to take a lead.\n\nThe tiny energy savings of millions of people and firms will be pulled together into packages by traders, who will offer substantial chunks of energy saving to the National Grid at the click of a computer.\n\nUnder the new system you should be able to tell your machine to do the washing when the sun comes out, to take advantage of solar power\n\nSo instead of predicting peak demand then building power stations to meet it, energy managers will be able to trade in Negawatts - negative electricity.\n\nIn a speech made in Birmingham, Business Secretary Greg Clark outlined further a £246m investment in the UK's industrial strategy, with energy at its heart.\n\nHe gave details of a competition for innovation in battery technology, which he says will help make the UK a world leader in battery design and manufacture.\n\nNicola Shaw, executive director of National Grid, previously told BBC News that between 30% and 50% of fluctuations on the grid could be smoothed by households and businesses adjusting their demand at peak times.\n\n\"We are at a moment of real change in the energy industry,\" she said.\n\n\"From an historic perspective, we created energy in big generating organisations that sent power to houses and their businesses.\n\n\"Now we are producing energy in those places - mostly with solar power.\"\n\nAn Ofgem source told BBC News the current rules on trading energy are not fit for the digital age because they often discourage people using energy flexibly.\n\nThe rules were made before the digital revolution and before the boom in variable renewable energy.\n\nIndustry figures talk about the seismic change that's sweeping them along.\n\nAt a recent UK conference, energy managers were asked which of them could foresee the shape of the industry in a decade; only half a dozen people raised their hands.\n\nSome will urge a degree of caution amongst the enthusiasm: the more the energy industry embraces the digital age, the more vulnerable it will be to hacking.\n\nRecent reports suggest that Russian hackers may already have tried to compromise the system.\n\nOfgem says the new rules will put measures in place to combat interference.", "Bieber had been expected to play another 14 dates in Asia and North America\n\nJustin Bieber has apologised to his fans after cancelling the remaining dates of his Purpose World Tour because of \"unforeseen circumstances\".\n\nThe move affects 14 dates in Asia and North America which were coming up over the next three months.\n\nBieber told celebrity news website TMZ.com: \"I'm sorry for anybody who feels disappointed or betrayed.\"\n\nThe singer has performed more than 150 shows on the tour, promoting his 2015 album Purpose, since March 2016.\n\nThe tour grossed $93.2m (£71.5m) in the first half of 2017, with an average of almost 40,000 ticket sales per date.\n\nBieber added: \"I have been on tour for two years. I'm looking forward to just resting, getting some relaxation and we're going to ride some bikes.\"\n\nThe singer's manager, Scooter Braun, posted on Instagram: \"To Justin, who gave it his all night after night, thank you.\n\n\"And to those that won't be able to see it... on behalf of myself, Justin, and the team, we are sorry. That was never our intent. But a man's soul and wellbeing I truly care about came first and we must all respect and honour that.\n\n\"Justin will be back and I know he looks forward to performing for you and with you all again. One chapter ends and another begins.\"\n\nA statement on Bieber's website read: \"Justin loves his fans and hates to disappoint them.\n\n\"He is grateful and honoured to have shared that experience with his cast and crew for over 150 successful shows across six continents during this run.\n\n\"However, after careful consideration he has decided he will not be performing any further dates. Tickets will be refunded at point of purchase.\"\n\nMost of Bieber's remaining dates were in the US, but he was also due to play in Japan, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Singapore and Indonesia.\n\nChinese officials said last week that the Canadian pop star had been banned from mainland China because he had engaged in what they described as \"bad behaviour\".\n\nBieber's decision comes a few weeks after British singer Adele cancelled the last two shows of her world tour on medical advice after damaging her vocal cords.\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.", "When Susanne Langmuir faces a big problem at Bite Beauty she asks herself: \"What would Louis do\"?\n\nLouis is Louis Vuitton, the French designer who in the late 19th Century turned a small box-making shop into a global luxury brand.\n\nFor Ms Langmuir, 48, \"What would Louis do?\" means: what's the correct course of action that won't compromise Bite's original values?\n\nThe Bite founder says: \"Not compromising for me is about knowing what the pure idea is, and finding a way to get rid of obstacles that would interfere with that.\"\n\nHer \"pure idea\" was to create line of lip products made solely from all-natural, food-grade ingredients. \"You are what you eat. What you put on your lips, you eat,\" she says.\n\nBite Beauty was launched in 2012 in partnership with Sephora, the France-based chain of global cosmetics stores which began selling the products in its outlets. The firm also has \"lip labs\", where people custom-make their own lipstick.\n\nBite's Lip Labs are where people can custom-make their lipstick\n\nKaren Grant, a beauty industry analyst at market research firm The NPD Group, says Sephora is a \"great incubator\" for small businesses. Bite's launch was master class in getting it right, she says, praising the sleek and edgy product design.\n\nBite's success did not come without hurdles, however, says Ms Langmuir. The Canadian beauty entrepreneur, born and raised near Toronto, hit two early roadblocks.\n\nMajor cosmetics production facilities said they could not produce formulas without at least some synthetic ingredients - a deal-breaker for Ms Langmuir. So she built a lipstick factory in Toronto, where the products are still handmade.\n\nThe first chemist that Ms Langmuir hired almost torpedoed the project by quitting without notice shortly before the company had to show early formulas to Sephora.\n\nMs Langmuir, who sold Avon as a teenager and later worked as a cosmetics consultant for several companies, including Anthropologie and Urban Outfitters, had some experience creating formulas.\n\nSo she \"made a bunch of things in the lab\" and headed off to the Sephora meeting, telling them: \"You don't want to get too attached to the formula, but this is where we are heading.\" She eventually recruited a former Estee Lauder chemist.\n\nMs Langmuir says she and her 140 Bite staff are used to handling challenges. \"We find humour in them, we find a way to figure them out. We've got good perspective on what we do next,\" she says. \"It's a good sign when there are significant challenges.\"\n\nBite was not her first entrepreneurial challenge. Almost 20 years ago, she developed an organic face oil, but it never caught on with consumers. She also launched a perfume shop that was flooded with sewage water on its first day.\n\nShe describes herself as \"a weeble-wobble\" toy that bounces back after being knocked down. \"There's always another way,\" she says.\n\nThe idea for Bite came from a gut feeling that there was an underserved market for all-natural cosmetics with an edgy, contemporary style.\n\nIn the spring of 2013, Bite held a promotional pop-up shop in a Toronto Sephora store. She was given a window space to set up lab equipment and showcase how Bite's small batches of handmade lipsticks were made.\n\nPeople were captivated. Three weeks later she leased a shop in the SoHo district of Manhattan to set up the inaugural Bite Lip Lab, where people could create shades on the spot, and select the finish and scent within half an hour.\n\nThere are now four Lip Labs in the US and Canada, and plans to open more in Los Angeles and other cities.\n\nThe Lip Labs have placed Bite at the forefront of what the industry considers a growing trend - bespoke beauty - and will be \"a crucial, fundamental part of our growth,\" Ms Langmuir says.\n\nHaving clients who like to personalise products means Ms Langmuir can tap into the latest trends in the fast-moving cosmetics marketplace.\n\n\"For us, we learn about our clients, we learn about trends, we have lots of 'aha moments' where things that are not even on my radar (come up),\" she says.\n\nMore The Boss features, which every week profile a different business leader from around the world:\n\nA year after launching the SoHo Lip Lab, Bite was bought by Kendo, which, like Sephora, is part of the French multinational luxury goods conglomerate Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy. The sale price has not been disclosed.\n\nHowever, Ms Langmuir remains in day-to-day control as chief creative officer, and the products are still handmade in Toronto, in the community where her kids go to school.\n\nThe purchase gave Bite the resources to scale-up the business, and Ms Langmuir has no regrets about selling. It will enable the company to \"grow ten times as big\", she says. \"I get to focus on the creative stuff, and that's the icing.\"\n\nThe search for the perfect red\n\nThe challenge is to stay relevant in a industry where trends never stop changing - sometimes very quickly.\n\nShe grabs a sample lipstick from her desk and swipes a bright white pearlescent colour on her hand. \"This is like, whoo! I toned that one down because it was a little too crazy. It's finding that balance,\" she says.\n\nNPD Group's Karen Grant says Bite must avoid just churning out more products to make scale. \"A brand can't get too detached or too comfortable,\" she says.\n\nMs Langmuir knows that walking this tightrope will determine how relevant the company will be in 10 or 20 years. \"It's finding the balance between core and things that are new and exciting,\" she says.", "If you're going to win the Women's World Cup, it might as well be the biggest ever staged.\n\nWhen Heather Knight got her hands on the ultimate prize in women's cricket on an emotional Sunday afternoon at Lord's, it marked a triumph not only for England, but the sport itself.\n\nFor Knight, kissing the silverware is a world away from four years ago, when she was clinging on to a place in an England side that failed to reach the final.\n\nBut her personal transformation, and her team under coach Mark Robinson, is nothing compared to that of the women's game from a 2013 World Cup that was barely befitting of the name.\n\nHeld in India, mainly Mumbai, it hardly registered with the locals in a nation where cricket is loved like no other.\n\nIts very staging came under threat over a row about the presence of the Pakistan team, who were eventually shifted to the other side of the country - 1,000 miles away in Cuttack - and forced to sleep at the Barabati Stadium.\n\nThe women were due to play at Mumbai's iconic Wankhede Stadium, only to be evicted to make way for men's matches. Facilities at venues were shoddy and publicity non-existent.\n\nAlthough global TV audiences were up, matches were played to near empty stadiums, despite entry being free of charge.\n\n\"It was shocking in India,\" former England batter Ebony Rainford-Brent told BBC Sport. \"In a cricket-crazy country, you would expect to see something - posters, adverts - but there was nothing.\n\n\"The only people in the grounds were a few family members. It was almost like the cricket wasn't happening.\"\n\nNow, the World Cup doesn't just seem like a different event, but women's cricket is an entirely different sport.\n• None In Short: 'There's never been a better time to be a woman in cricket'\n\nThe final at Lord's was a fitting conclusion to a tournament that has catapulted women's cricket into the national and international consciousness.\n\nWhat began with a marketing campaign on the London Underground and in cinemas ended in a sold-out Lord's and the most-watched game of women's cricket in history.\n\nAcross the tournament, all matches were shown live for the first time, with more than 50 million watching the group games alone. Over the course of the event, the International Cricket Council expects an 80% increase in worldwide viewership.\n\nMore than one million users followed England's final victory on the BBC Sport website, while the hosts' nerve-shredding semi-final victory over South Africa was also front-page news. In the host cities - Bristol, Leicester, Derby and Taunton - 30,000 people visited fan zones.\n\n\"Everything you could think of to promote the tournament has been done,\" added Rainford-Brent. \"The investment and energy that has gone into has been incredible. To finish with a packed Lord's ticked the final box.\"\n\nThe audience is a new one, too, riding a wave that perhaps began with last year's launch of the Twenty20 Super League, a competition that attracted an average attendance in excess of 1,000, larger than the inaugural season of its football equivalent in 2011.\n\nAt the World Cup, 50% of ticket-buyers were women, while 31% of those in attendance were under the age of 16. About 13,000 tickets were given away to schools and every child at Lord's on Sunday received a plastic bat as a souvenir of the incredible final.\n\nMarie, from Surrey, was at the game with seven-year-old daughter Lucy and said: \"Lucy's dad played cricket but she has become more aware that women play too.\n\n\"We've heard a lot about women's cricket on the radio and now she is more aware that there are opportunities for her in the future if she wants to play sport.\"\n\nTom, from London, brought daughters Connie, five, and Cissie, three, to their first game of cricket.\n\n\"I thought it would be a fun game for them, with lots of entertainment going on around the edges,\" he said.\n\n'Women's cricket is everywhere - now is the time'\n\nYoungsters may have Knight, Tammy Beaumont and Anya Shrubsole as their new England heroes and be keen to try their hand at Natalie Sciver's Nat-meg, but India's surprise run to the final could turn out to be far more important for the future of the women's game than England's fourth world title.\n\nFour years ago, interest in the tournament on home soil was so low that, when India were dumped out in the first round, journalists (not many of them) could wander up to a lonely Mithali Raj for their own private audience with the captain.\n\nNow, even if the impressive Raj is unlikely to reach the demi-god status of Sachin Tendulkar, Virat Kohli and MS Dhoni, her country actually knows who she and her exciting team are.\n\nWhen India's men pulled off a shock triumph in the 1983 World Cup, it began a boom in one-day cricket. When the same team won the inaugural World Twenty20 in 2007, a nation previously pretty sniffy about the shortest form of the game threw itself into the Indian Premier League.\n\nMight India now follow the example of Australia and England to launch its own T20 league for women? Raj, Smriti Mandhana and Harmanpreet Kaur are stars that could take women's cricket to the masses.\n\n\"Why not start a league of our own in India?\" said Raj. \"Now is the right time to create that in India because women's cricket is everywhere.\n\n\"If more girls participate in leagues like that, they will improve their game and gain valuable experience.\"\n\nThe man who helped make it happen\n\nIf the women's game is about to face greater commercialisation, exposure and expectation then England are lucky to have Robinson, a man who should take his share of credit for their triumph.\n\nWhen the former fast bowler made the surprise switch from Sussex's men's side, England's results had been patchy for some time. Although they had won two of the previous three Ashes series, they were without a global trophy since 2009.\n\nWhen that record was extended with a semi-final exit at the 2016 World T20, Robinson made his move.\n\nIf his public attack on the players' fitness raised eyebrows, then the axing of captain Charlotte Edwards was genuinely stunning - not least to some inside the England and Wales Cricket Board.\n\nEdwards was (and still is) a fine player, one of the greatest there has ever been in the women's game, but her maternal, dominant presence could be stifling and suffocating. Too often, England were reliant on the performances of a handful of players, with the rest left to feel like they were making up the numbers.\n\nIn the past year, Beaumont, Lauren Winfield, Fran Wilson and Alex Hartley have all established themselves at international level. Knight averages more with the bat as captain than she did in the ranks and Sarah Taylor has returned from a break enforced by an anxiety problem.\n• None Tears and a house called Alan - inside story of England's band of sisters\n\nBut it is not just on the field where Robinson has made changes.\n\nIn a game just getting to grips with professionalism, players previously signed one-year contracts. Recognising that meant they were faced with the threat of unemployment on an annual basis, Robinson successfully pushed for the security of two-year deals.\n\nHe has also created an environment of honesty, openness and acceptance in a bid to make sure the players do not lose their identities to the rigors of the game. One player was comfortable enough to bring her teddy bear to a team meeting.\n\n\"Mark has been brilliant,\" said Knight. \"He has encouraged us to be honest and that has made us as a team.\n\n\"He has annoyed us at times with tough love, but he has pushed us, improved us and made us believe. We're very thankful.\"\n\nRobinson, though, will not be in the limelight in the aftermath of England's triumph, and nor should he be.\n\nThe adulation goes to Knight and the 14 other players that have triumphed in the biggest tournament, match and spectacle women's cricket has ever seen. They are role models in a game that is taking its place at global sport's top table.", "Microsoft's graphics program Paint has been included in a list of Windows 10 features that will be either removed or no longer developed.\n\nPaint has been part of the Windows operating system since its release in 1985 and is known for its simplicity and basic artistic results.\n\nPaint's successor, Paint 3D, will still be available.\n\nThe list was issued as part of the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update, which rolls out in the autumn.\n\nMicrosoft says that features on the list will be either removed from Windows 10 or \"not in active development and might be removed in future releases\".\n\nOther features facing the axe include the Outlook Express email client, which is replaced with the built-in Mail app, and the Reader app, which will be integrated into Microsoft Edge.\n\nThe BBC has contacted Microsoft for comment.\n\nPeople have expressed disappointment at the news on social media, with many tweeting \"RIP\" messages.\n\nWelsh YouTuber Chaotic described Paint as \"the greatest thing to have ever existed\" - perhaps with tongue in cheek.\n\nThe artist known as Jim'll Paint It uses the program to create artwork on outlandish themes, commissioned by strangers. He has nearly 700,000 followers on Facebook.\n\n\"Paint hasn't been all that since they messed about with it anyway. I'm running XP on a virtual machine because it's the best one,\" he tweeted.\n\n\"They should just release the source and make it public domain,\" tweeted games developer Mike Dailly, creator of Lemmings and Grand Theft Auto.", "Some Andrex toilet rolls have got shorter\n\nAs many as 2,529 products have shrunk in size over the past five years, but are being sold for the same price, official figures show.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics (ONS) said it was not just chocolate bars that have been subject to so-called \"shrinkflation\".\n\nIt said toilet rolls, coffee and fruit juice were also being sold in smaller packet sizes.\n\nAndrex admitted its rolls were smaller, but said they were now better quality.\n\nAt the same time the ONS said 614 products had got larger between 2012 and 2017.\n\nThe ONS said the phenomenon of shrinkflation had not had an impact on the overall inflation figures. However, in the category of sugar, jam, syrups chocolate and confectionery, the rate of inflation when adjusted for shrinking products was significantly higher.\n\nSince 2012, the inflation rate for products such as chocolate was actually 1.22 percentage points higher, when the smaller size was taken into account.\n\nAndrex toilet tissue, which used the catchline \"Soft, strong and long\" alongside the famous Labrador puppy, has shrunk its rolls from 280 sheets originally, first to 240 sheets, and more recently to 221 sheets, according to Which?\n\nThe company told the BBC that even though the roll was smaller, the product itself was better.\n\n\"Reducing the roll by a number of sheets has helped us make this multi-million pound investment in product performance possible,\" a spokesperson said.\n\n\"Consumer pricing is solely in the domain of the retailer.\"\n\nDozens of chocolate bars and sweets have already got smaller.\n\nPackets of Maltesers have shrunk from 121g to 103g, a reduction of 15%. Makers Mars have said it was a way of helping consumers afford the product.\n\nToblerone has shrunk by 12%, with larger spaces between the triangular \"mountains\".\n\nThe manufacturers, Mondelez - formerly Kraft - said they changed the shape \"to keep the product affordable\". It said it was experiencing higher costs for \"numerous\" ingredients.\n\nThe 150g Toblerone features larger gaps between its distinctive triangles\n\nThe ONS has cast doubt on whether raw material costs are really rising.\n\nThe European import price of sugar has been falling since the middle of 2014, and reached a record low in March 2017, the ONS said.\n\nThe price of cocoa, another major ingredient, reached a five-year high in December 2015, but has fallen sharply over the last year.\n\nThe ONS also dismissed Brexit as a reason for recent shrinkflation, even though it has contributed to an increase in the price of some imported goods.\n\n\"Our analysis doesn't show a noticeable change following the referendum that would point to a Brexit effect,\" the ONS said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ben Needham vanished on the Greek island of Kos in July 1991\n\nSigns of blood have been found on part of a sandal and on soil inside a toy car recovered by police searching for missing Sheffield toddler Ben Needham.\n\nBen was 21 months old when he disappeared on the Greek island of Kos in July 1991.\n\nSouth Yorkshire Police said forensic work was being carried out in Aberdeen to try to extract DNA from the items.\n\nDet Insp Jon Cousins said it was still his \"professional belief\" Ben died in an accident at the farmhouse.\n\nDetails of the findings have been released on the 26th anniversary of Ben's disappearance.\n\nThe car found in Kos is thought to be similar to this one\n\nBen was last seen playing near to a farmhouse his grandfather was renovating\n\nBen went missing while playing near a farmhouse, which was being renovated by his grandfather in Iraklis.\n\nAn extensive 21-day search of land around the building and a second site 750m (820 yards) away took place in October after it emerged the toddler may have been crushed to death by a digger working on the site.\n\nAbout 60 items discovered during the search were brought back to the UK for analysis, some of which were sent for testing at the James Hutton Institute in Aberdeen.\n\nSouth Yorkshire Police were assisted by members of the Hellenic Rescue Team and Red Cross\n\nThe search of the two sites was carried out over 21 days in October\n\nProfessor Lorna Dawson, head of the soil forensics group, said the team of scientists had discovered the \"profile indicative of human blood decomposition on a fragment of a sandal.\"\n\nThe profile had also been found on soil from inside a toy car, however, the stronger signal had been found on the footwear sandal, she said.\n\nProfessor Dawson said the discovery was the \"chemical finger print\" of compounds left behind \"when there has been decomposition or decay\".\n\n\"There's a strong indication from this chemical profile that this was present on those items as a result of blood decomposition,\" she said.\n\n\"It's significant in identifying that there had been a human who had bled in contact with those items.\n\n\"The biologist has to come in now and identify who left that blood on that item by extracting the DNA.\"\n\nProfessor Lorna Dawson was part of the team responsible for analysing the items\n\nDet Insp Cousins said: \"Based on the facts and the information obtained, as previously stated it is still my professional belief that Ben died as a result of a tragic incident at the farmhouse involving heavy machinery.\n\n\"It's my belief that [the findings] corroborate and strengthen that theory.\"\n\nThe Needham family has been informed and the force would continue to assist the Greek authorities with any ongoing enquiries, South Yorkshire Police said.", "Charity donation websites, often used to support victims of violence, are being employed by a number of Westerners to finance their personal war efforts.\n\nFighting continues in eastern Ukraine, as pro-Russian separatists battle Ukrainian government forces. More than 10,000 people have died since the conflict erupted in April 2014, and recently a rebel leader declared a state called \"Malorossiya\" (Little Russia) in Donetsk.\n\nAmong the separatists are a number of Westerners, drawn to the country by the conflict and financing their adventures using charity crowdfunding websites - sometimes in apparent violation of website rules and Ukrainian laws.\n\nOne of the most prominent is Russell Bentley, a Texas native who describes himself as a pro-Russian communist. When the conflict started, Bentley was working as an ordinary lumberjack in Austin. Yet by December 2014 he had reached the epicentre of the conflict - armed with a rocket propelled grenade launcher and tasked with repelling Ukrainian forces at Donetsk airport, a key strategic position.\n\nFrom the start, Bentley has relied on crowdfunding websites to finance his exploits. Crowdfunding websites such as GoFundMe, JustGiving and Indiegogo are typically used for charitable purposes - including to raise money for the victims of tragedies. People can donate money in exchange for small gifts or 'perks'. For example, the Manchester Evening News raised over £2.5 million through JustGiving for the families of those killed and injured in the recent Manchester terror attack in the UK.\n\nHowever, Bentley and others have been using these crowdfunding websites to fund their own personal war efforts in Ukraine. In November 2014, Bentley launched a GoFundMe page to finance a \"fact finding mission\" to Donbas, the conflict zone that includes the eastern Ukrainian regions of Donetsk and Luhansk. Bentley raised $2,000 and hasn't returned to the United States since.\n\nAfter spending six months fighting with separatists on the front line, Bentley was reassigned and now works, he says, as an \"information warrior\" - producing regular pro-separatist propaganda videos on the Ukrainian war.\n\nBentley is affiliated with the Essence of Time movement - a Russia-based communist group which seeks to create \"USSR 2.0\", involving the break-up of Ukraine. Bentley's videos are hosted on the group's YouTube page, which has 25,000 subscribers.\n\nIn the videos, Bentley encourages fellow Americans to join him in eastern Ukraine. One of his recommendations is for volunteers to raise money via crowdfunding before they travel. Bentley states in one video: \"Don't show up here broke… You can do a crowd fundraiser - a GoFundMe or an Indiegogo. Say you're coming here to help. Say you're coming here to find the truth. Don't say you're coming here to fight.\"\n\nRussell Bentley has spent nearly three years in Donbass after crowdfunding his initial journey to Ukraine\n\nBut most crowdfunding websites - including GoFundMe and Indiegogo - strictly prohibit campaigns designed to raise money for violent purposes.\n\nDespite the site's rules, Bentley's most recent campaign, hosted on Indiegogo, features a video of him touring the conflict areas with an automatic weapon - at one point firing at a Ukrainian military drone. He talks about his time on the front line, while encouraging armed resistance against \"Ukrainian Nazis\".\n\nBentley's current crowdfunding effort is raising funds to publish a self-authored book about his war experiences in Donbas. The Texan offers military shoulder patches and T-shirts for donations of between $100 and $999. Before BBC Trending contacted Indiegogo about Bentley's campaign, \"secret\" perks were offered for larger donations.\n\nThese perks could only be revealed by emailing Bentley directly, though he did disclose that a donation of $15,000 would have earned contributors a tour of Odessa and Kiev \"after we liberate them\". Bentley is asking for a minimum of $9,000 for the book project, and at the time of writing has raised more than half that amount.\n\nBBC Trending approached Bentley for an interview and he declined to talk to us, but after contacting him and Indiegogo, all mention of the secret perks on his campaign have now been removed.\n\nBentley broadcasts his videos on YouTube via Essence of Time, a communist group\n\nBentley isn't a one-off. Other Westerners have been using online crowdfunding to finance their activities in eastern Ukraine since the conflict started.\n\nAmong them is 38-year-old Graham Phillips from Nottingham in the UK. Since November 2013, Phillips has been covering the conflict, broadcasting amateur videos from Donbas, often in the midst of tearing bullets and toppling buildings. His daredevil style has drawn the attention of audiences, and he boasts 86,000 subscribers on YouTube. From 2014 to 2015, Phillips was employed by Zvezda - a media channel run by the Russian Ministry of Defence, and he also freelanced for the state-operated TV channel RT.\n\nPhillips is highly critical of the Ukrainian government and appears to back the break-up of the country. Speaking on camera to Bentley in September 2015, Phillips accuses the Ukrainian government of \"lies and propaganda\", before adding: \"I absolutely believe that we'll win in the end.\"\n\nSince May 2014, Phillips has been forbidden from entering Ukraine, on the grounds of \"national security\". The Ukrainian government even took the unusual step of issuing an open letter to UK authorities, condemning Phillips' actions.\n\nPhillips says that he's an independent journalist and claims that he has financed his activities entirely through crowdfunding from January 2016 onwards - although existing records indicate he's raised less than £7,500 through crowdfunding campaigns during that time.\n\nGraham Phillips is currently crowdfunding for a new period of reporting in eastern Europe\n\nAt least three of his campaigns have been created to fund work in Donbas, and despite being banned from the country, he's travelled to the region frequently since May 2014. On his blog, he says he enters the region via Russia, although travelling to the area via separatist controlled border crossings is currently illegal under Ukrainian law.\n\nBecause of his actions, the crowdfunding website JustGiving removed one of Phillips' appeals in July 2015. After the company was notified that Phillips was unable to legally re-enter the region, JustGiving refused to release the £2,000 that Phillips had raised through his campaign.\n\nAlthough Phillips also declined to speak to BBC Trending, he has disputed the company's actions, and his campaigns remain active on Indiegogo.\n\nUnlike Bentley, Phillips has not engaged in combat, although he has been filmed navigating a drone with the help of soldiers in Donbas and has interviewed Ukrainian prisoners of war.\n\nPhillips is not the only Brit who has travelled to the Ukraine conflict region. Earlier this month, Benjamin Stimson, from Manchester in the UK, was sentenced by Manchester Crown Court to five years and four months in prison for assisting separatist forces in Donbass.\n\nPhillips works with a third pro-separatist video maker - American-born Patrick Lancaster. Lancaster also describes himself as an independent journalist, and says his work is entirely funded through crowdfunding. Despite this, he seems to have raised less than $6,500 in the past eight months.\n\nLancaster's videos have been featured by mainstream media outlets and he has contributed to The Telegraph and Sky News.\n\nHowever, some of his reporting has been openly hostile towards Ukraine and the West. Speaking on RT in February 2015, Lancaster said that the Ukraine's current president, Petro Poroshenko, is an enemy of the people.\n\nIn November 2016, Lancaster set up an Indiegogo campaign to raise $2,000 for his reporting in eastern Ukraine. Donation incentives included a guided trip from Russia into the battle zone, which would have violated the Ukrainian border crossing law, although there's no evidence that anyone took up the offer. Lancaster recently removed this perk, after BBC Trending contacted both him and Indiegogo.\n\nOn the same crowdfunding page, Lancaster offered military souvenirs from the Ukrainian war, including pieces of shrapnel or rubble from Donetsk airport. Yet, in an email to Trending, Lancaster distanced himself from Bentley, and said that he is not a fighter or an activist in the conflict.\n\nIndiegogo released a statement on the campaigns of Bentley, Phillips and Lancaster, telling Trending: \"Indiegogo's Trust and Safety team has reviewed these campaigns in detail and has taken steps to ensure they comply with our terms of use.\"\n\nYou can follow BBC Trending on Twitter @BBCtrending, and find us on Facebook.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why you should make credit card payments in the local currency when abroad\n\nBritish holidaymakers are paying hundreds of millions of pounds in unnecessary charges when they use their credit and debit cards overseas.\n\nShops, restaurants and cash machines are offering tourists the option of paying in pounds rather than the local currency and applying a poor exchange rate if they take up the offer.\n\nThis costs UK tourists about £500m a year, analysis for the BBC has found.\n\nThe lower rates are equivalent to charging about 6% on each transaction.\n\nBut currency trader FairFX found that on some transactions tourists can lose up to 10% by paying in sterling rather than the domestic currency.\n\nThe practice of offering a pay-in-sterling option is called dynamic currency conversion.\n\nMost tourists are on their guard against being stung by high prices. What they don't expect is that they could be trapped by the payment system itself.\n\nOne of the biggest danger areas at the moment is the Netherlands, so much so that the Dutch consumer organisation, the Consumentenbond, is urging visitors to take extra care.\n\n\"Let me warn those that are being offered to pay by card and the shop owner says: 'Would you like me to give you the exchange rate of what it will be in pounds' - don't do it\", says Sandra de Jong, who speaks for the group.\n\nA high proportion of shops and bars in Amsterdam, the ones popular with tourists, offer dynamic currency conversion.\n\nDynamic currency conversion is sold as an extra convenience. But in practice, many British tourists are utterly non-plussed by the choice they are being offered.\n\n\"To be honest I find it very confusing,\" Jim Begg from Belfast told me as he was setting out on a bike tour round the city, \"I never know which is the right one to choose, though I know one gives a much better rate.\"\n\nOllie, a student from Bristol, told me he was caught out when using a card for hotel bills.\n\n\"Initially I chose to pay in pounds because I thought that paying in home currency might be better for some reason, but we ended up paying quite a significant amount more.\"\n\nAt a cheesemonger, once my card went into the payment machine, up popped a choice: a price in euros and a price in pounds.\n\nWhat happens is that if you buy in euros the transaction goes through a standard route, with the exchange rate set by Mastercard or Visa, although your bank can impose an additional charge.\n\nBut if you choose to pay in pounds, your money is changed on the spot by the shop's bank or payment processor. And they decide on the rate.\n\nWith the cheese I was buying, that meant a loss of 3.5% compared with the Mastercard rate.\n\nThen, in a bar for lunch, I was offered an exchange rate which hacked a 5% slice out of my money.\n\nAnd at a cash machine in a shop, the hit if I chose to pay in pounds for a cash withdrawal was nearly 10%. Less than 1.02 euros for each of my pounds, rather than the 1.13 euros available that day via Mastercard.\n\nThe lesson is a clear one: it's almost always better to pay in the local currency.\n\nThe BBC asked the currency card and foreign exchange provider FairFX to estimate how much people were being charged for dynamic currency conversion, by analysing its customers' overseas spending.\n\nIt says that based on the average fee of 6%, UK travellers are being charged just under £500m a year.\n\nOverall, one-in-five foreign transactions are affected, but in some countries and with some transactions the proportions are much higher.\n\nAt least half of the UK spend on cards in the Netherlands and Hungary is subject to the charges, and more than half of cash withdrawals in Sweden.\n\nThailand, Malta, Spain, Cyprus and Turkey all come high in the list of countries where people should be careful.\n\nDynamic currency conversion is legal in the UK and across Europe, as long as traders display not just the price but also the exchange rate being used before the payment is made.\n\nBut often the rate isn't shown in the form British tourists are used to and, in any case, most people find it hard to assess a rate on the spot.\n\n\"The way it is pushed is abhorrent,\" says James Hickman from FairFX, \"The amount they charge should be capped.\"\n\nWho benefits? The gains are usually split between the trader and the trader's bank or payment processor.\n\nThat means dynamic currency conversion can be sold to shops and other businesses as a way of recouping their banking costs and even make a profit on top.", "Connie Yates and Chris Gard want Charlie to receive an experimental therapy called nucleoside\n\nThe parents of Charlie Gard say they have been victims of a \"backlash\" after Great Ormond Street Hospital revealed staff had received death threats.\n\nThe hospital said police were called after families and staff were harassed.\n\nThe hospital and Charlie's parents are in a legal battle over continuing life support for the 11-month-old, who has a rare genetic disorder.\n\nConnie Yates and Chris Gard said they had suffered \"the most hurtful comments from the public\".\n\nIn a statement, Mr Gard said: \"Without the excellent care of the doctors at GOSH [Great Ormond Street Hospital] our son would not even be alive and not a day goes by when we don't remember that.\"\n\nMs Yates said: \"We do not, and have not ever, condoned any threatening or abusive remarks towards any staff member at GOSH.\"\n\nHowever, she criticised the hospital for not asking the public \"not to say anything hurtful to us as well as their doctors and other members of staff\".\n\nResponding to Charlie's parents' statement on Sunday night, a spokesperson for GOSH said: \"We are grateful for what Charlie's parents have said, and agree wholeheartedly that any abuse of anybody involved in this case is unacceptable.\n\n\"This is a heartbreaking time for Charlie's loving parents when they should be given every support.\"\n\nGreat Ormond Street Hospital said \"unacceptable behaviour\" had been recorded \"within the hospital\"\n\nCharlie, who was born on 4 August 2016, has a form of mitochondrial disease, a condition that causes progressive muscle weakness and irreversible brain damage. His parents want to take him to the US for pioneering treatment.\n\nThey have lost a succession of court cases to overturn the hospital's decision that it would be in the best interest of Charlie to be allowed to die with dignity.\n\nThe latest court battle involves new testimony from a US neurologist who has visited Charlie in hospital to decide whether he should travel to America for therapy.\n\nCharlie's parents want to take him to New York for experimental treatment, which the US doctor said might give him a 10% chance of improving his health.\n\nThe case is due back before a High Court judge on Monday.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Cricket\n\nEngland's World Cup triumph can be a \"springboard\" for women's cricket around the world, according to captain Heather Knight.\n\nThe hosts beat India by nine runs at Lord's in front of a sell-out 26,500 crowd, the second biggest in Women's World Cup history.\n\nMore than 50 million people worldwide watched the group stages.\n\n\"What a tournament it has been - the support, the cricket and everything about it,\" said Knight.\n\nAnya Shrubsole took 6-46 - the best figures in a World Cup final - as India collapsed from 191-3 to 219 all out in pursuit of England's 228-7.\n\n\"Women's cricket has gone through the roof since 2009,\" she told BBC Sport.\n\n\"This is a watershed moment, to be playing at Lord's in front of a sell-out crowd in a World Cup final.\n\n\"You just don't think those things are going to happen. It's unbelievable.\"\n\nEngland coach Mark Robinson said: \"It has captured the imagination of everybody as the tournament has gone on.\n\n\"Hopefully, the women's game will go from strength to strength. It is getting the recognition, getting its proper place. People take it seriously and give it respect.\"\n• None In Short: 'There's never been a better time to be a woman in cricket'\n\nThe superb Shrubsole took five wickets in 19 balls to hasten India's collapse, sealing England's fourth World Cup title by bowling number 11 Rajeshwari Gayakwad with eight balls to spare.\n\n\"Anya Shrubsole, what a hero. I thought about taking her off and I'm really glad I kept her on,\" said Knight.\n\n\"It's been an extraordinary game. To win with some of my best mates, I'm absolutely delighted.\"\n\nIndia needed only 38 runs from 43 balls before Shrubsole dismissed Punam Raut for 86 to spark a collapse of seven wickets for 28 runs.\n\n\"One of the great things about this team is we never give up,\" said Shrubsole. \"It is a fitting final of what was a brilliant World Cup.\n\n\"There was a huge amount of pressure. It's without doubt the most significant spell I've ever bowled.\"\n\nShrubsole and team-mate Tammy Beaumont said they had never experienced such a passionate crowd.\n\n\"I've never played in a game where you can't hear the person who's 15 metres away from you,\" said Shrubsole.\n\n\"Trying to get Heather's attention, I was having to scream at her because the crowd made that much noise - pretty much from start to end.\"\n\nBeaumont, who was named player of the tournament after topping the batting charts with 410 runs, said: \"I have lost my voice. I was trying to scream over the crowd.\n\n\"It almost felt like half England on one side and India on the other. I don't think that atmosphere will be replicated in a number of years.\"\n\nKnight added: \"At times I had to pinch myself and concentrate on the game.\n\n\"The noise when we got the last wicket was a really special moment. It was incredible to be part of.\"\n\nIndia skipper Mithali Raj said her side \"panicked\" as they lost seven wickets for 28 runs in the space of seven overs to miss out on a first major trophy.\n\n\"There was a time when the match was in the balance. It wasn't easy for England but credit to them - they kept their nerve,\" she said.\n\n\"I would like to tell the girls I am very proud of them. They didn't make any match look easy for the opposition.\"\n\nWicketkeeper Sarah Taylor was one of five England players - along with Knight, Shrubsole, Jenny Gunn and Laura Marsh - who were part of England's World Cup-winning squad in 2009.\n\nShe returned to the team at this World Cup after taking a break from the game last year to deal with anxiety problems.\n\n\"It has been a rollercoaster. To be part of this team is incredible,\" Taylor said.\n\n\"It was a case of getting healthy. It was pot luck to be back for this World Cup. This is amazing.\"", "Gina Parkin said she only made the off-the-cuff comment as a joke, but it was then featured in the Lotto advert\n\nA woman featured in a TV advert saying she would holiday \"anywhere but Skegness\" has been won over by the resort after a VIP tour with the mayor.\n\nIn the Lotto ad, people were asked where they would go on a getaway if they won a large sum of money, with Gina Parkin then making the comment.\n\nAfter apologising for the off-the-cuff remark, she was invited to see what the Lincolnshire seaside town had to offer.\n\nAfter an extensive tour, Ms Parkin described it as \"the best of British\".\n\nOn her only previous trip, she said the town's nightlife had been \"a bit too boozy and raucous for my liking\".\n\nTown mayor Danny Brookes accompanied Ms Parkin, her boyfriend and a group of friends as they ticked off some of Skegness's top attractions.\n\nThe 40-year-old from Leeds said: \"I've had an absolutely amazing weekend, they did everything to try and win me over and they have.\n\n\"It was all first class; we were treated like royalty and everyone was so lovely and just super friendly.\"\n\nGina Parkin was given a grand tour by Skegness mayor Danny Brookes\n\nMs Parkin recently returned from 18 months of travelling the world, visiting 21 countries, but said feeding the tigers at Lincolnshire Wildlife Park rivalled the best things she had experienced on the trip.\n\nShe said: \"When I got back from travelling I had a renewed sense of respect for Britain in general, it was like I was seeing everything again with new eyes.\n\n\"I felt a bit bad; Skegness is a beautiful, traditional seaside town with its bright colours, deck chairs - it's the best of British, we should be very proud of it.\"\n\nMs Parkin and her boyfriend Simon Saintly gave the resort the thumbs up\n\nThe pair dressed up as pirates at Skegness Aquarium\n\nThe Lonely Planet travel guide described the resort as \"the ABC of the English seaside - amusements, bingo and candy-floss, and added that \"culture vultures will probably run a mile\".\n\nTourism bosses in Skegness previously came under fire themselves for using unflattering images of Blackpool and Brighton in a bid to promote the resort.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "It sounded like cannon fire - pirates, probably. The British East India Company's ship Benares was docked at Makassar, on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. Its commander gave the order to set sail and hunt them down.\n\nThree days later, the crew still hadn't found any pirates. What they had actually heard was the eruption of a volcano called Mount Tambora.\n\nA cocktail of toxic gas and liquefied rock roared down the volcano's slopes at the speed of a hurricane, killing thousands. Mount Tambora was left 4,000ft (1,220m) shorter.\n\nThe year was 1815. Slowly, a vast cloud of volcanic ash drifted across the northern hemisphere, blocking the Sun.\n\nIn Europe, 1816 became \"the year without a summer\". Crops failed. Desperate people ate rats, cats and grass.\n\nIn the German town of Darmstadt, the suffering made a deep impression on a 13-year-old boy. Justus von Liebig loved helping out in his father's workshop, concocting pigments, paints and polishes.\n\nLiebig grew up to be a brilliant chemist, driven by the desire to help prevent hunger. He did some of the earliest research into fertilisers. He pioneered nutritional science and invented beef extract.\n\nHe invented something else, too: infant formula.\n\n50 Things That Made the Modern Economy highlights the inventions, ideas and innovations that helped create the economic world.\n\nLaunched in 1865, Liebig's Soluble Food for Babies was a powder comprising cow's milk, wheat flour, malt flour and potassium bicarbonate.\n\nIt was the first commercial substitute for breast milk to come from rigorous scientific study.\n\nAs Liebig knew, not every baby has a mother who can breastfeed.\n\nJustus von Liebig was inspired by the hunger he witnessed while a young man\n\nIndeed, not every baby has a mother: before modern medicine, about one in 100 childbirths killed the mother. It's little better in the poorest countries today.\n\nSome mothers can't make enough milk - the figures are disputed, but could be as high as one in 20.\n\nWhat happened to those kids before formula?\n\nParents who could afford it employed wet-nurses - a respectable profession for the working girl, and an early casualty of Liebig's invention. Some used a goat or donkey.\n\nMany gave their infants \"pap\", a bread-and-water mush, from hard-to-clean receptacles that must have teemed with bacteria.\n\nNo wonder death rates were high: in the early 1800s, only two in three babies who weren't breastfed lived to see their first birthday.\n\nGerm theory was increasingly well understood, and the rubber teat had just been invented. The appeal of formula quickly spread beyond women who couldn't breastfeed.\n\nLiebig's Soluble Food for Babies democratised a lifestyle choice that had previously been open only to the well-to-do.\n\nIt's a choice that now shapes the modern workplace. For many new mothers who want - or need - to get back to work, formula is a godsend.\n\nAnd women are right to worry that taking time out might damage their careers.\n\nRecently, economists studied the experiences of the high-powered men and women emerging from Chicago University's MBA programme and entering the worlds of consulting and high finance.\n\nAt first, the women had similar experiences to the men - but over a time, a huge gap in earnings opened up. The critical moment? Motherhood. Women took time off, and employers paid them less in response.\n\nIronically, the men were more likely than the women to have children. They just didn't change their working patterns.\n\nMark Zuckerberg is one of the few high-profile chief executives to take paternity leave\n\nThere are biological and cultural reasons why women are more likely than men to take time off when they start families.\n\nWe can't change the fact that only women have wombs, but we can try to change workplace culture.\n\nMore governments are following Scandinavia's lead by giving fathers the legal right to take time off. More leaders - such as Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg - are setting an example by taking it.\n\nAnd formula milk makes it a whole lot easier for Dad to take over while Mum gets back to work. There is, of course, the breast-pump option. But for some, it's more of an effort than formula.\n\nStudies show that the less time mothers have off work, the less likely they are to persevere with breastfeeding. That's hardly surprising.\n\nThere's just one problem. Evolution has had thousands of generations to optimise the recipe for breast milk.\n\nAnd formula doesn't quite match it, especially in the developing world, where clean water and sterilised equipment is not always available.\n\nA series of articles published by the medical journal the Lancet in 2016 lists the risks. Formula-fed infants get sick more often than breastfed children, leading to costs for medical treatment, and parents taking time off work.\n\nResearchers believe breastfeeding could help prevent more than 800,000 child deaths a year\n\nIt's thought that nearly half of all diarrhoea episodes and a third of all respiratory infections could be prevented by breastfeeding.\n\nThat, combined with the risk of using formula in less than ideal circumstances, can even lead to deaths.\n\nAccording to the Lancet's analysis of more than 1,300 studies, breastfeeding could prevent about 800,000 child deaths a year.\n\nJustus von Liebig wanted to save lives. He would be horrified.\n\nOf course, in rich countries, contaminated milk and water are far less of a concern.\n\nBut formula has another, less obvious economic cost.\n\nAgain, according to the Lancet, there is evidence that breastfed babies grow up with slightly higher IQs - about three points, when you control as best you can for other factors.\n\nWhat might be the benefit of making a whole generation of children just that little bit more clever?\n\nThe Lancet calculated it to be about $300bn (£232bn) a year. That's several times the value of the global formula market.\n\nConsequently, many governments try to promote breastfeeding. But nobody makes a quick profit from that. Selling formula, on the other hand, can be lucrative.\n\nWhich have you seen more of recently: public service announcements about breastfeeding, or formula ads?\n\nLiebig himself never claimed that his Soluble Food for Babies was better than breast milk: he simply said he'd made it as nutritionally similar as possible.\n\nBut he quickly inspired imitators who weren't so scrupulous. By the 1890s, adverts for formula routinely portrayed it as state-of-the-art.\n\nMeanwhile, paediatricians were starting to notice higher rates of scurvy and rickets among the offspring of mothers whom the advertising swayed.\n\nThe controversy peaked in 1974, when the campaigning group War on Want published a pamphlet called The Baby Killer about how Nestle marked and sold infant formula in Africa. Nestle boycotts lasted years.\n\nBy 1981, there was a World Health Organization (WHO) International Code of Marketing Breast-milk Substitutes, which Nestle says it drew on to devise its own marketing code, the first manufacturer to do so.\n\nBut the WHO code is not hard law, and many campaigners argue that it is still widely flouted.\n\nWhat if there was a way to get the best of all worlds: equal career breaks for mothers and fathers, and breast milk for infants, without the faff of breast pumps? Perhaps there is - if you don't mind taking market forces to their logical conclusion.\n\nBreast milk can be frozen and used at a later date\n\nIn Utah, there's a company called Ambrosia Labs. Its business model? Pay mothers around the world to express breast milk, screen it for quality, and sell it on to American mothers.\n\nMilk is pricey - over $100 (£77) a litre (1.75 pints). But that could come down with scale - and maybe formula could be taxed, to fund a breast-milk market subsidy.\n\nNot everyone likes this idea. Indeed, the government in Cambodia, where Ambrosia used to operate, has banned the export of breast milk.\n\nStill, more than 150 years after Justus von Liebig sounded the death knell for wet nursing as a profession, perhaps the global supply chain could find a way to bring it back.\n• None BBC Future: Are there downsides to \"breast is best\"?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Migrant deaths: How one Texas county is struggling to cope\n\nPolice in the US state of Texas have arrested a truck driver whose vehicle was found in a Walmart car park with dozens of people in the back of it.\n\nNine men had died inside, and 28 others, including children, were taken to hospital.\n\nThey were inside the trailer in San Antonio without access to air conditioning or water while outside temperatures hit 38C (100F).\n\nPolice say they believe the incident is linked to people smuggling.\n\nThe truck's driver, named by authorities as James Mathew Bradley Jr, 60, of Clearwater, Florida, is expected to appear in court later.\n\nVideo footage from the store reportedly showed a number of vehicles arriving to pick up some of the survivors. Several others may have managed to escape on foot into the woods nearby.\n\nOne person found in the woods was being treated, local officials said.\n\nMexico's government said it was working closely with US authorities to identify the nationalities of the victims.\n\nSan Antonio is a few hours' drive from the border with Mexico, and the US immigration department is trying to establish the victims' legal status.\n\nSan Antonio Mayor Ron Nirenberg told the BBC that caring for the victims was the authorities' first aim.\n\n\"Our most important focus right now is to deliver compassionate care,\" he said.\n\n\"You know our first responders immediately were on the scene, delivering first aid, transporting - sometimes by air - critical condition patients to local hospitals, and trying to prevent more loss of life than what had already occurred.\"\n\n\"We are working with authorities, we are working with... witnesses to understand the magnitude of these crimes.\n\n\"But in this case, where we are witnesses to a human tragedy in our city, our first response and our response as local officials is to render aid.\"\n\nEight people were found to be dead at the scene while another died in hospital, immigration officials said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police Chief William McManus and Fire Chief Charles Hood told reporters about the discovery\n\nOfficials were brought to the trailer by a man who had approached an employee of the Walmart and asked for water.\n\nThe driver would be charged in connection with the \"horrible tragedy\", said San Antonio police chief William McManus in a press briefing.\n\nHe said the people ranged from school age to in their 30s.\n\nLocal fire chief Charles Hood said the survivors had heart rates of over 130 beats per minute and were very hot to touch. In addition to the 20 people in a critical condition, eight others were taken to hospital in a less severe state.\n\nThe fire chief confirmed at least two of the victims were school-age children. Their condition is not clear.\n\n\"We're very fortunate that there weren't 38 of these people who were all locked inside this vehicle dead,\" he added.\n\nThe truck was towed away from the scene hours after the discovery\n\nThe US attorney for the Western District of Texas, Richard Durbin, said the authorities were working to identify those responsible for the incident.\n\n\"These people were helpless in the hands of their transporters. Imagine their suffering, trapped in a stifling trailer in 100-plus degree heat,\" he said in a statement.\n\nThey were victims of \"ruthless human smugglers indifferent to the wellbeing of their fragile cargo\", he added.\n\nThirty-three migrants were found in a trailer in the same part of Texas earlier this month\n\nExperts say people smuggling is a serious issue in southern Texas, and there have been a number of similar cases in the area just in this past month.\n\nOn 7 July, US Border Patrol agents found 72 undocumented immigrants from Central American countries locked inside a trailer \"with no means of escape\".\n\nThe next day 33 people were found locked inside a trailer at a checkpoint on the road to San Antonio.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Chris Gard: \"We are so sorry we could not save you\"\n\nThe parents of terminally ill baby Charlie Gard have ended their legal challenge to take him to the US for experimental treatment.\n\nA lawyer representing Chris Gard and Connie Yates told the High Court \"time had run out\" for the baby.\n\nMr Gard said it meant his \"sweet, gorgeous, innocent little boy\" will not reach his first birthday on 4 August.\n\n\"To let our beautiful little Charlie go\" is \"the hardest thing we'll ever have to do\", his mother said.\n\nCharlie's parents said they made the decision because a US doctor had told them it was now too late to give Charlie nucleoside therapy.\n\nCharlie has a rare genetic condition and would not live to see his first birthday, his father said\n\n\"We only wanted to give him a chance of life,\" Ms Yates told the court in a statement.\n\n\"A whole lot of time has been wasted,\" she added.\n\n\"We are sorry we could not save you.\"\n\nTheir lawyer Grant Armstrong said the parents' worst fears had been confirmed.\n\nHe told judge Mr Justice Francis US neurologist Dr Michio Hirano had said he was no longer willing to offer the baby experimental therapy after he saw the results of a new MRI scan last week.\n\nHe added Mr Gard and Ms Yates, from Bedfont, west London, now hoped to establish a foundation to ensure Charlie's voice \"continues to be heard\".\n\nSeveral supporters of Charlie's parents' campaign gathered outside the court\n\nIn a statement outside court, Mr Gard said Charlie was an \"absolute warrior\" and they \"could not be prouder of him.\"\n\n\"Charlie has had a greater impact on and touched more people in this world in his 11 months than many people do in a lifetime.\n\n\"We could not have more love and pride for our beautiful boy.\n\n\"We are now going to spend our last precious moments with our son Charlie, who unfortunately won't make his first birthday in just under two weeks' time.\"\n\nThey had raised £1.3m in donations to take their son abroad for treatment.\n\nCharlie has encephalomyopathic mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome. He has brain damage and cannot move his arms or legs.\n\nSome supporters shouted after hearing the news from inside the court\n\nKatie Gollop, the lawyer representing Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) where Charlie has been treated since October, said doctors disagreed with the parents who believed MRI scans in January had shown \"treatment could have been effective at that time\".\n\n\"All aspects of the clinical picture and all of Charlie's observations indicated that his brain was irreversibly damaged and that [the therapy] was futile,\" she said.\n\nThe hospital paid tribute to the \"bravery\" of the decision made by Charlie's parents.\n\nIn a statement, it said: \"Over the weekend, they communicated their desire to spend all the time they can with Charlie whilst working with the hospital to formulate the best possible plan for his end of life care.\n\n\"The agony, desolation and bravery of their decision command GOSH's utmost respect and humble all who work there.\"\n\nMr Justice Francis paid tribute to Charlie's parents and said no-one could comprehend their agony and no parents could have done more.\n\nIn his judgement, the judge said last week's MRI scans had shown \"Charlie has no muscle at all\" on parts of his body and was \"beyond help\".\n\nHe said Mr Gard and Ms Yates were now prepared to accept Charlie should be moved to palliative care and be allowed to die with dignity.\n\nThe judge also decried the \"absurd notion which has appeared in recent days that Charlie has been a prisoner of the National Health Service\", calling it \"the antithesis of the truth\".\n\n\"In this country children have rights independent of their parents,\" he said.\n\nOccasionally there were circumstances when a hospital and the parents were unable to agree what course of action was in the best interest of the child patient, in that instance the decision is referred to an independent judge, he continued.\n\nCharlie has been in intensive care at GOSH since October\n\nOutside court, Charlie's Army campaigners reacted angrily and chanted, \"shame on you judge\" and \"shame on GOSH\".\n\nFalling to the ground, one female supporter said: \"He had a chance and you took it away.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Two F-15 fighter jets like these were not prevented by military air traffic control from entering same airspace as an RAF Voyager\n\nTwo US fighter jets and an RAF tanker aircraft came within seconds of a mid-air crash, a report has revealed.\n\nThe pilot of the RAF Voyager tanker claimed one of the US F-15s flew as close as 50m (160ft) before roaring past to avoid a collision.\n\nThe tanker pilot claimed he could the feel turbulence from the F15 flying at 402mph as it boosted its speed.\n\nThe Airprox Board blamed the near-miss on a military air traffic controller becoming distracted by a phone call.\n\nIt added confusion had also been caused over the geographic naming of the refuelling area in the Wash.\n\nThe incident happened in January this year at a height of 16,000ft, about 10 miles off the coast of north Norfolk, after the Voyager from RAF Brize Norton had refuelled two RAF Typhoons in mid-air.\n\nThe pilot of the RAF Voyager, like the one pictured here, reported the encounter immediately\n\nThe report found that a military air traffic controller based at Swanwick, Hampshire, misunderstood the flight path of the F15 pilots, thinking they were flying south in the geographic Wash area.\n\nBut the US crews from RAF Lakenheath, Suffolk, were referring to the Wash Aerial Tactics Area (ATA) further north, which was also the refuelling area where the tanker was flying.\n\nThe report said the controller was further distracted after he \"answered a landline that was not his responsibility, and had became embroiled in a distracting and complicated\" call.\n\nIt added this \"served to further increase his workload and resulted in him focusing on that task rather than on the F15s\".\n\nThe investigation found that pilots of the F15s had been flying visually at the time so had failed to spot the Voyager on their radar.\n\nThe UK Airprox Board concluded that given that the F15 pilot was unaware of the Voyager until it was so close, there was a \"serious risk of collision where luck had played a major part\" in avoiding one.\n\nIt was classified as a Category A - the highest risk.\n\nThe Board welcomed the joint US and UK air force investigation which recommended changes to \"include a review of the naming of the Wash ATA areas to avoid future confusion\".\n• None Welcome to the UK Airprox Board - UK Airprox Board 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. When it comes to superyachts, the bigger the better\n\nWandering along the beach in Italy's Viareggio you could be forgiven for thinking it's simply a holiday resort.\n\nYet the umbrella-lined, sandy beaches dotted with tourists mask another role, one at the heart of the shipping industry.\n\nThis unassuming seaside city is where some of the world's largest and most exclusive vessels are made.\n\nIts speciality is the superyacht. These giant crewed vessels start at about the length of an average swimming pool - 24-metres. But the biggest can stretch to five or more times this.\n\nIt's a world that belongs to only the very wealthiest of the wealthy - to buy a superyacht you have to be super rich.\n\nJust 370 superyachts were sold last year around the globe, yet collectively these sales were worth a staggering 3.4bn euros (£3bn; $4bn).\n\nThe most expensive superyacht sold so far this year cost 155m euros, according to Boat International which collates the industry data.\n\nViareggio is where about a fifth of these gigantic elite boats are made. It's the \"cradle of shipbuilding\" is how the city's mayor Giorgio del Ghingaro sums it up.\n\nTourism isn't the only big industry in Viareggio\n\nIn fact, the town's involvement in the industry goes back almost 200 years to 1819 when the first dock was built. Viareggio started to build large, strong wooden ships to transport the marble from the region's famous quarries. This laid the foundations for what would eventually become a major international shipping industry with a history of carpentry and craftsmanship.\n\nThe growing popularity of the superyacht has meant Viareggio has evolved again, shifting from making the wooden boats it was once famous for to constructing these giant metal and fibreglass vessels.\n\nVincenzo Poerio, the chief executive of shipbuilding firm Benetti, which is headquartered in Viareggio, believes the region's artistic roots have helped to drive its success in the industry.\n\nTuscan cities such as Lucca, Pisa, Siena and Florence are renowned for their craftmanship in marble, wood, leather and architecture. And people in the market for buying a superyacht expect everything - the interior as well as the exterior - to look perfect.\n\nA superyacht is \"probably the most expensive toy in the world,\" says Benetti boss Vincenzo Poerio\n\nOf course you need more than artistic flair to build a superyacht. For such large and expensive projects, engineering skills are crucial as are project management expertise to ensure the boat is built on time and on budget.\n\nBut Mr Poerio says the most important attribute to be successful in this industry is people skills to enable them to deal with the often \"challenging\" demands of the super rich.\n\nMaintaining good relations matter because it's a personal transaction, not a business one, he says:\n\n\"At the end of the day, you are building a big toy, probably the most expensive toy in the world.\"\n\nIn contrast to similar industries such as luxury cars or private aircraft, it's much harder to build these vessels in a standardised way.\n\n\"In our case most of the time we start from scratch. So the client is not buying a product, he's building a product which makes a huge difference… Most of the time it's not easy to manage these requests,\" says Mr Poerio.\n\nWhen it comes to superyachts, the interior is as important as the exterior\n\nThis approach is now starting to shift, with some shipbuilders including Benetti and Perini Navi, building smaller superyachts without first receiving an order.\n\nFor their wealthy customers, used to getting things when they want them, an instantly-available boat is a big attraction.\n\nBut for the firms investing millions when they don't yet know if they'll be able to find a customer it is a risky strategy.\n\nYet Burak Akgul, a managing director at shipbuilder Perini Navi, says he's not worried.\n\n\"We are an indulgence. There's always someone who's ready to indulge, it's just a matter of whether or not we manage to get hold of them,\" he jokes.\n\nIn fact, he says, the brand Perini has become a sort of status symbol, marking a certain level of achievement.\n\n\"We started seeing people expressing themselves as having reached the point where they now need to have their Perini.\n\n\"They didn't know what they wanted yet, but they had this feeling that they had come to the point of their personal success that time had come for them to build a Perini this was something they had to add to their stable,\" he says.\n\nOne other advantage for Viareggio is that it is already well equipped to cope with the vagaries of the superyacht industry, which because it is so small and specialised can see demand fluctuate wildly depending on the wider economy.\n\nThe skills required to build a superyacht are similar to those for a military boat with both of similar sizes.\n\nMassimo Perotti, owner of ship builder San Lorenzo, says this is a useful balance, with demand for pleasure yachts naturally reducing when military vessels are required and vice versa.\n\nNonetheless, the extreme wealth of their clientele means they're also more cushioned from the impact of world events. Even in the financial crisis, San Lorenzo managed to expand, selling about 20 yachts, partly by targeting new markets in Russia, South America, Brazil and India.\n\nThe crisis did, however, mark a shift in their customer base. Instead of getting people who wanted a superyacht to show how rich and powerful they were he says, most customers are now genuinely interested in boating.\n\nYet even with a flow of wealthy customers ready to indulge, the Italian industry is facing competition from other rivals within Europe and even China. Lower labour costs and raw materials mean these countries are able to produce a cheaper boat.\n\n\"If you want a piece of art you go to Italy,\" says San Lorenzo's Massimo Perotti\n\nBut Benetti's Mr Poerio says that for the \"very, very, very rich people\" they cater for, price isn't what matters.\n\nWhen people are spending millions and millions of euros \"the brand has to mean something,\" he says.\n\nHe believes things like the customer relationships and service they offer, as well as the guarantee of a certain level of quality, means they should be able to keep customers from going elsewhere.\n\nSan Lorenzo's Mr Perotti agrees: \"If you buy a superyacht it's for yourself. You like technology, design, luxury; you know, it's not cheap and you are not looking to to have it at the lowest cost.\"\n\nIn the end, it comes back to what Viareggio has always been renowned for - artistic flair.\n\n\"The characteristic of the Italians is individualism and creativity. Maybe you buy a German car because the Germans are better in organisation. But if you want to buy a piece of art you probably go to Italy.\"\n\nThis feature is based on interviews by series producer Neil Koenig, for the BBC's Life of Luxury series.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "As the woman stopped at traffic lights, four men demanded she get out the car\n\nA man who stole a woman's car while she and her baby were still inside is being sought by police.\n\nHe was among group of four men who confronted the woman and demanded she get out of the car when she stopped at traffic lights in Solihull.\n\nAs she attended to her baby, one of them got into the Audi RS6 and drove off.\n\nShe escaped with the infant when the driver pulled into a side road before driving off again. No-one was hurt.\n\nThe woman had stopped at lights on Lode Lane when the men pulled up behind her at about 18:00 BST on Saturday.\n\nThe offender drove the car at speed down Seven Star Road towards Warwick Road.\n\nDet Sgt Stew Lewis said: \"Luckily the woman and her baby were not hurt but the woman is very shaken by what happened.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Gregory Tiffin's body has been found, but Sophie Dowsley remains missing\n\nCanadian police have called off a search for an Australian woman who went missing while hiking earlier this month, according to her family.\n\nSophie Dowsley 34, and her Canadian partner Gregory Tiffin, 44, had left for a day-long walk in British Columbia on 8 July.\n\nPolice began a search after they did not return. Mr Tiffin's body was found near a waterfall last week.\n\nMs Dowsley's relatives have said she \"may never be found\".\n\nHer brother, Jamie Dowsley, said the Royal Canadian Mounted Police had \"no plausible or conceivable areas left to search\" in the rugged landscape near Harrison Lake.\n\n\"After visiting this area and gaining an understanding of the terrain and conditions our family fully accept this decision,\" Mr Dowsley wrote on social media.\n\nMs Dowsley's sunglasses and some of Mr Tiffin's personal items were found near the waterfall.\n\nThe missing woman's family thanked search teams for putting their \"lives at risk\".\n\nThe Royal Canadian Mounted Police has been contacted for comment.", "It must be serious. They've deployed the Royals.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have been on tour in Germany with a very specific purpose: to reassure the country that Brexit doesn't mean the break-up of a beautiful relationship.\n\nPrince William, after speaking a few words in German, told guests at a British embassy garden party: \"This relationship between UK and Germany really matters, it will continue despite Britain's recent decision to leave the European Union. I am confident we will remain the firmest of friends.\"\n\nBut since the British election, German politicians are more troubled than ever about Brexit. The German council for foreign relations' director, Daniela Schwarzer, told me: \"Policymakers in Berlin are surprised and worried at the degree of confusion in London, the lack of clarity as to the strategy the UK wants to follow.\n\n\"There is a lot surprise about how the negotiations are being handled and the somewhat incoherent messages which come out of London.\"\n\nOf course, Germany is just one country in the European Union - but it is first among equals, its chancellor by far the most senior politician, with a new and determined ally in President Macron, who's refreshed the Franco-German alliance.\n\nEven before Brexit became a reality, there's been an argument, almost an assumption, that German industry would put pressure on German politicians to argue for a good deal for the UK - access to the European market without having to abide by the rules.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Cambridge recently toured Germany\n\nSo far, Mrs Merkel has been adamant: no cherry picking. Will German industry push her to change her mind?\n\nI visited the Trumpf company in Stuttgart, a concern with a turnover of 3bn euros (£2.7bn) a year that makes sheet metal, laser cutters and machine tools. It employs 4,000 people in Germany and another 8,000 globally: in the USA, China, Japan, South Korea - and in Luton, Southampton and Rugby.\n\nThe company's Heidi Maier tells me orders from the UK are up because people have got used to the idea of Brexit.\n\n\"Despite political insecurities and decisions we don't like and we don't back, our business is doing very well,\" she says.\n\nWe stand in front of the True Punch 5000. The machine is swift and certain, precise and elegant, all the qualities that make Germans so proud of their engineering prowess.\n\nThe exact opposite of these qualities - slowness and uncertainty - is what worries German industry about Brexit.\n\nI ask Ms Maier what they want Mrs Merkel to push for. \"What would help is decisions, and fast decisions,\" she says.\n\n\"As soon as we know the new rules, we can go ahead. We are actually preparing for tariffs, which is the implication [of what the British government is saying], which would worsen our business. The goods we produce in Great Britain would become more expensive due to the tariffs, and we don't know how our customers would react to that.\"\n\nMost German businesses tend to lobby government through powerful trade associations. And one industry has more horsepower than any other.\n\nGermany's glittering car industry is an industrial giant with immense political clout and a 400bn euro turnover, employing 800,000 people. And the relationship with the UK is very important. One in seven cars exported from Germany goes to the UK, its single biggest market.\n\nThe Trumpf machine is just one example of German high-tech engineering\n\nEver since Brexit was a speck on the horizon, enthusiasts for leaving have argued the mighty German auto industry wouldn't allow politicians to punish Britain, a point I put to Matthias Wissman, the president of the VDA, the German automotive industry association.\n\n\"What we want is to keep the European Union of the 27 together,\" he says. \"That is the first priority. Second priority is to have a trade area with the UK with no tariff barriers, no non-tariff barriers. That is possible if the UK understands what the preconditions are.\n\n\"We want a good deal for Britain, but the best deal for Britain would be to stay in the customs union. Anything else would be worse for both sides. The best thing would be to stay in the internal market, like Norway.\"\n\nHe accused pro-Brexiteers of making \"totally unrealistic\" promises. \"I see a lot which is astonishing for a friend of Great Britain. I miss the traditional British pragmatism. We would like to have it in the future, but I see more and more ideological points of view which make pragmatism very difficult and unfortunately in both parties, Conservative and Labour.\"\n\nThe UK is the German auto industry's biggest export market\n\nWhen I put to him Liam Fox's view that a trade deal with the EU could be \"one of the easiest in human history\", he laughs and says it would take years and years but \"time is running out\".\n\n\"You need a transition period. And if you want an easy solution, stay in the customs union and the internal market.\n\n\"A transition period would also be very pragmatic. We hope that on the British side that gets deeper and deeper into the intellectual capabilities of those who decide.\"\n\nThis is not just the view of one man, or one industry. There seems to be a consensus among the industrial powerbrokers.\n\nKlaus Deutsch of the federation of German industry, the BDI, makes it clear they did not want Brexit in the first place and would like the UK to stay in the single market and observe all the rules.\n\nBut that's not the government's intention, so what follows?\n\n\"We would favour a comprehensive agreement. But the most important thing is legal certainty in the period from A to B. If you don't have a transition period of many years, then there will be a huge disruption to all sorts of businesses.\n\n\"The concern of business is unless you get a clear cut and legally safe agreement, you can't sell pharmaceuticals, or cars or what have you, across the Channel, you have to stop business, divest, change business models.\"\n\nWill Germany prioritise EU unity over its economic relationship with the UK?\n\nHe makes it clear only the British government can decide what it wants, but what about the idea they'll push Mrs Merkel to soften her approach?\n\n\"That's completely unlikely,\" Mr Deutsch says. \"The importance of the European Union for German corporates is even higher than the importance of a bilateral relationship with the United Kingdom. So, the priority of safeguarding… the unity of the European Union is much more important than one economic relationship. There are a lot of illusions - it won't happen.\"\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 4's The World This Weekend programme, Owen Paterson, the former cabinet minister, who recently visited Germany, told me he had felt a \"sense of denial\" in the country over Brexit.\n\n\"It is hugely in everyone's interest that we maintain reciprocal free trade and as we have absolute conformity of standards, everyone should get their head round that,\" he told me.\n\n\"Whereas [the Germans] are still thinking entirely in terms of remaining in the current institutions and that's clearly what we are not going to do.\n\n\"We're not going to stay in the single market. We are not going to stay in the customs union. We're certainly not going to stay under the remit of the European Court of Justice. I found that that was something they had not really got their heads round.\"\n\nAnd my overriding impression of the view of the big beasts of Germany industry?\n\nFrustration that they don't know where the British government wants to head and a strong sense that any outcome will be worse than what exists.\n\nBut also, a total rejection of the idea that the economic relationship with the UK outweighs the German interest in European unity.", "Antiretroviral drugs are currently used in HIV treatment to kill any active virus\n\nThe outstanding progress in boosting the immune system to treat cancer may help unlock a cure for HIV, according to scientists meeting in Paris.\n\nThe body's normal defences struggle to clear the body of HIV and cancer.\n\nBut the rapidly emerging field of immunotherapy has seen some patients with terminal cancer go into complete remission.\n\nThe hope is that a similar approach could clear someone of HIV, although some experts have urged caution.\n\nHIV treatment requires daily antiretroviral drugs to kill any active virus. Left unchecked, HIV can destroy the immune system, causing Aids.\n\nA cure is currently impossible because drugs and the immune system fail to detect the sleeping or \"latent\" HIV hiding in the body's cells.\n\nNobel Prize winner and co-discoverer of HIV, Francoise Barre-Sinoussi, told the BBC: \"One of the mechanisms why [latently infected cells] persist is the fact they are proliferating very similar to tumour cells.\n\n\"Those cells are expressing molecules that are the same molecules that are expressed on tumour cells.\n\n\"So that raises the question whether we could develop a strategy for HIV-cure similar to the novel treatment in the field of cancer.\"\n\nShe is one of the scientists attending the HIV and Cancer Cure Forum in Paris.\n\nProf Sharon Lewin, the director of the Doherty Institute in Australia, agrees there is much to learn from cancer.\n\nShe said: \"There are a lot of parallels… I think it's huge.\"\n\nCancers evolve tricks to survive an assault by the immune system.\n\nThey can produce proteins on their surface, such as PD-L1, which disable immune cells attacking the tumour.\n\nA new class of immunotherapy drugs called \"checkpoint inhibitors\" allow the immune system to keep on fighting and the results have been remarkable.\n\nIn one trial, a fifth of patients with terminal melanoma had no sign of the disease after immunotherapy.\n\nHowever, only about 50 people with HIV have been given immunotherapy to treat their cancer.\n\nSo there is little evidence of immunotherapy drugs and their effect on HIV.\n\nProf Lewin has started doing the research in the laboratory and thinks immunotherapy drugs could reinvigorate an immune system that has become tired of fighting HIV.\n\nShe said: \"The parts of the immune system that recognise HIV are often exhausted T-cells, they express immune checkpoint markers.\n\n\"In the laboratory, if you then put those cells in with an immune checkpoint blocker, the T-cells do regain function.\"\n\nAntiretroviral therapy combines three or more drugs which stop the HIV virus from progressing\n\nShe said there was emerging evidence that the drugs also activated HIV lying dormant inside immune cells.\n\nProf Lewin said: \"We want the virus to wake up, any virus that wakes up gets killed [by antiretroviral drugs].\"\n\nHowever this is a new concept in HIV that has so far delivered nothing for patients.\n\nAnd there are important differences between the challenges of cancer and HIV immunology.\n\nIn cancer, the immune system can recognise the threat but is not powerful enough to do anything about it, but the immune system does not recognise latently infected HIV cells at all.\n\nDr Anthony Fauci, the head of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said the area is \"very hot\" right now in cancer.\n\nBut he cautioned: \"We have to be careful we don't assume that things that work in cancer are going to work in HIV.\n\n\"HIV is so different, that even though it's worth exploring, I wouldn't want people to think this is going to be equally successful in HIV.\"", "Asda has withdrawn an own-brand type of newborn nappy after a family complained their baby had suffered a \"chemical reaction\" to the product.\n\nJordan Bartliff, from South Yorkshire, put images showing his premature son's red and blistered skin on Facebook.\n\nThe father is warning other parents he fears there is a \"bad batch\" of the Little Angels newborn nappies.\n\nAsda said \"our hearts go out to the Bartliff family\", adding it had withdrawn the product for tests.\n\nFacebook post from the father of the three-week old baby\n\nIn his first post Mr Bartliff said his child, who he does not name, had been wearing Little Angels newborn nappies for three-weeks \"with no problems whatsoever\" and that \"he's not allergic to them\".\n\nBut he said that following what appeared to be a \"chemical reaction\" his son, born five weeks premature, had needed hospital treatment on Saturday morning and was moved on to a ventilator after experiencing breathing difficulties.\n\n\"I wouldn't want it happening to any other little soul, so please be vigilant and careful with these nappies as it obviously is a bad batch,\" he added.\n\nAnd in a later post he said Asda had \"recalled\" the nappies and that his son was in the process of being transferred to another hospital in Sheffield.\n\nFacebook update about three-week old baby posted on Monday evening\n\nAsda said the supermarket chain had started investigating and had made a \"nationwide call to remove the product on Monday afternoon\".\n\nLizzy Massey, the chain's vice president of own brand, said: \"Our hearts go out to the Bartliff family and hope their baby son makes a full recovery soon.\n\n\"We're in touch with his dad and have collected the nappies so that we can test them along with others in the batch.\n\n\"We take our responsibility to parents seriously and as a precaution we have decided to remove our Little Angels newborn nappies from sale until we know why this happened.\"", "Kayla MacDonald died after logs fell on her\n\nA \"precious and fun-loving\" eight-year-old girl who died after logs fell on her in an Argyll forest has been named by police.\n\nKayla MacDonald, from Dunbeg, had become trapped by the logs near the village of Benderloch, north of Oban, at about 14:40 BST on Sunday.\n\nHer family said Kayla was fluent in Gaelic and her smile would \"light up a room\".\n\nA 12-year-old girl was also injured and is in a stable condition in hospital.\n\nShe was airlifted to Lorn and Islands Hospital in Oban but was then transferred to the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Glasgow.\n\nKayla was pronounced dead at the scene.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The incident happened near the village of Benderloch on Sunday afternoon\n\nIn a statement her family said: \"Kayla was a precious fun loving eight-year-old who was loved by everyone around her. Kayla's smile would light up a room. She attended Rockfield's Gaelic Medium where she was fluent in Gaelic.\n\n\"Our wee girl loved music and dance as well as doing hair, nails and make up. Kayla has two younger brothers who, along with the rest of her family and friends, will miss her dearly.\"\n\nA joint investigation between Police Scotland and the Health and Safety Executive will take place to establish the full circumstances surrounding the death, however, it is not being treated as suspicious.\n\nThe area where the incident happened is part of the Barcaldine Forest, where there has been logging activity recently.\n\nMargaret Adams, convenor of the local community council, told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme that the tragedy would have a \"massive\" impact on the community.\n\n\"Even if people don't know the child they will know the family, in a small community,\" she said.\n\n\"It really will have quite an affect on the locals.\"\n\nMs Adams said logging had been going on in the area for several months, with signs up warning of the dangers.\n\nShe added: \"The signs make it very clear that they don't want people to go up because there will be heavy machinery and logs stacked.\"\n\nLocal resident Elaine Walton told BBC Scotland there had been plenty of warnings about forestry operations but it was possible to access the area by avoiding the fenced-off tracks.\n\n\"The Forestry (Commission) sent every household in the area a letter telling us the plans for the works, that the place would be sealed off and that there were other walks down at Sutherland's Grove,\" she said.\n\n\"But if you live in the area you know that there are little ways to get up on the hill if you want to and young people explore and find these ways.\"\n\nA spokesman for Forest Enterprise Scotland said: \"Our thoughts are with the family and their friends at this very difficult time and we offer them our deepest condolences.\n\n\"We will now focus on working with the site contractor, Tilhill Forestry, and the Health and Safety Executive as investigations into this tragic incident continue.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. CCTV shows Rashan Jermaine Charles being apprehended by police inside a shop, as the BBC's Andy Moore reports.\n\nA 20-year-old man has died after being apprehended by a police officer in an east London shop.\n\nThe Met Police said the man, named by his family as Rashan Jermaine Charles, was followed on foot after officers tried to stop a car in Kingsland Road, Hackney, at 01:45 BST on Saturday.\n\nMr Charles was taken ill after trying to swallow an object and was pronounced dead in hospital, police said.\n\nFootage apparently showing the incident has been shared on social media, along with the hashtag #JusticeForRash.\n\nThe film, recorded by a security camera, shows Mr Charles entering a shop pursued by a uniformed police officer.\n\nIn the footage, there is a struggle on the floor, and Mr Charles appears to put his hand to his mouth.\n\nAnother man in plain clothes is seen helping the officer. Mr Charles is seen handcuffed with his hands behind his back.\n\nMembers of the local community have been laying flowers and lighting candles at the scene of the incident\n\nScotland Yard said the officer \"intervened and sought to prevent the man from harming himself\".\n\nA force medic provided first aid at the scene before London Ambulance Service paramedics arrived.\n\nMr Charles was taken to the Royal London Hospital in east London and pronounced dead at 02:55 BST.\n\nPolice said next of kin had been informed and a post-mortem examination would be held.\n\nA makeshift memorial to Mr Charles has sprung up by the scene of the incident as members of the local community have laid flowers and lit candles outside the shop.\n\nSimon Laurence, the Met's borough commander for Hackney, said: \"There is likely to be speculation over the next few days regarding what led to this man becoming ill, so I would encourage people to keep up-to-date with the IPCC's statements, as and when they are released.\n\n\"All police officers are fully aware that they will be asked to account for their actions - officers are not exempt from the law and we would not wish to be.\"\n\nThe IPCC confirmed it had begun an independent investigation, taking evidence from eyewitnesses and police officers.\n\nIt said CCTV footage from inside the shop and police body-worn video evidence had been gathered and viewed.\n\n\"The IPCC has obtained evidence which indicates an object was removed from [Mr Charles's] throat at the scene,\" a spokesman said.\n\nHe appealed for information from witnesses who were in the Kingsland Road and Middleton Road area of Hackney.\n\nCampaigners from Hackney Stand Up To Racism have announced a vigil for Mr Charles outside Stoke Newington police station on Monday evening.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Greenland ice sheet covers an area about seven times the size of the UK\n\nScientists are \"very worried\" that the melting of the Greenland ice sheet could accelerate and raise sea levels more than expected.\n\nThey say warmer conditions are encouraging algae to grow and darken the surface.\n\nDark ice absorbs more solar radiation than clean white ice so warms up and melts more rapidly.\n\nCurrently the Greenland ice sheet is adding up to 1mm a year to the rise in the global average level of the oceans.\n\nIt is the largest mass of ice in the northern hemisphere covering an area about seven times the size of the United Kingdom and reaching up to 3km (2 miles) in thickness.\n\nThis means that the average sea level would rise around the world by about seven metres, more than 20ft, if it all melted.\n\nThat is why Greenland, though remote, is a focus of research which has direct relevance to major coastal cities as far apart as Miami, London and Shanghai and low-lying areas in Bangladesh and parts of Britain.\n\nAlgae were first observed on the Greenland ice sheet more than a century ago but until recently its potential impact was ignored. Only in the last few years have researchers started to explore how the microscopically small plants could affect future melting.\n\nA five-year UK research project known as Black and Bloom is under way to investigate the different species of algae and how they might spread, and then to use this knowledge to improve computer projections of future sea level rise.\n\nThe possibility of biologically inspired melting was not included in the estimates for sea level rise published by the UN's climate panel, the IPCC, in its latest report in 2013.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Like stepping onto the Moon\": Life on the ice\n\nThat study said the worst-case scenario was a rise of 98cm by the end of the century.\n\nOne concern now is that rising temperatures will allow algae to flourish not only on the slopes of the narrow margins of the ice-sheet but also on the flat areas in the far larger interior where melting could happen on a much bigger scale.\n\nWe joined the latest phase of research in which scientists set up camp on the ice-sheet to gather accurate measurements of the \"albedo\" or the amount of solar radiation reflected by the surface.\n\nWhite snow reflects up to 90% of solar radiation while dark patches of algae will only reflect about 35% or even as little as 1% in the blackest spots.\n\nWhen we flew by helicopter onto the ice sheet, the rolling landscape seemed surprisingly grey - my first impression was that it looked dirty.\n\nScientists are investigating the different species of algae and how they might spread\n\nMuch of the surface was covered with what looked like patches of soot and it was pockmarked with countless holes at the bottom of which were pitch-black layers of a mix of algae, bacteria and minerals known as cryoconite.\n\nProf Martyn Tranter of Bristol University, who is leading the project, told me:\n\n\"People are very worried about the possibility that the ice sheet might be melting faster and faster in the future.\n\n\"We suspect that in a warming climate these dark algae will grow over larger and larger parts of the Greenland ice sheet and it might well be that they will cause more melting and an acceleration of sea level rise.\n\n\"Our project is trying to understand just how much melting might occur.\"\n\nOver the last 20 years, Greenland has been losing more ice than it gains through snowfall in winter - a change in a natural balance that normally keeps the ice-sheet stable.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. David Shukman explains how scientists live on an ice sheet - and how you go to toilet\n\nBiological darkening has not been built into scientists' climate projections\n\nAnd one of the project scientists, Dr Andrew Tedstone, a glaciologist and also of Bristol University, said that over much of the same period, images from the MODIS satellite showed a darkening trend with the years of greatest dark producing most meltwater.\n\nHe said: \"We still don't think we've reached a point where we've seen the maximum darkness that we're going to see in this area so the fieldwork we're doing is to try to find out in a warming climate 'do we think the area is going to get any darker than we've already seen in the last 15 years?'\"\n\nEarlier research had found that the ice sheet is covered with a range of contaminants carried on the winds including dust and soot from as far away as Canadian prairie fires and the industrial heartlands of China, America and Europe.\n\nBut studies over the past five years have shown that the majority of the dark material may be biological with different kinds of algae turning the ice black, brown, green and even mauve.\n\n\"This is a living landscape,\" according to Dr Joe Cook, a glacial microbiologist at Sheffield University.\n\n\"This is an extremely difficult place for anything to live but, as we look around us, all this darkness we can see on the ice surface is living - algae, microbes, living and reproducing in the ice sheet and changing its colour.\"\n\nIce retreat does not have to be total to have a damaging impact\n\n\"We know they're very widespread and we know that they're very dark and we know that that's accelerating melt but that's not something that's built into any of our climate projections - and that's something that needs to change.\"\n\nThe final phase of the Black and Bloom project involves weaving the new factor of biological darkening into climate models to come up with revised estimates for future sea level rise.\n\nAnd, as Dr Cook explained, the retreat of the Greenland ice sheet does not need to be total to have a widespread and damaging impact.\n\n\"When we say the ice sheet is melting faster, no one saying it's all going to melt in next decade or the next 100 years or even the next 1,000 years but it doesn't all have to melt for more people to be in danger - only a small amount has to melt to threaten millions in coastal communities around world.\"\n\nMeanwhile, another factor that may be driving the melting has been identified by an Austrian member of the team, Stefan Hofer, a PhD student at Bristol.\n\nIn a paper recently published in Science Advances, he analysed satellite imagery and found that over the past 20 years there has been a 15% decrease in cloud cover over Greenland in the summer months.\n\n\"It was definitely a 'wow' moment,\" he told me.\n\nAlthough temperature is an obvious driver of melting, the paper estimated that two-thirds of additional melting, above the long-term average, was attributable to clearer skies.\n\nWhat is not known is how this might affect the algae. Their darker pigments are believed to be a protection from ultra violet light - so more sunshine might encourage that process of darkening or prove to be damaging to them.\n\nThe Black and Bloom project, funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (Nerc), aims to publish its new projections for sea level rise in two years' time.\n\nFollow David on Twitter. and Join him for a live Facebook chat at 15:30 with Arctic explorer Pen Hadow ahead of his mission to sail to the North Pole.", "Dawkins has previously written: \"Islam is the greatest force for evil in the world today\"\n\nEvolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins has denied Islamophobia after a US radio station cancelled his forthcoming speech.\n\nThe best-selling author had been due to address an event hosted by KPFA Radio in Berkeley, California, in August.\n\nOrganisers accused him of \"abusive speech against Islam\" when scrapping his appearance, an allegation he denied.\n\nHe called on the station to review his past remarks and apologise.\n\nIn a letter to ticket-holders, the publicly funded radio station wrote: \"We had booked this event based entirely on his excellent new book on science, when we didn't know he had offended and hurt - in his tweets and other comments on Islam, so many people.\"\n\nThe station, which is not affiliated with the University of California, said in a letter - which Mr Dawkins published online - that it does not support \"hurtful\" or \"abusive speech\".\n\nIt also apologised \"for not having had broader knowledge of Dawkins views much earlier\".\n\nLocal media report that Bay Area residents had brought attention to statements made by the author of the anti-religion book The God Delusion, including a 2013 tweet saying \"Islam is the greatest force for evil in the world today\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'It gets lonely': Being conservative on a liberal campus\n\nIn an open letter to organisers, Professor Dawkins wrote that he \"never used abusive speech against Islam\".\n\nHe said harsh statements he has made in the past have been directed at \"IslamISM\" - apparently referring to those who use the religion for political objectives - and not adherents of the faith.\n\n\"I have criticised the appalling misogyny and homophobia of Islam, I have criticised the murdering of apostates for no crime other than their disbelief,\" Professor Dawkins writes.\n\nHe also pointed out that he has been a \"frequent critic of Christianity but have never been de-platformed for that\".\n\nHe describes listening to KPFA \"almost every day\" during the two years he lived in Berkeley, adding that \"I especially admired your habit of always quoting sources\".\n\n\"You conspicuously did not quote a source when accusing me of 'abusive speech'.\n\n\"Why didn't you check your facts - or at least have the common courtesy to alert me - before summarily cancelling my event?\"\n\nProfessor Dawkins' book about the study of evolution, The Selfish Gene, was named last week by the Royal Society as the most inspiring science book of all time.\n\nKnown as the home of the Free Speech moment in the 1960s, Berkeley has recently left that reputation in doubt as far-left protesters have sought to silence speakers and academics with whom they disagree.\n\nConservative authors Ann Coulter and Milo Yiannopoulos have each clashed with the University of California after events where they were due to speak were cancelled by the college administration out of fear for public safety.", "Rainfall in January 2014 was unprecedented in Met Office records\n\nThere is an increased risk of \"unprecedented\" winter downpours such as those that caused extensive flooding in 2014, the UK Met Office says.\n\nTheir study suggests there's now a one in three chance of monthly rainfall records being broken in England and Wales in winter.\n\nThe estimate reflects natural variability plus changes in the UK climate as a result of global warming.\n\nBut a supercomputer was needed to understand the scale of increased risk.\n\nAcross the winter of 2013-14, a series of storms hit the UK leading to extensive flooding in many parts. The amount of rain that fell in much of southern England and the Midlands was the heaviest in 100 years. Cleaning up from the resulting floods took time and money - the bill for the Thames valley alone was over £1bn.\n\nMet Office researchers say that there was nothing in the observational record to indicate that such an unprecedented amount of rainfall was possible.\n\nHowever, by using a climate model that takes the current climate period from 1981-2015 as its base, and running it hundreds of times on the Met Office supercomputer, researchers were able to find many modelled months with similar or greater rainfall to January 2014.\n\nTheir analysis also showed a high risk of record-breaking rainfall in England and Wales in the coming decade.\n\n\"We found many unprecedented events in the model data and this comes out as a 7% risk of a monthly record extreme in a given winter in the next few years, that's just over Southeast England,\" Dr Vikki Thompson, the study's lead author told BBC News.\n\n\"Looking at all the regions of England and Wales we found a 34% chance of an extreme event happening in at least one of those regions each year.\"\n\nNot only is there a greater risk, but the researchers were also able to estimate that these events could break existing records by up to 30%.\n\n\"That is an enormous number, to have a monthly value that's 30% larger, it's a bit like what we had in 2014, and as much again,\" said Prof Adam Scaife from the Met Office.\n\nKey to developing this new understanding of the risk of record rainfall has been adding the power of a supercomputer to create hundreds of realistic UK winter scenarios in addition to the observational record. Other experts believe that the new work will be very important to policy makers.\n\n\"Although this year has been particularly dry, generally our winters are getting wetter and the rainfall heavier, so we are seeing more flooding and records broken,\" said Prof Piers Forster from the University of Leeds who was not involved with the study.\n\n\"We expect the odds to shorten on future rainfall extremes but the first stage to predict this is knowing the current odds - and this is what this new paper gives us.\"\n\nOne of the key questions though is how much of a role does climate change play in increasing the risk of these large scale downpours?\n\n\"There's a good chance of a record and there's a good chance that it would be much bigger than the current record,\" said Prof Scaife.\n\n\"We are not attributing this directly to climate change, what we are saying is that if you take in everything that's in the climate system today then that is the risk. Climate change is already happening and we've already got some and that is folded in here.\"\n\nThe Army was needed to help with the scale of flooding in January and February 2014\n\nThe new research approach has been dubbed the UNSEEN method, to emphasise that this work anticipates events that have not yet been seen. It was also used as part of the UK government's National Flood Resilience Review (NFRR) when the Met Office were asked to estimate the potential and severity of record breaking rainfall over the next decade.\n\nThat review led the government to adopt new stress tests to assess the risk of flooding from the rivers and seas.\n\nHowever there were concerns that the NFRR didn't consider surface water flooding which can affect more homes and businesses. Some critics believe that in light of this new research, the review should be re-visited.\n\n\"It should be an urgent priority for the Environment Secretary to re-open the National Flood Resilience Review with the aim of improving the UK's preparedness against surface water flooding caused by heavy rainfall, the risks of which are clearly spelled out in this paper,\" said Bob Ward, from the the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change.\n\nThe Met Office study is published in the journal Nature Communications.\n\nFollow Matt on Twitter and on Facebook", "Corrie Mckeague was last seen in Bury St Edmunds on 24 September\n\nA skull found amid the large-scale search for Corrie Mckeague was not that of the missing airman, police said.\n\nIt was found at a landfill site in Landbeach, Cambridgeshire at a time when police were trawling another landfill at nearby Milton for the missing 23-year-old.\n\nPolice said the skull was female and dated back to pre-1945. Mr Mckeague's family was informed of the find.\n\nMr Mckeague, of Dunfermline, was last seen in Bury St Edmunds in September.\n\nA spokeswoman for Cambridgeshire Police said: \"On April 14 a human skull was discovered at a landfill site in Ely Road, Landbeach, near Cambridge.\n\n\"Early indications of the age of the skull meant it was highly unlikely to be that of Corrie Mckeague, however Suffolk Police and Corrie's family were informed.\n\n\"It has since been established that the skull is female and dates back to before 1945.\n\n\"There are no suspicious circumstances therefore the investigation has been closed.\"\n\nThe spokeswoman said the skull was found by workers at the site and had been traced back to a house clearance of a man who \"collected curios\". The coroner was made aware of the discovery, she said.\n\nThousands of tonnes of waste have been searched and sifted at the landfill site in Milton\n\nOn Friday, Suffolk Police confirmed it had ended its search of waste at the Milton landfill site.\n\nPolice also said on Friday an external force was reviewing the investigation.\n\nOn Monday, Suffolk Police said that until this review was completed the area of the landfill site searched would be left in \"its current state\" and would not be used for further waste disposal.\n\nCorrie's mother Nicola Urquhart has urged the force to reconsider and is considering seeking an injunction to stop the site being backfilled.\n\nMore than 21,000 people have signed a petition calling on police to continue searching the waste site.\n\nMr Mckeague's girlfriend April Oliver gave birth to their baby daughter Ellie in June\n\nThe RAF serviceman has not been seen since a night out in the Suffolk town when CCTV showed him entering a bin loading bay.\n\nSuffolk Police said Mr Mckeague was known to \"sleep in rubbish on a night out\".\n\nDet Supt Katie Elliott said the landfill search for Mr Mckeague had been \"systematic, comprehensive and thorough\".\n\nMr Mckeague's girlfriend April Oliver gave birth to their baby daughter Ellie in June.\n\nOn Facebook she wrote on Monday: \"My little Ellie brings so much joy and happiness even at the hardest of times. Love you always.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Leah Kerry died in Torbay Hospital after apparently suffering from an adverse reaction to a psychoactive substance she had taken\n\nA girl who is thought to have died because of an adverse reaction to what used be called a legal high \"paid the ultimate price\", her family has said.\n\nLeah Kerry, 15, who attended school in Salisbury, died in hospital on 16 July having been found unconscious at an address in Newton Abbot, Devon.\n\nIn a statement, her family described her as \"a courageous and confident young woman.\"\n\nShe knew the dangers of drugs, but \"thought she was invincible\", it said.\n\n\"Sadly, despite being well aware of the risks, she thought she was invincible and she rolled the dice and has paid the ultimate price\", the statement said.\n\nLeah Kerry's family said she \"rolled the dice and paid the ultimate price\"\n\nA statement given to Devon and Cornwall Police on behalf of the family said: \"Leah lit up any room she walked into with her incredible personality, sense of humour, striking looks and demeanour.\n\n\"Those who know her will ache to hear the words 'You allriiight' one last time.\"\n\nThe family warned other people against taking \"dangerous NPS (new psychoactive substances) tablets\" and urged \"the government to place the dangers of psychoactive substances at the top of their agenda for discussion on the back of their Drugs Strategy for 2017.\"\n\nJacob Khanlarian, 20, from Newton Abbot, who was charged with intent to supply drugs in connection with the incident, will appear before Exeter Crown Court on 10 August.\n• None Legal highs and chemsex to be targeted\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Radio 2 DJ Sara Cox was sent letters handwritten in felt-tip pen\n\nA convicted paedophile who stalked BBC Radio 2 DJ Sara Cox has been jailed.\n\nAnthony Collins, 50, from Chatham, who admitted harassment, sent letters to Cox and told her he was psychologically disturbed and had a criminal past but wanted her to invite him to the BBC.\n\nWhen police arrested him, they found he had a fake BBC visitor's pass, Cox's sister's work address, and indecent images of girls aged four to 15.\n\nCollins, of Afghan Road, was jailed for 16 months at Maidstone Crown Court.\n\nSentencing, Judge Martin Joy told him: \"You have an obsessive personality.\"\n\nThe court heard Collins bought Cox's address online and sent her letters written in felt-tip pen.\n\nAnthony Collins wrote that he was \"tall with green eyes\" but unsuccessful in his life\n\nIn one letter, he told her he was living unhappily in a bedsit and asked her, to invite him to the Radio 2 studios, saying she was \"lovely, warm, kind and sexy\".\n\nHe wrote: \"I'm 49, tall with green eyes. I know you are married to Ben Cyzer and know he is a successful man. I'm unsuccessful in my life.\"\n\nHe also wrote to Cox's husband at his workplace - the letter included a picture of Cox holding a child, and a diagram with the words \"Cancer Analysis\" in capital letters.\n\nProsecutor Mary Jacobson said: \"Needless to say that when Ms Cox found out her husband had received a letter she was immediately much more scared, as she put it, and the matter was reported to the police.\"\n\nThe court heard when Collins was arrested he said he \"wanted to be in the news\" and admitted his actions amounted to harassment.\n\nOfficers found the indecent images in Collins's bedside drawers and discovered more unposted letters as well as pictures and press cuttings.\n\nCollins had pleaded guilty to possessing indecent images and making indecent images of children.\n\nThe court was told he had a criminal history that included an 18-month jail term for poisoning a 13-year-old girl in a bid to sedate her and have sex with her.\n\nCollins had also broken a restraining order by speaking to two girls aged six and seven and making lewd comments.\n\nIn mitigation, defence counsel Ian Dear said Collins's actions towards Cox amounted to harassment but had not intended to cause alarm or distress, adding it was \"a cry for help\".\n\nCollins was given a Sexual Harm Prevention Order and a restraining order.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ryanair says it could cut fares by as much as 9% on some routes as competition in the airline industry intensifies in the next few months.\n\nThe warning from Europe's largest carrier by passenger numbers follows similar comments about price pressures from Ryanair's rivals in recent weeks.\n\nCompetition was growing as airlines switched capacity from Turkey and North Africa, Ryanair said.\n\nSeparately, Ryanair said it had made a \"non-binding offer\" for Alitalia.\n\nOn Friday, Italian media reported that about 10 offers had been made for the loss-making airline.\n\nIn a statement, Dublin-based Ryanair said it was \"important we are involved in the process\" given that Alitalia is Italy's largest carrier.\n\nRyanair's comments came as it reported a 55% rise in pre-tax profits to 397m euros (£356m) in the three months to 30 June. Revenues were up 13% to 1.68bn euros.\n\nThe average fare during the quarter rose 1% to 40.3 euros, although Ryanair said this was a blip due to the much stronger Easter trading. Easter, a peak-time for holidaymakers, fell in April this year, inside the carrier's reporting period. In 2016, it fell in March.\n\nThe airline said it expected fares to fall by 5% in the six months to the end of September and by 8% in the six months to the end of March 2018.\n\n\"We expect the pricing environment to remain very competitive\" chief executive Michael O'Leary said in a statement. EasyJet and Wizz Air have both said that fares will be under pressure this summer.\n\nThe warning sparked a 3.5% fall in Ryanair's share price. EasyJet shares fell 3.4%, while the owner of British Airways, IAG, fell 2.7%.\n\nIn a bid to recoup some lost revenues, Ryanair is considering limiting the number of passengers eligible to take a second free carry-on bag. Revenues from people paying to take luggage have fallen at the airline.\n\nMr O'Leary told analysts that it was possible that only passengers who paid for priority boarding would be eligible. However, he added that no decision had been made.\n\nRyanair executives also repeated warnings of major flight disruptions between the UK and Europe if Brexit talks fail to agree a bi-lateral deal on flights. The airline has warned it may cancel flights and move operations abroad if there is no agreement well in advance of Brexit.\n\n\"We need clarity so that we can plan our schedules for 2019,\" chief financial officer Neil Sorahan told the BBC.\n\nEasyJet announced last week that it had secured an air operator's certificate in Austria to enable it to keep flying across the EU following Brexit.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Biggest Weekend will run from 25-28 May\n\nWith Glastonbury taking a year off in 2018, there's already one new festival hoping to fill the mud-and-music gap.\n\nThe BBC has announced plans to host The Biggest Weekend while Glasto has its traditional fallow year.\n\nThe four-day festival will take place in May across four sites in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nThe last time Glastonbury had a year off, in 2012, BBC Radio 1 brought its Big Weekend festival to Hackney.\n\nIt coincided with the London Olympics, which took place in the capital a few weeks after the festival.\n\nThe Biggest Weekend is scheduled for the late May bank holiday weekend (25-28 May) - earlier than when Glastonbury normally is.\n\nMore than 175,000 tickets will be made available, which is more than the number sold for Glasto, but this one is across four locations.\n\nThe BBC said it will bring \"the biggest artists in the world\" to the event - but headliners won't be announced for some time yet.\n\nThose who don't fancy the mud and rain will be able to watch and listen to the coverage on various BBC outlets.\n\nMore than 175,000 tickets will be made available for the event\n\nRadio 1, Radio 2, Radio 3 and 6 Music will all broadcast live sets from the weekend, while BBC Two and BBC Four will lead the TV coverage.\n\nDon't worry if you're away that weekend - because all the sets will also be available on BBC iPlayer.\n\nBob Shennan, director of BBC radio and music, said the corporation \"has a strong history of bringing the nation together for some special moments, and this is the biggest single music event ever attempted by the BBC\".\n\n\"We will be celebrating the diversity of music from four different corners of the country, bringing the best UK music to the world and the best global music to the UK.\"\n\nThe festival will be for one year only and there are no plans for it to become an annual event.\n\nGlastonbury takes a break every five to six years to prevent excessive damage to the site.\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.", "Sunderland fan Bradley Lowery was a mascot against Everton then for them\n\nEverton will host a charity football match in celebration of Bradley Lowery, the club has announced.\n\nAlthough a Sunderland fan, six-year-old Bradley made a real impact on Everton when he was a mascot first against them, then for them.\n\nBradley died on 7 July having been diagnosed with neuroblastoma when he was 18 months old.\n\nBradley's mother Gemma said the support the family had received was \"fantastic\".\n\nEvertonians formed a special bond with the youngster, initially during Everton's match at Sunderland in September 2016 and then when he was a guest at Goodison Park for two matches in January and February this year.\n\nEverton Chairman Bill Kenwright said: \"I didn't know him for long but from the second he walked out onto the pitch with his beloved Sunderland against us, I felt an overwhelming need to support him.\n\n\"He was the loveliest lad - still an imp, but with the biggest heart.\"\n\nFunds are being raised for the Bradley Lowery Foundation, a charity set up by his family which aims to help other families with children with cancer.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The child caught the infection from its mother around the time of birth\n\nA nine-year-old infected with HIV at birth has spent most of their life without needing any treatment, say doctors in South Africa.\n\nThe child, whose identity is being protected, was given a burst of treatment shortly after birth.\n\nThey have since been off drugs for eight-and-a-half years without symptoms or signs of active virus.\n\nThe family is said to be \"really delighted\".\n\nMost people need treatment every day to prevent HIV destroying the immune system and causing Aids.\n\nUnderstanding how the child is protected could lead to new drugs or a vaccine for stopping HIV.\n\nThe child caught the infection from their mother around the time of birth in 2007. They had very high levels of HIV in the blood.\n\nEarly antiretroviral therapy was not standard practice at the time, but was given to the child from nine weeks old as part of a clinical trial.\n\nLevels of the virus became undetectable, treatment was stopped after 40 weeks and unlike anybody else on the study - the virus has not returned.\n\nEarly therapy which attacks the virus before it has a chance to fully establish itself has been implicated in child \"cure\" cases twice before.\n\nThe \"Mississippi Baby\" was put on treatment within 30 hours of birth and went 27 months without treatment before HIV re-emerged in her blood.\n\nThere was also a case in France with a patient who has now gone more than 11 years without drugs.\n\nDr Avy Violari, the head of paediatric research at the Perinal HIV Research Unit in Johannesburg, said: \"We don't believe that antiretroviral therapy alone can lead to remission.\n\n\"We don't really know what's the reason why this child has achieved remission - we believe it's either genetic or immune system-related.\"\n\nSome people are naturally better at dealing with an HIV infection - so-called \"elite controllers\". However, whatever the child has is different to anything that has been seen before.\n\nReplicating it as a new form of therapy - a drug, antibody or vaccine - would have the potential to help other patients.\n\nIt is worth noting that while there is no active HIV in the child's body, the virus has been detected in the child's immune cells.\n\nHIV can hide inside them - called latent HIV - for long periods of time, so there is still a danger the child could need drug treatment in the future.\n\nThe team in Johannesburg performed the study alongside the UK's MRC Clinical Trials Unit.\n\nProf Diana Gibb, who is based in London, told the BBC News website: \"It captures the imagination because you've got a virtual cure and it is exciting to see cases like this.\n\n\"But it is important to remember it is one child.\n\n\"HIV is still a massive problem around the world and we mustn't put all our eyes on to one phenomenon like this, as opposed to looking at the bigger issues for Africa.\"\n\nWorldwide, 36.7 million people are living with HIV and only 53% of them are receiving antiretroviral therapy.\n\nDr Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said: \"Further study is needed to learn how to induce long-term HIV remission in infected babies.\n\n\"However, this new case strengthens our hope that by treating HIV-infected children for a brief period beginning in infancy, we may be able to spare them the burden of lifelong therapy and the health consequences of long-term immune activation typically associated with HIV disease.\"\n\nThe results are being presented at the IAS Conference on HIV Science.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jeremy Corbyn's claim on Sunday that he had never promised to write off student debt from loans for university tuition fees, during the election campaign, makes front page headlines.\n\nFor the Sun, it's a jaw-dropping U-turn.\n\nThe Daily Express says it's small wonder that thousands of students queued at the polling stations in the false hope that if Mr Corbyn were prime minister, he would shake the magic money tree at them.\n\nThe Daily Mail describes the Labour leader's argument that he didn't know how much it would cost to do so, as a risible excuse.\n\nOn the second day of its cyber crime series, the i paper leads on a report that the computer systems of dozens of public sector organisations - from hospitals and councils to museums and watchdogs - have been attacked more than 400 times in the last three years.\n\nIt says cyber criminals have been seeking to extort money, cause disruption or extract data.\n\nAn investigation by the paper has found that the vast majority of the incidents have not previously been made public - and many are not being reported to the police.\n\nAccording to the Guardian's main story, doctors are warning that almost 63,000 people in England will die over the next five years from liver problems linked to heavy drinking, unless ministers tackle the scourge of cheap alcohol.\n\nIt says senior members of the medical profession and health charities are urging the government to bring in minimum unit pricing and crack down on drink advertising to avert what they claim is a public health crisis of liver disease deaths.\n\nEngland's dramatic victory over India in the Women's Cricket World Cup final is reported on many front pages - as well as the sports pages.\n\nThe Times says women have not always been made to feel welcome at Lord's - female members were permitted to enter the pavilion only in 1999.\n\nBut in front of more than 26,000 paying spectators on Sunday, there was a sense that women's cricket had come of age.\n\nThe Financial Times says the tournament has marked a breakthrough for the women's game, with extensive media coverage and avid crowds.\n\nIncreasingly - the Daily Telegraph says - spectators are tuning in to women's sport to find skill and spectacle every bit the equal of the men's game.\n\nMeanwhile, the Telegraph says it can disclose that the BBC is planning to take men off radio and television programmes and replace them with women in an attempt to close the gender pay gap.\n\nQuoting \"insiders\", the paper reports that the BBC will seek to boost women's pay by giving them plum jobs when contracts of male presenters come up for renewal.\n\nWith the budget for BBC talent constrained by strict spending controls, the corporation can only increase women's pay by cutting that of men, it adds.\n\nSeveral papers report that there's been a third shark alert off the coast of Majorca this summer.\n\nThe Mail says swimmers were ordered to leave the water at Estanys beach in Colonia de Sant Jordi, on Saturday and a red flag was hoisted to ban bathing.\n\nAccording to the Express, a tourist was left with a grazed arm after the shark brushed against him.", "Simon Brown was killed when he was travelling on the Gatwick Express last August\n\nA man who died on the Gatwick Express was found by another passenger with a \"massive trauma\" to his head, an inquest has heard.\n\nSimon Brown, 24, from East Grinstead, West Sussex, hit his head on a signal gantry on 7 August.\n\nThe hearing in London was told that passenger Kirstin Duffield heard a \"loud thud\".\n\nIn a statement read by the coroner, she said she found Mr Brown with an injury that was \"not survivable\".\n\nThe train from Gatwick to London Victoria was travelling at about 60mph when the incident happened near Balham, south London.\n\nMark Young, from the Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB), told the hearing Mr Brown's head was out of the window with no evidence to indicate why.\n\nHe said Mr Brown suffered a fatal head injury as a result of striking a signal gantry.\n\nMs Duffield said she saw Mr Brown had collapsed in the corridor after she stood up from her seat, but saw he was still breathing.\n\n\"There was a lot of blood on the floor and around his head. There was a massive trauma to the top of his head,\" she said.\n\nShe said it became apparent there was nothing she could do for him.\n\nThe train stopped at Wandsworth Common where paramedics tried to save Mr Brown\n\nThe inquest heard Ms Duffield got off the train at Wandsworth Common after the alarm was raised and the driver had been alerted.\n\nShe said she saw \"blood splatter\" on the outside of the carriage, but had not seen Mr Brown with his head out of the window.\n\nMr Brown's mother, Jane Street, said her son had a passion for railways and \"was neither reckless nor ignorant of the dangers of that environment\".\n\nIn a statement, she said her son first volunteered on the Bluebell Railway as a nine-year-old and had recently become an engineering technician with Hitachi Rail Europe in Bristol.\n\nMr Brown's father, Mike Brown, said his son had been due to move in with his girlfriend and he had \"never seen him so relaxed, happy and enthusiastic about his future\".\n\nMr Brown was on a Gatwick Express train when he suffered the fatal injury\n\nQuestioned about findings by the RAIB, Mr Young said the distance between the window and gantry was found to be 26cm while the train was static.\n\nHe said it complied with standards for existing structures but was less than an industry-recommended minimum for new structures.\n\nHe also said it had been found the distance between the gantry and a moving carriage could have been as little as 68mm.\n\nHe said the window opposite the guard's compartment was not intended for passenger use, although it was accessible to anyone on the train and open when the train left Gatwick.\n\nA yellow sticker on the door warning people not to lean out of the window was \"in a rather cluttered environment\" among many other signs, he noted.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Buoyant Uefa TV income helped Premier League clubs' revenues rise 9% to a record £3.6bn in the 2015-16 season, according to analysis from Deloitte.\n\nIt says broadcast earnings of £1.9bn accounted for more than half of the top flight clubs' total revenues.\n\nA new domestic TV deal which kicked in last year means overall revenues continue to grow strongly, it added.\n\nFor a third straight season, clubs' combined operating profits exceeded £500m, but wages rose 12% to £2.3bn.\n\n\"Even in the final year of its old broadcast contracts, Premier League revenues continued to set new records,\" said Dan Jones, partner in Deloitte's sports business group, which has unveiled its latest Annual Review of Football Finance.\n\nHe said the broadcasting boost to revenues in 2015-16 was mainly down to European federation Uefa increasing its payments to Premier League clubs by £100m.\n\nMr Jones said Premier League clubs were now reaping the benefit of a new broadcast rights cycle which started in 2016-17, plus new commercial agreements, and match day revenue growth from new and expanded stadia.\n\nDeloitte says it now expects total Premier League clubs' revenues to be more than £4.5bn in 2017-18.\n\nA new broadcasting cycle is now in operation\n\nMeanwhile, Premier League net debt fell for the third consecutive season, by £125m (5%) to £2.2bn at the end of the 2015-16 season.\n\nHowever, while Premier League clubs returned to a collective pre-tax loss in 2015-16. Deloitte said this was the result of exceptional, or one-off, accounting adjustments, without which clubs collectively would have broken even.\n\nOne example of these one-off adjustments was Chelsea making a big financial provision to cover the cost of the early cancellation of their kit deal with Adidas.\n\n\"We fully expect that Premier League clubs will collectively achieve record levels of profitability in the seasons to come,\" said Mr Jones.\n\nIn the Championship, overall revenues increased to a new record level of £556m in 2015-16, and have risen by 74% in the past decade.\n\nBut for the third time in four years, clubs spent more on wages (£561m) than they generated in revenue, resulting in a record operating loss of £261m. This follows two seasons where losses have been reduced.\n\nClubs in the Championship stand to see their revenues jump by at least £170m from promotion to the Premier League, rising to over £290m if they survive one season.\n\nBut Deloitte says there there is a danger that Championship clubs may continue to be tempted \"to spend excessively relative to their revenues, particularly on wages\".\n\nFormer Chelsea captain John Terry has signed for Aston Villa on a reported £60,000 a week, plus further cash incentives should they win promotion\n\nYet Deloitte points out that Huddersfield Town's promotion at the end of the 2016-17 season shows any Championship club can reach the Premier League, regardless of their budget. And they point out that in 2015-16 Huddersfield had the Championship's fourth-lowest wage costs.\n\nIncluding Football League clubs, the top 92 professional teams in England generated a record £4.4bn in revenue in 2015-16, Deloitte said.\n\nThe 92 clubs contributed £1.6bn to UK government in taxes in 2015-16, up from £1.5bn the year before.\n\nIn Scotland, despite Celtic's failure to qualify for the Uefa Champions League group stages for the second consecutive season, Scottish Premiership clubs' aggregate revenues grew 10% to 149m euros.\n\nCeltic continued to generate more than 50% of total revenues as they won the league for a fifth consecutive season, and Deloitte says \"their participation in the 2016-17 Uefa Champions League group stages will result in a substantial uplift in revenue\".\n\nOscar (r) has been one of the Chinese Super League's biggest signings\n\nChina's investment and influence in football has been growing in both domestic clubs' playing squads and infrastructure, and foreign club purchases and sponsorship.\n\nIn their 2016-17 winter transfer window, Chinese Super League clubs spent more than £300m on players, including Oscar's transfer from Chelsea to Shanghai SIPG and Odion Ighalo's move from Watford to Changchun Yatai.\n\nBut Deloitte says some recent political moves could curtail this player spending boom.\n\nIn January, the government body responsible for regulation of sport in China said that a cap on player salaries and transfer fees would be established to control \"irrational investment\".\n\nThat month, the Chinese Football Association also implemented a stricter rule allowing only three foreign players to participate for a club in a super league fixture. This replaced the previous \"4 plus 1\" rule which allowed four foreigners plus one (non-Chinese) Asian player in a matchday squad.\n\nAnd in June 2017, the Chinese Football Association said clubs that were loss making and spent in excess of 45m yuan (c.£5m) on a foreign player must pay an amount equivalent to the excess into a national fund to develop young Chinese players.", "When it comes to the laundry, it's all about location, location, location, according to TV host Kirstie Allsopp. The presenter of property programmes has provoked a debate after posting on Twitter that it is disgusting to keep washing machines in the kitchen.\n\nThe remark, in response to a journalist's comments about Americans finding the British way of placing washing machines in kitchens confusing, provoked a (mostly) humorous backlash on social media.\n\nMoments after the post one Twitter user asked where exactly in the home the washing machine should be located if a homeowner did not have a utility room to which Ms Allsopp replied: \"Bathroom, hall cupboard, airing cupboard, google tiny laundry rooms.\"\n\n\"Really? We live in a moderately-sized, four-bed semi and couldn't fit a washing machine anywhere other than the kitchen!\" remarked another Twitter user, while another commented: \"What is disgusting is disrespecting those who have nowhere else to put one. \"\n\nAnother Tweeter referred to the issue as \"first world problems.\"\n\nRealising the washing machine comment had provoked such a debate, Ms Allsopp attempted to quell the barrage of negative comments directed at her.\n\nBut the mocking continued, provoking some post-watershed language from the TV presenter, aimed at those who had still failed to grasp she was joking when she said it was her \"life's work\" to get washing machines out of the kitchen.\n\nMost got the message as the responses took a humorous turn.\n\nWashing machines in many parts of the US and Europe are placed in the bathroom or separate utility rooms, but in most UK homes they are usually found in the kitchen, in part because in the UK there are no electrical sockets in the bathroom and most UK bathrooms could not fit a washing machine.\n\nOr maybe there were alternatives, suggested Nick.", "Vicki McNelly said a hospital sonogram revealed her baby had died in the womb\n\nA grieving mother has warned pregnant women not to use a home foetal listening device that gave her \"false reassurance\" her unborn baby was alive.\n\nVicki McNelly, 29, thought she heard the baby moving when she used the Doppler kit but her daughter was stillborn the following day.\n\nManufacturers say the kits are safe and should not be linked to stillbirths.\n\nExperts who have been \"specially trained\" regularly use the monitors but discourage the use of them at home.\n\nMrs McNelly, from Mortimer near Reading, is calling for the Doppler devices to be banned.\n\nShe had used the kit - which can be bought over-the-counter from about £25 - in June 2015 to help her husband bond with their baby.\n\nHowever, after waking and \"feeling something was wrong\" in the middle of the night, she used it to check for a heartbeat and movement.\n\nVicki McNelly and her husband Stephen were able to cradle the baby after she was stillborn\n\n\"Because I heard something, I convinced myself I must be okay and that everything would be fine,\" she said.\n\n\"If the Doppler wasn't in the house I would have only been able to rely on my own instincts. I think the Doppler gave me a false sense of security.\"\n\nMrs McNelly said a hospital sonogram revealed her child, who she had named Evie, had died in the womb.\n\nDr Alison Wright, Vice President of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, said she \"strongly discourages\" the use of Dopplers at home.\n\n\"These devices can cause huge anxiety among pregnant women if they are not able to hear their baby's heartbeat and therefore understandably worry until they can see their doctor or midwife,\" she said.\n\n\"Also, potentially, women may be falsely reassured as hearing a heartbeat is not necessarily an indication that it is well with the baby.\n\n\"Unlike doctors and midwives who are specially trained to use foetal heart monitors, women who use Dopplers themselves may easily mistake their own heartbeat for their baby's.\"\n\nMrs McNelly has now joined stillbirth charity Kicks Count to call for the devices to be banned - with a petition reaching more than 11,000 signatures.\n\nCEO of Kicks Count, Elizabeth Hudson, said Dopplers \"create a barrier between the mum and seeking medical help\".\n\nShe said many brands were marketed to expectant mothers, but should only be used by trained professionals such as midwives and doctors.\n\n\"Women are using Dopplers and being reassured by them, and unfortunately that leads to missed opportunities to save babies who may be in distress,\" Ms Hudson added.\n\nThe BBC contacted several Doppler manufacturers, which said their devices should not be used as a substitute for professional medical care.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "There has been a spike in fake sickness claims by UK holidaymakers, industry bodies say\n\nTravel company Thomas Cook says it has won a legal victory against a fake holiday sickness claim and plans to challenge other such claims in court.\n\nIt comes after a family tried to win up to £10,000 in damages for food poisoning on a trip to the Canary Islands.\n\nA judge at Liverpool County Court dismissed the case on Monday after concluding they were not sick.\n\nIt follows reports of a \"huge rise\" in fake sickness claims by UK tourists.\n\nIn June, the travel trade organisation Abta launched a campaign to tackle the problem, saying it was \"one of the biggest issues that has hit the travel industry for many years\".\n\nIt said tens of thousands of holidaymakers had made claims in the past year - worth between £3,000 and £5,000 each - despite reported sickness levels in resorts remaining stable.\n\nSpeaking after the hearing in Liverpool, Thomas Cook managing director Chris Mottershead said the company would \"not accept liability\" in such cases.\n\n\"It's not comfortable for us to be in court questioning our customers' credibility, but the significant increase in unreported illness claims being received by the travel industry threatens holidays for all UK customers,\" he said.\n\nThe claimants said poor food and hygiene at their hotel made them sick\n\n\"This case follows an increasingly common pattern for these claims, with a previously unreported illness being raised years after the holiday, with no medical or other evidence to support the illness having occurred.\"\n\nThomas Cook said that Julie Lavelle, 33, her partner Michael McIntyre, 34, and their two young children had sought compensation after stating they suffered gastroenteritis on the third day of a two-week holiday in 2013.\n\nThe family blamed poor food and hygiene at their hotel on Gran Canaria and said their symptoms continued after they had returned the UK.\n\nThomas Cook said they did not mention their condition to hotel staff or tour representatives in the resort.\n\nThe company also said Mr McIntyre filled out a holiday feedback questionnaire on his flight home and left the section on illness unanswered.\n\nThe family's law firm, Bridger & Co of Carmarthenshire, was not immediately available for comment.\n\nAbta said that rules designed to stop a spike in fraudulent whiplash claims have fuelled the rise in holiday sickness reports as they do not apply to incidents abroad.\n\nIt said holidaymakers pursuing fake or exaggerated claims risked being barred from resorts or ending up in prison.\n\nIn July, the government said it planned to tackle the problem by reducing the cash incentives of bringing such cases against holiday firms.\n\nJustice Secretary David Lidington also said the government wanted to limit the legal costs that travel firms had to pay out for the claims.\n\n\"Our message to those who make false holiday sickness claims is clear - your actions are damaging and will not be tolerated,\" Mr Lidington said.", "This view of the iceberg was taken by Nasa's Suomi NPP satellite\n\nOne of the biggest icebergs ever recorded has just broken away from Antarctica.\n\nThe giant block is estimated to cover an area of roughly 6,000 sq km; that's about a quarter the size of Wales.\n\nA US satellite observed the berg on Wednesday while passing over a region known as the Larsen C Ice Shelf.\n\nScientists were expecting it. They'd been following the development of a large crack in Larsen's ice for more than a decade.\n\nThe rift's propagation had accelerated since 2014, making an imminent calving ever more likely.\n\nThe more than 200m-thick tabular berg will not move very far, very fast in the short term. But it will need to be monitored. Currents and winds might eventually push it north of the Antarctic where it could become a hazard to shipping.\n\nAn infrared sensor on the American space agency's Aqua satellite spied clear water in the rift between the shelf and the berg on Wednesday. The water is warmer relative to the surrounding ice and air - both of which are sub-zero.\n\n\"The rift was barely visible in these data in recent weeks, but the signature is so clear now that it must have opened considerably along its whole length,\" explained Prof Adrian Luckman, whose Project Midas at Swansea University has followed the berg's evolution most closely.\n\nThe event was confirmed by other spacecraft such as Europe's Sentinel-1 satellite-radar system.\n\nHow does it compare with past bergs?\n\nThe new Larsen berg is probably in the top 10 biggest ever recorded.\n\nThe largest observed in the satellite era was an object called B-15. It came away from the Ross Ice Shelf in 2000 and measured some 11,000 sq km. Six years later, fragments of this super-berg still persisted and passed by New Zealand.\n\nIn 1956, it was reported that a US Navy icebreaker had encountered an object of roughly 32,000 sq km. That is bigger than Belgium. Unfortunately, there were no satellites at the time to follow up and verify the observation.\n\nIt has been known also for the Larsen C Ice Shelf itself to spawn bigger bergs. An object measuring some 9,000 sq km came away in 1986. Many of Larsen's progeny can get wound up in a gyre in the Weddell sea or can be despatched north on currents into the Southern Ocean, and even into the South Atlantic.\n\nA good number of bergs from this sector can end up being caught on the shallow continental shelf around the British overseas territory of South Georgia where they gradually wither away.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nWhat is the significance of the calving?\n\nIn and of itself, probably very little. The Larsen C shelf is a mass of floating ice formed by glaciers that have flowed down off the eastern side of the Antarctic Peninsula into the ocean. On entering the water, their buoyant fronts lift up and join together to make a single protrusion.\n\nThe calving of bergs at the forward edge of the shelf is a very natural behaviour. The shelf likes to maintain an equilibrium and the ejection of bergs is one way it balances the accumulation of mass from snowfall and the input of more ice from the feeding glaciers on land.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. File footage from the British Antarctic Survey showed the crack developing\n\nThat said, scientists think Larsen C is now at its smallest extent since the end of the last ice age some 11,700 years ago, and about 10 other shelves further to the north along the Peninsula have either collapsed or greatly retreated in recent decades.\n\nThe two nearby, smaller shelves, Larsen A and Larsen B, disintegrated around the turn of the century; and a warming climate very probably had a role in their demise.\n\nBut Larsen C today does not look like its siblings. Prof Helen Fricker, from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, told BBC News: \"The signs we saw at Larsen A and B - we're not seeing yet. The thinning we saw for Larsen A and B - we're not seeing. And we're not seeing any evidence for large volumes of surface meltwater on the order of what you would need to hydro-fracture the ice shelf.\n\n\"Most glaciologists are not particularly alarmed by what's going on at Larsen C, yet. It's business as usual.\"\n\nResearchers will be looking to see how the shelf responds in the coming years, to see how well it maintains a stable configuration, and if its calving rate changes.\n\nThere was some keen interest a while back when the crack, which spread across the shelf from a pinning point known as the Gipps Ice Rise, looked as though it might sweep around behind another such anchor called the Bawden Ice Rise. Had that happened, it could have prompted a significant speed-up in the shelf's seaward movement once the berg came off.\n\nAs it is, scientists are not now expecting a big change in the speed of the ice.\n\nOne fascinating focus for future study will be a strip of \"warm\", malleable ice that runs east-west through the shelf, reaching the ocean edge about 100km north from the Gipps Ice Rise. This strip is referred to as the Joerg suture zone. There is a large queue of cracks held behind it.\n\n\"Calving of the iceberg is not likely itself to make the existing cracks at the Joerg Peninsula suture zone more likely to jump across this boundary,\" observed Chris Borstad, from the University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS).\n\n\"At this stage we really don't know whether there is some larger-scale process that might be weakening this zone, like ocean melting at the base of the shelf, or whether the current rift was just a random or episodic event that was bound to happen at some point.\n\n\"We know that rifts like this periodically propagate and cause large tabular icebergs to break from ice shelves, even in the absence of any climate-driven changes.\n\n\"I am working with a number of colleagues to design field experiments on Larsen C to answer this specific question (by measuring the properties of the Joerg suture zone directly). But until we get down there and take some more measurements we can only speculate.\"\n\nScientists want to understand why a lot of cracks seem not to propagate across the ice shelf\n\nJonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos", "Priti Patel says that victory in Mosul comes after three years of fear, executions, abductions, destruction, and forced marriages under so-called Islamic State.\n\nIt is a \"great victory\" for the people of Iraq and \"a great stride forward\" in global security, she says, and praises Iraqi and Kurdish forces for their \"courage and sacrifice\" and in acting to reduce civilian casualties \"wherever they could\".\n\nShe warns however that we must be \"realistic\" about the challenges ahead.\n\nThe UK has been at the forefront of the humanitarian response, she says, and tells MPs that UK aid to Mosul will be £40m this year, bringing the total commitment in Iraq up to £209m since 2014.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Crews were called to the blaze late on Tuesday night\n\nA large fire has ripped through Weybridge Community Hospital in Surrey.\n\nFire crews were called to the blaze at the building, which houses a walk-in centre that is only open during the daytime, late on Tuesday night.\n\nPeople living near the scene of the fire have been evacuated from their homes for safety reasons and offered refuge inside St James' Parish Church.\n\nThe centre has been severely damaged and is not expected to reopen in the near future, the NHS said.\n\nImages shared on social media show the roof of the three-storey all-purpose medical centre engulfed in flames.\n\nThere were also reports of several explosions, heard from up to a mile away.\n\nSurrey Fire and Rescue Service said they had eight pumps, two aerial ladder platforms and three water carriers at the scene at the height of the blaze.\n\nFire crews are still on the scene with smoke still billowing from the remains of the building.\n\nMatt Leisegang, 28, who was evacuated from his home about 100m from the fire, said: \"It was about 11.45pm when my wife woke me up and said there was a fire at the hospital.\n\n\"We heard people shouting outside and went to look through the window. Within about 15 minutes, the whole of the roof was alight.\n\n\"The building is only three storeys, and the top floor was completely engulfed in flames within a short time.\n\n\"Within about 40 minutes of the fire, the whole of the top floor was gone. I could only see flames.\"\n\nThe centre has been \"severely damaged\" and is not expected to reopen in the near future\n\nAn investigation is under way to find out what caused the fire\n\nCharles Avens, who lives nearby, said: \"Suddenly you could see flames leaping up over the back of the houses.\"\n\nHe said as he went to alert some of his neighbours some of the gas canisters at the hospital exploded.\n\n\"The noise was absolutely unbelievable, the houses were literally shaking as the gas canisters went up.\"\n\nSt James' Church was opened following the fire and some of the people who had been evacuated spent the night in the building.\n\nRevd Brian Prothero said: \"I got a phone call not long after midnight to say that the fire was raging, so I jumped on my bike and came over.\n\n\"Within half an hour it was full of people drinking coffee and tea.\n\n\"We were doing what ever we could do.\"\n\nThe building housed two GP practices and a walk-in centre\n\nPolice said in a statement that a \"large number\" of residents had been evacuated and that roads around the building, including Weybridge High Street, have been closed and will remain so \"for some time\".\n\nAn investigation is taking place to try to establish the cause of the blaze.\n\nNorth Surrey Clinical Commissioning Group, community health provider CSH Surrey, and Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals have issued a joint statement.\n\nThey said: \"Unfortunately the building, which houses two local GP practices, the Weybridge Walk-in Centre and a number of other services such as imaging and physiotherapy, has been severely damaged and will not be re-opening in the near future.\n\n\"In the short-term, contingency plans are being put in place for local services including the two GP practices, Church Street and Rowan practices.\"\n\nThey added that people should use walk-in centres at Woking and Ashford and A&E \"if absolutely necessary\", and said they expected these services to be \"very busy\" on Wednesday.\n\nThe fire is just behind Church Street over the road from Lloyds Bank and Barclays.\n\nThere is such a smell of smoke in the air, all the way up to Weybridge station and also the Brooklands race track.\n\nLooking over the roofs on Church Street I can still see smoke over the shops.\n\nThere is so much smoke that the police officers who closed Church Road are wearing face masks.\n\nThree water carriers were among the Surrey Fire and Rescue vehicles at the scene\n\nThick smoke remains in the area after the fire overnight\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "\"It's definitely been enjoyable, I can tell you that for a fact,\" said Eddie\n\nEddie, the work experience teen who took over Southern Rail's Twitter feed on Tuesday, says his new-found fame is an experience he will \"carry with me for the rest of my life\".\n\nThe company earlier posted a picture of the 15-year-old manning the account for a second day.\n\nInstead of the usual complaints, he has been asked questions about duck-sized horses and how to make tea.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 1 earlier, Eddie said: \"I was just being me\".\n\nTalking to Scott Mills about the sensation caused by his tweets, he added: \"I just tried to be myself and everything just turned out as it has.\n\nSome did question whether Eddie really is who he says he is\n\n\"It's definitely been enjoyable, I can tell you that for a fact. Last week I was answering some tweets with guidance from the social team and so yesterday was the time I put myself out there and just said 'hello this is me'.\n\n\"It's been amazing, it's been an experience which I will carry with me for the rest of my life.\"\n\nHe thanked Twitter users who were \"nice and forthcoming\" but conceded some of the questions directed to him were \"very strange\".\n\n\"One of my favourites was somebody asking me what he should have for tea, Thai curry or chicken fajitas.\n\n\"Well, it's got to be chicken fajitas doesn't it?\"\n\nEddie took on controversial issues, which have caused great debate for generations\n\nThe furore has transformed the usual fury-filled Southern Rail Twitter feed, where commuters complain of delayed and cancelled services. There has also been a bitter dispute over the role of guards which has affected Southern passengers for more than a year.\n\nMills said the youngster was \"winning at life\", taking to the front line of social media while most people spend their work experience photocopying.\n\nComparing the teen to \"the new Ask Jeeves\", Mills also toyed with the idea of hiring him for an occasional Radio 1 feature, Ask Eddie.\n\nEddie said he is not sure on his dream job at the moment, he \"just wants to see what interests\" him and pursue that when the day comes.", "The art world's response to the birth of Black Power is being highlighted at a major new exhibition at the Tate Modern.\n\nSoul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power explores what it meant to be black - and to be a black artist - in the USA from 1963 to 1983 as cultural identity was shifting and reforming.\n\nThe Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts\n\nSome of the pieces on show at the London gallery take direct inspiration from some of the key black figures of the day, as in Andy Warhol's Muhammad Ali.\n\nIcon for My Man Superman (Superman Never Saved any Black People - Bobby Seale) by Barkley L Hendricks\n\nBarkley Hendricks, who died earlier this year, told the Tate: \"I'm just trying to do the best painting of the individuals who have piqued my curiosity and made me want to paint them.\"\n\nHis work Icon for My Man Superman (Superman Never Saved any Black People) was inspired by political activist Bobby Seale's statement that \"Superman never saved any black people\".\n\nBlack Children Keep Your Spirits Free by Carolyn Lawrence\n\nCurator Mark Godfrey told the BBC: \"We've done shows about American art for decades - it was a question of why hadn't we done one on African-American art?\n\n\"And there was every reason to do it as these are great artists making important work. We felt it was important to tell the story of this 20-year period when they were asking questions about the black aesthetic and what it means.\n\n\"It's a cohesive set of questions and a varied set of answers.\"\n\nWadsworth Jarrell - whose work Revolutionary is above - formed AfriCobra (the African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists) with fellow artists Jeff Donaldson, Jae Jarrell, Barbara Jones-Hogu, Nelson Stevens and Gerald Williams in the late 1960s.\n\nThey were the only group to devise a manifesto for black art at this time.\n\nFrank Bowling, born in British Guyana before moving from London to New York, was a key player in the Black Art movement, arguing that it could be abstract and did not need to be overtly political.\n\nOne of his other works, Middle Passage, is travelling outside of the US for the first time - and Bowling himself has not seen it since it was exhibited in 1971.\n\nDid the Bear Sit Under a Tree by Benny Andrews\n\nOn that note, Godfrey said that many of the works - of which there are more than 150, by more than 60 artists - are being shown in the UK for the first time.\n\nSome they wanted proved impossible to locate, including Phillip Lindsay Mason's The Death Makers. But its importance is being marked at the exhibition all the same.\n\nGodfrey explained: \"Even the artist doesn't know where it is. So we wanted to acknowledge its absence with a blank space.\"\n\nWe Shall Survive Without a Doubt by Emory Douglas\n\nAs well as such iconic artworks as Warhol's portrait of Ali, the exhibition also looks at how art was reflected on the streets of America.\n\nThe Black Panther Party's culture minister Emory Douglas said that \"the ghetto itself is the gallery\" and was behind posters like the one above.\n\nBetye Saar is one of the female artists whose work looks at the black feminism movement and its impact on the two decades, increasing the visibility of black women.\n\nEmma Amos once said in an interview that, in her opinion, \"artists are extremely influenced by whatever is going on at the time they're coming into their powerful vision\".\n\nAs the Tate said itself in its description of the show, it is a \"timely opportunity to see how American cultural identity was reshaped at a time of social unrest and political struggle\".\n\nSoul of a Nation is at the Tate Modern from 12 July to 22 October\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 Soul of the Nation at Tate Modern 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. The BBC's Dave Lee explains what the protest is about\n\nA host of internet giants - from social networks to dating apps to porn sites - will join a protest Wednesday against plans to roll back rules protecting \"net neutrality\".\n\nThe sites will display a variety of messages, or simulate the potential effects of losing the basic principle of all internet traffic being treated equally.\n\nThe US communications regulator earlier this year voted to remove an Obama-era rule that would prevent the prioritisation - or \"throttling\" - of data, as well as other measures campaigners consider to be detrimental to the internet.\n\nOpponents to net neutrality say it stifles innovation and discourages investment in telecoms infrastructure.\n\nAmong the companies protesting, the headliners include Google, Facebook, Amazon, Reddit, AirBnB, Twitter and Snapchat.\n\nCrowdfunding site Kickstarter will be involved, as will craft-selling site Etsy and dating app OkCupid. PornHub, one of the world's most visited sites, will also be taking part.\n\nGoogle will be among those protesting\n\n\"Internet service providers could create special fast lanes for content providers willing to pay more,\" said Corey Price, vice president of PornHub.\n\n\"That means slow streaming, which, especially in regards to online porn, is quite problematic as you can imagine.\"\n\nCampaigners told the BBC around 80,000 websites and services in all are taking part in the co-ordinated action that is designed to draw attention to a public consultation about the proposed rule reversal.\n\n\"What we want the FCC to hear, and we want members of Congress to hear, is that net neutrality is wildly popular, which it is, and we want them to stop trying to murder it,\" said Sean Vitka, a lawyer for pro-net neutrality groups Demand Progress and Fight for the Future.\n\n\"It stops large companies, like internet service providers, from controlling who wins or loses on the internet. There'd be nothing to stop your ISP stopping the next Facebook, the next Google, from accessing customers equally.\n\n\"If a new company can't access companies on the same terms as the incumbents they're not going to have the chance to thrive.\"\n\nThis kind of protest technique has been effective in the past.\n\nWhen numerous firms went \"dark\" in opposition to the Stop Online Piracy Act, which they argued was a threat to free speech, it led to the bill being withdrawn.\n\nBut protest groups face a tougher battle in convincing the Republican-controlled FCC headed by new commissioner Ajit Pai.\n\nEarlier this year the department described President Obama's rule as risking \"online investment and innovation, threatening the very open internet it purported to preserve\".\n\nIt added: \"Requiring ISPs to divert resources to comply with unnecessary and broad new regulatory requirements threatens to take away from their ability to make investments that benefit consumers.\"\n\nPromoting investment in infrastructure is the strongest of the anti-net neutrality arguments, with major telecoms companies arguing that the Googles and Facebooks of the world would not be able to run were it not for the high-speed internet connections offered by internet service providers.\n\nCampaigners have countered this by suggesting it is the lure of enticing premium services like Netflix that tempt users into paying more for better internet access.\n\nA more curious position came from mobile carrier AT&T which said it was supporting the protest - despite in the past being a vocal opponent of net neutrality.\n\n\"We agree that no company should be allowed to block content or throttle the download speeds of content in a discriminatory manner,\" the firm said.\n\n\"So, we are joining this effort because it's consistent with AT&T's proud history of championing our customers' right to an open internet and access to the internet content, applications, and devices of their choosing.\"\n\nCampaign groups gave the company little credit, pointing out that it has sought to put in place data prioritisation, which would allow web companies to pay AT&T in order to get priority - i.e. quicker - access to their users.\n\n\"AT&T are lying when they say they support net neutrality, while actively opposing it,\" said Evan Greer, director of Fight for the Future, in an interview with tech news site Ars Technica.\n\nYou can reach Dave securely through encrypted messaging app Signal on: +1 (628) 400-7370", "When a letter arrived bearing official Ministry of Justice markings, Faith Spear knew her time monitoring prisons had come to an end\n\nShe was the watchdog who was accused of causing \"embarrassment\" by ministers and driven to the depths of despair after voicing concerns about prison monitoring. Then serious rioting erupted at several English prisons. Was Faith Spear right to blow the whistle on the state of England's jails?\n\nHer fate was sealed with a printed, rather than handwritten, ministerial signature.\n\nReceived on a cold morning this January, Faith Spear, the suspended chairman of the Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) at Hollesley Bay in Suffolk, knew what the letter from prisons minister Sam Gyimah would say.\n\nShe had, he told her, \"repeatedly disclosed classified and other information, often in an inaccurate manner\" and had \"failed to comply with agreed policies and procedures\".\n\nHer role as chairman was terminated and she was told she could not serve on another IMB for at least five years.\n\nTo this day Mrs Spear believes she was punished by a system more interested in controlling its own reputation than listening to grave concerns over the state of prisons.\n\nThe spark for the Faith Spear case was an article published by The Prisons Handbook in April 2016 entitled \"Whistle-blower without a whistle\".\n\nUsing the pseudonym \"Daisy Mallett\", Mrs Spear challenged the idea that monitoring boards were truly independent.\n\n\"I want to speak out,\" said Mrs Spear in the article, which named neither individuals nor her own prison. \"I am here as the public's eyes and ears, that is my role, but my voice is silenced.\n\n\"Prisons today are starved of resources. When I make the prison aware of issues with prisoners I am made to feel like I'm an irritation to them, but I am not here to irritate the prison process.\"\n\nThe repercussions were immediate.\n\nA letter was fired off from the HQ of the Independent Monitoring Boards Secretariat - housed in the Ministry of Justice London HQ - to every IMB member in the country.\n\nIn it, president John Thornhill alleged Daisy Mallett's article contained \"inaccuracies and misunderstandings\".\n\nHe warned the Justice Secretary (then Michael Gove) had been alerted and \"legal advice\" sought.\n\nIn less than a year, Mrs Spear would be unmasked, suspended, involved in various hearings and ultimately sacked from her voluntary role as an IMB chairman.\n\nHer experience echoes that of Ray Bewry, who to this day is the only former prisoner (his conviction was eventually quashed) to have served on an IMB.\n\n\"Any effective IMB member cannot do their job,\" claims Mr Bewry who served for a decade on the IMB at HMP Norwich.\n\n\"They want them to do what they are told, and not rock the boat.\"\n\nAt no stage did Mrs Spear seek to deny being Daisy Mallett\n\nHaving revealed she had three years of service and a degree in criminology, the outing of Daisy Mallett was perhaps inevitable.\n\nSure enough, within days of publication Mrs Spear, a mother of three, was called at home by then vice chairman Christine Smart asking her if she was behind the article.\n\nMrs Spear confirmed that she was.\n\nAnd at the April 2016 meeting of her IMB board, Mrs Spear was made to read out a statement confessing to being the author of the offending article.\n\nShe was then expected to resign.\n\n\"It had already been planned as to how it was going be,\" she said. \"I was ambushed.\"\n\n\"Faith just walked on to a minefield,\" says Mr Leech, the Thailand-based founder and editor of The Prisons Handbook.\n\n\"She should have refused to answer any questions and just move on with her business as chairman.\"\n\nPerhaps. But hindsight is a beautiful thing.\n\nFaith Spear is a known regular at Justice Committee meetings in Parliament\n\n\"I read my statement then had 50 minutes of every member questioning me, bullying me, taunting me. It was one of the worst experiences I have endured,\" Mrs Spear says.\n\nSent outside for 40 minutes, she was then told her board had unanimously decreed she should \"step down as chairman\".\n\n\"If I did not, there was an ultimatum,\" she said. \"They would not work with me.\"\n\nSo what caused such a revolt?\n\nMr Leech believes the most likely trigger was that Mrs Spear \"criticised the recruitment process\".\n\nThis, he said, was tantamount to suggesting some IMB members were not up to the job.\n\nRay Bewry is the only former prisoner to have served on an IMB\n\nThe IMB Secretariat told the BBC it encourages members \"to engage in the national debate on prison standards\" though it cautioned \"this must be a way that does not compromise their independence and draws upon evidence and experience\".\n\nThe secretariat would not comment on the \"specifics\" of Mrs Spear's case, saying \"any questions on the termination of an IMB member should be directed to the MoJ press office as these are ministerial appointments\".\n\nSomething else happened while Mrs Spear was absent from the boardroom. Nomination forms were created for her successor and a new vice chairman.\n\nMrs Spear only learned of this because a fellow member broke ranks and sent a chain of emails to her.\n\nOne, from Mrs Spear's predecessor Dr David Smith to the then vice chairman Christine Smart, concerned \"nominees for board positions\".\n\nIn it, he wrote: \"A delicate one, that was devised in the hope or expectation that Faith would resign.\n\n\"She has not and if she became aware that nominations had been requested, it would add fuel to the fire.\n\n\"I suppose we could always tear up the nomination forms and pretend it never happened.\"\n\nMr Leech, who was also sent copies of the leaked emails, said: \"What we had here were people saying 'we will just rip it up and pretend it never happened'.\"\n\nJoseph Spear told how his wife ceased eating properly after the board meeting revolt\n\nThe BBC approached Dr Smith and Mrs Smart about both the attempt to get Mrs Spear to stand down and the leaked emails.\n\nDr Smith declined to explain what he intended by his emails to fellow board members.\n\nHowever, he said an investigation into the matter had concluded that those \"complained about had no case to answer as the allegations against them had not been substantiated\".\n\nMrs Smart too said the matter had been \"independently investigated and reported to the minister and a decision taken\" adding: \"I have nothing further to add.\"\n\nThe Ministry of Justice was asked whether the nomination forms were a contravention of IMB rules and whether it felt Mrs Spear's allegations of bullying behaviour against fellow IMB members had been properly investigated. Neither question was answered.\n\nBoth Mrs Smart and Dr Smith subsequently resigned from the IMB of Hollesley Bay.\n\nFor weeks after that fateful meeting in April, Mrs Spear continued to carry out prison visits at Hollesley Bay.\n\nAnd at the May 2016 board meeting, she found herself sitting alone.\n\n\"There have been some real lows. Seeing the physical and mental impact on Faith in front of me was remarkable.\"\n\nDuring this time, she spoke about her experience to the East Anglian Daily Times (EADT).\n\nIn June, she found she had been suspended. A letter from previous prisons minister Andrew Selous cited the EADT article - and not the Prisons Handbook piece - as grounds for the suspension .\n\nA few months after Mrs Spear was suspended, her worst fears about prisons were realised with a string of riots including at Bedford , Birmingham and Swaleside in Kent\n\nThe letter told her she was accused of \"failing to treat colleagues with respect\" and for \"acting in a manner which could bring discredit or cause embarrassment to the IMB\".\n\n\"It was just astonishing what people had engineered against her,\" says Mr Spear. \"I have seen her rebound and find her feet and a place to rearticulate the issues she was concerned about.\"\n\nIndependent Monitoring Boards are \"part of the UK's obligations to the United Nations for independent monitoring of prisons\", says Mr Leech.\n\n\"IMBs need to be fit for purpose. They are not. They are groomed to be quiet.\"\n\nThe Ministry of Justice said: \"We value the work of Independent Monitoring Boards which play a vital role in ensuring prisons are places of safety and reform.\"\n\nA few months after Mrs Spear was suspended, her worst fears were realised with a string of prison riots at places such as Bedford , Birmingham, Lewes and Swaleside in Kent.\n\nAt Bedford, £1m of damage was caused while in Birmingham stairwells were set alight and paper records destroyed during trouble on four wings of the category B prison.\n\nThe IMB Secretariat issued a statement on the riots. Its irony was not lost on Mrs Spear.\n\nIn it, Mr Thornhill claimed: \"IMB members have regularly expressed great frustration that their real concerns about the state of prisons has been largely ignored over the years.\"\n\nHe spoke of \"serious issues\" and \"staff shortages\", words not too far removed from Mrs Spear's own warnings that prisons were being \"starved of resources\".\n\nAnd then, in January, she was sacked as IMB chairman.\n\n\"The crisis in our prisons has never been as bad as it is now,\" says Mr Leech.\n\n\"In the case of the Faith, they shot the messenger and they did not read the message.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The station remained closed for more than two hours\n\nAbout 2,000 people were evacuated and trains cancelled or delayed due to an electrical fire at London Paddington.\n\nThe station was cleared at 19:30 BST due to the fire in an intake room, which London Fire Brigade (LFB) tweeted to say had been put out at 22:00.\n\nPassengers were later let back into the station to wait on the concourse.\n\nMatt Willis, of Arriva Trains Wales, said on Twitter that some services had departed, including the 22:30 to Reading and the 22:45 to Swansea.\n\nA Network Rail spokesman said platforms one to six had reopened.\n\nHe said the others would remained closed until firefighters gave the all-clear.\n\nGavin Fellows, 50, a cyber security consultant from Gloucester, criticised the lack of information.\n\n\"I've been waiting for two hours. I was told it was going to reopen at 9.30pm,\" he said.\n\n\"I was in the station when the alarm went off and it said 'emergency situation, please evacuate'. There hasn't been any communication. I'm not happy.\"\n\nAn LFB spokesman said firefighters left the scene after the fire burnt itself out.\n\nGreat Western Railway customers were advised to use Chiltern Railways, CrossCountry, South West Trains and London Underground.", "Eleventh night bonfires have been taking place across Northern Ireland.\n\nTraditionally, bonfires are lit in many loyalist areas to mark the start of the annual commemoration of William of Orange's victory over King James II at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690.\n\nThe Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service said they had resolved 13 bonfire incidents on Tuesday night.\n\nHowever, it said it was also responding to a \"significant number\" of other bonfire-related callouts.\n\nThe PSNI say they are investigating complaints about \"distasteful\" materials placed on some bonfires.\n\nSinn Féin National Chairperson Declan Kearney called on unionist politicians to condemn \"hatemongers\" who put a replica coffin bearing the image of Martin McGuinness, who died in March, on a bonfire in east Belfast.\n\n\"I am directly challenging the leaders of all unionists parties to immediately disassociate themselves and their parties from this and other examples of sectarian hate crime,\" he said.\n\nMartin McGuinness' son Emmett tweeted: \"I am very thankful that I was raised by parent's never to hate anyone or anything. Michelle O'Neill is right, the annual display of hate must end.\"\n\nA replica casket with a picture of the former deputy first minister Martin McGuinness hung on a bonfire in east Belfast\n\nImages also emerged on social media of a bonfire in east Belfast draped with a banner carrying a racist message directed at Celtic footballer Scott Sinclair.\n\nIn a statement, the PSNI said: \"Police are investigating complaints about various materials, some of which are clearly distasteful, placed on the bonfire.\n\n\"Where police are aware of a crime being committed, an investigation will follow.\n\n\"We take hate crime very seriously and actively investigate all incidents reported to us,\" it added.\n\nEarlier on Tuesday, a number of homes close to a large bonfire in east Belfast were boarded up to protect the properties from heat damage when the fire is lit.", "Blurred Lines made more than $5m (£3m) for Pharrell Williams (left) and Robin Thicke\n\nArtists are being advised not to state publicly who they're inspired by on their new music, the Victoria Derbyshire programme has learned. Could this stifle their creativity?\n\n\"There is no such thing as a completely original composition,\" says music producer and songwriter Nile Rodgers.\n\n\"We learn music by practising. And what do we practise? We practise patterns. We practise scales.\n\n\"The art of music-making is the reinterpretation of those rules that we learned.\"\n\nYou would be hard-pushed to find a musician in the charts whose work hasn't taken inspiration from their idols and contemporaries.\n\nNow though, music experts have told the Victoria Derbyshire programme that artists are being advised not to mention publicly who has inspired them.\n\nThis is because of a high-profile copyright infringement case in which US jurors ruled that Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams, on their song Blurred Lines, had copied Marvin Gaye's Got To Give It Up.\n\nThe Gaye family estate was awarded $7.3m (£4.8m) in damages, although an appeal has since been launched.\n\nThe verdict sent reverberations around the industry, with particular attention being paid to the fact that in court Pharrell Williams said Marvin Gaye's music was part of the soundtrack of his youth, and that he was \"channelling... that late 70s feeling\" in Blurred Lines.\n\nAccording to forensic musicologist Peter Oxendale \"everyone's concerned that inspiration can [now be interpreted as] a catalyst for infringement.\n\n\"All of these companies are worried that if a track is referenced on another at all, there may be a claim being brought,\" he explains.\n\nMr Oxendale says some artists are now having the requirement to name their influences written into contracts by their record labels - although he would not specify names.\n\n\"Many of the companies that I work with ask the producers and the artists to declare all of the tracks that may have been used as inspiration for their new tracks,\" he says.\n\nHe also confirmed that he is being sent new music to check the possibility of future copyright infringement claims.\n\nBut Richard Busch, the lawyer working on behalf of the some Marvin Gaye family members, says the industry has misunderstood the reasons why the Blurred Lines ruling was made, and that the judgement was not based on the \"feel\" or the \"groove\" of the song, as has been claimed.\n\n\"That's the story the Pharrell and Robin Thicke camp have been telling to try to drum up support. This 'the sky is falling', 'no-one is going to be able to create music', 'you'll be sued for whistling in public' - it's just not true.\n\n\"If anyone was actually aware of the evidence and the facts that they presented, you'll know it went far beyond that.\n\n\"In fact, I believe we had 15 different compositional elements that we identified as being significantly similar between Blurred Lines and Got To Give It Up.\"\n\nNevertheless, Simon Dixon - one of the lawyers for Ed Sheeran, Sir Elton John and the Rolling Stones - says the judgement has made some people in the industry nervous.\n\n\"[The court case] wouldn't have been decided the same way over here [in the UK],\" he explains.\n\n\"So as a result, everyone felt they knew what the law was, they knew what the parameters were.\n\n\"And when you know what the laws are and the rules are you get comfortable. This injects an element of grey into the picture.\n\n\"So as a result people are less certain now about what they can and can't do. And as a result, everybody feels a bit nervous.\"\n\nFor singer-songwriter Laura Mvula, however, if a musician is looking to create their own original material, the ruling should not be a concern.\n\n\"We're all inspired by something, there are influences in everything,\" she says.\n\n\"But I just think the responsibility of the songwriter is always to push forward.\"\n\nFellow singer-songwriter Gary Numan believes it is just a case of musicians ensuring that influences are used to progress their own work.\n\n\"We all listen to stuff and we all get ideas from the things we listen to. And the trick of it is to turn those ideas into something new rather than just repeat them or copy them.\n\n\"Every fire starts with a spark, every song starts with an idea.\n\n\"You're influenced simply by listening to music. Even if you don't like the music, it's going to have some impact on what you do.\"\n\nIn just over two months' time, the Gaye family, Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams will be back in court as the appeal process begins.\n\nThe Blurred Lines singers will be hoping they will be successful this time around.\n\nBut whatever the verdict, the industry is likely to remain extremely wary about copyright when it comes to releasing new music.\n\nWatch the Victoria Derbyshire programme on weekdays between 09:00 and 11:00 on BBC Two and the BBC News channel.", "Mother Teresa wore a simple white sari with three blue stripes on the border\n\nFor nearly half a century, Mother Teresa, the Roman Catholic nun who worked with the poor in the Indian city of Kolkata (Calcutta) wore a simple white sari with three blue stripes on the borders, one thicker than the rest. Senior nuns who work for Missionaries of Charity, a 67-year-old sisterhood which has more than 3,000 nuns worldwide, continue to wear what has now become the religious uniform of this global order.\n\nOn Monday, news washed up that this \"famous\" sari of the Nobel laureate nun, who died in 1997, has been trademarked to prevent \"unfair\" use by people for commercial purposes. India's government quietly recognised the sari as the intellectual property of the Missionaries of Charity in September last year, when the nun was declared a saint by the Vatican, but the order had decided not to make it public.\n\nBiswajit Sarkar, a Kolkata-based lawyer who works pro-bono for the order, says he had applied for the trademark in 2013. \"It just came to my mind that the colour-identified blue border of the sari had to be protected to prevent any future misuse for commercial purposes,\" he told me. \"If you want to wear or use the colour pattern in any form, you can write to us and if we are convinced that there is no commercial motive, we will allow it.\"\n\nThe austere blue-trimmed white sari has long been identified with the nun and her order. The story goes that in 1948, the Albanian nun, with permission from Rome, began wearing it and a small cross across her shoulder. According to some accounts, the nun chose the blue border as it was associated with purity. For more than three decades, the saris have been woven by leprosy patients living in a home run by the order on the outskirts of Kolkata.\n\nNuns say Mother Teresa had issued orders before her death that her name \"should not be exploited for commercial purposes\".\n\nThe austere blue-trimmed white sari has long been identified with the nun and her order\n\nAccordingly, Mr Sarkar helped the order to trademark her name two decades back. Still, nuns of the order have complained that Mother Teresa's name was being exploited for commercial gain: a school being run in her name in Nepal where teachers complained of not receiving salaries; a priest raising funds in Romania using the order's name; shops near the order's headquarters in Kolkata telling customers that proceeds from memorabilia sales were donated to the order; and a cooperative bank in India curiously named after the nun.\n\n\"So we decided to do something about it,\" says Mr Sarkar. \"Through this we are trying to tell the world that her name and reputation should not be misused.\"\n\nOwning a trademark on a colour can be a tricky business. In 2013 Nestle won a court battle against confectionery rival Cadbury, over the latter's attempt to trademark the purple colour - known as Pantone 2865c - of its Dairy Milk bars.\n\nIt is also not clear how this trademark on the famous blue striped sari will be enforced. Many online shopping sites already sell variations of \"unisex Mother Teresa dress\" - blue bordered sari, and a long sleeved blouse.\n\nAlso, the move is bound to raise the hackles of the nun's critics - and she has her fair share of them - who have accused her of glorifying poverty, hobnobbing with dictators, running shambolic care facilities and proselytising. \"How can anybody appropriate a sari, which has been a traditional Indian dress,\" one of them asked me, preferring to remain unnamed.\n\nDesigners like Anand Bhushan differ. \"Some designs of the traditional Indian towel called gamcha, for example, have been trademarked. There's nothing wrong in trademarking a distinctive and iconic design or pattern like Mother Teresa's sari. It's not like anybody is beginning to own the sari.\"", "A government refusal to publish a report on the funding of UK Islamist extremist groups has been criticised.\n\nThe home secretary has issued a two-page summary which concluded most organisations were funded via small, anonymous British-based donations.\n\nAmber Rudd said she had decided to do so for national security reasons.\n\nOpposition parties claimed the internal review was being \"suppressed\" to protect Saudi Arabia which has been accused of being a source of funding.\n\nThe Home Office has been under pressure for months to publish its investigation into the \"nature, scale and origin of the funding\".\n\nMs Rudd said another reason for not making the report public was because of the personal information it contained.\n\nSome MPs will be allowed to view the report in private but without revealing its contents.\n\nThe summary of the report concluded that most extremist organisations got their money, often hundreds of thousands of pounds, from individual donors in the UK.\n\nBut it also confirmed that a small minority did get significant funds from overseas. These, it said, taught \"deeply conservative forms of Islam\" to individuals who became \"of extremist concern\".\n\nFrom now on, charities will have to declare any overseas funding to the Charity Commission.\n\nThe summary said: \"The most common source of support for Islamist extremist organisations in the UK is from small, anonymous public donations, with the majority of these donations most likely coming from UK-based individuals.\n\n\"In some cases these organisations receive hundreds of thousands of pounds a year.\"\n\nIt added: \"For a small number of organisations with which there are extremism concerns, overseas funding is a significant source of income.\n\n\"However, for the vast majority of extremist groups in the UK, overseas funding is not a significant source. Overseas support has allowed individuals to study at institutions that teach deeply conservative forms of Islam and provide highly socially conservative literature and preachers to the UK's Islamic institutions.\n\n\"Some of these individuals have since become of extremist concern.\"\n\nThe government's refusal to publish the full report angered opposition parties which accused ministers of trying to protect allies such as Saudi Arabia which has long been accused of being a source of extremist funding, something it has long denied.\n\nGreen Party co-leader Caroline Lucas was among those critical of the government's move\n\nThe Green Party co-leader Caroline Lucas said there was a deep complicity between Whitehall and Riyadh.\n\nShe said: \"The statement gives absolutely no clue as to which countries foreign funding for extremism originates from - leaving the government open to further allegations of refusing to expose the role of Saudi Arabian money in terrorism in the UK.\"\n\nThe Lib Dem leader, Tim Farron, said the government was putting its friendship with Saudi Arabia ahead of its values.\n\nHe said: \"What we want to know is who are the violent extremists and who are their funders.\n\n\"This report clearly has found some of that out and we're bound to start suspecting all the more now that the sources of funding must be from the likes of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, otherwise the government wouldn't be so embarrassed that they won't tell us the truth.\"\n\nShadow home secretary Diane Abbott, said: \"There is a strong suspicion this report is being suppressed to protect this government's trade and diplomatic priorities, including in relation to Saudi Arabia. The only way to allay those suspicions is to publish the report in full.\"\n\nThe Home Office insisted diplomatic relations played no part in the decision not to make the full report public.\n\nIn a blog published on its website, the Home Office said: \"The former prime minister [David Cameron] was clear when committing to the review in the House that it would report to the home Secretary and prime minister.\n\nNo commitment was made to publish the review... Contrary to suggestions by some media outlets, diplomatic relations played absolutely no part in the decision not to publish the full report.\"\n\nThe home secretary said: \"This government is committed to stamping out extremism in all its forms and cutting off the funding that fuels it.\n\n\"The Commission for Counter-Extremism, which the prime minister announced earlier this year, will have a key role to play in this fight.\n\n\"We are determined to cut off all funding that fuels the evils of extremism and terrorism, and will work closely with international and domestic partners to tackle this threat.\"", "The number of people applying for UK university places has fallen by more than 25,000 (4%) on last year, data from the admissions service Ucas shows.\n\nThe figures show a sharp decline in those applying to study nursing courses - down 19% - and a continued fall in the number of mature students, notably in England and Northern Ireland.\n\nThe number of EU students planning to study in the UK has fallen by 5%.\n\nIt is the first decline since fees were last increased in England, in 2012.\n\nFees in England will increase to £9,250 this year, and student loans are subject to an increase in interest rates - rising from 4.6% to 6.1% from this autumn.\n\nUniversity leaders said a number of factors could be fuelling the fall in applicants, including Brexit, higher fees and funding changes for trainee nurses and midwives.\n\nFrom 1 August, new nursing, midwifery and most allied health students in England will no longer receive NHS bursaries - instead, they will have access to the same student loans system as other students.\n\nThe latest Ucas figures show the number of people who had applied to UK universities for the coming academic year by the 30 June deadline was 649,700 - compared with 674,890 in 2016.\n\nThere have been reductions in applicants from all four countries in the UK. There were:\n\nApplications from EU students fell from 51,850 in 2016 to 49,250 this year.\n\nHowever, applicants from overseas countries outside of the European Union are up 2%, from 69,300 in 2016 to 70,830 this year.\n\nThere has been a significant drop in mature students (those aged 25 and over) in England and Northern Ireland - down 18% (11,190) and 13% (220) respectively.\n\nDr Mark Corver, Ucas director of analysis and research, said: \"Within the figures, there are contrasting trends.\n\n\"How these trends translate into students at university and colleges will become clear over the next six weeks, as applicants get their results and secure their places and new applicants apply direct to Ucas's clearing process.\"\n\nProf Les Ebdon, director of Fair Access to Higher Education, said: \"The downward trend in mature student numbers is now one of the most pressing issues in fair access to higher education.\n\n\"Undoubtedly, the reasons behind the fall are complex and multiple, but universities and colleges should look to do what they can to reverse the decline in mature student applications, as a matter of urgency.\"\n\nDame Julia Goodfellow, president of Universities UK, said universities recognised that there were a number of issues to address.\n\n\"Continuing to communicate to European applicants that they are welcome and enrich our education system is important,\" she said.\n\n\"The decline in part-time and mature student entrants must also be addressed.\n\n\"We recognise also the concern about the total cost of going to university.\n\n\"Any analysis needs to cover the cost of maintenance and the interest rate on the loans.\"\n\nSarah Stevens, head of policy at the Russell Group, said it would be a concern if EU students were being put off by the uncertainties of Brexit.\n\n\"It's positive that applications from overseas students outside the EU have risen slightly,\" he said.\n\n\"International students bring social and cultural diversity to our campuses and this benefits all students, and they contribute £25.8bn to the UK economy.\"\n\nThe Department for Education pointed out that the number of 18-year-olds applying for university was at record levels despite the fall in the overall number of applicants.\n\nA spokeswoman said: \"Higher education reforms will give people more choice and universities will be expected to continue improving access and participation in higher education.\n\n\"The government is committed to supporting all young people to reach their full potential - whether that is going to university, starting an apprenticeship or taking up a technical qualification.\"\n\nPam Tatlow, chief executive of MillionPlus, said the application data from Ucas was \"not good news\".\n\n\"As predicted, the abolition of bursaries has depressed rather than increased applications for nursing and there will be no additional nurses trained in spite of ministers' assurances,\" she said.\n\n\"There is no doubt that the government's approach to Brexit is damaging and is creating huge uncertainties, both for EU students and UK universities.\"", "The can was checked in for a flight from Melbourne to Perth\n\nA man has successfully checked in a can of beer as his only luggage on a domestic flight in Australia.\n\nThe man, identified in media as Dean Stinson, said he and a friend had come up with the idea as a joke.\n\nThe can arrived, tagged and unopened, as the first item on the baggage carousel at Perth Airport after a four-hour journey from Melbourne.\n\nThe airline, Qantas, said it did not encourage other travellers to follow suit.\n\n\"This guy's done it and he's won the internet for the day, so we're happy to move on,\" a spokesman said in a statement to the BBC.\n\nThe can arrived before other luggage, Mr Stinson said\n\nMr Stinson told AFP news agency he was pleased the can had arrived safely on Saturday.\n\n\"And it was in perfect condition,\" he added.\n\nThe airline does not charge an additional fee for checked baggage.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mr Barnier said the UK's financial obligations were not a \"ransom\"\n\nThe EU's top Brexit negotiator has said there are still major differences between the EU and UK on the rights of EU citizens living in Britain.\n\n\"The British position does not allow those persons concerned to continue to live their lives as they do today,\" Michel Barnier said.\n\nMr Barnier said the European Court of Justice (ECJ) must have jurisdiction to guarantee citizens' rights.\n\nHe also said it was essential that the UK recognise its financial obligations.\n\nIf Britain did not accept it had some financial obligations, there would be no basis to discuss other issues, he said.\n\nAhead of the second round of talks next week, Mr Barnier said the EU had made its stance on the issues clear and was waiting on Britain to do the same.\n\n\"Our team is ready,\" he said. \" I'm ready. I'm very prepared and willing to work on this very quickly - night and day, the weekend.\"\n\n\"We want EU citizens in Britain to have the same rights as British citizens who live in the EU,\" he told a news conference.\n\nThat would require the ECJ to be the \"ultimate guarantor\" of those rights, he said, because Britain could simply change its laws later, creating uncertainty.\n\nUK law also imposes restrictions in areas such as reuniting families across borders, he said - something which was not applied to UK citizens living in Spain, for example.\n\nMichel Barnier's message to the UK was: it's time to get a move on, to provide more clarity about the British position on a range of issues.\n\n\"As soon as possible,\" was his request, with the EU's chief negotiator joking that he was willing to work over the weekend and on Friday, which is a bank holiday in his native France.\n\nThe biggest sticking point appears to be the EU's insistence that Britain settles its outstanding financial obligations. Asked about Boris Johnson's suggestion on Tuesday that the EU could \"go whistle\", he joked that the only sound he could hear was a clock ticking.\n\nThere was copious evidence of the Barnier charm - but he was happy to turn on the menace, repeating several times that the UK would have to face the \"consequences\" of its choice to depart the EU.\n\nTrying to sound eminently reasonable, he denied that his demand for a financial payment was a \"ransom\" or a \"punishment.\"\n\nMr Barnier also said that those rights - along with the \"divorce payment\" and border issues - must be dealt with before future UK-EU trade could be discussed.\n\nThe financial payment the EU says will be owed to cover the UK's commitments is also a key point for Mr Barnier. Estimates have put the amount at anywhere from €60bn to €100bn (£53-89bn).\n\nAsked about UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson's comment that the EU could \"go whistle\" over the demand, Mr Barnier replied: \"I'm not hearing any whistling. Just the clock ticking.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson's message to the EU: \"Go whistle seems to me to be an entirely appropriate expression\"\n\nHe denied that the EU was holding the UK government to ransom, and said it was simply a matter of \"trust\".\n\n\"It is not an exit bill, it is not a ransom - we won't ask for anything else than what the UK has committed to as a member,\" he said.\n\nMr Barnier also announced he would meet other key politicians on Thursday who were not part of Theresa May's government - including opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn, representatives from the House of Lords, and the first ministers of Scotland and Wales.\n\n\"I have always made clear that I will listen to different points on view in the British debate,\" he said.\n\n\"Of course, I will only negotiate with the UK government,\" he added.", "It wasn't meant to be called a \"relaunch\" or a \"fightback\" or even a \"reset\".\n\nThe prime minister's speech this morning was, however, the first big speech she has made since the election.\n\nYou might, therefore, have expected it to be bold, determined, as she said it would be. You might have expected it to be, at least in part, a genuine mea culpa from the PM for the mistakes of the election campaign.\n\nIt was, however, more a rather pedestrian response to the long awaited Taylor review on the changing world of work and insecure employment (insert obvious jokes here) and a restatement of purpose than a dazzling rebrand.\n\nBut whatever Theresa May had said this morning, as MPs stagger towards the finish line of this tumultuous year, and stumble towards the sun loungers, she is in trouble.\n\nAnd Tories will leave Westminster next week with the question of her future very much on their minds - the issue: how long can she survive?\n\nThere are some fundamental obstacles to her doing so, but some advantages to her position too (honest). This list is not exhaustive, nor predictive, and may, as is the way of things these days, not age well at all.\n\n1) Smack bang in the middle of her speech Theresa May said she is still convinced that her vision for the country is the right one, and she is completely committed to delivering it. The problem with that is that plenty of her MPs believe that the election result gave the country's verdict on that vision, and it wasn't pretty. They believe simply that she has to change, to show she can be flexible. How can she do that if she refuses to accept that some of her judgements were wrong?\n\n2) The cabinet has big disagreements on a lot of things, most notably of course on Brexit, and since the election they have little compunction in giving their views. Remainer members like the chancellor have not held back from arguing for a more flexible position than the PM's negotiating position as outlined earlier in the year. But others are adamant she must stick. I'm told that in cabinet this morning the foreign secretary urged the PM to reaffirm that the government position remained the Lancaster House speech and that she did so, despite the fact others sitting round the table have been arguing for that approach to bend.\n\n3) There are plenty of would-be rebels who believe they have the numbers on all sorts of issues to force the government to back down. First up could be membership of the European nuclear safety agency, Euratom. The rebels are very confident they have the numbers to get the prime minister to back down without even having to put an amendment down. One cabinet minister told me it would be a sensible move to show willing to compromise on an issue which doesn't raise much public concern, and would not raise too much suspicion of Brexit backsliding. Another source said it was simply now an issue for Number 10, with the Brexit Secretary David Davis understood to be \"relaxed\" about the issue. Theresa May might end up isolated with only her red lines for company.\n\n4) Some Brexiteer Tory MPs are what's described by a minister as \"absolutist\" - ready to pounce on any sign of compromise from Theresa May as evidence that she is about to betray their cause. Simply, she is trapped by the parliamentary numbers that dictate she will have to compromise, and by some in her own party who would be ready to condemn any whiff of her doing so.\n\n5) The Tory party particularly has little sympathy for leaders who look like they will damage all of their fortunes. You cannot find Tory MPs who say that she should lead them into the next election. It is a question of when not if. One former minister said she was finished (a much more delicate term than the ex-minister actually used) adding: \"We know it, and she knows it too.\" And as they enter the summer, many believe it would only take one more big thing to go wrong for the plotters to seize their moment.\n\n1) While Tory MPs agree that Theresa May can't stay on indefinitely, they pretty much all agree that they don't want to risk a general election right now. A few sources around the margins argue that a period of opposition is the only thing that will bring true reflection - but the overwhelming sense is that they need at least to stick together until the Autumn, for risking any leadership changes could slam them into another such contest. They worry that by plunging into another internal battle, they would push voters to choose Jeremy Corbyn for Number 10.\n\n2) There is no obvious successor to her. If there was a universally popular and respected alternative leader the situation might feel extremely different. Despite the chatter about all sorts of people, particularly Mr Davis, who is in notably buoyant form, there is no one figure that the party could obviously rally around. For those younger politicians who might hope for the job in a few years' time, there is a cynical - but also strategically understandable - appeal in allowing her to stay on to soak up all the potentially difficult months of Brexit, before being able to appear as a change candidate.\n\n3) Labour, while definitely riding high, are still divided on some issues, and not universally convinced that Jeremy Corbyn is the man for the job in the long term. United, and determined, they could make day-by-day life extremely difficult and uncomfortable for the Tories in Parliament. But it's not clear yet that they will be able to deliver that kind of sustained pressure, nor that they will be able to continue to build support.\n\n4) On the hardest thing of all, Brexit, there have - whisper it - been some signs of compromise on both sides. For example, while the UK folded on its key demand for parallel talks over withdrawal and future relationship, the EU side did concede a phased approach - there is a rather optimistic but well-informed outline of signs of compromise here.\n\n5) Pretty much everyone (including the journalists!) who works in Westminster is exhausted after 12 months of turmoil. One of those knackered MPs suggested this week that last year, May ended up PM by being \"the only grown-up in the room\" left after the mess of the referendum. No-one else had the energy to fight - and, 12 months on, they suggested, while Mrs May is damaged, no-one wants - yet - to get on another rollercoaster with an unknown destination - at least until they have had a lie down.", "Air Canada says it is investigating the incident\n\nThe US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is investigating an apparent near-miss involving an Air Canada flight at San Francisco's airport.\n\nIt says Flight AC759 from Toronto was cleared to land on a runway last Friday, but the pilot \"inadvertently\" lined up for a taxiway where four aircraft were waiting to depart.\n\nAn air traffic controller became aware of the problem and ordered the pilot to pull up and make another approach.\n\nThe FAA is currently investigating the distance between the Air Canada aircraft and the aircraft lined up on the taxiway, which runs parallel to the runway.\n\nIt describes the 7 July incident as \"very rare\".\n\nAir Canada says 135 passengers and five crew members were aboard the flight from Toronto.\n\nIt was not immediately clear how many people were in the four planes on the taxiway.\n\nAir Canada is also investigating the incident, a spokesman for the company says.\n\n\"Air Canada flight AC759 from Toronto was preparing to land at San Francisco airport Friday night when the aircraft initiated a go-around,\" Peter Fitzpatrick is quoted as saying by CBC News.\n\n\"The aircraft landed normally without incident. We are still investigating the circumstances and therefore have no additional information to offer.\"\n\nMeanwhile, an audio recording has emerged of what are said to be last Friday's communications between air traffic controllers and pilots at San Francisco's airport.\n\nIn it, a male voice believed to be that of the Air Canada pilot is heard saying that there are lights on the runway.\n\nOne of the air traffic controllers replies that there are no other planes there.\n\nAnother - unidentified - voice is then heard saying: \"Where's this guy going? He's on the taxiway.\"\n\nThe air traffic controller then apparently realises the danger of the Air Canada plane crashing into the four aircraft on the ground, and orders the pilot to pull up and make another approach.\n\nA pilot from one of the planes on the ground is then heard saying: \"United One, Air Canada flew directly over us.\"\n\n\"If it is true, what happened probably came close to the greatest aviation disaster in history,\" retired United Airlines Capt Ross Aimer, CEO of Aero Consulting Experts, told the Mercury News.\n\n\"If you could imagine an Airbus colliding with four passenger aircraft wide bodies, full of fuel and passengers, then you can imagine how horrific this could have been,\" he said.\n\nThe deadliest incident in aviation history was in 1977, when 583 people were killed after two Boeing planes collided on a runway at Los Rodeos airport in northern Tenerife, on Spain's Canary Islands.", "Former education secretary Nicky Morgan has been elected as chairwoman of the influential Treasury select committee.\n\nMs Morgan saw off five other Tory MPs to land the coveted role scrutinising the government's finances.\n\nOther committee election results, which were announced by Speaker John Bercow, include Tom Tugendhat ousting fellow Tory Crispin Blunt as foreign affairs committee chairman.\n\nAnd ex-education minister Robert Halfon will lead the education committee.\n\nDefence committee chairman Julian Lewis saw off Johnny Mercer's challenge, while Neil Parish was re-elected as chairman of the environment, food and rural affairs committee, beating recently re-elected backbencher Zac Goldsmith.\n\nSelect committee chairs are allocated between parties by the Speaker based on their Commons representation and then elected by all MPs.\n\nThe contest for the Treasury select committee, previously chaired by Andrew Tyrie, pitted pro-EU Tory Ms Morgan against party colleagues including Eurosceptic backbencher Jacob Rees-Mogg.\n\nThe former education secretary has repeatedly clashed with Prime Minister Theresa May since being axed from the cabinet.\n\nShe won 200 of the 570 votes cast in the first round of votes, with the election decided on the alternative vote system, and ended up with 290 votes after the fifth round of voting.\n\nIn contests for committees chaired by Labour, former shadow work and pensions secretary Rachel Reeves was elected as chairwoman for business, energy and industrial strategy.\n\nClive Betts was re-elected as chairman for communities and local government, beating David Lammy, while former shadow transport secretary Lilian Greenwood won the race to chair the transport select committee.\n\nLiberal Democrat Norman Lamb beat party colleague Jo Swinson and will chair the science and technology committee.\n\nSeventeen committees were not contested as only one nomination was received.", "The request follows a string of high-profile alcohol-related incidents\n\nLocal authorities in the Balearic Islands have asked for a limit to be put on drinking alcohol on planes and in airports as they try to crack down on anti-social behaviour.\n\nPilar Carbonell, head of tourism across the islands, including Mallorca and Ibiza, has pleaded with Spain and the European Commission for the limit.\n\nThe proposal was raised in Brussels on Tuesday.\n\nIt comes after a series of high profile alcohol-fuelled incidents.\n\nIn one particular incident, passengers reported members of a stag do fighting in the aisles of a Ryanair flight on its way from Manchester to Palma, in Majorca.\n\nAccording to the Manchester Evening News, three people were arrested when it landed on the island.\n\nIn a statement, Ms Carbonell said the limit in airports and on flights would \"guarantee security... and tackle anti-social tourism\". It was not clear whether it was just aimed at flights heading to the Balearic Islands, or the wider European Union.\n\n\"The aim of the measure is to improve passenger security and also that of security forces in planes and airports in our islands, who are often faced with drunk passengers,\" it said.", "There are claims that the number of those killed in the fire is higher than the official figures\n\nThere have been persistent claims that the Grenfell Tower death toll is higher than official estimates because there were undocumented residents living there. One such woman explains why she is too afraid to come forward to the authorities.\n\nRhea is from the Philippines and lived in the high-rise tower with friends.\n\nBut, unlike them, 40-year-old Rhea wasn't a registered tenant, having lost her legal right to remain in the UK in 2012.\n\nHaving been caught up in the fire on 14 June, she is now homeless and afraid to identify herself to immigration officials.\n\n\"I thought maybe they'd lock me up,\" she says.\n\nRhea arrived in the UK in 2010 on a one-year working visa with an employer but this expired.\n\n\"I didn't have money to renew it and I couldn't find an employer as a solicitor was holding my documents.\"\n\nShe was left homeless and forced to rely on friends to let her stay in their homes. She eventually moved into Grenfell at the end of last year.\n\nOn the night of the fire, Rhea was with a friend in the tower.\n\n\"In the beginning there was only smoke and then a fire broke out - it just kept getting bigger and bigger.\"\n\nRhea escaped from the building via the lift. She says it was so dark people couldn't see each other.\n\n\"For me it's a miracle I survived.\"\n\nShe's now in the nightmare situation of being homeless again.\n\nPolice say about 80 people are currently thought to be dead, but charities and volunteers believe many unregistered people could have been killed.\n\nThey also say they have been in touch with other survivors like Rhea who are afraid to get help.\n\nLast week the government announced a 12-month immigration \"amnesty\" for survivors like Rhea. She now has all the documents she needs to stay and is being kept in a hotel.\n\n\"Home is different than the hotel. But I am grateful I'm here. I feel a bit better because there are people showing they care and are there to support me.\n\n\"After this, I don't know. If there is possibility for me to have my own place, then I would like that especially as I have a young son.\"\n\nRhea's son was not in the tower at the time. She says she's now trying to make use of her legal status, but the future is uncertain.\n\n\"My family back home need my support. I called them in the Philippines, and to hear them say they still need me, is upsetting.\n\n\"That's why I was afraid to face immigration because they would send me home. I thought, how are we going to live? We are not rich, we are poor, we have nothing.\"\n\nUpdate 12 October 2017: This article has been amended to reflect information subsequently received about the movements of some of the residents within Grenfell Tower.", "UK unemployment fell by 64,000 to 1.49 million in the three months to May, official figures show.\n\nIt meant the unemployment rate fell by 0.2% to its lowest since 1975, at 4.5%, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) added.\n\nBut wage increases continued to fall further behind inflation.\n\nExcluding bonuses, earnings rose by 2.0% year-on-year. However, inflation had hit an almost four-year high of 2.9% in May.\n\nWhen the impact of inflation is factored in, real weekly wages fell by 0.5% compared with a year earlier.\n\n\"Despite the strong jobs picture... there has been another real-terms fall in total earnings, with the growth in weekly wages low and inflation still rising,\" said Matt Hughes, senior statistician at the Office for National Statistics.\n\nThose in work climbed to around 32 million, a rise of 324,000 on last year and the largest total since records began in 1971.\n\nThe employment rate rose by 0.3% on the quarter to a record high of 74.9%.\n\n\"The general picture is little changed on last month, with the overall employment rate and that for women both at record highs, the inactivity rate at a joint record low and the unemployment rate falling to its lowest since early summer 1975,\" said Mr Hughes.\n\nThe unemployment rate for 16 to 24-year-olds was 12.5%, lower than for a year earlier when it was 13.5%, and well below its highest rate of 22.5% in late 2011.\n\nThe sluggish pay data may cause Bank of England officials to think again about the need to raise interest rates, after a narrow 5-3 vote by the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) last month to leave rates at 0.25%.\n\n\"The continued weakness of wage growth provides some ammunition to the more dovish members of the MPC that now is not the time to raise interest rates,\" said Paul Hollingsworth, UK economist at Capital Economics.\n\nHe added: \"Given the emphasis that some members of the Monetary Policy Committee, including Governor Carney, have put on wanting to see a clear \"firming\" in wage growth before they join others in voting to hike interest rates, we still think it is more likely than not that the MPC will hold off for a while longer, rather than raise interest rates imminently.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Minister for Employment, Damian Hinds said the employment figures were \"another reminder that our strong economy is giving record numbers of people the chance to find and stay in work\".\n\nBut TUC general secretary Frances O'Grady said: \"Ministers must set out a plan to get real wages rising across the public and the private sectors.\"\n\nAfter trading lower against the dollar, the pound gained ground to trade 0.1% stronger on the day at $1.2858. Sterling also gained 0.1% against the euro, with one pound getting you 1.1217 euros.", "The UK is rolling out the red carpet for King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia of Spain, sprinkling pomp and glamour over some deep-rooted tensions.\n\nBrexit and the centuries-old dispute over Gibraltar might suggest that UK-Spanish relations are between a Rock and a hard place.\n\nBut the 12-14 July state visit could send a sunburst through those clouds. The royal couple were due to arrive in London on Tuesday.\n\nBoth royal lines are descended from Queen Victoria - something to celebrate, in tough times for both countries.\n\nThis visit is nothing if not a survivor, having been called off - once in 2016, when Spain endured 10 months of political crisis without a government, and again this year, when UK Prime Minister Theresa May called a snap election in June.\n\n\"These have been times of great difficulty on both sides, with the double cancellation telling its own story,\" says Ana Romero, a leading Spanish journalist and royal observer. She wrote a book - Final de Partida (End Game) - about the strained personal circumstances surrounding the abdication of King Felipe's father, Juan Carlos.\n\nMs Romero says King Felipe's reign has been three years of \"permanent difficulty\", including a fraud trial in which his sister, Princess Cristina, was eventually acquitted, while her husband Iñaki Urdangarin was sentenced to six years in jail.\n\nAlmost as damaging were supportive text messages Queen Letizia reportedly sent to a suspect in another corruption case.\n\n\"Now after three years of hard climbing, it is as if Felipe and Letizia have reached the bright summit, because the British monarchy represents the height of royal protocol,\" Ms Romero says, before adding that both countries face great problems.\n\nSpain is still emerging from an economic crisis that has seen confidence in institutions plummet due to corruption scandals.\n\nBritish politics entered a turbulent period with last year's referendum vote to leave the EU. Brexit remains shrouded in uncertainty.\n\nMany of Spain's leading companies have made bold moves into Britain, including Santander bank and Ferrovial, an infrastructure group that owns Heathrow's operating company, among other UK concerns.\n\nBrexit is also a worry for the many citizens living in each other's country and for those with investments at stake.\n\nThe almost 300,000 British citizens registered as residents in Spain, and many more who come and go, are concerned about their healthcare and pensions, says Anne Hernandez, leader of Brexpats in Spain, a group with more than 4,000 members.\n\nWhile British diplomatic sources say they consider Spain an ally in negotiating relatively benign terms for Brexit, they also admit they are concerned about Madrid's insistence on re-examining the status of Gibraltar - an already delicate equation.\n\nThis is especially the case after the European Council included a clause in its guidelines for talks, stating that no agreement on the EU's future relationship with the UK would apply to Gibraltar without the consent of Spain, giving Madrid a potential veto.\n\nAll eyes will be on King Felipe when he speaks to UK parliamentarians on Wednesday, to see if he emulates his father Juan Carlos. As king back in 1986 Juan Carlos raised Spain's claim over the Rock when addressing MPs and Lords, on the last Spanish state visit to the UK.\n\nGibraltar's status is a hot topic again because of Brexit\n\nThe signs are that Felipe is prepared to broach the issue as he did before the UN General Assembly last autumn. Describing Gibraltar as the last colony in Europe, Spain's king invited the UK to \"put an end to this anachronism\".\n\nKing Felipe, who will also have a private meeting with Prime Minister May, is considered a consummate diplomat, having been patiently groomed for the job by representing Spain in Latin America and elsewhere for almost two decades before his coronation.\n\nHe also proved in 2004 that he was his own man by marrying the TV journalist Letizia Ortiz, a commoner and divorcee.\n\nFor the first time Prince Harry, 32, will have an important ceremonial role, escorting Felipe and Letizia to Westminster Abbey.\n\nHe will also attend a grand state banquet, after the Queen has welcomed her Spanish guests to Buckingham Palace on Wednesday.", "The video-on-demand Femfresh advert was shown in March and April of this year\n\nAn advert for bikini line shaving products has been banned by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), which found it was likely to cause \"serious or widespread offence\".\n\nShown on ITV and Channel 4 on-demand services earlier this year, it included close-up shots of the women's crotches.\n\nThe ASA received 17 complaints that the advert objectified women and portrayed them in an overly sexualised way.\n\nChurch & Dwight UK - the brand which owns Femfresh - did not believe the advert for the so-called \"intimate shaving collection\" was offensive or socially irresponsible.\n\nIt said it was aimed at a target audience of 18 to 34-year-old women and that close-ups were used to illustrate that the product could give consumers a smooth bikini line.\n\nNeither Channel 4 or ITV received any complaints about the advert directly and both agreed with comments made by Church & Dwight that it did not objectify women.\n\nBut the ASA noted that the dance sequence was \"highly sexualised\", there were \"few shots\" of the women's faces and the high-cut swimsuits \"were more exposing\" than most.\n\n\"Even taking into account the nature of the product, we considered that it had been presented in an overly-sexualised way that objectified women,\" the ASA said.\n\n\"We concluded that the ad was likely to cause serious or widespread offence and therefore breached the code.\"\n\nIt ruled that the advert must not appear again in its current form.", "Torn or damaged clothes from the UK, US and other countries often end up in Panipat in India\n\nEver wonder where your clothes go after you discard them?\n\nIn Western countries, when you donate clothing to charities via shops, collection bags, or clothing banks many are given to those in need or sold in charity shops to raise funds.\n\nBut what happens to torn or damaged clothes, or items that no one wants to buy?\n\nOften, they are sent to India, joining a global second-hand trade in which billions of old garments are bought and sold around the world every year.\n\nSpecifically, to Panipat in northern India which is known as the world's \"cast off capital\".\n\nEvery day hundreds of tonnes of clothes from across the UK and the US, and other countries, arrive in Panipat.\n\nOutside the town, you can see long queues of trucks waiting to get in. They come here from the port town of Kandla on India's western coast - where ships bring containers full of worn clothes and textiles from all across the world.\n\nThe businessmen here call them \"mutilated\" clothing.\n\nAt Shankar Woollen Mills the clothes are first sorted by colour\n\nIndia is the top importer of used clothes, beating countries such as Russia and Pakistan, according to the most recent data available.\n\nIn India, used clothes can be imported under two different categories - one is mutilated and the other is wearable.\n\nTo protect local garment manufacturers in India, importers of wearable clothing need a licence from the government. This licence will only be issued if the buyer guarantees the clothing will not be sold in India, but is instead re-exported.\n\nHowever, the bulk of Indian imports of used clothing happen in the mutilated clothing segment, which doesn't require a licence.\n\nIn one of the recycling mills, Shankar Woollen Mills, I have to walk over hundreds of colourful buttons on the floor as I try to find my way.\n\nIt's humid and the piles of woollen clothing seem to be adding to the heat on this already hot summer day.\n\nAll around me, there are mountains of jackets, skirts, cardigans, berets and what looks like school uniform. From high-street brands to luxury labels - most clothes donated to charity end up here.\n\nPiles of torn and used clothing that would have otherwise ended up as landfill.\n\nWorkers are bent over large blades, shredding clothes. They are ripping everything apart to remove zippers, buttons and labels.\n\nThe recycled fabric is largely used to make blankets\n\nThe clothes are then stored in large piles according to their colour: reds, blues, greens and a lot of black. This is the first step of breaking down the clothes into yarn before they are rewoven into beautiful fabric.\n\nThey are then processed in batches with similar coloured garments.\n\n\"We process it in machines which does what the human hands can't - rip the fabric into smaller rags.\n\n\"This is then fed into a bigger machine which mixes wool, silk, cotton and any man-made fibre like polyester and feeds into a carding machine which starts to spin into yarn,\" says Ashwini Kumar, who runs Shankar Woollen Mills shows me what happens next.\n\nEvery three tonnes of fabric produces around 1.5 tonnes of yarn, which is woven back into what's called \"shoddy\" fabric.\n\nThe shoddy fabric is then used largely to make blankets.\n\n\"They are used as relief material distributed during disasters - so at every tsunami, cyclone or earthquake - anywhere in the world, you see these blankets being distributed,\" adds Mr Kumar.\n\nOr the fabric is sold as cheap blankets for the poor costing under $2 (£1.55) each.\n\nPawan Garg says the industry has shrunk dramatically\n\nAfrica is the biggest consumer for what's made here. Almost all traders visit markets in African countries regularly to find new buyers for their recycled fabric.\n\nThere is a local market too - but it's much smaller.\n\nWhile the cost of importing this textile waste is very low, Mr Kumar is worried that what was once a lucrative business is now getting more expensive.\n\n\"Once it reaches India - the custom duties, transportation, storage, electricity and labour costs adds up. Our consumers in Africa want cheap blankets and we are struggling to keep the prices low.\"\n\nMore from the BBC's series taking an international perspective on trade:\n\nThe industry has also been affected by increased competition from cheaper man-made fibres such as polyester.\n\nPawan Garg, the president of trade body the All India Woollen & Shoddy Mills Association, says the industry has already shrunk dramatically as a result.\n\n\"There were once more than 400 units here - now there are less than 100 units. It's taken a very bad hit. The industry is not doing well. Every day - a unit is closing or reducing production.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"Earlier we worked 24/7, now it's hardly a shift a day,\" he says.\n\nIf the industry continues to shrink it won't just be a problem in India, points out Mr Kumar. He suggests the West could help support the industry.\n\n\"What we do here is important work. Think about the impact on the environment if we don't use up these huge mountains of waste.\n\n\"In India, things never get wasted. We pass on our clothes to those who need them, and even after that we find ways of using the fabric. I can't think of ever throwing a piece of clothing in the dustbin.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMPs have spoken about the abuse and intimidation they were subjected to during the general election.\n\nConservative Simon Hart said colleagues were targeted for their sexuality, religious beliefs and social background by people who were intent on \"driving them out of politics altogether\".\n\nLabour's Diane Abbott said she had had a torrent of \"mindless\" racist and sexist abuse including death threats.\n\nMinisters have announced an inquiry by the standards watchdog.\n\nThe Committee on Standards in Public Life will look at the nature of the problem of intimidation, considering the current protections and measures in place for candidates, reporting back to the prime minister.\n\nCabinet Office minister Chris Skidmore said harassment could not be tolerated and the integrity of the UK's democracy and public service must be upheld.\n\nDuring an hour-long debate in Westminster Hall, MPs detailed how they have faced racist abuse, anti-Semitism, death threats from supporters of rival parties on social media, as well as physical intimidation and threats.\n\nUsing strong and graphic language, Diane Abbott gave examples of the offensive sexist and racist messages and \"mindless abuse\" she and her staff had to endure every day on social media, not just at election time.\n\nThe shadow home secretary said abuse of MPs was not new but it had been \"turbo charged\" by the speed and anonymity of social media. She added that male MPs get abuse \"but it is much worse for women\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Hart said he had heard of candidates having swastikas painted on their offices and windows smashed while he said the \"hashtag Tory scum had become a regular feature of our lives\" on social media.\n\nWhile elections used to be about winning votes and arguments, he suggested that the 2017 poll was characterised by efforts by individuals and groups to silence people who did not agree with them.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUrging a review of current laws, he said it was up to leaders of all the political parties to condemn such actions and say \"not in my name\" rather than issuing \"mealy-mouthed messages of condemnation\" on Twitter.\n\n\"It is not about thin-skinned politicians having a bit of a bruising time and feeling a bit sorry for themselves. It is about families, staff, helpers and volunteers.\"\n\nConservative MP Andrew Percy said he had been subjected to anti-Semitic abuse while his staff had been spat at. While he was used to being challenged by opponents, he said \"something more sinister\" was going on in the country.\n\nLabour's Paula Sheriff said the 2017 election had been the \"most brutal\" to date.\n\nLabour said it had fought a \"positive, hopeful campaign\"\n\nShe said this kind of abuse had been going on for years but what had changed in recent times was the increasing connection between \"online abuse and commentary in the mainstream media\".\n\nShe added: \"It is not about a particular party or particular faction. It is about the degradation of political discourse online.\"\n\nWomen and ethnic minority candidates were particularly vulnerable, according to a report by the All-Party Parliamentary Group Against Anti-Semitism, which is calling for tougher discipline by parties.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Conservatives and Labour have accused each other of not doing enough to stop it.\n\nIn a letter to Conservative Party chairman Sir Patrick McLoughlin ahead of the debate Labour chairman Ian Lavery and Cat Smith, shadow minister for voter engagement, say: \"Abuse against candidates on social media is completely unacceptable.\n\n\"The Conservative Party perpetrated this on an industrial scale by spending millions of pounds to post highly personalised and nasty attack adverts on voters' Facebook timelines without their permission.\"\n\nConservative MP Nus Ghani told BBC Radio 4's Today: \"I am a Conservative, I am a woman, I am Asian and I am Muslim and that makes some people very angry.\n\n\"And the fact that I had the audacity to stand for public office causes some people offence.\"\n\nOn Monday, Prime Minister Theresa May asked whether Jeremy Corbyn was doing enough in response to complaints of intimidation, saying she was \"surprised at any party leader who's not willing to condemn that\".\n\nThe Labour leader has repeatedly said personal attacks have no place in the party.\n\nLabour MP Yvette Cooper said some of her party's supporters had targeted female Conservative MPs - as well as Labour members - with \"vitriolic abuse\".", "Although their manifesto calls for a near-total halt to immigration, the far-right political party Britain First is now actively trying to appeal to Polish immigrants.\n\nThey are a fringe group, with no elected officials at any level, but Britain First has about 1.9 million Facebook likes - more than any other UK political party. And now they're trying to use that social media footprint to make explicit appeals to Polish immigrants living in the UK.\n\nA string of Britain First videos that seem designed to attract a Polish audience have appeared online. Recent ones include a video from Jacek Miedlar, a Polish far-right former priest, an interview with a Polish media outlet that has over half a million views, and videos by Polish Britain First supporters encouraging others to support the party.\n\nMiedlar, who has over 25,000 subscribers on YouTube, is an activist known for his anti-Semitic and anti-Islamic views. He has tried to travel to the UK twice this year to attend Britain First rallies but was stopped by UK authorities.\n\nThe videos have been posted despite Britain First's anti-immigration manifesto which calls for cash payments to foreigners to leave the UK, a complete halt to immigration except for people who marry British citizens, and a call to make it \"an act of treason to implement any policy or measure, or sign any agreement, that facilitates and/or results in significant numbers of foreigners entering the sovereign territory of the United Kingdom with the aim of settling.\"\n\nDespite the party's hard line on immigration, Britain First deputy leader Jayda Fransen told BBC Trending that post-Brexit, all European immigrants who are already in the UK should be allowed to stay, as long as they aren't criminals or Muslims. The party also supports a total ban on Islam in the UK, a policy they believe will attract some support from Polish migrants.\n\nPoles form the largest immigrant community in Britain. There were an estimated 831,000 Polish-born residents in 2015 - a jump of almost 750,000 compared with the number in 2004, the year Poland joined the European Union.\n\nRafal Pankowski from the Polish anti-hate charity Never Again says the party's attempts to appeal to UK-based Polish people may have something to do with what he perceives to be a trend towards the far-right in Polish society.\n\n\"We have been witnessing a rise in far-right activity in Poland itself as well,\" he says. \"And unfortunately the Polish people in the UK have been victims of discrimination and hate crime especially since the Brexit referendum. And some of them have been turning to Polish far-right nationalist groups for a sense of belonging.\"\n\nA number of videos have appeared on the Britain First Youtube channel seemingly aimed at the UK's Polish population\n\nWiktor Moszczynski, a former spokesperson for the Federation of Poles in Great Britain, agrees that there has been a spike of far-right activity amongst Polish people living in the UK, but says that such activity has recently died down.\n\n\"At the moment the trend tends to be towards the right in Polish society, both in Poland and to some extent here in the UK, but when I say right that doesn't necessarily mean radical right,\" Moszczynski tells BBC Trending radio.\n\n\"Suddenly these groups began turning up in demonstrations in the UK over the last two or three years generally wearing Polish fascist symbols, but what I do have to say is I have not seen anything of this in the last year,\" he says. \"I have been spoken to by the police who are very concerned about these groups, so we do know that there may still be an undercurrent. But at the moment the problem seems to have been in remission, temporarily at least.\"\n\nHe says a majority of the younger Polish community are resistant to the influence of far-right groups, including Britain First, but nevertheless the far-right spike is \"not pleasant, particularly at a time when we're trying to build up sympathy for the Poles living in this country on the way they've been treated after the Brexit vote.\"\n\nA recent report from the campaigning group Hope Not Hate said the largest and most organised neo-Nazi group in the UK is the National Rebirth of Poland. The presence of groups like these, Hope Not Hate says, has fuelled extreme far-right activists.\n\nBritain First rarely runs candidates. When they do they receive a small amount of the vote, such as the 1.2% of the vote party leader Paul Golding attracted in the 2016 London mayoral election. Its outsized social media following is due to a combination of factors including paid advertising, a core group of dedicated followers, and the use of less controversial posts - for instance messages encouraging people to support the troops or the royal family - and other tactics to drive up the numbers of likes.\n\nThe group's Facebook page has also become something of an international hub people attracted to its anti-Islam message. According to an analysis by Trending, less than half (44%) of the group's Facebook likes come from accounts based inside the UK, with large numbers of likes coming from the US, Australia and Canada. Around 23,000 of the page's likes come from Polish accounts.\n\nBy way of comparison, 87% of the Labour Party's 1 million likes come from UK accounts. The figure for the Conservative Party (more than 600,000 likes) is 78%.\n\nFransen claims the party has a \"growing number\" of Polish members and supporters, but refused to provide membership figures. She says the party's low appeal at the ballot box can be explained by the fact that the group has been concentrating on direct action, including turning up at the homes and offices of elected officials.\n\nFormer Polish wrestling champion Marian Lukasik (left) called for the assassination of Angela Merkel over her country's refugee policy\n\nPankowski believes the membership figures are very small, yet says his organisation saw via social media a number of Polish flags and Polish people at a Britain First rally in Birmingham last month.\n\nIn one video from the event, a UK-based Polish former wrestling champion Marian Lukasik, can be heard advocating the assassination of German Chancellor Angela Merkel because of her country's refugee policy. Lukasik has recently made other videos in support of Britain First.\n\n\"Britain First decided to attract support among the Polish community in the UK against Muslims, and a small section of the Polish community in the UK is probably prone to such messages,\" Pankowski says. \"But obviously it's ironic because Polish migrants and Muslim migrants in the UK actually have a lot in common in terms of the everyday challenges they face.\"\n\nYou can find BBC Trending on Facebook or follow us on Twitter @BBCtrending. All our stories are at bbc.com/trending.", "Donald Trump Jr appears in a number of the papers\n\nThe Daily Telegraph leads on claims that Donald Trump Jr is facing a possible \"treason\" investigation after emails showed he welcomed an offer of Russian state assistance to influence the outcome of the US election.\n\nThe Guardian believes the messages spell \"big trouble\" for the president, as they look like the first concrete proof of collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign.\n\nThe Financial Times quotes a former Watergate prosecutor who says the emails may not prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the Trump camp was willing to accept help from a hostile government, but \"we're getting pretty damn close\".\n\nAn editorial in the Daily Mirror says the mounting evidence of collusion is a crisis for the US and the world.\n\nIt says that as a former host of the US version of The Apprentice, Donald Trump must now be worried that the country is about to tell him: \"You're fired!\"\n\nAn investigation by the Guardian lays bare what the paper calls \"Big Tobacco's dirty battle for the African market\".\n\nIt accuses leading cigarette manufacturers of resorting to intimidatory tactics and legal action to try to force governments to water down the kind of protections and health campaigns that have saved millions of lives in the West.\n\nOne of the firms named, British American Tobacco, denies that it is opposed to tobacco regulation, but says it reserves the right to ask courts to intervene where it believes regulations may not comply with the law.\n\nThe Times leads on the findings of a House of Lords' report which says that a Royal Navy and EU mission to combat people smuggling in the Mediterranean has caused more migrants to die at sea. It says the tactic of using warships to destroy traffickers' boats has led to migrants leaving the Libyan coast in less seaworthy vessels.\n\nThe Daily Mail calls the mission the \"£15m migrant farce\".\n\nThe Telegraph highlights a study that says that jetting off on an annual summer holiday is so bad for global warming that it wipes out the benefits of 20 years of recycling.\n\nAccording to the paper, researchers in Sweden and Canada found that saving and sorting rubbish has far less impact when compared with cutting down on flights, ditching the car or switching to a vegetarian diet.\n\nImages of a fist-pumping Johanna Konta during her latest victory at Wimbledon are featured on the front and back pages.\n\nThe Mirror says she is the toast of the nation after becoming the first British woman to reach a singles semi-final at the All England Club in nearly 40 years.\n\nThe Telegraph calls her the \"history maker\", while the Daily Express says Konta is just one match from fulfilling her lifelong dream of a Wimbledon final.\n\nSeveral papers have tracked down the Chelsea Pensioner who was helped by Konta to take a celebratory picture of the two of them as she left Centre Court.\n\nSergeant John Griffiths, 72, is quoted as saying that the British player is a \"brilliant lady\" and a \"fighter\".\n\nThe Sun and the Daily Star dub him the \"selfie pensioner\".", "Every household in the UK should get a one-off rebate of £285 on its fuel bills as a result of excess industry profits, Citizens Advice has said.\n\nOver eight years, it claimed firms that transport gas and electricity - so-called energy networks - have made £7.5bn in \"unjustified\" profits.\n\nIt blamed the regulator, Ofgem, which sets industry price controls, for \"errors in judgement\".\n\nOfgem disputed the claim and said it had already helped to lower fuel bills.\n\nCitizens Advice said that network firms had enjoyed a multi-billion pound windfall at the expense of consumers.\n\nAs an example, Citizens Advice said National Grid had made an operating profit of more than £4bn in 2015/16.\n\nHowever the company's annual accounts show that around a quarter of that profit was made in the US or on other activities.\n\n\"Decisions made by Ofgem have allowed gas and electricity network companies to make sky-high profits that we've found are not justified by their performance,\" said Gillian Guy, head of Citizens Advice.\n\n\"Through their energy bills, it is consumers who have to pay the £7.5bn price for the regulator's errors of judgment. We think it is right that energy network companies return this money to consumers through a rebate.\"\n\nGas distribution is also subject to Ofgem price controls\n\nOfgem sets the charges that network companies like National Grid, SSE and Cadent - which distributes gas - can levy in any eight-year period.\n\nThat is because they are monopoly operators.\n\nBut in the current period, lasting from 2013 to 2021, Citizens Advice says Ofgem has been too favourable to the companies' interests.\n\nHowever, Ofgem said a number of the assumptions used by Citizens Advice were too high, and rejected the idea of a rebate.\n\n\"We do think they raise some valid points, but we don't agree with their modelling or their figures,\" said Jonathan Brearley, Ofgem's senior partner for networks.\n\nOn Wednesday Ofgem also announced a consultation on how it should set price controls after 2021.\n\n\"We will take some of the issues into account when we examine future price controls,\" Mr Brearley added.\n\nHe told the BBC that those controls are likely to be much tougher on the companies involved, providing downward pressure on bills.\n\nAt the moment, around a quarter of the average fuel bill is taken up by transmission charges.\n\nThe Energy Networks Association - which represents the operators - also said it did not agree with the modelling used by Citizens Advice.\n\nIt said a similar claim filed by British Gas had already been rejected by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA).\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The UK housing market is in a state of lethargy, according to property surveyors, with estate agents reporting the lowest stock of properties for nearly 40 years.\n\nMembers of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) said the market might continue \"flatlining\" for a while.\n\nNew instructions in June fell for the 16th month in a row.\n\nMost surveyors also saw further falls in the number of properties being sold.\n\nThe average number of homes on the books of estate agents fell to 42.5 - the lowest number since the survey started in January 1978.\n\n\"Political uncertainty\" was given by 44% of surveyors as the main reason for the pessimism - nearly double the number who blamed Brexit.\n\nSimon Rubinsohn, RICS' chief economist, said that uncertainty seemed to be \"exerting itself on transaction levels, which are flat-lining, and may continue to do so for a while, particularly given the ongoing challenge presented by the low level of stock on the market\".\n\nSeparately, the Bank of England's latest Credit Conditions Survey of banks and building societies has suggested that home buyers could find it trickier to find mortgage deals with low deposits in the months ahead.\n\nThe survey found lenders were likely to rein in lending as they become more cautious about the state of the economy.\n\nLenders expect a slight reduction in mortgage availability to house buyers with deposits of less than 25%, and \"in particular\" those with a deposit of below 10%.\n\nThe survey also found that unsecured lending - which includes credit cards - had fallen in the second quarter of the year, and was expected to drop further in the third quarter.\n\nLast week, the Halifax, Britain's largest lender, reported that prices fell by 1% in June, with annual growth slipping to 2.6%.\n\nThe RICS survey suggests that property values actually rose during the month.\n\nHowever, that hides an increasing regional divide in price growth.\n\nFive years ago, prices in the south of the country were roaring ahead of prices in the north, but now there has been a reversal.\n\nPrices in London are falling, while they are flat in East Anglia and the South East, according to the RICS survey.\n\nBy contrast, property values in the North West, Wales, Northern Ireland and the West Midlands are rising significantly.\n\n\"The latest results demonstrate the danger, however tempting, of talking about a single housing market across the country,\" said Mr Rubinsohn.\n\n\"RICS indicators, particularly regarding the price trend, are pointing towards an increasingly divergent picture.\"\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. King Felipe VI said he respected the UK's decision to leave the EU\n\nBritain and Spain can overcome their differences and maintain strong ties after Brexit, the king of Spain has said in a speech at Westminster.\n\nKing Felipe VI said he believed they could begin \"the necessary dialogue\" to form an arrangement over Gibraltar.\n\nBut the government of Gibraltar said the king's focus on a dialogue between London and Madrid was \"undemocratic\".\n\nThe start of a three-day state visit to the UK by the king and queen of Spain ended with a Buckingham Palace banquet.\n\nKing Felipe made his comments on Gibraltar in a speech in the Palace of Westminster.\n\nKing Felipe VI is a distant relative of the Queen\n\nWhile discussing Britain's decision to leave the EU, he said: \"To overcome our differences will be greater in the case of Gibraltar. I am confident through the necessary dialogue and effort, our two governments will be able to work... towards arrangements that are acceptable to all involved.\"\n\nThe government of Gibraltar said it would have to be involved in any discussion between Spain and the UK.\n\nIt added that two referenda in 1967 and 2002 showed the people of Gibraltar voted to remain British.\n\nChief minister Fabian Picardo QC said: \"We have no desire to part of Spain or to come under Spanish sovereignty in any shape or form.\n\n\"In the times in which we live, territories cannot be traded from one monarch to another like pawns in a chess game.\"\n\nDuring the speech, King Felipe said Britain and Spain were \"profoundly intertwined\" and he respected the UK's decision to leave the EU.\n\nHundreds of thousands of Britons live in Spain, and a similar number of Spaniards live in the UK, King Felipe told MP and peers.\n\nThey \"form a sound foundation for our relations,\" he added.\n\n\"These citizens have a legitimate expectation of stable living conditions for their families,\" he said.\n\nThe king highlighted the two countries' important trading arrangements, adding that Britain is \"the second largest investor in our country\".\n\nThe Spanish royals were guests at a lavish state banquet at Buckingham Palace\n\nAt the banquet later hosted by the Queen and Prince Philip at Buckingham Palace, the British monarch acknowledged the two countries had not always seen \"eye to eye\".\n\nIn a speech, she also said: \"A relationship like ours founded on such great strengths and common interests will ensure that both our nations prosper now and in the future whatever challenges arise.\"\n\nThe banquet menu began with poached fillet of salmon trout with fennel. It was followed by a medallion of Scottish beef with bone marrow and truffles, with a sauce made from Madeira, and a dark chocolate and raspberry tart for dessert.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Prince Harry, the Prince of Wales, the Duchess of Cornwall, the Princess Royal, the Duke of York and the Earl and Countess of Wessex also attended.\n\nThe Duke of Edinburgh and the Queen gifted the Spanish monarchs love letters from a mutual relative, Queen Ena of Spain\n\nEarlier the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh greeted King Felipe and Queen Letizia at Horse Guards Parade, in a traditional welcoming ceremony.\n\nThe trip is the first state visit by a Spanish king to the UK since Felipe's father, Juan Carlos, came 31 years ago.\n\nThe Queen gifted King Felipe copies of love letters from his great-grandmother to King Alfonso XIII.\n\nQueen Victoria's grand-daughter Princess Victoria Eugenie met King Alfonso on a state visit to Britain in 1905.\n\nThe pair married and Princess Victoria Eugenie became Queen Ena of Spain, making King Felipe a descendant of Queen Victoria.\n\nThe wind died down and the sun broke through the clouds just as the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh stepped on to the dais at Horse Guards.\n\nEvery visiting head of state gets the same welcome - their national anthem and the chance to inspect the guard of honour with Prince Philip. With his retirement imminent, this could be the last time he performed that particular public duty.\n\nKing Felipe inspected the guard of honour with Prince Philip, on what is expected to be the prince's last state visit before retiring from public engagements this year\n\nThen King Felipe stepped into a carriage with the Queen for the traditional procession down the Mall accompanied by the Household Cavalry. The Duke of Edinburgh and Queen Letizia travelled in a separate carriage.\n\nIt was a chance for Britain to show off how well it can do \"pomp\".\n\nOn Thursday, Prince Harry will accompany the royal visitors to Westminster Abbey.\n\nKing Felipe will lay a wreath at the Grave of the Unknown Warrior and the prince will join them on a short tour of the abbey, including the Tomb of Eleanor \"Leonor\" of Castile - the 13th-Century Spanish princess who married Edward I.\n\nKing Felipe, at 6ft 5in, towered over the Queen as he kissed Her Majesty's hand on Horse Guards Parade\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May attended the welcoming ceremony with Home Secretary Amber Rudd", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDonald Trump's pick to lead the FBI has rejected the president's depiction of a probe into alleged Russian meddling in the US election as a witch hunt.\n\n\"I do not consider Director Mueller to be on a witch hunt,\" Christopher Wray said about the former FBI director who is leading the special investigation.\n\nMr Wray, 50, also told a Senate hearing he would quit if the president asked him to do anything illegal.\n\nThe last FBI director, James Comey, was fired by the US president on 9 May.\n\nThe US president earlier on Wednesday tweeted: \"This is the greatest Witch Hunt in political history. Sad!\"\n\nMr Wray told the Senate panel on Wednesday: \"Anybody who thinks that I would be pulling punches as FBI director sure doesn't know me well.\n\n\"I will never allow the FBI's work to be driven by anything other than the facts, the law, and the impartial pursuit of justice. Period.\"\n\nThe nominee said he was \"very committed to supporting\" the work of special counsel Robert Mueller.\n\nMr Mueller, who was described by Mr Wray as \"a straight shooter\", is a former FBI director who is now leading the special inquiry into alleged Russian attempts to influence the 2016 US presidential election.\n\nMr Wray also faced questions about emails belonging to Donald Trump Jr - the president's eldest son - arranging a meeting with a Russian lawyer linked to the Kremlin.\n\nThe nominee told senators he was unfamiliar with the emails.\n\nSenator Lindsey Graham read out the text of the emails to him and asked if Mr Trump Jr \"should have taken that meeting\".\n\n\"I would think you'd want to consult with some good legal advisers before you did that,\" said Mr Wray when pressed by the South Carolina Republican.\n\n\"Any threat or effort to interfere with our elections from any nation state or non-state actor is the kind of thing the FBI would want to know\", he continued.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Wray added that he has \"no reason to doubt\" the assessment by US intelligence agencies that Russia sought to influence the 2016 election in Mr Trump's favour.\n\nLast month, Mr Comey told a congressional hearing that Mr Trump had requested a pledge of loyalty to him, which Mr Comey said he had refused to give.\n\nMr Wray declared: \"My loyalty is to the constitution, to the rule of law, and to the mission of the FBI.\n\n\"And nobody asked me for any kind of loyalty oath at any point during this process and I sure as heck didn't offer one.\"\n\nMr Comey had also told senators he was worried about meeting one-on-one with Mr Trump, because he was concerned the president might lie later about their discussion.\n\nWhen Mr Wray was asked how he would respond to a private invitation from Mr Trump, he said such a meeting would be \"highly unlikely\".\n\nBut he added it would depend on the circumstances and if national security was involved.\n\nMr Wray also said he would attempt to work with the justice department to ensure \"it's not a one-on-one meeting\".\n\n\"I think the relationship between any FBI director and any president needs to be a professional one, not a social one,\" he said.\n\n\"And there certainly shouldn't be any one-on-one discussion between the FBI director and any president about how to conduct particular investigations or cases\".\n\nMr Wray, a longtime justice department official who most recently has worked as a private criminal defence attorney, also noted his opposition to torture as an interrogation tactic.\n\nDemocratic senators, who have harshly questioned other Trump nominees during their confirmations, signalled approval for Mr Wray, indicating that he will probably be approved for the 10-year term.\n\nIf the president ever asked him to do anything illegal, he told senators, \"first I would try to talk him out of it, and if that failed I would resign\".", "US scientists have amassed \"planetary-scale\" data from people's smartphones to see how active we really are.\n\nThe Stanford University analysis of 68 million days' worth of minute-by-minute data showed the average number of daily steps was 4,961.\n\nHong Kong was top averaging 6,880 a day, while Indonesia was bottom of the rankings with just 3,513.\n\nBut the findings also uncovered intriguing details that could help tackle obesity.\n\nMost smartphones have a built-in accelerometer that can record steps and the researchers used anonymous data from more than 700,000 people who used the Argus activity monitoring app.\n\nScott Delp, a professor of bioengineering and one of the researchers, said: \"The study is 1,000 times larger than any previous study on human movement.\n\n\"There have been wonderful health surveys done, but our new study provides data from more countries, many more subjects, and tracks people's activity on an ongoing basis.\n\n\"This opens the door to new ways of doing science at a much larger scale than we have been able to do before.\"\n\nThe findings have been published in the journal Nature and the study authors say the results give important insights for improving people's health.\n\nThe average number of steps in a country appears to be less important for obesity levels, for example.\n\nThe key ingredient was \"activity inequality\" - it's like wealth inequality, except instead of the difference between rich and poor, it's the difference between the fittest and laziest.\n\nThe bigger the activity inequality, the higher the rates of obesity.\n\nTim Althoff, one of the researchers, said: \"For instance, Sweden had one of the smallest gaps between activity rich and activity poor... it also had one of the lowest rates of obesity.\"\n\nThe United States and Mexico both have similar average steps, but the US has higher activity inequality and obesity levels.\n\nThe researchers were surprised that activity inequality was largely driven by differences between men and women.\n\nIn countries like Japan - with low obesity and low inequality - men and women exercised to similar degrees.\n\nBut in countries with high inequality, like the US and Saudi Arabia, it was women spending less time being active.\n\nJure Leskovec, also part of the research team, said: \"When activity inequality is greatest, women's activity is reduced much more dramatically than men's activity, and thus the negative connections to obesity can affect women more greatly.\"\n\nThe Stanford team say the findings help explain global patterns of obesity and give new ideas for tackling it.\n\nFor example, they rated 69 US cities for how easy they were to get about on foot.\n\nThe smartphone data showed that cities like New York and San Francisco were pedestrian friendly and had \"high walkability\".\n\nWhereas you really need a car to get around \"low walkability\" cities including Houston and Memphis.\n\nUnsurprisingly, people walked more in places where it was easier to walk.\n\nThe researchers say this could help design town and cities that promote greater physical activity.\n\nReporter conflict of interest: I made 10,590 steps yesterday but clocked up only 129 on Sunday, I left my phone on the kitchen table all day - that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it.", "Fees for unplanned overdrafts are to be scrapped for the 20 million customers of Lloyds Banking Group, which includes the Halifax and Bank of Scotland.\n\nFrom November this year, any customer going over their overdraft limit will face no fees at all, Lloyds said.\n\nHowever, the bank may continue to block payments from the account until the overdraft is paid off.\n\nIt follows criticism of high charges by consumer groups and the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA).\n\nThe Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is also expected to propose measures on overdraft fees within the next few weeks, as part of its inquiry into high-cost credit.\n\nPreviously Lloyds customers taking out unauthorised overdrafts faced interest payments at an annual rate of 19.89%, a daily charge of up to £10, the monthly charge of £6, and up to £30 a day for returned (unpaid) items.\n\nThese will all now be abolished.\n\nFees for missed payments from basic bank accounts will also disappear.\n\nLloyds said that it expected to make less money as a result of the changes, although it said fewer people now use an unauthorised facility than used to be the case.\n\nBarclays has already abolished unauthorised lending. Since June 2014, customers cannot exceed their overdraft limit, unless they obtain permission for emergency lending.\n\nAs well as scrapping charges for unplanned overdrafts, Lloyds is also simplifying fees for planned overdrafts, making it cheaper for many customers to borrow.\n\nThose with overdrafts of less than £500 are likely to pay less, while those borrowing more than £1000 are likely to see higher charges.\n\nAnyone who takes out an authorised overdraft with Lloyds Banking Group - in other words the bank has agreed to it - is currently charged a £6 monthly fee, on top of interest at 19.89% a year.\n\nWhile the £6 fee will be dropped, the interest charge will rise sharply, to 68.4% on an annual basis.\n\nLloyds said that amounts to 1p a day for every £7 borrowed.\n\nAs a result nine out of 10 customers will either be better off, or see no difference, it said.\n\nHowever, the changes will not make Lloyds the cheapest lender on the market.\n\nAndrew Hagger, personal finance expert with Moneycomms, said there were at least eight banks providing lower cost overdrafts.\n\nTap on the image above, then pinch and zoom to enlarge\n\nThe move by Lloyds to abolish unauthorised borrowing fees was welcomed by consumer groups.\n\n\"Lloyds' decision to do away with these fees is a positive step, and its proposed simpler pricing will benefit many of its customers,\" said Peter Vicary-Smith, Which? chief executive.\n\n\"However, not everyone will be better off, so it's critical that Lloyds supports customers to help them avoid high charges and to reduce their level of debt.\"\n\nThe FCA should encourage other banks to follow suit, he added.\n\nAs part of its inquiry into current accounts, the CMA ruled last year that banks should introduce a maximum monthly charge - set by each bank - by the end of September 2017.\n\nLloyds is due to introduce a maximum monthly charge of £95 for unauthorised overdrafts in August, although this will be superseded by the changes in November.\n\nRBS and NatWest will introduce a £80 maximum on 24 July.\n\nHSBC is to remove interest charges on most unarranged overdrafts, but will still charge a £5 daily fee, up to a maximum of £80 a month.\n\nAre you a Lloyds customer? How will you be affected by the changes? Share your views and 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.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFire service advice to \"stay put\" inside Grenfell Tower during the fire which destroyed the building lasted nearly two hours, the BBC has learned.\n\nA change in policy recommending residents try to leave was made at 02:47 BST, one hour and 53 minutes after the first emergency call.\n\nAt least 80 people are believed to be dead after the blaze on 14 June.\n\nLondon Fire Brigade said: \"The advice our control officers give can change as the fire changes.\"\n\nMeanwhile, tributes have been laid at a wall in the tower's North Kensington neighbourhood to mark the four weeks since the blaze occurred.\n\nWhen the fire was first reported at 00:54 BST, residents were initially given advice to \"stay put\" inside the building.\n\nThis is based on the assumption that fire can be contained, but the policy has come under scrutiny after many of the tower's residents became trapped.\n\nTributes are being paid to mark the four-week anniversary of the fire\n\nKarim Musillhy spoke to his uncle Hesham Rahman, 57, on the phone at 01.30 BST.\n\nHe says the emergency services had told him to stay in his flat and put wet towels under the door.\n\n\"We all know how it all caught fire very quickly. But even then, for me I would be thinking, 'if you can make it out, make it out. Just get out of the building. Get out.'\n\n\"Within 15 minutes, the whole building caught fire. After two hours, it's too late.\"\n\nMet Police officer Matt Bonner, who is leading the investigation into the fire, was confronted by angry people during a meeting on Wednesday evening at St Clement's Church, a short distance from Grenfell Tower.\n\nMr Bonner told those gathered he could not discuss the investigation \"as it would put the investigation at risk\", but this led to cries of \"arrest someone\" from those gathered.\n\nHe also said the police investigation would \"not be quick but it would be thorough\".\n\nHilary Patel, from the Grenfell Response Team, also said the building \"has never been at risk of falling down\".\n\nAnd Dr Deborah Turbitt, from Public Health England, said the area had been monitored for traces of asbestos, but none had been found.\n\nElsewhere in the neighbourhood, not far from the church, hundreds of people slowly gathered at a wall covered with tributes, to pay respects to those who died four weeks ago. Many were in tears.\n\nThe evening vigil saw pictures, flowers and handwritten messages illuminated by candles left by those paying their respects.\n\nNabil Choucair fears he has lost six members of his family who lived on the 22nd floor of Grenfell Tower.\n\nHe says the stay put policy may have been maintained for too long.\n\n\"You take away their only chance of probably escaping. I heard of firemen making it up to the 21st, 22nd [floor] and rescuing people, but choosing who to save, and who not to save because they couldn't carry any more, or help anyone.\n\n\"After that time, the chances have dropped for them and for everybody else.\"\n\nPaul Embery of the Fire Brigades Union said the stay put advice is \"broadly sound\".\n\n\"Clearly this was an unprecedented fire, and people couldn't have foreseen the way the fire was going to spread.\n\n\"At some point it was obvious that the advice needed to change. Whether it should have been changed earlier I wouldn't want to speculate on that, but the inquiry clearly needs to look at it.\"\n\nLondon Fire Brigade said it cannot comment on its response to the fire due to the ongoing police investigation and public inquiry, but said \"the advice our control officers give can change as the fire changes\".\n\nMeanwhile, in other developments:\n\nMore than 200 firefighters and 40 fire engines were involved in battling the blaze that engulfed the block.\n\nThe BBC understands 31 firefighters were injured in the fire, almost all through smoke inhalation. One was hit by a person who fell from the tower, but insisted on returning to duty.", "Schooners typically have two or three masts with multiple sails\n\nMadagascar's master shipbuilders can all trace their skills back to just one family who arrived on the African island more than 150 years ago, writes Tim Healy in the capital, Antananarivo.\n\nIn the 19th Century, schooners were a familiar sight along France's northern coast, their majestic sails fluttering in the wind. Nowadays, they have been replaced by boats which are far faster, more efficient - and less romantic.\n\nBut there is still a corner of the world where a new generation of carpenters is keeping old maritime traditions alive by crafting these vessels to original standards.\n\nThe mastery shown by carpenters working in the town of Belo-sur-mer on Madagascar's west coast is respected around the world - at least one of their beautifully crafted schooners has been sent to collectors in France in recent years.\n\nAnd it is all thanks to one family, brought to the island by a king's ambition.\n\nIt was King Radama II of Madagascar who decided to bring the schooner to his East African island.\n\nFor more than a thousand years, Arab boats moved along the coast of Madagascar trading goods for slaves. They were joined in the 17th Century by European trading vessels. Until the 19th Century, the Malagasy fleet was composed of mainly smaller fishing boats and canoes.\n\nBut the Vezo Sakalava - coastal people from the western region - wanted to develop bigger trading boats to move cargo around the island, and King Radama was happy to grant their wish.\n\nThe king turned to the French government, asking them to send shipwrights to teach his people.\n\nThe Justins, a father-and-son team of carpenters, set to work restoring one of their schooners\n\nSoon, the Joachim family, who were creoles of mixed European and African descent, and fellow marine carpenters from France's neighbouring island of La Reunion were sailing to Madagascar.\n\nBut when the family arrived, they discovered that the king had been assassinated. His reign had lasted less than two years, from 1861 to 1863.\n\nThe Joachims soon found themselves forced to flee to the east coast and, over the course of several decades, the family circumnavigated and lived in parts of southern Madagascar, eventually settling in the western port of Morondava.\n\nIt was here, and in nearby Belo-sur-mer, that Enasse Joachim and his three sons began practicing their craft, building schooners for Madagascar.\n\nOf Dutch origin, the ships can have two or three masts decorated with several sails, and reach up to 22m (72ft) in length. As the vessel does not have a keel, it is ideal for navigating shallow Malagasy lagoons and mooring on sandbanks and beaches.\n\nThe tradition of building ships runs through families\n\nBy 1904 - some 40 years after they first stepped foot on Madagascar - some of the Joachim family had managed to establish shipbuilding schools. It was done with the approval of France's Governor Gallieni, since the French had colonised Madagascar almost a decade earlier, in 1895.\n\nThe Malagasy apprentices of the Joachims became master carpenters and shipbuilders in their own right and passed down their skills through several generations, turning Belo-sur-mer into a major shipyard for Schooners, or Botsy in Malagasy.\n\nMore than a century later, their legacy continues in Belo-sur-mer, carried on by families like the Justins, who have built two ships.\n\n\"My sons and I come from a long line of shipbuilders going back to my great-grandparents,\" says the patriarch, known simply as Mr Justin.\n\nTraders have used boats to ferry cargo around Madagascar for centuries\n\nThe name of one of their boats, Fagnanarantsoandraza, translates from poetic Malagasy to \"let it be known that the fine have no need to stay here\". It is a name worthy of the love put into building the boat, constructed with timber painstakingly collected from nearby forests.\n\nThe vessel, launched in 2012, is 18m in length and can carry loads of up to 50 tonnes, usually salt or agricultural products, to areas that are often inaccessible by road.\n\nThe ships are summoned home for regular maintenance, including the resealing of their hulls, before returning to sea.\n\nOf the three Joachim sons, Albert's influence is perhaps most felt today. The Malagasy diminutive of Albert is Bebe, and the port in Morondava bears this name.\n\nWhile descendants of Albert and Fernand Joachim are believed to live on in Morondava, less was known about their brother, Ludovic, until recently.\n\nHe had married a woman 54km (34 miles) away in the village Belo-sur-mer, where he died in 1902. A century later in 2002, a French woman living locally was determined to locate Ludovic's grave and managed to do so with the help of the mayor, and village elders.\n\nDiscovered 400m from the village where it was hidden by undergrowth, the modest grave was marked out with a mound of rocks and a fading wooden cross etched with his name.\n\nLocal authorities decided to restore the grave and mounted a miniature wooden schooner upon the tomb, to honour the Joachim family's unique contribution to the island's seafaring traditions.\n\nOne of the original shipbuilders, Ludovic Emmanuel Joachim, died in Belo-sur-mer in 1902", "President Donald Trump has been party to an eye-watering 4,000 lawsuits over the last 30 years, US media say.\n\nAnd now the mogul turned commander-in-chief has attracted one more, after seven people sued him for blocking them on Twitter.\n\nMr Trump is an avid user of the social media forum, which he deploys to praise allies and lambast critics.\n\nThe lawsuit was filed by the Knight First Amendment Institute, a free speech group at Columbia University.\n\nThe seven Twitter users involved claim their accounts were blocked by the president, or his aides, after they replied to his tweets with mocking or critical comments.\n\nPeople on Twitter are unable to see or respond to tweets from accounts that block them.\n\nThe legal complaint argues that by blocking these individuals, Mr Trump has barred them from joining the online conversation.\n\nIt calls the move an attempt to \"suppress dissent\" in a public forum - and a violation of their First Amendment right to free speech.\n\nWhite House Press Secretary Sean Spicer and the president's social media director Daniel Scavino are also named in the lawsuit.\n\nLast month, Mr Spicer said Mr Trump's tweets were considered \"official statements by the president of the United States\".\n\nThe president's @realDonaldTrump Twitter account has 33.7m followers, while the official @POTUS account has 19.3m.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nJameel Jaffer, executive director of the Knight First Amendment Institute, said the president's love of Twitter means it has become \"an important source of news and information about the government\".\n\n\"The First Amendment applies to this digital forum in the same way it applies to town halls and open school board meetings,\" he said.\n\n\"The White House acts unlawfully when it excludes people from this forum simply because they've disagreed with the president.\"\n\nAccording to the institute, the account's blocking habit should be a concern for everyone.\n\nWhy? Because even if they can read the president's tweets, what they see has been consciously cleansed of criticism.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "From a distance Castelluccio looks the same as it has done for 1,000 years, a beautiful hilltop town in the midst of one of Italy's most celebrated plains, the Piano Grande.\n\nBut even from the road below the village you can see the buildings are shattered, roofs collapsed, more reminiscent of a war zone than the Umbrian countryside.\n\nNearly a year on from the earthquakes which devastated this region of central Italy, visitors have just been allowed back into the so-called \"zona rossa\" near Castellucio, although not the village itself.\n\nThe red zone marks areas still regarded as too dangerous to visit but an exception was made for people to see \"La Fioritura\". This is a spectacular showing of wild flowers in the meadows of the Piano Grande.\n\nWe joined a convoy of around 40 cars to be taken through army road blocks high up into the Sibillini mountains.\n\nCornflowers and poppies colour the 16 sq km plain surrounded by the Sibillini mountains\n\nVillage after village showed the impact of the earthquakes that hit this region, first in August 2016 and then again in October.\n\nThese villages look as if the earthquake had just happened, instead of nearly a year ago. Most of the people who lived there have been moved to hotels on the coast.\n\nWe left our cars on top of a high ridge and trekked for two hours down on to the plain, overlooked by the jagged peak of Monte Vettore, which marks the boundary between Umbria and Le Marche.\n\nA deep, black crack could be seen high up on the mountainside which had appeared after the earthquake.\n\nThe crack on the mountain, the lower of two lines, is up to a metre wide\n\nAs we came down on to the plain, extraordinary splashes of colour came into view, reminiscent of an Impressionist canvas.\n\nMeadows were tinted red with swathes of poppies, others bright blue with cornflowers. Normally there would be 10,000 visitors a day to photograph the splendours of the Fioritura, we were told. This year it is in the hundreds.\n\nThere are more beehives than people in the fields.\n\nThe Piano Grande's fields are unusually deserted this year\n\nThe 16 sq km (6 sq miles) Piano Grande - literally the big plain - was once a glacier lake and is surrounded by mountains.\n\nIt is here that the farmers of Castelluccio plant their lentils, a crop that has become famous amongst foodies around the world.\n\nThis year they were only allowed in by convoy to prepare for the season ahead. No-one is allowed up into this ghost village at 1,452m (4,760 ft).\n\nBelow what has been his home for generations, Lorenzo Caponecchi is selling lentils and wild peas in a stall by the side of the road.\n\nI wondered why it was taking time for rebuilding to begin. Was it because these were such old buildings or was it a question of money?\n\nLorenzo and Monia run a stall in the shadow of Castelluccio\n\nNo, said his partner Monia Falzetti angrily. \"It's the state and the politicians. There is plenty of money from the EU but we aren't seeing any of it.\"\n\nOther former inhabitants of Castelluccio are so angry at the lack of help that they believe visitors should not be allowed into the Piano Grande.\n\nIt is the tourism of rubble, they proclaim.\n\nRubble tourism? The remains of homes in the village of Trisungo\n\nBut the local mayor told La Repubblica that the flowers of the Piano Grande do not just belong to the people of Castelluccio. They are the world's heritage and, besides, more tourism will help the local economy.\n\nSide by side in this unique valley, you can see the sublime beauty of nature at its most spectacular but also the forces of nature at its most destructive.\n\nIn a few moments here houses that existed for hundreds of years were torn down and reverted to stones.", "Eighty beachgoers linked hands at Panama City beach in Florida to rescue a family\n\nIn a testament to the true human spirit, 80 beachgoers formed a human chain in Panama City Beach in Florida to help save a family pulled in to the water by strong tides.\n\nRoberta Ursey and her family were at the beach on Saturday when she heard her sons crying out for help.\n\nLuckily, Jessica Simmons and her husband came to the rescue, encouraging people to hold hands and reach out for those who were in difficulties.\n\nMs Ursey's mother, who was among several others trapped in the rip current, suffered a heart attack and remains in hospital.\n\nMs Simmons, who is from Alabama and said she was raised in a pool and a lake since she could crawl, posted on Facebook that there were heavy rains at the beach when the incident occurred.\n\n\"I can hold my breath underwater and go around a Olympic pool with ease! I knew I could get them to the human chain of people that wanted to help,\" she stated.\n\nAlongside her husband and the help of those forming the human chain, Ms Simmons shuttled people to safety on her bodyboard.\n\n\"To see people from different races and genders come into action to help total strangers is absolutely amazing! People who didn't even know each other went hand in hand in a line, into the water to try and reach them,\" she continued.\n\nRosalind Beckton, 38, who is a regular visitor to the beach, was there at the time with her 12-year-old son and witnessed the incident.\n\nShe told the BBC that she administered CPR to a woman who looked to be in need and who later suffered a heart attack.\n\n\"I witnessed many brave citizens risking their safety and their lives to form this human chain. It was amazing and heart warming to see,\" she continued.\n\nMs Beckton added that she didn't see any lifeguards on duty at the time.\n\nMs Ursey, who was rescued from the water alongside her family, told the News Herald: \"I am so grateful... These people were God's angels that were in the right place at the right time.\n\n\"I owe my life and my family's life to them. Without them, we wouldn't be here.\"\n• None Home washed away after rescue in Australia", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A woman who called the emergency services 1,868 times is jailed for six months.\n\nAn abusive caller who rang 999 more than 1,800 times has been jailed.\n\nStacey White, 31, from Nottinghamshire, had \"unleashed a tirade of abuse\" on call handlers since 2011.\n\nEast Midlands Ambulance Service (EMAS) said her \"inappropriate calls\" had cost the NHS almost £31,000 last year.\n\nWhite, who pleaded guilty to persistently making use of a public communications network to cause annoyance, was jailed for 26 weeks at Derbyshire Magistrates Court.\n\nIn 2014, White, from Kirkby in Ashfield, was given a 20-week suspended prison sentence for misusing the emergency line and physically assaulting a paramedic.\n\nEMAS said in one year alone, between March 2016 and April 2017, she had called the service 498 times.\n\nDeborah Powell, frequent caller lead for EMAS, said White \"demonstrated flagrant disregard\" for people experiencing life-threatening emergencies.\n\n\"Our emergency call handlers are there to provide life-saving advice over the phone and do not expect to be abused when they come to work,\" she said.\n\n\"We will continue to prosecute those who misuse our service to ensure that the support is there for those who need it in a real medical emergency.\"\n\nSimon Tomlinson, general manager for emergency operations centres, said: \"When you call 999 because someone is unconscious, not breathing, having chest pains or has the symptoms of a stroke, you are making the right call.\n\n\"Calling us to abuse our staff is not the right call - someone in cardiac arrest is.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Theresa May is interviewed by the Sun to mark her first year as prime minister\n\nThe Times leads on a claim that Google has paid millions of dollars in secret funds to UK and US academics in the hope that their research would sway public opinion and influence government policy.\n\nAccording to a US watchdog group, payments from the tech giant ranged from $5,000 to $400,000 but were not declared by research teams in two-thirds of cases.\n\nThe paper says many of the studies made arguments in Google's favour, such as that collecting large amounts of data was a fair exchange for its free services.\n\nGoogle tells the paper the Campaign for Accountability's report was \"misleading\".\n\nYou could soon be able to write your will in a text or record it on a voicemail, the Daily Telegraph says.\n\nIt reports on a new consultation from the Law Commission for England and Wales, which says it wants to bring legislation on wills into the digital age.\n\nThe existing law on wills being written, signed and witnessed dates back to 1839.\n\nThe commission admits that the proposals could add to family disputes if people who are seriously ill make last-minute changes to their will on a smartphone or tablet.\n\nThe Sun is the only paper to have an interview with Theresa May to mark her first year as prime minister.\n\nShe appeals to be allowed to stay on in Downing Street for at least the \"next few years\", so she can deliver Brexit.\n\nBut the paper says Mrs May refused to say if she will fight the next election as leader and thinks her remarks are \"the strongest public signal yet\" that she is preparing to stand down before 2022.\n\nIn its editorial, the paper states \"it's not too late for her to rescue her time as prime minister\" and her determination to do so is \"commendably clear\".\n\n\"The Great Ambulance Betrayal\" is the headline in the Daily Mail.\n\nThe paper says health chiefs are being accused of putting lives at risk by sending cars to 999 calls instead of ambulances, to help them meet response targets.\n\nThe Mail says there is concern that seriously injured people are waiting longer for treatment because the cars can only take people to hospital if they can sit in the back seat.\n\nAn anonymous paramedic is quoted as saying that \"care, patient safety and dignity are being badly compromised\".\n\nThe paper says the NHS is now moving to close the loophole and will give call handlers more time to assess calls and dispatch ambulances.\n\nThe Financial Times leads on concerns from financial watchdogs that pension reforms are putting savers in danger of paying too much in fees, or making risky investments.\n\nThe paper's editorial says many experts predicted this would happen when former Chancellor George Osborne brought in the changes in 2015 to give savers more choice about what they did with their money.\n\nIt concludes that it is too soon to call the reforms \"a fiasco\", but the early signs \"do not look promising\".\n\nMost of the papers have pictures of a grimacing Andy Murray on the front and back pages, as the defending champion was knocked out of Wimbledon while being hampered by a hip injury.\n\n\"Pain, Set and Match\" is the Daily Star's summary, while the Metro and the Daily Mail both go for \"Andy's Agony\".\n\nMurray's exit prompts the Sun to put another British player on its front page with the headline \"Give us Hope Johanna\", which it hopes tennis fans will sing when Johanna Konta plays Venus Williams in the semi-final later.\n\nThe Times is among the papers to report that the Australian High Commissioner has tried to reclaim the British number one as an Aussie - because she was born there.\n\nBut the Telegraph tells him in no uncertain terms \"hands off Konta!\"\n\nAnd the Daily Express features a railways fan who has built a replica station, complete with a 60ft platform, in his back garden in East Sussex.\n\nThe paper says it was \"just the ticket\" to house Stuart Searle's collection of rail memorabilia including hundreds of station signs.\n\nHe has also built a 50ft-long underground station.\n\nBut according to the paper he will not stop there, and now has plans to build a cinema for his large collection of film posters.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPresident Trump says he gets along \"very well\" with Russia's President Vladimir Putin.\n\nHe was interviewed by the Christian Broadcasting Network days after his much anticipated meeting with Mr Putin at the G20 summit in Hamburg.\n\nThe US president also said he was sure Mr Putin would have preferred Hillary Clinton was sitting in the White House.\n\nSeveral investigations are under way into allegations Russia helped get Mr Trump elected.\n\nMr Trump has denied any knowledge of this and Russia has also repeatedly denied interfering.\n\nOn the meeting with Mr Putin, Mr Trump said \"people said, oh, they shouldn't get along. Well, who are the people saying that? I think we get along very, very well.\n\n\"We are a tremendously powerful nuclear power, and so are they. It doesn't make sense not to have some kind of a relationship.\"\n\nMr Trump cited the recent ceasefire in south-western Syria as an example of how co-operation with Mr Putin worked.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Trump also used the interview to pour cold water on the notion that Russia conspired to get him elected - quite the opposite, he maintained. Russia preferred Hillary Clinton, his Democrat rival, he said.\n\nWhy? \"If Hillary had won, our military would be decimated,\" he said.\n\n\"Our energy would be much more expensive. That's what Putin doesn't like about me. And that's why I say why would he want me?\"\n\nThe US president earlier defended his son Donald Jr over a meeting he had with a Russian lawyer in 2016 at the height of the presidential campaign.\n\nMr Trump's son met Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya at Trump Tower in New York in June 2016.\n\nMr Trump Jr had been told that she would offer Russian-linked information which would put Hillary Clinton in a bad light.\n\nCritics accuse Mr Trump Jr of intent to collude with the Russians, and believe he may have broken federal laws. But others dispute this.\n\nDonald Trump tweeted that his son was \"open, transparent and innocent\". He also told Reuters he was unaware of the meeting and only learned of it two days ago.\n\nMr Trump Jr himself told Fox News the meeting was \"such a nothing\", but he accepted he should have handled it differently.\n\nHe has released a series of emails in which he was told he would receive \"very high level and sensitive information\", to which in response he said \"if it's what you say I love it\".\n\nKremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov denied any link to the Russian lawyer, and Ms Veselnitskaya herself has said she was never in possession of information that could have damaged Mrs Clinton.", "Chancellor Philip Hammond is working to \"frustrate\" Brexit, a cabinet minister has told the Daily Telegraph.\n\nThe unnamed source goes on to accuse Mr Hammond of treating pro-Leave ministers like \"pirates who have taken him prisoner\".\n\nThe Telegraph says \"all-out war\" appears to have broken out in the government.\n\nIts source says that Brexit is facing a critical moment and will \"fall apart\" if Theresa May is forced out.\n\nThe Sun reports that allies of Mr Hammond blame new Environment Secretary Michael Gove for the briefings against him.\n\nThe newspaper says \"pals\" of the chancellor think he's the victim of a smear campaign because of his support for a so-called soft Brexit.\n\nThe Financial Times says Mr Hammond is championing a transition deal with the EU lasting \"a couple of years\" to cushion the effect on business.\n\nThe newspaper reports concern is being voiced in Brussels that the cabinet is still arguing over what form Britain's departure should take.\n\nThe chancellor is also under fire from the Daily Mirror for reportedly describing public sector workers as \"overpaid\".\n\nIts front page headline calls him \"Hammond the hypocrite\".\n\nThe Mirror says he's a multi-millionaire living rent-free in two plush homes, while renting out his own house for £10,000 a month.\n\nThe Guardian cartoon has Mr Hammond sipping champagne in a chauffeur-driven car and spotting a nurse returning from the food bank. \"Bah\" - he sneers - \"another public sector fat cat!\"\n\nThe papers are all talking about regeneration - as the first woman takes on the role of the Doctor.\n\nJodie Whittaker appears on the front of the Guardian under the headline: \"Time, gentlemen, please - meet the new Doctor\".\n\nThe Sun says that \"traditionalists may moan\" but she is \"an inspired choice\".\n\nThe paper hasn't turned into Spare Rib just yet though: its coverage features Ms Whittaker in previous nude scenes and the headline \"Dalektable\".\n\nNot everyone is comfortable with the choice.\n\nThe Mail devotes a page to the question: \"Why ARE all the male heroes disappearing from the box?\"\n\nAnd the Express asks: \"Are they too PC at the BBC?\"\n\nThe Times leads with its own investigation into what it says are the hidden costs of the new fighter jets Britain is buying from the US.\n\nOfficially, the F-35 Lightning aircraft will cost up to £100m each, but analysis by the Times suggests the real figure will be more than £150m.\n\nIt says the extra costs for items such as software upgrades and spare parts have been buried in US defence contracts.\n\nIn response, the Ministry of Defence says the programme is on time, within costs and offers the best capability for the Armed Forces.\n\nAccording to the main story in the Daily Mail, patients who dial 999 are being assessed over Skype or FaceTime instead of being sent an ambulance.\n\nTrials, it says, are under way across England to see if video consultations via smartphone apps could be used for thousands of \"lower priority\" calls involving conditions such as back pain, abdominal pain, falls or heavy bleeding.\n\nThe details come from a former emergency call handler whom the Mail calls a whistleblower.\n\nThe paper says her account is \"chilling\" and asks: \"Is there any doubt that health bosses are playing with lives?\"\n\nRoger Federer appears on the front and the back pages of the Times, celebrating his record eighth Wimbledon singles title.\n\nThe paper hails him as \"the eighth wonder of the world\".\n\nThe Guardian says the champion \"cemented his reputation as the greatest player to ever grace his sport\".\n\nThe Mail's front page photographs both Federer and his opponent, Marin Cilic, in tears.\n\nThe paper says it was \"the weepiest Wimbledon final ever\".\n\nFinally, it appears that Winnie the Pooh has fallen foul of censors in China.\n\nPosts relating to Disney images of the character have been removed from social media in the country, the Financial Times reports.\n\nThere's been no official explanation, but the FT thinks it may have something to do with unflattering comparisons of China's President Xi to the portly bear.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBritish politics is at a \"dangerous moment\" with the level of personal abuse aimed at election candidates having reached a \"tipping point\", the head of the standards watchdog says.\n\nLord Bew warned the level of vitriol was now such that it could deter people from running for office.\n\nLabour MP Diane Abbott said this week she had endured a torrent of \"mindless\" racist and sexist abuse.\n\nMPs have blamed hard-left and far-right groups and the rise of social media.\n\nDuring a parliamentary debate on Wednesday, MPs from all parties spoke about the harassment they and their staff had received both in person and online, including death threats, rape threats and anti-Semitic abuse.\n\nConservative MP Simon Hart said he had heard of candidates having swastikas painted on their offices, and that the \"hashtag Tory scum had become a regular feature of our lives\" on social media.\n\nFirst-time candidate Emily Owen, who stood for Labour in Aberconwy in this year's general election, has also spoken out about the sexually explicit messages she received online.\n\n\"I started having messages come through and they quickly became very explicit, with people explaining what they wanted to do to me - with or without my consent - asking lots of questions, what I would do to get votes,\" the 22-year-old told BBC Breakfast.\n\nUsing strong and graphic language, Ms Abbott gave the debate examples of the offensive messages she and her staff had to endure every day, not just at election time, including people tweeting she should be hung.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTheresa May has asked Lord Bew, who chairs the Committee on Standards in Public Life, to look into what went on during the election campaign and whether existing laws need to be strengthened to protect candidates in future.\n\nIn an interview with BBC Radio 4's Westminster Hour, Lord Bew said there was a problem in public life that had not been seen before.\n\n\"We are in a bad moment and we have to respond to it,\" he said. \"We cannot afford to lose people of quality in our public life and we may be approaching a tipping point.\"\n\nLord Bew says his committee will not rule anything out but it can only make recommendations\n\nConservative MPs say Jeremy Corbyn has been too slow to condemn the actions of left-wing activists, including members of the Momentum pressure group, who they claim have been targeting them as well some Labour MPs. Momentum has denied any involvement whatsoever.\n\nLord Bew said it was \"absolutely clear\" that the Labour leadership believed there was no place for threats or fear in politics but that political leaders, as a whole, needed to be more outspoken on the issue.\n\n\"Above all, we do need leadership from Parliament itself on this point. We have reached a point where this is not a sermon. This has got to be said with some sharpness.\"\n\nThe committee, he added, was \"in listening mode\" and would not rule out anything at this stage.\n\n\"It's perfectly obvious that the ways in which the culture of civility in this country has been eroded has come from a number of different sources.\n\n\"And we need to see if we can find ways of getting a tone in our public debate which is still vigorous but avoids that tinge of nastiness and hatred which has definitely entered into things in more recent times.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTurkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has given emotional speeches to tens of thousands of people a year after a coup attempt was faced down in the streets.\n\nMr Erdogan praised those people, including MPs, who had defended democracy and his government.\n\nHe backed the death penalty for coup plotters and said they should wear Guantanamo Bay-style uniforms.\n\nNearly 250 people died and 2,196 were wounded fighting the coup attempt by an army faction on 15 July last year.\n\nThe government has since led a crackdown on alleged coup supporters, with the dismissal of more than 150,000 state employees and the arrest of some 50,000 people.\n\nThe coup failed for several reasons, including a lack of support in higher echelons of the armed forces and a lack of political or public backing.\n\nPlotters tried to detain Mr Erdogan as he holidayed in an Aegean resort, but he had left and the coup was thwarted by civilians and soldiers loyal to the president. It is on these people that the president has focused in commemorations.\n\n\"People that night did not have guns, they had a flag and more importantly, they had their faith,\" he told thousands of supporters.\n\nHowever, the national unity that was initially felt against the coup has faded, and divisions have widened, correspondents say.\n\nOpponents of Mr Erdogan boycotted the day and night of speeches and pageantry. They say his government's actions over the past year amount to an attempt to purge dissent.\n\nSuch purges continued right up to last Friday, when more than 7,000 state employees were dismissed.\n\nMr Erdogan addressed Turks who had rallied to the bridge over the Bosphorus where civilians had confronted pro-coup soldiers last year.\n\nHe said: \"I am grateful to all members of my nation who defended their country.\"\n\nMr Erdogan said that 250 people had lost their lives but the country had won its future.\n\n\"Putschists who closed off the bridge on that night wanted to show the world that they were in control,\" he said, but were countered by \"millions who took to the streets that night to defend the honour of their nation\".\n\nHe said he would \"break the heads of the traitors\" who plotted the coup.\n\nMr Erdogan also said he had spoken to Prime Minister Binali Yildirim about the coup plotters, saying: \"When they appear in court, let's make them appear in uniform suits like in Guantanamo.\"\n\nThe president then unveiled a \"martyrs' memorial\" at the bridge, which has been renamed the Bridge of the Martyrs of July 15.\n\nTens of thousands went to the bridge in Istanbul that has become a landmark of the failed coup\n\nMoving on to Ankara, the capital, he spoke in parliament a year to the hour after it was bombed by warplanes.\n\nHe said that on the night of the coup, \"our nation showed the whole world what a nation we are\".\n\nOne supporter in the crowd, who gave his name only as Murat, said: \"\"If it happened again, I would stay out again. That night, it was like a war. We take ownership of this country and this people.\"\n\nThe date of 15 July has been declared an annual holiday called Democracy and National Unity Day.\n\nEarlier Mr Yildirim told a special session of parliament that 15 July 2016 was a \"second War of Independence\", following the conflict that led to the creation of the modern state in the 1920s.\n\n\"It has been exactly one year since Turkey's darkest and longest night was transformed into a bright day, since an enemy occupation turned into the people's legend,\" the prime minister said.\n\nBut Kemal Kilicdaroglu, the head of the main opposition Republican People's Party, said: \"This parliament, which withstood bombs, has been rendered obsolete and its authority removed.\n\n\"In the past year, justice has been destroyed. Instead of rapid normalisation, a permanent state of emergency has been implemented.\"\n\nThe Turkish authorities accused a movement loyal to the Muslim cleric, Fethullah Gulen, of organising the plot.\n\nMr Gulen, who remains in the United States, denies any involvement, and Washington has so far resisted calls from the Turkish authorities to extradite him.\n\nPresident Erdogan inspected the honour guard ahead of special session of parliament in Ankara\n\nThe BBC's Turkey correspondent, Mark Lowen, says that for half of the country, he says, 15 July 2016 was its rebirth; for the other half, its aftermath is killing off what was left of Turkish democracy.\n\nCivilians, as those here on the Bosphorus bridge, helped defy the coup last year\n\nBillboards like this one paying tribute to the \"Legend of 15 July\" have been erected\n\nCritics say Mr Erdogan is using the purges to stifle political dissent, and last week hundreds of thousands of people gathered in Istanbul at the end of a 450km (280-mile) \"justice\" march against the government.\n\nThe president accused the marchers of supporting terrorism.", "George A Romero promoting 2005's Land of the Dead in Cannes\n\nThe American-born filmmaker George A Romero, who created the Living Dead movie franchise, has died at the age of 77, his manager has said.\n\nRomero died in his sleep on Sunday with his wife and daughter at his side, after a \"brief but aggressive battle\" with lung cancer, Chris Roe said.\n\nRomero co-wrote and directed the film that started the zombie series Night of the Living Dead in 1968.\n\nIt led to a number of sequels - and a host of imitators.\n\nRoe said Romero died listening to the score of The Quiet Man, \"one of his all-time favourite films\".\n\nAt the time of its release, Night of the Living Dead was criticised for being gory but it went on to be a cult classic and shape horror and zombie films for decades.\n\nWhile it did not use the word zombies, it was the first film to depict cannibalistic reanimated corpses.\n\nThe Living Dead franchise began in 1968, with the most recent made in 2009\n\nPrevious films had shown zombies as being living people who had been bewitched through voodoo.\n\nDespite having a budget of just $114,000, the film made $30m at the box office and was followed by five sequels and two remakes.\n\nMr Romero had a non-starring and uncredited role in the film as a news reporter.\n\nHe went on to direct other films including the 1971 romantic comedy There's Always Vanilla, the 1978 vampire film Martin, and the 1982 Stephen King adaptation Creepshow.\n\nHis only work to top the box office success enjoyed by Night of the Living Dead was Dawn of the Dead, released in 1978, which earned more than $40m.\n\nFellow film directors including Max Landis and Jordan Peele paid tribute to Romero on Twitter.\n\nDirector and producer Eli Roth wrote: \"Just heard the news about George Romero. Hard to quantify how much he inspired me & what he did for cinema. Condolences to his family.\"\n\nHe continued in a thread of tweets: \"Romero used genre to confront racism 50 years ago. He always had diverse casts, with Duane Jones as the heroic star of NOTLD.\"\n\nRoth said that \"very few others in cinema were taking such risks\" and that Romero \"as \"both ahead of his time and exactly what cinema needed at that time\".\n\nBaby Driver director Edgar Wright wrote that \"he couldn't into one tweet\" how he felt, so he wrote a blog post in memory of Romero.\n\nHe said: \"It's fair to say that without George A. Romero, I would not have the career that I have now. A lot of people owe George a huge debt of gratitude for the inspiration. I am just one of many.\"\n\nEd Harris on Romero: \"He was a great friend. I miss him.\"\n\nEd Harris said on Radio 4's Today programme: \"I really loved George. He was big, beautiful, gregarious bear of a guy.\"\n\nRomero worked with Harris on the 1981 drama film, Knightriders. Harris continued to explain how it was his first lead role in a film and that George A. Romero was \"a joy work with and treated everyone with respect.\"\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 Culture - Where do zombies come from?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHost Nadiya Hussain was charming, celebrity guest Julian Clary provided the jokes, and presenter Donal Skehan was preparing food for the live BBC cookery show Saturday Kitchen.\n\nDonal sliced his finger open and blood starting pouring onto the chopping board.\n\nViewers at home watched with sympathy and amusement at the unfolding scene.\n\n\"Wow! Donal Skehan is so professional! Cut finger on live TV and he cracks on!\" said viewer Tania O'Donell on Twitter.\n\nThe presenter carried on cooking and chatting valiantly, until he seemed to realise quite how bad the cut was.\n\n\"Nothing like a bit of blood on a Saturday morning just to get you alive and kicking. I'm glad Julian is here to keep us going,\" he said, though some viewers remarked he had gone slightly pale.\n\nMany sent their best wishes to Donal.\n\nBut just when everyone had recovered, things took another turn.\n\nA cameraman strode confidently in front of the camera as guests gathered around a table behind him.\n\nWhen alerted to his presence, he meekly put his hand to his mouth in surprise before sharply exiting the set.\n\n\"Loving the show today. Give the cameraman some of the food,\" one watcher said on Twitter.\n\nThe show was compared to domestic chaos in another BBC show.\n\n\"Reminds me of an episode of Fawlty Towers,\" said one viewer.\n\n\"My sides! My sides! Hope you're OK #Keepcalmandcarryon,\" another said.\n\nThe team at Saturday Kitchen took the whole thing well though.\n\n\"Thanks all our #saturdaykitchen viewers for their comments. This morning's show certainly proved we are LIVE!!\" they tweeted.", "The BBC 1995 adaption of Pride and Prejudice spawned a new generation of Austen fans\n\nAlmost 200 years after Jane Austen's death, the English writer is still adored around the world. BBC News spoke to some of the fans for whom a love of Austen's work has evolved into a way of life.\n\nAustralia may still have been a penal colony when Jane Austen was writing her novels, but two centuries on, Austen fans Down Under get together each year to recreate Regency England in Canberra.\n\nAylwen Gardiner-Garden and her husband John have run the annual Jane Austen Festival for 10 years.\n\nThe event grew out of their love of Regency dancing and now more than 300 people come from all over Australia and New Zealand for promenades, grand balls, talks and dance workshops.\n\n\"Jane Austen is very popular in Australia - especially after the BBC series aired here in the 1990s - Colin Firth just did it for everyone. And it's generational - there was another whole new set of fans after the Keira Knightley film,\" she explained.\n\n\"I don't think it's harking back to the old country - it's more the sense of romance and escaping from reality. It's not the seedy side of England, like Dickens.\n\n\"At the festival, the women can dress up, feel feminine and elegant, and the guys are gentlemen. Teenagers grow up overnight on the dance floor - their manners are fantastic.\n\n\"It's people coming together to learn about the costumes, the books, the dancing. It's become part of people's lives, so I keep doing it for the love of it.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn Chicago, Deborah Miller performs her own one-woman show based on the books and letters of Austen.\n\nShe still remembers 10 September 2009 - the day she first read Austen's biography and instantly \"fell in love\". Within a year she had read all her novels and written the stage show she has been performing ever since.\n\n\"Her work is so well written - every time I read it I find something new - her concise use of language and its elegance is so beautiful,\" she said.\n\nIn researching her show, Ms Miller visited the Smithsonian Institution to find the earliest audio recording of a Hampshire accent and listened over and over again to find the correct stage voice.\n\n\"I do have to slow it down a bit - they are not used to a Hampshire accent on the south side of Chicago.\"\n\nWith more than 5,000 members of Jane Austen societies in the US and Canada, there is an eager audience for her shows.\n\n\"People have read the novels, but not the letters. People at the shows cry and say that I am Jane Austen.\n\n\"It's the ease and geniality of the time, the romance and the reassurance - in the current political climate, a Jane Austen novel has integrity and truth.\"\n\nAdge Secker is a full-time police officer in Bath who is also a tour guide for ECT Travel's Strictly Jane Austen tours - one of the companies chasing the bonnet bucks - tapping into the market of Austen enthusiasts keen to learn more about their heroine.\n\nHe described his clients as \"just mad crazy\" about Austen with Americans in particular \"absolutely nuts for her\".\n\n\"We take them to where she lived, where she danced, the places that inspired the stories and just immerse them in the history. I get people enthused and at the end tell them what they've done is walk in her footsteps.\n\n\"It's just good fun to do - they love to soak up the history and the culture.\"\n\nTour-goers get to visit places in the city where Jane Austen lived for five years from 1801. Locations include the Gravel Walk - where Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth were engaged in Persuasion - or visitors can have Regency experiences like tasting the spa water or attending a grand ball.\n\n\"Many Jane Austen experts come on the tours to see the places in her life. I'm like a sponge - always learning new stories. But you have to get your facts right, otherwise Jane Austen fans will find you out.\"\n\nAusten's work was first published in Italy in the 1930s, while films and dubbed BBC dramas have boosted her popularity in recent decades.\n\nVenetian Mara Barbuni first saw Ang Lee's Sense and Sensibility in 1995 and immediately borrowed the book from her local library.\n\nSince then she has written extensively on the author - her most recent research project is into how houses and homes are represented in Austen's novels.\n\nIn the course of her research, she has travelled to many of the \"Austenland\" sites - including Winchester, Bath and Lyme Regis.\n\nAusten's work is \"really popular and much loved\" in Italy, she explains.\n\n\"Many Italian readers of Jane Austen declare they love her settings, the old-fashioned but fashionable flair of her novels, and the love stories of her characters.\"\n\nMore than 300 academics and devotees are in the Jane Austen Society of Italy which was founded in Bologna in 2013. It is holding a \"Grand Tour\" of conferences around Italian cities this year, based on each of Austen's novels.\n\nNicole Kang and Margy Supramaniam are members of Singapore's Jane Austen Circle, enthusiasts who regularly meet for balls, tea and dramatised readings in costume.\n\nUK-born Mrs Supramaniam, who moved to Singapore in the 1980s, said: \"I'm no seamstress but I do enjoy dressing bonnets to look authentic and finding Indian trimming to make dresses look Regency.\n\n\"I have also used saris for dresses, the muslin ones with borders are the best. In the late 18th and early 19th Century cloth was imported in large quantities from India as it was in great demand in England for clothes, so some of it works really well in achieving a period look.\n\n\"Many older Singaporeans, who had a fairly British-style colonial education, were brought up with Jane Austen but the younger generation are less familiar, and often their first introduction may have been watching a film adaptation. It is exciting to see Jane Austen's popularity spread.\n\n\"The largest group of followers that we have are millennial Chinese Singaporeans who can somehow relate to Jane Austen across culture and centuries.\"\n\nOne of those younger members, Nicole Kang (pictured above left, in the dress), gives Regency dance lessons in Singaporean schools.\n\n\"I first read Northanger Abbey when I was 15 years old as I had more or less finished reading most of the 'teen' books in my school library and I think I had fancied a bit of a challenge in my reading.\n\n\"I love Austen's work because she writes about familiar subjects - not just about love - but she had such a keen insight into human nature that I believe that her characters still exist in real life today.\"", "An official portrait of the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall has been unveiled, ahead of Camilla's 70th birthday on Monday.\n\nThe photograph, taken in May, shows Charles and Camilla in the morning room of their London home, Clarence House.\n\nPhotographer Mario Testino described the duchess as a \"beautiful person\".\n\nThe duchess celebrated her birthday over the weekend with a private party at the couple's family home, Highgrove House, in Gloucestershire.\n\nTestino, known for his glamorous shots of the rich and famous, first captured Charles and Camilla in 2006 for their first wedding anniversary, on an assignment for Vogue.\n\nThe Peruvian photographer said that when he first met Camilla, more than a decade ago, he \"discovered a kind and beautiful person with a wonderful sense of humour\".\n\nHe added: \"I'm honoured to document their royal highnesses the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall on this very important date.\"\n\nTestino is something of a family favourite. He took Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge's official engagement photos in 2010, and has also taken official photographs of both Prince George and Princess Charlotte.\n\nA series of relaxed portraits of the late Diana, Princess of Wales - taken just months before she died in 1997 - became some of his best-known portraits.", "A man holds a rainbow flag after taking part in the Pride Run in Shanghai in June. Homosexuality is legal in China, but authorities have implemented new rules which censor online videos featuring same sex relationships\n\nA crackdown on a wide range of internet videos by Chinese censors has caused a backlash on the country's popular micro-blogging site Sina Weibo, with many users objecting to a decision to ban content which features same-sex relationships.\n\nOn Chinese social media, many were left angry, baffled, and upset:\n\n\"Aren't people born equal? ... What right do you have to discriminate against others?\" said one. Another commented: \"Aren't homosexuals normal? Why do you push them to a corner?\"\n\nThe outcry was prompted a decision by Beijing regulators to censor the portrayal of homosexual activity in online videos. The regulations, which came into force at the beginning of July, classify homosexuality as \"abnormal\" sexual behaviour and cover not only explicit sexual content but any portrayal of same-sex relationships, positive or negative - for instance in popular online dramas.\n\nOn Weibo, the hashtag \"Online Content Review Discriminating [Against] Gays\" was viewed by millions and generated thousands of comments. And while the decision sparked the biggest backlash from Chinese social media users, the censorship extends further.\n\nThere are 84 categories of material that were banned from online video programmes by Chinese censors, including prostitution, drug addiction, extra-marital affairs and what authorities deem to be \"unhealthy\" views of the family, relationships and money. A ban on the portrayal of \"erotic behaviour\" includes kisses which last for a long time.\n\nThe guidance stipulates that all online content should help \"realize the China dream of a great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.\"\n\nA screenshot from Addicted, an online series that was censored after the new rules came into force\n\nOne prominent voice who has criticised Chinese government censorship is Li Yinhe, China's first female sexologist and a well-known commentator on LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) issues.\n\n\"To [the government], homosexuality is regarded as obscene,\" she says, adding that the LGBT community is \"very angry.\"\n\nLi Yinhe tells BBC Trending radio that when she recently wrote a piece calling on the government to end the censorship mechanism entirely, the article was taken down by Weibo censors just a few hours after publication.\n\n\"Well, this is the reality in China,\" she says.\n\nUnder the latest guidelines, which were issued by the China Netcasting Services Association, at least two to three \"auditors\" will have to check all online content to make sure it adheres to the \"advanced culture of socialism.\"\n\nThe latest regulations are part of a wide campaign by the authorities to control discourse online through the censorship of a wide range of content including live streaming, news and social media.\n\nJust over a year ago Beijing issued a set of regulations which banned the portrayal of homosexuality on television as part of what they described as being a cultural crackdown on \"vulgar, immoral and unhealthy content.\"\n\nA number of Chinese gay dating apps have also been shut down in the country - the most recent example being the lesbian dating app Rela which had more than five million users and was shut down at the end of May this year.\n\nHomosexuality is not illegal in China, and was removed from an official list of mental disorders in 2001.\n\nTim Hildebrandt, an assistant professor of social policy and development at the London School of Economics, says the recent censorship around homosexuality is surprising.\n\n\"Social acceptance of homosexuality had really gone up in China over the last five to 15 years,\" he says. \"Unlike a lot of places with institutionalised religion, it's not a place that has ever viewed homosexuality as inherently sinful. It's been viewed over time as an oddity, but not an inherent threat to society. The only threat it served was as one of non-conformity to a perfect model of the family.\"\n\nHildebrandt adds that the latest guidelines issued around homosexual content online are \"particularly worrisome.\"\n\n\"Some might assume this is just about pornography,\" he says. \"This is not really the case. It's any portrayal of homosexuality in online videos. As to what that means for gay people in China, essentially the internet is one of the few safe spaces to meet others within the community. This is how people are meeting each other both in a platonic and romantic setting.\"\n\nWenxiong, a gay Chinese man who is currently studying in the US, says that the homosexuality ban online feels \"like the Cultural Revolution again.\"\n\n\"We are seeing a group of people as a target of antagonism and people can say bad things about them, or insult them,\" he says.\n\n\"The government, aside from the regulations on LGBT content, is also issuing a lot of other cultural tightening regulations,\" he says. \"It's like Big Brother is watching you now. The government is telling you that you cannot have a gay life.\"\n\nYou can find BBC Trending on Facebook or follow us on Twitter @BBCtrending. All our stories are at bbc.com/trending.", "Two other girls found in the park were also taken to hospital as a precaution\n\nA 15-year-old girl has died after suffering an adverse reaction from a suspected \"legal high,\" police said.\n\nThe girl was found unconscious at about 04:50 BST at Bakers Park in Newton Abbot, Devon, and died at Torbay Hospital. She was not from the area.\n\nTwo other girls were also taken to hospital as a precaution.\n\nPolice said they were \"confident\" local people would know who supplied the drugs to the girl and appealed for them to come forward.\n\nInvestigations are continuing and a cordon is in place at the scene\n\nDet Supt Ken Lamont said: \"With NPS (New Psychoactive Substances) no-one knows what's in them and that's why they are so dangerous.\n\n\"Time and time again we hear of people paying the ultimate price for this.\n\n\"It's not worth experimenting with your life.\"\n\nThe girl's next of kin have been informed but police have not yet named her.\n\nInvestigations are continuing and a cordon is in place at the scene.\n\nLast year Totnes teenager Nathan Wood died after after taking the psychoactive drug N-Bomb.\n\nPolice called on parents to \"speak to your children about the dangers of drugs and (formerly known as) legal highs\".\n\n\"They can cause death even if taken just once.\"", "The prime minister briefly held the baby at an annual gathering in Calgary\n\nCanadian PM Justin Trudeau has met baby Justin Trudeau - the son of Syrian refugees named after the politician as a thank you to their adopted country.\n\nThe two-month-old boy, whose full name is Justin Trudeau Adam Bilan, was snoozing happily as the prime minister briefly held him at a Calgary Stampede breakfast on Saturday.\n\nThe boy was born in May in Calgary - several months after his parents and their two children fled Syria's war.\n\nThey hail from the capital Damascus.\n\nWhen they landed in Montreal in February last year, Mr Trudeau was not there to greet them at the airport, as he did with other Syrian refugees.\n\nBut the couple, Muhammad and Afraa Bilan, felt they had to give their thanks to him in some way - so have named their newborn son after him.\n\nMuhammad Bilan with baby Justin Trudeau in May\n\nBetween November 2015, when Mr Trudeau became prime minister, and January this year, more than 40,000 Syrian refugees have been resettled in Canada. About 1,000 of them moved to Calgary.\n\nIn late January, after US President Donald Trump's ban on immigration from seven Muslim-majority countries, Mr Trudeau took to social media to confirm his government's commitment to helping \"those fleeing persecution, terror & war\".\n\nIn Ontario in February, another Syrian couple named their newborn Justin in tribute to the prime minister.", "Maid Marian Sally Pollard was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2015\n\nNottingham's official Robin Hood said he had been overwhelmed by donations for Maid Marian - his wife who died of breast cancer.\n\nSally Pollard, 39, who had played the role for more than 12 years, died at their home on 16 June.\n\nTim Pollard, 53, said his wife was \"absolutely brilliant\".\n\nAbout £6,000 has been raised which will go to the charities that helped her stay at home in her final months, he said.\n\nSally Pollard was Nottingham's official Maid Marian for more than 12 years\n\nDr Pollard was a genetics scientist and lecturer at the University of Nottingham.\n\nMr Pollard has played Robin Hood for more than two decades.\n\nThe couple fell in love while playing the famous duo and married last September. They have a daughter, Scarlett, aged three.\n\nMr Pollard, who is employed by the city council to appear as Robin Hood at special events, said: \"Sally was absolutely brilliant, not just as a Maid Marian, which she loved doing, being part of the Robin Hood legend and representing the city, but she was a great scientist, teacher, working at the university and helping others.\n\n\"Some of her research is ongoing and that's a great legacy for her.\"\n\nFollowing his wife's death he decided to raise some money for the charities that had helped her.\n\nHe said: \"We thought we might get a couple of hundred pounds, but the goodwill Sally has engendered means we've raised well over £6,000.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Live: Coverage across BBC TV, BBC Radio and BBC Sport website with further coverage on Red Button, Connected TVs and app.\n\nRoger Federer will try to win the Wimbledon men's title for a record eighth time when he plays Marin Cilic in Sunday's final.\n\nFederer, 35, will become the oldest champion at SW19 since the Open era began in 1968 if he overcomes 28-year-old Croat Cilic on Centre Court.\n\nThe Swiss superstar is looking to secure a 19th Grand Slam title against a man who has just one - the 2014 US Open - to his name.\n\nBut will it be as straightforward as many expect? Four-time Wimbledon semi-finalist and former British number one Tim Henman tells BBC Sport why Cilic could spring a surprise.\n\n'Cilic should have beaten him here last year'\n\nCilic led Federer by two sets to love and had three match points in the fourth set of their Wimbledon quarter-final last year, before Federer triumphed in five sets. Federer has won six of their seven meetings since 2008.\n\nHenman: Federer is the favourite but Cilic definitely has a chance. To put it into context, I would say if they played 10 times I think Cilic could win twice - well, maybe two and a half times.\n\nHe came very close to beating Federer here last year - and he should have won that match.\n\nCilic did beat him at the US Open, on his way to winning that title in 2014, and I think it is also in his favour that he has been in a Grand Slam final before.\n\nIf it was his first Slam final I think that would be an even bigger occasion for him to deal with mentally.\n\nYes, it is his first final at Wimbledon, and Roger has been there 10 times before, but Cilic has plenty of experience. He will know the crowd will be behind Federer but that won't worry him, and he is a very dangerous player.\n\nFederer is fresh... but will fatigue be a factor for Cilic?\n\nHenman: I don't think fatigue will make a difference here. When you take into account that it is the final and the adrenalin rush that Cilic will get from being in such a huge match, I don't see him being tired.\n\nI think who wins is going to boil down more to who is going really dominate with their serve and attacking baseline play.\n\nIf Cilic is going to have a chance, I think that is where he really needs to be super-aggressive from the back of the court and try to take Federer's time away to stop him dictating points.\n\nFederer serve will be hard to break down\n\nHenman: Serve is such an important factor in Federer's game.\n\nHe has only been broken four times in 79 service games at the tournament so far and, when you are holding serve so comfortably, that is such a great platform to free you up to be more aggressive in your return games.\n\nCilic has done well returning serve on his way to the final - has won more break points than any other man at Wimbledon this year - 26.\n\nThe challenge for him on Sunday is to find a way of adding to that total against someone as good as Federer.\n\nWe have not seen Federer's serve under pressure very often at this tournament, but he showed in his semi-final against Tomas Berdych how he can respond when it does happen.\n\nHe faced break points at 15-40 at 3-3 in the third set but responded with a series of aces that saw him hold. Less than 15 minutes later, he was through.\n\nCilic has to attack whenever he can\n\nHenman: Cilic is a tall guy with long arms and a very big reach so he is able to get a lot of serves back in play, and be aggressive about it too - particularly against second serves.\n\nHe has to do that against Federer, every time he gets a look at a second serve.\n\nIt will be harder for him to do that on Sunday than in any of his six matches here so far, because Federer has got a great second serve too, but Cilic has to attack him whenever he gets the chance.\n\nHenman: Cilic's serve is one of his main weapons and following it into the net sometimes would give Federer something different to deal with.\n\nFederer is very good at blocking the ball back but, if you are serving big, then you know a lot of the time that is all he is going to do.\n\nI was amazed at one of the statistics I saw about Berdych after he had been beaten by Federer - the Czech had served 394 first serves at the tournament and had only come to the net 11 times after it.\n\nThat is staggering when you have got as much power as he does, and I definitely think that if Cilic can serve and volley once a game just to keep Federer guessing, it could be an important tactic.\n\n'I've given up being surprised by what Federer does'\n\nFederer is playing in his 11th Wimbledon final, 14 years after his first. He was last at this stage in 2015, when he lost to Novak Djokovic. Before winning the 2017 Australian Open in January, he had not won a Grand Slam since his last Wimbledon triumph in 2012.\n\nIf Federer does win Wimbledon for an eighth time, it is a massive achievement in the same realms as Rafael Nadal winning his 10th French Open title last month.\n\nWhen you think that, when Federer turned 35 last August, he was injured and did not play again for the rest of the year, it did not look like he would be adding to his 17 Slams.\n\nOldest man to reach a Grand Slam final in the Open era (since 1968)\n\nHe came back to win the Australian Open and if he was to win Wimbledon on Sunday then he will have won both the Slams he has played this year. I don't think anyone saw that coming.\n\nBut I don't get surprised by what Roger does anymore - I've said that enough times down the years, that I've given up being surprised by him. I am just amazed.\n\nWhat he and Nadal have done this year has turned the clock back five years in the men's game, and they continue to be incredible to watch.\n\nOldest man to win a Grand Slam final in the Open era (since 1968)\n• None Take on the legends in our interactive game", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nGarbine Muguruza said it was \"amazing\" to beat \"role model\" Venus Williams to win her first Wimbledon final.\n\nThe 23-year-old Spaniard, who had failed to reach a final in the 23 tournaments since she won the French Open last year, defeated five-time champion Williams 7-5 6-0.\n\nMuguruza was beaten by the American's sister Serena in the 2015 final.\n\n\"I didn't want to lose this time because I know the difference. I'm so happy,\" she said.\n\n\"I'm happy that once again I see myself winning a Grand Slam, something that is so hard to do.\n\nSpeaking on court after the match, Muguruza said of Williams: \"She's such an incredible player. I grew up watching her play.\"\n\nAs the crowd laughed, she turned to the 37-year-old American and added: \"Sorry!\"\n\nLater, she said: \"I was so excited to go there and win especially over someone like a role model.\"\n\nThe first set of Saturday's final was a tight affair and would have gone the way of Williams had she converted one of her two break points at 5-4.\n\nMuguruza said: \"When I had those set points against me, I'm like: 'Hey, it's normal. I'm playing Venus here.'\n\n\"So I just keep fighting. And I knew that if I was playing like I was playing during the two weeks, I was going to have eventually an opportunity. So I was calm.\n\n\"If I lose the first set, I still have two more. Let's not make a drama, you know.\"\n• None Take on the legends in our interactive game\n\nWilliams capitulated in the second set, losing her form altogether and all of her service games.\n\nWhen asked about winning the second set 6-0, Muguruza said: \"I wanted to go my way the fastest as possible, just not get too complicated. But I know it's hard.\n\n\"I played very well since the first game and I kept the level, which is very hard because you're nervous. You see you're winning. I was just very composed.\"\n\nMuguruza also praised former champion Conchita Martinez, who replaced her regular coach Sam Sumyk for the tournament.\n\nShe added: \"Obviously I'd like Conchita to be in my team because I have a great relationship with her.\"\n\n'Muguruza dug in there and played better'\n\nWilliams said she had not \"fully processed\" what happened in the final, having gone from being close to winning the first set to losing the final in only 37 minutes.\n\nShe was asked whether Sjogren's syndrome, which she has, or fatigue had affected her during the match. However, the 10-time Grand Slam singles champion did not answer those questions directly.\n\nWhen asked about her two break-point chances in the opening set, she said: \"I definitely would have loved to have converted some of those points.\n\n\"But she competed really well. So credit to her. She just dug in there and managed to play better.\n\n\"There's always something to learn from matches that you win and the ones that you don't win. So there's definitely something for me to learn from this. But at the same time looking back, it's always about looking forward, too.\"\n\nRegarding her performance at this year's Wimbledon, where she reached her first final since 2009, she said: \"Every tournament's different. This is most certainly a very different tournament.\n\n\"It took a lot of effort to get right here. So this is where I want to be in every single major.\"\n\n4 - Williams dropped serve four times, while Muguruza held throughout the match. Muguruza did not drop serve in her quarter-final or semi-final wins either. 5 - Muguruza will climb from 15th to fifth in the new WTA world rankings on Monday. 9 - From 5-4 behind in the first set, Muguruza won nine straight games to taken the title. 19 - Muguruza won a vital 19-point rally at 5-5 and at 15-40 on her serve in the opening set. 26 - The second set sped by in just 26 minutes, and Williams won a mere 12 points. In all, the match lasted an hour and 17 minutes. 77 - Williams might have had the fastest serve at 114mph, but Muguruza's 77% win rate on her first serve was huge. Venus was down at 61% by theend of the contest.\n\nMuguruza - did you know?\n\n1. Muguruza is only the second Spanish woman to win the Wimbledon singles title and the first since her coach Martinez triumphed in 1994.\n\n2. She is only the second player to face both Williams sisters in the final of the same Grand Slam after Martina Hingis beat Venus to win the US Open in 1997 then lost to Serena at the same tournament in 1999.\n\n3. Muguruza's mother Scarlet Blanco is from Venezuela and her father Jose Antonio is from Spain. She was born in Venezuela but moved to Spain when she was six and retains dual nationality but her current residency is listed by the women's tour as Geneva in Switzerland. In 2014, she decided to play for Spain. Her favourite players growing up were Serena Williams and Pete Sampras.\n\n4. No player in either singles draw at Wimbledon had a better percentage of saving break points than Muguruza. She showed her composure in the crucial moments by saving 21 out of the 25 break points she faced, 84% during the tournament.\n\n5. Muguruza joins Victoria Azarenka, Angelique Kerber, Svetlana Kuznetsova and Petra Kvitova among the active female players on two Grand Slam singles titles. Only Serena Williams and Venus Williams, with 23 and seven respectively, and Maria Sharapova on five, have more.", "President Trump claims the news media isn't paying attention to real policy issues, like jobs, the economy, so-called Islamic State and the border.\n\n\"At some point the Fake News will be forced to discuss our great jobs numbers, strong economy, success with ISIS, the border & so much else!\" he tweeted.\n\nSix months into his presidency, how is he faring in these areas? And how much is he tweeting about these policy priorities?\n\nDuring the campaign, Mr Trump vowed to create 25 million jobs over 10 years and become \"the greatest jobs president... ever\".\n\nIn the past he discredited US jobless figures, claiming the actual unemployment rate was over forty per cent. Now he's America's CEO, he's embracing the same figures he once described as \"phony\".\n\nSo, are the jobs numbers \"great\", as his tweet suggests?\n\nYes - the jobs market is looking healthy, with the overall trend showing that unemployment is falling.\n\nThe president is also right when he says there are more jobs around - in June 222,000 jobs were created.\n\nBut this steady economic performance isn't a drastic change from what we saw under President Barack Obama, when job growth increased at a steady pace.\n\nOne area where that growth isn't being matched is in wages, and there have been calls for President Trump to address this issue.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Where did Trump the Outsourcing Slayer go?\n\nThen there's his promise to bring more jobs back to the US from overseas - a pledge which energised much of his base.\n\nShortly after his election victory he spoke of how he had saved 1,100 jobs with the Indiana based air conditioner firm, Carrier. Months later, 600 of those jobs are still moving to Mexico.\n\nOther companies like Ford are expanding production overseas, rather than in the US.\n\nDespite the president's assurances he would reverse what he described as \"job theft\" overseas, it's proving difficult.\n\nThe latest growth figures, released since President Trump took office, showed a decline in the GDP rate (1.4%) in the first three months of this year, compared with the three months preceding (2.1%).\n\nIt was one of the worst readings for nearly a year, but not necessarily bad news for President Trump, as economists say the first quarter of the year usually posts a lower rate.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOverall, the president is correct when he characterises the US economy as \"strong\". Upward growth is part of a trend, in which the US economy has picked up since the financial crisis in 2008.\n\nThe White House has set a growth target of 3%, but this does look like a challenge, as growth has only averaged less than 2% a year since 2001. The Congressional Budget Office currently estimates growth at about 1.9%.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Trump : 'I just don't want a poor person' running the US economy\n\nPresident Trump often boasts about how the stock market has risen since he took office. He can take credit for this in part.\n\nSome of the improvement in the markets can be attributed to anticipation that the president and the Republican pledge to reduce taxes and cut regulations will be implemented.\n\nBut he's still not managed to pass tax reform laws.\n\nDuring the campaign Donald Trump didn't mince his words when it came to so-called Islamic State (IS), famously using an expletive to describe how much bombing he would carry out.\n\nHe added: \"I'd just bomb those suckers. I'd blow up the pipes, I'd blow up the refineries, I'd blow up every single inch - there would be nothing left.\"\n\nBack then Mr Trump was wary to reveal details but promised he had a \"secret plan\". Since entering office, he has ordered a review of US policy on IS.\n\nDespite criticising his predecessor's handling of the militant group (\"he's the founder of ISIS\"), the Trump administration's strategy is strikingly similar. It includes continuing strikes and targeted raids, more support to local forces, and freezing the assets of IS operatives.\n\nThe goals are the same too - to take control of IS strongholds like Raqqa in Syria and Mosul in Iraq - and coalition forces have already seen success in the latter.\n\nBut there are some key differences in tactics. One is the decision to arm Syrian Kurds to help take Raqqa, despite objections from the Turkish government.\n\nThe second is a tougher stance on \"annihilating\" IS fighters, which has led to a rise in the number of civilian casualties caught up in attacks.\n\nThe third is that the Trump administration is authorising a far greater number of air strikes as it makes its push, and has ramped up operations against IS in Afghanistan, Yemen and Somalia.\n\nIn Afghanistan his administration dropped the \"Mother of All Bombs\" to kill IS militants. And, when President Trump authorised a strike against a chemical weapons factory in Syria earlier this year, he showed he's not afraid to use military force when he feels it is necessary.\n\nIt shows another key difference between him and his predecessor Barack Obama, who promised such action, but didn't deliver.\n\nSecuring America's borders was the centrepiece of Donald Trump's election pitch. At campaign rallies he promised to crack down on illegal immigrants in the US, with his focus on criminals.\n\nHe often raised the case of Kate Steinle, a young woman from Seattle who was killed by an illegal immigrant who had been deported five times.\n\nAt the end of June he introduced \"Kate's law\" which would increase penalties for immigrants who re-enter the US after they've been deported. It was passed by the House of Representatives, and will now come before the Senate.\n\nIn the president's first 100 days, more than 41,000 people were arrested on the suspicion they were in the US illegally, an increase on the previous year. About 10,800 had no criminal conviction, compared with 4,200 the previous year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. US immigration raids leave many 'afraid to open the door'\n\nBut despite his tough talk on the issue, President Trump actually deported fewer people in his first 100 days than Barack Obama.\n\nIn Trump's first 100 days 54,564 people were deported, compared with 62,062 for the same time period in the previous year under his predecessor.\n\nAnd let's not forget Donald Trump's plans to tighten the border even further - his flagship plan to \"build a wall\" is moving along. Companies have until September to pitch their prototypes. At a recent rally in Iowa, the president said it could be a \"solar wall\" which would pay for itself.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How will President Trump deliver on border wall promise?\n\nFor months the president's travel ban was blocked by the courts and failed to become law.\n\nAfter a decision by the US Supreme Court in June, it's partially in effect, but it's not as drastic. Visitors from the six designated countries can still enter, if they have a bona fide connection to the US.", "A promotional image for 2013's 50th anniversary special, The Day of the Doctor\n\nDoctor Who's Peter Capaldi has passed on his sonic screwdriver to Jodie Whittaker who becomes the 13th doctor and first woman to take on the role of television's famous Time Lord.\n\nShe follows a distinguished line-up of thespian (male) talent that stretches all the way back to the sci-fi favourite's first episode in 1963.\n\nWilliam Hartnell was the first actor to play the Doctor on television, appearing in the BBC show from 1963 to 1966.\n\nHartnell, who died in 1975, had previously appeared in TV's The Army Game and Carry On Sergeant, the first Carry On film, in 1958.\n\nWhile Hartnell was playing the Doctor on television, Peter Cushing could be found playing him on film in Dr Who and the Daleks, in which Roy Castle co-starred.\n\nThat 1965 film and its 1966 follow-up, Daleks - Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D., depicted the Doctor as a human scientist rather than a time-travelling Gallifreyan and are not considered part of the Doctor Who timeline.\n\nWhen ill health forced Hartnell to relinquish the role, the Doctor regenerated - for the first time - into Patrick Troughton.\n\nMemorably scruffy and eccentric, Troughton spent three years travelling time and space before stepping down in 1969.\n\nWhen the raffish Jon Pertwee became the third Doctor, he also became the first to be seen on television in colour.\n\nHis tenure, which ran from 1970 to 1974, saw the Time Lord exiled to Earth and working with Unit, aka the United Nations Intelligence Taskforce.\n\nPertwee's time with the show also saw the first of the popular ensemble stories in which previous Doctors appear alongside the current one.\n\nBroadcast over December 1972 and January 1973, The Three Doctors saw him joined by Patrick Troughton and William Hartnell in what would be the latter's final acting engagement.\n\nWhen Pertwee moved on in 1974, Tom Baker moved in - and would become the longest-serving Doctor to date.\n\nDeep-voiced, curly-haired and eternally long of scarf, his seven years in the Tardis earned him legions of fans who were delighted anew in 2013 when he popped up at the end of a 50th anniversary special.\n\nWhen Baker finally stepped down from the role in 1981, his shoes were filled by the fresh-faced Peter Davison.\n\nThe boyish actor spent three years as the Fifth Doctor before taking his leave at the end of the show's 21st series.\n\nDavison's tenure coincided with Doctor Who's 20th anniversary, celebrated by a feature-length special that saw him joined by Jon Pertwee and Patrick Troughton.\n\nThe First Doctor also made an appearance, with Richard Hurndall filling in for the late William Hartnell.\n\nTom Baker opted not to return for The Five Doctors, which covered over his absence by incorporating material from one of the actor's unbroadcast adventures.\n\nSimilar subterfuge was required for this 1983 photo shoot, which saw Hurndall, Davison, Pertwee and Troughton joined by an unconvincing Baker mannequin.\n\nDavison's departure opened the door for another Baker to take controls of the Doctor's time-travelling police box in 1984.\n\nColin Baker (no relation of Tom's) spent less than three years in the role, with his appearances limited further by an 18-month hiatus in production.\n\nThough Baker had limited time to enjoy the Tardis, he did get the chance to meet one of his predecessors when Patrick Troughton returned - for the third time - in 1985.\n\nThe Two Doctors marked Troughton's final reprise of his signature role. Some years later, his sons David and Michael would both make Doctor Who appearances.\n\nScottish actor Sylvester McCoy took over from Colin Baker in 1987 and played the Doctor until the show's axing in 1989.\n\nMichael Grade - the controller of BBC One at the time - was no fan of the programme, which was looking increasingly threadbare and cheap-looking in the face of glossier cinema fare.\n\nSome feel, though, that this period in the show's evolution has been harshly judged.\n\nAn attempt was made to revive Doctor Who in 1996 with a TV film that saw McCoy regenerate into Paul McGann on American soil.\n\nIt was hoped the special would spawn a TV series but it never materialised, making McGann's tenure the shortest of all the Doctors.\n\nIn 2005 Doctor Who regenerated into the ambitious, well-financed property it is today. It also introduced a new Doctor in the form of Christopher Eccleston.\n\nTo the disappointment of many, the Salford-born actor chose to make only one series of the rebooted show. His departure was confirmed only days after his debut episode was broadcast.\n\nEccleston's exit saw David Tennant join the show, with his first full episode - The Christmas Invasion - shown on BBC One on Christmas Day 2005.\n\nTennant's amiable style and enthusiasm made him a popular choice for the role, which he finally relinquished on the first day of 2010.\n\nThe spate of junior Doctors continued with the casting of Matt Smith, who was just 27 when he made his debut as the Time Lord's 11th incarnation.\n\nHis four years in the role, which coincided with Doctor Who's 50th anniversary, saw the programme both maintain and bolster its renewed popularity.\n\nDoctor Who's 50th anniversary in 2013 was marked by The Day of the Doctor, a feature-length special in which Matt Smith's Time Lord was joined by David Tennant's version of the character.\n\nThe Day of the Doctor also introduced a previously unknown incarnation of the Doctor, known as The War Doctor and played by Sir John Hurt.\n\nThe character rejected referring to himself as 'The Doctor' and is not considered to have the same status as his fellow TV Time Lords.\n\nPeter Capaldi was no stranger to the Doctor Who universe when he was cast as the Doctor in 2013. A lifelong fan of the show, he appeared in an episode of the programme in 2008 and also had a role in its spin-off Torchwood.\n\nHis hawkish features brought a new intensity, and maturity, to the Tardis from the moment his first full episode was broadcast in August 2014.\n\nCapaldi's most recent adventure saw him briefly joined by the \"original\" Doctor, played on this occasion by David Bradley.\n\nBradley will return in this year's Doctor Who Christmas special.\n\nBradley's appearance was a pleasing one for Whovians after his role as William Hartnell in An Adventure in Space and Time, a 2013 dramatisation of the show's early years.\n\nJodie Whittaker has been named as the 13th Doctor and will be the first woman to play the role - if one discounts Joanna Lumley, who briefly played the Doctor in a 1999 Comic Relief sketch.\n\nWhittaker will make her debut on the sci-fi show this Christmas when Peter Capaldi regenerates.\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 Was Doctor Who rubbish in the 1980s?", "A moped ridden by three teenagers was in collision with a police car at the junction of South Park Road and Trinity Road in Wimbledon\n\nA 16-year-old boy is in a critical condition after a collision between a police car and a moped being ridden by three teenagers in south-west London.\n\nThe crash happened at 02:15 BST on Sunday in South Park Road, Wimbledon.\n\nAll three boys were taken to a south London hospital for treatment.\n\nThe moped was believed to have been involved in an attempted robbery and was being monitored by the National Police Air Service helicopter, said the Metropolitan Police.\n\nA second 16-year-old suffered a serious injury to his leg and a 15-year-old sustained minor injuries.\n\nAll three were arrested at the scene and two large knives were recovered.\n\nThe moped had been reported to police as lost or stolen, on 12 July.\n\nThe Met said the Directorate of Professionals Standards has been informed and the incident had been referred to the police watchdog.\n\nIn a statement, the Met said the moped was not being \"pursued by police vehicles on the ground\" at the time of the collision but \"was monitored by police helicopter\".\n\n\"The moped was in collision with the rear offside of a marked police car, which was being driven to a position ahead of the moped,\" it said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mission to the plastic patch: On board with Capt Charles Moore and his team\n\nA mariner who has spent years travelling \"hundreds of thousands of nautical miles\" to measure the impact of plastic waste in the ocean has estimated that a \"raft\" of plastic debris spanning more than 965,000 square miles (2.5m sq km) is concentrated in a region of the South Pacific.\n\nCapt Charles Moore has just returned from a sampling expedition around Easter Island and Robinson Crusoe Island.\n\nHe was part of the team which discovered the first ocean \"garbage patch\" in the North Pacific gyre in 1997 and has now turned his attention to the South Pacific.\n\nAlthough plastic is known to occur in the Southern Hemisphere gyres, very few scientists have visited the region to collect samples.\n\nOceanographer Dr Erik van Sebille, from Utrecht University, says the work of Capt Moore and his colleagues will help fill \"a massive knowledge gap\" in our understanding of ocean plastics.\n\n\"Any data we can get our hands on is good data at this point,\" he told BBC News.\n\nCapt Moore explained that the space occupied by sub-tropical gyres - areas of the ocean surrounded by circulating ocean currents - is approximately the same size as the entire land mass of the Earth, but they are now being \"populated by our trash\".\n\nThe phenomenon of oceanic garbage patches was originally documented in the North Pacific, but plastic has now been found in the South Pacific, Arctic and Mediterranean.\n\n\"It's hard not to find plastic in the ocean any more,\" Dr van Sebille said. \"That's quite shocking\".\n\nCapt Charles Moore has been searching the ocean for plastic since 1997\n\nCapt Moore is the founder of Algalita Marine Research, a non-profit organisation aiming to combat the \"plastic plague\" of garbage floating in the world's oceans.\n\nFor more than 30 years, he has transported scientists to the centre of remote debris patches aboard his research ship, Alguita.\n\nDragging nets behind the vessel, the crew sieves particles of plastic from the ocean, which are then counted and fed into estimates of global microplastic distribution.\n\nAlthough scientists agree that plastic pollution is a widespread problem, the exact distribution of these rafts of ocean garbage is still unclear.\n\n\"If we don't understand where the plastic is, then we don't really understand what harm it does and we can't really work on solving the problem,\" said Dr van Sebille.\n\nCapt Moore and his crew hope to address this lack of data through their research trips.\n\nOn this latest voyage, Capt Moore and his colleagues are also investigating how plastic in the South Pacific Ocean may be threatening the survival of fish.\n\nLanternfish, that live in the deep ocean, are an important part of the diet of whales, squid and king penguins and the Algalita team says that plastic ingestion by lanternfish could have a domino effect on the rest of the food chain.\n\nChristiana Boerger, a marine biologist in the US Navy, who has worked with the organisation, told BBC News that the problem of plastic consumption in fish can be \"out of sight, out of mind\".\n\nMost of the plastic is made up of tiny pieces floating at the surface\n\nShe explained that \"scientists need to actually travel to these accumulation zones\" in order to bring the issue to the world's attention.\n\nMs Boerger has seen the impact of oceanic garbage patches first hand, aboard the Alugita and she says that some fish species \"have more man-made plastic in their stomach than their natural food\".\n\nGlobally, most of the plastic that ends up in the oceans comes from the land.\n\nLitter is typically transported offshore by currents, which then form large revolving bodies of water, or gyres.\n\nBut Capt Moore says the South Pacific garbage patch is different from those in the Northern Hemisphere, because most of the litter appears to have come from the fishing industry.\n\nElsewhere, scientists are shifting their attention away from remote mid-ocean garbage patches to locations closer to home.\n\n\"If you think about plastic in terms of its impact, where does it harm marine life?\" Dr van Sebille posed.\n\n\"Near coastlines is where biology suffers. It's also where the economy suffers the most.\"\n\nDr van Sebille also says that future research efforts need to focus on ecologically sensitive regions along the continental shelf. Even though the garbage patches cover a very large area \"they are not that ecologically important\", he said.\n\nOur plastic rubbish has floated to islands that are thousands of miles from the nearest human population\n\nHis team has previously studied the risk of plastics to marine animals, including turtles and sea birds. \"Every time, we found that the risk is mostly outside of the garbage patches,\" he warned.\n\nIn the future, Dr van Sebille hopes to understand more about how plastic ends up on the coastline and is then subsequently transported to the oceans by storms. Interrupting this process might be an important mechanism for halting the growth of ocean garbage patches.\n\n\"A beach clean-up might turn out to be a very efficient way of cleaning up the ocean,\" he suggests.\n\nIn the meantime, humanity's love affair with plastic is unlikely to end soon. Plastic \"will never be the enemy\", concedes Capt Moore, \"It has too many uses\".\n\nHe explained that plastic pollution travels across national borders, so dealing with it required international collaboration.\n• None Are your clothes polluting the ocean?\n• None Plastic oceans: What do we know?\n• None South Pacific Expedition - en route to the Galapagos by Charles James Moore 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. A survivor describes how a wall fell directly onto the crowd\n\nA wall collapsed at a football stadium in Senegal on Saturday, killing eight people and injuring almost 90.\n\nIt fell in after fighting began between rival fans and police responded with tear gas, with a stampede ensuing.\n\nStade de Mbour were playing Union Sportive Ouakam at the Demba Diop stadium in the capital Dakar.\n\nThe country has suspended all sporting and cultural events for the rest of the month.\n\nDuring the clashes, home fans threw projectiles including stones at others. Pictures circulating online appear to show people scrambling over a low wall amid clouds of gas.\n\nPassions were high at the game, the League Cup final.\n\nWith the score 1-1 after 90 minutes, Mbour took a goal in the first period of extra time to win 2-1, and violence broke out at the final whistle.\n\nCheikh Maba Diop, whose friend died in the incident and who helped move people out of the stadium, told AFP news agency: \"All of a sudden when the wall fell... we knew exactly that some of our own had lost their lives because the wall fell directly on to people.\"\n\nA spokesman for President Macky Sall said campaigning for upcoming elections would be suspended on Sunday as a mark of respect, and that there should be \"punishments serving as a warning\".\n\nThere are also suggestions that the stadium itself was in a poor state of repair, BBC Africa reporter James Copnall says.\n\nAn enquiry announced by the government will no doubt examine all this, he adds.\n• None 'The wall fell directly onto people' Video, 00:00:38'The wall fell directly onto people'", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. See how Jodie Whittaker was revealed as the next Time Lord\n\nJodie Whittaker has been announced as Doctor Who's 13th Time Lord - the first woman to be given the role.\n\nThe new Doctor's identity was revealed in a trailer broadcast at the end of the Wimbledon men's singles final.\n\nThe Broadchurch star succeeds Peter Capaldi, who took over the role in 2013 and leaves in the forthcoming Christmas special.\n\nWhittaker, 35, said it was \"overwhelming, as a feminist\" to become the next Doctor.\n\nShe will make her debut on the sci-fi show when the Doctor regenerates in the Christmas special.\n\nThe Huddersfield-born star, who was a late favourite to become the Doctor, will find a familiar face for her on set - Doctor Who's new showrunner is Broadchurch creator Chris Chibnall.\n\nWhittaker said: \"I'm beyond excited to begin this epic journey - with Chris and with every Whovian on this planet.\n\n\"It's more than an honour to play the Doctor. It means remembering everyone I used to be, while stepping forward to embrace everything the Doctor stands for: hope. I can't wait.\"\n\nThe actress also shares another Broadchurch link with Doctor Who - co-star David Tennant was the 10th Doctor.\n\nIt was always unlikely that the Doctor would continue to be white and male, especially as the BBC has committed itself to greater diversity on its programmes.\n\nCasting the first female Doctor is something many viewers have been calling for. And strong female-led stories have been successful on the big and small screen in recent years, in films ranging from The Hunger Games and Star Wars to Wonder Woman, and in TV series like Game of Thrones.\n\nThe BBC will be hoping today's announcement will not just excite viewers, but will also demonstrate that the time travel show has firmly moved into the 21st century.\n\nWhittaker said it felt \"incredible\" to take on the role, saying: \"It feels completely overwhelming, as a feminist, as a woman, as an actor, as a human, as someone who wants to continually push themselves and challenge themselves, and not be boxed in by what you're told you can and can't be.\"\n\nAnd she told fans not to be \"scared\" by her gender.\n\n\"Because this is a really exciting time, and Doctor Who represents everything that's exciting about change,\" she said, adding: \"The fans have lived through so many changes, and this is only a new, different one, not a fearful one.\"\n\nWhittaker said she had used the codename \"Clooney\" when discussing the part with her husband and agent - as actor George is \"an iconic guy\".\n\nPeter Capaldi will bow out in this year's Christmas special, featuring David Bradley as the First Doctor\n\nChibnall said the 13th Doctor was always going to be a woman.\n\nHe said: \"I always knew I wanted the 13th Doctor to be a woman and we're thrilled to have secured our number one choice.\n\n\"Her audition for the Doctor simply blew us all away. Jodie is an in-demand, funny, inspiring, super-smart force of nature and will bring loads of wit, strength and warmth to the role. The 13th Doctor is on her way.\"\n\nChibnall is taking over from Steven Moffat, who leaves the series at the same time as Capaldi.\n\nCapaldi, who had said he wanted to see a woman replace him, said: \"Anyone who has seen Jodie Whittaker's work will know that she is a wonderful actress of great individuality and charm.\n\n\"She has above all the huge heart to play this most special part. She's going to be a fantastic Doctor.\"\n\nFormer companions Billie Piper and Karen Gillan had called for a female Time Lord, while Doctor Who and Sherlock writer Mark Gatiss said it was the perfect time for a woman to take the lead role.\n\nAfter the announcement, Piper tweeted the word: \"YES\" with a red rose emoji, while fellow former companion Freema Agyeman tweeted: \"Change isn't a dirty word!!!!\"\n\nDedicated Whovians were quick to react to the news of Jodie Whittaker taking over the Tardis.\n\nOn social media, some said it would encourage them to watch the show for the first time - but others said the casting meant they would be switching off, and that the Doctor should be played by a man.\n\nCarla Joanna tweeted to say that she would be tuning in and that the trailer \"made me choke up a little\". Another tweeter, Ayad, said: \"I don't even watch Doctor Who but a woman doctor is so cool.\"\n\nBut Samantha Melton said: \"I am a woman and a feminist but I don't want a female Doctor. To me it's trying too hard to tick the boxes.\"\n\nDoctor Who writer Jenny Colgan, who has written for the series' books and audio dramas, said: \"I am of course incredibly excited the new Doctor is a woman; Steven Moffat has been paving the way for this for ages and it is absolutely about time.\n\n\"I can't imagine what it's like for Jodie: she must be so scared and excited all at once, but I couldn't be happier, and 100% can't wait to write for her.\"\n\nWill Howells, who writes for the Doctor Who magazine and has been a fan for 25 years, said: \"In 2017, there shouldn't be anything major about a TV series changing from a male lead to a female one. We'll also maybe see a solo male companion as a regular feature for the first time.\n\n\"I don't think it's a risky choice at all - but if a show that can go anywhere and do anything can't take risks, what can?\"\n\nScience fiction and fantasy author Paul Cornell said: \"It's always been time for a woman Doctor and it's great we got there.\n\n\"Well done to Steven Moffat for laying the groundwork. She's going to be amazing. And that first episode of hers is going to get a lot of new people watching.\"\n\nActress Olivia Colman, who starred in a Doctor Who episode and was one of the possible candidates for the role, said it was a \"classy decision\".\n\n\"The creatives made the right decision that the part should be a woman and it's about time,\" she told BBC News. She added that those unhappy about Whittaker being the new Time Lord should \"leave her alone and let her do her job brilliantly\".\n\nWhittaker starred as Beth Latimer in the three series of the ITV crime drama Broadchurch, as the mother of a murdered boy.\n\nAs well as TV work, Whittaker has appeared on the big screen, in One Day, Attack the Block and St Trinian's. She made her film debut in 2006's Venus, opposite Peter O'Toole.\n\nTraditionally, each Doctor has their own distinctive look, raising questions about the cloak Whittaker wears in the trailer. However, she has said it is not part of her official Doctor Who outfit, and that she does not yet know what she will wear.\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.", "Ms Gilruth and Ms Dugdale thanked their friends, family and colleagues for their love and support\n\nScottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale is in a relationship with an SNP MSP.\n\nMs Dugdale has been dating Mid Fife and Glenrothes MSP Jenny Gilruth for about four months.\n\nAt the beginning of the year the Labour leader split up with her former partner of nine years, Louise Riddell.\n\nIn a joint statement, Ms Dugdale and Ms Gilruth asked for their privacy to be respected and said they did not consider their new relationship to be \"news\".\n\nMs Gilruth was elected to Holyrood last May and is a parliamentary liaison officer to Deputy First Minister John Swinney.\n\nThe statement said: \"We don't consider this to be 'news' - but we appreciate others might and we want to go about our daily lives normally.\n\n\"We would like to thank our friends, family and colleagues for their kindness over the past few months and for their love and support.\n\n\"We'd politely ask that our privacy is respected because while we are both politicians, we are also human beings - in a new relationship, which we cherish.\"\n\nA close friend of the couple said: \"Kez and Jenny are so happy together and make a great couple. They share much in common, but like so many couples they differ over their politics - which is something they will always agree to disagree on.\"\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon tweeted her congratulations to the couple.\n\nShe said: \"So love really does conquer all! Wishing every happiness to @JennyGilruth & @kezdugdale.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. It’s almost time to meet the Thirteenth Doctor\n\nThe wait is nearly over for Doctor Who fans, as the identity of the 13th Doctor is due to be revealed later.\n\nThere is speculation the Time Lord could be a woman for the first time.\n\nA trailer featuring the number 13 in different locations aired on Friday, finishing with the words: \"Meet the 13th Doctor after the Wimbledon men's final, Sunday 16th July.\"\n\nThe actor will succeed Peter Capaldi, who took the role in 2013 and leaves in the 2017 Christmas special.\n\nCapaldi announced he was leaving during an interview with BBC Radio 2 presenter Jo Whiley in January.\n\nPeter Capaldi will bow out in this year's Christmas special, featuring David Bradley as the First Doctor\n\nThe Glasgow-born star said: \"I feel it's time to move on. I feel sad, I love Doctor Who, it is a fantastic programme to work on.\"\n\nThe announcement about the 13th Doctor will come directly after the final - between Roger Federer and Marin Cilic - comes to an end.\n\nDavid Tennant, the 10th Doctor, is among the audience watching at Centre Court.\n\nPhoebe Waller-Bridge has denied involvement in the sci-fi show\n\nPhoebe Waller-Bridge - the star of hit comedy Fleabag - is among the favourites tipped to become the first female Doctor.\n\nFormer companion Billie Piper told the BBC it would \"feel like a snub\" if the role went to another man - but would Phoebe be able to squeeze the Tardis in around adventures on the Millennium Falcon? The 32-year-old actress recently started filming the new Star Wars Han Solo movie.\n\nThe bookies seem confident the role will go to one of the stars of ITV's Broadchurch - even if it isn't Phoebe, who starred in the show's second series as barrister Abby Thompson.\n\nBoth Jodie Whittaker and Olivia Colman have been the subject of much speculation, especially as incoming show boss Chris Chibnall was the creator of Broadchurch.\n\nDavid Tennant - otherwise known as the 10th Doctor and Colman's Broadchurch co-star - told the BBC he thought Colman would be \"great\" in the role, but added: \"Whether that's in her sights at the moment, I suspect probably not.\"\n\nOlivia Colman won a golden globe for her role in The Night Manager\n\nFormer Death in Paradise actor Kris Marshall, Sherlock's Andrew Scott and Ben Whishaw - who plays Q in the James Bond films - also make the list of contenders, should bosses go for a more traditional casting.\n\nPearl Mackie, who plays current companion Bill Potts, posted a picture of herself with a pink Tardis at Lovebox festival on Sunday, with the message: \"Wonder who is inside..?!\".\n\nSome of those whose names have been linked to the role posted tongue-in-cheek tweets as speculation mounted over the identity of the Doctor.\n\nThe locations in the latest trailer included 10 Downing Street, Beachy Head cliffs and the Statue of Liberty.\n\nThe popular sci-fi series features a Time Lord, known only as the Doctor, who travels through time and space in the Tardis, which resembles a 1960s police telephone box.\n\nThe main character has the ability to regenerate, a quirk that has allowed a number of actors to have played the role over the years.\n\nThe series was first broadcast in 1963. It underwent a relaunch in 2005, with Christopher Eccleston as the Doctor.\n\nSophie Aldred, who played Doctor Who's companion Ace in the 1980s, said: \"I've been lucky enough to meet most of the Doctors and they've all been amazing people. Slightly eccentric in some way... very talented actors.\n\n\"They just have to be a person who (has) really got something different about them.\"\n\nCapaldi, who replaced Matt Smith as the Doctor, was previously best known for his role as foul-mouthed spin-doctor Malcolm Tucker in the BBC series The Thick of 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.", "Rip currents can catch out even experienced swimmers\n\nA group of youth footballers were rescued from the water near Bundoran, County Donegal, on Saturday after being swept out to sea and into rocks by a rip current.\n\nThe Fermanagh Super Cup team had been training on Tullan Strand on Saturday morning and had entered the water to cool down after their session.\n\nAn inshore lifeboat and a Sligo based rescue helicopter attended the scene.\n\nThe lifeboat crew gave first aid to eight of the players, some whom were bruised and had swallowed sea water, before ambulances arrived.\n\nA number of the casualties were taken to Sligo University Hospital as a precaution.\n\nThe chairperson of County Fermanagh Super Cup NI Dessie Kerr has confirmed that their premier team were on a \"team building exercise\" in the area.\n\nHe said: \"We are pleased to say that all the boys are alright.\n\n\"Our attention at this minute is making sure that the boys are looked after and in time we will look at exactly what happened.\"\n\n\"We are glad and relieved that all involved have now returned home safely and we will be supporting all affected, in any way that we can, over the coming days,\" he added.\n\nFollowing the incident, Bundoran RNLI helm James Cassidy warned potential visitors to the area about the dangers of rip currents.\n\n\"We would remind locals and visitors alike that Tullan Strand and particularly the area along the cliffs is notorious for rip currents and under currents and is really not suitable for swimming,\" he said.\n\n\"Rips are strong currents running out to sea which can catch even the most experienced beachgoers out.\n\n\"Should you get caught in a rip, the best advice is to stay calm and don't panic. If you can stand, wade. Don't try to swim.\n\n\"If you have an inflatable or board, keep hold of it to help you float. Raise your hand and shout for help loudly. Don't swim directly against the rip or you will get exhausted.\"\n\nHe added that people should \"swim parallel to the beach until free of the rip, then make for shore\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHundreds of naked swimmers have taken to the water in Finland in a bid to break the world record for the biggest naked swim.\n\nSome 789 people at a music festival in eastern Finland went skinny dipping on Saturday, organisers said, beating the previous record set in Australia by just three, reports said.\n\nOrganisers were waiting for Guinness World Records to confirm the record.\n\nIt is the third Finnish attempt at the record, Yle news website said.\n\nPrevious attempts in Helsinki in 2015 and 2016 each attracted about 300 participants.\n\nOrganisers at the Ilosaari Rock music festival in Joensuu had hoped to entice 1,000 people into the chilly water.\n\nAs in previous attempts, only a few hundred volunteers appeared to be willing to participate, but shortly before the event was due to begin the sun came out and this boosted the numbers, Yle reported.\n\nThe record they were hoping to break was achieved in 2015 in Perth by 786 people at an attempt to celebrate positive body image.\n\nOutdoor swimming is a tradition in Finland, where \"avantouinti\" - ice-hole swimming - is promoted by the country's tourist board as an energy-boosting experience.", "A 16-year-old boy who was arrested in connection with five acid attacks in London on Thursday has been charged with 15 offences, police have said.\n\nThe charges include robbery, grievous bodily harm and possession of an item to discharge a noxious substance.\n\nThe five attacks took place in 90 minutes across north and east London.\n\nThe 16-year-old has been remanded in custody to appear at Stratford Youth Court on Monday. A 15-year-old boy also arrested has been released on bail.\n\nThe 16-year-old has been charged with:\n\nPolice said the investigation into the five separate attacks \"remains ongoing\".\n\nSpeaking before the boy was charged Ch Insp Ben Clark, from the Met's Hackney Borough, said all of the victims had been riding mopeds.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"My helmet saved me,\" says London acid attack victim Jabed Hussain\n\nJabed Hussain, 32, was one of the five people attacked on Thursday and said his helmet saved him from worse injury.\n\n\"I took off my helmet and I was just screaming for help because it's getting dry and as much as it's getting dry it's burning. So I was just screaming for water,\" Mr Hussain said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nChancellor Phillip Hammond has called comments made by Labour's John McDonnell about the Grenfell fire tragedy \"disgraceful\".\n\nThe shadow chancellor told the BBC's Andrew Marr he stood by his claim that victims of the disaster in west London were \"murdered by political decisions\".\n\nHe said \"social murder\" had occurred and \"people should be accountable\".\n\nBut Mr Hammond told the programme there was \"not a shred of evidence to support that\" accusation.\n\nAt least 80 people are believed to have been killed in the tower block fire in north Kensington on 14 June.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAsked if the politicians who sanctioned cuts were murderers, Mr McDonnell said he did not \"resile\" from that view.\n\nHe cited cuts to local government, to the fire service and the housing crisis.\n\n\"There's a long history in this country of the concept of social murder, where decisions are made with no regard to consequences of that, and as a result of that, people have suffered,\" he told Andrew Marr.\n\n\"That's what's happened here, and I'm angry.\"\n\nHe previously blamed the decision to \"view housing as only for financial speculation\".\n\nJohn McDonnell's turn of phrase is one that was actually coined more than 170 years ago.\n\nIt was in the 19th Century that philosopher Friedrich Engels sought to prove that society commits \"social murder\" in his book Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844.\n\n\"When society places hundreds of proletarians in such a position that they inevitably meet a too early and an unnatural death... When it deprives thousands of the necessaries of life... forces them, through the strong arm of the law, to remain in such conditions until that death ensues... its deed is murder,\" he wrote of Victorian England.\n\nEngels went on to found Marxist theory with fellow German philosopher, Karl Marx. Mr McDonnell recently said there was much to learn from reading Marx's study of capitalism, Das Kapital.\n\nSpeaking ahead of June's general election, he said he was going to be the \"first socialist in the tradition of the Labour Party\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Chancellor Philip Hammond tells Andrew Marr: \"Cabinet meetings are supposed to be a private space\"\n\nPublic sector workers get a 10% \"premium\" over their private sector counterparts, Philip Hammond said as he warned ministers against leaking cabinet talks on the pay cap.\n\nThe chancellor refused to comment on reports he had said at a meeting that public servants were \"overpaid\".\n\nAnd he suggested some colleagues who do not agree with his approach on Brexit were trying to undermine him.\n\nMinister Liam Fox said he \"deplored\" the briefing by some of his colleagues.\n\nThe international trade secretary told the BBC's Sunday Politics they should \"be very quiet\" and \"stick to their own departmental duties\", adding: \"Our backbenchers are furious and the only people smiling at this will be in Berlin and Paris.\"\n\nSince the general election, cabinet splits have surfaced over the issue of the 1% cap on public sector pay rises, with some ministers pressing for it to be lifted.\n\nLabour is promising £4bn which it says would offer a pay rise to workers.\n\nOn the BBC's Andrew Marr Show, Mr Hammond defended his stance, saying public sector pay had \"raced ahead\" of the private sector after the economic crash in 2008.\n\nWhile in terms of salary alone, that gap had now closed, he continued, when \"very generous\" pension contributions were taken into account, the 10% disparity between public and private salaries was a \"simple fact\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAsked about a Sunday Times report claiming he had said the former were \"overpaid\", the chancellor insisted he was not going to discuss what was and wasn't said in a cabinet meeting.\n\n\"I do think on many fronts it would be helpful if my colleagues - all of us - focused on the job at hand,\" he said.\n\nHe added: \"If you want my opinion, some of the noise is generated by people who are not happy with the agenda that I have, over the last few weeks, tried to advance, of ensuring that we achieve a Brexit which is focused on protecting our economy, protecting our jobs and making sure that we can have continued rising living standards in the future.\"\n\nMr Fox, one of the leading Brexit campaigners in the cabinet, rejected press reports he had clashed with Mr Hammond over the EU, saying the two had a \"very good working relationship\".\n\n\"I don't know where the briefing is coming from, but I do know it's got to stop,\" he said.\n\nHe added: \"I think there's too much self-indulgence, and I think people need to have less prosecco and have a longer summer holiday.\"\n\nFormer Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith criticised those briefing against Prime Minister Theresa May, saying: \"Just for once shut up, for God's sake, and let everybody else get on with the business of governing.\"\n\nPay rises for most public sector workers are set by independent pay review bodies, but have effectively been capped at 1% each year since 2013.\n\nBefore that, there was a two-year freeze on pay for all but the lowest-paid workers.\n\nThe government has come under pressure over the policy since the general election, with some Conservative ministers speaking out in favour of lifting the cap.\n\nShadow chancellor John McDonnell said Labour would spend £4bn on ending the cap, insisting this would be enough to give a real-terms increase for public sector workers.\n\nPay review bodies would be asked to come up with an \"honest judgement\" and a Labour government would follow their advice, he said.\n\nOn Pienaar's Politics on BBC Radio 5 live, First Secretary of State Damian Green was asked whether Mr Hammond said public sector workers were \"overpaid\".\n\n\"I'm not going to report from inside cabinet because cabinet ministers should not do that,\" he said.\n\n\"But the chancellor does not think that public sector workers are overpaid - the government obviously respects the millions of people who do really important jobs.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tony Blair: \"One option... would be Britain staying within a reformed European Union\"\n\nSome EU leaders may be prepared to compromise on the free movement of people to help Britain stay in the single market, Tony Blair has said.\n\nHe told the Today programme one option was for Britain \"staying within a reformed EU\".\n\nThe ex-PM said he would not disclose conversations he had had in Europe - but insisted he was not speaking \"on a whim\".\n\nThe government insists Brexit will give the UK greater control of its borders.\n\nLabour's shadow chancellor, John McDonnell, said Mr Blair \"hadn't really listened to the nature of the debate going on in the pubs, the clubs and school gates\".\n\n\"We have to respect the referendum result,\" Mr McDonnell said, adding that Labour could \"negotiate access to the single market\".\n\nMr Blair spoke to the BBC after he argued in an article for his own institute that there was room for compromise on free movement of people.\n\nHe told Today the situation in Europe was different to when Britain voted to leave the EU - a move Mr Blair described as \"the most serious it's taken since the Second World War\".\n\nHe said France's new president, Emmanuel Macron - whose political party was formed last year - was proposing \"far-reaching reforms\" for the EU.\n\n\"Europe itself is now looking at its own reform programme,\" Mr Blair said.\n\n\"They will have an inner circle in the EU that will be part of the eurozone and an outer circle.\"\n\nWhen pressed on what evidence there was to suggest European nations would compromise, Mr Blair said: \"I'm not going to disclose conversations I've had within Europe, but I'm not saying this literally on the basis of a whim.\n\n\"They will make reforms that I think will make it much more comfortable for Britain to fit itself in that outer circle.\"\n\nHe said \"majorities\" of people in France, Germany and the UK supported changes around benefits and with regards to those who come to Europe without a job.\n\n\"I'm not saying these could be negotiated,\" Mr Blair said.\n\n\"I'm simply saying if we were looking at this from the point of view of the interests of the country, one option within this negotiation would be Britain staying within a reformed European Union.\"\n\nHe said the majority of EU migrants in the UK are \"people we want in this country\".\n\nEU leaders have previously said the UK must accept free movement of people if it wants to stay inside the single market.\n\nBut in his article for the Institute for Global Change, Mr Blair said senior figures had told him they were willing to consider changes to one of the key principles of the single market.\n\n\"The French and Germans share some of the British worries, notably around immigration, and would compromise on freedom of movement,\" he wrote.\n\nBut last week the EU's chief negotiator, Michel Barnier, said the freedom of movement of people, goods, services and capital - the key principles of the single market - were \"indivisible\".\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May has pledged to control EU migration and has reiterated her commitment to reducing net migration to the tens of thousands.\n\nShe has said that outside the single market, and without rules on freedom of movement, the UK will be able to make its own decisions on immigration.\n\nMr Blair also said more was known now about the effects of the Brexit process on the UK.\n\n\"We know our currency is down significantly, that's a prediction by the international markets as to our future prosperity. We know businesses are already moving jobs out of the country.\n\n\"We know last year we were the fastest-growing economy in the G7. We're now the slowest.\"\n\nMr Blair accepted Labour was behind its leader Jeremy Corbyn \"for now\".\n\nBut he warned if Brexit was combined with leaving the single market, and \"the largest spending programme Labour had ever proposed\" the country \"would be in a very serious situation.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Corbyn: \"I hope he (Tony Blair) has looked very carefully at our manifesto\"\n\nMr Blair said leaving the single market was a \"damaging position\" shared by Labour and he urged the party's leadership to champion a \"radically distinct\" position on Europe.\n\nBut Jeremy Corbyn said Labour's position on free movement was \"very clear\", adding: \"We would protect EU nationals' rights to remain here, including the rights of family reunion.\"\n\nResponding to Mr Blair's comments, the party leader said: \"I think our economy will do very well under a Labour government.\n\n\"It will be an investment-led economy that works for all - so we won't have zero-hour contracts, insecure employment.\n\n\"We won't have communities being left behind.\"\n\nMr Blair has previously said Brexit was an issue he felt so strongly about, that it tempted him to return to politics.\n\nBut Labour MP Frank Field, who backed Brexit, said he did not think Mr Blair was \"a person to influence public opinion now\".\n\n\"We're now set on the course of leaving [the EU]. We actually need a safe harbour to continue those negotiations when we're out.\n\n\"And I wouldn't actually be believing those people who are set on destroying our attempts to leave, who are now appearing as wolves in sheep's clothing.\"\n\nRichard Tice, of pro-Brexit group Leave Means Leave, said Mr Blair's comments \"demonstrate how out of touch he is with British voters\".\n\n\"The former prime minister believes that freedom of movement is the only issue with the EU, when in reality the British people also voted to leave in order to take back control of our laws and money and no longer be dictated to by the European Court of Justice,\" he added.\n\nConservative MEP David Campbell Bannerman said Mr Blair's assertion that Britain could find a way to remain within a reformed EU was a \"dodgy claim, as opposed to a dodgy dossier\".\n\n\"We've heard this all before. David Cameron was given such assurances and in the end the EU did nothing for him.\n\n\"If they do nothing for Cameron, they're not going to do anything for Blair, I'm afraid.\"", "The claim: Average public sector pay is higher than private sector, even adjusted for qualifications\n\nReality Check verdict: It is a difficult comparison to make, but IFS calculations suggest that Lord Lamont is probably right. However, in recent years private sector pay has been growing faster than public sector pay and the gap between public and private pay is expected to continue to narrow in the coming years if current government policies are implemented.\n\nFormer chancellor Lord Lamont was on Radio 4 on Monday morning championing the case for continued pay restraint.\n\nHe pointed out that public sector pay in Great Britain is above private sector even taking into account qualifications.\n\nThe point about qualifications is important, because jobs in the public sector tend to require higher qualifications. Also, there has been a tendency for public sector bodies to outsource lower-paid functions such as cleaning and catering to contractors, which moves them from the public to the private sector. Doing so on a large scale would increase average earnings in the public sector.\n\nThere tends to be a wider range of pay in the private sector - there are more low earners and more high earners.\n\nIf you look at seasonally adjusted average weekly earnings for regular pay in the public sector, it was £506 a week in April, compared with £464 in the private sector.\n\nBut Lord Lamont was talking about earnings adjusted for qualifications. The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) made this comparison in May, when it found that average public sector pay was about 3% above the private sector, although it warned that it could only adjust for whether somebody had a degree, for example, and not what the degree was in, or how good a degree it was.\n\nAnother thing that makes this comparison tricky is that staff in the public sector tend to have better pension provision, with earnings-related schemes still common in the public sector but unusual in the private. This is not reflected in the average earnings figures.\n\nBonus payments are more common in the private sector and they are also not included in these average earnings figures.\n\nThe gap between public and private sector earnings has been narrowing as a result of two years of frozen public sector pay starting in 2011 followed by 1% caps.\n\nIn recent years private sector pay has been growing faster than public sector pay.\n\nPart of this effect has been to catch up with the period around 2009, when, as a result of the financial crisis, private sector average earnings fell substantially, while public sector earnings were much more resilient. During that period the gap between public and private sector earnings grew.\n\nBut inflation has been growing faster than both public and private sector pay, meaning that workers have seen their pay fall in real terms.\n\nThe IFS has warned that if the government's current plans are implemented, the gap between public and private sector pay will return to levels last seen in the 2000s, when there were considerable difficulties in recruiting and retaining staff.\n\nPublic-sector pay growing more slowly than inflation is reflected in a report commissioned by the Office of Manpower Economics published on Monday.\n\nIt looked at what had happened to real (adjusted for inflation) median wages for 10 occupations covered by pay review bodies, between 2005 and 2015.\n\nThe median wage is the one earned by the person compared with whom half of workers are paid more, and half paid less.\n\nAverage hourly pay for doctors has fallen from £38 an hour in 2005 to £30 in 2015, while the average pay of nurses is unchanged at £16 an hour.\n\nPolice officers have seen their pay fall from £20 an hour to £18, and teachers' pay is down from £25 to £22.\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. Tony Blair told Newsnight's Ian Katz it was \"possible\" that Jeremy Corbyn could become prime minister\n\nTony Blair says he now accepts Jeremy Corbyn could become prime minister.\n\nThe ex-PM told BBC Newsnight that a year ago he would have said it was impossible for the left-wing Labour leader to win.\n\nBut he added: \"There's been so many political upsets, it's possible Jeremy Corbyn could become prime minister and Labour could win on that programme.\"\n\nMr Blair, a consistent critic of Mr Corbyn, said he had not changed his mind on the \"wisdom\" of electing him.\n\nHaving defied predictions of a heavy defeat at last month's general election - and stripped the Conservatives of their majority - Mr Corbyn now describes his party as a \"government-in-waiting\".\n\nMany of his critics have since admitted they underestimated him.\n\nSpeaking to Newsnight, Mr Blair said he still believed \"it's a surer route to power to fight from the centre\" and that it would be damaging for the country if Mr Corbyn became prime minister and imposed \"an unreconstructed far Left programme\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Corbyn: \"I hope he (Tony Blair) has looked very carefully at our manifesto\"\n\nBut on Mr Corbyn's chances of reaching Downing Street, he said nothing could be ruled out.\n\n\"For most of my political life I've been saying: 'I think this is the right way to go, and what's more it's the only way to win an election'.\n\n\"I have to qualify that now. I have to say 'no - I think it's possible you end up with Jeremy Corbyn as prime minister.'\"\n\nThe Labour leadership has dismissed Mr Blair's recent interventions - which included claiming Brexit followed by a Corbyn government would leave Britain \"flat on its back\".\n\n\"To be frank, Mr Blair hasn't really listened to the nature of the debate that is going on in the pubs, the clubs and school gates etc,\" shadow chancellor John McDonnell said on Saturday.\n\nThe interview will be shown on Newsnight, on BBC Two, at 22:30 BST on 17 July.", "Prof Mirzakhani is seen as an inspiration for young female mathematicians\n\nMaryam Mirzakhani, the first woman to receive the prestigious Fields Medal for mathematics, has died in the US.\n\nThe 40-year-old Iranian, a professor at Stanford University, had breast cancer which had spread to her bones.\n\nNicknamed the \"Nobel Prize for Mathematics\", the Fields Medal is only awarded every four years to between two and four mathematicians under 40.\n\nIt was given to Prof Mirzakhani in 2014 for her work on complex geometry and dynamical systems.\n\nForeign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said her death was a cause for grief for all Iranians.\n\n\"A light was turned off today. It breaks my heart... gone far too soon,\" US-Iranian scientist Firouz Naderi posted on Instagram.\n\nHe added in a subsequent post: \"A genius? Yes. But also a daughter, a mother and a wife.\"\n\nProf Mirzakhani and her husband, Czech scientist Jan Vondrak, had one daughter.\n\nSome social media users criticised Iranian officials for not using recent images of Prof Mirzakhani which showed her uncovered hair. Iranian women must cover their hair in line with a strict interpretation of Islamic law on modesty.\n\nIranian official media and politicians used older pictures in their social media tributes, which show her hair covered.\n\nIranian Speaker Ali Larijani - using an older image of Prof Mirzakhani - said on Instagram that her loss \"caused great regret\"\n\nStanford University President Marc Tessier-Lavigne described Prof Mirzakhani as \"a brilliant mathematical theorist and also a humble person who accepted honours only with the hope that it might encourage others to follow her path\".\n\n\"Maryam is gone far too soon but her impact will live on for the thousands of women she inspired to pursue math and science,\" he said.\n\n\"Her contributions as both a scholar and a role model are significant and enduring and she will be dearly missed here at Stanford and around the world.\"\n\nBorn in 1977, Prof Mirzakhani was brought up in post-revolutionary Iran and won two gold medals in the International Mathematical Olympiad as a teenager.\n\nShe earned a PhD at Harvard University in 2004, and later worked at Princeton before securing a professorship at Stanford in 2008.\n\nHer receipt of the Fields Medal three years ago ended a long wait for women in the mathematics community for the prize, first established in 1936.\n\nProf Mirzakhani was also the first Iranian to receive it.\n\nThe citation said she had made \"striking and highly original contributions to geometry and dynamical systems\" and that her most recent work constituted \"a major advance\".\n\nProf Dame Frances Kirwan, a member of the medal selection committee from the University of Oxford, said at the time: \"I hope that this award will inspire lots more girls and young women, in this country and around the world, to believe in their own abilities and aim to be the Fields Medallists of the future.\"", "If the Observer is right, the mood in Brussels - a day before the next round of Brexit talks - is \"cautiously optimistic.\"\n\nBut the message doesn't seem to have reached the cartoonists.\n\nIn keeping with the start of the holiday season, the Sunday Express offers an image of Theresa May at the wheel of the Brexit car - the back seat is crammed with people, all shouting advice: \"Speed up!\" \"Slow down!\" \"Turn back!\"\n\nThe drawing in the Sunday Times shows Mrs May and her cabinet colleagues entangled in a never-ending bill.\n\n\"What do you mean?\" she complains. \"This is just for starters!\"\n\nOf course both cartoons are about the seemingly inescapable politics of the subject.\n\nAccording to the Observer, the kind of exit from the EU that Mrs May is pursuing has revealed \"a picture of incapacity, incompetence, self-deception, dishonesty, partisanship, and harmful confusion\".\n\nThe paper sees \"the Tory hard Brexiteers\" as \"the lords of misrule.\"\n\nThe Sunday Telegraph asks what the term \"hard Brexit\" means and answers \"really just Brexit with some negative branding\".\n\nIf supporters of withdrawal want to cheer themselves up, the Sun on Sunday says they should just consider Tony Blair's latest intervention.\n\n\"As ever,\" the paper says, he ignored the will of the British people, providing \"a classic example of the kind of arch-deviousness that became his stock-in-trade as prime minister\".\n\nThe Sunday Mirror reports that a quarter of teachers who have qualified since 2011 have already left the profession, according to figures obtained by Labour.\n\nIt suggests their motives for quitting were low pay and harsh conditions.\n\nLaura Jackson writes in the Sunday Express that she left after two years because the job was eroding her mental health.\n\nShe describes the miseries she experienced: the horrifying behaviour of the pupils towards each other and her, the open hostility of parents, the power cuts in her classroom and the crushing workload.\n\nThe Sunday Times thinks TV viewers may be shocked when the BBC reveals how much its better paid presenters earn.\n\nThe former newsreader Peter Sissons tells the newspaper things might get ugly when \"some of the biggest egos\" find out what their colleagues are getting.\n\nThe Sunday Telegraph says the corporation is also \"braced\" for embarrassment and rows on the grounds that \"women are not being paid as much as men in the same jobs\".\n\nBut the paper also notes that the salaries of \"many stars\" won't be revealed because they are paid through production companies or through the BBC's commercial arm.\n\nThe Observer expects more viewers to be excited by the return of Game of Thrones.\n\nIt says the drama \"casts a shadow over the television landscape at least as large as that of one of its fire-breathing dragons\".\n\nBut even more coverage is given to ITV2's Love Island, a show described by the Sunday Express as \"racy.\"\n\nFormer Blazin' Squad singer Marcel Somerville is a contestant on Love Island\n\nThe Sunday People says there's been a \"sudden rise\" in its popularity.\n\nThe Sun on Sunday asks its readers whether they have \"never seen the hottest show on TV?\" and offers an introduction to the contestants, the rules and the \"lingo\" they use.\n\nRosie Millard, in the Sunday Times, says her three eldest children \"think and talk about nothing else\" and she calls it \"a mother's idea of hell\".", "Builders in the old part of the Canadian city of Quebec have unearthed a live shell fired by the British during a siege in 1759.\n\nThey posed for photos with the large, 90kg (200lb) projectile, unaware that it was still potentially explosive.\n\nArmy bomb disposal experts later collected the device, saying there was still a danger, CBC reports.\n\nThe British besieged Quebec while fighting the French at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham.\n\nQuebec City archaeologist Serge Rouleau, who examined the munition before the army and noticed that it still contained a charge, described it as an incendiary bomb, Le Soleil news site (in French) reports.\n\nHe had taken it home after the builders' firm, Lafontaine Inc, contacted the municipal authorities.\n\n\"The ball would break and the powder would ignite, setting fire to the building,\" Master Warrant Officer Sylvain Trudel, a senior munitions technician, was quoted by CBC as saying.\n\n\"With time, humidity got into its interior and reduced its potential for exploding, but there's still a danger,\" he added.\n\n\"Old munitions like this are hard to predict. You never know to what point the chemicals inside have degraded.\"\n\nThe shell is now at a safe site and will either be disarmed or destroyed if necessary, CBC says.\n\nIt is believed it was fired at Quebec City from Levis, across the St Lawrence River, the broadcaster adds.\n\nThe Battle of the Plains of Abraham, part of the Seven Years' War, ended in victory for the British, and was a major milestone towards the end of French rule in what is now Canada.", "Skye Olivia Mitchell's family said she loved animals, especially dogs\n\nThe family of a teenager who died in a crash in Cumbria have paid tribute to a \"kind, caring girl\" who \"made the world a better place\".\n\nSkye Olivia Mitchell was driving a Toyota Yaris when it was in a crash with a Ford Transit van on the A595 near Bootle at 19:55 BST on Friday.\n\nShe and front seat passenger Caitlin Lydia Huddleston, both 18 and from Millom, died at the scene.\n\nA third 18-year-old woman is in a critical condition in hospital.\n\nShe was travelling in the back seat and was flown by air ambulance to Royal Preston Hospital.\n\nThe 51-year-old man driving the van was also flown to hospital, where he is in a serious but stable condition.\n\nIn a tribute, Ms Mitchell's family said: \"Skye was a popular, kind, caring girl who raised money for various charities. She made the most of her 18 years, embracing every opportunity that came her way.\n\n\"Skye made the world a better place and Skye's world was a wonderful world to be in.\"\n\nThey said she had excelled at school and loved animals, especially dogs.\n\nThe crash happened on the A595 near Bootle on Friday\n\nThe teenager had recently completed her A-levels and was due to study broadcast journalism at the University of Salford later this year.\n\nMs Mitchell had won a number of competitions, including Millom Carnival Queen in 2012 and Junior Miss South Lakes.\n\nShe came third in the Junior Miss Great Britain contest before winning the Junior Miss North West title in 2014.\n\nA year later she launched an anti-bullying campaign, which her family said she was passionate about and had featured in national media.\n\nCumbria Police, which is appealing for witnesses to the collision, said specially trained officers were supporting both families.\n\nFollowing the crash, the road was closed for six hours while the vehicles were examined and then removed.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Former England captain Rio Ferdinand has paid tribute to his mother, Janice St Fort, calling her \"a little fighter\" after the 58-year-old died on Thursday from cancer.\n\nThe footballer posted a message to \"Mummy\" on Instagram with a picture of them together.\n\nThanking his \"huge hearted\" mother, Ferdinand said all he had wanted to do \"was to make you proud\".\n\nIn May 2015, Ferdinand's wife Rebecca, 34, died of breast cancer.\n\nThe ex-Manchester United defender referred to the support Mrs St Fort had given him and her three grandchildren following his wife's death.\n\nHe said: \"At my most difficult time, you were my shining light and made it your mission to be there for me and my kids... trust me that will never be forgotten.\"\n\nEarlier this year, Ferdinand appeared in a BBC documentary, Being Mum & Dad, where he spoke about his difficulties in dealing with grief and finding the best way to talk to their children about the loss of their mother.\n\nIn an emotional eulogy to his mother, Ferdinand said: \"You were fiery, you were protective, you were soft and hard faced when need be... you loved hard, you disciplined me, you were a grafter & you were my everything.\"\n\nFerdinand's brother and former Premier League footballer Anton also paid tribute to their \"loving, caring and forever selfless mum\" on Instagram.\n\n\"Mum for 32 years of my life you've done nothing but put me first!\" he said.\n\n\"Always cared and worried about others before yourself, an inspiration to me, my brothers, sister and husband Peter and anyone she had in her life.\"\n\nFriends and former colleagues tweeted messages of support to the brothers.\n\nTo Rio, Gary Lineker tweeted: \"Thoughts are with @rioferdy5 and family. They've suffered way too much lately.\"\n\nSol Campbell tweeted: \"So sad to hear my England team mate and friend's mother Janice passing away. My heart goes out to you and your family Rio @rioferdy5. RIP.\"\n\nFormer West Ham and Aston Villa footballer Marlon Harewood tweeted to Anton: \"So sorry for your loss bro.\"\n\nMrs St Fort died at Guy's Cancer Unit in London Bridge Hospital on Thursday with her husband Peter and her four children at her bedside.", "A Brazilian politician has accused left-wing protesters of physically and verbally abusing her wedding guests over her family's support for President Michel Temer.\n\nMaria Victoria Barros, 25, is a member of the state assembly in Parana and daughter of Mr Temer's health minister.\n\nHundreds of demonstrators gathered outside the church where the ceremony was taking place on Friday evening.\n\nPelted with eggs, she had to leave the church protected by riot police.\n\nThe lavish ceremony attracted the state's political elite, including her father, Ricardo Barros, and her mother, Cida Borghetti, Parana's deputy governor.\n\nAt least 30 members of the Brazilian Congress were invited to travel from the capital Brasilia for the wedding in the Parana state capital, Curitiba.\n\nDemonstrators carried anti-government signs and shouted slogans at Ms Barros, accusing her of being a \"coup plotter\".\n\nFootage posted on YouTube shows security guards opening umbrellas to try to protect the bride and groom as they left the Church of the Rosary.\n\nThe bride's father, Ricardo Barros (right), has been in Mr Temer's cabinet since May 2016\n\nA detachment of riot police was eventually called in to protect the newly-weds and their guests.\n\nMs Barros said the protest was linked to her mother's recent decision to run for state governor and had been \"financed by left-wing parties and unions\".\n\nShe regretted the attacks against some of the guests but added: \"This is the price of democracy\".\n\nThe incident is another illustration of how split and bitter Brazilian politics has become since the impeachment last year of Mr Temer's predecessor, Dilma Rousseff.\n\nDuring the impeachment trial, Ms Rousseff described the move as a right-wing coup, supported by her vice-president at the time, Mr Temer.\n\nSupporters of her Workers' Party were further angered by the conviction of former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Wednesday to nine years and six months in jail for corruption.\n\nLula has rejected claims that he received an apartment as a bribe in a corruption scandal linked to state oil company Petrobras.\n\nHe has appealed against the verdict, saying the trial was politically-motivated, aimed at preventing him from running for office again next year.\n\nLula served eight years as president until 2011.\n\nFederal Judge Sergio Moro, from Parana state, ruled that he could remain free pending an appeal.", "Venetians have long complained of the big ships, and they are not alone\n\nThere are places where the surge of global tourism is starting to feel like a tidal wave.\n\nAncient cities around the shores of the Mediterranean and Adriatic are on the front line, their stone streets squeezed full of summer visitors as budget airlines and giant cruise ships unload ever-growing armies of tourists.\n\nTake the Croatian city of Dubrovnik: a perfectly preserved historical miniature, carved from honey-coloured stone set in a sea of postcard blue.\n\nAround 1,500 people live within the walls of its Old City, custodians of cultural treasures left by everyone from the Romans and the Ostrogoths to the Venetians and the Habsburgs.\n\nOn a busy day three modern cruise ships, each one the size of a floating apartment building, can disgorge five or six times that number of people into the city.\n\nDubrovnik's allure for tourists has been amplified by Game of Thrones\n\nThey join the throngs of tourists staying in local hotels and in rooms rented over the internet, in streets where almost every elegant stone house has been converted into a B&B.\n\nThe overall effect is Disneylandish - a sense that you meet no-one but other tourists or ice-cream sellers, tour guides, waiters, reception clerks and buskers who are there to keep the tourist wheels turning.\n\nMark Thomas, who edits The Dubrovnik Times, explains the phenomenon like this. \"When I first got here, I'd stand back if I saw that people were taking photographs of each other. Now there are so many people that I know if I did that, I'd never get anywhere here.\"\n\nDubrovnik has a particular problem because its ancient appeal has now been bolstered by that most modern of phenomena - the HBO mini-series. The city, unchanged for centuries, provides the main locations for Game of Thrones.\n\nFans come on pilgrimages to visit the settings. One souvenir shop owner, who told me he doesn't watch the series himself, admitted he had Googled a couple of catchphrases to help attract customers.\n\n\"It does seem crazy,\" he admitted, \"to stand here when it's 35 degrees, shouting that 'Winter is Coming'.\"\n\nThe idyllic Italian island of Capri is buckling under the thousands of daily tourists\n\nDubrovnik is not alone in struggling to balance its need for tourists' money with the need to ensure that those tourists don't end up destroying the beauty they've come to see.\n\nThe tiny Italian island of Capri has warned that it could \"explode\" under the pressure of the trade that sees as many as 15,000 visitors a day travelling by boat from the mainland, to visit its once-idyllic streets and squares.\n\nOne local official told The Daily Telegraph: \"You can't fit a litre-and-a-half into a litre pot.\"\n\nFlorence, Barcelona and some Greek islands like Santorini have suffered too, and it was perhaps Venice which experienced the problem first. Its population has been falling since the 1950s, effectively forced out by the hordes of cruise-ship visitors.\n\nTourism, of course, remains essentially a good thing and in the developed world we nearly all do it.\n\nIt means trade and cultural exchange and it's both a symbol of rising prosperity and a generator of future wealth.\n\nNot everyone in Barcelona is happy with the summer 'invasion' of tourists\n\nPart of the \"problem\" is that travellers from traditional sources like the UK, Germany and the USA are increasingly being joined by the new middle classes of countries like Russia, China and India.\n\nAdd to that the issue of security, which means that many tourists feel safer in Europe than they do in alternative destinations like Tunisia, Turkey or Egypt, and it's hard to see the numbers falling any time soon.\n\nIt will fall to local governments in places like Dubrovnik and Capri and Venice to find a way of reducing those growing pressures.\n\nFor now, ideas like installing turnstiles on ancient squares and pedestrian traffic lights on crowded streets may sound rather fanciful.\n\nBut if that tourist tide keeps rising they might start to seem a little more tempting.", "Files from the National Archives reveal that the British government supported the release of the Nazi war criminal Rudolf Hess as early as 1956.\n\nRudolf Hess was Adolf Hitler's deputy and, for a while, one of the most powerful figures in Nazi Germany. He is mainly remembered for flying to Britain in 1941 in a bizarre and unsuccessful solo peace mission, which resulted in his arrest and imprisonment for the rest of World War Two.\n\nAfter the war Hess was sentenced to life imprisonment and spent the rest of his days in Berlin's Spandau Prison. For much of his time he was its only inmate.\n\nBut Foreign Office files released on Thursday show that the British supported Hess's release more than three decades before his suicide in 1987.\n\nHess was sentenced at the Nuremberg trials in 1946 by the so-called Four Powers - the UK, the US, France and Russia - and support for his release was needed by all of them before any change could be made. By 1966, the six other prisoners held in Spandau - including Hitler's architect, Albert Speer - had been freed or had died.\n\nHess, by this time 72, was to remain Spandau's solitary prisoner for the rest of his life. While healthy for his age, Hess was inevitably frail. His son organised a campaign for his release, receiving considerable press coverage in West Germany. There was also growing support for this in the UK.\n\nHess at the Nuremberg trials, sitting next to Hermann Goering\n\nThe files show the British government stepped up its efforts to have him freed. In 1979, just after becoming Foreign Secretary, Lord Carrington wrote a particularly strong note to his Soviet counterpart Andrei Gromyko. \"It would be both inhumane and pointless,\" he said, \"to insist that this old man should die in prison.\"\n\nIn all, the British made 11 unilateral appeals for Hess to be freed. The Americans and French supported them in a further nine. The Soviets always refused to consider the case.\n\nNearly 40 years after the end of the war, Soviet politicians and diplomats argued that the release of such a leading figure in the Nazi regime would not be understood by the Soviet people, or by others who had suffered. One diplomat said he was not convinced by the so-called humanitarian argument - \"The suffering which he and other Nazis had inflicted was not human,\" he said.\n\nTony Le Tissier was the last British governor of Spandau, holding the post in the decade leading up to Hess's death. There were also French, American and Russian governors - they took turns to run the prison, for a month at a time.\n\nTony Le Tissier, the last British governor of Spandau prison\n\nThe rules of Spandau, drawn up after the Nuremberg trials, were harsh. Prisoners were only to be addressed by their number, never their name. Punishments were strict. When in 1955 Hess failed to greet a Soviet warder, he lost all his reading materials for 10 days.\n\nPrisoners could be put on bread and water, or placed in punishment cells. But Le Tissier says that by the time he arrived, the regime was far more relaxed. Although Hess was supposed to be called Number Seven, not everyone stuck to that - some officers did address him by name. He was not supposed to watch the television news - but that wasn't rigidly enforced either.\n\nHe could go into the garden when he chose, and he had two cooks to prepare any meal he wanted. \"He ate an awful lot!\" says Le Tissier. \"Quite a surprising amount.\"\n\nLe Tissier did chat to Hess but he says the prisoner never talked about his past: \"It was a closed circle - never came into it.\" Neither did they ever talk about the news or politics.\n\nWhile Le Tissier tried to make Hess's stay as comfortable as possible, organising new chairs for his room for instance and a new bed, he did not personally agree with the argument that he should have been freed. Le Tissier thinks Hess deserved to die in prison, for all that he had done.\n\n\"He got his just deserts,\" he says. \"He was a fanatical Nazi - an enemy. I did feel very strongly that he was there till he finished.\"\n\nIn August 1987 Hess killed himself, wrapping a lamp cord round his neck. Some suggested he was helped but Le Tissier is convinced that Hess acted unaided. Security was extremely tight in Spandau, he says. There was only one key to the gate, and only the chief warder had it.\n\nLe Tissier recalls his reaction: \"It was a fait accompli - it was over.\" He thinks it was a good thing. \"It was such a waste of time and money, involving so many people.\"\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. Canada's Governor General lightly touched the Queen on the elbow as she descended a flight of steps\n\nCanada's governor general has been forced to defend his actions after a \"slippy\" carpet led to a breach of royal etiquette with the Queen. But how do you avoid a protocol slip-up?\n\nDavid Johnston raised eyebrows on Wednesday as he was seen to be lightly touching Her Majesty's elbow as she descended some steps, at an event in London.\n\nMr Johnston said he was simply concerned about the Queen's safety and made the judgement that a breach of protocol was appropriate \"to be sure that there was no stumble\".\n\nTo avoid any future mishaps, however, here is a reminder of the traditional dos and don'ts.\n\nPrime minister Theresa May performs a curtsey as she greets the Queen\n\nIn 2009, traditional protocol was breached when the Queen and Michelle Obama were spotted with their arms around each other\n\nActor Tom Hiddleston gave the Duchess of Cornwall friendly shoulder squeeze when they met during a Radio 2 broadcast last year\n\nThese rules aren't steadfast and those in breach need not fear exile. The official website for the British Monarchy states \"there are no obligatory codes of behaviour when meeting the Queen or a member of the Royal Family\". It hastens to add: \"Many people wish to observe the traditional forms.\" The choice is yours.", "Hugging at work is apparently on the rise\n\nAre you a hugger or a hand shaker - or neither? When a work colleague returns from holiday or maternity leave, do you go in for the double bear-hug, or a friendly hello from across the desk?\n\nFor those people who prefer a non-physical greeting, the direction of office etiquette may be moving against you.\n\nThere is evidence that workplaces are seeing a rise in hugging culture. In a survey last year more than half of advertising and marketing executives said hugging was common, up from a third in the survey in 2011.\n\nExperts say it could have a lot to do with more relaxed workplace environments.\n\nBut there's a downside. A separate study last year on sexual harassment in the US fast food industry found that more than a quarter of workers felt they were hugged inappropriately.\n\nDeborah Wallsmith, an assistant professor of anthropology at Kennesaw State University, Georgia, says that the gradations of hug discomfort depend upon nuances, relationships, and personal preferences.\n\n\"The least offensive is the one armed side-by-side hug, where the huggers are standing next to each other, and extend their adjacent arms around each other's waist.\n\n\"The most objectionable is the full-frontal squeeze that goes on forever.\"\n\nShe adds that she \"feels uncomfortable getting hugged by former professors and former bosses\".\n\nKara Deringer, a business coach from Alberta, Canada, explains that context is all-important. Yet many people get it wrong.\n\nShe agrees that hugging can be very useful. \"It creates connections.\" But on the other hand, she says: \"Be careful. I have seen lots of misunderstandings.\n\n\"I currently work in a team, and we're huggers. But there are those who will courageously say 'I'm not a hugger'.\"\n\nMs Deringer recommends either asking people for a hug, or paying very close attention to body language. \"If they reach out their hand? I've got it, they're hand shaker or a high fiver.\"\n\nAnd beware another minefield - the sociological layers of power, culture, and gender. All can have their own \"rules\" for physical contact, says Ms Deringer. \"It's also about social intelligence - I won't hug someone I just met.\"\n\nTracey Smolinski is also in a work culture where hugging is acceptable.\n\nThe chief executive of Cardiff-based Introbiz, which hosts business networking events, says: \"We are quite a friendly team, and usually give a kiss on the face, both cheeks, when we are familiar with them.\n\n\"But if you don't know them, best not to kiss or hug, because you don't know how they will take it. You have to be careful.\"\n\nSome of this may sound like commonsense. But what if hugging is standard practice in your office, but you really don't want to indulge? Are you the office grinch?\n\nOne person's hug can be very unwanted\n\nToronto-based musician Cynthia Pike-Elliott, who has had careers in healthcare and law enforcement, says that in both environments hugging was standard.\n\n\"Hugging was a huge part of my workplace, a huge part in maintaining these personal relationships,\" she says. For her, hugging is \"a way to say to someone that you've made a connection with them, and that you trust them… It's not hurting anyone.\n\n\"If I was an employee, a hug from my employer would show their pride and gratitude of a job well done much more than words could ever accomplish,\" she says.\n\nMs Pike-Elliott adds that if a business owner hugs a client, it \"shows trust and validates that the client is special, it builds a solid relationship\".\n\nIn her role as a musician she has found colleagues and acquaintances more \"huggy\" than most. \"Music and arts is about revealing your soul. It's very personal,\" she says.\n\nCynthia Pike-Elliott says that in her industry, hugging is very common\n\nNot everyone's so keen on the idea of hugging, however. Sometimes, it ends up in court.\n\nEarlier this year, California corrections officer Victoria Zetwick California accused her superior, the county sheriff, of giving more than a hundred unwanted hugs over a dozen years. A court said it was enough to constitute a \"hostile environment\".\n\nMore stories from the BBC's Business Brain series looking at quirky or unusual business topics from around the world:\n\nCanadian labour lawyer Shaun Bernstein advises against hugs in the office, particularly in light of the province of Ontario's update to its Occupational Health and Safety Act last September.\n\nThis included more provisions against workplace harassment and unwelcome attention.\n\nMr Bernstein says: \"If the hug is taken in the wrong way, it can easily be construed under the law as workplace sexual harassment, which places a responsibility on the employer to investigate...\n\n\"There's the specific prohibition when it comes from a person in power, so I think that that's important to note.\"\n\nIt is also the responsibility of the company to have a designated harassment complaints officer, as well as a back-up person in case the officer is the one causing trouble.\n\nMr Bernstein adds: \"Employers have a serious responsibility when it comes to protecting their workers against harassment, and are obligated to have policies in place to prevent this kind of conduct.\"\n\nAlways remember that work friends are not the same as real friends, says Adina Zaiontz\n\nFor Adina Zaiontz, chief executive of Napkin Marketing, in Toronto, the simple rule is: \"When in doubt, don't hug... Everyone feels differently about personal space and boundaries.\" It's possible to hug and still avoid full body contact, she adds.\n\nSo, when does she feel it's OK?\n\nMs Zaiontz adds: \"No matter what you think, your work friends are different than your real friends. Your real friends can't call HR on you.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe lawyer for a US police officer whose partner killed an Australian woman says it would be \"reasonable\" for the pair to have feared an ambush.\n\nMinneapolis officer Matthew Harrity has reportedly said they were startled by a \"loud sound\" before last Saturday night's shooting of Justine Damond.\n\nPolice have released the transcript of her call to police, in which the 40-year-old reports a suspected rape.\n\nShe was fatally shot in the abdomen by one of the officers she had called.\n\nOfficer Mohamed Noor, who fired the fatal shot in Ms Damond's upmarket neighbourhood, has refused to be interviewed by investigators, as is his legal right.\n\nFred Bruno, a lawyer for Officer Harrity, said on Wednesday: \"It is reasonable to assume an officer in that situation would be concerned about a possible ambush.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"It was only a few weeks ago when a female NYPD cop and mother of twins was executed in her car in a very similar scenario.\"\n\nHe was referring to the 5 July shooting of a 48-year-old police officer as she sat in her patrol car in the Bronx borough of New York City.\n\nThe attorney's comments come a day after Officer Harrity spoke to investigators with the state's Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, which is leading the investigation.\n\nDuring the interview, he described seeing a young person on a bicycle pass by moments before Ms Damond pounded on the door of the police car, according to KSTP-TV.\n\nDetectives have appealed to the cyclist to come forward with any information he may have.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Justine should be here. This shouldn't have happened\"\n\nOn Wednesday police released the transcript of her two separate 911 calls, which she made after hearing screams nearby.\n\n\"I'm not sure if she's having sex or being raped,\" she told the police operator, before giving her address.\n\n\"I think she just yelled out 'help', but it's difficult, the sound has been going on for a while,\" she continued.\n\nMs Damond called back eight minutes later to ensure police had the correct address.\n\nBody cameras, which are worn by all Minneapolis police, had not been turned on at the time of the shooting and the squad car dashboard camera also failed to capture the incident.\n\nOfficers Harrity and Noor, who between them have spent three years on the police force, have been placed on paid administrative leave.\n\nAustralian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is appealing to the US for an explanation.\n\n\"It is a shocking killing, and yes, we are demanding answers on behalf of her family,\" he told Australian TV on Wednesday.\n\nHundreds of friends and family of Ms Damond held a vigil on Sydney's Freshwater beach on Wednesday morning.\n\nThe slain yoga instructor and spiritual healer was engaged to marry an American man.\n\nMinnesota Governor Mark Dayton told reporters he has been in touch with the Australian embassy, adding the state may need to review rules covering police use of body cameras.", "Pills with fattening side-effects are widely available from illegal vendors in Sudan\n\nIn our series of letters from African journalists, Yousra Elbagir looks at how some Sudanese women are turning to black market substances in their quest for beauty.\n\nWhile skin bleaching is a long-standing cosmetic staple across Sudan, a newer craze is sweeping the nation.\n\nMany young women are turning to prescription pills in order to gain weight, and hopefully gain the curvaceous figures they see as the standard of beauty.\n\nAway from the regulation of trained pharmacists, fattening pills are illegally dispensed by the same small shops which sell topical bleaching creams and other popular beauty fixes.\n\nSold individually, in small bags and emptied sweet containers, they are completely devoid of any information about medical risks.\n\nIt is difficult to estimate how many women in Sudan use these products to gain weight, because many are reluctant to admit to it.\n\n\"Pills are handed out in the village like penny sweets,\" says Imitithal Ahmed, a student at the University of Khartoum.\n\n\"I've always been scared [to use them] because I've seen family members fall ill and close friends become dependent on appetite stimulants.\n\n\"My aunt is on the brink of kidney failure and has blocked arteries from taking too many fattening pills, trying to get a bigger bum.\n\n\"Everyone in the family knows why she's sick, but she won't own up to it. She's had to stop taking the pills on doctor's orders.\"\n\n\"Fattening pills are a popular niche within a much bigger trend\"\n\nPills are often rebranded and given catchy street names which allude to their effects.\n\nFrom The Neighbours' Shock to Chicken Thighs and My Mama Suspects, the clinical name of pills are forgotten and replaced by promises of a bigger bottom, shapely thighs and a belly that will have your mother concerned that you might be pregnant.\n\nTablets range from standard appetite stimulants to allergy medicines containing the steroid hormone, cortisone.\n\n\"The ultimate Sudanese woman [is] full-bodied and light-skinned\"\n\nThe side-effects of taking cortisone are now a cash cow for pill peddlers. It is known to slow the metabolism, increase appetite, trigger water retention and create extra deposits of fat around the abdomen and face.\n\nUsing unregulated steroids without supervision can damage the heart, liver, kidneys and thyroid, says Dr Salah Ibrahim, Head of the Pharmacists' Union in Sudan.\n\nHe explains that cortisone is a naturally occurring hormone in the body, helping to regulate vital bodily functions. But when a man-made, concentrated version enters the body in the form of pills or topical bleaching creams, the brain gives the body a signal to stop production.\n\nIf a user suddenly stops taking the substance, their major organs can spiral into dysfunction.\n\nYoung women in Sudan are dying from kidney and heart failure caused by sudden steroid withdrawal, medical professionals say.\n\nFatalities are especially common among new brides, who traditionally undergo a month of intense beautification before their wedding day and then abruptly stop using fattening pills and steroidal bleaching creams. Their deaths are put down to sudden organ failure.\n\nYet these horrifying beauty trends continue to gain traction.\n\nPrescription pill abuse is taking off in Sudan's conservative society, partly because it lacks the social stigma and pungent, giveaway odour of alcohol and cannabis.\n\nUniversity students flock to buy the potent painkiller Tramadol, which is sold for 20 Sudanese pounds ($1; 80 pence) per pill.\n\nSome of Khartoum's roadside tea-sellers are even known to drop the painkiller in a cup of tea, upon a coded request.\n\nMany Sudanese women view Nada Algalaa as an ideal beauty\n\nAwareness campaigns have so far had very little impact.\n\nDr Ibrahim, Head of the Pharmacists Union, has made numerous appearances on national television to warn of the dangers of prescription pill abuse.\n\nAt university level, pharmacists are taught vigilance and trained to act in keeping with ethics and pharmaceutical law.\n\nBut in a country where pharmacists and doctors are paid very little, the temptation to sell pills to illegal vendors is overwhelming for some.\n\n\"Last time I went to the beauty shop I go to for my creams, the shop owner brought out a chocolate box full of different fattening pills,\" says Ms Ahmed, the Khartoum student.\n\n\"Girls are too scared to ask pharmacists and doctors about the pills they buy from beauty shops, for fear of being publicly shamed.\"\n\nPolice may arrest traders and block smuggling routes, but the profits for rogue pharmacists keep growing regardless. Fattening pills are poured into the black market, deemed to be the lesser evil.\n\nSudan isn't the only African society where being overweight is a symbol of prosperity and power, boosting the \"marriageability\" of young women.\n\nBut in this country, it embodies an ideal.\n\nIt defines the ultimate Sudanese woman - full-bodied and light-skinned - epitomising beauty and coveted as a wife.\n\nThe iconic status of Nada Algalaa, a Sudanese singer whose looks are widely praised and emulated, is testament in itself.\n\nFor some women, it is an ideal to be acquired by any means necessary.\n\nFollow us on Twitter @BBCAfrica, on Facebook at BBC Africa or on Instagram at bbcafrica", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Four things OJ did in while in prison\n\nFormer US football star and actor OJ Simpson has been granted parole after nine years in a Nevada prison.\n\n\"Thank you!\" said the 70-year-old, bowing his head as the board approved him for release in October.\n\nSimpson is serving time for armed robbery, assault with a deadly weapon and 10 other charges over a 2007 confrontation at a Las Vegas hotel.\n\nHe was acquitted in 1995 of the murders a year earlier of ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman.\n\nThe former Hall of Fame running back was found guilty in 2008 of the botched Las Vegas robbery - exactly 13 years to the day after he was sensationally cleared in the so-called trial of the century.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHe and a group of five others stormed into a hotel room to confront two sports-memorabilia collectors and seize items that he claimed belonged to him from his career.\n\nThe hour-long hearing for Prisoner 1027820 took place at the Lovelock Correctional Facility, a medium-security prison in the Nevada desert.\n\nSimpson told parole officials on Thursday the objects he took from the Las Vegas hotel room were later ruled by officials to legally belong to him.\n\n\"I've spent a conflict-free life,\" the prisoner said during the hour-long hearing.\n\nHowever, in 1989 Simpson admitted spousal abuse after police responded to a domestic violence call at his home.\n\nAccording to police records, his wife had run from the house screaming to officers: \"He's going to kill me!\"\n\nMore than two decades after the murders, the slow-speed car chase through the streets of Los Angeles and his sensational acquittal, OJ Simpson still commands an audience.\n\nTelevision networks across the US interrupted their regular broadcasting to cut to the drab setting of the Lovelock Correctional Center in the high desert of Nevada.\n\nAnd there he was, now 70 years old and dressed in simple blue prison garb but still instantly recognisable - the man who was a sensation from the moment he burst on to the American football field.\n\nWhen he was asked by the parole board commissioners about how he would cope with media attention if he were to be released, the man they used to call The Juice laughed.\n\nIt must have felt like they were asking him how he would cope with breathing the air.\n\nThe families of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman are not laughing - and there is evidence that OJ Simpson's supporters are a shrinking band.\n\nThe country was once divided, not least on racial lines, about the verdict in the \"trial of the century\" but a recent poll suggested that only 7% of Americans now believe the fallen star was not a killer.\n\nSimpson (C) appears to dab a tear during the testimony of Bruce Fromong\n\nOn Thursday, Bruce Fromong, who was one of Simpson's victims in the robbery a decade ago, testified in favour of his release.\n\n\"I've known OJ for a long time,\" said Mr Fromong. \"I don't feel that he's a threat to anyone.\n\n\"He's a good man. It's time to give him a second chance.\"\n\nThe prisoner told the commissioners he had helped establish a Baptist prayer meeting in prison, adding: \"I could have been a better Christian.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe prisoner also rejected suggestions he had an alcohol problem.\n\n\"I've done my time,\" he said. \"I've done it as well and as respectfully as anybody can. I think if you talk to the wardens they'll tell you.\n\n\"I've not complained for nine years. All I've done is try to be helpful… and that's the life I've tried to live because I want to get back to my kids and family.\"\n\nThe Nevada Board of Parole Commissioners said it had received hundreds of letters for and against Simpson's parole.\n\nIn 2013 the board granted him parole on some of his convictions, but not for the more violent charges.\n\nNicole Brown Simpson and friend Ron Goldman were stabbed to death\n\nHis daughter, Arnelle Simpson, choked up as she told the parole board: \"My experience with him is that he's like my best friend and my rock.\"\n\nShe added: \"He is remorseful, he truly is remorseful.\"\n\nBut Simpson's legal problems are likely to continue after he is released.\n\nAn attorney for the family of Ron Goldman vowed to pursue him for due payment of damages.\n\nSimpson rejected the suggestion that he had an alcohol problem during the hearing\n\nDespite the 1995 not-guilty verdict, a civil court jury held Simpson liable for the deaths of his ex-wife and her friend, awarding $33.5m (£25.8m) to their families.\n\nTwo years ago a court enlarged that judgment to about $58m, but it remains largely unpaid.\n\nLegal experts say the families could claim a portion of Simpson's future earnings, such as book deals or television appearances.\n\nHowever, under federal law Simpson's estimated $20,000 monthly pension from the National Football League is out of reach to creditors.\n\nFollowing his playing career, he appeared in television commercials before taking roles in movies like the comedy The Naked Gun.", "This whole Dali exhumation business is weird. It's right up there with any of his surreal artworks for its sense of the macabre and otherness. Nothing about this story is straightforward.\n\nLet's start with where he is buried. Having died in 1989 and then been embalmed by Narcis Bardalet (who said he thought Dali would have found this whole affair hilarious), he was buried under the stage of his Theatre Museum in Figueres, north east Spain.\n\nA crypt was created that the public can visit where they can see a large memorial stone marking his burial place. But that was not the point of entry for Thursday night's exhumation. That was upstairs in the huge geodesic domed hall that was once the old theatre's main stage.\n\nBang in the middle of the space, embedded in the floor, is a massive one-and-a-half tonne, unmarked stone slab, which thousands of people once walked over every day without any idea that they were treading on the great surrealist's grave.\n\nDali's tomb (centre of the image) in the Theatre Museum in Figueres\n\nNow, though, they will know - as it has become famous for being the place where the forensic scientists accessed the artist's remains.\n\nSecurity was tight. The media was banned. Only those who absolutely needed to be there (lawyers, Dali Foundation representatives, the forensic team, etc) were granted a place to watch the proceedings, which took place in a hastily-erected tent to stop any enterprising individuals from flying a drone above the glass dome and taking pictures.\n\nThe forensic operation took four hours and was followed by a press conference, where we learned the exhumation was much more straightforward than anticipated.\n\nDali's mummified body was in almost perfect condition, enabling samples of his hair, nail and bones to be taken. Narcis Bardalet was present and said it was a miracle the artist's moustache was still pointing at ten to two, like a clock.\n\nMaría Pilar Abel Martínez, who claims Dali is her father\n\nThe Dali Foundation is not at all happy, although it does admit the extra attention has been a welcome magnet for tourists. The foundation can't understand why the judge approved the exhumation before all other avenues had been fully explored.\n\nIt points specifically to the DNA of María Pilar Abel Martínez, the Tarot card-reading woman who is making the claim that Dali is her dad.\n\nWhy, it asks, hasn't her DNA been compared with her brother's - whose father is known, and is not Salvador Dali. Maybe it has - we don't know. But one can only assume her representations had sufficient credibility to persuade a judge to sanction the exhumation.\n\nThe evidence is circumstantial. She says her mother met the famous artist in the mid-1950s when she was working in Cadaques, a small fishing port near Figueres where Dali and his wife Gala had created a surrealist's dream home out of a row of old cottages.\n\nHer mother and Dali had a \"clandestine affair\" she says, leading to her mother becoming pregnant and subsequently giving birth to her in 1956.\n\nExperienced Dali watchers are sceptical. Not least because he was well known for being more of a watcher than a doer when it came to sex.\n\nThe orgies he and Gala are said to have hosted at their seaside home were likely a visual treat for him, and a physical pleasure for her. That's how the story goes, anyway.\n\nBut should the DNA sample taken from his dead body prove that he is indeed the father of Ms Martínez, a revision to the accepted stance on Dali's voyeuristic nature will be needed. As will a reapportioning of his highly-prized estate, which contains paintings, buildings, sculptures and use of the lucrative Dali trading licence.\n\nIt is estimated the value of his estate, which he gave to the Spanish state and the Salvador and Gala Dali Foundation, is around £300 million, a quarter of which Ms Martínez would be entitled to under Spanish law. That would pay a legal bill or two, as well as being a bizarre end to a bizarre story that has Salvador Dali written all over it.\n\nWe'll have to wait until the middle of September to find out the results, as the court case won't resume until then.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. Follow my Twitter feed: @WillGompertzBBC If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Bennington's friends have been responding to his unexpected death on social media\n\nThe angst-ridden vocals of Linkin Park frontman Chester Bennington, who died aged 41 on Thursday, helped lead the group to global critical acclaim.\n\nThe frontman's brooding charisma - added to the group's blend of rap, metal and electronic music - spawned a string of chart-topping hits.\n\nThe son of a police officer in Phoenix, Arizona, Bennington was born on 20 March 1976 and had a troubled youth.\n\nAfter years of intense drug use, he got sober and joined Linkin Park in 1998.\n\n\"Growing up, for me, was very scary and very lonely,\" he told Metal Hammer magazine in 2014.\n\n\"I started getting molested when I was about seven or eight,\" he said, describing the abuser as an older friend.\n\n\"I was getting beaten up and being forced to do things I didn't want to do.\n\n\"It destroyed my self-confidence. Like most people, I was too afraid to say anything.\n\n\"I didn't want people to think I was gay or that I was lying. It was a horrible experience,\" he told the magazine.\n\nHis parents divorced when he was 11 years old, and he went to live with his father, whom he described as \"not emotionally very stable then\", adding that \"there was no-one I could turn to\".\n\nThe singer quit hard drugs after a gang broke into a property where the future star was getting high and pistol-whipped some of his friends.\n\nBennington moved to Los Angeles and successfully auditioned to join Linkin Park.\n\nLater in the 2000s, as the band's success took off, he again began using drugs before returning to sobriety, telling Spin Magazine in 2009: \"It's not cool to be an alcoholic.\n\n\"It's not cool to go drink and be a dumbass.\n\n\"It's cool to be a part of recovery.\n\n\"Most of my work has been a reflection of what I've been going through in one way or another,\" he added.\n\nLinkin Park was formed in 1996 and the band's 2000 debut album, Hybrid Theory, surfed the popular wave of nu-metal, Rolling Stone magazine writes.\n\nIt eventually sold more than 30 million albums and became one of the top-selling albums since the start of this millennium.\n\nThe band has sold 70 million albums worldwide and won two Grammy Awards.\n\nLinkin Park had a string of hits including Faint, In The End and Crawling, and collaborated with rapper Jay-Z.\n\nTheir latest music video for the song Talking to Myself was released on Thursday, on the same day of the artist's death.\n\nBennington was said to be close to Sound Garden's Chris Cornell, who took his own life in May 2017.\n\nBennington sang at the funeral for Cornell, who would have turned 53 on Thursday.\n\nIn addition to working with Linkin Park, he also sang for Stone Temple Pilots, for his side project Dead by Sunrise, and Kings of Chaos.\n\nBennington leaves six children from two different marriages.\n\nIf you are affected by the topics in this article, the Samaritans can be contacted free on 116 123 (in the UK) or by email on jo@samaritans.org. If you are in the US, contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline on 1-800-273-8255.", "Former police officer Adrian Pogmore has admitted four charges of misconduct in a public office\n\nAn ex-police officer who admitted misusing his force's helicopter to film people having sex hid his \"swinging and voyeurism\", a court has heard.\n\nAdrian Pogmore, 51, used the aircraft to film people sunbathing naked and a couple, who were his friends, having sex in their garden.\n\nFour other men all deny charges of misconduct in a public office.\n\nGiving evidence at Sheffield Crown Court, a former colleague said he did not know Pogmore was \"into voyeurism\".\n\nPolice officers Matthew Lucas, 42, and Lee Walls, 47, and helicopter pilots Matthew Loosemore, 45, and Malcolm Reeves, 64, are all on trial.\n\nPogmore made four recordings from the aircraft between 2007 and 2012, including filming two naturists sitting outside a caravan on a campsite and his friends having sex, the court heard.\n\nThe jury was told he knew the couple because they \"shared his sexual interest in the swinging scene\" and the pair had \"brazenly put on a show\" for the helicopter.\n\nWhen asked by Mr Loosemore's defence barrister, Neil Fitzgibbon, if he believed it was appropriate for someone \"into swinging and voyeurism\" to operate a £1.5m police helicopter camera, ex-colleague PC Tim Smales replied: \"certainly not\".\n\nPC Smales agreed with Mr Fitzgibbon when asked: \"It would be fair to say Mr Pogmore kept his swinging and/or voyeurism a secret?\"\n\nHe replied: \"Certainly from me, yes.\"\n\nThe officer told the jury he would have reported it if he knew Pogmore was \"into voyeurism and swinging\" and that he worked with him for a number of years before Pogmore was dismissed from South Yorkshire Police.\n\nProsecutors had described Pogmore as \"a swinging and sex-obsessed air observer\", while the jury was told the other four men blamed him for the recordings.\n\nThe court heard how the footage was found among Pogmore's property at a police station, and he was the only defendant present during all four incidents.\n\nPogmore, of Guilthwaite Crescent, Whiston, Rotherham, has admitted four charges of misconduct in a public office.\n\nMr Reeves, of Farfield Avenue, Knaresborough, North Yorkshire, denies two counts of the same charge.\n\nMr Walls, of Southlands Way, Aston, Sheffield, denies one count.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The boys drove for three miles down the windy, curvy road\n\nTwo brothers aged five and two stole their mother's car and wrecked it on a drive to their grandfather's house, say authorities in West Virginia.\n\nPutnam County Sheriff deputies believe the toddlers probably teamed up to work the pedals and steer the wheel before crashing it in a ditch.\n\nThe pair made it three miles (4.8km) down the road and successfully navigated multiple turns.\n\nThey were not hurt but officials are weighing charges against the mother.\n\nThey had taken their mother's 2005 Ford Focus after finding the keys in the floor mat while playing in the front yard.\n\nOfficials believe they were trying to reach their grandfather's farm but crashed five miles short in the town of Red House.\n\n\"Luckily, they didn't pass anybody because they would've probably had a wreck before then,\" said Putnam County Sheriff Steve Deweese.\n\nMr Deweese told WSAZ-TV that the sheriff's office is working with the county prosecutor and Child Protective Services to determine if the mother should be charged with any crime.", "The court heard Lloyd was called \"Action Man Mark\" because of his love of physical activity\n\nA benefits cheat who said he could not walk more than 50 metres climbed Mount Kilimanjaro and won a triathlon.\n\nMark Lloyd, of Ynysybwl, Rhondda Cynon Taff, claimed £6,551.80 in Personal Independence Payments, saying a slipped disc in his back left him in agony.\n\nAt the same time, the 33-year-old competed in races, climbed Africa's highest peak, went wing-walking and skied in the Alps.\n\nHe was convicted of a fraud charge at Merthyr Tydfil Magistrates' Court.\n\nChris Evans, prosecuting, said: \"He said he can only walk between 20 and 50 metres, can't walk on uneven ground, suffers pain when walking long distances and needs to sit down every 20 minutes.\"\n\nHe claimed the cash between October 2014 and February 2016, but the court was shown photos of Lloyd competing in the HSBC triathlon in September 2015 - a race he won in the adult taster category.\n\nThat month, he was also pictured posing with an African guide during his five-day trek to the peak of Kilimanjaro in Tanzania which involved walking between eight and 12 hours a day.\n\nHe also took part in the World Powerboat Championships in Malta.\n\nLloyd told benefits assessors he could not bend or stretch and needed walking aids\n\nLloyd was medically discharged from the Army in 2011 after suffering an injury to his lower back while serving in Afghanistan.\n\nIn 2014, he applied for the Personal Independence Payment - up to £141 a week for those suffering long-term ill health to help cover costs of their care.\n\nThe following year, he applied for more money, saying his condition had worsened and he would be bedridden for a day if he walked more than 164 ft (50m).\n\nMr Evans said: \"The case is not whether he has an injury or not, but if he exaggerated his condition to claim money.\"\n\nLloyd admitted filling in risk assessment forms to enter three triathlons without revealing he suffered ill health.\n\nHe said: \"I didn't want any special treatment or assistance. I wanted to be self-sufficient and compete at the same level as everyone else.\"\n\nDespite saying he struggled to walk, Lloyd reached the peak of Kilimanjaro\n\nJames Harris, defending, said Lloyd had not been dishonest and was able to push through the pain barrier because of his Army training.\n\n\"When climbing Mount Kilimanjaro he said he pushed himself and was in agony,\" he told the court.\n\nDistrict Judge Martin Brown called Lloyd's defence \"nonsense\" and said he deliberately lied to get \"every penny he could\".\n\nThe court heard the offence took place while he was serving a 20-week suspended prison sentence for common assault.\n\nLloyd denied one count of dishonestly failing to disclose information to make a gain for himself, but was convicted following a trial. He will be sentenced in August.\n\nA Department for Work and Pensions spokesman said: \"Only a small minority of people try to cheat the benefits system, but cases like this show how we are rooting out those who are stealing taxpayers' money and diverting it away from the people who really need it.\"", "The proportion of first-class degrees has more than trebled since the 1990s\n\nThe proportion of top degree grades being awarded by UK universities has soared - with some universities giving first-class degrees to more than a third of their students.\n\nThe University of Surrey awarded a first-class degree to 41% of students last year, more than doubling the proportion five years ago.\n\nAnd firsts awarded at the University of East Anglia have almost trebled to 37%.\n\nAmong the prestigious Russell Group of universities more than a quarter of students received a first-class degree.\n\nThe Press Association survey, analysing figures for 2015-16 from the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA), indicates it is now more common to graduate with a first-class degree than a lower second (2:2) grade - with 24% getting a first last year, compared with 21% getting a lower second. The most widely awarded degree was an upper second (2:1), received by about 51%.\n\nThe figures from HESA go back only as far as 1994 - when 7% of students received a first, but they show the proportion of firsts has more than trebled in the past two decades, up to 24% last year.\n\nAmong the 148 universities with comparable data, only a handful saw fewer first-class degrees last year than five years previously, with a number having doubled or trebled the proportion awarded.\n\nAmong specialist institutions, such as in the creative arts, proportions of firsts could be even higher - such as 64% of students getting firsts at the Royal Academy of Music.\n\n\"There are people who think the system isn't as robust as it might be,\" said Nick Hillman, head of the Higher Education Policy Institute.\n\n\"It can all be a bit bit cosy - you ask someone you know to be an external examiner.\"\n\nUniversities are their own degree-awarding bodies, so can decide their own levels of degree grades.\n\n\"A comparison would be if schools could decide how many A grades to give in A-levels - it's a big incentive for grade inflation,\" said Mr Hillman.\n\nProf Smithers, of the University of Buckingham, said unlike with national exams such as GCSEs and A-levels, universities were \"free to award as many firsts as they like\".\n\n\"They have every incentive to do so,\" he said.\n\n\"Students like to have top-class degrees and may choose universities on that basis.\"\n\nIncreasing firsts could push universities up league tables, said Prof Smithers.\n\n\"If every other university is doing it, you don't want to get left behind,\" he said.\n\nBut it meant that it was difficult for employers to interpret the value and that \"an upper-second has almost become the pass grade\".\n\nUniversities are competing for students and their tuition fees, rising to £9,250, and there have been suggestions that more higher top degrees will be an incentive for applicants.\n\nFirst-class degrees will be an advantage for future job opportunities - and some companies recruit only from graduates with an upper second or above.\n\nBut there have also been arguments that rising degree grades reflect the improved A-level grades of those entering university and a more focused attention to studying.\n\nBetween 2010-11 and 2015-16, the University of Surrey increased its proportion of first-class degrees awarded, from 19% to 41%.\n\nProf Jane Powell, the university's vice-provost, said it \"reflects a combination of national trends and the University of Surrey's concentrated focus on enhancing all aspects of our educational provision\".\n\n\"It is very pleasing to see this high level of commitment by both staff and students translating into excellent degree results, the rigorous standards of which are confirmed by external independent assurance processes.\"\n\nImperial College has the highest proportion of firsts among mainstream universities.\n\nA spokeswoman said this reflected the very high entry grades required to get a place at such a top-ranking institution.\n\nBiggest increases in first-class degrees in mainstream universities 2010-11 to 2015-16", "Amanda Wong and her daughter Naomi use the Goldman Sachs nursery\n\nHead into the Goldman Sachs building on London's Fleet Street and you're greeted by wall to wall marble, a bank of receptionists and a water feature. So far, so City.\n\nBut wind your way past the lifts through an anonymous fire door and you enter a world that couldn't be less corporate. The sounds, colours and laughter of a nursery.\n\nThe Goldman Sachs Children's Centre is both incongruous - and an anomaly - the only onsite childcare facility in the Square Mile. Started in 2003 to offer back up provision for staff, it takes kids between the ages of three months and 12 years old.\n\nThe expense and regulatory requirements for such a facility are the main reasons why it is unique - and peculiar to a bank with deep pockets.\n\nThis is part of a day of BBC coverage looking at the cost of holiday childcare. Find out more at bbc.co.uk/business or follow the conversation on social media using the hashtag #Childcare\n\nAccording to the latest figures from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, only 5% of businesses in the UK now offer childcare in the workplace.\n\nAnecdotally, this is almost exclusively made up of large employers because they have the money and space to allow for it. They include government departments, Royal Mail, a variety of universities, Microsoft and Toyota.\n\nThere are tax breaks for those companies that do.\n\nThe onsite childcare at Goldman Sachs takes children from three months to 12 years old\n\nEmployers who include childcare as part of the employee remuneration package, attract tax, National Insurance and reporting obligations.\n\nHowever, employers that offer in-workplace nurseries don't - and they get relief for the day-to-day running and capital costs of providing the service, for example heating and lighting, and premises.\n\nIt might be seen as a perk now, but onsite childcare flourished in the immediate post-war years out of necessity.\n\nA labour shortage meant that women were needed to work - and factories and mills started to offer the creches that allowed them to.\n\nDr Laura Paterson of Oxford University, who specialises in the history of women's employment, says that childcare provision by businesses died away in the 1950s as the need for women became less acute and the way they worked changed.\n\n\"Part-time and flexible working hours reduced the need for workplace nurseries to some extent,\" she says,\n\n\"Women who worked from the 1950s to the 70s tell us that they did part-time jobs when their children were young to fit around school hours. And they worked in the evening so that their partner could care for their children.\"\n\nStaff at Goldman Sachs are allowed 20 days of emergency childcare a year\n\nBut what about those working full-time at Goldman? For Amanda Wong, who project manages new trades for the firm and is a mum to 12-month-old Naomi, the children's centre has been a lifesaver.\n\nMs Wong put her daughter into nursery the same day she returned to work, shortly after Naomi turned nine months.\n\n\"It has made me feel a lot more relaxed and mentally ready to come back to work a lot earlier than I would have and I think it helps new mums with separation guilt or anxieties about returning to work,\" she says.\n\nThough she admits it's not ideal to take a one-year-old on the Tube through central London each day.\n\nIshmeet Rayit, who manages the Goldman Sachs Children's Centre, tells me they have a higher staff ratio than Ofsted regulations require (one-to-two in the baby room rather than one-to-three), because they need to make children who might not be familiar with them, settle in quickly.\n\nOf the 5,500 people who work in the office, about a quarter are registered users. Each parent at the bank gets 20 free \"back-up\" days to use the centre, renewed each year.\n\nThe most coveted facility in the centre is the after-school and holiday programme where the 5-12 year olds come. It's stuffed full of bilingual books and toys, showing just how multicultural the bank is.\n\n\"The kids call it an office day,\" Ms Rayit says. \"They get taken out for lunch by their parents and they make friends here.\" Parents are only allowed to book 10 days of this holiday service at a time, the room can accommodate 12, and the waiting list to get in is long.\n\nGoldman Sachs is in two old newspaper offices on London's Fleet Street\n\nSally Boyle, the international head of human resources at Goldman, says it is a \"significant cost\" to the firm - but it is worth it.\n\n\"We've definitely seen it have an impact on retention of a smallish group of women but important women who wouldn't have stayed I suspect if they hadn't been able to manage that childcare in a way that they can here,\" she says.\n\nThe centre is run by Bright Horizons, the largest provider of workplace nurseries in the UK. Goldman pays it a monthly management fee, and parents who need childcare beyond that paid for by the bank, deal directly with the nursery.\n\nA spokesperson for the company says that demand for onsite care is increasing. \"In today's competitive talent market, recruiting and retaining exceptional people is a high priority for organisations.\n\n\"Onsite childcare has been identified as a key factor in encouraging parents to return to work and, in turn, helping organisations to thrive\".\n\nBut Rohan Silva, whose Second Home drop-in work spaces are planning in-house creches, says the barriers to entry today of setting up onsite childcare are enormous.\n\n\"The Ofsted accreditation process takes at least three months, and costs hundreds of pounds in registration costs and consultancy fees. In addition, there are multiple additional inspections each year, plus a chronic shortage of trained staff,\" he says.\n\n\"Another challenge is the fact that so few architects and designers have ever designed childcare facilities, because so few are created by property developers. That means thinking from scratch the issues around access and child-friendly materials,\" Mr Silva says.\n\nHe believes it's a vital way of allowing more parents to work. \"The UK's rate of maternal employment is 27% lower than other Western countries - making childcare more accessible will make a big difference.\n\n\"This is especially true of single parents - who are much more likely to be unemployed, and for whom access to childcare is the biggest barrier to finding work,\" Mr Silva adds.\n\nA recent Institute of Directors survey backs this up. It found over half of its members think that the cost of childcare hurts careers - particularly those of women.\n\nIt is currently consulting on whether to open a creche for its members.\n\nFor now, though unlike those women working in factories after the war, the option of taking your child to work is offered at a company's largesse rather than out of compulsion. And it's reserved for a privileged few.", "A woman who wore a prosthetic penis and tricked her blindfolded friend into sex has been jailed.\n\nGayle Newland, 27, of Willaston, Cheshire, created an online persona pretending to be a man and continued the deceit for two years.\n\nA retrial jury found her guilty of committing three sexual assaults, which she denied, using a prosthetic penis without her victim's consent.\n\nShe was jailed at Manchester Crown Court for six-and-a-half years.\n\nSentencing her, Recorder of Manchester, Judge David Stockdale QC, said: \"Truth can sometimes be stranger than fiction.\n\n\"The truth, the whole truth, here is as surprising as it is profoundly disturbing.\"\n\nHe added: \"It is difficult to conceive of a deceit so degrading or so damaging for the victim upon its discovery.\"\n\nNewland was originally jailed for eight years in November 2015 after she was convicted of the same offences, which happened in 2013.\n\nBut the conviction was later quashed on the grounds the trial judge's summing up of the case was not fair and balanced.\n\nNewland created a fake Facebook profile when she was 15 years old\n\nDuring the retrial the victim, who gave evidence behind a curtain, told the court she was persuaded by the defendant to wear a blindfold at all times when they met.\n\nShe said she only found out she was having sex with a woman - rather than a man - when she finally took off her mask.\n\nThe victim told the court she thought she was having sex with Kye Fortune - a fake Facebook profile Newland originally created when she was 15 years old, using an American man's photographs and videos.\n\nShe said: \"There was no point until the day I took the blindfold off that I thought for one second that a woman was the person behind this.\"\n\nNewland denied concealing her gender and claimed both women were gay and struggling with their sexuality when they met and had sex, with her as Kye, during role-play.\n\nThe defendant received concurrent terms of six years for three counts of sexual assault.\n\nShe was jailed for an extra six months for defrauding her former employers - an internet advertising agency - of £9,000 by creating fake client profiles between March 2014 and September 2015.\n\nThe court heard she had held a senior position at the firm, which paid bloggers to post content.\n\nSimon Medland QC, prosecuting, said Newland \"manipulated\" the firm's payments system in which contributors were rewarded with small sums for posting content.\n\nThe retrial jury was not told of the fraud conviction until it returned its verdicts.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mike Ashley said Sports Direct was on course to become the \"Selfridges of sport\"\n\nProfits at Sports Direct have plummeted nearly 60%, which the retailer said was largely due to the weaker pound.\n\nThe slide in sterling means the firm has had to pay more for its imported goods, and its underlying pre-tax profit fell to £113.7m from £275.2m.\n\nHowever, chief executive Mike Ashley said trading at its new \"flagship\" stores was going well.\n\nSports Direct's reputation has been badly hit by revelations about staff conditions at its Derbyshire warehouse.\n\nChairman Keith Hellawell said the company had made \"positive progress\" across the business as it continued to \"strive to ensure that all of our people are treated with dignity and respect\".\n\nA recent survey of workers in Shirebrook, to which 3,300 people responded, had showed that an \"overwhelming majority\" of people in the warehouse \"currently feel they are treated with respect\", he added.\n\nStaff had elected the company's first UK workers' representative and Mr Hellawell said he had \"no doubt\" their \"contribution will prove invaluable to the board as the Sports Direct family continues to move forward together\".\n\nSports Direct, which has been without a chief financial officer since last October, also said it had appointed Jon Kempster to the role. Mr Kempster is set to join the company on 11 September.\n\nMr Ashley said Sports Direct was trying to \"conservatively manage the currency volatility that is reflected in our full year results\".\n\nSports Direct imports many of its products from abroad and the pound's fall against the dollar had led to a \"significant fall in profits\", he added.\n\nHowever, he said the company had now put in place hedging arrangements to \"minimise the short-term impact of currency volatility\".\n\nThe company's key strategy is to turn itself into the \"Selfridges of sport\", and Mr Hellawell said the \"elevation of our retail proposition continues to be a key objective\".\n\nSports Direct said it was forming a \"new strategic partnership\" with sportswear firm Asics.\n\nThe Japanese company will manage dedicated areas within Sports Direct's new upmarket \"premium\" stores.\n\nNeil Wilson, senior market analyst at ETX Capital, said this had been a \"transformational\" year for Sports Direct.\n\nProgress was being made on the new premium stores, he said, and they were \"a lot more profitable than the existing Sports Direct stores\".\n\nThe retailer's shares rose by 6% following the release of the results as investors appeared to welcomed the progress it was making to move upmarket.\n\nIn recent months, Sports Direct has bought 26% stake in Game Digital, increased its stake in Debenhams, acquired lingerie firm Agent Provocateur and snapped up the US sports clothing and outdoor equipment chains Bob's Stores and Eastern Mountain Sports.\n\nThe company's \"spending spree on acquisitions\" had affected profits, Mr Wilson said.\n\n\"That's something to bear in mind when we're looking at these figures and also what that does is it puts Sports Direct in a better position to make a strategic move in, for example, the department store area or in the US with its US acquisitions.\"\n\nIt doesn't look good on paper. But for analysts watching the company this seems like the beginning of the end of a difficult period for Sports Direct.\n\nFinancially, it's now protected against a further drop in the pound. Better late than never.\n\nReputationally, the damage it suffered from its alleged Dickensian treatment of workers is being addressed with a worker on the board of the company.\n\nIt's smartening up its shops and restating its goal to be the \"Selfridges of sport\".\n\nThe monkey isn't quite off its back. Chief executive Mike Ashley is still facing a court case about a £15m pub bet, which is generating colourful headlines.\n\nBut as the chairman ends his statement by saying, Sports Direct has been a big contributor to the UK economy with thousands of jobs and billions in tax.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThirty-two million Americans would lose health coverage under a Republican plan to repeal Obamacare, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has forecast.\n\nThe non-partisan office's analysis found the cost of a medical insurance policy would increase 25% next year and double by 2026.\n\nThe repeal bill would also cut the federal deficit by $473bn (£363bn), predicted the CBO.\n\nThe Republican-controlled Senate has twice failed to pass a healthcare bill.\n\nIts members plan to vote next week on a plan to repeal President Barack Obama's 2010 health law with a two-year delay.\n\nBut the CBO estimates the number of uninsured would rise by 17 million next year alone if the Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare, were to be overturned.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. President Trump has been switching his position what do about the health bill in recent days\n\nPresident Donald Trump earlier called on his party to postpone their summer holiday until they have repealed Obamacare and replaced it with the Republican plan.\n\nMr Trump told 49 Republican senators at the White House: \"We should hammer this out and get it done.\"\n\nIn the past two days he has switched position several times, urging the repeal and replace of Obamacare, just repealing it, allowing it to fail, before reverting to repeal and replace on Wednesday.\n\nMr Trump said: \"For seven years you promised the American people that you would repeal Obamacare.\n\n\"People are hurting. Inaction is not an option. And frankly I don't think we should leave town unless we have a health insurance plan.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. President Trump won big in Kentucky last year but the state also depends heavily on Obamacare\n\nMr Trump warned a senator who was seated next to him that he could lose his job if he did not toe the party line.\n\nA ripple of uncomfortable laughter was heard in the room as the president said of Nevada's Dean Heller: \"And he wants to remain a senator, doesn't he? OK.\"\n\nMr Heller, who was one of the earliest senators to oppose the first version of the Republican health bill, is up for re-election next year.\n\nSenate Republican leader Mitch McConnell has scheduled a vote early next week on a straight-up repeal of Obamacare.\n\nHowever, it looks likely to fail after the defections on Tuesday of at least three of the party's senators.\n\nMr McConnell pointed out it was the same legislation that all but one Republican senator voted to send to President Barack Obama in 2015, safe in the knowledge he would veto it.\n\nBut now the party controls the White House and both chambers of Congress, some rank-and-file Republicans seem wary of enacting legislation that would eliminate medical insurance for millions of Americans.\n\n\"We thankfully have a president in office who will sign it,\" said Mr McConnell, whose reputation as a master tactician has been dented by the imbroglio.\n\n\"So we should send it to him.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Trump's battles with Obamacare - in his own words\n\nWith Democrats united in opposition, Mr McConnell can only lose two votes from his 52-48 majority in the 100-seat Senate to pass the bill.\n\nSenators Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia are opposed to repeal.\n\nOverturning Obamacare was a top campaign pledge for Mr Trump and congressional Republicans, who view the law as a costly intrusion into the healthcare system.\n\nThe party's proposed alternative includes steep cuts to Medicaid, a healthcare programme for the poor and disabled.\n\nIt would also remove Obamacare's individual mandate, which requires all Americans to have health insurance or pay a tax penalty.\n\nAnd there would be a six-month ban on obtaining new medical coverage for anyone who lets their previous policy lapse for more than two months.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Commander in tweets: What we can learn from Trump's Twitter", "After retiring from football, Simpson began an acting career\n\nThe story of Orenthal James - \"OJ\" - Simpson is about a fallen hero. Once a high-profile US football star, he went on to spectacularly make headlines for all the wrong reasons.\n\nAfter convincing a jury of his innocence in a double murder case, he was later convicted in Las Vegas of armed robbery and conspiracy to kidnap.\n\nOn Thursday, a parole board will decide if the 70-year-old star - known to fans as \"The Juice\" - will again walk free.\n\nThe former Hall of Fame running back was given a maximum 33-year prison sentence in 2008 for trying to steal items that he said he thought belonged to him.\n\nBut he could now be released as early as October.\n\nThe incident came 13 years after he was cleared of the murder of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman.\n\nThat famous trial started in 1995 and contained the blockbuster ingredients of money, murder, fame and sex.\n\nThe trial gripped the US, and much of the rest of the world, for an entire year, and dramas and documentaries inspired by the case continues to enthral audiences.\n\nIt was a comprehensive fall from grace for the one-time all-American football hero and Hollywood star.\n\nBefore 1994, Simpson was regarded with affection by the public, well known as a professional athlete, actor and million-dollar spokesman for several US companies.\n\nThings appeared to always work out for \"the Juice\". He had gone from the San Francisco ghetto, where he grew up, to a home in the wealthy boulevards of west Los Angeles via a glittering American football career.\n\nIt all changed when he became the main suspect in his ex-wife's murder. Millions of Americans watched as the police chased his white Bronco car for 90 minutes live on TV. He finally gave himself up outside his LA home.\n\nFans continued to adore him long after his career as a running back ended\n\nThroughout his career OJ had worked hard to rise above race and become an all-American hero.\n\nIn 1969, in an interview with the New York Times, he stated that his biggest accomplishment was that \"people looked at me like a man, not a black man\".\n\nBut years later, in the Las Angeles courtroom, the issue of his colour could not be ignored.\n\nHis lawyer, Johnnie Cochran, was accused of playing the \"race card\" to a largely black jury after suggesting that police had planted evidence in an attempt to frame Simpson because he was a black superstar.\n\nAnd the verdict divided US opinion along racial lines. There was widespread outrage among white Americans after Simpson walked free, but the majority of black Americans supported it.\n\nOJ's police car chase was broadcast across the US\n\n'If the glove doesn't fit, you must acquit', his lawyer argued\n\nThe trial led many to ask the question: Who was the real OJ Simpson?\n\nThere was no denying that he had been very much loved by the public who viewed him as gentle, generous, hard-working and charismatic. He and Nicole Brown, whom he married in 1985, played the perfect, handsome couple.\n\nBut the court case threw up a darker side, with the prosecution's emphasis on Simpson's violent relationship with his ex-wife.\n\nThere was the now-infamous incident of New Year's Day 1989 when police were summoned to their home to find Nicole outside, her eye blackened and her lip bloodied. She fell into an officer's arms, sobbing and screaming: \"He's going to kill me.\"\n\nNicole decided not to press charges, but the city lawyer went ahead and prosecuted OJ for spousal battery. He was fined and given two years' probation.\n\nThe couple remained together for another three volatile years before they divorced.\n\nSimpson was born in 1947. He was a bow-legged child who had rickets, but was able to escape the San Francisco slums by the fact that he was an extremely good runner. He eventually went on to become one of the top running backs in American football history.\n\nHe attended the University of Southern California, where he was named the country's top college football player in 1968. He then moved to Buffalo, New York, where he spent most of his career.\n\nIn 1979, he was forced to retire due to injuries. By then, however, he was making his mark as a Hollywood actor.\n\nBetween 1973 and 1994, he appeared in more than 20 films including The Towering Inferno and the Naked Gun films. He also won some lucrative television advertising deals.\n\nAfter the 1995 trial, things were never the same for Simpson. He was later found liable for the deaths in a civil trial brought by the Brown and Goldman family and ordered to pay them $33.5m in damages.\n\nThis money has not been paid, and OJ has remained out of work because any money earned would have to be handed over to the Brown and Goldman family. He does, however, receive a pension from his sporting career.\n\nHe pursued a relatively quiet life, playing golf and focusing on his four children - two from his first marriage to a childhood sweetheart in the 1960s and two from his marriage to Nicole.\n\nIn 2006 he was back in the spotlight, after a $3.5m (£1.8m) deal he reached with Rupert Murdoch's broadcasting and publishing companies sparked public outrage.\n\nThe deal included the publication of Simpson's ghost-written, \"hypothetical\" account of the murders, If I Did It, as well as an interview for Fox TV.\n\nThe rights were later sold to the Goldman family, who significantly shrank the size of the word \"If\" on the cover, and added the subtitle \"Confessions of the Killer\".\n\nThen in September 2007 came the incident for which he was jailed - an armed raid on the Las Vegas hotel room of two sports memorabilia dealers in a bid to retrieve property he said was his.\n\n\"I didn't mean to hurt anybody and I didn't mean to steal from anybody,\" he told the court. But the judge was unmoved, ordering him to spend at least 15 years in prison.", "Bennington spoke publicly about being abused as a child\n\nThe coroner said Bennington apparently hanged himself. His body was found at a private home in the county at 09:00 local time (17:00 GMT) on Thursday.\n\nBennington was said to be close to Soundgarden vocalist Chris Cornell, who took his own life in May.\n\nFormed in 1996, Linkin Park have sold more than 70 million albums worldwide and won two Grammy Awards.\n\nThe band had a string of hits including Faint, In The End and Crawling, and collaborated with the rapper Jay-Z.\n\nThe album Meteora topped the Billboard 200 chart in 2003 and is regarded as one of the biggest indie rock records of all time.\n\nThe band had been due to begin a tour next week.\n\nFor a generation growing up in the early 2000s, it would have been hard to find someone who didn't own a copy of the band's debut album Hybrid Theory.\n\nIt's sold more than 30 million copies worldwide and remains one of the biggest selling albums released since the start of the millennium.\n\nLinkin Park's successful trick was to fuse elements of metal and rock with rap and hip-hop to shape the nu-metal genre on songs such as Crawling, In The End and Numb.\n\nArguably their biggest asset was Chester's powerhouse voice. He had a huge, raspy vocal which suited their stadium-filling, singalong anthems.\n\nWhilst his vocal persona could be described as angry and harsh, in person he was warm, articulate and funny.\n\nThe band's most recent album, One More Light, saw a different direction as they worked with prolific pop songwriters Julia Michaels and Justin Tranter - and collaborated with UK grime artist Stormzy.\n\nHe leaves a wife, and six children from two marriages.\n\nThe singer is said to have struggled for years with alcohol and drug abuse, and has talked in the past about contemplating suicide as a result of being a victim of abuse as a child.\n\nBennington wrote an open letter to Chris Cornell on the latter's death, saying: \"You have inspired me in ways you could never have known... I can't imagine a world without you in it.\"\n\nCornell would have celebrated his 53rd birthday on Thursday. He hanged himself after a concert in Detroit on 17 May.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Linkin Park announced a new world tour as they were inducted into the RockWalk in Los Angeles\n\nBand member Mike Shinoda confirmed the news of Bennington's death on Twitter: \"Shocked and heartbroken, but it's true. An official statement will come out as soon as we have one.\"\n\nTributes to Bennington flooded in soon after news of his death.\n\nThe band Imagine Dragons tweeted: \"no words, so heartbroken. RIP Chester Bennington.\"\n\nGrime artist Stormzy, who collaborated with Linkin Park earlier this year, tweeted: \"Bruv I can't lie I'm so upset serious.\"\n\nIf you are affected by the topics in this article, the Samaritans can be contacted free on 116 123 (in the UK) or by email on jo@samaritans.org. If you are in the US, contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline on 1-800-273-8255.", "Stars and broadcasters have given their reaction to the BBC releasing details of what it pays its top talent.\n\nRadio 2 host Chris Evans topped the table, in a salary bracket of £2,200,000 - £2,249,999.\n\nHe was followed by Gary Lineker, Graham Norton and Jeremy Vine - in a list that revealed a gender pay gap and a lack of diversity BBC Director General Tony Hall said must be addressed.\n\nOf those, in the top pay brackets, Gary Lineker tweeted he would be looking for his \"tin helmet\" after wishing everyone \"Happy BBC salary day\".\n\nHe quipped his agent and commercial channels were to \"blame\"- possibly for his salary in the region of £1,750,000 - £1,799,999.\n\n\"This whole BBC salary exposure business is an absolute outrage,\" he went on to tweet. \"I mean how can @achrisevans be on more than me?\"\n\nAnother at the top of the list is Radio 4's Today presenter John Humphrys, who admitted his salary of £600,000 was hard to justify.\n\n\"What do I do? On paper, absolutely nothing that justifies that huge amount of money, if you compare me with lots of other people who do visibly.\n\n\"If a doctor saves a child's life, if a nurse comforts a dying person, a fireman rushes into Grenfell Tower, then of course you could argue that compared with that sort of thing I'm not worth tuppence ha'penny. However we operate in a market place.\"\n\nPolitical, documentary and radio host Andrew Marr confirmed he is paid £400,475 a year, describing how that is less than the £600,000 he was \"widely reported\" to be paid a couple of years ago.\n\nThat covered his Sunday morning politics show, radio work, documentaries, obituaries and work on key news events such as elections and referendums, he said.\n\nThe presenter, who suffered a stroke in 2013, added: \"As the BBC moves to deal with highly paid employees, my salary has been coming down.\n\n\"I now earn £139,000 a year less than I did two years ago.\n\n\"In the past I have been offered deals by the BBC's commercial rivals at a higher rate than the corporation would pay.\"\n\nJeremy Vine says he feels \"lucky every day\"\n\nRadio 2 presenter Jeremy Vine was accused on air on Wednesday by a former miner of being \"grossly, grossly overpaid\" along with the other 95 on the talent list.\n\nHarry Jones from Glamorgan told Vine: \"I enjoy your programme and I enjoy you personally but I'd like to ask you a direct question, are you embarrassed to pick up your pay cheque?\"\n\nVine said: \"I just feel very lucky every day, is the answer to that.\"\n\nMr Jones asked: \"Do you think you're overpaid?\" to which Vine replied: \"I don't really want to answer that because I don't think it's the moment for me.\"\n\nRadio 5 live presenter and The Big Questions TV show host Nicky Campbell said simply that he had been on network radio for 30 years this year.\n\n\"Every day I realise what a privilege it is and how lucky I am,\" he tweeted.\n\nAndrew Neil makes the list but co-host Jo Coburn does not\n\nAndrew Neil mentioned his inclusion during Wednesday morning's Daily Politics, hosted with Jo Coburn, who is not on the list.\n\nHe said: \"The BBC has published details of on-screen talent, which you may be surprised to know includes me - as on-screen talent.\"\n\nDiscussing sport, he joked: \"Is Gary Lineker coming on to do this bit? That means the budget will be gone for the year.\"\n\nThe list has provoked debate, not least because two-thirds of those on it are men and there are seven of them ahead of the highest-paid woman, Claudia Winkleman.\n\nShe earns an amount in the £450,000 - £499,999 bracket. Her agent offered \"no comment\" in response to the publication.\n\n\"We'll be discussing #GenderPayGap. As we've done since 1946. Going well, isn't it?\"\n\nSpeaking on BBC News former shadow culture secretary and former Labour leader Harriet Harman said publishing the list meant \"pay discrimination\" at the BBC had been \"laid bare\".\n\nShe described it as \"the old boys' network where they're feathering their own nests and each others' and there is discrimination and unfairness against women\".\n\n\"Although everybody will think it's very unfair and outrageous, this is a moment now, when it can be sorted out,\" she added.\n\nMaria Miller, Basingstoke MP and chair of the Women and Equalities Select Committee questioned how the BBC would handle the disparity between men's and women's pay.\n\n\"If individuals are doing exactly the same job, it is actually against the law to pay them differently,\" she said.\n\n\"It is still incredibly unclear how the BBC is going to avoid getting into some very difficult legal positions with some of the people they employ.\"\n\n\"All #BBCpay numbers are eye-watering,\" tweeted Green Party co-leader Caroline Lucas. \"But to see so many extremely talented women paid less than male 'equivalents' is utterly infuriating.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"We do have further to go\" says James Purnell, BBC Director of Radio and Education\n\nBut BBC Breakfast's Dan Walker took to Twitter to say he earns the same as co-host Louise Minchin for the programme - it is his other BBC commitments in BBC Sport that take his total salary higher.\n\nAnd Radio 1's Scott Mills opened the floodgates to a large lunch bill with his riposte to fellow DJ Chris Stark's request to buy him lunch.\n\nHungry Twitterers piled in to place their order after the £250,000 - £299,999 wage bracket earner generously replied: \"What would you like?\"", "Veteran US Republican Senator John McCain has been diagnosed with brain cancer and is reviewing treatment options, according to his office.\n\nThe options may include chemotherapy and radiation, his doctors said. The 80-year-old politician is in \"good spirits\" recovering at home.\n\nHe thanked those who had wished him well and said he would be back soon.\n\nThe tumour was discovered during a surgery to remove a blood clot from above his left eye last week.\n\nA Vietnam veteran, Mr McCain spent more than five years as a prisoner of war.\n\nThe six-term senator and 2008 Republican presidential candidate underwent surgery at a clinic in Phoenix, in the state of Arizona, last Friday.\n\nTissue analysis revealed that a primary brain tumour known as glioblastoma was associated with the clot, a statement from the Mayo Clinic said.\n\n\"The senator's doctors say he is recovering from his surgery 'amazingly well' and his underlying health is excellent,\" it added.\n\n\"Treatment options may include a combination of chemotherapy and radiation.\"\n\nSenior Republicans and Democrats wished him a speedy recovery, prompting Mr McCain to tweet his thanks, and a warning:\n\n\"I greatly appreciate the outpouring of support - unfortunately for my sparring partners in Congress, I'll be back soon, so stand-by!\"\n\nJohn McCain is known in Washington as a tough, independent-minded senator - a warrior who is now facing another battle against cancer.\n\nHe earned his reputation the hard way, being shot down as a US Navy pilot over Vietnam where he was held as a prisoner of war for more than five years, including two in solitary confinement.\n\nRepeatedly beaten and tortured, Mr McCain was never again able to raise his arms above his head.\n\nDuring the most recent presidential election campaign, Donald Trump belittled the senator as \"not a war hero\" saying \"I like people who weren't captured\".\n\nMr McCain may have annoyed many Republicans by arguing for reforms to campaign finance and immigration laws.\n\nHe may have irritated opponents of America's many wars with his forceful arguments in favour of the projection of US military might.\n\nBut this country reveres its veterans. The attacks on John McCain's personal sacrifice were roundly condemned then - and millions of Americans will be praying for his recovery now.\n\nGlioblastoma is a particularly aggressive brain tumour, and increases in frequency with age, affecting more men than women.\n\nMr McCain, who is the chairman of the Senate Committee on Armed Services, was in \"good spirits as he continues to recover at home with his family\", his office said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'We are in shock': John Kennedy says senators prayed for John McCain\n\nHis family reacted with \"shock\" to the news, his 32-year-old daughter Meghan said.\n\n\"It won't surprise you to learn that in all of this, the one of us who is most confident and calm is my father,\" she said on Twitter.\n\n\"So he is meeting this challenge as he has every other. Cancer may afflict him in many ways: but it will not make him surrender. Nothing ever has.\"\n\nPresident Donald Trump said Mr McCain had \"always been a fighter\" and, in a statement, said: \"Get well soon\".\n\nMeanwhile, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Mr McCain was a \"hero to our country\".\n\n\"He has never shied from a fight, and I know that he will face this challenge with the same extraordinary courage that has characterized his life,\" he said on Twitter.\n\nFormer President Barack Obama tweeted: \"John McCain is an American hero and one of the bravest fighters I've ever known. Cancer doesn't know what it's up against. Give it hell, John.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Canada's Governor General lightly touched the Queen on the elbow as she descended a flight of steps\n\nCanada's Governor General David Johnston says a \"slippy\" carpet is to blame for an apparent breach of royal etiquette with the Queen.\n\nHe was pictured lightly touching the Queen's elbow during an event in London to mark Canada's 150th birthday.\n\nMr Johnston said he was simply concerned about the Queen's safety as she navigated a short flight of stairs.\n\n\"I was just anxious to be sure there was no stumbling on the steps,\" he told the CBC.\n\n\"It's a little bit awkward, that descent from Canada House to Trafalgar Square, and there was carpet that was a little slippy, and so I thought perhaps it was appropriate to breach protocol just to be sure that there was no stumble.\"\n\nThe Queen, 91, was accompanied by Prince Philip as she attended Wednesday's event at Canada's High Commission.\n\nMr Johnston, who is the Queen's representative in Canada, is not the first to make headlines for apparently breaching royal protocol.\n\nEyebrows raised in 2009 when former US First Lady Michelle Obama put her arm around the Queen.\n\nIn 1992, former Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating was called \"the lizard of Oz\" for wrapping his arm around the Queen during a royal tour.\n\nQueen Elizabeth is also not the only member of the royal family to find people getting more friendly than royal etiquette recommends.\n\nAmerican basketball star LeBron James made news in 2014 after placing his arm around the Duchess of Cambridge.\n\nBasketball player LeBron James placing his arm around the Duchess of Cambridge\n\nAnd actor Tom Hiddleston was pictured in 2016 with an arm wrapped around the Duchess of Cornwall.\n\nMr Johnston, 76, will not have another opportunity for any royal missteps.\n\nHe is to leave his position in September and will be replaced in the official role by Canadian astronaut Julie Payette.\n\nThis trip was his final visit to the UK to meet with the Queen.", "Madonna confirmed two years ago that she had had a relationship with Tupac (R)\n\nA US judge has halted an auction of personal items of Madonna, after she said her privacy was violated.\n\nNew York Justice Gerald Lebovits set a full hearing for 6 September, banning auction house Gotta Have Rock and Roll from holding a sale in the meantime.\n\nMadonna's underwear, a chequebook, a hairbrush, photos and a break-up letter from the late rapper Tupac Shakur had been among the scheduled lots.\n\nThe pop superstar said her possessions had been stolen by a former friend.\n\nTupac's letter, in which the rapper suggests he broke up with Madonna because of her race, was expected to fetch as much as $400,000 (£307,000).\n\nThe letter is dated 15 January 1995 and was penned while Tupac was serving a prison sentence for sexual assault, 18 months before he was shot dead. Both artists were then at the height of their fame.\n\nA series of pictures purportedly showing parts of the prison letter written by Tupac to Madonna, released by Gotta Have Rock and Roll\n\nMadonna, 58, confirmed two years ago that the pair had had a relationship, though it is unclear how long it lasted.\n\n\"For you to be seen with a black man wouldn't in any way jeopardise your career, if anything it would make you seem that much more open and exciting,\" Tupac, then 23, wrote from New York's Clinton Correctional Facility.\n\n\"But for me at least in my previous perception I felt due to my 'image' that I would be letting down half of the people who made me what I thought I was.\n\n\"Like you said, I haven't been the kind of friend I know I am capable of being,\" he wrote, adding: \"I never meant to hurt you.\"\n\nIn court documents, Madonna said she had only learned from press reports that the letter from her former boyfriend - and many of the other items - were no longer in her possession.\n\nMany of the lots were presented for sale by New York art dealer Darlene Lutz.\n\nMadonna said Ms Lutz had access to them when she helped the singer pack up a house in Miami.\n\n\"It seems obvious that Defendant Lutz betrayed my trust in an outrageous effort to obtain my possessions without my knowledge or consent,\" Madonna told the court.\n\nA spokesperson for Ms Lutz and the auction house said Madonna and \"her legal army\" had taken a \"completely baseless\" action to temporarily halt the sale, and vowed to challenge the allegations in court.\n\nObjecting to the sale of her hairbrush, Madonna told the judge: \"I understand that my DNA could be extracted from a piece of my hair. It is outrageous and grossly offensive that my DNA could be auctioned for sale to the general public.\"\n\nThe pop singer also sought to block the sale of a frank letter to another former lover, actor John Enos.\n\nWriting in the early 1990s, Madonna said she envied the careers of singer Whitney Houston and actress Sharon Stone, saying they were \"horribly mediocre\" and had profited from her own success.\n\n\"Maybe this is what black people felt like when Elvis Presley got huge,\" she wrote.\n\nSharon Stone wrote in a Facebook post last week that she is friends with Madonna, adding: \"I love and adore you; won't be pitted against you by any invasion of our personal journeys.\"", "Claudia Winkleman and Alex Jones are the BBC's highest paid female stars\n\nThe BBC has revealed two-thirds of its stars earning more than £150,000 are male, with Chris Evans the top-paid on between £2.2m and £2.25m.\n\nClaudia Winkleman was the highest-paid female celebrity, earning between £450,000 and £500,000 last year, its annual report for 2016/2017 says.\n\nThe One Show's Alex Jones was second, earning between £400,000 and £450,000.\n\nBBC director general Tony Hall said there was \"more to do\" on the gender pay gap.\n\nThe top seven earners, in the list of the BBC's 96 best-paid stars, were all male.\n\nIt is the first time the pay of stars earning more than £150,000 has been made public.\n\nThe BBC has been compelled to reveal the information under the terms of its new Royal Charter.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why the gender pay gap could mean problems for the BBC\n\nSpeaking on LBC Radio, Prime Minister Theresa May said: \"We've seen the way the BBC is paying women less for doing the same job... I want women to be paid equally.\"\n\nWhen asked if Evans was worth considerably more than her, she said: \"What's important is that the BBC looks at the question of paying men and women the same for doing the same job.\"\n\nThe total bill for the 96 personalities was £28.7m but the figures in the report reveal large disparities between what men and women are paid.\n\n\"On gender and diversity, the BBC is more diverse than the broadcasting industry and the civil service,\" Lord Hall said.\n\n\"We've made progress, but we recognise there is more to do and we are pushing further and faster than any other broadcaster.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"We do have further to go\" on the gender pay gap says BBC Director of Radio and Education\n\nWhen asked if female stars working at the BBC would now be asking for pay rises, Lord Hall said: \"We will be working carefully on our relationship with our talent.\"\n\nHe also pledged to close the gender pay gap by 2020.\n\nTrade union Equity said in a statement: \"The apparent pay gaps in gender and for those from a black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) background are troubling.\"\n\nWoman's Hour's Jane Garvey tweeted: \"I'm looking forward to presenting @BBCWomansHour today. We'll be discussing #GenderPayGap . As we've done since 1946. Going well, isn't it?\"\n\nOther high profile omissions including the Today programme's Sarah Montague, BBC Breakfast's Louise Minchin and Woman's Hour's Jenni Murray.\n\nRadio 4 Today presenter John Humphrys, acknowledged that his £600,000 salary was hard to justify: \"On paper, absolutely nothing that justifies that huge amount of money, if you compare me with lots of other people who do visibly.\n\n\"If a doctor saves a child's life, if a nurse comforts a dying person, a fireman rushes into Grenfell Tower, then of course you could argue that compared with that sort of thing I'm not worth tuppence ha'penny. However, we operate in a market place.\"\n\nThere is also a gap between the pay for white stars and those from a black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) background.\n\nGeorge Alagiah, Jason Mohammad and Trevor Nelson are the highest paid BAME presenters, each receiving between £250,000 and £300,000.\n\nThe highest-paid female star with a BAME background is BBC news presenter Mishal Husain, who earned between £200,000 and £250,000.\n\nThe annual report does not include stars who receive their pay through BBC Worldwide, the corporation's commercial arm.\n\nThe figures quoted only refer to the amount of licence fee money each person receives and do not include their earnings from other broadcasters or commercial activities. They also exclude stars paid through independent production companies.\n\nThat means some big name stars - such as David Attenborough, Benedict Cumberbatch and Matt LeBlanc - do not appear on the list.\n\nThe list also does not distinguish between people who are paid for doing multiple jobs within the BBC and those who are just paid for one. Talent pay is considerably higher in the commercial sector.\n\nAs he left the BBC after his Radio 2 breakfast show on Wednesday, Chris Evans said it was right \"on balance\" that star salaries were being disclosed.\n\n\"We are the ultimate public company I think, and therefore it's probably right and proper people know what we get paid,\" he told reporters.\n\nDuring a briefing on the annual report on Wednesday morning, Lord Hall said: \"Chris Evans is presenting the most popular show on the most popular radio network in Europe.\n\n\"The BBC does not exist in a market on its own where it can set the market rates.\n\n\"If we are to give the public what they want, then we have to pay for those great presenters and stars.\"\n\nAside from Strictly, Winkleman's other BBC roles include presenting The Great British Sewing Bee and her Radio 2 Sunday night show. Her agent said she would be making no comment.\n\nCasualty stars Derek Thompson and Amanda Mealing are the BBC's best-paid actors\n\nCasualty star Derek Thompson was the BBC's highest paid actor, receiving between £350,000 and £400,000 over the last financial year.\n\nAmanda Mealing, who also stars in Casualty as well as Holby City, was the highest paid actress, receiving between £250,000 and £300,000.\n\nClare Balding earned between £150,000 and £200,000 for her work on sports shows including Wimbledon Today and the Rio Olympics.\n\nThe overall spend on talent was £193.5m - down on the £200m spent in 2015/2016.\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. Derek Ironside describes how a group of masked man attacked Aberdeen fans outside a pub\n\nTwo Aberdeen fans have been treated for injuries after supporters were attacked in Bosnia ahead of the club's Europa League game against Siroki Brijeg.\n\nAbout 50 supporters were subjected to an unprovoked attack outside the Black Dog Pub in Mostar on Wednesday.\n\nA group of about a dozen masked men set off flares and attacked the Aberdeen fans with baseball bats and metal bars.\n\nThe attackers are understood to have been linked to a rival Bosnian club rather than Siroki Brijeg.\n\nIn a statement posted on its website, Siroki Brijeg said it \"strongly condemned the hooligan attack\".\n\nThe club, which is based in the town of the same name about 12 miles from Mostar, said it had set up a fan zone ahead of Thursday evening's match, and guaranteed there would be \"maximum security\" for the Aberdeen fans.\n\nSiroki Brijeg also thanked Aberdeen and its supporters for the \"extraordinary welcome\" they had received in Scotland during last week's first leg, which ended in a 1-1 draw.\n\nAbout 200 Aberdeen supporters were expected to attend the second-leg tie in Bosnia.\n\nSiroki Brijeg were recently ordered to play three matches behind closed doors by the country's football association after the club's fans chanted fascist slogans during a match with Sarajevo in May.\n\nAberdeen-based journalist Derek Ironside, who was at the pub in the old town area of Mostar, told BBC Scotland that the atmosphere had been \"very good natured, with not a hint of trouble or hassle at all\".\n\nHe added: \"Everybody was just enjoying themselves, it was a good atmosphere, very relaxed.\n\n\"Then all of a sudden down this small, narrow lane came a group of about 12 masked guys with flares. They started throwing the flares towards the Aberdeen fans, and I think they had weapons as well.\"\n\nMr Ironside said he believed one Aberdeen fan \"looked quite badly injured\" and had been taken to hospital.\n\nAberdeen Evening Express journalist Sean Wallace was also among those caught up in the violence.\n\nHe wrote on Twitter: \"Sore head after being bottled by masked Bosnian hooligans in Mostar. Also cuts to legs after being hit by flare in Mostar. Sore but ok.\"\n\nIn a statement on its Facebook page, the Black Dog Pub offered its \"sincere apologies\" to the Aberdeen fans.\n\nIt said: \"This was a football rivalry-related incident and is not normal in the old city of Mostar.\n\n\"The police are involved and people have been identified. If anyone has any more info please pass it forward.\n\n\"Because of this incident, we are asking the good people of Mostar to please come around the old city this weekend and show your support that Mostar is a safe place for tourists and everyone.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Is a culture of highly selective universities getting in the way of social mobility?\n\nThe long-running battle over grammar schools - put back into the deep freeze after the general election result - saw deep-rooted divisions over the impact of dividing pupils by academic ability.\n\nOpponents argued that academic selection really became social selection - and that what appeared to be selection by ability became a filter shaped by social background.\n\nBut when it comes to university, it seems that such attitudes are turned on their head.\n\nIt's not even even really questioned that higher education should operate on an entry system specifically outlawed in secondary education.\n\nSo why shouldn't there be comprehensive universities?\n\nThat's the argument put by Tim Blackman, vice-chancellor of Middlesex University, in what Nick Hillman, the influential director of the Higher Education Policy Institute, said was one of the \"most thought-provoking papers ever published on UK higher education\".\n\nProf Blackman's contention is that the university system, with its obsession with hierarchies and rankings, has become a barrier to meritocracy.\n\nInstead of driving social mobility, he says, the university system has become a mirror to existing inequalities and is amplifying social segregation.\n\nAt the top are the highest ranking powerhouse universities, Oxford and Cambridge and the leading London institutions, followed by the rest of the Russell Group universities and then down through the ranks of red-bricks, 1960s campuses, middling institutions and then on to the \"new universities\" that were often former polytechnics.\n\nThis is also a system without any real relegation or promotion on merit - as a university group such as the Russell Group can choose who is or isn't a member.\n\nShould brighter students be spread more widely throughout the system?\n\nProf Blackman sees this not as an academic ladder, but a stratified class system.\n\nEven if more young people from disadvantaged families are going to university, there is still a strong pattern of better-off teenagers getting into the highest ranked universities.\n\nHe talks of \"hyper-selection\" at the top of the table, in the scramble for places at the most sought after institutions.\n\nAnd this creates a system in which a \"good\" university is likely to be synonymous with being the most selective.\n\nThis, says Prof Blackman, is the opposite of what the country needs from a higher education system.\n\nIf the UK is blighted with low productivity and a skills gap, he says, what is needed are universities that are strong across the whole range of institutions.\n\nThe brightest students should be spread across the system, rather than being clustered in a small number of universities crammed with other similar youngsters.\n\nAnd he proposes the benefits of a comprehensive university, with a mixed ability intake, making the most of the talent of those who attend - rather than concentrating the prestige, funding and brightest students in a few institutions, to the detriment of the majority.\n\nThe analogy used is that a \"good\" hospital would be one that got the best outcomes for its patients, not the one that started out with the healthiest intake.\n\nBut even with this radical thinking, Prof Blackman still suggests that there would be an economic argument for a handful of elite institutions - \"strategically important world-class research universities\".\n\nAnd it remains easier to identify the flaws in the current system than to propose a practical way of changing it.\n\nWhat should be the purpose of a modern university?\n\nProf Blackman suggests that the funding system should be shaped to reward universities that create a social mix of students.\n\nBut, he says, the current arrangements of high and low status institutions are \"based on snobbery and discrimination rather than evidence\".\n\nThe concept of a non-selective university might seem strange.\n\nIt seems to go against the grain of the idea that university is the summit of a journey after getting over a series of tough exams.\n\nBut Prof Blackman says the higher education system needs to borrow from the comprehensive principle if it is going to make a difference to social equality and to address the needs of an economy demanding more highly skilled staff.\n\n\"The root of these problems is academic selection, which has created a sector based on social class advantages,\" he says.\n\nThe government has tried to shake up the old order in universities somewhat, grading the quality of teaching, in a way that has put some top institutions at the back of the queue.\n\nUniversities Minister Jo Johnson said: \"Social mobility should be at the heart of our higher education system. This is becoming the case, with more students from disadvantaged backgrounds going to and staying at university than ever before.\n\n\"But we know there is more work to do. Soon, all providers - including the most selective - will be required to publish application, drop-out and attainment data by gender, ethnicity and socio-economic background.\n\n\"The Teaching Excellence Framework is also refocusing the sector's attention on teaching - putting in place incentives that will raise standards and encourage providers to ensure they are supporting students throughout their studies.\"", "Six million men and women will have to wait a year longer than they expected to get their state pension, the government has announced.\n\nThe rise in the pension age to 68 will now be phased in between 2037 and 2039, rather than from 2044 as was originally proposed.\n\nThose affected are currently between the ages of 39 and 47.\n\nThe announcement was made in the Commons by the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, David Gauke.\n\nHe said the government had decided to accept the recommendations of the Cridland report, which proposed the change.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The change was announced by Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, David Gauke\n\n\"As life expectancy continues to rise and the number of people in receipt of state pension increases, we need to ensure that we have a fair and sustainable system that is reflective of modern life and protected for future generations,\" he told MPs.\n\nAnyone younger than 39 will have to wait for future announcements to learn what their precise pension age will be.\n\nThe change will affect those born between 6 April 1970 and 5 April 1978.\n\nThe government said the new rules would save the taxpayer £74bn by 2045/46. While it had been due to spend 6.5% of GDP on the state pension by 2039/40, this change will reduce that figure to 6.1% of GDP.\n\nLabour said the move was \"astonishing\", given recent reports suggesting increases in life expectancy were beginning to stall, and long-standing health inequalities between different income groups and regions in retirement.\n\nShadow work and pensions secretary Debbie Abrahams told MPs that many men and women were beginning to suffer ill health in the early 60s, well before they were entitled to their state pension.\n\n\"Most pensioners will now spend their retirement battling a toxic cocktail of ill-health,\" she said.\n\n\"The government talks about making Britain fairer but their pensions policy, whether it is the injustice that 1950s-born women are facing, or today's proposals, is anything but fair.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Shadow work and pensions secretary Debbie Abrahams says the pension change is \"anything but fair\"\n\n\"In large parts of the country, the state pension age will be higher than healthy life expectancy,\" she said.\n\n\"And low-paid workers at risk of insecurity in their working lives will now face greater insecurity in old age too.\n\n\"Rather than hiking the pension age, the government must do more for older workers who want to keep working and paying taxes.\"\n\nAge UK was also critical of the change.\n\n\"In bringing forward a rise in the state pension age by seven years, the government is picking the pockets of everyone in their late forties and younger, despite there being no objective case in Age UK's view to support it at this point in time,\" said Caroline Abrahams, charity director at Age UK.\n\n\"Indeed, it is astonishing that this is being announced the day after new authoritative research suggested that the long term improvement in life expectancy is stalling.\"\n\nThe government has also committed to regular reviews of the state pension age in the years ahead.\n\nThat raises the prospect of further rises. Indeed a report by the government's actuary department in March suggested that workers now under the age of 30 may have to wait until 70 before they qualify for a state pension.\n\nTom McPhail, head of policy at Hargreaves Lansdown, said the government would need to do more to encourage saving, particularly amongst younger people.\n\n\"For anyone yet to reach age 47, there is still time to adjust their retirement plans by looking to contribute more,\" he said.\n\n\"We feel it is important the government meets them halfway; we need a national savings strategy to help people save and invest for their future. A good starting point would be for the government to look at a savings commission.\"\n\nThe SNP said it remained opposed to raising the pension age beyond 66 and reiterated its call for an independent pensions commission to be set up to look at \"demographic differences across the UK\".\n\nIn response, Mr Gauke said the Scottish government would have the power to provide extra financial help for those approaching retirement if they so chose.\n\n\"This announcement will be a blow to many people. It is absolutely crucial that everyone - no matter what their age - seeks pensions advice from a reputable organisation and really understands their options and how those options fit in with their own retirement expectations.\n\n\"I know young people don't think this really impacts them as it is such a long way off, but they are the ones who will be impacted by state pension ages and support in the longer term more than any of us,\" said Carl Robertson, from Smart Pension.", "The forced migration of UK children overseas was a bigger sex abuse scandal than that of Jimmy Savile, ex-prime minister Gordon Brown has said.\n\nMr Brown told the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse that the 2,000 surviving British child migrants who suffered abuse should be compensated.\n\nHe said the mass transportation of 130,000 British children overseas was \"government-enforced trafficking\".\n\nAcross 50 years, the children were sent to ex-colonies such as Australia.\n\nThe transportation programme began in the 1920s, partly to ease the population of the UK's orphanages in the years after the First World War, and to give \"lost\" children the chance of a new life in Britain's colonies.\n\nBut children continued to be be sent abroad until 1974.\n\nThe Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse in England and Wales has already heard that many child migrants experienced \"unacceptable depravity\", with some having been sent abroad without the consent of parents and wrongly told they were orphans.\n\nIn 2009, the Australian government apologised for the cruelty shown to the child migrants and in 2010 Mr Brown, in his role as UK prime minister, issued an apology to victims on behalf of the UK.\n\nThe experiences of the children sent away from the UK are being looked at as part of the first phase of the wide-ranging inquiry into child abuse.\n\nMr Brown told the inquiry that the forced migration of British children was \"probably the biggest national sex abuse scandal\".\n\n\"Bigger than what people have alleged about Savile,\" he said.\n\n\"Bigger than what people have alleged about individual children's homes.\n\n\"Bigger in scale, bigger in geographical spread, and bigger in the length of time that went on undetected.\n\n\"I'm shocked about the information that I have seen.\"\n\nMr Brown said a government minister should explain to the inquiry why nothing has been done over \"sickening\" new evidence of abuse which has come to light since his 2010 apology.\n\nHe said he had become aware of so many historical cases he described as \"grave, horrifying and sickening\" and said there had been a \"violation of human rights\".\n\n\"Children were denied a childhood, an identity, a family and any sense of belonging,\" he said.\n\n\"Many, some as young as three - and this was happening as recently as the 1970s - were sent abroad having been falsely told their parents were dead.\"\n\nHe said successive governments had failed in a duty of care.\n\n\"Because we failed in our duty of care it is now time to compensate the 2,000 child migrants still alive,\" he said.\n\nMr Brown added: \"My apology seven years ago was for the gross inhumane violation of rights by forcibly removing children, depriving them of identity, family and any sense of belonging.\n\n\"An unknown but clearly large number of these children were subjected to horrific assaults sometimes before, sometimes during but in the main after they left the UK.\n\n\"Because successive governments failed in what I call their duty of care, these 2,000 surviving migrants all need and deserve redress.\"\n\nMr Brown told the inquiry that 1,000 families had been reunited since 2010.\n\nAnother former prime minister, Sir John Major, did not appear in person but provided a written statement to the inquiry which said his government took the approach that mistreatment of British children sent abroad was primarily a matter for the country concerned.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFormer US football star and actor OJ Simpson has told a parole board \"I've done my time,\" as he asked for release after nine years in a Nevada prison.\n\nSimpson, who was acquitted of a double murder in 1995, is serving time for armed robbery, assault with a deadly weapon and 10 other charges.\n\nThe sentence, which carries a maximum of 33 years, stems from a 2007 confrontation at a Las Vegas hotel.\n\nSimpson, 70, had said he was only trying to reclaim his possessions.\n\nThe former Hall of Fame running back was found guilty in 2008 - exactly 13 years to the day after he was famously acquitted for the killings of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman.\n\nHe and a group of five others stormed into a hotel room to confront two sports-memorabilia collectors to seize items that he claimed belonged to him from his own career.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"If he is denied parole... it will be part of the continuing payback... since his acquittal in 1995,\" says Jeffrey Toobin\n\nThe hearing for Prisoner 1027820 is happening at the Lovelock Correctional Facility, a medium security prison in the Nevada desert.\n\n\"Mr Simpson, you are getting the same hearing that everyone else gets,\" a parole panellist, Connie Bisbee, told him as Thursday's hearing began.\n\n\"Sure,\" he replied in a husky voice with a shrug and a smile. \"Thank you, ma'am.\"\n\nSimpson told parole officials that the objects he took from the Las Vegas hotel room were later ruled by officials to legally belong to him.\n\nOne panellist asked: \"So you believe that the property was yours?\"\n\n\"It's been ruled legally by the state of California,\" Simpson responded in a raised voice, leaning forward.\n\nHe said the belongings, which he described as images of his family and friends, were later handed over to him by officials.\n\n\"It's kind of mind-boggling that they turned over to me property that I'm in jail for, for trying to retrieve.\"\n\nBruce Fromong, who was one of Simpson's victims in the robbery, testified in favour of his release.\n\n\"I've known OJ for a long time,\" said Mr Fromong. \"I don't feel that he's a threat to anyone.\n\n\"He's a good man. It's time to give him a second chance. It's time for him to go home to his family, his friends.\"\n\nIf four out of seven members of the parole board vote in favour of his release, Simpson could be free by October.\n\nExperts believe he is likely to be approved for release, after a record of good behaviour at the Lovelock prison.\n\nAnother panellist asked him if he had completed a specific self-improvement course since his last parole hearing.\n\nHe said he had not, but that he had taken another course called \"alternative to violence\".\n\nSimpson rejected the suggestion that he had an alcohol problem during the hearing\n\n\"I think it's the most important course anybody in this prison can take because it teaches you how to deal with conflict through conversation,\" he said.\n\n\"I've spent a conflict-free life,\" he continued, when asked if he had completed an anti-violence course.\n\nSimpson also told the commissioners he had helped establish a Baptist prayer event, adding: \"I could have been a better Christian.\"\n\nThe prisoner also rejected the suggestion that he had an alcohol problem.\n\n\"I've done my time,\" he said. \"I've done it as well and as respectfully as anybody can. I think if you talk to the wardens they'll tell you.\n\n\"I've not complained for nine years. All I've done is try to be helpful… and that's the life I've tried to live because I want to get back to my kids and family.\"\n\nIn 2013 the Nevada Board of Parole Commissioners granted him parole on some of his convictions, but for not the more violent charges.\n\nThe prisoner's daughter, Arnelle Simpson, choked up as she told the parole board: \"My experience with him is that he's like my best friend and my rock.\n\n\"As a family we recognise that he is not the perfect man, but he's clearly a man and a father who's done his best to behave in a way that speaks to his overall nature and character, which is always to be positive, no matter what.\"\n\nShe added: \"He is remorseful, he truly is remorseful.\"\n\nThe board, which normally takes days to make a decision, went behind closed doors to deliberate and said it would announce its ruling shortly.", "The BBC's most highly paid male presenters could be asked to accept lower wages as the corporation tries to close the gender pay gap.\n\nThe BBC has defended high salaries which were revealed in its annual report on Wednesday.\n\nThe corporation has pledged to achieve equality between men and women on air by 2020.\n\nBBC director of radio and education James Purnell said pay cuts were part of the solution.\n\nHe told the BBC's Newsnight programme: \"Quite a lot of men have been taking pay cuts; John Humphrys said that today on air.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC executive James Purnell says \"quite a lot of men\" have taken pay cuts already\n\nAsked if he expected more male, on-air talent to take a pay cut, he responded: \"I'm not going to start negotiating live on air, but that's clearly one of the levers we can pull, and we have been doing that.\"\n\nCulture Secretary Karen Bradley said stars should be conscious \"how this looks in public\", while Labour MP Harriet Harman said there was \"clearly discrimination\" at the BBC.\n\nBBC director general Tony Hall has said there is \"more to do\" on the gender pay gap.\n\nThe top seven earners, in the list of the BBC's 96 best-paid stars, were all male.\n\nIt is the first time the pay of stars earning more than £150,000 has been made public.\n\nThe BBC was compelled to make public the information under the terms of its new Royal Charter.\n\nRadio 2 DJ Chris Evans was the top-paid star on between £2.2m and £2.25m, the BBC's 2016-17 annual report revealed.\n\nStrictly Come Dancing host Claudia Winkleman was the highest-paid female, earning between £450,000 and £500,000.\n\nThe One Show's Alex Jones was second, earning between £400,000 and £450,000.\n\nAnne Mcelvoy, senior editor at the Economist, told BBC's Today programme that the disclosures would force the BBC to look at the differentials between men and women.\n\nShe rejected the suggestion that the list merely reflected a patchwork of different negotiations with different agents, saying there was a \"very clear pattern\" that had persisted for a long time that showed the BBC had failed to help women get on.\n\nPeter Fincham, a former controller of BBC One, said the BBC had been wrong to try to resist transparency around \"talent\" pay, and Wednesday's disclosures would mean there would now be restraint in pulling out the cheque book for talent.\n\nTrade union Equity said in a statement: \"The apparent pay gaps in gender and for those from a black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) background are troubling.\"\n\nGeorge Alagiah, Jason Mohammad and Trevor Nelson are the highest paid BAME presenters, each receiving between £250,000 and £300,000.\n\nThe highest-paid female star with a BAME background is news presenter Mishal Husain, who earned between £200,000 and £250,000.\n\nThe figures quoted only refer to the amount of licence fee money each person receives and do not include their earnings from other broadcasters or commercial activities.\n\nThe annual report does not include stars who receive their pay through BBC Worldwide, the corporation's commercial arm.\n\nThe figures also exclude stars paid through independent production companies.", "The BBC has, for the first time, published salaries of its highest-paid stars - with all those earning £150,000 or more included.\n\nThe salaries are grouped into £50,000 blocks and are for the financial year 2016-17, where they came directly from the licence fee. They do not include each individual's earnings from other broadcasters or commercial activities. Here, we round up the top earners and what they do.\n\nThe nation's most listened-to radio station, Radio 2, has the highest BBC earner among its presenters - Chris Evans.\n\nGraham Norton, Jeremy Vine and Steve Wright are also among the top seven highest-paid stars.\n\nThe top earner on the list, Chris Evans has hosted Radio 2's Breakfast Show every weekday morning since 2010. He also co-presented one series of TV show Top Gear.\n\nHost of a Saturday morning show on Radio 2, Norton co-presented BBC One's Saturday evening talent show Let It Shine, and also commentates on the Eurovision Song Contest. His earnings do not include those from his Friday night chat show, for which the BBC pays an independent production company, which in turn pays his salary.\n\nJeremy Vine hosts the lunchtime show on Radio 2 every weekday. He also presents Crimewatch, Points of View, and Eggheads on BBC TV.\n\nA long-standing BBC DJ, Steve Wright presents Radio 2 weekday show Steve Wright in the Afternoon and Steve Wright's Sunday Love Songs on Sunday mornings.\n\nSimon Mayo has presented Simon Mayo Drivetime on weekday afternoons since 2010. He is also the co-host of Kermode and Mayo's Film Review on Radio 5 live on Friday afternoons.\n\nVanessa Feltz presents an early morning show on Radio 2 and the BBC London Breakfast Show every weekday.\n\nA co-host of Radio 5 live's Breakfast Show on weekday mornings, Campbell also presents BBC One's Sunday morning programme The Big Questions.\n\nStephen Nolan presents The Nolan Show on BBC Radio Ulster and presents a programme on BBC Radio 5 live several nights a week. He also hosts Question Time: Extra Time on 5 Live and Nolan Live on BBC One Northern Ireland.\n\nNick Grimshaw has presented the Radio 1 Breakfast Show since 2012.\n\nFormer England striker Gary Lineker presents the BBC's flagship football highlights programme Match of the Day on Saturday nights. He is also one of the hosts for the annual Sports Personality of the Year awards night.\n\nJohn Humphrys has presented Radio 4's Today programme since 1987. He also has been the quizmaster of BBC Two's Mastermind since 2003.\n\nToday presenters (left to right) Mishal Husain, Nick Robinson and Justin Webb\n\nFellow presenter Sarah Montague is not on the list.\n\nDerek Thompson is the highest-paid actor on the list. He has played Charlie Fairhead in hospital drama Casualty since the series started in 1986.\n\nAmanda Mealing plays Connie Beauchamp in Casualty, having previously played the character in the BBC's other hospital drama Holby City.\n\nClaudia Winkleman has co-hosted Strictly Come Dancing, with Tess Daly, since 2014 and also presents a Sunday night show on Radio 2. She presented BBC One's Film programme from 2010 to 2016, though she left the programme before the start of the 2016-17 financial 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.", "Two of the largest dark web marketplaces have been shut down following a \"landmark\" international law enforcement investigation.\n\nThe AlphaBay and Hansa sites had been associated with the trade in illicit items such as drugs, weapons, malware and stolen data.\n\nAccording to Europol, there were more than 250,000 listings for illegal drugs and toxic chemicals on AlphaBay.\n\nHansa was seized and covertly monitored for a month before being deactivated.\n\nThe agency said it believed the bust would lead to hundreds of new investigations in Europe.\n\n\"The capability of drug traffickers and other serious criminals around the world has taken a serious hit today,\" said Europol's executive director Rob Wainwright.\n\nIt was a \"landmark\" operation, according to US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) acting director Andrew McCabe.\n\nAlphaBay has been offline since early July, fuelling suspicions among users that a law enforcement crackdown had taken place.\n\n\"We know of several Americans who were killed by drugs on AlphaBay,\" said US Attorney General Jeff Sessions.\n\n\"One victim was just 18 years old when in February she overdosed on a powerful synthetic opioid which she had bought on AlphaBay.\"\n\nHe also said a 13-year-old boy died after overdosing on a synthetic opioid bought by a high school classmate via the site.\n\nMr Sessions cautioned criminals from thinking that they could evade prosecution by using the dark web: \"You cannot hide,\" he said, \"We will find you.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeff Sessions highlighted the significant quantities of illegal drugs traded via the dark web\n\nThe US Department of Justice (DoJ) said that illegal drugs listed for sale on AlphaBay included heroin and fentanyl.\n\nIt added in a court filing that $450m (£347m) was spent via the marketplace between May 2015 and February 2017.\n\nInvestigations were led by the FBI, the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) and the Dutch National Police.\n\nPolice in other countries, including the UK, France and Lithuania, also contributed.\n\nThe Dutch National Police took over the Hansa marketplace on 20 June after two men in Germany were arrested and servers in Germany, The Netherlands and Lithuania were seized.\n\nThis allowed for \"the covert monitoring of criminal activities on the platform\" until it was eventually shut down a month later.\n\nEver since AlphaBay went offline earlier in July, users of the site had discussed potential alternative dark web marketplaces on online forums.\n\nHansa was frequently mentioned, meaning that the authorities were likely able to uncover new criminal activity on Hansa as users migrated to it from AlphaBay.\n\n\"We recorded an eight times increase in the number of human users on Hansa immediately following the takedown of AlphaBay,\" said Mr Wainwright.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Technology explained: What is the dark web?\n\nThe significance of today's announcement will only truly be known over the coming year or more as authorities follow up the \"many new leads\" they said had been found as a result of infiltrating and shutting down these two enormous networks.\n\nWhile the sites' closure is a massive boost, the DoJ and Europol both readily acknowledge that new services will simply pop up to replace them. After all, the closure of previous dark web marketplace Silk Road in 2013 was eventually followed with AlphaBay - bigger, more lucrative and, by the looks of it, more dangerous.\n\nWhat authorities really want to do is start putting significant numbers of people behind bars.\n\nThis huge coordinated action has only resulted in a handful of arrests - and one key suspect apparently took his own life seven days after being brought into custody.\n\nIt's clear such big services require a large, intricate network of criminals - and that's what authorities are targeting.\n\nAn alleged administrator of AlphaBay, 26-year-old Canadian Alexandre Cazes, was arrested in Thailand on 5 July following a joint operation between US, Canadian and Thai authorities.\n\nPolice also seized millions of dollars in assets, three properties and four Lamborghini cars.\n\nBut Cazes was later found dead in a Bangkok jail cell.\n\nThe DoJ said that he apparently took his own life.\n\nA previous dark web marketplace, Silk Road, was shut down by the FBI in 2013 and a successor - Silk Road 2.0 - was deactivated the following year.\n\nHowever, in its press release today the DoJ said that AlphaBay had more than 350,000 listings for illicit items of various kinds - Silk Road only had 14,000 when it was seized in 2013.", "A Canadian pensioner built a set of stairs at his local park for just C$550 when the city estimated it would cost at least C$65,000 ($51,500, £40,000).\n\nBut instead of a thank you, Toronto has blocked off access to the steps and asked Adi Astl, 73, to take them down.\n\nBefore the stairs were installed, Mr Astl said a few people had fallen down the steep muddy embankment to the park.\n\nMr Astl said he took matters into his own hands after his local councillor told him about the city's price tag.\n\n\"To me, the safety of people is more important than money,\" Mr Astl told CTV News. \"So if the city is not willing to do it, I have to do it myself.\"\n\nHe said the whole project took him and his neighbours about 14 hours.\n\nMr Astl's councillor, Justin Di Ciano, said the official estimate, which the city said could go from $65,000 to $150,000, was outlandish.\n\n\"With $150,000 you can put up half a house,\" Mr Di Ciano told GlobalNews.\n\nThe muddy embankment before the stairs were built\n\nToronto Mayor John Tory agreed the price estimate was overblown, but said it just won't do for private citizens to \"go out to Home Depot and build a staircase in a park because that is what they would like to have\".\n\nCity staff say they are re-assessing the estimate, which was based on a staircase built at another park.\n\nResident Dana Beamon told CTV News she is thankful for Mr Astl's staircase.\n\n\"We have far too much bureaucracy,\" she said.\n\n\"We do not have enough self-initiative in our city, so I am impressed.\"", "The ship spotters of Istanbul have become a key resource for diplomats and intelligence experts, alerting the world to the scale of Russia's campaign in Syria.\n\nIt's almost midnight. I've just got to sleep at the end of a long day travelling to Istanbul, when my phone beeps with a message.\n\n\"Very inconvenient. There is absolutely no guarantee we will see anything at all.\"\n\nThe Alexander Tkachenko is a massive Russian roll-on roll-off passenger ferry that has passed through the Bosphorus several times before, carrying military trucks and other equipment bound for Syria on an open deck.\n\nThe boat may not have visible cargo this time. And in any case, 4.20am is well before dawn at this time of year in Turkey. It will still be dark. But that won't stop Yoruk Isik, who sent the message, from getting up to position himself at a good vantage point on the banks of the Bosphorus Straits in the heart of Istanbul with his binoculars and zoom lens camera.\n\nHe'll be ready to tweet the news of the ship's passage to his many avid followers, who now include diplomats and intelligence analysts worldwide.\n\nAnd he's inviting me to come with him, though he adds: \"I will feel very guilty if there is nothing on board.\"\n\nOf course, I get up too. That's what I've come for.\n\nOn the Black Sea: The Voyage Begins is available to listen to and download on the BBC iPlayer. The second part in the series will be broadcast on the BBC World Service on Wed 26 Jul 2017 at 03:32 BST.\n\nWelcome to the wacky - but politically, increasingly important - world of ship-spotting.\n\nIt's an international, highly collaborative, fraternity - yes, they're mainly (though not all) men - and Isik is one of its most passionate, energetic members.\n\nHe's a big man in every sense of the word - bear-like, generous and funny.\n\nYoruk Isik (right) with fellow ship spotter Devrim Yaylali, on a Bosphorus ferry\n\nAnd he keeps himself going on strong coffee - the third love of his life, after his wife and ships - because he doesn't get much sleep.\n\n\"Many times I get up at two, three or four o'clock in the morning to see things,\" he says. \"Yes, it's very painful. I destroy many days like this.\" And he laughs.\n\nIt's easy to understand how his addiction started. Partly it comes from living in Istanbul.\n\nThe Bosphorus - the gateway to the Black Sea for ships coming from the Mediterranean - isn't the only waterway in the world that's crowded with international shipping, but no other shipping lane as busy as this runs through the heart of a huge city.\n\nSo Istanbul's 15 million residents can watch massive warships and cruise ships, container vessels and tankers passing before their eyes.\n\nOnly 700m wide at its narrowest point, the Bosphorus is so busy that to avoid accidents, the Turkish authorities operate a one-way system, regularly changing the direction of travel according to demand. Ships going the other way must wait at the northern or southern entrance.\n\nIsik has his favourite vantage points for spotting - most of them at one of the Strait's many bends. But often he just watches from his own balcony.\n\n\"This ship spotting is a mirror of international relations, politics, what is happening now,\" he says.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Yoruk Isik explains how warships became his obsession\n\n\"The trade wars between Russia and Turkey, the US presence in the Black Sea supporting its Nato allies, or Russia trying to reinsert itself in the Middle East - it is all happening in the middle of this town!\"\n\nIsik - who earns a living as an international affairs consultant - logs the passage of boats of all kinds.\n\nOne he lay in wait for recently at a waterside cafe was the largest construction vessel in the world, the Pioneering Spirit, the length of six jumbo jets, passing through the Bosphorus on its way to lay the TurkStream gas pipeline off the Russian coast.\n\nIt's so big that the strait had to be closed to other shipping as it went through.\n\nBut it's warships that most fascinate Isik and his ship-spotting friend Devrim Yaylali, who edits the Bosphorus Naval News website.\n\nYaylali, an economist, has been watching ships for even longer than Isik - since he commuted across the Bosphorus to school in his early teens, during the Cold War.\n\nHe was so curious about Soviet ships that one day he even skipped a school exam to photograph the aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov, now the flagship of the Russian navy, on its inaugural passage through Istanbul.\n\nToday Isik and Yaylali are kept busier and busier - naval traffic through the Bosphorus has increased since Russia annexed Ukraine's Crimean peninsula, on the northern side of the Black Sea, in 2014.\n\nThe Kremlin has been strengthening its military defences in Crimea - and modernising its Black Sea fleet based in the Crimean port of Sevastopol.\n\n\"Russia has already bought three brand new Kilo Class submarines - and a fourth is about to come,\" Isik says.\n\n\"That shows their interest in asserting influence over the Black Sea.\"\n\nOn the deck of the Filchenkov, someone wanted a shot of Yoruk Isik too\n\nBut Nato has said it will bolster its naval presence in the region in response.\n\nIn April, Isik spotted the UK destroyer HMS Daring passing through Istanbul - a rare Royal Navy operational deployment to the Black Sea.\n\n\"The current situation is more scary than the Cold War to me,\" he says. \"There is the possibility, if not of more hot military action, certainly of more military face-offs.\"\n\nBut for now the greatest danger of a face-off is over Syria - and since the start of Russia's involvement in the war there nearly two years ago, Isik and his fellow Istanbul ship-spotters have played a key role in alerting the world to the scale of the Kremlin's military commitment.\n\nAll Russian ships travelling to Syria from Sevastopol or Russia's other Black Sea base at Novorossiysk must pass through the Bosphorus.\n\nAnd sometimes, Isik says, Russia seems keen to flaunt its controversial campaign.\n\nHis most famous shot, taken in December 2015 - and retweeted around the world - was of a Russian soldier standing on the deck of a landing ship holding a shoulder-launched missile, an Igla rocket, as the vessel passed through the centre of Istanbul.\n\nA soldier with a shoulder-fired surface-to-air missile can be seen on board the ship\n\nRussian warships, like those of other Black Sea nations, have full rights of passage through the Bosphorus in peacetime. Non-Black Sea states have more limited naval rights.\n\nBut that image - taken shortly after Turkey shot down a Russian warplane for allegedly violating its airspace - was judged so provocative by Ankara that it sent a diplomatic note to Moscow in protest.\n\n\"I didn't even see (the rocket) with my naked eye - only when I downloaded the picture,\" Isik says.\n\nWhen Isik zoomed in on his photos he could see a soldier carrying an Igla rocket on his shoulder\n\n\"In the end, I couldn't decide whether it was done on the order of Moscow - or just the initiative of the soldier or captain.\"\n\nAs for the Aleksandr Tkachenko - the ship we've both given up our sleep for - it eventually emerges as predicted out of the early morning mist round a bend in the Bosphorus - loaded with row upon row of olive-green Kamaz military trucks.\n\nThe Aleksandr Tkachenko carrying a cargo of military trucks on its way to Syria, just after dawn\n\n\"I'm quite excited,\" he says, \"because when the Russian government made a contract with this ship one-and-a-half years ago, it was secret, they didn't announce it - and this shows their approach to the war. Nato ships are stronger than Russia's navy - but with what they have, Russia successfully launched a campaign 1,000 miles from Sevastopol.\"\n\n\"I was the first to notice that Russia was carrying military vehicles on civilian vessels and it showed even more that they were deepening their commitment.\"\n\n\"So, Tim, do you feel the excitement of the ship spotter right now?\" Isik asks.\n\n\"I love mystery, and it's like a puzzle when we see ships carrying things from point A to point B - and with the help of other ship spotters you can solve this puzzle.\"\n\nRussia's Novocherkassk (left) and the USS Ross - separated by a tiny Turkish coastguard vessel\n\nJoin the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The white bag still carries traces of Moon dust and small rock\n\nA bag used by US astronaut Neil Armstrong to collect the first ever samples of the Moon has sold at auction in New York for $1.8m (£1.4m).\n\nThe outer decontamination bag from the Apollo 11 mission in 1969 was bought at Sotheby's by an anonymous bidder.\n\nThe white bag still carries traces of Moon dust and small rocks.\n\nThe auction comes after a legal battle over the ownership of the only artefact from the Apollo 11 mission which was in private hands.\n\nAfter the spacecraft returned to Earth, nearly all the equipment was sent to the Smithsonian museums.\n\nHowever, the bag was left in a box at the Johnson Space Center because of an inventory error.\n\nIt was then misidentified during a government auction, selling for just $995 to a lawyer from Illinois in 2015.\n\nNasa later tried to get the bag back, but earlier this year a federal judge ruled that it legally belonged to the buyer, who then offered it for sale at Sotheby's.", "Wonder Woman star Gal Gadot, Doctor Who's Peter Capaldi and Westworld's Thandie Newton are all expected to attend the four-day event\n\nMore than 100,000 fans have descended on San Diego in California for this year's Comic-Con, the largest event dedicated to film, TV and pop culture.\n\nStars including Ryan Gosling, Channing Tatum, Charlize Theron and the cast of the new Justice League film are expected to attend.\n\nThere will also be looks at the new seasons of Stranger Things, Westworld, Walking Dead and Game of Thrones.\n\nThe four-day fan fest concludes with a special Doctor Who session.\n\nWith hundreds of events going on, here's a guide to the main things to look out for each day, along with who is likely to turn up.\n\nTaron Egerton reprises his role in Kingsman: The Golden Circle\n\nThe seventh season of The Walking Dead ended with a regular character meeting their demise - but showrunner Scott Gimple promised series eight would be even more intense\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 government has scrapped the planned electrification of railway lines in Wales, the Midlands and the North.\n\nTransport Secretary Chris Grayling said the government will instead introduce faster trains with more seats and better on-board facilities.\n\nHe said: \"We are making the biggest investment in the railways since the Victorian era.\"\n\nAndy McDonald, Labour's Shadow Transport Secretary, accused him of \"taking people for a ride\".\n\nRoutes between Cardiff and Swansea, and between Kettering, Nottingham and Sheffield, and between Windermere and Oxenholme will be affected.\n\nMr Grayling said said the new trains on the Great Western and Midland Mainline would be bi-mode, meaning they could run on electrified sections of track and then transfer to non-electrified sections.\n\nHe said: \"Thanks to this new technology disruptive electrification works... will no longer be needed.\n\n\"Passengers will benefit sooner and experience less disruption compared with putting up intrusive wires and masts along routes where they are no longer required.\"\n\nHowever, Mr McDonald said: \"The Tories have been promising the electrification of the Great Western Mainline from Paddington to Swansea since 2012 and today's announcement confirms that they have been taking people for a ride.\"\n\nEight years ago Network Rail dramatically over-promised how quickly and how cheaply it could electrify some of Britain's busiest rail lines.\n\nA recent report by the Public Accounts Committee described the electrification of the Great Western line as \"a stark example of how not to run a project\".\n\nThe budget went from £874m in 2013 to £2.8bn two years later.\n\nWhy? Because when Network Rail first did their sums, it was based on guesswork. They hadn't looked in detail at what needed doing and it was just much harder than they thought to upgrade Victorian bridges and tunnels on a line that was being kept open at the same time.\n\nSo having kicked some of the promised electrification schemes into the long grass a while ago, the government's finally chopped them.\n\nNew trains which are part diesel, part electric, will be used instead.\n\nLiberal Democrat Shadow Transport Secretary, Jenny Randerson, said: \"The Liberal Democrats secured vital investment for rail electrification when in government.\n\n\"That was then delayed by the Tories and now has been scrapped altogether.\"\n\nThe government said it would introduce new Intercity Express trains in Wales with around 130 more seats and faster services.\n\nHe accused the UK government of \"years of broken promises\" and said Mr Grayling had not responded to his requests for a meeting on the issue.\n\n\"I'm urging the UK government to clarify the situation immediately,\" he added.\n\nThe Department for Transport said the new services meant long distance journey times from Nottingham and Sheffield would be reduced by up to 20 minutes in peak periods.\n\nIt said four direct services a day in each direction between Windermere and Manchester Airport will be introduced from May 2018.", "Most Americans now believe OJ Simpson is probably guilty, polls show\n\nOJ Simpson has been granted parole and could be released from prison as early as October. He was jailed in 2008 for armed robbery after taking memorabilia from his football career from dealers in a Las Vegas hotel room.\n\nWhile the case has no connection to his infamous 1995 acquittal in a double murder trial, Simpson's release would thrust a man that a poll suggests three-quarters of Americans believe is probably guilty of those killings back into the spotlight.\n\nHere's a recap of the key details of the OJ story.\n\nTelevision stations interrupted programming to bring American audiences live pictures of the OJ Simpson car chase\n\nOne of the defining images of OJ Simpson's fall from grace, for many people, was broadcast live on television on 17 June, 1994.\n\nImagine your childhood sports hero - an icon beloved across the country - suddenly captured in a car chase with police along the freeways of Los Angeles.\n\nIn the back seat of the white Ford Bronco was Simpson, holding a gun and being driven by an old friend, Al Cowlings. The former NFL player had been charged with the bloody murders of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ronald Goldman, who had been found stabbed to death outside her condominium in LA's affluent Brentwood neighbourhood.\n\nHe had earlier agreed to turn himself in to police but decided to flee instead.\n\nBefore 1994, Simpson was regarded with affection by the American public\n\nCrowds waved and egged on the man they called \"The Juice\" - an African-American athlete who had risen to fame in the late 1960s and later used his status as a springboard to a lucrative career in acting, sports commentary and television advertising, including a role in the Naked Gun films.\n\nThe two-hour chase ended at Simpson's home - where he eventually surrendered.\n\nThe scenes gripped a nation and the legal proceedings that followed were dubbed \"the trial of the century\" by the American media - with scenes from the courtroom broadcast to millions.\n\nNow 70, Simpson will be released in October if he wins parole\n\nThe media sensation around the OJ trial took place against the backdrop of an America racially divided in its opinion on the case.\n\nAnd the sensational proceedings occurred in a city - Los Angeles - where trust between police and the black community had been shredded by the 1992 acquittal of police officers for using excessive force in the videotaped beating of Rodney King, which triggered the LA riots.\n\nMost white Americans thought he was guilty and most African-Americans thought he was innocent, polls suggested. Simpson's alleged history of domestic violence came up during the trial, with police records revealing Nicole Brown Simpson required hospital treatment after being beaten by her husband in early 1989.\n\nDuring the trial, OJ famously tried on a pair of bloody gloves - one of which was found at the murder scene - which did not appear to fit him, a moment seen as a major blow for the prosecution.\n\nSimpson was - to the shock of many - found not guilty by the jury of the murders on 3 October 1995.\n\nThe Brown and Goldman families eventually won a civil case against OJ Simpson\n\nProsecutors at the double murder trial accused OJ Simpson of beating Nicole Brown Simpson over a period of 17 years\n\nThe legal \"dream team\" defending him had, as the recent eight-hour, Oscar-winning documentary OJ: Made in America makes clear, put race front and centre in the trial, despite Simpson having not previously associated himself strongly with the black community and the civil rights struggle.\n\n\"Not only did we play the race card, we dealt if from the bottom of the deck,\" Robert Shapiro, one of Simpson's lawyers, would say after the verdict.\n\nBut the families of Ronald Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson pursued Simpson in a civil case which in 1997 found him responsible for the pair's deaths and ordered him to pay the families tens of millions of dollars - most of which is still outstanding.\n\nTen years later, in September 2007, Simpson and a group of associates stormed a hotel room in Las Vegas where two sports memorabilia dealers had items that Simpson considered to be rightfully his. Two of the men with Simpson were armed.\n\nHe was convicted in October 2008 on a litany of charges, including armed robbery, assault and kidnapping, and sentenced to at least nine years in prison, and a maximum 33-year term.\n\nSome observers, including Simpson's lawyer, described the jury's decision as \"payback\" for the 1995 acquittal.\n\nAs part of the process of obtaining the money they were owed from the civil case, the Goldman family was in 2007 awarded the rights to If I Did It, Simpson's controversial ghost-written book describing how he would have committed the murders, had he been responsible.\n\nThey republished it with new commentary but significantly shrank the size of the word \"if\" on the cover, and added the subtitle Confessions of the Killer.\n\nAnd while the 1994 murders remain unsolved, that is how many Americans see \"OJ\" today.", "Two years after Cecil the lion was killed by a trophy-hunter in Zimbabwe, prompting global outrage, his son has met a similar sad end.\n\nXanda, a six-year-old lion with several young cubs, was shot dead on 7 July.\n\nHe was killed just outside the Hwange National Park in northern Zimbabwe, close to where his father died.\n\nThe lion had been fitted with an electronic tracking collar by Oxford University's Wildlife Conservation Research Unit (WildCRU).\n\nDr Loveridge, a Senior Research Fellow with Oxford's Department of Zoology, secured the collar last October.\n\n\"Xanda was one of these gorgeous Kalahari lions, with a big mane, big body, beautiful condition - a very, very lovely animal. Personally, I think it is sad that anyone wants to shoot a lion, but there are people who will pay money to do that,\" he said.\n\nThe Oxford team are calling for a wider 5km (three-mile) \"no-hunting zone\" around the National Park.\n\nSad inheritance: The much-loved Zimbabwean lion Cecil was killed in 2015\n\nThe BBC's Africa Correspondent, Andrew Harding, reports that at the age of six, Xanda was old enough to be legally targeted by big game hunters.\n\nThese individuals, many from the US, UK and South Africa, pay tens of thousands of pounds for the deadly pursuit - thereby funding the staff who protect other wildlife.\n\nIt is not yet clear who shot Xanda. A professional hunter is said to have reported the death to the authorities and returned the lion's collar.\n\nThe killing comes two years after dentist Walter James Palmer, from Minnesota in the US, sparked an international outcry by killing Cecil, a 13-year-old lion who was a major tourist attraction in the area.\n\nHis home and dentistry practice were targeted by protesters after his identity surfaced in the press.\n\nProtesters left stuffed animals at Walter Palmer's dental practice after it emerged he had shot Cecil\n\nAt the time it was reported that the lion had been shot with a bow and arrow and did not die immediately. He was followed for more than 40 hours before being shot with a rifle.\n\nMr Palmer was believed to have paid $50,000 (£32,000) to hunt a lion in Zimbabwe's largest game reserve.", "The revelations about how much the BBC pays its top presenters dominate the front pages.\n\n\"Bloated Blokes Club\" is the headline in the Daily Mirror, which points out the corporation's seven highest earners are all white men.\n\nThe Daily Mail warns of \"mutiny\" among female staff over the pay gap between men and women.\n\nThe Times agrees that the BBC \"faces a revolt\" because of the gender divide.\n\nThe paper says the broadcaster could end up spending millions more in wages to placate \"angry\" female talent.\n\nThe Daily Telegraph says the government wants the BBC's top male stars to take a pay cut of 10% to help close the gap.\n\nAccording to the paper, the corporation has been warned it has three years before the next Charter Review to \"get its house in order\" and make progress on equality.\n\nThe Telegraph quotes an unnamed source at the culture department who says ministers could lower the threshold and force the BBC to publish the name of every broadcaster who earns more than £100,000 if changes are not made.\n\nIn its editorial, the Guardian argues that while poring over the details of celebrities' salaries is \"utterly fascinating\" to the public, it does not \"contribute much at all\" to the public interest.\n\nFar more shocking, the paper says, is the gender pay gap which should \"make the bosses hang their heads in shame\".\n\nA man being paid up to 10 times more than a woman working in the same sphere is \"unforgivable, it says.\n\nThe Daily Star takes a different approach, accusing \"overpaid BBC luvvies\" of \"having hissy fits\" after the figures were revealed.\n\nThe Sun illustrates the story with a full-page photo of the BBC Breakfast sofa, with presenter Dan Walker - who is on the list of the highest-paid stars - sitting next to colleague Louise Minchin, who is not. The headline: \"Awkward\".\n\nThe Independent leads with an exclusive report from Iraq\n\nThe paper says it has seen intelligence reports that suggest more than 40,000 civilians were killed in the battle to retake the city of Mosul from the Islamic State group - far more than previously thought.\n\nThe documents said thousands of people were killed - by air strikes, by IS militants and by the Iraqi forces trying to drive them out.\n\nAn Iraqi minister tells the paper there is evidence of a \"hidden massacre\" with the bodies of many of those who died still buried under rubble.\n\nFidget spinners - the playground toys that have been banned in some classrooms in Britain - are an unlikely source of concern in Moscow, according to the Times.\n\nThe paper says the spinning toys are being investigated by the Kremlin in case they are \"anti-Putin\".\n\nRussia's consumer protection agency is looking into claims that they could be used by anti-government activists to \"brainwash\" recruits with hypnosis.\n\nThe Kremlin is said to be \"unnerved\" after large numbers of students turned up to support an anti-corruption campaigner who used his fidget spinner while appearing in court.", "Sir Vince Cable has been crowned leader of the Liberal Democrats without a contest - this is the story of how he got there.\n\nHe is one of the most recognisable faces in British politics: a former minister in the coalition government, a ballroom dancing enthusiast who did Strictly before Ed Balls, a financial guru noted for predicting the economic crash and now, at the age of 74, the leader of what used to be known as the third force in British politics.\n\nAs someone who was a leading player during the coalition years, and who paid the price for it by losing his Commons seat in 2015, he will know better than anybody the scale of the task facing him.\n\nThe Lib Dems have just 12 MPs. Sir Vince has conceded that the party's decision to campaign hard for a second referendum on the terms of the Brexit deal did not \"cut through\" at the general election.\n\nBut he believes the party's time will come again, when it begins to dawn on the public that leaving the EU is a terrible mistake and has harmed the economy. He aims to lead the charge in Parliament against what he sees as Theresa May's reckless pursuit of a \"hard Brexit,\" joining forces with Remainer Tories to frustrate the passage of key pieces of legislation.\n\nHis mild manner - impressionists have compared his voice to that of the soft-hearted prison officer Mr Barrowclough in the 70s sitcom Porridge - masks a shrewd and steely operator, with a knack for generating publicity.\n\nEven before easing into the seat vacated when Tim Farron felt compelled to resign as leader, he was grabbing column inches and stirring up social media controversy, telling the BBC's Andrew Marr show he thought Brexit might never happen.\n\nIt was this tendency to speak his mind, with one eye on the headlines, that drove some of his Conservative coalition colleagues to distraction during his years in government.\n\nAt times, Sir Vince, or plain old Mr Cable as he was known then, gave the impression of a man being held captive by enemy forces.\n\nHe baffled Tory MPs with his first Lib Dem conference speech as business secretary, in which he attacked capitalism, accusing it of killing competition.\n\nHe branded the Conservative stance on immigration \"nasty\" and \"ugly\" and fought a long-running battle with then Home Secretary Theresa May over immigration curbs on students and non-EU workers, which he believed would be disastrous for the UK economy.\n\nBut it was comments he never meant to be heard publicly that landed him in the most trouble, when in December 2010 he told undercover reporters he could bring down the coalition at any point by walking out - and how he had to \"battle\" to curb Tory excesses and promote his own party's agenda.\n\nHe called the coalition's attempts to push through changes in the health service, local government and other areas a \"kind of Maoist revolution\", which was \"in danger of getting out of control\".\n\nMost damagingly, he told the undercover Daily Telegraph reporters he had \"declared war on Rupert Murdoch\" and planned to block the media baron's efforts to take full control of BSkyB.\n\nThe remarks led to him being stripped of his powers to make a decision on the BSkyB bid - and were criticised by Downing Street as \"totally unacceptable and inappropriate\".\n\nBut the fact that he remained business secretary may have proved his point about being unsackable.\n\nFamily: Father of three grown-up children by his first wife, Olympia, who died in 2001. Remarried in 2004. Eldest grandson, Ayrton Cable, launched the Humanitarian Water and Food Youth Award at the age of 11, in front of 12,000 young people at Wembley\n\nJob before politics: Economist, lecturer and adviser to the Kenyan government and senior Labour politicians. Chief economist at oil giant Shell.\n\nPolitical career: A Labour councillor in Glasgow in the 1970s, who joined the SDP in 1982 and then won his Twickenham seat for the Lib Dems at the second attempt in 1997. Stood in as Lib Dem leader when Sir Menzies Campbell quit in 2007, was business secretary in the coalition government between 2010 and 2015, before losing his seat. Returned to the Commons in June. Knighted in 2015.\n\nOff duty: Ballroom dancing and writing - he is about to publish his first novel, a political thriller about a post-Brexit future called Open Arms.\n\nSir Vince was a contemporary of Ken Clarke, Michael Howard and Norman Lamont - some of the Tory \"big beasts\" of the 1990s - while at Cambridge University.\n\nBut he did not follow them on the fast track to Parliament.\n\nA grammar school boy from York, he initially joined the Liberal Party but, after university, defected to Labour. He fought for the Glasgow Hillhead seat at the 1970 election, losing. As a Labour councillor in Glasgow he contributed to The Red Paper on Scotland, edited by Gordon Brown in 1975.\n\nIn 1982, Sir Vince changed party once more, this time opting for the newly formed Social Democratic Party. He made failed attempts to run for Parliament in 1983 and 1987.\n\nAfter the SDP and the old Liberal Party merged to form the Liberal Democrats in 1988, Sir Vince was unsuccessful in another bid to become an MP in 1992.\n\nIt was not until the anti-Tory landslide of 1997 that he finally won the seat of Twickenham, south-west London.\n\nAlong the way, he worked as an economics lecturer, at the Foreign Office, as a special adviser to future Labour leader John Smith, an official in the Kenyan government and as chief economist for the oil company Shell.\n\nOnce in Parliament, his political career went comparatively smoothly, with promotion to the Lib Dem front bench in 1999 and to Treasury spokesman in 2003.\n\nIn this influential role he made pronouncements on the unsustainability of Labour's long economic boom - comments which saw his reputation rise following the arrival of the credit crunch. He was also one of the first senior politicians to call for Northern Rock to be nationalised.\n\nSir Vince helped to oust Lib Dem leader Charles Kennedy in 2005, but it was after Mr Kennedy's successor, Sir Menzies Campbell, resigned after two years in the job, that Sir Vince became a household name.\n\nHaving been elected deputy leader, he stood in at prime minister's questions and in a memorable exchange mocked Gordon Brown, remarking on the then prime minister's \"remarkable transformation in the last few weeks from Stalin to Mr Bean, creating chaos out of order rather than order out of chaos\".\n\nLaughter rang around the Commons chamber and a man previously seen as a rather dry figure was instantly transformed into a budding media star.\n\nBy the 2010 election he was a familiar face on the nation's TV screens, cultivating a reputation as one of the few front-ranking politicians who had warned about the looming financial crisis in 2008.\n\nWhen David Cameron failed to win an overall majority, there were suggestions he might become chancellor under the Tory-Lib Dem government that emerged from coalition talks.\n\nHowever, the job went to George Osborne and Sir Vince was given the business brief - in charge of a department he had previously suggested should be abolished.\n\nSir Vince's most controversial task was to oversee the rise in university tuition fees to a maximum of £9,000 a year.\n\nThis came despite the Lib Dems signing a pre-election pledge to oppose any such move, which made him and party leader Nick Clegg the focus of much anger.\n\nSir Vince voiced doubt about whether he should back the plans in Parliament. Eventually he and all his Lib Dem ministerial colleagues did so, in the face of a large rebellion by the party's backbench MPs.\n\nThe Lib Dems have still not recovered from the reputational hit they took over tuition fees, although Sir Vince continues to defend the policy to this day, telling Sky News earlier this month that scrapping fees would be a \"cheap populist gesture\" that would create an unfair system, adding that the \"40% of students\" who go to university should not be subsidised by the \"60% who don't\"\n\nHe also oversaw the controversial privatisation of the Royal Mail, which was criticised by the National Audit Office as being sold off too quickly and cheaply, after shares soared 70% above their original price.\n\nSir Vince insisted the sale had delivered \"value for money\" for taxpayers.\n\nHis political career appeared to have come to an end in 2015, when he was ejected from Parliament by the voters of Twickenham.\n\nNever one to rest on his laurels, he threw himself into his hobby of ballroom dancing - in 2010 he had taken part in the BBC's Strictly Come Dancing Christmas special - entering the British National Dance Championships, after taking lessons at the dance studio of his Strictly dance partner Erin Boag.\n\nHe also started work on a novel, after previously hitting the best seller lists with The Storm, an explanation of the 2008 world financial crash and how Britain should respond to it.\n\nSir Vince is the father of three grown-up children by his first wife, Olympia, who was from Kenya. It was a mixed-race marriage, which saw Sir Vince defying his father, who told him such unions \"didn't work\".\n\nAfter Olympia was diagnosed with cancer for a second time in the 1990s, he combined the roles of being an MP and her carer until her death in 2001.\n\nSir Vince remarried in 2004, to Rachel Smith, a farmer from the New Forest who had been at Cambridge with him. He wears the wedding rings from both of his marriages.\n\nHe won back his Twickenham seat in June's snap election and when Tim Farron unexpectedly announced he was quitting as Lib Dem leader, saying he could not reconcile the role with his Christian faith, Sir Vince decided to stand for a job he had long coveted.\n\nWhen potential rivals ruled themselves out, it became clear that he would be crowned leader without a contest.\n\nSir Vince has brushed off concerns about his age by referring to Sir Winston Churchill, who led his party in his late 70s, and William Gladstone, who was prime minister in his 80s.\n\n\"Some of the brightest and most interesting people in British politics recently have been relatively old,\" he said when quizzed about it.\n\n\"You remember Bernie Sanders in America as well? I don't feel old, I feel young and energetic.\"\n\nHe had always regretted not standing for the party leadership in 2007, when Sir Menzies Campbell was effectively hounded out of the job for being too old, at the age of 66.\n\nSir Vince, who was then 64, apparently feared that he would also be judged too old, but with his opposite numbers in the Conservatives and Labour both in their 60s, age is less of an issue now.\n\nHe bristles at the suggestion that he is merely keeping the leadership seat warm for his 38-year-old deputy Jo Swinson, who had been the runaway favourite to be the party's next leader before deciding not to stand.\n\n\"I've made it very clear I wasn't signing up to be a caretaker, I was signing up to do the job and do it properly and whatever that involves,\" he told The House magazine, including leading the party into the next election, whenever that might be.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Elizabeth Campbell said she was \"deeply sorry\" for the \"grief and trauma\"\n\nThe newly elected leader of Kensington and Chelsea Council has been booed and heckled amid continuing anger over the Grenfell Tower fire.\n\nProtesters shouted \"resign\" and \"shame on you\" as Elizabeth Campbell was made council leader at a public meeting.\n\nThe councillor said she was \"deeply sorry\" for the \"grief and trauma\" caused by the blaze in west London.\n\nThe fractious meeting ended early after a female resident fell to the ground and was attended to by medics.\n\nAbout 70 of the 255 people who survived the blaze attended the meeting after condemnation of the council's response.\n\nAt least 80 people are dead or missing after the tower block fire on 14 June.\n\nThe council has been accused of being slow to react on the ground and not doing enough to re-house Grenfell Tower residents.\n\nMany people in the public gallery at Kensington Town Hall were calling for the Conservative group that runs the council to resign and for new elections.\n\nIt was the first cabinet meeting since the fire, after the council abandoned an earlier meeting - which had been planned as a closed one - when members of the press were allowed in after a High Court judgement.\n\nAddressing survivors in the chamber, Ms Campbell said: \"I am truly sorry that we did not do more to help you when you needed it the most.\"\n\nThere was heckling from the public gallery\n\nFormer Grenfell Tower residents sat in the public gallery, while at least 150 community members and volunteers were in an overspill room.\n\nOne by one, residents and those who lost loved ones gave accounts of their traumatic experiences, voicing their distrust in local services.\n\nOne survivor, from the 16th floor of Grenfell Tower, who gave his name as Hamid, said he had \"had enough\".\n\n\"I need a place to go and start my life,\" he said. \"I'm not asking for something big.\n\n\"We need to move on. We want to go to work - kids got to go to school.\"\n\nAnother survivor told the chamber he had been living in a hotel room since the fire, with just one double bed between him, his wife and three children.\n\nHe said that the residents' main problem was a lack of action.\n\n\"I was forgotten about,\" he added.\n\n\"You know who has done something for us? The residents of North Kensington. Our community. Our neighbours.\"\n\nAs the meeting progressed, attention turned to a petition calling for the council's entire elected leadership to resign.\n\nIt was signed by more than 1,500 people, passing the threshold for a debate by councillors.\n\nLabour's newly elected MP for Kensington, Emma Dent Coad, said: \"I agree entirely with the petition's demands.\"\n\nMs Campbell, who was heckled again as she responded to the petition, said: \"We will not continue business as usual and we will rebuild trust, as I said, brick by brick.\"\n\nEarlier, she said 68 new homes for Grenfell Tower survivors would be identified and bought within the next two weeks, and an additional 31 homes would be acquired in the next few weeks.\n\nThe councillor also promised that 400 new social houses would be built over the next five years.\n\nShe took over as de facto leader after Nicholas Paget-Brown resigned on 30 June.\n\nShe later admitted on the Today programme that she had never been in a tower block, but added that she had visited many council houses.\n\nA group of demonstrators stood outside Kensington Town Hall during the meeting holding Justice for Grenfell placards.", "Sir Vince Cable is the new leader of the Liberal Democrats, after no-one stood against him.\n\nThe 74-year old Twickenham MP was the only candidate on the ballot paper when nominations closed at 16:00 BST.\n\nThe former business secretary said there should be an \"exit from Brexit\" and he believed the party's call for a second referendum would be vindicated.\n\nHe also said he did not intend to be a \"caretaker\" leader and he would \"serve as long as I need to\".\n\nSir Vince, who has been acting and deputy leader in the past, has argued that Brexit is not inevitable.\n\nHe assumes the leadership vacated by Tim Farron, who stood down after a disappointing general election in which the party increased its number of MPs from nine to 12 but saw its vote share fall to 7.4%.\n\nSir Vince paid tribute to his predecessor as he was announced as the new leader, saying Mr Farron had taken over the leadership at a time of crisis for the party and had rebuilt its membership to record levels.\n\nHe argued that the Conservatives and Labour had been taken over by \"ideologues\" and British politics had lost its \"basic common sense\", moderation and mutual respect - his aim was for the Liberal Democrats to move into that space.\n\nHe warned that he feared the UK was \"heading for a disastrous outcome\" over Brexit, headed by a dysfunctional and disunited government - and said he felt there should be an \"exit from Brexit\".\n\nThe party's main campaign pledge during the election was to give the public the final say on the terms of the UK's exit from the EU in a further referendum, ahead of the scheduled withdrawal date in March 2019.\n\nAlthough Sir Vince has admitted this message did not \"cut through\", he has argued that attitudes are beginning to change and that the public mood will come round to the party's position.\n\nHe said as the difficulties of Brexit became clearer, Mr Farron's policy would be \"absolutely vindicated\". He added: \"I'm ambitious for this country and I'm ambitious for this party. In difficult times, we have shown enormous resilience but I believe we can fight our way back, break through and make an enormous success of our party and eventually, in government.\"\n\nSir Vince has ruled out coalitions with the Tories and with a Jeremy Corbyn-led Labour party\n\nFamily: Father of three grown-up children by his first wife, Olympia, who died in 2001. Remarried in 2004.\n\nJob before politics: Economist, lecturer and adviser to the Kenyan government and senior Labour politicians. Chief economist at oil giant Shell.\n\nPolitical career: A Labour councillor in Glasgow the 1970s, who joined the SDP in 1982 and then won his Twickenham seat for the Lib Dems at the second attempt in 1997. Stood in as Lib Dem leader when Sir Menzies Campbell quit in 2007, was business secretary in the coalition government between 2010 and 2015, before losing his seat. Returned to the Commons in June. Knighted in 2015.\n\nOff duty: Ballroom dancing and writing - about to publish his first novel, a political thriller about a post-Brexit future called Open Arms\n\nHe has said the Conservative and Labour leaderships are conspiring to negotiate a \"hard Brexit\" and he is willing to work with MPs from other parties to thwart this.\n\nSir Vince, who was knighted last year, was elected unopposed after other potential candidates, including Jo Swinson, Norman Lamb and Sir Ed Davey, said they would not be putting themselves forward.\n\nThe veteran politician, who was a Labour councillor in the 1970s before defecting to the SDP and later joining the Liberal Democrats, has never stood for the party's leadership before.\n\nBut he has become one of its most recognisable and influential figures, having served as deputy to former leaders Sir Menzies Campbell and Nick Clegg, and been a cabinet minister in the Tory-Lib Dem government for five years.\n\nHe will be the oldest leader of the party in its near 30-year history.\n\nHe has insisted he has the energy, as well as the experience, to lead the Lib Dems into the next election, which he believes will happen sooner rather than later.\n\nMr Farron announced his decision to quit a week after last month's poll, citing the pressures of trying to reconcile his Christian beliefs with his leadership of a progressive political party.\n\nHe later said that he had decided to step down early on in the election campaign - a campaign in which he was forced to clarify on several occasions his views on whether gay sex was a sin or not.", "Glenna Duram has been found guilty of the murder of her husband Martin\n\nA woman has been found guilty of shooting her husband five times in a Michigan murder case apparently witnessed by a parrot.\n\nGlenna Duram shot her husband, Martin, in front of the couple's pet in 2015, before turning the gun on herself in a failed suicide attempt.\n\nThe parrot later repeated the words \"Don't shoot!\" in the victim's voice, according to Mr Duram's ex-wife.\n\nThe parrot, an African Grey named Bud, was not used in the court proceedings.\n\nThe jury found Mrs Duram, 49, guilty of first-degree murder following a day of deliberations. She will be sentenced next month.\n\nShe suffered a head wound in the incident in the couple's Sand Lake home in May 2015, but survived.\n\nMr Duram's mother Lillian said it \"hurt\" to witness Mrs Duram \"emotionless\" in court as evidence was presented in the case of her son's death, local media report.\n\n\"It just isn't good; just isn't good. Two years is a long time to wait for justice,\" she said.\n\nBud the African Grey parrot, similar to the one pictured, apparently has \"the filthiest mouth around\"\n\nMr Duram's ex-wife Christina Keller, who now owns Bud, earlier said she believed the parrot was repeating a conversation from the night of the murder, which she said ended with the phrase \"don't shoot!\", with an expletive added.\n\nMr Duram's parents agreed it was possible that the foul-mouthed bird had overheard the couple arguing and was repeating their final words.\n\n\"I personally think he was there, and he remembers it and he was saying it\", Mr Duram's father told local media at the time.\n\nHis mother, Lillian Duram, added: \"That bird picks up everything and anything, and it's got the filthiest mouth around.\"\n\nA prosecutor in Michigan initially considered using the parrot's squawkings as evidence in the murder trial, but this was later dismissed. The prosecutor added that it was unlikely that the bird would be called to the stand to testify as a witness during the trial.\n• None The US parrot that mimics other animals\n• None BBC - Earth - Can any animals talk and use language like humans-", "A midwife in Sweden who says she was so overworked she had no time to change her sanitary products has posted an image of her trousers, stained with menstrual blood, to highlight the pressures of her job.\n\nPetra Vinberg Linder uploaded the photo on July 14 on Facebook with the comment: \"Night shift midwife = had three childbirths. You don't have time to pee or change sanitary products. Thanks and goodnight,\"\n\nMost of the reaction to the Facebook post was positive as Ms Linder was applauded for highlighting the demand on nurses and midwives in Sweden following cuts to some maternity services.\n\nThere has also been recent mounting concern at reports in Sweden of women being turned away from overcrowded maternity wards or being forced to drive long distances to give birth.\n\nIn the northern Swedish town of Sollefteå pregnant woman have to travel up to two hours to give birth after the local hospital's maternity unit was closed in January as part of wider health cuts. As a result, some couples have taken courses on how to give birth in a car.\n\nIn Spain in April this year, a Spanish police officer began a procedure for alleged harassment following a row over her abandoning her duty for 5-10 minutes because she was menstruating.\n\nMidwife Petra Vinberg Linder posted this image of her menstrual blood stained scrubs\n\nMs Linder told the BBC: \"The picture was just for my friends but when I woke up it had been shared widely and I had many messages of support.\n\n\"We need more midwives and clinics and the politicians need to wake up to this. We love our jobs but we are struggling with the heavy workload and unsure about our future.\"\n\nThe Swedish Government has allocated £45 million to improve maternity care including a new maternity project in which new mums or woman at risk of complications will be assigned a midwife for the duration of their pregnancy.\n\nResponding to Ms Linder's image one Facebook user commented: \"I don't know you, you showed up in my feed but you're worth all the admiration and it's not OK that care is so undermanned. Not for you or your patients. Thank you!\"\n\nAnother posted: \"Thank you for daring to show this. Amazing post, strong tough woman.\"\n\nHowever, there were some who thought such an image of menstruation blood was unnecessary. One user commented: \"Some things you just shouldn't share. Sure this is happening, but it's not something people want to see.\"\n• None Swedes set to occupy closing maternity ward which inspired 'car birth' course - The Local 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. Archaeologist Lorena Vazquez explains why the Aztecs created their skull towers\n\nTales of the tower of skulls which struck fear into the hearts of Spanish conquistadors have been passed down through the generations in Mexico.\n\nSaid to be the heads of defeated warriors, contemporary accounts describe tens of thousands of skulls looming over the soldiers - a reminder of what would happen if they did not conquer territory.\n\nFor the next 500 years, the skulls lay undisturbed underneath what was once the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan, but is now Mexico City.\n\nUntil, that is, a group of archaeologists began the painstaking work of uncovering their secrets two years ago.\n\nWhat they found has shocked them, because in among the skulls of the young men are those of women and children - bringing into question everything historians thought they knew.\n\nThe skulls were first discovered in 2015\n\nA team of archaeologists has been painstakingly uncovering them ever since\n\n\"We were expecting just men, obviously young men, as warriors would be, and the thing about the women and children is that you'd think they wouldn't be going to war,\" Rodrigo Bolanos, a biological anthropologist investigating the find, told news agency Reuters.\n\n\"Something is happening that we have no record of, and this is really new, a first.\"\n\nSo far, archaeologists have found 676 skulls in a site next to Mexico City's Metropolitan Cathedral, which was built over the Templo Mayor, one of the most important Aztec temples.\n\nHistorians have been surprised to discover the remains of women and children among the skulls\n\nFor many years, it has been thought they were the skulls of warriors defeated in battle\n\nIts base has yet to be uncovered, and it is thought many more skulls will be found.\n\nThey are believed to form part of the Huey Tzompantli, a skull rack some 60 metres (200ft) in diameter which stood on the corner of the chapel of Huitzilopochtli, the Aztec god of the sun, war and human sacrifice.\n\nArchaeologists have no doubt it is one of the racks, or tzompantli, described by soldier Andres de Tapia, who accompanied Hernan Cortes in the 1521 conquest of Mexico.\n\nCortes landed at Veracruz, on Mexico's east coast, in 1519. Two years later, allied with other native forces, Cortes' men captured the Aztec capital.\n\nSo far, more than 650 skulls have been found\n\nMany more skulls are believed to be hidden underneath the city\n• None The secret of why we like to eat chocolate", "Moscow said that cyber-attack allegations from Ukraine's security services were \"unfounded\"\n\nUkraine says it has proof that Russian security services were involved in the cyber-attack that targeted businesses around the world earlier this week.\n\nThe country's security service, the SBU, said it had obtained data that points to a link with an attack on the nation's capital, Kiev, in December.\n\nUkrainian firms were among the first to report issues with malicious software on Tuesday, before the virus spread.\n\nMoscow denied any involvement, adding that the allegations were \"unfounded\".\n\nThe virus, which disrupted IT systems across the globe, froze computers and demanded a ransom be paid in the digital currency Bitcoin, which is untraceable.\n\nHowever, the attack also hit major Russian firms, leading some cyber security researchers to suggest that Moscow was not behind it.\n\nBut on Saturday, Ukraine's SBU said in a statement that - through data obtained from international anti-virus companies - it had established a connection with a previous attack involving the so-called Petya virus, which it alleges was not designed to secure ransom payments.\n\nThe SBU later said the ransom demand was a cover, adding that the attack was aimed at disrupting the operations of state and private companies in Ukraine and causing political destabilisation.\n\nThe lack of any real mechanism for securing financial payments, the SBU said, led the agency to this assumption.\n\nUkraine appears to have been particularly badly hit in the recent attacks.\n\nThe police received about 1,000 messages on intrusions in the operations of computer networks over a 24-hour period. A total of 150 companies filed official complaints with the police.\n\nIn December, the country's financial, transport and energy systems were targeted by what investigators judged to be a cyber-attack. The incident resulted in a power cut in Kiev.\n\nThe attack earlier this week comes two months after another global ransomware assault, known as WannaCry, which caused major problems for the UK's National Health Service.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Protesters listened to speeches from politicians and activists in Parliament Square\n\nThousands of people gathered in central London to demonstrate against the UK government's economic policies.\n\nThe protest was organised by a group called the People's Assembly Against Austerity.\n\nDemonstrators met outside BBC Broadcasting House in Portland Place, before marching past Downing Street and on to Parliament Square.\n\nThe Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn was among the speakers who addressed crowds at The Not One Day More protest.\n\nSpeaking in Parliament Square, Mr Corbyn said: \"The Tories are in retreat, austerity is in retreat, the economic arguments of austerity are in retreat.\n\n\"It's those of social justice, of unity, of people coming together to oppose racism and all those that would divide us, that are the ones that are moving forward.\"\n\nThe crowd chanted \"oh Jeremy Corbyn\" and \"Tories out\" during the rally, while many carried banners saying Justice For Grenfell.\n\nOne protester told BBC News that \"anger\" had motivated her to join the protest, saying: \"What's going on isn't good enough under the Tory government.\n\n\"There have been cuts to every single service you can think of. It's just the pure negligence. How can you be cutting vital services?\"\n\nThe organisers said on Facebook that they \"invite everyone - from campaigns and community groups across the country, from the trade unions, from political parties and any individual - to come together in one massive show of strength and solidarity\".\n\nThe statement added: \"We're marching against a government committed to austerity, cuts and privatisation.\n\n\"We're marching for a decent health service, education system, housing, jobs and living standards for all.\"\n\nDowning Street did not want to comment on the protest.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Gove's quick-fire answers on the Andrew Marr show - Brexit and his return to the cabinet\n\nThe government should listen to review bodies' recommendations for public sector pay, Michael Gove has said.\n\nHis comments come as the prime minister and chancellor face increasing pressure from ministers and backbenchers to end the 1% public sector pay cap.\n\nThe environment secretary did not call directly for the cap to be lifted but said ministers should respect the \"integrity\" of the pay review process.\n\nLabour said it would allow the review bodies to award \"a fair pay rise\".\n\nPay rises for five million public sector workers are set by independent pay review bodies, but have effectively been capped at 1% since 2013, before which there was a two-year freeze on pay for all but the lowest-paid workers.\n\nThe Conservatives went into the election pledging to maintain the cap until 2020, but some MPs are now calling for a rethink after the party lost its majority.\n\nTwo review bodies dealing with the pay of police and teachers will make recommendations later this month, and there are growing expectations that one or both could call for rises that exceed the government's cap.\n\nThe cabinet is split on the principle of scrapping the cap, but it could be dismantled bit by bit.\n\n\"I think that we should listen to the pay review bodies who govern each individual area of public sector pay,\" Mr Gove told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show.\n\nThe presenter suggested the cap, imposed by the chancellor, set the parameters for the bodies' recommendations.\n\n\"They take account of that but they also take account of other questions as well, including the number of people who enter the profession, whether we need to have an increase in pay in order to ensure we get the very best people into the profession,\" Mr Gove said.\n\n\"These pay review bodies have been set up in order to ensure that we can have authoritative advice on what's required, in order to ensure that the public services on which we rely are effectively staffed and the people within them are effectively supported.\"\n\nAsked what he personally thought about scrapping the pay cap, he said: \"I am not an individual - I am a member of a collective team.\"\n\nMr Gove, a former education secretary, has told the Sunday Times that when the review bodies made recommendations on school teachers' pay, \"I think I always accepted them.\"\n\nPrivately, ministers believe it is perfectly possible that at least some of the pay review bodies - which also cover health service workers, prison officers and senior public servants - will call for average increases of more than 1%.\n\nA government minister with good links to Downing Street told the BBC that review body recommendations would be honoured, even if this breached the current pay cap.\n\nBut No 10 insists that ministers will decide whether to accept recommendations on a case-by-case basis.\n\nSo while the pay cap may not be abolished for every public sector employee all at once, it is possible that its erosion will begin soon.\n\nOther Sunday newspapers also reported on a growing revolt within the Conservative Party over its approach to austerity and public spending.\n\nThe Observer says there is a \"chorus of demands\" from within the party for a radical overhaul of state funding, with cabinet ministers and senior MPs calling for more money for NHS workers and schools, as well as a \"national debate\" on tuition fees.\n\nAccording to the paper, Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt and Education Secretary Justine Greening are lobbying for an easing of austerity.\n\nThe paper says the pressure to abandon austerity puts Chancellor Philip Hammond under pressure to consider raising taxes to fund any extra public spending.\n\nThe Telegraph, meanwhile, reports that Ms Greening has told Prime Minister Theresa May she wants the government to abandon plans to cut per pupil funding over the coming years.\n\nLabour's Jonathan Ashworth said the Tories were in \"turmoil\"\n\nThe paper says it is understood the education secretary wants a public statement within weeks outlining the change in direction so that schools know the funding they are to receive before they break up for the summer holidays.\n\nAccording to the paper, the proposal would mean spending an extra £1.2bn by 2022.\n\nMr Gove said he would not \"second guess\" the current education secretary but Tory backbencher Heidi Allen, also appearing on Andrew Marr, said it was \"great to see Justine coming out and saying: 'Yes, there needs to be more money for schools.'\"\n\nShadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth said the reports revealed \"turmoil\" in the Conservative Party.\n\n\"They're saying 'Wait for the pay review bodies,' even though they're the ones insisting on a 1% cap,\" the Labour frontbencher told Andrew Marr.\n\n\"We're saying to the pay review bodies: 'Get rid of the 1% cap and give a fair pay rise.'\"\n\nThousands demonstrated against austerity in central London on Saturday\n\nAsked what level Labour thought was fair, he said the review bodies \"should consider\" a pay rise in line with the rise in average earnings across the economy.\n\n\"Clearly, they are not going to be able to overturn the 14% loss that NHS workers have had over seven years but they have to come up with responsible recommendations, which we would accept.\"\n\nMr Ashworth suggested that some of the cost of the pay awards in the NHS could be offset by savings in the amount the health service paid to agency workers, due to a shortage of full-time staff.\n\nLast week a Labour attempt to scrap the 1% cap was defeated in Parliament.\n\nBut the pressure to ease austerity has intensified since June's general election, with a number of backbench Tory MPs arguing that it cost the party votes and contributed to the loss of its majority.\n\nOn Saturday thousands of people gathered in central London for a demonstration against austerity that was addressed by Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.", "The world number one and his wife already have a one-year-old daughter\n\nTennis star Andy Murray says he and his wife, Kim Sears, are \"very happy\" to be expecting their second child.\n\nThe couple, who married in 2015, already have a one-year-old daughter, Sophia.\n\nThe news come as the 30-year-old prepares for his opening match at Wimbledon on Monday as defending champion.\n\nHe told reporters: \"We're both obviously very happy and looking forward to it.\"\n\nThe world number one also confirmed he was fit to play following his recent hip injury, saying: \"It's felt much better the last few days.\"\n\nAsked if the news of the baby on the way would put any extra pressure on him going into the tournament, he said: \"No, I wouldn't have thought so.\"\n\nAndy Murray spoke to the media at a press conference ahead of the Wimbledon tournament\n\nHe said family life was \"certainly not a distraction in the slightest\".\n\nRegarding his wife, Murray added: \"She'll be coming to Wimbledon. And we found out a while ago. But I'm not interested in discussing the dates of that in here.\"\n\nAndy and Kim were married in Murray's home town of Dunblane in April 2015 and their daughter Sophia was born in February 2016.\n\nThe world number one has spoken about how his family is the most important thing in his life and he has said becoming a husband and father has helped his tennis.\n\nMurray said he was feeling \"good\" after practising three times on Friday as he recovers from a hip injury which saw him pull out of his final warm-up match ahead of the tournament.\n\nHe will face Kazakhstan's Alexander Bublik, who is world number 134, on Centre Court at 13:00 BST on Monday.", "French hostage Sophie Petronin was abducted from Gao in December\n\nA Mali-based al-Qaeda affiliate has released a video of six foreign hostages ahead of a visit by French President Emmanuel Macron to the country.\n\nThey include a French NGO worker, an elderly Australian surgeon and a Colombian nun.\n\nNo \"genuine\" negotiations to release them have taken place, the video says.\n\nMr Macron is in Mali to consolidate western backing for a regional force against the militants.\n\nAmong the hostages seen in the footage is Sophie Petronin, who was abducted last December in the town of Gao, where she ran an NGO helping malnourished children.\n\nThe video's narrator said Ms Petronin was hoping that Mr Macron would help return her to her family.\n\nSpeaking in Mali's capital Bamako, Mr Macron said France and the \"Sahel G5\" countries - Mali, Burkina Faso, Chad, Mauritania and Niger - had to work together to eradicate \"terrorists, thugs and murderers\".\n\nHe said France would \"put all our energy towards eradicating\" those who had kidnapped Ms Petronin.\n\nMr McGown has been held since 2011\n\nThe video also shows South African hostage Stephen McGown asking when his ordeal will come to an end.\n\n\"Now we're making a new video, but I don't know what to say. It's all been said in the past. It's all been said in previous videos I've made,\" he says.\n\nThe release of this video will lead many to believe that it was timed to coincide with a meeting of West African leaders and France's president in Mali on Sunday.\n\nIt is a reminder that al-Qaeda affiliates remain the main jihadist threat across the region. Some of the hostages were abducted a few years ago while others more recently - keeping hostages that long and seizing new ones show how much al-Qaeda relies on ransom money to operate.\n\nThe deployment of yet another force, discussed on Sunday, is part of a huge security build-up in the Sahel, where foreign military presence has increased in the last few years.\n\nBut observers say political solutions are also needed across the impoverished region, where a lack of infrastructure and opportunities allows jihadist groups to thrive.\n\nMr McGown was kidnapped from a hotel in Timbuktu in 2011 along with two others, Swede Johan Gustafsson - who was released last month - and Dutchman Sjaak Rijke - who was freed by French special forces in 2015.\n\nAlso shown is Australian Ken Elliott, who is in his 80s. He was abducted in January 2015 in Djibo with his wife Jocelyn, where the couple had been running the town's only medical facilities. Jocelyn was released in February 2016.\n\n\"To my family I just want to say again I love you all,\" he says.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe others are Romanian mineworker Iulian Ghergut, who says he was abducted in Burkina Faso in April 2015, Swiss missionary Beatrice Stockly, kidnapped in Mali in January 2016, and Colombian nun Gloria Argoti, seized in Mali in February.\n\nThe 17-minute video was released by a group calling itself the Group to Support Islam and Muslims, formed in early March as a result of a merger between Mali-based jihadist group Ansar Dine, al-Mourabitoun, and the Sahara branch of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM).\n\nIn November the NGO Gift of the Givers said AQIM elders had agreed to release Mr McGown but younger members did not want to.\n\nMali's security has gradually worsened since 2013, when French forces repelled allied Islamist and Tuareg rebel fighters who had seized control of much of the north.\n\nMr Macron wants greater support for the Sahel G5, who are setting up a 5,000-strong force based in Sévaré in central Mali to fight rising militant attacks.\n\nHe hopes to help raise funds for the force - so far, the EU has pledged only €50m (£44m; $57m), while Mali's foreign minister has estimated that the force would cost closer to €400m.\n\nMr Macron said attempts to combat terrorism needed to be accompanied by parallel efforts to improve development in the region, including fighting climate change and improving governance.\n\nThere are 4,000 French troops and 12,000 UN peacekeepers in the region.\n\nLast month, five people - soldiers from Portugal and Mali, a Malian woman working for the EU mission and civilians from China and Gabon - were killed when gunmen from an al-Qaeda-linked group stormed a tourist resort near the capital Bamako.", "The car appeared to have hit the front of the building\n\nA McLaren supercar was reduced to a twisted, burned-out wreck after it struck a building and burst into flames.\n\nThe driver and passenger of the 570S, which sell for around £143,000, escaped with minor injuries following the crash at Heywood, near Trowbridge, Wiltshire.\n\nThe fire service was called to Westbury Road just before 06:30 BST on Sunday.\n\nCrews found the occupants had made it out of the burning sports car, which was stuck beneath a collapsed wall.\n\nFire crews were called to the crash site early on Sunday\n\nImages taken by Dorset and Wiltshire Fire and Rescue show small fragments of the car's distinctive orange paintwork are still visible.\n\nIt is not known what speed the McLaren had been travelling at prior to the crash.\n\nDamien Bence, from the fire service, said it was \"absolutely amazing\" the car's occupants walked away from the scene.\n\n\"Prior to hitting the building it snapped an electric pole in half, and forced the top half of the pole through the window of the house,\" he said.\n\n\"We were confronted with a live electrical cable which was strewn across the highway so crews had to negotiate their way through part of a wood in order to get to the incident.\"\n\nThe 563hp super sports car has twin-turbo 3.8-litre V8 engine and can accelerate from 0-62mph (100km/h) in just 3.2 seconds.", "Find out more (The Telegraph)\n\n2. Middle-aged office workers apparently spend more time sitting down than pensioners\n\n3. Cambridge has been ranked as the most-vibrant place to shop in the UK\n\n4. Sweden has the lowest proportion of ATMs in western Europe\n\n7. People throw away eight million disposable nappies every day in the UK\n\n8. Artists can now only have a maximum of three songs in the Top 100 Singles chart\n\nFind out more (The Guardian)\n\n9. Californian solar firms are making so much energy that they are paying energy companies in other US states to take it\n\n10. Robot brickies could mean building sites become \"human free\" zones by 2050\n\nFind out more (The Mirror)\n\nSeen a thing? Tell the Magazine on Twitter using the hashtag #thingididntknowlastweek\n\nJoin the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter.", "Acid attacks are not uncommon against women in India\n\nA woman in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh who survived an alleged gang-rape and four separate acid attacks has been targeted again by an acid-thrower.\n\nShe was attacked outside a women's hostel in Lucknow while getting water from a hand pump, police said.\n\nThe woman, 35, had been receiving round-the-clock police protection because of the previous attacks, which were linked to a property dispute.\n\nAnger is growing at the authorities' inability to protect her.\n\nShe was allegedly gang-raped and first attacked with acid by two men in 2008, over a property dispute, the details of which are not clear.\n\nThe same two men are then accused of throwing acid at her twice more - in 2012 and 2013 - to try and get her to drop the criminal charges against them.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Laxmi Saa was 15 when a 32-year-old man threw acid at her after she rejected his marriage proposal - she spoke to Kinjal Pandya-Wagh from the BBC's Delhi Bureau\n\nIn March, she was attacked again while travelling on a train with her daughter. This time she was forced to drink acid.\n\nTwo men are facing trial for all of the attacks but were released on bail in April, the AFP agency reports.\n\nAccording to government figures, there are hundreds of such attacks involving acid each year in India, although campaigners say the real figures are much higher.\n\nThe victims, who have to live with terrible disfigurements, are mainly women and are often targeted by jealous partners, campaigners say.\n\nDespite a Supreme Court ruling in 2013 to regulate the sale of acid, critics say it is still widely and easily available.", "A 50mph speed limit will remain in place while traffic management systems are tested\n\nA £174m upgrade to turn the M3 into a \"smart\" motorway in Surrey and Hampshire has opened.\n\nThe 13.4-mile stretch between Farnborough and the M25 is now a four-lane carriageway after the main construction work was completed.\n\nMotorists have faced years of disruption since work began in 2014.\n\nOngoing roadworks and some overnight restrictions will continue to affect motorists with speed limits in place as the system is tested.\n\nTechnology is being used to manage traffic flows with variable speed limits and use of the hard shoulder.\n\nSpeed limits will remain in place until later this month.\n\nMotorists have faced years of road works on the M3 during the widening work\n\nThe M3 passes through Chobham Common, an area of heathland in Surrey.\n\nBefore work began, the government said the M3 smart motorway would improve journey times by 15%, but the then Highways Agency raised concerns extra traffic would cause EU air quality rules to be broken.\n\nIn June 2014, a plan to impose a 60mph speed limit on that part of the M3 to cut air pollution was put on hold by the then Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin, with the Highways Agency asked to look at other ways of tackling pollution.\n\nMaintenance work on the motorway is still to be completed, including the rebuilding of the Woodlands Lane bridge over the motorway near Windlesham, which will continue until later in the year, Highways England said.\n\nPranav Devale, project manager for Highways England, said: \"This new stretch of smart motorway will tackle congestion and improve journey times for the 130,000 drivers who use it every day.\"\n\nBack in 2014, Highways England said the main project work would be completed by December 2016.\n\nBut James Wright of Highways England said: \"The reason we are finishing construction now rather than last December is that, shortly after we started work and after a bit of local lobbying, we agreed to do a large amount of maintenance work at the same time as the smart motorway upgrade.\"\n\nHe said the extra work included fully resurfacing the road and replacing a bridge over it.\n\n\"This is extra work with extra benefits and we do not consider it a delay,\" he added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "UK officials have \"quietly abandoned\" hopes of securing \"the government's promised cake-and-eat-it Brexit deal\", the Guardian reports.\n\nAccording to the paper, government insiders have reported a \"dramatic change of mood\" in the Department for Exiting the European Union since the general election.\n\nIt says the idea of enjoying full trade access to the bloc - without concessions over immigration, courts and a financial settlement - is now being given less credence by officials.\n\nMany of the papers focus on the reported divisions within Conservative ranks about public spending.\n\n\"Cabinet split over austerity tax row\" is the front page headline in the Daily Telegraph.\n\nIt suggests Chancellor Philip Hammond has warned ministers that \"unpopular tax rises\" will be required to fund possible moves, like lifting the cap on public sector pay increases.\n\nThe Mail's editorial says the paper is \"deeply troubled by reports that some Tory MPs, including senior ministers, are demanding that the spending taps be turned back on\".\n\nAccording to the Times, Britain's new independent reviewer of counter-terrorism laws is concerned about the way jihadist attacks are covered by the media.\n\nIt says Max Hill believes the publication of images of dead terrorists can give, in his words, \"the oxygen of publicity in death, to those who apparently craved martyrdom\".\n\nBut one senior media lawyer, Mark Stephens, tells the paper: \"It is extremely unhelpful to make the argument that freedom of speech needs to be curbed, in an effort to fight terror.\"\n\nThe lead in the Financial Times is about a delegation from the City of London travelling to Brussels this week, with what it describes as \"a secret blueprint for a post-Brexit free-trade deal on financial services\".\n\nThe paper says there is concern among bankers that the deadline for the UK to leave the EU, in March 2019, will come before a \"credible deal has been struck\".\n\n\"Blame it on our boys\" is the front page headline in the Sun. It claims that Iraqis, who had alleged that they were mistreated by American troops, were told by lawyers to accuse UK forces instead, because the Ministry of Defence was easier to sue.\n\nThe paper quotes someone who used to work for a law firm handling such claims, saying it was widely known that many were fake.\n\nThe front pages of both the Daily Mirror and the Daily Express report on the latest deaths of migrants who tried to cross the Mediterranean from Africa to Europe.\n\nThe Mirror's headline is \"Migrants' hell on Costa beaches\", while in the Express it is \"EU in crisis over boat migrants\".\n\nThe paper says European Union officials are to hold emergency talks on the matter.\n\nThe Mirror's opinion column urges the authorities to \"turn the tide on the crisis\".\n\nIt believes that, faced with such a problem, the UK is \"morally right\" to spend £13bn on international development, which could help tackle some of the causes of migration.\n\nAccording to the Times, Donald Trump may \"drop in\" to the UK in the next fortnight.\n\nIt says the US president has a gap in his diary, between a visit to Germany this week for the G20 summit and a trip to France later in July.\n\nThe White House will apparently give officials here only 24 hours' notice, if he decides to come.\n\n\"Britain braced for snap Trump visit\" is the headline.\n\nFinally, amid all the preview coverage of Wimbledon, the Daily Telegraph goes straight to the front of the queue - the queue, that is, of people who have been camping since early on Saturday to get tickets for the first day of the championships.\n\nThere the paper finds Des Robson, a middle-aged computer technician from Northumberland, who put a visit to Centre Court on his bucket list, after suffering two heart attacks.\n\nBehind him is Elle-Anne Lee, a 21-year-old dental nurse.\n\nHer father had bet her £100 that she would not be among the first three in the queue.\n\nShe tells the paper: \"Now I'm quids in.\"", "Mike Pence has said he would not dine alone with any woman who was not his wife, Karen (pictured)\n\nMany eyebrows were raised when it emerged US Vice-President Mike Pence would not dine alone with a woman who was not his wife.\n\nHow old fashioned, the internet cried.\n\nOnly, now it seems he is not alone.\n\nA surprise poll for the New York Times has discovered more than half of women agree with him - as well as 45% of men.\n\nAnd as for a drink? Forget about it. Just 29% of women think that would be appropriate in a one-on-one situation.\n\nHowever, the poll - conducted by Morning Consult, surveying almost 5,300 people - found the numbers shift considerably according to your politics: the more liberal your views, the more likely you were to mix with a member of the opposite sex, one on one.\n\nJust 62% of Republicans found it acceptable, compared to 71% of Democrats.\n\nSimilar divides can also be seen according to religion - the more devout you are, the less appropriate you view it - and to education: 24% of male respondents of who did not reach college think it is inappropriate to have a one-on-one working meeting with a woman, compared with 18% who got a bachelor's degree or higher.\n\nMichael, US: Simply ask yourself: would you want your partner to go out for dinner alone with someone else? Most likely the answer is no. Hence, then why should you? It's simply being wise and not naive.\n\nSandra, US: Not entirely sure why people don't understand that you can have a platonic, working or otherwise relationship with a member of the opposite sex without sexual overtones. To my way of thinking it demeans woman in terms of woman thinking men are only interested in their bodies... If you can't trust your partner or yourself out of sight the problem is you.\n\nStephen, Australia: I totally agree with Mike Pence. He's protecting his marriage and his reputation. It is not sexist, it is wise. In an era where people look to the Kardashians for their moral standards Mike Pence's policy, in this area at least, is commendable.\n\nEmily, US: These archaic views are just another example of why we shouldn't have been surprised at a Trump/Pence victory last November.\n\nMario, South Africa: Men who are not sure about their self-control should indeed dine and drink alone. Perhaps dinner and a drink with their mothers should be permitted, but I am not so sure about sisters and daughters after reading some comments uttered by Donald Trump.\n\nVince, UK: Really? How very Victorian of them. Are they scared they might end up doing something they shouldn't. I can't believe in the 21st century some people think this is an issue.\n\nSarah, US: I'm a 52-year-old, white, college educated, atheist, left-wing, married woman ... and there's no way I would have a one-on-one meal/drink with a man who was not my husband. Not even a Starbucks.\n\nM.H., Canada: I would definitely lunch or have dinner alone with a man whom I knew and trusted and with whom I had a lot in common. I am also a year away from being 90 and find it hard to believe that there is anything wrong with this.", "Police cordoned off the scene following reports of multiple shootings at a nightclub\n\nAt least 25 people have been shot at a nightclub in the US state of Arkansas, two of whom are in critical condition, police say.\n\nThree others were injured in a stampede of people fleeing the scene. The youngest victim was said to be 16.\n\nThe exchange of gunfire took place at about 02:30 local time (07:30 GMT) at a concert, but there was no immediate information about a suspect.\n\nPolice and local officials said the incident was not terrorism-related.\n\nThe mayor of Little Rock, Mark Stodola, said it was the result of a disagreement involving a number of patrons at the Power Ultra Lounge nightclub, which quickly escalated because of \"the presence of rivalries and weapons\".\n\n\"I want to reassure our public that this was not an act of terrorism, but a tragedy... It does not appear to be a planned shooting,\" Mr Stodola told reporters.\n\nHe said that all of the 28 people injured in the incident were expected to survive.\n\nLittle Rock police chief Kenton Buckner said the authorities were investigating whether a longstanding rivalry between gangs was to blame.\n\nSpecial agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives were also assisting local police.", "The papers report on a growing battle within the cabinet over austerity and public spending\n\nThe Sunday Telegraph says a new front has opened up in the cabinet battle over austerity.\n\nThe paper says Education Secretary Justine Greening has told Prime Minister Theresa May the Tories should abandon plans to cut per-pupil funding, with the change in direction being announced soon so that schools know where they stand.\n\nAccording to the paper, senior figures at Number 10 admit they are braced for \"a big battle\" over spending this summer.\n\nThe Sunday Times reports that more than 20 MPs cornered the Conservative chief whip last week, demanding change, and more than double that number are threatening to rebel over spending plans unless the 1% public sector pay cap is lifted.\n\nUniversity tuition fees are the focus in the Mail on Sunday, which leads with the suggestion by Mrs May's most senior minister, Damian Green, that a national debate may be needed on the issue.\n\nThe paper also highlights what it describes as fading public support for austerity policies, but it notes that lifting the pay cap, and linking it to inflation instead, would cost the Treasury an extra £1.4bn a year alone.\n\nThe Sun on Sunday reports that Ms Greening and Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt are leading the charge for public sector workers to get a pay rise.\n\n\"There are very good arguments for continuing to bear down on the deficit,\" a cabinet source tells the paper, \"but the case on public sector pay is becoming irresistible.\"\n\nAccording to The Observer, Mr Hunt may press for the lifting of the public sector pay cap for NHS workers, citing a pay review body report that suggests the costs of plugging gaps caused by staff shortages could soon be greater than the savings.\n\nIt refers to a \"chorus of Tory demands\" facing Mrs May.\n\nWriting in The Sunday Mirror, shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth says nurses and paramedics should not have to wait until the autumn Budget to learn whether the pay cap will be lifted.\n\nBut The Sunday Times is having none of it.\n\nDescribing it as \"a government in danger of losing its financial wits,\" the paper warns that a Conservative Party that stands for nothing, including fiscal discipline, will flounder.\n\nThe Telegraph, likewise, urges Chancellor Philip Hammond to resist the calls for change, saying the government is in danger of giving up on financial prudence as though it is a television programme we have got bored with.\n\nThe country as a whole, it says, should have the moral fibre to face the financial reality in front of us.\n\nBut The Observer argues that capping public sector pay has fuelled recruitment and retention problems.\n\nIt is not just mean, the paper says, it is a false economy.\n\nThe news that British fishermen are to have the exclusive rights to a 12-mile zone around the coastline leads The Sunday Express.\n\nThe paper welcomes it as a first step towards taking control of the country's fishing policy.\n\nThe new Environment Secretary, Michael Gove, tells The Sunday Times that his father's fishing business was hit by the EU, and pulling out of the London Fisheries Convention was \"a chance to put things right\".\n\nThe Sunday Times also has what it calls \"awkward\" scientific findings.\n\nResearchers in Rotterdam have apparently found that men's average IQ is four points above women's - because they typically have bigger brains.\n\nThe paper describes the finding as the latest twist in a debate with powerful political implications.\n\nIt notes that in the 19th Century, the view that women's smaller brains made them less intelligent was used to justify denying them rights such as voting.\n\nFinally, the day before the start of Wimbledon has brought with it the inevitable exhaustive analysis of Andy Murray's chances.\n\n\"It's been brutal but I'm ready,\" is the headline in The Mirror, which describes how a hip injury has wrought havoc with the player's preparations.\n\nThe Express says the man who it describes as \"Battler Andy\" has grown into a dignified champion, and it wishes him good luck in defence of his Wimbledon title.\n\nReporting that Murray has now declared himself fit, The Sun recalls how it urged millions of its readers on Saturday to collectively lay their soothing hands on a front-page picture of his troublesome hip.\n\n\"It Was The Sun Wot Rubbed It!\", the paper declares.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Syrian state TV released footage of the aftermath of the Tahrir square blast\n\nA suicide bomber has launched an attack in the Syrian capital, with reports saying at least 19 people were killed.\n\nSyrian police had been chasing three suspected car bombers that were trying to enter the capital, state TV said.\n\nPolice stopped and detonated two of the vehicles, but the third driver entered Tahrir square in the east and blew himself up after being surrounded.\n\nSyria is in the midst of a six-year-long civil war, with Damascus still mostly under government control.\n\nAt least 12 people were injured in Sunday's blast, reports said.\n\nState TV said the attackers had planned to bomb crowded areas in the capital on the first working day after the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.\n\n\"The terrorist bombings killed and wounded several civilians and caused physical damage to the area,\" a police official told state news agency Sana.\n\nA local resident told AFP he heard \"gunfire at around 06:00 (03:00 GMT), then an explosion which smashed the glass of houses in the neighbourhood\".\n\nAn AFP correspondent at the scene saw extensive damage to nearby buildings and two bombed cars at one side of the square.\n\nSyria's foreign ministry sent a letter to the UN saying up to 20 people were killed and dozens of women and children were among the wounded, Reuters reports.\n\nPolice said the attackers had intended to target busy areas in the capital\n\nNo group has said it carried out the attack.\n\nMore than 300,000 people have lost their lives in the Syrian war, which began with anti-government protests in 2011.\n\nThe UN's refugee agency says that since the conflict began about 5.5 million people have left the country, and another 6.3 million have been left internally displaced.\n\nDamascus has remained mostly under the control of President Bashar al-Assad, and avoided much of the fighting.\n\nHowever, the capital has experienced a number of suicide bomb attacks.\n\nIn March, two bomb attacks in the capital killed more than 40 people - the majority of them Iraqi pilgrims visiting the Bab al-Saghir cemetery, which houses Shia mausoleums. A jihadist group affiliated with al-Qaeda claimed that attack.\n\nA few days later, an attack on the capital's main court complex killed at least 31 people. That attack was claimed by the Islamic State militant group (IS).\n\nSuch attacks may become more common as IS loses its territory and resorts to its tactic of striking soft targets in cities to sow instability, the BBC's Arab affairs editor Sebastian Usher reports.\n\nThe army is still fighting rebels in the eastern suburban areas of Jobar and Ain Tarma.\n• None Why has the Syrian war lasted 12 years?", "It is nearly 20 years since William and Harry lost their mother, Diana.\n\nPrince William and Prince Harry have attended a private service to rededicate the grave of their mother, Princess of Wales, almost 20 years after her death.\n\nThe service was held at Diana's family home in Northamptonshire on what would have been her 56th birthday.\n\nThe ceremony was also attended by the Duchess of Cambridge, Prince George and Princess Charlotte.\n\nPrince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall are in Canada.\n\nThe service, at Althorp House, was conducted by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby.\n\nThe Princess of Wales died on 31 August 1997 in a car crash in Paris, when the Duke of Cambridge was 15 and his brother was 12.\n\nThis is the start of a difficult few months for Prince William and Prince Harry as they remember their mother who, they say, smothered them in love.\n\nThey were traumatised children when she died.\n\nHarry has spoken of how he shouldn't have been made to walk behind Diana's coffin.\n\nWilliam has expressed his considerable regret that they weren't old enough to do more to protect her.\n\nTwenty years on, together, they're taking control of how she will be remembered.\n\nThey've commissioned a statue. Its unveiling, in the future, will be public.\n\nToday's service was to be very private, with no media present.\n\nThe princes, like their mother, have a complex relationship with the press.\n\nThey will never forgive the paparazzi who pursued their mother's car in Paris.\n\nAlso absent from the graveside was Prince Charles.\n\nIt's fortuitous he's in Canada and it's probably a relief for all concerned.\n\nThe princes have commissioned a statue of Princess Diana to mark the 20th anniversary of her death.\n\nThe sculpture will be placed in the public grounds of her former residence, Kensington Palace.", "Supporters of Grenfell survivors took part in anti-government protests in central London on Saturday\n\nThe government will keep \"a close eye\" on Kensington and Chelsea council after its leader quit over the Grenfell Tower fire, the communities secretary says.\n\nSajid Javid said it was \"right\" that Nicholas Paget-Brown stepped down and said the process to select a successor would be \"independent of government\".\n\nLondon mayor Sadiq Khan has called for commissioners to take over the council.\n\nEarlier, a victims' group said one resident had had rent deducted from their bank account since the fire.\n\nAt least 80 people are believed to have died as fire engulfed the Grenfell Tower block, in west London, on 14 June.\n\nMr Javid said: \"It is right the council leader stepped down given the initial response to the Grenfell tragedy,\" adding: \"If we need to take further action, we won't hesitate to do so.\"\n\nMr Paget-Brown resigned following sustained criticism of the council and an aborted meeting of its cabinet on Thursday, from which leaders had tried to ban members of the public and press.\n\nThe council is due to elect a leader next week.\n\nYvette Williams, co-ordinator of the Justice4Grenfell campaign, said one former Grenfell Tower resident had had rent deducted from their bank account since the tragedy.\n\nThe survivor, who is housed in a hotel, got her bank card back and only realised that the rent had been taken when she went to withdraw funds from a cash point, Ms Williams said.\n\n\"It's just disgusting,\" she added.\n\nKensington and Chelsea council said to the best of its knowledge rent charges for Grenfell Tower and Grenfell Walk had been stopped.\n\n\"We are very sorry if this has happened and we are working to find out who has been affected so we can offer reassurance and an immediate refund,\" a council statement said.\n\n\"But if anyone has had money inadvertently taken as part of a direct debit or standing order we will make arrangements to have it immediately refunded.\"\n\nCatherine Faulks, Conservative councillor for Kensington and Chelsea council, told the BBC: \"It obviously is a mistake and I'm sorry that that has happened.\"\n\nShe said they would try to put it right.\n\nSupporters of the Grenfell survivors joined anti-government protests through central London on Saturday, calling for an end to austerity measures.\n\nCouncil leaders claimed on Thursday that an open meeting would \"prejudice\" the forthcoming public inquiry into the disaster.\n\nBut angry protests followed and Labour councillor Robert Atkinson, whose ward includes Grenfell Tower, branded the abandoned meeting a \"fiasco\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nick Paget-Brown: \"I have to accept my share of responsibility\"\n\nIn his resignation statement, Mr Paget-Brown said he had received legal advice not to \"compromise\" the public inquiry into the fire by having the meeting open to the public and press.\n\nBut he added this decision \"has itself become a political story\".\n\n\"It cannot be right that this should have become the focus of attention when so many are dead or still unaccounted for,\" he said.\n\nReacting to Mr Paget-Brown's resignation, Mr Khan said it had been \"clear that the local community in and around North Kensington has lost trust in the council and that the administration is not fit for purpose\".\n\nHe had earlier called on the prime minister to appoint \"untainted\" commissioners with \"a genuine empathy for local people and the situation they face\" to take over the running of the council until the next local council elections.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Council tries to ban press and public from meeting\n\nDeputy council leader and cabinet member for housing, property and regeneration, Rock Feilding-Mellen, has also stood down.\n\nThe fire at the 24-storey block in North Kensington destroyed 151 homes, both in the tower and in surrounding areas.\n\nDocuments obtained by the BBC suggest cladding fitted to Grenfell Tower during its refurbishment was changed to a cheaper version, which was less fire resistant.\n\nThe tower's cladding has been the focus of attention, amid suggestions it was why the flames spread so quickly.\n\nThe head of Kensington and Chelsea Tenant Management Organisation has also stepped aside so he can focus on \"assisting with the investigation and inquiry\".\n\nDid you live in Grenfell Tower? Or are you part of the local community? What's your experience of the council's response to the fire? Email 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:", "An oil tanker and a cargo ship have collided in the English Channel.\n\nThe collision happened 15 miles north east of Dover at 02:00 BST, the coastguard said.\n\nThe 183m (600ft) tanker Seafrontier, which is loaded with petrol, has a hole above the waterline and damage to the superstructure, the RNLI said.\n\nThe 225m (740ft) Huayang Endeavour was also damaged. None of the crew on board either ship was injured.\n\n\"Although both vessels have been damaged, there is no water ingress and no pollution,\" a coastguard spokesman said.\n\nHuayang Endeavour was en route to Lagos in Nigeria and Seafrontier was travelling to Puerto Barrios in Guatemala. The vessels have Chinese and Indian crews on board, the UK coastguard said.\n\nThe Huayang Endeavour was on its way to Nigeria when the collision happened\n\nThe Seafrontier was damaged above the waterline, the RNLI said\n\nA tug from Boulogne was called and the Seafrontier was taken under tow. The Huayang Endeavour is anchored mid-Channel between the two shipping lanes.\n\nBoth ships are registered in Hong Kong.\n\nWeather conditions at the time of the callout showed a moderate wind and the state of the sea was calm, the RNLI said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The government is to end an arrangement that allows other countries to fish in UK waters, it has been announced.\n\nThe convention allows Irish, Dutch, French, German and Belgian vessels to fish within six and 12 nautical miles of UK coastline.\n\nEnvironment Secretary Michael Gove said the move would help take back control of fishing access to UK waters.\n\nThe European Commission said it \"took note\" but felt the convention had been superseded by EU law.\n\nIreland's minister for agriculture, food and the marine, Michael Creed, however, said it was \"unwelcome and unhelpful\".\n\n\"Brexit poses very serious challenges to the seafood sector and this announcement will form part of the negotiations,\" he said.\n\nThe Scottish government backed the idea, saying it had been pressing for it \"for some time\".\n\nThe London Fisheries Convention sits alongside the EU Common Fisheries Policy, which allows all European Union countries access between 12 and 200 nautical miles of the UK and sets quotas for how much fish nations can catch.\n\nThe relationship between the UK and Ireland is further governed by a separate arrangement.\n\nWithdrawing from the convention, which was signed in 1964 before the UK joined what became the EU, means UK vessels will also lose the right to fish in waters six to 12 nautical miles offshore of the other countries.\n\nWhat happens to the 12 to 200 mile area will be one of the issues at stake in Brexit negotiations.\n\nMichael Gove told the BBC's Andrew Marr the change was about \"taking back control\" of UK waters, 6-12 miles from the coast.\n\nWhen the UK left the EU it would become an \"independent coastal state\", he said.\n\nHe said the EU's common fisheries policy had been an environmental disaster and the government wanted to change that, upon Brexit, to ensure sustainable fish stocks in future.\n\nBut the SNP's Richard Lochhead, who held the post of fisheries minister in Scotland until last year, has concerns around fishing being used as a \"bargaining chip\" by the government, which would \"let down UK fishermen\".\n\n\"Michael Gove is doing his best to get maximum publicity out of the easy bit,\" he told BBC Radio 4's The World This Weekend. \"But the difficult, complex bit is still to come [with] the Common Fisheries Policy.\n\nUKIP's fisheries spokesman Mike Hookem also said he feared another \"wholesale betrayal\" without assurances about the 200-mile zone.\n\n\"Fishing communities across Britain voted to leave the EU to get back the rights to earn a living, support their communities and to stop the EU plundering our seas of fish that the UK could exploit economically,\" he said.\n\nHe added that the announcement was \"no victory for the fishing community\" and was instead a \"government attempt to use smoke and mirrors to placate British fishermen, while at the same time having the option of handing most our fishing rights to the EU\".\n\nGovernment figures say fishing contributed £604m to UK GDP in 2015 and employed around 12,000 fishers. In 2016, the fish processing industry supported around 18,000 jobs.\n\nThe industry's body, the National Federation of Fishermen's Organisations, welcomed the decision.\n\nChief executive Barrie Deas said: \"This is welcome news and an important part of establishing the UK as an independent coastal state with sovereignty over its own exclusive economic zone.\"\n\nIts chairman Mike Cohen said a 12-mile exclusive zone for UK boats would be \"a good thing\" for the UK's inshore fishing fleet.\n\nWill McCallum, Greenpeace UK head of oceans, said leaving the convention would not in itself deliver a better future for the UK fishing industry, and that for years governments had blamed the EU for their \"failure\" to support the small-scale, sustainable fishers.\n\nHe said, for example, that the UK had had the power since 2013 to decide how to allocate its EU fishing quota but that a report by Greenpeace in 2016 had found almost two thirds of that quota was concentrated in the hands of three companies.\n\nHe said the UK would also still be bound by the UN convention of the law of the seas - which requires cooperation with neighbours.\n\nBut Mr McCallum said he was \"excited\" that the government was making fishing a priority, after fearing fishing communities would end up \"at the bottom of the heap\" amidst complex Brexit negotiations.\n\nEnvironmental law firm ClientEarth consultant Dr Tom West said the move appeared to be an aggressive negotiating tactic.\n\n\"As a country outside the EU we need to consider how we can best co-operate with our neighbours, rather than unilaterally withdrawing from all agreements in the hope that standing alone will make us better.\"", "President Trump says his tweets helped him to win the US presidential election\n\nUS President Donald Trump has defended his use of social media in a series of tweets, following a row over comments he made about two MSNBC TV presenters.\n\n\"My use of social media is not presidential - it's modern day presidential,\" he tweeted on Saturday.\n\nEarlier in the week, the president launched a crude personal attack on Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough.\n\nHis tweets were condemned by Democrats and Republicans alike, despite the White House springing to his defence.\n\nMr Trump's aides have previously expressed concern over his tweets.\n\nBut the president said on Saturday that social media gave him the opportunity to connect directly to the public, bypassing the mainstream media, whose content Mr Trump regularly labels as \"fake news\".\n\n\"The FAKE & FRAUDULENT NEWS MEDIA is working hard to convince Republicans and others I should not use social media,\" he tweeted, adding: \"But remember, I won the 2016 election with interviews, speeches and social media.\"\n\nMr Trump also stepped up his attack on CNN after the US news network retracted an article alleging that one of the president's aides was under investigation by Congress.\n\n\"I am extremely pleased to see that @CNN has finally been exposed as #FakeNews and garbage journalism. It's about time!\"\n\nThe story that caused the upset, which was later removed from the website following an internal investigation, resulted in the resignations of three CNN journalists: Thomas Frank, investigative unit editor and Pulitzer Prize winner Eric Lictblau and Lex Harris, who oversaw the investigations unit.\n\nMr Trump has repeatedly called CNN \"fake news\" and has previously labelled Buzzfeed a \"failing pile of garbage\". At a news conference in February, the president was introduced to the BBC's North America editor, Jon Sopel, to which he responded: \"Here's another beauty.\"\n\nMeanwhile, addressing military veterans at the John F Kennedy Center for Performing Arts in Washington on Saturday, Mr Trump promised that America would \"win again\", prompting cheers from the crowd as he attacked media outlets.\n\n\"The fake media is trying to silence us, but we will not let them,\" he said at the Celebrate Freedom Rally. \"The fake media tried to stop us from going to the White House. But I'm president, and they're not.\"\n\nThe US president has more than 33 million followers on Twitter. Although it is becoming seemingly more difficult for the president to shock this audience, his 140-character posts have been condemned by both politicians and commentators.\n\nSome consider the language used by Mr Trump as unsuitable for the holder of the highest office. On Friday, the New York Post published a three-word editorial on Mr Trump's tweets: \"Stop. Just stop.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIt followed the president's tweets on Thursday mocking MSNBC Morning Joe host Mika Brzezinski, saying she had been \"bleeding badly from a facelift\" when he saw her six months ago.\n\nHe also verbally attacked her co-host and partner, Mr Scarborough, describing him as \"psycho Joe\".\n\nMs Brzezinksi and Mr Scarborough hit back, accusing the president of an \"unhealthy obsession\" with them\". They alleged the White House had tried to blackmail them into apologising for their show's negative coverage of President Trump.\n\nJoe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski were targeted in Donald Trump's latest Twitter tirade\n\nSenator Lindsey Graham said Mr Trump's remarks were \"beneath the office\" of president, while fellow Republican Ben Sasse said \"this isn't normal and it's beneath the dignity of your office\".\n\nDespite the criticism, President Trump stepped up his attack on Ms Brzezinksi on Saturday, calling her \"dumb as a rock\".", "Adam Cooper was taking part in a North West Men's League Division Four match in Runcorn.\n\nAn amateur rugby league player has died during a North West Men's League Division Four match.\n\nAdam \"Carney\" Cooper, 31, was playing for the Warrington side away at Runcorn ARLFC at Heath playing fields in Runcorn on Saturday.\n\nAn ambulance was called but the father of three could not be saved.\n\nA minute's applause will be held before the Eagles' games on Sunday, the club tweeted, adding thanks \"to the rugby league family\" for messages.\n\nA club statement said: \"It is with the deepest sadness that we can now confirm the passing of one of our Open Age players, Adam 'Carney' Cooper, at yesterday's away match at Runcorn.\n\nIt said he would be sadly missed by his mum, fiancée Michelle, three children, grandma, sister, step-dad, uncle, and all of his rugby \"family\".\n\nOther rugby clubs offered their condolences on social media.\n\nWarrington Wolves said on Twitter: \"Thoughts of everyone at Warrington Wolves are with all those affected by today's tragic events.\"\n\nLeeds Rhinos tweeted: \"Deeply sad news regarding the @CulchethEagles player today, our thoughts and prayers are with everyone connected to the club\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Brazilian police have captured a notorious drug kingpin who used plastic surgery to evade capture for almost 30 years, authorities say.\n\nLuiz Carlos da Rocha - nicknamed \"White Head\" - is believed to be the leader of a massive cocaine empire in South America.\n\nFederal police said sentences handed down to Rocha amount to more than 50 years of prison time.\n\nPolice said he was \"a criminal who lived discreetly and in the shadows\".\n\nRocha was arrested in Sorriso, in the western state of Mato Grosso, on Saturday, a police statement said.\n\nThe drug kingpin had been living in the city under the assumed name Vitor Luiz de Moraes. Agents compared old known photos of Rocha to the images of the new suspect, \"and concluded that Luiz Carlos da Rocha and Vitor Luiz are the same person\".\n\nSuitcases full of cash, a gun and other objects belonging to Rocha were found\n\nBrazilian police said his organisation was known to be violent, making use of armed escorts, armoured cars, and heavy weapons.\n\nIt produced cocaine in Bolivia, Peru and Colombia, before shipping it through an elaborate logistics system to Europe and the United States.\n\nLuiz Carlos da Rocha is also accused of being one of the main providers of cocaine to criminal organisations within Brazil, in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.\n\nIn total, police estimate his empire produced some five tonnes of cocaine each month.\n\nOperation Spectrum - the name given to the sting - also seized some $10m (£7.6m) worth of criminal assets, including farms, other real estate, luxury vehicles and aircraft.\n\nOfficers believe Rocha's wealth is closer to $100m, and say they will seek to seize the rest of his assets in the second phase of the operation.", "Defoe pledged to keep in touch with the family after his move to Bournemouth\n\nFootballer Jermain Defoe has visited terminally-ill Bradley Lowery after his family revealed the six-year-old is having difficulty breathing.\n\nFormer Sunderland star Defoe has struck up a close friendship with the avid Black Cats fan and club mascot.\n\nBradley, from Blackhall Colliery, near Hartlepool, has neuroblastoma and is receiving palliative care at home.\n\nDefoe, 34, made the trip to County Durham on Friday, the day after he joined Premier League club Bournemouth.\n\nBradley's parents have already said they believe he has just a short time to live.\n\nBradley has been Sunderland mascot several times with his \"best mate\" Defoe\n\nIn a statement, his mother Gemma said: \"Brad is very weak and finding breathing difficult, but he is fighting it.\n\n\"Last night, his best friend Jermain came to visit him and it was so heart warming seeing how Bradley reacted.\n\n\"He was so happy and laid for ages getting cuddles. Bradley was really relaxed with him.\"\n\nDefoe, who pledged to keep in touch with the family after his move to Bournemouth, has described his relation with the ill youngster as the \"highlight of his season\".\n\n\"Away from football the relationship I've managed to develop with Bradley and what I've brought to his life and what he's brought to mine has been really special,\" he said.\n\n\"It's just been sad to see him go through what he has been and he's only six. But I still feel blessed that I'm able to be in his life.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The clip was originally submitted to a pro-Trump forum on the social media site Reddit\n\nThe US President has tweeted a short video clip of him wrestling a person with the CNN logo for a head.\n\nThe clip is an altered version of Donald Trump's appearance at a WWE wrestling event in 2007, in which he \"attacked\" franchise owner Vince McMahon in a scripted appearance.\n\nThe animation appears to have been posted to a pro-Trump internet forum earlier in the week.\n\nCNN later accused the president of inciting violence against the media.\n\nOne panellist on ABC's morning show, Ana Navarro - a Republican Trump critic and CNN contributor - said \"it is an incitement to violence. He is going to get somebody killed in the media.\"\n\nBut Homeland Security Adviser Thomas Bossert, who had appeared earlier on the same ABC programme, said: \"No-one would perceive that as a threat.\"\n\nThe clip was submitted to a Donald Trump forum on the social media site Reddit four days ago, where it became one of the most popular posts.\n\nAfter the president's tweets, Reddit users expressed disbelief at the president's use of the clip.\n\nIt was also retweeted by the official presidential Twitter account, @POTUS, operated by the White House.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Meet the Progressive Liberal: an anti-Trump wrestler in Appalachia\n\nMr Trump has repeatedly clashed with the CNN news network, which he calls \"fake news\".\n\nCNN's top White House correspondent Jim Acosta, who has been critical of the White House's attitude to the press, simply tweeted: \"Isn't pro wrestling fake?\"\n\nMeanwhile, the CNN Communications team tweeted a seemingly sarcastic response quoting White House press officer Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who said on Thursday: \"The President in no way form or fashion has ever promoted or encouraged violence. If anything, quite the contrary.\"\n\nIn a later statement, the news network said \"clearly, Sarah Huckabee Sanders lied... [he is] involved in juvenile behaviour far below the dignity of this office.\"\n\n\"We will keep doing our jobs. He should start doing his.\"\n\nDonald Trump has shown time and time again that he views politics as performance art; another reality television competition where the more drama and conflict there is, the better.\n\nHis CNN-wrestling video tweet is just the latest, most jarring example. For Mr Trump the political process is like a World Wrestling Entertainment match. The plot is contrived; the action is fake; the outcome predetermined.\n\nDuring his campaign, he pulled back the curtain on the show and laughed along with his supporters at the spectacle. He encouraged his crowds to cheer the hero (him) and berate the villains (everyone else).\n\nAs president, nothing has changed. CNN has just been chosen as the latest number-one bad guy.\n\nThe president's tweet will certainly harshen the level of discourse in the nation. Already there are accusations that Mr Trump is inciting violence.\n\nMost of his supporters, however, will see it as Mr Trump probably intended - the latest episode in the biggest show ever to hit the US political scene; the newest twist in the remaking of the modern US presidency.\n\nMr Trump's unusual tweet comes a day after he said his use of social media \"is not Presidential - it's modern day presidential.\"\n\nOn Thursday, the president launched a crude personal attack on MSNBC hosts Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough. His tweets were condemned by Democrats and Republicans alike.\n\nMr Trump has an entry in the World Wrestling Entertainment hall of fame for his appearance in the franchise a decade ago.\n\nIn 2007, franchise owner Vince McMahon challenged Mr Trump to a so-called \"Battle of the Billionaires\" at a Wrestlemania event, with a wager that the loser would have their head shaved.\n\nThe US professional wrestling scene is largely pre-scripted and seen as a form of entertainment rather than a sport.\n\nMr Trump was also a victim in the scripted fight\n\nDuring the same event, Mr Trump was \"thrown\" to the mat by wrestler Steve Austin with his signature move, \"the stone cold stunner.\"\n\nRather than fighting directly, each business magnate backed a performer. Mr Trump's wrestler was victorious.\n\nBut on the sidelines of the ring, Donald Trump performed his scripted attack on McMahon, providing the original video for his beat-down of CNN.\n\nMr Trump then helped to shave McMahon's head on television.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "At least 80 people are thought to have been killed in the fire\n\nNo-one will be prosecuted for illegally subletting a Grenfell Tower flat, the government says, as work continues to identify all those killed in the fire.\n\nIt says its priority is supporting survivors and identifying loved ones and is urging people to help.\n\nAt least 80 people are thought to have died in the fire at the west London block and it's feared the full death toll won't be known for months.\n\nMeanwhile cladding on 181 blocks in 51 areas has now failed fire safety tests.\n\nCladding from as many as 600 tower blocks across England is being tested as it is thought Grenfell Tower's recently-installed cladding may have helped the fire to spread.\n\nAll of the material checked so far in the wake of the tragedy on 14 June has failed the tests.\n\nHowever, the Department for Communities and Local Government said it was testing the buildings it was most worried about first.\n\nEarlier this week, police warned it would not know the final death toll until at least the end of the year and appealed for the public to come forward with any information about those who were inside at the time of the fire on 14 June.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police and Home Office have also both said they are not interested in the immigration status of anyone living in the building.\n\nLegal guidance telling prosecutors not to bring charges for subletting given the \"public interest\" in identifying the victims has been issued by the Director of Public Prosecutions, Alison Saunders.\n\n\"It is a priority for investigators to establish who was in Grenfell Tower on that tragic day and it is crucial that we do everything possible to support them,\" she said.\n\nThe decision was made alongside the Attorney General, Jeremy Wright QC, who added: \"Every piece of information will help the authorities accurately identify who was in the flats at the time of the fire.\n\n\"I hope this statement provides some much needed clarity to residents and the local community, and encourages anyone with information to come forward.\"\n\nAnnouncing the move, Communities Secretary Sajid Javid added: \"Supporting those affected by the tragic events at Grenfell Tower has been the absolute priority of the government - that includes making sure that loved ones still missing are identified.\n\n\"Therefore I would urge those with information to come forward without fear of prosecution.\"\n\nSupporters of Grenfell survivors took part in anti-government protests in London on Saturday\n\nThe news follows an announcement by Kensington and Chelsea Council that it would suspend the rents of those forced to leave their homes after the fire.\n\nResidents living in nearby buildings - the so-called finger blocks - have been without hot water since the neighbourhood's boiler was destroyed during the fire.\n\nNow the council has confirmed their rent will be suspended until at least January 2018 and any rent deducted since 14 June will be refunded.\n\nIt comes after a victims' group said one resident had had rent deducted from their bank account since the fire.\n\nThe west London council has been heavily criticised for its response to the disaster, leading this week to the resignation of its leader, Nicholas Paget-Brown, and his deputy, Rock Feilding-Mellen.\n\nRobert Atkinson, leader of the opposition on Kensington and Chelsea council, told the BBC: \"I still have residents who are not housed.\n\n\"I still have residents have no hot water and I have got residents living in hotels which they are now sharing with Wimbledon spectators. That is not a satisfactory situation.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSid-Ali Atmani, who lived on the 15th floor with his family and is currently in a hotel, told the BBC: \"Still we haven't any improvement regarding our situation. Our personal opinion is [that it is] a failure for people who are responsible for that.\"\n\nA Kensington and Chelsea council spokesman said: \"We are focused on the needs of all affected residents, including those from Barandon Walk, Testerton Walk and Hurstway [the finger blocks].\n\n\"This group of residents have suffered a huge disruption to their lives as they were evacuated from their homes.\"\n\nHe added that the council expected to have the hot water supply restored in the next week.\n\nHe said some had gone back to their homes, but the council would continue to provide temporary accommodation for those who did not want to return.\n\nMeanwhile, Labour MP David Lammy, whose friend Khadija Saye died in the fire, told Sky News that the retired judge leading the public inquiry, Sir Martin Moore-Bick, would have to maintain the confidence of survivors.\n\n\"The job is not just to be independent and judicious - I am sure he is eminently legally qualified, of course he is - it is also to be empathetic and walk with these people on this journey,\" he said.\n\nYvette Williams, from the Justice 4 Grenfell campaign group, told Sky News they would boycott the public inquiry into the tragedy if it did not have a wide remit and address \"systemic issues\".\n\nDid you live in Grenfell Tower? Or are you part of the local community? What's your experience of the council's response to the fire? Email 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:", "The venue is being shut down by the city in the aftermath\n\nA rapper who was performing at the Arkansas nightclub where 25 people were shot has been arrested on unrelated charges, US police say.\n\nGunfire was exchanged during a concert at the Power Ultra Lounge nightclub in Little Rock early on Saturday.\n\nRicky Hampton, known by his stage name Finese 2 Tymes, was detained by police early on Sunday.\n\nLittle Rock Police tweeted that the arrest was on outstanding warrants and is unrelated to the shooting.\n\nA total of 28 people were injured, including three in a stampede. The youngest victim was said to be 16.\n\nTwo people were in a serious condition, but officials said all were expected to survive.\n\nThe mayor of Little Rock, Mark Stodola, said the shooting was the result of a disagreement involving a number of patrons at the club, which quickly escalated because of \"the presence of rivalries and weapons\".\n\n\"I want to reassure our public that this was not an act of terrorism, but a tragedy... It does not appear to be a planned shooting,\" Mr Stodola told reporters.\n\nMr Hampton's poster for the event was criticised in the aftermath of the shooting\n\nLittle Rock Police Chief Kenton Buckner said the authorities were investigating whether a longstanding rivalry between gangs was to blame for the shooting.\n\nIn a post on Facebook, Mr Hampton offered condolences to the injured who came to see him perform, saying \"violence is not for the club.\"\n\n\"We all come with one motive at the end of the day, and that's to have fun. Not to be hurt,\" he said.\n\nThe KATV network quoted Mr Hampton's booking agent as saying the rapper had \"nothing to do\" with the shooting.\n\nPromotional material for Mr Hampton's concert was criticised by Mayor Stodola and others on social media for its image of the rapper holding an assault rifle pointed at the camera.\n\nThe city of Little Rock has suspended the Power Ultra Lounge's licence, and officials say they plan to shut down the club permanently. The venue's landlord has also posted an eviction notice at the site, reports said.\n\nArkansas governor Asa Hutchinson thanked the first responders to the scene - but also expressed concern about violence in the city.\n\n\"Little Rock's crime problem appears to be intensifying. Every few days it seems a high-profile shooting dominates the news, culminating with this morning's event,\" he said.\n\nHe said a new strategy and extra resources were needed to \"take the violent threats off the streets\".\n\nA previous version of this article quoted US media reports that inaccurately said Mr Hampton had been arrested in connection with the shooting.", "Gerhard Ludwig Müller will not have his mandate renewed\n\nPope Francis has decided to replace a conservative cardinal who openly questioned the pontiff's attempts to create a more inclusive church.\n\nCardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller will not have his five-year mandate as Catholicism's chief theologian renewed.\n\nThe German's departure will open the way for his \"meek\" second-in-command to take the role.\n\nThe 69-year-old was named as head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith by Pope Benedict in 2012.\n\nPope Francis was elected the next year.\n\nThe two did not see eye-to-eye, with Cardinal Müller questioning Pope Francis's attempts to being more open to \"imperfect\" Catholics, like those who are divorced.\n\nEarlier this year, a victim of sexual abuse within the Church accused Cardinal Müller's department of impeding the Pontiff's efforts to stop internal cover-ups of abuse.\n\nPope Francis - with Cardinal George Pell, left - and Cardinal Müller are known not to see eye-to-eye\n\nHis replacement, Archbishop Luis Francisco Ladaria Ferrer, is described as \"speaking the same language\" of the Pope, a priest told the Reuters news agency.\n\n\"Ladaria is someone who is meek. He does not agitate the pope and does not threaten him,\" he said.\n\nThe priest, who works in the Vatican and asked not to be named, added: \"Clearly, the Pope and Cardinal Müller have not been on the same page for five years.\"\n\nThe change was announced by the Vatican two days after Cardinal George Pell was granted leave of absence from his position as treasurer to fight charges of historical sex offences in his native Australia.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Stephen Hawking spoke to the BBC about climate change and Donald Trump\n\nStephen Hawking says that US President Donald Trump's decision to pull out of the Paris climate agreement could lead to irreversible climate change.\n\nProf Hawking said the action could put Earth onto a path that turns it into a hothouse planet like Venus.\n\nHe also feared aggression was \"inbuilt\" in humans and that our best hope of survival was to live on other planets.\n\nThe Cambridge professor spoke exclusively to BBC News to coincide with his 75th birthday celebrations.\n\nArguably the world's most famous scientist, Prof Hawking has had motor neurone disease for most of his adult life. It has impaired his movement and ability to speak.\n\nYet through it all, he emerged as one of the greatest minds of our time. His theories on black holes and the origin of the Universe have transformed our understanding of the cosmos.\n\nProf Hawking has also inspired generations to study science. But through his media appearances what has been most impressive of all has been his humanity.\n\nHis main concern during his latest interview was the future of our species. A particular worry was President Trump's decision to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement to reduce CO2 levels.\n\n\"We are close to the tipping point where global warming becomes irreversible. Trump's action could push the Earth over the brink, to become like Venus, with a temperature of two hundred and fifty degrees, and raining sulphuric acid,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"Climate change is one of the great dangers we face, and it's one we can prevent if we act now. By denying the evidence for climate change, and pulling out of the Paris Climate Agreement, Donald Trump will cause avoidable environmental damage to our beautiful planet, endangering the natural world, for us and our children.\"\n\nThe UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) also highlights the potential risk of hitting climate tipping points as temperatures increase - though there are gaps in our knowledge of this topic.\n\nIn its Fifth Assessment Report, the IPCC authors wrote: \"The precise levels of climate change sufficient to trigger tipping points (thresholds for abrupt and irreversible change) remain uncertain, but the risk associated with crossing multiple tipping points in the Earth system or in interlinked human and natural systems increases with rising temperature.\"\n\nWhen asked whether he felt we would ever solve our environmental problems and resolve human conflicts, Prof Hawking was pessimistic, saying that he thought our days on Earth were numbered.\n\n\"I fear evolution has inbuilt greed and aggression to the human genome. There is no sign of conflict lessening, and the development of militarised technology and weapons of mass destruction could make that disastrous. The best hope for the survival of the human race might be independent colonies in space.\"\n\nAnd on Brexit, he feared UK research would be irreparably damaged.\n\n\"Science is a cooperative effort, so the impact will be wholly bad, and will leave British science isolated and inward looking\".\n\nI asked him what he would like his legacy to be.\n\n\"I never expected to reach 75, so I feel very fortunate to be able to reflect on my legacy. I think my greatest achievement, will be my discovery that black holes are not entirely black.\"\n\n\"Quantum effects cause them to glow like hot bodies with a temperature that is lower, the larger the black hole. This result was completely unexpected, and showed there is a deep relationship between gravity and thermodynamics. I think this will be key, to understanding how paradoxes between quantum mechanics and general relativity can be resolved.\"\n\nWhen asked if money or practicality were no object, what his dream present would be, he said it would be a cure for motor neurone disease - or at least a treatment that halted its progression.\n\n\"When I was diagnosed at 21, I was told it would kill me in two or three years. Now, 54 years later, albeit weaker and in a wheelchair, I'm still working and producing scientific papers. But it's been a great struggle, which I have got through only with a lot of help from my family, colleagues, and friends.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Brad Pitt stars as a military commander in Afghanistan in Netflix's dark satire\n\nThe longest war the US has ever fought - 16 years and counting - is about to get longer as President Donald Trump decides on sending several thousand more troops to Afghanistan.\n\nAs with the wars in the Middle East, Afghanistan highlights the difficult political choices and counter-insurgency strategies the US has been pursuing fruitlessly since 9/11. Today six Muslim countries (Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Libya, Somalia and Afghanistan) are in a state of meltdown - partly as a result of US policies.\n\nThe \"war on terror\" launched by President George Bush, the US invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, and the conflicting policies of carrying out regime change in the midst of an ever-expanding Islamist extremist opposition have all created greater dilemmas for the US.\n\nSince 9/11 there have been many good books and documentary films made about these dilemmas. Yet in all this time Hollywood has been unable to produce a movie that informs or educates the average movie-goer as to the bigger picture on why failure persists and jihadism spreads.\n\nThe few Hollywood films made about America's wars tend to be either satires or action movies in the John Wayne mould, showing US troops as heroic and caring but professional killers.\n\nAn exception was the 2008 film Hurt Locker, which won six Oscars and depicted the dilemmas faced by a US Explosive Ordinance Disposal unit in Iraq. But even Hurt Locker dealt with only a slice of the problem, as did otherwise well-made documentaries about US forces in Afghanistan such as Restrepo and Korengal.\n\nHollywood movies do not ask the difficult strategic questions.\n\nShould the US invade or interfere in countries it knows little about, how do US troops win over local support, is nation building and promotion of democracy feasible by one part of the US government while another part pursues a war strategy? Can the US ever understand tribal societies through the barrel of a gun?\n\nHollywood has left us devoid of any understanding of the escalating global chaos.\n\nThat is until now. A remarkable new film, War Machine starring Brad Pitt, which at first whiff sounds like a gonzo-type war movie, brilliantly portrays these themes outlined above. David Michod, the Australian writer and director, and Netflix have made a movie that is both dark and satirical, emotional and belly-laugh funny, as well as being educative about US interventions.\n\nThe film is based on a character similar to former Nato commander US General Stanley McChrystal (R)\n\nThe script is based on the Rolling Stone magazine article and subsequent book The Operators: The Wild and Terrifying Inside Story of America's War in Afghanistan, by the late journalist Michael Hastings.\n\nHis article led to the 2010 sacking of Stanley McChrystal, the US general in charge of the war in Afghanistan, after he and his staff officers made disparaging remarks about President Barack Obama to the journalist. The movie tells the story leading up to Gen McChrystal's dismissal.\n\nThe casting of Pitt as Gen Glen McMahon, the imagined McChrystal who is beloved by his men but also full of comic eccentrics, is near perfect. Pitt plays his role partly as absurdist comedy but also as someone who is on a steep learning curve on how to win or lose modern wars.\n\nFull of bluster and self confidence Gen McMahon arrives to take charge in Kabul after another general had failed. \"Let's go win this thing,\" and \"Let's knock this on the head,\" he tells his military aides - a coterie of equally brilliant actors whose cameos act as foils for Gen McMahon's slow realisation that he is only repeating what other generals before him have tried and failed to do.\n\nGen McMahon cannot get the additional US troops he needs because Mr Obama is reluctant to send any. Gen McMahon cannot stop Afghan farmers from growing poppy because, officials tell him alternative crops like cotton would be competing with US farmers.\n\nFellow Nato officers teach Gen McMahon a new reality. \"You can't build a nation at gunpoint\" and \"you can't win the trust of a country by invading it\", he is told.\n\nA cynical President Hamid Karzai, superbly played by Ben Kingsley (with all of Mr Karzai's habitual tics), hears out Gen McMahon describing how he will mark out a new direction. \"We will build Afghanistan into a free and prosperous nation,\" says Gen McMahon. \"Sounds a lot like the old direction,\" Mr Karzai replies with a knowing smile.\n\nSeveral dark yet truthful encounters speed up Gen McMahon's understanding. A troubled and angry US marine played by Lakeith Stanfield questions how his contradictory strategy can work. Trained to kill, the marines is now told he must show \"courageous restraint\".\n\n\"I can't tell the difference between the people and the enemy,\" says the marine. \"They all look alike to me. We can't help them and kill them at the same time. I am confused,\" he states.\n\nActress Tilda Swinton, playing a German politician, tells Gen McMahon that \"you are spread all over the country and fighting 1,000 separate battles with local people who don't want you in their villages and that is a war you will never win\". The general is gobsmacked into silence.\n\nThe film will not get a wide cinema release because it is showing on Netflix. However, this is a film that should particularly be shown at universities and colleges, and discussed amongst young and old.\n\nIt helps us understand why counter-insurgency is failing, terrorism expanding and why wars have destroyed so many countries. It helps explain why after 16 years Washington is still debating troop numbers.", "Joana Burns was not said to be a regular drug user\n\nA 22-year-old maths student died after taking MDMA for a \"final fling\" to mark the end of university.\n\nJoana Burns had completed her Sheffield Hallam University degree when she went on a night out at The Foundry, at the University of Sheffield's Students' Union building, on 6 June.\n\nA South Yorkshire Police report found she and her friends paid £7 each for the drug, commonly known as ecstasy.\n\nOne friend told officers that Miss Burns was not a regular drug user.\n\nThe friend said: \"It was just supposed to be a one-off, 'final fling' to finish university.\"\n\nAnother friend said there was an \"understanding/assumption\" that the group would take drugs on the night out.\n\nMiss Burns was taken from the Glossop Road venue to the Northern General Hospital after falling ill, while another young woman was also admitted in a critical condition after taking drugs.\n\nThe University of Sheffield's Students' Union says it \"operates a zero-tolerance policy towards drugs consumption, possession and dealing\"\n\nPolice compiled the report for a licensing hearing at Sheffield City Council.\n\nPC Paul Briggs said during a visit to the premises a week before the student's death, he found the Foundry's drugs box to be \"considerably full\" of confiscated substances.\n\nA \"large quantity\" of drugs was seized by door staff on the night of the incident, the report added.\n\nTemporary Ch Supt Shaun Morley said officers from South Yorkshire Police's licensing team had recovered a large quantity of drugs seized by door staff at previous visits to the premises.\n\nThe University of Sheffield Students' Union website said anyone caught with drugs would be removed from the premises.\n\nA fundraising page for Miss Burns' memorial fund has seen more than £1,250 pledged in donations.\n\nA tribute on the JustGiving page read: \"Joana was a wonderful young woman with so much to look forward to.\n\n\"She will be missed not only by her family and friends but by everyone who knew her.\"", "The red Audi A3 was travelling at speed when it hit the group on Pixton Way in Croydon\n\nA 16-year-old girl was killed and six other teenagers were injured when a car crashed into pedestrians in south London.\n\nThe red Audi A3 was being driven at speed when the driver lost control at a corner and hit the group on Pixton Way, Croydon, just before 01:30 BST.\n\nThe driver fled the scene on foot after the crash. A man in his 30s has since been arrested.\n\nThe Met do not believe the car was deliberately driven into the group.\n\nThe six teenagers who were hurt were taken to south London hospitals for treatment. Their injuries are not said to be life-threatening.\n\nThe 16-year-old girl's next of kin have been informed.\n\nPolice said the man attended a south London police station and was arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Trump's history with wrestling goes back at least a decade\n\nOn Saturday, Donald Trump tweeted that he's redefining the social media behaviour of a \"modern-day\" president. On Sunday he once again proved it.\n\nMr Trump's CNN-wrestling video, apparently cribbed from a user on the internet message board Reddit, may be unfamiliar commentary coming from the chief executive of the US, but it's classic Trump.\n\nHe has shown time and time again that he views politics as performance art; another reality television competition where the more drama and conflict there is, the better.\n\nCandidate Trump belittled his Republican opponents - Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, Rand Paul and company - then shrugged it off as part of the game. He turned Hillary Clinton, whom he had once praised and buddied around with at his wedding, into a \"crooked\" caricature who should be shipped off to prison.\n\nHe portrayed the media, and CNN in particular, as cartoon villains that he can rhetorically beat into submission.\n\nMr Trump's choice of a professional wrestling clip for his latest tweet was particularly apt, as throughout his campaign he treated the political process like a World Wrestling Entertainment match. The drama is contrived; the action is fake; the outcome predetermined.\n\nHe pulled back the curtain on the show and laughed along with his supporters at the spectacle. He encouraged his crowds to cheer the hero (him) and berate the villains (everyone else).\n\nJournalists - corralled in their pens - were often singled out for derision, and his adoring legions would turn and jeer, shaking their fists, but also, for the most part, enjoying themselves.\n\nOn more than one occasion while covering Mr Trump's campaign, I would have a friendly conversation with someone at his rally - an elderly woman in a homemade Trump t-shirt in Virginia or a leather-jacket-clad rancher in Nevada - then watch as they heartily booed me and my colleagues at Mr Trump's prompting.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Are President Trump's attacks on the media undermining the news?\n\nThe press, like Mr Trump's opponents on the debate stage, were all part of his performance; the black-clad villains in his show.\n\nSome in the media have rushed to condemn Mr Trump's wrestling tweet as a thinly-veiled threat of violence against the media. CNN issued a statement calling it a \"sad day\" and asserting deputy White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders lied earlier in the week when she said the president had never \"promoted or encouraged violence\".\n\nSuch imagery coming from the president of the US will certainly harshen the level of discourse in the nation, and there is the not insignificant possibility that some may view it as a call for violence.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'I want to upset people', says the Progressive Liberal, an anti-Trump wrestler\n\nMost, however, will see it as the president probably intended - the latest episode in the biggest show ever to hit the US political scene; a new plot twist to keep the audience entertained.\n\nAs Mr Trump said in a speech lashing out against his media critics on Saturday night: \"I'm president, and they're not.\"\n\nDonald Trump played by his rules and won. 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